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Been In the Storm All Our Lives Before the Southern Freedom Movement burst into public consciousness, before the media discovered “civil rights workers,” Black folk in the South endured unspeakable hardship and cruel oppression. But no matter how vicious the repression, the fires of their resistance were never completely extinguished. All over the South, — in ways both hidden and public, — some courageous individuals carried on the struggle for freedom and dignity. They were

the first to step forward and take their stand. Today, most of them remain unknown to the public at-large; their stories are omitted from the history books, and their deeds are absent from the monuments and visitor centers.

To stand in for all those unsung heroes, we present these three from Holmes County Mississippi who were exemplary — but not unique — in their awesome courage: Hartman Turnbow, Miles-

ton, Miss. along with Amzie Moore first invited SNCC to send organizers into Mississippi to fight for voting rights.

A farmer and fiery orator, the man spoke with dancing fingers, hands, and phrases.

His words and acts inspired (and scared) many in Mileston and all over Holmes County during the first stages of its civil rights Movement.

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"Surely the Lord [b]God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets.”

Amos 3:7 (NASB

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air!

It ain’t over til it’s over. Sometimes you want to throw in the towel and call it quits but you can’t. You wonder why.

Things are going all wrong and you’re doing all you can but it seems like it’s never enough. Nothing is working.

All your efforts and the efforts of others seem to dissipate faster than rain drops in the desert.

Innocent lives taken at the hands of trained police officers. A new FBI database said about 400 people are killed by police each year. At least one person is killed every day by a U.S. police officer, a new report says. On average, local police forces kill 400 people every year in the United States, according to a seven-year FBI study.

Children plotting to kill their teacher because the teacher “yells” at the students and that “the class has problems with her.”

There is a new drug in town that’s cheaper than crack cocaine and it’s wreaking havoc like the locusts plague in Madagascar, threatening the livelihood of some 13 million people.

The Great Plague seems pale compared to Ebola and HIV/AIDS. (Cont'd on Page 4)

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Those that make a difference: #Black Lives Matter South Florida, March For Justice over 20 years. She was also my home school teacher! I am strongly tied to and passionate about this community.”

Dr. Rosetta Bryson, who conceived the idea for the Florida March for Justice, says, “making a difference is never comfortable or convenient. “ Injustice and inaction are kissing cousins. I specifically ask Jocelyn to be a part because

I wonder if Dr. King’s Dream now would be a star spangled banner?

2015 Celebration Service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

she has passion. One person with passion can outsmart, out think, and out hustle 100 people who love to talk but never try to change their situation. I believe the newest thoughtleaders of our time are not just in Silicon Valley, but are right here on the streets, making a difference” (Cont'd on Page 4)

Herbert V. Burrows succumbs at the age of 77 SATCHELL

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Staff Writer As 2015 rolls in many in the south Florida region are focused on New Year’s resolutions, workout regimes and back to school activities. Yet, two women in the heart of Fort Lauderdale, Florida have been steadfastly working for the last 30 days to make sure that the legacy of some of our greatest leaders and activist does not get diminished, and the future of new activist is ignited by putting together the #BLACK LIVES MATTER SOUTH FLORIDA, MARCH FOR JUSTICE. When Jocelyn Satchell, a 30 year old full-time wife, hairdresser and college student received a call from her Pastor about having a March in Broward County all she could think of was the words she had been seeing everywhere #BlackLivesMatter!

While contemplating an already packed Christmas sche-

dule, hair appointments and a upcoming full course load for January, she could have easily said no.

She could have said that she was honestly just too busy.

Then she realized one thing, “my social posts are not enough”.

According to Jocelyn, she began to ask herself a few questions, including “Can I do anything to improve this issue? How fed up do I have to be before it calls me to action? I realized I can no longer make a few posts and complain to my family that I can’t take watching any more Black husbands, brothers, and sons be killed off with no more regard than cattle. I realized that the time for action is now!”

“Broward County has been my home over 25 years. My grandfather was a business owner of Jones Appliance on Sistrunk Boulevard. My father, Herman Jones served over 25 years in the military and my mother, Patricia Jones grew up in Mount Olive Baptist Church and has been a pharmacist for

Pleading Our Own Cause

BURROWS Herbert Victor Burrows was born to the late Bishop Albury and Firstina Johnson Burrows on September 27, 1937. He was the 11th of 14 children he was preceded in death first by his eldest siblings (twins), Agnes, Blanche, James Donald, Charles, Samuel, Rose, Henry, and Julia.

Herbert was raised with strict pentecostal principles in

the home and attended in the Fifth Avenue Church of God. During his college years he joined the Episcopal Church and upon his return to Fort Lauderdale became a member of St. Christopher Episcopal Church where he served on the Vestry, President of Men’s Club, Church Choir, Junior Warden, and the feeding program and remained a faithful member until his passing.

Herbert graduated from Dillard High School on June 9, 1955, where he was a noted high jumper, quarterback for the Dillard Panthers, and track star. He continued his education at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, N. C. where he also excelled as a track star, quarterback, played on the basketball team and was the president of his senior class.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, N.C., graduating on May 23, 1960.

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PASTOR DAVIDSON

By Hon. Michael Robinson New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 400 N. W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will host the 39th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Service on Sunday, January 18, 2015, at 4 p.m. The service will be sponsored by the Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. This year’s celebration will include a musical extravaganza with selections from The Voices of New Mount Olive Baptist Church, the Dillard High School Chorus and Minister Eddie Robinson, minister of music, at New Mount Olive Baptist Church.

Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, Senior Pastor of New Mount Olive Baptist Church, will be

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Pastor Davidson is a native of Tuscumbia, Ala.. He is the son of Dr. Green Davidson, III and Barbara Bostick-Davidson and has four siblings: Vanessa Batten, Latresha DavidsonWoods, Rev. Green Davidson, IV, and LaBradford Davidson.

Pastor Davidson is married to Yvokia Jones-Davidson, and they have one child, Layla Alexandria.

Possessing a commitment to education, Pastor Davidson is a graduate of Deshler High School, Tuscumbia, Ala.; and he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama.

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Urban League of Broward and National Bar Association co-sponsors youth seminar entitled 'Know Your Rights'

Nationally known civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump legal counsel for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, slain by police, joined fellow members of the National Bar Association at the “Know Your Rights” panel discussion co-sponsored by the Urban League of Broward County.

By Charles Moseley is proud to partner with the Urban League of Broward The Urban League of Bro- County to offer these events, ward County along with the especially the Know Your National Bar Association, A- Rights Town Hall. During the merica’s largest Black lawyers Town Hall, the attendees learnorganization co-sponsored a pa- ed how the Fourth Amendment nel discussion comprising some (Search & Seizure) of the United of America’s leading legal ex- States Constitution applies to perts and local law enforcement them, whether it is legal to officials during a “Know Your record the police activity and Rights” seminar held at the Ur- how they should behave/reban League’s Fort Lauderdale spond if, and when, they headquarters, last Friday, Jan. interact with police officers. In 9, 2015. Students from middle addition, panelists addressed and high schools throughout issues of inequality and racial South Florida also participated bias in policing, the justice system, and violence against memin the round table discussion.

“These events are intended bers of minority communities.”

The National Bar Associato educate our youth about our legal system and create a moti- tion was in Broward County vational environment for them conducting their annual NBA to continue on in their academic Board Meeting. The panel disstudies,” said Yolanda Cash cussion primarily focused its atJackson, an Urban League of tention on teaching young peoBroward County board mem- ple, particularly Black youth ber and a partner at the law how to respond to law enforcement officials should they be firm of Becker and Poliakoff.

Pamela Meanes, president of stopped while driving or differthe National Bar Association: ent scenarios involving inter“The National Bar Association action with police officers. The

common term used by many known as “DWB” or “Driving While Black” and other topics such as police rights to search and seize property, and the Constitutional Right to remain silent when questioned by police without legal counsel known as the Miranda Right, were covered during panel discussions.

The issue of law enforcement regarding their interactions with Black and brown males has become a hotly debated topic in the court of public opinion in the wake of several high profile incidents in recent months.

These incidents involved the killing of unarmed Black males at the hands of law enforcement officials. Some of the most notable incidents include the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, and Eric Garner, who reportedly was choked to death by a Staten Island police officer.

As the incidents of killings of unarmed Black males by police officers and other civilians who evoke the “Stand Your Ground’ Laws becomes more publicized in the media, it has been incumbent by citizens, primarily Black and brown youth.

Attorney Daryl Parks along with his law firm partner Benjamin Crump, L.L.C., gained national notoriety as co-counsel for the Trayvon Martin family during the George Zimmerman trial. Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of the unarmed Black teenager on the night of Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Fla. “We are glad to be here to be involved with the community, especially young people to do our part to help them know what their rights are as it relates to their interaction with the legal system in this community, in our state. We thought it was important to be in this community especially in light of the

things which are occurring in our country right now,” said Parks.

The distrust by Black and brown youth toward the police in what traditionally has been tenuous in nature has not been helped due to the recent high profile cases of police shooting unarmed suspects across the country. Statistics also bare out that Blacks and Hispanics are more likely to receive jail time and longer jail sentences than their white counterpart charged and convicted of committing the same criminal offense. There is clearly a racial divide in the country in how the police are viewed by white and Black communities. On the one hand Blacks see law enforcement in an adversarial light while whites are inclined to have a much more favorable opinion of law enforcement, particularly in regard to how police interact within the white community.

Col. Al Pollock represented the Broward Sheriff’s Office to provide some perspective from a law enforcement perspective during the panel discussion comprised primarily of those legal professionals.

“I think that young people here today will come away with some knowledge, with some information that is so important especially to the Black community. A lot of us get a lot of misinformation when we come into contact with law enforcement.

A lot of it in the past has been negative so we're here today to try and correct that.”

Broward County Judge Michael Robinson attended the panel discussion along with his wife Judge Mary Rudd-Robinson. He reflected on the importance of educating the public, particularly young people who come before his court on a daily basis.

“I think from an educational standpoint and a societal stand-

point for all young people to understand their Constitutional Rights, for their own protection as well as the protection of law enforcement. If you do not know your rights you’re jeopardized as well as law enforcement so that young people know their rights and how to protect themselves and for the betterment of all society,” said Judge Robinson.

