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Event
Seminole Middle School is offering free tutoring for their students at the Jim Ward Center, Mondays and Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. You must have your own transportation and the child must be a current student at Seminole. Contact Ms. Curry at (754) 323 4200, ext. 2012 for more info.
Health Fair
Chi Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated will host its annual health fair “Health From Head to Toe”, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Northwest Regional Library, 3151 N. Univ. Dr., Coral Springs. Pre-registration is required for on site mammograms, the event is free. Call (954) 7897573 to register. For additional information, visit us at chipsiomega@info.org.
Walk
The City of Fort Lauderdale, to host 2014 Turkey Trot, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, registration at 6 a.m. and Run/ Walk/Paddle at 7:30 at DC Alexander Park, 501 Fort Lauderdale Blvd., South of Las Olas on A1A.
Love Feast
P.H.P. is inviting Homeless & Indigent Individuals to fellowship with us the weekend after Thanksgiving for Thanksgiving Dinner, “Love Feast”, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014 from 12 to 2 p.m., at Shaw Temple AME Zion Church, 522 N.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Volunteers and donations are needed. For more info call (954) 527-0414.
Event
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Broward County Alumnae Chapter and Delta Education and Life Development Foundation, Inc. presents Adolescent Health and Sexuality Conference..."Battle of the Sexes" Dec. 6, 2014 at the Urban League of Broward County, Community Empowerment Center, 560 N.W. 27 Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more info call (954) 5222840; website: http:// www.bcacdst.org or email: info@bcacdst.org. SUPPORT THE BLACK PRESS, IS THE VOICE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. FOR CALL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY! (954) 525-1489
World AIDS Day Vigil 2014
One in 88 individuals in Broward County are HIV+. In the United States, we have experienced 636,000 deaths of individuals with an AIDS diagnosis. At least, 1,155,792 live with HIV/AIDS in the US. Thousands still do not receive treatment due to a lack of information or the stigma that remains. Broward House and the Pride Center work alongside many community partners throughout the year to provide care, support and prevention. On Sunday Nov. 30, 2014 at 7 p.m., our community will come together for our World AIDS Day Vigil. We will meet at Hagen Park and walk down Wilton Drive united in memory, healing and love. The candlelit walk will culminate at the Pride Center Pavilion for a few words of respectful remembrance, support, and continued vigilance. We invite the community to join us at Hagen Park to strengthen this tradition of hope and healing.
Program
Fair
The 15th Street Church of Christ Health and Wellness Ministry presents the 2014 We Care Community Wellness Fair, Food & Clothing Giveaway, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 390 N.W. 15th St., Pompano Beach, Fla. For additional call (954) 943-6960.
Garage Sale
To all friends and family Garage Sale, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 2020 N.W. 31 Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nice dresses, over 100 pairs of shoes, handbags, also vintage bags and kids clothing.
Concert
This World AIDS Day Broward County will come together as a community to raise awareness and remember those we have lost to this still deadly infection. Join us on Dec. 1 at Dillard High School, 2501 NW 11 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our World AIDS Day Community Event titled “It takes a Village to Stop HIV: World AIDS Day Community Cookout”. This family friendly event is open to the public and will include guest speakers, youth performances, quilt displays, HIV testing and education, and free food. For more information about this and other community World AIDS day events, visit www.WorldAIDSDayBroward.com
Family Field Day
Mount Hermon AME Church’s music and Creative Arts Ministry presents A Christmas Concert, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 at 6 p.m. Rev. Henry E. Green, Jr., pastor. For more info call (954) 4636309.
Trip
Black Noel – The Fort Lauderdale African American Christmas Spectacular – Show Times Friday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 13, at 4 p.m., and 8 p.m., - Sunday, Dec. 14, at 4 p.m., at The New Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 400 N.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tickets on sale now, to purchase call the church (954) 463-5126.
Event
Off to Jamaican, Beautiful Montego Bay Jamaica, Oakland Park CDC Sassy Seniors are at it again, Friday, Dec. 58, 2014. To register call now, (954) 822-0749.
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The NAACP, AARP and Wells Fargo presents a Financial Assistance and Homeownership Workshop on Saturday, December 6, 2014 from 10am-2pm. The workshop will be held at the NFL Youth Education Center @ Gwen Cherry Park located at 7090 NW 22nd Avenue in Miami. Join us to receive information on fixing your finances, credit repair, down payment assistance programs and one-on-one sessions with industry professionals. RSVP as soon as possible, as seats are limited and the event is FREE for all attendees. Breakfast and lunch will be served! To RSVP, please email ssmailbox@aarp.org with your name, email address and phone number.
Family Field Day with City of Miami and Coca-Cola, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Shenandoah Park, 1800 S.W. 21 Ave., Miami, Fla.
Event Christmas near the Beach in Hollywood, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2014 from 4 to 9 p.m., at the Arts Park at Young Circle in Hollywood, Fla. Bands, dancers, singers, vendors, a classic car show and a free photo with St. Nick at his “Beach House”. For more info call (954) 4284480.
Party
Broward County-Wide Class of 1974 Annual Holiday Party, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014 from 7 p.m. to midnight, at Lauderdale Lakes Educational & Cultural Center, Second Floor Banquet Hall, 3580 N. Oakland Park Blvd., Lauderdale Lakes, Fla. Semi-Formal. For tickets and additional info contact Linda Bush at (754) 244-3178 or Rachel Roland at (954) 2582433.
Program
God’s Gift, Inc. Mentoring Program is now accepting applications for girls 7-17. This mentoring program focuses on self-esteem, etiquette, college/ career prep, and leadership skills for African American girls 7-17. For more information and/ or to receive a registration packet, email info@godsgiftinc.org or call (954) 907-9101. Registration packets can also be picked up at Roosevelt Gardens Park.
United Way of Broward is looking for volunteers: We are looking for volunteers that can dedicate one hour per week, for 25 weeks to read to first grade students for the 2014-2015 school year -- No experience is necessary; just a love for children. Volunteers must complete and pass a background check. ReadingPals takes place during school hours.ReadingPals runs from September 2014 to June 2015. Through the ReadingPals initiative volunteers read with children at 14 public schools and 6 childcare centers throughout Broward County. For more information about volunteering, training dates and volunteer requirements for the ReadingPals initiative please contact Lola Jordan at (954) 453-3738.
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“The midterm elections have upended the old tropes about what you can or can’t do or say about MORIAL guns during campaign season...This year gun sense champions around the country were reelected. And campaigns around the country showed that candidates can run on the gun issue, not away from it – and win.”
Happy Thanksgiving 2014!
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Florida’s Everglades, with Everglades National Park as the centerpiece. We learned that the restoration was vital to South Florida’s future as it was necessary to provide water for an expanding population, and that it was important to the rest of the country that cared about the park, one of approximately 365 units nationwide. We also learned that citizen participation was imperative if the restoration was to succeed. With dazzling vistas of the Grand Canyon National Park, the geyser fields of Yellowstone National Park and the 2,000-year-old giant sequoia trees of Yosemite National Park dancing before our eyes, we threw ourselves into the effort to help inform and engage African Americans in the restoration effort. Simultaneously, we learned about the environmental injustices meted out to local communities, and strove to bridge the gap between white conservation organizations and Black community activists. As the years passed our excitement was tempered with consternation as we learned how our climate is changing and what those changes might mean for our environment and people.
