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The Late Lucinda Gordon
The Late Bernice Martin
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The Late Betty Stark
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Guns Down Miltown hosts All-City Pop Up and Neighborhood Clean Up Day On Friday, March 12, 2021, Guns Down Miltown hosted "Guns Down Miltown All-City Pop Up and #cleanupMKE Neighborhood Cleanup Day," throughout the city of Milwaukee. Residents were encouraged to form cleaning groups (like this one at Victory Over Violence Garden on MLK Dr.) to help pick up trash and clean up around the city.
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March awareness days-Week 3: Environmental Awareness - World Water Day In 2010, the UN recognized “the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.” The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. www.Worldwaterday.org asks how is water important to your home and family life, your livelihood, your cultural practices, your wellbeing, your local environment? www.Worldwaterday.org suggests that in households, schools and workplaces, water can mean health, hygiene, dignity and productivity. In cultural, religious and spiritual places, water can mean a connection with creation, community and oneself. In natural spaces, water can mean peace, harmony and preservation. Today, water is under extreme threat from a growing population, increasing demands of agriculture and industry and the worsening impacts of climate change.
According to the World Health Organization, here are some interesting key facts about the global water crisis: • 785 million people lack even a basic drinking-water service, including 144 million people who are dependent on surface water. • Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces. Contaminated water can transmit diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid and polio. Contaminated drinking water is estimated to cause 485,000 diarrhea deaths each year. • By 2025, half of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas. • In least developed countries, 22 percent of health care facilities have no water service, 21 percent no sanitation service, and 22 percent no water management service.
Safe and available water, according to the World Health Organization, is important for public health, whether it is for drinking, domestic use, food production or recreational purposes. During Global Water Day, reflect on the many ways water is beneficial for our lives. Find ways you can support and publicize the importance of everyone having available clean and safe water. Also, set aside some time each day during the month of March and pray for organizations that are working globally to provide clean safe water specially to underdeveloped countries. UNICEF and other organizations offer volunteer services to help reach the children and young people in the greatest need.
Beloved, the water crisis should be a concern we all share. Every person regardless of where they live should have access to clean, safe water. The consequences of unsafe water are deadly. Think about how important water is to you and then pray for opportunities to speak out, stand out and prayerfully support organizations who work tirelessly to provide safe, clean water to communities and countries in need. Sources: World Health Organization UNICEF Worldwaterday.org Call for Reader Submission for July Series: I am now commissioning responses to the prompt: “What Do You Want to Declare Independence From?” for the July 2021 series. Whether that is politics, relationships, career, etc. I am placing no restrictions upon the content other than their relevance and suitability for publication. If you are interested in submitting
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Celebrating
Women's History Month Black while funny and female: Black Women of Comedy
Tiffany Haddish - American actress, comedian, and author. Tiffany has starred in a number of T.V. series and movies.
Wanda Sykes - American actress, comedian, and writer. She was first recognized for her work as a writer on The Chris Rock Show and roles in various movies. Sommore - Sommore is an American comedian and actress. Known as the "Diva of Contemporary Comedy," her comedic style features a biting sarcasm and frank discussions about money, sex, and equality between the sexes. Mo'Nique - American comedian and actress. She first gained recognition for her work in stand-up comedy, debuting as a member of The Queens of Comedy. In 2010 she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film "Precious"
Retta - Marietta Sangai Sirleaf, professionally known as Retta, is an American standup comedian and actress. She is best known for her role as Donna Meagle on NBC's Parks and Recreation. Cree Summer - Actress, singer, and voice-actress. She is known for playing Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the NBC sitcom A Different World. Since then she has worked primarily as a voice-actor lending her vocal talents to numerous animated shows, movies and video games including the show Comedy Central adult cartoon Drawn Together. Marla Gibbs - American actress, comedian, singer, writer and television producer, whose career spans five decades. She is most known for her roles on the groundbreaking TV series The Jeffersons and 227.
Nicole Byer - American comedian, actress, writer, television host, and podcaster. She is known as the host of the Netflix comedic reality bake-off series Nailed It!
Niecy Nash - American comedian, actress, television host, model, and producer, best known for her performances on television. Most notably the TV shows Reno911, Scream Queens and Claws.
Leslie Jones - American comedian and actress who was a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019. Since leaving SNL she has been in a variety of movies and has had a stand-up special on NetFlix.
LaWanda Page - American actress and comedian best known for her role as "Aunt" Esther Anderson in the popular television sitcom Sanford and Son, which originally aired from 1972 until 1977.
