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The biggest picture in the NBA Press Conference Being satisfied with

By D’Joumbarey A. Moreau

Who hasn’t participated in Take Your Child to Work Day? The NBA is starting to adopt the same philosophy and it couldn’t be a brighter spot for the league itself. You can argue until you’re blue in the face about if children should be allowed into the post-game press conference or in the NBA workplace for that matter. On some levels your argument might even be correct because a podium at a press conference isn’t the most attention friendly place for children.

On a deeper surface though you’re completely missing the point on why it’s a good thing.

Who can actually remember the first time a child appeared with their superstar father athlete in a press conference? Who knows? Most recently though, the NBA’s MVP Stephen Curry has been stealing the show.

Well, his daughter Riley actually.

Stephen’s daughter Riley is adorable, joyful, intelligent and entertaining to watch. She’s being herself and everyone in the

room can’t help but love her.

Even the people watching the press conferences on the television and thought in the #Twitterverse get a lot of enjoyment from seeing the strong bond that Curry and his daughter have. That’s where most people are missing the bigger picture.

Fatherhood in the AfricanAmerican community is a concept that should be celebrated, shoved down our throats and replayed a number of times because it’s beautiful to raise your children.

Although it’s not the story for every player in the NBA, a lot of the players in the league come from single-parent backgrounds where they were being raised by mothers. You’re favorite players in the league, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, John Wall, and Derrick Rose, all have different testimonies of not growing up with their fathers due to death or abandonment.

When we get to see Curry and other NBA players with their children it’s a breath of fresh air.

The effects of seeing children in stable homes from millionaire athletes will play a positive effect

what God gives you I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

-- Psalm 139:14

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr.

Stealing the spotlight Stephen Curry’s two-year-old daughter stole the spotlight on Tuesday night when she told her father to ‘be quiet’. in local communities. Because of slavery we got to see the huge effects in the way that African-American families are constructed during the 21st century. Because of the horrific treatment that slaves had to endure being split up with their families, it systemically trickled down into our generation.

Because the NBA hasn’t done anything (nor should they) about children being allowed at the press conference it’s helping to promote to the AfricanAmerican community that having a family is not a burden, but a blessing.

Mass incarceration no factor in crime drop

creased lead in gasoline also “possibly” had some effect on both property and violent crime, according to the research.

Police departments were the wildcard.

On one hand, a rise in officer recruitment was responsible for up to 10 percent of the overall crime decline in the ’90s, though that effect has worn off over the last decade. Law enforcement’s CompStat approach – which uses data and technology to analyze local crime and direct attention and resources accordingly to reduce it – also appeared to have a positive effect on the nation’s 50 most populated cities; overall, it has been responsible for a 5 to 15 percent drop in crime where implemented.

the significance of several mostlikely factors in the crime decline, such as increased police numbers, gun laws, unemployment, drug use, and more.

Growth in income, decreased alcohol, and the aging population use were the three most important factors in the crime decline that the researchers could verify. Together, they were responsible for up to 25 percent of the drop in both violent and property crime.

Inflation and consumer confidence had some effect on property crime over the last 25 years to a lesser (and harder to prove) degree. In the ‘90s, but not the 2000s, decreased crack use, legalized abortion, and deCrime Scene Tape

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – The crime rate has been steadily decreasing for 25 years, but mass incarceration has had very little, if any, impact on the decline, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

The 134-page study, titled What Caused the Crime Decline? found that “when other variables are controlled for, increasing incarceration had a minimal effect on reducing property crime in the 1990s and no effect on violent crime.”

The report continued, “In the 2000s, increased incarceration had no effect on violent crime and accounted for less than onehundredth of the decade’s property crime drop.”

Some states with large Black populations, such as Michigan, Texas, New York, and California, even reduced their prison populations during the crime decline with no adverse effects.

Texas, for example, has decreased its imprisonment rate by 15 to 25 percent since 2000; at the same, both property crime and violent crime have dropped about 20 to 30 percent.

The NYU report examines

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By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent

Pleading Our Own Cause

College graduates facing tough job market.

(NNPA Photo by Freddie Allen) uates improved to 11.4 percent, it is still nearly three points higher than it was in 2007 (8.1 percent) before the Great Recession. The jobless rate for white college graduates has peaked at 9 percent in 2011, and the current unemployment rate at 5.8 percent is less than a percentage point from the 2007 rate of 5.1 percent.

“This suggests other factors

Starting antiretroviral treatment early improves outcomes for HIV-infected individuals NIH-funded trial results likely will impact global treatment guidelines

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Black graduates face a tough job market WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – College graduates will enter a job market this year that is better than it has been in recent years, but they will still face a tough climb. That climb will be especially difficult for Black college graduates who will grapple with a jobless rate that is still in the double digits, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington, D.C.based research and education group focused on low- and middle-income workers.

Alyssa Davis, a research fellow focused on the labor market, poverty and education; Will Kimball, a research assistant with EPI; and Elise Gould, director of health policy research co-authored the report for the Institute’s “Raising America’s Pay” research and public education initiative.

“Things are starting to look up for young grads, but we’re not quite where we want to be yet,” said Davis.

Even though, the unemployment rate for Black college grad-

Growing older should mean gaining a little more knowledge on how to be satisfied with what you have. In most cases I’m sure it doesn’t because of the increase in suicides, murders and other crimes of a personal nature.

A few days before my birthday, I had to leave work for a few days because of a cold that I could not shake nor did I want to share it with the staff.

My day began with a prayer thanking God for all that He had allowed me to do and for the people he placed in my life - good, bad or indifferent. Once I was sure that I had made that personal connection and all was well, I was ready to start my special day.

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may be in play, such as discrimination or unequal access to the informal professional networks that often lead to job opportunities,” stated the report.

Increasing college costs coupled with mountains of student loan debt may also make it harder for students to stay in school to earn advanced degrees.

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A major international randomized clinical trial has found that HIV-infected individuals have a considerably lower risk of developing AIDS or other serious illnesses if they start taking antiretroviral drugs sooner, when their CD4+ T-cell count— a key measure of immune system health—is higher, instead of waiting until the CD4+ cell count drops to lower levels. Together with data from previous studies showing that anti-retroviral treatment reduced the risk of HIV transmission to uninfected sexual partners, these findings support offering treatment to everyone with HIV. The new finding is from the Strategic Timing of Anti-Retroviral Treatment (START) study, the first large-scale randomized clinical trial to establish that earlier antiretroviral treatment benefits all HIV-infected individuals. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, provided primary funding for the START trial. Though the study was expected to conclude at the end of 2016, an interim

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review of the study data by an independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) recommended that results be released early.

“We now have clear-cut proof that it is of significantly greater health benefit to an HIV-infected person to start antiretroviral therapy sooner rather than later,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “Moreover, early therapy conveys a double benefit, not only improving the health of individuals but at the same time, by lowering their viral load, reducing the risk they will transmit HIV to others.

These findings have global implications for the treatment of HIV.” “This is an important milestone in HIV research,” said Jens Lundgren, M.D., of the University of Copenhagen and one of the co-chairs of the START study. “We now have strong evidence that early treatment is beneficial to the HIV-positive person. These results support treating everyone irrespective of CD4+ T-cell count.”

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'Train up a child in the way he should go and when he grows he will not depart'

State Representative Bobby DuBose (c), believes that it is important to take the time to mentor and guide our youth.

By Gabe Sheffield Mentorship is an extremely important element in today’s society. Our future depends on the caliber of young men and women we are developing. It begins with us!

The Fort Lauderdale Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., along with State Representative Bobby B. DuBose, illustrated how impactful we can be in the lives of our youth, at the 2015 Annual End of the Year Kappa League Luncheon.

Kappa League is a “Guide Right” program developed by the men of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. years ago to help develop our boys into mature, successful, young men.

The luncheon commemorated a year’s worth of work as the Fort Lauderdale Alumni Kappa Lea-

gue ran the entire program from start to finish.

These bright young men honored two distinct local chapters: the Zeta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the Broward Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Both organizations were honored for their 60 years of service to our community. The Kappa Leaguers didn’t stop there as they performed a special presenta-tion honoring their “Sheroes”; women who have sacrificed tremendously to help them become who they are today.

Brother Calvin Hughes, Channel Local 10 News anchor, the keynote speaker for the event, was the only part of the program not done by a Kappa Leaguer. He inspired the audience as he told his story of how he transformed into the well-spoken successful man that he is today.

At the conclusion of this momentous event, our eighth graders (Jr. Kappa Leaguers) were presented with their blaz-

Calvin Hughes, Channel Local 10 News anchor. ers and our seniors, all of whom are graduating and going to college, received gifts and scholarships.

The Fort Lauderdale Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi

Fraternity, Inc., along with State Representative Bobby DuBose, believe that it is important to take the time to mentor and guide our youth as someone always had the time to mentor and guide us.

The Southwest Seminoles are the reason you have to enjoy sports

By D’Joumbarey A. Moreau

Anne Turner Herriott elected 19th Southern Area Director The Links, Inc.

By Renée S. Jones On May 16, 2015 Anne Turner Herriott was elected as the 19th Southern Area Director for The Links, Inc. Established in 1946, The Links, Inc. is a volunteer service organization comprised of more than 14,000 professional women of color with backgrounds in business, government, media, academia, philanthropy and the arts who are devoted to strengthening communities and enhancing the nation.

Southern Area Links convened in historic Birmingham, Ala. to effect change through the power of friendship and service and to elect officers during the organization’s 43rd Southern Area Conference.

Having served previously as Southern Area Secretary, Herriott’s demonstrated excellence as a servant leader propelled members representing 78 chapters in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina,

South Carolina and the Bahamas to elect her to the highest office of the Southern Area.

As Southern Area Director, her task to lead the largest area of The Links, Inc. is a momentous undertaking.

Herriott became the third member of Greater Miami Chapter of The Links, Inc. to serve as Southern Area Director. The late Mrs. Maude K. Reid served as Fifth Southern Area Director (1965-1969) and Mrs. Regina Jollivette Frazier served as Ninth Area Director (1981-1984) as well as Ninth National President (19861990).

A true public servant, Herriott has served with distinction in numerous organizations, including president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Dade County Alumnae Chapter, founding president of DeltaCare, Inc., and co-chair of the Florida Human Rights Advocacy Commission.

