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Google apologizes for mixing up Black people with Gorillas tures that allow for easier categorization of photos. This way, balloon pictures are grouped together with other pictures of

balloons, mountains with mountains, and so on.

‘We’re appalled and genuinely sorry that this happened. We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of result from appearing. There is still clearly a lot of work to do with automatic image labeling, and we’re looking at how we can prevent these types of mistakes from happening in the future,” wrote a Google spokesperson.

University offers scholarships to children of slain Emanuel AME parishioner

By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the AfroAmerican Newspaper

By Yvette Carnell Google has apologized after its photo application confused Black people with gorillas.

Over the weekend, programmer Jacky Alciné tweeted a screenshot of photos he’d uploaded in which the app had labeled Alcine and a friend, both African American, as “gorillas.”

“Google photos, y’all f****d up. My friend’s not a gorilla.”

Alcine tweeted. Another tweet read, “What kind of sample image data you collected that would result in this son?”

Google said it was “genuinely

sorry” that the app classified the Black friends as gorillas.

Google engineer Yonatan Zunger tweeted, “This is 100% NOT OK” in response to Alcine’s tweets. Zunger also promised Alcine that Google would fix the glitch.

The first fix tried was not successful so Zunger said the tag was removed and the company would be working on “long term” fixes for the issue.

“Lots of work being done, and lots still to be done. But we’re very much on it,” he said.

The image recognition software is designed to capture fea-

The recent massacre of nine congregants in an AfricanAmerican church in Charleston, S.C., by a self-proclaimed white supremacist has been marked by stories, not so much of hate, but of touching tales of forgiveness, graciousness and an outpouring of love.

In another of those inspiring stories, Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) this week announced it is offering full tuition scholarships to the four children of DePayne Middleton-Doctor, a university employee and one of nine victims killed in the tragic Emanuel AME Church shooting June 17.

The ghost of Charleston 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against [a]flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:11-12 (NASB) This past weekend my family and I had the privilege of visiting the state of South Carolina. Our reason for visiting was to enjoy my wife’s father’s side of the family in a minifamily reunion.

We had a great time and as always the ‘hog-pickin’, which is my favorite, was as binding to our past as it was most enjoyable to my palate.

The state of South Carolina is filthy rich with Black history and woven into its antiquity is the blood of our ancestral courage and fortitude, which is engrained in her soil because of the bodies and the blood spilled due to hatred and the fight for freedom.

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Make change with our dollars and sense!

By Audrey Peterman

Middleton-Doctor (Courtesy Photo) “Right now, more than anything, we want DePayne’s children to know we love them,” said University President Todd Voss in a statement.

Dear Mr. Henry, I was moved by your Op Ed on the front page of the July 2-8 Westside Gazette, in which you revealed the refusal of prominent advertisers to use the Black Press and specifically the insulting response to your question by Mr. Goldstein.

Since the brownfield is in a predominantly Black area, it is a no-brainer that the responsible agency has a duty to place the information in media targeted to that community.

Otherwise they risk the community not knowing what’s going on and being able to act in their best interest.

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Zena Yusuf, Black AIDS Institute program Florida Democratic Party release coordinator: ‘I saw poverty and disparities’ disappointing LEAD task force report Some children grow up dreaming of becoming a doctor or a journalist, but public health work chose Zena Yusuf, the Black AIDS Institute’s new program coordinator.

In addition to having a shunned uncle who, according to family gossip, likely died of AIDS during the 1980s, while she was in graduate school at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Yusuf was surrounded by people in need of better health care and sexual education. She also did her “practicum in Clarke County, Georgia, one of the five poorest counties in the nation,” she says. “I saw a really big

YUSUF contrast between university life and everyone living outside of it. Across the street from my

dorm, there was a housing project; I saw a lot of poverty and disparities.”

Yusuf worked with the local health department and the Red Cross as an HIV educator. “I would go out in the community and talk about HIV and how it’s transmitted,” she says. “I guess that’s when I saw that there was a lot of work to be done, and I’ve been working in sexual health since then.” Yusuf has also worked at Mercy Care, Atlanta’s only National Health Care for the Homeless Council program, where she became an HIV data analyst.

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By Roger Caldwell In Florida, the Republicans control Both Houses, the Governorship, and the majority of state appointments. Statistically, this does not make sense, because there are more Democrats registered on the voting polls, which gives the party the advantage in every election.

But somehow the Republicans continue to win, and it would appear that the wrong Democratic leadership is in positions of power.

Under the leadership of the Florida Democratic Chairperson Allison Tant, the Democrats have lost the Governorship

twice by around 60,000 votes, and something is wrong. As a result of the close results, the leadership commissioned a task force under the co-chair of U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, and ExOrlando Police Chief Val Deming. The official title of the task force was the “Florida Democratic Party’s Leadership Expansion to Advance Democrats Task Force.”

The mission of the task force was to determine what went so wrong for the party at the ballot box in 2014, and list recommendations going forward.

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Ex-Orlando Police Chief Val Deming.

Confederate flag sales soar after South Carolina N.C. NAACP will seek to get voter restrictions lifted church shooting In its decision, the Supreme

By Freddie Allen, Senior Washington Correspondent

By Amen Oyiboke Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel Rising conversations about the origin and history of the Confederate flag continues to be a topic on America’s list of issues for discussion.

Last week companies such as Walmart, Amazon, Sears/ Kmart, eBay, Etsy and Google Shopping made statements by pulling merchandise displaying the confederate flag from their stores. The catalyst for the change came after a brutal shooting that left nine people dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

21-year-old Dylann Roof, the gunman of the shooting, proudly displayed the Confederate flag in his social media posts as a statement to support racial separation. After the shooting, debates about the Confederate flag’s meaning and stance began to resurface.

Gov. Nikki Haley of South

Pleading Our Own Cause

Carolina and a group of locally elected officials announced on June 22 that they supported the removal of the Confederate flag from state capitol grounds.

Other Southern states, like Alabama, have followed through with removing the Confederate flag from state capitol grounds.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – In less than a week, a voting rights trial is expected to begin that will challenge North Carolina’s restrictive voting law. Whatever the verdict, experts expect to ruling to have a ripple effect in states that have passed similar laws in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act. Shortly after the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby v. Holder decision two years ago, a number of states rushed to pass voting laws that civil rights groups say discriminate against people of color and poor people.

Rev. William Barber II is fighting “extreme agenda” in North Carolina.

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Court voted to annihilate the Voting Rights Act that required jurisdictions with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to pre-clear any election law change with the U.S. Attorney General or a district federal judge in Washington, D.C. Rev. William Barber II, the head of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP and cofounder of the Moral Mondays Movement, said that the deliberate, race-based voter suppression law passed by the North Carolina state legislature and signed by North Carolina’s Gov. Pat McCrory is a sin.

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Election of Black leader helps redeem Episcopal Church

Bishop Michael Curry is first Black to lead The Episcopal Church.

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By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – The recent election of Bishop Michael Curry as the 27th presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church – the first African American to hold the denomination’s highest office – to succeed the church’s first female presiding bishop is

expected to help atone for the church’s failure to take a more active role opposing slavery and Jim Crow laws.

Curry, bishop of the North Carolina Diocese since 2000, was easily elected presiding bishop of the 2.5 million congregation on June 27 at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Salt Lake City, capturing 121 of 174 votes in a four-person race. Prior to

moving to North Carolina, Curry served 12 years as rector of St. James Church in Baltimore.

Recalling the election of Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori nine years ago as the church’s first female presiding bishop, Curry said: “It was an experience of the Holy Spirit, for real … And today I had that same feeling. And I think that’s a sign of our church growing more deeply in the spirit of God and the movement of God’s spirit in our world.”

He explained, “… My election is a reflection of that same thing.

That’s exciting. That’s a combination of God and us working together and that is a church willing to grow and being all that God dreams for it to be.”

With roots in the Church of England, the U.S. Episcopal Church is a branch of the 80 million-member Anglican Communion. Like many denominations, the church is facing declining membership, down 18 percent over the past decade.

“In this day and this time, the church can no longer wait for the congregation to come to

it,” he said. “The church must go where the congregation is and share the gospel.”

In sharing the gospel, the church continues trying to shed part of its past.

According to a report by the Episcopalian Anti-Racism Commission, published in March, “Even though the southern dioceses seceded from The Episcopal Church during the Civil War, the northern dioceses did not acknowledge any formal separation, nor did they confront the so-called ‘conflict of conscience’ that led to the erection of The Episcopal Church in the Confederate States.

“North and South reunited in a gentleman’s agreement not to address the racial issues that had split other denominations.

While Black parishes in the northern dioceses thrived on internal resources, despite what one observer called ‘the arrogance of white liberals,’ Southern patrimony, made it virtually impossible for Episcopalians… to recognize those formerly in bondage, indeed those who they had previously owned, as equal citizens under the law.”

In the mid-60s, the church made a special effort to diversify its leadership.

“Executive Council membership was expanded to include four minority representatives, two of which were to be nominated by the Union of Black Clergy and Laity (UBCL),” the report stated. “The Church’s ability to see racism in its own behavior and institutional practices could only have occurred because governance changes ensured the presence of new diverse voices. Nonetheless, change in the programmatic management at the Church’s headquarters was slow to recognize institutional racism.”

The report recalled, “The Church first took action on addressing institutional racism in the 1980s. A 1982 Churchwide Conference on Racism drew delegates from 50 dioceses including bishops and deputies to push for change in the councils of the Church through training and education programs.

In response General Convention for the first time requested every diocese and congregation to establish committees on racism (1982-A062).

Convention also endorsed Council’s 1981 Affirmative Action policy (1982- A152). In 1986 Presiding Bishop Browning stated to Executive Council that, ‘no greater challenge faces the Church than that of racism,’ and committed the Episcopal Church to set an example of an organization confronting institutional racism.”

Since then, the church has conducted anti-racism training, racism audits and undertaken other action to make the church more diverse.

Judging by his past, the new presiding bishop is likely to accelerate those efforts.

Curry earned a reputation of taking the gospel beyond the church walls and participating in the Moral Monday crusades to challenge North Carolina lawmakers on such issues as

voting rights and income inequality.

The leader of the Moral Monday Movement in North Carolina, NAACP President Rev. William J. Barber, II, said in a statement: “We humbly add our congratulations to our prophetic friend, the new Presiding Bishop of nearly 2 million Episcopalians across America.

