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Black man killed in a chokehold by NYPD officer

Esaw Garner, the wife of NYPD fatal choking victim, collapses in the arms of Rev. Al Sharpton (r) and Rev. Herbert Daughtry (l) at NAN headquarters in New York.

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By Herb Boyd Special to NNPA NEW YORK, N.Y. – Rev. Al Sharpton was in the middle of his speech recounting how Eric Garner, 43, had been killed in a

chokehold by NYPD officer when Garner’s wife collapsed by his side on the stage of the National Action Network (NAN) in Harlem on Saturday morning.

“They will try to scandalize the deceased,” Sharpton said of

the NYPD and what he anticipated they would say. “The issue is not about an unarmed man selling cigarettes…It’s about a man who was subjected to a chokehold and is no longer with us.”

Community shocked as a white man slaps 79-year-old judge and spits on her

JUDGE HUBBARD Chicago is a city that is known for serious racial segregation. There are times when this has also led to racial tension, and this might be one of those

times.

A business owner on the north side of the city has been arrested for slapping a 79-yearold Cook County judge and spitting in her face. The man also allegedly called the woman “Rosa Parks” after getting angry over the judge smoking a cigarette near him.

According to the Chicago Tribune, friends and colleagues were stunned to hear what happened to Judge Arnette Hubbard, who was the first female president of The National Bar Association and Cook County Bar Association.

She is a respected and celebrated figure in the community and observers are stunned to hear what happened.

“She’s an icon in our community,” said Delores Robinson, past president of the Cook County Bar Association.

Hubbard has held posts as an international observer of elections in Haiti and South Africa. Prosecutors say that David C. Nicosia, a 55-year-old man, is being charged with a series of crimes related to the assault. The man allegedly argued with the judge and got near her. He then said, “Rosa Parks move,” and spit in her face.

After that, the judge followed the man and yelled for assistance, and that’s when he allegedly turned and slapped her in the face with an open hand.

At that point, Esaw Garner collapsed and had to be held up

by Sharpton and Rev. Herbert Daughtry, another prominent activist. After she was led from the stage and to a back room, Sharpton continued his speech.

“You can never predict how someone will react to grief,” he said.

All of Garner’s relatives were in pain and weeping as they left the stage, including his mother, Gwen Carr, his sister Elisha Flagg, and his daughter, Emerald Garner.

Sharpton promised the family that the NAN would pay for the funeral next week of a man the family knew as “Big E” or more affectionately the “Bear” by his wife.

None of these appellations were effective in stopping the officers who sought to detain him in front of a hardware store in Staten Island last Thursday.

It didn’t matter to the officers who surrounded him that he was the father of six children and was known as the “Gentle Giant.” Or, the fact that he repeatedly told them: “I can’t breathe.”

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Shake vigorously then take!

Then the earth shook and quaked; And the foundations of the mountains were trembling. And were shaken, because He was angry.

Psalm 18:7 (NASB)

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. While taking in my morning walk and meditating, a song was playing from Pandora’s music box that created in me a harmonic stride. While engaged I heard a verse that said; “Shake, then take.”

The song went on to explain the association between how we experience difficult times for God’s purpose and preparation for a rejoicing.

The lyrics pointed out to the need for shaking up liquid medicines before we consumed them so that they may work properly.

This analogy of shaking up the meds before consumption was a metaphor for how God sometimes disrupts things in our lives to make us uncomfortable when we have become too at ease with things that will lead us to a no good end.

When you take into account the happenings of your lives, I’m sure somewhere you have been shaken and moved to a point of absolute disbelief and total confusion; if you haven’t then pray that you don’t.

Mortified, once shaken would make it extremely easy for one to become disconcerted and withdrawn.

Not understanding and overlooking the plausibility of the need to be stirred up can equate to a violent eruption of uncontrollable emotions and a state of mystification and loneliness.

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March against violence ends with candidate’s forum

Members of CAP (Call A Pastor) Program.

By Derek Joy Much of the neighborhood was still asleep when the march began at Miami Northwestern

High School last Saturday morning.

Rev. Billy Strange, pastor of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, was joined with the

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Alice Coachman Davis, first Black Should the Florida Democratic Party support Olympic gold medalist, dies University at the age of 16.

Thaddeus Hamilton for Florida Commissioner Davis won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in London, in the high of Agriculture and Consumer Services? jump, setting a record of 5-feetBy Roger Caldwell

LTC Thaddeus Hamilton, Congressman Alcee Hastings and Mitch Ceasar.

Pleading Our Own Cause

LTC Thaddeus Hamilton is an African American that has qualified to be on the Nov. 4, 2014 ballot, as Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services. This is an extremely powerful position in the state cabinet, but the majority of the 18.5 million Florida residents don’t know it exists. It impacts every aspect of our life in the state, but the Democratic leadership in the state is not concerned with supporting the most qualified person for the job.

Mr. Hamilton is a Democrat, who graduated from college with a degree in Agriculture, and has spent the last 40 years of his life in agriculture and the environment.

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By WALB Albany Alice Coachman Davis, the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal, died Monday at the age of 90.

She was born in Albany, GA on Nov. 9, 1923 as Alice Coachman. She attended Tuskegee

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6 1/8 inches. She had won the AAU outdoor high jump title from 1939 to 1948, but was unable to compete in the Olympics until the London games. The 1940 Summer Olympics originally scheduled for Tokyo and the 1944 Summer Olympics, originally set for London, were cancelled due to World War II. In 1952, Coca-Cola awarded Davis an endorsement contract, making her the first AfricanAmerican to earn an endorsement deal. She created the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support young athletes. At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, she was recognized as one of the 100 greatest Olympians in history.

Albany’s Coachman Elementary School is named in her honor.

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pastors of several other area churches and more than 100 marchers, who walked through the area that has been rocked by a spate of recent shootings.

Strange started the march with the hymn “Trouble In My Way” in front of the school and proceeded west to northwest 15 th Avenue, south to 65 th Street, east to 13th Avenue, south to 62nd Street, and back east to 11th Avenue, where it ended at Mt. Calvary.

Along the way, pastors took turns offering prayer. Rev. Dr. Gaston Smith, pastor of Friendship M.B. Church, which recently lost some $30,000 in instruments and equipment to burglars who vandalized the building and a van, New Providence M,B. Church Pastor, Rev. Dr. Steven Caldwell, Rev. Dr. James Bush, III, associate pastor of Antioch M.B. Church of Brownsville, in addition to others.

“We organized this because of all the senseless killings, homicides in the community.

We want to bring awareness to the problems,” said Rev. Strange.

“I got tired of doing so many funerals in the community, funerals for my members. It’s another segment of what we started in 2012, our CAP (Call A Pastor) Program.”

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Experience Works recognizes Valrico woman for outstanding achievements

BROWN From Susan Jackson ARLINGTON, VA - During a national leadership symposium held in Atlanta, Ga., Experience Works honored Candy Brown of Valrico, Fla. for her achievements in providing outstanding leadership and customer service for the organization.

Experience Works is a national nonprofit organization that provides employment, training, and community service opportunities for individuals age 55 and older, and operates in 30 states and Puerto Rico, including 50 Florida counties.

“I am so pleased to recognize Candy, who has made significant contributions in improving our organization’s impact and services,” said Sarah Biggers, chief executive officer.

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“With the commitment, passion, creativity, and perseverance of team members like her, we continue to build upon our 49year legacy of service to provide skilled workers for the labor market, ensure we are reducing the paradox of poverty, and improve the quality of life for our clients so they can age with dignity and decency.”

In accepting the recognition, Brown said, “At any and all levels, it’s important to stay focused and do what it takes to get the job done. As the Florida state program director, it’s my privilege to work with such a dedicated team of people who work tirelessly on behalf of older workers. Being recognized for doing what seems like ‘the right thing to do’ is quite humbling and much appreciated.”

Brown went on to discuss the opportunities for the future.

“We have many more folks we would like to reach in our community through the Senior Community Service Employment Program, and look forward to expanding partnerships to increase awareness of the incredible services we offer,” she said.

To find out more about Experience Works programs and services, including JobReady and the Senior Community Service Employment, contact experienceworks@experienceworks.org, (703)522-7272, or visit www.experienceworks.org.

