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Manifesto reveals racist mindset of Charleston, S.C. killer

“I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight," said Dylan Roof's manifesto.

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – A racist manifesto linked to Dylan Roof, the 21year-old white man who confessed to shooting nine Blacks attending Bible Study a week

ago at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., paints a portrait of a white supremacist who had a deep-seated hatred of African Americans.

“N*ggers are stupid and violent,” he wrote in a document found on lastrhodesian.com, a

site registered to Roof. The site also included a link to dozens of photographs of him.

“At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick.

Black people view everything through a racial lense. Thats what racial awareness is, its viewing everything that hap-

pens through a racial lense.

They are always thinking about the fact that they are black.

This is part of the reason they get offended so easily, and think that something are intended to be racist towards them, even when a white person wouldn’t be thinking about race.”

The writer added: “The other reason is the Jewish agitation of the black race.”

Roof said that the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, by a white neighborhood watchman in Sanford, Fla., “awakened” him.

The watchman, George Zimmerman, was acquitted of second-degree murder charges in the case.

"It’s that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day,” Roof wrote. “The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens.”

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization in Montgomery, Ala. that tracks and exposes hate groups, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) “is the modern reincarnation of the old white Citizens Councils, which were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to battle school desegregation in the South.”

Lynch’s installation as AG overshadowed by Charleston tragedy Obama said that in a country built on the rule of law, there are few offices more important than that of Attorney General.

“The person in this position is the American people’s lawyer, tasked with enforcing our federal laws and making sure they’re applied evenly and equally,” said President Obama.

He noted that Lynch “spent years in the trenches battling terrorism, and financial fraud, and cybercrime,” rising from Assistant U.S. Attorney’s Office

in the Eastern District of New York to Chief of the Long Island Office, Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Lynch worked to bring several New York City police officers to justice for their roles in the brutal assault of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant in 1997, following a wrongful arrest.

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The SPLC said that the Council “has had the ear of a number” of federal and state lawmakers and has called Blacks “a retrograde species of humanity.”

Roof’s rambling, ungrammatical manifesto includes a num-

ber of typos and misspellings.

It is approximately 2,000 words and targets Jews, Hispanics and especially Blacks, “the group that is the biggest problem for Americans.”

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What did we do…?

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

(Luke 23:34 NKJ)

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. Of the furthermost misfortune to the American society is that a certain people are allowed to classify other human beings as insignificants, due to the fact that one race or another judged them worthless of esteem or kindness. To identity one as an “insignificant” is to cheapen their selfworth; and to our misfortune, we as Black Americans, along with the destitute, disabled and the pitiable, have been classified as such-we have been deemed insignificants.

Justifiable homicides, genocide, self-inflicted hate, all of these have been our crucifixion and like the story of the real crucifixion, the crowd prefers to allow criminals to live and us to die. A man of African blood, a Cyrenian named Simon, was chosen to carry the cross of Jesus-an insignificant to carry an Insignificant’s cross.

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June 27 is National HIV Testing Day National HIV Testing Day is a reminder to get the facts, get tested, and get involved to take care of yourself and your partners.

An estimated 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV, and that number grows by almost 50,000 every year. One in seven people who have HIV don’t know it. That means they aren’t getting the medical care they need to stay healthy and avoid passing HIV to others.

CDC has found that more than 90 percent of new HIV infections in the United States could be prevented by testing and diagnosing people who have HIV and ensuring they receive prompt, ongoing care and treatment. Early linkage to and retention in HIV care is central to managing HIV and promoting health among all people living with HIV. HIV medicines can keep people with HIV healthy for many years, and greatly reduce the chance of transmitting HIV to their sex partners.

Charleston church massacre draws crowds, raises questions

By Clem Richardson Urban News Service Loretta Lynch being sworn in by Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as President Obama looks on.

(NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen)

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States using a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass, nine church members were shot to death as they studied the Bible at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the oldest A.M.E. church in the South.

The next day, Lynch announced that the Justice Department would investigate the mass murder as a hate crime. She vowed that the person who was responsible for the “unspeakable acts” would be found and would face justice.

“As we move forward, my thoughts and prayers – and

those of our entire law enforcement community, here at the Department of Justice and around the country – are with the families and loved ones of the victims in Charleston,” said Lynch. “Even as we struggle to comprehend this heartbreaking event, I want everyone in Charleston – and everyone who has been affected by this tragedy – to know that we will do everything in our power to help heal this community and make it whole again.”

The confessed perpetrator, Dylan Roof, 21, was apprehended in Shelby, N.C. shortly after Lynch made her statement. Multiple news outlets reported that he admitted to planning the attack and that he almost didn’t go through with it, because the church members were so nice to him.

During Lynch’s investiture ceremony, President Barack

Pleading Our Own Cause

CHARLESTON, SC – Kenneth Washington was watching his TV in Cleveland Wednesday when he learned that a gunman shot up his family’s church in Charleston, S.C. Hours later, he discovered that the loss struck even closer to home.

“I saw a picture of the church on TV,” Washington said. “I was born and raised here in Charleston, on Alexander Street, where my aunt, Suzie Jackson, lived. Tywanza Sanders was my cousin. Ethel Lance was my cousin. So we had three in the family who were killed.”

Washington joined the throngs of onlookers Friday who braved the sweltering 97degree heat to stand in the street outside Emanuel AME Church.

They honored the fallen: Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Depayne MiddletonDoctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, and Myra

Thompson.

Traffic was tied up most of the day as a steady stream of cars and pedestrians traveled to the church on Calhoun Street. Many added bouquets to the makeshift floral memorial that spanned the length of the church front. Others clasped their hands, and bowed their heads in silent prayer.

Keith Biggs, a staffer at nearby Citadel Square Baptist Church, and his wife Janice

pulled bottles of cold water from two ice-filled coolers and offered them for free to the sweaty crowds.

“We’re brothers and sisters in Christ,” Biggs said. “It was not two weeks ago that we helped Rev. Pinckney with a funeral they had. He sent me a thank you note with a $50 certificate I could use to take my wife to dinner.

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St. John United Methodist Church holds prayer vigil for slain EmmanuelAME shooting victims

St. John’s Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Osunlana, presided over the somber ceremony.

By Charles Moseley Nine African American church members from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church were gunned down by Dylann Storm Roof, a 21-year-old white male, while they attended Bible Study last Wednesday night, June 17th, in Charleston, S.C., Just two days removed from the terrible incident, thousands of miles away, a South Florida church held a prayer vigil to honor those killed.

On the night of the shooting Roof entered Emanuel AME Church, asking to see the church’s pastor by name. He reportedly spent about an hour with church members during bible study before brandishing a gun and ordering church members to lie face down on the floor. Roof then fired on the victims only pausing to methodically reload his gun and continued shooting execution style, as others lay dying on the floor.

According to national news reports, the 21-year-old was caught a day after the shooting on Thursday morning (June 18) in Shelby, N.C. “I can confirm there is a suspect in custody,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the outlet.

During the prayer vigil a candle was lit and prayers delivered for the shooting victims.

Remembered during the prayer vigil: Pastor Clementa Pinckney, 41, Emmanuel AME Church and former South Carolina State Senator, Cynthia Hurd, 54, Charleston Public Library, St. Andrews Regional Branch Manager, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45, church pastor, speech therapist, Goose Creek High Girl’s Track Coach, Tywanza Sanders, 26, Allen University Business School graduate, Ethel Lance, 70, retired Gailliard Center employee and church janitor, Susie Jackson, 87, Lance’s cousin and longtime church member, DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49, a retired

director of the local Community Block Grant Program, became a part of the church’s ministerial staff in March, Myra Thompson, 59, pastor at the church, and Daniel Simmons, Sr., 74. a church pastor, who died at the hospital’s operating room.

The prayer vigil drew both Blacks and whites, young and old, local residents and included some who were in town visiting the church from North Carolina, ironically the state where the young shooting suspect was apprehended.

St. John’s Pastor, the Reverend Dr. Simon Osunlana, presided over the somber ceremony whose theme was: “Love Never Fails.”

“When I heard of the horrific shooting and the death of nine people, I have mixed emotions: sadness, sorrow, anger to name a few. The only one emotion I did not have is hate. As I was thinking and praying about it, the Scripture that came to my mind is 1 Corinthians 13:8a: “Love never fails.

“I understand those who have expressed their frustration that this reminds them of many recent murders of unarmed young Black men across the country. In addition this should also remind us of mass killings in Sandy Hook Elementary School, Virginia Tech, Aurora Colorado, Fort Hood, Tex. to mention a few, where people of all races were gunned down by mass murderers, who I dare to call domestic terrorists.

“We can no longer be indifferent to these problems. Indifference to guns in the hands of racists kills innocent people. Indifference to guns in the hands of criminals kills both civilians and law enforcement agents.

Indifference to guns in the hands of hateful people young and old is a recipe for mass killing. Our elected of-ficials cannot continue to be indifferent. After mourning the lives of these innocent men and women, we as a nation must have a soul searching and put love of human lives above love of money. We must have a sensible gun control law in this

nation.”

Rev. Dr. Rosalind Osgood, an associate pastor at the New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County School Board member, weighed in on the need for stricter gun control laws as well as directing attention on what she considered the root of the problem occurring across the nation.

“I agree that gun laws must be reformed. They allow unnecessary access to guns. However, Travon Martin’s death or the recent massacre in Charleston, S.C. was not about guns.

The murders were about racism.

The perpetrators were racist.

They killed individuals because of the color of their skin. The South Carolina killings made me reflect on the 1998 murder of James Byrd. Mr. Byrd was executed by three racist white men. Mr. Bush being one of them, beat Mr. Byrd with a bat and then drug him behind a truck until he died. Many other people of color have been aggressively murdered or denied opportunities because of racism.

“Roof is a 21-year-old white racist. His awful brutal attack was not about religion. I’m certain that many religious groups were meeting at that same time for prayer. He chose Emanuel African American Episcopal Church because Black folk were there. He wanted to kill Blacks. He learned to be a racist from some adults or some of his peers that learned it from some adults. If adults are racist then the children they influence will be racist. Racism is learned. It is wrong no matter who or what it targets.

