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Georgia Legislative Black Caucus fights to defeat sex exploitation of children
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By Terry Shropshire
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Because of their coiffed hair and manicured appearances at the Georgia state house, you cannot discern the depths of the emotional scars the nowgrown women still bear within the deepest recesses of their souls after enduring years of being underage sex slaves in the multi-million-dollar sex-exploitation trade in the state of Georgia. Some of the women, who are now activists and, shared their personal horror stories at a forum held by the State Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler (D-Lithonia), head of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus in May. There, the women and Dawkins-Haigler provided shocking and mind-blowing statistics about the illegal sex trade and human enslavement: despite its small size relative to its much bigger sister cities, metro Atlanta ranks No. 3 behind New York and Los Angeles in the ever-growing industry known as human trafficking and Moreover, this highly-profitable business often takes place within blocks of the Gold Dome and within proximity to police stations. It is often enabled by seedy hotel owners and some strips clubs. And worst, many of the victims are kidnapped locally or transported from other countries and brought to Atlanta as young as 11 and 12 years old, where they are forced into the sex trade, beaten frequently, drugged, chained or otherwise imprisoned, kept from their families and loved ones without any legal recourse or ability to fight back at their captors. Haigler said it was time to step up the legislative and law enforcement pressure to obliterate this demeaning and perverse industry. “About four years ago, we started doing a lot of legislative work around human trafficking. At that time I was chair of the Georgia Women’s Legislative Caucus here at the capital. We realized at the Women’s Legislative Caucus that we needed to do something that could curtail, if not eradicate, this problem altogether,” Dawkins-Haigler said. “We began having conversations about ‘what can we do to make a meaningful impact?’ we passed several bills. This year we passed Senate Bill 8 which would provide for the safe harbor bill, which would accompany Senate Bill 7 which would be on the be on the ballot in the fall. It would ask the people of Georgia: is it okay to have a trust fund set up for people who have been caught up in trafficking situations. The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, Inc. (GLBC), in collaboration with community partners, hosted its first annual Sex Trafficking Symposium: “Vision 20/20: A Call to Action Continues.” GLBC Addressed efforts to combat sex trafficking. During this day-long series of presentations and interactive sessions, attendees learned about the sex trafficking dilemma in Georgia, heard from industry professionals regarding local, state and national efforts to protect individuals from exploitation; discussed options for help; and developed policy recommendations. “It used to be a time when they would target women,” Haigler continued, “but now it’s young boys and young girls, people who are brought from other countries because the Atlanta airport is a hub so children are brought through to go to other places.” “That still has to go before the people for a vote. So this is one of the things that we are doing to edu-
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Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler, Chair, Georgia Legislative Black Caucus, Inc. cate people so that when they go into the ballot box so they know what they are voting on. “Public awareness will curtail the problem,” she added. Dawksin-Haigler said the suburban Atlanta city of Brookhaven was the first city in Georgia to e certified as they put together a sex trafficking plan. Dawkins-Haigler implores other cities to follow their lead. “This is happening blocks from the (Georgia) capital. Not even miles away, just down the street from the capital. We have to do something,” she said. “We want all of our 500 plus cities to sign on to this. When for the mayors and the city councils to take an active role to eradicate this., to go into the motels and hotels, to go into the strip clubs to recognize sex trafficking, we can stop it.” A greater set of influential eyes would also diminish the ability of the sex trade to thrive. For example, Dawkins-Haigler wants the local Chambers of Commerce gets involved as they could potentially empower businesses to help increase the number of people watching for sex trafficking. “They can contact hotel and motel operators about the problem,” says Dawkins-Haigler. “They can go to local restaurants and put them on the lookout for trafficking.” Dawkins-Haigler said she is pleased that the Georgia attorney general and local and state law enforcement officials are stepping up efforts to partner with the state legislative body to combat this deplorable underground industry. Still, she said, there are only a few cities “that have bought into this” thus far. Therefore, Dawkins-Haigler said she and her partners in this fight need to go beyond the metro Atlanta area and into cities such as Valdosta and Savannah and Augusta and “implore community groups to get involved and “empower them to help curtail this industry.” “This is why we invited the community groups to come in (to the forum at the state capital) and have them tell us what the work looks like and how can we help them. We need them.”