Whoopi Goldberg - Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, author, and television personality. Goldberg is one of sixteen entertainers to be known as an EGOT winner, meaning she has won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award (Oscar), and a Tony Award.
Yvette Nicole Brown - Yvette Nicole Brown is an American actress, comedian, writer, and host. Brown starred as Shirley Bennett on the NBC comedy series Community. Marsha Warfield - American actress and comedian. She is best known for her 1986– 92 role of Roz Russell on the Top 10 rated NBC sitcom Night Court.
Maya Rudolph - American actress, comedian, and singer. She first gained prominence in the 1990s as a member of the alternative rock band The Rentals before joining The Kim Coles - American actress, comedian and game show host. Coles is known for her Groundlings improv troupe later in the decade. In 2000, Rudolph became a cast member roles as a cast member on In Living Color for the first season and as Synclaire James-Jones on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. Later she would star on television sitcom Living Single. in numerous movies and TV shows. Rudolph's mother is the late singer Minnie Riperton. Jackée Harry - American actress, singer, comedian, director, and television personality. Sasheer Zamata - American actress and comedian known for her work as a cast mem- She is best known for her roles as Sandra Clark, the sexy nemesis of Mary Jenkins, on the ber on Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2017. NBC TV series 227, and as Lisa Landry on the ABC/The WB sitcom Sister, Sister. Moms Mabley - Loretta Mary Aiken, known by her stage name Jackie "Moms" Isabel Sanford - was an American stage, film, and television actress and comedian Mabley, was an American stand-up comedian and actress. Beginning her career on the best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the theater stage in the 1920s, Mabley became a veteran entertainer of the Chitlin' Circuit of Family and The Jeffersons. African-American vaudeville. Esther Rolle - An American actress. Rolle is best known for her role as Florida Evans, Luenell - Luenell Campbell, known mononymously as Luenell, is an American comedi- on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons, and its spin-off series Good Times, an and actress and has starred in numerous films and TV shows. for five seasons. Loni Love - Loni Love is an American comedian, television host, actress, author, and former electrical engineer. Since 2013, Love has served as one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show The Real. Sheryl Underwood - American comedian, actress and television host. Currently, Underwood is one of the hosts on the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk, a role she first stepped into in September 2011. Sherri Shepherd - American actress, comedian, author, and television personality. From 2007 to 2014, Shepherd was a co-host of the daytime talk show The View.
Tiffany Haddish
Wanda Sykes
Mo'Nique
Whoopi Goldberg
Maya Rudolph
Moms Mabley
Niecy Nash
LaWanda Page
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Aisha Tyler - American actress, comedian, author, director, and talk show host. She has appeared on such shows as Talk Soup, Friends, Criminal Minds, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Archer, and served as host on CBS's The Talk and Who's Line Is It Anyway? Danitra Vance - American actress and comedian, who was the first Black female cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live during its eleventh season. She would leave after that season. Vance was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989, she would later pass away from the disease on August 21, 1994. Tracee Ellis Ross - American actress, singer, television host, producer and director. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends and Black-ish. She is the daughter of music legend and actress Dianna Ross. Debra Wilson - also known as Debra Wilson Skelton or Debra Skelton, is an American actress, comedian and television presenter. She is known for being the longest-serving original cast member on the sketch comedy series Mad TV, having appeared for the show's first eight seasons.
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The Late Ernestine O'Bee
Founder, Northwest Funeral Chapel
Dr. Camelia L. Clarke, DBA.
President/LFD, Paradise Memorial
Sheila Reid
President/CEO, Reid's New Golden Gate Funeral Home
Valerie Daniels-Carter,
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The Late ReDonna Rodgers The Center for Teaching Entrepunership
Sharon Adams
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Voluptuous Secrets
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Michelle Pitts
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Carla Allison
Mary Williamson
Owner & Chief Financial Officer, Leon L. Williamson Funeral Home
CEO, Brown Beasly Accounting, LLC.