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HERRIOTT Administrator for the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Herriott is a native Miamian, devoted member of Greater New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church and proud graduate of Miami Northwestern Sr. High and Tennessee State University. She and husband Willie have a son and four granddaughters.

Florida A&M University, ‘a new head coach, a new plan, a winning season’ Wake Forest offensive coordinator 1993-1994.

Wood also worked in the NFL as the offensive coordinator of the Arizona Cardinals in 2004 and as an assistant with the

Cincinnati Bengals and Minnesota Vikings. “I am delighted to join the Rattler family,” Wood said in a news release.

“I am thoroughly convinced that ... we can build a competitive football program that will play a positive role in helping FAMU enhance its brand and

Life isn’t fair.

That’s one of the first lessons that a lot of children grow up to understand when they become adults. Everyone’s got a different set of cards when they’re born. The way that one chooses to play the cards they were dealt in their life will determine their ultimate future success.

For Lee Jackson, the club president of Fort Lauderdale’s Southwest Seminoles, he understood how difficult it is for children in the inner city in the South Florida community.

That’s why Jackson and his wife Mrs. Athena Jackson created the Seminoles in order to give the Fort Lauderdale community a football program that would stand as a beacon of acceptance and hope for children.

“We deal with a lot of at-risk kids. We’re mainly a program that was established to keep kids out of trouble. We are a non-profit organization and we’re in need of sponsors to help us with the program. At the same time we’re here to provide the kids with an outlet to stay out of the streets. That’s what we’re about. We don’t turn any kids down,” said Jackson.

Turning no kids down is a principle that Jackson founded the Seminoles with.

That’s why the Seminoles program that not only features football but also cheerleading, has had at one point 175 children between the ages of five14 participating in their program.

In essence getting children to play football instead of doing something stupid that could end up costing them their life is the Seminoles biggest priority.

Jackson even has weekly tutoring sessions for the chil-dren in order of them to main-tain their grades. With him, their lives are bigger than playing on a football field.

That’s why it was such a blessing that during Jackson’s

achieve its mission of becoming a best-in-class academic institution.”

Wood and his assistants are fanning out across Florida to identify recruits with outstanding playing skills and a 3.3 GPA. Mary Smith, president of the FAMU Broward Alumni Chapter and Dr. John Glover, vice president of The National Rattler F-Club (a co-sponsor of this

year’s event), asks that the community come out to hear the plans for the upcoming football season and to support the efforts of Coach Wood and the football staff by not only attending this event but also bringing donations to assist with much needed equipment for the athletic department and support for student players.

For more information call (954) 430-9760.

The biggest picture in the NBA Press Conference (Cont'd from FP)

WOODS FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Florida A&M University Broward County Alumni Chapter will host its Annual Unity Day at the Signature Grand on June 27, 2015 at 12 p.m., where Coach Alexander Von “Alex” Wood, the newly hired head football coach, will be the featured speaker.

Alexander “Alex” Woods FAMU Head Football Coach Coach Wood graduated from Iowa with a degree in secondary education and social studies.

He has over 30 years of coaching experience at both the college and NFL ranks. Wood was part of two national championship teams as Miami running backs coach 1989-1993 and

Back in 2005 when the commissioner David Stern helped change the image of the league from throwback jerseys and baggy jeans, into button up suits, blazers and dress pants, it’s helped the maturation process of the millionaires in the league to mature and to realize that they are held to a different standard, their the example for the children that emulate them.

Think of the young children who watch Curry, Chris Paul, Kyle Lowry, Rose and Kobe Bryant parade their children to the world and try to envision how they feel. Think about those who are growing up in single parent homes like James, Rose and Anthony and the way that

they feel when they see their favorite athletes’ families.

It’s okay for the media to get upset about the lack of control having children running around in conferences when they’re trying to work, it’s understandable.

The NBA doesn’t need to police children, though they should help regulate their involvement. In fact, there should be more parading of the children.

When each player walks into the arena how wonderful of a shot would it be to see your favorite player holding the hands of his kid before he takes battle.

The family culture in the NBA isn’t a problem. It’s a problem that people are starting to think that it is.

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TOGETHER WE MAKE GREAT THINGS HAPPEN– On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Dillard High School held a Partner Appreciation Breakfast and Networking event for over 50 of its partners in education. Above, Dennis Wright, president of 100 Black Men of Greater Fort Lauderdale, accepted a certificate of appreciation award from Principal Casandra D. Robinson. Other recipients included Old Dillard Museum, World AIDS Museum and Educational Center, Microsoft, New Mount Olive Baptist Church. To see a complete list of the 2015-2016 Partners, visit Dillardhigh.com

tenure as the leader of the Seminoles that they have accomplished many great athletic feats as well. In the last three years the 125 pound and 135 pound team were named the 2013 SFYFL Super Bowl Champions. As for the 13U Seminoles, they held their own by winning the 2013 Miami Dolphins State Championship Series.

Not only is Jackson helping children to stay off of the streets, he’s helping the children in his program become winners.

The idea for his program came when he was helping coach another team. Jackson noticed that he didn’t enjoy the way that the children we’re being spoken to or treated. Being well-respected in South Florida he decided to make a change and that’s when the Seminoles were created. Now only a few years later the Seminoles are one of the important programs in the community because of the way that they’ve impacted the lives of young people.

Because the young generation is so important to the Seminoles, they’ve even taken their affection for children a step further by hosting a barbecue.

On June 27, there will be a fun filled family time that will have a lot of the players, parents and people associated with the Seminoles. Don’t feel isolated though because everyone’s welcome to join in on the festivities since the event will exhibit some of the best cooks in the South Florida area.

“Everybody bragging and saying they have the best barbecue so we (Jackson & his wife) came together to get all the people who said that and get them in one spot. We’re going to see who’s got the best ribs and chicken.”

There will be first, second and third place cash prizes will be given.

For more information; volunteering; sponsorship or BBQ Contestants*** St. George Civic Association in partnership with Youth Sports of Central Broward Inc. Presents “You Put Yo’ Foot In It” Date: Saturday June 27, 2015 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at St. George Community Park 3501 N.W. Eighth St. , Lauderhill, Fla.,For For more information on volunteering; sponsorship or BBQ entry contact Samuel Wilkerson (954) 817-9594 or Nicole Clark (954) 638-5861.

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‘Spirit of Giving’ annual Back to School Bash Get Linked: Miami Youth Hackathon a one day minority students

The “Spirit of Giving” Back to School Bash aims to provide local children with new backpacks full of grade-appropriate supplies, uniforms, new shoes, haircuts, healthy snacks, vision screenings and access to medical resources and information.

At the event, students will be paired with a volunteer personal shopper to assist them in selecting their own backpack and supplies. The Spirit of Giving—a collaborative, nonprofit organization with a focus on children and families in Palm Beach County—utilizes its 60 non-profit member

organizations for this event to provide supplies to more than 4,000 local at-risk children.

Boca Raton Regional Hospital will also return to hold their Family Health Carnival, which is open to the public and will feature health resources, education, and screenings.

Wendy Friswell, executive director of Spirit of Giving says, “Spirit of Giving is dedicated to helping thousands of economically disadvantaged children and their families prepare for academic success in the new school year. We invite every member of the community to

Mass incarceration no factor in crime drop (Cont'd from FP) But in city-by-city analysis of CompStat, its impact varies.

In Oakland, Calif. for example, crime had increased 36 percent during the year before CompStat was introduced. During the year after, crime was down 4 percent. In Philadelphia, crime had increased 14 percent in the previous year, and another 8 percent the year after CompStat. In a more current example, New York’s crime rate fell during the NYPD slowdown in the wake of protests against the choking death of Eric Garner. But Baltimore is experiencing its deadliest month in 15 years since the Baltimore Police Department’s

slowdown following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.

Further, the police are often a gateway to the criminal justice system and the first link in the chain of mass incarceration.

Mass incarceration has not only ceased to be a factor in deterring crime, it has also become a drain on American society.

The United States account for 5 percent of the world’s population but holds 25 percent of its incarcerated population. One in three Americans now has a criminal record. One in nine school-aged Black children has or has had a parent in prison.

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help by volunteering at the event or becoming a sponsor.”

The annual invite-only Back to School Bash serving Southern Palm Beach County children will be held Saturday, Aug. 8 , 2015 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Delray Beach Village Academy.

About Spirit of Giving Now in its seventh year, Spirit of Giving unites more than 60 nonprofits in Palm Beach County to help facilitate and create programs and alliances that promote lasting change in the community. It is a forum where nonprofits and community supporters share information, resources and best practices. The group’s objective is to streamline the delivery of services to the community by working collaboratively to solve issues and improve operations through internal and external partnerships. Community programs that Spirit of Giving manages include acting as the Official Charity Partner of The Boca Raton Bowl, Holiday Gift Drive, Volunteer Training and Placement, Fingerprinting Services, Monthly Nonprofit Meetings, Nonprofit Executive Mastery Institute and Nonprofit Wish List.

For more information, visit www.spiritofgivingnetwork.com or contact me (Dara) at Dara@thegabgroup.com. For information on how to become a sponsor, email info@spiritofgivingnetwork.com.

Miami, FL – Get Linked: Miami Youth Hackathon (#getlinkedhack), was an innovative one-day youth hackathon for minority students from Miami-Dade County. The purpose is to expose them to the real world possibilities of learning to code while introducing them to the various career opportunities in the field of technology.

The 30 minority students in the eighth – 10th grades learned the basics of software coding as they created and “hack” an application to address a chosen topic related to local community issues, youth risk factors, etc. The students went through a briefing on where they learned the goal of the day, and was provided with some thought starters to show how technology has been used to address a problem. A selection of topics allowed the students to self-organize into teams based on shared interests. Once in teams, mentors guided students through the process, from brainstorming on an idea, to working together to build the idea and develop their website.

At the end of the day, the students had the opportunity to present their work to their peers.

(Cont'd from FP) “The cost of higher education has risen faster than typical family incomes, making it harder for families to pay for college,” stated the EPI report. “From the 1983–1984 enrollment year to the 2013–2014 enrollment year, the inflation adjusted cost of a four-year education, including tuition, fees, and room and board, increased 125.7 percent for private school and 129.0 percent for public school.”

Meanwhile, the median family income rose less than 17 percent over the same period.

Over the past decade (20042014), the number of borrowers has increased more than 90 percent and the average debt per borrower increased by 74 percent, according to the EPI re-

These letters of encouragement are what keep me going and have continued belief in our children.

