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Bishop VictorT. Curry challenges community to keep Dr. King’s legacy alive

Bishop Victor T. Curry used a combination of scripture and excerpts from some of the more memorable speeches by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his memorial address in honor of the slain civil rights leader at the New Mt. Olive Baptist Church on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016.

By Charles Moseley Bishop Victor T. Curry visiting from the New Birth Baptist Church Cathedral of

Faith International of North Miami, delivered an impassioned message as the keynote speaker at the 40th Annual Celebration Service, in honor

of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 17, 2016 at the New Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale.

Evoking excerpts from some

of Dr. King’s most memorable speeches as well as quoting scripture, Bishop Curry challenged the community to honor Dr. King by continuing his legacy of unending commitment in the struggle for equal rights and socio-economic reciprocity through registering to vote and exercising their right to vote during this upcoming presidential election cycle.

Bishop Curry quoted scripture taken from the Book of Genesis Chapter 37 Verse 5 and Verses 18-20. “And Joseph dreamed a dream. And he told his brethren and they hated him yet the more. Verse 18 says ‘and when they saw him afar off even before he came nearer unto them they conspired against him to slay him. They said one to another behold this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore let us sleigh him and cast him into some pit. We will say some evil beast had devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams.”

Bishop Curry titled his sermon, Behold the Dreamer Cometh; Let Us Sleigh Him and See What Will Become of His Dream.

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Daughter reflects on King Holiday’s meaning in current world

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. Part I of II This week we as a country were supposed to be celebrating the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Somehow we have regulated his life’s work to his I Have a Dream speech; however, it is much more than that.

Somewhere down the line we have forgotten that that particular speech came after many points of confrontation, sleepless nights, arrests and threats to his family.

That speech was changed and orchestrated to fit a mood and a wanted outcome.

Somehow we have forgotten that Dr. King’s life was for the masses and not a selected few.

Somehow we have allowed the historical aspect of his death to be mired in the mundane testimonies of what others dictate and how it should transpired, how long a celebration should last and what route should be taken and who should be inconvenienced.

We have allowed our elected officials to refer to this historic occasion as a “thing”.

“This would be a nice annual thing, to have the parade come downtown,” Seiler said. “We need to focus on making this thing a long-term success.” What Mayor Jack Seiler meant by “thing” in the magnitude of Dr. King, at this point, is a less than appealing respect for Dr. King’s accomplishments.

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By Sean King

Bernice King, CEO of the King Center, is shown at the Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Commemorative Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan. 19, 2015. In a new interview, she spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the meaning of the King holiday 30 years after it was first celebrated.

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New York officer to stand trial for fatal shooting of Black man

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) The manslaughter trial of a New York City police officer who fired the bullet that killed an unarmed Black man in the darkened stairwell of a housing project is due to begin on Thursday.

Officer Peter Liang is also charged with reckless endangerment, official misconduct and other counts for his actions inside a Brooklyn public housing complex on the night of Nov. 20, 2014.

The death of the victim, 28year-old Akai Gurley, added

Then his brothers said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

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Death of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen in cell in Kentucky raises serious questions for police

By Ernie Sugg, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution This year marks 30 years since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first observed as a national holiday.

The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which lobbied for the holiday under the leadership of the late Coretta Scott King, is the custodian of the holiday and has scheduled more than a week’s worth of activities that kicked off last Wednesday and conclude with a 2 p.m. march on Jan. 18 through King’s old neighborhood.

Pausing from her hectic schedule, Bernice A. King, King’s younger daughter and CEO of the King Center, sat down to talk briefly with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the holiday and the meaning of her father.

King would have been 87 years old on Friday, Jan. 15.

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Dreams do not change; how we perceive and honor them do

to the outrage that fueled national protests over police use of force against minorities in cities including Ferguson, Mo.; Baltimore and Cleveland.

Liang’s lawyers have said the shooting was accidental.

The shooting occurred days before a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer for killing teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson and weeks before a separate grand jury brought no charges against a white New York officer for the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

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Something’s not right.

Earlier this month, Gynnya McMillen, a 16-year-old girl described by others as a “quiet, beautiful person” was found unresponsive in a juvenile detention center cell in Elizabethtown, Ky., about 45 minutes south of Louisville.

As the demand for answers grows louder, the deafening silence from the Lincoln Valley Regional Juvenile Detention Center rings hollow. The local coroner has stated it will likely be weeks before an autopsy is released, but that McMillen did not appear to have any visual bruising and that it was doubtful that she had any heart ailments.

Color me skeptical.

According to Stacy Floden, a spokeswoman for Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, the last young person to die at such a facility in Kentucky was all the way back in 1999.

Several aspects of this story raise my suspicion.

COPS SHOW NO REMORSE TO VICTIMS OF THEIR BRUTALITY Who determined McMillen was dead? Jailers? Was an ambulance dispatched? Why was she not rushed to the nearest hospital?

Speaking anonymously to the Daily News, a former employee of the juvenile justice center stated that McMillen had just entered the facility less than 24 hours before she died.

A local police spokesperson con-

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Gynnya McMillen died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody in Elizabethtown, Ky. firmed this. The former employee stated that if McMillen died in a holding cell, something would be seriously wrong. Holding cells all have cameras and the children being held in them, according to the former employee, are supposed to be looked at in 15minute increments to guarantee their well-being. Furthermore, it is not normal for children to be held in holding cells overnight.

Lastly, if McMillen was being checked on every 15 minutes, it’s highly unlikely she went from being alive and well to being so dead she didn’t need to go to the hospital in that short period of time.

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FAMU’s aggressive research strategy prompts big prize While F ence FAMU Conference AMU scientist participates in historic Paris Climate Change Confer ability Institute met with former Vice President Al Gore and US Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell. He gave them the FCI statement commitment to climate change. Excerpts of the statement are as follows;

“We recognize the urgent need to act now to avoid irreversible costs to our global community’s economic prosperity and public health and are optimistic that world leaders will reach an agreement to secure a

transition to a low carbon future. Today our school pledges to accelerate the transition to low-carbon energy while enhancing sustainable and resilient practices across our campus.”

Mbuya also met with high ranking officials from the Government of India. India is willing to establish a recruitment center for FAMU for students interested in advanced degrees.

Twenty-five protesters were arrested Monday in San Francisco Professor Mbuya (c) and Vice President Al Gore (l).

Florida A&M University was awarded advanced research status earlier this year. The university is now a Carnegie Level II High Activity Research University. The designation places FAMU among the nation’s larger predominantly white universities and that distinction is significant, according to FAMU Vice President for Research Timothy Moore, Ph.D., “Our faculty are demonstrating that FAMU can compete against other larger universities with double the faculty and continue to produce cuttingmillion edge research at ever increasing levels.”

In the late ‘90’s there was an effort to restrict FAMU’s academic focus to undergraduate studies only. Then President Frederick Humphries successfully stopped that effort and kept the university on the research path. “Our current position is directly linked to the efforts of previous leaders and faculty scholars. We can stand on their shoulders and move this university forward and solve some of the nation’s most

vexing scientific problems,” Moore said.

Meanwhile, Moore attributes the new status to the dramatic increase in research awards.

FAMU research began the new fiscal year with a marked increase in research awards of $27.9 million in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2015 – 2016 more than doubling awards from the same period in the previous year. The total research awards in fiscal year 2014-2015 was $42.3 million.

Florida A&M University Professor Odemari Mbuya, Ph.D., was the FAMU representative for the Florida Climate Change Institute at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France recently. As an FCI representative, Mbuya was able to showcase climate change milestones confirming the commitment to address issues related to climate at national and global levels.

Mbuya, program leader of Agronomy, Soil and Water Sciences at the College of Agriculture and Food Sciences and faculty director of the Sustain-

Twenty-five protesters were arrested Monday in San Francisco after stopping traffic on the Bay Bridge with a demonstration for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Twenty-five protesters were arrested after activists stopped rush-hour traffic heading from Oakland to San Francisco for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. At one point the demonstrators shut down all five lanes heading west on the Bay Bridge

by chaining their vehicles and themselves together behind a banner with the slogan Black Health Matters, around 4 p.m.

Protesters were arrested for public nuisance, unlawful assembly and obstructing free passage charges about 30

minutes later as California Highway Patrol cut the chains with bolt cutters and had freed up three lanes of the interstate.