Eddie Eugene 15, attends William Dandy Middle School.

He left the panel discussion having learned a few things about dealing with the police. “l learned how to stay calm and how to avoid getting into a bad situation. I thought it was a very good experience.”

Dante Hepburn 17, attends Sun Ed High School and shared his thoughts on the panel discussion. “l learned a lot about what to do and not to do if you get pulled over by the police. I learned that some good tips on how to handle myself in front of a police officer and not flip off at the mouth to be patient, calm, and handle things like a young man.”

Appearing in the forefront of this photograph of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom are Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Washington lawyer and civil rights activist; Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League (NUL); Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); A. Phillip Randolph, founder and head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; and Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers Union of America (UAW). March participants called on President John F. Kennedy and the Congress to enfranchise African Americans, and give them equal access to public facilities, quality education, adequate employment, and decent housing. Among the division’s un-paralleled sources for the study of the twentieth-century civil rights movement are the personal pa-pers of Rauh, Wilkins, and Randolph, as well as the organizational records of the NAACP, the NUL, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

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Q&A: Gregorio Millett, vice president and director of Public Policy at amfAR

By Richy Rosario According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2010, Black gay men ages 13-24 accounted for 4,800 new HIV infections—more than twice as many as their White and Latino counterparts. Can community-based organizations administered and led by Black gay men, such as Us Helping Us in Washington, D.C.—which was cited this fall during the White House Briefing on Obamacare and the LGBT Community for its high rates of Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment—help reverse the trend?

We spoke to Gregorio Millett, currently vice president and director of public policy at amfAR and a former CDC researcher, to find out.

How can community-based organizations administered by Black gay men or people of color help reduce HIV rates among young Black gay men?

Data consistently shows that more Black gay men tend to be diagnosed with HIV in community-based organizations that cater to the Black community rather than at health

departments or private providers. This is important because once people know that they are HIV positive, they take steps to keep from infecting partners who are HIV negative. Another issue is cultural competency and stigma. Although many health departments and private providers are capable of diagnosing and regularly diagnose Black MSM, there are sometimes issues with cultural competency among staff or even stigma faced by Black MSM that become major barriers toward getting tested.

Stigma also affects prevention resources devoted to Black MSM—the clear majority of infections in the Black community—as compared with other Black populations at lower risk for HIV infection. We have data from some health departments that shows that, although Black gay men are more likely to test positive for HIV than other members of the Black community, Black MSM are less likely to be targeted for HIV testing or HIV-prevention programming. The Wisconsin Department of Health recently found that Black MSM made up 58 percent of Blacks who tested

positive but only 19 percent of targeted HIV tests among all Blacks , and 11 percent of targeted HIV-prevention services among all Blacks. If a group represents nearly 60 percent of HIV diagnoses in a population, then why aren’t its members receiving 60 percent of tests and 60 percent of HIV-prevention activities? It would not happen in community-based organizations run by, devoted to and targeting Black MSM. Many young Black gay men say they feel more accepted and comfortable at places like Us Helping Us and GMAD. What difference does feeling accepted make in terms of adherence and seeking treatment?

Being accepted makes a difference in both HIV prevention and care. While I was with the CDC, my colleagues and I published a research paper examining social support among Black and Latino MSM and its relationship to men knowing their HIV status. We found that Black MSM who had more social support in their lives were more likely to test for HIV and less likely to have HIV and not know it.

Sometimes the acceptance

2015 Celebration Service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Cont'd from FP) He later entered Heritage Bible College in Huntsville, Ala.; where he received his Master of Biblical Studies. He also graduated from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., with his Master of Divinity. In addition, he has studied at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Tex.; and abroad at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, Kingston, Jamaica in the West Indies. Pastor Davidson received his Doctor of Ministry degree (with an emphasis in Black Church Leadership) from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. His doctoral project was “Developing Church Members into Ministry Leaders.”

At the age of six, Pastor Davidson accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior and united with the St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Leighton, Ala., under the leadership of his father, Dr. Green Davidson, III. When he was 16 years of age, Pastor Davidson acknowledged his call into the preaching ministry.

In 1999, Pastor Davidson was elected Pastor of the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Courtland, Ala., Currently, Pastor Davidson serves as Senior Pastor of New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He also serves as Southeast Region Vice

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. President of the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education. He is an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated.

This young man preaches from the depth of his heart across the nation and abroad.

His love for the Lord is evident in his preaching and teaching and he continues to be a blessing to the body of Christ. In addition to being a preacher par excellent, Pastor Davidson released his debut CD in 2007, entitled “I’ll Say Yes.”He also recorded “When Pastors Meet” with other gospel artists in 2009.

Copies of these recordings are

Been In the Storm All Our Lives the outside workers, got a Mileston church (Sanctified) to allow meetings in their building.

In April, Mithell and 13 others took their first organized step together: the “First 14” drove to the Courthouse to attempt to “redish” (register to vote).

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The annual celebration service is in recognition of the magnificent works of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s noble precepts and ideals regarding equal rights, privileges and love for all mankind led to the Congressional Declaration of Jan. 15 as a National Holiday in his honor.

The public is invited to attend this inspirational and educational program. For further information, contact the Church at (954) 463-5126 or Brother Michael A. Robinson at (954) 831- 7258. the Courthouse to try to register to vote.

For decades she’d gone to semi-clandestine Movement meetings around Mississippi and had hidden 1930s farm worker organizers and 1960s SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) workers in her home. Important as a conscience, often too idealistic for others, she didn’t try to lead as much as to follow the right path.

— Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner, from Some People of That Place exhibit.

MITCHELL (Cont'd From FP) In April ’63 he stood up to and told the sheriff at the Courthouse door that he and the rest of the First 14 had come to register to vote. Firebombed by nightriders, he fired back and was arrested for arson of his own home.

OZELL MITCHELL of Holmes Co., Mississippi independent farmer at Mileston was 58 in late ’62, when he and farmer friend Ben Square drove the 30 miles to Greenwood in Leflore Co. where SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was holding Freedom Meetings. Theirs was a bold act. Danger increased when they invited the young SNCC organizers to set up a meeting at Mileston. In March ’63 Mitchell and others hid and housed

CARNEGIE ALMA MITCHELL CARNEGIE of Holmes Co., Mississippi was a 66-year-old intensely fired spirit at Mileston in 1963 when she and her 76-yr-old husband Charlie were the oldest of the First 14 — Holmes’s first to take an organized, dangerous step together: to go to

HAMER “Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.” ~ Fannie Lou Hamer

that is important is personal acceptance. A colleague, Gary Harper at the University of Michigan, recently published a study of HIV-positive young MSM of color and found that having an affirming ethnic identity and sexuality acceptance were both associated with a lower tendency to miss clinical-care visits for HIV. This is important because HIV-positive young gay men of color are more likely than young HIVpositive white gay men to miss their clinical appointments, and missing clinical appointments is associated with worse personal health outcomes, as well as a greater likelihood of being infectious to others.

Can you say more about how being accepted changes the way Black gay men receive HIVprevention messages?

Sara Nelson Glick, a professor at George Washington University, looked at data from a national survey administered to a representative sample of Americans asking whether homosexuality was “always wrong.” She found that approximately 72 percent of the Black community in the 1970s responded that homosexuality was always wrong, and that number had not changed much by 2008. Moreover, in 2008, gay men in the survey who believed that homosexuality was always wrong were more likely to be Black. Worse, men who believed that homosexuality was always wrong were less likely to get tested for HIV. Thankfully, things are changing rapidly. We have a Black president and attorney general who have done more for LGBT civil rights and HIV among gay men than has been done at any time in U.S. history.

We also have LGBT children of high-profile Black celebrities such as Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas, who publicly and adamantly support their children, and many Black celebrities as well as the NAACP

supporting gay marriage.

Hopefully this changing acceptance will help reduce HIV infections.

Why are some HIV-prevention techniques not reaching young Black gay men, and what needs to be done?

Actually, compared with young white gay men, young Black gay men are less likely to engage in unprotected sex and use drugs associated with HIV infection, and have fewer sex partners. The issue is not that young Black gay men are putting themselves at more risk.

The issue is that HIV infection has continued to increase in this community for decades without substantive intervention from the federal government, or concern from the larger Black or gay communities.

There are so many HIV-positive Black gay men that even though these men engage in less-risky behaviors, they are more likely to encounter someone who is HIV positive than gay men in communities with less HIV. We need more than messaging for young Black gay men.

We need to make sure that young Black gay men have access to health insurance and are enrolled in a health insurance plan under the ACA so

Millett, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of National AIDS Policy. that they have access to HIVprevention services as well as care. We must also make sure that young Black MSM have access to the most effective prevention technologies, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Richy Rosario wrote this story as part of a communityhealth-reporting fellowship from the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C.

RALLY FOR THE FREEDOM VOTE, HINDS COUNTY, 1963 -- Front row from left: NAACP leader Aaron Henry, SNCC organizers Sam Block and Willie Peacock, unidentified.

Back row, Rev. Ed King with bandage on face.

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Black lives still matters to grassroots and Black media

Hands Up Essence

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – The last several months have seen an outpouring of activism, with slogans coming in waves: “Justice for Mike Brown,” “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” and “I Can’t Breathe.”

But the phrase “Black Lives Matter” has emerged to bind each flashpoint into one cause.

The 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and acquittal of George Zimmerman served as the first of these flashpoints, snowballing in August with the murder of Michael Brown.

“Ferguson is the birthplace of what’s happening right now.

In many ways, Ferguson is like ground zero of these protests,”

says DeRay McKesson, who has been protesting and organizing in Ferguson since August. He also co-produces a daily Ferguson newsletter with Johnetta Elzie.

“When I think of Black Lives Matter, that’s the way people talk about the work as it spreads. It’s easier to say, ‘Black lives matter,’ but I think the Ferguson Movement and Black Lives Matter are one in the same.”

Although McKesson is currently focused on ending police brutality and unaccountability, he believes in the importance of eventually dismantling all social and political oppression, particularly the types that target Black communities.