His landslide election by the predominantly white Episcopalian church is particularly striking in the wake of the assassinations of nine African Methodist Episcopalians in Charleston less than two weeks before.”

The new leader was highly praised by convention delegates interviewed by the Episcopal News Service.

Tennessee resident Michael Moore said, “I’m a cradle Episcopalian, fourth generation Episcopalian, and I think he will do a lot to bring people back together again. Through him we can send a message to the world and to my daughter, who’s become cynical about the church. He can bring us all together, not just Black people who’ve left, but he can also give White people hope… There’s so much divide in the world, we need someone like him to bring us together.”

Rev. Stephanie Spellers, chaplain to the House of Bishops, said, “I can’t stop crying.

This is not even about Michael Curry. … This is a victory for Jesus. … I could just feel the Spirit just pouring out, and it’s not going to be ever the same again.”

Jane Cosby, an Executive Council member from Philadelphia, said: “…The fact that he got it on the first ballot and the fact that I’ve lived long enough to see a Black President of the United States and now a Black presiding bishop in The Episcopal Church, I’ve got nothing else to wish for. If I die to tonight it will be OK.”

Florida Democratic Party releases disappointing LEAD task force report

U.S. SEN. NELSON

TANT (Cont'd from FP) The task force was charged with the following three goals; 1. Review best practices for candidate recruitment for local, state, and federal offices, 2. Examine data and digital footprint to ensure new technologies are being utilized, and 3. Assess field and turnout operations and recommend steps to improve performance.

After seven months of town hall meetings, general meetings, planning meetings, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Democrats now need more meetings to discuss and access the report. Some Florida Democrats think the seven months of work was a colossal waste of time, energy, and money. For almost two decades the Florida Democrats have delivered constant electoral defeats, and the same group is now making recommendations based on what they keep doing wrong.

The task force was made up of entirely established figures in the party, and many Black Democrats have charged the present leadership with discrimination and cronyism.

Many Black Democratic candidates in 2014 claimed that the leadership ignored Black candidates such as Thaddeus Hamilton, who ran for commissioner of Agriculture, and re-

ceived little financial support from the party. Also many Black candidates argued that the party had no platform, and refused to put out information on minority candidates.

The report also missed the poor job the Democrats did on raising money in 2014, and was out spent by the Republicans by a two to one margin. There was no unified message to engage the young voters, and there was no plan for the poor.

Basically many Democratic voters thought they were disrespected, and the focus was on ex-governor Crist, and little attention on other candidates.

Even though it took seven months to complete the report, it correctly stated that the party had little presence in the rural counties of North and Central Florida, which represented 45 percent of the statewide vote.

The report also recommends that the state party regularly distributes talking points, and holds more candidate messaging training.

In the final analysis, there were some good information and points in the report, but it failed to address the changing diversity in the state. The report lacks the creativity and innovation to connect to the youth and young voters, and mobilize the party on the grassroots level. With no definitive plan to execute the report, it may end up being a waste of time.

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Abortion rights issue regains momentum that allow for time off, and have the resources to travel if need be.

Data from the Pew Research Center supports the notion that Black people tend to be socially conservative on causes such as gay marriage and abortion, out of religious belief. But according to surveys conducted by In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, a national policy organization, there’s another overlooked factor.

“Overwhelmingly Black Americans, by numbers of 80 to 95 percent, support a women’s right to determine for herself when she will have children, and how she will have those children,” says Dazon Dixon Diallo, founding partner of the In Our Own Voice agenda and founder and president of SisterLove, an Atlanta-based reproductive justice organization.

“Regardless of religion, regardless of political ideology, regardless of education level or income level, and age… Black folks overwhelmingly support statements that, when it comes to abortion, ‘We should trust

Black women to make the important decisions about themselves and their families.’”

As part of a new effort to challenge women’s care provisions built into the Affordable Care Act, 31 states have enacted Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers policies, or “TRAP laws,” which set requirements for abortion clinics and/ or medical professionals who perform the procedure.

The laws share a few commonalities across states. For example, physician offices and clinics must obtain a license from the health department, which makes the licensee subject to random searches of their offices and client medical records.

But in general, the requirements vary widely. In Missouri, for example, doctors cannot work in a clinic unless they are also on the staff list at the nearest hospital. In North Carolina, a clinic must meet specific standards for the air quality, flow, and vent placement in recovery rooms. Some laws require clinics to meet hospital standards.

Some require medically un-

Black women see job prospects improve

In a separate blog post, Gould wrote that wages have only grown 2 percent since last June, another clear indicator of the uneven recovery.

“Employers don’t have to offer big wage increases to get and keep the workers they need,” Gould explained. “And this remains true even as a jobs recovery has consistently forged ahead in recent years.”

Gould cautioned the Federal Reserve against raising interest rates in an effort to prevent inflation.

In a brief statement about June’s employment situation, Gould wrote, “In light of this jobs report, it is more than obvious that the Federal Reserve needs to stay the course – if they act too soon, they will take the remaining wind out of the economy’s sails.”

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – When she was five months pregnant, past the point where she could obtain a legal abortion, 23-year-old Kenlissia Jones of Albany, Ga. ordered prescription abortion pills from a Canadian website. When Jones started feeling pain, she was rushed to the hospital.

En route, she delivered the fetus in the backseat of her neighbor’s car. The fetus died 30 minutes later. Instead of being comforted in her hour of loss, Jones was arrested at the hospital and charged with murder.

With agonizing stories such as Jones’ in the news, reproductive rights issues are again coming to the forefront of public attention and are certain to be an issue in the upcoming presidential election.

That battle is already being played out at the state level.

Since 2010, legislators in 31 states have passed almost 300 abortion-related laws, more than 50 of them in this year alone.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, white women accounted for 55 percent of all legal abortions in 2011.

Black women accounted for 37 percent. Still, reproductive policies disproportionately affect African Americans. They report more unintended pregnancies, have a maternal death rate three-times that of white women, and often lack the health insurance that fully covers women’s care.

“These new restrictions are changing the circumstances under which abortion is provided and how abortion is accessed.

We are also seeing real access issues, depending on socio-economic status and racial status,” said Elizabeth Nash, who analyzes state policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit advocating for reproductive rights.

“Low-income women have fewer resources on which they can rely, and these restrictions are having more of an impact on them,” she continues, adding that middle- and upper-income women can afford the procedure, which typically costs around $500, have flexible jobs

By Freddie Allen, Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – Job prospects for Black women improved in June, as they recorded better employment numbers than the other major adult groups, the latest jobs report by the Labor Department shows.

The jobless rate for Black women over 20 years old fell nearly a full percentage point last month, from 8.8 percent in May to 7.9 percent in June.

The unemployment rate for white women declined just onetenth of a percentage, from 4.3 percent in May to 4.2 percent last month.

The unemployment rate for Black men over 20 years old also improved, but not as quickly as for Black women – falling from 10.2 percent in May to 9.7 percent in June. It was still more than double the 4.2 percent unemployment rate for white men, which hasn’t changed since May. As the number of Black women entering the labor market increased last month, the share of adult Black women that have jobs compared to the total population of Black women, known as the employment-population ratio (E-POP), also increased.

The E-POP for Black women climbed from 56.5 percent to 57.1 percent in June, compared to the E-POP for white women, which receded from 55.1 percent to 55 percent in June. The EPOP for Black men decreased from 61.5 percent in May to 61.2 percent in June and the ratio of workers in the white male population didn’t budge in June and was the same as it was in May at 69.1 percent.

William Spriggs, an economics professor at Howard Uni-

versity and the chief economist at the AFL-CIO, a national labor group, took to Twitter to note that the jobless rate for Black women fell “for right reasons,” due in part to the growth in the employment-population ratio.

In a later tweet, Spriggs wrote: “Despite waves of state and local minimum wage hikes, employment in food services continued to trend up +30k in June, +355k over the year.”

For years, groups that advocate for small businesses have

Zena Yusuf, Black AIDS Institute program coordinator: ‘I saw poverty and disparities’ (Cont'd from FP) As a program coordinator for the Black AIDS Institute, Yusuf provides technical-assistance in the form of HIV knowledge and program-planning logistics to help the Black Treatment Advocates Network mobilize local communities across the country.

She also helps build the capacity of communities committed to expanding Black engagement

University offers scholarships to children of slain Emanuel The scholarships will cover AME parishioner each child’s tuition for their en(Cont'd from FP) “We want to honor DePayne’s service to SWU and her belief in Christian higher education as an important element in Gracyn, Kaylin, Hali and Czana’s future success.”

A 1994 alumna of Southern Wesleyan, Middleton-Doctor was employed at the institution’s Charleston learning center as an admissions coordinator. Former colleagues praised her for her embodiment of Christ-like principles, including her demonstration of love and service to family, students and co-workers.

“DePayne was a wonderful woman and co-worker who embodied the best of what we do here at SWU,” said Dean Grile, senior director of recruitment services and director of the university’s Charleston learning center. “She enjoyed reaching out to working adults to give them a second chance or a first opportunity to improve their lives and their family’s lives through education.”

expressed fear that increasing the minimum wage would lead to higher prices for consumers and less job opportunities for those who often need them the most: young people, poor people and people of color. With each company, city and jurisdiction that an-nounces immediate or future plans to raise the minimum wage, those fears begin to fade away.

The national unemployment rate edged down from 5.5 percent in May to 5.2 percent June, but the E-POP also dipped from 59.4 percent to 59.3 percent.

The economy added 223,000 jobs last month, but the jobs numbers for April and May were revised down, shedding 60,000 jobs.

Still reeling from the broad sequestration cuts that went into effect in 2013, the public sector, where Blacks tend to find jobs at higher rates than in the private sector, didn’t add a single job in June and has only added 8,000 jobs this year, Elise Gould, the senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank focused on low- and middle-income families, wrote in a blog post at EPI.org.

tire enrollment, if they choose to attend Southern Wesleyan, according to Chad Peters, vice president for enrollment management. The awards are the university’s way of honoring a beloved employee, who often boasted of her children’s accomplishments to co-workers.

“As a community we are deeply saddened by the loss of a valued employee who faithfully served and ministered to adult and graduate students in Charleston,” Peters said. “We realize the scholarships won’t ease the pain of loss that the children are dealing with now and in the future; however, it is our desire as a community for each of them to know we care about them.”

