SOUTH SUBURBAN CITIZEN 5-22-2019

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Attorney Mario Reed (left) recently spoke to south suburban residents at the Village of Dolton’s monthly Coffee With the Mayor event. Photo Credit: Village of Dolton

SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYOR INVITES LAWYER TO SPEAK WITH RESIDENTS ABOUT PROPERTY TAX APPEALS Every month, the Mayor of the Village of Dolton, Riley Rogers, hosts Coffee with the Mayor where residents can come and meet with him in a more informal setting. This month, Mayor Rogers invited Mario Reed, a local attorney, to come and talk to residents about appealing their property taxes. PAGE 3

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South Suburban Mayor Invites Lawyer to Speak With Residents About Property Tax Appeals Continued from page 1

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EDUCATION

NIAAA RECOMMENDS THAT PARENTS TALK WITH THEIR HIGH SCHOOL GRADS ABOUT CELEBRATING SAFELY Graduation is a time to celebrate. But before your high school seniors begin their parties, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) advises parents to take the time to talk with graduates about keeping events alcohol-free—it just may save a life.

No amount of underage drinking is legal or safe. And underage drinking can lead to consuming too much alcohol, which may result in poor decisions, injuries, alcohol overdose, and possibly death. It’s critical to talk with your graduate because research shows that parents do make a difference. By serving as a positive role model, talking with other parents and your teens, supervising parties to make sure no alcohol is served, and supporting alcohol-free school celebrations, you can help prevent a life-changing mistake, according to a NIAAA press release.

For more information, visit: https:/www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov

HEALTH

WOMEN’S HEALTH MONTH 2019: KNOW. TALK. ACT. Heart disease is the leading killer among women, but it does not have to be. Women can live longer and heart healthier lives when they: know their risks and take actions to prevent and manage those risks, talk to their health care team about how to live a heart healthy life at every age, and take action by committing to making simple changes over time to live a healthier life.

Making healthy choices at every stage of life can help women stay heart healthy throughout their lifetimes. For more information, visit https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8538351-cdc-womensheart-stroke-health-month/

LAW & POLITICS

EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ANNOUNCES 2019 CLASS OF FELLOWS Equal Justice Works, the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, recently named its 2019 Class of Equal Justice Works Fellows. Seventy-six recent law school graduates will launch their careers through an Equal Justice Works Fellowship project of their own design.

Each year, Equal Justice Works selects a class of passionate public service leaders who have designed projects in partnership with legal services organizations that help build sustainable solutions in the communities where they serve. The projects are funded by the generous support of law firms, corporations, foundations, and individuals. Many of the law firms and corporate legal departments leverage their sponsorship to increase engagement and service through pro bono support.

Over the past three decades, Equal Justice Works has awarded more than 2,000 Fellowships to lawyers committed to public service.

More than 85 percent of Fellows remain in public service, continuing to pursue equal justice for underserved communities across the country. For more information, visit www.equaljusticeworks.org

Every month, the Mayor of the Village of Dolton, Riley Rogers, hosts Coffee with the Mayor where residents can come and meet with him in a more informal setting. This month, Mayor Rogers invited Mario Reed, a local attorney, to come and talk to residents about appealing their property taxes.

Reed spoke to Coffee with the Mayor attendees about the different types of property tax exemptions that they may qualify for, how to apply for exemptions, and how to protect their properties from fraud.

Illinois has one of the highest property tax in the country, according to Forbes, and tax rates tend to be higher in the southern part of Cook County as compared to the rest of the county. This was why Reed was so adamant about the importance of Dolton residents understanding and filing for their tax exemptions.

“Ford Heights has the highest property tax rate in the south suburbs

because there is nothing there and if there is nothing there, the only way the city can get money is from the homeowners,” Reed explained to the crowd. “That’s why all of the economic efforts that the Village of Dolton and Mayor Rogers is doing are so imperative. I cannot stress to you how important it is to have businesses in your community.”

Participants in the day’s discussion were shocked to learn that communities with fewer amenities were paying higher taxes.

“Every time a new business moves into your community your property tax rate can go down because they pay a larger share of your property taxes,” said Reed.