The “Black queer liberation collective” Black.Seed was behind the action as part of a weekend of demonstrations un-

der the banner of the Anti-Police Terror Project, the group’s spokesperson Mia Birdsong told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Among the protesters’ demands were the resignation of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, as well as the firings of San Francisco and Oakland’s police chiefs and officers involved in recent Bay Area shootings including the death of Mario Woods last month.

A statement from the group, which hopes to “reclaim Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s radical legacy,” added that it also wants an end to city funding of police and increase support for affordable housing.

CHP said late Monday night that all 25 of those arrested had been taken to San Francisco County jail.

Though police said the traffic blockage would have been worse if it did not occur on a holiday, the demonstration left a long line of cars waiting to go to San Francisco and residual delays into the evening. cbrennan@nydailynews.com

HIV testing rates still low among teens, young adults: CDC Half of infected young people don’t know it, even though guidelines suggest screening all who are ages 13 to 64

By Randy Dotinga, HealthDay Reporter Only one in five sexually active high school students has been tested for HIV, and young

adults aren’t doing much better at finding out their status, U.S. health officials report.

As a result, an estimated 50 percent of young Americans infected with the virus that causes

AIDS don’t know they have it, the researchers found.

“We haven’t made the dent that we would like to have made,” said study author Michelle Van Handel, a health scientist with the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, she said, the HIV testing rate is actually lower among those aged 18 to 24 than for older people in the United States.

Thanks to medical advances, HIV has evolved into a chronic disease instead of a fatal one.

But those who are infected must take medications for their entire lives and face higher risk of various health problems as they age.

Young people — especially Blacks — are particularly hard hit by HIV. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Blacks accounted for about 57 percent (7,000) of all new HIV infections among youth in 2010, which are the latest figures available. Hispanic/Latino youth accounted for 20 percent (2,390) and white youth accounted for 20 percent (2,380).

Overall, young adults made up 17 percent of the U.S. population in 2010 but more than a quarter of all new HIV diagnoses, the CDC noted. Gay and bisexual young men are most likely to get infected, but 27 percent of new infections are in females and heterosexual males.

For the new study, researchers examined the results of two U.S. surveys — one of high school students and one of adults aged 18 to 24.

Among high school students, the researchers found that 22 percent of those who’d had sex reported being tested for HIV. The survey for this age group, which looked at an average of 14,500 students a year from

2005-2013, didn’t find any change in testing rates over that time.

Among high school students, males (17 percent) were less likely to have been tested than females (27 percent).

The rates were a little higher among those aged 18 to 24. To gauge testing in that age group, the study authors looked at surveys from 2011-2013 with an average of 19,600 participants a year. The researchers found that 27 percent of males had been tested and 40 percent of females had been tested.

Young adult Black females had an especially high testing rate, at 60 percent in 2013.

Why are the testing rates low? Van Handel said potential reasons include lack of access to health care and too few health professionals who know about — and follow — HIV-testing guidelines. Those guidelines recommend testing for those aged 13 to 64.

“Research has shown that adolescents are more likely to get tested if their physician recommends it,” she said.

High school students may also be wary of getting tested because they fear their parents will find out through their health insurer, she said. Another hurdle, Handel said, is that blood tests aren’t necessarily routine for people of high school age.

Lisa Metsch, chair of the department of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, said creative strategies are needed to boost testing rates among teens and young adults. Her research group, for example, has explored HIV testing at dental offices. High schools and other places where teens congregate are other potential venues for testing, she said.

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Exhibit

The Memorial Exhibit of the Life of the late Carlton B. Moore will be opened to the public at the Old Dillard Museum until Jan. 31, 2016. Mr. Moore was a long time Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner, Civil Rights Activist and a Leader for Change for all of Fort Lauderdale. You can view the exhibit Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Old Dillard Museum 1009 N.W. Fourth St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For any additional info call (754) 322-8828.

Celebrate

The Areawide Council on Aging will celebrate its 36 Annual Board/Advisory Council Installation Dinner, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 from 6-7 p.m., at Woodlands County Club, 4600 Woodlands Blvd., Tamarac, Fla. For cost and additional info call (954) 7458567.

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Breakfast

Kiwanis Club of Central Broward succulent Fish and Grits Breakfast, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at the West Ken Lark Park, 1321 N.W. 33 Ave., Lauderhill, Fla. Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Central Broward. There is a donation fee per plate. Proceeds will support the needs of at risk children and adults in our communities.

Meeting All Classmates, our monthly meeting, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 from 12 noon to 3 p.m., at Black Firefighter’s Hall, 1621 N.W. Sixth St., (Sistrunk Blvd.), Fort Lauderdale, Fla., there will be free “Fish Fry” Lunch, a brief meeting to discuss plans for a successful 45th Year Reunion, and a fun social.

Revival

Judah Worship Word Ministries International, Prayer Revival, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 at 8:15 a.m., and Monday, Feb. 1 thru Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m., nightly for our 2016 Prayer Revival. Prophetess Rochelle Moss of Nassau, Bahamas, to deliver the word. Dr. W.L. Mitchell, senior pastor For additional info call (954) 7912999.

EDUCATION MATTERS Every Child Deserves a Chance to Succeed.

Happenings at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center

· Free Credit Repair & Bankruptcy Seminar, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 at 6 p.m. Rebuild your credit and/or filing for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. To pre-register call (954) 357-6224, bring a copy of your credit report with you. You can obtain it by going to www.annualcreditreport.com · Destination Fridays: Jamaica and Bob Marley will be the theme for Destination Fridays event, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 from 6:30 to 9:30 30 p.m. There a mere fee for adults age 21 and over. Dressed to jam in your Bob Marley t-shirt and your reggae colors. Ticket can be purchase at the door or go through Eventbrite. ReggaeFit team and channel your inner Bob Marley for the Lip Sync Smackdown, if you wish to practice in advance with the edited-fortime Bob Marley song clips or would like some more info about the contest, contact Steve Vink at (945) 357-6190 or email svink@broward.org. The Grand Prize winner will receive a gift card. The schedule of Destination Fridays, event in 2016 March 18 – India (Bollywood); April 8 – Cuba; May 6- Haiti; Sept. 9 – Madrid, Spain; Oct. 7 – New York City (Harlem Renaissance). For additional info call (954) 357-6210. · All students grades Fourth12 who are living in or going to school in Broward County are invited to submit an original essay to the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC)’s Black History Essay. The competition is divided into three categories: grades 4-6, grades 7-9 and 10-12, contest winners will be awarded prizes (sponsored by Best Buy). For more info call the Youth Services at (954) 357-6209.

Event

The Class of 1972, Valentine Social, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016 from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m., at the Women Club, 314 N.W. Second, St., Pompano Beach, Fla. Wear red with any color. Tickets on sale. For additional info call David Saunders at (954) 2426718.

Festival

Eta Nu Education Foundation Third Annual Black History Festival presents by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity - Eta Nu Chapter and The City of Pompano Beach, Thursday, Feb. 18-21, 2016 at the E. Pat Larkins Community Center, 520 Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla.

Exhibition

The City of Miramar is proud to present an exclusive photographic collective featuring President Barack Obama which has been specially selected by Chief White House Photographer and Director of the White House Photo Office, Pete Souza. The exhibition will be showcased in the Ansin Family Art Gallery, at the Miramar Cultural Center, 2400 Civic Center Place, Miramar, Fla., from Jan. 14-Feb. 29, 2016.

Exhibition details: Monday and Friday from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Greek Unity Day Program

Discussion

NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library will host a viewing and discussion of the documentary “The Loving Story,” Film Viewing and Discussion, Sunday, Feb.14, 2016 at 2 p.m., at Cotilla Gallery, Alvin Sherman Library, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr. Blvd, Fort Lauderdale – Davie, Fla For more info contact Public Library Services (954) 262-5477. This is a free event.

The Mount Hermon A.M.E. Church Family (Fort Lauderdale), Pastor, Rev. Henry E. Green, Jr., cordially invites the entire community to attend our 22nd Annual Greek Unity Day Observance, 10:15 A.M. on Sunday Feb. 21, 2016 at 10:45 a.m., at Mount Hermon A.M.E. Church, at 401 N.W. 7th Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For additional information please contact Committee Chairperson Dr. Sylvia Sloane Jones at (954) 701-0744.