Throughout the entire time the Westside Gazette has been our consistent partner, disseminating every iota of information that we shared. The Gazette truly showed what it means to be a “community-focused” newspaper, standing with us whether we were trying to appeal to the U.S Congress or the national association of Black newspaper publishers. (NNPA.org) Fast forward to the present day, when climate change and its effects are widely accepted as a reality with which we must deal. South Florida is squarely in the bull’s eye for flooding as sea levels rise and city and county governments are well advised to prepare their citizens to adapt to inevitable changes. In 1995 we had no idea that we’d be here today, on the verge of the 100th Anniversary Celebrations of the National Park Service August 25, 2016. The agency which manages our National Park System will soon launch a national public information campaign, something we have advocated throughout the years. This Thanksgiving, we are so grateful for the opportunity to bring those “obscure” discoveries from 1995 up to the present
The courage of President A nation where slavery Obama in the face of still thrives Republican opposition By Lekan Oguntoyinbo By Roger Caldwell
NNPA Columnist
On Thursday of last week, President Obama outlined a series of executive actions, which has created divisions in the Republi- CALDWELL can Party. Some are calling this a stroke of political genius and others are calling the President’s action constitutional lawlessness. Nevertheless, everyone is talking and everyone is lining up on the side of the line they support. The President is cool as a cucumber, because he knows he has started a fight and everyone is swinging. There are 11 million immigrants in America and the President is forcing the Republicans to do their job and govern. The Republicans can no longer just obstruct policy; because they are the majority party in both Houses, and they must do some work. They can no longer say anything, because now they must make sense, and make good decisions for the entire country. At this point, the Republicans are fighting the President, but when the new congressional session begins in January, they must have a plan.
A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested Oguntoyinbo nine people for doing something the government considers radical: protesting slavery. In 1980, Mauritania became the last nation in the world to legally abolish slavery, an institution that that had existed in the poor, landlocked Islamic West African country of fewer than four million people in the middle of the Sahara for more than 700 years. The operative word here is “legally.” More than 30 years later, the enslavement of Blacks by the ruling Arab Berber class stubbornly persists. It is estimated that about 4 percent of Mauritania’s population, or about 140,000 people, are enslaved. Over the years, the government has passed additional anti-slavery acts, but they are rarely enforced. For the most part, the government has taken a see-no-evil approach. Senior government officials often deny that the practice still exists – despite glaring evidence to the contrary.
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Thanksgiving is a reflection of the politics of perception By Derek Joy Not yet time to “Deck the halls with. . .” It is, however, a time for Thanksgiving. Think of it for but one fleeting moment JOY in time. Yes, Thanksgiving Day can be traced back to 1621 when the “Harvest Festival” was linked to Christianity. A time of prayer in giving thanks
Blacks still devastated by HIV/AIDS By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist As we prepare to commemorate World AIDS CURRY Day on Monday, Dec. 1, this is a good time to look at how the epidemic continues to devastate our community.
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for the various blessings. Believe it or not, George Washington is credited with invoking political recognition of Thanksgiving in 1789. Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in Gettysburg Address on Oct. 3, 1863. It was a thanksgiving in recognition of the Union Army’s victory over the Confederate Army at Gettysburg during the Civil War. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com) A fact sheet by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation noted, “Black Americans have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS since the epidemic’s beginning, and that disparity has deepened over time. Blacks account for more new HIV infections, people estimated to be living with HIV disease, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S.” Fact sheets by CDC and Kaiser also show: Today, there are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S., including more than 506,000 who are Black. Although Black Americans represent only 12 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for 44 percent of new HIV infections and an estimated 44 percent of people living with HIV in 2010. The rate of new HIV infections per 100,000 among Black adults/adolescents (68.9) was nearly eight times that of whites (8.7) and more than twice that of Latinos (27.5) in 2010. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
Gun extremists shot blanks in midterm elections By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist
Our environment keeps the past present Approaching this sacred day of celebration, I am flooded with reflections of Thanksgiving 1995 – almost 20 years ago now, when Frank and I came back from our round-the-country road trip with stars in our eyes. Having seen a glorious side of America that we had only dreamed existed, we were bubbling over with desire to share the National Park System with everyone. It wasn’t long before we noticed that some people’s eyes began to glaze over when they saw us coming as we were raving about assets that most of our peers did not know exist. To our delight, the Westside Gazette newspaper completely welcomed us and our epiphany. The family owned, community-focused Black weekly was undergoing a transition in leadership from the father/founder Levi Henry, Jr. to the son/publisher, Bobby R. Henry, Sr. and his siblings. A passionate outdoorsman, hunter and fisherman, Bobby immediately resonated with the idea of promoting the enjoyment of our wonderful “Great American Outdoors” to a wider segment of the community, and published every ecstatic article we wrote extolling the virtues of the national parks. At a meeting of the Broward County Audubon Society a few months later, we heard about the plan to restore
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Audrey Peterman and beyond, and grateful for our Gazette partners who enable us to bring you information that will be vital to our mutual future. (Audrey and Frank Peterman are national award winning environmentalists, authors and speakers living in Fort Lauderdale. www.legacyontheland.com)
Why Blacks should support immigration reform By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As I watched President Barack Obama address the nation on his “controversial” Executive Order CHAVIS on immigration reform, I was reminded of the evening that I was inside Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his courageous sermon in opposition to the Vietnam War. Even some of the supporters of Dr. King questioned his theological audacity to link civil rights injustice in the United States to human rights injustice in Vietnam. Decades later, history has proven Dr. King to have been right in his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War. What will history say 50 years from now about President Obama’s leadership on immigration and his determination to fix the system? Leadership is about speaking out against injustice. But it is also about taking action to correct injustice. Civil rights leadership, as exemplified by Dr. King, was audacious with the courage to take action to challenge injustice in a manner that inspired millions of people to join the cause. In his Riverside Church speech, Dr. King stated, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” I know that there are many in the Black American community who might not understand how the issue of immigration for Latino Americans and others is linked to the issues of racial and economic justice for Black Americans. The goals of racial equality and economic empowerment are not exclusive or limited to Black Americans. With the “browning of America” steadily changing the racial and ethnic demographics of the population of the U.S., it important for Black Americans to be supportive of immigration reform. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
Recycling failed education policies
There’s no getting around it. November 4 was not a good day for many of the ideals and policies supported by the National Urban League and the communities we serve. In the coming months, we can expect to see renewed battles over the Affordable Care Act, immigration, voting rights and a host of other issues affecting jobs and opportunity for middle and working class Americans. But all is not lost. There were a few bright spots on Election Day. For example, four states passed legislation to raise the minimum wage – Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. This follows a growing trend, considering that as of last summer, 23 states and the District of Columbia had minimum wage rates higher than the federal rate of $7.25. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
‘Friends’ desert Bill Cosby when he needs them most By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist “Hey, hey, hey (in my best Fat Albert’s voice), please listen to what I have to say. My friend Bill Cosby is in trouble JACKSON today.” Even Fat Albert knows Bill Cosby is getting a raw deal. As a public relations/crisis management professional. I have worked with some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, and business. So, let’s deconstruct this media frenzy engulfing the man who was once America’s favorite TV dad. Many of these allegations have been around for more than 30 years. Cosby has never been charged with a crime and deserves the presumption of innocence. Simply because several people – okay, eight and counting – provide a similar salacious account doesn’t make it true. Until now, Cosby and his lovely wife, Camille, have not had to defend their hard-earned good name. They have given north of $50 million to educational institutions, especially HBCUs. Cosby has opened doors to many of the top actors and comediennes in the industry. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
Democrats still don’t get the message By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander will likely become chairman MALVEAUX of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Though he has yet to be elected by his Republican peers, he has given several interviews that indicate how he would change the way educational services are delivered in our country. For all his bluster, though, his approach is essentially to privatize and push states rights. For example, while President Obama has proposed spending $75 billion for universal and mandated preschool education, Senator Alexander would take the $22 billion of federal funds for preschool education and send it back to the states. While the president’s proposal would include guidelines on teacher qualification, class size, and other matters, Alexander would have the states make those decisions. Alexander suggests that his approach is “innovative,” but this is more of the same old stuff.