Mr. Bobby R. Henry, Sr., Publisher of the Westside Gazette, Broward County's Oldest and Largest African American Owned and Operated Newspaper

Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., You showed me about newspapers and now I know more about newspapers than before. Before I was thinking a newspaper didn’t have sports, gossip. Now, I could go to the Sports and Gossip section so now I could read a newspaper.

You also showed me that not only one person does a newspaper like other people help do the newspaper; like the editor, photographer, writer and illustrator. Thank you for coming to my school.

Thank You, Gabriella Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., I just wanted to thank you for all your time today. I really enjoyed humor. Also, I liked the presentation along with the facts you shared to me. I think it was great and I had lots of fun in your presentation.

Yours Truly, Hailey P.S. I started reading your newspaper and I find it interesting. Also, I learned some new information from it.

Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., Thank you so much for coming to my classroom for Career Day. You were amazing and your job is very interesting. Also, thank you for the newspaper. I hope you come to my class next year for Career Day, because I know that you will be great just like this time. Also in my opinion, I think that you should start a new magazine. Also tip for the future – if you want more kids to read your newspaper, put funny cartoons, word searches and crossword puzzles based on the news.

Sincerely, Jada, Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., Thank you for your outstanding lecture about your newspaper company. I read about your statement on the S.C. killing.

Right when I got home, I took it out and read the statement. I hope you the best of luck. Also, thanks for the newspaper.

Sincerely, Jaylen Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., I really enjoyed you talking to us about your job as a Manager of a newspaper company.

When I grow up, I will be in the newspaper business, too because you are my inspiration.

Also, you make it seem so fun.

So the next time I see you, I want to learn more about your company and you, too.

Sincerely, Melania Lloyd P.S. I can’t believe all those jobs in the newspaper company.

Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., Thank you for coming to our class for Career Day. I learned many new things about newspapers that I did not know. I also learned about other things.

If you had not come to our class, I would not have learned these things, Thank you for teaching me about newspapers. It was interesting to learn about newspapers. I learned that newspapers go through a long process to get published. I learned other things as well, but this is just one of them.

Sincerely, Melvin Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., Thank you for coming to Career Day and teaching me about your job and what you do. I learned so much from you.

I had a fun time learning all your jobs and people who do it.

Thank you for sharing everything with us.

Yours Truly, Nathan Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., Thank you so much for what you have taught me today. You were my favorite part of Career Day because when you were talking about when you brand of the newspaper started and when you passed out your latest one, I found your newspaper very interesting to read and it felt like you took me all the way back to 1971!

You speech was a very good one. I learned that the only job for the newspaper is not only publishing; there are many jobs such as editor, the cameraman, the broadcaster, and also the printer helps because it prints the newspaper.

Once again, thank you so much for visiting our class. I very much appreciate it.

Your Friend, Ria

The hackathon also featured a technology career expo. Notable leaders from Miami’s technology and start up community facilitated interactive presentations centered on their individual career paths and personal strategies for success.

They also facilitated lunchtime roundtables focused on careers in technology.

At the conclusion of the Get Linked: Miami Youth Hackathon experience, students walked away with a sense of accomplishment inspired by unique interactions that come

Black graduates face a tough job market

Career Day Thank You Letters: April 16, 2015

Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., Thank you for coming to our class for Career Day. We as a class do appreciate you volunteering to present your job to us this morning. The class sees that it takes so many jobs to make just a newspaper It was very nice of you to let us view and keep one of your newspapers. We surely enjoyed your presentation.

Sincerely, Daniella

Students at Get Linked: Miami Youth Hackathon.

Dear Mr. Henry, Thank you for coming to our class for Career Day. It is interesting to know you work for the newspaper. Thanks for explaining about your job and how it works. It was nice of you to tell us about your family history and how your father created his own newspaper. Thank you for also giving us a newspaper. Also, it was fascinating to know that you respect different cultures.

I hope you enjoyed Career Day today. The newspaper you gave us explained lots of history to me about how America was before, when Black people weren’t treated fairly. Thanks for the newspaper and outstanding speech.

Sincerely, Sruthi Dear Mr. Henry, Sr., I would like to say thanks so very much for coming to our classroom on Career Day. Also, I would like to tell you that you have a very interesting job. In fact, it is very inspiring, both interesting to learn and study career. I also like that you said that you are letting more of your family into your company and I read a little section of your newspaper and I like it because there were no mistakes in your grammar.

Your Friend, Nathan

port.

Those who can’t afford college are forced to compete in a weak labor market with older more experienced workers.

More than 23 percent of Black high school graduates fall into the gap between having a job and going to college, compared to 14.2 percent of their white peers.

“When you have a period of sustained economic weakness like this and you have these lower wages, and you have all of these people idle, it can affect their jobs opportunities and earnings for up to a decade into the future,” said Davis.

High school graduates also struggle to find work.

The unemployment rate for Black high school graduates rose to 42 percent in 2011 and is now roughly 30 percent and the jobless rate for white high school graduates is about 17 percent.

Researchers suggested that because the majority of workers aged 17-24 years-old have less than a college degree, including more than 90 percent of Black workers; policymakers need to focus on providing them with access to good jobs and stable employment that “allows them to build a career or pay for fur-

when brilliant people get together to solve problems and “upload” their collaborative creations for the world to experience. Get Linked is collaborating with: Project FACE, Honey Shine, South Florida CARES Youth Mentoring Movement, Girl Power, and Code Fever.

The hackathon was held May 30, at The Idea Center, Miami Dade College at 315 N.E. Second Ave., Miami, Fla. The event was entirely free for participants. ther schooling.”

President Barack Obama’s “America’s College Promise” proposal to provide students with free tuition to attend community colleges for two years may also give high school graduates a boost.

Kimball also agreed that high school graduates that didn’t have jobs lined up could benefit from President Barack Obama’s plan to provide students with two years of free tuition at a community college.

Nearly half of college graduates younger than 27 years old are still working jobs that don’t require a college degree and those jobs “are of lower quality now than they used to be,” the report said.

Gould said that, on the individual level, it may or may not be a good investment for people to go to college, because of increasing college costs and flat wages.

“Making college more affordable, changes that equation,” said Gould.

Ultimately, the EPI report found that the down economy affects young workers in many of the same ways that it affects older workers and because the causes of their job struggles are the, same so are many of the solutions.

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Being satisfied with what God gives you (Cont'd from FP) I left a message on my phone that allowed those who called to know that I was taking the day off and that I love each and every one that called because they have somehow become a part of me but I wanted this time for me.

I celebrated my 60th birthday on last Saturday by celebrating a dear friend who was inducted into one of Black America’s premiere organizations; had dinner with some close friends and on the following day my children prepared a gourmet feast of Alaskan King Crabs, shrimp, and lobster.

I felt like a king.

Some would call this a very unassuming, non-eventful evening; however, I would beg to differ.

First of all, God allowed me to see another year with my family and friends; then He allowed me to do or think that I was doing what I wanted to when in, actuality, He was and is still in control.

Once I had gotten over the fact that I was now midway over the hump (60 years), it began to register that I was getting OLDER. All the plans that I had for developing those six-packs and regaining the firmness that this old body once possessed was becoming a blur.

Now a few days past 60, I was sitting in church listening to the sermon as Pastor Davidson was preaching from Galatians 1:1-10.

I was looking around at the congregation and was saying to myself, “Boy if I could have had this… And do things the way she does that… And if my voice could be as melodic as his… etc.” When all of a sudden bam! It hit me - I’m alright just the way I am and with what I have because God has given me all that I am and He does not make any mistakes; I know Him and He knows me and loves me still.

To reinforce the positive of what was occurring inside of me the scripture said: God’s Message: “10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.”

Galatians 1:10 (NASB) “Dear God thank you for another year and the ability to recognize that everything comes from you and that we please you when we love one another.” AMEN EVERYDAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY IN GOD.

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Conference

2015 AMAC Annual Airport Business Diversity Conference, Friday June 12 thru Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa. A mustattend event for Airport Professionals, Corporations and small businesses. For more info call (954) 357-6400.

Breakfast

Mount Hermon A.M.E. Church Sons of Allen Men's Ministry Father and Son Breakfast, Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 9 a.m., at the Mount Hermon Family Life Center, 404 N.W. Seventh Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Keynote speaker is Rev. Kenneth F. Irby of Historic Bethel A.M.E. Church St. Petersburg, Fl. For more info and tickets contact Roma Roberts call (954) 854-4778 or romarober@bellsouth.net

Yard Sale

The City of Pompano Beach Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department is hosting a shopping trip in the Nana’s Closet! Community yard sale, Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the parking lot of the E. Pat Larkins Center, 520 Hammondville Rd/MLK, Jr. Blvd., Pompano Beach, Fla, free to the public. For more info call (954) 786-4585.

Event

B.B. King Cays Corner honoring B.B. King, Sugar Push Productions presents Cat’s Corner, a Haitian Jazz-Fusion Experience. This cultural immersion promises to be an exciting evening of great music, special people and delicious food. Free parking available. Entertainment by Coco Simone & Joey Gilmore, The Jean Caze Quartet and Carole Ann Taylor. Special performance by Peter London Dance Company, Saturday, June 6, 2015 from 7-11 p.m., at the Caribbean Marketplace, 5925 N.W. Second Ave, Miami, Fla. Food provided by MTV’s The Naked Chef Jacque Laventure.

For more info call (305) 3818083 or (305) 960-2969, or e m a i l sugarpushproductions@gmail.com.

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June Is Black Music Month A Celebration of Black Music and Culture

Celebration

After years of hard work and dedication, it’s time to take a permanent vacation, join us in celebrating retirement of Gracie Miller, Pamela Williams, Major Samuel Love, Dr. Louis Sanders and Deborah Davis, Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 12:30 p.m., at Embassy Suites 1100 S.E. 17 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There is fee, includes meal and gift.

Luncheon

A Plus Foundation, Inc. charitable arm of Chi Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. will host its Second Annual Emerald Luncheon to benefit scholarships for deserving graduating seniors in Broward County, Saturday, 11:30 a.m., June 20, 2015, Signature Grand, 6900 State Road 84, Davie, Fla. For more information, contact www.chipsiomega@info.org.

