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Ben Jealous confirms run for Maryland Governorship Former NAACP President, Black Press executive believes his Civil Rights record will inspire voters on civil rights. In one year, we abolished the death penalty, we passed marriage equality, we passed the Dream Act. I’m running for governor because I believe we’re prepared to move just as quickly in moving forward on our education, on employment, on the environment while continuing to protect civil rights,” Jealous said this week in an interview with the Trice Edney News Wire.

“I’m running for governor because I believe we can do much better by our kids right now.”

Jealous is entering a crowded field of seven other candidates for the Democratic primary to be held June 26, 2018. He believes disaffection for the scandal-laden Trump

administration may cause voters to lean back toward Democratic leadership after electing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in November 2014.

Hogan is eligible to run for reelection in the state where the Democratic base is actually two to one.

“Larry Hogan is governor of Maryland because in 2014, we had a high tide of Republican turnout and an ebb tide of Democratic turnout,” Jealous said. He pointed out that Hogan won by 60,000 votes after 125,000 Democrats who had voted in 2010 didn’t show up to vote in 2014.

“In this era of President Trump, they can only remember having a president that is competent to serve. And now

Officer Jeronimo Yanez, second from left, with his lawyers outside the Ramsey County Courthouse in St. Paul last week. He is being tried on a charge of second-degree manslaughter.

(Photo by David Joles/Star Tribune)

shooting of a Black motorist by a police officer just outside this city drew national attention last summer largely because the driver’s girlfriend began livestreaming the graphic scene on Facebook moments after it happened. On Monday, as prosecutors began outlining their case against the officer, they presented a different video for the first time in public: dashboard camera footage of the shooting itself.

The footage, which prosecutors had previously described in court filings, left unclear important parts of the encounter between Philando

By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) Former NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, also former Black press executive, is now launching a political career.

Perhaps recently best known as a surrogate for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, Jealous confirmed this week that he is running for governor of Maryland. He cited his long record of civil rights and the diversity of the state of Maryland as being matched to his favor.

“When I was president of the NAACP I learned just how quickly my neighbors here were prepared to move forward

JEALOUS they see the impact of having a president that is quite the opposite,” Jealous said. “So long as we turn out Democratic voters who are used to voting in gubernatorial elections, there’s almost no way that he can win.”

The election will be held Nov. 6, 2018. But first Jealous must (Cont'd on Page 5)

Broken, busted and disgusted My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

(Psalm 51:17(NIV))

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. When we become disenfranchised, disillusioned and dysfunctional, there is still a way for us.

When we find ourselves totally out of whack and we think that there is no use for us, we’re only at the point where we can truly be used.

Stuck in the turmoil of trying to understand and figure out this thing called life can be like the political process that our leaders are engaged in: swimming around in muddy water with no goggles, no scuba gear choking from the pollution of stupidity abounding in their leadership or lack of thereof.

Having no hope, no faith or no spiritual connection is like standing on the verge of oblivion, being overcome by a false sense of security. It’s like skating on thin ice or constantly (Cont'd on Page 9)

Ten-year-old Black CEO get distribution for her popular In killing by police, a jury sees what the dash camera saw invention in Once Upon A Child stores across the country ST. PAUL, MN — The fatal Castile, the motorist, and Officer Jeronimo Yanez. But it showed the speed with which a cordial conversation deteriorated into gunfire, and seemed to capture Mr. Castile trying to allay the officer's fear about a (Cont'd on Page 5)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (BlackNews.com) — Elementary entrepreneur Gabrielle Goodwin is now selling her hair accessory invention GaBBY Bows in 50 “Once Upon a Child” stores in 16 states across the U.S. With the help of her mom, Rozalynn, the 10-year-old CEO solved the age-old

Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas makes surprise appearance at Miami mall Gabrielle Goodwin, founder of GaBBY Bows.

Florida Legislative apology falls short of justice for Dozier Boys

Forensic anthropologists from the University of South Florida began field-work on the property, where they uncovered 55 unmarked graves

By Roger Caldwell ORLANDO FL — “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” stated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Silence is complicity, and it is very difficult to get to the truth when our state leaders refuse to listen or speak.

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was opened in 1900, in Marianna Fla. as a state-run

Pleading Our Own Cause

institution for troubled youth from dysfunctional and poor families. Over 111 years, the boys reported physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and some called it modern day slavery. The insanity of the treatment of boys in this school was well documented, but the system and culture always remained intact.

In 2012, a team of forensic anthropologists from the University of South Florida began field-work on the property, where they uncovered 55 unmarked graves, said Dr. Erin Kimmerle who led the team.

“More than 100 people are thought to have died there” she said.

The reform school was closed in 2011, but for decades, thousands of boys were abused and beat in a white cinderblock building called “The White House or Torture Chamber.”

There was a special staff of employees named homeland (Cont'd on Page 3)

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Olympic gold medalist and gymnast Gabby Douglas appeared out of the blue and did a floor exercise routine in the center court of the Aventura Mall June 1, 2017.

The floor exercise was part of a shoot for an AT&T social media ad campaign. The campaign is an extension of AT&T’s “Terms & Conditions” TV ad campaign with Mark Wahlberg, the theme being “your entertainment on your terms.” The social media campaign will create real-life scenarios where people can see

what “entertainment on your terms” means.

At 16, Douglas made history when she became the 1st African American to win gold in the women’s individual all-around event. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

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problem of disappearing girls’ hair barrettes by inventing The Double-Face Double-Snap Barrette by GaBBY. Gabrielle was just five years old when she started daily insisting she and her Mom create a barrette that would stay in her hair. They started the company when Gabrielle was seven years old. In just three years of operations, GaBBY Bows have saved families time, money and frustration in all 50 states and eight countries through online sales.

A straight-A student, Gabrielle is the self-proclaimed President and CEO, handling inventory, serving as the lead saleswoman at trade shows, speaking to community groups and schools, personally writing thank you cards to customers who order online, and helping with sales taxes. She also hosts GaBBY Play Dates to teach girls in children’s shelters about entrepreneurship.

In 2015, Gabrielle was named the youngest ever South (Cont'd on Page 3) MEMBER: National Newspaper Publishers Association ( NNPA), and Southeastern African-American Publishers Association (SAAPA) Florida Association of Black Owned Media (FABOM)

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By Nichole Richards Broward County’s new Libraries Director, Kelvin Watson, brings to South Florida a valuable skillset acquired over a lengthy career centered on books. A native of Saint Louis, MO, Watson has developed an interesting reimagining of libraries that shatters the rigid concept of “library as a place” and replaces it with library holding digital space.

“I am not only interested in bringing people in the library,” Watson told me, “But I want to bring the library out to people.”

This is his vision for Broward County. As the former Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Queens Library in New York City, a library system that serves millions, Watson is passionate about the idea of easy access digital libraries. Through the incorporation of innovation and new technologies, “the library” has the opportunity to reestablish itself as a much needed community pillar.

Under his leadership, the Broward County libraries system has already begun the transformation. Online digital library card applications are quickly replacing the antiquated paper application. Tablets are being distributed to local libraries in preparation for a tablet loaning initiative. Digital

content is expanding rapidly.

As a personal nod to his years of service in the Army, Watson has also led the creation of the Veterans Connect Hotspot program, a free mobile internet service for Veterans and Active Military. Already within his first three months, Watson has set the trajectory for a revolutionized library experience in Broward County.

In addition to modernization, Watson also aims to expand Broward’s libraries reach through the establishment of strategic partnerships with the county’s important institutions, particularly Broward County Public Schools.

“We want to support our schools and build stronger relationships,” Watson explained, “We would like to be a trusted resource for students, teachers, and administrators.”

As one of very few African Americans in the profession, Watson feels honored to follow in the footsteps of his mentor Samuel Morrison, former Director of the Broward County Library System. With a passion for teaching and educating, Watson considers his new position as a mixture of personal passions and servant leadership within the Black community.

“There are not many African American men embarking upon this career path,” Watson said,

WATSON “But I see it as an opportunity to be a role model.”

Watson admits he has not established special projects directed towards Broward’s Black community, but emphasized the new partnerships and initiatives will have a direct impact on the county’s most marginalized communities.

“My job is to serve everybody,” Watson said, “I will leave special initiatives in those communities to the branch managers who are doing a great job and have a more intimate knowledge of community needs. But I am going to these places and I am meeting with the community and asking them what they want from Broward’s libraries.”

Houston high school seniors receive prestigious McDonald’s scholarships

Scholarship recipients at the 2017 RMHC-AAFA Scholarship Luncheon at the Houstonian Hotel.