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The Late Martha Toran Toran's Tropical Hut
Deloris Sims
Margaret J. Henningsen
The Late Wanda Scruggs,
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Co-founder, Legacy Bank
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Scruggs & Sons Shoe Repair
Jacqueline Chesser
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COVID-19 Precautions—BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (PANDEMIC) By Sandra Millon Underwood, RN, PhD, FAAN Professor, UW-Milwaukee School of Nursing Prior to the pandemic, small businesses were one of the fastest growing segments in our nation. This changed with COVID-19. A survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank states that three out of every 10 small businesses in the U.S. say they likely won’t survive without additional government assistance during the coronavirus pandemic. Considering that there are almost 30 million small businesses in the U.S., that means 9 million small businesses are at risk of permanently closing their doors in 2021. Unfortunately, this is even more of a reality for minority-owned businesses, where eight in ten businesses may not survive, even after receiving help from Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and other small business relief efforts. Fortunately, patience, safe protocols and sheer determination have helped one of our nation’s oldest and most profitable businesses in the Black community survive—the beauty industry. The Black beauty entrepreneur is nothing new. In the early 1900s, Madame C.J. Walker became a selfmade millionaire, thanks to her hair care products. Her teacher, Annie M. Turnbo Pope Malone, another Black beauty millionaire, is credited with being the founder of the Black hair industry, according to the Black Owned Beauty Supply Association. Essence. com published a study that revealed African Americans spend $1.2 trillion each year in the Black hair care industry, and that number was projected to rise to $1.5 trillion by 2021. That projection will likely not happen now because of the pandemic. Local beauty salons and stylists have been challenged to maintain their clients during the pandemic—even after following Wisconsin’s health and safety guidelines. “I’ve been a stylist for more than 35 years and when this happened (pandemic), I lost a lot of customers. Some were afraid to come to the shop and some contracted the virus. These past few months have been slow, but I’m hanging in there, and hopefully business will soon pick up,” said stylist Pam Young. “We’ve done everything the state has mandated www.milwaukeetimesnews.com
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to ensure we have safe protocols in place. We don’t take walk-ins; clients must have appointments. We can only work on one customer at a time. We wear masks and require our clients to wear them. We sanitize chairs, sinks and workstations. We even have air purifiers in the salon. We’ve done all we can and more to ensure the safety of our clients and coworkers,” said Young.
still operating at 25 percent capacity—no walk-ins—and we keep the doors locked to prevent people from entering. Clients want to come where they feel safe and, thankfully, several of them have complimented us on our salon’s protocols because we’ve gone that extra mile in following safety mandates,” said Davis. While Black beauty salons have experienced some declining business resulting in revenue loss, as more and more individuals get vaccinated, clients are slowly returning to these ‘houses of beauty’ to get their hair, nails, and toes back ‘in order.’ As more people get vaccinated, Young, Davis and Boyd are happy to see their clients returning. “This past week I saw an increase in some of my older clients coming back because, as they get vaccinated, they are feeling safe to return. I’m grateful and happy to see them again. Many clients are long-time customers, so you miss those relationships. They are not just customers, but have become friends,” said Boyd. Vaccinations will play an important role in the beauty industry bouncing back— particularly for older and atrisk clients. All three stylists said they are listening to their clients and encouraging them to get the vaccine. Moreover, while Boyd is the only stylist of the three that has received the vaccinations, the other two will get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible. “I was fortunate to be able to get vaccinated because I also work parttime for a funeral home, so when the owner’s full-time employees were eligible to get vaccinated, he was nice enough to include part-time staff as well,” said Boyd. Young is patiently awaiting her turn for the vaccination, but in the meantime, she’s encouraging her eligible clients to get the vaccine. “I can’t wait till it’s my turn. I have three sisters who work in group homes
Felecia Boyd Another stylist, Felecia Boyd, who also works parttime as a stylist at a funeral home echoes Young’s sentiment. “We check temperatures of employees and clients, our stations are spread out—every other station is now vacant to ensure social distancing—and after each customer, we sanitize our workstations. One of the challenges for me has been to book clients strategically so that appointments are not overlapping. That hurts financially, too. I’ve had to learn to work on one client at a time and increase my speed to ensure that I complete one client before another arrives,” said Boyd. Jeanette Davis, said that while she’s suffered a financial loss due to COVID-19, she’s glad that she was able to tap into some programs that were available to small businesses to help stay afloat. “Many of my clients are older so once the pandemic hit, they didn’t feel safe, even after we explained the safety protocols we put in place. Right now, we’re
