If there were a job description for the presidency, it might as well be written in bold print: women and people of color need not apply. America made history on November 5, though not the kind many would have
foreseen. Voters chose a convicted leader whom a jury has found guilty 34 times, a man whom a judge ruled committed massive business fraud, while another court determined he had sexually assaulted a journalist. They chose the felon over the prosecutor, fascism over democracy, and servitude over freedom.
Latinos and white women,
many of whom once more voted against their own interests, who have borne the brunt of his attacks, were primarily responsible for this outcome. But plainly put, Donald Trump has ascended to the highest office in the land once more.
A bruised Kamala Harris, meanwhile, didn’t bother to address the thousands of heartbroken supporters who had gathered at Howard
University and soaked up hours by dancing, praying, and hoping that they’d witness the first woman – and first Black and Southeast Asian woman –claim the presidency. As the clock ticked toward midnight, it became clear: Trump had taken the race, and, surprisingly, it wasn’t even close.
see Post-Election, page 5A
Suffolk Voters Elect First Black Woman To Join City Council
SUFFOLK
With provisional votes outstanding, Ebony Wright is projected to win against three-term incumbent Roger Fawcett with 53 percent of the vote compared to his 46 percent for Suffolk City Council in the Sleepy Hole Borough.
A longtime community activist, Wright will become the first minority/AfricanAmerican woman to serve on Suffolk City Council. She attributes her success to the efforts of the three women who served before her: Marian “Bea” Rogers, her mentor former Mayor Linda Johnson and current Suffolk City Councilwoman Shelley Butler Barlow.
Wright said she wants to influence the city’s direction.
By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide
A Virginia Beach teen said he received one of the racist texts that hundreds have complained about since the presidential election was held on November 5.
“You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 12 p.m. sharp with your belongings,” the text says. “Our executive slaves will come get you in a brown van. Be prepared to be searched down once you’ve enter the plantation. You are in
The mother of the Virginia Beach teen said, “You can’t take anything lightly ... To me, the whole undertone of it all, it’s kind of a threat.”
plantation group W.”
Rita Stith, recently told WAVY-TV that her son received one of the texts.
The texts have been sent to phones in North Carolina, New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee. The FBI is investigating and the text messaging
service said it quickly shut down “one or more” of the user accounts sending out the texts.
“Targeting adults in texts is one thing, but to harass, torment children, make children fearful, is very egregious,” Stith said.”
see Text, page 7A
CELEBRATED ARTIST MAIZELLE PASSES
NORFOLK
Maizelle Brown, best known by only her first name Maizelle, passed on November 2, 2024 in Norfolk, her hometown. Born March 18, 1941, she was a prize-winning artist for most of her life, celebrated for capturing the essence of everyday Black life in her paintings. A founding member of the Southeastern Virginia Arts Association in 1982, she was the former owner of two art galleries: The Art Cellar and Maizelle Gallery of Art. She worked over 20 years in the Art Therapy Activities Program. Funeral arrangements were pending at press time.
One does not just view the artwork of Maizelle. One experiences it.
Passes At Age 88: Dr. La Francis Rodgers-Rose
Wright said she ran for city council because she is passionate about the welfare of the residents of Suffolk and wants to influence the city’s direction. As a longtime resident, she believes she won voters with her desire to create a long-term plan to improve her community, promote sustainable economic development and work on core infrastructure needs. Her top campaign priorities were: Infrastructure to include neighborhood revitalization; Public Safety; Small Business; and Schools.
After the California native graduated from high school, she joined the United States Navy at the age of 17 where she served on active duty for four years and received an honorable discharge. She is a career civil servant and has held various positions with the federal government.
Wright is active across Hampton Roads as a community leader and supports numerous non-profit, faith-based and volunteer organizations. She is the founder and president of a nonprofit organization that awards scholarships to students in Suffolk Public Schools. Wright is a graduate of Saint Leo University where she earned a B.A. in Criminology and an MBA. She also holds a post-master’s certificate in Management Essentials from Harvard Business School. The newly elected councilwoman has been married to her husband Warren for 25 years and they have three adult children (two daughters and a son), a granddaughter and a puggle named Dansby.
April Woodard, WTKR Lauded On 25 Years of Media Excellence
Special to the New Journal and Guide
BALTIMORE, MD
Hampton Roads media personality April Woodard was recently lauded for her consistent commitment to her media career of over 25 years.
Dr. La Francis Rodgers-Rose
NORFOLK Norfolk native Dr. La Francis Rodgers-Rose transitioned on Sunday November 9, according to her family members. The scholarly founder of the International Congress of Black Women in 1983, was 88-years-old. Rodgers-Rose, formally educated as a sociologist, spent her life advocating for justice and equality, especially for Black women. The mission of the IBWC, a nonprofit organization she founded in Newark, N.J., is to promote social, political and economic empowerment in a global community of Black women.[ She had more than 30 years of college teaching experience; she taught African-American Studies at Princeton University for 16 years, and also taught at Case Western Reserve University, Rutgers University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew University. Rodgers-Rose, a heart transplant recipient for over 20 years, was also a passionate advocate for health and organ donation in the African-American community. Final arrangements were not available at press time.
Maizelle: Art As Legacy
Publisher’s Note: The article that follows is reprinted as a tribute to Maizelle and appeared in our June 25, 2019 edition.
By Glen Mason Correspondent
New Journal and Guide
“Maizelle has not gotten the recognition she deserves for her contribution to the arts,” said A. Graige Johnson, art enthusiast One does not just view the
artwork of Maizelle. One experiences it.
In a myriad number of mediums, Maizelle tells stories of life in her own inimitable way. Especially, the storied life of the African Diaspora in her latest exhibit “Celebrate Me Home” now exhibited at its historic Willoughby Baylor House Gallery in downtown Norfolk.
The work is fine art as legacy. see Maizelle, page 7A
Woodard, who currently is host of Coast Live, a daily lifestyle show on WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia, earned the Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter for her excellence in media (broadcasting and education). Only 230 people in the entire country are inducted with this honor. Former WTKR anchor Barbara Ciara pinned her.
Woodard joins industry professionals who have helped shape the broadcast industry and continue to influence its future. These leaders have devoted more than a quartercentury for Silver Circle or half-century for Gold Circle to the broadcast industry
and have made significant contributions to the National Capital Chesapeake Bay community.
“This is a tremendous honor that is often compared to a ‘Hall of Fame’ within our Chapter and the entire Academy,” said President Adam Longo. “Each inductee will join the ranks of other past inductees, including Sam Donaldson, Gordon Peterson, Judy Woodruff, Ted Koppel, Bob Schieffer, Maureen Bunyan, and Jim Vance,” he added. see Woodward, page 6A
Ebony Wright
Dawnn Lewis
Most of you will of course remember Dawnn for her portrayal of “Jaleesa” on the ever-popular sitcom “A Different World.” see page 3A
April Woodard
Maizelle Brown
“Colored People” by Maizelle
Photo: ErnestLowery
“Garden Club” by Maizelle
Photo: ErnestLowery
MISSISSIPPI SENATE BEING SUED FOR UNDERPAYING BLACK ATTORNEY
By Stacy M. Brown Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia
NNPA NEWSWIRE
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Mississippi State Senate of racial discrimination against Kristie Metcalfe, a Black attorney who worked in its Legislative Services Office (LSO) for nearly eight years. The lawsuit claims that Metcalfe was consistently underpaid compared to her white colleagues despite holding similar job responsibilities. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, the suit alleges that Metcalfe’s salary was set at about half of her peers’ pay, violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in the workplace.
Metcalfe’s case highlights what the Justice Department argues is a clear example of systemic pay discrimination. According to the lawsuit, when Metcalfe was hired in 2011, her starting salary was substantially lower than any LSO attorney employed in the previous 30 years. While her white colleagues received raises a month later, Metcalfe’s salary remained unchanged, cementing a pay gap that would persist throughout her employment.
The complaint further reveals that, despite Metcalfe’s repeated requests for equal compensation, the Senate continued to hire white attorneys at higher salaries. This included a later hire with similar legal experience but no previous legislative background who was brought on at a significantly higher pay rate than Metcalfe. When Metcalfe confronted Senate officials about the disparity, her request for fair pay was reportedly denied.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division called the case a critical stand against discriminatory pay practices.
“The Black employee at issue in this lawsuit was paid about half the salary of her white colleagues in violation of federal law,” Clarke said, stressing that such race-based disparities would not be tolerated.
“Our work to eliminate race-based pay disparities is about promoting compliance with the law and promoting equity and fairness for all workers.” Through the lawsuit, the Justice Department seeks back pay, compensatory damages for Metcalfe, and an injunction to prevent further discriminatory practices.
Despite Attorney Kristie Metcalfe’s repeated requests for equal compensation, the Senate continued to hire white attorneys at higher salaries.
November 10, 1923
Edition of the Guide
(Norfolk’s Population: White: 101,577. Colored 57, 512. Total 159,089)
Hundreds Hear Garvey Speak
NORFOLK
Just as many people as could packed themselves into the Bank Street Baptist Church to hear Marcus Garvey, President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He is awaiting court action on his appeal from a five-year sentence to the federal pen imposed by Judge Julian Mack in the United States District Court in New York City.
The recent trial grew out of his alleged violation of the United States mails by one of the most talked of men of the western hemisphere. He made a fervid and passionate plea for the continued loyalty of his followers and predicted the triumph of Garveyism.
Garvey spoke along the same lines that characterize all of his platforms of the Negro World, the organ of his movement. One could never hear it better.
His movement seemed to possess his whole being with a sort of irresistible monasticism that was easily conveyed as he strolled back and forth across the rostrum with fingers dangling in the air thundering his gospel of “Africa for Africans” into the ears of the big audience.
Lawyers Use Fist When Words Fail
NEWORT NEWS
ASSISTANT TO
Desmond Perkins
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Rosaland Tyler
CHIEF REPORTER
PRODUCTION:
J. Thomas Newsome, prominent race (Black) attorney of the city and lawyer Harry L. Nacham, White, enlivened the proceedings in the Civic Court last week when they abandoned their verbal batteries and engaged in a fist fight, according to reports eking out of the courtroom and making the rounds of the city. Accounts have it that the two attorneys were opposing each other in a cow trading case. Colored man, “Doc” Jones was suing the former, L. Rubin (White) to recover losses sustained in an alleged fraudulent concealment in the transaction. Jones claims the (cow) he transferred to Rubin was whole and sound in every respect. Jones said the animal he received in exchange was tubercular and he had forbidden all
Calif. Governor Begins The Fight Now To Deflect Trump’s Policies
By Stacy M. Brown Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia
NNPA NEWSWIRE
California Democratic
Governor Gavin Newsom has proclaimed a special session of the California Legislature dedicated to defending core state values and rights under potential challenges from the incoming Trump administration.
Set to convene on December 2, the session will prioritize legal strategies to protect civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant rights, aiming to bolster California’s ability to resist federal policies that may threaten these areas.
“No matter what the incoming Administration has in store, California will keep moving forward,” Bonta said. “We’re working closely with the Governor and the Legislature to shore up our defenses and ensure we have the resources we need to take on each fight as it comes.”