(Photo courtesy of MOAGH)

By Tigner College expenses just became more attainable for many Houston high school students. Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Greater Houston/ Galveston, along with the Black McDonald’s Owner/Operators Association of Greater Houston awarded 25 high school seniors with prestigious RMHC® US Scholarships for their outstanding community involvement and academic performance.

On Friday, May 19, Ronald McDonald House Charities® and African American Future Achievers honored 25 well deserving students at a celebratory luncheon at Houston’s prestigious Houstonian Hotel. Each student’s academic prowess and community involvement was rewarded with a $2K scholarship and a Kindle Fire tablet.

“Year after year, we’re delighted to provide financial assistance to high school seniors who are continuing their education,” said Mary Redmond, president, RMHC® of Greater Houston/Galveston and local McDonald’s Owner/Operator.

“It’s extremely rewarding to watch each and every student walk across the stage to receive their scholarship and know that in a few short weeks they will graduate high school, and this scholarship will help send them to college.”

Every year, Ronald McDonald House Charities®of Greater Houston/Galveston distributes nearly $200K in scholarships to area high school students. To date, RMHC® has granted more than $48M in scholarships to students in the United States and more than $3M to students in the Greater Houston area.

This year’s mistress of ceremonies was Melinda Spalding, co-anchor of Fox 26. The keynote speaker was 23-year-old

Jonathan Miles. Miles is a general manager for McDonald’s in the Galleria area of Houston, where he is running a multi-million dollar restaurant. His ultimate goal is to one day become an owner/operator of McDonald’s.

Other dignitaries in attendance at this year’s prestigious ceremony included Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; FOX 26 Vice President and General Manager D’Artagnan Bebel; Dave Moss, president Black McDonald’s Owner/ Operators Association, along with a host of Black McDonald’s owner/operators of Greater Houston.

Congratulations to this year’s RMHC®/African American Future Achievers (AAFA) recipients: Rem Aitbouchireb, Kerr High School; Shania Baldwin, Reagan High School; Samaria Burgess, Taylor High School; Jada Davis, Carl Wunsche Senior High School; Myles Garriette, Taylor High School; Sierra Gordon, Conroe High School; Tyree Jackson, Carver High School for Applied

Technology, Engineering and the Arts; Stephon Jones, Cypress Woods High School;\ Kayla Joseph, North Shore Senior High; Olakunbi Kolawole, KIPP Houston High School; Aliece Milton, Hargrave High School; Hausson Mitchell, Barbara Jordan High School; Lindsay Morgan, Impact Early College High School; Xzavier Mouton, Westbury Christian School; Danielle Nwosa, Clements High School; Olive Onyekwelu, Taylor High School; Chiwendu Owhochukwu, KIPP Houston High School; Briana Releford, Carver High School for Applied Technology, Engineering and the Arts; Ajani Smith-Washington, Debakey High School for Health Professionals; Oluwatoyin Sokoya, The Woodlands College Park High School; Ramani Talley, Summer Creek High School; Tiara Tillis, Victory Early College High School; Sara Washington, Deer Park High School; Ariah Watson, Summer Creek High School; Davion Zeno, Reagan High School.

Houston BMOA owners Dave Moss, Joseph Moss, Ronald McDonald, John Tillman, Jordan Moss and Ernest Redmond.

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Pfizer’s Kevin Williams to Pen Health columns for the Black Press

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor)

Dr. Kevin Williams will contribute exclusive content about sickle cell disease to the NNPA and its member newspapers.

Dr. Kevin Williams, the vice president of global medical affairs in Pfizer’s rare disease unit, plans to help educate the masses about sickle cell disease in a new column for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).

Earlier this year, Pfizer Inc. and the NNPA, a trade association of more than 200 African American–owned media companies in the United States, announced a collaboration to raise awareness of sickle cell disease (SCD), a lifelong and debilitating genetic disorder that affects red blood cells. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, SCD occurs in 1 out of every 365 Black or African-American births.

Williams said that the column is a part of the collaboration between Pfizer and the NNPA to raise awareness about SCD and the importance of clinical trial participation in the process for developing new medications.

“We’ll be covering a number of topics including tips for living with sickle cell disease, common myths about the disease, and how to support a friend or family member with the disease,” said Williams. “We’ll also be discussing information about clinical trials, common myths, and how people can learn more or get involved.”

Individuals with rare diseases, like SCD, have unique and complex challenges, officials said, noting that the first initiative under the collaboration is a national poll, conducted in partnership with an interdisciplinary research team from Howard University in Washington, D.C. “This collaboration with Pfizer provides an opportunity for NNPA to inform and educate the readers of our 211-member

Black-owned newspapers in more than 70 markets across the country on sickle cell disease, an often-misunderstood disease that has a profound impact on the health and well-being of those affected,” said Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the president and CEO of the NNPA. “Together with Pfizer, we look forward to providing sickle cell disease education that can underscore the importance of improving quality of care in the community.”

SCD is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, affecting nearly 100,000 Americans. Although it affects many different ethnic groups, most people with SCD are of African descent. Access to care and delivery of innovative treatments prove to be among the most significant challenges faced by people living with SCD in America, medical experts said.

“As an African American man, I am personally excited to be part of the sickle cell disease

collaboration between Pfizer and the NNPA,” said Williams, who joined Pfizer in January 2004 as a medical director on the HIV field-based medical team and has been in multiple

roles across several therapeutic areas within the organization over the years.

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Black AIDS Institute seeks people to interview about Health Insurance The Institute wants to hear from you regarding the ACA

Five things you need to know about the CBO’ s CBO’s report on T rumpcar e In the life: Aunsha Everett-Hall Trumpcar rumpcare

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is less than impress with Trump’s federal budget. The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the American Health Care Act of 2017 comes three weeks after the House passed it.

On May 4, the United States House of Representatives passed an updated version of the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA).

Many Republican members of Congress admitted that they didn’t read it before voting for it, but more importantly, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was not given the chance to analyze the legislation before it went to the floor for a vote.

On May 24, the CBL paired with Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation to release a much-anticipated report on the AHCA. Here are the top

five things you need to know from the 41-page analysis: Under the AHCA, 23 million people will lose their health insurance over the next ten years.

“CBO and JCT estimate that, in 2018, 14 million more people would be uninsured under H.R. 1628 than under current law. The increase in the number of uninsured people relative to the number projected under current law would reach 19 million in 2020 and 23 million in 2026. In 2026, an estimated 51 million people under age 65 would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.”

The AHCA will cut the deficit by $119 billion by 2026— primarily by slashing Medicaid.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation reports that there are more than 34 million nonelderly people of color in the United States who depend on Medicaid for their health care.

If the current version of the AHCA is passed in the Senate and signed by President Donald Trump, it will cut $834 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years.

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Florida Legislative (Cont'd from FP) security, who beat the boys.

The majority of men that told the story were called “The White House Boys” and the majority White. The majority of Black men were denied an opportunity to tell their side of the story.

But, Richard Huntly, 71, an African American man from Orlando, Fla is the president of Black Boys at Dozier Reform School for the past three years.

All of the boys from 1940’s until 1960’s are part of a lawsuit brought against the State of Florida for sexual assault, murder, beatings, and slavery in the Judicial Court System of Marianne, Florida.

Huntly’s goal is to expose the wrongful injustices in the Florida Juvenile Court System toward Black citizens, specifically to Black boys, and all races where the rule of law is not being followed. “We seek compensation for the wrongs done to us as young boys at Dozier Reform School,” explains Huntly.

At 8-years-old was Huntley’s first negative contact with the legal system, and it lasted until he was (16) sixteen. It took him many years to figure out his purpose and place in the world.

He now has collaborated with four other Black men to write a book entitled “Dark Days of Horror at Dozier” to tell the African American side of the story. Mr. Huntly worked on the farm crew, harvesting cane, when he cut the top of his toe off with a hoe. At 11, he remembers getting beat for little things, like drinking water on a hot day. The school was segregated and the dirtiest jobs were reserved for the Black boys.

At 71, Huntly understands

HUNTLY the significance of courage, which took him almost 50 years to finally stand up to hate, injustice, and racism. “Paying reparations will take courage – the state of Florida would be admitting guilt and complicity in the abuse and possibility, the murder of children,” says Huntly.

The Florida Legislature has passed a bill to set aside $1.2 million to re-bury the remains of children found on the grounds of the school, and will create two markers to acknowledge the children. Both the Florida House and Senate formally apologized, but is this really justice?

