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Prisons: Shocking costs, dismal results

By Terry Shropshire The beast that has become the prison-industrial complex has been steadily devouring a greater percentage of Americans at the fastest rates in American history.

Today, according to U.S. Department of Justice, the federal prison population is 750 percent larger than it was in 1980, costing taxpayers billions of dollars and, worse, having no measurable or discernable impact on public safety.

The United States, by far, has the largest prison system in the industrialized world. There is no close second place. And in the state of Georgia, the news is worse, if you compare Georgia with the national average. In 2011, Georgia’s adult correctional system was operating at 107 percent of capacity, and recent data showed that Georgia’s incarceration rate — 1 in 70 adults behind bars — was the fourth highest in the nation, larger than even the state of New York, and trailing only the very biggest and most populous states in the country — California, Texas and Florida.

Overall, the news is even sadder.

Today, 53,000 people are incarcerated in Georgia, making the state the fifth highest prison population in the nation.

An estimated two-thirds (68 percent) of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of release from prison, and three-quarters (77 percent) were arrested within five years, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently announced.

In 2009, the Pew Center on the States released a report revealing that 1 in 13 adults were under some form of correctional supervision in Georgia. This means that over half-a-million Georgians were either in jail, in prison, on parole, or on probation that year. This percentage far surpassed the national average, which was still an astonishing 1 in 31 adults under correctional supervision.

Even more staggering, 2.6 million people have a criminal record on file with the Georgia Crime Information Center, while the state’s total population is 10 million. The collateral consequences associated with having a criminal record mean that as many as 1 in 4 Georgians likely face barriers to obtaining employment, housing, and even voting.

Recidivism places a heavy burden on taxpayers.

The cost to incarcerate one person for a year in Georgia is $21,000 — more than twice the amount the state spends toward educating one student for a year.

According to the Georgia Council on Prison Reform, four years ago, the state of Georgia turned a critical corner. After two decades of dramatic growth in the prison population, state spending on corrections had soared to more than $1 billion annually, but recidivism rates remained stubbornly high.

That is why Governor Deal issued an executive order appointing 15 members to the newly constituted council. In addition to legislative representation, this council includes members of the judiciary, the defense bar, prosecution ranks, the business sector, the faith community, and law enforcement.

Reducing recidivism and lowering the prison population also has a positive impact on those who work at the prisons, officials say.

“As the prison population continues to grow, so does the danger for those who work inside these facilities,” said E.O. Young, president of the American Federation of Government Employees’ Council of Prison Locals. “Funding for increased staffing has not kept up with increased need.”

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“As the prison population continues to grow, so does the danger for those who work inside these facilities.”

E.O. Young, president of the American Federation of Government Employees’ Council of Prison Locals ing for public policy solutions that remove public policy barriers, what can be done through legislation.

“But we’re also looking for community-based solutions.

Sometimes those programs are already at work in our communities. Sometimes they need to be created.”

“We knew that if were truly interested in impacting the family life and strengthening the relationships in the inner city, we had to do something about the criminal justice system,” said Eric Cochling, senior vice president for GCO.

“We had to create a working group that would look at prison reentry very specifically and try to come up with very practical ways to improve the system for offenders who had been in the system and are going back to their communities.

“The impact in Georgia for criminal justice reform is huge. We have about 50,000 in the prison system now and about 20,000 released every year.”

He continued, “Without changing, we know that more than half will return to prison. A relatively small improvement on how well these people reintegrate will translate into healthier families, less suffering and tremendous savings to the state.

Cochling also said reforms should make it easier for former inmates to return to society, to find jobs and to maintain them, the key to successful reentry.

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New poll proves that blacks and whites know police treat blacks worse

By Terry Shropshire A newly released poll illuminates what African Americans have always known, but that a cadre of Caucasians are just now discerning and beginning to admit: that blacks are treated differently (translation: worse) than their Caucasian counterparts.

Part of the enlightenment or sudden epiphany is due to raw data provided by video evidence, via mostly cellphones, that shows rogue and rabidly racist police execute their duties in ways against people of color that Caucasians know does not transpire in “suburbia” America.

Despite that, however, some white Americans refuse to admit that police distinguish between demographics.

According to a poll conducted by the National Bar Association, the organization of Black lawyers and judges, their findings produce the following information: That 88 percent of blacks believe African Americans are treated worse, compared to only 59 percent of whites who share the same opinion.

In the South, the disparity in viewpoints is even greater, 90 percent of blacks and just 55 percent of white people holding a similar view.

In the Northeast, there is not such a chasm

Photo by scottlum/Flickr/Creative Commons in belief of police mistreatment of blacks. About 74 percent of blacks say police treat blacks worse. Some 63 percent of whites feel the same.

Sixty-seven percent of whites and 52 percent of blacks feel that law enforcement are misunderstood by black people. Those views

‘Leading Ladies Luncheon and Scholarship Benefit’ honors role models, inspires youth

By Atlanta Daily World Staff Diamond In The Rough Youth Development Program, Inc. (DITR) will shine a spotlight on six exemplary women, who are accomplished leaders in their fields. At the 2015 Leading Ladies Luncheon and Scholarship Benefit, each honoree will be recognized for their achievements and presented with a Leading Lady Award.

