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VOLUME LXXIII NUMBER 10—SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2013

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Obama takes up voting rights battle

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – President Obama has pledged that his administration will do “everything in its power” to repair the damage done by the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday when it struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. “I am deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision today,” he said in a statement. “For nearly 50 years, the Voting Rights Act – enacted and repeatedly renewed by wide bipartisan majorities in Congress – has helped secure the right to vote for millions of Americans. Today’s decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair, especially in places where voting discrimination has been historically prevalent.”

The president continued, “As a nation, we’ve made a great deal of progress towards guaranteeing every American the right to vote. But, as the Supreme Court recognized, voting discrimination still exists.

And while today’s decision is a setback, it doesn’t represent the end of our efforts to end voting discrimination. I am calling on Congress to pass legislation to ensure every American has equal access to the polls. My Administration will continue to do everything in its power to ensure a fair and equal voting process.”

THE SUPREME COURT of the United States this week ruled on two cases – the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Affirmative Action – that adversely affect gains made by minorities in the last several decades.

A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld jority effectively guts the strongest section teristics,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. the legality of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, of the Voting Rights Act until Congress wrote for the majority. “Congress based its but said it can’t be enforced until Congress passes new legislation to meet the objec- coverage formula on that distinction. Toupdates the way it determines which juris- tions raised in the latest ruling, which grew day the nation is no longer divided along dictions are covered under Section 5, the out of a challenge filed by Shelby County, those lines, yet the Voting Rights Act conprovision that requires preclearance by the Ala. tinues to treat it as if it were.”

Justice Department or a federal court be“In 1965, the states could be divided into Joining Roberts in the majority were confore changes to local voting laws can be im- two groups: those with a recent history of servatives Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. plemented. voting tests and low voter registration and (Continued on page 3) The 5-4 decision by the conservative ma- turnout, and those without those charac-

Mayor’s initiative helps at-risk youth

By Wendell Hutson

So far 11 nonprofit organizations whose mission is to help at-risk youth stay out of trouble especially during the summer have received millions of dollars raised by private donors at the urging of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

According to the fundraising committee chaired by James Reynolds, CEO of Loop Capital Markets and Tom Wilson, CEO of Allstate Insurance, $42 million has been raised and $1.7 million will be split this summer by those organizations.

Becoming A Man (BAM) program is a male mentoring program run by the Youth Guidance organization. The success of the program, which is available in 18 public schools, has captured the interest of Presi-

dent Barack Obama. In February, the president spoke to students at Hyde Park Career Academy High School, which included a private meeting with BAM members.

Earlier this month the president had lunch with BAM members from Hyde Park and their fathers at the White House to celebrate Father’s Day. “We didn’t get to sit at his desk, but the president showed us a bunch of different things and we got to take a picture with him in the Oval Office,” said Robert Scates, a BAM member and senior at Hyde Park High School. “He hung out for a bit.

He said he was proud of us for graduating.

He told us to keep in touch.”

Seeing young, Black males graduate from high school, go to college and pursue a ca(Continued on page 2)

THE BECOMING A MAN organization has garnered the attention of President Barack Obama. The anti-violence mentoring group was among the 11 Chicago non-profits recently named to receive a share of a $42 million fund to curb violence in the city.

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NEWS

Affirmative Action stalls at Supreme Court

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The United States Supreme Court sidestepped making a decision on whether a University of Texas admissions plan that allows the limited consideration of race is unconstitutional by remanding the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit for further review.

This week, the court voted 7-1 to send the case back to the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said the lower court did not subject the University of Texas to the highest standard of judicial scrutiny. “…Strict scrutiny imposes on the university the ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable, race-neutral alternatives do not suffice,” Kennedy wrote.

“Rather than perform this searching examination, however, the Court of Appeals held petitioner could challenge only ‘whether [the University’s] decision to reintroduce race as a factor in admissions was made in good faith.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wanted to uphold the lower court’s decision supporting the University of Texas, was the lone dissenter.

“The University of Texas at Austin (University) is candid about what it is endeavoring to do: It seeks to achieve student-body diversity through an admissions policy patterned after the Harvard plan referenced as exemplary in Justice Powell’s opinion in Regents of Univ. of Cal. V. Bakke,” she wrote. “The University has steered clear of a quota system like the one struck down in Bakke, which excluded all nonminority candidates from competition for a fixed number of seats.”

She added, “And like so many educational institutions across the Nation, the University has taken care to follow the model approved by the Court in Grutter v. Bollinger.”

Clarence Thomas was the only justice who went on record saying he would have voted to overturn the court’s 2003 decision in Grutter, permitting the narrowly tailored use of race in college admissions.

In his concurring opinion, Thomas said, “I write separately to explain that I would overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that a State’s use of race in higher education admissions decisions is categorically prohibited by the Equal Protection Clause.”

Justice Elena Kagan, a former Solicitor General, rescued herself, presumably because she had worked on the case earlier.

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Clarence Thomas Court’s ruling in this case. We will continue to defend the University’s admission policy on remand in the lower court under the strict standards that the Court first articulated in the Bakke case, reaffirmed in the Grutter case, and laid out again today. We believe the University’s policy fully satisfies those standards.

“We remain committed to assembling a student body at The University of Texas at Austin that provides the educational benefits of diversity on campus while respecting the rights of all students and acting within the constitutional framework established by the Court. Today’s ruling will have no impact on admissions decisions we have already made or any immediate impact on our holistic admissions policies.”

The case grew out of a decision by Abigail Fisher, a white Texas resident, to file suit against the University of Texas after she was turned down for admission for the 2008 term. Fisher, who later graduated from Louisiana State University, claimed the university had violated

the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it allowed the consideration of race in evaluating applicants to the university.

Fisher joined a growing list of whites who have turned the Equal Protection Clause of 14th Amendment on its head. The amendment was passed in 1868 to protect former slaves from Southern lawmakers. It states that “no state shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Whites are using the amendment to portray themselves as victims.

Both the district and federal appeals courts had dismissed Fisher’s claim before the Supreme Court agreed to take the case.

Until 1996, the University of Texas had taken a student’s race into account in admissions. However, in Hopwood v. Texas, the same federal appeals court that will now rehear Fisher, ruled the practice unconstitutional, a ruling that would be later superseded by the Supreme Court’s Grutter ruling permitting the use of race when narrowly tailored.

After the Hopwood decision, the university added a Personal Achievement Index (PAI) to go along with its Academic Index. The PAI was part of a holistic review of applicants, looking at such factors as leadership, extracurricular activities, work experience, socio-economic status, whether there was only one parent in the home, language spoken in the home and race.

The PAI was “partially designed to increase minority enrollment,” the university said. However, it said, “Race, by itself, is not given any numerical value.”

Approximately 75 percent of the University of Texas’ admissions are

filled through the Top 10 Percent Plan. In its court filings, the university revealed that in 2008, when Fisher sought admission, 81 percent of all freshmen and 92 percent of all Texas residents admitted as freshmen, were Top 10 Percent applicants, leaving only 841 slots to be filled by non-Top 10 Percent students.

Moreover, in its Supreme Court brief, the University of Texas said Fisher would not have been accepted into the university even if it had never considered the race of any applicant.

On page 14 of its “Brief of Opposition,” the university said: “The undisputed evidence demonstrated that Fisher would not have been offered fall admission in 2008 even if she had scored a perfect ‘6’ on her PAI – the portion of the admissions process where race is considered as ‘a factor of a factor of a factor.’ Although Fisher theoretically could have been admitted through the summer admissions process, the reality is that her academic credentials could not overcome the particularly stiff competition among in-state applicants who graduated outside the top 10% of their high school class.”

After subtracting the admission places for those automatically accepted under the Top 10 Percent Plan, the University of Texas said, Fisher was one of approximately 16,000 students competing for 1,216 fall admission slots available for students who did not finish in the top 10 percent of their class.

“The acceptance rate for those applicants was only 7.6% – lower than Harvard’s undergraduate acceptance rate for fall 2008,” the university stated.

The percentage plans adopted by Texas, Washington and Florida have proven to be a poor substitute for af-

Ruth Bader Ginsburg firmative action, according to a study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

In a 2002 report titled, “Beyond Percentage Plans: The Challenge of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education,” the commission observed: “Can percentage plans achieve the goal of equal education opportunity? Based on the analysis performed here, the answer unfortunately is no.”

After affirmative action was outlawed in California, Texas and Florida, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights studied percentage plans in the three states that guaranteed a certain percentage of students college admission.

The report concluded, “Percentage plans alone do not improve diversity by reaching underrepresented minority groups and will only have their desired effect if affirmative action and other supplemental recruitment, admissions, and academic support programs remain in place.

Mayor’s initiative helps at-risk youth (Continued from page 1) reer is encouraging, explained Reynolds.

“I’m proud of the work we’re doing to change the lives of at-risk youth in our city. I’m especially excited to see the plan in motion, getting money out to deserving programs this summer, and can’t wait to see the results of our investment in these kids and their future,” Reynolds said.

Giving his time and resources to help youth is nothing new for Reynolds. In 2011, as chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, Reynolds donated his annual $100,000 stipend to a nonprofit.

So instead of receiving his stipend until his current term expires in 2016, Reynolds said he will donate the money to Win-

James Reynolds dows of Opportunity to fund college scholarships for students living in public housing.

“I grew up in subsidized housing so I know what it is like to struggle.

I have not always been well off but now that I am I see it as my responsibility to reach back and help oth-

ers,” Reynolds added. “This money ($100,000 CHA stipend) could be better served helping young people go to college.”

The monies from the $42 million will be used to provide job training, conflict resolution, and mentoring this summer to more than 3,000 youth living in 23 neighborhoods on the south and west sides.

Officials at one organization, Youth Outreach Services, said they plan to provide 160 youth from the juvenile justice system with internships that will pair them up with a mentor and offer them “job training and readiness skills” as well as financial literacy training.

Other recipients include: Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development; Kleo Commu-

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nity Family Life Center; Phalanx Family Services; Westside Health Authority; SGA Youth and Family Services; Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network; LISC; and the Ilinois African-American Coalition for Prevention.

And all recipients have a proven track record of helping at-risk youth, said Reynolds, which is why they were chosen out of nearly 60 applications.

The selection was based on a comprehensive set of criteria focused heavily on research that shows that programs with a socialemotional learning component have the potential to reduce violence by more than 40 percent, according to Reynolds.

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NEWS

Obama takes up voting rights battle (Continued from page 1) Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Dissenting were the court’s four liberals: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer along with Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Clarence Thomas, just as he had in the University of Texas affirmative action decision handed down a day earlier, expressed the most extreme position on the court, saying he was willing to nullify the entire Voting Rights Act. “I join the Court’s opinion in full but write separately to explain that I would find Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional as well. The Court’s opinion sets forth the reasons,” Thomas wrote.

Rep. John Lewis [D.-Ga.], who was savagely beaten on “Bloody Sunday” during the Selma to Montgomery March in Alabama in 1965, was livid after the ruling.

“Today, the Supreme Court stuck a dagger into the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most effective pieces of legislation Congress has passed in the last 50 years,” he said. “These men never stood in unmovable lines. They were never denied the right to participate in the democratic process. They were never beaten, jailed, run off their farms or fired from their jobs. No one they knew died simply trying to register to vote. They are not the victims of gerrymandering or contemporary unjust schemes to maneuver them out of their constitutional rights.”

Lewis, one of the leaders of the Alabama march that led to passage of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, questioned whether Congress has the will to pass legislation needed to repair the damage done by the Supreme Court.