This was and still is an atrocity, and there are hundreds of boys still alive, who have been devastated and abused by the state school. Financial compensation or reparations would show the victims and their families that the state has made a commitment to help make them whole, and ensure them this can never happen again.

Come listen to Mr. Huntly tell it all.

One in a series of photos and stories from “In The Life,” a story series about the life experiences of Black gay/bi/ same-gender-loving/NGC and trans men, told in their own words as part of the #30DaysOfHIV campaign Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would be a dad.

But on July 16, 2016, our home welcomed a two-month old baby girl. Delicate and beautiful, I found myself in complete joy and happiness as I stared with unconditional love for this tiny being. Over the months, watching her continuously grow and develop has been meaningful and impactful. I am seeing the world through her eyes and understanding the gift of happiness – her happy smile warms my heart. Being a dad has allowed me to begin forgiving my own childhood pain as I have come to learn that we all come into this world with good intentions but with limited capacities. #IntheLife #30daysofHIV #NHTD #BlackBoyJoy #BlackHealth #Storytelling #GayisGood #Blackisbeautiful #father #family #love #joy #children #daughter #blackgirlmagic

Ten-year-old Black CEO (Cont'd from FP) Carolina Young Entrepreneur of the Year. The following year, she and her mom were named a 2016 SCORE and Sam’s Club American Small Business Champion, and a-warded as the 2016 SCORE Foundation Outstanding Di-verse Business of the Year. A children’s book about Gabrielle and GaBBY Bows, Gabby In-vents the Perfect Hair Bow, will be published by Entre-preneur Kid this summer.

It feels really good to walk in a store and see your own product on the shelves! I am grateful to have a LOT of supporters and be expanding, says Gabrielle Goodwin.

You can support Gabrielle by locating the “Once Upon a Child” store near you or online sales at www.gabbybows.com.

Visit www.blackaids.org to submit your story between May 27-June 27.

Aunsha Everett-Hall is the senior development manager for the Black AIDS Institute.

Are you Black and have something to say about health insurance? If so, the Black AIDS Institute wants to speak to you.

The Institute is preparing a report on Black America’s stakes in the ongoing debate about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare.

This report will speak to the human stakes in the future of health care in the United States and why it is important to maintain the protections that Obamacare offers.

If you are a Black man or woman of any age who has health insurance through your employer, Medicaid, or Obamacare, and are interested in making your views known in the Institute’s report, we would like you interview you. We would ask you to share your perspectives about health insurance by phone for approximate 15 minutes, focusing upon why having health insurance is important to you. You don’t have to have HIV to participate or to disclose your status if you are HIV-positive; however, you would need to agree to your name being used in the report.

Please contact Wendell Miller at assistant@BlackAIDS.org if you are interested.

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Broward County is #2 in number of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). 1 in 79 Broward County residents ,ages 13+, are HIV ! Know your status. Free HIV & STD Testing at Broward House. Walk-ins Welcome! From Monday thru Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 2800 N. Andrews Ave., Wilton Manors, Fla. For additional info call (954) 568-7373.

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The Ali Center presents Soulful Sundays every Second Sunday at 6 p.m., at 353 Hammondville Rd., Pompano Beach, Fla.

Golf Tournament & Scholarship Luncheon

2017 – 100 Black Men Annual Golf Tournament and Scholarship Luncheon on Saturday, June 10, 2017 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Woodlands Country Club – East Course, 4600 Blvd., Tamarac, Fla. For more info and sponsorship opportunities, visit our website www.100blackmengfl.org

Events

Pompano Beach Cultural Center announces Summer Season Alyona Ushe to showcase Cultural Alliance Members and Community Spirit. All events will be held at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center, 50 S.W. First Ave., Pompano Beach, Fla. · Saturday, June 10 from 2 to 5 p.m. – Issun Boshi and the music of Japan presented by South Florida Chamber Ensemble · Saturday, June 10 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. – FREE but RSVP required, Curtain Call Playhouse 20th Anniversary Celebration · Wednesday, June 24 and 25 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Waking Sleeping Beauty presented by Curtain Call Playhouse.

For cost and additional info call Kay Renz at (561) 6548151.

Event Family Fun Day at the Beach on Sunday, June 11, 2017 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eulla Johnson State Park Leather Back Pavillion, 6503 N. Ocean Dr. Dania Beach, Fla. For more info call (954) 895-8384 or (954) 294-1130.

EDUCATION MATTERS -Every Child Deserves A Chance

1st Annual Men's Conference 2017 June 17, 2017 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

$20 Donation Per Man New Hope Baptist Church Breakfast & 1321 N.W Sixth St. T-Shirt Included Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33311

Concert

Concert

The Black-Tunnage Junior Choir is celebrating 45 years of their Annual Spring Concert nad Graduation Ceremony on Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 5 p.m., at First Baptist Church Piney Grove, Inc., 4699 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. Pastor Rev. Dr. Derrick J. Hughes.

‘Reggae Ambassadors’ Third World in concert on Friday, June 16, 2017 at 8 p.m., at Miramar Cultural Center, 2400 Civic Center Place Miramar, Fla. For tickets info https:// tickets.miramarculturalcenter.org/ TheatreManager/1/ tmEvent983.html

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Courage To Believe International Inc. in Partnership with Miami-Dade College presents Fourth Annual Black on Black Crime Solutions Panel on Saturday, June 10, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Miami Dade College – North Campus, 11380 N.W. 27 Ave., Miami, Fla. For additional info call (954) 263-8223.

Breakfast

The Sons of Allen, a men’s ministry of Mt. Hermon AME, 401 NW 7th Terrace, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla, cordially invites the public to its 13th annual Father/Son Breakfast on Saturday June 17, 2017 10 a.m., at Mt. Hermon’s Family Life Center. The speaker is Dr. Nathanial Glover, president of Edward Waters College. Tickets can be purchased for $25 from any SOA member or by calling Brother Ullysses Warren at (954)610-6625.

Jam Onyan Effek Father’s Day Jam on Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 9 p.m., at The Omega Activity Center, 15600 N.W. 42 Ave., Opa-locka, Fla. There is cost.

Event People Profile Awards 2017 on Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 7 p.m., Bailey Hall Performing Arts, 3501 S.W. Davie Rd, Davie Fla. For more info peopleprofiledrc@gmail.com

Event BizTech411 presents The Write Words (How to write Content to get your Website Noticed) on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 12 noon. Guest speaker Andrew Quarrie, Founder of Content Writing Website Jurnid. Complimentary Entry, limited seating, refreshments, reserve your seat at thewritewords.eventbrite.com

Seminar Moonlight Actor, BET Writer, and Rising Director at Seminar for Emerging Talent, The Historic Ali Center Arts Center hosts “The Writer, The Actor & The Director” on Friday, June 16, 2017 at 7 p.m., at Ali Cultural Arts, 353 MLK Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla. For cost and additional info call Kay at (561) 654-8151.

Touch Weekly Events

· Thursday, June 8, 2017, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Arts &7 Health for Community Transformation, at Future Home of Gulfstream Early Childhood Center of Excellence, 120 S.W. Fourth Ave., Hallandale, Fla. · Saturday, June 10 – Bike Ride starts at 8 a.m., at Nob Hill Soccer Club Park, 10200 Sunset Strip, Sunrise, Fla. Groundbreaking Ceremony at 9 a.m., at City Park, 6700 Sunset Strip, Sunrise, Fla. · Thursday, June 15 and Saturday, June 17 –Youth Leadership Institute 2017, at Nova Southeastern University —. For more info and to apply visit: drugfreebroward.org/BYC. · Saturday, June 17 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – 3rd Saturday Event at the PATCH at Dania Beach PATCH, 1201 W. Dania Beach Blvd., Dania Beach, Fla. · Saturday, June 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – It’s A Family Affair “Honoring Our Father’s, at Central Broward Regional Park, 3700 N.W. 11 Pl., Lauderhill, Fla.

ELDER ABUSE Did you know that elders in our communities are being abused?

Did you know that elders in our communities are selfnegelcted?

Did you know that elders in our communities are being exploited?

Do you know what to do when you hecome aware of an elder with one or more of these problems?