Community groups inside the state house forum said this is not a fight for 18 an 19-year-olds; traffickers and human hunters are on the prowl for pre-teens these days, which means that anyone could become a victim -- as one community activist learned the hard way. One day, that man (who didn’t want to be named) heard the first-hand account of sex enslavement from a woman who used to babysit his children in the prosperous Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta. The point of the forum, Dawkins-Haigler emphasized, is that the sex-exploitation trade can get to privileged and less well-to-do children and it is time to stand against an industry that is much bigger than most people realized.
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Atlanta to add 100,000 jobs in 2015
By Terry Shropshire Because of the growth in the professional and business services sectors, the prospect for the job growth in the metro Atlanta area is the greatest since the 1990s. Wells Fargo Securities senior economist Mark Vitner predicts that Atlanta will add up to 100,000 jobs in 2015. Vitner spoke before Wells Fargo gathered several executives from its commercial banking, commercial real estate and insurance divisions during a presentation to Atlanta business leaders. “Much of the gain is coming in professional and business services, a broad category that includes several creative fields in the tech sec-
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tor,” Vitner told the meeting attendees. “Many of these firms are hiring younger folks that desire an urban lifestyle, which is helping drive demand for office space in Buckhead and Midtown.” Vitner said there is demand for walkable mixed-use projects in the Atlanta suburbs. “Even the suburbs are becoming more urban,” Vitner said, “with many developing or redeveloping urban centers, where people can walk from place to place and interact in a variety of settings. So it is not just the number of jobs being created, but also the types of jobs and the types of people filling them that is driving demand for office space.”
Georgia banks earn $660 million in first quarter Georgia’s financial institutions that are FDIC insured earned $661.1 million during the first quarter, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This represents an increase of more than $71 million more than they did in the same quarter of 2014. Here are other pertinent facts the FDIC shared: • For the quarter, 62.9 percent of the state’s banks posted increased earnings for the quarter, and 86.8 percent were profitable overall.
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• The percentage of unprofitable banks was 13.2, compared with 14.2 in the third quarter of 2013. • The banks now employ 43,447 compared to the 43,788 who were employed in the first quarter of 2014. • Assets hit heir highest level since 2008 at $279.5 billion, up from $271.5 in the first quarter of 2014. • Deposits rose to a record level of $230.8 billion, up from $217.6 billion in the first quarter of 2014. “The Georgia banking industry had a good first quarter, and that tracked alongside the generally improving state economy,” said Joe Bennan, president and CEO of the Georgia Bankers Association, said in a statement. “Our state’s banks grew loans, deposits and assets, and there are a low number of past-due loans. These are all encouraging signs for Georgia. The deposit number is particularly telling. That should be a good signal to businesses and families that Georgia banks are in a good position to make all sorts of loans to qualified borrowers. Interest rates are still low, so it’s a great time to borrow for business growth or family needs.”
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Thirty years ago around this time of the year, scientists announced that the probable cause of AIDS had been found. Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, would subsequently enter our lexicon and become synonymous, no matter where you lived, with death. Since then, more than 75 million people have acquired HIV and nearly 35.6 million have died of AIDS-related illnesses. But investments in AIDS research, prevention and treatment have yielded tremendous dividends. As a result, we have before us the opportunity to end one of the greatest public health crises in history. More people than ever are receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy, and are living healthier, longer lives. There have been historic declines in AIDS-related deaths worldwide. From 1996 to 2012, antiretroviral therapy averted 6.6 million AIDS-related deaths, including 5.5 million in developing countries. The annual number of new HIV infections has also dropped by 33 percent since 2001. In 26 countries, the rate of new HIV infections among young people (ages 15-24) decreased by 50 percent since 2001. For the first time, we have the ability to end the transmission from mother to child and to keep mothers alive. Scaling up access to HIV treatment remains an essential prerequisite for ending AIDS. In addition to saving lives, it has proven to be highly effective at preventing HIV transmission because treatment percent. We must also improve our health systems to support the scale-up of core interventions that we know work, including expanded access to HIV prevention and treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, harm reduction, and voluntary medical male circumcision. Effective outreach to those most at risk — and most in need — is also critical. Key populations, including sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, people who inject drugs, young girls and women often face substantial barriers to obtaining prevention, treatment and care services. As a result, efforts to reduce HIV transmission among vulnerable populations remain insufficient. HIV cure research has gained momentum and picked up speed. The first organization to aggressively pursue cure-focused HIV research, amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has intensified its cure research program and set a goal to find a broadly applicable cure for HIV by 2020 with its “Countdown to a Cure for AIDS” initiative. While we now have the tools to begin to end the HIV epidemic, achieving an AIDS-free generation is threatened by a considerable gap between available resources and the amounts needed