The move is the first in a series of planned actions by Newsom’s administration to safeguard what he describes as “California values” against federal threats. With support from state lawmakers, Newsom emphasized California’s resilience and readiness to protect its residents, stating, “The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack – and we won’t sit idle.” State Attorney General Rob Bonta reiterated the Governor’s stance, noting the state’s prior confrontations with Trump-era policies and emphasizing California’s commitment to continue defending rights under potential renewed federal challenges.
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his children to drink its milk.
When Nacham, who was representing Rubin, was cross examining Jones, he made a remark, it is alleged that the witness had not been coached right. Attorney Newsome resented this and arose and said “You would not have said that if I were a White man,” and asked Nacham for a retraction. When the retraction was not forthcoming, Newsome advanced toward his opponent and struck him with his fist. Nacham attempted to return the blows, according to witnesses, and a lively altercation was engaged until court officials separated the pair.
Both were fined $5.00 and cost for contempt of court, the Judge remitting the amount of the fines when the irate lawyers agreed to a mutual truce and to forget the affair.
Race Woman of Renown To Speak PORTSMOUTH
The members of St. Luke Oder of Portsmouth, supported by the St. Lukes of Norfolk County, will present Mrs. Maggie L. Walker in a mass meeting at Zion Baptist Church November as a speaker.
St. Lukes have been unusually active and have made a large increase in their membership, working earnestly to make the coming mass meeting surpass any the Order has had locally in the last decade.
Mrs. Walker is one of the most remarkable women of the race. She is an organizer, and a great financial and inspirational speaker.
Through her genius as an organizer and leader, the St. Lukes have grown from a few thousand to 70,000 members.
Civic League Seeks Women’s Restroom
NORFOLK
The Norfolk Civic and Welfare League met at Second Calvary Baptist Church Tuesday Night.
A committee on a Comfort Station and Rest Room in the business section of the city for the use by Colored Women was appointed by the president, Rev. C. M. Long. Members of the Committee are C. J. Watkins, L. Simms., E. West and E. C. Stokes.
A room in the city market on the Brewer Street side will be asked of the city for this purpose. The committee in company with the president will
Leaves Typewriter After 33 Years
NORFOLK
NOVEMBER 14, 1959 – EDITION OF THE GUIDE
Mrs. Lillians H. LeGrand (center) is receiving gifts and praises from fellow workers and her employer after 33 years in one position with the Journal and Guide. LeGrand came to the GUIDE in September, 1926 as secretary to publisher P.B. Young Sr. She has held this position since despite
seek to interview the City Manager on the matter November 10.
The Civic League has a number of important matters under advisement and looks for improvement of conditions in the city for Colored people, and with the cooperation and support of the general public will more than probable secure some tangible results.
Walter Blow Fund Grows Gradually
NORFOLK
The response to the appeal published in the GUIDE last week for donations to purchase a pair of cork legs for the eight-year-old legless Walter Blow, Jr. has been encouraging.
This will allow him to attend school. The response to the GUIDE’s plea has been encouraging, yet not one fourth of the amount of $85 has been donated.
However, there is one thing in connection with this appeal which has been particularly admirable, the readiness of those who have responded. When the paper came off the press last Thursday afternoon there was a number of people waiting at the office for a copy, as is usually the case each week. And before the ink was dry on the GUIDE there were those ready and eager to do their “bit” in this effort.
Blow, who lives at 750 St. Paul Street, is two years past school age and has never attended school
one interruption when she moved to Roanoke several months.
Shown in the picture above are (left to right) Ophelia Cooke, of the news staff who presented LeGrand with presents and a cash gift from the GUIDE Staffers. On the left is Mr. Young, the Publisher, who is presenting Legrand with a gift on behalf of the company.
because he cannot walk.
The Director of Vocational Education for Norfolk is seeking to help Blow thru the State Industrial Committee and Colored people of Norfolk. A pair of Cork legs can be bought for $170.00, $85 of which the people are asked to give.
November 14, 1959
Edition of the Guide
Hampton Students Won’t Participate In “Who’s Who”
HAMPTON
The Hampton Institute Student Council has voted against participation in the coming edition of “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities,” according to Thurman M. Davis, President.
The decision was made after a special committee report on information received from the United States National Students Association indicating “There is some doubt as to the worth and validity of “Who’s Who’ on many campuses.”
The doubt was attributed in part to the lack of definite eligibility criteria. Statements received from the publication upheld it as a recognition of students whose scholarship, leadership and participation in extracurricular activities have been outstanding during college life.
Since such criteria could not be established before the deadline date of October 31, the council voted no to participate this year.
Is Massive Resistance Cooling?
By Thomas L. Dabney
FARMVILLE, VA
There are signs in Prince Edward County that the residents are weakening in the old massive resistance to school desegregation. White parents and pupils are finding out the hard way, that makeshift private schools are poor substitutes. Some White parents and pupils are disappointed over the turn of events in the county.
In one case, for example, White children have to go two blocks to the bathroom, in bad weather and this will be a handicap.
In all of the makeshift schools there is an appalling lack of facilities for classroom work and much of the equipment is not suitable for first-class teaching.
While White ministers in the county have kept quiet, on the school situation, laymen are quietly working behind the scenes to open the public schools next fall. One prominent resident of the county told the GUIDE last week that he thinks the schools will be opened in September.
Both races are suffering because the schools in the county are closed. The Princess Edward County Christian Association headed by Rev. Leslie Griffith is working to get the public schools open for Colored students next year. The organization is also raising money to assist 103 children who had to leave the county to secure a high school education.
Photo: Courtesy
“CREATING MELODY IN MY DELIVERY” AN INTERVIEW WITH DAWNN LEWIS
By Terrance Afer-Anderson
There have been occasions during my humble theatre and film career where I have been blessed to hold court with Hollywood AfricanAmerican royalty. I have chronicled a few of those acquaintances on these historic pages of the New Journal and Guide. But none do I cherish more than good friend Dawnn Lewis.
Most of you will of course remember Dawnn for her portrayal of “Jaleesa” on the ever-popular sitcom “A Different World.” She also wrote the theme song for that show. Her extensive television and film credits also include “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” “I’m Gonna Git U Sucka,” “Dreamgirls,” “Veronica Mars,” “Major Crimes,” “A Christmas Retreat,” “Be The Light,” “Any Day Now,” “The Secret Life of The American Teenager,” “One Tree Hill,” and “Young Rock,” about the life of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Her impressive stage credits include co-starring in the original Broadway cast of “TINA: The Tina Turner Musical,” appearing as Tina’s mother Zelma Bullock, the NYC City Center production of “The Wiz,” “Intimate Apparel,” and the original cast of “Sister Act: The Musical.”
Dawnn also has quite a stellar portfolio of voiceover work, to include appearing as “Captain Carol Freeman” in “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” where she was nominated for 2021 NAACP Image Award as “Best Voice Actor,” and won a Woman’s
Image Award. Additional television and film voice over credits include “Futurama,” “Karma’s World,” “The Simpsons,” “Loki,” “Lisa Joins the Club!,” “Housebroken,” “Duncanville,” “Sing,” and “Minion’s 3.” Dawnn joined us for the Las Vegas premiere of my play “Hiram & Nettie,” featuring her best bud Michael LeMelle as “Hiram.” But the last time I saw her was on a visit to Los Angeles, when she put me up for a night in her guest house. It was during a private conversation that evening I came to appreciate her as one of the most absolutely genuine, endearing and sweethearts of a human being I have ever been blessed to know. So, via the following Q&A, I am very pleased to share further insight on this extraordinary spirit who walks among us.
Where were you born and how would you define any challenges and/or blessing in your childhood?
“I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in Bedford Stuyvesant. ‘Bed Stuy, Do or Die!’ It was considered ‘The Ghetto,’ a very low-income, somewhat dangerous neighborhood,
by most standards. I was raised in the culture of my parents, who are from Georgetown, Guyana, very different from American norms. The food was different. The expectations of parental respect, male dominance, and the accents were different. Life goals of career and education were different from what was expected of American kids, especially for little girls. I wasn’t encouraged to envision much for myself, beyond being a teacher or someone’s wife.”
Can you elaborate?
“My father was a very charismatic man but had a dark side at home. He was physically, emotionally and mentally abusive to my mom and us kids. I have 3 brothers. When I was about 6 or 7, my mom escaped the house to save her life. We didn’t see her again for almost 2 years. When she left, my Dad attempted to split the 4 of us up into
foster care, but his mother, my grandmother Olga, took us in. We lived with her for the next two years, and only saw our Dad when we needed to be disciplined, ‘spanked!’
My grandmother was incredible, a real life ‘Auntie Mame!’ She introduced us to art, culture, genuine kindness, accountability, a wide circle of eclectic friends, and a belief that the ‘sky’s the limit,’ if you put in the work.”
How about school, your “formal” education?
“I began elementary school near Grandmother Olga’s house and quickly learned I was ahead of the curve academically. I only spent a couple of months in the first grade, before moving straight into the 2nd grade. Public School 9 (PS-9) was really advanced in its curriculum and the teachers genuinely poured into the students. I sang in the choir, which
“I knew early on that I wanted to be either a performer, having started singing at age 4, dancing at 7, and acting at 11.”
gave concerts all around the city. I was a member of the African-American History Club. I developed my skills as a writer and poet at PS-9 and played the cello for some 7 to 8 years. I learned I had a beautiful gift to offer the world, if I chose to focus on the good things in my life and not the negative, which there was plenty of. I was bullied quite a bit in school, but my teachers helped me find a way through it.”
Dawnn also attended New York’s High School of Music and Art as a voice major, graduating with honors, and enrolled at the University of Miami as a 16-year-old freshman. She later founded the Musical Theatre Degree program there and was the program’s first graduate, graduating Magna Cum Laude, with a minor in Journalism.
How much did your early experiences at PS-9 impact and nurture your creative dreams?
“I knew early on that I wanted to be either a performer, having started singing at age 4, dancing at 7, and acting at 11; a writer, penning poetry and short stories, having poetry published in a compilation of young writers at age 15; or a teacher. Teachers were my absolute heroes! Oh! There was also a period I wanted to be an airline stewardess, so I could travel!”
What was the first little known thing you did on-stage or on-screen?
“That would be when I was in college. I was cast in what was to be a new TV series called “The Crummy Movie Show,” a combination of a sketch comedy and really bad late-night movies. The premise was that a host would introduce the movie, and it would be so bad, you the viewer would ‘change the channel.’ The actors would be the ‘commercials’ or ‘TV shows’ you’d come across when changing the channel. The series didn’t get picked up, but they ran the episode as a Halloween special 2 years in a row.”
Share a bit about your incredible voice over work?
“I’ve been fortunate to be a voice actor for well over 33 years now! My career started singing jingles and session work as a vocalist/recording artist in Miami & New York. When I moved to California, Suzzanne Depasse gave me the opportunity to voice a character in the Kid n Play cartoon series she was producing. Later, my reputation from that one gig got me requests from directors from numerous studios to do voice-overs, such as “Handy Manny,” “Spiderman,” “Jonny Quest,” and dozens more. I learned the voice over community is a very small, tight-knit one, with very few people of color doing voices. It’s been a tremendous blessing for my career ever since.
see Interview, page 8A
Dawnn Lewis
Terrance Afer-Anderson
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIOLOGY VIRGINIA
TECH
WHY TRUMP WON
By Wornie Reed, Ph.D.