For information on Elder Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation, please call: 1-800-96ELDER or 1-800-963-5337 to report elder abuse: 1-80096-ABUSE or 1-800-9622873

Events

Commissioner Dale Holness evnts happening in June:Fort Lauderdale Village District Financial Summit, free and open the public. · Funding For Your Business on Friday, June 9, 2017 at 12 noon, at Old Dillard Museum, 1009 N.W. Fourth St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. · Funding For Your New Home on Saturday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, at Midtown Commerce Center, 1033 Sistrunk Blvd., (NW Sixth St.), Fort Lauderdale, Fla. To RSVP at Fort Lauderdalecra.com/ summit or call (954) 828-6130. · The Third Annual Caribbean American Heritage Awards on Saturday, June 10, at 7 p.m., at Double Tree By HiltonSunrise, Sawgrass, 13400 W. Sunrise Blvd., Sunrise, Fla. For cost and additional info call (954)292-6848 or (954) 4354717. · Mark Your CalendarsState of Black Broward Returns: on Friday, June 16, from 4:30 to 9 p.m., at African-American Research Library & Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. · Career & Networking Fair on Saturday, June 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at African-American Research Library & Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info contact Nick Cowart at (954) 357-6020 or Aretha Wimberly at (954) 357-7794.

This event is FREE for employers and open to the public.

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The GOP and identity politics in the Black community

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The Republican Party continues to miss the mark when it comes to engaging the Black community.

For those Republicans who fastidiously claim they don’t believe in “identity politics (IP),” let me give you a piece of advice: Stop It! Politically speaking, IP is a campaign that is based on the particular needs of a specific group of people that will give them the rationale or incentive to vote for your candidate.

For example, a Republican candidate would campaign in the Black community on issues like entrepreneurship, civil rights, voting rights, etc.,

whereas the same candidate might campaign in the Hispanic community on issues like entrepreneurship, immigration, and cultural assimilation.

Far too many Republicans assert that “we are all Americans and all want the same things: jobs, education, safe neighborhoods, etc.” This is all true but a ridiculously bland message when it comes to outreach in the Black community.

While core messaging should be a constant for all candidates, the way you communicate that message has to be crafted based on the audience you are addressing.

In business, we call this market segmentation. This is most often done with the S-T-P approach:segmentation,

targeting, and positioning.

Once you segment the votersBlacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc.you then create a targeted campaign to speak directly to each individual group; finally, you position your messaging in a way that will resonate with that group.

McDonald’s is a classic example.

Their objective is to sell their Big Macs to the American people, so their TV commercials are all trying to convince the country to buy their product, but they also are smart enough to use IP or market segmentation to achieve their stated objective—selling more hamburgers.

So, it makes all the sense in the world for McDonald’s to use

Black actors when advertising on BET and Hispanic actors when advertising on Univision.

This is the commercial application of identity politics.

When have you ever seen men selling women undergarments in Victoria Secrets commercials? That’s right, you haven’t.

Republicans have become so data driven that they no longer have any vision.

It’s not enough for Republicans to reflexively spout out buzz words and phrases like: “We are the big tent party”; “the party of Abraham Lincoln”; “We believe in lower taxes,

smaller government, more individual freedom,” yada, yada, yada.

Republicans must first and foremost persuade Blacks that conservatism is not incompatible with civil rights, voting rights, and equal opportunity, but rather these issues are a fundamental part of conservatism.

Republicans must, by their actions, demonstrate that Black businesses tend to flourish when Republicans control the levers of government compared to when Democrats Republicans must first and are in power.

I wrote about this in 2012 in foremost persuade Blacks a piece I did for Black Enter- that conservatism is not incompatible with civil prise. rights, voting rights, and (Read full story on equal opportunity. www.thewestsidegazette.com)

Two diverging paths to higher education: White House cuts education funding as Senator Durbin The Trump Administration takes on says ‘Give struggling students a fair chance’.

Obama’s Education Law

By Charlene Crowell

President Trump, Ed Sec DeVos make false claims about education policies

By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continue to make misleading statements about Common Core State Standards, muddying the waters for school districts working to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

President Barack Obama signed ESSA into law on December 10, 2015, reauthorizing the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). According to the U.S. Department of Education, ESSA includes provisions designed to advance equity in education by upholding critical protections for America’s disadvantaged and high-need students; requires that all students in America be held to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and careers; helps to support and grow local innovations—including evidence-based and place-based interventions developed by local leaders and educators; ensures that vital information is provided to

In killing by police (Cont'd from FP) gun he had with him. Prosecutors said Mr. Castile gasped to say, “I wasn’t reaching for it,” after the shots were fired, but the audio was hard to make out in a packed courtroom where the newly released footage was shown only once.

As prosecutors show a greater willingness to charge police officers involved in questionable shootings, a series of trials has renewed debate about how the police use force and treat African Americans. But even in cases like this one, with lots of video evidence, convictions are far from assured, and jurors often sympathize with officers who say they had to make a life-or-death decision in seconds.

Officer Yanez is being tried as a former University of Cincinnati police officer prepares to face a jury about 700 miles away in a different fatal shooting of a Black motorist during a traffic stop. And a former Milwaukee police officer will be tried next week on a charge of reckless homicide in another death.

Here is some of what we are expecting as jurors hear evidence about Mr. Castile’s death.

Videos have become Exhibit No. 1 Video — whether from a cellphone, a body camera or a dash camera — has transformed public perceptions of police shootings.

The shooting of Mr. Castile provoked outrage almost immediately because Mr. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, streamed the aftermath on Facebook. Ms. Reynolds, who was in the car with Mr. Castile and her young daughter, calmly

educators, families, students, and communities through annual statewide assessments that measure students’ progress toward those high standards; and sustains and expands this administration’s historic investments in increasing access to high-quality preschool.

The law does not, however, eliminate CCSS. The Los Angeles Times reported, that President Trump said that he wanted to get rid of Common Core, during a recent town hall with business leaders.

“Common Core to me, we have to end it,” said Trump.

“We have to bring education local.”

Last year, as the Republican presidential nominee, the reality theTV star even proposed getting rid of the Education Department altogether, according to Breitbart.com. During an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump said that the Department of Education “can be largely eliminated.”

Education Week reported that DeVos told a Michigan radio host that ESSA “effectively does away ‘with the notion of the Common Core.’” She later challenged Officer Yanez’s version of events and said Mr. Castile had been trying to cooperate when he was shot.

The newly released video — recorded on Officer Yanez’s cruiser behind Mr. Castile’s car — showed an exchange that lasted only a matter of seconds.

The camera’s view did not show whether Mr. Castile was reaching for the handgun that he had a permit to carry or exactly where the gun was in the car.

On the video, Officer Yanez and Mr. Castile briefly discussed a broken taillight before Mr. Castile mentioned that he had a gun in the car. Officer Yanez responded, calmly at first, instructing him not to reach for the weapon. Mr. Castile started to respond, but Officer Yanez interjected, his voice louder.

Officer Yanez could be heard on the video yelling, “Don’t pull it out!” Seconds later, he started shooting, seven shots directly into the car through the open driver’s window. When the gunshots stopped, after bullets narrowly missed Ms. Reynolds and her daughter, Officer Yanez kept his gun pointed, grew emotional and began swearing.

Defense lawyers claimed that Mr. Castile was grasping for his gun, that Officer Yanez feared for his life and that he was following his training.

Prosecutors said that Mr. Castile was not reaching for the gun, which they have said was in his pocket, and that Officer Yanez had committed second-degree manslaughter.

In an opening statement on Monday, Richard Dusterhoft, a prosecutor, told jurors that Officer Yanez could have eased his own concerns after Mr. Castile mentioned a gun.

“He didn’t tell Mr. Castile to freeze,” Mr. Dusterhoft said. “He didn’t tell him to put his hands up.”

What would a ‘reasonable’ officer have thought?

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said that ESSA does away with the notion of Common Core. That’s not true. In this photo, DeVos speaks at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

(Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons) went on Fox News and made the same false claim.

“There isn’t really any Common Core any more,” said DeVos on Fox News. “Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt very high standards for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up to each state.”

(Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com) Officer Yanez’s trial is the first time in modern Minnesota history that an officer has been charged for an on-duty fatal shooting, according to reports by local news organizations.

The jurors, nine men and six women, two of them black, must determine whether Officer Yanez acted reasonably given what he knew at the time.

Paul Engh, a defense lawyer, told jurors on Monday that the case was all about Mr. Castile’s gun.

“But for Mr. Castile’s continuous grip on that handgun, you would not be here,” said Mr. Engh, who called the shooting a “tragedy” but “most assuredly not a crime.”

Where race comes in Mr. Castile’s race has dominated the conversation about his death, and tensions spilled over into the final stages of jury selection in St. Paul on Monday.