“The Leading Ladies Luncheon was created to honor women who serve as “real models” to girls of all ages, while also allowing us to raise funds and awareness of our programs”, says DITR Founder and Executive Director, Nicole Steele.

A portion of event proceeds will be used to provide scholarships for the youth members of DITR. “Since 2004 we have been committed to transforming the lives of girls, through mentoring, leadership and life skills training, and family enrichment activities. Through the generosity of supporters of this event, we are able to provide services to girls in need, while also helping to further position those graduating from our program as they pursue their educational and professional aspirations”, states Steele.

The 2015 Leading Lady Award honorees include News Reporter and Anchor, Deidra Dukes of Fox 5 News; National Youth Director, Mary-Pat Hector, National Action Network; Angela Williams, Founder of Voice Today; Senior Director of Education Programs, Terra Gay, Points of Light; Health Information Technology Executive, Monique Canty Weeks, and Founding Member of Alice’s House, Evalyn Hughes Parrish.

The Royal and Radiant affair will be hosted at the Atlanta Marriott Century Center, on Saturday, October 17, 2015, from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm. In addition to honoring Leading Ladies, the luncheon will highlight the tremendous impact this award-winning, faith-based, non-profit organization has made in the lives of over 4000 girls and families.The metro-Atlanta community is invited to join Diamond In The Rough in applauding six remarkable Leading Ladies, who are making an indelible mark in the world.” Information, tickets, event sponsorships and advertisement rates can be found at www.ditr.org, or by calling (678) 376-9676.

Early bird tickets are on sale now, until August 31, 2015. The regular ticket purchase deadline is October 3, 2015.

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are consistent across the map for Whites, but in the Northeast, a national low of 35 percent of Blacks concurred.

Compare that to the 70 percent of Whites and 58 percent of Blacks who agree with that opinion in the South.

“The national poll of 1,088 adults was conducted on June 25-July 6 by Tallahassee-based Sachs Media Group, for the association, the country’s oldest and largest national association of predominantly black lawyers and judges,” reports USA Today. “Tallahassee (Fla.)-based attorney Benjamin Crump was elected president of the association in July. Crump, a nationally known civil rights attorney, worked with the family of Trayvon Martin after the 17-year-old was killed by George Zimmerman.”

The poll was conducted during a volatile time in American with respect to police violent interactions with blacks, most particulalry with unarmed black men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Eric Garner in Staten Island in New York, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Freddie Gray in Baltimore.

“Our national conversation about race has been going on for a long time, and it’s encouraging to see signs of progress,” Crump said.

“However, 50 years of conversation is too long without seeing more movement and, to a certain extent, regression. This survey shows that clearly there remains work to be done.”

The remainder of the poll is due to be released in the near future.

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson wins push for Dept. of Defense report on minority ad spending

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use of advertising that does not adequately target minority communities. The committee For the past two years, U.S. Rep. Hank understands the challenges that the services Johnson of Georgia has been attempting to are facing, but urges the services to maintain, get more military recruitment advertising and where possible, increase their advertisplaced on minority-owned stations. John- ing within minority communities, to support son, who has been working with the National their commitment to ensuring a strong diAssociation of Black Owned Broadcasters, is verse force.” the highest ranking Con“To adequately reach gressional Black Caucus minority communities, the member on the House of services are encouraged Representatives’ Armed to use minority owned Services Committee. He media outlets and adverand NABOB have has just tising agencies that have won a small victory in demonstrated an ability their efforts to have stronto connect with minority ger language placed in the communities. Recruitment Defense Authorization Bill advertising within mireport. nority communities is an Starting next year, the important avenue toward Secretary of Defense will building interest and unbe required to give the derstanding in serving our Armed Services CommitNation in uniform. The tee a written report on the committee urges the serDOD’s efforts to use mivices and the Department nority-owned media in the of Defense to maintain a placement of advertising. commitment to diversity The report will be deliv- U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson recruiting and retention. ered to the committee by March 1, 2016.

“Therefore, the committee directs the Here is the actual language as it was ad- Secretary of Defense to provide a report, by opted: March 1, 2016, to the congressional defense “The committee continues to support committees on the efforts undertaken by the efforts by the services to ensure diversity services to adequately reach minority comamong the force. The committee remains munities and use minority owned media concerned that the efforts by the services to outlets and advertising agencies that have ensure that our Nation’s military is reflective demonstrated an ability to connect with miof American society are being reduced by the nority communities.”

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BUSINESS Atlanta announces MetroLab Network Blacks and business: What’s Partnership with Georgia Tech and in your future?

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By Terry Shropshire ATLANTA – Mayor Kasim Reed announced that Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) will be founding members of the MetroLab Network, as part of the White House Smart Cities Forum, to research and develop and deploy new technologies to address challenges in the nation’s urban areas.