While he was able to answer many of the questions that were asked during the event, Reed encouraged residents to familiarize themselves with the Cook County Assessor’s website where they can learn about all eight tax exemptions that are offered.

“The senior exemption in the south suburbs of Chicago averages anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000

each year because [south suburban] tax rates are the highest,” said Reed.

“There is a deadline for the certificate of error, you can only go back three years. If you missed an exemption in 2012 that’s gone, but if it’s within in the last three years, go back and get it.”

One of the last things that reed talked about was securing your property and shared with the audience that is fairly easy to steal someone’s property in Cook County.

“All they have to do is print out a deed on their computer at home that says you gave your home to them out of the goodness of your heart. They can get it notarized, take it to the courthouse and pay $54 to record it, and then they have just stolen your home on paper,” said Reed.

Throughout the entire discussion, Reed repeatedly stressed the importance of checking your property records which can be done online at www.cookcountyassessor.com and you can sign up for a free property fraud alert at www.cookrecorder.com/ fraudalert.

Red Cross Installs 2,052 Smoke Alarms to Reduce Deaths and Injuries due to Home Fires Volunteer disaster responders with the American Red Cross of Chicago and Northern Illinois responded to 24 fires across the region that affected 98 people, including 65 adults and 33 Children in May. Some of the towns and neighborhoods where these fires occurred were in Aurora, DeKalb, Cicero, Harvey, with 15 of the fires happening in the city of Chicago.

The Red Cross provided resources to help address immediate basic needs of those affected such as temporary housing, food, clothing, comfort kits with toiletry items, information about recovery services and health and mental health services.

In addition, volunteers with the American Red Cross have been canvassing neighborhoods in Chicago and Northern Illinois to install free smoke alarms.

Since the launch of Sound the Alarm on April 27, Red Cross volunteers

Since the launch of Sound the Alarm on April 27, Red Cross volunteers with the support of local fire departments and community partners have installed a total of 2,052 smoke alarms in 741 homes in our region.

with the support of local fire departments and community partners have installed a total of 2,052 smoke alarms in 741 homes in our region.

Volunteers have also been

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educating residents about home fire safety and helping them create fire escape plans.

This is part of the American Red Cross effort to install 100,000 smoke

alarms nationwide to prevent deaths and injuries from home fires.

Residents can schedule a free smoke alarm installation at getasmokealarm. org.

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NEWS

Black Colleges Continue To Compete Against Elite Programs To Recruit Black Baseball Players Before each game, Clarence Carter III glances across the diamond as the opposing team warms up. He peeks in the dugout, scans the outfield and takes inventory around the infield during batting practice, counting how many African-Americans he can spot on the other team.

This is not an unusual drill for African-Americans playing in the major leagues, where their numbers have dwindled in recent decades, or in the similarly exclusive world of youth travel baseball.

But what makes this exercise striking is that Carter, a junior infielder at Bethune-Cookman University, plays for — and often against — one of America’s historically black colleges.

“It did catch me by surprise; I’m not going to lie,” said Carter, who transferred to Bethune-Cookman from a community college in Fullerton, Calif. “I would have thought coming to an H.B.C.U. there would be more black people, but things aren’t always what you expect.”

While baseball’s struggles to attract African-American talent and fans are well documented, the depth of the issue comes into sharper relief for teams in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a group of historically black colleges and universities stretching from Maryland to Florida.

At each of the nine MEAC colleges that compete in baseball, the baseball teams often feature more white and Latino players than African-Americans.

Consider the standard-bearer for the conference, Bethune-Cookman, which has won 19 MEAC championships and plays its home games at Jackie Robinson Ballpark, the same field where Robinson first suited up for a game after signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

At times this season, the Wildcats have not started a single African-American player.

There is a litany of reasons African-Americans have turned away from baseball, including the decimation of youth programs in areas where there historically have been large African-American communities and the sport’s ballooning costs — both for equipment (a top-shelf aluminum bat runs about $325) and exposure (participating on travel teams can cost thousands of dollars a year).