Since the November 4 elections, there has been a broad and need- FLETCHER ed discussion concerning what the Democrats did wrong or, to put it better, why they were unable to turn out their base. Among other things, many African Americans felt taken for granted by the Democratic candidates which, to a great extent, was true. Nevertheless, the problem runs deeper. In addition to the historic fact that midterm elections tend to run badly for the party that controls the White House, it is also the case that the Democratic Party has a strategic problem; a problem that is frequently— and incorrectly—limited to what is called “messaging.” During the run up to the election many, Democrats were making the point that the economy was improving, yet they found that this assertion was not resonating with the electorate. While it is true that by almost all standards the economy is improving, for the bottom 90 percent of the population, their income has either stagnated or continued to decline, a pattern that started in the 1970s. The foreclosure crisis, which appeared to have ended, actually has not and, as a result, we continue to face the ramifications of the collapse in the housing market in 2008.
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By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist
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Church Directory
Worship T his and Every Sunday at the Church of Your Choice This
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church 2211 N.W. 7th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33061 Church: (954) 583-9368 Email: bethelmbchurchfl@att.net
Reverend Jimmy L. English
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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.mtzionmissionarybapt.com
Rev. Dr. James B. Darling, Senior Pastor WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship Service .............................................................................. 8:00 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School ............................................................................................................... 10:00 a.m. Communion Service (1st Sunday) ......................................................................... 11:00 a.m. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting ........................................................................... 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study ................................................................................... 7:00 p.m. Saturday (2nd & 4th) Growth & Orientation ........................................................... 9 a.m. But be doers of the Word - James 1:22 nkjv - “A Safe Haven, and you can get to Heaven from here”
St. Ruth Missionary Baptist Church
PASTOR
145 NW 5th Avenue Dania Beach, FL 33004 Office: (954) 922-2529
WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship ............................................................. 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. Sunday School ........................................................................... 9:30 a.m. Wednesday (Prayer Service & Bible Study) ............................... 7:30 a.m. Saturday (Women Bible Study) ............................................................ 8 a.m. "Baptized Believers working together to do the will of God"
Bishop Victor T. Curry Senior Pastor/Teacher WORSHIP SERVICES
Faith United Church of Christ 6201 NW 57 Street Tamarac, FL 33319 954-721-1232 uccfaith@bellsouth.net faithbroward.org "Historically the First Church in the City of Tamarac!”
Rev. Dr. Ileana Bosenbark, Senior Pastor WEEKLY SERVICES & EVENTS SUNDAY Worship Service (Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday) ........................................................... 10 a.m. F.A.I.T.H. Academy for Children (Spiritual Formation) K-12 ................................ 10 a.m.
TUESDAY F.A.I.T.H. Academy for Adults (Spiritual Formation) - Office Complex ...... 10:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY Worship & Arts Ministry Rehearsals (Open Auditions) - Sanctuary .............................. 7 p.m.
First Baptist Church Piney Grove, Inc. 4699 West Oakland Park Blvd. Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33313 Office: (954) 735-1500 Fax: (954) 735-1939 fbcpg@bellsouth.net
Rev. Dr. Derrick J. Hughes, Pastor SUNDAY SERVICES Worship Services .......................................................... 7:30 & 10:45 a.m. Children's Church ........................................................ 7:30 & 10:45 a.m. Communion (First Sunday) ......................................... 7:30 & 10:45 a.m. New Members' Class .................................................................... 9:30 a.m. Church School .............................................................................. 9:30 a.m. Baptist Training Union (BTU) .................................................... 1:00 p.m. Wednesday (Bible Study) ...................................... 11:15 a.m.. & 7:00 p.m.
Harris Chapel United Methodist Church Rev. Juana Jordan, M.Div E-MAIL:juana.jordan@flumc.org 2351 N.W. 26th Street Oakland Park, Florida 33311 Church Telephone: (954) 731-0520 Church Fax: (954) 731-6290
SERVICES Sunday Worship ................................................. 7:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Sunday School .............................................................................. 9:00 a.m. Wednesday (Bible Study) ........................................... 11a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
800 N.W. 8th Avenue Pompano Beach, Florida 33060 Church Telephone: (954) 943-2422 Church Fax: (954) 943-2186 E-mail Address: Mtcalvarypompano@bellsouth.net
Reverend Anthony Burrell, Pastor SCHEDULE OF SERVICES SUNDAY
New Member Orientation ........................... 9:30 a.m. Sunday School ................................................ 9:30 a.m. Worship Service ........................................ 11:00 a.m. WEDNESDAY Prayer Meeting ............................................... 6:00 p.m. Bible Study ..................................................... 7:00 p.m.
"Doing God's Business God's Way, With a Spirit of Excellence"
New Birth Baptist Church The Cathedral of Faith International Bishop Victor T. Curry, M.Min., D.Div. Senior Pastor/Teacher 2300 N.W. 135th Street Miami, Florida 33167
ORDER OF SERVICES Sunday Worship ........................................................ 7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Sunday School ....................................................................................................... 9:30 a.m. Tuesday (Bible Study) ......................................................................................... 6:45 p.m. Wednesday (Bible Study) ............................................................................... 10:45 a.m.
1-800-254-NBBC * (305) 685-3700 (o) *(305) 685-0705 (f) www.newbirthbaptistmiami.org
New Mount Olive Baptist Church 400 N.W. 9th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale 33311 (954) 463-5126 ● Fax: (954) 525-9454 CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 8:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Marcus D. Davidson, Senior Pastor WORSHIP SERVICES & BIBLE STUDY Sunday .................................................... 7:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School ............................................................................ 10:00 a.m. Wednesday Noonday Service .................................. 12:00-12:30 p.m. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting ............................................ 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study ................................................... 7:00 p.m. Where the kingdom of God is increased through Fellowship. Leadership, Ownership and Worship F.L.O.W. To Greatness!
A F AMIL Y THA T FAMIL AMILY THAT PRA YS PRAY TOGETHER ST AYS STA TOGETHER
Bible Study (Wednesday Night) ...................................................... 6:45 p.m. Sunday School .............................................................................. 8:45 a.m. Sunday Morning Service ............................................................. 10:00 a.m.
Obituaries James C. Boyd Funeral Home CINEUS Funeral services for the late Leopold Cineus - 65 were held Nov. 22 at Bethel Evangelical Baptist Church with Rev. John K. Voltaire officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens. DIAZ Funeral services for the late Juanito Diaz. JACKSON Funeral services for the late Christopher Jackson – 41 at James C. Boyd Funeral Home. WILSON Funeral services for the Mr. Vevelyn Wilson – 82. YORK Funeral services for the late Denny Merril York - 59.
McWhite's Funeral Home EDGECOMBE Funeral services for the late Debbie Sherree Mitchell Edgecombe - 55 were held Nov. 23 at Daughter of Zion Seventh-Day Adventist Church with Pastor C. Anslem Paul officiating. Interment: Delray Beach Municipal Cemetery. FLOYD Funeral services for the late Luster “LD” Floyd, Sr. - 87 were held Nov. 22 at Gethsemane M.B. Church with Rev. Dr. Gaston E. Smith, officiating. Interment: Fred Hunter Memorial Gardens. YOUNG Funeral services for the late Errol Anthony Young - 66 were held Nov. 22 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Norman Hemming.