The MetroLab Network will provide the opportunity to share successes, address challenges and build shared platforms for experimentation and data between cities and universities necessary to increase the tangible results of new innovations.

“The City of Atlanta is proud to participate in the MetroLab Network,” said Mayor Kasim Reed. “We look forward to leveraging this opportunity to take advantage of our strong university talent base and their extensive experience in technology, engineering and computer science to develop innovative solutions to some of our most pressing infrastructure and service challenges.”

The MetroLab Network is based on previous successes of technologies developed from established city/university partnerships.

These partnerships have produced innovative transportation and water infrastructure projects that have increased the efficiency and reduced the environmental impact of infrastructure systems.

“As an urban research university, Georgia State is deeply entrenched in Atlanta’s success and in the success of cities around the world,” said Georgia State President Mark Becker.

“We welcome the opportunity to work closely with the City of Atlanta and Georgia Tech to find creative solutions to critical societal issues.”

“For years, various disciplines within

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Georgia Tech have helped cities throughout the state to develop potential solutions to infrastructure challenges,” said Georgia Tech President G. P. ‘Bud’ Peterson. “For example, our Center for Urban Innovation supports interdisciplinary research on urban sustainability and partners with other groups. The Metro Lab Network allows us to take this work to a new level as we collaborate and leverage expertise in the smart cities effort,” he said.

By becoming partners of the network, the City of Atlanta, GSU and GaTech are committing to collaboration focused on smart solutions to challenges, not only in Atlanta, but throughout the cities that have partnered in the MetroLab Network.

Participation in the MetroLab Network will require city/university partners to develop a memorandum of understanding between home metro partners, designate representatives responsible for maintaining the collaboration with the MetroLab Network and host research, development and deployment projects.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has provided $1 million in support of the start of the MetroLab Network.

MacArthur’s grant is one of a small number of investments by the foundation in efforts to use data and information technologies to better understand how cities work and to improve the urban condition.

The first actions the network will undertake include organizing a series of workshops among founding members to determine the parameters of network collaboration and appointing an executive director to manage the affairs of the network.

More information on the MetroLab Network and its founding partners can be found at metrolabnetwork.org.

African Americans are feeling better than ever about their financial futures. According the 2015 African American Financial Experience, an annual study conducted by Prudential Financial, a majority of African Americans were optimistic about their current financial situations and more than half surveyed said they were better off than they were five years ago.

But in this current climate of economic confidence and financial savvy, how affluent are Black Americans in the larger community, particularly in comparison to Whites?

Inequalities in wealth continue to hinder overall economic health and wealth. White households’ wealth is 20 times more than African American households, according to a Pew study released in 2014. “African Americans are focused on paying the bills and making sure they can provide properly for their families and loved ones, rather than planning and saving for the future,” says Delvyn Joyce, managing director of Prudential’s South Florida Financial Group.

Economic indicators show African Americans lag behind their white counterparts in the areas of transferring wealth and investing and making financial investments.

The African American Financial Experience indicates that Blacks remain apprehensive about making financial investments and are operating under the misperception that they lack the financial assets to make investments and build wealth. “The growth in the African American community in terms of annual income is due in part to the growth of African American businesses,” explains Peter Rhodes, founder and CEO of BMA Cable Network’s

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Urban Mass Media Group. “You don’t need a half a million dollars and go into debt to start your own business. I worked two jobs in order to save enough dollars to start my cable network.” Rhodes has since established a successful enterprise that has become a wealth building legacy for his family.

“The majority of black businesses are sole proprietorships with only a single employee. … African American businesses employ 921,000 people vs. 23.9 million employees in non-African American [small] businesses,” said U.S. Black Chamber of Commerce president Ron Busby, Sr., emphasizing the lack of support for black business. Busby, also notes that a sharp increase in the number of black entrepreneurs is the result of corporate downsizing and unemployment.

The U. S. Census reports that the number of Black-owned businesses increased at triple the national rate, and Forbes magazine reports that that the number of businesses owned by African American women has grown 322 percent, making Black women the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. But no matter how they arrive at the threshold of self-employment and small business ownership, African Americans continue to find that entrepreneurship is key to building wealth and is a primary pathway to economic prosperity.

Real Times Media subsidiary, Who’s Who Publishing Company, has partnered with Prudential Financial, Inc. to launch Titans of Industry: A Wealth and Wisdom Speakers Series which will launch a six-city tour to highlight African American business powerhouses. For more information visit www.news.prudential

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‘Meals on Wheels’ Atlanta announces million dollar gift

By Atlanta Daily World Staff Meals On Wheels Atlanta is proud to announce that it has received a $1 million gift, given anonymously from a local couple who has been involved with the organization for many years. Meals On Wheels Jeffrey Smythe Atlanta announced this donation on August 25 at an event to celebrate its 50th anniversary and the culmination of a two-year capital campaign to renovate its Atlanta headquarters. “This single donation is the largest in the organization’s 50 year history,” said Jeffrey Smythe – executive director, Meals On Wheels Atlanta.