Middleton-Doctor was among several people killed when alleged assailant, 21year-old Dylann Storm Roof, opened fire on the group that had gathered for Bible study in a racially motivated attack.

Hundreds of mourners, including President Barack Obama and a congressional delegation, attended funeral services for the victims.

in HIV treatment and prevention.

“My work covers Oakland, [Calif.], Atlanta, parts of Louisiana and Mississippi,” says Yusuf, whose own family hails from Ethiopia. “Each area has different challenges. My goal is to figure out how I can better address their unique training needs while helping to implement each program’s projects.

Right now, for instance, I’m working on a PrEP learning collaborative in Atlanta, looking at what we want to do to bridge knowledge gaps. There’s a training in July—a two-day workshop designed to assist each organization involved in delivering PrEP. Georgia didn’t expand Medicaid, so resources are limited.”

Yusuf is also working with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “They’d like their providers to be more culturally competent; there’s a gap in what the providers know about the patients and clients they interact with,” Yusef says. “We’re creating a survey to get a sense of their knowledge levels so we can do more training. The results will be presented for National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day next April.”

Ultimately, Yusuf wants to help Black people learn to talk about sex and sexuality without any shame. “Just creating that environment and atmosphere where people are comfortable even talking about their sexual encounters and experiences related to their sex lives—that’s important to me,” she says.

Tomika Anderson is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Essence, POZ, Real Health and Ebony magazines, among others.

(Debra Sweet/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) necessary ultrasounds or mental health services before an abortion, while other states shrink the window of time a woman can obtain one.

Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the lone clinic in Mississippi that offers abortion services, has become the stage for a possible U.S. Supreme Court battle. One of the state’s 2012 TRAP laws requires abortion physicians to have privileges at a local hospital. The Jackson center would not be able to meet that requirement and would be forced to close.

The court case argues that this closure violates the 14th Amendment rights of women in Mississippi.

The case is on hold until at least the fall, when the court will reconvene and decide whether to consider it.

“When we’ve seen TRAP laws go into effect, we’ve seen clinics close for no good reason.

That law does no good for any woman and is not justified in any sense of the word,” said Nash, referring to the Mississippi law in question and others like it. “What would make a lot of sense is for this law to be repealed so the clinic can remain open.”

Abortion is often only one of a range of services physicians and clinics provide, including providing contraceptives, prenatal care, sex education, affordable or free STD testing, and infertility services. Laws targeted at abortion also disrupt access to these services when they threaten clinics’ existence.

Kenlissia Jones’ murder charge was later dropped; although Georgia has TRAP laws, terminating a pregnancy is not a criminal act. As the Supreme Court and state legislatures recess for the summer, various advocacy and social justice groups are mobilizing and educating citizens on the issue in preparation for the election and legislative seasons this fall.

“We have to be a lot more engaged, and especially among Black women as leaders…that we’re able to articulate these issues from within our own communities and on our own behalf,” Diallo explained. “And that when we know these kinds of issues come up – like with Kenlissia – we are proactively ready for any legislative work that needs to be done, before we have to react to punitive legislation that may be working to close any kind of opportunities for women to be selfdetermining and have autonomy in their own bodies.”

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Concert

Fundraiser

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.

Dillard Class of '71 Members and supporters, 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.

Health Fair

Celebration

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.

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

Senior Prom

Broward Citizen for Seniors Community Service Organization proudly announces our Seventh Annual Senior Prom, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 from 6 to 11 p.m., at Bahia Mar Hotel, 801 Seabreeze Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tickets on sale at: · MODCO, (Mount Olive Development Corporation), Weekends, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., weekdays 1530 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. · Alan’s Clubhouse, Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 915 N.W. Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. · Martnick’s Pharmacy, Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 6783 Stirling Rd., Davie, Fla. (in the Stirling Plaza the Shops at Stirling Place – between University Drive and Davie Road) For more info call Cheryl Cooper, at (954) 303-4900 or Pearl Copeland at (954) 2888702 or may email at browardseniorsprom@gmail.com or visit us on website at BCFSINC.org

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Back2School Health & Wellness Fair, Saturday, July 11, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Atlantic Technical College – Arthur Ashe Jr. Campus, 1701 N.W. 23 Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Free open to the community, free school immunization, free vision screenings, Dental Health Education, Preventative Education, back to school giveaways and fun activities for entire family. For more info call (754) 322-2865.

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OneUnited Bank and the Miami Children’s Initiative (MCI) in conjunction with Liberty City Renaissance will unveil the final product of the OneUnited Mural Project – a public art works piece by Miami Muralist Addonis Parker on the façade of OneUnited Bank’s Miami branch. Theme Thunder & Enlightening. “The Unveiling of the 10 feet by 55 feet thoughtprovoking mural, Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 5 p.m., at OneUnited Bank, 3275 N.W. 79 St., Miami, Fla. For general info at kiana@circleofonemarketing.com or (305) 576-3790.

Happenings at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center

African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderale, Fla. Upcoming Destination Friday events: Sept. 4 Hawaii and Nov. 6 - the Bahamas. For more info call (954) 357-6210. · Open House Hurricane Preparedness, Saturday, July 11, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more info call (954) 831-4000. · Broward County Library presents Broward Moments Lecture Series, Wednesday, July 8, at 6 p.m. Banishing Jim Crow: The Civil Rights Movement in Broward County and Florida presented by Gregory Durden, Esq.

Summer Reading Program

Film Festival

The Boca Black Film Festival 2015 returns for its second year with a streamlined three-day film festival at its new host hotel, the Embassy Suites Boca Raton, Thursday, July 16 thru Saturday, July 18, 2015. For time and additional info call Dhima Days at (561) 235-3028 or visit www.BocaRatonFilm.org

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The Summer Reading Program June 6 through Aug. 1, 2015 at Tyrone Bryant Library, 2230 N.W. 21 Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Participation earns raffle chances at Amazon and Publix gift cards, raffle entries can be earned by reading or listening to audio books whenever you want. For additional info call (945) 357-8210.

Register online @ www.broward.org/Library/ read or come in to register. * Tuesday, July 14, 2015, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon Heroic Women at the Banquet presented by Sandra Walker. * Saturday, July 18, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., Free Hero Comic Con at the Libary - come dressed as your favorite super hero. Comic book artist classes.

EDUCATION MATTERS Every Child Deserves a Chance to Succeed.

Summer Program

The free Summer Recreation Program at Broward County Parks and Recreation Division’s six neighborhood parks, located in the Broward Municipal Services District in enhancing its programming this summer with other governmental and notfor-profit agencies. Seven new topics will be offered to participants, depending on age group: · The Broward Sheriff’s Office will provide safety presentations focusing on druguse prevention for teens, and Broward Fire Rescue will host a series of “Firefighter Camp Days.” · The American Lung Association will share info on the dangers of smoking and ecigarettes, and the Hanley Center will offer alcohol literacy challenge presentations to discuss the dangers of underage drinking. · The Animal Rights Foundation of Florida will promote responsible pet ownership and wildlife conservation, while Dog Scouts will teach our youth how to interact with dogs by bringing certified pet-therapy dogs to each park. · Opportunities Industrialization Center of South Florida is offering a teens-only program called “Becoming a Responsible Teen,” which will cover topics as varied as strengthening communication skills to pregnancy prevention. · Memorial Healthcare System will present child-safety education, “Positive Attitude Wins” and anti-bullying information. · Holy Cross Hospital will provide nutrition classes focusing on healthy food choices and the importance of regular exercise. · The Urban League of Broward County will follow the Botvin LifeSkills Training curriculum so participants can learn about making responsible life choices, including developing communication skills, focusing on education, and fostering healthy relationships with friends and family. · Free SWIM Central water-safety instruction is available for ages 6 to 10.

The Summer Food Program makes free lunches available daily from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and snacks daily from 2:30 to 3 p.m. Weekdays, through Friday, Aug. 14, 2015; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (early drop-off will be available from 8 to 9 a.m. late pickup is available from 5 to 6 p.m., registration is still available at Franklin, Lafayette Hart, and Roosevelt Gardens parks. The program is full at Boulevard Gardens Community Center, Reverend Samuel Delevoe Memorial Park, and Sunview Park. · Franklin Park, 2501 Franklin Dr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., (954) 357-7080. · Lafayette Hart Park, 2851 N.W. Eighth Rd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., (954) 3577970. · Roosevelt Gardens Park, 2841 N.W. 11 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., (954) 3578700.

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

TO HAVE YOUR COMMUNITY EVENTS POSTED CALL -(954) 525-1489 OR FAX -(954) 525-1861 FOR MORE INFO

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Accepting applications! CAPYoung Musicians’ Orchestras, ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble & Jazz PREP Band August 2015 through May 2016, Community Arts Program (CAP) performing ensembles meet after school within the Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ Arts & Education wing. These ensembles include the CAP Young Musicians’ String PREP Consort, String Con-sort, Chamber Ensemble, Jazz PREP Band, and ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble Each group is designed to take children and youth through the highest-level experience while developing exceptional musical and performance skills. Over the year, groups perform a minimum of five exciting concerts throughout Miami.

If you, or someone you know, is interested in joining, we’d love to hear from you. It’s easy.

At the top of their home page, click on the Jazz Ensem-

bles or Young Musicians’ Orchestras icon; see more details; then apply to be part of all the music making and learning.

You’ll be contacted for an audition, upon receipt of your online application.

CAP Saturday Music Classes September 2015 through April 2016, the Community Arts Program (CAP) Conservatory for the Arts offers its exciting Saturday Music Classes for Miami-Dade County children and youth. The CAP Con-ervatory for the Arts Saturday Music Classes meets within the in-kind classroom spaces on the campus of Ransom Everglades Upper School, in Coconut Grove.

Each Saturday, a diverse group of Miami-Dade children and youth attends CAP Satur-

The ghost of Charleston (Cont'd from FP) This hatred seems to linger like a bad hangover made from the corn of this very same blood stained soil.

And like its odious past, some of the stench lingers today in forms of ghosts.

I would appear ludicrous if I were to state that all of South Carolina is a bad, God forsaken place, because it’s not.

Just as most places on this earth, there are the good, bad and the indifferent and South Carolina is no exception and here lately Charleston, South Carolina is the epitome of what’s good and very bad about South Carolina.

For me at the time of my visit, the ugly ghost of Charleston’s past looms over the city as if it were an eerie, creepy fog hovering over the city like buzzards waiting to scrape the flesh from slowly dying carcasses of a people who time has almost forgotten.