Roy Mizell & Kurtz Funeral Home DAVIS Funeral services for the late Booker T. Davis - 72 were held Nov. 22 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center with Rev. James Ray officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Central.
ENGLISH Funeral services for the late Fred L. English - 71 were held Nov. 22 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center with Rev. Morris Montgomery officiating. GIPSON Funeral services for the late Elder Willie Mae Gipson 81 were held Nov. 22 at The House of God, Which Is Church of the Living God Without Controversy, Inc with Elder Joshua Andrews, Jr officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens. MOORE Funeral services for the late S a m u e l Walter Moore - 83 were held Nov. 22 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz
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KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD Why is doing what is right always best? By Carey Kinsolving and Friends Part One of Two “When you have a baby sister, and sometimes you trick her, then God will not like that,” says Victoria, 8. Baby sisters seem to have radar for discovering they’ve been duped — at least my baby sister did. Parents also possess this same radar, as Katelyn, 8, can testify: “I was faking sick, and I got grounded for three weeks. I got in trouble with my dad, and that’s bad.” Katelyn, your life will be much more peaceful and fun if you do the right thing. Take a tip from Keeleigh, 11: “If you do right all the time, you won’t get in trouble, you won’t get fussed at, and you will have more fun. That means you will make God happy and have a better relationship with Him.” Doing the right thing and having fun may sound contradictory to many. The Bible calls this fun state “blessed.” Many people think fun comes when they break rules. Many movies depict lawless people having all the fun. Remember the movie “Bonnie and Clyde”? Robbing banks looked like so much fun in the movie. In real life, the “fun” ended when Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow drove into a hail of bullets fired by lawmen waiting in ambush along a tree-lined Louisiana road. Shortly before her death, Bonnie Parker gave a poem to her mother, which proved to be prophetic. Here’s how the poem ends: “They don’t think they’re tough or desperate./ They know the law always wins./ They’ve been shot at before/ But they do not ignore/ That death is the wages of sin. “Someday they’ll go down together/ And they’ll bury them side by side. To few it’ll be grief/ To the law a relief/ But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.” You don’t have to be a bank robber to know that the Bible says, “The wages of sin is death.” We’ve all earned those wages. Many times, the second part of that scripture is not quoted: “but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). If Bonnie had known the second half, she might have avoided a life of crime. “Doing what is right is always best because once you do it the first time, you almost can’t stop doing it,” says Cecile, 10. Psalm 23 speaks of the Lord leading his people in paths of righteousness. A biblical proverb promises that the Lord will direct the paths of those who acknowledge him in all their ways (Proverbs 3:6). Doing good or evil begins with the decisions we make. Paths, the directions we travel in life, start with pathways in the brain. Whatever we fix our minds on will influence our brain’s pathways and our life’s paths. The results of a 17-year study in the journal Science reported that 5.7 percent of youths who watched less than one hour of television a day committed aggressive acts against others in Worship Center. subsequent years. That figure jumped to 22.5 percent for PIERSON those who watched one to three Funeral serhours a day and 28.8 percent vices for the late for those who watched more than three hours a day. Rosetta M. Think about this: You are Parker – what you think. Parents who Pierson - 62 consider television a benign were held Nov. babysitter should think again. Children are vulnerable to the 19 at Community Church of God with Pastor strangers who invade your home through television. DoInmon Godbee officiating. Inter- ing right begins by thinking ment: Lauderdale Memorial Park. right. Memorize this truth: “For as a man thinks in his heart, so WILLIAMS is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Funeral serAsk this question: If you feed vices for the late on a diet of television violence, what are you prone to do? Lessie Bell “Kids Talk About God” is Williams - 91 distributed by Creators Syndiwere held Nov. cate. To access free, online 22 at New “Kids Color Me Bible” books, “Mission Explorers” videos and Hope Baptist Church with Rev. Ricky Scott offi- all columns in a Bible Lesson Archive, visit at ciating. Interment: Sunset Memo- www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org. rial Gardens. To read journey-of-faith feature stories written by Carey Announcement s Kinsolving, visit Obituaries * Memoriams * Services www.FaithProfiles.org.
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Thrower exonerated (Cont'd fron FP) Outspoken and knowledgeable, Thrower attended every Pompano Beach City Commission meeting twice a month, the monthly CRA meetings when the Commission sat as the CRA Board and the monthly Northwest CRA Committee meetings from 2006-2010, when he was charged and resigned. Born and raised in Pompano and his years as a community advocate, Thrower has firsthand knowledge of projects, people and the dealings of city officials and constantly brought to attention the discrepancies between what they said and what they did. He was a thorn in some feet but it was the bribery accusation made by Dr. Lynn Allison of International Enterprise Development (IED) that prompted the State Attorney to begin investigating Thrower. Allison, founder and president of IED are contracted by the Pompano CRA to administer its micro loan and business incubation programs. Allison complained to the State Attorney’s Office in September 2009 that Thrower demanded she “contribute $2,000-a-month to the community.” Deposition Allison during the trial deposition in April 2012 described what she thought of Thrower upon meeting him for the first time. “I still remember it being a very large person was in a very bullying way said something about what do you know about my community? Why you think there’s something you could do to help, in a just very unpleasant way, I would say. “It was the feeling of the bully from the community feeling he had to pick on me and tell me I wasn’t going to be able to relate to that community and I felt like I needed to say to him, ‘actually, I’ve worked in Black communities for the last 30 years.’ He was very rude. He was very impolite,” Allison testified. Next, Allison describes Thrower’s no vote to renewing IED’s contract, although later in the deposition she admits the Northwest CRA “has no true authority.” “He was also sitting in a position where he was saying that we shouldn’t get another contract. It should go month to month. So anyway he says no and – Thrower’s co-counsel Paul Molle of Molle Law Firm asked, “So you believe that his vote recommendation on the renewal of your contract was tied into the fact that you refused to acknowledge that you were going to give him $2,000 a month?”
Allison answers, “Absolutely. So and there’s a meanness about that, also. You know, when somebody, you know, the little power is the dangerous thing. I think the community has been very understanding of him. I mean he just got up to the mic a few weeks ago and he was up there, you know, b*tching and complaining. Everybody is always very polite to him, you know, and then after wards they might say; great, now we’ve got criminals who are coming up and complaining about our work, which was said.” Finally, Allison describes the bribery charge she lodged against Thrower with the State Attorney. Here she admits never speaking directly to Thrower regarding a bribe of $2,000 a month. Attorney Molle asks, “Isn’t that a bizarre way to ask for a bribe? Did you ever have a conversation like that with Vicente?" Allison: “I’m sure I did. I’m sure we talked about it. I’m sure we did. I just cannot tell you the words because after Michelle told me, I was so disappointed and upset by him trying to cut me out of the contract so he could get the money. I mean I am certain that in one of the times that we were together that I spoke to him about that.” Molle asks, ”But you don’t recall, specifically?” Allison says, ”No, and I just don’t remember the words. I mean the other ones were so startling that, you know, I remember receiving a phone call asking for $6,000 or having Dr. Johnson, who would have no reason to say if it weren’t true or Michelle, who would have no reason to say it.” Thower says her actions have nearly destroyed his life. “Before this prosecution I hadn’t had a problem with the law in my life,” Thrower says. “Today my reputation and name is besmirched and now when people do business with me it will always be in their minds. This took my freedom and my livelihood where you can’t even get a Winn Dixie job. “I have a fiduciary responsibility to have some of these CRA dollars utilized correctly and for our benefit in our community,” Thrower says. “The CRA Micro Loan program manages millions yet we have nothing to show for it. Before Pat Larkins died none of this would have happened. That is why Broward County is fighting the Pompano CRA now because they haven’t done anything with our tax payer money. I firmly believe that a contractor who’s taking on a half million or more of tax payer dollars should have some fiduciary responsibility to give back to your community.