A convicted felon and convicted rapist is our President-Elect. How did that happen? He was up against someone who would have become one of the most qualified presidents in recent history. Yet Trump won. The first two reasons are apparent-racism and sexism. In addition to racism, Vice President Harris faced sexism to a degree equal to or greater than racism.
Another factor adversely affecting Harris’ candidacy is the public’s need for general knowledge of governmental affairs, making it difficult for them to make informed decisions (but they make decisions nonetheless). Compounding this issue is the perennially poor public communication by Democrats. As I have argued many times, Democratic leaders do not routinely discuss publicly their activities, which led to them not effectively communicating their economic successes under President Biden as they were happening.
Whether they understand it or not, this is a battle over the institutionalized thought structure – the widely held notions about reality. And the right wing keeps winning.
Both Heather Cox Richardson and Michael Tomasky agree with me. Here are excerpts from their inciteful articles.
Heather Cox Richardson:
There is also no doubt that both racism and sexism played an important role in Harris’s defeat. But my own conclusion is that both of those things were amplified by the flood of disinformation that has plagued the U.S. for years now ...
In the U.S., pervasive right-wing media, from the Fox News Channel through right-wing podcasts and YouTube channels run by influencers, have permitted Trump and right-wing influencers to portray
Today, the right-wing media sets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win.”
– Michael Tomasky, The New Repiblox
the booming economy as “failing” and to run away from the hugely unpopular Project 2025. They allowed MAGA Republicans to portray a dramatically falling crime rate as a crime wave and immigration as an invasion. They also shielded its audience from the many statements of Trump’s former staff that he is unfit for office and even that his chief of staff, General John Kelly, considers him a fascist and noted that he admires German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
As actor Walter Masterson posted: “I tried to educate people about tariffs, I tried to explain that undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes and are the foundation of this country. I explained Project 2025, I interviewed to show that they supported it. I can not compete against the propaganda machines of Twitter, Fox News, [Joe Rogan Experience], and NY Post. These spaces will continue to create reality unless we create a more effective way of reaching people.”
From Michael Tomasky:
Item one: It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.
I’ve had a lot of conversations since [the election] revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris didn’t do this or that. Sexism and racism. The border. That trans-inmate ad that ran a jillion times. And so on.
These conversations have usually proceeded
along lines where people ask incredulously how a majority of voters could have believed this or that. Weren’t they bothered that Trump is a convicted felon?
An adjudicated rapist? Didn’t his invocation of violence against Liz Cheney, or 50 other examples of his disgusting imprecations, obviously disqualify him?
And couldn’t they see that Harris, whatever her shortcomings, was a fundamentally smart, honest, well-meaning person who would show basic respect for the Constitution and wouldn’t do anything weird as president?
The answer is obviously no – not enough people were able to see any of those things. At which point people throw up their hands and say, “I give up.”
But this line of analysis requires that we ask one more question. And it’s the crucial one: Why didn’t a majority of voters see these things? And understanding the answer to that question is how we start to dig out of this tragic mess.
The answer is the rightwing media. Today, the rightwing media – Fox News (and the entire News Corp), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more –sets the news agenda in this country. And they fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win.
Too Many Still Protect White Privilege! DONALD TRUMP AND PROJECT 2025:
By Marc H. Morial
To Be Equal
(TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM)
“With Trump in the White House, social conservatives can use executive action to try to ban abortion; MAGA nationalists can end most forms of immigration, commence mass deportations and leverage civil rights laws against imagined “antiwhite” discrimination; and reactionary opponents of social insurance can weaken Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And this is to say nothing of Trump’s own plans to rule as an autocrat under a court-sanctioned theory of unitary executive authority.”
– Jamelle Bouie
Project 2025, the sweeping extremist policy agenda assembled by Donald Trump’s supporters, allies, and veterans of his administration, is deeply unpopular with the American people. As a candidate, Trump’s response was to feign ignorance. During his Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he claimed he hadn’t even read it. What he didn’t say was whether or not he supported the alarming proposals it contains, or whether he would implement them as President. In fact, at least 270 of the proposals in Project 2025
Marc H.
match Trump’s own past policies, previous actions, or current campaign promises. Key to the agenda is a drastic overhaul of the federal government, purging it of conscientious civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists. Trump began that process late in his last term with Executive Order 13957, also known as Schedule F. “Schedule F would be the most profound change to the civil service system since its creation in 1883,” Georgetown political scientist Don Moynihan wrote in the New York Times. It would be “a catastrophe for government performance” and for democracy, he said.
Trump’s term ended before he could implement Schedule F, and President Biden quickly rescinded it when he took office. Trump has vowed to reissue the order immediately and wield the power it gives him “very aggressively.” Civil servants deemed
Project 2025 calls for using the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute institutions, including private employers, with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in place.
disloyal already have been compiled.
With a federal workforce who will place loyalty to Trump over loyalty to the Constitution, Trump will be free to implement a radical, extremist agenda that will obliterate racial justice initiatives and preserve advantages for white Americans.
The next Trump administration will use civil rights laws to counter the imaginary forces of “antiwhite racism.” Trump has bragged that his administration banned “critical race theory” –a misnomer he and his allies have slapped on virtually any racial justice initiative – and promised to “finish the job.” see America, page 5A
By Dr. E. Faye Williams (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM)
I know we’re charged with accepting the results of the November 5th election. President Joe Biden reminded us that it’s the American way. Many of us were given reasons to reject that, but should we just smile and accept a convicted felon to lead our nation who totally showed his disrespect for all women? How can such a person even get a security clearance? He told us he was going to force his choices for our lives “whether we like it or not!” Doesn’t it say something about how far back those who voted for the felon want to take us? George Conway said, “America did this to itself. We knew this man and how evil he is. He showed us with his racist, sexist and abusive behavior historically.”
White men knew more than anyone who Trump is, but they sank to being his biggest supporters. Certain Black men, after Vice President Harris laid out an impressive program for them, voted for him! Hispanic men knew Trump vowed to mass deport millions of them and their loved ones, but they voted for him too. He called Puerto Ricans garbage, but many still voted for him!
One of our great Generals
warned us Trump was a fascist. Several military men agreed and spoke out because they didn’t appreciate the way he described them – especially their injured or dead, but some of them voted for him, too!
While Black women knocked ourselves out working to elect the smartest, most accomplished person in the race and who offered improved health plans, he only wanted to get rid of what President Barack Obama left us with. All Trump could only say was he had a CONCEPT!
Some who stood to lose their health care voted for him!
Some who voted for Trump can’t explain why they voted for this convicted felon who has always shown his plans are for him – not for them. During the campaign, he was selling to them his MAGA caps, gold tennis shoes, Bibles made in China! He tried to sell his friends
Black women, it’s on us. A majority of our white sisters are still too busy protecting white privilege, so let’s follow Kamala’s lead!
$100,000 watches and took money from a well known racist willing to buy votes for him! They voted for Trump anyway! Now, it really hurts to get to my white women “friends.” Like many, I’ve tried to explain what they do time after time. This time was no different, but they had convinced us to believe we were together. Their voting in this election has made “Friends” a word I will forever use with caution. I really can’t explain their giving not just some, but a majority of their vote to the man they charged with taking away their right to control their bodies! I know they will all tell you, “I voted for Kamala Harris!” I know that is coming, but it rings hollow. I didn’t hear from a single white woman leader who previously called on me to speak at their rallies! I even got awards from them! see Privilege, page 5A
By Julianne Malveaux (TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM)
The Vice President ran a beautiful campaign. She worked like a trojan, traveling from city to city, sometimes as many as three or four in a day. She did interviews, town halls, television shows and one on one interviews with both national and local media. In a scant one hundred days, she built a dynamic and credible campaign, and many of us anticipated a victory, if not on election night, then a few days later. Instead, we experienced the excruciating pain of watching delicate glass shatter at our feet. I hung out with the Roland Martin crew from the Black Star Network from about 9:30 election night until nearly 3 am, hoping and praying for Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, or some dumb place to break our way. But the results came back like body blows. We were losing. Then hope was gone. The numbers did not break our way. The Orange Man, with his Elon Musk funded ground game pulled out not a win, but a rout. He now has the White House, the Senate and maybe the House of Representatives, not to mention the Supreme Court and many other lower courts. Unless Democrats can hold the House, he can do pretty much anything he wants
to do. He and his cronies have already started picking staff, but we should be clear that they have been picking staff since they issued Project 2025 a couple of years ago.
So, what are we supposed to do, especially if Republicans have a clean sweep? They don’t have the House of Representatives yet, and we pray they don’t. But, what if they do? What do we do?
Vice President Harris and President Biden offered great messages about accepting the vote, embracing the vision, and moving ahead. They exhibited the grace that the President-elect was incapable of in 2020, when he led a rabid insurrection to protest the outcome of the vote. What if Vice President had exhibited the same vitriol? Blessedly she is more passionate about our country than he who debased our entire nation (calling people stupid and low-IQ and worse) in his campaign.
Those antieducation Republicans don’t want people to know Black history because they don’t want our young people to know that we’ve surmounted racism before.
No matter. Dr. Maya Angelou said that “when people show you who they are believe them.” Believe that the 47th President will have no respect for the law or for the Constitution. Believe that he will attempt mass deportation and even mass firings of federal workers. Believe that he will eviscerate our regulatory agencies, especially the ones who protect our workers – the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), the National Labor Relations Board NLRB, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and more. If Dems can’t hold the House, there will be few tools to stop the carnage, but there are laws and there are tools. see Next, page 5A
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A FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III
The 2024 American presidential election is over. The people have spoken. The world is shocked! Trump won! Americans fell for it again, or did they ... fall for it?
Many in the AfricanAmerican community are angry, shocked and looking for the culprits. Who did this to VP Harris? Somebody must be held accountable! The audacity of those misogynistic Latino men, White women and those angry Black men who hate Black women. All of them must he held accountable. What damage does this do to the psyche of Black Women? VP Harris was ENTITLED to the Oval Office and has been denied. According to Senator Lindsey Graham in 2015, Trump is “a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot.” Senator Rick Perry warned us that Trump, “doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies…” while Senator Ted Cruz said, “he lies, practically every word that comes out of his mouth ...” With all of that, Hilary Clinton lost to him in 2016 and now VP Harris has lost to him as well. Trump has prevailed ... AGAIN! Why? Don’t ask why Harris
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The battleground states that so-called experts had insisted were in play weren’t close at all: North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio all went Trump.
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Exit polls reveal that white women, who appeared on the verge of breaking free from the grip of MAGA ideology, voted heavily for Trump despite his disregard for their rights and autonomy.
Latino voters also leaned toward Trump, despite his incendiary rhetoric, which included labeling Puerto Rico as an “island of trash” at a recent Madison Square Garden rally.
