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Evicted woman leads protest at PNC Bank By J. Coyden Palmer On February 25, Yinka Solebo and a small group of people protested outside the PNC Bank on 87th and Cottage Grove and are calling for the community to withdraw their money from the bank because of what they deem as unfair practices and mistreatment of African-American customers who default on loans. Last November, Solebo, along with her husband, Yoni, and their three children were evicted from their home in southwest suburban Plainfield after being foreclosed on by PNC Bank. When they thought to have their eviction case brought back up in court on the day of their eviction, PNC Bank officials allegedly refused to come to court. As a result, deputies from the Will County Sheriff ’s Department placed all of the family’s belongings out on the street where they were stolen. Solebo and her family have lived in homeless shelters and motels since that time. “Emotionally, this has been very hard on me and my family, especially the children,” Solebo said.
YINKA SOLEBO OF PLAINFIELD was evicted from her home by PNC Bank in November of last year. Since that time, she, along with her husband and three kids, have lived in homeless shelters and hotels. She fell behind on her mortgage after she and her husband were both laid off. She believes PNC Bank did nothing to help her with a refinancing plan.
The couple has three children ages: 14, 16 and 18. The youngest child is bipolar, and Solebo said it has been most difficult on him because he is often teased at school because of their homeless status. She shared that it has been emotionally draining on all of the children because they were uprooted from their environment; they went from having their own rooms in a home to not having a home at all. The Solebo’s fell behind on their loan after they were both laid off from the jobs. Yinka Solebo worked at a computer software firm and her husband worked as a driver for a transportation company when he was laid off. He has since found other work, but she has not. The couple is still in financial ruin because they have fallen so far behind. Solebo was critical of PNC’s modification process on the loan and explained that on their initial loan, the family was paying $1,500 a month and with the modification, they were still paying $1,500 with 4.5 percent interest, instead of 5.5 percent like before. That did nothing to help them. Solebo and others believe the bank knows (Continued on page 10)
$25 million donation honors Gordon Parks By Wendell Hutson Thanks to a $25 million donation from financial whiz Mellody Hobson, an arts building at the University of Chicago will be named after a Black man. The new arts wing, scheduled to open in 2015 with three new performance halls, studios, rehearsal and practice rooms and a digital media lab, will be named the Gordon Parks Art Hall. Parks, who died in 2006, has been described as one of the seminal figures of 20th Century photography. He was a humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice. He left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until he died, with a focus on race relations, poverty, Civil Rights, and urban life. He was known for shooting photos of Blacks for Life magazine and he also directed the 1971 movie “Shaft.” Those who knew him best said Parks played an important role in the photography industry. “Gordon Parks is the most important Black photographer in the history of photojournalism. Long after the events that he photographed have been forgotten, his images
will remain with us, testaments to the genius of his art, transcending time, place and subject matter,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Center at Harvard University. Black History Month ends Feb. 28 and Hobson said she wanted to honor someone of color for their achievements. “It was important to us [George and I] that the University of Chicago campus have a building named for an African American, given the diverse community in which it sits, and the outstanding contributions to our society by people of color,” said Hobson, president of Chicago-based Ariel Investments Inc. The Black financial advisor is married to Star Wars creator George Lucas, who she married last year. For its part though, university officials said naming the building after Parks was a no brainer. “Naming the arts hall for Gordon Parks, who had roots in Chicago, resonates deeply with the mission of the schools,” said (Continued on page 10)
A $25 MILLION DONATION from Chicago financial guru Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Capital Management, and her husband film producer George Lucas, means the University of Chicago Lab Schools will have a new arts building that will rival the ultra-modern Earl Shapiro Hall (above)
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Chicago’s top cop talks about getting tough on crime By Wendell Hutson At a recent community meeting at Saint Xavier University, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy explained why he has reassigned officers from low-crime areas to neighborhoods with higher crime. “We don’t deploy as many officers to good neighborhoods as we do to bad because it is not needed as much,” he said. “Stopping criminals in high crime areas could reduce crime in areas where crime is not as high.” He also spoke about a common misconception about the number of police assigned to any neighborhood. “People think that deployment stops crime (but) it really doesn’t,” McCarthy told a standing-room only crowd. McCarthy went on to explain his crime-fighting strategy, saying his approach has been to put more police officers on the street by breaking up large task forces and breaking down layers of middle management. Once on the street, officers are asked to immerse themselves in their assigned territory. The idea is to become acutely aware of the people and places within their patrol area. Ideally, this empowers officers to
know the good guys from the bad guys before crime occurs. “There’s a saying in baseball that says you have to know what to do with the ball before it gets to you,” he added. In 2012, Chicago led the nation reaching 507 homicides, but McCarthy said under his leadership there were fewer deaths in 2013. CPD data showed that last year there was also a 16 percent drop in violent crimes like robbery, aggravated battery and criminal sexual assault, as well as drops in burglary and motor vehicle theft. The city’s new gun law was another topic McCarthy spoke about at the meeting. He acknowledged that buying a gun in Illinois is a strict process. However, there’s little follow-up, allowing legally bought guns to be illegally transferred, he said. He added that Chicago Police seize nine guns for every one compared to New York City. “Guns are too easily available in Chicago and that needs to change,” added McCarthy. “And a big issue with guns is the easy access criminals have to them.” “We seize more guns than any police department in the country,” McCarthy said.
CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT Garry McCarthy recently spoke about the city’s effort to target high crime areas and get tough on crime overall. He added that the mayor has done NJ. And he credited these tactics for The city’s top cop spoke eloquently about his first meeting in 2011 a good job keeping politics out of a 23 percent reduction in crime over the department. By doing so, he said the past two years. with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “He’s (Mayor Emanuel) allowed “He looks at me and says, ‘Dude, this has enabled him to implement me to do what I see fit,” McCarthy you are right out of central casting,’” the same strategies he successfully said. deployed in New York and Newark, recalled McCarthy.
No outrage in Howard Morgan case By J. Coyden Palmer As he outlined the appeals case for a man sentenced to 40 years in prison under suspicious circumstances, Attorney Benjamin Crump is wondering why there is not a national call for justice for former railroad police officer Howard Morgan as there was with Trayvon Martin. Crump made his statement during a press conference Feb. 26 at the James R. Thompson Center. Morgan was sentenced last year after being convicted of shooting at four Chicago Police officers on the city’s West Side back in February of 2005. Crump said there has been no national groundswell of support for the Morgan case as there was with Martin’s. He praised entertainers Steve Harvey and Tom Joyner for bringing the case to the national spotlight. But Crump believes people of all races and faiths in Chicago should be taking the lead and he is encouraging people who truly believe in justice to contact Gov. Patrick Quinn and demand executive clemency for Morgan. Crump said Morgan is the victim of an unjust verdict and unduly harsh sentence. Crump is preparing to take Morgan’s case to the Illinois Supreme Court. “We believe that there is a reason for technical purposes that the court can say Howard Morgan de2
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SUPPORTERS FOR ROSALIND MORGAN and her family speak during a press conference in downtown Chicago Feb. 26. Atty. Benjamin Crump (right) is pushing to have Howard Morgan’s case heard by the Illinois Supreme Court and he is calling on the Black community as a whole to let their voices be heard on the issue. (Photos by J. Coyden Palmer) serves a new trial based on a few alind is something that has gotten Crump said community organizapoints…the van Mr. Morgan was them this far, said Crump as her tions like churches; Mason’s, Eastdriving was destroyed even though husband has been behind bars and ern Stars and other civic organizait was evidence; there was a witness is in ill health since the incident. tions must be the driving force “Faith without works is dead,” behind the Morgan case. He said who said he didn’t do anything; there was prosecutorial misconduct; Crump said. “It’s shameful that Governor Quinn is facing reelecthe double jeopardy law was violat- more people are not standing up for tion later this year and it is time for ed and defense attorneys were not Howard Morgan. It was the people voters to use their powers. allowed to address the jury about crying out that made people look at Others at the event said it is time the Trayvon Martin case otherwise for a citizen review board of all popolice misconduct,” Crump said. Crump said he is confident Mor- it would have been swept under the lice shootings in Chicago. They say gan will eventually be released, but rug. I challenge all of the Black too many people are being shot by he thinks the community can play a Greek organizations and all of the police where no weapon was found big role in freeing him. He said people to talk about this case be- and the officers are not prosecuted. Morgan survived being shot over a cause there is no guarantee the Illi- Ted Pearson, from the Chicago Aldozen times for a reason. The faith nois Supreme Court will even look liance of Against Racist and Political shown by Morgan and his wife Ros- at this case.” Oppression, said in the last four and Blacks Must control their own coMMunity
a half years, 72 people were shot and killed by Chicago Police. Only one police officer has been indicted in the last 15 years for any police involved shooting and, in that case, the murder of Rakiya Boyd, the officer was charged with manslaughter not murder in the first degree. “It’s time for Anita Alvarez to start doing her job and indicting some of these officers when they commit crimes,” Pearson said. “Gov. Quinn has the authority to grant clemency to anyone for any reason. He should sign an executive order today and release Howard Morgan because anyone who looks at the facts of this case can see Morgan is a victim of racism and is innocent.” It is not known when the Illinois Supreme Court will decide to take the Morgan case or not.
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Low wage-workers gearing up for March 18 vote By Dominique Jackson Myrla Baldonado knows that her job is important for the families she serves. She cares for their children. Cleans their houses. Cooks their meals. But that is not how her employers see her. “We are viewed as unimportant and invaluable,” said Baldonado, a domestic worker organizer. Domestic workers are fighting for “more regulations,” Baldonado said, adding that a bill to provide rights and protections for domestics has been stuck in the Illinois legislature. In the March 18 Primary Election, voters in 103 Chicago precincts will vote on an advisory referendum asking whether the minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour. Baldonado was one of a number of workers and their supporters who spoke on Feb. 11 at a Community Media Workshop hosted by a Low Wage Workers forum at Columbia College Chicago. Behind the doors of what keeps this nation’s wheels turning are the faces of minimum wage workers who earn just $17,160 annually, said representatives from Raise Illinois, one of the groups pushing for a hike in the state’s minimum wage, which is currently $8.25. Present at this event were representatives from the Fight for 15
campaign, Action Now, Heartland Alliance Social Impact Research Center, and Warehouse Workers for Justice, Jobs with Justice and a sea of other unions and community groups. The lack of protections and rights was a common theme among the workers and an issue that concerned Charles Brown, a former Chicago police officer and a leader for the Fight for 15 Campaign. The Fight for 15 Campaign goal is to raise the Illinois minimum wage to $15 an hour for workers for companies with revenues of $50 million or more a year. Chicago voters will be able to vote on this minimum wage boost on March 18 in a non-binding referendum on at the primary election ballot. Governor Pat Quinn is on board to raising the minimum wage to $10.00 an hour. Brown argued that increasing the minimum wage is a “simple and reasonable demand.” He stressed that people who work hard shouldn’t have to feed their children using food stamps. People are fighting for their daily needs including shelter, food and clothing, childcare and medical care, he added. Indeed, Baldonado said that domestic workers are mostly fighting for “more regulations.”
ANTI-LOW WAGE advocates including Charles Brown, second from left and Janah Bailey, seated next to Brown, discuss during a recent community meeting why the minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour. take a seat at the table to get things accomplished. Warehouse workers are challenged with wage theft, discrimination, abuse, lack of basic benefits and exposure to diesels fumes, according to the Warehouse Workers for Justice. Warehouse workers go through a difficult temp-agency system to just find employment, according to the group. These jobs are setting people up for poverty, with low wages and little room for growth, Fried said.
They are challenged with hazardous working conditions, no formal contract, and are subject to physical and verbal abuses, according to the Chicago Coalition of Household Workers, where Baldonado also works to organize fellow domestics. “It’s the 1936 National Labor Relations Act all over again,” said Leah Fried, a representative of the Warehouse Workers for Justice. She said that workers need to take control over their conditions and
Janah Bailey, 21, a Fight for 15 organization leader, is the “bread winner” for her family, working at McDonalds and Wendy’s in downtown Chicago. She has talked at rallies outside of Chicago and appeared on television interviews on behalf of her cause. And her message was a mirror of what other workers at the meeting said. “I have to compromise long term stability for right now survival,” she said.