“If all lives mattered, we wouldn’t have to be here talking about Black lives matter,” he explained. “What we’re seeing is people confronting injustice.

You see a collective confrontation against injustice…it’s a creating of a radical new space in Black politics.”

Black Lives Matter has also become an organization. Three activists - Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi cofounded the project in the wake of the Zimmerman’s acquittal in 2013. Initially, the partners set up BlackLivesMatter.tumblr.com and encouraged activists and organizations to share tactics and broadcast their efforts to uplift Black communities via the website. “[The website] was an interactive project and a way to really promote the need for Black organizing in our communities,” said Tometi, who also serves as the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, based in Brooklyn, N.Y. “Even if you’re not working on police brutality explicitly, there are many other issues that are impacting our communities.”

Today, there are approximately 15 chapters of Black Lives Matter across the nation and one in Canada that are focused on a range of concerns in Black communities, including housing, youth activism, and LGBTQ rights. Its other website, BlackLivesMatter.com, allows Black organizations to meet, network, and collaborate.

The project has also adopted a list of demands, including the arrest of Darren Wilson, an end to supplying law enforcement with military weapons, and reinvestment in Black communities devastated by poverty.

“Our lives are being systematically attacked all across the board…it is not just at the hands of police,” Tometi says. “Black

Lives Matter is a movement about bringing some of those issues and people who are on the margins to the center, and not forgetting about the Black undocumented immigrants, the Black trans person or Black queer person, or disabled people.

All Black lives matter. It’s not just having a movement that’s solely about Black heterosexual men, but about all of us.”

For Chinyere Tutashinda, founding member of the Bay Area-based BlackOUT Collective, the movement is about love for Black people and a desire for justice.

“It [started] around dealing with deaths, dealing with the murders, because that’s right there in your face – a life has been taken, there’s a sense of urgency to that,” she said. “But it is beyond that as well. It’s also really about how are we ending the war on Black people, and ending the way Black people are oppressed in this country.”

On Nov. 28, members of the Collective chained themselves to a BART train as part of a series of actions to disrupt Black Friday consumerism. The Black Lives Matter movement had declared a national day of protest and economic boycott, with some groups successfully causing the closure of shopping malls, WalMarts, and other retailers.

The news of these protests and the Black Lives Matter movement in general, has primarily spread through social media and Black media instead of white-owned major mainstream outlets. Even when retailers saw an 11 percent drop in Black Friday sales, most mainstream media outlets did not include the movement’s efforts in their analyses of the profit loss.

“The media follows where the fire is. They have followed the fire really well… but I think that they’ve only done that because we made sure people were out on the streets,” Tutashinda explained. “The reason that Black media and Black journalism came to be was because we understood as a people and as a community that our stories weren’t being told. It’s ok [for Black journalists] to know that their role is to help this [movement] move forward.”

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I wonder if Dr. King’s Dream now would be a star spangled banner?

(Cont'd from FP) Racism is alive and kicking in America like a fighter in a mix martial arts match. In 2012, 51% of Americans expressed anti-Black sentiments in a poll, a 3% increase from 2008. In 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African Americans receive 10% longer sentences than whites through the federal system for the same crimes. In 2009 AfricanAmericans are 21% more likely than whites to receive mandatory minimum sentences and 20% more likely to be sentenced to prison than white drug defendants.— https:// www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-racialdiscrimination Urban removal, um um, pardon me, I mean urban renewal has moved more Black people from the inner cities than the Marta Transit System.

Our Black President, Barack Hussein Obama II, can’t win for losing, even though he does the right thing. I do believe it’s just because he’s Black.

His record speaks for its self and some of his most noted accomplishments include: Passed Health Care Reform which will cover 32 million uninsured Americans, accomplished after five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance; Approved the Stimulus package that spurred economic growth in the midst of greatest recession since the Great Depression; Ended the War in Iraq; Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011. I do believe that what the brothers in the hood are saying is true: “Superman is a Negro that is masquerading himself as the president of the United States.

For certain Dr. King’s Dream is not yet a reality, nor is it the nightmare that kept our forefathers/mothers from resting peacefully through the night.

The clarion call for peace still needs to be honed like a surgeon’s scalpel used in the most delicate operations to surgically cut away the repulsive constrictions that render Black people helpless to where we, “Can’t breathe”!

Now is the time to remove all distractions from before us wickedness, objects of idol, dishonest motives and everything that would keep us from reaching the will of God; it may mean that we have to come face to face to the wall.

There are so many walls to face and to overcome. To overcome those walls, at that time we have to face them and see nothing else. For when our face is to the wall we have tunnel vision, we can’t see left or right nor can we be distracted by other things that come into view when our vision is not impacted by a wall.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. faced his wall through his dream, he didn’t run from it he ran to it and was willing to accept what God had planned for him.

“Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,” Isaiah 38:2 (NASB) WHEN GOD IS THE BRICK MAKER, ALL WALLS ARE IN HIS PLAN

Those that make a difference: #Black Lives Matter South Florida, March For Justice (Cont'd from FP) So two women who are the epitome of the word “GIRL POWER” then began to plan South Florida’s biggest Black Lives Matter March for Justice.

Within a small office and an all volunteer staff they are staging what will be a call to action for people in the South Florida Region. Initially their attempt to address a national issue seemed overwhelming.

According to Reverend Bryson, “Leaders Lead. Period.”

“Nearly everyone we called

said the same thing, “I’ve been waiting for something to happen here. So here we are.

We now have small and large businesses supporting our cause. She went on to say ‘Jocelyn and I were happily surprised by the universal support of various pockets in this region who believe white silence equals white consent.”

Black Lives Matter South Florida now has the support of lawyers from the Dream Defenders, National Lawyers Guild, National Action Network, the National Panhellenic

Council, local bail bondsman and coalition of Non-African American supporters not including increasing support from elected officials.

So with a little perseverance and some radical young people, what started off as a grassroots desire to address the injustice in this region has now become a full fledged group with a mission and desired results. All of which can be seen on their website www.blacklivesmattersouthflorida.com.

Their issues include: · Demanding the State of Florida to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute all criminal cases involving the use of force, including deadly force, by police officers, and in particular, immediately appoint a Special Prosecutor. · Demanding The State of Florida create comprehensive statewide training for all officers - to include crisis intervention, harm reduction and deescalation skills that eliminates racial bias and police brutality, and an immediate end to racial profiling, which overwhelmingly targets Black and brown communities with aggressive quality of life policing and enforcement · The end of “school-toprison pipeline” that targets youth of color and has created a generation of youth growing up incarcerated, and end the criminalization of young people in the Florida school systems, · And the immediate passage of a Florida Right to Know Act. The state of Florida and all localities engage in complete transparency in regards to profiling, search and seizure practices, and to provide all public data on police practices including summonses, arrests and detention practices, just to name a few.

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39th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 at 4 p.m., at New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 400 N.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Rev. Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, senior pastor of New Mount Olive Baptist guest speaker. For more info call (954) 463-5126.

MIAMI, FL -- FIU’s Office of Multicultural Programs and Services will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a month-long celebration inspired by King’s life and work.

The 24 th annual MLK Commemorative Celebration events will take place throughout January.

One of the highlights will be the annual MLK Day of Service, which will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 6000 NW 32 Ct. in Miami.

On Monday, Jan. 19, FIU students, faculty, and staff will participate in the MLK Parade in Liberty City; along Northwest 54th Street, from Northwest 10th Avenue to 32nd Avenue starting at 8 a.m. The parade is open to the public.

Spady Museum celebrates 15 years of honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., at 2015 Annual Breakfast, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2015 at 8 a.m., at Delray Beach Golf Club, 2200 Highland Ave., Delray Beach, Fla. Delray Speaks, Thursday, Jan. 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, 170 N.W. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach, Fla. Roots Cultural Festival Kickoff Event, Friday, Jan. 16, at 6 p.m., at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. For cost and additional info call (561) 279-8883.

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Join the City of Deerfield Beach along with city leaders, civic organizations and churches, as they pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Event Details · Family friendly carnival Friday through Monday · Live Entertainment; Friday through Sunday evening · Parade · Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ceremony * Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 * Carnival from 5 to 10 p.m.

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Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 * Carnival, from 12 to 10 p.m. * Pocket Change – from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 * Carnival, from 12 to 10 p.m. * Valerie Tyson Band, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 * Parade – Featuring Grand Marshal Twan Russell, at 10 a.m. * MLK Jr. Ceremony at Westside Park in the Leo Robb Gymnasium at 12 p.m. * Carnival from 1 to 6 p.m.

For more info call (954) 4804429.

The Plantation United Methodist Church Interfaith/Multicultural Committee invite you to their 19th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Theme: “Celebrate the Dream” The event will be held on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 at 3 PM at Plantation United Methodist Church, 1001 N.W. 70 Ave., Plantation, Fla. Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Don Mizell. For further info contact Claudette Hammond at (954) 393-4231.

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City of Miami Gardens to host community celebration in honor of Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. om Monday, Jan. 17, 2015, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Betty Ferguson Sports Complex, 300 N.W. 199 St The event will include community resource information, live entertinment, bounce houses and food trucks.

Miami Gardens. Mayor Oliver Gilbert, III City of Miami Gardens and Rick Party of HOT 105 wil host the event For info call (305) 622-8000 or visit www.miamigardens-fl.gov.

The City of Sunrise, Fla. and Orange Island Arts Foundation presents, Poetry That Breaks Silence: An MLK Day of Service event, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 at 12 noon, at City of Sunrise Civic Center, Grand Ballroom, 10610 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise, Fla. Keynote address

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The City West Perrine Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration · Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 34th Anniversary Holiday Parade, at 10 a.m., starting from Homestead Ave. and Banyan St., heading South on Homestead Avenue to Southwest 184 St., (Eureka Drive) head West to Southwest 107th Ave. · Saturday, Jan. 17, - Dr. Martin Luther King’s, Jr. Chick n Wings “Battle of the Bands” at 1:30 p.m., at Southridge Stadium, 11250 S.W. 192 St., Miami, Fla. For more info call (786) 298-6925.