and they’ve already received their vaccines. I’m planning to get it as well. I remember a 90-year-old client telling me that she wasn’t going to take the vaccine. She made a comment about not wanting to be a guinea pig. I have a big family and we haven’t been able to get together inperson for more than a year. Yes, there’s some hesitation in the Black community about getting the vaccine because of historical abuse, but I plan to get the vaccine,” said Young. Davis agrees with Young and is doing her best to help set the record straight with clients and help dispel myths. “We have open conversations about the vaccine in the salon. I remind people who are leery of getting the vaccine that they take other vaccines, such as flu shots, and other medications. We must take it (vaccine) because the Black community will be constantly reinfecting each other if we don’t. We already have existing health disparities. I’m glad to see that more clients are beginning to come around and planning to get the vaccine. Educating and motivating people to get the vaccine when it’s available to them is important. We are helping spread the word about the benefits of getting vaccinated,” said Davis. In Milwaukee, recent reporting showed that nearly 150,000 white individuals in Milwaukee County had been vaccinated, compared to only 25,000 Black individuals. To help close this disparity gap, beginning on March 22,
Dr. Sandra Millon -Underwood with a hairstylist anyone 18 years of age and older who lives in specific zip codes (see below) can get vaccinated. Targeted strategies like this should help address concern expressed by Boyd. “I wish the African American community would become a little more accepting of the vaccine. I know there has been some bad history and distrust related to medicine and African Americans, but we really need to get the vaccine,” said Boyd. *** The Healthy Eating and Active Living Milwaukee (HEAL) is a culturally-tailored program that aims to provide education, resources to secure healthy foods, and active living supports for adults at-risk for developing lifestyle-related diseases; and, to empower adults to make changes in their physical and social environment to improve nutrition and physical activity. ‘Like’ their Facebook page that’s full of videos of healthy recipes and low-cost, no-cost exercise.
Schedule Your COVID-19 Vaccine Today • Seniors can call 414-999-1099 to schedule inhome vaccinations. The phone number goes to Health Connections, a local health provider focused on serving people with barriers to accessing health care. • Anyone, 18 years of age and older is now able to get the vaccine in the following zip codes: 53204, 53205, 53206, 53209, 53215, 53216, 53218, 53223, 53224 and 53233. Go to http://Milwaukee.gov/covidvax or http:// covidmke.com to make an appointment now. Vaccine appointments for the ZIP code program can be made by calling 414-286-6800.
Why Take The Vaccine? “I took the COVID-19 vaccine because my health is very important to me as well as the health of my family and friends. I chair the Mildred Leigh Gold Health Ministry at Calvary Baptist Church. I also volunteer and work with other health organizations in the community. In advocating to have a healthy community, I encourage everyone to get the vaccine. I have a daughter that I have not seen in two years and I would like to see and hug her. Please get the vaccine and let’s have a healthy community.” ~Jacqueline Smith An NCON Communications Publication
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Wealth Building What You Need to Know About ... Life Insurance By Jerry Wilson, President, Carpenter Marketing Group, Milwaukee, WI What is life insurance? Life insurance is a simple answer to a difficult question: How will my loved ones manage financially if I were to die? If anyone depends on your income or the unpaid work you do, they would most likely struggle if you were to pass away. Life insurance pays cash— also known as a death benefit—to your loved ones when you die. Life insurance is paid to your loved ones taxfree. It replaces your income and the many non-paid ways you support your household. Your family can use this cash to help pay for immediate and ongoing expenses like funeral costs, daily expenses, a mortgage or rent, and keep a business afloat. It can also be used for future expenses like college tuition, retirement and more. How much does life insurance cost? The good news is life insurance may be less expensive than you think. The cost depends on four main factors: your age, your health, the type of policy and how much coverage you buy. In general, you will pay less the younger and healthier you are. To put the price in perspective, a healthy 30-yearold may be able to buy a $250,000 20-year level term policy for about $13 a month. That means if you purchase that policy and pay the $13 a month without fail, your loved ones will get $250,000 if you were to die at any
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white Americans. Blacks also constitute more than 35 percent of all patients in the U.S. receiving dialysis for kidney failure, but only represent 13.2 percent of the overall U.S. population.
When Walter Cook was 15 years old and weighed in at only 106 pounds, one of the ‘church mothers’ pulled his mother aside and suggested she take him to the doctor to determine why he wasn’t growing. That doctor’s visit probably saved Cook’s life. His mother was informed that both her son’s kidneys had shut down and he immediately started dialysis.
pounds, and he works fulltime as a security guard. He joked that, after recovering from his kidney transplant surgery, he took three backto-back cruises—something he previously was unable to do because of dialysis.
