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Houston, we have a solution: Elijah Manley at the 2016 GNC

By Elijah Manley “Vote Green 2016! Vote Green 2016! Vote Green 2016!”

The cheering continues as I enter the student center at the University of Houston. It was a very hot day, and I was drenched in sweat. This was the day I was scheduled to address the convention. “I commend the Green Party for being progressive enough to allow this historic event to happen under its ticket.”

(Massive applause) This was the Green Party’s 2016 National Convention in Houston, Tex. Let’s go back a few days. It was Wednesday Aug. 3, 2016. After landing, my driver, Laura Palmer, took me to my new home, the place I’d be staying for the remainder of the week. As I strutted into

the very beautiful dorms at UH, the cool A/C brushed off the Texas heat from my skin. Of course heat wasn’t anything new.

Being a Floridian, I understand the intensity of heat. That night, I got settled, and began to tour the beautiful campus. It was huge and beautiful. On Thursday, I woke up and went straight to breakfast. The gorgeous cafeteria was amazingly beautiful.

As I walked through the cafeteria amongst the delegates, I felt like a superstar.

Delegates were walking up to me, shaking my hand and asking for a picture with me.

“Wait, are you Elijah Manley?”

Of course I had never been in a situation like that. That was the case all day, through registration, all the way to sleep

time. Friday was even more of an amazing day. Live workshops on racism and ageism, and a bunch of interviews.

Finally, I ran into Dr. Cornel West. Dr. West walks up to me and identifies me. At that moment, I’m very shocked. “Dr. West! How are you?” He tells me how proud he is of me, and records a live video with me.

My day was enlightened.

That same day, I went to the credentials committee to contest the primary results due to an unbiased primary system. After contesting the primary on live twitter video, I was interviewed by half a dozen media outlets.

On Friday, I really needed to get some air. I had been up almost all night for the past two days. I walked around the campus and met hundreds of students.

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Don’t get fooled by the mockingbird He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. Proverbs 26:6 (KJV)

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. Pleasing notes, tweets, and rhythmic hollers so extraordinary they seem unnatural, that’s the mockingbird’s choir. The mockingbird holds the title of the master of mimicry —mockingbirds have the capability to impersonate other bird songs and sounds so accurately as to fool others into thinking they’re the originators.

Sounds a lot like some of the candidates who are vying for political offices.

They lure us in with visitations to our houses of worship and then we don’t break bread with them until the last supper. And like the real Last Supper, we have dined with Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed Jesus.

Not only are they mockers, they are outright lying when they tell us that they will solve all our societal ills.

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New hires at the RNC ready to court the Black vote

Ashley Bell, Elroy Sailor, Shannon Reeves and Telly Lovelace.

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By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Due to unprecedented poor polling numbers in the African American community, Republicans have ramped up their effort to court Black voters.

The party has hired four new Black staff members in a move that they hope will not only help GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump in the general election this November, but that will also bolster the party’s long-term efforts to gain support among African Americans, a voting bloc that for decades has mostly voted for Democrats.

The new staff members are Ashley Bell, who helped to launch the 20/20 Leaders of America, a bipartisan group of African American elected officials and community activists; Shannon Reeves, a professor of political science at Alabama A & M University and former national director of state and local development for the RNC; Elroy Sailor, the founder and CEO of the J.C. Watts Companies; and Georgia State University senior Leah LeVell, whose father, Bruce LeVell, is the chairman of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.

Two of the new hires, Bell and Sailor, spoke at length with the NNPA News Wire, expressing optimism that they

can help turnaround the record low polling numbers that show Trump currently receiving just 1 percent of the Black vote.

They also spelled out their mission to court students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs ) and their ideas for criminal justice reform.

“HBCUs are a very big focus of ours and part of our job is to make sure we engage HBCUs,” said Bell. “We don’t have a lot of time, but HBCUs can help get the economy to where it needs to be and we recognize that.”

They also recognize that

criminal justice reform is a critical issue in for the Black community.

“We have to make sure that America can turn the page from the current mass incarceration system,” added Bell. “If we talk about communities being devastated by a failed criminal justice system where brothers and sisters are being disenfranchised and not being able to find a job, we talk about fixing the criminal justice system.”

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A new study found financial incentives inspired some smokers to continue to abstain from smoking.

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Florida man kills couple, tries to bite man’s face off while possibly under influence of synthetic drugs

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Connecting recently incarcerated people living with HIV to health coverage and care Michelle Mishcon, 53, and her husband John Stevens III, 59, were killed by Harrouff in the “inexplicable” attack, according to investigators.

(Martin County Sheriff’s Office) A Florida man thought to be on hallucinogenic drugs fatally stabbed a couple, bit off part of the husband’s face and wounded a would-be rescuer, police said.

It took three deputies and a police dog to pull 19-year-old

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Florida State University student Austin Harrouff off the dead husband in the driveway of the couple’s Tequesta home Monday night, said Martin County Sheriff William Snyder.

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Money may help some smokers quit cigarettes for good, a new study suggests.

By paying poor smokers, more than one-third kick the habit long term, Swiss researchers found. The maximum amount issued out was $1,650.

“In relatively low-income smokers who did not receive face-to-face counseling or medications, large financial incentives increase long-term smoking cessation rates,” said lead researcher Jean-Francois Etter, a professor of public health at the Institute of Global Health of the University of Geneva.

Three months after the pay-to-quit program started, 44 percent of smokers who received money said they had been abstinent continuously, compared with 6 percent of those not paid, researchers found.

At six months, 36 percent of the paid group still hadn’t smoked, compared with 6 percent of the others. At 18 months, one in 10 who received money still weren’t smoking versus 4 percent of those who weren’t paid, the researchers found.

Given these findings, “large financial incentives should be further used and tested in studies aimed at documenting the health care costs across a wide array of socio-economic groups,” Etter said.

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Upheaval at Leon High School: P rincipal and Cheerleader Coach vs LCSB Principal

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By Bobby Henry, Sr. After an independent investigation by the Leon County School Board(LCSB) found issues with Leon High School cheerleading tryouts, the Superintendent did nothing to

protect four students, who were discriminated against as a result.

The parents of a cheerleader requested to the superintendent that he conduct an independent investigation of a process that had no scores, was not fully open to the public and questioned Coach Berry’s affiliation with a private gym. As a result of that investigation, the superintendent reported to two independent sources, that he’d determined ‘that the four girls should be added to the squad”. Yet, he is allowing Principal Epting to defy that recommendation. Upon hearing of this, Rocky Hannah said, “The buck stops with the superintendent; it should always be his job, to protect the students.”

He can only attribute the superintendent's unwillingness to act to “politics and his not wanting to upset the principal at Leon, to the detriment of the students involved.”

Last month, after sending Principal Billy Epting, the recommendation to place the four

Ashe, Brother Jerry Gore

Brother Jerry’s lasting legacy will be as the “Moses of Maysville".

There are rare and unique individuals who we wish could stay in this world forever… who remind us that we are all special and have significant gifts to contribute to humanity. Brother Jerry Gore was one of those people.

He was not my biological brother – he had many of his own siblings (he comes from a family of 10) – but, like the countless number of people he considered kin, I felt like part of

his family. I’m sure the hundreds of educators and parents who learned from him during our annual Underground Railroad study tours over the past two decades felt like part of his family, too.

Brother Jerry’s presence was grand, but he was humble. He had a special talent, one person noted at his memorial service earlier this week, of making you feel special. He was so full

girls discriminated against on the squad, a report was released to the Tallahassee Democrat and other news outlets containing false information, attributed to quotes by Coach Caylen Berry.

The parents never threatened to sue the school board, they simply asked the superintendent to investigate a process, which LCSB's own investigation found had numerous issues and concerns. Not only did the investigator have concerns about the process, but also concerns about Coach Berry and her impartiality. Yet, neither Superintendent Pons nor Principal Epting tried to clear up the false information with the media.

This is not the first time Coach Berry’s involvement with the Leon Cheerleading tryouts has caused concerns. Last year, Coach Berry told a girl before tryouts were completed, “that she’d already selected her girls for certain positions on the squad, and if she wanted to make Varsity, she’d have to of love and so full of life, someone else commented.