I only viewed Charleston through a crack, a tiny portal shaped by nine dead in a shooting at a Black church. Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Charleston, S.C., for me will forever be in the same sentence with Denmark Vesey(1767-1822),, an African-American who fought to liberate his people from slavery, and planned an abortive slave insurrection. Denmark Vesey, sometime in 1818 joined the city’s new African Methodist Episcopal congregation, then the center of Charleston’s enslaved community.

After careful examination of the historical record, the judgment of Sterling Stuckey remains valid: “Vesey’s example must be regarded as one of the most courageous ever to threaten the racist foundations of America…. He stands today, as he stood yesterday … as an awesome projection of the possibilities for militant action on the part of a people who have for centuries been made to bow down in fear.” http:// biography.yourdictionary.com/denmark-vesey While I was there in Charleston, I could somehow feel the ghostly presence of an abysmal haunting past and there was something still lurking in the shadows of this ethereal place.

Are ghosts factual? The word ghost appears over 100 times in the New American Standard Version of the Bible.

In the over 100 appearances, the word at no time was used to represent a ghostly spirit of somebody who had entered the enteral resting place no longer to return. The two ways it is used are as a title, “the Holy Ghost,” the third person of the Godhead or Trinity and in the expression “to give up the ghost,” denoting “to die.”

Should we be fearful of ghosts?

We do not have to be scared of Satan and his imitations, living or dead, when we give our hearts to Jesus. 1 John 4:1,4, NKJV says, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God. . . You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

James 4:7-8, NKJV reassure us that if we; “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”

There is no trickery, lies or deceit with God. His Word says that when we are true to Jesus, and obey Him by conviction, there is no need to fear the devil or his empts or any evil thing that comes in the form of ghost or somebody’s debilitating hatred.

“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Luke 10:19, NKJV 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39New American Standard Bible (NASB) 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:31New American Standard Bible (NASB) “I ain’t afraid of no ghost!”

GOD LEFT US A COMFORTER, THE HOLY GHOST!

day Music Classes. There, they engage in top-notch instrument training—violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, piano, woodwind, brass, percussion, and voice— coupled with classes in written and aural music theory, performance practice, and 360 Forums (where parents attend classes with their children) taught by our 22-member (and growing) music faculty.

If you have, or know of, a

Misty Copeland becomes ABT’s first AfricanLauren Anderson of the American principal ballerina Houston Ballet,” she said. Later,

COPELAND

By Zita Allen, Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News When American Ballet Theatre announced the promotion of Misty Copeland to principal ballerina last week, the highest rank in the company and the highest ever achieved by an African-American dancer with one of this country’s elite ballet companies, she told reporters at a press conference, “I’m just so extremely honored to be a principal dancer, to be an African-American and to be in this position.”

Occasionally fighting back tears, she spoke softly with humility and grace at what was clearly an emotionally charged moment. Her promotion had just been announced that morning at a company meeting with Artistic Director Kevin MacKenzie, who said simply, “Misty, take a bow,” as her fellow company members applauded.

Copeland explained that starting to dance at age 13, at the Boys and Girls Club in California, where she grew up, was not your typical path into that corner of the dance world where few looked like her. “The first person who looked like me that

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Make change with our dollars and sense!

(Cont'd from FP) There is a sure and certain cure for this, and that takes place when the affected people decide they’ve had enough and will take matters into their own hands. That would require a boycott of those firms that refuse to respect them and their media. It’s not hard to get a petition going online now that calls out such corporate irresponsibility. Unfortunately, public shaming of unethical practices is one of the few recourses citizens have.

In the case of the brownfield, the affected people need to let their local, state and national elected officials know they will no longer accept this treatment. In 2000 we got a clause in the Water Resources Development Act that requires minority firms to be included in any programs related to the environment, but many laws are unenforced because people either do not know they exist or pressure is not applied at the appropriate place. Most insultingly, it’s our tax dollars being used to pay the salaries of haughty and incompetent individuals.

The only way this is going to change is for us to change and act affirmatively on our own behalf.

Audrey Peterman

child (ages five-18) ready for challenging, exhilarating and well-rounded music learning, call the Community Arts Program at (305) 448-7421, ext.

120. Or at the top of their home page, click on the Saturday Music Classes icon for more information and to access the online application.

To introduce more young Miamians to jazz, Miami’s Community Arts Program (CAP) will

expand its Conservatory for the Arts to include an exciting and innovative after-school jazz institute. This is made possible through support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge, which has awarded $100,000 to the Community Arts Program for its Miami Jazz Institute.

Since its inception in the early 20th century, jazz has been a reflection of American culture and is widely considered as the truly original American art form. Yet many graduate from high school with little knowledge of the historical importance and practical applications of jazz. The Community Arts Program solution to this is a Miami Jazz Institute (MJI) that will stimulate children through the richness of jazz as they understand its place in American history, its musical structure, and its practical applications in one-on-one lessons on a chosen instrument and in performance as soloists and as part of MJI performing ensembles that reflect Miami’s diversity. With sliding-scale tuition based on need, the Mi-

Clarence Lee Vaughn, Jr. was born December 26, 1945 and he departed this life on Sunday, July 5, 2015. He was preceded in death by his father, Clarence Lee Vaughn, Sr., mother Lillie P Brown, and stepmother Bertha Vaughn. He leaves to cherish his loving memory his wife, Kay (Smith) of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; sons, Clarence L. Vaughn, III and wife, Syreeta of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Demetrious O.

I saw dance Odette/Odile [the lead role in ‘Swan Lake’] was

she would meet others, such as Raven Wilkinson, the only Black ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo back in the 1950s, whose experiences included harrowing confrontations with the Ku Klux Klan during company tours down South.

Copeland continued, “I think I would have had a completely different path had there been more like me. I’ve had moments of doubting myself and wanting to quit because I didn’t know. I didn’t think there could be a future for me as an African-American woman to make it to this level."

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ami Jazz Institute will make it possible for more children to participate.

“There is a real need for afterschool programs that fully immerse young people in jazz.

Providing them with a strong foundation in theoretical and applied learning builds solid understanding and adaptable skill sets,” remarks Community Arts Program Executive and Artistic Director, Mark Hart. “Opportunities like this create a more vibrant community and ensure a robust future for our children.”

“The Community Arts Program has a wonderful track record of preparing our students to be musicians and creative thinkers. This new program will extend that effort while bringing the arts more deeply into Miami’s many neighborhoods,” said Dennis Scholl, VP/arts at Knight Foundation.

Beyond theoretical and applied musical growth, Miami Jazz Institute students will also develop an understanding of collaboration, the correlation between hard work, discipline and goal accomplishment, and the unity found within diversity.

Key to the Institute’s overall growth will be free, MJI student concerts that engage Miami’s many neighborhoods. These concerts will expand jazz awareness and, most of all, spark other children’s interest in jazz and their involvement with the Institute.

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From child to man in the circus

Ringmaster Lucky Malatsi keeps audiences engaged.

By Kelly-Ann Brown, Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – Dressed sharply in a dazzling gold blazer and armed with a microphone and an infectious smile, Ringmaster

Lucky Malatsi’s job is to keep audiences of the UniverSoul Circus excited, engaged and enthusiastic between the numerous acts — and it is no small feat.

Malatsi is quick on his feet, incorporating humor, dancing and theatrics to keep the audiences recently at the National Harbor in southern Maryland entertained.

Though he makes it look effortless, Malatsi’s performance encompasses years of experience. He joined UniverSoul at only 11 years old, an age when American children are still in elementary school.

But he didn’t start there.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Malatsi began performing for audiences at age four as an accomplished performer and acrobat trained by his uncle.

At six years old, he traveled to Germany for the first time, performing as an acrobat in festivals.

“For as long as I can remember it has always been my passion,” Malatsi said. “It’s always been second nature to me.”

In 1999 he was recruited by UniverSoul Circus founder and CEO Cedric Walker, and a year later he was performing in a duo contortionist act. He has spent most of his young life growing up surrounded by circus performers from around the world.

He has been an acrobatic hip-hop dancer, a gymnast and a trapeze artist. He said the true skill in mastering these talents requires more than physical conditioning.

“It’s more so mental than physical,” he said. “You can strengthen your body, but if [I] wasn’t strong mentally I wouldn’t have been able to achieve any of those skills.”

He said being ringmaster has been his most challenging job at the circus. Being able to read your audience and keep them on a constant roller coaster of emotions is essential, he said.

Though he has been with UniverSoul for 14 years, and has witnessed ringmasters before him, Malatsi said his great-

FAMU Broward CountyAlumni gives over $10,000 in donations to football program FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Broward Alumni Chapter, celebrated its Sixth Annual Unity Day on June 27, 2015 at The Signature Grand, where the Guest Speaker was Head Coach Alexander Wood. The goal of Unity Day each year is to find ways of connecting the community with FAMU. Each year, the chapter awards over $10,000 in scholarships to freshmen students heading to the “HILL.” In an effort to continue yearly giving, the 2014 focus was to expand

methods of awarding much needed support to students, thus leading to the creation of the 2014 Broward County Scholarship Endowment.

This year, to continue its giving from the community, alumni

and supporters, the Chapter agreed to focus on the needs of the university football program and student athletes. There were no doubts that this was the right decision after hearing Coach Wood’s plans for the students and program success.

Also in attendance were FAMU NAA President Tommy Mitchell who reiterated the importance of alumni giving and Office of Alumni Affairs Brandon Hill. All proceeds to benefit the FAMU Football program.

est piece of advice came from Walker.

“He told me if I could make 2,000 people feel like I’m talking to each of them individually, then I can become one of the greats,” Malatsi said.

This skill becomes even more useful when dealing with an unresponsive crowd, an experience to which Malatsi is no stranger. He said the best way to remedy the situation is to continue to have fun with them.

“They are the best type of crowd, because they make you

work harder,” he said. “Always keep your energy level up and never let them see you sweat.”

At one moment he is asking the audience to participate in the latest dance trend or “New School” versus “Old School” dance battle, and the next he will have children stand and recite a pledge to reinforce their greatness and the idea that their lives matter, an ode to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“We have to keep up with the present, especially with what’s going on in the world,”

he said. “Every year we adapt no matter what’s going on.”

A husband and father, Malatsi hopes that his children follow in his footsteps. But whatever they do, he said, he will support them, just as his family supported his him.