Happening at the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society

Fort Lauderdale Historical Society Bringing History to Life, 2015-2016 Calendar. All exhibits, events and lectures take place at the New River Inn Museum of History, 231 S.W. Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For time and additional info call (954) 463-4431 or www.flhc.org info@flhc.org Exhibits * Sunday, Jan. 24 - (Native American History Month)

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“Martin’s death then and now”

By Pastor Rasheed Z Baaith “Hallelujah, I’m traveling down freedom’s mainline” (Freedom Song circa 1964) It has been almost 50 years since MLK, Jr’s life seeped away on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn. It happened in the month of April on a Thursday after Martin’s “Mountain Top” speech given the previous evening in which he seemed to prophesy his death. I don’t know if God let him see his death coming but death surely came and soon.

Now these years later there has indeed been change in America but it is not “Promise Land” change. Yet there are changes that cannot be de-

nied. Mississippi, which was at one time, was a place of unmitigated horror, lynching and injustice for Black people now has more Black elected officials than any other state. During the ‘60s in particular, for a Black person to attempt to even register to vote in Mississippi was to put his/her life and livelihood at death’s door. At least until Freedom Summer in 1964.

We have a Black President, have had a Black Secretary of State, integration is taken for granted, there are Black millionaires all over the place, Black heads of multinational corporations, Oprah Winfrey is known all over the world, hip hop which was birthed in our Black neighborhoods has had a global influence on the scale of the internet. Young people from

Academy Awards Blackout 2.0

By Don Valentine Wow, the Academy can’t even nominate the Latino janitor for his work.

Let’s assume this humble scribe is a member of the prestigious cinematic committee for the Academy Awards.

That would require a prodigious a-

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mount of imagination since that body is 90 percent white. Then consider for the last two years my committee could not find any actors of color worthy of any nominations. Would you scratch your head and ask how could that be possible? Would you say, “Academy committee do you watch these movies?”

We know they are provided free copies of all the films. Since racial bias is not involved in their voting, then what happened? Even their Black president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, could not sway the members.

This year, acclaimed actor Will Smith could have arguably got a nomination for his role in Concussion. He did get recognized by the Golden Globe awards. In addition, Idris Elba got a nomination by the Golden Globes for Beast of No Nation. That lists two easy candidates. They had several choices from the historical pic Straight Out Of Compton. No one of color got acknowledged for their role in this production.

However, there were two white people that received nominations.

Take this paradigm, then rinse and repeat for last year. Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee are boycotting the show this year in protest. Until there is more diversity on the committee it will absolutely garner these kind of results. Do we really want a “Black Out” every year? There are good quality performances by people of color produced every year. The Academy just chooses not to recognize them.

Don Valentine is a freelance writer.

England to Korea, to Egypt and back again show their allegiance to hip hop in their fashion, music, speech and behavior. We see Black and white couples in romantic settings in the movies and on television so often we don’t even notice it anymore. So indeed much has changed.

Among those changes is the fact that young black men are not being lynched and killed on the roads of Mississippi but they are killing each other in growing numbers on the streets of Chicago and Miami, and Los Angeles. They are killing each other daily. And the adversarial relationship between Black communities and the police departments that are supposed to protect them has worsened to the point that it is a rare week that goes by without a police shooting of a young Black male somewhere in America. Ferguson, New York City, Baltimore, and Cleveland are symbols of that rupture between a too large number of Black communities and police departments. Chicago of course, is in a class all by itself when it comes to this issue and we should remember Martin said he had never seen racial hatred anywhere like he saw in Chicago.

Schools in many of our cites are still segregated and schools in a number of our neighborhoods still perform better on the athletic fields than on state wide tests, and our churches are no longer in the vanguard for social change as they were in Martin’s day.

They have become more concerned with prosperity than with social change.

So the question becomes what would Martin say? Would he believe his death was worth the dying? Probably so; he was a true prophet and prophets understand the need for sacrificial death.

But I think he would caution us not to believe the hype. Black people have done some significant things since King was assassinated but we’ve ignored the fact there is still so much more to do, especially with and for our children. If you don’t think so just take a look around.

We can be thankful that this generation of young Black people awakened their political and social consciousness with a roar. The Black Lives Matter movement came at a time when it seemed there was nothing that could move this generation from being selfindulgent to becoming involved.

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The President’s final page in his audacity of hope

By Roger Caldwell President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address last week, and it was positive, uplifting, and powerful. After seven years in the White House, and under Democratic leadership, the president was justified when he bragged about his achievements and accomplishments. This was President Obama’s final intimate and personal address, where he left an optimistic vision for a country and job that he truly loves.

As the first Black President in the history of America, President Obama has opened the door for more Blacks, women, and Hispanics to high level positions in the government than ever before. From the very beginning of the president’s journey to the highest executive position in the country, there was always a sense of joyful amazement and divine confidence. There was never any gloom and doom in his speech, and he operated from a place of spiritual knowing that he would get the job done.

When President Obama stated, “The United States of America has the strongest economy in the world,” he operated from a place of knowing. In 2008, the American economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, and now under

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President Obama for 70 straight months the economy has had positive job growth. This State of the Union address focused on a vision of hope, and the belief that the private sector is the lifeblood of our economy.

In the last seven years, small Black, Hispanic, and women businesses are growing and the president has fostered an environment to continue their development after he is gone. The housing market is improving, and the stock market has had tremendous growth. President Obama has the right to take pride in the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, where 18 million Americans now have health insurance.

There is a laundry list of achievements and accomplishments that most Americans don’t remember which will make President Obama one of the greatest presidents to ever hold the office. Some of his achievements are 1) instituted enforcement for equal pay for women, 2) withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, 3) eliminated Osama Bin Laden in 2011, 4) initiated a US Auto industry rescue plan, 5) implemented a housing rescue plan, 6) initiated a $789 billion economic stimulus plan, 7) increased pay and benefits for military personnel, 8) lowered drug costs for seniors, 9) made more loans available to small businesses, 10) appointed the first Latin to the Supreme Court, and the list is over 100 accomplishments.

Despite a long list of major political victories in 2015, such as the normalizing of relations with Cuba, the Iran nuclear agreement, and the international climate change agreement, the GOP is still trying to obstruct his policies, and say the president has not done anything.

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White anger is the new Black

By Lee A. Daniel's, George Curry Media Columnist Have you heard?

Apparently large numbers of American adults are “angry” about their own circumstances and about where they think the country is headed. For months, numerous politicians, pollsters, and pundits have touted this anger as an important factor in the line-up of who’s supporting who in both the Republican and Democratic presidential primary campaigns.

So, you could say that anger is all the rage (pardon the pun) now in considering the state of American society.

Or, to put it in fashion-and politicalterms, that anger is the new Black.

But, to be more precise: it’s really white Americans’ anger that’s the new Black.

A survey of 3,000 Americans released this month by NBC News and Esquire magazine, found that 54 percent of whites say they’ve grown more outraged during the past year. That compares with 43 percent of Latinos and 33 percent of Black Americans who say so. Nearly three-quarters of whites say they get angry upon hearing or reading something at least once a day, compared to 66 percent of Latinos and 56 percent of African Americans. Further, while 45 percent of Blacks say the American dream is alive, just 35 and 34 percent of Latinos and whites, respectively, agree.

The survey, appropriately titled “American Rage,” explores what these and other findings mean in limited but nonetheless fascinating detail. Its opening passage declares that from “their views on the state of the American dream (dead) and America’s role in the world (not what it used to be) to how their life is working out for them (not quite what they’d had in mind), a plurality of whites tend to view life through a veil of disappointment.”

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Dr. King did not dream of winning the lottery

By George E. Curry, George Curry Media Columnist Evidently, neither you nor I had the Jan. 13 winning Powerball combination: 4, 8, 19, 27, 34, (10).

After allowing ourselves to dream of winning it all, fantasizing about how we would spend the first few millions, and vacillating between whether to take our share in an annuity or a lump sum payment, reality has set in.

We did all that dreaming for nothing.

But it was fun while it lasted, which wasn’t long. I don’t usually purchase lottery tickets. But after spending Christmas and New Year’s in Georgia and attending a funeral in Alabama, heading back home I bought tickets in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

It takes neither a rocket scientist nor a social scientist to figure out that 1 in 292,201,338 are not good odds. As we kept being reminded, we had a better chance of getting struck by lightning (one in 134,906), being attacked by a shark (one in 11.5 million) or dying in a terrorist attack on an airplane (one in 25 million) than winning the Powerball drawing.