Black Press exec Tommy Picou dies of heart attack Memorial services were being planned this week for Thomas Maurice Sengstacke Picou, a longtime businessman and Black media executive who died recently in Los Angeles, Calif. of a heart attack following a medical procedure. He was 76. Picou was former president and
chairman of Real Times, Inc., corporate owners of the Chicago Defender, the iconic newspaper whose attacks on racism and promotion of opportunities for blacks almost single-handedly fueled the Great Migration of southern Blacks to northern cities from 1910 through the 1930s.
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Picou also was the nephew of longtime Defender publisher John H. Sengstacke, who assumed the helm of the historic newspaper at age 28 and made his mark by establishing the Negro Newspaper Publisher’s Association – a federation of Black newspapers – and converting the Defender from a weekly newspaper to a daily. Sengstacke and his wife, Myrtle, raised Picou as their own son after Picou’s mother died in the 1950s. From that point on, Picou was a vital part of the Sengstacke and Chicago Defender families, longtime associates said. During his long tenure at the Defender, Picou evolved into a hardworking, community-minded executive who had his foot planted firmly in the past but his eye focused sharply on the future, said longtime friend and associate David M. Milliner. “Tom was that rare breed of journalist who honored the historic ‘service mission’ of the Black Press while still understanding its need to modernize and develop stronger business practices,” said Milliner, a Real Times board member. “He was, in that sense, a rare blend of activism and capitalism.” Milliner said, however, that Picou
was more interested in serving the Black community than in making lots of money. “He always focused more on mission and service than on profit and personal gain,” said Milliner, himself a former publisher of the Chicago Defender. “In my book, that makes him one of the most important Black media executives of the last half of the
20th century.” Picou was born in Los Angeles Oct. 25, 1937, to Inez and Maurice Picou, who had moved to California from Louisiana. After moving to Chicago as a teenager to live with the Sengstackes, he began working for the Defender, where he assumed various jobs before tak(Continued on page 17)
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EDITORIAL WHO SHOULD PAY FOR HEALTH CARE? The Affordable Care Act, often pejoratively termed “Obamacare,” by detractors, has been in the forefront of America’s healthcare debate. Though there are good elements in the ACA, some feel that it does not go far enough. Pundits claim that there are more than 40 million Americans who have had to go without healthcare coverage – because of this, the ACA mandates that everyone must have health insurance. Moreover, the pre-existing conditions clause will disappear from the healthcare debate, which is a very welcomed development. We must applaud President Barack Obama for venturing into this very rough territory. Few in the past have had the guts to tackle this difficult issue. Former First Lady and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted an elaborate plan that had something for everyone when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president. Her plan was met with ridicule, and eventually bit the proverbial dust. To advocates, healthcare should be a right, and not a privilege. All Americans should have access to affordable healthcare, though some of those in very high positions seem to think that this should not be the case. They blame the old, infirm, and otherwise health-compromised individuals for their own plight; citing bad habits like smoking, alcohol, drug addiction and other poor lifestyle choices for their situations. This is shortsighted at best. If we look very, very closely, we will see that the blame for poor health outcomes for Americans has an unexpected culprit: global corporations! Cancer, heart disease and diabetes tend to be “equal opportunity villains.” They visit the very poor and rich alike – they do not discriminate! And everyone who gets these deadly maladies is not careless about their health – they just happen to live in an environment that is very deeply polluted by corporations. Water has been tainted by chemical spills and other forms of pollution generated by factories; toxic gases like SO2 (sulfur dioxide) saturate the air in some localities; “accidents” like the lingering global threat of Japan’s Fukushima has poisoned food and water; it has been said that fish as far away as California’s coast have been affected. In addition to this, there is a growing suspicion that GMOs, (genetically modified organism, i.e., “Franken foods”), may pose an unexpected threat to the health of all who eat it. These foods have not been with us long enough to know for sure what their ultimate impact might be. Another uncharted territory is connected with the producers of beef products. Some years ago, the former talk show host and current head of the OWN network, Oprah Winfrey, was attacked by the cattle industry because of her allegations that American beef was not safe. It has since been revealed that all beef is not examined for disease, especially for the feared “Mad Cow Disease,” which can have a very adverse health impact among humans. Recently, there was a recall of millions of pounds of beef due to the discovery that the meat came from diseased cows. We might ask how much of this meat reached American tables before the snafu was discovered. There is a rumor spread by “conspiracy theorists” that the increasing incidents of early onset Alzheimer’s disease is a variant of Mad Cow Disease acquired by eating tainted beef. African Americans suffer disproportionately from many diseases. Healthcare, therefore, is a very important issue in Black America. It can be reasonably said, then, that if a great source of illness is corporations and their government partners who, through relaxing EPA standards, have grossly polluted the environment, then they should bear a great deal of the blame for the state of American health. Because of this, they should pay much more than they currently do for the cost of healthcare delivery to Americans. A luta continua.
Now there is more talk about who from the Black community should take up the mantle and run for mayor in 2015 against Rahm Emanuel. Unfortunately most, if not all of the names that come up, are not people with a strong management or financial background. With Chicago in the fiscal state that it is, strong financial acumen is crucial. Too many folks are proffering names of individuals they like, not necessarily because those individuals are exceptionally competent. The reality in all of this handicapping is being overlooked. That reality is money. Even with the vast capabilities of social media and its ability to reach wide expanses of voters, money is still vital to a successful campaign. People who have never run for office like to downplay the importance of fundraising; they can do that all they want, but they’re wrong. Maybe some try to diminish the necessity of money because Emanuel has so much of it in his war chest. Instead of pushing family and friends out on the campaign path, these so-called supporters should be committed to raising money for whoever is the candidate. What needs to happen is several million dollars need to be raised and committed to the best candidate.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR It’s all about the money period Dear Editor:
The best candidate is one who has been completely vetted, shows an expertise in policy, finance or some other facet of municipal government. That person doesn’t need someone who has spent his or her life in politics or government either. For some, the best candidate for our community might not come from our community. It might be one of our brown brethren. We see the current mayor is just starting to increase his visibility in our community. I say too little too late. If that person has the money in order, there is no reason why Emanuel won’t face a credible opponent. Not only will he face a capable opponent, he also will face one who is capable and well financed.
didn’t obtain the information the proper way. Reynolds excessive poor decisions in this Zimbabwe matter, coupled with his criminal history, makes him a disgrace – to himself and to people who ever believed in him. Those who believed in him enough to elect him to Congress have really been kicked in the gut. It is inconceivable that he actually wanted us to vote for him a second time. This guy is one of only 14 Black Rhodes Scholars in (Continued on page 17)
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Cuba Bracing for Greatness Beyond The Rhetoric By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Cuba, the island nation 90 miles south of the Florida Keys, is truly a work in progress. The last 120 years is rich with a constant state of change and activity. The United States played an important role in its independence. The liberation came via the Spanish American War. We claimed serious concern over the word that Spain was performing brutality on their colony known as Cuba – mainly against recently emancipated slaves. So, in March 1898, we attacked using the excuse of Spanish agents sinking our naval ship Maine. While attacking Spanish troops in Cuba, we decided to take many other col-onies from them. Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico all fell along with Cuba. It was the biggest land grab by our nation since the Mexican American War. It ended in August 1898 – all in six months. They all became territories of the United States. There was even talk of making Cuba a new state to our nation. Southern politicians frowned on this idea as Cuba had a significant Black population who felt empowered. Thus, Cuba became an independent state. It quickly
Harry C. Alford evolved into a form of communist nation. This was ended with US involvement. Cuba became governed by manipulating tyrants. They became friendly with US organized crime who invested in casinos and racketeering on the island nation. Communism would return in 1959 under a revolution led by Fidel Castro. The casinos, hotels and other holdings were seized from the racketeers who are still smarting from this. There were rich holdings and lobbying against the Castro regime that became intense. Our CIA organized a failed attempt at invading Cuba by expatriates living in Florida. Fearing more and more
successful invasions, Cuba began to embrace the Soviet Union as a big brother. The Soviet Union even moved nuclear missiles onto the Island and pointed them at US cities. The crises ended with the Soviets extracting their missiles and the US moving their missiles that were pointing at Soviet cities from Turkey. Also, the threats of invading Cuba went away. Castro would allow many disgruntled Cubans to leave and immigrate into the United States. We can remember the great Mariel boat journey by many thousands of Cubans, some prisoners, heading to the Florida coast. Collectively, many became prosperous US citizens and established a strong business class amongst them. Mean- while, Cuba started improving its quality of life with much improvement in its healthcare delivery system, education and tourism. Cuba military would travel to African nations and work on fighting against colonialists and other revolutions. Cuban engineers are some of the best in the world. They build dams, bridges, hotels, etc. throughout the world. Cuba lost its greatest economic support when the Soviet Union fell. The new Russia cut off all the billions of dollars in aid it would annually give.
With the Sugar Daddy relationship with the old Soviet Union now gone, Cuba is slowly drifting to a capitalistic society. Tourism has mushroomed as European investors have built nearly 100 resort hotels along the Cuban shoreline. Affluent tourists now consider the beautiful island nation as a main destination. The outside money coming in is immense. The average Cuban worker is considered very productive. I have personally seen Cuban construction companies working in downtown Paris. They proliferate Spain, Vietnam, North Africa, the Caribbean and other places in the world. One of the biggest developments is the Cuban government allowing their citizens to start their own businesses and to own and sell property. This excites Cuban Americans. They send money home to their relatives so they can start businesses, buy and sell land via real estate ventures. Cuban Americans are sending over $1 billion per year in investments. This is changing the economic landscape of the nation. Also, rich nations like China and Brazil are now considering Cuba as a place for good investment. Cub- ans who would formerly just tolerate tourists are now engaging tour- ists by selling them products and serv-
ing them in their own restaurants. New money is becoming a fact of life on this island nation. Brazil, along with its largest construction company, Olderbrecht, is investing $1 billion in the upcoming Port of Mariel. This will become a trading hub for Cuba. Imagine a center of commerce in the Caribbean. The nation has a strong professional class with a working class loaded with exceptional skill sets. It’s a great combination and a formula for success. The National Black Chamber of Commerce will be taking a Trade Mission to Cuba later this year. Finally, the Organization of American States (OAS) is demanding that the United States no longer ban Cuba from its quadrennial conferences. The next conference is in 2015 and they have told the United States that Cuba will be invited with or without US approval. Yes, it’s a new day and Cuba is ready to roll. “Cuba will one day become the Hong Kong of the Caribbean,” said Arthur A. Fletcher, while visiting Cuba with the NBCC. Mr. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®. Website: www.nationalbcc.org. Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.
“Run, Jesse, Run” – 30 Years Later By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The recent Wall Street Project conference in New York City was old home week for many of us who were involved with Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign in 1984. There was Frank Watkins, the former candidate’s longtime press secretary and the driving force behind Jackson’s decision to run. Also present were Emma Chappell, the campaign’s national treasurer; Rev. Herb Daughtry, senior pastor of The House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn and an early supporter; economist Julianne Malveaux, who worked in Jackson’s presidential campaigns and four key parts of the 1984 rainbow – Jim Zogby, Butch Wing, Steve Cobble and Robert Borosage. Former Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields shared memories as did former New York City Mayor David Dinkins. I was asked to moderate a discussion about the impact of the 1984 campaign on the nation and, yes, an African American now sitting in the White House. I covered Jackson’s first presidential run while working for the Chicago Tribune. I knew most of the major players, but it wasn’t until www.chicagocrusader.com
we sat down as a group with Jesse Jackson that we had collectively reflected on the historic events of three decades ago. Cleo Fields recounted what the campaign meant to him in deeply personal terms. “When I was in the fifth grade, I was going through a lot of depression,” Fields said. “The first day of school you had to state your name and what you wanted to be in the future. At the time, I wanted to be a police officer, but everyone before me had said doctor, lawyer or engineer. My mom had 10 children, my daddy had died and I had handme-downs. “I stood up – I wanted to say something bigger than everyone else – so I said, ‘My name is Cleo Fields and I want to be (and the only thing I could think of was president) president of the United States of America.’ Everybody laughed, including the teacher. I didn’t want to go back to school because they thought it was a big joke and I was depressed about it.” Two years later, Fields was present in the audience when Jackson asked students to repeat his trademark “I am Somebody” exhortation. “It was at that moment that I started believing I can be anything I wanted to be,” Fields said. “I became a state senator at the age of 23.