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The delegation included Michael Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., one of their attorneys, Ferguson protesters, activists, and human rights lawyers working in the community. Their message was simple: the racial profiling and brutality reflected in Brown’s killing but also embedded in American law enforcement, as well as the militarized response to Ferguson protesters, are all violations of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The delegation spent three days attending hearings and testifying before the Committee, which monitors how well the participating nations uphold this treaty. “We live in a society that tells Black people racial profiling ‘is not that bad,’ ‘it’s a necessary evil,’ ‘you guys are looting so you deserve it.’ So to have the UN say, ‘No, you’re right, this is a human rights violation,’ is invaluable,” says Justin Hansford, lead organizer for Ferguson to Geneva. According to the delegates, the receptive and affirming response from the international community was in stark contrast to that of the U.S. government delegation. “The U.S. government delegation gave a completely inadequate response [to citizen testimonies]. Like, I mentioned that we should have a real mechanism to make police departments accountable for profiling—financially accountable,” Hansford says. “And the response was, ‘we already have a mechanism, you can sue them.’”
ternational human rights law professor at Saint Louis University, points out that not only do civil suits take years to settle, but police officers’ legal costs are covered by their departments, unlike the costs for victims of police brutality/excessive force and their families. In addition to oral testimonies, the Ferguson delegation also submitted a report on the shooting of Michael Brown and the militarized police response to nonviolent Ferguson protesters. Presented by Brown’s family, the Coalition for Black Struggle, HandsUpUnited, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, the report weaves testimony from protestors, the committee’s past recommendations to the United States, and the delegation’s own recommendations to the U.S. government. “The United States must take steps to address the torture and/ or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of Michael Brown and other unarmed Black and brown persons killed by law enforcement, as well as the torture and/or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of protesters in Ferguson exercising their right to peacefully assemble,” the report says. “Recent incidents of police brutality, including the choking death of 43 year-old Black man Eric Garner by a New York police officer who used a chokehold banned by the NYPD, and the shooting death of 25 yearold unarmed Black man Ezell Ford by a Los Angeles police officer underscore the U.S.’s failure to adequately address brutality and racial profiling by law enforcement.”
Ethics Assistant State Attorney David Schulson prosecuted Thrower as a public servant who received unlawful compensation. A public servant according to Florida statutes is any officer, employee of a state, county, municipal or special district agency or entity or any legislative or judicial officer or employee. Also a candidate for election or appointment and any magistrate, receiver, or consultant while performing a government function. Schulson felt Thrower met the threshold for prosecution because as a consultant for Habitat for Humanity and Lavish Homes, two of the companies he was charged with receiving unlawful compensation from, he should have formally disclosed the facts while performing volunteer duties as a member of the Northwest CRA Committee. “Three times issues came up before the Northwest CRA regarding Habitat and Lavish Homes and Mr. Thrower did not tell his fellow advisory committee members he was a consultant for these companies. He was not transparent and we felt it should be put before a jury,” Schulson said. The case hinged on whether Thrower was a public figure as defined by law. The State Attorney must meet all four components of unlawful compensation or reward by a public servant. “Is he quote unquote a public figure? Count one to three opening the State questioned is it ok to be an advisory committee member and a paid consultant to developers who were looking for zoning changes and changing single family to multiunit town homes?” says Attorney Michael Hursey of Michael Hursey, P.A., Thrower’s cocounsel. “This statute argued very hard that an advisory committee member did not make a public figure. The Northwest CRA Advisory Committee are volunteers who only make recommendations to the CRA Board. They have no authority nor are their decisions binding. They have little or no power, no salary, get zero benefit not even gas money to come to meetings. “We did not see one example where the advisory committee recommendation was ever followed by the Pompano Beach City Commission. Dr. Ken Campbell of the City of Fort Lauderdale’s Finance Dept. did a survey of advisory committee action. He was a very powerful witness because he sat on advisory committees himself. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the State laid out their case. Thursday started the defense and the jury was on the edge of their seats when Dr. Campbell testified. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
New Atlanta’s founding father, Herman J. Russell, dies (Cont'd from FP) Along with being an inimitable and distinctive business leader and icon, who created H.J. Russell & Company, Russell was also a formidable community and civic leader, as well as author of his recently released autobiography, Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire. He inspired many with words of wisdom, and assisted financially local and national political leaders, and office seekers. “H. J. Russell was a man of means – but his conscience and his values were always greater than his wealth,” Jesse Jackson, Sr. remarked last weekend via Twitter. From being the first African-American member of what was then called the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to being an inaugural member of the board of directors of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, Inc. (The King Center). Along with a myriad of other community and corporate boards, Russell, after retiring in 2003 from his company, continued to be an in demand speaker with business classes, as well as for various corporate settings, channeling his business acumen to future business owners and leaders for the growth and economic advancement. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
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Rookie cop guns down 12-year-old child on playground (Cont'd from FP) The county’s prosecutor’s office and Timothy Kucharski, an attorney for Tamir’s family, have launched separate investigations into the incident. After reviewing the evidence, a grand jury will decide whether the shooting was justified. Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave. The Justice Department has been investigating the Cleveland Police Department since a
vehicular pursuit in 2012 resulted in officers firing 137 shots and killing two people. On Nov. 29, 2012, Cleveland police officers shot the car’s driver Timothy Russell 23 times and his passenger Malissa Williams 24 times. Russell and Williams had been unarmed, and their families will split a $3 million settlement from the city of Cleveland. Six police officers involved in the chase were indicted by a grand jury. On August 5, Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams and
Sgt. David Darkow gunned down John Crawford III inside an Ohio Walmart after a customer named Ronald Ritchie called 911 falsely claiming that Crawford was aiming a rifle at other customers. Video surveillance revealed Crawford was holding a BB gun that he had found inside the store and was not aiming it at anyone. In their official statements, Williams and Darkow falsely claimed that Crawford had ignored their orders to drop the gun and turned toward them in an aggressive manner. Video surveillance does not support their claims.
