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Because It’s Thanksgiving

BY DELORES DUDLEY, HAMPTON ROADSʼ POET Many years ago, a date was set that all Americans were never to forget, And it was to be a day that we would pause and remember all of our blessings listed by number, and this tradition would always be held on a fourth Thursday in November, Now, some say that the first Thanksgiving began with the feast of the Pilgrims and a group of Native Americans, two nations, as they rejoiced for a great harvest and a fun and peaceful and joyful celebration between these, two different races who would now live in America together as one of GODʼS beautiful CREATIONS! Well, one thing that we know for sure is that over the years, the Thanksgiving Day Celebration grew to be even more.

Now, it has been recorded that Thanksgiving in America is its most traveled day, as millions of Americans passionately take to the skies for their plane rides or board large busses or in their cars meet the roads with too many boxes and too many loads or get on a rail road train again and again and again, For Thanksgiving begins an official season, and our united GRATITUDE becomes our national reason, and relatives plan to get together, no matter the challenges of the most, horrible weather.

And most especially if they live alone, they are going to that one place that is called HOME!

A H A P P Y

Because they all know whether their relatives are all somewhat grumpy or mellow and sweet , at HOME there will be laughter and hugs and high fives of encouragement and all types of GREAT FOODS SO DELICIOUS to EAT! BECAUSE IT’S THANKSGIVING ...

So, there will be turkey, and there will be ham and there will be fried chicken and as appetizers small biscuits wrapped with small bits of SPAM. And there will be greens, potato salad, cranberries with sauce and fine tasting yams, and always a favorite, macaroni and cheese, along with another, those fresh, dark green peas, And there will be corn pudding and rice and gravy and cabbage with bits of sausages too, and all of GRANDMAʼS corn bread that is just too good to be true, And there will always be a very large chocolate cake that an auntie of age did take time to perfectly bake, for this is a family feast set for all relatives and friends to partake.

BECAUSE IT’S THANKSGIVING ...

And we can not forget the parades that are seen and those NFL GAMES as for our favorite teams whom we cheer for and scream, And our favorite movies that all age groups find appealing, especially those that are heartfelt and grant us all healing, The end of the day to one by one say a prayer to thank Father GOD for every blessing that each holds dear and can say, So, everyone shares every blessing that he or she can think of, for each blessing came from our GOD, THE GREATEST SPIRIT FROM ABOVE who showers us daily with HIS POWER and HIS LOVE, We remember THE ONE WHO is STILL UP ABOVE, saying all as one, praising THE FATHER and THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE THREE in ONE saying, HALLELUJAH, O GOD we praise and are grateful for all that you have done.

And we are so grateful for this season, again when gratitude is our supreme reason being grateful for and to you,GOD, ONLY YOU!

BECAUSE IT’S THANKSGIVING!

T H A N K S G I V I N G

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2A | November 23, 2023 - November 29, 2023

MARYLAND GOV. WES MOORE’S EFFORTS TO END THE RACIAL GAP EARN HIM THE NUL PRESIDENT’S AWARD

By Marc Morial (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM) “The racial wealth gap is intentional. It was created. It was created by the Homestead Act. It was created by urban redlining. It was created by the inequitable distribution of the GI bill. It was created by unfair appraisal values. It was created by racist procurement policies. The racial wealth gap was created by the misguided choices of people in power.

The only way to reverse bad policy choices is with good policy choices. Policies that fix the foundation of what’s broken.”

– Maryland Governor Wes Moore ◆◆◆ It’s an ambitious goal for any governor: Eliminate the racial wealth gap.

Racial inequality has cost the American economy $16 trillion over the last two decades, and it’s projected

In his moving acceptance speech, Moore acknowledged the inspiration of his grandfather, James Thomas, whom he called “Papa Jim.”

Gov. Wes Moore to cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore has made eliminating the racial wealth gap in his state his top priority. Nearly a year into his term, his administration has advanced over half a billion dollars in procurement awards to minority and women-owned businesses.

He’s signed the Maryland Access to Banking Act, promoting the growth

of financial services in low-to-moderate-income communities.

Maryland’s minimum wage has been boosted to $15 an hour two years ahead of schedule. The Family Prosperity Act of 2023, which expands and makes permanent the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit and significantly expands its Child Tax Credit, is expected to lift tens of thousands of Maryland’s children out of poverty.

And he’s working with lawmakers to address the appraisal gap from historic redlining, which he called “one of the greatest wealth thefts in our state’s history.: In recognition of these

accomplishments and others, the National Urban League honored Moore recently with the President’s Award at the 67th Annual Equal Opportunity Dinner.

The Equal Opportunity Dinner is an annual fundraising event that celebrates trailblazing leaders in industry, media, the arts, and government who personify the National Urban League’s mission of equal opportunity for the underserved.

Also honored this year along with Moore were National Urban League Trustee Donna Epps, Verizon’s Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Strategic

enough.

“It’s because he chose to serve a country that wasn’t prepared to serve him.”

Moore’s father died suddenly when Moore was only three years old, prompting his mother to move with him and his two sisters to The Bronx to live with his grandparents.

They lived there until Moore was 14, when the family returned to Maryland.

Moore credits the influence of his grandfather, whom he called “Papa Jim,” with keeping him safe from the gang violence that enveloped his neighborhood. When Moore had a run-in with police, his grandparents mortgaged their home so they could afford to send him to military school in Pennsylvania.

In January, Moore was sworn in as Maryland’s first Black governor and third Black elected governor in U.S. history on a Bible that belonged to “Papa Jim,” along with one that belonged to Maryland native Frederick Douglass.

In his first year, Moore fitting Memorial Wall in their truly embodied the honor.”

National Urban League’s mission of empowering communities and changing lives. We look forward to working with him as he furthers that mission and urges other governors and lawmakers to follow his lead.

Alliances, and acclaimed actor and philanthropist Wendell Pierce.

In his moving acceptance speech, Moore acknowledged the inspiration of his grandfather, James Thomas. Born in South Carolina, Thomas fled to Jamaica when he was 6, chased out of town by the Ku Klux Klan.

While many of his family members vowed never to return to the United States, Thomas did. “He would say, ‘This country wouldn’t be complete without me,’” Moore recalled with a smile.

Though he passed down to his children, his grandchildren, and great-grandchildren “a remarkable legacy,” what he didn’t pass down was wealth.

“It’s not because he didn’t work hard enough,” Moore said. “It’s not because he didn’t dig deep

45th Anniversary of Jonestown Massacre Is Commemorated OAKLAND, CA Survivors, families and friends of victims joined community leaders here on November 18 in observing the 45th anniversary of the infamous Jonestown Massacre.

On Nov. 18, 1978 the world as we knew it was changed forever. Nine hundred and eighteen adults, over 300 children--including 40 infants--lost their lives along with U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and a United Press International film crew. The place was Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, founded and led by James Warren “Jim” Jones.

The ceremony was held to honor the victims and remind the public of the tragic murders of hard working and generous people, who, in search of better lives for themselves and their children, were killed by their pastoral leader Jim Jones

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Dr. Jynona Norwood is founder and executive director of Jonestown Memorial Services and Wall. On that fateful day, her family lost 27 loved ones including her beloved mother and two-month-old cousin Charles Garry Henderson-the youngest child to perish in Jonestown.

“Throughout the last 45 our hearts and deeds.” The years we have paused to Jonestown victims deserve a reflect on the sparks of life that God created who were massacred in Jonestown,” commented Dr. Norwood.

“After losing 27 vibrant loved ones, my family and hundreds of other affected parties will come together to say, “Love never dies, but lives on in

On Nov. 18, 1978, the world as we knew it was changed forever when 918 adults and more than 300 children died in Jonestown.

From The Guide’s Archives

Archives taken from the pages of the (New) Journal and Guide November 23, 1929 Edition of the Guide Officer Claim He Has The Right To Marry A Woman of His Choice HAMPTON Emil Umlauf former Chief of Police of Phoebus, and his Colored wife, the former Lizzie Whitehead, were given a preliminary hearing this morning and sent to the December term of the Grand Jury charged with violation of Section 5089 of the Virginia Code which prohibits marrying in another state and returning to Virginia to live here. Conviction on the charge carried with it a prison term of 2-5 years, Attorney Fay S. Collier, a lawyer for the defendants, told a Journal and Guide reporter this morning.

Umlauf is lodged in the Elizabeth City County jail for being “not of good fame” and other charges growing out of his marriage in Brooklyn, New York on November 11 to his Colored lover Whitehead.

This has developed into one of the most sensational episodes in the history of this section.

Declaring that a man has a right to marry whoever he wants according to a reliable report, Umlauf had gone to the Phoebus jail where his wife had previously been incarcerated to talk to her through the jail window.

A warrant was then issued for his arrest, which he submitted without protest.

The Umlaufs reached Phoebus last week after an absence from the town of six weeks and went to his home on County Street in Hampton. His wife was placed under arrest in Umlauf’s home and held on a charge of assault in the Phoebus jail.

However soon as the news became general a large crowd collected about the Phoebus jail and local officers decided it was advisable to move the couple to the Hampton jail where they were taken by Chief Engelbert and two officers. It was while being transferred to jail that the former chief of Police

is said to have insisted upon his fundamental right to enter this bond of matrimony with any person, he saw fit to do so with.

The former officer and his wife are reported to have been on very friendly terms for some time. She had lived in Phoebus for most of her formerly residing in the back of Poplar Avenue. Some months ago, she moved to the House adjoining the one occupied by Umlauf and his aged mother.