Defense lawyers tried to remove a young prospective juror who immigrated from Ethiopia as a child, saying she did not fully understand the American justice system and was incapable of serving. Prosecutors challenged the dismissal, saying that she was an accomplished student and that her exclusion was a veiled attempt at racism.

Ultimately, the judge ruled that she would serve on the jury.

Still, Mr. Castile’s death has defied some of the racial fault lines seen in other shootings.

Officer Yanez is the son of a Mexican immigrant and depended on welfare at points in his childhood, defense lawyers said. Ms. Reynolds, Mr. Castile’s girlfriend, who testified on Monday, said Mr. Castile had attended police barbecues in St. Paul and harbored no animosity toward officers.

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No one ever said that higher education wouldn’t cost money. Across the country, tuition is steadily rising and students are taking longer to pay off their student loans.

Today, 44 million consumers share $1.4 trillion in borrowed student debt – more than double what it was in 2008. On average, graduating seniors with a bachelor’s degree begin their careers with about $30,000 in student loans, while graduate students are almost assured of incurring six-figure student debt.

All of these financial burdens have been acquired against a backdrop of an increasingly competitive global economy. The 21st Century marketplace is also dependent upon a highly-skilled workforce. Gone are the days when manufacturing could provide a steady and comfortable living. From steel to textiles and more, global competition requires America to work smarter and harder.

So why would the Trump Administration propose a $9.2 billion cut in education?

Over the next decade, the White House wants to ‘save’ $143 billion from college loan programs, including an end to $26.8 billion in subsidized loans. Currently, Pell Grants, designed to assist lowincome students, are capped at less than $6,000 per scholastic year despite the average cost of tuition at a public college for its own state students approaching $10,000 per year.

Here’s one White House explanation on how less access to higher education is going to help the nation’s ability to remain economically competitive.

“We’re no longer going to measure compassion by the number of programs or the numbers of people on those programs, but by the number of people we help get off of those programs,” said White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney during a May 23 press briefing.

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Ben Jealous confirms (Cont'd from FP) distinguish himself among the crowded Democratic field.

In that regard, he may just have a not-so-secret weapon. If he can win an endorsement from Sen. Bernie Sanders, it may bolster his chances significantly.

“Let’s just see,” was Jealous’ only response when asked whether he expects to receive Sanders’ endorsement.

Sanders won 36 percent of the vote in Maryland’s Democratic presidential primary. If Jealous can win a majority of those voters, plus a significant portion of Maryland’s 45 percent Black vote, he is a strong contender to win the Democratic nomination.

But the key will be to excite the Democratic base to the polls.

Jealous believes he has the record to do just that. Maryland has a 45 percent White constituency and 10 percent that encompasses other races. Jealous believes his background and civil rights record could attract a following similar to the “Rainbow Coalition” that was amassed during the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, for which Jealous also worked in 1988.

Jealous was born in Pacific

Grove, Calif. But his parents, a mixed-race couple, had met in Baltimore where his mother grew up. His father, Fred Jealous, who was White, helped integrate lunch counters in the South. His mother, Ann Jealous, worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. As a teenager, Jealous became steeped in civil and voting rights work and spent summers in Baltimore with his maternal grandparents.

“The combination of an activist rooted in the tradition of the NAACP and the civil rights movement and an activist rooted in the Bernie camp, gives us a broad base that looks like Maryland similar to what you saw of Doug Wilder in Virginia after the Jesse Jackson campaign,” Jealous said.

Jealous’ career has been woven with civil rights and politics. Between 2000-2004, he served as executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).

Earlier in his career, he’d worked as an editor for the historic Jackson Advocate newspaper in Mississippi.

After NNPA, he became founding director of Amnesty International’s U. S. Human Rights Program. In 2008, he became the historically youngest NAACP president at the age of 35, an office he held until

2012. He later became a venture capItalist with the Oakland, Calif.-based Kapor Center for Social Impact. He also played integral rolls in the presidential races of President Barack Obama.

“I’m blessed to have lived my life as a progressive in the Black community who is committed to fighting for a better life for everyone in our community and ultimately for everyone in every community...It’s that life, that path that starts with Jesse Jackson ’88 and goes all the way through Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign,” he recounts. “It’s that life that started with my parents and my grandparents rooted in the NAACP, raised in the NAACP which ultimately led into the labor movement and the environmentalist movement and the LGBT movement and the women’s rights movement.

That’s me, that’s where I’m rooted and where this campaign is rooted.”

If he wins, Jealous would become the nation’s fourth Black governor in modern history. The others were Virginia’s Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, elected in 1989; Massachusetts’ Gov. Deval Patrick, elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010; and New York’s Gov. David Paterson who served two years after the resignation of Gov.

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Jeff Sessions is quietly targeting Blacks and people of color

By Roger Caldwell There is something fundamentally wrong in the Department of Justice, when the Federal Attorney General refuses to follow the rule of law.

In March I wrote, “Jeff Sessions has committed the crime of perjury, and it is a criminal offense of lying under oath. A perjury charge is when someone makes a false statement after being sworn in or promising to tell the truth. This was not a mistake; it was intentional. Sessions has damaged his credibility and fundamentally impaired his ability to run the Department of Justice.”

This happened during Sessions’ confirmation hearing, and no one in the Congress or Senate had the courage to challenge his confirmation. It was

much easier to sweep something wrong or broken under the rug, than confront it head on.

Now, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is raising questions about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ role in the FBI director’s firing. Democrats in the House are claiming that Sessions violated two recusal promises, and in so doing may have broken the law. Is anyone going to take action against Attorney General Sessions?

As Jeff Sessions continues to break the law, he quietly targets Blacks and people of color with harsher penalties for low level drug offenses. This Law and Order strategy never worked for Clinton or Bush, and hundreds of thousands of Black men and families were destroyed for small amounts of marijuana and drugs.

With Trump’s election, there will be no justice in the Trump-Sessions’ Department of Justice. Quietly Sessions is ending investigations of civil rights violations into police departments around the country.

“In a marked shift from the Bush administration, President Obama’s Justice Department was aggressively investigating several big urban police departments for systematic civil rights abuses such as harassment of racial minorities, false arrests, and excessive use of force,” says Justin Elliott, a reporter for ProPublica. The primary victims of police misconduct are African Americans and Latinos.

With Sessions as the head of the DOJ, there will be another shift, and police departments will go back to breaking laws. This will increase

The Florida Bar issues call for entries for 62nd Annual Media Awards competition Electronics submissions only will be accepted, deadline June 15

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The call for entries is out for The Florida Bar’s 2017 Media Awards competition. Since 1955, the awards have honored top legal reporting. For the first time, the Bar is doing away with hard copy entries and going electronic.

Work submitted for consideration may include news stories, series, features, editorials, blogs, documentaries, columns, special sections — anything that is produced by a news organization and deals with law and lawyers, courts, law enforcement, the delivery of legal services, the effectiveness of the justice system, the work of the organized Bar or related matters. Any newspaper, radio station, blog, television station, wire service or online-only publication located in Florida is eligible to enter. The entry deadline is June 15.

Entries must have been published or produced between Jan. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2016. Content of entries may be current or historical, objective or analytical in nature. Special consideration may be given to entries that demonstrate courage or tenacity on the part of the news medium or the journalists who produced the entry.

Reporters receiving first-place awards also will get $500, and secondplace winners will get $250. If multiple reporters are bylined on a winning entry, the cash award will be divided evenly among them. Reporters who choose not to accept the monetary prizes may opt to make a donation to the First Amendment Foundation. All winning reporters and their media outlets will receive plaques.

Media organizations, large and small, are encouraged to enter. Judging criteria are not based on the greatest amount of resources used, but whether those resources available are used well and to the fullest in the tradition of outstanding journalism.

Awards are presented in four categories: Print Any nonopinion-based news material with a printed component, whether presented in print or online Any opinion-based written material, in a newspaper with a printed component, including blogs, editorials and columns, whether presented on paper or online Television Any broadcast story or series that investigates a single issue Any broadcast story or series that continuously follows a single subject/ trial Radio Any broadcast story or series that investigates a single issue Any broadcast story or series that continuously follows a single subject/trial Online-only Publications Any online story or series, commentary, editorial cartoon or photo focusing on a single issue Any online story or series that continuously covers a single subject/trial The awards jury consists of two outof-state journalists, two Florida lawyers with substantial experience in

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The determination of the awards jury is final and is not reviewed by The Florida Bar. The Florida Bar does not endorse the content of the winning entries.