The Town of Davie will host annual Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., outing celebration will be held on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015 at Potters Park, 4300 S.W. 57 Terr., Davie, Fla. from 1 to 4 p.m. The outing celebration will include youth entertainment, guest speakers, a poetry contest and kids activities including bounce houses and petting farm. If you would like to participate in the poetry contest, for info call (954) 797-1166.

Sickle Cell General Meeting and Annual Election of Officers, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 at 7 p.m., at Mizell Multipurpose Center, 1409 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more call (954) 581-2442.

Program Parents Coping After The Loss Of A Child (P.C.A.T.L.O.A.C.) every Second Tuesday starting at 7 p.m., at E. Pat Larkins Center, 520 MLK Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla. For more info call Daisy Josey at (954) 943-7549.

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The City of Miami Gardens to host community celebration in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 from 2 to 6 p.m., at Betty Ferguson Sports Complex, 300 N.W. 199 St., Miami Gardens, Fla. Speakers Mayor Oliver Gilbert III, City of Miami Gardens and Rick Party, of HOT 105. For more info call (305) 622-8000.

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Chi Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. in launching new dimensions of service through Target III: Family Strengthening in partnership with the Friends of Tyrone Bryant Branch Library, will host the second financial literacy seminar for seniors, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, from 10:30 a.m. -1 p.m. at Tyrone Bryant Branch Library, Multipurpose Room, 2230 N.W. 21 Ave., Fort Lauderdale. The workshop facilitator will be Cynthia Martin from a local bank. Light refreshments. For additional information, contact Jean Curlee-Gordon at (954) 733-9749 or visit us on the website at chipsiomega@info.org.

Together 50 years and Telling our Story on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, 11:30 a.m., NW Classmates, this luncheon is coming together beautifully, and we have gotten a lot of community excitement.

The three schools are working together like clockwork, and we will have updates for you as things move forward. Check your email often.

Each of the three collaborating schools - Booker T Washington, North Dade, and Northwestern - are selling tickets to the luncheon. Our best benefit, is in selling OUR tickets first. However, it is better for your friends to buy a ticket SOMEWHERE, than not at all.

We get some benefit from tickets sold at sites in the community.

Tickets: NW tickets are with our classmate, Laura Gallon Jones. Contact her ASAP. Deadline: 1/18/2015.

305-836-4829-hm, or 305-7330672-cell. She does text. Yes, we want the most tables there!!!

Payment - Cash or Check: Checks are payable to BTW Class of 1965, Inc. Not to worry, we will get our share.

Each school has assignments to do, and this is theirs.

Parents: As we celebrate our successful accomplishments throughout the civil rights developments, no one is more deserving of recognition than our parents who witnessed us go through challenges that they probably did not even understand. If you are attending the luncheon we will give a tribute to your parents. We will get the names later.

Hot 105: The committee will be recording a message about the event on this coming Monday. Listen for it throughout the month.

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While families gathered over the holidays to celebrate in gratitude and cheer, one group had far less to be grateful for.

Broward teachers did not see their expected, promised, and previously negotiated raises in their paycheck this year. Certainly by the holidays, they assumed they would get their raises, but such was not the case.

For the first time ever, according to Broward educators, the county neglected to pay teachers their raise that

had been negotiated with the Broward Teachers Union (BTU) the year prior.

Some say that contract negotiations is not a forte of BTU’s President Sharon Glickman and her new BTU Leaders power elite. “They negotiated away many of our rights, our steps, our grandfathered pay raises, and even our hourly pay, causing us to work for 11 dollars an hour. And now—they somehow manage to un-negotiate the already negotiated minor pay raise that was due to us. We get nothing for the holidays, stated one angry teacher.

Among the many outraged dues paying Broward Teachers Union members, few are willing to go on the record for fear of retaliation. But one member and veteran teacher, BTU Master Steward and local union leader isn’t afraid to be vocal. Joan King has allowed us to print her letter to the National president of the teacher’s union, Randi Weingarten. “I wrote this letter to AFT, “ says Joan King.

“I’m fed up with Sharon Glickman and her inability to lead. She is incompetent and must be removed. We are calling for her recall. We have sent out

A subjective perspective lends objective perception to political neglect

By Derek Joy Soon, America will celebrate the birth - Jan. 15,1929 - of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sure. The National Holiday will be recognized Jan. 19, 2015. Took a journey in hell and high water to make his birthday a National Holiday.

It took much more, even longer for America to elect its first Black American President. Barack Obama first

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won that office in Nov. 2008, and again in Nov. 2012.

It's interesting how Black History Month is recognized in Feb., the shortest month of the year, less than three weeks after his birthday and two months before the day - April 4, 1968 - King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn.

King and Obama will be the focus of many a Black History Month programs. Both are recognized as dynamic orators.

King’s speaking ability was recognized as a Southern Baptist minister, leader of the Non-Violent Civil Rights Movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and more. Obama’s gifts were acknowledged in undergraduate school, Harvard Law School, in Illinois politics, the U. S. Senate and his Presidency.

All of this, and more, reflected the essence of what was conveyed by three prominent Black Americans when they appeared on WPLG/Local 10’s This Week in South Florida with Host Glenna Milberg.

T. Willard Fair, President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Miami, City of Miami District 5 Commissioner Keon Hardemon and Rev. Dr. Walter Richardson, pastor emeritus of Sweet Home M.B. Church in Perrine and member of the Miami Dade County Community Relations Board.

There they were, responding to questions about the ever increasing number of Black Americans being wounded and killed by gunfire. Most are perpetrated with automatic and semi-automatic weapons.

The problem is one that Hardemon describes as domestic terrorism, according to the Patriot Act. He would like to get federal assistance and employ some of the techniques used by the federal governJOY ment in its war on international terrorism “Parents must be involved,” said Richardson, who noted, “When I was in school teachers lived in the neighborhood. You saw them in different places in the community. Parents need to be educated, too.”

Hardemon and Richardson, like Fair, agree that education is a vital key to progress and success.

“Those of us who know that, must preach that. Education is the key,” said Fair, while acknowledging indignation at the parents whose kids were shot at 2 a.m. in the morning at an apartment complex on Liberty City.

It is a haunting reality that all too many parents, for whatever reason, allow their children to be out at all hours of the night. Another haunting reality is just how little some parents discipline their children, demand study and progress in school, in church and in the community.

So, when people of color celebrate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month, none of the people recognized were not slovenly in their responsibilities in life.

Get up on the responsibilities associated with first getting an education, and second, constructively being productive in the application of education.

Will the Florida Black Caucus challenge Governor Scott in 2015?

By Roger Caldwell Governor Scott gave his second inaugural speech and I am still waiting to find out what the Florida Black Caucus thought about it. There is no statement from the leadership, and as the Florida legislature gets ready for its 2015 session, there appears no agenda or plan for Blacks in Florida.

Since Blacks in the Florida legislature remain quiet, our governor does not have to mention the confusion and corruption in his administration.

When it comes to Florida Black legislators, it appears that our governor gets a pass, and no one Black is challenging him to work on improving our communities. Somehow our governor has forgotten about the death of Traynon Martin and the sit-ins by The Dream Defenders. The Black youth realize that there is something fundamentally wrong with our justice system in Florida, and they are demonstrating and protesting.

Our governor also failed to mention in his second inaugural speech how he planned to repair a corrupt, brutal, and murderous Florida prison system.

Maybe our Black legislators have forgotten Marissa Alexander, who was initially sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a gun in the wall. This case was eventually overturned, but she will serve two years under house arrest, and has agreed to wear a monitoring device.

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The NAACP is Irrelevant

By James Clingman, NNPA Columnist “Whoever loves money never has enough.”

Recall petition for BTU President Sharon Glickman

By B. Rossano

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In the latest Department of Corrections scandal 32 guards have been fired, and in some Florida prisons the gangs are running the institutions.

They walk around as if they can decide the CALDWELL punishment for other prisoners, and the guards must listen to their direction. Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement request-ed an extra $8.4 million to cover the cost of investigating inmate deaths, and none of the Black legislators are asking any questions.

As Governor Scott tells his audience that there is a surplus in the state’s treasury, two different judges have charged his administration with shameful negligence when it comes to children’s healthcare. Florida Medicaid reimbursement rates were so low that thousands of needy and disabled children have been denied care. Maybe the poor and the vulnerable children in our state are not that important, because it appears that no one cares.

Based on Scott’s perception and his record, he claims that his administration has created 700,000 jobs in 4 years, but I wonder where they are in the Black community. Hopefully, jobs in the Black community are an issue that our Black Florida legislators can talk about during the 2015 legislative session. It would also be good if our Black Florida legislators held some town hall meeting to determine what problems and issues they need to address in the 2015 legislative session.

It is time for Black people to hold our elected leaders accountable to what they achieve during their time in office. If they remain quiet and they hold no press conferences challenging our governor’s initiatives, the residents should assume that they are nor working in our communities best interest.

It makes no sense to say you are a member of the Black Caucus in Florida, but you do very little to improve the condition of Black people in the state.

the petition and have over 2500 signatures already.”

A recall is necessary according to a letter from Joan King, requesting an investigation into allegations of President Glickman being GLICKMAN incompetent and as a leader who lacks transparency.

The letter further states the need for a neutral “oversight committee” to monitor and manage the Recall because Glickman’s new BTU staff and a group that King has called “Rubber stampers and bullies” would not be fair.

According to the letter, Glickman has made the BTU building such a hostile work environment with an unheard turnover of staff (19-22) and most of them have said that Glickman abused her authority and mistreated them. To add insult to injury teachers , as stated in the letter we have received the worst negotiated contract EVER under Glickman’s leadership. High School Teachers are teaching an EXTRA class daily for only $11 an hour. Not their hourly rate.

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The ‘Real’ Dream speech

By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"

A suggestion for these days of special attention to Dr. MarDANIELS tin Luther King, Jr.: Whenever people cite this sentence from his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech, ask them if they know the rest of the speech.

I’ve long suspected that people who cite that sentence as proof we today should stop taking race into account in the necessary re-ordering of American society haven’t bothered to understand – or, most likely, even read – the rest of the speech. I think that’s because they’ve adopted the let’s-pretend-race-has-no-meaning stance conservatives have been pushing for the last 30 years – ever since losing their all-out effort to defeat the movement for the King national holiday.