During his first career as an administrator at Morehead State University in Kentucky, he was known for his spirit of encouragement. Student after student considered him more than a mentor. “He had a special gift of seeing in you what you couldn’t see in yourself,” his friend Larry Burns said to me.

“When I was being negative, he told me to “close your eyes to the ugly and see only the beautiful in the world.” I overheard one young man tell his friends, “He always made us feel like we were the king of kings.”

But Brother Jerry’s lasting legacy will be as the “Moses of Maysville,” the small agricultural town located in Northeastern Kentucky that he called home. A town better known as the hometown of the Clooneys (yes, that’s Rosemary for some of you and George for the rest) than for its history of slavery.

As the “Ambassador of Mason County,” where Maysville is located, he was known for his knowledge of the community’s history especially that of the Underground Railroad or as Brother Jerry would often say to us the “UPground Railroad”.

As a community historian and cultural preservationist, he led tours throughout the region, sharing a history of enslave-

SCHOOL BOARD VICE CHAIR DR. DOROTHY BENDROSS-MINDINGALL (D-2) CO-HOSTED FARM SHARE FREE FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENT AT MIAMI DADE COLLEGE - NORTH CAMPUS — Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Vice Chair and Board Member for District 2, co-hosted a Farm Share Free Food Distribution Event on Aug. 15th at Miami Dade College - North Campus. As part of Dr. Bendross-Mindingall, District 2 Gives Back initiative, she was joined by State Senator Rene Garcia, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Jessie Trice Community Health Center, representatives of the NAACP Miami-Dade Chapter and the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, as well as over 90 volunteers.Farm Share and our volunteers distributed chicken, fruits and vegetables, canned goods, bread, and dessert to over 600 households. She stated “I am honored to host this event each year at Miami-Dade College (North Campus) to provide fresh food to hungry children and families in our community. I am so grateful to our elected officials, community organizations, and volunteers for being a part of our District 2 Gives Back Initiative.”

Pictured: Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, (r), along with Embrace Girls CEO Velma Lawrence and students help distribute food to over 600 residents at the Farm Share Free Food Distribution Event.

BERRY move to another position.”

During the 2015 tryouts, four African American girls, ment etched in the landscape.

As a griot, he magically weaved the tales of freedom in the stories of John Price, Addison White, the Rev. Elisha W. Green, and others, teaching us the true meaning of Kujichagulia, the fierce “self-determination” these individuals had to exhibit to take their own freedom and leave bondage behind.

For as long as I knew him, Brother Jerry wore a leather pouch around his neck imprinted with the Sankofa symbol, another concept he believed in and passed down to others, that of always looking back to move forward and acknowledging the lessons we have to learn from the past. We honor the past, Brother Jerry always reminded us, because there is a tremendous amount of wisdom to be gained for the future.

Every year before we led a group of participants up Rankin Hill following in the footsteps of thousands of freedom seekers who were determined to take their own freedom. He would have us join hands and say the name of an ancestor aloud who was no longer here on earth, but whose spirit remains with us. After each name was called we would say in unison “Ashé,” which is the Yoruban affirmation used in greetings and prayers.

We lost a unique soul when we lost Brother Jerry, an advocate for civil rights and social change, a true abolitionist, whose legacy will live on through all of us that he touched.

who’d cheered at Leon for three years, had to be added to the squad after scores showed that Coach Berry selected girls with lower scores for the team. Some of those selected, cheered at the private gym where she worked at the time. This too was reported to the LCSB by numerous parents. Asst. Superintendent Marvin Henderson investigated and found that Coach Berry had indeed chosen girls with lesser scores. Also, as a result of Coach Berry working at the private gym, should have excluded her from participating as a judge during the 2015 tryouts, according to the LCSB policy.

According to sources close to the parents, “The parents, who requested the investigation, did as any parents would do, when they see injustice happening, not just to their daughter, but for all students. They went to the School Board for help, but instead had to watch while their daughters were made to be villains in the press. They are so disappointed that the people they thought would protect their children and the others students failed them.”

While looking into who “Coach Caylen Berry” is, it was discovered that she has a very low image of African Americans, from her published article (follow link below) and they think it would be very hard to work at an animal shelter, if you didn’t like cats or dogs: https://prezi.com/ b_qsmf9bjn4p/chapter-25african-americans/ ?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Here is what we know: On May 25, 2016 parents requested that Dr. Dr. Kathleen L. Rodgers, Equity and Title IX compliance officer investigate the Leon tryouts. The request

was made, because there were NO scores taken during tryouts, nor any rubric used to determine how squads were selected. · July 12, 2016, Superintendent Pons told two persons involved with the investigation that Dr. Rodgers' investigation had found several issues with the tryout process and was sending it back to Epting at Leon, to place four girls on the cheer squad. · Epting and the cheer coach did not like the investigation outcome, and one or both released erroneous information to the press. · The cheerleader did in fact fall on Friday during the tryouts, but made it through that day's cut. On Saturday, during the “closed” tryouts, the cheerleader made all five tumbling attempts. · The coach stated at the parent meeting that "you could not make varsity if you did not tumble", yet she placed four girls on the team who had NO tumbling experience.

In addition to this, Leon High School has several other issues that have been reported to the National Action Network and the NAACP: · Two Black teachers' contracts were not renewed, one Black teacher died earlier this year; however none or 0 of 21 newly hired teachers at Leon High School are Black. · The wrong transcript was sent to a college in midwest that caused a Black student a $70K scholarship, which then by default went to another student at Leon High School who is white.

Efforts were made to reach LCSB and Cheer Nation Athletics - Owners (Dana Brown and Dustin Baker) for a comment on how Coach Berry sees African Americans.

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To Our Mother and Grandmother from your children and grandchildren, We Love You and Miss You

FREEDOM CHAPEL AND FARMINGDALE STATE COLLEGE (FSC) BRING TOGETHER POLICE AND HUNDREDS OF BLACK YOUTH TO BUILD A BETTER RELATIONSHIP — On July 26, 2016, Freedom Chapel in Amityville, N.Y. brought together over 175 girls and boys ages eight-17 and staff at their Hoop Challenge basketball camp. The majority of the participants were African American. Professor James Rooney (who is white) of FSC was invited as one of their motivational speakers. Prof. Rooney is also a detective and decorated member of the Suffolk County Police Department. At a time when many communities in America are reeling from tense, hostile and at times deadly encounters between Black youth and police, Freedom Chapel through their Teen Challenge program, took a very public and necessary step to bring together police and Black youth with FSC’s First Responder program. PHOTO: Detective James Rooney hugged by youth after delivering a powerful talk on building better relationships between police and Black youth.

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Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders

Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders (MTL) is a dropout prevention, educational re-engagement, and student leadership program that is based on five pillars. The five pillars of this High School Graduation Initiative are: 1. Academic Achievement –Ninth and 10th graders who earned below a 2.0 grade point average attend study hall sessions where they are assigned a caring adult-an Academic Coach-and student mentors for ongoing support. Together they create a quiet, supportive, welcoming, and structured study hall environment where students can complete their homework, study, check their grades, and work together to resolve conflicts that are hindering their academic progress. Mentors and mentees are also exposed to Success Highways, a curriculum that builds resilience and leads to high school gra-duation, as well as College Summit’s freshmen curriculum – Clean Slate, a curriculum that inspires all students to consider going to college after high school and assists with the college application process.

2. Mentoring – High achieving (GPA 3.0 or above) upperclassmen with demonstrated leadership skills participate in a two-year mentor relationship with students who have earned a GPA lower than 2.0. This is a structured relationship that is facilitated by MTL program staff. All MTL students are exposed to adult role models and mentors from the community during monthly workshops, and from interacting with guest speakers who take part in the MTL Career and College Exploration Series.

Monthly parent education workshops to cover topics such as Graduation Requirements, Grading, Stages of Adolescent Development, Academic Needs of Adolescents, etc. Parent workshops to address parental needs such as Employability Training, Managing Stress, and literacy classes will also be offered while simultaneously developing parent leaders.