George E. Curry And that was because of Jesse Jackson. And a congressman at the age of 28. I became the Democratic nominee for governor at the age of 33. And that’s only because of the inspiration from Rev. Jesse Jackson and I just want to say thank you.” While working as a student organizer for Jackson, Fields was invited to join Jackson’s national staff. Jackson’s presidential runs also represented a breakthrough for James J. Zogby, an Arab-American. “For me and my community, what was historic about this was it brought together two parts of my life,” he said. “I had always been in-
volved in civil rights and anti-war work. But when you became an Arab, when you put on the Arab hat, then allies you had in those movements wouldn’t talk to you anymore.” Zogby told of politicians, including former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode, returning campaign contributions donated by Arab-American groups. “He [Jackson] said, ‘Our time has come.’ It was my community’s time, too. We felt welcome and included for the first time in an American political campaign.” David Dinkins, New York City’s first Black mayor, said he would not have been elected without the ’84 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson. He said, “I know what Jesse did for me.” Frank Watkins, the former press secretary, had urged Jackson to run for president against Jimmy Carter in 1979, but Jackson declined. But this time around, Jackson was willing to listen. “I wrote a memo outlining the reasons for Rev. Jackson to run: increase voter registration, to increase political awareness of people and to galvanize the Black community to get more involved in politics,” Watkins remembered of his 1982 document. “I didn’t necessarily think that we would win, but I tried to
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put together a strategy where we could win.” Jackson said a number of Black leaders were urged to run before he made his decision to enter the contest, including former Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young. When they declined, Jackson stepped forward. “It really was not running for office, I was running as an organization,” Jackson stated. “…We kept trying to pull the party back to the moral center, which we called the Third Rail. What became clear was that civil rights, social justice, gender equality, workers’ rights were not on the agenda. Somebody had to get to the stage to get the cameras to hear us. We had no platform on which to stand to make our case. In the end, that was driving the situation.” George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Website, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter. com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook. Saturday, March 1, 2014
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WE MUST NEVER FORGET THE IMPACT OF THE DURBAN 400 Dr. Conrad Worrill, Director/Professor, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS) located at 700 East Oakwood Blvd, Chicago, Illinois, 60653, 773-268-7500, Fax: 773-268-3835 E-mail: c-worrill@neiu.edu, Website: www.ccicschicago.org, Twitter: @CCICS_ Chicago.
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It has been thirteen years since the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban, South Africa. We should always remember the role the Durban 400 played in impacting the outcome of this most important event in history. The Durban 400 was made up of the December 12 Movement International Secretariat and the National Black United Front (NBUF) that were leading participants in the United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that was held in Durban, South Africa from August 31 through September 7, 2001. Because the United States did not agree with many of the issues being raised at this conference, particularly, the push by African people worldwide to declare that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery are a Crime Against Humanity and that Reparations are owed to African people in the Diaspora and on the continent of Africa, the United States withdrew their low level delegation and left only the Ambassador to South Africa to represent them.
The role of the United States and Western Europe (WEO) to subvert the agenda “provided the indisputable proof ” that the issues we fought for, to be included in the Durban Declaration, went to the “heart of the World Conference Against Racism.” For over two years, representatives from the Durban 400 traveled throughout the world attending the various preparatory meetings for the WCAR, advocating our agenda that was simple and focused: 1) Declaration of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism as Crimes Against Humanity; 2) Reparations for African people on the continent and in the Diaspora; 3) Recognition of the Economic Base of Racism. As the (Non Governmental Organization) International Association Against Torture pointed out in their intervention at the WCAR, “From the beginning they were clear (The U.S. and the WEO Group) that a conference which addressed racism and racial discrimination could only have one outcome— to subject them to the same human rights
standards which they imperiously demand that the developing world uncomplainingly submit to and to identify them as perpetrators of history’s greatest crime against humanity, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery.” How mighty can the United States be without acknowledging, apologizing and paying reparations to African people for the Greatest Crime Against Humanity they participated in; the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery, and Colonialism? As researched by the UNESCO Slave Trade Project, the Museum of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Harvard Database on Slave Voyages, twenty-eight to fortytwo million African people were captured and enslaved between 1441 and 1888… Four to six million Africans, 40 percent of all captives and slaves, were murdered or died along the entire “way of death…” Just as other people never forget their history and the tragedies and crimes committed against them, neither should African people. Therefore, the Durban 400 declared a victory in con-
tributing to the final outcome of the Durban Declaration that reflects the interests of African people by citing: “We acknowledge that slavery and the slave trade, including the transatlantic slave trade, were appalling tragedies in the history of humanity not only because of their abhorrent barbarism but also in terms of their magnitude, organized nature and especially their negation of the essence of the victims and further acknowledge that slavery and the slave trade are a crime against humanity and should always have been so…” Although the language of the Durban Declaration did not specifically call for reparations for African people, it is now our duty to intensify our organizing in demanding the United States Government and U.S. Corporations pay reparations. We must continue to educate the African Community of America on the continued need to organize and revitalize the Reparations Movement.
WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID? By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the years after enslavement ended, Southern whites did all they could to return to a manner of slavery. No white “owned” a Black person, but many whites behaved as if they did. Theoretically, Blacks were free to come and go as they pleased, but if they went to the wrong store, sat in the wrong part of the bus, or failed to yield narrow sidewalks to whites, they could practically expect a physical confrontation. All a white woman had to do was cry “rape” for a Black man (and usually the wrong man) was beaten or lynched. Whites expected deference from Black people, and when they didn’t get it, they demanded it with physical threats or worse. In the months after World War II, twelve million soldiers returned home from the war. Seven percent of them – nearly 800,000 Black soldiers — got something less than a hero’s welcome. Indeed, thousands of Black World War II veterans were beaten, often because these men wanted the same rights at home that they fought for abroad. Their sense of dignity and equality seemed to embolden the 6
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Ku Klux Klan, which was responsible for soldiers in uniform being pulled off busses, beaten and shot. In some cases, these soldiers had their eyes gouged out; in some cases they were tortured and lynched. Whites engaged in the writing of Jim Crow laws that were imposed on Blacks but not whites, vagrancy laws that made it possible to jail a Black man because he had no money. These unequal laws made it as easy to find a nearly free labor market as it had in slavery. There was no relief from this unfairness until the late 1960s and early 1970s. And whites attempting to reinforce their myth of white superiority by reinstituting the practice of deference found a Black population less ready to defer, more willing to engage the courts (and in some cases the streets) in a quest for equality. When the myth of white superiority does not work, too many whites hide behind their so-called fear as a way force deference or provide penalties for those who will not engage in white people’s fantasies. If Michael Dunn were so afraid of Jordan Davis and his friends, why did he get out of his car and confront them about their loud music? None of us, of a certain age, loves loud music, but
Dr. Julianne Malveaux most of us know how to close a window and tolerate it for a moment or two. Dunn says he was afraid of teens playing “thug” music. Those teens might well have been afraid of him just as the World War II veterans had been afraid of the KKK. Jordan Davis and his friends might have been as frightened as formers slaves were when they refused to cross the sidewalk into the streets so that whites could go first. Some of these Black folks ignored their
fear and attempted to engage in their citizenship rights. Some were lynched because they would not defer to outmoded customs. Gary Pearl could be Michael Dunn’s evil twin, with a pecuniary twist. In 1983, Pearl left his job as a city sanitation supervisor in Louisville, Kentucky because he says he had a nervous breakdown because he had to work with Black people. A psychiatrist testified that Pearl was suffered from paranoid schizophrenia; judge ordered that he be paid $231 per week. The state appealed the award, it was eventually overturned, and Gary Pearl returned to the obscurity he had before the “fear” defense. What would happen if every Black person fearing white people got to file for unemployment compensation or carry a gun around to assuage himself of his safety? Would a jury be as lenient toward that Black man as they were with Michael Dunn? Would they acquit just like the jury acquitted the men who killed Medgar Evers (it took decades for a jury to finally do the right thing). A hard read of history suggests that Blacks have more to fear from whites than the other way around, but it is whites, ra-
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tionalizing their fear, who get to shoot without justification. A thorough read of history, however, would remind us of the Dred Scott case where the Supreme Court ruled that Black people have no rights that whites are bound to respect. Clearly Michael Dunn, George Zimmerman and the others who have Klan sensibilities and invisible hoods, believe a nineteenth century Supreme Court ruling instead of twenty-first century realities. For folks like Dunn and Zimmerman, however, the nineteenth century is not very different than the twenty-first century. Julianne Malveaux is a DC based economist and author. She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women.
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mer state official and community activist who went to jail for stealing taxpayer money. And last week 15 seniors in the Great Bye-and-Bye received a mysterious phone call asking them if they would vote for that girl if they knew she was in some sort of cult? Well Ms. Lucy thought the man said something that sounded like a slur they use on females and she got mad and said, “Whomever is a callin’ me ain’t no use for you to be calling that woman no c**t! If this be you Christian Mitchell this is so antiChristian of you and I’m gonna
DATS A LOTTA DOUGH Word near de alley of the Great Bye and Goodbye Convalescent Home is that the race for a little old part-time job in the Illinois General Assembly is raking in a whole lotta moo-lah. The senior citizens are trying to figure out what’s so special about the job that little ole’ Christian Mitchell got that he’s willing to rake in over $200,000 in donations in order to keep it. Same thang be-
Christian Mitchell call yo’ mama and let her know what you is saying.” Well, why that’s happening, the sad thang is don’t nobody go out in droves to vote in no primary anyway. -ImaNEED A BUTT WHUPPING
Jay Travis ing asked about for this gurl named Jay Travis who is said to be the “golden child” of the labor unions. Folks whispering that dey pumping so much money in her campaign dat she might change her last name to Chase when dis is all over. The first time the Mitchell boy ran for this seat he spent over a quarter of a million dollars for a job that don’t pay him more than $68,000 a year? He is the handpicked, compliant Negro who will carry out the agenda of the rich and the political elite and they plan to keep him in place. On de other hand this child Travis, seems to be climbing an uphill battle as folks near her campaign headquarters on Cottage Grove say she has gotten off to such a slow start. She won’t be able to catch up with her opponent who is sitting up in his campaign headquarters with one forwww.chicagocrusader.com
We wonder if Muhammad Ali can still throw a punch? Because he ought to ball up his fist and throw one square into the face of his own son—who was recently seen on television selling his father’s prized possessions for a whopping $400—weeks after he went to the white media in NY and told all his business. Damn. Muhammad Ali Jr., who lives in Englewood, is on welfare, and is said to be “struggling with some issues” (wink wink). Been all over de TV and de internet saying his father’s current wife, Lonnie, won’t let him come to Kentucky to get a glimpse of his father, who now suffers from Parkinson’s disease. But that hasn’t stopped the heavyweight champ’s only son from making a complete fool of himself by destroying his father’s good name (the one he shares) and embarrassing his half sister Lalah Ali. We hear Junior Muhammad is chronically unemployed, can’t box, doesn’t have his father’s good looks, got a link card, and can’t dress worth a damn. He was last spotted on
Muhammad Ali Jr. “Hardcore Pawn,” where he sold his dad’s boxing gloves from the Rumble in the Jungle fight with George Foreman and a boxing robe for $200 a piece. Apparently, no one told him that stuff is probably worth about $500,000. This reminds me of a scene in Jungle Fever when Gator’s mama asked him where her TV was and he defiantly cried, “I SMOKED THE TV.” We don’t know if Ali, Jr. has those kinds of problems, but he should definitely get his head checked. How desperate or dumb can you be? -ImaBLURRED LINES GOP frontrunner Bruce Rauner must be playing the film Roots over and over and stopping right on the scene when the overseer broke down Kunta Kinte who then said his name was “Toby.” He has spread his dough around and has managed to put in calls to
Offender and Crusader where they will bash him to pieces—all for a piece of change. And these hoes ain’t got no shame in dey game. These hoes are hosting forums for Rauner, chicken dinners, receptions and all kinds of thangs for de man that said if he is governor he gonna ensure that the struggling brothers and sisters will never see the light of $10 an hour in a minimum wage. In fact, he has promised his good white folk down state that he will make sure they get less than what they is getting now. He’s also promised to continue to wipe out public schools and replace them with the charter movement (which was founded by the man who wrote the Bell Curve—you know the book that basically said Blacks got the I.Q. of retarded chimps). What’s so sickening is dat Negroes in this town could be a powerful political and economic force if dey business class and political elite stop selling them out for— nothing. Instead of crumbs they could get entire slices of pie—if they put aside all this petty, selfish foolishness and got off the hoe stroll. Oh well, that’s wishful thinking.