“We will dedicate these funds to increasing meal production and alleviating the waiting list of more than 300 seniors to receive meals,” he added. “This tremendous gift, coupled with the success of the capital campaign, is generating incredible momentum for the organization,” said Marc Skalla, Meals On

Wheels Atlanta board chair, and president of SASCO Chemical Group. “Meals On Wheels Atlanta is strongly positioned to provide critical services to the most vulnerable seniors in Atlanta for today and future years.”

The capital campaign, which raised more than $2 million, enabled Meals On Wheels Atlanta to renovate its facilities and transform its capacity to serve the expanding needs of Atlanta’s senior population. The commercial kitchen was the largest facility improvement, and included extensive new equipment, a new freezer and additional storage spaces to increase meal production and serve more local area seniors in need. Other critical improvements included a new roof, new HVAC, a new delivery vehicle, and updated facilities for the seniors who are served at the onsite Adult Day Health Center and the Northside Activity Center.

As the 50th anniversary year comes to a close, Meals On Wheels Atlanta is going strong with several events planned, including its 15th annual golf tournament on September 14 at Capital City Club; an Iron Chef competition on September 30 with Jason Hall of Mason Tavern, Tim Magee of Community Smith and Zeb Stevenson of Watershed as the competing chefs; and the 28th annual A Meal To Remember on November 6 at The St. For more information on the program or to donate, please contact or Jamie Donaldson at jdonaldson@c21pr.com or 404-814-1330.

Because you get what you pay for.

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Thanks to the money saving tips on the Georgia Power website, I learned exactly how to turn my renovation into a reward.

First, I got $50 for taking advantage of the Georgia Power Refrigerator Recycling Program. Then, I got a rebate for purchasing ENERGY STAR® certified appliances, and since these appliances use 10 to 50 percent less energy than standard models, I get the benefit of a lower monthly bill. For more information on tips and rebates, visit georgiapower.com/save.

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September 17-23, 2015

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Best and worst actors turned musicians

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By Britta Lee We often think about singers and rappers getting into acting, but what happens when it’s the other way around?

With Sanaa Lathan’s recent studio debut for her single ‘Emotional’, one can only start to reflect on other actors and actresses who’ve decided to venture off into the other side of

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entertainment. For some, the transition has been seamless and successful. For others, not so much. In fact, a couple of thespians have been largely encouraged to keep their day jobs.

Here’s a list of celebrities who started as actors, and later ventured into music careers, for better or worse.

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Drake Before Aubrey Graham became the hip hop star we’ve come to know as Drake, he was best known for his role as the wheelchair ridden basketball player Jimmy Brooks on the teen drama Degrassi. His mother started him out at an early age, engaging in modeling ads and local theatrical performances. Since beginning his rap (sometimes called singing) career, he has won countless accolades. His voice performance in Ice Age: Continental Drift and appearance on Saturday Night Live reminded fans of just how multi talented the performer is.

Lauryn Hill When most people think of Lauryn Hill, the iconic albums The Fugees and Miseducation of Lauryn Hill come to mind. However, many will recognize that face as one of the brightest young stars to emerge from Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Hill got her start taking acting lessons while growing up in Manhattan. She even made appearances in As The World Turns.

Jamie Foxx Few would argue that Jamie Foxx is the definition of “triple threat”. He started his career in comedy, appearing on such sitcoms as ROC and The Jamie Foxx Show. Foxx was eventually able to do what few actors have done, and that is transition from comedy to more serious roles.

He won an Academy Award for his coveted performance of Ray Charles in the hit biopic. Ironically, the musically inclined character he played on his self-titled show would soon mirror his real life. With chart-topping hits like 2006’s “Unpredictable” and 2009’s “Blame It”, Foxx has proved that you can be a “jack of all trades” and master of all.

Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lopez a.k.a J.LO has a face that is synonymous with nearly every aspect of entertainment. She began her career as a Flyy Girl, dancing on the show In Living Color. But, her breakout acting debut as Selena put Lopez on the map. Since then, she’s enjoy the success of a string of roles in such movies as - - - . In --, J.Lo released her highly anticipated first album On The Six. That release has been followed by a string of music hits and albums, both in English and Spanish.

Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy’s comedic legacy is undeniable, yet the SNL funnyman certainly didn’t laugh over his biggest hit, 1985’s “Party All the Time,” as much as music fans did. The so-bad-it’sgood track, produced by Rick James, features Murphy pondering why his lady friend is so promiscuous. But the Beverly Hills Cop actor didn’t stop there: He released two more albums of pop and R&B following his hit.

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Jada Pinkett-Smith She’s of Hollywood’s most successful actors and the wife of Will Smith. Yet, it’s safe to say Jada Pinkett’s music career nearly pales in comparison to her acting. She began her television career with roles on A Different World, and eventually transitioned into film starring in Eddie Murphy’s The Nutty Professor, Menace to Society, and Set It Off, to name a few. Pinkett Smith launched her music career in 2002, when she helped create the metal band Wicked Wisdom, for which she is a singer and songwriter. While the group achieved moderate success, it does not nearly rival the impressiveness of Jada’s acting resume.