Just in time for summer, new author, Easter Huggins Anderson, takes children on a journey of beauty and wonderment of the beach in her children’s book entitled Seashells for Lilly. Her book was inspired by her very own love and admiration of South Florida’s beautiful beaches. As a Florida native, she grew up exploring and picking seashells from the seashore.

Now she presents all the beach has to offer to young readers through the experiences of a nine-year-old girl named Lilly. During Lilly’s trip to the beach to gather seashells, the beauty of the ocean blue captivates her. Lilly realizes, the beach offers much more than simply seashells, it is a marvelous creation! Seashells for Lilly is a fun read that will have you ready to gather the family and head down to enjoy the beauty of the beach.

Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders Interns participate in Superintendent’s Summer Program This summer, 19 high school students from Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) are participating in The Mentorng Tomorrow’s Leaders (MTL) Superintendent’s Summer Internship Program, July 7 - 24, 2014.

The program is designed to develop students’ leadership skills by exposing them to professionals throughout BCPS and give them the opportunity to assist departments within the District with special projects, while earning community service hours. Student interns are learning about leadership, professional office conduct, program management and careers within BCPS. This year’s MTL interns are completing special projects, in addition to meeting with leadership staff and participating in workshops and site visits.

The students split their time between the District’s main offices at the Kathleen C. Wright

MTL interns during the Superintendent’s Summer Internship Program .

Administration Center and the Lauderdale Manors Early Learning and Family Resource

An 11-year-old Black boy is found to have a higher IQ than theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, famed author Steven Hawking, and computer pioneer Bill Gates.

Ramarni Wilfred of Romford, U.K. has received a geniusleveled Mensa IQ score of 162.

His score places him in the top 1 percent of IQs in the U.K. Ramarni said he is happy with the score, although he was not expecting it. “I was surprised and very happy when I read the results of my IQ test, as I didn’t feel very confident after completing the test.”

When Ramarni discovered that he was smarter than several highly accomplished historical figures such as Einstein, he was flattered, but stayed humble.

“I can’t begin to compare myself to these great men whose hard work clearly proves that they are true geniuses,” he said.

“Who knows? Perhaps my

WILFRED ‘true genius’ moment will come when I grow up; but for now; I am just proud of myself and happy that my mum and sister are proud of me, too.”

Ramarni’s mother, Anthea, said that she knew her son would be special ever since he was a baby.

“By the time he was three he could read and write, and from 18 months we discussed the news, and his favorite book was an encyclopedia!”

Ramarni decided to take the

The story includes an abundance of sight words and vocabulary words for young readers. The storyline allows children to make realistic connections to Lilly’s experiences.

It is a wonderful book that can be enjoyed by children of all ages!

Seashells for Lilly is available online at popular websites such as Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, and Tatepublishing.com. Each book purchase comes with a free audio download of the story. Easter Huggins Anderson encourages children to “Dream Big” in her message of Dream, Believe, Have Faith, and Conquer All! She has dedicated her book to children worldwide who Dream Big! It is her belief that; with dedication, perseverance, and self-confidence dreams do indeed come true!

IQ test after writing an essay for Oxford University that received praise. He was then invited to take the intelligence test at Birbeck University.

Ramarni is now a member of the Mensa International IQ Society, where he will be able to mingle with like-minded kids of his age and attend excusive events.

“Ramarni’s score shows he has great potential and we are pleased to welcome him to Mensa,” said John Stevenage,

President Barack Obama during a White House event improving academic achievement of boys and young men of color.

He retired after 36 years from the United States Department of Agriculture, and worked on the local, state, and national staff level. He was honored by President George H. Bush for outstanding service in agriculture and the environment.

Thaddeus Hamilton’s credentials are impeccable and he is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army. He was director, Civil Military Operation for Operation Desert Storm, and instructor Commander General at Staff College. All his life, he has intimately been involved in education, and his number one priority as Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs is to protect and educate Florida residents.

The Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services is the largest department

in the state, and to be effective, you cannot learn on the job.

The Department of Agriculture and Consumer services plays a key role in the functioning of the state economy. In Florida, there is cronyism and friendship that determine why a candidate is supported by a party, as opposed to being qualified for the job.

Ninety-eight percent of Florida residents don’t understand the importance of this cabinet position and it impacts the entire ecosystem, from the water we drink, the food we eat, and the businesses that we pay our hard earned money.

The Division of Consumer Services is the state’s clearinghouse for consumer complaints, education, and protection. Under its umbrella are Concealed Weapons, Consumer Resources, Business Services, Agriculture Industry, Forests & Wildfire, Food and Nutrition, Education, Energy, and Water.

Mensa’s chief executive. "We hope he will enjoy being part of the society and interacting with fellow members.”

Although Ramarni is a genius, he is not arrogant about his scores. He just wants to make the most out of the new experiences that his score will bring him.

“I don’t really see having a high IQ as a big deal, but I do feel very privileged to be invited to join Mensa, and can’t wait to attend some of the events,” said Ramarni.

On July 21, 2014, Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) joined the Council of the Great City Schools and urban school districts from across the country for a special White House event with President Barack Obama.

The event included an announcement that 60 urban school districts, including BCPS, are pledging to improve the academic and social outcomes of boys and young men of color. BCPS executive director of Student Support Initiatives, Michaelle Pope, traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend today’s event, which took place at a Washington area

My Brother’s Keeper’s ‘oppression olympics’

By Stephany Rose Special to the NNPA Perspective Generally, as one of the youngest persons in the room in a culture that respects the gravitas of age, I am honored when provided the floor to speak. So, for an African Amer-

Should the Florida Democratic Party support Thaddeus Hamilton?

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jory Stoneman Douglas, Monarch, Nova, Plantation, and South Broward high schools.

BCPS supports White House Initiative to improve academic achievements of boys and young men of color

Eleven-year-old has an IQ higher than Bill Gates and Einstein

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Center.

Student interns attend Boyd Anderson, Deerfield Beach, Ma-

“It’s time to unite the citizens with consumer protection, agriculture, and environment to ensure that Florida is a sustainable state. It is time to put needs, wishes, and concerns of the citizens in the state of Florida first. As commissioner, I will support Public Education and focus on holding the entire system accountable, and involve the entire community in the education process,” says LTC. Thaddeus Hamilton.

The Democratic Party in Florida must challenge the Republican Party at every position in the state. As long as the Republicans control every position in the Governors cabinet his initiatives that are bad for the state are rubber stamped with no challenge.

Thad Hamilton is qualified and a game changer in the state.

He is ready to lead once he is elected, but he needs support from the Democratic leadership in the state. How can the Democratic Party remain silent and want to win?

ican woman who grew up in one of the most dangerous communities on the south side of Chicago, to have earned a Ph. D, authored two books, edited one, managed two political campaigns, maintained a tenure-track teaching position, organized faith-based community action work, and now pastoring a local congregation while pursing a fourth degree, all before turning 36, I was satisfied in this conversation with just knowing I am signee #523. And yes, auto correct thought my first name was more accurately ended in “ie” rather than ‘y,’ and even changed my “signature” there.

However, all laurels aside, when we look at the growing number of 1,400-plus women from various walks of life, some whose names we can rattle off from Ebony, People, and US magazines chronicling their lives to others whose works speak more volumes in an eightblock radius for the aid and comfort she provides to sexual assault survivors, I must stand up and declare: “Women of color, community and faithbased leaders are not divided when it comes to the resounding critique of re-aligning the agenda of the President’s White House Initiative, My Brother’s Keeper” {MBK).

Thirty-plus women whose names may be popularly recognizable and heralded by staff of the White House, who tapped them to craft a letter of support a week after the original critique

and req u e s t pales in response to the h u n dreds of women ROSE and men leaders who recognize the present and foreseeable detriment that MBK will have in our communities if carried forward without serious reconstruction.

From “high-level” positions, to on-the-ground community activists, nearly 2,000 women and men in our communities recognize how we will collectively suffer if girls and women of color are not included in MBK. Let’s be clear, none in this number either believe or propose that President Barack Obama is incorrect in stating: “The plain fact is there are some Americans who in the aggregate are consistently doing worse in our society, groups that have had the odds stacked against them in unique ways that require unique solutions, groups who’ve seen fewer opportunity that have spanned generations…We’ve become numb to the statistics.