Marion Barry, District Council Member and former mayor, dies at 78 (Cont'd from FP) Barry had recently taped an interview with Oprah Winfrey for her show, “Oprah: Where Are They Now?” The Barry family statement indicated that the interview — which featured his new book, Mayor For Life: the Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr. — still would air Sunday at 9 p.m. Barry served four terms as mayor and had a lock on the D.C. Council’s Ward 8 seat. But along with that huge political success, many personal failures marked his turbulent life. Early on in his career, the Washington City Paper dubbed him “Mayor for Life.” He confounded critics who railed against his melodramatic life, even as he basked in the admiration of forgiving citizens who looked to him as their champion. The son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Barry emerged from the student and civil rights activism of the 1960s to serve on the elected D.C. School Board and D.C. Council. In 1979, Barry began serving the first of three consecutive terms as D.C.’s second elected mayor. His pro-business policies helped spur economic development. He built civic programs for youth and senior citizens, and opened the city government to many African-American pro-
fessionals, who previously had been shut out. But lackluster city services, like slow snow removal and lost city ambulances, dogged Barry’s administration. He battled a soaring homicide rate among the worst in the nation, and vowed a war on illegal drugs even as rumors about his own drug addiction swirled around Washington. Barry’s stature crumbled spectacularly in 1990, when an FBI sting videotaped Barry smoking crack cocaine in Washington’s Vista Hotel. Barry famously complained that he had been set up by former girlfriend Rasheeda Moore, an FBI informant. Barry’s federal trial turned into a drama of prosecution charges and persecution complaints. Out of 14 drug charges, a jury convicted Barry of a single misdemeanor possession charge. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson sentenced him to six months in prison, the maximum punishment. Many thought the scandal would finish Barry’s political career. But in 1992, Barry emerged from prison and began his comeback right at the prison gate. Just months later he won the Ward 8 council seat from longtime ally and four-term incumbent Wilhelmina Rolark. In 1994, he swept back into the mayor’s office for a fourth
term, trouncing failed reform Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. Congress reacted sharply to concerns over another term for Barry and Kelly’s massive debt by creating a five-member federal control board to run the city over Barry. Barry appointed then-obscure Anthony Williams as his chief financial officer. Acerbic and shy compared to Barry, Williams won the mayor’s office in 1998 when Barry chose not to seek re-election. Barry returned to the political limelight in 2004, winning Ward 8 over another former ally, Sandy Allen. Waving off criticism of disloyalty, Barry said it wasn’t personal — it was politics. In recent years, Barry easily won re-election in Ward 8. But he suffered from declining health, and received a kidney transplant. Other controversies endured: failing to file income taxes, being censured for steering a city contract to a girlfriend, and making insensitive remarks about Asian storeowners and Filipina nurses, to whom he later apologized after stinging public criticism. In August, Barry was involved in a wrong-way accident on Pennsylvania Avenue. Barry blamed low blood sugar that had made him disoriented. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
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Black Hollywood comes out for Ebony Power 100 Gala By Dedrick D. Henry,Sr. The stars were out Wednesday night at the Avalon Hollywood for Ebony’s Power 100 Gala. The annual list and event honor Black achievement in various categories, like Innovators (Shonda Rhimes, Kevin Hart), Cultural Influencers (Rickey Smiley,Lupita Nyong’o), The Thinkers (NewsOne Now‘s Roland Martin, Ta-
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Nehisi Coates) and Young Leaders (Mo’ne Davis, The Jackie Robinson West Team). NewsOne attended the gala as a guest of Toyota, which sponsored the Health & Sci-
Motown Legend Jimmy Ruffin has died at 78 By Black Moi The Associate Press is reporting that Motown legend Jimmy Ruffin has died at the age of 78 at a Las Vegas hospital. Details regarding his cause of death have not been released yet. Ruffin’s children released a statement saying, “Jimmy Ruffin was a rare type of man who left his mark on the music industry. My family in its entirety is extremely upset over his death. He will truly be missed. We will treasure the many fond and wonderful memories we have of him.” Motown founder Berry Gordy also released a statement stating, “Jimmy Ruffin was a phenomenal singer. He was truly underrated because we were also fortunate to have his brother, David, as the lead singer of the Temptations…Jimmy, as a solo artist, had ‘What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,’ one of the greatest songs put
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THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA NOTICE OF MEETINGS MEETINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR CANCELLATION Date Meeting Place 12/3/14 QSEC Review of Contractors TSSC - Rm. #323 9a Pre-Qualification/ReCert. 7720 W. Oklnd Pk Blvd., Sunrise 12/17/14 QSEC Review of Contractors TSSC - Rm. #323 9a Pre-Qualification/ReCert. 7720 W. Oklnd Pk Blvd., Sunrise 12/11/14 Central District Schools Adv. Stranahan High School 9a -Steering Committee 1800 SW 5th Pl., Ft. Laud. 12/11/14 Central District Schools Adv. Stranahan High School 9:00a -General Meeting 1800 SW 5th Pl., Ft. Laud. 12/10/14 District Adv. Council (DAC) KCW Bldg. 6:30-9p -General Meeting 600 SE 3rd Avenue, Ft. Laud. 12/15/14 District Adv. Council (DAC) KCW Bldg. 6:30-8p -Looping Sub-Committee 600 SE 3rd Avenue, Ft. Laud. 12/8/14 District Adv. Council (DAC) KCW Bldg. 8:30-10:30a -Steering Meeting 600 SE 3rd Avenue, Ft. Laud. 12/4/14 Diversity Committee - School KCW Bldg., Board Room 5-6:30p Site Visitation Sub-Committee 600 SE 3rd Avenue, Ft. Laud. 12/4/14 Diversity Committee ± General KCW Bldg., Board Room 6:30-8:30p Meeting 600 SE 3rd Avenue, Ft. Laud. 12/1/14 Diversity Committee -School Lauderdale Manors Lrng. Cntr. 2:30-3:45p Site Visitation Sub-Committee 1400 NW 14th Court, Ft. Laud. 12/8/14 Diversity Committee -School Lauderdale Manors Lrng. Cntr. 2:30-3:45p Site Visitation Sub-Committee 1400 NW 14th Court, Ft. Laud. 12/15/14 Diversity Committee ± Lauderdale Manors Lrng. Cntr. 1:30-2:30p Chair/Vice-Chair & Staff 1400 NW 14th Court, Ft. Laud. Member Mtg. 12/15/14 Diversity Committee -School Lauderdale Manors Lrng. Cntr. 2:30-3:45p Site Visitation Sub-Committee 1400 NW 14th Court, Ft. Laud. 12/18/14 Diversity Committee -School Lauderdale Manors Lrng. Cntr. 2:30-3:45p Site Visitation Sub-Committee 1400 NW 14th Court, Ft. Laud. 12/2/14 ESE - Autism Committee of ESE Baudhuin Preschool 9:30-11:30a Advisory (ACE) 7600 SW 36th St., #2218, Davie 12/2/14 ESE - ACE Board Meeting Baudhuin Preschool 11:30a7600 SW 36th St., #2218, Davie 12:30p 12/12/14 ESE - ACE Board Meeting Dunkin Donuts 10a-12p 9740 Griffin Rd., Cooper City 12/17/14 ESE Advisory Council Meeting Piper High School, Sm.Aud. 6:30-9p 8000 SW 44 Street, Sunrise 12/4/14 ESE Advisory Council Meeting Piper High School, Sm.Aud. 6:30-9p 8000 SW 44 Street, Sunrise 12/8/14 ESE Adv. Exec. Board Mtg. JAFCO 9-11:30a 5100 Nob Hill Rd., Sunrise 12/5/14 ESE By-Laws Committee Northwest Regional Library 10a-12p 3151 N. Univ. Dr., Coral Spgs 12/12/14 ESE By-Laws Committee Northwest Regional Library 10a-12p 3151 N. Univ. Dr., Coral Spgs 12/11/14 ESE - Down Syndrome Task West Regional Library 10a-12p Force Committee 8601 W Broward Blvd., Plantation 12/4/14 Facilities Task Force Dillard High School-Rm 209 7p General Mtg 2501 NW 11th Street, Ft. Laud. 12/15/14 Financial Advisory Committee KCW Bldg., 10th Fl. Conf. Rm 10a Meeting (Purpose: Certificates of 600 SE 3rd Avenue, Ft. Laud. Participation, Series 2015A and General Obligation Bond Update and any other matters that may come before the Committee.)