“What can we do now? Racism is an evil spirit that finds its genesis in power, privilege and prejudice. I believe that it is taught. I don’t believe that anybody is born a racist. Racists hate others because of the color of their skin - it’s not DNA related. Racism is an evil that must be conquered. We cannot conquer what we won’t con-

front. Racism is wrong. God has called us to live in community in a more excellent way and that way is LOVE. Let’s not limit our focus on just guns. This is a

bigger issue that we must deal with or our children will continue to suffer and people will continue to die,” concluded Dr. Osgood.

More than 600 Blacks killed in justifiable homicides since 2008

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – Black victims accounted for nearly 60 percent of the justifiable homicides committed with firearms in the United States between 2008 and 2012, according to a new report by the Violence Policy Center.

The Violence Policy Center (VPC), a national group working to eliminate gun deaths and injuries, analyzed data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Justice Statistics and found that more than 30 percent of homicides involving a white shooter and a Black victim were later ruled justified, during that time period. Just 6.3 percent of homicides involving Black shooters and white victims were deemed justified. More than 90 percent of the Black people killed in justifiable homicides with a firearm were shot by Blacks.

The VPC study also showed that contrary to gun industry assertions, firearms are more likely to be used in homicides than in self-defense.

In a statement, Josh Sugarmann, the executive director of VPC, said gun industry propaganda and claims by the National Rifle Association that guns are necessary for self-defense have no basis in reality.

“Guns are far more likely to be used in a homicide than in a justifiable homicide by a private citizen,” said Sugarmann. “In fact, a gun is far more likely to be stolen than used in self-defense.”

Sugarmann added: “Purchasing a gun may help enrich the firearms industry, but the facts show it is unlikely to increase your personal safety. In fact, in a nation of more than 300 million firearms, it is striking how rarely guns are used in self-defense.”

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ULBC celebrates 40th Anniversary by launching 'Breaking the Cycle' Campaign

By Alica Brown FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The Urban League of Broward County (ULBC) is celebrating 40 years of serving the community by breaking the cycle of poverty for tens of thousands of local people who had been held back by crippling economic and social factors.

For decades, the ULBC has worked with many community partners to cut poverty by improving economic stability and uplifting struggling individuals and families by providing them access to life-changing employment and education opportuni-

ties and quality housing and health care services.

Just look at what the organization has accomplished in recent years: — In past decades, ULBC has helped 20,000 youth enter school ready to learn, graduate, and be prepared for college and careers.

— Since 2010, ULBC has assisted 2,000 families in our workforce development program connect to living wage jobs.

— Since 2010, ULBC has helped 200 families become new homeowners and has saved $4.5 million in mortgage payments

through loan modification and home foreclosure expenses.

— And since 2010, ULBC has assisted 6,000 pregnant women receive health care education and services.

In celebrating four decades of service, the organization has launched the “Breaking the Cycle” campaign to encourage members of the community to donate, volunteer and take a pledge to support the ULBC’s initiatives aimed at creating a fair shot at upward mobility for many more individuals and families.

“Our 40th anniversary is really our community’s celebra-

tion as we have worked with our entire community to become the leading provider of services for children, families, seniors, veterans and young professionals – serving more than 7,000 people every single year,” said Germaine Smith-Baugh, Ed.D., president and CEO of ULBC. Over the years, ULBC has been involved in many of Broward County’s most important milestones related to the fight for equality, justice and prosperity for all. That included: * 1978: Participating in the landmark federal housing discrimination study, “Salt and

Broward does well in state budget

By Nikki Hamilton After a complete legislative session and a 20-day special session the legislature finally finished a state budget on Friday (June 19, 2015).

The Florida Constitution mandates two things when it comes to the state budget, that it be balanced and complete by June 30. The different chambers of the legislature worked on the budget during the legislative session, and then the House and the Senate convened in conference to hammer out differences between the competing spending plans.

During this budget conference, Senator Chris Smith (D-Fort Lauderdale) served as an at-large member, which gave him the unique ability to influence and vote on every aspect of the proposal.

“I was honored that my leadership and seniority afforded me this prestigious position,” said Sen. Smith.

Using that influence, Sen. Smith was able to get significant funding issues within the budget. One such item is $850,000 for a new linear park in Lauderhill.

“As I drove down Sunrise

Boulevard, I noticed that next to the canal in Plantation is improved with a nice passive park but not in Lauderhill,” Senator Smith said. “I was glad to get money for my childhood neighborhood of Parkway, to get the same improvements and a new linear park.”

Other significant items in the budget for this area were: · $18,563,942 Broward College · $200,000 Mount Olive Development Corporation · $250,000 City of Fort Lauderdale Justice Program · $600,000 Broward County Family Intensive Treatment (FIT) · $500,000 Broward County Sheriff’s Office Inmate Portal · $500,000 Broward County Sheriff’s Office Juvenile Assessment Center · $500,000 Broward County Sheriff’s Office Violence Intervention Pro-Active Enforcement Response Team (V.I.P.E.R.) · $650,000 City of Pompano Beach Dixie Hwy Roadway Improvements · $2,500,000 Urban League of Broward County Entrepreneurship Program · $10,000 City of North Lau-

SENATOR SMITH derdale Security Cameras · $500,000 City of North Lauderdale Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation · $850,000 City of Lauderhill New Linear Park But the most significant item in the budget directed by Sen. Smith is the creation of a Criminal Justice Institute at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Fla. “I have heard for far too long, police chiefs in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and many other areas claim that the lack of diversity in police departments is because they can’t find Black officers. So I wanted to make

BrightStar Credit Union holds car sale for members and the public at Volunteer Park affordable prices and competitive interest rates, while making the car buying experience quick and easy,” said Sam Chesser, vice president of Marketing at BrightStar Credit Union.

The car sale features new and pre-owned vehicles including cars, trucks, SUVs and minivans – all of which are competitively priced. Low interest rates of 1.79 percent APR for up to 60 months are available and BrightStar members can take advantage of no loan payments for the first 90 days. Buy-

ers may get pre-approved for an auto loan before the sale or at the sale and trade-ins are welcome.

BrightStar Credit Union’s auto loans are available for new and pre-owned cars at affordable rates with varying terms and for up to 100 percent financing.

Buyers can apply online for an auto loan at in person at one of BrightStar Credit Union’s seven locations in Broward County or by calling (954) 4862728.

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day

your ad and encourage others to do the same. · Support people living with HIV. Have an open, honest conversation about staying safe and healthy. Listen to the challenges that people living with HIV face and provide support for their special needs. · Volunteer in your community. The first step to getting involved in HIV prevention is to contact your local AIDS service organizations and/or community health departments. These groups can help identify opportunities or other organizations that may need the support of volunteers.

In addition, CDC’s Act Against AIDS (en Español ) campaign materials promote HIV awareness and testing in highrisk populations. · Let’s Stop HIV Together is a general-awareness campaign to reduce stigma by urging everyone to “Get the facts. Get tested. Get involved.” · Start Talking. Stop HIV. encourages gay and bisexual men to communicate about testing and other HIV prevention issues. · Reasons/Razones (en Español ) promotes HIV testing among gay and bisexual Hispanic/Latino men. · Testing Makes Us Stronger encourages African American gay and bisexual men to get tested for HIV. · Take Charge. Take the Test. encourages African American women to get tested for HIV. · One Test. Two Lives. focuses on ensuring that all women are tested for HIV early in their pregnancy.

PLANTATION, FL – BrightStar Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in South Florida with more than 54,000 members, will hold a Car Sale at Volunteer Park, 12050 W. Sunrise Blvd. in Plantation, on Saturday, July 11 from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

For additional info, call (954) 486-2728 or visit www.bscu.org/autosale.

“This is a great way to help our members and others in our community find quality cars at

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Get Tested The only way to know if you are infected with HIV is to get tested.

CDC recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 get tested for HIV at least once as part of routine health care, and that people with certain risk factors get tested more often. People with more than one sex partner, people with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and people who inject drugs are likely to be at high risk and should get tested at least once a year. Sexually active gay and bisexual men may benefit from even more frequent testing, depending on their risk. To protect your own health, you should also get tested if you have been sexually assaulted.

If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant, CDC recommends HIV testing with each pregnancy, both for your own benefit and to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to your baby.

Knowing your HIV status gives you the power to control your health and your future.

And getting tested has never been easier. You can ask your health care provider to test you for HIV. Many medical clinics, substance abuse programs, community health centers, and

hospitals offer HIV testing.

Testing is often free of charge.

You can also · Visit GetTested and enter your ZIP code. · Text your ZIP code to KNOWIT (566948), and you will receive a text back with a testing site near you. · Call 800-CDC-INFO (800232-4636) to ask for free testing sites in your area. · Contact your local health department. · Get a home testing kit (the Home Access HIV-1 Test System or the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test) from a drugstore.

Get Involved HIV testing is only one step.

We can all do something to help stop HIV. Here are some ideas about how you and your friends can get involved. · Share your knowledge of HIV or your personal HIV story with others. One of the best ways to increase awareness is through a personal connection with others. Participants featured in CDC’s HIV awareness campaign Let’s Stop HIV Together, shared their voices and personal stories to raise HIV awareness, reduce stigma, and champion the power of relationships in the personal and public fight to stop HIV. · Use social media to increase HIV awareness. Follow @TalkHIV and tweet about National HIV Testing Day using * #NHTD. You can also like Act Against AIDS on Facebook and create your own Let’s Stop HIV Together meme. Share

sure that no one had that excuse here in Florida,” said Smith.

The first of its kind in the nation, the Criminal Justice Institute will be a public private partnership funded by the state of Florida and the HBCUs. The funds provided will be used to recruit students and hire a new faculty for the Institute. EWC will develop a partnership with Florida College, the police academy in Jacksonville. Students will graduate in four years with not only a college degree in criminology but they will also be fully certified as a police officer and able to begin at any police department in Florida on day one.

Founding President of the Broward County Urban League, Margaret L. Roach and the first Executive Director, Leonard Gainey II. Pepper Teams,” which showed that three of four Blacks had been discriminated when looking for housing. * 1996: Launching the 33311 Community Development Initiative which was intended to improve conditions in the mostly depressed, unincorporated area in the Sistunk Corridor, known at one point as one of the nation’s worst areas for children to grow up. * 2000: Creating the countywide Achievement Matters Campaign, an educational accountability initiative focused on increasing the graduation rates among students. * 2012: ULBC opening the Community Empowerment Center as its new headquarters providing more space for programming and community meetings.