3. Family Involvement – MTL Parents and Guardians attend monthly parent education workshops to cover topics such as graduation requirements, grading, stages of adolescent development, academic needs of adolescents, etc. Parent workshops to address parental needs such as employability training, managing stress, literacy classes will also be offered while simultaneously developing parent leaders.

4. Community Support – Community members volunteer to serve as adult mentors and role models, presenters at parent and student workshops, guest speakers through the College and Career Exploration Series, as well as donors, sponsors and members of the MTL Advisory Board.

5. Incentives – Program participants earn several incentives as they work to improve their grades and meet high school graduation requirements. Student mentors also earn incentives as they inspire their peers to achieve academic excellence. These incentives include recognition within the school and community, visits to local colleges and post-secondary institutions, and an all-expense paid TriState College Tour.

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1. Breakfast for lunch? Make pancakes and freeze the leftovers. You can warm them up and pack them up for a fun lunch.

Scrambled eggs or a sliced boiled egg can be a hit too (remember the ice pack though).

2. Some kids don’t like peanut butter but will enjoy cashew or almond butter as a spread.

(Meatless) 3. Sliced mango, kiwi, or apples are a good snack (use

orange juice to help prevent browning) (Meatless) 4. Use leftovers for school lunch. If your child ate the beef stew last night for dinner, serve it up for lunch (place an ice pack in the lunch box though to prevent food illness).

5. Use leftover chicken from dinner last night and make a sandwich vs. processed sandwich meat which is high in sodium (salt).

6. Get out the cookie cutters – no not for cookies, but for sandwiches. Kids love food in shapes. Surprise them with different shapes over the week.

7. Other bite-sized food includes cucumber and avocado rolls (many grocery stores now have a section of Japanese food). (Meatless) 8. Toothpicks can add some fun too – kids love bite-sized food. So make a mini-sandwich and place a toothpick in it.

9. Make your own Japanese rolls: Use Korean roasted seaweed (this has a nice sesame flavor to it) and sticky rice. Just roll up the rice like into a minicylinder shape. Have your kids help you make it the night before.

10. Edamame (soybean) or sugar snap peas (good source of protein) (Meatless) 11. Try a garbanzo and kidney bean salad. (Meatless) 12. Cube cheese and offer it on a toothpick. (Meatless) 13. Make a face - Open faced bagel with cream cheese and a face (use raisin for the eyes, a cashew for the nose, etc.) Kids love to help create a face. (Meatless) 14. Vanilla yogurt with raspberries and granola or nuts on top (place it in a small plastic container (use an ice pack to keep it cold) (Meatless) 15. Pasta: Use mini-penne or bowtie pasta. Just throw on some pasta sauce. If you make it the night before, add a tsp of olive oil to prevent sticking.

(Meatless) 16. Use these thin, curly noodles and serve with peanut sauce or just plain. During winter months, use a thermos to serve up warm noodles (boil them in vegetable broth and use about 1/3 of the liquid for added flavor).

(Meatless) 17. Add dips- kids love dipping foods - Fruits and veggies are great for dipping! Serve minicarrots or jicama with ranch dressing, or slightly steamed broccoli with light mayo. (Meatless) 18. Burritos: Just use minitortillas and serve with beans and cheese. Many kids don’t need to have their foods warmed up to enjoy. Similarly, offer baked beans and a whole wheat tortilla separate; many kids like to enjoy food separately and may not enjoy pinto or black beans. (Meatless) 19. Serve sliced ham, chicken, tuna or egg salad sandwiches on 100% whole wheat or other bran. Go with what your child likes.

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The school visit: What to look for, what to ask

By GreatSchools Staff There’s no substitute for visiting the schools on your list, so you can get a sense of the school environment and get your questions answered.

Be sure to visit all the schools on your list, if you can.

A visit is the best way to determine whether a school is right for your child. Even a short visit will help you identify a school’s strengths and challenges. It’s also the only way to get a feel for a school’s climate — intangible but important factors like the dynamism of the teaching, engagement of the students, quality of communication and respect between students, teachers, ad-

ministrators, and parents, and the overall sense that the school offers a safe and inspiring learning environment.

School visit checklists Get a printable guide to help you plan your elementary, middle, or high school visit.

Before your visit · Do your homework. Read about the schools you’ll be visiting. Examine their school profiles on GreatSchools.org.

Talk to other parents and check your local newspaper for articles about the schools. · Contact the school. Most schools conduct regular school tours and open houses during the enrollment season — typically in the fall. Call the

school or go online to schedule a visit. · Ask and observe. Jot down your questions before your visit (the sample questions below will help you create your list).

Key questions to ask · Does this school have a particular educational philosophy or mission? · Is the school implementing the Common Core State Standards, and if so, what is the procedure and timeline for teacher training and implementation? · What is the average class size? · What is this school’s approach to student discipline and safety?

Florida man kills couple, tries to bite man’s face off (Cont'd fron FP) Harrouff was making grunting, growling “animal-like noises” at the scene and later gave investigators a false name, Snyder said. He declined to speculate ahead of test results but noted the gruesome slaying may be linked to synthetic drugs marketed as cheap substitutes for other stimulants.

“We know in our business that people on flakka or bath salts will do this type of behavior where they attack their victim and do the biting and remove pieces of flesh in the biting,” Snyder said at a news conference Tuesday morning.

Police said Harrouff, 19, was making “animal-like noises” and ripping off one of his victim’s faces with his teeth when they arrived at the victim’s home Monday night.

Investigators said John Stevens III, 59, and his wife Michelle Mishcon, 53, died at their home in the affluent Palm Beach County town, WPTV reported. Snyder said a neighbor who tried to stop the stabbing rampage and dialed 9-1-1 was hospitalized but expected to survive after suffering “substantial trauma.”

Snyder said Harrouff didn’t know the couple before the 10:30 p.m. attack, which he called “completely unprovoked and random,” the Miami Herald reported. Investigators said Harrouff used a switchblade and several “weapons of opportunity” in the couple’s garage.

“There was an enormous amount of violence in that garage,” Snyder said. He noted deputies found the woman’s body in the garage. Investigators believe Stevens fought for his life before Harrouff killed him and started biting off chunks of

Martin County Sheriff William Snyder identified the killer as 19-year-old Florida State University student Austin Harrouff, shown in a Facebook picture above. (Facebook) his face.

Harrouff, who was in town with some of his FSU fraternity brothers, stormed off from dinner with his parents at a nearby restaurant 45 minutes before the attack, according to the sheriff. His parents called the police after he became angry, possibly over slow service, and walked out of a local sports bar named Duffy’s.

The first deputy who arrived at the SE Kokomo Lane home used her stun gun on Harrouff to try to get him off Stevens’ bloody body, investigators said.

Yet the Taser didn’t faze Harrouff, and neither did bites from a police dog who arrived with two more deputies, according to Snyder.

“The suspect in this case was abnormally strong,” Snyder said.

Medical staff at a hospital later sedated Harrouff. Blood tests showed the former high school football player and wrestler had not taken methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin or other common drugs. Scans for flakka or bath salts, which are part of a class of drugs alarmed health officials refer to as “new psychoactive substances,” will take longer to complete.

Sheriff Snyder called the killing “inexplicable.”

“One of the first things we try to do at a crime scene is try to understand the motive of the offender, because it is the motive of the offender that gets us going in the right direction,” Snyder said. “In this case, we can’t establish a motive. It’s ‘I don’t know.’”

Doug Meadows first identified his sister and his brotherin-law as the deceased victims in an interview with The Palm Beach Post early Tuesday.

The couple often hosted friends in the garage of their Jupiter River Estates home.

They placed couches and a TV in the garage and usually kept its door open, Maddox said.

“It’s just beyond me why that would happen,” Maddox said.

“The guy must be crazed.”

The case immediately prompted comparisons with the “Miami face-eater” case of May 2012, when police fatally shot a naked man who they said had been trying to chew off another man’s face. Yet the suspect in that case, 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, had only marijuana in his system, and his victim didn’t die.