It is alleged that Umlauf’s mother was severely beaten by his new wife late in August. Umlauf is charged with having witnessed the affair. His mother secured a warrant charging Whitehead with assault and the latter filed a countercharge. Before the case could be brought to trial, Umlauf and Whitehead left Phoebus around Labor Day. Hot Dog Diet Shares The Blame For The Team’s Failure

By Louis Lautier WASHINGTON, D.C. Domination by the school’s president, poor coaching, and underfed players are the chief causes of the football debacle in which Howard University finds itself this season a close study of the situation reveals.

The players Head Coach Tom Verdell and assistant coaches Harry Payne and Jack Young have had to build a team, that was raw.

Two or three promising players were left over from last year. Other players came from the freshmen teams and have been coached by Charley West.

But that material is still green and some observers who have watched Verdell Coach believe there is little chance for its improvement except through experienced gains in intercollegiate games.

Verdell came from Northwestern, a team that was rated eighth among the Big Ten teams of the Western Conference. He has no experience except

as a player. He has never scouted officials or had any previous experience in coaching.

That he is unequal to this take critics change is perhaps best shown by the failure to develop good ends, a punter, and a passing game. Verdell himself was an end.

Marshall was one of the best passers in the game, always being a thrill to the crowd but his passes are nearly always wasted because no one on the teams who is eligible to receive them is unable to catch them.

Verdell, however, is not to blame for the failure of the Howard eleven this season. President Mordecai W. Johnson is the master player domineering and dogmatic in his opponent’s charge. Johnson believes that he knows football. He has definite ideas about the way the sport should be played at Howard University.

His rule is that football players shall receive no consideration whatsoever because they are football players.

That is the reason for the abolition of the training table.

Consequently, Howard football players are underfed and in no condition to stand the wear and tear of hard training and playing. They cannot play football on hot dogs, Proper food and plenty of it is essential.

preacher there and was invited to preach in the Pulpits of many White Churches.

One when Henson was on a visit to England he was received at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria.

Dresden Ontario is still the home of a colony of Negroes who are descendants of slaves who escaped into Canada from the United States.

2210 Arrests In Norfolk During October Arrests in Norfolk for October totaled 2210 or 40 less than the number for September. Of the total 2210 1230 were White and 937 were Colored.

Of the 2210 persons arrested, 1586 were convicted while 624 were dismissed. Only 69 White females helped to swell the number while 172 Colored females added their quota.

Of the total number of females arrested Colored made up 71 percent while Whites made up 21 percent of the total number of males arrested Whites made up 65 percent and colored 35 percent.

The peak of the arrest falls in the age range of 21-29. Five hundred and eighty people between these ages were arrested in October.

Maternity Head Warns Women of Tobacco Habit

WASHINGTON, D.C. Original “Uncle Tom” “Thirty percent of the Buried In Ontario Canada children of women who smoke excessively are DRESDEN, ONTARIO either born dead or die in A monument stands their first year,” was the over the grave in the little statement of Dr. Sinclair cemetery of Dresden, Brown head of Maternity Ontario bearing the name Hospital and for 42 years of Joshia Henson, who a practicing physician for died on May 5, 1883, 42 years said in addressing at the age of 94. This the 13th annual convention monument marks the at the Howard school of grave of the original Uncle Religions recently.

‘Tom” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s important story, Virginia State Prepares according to “Capper’s State Teachers Weekly.” Uncle Tom did not die at the hands of PETERSBURG, VA Simon Legree as Stowe’s Virginia State College story goes, although he at Ettrick supplies more carried the marks of this than half of the Colored scourge to his grave. He teachers annually prepared escaped to Canada and to fill teaching positions became a well-known according to the official

report of 1928-29.

The report shows that the approximate number of new teachers per year is 400 for elementary schools and 30 for high school teachers these two are eligible to fill the vacancies in the high school for 1928-29 number 140. Because of the ample supply of teachers for the high school, it was suggested that about onefourth of the vacancies in the elementary schools should be filled with college graduates so that local permits or emergency certificates would no longer be needed to fill the vacancies in the elementary schools.

Whitening The GOP

By Kelly Miller One Mr. Arnold of Florida, the statesman of the Neo-Republican part of the South has devised a plan of whitening the GOP. From inceptions, the Republican party has professed to operate without regard to race or color. It might safely be stated President Grant, an erstwhile Democrat and slaveholder, embodied and practiced this doctrine bend all who went before or after him. Rutherford B. Hays first showed the white feather since the surrender of 1976. The GOP has been getting whiter and whiter until now. It is fairly characterized as “lily white.

But that doctrine survives long after the sustaining practice has passed away.

The party is still called “Negro Lovers.” in some parts of the country. The democratic candidate for governor in a recent campaign in Virginia was forced to apologize to the leader of the Republicans for seeming to a circular that implied any sort of fondness for Black Oscar Depriest.

The Republicans are as white as their Democrat adversaries.

Arnold suggested the best way to unify the hue of the two parties was to tie a Democratic opponent with fostering Negro Democratic candidates in the North.

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November 23, 2023 - November 29, 2023 | 3A

A Century Later, Justice For 110 African Nations Are Black Soldiers Convicted Unfairly ‘Deeply Divided’ Over

By Stacy M. Brown

19 deaths.

The subsequent trials of Senior National Correspondent the soldiers were marred by @StacyBrownMedia irregularities, according to historians, culminating in NNPA NEWSWIRE Army Secretary Christine the execution of 19 soldiers, Wormuth formally gave the the largest mass execution of green light to overturn the American Soldiers by the U.S. court-martial convictions of Army. The Army’s immediate 110 Black soldiers from the regulatory change, prohibiting 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry future executions without Regiment, popularly known proper review, followed the as the Buffalo Soldiers. The initially secretive executions.

The South Texas College Army said in a news release that officials made the of Law, in October 2020 and decision based on a suggestion December 2021, petitioned from the Board for Correction the Army for a review of the of Military Records and to court-martial. Retired general also submitted atone for the unfair treatment officers of soldiers after the 1917 petitions requesting clemency for the soldiers.

Houston Riots.

“We cannot change the “After a thorough review, the Board has found that these past; however, this decision Soldiers were wrongly treated provides the Army and because of their race and were the American people an not given fair trials,” Secretary opportunity to learn from Wormuth stated. “By setting this difficult moment in our aside their convictions and history,” Under Secretary of granting honorable discharges, the Army, Gabe Camarillo, the Army is acknowledging said in the release.

At the Secretary’s past mistakes and setting the request, the Army Board record straight.”

The Houston Riots, which for Correction of Military meticulously erupted on August 23, 1917, Records stemmed from racial tensions reviewed records related to the and provocations against court-martial cases, officials members of the 24th Infantry affirmed. The unanimous Regiment. The catalyst for decision was that significant the riots was the violent arrest deficiencies permeated the rendering and assault of two Black proceedings, Soldiers, leading to a group of them fundamentally unfair.

110 soldiers seizing weapons The board recommended and marching into the city. setting aside all convictions characterizing the Clashes ensued, resulting in and

Family members of the 110 Soldiers may be entitled to benefits by applying to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records. soldiers’ military service as “honorable.”

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Review Boards Michael Mahoney, overseeing the review, agreed with the decision. “With the support of our experts, our dedicated Board members looked at each record carefully and came up with our best advice to Army leaders to correct a miscarriage of justice,” Mahoney added.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said it actively supports family members affected by the correction of records, offering assistance upon receipt of the amended documents.

“It is a long time coming, but it is justice that is finally achieved,” John Haymond, a historian, told the New York Times, which reported that the Army acted after it received a petition requesting clemency for the soldiers that had been written by Haymond and Dru Brenner-Beck, a lawyer. The duo cited trial transcripts and other records to show that the soldiers had been denied due process and other basic rights.

“This isn’t a political action.

This is the Army internally fixing a problem that was the Army’s problem 106 years ago,” Haymond asserted.

Family members of the 110 Soldiers may be entitled to benefits, and guidelines for applying to the Army Board for Correction of Military Records can be found at https://arba.army.pentagon. mil/abcmr-app.html.

Online applications can be submitted at https://arba. army.pentagon.mil/onlineapplication.html or through mail to Army Review Boards Agency (ARBA), 251 18th Street South, Suite 385, Arlington, VA 22202-3531.

Applications should include documentation proving a relationship to one of the 110 formerly convicted soldiers.

Family members and interested parties can request a copy of the corrected records from the National Archives and Records Administration, following the NARA Archival Records Request procedures at https://www.archives.gov/ veterans/military-servicerecords.

Israel-Hamas Split (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM/ GLOBAL INFORMATION NETWORK) Back in 1963, the founders of the Organization of African Unity pledged to work and speak as one, forge an international consensus in support of the liberation struggle and fight against apartheid.

Their aims were high.

The achievements less so. Recently, a one-day Cairo Summit for Peace, attended by leaders and top officials from more than a dozen countries, closed without agreement on a joint statement two weeks into a conflict that has killed thousands and visited a humanitarian catastrophe on the blockaded Gaza enclave of 2.3 million people.

Only one Africa leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa, was in attendance.

The speeches reflected growing anger in the region, even among those with close ties to Israel as the war sparked by a massive Hamas attack enters a third week with casualties mounting and no end in sight.

The current Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza strip has left the African continent deeply divided, with some countries choosing to remain silent while others openly showing solidarity with either Israel or Palestine.

Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo all expressed some form of support for Israel since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

“Kenya joins the rest of the world in solidarity with the State of Israel and unequivocally condemns terrorism and attacks on innocent civilians,” said President William Ruto,

All of us standing here pledge our solidarity for the people of Palestine.”