to scale up high-impact interventions. Investing now in these interventions will not only accelerate progress in reducing AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections, but it will also lower the long-term cost of the HIV response. Strong, continuous U.S. leadership at this critical moment is key. Innovative financing options and strategies need to be explored to ensure that the global HIV response is sustained. UNAIDS supports many countries in developing HIV investment cases, which enable countries to estimate future resource gaps, identify new sources of domestic financing to help close the gaps, and agree on ways to enhance the efficiency and impact of spending. More than 30 countries are now planning to develop their own investment cases by the end of this year. Lastly, we must eliminate stigma, discrimination and punitive laws and practices that continue to undermine efforts to provide critical services to prevent and treat HIV, especially among vulnerable populations. We’re seeing a growing conservatism in a growing number of regions and countries. State-sanctioned homophobia in many countries remains a formidable barrier to the implementation and uptake of HIV programs. More than 80 countries criminalize homosexual behavior. The anti-homosexuality laws that have gone into effect in India, Nigeria, Russia and Uganda, for example, could impede their national responses to HIV. Studies have clearly shown that criminalizing same-sex sexual behavior poses an immense structural barrier to HIV prevention. We all are stakeholders in the opportunity before us now. Addressing the unfinished business of ending the pandemic will require the cooperation and full commitment of national government leadership scientists, civil society, and people living with HIV. But through continued and strengthened solidarity, we will be able to rise above the challenges that remain ahead to ultimately achieve the goal of an AIDS-free generation. Courtesy of CNN.
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his year marks the 19th annual National HIV Testing Day, a time to promote one of our best tools for HIV prevention. More than 1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, but 1 in 5 don’t know they are infected. In April 2013, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released HIV testing recommendations that everyone aged 15 to 65 should be screened for HIV infection; teens younger than age 15 and adults older than 65 also should be screened if they are at increased risk for HIV infection; and all pregnant women, including women in labor who do not know if they are infected with HIV, should be screened for HIV infection. CDC recommends an HIV test once a year for people at increased risk. CDC data suggests that sexually active gay and bisexual men might benefit from more frequent testing (e.g., every 3 to 6 months) Regular testing allows people who have HIV to know their status, get life-saving treatment and care, and prevent HIV transmission to others. Getting Tested Has Never Been Easier It’s easy to get tested. Ask your doctor for a test, or find a nearby testing site through National HIV and STD Testing Resources. Home test kits are also available at drugstores: a rapid testing kit that provides results in 20 minutes using a swab of oral fluid from your gums, and a kit that involves collecting a finger stick blood sample and sending it to a licensed laboratory, then calling in later for results. Everyone can: Get tested for HIV. Ask your doctor for a test, check National HIV and STD Testing Resources (http://hivtest.cdc.gov/Default. aspx) for a nearby testing site, call 1-800-CDC- INFO, text your ZIP code to “KNOW IT” (566948), or use one of the home testing kits. Lower your risk for getting HIV by having sex with only one partner whom you know is not infected, or using a condom every time you have anal, vaginal, or oral sex. If you have HIV, get medical care as soon as possible to stay healthier longer and to keep from passing the virus to others. State and local health departments can: Create programs and adopt policies to get people at high risk tested early and often. Make sure that those who have a positive test get care quickly. Provide services such as medical care, social services, and programs shown to change behavior and lower risk to people at risk for HIV and those living with HIV.
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AKA Sorority partners with Alzheimer’s Association to raise awareness
The Alzheimer’s Association is proud to announce a nationwide partnership with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. to help raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and increase education, care and support resources in the African American community. This partnership will engage both campus and alumni members of AKA through local community outreach efforts and participation in The Longest Day®, a signature Alzheimer’s Association event. “African Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s and other dementias, however they are less likely to be diagnosed, or diagnosed at a much later stage. This partnership will help the Association better connect African-Americans with important Alzheimer’s information and support,” said Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, AKA, International President. AKA, the nation’s oldest African American sorority, is a trusted source of information within the African-American community. Members of AKA will work with the Alzheimer’s Association in communities nationwide to better engage the African-American community in the full mission of the Association. “This new partnership between the Alzheimer’s Association and AKA will directly address the need to better reach,
educate and engage the African American community in Alzheimer’s education, care, support, research and advocacy,” said Beth Kallmyer, MSW, vice president of constituent services for the Alzheimer’s Association. AKA and the Alzheimer’s Association will work together in a variety of ways including: • Connecting the Alzheimer’s Association to community partners, businesses, contacts and churches to open the doors for Alzheimer’s education, care and support • Volunteering for Alzheimer’s Association events, activities and planning committees • Becoming a trained Alzheimer’s community educator or support group leader • Becoming an Alzheimer’s Association advocate The Alzheimer’s Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s. For more information, visit www.alz.org.