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· How much homework do students have? What is the school’s philosophy/approach to homework? · What kind of library resources are available to students? · How is technology used to support teaching and learning at this school? · How do the arts fit into the curriculum? Is there a school choir, band or orchestra?

A drama program? Art classes? · What extracurricular opportunities (sports, clubs, community service, competitions) are available for students? · How do students get to school? Is free school busing available? · Is bullying a problem at the school? Does the school have an anti-bullying policy? · Does the school have a program for gifted students?

AUGUST 18 - AUGUST 24, 2016 • PAGE 5 · How does this school support students who have academic, social or emotional difficulties? · What strategies are used to teach students who are not fluent in English? · What professional development opportunities do teachers have? In what ways do teachers collaborate? · Does the school offer Physical Education (PE) classes? · What are some of the school’s greatest accomplishments? What are some of the biggest challenges this school faces?

Features to look for · Do classrooms look cheerful? Is student work displayed, and does it seem appropriate for the grade level? · Do teachers seem enthusiastic and knowledgeable, asking questions that stimulate students and keep them

engaged? · Does the principal seem confident and interested in interacting with students, teachers and parents? · How do students behave as they move from class to class or play outside? · Is there an active Parent Teacher Association (PTA)?

What other types of parent involvement take place at this school? · How well are the facilities maintained? Are bathrooms clean and well supplied, and do the grounds look safe and inviting?

Especially for elementary schools · What are some highlights of this school’s curriculum in reading, math, science and social studies?

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Connecting recently incarcerated people living with HIV (Cont'd from FP) Coverage eligibility for people involved with the criminal justice system Coverage eligibility rules for incarcerated persons can be complicated. Here are important facts to keep in mind.

Medicaid: Individuals can enroll in Medicaid anytime during the year, but Medicaid cannot pay for services while they are incarcerated. CMS encourages states to suspend rather than terminate coverage during incarceration.

Marketplace: PLWH can maintain Marketplace coverage while incarcerated if they are classified as ‘pending disposition of charges’ (in other words, being held without a conviction before sentencing or other final settlement of a case). However, this information must be reported to the Marketplace, and individuals must continue paying health insurance premiums. This FAQ document from the Federal marketplace provides more information, including eligibility for probationers and parolees.

Special enrollment period (SEP): All released individuals have access to a SEP that allows

them to enroll in a QHP within 60 days of release. If they do not enroll within this time period, they must wait until the next open enrollment period.

Strategies to improve enrollment There are many strategies that states, RWHAP agencies, and case managers can employ to improve enrollment and linkage to care for recently incarcerated PLWH. States can ensure that a short-term supply of ART is made available to PLWH upon release through ADAP, and strive to cultivate a statewide network of agencies to support recently released PLWH. Service providers can collaborate with the criminal justice system to institute discharge planning for inmates that includes: making an appointment with a health care provider, assisting with enrollment in health coverage, and providing a supply of HIV medications. Service providers can also work to ensure that the same case manager stays with the client pre and post release, and that all case managers are trained in substance use and mental health issues. Case managers should work to build trust

with clients, help with enrollment paperwork, and support linkage to care and services upon release. It is particularly crucial to connect clients to stable housing, employment, and community support systems.

For more information: From ACE TA Center: This webinar for RWHAP providers working with PLWH involved in the criminal justice system provides strategies and lessons learned for connecting recently incarcerated PLWH to coverage and care. From CMS: This Q&A document describes how states can facilitate access to Medicaid for individuals transitioning from incarceration. From HHS: This blog post gives highlights of recent guidance on how states can improve access to Medicaid coverage for newly released individuals. From NASHP: This 2015 toolkit reviews state strategies to enroll justiceinvolved populations in health coverage.

The ACE TA Center works with the Ryan White HIV/ AIDS Program to help diverse clients get enrolled in health coverage. targethiv.org/ace.

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Opinion Letter to the Editor

By Johnny Leonardo McCray, Jr., Esquire As I was leaving church service recently, I picked up the Westside Gazette newspaper and saw a large article—The Big Reveal of Judge Destry— featuring Broward Circuit Judge Matthew Destry by highlighting his life and judicial career. To say the least, I was utterly flabbergasted to see Judge Destry, who is seeking re-

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election, portrayed as one who has a rich history and tremendous interest in the African American community.

In nearly 35 years of practicing law in Broward County, I have never spoken out or written about why a sitting judge does not deserve to be re-elected.

In this instance, I am compelled to share my thoughts and experiences with the community.

A few months back, I received a call from one of his campaign representatives and was asked if I would support his bid for re-election. I responded—"I cannot in good conscience do so”.

How can they inspire and empower communities to act at our highest level if we are deprived of even the knowledge of them? Dig a little into the narrative of the national parks as I have and you will clearly see that our ancestors of all hues disagreed, fought, split apart and came back together again to preserve the Union. In 240 years as a nation we have continuously moved forward as a nation together, though recent revelations about systemic abuse of African Americans around the country challenge what I thought I knew.

Vital questions that need answers on the eve of Park Service’s 100th anniversary The most famous park ranger, Shelton Johnson, has worked in Yosemite National Park for many years, and brought to life the history of the Buffalo Soldiers who protected the park at the beginning of the 20th Century.

By Audrey Peterman If anything could mitigate the current divisions roiling our country, I believe our National Park System would be that thing. The power of our national parks to inform, inspire, heal and build community can hardly be overstated – if you are among those privileged to know them.

As the Park Service gets ready to celebrate its 100th Anniversary August 25, it admits to a grave imbalance in the number of non-white Americans that have a relationship with the parks either as users or as part of the workforce. This “challenge” has dogged the service for the 20 years I’ve been involved, though the 2000 census indicated that the fastest growing sectors of our population was non-white.

Like the park service, corporate America recognized the need to build their clientele among emerging groups.

But where corporations have succeeded in expanding their base by targeting information and opportunities to this sector, the service has lagged far behind in broadening its constituency for the parks.

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A tale of two selfies

By Lee A. Daniels George Curry Media Columnist Donald Trump and his mob of supporters continue to show they’re happiest when wallowing in the cess-

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pool of human behavior. Who would have thought a candidate for the American presidency would within two weeks label the coming election as “rigged,” imply his opponent for the office should be assassinated, and accuse the sitting President of being the “founder” of a global terrorist organization?

Against that backdrop, it may seem frivolous to consider two selfies of the interns in the Congress that recently rocketed around the social media.

It’s not. In fact, these two selfies alone tell a great deal of the tale of the last half-century or so of American life. That includes explaining how a mentally unstable demagogue came to be the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States.

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Judge Destry is neither a friend to minorities nor to the poor. He has demonstrated over and over again that justice in his courtroom is at best sporadic and at worst provided only to those whose favor he covets. During his almost nine year tenure, Destry has been the target of criticism in the media, by practicing attorneys, and

by Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, whose office represents mainly the poor and minorities. He is the most terrifying kind of judge— unpredictable, harsh, and wildly and inconsistently wielding his discretion.

Some examples: 1) Last year Destry sentenced a 23year-old with a prison record to 60 years in prison for driving with a suspended license and having some ammo in his car even though prosecutors had asked for 13 years. In a petition, thousands called for his removal from the bench over his harsh sentence.

Judge Destry later reversed himself.

I know Destry and his machine are spinning this one so fast the details are lost in the blur. Destry now claims he imposed this ridiculous sentence to get this young man’s attention, and he really had no intention of actually going through with it. Nonsense. He now admits to a private meeting (kept secret from everyone else involved in the case) with “community leaders” such as Vicente Thrower and Pastor Alan Jackson and claims that his abrupt turnaround in reducing the sentence to probation had nothing whatsoever to do with the community demand for his ouster. If that was the case, why a secret meeting where neither the lawyers for the State or the defendant were invited?

Not only does such a meeting fly in the face of legal ethics, it calls into question just what was discussed at that meeting that caused Judge Destry to not only reduce the sentence from almost a lifetime in prison to a mere slap on the wrist. Just where do you think that young man would be right now if there had been no public outcry over the sentence? Even more disturbing—how many more are there like him who did not have his or her sentence publicly denounced sparking the outrage of a community demanding justice?