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Jesse Jackson:

Celebrate Dr. King by following his example

By Jessie Jackson As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, memories of his last birthday flood my mind. He rose early and came to work. He was convening leaders from across regions and races — Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, faith leaders, lawyers, organizers. He hoped to enlist them in planning a “Poor People’s Campaign,” a march on Washington to demand jobs and justice.

Dr. King’s perspective was clear.

The civil rights movement had made great progress — ended legal segregation, gained the right to vote and demonstrated the humanity of those who were locked out.

Nearly 19,000 civilians killed in Iraq since 2014, U.N. report says Apple, Samsung accused of using batteries made with child labor Key points of the fourth Democratic debate.

But those victories were limited in effect. Our communities were still divided on the ground. The right to vote had to be exercised over continued obstacles. Poverty was robbing children of their potential, yet the Vietnam War abroad was consuming the attention and resources desperately needed at home. Our cities were ready to blow.

America was still two nations, separate and unequal. It was time to come together. It was time to march again.

Today, Dr. King would surely be of the same mind. Our cities have become traps for the impoverished, with guns and drugs coming in and jobs gong out. What were slums then have become abandoned zones, with public housing torn down and private housing foreclosed.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the gospel of action

By Marc H. Morial, president and CEO, National Urban League “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American Civil Rights Activist There is no shortage of words in the English language to describe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By now—over five decades after his fiery delivery of the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.—you may feel as though you have heard them all: leader, hero, visionary, champion, inspiration, pacifist, orator and preacher, to name a few. Of all the possible descriptions and titles that have been assigned to Dr. King, history has proven that his legacy endures in our collective American imagination and our national politics not because of what he was, or who he was, but because of what he did. Dr. King changed our society with action. Soaring rhetoric may move our hearts and imagination, but it is action that translates our seemingly impossible dreams into reality.

Dr. King’s all-too-short life was a monumental one that moved our nation to enact large-scale, course-correcting policies like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act, and genuinely contemplate a day when we would “transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood,” but he departed from this earth with unfinished business.

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Michigan poisons poor to save a few bucks Rev. Jesse Jackson says that the poor are left to fend for themselves, rising to attention only when violence breaks out, when innocents are shot, when tragedies like Flint become public. Photo taken during a panel discussion on the the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on February 18, 2015 (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire)

By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., NNPA News Wire Columnist Flint, Mich. is impoverished. The auto plants have closed. Forty percent of the city’s 100,000 residents live below the poverty level. It is majority minority. It’s been in fiscal crisis since 2011, with the state taking over budgetary control and a state-appointed “emergency manager” driving policy focused on cutting spending.

Flint residents are Americans, but

like many impoverished Americans they are forgotten. And state officials led by Gov. Rick Snyder have shown that they consider the residents disposable.

In Flint, the water supply has been poisoned by lead. Police are now delivering bottled water from door to door.

But it may be too late for hundreds of kids who are already suffering from elevated levels of lead in their blood.

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Westside Gazette New Mount Olive 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"

Faith United Church of Christ 6201 NW 57 Street Tamarac, FL 33319 954-721-1232 uccfaith@bellsouth.net faithbroward.org "Historically the First Church in the City of Tamarac!”

Rev. Dr. Ileana Bosenbark, Senior Pastor WEEKLY SERVICES & EVENTS SUNDAY Worship Service (Communion 1st & 3rd Sunday) ........................................................... 10 a.m.

F.A.I.T.H. Academy for Children (Spiritual Formation) K-12 ................................ 10 a.m.

Dr. Marcus D. Davidson,

WEDNESDAY Worship & Arts Ministry Rehearsals (Open Auditions) - Sanctuary .............................. 7 p.m.

First Baptist Church Piney Grove, Inc. 4699 West Oakland Park Blvd.

Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33313 Office: (954) 735-1500 Fax: (954) 735-1939 fbcpg@bellsouth.net

Rev. Dr. Derrick J. Hughes, Pastor SUNDAY SERVICES Worship Services .......................................................... 7:30 & 10:45 a.m.

Children's Church ........................................................ 7:30 & 10:45 a.m.

Communion (First Sunday) ......................................... 7:30 & 10:45 a.m.

New Members' Class .................................................................... 9:30 a.m.

Church School .............................................................................. 9:30 a.m.

Baptist Training Union (BTU) .................................................... 1:00 p.m.

Wednesday (Bible Study) ...................................... 11:15 a.m.. & 7:00 p.m.

Harris Chapel United Methodist Church Rev. Juana Jordan, M.Div E-MAIL:juana.jordan@flumc.org 2351 N.W. 26th Street Oakland Park, Florida 33311 Church Telephone: (954) 731-0520 Church Fax: (954) 731-6290

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

Dr. James B. Darling, Jr., Pastor/Teacher WORSHIP SERVICES Sunday Worship Service .............................................................................. 8:00 & 11:00 a.m.

Sunday School ............................................................................................................... 10:00 a.m.

Communion Service (1st Sunday) ......................................................................... 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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.

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Sunday Worship Service ................................................................. 10 a.m.

Fifth Sunday Worhip Service ............................................................ 8 a.m.

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.

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Obituaries James C. Boyd Funeral Home

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FAN Funeral services for the late DaQing Fan – 56.

GOMES Funeral services for the late Edwin Elinda Gomes -91 were held Jan. 17 at Lighthouse Seventh-Day Adventist Church with Pastor Lloyd Burrowes officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Clark & Norris Home of Funeral BRACY Funeral services for the late Deacon Berk Bracy, Jr. – 67 were held Jan. 9 at Greater Providence Missionary Baptist Church with Dr. W.M. Ramsey officiating.

McWhite's Funeral Home FREDERICKS Funeral services for the late Charles David Fredericks - 63 were held Jan. 16.

MANN Funeral services for the late Rosalind Mann - 56 were held Jan. 16 at Church of Jesus Christ Deliverance. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WILSON Funeral services for the late Ulyssee Wilson - 66 were held Jan. 16 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Timothy Jackson officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

HINDS Funeral services for the late Mary Pearl Hinds - 90 were held Jan. 17 at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness.

KEARSE Funeral services for the late Gregory Latson Kearse – 61 were held Jan. 16 at Jan. 16 at Christ Deliverance Outreach Ministry with Overseer M. BoydSpencer officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

RANDALL Funeral services for the late Christine Spicer Randall 73 were held Jan.16 at Mount Herman A.M.E. Church with Rev. Henry E. Green, Jr officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

ROBINSON Funeral services for the late Ollie James Robinson, Jr 48 were held Jan. 16 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz

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

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Kids Talk About God

Why is the Bible important?

Worship Center with Dr. James Darling officiating.

By Carey Kinsolving and friends

“Because God made the world and the book,” says Mason, age 4.

Yes, the same God whose creative power breathed the “breath of life” into Adam also breathed inspiration into the writers of the Bible.

In fact, the word often translated as “inspired” in the Bible literally means “God-breathed.” The New International Version translates it as such: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness” (II Timothy 3:16).

The fact that the Bible is inspired by God is all the reason we need to consider it important. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).

When God breathes and we inhale or believe, wonderful things happen, says Kayla, 9: “When I’m mad at someone, the Bible taught me to forgive people even if I’m mad at them.”

Go d wants us to live beyond our natural capacities. I might be so mad at someone that all I can think about is revenge. But God says, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay” (Hebrews 10:30).

Leave retribution to God. He knows people’s thoughts and deepest motivations. We don’t. Let God be God, and forgive even when you’re sure someone has wronged you.

Only the Bible assures us that God’s justice will prevail in the end. The next time you’re wronged, refuse to retaliate, and instead, put it all in God’s hands. The power of believing this one truth from the Bible could change your friendships, your marriage, your life!

“Whenever I am tempted to do something wrong, I quote verses I memorized from God’s Word,” says Kendall, 10. “Once, I was tempted to run away, but I knew it was wrong, so I quoted verses I had memorized, and the devil went away.”

You have good company, Kendall, because Jesus used the same strategy of quoting Scripture when the devil tempted him in the desert. The Bible reveals an unseen but real conflict in spiritual realms for people’s hearts and minds.

In this spiritual war, the Apostle Paul sounds like a general giving commands to the troops: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (II Corinthians 10:4-5).

