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Revealed: Eric Holder quit because of his health How do we go from on the orders of his doctor wife after hospital scare hurting to healing? · Holder was rushed in an ambulance to a Washington, D.C. hospital in February after feeling faint and having a shortness of breath. · A news report revealed recently that ‘under pressure’ from his wife, an obstetrician and gynecologist, Holder decided to leave his job. · Holder wanted to make the jump before Republicans potentially take over the Senate and make it too difficult for the President to replace him.

By Francesca Chambers for MailOnline

Holder kisses his wife, Sharon Malone, after announcing his resignation at the White House recently. A news report claims that Malone, a doctor, pressured her husband to leave the Justice Department because she was worried about his health.

Attorney General Eric Holder’s abrupt announcement that he intends to leave the Obama Administration as soon as the President is able to find someone to take over for him was initiated by his doctor wife’s concerns about his health, a news report revealed last week.

Holder was rushed in an ambulance to a Washington, D.C. hospital in February after feeling faint and having a shortness of breath.

Doctors gave the Justice Department official the OK to return to work, but soon after the incident, rumors began swirling that Holder could leave

Mystery virus enterovirus 68 paralyzes nine children Posted by Christine in Medical News Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday sent doctors an alert about the polio-like cases and said the germ — enterovirus 68 — was detected in four out of eight of the sick children who had a certain medical test. The status of the ninth case is unclear.

The virus can cause paralysis but other germs can, too. Health officials don’t know whether the virus caused any of the children’s arm and leg weaknesses or whether it’s just a germ they coincidentally picked up.

Suffering in Colorado: Jayden Broadway, nine, of Denver struggles to sit up in his hospital bed coughing as he is being treated for enterovirus 68, the virus that’s been identified in 40 out of 50 states.

Progression: Some patients will develop a severe cough, have difficulty breathing and/or develop a rash. Enterovirus 68 is sometimes also accompanied by a fever or wheezing. Children across the United States have had to be put on life support because of the virus. Beginning last month, a flood of sick children began to hit hospitals in Kansas City, Missouri, and Chicago — kids with trouble breathing, some needing oxygen or more extreme care such as a breathing machine. Many — but not all — had asthma before the infection.

NFL case sparks debate on spanking

Enterovirus 68 symptoms, progression, and prevention early symptoms: The virus beings like the common cold and may include sneezing, a runny nose and a

By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – As the NFL’s 2014 season warms up, Minnesota

Pleading Our Own Cause

Vikings running back, Adrian Peterson, prepares to face charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child. A week prior, news surfaced that he had spanked his four-year-old son

the Obama Administration before the end of the year.

Politico Magazine reported last week that ‘under pressure’ from his wife, Sharon Malone, an obstetrician and gynecologist, Holder decided to make the jump now before Republicans potentially take over the Senate in the Midterm Elections and make it too difficult for the President to replace him.

‘It was a quit-now or neverquit moment,’ a former administration official told Politico.

‘You didn’t want confirmation hearings in 2015 if the Republicans control the Senate.

So if he didn’t do it now, there was no way he could ever do it.’

Sources who claim to be familiar with the attorney general’s thinking told the Washington Post said Holder had thought about leaving earlier in tenure, at the height of a gun-walking scandal in 2012 and again last summer, but he didn’t want to exit on a bad note.

Holder, one of only three original Obama Administration secretaries, has seen no shortage of controversy in the six years he’s served the President.

(Cont'd on Page 4) cough. This is all that happens for most people who catch an enterovirus, especially adults.

Children, especially with asthma, are more susceptible to catching a more severe form of the illness. At the beginning it’s almost impossible to tell the difference between enterovirus 68 and a common cold. If a child develops a rash, a fever, or has difficulty breathing, parents should seek medical attention as soon as possible.

‘That’s why we want more information,’ and for doctors to report similar cases, said the CDC’s Dr. Jane Seward.

The cases occurred within the last two months. All nine children are being treated at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, and most are from the Denver area. A hospital spokeswoman said the patients’ families didn’t want to talk to the media.

The nine children had fever and respiratory illness about two weeks before developing varying degrees of limb weakness.

(Cont'd on Page 11) with a switch, resulting in major bruises and lacerations on his legs, thighs, and scrotum.

When the news broke, NBA’s Charles Barkley happened to be a guest on an NFL sportscasting show, where he explained, “Whipping – we do that all the time. Every Black parent in the South is going to be in jail under those circumstances.”

Mainstream news coverage of the charges has been defining what a switch is for their audiences, a fact that highlights the wide racial divide in child rearing. But even Black parents and scholars are beginning to publicly question whether corporal punishment—spankings, beatings, whooping, whatever you want to call it – is the best way to discipline children.

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If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. There are many things in our lives that has caused us to suffer; in some cases to suffer to the point of hurting others.

The scars that have come from these hurtings are more often than not hidden from the view of others.

The pain and the cause of the hurting incidents are so intense that they have molded and shaped the lives of the affected to the point of them not realizing who they truly are to themselves.

We tried to mask and justify the pains from the incidents, which have now created an optical allusion to us, just to be able to deal with the uncomfortable and shameful experiences.

Now, this new person that has been recreated from this humiliation is currently in a retaliatory state on a path of destruction and is a detriment to themselves and everything around them.

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Justice Department urged to stay focused on police killings

Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton speaks about Michael Brown, Eric Garner and police brutality during a press conference in Washington, D.C. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – Officials from the National Action Network, the National Urban League the National Bar Association, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other civil rights groups have urged the Justice Department to remain focused on the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases and to make sure that the police officers involved are held responsible for their deaths.

During a press conference attended by the parents of Brown and Garner, Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League said, “In recent weeks and months, confidence around the concept of justice for all in our nation has plunged to the lowest levels that we have seen in a generation.”

On July 17, Eric Garner, 43, was choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten Island, N.Y. Moments before his death, officers had attempted

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to arrest Garner, who was unarmed, for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. Although Garner’s death has been ruled a homicide, no charges have been filed against the officer involved.

On Aug. 9, Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., following a brief confrontation. Moments before Wilson fatally shot Brown, the officer had asked the teenager, who was also unarmed, and another young man, to stop walking in the street.

Gwen Carr, Garner’s mother, said that although her son wasn’t perfect, he didn’t deserve to die.

“Our children might have made mistakes in their lives, but at the time that they were being killed, they weren’t doing – the sentence wasn’t death,” Carr said. “For selling cigarettes, the sentence wasn’t death. For the children walking in the street, the sentence wasn’t death.”

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White House fence-jumper made it far deeper into building than previously known

By Kulture Kritic The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident.

An alarm box near the front entrance of the White House designed to alert guards to an intruder had been muted at what officers believed was a request of the usher’s office, said a Secret Service official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The officer posted inside the front door appeared to be delayed in learning that the intruder, Omar Gonzalez, was about to burst through. Officers are trained that, upon learning of an intruder on the grounds, often through the alarm boxes posted around the property, they must immediately lock the front door.

After barreling past the guard immediately inside the door, Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, dashed past the stairway leading a half-flight up to the first family’s living quarters. He then ran into the 80-foot-long East Room, an ornate space often used for re-

ceptions or presidential addresses.

Gonzalez was tackled by a counter-assault agent at the far southern end of the East Room.

The intruder reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn with artwork and antique furniture, according to three people familiar with the incident.

Secret Service officials had earlier said he was quickly detained at the main entry. Agency spokesman Edwin Donovan said the office is not commenting due to an ongoing investigation of the incident.

White House fence-jumper, Omar Gonzalez, makes it to the White House entrance.

The intruder reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn.

Black woman discusses how she got her product Reported by Nigel Boys into 3,000 Wal-Mart stores

Publisher of the Westside Gazette and President of Florida Association of Black Owned Media (FABOM), Bobby R. Henry, Sr., former Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll; Publisher of the Tempo News and VP of FABOM Johnny Hunter, Sr. and Bishop Victor T. Curry of New Birth Cathedral live on WMBM Tuesday Talk with host president/ general manager Bishop Victor T. Curry broadcasting live from Mount Bethel Baptist Church, 901 NW 11th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Segments include former Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll, a paid political segment featuring George Sheldon, candidate for Attorney General of Florida and more in preparation for the 2014 general election “we must engage candidates so that we can cast an informed vote,” said Bishop Curry. Photo by Dr. K’s Photos

Williams watched a little Black girl tell anchor Anderson Cooper on CNN that she didn’t like Brown colored dolls because they looked nasty.

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The founder of the Skin Toned Doll Collection, Positively Perfect, which is sold exclusively in over 3,000 Wal-Mart stores nationwide, Lisa Williams started the idea after being approached by a buyer to manufacture the multicultural dolls in 2009.

Williams was selling a line of children’s books in 1,500 WalMart stores that gave her around $500,000 in annual revenues, but she had no experience in the manufacture of dolls.

However the buyer approached her because she understood the multicultural market and they were looking for a doll that would appeal to the African-American market.

Still unsure how she could help them find what they wanted and not convinced she wanted to do so, Williams watched a little Black girl tell anchor Anderson Cooper on CNN that she didn’t like Brown colored dolls because they looked nasty.

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North Fork Elementary School students confront hurricane Elisa during Broward EOC simulation North Fork Elementary School’s fifth grade science and civics students visited the Broward County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on Sept. 24, 2014, and participated in a special hurricane preparedness exercise sponsored

by StormZone, where they planned for and recovered from fictitious Hurricane Elisa.

StormZone is a nationwide, school-based multidisciplinary science and social studies education program that teaches students about severe natural hazards and how emergency

management agency’s work with federal, state and local governments to manage such disasters.