Billy Hawkins, a University of Houston professor who has written extensively on race and college sports, said young black athletes have become less likely to gravitate toward baseball because they — and their parents — have an easier time envisioning success in football and basketball. The numbers reflect that: African-Americans comprised 7.8 percent of opening day roster spots in the majors this year, down from the peak of 18.7 percent in 1981.

“Major League Baseball hasn’t developed a cultural relevance similar to those other leagues,” Hawkins said of the N.B.A. and N.F.L. “These other leagues have prospered in attracting black players, but also having a blackness like you’d talk about in music or dress. For some reason, M.L.B. hasn’t evolved similarly.”

To stay competitive, H.B.C.U.s have had to cast a wider net. Lynn Thompson, the athletic director at Bethune-Cookman since 1990, said he saw the start of the decline of baseball growing up in Daytona Beach in the late 1960s; in neighborhoods where his friends once rode their bikes to play sandlot ball, redevelopment paved over ball fields in favor of basketball courts and parking lots.

“It’s a rat race to get those kids,” Reed said. “We like the kid, but Penn State is there and likes the kid, Vanderbilt is there and likes the kid. They always ask, ‘Coach, how many guys have you got drafted?’ I tell them, ‘If I get you, you’ll be the first one,” —Sherman Reed, Coach, Coppin State

Bethune-Cookman began recruiting out of Florida’s deep pool of Latino players early on, and Thompson said that he has given the same marching orders each time he hires a baseball coach, something he did for the sixth time last August.

“We just happen to be historically black; we’re not exclusively black,” Thompson said. “Our job is to tell the great story of Bethune-Cookman through the lives of these great kids who wear our uniforms, wherever they come from and whatever they look like.”

This is a complicated stance, and it has drawn criticism. It is not unusual for H.B.C.U. football teams to recruit white kickers or punters, or to look farther afield to fill out their tennis and golf teams.

But baseball can strike a different chord, particularly because of the legacy of the Negro Leagues and Robinson’s stature as a civil rights icon.

“We’ve taken some heat from some people,” Thompson said. “But look, we’re Division I, and if you’re a high school kid and you’re playing right field and batting .198 and you think just because we’re an H.B.C.U., you think you ought to be able to get a scholarship, you’re wrong.”

He continued: “When you come to bat against the University of Miami and this guy’s throwing 96 miles per hour with a slider that falls off the earth, you’ve got to be able to perform. Ain’t no excuses then.”

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If Bethune-Cookman’s baseball team, which has four African-Americans, does not resemble its student body, which is 79 percent African-American, it is nevertheless a melting pot.

This year, there are players who are Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Colombian, Peruvian, Mexican and Jamaican; there also are white players, who make up about half the 28-player roster.

The team’s first-year coach, Jonathan Hernandez, 33, grew up in Hialeah, Fla., a heavily Cuban

community near Miami, where he was a product of Major League Baseball’s Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities youth program. He has put together a promising recruiting class — including two African-American players — that is ranked 60th among Division I programs, according to one analysis.

Bethune-Cookman is the only H.B.C.U. on that list.

“I know that we’ve got to be able to give black players more opportunities,” Hernandez said.

“There are definitely talented baseball players out there, and we have to find them.”

Finding them, though, is getting harder; N.C.A.A. data from 2018 showed only 4 percent of college players are African-American. And when an H.B.C.U. identifies an exceptional black prospect, it soon finds itself competing against both elite programs with more resources and professional teams dangling signing bonuses.

Sherman Reed, in his ninth season as the coach at Coppin State, said that he commiserates with a handful of African-American college coaches, like Edwin Thompson at Eastern Kentucky and Kerrick Jackson at Southern University, about the difficulties of recruiting.

“Economics plays such a big part of this,” Reed said. “More than people want to say.”

Showcase events that gather the best talent, for example, can cost about $800 for a player to attend, and include as many as 1,000 players — but perhaps only a dozen African-Americans, Reed said. Of those, he said, eight might have major-college tools.

“It’s a rat race to get those kids,” Reed said. “We like the kid, but Penn State is there and likes the kid, Vanderbilt is there and likes the kid. They always ask, ‘Coach, how many guys have you got drafted?’ I tell them, ‘If I get you, you’ll be the first one.’”