When the writer of the Book of Hebrews compared the Word of God to a two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12), he probably had in mind the Roman soldiers’ famous weapon. Many opposing armies carried bigger swords, but the disciplined Roman army wielding the smaller, well-balanced blade usually won.

Memorizing Scripture and reading the Bible is akin to a soldier training for combat. Don’t wait until you’re in the midst of a battle to prepare. A soldier would be foolish to go into battle without part of his equipment. The Apostle Paul said, “Put on the whole armor of God. ... And take ... the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:11, 17).

“I’m sleeping in my bed, the rain scared me, and God’s word made me feel better. I remembered God will always be with me,” says Jordan, 5.

Think about this: You can’t receive comfort from Bible promises you don’t know.

Memorize this truth: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).

Ask this question: Are you going to live by God’s revelation or by what seems good to you?

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ea ts rrecei ecei ved a threa eats eceiv att nine Clinton’s lead narrows nationally Bomb thr

Clinton continues to lead Democratic presidential rival Sen. Sanders.

Sanders now gets 37 percent

By Jesse Byrnes, The Hill support among voters on the Hillary Clinton continues to left in the latest poll, released lead Democratic presidential Tuesday, up 11 points from the rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I- survey last month.

Three-quarters of the interVt.) nationally, though her advantage has shrunk the past views were conducted before the month, according to a new poll. pair sparred over guns and Clinton is supported by 52 their approaches to healthcare percent of Democrats and D- in the fourth Democratic debate emocratic-leaning voters in the Sunday night.

Clinton held a 26-point adlatest Monmouth University survey, down 7 points from the vantage over Sanders last month among self-described lisame poll in December.

berals and now trails Sanders by nine points among that group in the new poll.

She’s also taken a hit among female voters, from holding a 45-point advantage over Sanders last month to now holding a 19-point edge among the demographic.

While Sanders has cut into Clinton’s lead nationally, the former secretary of State continues to hold substantial leads over Sanders among older voters and minorities.

“With a shrinking margin, a strong showing by Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire could cut Clinton’s national lead even more. However, he would still have to overcome Clinton’s demographic advantage in the ensuing contests,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement accompanying the poll.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley drew 2 percent support in the latest national poll.

The survey of 352 registered voters was conducted Jan. 1518 via landlines and cellphones with a margin of error of 5.2 percentage points.

Jamie Foxx pulls man from burning car Jamie Foxx was a real-life superhero on Monday when he pulled a man from a burning car, Gossip Cop confirms with his rep.

The scary, and potentially deadly, incident occurred just outside Foxx’s home in Hidden Valley, north of Los Angeles.

The unidentified driver apparently skidded off the road and landed upside down after hitting a ditch. The car ended up right outside Foxx’s gate.

The actor immediately called 911, and then ran outside to help the driver. The vehicle was on fire, and the driver still buckled in behind the wheel. Foxx, however, managed to get him out of the car and pulled

him to safety.

Emergency personnel, including police and fire crews, arrived shortly afterward. The driver was then rushed to the hospital with significant burns.

Photos taken at the scene show firefighters hosing down the burned-out, overturned car right by Foxx’s property fence.

The typically private Foxx has not mentioned his heroics on social media. The actor’s lifesaving actions come just over a week after he attended the Golden Globes with daughter Corinne, who served as this year’s Miss Golden Globe. It seems, though, Foxx had more drama in his real life than most of the movies up for awards.

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Students evacuate Fair Lawn High School in Fair Lawn, N.J., on Jan. 19, 2016.

Kyle Mazza/UNF News (Reuters) - Bomb threats were phoned in to at least nine schools in New Jersey this week, forcing evacuations or lockdowns, a spokesman for the Bergen County Sheriff said.

Four of the schools were soon given the all clear but searches were still underway at five others, the spokesman said.

He said he could not confirm

a media report that one of the schools had also been threatened with a mass shooting.

The threats - which may have been automated because they were so similar - were dialed in at about 8:50 a.m. to high schools in Teaneck, Garfield, Tenafly, Clifton, Fair Lawn, Leonia, Bergenfield, Englewood and Hackensack, said said

sheriff spokesman Anthony Cureton.

“Four of the nine have been cleared. Dogs came in and did the sweep,” Cureton said.

He declined to say which of the schools had been cleared of the threat.

All of the schools are located in Bergen County in northern New Jersey.

VER’: R ead The B lack Liv es M atter ‘RUN THEM O OVER’: Read Black Lives Matter post that landed a Minnesota cop in big trouble

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Black Lives Matter protesters block traffic outside Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on December 23, 2015.

Casey Harper A Minnesota cop has been put on leave after allegedly writing a Facebook post that infuriated Black Lives Matter advocates and appalled local officials.

Black Lives Matter activists blocked traffic Monday with one of their protests. In response, St. Paul Police Sgt. Jeffrey Roth allegedly wrote on Facebook that locals should run over the “idiots” and that they would probably get away with it, Fox9 reports.

“Run them over,” the post reads. “Keep traffic flowing and don’t slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the streets.”

A man named Andrew Henderson screenshotted the post and called St. Paul police to re-

port it.

“It’s really concerning to me that someone would encourage violence on a day celebrating a man who taught peace,” Henderson told WCCO. The full post advocates running over protesters and saying you feared for your life as an excuse. He says you’ll probably get off on a jury trial anyway.

Here’s the full post, which has been deleted: Run them over. Keep traffic flowing and don’t slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the street. Here is the deal, you continue to drive and if you hit someone make sure you call 911 to report the accident and meet the cops a block or two away and you can justify stopping further away because you feared for your safety since the past people in this group

has shown a propensity towards violence. Since they are trying to block the street and/or cross where there is no crossing you should not be charged with anything. Now, these idiots could try and sue you in civil court, but remember that it will be jury trial and so most likely it will come out in your favor.

Police have not released all the details but say they are investigating the post and will take “swift, strong and decisive disciplinary action” if the allegations are confirmed. The town’s mayor has come out and condemned the comments.

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EighthAnnual Spring Literary Forum Series FAMU celebrates theAfra-Southern Experience “Afra-Retroism: African-American Women and the American South” February 25-26, 2016 Lee Hall Auditorium

COLEMAN Newsomegrabbed her climbing gear and proceeded to shimmy her way up a 30foot flagpole to take down the Confederate flag from South Carolina Statehouse.

By Nikky Finney In honor of Black History Month, Florida A&M University’s Department of English

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and Modern Languages will host the 8th Annual Spring Literary Forum Series. It will be held Feb. 25-26, 2016, at Lee Hall Auditorium on FAMU’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.

This year’s theme: is “AfraRetroism and the American South.” We have an exciting, thought-provoking program prepared for our students, facul-

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ty, alumni and community as we celebrate the “Afra-Southern experience.” National Book Award for Poetry recipient Nikky Finney will join a stellar group of presenters. In addition, we are thrilled to welcome filmmaker and activist Bree Newsome to our campus. Newsome bravely removed the South Carolina Confederate flag to honor Rev. Clementa Pinckney,

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slain South Carolina state senator and pastor of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, and members of his bible study class in Charleston, South Carolina.

Our celebrated guest speakers also include Shirley Sherrod, Dr. Larry Rivers, Evelyn Coleman, and Dr. Chanta Haywood. The authors’ works will be available for sale at the event.

Afra-Retroism is an artistic, social, literary, and political reflection of the contributions and experiences of African-American women. Today, the lives of African-American women in the South—Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, and South Carolina— are making headlines. Our aim during these sessions is to highlight the beauty, strength, humanity, and resilience of Black women with roots in the American South, while exploring the influence of the past on their lives in the present and the future.

We would like to thank our partners: Florida A&M University Division of Academic Affairs; the Department of English and Modern Languages; the Literary Guild; the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities; the College of Agriculture and Food Sciences; and the Meek-Eaton Southeastern Black Archives. We are grateful

Bishop Victor T. Curry challenges community to keep Dr. King’s legacy alive (Cont'd from FP) Throughout Bishop Curry’s sermon he touched upon a number of socio-economic issues ranging from the disparity in the incarceration rates between Blacks and whites, pointing out that Blacks were targeted far more often by law enforcement and received lengthier sentences than their white male counterparts. He also listed similar disparities between Blacks and whites economically, pointing out the lack of opportunities across the board when it came to Blacks living in America.