Event

The Parks and Recreation Division’s Special Populations Section and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Broward County will host the second of three Free Friday Night Social for 2015, Friday, June 12, 2015 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at Anne Kolb Nature Center, 751 Sheridan St., Hollywood, Fla. The program includes music, dancing, socializing, door prizes and refreshments. Note: Direct supervision of participants is not provided. For more info call the Special Populations Section (954) 357-8170 or NAMI Broward County at (954) 316-9907, or email SpecialPopulations@Broward.org.

Fundraiser

Dillard Class of '71 Members and supporter our annual scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for July 25, 2015.

An Elegant Affair “Living Life like Its Golden” at Tropical Acres Restaurant 2500 Griffin Rd., Hollywood, Fla.

Summer Reading Program

The Summer Reading Program will be at held Tyrone Bryant Library, 2230 N.W. 21 Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Participation earns raffle chances at Amazon and Publix gift cards, raffle entries can be earned by reading or listening to audio books whenever you want. For additional info call (945) 357-8210. · Saturday, June 6, from 2 to 3 p.m. - Summer Reading Program Kick-Off – refreshments · Tuesday, June 9, from 10:30 to 12 – Book Talk with Krystal Jordon – Escape the Ordinary: The Art of Activation · Saturday, June 13, from 11 to 12 – Adult Financial Heroes: Rebuilding Credit Register online @ www.broward.org/Library/ read or come in to register.

Workshop

The NAACP Florida State Conference and Ocwen Financial Corporation presents “Help & Hope for Homeowners” Saturday, June 20, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Urban League of Broward County, 560 N.W. 27th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Join us to receive info on down payment assistance programs and one-on-one sessions with industry professionals. For more info or to RSVP, please call (855) 4592514 or emailinfo@FLNAACP.com.ý

Meeting

The Blanche Ely Class of 1966 is now meeting to prepare for their 50th Class Reunion in 2016. Meetings are scheduled for the Fourth Thursday of every month, will be held 6 p.m., at the Mitchell-Moore Center, 901 N.W. 10th St., Pompano Beach, Fla. For more info Fredrekia Manuel-Forde at (954) 240-8498 or Joann at (954) 614-9269.

Summer Program

The Parks and Recreation Division’s six neighborhood parks, located in the Broward Municipal Services District (BMSD), will offer the annual Summer Recreation Program, provided Free on weekdays starting Monday, June 15 and ending Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with early drop-off available from 8 to 9 a.m. and late pick up from 5 to 6 p.m. This year’s theme is: “Fun ‘n’ Fit”. The program is for ages 6 to 17 at Franklin, Lafayette Hart, Reverend Samuel Delevoe and Roosevelt Gardens parks, for 6 to 10 at Boulevard Gardens Community Center; and for ages 13 to 17 at Sunview Park. Weekly field trip (optional) entails a minimal charge; field-trip participants must also purchase a $5 T-shirt that must be worn on all field trips. Field-trip will be Mondays for Delevoe, Tuesdays for Boulevard Gardens and Sunview, Wednesdays for Franklin, Thursdays for Roosevelt Gardens and Fridays for Lafayette Hart. Note: There will be no program on Friday, July 3, 2015. · Boulevard Gardens Community Center, 313 N.W. 28 Terr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-6867. · Franklin Park, 2501 Franklin Dr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 3577080. · Lafayette Hart Park, 2851 N.W. 8th Rd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-7970. · Reverend Samuel Delevoe Park, 2520 N.W. Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info (954) 357-8801. · Roosevelt Gardens Park, 2841 N.W. 11th St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info (954) 8700. · Sunview Park, 1500 S.W. 42nd Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-6520.

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Restoring Grace Community Church launches firstAnnual Dr. Jerome Symonette Scholarship Fund breakfast

By Charles Moseley Restoring Grace Community Church (RGCC) held its first Annual Dr. Jerome Symonette Scholarship Fund during a benefit breakfast entitled, “Celebrating Academic Excellence,” on May 31, 2015 at the Holiday Park Social Center in Fort Lauderdale. High school seniors or students already enrolled in college, who display high academic achievement will be eligible to receive a scholarship annually.

Dr. Symonette has long been a proponent of quality education throughout his illustrious career in the dual capacity as a theologian and educator in his native Nassau, Bahamas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and, most recently South Florida.

The scholarship was spearheaded by RGCC member Katrice Bell, who chaired its scholarship committee. Bell also introduced Dr. Symonette during the scholarship breakfast program.

“I felt that it was important for students at our church to be able to further their education.

My mom was an educator. I

have another scholarship in her name, The Katrina McCollumBell so I’m not new at giving scholarships. I actually also do this in Washington, D.C. on behalf of one of my cousins, Dr. Cassandra I. Mclaurin. I targeted this here because there was a need for this,” said Bell.

Pastor Jerome Symonette has preached, lectured, performed, and spoken in churches, conferences, conventions, and for colleges and universities.

These opportunities have brought invitations across the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, and the Netherlands. Dr. Symonette has also served as Director of a Family Life Center an Assistant Administrator and Dean at a Christian Academy taught at a Catholic School and served as Supervisor of Counseling for Substance Abuse and HIV/ AIDS social service agency.

Additionally, he served as a Music Coordinator and Accompanist for the University of Louisville’s Dance Academy. He has served as the Chairman of the Board for Friends of Children, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and on the Board of Excel Academy

Rev. Dr. Jerome Symonette, senior pastor at Restoring Grace Community Church in Fort Lauderdale, announced that the church will begin awarding an academic scholarship to a deserving high school senior or current college student annually.

Charter School, Miami, Fla. He also has served as the New Mount Olive Baptist Church as Minister of Music, is a professor at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, Fla., as well as on staff at Village Elementary School, in Sunrise, Fla. “Today was a very powerful event because we’re trying to raise awareness concerning

Home repairs loom large for low-income seniors

By Sandra Larson Special to the NNPA from Bay State Banner via New American Media BOSTON, MA–In Boston’s largely Caribbean and African American Mattapan neighborhood, the family of Curline Wilmoth, 67, has been struggling to care for her after she suffered a debilitating stroke in 2010 and had to leave her job as a hospital housekeeper.

Then, as happens too often when an elder returns from a hospital, Wilmoth and her family found she couldn’t safely move in or around her home.

For instance, her wheelchair wouldn’t fit through the bathroom door. And family members had to carry the chair down and up the front steps each time Wilmoth went to the doctor or to senior center programs.

Increasing–and More Diverse–Elders The rapidly aging United States population, especially in metropolitan areas like Boston, means that an increasingly nonwhite population of older adults with lower lifetime earnings and scant assets will grow.

In particular, ethnic elders, who tend to fall on the lower side of racial wealth and income gaps, are finding themselves unable to cover unanticipated expenses, such as home repairs or modifications, necessary for their safety. Retired homeowners on a fixed income needing a new roof or major plumbing repair, for instance, can face the dilemma that advocates in aging call being “house rich, but cash poor.”

“We know the need continues to grow,” said Sandra Henriquez, CEO of Rebuilding Together, based in Washington, D.C. But home-repair assistance is out there, if seniors know where to look, she said.

“A lot of people who have spent good years helping in their communities now need some help themselves. We take seriously that we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers,” said Henriquez, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Obama administration.

Rebuilding Together, a national nonprofit, has local affiliates that mobilize contractors and volunteers to perform free repairs and accessibility modifications. The organization assists about 10,000 low-income

Curline Wilmoth (c) received help from Rebuilding Together Boston to make the bathroom in her Boston home more wheelchair-accessible. She is flanked by daughters Yvonne, l, and Doreen.

(Sandra Larson/Bay State Banner) homeowners annually.

Among them is Wilmoth. Her family applied to Rebuilding Together Boston (RTB). During the organization’s National Rebuilding Days in April, a crew of local contractors and volunteers converged on the Wilmoth house to construct a wheelchair ramp, widen the bathroom door and install a more accessible toilet.

“God bless them, all of them,” said Wilmoth’s daughter Yvonne, 39. “Life will be much easier.”

Hard to Make Ends Meet The older population nationally and locally is becoming more diverse. A recent report on aging in Boston by the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Gerontology Institute and the Boston Elderly Commission shows that from 2000 to 2010, the number of white people 60 and older dropped 3 percent in Boston, while numbers for all nonwhite groups increased. These trends are expected to continue.

Boston’s senior population is projected to grow by 22,500 households between 2010 and 2030, according to data in the city’s recently released housing plan. A majority of the new senior households will have annual incomes under $50,000, according to the report.

The Gerontology Institute applied its Elder Economic Security Index to measure how much income people 65-plus need to meet their basic living expenses for essentials like food, health care, transportation and housing.

The Institute estimates that in Suffolk County, primarily encompassing Boston, a homeowning couple without a mortgage typically needs $35,256 per year — far more than double

the official federal poverty level— just to get by. A single person with a mortgage may need more than another $2,000 to cover basic costs, according to the Index.

Programs for Home Repair Henriquez, who also previously ran the Boston Housing Authority, emphasized that home repair assistance — by both government and nonprofit sectors — offers a means of tackling a problem that can push seniors into nursing homes or even homelessness.

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academic excellence, but beyond the goal of just academic excellence, we had the fellowship with people whereas God’s presence filled this place has just reminded us, that not only did we have God but we had an education about God, with what we were doing here today.”

Pastor Symonette went on to explain the importance of interweaving God within the educational process.

“Number one - we realize there can be no positive change without God. Number two when children are given to us

by God as a stewardship we’re charged by God as good ste-

wards to help them to become productive citizens of the kingdom of God and of this world.

And so, hence we have to stay committed to shaping our children through the process of education,” Pastor Symontte added.

Several church members and other invited guests appeared on the program. Minister Joyce Hoskins, director of Christian Education provided the Call to Worship as well as the Introduction of the Meditation Speaker. Sister Martina Parker-Sobers did the Welcome and Occasion. Youth President Alexa Wilcox did the Scripture Reading, Norma Perkins, from

the Atlantic Coast Missionary Baptist Association provided the Meditation Address. Deacon Ricardo Au Guste blessed the food.

Dr. Philip Hall, Lighthouse Worship Center (COGIC), gave a sterling rendition of the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy. Sister Katrice Bell introduced the guest speaker.

Dr. Dorothy Orr, retired deputy superintendent, Broward County Schools, provided the keynote address entitled, “A Charge for Academic Excellence,” and Pastor Symonette closed out the ceremony along with doing the Benediction.