We’re not surprised by them, we take them as the norm. We just assume this is an inevitable part of American life instead of the outrage that it is.”

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school and included a Town Hall style discussion with President Obama.

With roughly 32 percent of the nation’s school-age African American males and 39 percent of the country’s school-age Hispanic males enrolled in bigcity public schools, urban-school leaders agree that they have an obligation to teach all students to the highest academic standards and prepare them for today’s global society.

“The most important work we do as a society is raising our children and providing them with an opportunity to receive a high-quality education to prepare them for success in college and careers,” said Superintendent Robert W. Runcie. “We are proud to be part of this national effort, as we continue to focus on improving educational outcomes and closing the achievement gap among our boys and young men of color.”

“Our job as urban educators is not to reflect or perpetuate the inequities that too many of our males of color face; our job is to eliminate those inequities and that is what we pledge to do,” stressed Council Executive Director Michael Casserly. “We are pleased to join forces today with the White House, the U.S. Department of Education, and our other partners in an unprecedented shared commitment to improve the educational and social opportunities of our young men of color,” he added.

As part of BCPS ongoing focus on improving the academic success of minority male students, the District has: · Included in the District’s Strategic Plan the goal of improving the academic success of minority male students; · Broadened the conversation and advocacy, internally and externally, around issues that bar minority males from succeeding in school, work and life; · Engaged community organizations: Children Services Council, South Florida Educational Research Alliance, as anchor partners.

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Health Fair Brown’s Temple F.B.H. Church invites you to their Community Outreach & Health Fair on Aug. 9, 2014 from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., 1081 N. Powerline Rd., Pompano Beach, Fla. There will be free school supplies and book bags. A representative from Habitat of Humanity will discuss how to apply for their housing program. For more info call Darlene Ponder at (954) 917-8099 or tlcadultdaycare@aol.com.

Voter Registration Drive Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Chi Psi Omega Chapter’s Connection Committee will sponsor a voter registration drive on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Lauderdale Manors Resource Center, 1400 N.W. 14 Ct., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The event is for community persons in need of a new voter registration, lost card, address update or any other changes. For additional info, call (954) 4106673 or visit the chapter’s website, Chipsiomega@info.org or on Face Book.

Happenings at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center

African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderale, Fla. ∗ Sunny Anderson, host of the Food Network’s Cooking for Real” and “The Kitchen” TV shows, Anderson will be attending the "Evening with the Stars" event, Friday, July 25, 2014 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

To order tickets online for this event at www.sfbf.eventbrite.com.

For cost and additional info call (954) 357-6190.

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BROWARD MEGA REUNION CLASS OF 73' THRU 77' Piper Alumni is hosting a Broward Mega Reunion Class of 73" thru 77" Schools, Dillard, Boyd Anderson, Plantation, South Plantation, Ely, Fort Lauderdale, Stranahan, Nova, and Piper on Friday Night Friday, October 17, 2014: Meet and Greet cost $20; Saturday Night, October 18: Formal Banquet cost $60 and Sunday, October 19: Church Service First Baptist Church Piney Grove, 4699 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderdale Lakes Fla., DEADLINE FOR MONEY - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2014. Other classes are welcome to participate.To receive Forms you can email me at Registration Browardmegareunion75.76.77@gmail.com or send a Self Address Stamped Envelope to c/o Cecelia Armstrong Edwards- P.O. Box 120242 Lauderhill Fl., 33312.

Bible School

The community is invited to come out and learn what God is to you, Mt. Zion MBC will begin their Vacation Bible School, July 21-25, 2014 at 6:30 p.m., at 1161 N.W. 29 Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There will be classes for children and adults.

Dr. James B. Darling, Jr. senior pastor/teacher.

Discussion J’Mari & Friends & Foundation/S.W.I.M.S. to host a Community Forum discussing water & pool safety July 26, 2014 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Dixie Court Community Center 306 W Dixie Court Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info contact Pastor Shirley Harold at (754) 779-6961.

Events Events at Mitchell Moore Park Recreation Center, 901 N.W. Tenth St., Pompano Beach, Fla. For additional info contact Laverne Troutman. * Chicago Style Stepping classes every second and fourth Friday, from 7 to 10 p.m., learn how to do Urban Ballroom Chicago Style Steeping Dancing now through Sept. 26, 2014. * Bruch- Bingo & Boards free fun and games and refreshments for adults every first and third Saturday morning, from 10 a.m. to noon. * Teen Scene Chat & Chew, free event for teenagers ages 14-17 every Wednesday, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. * Parents Night Out, every fourth Friday, from 6 to 10 p.m., children will be supervised by Creative staff members. You must pick up your children by 10 p.m.

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Event Event

Mt. Hermon A.M.E. Church is offering free 8X10 photos as a part of its Outreach Ministry, Thursday thru Saturday, July 24-26, 2014 at 401 N.W. Seventh Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the Henry McNeil Turner Family Life Center, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Rev. Henry E. Green, pastor. This ministry will bring family, friends and community together to document unity. To register on line for your free individual group photo log on to or www.mounthermonftl.org. For time and more info contact Linda Jones at (954) 792-3700.

Event The Crockett Foundation will host its 6th Annual Health Festival in Partnership with Zeta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Pompano Citi Centre 1955 N. Fed Hwy. Pompano Beach, Fla. (Vendors needed contact Henri Crockett a t henri@Crockettfoundation.org

Drive

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue invites you to join them during their fourth annual Back to School Drive to benefit Kids in Distress (KID), donations are being accepted at every Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue Station from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, from July 11 to Aug. 11, 2014. You can help ease the stress of returning to school and give our local children a healthy boost of confidence and the tools they need for a successful start to this new school year.

Suggested donations for ages 5-17: Financial assistance; gift cards; new clothing; new sneakers; backpacks and school supplies. For more info contact Lieutenant/Paramedic Joshua Wells at (945) 868-2240.

BROW ARD COUNTY -WIDE CLASS OF ‘74 BROWARD COUNTY-WIDE Invites you to join us for our 40th Y ear Anniversar Year Anniversaryy August 8 – 10, 2014 For more information contact: Linda Bush (754) 244-3178

Lauderdale Lakes Libarary presents "Selecting Your Judicial Candidates" on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Lauderdale Lakes Branch Library and Cultural Center, 3580 W. Okld Pk. Blvd. Come and learn how to get information on the judicial candidate.

Event The Kiwanis of Central Broward will host a Fish & Grits Breakfast on Saturday, July 26, 2014 from 8 to 10 a.m. at West Ken Lark Park, 1321 N.W 33 Ave., Lauderhill, Fla. Proceed to aid foundation and community service. Call (954) 7350619.

Open Mic

Open Mic is held every 1st Friday at First Baptist Church Piney Grove, 4699 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. Dr. Rev Derrick J. Hughes is the senior pastor. Hosted by the young adults, Open Mic features inspirational spoken word, singing and gospel rap.

Open Mic is for ages 18-35 (kids are welcome.) This is a time to fellowship and enjoy God given talent. This is a free invite doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments are served.

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Event The newly formed Carlton B. Moore Freedom Foundation is sponsoring two Inaugural events in Fort Lauderdale. on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014 a reception at the Fort Lauderdale Woman’s Club and Saturday, Aug. 23, a Bid Whist Tournament at the Elks Lounge. For tickets or more information go to: FaceBook Carlton B Moore Foundation or EventBrite.com/ CarltonBMooreFreedomFoundation.

Reunion Calling all Omega Psi Phi Fraternity members from Miami Dade College North & South, plans are being made for upcoming reunion, contact William (Sherb) Parks, at (305) 623-7991 for info.

Meeting Lauderhill Women Club, meets the first Thursday of each month, at 7 p.m., at the Sadkin Center, 1176 N.W. 42nd Way Lauderhill,Fla. For more info call (954) 739-6941.

Program Free Meals (for kids and teens 18 and under) Meals will be served at 2161 N.W. 19 St. Breakfast will be served 8-9 a.m., lunch will be served 12-1 p.m. If any questions or concerns call (954) 730-3442.

Program Christ Resurrection Community Church is hosting a Feeding Program for youth up to age 18. The program runs Monday thru Friday with breakfast beginning at 9 a.m. and lunch starting at noon. In addition we are giving out bags of food on Saturday at noon. Both are free. For more info call Deacon Baron at (954) 298 5753.