In 2015, Martin A. Dyckman, who retired after 47 years at the St. Petersburg Times, became the first recipient of The Florida Bar’s Susan SpencerWendel Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism. It was presented posthumously in 2016 to longtime Daily Business Review reporter Julie Kay, the recipient of two Florida Bar media awards over the years. The award recognizes a Florida journalist or media outlet for extensive coverage and/or commentary on the law, the delivery of legal services and the justice system. The award recipient will be selected by The Florida Bar’s Media & Communications Law Committee from nomination letters. The award will include a cash prize of $500 and travel reimbursement to attend the awards ceremony.

Spencer-Wendel was a veteran Palm Beach Post courts reporter who died in 2014 after a well-documented fight with ALS. She received a lifetime achievement award from The Florida Bar in 2012 and numerous other media awards throughout her career.

The media awards will be presented by the president of The Florida Bar at the annual Reporters’ Workshop dinner on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 in Tallahassee. Winners will be notified in advance.

"This isn't a revolution of Black against white; this is a revolution of right against wrong. And right has never lost."

-- Dick Gregory

wrongful convictions, false arrests, and the majority of victims will be poor, African Americans and Latinos.

All over the country, Republican governors and legislators are making it harder for Black and people of color to vote. Instead of working to increase the number of voters on the polls, the Trump-Sessions DOJ is trying to lower the number of voters on the polls. This is a deliberate disenfranchisement of Black voters, and can only be explained by “discriminatory intent.”

The NAACP says, “Sessions supports an old ugly history when Civil Rights were not regarded as core American values, and has no place leading our nation’s enforcement of Civil Rights and voting rights laws.”

Sen. Cory Booker says, “Sessions' record indicates that we cannot count on him to support state and national efforts to bring justice to the justice system. The justice system as it stands now is biased against the poor, against the mentally ill, against drug addicton, and against people of color.”

Finally Sessions is quietly increasing prosecution of undocumented immigrants and tearing families apart.

The Trump-Sessions DOJ is moving in the direction of a police state, where civil rights abuses are supported by the courts, police departments, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ICE has more than 20,000 employees in more than 400 offices in the United States and 46 foreign countries. Many people of color think of ICE as a secret police, who at anytime can put you in jail and deport you.

When the head of the DOJ has broken the law, there is no telling what other laws he will break to remain in office. Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump are comfortable operating outside the boundaries of the law, and Blacks and people of color are the first targets.

Poverty began in Mind of the State

By Kevin Palmer A May 25, 2017, New York Times article titled, Ben Carson Calls Poverty a ‘State of Mind,’ Igniting a Backlash, stated Ben Carson, the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, faced an intense backlash for calling poverty “a state of mind.” In theory, Carson was correct.

However, Carson was wrong to blame poverty on the state of mind of the poor. More accurately, poverty in America began with the state of mind of greedy European colonists who needed an abundance of cheap labor.

Without cheap labor there could have been no prosperity. Indeed, since the beginning of the American economy there has been a supply of cheap labor which has created a permanent underclass of poor people.

This underclass began with enslaved Africans. Then, over the decades more whites in large numbers have become impoverished and have now outnumbered poor Blacks.

In fact, the poorest states in America are Republican and predominately white. They include Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Alabama, and Kentucky. The poorest state is Mississippi, which has the highest poverty rate in the nation at 22 percent. That is the real reason for the intense backlash. It was not the words Ben Carson spoke; it is because the words were spoken by an affluent Black government official against the poor who are now predominately white. Poor whites are now hearing the same heartless criticisms poor Blacks have always heard from white racists and snobbish, affluent Blacks.

In short, poor whites now understand what poor Blacks have always known: the rich, regardless of race, have no sympathy for the poor.

Donald Trumps and other false gods

By Oscar H. Blayton White evangelicals in America responded to Donald Trump’s presidential bid like the faithful welcoming “Jubilee.”

His campaign victory was their “Palm Sunday.” He was their savior, their “Messiah,” if you will. They had thronged to the places where he spoke, cheering. They chanted his liturgies of hate and division in unison, while the most zealous among them styled themselves as Christian soldiers and physically attacked those who disputed the Trump orthodoxy.

Those of us to whom the clay feet of this false god were clearly visible were dumbfounded by the willingness of people who professed such strongly held socially conservative views to vigorously support a man whose life was lived in complete antithesis to those beliefs.

A serial-philander, twice-divorced Trump cheated on wives number one and two with women who would become wives number two and three.

The woman whom he made the nation’s First Lady has been splayed in photographs in various stages of undress that would have brought howls of indignation from critics of Michelle Obama exposing her bare arms. A misogynist, compulsive liar and all-around cad, Trump warmed the hearts of self-professed Christians.

Having had time to collectively regain our breath after the devastating blow of Trump’s November victory, sane Americans realize that for many, this election was a referendum on race, not morals or values. And the message was simple: “God is white.”

“All that is good about America is white."

“Donald Trump will make America white again.”

In effect, a vote for Trump was a stroke in the effort to re-establish “whiteness” as the only American narrative. The Christian subtext of the “moral majority,” the “religious right” and whatever else the conservative evangelicals choose to call themselves is merely a “ruse de guerre” meant to disguise the racial animosity that steered their political course.

Just as these people wish to fashion their God in their own image, they wish to fashion America in their own image. Their political screeds proclaim that America is a white, Christian nation while it is neither.

If we accept that the hate-filled bigots screaming for Muslims to “Get out of my country” are acting like Christians, then we need to do a lot of soul searching about what it means to be a Christian. We must never forget that Adolf Hitler styled himself as a Christian and was accepted by his countrymen as such.

If we accept that the beliefs of the bigots who could find no human qualities in Barack Obama and his family, while exalting the “sterling” qualities of Donald Trump and his family based solely on the color of their skin, then we are ignorant to the fact that race is only a racial construct.

The concept of race, as it is known today, was constructed solely to justify the enslavement of Africans as chattel. At the same time that Africans began to be enslaved in this way, the belief that “God fashioned man in his own image” began to be twisted into “God fashioned the white man in his own image,” thus fashioning God in the image of the white male.

The madness that fuels the belief in white patriarchal superiority was not born out of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. But Trump’s campaign and election victory have reinvigorated the worst qualities in the racist, sexist bigots who claim the religious authority to spread misery throughout America.

America is neither white nor Christian. Donald Trump, as a white Christian, is nothing more than a political fabrication, constructed by a crazed constituency desperate to reclaim a privilege in America that was wrung from the blood, sweat and tears of people of color.

For these reasons, sane Americans must resist Donald Trump, just as we must resist all false gods and the zealots who exalt them. This call for resistance is not a call to hate, but rather a call to love. A call to love all people of the Earth as God’s creations. And a call to protect us all from the hatefilled agenda of Donald Trump.

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Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, 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!

James C. Boyd Funeral Home

Rev. Stanley Melek, M.Div E-MAIL:stanley.melek@flumc.org 2351 N.W. 26th Street Oakland Park, Florida 33311 Church Telephone: (954) 731-0520

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.

BARNES Funeral services for the late Frederick O’-Neal Barnes – 46 were held June 3 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Bishop Grantis Poole officiating.

CHARLTON Funeral services for the late Baby Boy Isaiah Gabriel Charlton.

GOODRUM Funeral services for the late Shakedra LaSha Goodrum - 30 were held June 3 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Dr. Fred Marshal officiating.

Interment: Westview Cemetery.

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 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"

Mount Hermon A.M.E. Church Rev Henry E. Green, Jr. PASTOR 401 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 Phone: (954) 463-6309 - FAX 954 522-4113 Office Hours: Tues. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Email: infor@mthermonftl.com

SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES Worship Service ................................................................................... 10 a.m.

Church School ..................................................................................... 9:15 a.m.

BIBLE STUDY: Wednesday ................................................................... 10 a.m.

Gems & Jewels Ministry Senior Wednesday Wednesday (Bible Study) ............................................... 12 Noon & 7- 8 p.m.

Daily Prayer Line ...................................................................................... 6 a.m.

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Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church 1161 NW 29th Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33311 (954) 581-0455 ● Fax: (954) 581-4350 www.mtzionmbc1161.com

WHISENANT Funeral services for the late Beranton J. Whisenant, Jr., Esquire – 37 were held June 1 at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Arthur Jackson, III officiating.

WRIGHT Funeral services for the late Percival Wright – 73 were held June 3 at Bethel Gospel Chapel with Elder Gordon Vincent officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Central).