The Voting Rights Act expired after five years, but was extended

by Congress in 1970, 1975, 1982 and for another 25 years in 2006 with bipartisan support. The last time, it passed the House 390-3 and the Senate 98-0. President George W. Bush signed the last measure in a Rose Garden ceremony witnessed by members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The case heard by the court began with a challenge from Shelby County, near Birmingham, Ala. Shelby County sued Attorney General Eric Holder after the Justice Department rejected a redistricting plan that evidently played a role in the defeat of Ernest Montgomery, the lone Black member of the Calera, Ala. city council.

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years later, the district was redrawn to reduce its Black population to 23 percent. When Montgomery ran for reelection from the redrawn district in 2008, he was defeated by a white challenger.

The Justice Department invalidated the election because it had not been precleared and Shelby County sued in federal court, seeking a permanent restraining order. Two lower courts sided with the Justice Department before the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.

Although Shelby County didn’t apply for it, Section 5 has a “bail out” provision that allows jurisdictions to avoid pre-clearance requirements if they can prove that they have not been discriminating for 10 years. When the case was heard, 46 jurisdictions had successfully opted out of pre-clearance with two cases pending.

Section 5 applied to jurisdictions that had a history of racial discrimination. States or political subdivision were placed under that provision of the Voting Rights Act if they restricted voting, had less than half of their eligible residents registered to vote or less than half had actually voted in the 1964, 1968 or 1972 presidential election.

In his majority opinion, Roberts stated, “Shortly before enactment

of the Voting Rights Act, only 19.4 percent of African-Americans of voting age were registered to vote in Alana, only 31.8 percent in Louisiana, and only 6.4 percent in Mississippi. Those figures were roughly 50 percentage points or more below the figures for whites.”

He said that has changed dramatically.

“There is no denying, however, that the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions. By 2009, ‘the racial gap in voter registration and turnout [was] lower in the States originally covered by Section 5 than it was nationwide…AfricanAmerican turnout has come to exceed white voter turnout in five of the six States originally covered by Section 5, with a gap in the sixth State of less than one half of one percent.”

In her dissent, Ginsburg said, “In the Court’s view, the very success of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act demands its dormancy.”

She said, “True, conditions in the South have impressively improved since the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Congress noted this improvement and found that the VRA was the driving force behind it.”

She said more than 15,000

pages of congressional testimony presented countless “examples of flagrant discrimination” and “intentional racial discrimination in voting remains so serious and widespread in covered jurisdictions that section 5 preclearance is still needed.”

Among the examples she cited: In 1995, Mississippi sought to reenact a dual voter registration system; In 2003, after African-Americans won a majority of the seats on the school board for the first time, Charleston County, S.C. proposed switching to an at-large voting system; In 1993, the city of Millen, Ga. proposed delaying the election of a majority-Black city council district by two years; In 2004, Walker County, Texas threatened to prosecute two Black students after they announced their intention to run for office; and In 1990, Dallas County, whose county seat is Selma, sought to purge its voter rolls of many Blacks.

Both Roberts and Ginsburg credit the Civil Rights Movement for passage of the Voting Rights Act. “Alabama is home to Selma, site of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ beatings of civil rights-demonstrators that served as the catalyst for the VRA’s

enactment,” Ginsburg wrote.

“Following those events, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, where he called for passage of the VRA. If the Act passed, he foresaw, progress could be made even in Alabama, but there had to be a steadfast national commitment to see the task through to completion.”

In his majority opinion, Roberts made it clear that the Voting Rights Act has served its purpose.

“Coverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices,” he wrote. “The formula captures States by reference to literacy tests and low voter registration and turnout in the 1960s and early 1970s. But such tests have been banned nationwide for over 40 years.”

At another point in his opinion, Roberts said, “But history did not end in 1965.”

In her dissent, Ginsburg quoted everyone from Shakespeare to philosopher George Santayana.

“The Court criticizes Congress for failing to recognize that ‘history did not end in 1965.’ But the Court ignores that ‘what’s past is prologue,” she said, quoting The Tempest. And ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’”

Governors open forum on Illiana Event Connects Contractors and Investors with Economic Opportunities on Major Capital Construction Project Ilinois Gov.Pat Quinn and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence were joined by transportation officials recently to open a business development forum in Rosemont for the Illiana Expressway. The project to build the Illiana Expressway, which will connect I-55 in Illinois with I-65 in Indiana, is expected to create 9,000 construction jobs. The forum, Partnering for Progress: Financing through PublicPrivate Partnerships, will introduce area, national and international contractors and investors to this critical capital project and provide information on its economic opportunities.

“The Illiana is a key transportation priority for Illinois,” Quinn said.

“We will deploy an innovative public-private partnership to put thousands of people to work and drive our regional economy forward. As we move full-speed ahead to build this 21st century highway, it is important for businesses to learn about the significant opportunities that are available.”

The industry forum idrw approximately 1,000 attendees ranging from local laborers, contractors and minority-owned businesses to interna-

Ilinois Gov. Pat Quinn tional investors and construction management companies. Potential contractors, partners and investors will have a chance to participate in one-on-one meetings and discuss how government entities and private firms can work together to create something for the common good while generating thousands of jobs and tremendous economic opportunity for the two-state area.

“New opportunities in agriculture and manufacturing create additional

needs in infrastructure,” Pence said.

“As global demand increases, so does the need for efficient transportation.

Illiana will improve upon Indiana’s transportation system and connect Indiana with the global marketplace.”

Public-private partnerships have been used for decades internationally, and have become a key development strategy for major public works projects in the United States during the past 15 years. These partnerships are agreements between a public agency and a private entity to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a project. The private investment may consist of a team of engineering firms, construction companies and financiers. Toll collections or other fund sources would be used to reimburse the investor over an agreed upon period of time.

“Illinois and Indiana are among the leaders for this sort of innovative delivery,” Secretary Ann L. Schneider said. “The Illiana project is a ‘winwin’ for both Illinois and Indiana and will result in a reduced financial

burden while creating much needed infrastructure, saving millions for Indiana and Illinois taxpayers. We are thrilled to be able to showcase this important project to an international audience.”

“Indiana is looking to leverage private sector innovation and competition to advance Illiana Corridor construction,” Commissioner Mike Cline said. “As Indiana has seen with other public-private partnerships, the private sector delivers a better value for taxpayers.”

The Illiana Expressway will be a 47-mile access controlled highway that extends from I-55 in Illinois on the west to I-65 in Indiana on the east. The preferred corridor is located in Will County in Illinois and Lake County in Indiana. When built, the Illiana Corridor Project will reduce the strain of truck traffic on local roads, thereby improving safety, travel times and job accessibility. Potential economic benefits include the creation of more than 9,000 construction jobs and more than 25,000 long-term jobs.

A photo credit for A.J. “Housequake” Deloney was inadvertently omitted from the Sklyar Diggins’ story in last week’s issue.

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EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL THE SUPREME COURT AND AFFIRMATIVE INACTION The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) just did a back-stepping jig on the issue of affirmative action. No, they did not actually rule against it, they threw the ball back into the lap of the local court with a few stipulations that can potentially spell the demise of this strategy. They have raised the bar. It kind of reminds us of Pontius Pilate of Biblical fame who washed his hands of the issue before letting popular opinion take its course.

In a ruling of 7 - 1, SCOTUS ruled that colleges and universities must demonstrate that “available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice” before using race in admissions decisions. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and the lone dissenter was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Moreover, Justice Elena recused herself due to the fact that she had worked on the issue as part of the Obama administration.

At the center of the case is Abigail Fisher, a white woman who claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas (UT), one of the top universities in the country, because of her race in 2008. Basically, UT admits all students who are in the top 10% of their class, and then uses “holistic” measures, which include race as one factor, to admit others. Ms. Fisher just missed the 10% cut-off. After the SCOTUS decision, she stated that she was “grateful to the justices for moving the nation closer to the day when a student’s race isn’t used at all in college admissions.”

What? Shouldn’t she have said she was “grateful to the justices for moving the nation backward closer to the old days when a student’s race WAS the main criterion used to deny admission? According to reports, the quota system started because too many Jewish students were gaining admission to Harvard University, and because of this, the university enacted a system of racial quotas in order to limit their admission. And we don’t have to even begin to point out the discrimination that African Americans have systematically suffered in the halls of academia.

Without affirmative action, many of their applications would not have gone further than waste baskets, not because of qualifications, but because of prejudice.

Actually, the “color-blind” society that has people softening their stance regarding the need for affirmative action is probably a result of the election of Barack Obama to the office of president of the United States. Also, many high-profile African Americans have made great strides in achieving success. But you don’t have to look any further than the incredibly racist remarks recently made by chef Paula Deen about Black people, the constant opposition that President Obama has faced in the course of trying to do his job, or the Trayvon Martin case and the racist sentiments that it has unearthed, to know that we still have a long way to go before we can truly call ourselves a color-blind society!

Ultimately, the SCOTUS is supposed to “interpret” the law.

This is arguably a very difficult proposition because justices are human and they have biases. They are appointed to lifetime terms, and should be among the wisest people in the land. History has shown, however, that this is not always the case, that they tend to be people appointed by presidents based on how closely their political stances align with the administration. This muddies the water, and begs the question of whether or not we truly have access to an unbiased high court. Anyway, the SCOTUS has several other issues related to affirmative action coming up in the near future. Let’s hope for better outcomes. A luta continua.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Is there a victim?

Dear Editor: Last week there was some talk about whether there have been victims in the Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Sandi Jackson scandal that may send them both to prison.

I really come down on the side of those who say there are no victims – not even those who donated to the former congressman’s campaigns. The prosecutors are saying that Jr. needs to make restitution for the $750,000 he admits to pilfering from his campaign coffers.

If Jr. does make restitution, which he said he is not capable of doing, who would get the money? According to the defense lawyers that money would go to Jackson’s campaign fund. By law he has not had to close it, nor has he had access to the remaining dollars. Campaign laws are really loosee goosee and even after politicians leave office they can use their campaign funds to support other politicians or the former politician’s favorite cause(s).

The rules are very easy to get around, as witnessed by Junior’s pilfering over a nine-year period.

There is no doubt that the Jacksons as individuals and a team violated the trust the public had in them. Jr. more so than Sandi, but she should be held accountable too. Although she was complicit as far as the charges go, there is nothing saying she raided her

campaign war chest.

But their transgressions were insular, limited to the campaign money. There is no evidence that any taxpayer dollars are involved – so in my opinion there is no one to make restitution to.

Whatever prison time Jr. gets, so be it. But it is overkill to suggest he needs to pay back the money. How many white politicians who have been charged with “real” crimes have 1) gotten off with lighter sentences than the estimated four years Jr. is facing; 2) were not required to pay their campaigns back after being busted.

This is another of separate and unequal when it comes to this country’s laws.

Ron Browner

CPS blew it with our students!

Dear Editor: As we get closer to the end of the school year, it seems the pleas from Chicago Public Schools students not to close their respective schools are increasing. Some of those pleas are from surprisingly articulate young people – surprising because they are so young and seem to have mastered all of the nuances of what the closings mean not only to them, but their community as a whole. While some of the others may not be able to deliver their sentiments

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with the same eloquence, it is easy to tell their little hearts are hurting at the prospect of having to leave the only school they have known.

There is no doubt that some of these children speaking at town hall and other community meetings have been coached. There is nothing wrong with that because these youngsters are learning to speak from the heart and to do so before hundreds of people is no easy feat.

The troubling part of all of this (Continued on page 16)

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Strange Bedfellows – Unions and Black Politicians BEYOND THE RHETORIC

By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Honorable Marcia Fudge Chair – Congressional Black Caucus Re: Racist Construction UnionsChair Fudge: Chair Fudge: We are very disturbed that elected officials as well as civil rights organizations have this cordial relationship with construction unions. Construction unions have consistently discriminated against Black workers and contractors. 98% of all Black construction firms are nonunion.