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Imagine suffering chronic pain – say, in the form of headaches or migraines. Happily, you’ve found a solution to the problem. It has been several months of losing focus, sleep and general interest in the things you used to like. You went to a doctor and he told you an NTI device, which addresses jowl clenching during sleep, will offer immediate relief. Or maybe your family doctor gave you a pain-relief prescription for your headaches. “As doctors, we like to have answers for our patient’s problems, but misdiagnosis is one of our biggest problems in this country when it comes to chronic pain,” says Dr. Fred Abeles, author of the book Break Away: The New Method for Treating Chronic Headaches, Migraines and TMJ Without Medication. “We’re the ‘microwave’ generation and we like our problems to be solved immediately. Our medical profession has responded and is always geared for quick fixes. In reality, treating only the symptoms, and not the root cause, can worsen your problem.” For one, too many of us ignore the basics of good health, Abeles says. “A huge volume of health problems would be eliminated if only people learned more about nutrition, modified their diets and got regular exercise each week,” he says. “Cardio three times a week and some strength training – along with a
reasonably healthy diet – would help millions tremendously.” “Most doctors really want to help, but sometimes they’re wrong,” he says. “You have to be your own best health advocate.” Abeles offers what he calls his The H.E.A.L. Formula™. • Help yourself – take control of your outcome. Don’t accept chronic pain as a life sentence and stop taking pills to mask symptoms. When you improve your health, the lives of those around you improve also. There’s more love, happiness and fun for everyone. • Everything is connected. The teeth. The joints. The tendons. The ligaments. The jaw. The head. The neck. The muscles. They all have to work together in harmony to not produce pain. • Align the jaw. Align the bite. When everything is aligned, the muscles are happy. And happy muscles do not create pain. • Learn about and utilize the new methods for successfully treating chronic headaches, migraines and TMJ without medication. “The best time to address your chronic pain and what’s behind it is the first time you experience it,” Abeles says. “But if you’ve endured many months or years of pain – perhaps masking it with prescription drugs, then the second best time to uncover the cause is right now.”
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‘Crash’ cookouts to encourage African Americans to put pork on the grill
Summer signals the start of the grilling season, and the National Pork Board wants to encourage Americans to spice up this year’s grilling celebrations with the unexpected flavor of lean, heart-healthy pork cuts. Incorporating healthier options into everyday occasions is important – especially for African Americans who disproportionally suffer from several heart disease categories such as high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. “Pork should be a nutritious component of every family’s diet, especially with the lean cuts available,” said Celebrity Chef Tiffany Derry, a finalist on Season 7 of Bravo’s Top Chef and Top Chef All-Stars. “One easy way to do that is by changing your cooking methods like grilling over frying to achieve a healthier meal.” Derry is one of four celebrity chefs teaming up with the National Pork Board for its African American consumer campaign, “DJ Grill Crashers.” The campaign aims to inspire African Americans to cook and enjoy pork in more creative and healthier ways. “DJ Grill Crashers” is an extension of the National Pork Board’s ongoing summer campaign, “The Grill Crashers,” that launched last week. The campaign includes a series of ‘crashes’ (or BBQ pork flavor takeovers) across the country where pork takes center stage at grilling celebrations as well as new pork-inspired recipes and tips. It also features the participation of comedic actor Donald Faison, an avid griller who will share how to create bold flavors on the grill with juicy, tender pork chops. Chef Joseph Paire, executive chef of Todd Grays Watershed (Washington D.C.), will kick off “DJ Grill Crashers” season in June followed by Todd Richards, executive chef and co-owner of The Pig & The Pearl (Atlanta), Reynond Darthard A.K.A Chef Rey, executive chef of the Houston Rockets (Houston), and Tiffany Derry, chef and TV personality (Dallas). They will partner with radio personalities in their communities to crash BBQ cookouts in Washington D.C., Atlanta, Houston and Dallas, and will cook lean and delicious pork chop recipes with soulful side dishes. “We are thrilled to partner with these four recognized chefs to bring the African American community healthy, flavorful and inspiring pork recipes,” said Jose de Jesus, director of multicultural marketing at the National Pork Board. “We hope to inspire people to crash their own cookouts with pork and make it a memorable experience for their family and friends.” To watch grill crashers videos and find more pork recipes that will have summer grilling tasting great, visit PorkBeinspired.com/GrillCrashers.