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Second Baptist Church of Richmond Heights hosts candidate’s forum

By Derek Joy The Miami Dade Richmond Heights Chapter of the Red Hat Society and Democratic Committeewoman for District 802 Patricia Harper Garrett held a candidates forum at Second Baptist Church of Richmond Heights.

Assisting the sponsors were community host organizations Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. of Richmond Heights and Pi Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority of South Dade with their Young Ladies from Pearl Essence.

State Senator Dwight Bullard, Dem., District 39, was the moderator for the panel composed of Regina Grace, Charlie Anderson and Jesus Medina, who asked specific candidates.

“Voter empowerment really boils down to voter education,” said Bullard. “Too often we don’t do our due diligence to know what’s going on. For those of us who live in municipalities, in Miami Dade County, these are our bread and butter elections.

Aug. 26 is when that happens.”

Interestingly enough, while Democratic Gubernatorial hopefuls former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist and former

State Legislator Nan Rich were represented at the forum, Republican Gov. Rick Scott did not send a representative.

Miami Dade County Commissioner Linda Bell, District 8, was not present or represented.

Her opponent, Daniella Levine Cava, was on hand to answer questions.

“It fuels my passion to fix this county government,” said Levine Cava. “We’ve lost our

Disturbing viral rape of teenager, Jada, spreads like wildfire

According to Jada, she didn’t even realize she had been drugged and raped until pictures and videos of the incident starting circulating on social media weeks later.

By Jeffery L. Boney From Houston Forward embarrassing and despicable way.

Times Jada, who is currently a high school student, says she went According to researchers, the to the house party near Stafmost common form of Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA) ford, Tex., on June 1 with three is alcohol-related, with the vic- of her friends and while there tim in most cases consuming was taken upstairs by a friend.

The last thing she remembers the alcohol voluntarily.

Last month, at a house party from that night is being offered in southwest Houston, a 16- a drink and then she blacked year-old African American fe- out.

According to Jada, she didn’t male who identifies herself as Jada, found this out in the most even realize she had been drugged and raped until pictures

and videos of the incident starting circulating on social media weeks later.

That’s when it got the attention of her mother and community activist Quanell X, who is calling on the Houston Police Department (HPD) to take action against two teens believed to be behind the sexual assault.

Jada filed a police report of the incident about three weeks after the party, once she discovered the photos on social media.

Quanell X, Jada and her mother are all accusing HPD of not doing enough to investigate this crime and arrest the alleged perpetrators.

At a press conference in the driveway of the home where the party was held, Quanell X demanded to know why no one had been arrested for the rape of young Jada.

“What took place here is a criminal act,” said Quanell X. “I want to see law enforcement treat this case with the type of

sensitivity and priority that it deserves.”

Quanell X said that a friend of Jada’s was also raped the same night and that the two young men who were involved, a 16-year-old and a 19-yearold had been actively making social media posts. Quanell X also says that messaging by the older of the two young men indicated that he plans to leave the country jada carrying laptop.

According to HPD spokesperson Kese Smith, investigators have been working the case since it was first reported on June 22. Another HPD spokesperson, John Cannon, said that HPD’s Juvenile Sex Crimes Unit is investigating also and following up on some possible “strong leads” with information on possible suspects that could lead to arrests.

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Unfair distribution of resources fueled abduction of girls in Nigeria

Shake vigorously then take!

(Cont'd from FP) No it’s not a James Bond martini-”shaken and not stirred”; it’s real life coming at you.

In stories throughout the Bible as well as today’s events, there are many well documented episodes where, after a well shaken experience things were replaced in decency and in order.

Where there have been experiences of a shaking i.e. “but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.”

Luke 17:29 (NASB) “So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.”

Genesis 7:23 (NKJV) Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.

Acts 9:8 (NASV) From each of these stories something good prevailed.

I do believe that three miracles occurred after taking the medicines that resulted from the most horrific divine shaking which transcended from the beginning of time.

These phenomena had to be ordained and prescribed by God because there is no way that man could have allowed it to happen.

These three miracles are: Black folk who survived slavery; Warriors for freedom to include Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi and the first Black President of the United States of America.

We need a medicine shaken and not stirred.

“And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”

Hebrews 12:26 (NASV) “WHEN GOD IS SHAKING AND SERVING THE MEDICINE, I WILL TAKE IT.”

There are no schools. No roads, no clean water, no toilets for the poor in Northern Nigeria. So many resources are leaving Africa at discounted rates.

By William Covington Special to the NNPA from OurWeekly LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - Three months after 276 young girls were stolen from the “safety” of the private Chibok School in Northern Nigeria by armed insurgents of Boko Haram, one native of the region with a deep understanding of the history and geopolitical dynamics, said the real story has not been told by the mainstream media.

According to Ebuna Naka, a successful businessman who made millions importing hair relaxer into his homeland during the jheri curl fad, and whose family served in politics, medicine and owned two hospitals,

Black man killed in a chokehold by NYPD officer White man slaps 79year old judge and with the Office of the Richmond (Cont' d from FP) County District Attorney, which spits on her Once Garner, who was as- is leading this investigation,” thmatic, was no longer moving the cops took a step back and one of them stooped over Garner as if to see if he was still alive.

He wasn’t.

The entire video can be seen on YouTube courtesy of liveleak.

At a press conference Friday afternoon, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who postponed his vacation departure to Italy, expressed his condolences. After asking that people not jump to conclusions, he said, “We have a responsibility to keep every New Yorker safe, and that includes when individuals are in custody of the NYPD. That is a responsibility that Police Commissioner [William] Bratton and I take very seriously. We are harnessing all resources available to the city to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the circumstances of this tragic incident. The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is working closely

the mayor added.

Bratton began his remarks by citing the arrest record of Garner and explaining that the police were there to apprehend Garner for the sale of illegal cigarettes. He said that the corner where the incident occurred had been the source of numerous complaints from storeowners.

“Mr. Garner went into cardiac arrest while in the ambulance on the way to the hospital,” Bratton said, “and he died upon arrival.”

During the question and answer session Bratton said that two of the officers involved in the incident have been placed on “desk duty” while the investigation continues, and that the “final determination” of the circumstances will come from the District Attorney’s office.

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(Cont'd from FP)

He is being charged with four counts of aggravated battery and a hate crime. He is being held on $90,000 bail. It appears that he is going to be made to regret this unfortunate decision, since Judge Hubbard is one of the most powerful women in the city.

Hubbard has a long history in Civil Rights law. Her legal career began in 1969 and she has spent several terms on the city’s election board and cable commission. She was appointed to the bench in 1997 and reelected to a six year term the next year. Her most recent reelection was in 2010.

“People of good common sense and decency, people of good hearts should be outraged by this,” Robinson said. “Not just because of who she is but that this happened to anybody.”

there is a back story that helps explain the kidnappings.

From 1967-1970, Nigeria was engaged in a vicious and bloody civil conflict known as the Biafran War which resulted from tribal factionalism and the pull out of colonial powers from the nation. The civil war ended when all the factions convened a meeting (Naka was present).

An informal agreement among the political elite in the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was made and stated that the presidency and the vice presidency should alternate between North and South after every two four-year terms. For example when the president is a Christian Southerner, the vice president is an Islamic Northerner.

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way. The county is for sale.

They’re giving away our tax dollars to rich sports owners, giving away our land. We need to get back to basics.”

Kevin Chambliss, District Director for U.S. Congressman Joe Garcia, Dem., District 26, said the Congressman would continue his fight to improve VA Hospital facilities, get benefits for disabled U.S. Military Service Veterans and teen summer youth employment programs.

Crist was represented by Cedric A. McMinn, who cited Crist’s action as governor to accept economic stimulus funds from the Obama Administration that resulted in saving 20,000 teachers’ jobs. He also cited Crist’s commitment to affordable health care, restoration of rights for ex-offenders and job creation, Wendy Sejour represented Rich and cited her work for and commitment to education, health care social justice and voting rights.

State Rep. Kionne L. McGhee, Dem., District 117, and State Rep. Perry Thurston, a candidate for Florida State Attorney General, who is seeking to oust incumbent Republican Pam Biondi, were on hand to field questions.

“Florida Attorneys General for the last 20 years have been driven by ideology and not what’s right,” Thurston said.