So when people refer to that sentence, ask them to explain King’s also saying to the throng, “I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.”

Or, ask them to explain his reminding America “of the fierce urgency of Now … It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. … The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.”

Those are just two of the extraordinary passages in what is a wonderfully complex sermon, full of hiddenin-plain-sight demands and warnings along with its call to our better selves.

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– Ecclesiastes 5:10 I would offer that verse from the wisest man in history to our national NAACP president and board. They sent me at least five let- CLINGMAN ters in December asking for money to help meet a $100,000 goal. Are they that strapped for money? After all, when Ben Jealous left just a short while ago, he boasted about having increased their coffers from $29 million to $46 million during his tenure.

Rather than the above Bible verse, maybe the folks at the NAACP subscribe to one of the most misunderstood and misused verses in the Bible, Ecclesiastes 10:19: “Money answers all things,” Having served in several positions in my local NAACP, including a brief stint as branch president, it is very clear to me that the primary purpose of the national NAACP is to get more money. While local branch members work tirelessly as volunteers, the national office is comprised of salaried elitists who pass down edicts from on high like a pimp in a 1960s Blacksploitation movie. “Branch betta have my money!”

Most people don’t know that only $14 of each $30 membership fee stays with the local branch. Branches are not allowed to own real estate, and we only have one fundraiser per year, the Freedom Fund Banquet, from which 25 percent of the profit must be sent to the national as well. With thousands of local branches under its rule, you would think the NAACP would have enough money and not have to beg intermittently for another $100,000 or so throughout the year.

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The education of Dr. King

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist As he labored for social, civil and economic justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was extremely concerned both about the educational inequities that were a function of segregation, and about the purpose and quality of education. As early as 1947, as a Morehouse College student, he wrote an article, The Purpose of Education, MALVEAUX for the Maroon Tiger, the college newspaper. His article is as relevant today as it was then.

Today, much of the focus of education is on passing standardized tests; and while educational measurement is important, Dr. King suggests that these measures are insufficient. In his article, he pondered the meaning and purpose of education. He wrote that “Education must enable a (person) to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.”

King was critical of the results of specific aspects of education when he wrote, “education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think, incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices, and propaganda. A great majority of the so-called educated people does not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths.”

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King and LBJ stood together

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, NNPA Guest Columnist The new highly-acclaimed motion picture “Selma” suggests that former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was not an ardent supporter of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and that he and JOHNSON Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a less than fragile relationship.

Nothing is farther from the truth. Both men worked very hard to create a society in which all people have the right to vote, access to medical care, decent housing and funding for education.

In my view, history will show that no other American president played a more critical role in the advancement of civil rights, fair housing and education other than President Johnson. In fact, a number of authors have written that only the acts of President Abraham Lincoln equal what President Johnson did for minorities in America.

Most knowledgeable historians agree that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act, which passed one year later, became law because President Johnson passionately supported them. In addition to the two landmark civil rights measures, the nation also witnessed the passage of legislation that introduced Medicaid and Medicare during the Johnson administration.

In fact, federal legislation that prohibited housing discrimination in the sale, rental or financing of housing based on race, national origin or religion was signed into law by President Johnson. The federal housing legislation, which became a model for many state legislatures, became law on April 11, 1968, just seven days after the assassination of Dr. King.

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

Saturday (2nd & 4th) Growth & Orientation ........................................................... 9 a.m.

But be doers of the Word - James 1:22 nkjv - “A Safe Haven, and you can get to Heaven from here”

St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church

PASTOR

145 NW 5th Avenue Dania Beach, FL 33004 Office: (954) 922-2529

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

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

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

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

"Baptized Believers working together to do the will of God"

Bishop Victor T. Curry Senior Pastor/Teacher WORSHIP SERVICES

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

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

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

Bible Study (Wednesday Night) ...................................................... 6:45 p.m.

Sunday School .............................................................................. 8:45 a.m.

Sunday Morning Service ............................................................. 10:00 a.m.

Obituaries James C. Boyd Funeral Home

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mount Calvary Baptist Church

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

Reverend Anthony Burrell, Pastor SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SUNDAY

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

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

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

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

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

CHANCE Funeral services for the late Baby Boy Chance.

GOODMAN Funeral services for the late Willie Wardell Goodman – 46.

POWELL Funeral services for the late Linda A. Taylor Powell – 65 were held Jan. 10 at Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church with Rev. Dr. Nathaniel B. Knowles officiating.

SEYMOUR Funeral services for the late Leslie Nowell Seymour – 56. Interment: St. Agnes Cemetery, Nassau, Bahamas.

McWhite's Funeral Home BALDWIN Funeral services for the late Sister Shirley Jean Baldwin - 56 were held Jan. 10 at Holy Tabernacle United Church of God with Rev. Willie Rainer officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens – Central.

"Doing God's Business God's Way, With a Spirit of Excellence"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where the kingdom of God is increased through Fellowship.

Leadership, Ownership and Worship F.L.O.W. To Greatness!

WORSHIP THIS AND EVERY SUNDAY AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE

BENJAMIN Funeral services for the late Hadassah Benjamin - 85 were held Jan. 10 at Grace Fellowship Church of God with Bishop Glenford Hutchinson officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

INGRAM Funeral services for the late Bianca Anais Ingram – 23 were held Jan. 10 at New Mount Olive Baptist Church with Pastor James Allen officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Roy Mizell & Kurtz Funeral Home BURKE Funeral services for the late Herbert Lee Burke - 95 were held Jan. 10 at Mount Hermon AME Church with Rev. Henry E. Green, Jr., officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Garden - Central DAVIS Funeral services for the late Wayne Eric Davis - 55 were held Jan. 10 ar Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center with Rev. Wardell Vickers officiating.

FRANKLIN Funeral services for the late Rev. Robert Franklin - 72 were held Jan. 10 at Mount Hermon AME Church with Henry E. Green officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens JOHNSON Funeral services for the late Minnie Lee Johnson - 83 were held Jan. 10 at Zion Rest Church Of God

By Faith with Elder Garrick Lewis officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Williams Memorial CME “PRAYER IS THE ANSWER” 644-646 NW 13th Terrace Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 (954) 462-5711(Ministry Office Line) (954) 462-8222(Pastor’s Direct Line) Email: wm_cme@bellsouth.net (Church} pastorCal50@yahoo.com (Pastor)

Rev. Cal Hopkins.

M.Div) Senior Pastor/Teacher

The WITNESS of “The WILL” Sunday Worship Experiences ................................................................ 7:45 and 11:00 a.m.

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

Tuesday Night Triumph {Prayer, Praise and Power} Prayer Meeting ................................................................................................................ 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study ........................................................................................................................ 7:30 p.m.

We STRIVE to PROVIDE Ministries that matter TODAY to Whole Body of Christ, not only the Believers, but also for those stranded on the “Jericho Road”!

“Celebrating over 85 Years of FAITH and FAVOR! Come to the WILL ... We’ll show You the WAY: Jesus the Christ!”

Former NBA Star Roy Tarpley dies at the age of 50

By Big BOSS Roy Tarpley’s life was a tragic tale revealing the consequences of getting involved with drugs and alcohol. Tarpley had a promising career with the Dallas Mavericks in the 1980s and early 90s until he was banned for life for not leaving alcohol and drugs alone.

Tarpley died this week at the age of 50, leading to Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban offering his condolences to the family. There is no word on his cause of death, but years of hard living surely didn’t help him.

Tarpley played in 280 games over six seasons with Dallas. During that time, he averaged 12.6 points, 10.0 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. He hit the high point of his career in 1987, when he averaged 13.5 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. That year, he won the Sixth Man of the Year Award. He also helped take the team all the way to the Western Conference finals, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Mavericks wouldn’t make it to the playoffs again until the 2000s, with the arrival of Dirk Nowitki and Steve Nash.

Tarpley’s career took a nosedive when he was banned for life in 1995 for violating a court-ordered program. Before

TARPLEY’ that, he’d been arrested for DWI on at least three s eparate occasions, revealing him to have a serious problem with substance abuse.

He wasn’t supposed to be drinking during his recovery program, and after being caught, the league was done with him for good. Tarpley later sued the NBA for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, which defines his substance abuse problem as a disability. The thing about this disability is that it won’t alter your life if you say no in the first place.

BOSSes, we put an article up about why you should avoid drugs and alcohol. It never leads anywhere good.

KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD What does it mean to Worship God?

By Carey Kinsolving and Friends (Part Two of Three) “Worshipping God to me means that I can have a connection with him. It’s like I can go to him and worship, and I can lift a heavy burden from my shoulders,” says Sarah, 11.

God wants to lift our burdens, but he can’t as long as we’re tightly grasping them. Have you ever noticed how some people derive their identity from their burdens? In worship, we’re caught up in the immensity of God. It’s easier to stop grasping for control and to start trusting a loving God who has a bigger plan for us than we can imagine.

The apostle Peter wrote: “Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” (I Peter 5:6-7) “When we worship God, our problems become smaller, and God becomes bigger,” says Marlee, 9. “We need to realize God is bigger and stronger. He is truly an awesome God.” “To God, your problems are like a piece of candy,” says Abby, 9.

It’s dessert time whenever God’s children hurl a problem on him. Parents like to help their small children with problems that appear so big to them. Seeing God in worship keeps us attuned to our childlike dependence on him.

“Worship means that God is getting the things he most deserves — worship, praise, love, respect and so much more,” says Alexandra, 10.

Children are happy and secure when they know their parents love them. Parents radiate delight when their children love, respect and honor them. My neighbor looked at her young daughter and said, “There’s my heart walking around.

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Excellence in Education Award: Students, parents, teachers and principals are invited to nominate full-time, African American educators in elementary, middle and high schools for the Black History Month Excellence in Education Award.

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If you are a fundraising or development professional: Review the commitment forms that board members completed last year.