“This is an emergency preparedness simulation program for the classroom that lets students form their own local government, learn the organizing principles used by emergency managers, make the decisions necessary to respond to a disaster in their community, and create and coordinate a disaster recovery plan,” said Bay Proby, StormZone founding director.

At the conclusion of the exer-

cise, the student serving as the local mayor conducted a press conference in the EOC’s media center to inform student reporters on preparedness measures that were taken prior to the storm and recovery efforts after its passage.

In addition to supplementary science curriculum and the interactive exercise, StormZone also teaches students about safety and preparedness, and provides them with a disaster survival kit and family communication plan to share with their families.

The face of school choice

By Kevin Chavous

North Fork Elementary School’s fifth grade science and civics students at Broward EOC.

Black woman discusses how she got her product into 3,000 Wal-Mart stores (Cont'd from Page 2) The little girl was reiterating what had been said before in the 1940s by Black children that white colored dolls were better because they were “good, nice and pretty.”

Following this program, Williams launched a multi-cultural doll collection in 2010, which has now grown from the initial two dolls to over 20 different models in three categories, including infant, toddler and Divah (Dignified, Intelligent, Vivacious, Attractive and

Humanitarian).

Two of the Divah line of dolls include a straight “A” student Divah Zair, who is also an artist, and one who wants to be a scientist, Darling Dana.

“I did not want to see another little African American girl fail to choose the doll that most closely resembles her precious face because that child does not view the doll as being equal or more beautiful than the white doll,” said the founder and CEO of the San Diego, Calif.-based World EPI Inc. She adds that her company is planning to

manufacture another doll appealing to Latin-American children because, “Other cultures don’t have dolls to represent their beauty and intelligence either.”

Williams’ line of AfricanAmerican dolls range in price from $9.97 to $19.97 and her million-dollar company has grown to employ 12 other people. World EPI generated two million dollars in 2012 and rose to around five to six million dollars in 2013 from licensing fees and royalty payments.

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A little more than 10 years ago, a young woman named Denisha was part of a vicious cycle. Her mother dropped out of school, her uncle had dropped out of school and her brother would go on to drop out of school.

At an early age, Denisha was already showing signs of trouble - getting into fights, being sent home from school. These were all signs that she would become part of a cycle many of us know too well.

But, that cycle was broken when Denisha’s grandmother enrolled her in a private school with more structure, more attention paid to individual students and mentors to lead her along a new path.

Denisha’s educational opportunity was made a reality as a result of an educational choice program in Florida, one of more than 42 programs across the country in 19 states. Today, she’s not only one of the few from her family to graduate high school, but she’s the very first family member to ever graduate from college.

“If it weren’t for the scholarship or for the school, you would probably meet me on a corner with a baby trying to make endsmeet,” said Denisha.

But, Denisha’s story is but

one of literally hundreds of thousands of stories taking place right now in classrooms across the country. Sadly too many parents do not realize there are literally millions of opportunities available to send their child to a private school of their choice.

Programs designed to help lowincome families and children trapped in underperforming schools.

In Louisiana, Kodie, a student who described himself as being lost in his zoned school, did not have the attention he needed. When Kodie received a scholarship through Louisiana’s educational choice program his attitude towards school and his education completely changed and he is now thriving. “The teacher can actually go one-on-one … That feeling of passing a grade is just really good, to know you won’t be held back,” said Kodie.

When I served on the DC City Council, like many parents, I was initially hesitant to support charter schools or school choice. I was raised to trust the traditional public school system, but I met too many families who were left hopeless because their children were zoned to failing schools and these families lacked the financial means to move or send their children to private school. That’s when I

CHAVOUS realized we have to do more because no child should be denied the right to attend a quality school of their parents’ choice.

We have seen the emerging success of school choice in Washington, D.C. where its opportunity scholarship program has a graduation rate of about 90 percent - compared to 5030 percent in D.C. Public Schools the public schools. While there is success, we cannot rest until every parent across the country is empowered with a wide array of quality educational options for their children, ensuring their success throughout their education and beyond.

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Experts push for better oversight of police

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – Neill Franklin says there is nothing new about friction between law enforcement agencies and Blacks. And he should know – Franklin is a 34year law enforcement veteran of the Maryland State Police and the Baltimore Police Department.

“This is nothing new,” said Franklin, during a panel discussion on the shooting death of Michael Brown and police misconduct hosted by the Cato Institute, a libertarian Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

On Aug. 9, just after 12 p.m., Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was shot to death by Darren Wilson, a hite, and six-year veteran police officer in Ferguson, Mo. The police left Brown’s body in the street for more than four hours, as shocked residents captured video and photographs of the scene and uploaded the images to social media websites. Brown’s death came less than a month after four unarmed Black men were killed across the country by police officers in controversial confrontations that sparked protests and marches.

Tim Lynch, the director of Cato Institute’s criminal justice project, said that the media didn’t descend on Ferguson because of the shooting of Michael Brown. He said, “They descended on Ferguson, because of the protests that erupted in the aftermath of that shooting.”

Lynch said that the media wanted to zero-in on why people were protesting, partly because the way the police were handling the case, leaving Brown’s body laying in the street for such a long period hours, then releasing videotape from an alleged robbery and claiming that the robber was Brown.

The racial composition of the police force and the local government in Ferguson, Mo., does not come close to matching the racial composition of the community that they’re serving, Lynch added.

Franklin said that Blacks have always been viewed a little differently as far back as you want to go. He also expressed

skepticism about Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson’s decision to release a video allegedly showing Brown stealing a box of cigars from a convenience store less than 30 minutes before his fatal encounter with Officer Darren Wilson. Jackson released the video, against the advice of the Justice Department, even though he acknowledged that even if true, the alleged robbery was unrelated to the shooting of Brown.

“If it was about the cigars you would have heard that from day one,” said Franklin. “The police would have come out right away and said that it was about this guy being suspected of a strong-arm robbery.”

Lauren Burke, freelance journalist and founder of the Crewof42.com, a news website that covers the work of Black members of Congress and focuses on issues that impact urban communities, said that racism is always a factor in cases similar to the shooting death of Michael Brown.

“It’s something that people don’t want to completely confront at any time, but when you look at the situation around Ferguson, you have to understand that not only are there two forms of policing in the United States, but many police are looking at African American males differently before anything even happens,” said Burke.

Lynch noted that the white middle class experience with police is very different from the experiences of minorities, many of whom live in the poorest sections of our cities.

“For the white middle class, it’s mainly the occasional speeding ticket, or perhaps there is a friend or a relative that gets involved with a DUI arrest, but for poor minorities, their experience is very different,” said Lynch. “This is where the ‘stop and frisk’ tactics come into play and the ‘no-knock raids’ on apartments and homes [are used].”

Police Goffman, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said officially, we have one system of justice in America, where we’re all held to the same standards, we’ve all got the right to a trial,

and if we’re convicted, there are mandatory minimums in place, so we’re all going to serve the same sentence.

But Goffman disagreed, saying we have more than one system.

“One for white citizens and one for Black citizens and, particularly, a distinct form of justice for poor, African American citizens in this country,” said Goffman.

Although Blacks and Latinos have long been aware of these two parallel systems, said Goffman, large portions of the white American public continues to believe that we are living under the same laws.

Goffman said that the killing of Michael Brown pierced that notion and has made these two systems of justice front-page news.

“As soon as Ferguson happened, it seemed to be a giant crisis of credibility,” said Ethan Brown, an author and investigative reporter who has written for Wired, Rolling Stone, GQ, Mother Jones and the Village Voice.

Brown compared the credibility crisis between Ferguson residents and the police department to the credibility crisis that surfaced during the “Stop Snitchin’” street campaign, popularized in Baltimore, Md., nearly a decade ago. Brown, who wrote about the campaign said that a “Stop Snitchin’” DVD featured drug dealers griping about the illegal actions of William King and Antonio Murray, two Baltimore City Police Officers, who were later sentenced to hundreds of years, collectively, for crimes related to drug trafficking.

“A big part of the credibility crisis is the total lack of oversight that exists in every piece of the criminal justice system,” said Brown.

Franklin said that the strained relationship between police and the Black community in Baltimore morphed into other things. Residents soon refused to assist police officers in cases involving robberies, rapes and homicides.

“There is not a single law enforcement officer, police chief, or commander that will tell you that you can be effective in solving crime in any community

Revealed: Eric Holder quit because of his health on the orders of his doctor wife after hospital scare (Cont'd from FP) From the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal that led to him being held in contempt by the House of Representatives to the Justice Department’s crusade against Republican-passed voter identification laws, Holder, the fourth longest serving Attorney General in American history, has seen few periods of his tenure that were not marked by polarizing action.

A hero to progressives and the African-American community, President Barack Obama lauded Holder’s work to advance civil rights at a tearful press conference last week.

“Under his watch,” President Obama said, “the department has brought a record number of prosecutions for human trafficking, and for hate crimes – because no one in America should be afraid to walk down the street because of the color of their skin, the love in their heart, the faith they practice, or the disabilities that they live with.”

The first Black attorney general has long been a thorn in conservative lawmaker’s sides; however, they were vocal recently about their eagerness to see him go.

He has “chosen to politicize his office ‘and’ he’s just simply not done his job well,” House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrel Issa told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly recently.

Issa, who led the charge in the House to bring legal action against Holder, said he hoped the President would bring in a less divisive top cop.

“I think there’s very little chance there’ll be somebody similar that could be confirmed by the Senate for these last two years,” Issa said.