Bishop Curry said that Blacks should be selective when exercising who and what they spend their money on, bearing in mind that their economic impact could sway public opinion as well as public policy. In addition, he stated that one of the greatest tools Blacks could use was the power of the ballot.

Bishop Curry cited the fact that Blacks had made individual gains, including having two Black Secretary’s of State, two Black Attorney Generals, and the election of a Black President for two terms; collectively Blacks were greatly subjugated on a broad socio-economic scale. He paraphrased Dr. King’s message of the struggle

by Blacks toward equality then as in now, with a great deal of work yet undone.

“If you listen to what Dr. King said and you listen with your 21st century ears, you’ll hear Dr. King saying but 100 years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. So we’ve come here today to dramatize this shameful condition. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence it was signing a promissory note to which every American was to forbear And this promissory note was a promise that all men, yes Black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable right of liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note as far as her citizens of color are concerned.

“Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the bank full of opportunity for this nation. So we’ve come to cash this check; a check that will give us above this land the riches of freedom and the security of justice,” concluded Bishop Curry.

Alpha Man Atty. Raleigh Rawls, 90, began practicing law in in Broward County from Oct. 1, 1957 until Sept. 30, 2015.

“Dr. King set a standard contributing to the Black man’s advancement in this country that will be hard to overcome

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Florida A&M University is Florida’s only state-supported Historically Black College and University (HBCU), enrolling nearly 11,000 students from the United States of America and other parts of the world.

FAMU has 14 schools and colleges, and offers 98 degree programs. The university also offers the juris doctor at its College of Law in Orlando.

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BLACK HISTORY SPECIAL 2016 RESER VE YOUR SP ACE BY FEBRUAR Y 8, 2016 RESERVE SPACE FEBRUARY Members of the Alphas Men of Tomorrow Mentoring Program joined Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. recently to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the 40th Annual Celebration Service. but it would be a good thing for us to follow his philosophy. It is important to keep his dream alive because he set good standards for us to live by and for us to progress. So I would say to our young people, please follow Dr. King’s advice.”

Matthew Bradford, district director, Florida Federation of Alpha Chapters, presiding, served as the MLK Service Master of Ceremony. He pointed out the fact that Dr. King was not originally going to address a gathering in Memphis due to falling ill the night before.

He sent a number of pastors to speak before them; however they insisted upon hearing from Dr. King. He got up off his sick bed and returned to deliver one of his most prolific speeches, commonly referred to as “The Mountain Top Speech,” in

which he foreshadowed his death. Bradford paraphrased Dr. King.

“Again he (King) had unfinished business in Memphis so he rallied the troops and said we’ve got to go back. Reschedule a time for us to march because we have to get this march done because of the way these sanitation workers were being treated in Memphis. It was fueled by the fact that the workers were actually killed as a result of having to drive substandard trucks on the job.

“Amazing to say the least was what God gave him as far as a divine understanding of his work. I really want you to understand the burden that this young man had. Not only was he doing this for those less fortunate but he was doing this for an entire world,” Bradford

added.

The MLK Service also commemorated the 40th year that Black males in the Men of Tomorrow Mentoring (MOT) Program, founded by the late Alpha Man Ronald Dehart, were recognized.

MOT Mentee Kendoy Canton, 17, a junior at Fort Lauderdale High, weighed in on his appreciation for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “King Day means that we celebrated our rights and our freedom as Black people. We used to be segregated and he fought for our freedom. Young people should always keep their heads up because Dr. King taught us to fight for our freedom and never give up on life.

We should always honor and thank Dr. King for all that he did for our people.”

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Black business is growing and the Black community is not aware of its influence nationally and globally. Group economics and Black business is not discussed very often together in the Black community and this is the reason the Black community is suffering. In 2015, Blacks controlled only 1 percent of the wealth in America, but that does not mean that there are successful Black organizations and businesses working to change that condition.

United States Black Chamber (USBC) CEO Ron Busby has been working the last five years to expand his organization to be the national voice for Black business owners. “In order for there to be a strong Black America, you must have strong businesses. There’s a trillion dollars of spending power in our community and we want to make sure that dollar stays within our community. In our community, our dollar leaves within six hours,” says CEO Busby.

Blacks in America do not understand that our spending power is greater than many small countries in the world, and there are over two million small Black businesses in the US. The majority of these bus-

inesses are small mom and pop businesses, but if we practice group economics they have the potential to grow.

The US Black Chambers is built around five pillars of service, which are Advocacy, Access to Capital, Contracting, Entrepreneur Training, and Chamber Development.

Through the creation of resources and initiatives, 2015 was a busy year for USBC as an association of more than 100 self-sustaining viable Black Chambers nationwide, and serving close to 250,000 small businesses.

In January 2015, USBC CEDC became one of the newest additions to US Department of Transportation’s national network of 13 supportive service centers. USBC Community Economic Development Corporation received a grant award from the US Department to serve as a center to help support small businesses in the transportation industry.

In February, USBC kicked off an information tour to work with local chambers and key partners such as Google, Wells Fargo, IBM, American Express and others.

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Fort Lauderdale increases security at commission meetings

By Larry Barszewski, Sun Sentinel Metal detectors will be used starting Wednesday at Fort Lauderdale City Commission meetings.

Security is going up a notch at Fort Lauderdale City Commission meetings.

Beginning Wednesday, people attending commission meetings will be screened by metal detectors. The detectors will be in use at the ground-floor commission chambers and at the commission’s eighth-floor conference room, where commissioners hold their afternoon workshops prior to their evening

Thomas Gr een W iggins, 'Blind TTom' om' Green Wiggins,

Introducing one of the nineteenth century’s most famous and perplexing pianists. Born a slave in Georgia, Blind Tom died an international celebrity in 1908. He had an encyclopedic memory, allconsuming passion for music and mind boggling capacity to imitate - both verbally and musically - any sound he heard. These extraordinary savant powers rocketed him to fame and made his name a household word, a byword for eccentric, oddball genius.

Thomas Greene Wiggins was born May 25, 1849 to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, slaves on a Georgia plantation. He was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. In 1850 Tom, his parents, and two brothers were sold to James Neil Bethune, a lawyer and newspaper editor in Columbus, Georgia.

Young Tom was fascinated by music and other sounds, and could pick out tunes on the piano by the age of four. He made his

concert debut at eight, performing in Atlanta.

In 1858 Tom was hired out as a slavemusician, at a price of $15,000. In 1859, at the age of 10, he became the first African American performer to play at the White House when he gave a concert before President James Buchanan. His piano pieces Oliver Galop and Virginia Polka were published in 1860. During the Civil War he was back with his owner, raising funds for Confederate relief. By 1863 he played his own composition, Battle of Manassas.

By 1865, 16-year-old Tom Wiggins, now “indentured” to James Bethune, could play difficult works of Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, and Thalberg. He also played pieces after one hearing, and memorized poems and text in foreign languages. Advertising claimed Tom was untaught, but in fact he was tutored by a Professor of Music who traveled with him.

James Neil Bethune took Wiggins to Europe where he collected testimonials from music critics Ignaz Moscheles and Charles Halle, which were printed in a booklet The Marvelous Musical Prodigy Blind Tom. With these and other endorsements, Blind Tom Wiggins became an internationally recognized performer.

By 1868 Tom and the Bethune family lived on a Virginia farm in the summer, while touring the United States and Canada the rest of the year, averaging $50,000 annually in concert revenue. James Bethune eventually lost custody of Tom to his late son’s ex-wife, Eliza Bethune.

Charity Wiggins, Tom’s mother, was a party to the suit, but she did not win control of her son or his income. Blind Tom Wiggins gave his last performance in 1905. He died three years later on June 13, 1908 at the age of 59 at his manager’s home in Hoboken, N.J.

meetings.

Visitors won’t be required to remove their shoes or belts before going through the detectors. There will be handheld metal detectors for people who can’t use the walk-through detectors for medical reasons.

Florida statutes prohibit weapons and firearms at the

meetings, officials said. Any illegal items will be confiscated.

People who attend the commission meetings should give themselves extra time to go through the detectors.

The new security measures are the next step in beefed-up protection at City Hall that started in June, when visitors began signing in at the main security desk and were required to be escorted to their destinations by official city greeters.

City officials want to make your visit to City Hall as pleasant as a trip to the airport — with security check-in, visitor waiting areas and “official greeters” to escort you to and from your destination.

