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THURSDAY, JULY 12 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018
Police Killing of Antwon Rose
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks during the 2018 NNPA Lifetime Legacy Award Black Tie Gala in Norfolk, Va. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA)
Tests Pittsburgh’s Long-frustrated Black Community
The Time is Now!
Rev. Jesse Jackson Pushes for Federal Anti-Lynching Law By Jeffrey L. Boney NNPA Newswire Political Analyst If history has proven one thing, it’s that when Reverend Jesse L. Jackson speaks, the nation tends to always listen. Rev. Jackson continues to use his voice to speak on an atrocity that has plagued Black people for decades—the horrific act of lynching. While in town to receive the 2018 Lifetime Legacy Award from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) at their NNPA Awards National Legacy Awards Black Tie Gala and Annual Convention in Norfolk, Virginia, Rev. Jackson spoke to NNPA publishers about the need to adopt legislation to address the despicable act of lynching. “Lynching should be a federal crime,” Rev. Jackson told the group of publishers
at the NNPA Annual Convention. “Blacks are still being lynched today. Not just with a rope. Unarmed Blacks are being killed on a regular basis and it must be addressed. More people were killed after slavery than before slavery. Prior to the ending of slavery, we were considered assets, but after slavery we were considered a threat, because we could vote. We need this legislation now.” Rev. Jackson believes that addressing the issue of lynching in this country is long overdue, and he has been aggressively pushing for members of Congress to step up to the plate and officially make lynching a federal crime. Rev. Jackson told NNPA publishers that he has spoken with the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and many other (Cont’d on page 5)
Peaceful protesters march in Pittsburgh Sunday, July 1, 2018 to call for end to violence. (CBS 2 Philadelphia KDKA) The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young Black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station. Over the next several days, outraged protesters took over thoroughfares, disrupted rush hour and shouted from the
steps of the county courthouse, demanding that the white officer who killed the Black teenager be charged. Rose’s killing is the first in the Pittsburgh area in the Black Lives Matter era, and residents are galvanized. From the sustained marches to the swift announcement that (Cont’d on page 8)
Black WWII Soldier Denied Officer Status Becomes Commissioned Lieutenant 76 being a non-commissioned Years Later, at 98-Years-Old about Army officer until his daughter,
John Edward James Jr., who completed his officer training in 1942, was commissioned as a second lieutenant 76 years later. (Museum of The American Revolution)
An African American man who was denied officer status in the U.S. Army was commissioned as a second lieutenant on June 29 — 76 years later. John Edward James Jr., 98, completed his officer training in 1942 but was denied his bars because of his race, WHYY-FM reported. James attended officer candidate school at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the day before he was to receive his commission, he had told him he wouldn’t be made an officer and was being transferred.
It was common during World War II for Black soldiers to be denied commissions if they were to be assigned to a predominantly white unit. At the time, it was against Army regulations for white soldiers to be subordinate to Blacks. James spent the war as a corporal, serving as a typist with a quartermaster battalion supplying front-line combat units in North Africa and Italy for three years. After the war, he married and worked for the post office. He never told his children
Marion Teresa Lane, discovered his class photo from Fort Benning, WHYY said. “When I was growing up, my father never spoke of his military service because it was too painful,” said Marion Teresa Lane in a statement from the Museum of the American Revolution. “In 2001, I found a photo of his graduation from officer candidate school and he told me to throw it away because it meant nothing.” But she said, “Tenacity is my middle name,” and began working through the red tape to get her father (Cont’d on page 9)
NAACP Florida State Conference condemns CFO Patronis’ actions to an African American clemency applicant about the number of children and number of mothers of his children The NAACP Florida State Conference condemns the racially loaded questions and derogatory actions of CFO Jimmy Patronis.
FORT LAUDERDALE — The NAACP Florida State Conference condemns the conduct of Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis at a recent meeting of the State Clemency Board. CFO Patronis asked intrusive questions of an AfricanAmerican clemency applicant’s regarding the number of children and number of different mothers to the children. CFO Patronis’s behavior emphasizes the need
for automatic rights restoration and raises grave concerns about CFO Patronis’s fitness to participate in the clemency process. “We are shocked that the State of Florida’s CFO had the audacity to ask personal questions of an African-American man that have no bearing on whether he should be able to fully participate in civic (Cont’d on page 9)
One Choice is
No Choice: Florida Governor Rick Scott Denies Critical Healthcare Coverage to Those Living with HIV
After a nearly two-decade partnership, Governor Rick Scott and Florida Medicaid officials are denying renewal of an HIV care contract with AHF’s Positive Healthcare— a respected non-profit which has been providing critical health insurance coverage for people living with HIV in Florida since 1999 and forcing HIV patients to use for-profit companies that don’t currently cover their sustained medical provider. AHF says move is certain to disrupt care for a population of nearly 2,000 vulnerable Florida HIV patients. FORT LAUDERDALE-AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest nonprofit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider and largest global AIDS organization, is blasting Florida Governor Rick Scott for denying critical healthcare coverage to those living with HIV/AIDS. The organization is calling out Scott in response to his and the state’s Medicaid officials failure to renew an HIV care contract with AHF’s Positive Healthcare— a respected non-profit which has been providing critical health insurance coverage for people living with HIV in Florida since 1999. AHF says the state’s move will recklessly disrupt care for a vulnerable population of nearly 2,000 Florida HIV patients. In late April, Florida Medicaid officials announced the awarding of Medicaid contracts, worth up to $90 billion dollars, to five for-profit managed care plans, excluding several other companies, including Positive Healthcare (PHC), the only non-profit healthcare provider that offers insurance coverage for the critical, sensitive healthcare needs of those living with HIV. As a result of the initial decision, several of the denied agencies, including PHC, filed formal protests with Florida’s Agency for Healthcare (Cont’d on page 9)
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