“Even if the Senate changes hands during the lame duck [session], they’re not going to have a lightning rod like Eric Holder,” he predicted.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn shared a similar sentiment in a

President Obama and Holder share an embrace after delivering remarks on Holder’s resignation in the State Dining Room of the White House recently. statement last week.

“The nation deserves an attorney general whose loyalty to the justice system will trump loyalty to a political party, and I hope the President will nominate someone who will uphold the basic standards of honesty, transparency, and accountability that have been so glaringly absent in this Justice Department,” stated Cornyn.

Undeterred by statements from his detractors in the last 24 hours, a defiant Holder promised friends and allies on Friday that he would keep fighting for the ideals they hold dear until his final day in office.

At a Congressional Black Caucus event, Holder addressed the elephant in the room right off the bat and reminded attendees that his term as Attorney General ‘has not ended.’

“OK? Let’s just make that clear. It has not ended,” he said.

“I woke up today and I was still the Attorney General of the United States,” he added, eliciting laughter from the crowd who had gathered at the early morning panel to wish him goodbye.

Noting that his time at Justice “Will draw to a close in the coming months,” Holder told his

friends, “I want you to know that my commitment to this work...will never waiver.

“I have no intention of letting up; I have no intention of slowing down.”

Holder said he was confident that the advocates in the room and the U.S. attorneys across the nation would carry on the fight for equality.

“No matter what my path will be, no matter where I will be,” Holder said, he would continue to fight for equal justice.

In a one-on-one with the Daily Beast Holder said he’s “not quite done thinking” about what his next move is, he suggested he will continue to work on criminal-justice reform, something Holder designated as his ‘signature achievement’ as head of the Justice Department.

“I’d like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general—criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially,” Holder told the Daily Beast.

“I don’t just want to give speeches; I’d like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.”

without the cooperation of the citizens,” said Franklin.

In order to avoid more Fergusons and to improve bonds between police and residents, Franklin suggested increasing the use of civilian review boards in local police departments, connecting them to internal affairs agencies, and giving them subpoena power.

The veteran police officer said people need to realize that they do have power and that they can influence their local government.

“But you’ve got to organize,” explained Franklin. “You can’t be complacent and fall back to where you were. This type of change and organization should be an ongoing process for the rest of your life.”

Burke agreed.

Neill Franklin, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, speaks on the important relationship between police and the communities they serve during a panel discussion at the Cato Institute.

(Freddie Allen/NNPA) “Organizing and ‘getting in the way,’ as John Lewis would say, is always necessary,” said Burke. “You gotta push these politicians you gotta make noise,

you gotta organize and you gotta vote. And I don’t think voting is the only answer, but you have to push on specific issues.”

ALPHAS DONATE OVER $15,000 TO KIDS IN DISTRESS: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter built a team of more than 300 corporate partners, sponsors and individual donors and raised over $15,000 to support “Kids in Distress (KID)” programs that save, heal, and transform the lives of thousands of children who’ve been abused, neglected and abandoned in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties. Fraternity members also met with KID President/CEO Mark Dhooge to gain more insight into specific areas where greater community support is needed. Over the past three years the fraternity has donated more than $30,000 to help KID uplift our community’s most vulnerable children. Pictured left to right are: Kirkland Floyd (Alpha), Harold Simmons (Alpha), Phyllis Bard (KID), Ricky Stuart (Alpha), Mark Dhooge (KID President/CEO), Amed Avila (Alpha), Juacane L. Reynolds (Alpha), Nathan Osgood (Alpha). By Ricky Stuart

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Meeting

In Observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Florida House of Representatives State Representative Cynthia A. Stafford, District 109, Townhall Meeting, Ending Domestic Violence, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 at 6 p.m., at Charles Hadley Park-Carrie P. Meek Center, 1350 N.W. 50th St., Miami, Fla. For more info call (305) 953-3086.

Ceremony

Join the Northwest Women’s Federated Club in conjunction with Pastor C.E. Glover and Commissioner Bobby DuBose for our bus unveiling and blessing ceremony, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 at 11 a.m., at Northwest Women’s Federated Club, 2161 N.W. 19 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Refreshments will be provided.

Walk

Happenings at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center

The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center is located at 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Call the Welcome Desk at (954) 357-6210.

Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. the library will host an evening of cultural activities devoted to the touristfriendly country of Ghana.

Throughout the evening there will be prizes and surprises, the big giveaway for this event is an 8-day land package by a Ghana tour operator with Ebony Heritage Travel. You can order your ticket through Evenbrite (http://destinationghana.eventbrite.com) This is an after-hours event for ages 21-plus.

AARLCC, hosting a Breast Cancer Awareness Session on two different Saturdays, Oct. 11 and 18, 2014 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The session will be led by two experienced nurses, Sandra P. Boyne and Roshanda Littlejohn. For more info call (954) 357-6224.

Luncheon American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K walk, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 registration begins at 7:30 a.m., walk begins at 9 a.m., rain or shine, at Huizenga Plaza Downtown Fort Lauderdale, One E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For additional info contact Jen Appel at (305) 582-2367.

Sistah to Sistah Connection cordially invites all ladies to attend our life-changing 9th Annual Women’s Outreach Luncheon, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 at 10:30 a.m., at the Signature Grand, 6900 W. State Rd., Davie, Fla. Wear your favorite hat. Tickets can be purchased online at www.sistahosistahconnection.com

Breakfast

The community is cordially invited to Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Jimmy English in our annual Senior Citizen Prayer Breakfast, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014 from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and the Prayer program, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., at 2211 N.W. Seventh St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For cost and additional info contact Deacon Kates at (954) 6924458.

Voter Registration Drive

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Chi Psi Omega Chapter’s Connection Committee will sponsor a voter registration drive Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wal-Mart Super Center, 3001 N. St. Rd. 7, Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. For additional info, contact the Connection Com-mittee at (954) 410-6673,visit the chapter’s website, Chipsiomega@info.org or on Face Book

Event

Meet the Candidates Night, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 from 6 to 9 p.m., at E. Pat Larkins Center, 520 MLK Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla.

Open House

Proposed Ordinance Revisions Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 from 5 to 6:30 p.m., at City Hall, First Floor Commission Chamber, 100 N. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For additional info contact Adrienne Ehle at aehle@fortlauderdale.gov or (954) 828-5798.

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Candidates’ Forum The Boynton Beach Community High School will host a Candidates’ Forum in the school’s state-of-the-art, 800seat auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., the school is located 4975 Park Ridge Blvd., Boynton Beach, Fla. The forum will be monitored by the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County. The following candidates have been invited and are expected to attend: * Lois Frankel (D) and Paul Spain (R) U.S. House of Representatives District 22 * Alcee L. Hastings (D) and Jay Bonner (R) U.S. House of Representatives District 20 * Maria Sachs (D) and Ellyn Bogdanoff (Rep) Florida State Senator District 34 * David Ryan Silvers (Dem) and Bill Hager (R) Florida State House of Representatives District 89 For more information on the call (561) 306 5868; Email: forum2014@aol.com.

Workshop

Broward Cultural Division will offer a grant application workshop for the Cultural Investment Program, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 at 2 p.m., in the Main Library, Seventh Floor, Cybrary, 100 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For additional info contact Adriane Clarke at (954) 357-7530.

Event Minority Enterprise Development Week, Medweek2014 32nd Annual Business Matchmaker Conference & Award Gala, Thursday, Oct. 16 -17, 2014 at 3000 N.E. 151 St., North Miami, Fla. For time and additional info call (305) 5767888 or 1-800-730-5581.

Fish Fry

Dillard Comprehensive High School Class of 1970 presents Annual Fish Fry Scholarship Fundraiser, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Black Firefighter’s Hall, 1612 N.W. Sistrunk Blvd., (SE corner of NW 17th Avenue and NW Sixth St.), Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Celebration Pat Casterlow and Friends present A Celebration of Life ‘5’ with a fashion show celebrating life of cancer survivors on Oct. 18, 2014 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Northwest Federated Women’s Club (NFWC), 2161 N. W. 19 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Proceeds to benefit the NFWC, The ministry of Missionary Janice Lewis and Lakeisha Daniels Hamilton Scholarship Fund. For more info call (954) 760-7519 or (954) 730-3442.

Event

An Afternoon of Elegance Hat & Glove Vintage Style Tea presented by Occasions Unlimited, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014 from 2 to 5 p.m., at Roosevelt Gardens Park, 2841 N.W. 11 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Ticket deadline Sept. 20, 2014. For cost and additional info call Iverta Johnson at (954) 4651253.

Events * Five Dollar Youth Swimming Lessons at Carter Park Pool - Started Sept. 2, 2014 Ends Monday, Oct. 27. Once per week classes: Saturday morning and Monday afternoon swimming lessons for ages 6 month – 12 years, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Carter Park Aquatic Complex. * Youth and Adult Swimming Lessons at City of Fort Lauderdale Pools- Weekly@@ Classes Started Sept. 2, 2014 – Ends Monday, Oct. 27, 2014.

Once per week classes: Saturday morning and Monday afternoon swimming lessons for ages 6 months-adult, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at City of Fort Lauderdale Pools. For more info contact Michael Braggiotti. * Cardinal Gibbons High School 5K Conference Meets – Started Tuesday, Sept. 9 – Ends Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, from 2 to 6 p.m., at Mills Pond Park 2201 N.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For additional info contact Glen Lee at (954) 914- 9669. * Pine Crest Cross Country Meets – Started Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 – Ends Thursday, Oct. 20, 2014, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., at Mills Ponds Park 2201 N.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more additional info contact Paul Baur at (954) 776-2187.