At least you won’t have to remove your shoes.

City officials want to make your visit to City Hall as pleasant

Fort Lauderdale City Hall as a trip to the airport — with security check-in, visitor waiting areas and “official greeters” to escort you to and from your destination.

Visitors are still able to pay their water bills at the first-

floor counter without checking in.

Larry Barszewski is a Sun Sentinel reporter and can be contacted at lbarszewski@tribpub.com or (954) 356-4556.

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Miami Heat: Hassan Whiteside another step closer to All-Star status Miami Heat: It begins with consistency

By D’Joumbarey A. Moreau A loud splash.

Let’s say that one day you woke up because you heard a loud splash. Normally when a person hears a splash it’s because they just fell into a body of water like a pool or an ocean.

Let’s say that this time instead of hearing someone enjoy themselves in the water, you woke up and you found yourself in the middle of an ocean and you didn’t know how to swim. What would you do?

It’s simple, you’ve been given two options at this point you can either choose to sink or swim. Would you fight until your last breath was gone in order to stay afloat, or would you just quit?

Last season in Miami there was no other player that made a bigger splash in the NBA than Hassan Whiteside. This year he’s making sure that he’s making an even larger splashing sound for the rest of the entire NBA world to hear.

“Man, you talking to a dude who was out the league at the YMCA two years ago. That’s who you talking to right now” said Hassan Whiteside.

What’s been a true blessing to see is the way that Whiteside has grown as a player.

With only 106 games played as an NBA player, it’s easy to say that Whiteside already is one of the candidates for the Most Improved Player of the Year award. It’s also insane how he was playing in the YMCA less than two years before impacting the NBA the way he has. Instead of sinking with his dreams, Whiteside has worked hard enough to stay afloat in the league, and now he’s on his way to becoming an AllStar in the league.

Whiteside played against the Denver Nuggets and created yet another game-changing effort defensively which propelled Miami to snap their three-game losing streak winning the contest 98-95. Whiteside finished with a triple-double as he had 19 points, 17 rebounds, and 11 blocked shots in 38 minutes of game action.

“I see a lot of NBA players getting triple doubles with assists. Ain’t nobody doing it with blocks,” Whiteside said. “I hope the fans enjoyed it” said Whiteside.

Two important stats to remember is that this was the third triple-double Whiteside has had since joining the Heat last year. Additionally, in the last 20 years Whiteside along with Marcus Camby and

Miami Hurricanes: This too shall pass

By D’Joumbarey A. Moreau In life one thing is for certain, storms will come.

Due to these storms in life, one can really get to measure their heart when bad events come their way. It’s during those moments when you get punched in the mouth, and you’re left scrambling to pick your teeth up when you really find out the character of yourself.

Finding character is going to become a theme for this year’s ACC regular season for

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the Miami Hurricanes. With two straight losses to No. 13 Virginia, and Clemson, both of which occurred on the road, it’s time to see what this team is made up. Clemson, Miami’s Kryptonite?

Now, losing to a top 25 team on the road like Virginia isn’t a bad loss. Their head coach Tony Bennett is one of the brightest coaches in the college basketball game and he’s always got his team prepared to play.

Virginia will be in the NCAA Tournament as well, so the loss was more of a measuring up instead of a bad loss.

However, it was interesting to see how Miami would respond going against Clemson.

History tells us that Clemson has Miami’s number as they’ve been able to post a 7-2 all-time home record against Miami. Additionally with this win, Clemson has now won two straight games at home against Miami.

“I thought it was a terrific college basketball game for about 35 minutes and then we collapsed in the last five...We’re a very good three-point shooting team and we went 7-14 from three, but they out-executed us in the last five minutes and that was the difference in the ball game” said Miami head coach Jim Larranaga.

Furthermore, Clemson was on a hot streak as they did their best Drake impression and took down two top 25 opponents back-to-back before playing against Miami when they defeated No. 9 Duke and No. 16 Louisville. This team was ready to play and they couldn’t have done more to get ready to compete against another ranked opponent.

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Shawn Bradley, is tied for the most triple-double with blocks.

It’s also only taken Whiteside only 106 games to accomplish the feat which is almost oneninth as many games as Camby, and about one-sixth as many games as Bradley.

What’s remarkable about Whiteside is that he’s putting up efficient performances in spite of not getting a lot of consistent playing time. When you think about most great players in the league, or centers they average around 34 minutes a game. Meanwhile, Whiteside is averaging 29.2 minutes a night and is giving Miami a doubledouble and a league-leading four blocked shots per night.

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By D’Joumbarey A. Moreau Think way back.

Think as far back as when you were a child. Remember the first time when you were learning how to tie your shoelaces? Many of us suffered from having anger problems because you could never get the knot to stay in place properly. No matter how many turns and twists that you made with the laces, they never could stay in place. However, after learning the process and repeating the same habitual steps to tying the shoes and eventually it clicks.

When that moment comes you feel joy and relief knowing you don’t have to rely on other people to tie your shoes for you.

For the Miami Heat, one of the things they can learn this season is to continue to learn

the process of making the right winning plays in basketball games in order to become successful. Many fans around the city are waiting for this team to finally click because it seems like they do make the right plays in order to win games.

What’s the problem then and why aren’t they a better team with a better record?

One of the reasons why the Miami Heat isn’t in the upper echelon of the league yet is because they are too inconsistent.

The biggest example is looking at the two games they played against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The first game was a tough win as Miami took Oklahoma City to the wire where they ultimately pulled away and secured the 97-95 victory.

Then on Sunday night we got to see Miami get completely

outclassed by a team who they previously already defeated as Oklahoma City ran away with the rematch winning the contest 99-74.

Now that the road trip is over and counted for Miami will have to find more motivation to start getting back to their winning ways.

“We knew this road trip was going to be tough. We played three of the top four Western Conference teams.

I’m not worried about it” said Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade.

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Seven MLK/ Black History Month scholarships for African American students in 2016

Every year, many organizations give away scholarships in celebration of African American history. These scholarships are usually given to African American students, and are designed to inspire the next generation of Black History Makers.

Here are the top seven Black History Month scholarships for 2016 (Some have deadlines in January), but most are in February: Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship: In addition to a financial scholarship, this foundation also provides its scholars with mentoring and leadership development opportunities, and internships. Only for minority high school students in the United States.

Steve Harvey/ Coca-Cola Pay It Forward Scholarship Program: Under the umbrella of the Steve and Marjorie Harvey Foundation, this program offers scholarship awards and

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once-in-a-lifetime apprenticeship experiences to African American youth looking to pave the way for their futures.

Ron Brown Scholar Program for African Americans: Provides scholarship awards to African-American high school seniors who are excelling in their academics, exhibiting exceptional leadership potential, and actively serving in community service activities.

Frito-Lay “Create to Celebrate� Black History Month Art Contest: Applicants have to submit online an original piece of art created in any medium (video, song, photo, sculpture, painting, etc.) that celebrates African American achievement.

Buick Achievers Scholarship Program: Awards scholarships to students who excel in the classroom and give back to their communities.

Special consideration is given

to students who are female, minorities, first-generation college students, military veterans and military dependents.

Tom Joyner Foundation “Full Ride� Scholarship: Awards a full scholarship to one student to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors with high academicecords.

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation/ General Mills Health Scholarship Program: Open to both undergraduate and graduate students who plan to major in health-related studies. Academic achievement, leadership qualities and service to the community are required. Preference will be given to African-American students.

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by Artist Yvette Michele Booth

MIAMI, FL., - A walk in Margaret Pace Park on a Sunday afternoon revealed art found in mosaics. These monumental thrones are places to sit and absorb culture next to its adorning landscape across from the Biscayne Bay. Each throne represents a culture that is blended in its community. Both the back and front sides encompass symbolism representative of Jewish, African and Mexican history.