And for young performers hoping to pursue a career in entertainment, Malatsi has some words of wisdom.

“Chase your dreams to the fullest, have patience but always have a backup plan,” he said. “Never lose who you are regardless of how successful you become.”

'Stay-Cation', a review of things to do in South Florida Vizcaya a testament to South Florida Luxury

By Don Valentine You must extend your vista of South Florida palate to include the villa of Vizcaya. This was the extravagant winter respite for the 19th century socialite James Deering. One of the most knock out displays of opulence in Miami. This is the old school one per centers at their finest.

Picture your trip down the Atlantic coastline by boat to dock in the Biscayne Bay. You literally pull your boat up to the mooring lock adjacent to the palatial mansion of Vizcaya.

You make a short 30 yard jaunt across a stone bridge to the main house. Your porters bring all your luggage upstairs to your waiting guest rooms. From your guest rooms you can recline and enjoy the view of the pristine Biscayne Bay. Now before dinner you can stroll into the Maze garden or the nearby Secret garden. You can enjoy the warm subtropical weather of Miami in January.

After your walk you come back to enjoy a splendid relaxed dinner in the ambience of Mr. Deering’s splendid winter palace.

Deering was a colorful character. He grew up as a man

of means in the Deering family.

Unlike his brother Charles Deering he was positioned to be the intellectual of the Deering progeny. He did a year’s stint at Northwestern and M.I.T. While prolific colleges, his antics at each school were looked upon with disfavor. During this time his father established what would be later known as International Harvester Company.

The ability to harvest an acre of grain per hour drastically increased the Midwest grain profit margin. James’ father was rather modest with his wealth. Due to the success of the harvester company the

family’s net worth put them in the early 1900s with the elite of the American economic barons.

After 20 plus years as an officer of the Harvester Company James retired with his partner Paul Chaflin to Miami.

His partner would be recognized as the lead architect to ‘Che Vizcaya'. This led to the glorious design of the Vizcaya estate. James never married.

Money was no concern and Vizcaya exudes all the lavishes available in the early 19th century.

It is an absolute must see to understand the evolution of Miami opulence.

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School choice helps urban kids grab lower rung of ladder

By Clemon Richardson Urban News Service The back door opened just before the late-model minivan reached the curb in Brooklyn’s Flatbush district.

Brothers Daniel, eight, and Diallo Burgin, 10, jumped out, slid the door closed, walked to the driver’s window, and planted big kisses on their father’s cheek. Rev. Dillon Burgin, Methodist pastor of Brooklyn’s Harmony Tabernacle, watched as his boys skipped into the Explorer Charter School building. Burgin had simple reasons for sending his sons there.

“It has some advantages, in terms of the resources allocated to charter schools,” he said. “I am not happy that New York City has, in a sense, been allocating funds disproportionately to charter schools, but I am happy that since that is the reality, we can at least make use of it by letting the boys go to this school.”

Despite popular misperceptions, charter schools hardly seem overfunded. According to the New York City Department of Education website, charters will receive $1.6 billion, or 7.3 percent, of its $21.8 billion 2015-2016 operating budget.

Sam Johnson clutched his daughter Samaya’s hand as they approached the schoolhouse door at Explore Charter in Brooklyn.

“They actually teach here,” Johnson said. “My daughter is going to the sixth grade and reads better than me. She gets into it. And her math is great.” He added: “Safety is one thing, education is another, and she’s getting all of that here,” Johnson said of Samaya. “You want your kid to have the best of everything.”

Critics complain that charters divert public money to privately run organizations that syphon off the best public-school students. But American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten recently softened her group’s critique of charter schools, as the Washington Times reported.

She told the Atlantic Education Summit on June 15 that the relationship between the AFT and charters “should not be a competitive environment. We should figure out how to work together and how to do things together. But there’s too much competition and not enough collaboration.”

David Hardy is co-founder and CEO of Boys Latin Charter School in working-class West Philadelphia. Hardy said a charter school was the only way he saw to help at-risk black males earn high-school diplomas and go to college.

“A lot of the guys we got into college would not have finished high school if they had not come to us,” Hardy said. “Many of them had been labeled as troublemakers. We were their only option.”

Boys Latin has graduated 400 students in five graduating classes. Seventy nine percent of graduates have gone on to college, Hardy said, the vast majority (80 percent) to fouryear schools. Across Philadelphia’s government-school system, only 32.9 percent of highschool graduates matriculated to college in the 2013-2014 school year, the most recent data available.

In New York City, “We have 143,000 kids trapped in failing schools where more than 90 percent of the kids can’t read or do math,” Success Academy charter school group founder Eva Moskowitz recently told the conservative Manhattan Institute. “Statewide in New York, we have 800,000 kids who failed basic proficiency exams. And this has been going on for decades.”

In the next academic year, Success Academy will run 34 charter schools and serve 11,000 students in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Moskowitz said she hopes to operate 100 schools within a decade.

In 2014, 64 percent of Success Academy students passed the New York State reading exam, and 94 percent passed the state math test. In comparison, among New York City’s publicschool students last year, 29 percent passed reading, and 35 percent passed math.

Some 210 charters will operate in New York City in the 2015-16 school year, up from 180 in 2013. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D – New York) has increased the universe of charters: There currently are 248 statewide. Potential charters

are capped at 460.

In May, Cuomo introduced his Parental Choice in Education Act, which would provide families school-choice-related tax incentives. The state legislature is weighing this measure.

But for now, the political brouhaha means little to parents like Rev. Burgin, who, though aware of the debate, simply want the best for their sons and daughters.

“When you have bad and rotten, you choose the bad over the rotten,” Burgin said. “By

and large, how the public schools function, it is rotten. Charters are the better of two bads — them versus the public schools.”

Still, the rigorous workload and discipline of charter schools fit the bill for parents like Leah Baptiste, whose daughter, Dmitira, 13, is an Explorer Charter School eighth grader.

“I like the fact they are so strict about uniforms, about time, about homework, about behavior,” Leah Baptiste said.

“They prepare them mentally not just for school, but beyond school. Most kids go to

Explorer Charter School students. school, and they’re not prepared for the real world.

“This more prepares them for the real world.”

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Opinion

The Westside Gazette, under the Management of BI-ADs, Inc., reserves the right to publish Views and Opinions by Contributing Writers may not necessarily reflect those of the Staff and Management of The Westside Gazette Newspaper and are solely the product of the responsible individual(s) who submit comments published in this newspaper.

U.S. should not pressure Africa to embrace same-sex unions

By Lekan Oguntoyinbo, NNPA Columnist Over a picture of two bearded tuxedo-clad men kissing, a Nigerian-born acquaintance of mine posted the following on Facebook: “May I, my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren never be part of this abominable act.”

A short piece that’s been particularly popular among English-speaking Africans on social media for months, reads: “(Whites), you asked us to wear (suits) under the hot sun and we did.

You said we should speak your language and we obediently dumped ours.

You said our ladies should wear dead people’s hair instead of the natural ones the Lord gave to them and they obeyed. You said our decent gals should wear catapults instead of con-

ventional pants and they obeyed. Now you want our men to sleep with fellow men and our women with fellow women… We will not agree with you this time. If you like keep your (foreign) aid.”

Yes, same-sex relationships get significantly less buy-in from Blacks around the world, including here in the United States.

In the wake of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively legalizing same-sex marriages, there’s been a lot of talk about the possibility of a ripple effect, possibility extending to some of the world’s most conservative regions, including Africa and the Middle East. Twenty countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Argentina, Spain and South Africa already had laws on the books sanctioning gay marriages

before America’s high court ruled.

But none of these countries carry the glo- OGUNTOYINBO bal clout of the United States.

Still, it’s hard to see how that clout will influence the African continent and the Muslim world, where negative attitudes toward homosexuality are the most conservative in the world.

According to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, Africa is less accepting of same-sex relationships than any other continent. In Sub-Saharan Africa, nine in 10 people believe homosexuality should not be accepted by society. In Nigeria, 98 percent frown on it.

The numbers are 96 percent in Ghana, 96 percent in Uganda and 90 percent in Kenya. In South Africa, which is reputed to have the most pro-

The Confederacy seceded so why pay homage to that flag?

By Don Valentine My supposition will require you to eradicate certain verifiable facts. First, delete any documentation that the

VALENTINE Confederate states wrote that their primary grievance was the desire to retain slaves. Second, you need to accept that the Confederacy seceded for stronger state rights. In this premise you have to ignore that the stronger state rights included the ability to own people as property.

The patrons of the Confederate flag would endorse the above premise to be accurate. They would have to acknowledge that the Confederacy quit the union globally known as the United States of America. There is no reason to cherish, observe or honor a group that colloquially told your country “To pound sand!”

Do we display an I.S.I.S. flag on any government property? No, because they are the sworn enemy of our union.

Does anyone in the U.S. attempt to argue that it is fine to honor their

familial lineage to Al Qaeda by displaying that flag? Imagine attempting to display that flag in your yard in New York or Boston. My guess is that the police would not even bother answering that call for assistance. The First Amendment right to free speech would not protect you for long from the general public if you displayed that on your truck.

If you read the clear evidence that the Confederacy left then the decision is easy. So we can close the discussion on displaying this flag in any manner other than in a museum. It should be documented in the historical chronicles along with the Japanese internment camps, Klu Klux Klan atrocities and the theft of Native American lands.

People of German ancestry don’t get to raise a swastika flag on public land to honor their lineage. Righteous people and people of the Jewish faith would be up in arms if that were attempted. Why should African Americans be forced to see this display on public land?

The most significant point in this discussion is to reflect on where you see the flag of Great Britain displayed on Federal grounds. You don’t see it.

The reason is transparent - like the Confederacy they lost that war as well!

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

The evil of mass incarceration must be addressed by the President

By Roger Caldwell The African American community has been decimated economically, educationally, and socially for the last three decades.

There is a 20 to 30 year plan in most of CALDWELL the downtown areas based on gentrification, and the Black community will be moved and forced out of their neighborhoods. In these urban areas, the rents and value of properties will increase, and most African Americans will be priced out of these upper level communities.

In order to eliminate generations of African Americans in these urban cities, everything was initiated by the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs was a justification of police brutality, violence, and mandatory minimums that resulted in the mass incarceration of Black men. The War on Drugs created a permanent underclass of mainly Black men, who virtually cannot find gainful employment, and also can’t vote because of felony convictions.