– South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

writing on Twitter, now known as X. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, in contrast, expressed solidarity with the people of Palestine.

“All of us standing here pledge our solidarity for the people of Palestine,” he said at a recent meeting of the African National Congress in Johannesburg.

“We stand here because we are deeply concerned about the atrocities that are unfolding in the Middle East.”

One of Palestine’s strongest African supporters is Algeria which condemned ‘brutal air strikes by the Zionist (Israel) occupation forces in the Gaza Strip.’

They stated they were in ‘full solidarity with the Palestinian people’ while calling on the international community to act against ‘repeated criminal attacks.’

Countries that are more neutral include Nigeria which, on the day of the attack, condemned the “cycle of violence and retaliation that the current escalation has assumed.”

While Uganda has not taken an official side, President Yoweri Museveni urged Israel and Palestine to strive for peace and a ‘twostate solution.’

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Thanksgiving 2023 Reflections PLANTING GRATITUDE AND HARVESTING A BOUNTY

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIOLOGY VIRGINIA TECH

SHOULD THE PRESIDENT BE ABOVE THE LAW?

By Wornie Reed, Ph.D. ”No one is above the law.” Well, that myth was emphatically dispelled in 2019 when Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled his report on the investigation of Donald Trump and the Russia connection.

Mueller reported ten probable instances of Trump obstructing justice but indicated that he was not moving for an indictment because a sitting president cannot be charged with a federal crime while in office.

Wow! I thought. That means the president is above the law! Should that be the case in a democracy?

Where did that come from?

This stipulation that a sitting president is above the law comes from a legal opinion issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 2000, resulting from the cases of Presidents Nixon and Clinton.

Presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. It is not in the Constitution or any federal statute, regulation, or judicial decision.

Supporting my question about whether an office in the Justice Department had the power to rule on such a matter, the Project on Government Oversight issued a statement at the time that Mueller was incorrect, that the president is not above the law, and that Congress should investigate the legal presumption laid out by OLC. Congress should also determine whether the ten instances of possible obstruction of justice are or are not impeachable offenses.

I was aghast that Congress did not investigate, and few leaders argued that they should. How could

Presidential criminal immunity has no grounding in actual law. the United States have the Department of Justice find ten instances of possible obstruction of justice and not prosecute the offender when other countries routinely prosecute their leaders when they violate the law?

• The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was indicted in 2019 on bribery and fraud charges.

• Italy indicted its Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, in 2014 on charges deriving from a sex scandal.

• In 2015, Romania’s Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, was indicted on corruption charges.

• In 2020, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa was indicted for abuse of power in real estate deals.

These are not lawless countries, as they average 86.5 on the Global Freedom Index compared to 83 for the United States even after including the laggard Israel which scores a 77.

So why would we hold a president above the law while in office?

Some legal scholars using the separation of powers issue argue that the president cannot be subject to prosecution by state or federal systems while in office. They must be removed first by impeachment, the voters, or the expiration of their term.

On the other hand, other scholars analyzing the constitutional text, the Framers’ debates, historical precedent concerning other federal officials, and policy arguments find no support for such immunity.

I support this latter view – the president should not be above the law.

What if?

Suppose Congress had ruled against the DOJ stipulation for presidential immunity from criminal indictment. In that case, we might have had a trial and a conviction by now, and we would not be so perilously close to having totalitarianism with the reelection of Donald Trump.

A few arguments against presidential immunity mention that one president had been arrested and fined in 1872. He was President Ulysses S. Grant.

The arresting officer was African-American William Henry West, a formerly enslaved person and a Union soldier. The place was the corner of 13th and M streets in Washington.

West was patrolling the area a day after a woman and her 6-year-old child were seriously injured.

Grant barreled through the same intersection with his horses, and West stopped him. Grant was apologetic to the officer. However, the next day, West caught Grant speeding through the same intersection, leading several teams of horses.

This time, Grant would not be let off the hook. “I am very sorry, Mr. President, to have to do it, for you are the chief of the nation, and I am nothing but a policeman,” West said as he recounted his conversation to the local newspaper. “But duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest.”

At the police station, Grant put up his $20 so he would not have to spend the night in jail. They let him pay a fine and walk back to the White House.

It was a small-scale arrest and fine, but an arrest, nevertheless.

By Dr. Alveda King

… we all have the power to tend to the world around us by planting a grateful attitude wherever we go.

(TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM) “Thank God for what we have left.”

– Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. ◆◆◆ For many people, the Thanksgiving season is a time for expressing gratitude to God for our many blessings. I have been spending time this season reflecting on how grateful I am to have been raised by my parents, Rev. A.D. King and Dr. Naomi King. My father’s legacy lives on in his powerful sermons, and writings, and in the work and lives of his children.

While my mother Naomi, also known by her fans as “the Butterfly Queen,” is 92-years-old now, she continues to advocate globally for peace and justice. I recently traveled to Amsterdam as her stand-in as she was slated to share her long-earned wisdom with the world.

While the world seems to be crumbling around us, we must take heart in the lessons of our fathers and mothers who survived during much darker days than these. In those dark hours, their lips did not drip with hate; rather they turned to the wisdom of the Scriptures to guide their actions.

Matthew 5:44 tells us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. This is one of the cornerstones of my parents’ teaching. While I constantly pray to make sense of today’s chaos from the streets of Atlanta to the kibbutz of Israel, I remain determined to maintain a posture of gratitude. Again I return to the Scriptures for guidance. Psalm 122:6

Dr. Alveda King says, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” So I continue to pray.

Some will argue that in a world consumed by strife and division, these principles are impractical; mere platitudes in the face of real challenges.

For me, embracing a posture of gratitude becomes not just an act of defiance but a revolutionary stance as powerful as my family’s commitment to nonviolence in the face of injustice and brutality.

Oddly enough, a recent manifestation of gratitude has taken me by surprise in a most unexpected manner. In the spirit of love for the land of my birth, ingrained in my upbringing, I’ve taken steps to become a community farmer. Truly, following many years of being grateful for the bounty that comes from my home garden, I am now a resource farmer.

I may not be the proverbial “farmer in the Dell,” but I did become a farmer in a day through a program that I will be sharing more about in the coming weeks. In October, after many years of successful “home gardening,” I officially became a registered farmer with the United States Department of Agriculture.

This phase of my life’s journey is a renewal, a rebirthing – a tangible harvest of blessings. My

lifelong passion for seed time and harvest is another gift inherited from my ancestors – a small but powerful reminder of our constant renewal and rebirthing. In cultivating the earth, I feel a profound gratitude for times of harvest; great and small.

In the landscape of gratitude, farming becomes a metaphor for intentional cultivation – a practice that results in harvest.

Amidst the uncertainties we face, let’s not underestimate the impact of gratitude as a tool to cultivate fruits of unity and understanding. My life’s journey continues to be a testament to the idea that much like a diligent farmer tends to the land, we all have the power to tend to the world around us by planting a grateful attitude wherever we go.

Dr. Alveda King founded the Alveda King Ministries ( w w w. a l v e d a k i n g . c o m ) to inform and transform culture by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Dr. Alveda King serves as Chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for the American Dream. She is the daughter of the late slain civil rights activist, Rev. A. D. King, the niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a Christian evangelist, a graduate of Aidan University. Dr. King is also an acclaimed author and was twice elected to the Georgia State House.

Good Things Do Happen!

By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. (Ret.)

Rdevia was founded as (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM) a student After being glued to the television these days organization on praying that Israel will March 5, 2015. cease fire and stop the killing because it won’t Rdevia provides bring back those who opportunities were killed in Israel or the many Palestinians. and resources We must recognize that the thousands of innocent to Historically civilians in Gaza or those Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. (Ret.) Black Colleges civilians who died in Israel are tragedies we won’t soon and Universities.

The new Supreme forget. seniors who want to go to Court Code of It’s time to concentrate an HBCU. • Current students who jobs, and in uplifting boys on looking for solutions to Conduct is not and men of color. I have a heal the problems between attend an HBCU. • Someone who graduated nephew in Louisiana by the not only the warring sides an effort at but also among ourselves. with an associate, bachelor, name of Dwayne Dupar. reform, but a Having our people in the or advanced degree from an He’s known as Difference Maker and he works hard to U.S. fighting with each HBCU. ham-handed They do this because they make a positive difference other won’t solve the want HBCUs to keep rising in the lives of young men exercise in public problems either.

I pray that we can take a and thriving. They want and women. relations.

A friend by the name forward look at war, and as us to join them in making

Supreme Court’s So-Called Ethics Code Is Worse Than Nothing

By Marc H. Morial (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM) “There’s no clearer indication that these rules are useless than the fact that they end up codifying Thomas’s outrageous behavior as ethically within bounds.

According to the rules, not a single thing Thomas has done is a problem. Putting out a code of conduct that doesn’t restrain Thomas is like Marc H. Morial erecting a dam that doesn’t restrain water. It’s just a gigantic waste of everyone’s not “lend the prestige of the time.” judicial office” to advance – Elie Mystal their own private interests or permit others “to convey ◆◆◆ the impression that they are in a special position to The so-called Code of influence the judge.” The Conduct the U.S. Supreme Supreme Court justices gave Court issued recently won’t themselves considerable put a stop to corruption wiggle room by inserting the and wasn’t intended to word “knowingly.” do so. Quite the opposite: Lower court judges are it is intended to justify directed to “take appropriate corruption. action” if they have reason The Code’s most glaringly to believe that a judge, a obvious failing is the judicial employee, or a lack of any enforcement lawyer has violated the mechanism. But it’s clear code of conduct. Supreme the justices don’t intend Court justices are expected their feeble code to be to act only in response to enforced: In “adapting” the employee misconduct. federal judiciary’s code of Lower court judges conduct, the word “enforce” “should make required is dropped from the opening financial disclosures … in section. Other federal judges compliance with applicable are expected to “maintain statutes ...” and enforce high standards Supreme Court justices of conduct.” Supreme Court “have agreed to comply justices are called upon with the statute governing merely to “maintain and financial disclosure,” observe” such standards. sending a strong signal Lower court judges should that they consider their

compliance voluntary, and that the statute does not apply to them.