There is a reason - if they join a union the union will manage their employees and thus never hire them for work. The end result is the business being void of any Black workers and the former Black employees will soon be unemployed. Let’s look at the historical background on these 43 years of Jim Crow activity.

To enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon Johnson executed Executive Order 11246. From there Secretary of Labor George Schultz (Nixon Administration) ordered Dr. Arthur

Harry C. Alford A. Fletcher to integrate construction employment on federal projects.

Dr. Fletcher, former Chair of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, rolled out the Philadelphia Plan. From there he went to Chicago and eventually every major city in the United States. George Meany of the AFL-CIO was enraged and demanded the firing of Secretary Schultz. Dr. Fletcher had to have two secret service agents escort him on his tours. Meany was so furious that President Nixon sought advice from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Today, we find construction unions holding on to that same evil attitude. With the exception of general labor and cement positions (lowest paying crafts), construction unions are in violation of Executive Order

11246 in each and every one of the other crafts. They shouldn’t even be certified as unions.

These construction unions are a prime contributor to Black unemployment. Show us a big city union town such as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Los Angeles to name a few and we can show an inflamed “CUP Factor” (crime, unemployment and poverty). If you compare the states of Maryland and Virginia who have almost identical racial demographics, you will find that Virginia has three times the number of Blacks working highway construction than Maryland. Virginia is a Right to Work state and Maryland is not. Philadelphia came under so much pressure from the Black community that Mayor Nutter and the City Council canceled all of their Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s are union only projects). Shortly thereafter, Mayor Nutter was ordered to reinstate them by the construction unions. He complied and, once again, betrayed the Black, Hispanic, Asian and women construction workers and the minority contingent of contractors. The Washington, DC Baseball Stadium was declared a PLA, once again the Black community was betrayed – not one projected diversity goal was met.

Strangely and shortly thereafter, the new Homeland Security building

was announced ($1 billion project) and the same Black elected officials in DC were happy for it. It is like the Stockholm Syndrome.

The legacy of Black craftsmanship is a proud one. It was our forefathers who built all of the large buildings and mansions throughout the South. That talent has been passed down from generation to generation. The Capitol where you do your work was built by American slaves and it is still standing tall today. Today, the overwhelming amount of our larger Black owned construction companies have Southern roots. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, many of these gifted workers saw an opportunity to move north and apply their skills.

They would work for less as union scales are excessive and cause inflated construction costs. Usually, it is the taxpayer or consumer who has to pay those inflated costs caused by greed and lack of competitive bidding.

The enraged unions had two congressmen rig the game. Congressmen Davis and Bacon convinced Congress to prop up wages and forbid competitive alternatives on public funded projects. Yes, the Davis Bacon Act has a racist pedigree and it was originally targeted towards the superior talents of Black craftsmen.

Why does it still exist today?

Presently, a group of nonunion contractors have filed a lawsuit

against the New York Secretary of Transportation in regards to his PLA on all contracts over $5 million. We are entering an Amicus Brief in support of this lawsuit. We are considering filing a lawsuit against the San Francisco 49er’s NFL team for applying a PLA on the new Levi’s Football Stadium. We will first appeal to the ownership of the team and the NFL. If they continue this racist process we will have no other choice. Imagine a football team where Black players are 77% of the racial make-up and they put up a virtual sign that says “No Colored contractors or workers allowed.”

After 42 years of noncompliance, we have had enough. It is time for a game change and we respectfully ask the Congressional Black Caucus to be on our side in this fight. The Civil Rights Act is to live not be ignored.

Sincerely,

Harry C. Alford President/CEO Dorothy Leavell Chair

Website: www.nationalbcc.org Mr. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®.Website: www.nationalbcc.org.

Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

Affirmative Action Polls Show Deep Racial Gulf

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the months leading up to this week’s Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, a public opinion poll by ABC News and the Washington Post showed that 76 percent of Americans oppose affirmative action in college admissions. However, a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute showed that 68 percent of Americans favor the principles behind affirmative action.

How do Americans really feel about affirmative action? The short answer is that it depends on how the question is asked.

The ABC/Washington Post question, asked June 5-9, was posed this way: “Overall, do you support or oppose allowing universities to consider applicants’ race as a factor in deciding which students to admit?”

Of those responding, 76 percent opposed, 22 percent voiced support and 2 percent were undecided.

Public Religion Research Institute, which conducted a poll May 15-19, phrased its question differently: “In order to make up for www.chicagocrusader.com

past discrimination, do you favor or oppose programs which make special efforts to help Blacks and other minorities get ahead?”

More than two-thirds of the respondents – 68 percent – favored such efforts, 24 percent opposed, 6 percent were unsure and 2 percent provided other replies.

Note the wording of the questions. The ABC/Washington Post question provided no context for evaluating affirmative action admissions, only whether respondents support or oppose using race as a factor. On the other hand, the Public Religion Research Institute approach placed the issue within the context of “past discrimination” and using “special efforts” to help people of color get ahead.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted May 30-June 2, showed Americans evenly divided on the issue.

Respondents were asked to choose between two statements: A) Affirmative action programs are still needed to counteract the effects of discrimination against minorities, and are a good idea as long as there are no rigid quotas and B) Affirmative action programs have gone too far in favoring minorities, and should be ended because they un-

George E. Curry fairly discriminate against whites.

In that poll, 45 percent of the respondents said affirmative action programs are still needed to counteract the effects of discrimination against people of color. But the same margin – 45 percent – said they feel the programs have gone too far and should be ended because they unfairly discriminate against Whites.

A closer examination of the numbers show a deep racial divide. For example, 71 percent of African Americans strongly believe affirmative action programs are still needed, compared to only 20 percent of Whites and 39 percent of Hispanics. Another 11 percent of Blacks

feel affirmative action should continue, but did not feel as strongly about it. Among Hispanics, 29 percent were in that category and 14 percent of Whites.

When supporters – strong and not as strong – are added together, 82 percent of African Americans want to retain affirmative action, compared to 68 percent of Hispanics and 34 percent of Whites.

When you add the two categories of those wanting to abolish affirmative action, a majority of Whites – 56 percent – support such a move, compared to 7 percent of African Americans and 24 percent of Hispanics.

A CNN/ORC poll, conducted June 11-13, asked the question: Do you approve or disapprove of affirmative action programs at college and law schools that give racial preferences to minority applicants?

The reference to “racial preferences” is a loaded term unlikely to elicit a favorable response. In this case, 68 percent of respondents said they disapprove of affirmative action as it was defined, 29 percent approved and 3 percent expressed no opinion.

Affirmative action should be viewed in light of overall racial attitudes in America.

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As we approach the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, people of color and Whites have closely aligned views on whether Dr. King’s dream of equality has been fulfilled.

In the CNN/ORC poll conducted Jan. 14-15, respondents were asked: “Martin Luther King gave his famous ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ at a civil rights march in Washington in 1963. In your view, do you think the U.S. has fulfilled the vision King outlined in that speech, or don’t you think so?”

According to the poll, 51 percent of Whites in the U.S. believe Dr. King’s vision has been fulfilled; 49 percent of nonWhites subscribe to that view.

Unfortunately, the poll does not separate the Black responses.

In an Aug. 4-7, 2011 USA/Gallup Poll, 55 percent of Black respondents said they believe relations between Blacks and Whites will always be a problem, compared to 44 percent for Whites, with 2 percent unsure.

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COMMENTARY

PREPARING FOR NBUF’S 34th ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION (Dr. Conrad Worrill, National Chairman Emeritus of the National Black United Front (NBUF), located at 1809 East 71st Street, Suite 211, Chicago, Illinois, 60649, 773-493-0900, Fax# 773-493-9819, E-mail: nbufchic@sbcglobal.net, Web site: nbufront.org)

Dr. Conrad Worrill The National Black United Front (NBUF) is preparing for its Thirtyfourth Annual National NBUF Convention that will be held in Dallas, Texas at the Dallas Convention Center Theater Complex, 650

South Griffin Street from July 1114, 2013.

Time has a way of moving forward and it is hard to believe that NBUF has been in existence for thirty-four-years. It is a remarkable achievement that a Black Movement organization made up of committed volunteers, with limited resources, has survived and continues to grow and develop.

NBUF grew out of the spirit of the 1960s and 70s when African people in this country were aggressively organizing around numerous issues. The activism of the Civil Rights Movement and its challenges against legal segregation was the spark that set off the mass motion of African people in America.

The mobilization and organizing of the Civil Rights Movement transitioned into the Black Power Phase of our movement in the late 1960s igniting the renewed call for Pan Africanism and Black Nationalism.

Through the disruptive tactics of the United States Government and its counterintelligence programs (COINTELPRO), the Black Liberation Movement in America suffered serious setbacks. Many lead-

ing activists and organizers were arrested and convicted on false charges, and continue to remain incarcerated as political prisoners.

Others were assassinated, such as Malcolm X, Dr. King, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark.

By the late 1970s, the Black Liberation Movement was in serious disarray. This stimulated numerous leading Black activists, organizers, and leaders to convene a series of meetings. Twice during the latter years of the 1970s (1976-1977) in Brooklyn, New York, several organizations attempted to bridge the gap of ideological disunity among the various forces in the Black Movement by attempting to formulate a United Front.

Many of the members of NBUF can remember the all-day meetings held in the East in an attempt at national unity. But the commitment, positions, and images of most forces were fixed. The mistrust and apprehensions of the past years lingered in the memories of most participants.

However, a core group of participants in these meetings from various parts of the country agreed that

it was urgent that a call be made to convene the founding convention of the National Black United Front /NBUF. The founding convention was held in Brooklyn, New York at the Old Armory in June 1980. More than 1,000 activists from thirtyfour states and five foreign countries participated in this four day convention. Reverend Herbert Daughtry was elected interim National Chairman and we approved a draft of the Constitution and By Laws.

At the second national convention, once again, held in Brooklyn in July 1981, NBUF ratified a permanent Constitution, By Laws, and leadership structure. NBUF Chapters emerged across the country in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Greensboro, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Portland, Seattle, the Bay Area, Muskegon, Lansing, Detroit, New York, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Memphis, and Chicago.

In 1985, I was elected as the National Chairman and served in that position until 2009 when the man-

tle was passed to the younger generation (current National Chairman Kofi Taharka and National Vice Chairman Salim Adolfo).

Most of the chapters in the aforementioned cities continue to function today— thirty-four years later.

Over this thirty-four-year period, NBUF has organized around the following principles: • To struggle for self-determination, liberation, and power for Black People in the United States.

• To work in common struggle with African Liberation Movements and African people throughout the world.

• To build a politically conscious, unified, committed, and effective Black Mass Movement.

• To struggle to eliminate racism (including Zionism and Apartheid), sexism (the oppression, exploitation, and inequality of women), monopoly capitalism, colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, and national oppression.

• To maintain strict political and financial independence of the National Black United Front.

• To build unity and common (Continued on page 9)

THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR THE LEAST AND LEFT OUT

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It seems that the term “poverty” has been sidelined from our national discourse, even though 15 percent of all Americans, and 26 percent of African Americans experience poverty. The Fair Labor Standards Act was signed on June 25, 1938, seventy-five years ago, so perhaps this is a good time to explore the roots of the minimum wage and why its establishment remains important.

The genesis of the Fair Labor Standards Act, was a note a girl wrote in Bedford, Massachusetts when Roosevelt was campaigning for his second term as President.