Democrats must also face the reality of their shocking defeat. After a final debate in which some questioned his cognitive skills, the party sidelined President Joe Biden yet failed to portray Trump as the volatile threat he posed. With his 2020 victory in hand, Biden had warned that he alone could defeat Trump. But instead of managing their issues internally, Democrats choose to embarrass Biden, forcing him out just over 100 days before the election. Although Harris raised unprecedented amounts of cash and had the backing of global celebrities, she and the Democratic National Committee faced criticism from Black Americans. There were complaints that the campaign appeared to scapegoat Black men, with even former President Barack Obama publicly admonishing Black voters for not doing enough.
High-ranking Democrats, including DNC Chair Jamie Harrison and former Congressman Cedric Richmond, played and lost the dangerous game of alienating Black voters, too. The campaign and the DNC largely ignored the Black Press, notably the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) – the trusted voice of Black America.
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lost; ask yourself why did this “race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot,” win. AGAIN! It’s too easy to chalk this up to or write this off as being a “master class in white privilege.” It’s too simplistic to attribute this cataclysmic failure to “hatred toward Black women.” Too many Democrats, their pundits, and some analysts are trying to write this historic blunder off as America will “never elect a Black woman as president.” Stop it! The bad lies are the lies you tell yourself. Even worse are the ones you tell yourself and believe. That flawed “hatred toward Black women” troupe is more convenient than making the necessary course corrections that the Democratic Party needs to make in order to help America live up to its promise. Instead, odds
America will now be governed by the pathocracy, the inmates have taken control of the asylum. Voters did not fall for it. They clearly voted for it and America is about to get what these folks voted for.
are that they will continue to “maintain course and speed,” running aground or striking the iceberg time and again. To truly be able to move forward, the Party and its African-American constituency must first look inward and self-assess before placing blame.
On March 6, 1857, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney opined in Plessy vs. Ferguson, “ ... negroes had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ... ” I believe that the racist, white supremist, eugenic based mindsets that led to the holdings in Plessey, even though that decision has since been overturned by the Brown decision
The DNC wrongly determined that the nearly 200-year-old Black Press couldn’t reach Black and Latino communities as effectively as megastars like Beyoncé, Tyler Perry, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Instead of engaging with Black-owned outlets in a move that would not only have provided needed resources for these African-American small businesses while helping to get the party’s vital messaging to a critical constituency, the DNC choose to enrich wealthy mainstream outlets and leave out the Black Press.
The DNC betrayed the NNPA by allowing the DNC to approach some Black newspapers with miniscule ad buys.
Harris’ campaign, if reluctantly so, only carried through on Biden’s original promise to spend the same $1.5 million with the Black Press of America that Biden’s people had promised. The paltry sum even rankled highranking Black lawmakers like Congressman Benny Thompson of Mississippi, who led the House Committee investigating Trump. Harris’s campaign and the DNC wrongly determined that the nearly 200-year-old Black Press couldn’t reach Black and Latino communities as effectively as megastars like Beyoncé, Tyler Perry, and Samuel L. Jackson. Instead, as an extension of the Biden administration, they offered cursory invites to functions like the White House’s Black Excellence celebration, and, after some pleading, access to campaign events like the vice president’s closing argument on the Ellipse and her no-show appearance at Howard University.
There’s little doubt that limited ad buys and the flat refusal to engage the Black Press backfired.
A lack of Trump’s accountability made the mistakes worse. Following his second impeachment by the House, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, who had called Trump “stupid” and “despicable,” had the opportunity to bar
Trump from ever running again. But McConnell balked, and Trump was acquitted. After Trump incited the January 6 insurrection, Democrats in Congress led a drawnout investigation before finally recommending criminal charges. By the time prosecutors in New York, Georgia, Washington, and Florida issued indictments, Trump had rebranded these as “political witch hunts,” gathering momentum as a martyr figure. ◆◆◆
With a sinister assist from billionaire Elon Musk, Trump secured his victory. “Now brace for another Trump inauguration – American carnage redux—and another fantastical claim about his crowd size,” U.S. Guardian editor Betsy Reed declared. “Brace for norms to be trampled, institutions to be undermined, opponents to be targeted for retribution. Brace for an Oval Office occupied by a malignant narcissist without guardrails this time. Brace for unhinged all-caps tweets that trigger news cycles and move markets. Brace for national anxiety off the charts and global tremors from China to Ukraine. Brace, also, for a new resistance and surge of anti-Trump energy.”
While many across the globe and in America ask how Trump returned to power, Reed concluded with an ominous reflection: “America had ample opportunities to stop Donald Trump, but each time, it failed. It won’t turn into an autocracy overnight, but there’s no doubt this is a democracy in decay.” And in a piercing final remark, she paraphrased Oscar Wilde: “To elect Trump once may be regarded as a misfortune; to elect him twice looks like madness.”
and others, continues to influence mindsets in America today. Variations of this racist theme continue to be the reality in America. This is not new. This not a news flash. This is everyday life in America for Black people.
It was a huge mistake to anoint VP Harris as the nominee. James Carville wrote in early July that Democrats needed to move away from Biden, “But it can’t be by anointing (VP Harris) or anyone else as the presumptive ... nominee. We’ve got to do it out in the open – the exact opposite of what Donald Trump wants us to do.” Carville was correct.
Once on the stump, VP Harris ran a campaign based upon the politics of personality and identity, not a policy-based campaign. It took until mid-September before her webpage even had a policy tab and the policies that were listed were more campaign talking points than substantive solutions
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How did all of this happen? I know a few white people did the right thing. Others were perfectly satisfied with stepping on the hopes and dreams of Black women and
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Project 2025 calls for using the Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute institutions, including private employers, with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in place.
Trump’s policies also align with Project 2025 on the issue of immigration and the border. Trump has promised to “close the border” on day one of his administration and begin mass
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The justice community can come together to plan, to monitor the regulatory agencies and stop any chicanery.
We can monitor the integrity of the Department of Education, and legally fi ght to ensure that Title I programs are maintained. We can challenge cuts in block grants. We cannot roll over and allow the forces of Trump and Project 2025 to vanquish us.
It won’t be easy. It will be challenging to overcome the smugness that comes from a community that is enjoying their unexpected victory. But there will be allies at the edges.
Will conservative environmentalists be willing to sacrifice the future health of our planet to mollify Trump? Will conservative labor activists be willing to weaken the NLRB? Is there any wiggle room
to the real problems facing the country. VP Harris ran away from her base instead of embracing it. For example, polling showed that over 70 percent of Democrats supported a cease-fire in Gaza. Additionally, almost four in 10 likely voters, as well as more than half of all Democrats, believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. VP Harris and the DNC would not even allow a Palestinian spokesperson on stage at the convention. Thus, losing Michigan. The Obama/Biden campaign promised to deliver federal codification of Roe. Over two terms, they failed to deliver. The Biden/Harris campaign promised the same thing and failed to deliver. With women’s reproductive rights as a lead issue of the Haris/Waltz campaign, why would voters trust that she would deliver now?
VP Harris chose to embrace the endorsement of former ultra-conservative, war hawk, Republican VP Dick Cheney, over working closer with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VM). She traversed the campaign trail with former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) who voted with Trump 93 percent of the time, instead of campaigning with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). These are just two examples of how the Democrats have moved to the political right and realigned themselves with political adversaries
little girls who loved and wanted to be like Kamala! George Conway told us it happened because even good people normalized so many abnormal things in Trump and gave credit for the victory to a man who is not well psychologically.
He insulted our race and gender every time he spoke. His niece had warned us!
that were once considered extremists, instead of securing their base. The traditional Republicans did not win. MAGA won. Project 2025 won. The kleptocrats won. America will now be governed by the pathocracy, the inmates have taken control of the asylum. Voters did not fall for it. They clearly voted for it and America is about to get what these folks voted for. JD Vance is being groomed to carry the banner forward after Trump is done. Are you ready for that? It might very well be a long cold winter in America.
So, if you really want to understand why VP Harris and the Democrats lost, don’t blame misogynist Latino males or “the White man.” Look inward and self-assess before placing blame on those around you. Because contrary to popular belief, Harris/ Waltz (just like Clinton/ Kaine) was a lousy campaign.
Vice-President Harris faced the loss the same way she ran her campaign— with CLASS! While she conceded the election, she did not concede the fight that fueled her campaign. Black women, it’s on us. A majority of our white sisters are still too busy protecting white privilege, so let’s follow Kamala’s lead! Dr. E. Faye Williams, President to The Dick Gregory Society.
deportations” of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States without authorization. Project 2025 outlines various methods for facilitating those deportations, from requiring the cooperation of local law enforcement to authorizing “tent camps” to detain migrants.
Aside from the devastating human cost of tearing families apart, mass deportations and border closures will wreak havoc on the economy.
The American Immigration Council estimates the deportations would result in a 4.2 percent to 6.8 percent reduction in GDP. By
in Project 2025 or is Mr. Trump willing to come in and start slashing and burning on day one.
What about deportations? Can the soon to be 47th President really organize mass deportations and border controls on day one? As we’ve seen from voter roll purges, these folks don’t always get the right people. There must be lawyers lined up, especially to protect people from illegal deportations.
I’m willing to give Republicans credit for their ground game, their hard-won gain, and the election they purchased. I’m also putting them on notice. We will fight back.
Those anti-education Republicans don’t want people to know Black history because they don’t want our young people to know that we’ve surmounted racism before.
In the wake of the Red Summer of 1919, when rabid whites attacked more than 30 Black communities in Washington, DC, Chicago, St. Louis, and other places, the poet, Claude McKay, wrote of
comparison, GDP fell by 4.3 percent during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Closing the southern border would cost tens of billions of dollars per day,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has estimated.
The Heritage Foundation, which spearheaded Project 2025, also created a “Mandate for Leadership” during Trump’s first term. Within two years, Trump had embraced nearly two-thirds of that agenda. With a hyperpoliticized, extreme right-wing cabinet, federal workforce, and judiciary, Trump can go even further in his second term.
this resistance, a fitting anthem for our time: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Fighting back – that’s what’s next.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux, an economist and author based in Washington, DC., is a Trice Edney News Wire columnist. Juliannemalveaux.com
A Post-Election Word To The Black Community POST MORTEM IN BLACK
By Dennis Edwards New Journal and Guide Columnist
Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory Tuesday night needs to ignite some more inclusive getting together in the Black Community. The fact that Trump was able to garner 20 percent of the votes of Black men cannot be ignored.
Folks in the AfricanAmerican Community need to openly accept a troubling fact. When it comes to political discourse Community Barber Shops and what they used to call Beauty Parlors have effectively taken the place of the Black Church. Especially when it comes to political awareness and dialogue.
The Church needs to resume its role of spiritual and political epicenter with politicians coming in to explain themselves, what they will do for the community and answer questions.
Instead Barber Shops and Beauty Shops have become the primary hub of our discontent without the balm of resolution and reconciliation. We no longer “Take it to the Lord in prayer” or in worship. We go to the shops and salons to testify at the feet of conspiracy theories, 80 percent of which have no basis in fact or fiction. But they do allow us to blame everybody and everything for what we did not do when we should have.
The rise of the prosperity gospel has supplanted the essential Christian messages of Salvation and Redemption, a message that’s led AfricanAmerican Churches to the precipice of political power. But the prosperity phenomenon is causing our sons and daughters to worship the pursuit of things and wealth over any relationship with God in whichever religious expression they choose.