"While there have been many triumphs over poverty, Broward County still has a long way to go," Dr. Smith-Baugh said. There are many more people looking for decent jobs, affordable housing, a chance at college, and better medical care. With more support from the public, the ULBC can expand programs and create more opportunity for the people of Broward County.

Dr. Smith-Baugh added: “I know our community can do

even more together to reduce juvenile arrests, foreclosure, infant mortality, and so many other poverty-related factors.

Our entire community will benefit when we break the cycle of poverty — together.”

Learn more about the ULBC “Breaking the Cycle” campaign by visiting: www.ulbroward.org/breakingthecycle About Urban League of Broward County Celebrating 40 years of service, the Urban League of Broward County is a not for profit organization founded to empower communities and change lives. Our mission is to assist African Americans and other disenfranchised groups in the achievement of social and economic equality. Our “Breaking the Cycle” programs uplift more than 7,000 people every year through affordable housing initiatives, youth development and diversion, employment and training, community empowerment, and civic engagement. We are hosting the National Urban League 2015 Annual Conference on July 31Aug. 1 in Fort Lauderdale.

Learn more about the Urban League of Broward County by visiting: www.ulbroward.org.

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Wednesday night, June 24 through Friday night, June 26; and one day only, Saturday, June 27 for workshops, seminars, contests and a special Ordination Service. at New Birth House of Prayer, 2300 N.W. 22nd St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Special guests include TP9 and Archbishop Dr. Marcia Abrams.

Saturday, June 27 is an Award Banquet. For additional info contact New Birth House of Prayer of All People.

Yard Sale

A major yard sale, offering household items and furniture, Saturday, June 27, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., on the lawn of Unity of Delray Beach Church, 101 N.W. 22 St., Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, Fla. ** All large items such as appliances in working order & furniture must be brought to the west lot on June 27 ONLY before 8 a.m.

For questions call Laurie Durgan at (561) 276-5796.

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In recognition of National HIV Testing Day, Join High Impact Prevention (HIP) for a FREE healthy and fun community BBQ on June 26, from 4- 7 pm at the L.A. Lee YMCA Family Center, 708 NW 14th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 33311. Healthy food, music, games, dancing, raffle prizes, FREE HIV testing, and giveaways.

March

New Mount Olive Baptist Men of Valor presents The 100 Man Cancer Awareness March, Saturday, June 27, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, processions will began at the African American Research Library & Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Multiple professional on-site examinations and screenings available. Education and vital information, in conjunction with Mount Olive Health Ministry and the Men Ministry of Mount Bethel, First Piney Grove Church, Mt Hermon AME, Dr. Hamilton’s Foundation, & Community Health Education Alliance Inc. Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, Sr. Pastor.

For additional info call (954) 463-5126.

Rev. Burrell Join Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Pompano Beach as they celebrate the 11th Anniversary of Rev. Anthony Burrell, Wednesday, July 8 and ends on Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 11 a.m., nightly programs begins at 7:30 p.m., at Calvary Baptist Church, 800 N.W. Eight Ave., Pompano Beach, Fla. Get details from Co-Chairs: Bro Perry Thurston, Jr., Sis: Zadie Tyson & Sis. Elizabeth Phillips.

For more info call (954) 9432422.

Event Chistrian Fellowship CDC, a nonprofit organization has partnered with Farm Share and LiL ones Inc Summer Food Feeding Program to provide fresh produce and meals to families and youth in our community.

Families can receive fresh produce and baked goods on the last Saturday of each month. The free food Distribution at Christian Fellowship MBC will be Saturday, June 27, 2015 from 9 a.m. -12 noon. at 8100 N.W. 17 Av., Miami, Fla. Youth from pre-school to 18 years old can receive lunch and a snack Monday through Friday on a day to be announced within the next few days. For additional information call Ms. Anna Jackson at (305) 6268189.

Health Fair

Dillard Class of '71 Members and supporter our annual scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for July 25, 2015.

An Elegant Affair “Living Life like Its Golden” at Tropical Acres Restaurant 2500 Griffin Rd., Hollywood, Fla.

Food Giveaway

Good News of Christ Ministries is coming to your neighborhood Food Giveaway, Saturday, June 27, 2015 at Mount Olive Development Corporation, 1530 N.W. Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Please bring a cart or bags.

Concert Oral Presentation

The City of West Park’s 10th Anniversary Summer Concert and Fireworks Spectacular Concert, live bands, food vendors, kids zone, fireworks, Saturday, July 11, 2015; Noon to 9 p.m., at McTyre Park, 3501 SW 56 Ave., West Park, Fla. For more info call Alexandra Grant at (954) 989-2688.

Celebration

EDUCATION MATTERS Every Child Deserves a Chance to Succeed.

MEC Ministries Inc. is sponsoring a community wide Health Fair on July 18, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 115 N.E. Third St., Pompano Beach, Fla. For more info contact Anita Brown, Health Fair Coordinator @ (954) 540-6356 or via e-mail at anitabrown1965@hotmail.com.

Isn’t it time to have the Conversation? Although it can be difficult, it’s never too early to discuss the future. Be prepared and help ease the burden on your family. Get peace of mind, knowing things will be taken care of the way you want them.

Celebrate a life well lived, with the significance of preserving memories that transcend generations, with dignity and honor.

For that comprehensive conversation, call Michael Nixon, preneed family counselor (954) 937-1362.

Calling all 1965 Tigers! The Blanche Ely High School class of 1965 is celebrating its 50th Reunion, Saturday, July 25 thur Friday, July 31, 2015. For more info call Bettye Allen Waker at (954) 849-0980.

Trailblazers of Broward County is seeking help from Broward County residents of 60 to 70 years. Please write at least two to three pages about your family, including the following information: Name and phone number of person preparing information; The names of your parents and grandparents; the year you arrived in Broward County; your first address in Broward County; All Siblings (along with date of birth and home going date (if applicable); Where family migrated from; Schools attended by all; Family’s Christian affiliation/involvement; Family Contribution(s) to the County; Family Property owned in Broward County (where and date purchased); Business(es) owned by family in Broward County; Husbands/Wives in Family.

Submit all information to: Ms. Mary B. Rizor, 2780 N.W. 25 Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311. For further info regarding this project, contact Ms. Rizor at (954) 733-6536.

Summer Program

The Parks and Recreation Division’s six neighborhood parks, located in the Broward Municipal Services District (BMSD), will offer the annual Summer Recreation Program, provided Free on weekdays starting Monday, June 15 and ending Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with early drop-off available from 8 to 9 a.m. and late pick up from 5 to 6 p.m. This year’s theme is: “Fun ‘n’ Fit”. The program is for ages 6 to 17 at Franklin, Lafayette Hart, Reverend Samuel Delevoe and Roosevelt Gardens parks, for 6 to 10 at Boulevard Gardens Community Center; and for ages 13 to 17 at Sunview Park. Weekly field trip (optional) entails a minimal charge; field-trip participants must also purchase a $5 T-shirt that must be worn on all field trips. Field-trip will be Mondays for Delevoe, Tuesdays for Boulevard Gardens and Sunview, Wednesdays for Franklin, Thursdays for Roosevelt Gardens and Fridays for Lafayette Hart. Note: There will be no program on Friday, July 3, 2015. · Boulevard Gardens Community Center, 313 N.W. 28 Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 3576867. · Franklin Park, 2501 Franklin Park Dr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-7080. · Lafayette Hart Park, 2851 N.W. Eighth Rd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-7970. · Reverend Samuel Delevoe Park, 2520 N.W. Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info (954) 357-8801. · Roosevelt Gardens Park, 2841 N.W. 11th St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info (954) 8700. · Sunview Park, 1500 S.W. 42nd Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-6520.

For more info call or visit the park of your choice.

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President Obama becoming more outspoken on race

By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON,D. C. (NNPA) – When President Barack Obama returns to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney, it will cap

a period in which he has become increasingly out-spoken on race, even uttering the N-word to make a point about the slow pace of progress in race relations.

Commenting on the Charleston tragedy on June 18, President Obama said, “The fact that this took place in a Black church

obviously also raises questions about a dark part of our history.

This is not the first time that Black churches have been attacked. And we know that hatred across races and faiths pose a particular threat to our democracy and our ideals.”

He quoted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. following the 1963

bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. “The good news is I am confident that the outpouring of unity and strength and fellowship and love across Charleston today, from all races, from all faiths, from all places of worship indicates the degree to which

Support grows for taking down Confederate flag

By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans killed by a white supremacist at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., some of the most ardent defendants of the confederate flag are reversing course and saying for the first time that the flag should no longer fly over the Capitol in South Carolina.

The most shocking news came Monday when two-term Gov. Nikki Haley said, “Fifteen years ago, after much contentious debate, South Carolina came together in a bipartisan way to move the flag from atop the Capitol dome. Today, we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will, to say it’s time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds. A hundred and 50 years after the

end of the Civil War, the time has come.”

Both pro- and anti-flag advocates reached a compromise in 2000, hoping to defuse a growing public debate over the Confederate flag. Under the agreement, state lawmakers voted to allow the U.S. and state flags to fly on the Statehouse dome in Columbia and move the Confederate battle flag to the top of a nearby memorial to Confederate soldiers.

They agreed that any future changes to the positioning of the flag, which is the first thing a visitor sees when approaching the Statehouse from the north on Main Street, would require a two-thirds vote of the legislature, a decision that is expected to be challenged in coming weeks.

In South Carolina, the Confederate flag has had a divisive history, especially for Republican politicians interested in growing their share of the Black vote while holding on to

Manifesto reveals racist mindset of Charleston, S.C. killer (Cont'd from FP) Although “there are good Hispanics and bad Hispanics,” according to Roof, “But they are still our enemies.”

He wrote, “In my opinion, the issues with Jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity, then they wouldn’t cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities. Just like n*ggers, most Jews are always thinking about they fact that they are Jewish. The other issue is that they network.”

Roof’s harshest words were reserved for Blacks.

He said, “Negroes have lower Iqs, lower impulse control, and higher testosterone levels in generals. These three things alone are a recipe for violent behavior. Anyone who thinks that White and black people look as different as we do on the outside, but are somehow magically the same on the inside, is delusional. How could our faces, skin, hair, and body structure all be different, but our brains be exactly the same? This is the nonsense we are led to believe.”

Roof said, “Modern history classes instill a subconscious white superiority complex in whites and an inferiority complex in blacks. This white superiority complex that comes from learning how we dominated other peoples is also part of the problem I have just mentioned. But of course I don’t deny that we are in fact superior.”