The note said, “I wish you could do something to help us girls…We have been working in a sewing factory. Up until a few weeks ago we were getting our minimum pay of $11 a week…Today the 200 of us girls have been cut down to $4, $5 and $6 a week.” In the middle of the Great Depression, young women were earning between ten and fifteen cents an hour. Responding to the note, Roosevelt signed legislation that dealt with issues of the terms and conditions of work, including wages. The law limited weekly hours to 44, established the minimum wage at 25 6

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Julianne Malveaux cents an hour, and banned child labor. When the law was passed, it applied to industries that employed only a fifth of the workforce. Private household workers (or “domestics”, mostly African American women), and farm workers (mostly African American at that time, though later mostly Latino) were exempted from the law.

There was enormous resistance to the legislation. Indeed the bill was, at one point, described as “unconstitutional.” Roosevelt signed 121 bills, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, after Congress had

adjourned. Essentially FLSA restored textile workers, and many like them, to the $11 a week that was considered barely livable. In a fireside chat, Roosevelt chided the bills detractors, "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

Fast forward. Now domestic workers are included in the Fair Labor Standards Act, to the point that employers are required to issue these workers W-2 forms if they are regular workers, to withhold Social Security and other federallymandated taxes from their pay, and to match Social Security contributions as required by law. Of course, many of these workers are paid informally, or “under the table,” and they make less than the minimum wage.

Those who receive tips as little as $30 a month earn just $2.13 an hour. That’s certainly something to think about when providing your server between 15 and 20 percent at the end. Some restaurants may offer more than the minimum $2.13 an hour, but many do not pay as much as minimum wage (currently $7.25).

While agricultural workers should, technically, earn the mini-

mum wage, there are enough exceptions to this provision that many agricultural workers do not earn $7.25 an hour. Additionally, undocumented immigrants have little leverage at the bargaining table. They earn less than the minimum wage when they are desperate for employment. Small farms are also exempt from paying the minimum wage.

Someone who earns the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour who works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, earns about $15,000 a year. If they are an hourly worker without benefits who takes any time off, the $15,000 earnings drops off.

While many minimum wage workers are part-time workers, some cobble together several part time jobs to make enough money to live.

For full-time workers, parents, and others, the minimum wage is hardly a living wage. President Obama has suggested raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour over a three-year period, taking the annual minimum wage for a fulltime worker to almost $19,000 a year. The Federal Minimum Wage Act would increase hourly wages to $10.10 by 2015, making annual pay about $21,000 by that year. It would also index the minimum wage to inflation. The feisty and

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fantastic new Senator from Massachusetts, lawyer Elizabeth Warren, has indicated that she considers $22 an hour (or about $45,000 a year) a living wage.

About two million people earn the minimum wage, and another 1.6 million actually earn less.

These are the people recorded, not the actuality of those paid under the table. This represents less than five percent of the workforce, but this is why we should pay attention to them. African Americans, Latinos, and women are most likely to be represented in this 3.6 million.

They are more likely to be young (though those 18-25 are adult and may be raising families), less educated and single. They are the least and the left out. They are young women raising families, students trying to scrap together living expenses, or those with qualifications but not opportunities.

These folks work in service and hospitality industries, serving our food, parking our cars, taking care of our mamas, and cleaning our rooms when we stay in hotels. I don’t care if they are 4.7 percent of the labor force, less or more. The bottom line is that it is overtime to raise the minimum wage!

Julianne Malveaux is a D.C. based economist and writer. www.chicagocrusader.com

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Chicago and the South Suburbs, dey was gonna brang jobs to the Black community, dey was gonna do all kinda stuff dat aint even in the congresspeople’s job description. Ima could be missing sumthin here, but seems to me all dem problems dem folks was gonna cure are still here, but dem dat was making the promises aint nowhere to be found. Guess dey need to be on the guvmint payroll to help the community?

– Ima – I THANK THEY MEANT BOOZE President Obammy and old

WHERE DEY AT NOW? Some months ago Ima told yall to be careful bout dat passel of cullid folks who was lining up to run for Junior Jesse’s old Congressional seat.

One time the line got so long Ima swore President Reagan was back givin out guvmint cheese again.

Deese folk who wanted to be congressmen and congresswomin said they was gonna fix the violence in

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horseface John Kerry, the one who got Hillary Clinton’s secretary job is all bent outta shape cause dat traitor/hero/spy Eric Snowden is done convinced the Russians and the Chinese to tell the U.S. to go piss up a rope and let him be. Ima called Lurlene to ride with her to We B Storage where Ima keep her ‘portant documents. Lurlene found Ima’s sixth grade ‘port card and just like dey bof membered Ima got a A+ in Civics. So Ima knows bout how stuff work in Washington but what the puzzlement is why aint Obammy and Kerry get dey panties in a bunch about the people who hired young Snowden. Dat accounting company gave the boy all the passwords and codes and secret handshake afore he had 90 days on da job. The newspaper say da name of the company is Booz Allen. Ima caint help but wonder if they mean Booze. And she sho don’t know what kinda drink Allen sposed to be.

– Ima –

aint nothing that brings Ima joy.

And when you got a bunch of grown men chasing a flat black baseball with sticks, it makes even less sense. But Ima say let the white folk have dey fun, Ima wonder as long as de white man happy airybody sposed to be happy, right?

– Ima – BACK TO THEM BLACKHAWKS Some thangs is just too hard to overlook especially when we got so many folks pushing dat postracial America myth. Killer told Ima right after Obammy took office the first time, post-racial

mean “don’t git ya hopes up cause one of yall fell into da oval office.” Killer be right more dan he be wrong. Yall see Paula Deen told airybody she used the slave name for Black folks cause she 60. Hell, Ima older den dat and you don’t see her calling white folk out dey name, ‘least not every day she don’t. Now Paula know how it feel to be one of us.

They done took her show, her sponsors quitting her like she got fleas, and ain’t nobody but cullid preachers standing behind her.

Ima guess that’s because of the TV cameras. Paula say she be sorry - sorry her ass got caught probably.

WHOOPEE DO FOR THE BLACK HAWKS

President Obammy

The Blackhawks is done won the Stanley Cup and white folks all over Chicago is besides dey self. Ima aint never been no fan of ice so hockey

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Ray Emery

Paula Deen

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PRESS PASS-BREAKFAST WITH RICHARD SHERMAN AND CHRIS JONES:Join in a once-ina-lifetime event with the legendary Grammy and Academy Awardwinning songwriter Rich-ard M. Sherman, who co-wrote (with brother Robert B. Sherman) the famed music of The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and much more on Saturday, June 29. Breakfast begins at 10 AM and conversation starts at 11 AM at the Goodman Theater, 170 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60601.

Tickets are $25 for the general public and $15 for Goodman subscribers and donors. For tickets or for more information, call 312443-3800 or visit tribnation.com/events. This event is sponsored by Nielsen.

THEATER ON THE LAKE: Kid Color spins dance music as part of the opening night of the interdisciplinary Declaration YOUth Arts Festival, four evenings of spoken word, music, dance, theater, and visual art from Chicago teens.

There is no dance instruction for the evening. This all happens on Wednesday, July 3, 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive. For more information, call 312-742-7994.

SUMMERDANCE IN THE PARKS: Learn to dance and enjoy live music at SummerDance in the Parks – an admission-free series that is part of Chicago SummerDance – coming to five different Chicago Park District facilities Wednesdays through August 28 at Theater on the Lake; 63rd Street Beach house in Jackson Park; Ping Tom Memorial Park; Austin Town Hall; and the Humboldt Park Boathouse. SummerDance in the Parks is supported by Southwest Airlines. The series offers introductory one-hour dance lessons by professional instructors at 6 PM followed by live music and dancing from 7 PM - 9 PM. The diverse lineup showcases various traditional and modern dance styles from all corners of the globe. For more information, visit chica-goculturalplan.org and nightoutintheparks.com.

JAZZIN’ AT THE SHEDD: With the long hot days of summer quickly approaching, take a break from the heat and indulge in the coolest after-hours event in Chicago. Shedd Aquarium’s annual Wednesday night summer event, Jazzin at the Shedd, sponsored by Bank of America, invites guests to explore its colorful galleries and soak up the sounds of the region’s hottest urban jazz musicians, while 8

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sipping signature cocktails and relishing breathtaking views of the Chicago skyline. Be sure to stay late enough to take in the fireworks show that is put on by Navy Pier every Wednesday at 9:30 PM – the best view in the city can be had on the Bill and Stephanie Sick Family Lakefront Terrace at the aquarium.

Now in its 19th year, Jazzin’ runs every Wednesday through September 4 and offers guests the opportunity to discover the aquarium’s more than 32,000 animal residents as they explore Shedd’s vibrant Abbott Oceanarium, the wonders of Wild Reef and the pulsating beauties of Jellies. Guests have the option of enhancing their Jazzin’ experience by reserving a seat in the Aqua Lounge, located in the Soundings Café and available to guests 21 years and older. The indoor, air-conditioned lounge features the same breathtaking skyline view during the evening fireworks display, as well as an appetizer buffet, a complimentary cocktail and a private performance by various jazz musicians throughout the season. The lounge is open during each Jazzin’ event from 6 -10 PM. Admission to the Aqua Lounge is $52.95. Check availability and purchase tickets online at Ticketmaster.com.

FEATURED EXHIBITS AT THE CHICAGO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Ready, Pet, Go! This activity occurs Daily in July during normal business hours. What do you get when you cross a best friend with four legs, a beak, gills, floppy ears, scaled skin AND a curly tail? Pets, of course! Ready, Pet, Go!, Chicago Children’s Museum’s brand new exhibit, is dedicated to the special animals in our lives. Become your favorite animal; crawl in, out and around a child-size pet home; and share stories about the pets in your life. For moms, dads and caregivers, learn the benefits of pets and pet play, and access resources for choosing appropriate family pets. Come chirp like a bird, bark like a dog, or climb like a cat. It’s all allowed in Ready, Pet, Go! Tinkering Lab This activity also occurs Daily in July during normal business hours.

This is the Chicago Children’s Museum’s newest permanent exhibit! Inspired by the national Maker Movement, Tinkering Lab provides children and families with the inspiration, time, space, materials and freedom to innovate and interact directly with the real, three-dimensional world around them. It’s the ultimate workshop inspiring visitors to design, build, test and retest with real tools and materials. Tinkering Lab: Real tools. Real science. Really for kids.

THE UNIVERSE-A WALK THROUGH SPACE AND TIME: This Adler Planetarium exhibit is ONGOING, presented in the Pritzker Hall of Cosmology. How large is the Universe? Where did it come from? Are we alone? Explore the answers to these big questions in The Universe: A Walk through Space and Time, a new, interactive exhibition. In The Universe, visitors will experience how the Universe evolved over 13.7 billion years – from the Big Bang to modern day.

As they travel through time, immersive media shows visitors how galaxies, stars, planets – and even the very atoms in their bodies – were created as the Universe grew. A spectacular projection showcases the vast enormity of the Universe itself, traveling through regions farther than our Solar System–transporting visitors billions of light-years from Earth to the edge of the cosmos, while touch screen technology allows them to investigate the diverse and beautiful objects of deep space. Using interactive stations in the exhibition, visitors can send e-postcards to themselves from the Orion Nebula,

MICHAEL B. BARRETT, a prominent Attorney at Law for over 20 years, is the newly elected Illinois Referee in Chief and Illinois Supervisor of Officials for the entire State of Illinois USA Hockey Association. Barrett is the Past President of Southwest and South Suburban Bar Association. Pictured left to right is Michael B. Barrett, Sr., Dennis Savard, Hall of Fame Hockey player and former coach for the Chicago Blackhawks and son Michael Barrett, who is receiving a hockey scholarship to Holy Cross University.