Set up a time to meet with each member to review and plan for 2015. Meeting in person is ideal, but a phone or video meeting could work well too. Ask each to rate their fundraising participation for the prior year. Ask what worked well, and what didn’t. Inquire about training that could help increase their involvement. Let each know you are available to partner and support their efforts. Ask each to recommit for 2015. If your board doesn’t use a fundraising commitment form, now is the time to introduce this.

Most likely there will be resistance. That is a good thing: you want to grow into a board where members are proud to give and fundraise. Introducing a formal commitment form can start a catalytic conversation.

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Pompano Beach West Kiwanis Club’s Community Service Award honoring Meredith McCleary

By Marie G. Johnson On Saturday, January 17, 2015, from 12 noon until 2 p.m., at the E. Pat Larkins Community Center, 520 MLK Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla., the Pompano Beach West Kiwanis Clubs will be honoring recipient with their Community Service Award.

Kiwanis is celebrating 100 years of Service and Meredith McCleary is one of their honorees. McCleary has taken the lead on promoting the ‘ELIMINATE PROJECT’, which is the Kiwanis International Project.

She has been a member of Central Broward Kiwanis Club since the early 1990’sand she was among the first wave of females allowed to join the all male group.

Meredith worked then with the Broward County School System as a Director of Vocational, Adult and Community Education.

As a recognized International Director of Adult and Community Education, she traveled to China with her Corporate partner Alamo Rent-a Car to present the unique qualities of building partnerships between business and industry.

She was among the first females to become Broward Public School Directors - of color; and President in Division 23 of Kiwanis.

It was these experiences which led her to continue her pursuit of greatness with Kiwanis. After retiring in 1996, she continued to establish partnerships and collaborations to

Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer activists sing before leaving training sessions at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, for Mississippi in June 1964.

(Ted Polumbaum Collection/Newseum) Why was the summer of 1964 pivotal in the fight for civil rights?

We didn’t know whether civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and

Michael Schwerner would be found alive down in Mississippi.

We also didn’t know whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964, without badly needed votingrights protections, would begin

build better communities one child at a time.

Since her retirement over the last nearly 20 years, she has found passion in International travel as a participant and as a travel agent.

“Travel is a lifelong learning; a bridge to international understanding and building acceptance and it all begins within. One person and one step at a time’, says Meredith.

Over the past four and half years she has devoted Kiwanis energies to fulfilling a promise made by the former Club President Bloneva Bullard (now deceased) to support the International cause of “eliminating Maternal Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) in the world through fundraising for Project Eliminate.

Her club was one of the first to develop the venue for fund raising within Division 23 and led the way for international donations and recognition. To date the club has more than met its self-imposed goal and will continue until the last day to champion the cause.

In addition to Kiwanis, McCleary is an active member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. an international sorority committed to promotion of “exemplary service’; a member of The New Mount Olive Baptist Church and professional organizations promoting travels to Africa and the Africa Diaspora.

She travels world-wide and glows at the opportunity of helping others make that life-long dream vacations to destina-

to fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a new American racial order, following a hundred years’ war between advocates for full and equal Black citizenship and the architects of all the snares that had hampered Black progress since the collapse of Reconstruction in 1876.

What we did sense was that the movement had grown younger, more radical, more diverse and increasingly powered by what Robert “Bob” Parris Moses, the pivotal planner of Freedom Summer, has called “We, the people’ force.”

Before Sly and the Family Stone released their hit song “Everyday People,” the volunteers of Freedom Summer lived the philosophy behind it— school by school, vote by vote, blow by blow. Moses—truly one of the heroes in the history of

the African-American people— compared “the language” animating this noble effort to that “of the ocean, the everyday language of everyday people.” And when its wave crashed in Mississippi in June, July and Aug. of 1964, the reverberation was so loud and deep that we could hear it and feel it all the way up in the Allegheny Mountains surrounding my small hometown of Piedmont, W.Va. One thing was for sure: None of us would ever be the same.

Nor would America. To me, Freedom Summer’s greatest legacy is the counterintuitive philosophy behind it. After decades of a “top down” organizing strategy, Moses and Ella Baker flipped the script, galvanizing everyday people to learn and lead themselves. And it is—it always will be—a blueprint for change.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - JAN. 15,1929

McCLEARY tions around the world.

She remains active in her City’s issues and various community projects directed toward culture, heritage and civil rights activities. A strong support of her Alma Mata Tuskegee (Institute) University, she continues to send support for the school whose teaching and philosophy contributed to her career and life achievements and success.

She identifies that her greatest influence has been from her mother and family members who were creative, innovative and stressed success, spiritual guidance and community service. Her hobbies include travel to far away – quiet places, safaris and projects which helps others to share the many blessings she has received.

McCleary is rather the quiet spirited person. When asked for a quote that would be a sufficient rallying charge exclaiming her commitment to helping, she softly said, “I believe in the Golden Rule you should treat others as you would like others to treat you. It is one of the oldest and lasting things that my family presented to me.”

Pompano Beach West Kiwanis Clubs Community Service Award Banquet will be held Saturday, January 17, 2015, from 12 - 2 p.m. at the E. Pat Larkins Community Center, 520 MLK Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla., for more information contact President Marie G. Johnson, Pompano Beach West Kiwanis Clubs at (954) 6090639

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Scholar says race-neutral approach needed for affirmative action

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of unrelenting law suits seeking to abolish affirmative action coupled with nearly half of all universities dropping consideration of race as a factor in college admissions, it is time to shift gears and devise a less objectionable race-neutral approach that will diversify higher education, says a noted Black law professor.

During a recent discussion on affirmative action at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Sheryll Cashin, a professor of law at Georgetown University and author of Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America, said that as long as race-conscious affirmative action remains a factor in college admission, there will always be White students challenging affirmative action.

Cashin, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, said “that law or politics will render race-based affirmative action extinct” and

argued that it makes “sense to get started on race-neutral reforms that have the potential to create diversity and more social cohesion.”

She said that the percentage of four-year colleges that consider racial, ethnic or gender status in admissions has fallen from about 60 percent to 35 percent.

Others, however, do not favor a switch to de-emphasizing race and point to race-neutral affirmative programs in Texas and California that have not achieved the same results as previous race-conscious approaches. Even Texas’ 10 Percent Plan that guarantees the top 10 percent of each high school graduating class in Texas will be accepted at the University of Texas, the flagship campus, was challenged by a White applicant who had been rejected.

Backed by the Edward Blum’s Project for Fair Re-presentation, a nonprofit group that wants to ban race, genderand ethnic-conscious affirmative action, Abigail Fisher a white woman, alleged that the University of Texas at Austin

refused to accept her because she was white, while Black and Latino students that she outperformed were admitted.

Admission officials look at factors in addition to grade to determine the composition of an incoming class, not just grades.

In its “Brief of Opposition,” the university said: “The unundisputed evidence demonstrated that Fisher would not have been offered fall admission in 2008 even if she had scored a perfect ‘6’ on her PAI – the portion of the admissions process where race is considered as ‘a factor of a factor of a factor.’”

Investigating Fisher’s claims, Pro Publica reported that 42 white students with less impressive grades than Fisher got in compared to just five Black and Latino students with similar academic achievement.

Meanwhile, almost 170 Black and Latino students with the same or better grades as Fisher were also turned away.

In the 2012 term, the Supreme Court punted in Fisher v. University of Texas, sending the case back to the lower court for reconsideration. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the 7-1 majority, said: "Strict scrutiny imposes on the university the ultimate burden of demonstrating before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice.”

In other words, the university had the burden of showing that show that gender- ethnicity- and race-conscious affirmative action admission policies are the only way to effectively achieve diversity on campus.

After the case was remanded, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit again ruled in favor of the University of Texas.

In 2003, the Supreme Court issued a pair of rulings involving

Founders of the Niagara Movement, 1905 silver gelatin print.

The Niagara Movement was a Black civil rights or-

University of Michigan that many thought had settled the issue.

By a vote of 6-3, the justices outlawed an undergraduate admissions process that, among other things, automatically awarded 20 points to people of color. But on a 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled that race could still be a factor in admissions as long as it is not given too much weight.

However, led by anti-affirmative action foe Ward Connerly, in 2006, Michigan voters banned the use of race in public education and employment, a state constitutional amendment that was later upheld by the Supreme Court.

In the May/June 2014 issue of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) journal, Cashin, who is also a PRRAC board member, wrote that “place rather than race in diversity programming will better approximate the structural disadvantages many children of color actually endure, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment affirmative action engenders.”

Cashin said that when college graduates sequester themselves it can lead to a phenomenon known as “opportunity hoarding,” when a well-resourced, educated ingroup sanctions practices that exclude outgroups.

“And the exclusion does not have to be intentional,” said Cashin.

Cashin said that place, or where you live, locks in advantages and disadvantages that are reinforced over time.

“What has happened increasingly is the affluent and the highly educated are separated from everyone else and that often determines who has access to high quality elementary and secondary education,” said Cashin.

ganization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the “mighty current” of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls, the Canadian side of which was where the first meeting took place in July 1905.

The Niagara Movement was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement, and it was opposed to policies of accommodation and conciliation promoted by African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington.

Sheryll Cashin, a professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. advocates for “placebased” affirmative action policies in education.

(Freddie Allen/NNPA) “And when you have geographic concentration of highly educated affluent people in direct horizontal competition with people from lower-income impoverished settings for finite public resources you get savage inequality in the allocation of public resources,” said Cashin.

“College-bound students from middle and low-income environments, particularly African American students, disproportionately attend segregated schools and they have to be superhuman to overcome the structural disadvantages of place.”

In Cashin’s article on affirmative action published in the PRRAC journal, she concedes that, “Fewer African Americans may enter elite institutions under an affirmative action system based on structural disadvantage rather than under race-based affirmative action.” However, she argued that the social costs of racialconscious programs outweigh any marginal benefits when race-neutral alternatives are available.

Lia Epperson, a law professor at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., said that addressing racial disparities is not about totally abandoning policies that use race. She said it’s about the robust enforcement of laws that bar discrimination and inequality, existing com-

pliance reviews that have proven helpful at the elementary and secondary education levels and expanding the role of data collection and the dissemination of data.