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With the induction of the 2024 honorees, the Silver Circle totals 279 and the Gold Circle totals 28.
In addition to her television work, Woodard serves as a Professor of Journalism and Special Assistant to the Vice President of Advancement at Norfolk State University, a role that allows her to give back to the same institution where her father once served as the long-time president. Woodard’s career spans over two decades. Perhaps most notably, she spent 15 years as a correspondent on the nationally syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition. During her tenure, she covered some of the most significant events of our time, including the 9/11 attacks,
The ongoing pursuit of the “name it and claim it” mind set, especially in the Black Church, has produced generations of members who put the accumulation of things above their salvation and community service. Instead of spirituality first with blessings linked to fidelity to the Lord, Family and Community, we willingly trade all that away in pursuit of personal wealth. We bask in the name of The Lord but without a life long evolving spiritual relationship. It is this kind of twisted perspective that leads too many of our young men and women toward feeling the way they do. As for the Kamala Harris Campaign, several mistakes should never have been made nor repeated. Having Former President Barrack Obama go into a barber shop full of Black men who are at a different socio-economic level the way he did was a big mistake. He came off as one of “the others.” Not one of them. He also chastised the young men without really listening to what they had to say, how they feel. Accusing them of not wanting to vote for Kamala because she is a woman. The truth of that accusation not withstanding, the optics of the moment were a disaster. They were gathered in jeans and street casual clothes. He shows up dressed like an Ivy Leaguer standing apart as
With the induction of the 2024 honorees, the Silver Circle totals 279 and the Gold Circle totals 28.
the Miracle on the Hudson, and the 2008 Republican campaign. Her investigative prowess was on full display during her coverage of the Bernie Maddox trial and a compelling special report on homelessness, where she spent two days living on the streets of New York City to shed light on the struggles of the homeless population.
Woodard’s body of work extends across various media platforms, including social media, broadcast television, and the web. She has also covered major cultural events like The Oscars, the NAACP
We no longer “Take it to the Lord in prayer” or in worship. We go to the barber shops and beauty salons to testify at the feet of conspiracy theories, 80 percent of which have no basis in fact or fiction.
they huddled together around a barber’s chair. Trump met with a similar group and did more listening than talking.
As an African-American Man, I was offended Kamala didn’t go herself. Why treat them with a Former President’s “long handle spoon?” Harris not showing up there made it look like she was or is afraid of Black Men.
As for brothers ourselves?
This conspiracy obsession is played, gotten old. We need to be honest about the damage our theories (excuses) are doing to our family and professional relationships. Honest about how talking that non-sense implants an excuse in the minds of our children not to even try to achieve. Every obstacle we face is not part of some conspiracy to hold a brotha back. We need wake up to the opportunity to be intensionally purposeful in life and living. To avoid making mistakes that land us in jail with a conviction that won’t let us vote.
To be sure, everything I’ve written here applies equally to Black women as well. Perhaps there’s a need to commit to a partnership in the love of a marriage or relationship with the man in your life. And not with the punitive cloud of an “I got to tell you what to do” attitude. Men won’t complain, won’t say a word in the world. But they will leave you alone. Build inclusive and respectful relationships. Also Moms, teach your sons how to be men, not dependents. Or get out of the way and let
their Fathers do it.
As for the Black Church. It’s past time to abandon a non-sensical “Prosperity Gospel” and re-embrace the prophets call to “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.” Young folks with families need to renew their connection with the Black Church and its legacy in civil rights. There’s no profit in being in a church where everyone is the same age as you are and no one can really advise you on how to deal with the shifting tides of the stages of life, the unfairness of racial discrimination and/ or all of its resulting evils.
And fellow Preachers and Pastors, a thought for you to consider. Set aside the ‘Prosperity Gospel.’ Go back to the essence of the Salvific and Prophetic word. Teach parents and children to pursue righteousness in relationship with our Lord and Savior as in Matthew 6:33: Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and ALL THESE THINGS shall be added unto you.
Not the other way around! Dennis Edwards is a Major Market Emmy and Virginia Associated Press Broadcaster Award winning TV and WRVA Radio News Anchor, Investigative Reporter, Columnist and Pastor. He is a graduate of Virginia Union University and its Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology)
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Image Awards, the BET Awards, BET Honors, and Black Girls Rock.
As a creator, Woodard produces a web-based show Conversations in Chaos, where she explores contemporary issues with depth and insight. Her expertise has made her a sought-after commentator on major networks. She has been honored with numerous awards, including The Trailblazer Award, The Urban League’s Community Service Award, and The YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Award.
She and her husband, Adrian Woodard, the founder and pastor of FavorNation Church, are parents of two children, Adrian II and Alek.
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Maizelle has presented African-American history via her own visual time machine with an aesthetic imagery that is as textile as it is visually graphic, as it is reflective as her love of community.
Her “Celebrate Me Home” exhibit, curated by Dr. Kimberli Gant, Chrysler McGinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and exhibited at its historic Willoughby Baylor House Gallery, will be on view through April 9, 2020. It is a historical mural of her life reflected from a deep introspective. A life told in media as tactile as it is visual. Yet, it is far from the definitive Maizelle. Like the elements, her art is constant. Never the same, just different, like the seasons.
“Celebrate Me Home” is a visual time capsule of faith, family perseverance, strength and love. It culminates years of studying AfricanAmerican history. Living it. She has spent her lifetime, literally, collecting various images, shooting photographic references, interviewing hundreds of people, collecting documents, even deeds.
“What Maizelle has captured is the lasting impression of segregation upon the psyche of the African-American,” commented Waverly Jones, an art collector. “It (the exhibit) was and is of her time.”
‘Ancestry Rag Rug’ stands out. The installation is made of African fiber that has been hand-knotted, pleated. It is virtually a tactile and visual tribute to the time, pain and effort Maizelle put into completing the installation. It represents, symbolically, the use of resources at hand to make art. It represents
the creative functionality of taking scrap and making art beautiful and communicative in a detailed “less is more” way. The existential installation serves to “warm and create a tactile, visual legacy” for the ages past and future. Maizelle has studied art since she was a child. Taught and encouraged by her father. Her talent for pencil and charcoal drawings led her to explore other media. Artists who influenced her were tangible. She knew them. She said she remembers lectures of visual artist Benny Andrews; Art Professors A. B. Jackson of Norfolk State University and Old Dominion; Ted Liles of Yale. In a manner of speaking, Maizelle was somewhat of a
contemporary or progeny of theirs early in their careers. They knew she had an innate ability to tell a story in an image that touched one’s own experiences. It is the summer of Maizelle.
On a balmy afternoon one can take a causal walk from her art show at the Chrysler Museum Willoughby Baylor House to the art exhibit she curates that is opening Friday, June 28-August 9 at Offsite Gallery World Trade Center, both within a quarter of a mile of each other in downtown Norfolk.
You have until next April to view her art at the Willoughby Baylor House, open only on weekends, When Maizelle did the installation of ‘Ancestral Rag Rug,’ she reflected that
many families were, “very much like my own, they were the original recyclers out of necessity. Scrap materials from worn out family cloths were made into useful rag rugs and braided rugs. Sometimes feed bags were made into children’s clothing.”
Maizelle said she spent three years collecting used material to “celebrate” what she calls family creativity. In her work the quilt is reverend. Shared by a family’s ode “it’s warm and original. Grandma made it.” Ask anyone. It’s a wonder Maizelle didn’t become a designer. She always had a way of her own fashion style and sense, and documented that of others in many of her paintings. In ‘Stepping Out,’ an acrylic, the gentlemen in their morning coats are heading
to an affair or headlining performers. Think The Tempting Temptations whose music and style Maizelle grew up with. That style is reflected in her soulful trio in silk top hats and tails.
In 1964, Maizelle really rocked with a surreal experience when she presented a commissioned portrait to Count Basie. Pioneering news photographer and photo editor of the Journal and Guide Southhall Bass photographed her as she presented it to Basie.
In her acrylic ‘Liberty,’ you spend a night in Renaissance Norfolk. Lights! No camera.
But Maizelle captures the proverbial action of a Saturday night on Church Street at the time considered the Harlem of the South. It illustrates a visual circus of sights and sounds of generations past.
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It’s sickening. It’s a very immature and vile action to come from, I’m going to just go ahead and say an adult, because in my mind ... kids are smart these days, but to be so calculated with it, you know, I was very disturbed.”
A representative from TextNow, a mobile provider that allows people to create phone numbers for free, told ABC News that the company was cooperating with law enforcement and condemned the vile messages that were sent to users recently.
The texts address the recipients by name.
The TextNow representative said once the accounts that were allegedly behind the texts were reported, their teams disabled the accounts in less than an hour.
“As part of our investigation into these messages, we learned they
intellectually challenged racist moniker bestowed upon the America’s African Diaspora. The acrylic suite paints a vivid contrast to the word and people it describes.
Maizelle creates another cultural and artistic footprint with the “Make Me Wanna Holler” Art Exhibit at Offsite Gallery, World Trade Center Suite 730, 101 W. Main St., Norfolk, VA 23510. She curates that show that features such nationally acclaimed artists as Rene Dickerson, Alexis Joyner, and Jackie Merritt, to name a few.
What distinguishes Maizelle as an artist is her humility. She gives little credit to herself, yet manages to give all of herself in her work. For it is there that you find all of her passions, the people she loves, the family she loves and an accurate illustrated history of the City of Norfolk she loves.
have been sent through multiple carriers across the U.S. and we are working with partners and law enforcement cooperatively to investigate this attack,” the representative said in a statement. “We do not tolerate or condone the use of our service to send messages that are intended to harass or spam others and will work with the authorities to prevent these individuals from doing so in the future,” the representative added.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a recent statement, “These messages are unacceptable.” The agency takes “this type of targeting very seriously.” The mother of the Virginia Beach teen said, “You can’t take anything lightly ... To me, the whole undertone of it all, it’s kind of a threat. You know, it’s to make a community of people, not just Black AfricanAmericans, but Latino and Brown communities as well, to feel unsafe. I would like for it to be taken seriously.”
This Maizelle painting honors the 200 Black women and 20 men who labored for 25 cents an hour in 1938 under horrendous conditions to clear swamp land and create what today is the Norfolk Botanical Garden.
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What You Can Learn About Dementia During Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
By Rosaland Tyler Associate Editor New Journal and Guide
Chances are you either know or bathe, shower and dress an Alzheimer’s patient, since Blacks are about twice as likely as Whites to suffer from dementia.
But as the nation observes Alzheimer’s Awareness Month in November, focus on the facts. First, most Blacks will not receive an automatic dementia diagnosis. Instead, most Blacks must visit a doctor more than once to receive a dementia diagnosis.
Second, many Blacks will remain undiagnosed due to cultural habits, such as 1 in 5 saying they’d feel insulted if a doctor wanted to test their thinking abilities. Third, some Blacks consider fuzzy thinking to be a normal part of aging, not a disease. However, CDC records show dementia cases among Black adults are expected to more than double, from 1.3 million in 2024 to 3.1 million in 2060.