“Instead of accepting $51 billion in Affordable Health Care Act funds to help people of Florida, they chose not to only because it has Obama’s name on it.

That’s the only reason.

“We hear Republicans talking about being tough on crime.

If you are tough on crime you do things to help people who engage in crime because of drug addictions or the lack of gainful employment. They talk tough because it drives the voting base to the polls.

“You see them trying to legislate drug tests for welfare recipients. That’s a blatant violation of constitutional rights.

Why don’t they require drug

Sen. Bullard was moderator for the panel. tests for their staffs, for state contractors and their employees?”

Thurston also cited the need for oversight of the state’s $77billion budget.

“How many local mayors have been arrested?”Thurston asked. “The budgets of all four of those municipalities don’t equal the $77-billion state budget. And you have no oversight.

Nobody is overlooking that.

Pam Biondi won’t because she’s a crony.”

Limited by the Judicial Canons of Ethics, as Bullard pointed out, the judicial candidates Circuit and County Court in Groups 26, 16, 70, 58 and 36, expounded on the question of what makes them individually qualified to serve on the bench, as did Alex Dominguez, a candidate for the Miami Dade Property Appraiser.

The highlight of the forum came when United for Care Statewide Political Director Katia Saint Fleur Irene Dotson, who suffers with fibromyalgia and other degenerative diseases, to address Amendment 2 (Medical Marijuana) concerns.

“I can tell you the decision should be made by the physician and patient. Medical Marijuana is tremendously beneficial to my degenerative conditions,” Dotson said.

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Gridiron dreams, false hope and false promises

By Dedrick D. Henry, Sr./ Neighborhood Unisex I found time at the barbershop this past week to mention private school education compared to public school education and their sports' programs.

The feedback I received on both subjects were thought provoking and informative with total participation from all in attendance. Even some students who attend or have attended both private and public schools had input. A teacher even added her knowledge having worked at a local public high school and a local prestigious private school for many years. She saw firsthand the struggles of teaching and the lack of parental support.

“Believe it or not some parents are more concerned with their son going to practice than him going to study hall or tutoring.” – D. Henry Our conversation went something like this: Parents need to know children need guidance and support more than the team needs him/her to help their school win another championship. High school is the last step before most teenagers enter the real world, so this needs to be a conscious and rewarding decision for both student and parent.

I understand some of these private schools may have better opportunities

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and great chances of meeting quality people and definitely more advanced purchased coaches, but they do not and cannot get you into college.

Only you can get you into college or even college prepared. Your total performance is the only thing that can get you into college, both academically and athletically. Academics being the greater of the two and much longerlasting in this thing called life. Private institutions do provide structure and a sense of arrangement for a child who does not have it in their life. And most private school students do not have to pass the dreadful FCAT.

But, more than likely most public school transfers into private schools have to be tutored to meet the private school’s requirements, making them work that much harder literally only for acceptance. And having attended private school, believe me when I say racism is in full blast in and out of the classrooms at most private institutions.

Parents need to know that if the child is failing in public school, they are going to fail in private school and maybe even at a faster rate, jeopardizing their possible scholarship and future.

Private schools only want our talented and athletic Black boys and

Black Press: The Voice of Black America

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Part IV To publish a document is to establish a permanent record for the future.

To publish a newspaper is to preserve an official record of the news and perspectives of a particular period, which is useful today and in the future. The Black Press has been around since the publication of the first Black newspaper. Freedom’s Journal, in 1827, which had as its motto: “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.”

But Black protest has also been in the form of pamphlets. The most famous was published by David Walker, issued two years after the nation’s first Black newspaper. What was it about David Walker’s publishing his Appeal to the Coloured People of

Are Republicans trying to start an international war?

By Roger Caldwell Sometimes the leaders in the national Republican Party make no sense, because they are fragmented and no one knows who the CALDWELL leader is. If you look on television, you would think Fox News talking heads are the scholars and professors in the country, and we should follow them. Basically, everyone is giving their opinion, and they want problems fixed immediately with no work, and the snap of their finger.

In the past few days, Republicans are blaming President Obama for everything that is wrong in the world.

Even though this sounds ludicrous, the Republicans want the President to condemn countries with no evidence or facts. It appears they want to pick fights, and prove that America is the strongest country in the world.

The Republicans are taking aim at the President’s policy and they want America to punish Russia. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., has branded President Obama as “the most naïve president in history.” A CNN poll says four out of 10 Americans approve of the President's handling of foreign policy.

Last week, Sean Hannity called the President weak and unable to lead the country with authority and strength. Many Republicans want Americans to think that the only option on the table is to use military power with no strategy. They want to lead us down a road where our young soldiers are murdered, injured, and at war.

The Republican and Conservative hawks have come out to play and they are looking for a country to make war on. With the world at war in so many places, it will take a calm mind with peaceful thinking to stay out of war.

America should no longer be the police around the world and solve other countries' battles and skirmishes. We must focus on own problems and clean up our own mess.

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the World that made slave masters in 1829 so fearful and uncomfortable?

It was Walker’s inspiring use of the printCHAVIS ed word that stirred the very soul and spirits of the enslaved masses of African people to rise up at all cost against the “evils” of slavery. Walker’s publication, often referred to as David Walker’s Appeal, gave the antislavery movement a resolute, charismatic voice for grassroots resistance by those held in the “clutches of slavery.”

Walker, a native of Wilmington, N.C., had relocated to Boston, in his quest to escape the overt brutality of chattel slavery in southeastern North Carolina. According to the David Walker Memorial Project, “Many historians now regard the Appeal as one of the most important social and political documents of the 19th century.

Nothing like it had been published before. It remained a rallying point for African Americans for many years after Walker’s death. And it informed the thinking of generations of Black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X.” In the preamble to the Appeal, Walker emphasized, “I am fully aware, in making this appeal to my much afflicted and suffering brethren, that I shall not only be assailed by those whose greatest earthly desires are, to keep us in abject ignorance and wretchedness, and who are of the firm conviction that Heaven has designed us and our children to be slaves and beasts of burden to them and their children. I say, I do not only expect to be held up to the public as an ignorant, impudent and restless disturber of the public peace, by such avaricious creatures, as well as a mover of insubordination – and perhaps put in prison or to death, for giving a superficial exposition of our miseries, and exposing tyrants.”

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Dogs eat better than one million children

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The South African charity Feed a Child ( h t t p : / / MALVEAUX www.feedachild.co.za/) chose to highlight child poverty in South Africa by portraying a little Black boy being fed like a dog by a seemingly affluent white woman. In the ad, the boy has his head on the woman’s lap, at her feet, on his knees, and licking off her fingers. The point, they say? According to the ad’s tagline, “The average dog eats better than millions of children.”

The ad ran for about five days in South Africa and its airing generated such a maelstrom. Feed a Child withdrew the ad and “unreservedly” issued an apology. Ogilvy and Mather, the international agency that produced the ad, also apologized “unreservedly."

In her apology, Alza Rautenbach says, “Like a child, I don’t see race or politics – the only thing that is important to me is to make a difference in a child’s life and to make sure that that child is fed on a daily basis.”

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girls for State Championships, school prestige, and dominance. And it’s sad to say that some parents have fallen into this stigma and are blinded to the ulterior motive of some of these private institutions. I realize that everybody wants to be a winner, but earn your victory. Don’t allow everything to be given to you. If not careful, this concept will trickle down to your offspring and their future success in life. Yes, they may earn a scholarship for their athletic skills, but education and self value is much more important in the real world.

Some parents allow this decision to be made for their own exposure and acceptance which is pure ignorance, Just to say, "My child goes to St. Martha’s Football High he has 30 touchdowns.”

“Yeah, because they’re running him like a slave,” I say.

Public schools offer the same opportunities when it comes to education and even more since the inception of the FCAT. Some student-athletes just are not applying themselves. There are tutoring programs and extra credit assignments given to all public school failing students, and there are homework hotlines, charter schools, study groups and just as much help as there is at a private school for failing students.

At a private school, a star player would probably be allowed to play in a big game with bad grades, because the school doesn’t care about him failing; they only care about winning the game. The more games won the more money the school receives from alumni. The only thing these private institutions have that public schools lack is proper funding and full parent participation in the total success of their child. Public schools offer them many diverse cultures, traditions, education, and insight from teachers who look and talk like them and who have seen or been through what they may be going through. This experience in itself will help to build a relationship between teacher and student.