At the other end of the food chain, he said, are the emails and phone calls from African-American high school players who Reed believes should be aiming lower than Division I. “Instead of ignoring the kid’s video, I try to be truthful,” Reed said. “I might say, ‘There’s some tools I like, but

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there’s a good junior college in your area where you can learn your trade.’”

The sweet spot for Reed works something like this: a tip from his extensive web of contacts about a player who, for whatever reason, has fallen through the cracks. Someone like Jahmon Taylor, a live-armed pitcher from Altamonte Springs, Fla., whom Rickie Weeks Sr. — the father of a former big leaguer and top overall pick out of Southern University — said was not being recruited. Or a player like Nazir McIlwain, a first baseman from Passaic, N.J., who could not afford the admission fee to a showcase that might have showed off his sweet swing to bigger programs.

Lynn Thompson, the athletic director at Bethune-Cookman since 1990, gives every new coach he hires the same marching orders: “We just happen to be historically black; we’re not exclusively black.”

Both are seniors at Coppin State now. Taylor owns the record for career strikeouts, and McIlwain set the one for hits. But they are among only six African-Americans on Reed’s current roster.

Back at Bethune-Cookman, Hernandez hopes for a similar progression for Khalil Smith, a freshman outfielder from Southfield, Mich. Smith starred on an entirely African-American team in high school, and he was close to Demetrius Sims, a minor leaguer in the Miami Marlins organization who starred at Bethune-Cookman.

Sims was part of one of the brightest moments in the program’s history: in 2017, the Wildcats briefly became baseball darlings — winning three N.C.A.A. tournament games, including one against Florida, the eventual national champion.

But maintaining that level has proved challenging. The Wildcats, who missed the postseason at 17-38, have had three coaches in the last three seasons, and operate with a fraction of the resources that other college teams in their baseball-rich state enjoy. They travel by bus to away games — as far as nine hours to Greensboro, N.C. — and played their last home game on March 27, before Jackie Robinson Ballpark was taken over by a minor league team. Since then, the Wildcats have practiced at a local park.

The players, though, are appreciative that Hernandez allows them to be themselves, something that is not a given in the buttoned-up baseball world.

“There’s more swagger to it,” Joe Fernando, a senior infielder from Brooklyn, said of H.B.C.U. baseball. “You look at our team, you’ve got guys here with gold chains, dark shades, whatever.

Look good, feel good, play good.”

Carter said his experience as a student at a historically black university has been similarly liberating. He is not judged by the way he dresses or the way he talks, and says he does not have to mute himself to fit in. “I’m not an outcast,” he said.

Ignoring the unwritten codes of conduct that many blame for pushing the sport toward cultural irrelevance, Carter said, could be the path to drawing African-Americans back to the game.

“If people could just accept us more in this sport,” Carter said. “If they let us express ourselves — not in a disrespectful way — but just learn to accept how we actually play we will come out of our shell and start picking up the bats again.”

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BUSINESS

Building & Construction Plastics Market Worth $179.84 Billion by 2025 The global building & construction plastics market size is expected to reach USD 179.84 billion by 2025 according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc., rising at a CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period. The demand for the product is anticipated to register healthy growth owing to rapid migration to urban areas.

Plastics utilized in the industry are gaining popularity owing to their numerous advantages including low maintenance, improved material performance, durability, easy handling, lightweight, and availability. Moreover, introduction of green infrastructure projects funded by governments of developing regions such as Asia Pacific is likely to trigger the industry growth.

Asia Pacific was the largest market for the product on a global level in 2017. Increasing number of government projects and infrastructure is expected to drive the market in APAC. Emerging economies including India and China are poised to exhibit dynamic growth in the near future owing to strong economic growth and removal of barriers pertaining to foreign investments in Asia.

Non-traditional entrepreneurs pitch new business ventures to community ‘sharks’ Resulting from an AARP Foundation national grant awarded to Northeastern Illinois University, NEIU’s Business Innovation and Growth (BIG) Center’s first cohort of age 50+ entrepreneurs are pitching their new business plans to community ‘sharks’ including local residents and business owners, the city of Chicago’s Department of Planning, and the

state of Illinois’ Treasurer’s office at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. The pitch night will be held in NEIU’s Lech Walesa Hall, in lecture hall 1002, and is open to the general public.