“The reality is that we are in a time that is difficult, because we do have this societal indecision with respect to matters of race,” said Epperson, who formerly led the education law and policy group of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “The reality is also that we have a Constitution that supports remedying a history of slavery and Jim Crow. We have to expand our political imagination beyond the reality of the moment.”

Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute said on the panel: “There’s no doubt that we need to pretend to be colorblind in the current legal climate, but it’s also very important to realize that we have a separate challenge from the challenge of enhancing equity. And that is the challenge of increasing justice.”

Rothstein added, “We have a constitutional obligation to undue centuries of slavery, segregation and exploitation. As recent events have demonstrated to everybody, we have made very little progress in undoing that unconstitutional placement of African Americans in a caste system in this society.”

Morning strategy session, Greenwood, Miss. From left: John Lewis (SNCC), unidentified boy, Mateo “Flukie” Suarez (CORE), Jerome Smith (CORE), Dave Dennis (CORE). The mixture of heroic local activists and dedicated young organizers is explosive, and the Movement erupts into public view; first in McComb, then Greenwood, Jackson, and Hattiesburg, Miss., and then in towns and hamlets across the state. Resistance from the cops, the Klan, and the Citizen Councils is fierce. But beatings, arrests, firebombs, and murders cannot stop the Freedom Movement.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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The Main Ingredient

The Spinners

Golden “old school” ballads and classic Rhythm and Blues(R & B) music were showcased at The Kravis Center, in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 9, 2015. The concert lasted from 8:10-11:05 p.m. The theme of the concert was-“70’s Soul Jam”, featuring the great and infectious performances by Cuba Gooding, Sr. of The Main Ingredien, The Stylistics and The Spinners. Also, the entire concert crystallized authentic “old school” love songs, soulful music and beautiful lyrics.

Cuba Gooding, Sr. gave the opening performance, Gooding’s voice and showmanship on stage were excellent. Three of the four songs he sang were: I’m So Proud, Everybody Plays the Fool and Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely. Moreover, both songs- Everybody Plays the Fool and Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely sold over a million copies each in the 1970’s for The Main Ingredient. The latest CD for The Main Ingredient is Shame On the World/I Only Have Eyes for You, 2008.

The Stylistics have been together for 47 years and they exemplified masterful artistry, unique harmony, and electrifying showmanship. Their performance was from 8:35-9:35 p.m., and covered the waterfront of the 70’s Soul Jam era.

The group did 15 songs and were backed by a six piece band that was awesome. Some of the

songs that were sung passionately were: I’m Stone In Love With You, Betcha By Golly Wow; Stop, Look, Listen(To Your Heart), You Are Everything; Because I Love You Girl, Ebony Eyes, You’re A Big Girl Now, Hurry Up This Way Again, You Make Me Feel Brand New. Indeed, The Stylistics gave a profound performance, their voices were great and their choreography was impeccable.

Furthermore, their album entitled The Best of the Stylistics, in 1975, went Double Platinum and sold over four million copies.

Lastly, The Spinners gave an outstanding performance from 10:00-11:05 p.m. Their songs amplified a walk down memory lane for “old school” R & B music. Some of their classic songs included: Could It Be I’m Falling In Love, It’s A Shame, I’ll Be Around, Mighty Love, Then Came You, One of a Kind(Love Affair) and The Rubberband Man. Additionally, The Spinners sang 12 songs, had a 4 piece band and did an all-around remarkable show. The group’s latest CD is 'Are You Ready for Love? The Very Best of the Detroit Spinners', 2009. Moreover, Cuba Gooding, Sr., The Stylistics and The Spinners crystallized the essence of the “70’s Soul Jam“, by performing authentic, golden, harmonious and phenomenal “old school” love ballads.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER, JR. JANUARY 15, 1929 The Stylistics

Here’s how Andrae Crouch became known as the “Father of Modern Gospel”

CROUCH Gospel superstar Andraé Crouch, whose career spanned more than 50 years, has gone to the afterlife at the age of 72.

Crouch was known for merging the gospel world with mainstream music as a singer, songwriter and choir director.

He had been hospitalized for the past few days in Los Angeles after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

Crouch was known by many as the “father of modern gospel music.” He led the choirs that sang songs like Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror, and “Like A Prayer,” by Madonna. He is also responsible for writing many gospel hits: The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power, My Tribute (To God Be the Glory) and Soon and Very Soon. The last of these songs was sung as Michael Jackson’s memorial service.

Crouch grew up in the Church of God in Christ in San Franicsco, writing his first gospel song at the age of 14. He formed the group, “Church of God in Christ Singers” in 1960.

His second group, Andraé Crouch & the Disciples, was started in 1965. This group was signed to a Light Records.

Crouch had the ability to reach both black and white audiences, which were key to his enormous success. Even Elvis Presley recorded Crouch’s song “I’ve got confidence” in 1972 for his album “He Touched Me.” (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)

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Viola Davis receives People Choice Award: Addresses Less Classically Beautiful comment

By Joshua D. Copeland Despite her amazing talent and acting ability, there have been mixed feelings about actress Viola Davis and her leading role in “How to Get Away with Murder.” In so many words, one could argue that the mixed feelings have something to do with her being dark-skinned, or older in age. In fact there have been a few, like the slick reporter from New York Times, who called her “Less Classically Beautiful” after comparing Davis to Emmy-

nominated actress Kerry Washington.

Nonetheless, Davis persevered, relying on her talents onscreen until she reached critically acclaimed greatness. As she walked on stage to receive her award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series at the 2015 People’s Choice Awards, every naysayer had been silenced once and for all.

“Thank you Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Peter Nowalk for thinking of a leading lady who looks like MY classic

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.

Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO: FMCE 14-013703 DIVISION: 37 KEVIN WINT, Petitioner and VIOLETTE WILLIAMS, Respondent NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT) TO: VIOLETTE WILLIAMS {Respondent’s last known address} 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 KEVIN WINT, c/o DEBORAH PINO ESQ, whose address is 2701 West Oakland Park Boulevard, Suite 410-15, Oakland Park, Florida 33311 on or before February 2, 2015, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 201 Southeast Sixth Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 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.

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beauty,” she elegantly said in her speech.

The crowd cheers, not only in excitement, but at the poetic justice that took place at that moment. They root for her for the fact that she won the People’s Choice Awards, even after being labeled as Less Classically Beautiful. They rejoice that

Viola Davis’s acting ability proved to be superior to her looks, even though she is indeed quite beautiful.

She continues her heartfelt speech: “I’m just so proud to be an actor and so happy to do what I do. And I’m so happy that people have accepted me in this

role at my stage, and at this stage in my career. Thank you.”

The negative comments that people have said about Davis in the past has become irrelevant. The people have spoken.

The New TV Actress award winner had the last laugh, though she chose the ladder in the classiest way possible.

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Black Lives Matter: Eleven racist police killings with no justice served Eric Garner and Michael Brown are just two of many victims of white supremacy in America

Eric Garner with his family.

People hold candles, posters and placards at the candlelit vigil for Michael Brown, calling for justice and stressing that ‘Black Lives Matter’ in front of the U.S. Embassy on Nov. 26, 2014.

By Simon Vozick-Levinson Protesters have filled streets across the country in the last two weeks to speak out against two outrageous failures of justice. First, in Ferguson, Missouri, a grand jury declined to indict the police officer who shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown to death this summer and left his body in the street for four hours.

Then, adding insult to injury, another grand jury in Staten Island, N.Y., chose to look the other way and return no indictment of the police officer who choked unarmed father of six Eric Garner to death, on camera, using an illegal chokehold as Garner pleaded, “I can’t breathe!”

Black Lives Matter Demonstrators walk together during a protest Dec. 3, 2014.

Brown and Garner were two people living a thousand miles apart, at very different points in their lives. But they share one tragic fact in common: They were both Black men executed in broad daylight by cops. And unless the U.S. Justice Department nails their killers on federal civil rights charges, neither of their families will get even the cold comfort of a day in court.

Sadly, there’s nothing new about this pattern of lethal racial profiling. For far too long, African Americans in this country have had to worry about whether police will kill their loved ones on the slightest pretext without facing any meaningful punishment. Racist violence is a deep-rooted part of this country’s history, and it’s going to take substantial nationwide reform of the policing and court systems to change this awful reality. Here are 11

of the most heartbreaking examples of Black men, women and children killed by police in the last 15 years. Their stories are different in many ways, but none of them deserved to die the way they did – and we could fill many more pages with others like them.

1. Amadou Diallo (1999) Four NYPD officers notoriously rained 41 bullets down

onto Diallo in the Bronx, killing the unarmed Guinean immigrant as he tried to enter his apartment building. They later claimed to have seen Diallo reaching for something that looked like a weapon; in fact, all he had in his hand was a wallet.

The incident sparked national headlines and civil rights marches, as well as Bruce Springsteen’s protest song “American Skin (41 Shots)” – but all four police officers were acquitted of all charges in the case. One of the killer cops, Kenneth Boss, remained on the force and was allowed to carry an NYPD gun again in 2012.

2. Patrick Dorismond (2000) Dorismond was hanging out in Manhattan with a friend when an undercover cop approached and asked where he could score some weed – blatant profiling based on Dorismond’s appearance. A confrontation ensued, and another officer shot him fatally in the chest.

Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani released the 26-year-old security guard’s sealed juvenile legal records in an effort to smear his police force’s latest victim, infamously saying that the dead man was no “altar boy”; it was later revealed that Dorismond had attended the same Catholic school as the mayor, and served as an altar boy in his youth. A grand jury chose not to indict the officer who shot Dorismond to death.

3. Ousmane Zongo (2003) The NYPD crossed paths with Zongo at a storage facility in Manhattan during a raid on a counterfeit CD ring. Zongo, an unarmed 43-year-old immigrant from Burkina Faso who repaired art, had nothing to do with the raid, but police shot him four times when they saw him in a corridor. The officer who killed Zongo was convicted of criminally negligent homicide – but a judge sentenced him to no more than five years of probation and 500 hours of community service for taking an innocent man’s life.

4. Timothy Stansbury (2004) NYPD Officer Richard Neri fatally shot Stansbury, an unarmed 19-year-old, during a late-night patrol of a BedfordStuyvesant housing project.