A parents’ main concern for their child should be their education, not depending on their child’s athletic ability to achieve success. Some of these private institutions are giving these parents a false since of security, security that will only last for four years, if that. There is no lifetime contract in the National Football League, but a Ph.D or a BS will last past their lifetime.

A victory for affirmative action

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Almost lost among the news last week about the war in the Middle East and a war of another kind in Washington between CURRY Republicans and President Obama was a bit of good news: A federal appeals court, acting on a case remanded by the Supreme Court, upheld the University of Texas’ modest affirmative action program.

Celebration of the victory is expected to be short lived because it is certain that the Supreme Court, which remanded the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last summer, will take the case up again, this time ruling directly on whether the university’s carefully crafted affirmative action program is constitutional.

Unlike the court’s last affirmative action ruling involving Michigan – which had less to do with the merits of affirmative action and was more about whether a state ballot initiative could be used to ban affirmative action – the Texas case goes to the heart of affirmative action.

The lawsuit was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was turned down for admission to the University of Texas at Austin, the state’s flagship university, in the fall of 2008.

Texas operates a Top 10 Percent Plan, which grants automatic admission to state universities to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class. The year Fisher applied, 81 percent of the university’s admission slots were filled in that manner.

The remaining openings were filled through what the university calls a holistic review program, which looks at such factors as demonstrated leadership qualities, extracurricular activities, honors, awards, essays, work experience, socioeconomic status, family composition, family responsibilities, the applicant’s high school and race. No numbers were assigned to any of those categories.

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The politics of promises seldom yield political results

By Derek Joy And so, the campaign season heads into the homestretch.

Just about a month away from that Aug. 26, date when municipal elections will be decided - barring the need for a runoff. State and federal primaries on that date will determine the candidates for the Nov 4, General Elections.

Yes. The heat is on. Pressure is mounting, too. And the promises are being made as usual.

The trick is to see that at least a respectable measure of those promises is fulfilled. People of color often find their communities are left wanting when it comes time to deliver on those political promises.

Consequently, I found a powerful essence in the words of Florida State Senator Dwight Bullard (Dem,, District 39), when he spoke at candidates forum at Mt. Calvary M.B. Church following a march on violence in Liberty City last Saturday morning.

“We are elected officials. What you see is the tip of the sword. We go to the policymakers to make change. But if they don’t see those people are committed, they won’t do anything,” Bullard said.

That lack of commitment demonstrated by a physical and verbal presence at their meetings is what contributes to the absence of promises fulfilled. You know, the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

Sorta makes Black elected officials appear without support among their constituents.

Guess that lends validity to very vehement concerns of government concerns of term limited Florida State Rep. Perry Thurston (Dem., Fort Lauderdale), the House Democratic Leader who is campaigning for Florida State Attorney General.

Thurston considered how easily four municipal mayors in Miami Dade County while no such oversight over the state budget exists.

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The Gantt Report Black political opportunities

By Lucius Gantt The Gantt Report would like to thank people in Florida like GANTT Henry Crespo, Bishop Victor Curry and Cheryl Gonzalez , other people across the country and entrepreneurs like America’s Black media owners that have been fighting for Blacks to get political business from both Democrats and Republicans.

I don’t expect political parties in the United States to do the right thing and spend money with Black owned media and with Black political professionals.

The big contributors will never earmark their contributions to go toward funding political efforts in Black communities and the small contributors to Democratic and Republican Parties will probably never demand that their money be spent in a diverse manner.

I want the Black brothers and sisters that have went to school and studied political science, mass communications, public relations, journalism, fine art, TV and radio production, opinion polling, computer programming, social media marketing and other fields used in politics to pursue other work alternatives.

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Payday lender ACE Cash Express fined $10 million

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist For the second time in as many years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fined a major payday lender. On CROWELL July 10, Director Richard Cordray announced that one of the nation’s largest payday lenders, ACE Cash Express, will pay $10 million in restitution and penalties for directing its employees to “create a sense of urgency” when contacting delinquent borrowers. This abusive tactic was used to perpetuate the payday loan debt trap.

CFPB has ordered ACE Cash Express to provide consumers with five million dollars in refunds and the same amount in penalties for its violations.

The firm operates in 36 states and in the District of Columbia with 1,500 storefronts, 5,000 associates and online loans.

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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.

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

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DOWDY Funeral services for the late Jack Oliver Dowdy - 88 were held July 19 at McWhite’s FuneralHome Chapel with Dr. Melvin Copeland officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

HALL Funeral services for the late Michael Anthony Hall – 57 were held July 19 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel, Pastor Michelle Martin officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

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Kids Talk About God

What is the Golden Rule?

By Carey Kinsolving and Friends What did Jesus mean when he said, “Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them”?

“If you are mean to someone, then they will start being mean back to you,” says Blain, 7.

Brooke, 9, looks to agriculture to interpret the Golden Rule: “If we plant something good, we get something good back. But if you plant something bad, you get something bad back.”

Every farmer knows that even the most fertile farmland will remain barren unless good seed is sown. It’s the same with human relationships. The thing to remember is that not every seed sprouts and produces fruit. Because you never know which seed will sprout, you have to keep sowing good seed.

“If you are nice to another person, then they will probably be nice back to you. And so then you and he will be friends,” says Daniel, 7.

Yes, you might even reap friends from the Golden Rule.

There are few things in life more valuable than good friends.

“Don’t tease or make fun of somebody, if you wouldn’t want them to tease you,” says Marci, 10. “Put yourself in the other person’s shoes before you say or do something mean. Think of the consequences.”

If we consistently live and act as though the entire universe revolves around us, we’re going to reap a barren life. Because we’re so busy tripping over our own selfishness, we’ll never be able to put ourselves in anyone else’s shoes.

For Christopher, 7, the Golden Rule is practical: “Show respect to other people. Today, I will not fight.”

A minimal starting place for the Golden Rule would be to stop abusing others. The people on the receiving end of your abuse will be greatly relieved if you stop whatever you’re doing that drives them crazy.

“Do what they want you to do, but don’t boss them around,” says Peyton, 12.

Most bad relationships revolve around a struggle for control.

A story about improving marriages on network television featured a woman who treated her husband as though he were one of her three boys.

As an exercise, the marriage counselor recommended the wives go out to dinner with their husbands and resist all temptation to control. It was difficult, but the controlling wife asked her husband to choose what she should wear, where they should go and so forth. At the end of the evening, they were actually holding hands and showing genuine affection.

Obviously, control is not just a problem in marriages. It’s part of the fall. Men and women want to control everything in their lives, including God. One thing is sure: God will never submit to our control.

God is a person with whom you can have a relationship. Like any person, he has feelings. We cause him grief and pain when we ignore him or don’t treat him with the respect and honor he deserves. If you’re a parent or grandparent, what is the one thing you want from your children or grandchildren? Love.

Jesus said, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). Clearly, love is the essence of the Golden Rule.

Think about this: Go beyond the Golden Rule. Show more consideration to people than you would want for yourself.

Memorize this truth: “Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 7:12).

Ask this question: Can you treat others with more consideration than you would want for yourself?

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Why is it so hard to retain fund development professionals? That’s the polite version of the question that has executive directors pulling their hair out, and nonprofit board members wondering “what’s going on?”

“One of the reasons we continue to see so much turn-over in fundraising staff is the pervasive misunderstanding of how fundraising works, shares Leyna Bernstein, founder of Leadership Search Partners. With this column we bring you excerpts from her column on Fundraising Fables.

Fable 1: We hire a development director to do our fundraising for us.

Fact: Success in fundraising comes from building a shared responsibility for cultivating and stewarding donors throughout the organization. The board and the executive director share accountability with the chief development officer. The job of your development director is to create the organization’s fundraising plan and oversee its implementation, not to make all of your calls.

For this role, planning, coaching, managing and mentoring are more important tasks than solicitation.”

We couldn’t say it more succinctly. In our experience it is a lack of understanding of the fundraising process on the part of the executive director and board that leads to a harmful disconnect between nonprofit executive directors and development directors.

Fable 3: We will hire a fundraiser who will bring his donor rolodex with him.