Donald Glover Donald Glover is entertainment’s modern renaissance man. Not only does he play Troy Barnes, the lovable Jehovah’s Witness on NBC’s religiously-followed comedy Community, Glover also managed to snag his own Comedy Central Special, Weirdo. Pair that with Glover’s ambitious track record as rapper Childish Gambino, which includes a string of mixtapes and four albums. But it was Gambino’s latest album Camp, his first studio album, which dropped in mid-November and spawned the hits “Bonfire” and “Heartbeat,” that has made him a serious, far from childish contender in the rap game. For all those who ever hated, Glover is getting the last laugh.

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Sanaa Lathan teams up with Dej Loaf for first single ‘Emotional’

By Britta Lee Social media has recently been all abuzz over Sanaa Lathan’s debut of her first single. Who knew the talented actress also could hit a few notes?

It’s the first time that Lathan has publicly shared with the world an interest in music. What better a way than to team up with Dej Loaf, one of the hottest rappers out now?

The single ‘Emotional’ comes just time of Lathan’s new film and box office hit The Perfect Guy, which also stars Michael Ealy and Morris Chestnut. The song will appear on the movie soundtrack.

‘Emotional’ was produced by Detail, who is best known for his work with artists like Beyonce, Drake, and Lil Wayne. It was also co-produced by Choppa & Sidney. If teaming up with such a combination of talent is a sign of things to come, Lathan’s project should be a success.

The actress even took to Instagram to thank those who collaborated with and inspired her on the song, and hinted at a possible ALTER EGO “Brown Sugar”.

In her post, she states: “Life can be amazing when you step outside your comfort zone sometimes and say yes. Who would’ve thought I’d have a single out? It tickes me pink, Hahahaha. Shout out to @DetailGo & @FrenchMontana for the encouragement. Shoutout to the brilliant @MissChloeFlower on piano and the the amazing @DejLoaf.

I’m thinking of this as a character I’m playing singing this song. She’s my character Leah’s (in#ThePerfectGuy) ALTER EGO and her name is #BrownSugar. En-

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The big question now is, can we expect more music from Sanaa in the future?

To listen to Lathan’s new song ‘Emotional’, visit https:// soundcloud.com/detailgo/detailsanaa-lathandej-loaf.

‘RHOA’ brings on yet another new cast member

By Terry Shropshire Rumors began swirling amid the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” that it had recruited additional cast members to try to fill the crater-sized void left by actress Nene Leakes.

While Leakes continue to pursue opportunities on Broadway – she also guested on Kevin Hart’s highly-successful “Real Husbands of Hollywood” – Bravo producers have incorporated several “friends” of the full time cast members to be a more permanent part of the show.

One is Porsha Williams’ BFF Shamea Morton. With Leakes’ exit, it’ll be interesting to see if Williams can earn her Georgia Peach back as a regular cast member, or if that role will go to Sheree Whitfield and/or actress-producer-director Kim Fields (“Facts of Life,” “Living Single”).

Who is this Shamea Morton? Flip the e-page to find out: Morton has been seen out with the cast for the past several months, and was present with Williams during the taping of the high-profile Kenya Moore hair launch.

This is not Morton’s debut on RHOA, however. She once appeared on season 5 and refers to herself via social media as an ‘actress, singer, dancer, host & on air personality.’

Morton is but the latest in a line of “friends” who get some deserved or undeserved shine (depending on your viewpoint) by being close acquaintances of the Big Six. Other part-timers or guests of the show include Cynthia

Bailey’s sister Mallorie Bailey-Massey, Kandi Burruss’ BFF, Carmon Cambrice and Marlo Hampton, an appropriate buddy and supporter of Kenya Moore.

The six other main cast members still consist of Phaedra Parks, Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, Kenya Moore, Porsha Williams and returnee Sheree Whitfield.

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The ‘beauty’ balance: food recipes for health and hair

By Britta Lee There’s nothing like a great hair day. On the flip side, a bad one can derail your confidence and kill your spirit.

It may sound trivial but hair plays a big role in how we see ourselves and others see us. The important thing that can get overlooked is that hair health depends heavily on what we put inside our bodies.

While lotions, potions, and creams help, most professionals suggest that internal wellness has the biggest impact on hair growth. The old saying, you are what you eat stands. Junk food, stress, and bad habits ultimately affect your appearance, and hair. Maintaining a healthy diet along with exercise, however, will keep your entire body in balance.

Here’s a list of delicious and nutritious food recipes that will help promote healthy hair and overall internal wellness: Wilted Spinach and Chickpeas Ingredients 1 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas 1-2 tbsp olive oil 2 tsp paprika 1 tsp cumin seeds 1/4 tsp ground coriander seed 2 tbsp sliced red onions 1 ripe mango, peeled/pitted and cut into large chunks 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp sea salt Several large handfuls of spinach Directions Clean and rinse 1 can of organic chick peas. Drain them.