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ENTERTAINMENT Robert Richard, Vivica A. Fox give life to ‘Chocolate City’ movie
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By Terry Shropshire Fast money may help you pay your bills and enable you to immerse yourself in the trappings of success. But fast money also sends a bill that may wind up costing you your moral equilibrium, your conscience, your sanity, make you take unwanted life detours and sometimes cost you the ones you love. Robert Ri’chard is faced with this quagmire in the provocative, pulsating drama Chocolate City, which is an orgy of sights that features endless parades of glistening black male bodies in various stages of nudity — much to the delight of women nationwide. Feeling claustrophobic as his low-wage, low-ceiling job was closing in on him, Ri’chard, who plays Michael McCoy, felt forced to prostitute his principals in order to stack that paper and rescue his overworked and over-burdened mother from certain financial collapse. Ri’chard, who was known best for slapstick-style comedy, shows his maturation as actor as he takes the helm as the son of Vivica A. Fox as Katherine McCoy. He wants to avert the household from impending ruin — plus he gets no help from listless and useless older brother Chris McCoy (played by DeRay Davis) –and enters into the golden prison of male stripping and easy money at a club own by Princeton (played by Michael Jai White).
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White, who has shown dexterity in wrapping his brain around both comedic roles (“For Better or Worse,” Why Did I Get Married? I and II) as well as multidimensional characters (Tois), plays a seedy and shadowy figure who thrives on the periphery of decent society. His temptations for fast bucks reaches out from the urban underbelly and grabs Ri’chard like poison tentacles, leading his character down the back alley of life and into a quicksand of instability and personal tumult from which he may not recover. What has been billed as the black Magic Mike — and even the main characters of both movies share the same character name as well as feature the song “Pony” by Genuwine — is a movie definitely written and produced for women and their ladies’ night parties. Written and produced by Jean-Claude La Marre (who also plays a pastor in the film), the movie didn’t delve very deeply in the problems that are prevalent, if not pervasive, in the world of stripping, such as pimping and gratuitous drug use that strippers often use to deaden the senses often required to be objectified and grind on bodies every night. But as a light-hearted affair that doesn’t try to preach, and one that women will enjoy, Chocolate City succeeded.
L.A. Reid says Mariah Carey won’t have another No.1 hit By Sonya Eskridge L.A. Reid is trying to curb the public’s expectations of Mariah Carey moving forward, and the future isn’t as dazzling as Mimi’s wardrobe. Mariah has just released her greatest hits album #1 to Infin-
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ity, but according to the record exec, it’s more like #1 to 2008 because that’s when she had her last #1 hit with “Touch My Body.” Her latest single “Infinity” didn’t even come close to cracking the Top 10 on the Billboard charts. It debuted at #82 (damn!). As he told Billboard during a recent interview, the fact that she’s getting airtime on the radio is a victory because it proves her career has had staying power. “Mariah Carey made her first hit record in 1991. To even be on the radio at this point in her career is a huge accomplishment, because radio doesn’t cater to veteran artists or legends,” he said. In L.A.’s opinion, Mariah’s just not new or hot enough to keep up with more current acts on the radio. “Radio caters to in-the-moment stars,” he explained, adding that Mariah is in pretty prestigious company. “Nobody that put out records 25 years ago is going to have a No. 1. Not Paul, Stevie, Bruce, Mick or Keith. Not Prince, not anyone. So if she can get on the radio, we’ve done damn good. Would we like to have a number one? … I’m greedy. But it’s not realistic.” This might all sound incredibly messy, but L.A. said it’s just the way the game is these days. Instead of trying to keep up with younger performers, he thinks the legends might want to take full advantage of their position and try something new. “I like concept records. I like the idea of thematic, storytelling records. I love duets and the Great American Songbook. I think a great vocalist should un-cage themselves and think about things like that sometimes.”