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Enhancing Blackowned print in the age of social media Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., says that the challenge of linking social media with the world of the Black Press in print, while formidable, will be a growing opportunity to enhance the future economic sustainability of Blackowned newspapers.

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes the career development success of the Discover the Unexpected (DTU) NNPA Journalism Fellowship program that has just completed its first term of providing undergraduate students at the Howard University School of Communication the unique apprentice opportunity to work at NNPA member newspapers in Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and Detroit.

Black owned newspapers are not opposed to the digitalization of our content or to the digital distribution of the “trusted,” vibrant, prophetic voice of the Black Press of America. In fact as Black owned businesses, it makes good business sense for Black owned newspapers to embrace digital and social media platforms to enhance and increase the value and profitability of our publications.

One mutual benefit that emerged during the labor and service rendered by the DTU NNPA fellows was their daily increase in utilizing social media as an integral component of their career journey while working for Black owned newspapers. Both the fellows and our newspapers benefited from having these gifted and talented millennials in our workplaces during the past six weeks.

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IsTrump playing and telling Taking a closer look at Black jokes during his rallies and mental health speeches?

By Roger Caldwell Inside many jokes is an element of truth, and with Donald Trump, you never know what to believe.

Maybe Trump is a saint sent here to save the white race in America. Or maybe he is a political genius who became a member of the Republican Party to bring them into the 21st century. Or maybe Trump is financially strapped and needs a job to pay his bills.

But the one thing many agree on is Trump is a master salesman. He knows how to stay in the news, and be in the top headline story. Seventy-five percent of Americans despise him, but one of the first things they do each morning is turn on the news to see what Trump has done or said that day or the day before.

While many Americans think Trump is a con man, he is in a position to be one of the most powerful men on the planet. This is no longer a laughing matter because there are only two people running for office of President of the United States, and Trump is one of them. When Trump acts crazy, in all probability, he may be displaying some mental health issues.

It is no accident when Trump calls his colleagues, friends, enemies, and challengers “losers,” which appears to be one of his favorite words in the dictionary.

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Patricia Maryland says that we must make mental health equity a guiding principle and an utmost priority.

By Patricia Maryland, Dr.PH, NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist Good physical and mental health helps drive success and enjoyment in our lives. But when it comes to overcoming some of our society’s biggest health challenges – from HIV/AIDS to cancer to diabetes to behavioral health issues – the African-American community unfortunately shoulders a disproportionate share of the burden. As our nation increasingly deals with violence, suicide and depression, it’s important to take a close look at the state of Black mental health in America.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that one of every five adults in the U.S. — some 43 million people — will experience mental illness this year. African-Americans are far from immune. In fact, Blacks are more than 20 percent more likely than whites to report having serious psychological distress. For people of color living in poverty-stricken neighborhoods, where rates of homelessness, incarceration, substance abuse and violent crime are higher, the risk of mental illness is compounded.

After reading the 164-page Justice Department report on the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), it is surprising that street rebellions didn’t occur sooner in Baltimore.

The report is a stinging assessment of the police department’s policies and practices that concluded: “there is reasonable cause to believe that BPD engages in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the Constitution or federal law.”

It said the BPD “engages in a pattern or practice of:

Julianne Malveaux says that the very campaign that signals progress is also one that illustrates how much more work needs to be done before women’s equality is attained.

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA News Wire Columnist With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember that women have had the right to vote for less than a century (and Black folks less than that). But the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, just 96 years ago. At Congresswoman Bella Abzug’s (D-N.Y.) insistence Congress designated Aug. 26 as Women’s Equality Day in 1971. The first part of the joint resolution of Congress reads, “Whereas the women of the United States have been treated as second class citizens and have not been entitled to the full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or intentional, which are available to male citizens.”

Reading the words reminds me how far women have come, how far we still have to go, and how little the status of women of color is included when we speak of the status of women.

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In order to save Black boys we must teach them how to read

By Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu CHICAGO, IL — Only 12 percent of Black males are proficient in reading by eighth grade. If this was the case for white males, the media would categorize this as an epidemic and a national security risk. If a Black male is not proficient in reading by fourth grade, they only have a 20 percent chance of graduating from high school on grade level. America is not doing very well teaching Black boys how to read ill the primary grades. They are atrocious in the upper grades. I never imagined when I wrote Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, that governors were going to use my fourth grade research to build more prisons.

I naively thought they would realize its more cost efficient to teach them literacy, than incarcerate them at $38,000 per inmate per year, with a recidivism rate of 85 percent. I believe literacy is the civil rights issue of this century. How can Black males be economically competitive illiterate? In 1920, 90 percent of Black youth had their fathers in the home because while many were illiterate they worked oil farms.

In 1960, 80 percent had their fathers at home. While many were illiterate, they worked in factories.

Today, the figure has dropped to a meager 28 percent. It is impossible to be economically viable in this information economy illiterate.

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The Gantt Report Bank robbers

By Lucius Gantt

(1) making unconstitutional stops, searches, and arrests; (2) using enforcement strategies that produce severe and unjustified disparities in the rates of stops, searches and arrests of African Americans; (3) using excessive force; and (4) retaliating against people engaging in constitutionally-protected expression.”

Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger have been recognized as some of America’s most famous bank robbers.

The so-called “Top 10” bank thieves even include a Black man named Charles “Chaz” Williams.

I would imagine bank robbery is a global phenomenon and most countries around the globe have had their share of financial institution theft.

However, the world’s greatest bank robbers are bankers themselves!

On any day, when you put one dollar or one billion cash dollars into a bank, before the sun rises on the following day, the money you deposited is gone!

Don’t take my word for it. Go to a casino for instance, and hit a million dollar jackpot and tell the casino you want to be paid in cash. Take that million and go to 10 different banks and make cash deposits of $100,000.

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Baltimore cops routinely violate rights of Blacks

By George E. Curry George Curry Media Columnist

Shirley Chisholm and the fight for equal rights for all women

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Westside Gazette 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

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

Reverend Jimmy L. English PASTOR WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship ............................................................. 8 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Sunday School ........................................................................... 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday (Prayer Service & Bible Study) ............................... 7:30 a.m.

Saturday (Women Bible Study) ............................................................ 8 a.m.

"Baptized Believers working together to do the will of God"

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!

St Paul United Methodist Church 244 S.E. Second Avenue Deerfield Beach, Florida 33341 (954) 427-9407 EMAIL EMAIL:: Stpaulmeth@bellsouth.net WEBSITE WEBSITE:: saintpauldeerfield.com

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Sunday School .................................................................................... 10 a.m.

Sunday Worship ................................................................................ 11 a.m.

Bible Study (Tuesday) ....................................................... 11 a.m. & 7.p.m.

Harris Chapel United Methodist Church Rev. Stanley Melek, M.Div E-MAIL:stanley.melek@flumc.org

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.

Obituaries James C. Boyd Funeral Home CHEATON Funeral services for the late Bernice Cheaton - 61 were held Aug. 6 at First Baptist Church Piney Grove with Min. Michael Frazier officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

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"

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

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SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES Worship Service ..................................................................... 7:30 & 10:30 a.m.

Fifth Sunday ONLY .................................................................................... 10 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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The WITNESS of “The WILL” Sunday Worship Experiences ................................................................ 7:45 and 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School ................................................................................................................. 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday Night Triumph {Prayer, Praise and Power} Prayer Meeting ................................................................................................................ 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study ........................................................................................................................ 7:30 p.m.

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GRAVES Funeral services for the late Bernard Graves – 61.

HARRIGAN Funeral services for the late Carida Harrigan – 82 were held Aug. 13 at Eglise Baptiste Bethanie with Pastor Lucdel Harrigan officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

MCLEISH Funeral services for the late Sandra Denise Wright-McLeish – 52 were held Aug. 12 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel.