Nancy Gertner, a formal federal judge, is one of the first judges to come forward and admit, the War on Drugs devastated the Black community, and was a complete failure. In an article in The Atlantic, Gertner compared the War on Drugs to the bombing of European cities in World War II. “This is a war that I saw destroy lives. It eliminated a generation of African American men, covered our racism in ostensibly neutral guidelines and mandatory minimums and created an intergenerational problem. We know that the sons and daughters of the people we sentenced are in trouble, and are in trouble with the criminal system, and 80 percent percent of my 500 convictions handed down were unfair,” says ex-Judge Gertner.

In her article, Gertner also compared the condition of the Black community to post-war Europe. According to Gertner, the Black community needs a large-scale redevelopment effort to recover from the War on Drugs, which effectively became a war on Black people.

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It’s possible that lightening may have caused one of the fires. Another may be the result of faulty electricity.

Still, in the past couple of weeks, there

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Confederate traitors don’t deserve to be honored

Blacks are today’s putty people

By James Clingman, NNPA Columnist Incidents over just the past two months CLINGMAN have taken Black folks on the psychological ride of our lives. The white woman in Spokane, Wash., who passed as Black caught and held our attention; then there was the McKinney, Tex. pool party incident; and then the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, the confederate flag controversy, and the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. Add to that Walter Scott being fatally shot, Malissa Williams’ and Timothy Russell’s killers going unpunished for firing 137 bullets into their car, 12-year-old Tamir Rice being killed in less than two seconds after cops rolled up on him in a park in Cleveland, Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in Baltimore, and the nine church members killed during Bible study in Charleston, S.C. It’s easy to see how Black folks can be so off balance and unfocused. And to think we haven’t even finished dealing with the Eric Garner case. We are constantly bombarded with so many tangential issues that keep us from concentrating the important ones. Life is the most important thing we have, but we are so easily swayed from cases like Eric Garner’s, to superficial issues like flags.

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The Gantt Report

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist

Go with the flow

Can you image waving a flag that honors Benedict Arnold, a name synonymous with treason?

How about travelCURRY ing to work and back on Aldrich Ames Boulevard, a tribute to the CIA mole who secretly worked for the Russians?

Should we erect a statute of Robert Hanssen, the FBI computer and wiretapping expert who spent most of his career spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, in the hallway of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.?

Do you favor naming public schools attended mostly by Jews after Fritz Kuhn to honor the German who lived in the U.S. and was in charge of the famous U.S. Nazi group, the GermanAmerican Bund?

If you are repulsed by the thought of honoring those traitors, you should be equally indignant at the thought of erecting statues and naming streets and schools after Confederate traitors.

Make no mistake about it: Those who declared war on the Union were traitors, defined as “a person who is not loyal to his or her own country, friends, etc.”

Eleven Southern states broke from the Union for the same reason.

By Lucius Gantt

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To Be Equal The Amazing Grace of the Mother Emanuel Nine

By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist

were fires at churches in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio and Tennessee. At least two have been ruled arson by local fire departments. Several are still being investigated. Is it a coincidence that MALVEAUX churches are burning in the days since the massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.?

President Obama spoke to the historical importance of Black churches when he eulogized Rev. Clementa Pinckney. The church, he said, “is and always has been the center of African American life.”

“They were still living by faith when they died, Scripture tells us.

They did not receive the things promised; they MORIAL only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on Earth.” – President Barack Obama, Eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney The lives of six women and three men were cut short under a hail of bullets from the gun of a self-professed white supremacist. They ranged in age from 26 to 87. Some were grandparents; others were only beginning to recognize and realize their potential in this world.

They represented the diversity of life in Charleston, S.C. Some were teachers; some were lawmakers; others were the glue that bonded their families. While they hailed from all walks and stages of life, the nine innocents slaughtered in the racist-fueled shooting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shared a common faith. Their devotion to cultivating that faith gathered them together in the unquestioned safety of that church basement. In the end, it would be in the unquestionable embrace of the grace of their faith that their weeping families, mournful church family and our grieving nation bid them eternal rest.

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Church burnings should ignite more protests

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist

gressive constitution in the world, 61 percent say it should not be accepted.

And that figure is relatively low only because acceptance is significantly higher among whites and Asians in the rainbow nation.

Over the years, leaders of many African countries have publicly blasted gays. Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe once described gays as “worse than dogs or pigs and worse than organized addicts or even those given to bestiality.”

In a 2013 address before the United Nations General Assembly, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh called homosexuality “very evil, anti-human and against Allah.”

More than two-thirds of African countries have laws on the books criminalizing homosexual acts or same sex relationships. Six years ago, Uganda’s parliament proposed a bill calling for the death penalty for anyone who engaged in acts of “aggravated homosexuality.”

In 2013 Nigeria’s legislature passed a bill banning same sex marriage and the formation of gay rights organizations. In 2010 a court in Malawi sentenced two men to 14 years in prison for sodomy. The men were pardoned a couple of weeks later during the visit of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Blackonomics

I don’t care too much for the phrase “Go with the flow”. It sort of reminds me of “tow the line”, “stick with the proGANTT gram”, “follow the crowd” or another phrase which I don’t like, “don’t rock the boat”!

Anyway, I recently came across a friend of mine by accident on Facebook.

This friend of mine and I were teenaged high school classmates a long, long, long time ago and had not seen each other or spoke to each other for many decades.

My friend felt I wanted to hook up again, so to speak, get things cracking, get things popping and resurrect the little puppy-like feelings we might have had as children.

The friend made it clear that now they were more mature, somewhat conservative and super reserved for good reasons.

So they insisted we slow down a minute and just go with the flow.

Of course, I wasn’t really wanting to go out like that. I wanted to expedite things regardless of how those things turned out, good or bad!

My friend and I agreed to always remain friends no matter what. We said what we had to say and kept it moving!

The only way I’ll go with the flow is when I know or I feel the flow is going in the right direction.

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Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” exhibit

By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist I recently wrote that several extraordinary developments of June – the tragedy at Charleston’s EmanDANIELS uel A.M.E. Church and its aftermath, and the two U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage and Obamacare – marked it as one in which momentous history was being made.

In fact, even before those events unfolded, my mind was full of thoughts about moments of momentous history because I had just seen the current exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, otherwise known as MoMA, that presents the “picture book” the great artist Jacob Lawrence painted some 60 years ago of a seminal event in American history: the Black Migration.

There is something so mesmerizing in the 60 small, deceptively simple paintings that comprise Lawrence’s “Migration Series.” The sparseness of their landscapes and interiors, the anonymity of the human figures, and the understated yet vibrant uniform colors are arresting and poignant. They vividly convey the often harsh predicament many Blacks endured in the South and were to face in the North and West.

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By Pastor Rasheed Z. Baaith “We must go through many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God...” (Acts 14:22b; capitalization mine) In lieu of what has been going on in America, it is difficult to believe that many of those who have taken moral, theological and philosophical positions contradictory to the Word of God are members of the Church or the Body of Christ. And many of them do call themselves “Christians.”

Observing their behavior the confusion is certainly easy to understand.

But it is crucial for all to understand that being a member of the Church and doing Kingdom Living are two different things. We all know those who have been involved in church life for years but as we observe the way they live, it is clear that many of us say one thing but live another.

Exactly what is Kingdom Living?

Kingdom living in this day and time means always moving against the social flow. The world is determined to please itself and we, those doing Kingdom living, are determined to please God. Kingdom living is not the church accommodating a popular theology but contending for the gospel as revealed by Christ Jesus and the Apostles. Kingdom living is believing the Word of God is the final determination when it comes to questions of morality, marriage, and sexual orientation.

We are living in a time when people want to believe that God is limited in His understanding and His prescience capability. That He did not see this time coming and was not expecting the growing acceptance of gay marriage, transgender behaviors and males cross dressing. One of the main attributes of God is that He knows everything that was, and is and will be. So He knew this would happen. Kingdom living is embracing that truth completely. God ain’t surprised at anything we do. The Bible teaches us God can see our

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That renders the discussion about the Church needing to accept these heresies without merit. The Church does not need to and should not allow social pressure to induce theological compromises on these very important issues.

To do so would deny the very divine and errorless nature of God. Some may find that unacceptable but the church is not meant to be user friendly, it is meant to be a place of Christ based transformation. Come as you are does not mean stay as you are. God’s Grace is more than enough to help us through any difficulty in our lives. That too is an element of Kingdom living.

This means that even if we believe we have been born homosexual or the wrong gender or criminal by nature, God’s Grace can enable us to fulfill Christ’s expectations in our lives. Will it be a struggle? Yes, it will. Can we do it? Yes, we can.

Many of us are in struggles every day with who we are and behaviors we would embrace were it not for the Grace of God. These behaviors do not get the publicity or notice of homosexuality or wanting to be transgender but they are real struggles nonetheless.

Kingdom living means having to defend your faith from those determined to label you insensitive, bigoted, intolerant, or socially archaic in your thinking. It means dispelling the belief that the God you worship is a God who doesn’t know what He created or why.

That has a human arrogance to it that cannot be categorized. Suddenly the creation knows more than the Creator.

Pastors too are called to Kingdom living. Pastors more than any member of any church, are called to represent Christ and His expectations as the Bible has listed them. Kingdom living pastors cannot want to please the world more than they want to please the Father or His Son or the Holy Spirit within them. They cannot want to fill seats more than wanting to be filled with righteousness. Too many of our pastors prefer popularity to righteousness and are fearful of man more than committed to Christ.

Kingdom living involves every area of our lives: marriage, child rearing, politics, economics, education, entertainment, fashion, music; the movies we go to and the television programs we watch. After all, ask yourself: whose vision is television?

Finally there is this: we should not be surprised at what the world does nor in dismay about it, God has told us “the end is not yet,” and these things must be before the end comes.

And the end is coming. Maybe sooner and maybe later, but come it will. Think about it.

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How does your nonprofit report on its work? How do you share your vision, work and impact? Do you send an email?

Create an annual report? What about an annual meeting that brings together your stakeholders? Are you up to it? Can you make the time? Our perspective: how can you not afford the Pearl and Mel Shaw time?

The work of your nonprofit is at the core of all you do. Ideally, your work is driven by your vision. And, ideally your board takes the time – periodically – to reflect on your vision. Does it need to be adjusted? Do programs need to be eliminated, modified, or introduced so you can best live into your vision in a changing environment? Do you need to modify your strategies, partnerships, or the very way you are organized?