Ike Carrothers er. Oh, and so will Paul Robeson’s ghost which is stuck down in the throat of Danny Davis. It seems “de people” of the 29th Ward say they don’t care how Ike got his roof fixed, he never “sold them out,” and “always answered their calls when the city didn’t pick up their garbage,” so they are gonna make sure he returns to his former glory of being a hot politician who runs cold when DALEY tell him to.
-ImaLOOKIN’ LIKE FOOLS De tiny Emperor and the 50 Foot Woman will look like complete idiots when convicted alderman Ike Carrothers becomes the next Cook County Commission-
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Bruce Rauner every broke, struggling, Negro operative in Chicago that will sell out his/her own mama for a meal. We hear he has made a whole lot of calls. So much so that these political hoes are now goading Pat “Bald Eagle” Quinn into a bidding war. They wants to know if the current governor is so desperate for the Black vote that he will “up the ante” and put some “real money on the streets,” in order to keep the political hoes from getting on WVON and inside the
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INSPIRE.ENABLE.TRANSFORM. This activity connected with Black Creativity will continue through Saturday, March 1, at the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI). Anchored by the Museum’s nationally recognized Center for the Advancement of Science Education (CASE), Black Creativity reaches more than 25,000 students, their teachers and families in underserved Chicago neighborhoods each year with a wide range of targeted, culturally-relevant science education programming. The program has four main goals: 1. Provide exposure for African American youth to careers, educational pathways and other opportunities in science, technology, engineering and medicine; 2. Highlight and recognize the contributions and activities of African American youth in science, technology, engineering and medicine; 3. Increase access to MSI and its resources to African American students and families and 4. Showcase African Americans and their contributions, past and current, to the fields of science, technology, engineering and medicine. The Museum of Science and Industry is located at 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. LEAP, LEARN, EXPLORE, AND PLAY: Connect with nature through play! Lincoln Park Zoo has created an immersive, sensoryrich play space for children and adults specifically designed for early learners. Explore the natural world by meeting animals, building, drawing, climbing and making music at your own pace. The choices are up to you! This program is for children aged 2-3 years old with an adult. The dates are March 6, 13, 20, & 27, 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. The cost: $56 ($48 for zoo members). For more info call 312-742-2056. To register, visit http://www.lpzoo.org/education/programs.
BUZZER AT THE GOODMAN THROUGH MARCH 9: Love. Race. Fear. Money. This dark comedy from Tracey Scott Wilson pushes every button. Jackson is a young, successful African American attorney determined to build a life in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of his youth. When he returns “home” with his girlfriend and troubled best friend—both white—in tow, the trio are soon forced to confront the simmering racial and sexual tensions that exist both inside their home, and outside their apartment. Buzzer is directed by Jessica Thebus. Groups of 10+ can reserve specially priced tickets for Buzzer. For more information, email Groups@GoodmanTheatre.org for details. 8
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LEE DANIELS’ “EMPIRE” LAUNCHES CHICAGO PILOT SEASON: Chicago’s pilot season starts off with some of the biggest names in the entertainment business scheduled to shoot here. Fox Television has green-lighted “Empire,” a drama from “The Butler’s” team of executive producer/director Lee Daniels and writer Danny Strong. “Empire” will headquarter at Cinespace and shoot for 12-13 days in mid-to-late March. The story is set in the world of a hip-hop empire and will feature both original and contemporary music. Executive producer Brian Glazer’s Imagine Entertainment is co-producing with Fox. They had been production partners on “The Playboy Club” that shot here in 2012. “The recent commitment that 20th Century Fox Television has made to Chicago has been extraordinary,” says Chicago Film Office director Rich Moskal. “We’re thrilled that Fox and Imagine Entertainment have looked to us again for another potential series.” WANT TO WORK FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA THIS SUMMER? The White House Initiative’s Year-round Internship Program provides current undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to learn about African American-focused education policy, communications, and outreach at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Until March 15, the program will be accepting applications for summer interns. Their responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: Collecting and compiling research and data on African American education, institutions and communities; performing data entry and managing the office database; greeting and escorting visitors to meetings; participating in strategic planning and staff meetings and other department policy briefings and meetings relevant to the work of the initiative; responding to constituent inquiries verbally or in writing and more. Throughout the course of their internships, students will have the opportunity to attend and potentially lead in the planning and management of meetings, briefings and other special events on the Hill, at the White House and in other federal agencies. New internship positions are available every summer, fall, winter and spring. For more information and/or to apply, visit:www.findinternships.com/201 3/04/white-house-initiative-yearround-internship-program.html VIVIAN MAIER EXHIBIT AT THE LIBRARY: Starting March 29, The Chicago Public Library is proud to present an ONGOING exhibition of photographs by Vivian
Maier (1926 – 2009) from the Jeffery Goldstein Collection, featuring approximately 55 silver gelatin prints of images selected from the book, Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows by Richard Cahan and Michael Wil liams (CityFiles Press). The exhibition opens March 29, and continues until September 28, 2014, in the Special Collection Exhibition Hall, 9th Floor, at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street. This exhibition puts Maier’s work in the context of her life during a highly creative period from the 1950s through the 1970s. In addition to her recognized street photography, the exhibit features a selection of images that show the artist’s relentless curiosity where she captured images that cover a vast range of subjects and styles. The exhibition presents Maier’s journeys from the pastures of rural France to the streets of Chicago. Maier’s unique ability to brilliantly capture the ideas and spirit of the period of the 1950s to the 1970s are particularly apparent in shots of Chicago’s famous Maxwell Street and protest scenes shot during the social unrest of 1968. Born in New York, Maier spent much of her youth in France. Starting in the late 1940s, she shot on average a roll of film a day. She moved to Chicago in the mid-
COMMISSIONER KARI STEELE to address St. John De LaSalle seniors Monday, March 3 at 11 a.m. Steele is a commissioner with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and will discuss the proper disposal of pharmaceuticals. The church is at 10205 S. King Drive. 1950s, and spent the next 40 years working as a nanny to support her passion for photography. Her photographs remained unknown and mostly undeveloped until they were discovered by Chicago historian and collector, John Maloof, in 2007. Maier
died at the age of 83 before her work was ever publicly recognized or exhibited. Following Maier’s death, her work began to receive critical acclaim. For more information, visit chicagopubliclibrary.org or call the Chicago Public Library at 312-747-4050.
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Evicted woman leads protest at PNC Bank (Contnued from page 1) their home is valuable, and they wanted to get it from them because they know it will sell very quickly on the market. “They were supposed to reduce the principal on the loan so we could afford the house,” Solebo said. “Had they done that, we would not be in this situation. None of this made any sense.” Toussaint Losier of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign agrees.
He said since the family’s eviction, no one else has moved into the house, but with Mr. Solebo now having a job, it would be in the bank’s best interest to allow the family to return and pay what they can because currently nobody is paying the bank. “Part of what we’re trying to say to PNC is ‘you’re not getting any money anyway’…as a society we should try to get some kind of solution so people who are homeless and homes that are empty actually
are being used for the good of society,” said Losier, who admits the likelihood of getting the Solebo’s back into their house is not looking good at the moment. Marcey Zwibel, spokesperson for PNC Bank, which is based out of Pittsburgh, said the bank has no comment on the Solebo case or the protests taking place outside the bank. Zwibel said they do
not comment on issues regarding their customers nor third parties. In the meantime, Losier said he and others will continue to protest outside the Chatham branch in an effort to raise awareness about the issue. “If you listen to the news, most of what you hear is that the housing market is getting better and the foreclosure rate is dropping,”
Losier said. “But, if you look at the Black and Latino communities across the country, you will see thousands of people still dealing with foreclosure. Folks are losing their homes, in part, because it is still difficult for people to get the kind of employment they need that will pay them enough in salary or wages to afford a home loan.”
$25 million donation (Continued from page 1) Robert Zimmer, president of the U of C. With Hobson’s donation, the Hyde Park school has raised $80 million for its capital campaign. The announcement about the Parks Building comes on the heels of the university expressing an interest in having President Barack Obama’s presidential library housed on its campus. “I strongly believe the Obama Presidential Library would be ideal for one of our neighboring communities on the South Side of Chicago,” Zimmer said. “Such a location would reflect the personal and pro-
fessional lives of the Obamas, as well as their commitments to society.” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his only preference for the library is to have it located in Chicago. “With President Obama’s deep roots here in the city — his hometown and where he launched his public life — Chicago is undeniably a natural fit for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum,” Emanuel said. “Though we’re excited to welcome the president home, we are not resting on our laurels and will put forward a competitive proposal so that his choice is an easy one.”
Congresswoman Kelly launches first student app challenge Congresswoman Robin Kelly recently the launched the first planned annual congressional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) academic competition, the House Student App Challenge, for the Second Congressional District. Established by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2013, this competition is a nationwide event that invites high school students from all participating congressional districts to compete by creating and exhibit-
Robin Kelly ing their software application, or “app,” for mobile, tablet, or computer devices on a platform of their choice. It is designed to promote innovation and engagement in the STEM education fields. “This is an extraordinary oppor10
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tunity for students in my congressional district, and I’m excited about helping to foster their interest in science, technology, engineering and math education,” said Kelly. “The next decade is estimated to create approximately 8.5 million STEM job opportunities, but it is also estimated that the U.S. will face a shortage of 1 million STEM graduates. The House Student App Challenge seeks to address this challenge by encouraging students to create their own app and pursue an education in STEM fields.” The House Student App Challenge is open to all high school students who live in or are eligible to attend public schools located in the Second Congressional District. Students entering the competition must provide a YouTube or VIMEO video demo explaining their app and what they learned through the competition process during the competition submission period between February 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014. More details on submitting a contest entry, the rules of the competition, and helpful programming resources can be found at www.robinkelly.house.gov/student-app-challenge on Rep. Kelly’s website or at StudentAppChallenge.house.gov.
PROTESTING OUTSIDE THE PNC Bank branch in Chatham; they say the bank has a history of not working with African Americans on their home loans when families run into tough times.
John FOTOPOULOS for Cook County Judge 15th Subcircuit John brings: • Trial Experience • Excellent demeanor • Legal knowledge The Chicago Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Committee: “John Spyros Fotopoulos is QUALIFIED for the office of the Circuit Court Judge. Mr. Fotopoulos was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 2000 and is engaged in private practice concentrating in criminal defense, personal injury, and workers compensation. Mr. Fotopoulos has considerable trial practice and has tried a number of difficult cases. Mr. Fotopoulos has an excellent demeanor and possesses the requisite knowledge and ability to serve as a Circuit Court Judge. Blacks Must control their own coMMunity
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Toyota helps low-income children with boots donation Deemed as one of coldest winters in over 40 years, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, through its “Toyota Walk In My Boots” community outreach project recently stepped in to help area low-income families by providing new insulated winter boots to more than 100 families served by The Salvation Army Temple Corps Community Center located in the Near West Side of Chicago. According to Toyota officials, many times families with lower incomes do not have adequate clothing to fight the cold elements of a Chicago winter. While many programs offer winter coat giveaways, a person’s feet are often left vulnerable to freezing temperatures and even frostbite. With this donation, many families will be shielded from the cold. In addition, Toyota gave a $15,000 donation to The Salvation Army Chicago Metropolitan Division enabling them to continue to provide support for families in times of crisis.