The idea began as a conversation between two artists - Mel Alexenberg and Miriam Benjamin. The following is an excerpt from their journey documented in a self published article titled, “Legacy Thrones: Intergenerational Collaboration in Creating Multicultural Public Artâ€?. “The creation of ‘Legacy Thrones’ is an exemplary model of intergenerational collaboration and postmodern art education. Elders representing different ethnic communities, high school and college art students, and artists collaborated in creating monumental works of public art that enrich their shared environment. Through aesthetic dialogue between young people and elders from the Hispanic, African-American, and Jewish communities of Miami, valued traditions of the past were WUDQVIRUPHG LQWR DUWLVWLF VWDWHPHQWV RI HQGXULQJ VLJQLÂżcance. Together, young and old hands shaped wet clay into colorful ceramic relief elements collaged onto three towering thrones constructed from steel, aluminum, and concrete. Installed in a park facing Biscayne Bay, each 20 foot high, two-ton throne visually conveys the stories of the three largest ethnic communities of elders that had settled in Miami. ‘Through our dialog with people who lived, worked, and owned businesses in the downtown area it became clear that they desired a work of public art that honored different ethnic communities of Miami and invited their

‘Complimenting their personal images, the elders made images representing communal experiences and shared cultural values. Jewish elders formed Hebrew letters, a Hanukah menorah, the biblical dove of peace, and symbols of the ten sephirot representing the stages in the parallel processes of human creativity and divine creation. African-Americans elders created images of %ODFN VODYHV LQ DJRQ\ FRWWRQ ÂżHOGV RI WKH UXUDO VRXWK the keyboard of their church’s organ, African masks, and African geometric motifs. Hispanic elders made a guitar and maracas, a cup of Cuban coffee, baseball SOD\HUV ÂżJKWLQJ FRFNV DQ $]WHF ELUG D UDLQIRUHVW IURJ Jesus with outstretched arms, and Mary with a sunburst halo. The elders’ creations supports the postmodern GHÂżQLWLRQ RI DUW DV ÂłD IRUP RI FXOWXUDO SURGXFWLRQ ZKRVH point and purpose is to construct symbols of shared realityâ€? and the value of art as promoting “deeper understandings of the social and cultural landscape.â€?

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Florida is a state that prides itself on the art culture.

Each county has a plan to implement public art each year. Neighborhoods and their respective organizations also have incorporated or plan art into their landscapes.

I could feel the energy of each culture and decided to sit in each throne. It is a great example of art that embraces community and culture.

direct participation in creating the artwork. We conFHLYHG WKH LGHD RI D PDJQLÂżFHQW WKURQH DV D PHWDSKRU for bestowing honor. We explored throne designs with art students in their course in environmental public art and invited elders from the three largest ethnic communities of Miami to join with these students in creating three thrones. African-American elders from the Greater Bethel AME Church, Hispanic elders from Southwest Social Services Program, and Jewish elders from the Miami Jewish Home for the Aged came to New World School of the Arts to collaborate with art students of even broader cultural diversity in creating the three Legacy Thrones. Based upon our presentations at their church, senior center, and home for the aged, twenty women between 70 and 85 year old volunteered to participate in this intergenerational art project. No men volunteered to participate. ‘Creative teams of an elder and an art student worked together one day each week for a full academic year.

The students worked on this project within the framework of courses in environmental public art. All participants worked simultaneously in one huge studio space.

The elders transformed reminiscences that reveal their cultural values into visual images expressed in clay.’ Artists of all ages have a message to share in helping eradicate this epidemic that is affecting our community.

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Change is never easy

By Wayne Alexander, Board Chairman, MLK Celebration Committee Thousands in the Fort Lauderdale community celebrated the King Holiday at events hosted by the Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Committee (MLKCC). The celebration started Jan. 15, 2016. The

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MLKCC, along with the Early Learning Coalition, hosted 80 three- to five-year-olds from local day care centers for a birthday celebration for Dr. King at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. The inquisitive toddlers enjoyed a storyteller who related the story of Dr. King, an interactive musical perfor-

Dreams do not change; how we perceive and honor them do (Cont'd from FP) What has caused our spirits to be watered down from strong black coffee to lukewarm water?

As it pertains to the MLK Celebration here in Fort Lauderdale, even though the ideal and surrounding activities may have been a good ideal, the manner in which it was introduced and laid out left a bitter taste in mouths of a lot of Black residences.

When it was presented to me, at that time I made my thoughts CLEAR. I was not in favor of the plan as it was presented and since I was not on the planning committee nor had I attended any meetings; my thoughts did not make a difference.

Additionally, during the same conversation, I was asked for some suggestions to make the plan work. I stated that the parade needed to begin further into the Black community and perhaps a program at a church would be great to start the march and bring the community together and then proceed across the tracks.

There were some other things that I said which I will not write but I would say that they were in reference to convenience, not wanting to come on our side of the tracks and if the REAL reason was for unity then there should not be a problem with understanding.

I was told that the route and program could not be changed.

So much for unity.

From what I have read and what I have heard as well as to some visual reports of the events, they have been mixed with one unified underlining point; there were more Black participants than white.

We still have a ways to go in understanding what Dr. King’s purpose was in his life to the building of God’s kingdom. “…We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community…” Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 (NKJV)

mance with African drumming and dance and an arts and crafts project where the youth made a crown-like headpiece with a picture of Dr. King. The birthday celebration culminated with birthday cupcakes. Later that day, in spite of an all-day downpour and Tornado Watch, 30 hardy prayer warriors, including School Board member, Dr. Rosalind Osgood and Westside Gazette Publisher, Bobby Henry, volunteered from M.A.R.K., a non-profit youth

MLK Day quotes Dr. Rosalind Osgood, Broward County School Board chairperson and president / CEO Mount Olive Development Corporation: “Martin Luther King Day 2016 was a great time of unity in the community where we really went in another direction with the parade route in an attempt to create greater diversity and greater unity.

What was remarkable to me is the young people that I was able to look as the Chairperson of the School Board, all of the awesome students from the Broward County Schools and our charter schools that participated in the parade today were able to see true community, true diversity and able to learn about Dr. King and his legacy of service.”

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organization, Rev. James Polk from New Day Life Ministry and Minister Jaye Benning from Redeeming Word Christian Center International came out to Lincoln Park for the “Time For Prayer… Time for Togetherness” event. Powerful prayers and testimonials for unity, transformation and redemption were offered to break the chains of oppression, racism and drug abuse in the Black community in the manner of an old

fashioned prayer worship service that was truly spiritually uplifting.

On Saturday, the MLKCC committee hosted the Sixth Annual MLK Young Leaders Summit at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. This summit focused on two issues that are profoundly affecting youth and young adults in the Black community.

The morning session of the summit featured a panel discussion on race, moderated by Westside

and English teacher: “It was important today to just recognize that Dr. Martin Luther King had sacrificed his life so that we could be able to celebrate together, that we could have access to education, that we could access all of what it means to be an American citizen. So every year I make sure that my three young Black males in the household attend the parade so we can carry this on from generation to generation.”

Jocelyn Carter-Miller, president of The League of Women Voters of Broward County: “Today is an important and historical commemoration of one of the greatest leaders of our country, of this world and for African Americans, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This day is so important for us, especially the League of Women Voters, because the Civil Rights Struggle, the need for Blacks to

be able to vote is just incredible.

And all these people working together has made that possible. People died for us to vote, people fought for us to vote, and now we’re here registering people to vote. It’s a very fulfilling experience.”

Carolyn Weaver, celebrated her birthday at the MLK Parade and was on hand with her family: “Today is a great day. Dr. King made a way for all of us - Black people, white people, everyone - the whole nation of people.”

Elijah Manley, 16, a junior at Fort Lauderdale High School, is the youngest candidate running for the office of President of the United States.

“Martin Luther King is a hero to me. He fought for equality and justice for everybody for all races and all ethnicities. To me, Martin Luther King was not just a hero but he’s an icon

Photos by Ron Lyons Gazette Publisher, Bobby Henry and included panelists Dr. Rudy Jean-Bart, professor at Broward College; radio host Blanche William,s who is also president of Greatness by Design, LLC that specializes in team performance and leadership development; and Plantation High students, Christine McGee and Brandon Robinson.

(Read full story on www.thewestsidegazette.com) for American youth. Black Lives Matter, Green Party of Florida, and the Continental Youth Assembly, the National Youth Rights Association, and the Alliance Against Corporal Punishment.”

Wayne Alexander, Board Chairman for the Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Committee: “Today means quite a bit. We did this with a lot of trepidation, a lot of ridicule and negative comments but we felt it was time to make a change.

We needed to take the Dr. King Holiday to the next level in Fort Lauderdale. We took a chance and I believe it’s paying off and hopefully we’ll make a determination on what we’re going to do next year and how we’re going to make it bigger and better.”

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