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The Westside Gazette, under the Management of BI-ADs, Inc., reserves the right to publish Views and Opinions by Contributing Writers may not necessarily reflect those of the Staff and Management of The Westside Gazette Newspaper and are solely the product of the responsible individual(s) who submit comments published in this newspaper.

By Lucius Gantt

Blacks demand justice and Police Departments decide to work less

By Roger Caldwell Police Departments all over the country are under fire, and they feel they have been mistreated by protestors and liberals. There is a major divide between Blacks and whites, and the other races fall in the middle. Liberals believe that there is institutional racism in the fundamental infrastructure of the police system, and the lower class Blacks and Hispanics are considered thugs and criminals.

Justice is not blind

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist When racist attitudes, either conscious or subconscious, are combined with the discretionary powers that law enforcement officers have, the result is a differential outcome, with African Americans more likely to be the targets of “blind justice.”

Most of our politicians and leaders are exploiting subconscious racism, and pandering to explicit racial fears.

Even worse, they are rewarded when they say they are “tough on crime.”

Soledad O’Brien documented some of these attitudes in her most recent “Black In America” series. Included was an interview with a young Black man was stopped more than 100 times

Residents who live in poorer communities are treated differently, than people who live in middle and upper class communities. The police have always stated that they treated everyone fairly under the law, but mobile cameras and the new technology has told a different story. In the last year there has been a rash of unprovoked murders of Black young men, who were unarmed, and the police were the aggressors, as a result of mobile cameras. as he stood outside his college. Of course, he’d done nothing wrong, but police officers, “doing their duty,” felt free to harass him.

In a more telling segment, two young men, one Black and MALVEAUX one white, staged the “stealing” of a bike to show how members of the public responded to watching the apparent theft. The young men were dressed similarly – T-shirts, casual pants, caps. People walked by as the white guy did everything he could to break the lock on the bike, including using a chain cutter. One even offered to help him take “his” bike, even though he acknowledged it was not his.

Within moments of the Black man approaching the bike, white people, one or two of whom called 911, surrounded him. As opposed to the benign response the white guy got, the Black guy was simply assumed to be a criminal.

How does this play out on the streets and with officers of the law? Police officers use their discretion selectively.

A Black man (Eric Garner) selling loose cigarettes is manhandled, arrested, and dies when he is choked and cannot breathe. Most have seen the video by now, and wonder why Daniel Pantaleo was not charged with any crime, even though he used an illegal chokehold on Garner.

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Black boys do more than run

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist I recently attended my grandson Austin Ragland’s graduation CURRY from pre-school in Buford, Ga. Yes, you read correctly – pre-school. It’s never too soon to begin celebrating academic achievement, as his graduation from pre-school attests. So, PaPa was excited about going to Austin’s graduation ceremony and seeing him don a cap and gown for the first time to receive his “diploma.”

In addition to wanting to support every significant event in Austin’s life, PaPa realizes, to borrow a phrase from Jesse Jackson, that he has more yesterdays than tomorrows. I don’t know how many such celebrations I’ll be around for, so the sooner we begin celebrating, the better.

At five-years-old, Austin is extremely smart. He read more books than anyone else in his age-group and thanks to his parents, learning is fun to him. He frequently wants to practice his site words, even on weekends, without being asked and loves reading to Grammy.

I was expecting to hear some reference to Austin’s quickly developing intellect at his graduation, but was I ever disappointed. Miffed is a more accurate description. Naw, I was pissed.

When it was Austin’s turn to receive his diploma, he had been instructed to run to the front of the room, which he did.

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The Gantt Report Social media devils

In 2012, a study entitled “Operation Ghetto Storm” conducted by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement found in the U.S., a Black man is killed every 28 hours. There were 313 Black men killed that year, and CALDWELL most policemen felt threatened or they feared for their life. Most police assume that Black men are violent, and they are perceived as a threat.

Police are taught at school to develop a war-like mentality, and poor people must be controlled and contained. With the recent purchase of military equipment, and the training of military tactics, the police department operates, and treats the community as a war zone. The police act like the community is the enemy, and their job is to win the war.

In the recent acquittal of Officer Michael Brelo, who stood on top of a car and fired 15 shots, after a large number of white officers had already shoot 137 times, the only question experts are asking is why? In many of the cases, such as this Black Cleveland couple, Timothy Russell and Melissa Williams was executed and killed by the police and then found not guilty.

“These officers’ testimonies often read like petrified men shooting at monsters in the abyss. But unlike boogeyman nightmares, this fear will destroy the lives of more Black men, women, and children if we don’t deal with it,” says Joshua Adams of the Huffington Post Blog. In police departments all around the country, reason and common sense no longer exist, and a military mentality has taken over.

Police now work in poor communities with a fear of Blackness; where they shoot first and ask questions later.

In Baltimore and many other ur-ban cities, the police have decided to hold back from making arrest. Some police are calling this a work slowdown, and others are angry, because if they make a mistake, they may be arrested. They also say that when they try to do their job, they find 25 to 30 people surrounding them at any time.

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Child Watch Protecting 50 years of child health progress

By Marian Wright Edelman, NNPA Columnist

America’s true crime problem

By Lee A. Daniels, NNPA Columnist It’s getting to be difficult to recall a week when, thanks to pubDANIELS lic exposure of videos, or tweets, text messages or emails, we’ve not seen another shocking example of police mistreatment of Black or Hispanic citizens under questionable circumstances.

Consider that, and then ponder these words about Black Americans and the criminal justice system: “There is too much crime and too little justice in the lives of Black Americans today.

But while the problem of crime is widely shared in the United States, the problem of injustice is not.”

And these words which closely follow them: “It is a paradox that Black Americans, who suffer from crime disproportionately, have mixed feelings, at best, regarding its support of and confidence in the criminal justice system as it operates today.”

And, finally, these: “The only way out of this paradox is to address the problems of crime and injustice simultaneously: changing the nature of the courts, criminal punishments and law enforcement agencies and their agents, while honestly acknowledging the scope of the crime problem and working for peace in Black America.”

No, you won’t find those words in the agreement signed recently by the Department of Justice and the city of Cleveland requiring an extensive reform of the city’s widely-criticized police force. Actually, they were written 20 years ago by criminal justice scholar Christopher E. Stone, then head of the nonprofit Vera Institute for Justice, in the 1996 edition of the National Urban League publication, The State of Black America 1996. Stone, a founder of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, in New York City, is now president of the George Sorosfunded Open Society Foundations.

But they are as relevant today as then because the use of social media has undeniably revealed that some significant segment of cops – largely White ones but also some Black and Hispanic ones, too – view Black Americans not as citizens to protect but easy marks to prey upon.

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To Be Equal The educational equity and excellence project

By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Social media sites have turned into the devil’s playground!

When you think you are sharing and liking posts to and by friends and family GANTT you are really working for people that hate you and want to control you!

Gone are the days when people talked to each other face to face. Family get togethers are pretty much a thing of the past except on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Don’t think about communicating by phone call or letter because people are too busy reading Facebook messages.

If you want to make money, create a Black social media site. Oh, I forgot there are already hundreds of them!

You can “meet” Black people, you can “tweet” Black people, you can “snap” Black people but someone needs to slap Black people and wake them up so they can see what social media is about these days!

Yes, I’m on social media sites but sometime this summer I’ll be on there but not on there!

I plan to delete every personal profile I have on social media internet sites.

The Gantt Report pages will remain up but only people who care about Black and African news and views visit and read posts on the TGR page anyway.

Lucius Gantt, the person, will delete his profile pages (Facebook and LinkedIn) because Lucius knows who the people are that collect everything you post on social media.

Let me tell you some people that are viewing you on social media. The Sheriff is watching you, the police are watching you and also the FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, NSA, TSA KGB, Secret Service, Scotland Yard, Interpol and every other law enforcement agency in the world.

Don’t believe me, just post something about Islam, say something provocative about the President or some other world leader. If you’re not political just post a photo of you holding illegal weapons, doing drugs or committing domestic violence and see what happens to you.

If you apply for a job don’t think the person doing the hiring hasn’t seen your social media posts and profiles.

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Blacks needs to join discussion on the economy

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist

President Lyndon B. Johnson said this as he signed Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, thanking former President Harry S. Truman and the many members of Congress from both parties who laid the groundwork and worked tirelessly to make the Medicaid program and its protections reality. Not only has Medicaid been a lifesaver for tens of millions of older Americans for 50 years, it has helped Americans of all ages, including millions of children. Together with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) it has brought the number of uninsured children to a historic low.

Medicaid and CHIP provide comprehensive and affordable health coverage to more than 44 million children – 57 percent of all children in America.

With the new coverage options offered by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 93 percent of all children now have health coverage.

Yet, at a time when we should be celebrating Medicaid and CHIP successes, serious threats to Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA continue to surface in Congress.

All across the country, people are gathering to observe an annual academic rite of passage: graduation. In a scene that will be played out countless times during this season of celebration, family and friends will dutifully take their seats in auditoriums and open fields around the nation and proudly look on as their loved ones walk across stages to receive their diplomas or degrees and, finally, turn the tassel on their graduation caps.

This tradition holds much more significance than its primary function as the formal recognition of a student’s academic achievement. It is also firmly rooted in our American belief that education, particularly higher education, is the key to greater opportunity and the chance to live the American dream.

The era when a high school diploma was enough to climb the ladder into America’s middle class is long gone. In today’s increasingly hightech society, it is a college education, or degree, that has become the minimum requirement for that climb up our nation’s social and economic opportunity ladders. Access to college, therefore, cannot remain a privilege affordd to a few when it has become a prerequisite to achieve greater success by the many.

In recognition of this enduring state of academic affairs, the National Urban League is spearheading the “Equity and Excellence Project.” The project—which has six areas of academic focus tightly related to our organization’s mission, including common core standards and improved access to high-quality curricula and effective teachers—has also made college attainment, and most importantly, completion one of its priorities.

One’s worldview or so- CHAVIS cial perspective is mainly informed by a matrix of different socioeconomic and political circumstances. A polling of Black America about the current “recovery” of the economy of the United States would produce a dramatically different set of responses from the polling results of white America. That is because the vast economic inequality between Blacks and whites in the U.S. today appears to be escalating.

According the latest reports from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the steady overall pace of the recovery of the economy continues grow and expand. Yet while there was a .7 percent decline in the economy for the first quarter of 2015, the forecast for the remainder of 2015 looks very favorable and profitable, especially for those who are already wealthy.