Neri said it was an accident,

and a grand jury believed him, declining to return an indictment. The only punishment he faced was a 30-day suspension from the force. Neri was later elected to a prestigious position in a New York police union.

5. Sean Bell (2006) The night before his wedding, Bell and some friends went to a strip club in Queens for his bachelor party. When they left the club around 4:15 a.m. the next morning – Bell’s wedding day – they ran afoul of a group of undercover and plainclothes NYPD cops, who fired an astonishing 50 bullets into the 23-year-old’s car, killing him instantly. The case led to major protests, but all three police officers charged in the case were acquitted.

6. Oscar Grant (2009) On New Year’s Day, 2009, Bay Area transit officer Johannes Mehserle detained Grant on a subway platform after reports of a fight. The unarmed 22-year-old was lying face-down on the ground when Mehserle shot and killed him, as captured on video by many bystanders. Mehserle was charged with murder, but the jury convicted him of a lesser crime, and he ended up serving less than a year for killing Grant.

7. Aiyana Stanley-Jones (2010) Aiyana Stanley-Jones was just seven years old when a Detroit SWAT team took her life. Late at night, searching for a suspect in her neighborhood, the police threw a flash grenade through her family’s window, stormed the house and shot the little girl in her sleep.

The raid occurred while the SWAT team was accompanied by a camera crew from the reality show The First 48. There have been two trials so far, both ending in mistrials.

8. Ramarley Graham (2012) Plainclothes narcotics cops chased 18-year-old Graham into his family’s home in the Bronx for unclear reasons.

They shot and killed him at the door of his family’s bathroom. A tiny quantity of marijuana was later found in the toilet – hardly enough to justify an instant death sentence for a teenager.

The cop who killed Graham was not indicted, but a federal investigation is ongoing.

9. Tamon Robinson (2012) An NYPD patrol car collided with Robinson at a Brooklyn housing project, killing him, after responding to a report that Robinson was digging up paving stones to sell them for some extra cash. He was unarmed. A police report claimed that Robinson caused his own fatal injuries by running into a stationary patrol car, but eyewitnesses said the cops rammed their vehicle into the 27-yearold; a few months later, the department had the gall to try and bill Robinson’s grieving family for $710 for damage to the car. Two years later, the case has yet to go before a grand jury.

10. Rekia Boyd (2012) Off-duty Chicago cop Dante Servin opened fire from his car into a group of people on the street, claiming he perceived a threat to his life. 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was among the people on the scene; she died after taking a bullet to the head. Servin has been indicted (making him the first Chicago police officer in many years to face trial for a fatal shooting), but his case was recently delayed to 2015.

11. Kimani Gray (2013) Plainclothes NYPD officers confronted the 16-year-old Gray in Brooklyn. Police claimed that he pulled a gun before they shot him to death on the street, but Gray’s family disputed this allegation. Prosecutors announced this summer that they are not pursuing charges against the officers who killed the teenager.

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Hastings Lauds Lauderdale Lakes Middle School Vikings on 2014-2015 Broward County Middle School Athletic Association Basketball Championship Win

CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS From Lale Morrison WASHINGTON, D.C. -Recently, Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) congratulated the Lauderdale Lakes Middle School Vikings on win-

ning the 2014-15 Broward County Middle School Athletic Association basketball championship. The team, which finished the season with a perfect 14-0 record, is sponsored by Helping Abused, Neglected, Disadvantaged Youth (HANDY), a Broward County-based agency focused on supporting atrisk youth.

“I am truly honored to congratulate the undefeated Lauderdale Lakes Middle School Vikings. Under the leadership of Head Coach Bennett Wyche, Assistant Coaches Brice Callins and Johnnie Cuyler and Tournament Most Valuable Player Michael Johnson, the team excelled on the basketball court and in the classroom,”

Mrs. Jewel celebrates her 80th Birthday.

(Photo by Bob Huhghes)

said Hastings. “Their academic accomplishments are as outstanding as their athletic and community service achievements. Nine members of the team have earned over a 3.0 GPA, over half of them are

Herbert V. Burrows succumbs at the age of 77 (Cont'd from FP) He married Charleen Lewis of Paris, Kentucky on April 28, 1962 and to this union one child, Brione Victor Burrows was born. They were also blessed with three godchildren: Sonya Burrows, Albury Burrows and Kia Smith.

Herbert was very active in both his church and community.

He was a decdicated member of St. Christopher Episcopal Men’s Club and Church Choir and also Spoon’s Equire Gentlemen’s Breakfast Club.

He was inducted into the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in 1958 at St. Augustine College and served as basileus (president) of the Fort Lauderdale graduate chapter, Zeta Chi. He remained an active member until his death. He was also a member of the Fort Lauderdale Negro Chamber of Commerce.

In his leisure time Herbert enjoyed golfing and was a member of the Gold Coast Golf Association.

Herbert received many civic awards for his lifelong dedication to his church and community.

Herbert was always a beacon of light that could brighten up anyone’s day or situation. He had a brand of humor that was uniquely his and admired by all. He was affectionally known as “Gal” by many of his friends.

The Wake will be held Friday, Jan. 16, 2015 from 5-8 p.m. at Ascension Peace Presbyterian Church, 2701 N. State Road 7, Lauderhill, Fla. Funeral Services will be held Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 at 11 a.m. at St Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1750 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Oakland Park, Fla.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. JANUARY 15, 1929

dually enrolled in high school courses and all of them are engaged in volunteer activities throughout the City of Lauderdale Lakes.”

“The team’s success is a tribute to the power of colla-boration. I commend Principal James F. Griffin, III for partnering with HANDY CEO Evan Goldman to ensure that these kids are supported throughout the school day and beyond.

HANDY delivers tu-toring, life skills, individualized educational planning, after school meals and snacks; be-havioral health support, and in many cases, surrogate pa-renting.”

“I also want to thank the Children’s Services Council of Broward County, the Community Foundation of Broward and the United Way of Broward County for supporting this incredible work. Now more than ever, our children need investments in their future. In Broward, we are fortunate to have supporters who recognize that the middle school years are vital to our students’ success. What happens during middle school will prevent high school dropouts and prevent children from becoming vulnerable to gangs, criminal activity, drugs and substance abuse.”

In Our Own Voice: Black Women on Abortion, Contraception and Reproductive Justice From Marcela Howell WASHINGTON, DC – A week before the 42nd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v.

Wade, the leaders of five black women’s reproductive justice organizations will discuss the impact that abortion rights and contraceptive access have on the lives of Black women and their families at a policy briefing in the Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 9 a.m. (continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m.)

Last fall, the five organizations – Black Women for Wellness (Calif.), Black Women’s Health Imperative (D.C.), New Voices Pittsburgh (Pa.), SisterLove (Ga.) and SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (Ga.), in partnership with Communications Consortium Media Center – launched a national policy initiative – In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda.

“This new national initiative represents a proactive step in defining and implementing our vision of Reproductive Justice,” said Marcela Howell, strategic director of the initiative. “In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is an opportunity to lift

up the voices of black women as spokespeople on reproductive health issues - speaking our own truths to the media, to our policymakers, to our communities, and to our allies” Among the presenters at the policy briefing are Dr. Willie Parker, board member of Physicians for Reproductive Health, Reverend Alethea Smith-Withers, board chair of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and Cynthia Greenlee, historian and reproductive justice activist.

As a national structure, the initiative will focus on three key policy issues - abortion rights and access, contraceptive equity and comprehensive sex education. As a Reproductive Justice initiative, the groups will focus these issues from a human rights perspective, incorporating the intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation and gender identity with the situational impacts of economics, politics and culture that make up the lived experiences of black women in this country.

Two members of the Tuskegee Airmen die on the same day Clarence E. Huntley, Jr. and Joseph Shambrey enlisted in 1942

Tuskegee airmen – A group of Tuskegee Airmen in Alabama in 1942. Gabriel Benzur@amp; - LIFE/Getty Two members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-Black Air Force squad that flew during World War II, died recently.

They were both 91 and they both died on Jan. 5, their families said Sunday.

Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey were lifelong friends who enlisted together in 1942, the Associated Press reports. They worked as mechanics on the combat planes.

After the war, Huntley became

a skycap at airports in Burbank and Los Angeles, and Shambrey worked with the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.

Both men died in their home in Los Angeles.

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The AKAdemic Foundation, Incorporated presents ‘The Miss Precious Pearl’ Parade of Pearls: Gems of the Future

Contestants Submitted by Dr. D. S. Wilson, 2014 Reporter SUNRISE, FL – With the AKAdemic Foundation, Incorporated, being a financial Arm

for the Zeta Rho Omega Chapter – Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, in which Scholarships are derived from funds raised through the foundation, as President E Pearl

(Photo by Roy Gibbon Covington Maloney, and the AKAdemic Foundation officers, Co-Chairmen, Claudia Morgan and Yolanta Booker, and foundation officers and The Miss Precious Pearl committee -

Afrah Hamin, Cynthia Rider, Carolyn Washington, Marquetta James, Raylene Thomas, Leila Lumpkins, Annie Shirlene Chester, Vicky Pearcey, Executive Director of the AKAdemic Foundation, who coordinated the well-planned showcase to capture the elegance and poise of the Parade of Pearls: Gems of the Future.

2013 Miss Precious Pearl, Layla Davidson presented her crown, namely to the 2014 Miss Precious Pearl Crowned, Sydney Lumpkins, the daughter of Hank and Aniva Lumpkins, and the other Contestants were Ra’Niayh Ariss, daughter of Demesha Moore and Randy Ariss, Alexis Henderson, daughter of Anthony and Enette Henderson, Lyric Murray, daughter of Gerald and Laticia Murray, Synclaire Richardson, daughter of Salisu Richardson and Jennifer Mann, and Kimyah Smith, daughter off Lavoris and Rashonda Smith.

This lovely program was well-attended with over 150 attendees at the Sunrise Civic Center Grand Ballroom, Sunrise, Fla., Dec. 7, 2014, Mistress of Ceremony, Afrah Hamin, and a host of steppers and elegant dance entertainment, at its best.

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