Meeting

Dear Members Notice of September, October Meetings and November, please note the following General Membership meetings of the NAACP Fort Lauderdale/ Broward Branch, for the purpose of election of officers and at-large members of the executive committee.

2. On Oct. 23, 2014, at the Mizell Cultural Center at7 p.m., there will be a reporting of the Nominating Committee, receipt of Nominations by Petition, and Election of the Supervisory Committee All members whose memberships are current as of April 1st may be nominated for office or as an at-large member of the Executive Committee. In order to sign a nominating petition, or be elected to the Election Supervisory Committee, a member must be current as of 30 days prior to the October meeting.

3. On Nov. 13, 2014 at the Mizell Cultural Center at7 p.m., the election of officers and atlarge members of the Executive Committee will take place Polls will open from 5 to 8 p.m. In order to vote in a Branch election, one must be a member in good standing of the Branch 30 days prior to the election. A form of identification is required.

Should a run-off election be necessary then election shall occur on the following date at time certain (at least 1 hour) at this location, Run-off elections shall be conducted not less than ten days after the original election.

EDUCATION MATTERS Every Child Deserves a Chance to Succeed.

United Way of Broward is looking for volunteers: We are looking for volunteers that can dedicate one hour per week, for 25 weeks to read to first grade students for the 2014-2015 school year -- No experience is necessary; just a love for children. Volunteers must complete and pass a background check.

ReadingPals takes place during school hours.ReadingPals runs from September 2014 to June 2015.

Through the ReadingPals initiative volunteers read with children at 14 public schools and 6 childcare centers throughout Broward County. For more information about volunteering, training dates and volunteer requirements for the ReadingPals initiative please contact Lola Jordan at (954) 453-3738.

The 20th Annual Search Under Way for Nation’s Top Youth Volunteers, Awards Program Honors Students in Grades five12 for Outstanding Volunteer Service. The search begins to identify thousands more who have made meaningful contributions to their communities over the past 12 months, as the awards program kicks off its 20th year.

These awards, sponsored by Prudential Financial, Inc. in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), honor outstanding community service by students in grades five through 12 at the local, state and national level. Young volunteers can apply online at http:// spirit.prudential.com or at www.nassp.org/spirit.

Applications must be completed

by Nov. 4, 2014, and then submitted to a middle or high school principal, Girl Scout council, county 4-H agent, American Red Cross chapter, YMCA or HandsOn Network affiliate. Paper versions of the application form are available by calling (877) 525-8491.

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Eric Holder’s Legacy: No coward on race tee, told the New York Times, “I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.”

And that’s precisely the point. Holder was courageous in directly taking on the issue of race while President Obama, in the words of Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson, “runs from race like a Black man runs from a cop.”

Holder’s deeds, not his words, are what made him such an exceptional attorney general.

He fought for criminal-justice reform, saying the overrepresentation of Blacks in the criminal justice system “isn’t just unacceptable; it’s shameful.” He said, “Too many Americans go

to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.”

He favored a 2010 law that eliminated the sentencing disparities between crack and CURRY powder cocaine. And he led a successful effort to reduce prison sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offenders.

Arguably his most lasting imprint was in the area of voting rights. When the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Holder said the ruling could not be used for the wholesale disenfranchisement of people of color. He sued Texas

Should Black folks support the three amendments in the November election in Florida? toward the preser-

in their procedures, and it will help millions of Americans.

Eventually, marijuana must be legalized and many African Americans are in prisons because they were involved with the distribution of an illegal drug. The state government has the potential to make billions on taxes and fees, and allowing medical marijuana in the state is a good testing ground for organizing the management of the drug. I support this amendment in the African American community, and we must be able to trust, the government, the doctors and the people of Florida.

Finally, amendment 3 should be opposed by the Black community, because it makes the judicial branch of the Florida government political. Amendment 3 gives the governor too much power with judge’s nominations.

It would give the governor the authority to make appointments to the Florida Supreme Court, district court and the appeals court. At this time most of the judges are chosen by the people they serve and the system is working.

There should be more forums and town hall meetings to discuss the importance of the amendments, and why our community needs to be organized and educated about Florida politics and the constitution. There are 2.3 million Black folks in Florida registered to vote, and each one of them needs to vote in the November election. It is time to get educated on the three amendments in Florida, so you are informed, and you make the best choice.

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After being confirmed as the nation’s first African American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder, Jr. wasted little time putting everyone on notice that he would not tip-toe around the volatile subject of race.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared in a speech at the Justice Department.

There was the predictable uproar on the right and President Obama, while not repudiating his new appoin-

By Roger Caldwell There has not been much discussion in the African American community about the proposed constitutional amendments in the election of 2014.

These three amendments are very important to the direction of the state, and very few Black Folks have taken time to study and understand how they will impact our community.

To begin with, everyone who is registered to vote must be aware that there are three amendments that are on the ballot in 2014 in Florida. The first amendment would direct funding

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vation of land and water in the state. The second amendment is asking the citizens in the state to approve the use of medical marijuana. Finally the third CALDWELL amendment deals with who has the authority to make judicial appointments in Florida.

Each one of these amendments would fundamentally change the way business and politics are managed at the present time. Amendment 1 is a no-brainer because it funds the Land Acquisition Trust Fund, which restores, improves and manages conservation lands including wetlands and forests; fish and wildlife; protecting water resources and drinking water sources. The trust fund is financed by dedicating 33 percent of net revenues from the excising tax on documents for 20 years, and all African Americans should support this amendment.

Amendment 2 allows the medical use of marijuana for individuals with debilitating diseases as determined by a licensed Florida physician. There are 20 states that have approved the use of medical marijuana and John Morgan has spent 4 million dollars of his own money to get this law on the ballot. Personally, I believe that marijuana has healing properties that the health care industry must incorporate

Editorial: Lynching young Black boys without ropes and trees Now they are lynched with schools and prisons, but the results are still the same.

By Phillip Jackson Recently in Chicago, a city where only 9 percent of eighth-grade Black boys read proficiently and where thousands of Black boys have been killed and maimed over the past few years, the MacArthur Foundation passed out “Genius Awards” to people who were musicians, authors, scientists and poets. In their way, the MacArthur Awards congratulate and reward people who are not working to educate and save the lives of Black boys. Essentially, they are saying, that in this American city, the one they call home, educating and making young Black men productive citizens is not valued.

The MacArthur Foundation speaks for America. America has a reputation for helping people all over the world.

We have soldiers stationed in dozens of countries and we invest hundreds of billions of dollars in countries worldwide. But in the streets of most American large cities, police shoot down young Black men with alarming regularity (about one every 28 hours); tens of thousands of young Black men die

every year in an undeclared “ghetto war”; hundreds of thousands of young Black men are annually ushered into the prison system of America; and millions of young Black men and boys are under-educated and mis-educated in American schools. These realities constitute a sophisticated, 21st-Century form of lynching young Black men and boys.

Such genocidal treatment of any population should gain international attention including sanctions by the United Nations and massive national and international petition drives led by human rights groups. But because these are young Black men and boys in America, little is said or done to change this horror. And Black America, by its inaction, remains complicit in these horrendous outcomes for young Black men and boys! Most Black church and business leaders, educators, and elected officials are silent as this gargantuan-scale human tragedy continues unabated.

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Critics were right about President Obama’s incompetence

By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist During the past six years, some Republicans and conservatives have described President Obama and his administration as totally incompetent.

I have harshly criticized those who would use such incendiary language because it showed total disrespect for the office of the presidency.

Though I still think this language is totally inappropriate, I have come to

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agree with the point they were trying to make: this administration is in way over its head. President Obama and his team constantly lie to the American people (IRS, Benghazi, illegal immigration), they put the interests of others JACKSON before the interests of Americans, and they are obsessed with the notion of being “liked.”

Two weeks ago, President Obama told us that he “intends to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without putting American boots on the ground.” Everyone who follows politics and foreign policy knew Obama was lying. This is what his former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, had to say, “There will be boots on the ground if there’s to be any hope of success in the strategy… I think that by continuing to repeat that [there will be no boots on the ground], the President in effect traps himself.”

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over its voter ID law and challenged North Carolina in court over its law to restrict early voting and same-day registration.

Holder further revitalized a sector of the Democratic Party by supporting same-sex marriage and his refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which holds that marriage is strictly between a woman and a man. There were some disappointments as well.

He supported the FBI’s right to track U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant. He also approved of the National Security Agency’s authority to collect millions of phone records of Americans not accused of any crime In his zeal to plug national security leaks, the Justice Department obtained the phone records of journalists performing their jobs. Last year, Holder backtracked, promising that the Justice Department “will not prosecute any reporter doing his or her job.”

Republicans highlighted the failure of Operation Fast and Furious, an Arizona-based Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) project to track weapons purchased by Mexican drug cartels. Not only did ATF fail to account for more than 1,000 firearms that had been purchased by straw buyers, two of the missing weapons were linked to the killing of Brian Terry, a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

When Holder, citing executive privilege, refused to turn over certain Fast and Furious records to Congress, the House held him in contempt, the first for a sitting cabinet member.

Both conservatives and liberals criticized Holder for his failure to prosecute individuals connected to the Wall Street financial crisis in 2008. While some firms deemed “too big to fail” were subjected to record fines, no Wall Street executives were prosecuted.

They were derisively labeled “too big to jail.”

Most African Americans will remember the bold stances and actions Holder took following killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Florida and the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Jr. by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Mo. Brown was shot at least six times.