McWhite's Funeral Home AUSTIN Funeral services for the late Mother Ma-galene Austin - 73 were held May 27 at Holy Tabernacle United Church of God Florida with Elder Ralph Ponder officiating Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery (Central).

Dr. James B. Darling, Jr., Pastor/Teacher WORSHIP SERVICES Worship Service ............................................................................................................ 10:15 a.m.

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

Communion Service (1st Sunday) ........................................................................... 10:15 a.m.

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

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

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

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

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Oakland Park "The Miracle On 33rd Street" 420 N.E. 33rd Street Oakland Park, Florida 33334 Church: (954) 563-3060 Email: mtzion420@gmail.com

Rev. George A. Hardy, Pastor SERVICES Sunday Church School ................................................................... 8:45 a.m.

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

Tuesday Night (Family Prayer & Bible Study) ........................... 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday (Prayer Conference Line) ................................................ 8:00 p.m.

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“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)

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Obituaries Harris Chapel United Methodist Church

Williams Memorial CME

BROWN Funeral services for the late Althmease Mitchell Brown – 63 were held

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.

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Q & A: What does Reverend Deal say this week!

June 2 at The faith Center with Pastor Dennis Fulmore officiating.

PAULK Funeral services for the late Jack Paulk – 75 were held June 3 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Bishop Elvis Thomas officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

TOMLINSON Funeral services for the late Maxine Marcia Tomlinson – 56 were held June 4 at Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church with Pastor Keith Albury officiating. Interment: Royal Palm Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Fla. WILSON Funeral services for the late Kenneth W. Wilson – 55 were held June 3 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.

Roy Mizell & Kurtz Funeral Home

‘Praying always with all prayer and supplication’ Question: Why is prayer so important to one’s Christian life?

Answer: Prayer is the direct link to God. It is the chief source of the Christian’s strength of his daily life. Prayer enables us to battle with the enemies of our very soul. Prayer is so precious that there are over 600 various prayers in the Bible. Depending on the version of the Bible used, it’s hard to pinpoint how many times the word pray, prays, prayed, praying, or prayers are used. (Bible Dictionary). For instance, in the NIV the word is mentioned 375 times.

There is a big game being played in the spiritual realm. The only way to 'get off the bench’ on God’s team and enter the game is through prayer. When your number is called, will you be ready? Through prayer you will experience the fullness of what God has to offer. Praying will cause a renewing of your mind, spirit and soul. Prayer will cause the Spirit inside of you to connect with God’s Spirit. Praying will take you from human strength and understanding to God’s strength and understanding. Prayer will catapult you from the visible to the invisible. God is Spirit and the primary way to get to God is through prayer. And through prayer the presence of God will become real. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians 6:18 states: ‘Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints’.

Reverend David Deal is the senior pastor at Every Christian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Rev Deal can be reached at the Westside Gazette, 545 NW Seventh Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Fla 33311, or by email at david.deal55@gmail.com

Black Church History

BOUYIE Funeral services for the late Willie Lamar Bouyie - 74 were held June 3 at Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Dr. Moses E. Monroe, Sr officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

CURINGTON Funeral services for the late Sharon Denise Curington – 65 were held June 3 at William Memorial CME Church with Pastor Jerry Freeman officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

THOMAS Funeral services for the late Felix Arnold Thomas – 51 were held June 3 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center with Bishop Charlene Jamison officiating. Interment: Lauderdale Memorial Park.

The LORD IS GOD and he had made his light shine on us.

Psalm 118:27

The Black Church has historically been a source of hope and strength for the African American community. In 1990, the late professor, C. Eric. Lincoln co-authored, The Black Church in the African American Experience with Lawrence H. Mamiya. They described the, “seven major historic Black denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church; the Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church; the National Baptist Convention, USA., Incorporated (NBC); the National Baptist Convention of America, Unincorporated (NBCA); the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC); and the Church of God in Christ (COGIC),” as comprising “the Black Church.”

Yet it is known that Blacks were also members of predominantly white denominations such as the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregational, United Methodist and Roman Catholic churches. However, Lincoln and Mamiya chose to confine ‘the Black Church,’ to “those independent, historic, and totally Black controlled denominations, which were founded after the Free African Society

of 1787 and which constituted the core of Black Christians.”

Since the publication of the Lincoln and Mamiya book, two new Black denominations have developed: The National Missionary Baptist Convention (NMBC) and the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship (FGBCF). The FGBCF does not refer to itself as a denomination.

We hope this section of BlackandChristian.com will serve as a resource for information on the historically Black Christian denominations and will inspire you to learn the history of your particular denomination.

If you have information to add to this section or comments you would like to make email: admin@blackandchristian.com.

The following books are excellent reference works on the African American religious experience: C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience, (Durham: Duke University Press), 1990 Wardell J. Payne, Directory of African American Religious Bodies: A Compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity (Washington, DC: Howard University Press), 1995.

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Six-month extension for Haitian TPS is not enough

By Ted Deutch teddeutch.house.gov Mark Hetfield @MarkJHetfield Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has made the right decision to extend temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians living in the United States. Deporting Haitians right now would have been disastrous for them and for Haiti, which is currently in no condition to accept them. At the same time, by promising them only six months of reprieve, and not providing any level of certainty as to whether their situation will be reconsidered in six months, the Haitian community in the United States will now live in fear that they only have until January before they face deportation.

A decision to end TPS for Haitians would have abruptly ended legal status for more than 50,000 Haitians who are working in this country and contributing to American communities. It would have cut off a lifeline of private support sent in the form of remittances, which is particularly important for Haiti, where money from family members living abroad accounts for 25 percent of the country’s GDP. Most dramatically, it would have caused tens of thousands of people to face deportation back to a country still recovering from numerous crises. This will remain true six months from now.

Deutch and Hetfield The DHS announcement this week stated that Kelly expects Haitian TPS-holders to use the next six months to “prepare for and arrange their departure from the United States,” with the implication that TPS will not continue for this population after January 22, 2018. This leaves Haitian TPS-holders living in uncertainty about whether they will be separated from their families and communities.

This is not how the United States should conduct humanitarian policy.

A form of humanitarian relief, TPS is a temporary immigration status the U.S. government can grant to foreign nationals in the United States who are unable to return safely to their home countries. This could be because of a natural disaster, such as the 2015 earthquake in Nepal; disease, as we

saw with the Ebola outbreak in East Africa or violence like the civil war in Yemen. Extending TPS to people who can’t safely return home and providing safe haven to them here in the United States is one of the hallmarks of America’s humanitarian values.

TPS was first granted to eligible Haitians who were in the United States when a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck their home country in 2010. In the seven years since, Haitian TPS-holders have been living safely — and thriving — in this coun-try.

They have become our neighbors, classmates, colleagues and friends. Many of them are nursing, psychiatric and home health aides. One out of five has a child who is a U.S. citizen.

During these same seven years, Haiti’s recovery has been

American ‘Shot in the head’ by police during London attack: Witness barreled into pedestrians on London Bridge and then three attackers embarked on a stabbing spree in nearby Borough Market. At least 21 people injured in the attack remain in critical condition.

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley confirmed Sunday that “as the officers confronted the terrorists ... a member of the public also suffered gunshot wounds.”

The first London Bridge attack victim to be identified was Canadian national Christine Archibald, 30, who had moved to London to be with her fiance.

“Please honor her by making your community a better place,” a spokesperson for her family said. “Volunteer your time and labor or donate to a homeless shelter. Tell them Chrissy sent you.”

The Wheatsheaf pub in London’s Borough Market.

(Image: Wheatsheaf Pub)

By Saphora Smith, was used to block the door from NBC News the inside, and staff locked the LONDON — An American doors and gates.

Seven people died and nearbystander was struck in the head by a stray bullet fired as ly 50 were injured when a van police killed the London Bridge terrorists, an eyewitness told NBC News.

Authorities said the wound(Cont'd from FP) ed civilian was expected to survive. Police have not revealed drinking liquid fifths of courage, even snorting hope up your any details about the individual nose and shooting liquid pipe dreams in your veins. who was accidentally hit in the A lover of fleshly desires, you are eating from the table of hail of 50 bullets that ended evil, dining on delicacies of devilish delights.

Saturday night’s van-and-knife Now, caught up in the valley of no return, you are way rampage. past the Prodigal Son’s eating slop with the pigs.