Fact: Really? Do you give your money to the fundraiser, or to the cause? Ethical fundraisers are not going to “bring their donors with them”. While fundraisers may have existing relationships that can open some doors, and while having a fundraiser with exceptional relational skills is critical, it is your cause and impact that will attract investment.

There are two faces to this fable: sometimes the nonprofit who wants to “hire a rolodex” and other times a development professional is “selling” her rolodex. When making a hire don’t look to use another organization’s relationships - build your own, for most are not transferrable. We know of too many instances where candidates promote their relationships with donors/funders, forgetting that the relationships are really between donors/funders and the organization not the individual.

Fable 4: A track-record of big asks is an indicator of ability to be a development director.

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FAMU professors awarded 100K National Science Foundation Grant

By Alonda Thomas TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research to fund a project entitled “EAGER: Mag-

netic Interrogation of Mesoscale Materials.”

EAGER is a materials research program that brings together the disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. The grant dollars will fund a pilot program housed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the world’s

highest-powered magnet laboratory, which is located in Tallahassee.

“This will be the beginning of a great research collaboration between FAMU and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, and will have a huge impact on the research capacity of FAMU,” said physics profes-

March against violence ends with candidate’s forum

Participants getting ready for march.

(Cont'd from FP ) Strange said he was getting a lot of complaints from youths who were frustrated because nobody listened to their concerns. The result was the formation of CAP so kids could call a pastor rather than turn to violence.

“Everybody has a role to play,” said City of Miami District 5 Commissioner Keon Hardemon. “My role is to bring resources to the District. What this community really needs is economic development to make it more vibrant. We want the simple things that other communities have. But we have to fight for it tooth and nail.”

Violence isn’t new to this Liberty City neighborhood.

Pastor Kenneth Johnson was shot and killed while being robbed of a chain earlier this month. Just west of that 62nd Street location, two people were shot and killed only weeks be-

fore that, which followed a shooting at northwest 12th Avenue and 66th Street where two people were killed and seven others were wounded.

Johnson was returning home after helping a member of his church get his car started. Two youthful gunmen, who have since been arrested, wanted the imitation gold chain Johnson wore around his neck. They shot and killed Johnson.

“We need to come together more often than with situations like this,” said Miami Dade County Commissioner Jean Monestine, who appeared on the candidate’s forum that was moderated by WPLG/Local 10 political reporter Glenna Milberg.

Monestine’s opponent, former District 2 Commissioner Dorin Rolle, participated in the march but did not stay for the forum. “We need to be more proactive, not reactive. That means coming to commission meeting

and budget hearings. The situation, the condition of our community is in didn’t get this way overnight. It’s been this way for 30, 40 years.

“What we need to do is provide people with an alternative to having guns in their hands.

We need to create jobs and parents need to be parents again,” Monestine said.

Candidates for State House District 108, currently held by Rep., Daphne Campbell, who was absent, fielded questions from Milberg and the audience.

Taj Echols, Michael Hepburn and Cedric Saintil, Jr., are vying to unseat Campbell.

A number of judicial candidates and Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Nan Rich, who is waging an uphill battle against former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, who did not appear, rounded out the field of candidates.

“The key is awareness and education,” said Rev. Strange.

“The march was to heightened awareness and the forum is to educate the voters.”

Citing passage from the Book of Isaiah, Bush said: “The Prophet Isaiah said, ‘Any time you attack the enemy’s territory with God, you automatically make an impact. The word goes forth and it will return to us because it will hit its intended target’.”

State Senator Dwight Bullard, Dem., District 39, offered a succinct bit of perception when he said: “It’s an energy of change here. And we want everybody to be committed to that.”

MOCHENA, Ph.D

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RAMAKRISHNAN, Ph.D sor Mogus Mochena, Ph.D, the project’s principal investi-gator.

The grant proposal was a collaborative effort between Mochena, chemistry professor Nelly Mateeva, Ph.D., and FAMUFSU College of Engineering professor Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. The project will also enlist the research talents of additional faculty members from FAMU’s Departments of Physics and Chemis-

try, the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and faculty members from Florida State University’s Departments of Physics and Chemistry.

“Congratulations to Dr. Mochena and his team members on an outstanding job in preparing such a highly competitive proposal for this project,” said K. Ken Redda, Ph.D., vice president for research. “It demonstrates effective collaboration across the science disciplines of physics, chemistry

and engineering and moves FAMU’s research agenda forward.”

According to Dr. Mochena, the research will focus on multiple components, including sustainable energy production systems that take advantage of water splitting. Water splitting is the separation of water into oxygen and hydrogen with the intent of extracting hydrogen.

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Breaking the chains

Jineea Butler brought Black Press and Hip Hop community together.

By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York is in the news again, this time allegedly for officers brutalizing inmates.

I did time at Rikers Island. Not, not as an inmate, thank God, but as an employee. It’s another world behind those bars, where only the strong survive.

I remember my first day on the job when my director told me, “Never let them see you sweat.” I thought what have I got myself into. The irony is when I was about 12, my mom and dad asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I said, ‘I want to work in a jail!” Both of them had a Fred Sanford ‘Elizabeth, I’m coming’ moment.

They couldn’t fathom how they were raising their children in an upper middle-class neighborhood to keep my brother and I away from crime and criminals and I wanted to pursue a career in criminal justice.

My job was counselor of addiction treatment and my assignment was to create a mock therapeutic atmosphere for clients who were possibly eligible for an alternative to incarceration with a 12-24 month drug program. We had to organize groups daily for a house of 50 inmates, four times a day. The catch was even known every inmate voluntarily signed up to be in the program, though not many wanted to participate.

The word was that the

Miami Dolphins hosts Most Valuable Reader programs in Miami Dade and Broward County libraries

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The Miami Dolphins Foun- County elementary school and dation partnered with Miami summer camp children at North Dade and Broward county li- Lauderdale Library. braries to host Most Valuable On July 17, Miami Dolphins Reader programs this week. On Alum and current team Senior July 15, 2014, Miami Dolphins Director of Community Affairs wide receiver Armon Binns read Twan Russell visited North and interacted with Broward Dade Regional Library to read and interact with Miami Dade County elementary school and summer camp children. Both parties enjoyed Papa John’s PUBLICATION pizza as well.

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Broward County's Oldest and Largest African American Owned and Operated Newspaper Substance Abuse Intervention Division program (SAID) was more comfortable than general population and if you didn’t have an arson, murder or robbery charge, you could request to be in designated units. Former Mayor Bloomberg has since eliminated the program, but it was definitely effective.

I’ve probably come in direct contact with more than 5,000 individuals who found themselves on the island for one reason or another. I met Hip Hop Artists Chi Ali, Tony Yayo, and worked extensively with Flavor Flav, mapping out his return to the public eye. One thing is certain, once you have been touched by the system; you will never be the same.

I can proudly say I graduated from Rikers University because it wasn’t until I went behind those walls did I see the world clearly. Countless a-

mounts of Black and Latino men came through those revolving doors, sometimes twice and even three times.

In many cases, the time represented a rite of passage for the younger guys and most of the older ones were caught up because of the sins of their youth. If a Caucasian or Asian got caught in the system, it was mostly because they were disconnected from their families.

Some people need to be locked up no doubt, but the Correction in the Department of Corrections needs to happen, but in most cases it does not.

So many things hinder an inmate’s development that I began to wonder what it is all about. Population control at its finest; the practice of artificially altering the rate of growth of a human population.

The first thing I noticed was the dorm living quarters were set up like slave ships. You can

immediately determine the design is a replica of the bottom of the ships where the slaves infamously laid side by side throughout the Trans Atlantic African Slave Trade.

The Bronx even has a ship on water that operates as one of the 10 jails. I realized two populations were locked up- the staff, which included me and the inmates or the overseers and the slaves. The inmates will tell you quick that you can go home, which was very true.

The epiphany came when I realized that door locked behind me just like it does them and I was volunteering to be locked up everyday exposing my mind to this inhumane treatment whether delivering it or experiencing it.

The correction officers who easily could have been their cellmates are the ones who are affected the most. Some inmates were dangerous. The more time

they had on the job, the more ruthless they would become.

I had officers who would try to circumvent my authority by disrupting my groups, instigating gang beef. I was a civilian, I didn’t have a gun or bullet proof vest on or sit in the ‘Bubble.' Make no mistake the culture is corrupt.