This means the typical Black Alzheimer’s patient will encounter multiple barriers and forget a lot of stuff unless they change their thinking. Hang in there if you suffer from memory loss. While there is no known cure for Alzheimer’s, you can obtain a prescription for certain medications which treat mild memory loss that may lead to the inability to carry on a conversation, carry out daily activities, or respond to your environment.
Kisunla, for example, is given via IV infusion through a needle placed in a vein in the arm once every 4 weeks. Kisunla significantly reduces amyloid plaques associated with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. While Kisunla cannot reverse or stop existing memory and thinking issues that are due to early symptomatic AD, it can help slow the progression.
Each Kisunla infusion takes around 30 minutes. After the infusion, you will need to stay at the medical center for 30 minutes or more for observation. During treatment, your doctor will monitor and evaluate your progress. Your doctor will determine how long you will be on treatment Still, it is important to
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How would you define the craft, of creating character?
“I respect accents & dialects. I do my best to accurately portray them and not do a ‘caricature.’ My experience as a singer also gives me an ear for creating melody in my delivery, which I find really helpful in making the characters relatable. I love the ability to ‘be’ a list of people I would never have been hired to play on camera: young boys and girls, elderly men and women, monsters, British, Caribbean, African, aliens, etc.”
Any experience as a producer?
“Yes. I created and produced a television pilot for ABC. The series wasn’t picked up, but it got me in the door as ‘not just talent.’ Truthfully, it was a very challenging experience.
Getting it sold was easy, once I was attached to the right person the studio wanted. Forrest Whitaker.
Although Blacks are more likely to experience dementia, they can go to the grocery store and purchase brain growth foods such as oil fish: salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring and sardines.
remember that Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disease in which brain cells die and the brain shrinks. Dementia is an umbrella term for several conditions and brain disorders that launch brain disorders, whose symptoms are marked by a decline in brain function – including but not limited to memory loss – that is severe enough to interfere with daily life. There are many types of dementia; Alzheimer’s disease is the most common, accounting for 60-80 percent of cases In addition to getting a diagnosis and taking medication, you need to know that Alzheimer’s typically strikes people who are 60 or older. Alzheimer’s patients are often coping with other medical conditions including diabetes, heart ailments, strokes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, depression, and other conditions that may lead to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Other medications that are used to treat Alzheimer’s include Donepezil (used to treat confusion). Rivastigmine is a medication used to treat mild to moderate dementia caused by Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. It comes in oral capsules or transdermal patches and has various side effects and warnings. Namenda (memantine) reduces the actions of chemicals in the brain that may contribute to the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
But medication is not the only answer. Bold success stories show some patients have successfully used lifestyle and diet changes to treat Alzheimer’s. For example, a 2019 study showed that women who reduced belly fat improved their cognitive function.
“As the belly gets larger, the memory center in the brain gets smaller,” said Dr. Richard S. Isaacson, a neurologist and the founder and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention
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Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine and New YorkPresbyterian.
Waist circumference is directly linked to the size of the hippocampus, the area of the brain that is associated with memory, Isaacson said in a June 2024 interview in Health Matters, a publication produced by New York Health Presbyterian.
Since men and women who are obese and over 50 are at an increased risk of developing dementia later in life, this is the point. Exercise and diet changes may help some people regain their memory.
In plain terms, a recent study showed that some Alzheimer’s patients reversed the disease by making lifestyle changes that included switching to a plantbased, Mediterranean diet with lots of whole foods and limited refined carbohydrates, alcohol, and sweeteners. They exercised at least 30 minutes a day. They also devoted one hour a day to stress management activities like meditation, stretching and breathing exercises. They attended three hour-long group therapy sessions per week.
“I’m cautiously optimistic and very encouraged by these findings, which may empower many people with new hope and new choices,” lead study author Dean Ornish, MD, founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of San Francisco, said in the June 2024 Everyday Health interview.
“We do not yet have a cure for Alzheimer’s,” said Ornish, who is also a fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. “But as the scientific community continues to pursue all avenues to identify potential treatments, we are now able to offer an improved quality of life to many people suffering from this terrible disease.”
Lord taught me how to forgive and love my Dad, forgive and love myself, and to see the good in others, even when they’re not being very good at all!
But everything after that was absolutely grueling.
“It’s critical that we hone our skills and branch out into directing, creating or producing. All kinds of roadblocks were put in my way back in the day, but because of my efforts, and many others, we now have people like Quinta Brunson, Lena Waithe, Issa Rae. I still develop and produce projects and am currently pitching a new TV series.”
How has your celebrity advanced your capacity to be a community activist?
“My celebrity has given me the platform to speak encouragement into the lives of people around the world. I started the A New Day Foundation for that reason. The foundation launched in 2017 to provide pro bono programming and financial support to underserved youth both nationally and abroad. Please visit www.
In other words, the study showed some people’s memories improved after they changed their diet and lifestyle. Several people in the study reported improvements in cognitive function that made a big difference in their ability to resume daily activities that had become difficult to perform due to Alzheimer’s.
Others said they were finally able to read a book or watch a movie, recall the plot, and keep up with the narrative.
Other participants who worked with numbers for a living and had lost their ability to easily manage complex financial information reported regaining these skills by the end of the study.
This is the bottom line.
Although Blacks are more likely to experience dementia, they can go to the grocery store and purchase brain growth foods such as oil fish: salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring and sardines.
Throw some dark chocolate into your grocery cart. Dark chocolate contains cocoa, also known as cacao. Cacao contains flavonoids, a type of antioxidant. And make sure you buy these brain-boosting berries: strawberries: Blackberries, blueberries, Black currants and mulberries. Buy these nuts: sunflower seeds, almonds, and hazelnuts.
Fuzzy-thinking Alzehimer’s patients can make diet and lifestyle changes that not only improve memory and concentration; but reduce the risk of stroke.
anewdayfoundation.net for more information.”
I know you to be a very spiritual person. How would you define your walk with God?
“GOD IS EVERYTHING in my life. HIS Grace, HIS Mercy, HIS Guidance has sustained me in some of my darkest days and most frustrating circumstances. The Lord taught me how to forgive and love my Dad, forgive and love myself, and to see the good in others, even when they’re not being very good at all!
GOD has opened every single door of opportunity I’ve been blessed to have and showed me the right people to ‘teach’ and HE prepared me for those opportunities when they presented themselves. I am eternally grateful for the ‘village’ HE has brought into my life. I am a better person and continually growing because of it.”
Petersburg Voters Give Green Light To Development of City’s Casino
PETERSBURG, VA
The citizens of Petersburg voted yes on Election Day November 5 on the city’s historic casino referendum. Over 80 percentof Petersburg residents voted in favor of the $1.4 billion Live! Casino Resort project, marking the highest support for a casino referendum in Virginia history.
The approval paves the way for the development of a world-class casino and entertainment destination that promises to revitalize the local economy, create jobs, and invest in much-needed community services.
Live! Casino Resort, which will be co-developed by The Cordish Companies and Bruce Smith Enterprise, will include not only gaming and entertainment options but also restaurants, hotels, and event spaces, making Petersburg a destination for tourism and entertainment in Virginia.
Construction will commence after the vote is certified and all required approvals are received, with an anticipated opening date of the initial first phase casino in 2026.
“We are deeply gratified by the community’s affirmation of this
project and very hopeful about the meaningful impact it will have on the city’s future,” said Bruce Smith, Owner of Bruce Smith Enterprise, Pro Football Hall of Fame Member, Developer and Community Leader, and codeveloper of the planned Live! Casino Resort in Petersburg.
“The casino will not only create good-paying jobs for our residents but will also attract visitors statewide and beyond, stimulating local businesses and in turn producing an overall ripple effect of economic growth.”
The casino project is part of a larger revitalization plan for Petersburg, which has faced economic challenges in recent years. This initiative, alongside other investments in infrastructure and local businesses, will position the city for long-term growth and success.
“The approval marks a significant milestone for our City,” said Mayor Sam Parham.
“Voter approval follows a three-year journey on this transformative project that will bring positive change to Petersburg for generations.”
This destination resort, casino,
retail, and residential development will be the largest economic and tourism project in Petersburg’s history.
The project site is situated at the intersection of Wagner Road and Interstate I-95, has easy access on and off the East Coast’s major north-south interstate.
Zed Smith, Chief Operating Officer of The Cordish Companies, thanked the city. “We look forward to delivering results for you and being a part of this great community for decades to come.”
Upon completion, the Live! Casino Resort destination will feature more than 400,000 square feet of gaming, hotel and dining space; 35,000 square feet of meeting and convention space; an upscale 200-room hotel; 1,600 state-of-the-art slot machines; 46 live action table games, including a 15-table poker room; high limit slot and table areas and a sportsbook.
Plans for the project include opening an initial first phase casino one year after all applicable approvals to immediately begin creating jobs, vendor opportunities and economic benefits for the city.
Norfolk NAACP Hosts 65th Anniversary Dinner
NORFOLK
The Norfolk NAACP hosted its 65th Annual Life Membership & Freedom Fund Dinner on Saturday, November 9 at the Doubletree Hilton.
Hon. Dr. Amelia RossHammond, Virginia Beach Councilwoman and Founder of the Virginia African-American Cultural Center, served as the Mistress of Ceremonies.
Among many memorable moments during the evening was the Branch’s establishment and awarding of the Dr. Robert G. Murray Legacy Award to its namesake, Dr. Robert G. Murray, retired pastor of First Baptist Church, Bute Street.
Other notable awards were given to community members who have made outstanding contributions in their fields, as well. The Presidential Award was presented to James Rivers for his longevity and long time support of the Norfolk NAACP.
The Norfolk Branch dates to 1938, just 29 years after the founding of the National NAACP, the nation’s oldest national civil rights organization, in 1909. The Branch’s outgoing president Stacie Armstead and her administration were acknowledged for their continuing activism in support of the NAACP’s advocacy mission.
The keynote speaker for the evening was New Journal and Guide
Publisher Brenda H. Andrews, whose delivery called for celebration of the Norfolk NAACP’s anniversary as well as sober reflection on the implications on the Black community of the November 5 election
results that ushered in a second Donald Trump administration.
Publisher Andrews called on the familiar mantra of Rev. Jesse Jackson, to “Keep Hope Alive” and on President Joe Biden’s declaration, “A defeat does not mean we are defeated.”
“We who believe in a way forward must remember we are always between fights for justice, fairness and equity in America,” she said to rousing applause. “Freedom may win a battle, but the war continues. Defeated issues morph into new issues, creating new battles to fight.
“And, yet,” she continued, “We are not without resources. We are not without power. God did not give us a spirit of fear – and we must remember Blacks in America were never meant to survive nor to be free.
“That’s what makes the story of Black America so precious to me: And Still We Rise,” a favorite reminder to the audience from Maya Angelou’s poem by the same name.
Setting the celebratory tone was music by Ms. Vinnie Knight & the Jazz Riders. Also, Tramaine Spruill, a Booker T. Washington High School student, and an NAACP ACTSO winner, delivered a soulful rendition of “Total Praise” that won over the audience.