Dialysis has been used since the 1940s to treat people with kidney problems. The kidneys filter blood by removing waste and excess fluid from the body. This waste is sent to the bladder to be eliminated during urination. Dialysis performs the function of the kidneys if they’ve failed. According to the NKF, end-stage kidney failure occurs when the kidneys are performing at only 10 to 15 percent of their normal function.
According to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), more than 37 million American adults are living with kidney disease and—as in Cook’s case—most don’t know it. Moreover, Blacks For 15 years Cook was have higher rates of kidney on dialysis until he received failure than any other ethnic a kidney transplant on No- group. In fact, they are three vember 24, 2006. Today, to four times more likely he is well, weighs in at 146 to have kidney failure than
Even when there are physical signs of kidney disease, people often attribute them to other conditions. Also, those with kidney disease tend not to experience symptoms until the late stages or when there are large amounts of protein in the urine. Without dialysis, salts and other waste products will accumulate in the blood, poison the
“I began going for dialysis three days a week—Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays—for three hours each day. My schedule was routine: I would get up, go to school, and in between the next two periods, I went for dialysis. I kept that schedule until the 11th grade when I enrolled in a work-study program at Vincent High School. Then I started attending school half a day, going for dialysis, then going to work,” said Cook.
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know for sure if someone has kidney disease is to get tested, likely predictors of the disease are high blood pressure, diabetes, a family history of kidney failure or individuals older than age 60. It’s important to get tested annually for kidney disease. Some of the common signs of kidney disease are nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fatigue and weakness, sleep problems, changes in the amount of urine, decreased mental sharpness, swelling of feet and ankles, chest pain, shortness of breath, and high blood pressure.
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“This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism” by Don Lemon
c.2021, Little, Brown $28.00 / $35.00 Canada 224 pages This really makes your blood boil. This. The racism gone amok, discrimination, the protests that don’t seem to work, nobody’s listening. You’re hot under the collar over it all, totally inflamed, ready for real action, and in “This Is the Fire” by
Don Lemon, you’ll find some sometimes-warm, sometimes-scorching thoughts to sit with first. Coincidentally or not, as a trial begins soon in Minnesota, this book opens with a poignant letter from Lemon to his young nephew on the evening of George Floyd’s death. Lemon writes of the legacy he got from his parents, his grandmother, and his beloved older sister, and he tells his nephew that the boy is “old enough to know what’s going on...” There’s been enough complacency: “Silence is no longer an option.” Once was a time, though, when things were kept quiet. “My life has been blessed...” says Lemon, “but let’s be real: I grew up gay and Black in the South in the 1970s.” Raised by an extended family of women, he heard stories of voter suppression, the denial of education, and too many hard times. Several years ago, Lemon went to Africa with his
existed in the first place, we march to “defund the police” but forget that many Black families likewise fear a neighborhood without them. “Racism... is a contagious assailant,” he says. “Healing is you and me standing on the John Lewis Bridge. We can get there... if we’re willing to do the work.” As today’s books go, “This is the Fire” is pretty thin. It doesn’t look like much, but dive inside for ten minutes and you’ll see that it’s thick with hope. And yet, one might argue that, despite that the words
mother, to a fortress where slaves left that continent; he grew up in Louisiana and knew about the area’s dark past. He acknowledges that things have changed; that some things are 'different this time’,” but they’re still the same, whether you live in poverty you’ve been manipulated to be in, or you live in a well-to-do enclave and try to Shop While Black. Racism, he points out, is so endemic that we don’t always see it sometimes, or know its entire history. We condemn White Supremacy without understanding how it ever
here are fresh and current, author and CNN Tonight anchor Don Lemon doesn’t tell readers much that’s new. George, Breonna, Jacob, Stephon, Sandra, their names are familiar, and absolutely no one has forgotten the last White House administration. Readers get a bit of biography and that delicious Lemon sense of wry humor, but what else? Perspective. Lemon’s thoughts are the kind that make you gasp. They’re I-never-saw-itthat-way avowals that leave room for self-education, reparation with wisdom, honest reflection, and fixing what’s so deeply and wrongly embedded in this country. They demand that you think. Now. And so, whether you’re up for a heated argument, a fiery debate, or just a warm talk with someone, this is the perfect time to read those words. “This is the Fire” will spark a discussion.
“Women with Money” by Jean Chatzky
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have to be careful about how and what you spend it on.” Money: in one hand and out the other? Or are you more tight-fisted? You think you know yourself, but read “Women with Money” and you
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