Young Michael is a graduate of Marist High School.

Neptune, the Andromeda galaxy, and the Coma Cluster of galaxies.

The e-postcards will travel at the speed of light, so visitors will have to wait approximately 2.5 million years for their postcard to arrive

from the Andromeda galaxy but, only four hours for a postcard from Neptune. To learn more and plan your next space adventure, call 312-922-7827 or visit www.adlerplanetarium.org.

Extended Coverage be evacuated.

When you go on vacation, does your insurance go with you? Generally yes, but there are some restrictions. *** Your homeowner’s policy generally takes care of what you bring with you, covering possessions in your car and in your vacation home against fire or theft, but not loss. The limit on personal property is usually 10 percent of your home coverage.

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Jewelry and other valuables can get a special endorsement against “mysterious disappearance” for an extra fee. *** Your auto insurance and your credit card may take care of a rental car, though not if you are driving out of the country. It’s wise to check. *** Your health insurance will usually cover emergency care while traveling in the U.S., but not once you go out of the country.

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Harvard Study: Over 40 million households pay more than 30 percent for housing Millions still underwater but current on their mortgages

By Charlene Crowell Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University assesses the nation’s housing outlook. The just-released The State of the Nation’s Housing in 2013 acknowledges that a housing recovery is underway; yet shares an array of findings that show only some Americans are a part of that recovery. The new and updated data reflect continued burdens on many households to pay housing costs, continuing racial disparities in homeownership and wealth, and an increasing number of consumers shifting to rentals from homeownership.

According to the report, “Even as the recovery gains momentum, millions of homeowners are still delinquent on their mortgages or owe more than their homes are worth, and severe housing cost burdens have set a new record. . . .Over 40 million households were at least moderately cost burdened (paying more than 30 percent of their in-

Charlene Crowell comes for housing), including 20.6 million households that were severely burdened (paying more than half of their incomes for housing),” says the report.

From 2007-2011, 2.4 million homes changed from owner-occupied to renter-occupied, far more

than the 900,000 rental units started during these same years. The 258,000 new rentals that came to market in 2012 represent the highest number since 2004 and affected 34 of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas. Especially sharp rental increases occurred in Austin, Raleigh and Bridgeport.

Additionally, despite low interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, homeownership in communities of color remains a distant American Dream. Today, only 44 percent of African-Americans and 46 percent of Hispanics are homeowners. By comparison, white homeownership stands at 73 percent.

Mortgage loan denials contributed to some of the racial disparity in homeownership. In 2011, African-American mortgage applicants were denied nearly 37 percent of the time – more than twice that for white borrowers who were denied at 14 percent.

Similar to an earlier report by Brandeis University on racial

wealth, the Harvard study also addressed the issue of wealth. By 2010, the report found that median net worth of a white homeowner was $214,500, more than 2.5 times that of a Black homeowner and 2.8 times that of a Hispanic homeowner. Even comparing the history of homeownership by race from 1995 to 2012, the 2013 report found that during the troubled years when foreclosures were rising, 20052012, white homeownership levels remained well above 70 percent. Yet for communities of color, homeownership dwindled during these years.

In addition to these differences in homeownership and wealth, the report notes a growing pattern of consumers spending disproportionate amounts of income for housing.

Consider these findings: 42.3 million families or 37 percent of the nation, faced housing cost burdens and paid more than 30 percent of pre-tax income on housing; In California, New York and New

Jersey, more than 22 percent of households pay more than 50 percent of pre-tax income for housing; Nearly 28 percent of all AfricanAmerican households carry severely cost-burdened housing.

Despite these burdens, the report found that the overwhelming majority of underwater homeowners continue to make payments on their mortgages that exceed the present value of their home.

According to Eric S. Belsky, Managing Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, “Given the profoundly positive impact that decent and affordable housing can have on the lives of individuals, families, and entire communities, efforts to address these urgent concerns as well as long-standing housing affordability should be among the nation’s highest priorities.”

Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at: Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

Shopping ‘Til We Drop I have a black belt in retail therapy, so I was thrilled when I first saw Nielsen’s new in-depth report, Brick

by Brick: the State of the Shopping Center because it confirms two very important things: our economy is growing stronger because jobs are being created and money is being spent; and as consumers, we are stronger than ever.

You’ve probably heard the line, “If you build it, they will come,” from the movie “Field of Dreams.” Well, that is happening all around us, no matter where you live. We consumers don’t just shop. We want a multi-faceted experience to play, eat, be entertained and engaged – and that’s what’s available to us. No matter where you live in the country shopping centers – be they sprawling outdoor malls and shopping plazas, enclosed complexes, super centers, lifestyle centers, mega entertainment centers, value retail centers (outlet malls) or intimate neighborhood centers – are expanding or shrinking according to what the consumers they serve need and want. Businesses want our hard-earned dollars, the competition is always on to do it better; to give us what we want; to meet our every need.

Nielsen’s shopping center study reports that the number of large shopping centers has jumped 65% over the last five years. This translates well for employment. According to both the Department of Labor and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the U.S. shopping center retail sector added 33,000 jobs in April. That accounts for one-fifth www.chicagocrusader.com

of the total jobs added that month.

Labor Department figures show the industry has bounced back from its recessionary low back in December 2009, recovering more than half a million jobs since that time. Between April of last year and April 2013, 213,000 of those jobs were filled.

This means retail now employs 12.5 million people, which makes up 9.3% of all payroll employment.

Additionally, the restaurants and bars that are part of the shopping centers generated another 38,000 new jobs.

According to the Nielsen Restaurant Growth Index (RGI) which tracks restaurant openings and sales, there were 47,161 new restaurant openings in 2012. Many of those restaurants are located in Lifestyle Shopping Centers. More jobs mean there’s more money to spend. Total shopping center sales for 2012 were more than $2.4 trillion, an increase of 2.8% over 2011.

There’s good news, too, for the smaller guys – those neighborhood centers or community centers that we all love, where we do our quick grocery store runs, dry cleaning or grab our morning coffee. Their numbers have remained constant. However, those small shopping centers that are anchored by a convenience store are growing because convenience stores (c-stores) are increasing even faster than the overall market, up 4.9% over the last year compared to 3.7% for the overall market.

The picture is not so rosy for everyone, however. We all had our favorite specialty stores that either no longer exist or have closed locations as a re-

as online shopping can be, we still like to touch, compare, try on and have an “experience” in the actual stores).

The report also reveals that affluent suburban families are more than twice as likely to shop online as the average American household, spending about $200 online a year and that e-commerce will continue to grow over the next five years. Although ecommerce can be a double-edged sword for retailers, it’s projected that it is going to work particularly well for those establishments that take advan-

tage of promotions both online and in their stores.

Look at what we’ve done. Again, our consumer preferences have reshaped another entire industry.

That’s why our consumer choices and behaviors are so important. That kind of power is heady stuff.

Cheryl Pearson-McNeil is senior vice president of public affairs and government relations for Nielsen.

For more information and studies go to www.nielsenwire.com.

Cheryl Pearson-McNeil sult of the past recession and changing consumer tastes. An example is the Disney Store, which has closed one-third of its stores since 2008.

Borders Bookstore, also closed its doors and I openly wept because it was a place that no matter how old he got, my son and I could still agree that Borders was one of our favorite places, (and one of the rare places during his early teen years where he was not embarrassed to be seen with me).

Sometimes, we let our fingers and plastic do the walking and shop on our computers, tablets or phones instead of heading out to the physical stores. Nielsen’s shopping report shows that although e-commerce is growing, representing 5.4% of retail sales in the last quarter of 2012, consumers still spend most of their money at brick and mortar locations.

(Makes sense, because as convenient

(Continued from page 6) struggle with oppressed peoples in sufficiency and self-help will we the United States and throughout truly liberate ourselves from the the world, as long as the best inter- continued devastation of racism ests of people of African descent are and white supremacy in this counnot contradicted or compromised. try.

• To continue to struggle to maxiNBUF believes that in order for mize the unity of the Black Libera- Black people in America to become tion Movement and of people of free, liberated, and independent, African descent; to eliminate inter- we must be organized. Therefore, nal violence, character assassina- we believe all Black people should tion, and self-destruction; to estab- join an organization that is worklish a viable process to arbitrate all ing in the interest of our people. major conflicts within the Black We believe that the National Liberation Movement and the Black United Front is such an orgaAfrican community. nization and we urge you to join us • To continue the political/cultur- and participate in our Thirtyal revolution to create a new vision fourth Annual National NBUF and value system and a new man, Convention, July 11-14, 2013 in woman, and child based on the Dallas, Texas, This year’s convention common struggle around the needs theme is: “Africans Must Unite at of the African majority.

Home and Abroad: Revisiting NBUF takes the position that on- Principles of Pan Africanism.” ly through our own economic self- Hope to see you there.

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EDUCATION

Urban Prep College Signing Day at Daley Plaza Graduating seniors from two campuses publicly commit to the school they’ll attend this fall Traditionally, National Signing Day refers to the day when high school seniors sign letters of intent indicating the college where they will play football. For Urban Prep, Signing Day isn’t about students’ athletic intent but rather their academic commitment to attend and complete college. Surrounded by friends, family and proud spectators, each student will publicly announce the college or university he has chosen to attend and commit to that school at Urban Prep’s College Signing Day. This year, the first graduates of Urban Prep – West Campus will join Urban Prep’s Englewood Campus in the distinguished Urban Prep College Signing Day tradition. For the fourth consecutive year, 100% of Urban Prep graduates—167 African-American

URBAN PREP SENIORS at Urban Prep’s College Signing Day.

URBAN PREP STUDENTS Gabriel Durley (left) and Ian Brock smile proudly after receiving congratulations.

males mostly from low-income families—have been accepted to more than 130 different four-year colleges/universities including Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Howard University, Kenyon College, Morehouse College, the University of Illinois at ChampaignUrbana, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, these accomplished young men have received more than $8 million in college scholarships and grants.

The Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men class of 2013 held its commencement ceremony for seniors from the Englewood and West campuses on Friday, June 7, 2013 at the UIC Forum.

About Urban Prep

GRADUATING SENIORS FROM Urban Prep’s West campus, pose with Mr. Tim King, founder and CEO, at Urban Prep’s College Signing Day. The West campus had 100 percent of its graduating seniors accepted into college.

AN URBAN PREP senior signs his name to the College Signing Day banner.

Urban Prep Academies was founded in 2002 by Tim King and a group of African-American education, business and civic leaders who wanted to improve the educational opportunities available to urban boys. In 2005, this nonprofit organization was approved to open Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men—Englewood Campus. Urban Prep is the country’s first charter public high school for boys. Since accepting its first class in the fall of 2006, Urban Prep has been recognized internationally for its success in improving the academic, social and emotional development of urban young men. Urban Prep now operates three schools in Chicago. 100% of Urban Prep’s graduates have been admitted to college. The Urban Prep Motto is We Believe.

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COMMEMORATIVE Urban Prep College Signing Day banner.

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URBAN PREP STUDENT Malik Battle (center), pictured with his family, shows off the hat from his new college. www.chicagocrusader.com

COMMUNITY

NeighborWorks® Day transforms communities in a day Earlier this month more than 700 corporate volunteers, community leaders, and neighborhood residents participated in Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago’s 26th Annual NeighborWorks® Day. The day included curb appeal activities in seven of NHS’ targeted communities, including Auburn Gresham, Chicago Lawn, Englewood, North Lawndale, Roseland, West Humboldt, and Elgin. For the projects, volunteers donated over 4,290 volunteer hours to revitalize the neighborhood blocks by planting flowers, cleaning vacant lots, and creating community gardens or

staffing topical workshops offered at resource fairs. In total, volunteers spruced up 115 homes, worked on nine community gardens, cleaned eight vacant lots and prepared a vacant home for rehab.