Participants on the program were the Lake Taylor High School Navy ROTC Corps, Jacoby Lewis, Rev. Calvin Brown, LeRon Jones, Harvey Waters, Pastor Veronica Thomas, Dr. Nathaniel Morris, Jan House, and Kay Thornton.
Those who received
awards were: Del. Bonita Anthony: Community Activist Award Community 1st: Unsung Heroes and Heroes Award Garden of Hope Adult Education and GED Program: Unsung Heroes and Heroes Award Mrs. Valencia Moore, Principal, and Ms. Marie Hall, Assistant Principal, Lindenwood Elementary School : Special Presentation James Rivers : Presidential Award
The Branch’s new Dr. Robert G. Murray Legacy Award was presented and accepted by Dr. Murray, who was described as a Crusader for Christ and the Community. He served 38 years as Senior Pastor at the First Baptist Church, Bute Street, during which time he led the church in the construction of the Murray Taste and See Banquet Center, the READY Academy, the Renew Counseling Center and the church’s administrative wing. He retired in January 2022 and holds the title Pastor Emeritus. He was accompanied by his family members, Mrs. Amanda Murray, and their sons, daughters-in-law and grandson.
Hello and welcome to The Bridge Corner. A promise made; a promise kept. Tidewater Bridge Club (TBC) has initiated its monthly commitment to donate to the Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore. TBC will present to the Food Bank half of the game fee from the third game of each month. Tidewater Bridge Club wishes to extend an invitation to the community to come and play bridge with us on the third game of the month (Tucker Memorial Library at 10 a.m.). When the community comes to play bridge with the club members, it creates a Win-Win situation: we have a great time playing bridge AND we have the opportunity to fight hunger among our neighbors. So, come on out and play bridge at Tidewater Bridge Club on the third game of the month; it is FUN with a PURPOSE!
Tidewater Bridge Club’s Winning players in the November 6, 2024 game:
Elva Taylor - Jennifer Douglas – Leon Ragland
Sandra Starkey –Gillis Watson – Lillye Holley
2) Wednesday, Nov. 27
Elizabeth Lyons – Wanda Miller - Lawrence Owes Shirley Nottingham
TIDEWATER BRIDGE CLUB: Richard A. Tucker Memorial Library 2350 Berkley Ave., Extension –Norfolk, VA 23523.
The dates for the next four games are:
1) Wednesday, Nov. 20 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Game fee is $6 (paid BEFORE the game thru our voucher system. Contact L. Owes at email below). Light snacks and water provided; bring your lunch.
Contact Lawrence Owes at l.a.owes1@gmail.com for additional information.
MEAC To Honor Women Leaders
In Sports With Atlanta Event
NORFOLK
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) recently announced the Guardian of the Game Awards Reception, a prestigious event dedicated to recognizing influential individuals who have made a significant impact in the world of sports. The reception will be held on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
This year’s honorees include a distinguished group of leaders and trailblazers who have contributed profoundly to sports at all levels. Their work exemplifies excellence, commitment, and passion for advancing the sports community. The award acknowledges those whose contributions may often go unseen but are essential to every victory, every milestone, and every achievement.
The inaugural honorees are Bihn Nguyen, NCAA; Tiffany Greene Berry, ESPN; Mary Hill, Voorhees University; Dr. Alecia Shields-Gadson, Delaware State University; Dr. Kendra Greene, North Carolina Central University; Jennifer Lynne Williams, USA
Basketball; and Tiffany Tucker, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
“The Guardian of the Game Awards Dinner is a powerful reminder to celebrate those individuals who operate in the background. The dinner aims to remind us of the positive impact that dedicated individuals can have on the sports world,” said MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills. “Each of these honorees has left a lasting legacy through their commitment to excellence, and we are thrilled to celebrate their contributions and honored to host an event to let them know that we see you.”
The evening will be an opportunity to network, share stories, and celebrate these unsung heroes in an atmosphere of respect and admiration. Attendees are invited to wear semi-formal or cocktail attire as they join us in honoring those who continue to shape the future of sports.
Tickets for the reception can be purchased via Eventbrite or by request to Dominique Garcia at garciad@themeac.com. For additional details, reach out to Patricia PorterMayfield at mayfieldp@themeac.com.
Book Signing And Talk At Aspire Art Gallery
NORFOLK The newly opened Aspire Art Gallery will host a book signing and talk by Dr. Sandra Pierce Mathis on Saturday, November 16, 2024 from noon to 3 p.m. She will discuss her new book entitled, Black Teachers and their Experiences During Massive Resistance in Virginia (1956-1973) Historical Re fl ections and Contemporary Implications This book begins with the history of the de fi nition of Massive Resistance, the personal experiences of the author with this topic and then eight compelling stories submitted by educators who were willing to share their own personal
experiences of what it was like as a teacher during that era. Sandra Pierce Mathis is a native of Surry County, Virginia and was educated in the public schools of the county during the period of Massive Resistance, and is a graduate of Luther Porter Jackson High School in Surry. She is a career educator and has taught in four school divisions in the state of Virginia. The Aspire Art Gallery is located at the corner of Church Street and Brambleton Blvd. at 624 Church Street, Norfolk, VA 23510 in the newly opened Aspire Apartments Complex. www. aspireartgallery.org
Tidewater Bridge Club’s “Food Bank” Committee
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(L-R)” Ms.Valencia Moore and Ms. Marie Hall
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New Journal and Guide Publisher Brenda H. Andrews
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(L-R): Oronde Andrews, Julius McCullough, Norfolk Councilman John “J.P.” Paige
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Dr. Rev. Robert G. Murray (centered) with his family
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(L-R): Congressman Bobby Scott,VB Councilwoman Dr. Ameila Ross-Hammond, NJG Publisher Brenda H. Andrews, Delegate Bonita Anthony, and Hon. J.P. Paige
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JAZZ LEGACY FOUNDATION
HAMPTON Jazz Legacy Foundation executive director Jerilyn Horne-Keels and president/CEO Alvin Keels presented Booker T. Washington High School with its $2000 music education grant at the 12th Annual Concerts Fundraising Gala at the Hampton Roads Convention Center last weekend. Two seniors were given $500 Music arts grants by Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist Nathan Mitchell. The 2023-24 jazz workshop winners were Booker. T. Washington, Hampton High School, Hampton University, Lake Taylor High, and Ports Towne Majic in Portsmouth.
(Pictured above L-R:) The Keels, BTW band members, Nathan Mitchell, BTW band director Vincent Johnson, and principal Deon Gardner.
MAKES DONATION TO BTW HIGH LOCAL
Juan Davenport, a hospital program manager from Washington D.C., seeks “professional” musical advice from saxophonist Richard Elliott for Davenport’ percussion son, a sophomore concert and marching band percussionist at DC’s Duke Ellington High School.
MY FIRST REAL JOB’S PAY
By Sean C. Bowers
In 1987, after becoming my family’s first college graduate, I packed up my dorm room’s years of collectables and headed West. Moving back to Seattle, Washington, I landed my first post- college career job at the Seattle skyline’s iconic Space Needle.
Grammy nominee, pianist, composer, and musical director Patrice Rushen shares a moment with Jazz Legacy supporter and international jazz aficionado Dr. Deborah Speller-Foreman after the event’s jazz brunch Sunday afternoon.
My full basketball scholarship left me with only $6,000 in student loan debt which I owed for my fifth-year redshirt-season. I would be using my hardearned four-year BA college degree to operate the elevator at the Space Needle. That’s right, the “ELEVATOR OPERATOR” position for $5.25 per hour in 1987. (The minimum wage then was $3.35 per hour.)
Today, 37 years later, the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Americans know full well that the minimum wage wasn’t enough back then, and it surely isn’t enough to live on in America today.
The fact that the minimum wage has been intentionally and artificially suppressed for years by the wealthy ownership elite class for their profits never comes up. Meanwhile ownership has over-leveraged themselves, taking stock dividends, buy backs, splits, and profits instead of keeping well-paying U.S.based manufacturing jobs stateside. This speaks to their new motto of “being mean, for green,” COLD hard cash.
In the early 1900s both women and children “workers” were burned to death by the neglect of their bosses who locked the doors to the multiple-story New York City, garment district building’s emergency fireescapes. Today’s LABOR BARONS have written and re-written the laws, rules, and regulations so that they are rigged to perpetuate their primary chokehold on their revenue streams and profit centers. We are that “human capitol,” they think, they own, and trade (US) in. Got news for you, owners. It all goes away without the people, the workers, the doers, US!
Without the super-rich siphoning off the top 80-90 percent, leaving just 10-20 percent for the rest of us, the landscape of real tangible equitable equality becomes a distinct realistic possibility. All your lawsuits and gated communities won’t protect you from the people’s right to expect and demand more responsive leadership from the private, business, and political communities.
In 1987 the median price
for a home in America was $106,000. Today’s median cost for a moderate home is $412,000, nearly four times the amount it was, while the minimum wage hasn’t even doubled.
The cost of a college education in 1987 was about $6,000 a year, instate, on average. Call it 25K for a four-year college degree. Today that number is (in most cases) between $20,000-$30,000 per year or $80,000-$120,000 for the same four-year degree. While $25 grand was a mountain of debt for the poor in 1987, $130 grand now constitutes a whole continent of mountain ranges standing between those with limited or minimal resources and their dream of higher educational pursuits. Now they must consider their financial vertical vulnerability’s scaling access to success and a chance at a potential better paying career and life.
Home ownership and education have become both extremely steep dangerous climbs for most Americans.
Wages are the handhold and foothold American workers use to claw their way up the financial success ladder. Education can enable workers to move up to a better life, a higher standard of living, a safer neighborhood, a better school district for their children.
Without education, America’s young people are being prematurely banished by class and race to a lower subservient career level.
Think about the mathematical numbers of the cost of education and homes. Multiplies at a X 4 rate, while wages only increase at a X 2 factor rate. Those numbers don’t add up. They never did.
What keeps the broken systemic problems in place is a combination of unchecked greed and power with monopolistic collusion to keep home inventory high-priced, with low-to-no, availability. National bank investors are creating NEW mountain ranges of financial hurtles for basic middle-
Minimum wage pays people a bare minimum, but not enough for basic subsistence, instead of paying the workers a livable living wage.
class home ownership attainment. All this is done to just make THEM more money, the MOST MONEY, not to make most of our people-their lives and their miserable financially heading upside-down existence. More inexpensive affordable housing is the simplest remedy answer they don’t ever want known or acted upon. Our current currency-only based system is accentuating the problem by scapegoating “THE OTHERS,” who don’t look like the(ir) WHITE-MEN ownership classists. Should the White man ever fully understand and grasp that having a fully functional educated empowered human capital of our total American workforce could and would be the envy of the world, they would also see that the hand writing is on the wall. It doesn’t add up and will capsize the entire world economy if they can’t pay people as people deserving a livable wage, not as “workers,” to be worked, to death, by THE(IR) system. Minimum wage pays people a bare minimum, but not enough for basic subsistence, instead of paying the workers a livable living wage. That is the basic fundamental principle that must change. America is starving for minimum wage change. We need our deepest spiritual pockets to have the courage and the empathy to make that change. Sean C. Bowers has written the for The New Journal and Guide, CHAMPIONING overcoming racism, sexism, classism, and religious persecution. More of his work can found by searching “Sean C. Bowers” on the NJ&G website, on social media at Linkedin.com or by email V1ZUAL1ZE@aol. com NNPA 2019 Publisher of the Year, Brenda K. Andrews (NJ&G 38 years) has always been his publisher.