He attempted to minimize the impact of slavery in the South, writing that, “Only a fourth to a third of people in the South owned even one slave.

Yet every White person is treated as if they had a slave owning ancestor.” He claimed to have read hundreds of slave narratives about Black life in South Carolina.

“One sticks out in my mind where an old ex-slave recounted how the day his mistress died was one of the saddest days of his life,” he wrote. “And in many of these narratives the slaves told of how their masters didnt even allowing whipping on his plantation.”

He praised racial segregation as being good for both Blacks and whites.

“Segregation did not exist to hold back negroes. It existed to protect us from them. And I mean that in multiple ways,” he wrote. “Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it

President Obama is returning to church where white supremacist Dylann Roof admits killing nine innocent people. (Inset: Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C.)

Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof is often pictured with Confederate flag. (Inset: Cornel William Brooks renews call for taking down Confederate flag in South Carolina. their staunchly conservative base.

Former Gov. David Beasley learned that the hard way. In 1996, he called for removing the Confederate battle flag from the Capitol to a Statehouse monument. But seeking re-election two years later, he vowed to never try to do that again. By then, it was too late and he lost to Jim Hodges, the Democratic challenger who embraced the support of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

On July 15, the NAACP launched a boycott of the state over the Confederate flag issue.

Five days later, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) voted to withdraw its 2000 national convention from Charleston.

Though unpopular in many quarters, some white politicians in the state have taken a bold stand against the flag.

Joseph P. Riley, the mayor of Charleston, told the New York Times: “When it is so often used as a symbol of hate, of defiance to civil rights, to equal rights, equality among the races, a symbol used by the Klan, a symbol you saw at every protest during the times of integration and racial progress, then in front of the state Capitol, for those who harbor any of those kinds of feelings – and I hope they are few – it nonetheless sends the wrong kind of message.”

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What did we do…?

those old vestiges of hatred can be overcome. That, certainly, was Dr. King’s hope just over 50 years ago, after four little girls were killed in a bombing in a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama,” President Obama recalled.

“He said they lived meaningful lives, and they died nobly. ‘They say to each of us,’ Dr. King said, ‘Black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely with [about] who murdered them, but about the

system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American Dream.

“And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.”

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American Taxpayers are paying millions to private prison companies for empty prison beds

By April V. Taylor The advocacy group In The Public Interest, has uncovered some startling facts about contracts between private prison companies and state and local governments all over the

country. Language in twothirds of the more than 60 contracts they reviewed explicitly mentions “quotas” for prisoners.

The quotas cover a wide range of minimum mandatory occupancy, with some contracts for prisons in Arizona requiring 100 percent mandatory occupancy. Sixty-five percent of the contracts contained mandatory occupancy provisions that required prisons to remain between 80 and 100 percent full.

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(Cont'd from FP)

A racist manifesto linked to Roof, who confessed to shooting nine Blacks attending Bible Study. protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals. The best example of this is obviously our school system.”

He also criticized white supremacists who supported abandoning the South and relocating to the Northwest as “scared White people running” to the suburbs because they were too weak or brainwashed to fight.

“Why are the suburbs secure in the first place? Because they are White. The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving,” Roof said.

“They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape n*ggers and other minorities.”

Roof quoted a 2011 ultraviolent, Japanese crime drama, his favorite film, whose central character commits mass murder in the streets of the island country ravaged by a tsunami.

“Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt,” he wrote.

“I want to use it for the good of society.”

Although the document does not give any clues to why the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was targeted specifically, it’s clear that Roof saw his actions in the context of a larger racially-motivated war between whites and Blacks.

“I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country,” Roof wrote. “We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”

In the Bible, the story tells us that even Peter was considered an insignificant and treated as worthless by the crowd in Caiaphas’s courtyard. Caiaphas, in the New Testament, was the Jewish high priest who presided over the counsel that condemned Jesus.

Throughout history it has been the role of the insignificants to burden the struggles and to constantly carry the spirit of humility in the perils of sin and death. Even though the people gave these insignificants no rewards, no respect no joy and no peace, God thought enough of them to lift them up and make them significant. The Rock that Jesus built his Church on was Peter. The Cyrene, Simon, carried the cross for the King of kings and the Lord of lords. The most insignificant of all is now seated at the right hand of God and God has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow… (Philippians 2:9-10).

We have to stop allowing the others, (this includes anything and anybody) that would be a hindrance to us gaining our salvation. If we are truly children of God, it will be Gods grace that will deliver us from insignificants to significant, in His time and in His will, not man’s nor woman’s.

When we are in the midst of life’s most difficult ordeals and tribulations, we have the tendency to immediately give way to the use of our own physiological capabilities. We resort to that which is innate in us. We try by “any means necessary” or we choose to buckle under and give up and accept the status quo.

Most of the time, if we have not had a spiritual presence driven in us from the time we were born, we would continue to fight against what appears to be insurmountable odds with no hope of ever overcoming our present conditions.

The life-stifling conditions and acts that have been perpetrated upon Black America are beginning to generate in us a lifestyle of Godlessness. We are abandoning the ‘Ole Ship of Zion’ for the ‘Good Ship Lollypop’.

When we had to eat mayonnaise sandwiches and drink sugar water, we didn’t give up. We held fast to the only sure anchor that our grandparents and parents knew. No matter how grave the predicament was, they knew that, “trouble didn’t last always.” They were able to look in the eye of many storms and state with conviction that, “He would never leave us or forsake us,” even though they had to come face to face with life and its fury right here on earth.

Where have we gone to find comfort from the storm? Who and what have we turned to for the security needed to confront and weather these storms? All indications would ascertain that we have given it all over to man. We have succumbed to believing that man is the finial author to all of this. If you believe that, then you have lost everything.

As the blood dripped from Jesus’ hands, he prayed for his persecutors, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34 NKJ) “Dear God, the One who spoke life into existence, the only One who knows the time our life will end, and the only One who is ever present everywhere at every moment. We seek You like a flame searches for oxygen to burn. It matters not the makeup of our pressing problems because You are the Great Mathematician and the Answer to problems yet to come.

Lord Jesus, our prayers are that You have already blown Your breath of Life, Love, and Forgiveness amongst Your people to share as a soothing balm to comfort and heal the wounds of a hurting, dying and unknowing people to who You really are.”

In Jesus name Amen.

IN ALL SITUATIONS GOD CAN DO ANYTHING BUT FAIL!

Questions remain after shooting death of Boston Muslim

By Ashahed M. Muhammad, The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – Funeral services were held June 5 for Usaama Rahim, a 26-year-old Muslim shot and killed early in the morning of June 2 after being approached by members of the Boston Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agents assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).

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This undated self-portrait shows Usaama Rahim, who was shot to death in Boston, June 2 after investigators said he refused to drop a military-style knife.

Whites don’t have to pretend to be Black to lead an NAACP Chapter

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, DC (NNPA) – If Rachel Dolezal had looked around, she would have discovered that a white person does not have to pretend to be Black in order to lead an NAACP chapter. In fact, she would have to look no farther than several states south, to Arizona, to see that a white man, Donald Harris, is pres-

DOLEZAL ident of the Maricopa County NAACP. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)

Cop guilty of assault, but will justice prevail?

By Charlene Muhammad, The Final Call LOS ANGELES (The Final Call) – An 11-woman, one-man jury unanimously convicted LAPD Officer Mary O’Callaghan of assaulting Black South L.A. mother Alesia Thomas.

While the verdict issued in a packed courtroom June 5 was better than allowing Ofc. O’Callaghan to walk away without any accountability, justice has yet to be served, said Ms. Thomas’ grandmother Ada Moses, legal experts, and activists interviewed by The

Final Call.

Ofc. O’Callaghan could get three years in jail or be released on probation. She is being held without bail until she is sentenced on July 23.

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If you see something,say something

By Don Valentine We have the responsibility to “Be our brother’s keeper." It’s a moral responsibility to speak up if you see something that does not look right. In the Charleston incident, National Public Radio reported that one of the villain’s friends had taken his gun away.

He was concerned about racist comments and feared his friend would do something awful. If his friend had only followed up on his premonition.

Instead, after an hour of worship this Monster shoots the pastor and eight more in cold blood. Potentially they could have been spared if we just limit the easy access to firearms. The second amendment states: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Founding Fathers and subsequent court rulings

have not concluded that psychological background tests would be an infringement. The Founders did not make this amendment so a psychopath could possess arms to kill elementary school children [Sandy Hook], college kids [University of Virginia massacre] or people enjoying a movie in Arizona.

The President is on point with advocating restrictive, stringent rules to possess firearms. Certain segments of our Republican patriarchs refuse to reign in the easy access to arms. The strong N.R.A. lobby notwithstanding, we should have a psychological test administered prior to gun sales. Moreover, states like South Carolina have such a lax background check you can buy a gun in less time than it takes to apply for a driver’s license. This monster had a felony charge on his record when he bought his gun.

C.N.N. noted federal figures estimated 310 million non-military fire arms in the U.S. Factor in we have

about 330 – 350 million citizens. That equates to one gun for every person over 12 years old. This tragedy MUST be the nexus to once and for all get Congress to come to terms with a viable impervious federal gun statute.

Stringent gun laws will help. As a community we still have to be diligent.

In this current cataclysm the signs were apparent. N.P.R.’s Diane Rehm reported that his friends had read parts of his manifesto. Add the antiBlack comments and parading the slavery supportive confederate flag.

These were obvious precursors to what happened.

In our terrorist-riddled world there are elements that do not favor our security. Call 911 if you see something that does not look right. It is far better to be “Wary” than “Sorry”. If you see something, say something!

Don Valentine, Free Lance Writer, U.C. Berkeley ’89 B.S. Psychology, McGeorge Law School J.D. ‘92.

Humanitarian crisis in the Dominican Republic needs intervention from President Obama

By Roger Caldwell There are hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republican that face the threat of deportation. Many of these people and families have lived in the Dominican Republic for generations, and they are essentially Dominicans. There are contradictory statements from the Dominican leaders, but this new plan/ law could impact over 500,000 people living in the Dominican Republic.

If the political leaders in the Dominican Republic follow through with their deportation plans, hundreds of thousands Haitian Dominicans will be made stateless, without homes, passports, and no civil rights. According to the ruling, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked.