NeighborWorks Day® is a chance for NHS’ partners to get personally involved with neighborhood revitalization and see firsthand the impact of their support.

"The connections we made in the community were remarkable and our volunteers were able to transform people's yards in one morning,” said NHS of the Fox Valley Director, Mary Lu Seidel.

Volunteers from the following

YOUNG VOLUNTEERS HELPING out in West Humboldt.

VOLUNTEERS IN WEST HUMBOLDT. (Photos courtesy of Milosh Kosanovich- Chicago Photo-graphic Art) NeighborWorks® Day is a small munity reinvestment through a organizations participated: American Family Insurance, Baker Tilly, part of NHS’ larger strategy to at- partnership of residents, businessBank of America, BMO Harris tract new homebuyers to target es, and government. With the help Bank, Charter One Bank, Citi, El- neighborhoods and to bring resi- of these partners, NHS has levergin State Bank, Fannie Mae, Fed- dents together to foster a sense of aged investment of more than $1.1 billion in Chicago’s neighboreral Reserve Bank of Chicago, First community on the block.

Established in 1975, NHS of hoods.

Bank of Highland Park, HSBC, NHS Chicago is also part of the Inland Bank, JPMorgan & Chase, Chicago is the city’s largest nonLiberty Mutual Bank for Savings, profit community development NeighborWorks® America netLowe’s, MB Financial Bank, Stan- organization committed to provid- work, which includes 235 indedard Bank & Trust, State Bank of ing Chicago and Elgin residents af- pendent, community-based nonIndia, State Farm Insurance Com- fordable resources so they can buy, profit organizations serving more panies, the PrivateBank, Travelers fix, and keep their homes. Since its than 4,500 communities nationInsurance, UPS, U.S. Bank, Web- creation, NHS has created more wide.

For more information on NHS ster Construction Group, and than 4,161 new homeowners.

NHS also works to stimulate com- visit www.nhschicago.org.

Wide Open West.

R.A.G.E. brings an alternative to violence Local artists, films, forums, spoken word and art-based workshops will be the focal points of the Peace in the Park initiative being launched June 29 by the Resident Association of Greater Englewood (RAGE).

The theme “So Fresh Saturday” will be carried throughout Englewood at four parks – including: Sherwood, 5701 S. Shields – June 29 from 4 p.m.-9 p.m.; Hamilton Park, 513 W. 72nd St. July 27; Lindblom Park - 6054 S. Damen Ave. - Sat. August 10. The finale

event will be at Ogden Park, 6500 S. Racine.

All of the events last from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.

R.A.G.E. officials are billing these Saturdays as a “community driven edu-tainment.” Various artists including Ty-Green and Drunken Monkee will be featured. There also will be educational workshops focusing on youth; entrepreneurship; hiphop; media; social networks; and community activism.

The initiative is part of the Chica-

go Park District’s Night Out in the Park series. It is designed to create a safe place in the parks of Englewood and West Englewood. Our goal is to educate and entertain attendees while providing a “safe space” for the residents in Englewood and to utilize art as a form to spark social responsibility and intergenerational dialogue,” said Sonya Harper, a R.A.G.E. community organizer.

A host of community activists, including Willie Fleming Jr. of the

Anti-Eviction Campaign, Sy Smith of the National Block Club University, Camiella Williams, an anti-violence activist will share strategies and experiences.

These free, peaceful, fun-filled events are for the whole family. For more info contact R.A.G.E. at 866845-1032 or email joinrage@gmail.com.

R.A.G.E. is an independently operated, resident-founded organization whose mission is to mobilize residents, utilizing asset-based development and innovative organizing techniques to combat issues in the community.

Visit R.A.G.E. website at ragenglewood.org for more info about the association.

ANOTHER INITIATIVE TO stem violence, RAGE Co-founder and Pres. Asiaha Butler (seated front row center) was the guest speaker at a teen summit to create dialogue about community issues affecting youth that was sponsored by NIU Center for Black Studies in DeKalb, Ill. www.chicagocrusader.com

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ENTERTAINMENT

By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, MSJ

By Raymond Ward BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: CONGRATULATIONS to Courtney B. Vance, Patina Miller, Billy Porter and the legendary Cicely Tyson on their recent Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards. The wins...especially Miss Tyson’s are long overdue....and isn’t this a good reason to make a trip to New York to see them in their award-winning roles?

Homegoings documentary explores tradition of Black funerals

HOT SOUL MUSIC: Get out your white clothes because the always crowd-pleasing Frankie Beverly and Maze makes a trip to Chicago’s Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island on July 27th for a night of silky-soul music. Tickets range in price from $20 to $95 and are available at www.livenation.com. OR....if you want to venture further south, Ginuwine, Tyrese and Tank bring a special show to the Country Club Hills Theatre, located at 4116 West 183rd Street in Country Club Hills on July 25th. Tickets are priced from $20 to $100 and are available by calling 1-800-745-3000 or at all Ticketmaster locations.

Homegoings is a great documentary about an undertaker in Harlem, New York, named Isaiah Owens.

The documentary is now being aired on WTTW’s POV (Point of View) program.

Owens says that he always knew that he had a calling to be an undertaker. Even as a young boy, he played funerals by burying everything from matchsticks to any dead animal that he could find in his hometown in South Carolina.

“Anything that he’d find dead, he buried. Can’t even think where he got it from, but that was his calling,” said his mother, Willie Mae. Owens recalls that when he was growing up in the South, the funeral director was a lifeline for the community. “When it comes to death and funerals, African-American people, we have our own way,” Owens states. “It has worked for us throughout the ages; it has kept us balanced, sane. And everybody know[s] that it’s going to be a sad, good time.”

Owens moved to New York from his hometown in 1968 and went to mortuary school, later working for a female funeral home owner. Shortly afterward, he opened his own business.

The documentary shows Owens preparing bodies for funeral, comforting the loved ones of the deceased and even discussing a prearrangement agreement with Linda “Redd” Williams-Miller, because she wants to make sure that her burial is just as she wants it. Owens even notes the fine details of the color dye that Redd uses and the color and type of manicure that she would prefer when her time comes.

A heart wrenching part of the movie was when a woman died and a couple of days later her husband also died. Owens then was charged with performing a double funeral for the deceased couple.

Owen combines instinctive sympathy for those who grieve with a deep knowledge of African-American funeral customs that aims to turn sorrow into an affirmation of faith that loved ones are going “home.” In the movie, Owens talks about how his business has been suffering lately, because of the economy and because people don’t have the

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CELEBRATION: Speaking of making a trip, you might want to plan on visiting Atlanta for the 25th Annual National Black Arts Festival (NBAF). This year’s Festival is a three month-long celebration, which will take place July 6th through September 14th at various venues around “Hotlanta.”

There’s all types of programs, artists and family events on the schedule including: The Legends Celebration which will be hosted by actress Anna Maria Horsford (Thelma from “Amen”); Jazz at Ebenezer Baptist; A Family Book Fair; “Crowns” starring Pauletta Washington (yes....Denzel’s wife); The Pan African Film Festival; and this year’s Gala, “A Love Note to Broadway.”

For a complete schedule of events, please visit www.nbaf.org LEGENDARY: Television legend Merri Dee has written and released a brand new book entitled “Life Lessons on Faith, Forgiveness & Grace.” Miss Merri chronicles her almost four decade long career at WGN-TV and offers her personal insights on how to navigate life’s daily challenges. Please visit www.merridee.com to get your copy.

CHICAGO BOUND: Save your coins and make plans now because Broadway’s hit, “Motown: The Musical” is coming to Chicago next

The Jackson Five year. The show will kick-off its National Tour at the Oriental Theater located at 24 West Randolph Street on April 22nd and continue through July 13th.

Motown: The musical tells the stories behind the hits of such legendary acts as The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Martha and The Vandellas....and the list goes on and on.

For more information please visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com or www.MotownTheMusical.com/Chicago

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ISAIAH OWENS IN front of his business in Harlem, New York.

money for funerals; choosing instead to have their loved ones cremated. His shows the history of funerals back through slavery times, when slaves would bury each other the best way that they could—not trusting white slaveholders to do the

anything, let alone a loved one’s remains. When he is dressing and beautifying the dead, he shows a dedication to craft and attention to detail that exemplifies Owens Funeral Home’s motto: “Where Beauty Softens Your Grief.”

OWENS PREPARES A body for burial. job for them.

Owens is such a dapper man, and his wife, Lillie, shares that he has a different kind of spirit about him, because she would never have dated an undertaker. But his gentleness comes through in the movie, and you know you could trust him with

He arranges a funeral that turns into a parade through Harlem with a white horse and carriage. During the documentary, Owens goes to visit his mother, who was 95 at the time of the movie, who works a couple of days a week as a receptionist at (Continued on page 16) www.chicagocrusader.com

ENTERTAINMENT STYLE

Goodman Theatre’s Scenemakers Board raises unprecedented $45K for education programs Goodman Theatre’s Scenemakers Board hosted its second annual Scene Soiree major fundraiser recently at Ignite Glass Studios (401 N. Armour St). The evening drew 300 of Chicago’s foremost young professionals and raised $45,000 toward Goodman Theatre’s General Theatre Studies (GTS) Summer Program for Chicago youth.

Among the festivities were fashion presentations—curated by Jon Cotay of Akira and Teresa Mui of Verdonna Models—by local designers Borris Powell, JToor and Crystal B. Designs; glass blowing demonstrations; fire performers from Actors Gymnasium; music from DJs Obscene Beats and Patrick Beatman; artisan cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction and raffle for a trip to Las

Vegas. For the first time at a Scenemakers event, guests used mobile silent auction platform Handbid on their personal phones or at iPad stations throughout the event.

Clifford Law Offices, Katz & Stefani, Social Media Makers and R.W. Baird were the Premiere Sponsors of the Scene Soiree. Pedersen & Houpt Law Offices was the Principal Sponsor. Cheeky Chicago was the Media Sponsor.

Paramount Events was the Culinary Sponsor. Uber, “The Official Ride of the Scene Soiree,” provided $30 toward black car service for all new users at the event. Kelly Cardenas Salon was a Fashion Presentation Partner.

The Goodman is grateful to its more than 70 silent auction, gift GINA BARGE, DAVID WHEELER, and Scenemakers Board President Lauren Blair at Goodman Theatre’s Scene Soiree fundraiser at Ignite Glass Studios. (Photo by Dean LaPrairie)

FASHION DESIGNER Crystal B. Simms and Raven Adams at Goodman Theatre’s Scene Soiree fundraiser. (Photo by John Riley Photography)

FIRE PERFORMER FROM Actors Gymnasium at Goodman Theatre’s Scene Soiree fundraiser. (Photo by Dean LaPrairie) www.chicagocrusader.com

bag and in-kind sponsors, including AKIRA Chicago, Entertainment Cruises, Equinox, Louis Vuitton, Maker’s Mark, NoMi, Ruskova Vodka, The Spa at Trump, Tavernita and Walt Disney World Resorts.

Now in its 10th year of service, Goodman Theatre’s Scenemakers Board has reached its highest level of active participation in the group’s history, with its near 40 members contributing more than $75,000 to the Goodman last year. A young professionals auxiliary board of Goodman Theatre, the Scenemakers supports the theater’s mission through fundraising, audience development and advocacy—with a particular focus on the Goodman’s New Work initiative and education and community engagement. Learn more at GoodmanTheatre.org/Scenemakers.