The Chicago Temple Corps is The Salvation Army’s oldest continuous ministry in Chicago since 1886. The Salvation Army Temple Corps Community Center, servicing the Near West Side, where 48 percent of the residents make less than $15,000 a year and unemployment is hovering around 40 percent, provides Social Services and Emergency Assistance including: utility and rent assistance; food certificates; car fare for variable appointments; and funds for emergency lodging, as well as, a food pantry. The center also offers tutoring for high school students; and, youth character building and leadership development programs. A monthly Community Legal Service Clinic and year-round Pastoral Counseling are also provided. “Toyota has been a long-time partner with The Salvation Army, and through this program, Toyota is helping us to meet the critical needs of the most vulnerable families and children during one of
ALVA MASON, MANAGER of dealer diversity and community relations for Toyota Motor Sales USA assists with distributing boots to Chicago families at the Salvation Army, Temple Corps Community Center.
A MOTHER LOOKS on as Phil McKnight, general manager at Toyota on Western as her son is outfitted with new boots. the harshest winters in Chicago’s ple Corps Community Center to step at a time.” recorded history,” said Lt. Col- continue for years to come. In Chicago area dealers Fernando onel Ralph Bukiewicz, divisional times like these, we must remem- Falcon, dealer partner, Toyota of commander, The Salvation Army ber to help one another. We hope River Oaks and Phil McKnight, Metropolitan Division. that our donation of winter boots general manager, Toyota On West“Through their generous dona- will help to enrich lives… one (Continued on page 17) tion, Toyota is demonstrating true corporate citizenship and a track record of serving diverse communities. We are truly blessed to have corporate partners like Toyota to assist us in helping children and families stay safe during this dangerous weather and in meeting their other needs long-term.” Since 1991, Toyota has given over half-a-billion dollars to nonprofit organizations in the U.S., and each year commits at least 25 percent of their giving to organizations and programs that support diverse communities. “At Toyota, we believe an auto company can also be a vehicle for change as we strive to assist the communities where we live and work,” said Michael Rouse, vice president, Diversity, Philanthropy & Community Affairs, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. “These eco- FERNANDO FALCON, DEALER partner at Toyota of River nomic times are challenging, and Oaks helped put a smile on a young girls face after making sure we want the work that is being she had a new pair of boots. done at The Salvation Army Tem-
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MICHAEL ROUSE VICE PRESIDENT of diversity, philanthropy and community affairs at Toyota Motor Sales USA and Alva Mason, manager of dealer diversity and community relations, spend a few moments with one of the many recipients of new boots.
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By Raymond Ward A SUITE EVENING! In celebration of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable…the “Father of Chicago,”...the DuSable Museum of African American History along with the Illinois Amistad Commission is pleased to present “Suite DuSable: A Vision of Faith,” by renowned composer Renee Baker, on Friday, February 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM. In “Suite DuSable: A Vision of Faith,” a symphonic poem presented in collaboration with the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project and AACM, Ms. Baker gives tribute to Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable and this piece in a celebration of DuSable’s visionary journey, tracing in sound the water routes traveled and choice encounters by Chicago’s first settler from his home in Haiti, through various waterways leading to the Great Lakes.
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2014 Peace on Earth Film Festival offers free movies downtown Free festival aims to be catalyst for change, at the Chicago Cultural Center The 2014 Peace on Earth Film Festival (POEFF), presented by Transcendence Global Media, NFP,
Sun” tells the story of two businessmen — one Palestinian and one Israeli — who struggle to set up a solar energy company. Executive producer John Marks will conduct a postshow Q&A. The documentary “Partners for Peace,” follows a delegation of American and Canadian
Hall” by local filmmaker Edgar Barens, also in attendance. A Student Filmmaker Showcase kicks off the day on Saturday morning. A filmmakers’ panel discussion, moderated by Oscar-nominated filmmaker John D. Hancock (“Bang the Drum Slowly,” “Sticky
“Suite DuSable: A Vision of Faith” is a hypnotic symphony, using conceptual composition and improvisation, combining the lyrical influences of Haiti to New Orleans to Illinois. This is accomplished through avant garde use of unworldly sonorities, glissandos, micro tonalities and other unusual colors that develop, as CMOP and the AACM pull you into the power of history. This symphonic poem displays a subtler appreciation for Jean Baptiste Pointe timbre and effect from an orchestra, DuSable developing the distinctive AfroAmerican forms of blues, spirituals, jazz with jazz-centric control, bol-
Renee’ Baker stered by the brilliance and forthrightness of the adventurous AACM luminaries. Renee Baker has created eclectic chamber festivals for Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Norris Cultural Arts Center and Classical Symphony Hall. As a composer, Ms. Baker has composed numerous compositions ranging from string quartets to larger ensembles. Ms. Baker has appeared at many venues including Woodland patterns, Kerrytown Concert House and Hyde Park Arts Center to name a few. Her extensive music career has included performances in Belgium, Japan, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Spain, Austria, England, Thailand, Egypt and Cayman Islands. “Suite DuSable: A Vision of Faith” will take place at The Museum which is located at 740 East 56th Place ( 57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue ) in Chicago. Admission is $20 per person. For more information or to make reservations please call 773-9470600 ext 223. www.chicagocrusader.com
SHERRY THOMAS AND Uganda clinicians in a scene from Life Changing Moments. in partnership with the Chicago De- women on a journey to Israel and My Fingers”… “Fleet My Feet”) partment of Cultural Affairs and Palestine. Director Ed Kucerak and takes place Saturday afternoon. On Sunday afternoon, festival diSpecial Events, announces an array three delegates will be in attendance. of inspiring, touching, infuriating This year’s lineup includes world rector Nick Angotti moderates the annual Peacemakers Panel. Panelists will amplify the thematic content of the 2014 Peace On Earth Film Festival film lineup by offering their expertise and focus. They include Karyn Calabrese, founder of Karyn’s Raw, on GMOs and the food we consume; Arnold Stieber, president of Chicago Veterans for Peace, on militarization of CPS; Dave Kraft, director of Nuclear Energy Information Service, on nuclear energy, the Fukushima meltdown and Illinois; and Anishnaabe elder Dave Courchene, Tribal Leader featured in Bridge A YOUNG LADY in a scene from Hear Our Voices, a film Walker, on indigenous community about the nation’s mental health system. and traditions. Others will be anand illuminating films in the areas of premieres of feature documentaries nounced as they are added. Started in 2008, POEFF has been nonviolence, tolerance, social justice “The Ghosts of Jeju” and “From and environmental recoveries. The Spokane With Love,” the U.S. pre- an annual event shining a light on sixth annual festival takes place at miere of Britain’s, “A Step Too Far?,” filmmakers’ challenging perspectives the Chicago Cultural Center’s Clau- the Chicago premiere of “GMO regarding issues such as human dia Cassidy Theater, 78 E. Washing- OMG,” and a special screening of rights, neighborhood violence, food ton St., Thursday, March 6 through the locally produced narrative fea- deserts, domestic violence, bullying, Sunday, March 9. All screenings are ture “The Other One” — all with war, world politics, environment filmmakers in attendance. Notable economics and more. The festival free and open to the public. Thursday’s opening night program- inclusions are two enlightening strives to put Chicago at the foreming, emceed by WBEZ “World- Fukushima pieces (food feature front of international efforts for view” host Jerome McDonnell, focus- “Tokyo’s Belly” and spiritual short peace and environmental recoveries, es on Peace in the Middle East, with “Reactor”), the moving “Man Up while bringing together filmmakers, two feature films making their Mid- and Go,” and 2014 Oscar nominee academics and social activists in diswest premieres. Palestinian-Israeli (and, perhaps, winner) “Prison Ter- cussion panels and educational (Continued on page 13) feature narrative “Under the Same minal: The Last Days of Private Jack Blacks Must control their own coMMunity
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THE BOOKWORM SEZ “Saint Monkey”
boy was really her daddy. Or, she did - until Sonnyboy murdered Pookie’s Mama. And that right there, it changed a lot of things. Pookie started using
her given name – Caroline – and she started messing with boys. She’d always said she was going to Hollywood, and Audrey believed her. The funny thing was that Audrey was the first to leave Mt. Sterling, when a man heard her playing piano for a funeral and offered her a job in Harlem. Leaving her Mama and Grandpap was hard, but Harlem was a dream come true for Audrey. She missed Caroline, too, but they’d had disagreements before she left, and Audrey was sure the friendship was too damaged to continue. Still, Audrey wrote letters back home, telling Caroline about life in New York, meeting a special man, fame, and about Harlem through the eyes of a country girl. But to Caroline, it all seemed to be bragging. She always knew that Audrey thought she was better than everybody else. What did she ever see in that girl, anyhow? Reading “Saint Monkey” is as painful and irresistible as the friendship that forms this novel’s core. Written in two distinct voices, this is the story of a love-hate relationship between two friends who grow together and grow apart, but can’t seem to let go of either. It’s the story of moving on, while aching for your roots; and of treading water while wondering what’s beyond the boundaries of your town. And for those reasons, sticking with the theme of this novel, it’s easy to
both love and hate author Jacinda Townsend’s utterly compelling char acters: Audrey, for her preoccupied properness, and Caroline for hiding her hurt behind sarcastic sass.
This is not a whip-through-itquick novel. No, this one demands that you sink into the pages and take some time. And if you’ve got that, then “Saint Monkey” is surely a book to curl up with.
AN ASPIRING ARTIST ponders his next move in a scene from The Painter, a short film based in Chicago.
to reach out in solidarity to women activists striving amidst the turmoil. Confronted by the complex and brutal depth of the conflict, they are inspired by the commitment and sacrifices of the women they meet and challenged to ask difficult questions of themselves – and of us all. Narrated by Marisa Tomei. Director Ed Kucerak and delegates Jaclyn Friedman, Lauren Embrey and Janaan Hashim will be in attendance. Shows Thursday, March 6, 8:45 p.m. “The Other One” (Josef Steiff, USA, 98 min.) *Special screening This drama with supernatural influences follows a young woman who has returned to her childhood home to care for her mother now in the throes of dementia and haunted by the death of her young son who drowned mysteriously 30 years prior. Filmed in: Galena and Chicago.
“The Other One’s” not an Official Selection of the 2014 POEFF. Q&A with director Josef Steiff, producer Elizabeth Theiss and executive producer/actress Grace McPhillips. Shows Friday, March 7, 7 p.m. “The Children Next Door” (Doug Block, USA, 37 min.) “The Children Next Door” recounts the fear and pain of domestic violence through the eyes of children. This multiple award winner takes us on a family’s journey to discover the truth that lies beneath a reoccurring cycle of violence and the solution to end it. Raised in Tennessee households fraught with domestic violence, Penny and Brad Waldroup vowed when they fell in love to end the cycle. A ten-year marriage plagued by waves of mounting violence, all in front of their four young children, culminat-
ed one horrific night. The film opens five-and-a-half years later as the family continues to struggle with the impact of the violence that shaped their lives. Within three short months, we witness an astonishing turn of events. Shows Saturday, March 8, 6:20 p.m. “Life Changing Moments” (Sherry Thomas, Uganda/ USA, 18 min.) Director and surgeon Dr. Sherry Thomas travels to Africa to provide free surgery and medical care to dozens of impoverished African women suffering with fistula. This inspiring documentary contrasts the experience of providing health care in Africa with her medical practice in the USA. Shows Sunday, March 9, 12:35 p.m. Learn more at: www.peaceonearthfilmfestival.org/
they just had one another, their friendship sealed over baptism in front of God and old ladies who “got happy.” At fourteen years old, Audrey liked to read. She also liked to sit on her porch swing on Queen Street and watch Pookie’s daddy come home every night. Three years before, Audrey’s father went to Korea and never came back. She sometimes pretended that SonnyBy Jacinda Townsend c.2014, W.W. Norton $24.95 / $26.50 Canada 352 pages The first time you saw her, it was all you could do to resist touching her curls. They were perfect, just like her fingers and her apple-dumpling cheeks. Her eyes drew you in, begging you to love her – and you did. She was the most beautiful doll you’d ever seen. And she was property of your best friend, who wouldn’t let you touch her. Do we ever outgrow wanting what someone else has? Or, as in the new novel “Saint Monkey” by Jacinda Townsend, do we instead learn that those things are as tarnished as our own? Fourteen-year-old Pookie never did like Audrey much. They were only friends because Pookie’s bad teeth and Audrey’s braininess meant that nobody else would play with them. Eventually,
(Continued from page 12) components. This year’s selections include: “Man Up and Go” (Randy Bacon, USA, 92 min.) Roger, adoptive father of an Ethiopian orphan, inspires men to be better husbands and fathers, with his launch of the Man Up movement. With 28 other men, Roger traveled to the depths of Africa to love big on orphans and the least of these. In the end, the men discover their lives were impacted the most. Shows Sunday, March 9, 4:15 p.m. “Partners for Peace” (Ed Kucerak, Canada, 101 min.) *Midwest premiere “Partners for Peace” follows a delegation of American and Canadian women on a journey to Israel and Palestine. Their quest is to learn about the decades-long conflict and www.chicagocrusader.com
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The Civic Orchestra of Chicago returns to South Shore for its 10th annual free concert Carlos Miguel Prieto will conduct the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in a free community concert presented at the South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Drive, on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in two works by Richard
Carlos Miguel Prieto Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20 and Don Quixote, Op. 35. Joshua Zajac, cellist, joins the orchestra as soloist.