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Millennium Middle 5803 NW 94th Ave., Tamarac Pompano Admin. Center 610 NE 3rd Ave, Pompano Bch. Northwest Regional Library 3151 N. Univ. Dr., Coral Spgs Northwest Regional Library 3151 N. Univ. Dr., Coral Spgs Northwest Regional Library 3151 N. Univ. Dr., Coral Spgs Crocante Gourmet Bakery 2708 N University Dr., Coral Spgs Crocante Gourmet Bakery 2708 N University Dr., Coral Spgs Indian Ridge Middle School 1355 Nob Hill Rd., Davie
RUFFIN out by Motown and also one of my personal favorites. He was a wonderful human being, quiet and unassuming, who touched many lives with his music.” As mentioned in Gordy’s statement, Jimmy was the older brother of late Temptations lead singer David Ruffin. He signed with Motown in 1966, and went on to
son, Beverly Johnson, Teyonah Paris,Jesse Williams, Terry McMillan, Tamela Mann, Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. churn out several hits over the next decade, including “I’ve Passed This Way Before,” “Gonna Give Her All the Love I’ve Got,” “Don’t You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby” and “I’ll Say Forever My Love.” During a comeback in 1980, his hit “Hold On To My Love went to Number 10 on the Hot 100 list. Ruffin had written music as recently as 2012. The song was produced by late Bee Gees member Robin Gibb. He had also lived in England for several years where he recorded with British musicians and hosted a radio show. After his brother David’s death in 1991 from a drug overdose, Jimmy became an outspoken anti-drug advocate. Funeral arrangements are still pending.
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HIV/AIDS activists push for more funding to address HIV/AIDS stigma
Douglas Brooks, the director of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House, delivers his keynote address at the International Conference on Stigma in Washington, D.C. (Freddie Allen/NNPA) WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – In an ongoing effort to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic physicians, healthcare workers and human rights activists want the government and the public to place more
emphasis on the stigma associated with the deadly disease that continues to plague the Black community. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Blacks “accounted
for an estimated 44 percent of all new HIV infections among adults and adolescents (aged 13 years or older) in 2010, despite representing only 12 percent of the U.S. population.” Not only are Blacks disproportionately affected by poverty, discrimination, higher rates of incarceration, but the CDC also lists those issues as well as the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS as socioeconomic risk factors contributing to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. Sohail Rana, an HIV/AIDS specialist and physician in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University Hospital said that because the Black community is the most affected by the epidemic, it’s up to Blacks to make it easier for other African Americans affected to come forward. Rana questioned the effectiveness of investing billions in HIV vaccine research without
Don’t turn a blind eye to Diabetic eye disease Set your sights on healthy vision By Amber Evans It may be hard to believe, but diabetes affects more than 29 million people in the United States. That is about one in 10 people! People with diabetes have a lot to consider when thinking about their health, but what might get lost in the shuffle is how diabetes may affect their eyesight. All people with diabetes, type 1 and type 2, are at risk for diabetic eye disease, a leading cause of vision loss and blindness. Diabetic eye disease isn’t just one disease, but a group of eye problems that can affect people with diabetes. These include cataract, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common diabetic eye disease and the leading cause of blindness in people 20–74 years of age. An estimated 7.7 million people ages 40 and older have diabetic retinopathy and by 2030, that number is expected to increase to approximately 11 million people. Unfortunately,
diabetic eye disease often has no early warning signs. “The longer a person has diabetes, the greater is his or her risk of developing diabetic eye disease,” says Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Eye Institute (NEI). “If you have diabetes, be sure to have a comprehensive dilated eye exam at least once a year. Diabetic eye disease often has no early warning signs, but can be detected early and treated before vision loss occurs. Don’t wait until you notice an eye problem to have a dilated eye exam, because vision that is lost often cannot be restored.” Unlike a regular eye exam you get for new glasses or contact lenses, a comprehensive dilated eye exam allows your eye care professional to get a more in-depth look at the health of your eyes. He or she will put drops in your eyes to dilate, or widen the pupil and then examine your eyes to look for common vision problems and damage from eye diseases, many of which have no early warning
ion for domestic HIV prevention in 2015, a 1.3 percent increase over the 2014 request for prevention services. The KFF also reported that the White House requested $57 million for the Minority HIV Initiative “to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S.” (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
What will you find during Medicare open enrollment? Your health needs change from year to year. And, your health plan may change the benefits and costs each year too. That’s why it’s important to review your Medicare choices each fall. Compare your current plan to new options and see if you can lower some costs or to find a plan that better suit your needs. Open Enrollment is the one time of year when ALL people with Medicare can see what new benefits Medicare has to offer and make changes to their coverage. Whether you have Original Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan, you’ll still have the same benefits and security you have now: • Certain preventive benefits - including cancer screenings - are available at no cost to you when provided by qualified and participating health professionals. The annual wellness visit lets you sit
By Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C
signs. People with diabetes can help slow the progression of diabetic eye disease by maintaining good control of their blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol. For more information on diabetic eye disease and tips on finding an eye care professional or financial assistance for eye care, visit http:// www.nei.nih.gov/diabetes or call NEI at (301) 496-5248.
Submitted by Dr. D. S. Wilson, ZRQ Chapter Reporter
shots, turkey giveaways, and children and adult free medical services with licensed practitioners and consultants who offered their assistance through-
for people that are HIV-positive. The move cleared the way for the 2012 International AIDS Conference to be held that year in Washington, D.C. According to The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a nonprofit focused on domestic and global health policies, the Obama Administration requested $17.5 billion to care for people living with HIV in the U.S. and $929 mill-
October 15 - December 7 down with your doctor and discuss your health care needs ‘and the best ways to stay healthy. • Medicare will notify you about plan performance and use its online Plan Finder to encourage enrollment in quality plans. • In 2015, if you reach the “donut hole” in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, you’ll get a 55 percent discount on covered brand name drugs and see increased savings on generic drugs. It’s worth it to take the time to review and compare, but you don’t have to do it alone. Medicare is available to help. • Visit Medicare. gov/ find-a-plan to compare your current coverage with all of the options that are available in your area, and enroll in a new plan if you decide to make a change.
• Call I-8OO-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) 24-hours a day/7 days a week to find out more about your coverage options. TTY users should callI877-4S6-204S. • Review the Medicare & You 2015 handbook. It’s mailed to people with Medicare in September. • If you have limited income and resources, you may be able to get Extra Help paying your prescription drug coverage costs. For more information, visit socialsecurity.gov/il020or call Social Security at I-800-7721213. TTY users should callI8OO-325-077S. • Get one-on-one help from your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP). Visit Medicare.gov/contacts or call 1-800-MEDICARE to get the phone number.
Working through self-destructive behaviors during even more when teenagers and cause they are trying to feel the holidays adults don’t know how to process better! Yet the reality is eating
Zeta Rho Omega Chapter - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated supports Miramar Family Fun Day
MIRAMAR, FL — The ladies of Zeta Rho Omega Chapter - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, under the leadership of the chapter president, Joeann Fletcher, first vice president and program chairman; Second Vice President, Annette Johnson Hurry, fundraising chairman, the remaining chapter officers, and Health Committee Chairmen, Dr. Lynnette Johnson, Dr. Margaretta Kearson, Dr. Sylvia Sloane Jones, Keisha Harden, and Raquel Noel, the health committee members and a host of chapter members, recently joined Commissioner Wayne Messam, the City of Miramar and Black Girls Run to host the 2014 Miramar Health Fair and the Family Fun Day, a 3K Run/Walk, in the morning, with loads of activities, and services provided healthy living information, yoga, aerobics, dance, face painting, rock walls, free health screening, flu
adequately addressing stigma associated with the disease. “How can you give someone the vaccine, if they won’t come forward to even get tested?” asked Rana. “We need to put some balance into these efforts to make people accept their brothers and sisters with HIV of color.” HIV/AIDS activists praised President Barack Obama in 2009 for lifting the travel ban
out the morning and evening state of affairs. For more information, contact the chapter, at Post Office Box, 9811, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 33311.