These are a few of the important questions for a board to grapple with. The process is important, and so is the process of reporting out to your constituents. Who exactly are these “constituents?” They’re the people you serve, your donors, funders, vendors, staff, fellow board members, faith leaders, elected officials, government workers, community leaders, teachers, neighbors, and leaders of local businesses and major corporations. They are as diverse as the community you live in.

With a continuous focus on the people we serve and advocate for, it is understandable that taking the time to create community “report outs” and listening forums may not always be a number one priority. But its critical.

You have to share your vision, direction, impact and thinking with those who support you and those who work alongside you in an effort to create a better world, or a least a healthier community. Some organizations will create an annual report – print, electronic or both. Others share updates regularly via email, Facebook, or their website.

Here’s our suggestion: consider hosting an annual meeting.

We recently attended the annual meeting of the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) and were impressed. The board of directors took the time to craft a concise agenda that shared their vision and current work with their stakeholders.

What was so refreshing was that board members made the majority of presentations. They opened the meeting, the clearly and concisely communicated their vision for the next five years. They named it Vision 2020 and they shared their history, vision and process of collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders.

These were live people talking to live people, sharing their collaborations in a clear, concise and compelling way: WFGM seeks to reduce poverty in a specific zip code by 1 percent a year for the next five years.

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By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Columnist A long-awaited decision by the United States Supreme Court led to a June 25 ruling that preserves the usage of “disparate impact,” an important legal principle sometimes known as the discriminatory effects standard. The majority opinion held that housing discrimination under the nation’s 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA) occurs by effect – as well as by intent.

Writing the decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy concluded, “[S]ince the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 and against the backdrop of disparate impact liability in nearly every jurisdiction, many cities have become more diverse. . The Court acknowledges the Fair Housing Act’s continued role in moving the Nation toward a more integrated society.”

Joining Kennedy to form a 5-4 majority were Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor.

Although the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) codified the use of disparate impact in 2012 through its rule-making process, the case of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., had its oral arguments on January 21. The decision was awaited by consumer advocates and mortgage industry professionals alike.

Among civil rights and housing advocates, the decision was as widely applauded as the number of amicus or “friend of

of briefs came from diverse organizations, including AARP, Hope Enterprise Corporation, Howard CROWELL University School of Law Housing Clinic, Judicial Watch, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Black Law Students Association, the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL).

“When Americans are denied equal opportunity to housing, they are denied access to good jobs, quality education, safe streets, transit, and a clean and healthy environment, all of which are critical to leading healthy and prosperous lives,” said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 organizations.

“We have observed, documented, and reported on disparate impact in mortgage lending, auto lending, student lending, and a suite of other financial services,” said Mike Calhoun, CRL president. “We have witnessed what happens when a single community cannot access such credit – and we know that these consequences are indicative of deeper, more systemic, more troubling realities in lending practices.”

Calhoun’s claims are strongly substantiated by the recentlyreleased 2015 State of the Nation’s Housing from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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Five things to take away from Miami Dolphins mini camp

By D’Joumbarey A. Moreau Have you ever woken up and knew that it would be a good day?

Miami has been waiting 2,356 days for another playoff appearance from their beloved Miami Dolphins and it looks like they won’t have to wait much longer. The Dolphins held their minicamp June 16, 2015 and everyone was upbeat, joyful and energetic.

Linebackers Kelvin Sheppard and Chris McCain helped set the cheerful tone with their dancing after making big plays.

Meanwhile, Greg Jennings and Joe Philbin stepped in later and stole the show. Jennings got a pair of RayBan sunglasses from an intern and playfully demanded that coach Philbin put them on.

The atmosphere seemed very pleasant and welcoming as ownership, management,

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coaches, former players, as well as 50 media members were all smiles watching the often mundane camp experience.

Let’s put it this way, you know you’re team is on the right path when a Hall of Famer is at minicamp. Dan Marino was in attendance and looked very pleased with the progression of the roster. A lot of new blood has been brought in and it looks like a new culture is about to get established.

Here are five things we learned from Dolphins minicamp: 1. The Dolphins Have Moved On...

Finishing with another 8-8 season and missing the playoffs last year hurt. Seeing a rival in New England (who the Dolphins defeated 33-20 on opening day) win the Super Bowl hurt even more. But you couldn’t see the pain of not making the postseason from the way

Filmed in Broward Broward 100 celebrates movies filmed in Broward County Submitted By Jody HorneLeshinsky, Broward Cultural Division BROWARD COUNTY, FL - Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and Broward 100 - Celebrating the Art of the Community will commemorate the vibrant and compelling art of filmmaking in Broward County, in a week-long’s celebration, July 9 - 16 at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale. Audiences are invited to reminisce through the big screen with such thrillers as Cape Fear and Presumed Innocent; evoke nostalgia with Where the Boys Are and Body Heat; laugh out loud with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Birdcage and Caddy Shack and wonder through the Mafia world with Donnie Brasco.

Some of the modern musicals

and comedies - Rock of Ages and Finding Joy are also sure to delight. Mostly audiences should celebrate and enjoy the rich repertoire of “reels” filmed in Broward County; Admission is free to all screenings.

Some local and celebrity speakers to watch out for throughout the festival include, Elizabeth Wentworth, Cape Fear; Will Shriner, Hoot; and Brian Hecker, Bart Got a Room.

Filmed in Broward will also include a Flashback: Broward film that takes audience members through the history of these developments in Broward’s filmmaking history, as well as a closing night party. Additional treats of the festival include Idol Dancer, the first film made in Broward County by DW Griffith and a narrated screening from the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II; a

Florida Moving Image Archives featuring unique news and clips; and Broward Moments, short video segments featuring people and places that have contributed to the rich culture, creative vitality and economic growth of the community over the last 100 years, will be part of the diverse line up of activities.

Visit Broward100.org for more information on the County’s centennial celebrations.

About Broward 100 - Celebrating the Art of Community Partners ‘Broward 100 - Celebrating the Art of Community’ is a yearlong, community-wide celebration that began in October 2014. Broward 100 will commemorate Broward County’s centennial with bold, innovative art and performance projects that attract visitors and bring

Broward residents together using our arts, sports and recreation venues, natural attractions and incredible diversity to creatively bridge, bond and build their communities. The celebration will be steeped in historical perspective and more importantly, will look toward the future.

For more information, email Broward100@broward.org.

Follow Broward 100 on F a c e b o o k . c o m / BrowardCounty100, Twitter.com/Broward100, and Instagram.com/BrowardArts.

Visit the Broward 100 Partners and Sponsors webpage for further information on each.

Schedule · Thursday, July 9: 7:30 p.m.- Bart Got A Room; 9 p.m. -

they practiced and that’s a good thing.

On a Miami summer day where it was 93 degrees outside, players who were inside of the air conditioned bubble started to race each other outside for practice. No one was hurt as they ran through small rotating doors. Everyone was ready for a new challenge though.

Later in the week Coach Philbin cancelled the last day of minicamp to what many people thought was a day off. Instead of having a spa day in the beautiful Miami sun, players found themselves in what they would call the most difficult workout of their lives on the beach executing Navy Seals training.

“The Navy Seals team training we just did is the hardest thing Ive ever done. If you’re a Navy Seal you are a better man than me, no question,” said DeFensive tackle A.J. Francis on Twitter.

(Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com) Cape Fear · Friday, July 10: 5:30 p.m. Rock of Ages; 7:45 p.m. - There’s Something About Mary; 10 p.m.

- Body Heat · Saturday, July 11: 10 a.m.

Idol Dancer; Noon-Flight Of The Navigator; 1:45 p.m. - The Birdcage; 4 p.m. - Hoot; 5:30 p.m. - Hot Dog & Hamburger Cook-Out; 6 p.m. - Where The Boys Are; 8 p.m. -Striptease; 10:15 p.m. - The Naked Zoo · Sunday July 12: 1 p.m. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway; 3:15 p.m. - Harry & Son; 5:30 p.m. - Analyze This; 7:15 p.m. Marley & Me · Monday, July 13: 6 p.m. Ace Ventura; Pet Detective; 7:45 p.m. - True Lies · Tuesday, July 14: 6 p.m. Married To The Mob; 8 p.m.Out Of Sight · Wednesday, July 15: 5:15 p.m. - Flashback: Broward; 6:15 pm- Donnie Brasco; 8:15 p.m. Presumed Innocent · Thursday, July 16: 5:30 p.m. - Finding Joy; 7:15 p.m. Caddy Shack; 9 p.m. - Closing Night Party

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Hip Hop Corner

An action plan for when ‘they don’t care about us’

By Jineea Butler, NNPA Columnist I am sick of hearing about how the media is misrepresenting our community and not fairly reporting issues. Have you lost your mind? Why are you depending on them to tailor messages that are palatable to your liking? What type of entitlement program have you been subscribing to? Michael Jackson told you in 1996 “…

They don’t really care about us!”

But you’re still trying to force a square peg into a circle hole.

Is it because they lured you out and drained you of all your talent and then told you to go home, only to realize you weren’t watering the grass, taking out the trash and raising your own babies instead of theirs? Is it because you got so drunk on the idea of being “accepted” into the mainstream that you didn’t think twice about nurturing the businesses in your own community?

Now you are sitting at the TV, flipping through the newspapers, searching the Internet for someone to tell your truth from your perspective. You gave your power away when you didn’t support the Black

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.

July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 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 41015, 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, 9, 2015

Press, an institution that has been carrying the torch of justice for 188 years. You give your power away everyday when you freely spend money without questioning whom it’s benefiting.

Even something that’s seemingly as passive as watching TV is not passive because when you turn on these channels, you’re telling the sponsors you approve up whatever is being fed to you.

Don’t tell me that they are supposed to care about what we want. We were kidnapped, enslaved, lynched, beaten and killed before they pretended to care about us. The only reason they changed their tune was because of votes. Now, you’re sitting on the sidelines wondering how 2015 turned into 1964 and wondering why LGBT legislation matters more than Black lives. They matter more to politicians because they vote and contribute to their campaigns. The 2016 presidential election is just around the corner and there is going to be unprecedented amount of money being spent on obtaining votes.

Guess who is going to be left out again?

President Obama just delivered an impassioned eulogy of Clementa C. Pinckney in Charleston, S.C. Why do you think it took him seven years to sing Amazing Grace and speak the truth we’ve been waiting for? Hillary alone cannot galvanize us to Get Out and Vote.