The Stanford Experiment showed us back in 1971 the serious detriment and psychological torment that takes place between the prisoners and the guards.

Gary Heyward, an officer who worked with me during that time ended up doing two years in prison and wrote an excellent tell all book appropriately titled Corruption Officer which is being redistributed by a division of Simon and Schuster March 2015.

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Equipping students to make healthy sexual choices

By Ashley Young One in a series of profiles of the 2013 Fellows in the Black AIDS Institute’s African American HIV University’s Science and Treatment College.

“I’ve always had an eye and an ear for helping others,” says 27-year-old Ashley Young of Little Rock, Ark., who says that this predilection has played a large role in guiding her life’s work: counseling, supporting and educating people infected with and affected by HIV. For the past 10 months, she has carried out this work at Better Community Development, Inc. (BCD), a non-profit that serves disadvantaged people in and around Little Rock and provides outpatient services and residential treatment to those who are homeless, substance-addicted or affected by HIV/AIDS. Young’s involvement with HIV work began right after college, when she landed a job as an HIV educator and school-based educator for Planned Parenthood. While in college, she was working at a summer after-school program with preteens when she watched a visiting health educator conduct a presentation on HIV/AIDS. This captured Young’s interest. “I knew then that this is what I wanted to do, so I approached the woman afterwards and asked if there were any jobs doing what she did,” she says. A short time later, Young was offered the job as an HIV-program coordinator at BCD. There is no shortage of work for Young in Little Rock. According to the international HIV/AIDS charity AVERT, Arkansas ranks third in STD prevalence in the United States. The rate of Black male Arkansans living with an HIV diagnosis is four times that of white males; for Black women it’s 8.1 times that of white females.

After she’d spent only a short time at BCD, Young’s zeal and energy so thoroughly impressed her YOUNG boss that she was encouraged to apply for the AAHU Science and Treatment College fellowship with The Black AIDS Institute. “I had been doing HIV education for four years and knew how to educate people on preventing infection, using condoms, lifestyle changes and safe sexual behaviors. The one thing I did not know was what to do once you were infected with the virus in terms of medication and treatment,” she said. “When I saw that the AAHU would be teaching us about the science and treatment of HIV/AIDS, I knew this would be another thing I could add to my arsenal.”

The training was initially rather intimidating for Young. However, being in a room with people who have worked with clients for far longer than she had, and some who had been living with the virus for years, did not intimidate her. “It was amazing how much information I was able to end up learning, and how much I was able to regurgitate,” she says.

One of her responsibilities in Little Rock is to do monthly presentations at BCD’s residential treatment program. Since returning from the training, she has incorporated much of the information she learned through AAHU. “My target area of focus is teen health. I think it is not a coincidence that we don’t give our kids sex education and they end up with STDs. We all want our children to make better choices, but we don’t equip them with the tools to do so,” she says.

Today she is working primarily with high school students. Having grown up and been educated in Little Rock public schools, Young can look back and see the shortcomings that the lack of sex education created for her classmates. “That’s why it’s so important to me.

Young people have questions,” she says. The demand for her presentations in high schools is so great that she now has to schedule them six to seven months in advance.

The CDC’S new national MSM HIV Campaign neglects Black men Ramon Sahib Johnson

Typically, the kickoff of the International AIDS conference is a noisy, boisterous affair. But this year, the opening ceremony at AIDS2012 in Melbourne was marked by a profound silence. At the cavernous convention center, some 12,000 delegates stood for a minute-long global moment of remembrance for delegates on flight MH17, who lost their lives en route to the conference. The six—thankfully, far fewer than the 100 conference-related deaths first reported by the media—died along with 292 others on Friday, when their plane was struck by a missile over Ukraine.

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When President Barack Obama announced his National HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010, he promised “bold” actions toward a vision that would make the U.S. a place where new HIV infections were rare in every American community, regardless of race, ethnicity, economic status, or sexual orientation and gender identity. The President’s commitment was a direct challenge to the silences, stigmas and discriminations familiar to gay and bisexual men, transgender individuals and MSMs, who are disproportionately burdened by HIV and AIDS. Under the President’s directive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has increased its prevention efforts in LGBT communities.

Recently the agency announced a national campaign specifically targeting all gay and bisexual men and MSMs. This new initiative, “Start Talking. Stop HIV” (STSH), promotes open discussions by encouraging gay and bisexual men to talk about HIV risk and prevention strategies with their sexual partners.

The program couldn’t have come at a better time. Conversations about HIV/AIDS have dropped to an alarming silence, both among gay men at home and in national conversations, which is why the CDC says that STSH, the next phase of the wider Act Against AIDS campaign, launched in 2009, aims to refocus the nation’s attention.

“We need gay and bisexual men to talk to their sexual partners about HIV and to engage in those conversations. But there is also a need for the

WINNERS AGAIN! CHI PSI OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED -- Chi Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated is once again a winner at the international biennial conference, Boule, July 12-18, 2014, held in Charlotte, N.C., known as the “Queen City. The chapter received for two years consecutively, first place in the Excellence in Reclamation: New Century Membership Campaign Award and received the designation of first runner-up for the prestigious health partner award from the American Cancer Society for implementing best and most outstanding program.

Over 11, 500 were in attendance at this conference. Fourteen chapter members in attendance were Veronica E. Phillips, president; Luwando Wright-Hines, pirst vice-president; LaKeitha G. Baugh, Kassandra L. Burton, Revertha W. Grace, Olivia B. Hilton, Leah Jackson, Emma H. Kurtz, Candace Kennedy, Joel D. McCray, Tscharner Miller- Strapp, Barbara J. Thomas, Dione Trawick and Malikh F. Williams.

general public to know about HIV and to be talking about it,” says Nikki Mayes, media specialist at the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.

“Start Talking. Stop HIV” features videos, posters, billboards and a number of digital platforms in addition to the website, including Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter accounts that Mayes says “speak to gay and bisexual men of all races and ethnicities in all types of relationships, from casual to longterm.” This is a move in the right direction, but the CDC’s new strategy is not a “bold”enough step forward because it underrepresents the populations that need it most.

The campaign speaks to a wide audience by featuring a racially diverse cast (of real people affected by HIV). However, it lacks one key element: people of color—Black men in particular. In total, African Americans and men of color are far less represented than White men in the videos and promotional materials. For example, of the 37 gay men featured in the campaign’s “Conversations” video, only about eight appear to be of African descent.

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“We have to get them young. Kids and HIV is my thing, and I’m passionate about it,” she says. “It’s a fight, but I’m prepared, thanks to The Black AIDS Institute.”

AAHU’s Science and Treatment Fellows are blogging about their experiences.

As told to Glenn Ellis, a health writer and radio commentator who lectures nationally and internationally on ethics and equity in health care.

On June 27, 2014, Captain Velma C. Gay was promoted to Major Velma C. Gay at the Joint Base Andrews Courtroom in Washington. Major Gay is a Boyd Anderson High School graduate, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but spending her formative years in South Florida. Captain Gay earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Florida State University in 1996 and recently completed her Masters of Law degree at The George Washington University of Law School. She is currently assigned to the Administration Litigation Branch West, Labor Law Field Support Center, Joint Base Andrews. Major Gay’s parents, George Alton Gay and Wendy Johnson, as well as her two daughters Lauren and Brittany, are exceedingly proud of her many accomplishments and would like to congratulate her once again with this small token of Love. “We are so proud and we love you so much!” This article is a reprint from July 17, 2014 Edition -- there was an error in the name (Gray it should have been Gay). Our apologizes.

CDSF FIRST ELDERLY APPRECIATION DAY A GREAT SUCCESS -- On Saturday, July 19, the Calvin Dudley, Sr. Foundation presented its first Elderly Appreciation Day at Oswald Park. The event began with a prayer by Miss Bonnie Sapp followed by the introduction from Miss Corliss Jackson. The ribbon cutting opened the event, done by Calvin Dudley, Sr. and an Honoree, Mrs. Lela Mckoy. All in attendance enjoyed the healthy atmosphere filled with engaging conversations, music, entertainment and great food.

Appreciation Certificates were given to all the elders that participated in the event. Those chosen were pampered with a massage, a pedicure and foot rub.

Congratulations to CDSF for a successful event!

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