PARKER Funeral services for the late Baby Boy Chance Dwayne Parker – 6-days–old were held Aug. 11 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Bishop Will A. Brantley officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

DICKINSON Funeral services for the late Ira Lee Dickinson, Sr. - 87 were held Aug. 13 at Community Church of God with Rev. Edgar Miller officiating. Interment: South Florida National Cemetary, Lake Worth.

TINDAL Funeral services for the late Loretta E. Tindale – 61 were held Aug. 13 at New Mount Olive Baptist Church with Pastor Zantnia Hollis officiating.

Interment: Forest Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WILSON Funeral services for the late Shirley “Grandma” Wilson – 69 were held Aug. 13 at Pentecostal Temple Revival Center with Bishop Will A. Brantley officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WILSON Funeral services for the late Willie J. Wilson – 63 were held Aug. 13 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Minister officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

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BOWEN Funeral services for the late Sister Eldora Davis Bowen 74 were held Aug. 13 at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church with Dr. James B. Darling, Jr. officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

BARNES Funeral services for the Joe Lee Barnes - 73 were held Aug. 13 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Timmy English officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

LASANE Funeral services for the late Evangelist Dorothy Lasane – 85 were held Aug. 13 Church of Christ Holiness Unto Lord, Inc., with Bishop Moses Lewis officiating. Interment: Sun-

SLOAN Funeral services for the late Helen Sloan – 72.

SMALLS Funeral services for the late Lamont Tarique Smalls, Jr. – 22.

‘Study to show thyself approved unto God’ Question: Must I attend seminary school before I can preach: Answer: I must say no.

Obtaining permission from a seminary, from a church, or a man does not validate your personal relationship with God. You were called to proclaim the love and the redemption of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

For one to preach the Word one must have received the high calling from God, personally.

The word ‘Call’ is the Greek word klesis or calling, which means a member of the family of God. He or she has been summoned or called by God to preach. God told Jeremiah that 'before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee…..I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.’ (Jeremiah 1:5) When one attends Bible College or Seminary it will enhance your call to preach. That is a good thing. It will further your knowledge in scripture, such as interpretation and the exegesis of a text. You will learn proper pulpit decorum, and how to deliver an effective sermon. Remember what Paul says in scripture: 'Study to show

REVEREND DEAL thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’ (2 Timothy 2:15) Reverend David Deal is the senior pastor at Every Christian’s Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Please write to Reverend Deal in care of the spiritual editor, Westside Gazette, 545 NW 7th Terr, Fort Lauderdale, Fla 33311 or e m a i l David.deal55@gmail.com

Kids Talk About God

If Jesus came with you to school, what would you do?

By Carey Kinsolving and friends (Part One of Two) “I would ask him for all the answers. I would buy him lunch,” says Bobby, age 7.

Yes, it would be nice to not study and have the answers to those pesky tests. Then, there’s the other trial that takes the fun out of school — homework.

“I would tell Jesus about the 1,000 pages we have to read,” says Eric, 9. “I would tell him about my homework Mrs. Wright gave me.”

Eric, do you think Jesus would decrease your reading or homework? Don’t count on it. This might be hard for you to believe, but most teachers have the best interests of their students in mind.

When Jesus walked on the Earth, his homework was heaven’s work. He always listened to his Father’s voice and obeyed perfectly. Because of his obedience in dying on the cross, our disobedience doesn’t have to keep us out of heaven.

Ellyn, 9, has another plan for dealing with school: “I would ask Jesus to get my brother out of school, get on a cloud and fly us home.”

I wonder if the Lord could arrange a cloud-ride home about two minutes before a final exam. What teacher could argue with being whisked away on a cloud?

“If Jesus came to my school, I think I would show him how I can do the monkey bars,” says Lauren, 7. “I would ask him to swing me. I would also ask him what heaven is like.”

Some of us can’t imagine Jesus taking time to swing a child on a playground. It seems so ordinary. We like the stories of Jesus walking on the water, feeding 5,000 people or healing a man born blind. If we always look for Jesus in the miraculous, we’ll miss him in the ordinary details of life.

I remember a front-page story in a south Texas newspaper of a woman who saw the image of Jesus in a tortilla. She made a little shrine in her house, and people lined up to see it.

What could be more ordinary than asking for a drink of water? Jesus asked for a drink, and a revival broke out in a Samaritan town (John 4). A woman drank of the living water and told others the Messiah had come. As the Samaritan woman who came to draw water from the well discovered, Jesus offers living water (eternal life) to all who drink (believe in him).

“If Jesus was right here at school, I would jump up and down, and give him a big hug,” says Caroline, 6, “because I want to make Jesus smile, and I would bow down to him in respect.”

Our lives would be radically transformed if we lived to make Jesus smile. Eliminating thoughts, words and actions that make Jesus weep would start us toward this lofty goal.

Think about this: Forget about your rights. If God gave us our rights as people who have sinned against him, we would have no hope of spending eternity with him. Every day, our hearts should be jumping for joy with gratitude and bowing down before God with reverence for his grace and mercy to us.

Memorize this truth: “Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church by Christ set Memorial Gardens.

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Jim Clingman says that true partnerships between educated consumers and business professionals in Black economic enclaves comprise the basis for real power in the marketplace.

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“There are [Blacks] who are willing to worship the pyramids of 4,000 years ago, but will not build pyramids in the present so their children may see what they left behind as well. We have a leadership who rallies the people to look at past glories, but leave their children neglected, who will make great analytical and oratorical dissertations on the inadequacies of Eurocentric education and yet will not contribute one penny of their money or their time to the construction of their own schools.” — Dr. Amos Wilson, Afrikan Centered Consciousness versus the New World Order.

Montoya Smith, host of the Atlanta talk show, Mental Dialogue, asked, “Can we rebuild ‘Black Wall Street?’”

“No, really,” he added, recognizing the depth of his question and assuring folks he was not kidding or just being rhetorical.

So, what was Black Wall Street? Most of what I have learned about it was obtained from a book by John Sibley Butler titled, Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans, A Reconsideration of Race and Economics, which contains an exhaustive section on Tulsa, Okla.’s history and a detailed account of what took place in its Greenwood District. Some of the information below comes from Dr. Butler’s book. I also learned from face to face conversations with six of the survivors of the Tulsa Riot.

Black Wall Street was burned to the ground in 1921 by a white mob. The Greenwood District, located in the northern section of Tulsa, Okla., was once called “Negro Wall Street,” and “Little Africa.” It

was home to hundreds of Black owned businesses and sat on valuable land desired by white oil speculators, who even tried to buy parcels of that land from Blacks for 10 cents on the dollar immediately following the Tulsa riot. Fortunately and wisely, Blacks refused to sell.

Despite hundreds of Black lives lost in the riot and all of Greenwood’s businesses destroyed, the story of that economic enclave during the ensuing 17 years was one of triumph over tragedy. By 1923, as a result of Blacks pooling their money to capitalize new enterprises, the Black business district was even larger than before, and Greenwood was completely restored by Black people by 1938. Ultimately, urban renewal and integration, which allowed Blacks to shop at non-Black stores, led to the demise of “Black Wall Street.”

To Wilson’s point, Greenwood was a pyramid built by Blacks in the early 1900’s. Instead of looking back and merely reveling in the successes of Mound Bayou, Miss., and other enclaves that came before them, Black people in Greenwood built upon those legacies. Thus, my answer to the question posed by Smith, (Can we rebuild Black Wall Street?) was and is an emphatic and unequivocal, “Yes!” My answer to that question is based on the fact that we have done it before under far worse circumstances than we are under today.

But as I listened to the other guest on Montoya’s show, Mr. Jay West, entrepreneur and president of the Lithonia Small Business and Merchants Association located on the outskirts of Atlanta, Ga., I became even more convinced.

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Don’t get fooled by the mockingbird (Cont'd from FP) What’s much more damning than that is some of us believe them.

Finding ourselves fooled again we look like BoBo the clown, appearing to have the inability to vote with our heads and not our hearts. We refuse to read candidates by looking past that book cover; we become enamored by the outside and the shallowness of vein accolades of what they pay others to say about them.