So as ruthless as it may sound, Obama was there to serve as Counselor-in-Chief and to gather votes, among other things.

Now that the Confederate flag is an issue, the Democrats know we are going to line up behind Hillary. We haven’t forgotten that her husband went on the Arsenio Hall show when he was campaigning and played the saxophone for votes. The election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 consolidated our transition from Republicans to Democrats. Meanwhile, our struggle for civil rights, which resonated around the world, has been used to advance other causes – IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISON CASE NO: CACE-14-021171 PAULINE HENRY, Plaintiff, v.

EVELYN HENRY Defendants.

NOTICE OF ACTION CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE IN RE: CIVIL ACTION FOR DAMAGES TO: EVELYN HENRY YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a CIVIL ACTION for DAMAGES has been filed against you.

You are required to serve a copy of your written answer, if any, to it on Jermaine Thompson, Esq., Attorney for the Plaintiff, whose address is 2400 University Dr., Ste. 209, Pembroke Pines, Florida 33024, and file the original with the Clerk of the above styled Court on or before 30 days after first publication2015. otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition or Complaint.

This notice shall be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in Westside Gazette.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of said court at Broward County, Florida, on this June 22, 2015.

Howard C. Forman, As Clerk of the Court Novella Lopes, Deputy Clerk July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2015

LEGAL NOTICES POSITIVE LIVING 18 (Sept 18-20, 2015) is now accepting applications. Positive Living is the nation’s largest and longest running HIV/AIDS conference in the United States, and it’s held right here in your backyard! If you would like an application to attend please e-mail PositiveLivingOASIS@gmail.com. Scholarships are available.

The Positive Living experience is the backbone for the Positive Living Conference each year. As we prepare for Positive Living 18 we are mindful of our audience. We like to refer to the audience as our family because our ultimate goal is to bring people together to share and expand their knowledge and their contacts. Positive Living provides a safe space to mingle, providing everyone who so desires an opportunity to engage in dialog and strategy building. While there is a heavy emphasis on advocacy training, we make sure to offer educational opportunities on treatment options, prevention services, the impact of the affordable healthcare act, and other pertinent information on many subjects by bringing together recognized experts in these fields with the people whose life’s experiences provides the evaluation of what is working and what is not working. It is all about empowerment and learning to build viable networks to strengthen each person’s ability to tackle HIV/AIDS both personally and collectively.

We welcome each of you to Positive Living 18 and the inviting shores of theEmerald Coast in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. Our home base is once again the Ramada Plaza Beach Resort where General Manager Joe Guidry and his staff goes out of their way to make us feel at home. We look forward to a great conference, renewing old friendships, while making new friendships.

Special thank you to Butch McKay and OASIS staff for continuing the great conference.

at a faster rate than our own progress.

They swing on the hinges of the doors we opened. We are still waiting for someone to tell us that our lives matter. Why no one else is making the same claim when it is evident that they, too, are not properly rep-

resented in society? It’s because they are quietly carrying out an effective agenda to make the system work for them.

Black Churches are burning to the ground and you dare ask why the media isn’t covering it.

Do the people that own the media have a vested interest in

learning who is burning our churches? If they don’t cover it, are you going to turn off the TV? Do you have another channel to turn to? The Hispanics do, the Asians do, but when you had a chance to support the ‘Black’ Ted Turner, you turned your nose up and said you’d rather not.

Look at what just happened to Donald Trump. He insulted the Mexican community and the entire Latino community immediately shut him down.

They petitioned where they spend their money and dared those outlets to support him.

All we have to do to make Black Lives BUTLER Matter is vote and care about how and where we spend our money.

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48 Hour Film Project - Meet The Director .

MIAMI , FL– Cathleen Dean 1 of 4 Women of Color who leads South Florida Film future is in her 6th year as the producer of the 48 Hour Film Project. Cathleen’s start and her accomplishment as a graduate in HisWRU\ IURP &ROXPELD 8QLYHUVLW\ ODQGHG KHU ¿UVW job out of college with the McLear News Hour.

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Come out and join the celebration and look for me at the awards ceremony. I’ll be interviewing the Red Carpet and the winners via Twitters Periscope @BigPicLady.

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eMail us your best young artist ages 6 t0 12 and Silence is Deadly, Knowledge is Power. Every 9 1/2 Minutes in the US we will pick a lucky winnner to showcase in an someone is infected with HIV. It’s time to get tested. Spread the Word upcoming edition. Please include the following: about HIV. This is the message from the Artist and 2nd Place Winner 17 •Photo year old Vivia Johnson from Blanche Ely High School. Congratula•Name tions Vivia on your graduation in the class of 2015. •Age •Grade All winning art pieces are a permanent part of the museums ex•School hibit at the World AIDS Museum and Education Center located at send email to art@TheWestsideGazette.com 1201 NE 26th Street Suite 111 Wilton Manors, FL 33305 In the 1950s and 1960s, few African-American http://www.worldaidsmuseum.com artists were widely known or accepted. Despite this, The Highwaymen, a loose association of 26 African-AmerArt on AIDS/HIV will be featured weekly from the ican artists from Fort Pierce, Florida, voice of an artist’ on this very important awareness and created idyllic, quickly realized imaghealth issue es of the Florida landscape and peddled some affecting our community. 200,000 of them from the trunks of their cars.

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6:30-9pm – BrowardArt Guild “Summer Sizzle� - open themed art exhibition Opening Reception – 3280 NE 32nd Street ,Fort Lauderdale , FL. Exhibition Run Dates: July 1st to July 23rd, 2015 http://www.browardartguild.org

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Have your artwork professionally photographed for use in printing, online exhibits and your web site. The Broward Art Guild is offering this service to members and non-members alike. Artists will receive a CD approximately 2 weeks after the photo shoot with 3 variations of each shot: http://www.browardartguild.org/photo-shoot.htm

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6-10:00 pm RedEye Art Happening ArtServe 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd, Ft Lauderdale, FL. RedEye is entering its 10th season, and this year it’s literally brand new. Joining our local rock star artists is pioneering New York City graphic designer and founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings, Cey Adams. http://www.artserve.org

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Second annual Emerald Awards luncheon honoring church Antioch Missionary Baptist musician/musical directors Church, Beverly Scott Camp-

Seated are all members of A Plus Foundation, Inc. with Luwando Wright-Hines, president. Standing are the church musicians/choral directors honorees.

A golden anniversary celebration was held for James Louis and Rosa Lee Thomas, lifelong residents of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on June 27, 2015 at 4 p.m. in the afternoon.

This loving couple started their journey over 50 years ago and celebrated with their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren at the Urban League Empowerment Banquet facilities in the historic district on Sistrunk Boulevard. The bridal party was composed of the entire Thomas clan which included their seven children; Andre, Sharon, Valecia, Patrick, Carolyn, Constance and Rodney. The grandchildren included Kashia, Keonte, and Keith Sutton, Jr., Kendra, Brandance, and Kenneth Williams, Shatoria Hudson, Kennedy Allen, Chelsea Adams, Andre Gibson, Jr., Jerome Hawthorne, Tyler & Christopher Cespedes, Cedric & Calvin Clark, Jr., and Brandon Thomas, Sr. Great grandchildren included Andre Gibson, III, Collin Clark, Riley Shannon, Paris Jones, Keonte Sutton Jr, Casmir Rhodes, Calvin Clark, III, Carrington Clark, Brandon Thomas Jr., Bailey, Branaria, & Breuanna Thomas, and Major Prescott. Along with great nieces Leah Williams and Jamya Witchard.

The golden celebration and vow renewal was witnessed by over 250 guests and was officiated by Brother Henry L. Ward. Truly God has blessed this marriage and their legacy will live on for many years to come.

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A Plus Foundation, IncorPorated, a charitable arm of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Chi Psi Omega Chapter recently celebrated its second annual Emerald Awards Luncheon at the Signature Grand, Davie, Fla. honoring church musicians/musical directors.

More than 200 were in attendance to celebrate this grand occasion honoring these individuals for their outstanding work and dedicated service to the community; too often not recognized for their efforts.

Minister Vicki Flournoy of Mount Bethel Baptist Church served as Mistress of Ceremony.

During the luncheon, participants enjoyed and raved about the musical talent and selections

by Randy Corinthian of RC Music Group and Co-DJs, Richard and Thesea Ingram.

This year’s honorees included: Michael Chinnery of Radiant Living Worship Center, Travis D. King of Greater

Celebrating ‘God’s Woman’ for this season Come enjoy a time of jubilation with the Judah Worship Word Ministries, International church family, 4441 W. Sunrise Blvd., Plantation, Fla. as we celebrate and show appreciation to our Senior Pastor and God’s anointed vessel, Dr. Willett L. Mitchell, who has been teaching kingdom principles for 42 years.

Two exciting and uplifting services have been planned in honor of this great servant of God. Special guest speaker on Friday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m.,

will be Bishop C. E. Glover of Mt. Bethel Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale and Sunday, July 19, at 8:15 a.m., special guest speaker is Pastor/Prophetess Erika Toney of Jacksonville, Fla. You don’t want to miss this great opportunity to be inspired by the anointed praise and worship, choirs, praise dancing and the powerful Word of God. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please contact the church office at (954) 791-2999.

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bell of Greater Bethel AME Church, Janet Davis of St. Matthews Episcopal Church, Jacques Charles of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, Algie Poole of Jesus Christ International Ministries, Inc., Reginald Williams and the Kingdom Boys of St. Christopher Episcopal Church, Laura Martin, Christopher Dorsey, Hattie Deloris (Dee) Harden, Traci Dixon Fuller, Israel Charles and Kenneth Howard.

Following the luncheon, President Luwando Wright-Hines presented the honorees with plaques.

The foundation also presented many of its scholarship recipients to the community; facilitated by Emma H. Kurtz.

The majority of the winners selected this year will be attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs. Proceeds from this annual signature event benefit the foundation’s scholarship recipients and the community programs of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Chi Psi Omega Chapter.

A Plus Foundation, Incorporated Board of Directors include: Luwando Wright-Hines, president; Emma H. Kurtz, vicepresident; Revertha W Grace, secretary; Barbara J. Thomas, treasurer; Gracia Curlee-Gordon, Olivia B. Hilton, Ann B. Lee, Josetta B. Patterson and Veronica E. Phillips.

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