The concert is free and open to the public and is presented for the tenth year in partnership with the Advisory Council of South Shore Cultural Center and The Chicago Park District as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s (CSOA) commitment to school and community-based activities and Citizen Musicianship. The Civic Orchestra is the only pre-professional orchestra of its kind affiliated with a major American orchestra and offers high-quality performances free of charge. Maestro Prieto is the music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico, Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (Mexico), and the YOA Orchestra of the Americas. Highlights of the 2013-14 season include re-engagements with the Houston Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Puerto Rico, and Seattle Symphony as well as debuts with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the appearance at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego. Joshua Zajac, a Chicago native and Civic Orchestra alumnus, studied cello at the Cleveland Insti-
BASS-BARITONE ERIC OWENS (water-goblin Vodnik) and soprano Ana Maria Martinez (Rusalka, a water nymph) in a scene from Act I of famed Czech composer Antonin Dvorák’s darkly sensual fairy tale opera “Rusalka.” Tenor Brandon Jovanovich (Prince); mezzo-soprano Jill Grove (Jezibaba, a witch); Ekaterina Gubanova (Foreign Princess); Anthony Clark Evans (Hunter); Philip Horst (Gamekeeper); Daniela Mack (Kitchen Boy) with Ryan Center Members Lauren Snouffer, J’Nai Bridges and Cynthia Hanna (wood nymphs) and the Lyric Opera Chorus (Michael Black, chorus master) complete the cast. Music Director Sir Andrew Davis conducts.
tute of Music and with CSO cello Richard Hirschl with whom he continues to study. Throughout college, Joshua participated in a variety of music festivals, including Festival Hill at Roundtop, Kent Blossom Music, and two summer fellowships at Tanglewood. The program will focus on Richard Strauss’ tone poem “Don Quixote” which has been the focus of the Civic Orchestra’s 2013-14 Artistic Challenge, a season-long project designed by the CSO’s Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant, Yo-Yo Ma. The musicians of the Civic Orchestra have experienced rehearsals with different conductors, rehearsals without a conductor, mixed sectionals rehearsals, close study of Cervantes’ Don Quixote de la Mancha, and presentations on Strauss by Gerard McBurney, Creative Director for the CSO’s Beyond the Score® series during their exploration of “Don Quixote” and decide to add “Don Juan” to this
program in order to expand the exploration of Strauss’ music. During the concert, musicians will take opportunities to pause very briefly and talk about the various themes and meanings behind these two great works and their relevance to
present-day young musicians, giving the audience a chance to hear the musicians’ points of view and engage more deeply with the music. For more information, go to cso.org/civic or call 312-294-3000.
The Joffrey Academy of Dance, the official school of the Joffrey Ballet will present “Winning Works: Choreographers of Color Awards” 2014 Saturday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m. at the Broadway Playhouse in Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St. The premieres of new works by three emerging choreographers Justin Allen, Norbert de la Cruz and Stefanie Batten Bland were originally scheduled at The Harris Theater at Millennium Park but had to be relocated due to an electrical fire February 19, rendering the theater inoperable through March 6.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $23 at the door. Tickets can be purchased in advance by visiting winningworks.eventbrite.com. ******** Pianist Mitsuko Uchida returns to Chicago for her annual residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) which includes a solo piano recital as part of the Symphony Center Presents (SCP) Piano series and seven concerts as a soloist with the CSO. On four of these concerts—March 13, 14, 15 and 18—Uchida both performs as a soloist and conducts the CSO from the piano. Tickets can be purchased online at cso.org
or at the Box Office, 220 S. Michigan Ave. or by calling 312294-3000.
CELLIST JOSHUA ZAJAC and grandparents following a recent Civic Orchestra concert.
Mitsuko Uchida/ Photo by Gabe Palacio
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY and CULTURE Three legendary musicians and mentors
A Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere and new production directed by Sir David McVicar, “Rusalka” runs through March 16 with evening performances on Tuesday, Mar. 4; Friday, Mar. 7; and Mon. Mar. 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Mar. 16 at 2:00 at The Civic Opera House, 20 North Wacker Dr. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED For tickets and information call 312-827-5600 or go to lyricopera.org /Photo Todd Rosenberg. 14
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SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING
A Moment to Super Size Your Thinking By Effie Rolfe True friends—will bless your life, correct your life and protect your life. Please take a moment to analyze if your friends embrace and empower you? This question is pertinent because those in your inner circle can help or hinder your destiny—show me your friends and I will show you your future. 1 Corinthians 15:33 states, “Do not be deceived; evil company corrupts good habits.” Bottom line—be care- ful who you are around. That’s why it’s good to periodically evaluate and monitor those relationships to recognize who truly appreciates and celebrates your presence rather than simply tolerates you. Renowned speaker, Les Brown said, “A million people can be pulling for you but one person with their hand around your neck can hold you back and keep you down.” Are their people smiling in your face and pretending to be your friend, all the while,
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throwing darts to sabotage your life? They may only be around for convenience or what you can do for them. Proverbs 19:4 “Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.” Wow—that’s scary— but you need to know if their motive is right and that is a job for the Holy Spirit to lead into all truth. Eventually, you will probably realize that not everyone on your Facebook should be in your face. The scripture reminds us that we reap what we have sown. According to Proverbs 18:24, “A man (or woman) that hath friends must show himself friendly…” Everyone longs to have true acquaintances be it family or longtime buddies. So as we desire to have someone who is genuinely concerned, love us unconditionally and will be there for us without judgment, it may be a good idea to analyze your own actions. Simply ask—have I been a good friend? Have I done or even
The Crusader Gospel Corner Ever since Jessica Reedy “Put It On the Altar” the gospel songbird has stepped into a realm of blessings that is amazingly “Better!” According to the Sunday Best runner up, the title came from radio programmer, Elroy Smith, “I called him and said I got a new song that I’m in love with and want you to hear it. He heard it and said Better—yeah, yeah— Better. The title is all his doing,” said Reedy. “It’s my full expression…I didn’t write it for radio.
Angel and I sat down—I had tears in my eyes. God gave me every lyric…it was divine.” Life is twice as nice for the 24year old Michigan native, not only was “Better” released on iTunes and now climbing the charts, but also “I’ve got my own record label. Purity Records is mine,” she beamed, “and a distribution deal.” Although, the young entrepreneur became a household name while performing on Sunday Best, surprisingly, Reedy was reluctant to au-
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dition “My best friend and another guy asked if I was going to the Sunday Best auditions and I said absolutely not. First, I was working seven days a week; second, I didn’t know how to sing anymore…while I was pregnant and even after having my son, for over a year—I didn’t hum or nothing. My voice went from soprano to first tenor and I was really insecure because I didn’t understand it,” she recalled. Her friend continued to plead, “Two days before the audition, I got fired and one day before…my car was taken. He said you know I’ve been trying to sing all these years, can you just please drive me…my license expired? That’s how I got there...I was the chauffer for Damario Alexander—we drove 14 hours to Washington D.C.,” said Reedy. Unfortunately, her friend didn’t make the cut, but she decided to give the auditions a shot and the rest is history. Reedy now appreciates the mysterious but drastic change in her vocals, “It’s a God thing—He wanted me to stand out…you don’t see many first sopranos. His divine purpose for me, which is not singing…it’s just a tool…we will find out the ultimate purpose in a few years from now. Most people who lose their voice, by now would have found it. I can’t find it if it was in attic,” she said smiling. Kirk Franklin and the judges gave her special notice, “He said your voice is so soothing—it’s like you can have a drink and listen to you at the same time,” said Reedy. The CD is slated to hit the shelves in June along with a pro-
attempted to do what I require of others? Muhammad Ali said, “Friend ship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. Regardless of the time frame—thank God for those you encounter because in every situation you are either learning or teaching. While you re-examine the people in your life—may I remind you of the one true friend who is faithful and loves us unconditionally? He never sleeps, takes a nap, neither is He too busy or tired to attend to your needs and concerns. In fact, He’s more into you than you could ever imagine. Whatever situation you find yourself, thank God for Jesus Christ—a real friend who only wants your success. Matthew 28:20 states, “…I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world.” How sweet to have someone to love us through all of our isms—issues and mess. God’s stance is: to stand. He’s not going anywhere—if anyone leaves, it will have to be you. What great news that God has got your back and is with you through thick and thin—ride or die. Wouldn’t it be nice if more families and marriages were founded on true friendship? We must learn to trust God as we grow to discern those friends who will help us to walk in purpose on the road to destiny. Why not be the friend that you seek. Have you been a true friend…? ©Effie Rolfe is the author of “Supersize Your Thinking,” a Media Personality and Motivational Speaker. You can visit my website: effierolfe.com or follow me at twitter.com/effiedrolfe.
Fr. Howard A. Tuite, former St. Felicitas pastor dead at 84 A Chicago native, the Rev. Howard A. Tuite, and former pastor at St. Felicitas Parish, 1516 E. 84th St., and several other South Side churches, was recently remembered as a “true friend to the poor and the homeless.” Fr. Tuite died this month at Rush University Medical Center. He worked almost exclusively in the city’s African-American community since his ordination in May 1954. Fr. Tuite also enrolled in the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans, La. in the 1980s. From 1981-92 Fr. Tuite was pastor at St. Felicitas, and for a threeyear stint, simultaneously served on the board of trustees for seminaries. Following his time at St. Felicitas, he spent six years as a resident at Corpus Christi Parish. His tenure there ended in 1999, the same year he retired from active ministry. motional tour, “We want a strong release…it’s my best work without a shadow of a doubt,” said the CEO, who considers herself a singing minister. In the meantime, “I’m doing a library campaign—me and my son to promote reading. My six-year old son doesn’t go to sleep unless he reads a story. Also, I’m writing a book and movies.” Her words of encouragement for others is “God sees you and there is nothing that is not ordained by God…nothing in your life just happened...He leads and He guides. Make sure you are in alignment. I am scared right now…but I have my hand in God,” shared Reedy.