Heat a large saute pan over medium-high heat with 1 tablespoon coconut oil. When the oil is melted, add and gently cook the onions for 2-3 minutes.Toss in the mango and cook just until warmed through. Add in the chickpeas, spinach and lemon juice. Gently toss to combine and then cover the pan, allowing the spinach to steam until tender and wilted. Sprinkle (to taste) with a pinch of sea salt and serve immediately.

Tal Ronnen’s Mediterranean Chickpea Wrap Ingredients sea salt 2 tbsp olive oil 1 carrot, peeled and finely diced 1 onion, finely diced 1 banana pepper, seeded and finely diced 1 garlic clove, minced 1 tsp ground cumin 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes 1/8 tsp ground cayenne, or more to taste freshly ground black pepper 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, with liquid 1 white potato, peeled and finely diced 5 whole oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes 4 pieces of vegan naan bread or tortillas, heated or toasted Directions Place a large saute pan over medium heat. Sprinkle the bottom with a pinch of salt and heat for 1 minute. Add the oil and heat for 1 minute, being careful not to let it smoke. This will create a non-stick effect.

Add the carrot, onion, banana pepper, and garlic to the pan and saute, stirring frequently, for 5 to 7 minutes, until the vegetables are just beginning to soften. Add the cumin, red pepper, cayenne, and black pepper to taste and saute for 1 minute.

Add the chickpeas and their liquid and 11/2 cups water.

Bring to a boil. Add the potato and sun-dried tomatoes and simmer for 20 minutes, or until the potatoes are soft. Serve wrapped in the naan bread or tortillas.

Dr. Oz’s Berry Strong Spinach Smoothie Ingredients 1 cup frozen spinach 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries 1/2 cup frozen raspberries 1 cup orange juice

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Directions Combine all ingredients in a blender with ice and blend until smooth.

Hearty Lentil and Veggie Soup The spinach in this recipe is just one food that contains cancer-combating folate. Eggs, oranges and asparagus are also members of this potent food group.

Ingredients 1 onion 3 tbsp olive oil 2 carrots 2 stalks celery 2 cloves garlic 1 bay leaf 2 large fresh tomatoes 2 cups dry lentils 8 cups low-sodium vegetable broth 1/2 cup spinach 1/4 tsp ground turmeric 1/8 tsp ground black pepper Asian Salmon With Brown Rice Pilaf Ingredients 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1/2 onion, chopped 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped 2 cups water 1 cup uncooked short-grain brown rice 1/4 cup finely chopped parsley salt and freshly ground black pepper (optional) 4 skinless salmon fillets (about 4 ounces each) 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 garlic clove, pressed or minced 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger 1 tsp soy sauce 1 tsp maple syrup 2 green onions, chopped Directions To make the rice, heat oil in a medium saucepan.

Add onion and bell pepper; cook 3 minutes. Add water and rice; bring to a boil.

Reduce heat; cover and simmer 50 minutes, or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.

Fluff with a fork; stir in parsley. Season with salt and pepper if desired. Meanwhile, place salmon in a pie plate or shallow dish. Combine remaining salmon ingredients; mix well.

Pour marinade over salmon; let stand 15 to 20 minutes.

Heat a ridged grill pan over medium heat until hot. Add salmon, discarding marinade; cook 3 to 4 minutes per side, or until salmon is opaque and firm to the touch. Serve with brown rice.

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September 17-23, 2015

Grow Up N Tech hosts ‘Robotics Exposition’ for K-12 students

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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s ‘College Scholarship Program’ now accepting applications

By Lorraine Cochran-Johnson The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation invites applications for its College Scholarship Program, the largest undergraduate scholarship in the country. Students selected as Cooke Scholars will be awarded as much as $40,000 each year for four years for tuition, living expenses, books, and other required fees. Cooke scholarships are available to high-achieving high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend the nation’s best four-year colleges and universities.

“There are thousands of students with financial need who are among the nation’s highest achievers,” explained Executive Director Harold O. Levy. “They are the academic superstars who, if given the chance to reach their full potential, could become the next generation of leaders and innovators.”

The program boasts a network of 2,000 extraordinary scholars and alumni, also connects students to opportunities they might not otherwise have, such as internships, studying abroad, and funding of up to $50,000 per year for graduate study.

Recipients will be chosen based on excep-

tional academic ability and achievement, unmet financial need, persistence, desire to help others, and leadership. Applications require students to provide their academic transcripts, standardized test scores, teacher recommendations, self-assessments, and essays.

The application period will close on November 3, 2015. Final notification to accepted students will be made in March 2016. For information about the College Scholarship Program, visit http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/ college-scholarship-program.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. In addition to its scholarship programs, the Foundation provides grants for innovative, high-impact initiatives that benefit such students. By doing so, the Cooke Foundation seeks to use its resources to end the Excellence Gap, the disparity between the number of low and high income students who reach the top levels of academic performance. Founded in 2000, the Foundation has awarded $147 million in scholarships to nearly 2,000 students and over $88 million in grants.