Lower court judges are urged to “divest investments and other financial interests that might require frequent disqualification.”

The Supreme Court justices threw that standard out the window, along with a discouragement against accepting outside compensation that exceeds “what a person who is not a judge would receive for the same activity.”

The new Code of Conduct is not an effort at reform, but a ham-handed exercise in public relations. In their statement on Monday the justices made it clear they were adopting the code – not because any of their own behavior had been a problem – but to dispel “the misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules.” ...see Ethics, page 5A

we grieve the tragedies we are experiencing, let us find the good and praise it. As a writer and a radio host, I regularly find people who are doing extraordinary things to help others. That’s what gets me through these worrisome days of how cruel some can be to others.

This past week, I was introduced to someone who does so many good things for so many in need.

If you’ve never heard of Rdevia, I’d like to introduce you to the group through Michelle Hollinger and Marquise McGriff. Rdevia was founded as a student organization on March 5, 2015. Today, they have members and friends, leaders, donors, partners, and sponsors all over the world – including in at least 20 states and in China and Ghana.

Here’s what they do.

Rdevia provides opportunities and resources to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Among the recipients are: • Current high school

it happen. Like many who attended HBCUs, I attended two Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

I attended Grambling State University and Howard University School of Law. I did graduate work at several other universities.

That was nothing like the experiences I had at HBCUs. You will hear that from many others.

Rdevia understands the power of HBCUs. Their mission is to empower marginalized communities through an education that embraces who they are and who they can become.

Their vision includes dreaming of a learned society of people who value one another and the roles they all play in making the world a better place.

They are aware of and promote the position that HBCUs do an incredible job. Yes, they still have an outsized role in preparing students to meet urgent national priorities in STEM fields, in filling teaching

of Dr. Franklyn Malone does similar work in the Washington, DC area.

Dr. Sesil Jenkins is working on a project called “Take Back Our Children.”

I met Daon McLarin Johnson who has a mentoring program and is making a difference in the lives of many. Influential mentors like Daon strive to leave a legacy and a footprint upon the hearts of everyone. Mentoring is one more way we all can help somebody.

There is so much good work to do. Too often we hear about the negative, but there are many like the above stepping out and making a good difference.

As we deal with the Israel-Hamas tragedy, let us declare that war is not the answer. President Barack Obama taught us to say “Yes, we can.” We need to bring back that spirit to make a positive difference wherever we are.

Dr. E. Faye Williams is President of The Dick Gregory Society.

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November 23, 2023 - November 29, 2023 | 5A

Local Doctor’s Book Nation’s Credit Card Debt Passes $1 Trillion Charlene On Combating Glaucoma By Average credit card minimum Crowell payments on revolving credit Wins National Award (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM) NORFOLK A Norfolk eye doctor is among distinguished authors awarded by THE 20th ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS, one of the world’s largest international book award programs.

Dr. Constance Okeke, an ophthalmologist from Virginia Eye Consultants, and the author of “The Glaucoma Guidebook: Expert Advice on Maintaining Healthy Vision,” which was awarded the 2023 Best Book Award in the Health: Aging/50+ category.

Dr. Okeke’s “The Glaucoma Guidebook” addresses a critical health issue with clarity and compassion. The book is also the foundational resource of the AGE (Advocates for Glaucoma Education) Initiative, founded by Dr. Okeke to creatively combat glaucoma blindness globally.

Her deep commitment to her patients and her expertise shines through in this book, making it an indispensable resource for anyone grappling with glaucoma or eager to safeguard their eye health.

This easy-to-read yet thorough guide provides invaluable insights into understanding and managing glaucoma, offering a lifeline to those facing diagnoses and those at high risk. With over 50 color images and real-life insights, the book not only serves as a guide for those with glaucoma but also provides essential information for family members, caregivers, eye care providers, and educators.

For more information about “The Glaucoma Guidebook” and Dr. Constance Okeke, please visit www. theglaucomaguidebook.com.

Ethics

improvements to the home.

If Justice Samuel Alito regarded himself as restricted by ethics rules, he would have turned down a luxury fishing trip with a billionaire whose hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the court, or at least disclosed it.

The list of the justices’ ethical transgressions is disturbingly long, and the new Code of Conduct neither makes clear that they were, in fact, transgressions, nor prescribes any consequence for such transgressions.

The justices may safely consider any misunderstandings dispelled. They have made it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt they regard themselves as unrestricted by ethics rules.

Continued from page 4A If Justice Clarence Thomas regarded himself as restricted by ethics rules, he would not have accepted cruises on the yacht of a politicallyactive billionaire who had business before the Court, excursions on his private jet, and vacations at his private resort. At the very least, he would have disclosed the gifts, along with his sale of three properties to the same billionaire, including the home where his mother still lives, rent-free, and the tens of thousands of dollars the billionaire spent on

For the first time since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) began collecting credit card data, the nation’s related debt reached an alltime high of $1 trillion in 2022.

Newresearch released in late October examines how and why this debt grew, but also how emerging trends in card usage affect the day-to-day lives of consumers.

While companies charged consumers more than $105 billion in interest and more than $25 billion in fees, average credit card balances per cardholder returned to about $5,300, about the same as before the pandemic. At the same time, more cardholders are being charged late fees, falling behind on payments, and facing higher costs on growing debt.

Today nearly one in 10 consumers is caught in what CFPB terms ‘persistent debt’, charged more in interest and fees than they pay toward the principal owed, a pattern that makes each passing month’s charges increasingly harder to avoid. Average credit card minimum payments on revolving credit accounts now reach over $100 per month and are also a contributing factor to rising late fees and overall debt.

“With credit card debt crossing the trillion- dollar mark, we will be working to prevent bait-and-switch tactics when it comes to rewards and to increase refinancing activity so consumers can get lower rates,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra.

Increased indebtedness

accounts now reach over $100 per month and are also a contributing factor to rising late fees and overall debt.

Charlene Crowell also translated into record industry profits, now higher than those reached in pre-pandemic years.

Two key factors, according to the report, significantly contributed to industry profitability: an average APR margin of 15.4 percentage points above the prime rate in 2022, and only 10 credit card companies dominating the marketplace.

Although the nation has nearly 4,000 credit card issuers, four-fifths – 80 percent – of the card activity was with one of the firms in the top-10.

The highest credit card APRs are, as with other consumer financial products, among consumers who carry high credit card balances, missed payment(s), or delinquent accounts, and have subprime credit ratings, scores of less than 670 in a range of 300-850.

Consumers who have filed bankruptcies can also expect that action to affect their credit scores for seven years thereafter.

A 2019 report by Experian, one of the nation’s three credit card bureaus, found that more than a third of consumers – 34.8 percent – were classified as subprime.

Millennials comprised the largest number of subprime borrowers.

According to Experian,

“Prime consumers tend to have more mortgages and credit card accounts, while subprime consumers have more student loans and personal loans ...

Subprime consumers have twice as many personal loan accounts as prime consumers on average.

That said, their average balance is less than half of prime consumers’ average balance.”

CFPB’s new credit card report found that many cardholders with subprime scores paid 30 to 40 cents in interest and fees per dollar borrowed each year.

Further, consumers using reward cards that earn bonus points for frequent usage, earned just 27 percent of rewards at major credit card companies, but paid 94 percent of total interest and fees for carrying debt from month to month.

Last year, and for the first time since 2015, CFPB found a spike in over-limit transactions.

According to the report, “Recent changes in incidence are also driven by accounts with subprime scores. Overlimit transactions tend to be more common among lower-score cardholders since these cardholders typically have lower credit limits and higher credit utilization than higherscore cardholders, making it more likely that even a modest purchase might exceed their credit limit.”

Along with high profits,

CFPB’s new report documents a growing consumer shift toward digital communications, websites and mobile apps now used by nearly 80 percent of cardholders to manage card usage and make payments. Among consumers ages 25 and younger, 95 percent used mobile apps for card transactions.

Consistent with consumer practices, credit card companies and debt collectors are now relying more on text messaging and email to contact borrowers about past-due balances, in addition to phone calls or postal mail.

In separate and independent findings, the New York Federal Reserve’s Liberty Street blog also noted changing credit card practices earlier this year. “[T]here were 18.3 million borrowers behind on a credit card at the end of 2022 compared to 15.8 million at the end of 2019. Instead, the evidence suggests that higher prices and higher interest rates are the more likely culprits driving delinquencies ...

[O]n a person-level, this financial distress is real, and the delinquent marks will impact their access to credit for years to come.”

Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending.

She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@ responsiblelending.org.

UNLOCK FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS, RANCHERS, AND FOREST LANDOWNERS USDA EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR DFAP TO JANUARY 13, 2024 Are you a farmer, rancher, or forest landowner who has faced discrimination in USDA farm lending prior to January 2021? You may be eligible for financial assistance through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP).