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Fr. Howard A. Tuite During the 1970s and 80s, the Archdiocese of Chicago closed many of its churches. Fr. Tuite worked at several of them including Holy Angels Parrish, where he was from 1961-1967, the year he became assistant pastor of St. Carthage Parish. That parish closed in 1989. In 1970, Fr. Tuite was named pastor of St. Leo the Great, and led that parish until 1981. The parish was closed in 2002. He also was assistant pastor at St. Martin Parish from 19541961. Besides his work as a pastor and assistant pastor, Fr. Tuite was Urban Vicar of Vicarite V, a position he held from 1976-1984. From 1993-1999, he was chaplain at Provident Hospital of Cook County. During the funeral service, the Rev. Kenneth Fleck, Fr. Tuite’s longtime friend, said the priest epitomized the phrase “walk the talk.” He explained Fr. Tuite never owned a car and walked through(Continued on page 17) Saturday, March 1, 2014
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City Colleges of Chicago to launch citywide School of Nursing City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Cheryl Hyman announced today that the community college system will launch a new citywide City Colleges of Chicago School of Nursing at the new $251 million Malcolm X College in 2016, transitioning from its four nursing programs at Daley College, Malcolm X College, Truman College and Wright College over the next two years. This unified, citywide program will help further ensure Chicagoans are prepared for the thousands of highdemand, high-wage jobs coming to the region in the nursing field over the next decade. “A single, citywide City Colleges nursing program will ensure that every student has access to the best possible program our City Colleges have to offer in a top notch training facility in the heart of the City,” said Chancellor Cheryl Hyman. “This new nursing program will bolster City Colleges of Chicago’s overall goal to provide students with highquality educational programs that will prepare them for a career in a high-demand field.” The new School of Nursing will build upon best practices across the City Colleges system and combine instructional talent and resources to provide Chicagoans access to one of the highest-quality and most affordable nursing programs in the state. The City Colleges School of Nursing is expected to open its doors in 2016, pending state approval, and will offer a two-year Associate in Applied Science in Nursing program to prepare students to take the exam to become a Registered Professional Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and will offer additional healthcare bridge programs. To help oversee the transition and ensure best-practice sharing among the nursing programs, City Colleges has named Dr. Tyra Ousley as the new head of nursing for City Colleges. Dr. Ousley, a seasoned nursing clinician and educator, is the former head of the nursing program at Truman College, City Colleges’ highest-performing nursing program. Part of the planned new School of Health Sciences, the new School of Nursing will offer students access to a virtual hospital environment, exposure to teacher-practitioners from leading healthcare employers and access to clinical rotations at major local hospitals and healthcare providers. City Colleges students will continue to be able to take prenursing courses at any one of the seven City Colleges before completing their program at the new School of Nursing. To begin the transition, Daley College will end its program after current nursing students complete next year. New applicants will be directed to the remaining City Col16
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leges nursing programs in the interim period. A free City Colleges shuttle bus service will launch in Fall 2014 to facilitate access to City Colleges locations and CTA trains and buses. “This move is about targeting investment to ensure maximum returns for taxpayers and the best possible programs for students,” said Chancellor Hyman. “While all colleges will continue to offer general education programs, College to Careers programs like manufacturing and nursing demand state-of-the-art technological investments and it is best to concentrate resources allocated to each program.” Following Daley, the Truman College, Wright College and Malcolm X College nursing programs will merge into the new school in January 2016. City Colleges is committed to maintaining current faculty
and staff in the nursing programs to help sustain quality and meet the expected increase in enrollment. The School of Nursing, with the capacity for 1,000 students, will enroll its first students in January 2016 at the new Malcolm X College School of Health Sciences. In Fall 2016, the new program will admit its inaugural first-year class.
Other City Colleges health care programs will move to the new School of Health Sciences in January 2016, and will continue to operate in their current locations until then. Health care bridges in adult education will remain in place at their current locations. City Colleges students will continue to be able to take pre-nursing and general
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education and pre-requisite courses at any of the seven City Colleges before completing their program at the new School of Health Sciences. No positions will be eliminated in the other health care programs as a result of this consolidation. Over the next two years, City (Continued on page 17)
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Black Press exec Tommy Picou (Con’t. from page 3) ing on management responsibilities as an adult. In 1984, Picou moved to south Florida where he was involved in several entrepreneurial ventures, including the purchase of the TousleyBixley construction firm in Indianapolis, best known for its construction of the Indianapolis 500 track. As chairman and CEO, Picou waged a drive to involve more minority sub-contractors in the state’s lucrative construction industry. From 1990 to 1999, Picou secured consulting contracts with publishing giant Gannett, the Times Mirror Group, and three other Sengstacke-owned newspapers. After his uncle died in 1997, Picou returned to Chicago and began devising a plan to buy Sengstacke Enterprises. In 2003, he gained control of Sengstacke Enter-
prises and created Real Times Inc., the holding company that owns The Chicago Defender, The Michigan Chronicle in Detroit, The New Pittsburgh Courier, and the Tri-State Defender in Memphis. He remained a major stockholder in the company until his death. In 2005, Mr. Picou was honored by the American Diabetes Association and the Father’s Council as a Father of the Year. “Being a father is the most important aspect of my life, which makes this an honor I am extremely proud to receive,” he said at the time. Picou served on the trustee boards at Chicago State Teachers College and Florida International University; served as an alternate on President Lyndon Johnson’s initial National Alliance of Businessmen; and on numerous local and state quasi-
government committees. He also served as an honorary chair for the Red Cross, the NAACP’s annual fundraising dinner and the Chicago Urban League’s annual businessmen’s luncheon. He was a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, The American Society of Newspaper Editors and The National Newspaper Publishers Association (formerly the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. Over the years, he enjoyed collecting gold coins and art, and was an avid sports enthusiast, with college basketball being his favorite spectator sport. Picou is survived by his daughter, Tracey Picou of Little Rock, Ark.; his sister, Judith Picou Garrett of Los Angeles; his longtime companion, Loretta Walker; and by other beloved relatives, including his first cousin, Robert Sengstacke.
Fr. Howard A. Tuite, former . . . out the neighborhoods he lived in and loved. Fleck continued, “through his ministry he gave the less fortunate of society a message of hope and dignity of knowing they were truly
(Continued from page 15) children of God.” Fr. Tuite was a graduate of Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Chicago, and the University of the Lake/ Mundelien Seminry, where he received his Bachelor of
Arts, Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Master of Arts degrees. Fr. Tuite received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the University of the Lake in 1954.
Toyota helps low-income . . . (Cont’d from page 11) ern helped to help distribute boots to participants from the community. Toyota also treated family participants of the facility to a luncheon buffet catered by Fanfare’s Catering of Chicago. Many of the family members expressed their gratitude to receive a downhome cooked meal that was enjoyed with their family and neighborhood friends. Through this project, Toyota is also helping to support the local economy. The insulated winter boots were supplied by Moosejaw, an online and retailer, specializing in outdoor recreation apparel and gear for snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking, and camping. Moosejaw, headquartered in Michigan, has 10 locations with one located in Chicago and six in Michigan. Other stores are located in Colorado, Massachusetts and Missouri.
Toyota Motor Sales, USA Toyota strives to assist the communities where we live and work by supporting local organizations focused on the areas of environment, education and safety. In addition, we engage with diverse communities and support initiatives in other areas of need, such as food, housing, and the arts, that enrich and enhance the lives of the people who live there. Since 1991, Toyota has given over half-a-billion dollars to non-profit organizations in the U.S., and each year, we commit at least 25 percent of our giving to organizations and programs that support diverse communities – a goal we are surpassing. In 2012, Toyota’s philanthropic donations reached nearly $700 million in the U.S. and nearly 45 percent supported ethnically diverse led organizations and populations.
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The Salvation Army Chicago Metropolitan Division The Salvation Army is the largest social service organization in the world and the single largest direct provider of social services in Chicago and the State of Illinois. The Army operates 200 points of entry in neighborhoods across the greater Chicago area, providing disaster relief, shelter, meals, rehabilitation programs, child care and head start, senior services and more. On any given night, about 900 people are sleeping under a Salvation Army roof. In 2010, The Army celebrated 125 years of service in Chicago. The Salvation Army is there every day, 24hours-a-day in Chicago and throughout the country providing disaster relief to people in crisis.
CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO will begin a single city wide nursing program at its new Malcolm X College scheduled for completion in 2016.
City Colleges of Chicago to Launch . . . (Continued from page 16) Colleges will continue the extensive reforms it has already undertaken, which have yielded sustained high levels of achievement on the NCLEX (nursing licensure exam) at Wright College and Truman College and a nearly 20 percentage point increase in NCLEX scores since 2010 at Malcolm X College. The City Colleges Fall 2014 nursing program application deadline of February 21, 2014 is fast approaching. Students entering in the Fall of 2014 will graduate from the new program in the new school in 2016. For enrollment information, please call 773-COL-
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY O N D I V I S I BANK, MIDFIRST f P l a i n t i f . V HEIRS AND/OR UNKNOWN LEGATEES OF STEPHEN BROWN A/K/A STEPHEN BROWN JR. A/K/A STEPHEN H. BROWN JR., DECEASED; JAVON MCCAIN; MARK BROWN; WINSTON; EILEEN VERONICA BROWN; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND CLAIMANTS; NON-RECORD OCCUPANTS, UNKNOWN D e f e n d a n t s CH 7190 13 Address: Property 7831 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVE. IL 60619 CHICAGO, NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Fisher and Shapiro file # 13-066157 (It is advised that interested parties consult their with own attorneys before bidding at mortgage sales.) foreclosure PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on December 18, 2013, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on March 19, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real p r o p e r t y : Commonly known as 7831 South Michigan Chicago, IL 60619 Avenue, Permanent Index No.: 20-27-320-034-0000 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection. The judgment amount was $116,858.37. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Prospective bidders are Plaintiff. admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at ww w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only. I585790
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HOUSES FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, DEPARTMENT COUNTY DIVISION CHANCERY FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY, P l a i n t i f f , s . v BETTANA R. WASHINGTON, 6617 INGLESIDE SOUTH ASSOCIATION, CONDOMINIUM UNKNOWN TENANTS, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 15866 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on December 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Friday, March 21, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6617 S. Ingleside Ave, Unit 4N, Chicago, Il 60637. P.I.N. 20-23-123-039-1007; 20-23-123-039-1010 (20-23-123-006 u n d e r l y i n g ) . The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Property Act Condominium Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The judgment amount was $18,146.24. The property will NOT be for inspection. open For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff's Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. Ref. No. 1 3 - 0 2 6 9 0 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I589826 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY, FKA NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY Plaintiff, v s . MARCUS ANTOIN WALLACE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 5074 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on January 2, 2014 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, April 3, 2014 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 6340 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60621. P.I.N. 20-20-203-034-0000. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas 18 Saturday, March Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 651-6705. 1 3 - 0 0 4 6 1 8 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I591669
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY D I V I S I O N THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF REVOLVING CWABS HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 0 0 4 S , 2 REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN NOTES, ASSET-BACKED 2004-S, SERIES f P l a i n t i f . V GELENE M. STANTON; CITY OF C H I C A G O , ILLINOIS MUNICIPAL AN C O R P O R A T I O N ; OWNERS AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS, NON-RECORD D e f e n d a n t s Case No. 09 CH 22642 Calendar No. 56 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 352 EAST 69TH STREET CHICAGO, IL 60637 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Fisher and Shapiro file # 09-017144 (It is advised that interested parties consult with their own attorneys before bidding at mortgage foreclosure sales.) PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered on December 17, 2013, Kallen Realty Services, Inc., as Selling Official will at 12:30 p.m. on March 19, 2014, at 205 W. Randolph Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real p r o p e r t y : Commonly known as 352 East 69th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 Permanent Index No.: 20-22-311-064 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be open for inspection. The judgment amount was $ 233,181.63. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, 2014 and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Plaintiff. Prospective bidders are admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at ww w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only. 2 / 1 2 / 2 0 1 4 I585651
Commonly known as 352 East 69th Street, IL 60637 Chicago, Permanent Index No.: 20-22-311-064 The mortgaged real estate is improved with a dwelling. The property will NOT be for inspection. open The judgment amount was $ 233,181.63. Sale terms for non-parties: 10% of successful bid immediately at conclusion of auction, balance by 12:30 p.m. the next business day, both by cashier's checks; and no refunds. The sale shall be subject to general real estate taxes, special taxes, special assessments, special taxes levied, and superior liens, if any. The property is offered "as is," with no express or implied warranties and without any representation as to the quality of title or recourse to Prospective bidders are Plaintiff. admonished to review the court file to verify all information and to view auction rules at ww w . k a l l e n r s . c o m . For information: Sale Clerk, Fisher and Shapiro, Attorney # 42168, 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301, Bannockburn, Illinois 60015, (847) 291-1717, between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. weekdays only. 2 / 1 2 / 2 0 1 4 I585651