We don’t take the Great Commission seriously: The Great Commission instructs us to make disciples (Believers in Christ) while we are going throughout the world and while we are going about our daily activities.

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Their badges are made from trumped up charges of community reform and open door policies. Pin on their chests with statistics that misrepresent the truth in numbers of those who look like me in higher places. While our jails and prisons are filled with young Black and Brown brothers and sisters.

And those who sit in judgment and hand out sentences, we don’t give them a fair chance because that part of the system has not always been fair to us. Yet, when one has been called and chastised by the community and tried to correct a wrong, we bite the head off like a grizzly bear eating a salmon.

We direct our actions towards the wrong attorney, albeit defense or prosecutor.

A great German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality, Friedrich Nietzsche said, “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” I don’t necessarily agree with all that Mr. Nietzsche said; however I do emphatically agree with that!

It is election time ya’ll and this is, like other election times SERIOUS and in the vernacular of the streets, its “serious as cancer”.

We cannot go on as usual and vote for anybody “just because”. “Just because” they’re Black. “Just because” they’re Democrat or Republican. “Just because” they’re straight, LGBTQ, friend or foe.

Ask yourself this question; “Am I voting for a CARICATURE or one with CHARACTER?” One question you may keep in your mind when you are questioning candidates is: “Have they lived a life of cultural consciousness and social sensitivity?”

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Psalm 14:1 (KJV) “Dear God teach me to follow you. In You there are no fools.” Amen A FOOL IS SOMEONE WHO IS UNWISE, LACKS SENSE, AND LACKS JUDGMENT. WHERE DO YOU STAND?

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Black and Hispanic children and youth rarely get help for mental health problems Minorities’ psychiatric and behavioral problems often result in school punishment or incarceration, but rarely mental health care, according to nationwide study Black children and young adults are about half as likely as their white counterparts to get mental health care despite having similar rates of mental health problems, according to a study published Aug. 12 in the International Journal of Health Services. Hispanic youth also get only half as much mental health care as whites.

The study used data on children under 18 and young adults 18-34 from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey covering all 50 states for the years 2006-2012. It found that minorities received much less of

Study: Get paid to quit smoking (Cont'd from FP) The study involved 805 lowincome smokers who wanted to quit smoking. They were randomly assigned to receive no pay or payments that increased incrementally for confirmed abstinence.

On average, participants had an annual income of about $20,000 and smoked about 16 cigarettes a day. Forty-three percent were students, and 19 percent were unemployed.

Whether these incentives would work for richer people isn’t known.

All participants received instructional booklets and access to a website with information about quitting. They were periodically tested to verify whether they were smoking.

Although many participants resumed smoking and 81 dropped out (mostly those not paid), the researchers found a significant number succeeded who were paid to quit.

The report was published Aug. 15 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

“Paying smokers to quit has been found to increase quitting, at least in the short term,” said Judith Prochaska, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University Medical School in California.

However, key questions remain, she added.

“For example, how large and frequent do the payments need to be?” she wondered. Also, she questioned whether it might be better to pay for participation in quit-smoking programs to build skills and internal motivation, rather than just the outcome of quitting. “Or could a hybrid approach of incentivizing program participation and outcome be even more effective?” Prochaska asked.

Despite the cost, payments may be a productive alternative for certain smokers, Prochaska said.

But existing tobacco treatment approaches with medication and counseling may be more accessible for bettereducated working people with health insurance, she added.

Because smoking is increasingly concentrated among people with less education and income, reward-based programs have the potential to address growing disparities in tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases, Prochaska said.

“Tobacco addiction is an entrenched societal harm that requires a multipronged approach,” she said. An appropriate approach would combine pharmacological, motivational and behavioral treatments; policies, such as taxation and clean air laws; and new innovations and technologies, she said.

“Incentives have the potential for being part of the solution,” Prochaska said.

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virtually all types of mental health care, including visits to psychiatrists, social workers and psychologists, as well as substance abuse counseling and mental health counseling by pediatricians and other doctors.

The research was led by Dr. Lyndonna Marrast, who was a fellow at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance when she initiated the study. Marrast is currently assistant professor of medicine at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine in New York. The study’s co-authors are Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, professors at the City University of New York at Hunter College and lecturers at Harvard Medical School.

Their findings include the following: · Black and Latino children made, respectively, 37 percent and 49 percent fewer visits to psychiatrists, and 47 percent and 58 percent fewer visits to any mental health professional, than white children. · Black children’s low use of services was not due to lesser need. Black and white children had similar rates of mental health problems, and similar rates of severe episodes that resulted in psychiatric hospitalization or emergency visits. · Hispanic parents reported less mental health impairment among their children, but analyses that controlled for this lesser need for care continued to show underuse compared to non-Hispanic whites.

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All of Team USA’s Rio Olympics Gold Medal winners The U.S. leads the Rio Olympics medal count with 72 medals so far—26 of which are the coveted gold. Shooter Virginia Thrasher clinched the first gold medal of the Summer Games, setting the tone for a gold haul for Team USA when she won

Kristin Armstrong: Women’s Cycling Individual Time Trial

PUBLICATION OF BID SOLICITATIONS Broward County Board of County Commissioners is soliciting bids for a variety of goods and services, construction and architectural/engineering services. Interested bidders are requested to view and download the notifications of bid documents via the Broward County Purchasing website at: www.broward.org/purchasing.

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the women’s 10m air rifle on Aug. 6.

China and Great Britain trail the U.S. in total medals with 46 and 41 medals, respectively, as of Monday.

Team USA Gold Medals: Katie Ledecky: Women’s 400m Freestyle Virginia Thrasher: Women’s 10m Air Rifle Lilly King: Women’s 100m Breaststroke Ryan Murphy: Men’s 100m Backstroke Michael Phelps, Caeleb Dressel, Ryan Held and Nathant Adrian: Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Townley Haas, Conor Dwyer, Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps: Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay Katie Ledecky: Women’s 200m Freestyle Michael Phelps: Men’s 200m Butterfly Simone Biles, Gabrielle Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman: Women’s Team GymnasticsArtistic Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith, Maya DiRado and Katie Ledecky: Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Kayla Harrison: Women’s 78kg Judo

Simone Biles: Women’s Gymnastics All Around Ryan Murphy: Men’s 200m Backstroke Michael Phelps: Men’s 200m Individual Medley Simone Manuel: Women’s 100m Freestyle4 Katie Ledecky: Women’s 800m Freestyle Meghan Musnicki, Elle Logan, Amanda Elmore, Amanda Polk, Tessa Gobbo, Kerry Simmonds, Emily Regan, Lauren Schmetterling and Katelin Synder: Women’s 2000m Coxed Eight

Madeline Dirado: Women’s 200m Backstroke Michelle Carter: Women’s Shot Put Anthony Ervin: Men’s Swimming 50m Freestyle Jeff Henderson: Men’s Long Jump Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Simone Manuel: Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Ryan Murphy, Cody Miller, Michael Phelps and Nathan Adrian: Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock: Mixed Doubles Tennis Simone Biles: Women’s Gymnastics Vault

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Family counseling….

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the problem and implement a quick and effective solution to fix it, allowing the system to reboot and continue working. After a while, though, another issue occurs and families often get stuck when they attempt to apply old solutions to new problems.

When these solutions no longer work, families need extra support from an outside resource, like a family counselor, to help them get back up and running.

Families seek counseling for many reasons, some of which include: • Breakdowns in communication

tance, and time spent together • Divorce or separation • Substance abuse, trauma, or grief and loss.

• Shifting and changing roles, responsibilities, and dynamics • And many more…

Family therapy is not limited to parents with young children or teenagers. As children transition from adolescence to early adulthood, the family unit faces a new set of problems and obstacles. Families are continuously evolving and roles and dynamics between their members are ever changing. In working with a family counselor, fami-

AUGUST 18 - AUGUST 24, 2016 • PAGE 11 lies can learn to tackle problems through increasing communication, connection and creating in new ways to adjusting to the inevitable changes that all families experience as they grow and mature.