WHAT IS DFAP?

assumed USDA farm loan debt that was the subject of USDA discrimination that occurred prior to $2.2 Billion in Financial Assistance: Thanks January 1, 2021, are eligible for this program. to Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act, USDA is allocating $2.2 billion in financial HOW DOES IT WORK? assistance to eligible farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who experienced discrimination in Multiple Ways to Apply: Producers have the option to apply via the e-filing portal at 22007apply.

USDA farm lending programs.

Eligibility: Farmers, ranchers, and forest gov or by submitting paper-based forms via mail or landowners who experienced discrimination by in-person delivery to the program’s local offices.

USDA in its farm loan programs prior to January 1, Free Technical Assistance: Technical assistance 2021, and/or are currently debtors with assigned or is available for potential applicants through four regional hubs working closely with communitybased organizations.

Local Resources: Local brick-and-mortar offices are being opened across the country to ensure easy access and personalized assistance. In-person and virtual events are also being held weekly, with state-by-state information on the website.

Important Deadline: Don’t miss out! The deadline for eligible farmers, ranchers, or forest landowners to complete their application is January 13, 2024.

LEARN MORE: Website: For detailed information about DFAP, please visit our official website at 22007apply.gov.

Our website provides comprehensive information on obtaining in-person or virtual technical assistance, supplementary program resources, and detailed program guidelines.

Call Center: Our call center, available at 1-800721-0970, operates from 8 a.m. ET to 8 p.m. PT, seven days a week, except for Federal holidays.

English and Spanish-speaking agents are available, ensuring you get the assistance you need, when you need it.

Newsletter: Information about the program, resources, recent office openings, and local events across the country is also available through a weekly e-newsletter, which you can sign up for on the program site.

DFAP is all about giving you the support you deserve. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!

Apply now to secure this financial assistance.

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HOSPITAL OF THE NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL CHILDREN’S KING’S DAUGHTERS OPENS OUTPATIENT PHARMACY ON DIABETES MONTH MAIN HOSPITAL CAMPUS

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has issued its 2023 theme for National Diabetes Month 2023: “November is National Diabetes Month, a time when communities across the country seek to bring attention to diabetes. This year’s focus is on taking action to prevent diabetes health problems.

“Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high. It affects about 37 million Americans, including adults and youth.

Diabetes can damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves and heart, and it is linked to some types of cancer.

“But there’s also good news: Taking charge of your health may help you prevent diabetes health problems.

glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels.

Research shows that managing your diabetes as soon as possible after diagnosis may help prevent diabetes health problems.

You can start by managing your diabetes ABCs. • A is for the A1C test that health care professionals use to measure your average blood glucose levels. Some people with diabetes also use devices to track their blood glucose throughout the day and night.

• B is for blood pressure.

• C is for cholesterol.

Ask your health care team what your ABCs goals should be.

2. Take small steps toward healthy habits.

Lifestyle habits such as planning healthy meals, being physically active, getting enough sleep, and not smoking may help you manage your diabetes ABCs. You don’t have to do Tips To Take Charge it all at once. Start slow and of Diabetes build healthier habits from there.

1. Manage your blood 3. Take your medicines on

time.

Remember to take your medicines even if you feel healthy. Talk with your doctor or pharmacist if you have trouble taking your medicines on time or at the correct dose.

4. Reach or maintain a healthy weight.

If you have overweight or obesity, ask your primary care provider if healthy eating, physical activity, or other weight-loss treatments may help you manage your weight.

5. Take care of your mental health.

Managing diabetes can be hard. If you feel down, sad, or overwhelmed, learn about healthy ways to cope with stress. Consider talking to a mental health counselor or joining a support group.

6. Work with your health care team.

Managing diabetes takes a team. Your health care team may include a primary care provider, diabetes specialist, registered dietitian, or certified diabetes educator.

Ask your primary care

Alum Appointed To VSU Board ETTRICK, VA Virginia State University’s Board of Visitors recently welcomed retired Army General Dennis L. Via. Via was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. after he graduated from Virginia State in 1980. He is a native of Martinsville. On Nov. 10, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Via’s appointment to the 15-member board at Virginia State.

Via retired from the U.S. Army as a four-star general and currently serves as an executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Va. “In this role, he leads firmwide corporate engagement in the Office of the CEO,” Virginia State University said in a recent press release. “Via is also a fellow for Defense Futures and a Booz Allen’s

Retired Army General Dennis L.Via Defense Sector leadership team member. Within the global defense business, he helps formulate the firm’s future business strategy for the defense market. He contributes to growth across technology innovation, warfighter advancements, readiness,

training, and security cooperation.”

In June, Youngkin appointed three new members to Virginia State’s board: Chesapeake Bishop Joseph Chase, Norfolk hotel executive Daphne Meeks and Richmond state official Kishore Thota.

According to news reports, they succeeded Glenn Sessoms, Michael Flemming and Wayne Turnage, whose terms had expired. All three were appointed to the board in 2015 by Gov. Terry McAuliffe and reappointed four years later by Gov. Ralph Northam.

Youngkin can make five more board appointments before his term ends in 2026.

Four members are up for reappointment in 2024 and two in 2025. Membership on the VSU Board of Visitors is limited to two terms.

provider if you should talk with other health care professionals about your diabetes.

Diabetes medicines, devices, and office visits can be expensive. A social worker or a member of your health care team may be able to help you find community resources or financial help for diabetes care.

NORFOLK Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters opened an outpatient pharmacy on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, to fill prescriptions and offer pharmacy services for children and adults in the community.

The CHKD Outpatient

Pharmacy, located on the first floor of CHKD’s main hospital at 601 Children’s Lane in Norfolk, provides specialty services such as pharmaceutical compounding, which allows the pharmacist to customize medications based on a doctor’s prescription to meet a patient’s needs.

SKATING PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT VIRGINIA BEACH New Union Chapel AME Church is hosting a skating party on Saturday, December 2, 2023, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Kempsville

Skating Center SK8 Dojo Roller Rink at 5351 Lila Lane in Virginia Beach, VA 23464. This event is open to the public. Tickets are $15 and must be purchased

by November 30. Come skate with us!

For more information or to purchase tickets contact Valerie Ebron at (757) 354-6846.

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NEWS

It’s Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary: An Interview With NSU’s 91.1 DJ Bee

By Melissa Spellman got his take on the 50th graffiti, and breakdancing.

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Around the world, lovers of music, hip-hop pioneers – old and new – are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of hip-hop music. Hip-hop is in the oral tradition of African culture. The stories, tales, proverbs, lessons, rhymes, and songs are preserved and passed down through generations.

The Last Poets, a group of poets and musicians of the 1960s that came out of the Civil Rights movement, are a prelude to hiphop, utilizing the spoken word, drums, rhyme, song, and storytelling, all key ingredients to hiphop. However, the widely accepted birth of hiphop is dated to August 1973 among the backyard parties of the Bronx, New York with rap music.

Fifty years later, in 2023, hip-hop is a billion-dollar industry. Hip-hop has changed the entertainment industry, influencing fashion, dance, art, media, technology, religion, politics, education, and the American lexicon.

MCs and Deejays are the folklorists and storytellers who have preserved the spoken word that is hiphop.

Talking with Hot 91.1’s DJ Bee of the “Fresh Start” Morning Show, I

Anniversary of hip-hop Bee continued, “My love and delved into his hip-hop for hip-hop started from age 6 and I really was fully story. committed like around 10.”

After learning his hipA native of Philly, B. hop origins, we discussed Reel, better known as DJ the first hip-hop album he Bee, has over two decades purchased with his own in radio. He shared his first money.

“U.T.F.O [Untouchable encounters with hip-hop.

“I was always into music Force Organization] was because my parents played the first [album] I bought music in the household all with my own money, and I the time,” said Bee. He was 10,” said Bee. He recalled the Roxanne was first introduced to hiphop at age 6. He credits his Wars of 1984, “U.T.F.O. introduction to rap music dropped Roxanne Roxanne, to his cousins visiting from then they had The Real Connecticut who brought Roxanne, Shante dropped with them cassette tapes Roxanne’s Revenge, and of the Cold Crush Brothers then there were a whole and the Treacherous Three. bunch of Roxanne answer Bee said it was songs records,” said Bee. The like Planet Rock, groups Roxanne Wars is one of like Newcleus, and mix the most infamous Rap tapes from Red Alert, Mr. beefs between two artists Magic and Marly Marl that Roxanne Shante and The fueled his interest “so from Real Roxanne. This led to hearing those tapes I just the most answer records in fell in love with hip-hop.” hip-hop to date.

The Roxanne Wars were a We all remember our first encounter with the hip-hop major wave in hip-hop and sound. A sound that was people saw an opportunity different from anything to profit by riding the you’ve ever heard on the wave. Bee continued, “The radio. Bee recalled when Roxanne Wars were so big he knew he wanted to be a they were making fake Deejay, “I saw Wild Style, Roxanne records.” Hipand I saw Style Wars, and I hop is a culture that affects saw Beat Street and I was everything it encounters. like. ‘yo this is what I want If hip-hop was a person, it would be that one friend to do.’”

He references three that everyone gravitates 1980s films that depict to, who walks into the the elements of hip-hop room, and changes the culture, including rapping, atmosphere.