The holidays can be a wonderful and cozy time of year. We reconnect with those long forgotten warm sweaters that have waited patiently for us in the back of our closets. Everything we eat and drink is pumpkin flavored. We start to look longingly at our fireplaces, and even anticipate the first snowfall. But for many people, the shift out of daylight savings and other harbingers of fall and winter create feelings of anxiety, loneliness, anger, and depression. Many therapists report an upswing in referrals this time of year, and the focus is often on the difficult feelings that colder weather, less sunshine, and the approaching holiday season evokes. It’s not unusual for a chill in the air to cause people to turn inward, disconnecting a bit from others. But for the millions of people who grew up in a toxic or dysfunctional family, there’s a much stronger disconnection, and a deep sense of dread and “obligation,” about attending meals, religious ceremonies, and celebrations with relatives. Often, these are emotional triggers for earlier memories tainted by parents fighting, out of control drinking, financial stress, cynicism, and intergenerational grudges. These traumatic experiences create painful associations with the holiday season, and can become even more overwhelming, alienating, and confusing when the rest of the world seems to be operating from joy and good cheer. Anxiety and depression can be increased
or resolve these painful memories and experiences. One powerful byproduct of not having effective coping tools is to turn to self-destructive behaviors. It seems like a contradiction to say that people deliberately engage in behaviors that cause physical, emotional, and psychological pain and distress be-
disorders, addictions, and acts of self-mutilation are attempts to self-soothe, numb out upsetting feelings, and distract away from painful, overwhelming memories. (Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com)
‘Celebrity Waiters’ to work for tips at 14th annual Breakfast For Champions FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – On Friday, Dec. 5, 2104 Broward’s top community and business leaders will don aprons to serve as “celebrity waiters” at the 14th Annual Breakfast for Champions of the Homeless event, hosted by the Broward Partnership and the Downtown Council of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. More than 200 guests are expected to attend the breakfast, where celebrity waiters aim to dazzle with their decorating and serving skills show their serving skills and compete to earn the most “tips” to benefit the Broward Partnership. This year’s roster of celebrity waiters includes Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler and his wife Susan, City of Fort Lauderdale Commissioners Robert McKinzie, Bruce Roberts, Romney Rogers and Dean Trantalis, Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca and his wife Eileen, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and his wife Susan, and community leaders Jaye and Tony Abbate,
David Armstrong, John Benz, Bob Birdsong, Darran Blake, Elliott P. Borkson, Gale Butler, Keith Costello, Heiko Dobrikow, Jim Ellis, Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, Gloria Fernandez, Calvin Glidewell, Kenneth Gordon, Jonathan Keith, Jean McIntyre, Dev and Ramola Motwani, Howard Schumacher, Cathy Stutin, Stephen K. Tilbrook, Michael D. Wild and Lynne Wines. Proceeds from the event will assist the Broward Partnership in operating the 230-bed Central Homeless Assistance Center on the Huizenga Campus, which serves more than 1,200 homeless men, women and children each year. In addition to safe shelter and nutritious meals, the Broward Partnership offers wrap-around case management and comprehensive services, such as medical and dental care, behavioral health, workforce development, family therapy and others that assist the homeless in reacquiring health, housing and employment as quickly as possible. For more information, visit www.bphi.org.
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First N.C. State Supreme Court Justice honored
(Cont'd from FP) If I were to equate this experience with a biblical reference it would be: Paul’s letter to the Philippians 4:12 “I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.” (NASB) He was able to make me rehearse mentally the understanding that Pastor Davidson shared with us concerning the word UNTIL as it was used in Hosea 5:15. “I will go away and return to My place Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me. (NASB) Until allows us an opportunity to ‘get right’. Whether that ‘get right’ is an attitude adjustment, asking for forgiveness, removing trashy things from our lives or giving continual thanks for ALL THINGS. So for me, what I have learned over the past two weeks in the church and from my family, I can honestly say that UNTIL God comes back, I will have continual thanksgiving on my lips to Him for ALL THINGS that He has done, will do and is doing right now. Because of His giving we have life and I am thankful for being able to learn how to and to apply it to making the best out of any situation. I pray today……. Lord give unto me according to your will. Dear God, I want to thank You for what you have already done. I am not going to wait until I see results or receive rewards, I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until I feel better or things look better, I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until people say they are sorry or until they stop talking about me, I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until the pain in my body disappears, I am thanking you right now. I am not going to wait until my financial situation improves, I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until the children are asleep and the house is quiet, I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until I get promoted at work or until I get the job, I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until I understand every experience in my life that has caused me pain or grief, I am going to thank you right now. I am not going to wait until the journey gets easier or the challenges are removed, I am thanking you right now. I am thanking you because I am alive. I am thanking you because I made it through the day’s difficulties. I am thanking you because I have walked around the obstacles. I am thanking you because I have the ability and the opportunity to do more and do better. I’m thanking you because FATHER, YOU haven’t given up on me. God is just so good, and he’s good all the time. In Your son Jesus Christ’s precious and holy name I pray. Amen, and Amen.
Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye Sr. (r) and wife, Shirley, stand next to a portrait of the former Justice commissioned by the UNC Law School Class of 2013. The portrait is the first of an African American to grace the walls of UNC School of Law. (Photo courtesy of Norris Greenlee) By Afrique I. Kilimanjaro Special to the NNPA from The Carolina Peacemaker The Graham Kenan Courtroom at the University of North Carolina School of Law is considered the premier training ground for young law students who aspire to be trial attorneys. The courtroom classroom, originally built in 1968, has been renovated to accommodate 21st century technology. It resembles many courtrooms across the country with tables for the plaintiff, defendant and their respective counsels, a judge’s bench, a place for a court recorder and court clerk, a witness stand, jury box and a court gallery for the public to sit and listen to the proceedings. The courtroom walls of Graham Kenan hold the portraits of famous former North Carolina Supreme Court Justices and former UNC Law School deans. This year, a portrait of former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Henry Ell Frye Sr. will be added to the courtroom wall. Frye’s portrait, commissioned by the Class of 2013 as a gift to the law school, was
presented on Nov. 14 in an unveiling ceremony. The portrait will be placed on the wall of
Graham Kenan to inspire future generations of law students, attorneys, law school professors and visitors. Frye has accomplished several firsts in his career and his portrait, which will hang in the courtroom in perpetuity, is the first portrait ever of an African American to grace the law school’s walls. Henry Frye is no stranger to being “the first” in accomplishing many endeavors and overcoming adversity. The seasoned attorney and public servant said he never set out to be first. He explained, “I just wanted to do what was right and help others along the way.” Frye became the first African American first year law student to enter the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He graduated with honors in 1959. In 1963, almost four years out of law school, Frye became one of the first African American Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the
South. As far as being a first, Frye said, “You do the best you can because you want to set an example for others.” The idea for a portrait of Frye was spearheaded by Jeremy Collins, the 2013 law school class president along with his classmates and gift committee members Charlie Hiser and Judson Williamson. Collins said he looked at the other portraits on the walls throughout the law school and there were no African American faces to be seen. Thus, he and his classmates formulated the idea to have a portrait of Frye commissioned and given to the law school as a gift from the Class of 2013. The portrait was painted by notable portrait artist John Seibels Walker of South Carolina. (Read full story www.thewestsidegazette.com)
CONGRESSWOMAN FREDERICA S. WILSON INDUCTED INTO MIAMI DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALUMNI HALL OF FAME -- Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (FL-24) will be inducted into the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Alumni Hall of Fame along with Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lethinen. Congresswoman Wilson is a graduate of Miami Northwestern Senior High School and will receive the Singular Achievement Award. Congresswoman Ros-Lethinen is a graduate of Southwest Miami Senior High School and will also receive the Singular Achievement Award. The 2014 inductees have made great strides in the areas of Arts and Entertainment, Business, Public Service, Science, Technology, Engineering & Math, Sports and Singular Achievement.