Many Americans and people around the world are not aware that there are two countries, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, that habitat the same island. The majority of the people in the Dominican Republic are mulattos (brown), and the Haitians are dark skinned (Black). For over 100 years, there has been an intense hatred for each other, and Haitians in the Dominican Republic are treated as second class citizens.

In the Dominican Republic, Haitian Dominicans are denied job opportunities, public education, bank accounts, health care, and protection

under the law. They can be picked up and arrested by the police for any reason, and be beaten and jailed without a court trial. In February, a young man was lynched in a public park in Santiago, and the authori- CALDWELL ties and police ruled out racism.

On June 18, 2015, Army General, Ruben Paulino was suppose to start the expulsion and deportation of people who don’t have proof of application.

On the other hand, Andres Navarro, the foreign minister, says they will wait until August to start deportation.

This is the largest horrific humanitarian crisis in the Western hemisphere, and very few reporters in the media are engaged in the story. The United States has denounced the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a gross violation of human rights. But after this statement, everyone is waiting to see if President Obama will follow up with a strong condemnation from the United Nations and the United States.

At this point, everything is quiet around the world with human rights groups, except in Little Haiti in Miami. A group of about 50 demonstrators in Miami held a rally, and called upon the United States to intervene in the deportation plan in the Dominican Republic.

You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea. Similarly, you can massacre members of a congregation and assassinate the state senator who served as their pastor, but you cannot kill the mission and spirit of the church to which they belong. And the spirit of Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina is one worth preserving, and celebrating, in the wake of this Wednesday’s tragic act of domestic terrorism that occurred there.

Emanuel AME Church is the oldest African Methodist Church in the South, and it has long served as a bulwark for organized defiance to white supremacy and discrimination. Founded by freed Black slaves, it was affectionately known as “Mother Emanuel,” and the institution’s history of challenge and resistance mirrors the movement toward racial progress that it fostered in the South.

In 1816, Mother Emanuel Church was investigated for its role in a planned slave rebellion organized by Denmark Vesey, one of its founders.

Vesey was executed. Then, for 30 years beginning in 1834, its parishioners had to worship secretly because of a ban on Black churches. Mother Emanuel was burned down only to be rebuilt, and shut down by the state

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By Pastor Rasheed Z. Baaith “The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.”

(Psalm 37:32) One more time the fact that racism of the BAAITH most virulent type is alive and thriving in America has been proven. This time the proof lies in the deaths of nine Black men and women, several of them clergy who were murdered while in church for Bible Study.

Among those killed was the pastor of the church. Their killer was a 21year-old white male who declared as he shot them that, “Blacks were taking over” and were “raping white women.” Those he killed had welcomed him into the church and he sat watching and listening before he killed them.

The aftermath of this inhumane horror was what it always is: the Republicans denying the obvious, Presidential candidates side stepping the issue of racism having the power that it has in America out of fear of losing the support of white conservative voters, President Obama showing anger and sadness, Black folks being forgiving as we always are. It may be time to remember as well as forgive.

A lot of us, like a lot of others, have bought into this popular nonsense of America no longer being the America of the Civil Rights era and the racism of that time no longer existing today.

How could they ask if we have a Black President? It's true that America is not the America of the 1960s but what place is? It is equally true that the racism of that time has gone. We no longer have laws that enforce segregation or prevent our people from public accommodations or don’t allow whites to marry Blacks or have public lynchings. All of that is true.

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Whites still live in ‘state of denial’ on race

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist

only to continue operating as a symbol of resilience and devotion.

Throughout it all, Ben Jealous and Jotaka Eaddy the congregation endured, and the church hosted dignitaries from Booker T. Washington to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the decades that followed the Civil War. Mother Emanuel’s pastor, who was slain in the violence Wednesday, was a man that we have both had the honor of knowing. Reverend Clementa Pinckney truly represented the mission and movement of Mother Emanuel. Rev. Pinckney was a pastor at age 18, an elected official at age 23, and a South Carolina state senator at age 27. He was known for his kindness, his commitment to community, and his strong and passionate voice.

Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is fond of saying, “Slavery was America’s original sin, and racism remains its unresolved CURRY dilemma.”

But the unwillingness to face up to the raw racism that led to the murder of nine African Americans attending Bible study at a church in Charleston, S.C. proves that the problem is more than just an unresolved dilemma. Judging by public opinion polls, most whites live year-round in the 51st state – the state of denial.

First, let’s deal with the facts. Around 9 p.m. on June 17, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old avowed white supremacist, entered Emanuel AME Church in Charleston and murdered nine, unarmed African Americans, ranging from 26 to 87-years-old. Each victim was shot multiple times.

We have the murderer’s own words that his goal was to “start a race war,” according to law enforcement officials who took Roof into custody.

Rather than address obvious racism, our non-friends on Fox & Friends and other Fox network programs attempted to make the massacre about religion, gun control and anything other than the actual culprit – racism.

Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy referenced “hostility toward Christians.”

That theme was echoed by Bishop E.W. Jackson when he noted that “we don’t know why he went into a church, but he didn’t choose a bar” or “basketball court.”

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Why you can’t kill the spirit of Mother Emanuel

By Ben Jealous and Jotaka Eaddy

It’s not just about that flag

Emanuel AME and the buoyancy of hope

By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist Rev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as usual in the historic edifice June 17 for their Wednesday evening prayer service. They came, as always, to refresh their religious faith, to testify and bear witness to the importance of living a life of righteousness and to extend to all, including the stranger in their midst, their welcome and their trust.

How could they know that he represented a monstrous evil that would consume them?

So, once again, American society

has been wounded by the dangerous forces of hatred and violence that have always shadowed the gleaming idealism of DANIELS the American Creed.

As usual when the mask of American innocence slips, the crowd that loves to glibly boast of “American exceptionalism” ran for cover. Fox News propagandists led the way in desperately fleeing from the clear evidence of Dylann Roof’s racism. Instead, they claimed he was striking against Christianity and “religious freedom.”

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The Gantt Report Two men from Charleston

By Lucius Gantt Seems like everyone on social media has posted something about the tragic murders of Black church goers in Charleston, S.C. But, as always, The GANTT Gantt Report will provide a perspective that so-called Black leaders, so-called Black benefactors, so-called Black community supporters and so-called friends of exploited, oppressed and oftentimes murdered Black people don’t want you to hear!

South Carolina has long been the “role model” of how states should mistreat and disrespect Black people.

It is easy for the Negro media, not Black media, to crack jokes about the “Hey-TL”, to laugh about Cleveland, Ohio to make fun of Baltimore, Md. and to clown on various Texas cities like Houston.

Instead of talking stupid about the geographical areas where some Black people live, someone should try to explain why cities like Charleston is the way it is and the way it will always be until all of the people in South Carolina rise up and oppose the city’s unjust ways and it’s racist historical traditions.

The media sources that you love will suggest how unusual it is for some Carolina whites to believe that “Blacks want to take over” or that “Blacks rape white women.”

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U.S. should take gun lessons from Britain

By Lekan Oguntoyinbo, NNPA Columnist In Manchester, one of Great Britain’s largest cities, only 209 of the 6,700 police officers carry guns. These officers are bound by tight restrictions, Sir OGUNTOYINBO Peter Fahy, chief of the Greater Manchester Police, told the Washington Post recently. Shooting at moving vehicles, at suspects fleeing a scene or at those brandishing knives is forbidden except under very limited circumstances.

In much of Britain, police officers have to walk the beat unarmed for years before they can apply to carry firearms. Most get rejected. The screening process for firearms possession is rigorous and almost daunting. There are fitness tests, psychological evaluations and endless drills on even the most seemingly routine scenarios.

“They rehearse those situations like a SEAL team trying to get into Osama Bin Laden’s compound,” Lawrence Sherman, a Cambridge University criminologist told the Post.

On average, cops in England and Wales open fire an average of five times a year. In the United States, cops open fire that many times a day – at least.

I know what you’re thinking: it’s insane to compare the United States with the United Kingdom. After all, the U.S. is a violent nation with some of the loosest gun laws on the planet.

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Focus on real Black women, not imposters

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist By the time you read this, perhaps the disturbing story of Rachel Dolezal, the pre- MALVEAUX varicating white woman who passed for Black, led the Spokane NAACP, and wove a web of elaborate lies, would have receded from media headlines.

Probably not. I expect additional disclosures, a book, and a reality show.

While most African Americans have concluded that Dolezal is a mentally impaired liar, too many Caucasians, obsessed with race, are likely to give this story legs.

Meanwhile, there are millions of African American women who are rendered invisible by the media. If Matt Lauer wants to focus on the women in the NAACP, he ought to interview Roslyn Brock, the chair of the NAACP board. If he wants to look at the women who lead organizations, he should focus on Melanie Campbell (National Coalition for Black Civic Participation) or Sherilyn Ifill (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund). These women can add substance, not sensationalist fluff, to a conversation about women and race.

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Bethel Missionary Baptist Church 2211 N.W. 7th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33061 Church: (954) 583-9368 Email: bethelmbchurchfl@att.net

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Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church 1161 NW 29th Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33311 (954) 581-0455 ● Fax: (954) 581-4350 www.mtzionmissionarybapt.com

Dr. James B. Darling, Jr., Pastor/Teacher WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship Service .............................................................................. 8:00 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School ............................................................................................................... 10:00 a.m.

Communion Service (1st Sunday) ......................................................................... 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting ........................................................................... 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study ................................................................................... 7:00 p.m.

Saturday (2nd & 4th) Christian Growth & Orientation .................................. 8:30 a.m.

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St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church 145 NW 5th Ave., Dania Beach, FL 33004 (954) 922-2529

WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship ............................................................. 8 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Sunday School ........................................................................... 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday (Prayer Service & Bible Study) ............................... 7:30 a.m.

Saturday (Women Bible Study) ............................................................ 8 a.m.

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Faith United Church of Christ 6201 NW 57 Street Tamarac, FL 33319 954-721-1232 uccfaith@bellsouth.net faithbroward.org "Historically the First Church in the City of Tamarac!”

Rev. Dr. Ileana Bosenbark, Senior Pastor WEEKLY SERVICES & EVENTS SUNDAY Worship Service (Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday) ........................................................... 10 a.m.

F.A.I.T.H. Academy for Children (Spiritual Formation) K-12 ................................ 10 a.m.