I have always believed that Black Americans should become much more aware of the economic trends that are affecting the U.S. economy as a whole.

Too often we get left out of the national discussion concerning the economy because we do not consistently articulate the overall daily national economic interests of 45 million Black Americans.

While it is important to continue to cite the fact that the current annual Black American spending in the U.S. economy totals more than $1.2 trillion, how do we really leverage that fact to help empower Black American families and communities to get out of poverty? Economic productivity is not just about how much a person or a group spends. Economic productivity is also about how much a person or a group produces, invests, and leverages to achieve sustainable financial development and empowerment.

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“It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: ‘Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for action to help them attain that opportunity and to help them get that protec- EDELMAN tion.’ . . . The need for this action is plain; and it is so clear indeed that we marvel not simply at the passage of this bill, but what we marvel at is that it took so many years to pass it.”

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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.

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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

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New Member Orientation ........................... 9:30 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.

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SMART Funeral services for the late Darlene Smart.

James C. Boyd Funeral Home ALLEN Funeral services for the late Frederick Lee Allen, Jr. - 70 were held May 30 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Pastor Michael Anderson officiating. Interment: Westview Cemetery.

held May 30 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor McCoggle officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

ROUBONEAU Funeral services for the late Brenda Lundy Rouboneau58 were held May 30 at Re-

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Roy Mizell & Kurtz Funeral Home GRIFFIN Funeral services for the late Melanease J. Griffin - 85 were held May 30 at Mount Bethel Baptist Church with Bishop C. E. Glover officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

WASHINGTON Funeral services for the late Javoris Reshaude Washington - 29 were held May 30 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Co-Pastor Verna Burney officiating. Interment: Westview Cemetery.

HAINES Funeral services for the late James Anthony Haines, Jr. - 56 were held May 30 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center with Pastor James B. Darling, Jr. officiating.

Interment: South Florida VA National Cemetery.

GERMAN Funeral services for the late Mary Lou Barnes-German - 85 were held May 30 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Elder Jasper Eaddy officiating.

Interment: Forest Lawn Cemetery.

JOHNSON Funeral services for the late Mary Frances King – Johnson 87 were held May 30 at New Mount Olive Baptist Church with Min Darrin McCray officiating.

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Singer Mel Waiters dead at 58 SAN ANTONIO — Mel Waiters, a flashy rhythm and blues singer known for soulful party songs like Hole In The Wall and The Smaller The Club, died Thursday, May 28, 2015 after a short battle with cancer. He was 58.

Waiters was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where he honed his powerful voice in both the church choir and in nightclubs beginning in the early 1970s. He worked as a radio DJ and as an entertainer on military bases, drumming in cover bands at teen clubs under government contract.

His debut album I’m Serious, which included the regional hit Hit It and Quit It, was released in 1995 on the Baton Rouge-based Serious Sound label. It established his modern soul blues sound, singing about romance and revelry – often with a saucy sense of humor – over synthesizers, bass and sultry horns. In a 2013 interview, he credited the New Orleans music impresario and former Huey “Piano” Smith

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Mel Waiters and the Clowns vocalist Bobby Marchan with bringing the single to radio and helping to launch his solo career.

Soon after, he signed to the Waldoxy imprint of the Jackson, Miss.-based Malaco Records, joining Southern soul blues artists such as Marvin Sease, Denise LaSalle and Willie Clayton. He performed often on blues cruises, on package tours and at festivals, including New Orleans’ Big Easy Blues Fest and the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival.

His most recent album was February’s True Love, on his own Brittney Records label.

He was survived by his wife, Portia, and a daughter, Brittney.

Loved comedian & actor, Reynaldo Rey dies at 75

deeming Word with Pastor Calvin Hart officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

ANDERSON Funeral services for the late Hubert Rae Anderson - 46 were held May 30 at International Faith Christian Fellowship Church with Bishop Dr. Evan Grant, Th. D., officiating. Interment: Star of David Bailey Memorial Gardens.

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By Naturally Triece Reynaldo Rey, a longtime loved actor and comedian who appeared as Red’s father in the 1995 hit movie, Friday, has passed on May 28, 2015 in Los Angeles. His manager confirmed the news. He was 75.

The actor died from complications of a stroke her suffered just last year.

Along with his memorable role in Friday, Rey was also known for his appearing roles in legendary movies such as Harlem Nights (1989), White Men Can’t Jump (1992), House Party 3 (1994) and For Da Love of Money (2000). The comedian has more than 52 different film credits to his name.

He has had several TV credits, including appearances in shows such as The Bernie Mac Show, Sanford and Son, The Wayans Brothers, 227, The Tonight Show, Sister, Sister, Parents in Crime, and The Royal Family.

Rey was also known for his stand-up comedic talents, and even served as a co-host on BET’s stand-up show Comic View. He has recorded three comedy albums throughout his career and three different videos.

Rey was born in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, and as an adult he packed up and moved to Cleveland, where he then was welcomed in as a member of the Karamu House Theatre.

There is where he launched his comedy career.

He later moved to New York and joined the Harlem Theatre Group, which is where he was able to make his first film appearance.

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It’s time for Fathers’ Day. Time to lift up fathers and fatherhood. And time to ask ourselves how we honor fathers in our daily lives, the work of our nonprofits, and through our business and public policies.

News headlines spotlight the phenomenon “absent fathers,” seeking to assign blame for the many challenges we face as a country and as communities.

What’s often missing is a discussion of public policies and investments that can impact, support or disempower fathers, as well the personal decisions we make that can be hard to overcome. We shy away from sensitive issues of how court ordered child support and divorce decisions can keep fathers from fully engaging with their children, and with fulfilling their financial and emotional obligations. Many of us have perceptions of fathers that don’t match with reality. A father is a father even if he is not in the children’s home and is not the breadwinner. A father is a father regardless of whether he is gay or straight, employed, incarcerated, intelligent, handsome, rich, or poor.

Here’s our suggestion: Let’s focus restoring the dignity of what it means to be a man and a father. For example, there are deep stigmas associated with incarceration and too many men – especially African American and Hispanic men – are incarcerated. The consequences and stigma of incarceration of-

Pearl and Mel Shaw ten continue for a lifetime and impact men’s immediate and long term ability to father. You can’t vote, you can’t get a job, you don’t earn enough, your birth family may not welcome back, your children may not know you. You may feel you don’t have anything to “bring to the table.” Part of being a father is being a man. Supporting fatherhood includes, for example, supporting men’s ability to recover from incarceration, build new lives and engage their children.

As nonprofit leaders and concerned community members, we can encourage schools, nonprofits and faith organizations to look at their programs and explore if and how they are serving fathers – especially young fathers – and encouraging connections between fathers and their children. We can encourage the organizations and institutions we are personally involved in to become part of the solution.

In that process we need to remember that fatherhood can be expressed in so many different ways.

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Numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that income disparities among different ethnic groups in the U.S. remain pronounced. Median weekly earnings for Black males are just 75.6 percent of the median for white males, and Black females’ earnings were 82.3 percent of the median for white females. Overall, African Americans are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as non-African Americans.

Those Americans – including many minority families – who remain below the poverty line face a sea of challenges, but one of the most important is the cost of household energy.

This is a basic need – every family needs to heat and cool its home. So when we talk about energy policies in this country, we need to focus on the importance of affordability.

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a discussion in Charlotte, N.C. at the 2015 American Association of Blacks in Energy national conference, where we discussed some of the energy policy challenges of particular concern for the African American community. One such topic is renewable energy and how to foster its growth so that one day all consumers who want to make the choice to rely on clean fuels

can. That we are fortunate enough to be at this point part of the energy policy debate is a testament to the innovation and cuttingedge technologies that this WHITAKER country is championing. Of course, any new opportunity brings challenges along with opportunities, and the dynamics behind the growth of rooftop solar panels specifically are no exception.

In fact, one rooftop solar policy that I spoke about at the conference is actually tipping the scales against minority and underserved communities like mine in favor of those who are more fortunate. That policy, called net metering, overcompensates rooftop solar users and essentially lets them bypass the cost of paying for the grid. This just does not work – the grid is something we all rely on to get our electricity. This includes those with rooftop solar panels that depend on the grid to get electricity when the sun doesn’t shine. So when rooftop solar users cut and run from paying for the grid, everyone else has to pick up the slack.

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By James Clingman, NNPA Columnist Discussions in the news media (I’d rather call it the “Views Media”) regarding the use of the word, “Thug,” are intriguing to say the least. The mayor of Baltimore, the president, and some in the media used the term during the unrest that followed the killing of Freddie Gray. Less pejorative words, or no description at all, were used for those who committed similar acts of violence in CLINGMAN Lexington, Kentucky, after their basketball team lost, those who fought the cops during the May Day riots in Seattle, and now the motorcycle gangs in Waco, Tex., even after nine men were killed in what some “views” people called a “melee.”

Remember post-Katrina New Orleans? The media described whites as “finding” food in stores; Blacks were said to have “looted” food.

It is interesting how media folks use different words to portray groups of people. History is replete with examples of this duplicitous media response to criminal events by Black people versus white people.

A glaring example is the following observation by Frank W. Quillan in 1910: “When a Negro commits a crime the newspapers always emphasize his race connection by such headlines as ‘A Big Black Burly Brute of a Negro’ does such and such, and the whole race gets a share of the blame; while if the crime is committed by a white man, race is not mentioned, and the individual gets the blame.”

Little has changed in over 100 years.

Another more contemporary juxtaposition appeared on CNN during the weekend of May 23. A judge in Cleveland ruled that a police officer who jumped on the hood of the car, in which a Black couple had already been fired upon 122 times by 12 officers, was justified when he fired 15 additional bullets into the car.

In the same news show, Poppy Harlow reported on a white female police officer in Omaha, Nebraska, who was shot and killed in the line of duty.

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A push to address Black-on-Black violence

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – As cities across the country have mobilized massive street protests over police violence and misconduct, a familiar question has been raised by their opponents: Why does violence within the Black community garner less concern than police violence?

According to crowd-sourced database, Mapping Police Violence, 304 Black people died at the hands of police last year, 101 of them unarmed. But Black offenders were responsible for 90 percent of the nearly 2,500 Black homicide victims in 2013, according to data compiled by the FBI. Between 2002 and 2011, the homicide rate was 6.3 times higher for Blacks than whites.