Her criticized Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, telling NAACP delegates, “These laws try to fix something that was never broken.” Holder visited Ferguson, sharing his own personal experiences of being profiled by police.

Following his visit to Ferguson, Holder ordered a federal civil rights investigation of the predominantly white police department. He said the investigation would determine whether Ferguson Officers had “engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of the U.S. Constitution or federal law.”

In a speech earlier this month at New York University, Holder said that as a former U.S. attorney and the brother of a longtime police officer, he has nothing but respect for police officers. But he said he is also an African American man “who has been stopped and searched by police in situations where such action was not warranted.”

Consequently, he said, “I also carry with me the mistrust that some citizens harbor for those who wear the badge.”

Under Holder, the Justice Department has initiated twice as many police reviews for possible constitutional violations than any other attorney general. At least 34 other departments are under federal investigation for possible civil rights violations.

Conservatives have pilloried Holder for being so aggressive on civil rights.

But he has not backed down for one simple reason – he is no coward.

Injustice can’t balance the politics of privilege

By Derek Joy

How disrespectful Clarence V. McKee, President and founder of McKee Communications Only 5 percent of the state’s 1.6 million Black voters voted in the August Primary. Disgraceful. Have Black Floridians MCKEE forgotten their state’s history of segregation and violence? Between 1882 and 1930, Florida had the highest per capita percentage of Black lynchings in the nation; in 1951 the Florida NAACP civil rights pioneer and voting rights advocate Harry T. Moore, and his wife, were killed when the KKK bombed their house; in 1956, two Black women were arrested in Tallahassee for sitting in the front seats of a bus.

And the list goes on. Let’s hope they remember by Nov. 4.

The Gantt Report Regress to progress

By Lucius Gantt African Americans need to go back in order to move forward!

The time when African Americans had the most wealth and the least unemployGANTT ment was the time when Black people had the most businesses.

I’m old enough to remember a time that Black youth can’t even imagine!

I fondly remember the time in my Atlanta hometown when African American men and women owned banks, hospitals, insurance companies, furniture companies, hotels, fine restaurants, elegant night clubs, taxi, bus and transportation companies, import and export businesses, dry cleaners, grocery stores, shoe repair businesses, catering companies, security companies, travel agencies, tailors, ocean-going shipping vessels and some Black men and women were even manufacturers.

Now, it seems the African American neighborhoods have become communities of beggars!

Today we beg for jobs, we beg for affordable health care, we beg for better business opportunities, better equipped schools and colleges and we beg for decent housing.

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To Be Equal Violence against women and children is wrong

By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more MORIAL appropriate.” — Adrian Peterson The NFL may have inadvertently done us all a favor by shedding light on a problem that is too often ignored or swept under the rug. Recent incidents of abuse of his then fiancée/ now wife by former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and alleged child abuse by Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson are stark reminders that domestic violence against anyone has no place in any relationship, even when it is not captured on camera or doesn’t become a national news story.

As the president of a civil rights organization that is steeped in a tradition of peaceful change, and as a husband and father of two daughters, I have consistently spoken out against the lack of value placed on the lives of Black males, including Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, Michael Brown and too many more across the nation.

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The Autumn of 2014 is in full stride.

A scant two months hence looms the Mid Term Elections.

Sure. The big prize JOY in Florida is the gubernatorial race between incumbent Rick Scott and Democratic hopeful Charlie Crist, the former Republican Governor.

Absent from the ballot is a key issue winding its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And that battle is the Constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry.

Yes. Floridians voted to ban gay marriages only to have it challenged, and ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the courts at various levels. Created a ball of confusion in other states where gay marriages had been legally sanctioned.

Funny how it all hinges on the definition of marriage. Until the bruhaha began, marriage had been considered an act between man and woman. But that has changed.

What was Alessandra Stanley, the longtime television critic of the New York Times, thinking that caused her in that now-infamous article to mislabel Shonda Rhimes, the television hit maker, DANIELS as the paragon of the “Angry Black Woman” and traffick in the most misguided attitudes about Black artists, Black women and Black people in general?

That was the initial question that immediately blazed across the twitterverse and blogosphere when the article appeared, igniting another set of intense discussions about gender, race and racism in American society.

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Two faces of racism

By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist

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Church Directory

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

Bishop Victor T. Curry Senior Pastor/Teacher

Worship T his and Every Sunday at the Church of Your Choice This

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

Reverend Jimmy L. English PASTOR 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"

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.

"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.

1-800-254-NBBC * (305) 685-3700 (o) *(305) 685-0705 (f) www.newbirthbaptistmiami.org

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!

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

Rev. Dr. James B. Darling, Senior Pastor WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship Service .............................................................................. 8:00 & 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Saturday (2nd & 4th) 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”

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

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

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

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!”

Obituaries

Center with Min. Nikita R. Rolle officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Central).

Elijah Bell's Funeral Services

McWhite's Funeral Home

BROWN Funeral services for Clarence Brown.

GROSS Funeral services for Mary Gross.

HANLAN Funeral services for Douglas Hanlan.

MUIR Funeral services for Richard Muir.

WORMLEY Funeral services for Angel Rodriguez Wormley.

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GLEE Funeral services for the late Mary Glee – 62 were held Sept.

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HODGES Funeral services for the late Ebb Hodges, Jr. - 62 were held Sept. 27 at New Salem Missionary Baptist Church, Baconton, GA. Interment: New Salem Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery.

WARNER Funeral services for the late Michael B. Warner -56 were held Sept.

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COLLINS Funeral services for the late Alma Ford Collins were held Sept. 22 at First Baptist Church Piney Grove, Inc. with Rev. Dr. Derrick J. Hughes officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

HODOR Funeral services for the late Anthony Lewis Hodor - 50 were held Sept.

25 at New Mount Olive Baptist Church with Rev. Timothy Jackson officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Central.

JOHNSON Funeral services for the late Dr. Suzye D. Johnson –90 were held Sept.

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JONES Funeral services for the late Minnie Lee Jones – 61 were held Sept.

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THURSTON Funeral services for the late Nehemiah Alexander Thurston – 70 were held at St. John United Methodist Church with Rev. Simon Osulana officiating. Interment: Sun-

Kids Talk About God What can we learn from suffering?

By Carey Kinsolving and Friends “We learn that even though something bad may happen, in the end, something good will happen,” says Elizabeth, 9. “My cousin’s parents got divorced, but it turned out to be kind of a good thing because she got to get a kitten.”

Well, even cat lovers will agree that a kitten is no substitute for loving, responsible parents, Elizabeth. But I’m glad this new feline friend has comforted your cousin.

Grandma left Olivia, 7, an incredible spiritual legacy in a simple act of faith on her deathbed. “My great-grandma knew she was dying and she wanted to die with her glasses on so she could see Jesus in heaven.

We put her glasses on.”

I doubt seriously whether Grandma needed her glasses when she saw Jesus in heaven.

But I’m sure she wanted Olivia to see Jesus through her act of set Memorial Gardens.

TURNER Funeral services for the late LaQuanta Monica Turner – 31 were held Sept. 27 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Bishop Tony Mitchell officiating.

STROWDER Funeral services for the late Edward E. Strowder – 92 were held Sept.

28 at Ebenezer Baptist Church with Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness officiating. Interment: Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland OH. SWAN Funeral services for the late Pastor Lauretha Johnson Gray Swan – 81 were held Sept. 27 at Agape Worship Center with Bishop Livingston Orr officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WILLIAMS Funeral services for the late Julius “Bubba” Williams –94 were held Sept. 27 at Church of God Center with Pastor Daniel N. Boyd, Sr. officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WILLIAMS Funeral services for the late Winson Williams – 58 were held Sept. 27 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel.

A Family That Prays Together Stays Together

faith. Grandma left a legacy of triumph over death instead of fear in the face of death.

I wonder if she was thinking of this portion of David’s most famous Psalm: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil” (Psalm 23:4).

Even the young can overcome the fear of death. Nicole, 11, tells how a 6-year-old girl named Sidney died of a brain tumor with grace and courage.

“One night they knew she wasn’t going to make it. Everybody gathered around her. All of a sudden, a big smile covered Sidney’s face and then she died. Her mom said that Jesus was coming to take her to heaven.”

Suffering can teach you “to think about how you can do better next time,” says Robbie, 11. “If you are getting a bad grade, you can study and get a better grade.”

Robbie, this wise observation will help you avoid much suffering. A great deal of our suffering is self-induced. Bad decisions cause suffering. It’s so easy to blame circumstances or other people.

Take responsibility for your own actions, and break the downward spiral of self-pity, which will cause you even more suffering. No one wants to be around a self-absorbed whiner.

Owen, 11, provides a good example: “I had a time when I let a football game come between my friend and me. We didn’t see each other or talk to each other for three weeks.”

Of course, it all depends on what football game we’re talking about ... just kidding. As one who grew up in Texas where Coach Tom Landry ruled during the Dallas Cowboy dynasty, I learned to take my football seriously.

Holding grudges reduces you to a small, petty person.

Instead, forgive as you have been forgiven. No offense (not even football) you will ever suffer can come close to the offenses the Lord Jesus suffered on your behalf when he hung on an ignoble cross to bear your sins.

“Yes, I think suffering makes you closer to God,” says Samuel, 10. “Once I stepped on a piece of glass. It really hurt. I think it got me closer to God because I prayed for healing. The worst things that happen to someone can turn out to be the best.”

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Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes noth- Clingman ing without a demand, it never did and never will.”

I often wonder what Black people do not understand about that statement. We love to quote it, but when it comes to putting it into practice we fall far short of the spirit of Douglass’ words. Maybe Douglass should have added this caveat: “A demand is nothing without power to back it up.”