Photo: Courtesy

(L-R) DJ Bee in the WNSB studio I asked Bee what is the significance of the 50th Anniversary of hip-hop for him? “This culture made it to 50 when parents at one point in time said it’s just a fad. There are a lot of inconsistencies with dates and who is the actual father, or when it actually started. I’m just happy that we are celebrating the culture,” said Bee. He went on to say, “One of my missions is to help preserve the culture.” Like how critical race theory is being used to remove books from schools and slavery is being painted as a benefit to the enslaved, Photo: Courtesy Bee wants to ensure that hip-hop’s history is not (L-R) DJ Bee and Melissa Spellman rewritten but remains accurate by preserving the Norfolk State University is doing just that. foundation of the culture.

Professor Dr. Travis Harris Dr. Harris is taking a holistic approach to understanding hip-hop’s culture, growth, and influence beyond music. He is the editor of the Journal of Hip-Hop Studies, a publication dedicated to researching and analyzing hip-hop. JHHS is a gem and safeguard to hip-hop culture, offering both academics and those in hiphop a voice in academia.

Hip-hop has a complicated and controversial relationship with explicit language, violence, and the sexualization of women.

However, art imitates life and for every dark lane of content, there are multiple roads of light that inspire, uplift, and bring joy.

Hip-hop is a tool of activism, giving voice to the voiceless, it transcends race; it’s international; it’s popular culture; it holds power, and influence.

As we celebrate 50 years of hip-hop, it is safe to say that the history of hip-hop will not be lost or silenced.

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8A | November 23, 2023 - November 29, 2023

The New Journal and Guide Announces The Retirement On November 17, 2023 of Our Chief Reporter Mr. Leonard E. Colvin, After 37 Years of Dedicated Service to the Black Press of Hampton Roads.

BEST WISHES TO LEONARD! Education Department Unveils Disturbing Disparities In Pandemic-Era Schooling

By Stacy M. Brown

Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia NNPA NEWSWIRE The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education has released a wealth of data from the 202021 school year in a revealing exposé that reveals significant disparities in education access that the coronavirus pandemic challenges have exacerbated.

The findings paint a stark picture of inequality in the nation’s educational landscape, prompting urgent calls for comprehensive reform.

“In America, talent and creativity can come from anywhere, but only if we provide equitable educational opportunities to students everywhere,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized in a release.

The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), a mandatory survey of public schools serving preschool to grade 12 students, counts as a critical instrument in assessing equal educational opportunities mandated by federal civil rights laws.

The 2020-21 CRDC, the first since the 2017-18 collection was delayed due to the pandemic, draws from over 17,000 school districts and 97,000 schools, unveiling concerning disparities in education access nationwide.

“These new CRDC data reflect troubling differences in students’ experiences

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These new CRDC data reflect troubling differences in students’ experiences in our nation’s schools.”

– Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine E. Lhamon

in our nation’s schools,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine E. Lhamon remarked.

“We remain committed to working with school communities to ensure the full civil rights protections that federal law demands.”

Key Data Points from the 2020-21 CRDC: Harassment or Bullying: • K-12 students reported over 42,500 allegations of harassment or bullying based on sex, sexual orientation, race, disability, or religion.

• Racial and gender disparities were evident, with Black students reporting 37 percent of race-based harassment, while white students reported 68 percent of sex-based and 70 percent of

disability-based incidents.

School Offenses: • Districts reported approximately 274,700 incidents, with 78 percent being threats of physical attack without a weapon.

• Public schools reported over 3,000 incidents of rape or attempted rape and sexual assault.

Student Discipline: • About 786,600 K-12 students received in-school suspensions, with Black boys nearly two times more likely than white boys to receive out-of-school suspension or expulsion.

• Students with disabilities, representing 17 percent of K-12 enrollment, accounted for 29 percent of students with one or more out-of-school suspensions.

Restraint and Seclusion: • Approximately 52,800 K-12 students were subjected to physical or mechanical restraint and seclusion, with boys, Black students, and students with disabilities overrepresented.

Access to Advanced Courses: • More than half of high schools nationwide do not offer calculus or computer science, disproportionately affecting Black and Latino students.

• Black students, representing 15 percent of high school enrollment, accounted for only 10 percent in AP computer science and 6 percent in AP mathematics.

Access to Teachers and Other School Staff: • Approximately 522,400 students attended schools where fewer than half of the teachers met state certification requirements, with 66 percent being Black and Latino students.

• Four percent of high school students attended schools with no school counselors.

Access to the Internet and Devices: • Students’ Internet access varied by state, with Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia reporting 99 percent or more of their schools connected to the Internet.

• Florida (66 percent) and Alaska (52 percent), respectively, reported the lowest percentage of schools connected to the Internet.

OCTOBER’S GLOBAL HIGH TEMPS HIGHLIGHT BLACK UNPREPAREDNESS

By Stacy M. Brown

Research from the Gallup Center on Black Voices underscored the disparities in confidence, NNPA NEWSWIRE preparedness, and resource accessibility Weather officials and experts have confirmed that last month was between racial and ethnic groups.

Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

the hottest October ever globally, surpassing pre-industrial averages by a staggering 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit), weather officials confirmed. This milestone marks the fifth consecutive month of recordbreaking temperatures, setting the stage for the hottest year ever recorded.

The extent of the temperature surge, which exceeded the previous record set in 2019 by 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit), has astonished experts.

And as extreme weather patterns increasingly become the new normal, it is not surprising to find that AfricanAmericans are disproportionately affected. Research from the Gallup Center on Black Voices underscored the disparities in confidence, preparedness, and resource accessibility between racial and ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic Americans report lower levels of confidence in their preparedness and less access to vital resources compared to their white counterparts.

While most respondents across all racial and ethnic groups agree that they have access to reliable weather warnings and someone to call for help during extreme weather events,

the margin is narrower for Black and Hispanic Americans. White Americans outpace both groups by approximately ten percentage points on each measure, indicating a higher level of preparedness and ability to recover.

According to Gallup, the most significant divide emerges in the perception of community support during natural disasters or extreme weather events. Compared to white Americans, Hispanic adults lag by 13 percentage points, while Black adults fall behind by 18 points.

Relocation statistics, which show that 14 percent of Black Americans and 11 percent of Hispanic Americans have relocated, either temporarily or permanently, due to extreme weather events, are further evidence of this disparity.

The climate crisis is exacerbating these disparities, with the Copernicus Climate Change Service noting that a contributing factor is the reduced capacity of oceans to mitigate global warming, which is historically responsible for absorbing up to 90 percent of excess heat from climate

change. This drop in oceanic regulation and El Niño’s effect (a natural climate cycle that raises ocean temperatures temporarily and changes global weather patterns) make it look like more warming is coming in the coming months.

According to Gallup researchers, 2023 has seen a notable increase in unusual weather events like floods, hurricanes, heatwaves, tornadoes, and wildfires. This trend is expected to continue, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration indicating a high likelihood of an increased frequency and severity of such events in the coming decades.

“2023 has been a notable year for abnormal weather events, which have caused considerable impact to life and property,” Gallup researchers concluded. “According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it is very likely that these types of events – floods, hurricanes, heatwaves, tornadoes, wildfires and more – will increase in frequency and/or severity in the coming decades.”

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Rosalynn Carter, former first lady

Reactions Pour In Following Passing of Rosalynn Carter

By Stacy M. Brown For The Washington Informer

In a wave of condolences, political leaders and public figures expressed their grief and admiration for the late Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and tireless advocate for various social issues. President Joe Biden, visibly moved, shared his sentiments with reporters as he boarded Air Force One in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday night.

Habitat For Humanity, the Georgia-based charity closely associated with the Carters, expressed sadness at the news. The organization described Carter as a “compassionate and committed champion” who worked tirelessly to help families worldwide.

The late First Lady and her husband co-founded the Carter Center, which expressed its sorrow in a statement by highlighting their global initiatives to strengthen democracy, settle disputes, advance human rights, and eradicate crippling diseases.

The center announced that, instead of flowers, contributions in Carter’s memory could be made to the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program or the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers.

“He had this great integrity and still does.

And she did too,” Biden remarked. “God bless them.” After speaking with the family, Biden learned that Jimmy Carter’s children and grandchildren were by her side during her final moments. The White House later issued an official joint statement from President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, lauding Rosalynn Carter’s inspirational impact on the nation.

Former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush also paid their respects, praising Carter’s dignity and strength. “There was

no greater advocate of President Carter, and their partnership set a wonderful example of loyalty and fidelity,” Bush stated.

U.S. Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia emphasized Carter’s compassionate nature and commitment to various causes. “The State of Georgia and the United States are better places because of Rosalynn Carter,” Ossoff stated.

“May Rosalynn Carter’s memory be a blessing.”

Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged Carter’s redefinition of the First Lady’s role and her life of service, faith, compassion, and moral leadership. “Her legacy will be a beacon for generations to come,” Harris asserted.

Former first lady Melania Trump expressed her condolences, noting Carter’s meaningful legacy and servant’s heart. “May she rest in peace,” Melania Trump conveyed on X, formerly Twitter.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Carter as a “saintly and revered public servant,” highlighting her historic diplomatic missions and advocacy for mental health.

Pelosi offered condolences to the Carter family.

Bill and Hillary Clinton, in a joint statement, referred to Carter as a champion of human dignity.

They praised her advocacy for mental health and childhood immunization and her work with the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity.

Former first lady Michelle Obama shared a personal connection, revealing that Carter offered advice during their periodic lunches at the White House. “Today, Barack and I join the world in celebrating the remarkable legacy of a First Lady, philanthropist, and advocate who dedicated her life to lifting up others,” Obama stated.

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LONI LOVE STEPS IN AS NORFOLK STATE’S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER NSU NEWSROOM Two-time Emmy, two-time NAACP Image and four-time Gracie Award-winning host, comedian, actor, author, and philanthropist Loni Love has graciously agreed to deliver the keynote address at the Norfolk State University Commencement ceremony.