Detroit-based community organizer, Yusef Shakur is on a personal mission to end the community violence he once perpetrated. By the age of 19, he had co-founded a gang and was given up to 15 years in prison, where he met his father for the first time. Through positive guidance from his father and a personal decision to do better, Shakur left prison determined to repay his debt directly to his community.

“Urban environments are like a dried-up lake; so people turn on each other out of survival. They don’t know what they’re doing is out of hatred and anger, they take it out on the person that’s next to them, because they don’t know how to take it out on the people downtown in the City Council

building,” he says. “They don’t know how to articulate themselves… how to organize a boycott, so you take it out on other folks. Throw in drugs, lack of education, guns all those things are a recipe for genocide.”

Shakur’s organization, Restoring the Neighbor Back to the Hood, seeks to rebuild a sense of community in the “Zone 8” section of Detroit through back-to-school bag giveaways, block parties, survival kits for indigent residents and families, and one-on-one mentorship.

Fourteen years after his release, he is an award-winning organizer and remains embedded in his neighborhood as a positive influence, particularly on those who commit the crimes that have made Detroit infamous.

To him, the victims of these crimes are just as important as those slain at the hands of racist authority figures.

“When any [deaths] happen, there’s outrage. We know tons of people who get killed but the media doesn’t talk about it,” Shakur says. “There are folks who do candlelight vigils, folks crying on the floor and things, but there’s no media coverage.

But if it’s a high-profile situation, that brings Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, then we see the outrage.”

Many of the stories that have become major headlines and have fueled national protests began as local efforts. Trayvon Martin’s murder, for example, only became a major media story after relentless social media campaigning and Sanford, Florida’s “Justice for Trayvon” protests spread across the country – and it still took 44 days of

action to secure George Zimmerman’s arrest.

It was Zimmerman’s subsequent acquittal that sparked the Black Lives Matter organization.

“The local is the national.

There’s no way that there would be a national conversation about state violence if local residents in Ferguson and St. Louis didn’t take to the streets,” said Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the nationwide Black Lives Matter activist network, which began in 2012. “The other piece is, there’s lots of Black people, for the last 40 years, who have been figuring [out] how do we deal with harm inside of our communities.”

While the death toll of “Blackon-Black crime” is distressing, it is worth noting that most crime happens within communities and races. White offenders were responsible for 83 percent of white victims in 2013, and Latino offenders were responsible for 74 percent of Latino victims.

Cullors said that the tug-ofwar between community violence and state violence is among the most common criticisms Black Lives Matter receives.

“The focal point is state violence, but that is not the end-all be-all. When myself, Alicia Garza, [and] Opal Tometi created Black Lives Matter, it was never just to talk about law enforcement or vigilantes. It was actually about a broader conversation about anti-Black racism and the impact in our communities,” she explained.

'Mommy don’t let me die': Mentally challenged man gunned down for wearing wrong color From Yourblackworld.net “Mommy don’t let me die” were the last words of Tavin Price, a mentally challenged young man, was gunned down in front of his mother in Los Angeles.

Speaking to NBCLA 4 in South Los Angeles, the man’s mother, Jennifer Rivers, says her son was gunned down last Friday for wearing the wrong color tennis shoes.

Mourners gathered at a makeshift memorial to honor Tavin Price, who would’ve turned 20 on his birthday. They brought balloons and sang “Happy Birthday” to celebrate the life of a young man gone too soon.

Price was gunned down Friday morning outside of a car wash because he wore red shoes into a store, says Rivers.

“Some guys, he said, told him to take off his tennis shoes.

He told him he wasn’t taking

PRICE off his shoes, he wasn’t a gangbanger. He came back to the car and told me. I immediately put the nozzle down and told him let’s go because I didn’t

want no problems,” Rivers recalled.

Rivers says before they could leave, the shooter rushed toward them.

“He ran up on my son and shot him in the back and then he shot him twice in the chest,” Rivers said.

A gunman wearing a light colored hoodie “approached the victim, shot him multiple times and then fled the location,” Det. Eric Crosson of the Criminal Gang Homicide Division told NBCLA 4.

Rivers says she can’t help but think of her son’s dying words: “Mommy please. I don’t want to die. Mommy please.”

“How vicious can you be to just kill someone’s son right in front of your face?” Rivers said.

“Just took my son’s life like that. I want that guy to be caught. Whoever it is, I want him to go to jail,” she said.

The gunman has not been apprehended.

White police officer described as 'dangerous person' kills a second unarmed man

CHAPMAN From Yourblackworld.net Every parent’s nightmare is waking up to discover their child would never again come home. In April 2015, Sally Chapman woke up to this reality as she heard on the news of a young man being killed at a Walmart that she knew her son had previously shopped. After hours of not hearing from her son, she called 911 and gave

the operator her son’s name.

Hours later she was contacted by detectives confirming her worst fears: the man she heard about on the news earlier that day was her son.

Eighteen-year-old William Chapman was shot in the chest and the face by Stephen Rankin during an alleged struggle in the parking lot of a Walmart.

Chapman had been suspected of shoplifting. As in so many other cases, the officer who killed Chapman suggested that he felt threatened because the victim resisted arrest.

Leadership of the police department were “formally warned” by Rankin’s superiors that he was a dangerous person and “likely to cause someone harm.” This was not the first time Officer Rankin killed an unarmed man. In February 2011, Rankin shot another man 11 times for which he was banned from patrolling the streets for nearly three years.

Rankin was previously disciplined for posting Nazi images and violent remarks online.

According to the Guardian,

some of the remarks made online included insults to the 26-year-old man he had killed and his family after they filed a civil lawsuit for $22 million. “22 mil won’t buy your boy back,” Rankin stated. “Most Americans could not hope to earn that in an entire career let alone a habitual drunk working as a hotel cook.”

Officer Rankin claims that Chapman was resisting arrest.

And, as though it was a textbook narrative, “witnesses” say that 18-year-old Chapman wrestled away from Rankin and “took a couple of steps towards the cop like he was ready to fight.”

Although a funeral was held for Chapman, he has yet to be buried because of the family’s inability to afford the expenses.

Sallie Chapman has not been allowed to see the Walmart surveillance footage and has yet been given an explanation as to why she was never notified.

Chapman only discovered her son had been killed after calling 911 to report him missing. The shooting is still under investigation by the Virginia State Police.

“It’s about broadening what state violence means. If someone is homeless…if people in the community aren’t able to have jobs, that’s state violence.”

Shakur lives and works in the crosshairs between state and community violence. Sometimes, he uses the respect he’s earned in his neighborhood by inserting himself to break up fights and conflicts. But he’s also seen a police officer roll up to a group of young boys and hop out of the car to say, “I can’t wait to put you in prison.”

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Yusef Shakur (c) counseling a young man. (Courtesy Photo)

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The Black Athlete

LeBron James is underappreciated

By Omar Tyree, NNPA Columnist Unbelievable! That was my immediate response to the most talked about, scrutinized, celebrated, disrespected, revered and under-appreciated professional athlete in the world – Mr. LeBron James – after his Cleveland Cavaliers TYREE soundly won the NBAs 2015 Eastern Conference Championship with a 4-0 sweep of the Atlanta Hawks.

Are you kidding me? I know it was all wishful thinking for us to believe that James could return home to the state of Ohio and lead the lowly Cavaliers back to an NBA Championship — the same Cleveland Cavaliers who won the NBA Draft lottery in three out of the four years after LeBron had taken his “talents” to South Beach, Miami. Now to have him actually come back in one year and take them all the way to the NBA Finals isutterly amazing.

You talk about a Muhammad Ali knockout moment. Although the task at hand is not yet over, with a very serious Golden State Warriors team and an inspirational heartthrob gunner in Stephen Curry in the way, the Cavaliers have indeed shocked the world.

And LeBron did it without the help of the new “big three,” which was supposed to include the often injured Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving.

Instead, these new Cavaliers came to life with a pair of New York Knicks castoffs in mercenary shooter, J.R. Reed, and the underappreciated defensive specialist, Iman Shumpert — who has looked pretty impressive with his offense of late. They also inserted a contract hungry youngster in Tristan Thompson, who had lost his starting job to Kevin Love, and the big Russian center, Timofey Mozgov, who had resisted early trade rumors from Denver. I bet Mozgov, Reed and Shumpert are all happy they were shipped off to Cleveland to join LeBron James now.

These guys all made the difference down the stretch, including a scrappy, reckless and much maligned back-up point guard in Matthew Delladova. We top that all off with a European League champion head coach in David Blatt, the rookie NBA coach who had been torched a few weeks earlier by NBA analysts and sportswriters after he nearly bungled a late timeout call and an out-of-bounds play that could have lost Cleveland an important semi-final game against a very tough and loaded Chicago Bulls team.

Even old man shooter James “Popeye” Jones showed up to nail a few timely jumpers and snag a few rebounds for this surprisingly resilient and tough Cleveland Cavaliers team. He and former Miami Heat teammate, Mike Miller, followed LeBron over to the Cavs this past offseason, and were later joined by the veteran experience of Shawn Marion.

Wasn’t there once a loud rumor floating around the NBA circles before LeBron left for Miami in his historic “Decision,” that no one wanted to play in Cleveland? It was a small, cursed market, where you would never win anything, right? Nor did Mr. James have the Miami hardware of two championship rings to flaunt at that time to convince anyone otherwise. Now he does, and look at the results.

Charles Barkley was so inspired by Cleveland’s dominating series win over Atlanta from his on-site TNT Network desk, that he has already predicted a Cavaliers championship victory over Golden State or Houston – granted if Kyrie Irving shows up healthy, Tristan Thompson continues to roughhouse rebounds, Timofey Mozgov continues top guard the rim, Reed and Shumpert continue to shoot the ball well from outside, and Delladova is able to defend and irritate Stephen Curry enough to frustrate him away from his game.

Blacks need Major League Baseball

By Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Columnist A video of Chris Rock has made the rounds in which he offers a critique of Major League baseball and its relationship to Black America. The monologue is funny, sad and very profound. He attempts to explain the distance that has emerged between Black America and a sport that it actually helped to build.

I have watched the Chris Rock video several times, usually showing it to someone who has yet to view it. Each time, I find myself thinking about his final comments, i.e., that Black people do not need baseball, but baseball needs Black people.