In response to incidents of injustice, we are quick to resort to the same old tactics directed by leaders who sell us out. They tell us, as our President told the Congressional Black Caucus a few years ago: “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” and hit the streets chanting and singing in an effort to show our discontent.

We gather in churches and listen to fiery speeches. We hold press conferences and show our disdain for the system and its oppressive behavior toward Black people. We offer milquetoast solutions to the worst of crimes against us. For instance, in Ferguson, Mo., Al Sharpton advised us to stop having “ghetto pity parties.” John Lewis called for martial law in Ferguson. I am still trying to figure how he thinks implementing martial law, which has the power to suspend civil rights, is the answer to a problem he and others consider to be a suppression of civil rights. Other iconic leaders say the problems in Ferguson can be solved simply by “voting.”

Tepid solutions offered by our “leaders” do absolutely nothing to change our situation, because there is no power behind them.

Demands sound great and make for good photo opportunities and press conferences, but they fall on deaf ears because they have no power backing them up. Thus the conundrum of socalled Black Power. We know that power concedes nothing without a demand, but a demand not backed by real power gets no concessions.

In their quest to be important, many of our leaders are, as a comedian once said, “Impotent, which only exacerbates our collective situation and keeps us running like a hamster inside a wheel – going nowhere.

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By Pearl and Mel Shaw “...the true leader can be recognized because somehow or other his people consistently turn in superior performances.... A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure.” This quote from Robert Townsend was used

by Jeanette OBryant, Development Coordinator at the National Civil Rights Museum as she introduced her boss, outgoing museum president Beverly Robertson.

She concluded her remarks with Townsend’s words: “Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader. Why? Because you win people’s heart by helping them grow personally.”

These words capture the essence of Robertson. She has a strong respect for her staff and has provided them with opportunities to grow and assume leadership. And, she is leaving the museum in a strong position for her successor to build from.

The event we were attending

Pearl and Mel Shaw was an intimate breakfast at the newly renovated museum that brought together former board members, volunteers, donors, supporters, staff and community members to hear Robertson’s reflections and tour the museum with her. She began by lifting up current and former staff, board members and volunteers – calling them by name and thanking them for their involvement.

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How do we go from hurting to healing?

(Cont'd from FP) This rudimental behavior has created a “snowball rolling down the side of the snow covered hill” effect; the behaviors become bigger and bigger until it gobbles up the whole lot in its panoramic examination.

Unfortunately these behaviors are created in our homes and in other places that are supposed to be an oasis of protection and fertile grounds for growth.

What is more frightening is that a lot of people in key leadership positions are products and examples of the unaddressed abuse.

The outcome of what has been produced from the spoiling left unchecked is a society of circles of perpetual harm.

Take a closer look at the headlines of our news stories today. If we were to investigate in detail to the root cause of the problems, I’m sure the perpetrators have had some grave hurt inflicted upon them by someone close to them.

Family secrets are closets of horrors that house skeletons of hurts that reincarnated into little hideous demons that visit one on daily bases; causing those that are playing host to them havoc at any given moment.

The genesis of pain inflicted by a loved one is domestic violence, which is landscaped into a plethora of ill fated outbreaks that will lead us into destruction-hint Sodom and Gomorrah and the world as it was known before Noah.

Domestic violence to me is anything that eats away at the foundation of our homes/families leaving us vulnerable and susceptible to the decay of life as it is known today.

Political skullduggery, police brutality, purposeful denial of health care and equal education, road blocks to jobs and the systemic imprisonment of a CERTAIN kind of people. These are just a few of the scabs and calluses that cover the wounds and pain of domestic violence.

At one time or another we all have felt what it’s like to hurt, either by a physical confrontation, mental subjection or a personal loss-pain hurts!

Some things should not be shared and the intent to harm and hurt because you were the brunt of someone else’s un-wanting, undeserving and for no godly reason target of revenge is no excuse to perpetuate the psychotic cycle of pain.

We can do, all of us a “pay it forward” for the sake of creating a better world if we would seek professional help before we fall into the trap of hurting others because we hurt.

“Dear God create in me a balm for healing and a bandage for comfort for those who are hurting. Make my words medicine to heal and my actions directions for peace.” Amen.

—Bobby R. Henry, Sr. THERE IS NO HURT THAT GOD CAN’T HEAL!

Justice Department urged to stay focused on police killings (Cont'd from FP) Morial said that the group demands justice, fairness and a full and complete investigation by the United States Department of Justice into Michael Brown’s death and Eric Garner’s murder.

In recent weeks the Justice Department has announced plans to investigate the Ferguson police department to determine if they violated the rights of Black residents in the past.

On Sept. 18, Attorney General Eric Holder launched the National Initiative for Building Community Trust, a program that “will create a substantial investment in training, evidence-based strategies, policy development and research to combat distrust and hostility between law enforcement and the communities they serve,” according to a press release issued by the Justice Department.

Holder said that the events in Ferguson remind us that we can’t allow tensions, which are present in so many neighborhoods across America, to go unresolved.

“As law enforcement leaders, each of us has an essential obligation – and a unique opportunity – to ensure fairness, eliminate bias, and build community engagement,” said Holder. “The National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice represents a major step forward in resolving

Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, the unarmed Black teenager killed by officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo., attends a press conference in Washington, D.C. (Freddie Allen/NNPA) long standing tensions in many of America’s communities and it will allow us to build on the pioneering work that the Justice Department and our law enforcement partners across the country are already doing to strengthen some of our nation’s most challenged areas.”

The project, funded with $4.75 million grant, will also provide research and technical support to law enforcement officials and others who work in the criminal justice system.

Al Sharpton, civil rights ac-

NFL case sparks debate on spanking (Cont'd from FP) Commentary sprouted up earlier this month from Black thinkers such as Brittney Cooper, professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, who writes for online publication, Salon.com: “Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that the loving intent and sincerity behind these violent modes of discipline makes them no less violent, no more acceptable. Some of our ideas about discipline are unproductive, dangerous and wrong. It’s time we had courage to say that.”

In a New York Times oped, Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson called the cultural belief that spankings build character “a sad and bleak justification for the continuation of the practice.”

Times columnist Charles Blow said, “When we promulgate the notion that our success is directly measurable to the violence visited on our bodies as children, we reinforce a societal supposition that pain is an instrument of love, and establish a false binary between the streets and the strap.”

At the end of his conversation, Barkley conceded that, “maybe we need to rethink it.”

Nowadays, the issue of physical punishment as part of child rearing brings heavy debate, both in social and academic spheres. Some believe that hit-

ting children amounts to good parenting, some even citing the Bible.

Some point to Proverbs 13:24: “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.”

Proverbs 23:13 says, “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.”

As a Pew study showed, “…African Americans stand out

tivist and founder of the National Action Network, said that talking about sensitivity and training is good, before adding that you don’t need people who would choke a man when he says 11 times on tape, ‘I can’t breathe.’

He does not need training, Sharpton said. He needs to be held accountable.

Sharpton said that the coalition of civil rights groups and community stakeholders is not anti-police, and the group doesn’t believe that all police are bad.

“But acting as though that no police is wrong none of the time is moving this country towards a police state where we don’t have the right to question police under any circumstances,” said Sharpton.

Sharpton described a recent case in South Carolina where a state trooper shot an unarmed man.

On, September 4, just outside of Columbia, S.C. Sean Groubert, South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper pulled Levar Jones over allegedly for not wearing his seat belt. Groubert asked Jones to exit his vehicle then asked him for his driver’s license. As Jones reached back into his vehicle to retrieve his license, Groubert opened fired, striking Jones at least once.

The incident was captured on Groubert’s dash-camera.

(Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com) as the most religiously committed racial or ethnic group in the nation.”

Even those who believe in not sparing the rod, think there should be limits.

“I think that children need to be spanked,” says communications entrepreneur, Leris Bernard. “I’m not saying that welts on a three-year old are okay, but sometimes it just takes one little pop.”

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Defense Department proposes broad ban on high-cost loans to service members

By Paul Kiel Special to the NNPA from ProPublica The Department of Defense released proposed rules recently targeting the practices of a broad range of high-cost lenders and prohibiting them from charging service members interest rates more than 36 percent.

The new rules would overhaul the Military Lending Act, which, when enacted in 2007, narrowly defined potentially abusive loans. But as ProPublica and Marketplace reported last year, high-cost lenders easily circumvented the law by offering longer-term loans. As a result, those pitching payday, auto-title, and installment loans continued to peddle credit from stores lining the streets near military bases.

The new rules would have a substantial impact. A Defense Department survey earlier this year found that 11 percent of service members reported taking out a loan with interest above 36 percent in the past year.

The survey also found service members were a prime target for such lending: general-ly young, not financially savvy and often stretched by trying to support a family on a tight budget.

In our story last year, we focused on the case of one Marine who, in order to borrow $1,600, agreed to pay back $17,228 to an auto-title lender over two and a half years – a loan at 400 percent interest. When he could not keep up the payments, his car was repossessed. Under the new rules, it would be illegal for payday and auto-title lenders to make such longer-term loans at steep rates.

The new rules would also restrict installment lenders, who aren’t covered at all by the cur-

rent law. Because of the law’s exclusive focus on short-term credit, installment lenders have been free to charge service members interest rates far above 36 percent, as well as lard loans with nearly useless insurance products that serve mainly to boost the cost.

Installment lenders, whose loans typically extend for five months and longer, often provide loans to service members.