Nearly 80 Chicago young people participate in Goodman Theatre’s free six-week (July 1 – August 12) summer program, General Theatre Studies (GTS), which introduces participants to all elements of the creation of theater, both on stage and behind the scenes, using personal history and storytelling techniques. Participants aged 14 19 learn all elements of theater production, as well as critical thinking, literacy and storytelling skills from local theater professionals.

This year’s theme focuses on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; a significant event in the Civil Rights Movement at which Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic speech “I Have a Dream.”

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WORLD OF MUSIC

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra return to Ravinia The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square returned to The Ravinia Festival for the first time since its 2007 sold-out concert at the outdoor music festival, North America’s oldest and best. Barely a spot of grass could be seen on Ravinia’s spacious lawns and the weather cooperated to the fullest, allowing both the lawn and Pavilion audience to bask in the glory of beautiful music without dashing for cover or huddling together for warmth.

Music Director Max Wilberg and Associate Music Director Ryan Murphy conducted the 360-member choir and 65-member orchestra and Lloyd Newell, the voice of “Music and the Spoken Word” since 1990, narrated the program of sacred and secular music consisting of classics by “the Masters,” Welsh and American folk hymns, Negro Spirituals, “Glory! Music of Rejoicing from around the World,” and selections from The American Songbook. The audience members were instructed at the beginning of the concert to vote by text message during the concert for one of three selections to determine the one en-

Lloyd Newell, the voice of “Music and the Spoken Word” was greeted by Barbara Wright-Pryor (center) and Erin Goseer Mitchell at a reception that preceded the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert. core to be performed by the Choir mu” (by Olatunji as arranged by and Orchestra. The choices were Wendell Whalum) with percussion “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” “God instruments and identical hand Bless America” and “Climb Ev’ry movements and hand-clapping a la Mountain.” The winner: “Climb the Morehouse College Glee Club style. The re-arrangement to inEv’ry Mountain.”

The Choir and Orchestra drew clude female voices was by Barringthe loudest ovation after perform- ton Brooks.

Moses Hogan’s spirituals “I want ing the Nigerian carol “Betelehe-

NU’s Bienen School of Music presents summer concert series Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music will present programs during the months of July and August featuring works by Mahler, Beethoven and Schumann by the Northwestern University Summer Orchestra, and a concert that includes “In Ecclesiis,” Gabrieli’s work for chorus, brass, organ and piano. A Sunday afternoon oboe workshop recital is one of several admission-free recitals.

During July and continuing through early August, the Bienen School is offering guitar, voice, violin, trombone and oboe workshops; symposia on conducting, wind music and percussion; and a vocal career seminar that can be audited by members of the general public. Details and fees are available at music.northwestern.edu. For more information, call (847) 491-3141 or email summermusic@northwestern.edu.

All summer programs are open to the public and take place on the University’s Evanston campus at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive; Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place; Regenstein Recital Hall, 60 Arts Circle Drive; or Alice Millar Chapel, 1870 Sheridan Road, as noted.

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Wednesday, July 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Regenstein Recital Hall - Violin Institute Recital will feature performances by Northwestern’s Violin Institute participants. Admission is free.

Sunday, July 7 at 3:00 p.m. in Lutkin Hall - Oboe Workshop Recital will present performances

by Northwestern students and faculty. Admission is free.

Friday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall – Robert G. Hasty directs The Northwestern University Summer Orchestra in a program of Chaminade’s Flute Concertino in D Major, featuring flutist Gerard Dutton and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major. Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 for students with IDs. Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m., in Pick-Staiger Concert

Hall - Daniel J. Farris will conduct the Northshore Concert Band in an evening of band classics and march favorites. Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 for students with IDs. Concert ticket prices are indicated in two ranges: the first for the general public and the second for full-time students with IDs. Northwestern faculty and staff with a valid WildCARD ID receive a 15 percent discount off the general public ticket price.

For more information, call the Pick-Staiger Concert Office at (847) 491-5441 or visit the PickStaiger website at www.pickstaiger.org. To order tickets, call the Pick-Staiger Ticket Office at (847) 467-4000 or visit www.pickstaiger.org.

CONSTRUCTION ALERT

Due to construction on the south end of campus, Arts Circle Drive is currently closed to traffic. Free parking is still available on weekends and after 4 p.m. weekdays in the two-level lakefront structure located on Campus Drive.

After turning onto Campus Drive from Sheridan Road, enter the parking structure on the right by way of ramps leading to the upper and lower levels.

For vehicles with handicap placards, reserved spaces are available on weekends and after 4 p.m. weekdays in the lot directly west of Louis Hall. For more construction and parking information, visit pickstaiger.org/construction

Jesus to Walk with Me” and Howard Roberts’ “Rock-a My Soul” were instant crowd pleasers and delivered to perfection by the Choir and Orchestra although the soloist on the Roberts piece, who performed his solo as if he were in a 1920s minstrel show, was totally unaware of the significance and dignity of the Negro Spiritual or the struggles of his own people throughout history.

Selections from The American Songbook included Richard Rodgers’ “It’s a Grand Night for Singing,” from State Fair; Jerry Bock’s “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof, Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” from Girl Crazy, proving once and again that The Mormon Tabernacle Choir together with the Orchestra at Temple Square can do it all to perfection.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed for the first time outside the Tabernacle in 1862 and has been touring ever since. It has sung

Barbara Wright-Pryor at the opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics and for six Presidents of the United States.

The Choir and Orchestra is beginning its 85th year of continuous live network broadcasting through its weekly program, “Music and the Spoken Word” and is world-famous for its performances of musical masterpieces. Its Sunday morning broadcasts have become a tradition in many homes, including mine since childhood, regardless of religious affiliation or belief. In the Chicago Area, it can be heard on Sunday mornings at 7:00 a.m. over station 101.5 FM. For more information on the Choir and Orchestra visit mormontabernaclechoir.org.

Chicago’s 98.7WFMT announces Candice Agree as new host Chicago’s classical and fine arts radio station, 98.7WFMT recently announced the hiring of its newest announcer, Candice Agree. Ms. Agree will replace program host George Preston who left WFMT to assume the position of general manager of KCME in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Ms. Agree comes to WFMT with a wealth of experience as a broadcaster in the world of classical music, having previously served as a host at Sirius Satellite, WQXR in New York City and WETA in Washington, D.C. Most of her twenty-five years in broadcasting have been in New York. She has also been the voice of CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood since 1999 and has served as the host of a syndicated Latin music program called The Spanish Hour for the last three years. Ms. Agree’s first day at the station will be July 1, 2013.

“WFMT is a national broadcasting treasure and I’m honored to have the chance to be a part of it,” said Ms. Agree. “While media technologies keep advancing, there is still nothing better than the intimacy of a warm, friendly voice to introduce and share great music. Radio still does it best, and no one does it better in classical music than WFMT,” she added.

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Candice Agree broadcaster of such experience, knowledge and passion to continue the tradition of excellence at WFMT,” said program director Peter van de Graaff.

98.7WFMT, Chicago’s classical radio station for more than sixty years, provides the best and broadest selection of classical music and fine arts programming in the country. Via the WFMT Radio Network and WFMT’s enhanced streaming service at wfmt.com/streaming, the station is currently serving the largest audience in the station’s history with its programming available to a global audience. For more information about 98.7WFMT, visit wfmt.com. www.chicagocrusader.com

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING

A Moment to Supersize Your Thinking

By Effie Rolfe Life is an echo—whatever you give to life—life returns to you.

An echo is a repeat sound or ricochet of what’s been released.

Thus your life is simply a direct result of your thoughts and actions. Therefore it makes sense that what you give out always comes back exponentially—you sow you reap—you give you get—you seek you find life always mirror your actions.

It’s been said that whatever you eat in private is what people will see in public, so it is with life.

There is really no need to have angst concerning your future as long as you are digesting the right

Effie Rolfe

things into your heart and mind.

Of course, there will be challenges and things to sometimes throw you off balance, but it’s called—life. However, as long as you include prayer, positive thoughts, thanksgiving, God’s word, hard work, wise counsel, goodness and joy—these are the ingredients to a good future and solid foundation. Stop frowning if you want the world to smile with you. Be generous with agape love, blessings, faith, goodness and kindness because whatever you give will eventually find it’s way right back home. Remember, if you want to know how your life will look tomorrow, take a look at what you are doing today. Life is

an echo—give what you want to receive.

What are you giving today?

Effie Rolfe is an Author of

“Supersize Your Thinking,” Media Personality and Motivational Speaker. You can contact her at effierolfe.com or on twitter.com/effiedrolfe.

Men’s Day Breakfast On June 15 in honor of Father’s Day, the Men of Christ Universal Temple Church (Reverend Derrick Wells, Senior Minister) gathered at Legacy Banquet Hall at 11901 S. Loomis for the Men's Day Breakfast.

Attorney Thomas N. Todd was the guest speaker. Todd stated that "Men need to reclaim our communities, and take action to transform the streets." Attorney Todd told the parents in the audience that "they cannot be their children's friend, you have to be the adult and raise their child to be responsible for their actions."

The Crusader Gospel Corner Ashro recording artist, Lemmie Battles, recently celebrated her 61st birthday and 20th Annual Musical at the Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Morgan Park.

The Stellar and Grammy Award nominee has often been compared to the First Lady of Gospel—Shirley Caesar. The anointed affair brought in the likes of Earnest Pugh and longtime television host, The Ambassador—Dr. Bobby Jones. Battles’ strong passion for spreading the word in song caused her to defy doctor’s orders and continue singing even after being diagnosed with throat cancer twice.

“I’m healed and don’t take any medicine,” shared the singing evangelist. The lead singer of the

her new single, “Higher Ground” on TBN July 18 and then she’s off to tape Bobby Jones Gospel on July 28. The CD entitled “Testify” is available at ashrorecords.com.

“This is what the LORD Almighty says…Call for the wailing women to come...” Jeremiah 9:17. With the increasing wave of violence in Chicago, many continue to mourn for the sons and daughters whose precious lives have been snatched to senseless violence. Because of this, women will gather in the city June 27 through June 30 to pray. “It’s the vision of Cecelia Williams Bryant, mother of Jamal Bryant, in response to all the violence we are having in Chicago and the surrounding communities,” said Corlis Moody, site and logistics chair for the convocation. “She prayed and the Lord impressed upon her heart that it’s time to convene a women’s convocation in Chicago and bring women from all over the world including Africa, India, South America and we’re expecting 1,500 to 2,000,”

Lemmie Battles Grammy nominated Chicago Mass Choir has performed in the White House as well as overseas including Switzerland and Spain.

“I’m going to Italy with Dr. Bobby Jones July 3rd through July 15—I went with him last year and they asked him to bring me back by popular demand” shared Battles. You can watch her sing www.chicagocrusader.com

Cecelia Williams Bryant

shared Moody, who is also First Lady of Quinn Chapel, the oldest Black church in Chicago. Additionally, Moody stated this is not the first prayer convocation, “We actually had something similar in Toronto in 2009.” All are invited to The World of Women Praying Convocation, June 27 through June 30 at Donnell E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. There will be free childcare from 3 to 11 years old, classes for girls from 12 to 17 years old, women’s classes and workshops facilitated by clergy from around the world, healing the nations and worship services every night at 7 p.m.

Of course, men are invited and the Sons of Boaz—where the men will surround women in prayer on Friday and Saturday, they will have a prayer breakfast and workshops featuring Bishop John R. Bryant, Sr., Bishops Horace Smith and Larry Trotter will attend on Saturday morning as well. Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant will give the welcome on Thursday and special guests include gospel saxophonist, Angela Christie and Bishop Vashti McKenzie.