I think that I would humbly rephrase that statement. It is without question that, over the long term, Major League Baseball (MLB) needs Black America as its current fan-base ages out and as younger people grow intolerant of the pace and culture of the game. On the other hand, I actually do think that Black America needs baseball, though it does not necessarily need MLB, at least major league baseball as we currently know it.

What has struck me in reading and hearing about the period of the Negro Leagues, or the period of the desegregation of baseball (roughly 19471975), is that baseball, and its

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progeny, e.g., softball; stickball, were community sports. It was not just that teams represented communities, but that the sport itself seem- FLETCHER ed to knit communities together.

In basketball, even street basketball, there is little space for mixed talent, especially when one is playing full court.

The game truly is for the best and while some members of the community who are not the best – people such as me – could occasionally play, it was in baseball, softball and stickball that you always sensed that chance for excitement and greatness, even for those who were not the most talented.

Perhaps it is that baseball truly is a team sport. Yes, you can be an outstanding hitter or pitcher, but there is no question that you cannot win the game by yourself or even you and one other person. Baseball, softball and stickball really taught me about collective action in a manner unlike any other experience during my childhood, a theme which would become central to who I became as an adult.

In this sense, I strongly believe that Black America needs baseball. I do not mean that we need the Major Leagues, as such, nor do I mean that baseball will be the route out of poverty for the bulk of Black America. Rather, the baseball that we need is the culture that surrounds the actual sport. We need the sense of the team, including the reality of unevenness. We also need to regain the sense that the game does not end with a single play nor, necessarily, when the gong sounds. Sometimes the end is drawn out, necessitating that the team is prepared for a protracted struggle in which victory is never guaranteed.

That sounds like an awful lot of “ifs” to me, but that’s what “team” concept is all about.

LeBron James cannot possibly win it all by himself no matter how talented or driven he is. No one can win it all alone. Even the all time great, Michael Jordan, had a load of help on his

six championship teams, including John Paxson, Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Dennis Rodman and Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr.

Regardless of what happens in the next few weeks in the NBA Finals and the next chapter of the legacy of LeBron James, no

one can ever doubt again that the presence, influence, intelligence and inspiration of “King James” definitely elevates the play and confidence of everyone around him. You take LeBron off of this Cleveland team and they don’t make the playoffs, and are most

likely in another lottery pick of bouncing balls. But with LeBron James… and they’re back in the championship a-gain with a bunch of guys who are very thankful to be on his team.

Amazing! So let the championship games begin… and let’s all find out what happens next.

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Zeta Rho Omega Chapter 60th anniversary ‘A 1929 Blackface drawing by Dr. Seuss for sale Diamond Legacy’ and 2015 Top Hat Salute on the internet

Vice Chairman, Broward County School Board, Dr. Rosalind Osgood; President, JoeAnn Fletcher; Commissioner Barbara Sharief; Anthony Anderson; Congresswoman Fredericka S. Wilson; Cluster 1 Coordinator, Dr. Sylvia Sloane-Jones.

Front row: Zarline Scott, Cecelia Hayes, Betty Smith, Yvonne Johnson, Annie Ruth Rawls, Winifred Graham.

Back row: Dr. Sylvia Sloane-Jones, Delores McKinley, Barbara Sutton-Williams, Gail Bouie.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Zeta Rho Omega Chapter celebrated its 60th Anniversary and 2015 Top Hat Salute to Women of Distinction & Men of Excellence on April 26, 2015 at the Marriott Harbor Beach

Resort & Spa. There were over 800 business, education, government, policy and nonprofit leaders in attendance to honor our 60th anniversary.

The attendees enjoyed the event and all proceeds raised will support the Zeta Rho O-

mega Chapter’s community service initiatives: Educational Enrichment, Health Promotion, Family Strengthening, Environmental Ownership, and Global Impact.

The Honorable Frederica S. Wilson, United States Congresswoman, 24th District presented to JoeAnn Fletcher, president, of Zeta Rho Omega Chapter, a proclamation for exemplary service in the community. Commissioner Barbara Sharief, presented a proclamation to the chapter and keys to the county to the “Golden Sorors “of Zeta Rho Omega Chapter: Betty Smith, Winfred Graham, Zarline Scott, Yvonne Grant Johnson, Rebecca Williams, Millicent Sworn, Annie Ruth Rawls and Cecelia Hayes, providing over 50 plus years of, “Service to All Mankind”.

Anthony Anderson, Master of Ceremony, actor and comedian from the sitcom Blackish was a “big hit” and dazzled the audience with his wit, charm and humor.

Special thanks to our sponsors: Miami Dolphins Foundations, Coventry Healthcare, United Way of Broward County, Broward College North, VITAS Healthcare, Mount Olive Baptist Church, Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm, Broward Health, Boyd Funeral Home, Dr. Dwight Wilson, Sheriff’s Foundation of Broward County, Caresource South Florida, Gamma Zeta Omega Chapter, and the Crockett Foundation.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the oldest Greek letter Sorority was founded on Jan. 15, 1908 at Howard University. On April 16, 1955, Zeta Rho Omega Chapter was one of the first Greek chapters chartered in Broward County.

Reported by Liku Zelleke Much of the public would associate Dr. Seuss with the wonderful children stories he wrote and that could be read over and over again. His rhyming ways made it easy for generations of youth and adults to enjoy the adventures of the likes of The Cat in the Hat and Yertle the Turtle.

But that wasn’t all Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Geisel, had to offer the art world.

There is one particularly offensive image among the content he created when contributing to a conservative satirical magazine called Judge.

The image is hand-drawn, painted and is dated 1929. It is entitled “Cross-Section of The World’s Most Prosperous Department Store.” In it, there are three panels that depict men in a department store where they select “various merchandise to make their lives more difficult.” One of the panels has individuals in blackface waiting to be sold as objects de-picted as “A High-Grade N*gger For Your Woodpile.”

The image has, at present, been put up for sale online by Nate D. Sanders Fine Autographs and Memorabilia. The minimum bid has been set at $20,000, but has not attracted any bidders as of yet.

What many people don’t know is that Dr. Seuss had white supremacist tendencies and even drew anti-Japanese cartoons during World War II. He wasn’t afraid of openly voicing his prejudice.

Later in his life, he apparently tried to make amends by creating anti-racist cartoons, beginning in the late 1940s, and even dedicated his 1954 book, Horton Hears a Who to “My Great Friend, Mitsugi Nakamura of Kyoto, Japan.”

According to filmmaker Ron Lamothe, who was behind the making of The Political Dr.

1929 Blackface Drawing by Dr. Seuss.

Seuss, biographers deemed the author to be “regretful about

some of his cartoons” from the earlier times of his career.

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B.T.W. High School Foundation awards Black & White Gala raises funds for Broward Education Foundation 18 scholarships and two grants Funds raised benefit teachers and students in the Broward County School System

Members of the foundation at the awards ceremony, l to r: James Hunt, Pernella Burke, Clement Minnis, Juanita Madison, David Robinson, II, Delores Mathis, John Glover, Charles Singletery, Carrie Mickey and Walter Perkin.

The Booker T. Washington High School Foundation, Inc. (herein “the Foundation”, and formerly the B.T.W. Class of 1957 Foundation, Inc.) awarded 18 scholarships at the school’s May 12, 2015 Awards Ceremony.

Dr. John D. Glover, president and CEO of the Foundation, announced the award of two new $3,000 scholarships and five new $1,500 scholarships, to the 2015 B.T.W. graduates as well as 11 continuing scholarships, each in the amount of $1,000, to prior B.T.W. graduates. This was the 12th consecutive year that the Foundation has awarded scholarships to deserving B.T.W. graduates.

The seven new recipients, and their respective college or university are: Lucia Solano, recipient of the Brian & Hope Anderson $3,000 Scholarship — University of Florida.

Terry Jefferson, recipient of the Coach James Mickey Memorial $3,000 Scholarship — Florida A & M University.

Jewly Fleuristil, recipient of the Herb Carter/B.T.W. High School Foundation, Inc. /B.T.W. Class of ’57 $1,500 Scholarship — Florida International University.

Zabhrya Tillman, Dade County Federal Credit Union $1,500 Scholarship — Spelman University.

Khalyla McKnight, recipient of the Daniel E. & Lenora S. Johnson Memorial $1,500 Scholarship — Florida International University.

Phedricka Thomas, recipient of the Irene B. Ford & Margaret B. Noel Memorial $1,500 Scholarship — Alabama A & M University.

Taressa Straughter, recipient of the James & Elsa Hunt Community $1,500 Scholarship — Perdue University.

Eleven $1,000 continuing scholarships were also awarded to previous B. T. W. grads who are currently enrolled in college and are in good academic standing with their schools.

During the ceremony, Dr. Glover awarded two categorical grants, totaling $1,500, in sup-

port of academic programs at the school.

Dr. Glover, stated “I continue to be encouraged by the outstanding potential of our new awardees, the academic achievement of those who receive our continuing awards, and the many successes of former awardees who have graduated from their respective colleges or universities and are now pursuing diverse and challenging careers.”

Community leaders Jarett and Dara Levan and Dwight and Dinah Stephenson and BrightStar Credit Union were honored for their impact on education and contributions to student achievement in Broward County at the recent Broward Education Foundation Black & White Gala that celebrated 32 years of educational excellence.

Proceeds from the $116,000 raised during the Gala benefit the Broward Education Foundation which provides support for innovative teaching to increase student learning outcomes from pre-K to grade 12; educational materials for Title 1 school students; scholarships for qualified graduating high school seniors; and fiduciary oversight for community members who join in the educational mission by establishing Foundation agency funds.

Phyllis Schiffer-Simon chaired the Gala and honorary chairs were Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and School Board Chair Donna Korn.

Toyota of Hollywood donated $200 for every car sold to a Broward School System employee

Happy Birthday to Elizabeth Dorenda Henry "Dee" June 7, 2015

We love you, your family

Alan and Marsha Levy, Diana Runcie and Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie.

The Stephenson’s son Dwayne, and honorees, Dinah and Dwight Stephenson. during the month preceding the Gala as part of its sponsorship, which totaled $3,500.

Established in 1983, the nonprofit Broward Education Foundation (BEF) aligns with Broward County Public Schools and contributes more than two million dollars to Broward County schools, serving as the

catalyst for educational excellence.

For more information, call (754) 321-2030, visit www.browardedfoundation.org, like our Facebook page at f a c e b o o k . c o m / browardeducationfoundation or follow us on twitter @BEF1.