TUESDAY F.A.I.T.H. Academy for Adults (Spiritual Formation) - Office Complex ...... 10:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY Worship & Arts Ministry Rehearsals (Open Auditions) - Sanctuary .............................. 7 p.m.

First Baptist Church Piney Grove, Inc. 4699 West Oakland Park Blvd.

Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33313 Office: (954) 735-1500 Fax: (954) 735-1939 fbcpg@bellsouth.net

Harris Chapel United Methodist Church Rev. Juana Jordan, M.Div E-MAIL:juana.jordan@flumc.org 2351 N.W. 26th Street Oakland Park, Florida 33311 Church Telephone: (954) 731-0520 Church Fax: (954) 731-6290

SERVICES Sunday Worship ................................................. 7:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School .............................................................................. 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday (Bible Study) ........................................... 11a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Mount Calvary Baptist Church

800 N.W. 8th Avenue Pompano Beach, Florida 33060 Church Telephone: (954) 943-2422 Church Fax: (954) 943-2186 E-mail Address: Mtcalvarypompano@bellsouth.net

Reverend Anthony Burrell, Pastor SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SUNDAY

New Member Orientation ........................... 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School ................................................ 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service ........................................ 11:00 a.m.

WEDNESDAY Prayer Meeting ............................................... 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study ..................................................... 7:00 p.m.

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New Birth Baptist Church The Cathedral of Faith International Bishop Victor T. Curry, M.Min., D.Div. Senior Pastor/Teacher 2300 N.W. 135th Street Miami, Florida 33167

ORDER OF SERVICES Sunday Worship ........................................................ 7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Sunday School ....................................................................................................... 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday (Bible Study) ......................................................................................... 6:45 p.m.

Wednesday (Bible Study) ............................................................................... 10:45 a.m.

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New Mount Olive Baptist Church 400 N.W. 9th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale 33311 (954) 463-5126 ● Fax: (954) 525-9454 CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 8:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, Senior Pastor WORSHIP SERVICES & BIBLE STUDY Sunday .................................................... 7:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School ............................................................................ 10:00 a.m.

Wednesday Noonday Service .................................. 12:00-12:30 p.m.

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting ............................................ 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study ................................................... 7:00 p.m.

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WORSHIP SERVICES Wednesday (NOON DAY PRAYER) ............................................. 12 -1 p.m.

Wednesday (PRAYER MEETING & BIBLE STUDY) .................... 645 p.m.

Sunday Worship Service ................................................................. 10 a.m.

Fifth Sunday Worhip Service ............................................................ 8 a.m.

Obituaries ElIJAH BELL'S Funeral Services BROWN Funeral services for the late Avril Brown.

BROWN Funeral Services for the late Marcia Kissoon-Brown.

COOPER Funeral Services for the late Alvin Cooper.

Rev. Dr. Derrick J. Hughes, Pastor SUNDAY SERVICES Worship Services .......................................................... 7:30 & 10:45 a.m.

Children's Church ........................................................ 7:30 & 10:45 a.m.

Communion (First Sunday) ......................................... 7:30 & 10:45 a.m.

New Members' Class .................................................................... 9:30 a.m.

Church School .............................................................................. 9:30 a.m.

Baptist Training Union (BTU) .................................................... 1:00 p.m.

Wednesday (Bible Study) ...................................... 11:15 a.m.. & 7:00 p.m.

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DENNIS Funeral Services for the late Robert Dennie.

FARQUHARSON Funeral Services for the late Dorothy Farquharson.

with Bishop Willie Lockhart officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

JACKSON Funeral services for the late Rev. Willie Jackson - 97 were held June 20 at McWhite’s Funeral Home with Rev. Dr. David A. Hodge officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

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BROWN Funeral services for the late Vernelia Brown - 80 were held June 20 at New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church with Willie Lamb officiating. Interment: South Florida VA National Cemetery, Lake Worth, Fl.

BRUNSON Funeral services for the late Harry Lee Brunson - 68 were held June 20 at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Joe C. Johnson officiating. Interment: City of Hallandale Cemetery.

COLEMAN Funeral services for the late Ruth Coleman - 73 were held June 20 at Mount Bethel Baptist Church with Bishop Rev. Dr. C.E. Glover officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WILLIAM Funeral services for the late Gloria Elizabeth Williams - 79 were held June 20 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Bishop Thomas Douglas officiating.

EVANS Funeral services for the late Louis Evans 74 were held June 20 at Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. G. Wayne Thomas officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

SMITH Funeral services for the late Everton W. Smith.

STEPHENS Funeral services for the late Christopher T. Stephens.

WILSON Funeral services for the late David Charles Wilson - 59 were held June20 at Thompson Temple Fire Baptist with Pastor Henrietta Riles officiating.

McWhite's Funeral Home FLORENCE Funeral services for the late Gloria Christine Mitchell Florence - 89 were held June 20 at Koinonia Worship Center with Rev. Eric H. Jones officiating.

HENLEY Funeral services for the late Billy Ray Henley - 68 were held June 20 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel

RICHARDSON Funeral services for the late Hailey Marie Richardson were

(Cont'd from FP) “They extended love to us, and we wanted to do the same for Brother Pinckney. We know they’re with the Lord now, but we want to help those who are suffering through this. We want an extension of Brother Pinckney’s love.”

Biggs was not the only person impressed by the 41-yearold Pinckney, who, police say, Dylann Storm Roof killed along with eight of his parishioners in a bloody rampage as their evening Bible study class ended.

Several people hailed Pinckney as a virtual Renaissance man; a caring, intellectual pastor first elected to the state legislature at age 23; a community leader and quiet man who, outside the pulpit, only spoke when he had something important to say.

Charleston City Councilman and mayoral candidate William Dudley Gregory (D District 6) traces his family’s membership in Emanuel almost to the church’s founding in 1816.

He now sits on Emanuel’s Board of Trustees.

“This church has produced so many great leaders, starting with Richard Allen and Denmark Vesey,” Gregory said. Vesey was a former slave and Emanuel minister who launched a failed slave revolt from the church in 1822. “It’s a church that has always been a part of the leadership of this city. That’s why it’s called Mother Emanuel.”

AME bishops assigned Pinckney to Emanuel in 2010, and “he brought to the church this young energy and vision, and put this vision with acheld June 20 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

tion,” Gregory said. “It was quite refreshing.”

Under Pinckney, Emanuel renovated three rundown church-owned properties and was installing the sanctuary’s first elevator.

“So you’re talking about someone who was a visionary,” Gregory said. “Within five years we were able to complete all those projects, and from there we will start restoring the sanctuary.

“He was clearly an intellectual, well studied, well versed,” Gregory said. “I liked to call him ‘quiet fire.’ He had this knack of taking on a lot of sometimes controversial things in the church with this even keel, but still being very effective. That is a real trick when you’re trying to run a church, and you’re younger and coming up with totally new ideas and new approaches.

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A Baltimore-based company that provides staffing for federal contractors allegedly hired Hispanic construction laborers then created and helped to foster hostile working conditions for those workers, according to a lawsuit filed recently by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

WMS Solutions LLC intimidated and discriminated against its Hispanic construction workers and also allowed supervisors of other federal contractors to assault them physically, make racial slurs, and threaten them with deportation, the complaint alleges. The company also allegedly discriminated against non-Hispanic applicants: They intentionally paid female workers less per hour than males and assigned fewer work hours to African-American, Caucasian and female laborers, the suit adds.

“WMS allowed workers it hired to be exploited and abused. It denied job opportunities to qualified workers based on race and ethnicity. It underpaid female workers and assigned fewer work hours based on race and gender,” said OFCCP Director Patricia A. Shiu in a statement. “We have taken action on behalf of these workers.”

At the time the alleged offenses occurred –since at least Feb. 1, 2011—WMS held federal construction subcontracts totaling more than six million dollars for projects involving the General Services Administration, National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of the Navy, according to the

Labor Department.

The Baltimore company specializes in asbestos removal and demolition and staffs federal contractors working on projects in the Washington, D.C. area.

As a federal contractor, WMS is subject to review under Executive Order 11246, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. The alleged discriminatory practices highlighted in the current lawsuit came to light during OFCCP’s compliance review of the company. The lawsuit was filed after WMS refused to make restitution to affected workers or otherwise address the issues raised in the review, according to an OFCCP press release.

“OFCCP is prepared to use every tool at its disposal to ensure that no federal contractors and subcontractors engage in discrimination or harassment,” Shiu said.

This is not the first time WMS Solutions has come under legal disrepute. In 2012, the Public Justice Center, a nonprofit that offers legal assistance to the poor, filed a complaint with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleging that WMS had violated federal laws requiring them to protect their workers from exposure to asbestos.

WMS put its employees at risk of exposure to the known carcinogen, the complaint alleged, by not providing required protective measures, but instead, charging workers for medical exams, training and gear.

The numbers are in: Americans gave an estimated $358.38 billion to charity in 2014. That’s 7.1 percent over 2013, and the fifth year in a row that giving increased. Individuals – that’s you and me – continue to give an estimated 90 percent of all gifts. Here’s how it breaks out: individual gifts represented $258.51 billion (72 percent of the total). That’s you – your tithes and offerings at church, your online gifts, support for walkathons, the checks you write, stocks you transfer – every $25 gift and every $2.5 million gift. We also gave $28.13 billion through bequests – the money left to charities in your family members’ wills. Finally, those with the ability to give to foundations gave another $41.62 billion.

Giving USA 2015: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2014 breaks down last year’s giving and the numbers are amazing. In 2014 the amount given to charity was the highest total in the 60 years that the report has been produced. Researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the report is published by Giving USA Foundation.

Here are a few more details: Foundation giving totaled $53.97 billion, (8.2 percent higher than 20130 and corporate giving was $17.77 billion (up 13.7 percent from 2013).

There were some large gifts – individual gifts ranging from $200 million to one of almost $2 billion given by technology entrepreneurs.

Where did the money go?

Most went to religion ($114.90 billion), then education ($54.62 billion), human Services ($42.10 billion), health ($30.37 billion), arts/culture/humanities ($17.23 billion), environment/animals ($10.50 billion),

Pearl and Mel Shaw public-society benefit ($26.29 billion), foundations ($41.62 billion) and international affairs($15.10 billion).

Giving to human services continued to increase as did giving to education. Individuals increased their support of giving to civic and civil rights organizations, and to community and economic development.