World Finance— one of the country’s largest installment lenders and the subject of an investigation by ProPublica and Marketplace— said last year that about 5 percent of its loans, or approximately 40,000, were made to service members or their families.

In a report last spring, the Defense Department, citing ProPublica and Marketplace’s investigation, said installment lenders’ practice of wrapping in pricey and unnecessary insurance products was one reason to extend the scope of the Military Lending Act. While the new rules will have a very broad scope, there are two notable exclusions: residential mortgages and “purchasemoney” loans, meaning financing to buy a vehicle or other personal property. (These are different from title loans, which offer cash and use a borrower’s car as collateral.) The exclusions date back to the original Military Lending Act language, said Tom Feltner of the Consumer Federation of America: The law gave the Defense Department the power to define what sorts of loans are covered but accepted those two types.

ProPublica published an investigation earlier this year of one major retailer, USA Discounters, which has a large customer base of service members.

Acknowledging that a previous law did not go far enough, Defense Department proposes new rules to protect service members from high-cost lenders.

The company’s loans, made to finance electronics, appliances, and other sorts of purchases, also include add-on products that inflate the cost.

Because the company makes loans to finance the purchase of its products, it wouldn’t be affected by the new rules.

There will be a 60-day period to allow public comment on the proposed rule changes before the Defense Department can proceed with a final version.

Overall, the new Defense Department rules constitute a “strong and important step,” said Feltner, but added that regulators will need to remain vigilant and respond to types of credit not covered by the new rules.

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Dolphins rout Raiders in London 38-14

By Dedrick D. Henry, Sr. The Miami Dolphins ran in five touchdowns to thrash the Oakland Raiders 38-14 in front of over 83,000 fans at Wembley on Sunday. Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill completed 23

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Cornerback Cortland Finnegan also went in for a touchdown as Miami ended their run of two straight defeats and recorded their first win since they beat New England in week one.

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The Raiders offense came into the game ranked last in the league with just 37 points in their three games. Receiving the ball from the kick-off, Oakland marched all the way down the field to score a touchdown on the opening drive. The very first play of the game Raiders quarterback Derek Carr hit wide receiver James Jones for a 30-yard gain. Oakland maintained that momentum and, on the 10th play of the 74-yard drive, Carr found tight end Brian Leonhardt in the end zone with a three-yard pass for a touchdown.

The Dolphins’ offense immediately answered with a score of their own as Caleb Sturgis kicked a 41-yard field goal. Lamar Miller’s 21-yard run moved Miami into Oakland territory and Sturgis came out to kick the field goal after an eightplay, 47-yard drive. Dolphins quarterback Tannehill began to find his range, and he hit Mike Wallace with a 13-yard touchdown pass at the beginning of the second quarter as the Dolphins took a 10-7 lead.

Tannehill delivered accurate passes to a host of Dolphins’ receivers.

His pass to Wallace at the end of an eight-play, 91-yard drive was his ninth completion in his first 11 throws for 112 yards.

Oakland struggled to move the ball and Miami got the ball back very quickly when Carr was sacked outside the Raiders end zone, forcing them to punt.

The Oakland defense had no answer s to stop Miami, and the Dolphins extended their lead to 10 points as they marched down the field once again for another touchdown. Miller continued to lead Miami’s rushing game.

The Raiders were forced into yet another quick punt on their next drive. Even when Jarvis Landry fumbled the punt return for Miami to hand Oakland possession just short of midfield, the Raiders’ offense still did not capitalize and were forced to punt again. But Miami had no problems and Tannehill threw his second touchdown pass of the night just before half-time as he found Dion Sims with an 18-yard reception. Despite starting at their own 10yard line, the Dolphins marched 90 yards in just nine to extend their lead to 24-7 at the half.

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Dolphins RB Lamar Miller picked up some big gains on the ground finishing the game with two rushing touchdowns in Miami's victory over the Raiders. (Internet Photo)

Dolphins CB Cortland Finnegan also went for a touchdown from an interception as Miami ended their run of two loses thrashing the Oakland Raiders 38-14 in front of over 83,000 fans at Wembley on Sunday.

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Ending southern discomfort: Eight ways to fight the AIDS epidemic down south If the United States is serious about ushering in an AIDSfree generation, our nation must end the epidemic in the South. Eight of the 10 states with the highest HIV infection rates are located below the Mason-Dixon Line, as are nine of the 10 states with the highest AIDS fatality rates.

Researchers at the Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative have identified Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas as states where HIV has a disproportionate impact, especially on African Americans. Miami; New Orleans; Atlanta; Jackson, Miss.; Columbia, S.C.; and San Antonio are among the Southern cities with the highest HIV rates.

Almost 60 percent of African Americans live in the South, where they account for approximately 60 percent of new HIV infections—in some states even more. The HIV rate among Black Men Sleeping with Men (MSM) nationwide, including down South, is increasing rapidly.

In Southern states the newinfection rate among Black MSM is four times higher than that of white MSM, with Jackson, Atlanta and Charleston,

S.C., accounting for nearly half of new diagnoses among Black MSM in the region.

The following eight issues must be addressed to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South, including in Black communities and among Black MSM: 1. Reduce high rates of poverty. Nine of the 10 U.S. states with the lowest median family income—Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina— are located in the South. “HIV is clearly a disease of poverty, and there is a lot of poverty in the South,” says Michael Saag, director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

2. Increase the proportion of the population that has health insurance. Eight Southern states—Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Texas, Georgia and Florida—were among the 26 states challenging the Affordable Care Act in a case that reached the Supreme Court. In its decision, the court gave the states the option not to expand their Medicaid insurance programs for low-income people. As a result, 11 of the 17 Southern states have opted not

to expand Medicaid despite having large numbers of uninsured people.

“Southern states resist proven methods of HIV prevention and refuse to provide adequate funding for HIV care and services,” Megan McLemore, a senior health researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), said when HRW released the report Southern Exposure: HIV and Human Rights in the Southern United States in 2010. This government inaction has created disastrous outcomes for People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

3. Strengthen the social safety net and invest in HIV programs. Citing small budgets, many Southern states make little to no investment in the needs of PLWHA or the poor. Instead they rely on federal programs to cover the social, housing and medical needs of PLWHA. McLemore referenced the low tax rates on corporations and high-income residents as contributing to low state tax receipts and sees this strategy as a “self-fulfilling cycle” of using the absence of state revenue to justify the lack of state contributions.

4. Improve access to health care. A lack of access to health care creates what McLemore, speaking on a panel at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Australia, called an “environment of risk.” In South Carolina and Mississippi, for example, at least one in four PLWHA lives in a rural area, where transportation is not easily available, which further complicates access to medical treatment.

5. Teach comprehensive sex education in schools.

McLemore said that many Southern states deny young people “their right to health information and evidence-based education.” Instead, anti-gay messages are often promoted in schools.

People between the ages of 13 and 24 account for 1 in 4 new HIV infections in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among young people, people of color have been particularly affected, with young Black MSM now accounting for more new infections—4,800 in

2010—than any other MSM demographic.

6. Reduce hostility toward LGBT people. The lack of comprehensive sex education in schools is directly linked to the hostility toward members of the LGBT community, who cannot thrive in a homophobic environment where they face stigma on social, cultural and religious levels. At AIDS 2014 McLemore said that unconstitutional sodomy laws, constitutional bans on gay marriages and the teaching of anti-gay messages are all examples of “state-sponsored homophobia.”

The continuing bias and prejudices keep individuals from revealing their sexual identity and/or getting tested for HIV, which increases the risk of infection.

7. Lower incarceration rates and improve HIV prevention in prisons. The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated people. The South’s incarceration rate is three times the national average, according to McLemore. Harsh penalties for sex work and drug use con-

Megan McLemore tribute to the high number of incarcerated. What’s more, HIV rates among prisoners are 2 1/ 2 times higher than among the general public. Many people enter the prison system unknowingly infected because of the stigma associated with getting tested. Once incarcerated, people can spread HIV through tattooing, sex (both consensual and coerced) and injection drug use.

8. Increase the number of syringe-exchange programs (SEPs). The cities in the South with the highest population of injection drug users— such as Miami, New Orleans, Atlanta and Baton Rouge, La.— also have “very limited or no syringe-exchange programs,” said McLemore. For example, New Orleans’ sole SEP operates only on Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m.

April Eugene is a Philadelphia-based writer.

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Mystery virus enterovirus 68 paralyzes nine children (Cont'd from FP) None seem to have a weak immune system or other conditions that might predispose them to severe illness, but the cases are still being investigated, Seward said. Investigators don’t think its polio — eight of the nine children are up to date on polio vaccinations.

two U.S. children who were paralyzed and died and were found to have the virus in their spinal fluid. One was a New Hampshire five-year-old who died in 2008. Details are scant on the second case, which happened many years earlier.

Earlier this year, Stanford University researchers said they had identified polio-like

Members of the Divine Nine

By Barbara Thomas

Sudden onset: Will Cornejo, 13, was at school one day earlier in the month, woke up not feeling well in the night and in the morning his mom found him unconscious on the couch and had to call 911.

Has asthma and the virus: Melissa Lewis, of Denver, helps her son, Jayden Broadway, nine, as he coughs in his bed at the Children’s Hospital Colorado where he was treated for the enterovirus 68 and released, but his asthma made the illness more difficult to fight.

It’s not known whether the limb weakness or paralysis is temporary or will be longlasting.

The cases come amid an unusual wave of severe respiratory illness from enterovirus 68. The germ is not new — it was first identified in 1962 and has caused clusters of illness before, including in Georgia and Pennsylvania in 2009 and Arizona in 2010. Because it’s not routinely tested for, it’s possible the bug spread in previous years but was never distinguished from colds caused by other germs.