“Thank you for all the support you have given our family over the past few months. Not only did our son grow from your counseling, but I can tell you that our whole family benefited from the experience. You are great, professional, yet caring and personable as well. You have a gift.

Thanks again!”

— L.S., Coconut Creek, FL – Mother I specialize in family counse-

ling with teenagers and young adults. I have extensive experience, training and knowledge working with families. I am passionate about the work I do and I am committed to helping you achieve the goals that are most important to you. Together we focus on: • Shaping or re-shaping communication • Increasing connection • Having fun • Creating the desired relationship, situation and experiences you want • Allowing new and effective solutions to arise and be implemented.

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Families come in all shapes, sizes, varieties and backgrounds. Some family units are blended and consist of a stepparent, a single parent or same sex parents. Family members may come from different cultures, origins, and religious backgrounds. Every family unit has a unique history, culture, story and make up.

Families are systems, much like a computer where each component plays an active and important role. When one component is not working, other parts tend to be affected. Sometimes, families are able to troubleshoot

Harris Chapel United Methodist Church welcomes Reverend Stanley Melek

REV. MELEK FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Harris Chapel UMC is delighted to announce the installation of its new pastor Reverend Stanley K. Melek.

Pastor Melek was installed as Harris Chapel UMC’s 10th pastor on July 3, 2016 at its Celebration worship service.

Pastor Melek and his wife Caroline are passionate about God’s work and God’s people and Harris Chapel is pleased to have them.

Pastor Stanley and his wife Caroline were born and raised in Kenya. Pastor Melek answered God’s call to ministry and attended the Bible College of East Africa to be equipped for God’s work. After serving in ministry in Kenya, they moved to the USA to serve and further Pastor Melek’s Theological education. About relocating to a new country, Pastor Melek says, “I was deeply convinced that ministry was a calling in my life, and coming to a new land will not change my calling to do God’s work and community service.”

Melek attended Emory University- Candler School of Theology and graduated in 2015 with a Master of Divinity. In spring 2016, he was appointed by the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church to serve as Harris Chapel UMC’s senior pastor. He began his tenure with Harris Chapel UMC on July 1, 2016.

An avid reader and sports fan, Melek enjoys ministering with his wife to the body of Christ. They have two children, Debra and Shadrack. The Melek’s say they are so glad that God has sent them here, to this community.

The community is invited to meet Pastor Stanley and Caroline Melek and worship with the Harris Chapel family at our weekly worship services on Sundays at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

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Westside Gazette The FifthAnnual White Party Charity Fundraiser benefiting KIDs (Kids in Distress, Inc.)

Submitted by Ricky O. Stuart Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. invites you to join them on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 from 8 p.m. to midnight for their Fifth Annual “White Party Charity Fundraiser” benefiting Kids in Distress, Inc. (KID).

This year’s event will be at Plaza del Lago in Heron Bay, 11535 Osprey Trails, Parkland, Fla., 33076. Attendees will enjoy complimentary gourmet food, top-shelf beverage service, live band, DJs, exciting raffle prizes, and great company.

Alpha Phi Alpha has raised more than $45,000 for KID over the past four years, and brought more than 1,000 people to a-

wareness of KID causes. Your donation will go to a most worthy purpose-- raising money to help KID prevent child abuse, preserve families, and treat children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned in South Florida. You can get more information on the White Party by calling (954) 228-4804.

Quote from Nathan Osgood, White Party chair: Alpha for KIDS! That’s Alpha Phi Alpha’s mantra for the White Party. We recognize that many of the children who receive services from Kids in Distress are at-risk children.

We want all kids to have a chance to be raised in a loving family environment and to be

successful in life. We also recognize that Kids in Distress needs funding in order to continue providing for these kids.

Alpha Phi Alpha has always taken the lead of developing our youths to become leaders in our communities; we will always be here for our kids. – Nathan Osgood, KID board member and White Party chair.

Quote from Juacane Reynolds, Chapter President: “Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., develops leaders, promotes brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our communities. Alpha Phi Alpha-Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter recognizes that many

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of the children who receive the services of Kids in Distress are African-American boys and girls, white boys and girls, and Hispanic boys and girls. So in furtherance of our mission, the

Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha has partnered with Kids in Distress to help meet the needs of our community and help at-risk youth kids.

The White Party is a festive at-

mosphere where people who care about protecting children can gather and support Kids in Distress.” —Juacane Reynolds, president, Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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Clay stor y-Q uilts cr eated story-Q y-Quilts created

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By George Gadson FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - George Gadson, of George Gadson Studios, in partnership with Friends & Stars, Inc., will present clay quilts created by children and adults with special needs on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 from 6- 8 p.m. at ArtServe, located at 1350 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 33304.

The participants were guided in a series of workshops to create their own individual piece of the quilt that represent special moments in their lives. With a grant received from Broward County, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, Gadson will unveil a one of a kind clay story-quilt.

“One of the best ways to showcase the lives of individuals is through art. The quilts that were created as part of this program represents a part of the participants’ lives molded into different shapes of clay,” said artist George Gadson.

“We are thrilled that Mr. Gadson has chosen Friends & Stars, Inc. to be a collaborative partner in this effort,” stated Dixie Lee Hedrington-Miller, founder and executive director of Friends and Stars, Inc. “The idea of our clients creating story quilts that will be

displayed for the community is a great opportunity to showcase our organization and patrons.”

Friends & Stars, Inc., established in 2010, provides unique, pioneering arts programming expressly designed for an all-inclusive special needs population while open to the general public – a caring community supporting the arts & disabilities.

George Gadson is the owner of George Gadson Studios, an art and design company. As an artist and social entrepreneur, he has created works of art for many high profile events and individuals such as JM Family Enterprises, the Jim Moran Foundation, and Darden Restaurants, owners of Red Lobster, Olive Gardens, and Smoky Bones. In 2008 he created an ornament for the White House Christmas Tree and in 1995 and 1999, respectively, two South Florida Super Bowl bronze commemorative sculptures, aptly named “The Quarter-back” and “The Kicker”, each given to the National Football League (NFL) team owners.

Gadson has also created several works of public art including the City of Tamarac, the Urban League of Broward County, the Children Services Council of Palm Beach County, Broward County School Board Kathleen Cooper Wright Building, and many more. For more information, call (954) 822-5425 or visit www.georgegadsonstudios.com.

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Rio Olympics: Simone Manuel mak es his he pool makes histtor oryy in tthe

Simone Manuel checks the clock after winning a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle.

(Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — Simone Manuel managed to make history and

Red Eye Entertainment : Shaping the community through entertainment and giving back

By Dierra Wright Local community mogul and founder of Red Eye Entertainment, Dexter Carswell, originally from Macon, Ga now residing in Fort Lauderdale, FL where he is notorious throughout the community for his growing events and the impact he is making on the youth and the entertainment industry. Carswell, prides himself on targeting events for today’s youth that would largely be impactful in a positive way, ultimately helping reduce violence in existing communities.

Carswell originally founded Red Eye Entertainment record label in 1999. The name Red Eye Entertainment was originally paying homage to one of Carswell’s late artists who he managed that was in a group

CARSWELL called ‘Red Eye Click’. “Red Eye signifies the ‘fire in your eye’the drive and determination to succeed,” said Carswell.

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break a record, all in less than a minute.

Manuel became the first African American woman to win an individual event in Olympic swimming on Aug. 11, 2016.

She and Penny Oleksiak of Canada tied for the fastest time, an Olympic record in the women’s 100-meter freestyle: 52.70 seconds.

“I definitely think it raises some awareness and will get them inspired,” Manuel, 20, said about the significance of her accomplishment. “I mean, the gold medal wasn’t just for me. It was for people that came before me and inspired me to stay in the sport. For people who believe that they can’t do it, I hope I’m an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.”

Manuel is sharing a room with another record-setting American swimmer, Katie Ledecky, in the athletes’ village here.

She and Oleksiak shaved 0.01 seconds off the Olympic standard of 52.71, set earlier in the Rio Games meet by Australia’s Cate Campbell. Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom won the bronze in 52.99.

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