Those who read this column regularly know how much we stress the case for support.

Here’s how W. Keith Curtis, chair of the Giving USA Foundation ties the case to increased giving: “The growth can be attributed, in part, to the ways charities have been working smarter during daunting times.

Nonprofits increasingly are making sure they have strong cases for support, communicate frequently with donors and provide proof of the impact charitable gifts make.”

Related to this, the report notes that donors are “more and more” interested in knowing the strategies nonprofits use and the impact their dollars make.

Nonprofits are being asked “more and more” to be accountable for what they do with donations. The good news: many organizations are collecting more data and becoming more transparent.

Here's what we know: your gift makes a difference. Together our gifts change lives and communities. The nonprofits we support require oru support. Let's keep giving.

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The many faces of Rachel Dolezal Rachel Dolezal

By Jose Cassola, From The Miami Times Rachel Dolezal’s 15 minutes of fame isn’t up just yet.

Since news first broke last week that the now former head of the Spokane NAACP chapter in Washington portrayed herself as Black — even though she was born white — people have not stopped talking about her. And she has not stopped talking about herself. Amid a social media firestorm and a barrage of criticism, Dolezal stepped down from her NAACP

post on Monday after five short months, according to her statement published to the Spokane NAACP Facebook page.

In an interview with NBC’s Today show on Tuesday, Dolezal told reporters: “I identify as Black.”

Critics can’t fathom the idea why someone might misrepresent themselves by claiming they were Black. Dolezal even went as far as earning a leadership position in one of the nation’s top advocacy groups for Blacks.

But the NAACP was founded in 1909 in New York City by a

group of whites and Blacks, who sought to make whites aware of the need for racial equality.

The controversy around Dolezal hasn’t been so much about a white woman leading an NAACP chapter. It was the fact that Dolezal misrepresented herself. Her parents, Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal, who have been estranged from their daughter for years, believe she may have wanted to boost her credentials as a Black activist and educator.

Adora Obi Nweze, president of the NAACP Florida State Conference and Miami-Dade

Tavis Smiley signs on to South Florida Book Festival on July 17 & 18

By Steve Vinik BROWARD COUNTY, FL – The South Florida Book Festival is returning to the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) on July 17 and 18, 2015 with an intriguing variety of authors and events. Leading off the festival is talk show host Tavis Smiley, a popular figure on NPR and PBS radio. Currently, Smiley is the host of Tavis Talks on BlogTalkRadio’s Tavis Smiley Network. The library opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Smiley is scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m.

Other featured speakers include a trio of entrepreneurs— rocket scientist and media maverick Mary Spio, along with Felecia Hatcher and Sylvester Chisom, who were both singled out as top entrepreneurs by the White House (Hatcher) and by Ebony magazine (Chisom).

The authors of the book Justice While Black will join a panel to talk about how the American justice system treats young African-American men; they are Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Chiles and a Georgia attorney, Robbin Shipp.

In a new category this year, Dr. Sonjia will discuss “Sex in South Beach” based on her book of the same name and featuring fun conversations about sex, relationships, and staying healthy between the sheets.

Other author events will cover holistic healing and genealogy. Author Eric Jerome Dickey, a featured author from last year and a library favorite, will be returning this year. Also, three Caribbean authors; Edwidge Danticat, Fr. Albert Cutié and Joanne M. Simpson will discuss their books with panel leader Dr. Susan Lycett Davis, an expert in Jamaican and Caribbean culture.

On Friday evening, July 17 at 6:30 p.m., the book festival gets started with an Evening with the Stars. For $25 in advance or $30 at the door, guests can enjoy meeting the authors at a dressed-up affair complete with food, wine and an autographed book.

A new component to the festival this year is a Chef Smackdown on Saturday evening.

This is a ticketed event and includes a chance to sample from four categories of comfort food: fried chicken, mac & cheese,

SMILEY collard greens and cheesecake.

After sampling the dishes, the attendees will vote . . . and the winner is . . . to be announced.

Entice your taste buds and come join us for fun and great food! This event is scheduled from 6:30 to 9 p.m. with a limited attendance of 150 guests.

Regional Library Manager Elaina Norlin says, “We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at this event, and we urge everyone to sign up early since spaces fill up very quickly.”

The AARLCC is located at 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Call the Welcome Desk at (954) 357-6210.

branch, said there are a lot of issues.

“I think she and her family are having a big dispute and she shared some stories that put a lot of things into question.

The specificity of what she’s gone through to create the stories around who she is, is a problem,” Nweze said. “That she’s white is not the story. As far as the NAACP is concerned, anyone can serve as long as they do a good job. Whites have served the NAACP, such as our Brad Brown, who is the first vice president and has served as president.”

Brad Brown, first vice president of the Miami-Dade NAACP chapter, said he’s surprised by how far the situation has escalated.

“I’m having a hard time understanding why it’s generated such a mass interest,” said

Brown, who served as president of the Miami-Dade branch from 2000 to 2004. “A person can be white and work with the NAACP. I don’t know why she did what she did, but I applaud her for stepping down because the focus was becoming on her and not the issues.

A huge amount of news was

being devoted to this and little focus on the major issues, such as the Voting Rights Bill.”

Brown said in the early 1960s, it was not uncommon for whites to serve in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Ebony Magazine gets a new editor-in-chief Johnson Publishing has announced a new editor-in-chief for Ebony magazine, coming about four months after the previous holder of the post suddenly decided to throw in the towel.

The new editor-in-chief of the Chicago-based magazine is journalist Kierna Mayo. She replaces Mitzi Miller who, somewhat unexpectedly, left the position in February after just 10 months.

Mayo has significant journalism experience under her belt. She has previously prepared articles for several notable publications, including Vibe, Essence and Marie Claire.

Also, she was the co-creator and founding editor-in-chief of Honey Magazine, according to Black Enterprise.

In 2011, Mayo was hired at Ebony as the editorial director.

She has been in charge of the monthly magazine since Miller’s exit. With Mayo at the helm, the magazine has had three issues, which include covers featuring hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar; talk show host Wendy Williams; and most recently, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles Lawson.

MAYO The 45-year-old, who will work out of Johnson Publishing’s office in New York, said her aim as the new editor-inchief is to embark on a revival of Ebony’s “maverick spirit” of the 20th century, which is meant to be a probing and provocative approach to dealing with different topics.

Johnson Publishing is currently trying to reposition itself, having been faced in recent years with financial challenges which probably had a part to play in the recent editorial departures from the company. Diverse efforts have been made to

boost the publisher’s profits, with these including the end of print production of the weekly Jet magazine.

Miller left her editor-in-chief role at Ebony in February “to pursue new ventures that include creating stories for television and film,” according to The Root. She previously served as the editor-in-chief of Jet magazine for more than three years.

Alongside Mayo, Johnson Publishing also promoted Kyra Kyles to serve as Ebony Magazine’s head of digital editorial.

She joined the publishing company in 2011 as a senior editor for Jet and rose to the position of the editorial director of that magazine. Previously, the 39year-old had been the brain behind a pop culture column dubbed “Kyles Files,” a production which was assigned a weekly broadcast segment on Chicago’s WGN-TV. “Both women have strong print and digital backgrounds,” company Chairman Linda Johnson Rice said in a statement. “We want them to always be thinking across platforms.”

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Film Review: What Happened, Miss Simone?

Nina Simone in the documentary.

By Dwight Brown, NNPA Film Critic Sometimes artistry and insanity are so intertwined you can’t distinguish between them. That was the challenge for singer Nina Simone; dealing with worldwide fame and a madness she couldn’t shake. As you look back at her life, from a child prodigy, to a dinner theater piano crooner, to renowned recording artist and a sufferer of mental illness, the mystique of Nina Simone wanes and the reality of her life comes into view. For those who loved her music, but knew something was wrong with her, questions are answered and mysterious demons put to rest thanks to this thoroughly enlightening documentary.

Born in 1933 in Tryon, N.C., by age four, Eunice Kathleen Waymor was playing Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Debussy. Her talent came naturally, her virtuosity honed by

practicing almost all day. In her hometown, mentors collected money so she could afford lessons. She played in her Sunday church choir. As she looked for a higher education, her hope was to study at a prestigious music school, but her application was turned down. She thought she was rebuffed because she was Black, and that slight/humiliation caused an anger that festered for years.

Eunice found herself playing piano in a club in Atlantic City to make ends meet. When the owner insisted that she sing, she obliged, fine-tuning a deep contralto that would be her signature sound. Around that time, she became Nina Simone.

Record deals, touring, marrying a NYPD sergeant named Andy Stroud who would become her manager/music producer – it all helped her career evolve.

But there was always something troubling her. Fits of anger, lots of it focused on her daughter Lisa; rage at inattentive audiences. She became a militant and a composer of protest songs during the ‘60s Civil Rights Movement. Then was estranged from the United States, with stints in Barbados, Liberia and Europe; Nina Simone left behind her a trail of personal chaos, yet fans flocked to see their Nina.

Veteran documentarian Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA), with cinematographer Igor Martinovic and editor

Film Review: 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets

Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis in “3 1:2 Minutes Ten Bullets.”Ron Davis and Lucia McBath, parents of Jordan Davis, at rally.

By Dwight Brown, NNPA Film Critic Jordan Davis was born Feb 16, 1995. Contrary to his belief, he was not named after the basketball legend Michael Jordan. His mom, Lucia McBath, insists she named him after the crossing over of the Jordan River, symbolizing a new beginning.

LEGAL NOTICES PUBLICATION OF BID SOLICITATIONS Broward County Board of County Commissioners is soliciting bids for a variety of goods and services, construction and architectural/engineering services. Interested bidders are requested to view and download the notifications of bid documents via the Broward County Purchasing website at: www.broward.org/ purchasing.

June 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015 IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE 11TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO: 295-10179 DIVISION: FC-04 ROSE GALLOWAY, Petitioner and JOHN GALLOWAY, Respondent

NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT) TO: JOHN GALLOWAY Address/Residence Unknown YOU ARE NOTIFIED that a action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defense, if any, to it on Deborah Pino, Esq., whose address is 2701 West Oakland Park Blvd., Suite 410-15, Oakland Park Florida, 33311 on or before June 16, 2015, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 175 Northwest First Avenue, Miami Florida, Florida 33128 before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition.

Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.

You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address: (You may file Notice of Current Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the clerk’s office.

WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated May 4, 2015.

Michelle Jerez, Deputy Clerk June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2015

For his mom and dad, Ron Davis, Jordan was their new beginning. Their lives were changed forever Nov. 23, 2012, the day after Thanksgiving, when shots were fired at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla. Ten bullets hit a car full of teenage boys. When the violence is over, 17-year-old Jordan Davis, an African-American, has been killed by Michael David Dunn, a middle-aged white software developer in town for a wedding. The boys had been playing loud rap music; Dunn requested that they turn it down. They did for an instant, and then they turned it back up. What happened next depends on whom you talk to.

The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, depicts the accounts of the witnesses, suspects, and victims of a rape and murder. All have different viewpoints, recollections and interpretations of the same encounter. “Rashomon effect” is a term that means contradictory interpretations of the same event by different people. It’s a dynamic that pervades just about every trial, where suspects and victims recount the same experience, differently. That’s what’s on view in this so-called “loud music” trial; the surviving boys have a different recollection than Dunn.

Producer Minette Wilson initiated this project, and collaborated with documentary director/cinematographer Marc Silver (Global Protest, Who is Dayani Cristal?) and executive producer Orlando Bagwell (Eyes on the Prize).

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Joshua L. Pearson, pulls you into the brilliant storm that is Simone very early in the film’s opening sequences. The music.

The lady. The voice. The masterful piano playing. The spirit.

Quickly, from never-beforeheard audiotapes recorded over 30 years, through archival

footage, interviews with her daughter, her booking agent and the chanteuse herself, you feel as if you are in the presence of greatness. You go on the emotional rollercoaster that was her life. Her intelligence is evident in every frame. The mental illness that consumes her becomes

more and more pronounced as the footage rolls on. It’s awkward. Off-putting. Scary. Yet, you’re glued to the screen.

Sometimes it is the juxtaposition of the diametrically opposed parts of her life that are the most intriguing. The contradictions: Simon performs on

Hugh Hefner’s short-lived TV series Playboy’s Penthouse; with the sophistication of an opera singer, she sings I Love You Porgy to a room full of nattily dressed white people.

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D.C.’s MetropolitanAME Church holds prayer vigil for Charleston Nine

By LaTrina Antoine, From the Afro-American Newspaper WASHINGTON – A number of clergy members and hundreds of D.C. area residents from various religious backgrounds gathered at Metropolitan AME Church June 19 out of their respect for the lives of nine people killed at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. “I am grateful that God’s greatness is not diminished by tragedy,” Rev. Tony Lee, senior

pastor of Community of Hope AME Church in Temple Hills, Md., said during the prayer vigil. “We pray for the healing of community… We are here from all different views, from all different backgrounds, from all different stations in life believing that the Lord can make a way.”

During the vigil, Lee spoke of an experience with a white Uber driver in Charleston. He said the driver told him that something happened in his

By Staff Writer Recently, the six million dollar rehabilitation of historic Hampton House began. Hampton House history stems from the Civil Rights era. In the days of segregation, when African Americans couldn’t stay in or eat at any of Miami Beach’s famed hotels, the Hampton House Motel in nearby Brownsville at the corner of Northwest 27 Avenue and 42 Street, provided a haven of culture for African Americans. It also boasted live entertainment with a jazz club and traveling celebrities would often perform there. Sam Cooke often sang in

the lounge when he traveled to South Florida.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X and Berry Gordy were often guests at the hotel. After Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston in 1964, it was at the Hampton House with Malcolm X that he went to celebrate. Dr. King was such a frequent visitor that one room was known as his suite. He’s also said to have delivered his I Have a Dream speech there, before presenting it in Washington.

“This was an oasis in a sea of racism," stated Khalilah Camacho Ali, from the Hampton

House’s new event space, which was created out of the old jazz club and some of the motel rooms above.

The majority county-funded project has been in the works for almost 15 years. Hampton House closed its doors in 1972 and was facing demolition in 2000. That's when local organizers stepped up. The process that led to the ribbon cutting ceremony included soliciting the Dade Heritage Trust to sponsor the historic designation of the motel, to getting a stay of demolition from the mayor to the County’s purchase of the Hampton House and declaring it an historic landmark. The project is being relaunched as a local cultural center, with a museum, office space, and restaurant, as well as a recording studios.

At the riboon cutting event, Commissioner Edmonson, whose district includes the motel, stated, “I remember the Hampton House. I am so proud to say I grew up in this community.”

Enid Pinkney, founding president of the Historic Hampton House Community Trust, welcomed visitors to the reopening. She feels the project will revitalize the community and link prosperity with Hampton House. In a HHHCT video, Pinkney shared the vision of the Trust. “We’ll have a place in Miami where we can go and be proud of the effort that went into bringing that back as an economic engine in the community.”

North Broward County (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated inducted new members Submitted by JoeAnn Fletcher, PR Chair North Broward County (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated congratulated its newest members who joined their chain of friendship and service on May 9, 2015. They are Natalie Beasley, Director, United Way of Broward County; Lynnette Drayton, assistant principal, Broward County Schools; Dr. Leslie Nixon, Director of Community Affairs, Miami Dolphins; and Dr. Chanadra Young-Whiting, professor, FIU. Our ninth national president, Mrs. Regina Jollivette Frazier, joined the chapter members and led the ceremony with chapter president, Mrs. Earlene Striggles Horne for the induction of the new members.

This is an award winning chapter; winning in the area of The Arts on National and Area levels for the last several years and winning second place this year for National Trends and Services on an Area level for our partnership with the Women of Color Empowerment Conference. The chapter members did an array of services this year to include Red Dress Tea for seniors during American Heart Association Month, care packages to Haiti, tutoring at Deerfield Park Elementary, College

NEW MEMBERS: Dr. Chanadra Young-Whiting, Dr. Leslie Nixon, Lynnette Drayton and Natalie Beasley.

Fair at Deerfield Beach High School and awarding of scholarships to high school students. stated that “our chapter has established itself as the premier leader in helping to improve the lives of underserved families; providing more than 2,000 hours of community volunteer service through the arts, literacy, health & wellness, scholarships and other community services.”

The North Broward County (FL) Chapter will celebrate 20 years of service in the Broward community and abroad with celebrity guest Vivica Fox, actress and television producer, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 at

ders, 26; Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74; Rev. Sharonda Sin-

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heart after he heard Christians were killed in church.

Lee told the congregation that the driver showed him that “sometimes it takes great pain to bring great healing… [but] God was still in the midst of it all.”

Churchgoers leaned on the Lord for guidance and strength, praying for the families of the victims: Cynthia Hurd, 54; Susie Jackson, 87; Ethel Lance, 70; Rev. DePayne MiddletonDoctor, 49; Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41; Tywanza San-

Hampton House one step closerto reclaiming former glory

1960s postcard of Hampton House Motel and Villas.

(Photo credit: Gurri Matute Architect)

People hold hands during Friday’s service at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington.

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tropolitan’s former pastor, knew Pinckney personally and told the AFRO he felt great sorrow over the whole situation.

“The [alleged] gunman (Dylann Roof) did what he knew.

[It] doesn’t mean we like it, love it or need to condone it,” he said. “But if that’s what he knew then what is the opportunity for each of us to be a difference in someone’s life?”

Throughout the vigil clergymen spoke of forgiveness and prayer as paths to heal from the Charleston shooting, which has been described as a massacre by various media outlets. However, the shooting is not new in Black culture as it bears a morbid resemblance to the church bombing that claimed the lives of four little girls in the 1960s and the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

the Diplomat Golf and Tennis Club, Hallandale Beach, Fla. at 11:30 a.m.; tickets $75.

Fox is best known for her roles in the films "Independence Day", "Set It Off", "Soul Food", and "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"; also as a contestant on the third season of Dancing with the Stars and a recent contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. For additional information contact Info@northbrowardlinks.org or JoeAnn Fletcher (954) 2631984. Mail payment for tickets to P.O. Box 9023, Coral Springs, FL 33075. All proceeds to benefit The Links Foundation.

Teacher retires after celebrating Golden would quiz him on vowels and anniversary in MDPS consonants or have him read to

Claudia Mae Lewis is retiring after 50 years of teaching at Silver Bluff Elementary.

(Photo by Jimmy Abraham - Miami-Dade Public Schools)

By Staff Writer Claudia Mae Lewis started with Miami-Dade schools in 1965; little did she know she would remain there for the next 50 years! Lewis has spent more than 49 of those years at Silver Bluff Elementary.

In celebration of her commitment and dedication, a surprise party was thrown for her retirement recently.

Her son, a teacher himself, past students, reporters and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho all were in attendance to honor the woman who has dedicated so much of herself to the Miami-Dade County Public School System.

A native of Buena Vista, Ga., Lewis’s family moved to Miami, where her father worked for the railroad and her mother was a bus driver for Miami-Dade schools. Lewis is named after her grandmother, who was a slave.

Lewis’ son, Tyree, was the first Black student to attend Silver Bluff, just outside Coral Gables. Growing up, Tyree

Mr. Freemon Allen

Sunrise: December 27, 1950 Sunset: June 20, 2015

Viewing Thursday, June 25, 2015 3 to 4 p.m. (Family) 4 to 7 p.m. (Public) James C. Boyd Funeral Home

Funeral Service

MEMBERS: North Broward County Chapter of The Links, Incorporated and Earlene Striggles Horne, The Links president.

gleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59.

Robert Pruitt, the son of Me-

Friday, June 26, 2015 11 a.m.

James C. Boyd Funeral Home 2324 Sistrunk Blvd.

Ft. Laud., Fla. 33311

Lewis said his mother never missed a chance to teach. She

her during car trips. “She’s always teaching me,” Lewis said.

When discussing the changes she has seen in the classroom, the first things Lewis talked about was standardized testing. She also expressed concern regarding the new educational standards. Tyree feels his mom is worried about cutting out cursive writing instruction and felt teachers weren’t as encouraged to build personal relationships with their students like in the past.

“Some of those things, she felt they (students) would miss out on,” he said. “She wasn’t ready to go, but she felt her generation of teachers is over, like they’re teaching to the test now.”

Lewis, a devoted church member, promised to come back often as a substitute and volunteer.

The Elks Lodge #652 would like to thank Jo Marie Payton for coming out to support the Historic Elks Lodge recently. Exalted Ruler James Gibbs and House Chairman Harry Hippie.

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