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Cook County, Illinois, County Department, Chancery Division. Wells Fargo Bank, NA P l a i n t i f f , v s . Bernadine Hammond; James Hammond; Unknown Owners and Non-Record C l a i m a n t s D e f e n d a n t s , Case # 12CH8488 Sheriff's # 131024 F11030416 WELLS Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, will on March 25, 2014, at 1pm in room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate mentioned in said Judgment: Common Address: 6920 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 P.I.N: 20-22-314-025-0000 Improvements: This property consists of a Two Story Multi-Family Residence. Sale shall be under the following terms: payment of not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the successful and highest bid to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds at the sale; and the full remaining balance to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds within twenty-four (24) hours after the sale. Sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments. Premise will NOT be open for inspection. Firm Information: Anthony Porto Plaintiff's Attorney FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 W. DIEHL., Ste 333 Naperville, IL 60566-7228 www.foreclosurenotice@fal-illinois.com 866-402-8661 fax 630-428-4620 For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-il l i n o i s . c o m This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I585623
HOUSES FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION INLAND BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, P l a i n t i f f , v s . STANDARD BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED MARCH 31, 2008 & KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 20219; CHARLES CROSS; IRA MYERSON; BENEFICIARIES OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT DATED MARCH 31, 2008 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 20219; AND UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, D e f e n d a n t s , 13 CH 22987 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on January 8, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 7229 South May Street, Chicago, IL 60621. P.I.N. 20-29-209-012-000. The mortgaged real estate is a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the time of sale, a cashier's or certified check for 10% of the successful bid amount. The balance of the successful bid shall be paid within 24 hours, by similar funds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Ms. Sheryl A. Fyock at Plaintiff's Attorney, Latimer LeVay Fyock LLC, 55 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 422-8000. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES C O R P O R A T I O N Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I591668
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION URBAN PARTNERSHIP BANK, P l a i n t i f f , v s . 414 EAST 75TH STREET BUILDING, LLC, SCOTT ROSENZWEIG, CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT, UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN TENANTS, AND NON-RECORD C L A I M A N T S , D e f e n d a n t s , 12 CH 7166 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Cook pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure County, Illinois, County Department, entered in the above entitled cause on Chancery Division. February 6, 2014, Intercounty Judicial Wells Fargo Bank, NA Sales Corporation will on Monday, March P l a i n t i f f , 31, 2014, at the hour of 11 a.m. in their v s . office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite Theodore White aka Theodore White, Sr.; 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell to the highest Unknown Owners and Non-Record bidder for cash, the following described C l a i m a n t s real estate: mortgaged D e f e n d a n t s , Commonly known as 414-18 E. 75th Street, 1 3 C H 1 5 6 8 8 Il 60649. Chicago, Sheriff's # 140036 20-27-224-025-0000. P.I.N. F13060078 WELLS The mortgaged real estate is a Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered commercial building. The property may be by said Court in the above entitled cause, made available for inspection by contacting Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Eric Janssen at (773) 327-9300. Illinois, will on April 14, 2014, at 1pm in Sale terms: Bidders must present, at the room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, time of sale, a cashier's or certified check 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, for 10% of the successful bid amount. The Illinois, sell at public auction the following balance of the successful bid shall be paid described premises and real estate within 24 hours, by similar funds. mentioned in said Judgment: For information call Ms. Rebecca Vicario Common Address: 5615 South Aberdeen at Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis, LLC, 55 Street, Chicago, Illinois 60621 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois P.I.N: 20-17-210-006-0000 60603. (312) 641-0060. Improvements: This property consists of a INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES Two Story Multi-Family Residence. C O R P O R A T I O N Sale shall be under the following terms: Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 payment of not less than ten percent (10%) I591634 of the amount of the successful and IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Cook highest bid to be paid to the Sheriff by County, Illinois, County Department, cashier's check or certified funds at the Chancery Division. sale; and the full remaining balance to be Wells Fargo Bank, NA paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or P l a i n t i f f , certified funds within twenty-four (24) v s . hours after the sale. Michael J. Moody aka Michael Moody; Sale shall be subject to general taxes, Sheena Foy; ICUL Service Corporation; special assessments. United States of America; Unknown Premise will NOT be open for inspection. Owners and Non-Record Claimants Firm Information: Plaintiff's Attorney D e f e n d a n t s , FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 12 CH 30485 Anthony Porto Sheriff's # 140005 1807 W. DIEHL., Ste 333 F12070122 WELLS Naperville, IL 60566-7228 Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered foreclosurenotice@fal-illino i s . c o m by said Court in the above entitled cause, 866-402-8661 fax 630-428-4620 Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, For bidding instructions, visit Illinois, will on April 10, 2014, at 1pm in www.fal-il l i n o i s . c o m room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, This is an attempt to collect a debt 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Illinois, sell at public auction the following Practices Act and any information obtained described premises and real estate will be used for that purpose. mentioned in said Judgment: I588458 Common Address: 6961 South Eberhart Blacks Must control t heir o wn c oMMunity Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 P.I.N: 20-22-416-008-0000 Improvements: This property consists of a Two Story Multi-Family Residence. Sale shall be under the following terms: payment of not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the successful and highest bid to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds at the sale; and the full remaining balance to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds within twenty-four (24) hours after the sale. Sale shall be subject to general taxes, special assessments. Premise will NOT be open for inspection. Firm Information: Plaintiff's Attorney FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC
CH 30485 12 # 140005 Sheriff's WELLS F12070122 Pursuant to a Judgment made and entered by said Court in the above entitled cause, Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, will on April 10, 2014, at 1pm in room LL06 of the Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction the following described premises and real estate in said Judgment: mentioned Common Address: 6961 South Eberhart Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 20-22-416-008-0000 P.I.N: Improvements: This property consists of a Two Story Multi-Family Residence. Sale shall be under the following terms: payment of not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the successful and highest bid to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds at the sale; and the full remaining balance to be paid to the Sheriff by cashier's check or certified funds within twenty-four (24) after the sale. hours Sale shall be subject to general taxes, assessments. special Premise will NOT be open for inspection. Firm Information: Plaintiff's Attorney FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC Porto Anthony W. DIEHL., Ste 333 1807 IL 60566-7228 Naperville, foreclosurenotice@fal-illino i s . c o m fax 630-428-4620 866-402-8661 bidding instructions, visit For www.fal-il l i n o i s . c o m is an attempt to collect a debt This pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I588172
attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 12-6000. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 Attorney File No. 12-6000 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 13 CH 10361 TJSC#: 33-27375 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I588389
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N . A . P l a i n t i f f , v . EARLY L. BARNETT, THE MOORISH SCIENCE TEMPLE OF AMERICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY S E R V I C E S D e f e n d a n t s 11 CH 040662 6621 S. WABASH AVENUE UNIT A CHICAGO, IL 60637 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 27, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 31, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6621 S. WABASH AVENUE UNIT A, CHICAGO, 60637 Property Index No. IL 20-22-105-064. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-31057. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-31057 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 040662 TJSC#: 34-138 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I590753
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK ILLINOIS COUNTY, COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION MORTGAGE, LLC, NATIONSTAR P l a i n t i f f , v . D'ARTAGNAN ROSS, BEVERLY D. MINOR, ANTHONY T. MINOR D e f e n d a n t s CH 10361 13 7027 S. CALUMET AVE. Chicago, IL 6 0 6 3 7 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 10, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 14, 2014, at the The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive 24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real s t a t e : e Commonly known as 7027 S. CALUMET AVE., Chicago, IL 60637 Property Index No. 20-22-325-011-0000 VOL. 0259. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $281,862.75. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710. Please refer to file number 12-6000. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 Attorney File No. 12-6000 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 13 CH 10361 TJSC#: 33-27375 www.chicagocrusader.com NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I588389
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Call it a come back for Rosa L. Parks Middle School
Recently, Rosa L. Parks Middle School eighth grade boys’ basketball team won the Illinois Elementary School Association (I.E.S.A.) class 8-3A state championship for the first time in over 26 years. With two hard fought games vs. Eureka and Monticello, the team was able to come out victorious and advance to the championship game Thursday, Feb. 20 vs. Quincy. Known for its glory days of championship basketball teams in the 80s and 90s, Rosa Parks has not won a state championship game since 1997 for the seventh graders and 1988 for the eighth graders. Head coach, David Boyd, took over the team a few seasons ago and wanted his players to be emotionally connected to the past
winning Rosa Parks teams and carry that drive over to their junior high school experience. The lesson was not lost on the players, as they were able to capture the desire and emotional spirit of the glory years and bring it all together. In the 2012-2013 Season, the then seventh graders gave everything they had to win the I.E.S.A state tournament. They placed third and though not reaching their goal as state champions, they never gave up. In the locker room after their third place win, Coach Boyd told the team that it was all about how they bounced back from that heartbreaking loss which would show their determination as a group. This was another lesson the team took to heart. The play-
PROUD COACH CUTTING the victory net after winning the championship over Quincy.
ROSA L. PARKS BOYS’ basketball team celebrating the semi-final victory over Monicello, Feb. 15. The proud coach told the Cru- fully accomplish a team goal with ers took it upon themselves to do what was needed as students in sader, “As the coach, it is a chal- them through all the tough times the classroom and as players on lenge to help navigate our chil- and obstacles, it only makes the the court; now they are the State dren through the dangerous young men stronger and more Champions as their coach pitfalls that sometimes stand in committed to become productive their way. When you can success- men of our future...” promised they would be.
SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY Feb. 12.
High school basketball programs facing tougher scrutiny Chicago area high school basketball teams, regardless of stature, are facing increasing scrutiny following allegations of illegal recruiting or playing more
games than state rules allow. A week after the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) suspended the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Girls’ Basket-
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ball team and their head coach Anthony Smith from participating in the 2014 state playoffs, other programs are feeling the brunt of possible sanctions. The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced Feb. 24 that it was reviewing allegations regarding ineligible basketball players on Curie High School’s Boys’ Basketball team. Curie recently won the city championship against Whitney Young. Curie’s basketball coach, Mike Oliver, said he was made aware of the allegations when the team was boarding the bus to Chicago State University for the CPS championship game. The team was allowed to play after the team roster was given to CPS officials. Joel Bullock, the CPS regional athletic director, was unavailable for comment. Three other public league basketball programs will miss the state tournament as well. The boys’ basketball teams at Bogan, Hyde Park and Uplift Community High School were ruled ineligi-
ble for the 2014 state tournament due to rules violations stemming from the number of games played. The suspensions were initially reported by the Chicago SunTimes. Erick Ware, the athletic director at Bogan, said that he was aware of the rule violation. “I was made aware of the rule violation this morning and I will not comment any further at this point.” The athletic director at Uplift, Antwione Allen, was unavailable for comment. Hyde Park boys’ basketball coach Antonne Samuels, was also unavailable for comment. All three schools were highly ranked in the state tournament. When rules violations are made public, the players on the team are often regarded as collateral damage. Morgan Park High School football coach, Dana Robinson, believe that coaches have to play within the rules to avoid allega-
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tions. “A new light was shone on the whole transferring thing. So every transfer is going to get scrutinized, especially the high profile ones that involve high profile coaches,” Robinson said. “So it would first behoove you not to do it, and then be smart enough to do it within the rules.” According to the IHSA, the Vikings’ coach illegally recruited players to transfer who did not live Homewood-Flossmoor’s district. Recruiting is a violation of IHSA rules. IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman released a statement via the IHSA’s website: “The school has admitted to violating IHSA By-laws 2.090 and 3.107. In fairness to the teams in the tournament who abided by IHSA rules, removing Homewood-Flossmoor from competition was the most equitable decision.” The by-laws Homewood-Flossmoor are accused of violating involved illegal workouts and playing in summer tournaments. Saturday, March 1, 2014
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