By Sheila Tenney, M.A. Grow Up n Tech hosted the Robotics Exposition in the gymnasium on the campus of Atlanta Metropolitan State College on August 29, 2015. The exposition aligned with the Georgia Department of Education’s STEM program which prepares students in K-12 public schools for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in the 21st Century. Grow Up n Tech is a 501(c) (3) non-profit program designed to educate youth in the Atlanta area on careers in STEM

and has been providing services to youths since 2012. During the exposition, students and members of the community were provided opportunities to design, problem solve, and build robots while applying both engineering and computer skills.

This Robotics Exposition served as a kickoff for the fall competition season of the First Lego League. The exposition provided several programming workshops for new teams that competed. In addition, students and other guests enjoyed seeing and operating a variety of robotics and drones as well as interact with robotics members from the First Lego League, First Technical Challenge, Marta Police Bomb Squad, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 80/20 Demo van and they’ll have a chance to compete in the technology quiz bowl.

Chick-fil-A, Papa Johns, and the King of Pops were available for purchase and food purchases helped raise funds to support additional STEM projects through Grow Up n Tech. Prizes and equipment were raffled off to attendees.

For more information on how to register for this event in the future, as an individual, robotics team, or business partner, please contact Mr. Ronald Jones at 678-321-7646 or go online to http://www.growupntech.org/.

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by Lee A. Daniels

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Criminalizing Black Protest and Black People Is #BlackLivesMatter a criminal organization that advocates attacks on and murder of White police officers?

That’s the snake-oil pitch the conservative echo chamber is making these days – even as news accounts every week bring new proof that neither Black law-abiding citizens nor, frankly, Black criminals, nor anyone else are preying upon the police. Washington Post columnist, Radley Balko’s September 10 column offers a must-read examination of the data that shows that assaults on and murders of police officers have fallen to dramatic lows in recent years, and there’s no indication they’re about to increase.

Balko emphasizes, The so-called war on cops,“just isn’t true.”

Instead, what continues to be true is that a significant number of individual cops and prison guards continually seek the slightest excuse – or no excuse at all – to brutalize Blacks and other people of color.

Look at the video released last week by the Fairfax County (Va.) sheriff ’s office of five officers wearing biohazard suits, gas masks and rubber gloves taking Natasha McKenna, a 5’4’’ mentally unstable Black woman, from her cell – apparently completely nude – last February and shooting her with a stun gun four times while she lay face down on the floor outside her cell.

She died days later.

Read the September 10 New York Times account of the death in April of a Black mentally ill inmate at New York’s Fishkill state prison, Samuel Harrell, allegedly at the hands of a socalled “Beat Up Squad” of prison guards, and their subsequent efforts to intimidate inmates who witnessed the killing into silence.

Watch the video of a bully-boy New York City undercover cop jumping retired Black tennis star James Blake in front of a Manhattan hotel September 10, and read of this dirty cop’s record of assaulting innocent people.

These three terrifying examples don’t begin to indicate the scope of the reality so many Black and Hispanic Americans face from the front-line “troops” of America’s criminal justice system. But they are enough to show up the “criminalization gambit” as just another rotting plank of the structure of American racism.

Criminalizing Americans of color, especially Black Americans, has long been a constant of American society. Racists have often tried to diminish black protest movements, and Black achievement itself, by characterizing them that way — be it the pre-Civil War abolitionist movement, the post-Civil War achievements Blacks forged during the Reconstruction Era, or the mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement.

Revealingly, it was after the massive March on Washington of 1963 that arch-racist F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King,

Jr.—not Malcolm X— “the most dangerous Negro in America.”

Today, the striking success of Blacks in marshaling their voting power has provoked the Republican Party’s national campaign to block Blacks’ access to the ballot under the smokescreen of preventing voter fraud. And conservatives have constantly attacked President Obama himself as “lawless.” For example, in October 2008, when his victory over the McCain/Palin ticket seemed assured, conservative pundit Michael Barone wrote a column bemoaning the “coming liberal thugocracy” his administration would be. Naturally, his phrasing was rapidly picked up by the conservative confederacy.

That framework helps illuminate three specific reasons conservatives are pushing the criminalization gambit against #BlackLivesMatter now.

One is their fear of its success in giving blacks and many progressive-leaning Whites a means of direct-action protest against the many injustices of the criminal justice system that, thanks to videos, e-mail, tweets and text messages, have become more and more visible to more and more people. Further, #BlackLivesMatter has added a compelling, straight-from-the-streets energy and urgency to the high-level efforts of Obama administration and elected officials and public-policy scholars to reform the criminal justice system.

Another reason for the conservative movement’s attack against today’s Black protest movement stems from its own abject failure in several of the “theaters” of the war it’s been waging against the Obama administration and American democracy.