Commencement is scheduled for 9 a.m., Saturday, December 9, 2023, at Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall, located on the NSU campus.

Earlier this month, the University announced that Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, best-selling author and philanthropist Sheryl Lee Ralph would address the graduates. However, with the end of the entertainment writers’ strike, Ralph has been called back to work.

Norfolk State extends sincere gratitude to Ralph for graciously accepting our

Loni Love invitation. Additionally, we express heartfelt appreciation to Love for generously agreeing to step into the role of commencement speaker.

As a talk show host, Love is known for her dynamic ability to provide in-depth, meaningful conversation with a hint of levity. She has interviewed news makers and top A-List entertainers such

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Love, a versatile host with a rich portfolio, brings her vibrant energy to various platforms. As a co-host of the GRACIE Award-winning weekend radio show Café Mocha, she plays a pivotal role in the only nationally syndicated show of its kind, created by women of color.

Love took the solo helm as the host for the Daytime Emmys in the categories of Children’s, Lifestyle, and Animations. Notably, she led a highly rated interview with Salt-N-Pepa after the release of the Lifetime movie about these iconic entertainers. Adding to her list of accomplishments, Loni

Love became the first new narrator for the 13th season of Bridezillas on WETV. Love is the Executive Producer of Little Women Unfiltered: Atlanta – an after-show for Little Women: Atlanta, season six, and she co-executive produced the Telly Award-winning Saluting Our Culture series dedicated to honoring different women, men, and organizations across the United States.

She has appeared in many movies, including those starring actors Kevin James, Kevin Hart and Ethan Hawke.

Love is the subject of the documentary Being Loni Love, which traces her life story from her early days as a latchkey daughter growing up in Detroit’s BrewsterDouglas housing projects to national stand-up comedian and successful host/actor.

Virginia Beach NAACP Hosting Color Purple Movie Fundraiser VIRGINIA BEACH The Virginia Beach NAACP is hosting a private advanced movie screening of The Color Purple on December 9 at the Regal Columbus Theater, 104 Constitution Dr., in Virginia Beach. The movie starts at 4 p.m. and the ticket purchase includes

a meal. Doors will open at 3 p.m.

This is a fundraiser for the branch and all proceeds will support the work of the NAACP Virginia Beach Branch.

Dr. Eric Majorette is the President.

Tickets are $25 and available now through eventbrite. All sales are nonrefundable.

This movie version of the Color Purple is a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel about the life-long struggles of an AfricanAmerican woman living in the South during the early 1900s. It is scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide on December 25, 2023.

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Why Coach Ron Jenkins Is The Best of Hall of Famer Yet To Be Nominated In 2024

By Sean C. Bowers

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NORFOLK Students from the Faith With Works School of Dance in Portsmouth show off their uniforms and bright smiles as they prepare for this year’s Grand Illumination Parade in downtown Norfolk.

The school’s founder/owner and dance instructor is Jasmine Perkins (in white outfit), who offers instruction to children ages 2 to teen years.The annual event signals the start of the holiday season in Norfolk as lights around the downtown buildings are illuminated.

For several weeks, my focus in this column has been on getting Former Bayside High School Coach Ron Jenkins nominated and inducted into the VHSL Hall of Fame in 2024. As the first-ever Beach Coach to win back-to-back state championships (19901991) in the district’s long existence in Virginia AAA basketball history, I believe the honor is long overdue.

And I am not alone. I know there are others.

Over the past 10 years, this reporter has repeatedly approached the entire Bayside H.S. administration (from the Athletic Director, to the Sports Information Director, to the Student Activities Coordinator, to the past principals.

Each person offered the exact (almost scripted and rehearsed sounding) excuse, “We can’t name everything after coaches who won championships.”

Two statistics tell us all we need to know about Coach Jenkins and championships.

1. He never got a technical foul in all his 35 years of coaching (controlled composure.) 2. In the 1991 state championship game’s 4th quarter, with Jenkins’ Bayside team down ten points, they held their opponents scoreless for the entire quarter, coming back to win that second state title in a row, a VHSL state tournament record which still stands to this day. But there’s more.

In the 1950s as a Hampton youth, he delivered this very New Journal & Guide, newspaper.

In the 1960s at Norfolk State University he learned coaching skills from the

1984) • 2. Bayside High School (Coach Ron Jenkins led the Marlins 1985-2014) • 3. Virginia and Beyond (Norfolk State University Alumni) Coach Jenkins is Alumni

Sean C. Bowers NSU HOF’er, the Great Charles Christian In 1972-84 he taught and coached at Virginia Beach Junior High, helping produce All-Americans Guy Morgan and Jimi Gatlin.

In 1985-2002 at Bayside High School, Jenkins won the first Virginia AAA state championship in any of the major three sports (Football, Baseball and Basketball) by a “BEACH DISTRICT” team, of any school, of any coach, of any color, in 1990.

In 1991 he backed up that first VIRGINIA AAA state title with a second in a row, BACK-2-BACK! In the 1980s-1990s with N.B.A. Basketball Naismith HOF’er Boo Williams’ AAU programs, Jenkins helped Allen Iverson, J.J. Redick, Alonzo Mourning and Ronald Curry all make the pros while winning multiple National Championships.

In 2002-2014 at Bayside he continued to teach and mentor until his formal retirement in 2014.

Since he left the sidelines in 2002, Coach Ron Jenkins has not been recognized or even formally or publicly nominated by the BAYSIDE H.S. Principal or Coaches as the Virginia High School League HOF Nomination Rules dictate.

The New Journal and Guide has agreed to support a community effort I am beginning to have Coach Ron Jenkins both nominated and inducted into the VHSL HOF Class of 2024. By inducting Coach Ron Jenkins in 2024 for the honors he so richly earned and delivered over his 42 years of championship service, this inexplicable oversight ERROR can be rectified, and finally corrected. ◆◆◆ Next week, I will introduce in this column, a public petition scoreboard that supporters can sign for Coach Ron Jenkins’ nomination and induction into the four local Halls of Fame: the VHSL HOF, the Norfolk State University HOF, the Virginia (TIDEWATER) Sports HOF, the Old Kempsville Black High Schools HOF. As a fan, you can vote as a public show of support for Coach Ron Jenkins HOF 2024. Votes may be cast in one of these THREE choice boxes: • 1. Virginia Beach Junior High (Coach Ron Jenkins led the Seahawks 1972-

THE COACH RON JENKINS “2024 4X HALLS OF FAME” JERICHO WALL SCOREBOARD Voters are encouraged to briefly share how, why, when, where Coach Ron Jenkins positively impacted their lives for later possible publication.

I have already gathered four current VHSL coaches and one principal, who have agreed to formally and publicly nominate Coach Jenkins for the VHSL HOF Class of 2024 as a group. So far, they are Coach Jenkins starting FIVE. I am also proposing a one-time BEACH District “2024 HOF COACH RON JENKINS DAY” ON FEBRUARY 9, 2024 for the purpose of the Bayside Basketball court renaming ceremony for Coach Ron Jenkins. The game time is 5:30 P.M. Bayside as Hosts P.A.H.S. Mario Mullen, current Ocean Lakes Head Coach (and former Bayside 1990-91 team captain) team does not play that day and he can HOST. This will BEST honor Coach Jenkins with his teammates for all those Championship winning record setting years.

Renaming the Virginia Beach Junior High Court ceremony for Coach Ron Jenkins (can be done after the Bayside ceremony) 2024.

It has been almost forty-fifty years since VBJH Coach Ron Jenkins won multiple City championships, sending numerous of us, (his hundreds of players,) he sent on to play full college scholarship championship winning basketball. We V.B.J.R. alumni know and remember that Ron Jenkins is the best Basketball Coach/Teacher, Mentor, Leader, and Example ever to grace a BEACH DISTRICT sideline.

The Ongoing NJ&G Voter Poll For “RJ 2024 HOF” will be tabulated weekly and reported directly in weekly print and shared digitally online.

Please join us, by proudly “ N O M I N AT I N G COACH RON JENKINS FOR THE VHSL CLASS OF 2024 4 X HALLS OF FAME” On the JERICHO WALL SCOREBOARD WATCH Any questions regarding the Coach RJ 2024 HOF Movement contact me at: Sean C. Bowers on Linkedin.com or V1ZUAL1ZE@aol.com Sean Bowers is the New Journal & Guide “Local Voice” for 26 Years, Former Player for Coach Ron Jenkins Team Captain at Virginia Beach Junior High 1976-1979.

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MOMENTS of MEDITATION

By Rev. Dr. Archie L. Edwards, Sr.

A PSALM FOR THANKSGIVING Read: Psalms 100:1-5 Though the Psalms are profuse with praise for God, only two of these 150 poems are subtitled “A Psalm of Praise.” David penned Psalm 145, and ancient Jewish tradition ascribes Psalm 100 to him also. The Hebrew superscription of Psalm 100 is literally “A Psalm for Thanksgiving.” Psalm 100 includes everyone beginning with “all the lands” of the earth (v.

1) and ending with “all generations“ (v. 5). It tells us why we should be thankful (seven motives) and ways we can be thankful (seven methods).

Why Be Thankful? 1.

The Lord is God (v. 3).

Lord is translated from the verb “to be.” This is Jehovah the self-existent or Eternal One, the “I Am Who I Am” revealed to Moses at the burning bush.