The closing worship service— Sending Forth is 9 a.m. on Sunday, all are invited and asked to wear white. For more information call Quinn Chapel 312-7911846.

Janet Sutton & The Voices of Acme, The Chicago Travelers, Arthur Sutton and Gift of Praise, B Mike and Kim Stratton will headline a benefit concert for True Rock Ministries entitled, Save Our Children at the Harold Washington Cultural Center this Sunday, June 30, 4 p.m. Rev. Earl Grandberry, Pastor of True Rock Ministries, 57 E. 16th Street.

THE REV. DR. WINSTON of Christ Universal Temple presenting speaker Attorney Thomas Todd with a Fathers Day Appreciation Plaque.

MEMBERS OF CHRIST Universal Temple Church (Men of CUT group) share the commitment to helping the community during a recent service.

THE REV. DERRICK WELLS, senior minister of Christ Universal Temple Church with teenagers from the Youth Expressing Christ group. (All photos courtesy of Yogi Ward)

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ENTERTAINMENT: CHICAGO STYLE (Cont’d from page 12) a funeral home that he owns there. There she shows her “bed,” which is a custommade casket that she says is just waiting for her when her time comes.

Homegoings is directed and produced by Christine Turner, and shows the history of the dignified, respected profession of being a Black undertaker. Throughout Homegoings, Owens relates the culture and history of death and mourning in the Black community, harkening back to slavery and segregation. He explains that “when the slaves were killed, it wasn’t a proper funeral, but they kind of did their best. When

they got down in the woods, away from the slave masters, they came up with songs like ‘Soon I will be done with the troubles of the world, going home to live with my God.’” Homegoings is a moving portrait of a man and a people—and of the faith, hope and history that sustain them in the face of death. The film kicked off the 26th season of POV on PBS, which airs locally on Channel 11 for many in the Chicagoland area. To see Homegoings, either go to the website to purchase the film at www.homegoings.com or watch it on PBS/WTTW stream until July 24 at www.pbs.org/pov/homegoings.

(Cont’d from page 5) view the proper role of government.

When asked about the role government should play in trying to improve the social and economic position of Blacks and other people of color, 59 percent of Blacks said the government should play a major role, 32 percent said a minor role, 8 percent said no role and 1 percent was unsure. Among Whites, only 19 percent said the government should play a major role, 50 percent said

a minor role, 30 percent said no role and 1 percent was unsure.

Affirmative Action Polls

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/-curry george and George E.- Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

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OWENS VISITS HIS family’s cemetery.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (Continued from page 4) closure business is the role CPS did not play in addressing the issue. Probably all of us know that the district held a gazillion community meetings and had some high-profile individuals advise them of the closures. Even though it was in the media we also saw the teachers union president go toe-to-toe with the CPS CEO. What we did not read about or hear about is CPS investing in a crisis plan to help ease the transition for the students leaving their old schools. Apparently, the district left that huge job up to principals and teachers at those schools about to be closed – how dumb is that? How many of those teachers had good things to say about the ad-

ministration or the changes that will put them out of a job? Why didn’t the CPS administration hire and train and dispatch citizens to make presentations to students and conduct honest question-and-answer sessions? These students deserved much more than CPS was doing as the young people were being pushed out the door towards the new schools.

Just like trauma counselors are sent in after a tragedy at a particular school our students should have had trained counselors to help them deal with their feelings. CPS really dropped the ball here, despite all of the educational jargon the CEO “inflicts” on the public.

Gale Hunter

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.JULIUS T. OCREY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 09 CH 42684 637 EAST 92ND PLACE Chicago, IL 60619 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 16, 2010, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 5, 2013, 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 637 EAST 92ND PLACE, Chicago, IL 60619 Property Index No. 25-03-415-015-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $163,869.89. 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, or a 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 and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). In accordance with 735 ILCS 5/151507(c)(1)(h-1) and (h-2), 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(5), and 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1), you are hereby notified that the purchaser of the property, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and legal fees required by subsections (g)(1) and (g)(4) of section 9 and the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of section 18.5 of the Illinois Condominium Property Act. 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 Plaintiffʼs attorney: Anthony Porto, FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC, 1807 W. DIEHL ROAD, SUITE 333, NAPERVILLE, IL 60563, (866) 402-8661 For bidding instructions, visit www.fal-illinois.com.. Please refer to file number C09100064. 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. FREEDMAN ANSELMO LINDBERG LLC 1807 W. DIEHL ROAD, SUITE 333 NAPERVILLE, IL 60563 (866) 402-8661 E-Mail: foreclosurenotice@falillinois.com Attorney File No. C09100064 Attorney ARDC No. 3126232 Attorney Code. 26122 Case Number: 09 CH 42684 TJSC#: 33-12690 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I544097 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE HOME FINANCE, LLC Plaintiff, -v.SUSAN M. GREENE A/K/A SUSAN

GREENE, SUSAN M. GREENE AS TRUSTEE UTA DATED 12/21/06 AND KNOWN AS THE SUSAN M. GREENE TRUST, MELDA PRICE AS TRUSTEE UTA DATED 12/21/06 AND KNOWN AS THE SUSAN M. GREENE TRUST, UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES UTA DATED 12/21/06 AND KNOWN AS THE SUSAN M. GREENE TRUST, HSBC BANK NEVADA, N.A., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 11 CH 001771 8258 S. WOODLAWN STREET CHICAGO, IL 60619 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 2, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on August 5, 2013, 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 8258 S. WOODLAWN STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60619 Property Index No. 20-35-124-128.

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. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. 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 Plaintiffʼs attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-00980. 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. 14-11-00980 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 11 CH 001771 TJSC#: 33-11759 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiffʼs attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Breast cancer support for ACCESS amounts to $75,000 from Komen Susan G. Komen® - Chicagoland Area has awarded a $75,000 grant to Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) to address the disturbing breast cancer mortality gap among women of color in Chicago.

The grant from Susan G. Komen® will support ACCESS’ breast health programs, an initiative designed to save more lives by seamlessly transitioning medically underserved women of color from breast health education to screening to a medical home.

“ACCESS is grateful to again be recognized for its efforts around early detection for breast cancer,” said ACCESS CEO Donna Thompson.

“Disparities still exist for women of color, but the outreach that we do and this recognition by Susan G. Komen® – Chicagoland Area are reminders that these women are not forgotten and that their lives are important.”

Susan G. Komen® is the world’s largest breast cancer organization, and the Chicagoland Area Affiliate is one of 122 Affiliates on the front lines, dedicated to ending breast cancer in their communities. Komen Affiliates fund innovative programs that help women and men overcome the cultural, social, educational and financial barriers to breast cancer screening and treatment.

“Komen Chicago continues to support patient navigation by funding

these worthy organizations,” said Rita Forden, CEO of Komen Chicagoland. “Our funds ensure access to timely and quality care for all women and men with the greatest need in the Chicagoland community.”

About Access Community Health Network Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) provides outstanding preventive and primary health care, accessible to all in their own communities. ACCESS plays a crucial role in the Chicago region’s health care safety net because of its leadership in addressing some of the area’s most significant health disparities, including lack of access, low levels of health literacy and barriers to care and coordination.

Through its role as the lead agency for the state-wide Stand Against Cancer program (STAND) and the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP), ACCESS has become a vital resource and anchor to local community-based breast cancer programs, providing technical assistance and expertise on successful breast health and prevention programming to faith-based institutions, as well as to community and hospital partners.

With nearly 40 Joint Commis-

A RECENT $75,000 grant from Susan G. Komen® will help Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) address health disparities for women of color by providing breast cancer education and screening.

About Susan G. Komen® and sion-accredited community health Through events like the Komen centers located throughout Chicago Chicago Race for the Cure®, the the Komen Chicagoland Area and the surrounding suburbs, ACChicagoland Area Affiliate has investCESS is one of the largest networks Nancy G. Brinker promised her dy- ed more than $13.5 million in comof community health centers in the ing sister, Susan G. Komen, she munity breast cancer programs in nation. ACCESS offers preventive would do everything in her power to five counties. Up to 75 percent of net and primary care services to nearly end breast cancer forever, and in proceeds generated by the Affiliate 200,000 patients annually. Follow us 1982, that promise became Susan G. stays in the Chicagoland Area. The on Twitter at http://twitter.com/AC- Komen®. The Komen Chicagoland remaining 25 percent funds national CESSHealth or like us on Facebook Area Affiliate is part of the world’s breast cancer research. For more inat http://www.facebook.com/AC- largest and most progressive grass- formation, call 773-444-0061 or visit CESSCommunityHealth. roots network fighting breast cancer. www.komenchicago.org.

HIV Collaborative urges Chicagoans to get tested New ‘Spread the Word’ Lottery Instant Game to Raise $1 million for Research and Assistance Illinois ranks seventh nationwide in the diagnosis of HIV infections, and fifth in the estimated number of AIDS cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. In 2011, there were 1,760 new cases of HIV/AIDS diagnosed in the state. To combat these statistics and offer services to the people behind them, the Chicagoland National HIV Testing Collaborative launches a new “Step Up, Get Tested” campaign; simultaneously the Illinois Lottery announced the introduction of a new instant game, Spread the Word, that will raise $1million for HIV/AIDS research, testing and assistance programs.

To mark the start of the testing campaign, the Collaborative recently provided free and confidential HIV testing in Chicago. Volunteers from local non-profit organizations were on-site to provide hundreds of free, painless and rapid HIV tests. One person was found positive after testing close to 300 people at the event. The “Step Up, Get Tested” campaign was extended through the June 27 National HIV Testing day. All total, more than 100 free HIV/hepatitis-C testing events will be held throughout Chicagoland, including Lake County.

A list of testing events can be found at www.chicagocrusader.com

www.stepupgettested.com “Knowing your HIV status puts you in greater control. Today’s event is designed to facilitate greater access to free and confidential testing and I encourage everyone to utilize the resources available to get tested today,” said Illinois Department of Public Health Director, Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck.

The Illinois Lottery, as part of its mission to raise funds for worthy causes— including HIV prevention, detection and treatment—is continuing its partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health to launch a new Spread the Word instant ticket. This game is expected to raise $1 million for the cause. Spread the Word profits fund HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, and grants to public and private organizations that serve the highest at-risk groups for contracting HIV or developing AIDS. Since 2008, this game, the only Lottery ticket of its kind nationally, has contributed over $4.7 million to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The $2 “Spread the Word” instant ticket offers top prizes of $20,000 and is available at some 8,100 retailers across Illinois.

“The Illinois Lottery is the only lottery in the country that has a ticket dedicated to HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention,” said Michael Jones, Superintendent of the Illinois Lottery.

“Supporting HIV/AIDS through a special ticket like Spread the Word is a

perfect example of what a Lottery is all about – risking a small amount of money, knowing that the proceeds fund an important cause. Anyone who would like to support HIV testing and awareness can buy a $2 Spread the Word ticket today and have a chance to win up to $20,000 cash. If they play and lose, they know their money will go to fund vital support services for people in Illinois living with HIV/AIDS.” The OraQuick HIV test was used during the testing event at the Thompson Center. All of the HIV testing diagnostics described before are safe, effective and approved by the FDA. Certified HIV screeners were onsite to gently swab a specimen collection pad along an individual’s gums to collect oral fluids then the swab is inserted inside a developer solution, providing the results in just 20 minutes. Counseling is provided for those with preliminary positive results.

“Today HIV testing has progressed to become a lot less invasive, making it easier for people to learn their status,” said Anthony Galloway, chairperson of the Chicagoland National HIV Testing Collaborative. “With products such as Clearview, OraQuick, and Insti Rapid HIV tests we are able to provide a free, easy, and quick experience. We encourage Chicagoarea residents to step up and get tested.”

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