Fabio Lamas, who works at You ask yourself, 'What good am I?' 'What do I have to a pub in Borough Market, deoffer life?' 'What have I done to be in this state of nonscribed seeing “three guys who sympathetic remorse for those who have nothing to do with were carrying knives and ... my current disposition?' wearing body armor” before ofAnd just when those demons of torment are about to push ficers arrived at the scene. you over the edge into a pit of no return, you wake up from “I got people to start evacuatyour stupor of self-pity and your selective departure from ing inside from our little garden God. that we have ... and got people You hope that your realization was only a dream. to come into the bar and to go Praying this journey called life is temporary without God. into toilets, hide under tables One scathing adventure after another that would leave and hide in our cellar where we you breathless, sin-drenched and incomplete. keep all our stock,” the 20-yearIt’s all about to end and you find yourself feeling like you old recalled. “Then I heard have just been vomited up from the rip currents of a shooting and I saw an American crashing 100ft grinder wave, on a lava rock shore of a lost guy get shot in the head.” island in the middle of nowhere. You’re scarcely alive, the Lamas said the man hit by question remains am I worth it, in all of my brokenness, am the bullet was standing near a I worth it? window inside the Wheatsheaf “Dear God, in the name of Jesus, please forgive me when pub. At least one of the attackers I don’t understand how You can love me in the filthy was fatally shot outside of the conditions I’m in. In Jesus name, Amen.” venue.

GOD SPECIALIZES IN CLEANING UP FILTH According to Lamas, the victim was with two friends who said they were American doctors living in London.

He said they told him they were from either New Jersey or New York. The U.S. Embassy would not comment on whether an American had been shot.

The victim was conscious but his friends were in shock, the bar workers said.

“He was bleeding through his eye,” Lamas recalled. “I went to get the first-aid kit and I started speaking to his friends and to try and calm them down.”

Before the shots were fired, he heard someone shout “knives, knives, knives.” A beer barrel

Broken, busted and disgusted

undermined by drought, prolonged economic instability, public health crises, and natural disasters. Today, 1.65 million people in Haiti are at risk of cholera infection. The United Nations has been struggling to address the country’s humanitarian needs with incredibly limited funding. In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew killed hundreds and affected the daily lives of almost 20 percent of the country’s population. The storm brought flooding and widespread destruction, and wiped out entire sectors of the agriculture, fishing and livestock industries. Recovery is ongoing and fragile, and we have no reason to believe that will fundamentally change in the foreseeable future. Threatening to send people back to a country so plagued with disaster and crisis would set a dangerous precedent.

In the coming months, TPS is also set to expire for over 186,000 Salvadorans and over 70,000 Hondurans. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center estimates that ending TPS for Haiti, El Salvador and Honduras would lead to a $45.2 billion reduction in United States’ GDP over a decade. Deporting TPS-holders from these three countries would cost U.S. taxpayers $3.1 billion.

In the past few weeks, faith leaders, physicians, humanitarian organizations, unions, members of Congress, mayors, governors, and the ambassador of Haiti to the U.S. all urged Kelly to continue TPS for Haiti. We are acutely aware of the stakes. Haiti is in no position to reintegrate tens of thousands of Haitian TPS-holders, and we are glad that DHS made the right decision in the short term.

Now, Kelly must demonstrate that the U.S. government develops policies based on humanitarian considerations — not arbitrary deadlines. In the meantime, we will continue to support policies that promote human rights, protect those who seek safety, and ensure that the United States does not send people back in harm’s way.

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Jamaica T ourist Boar d To Board appoin ts John W oolcook ppoints Woolcook manag er of g manager grroups and conven tions conventions MIAMI, FL – The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) has announced the appointment of John Woolcock as manager, Groups and Conventions, in the JTB’s Regional Office, Miami.

“I am eager to take on the responsibilities of this new role and look forward to helping the destination grow its market share in groups and conventions,” said Woolcock. “With our award-winning Montego Bay Convention Centre in Montego Bay, combined with our wide array of accommodations and attractions, I believe Jamaica provides a great option for meeting and incentive planners looking for an ideal Caribbean venue.”

Prior to this appointment, Woolcock held the post of District Sales Manager (DSM) with responsibility for the west and the southeast USA for over four years. This included Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. He is a seasoned sales and marketing professional with over 31 years of intimate experience in promoting destination Jamaica

WOOLCOCK through the Jamaica Tourist Board.

Woolcock also served the JTB as Business Development Officer (formerly titled Marketing Representative) for the northeast USA based in Boston, Sales Representative and Senior Sales Representative based in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Florida Bar Elder Law section installs Jamaican national as new chair elect FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The Florida Bar Elder Law Section has elected Jamaican born attorney, Collett P. Small, as their new chairperson. Small, the first woman of color and of Jamaican heritage, is scheduled to be installed this June at the swearing in ceremony in Boca Raton. Small, a resident of Weston, has been practicing law for 12 years. The installation was held at the Boca Raton Resort & Country Club on June 23.

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Why it is a good idea for kids to play sports

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By Krystle Crossman Not only is getting your child into a sport great for their health, but it helps them with a few different life skills that they can carry on as they grow.

Playing sports keeps them busy, active, and teaches them about different things in life that can help them with work and relationships down the road.

1. Building character – You are not always going to win.

Your child needs to learn that losing is okay and that they just have to keep practicing and do their best. If you let a child win all of the time they will come to expect to win at everything, so it is good when they lose every now and then. They need to learn humility and accepting that they did their best and just have to try again. Don’t let them be afraid of failing and never let them give up.

2. Setting goals – When your child plays sports you can have them set certain goals and then celebrate when they achieve them. For example, if they play baseball, have them set a goal of hitting a single. Then try for a double after they have done that. If they run track, set time goals. Start small and then the goals can get bigger and the sense of accomplishment will be better.

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CANCER-Stop sometime this week and take a quick inventory of how right your instincts have been recently.

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LEO-One of your gifts is that you have an ability to think big! Picture your future on a canvas as big as the sky. Take some small measure this week toward that future, and rejoice. Make sure that positive vibrations surround you during the week.

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GEMINI-There is a vibration this week that urges people to reveal secrets. Your usually strong loyalty to a friend or co-worker may be weakened if you engage in any idle chatter. Stick to the facts this week and you’ll be fine! I let the outer world and inner world change places this week. 18, 20, 24

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AKA 1908 Playground Mobilization Day at Joseph C. Carter Park Submitted by D. S. Wilson, Chapter Member FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Zeta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority, Incorporated continued its long-time community partnership with vigor and vitality by supporting a monumental effort, Saturday, May 20, 2017, by joining the neighboring community at the Joseph C. Carter Park located in the 33311 area of Fort Lauderdale.

The members of Zeta Rho Omega launched the “1908 Playground Mobilization Day” on behalf of the Chapter President, Jeannie B. Floyd; First Vice President, Tracey Lockhart-Talley; Second Vice President, Dr. Rosalind Osgood; Chairman Doris Love; CoChairmen, committee members, and over 190 chapter members.

There were 58 chapter members, 16 parents, three ASCEND students, 10 Future ASCEND students, 25 Nova Middle School SMILE Interest Group participants, 18 PINK, 11 I Lead Park Lakes Elementary students, 11 Mt. Olive Girl Scouts, and four Park Staff

Noose ffound ound in African American Histor oryy Museum Exhibit

By Susan Johnes A museum is an institution that tells the story of and how humanity has survived in its environment over the years. It is a place that houses things created by nature and by man.

In our modern society, it houses the cultural background of the nation.

However, there are some negative interpretations of museums. People often see them as places where the unwanted objects or materials are deposited. Additionally, some regard them as places where objects associated with idolatry and fetish religions are kept.

The negative perceptions have continued to inhibit the development of museums in most countries. In Washington, D.C., a noose was found on the grounds of a Smithsonian museum for the second time in a week.

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Mrs. Loretta Baker

I had some weary days, and some sleepless nights.

Thirty-Five years at Walker Elementary Magnet School.

But now it’s all behind me & I made it!!!!

Members, along with the official Park’s Horticulturist who helped to direct over one hundred volunteers to various locations throughout the park’s playground area to plant shrubs and an assortment of colorful plants, with rich soil and mulch for proper planting. In addition, a certificate of appreciation was presented in commemoration.

As a labor of love, two trees were also donated for the bu-

tterfly garden, and presented to publicly thank the living relatives of the late Joseph C. Carter, the park’s name sake.

Family members present included Mrs. Betty Carter Smith, niece and a Zeta Rho Omega Chapter Charter member, Donald and Leslie Campbell, daughter and a Zeta Rho Omega Chapter member, son-in-law, and a host of other relatives.

Mission accomplished: Providing healthy environments and improving the quality of life in underserved communities!!!

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