Ava DuVernay takes part in ‘A Conversation with Tyler Perry’
Ava DuVernay is among the newest additions to PGA’s Produced By Conference, set for May 30 to May31 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. The “Selma” producer-director will sit for “A Conversation with Tyler Perry,” according to Deadline.com. DuVernay is currently collaborating with Oprah Winfrey on “Queen Sugar,” an OWN series about a medical student who reinvents herself after her husband is sent to prison. As previously reported, she’s also working on “For Justice,” a TV movie about a female FBI agent. Perry, who credits Winfrey with inspiring him to become a writer, is behind OWN’s signature series “The Haves and Have Nots” and also produces “If Loving You is Wrong” and
“Love Thy Neighbor” for the network. His chat with DuVernay is set for 9:30 a.m. on May 31. Also of note, Deadline.com’s Pete Hammond will moderate a panel discussion about Fox’s breakout hit “Empire” with executive producers Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo and Ilene Chaiken. That panel is set for 3:45 p.m. on May 31. Additionally, “Ride Along” and “Think Like A Man” producer Will Packer will participate in a panel on May 30 at 11:15 a.m. This year’s Produced By Conference will feature 110 speakers and more than 40 sessions of panel discussions, workshops, and mentor roundtables.
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With the nightly news constantly blasting out news of so-called black male criminality and violent, and often deadly, encounters with police, businessman Harold Maurice Hardnett decided to illuminate young black men who are succeeding scholastically and are prepared to be productive contributors to their society. “These are just four examples of young African American males who are on doing things to be prosperous in their lives. You won’t see this on the news,” he said. “If they had their pants sagging and getting into the mischievous things, they’d be on the front page.” Hardnett founded the Hardnett Foundation Schlarship, which hosted its inaugural awards reception at Adams Park on Atlanta’s southwest side in order to celebrate the young men but to also provide further encouragement and financial support to strive for greatness as they did in prepatory school. It takes a village to raise a child. We all have to help out to help raise our children and make things better in our community. We can’t do this all by ourselves, but this is a little bit that I can contribute to help out,” Hardnett said by giving the four black males $500 scholarships. “The four students that I picked, they are all going to college, they are all honor students and all are doing extraciriccular activities in school. With the way the school system is set up, we need all the help we can get. These kids are a prime example of ‘it’s not where you come from, but where you are going.’ Take a look at the four students who were honored and what schools they will be attending: Austin Harrison, graduating from Benjamin E. Mays High School. He graduated with a 3.5 GPA, was accepted to over 25 schools, including his “firs choice” at the University of Georgia in Athens in the fall. The drum major and church received “my first drum sticks at 5 years old and had been practicing ever since.” He was intrigued and tried out for the middle-school band. “After matriculating from middle school, I continued to improve my skills. In the eighth grade, I saw the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra peform. And ever since then I’ve wanted to perform with them,” he said. My dream was to become a drum ma-
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jor when I became a freshman at Benjamin E. Mays High School. By that time, I had the ability to play 26 professional instruments. Joesph Grundy, graduating from Frederick Douglass High School, is going to the University of Kentucky. He played varsity football, marching band, loves composing songs. “Music gives me peace,” he said. “Music has always been the first thing in my life. I’ve been playing since I was 7 years old, I think of playing piano. I’ve been playing for about 12 years. I can also play other instruments. I have taken what I’ve learned to create my own songs. I feel like I’m in my own world. My room is like my playground.” Darryl Terry II, will graduate from Douglass High School with over $2 million scholarships and attend the Georgia Institute of Technology (better known as Georgia Tech) with a double major in political science and entertainment with a minor in English. Terry’s battles in life have been many, but it makes this successful matriculation from high school to an elite American institution of higher learning that much sweeter. “I’ve had to endure many times by overcoming adversity. I’ve been forced to readjust to be successful. I’m very aware of the impact that violence has had in our lives. I had extreme chronic asthma, which impacted his health and weight and became the victim of relentless bullying in elementary, middle and high school.” Terry channeled his frustration into his academics, music and football. He never thought about taking his own life. “I leaned that nothing could destroy me and could distract me from success,” he said. He learned to love and accept himself. “He also had to overcome some extreme turbulence as a kid: in a matter of months, Terry and his family lost their home, car and means to travel or the material possessions that people need in our lives.” Quantavious Jones, also from Douglass High School, will attend University of Florida with plans to become a psychiatrist. He paid homage to his father to helping him keep his focus on his school work and away from detours down destructive paths while navigating adolescent.