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(L-R): Norfolk businessman James Lewis, Jazz Legacy Foundation president and CEO
Alvin Keels; saxophonist, author, and music producer Jackiem Joyner; writer, director, and documentary producer Glen Mason.
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Saxophonists Paul Taylor, Jackiem Joyner, and guitarist Adam Hawley jam Thursday night at the 12th annual Jazz Legacy Foundation concerts at the Hampton Convention Center.
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Sean C. Bowers
By Rev. Dr. Archie L. Edwards, Sr.
JESUS: OVER ANGELS MOMENTS of MEDITATION
Hebrews: 1:1-2:4
The Epistle to the Hebrews is the Holy Spirit’s glorious portrait of Christ with the Old Testament as its background.
“Consider Jesus” is the letter’s urgent appeal. No Christian is immune to the dangers of backsliding, apathy and apostasy. Hebrews fully addresses these problems.
The book makes clear that all the ceremonial laws given in the Old Testament – the offerings and ministrations of the priests – were types pointing forward to Jesus Christ, the great sacrifice for sin, the true priest and mediator between God and man.
Hebrews was probably written between A. D. 65 and 70. Various authors have been suggested – most often Paul or Apollo’s.
All we know of the original readers is derived from the epistle itself. They were a single congregation of the Hebrew Christians, living somewhere in the Roman world. The many strong
warnings in the letter indicate that these believers were in danger of forsaking Christ for their former ways of Judaism. This letter was God’s antidote, sober warnings and strong exhortation.
Basically, the letter has two main divisions: instruction (1:1-10:18) and exhortation (10:19-13:25). The three parts of the letter’s outline are: (1) what we have (1:1-7:28) the author adds up our spiritual resources and assets, (2) We have a great High Priest (8:1-10:18). Jesus Christ is the only true, effectual High Priest; (3) having therefore ... let us (10:19-13:25). The phrase “let us” appears three times in (10:22-24). These exhortations to Christians are all based on the blessed truth that “We do have such a High Priest” (8:1).
The main theme of Hebrews may be stated as:
Knowing how great our High Priest Jesus is should lift us from spiritual lethargy to vital Christian maturity. The antidote for backsliding is growing in personal
knowledge and fellowship with Jesus Christ.
Numerous verses in Hebrews can be cited as key verses representing the letter’s main theme. One such verse is 4:14: “Since we have a great High Priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.”
Hebrews also has many key words. The word better is predominantly used for the epistle presents a series of contrasts between the good things of Judaism and the better things of Christ.
The application of scripture is universal and timeless. Now, as then, there are in the visible church those who are “professors” and not yet “professors.” Among believers, some are back sliding. Today, as in the first century, Satan tempts Christians to turn away from simple faith in Christ; to depreciate the glory of His person and word; to compare religions favorably with Christianity. This letter provides correction to such errors.
THE GREAT SALVATION. The first three verses of the epistle introduce its main subjects: divine revelation, God’s Son Jesus and the work of redemption. The writer’s purpose is to deter readers from turning away from Christ and going back to Judaism.
To accomplish this, he proves that following Christ is better than Judaism because
Christ is the full revelation of God He has spoken through prophets and angels; but in His Son – Jesus Christ – God gives a direct and complete revelation of Himself (Colossians 2:9).
Jesus’ divine names are proof of His deity. He is the Son referred to in Hebrews (1:2, 5, 8). God has many human sons (John 1:12-13), but only one divine Son. Christ is God’s Son in a sense altogether unique (John 3:16). He is call both “God” (Hebrew 1:8) and “Lord” (1:10).
Jesus’ divine works are proof of His deity: 1. His works of creation. He made the worlds, the earth, the heavens and the universe (1:2, 10; see also Jon 1:3; Colossians 1:16) 2. His works of upholding all things. He not only created all things but holds them together (Hebrews 1:3; also Colossians 1:17). 3. His work of salvation. He is the Savior of sinners. He purged our sins (Hebrews 1:3) which only God can do. His divine character is proof of His deity. Jesus Christ is God because He is exactly like His Father (1: 3). In Jesus we have the full expression of the essential nature of God. Jesus’ position or rank is proof of His deity. He is Heir of all things (1:2). God‘s estate is vast and Christ has been appointed Heir of it all – Heir in the sense of already possessing it (John 16:15).
Christ also is seated at the right hand of the majesty
on high (1:3). The One who grappled with sin and conquered it forever, ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. He has full right to this exalted position, for He completely accomplished the work His Father gave Him to do.
SON AND ANGELS COMPARED. The key phrase of Hebrews 1:4-14 is ‘superior” (v. 4). The Son is compared with angels in many ways, and He is shown always to be much better. The word superior suggests a comparison of degree but Christ’s superiority over angels is of “kind” as well as degree. He is in a category distinct from all others.
It is interesting that the writer of Hebrews compares Jesus first with angels. (We learn that God gave the law to Israel via angels as mediators [acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19], which suggests the reasons Jews esteemed angels so highly).
As powerful and as wise as angels are and as high as their rank is Christ’s position is much higher still.
1. They are God’s messengers; He is God’s Son (1:4-5). 2. They are worshipers; He is the one who is worshiped (1:6). 3. They are servants; He is King (1:79). 4. They are creatures; He is the Creator (1:10-12). 5. They are ministers of salvation; He is the Author of Salvation (1:13-14).
THE NECESSARY RESPONSE. The whole point of chapter 1 is lost if the
reader doesn’t go on to the “therefore” of 2:1-4. Having established the superiority of Christ, the writer next exhorts the readers to obey the word spoken by Christ. Actually, the exhortation is strong warning. The readers were Christians, but they were to beware of drifting away from Christ. The principle established by 2:2 is “just punishment.” The warning of 2:3 is that there is no escape from the punishment for ignoring so great salvation. The exhortation of 2:1 is to pay closer attention to revealed truth “so that we do not drift away.” This passage (2:1-4) established a serious tone for the whole epistle. In these last days, God has spoken to us in His Son Jesus. In this great eternal Being, God the Son, made the world, worshiped angels who will remain unchanged when heaven and earth pass away, is the Author and Founder of Christianity. He was with God from the beginning. He has accomplished our redemption on earth. He now sits at the right hand of the Majesty on High, awaiting the time when all His enemies will be put under His feet, when every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11).
This Jesus is the One by whom God has spoken to us. We dare not refuse Him, or ignore His great salvation, by apathy, disobedience, or unbelief.
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer
COOKBOOKS FOR THE
Tis the season. The season to bundle up when going outside. To anticipate a holiday tune or two, to admire lights on your evening walk or to decorate your own windows. ‘Tis the season to start looking for recipes to wow your guests this year, so why not check out these great cookbooks ... Just gazing at the cover of “Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By” by Al Roker with Courtney Roker Laga (Legacy Lit, $35) is going to make you hungry. Just paging through it is going to make you confident because what’s in here are easy-to-make dishes that your family will want again. Check out the sandwich section for those leftovers.
You don’t have to be from Wisconsin to want “Extra! Extra! Eat All About It! by Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $30). What you will need, though, is an adventurous spirit to try the old-time suggestions and a willingness to enjoy the articles that go with them. Tasty recipes plus tasty history equals a yummy book for the person who likes to read cookbooks and
then actually use them. Of course, you want to bring the kids into the kitchen so they can host you someday, right? So have “Kids Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman (HarperCollins Harvest, $35), a nice hefty book that’s meant for the budding cook in two nice ways: this cookbook is easy for the 10-and-up reader to follow, and the recipes in here are both kid favorites and kid-enticing. The sidebars and illustrations just make it better. Be aware that you’ll want to be
around to lend a hand, but then ... how could you not, with this fun book? For littler kids who need a little-kid-friendly first cookbook, find “Look and Cook Breakfast” by Valorie Fisher (Astra Young Readers, $19.99).
Step-by-step pictures make this book perfect for the smallest kitchen helper, ages five to eight. So your shelves are full of cookbooks, thank you very much, but you still want to read something new about food? Then look for “Cold Kitchen: A Year
FUN PUZZLE FOR YOUR LEISURE
FAMILY
of Culinary Journeys” by Caroline Eden (Bloomsbury, $27.99), and take a trip through Eastern Europe and Central Asia with Eden, a Scottish writer who’s happy to have you along. You won’t find recipes in this book, but you’ll find plenty of inspiration. Likewise, there are no recipes inside “Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao’s Soul” by Rowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury, $28.99) but chocolate. Chocolate in its most raw form, in its most hard-toreach form, and how its fervent fans are working to ensure that the wild cacao doesn’t disappear. It’s a tale of adventure, perfect for reading between meals and with a big bar of, well, you know ...
And if these great cookbooks aren’t enough for your hosting pleasure or your kitchen counter, then head to your favorite bookstore or library and ask to see the cookbook section. Better yet, ask if your favorite bookseller or librarian has some favorite dishes and where they got them. Because ‘tis the season for (r)eating.
PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE” (Pts. 1&2): STILL-BIRTH REFLECTIONS
The beginning of my recovery after “Put A Woman In Charge” Pts. 1&2. The mingling of the near and far views in the fulfillment of scripture Chronology, Eschatology, Prophecy and Ontology.
“PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE” PTs. 1&2 (Jeremiah 31:22 ) KJV (Prophecy)
“TRUMP, PRESIDENT, AMERICA (Isaiah 26:9) (Eschatology)
PROJECT 2025 (Jeremiah 9)
PROJECT 2025 AGENDA
• Eliminate the Department of Education.
• Use public funds to pay for private religious schools.
• Encourage Christian indoctrination through public schools.
• Dismantle Civil Rights & DEI protections in all levels of government.
• Eliminate no fault divorce.
• Total ban on abortions regardless of viability or health of the mother.
• Ban all contraceptives.
• Ban African-American and gender studies in all levels of education.
• Tax cuts for major corporations and 1 percent while increasing taxes on the rest.
• Eliminating unions and all worker protections.
• Eliminating all climate protections
• Encourages Arctic drilling since the ice caps are melting.
• Eliminating regulations of big business and oil.
• Raise retirement age.
• Eliminate social security for the elderly and disabled.
• Promotes capital punishment and the speedy “finality” of such sentences.
• Condemn single-mothers while encouraging a “tradition family.”
• Only recognize “tradition families” by overturning Obergefell v. Hodges in attempts to eliminate the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Dismantling the FBI and Homeland Security.
• Use of military to break up protests.
• Eliminating Head Start, and the free/discounted school lunch program.
• Banning books and curriculum regarding slavery.
• Forcing immigrants to be deported or held in “camps” and ends birth right citizenship.
• Banning Muslims from entering the country.
• Dismantles the FDA, EPA, NOAA, and more.
• Pack the Supreme Court with extreme far-right judges, The Heritage Foundation is responsible for ConeyBarrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.
II Chronicles 7:14 KJV (God Is In Control) Sovereign Love, Blessing and Shalom Aleichem (peace be unto you).