The CDC has been testing a limited number of specimens from very sick children around the country, and as of Thursday reported 277 people in 40 states and the District of Columbia with enterovirus 68. So far no deaths have been attributed to the virus, but Seward said 15 still are being investigated.

Health officials know enterovirus can cause paralysis.

Published reports count at least

illnesses in about 20 California children over about 18 months.

Two tested positive for enterovirus 68. CDC officials say it’s still not clear if the virus was a factor in those cases.

Paralysis is a rare complication of enterovirus 68 infection, but with so many more cases of enterovirus being reported this year, it may not be surprising to see that problem, said Dr. Larry Wolk, chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

The CDC is asking doctors to report patients 21 or younger who developed limb weakness since August 1 and who have had an MRI exam that showed abnormalities in the nerve tissue in the spinal cord.

Seward said a test that showed the germ in a patient’s spinal fluid would be good evidence that the virus was causing paralysis. Unfortunately, lab tests of spinal fluid often fail to identify bugs like enterovirus 68, even if they’re present, she added.

Chi Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated partnered with member chapters of the Divine Nine and other organizations that included Kappa Kappa Omega, Upsilon Xi Omega, Zeta Rho Omega and Sigma Chi Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; Pompano Beach Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; Delta Eta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated; Pompano Beach Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated; Broward County Chapter of the National PanHellenic Council; Charmettes Incorporated of Broward County; Alexis Harris State Farm Insurance; Dr. Rosalind Osgood Ministries International and the City of Fort Lauderdale to hold a political forum at the Kathleen C. Wright Community Center, Joseph Carter Park, 1450 W. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale on Sept. 25, 2014 Nearly 100 community participants braved inclement whether to attend this forum with many of the candidates or representatives in attendance.

The purpose of this event was to inform, educate and prepare voters to make the wisest decisions for the November 4th Election.

Invited panelists included candidates or representatives from the United States House of Representatives, for Governor of Florida, Commissioner of Agriculture, Attorney General of the State of Florida, Chief Financial Officer, State Representatives, County Commission and Judges (Group 27) and (Group 16).

Marlon Hill, Esq. weekly roundtable guest with Michael Putney of WPLG-Channel 10 Local News and guest opinion writer for the Herald served as moderator.

Donna Meyers of the League of Women Voters provided the audience with the language, pros and cons as well as the supporters and adversaries of the Amendments on the Nov. 4 Ballot. Dr. Rosalind Osgood, District Five School Board Member, provided a well-documented presentation on the

$800 million school board bond referendum on the ballot as well.

Participants left the forum

armed and prepared to make informed decisions for the election. A reception immediately followed the event. For success,

PSA announcements were made on Hot 105.1 and 99 JAMZ and printed in the Westside Gazette Newspaper.

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Items every domestic violence victim should have ready

By Krystle Crossman Basketball Wives cast member Tonya Young Williams has been through domestic violence before. In 2009 she filed for divorce from her NBA star husband Jayson Williams. The reason that she gave for filing was physical violence. She has been upfront about her story and is now trying to help other women in the same situation. She states that not many women who are abused leave for a variety of reasons but when they do leave they are not prepared for what they are about to face.

Unfortunately, leaving also doesn’t mean that they can escape the person that they are leaving unless they are wellprepared for it. Williams says that she has a “kit” that every woman who is in a violent relationship should build so that when they finally decide enough is enough they will be ready.

One of the many reasons that women do not leave the men who abuse them is because of money. He may have complete control over their finances so the woman feels that if she left she would be out on the street

with nowhere to go and no money to support herself.

Another reason that many women stay with their abusers is because they feel that they are safer there than if they left.

Unfortunately many women that do leave are often stalked or harassed by the men that they leave. Many women are often killed even after they leave their abusers.

Williams has been able to escape that life and says that there is a survival kit that all women should make up and keep hidden if they are being abused so that they will be able to get what they need when they leave. The items that should be included are: - A spare set of car and house

Ode to Michael Brown Dedication to Lesley McSpadden and Michael

Brown, Sr.

By Debra Allen Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson were unarmed and simply walking down the street engaging in a little freedom of speech.

Michael and Dorian Johnson were in their typical fashion and form never once deviating from their youthful norm, like any other Sat. morning they were just getting their First Amendment on that’s when officer Wilson happened along andcommanded that Michael and Dorian get off the street.

Nothing in officer Wilson’s voice gave any indications that he was there to meet and greet or keep the peace.

Michael a day and some hours from going to college to further his knowledge.

Wise beyond his age but still very naïve & certainly wasn’t up on all of our Why’s Like why all of our Why’s must always be kept clean and lean, like why all of our Why’s Must never come off as being mean & like none of our Why’s can’t display any sign of muscle because we never wanna give the authorities any reason to think that we’re looking or asking for trouble.

A trip to the library won’t be necessary, why check out a book you’ve already read?

Officer Darren Wilson, a six year police veteran, shot an unarmed Michael Brown down.

For over four hours his body laid there on the ground & it took the authorities some time, But they finally came and took Michael off the street.

Then Chief Thomas Jackson delivered the prepared brief that we’ve come to expect From any chief of police.

In the morning nights & days the authorities in Ferguson, MO Searched for ways to exit the stage.

The world was watching as they began their rush to-brush up on their hush-hush What we know for certain is that Rev. Al Shartpon already has his bags packed & he will be arriving in Ferguson, MO. Before the authorities can disassemble the facts.

They’ll be putting this one through the wringer again because it’s obvious – that this one is gonna Require a lot more spin.

Be advised that this time around we’ll be standing our ground until Justice for Michael Brown is found.

keys. Men often try to take the keys so that they are not able to take their car and go. Have a spare set hiding so that you can still get out.

- Money. Set aside cash and coins. You may need to use a payphone so the coins will come in handy and cash will get you away at least for a little bit until you can figure things out.

- Important documents: Keep copies of all of your important documents such as your license, birth certificate, and social security card.

Keeping your passport locked away is a good idea too.

While you may not be able to build a new life with these items they will certainly help you to get out of your situation and give you a little time to figure out what you are going to do once you have left.

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U.S.Attorney General Eric Holder resigns stirs dialogue many as a fight to perpetuate unchecked civil rights violations, racism in America.

“Under Holder’s Administration, the Justice Department attacked the disproportionately high number of Blacks getting harsh sentences for non-violent crimes, while white collar criminal received much shorter sentences,” said the Rev. Dr. James Bush III, a

With tears in his eyes, an emotional Holder took the podium recently to say a few words about his six years on the job.

By Derek Joy U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last week submitted his letter of resignation ending a nearly six year tenure as the first Black American to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Holder’s resignation will take effect when a successor is confirmed by the Senate. Precisely when the Senate confirmation will be has yet to be determined.

President Barack Obama has expressed a desire to move forward on naming and confirming Holder’s successor, while Senate Republicans expressed intentions to wait until after the Mid Term Elections on Nov. 4.

In the interim the dialogue assessing Holder’s impact on Black Americans as well as the nation as a whole. Hence the question: Are both, individually and collectively, better?

“I think he (Eric Holder) has done a tremendous job. He’s been there six years. That’s a long time. The average time is four years, sometimes less. Now, it gives somebody else to gain experience as Attorney General, “said Fla. State Senator Chris Smith, (Dem., Dist. 31/ Fort Lauderdale), who is an attorney in private practice.

Like many others, Smith was surprised by Holder’s resignation. Smith is also counted among those who say Black Americans in particular and the nation in general, benefitted from Holder’s tenure as Attorney General.

That group excludes Republicans and racists in America. The latter was exposed by the Justice Department argued and fought civil rights violations and other injustices born of political privileges and racism.

“I truly believe that because he’s (Eric Holder) one of the main people that had the President’s back, kept the President from being thrown to the sharks, the only one with any backbone,” said El Portal Village Mayor Daisy Black.

“It’s sad to see him go. I don’t know who they’ll bring in to protect the President and the nation. With all the hate and dirt in America, Black Americans are definitely better since he has been Attorney General.

“Look at Congress. We hear them talking about suing the Attorney General.

What Attorney General has ever been sued by Congress?

They’re spending taxpayers’ money. That shows the people are not being served. It’s their own selfish preferences and needs they’re interested in serving.”

Holder rebuffed Senate Republicans by refusing to provide them with documentation from an investigation that was halted. They demanded oversight and control, which Holder opposed. Much of the opposition to, and attacks on Holder by Republicans was viewed by

former Fla. State Legislator, who founded the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Non-Violent Institute in Miami.

“He addressed those issues.

He did address those issues because he’s Black. He addressed them because they were wrong.

Black Americans and the nation as a whole are better off as a result of his efforts as Attorney General.”

While Bush noted that Holder accomplished the five goals he set when he was confirmed as Attorney General, his harshest critics grudgingly acknowledged the same.

Still, Holder’s resignation came as a surprise, with little consideration for a very distinct possibility. “His resignation surprised me,” said Neal Hall, a community activist. “It could be

that he’s positioning himself for an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Ginsberg (Ruth Bader Ginsberg) is getting older. Some people think she should retire.”

Whether or not that will happen remains to be seen. What is clear is the fact that feathers were ruffled in American society, institutions as a result of

Holder’s tenure as Attorney General.

“I think he’s been the person to speak up on issues affecting the Black community,” said Smith. “He spoke on issues that President Obama couldn’t speak on.”

“He went to the NAACP, the Urban League and the Black community and said things that needed to be said. The country is better for his service.”

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