God is literally Elohim, the Mighty One, God the Creator, of Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth.” An imitation of the Trinity is seen here. Jehovah (Lord) is a singular word, Elohim (God) is plural. God is one, yet more than one person.

After the basic statement

that the Lord is God, Psalm 100 gives six additional reasons for rejoicing in Him: two each from the past, the present, and the future, 2. God created us (v. 3). Believing “it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves” makes many miracles in scripture easy to accept. A God who can create human life can also heal disease, raise the dead, or preserve a prophet inside a great fish. (3). God redeemed us (v. 3) “We are His people.” Christians are twice God’s: by creation and redemption. To “redeem” means to purchase as one’s own possession. (4) God cares for us (v. 3).

As a good shepherd, God cares for us, “the sheep of His pasture.” A shepherd bears responsibility for the welfare of the sheep entrusted to his care.

David assures us in Psalm 23, if “the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want”: Rest and nourishment for He makes me lie down in green pastures, Protection and refreshment, for He leads me beside the still waters, Renewal and revival, for He restores my soul, Direction and purity, for He leads me in the paths of righteousness

for His name’s sake, Peace and trouble , for though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, Guidance and comfort, for His rod and His staff comfort me. Food and drink for He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies, Joy, for He anoints my head with oil, Abundance to give, for my cup overflows, Blessings, for goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, Eternal life, for I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Everything we need for life or death can be found in a personal relationship with the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep (John 10:11). (5) God is good (v.

5). God’s goodness is His grace which gives us what we don’t deserve. Having received God’s greatest gift, we needn’t fear asking for “lesser” ones: “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32), (6) (God’s mercy never ends (v. 5). The Bible contains 354 verses about God’s mercy, which with holds from us what we do deserve. (7) God’s truth endures (v. 5). Being neither fickle nor forgetful, the God who made a covenant with us will never revoke or alter his Word.

Endure means firm, secure, and established. Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words shall not pass away “(Matthew 24:35). Other than God, the only two eternal entities in this world are scripture and the souls of people.

Intermixed with these

seven reasons to be thankful are seven ways we can express our gratitude to God. Ways To Thank God. (1.) Make a joyful noise unto the Lord (v. 1). A joyful noise is a glad shout, such as loyal subjects did in Bible time when their beloved King appeared. Or as football fans do when their favorite team has just scored a touchdown.

A Christian, so happy with the way God resolved a problem or answer a prayer, who exclaims, “thank you, Jesus!” is making a joyful noise to the Lord. (2.) Serve the Lord with gladness (v.

2).When we consider all that God has done for us in Christ, the least we can do is serve Him (Romans 12: 1). Serve in Psalm 100:2 means to work as a slave.

Paul’s favorite description of himself was a bond slave to Jesus Christ (Romans 1: 1). The effects of proper service can be nullified by an improper spirit.

Who likes to be served by a gloomy or grouchy waitress/ Service for God is to be “with gladness” (glee or great rejoicing).

(3.) Sing to God (v. 2).

God commands us to ‘come before Him with joyful singing.” We can’t always sing, but we shouldn’t always sigh either. A song of the lips begins with scripture in the head and the heart. “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God” (Colossians 3:16). ...see Edwards, page 6B

IN MEMORIAM: Wilmington 10 Member, James ‘Bun’ McKoy, 69

By Stacy M. Brown

group advocated for Black For The Washington Informer history classes, respect for Martin Luther King Jr. and all @StacyBrownMedia Black people, and equality.

However, tensions reached Funeral services for James “Bun” McKoy, a member a boil in Wilmington, with the of the civil rights and Ku Klux Klan and other white firebombing political prisoner group The nationalists Wilmington Ten, were held buildings and shooting at on Friday, Nov. 17. McKoy Black pupils, and then on died on November 10th, at a cold February night, the the age of 69. The cause of popular Mike’s Grocery Store death was not immediately was firebombed, leading to more chaos. disclosed.

As police and firefighters McKoy’s life was forever changed on Feb. 1, 1971, approached, a sniper fired at when Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis members of the Wilmington Jr. arrived in Wilmington, Ten, striking one of the N.C. Chavis made the journey officers. Police ultimately at the invitation of a local arrested the group and preacher who wanted the falsely charged them with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. firebombing the grocery disciple to lead a boycott of store.

McKoy and the other the desegregated high schools that refused to acknowledge defendants received a total King, who had been slain just of 282 years in prison. The Wilmington 10, consisting three years earlier.

By 1969, the city had only of nine Black males and one three high schools: all-white white woman, spent nearly New Hanover and Hoggard, a decade in jail before their and all-Black Williston convictions were overturned Senior High School. Officials by federal appellate courts eventually relocated Black because of prosecutorial students and teachers to New misconduct.

In 2012, 40 years after they Hanover and Hoggard and closed Williston, and African- were wrongfully convicted, Americans faced increased the Wilmington 10 were racially motivated name- pardoned by North Carolina calling, physical attacks, and Gov. Beverly Perdue.

“These convictions were threats in the schools, while riots occurred virtually daily. tainted by naked racism and Chavis, McKoy, Connie represent an ugly stain on Tindall, Marvin “Chilly” North Carolina’s criminal Patrick, Wayne Moore, justice system that cannot be Reginald Epps, Jerry Jacobs, allowed to stand any longer,” Willie Earl Vereen, William the state’s governor stated at “Joe” Wright, Jr., and Ann the time. “Justice demands Shepard comprised the that this stain finally be Wilmington Ten, and the removed.”

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DOCUMENTARY ON THE FOUNDING OF NAACP IS NOW STREAMING

BUFFALO, NY The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights, a powerful hour-long documentary by WNED PBS, is now available for viewers in the U.S. and Canada to stream.

The film delves deep into a national crusade that forged the civil rights landscape for the 20th century and beyond.

The Niagara Movement also explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century and examines the heated national debate and conflict three Black leaders – sociologist W.E.B Du Bois, publisher William Monroe Trotter and educator and orator Booker T. Washington – had about how best to foster equality and opportunity for Black Americans. The film can be streamed on Buffalo Toronto Public Media’s YouTube Channel, the PBS app and theniagaramovement.org.

Produced and directed by Emmy Award-winning and two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lawrence R. Hott, The Niagara Movement spotlights the early battle behind the civil rights movement that sprang forth as

a repudiation of the methods of Booker T. Washington, then the most prominent Black leader in America. The end of Reconstruction brought about oppressive Jim Crow laws and widespread lynching.

Wa s h i n g t o n pandered to white society with his conciliatory philosophy of racial segregation and industrial training for Blacks instead of other advances.

Washington’s position was roundly criticized by Du Bois and by Trotter, a prominent Boston newspaper publisher, and soon a new civil rights organization emerged: the Niagara Movement. The group was formed when Du Bois and Trotter helped summon Black intellectuals, clergy, writers, newspapermen and activists from across the country to Buffalo, New York; the 29 men ultimately met across the Niagara River in Fort Erie, Canada, to evade disruption by Washington’s supporters. The organization’s

key demand: full civil rights for Black Americans.

Its Declaration of Principles, a sharp rebuke to Washington, stated, in part: “We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the NegroAmerican assents to inferiority, is submissive u n d e r oppression, and apologetic before insults.”

The film captures the farreaching impact of the short-lived Movement – disbanded only four years after its inception – which laid the cornerstone of the modern American civil rights movement, eventually morphing into the NAACP. “The influence of the Niagara Movement is evident in the protests and court challenges of the American civil rights movement as well as past and current activism,” said Tom Calderone, President & CEO of Buffalo Toronto Public Media. “We are pleased to present this important film about such a

The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights is a powerful hour-long documentary by WNED PBS, which is available now for viewers in the U.S. and Canada to stream. prevailing influence on our society.”

The Niagara Movement will be distributed by American Public Television in February 2024 to public television stations across the country (check local listings).

Audiences can find more information, educational resources and bonus materials by visiting www. theniagaramovement.org.

Continued from page 4B (4.) Recognize God (v.

3). To know the Lord God is to acknowledge who He is and give Him His rightful place in our lives. The Bible contains much about God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that we could never discover otherwise.

It was given that we might know God and worship Him intelligently in Spirit and in truth. Part of this worship is living daily life and making decisions with an awareness of God’s presence and power.

(5.) Be thankful to God (v. 4). Thanksgiving focuses on what God does and praise on who He is. It is only because of what God has for us in Christ that we can “enter His gates with Thanksgiving, and His courts with praise.” The Hebrew word for Thanksgiving forms a beautiful word picture of hands outstretched to freely receive from God’s bounty and return gratitude in exchange.

(6.) Praise God [for who He is] (v. 4). Praise is a mild translation of the

Hebrew word for “rave about or celebrate over.”

It’s impossible to overstate the attributes of one who is always – existing, allcontrolling, all-powerful, everywhere-present, allknowing, all-righteous, all-truthful, all-loving, and never-changing.

(7) Bless God’s name (v. 4). We understand how God blesses us, but how do we bless Him or His name?

One Hebrew word for bless means to provide for the needs, and hence to make happy and prosperous; another means to kneel in adoration. The former word is usually applied to what God does and the latter to our response, as is the case here. David’s use of Hebrew parallelism in Psalm 103:1, 2 gives us another way to bless God’s name – by not forgetting all His benefits. The rest of Psalm 103 describes God’s blessings for us.

Instead of focusing on all we don’t have, let’s rejoice in what we do have, like the senior citizen with only two teeth who was happy that they had two teeth.

Rev. Dr. Archie L. Edwards, Sr., is an Associate Minister at Second Calvary Baptist Church in Norfolk.

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