Its miserable record of failure—from not defeating Obama electorally, to not blocking Obamacare either in the Congress or the courts, to neither halting nor slowing the expansion of rights for gay and lesbian Americans, to its humiliating inability to undermine the landmark treaty Obama and the leaders of six European nations forged with Iran to prevent the latter from developing nuclear weapons—underscores why chaos continues to rule the Republicans’ presidential sweepstakes process.

In other words, two of the pillars of the anti-#BlackLivesMatter campaign suggest the third desperate motive for it, and exemplify what conservatives often do when they find themselves stuck in a political quagmire: They play the dirty game of “blame the Black people.”

Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His essay, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Great Provocateur,” appears in Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent (2014), published by Zed Books. His new collection of columns, Race Forward: Facing America’s Racial Divide in 2014, is available at www.amazon.com

Separate and unequal: The Ferguson Report This week, the independent commission convened by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon in the wake of the Michael Brown Jr. killing in Ferguson, Mo., released its report: “Forward through Ferguson: A Path toward Racial Equality.” The commission’s 16 volunteers were tasked with doing a “thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and economic conditions” that impede progress in the St. Louis region. They have provided a compelling document, detailing concrete reforms that would begin to address the entrenched reality that lies behind the Ferguson troubles: a society that is still divided by race, still too separate and unequal. Nearly 50 years after the Kerner Commission Report in the wake of the urban riots of the 1960s, America remains divided.

The commission does not hide from the truth: “We know that talking about race makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But make no mistake: this is about race.” “(R)ace remains at the root of the violence, as … every riot studied” is the “result of white law enforcement harming a black civilian.” “We have not moved beyond race.”

The report arrays the statistics that prove this reality. St. Louis is the 5th most racially segregated of 50 large metro areas in the United States. Between 2000 and 2013, the number of residents living below the federal poverty line in St. Louis’ suburbs grew by 53 percent. In 2012, 17.8 percent of all children in St. Louis County and 41.7 percent of all children in St. Louis city lived below the poverty line. Failure to address the economic mobility of poor children is projected to decrease the United States GDP (gross domestic product) by about 4 percent per year over the lifetime of these children, costing the entire country about $7 trillion (Putnam, 2015).

“These divides we’ve created,” the commission reports, “between Black and White, between rich and poor and middle class — are bad for all of us, not just some of us.

The commission allows that there are no easy answers but that inaction is not an option anymore. They understand that the citizens they address may live in very different realities.

“If you live in a safe suburb, and you’ve got a good job, and you’ve got health insurance, and you never worry about your kids’ schools, and you don’t wonder if you might get pulled over because of the color of your skin, then maybe the status quo is working just fine for you.

“But for thousands of St. Louisans, the status quo is killing them. The status quo means living in a food desert, with no grocery stores for miles around. The status quo means sending your children to underperforming schools that get fewer resources but dole out more punishments. The status quo means driving in fear of a court system that will put you in jail for failure

to pay a traffic ticket. Are we as a region really willing to live with that status quo?”

The commission details commonsense reforms to redress the structural inequalities and injustices that are increasingly unsustainable.

They begin with reforms in police practices on the use of force and with sentencing reforms.

They expose and condemn the process by which poor towns use traffic tickets as a central source of municipal revenue and then jail the impoverished who can’t afford to pay their tickets, stripping them of jobs and hope in the process.

But the commission understands that the problem goes far beyond police and judicial procedures. It details the inequities in education, and calls for reforms that will begin to give poor children a fairer start. It challenges inequities in school discipline practices. It addresses economic inequality, calling for ending hunger, extending early childhood health and education, raising the minimum wage, ending predatory lending, increasing affordable housing, developing better and affordable mass transit, and of course for more jobs — all vital to giving the working poor a chance to survive. And it bravely calls for direct efforts to address racial equality, to discuss particularly implicit bias and well as institutional or structural bias that too often stacks the deck against people of color.

The commission members are well aware of the fate of most such reports, which are released, get 15 minutes of press attention and then are lost in the shelves. They know that the state legislature isn’t about to pass costly reforms. They know that Ferguson can’t solve the problems by itself. But the citizen commissioners argue that it is essential to start trying: “In trying, new coalitions will be built, and a new sense of community will be developed. As the region tries together, people will learn new things from each other, and generate new ideas….”

“The idea of ‘a culture of trying’ is not new to the St. Louis region,” the report asserts. “Our opportunity in this moment is to apply that culture to the uncomfortable realities we’ve set aside for too long.”

Ferguson is not unique. There is a Ferguson in every state. Entrenched poverty, institutionalized racism, unjust police and prosecutorial practices, unequal education and opportunity are a blight in every state. We have come a long way since the days of segregation, but as the Commission realizes, “we have not moved beyond race.” Police killings of unarmed African Americans have now sparked national demonstrations asserting that “Black Lives Matter.” The Ferguson Commission has produced a compelling report with clear priorities and sensible steps forward. We know the way forward. The only question is whether Americans will decide that it is time to move.

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