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Volume 85 Issue 40
Coke Gives $1 Million to NCNW Page 3
Comfort Food for the Soul Page 6
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Page 8
‘Stop and Frisk’ lawsuit Could Have Wide-Ranging Affects
Spelman Valedictorians Page 12
May 9 - 15, 2013
By Dion RABouin ADW Digital Editor
As the Floyd v. New York class-action lawsuit known as “Stop and Frisk” begins to wind down after more than 30 days of testimony, citizens throughout New York City are waiting with baited breath for the outcome. It has attracted far fewer headlines in Atlanta, but the final resolution of the case could affect the way police do business in every city in the country, particularly in communities of color, where police could assert the right to search Black and Latino youth simply for being Black and Latino youth. The plaintiffs in Floyd argue that “stop and frisk” is nothing more than racial profiling and the raw data behind the case is almost impossible to argue. Of the 530,000 people stopped and searched in New York in 2012, only 10 percent were White, and 89 percent of the stops did not lead to an arrest or even a citation, according to the police department’s own data. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) studied the data and found that Black and Latino men between the ages of 14 and 24 make up just 4.7 percent of the city's population but accounted for 41 percent of stop and frisks in 2011. The city’s stop and frisk program has been in place for years, but under recently retired Police Chief Joseph Esposito, who took over the department’s top post in 2000, the NYPD's stops have increased by 600 percent.
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Honoring Mother has Ancient Roots By CHARlotte Roy ADW Managing Editor The history of Mother’s Day is an ancient one. It is neither a recent phenomenon, as many people believe it to be, nor is it the creation of greeting card and gift marketers, as many cynics assume. Mother’s Day celebrations are first said to have taken place thousands of years ago. The ancient Greeks celebrated their annual spring festival in honor of Rhea, the mother of many gods and goddesses in the Greek mythology. Ancient Romans celebrated a spring festival by the name of Hilaria in honor of Cybele, a mother goddess, some 250 years before Christ was born. Early Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England the holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday. In the U.S. the efforts of 19th century writer and poet Julia Ward Howe and early 1900’s activist Anna Jarvis are recognized for having started the tradition. Jarvis lobbied
people in power and in Congress aggressively for a day of recognition for mothers. As a result, on May 8, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a Joint Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. Since then Mother's Day has flourished. In fact, on the second Sunday of May telephone companies used to record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere called to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers, and it has become the most popular day of the year to dine out. The following is a list of Atlanta restaurants that would like to honor your mother with something good to eat! Take a look: Sweet Georgia's Juke Joint: Guests will enjoy live music and delicious Southern fare including Shrimp and Grits and Crab Cake Benedict. The live music kicks off at noon with Rod Harris Jr. and continues with The Bob Page Trio
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