The National Association of Broadcasters, Radio Advertising Bureau and Broadcast Education Association recently announced the first-ever Radio Show Student Scholars Program in which 130 undergraduate and graduate students will be awarded registration scholarships and special access to the 2015 Radio Show, held September 30 to October 2 in Atlanta. The program is designed to encourage and prepare students for successful careers in radio. The Radio Show Scholars Program is made possible due to the generous support of the following radio broadcasting partners underwriting the program: Alpha Media, Bonneville International, Cherry Creek Radio, Connoisseur Media, Emmis Communications Corporation, Hubbard Radio, iHeartMedia, Katz Radio Group, Neuhoff Media, Nielsen Audio, Radiate Media, Salem Communications, Times Shamrock Communications, Triton Digital, and Univision Radio. The Radio Show, produced by NAB and RAB, brings together radio broadcasters and industry experts to share knowledge and insight on the latest trends and innovations for the digital age, while providing an opportunity to network and develop practical business solutions for immediate application. Selected students will receive complimentary registration and invitations to pre-conference events on September 29, such as the NAB Education Foundation/ BEA Career Fair and Radio Show Scholars Orientation, networking opportunities and
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by Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO, AARP
by Robert Weiner and Autumn Kelly
It’s Not Your Father’s Old Age!
Our ability to live longer, healthier and more productive lives is one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments. Most people turning 50 today can expect to live another 30-plus years, most of it in relatively good health. That’s more time than they spent in childhood, in adolescence, and for many, it’s more time than they spend working. Yet, research shows that most people view aging as a process of deterioration, dependency, reduced potential, family dispersal and digital incompetence. As a result of these deeply ingrained, negative attitudes, people view the process of aging as something to fear and fight against, rather than a continued period of growth that brings new opportunities for individuals and society. We have to change that perception. We desperately need to disrupt aging. As we approach a time when people over 65 will outnumber children under 15 for the first time in history, let’s change the conversation in this country around what it means to get older. It’s really not about aging; it’s about living. Disrupting aging begins with each of us owning our age — feeling good about where we are in life. We don’t want to be defined by our age, any more than we want to be defined by race or sex or income or by outmoded expectations of what we should or should not do at a certain age. Disrupting aging is not about clinging to our youth. We’ve all seen those ads on TV and in magazines — “50 is the new 30,” or “60 is the new 40.” That may sound nice, but as someone who was born in 1958, I don’t agree. For one, we face different challenges and goals than people in their 30s and 40s. We’re motivated by different things. We see the world through a lens shaped by the ups and downs of life and the wisdom gained from those experiences. I am a more purposeful person because of the experiences and wisdom those years have brought me, and more and more people are discovering the same thing. Disrupting aging is recognizing that 50 is not the new 30; 50 is the new 50. It’s not wishing we were younger, it’s redefining what it means to be our age. It’s also about building innovative systems that serve the new wants and needs of people as they age. AARP Life Reimagined – Take the first step to a better you I think there are three areas where this is really important — I refer to these as health, wealth and self. For health, we need to begin to focus on physical and mental fitness instead of diminishment,
on preventing disease and improving well-being instead of just treating ailments. We need to help people feel empowered to become active partners in their health care instead of being dependent patients. Wealth doesn’t mean becoming rich beyond your wildest dreams. It does mean having financial resilience to not outlive your money. We must work to demonstrate that an active, engaged, employed older population has the potential to be more of an economic boom than a social challenge — that the growing number of older people is not a drain on society, but a key driver of economic growth, innovation and new value creation. Corporations, entrepreneurs and small businesses are finally beginning to view the aging population as an opportunity — a growing market for goods and services, a pool of untapped talent and resources, and a driving force behind economic and social innovation — instead of an unaffordable cost and financial burden. And when we change the conversation from “unaffordable costs and financial burdens” to “opportunity” — and we change the reality to be more of an “economic boon” than a “social challenge”— that’s disrupting aging. For self, we must change the conversation from aging as decline to aging as continuous growth. We must help people go from feeling useless to having a deep sense of purpose and positive self-image. If we can help people gain confidence in navigating life transitions and feel as though they are an integral part of society instead of being isolated from society, that too is disrupting aging. Fortunately, the movement to disrupt aging has already begun. As the boomers move into their 50s and 60s, they are disrupting aging as they have every other phase of life they have passed through. At AARP, we truly believe that age and experience can expand life’s possibilities for every member of our society. When we disrupt aging and embrace it as something to look forward to, rather than something to fear, we can begin to discover the real possibilities for becoming the person we’ve always wanted to be and build a society for all where people are valued because of who they are, not judged by how old they are.
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Supreme Court 5-4 decisions can be reversed with one new justice All it takes is one vote. We are not forever stuck with a Supreme Court that has ruled some of the worst decisions by 5-4 votes. One nomination, one vote, could make the dissent the majority. Here’s the kicker: The change in the court may be in a direction few have predicted. It’s not just the liberals who are old or potentially sick, but the conservatives. Illness and voluntary retirement happen unexpectedly. Who would have thought that moderate Sandra Day O’Connor would retire in 2006? Few know that Bush-appointed conservative Chief Justice John Roberts has had two reported seizures since 1993, even though the health issue was in the New York Times and other media when he was first appointed. His second seizure was in 2007. Many doctors classify two or more unexplained seizures as epilepsy. The Supreme Court Justices have more control than you think; they even play a hand in choosing their successor by deciding when to retire, and by doing so, selecting what President will choose their replacement. It’s true that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 82 (confirmed under Bill Clinton, 1993), is the oldest, and liberals have been pressing her to make room for an Obama appointment but she continues onward, with spunk. However, most of the others, including conservatives, are not far behind: Antonin Scalia, 79 (Ronald Reagan, 1986) Anthony M. Kennedy, 78 (Ronald Reagan in 1988) Stephen Breyer, 76 (Bill Clinton, 1994) Clarence Thomas, 66 (George H. W. Bush, 1991) Samuel Alito, 65 (George W. Bush, 2006) John Roberts, 60 (George W. Bush, 2005) Sonia Sotomayor, 60 (Barack Obama, 2009) Elena Kagan, 55 (Barack Obama, 2010) Justices Kennedy, leaning right, and Breyer, leaning left, tend to be the two deciding swing votes in this Court. Both are in their late 70’s. A strong liberal replacement for either would make the court more progressive. The cases that could be changed by one vote are enormous. Former Senate Leader George Mitchell told the National Press Club last year, “The Citizens United Decision will go down as one of the worst ever by any Supreme Court.” He said it helps foster a “maddening money chase” in politics, makes it “far worse than before,” and “I hope the American people will rise up against it. Here is a list of the top six cases that could be reversed by a single vote, with a more progressive Court: 1. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 2010 - The Court ruled that the First Amendment gives non and for profit corporations, associations and labor unions the power to donate to political campaigns with no funding caps or restrictions. The court went even further in its controversial and disputed “corporations are people” philosophy.
2. Shelby County v. Holder, 2013 - The Court struck down section 4b of the Voting Rights Act which gives the federal government power over states that have a history of voting discrimination. Despite near-unanimous congressional approval of prior voting rights amendments as specifically authorized in the Constitution for Congress, Justice Scalia voted for the court to override congress due to his belief Congress can’t be trusted: “They’re going to lose votes if they vote against the Voting Rights Act.” To Scalia, democracy is unconstitutional. On the other hand, Justice Ginsberg, among the four minority votes, accurately stated that the Congressional power “is in the constitution.” Republican House and Senate Judiciary Chairs Goodlatte (R-VA) and Grassley (R-IA) have seized on the majority-five ruling as an opportunity to stop improvements in the law while permitting forms of voter suppression. 3. Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 2011 – The Court ruled that a female Wal-Mart employee could not file a class action suit alleging gender discrimination on behalf of herself, and 1.5 million Wal-Mart employees. 4. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 2014 – The Court blocked Department of Health and Human Services regulations requiring employers, in this case corporations, to provide no-cost birth control to female employees, saying it violates the Religious Freedom Act, again because of their 5-4 view that “corporations are people.” 5. Amnesty v. Clapper, 2013 - ACLU challenged President Bush’s 2001 wiretapping program expanded by congress in 2008. The Court 5-4 ruled the legislation constitutional and upheld the NSA’s power, without warrant, to collect lists of international phone calls and emails. The debate continues in Congress as we write. 6. Bush v. Gore, 2000 - just five Republican-appointed justices stopped the Florida re-count, making George W. Bush the next president. Because of his policies versus Al Gore’s, critical issues that could have turned out very differently include entering the Iraq War, financial deregulation leading to the 2008 crash, and rich tax breaks expanding income inequality. The Court will face many more high profile decisions affecting the nation in the near future, including the Affordable Care Act, civil rights and gay rights cases, fair housing, women’s health choices, pay equity, and regulation of financial institutions and corporations. The Supreme Court consists of people with pre-existing political and ideological proclivities. Changing the Court could come from age, illness, or something all Americans have power over - the person we elect as President. Robert Weiner is a former spokesman for the Clinton White House and senior staff for Reps. John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Claude Pepper, Ed Koch and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. He wrote the epilogue to Bankole Thompson’s groundbreaking book, “Obama and Christian Loyalty.” Autumn Kelly is senior policy analyst at Robert Weiner Associates.
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