The age 50+ demographic is not what most people envision when thinking about entrepreneur pitch nights. Yet, entrepreneurs age 50+ are the most successful new business launch category. Based upon a study of U.S. Census Bureau data, Kauffman Foundation researchers found that people aged 50+ are the fastest growing category of new entrepreneurs, and instead of having the 75 percent to 80 percent first-year failure rates experienced by new businesses overall, for entrepreneurs aged 50+, 75 percent are still in business by Year 3, have $1+ million in revenue, and have created jobs for an average of five employees.

NEIU’s Business Innovation and Growth (BIG) Center’s first cohort of age 50+ entrepreneurs includes: · an inventor who has already been awarded one patent and has two additional patents pending, · an architect working on innovative senior co-housing solutions, · a consulting firm helping seniors stay engaged or reengage in the workforce as consultants in mid-sized and major corporations,

· a tech-focused event company, · a cannabis start-up focused on Baby Boomer women, · an inventor of a nutritious food product that helps with nutrient absorption and is on the shelves at five Sunset Foods stores and has a contract to be on the shelves at 27 Jewel-Osco stores starting next month, · a firm that helps international classical musicians with visas, payment processing and U.S. gig bookings, · a nonprofit start-up working on nutrition education for grammar school children, which has been piloting for one-year at Yates Elementary School (Humboldt Park / Logan Square neighborhoods).

“This program has been a win-win for our students and the community,” Dean Michael Bedell said. “NEIU’s College of Business and Management has had the opportunity to help entrepreneurs and family businesses in the communities we serve by providing student interns and faculty from an AACSB-accredited institution to help these entrepreneurs shape the plans for their high-growth businesses.”

Creating and owning a business has long been heralded as a path to financial success and economic mobility; older adults, however, face unique hurdles when re-entering the workforce in a nontraditional capacity. NEIU’s and the AARP Foundation’s investment in these nontraditional entrepreneurs seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable populations by supporting and advancing effective solutions.

“This program continues NEIU’s tradition of service by providing older adults with tools and guidance to follow their entrepreneurial dreams,” stated Northeastern Entrepreneurship Instructor Marge Johnsson.

“It has been an honor and pleasure to work with these entrepreneurs over the past few months to help them develop their new business plans.”

“For many older adults, self-employment and business ownership is an opportunity to change their future,” said Emily Allen, Senior Vice President AARP Foundation Programs.

“AARP Foundation is proud to work with organizations like Northeastern Illinois University who are committed to helping older adults successfully run their own business.

Our Work for Yourself@50+ program is designed to enable older adults to pursue self-employment by connecting them with trustworthy resources in their own communities.”

Two new entrepreneur business planning cohorts are set to begin right after Memorial Day. The Main Campus course will meet at NEIU’s Training Center, 3420 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL 60625, and begins Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 6 to 8 p.m. A course will also begin in the Bronzeville area at NEIU’s Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICIS), 700 E. Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, IL 60653, beginning Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 1 to 3 p.m.

For additional information contact Marge Johnsson at M-Johnsson@NEIU.edu or call (773) 442-6078.

BRIEFLY

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FASHION

SKINCLUSION™ Celebrates Diversity and Inclusion Obagi, a leader in the physician-dispensed skin care market and the first to include all skin tones in its clinical research protocols, recently announced the launch of its SKINCLUSION™ initiative, which is designed to elevate the global dialogue about diversity and how we can all make conscious choices to see the beauty in all of our differences. The initiative features SKINCLUSION ambassador, actor, producer and activist Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who has been dedicated to fighting for inclusion and diversity over the course of her 20-year career.

“The Obagi® SKINCLUSION initiative is very close to my heart because it aligns with my values and personal experience,” said Priyanka, who has been recognized by Forbes over the last two years as one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. “The initiative supports the idea that we should be more conscious about everything we do, including how we address the automatic assumptions we make about others based on their skin tone. We all have unconscious bias, and it’s up to all of us to recognize it and be the change we want to see in the world.”

Obagi developed this important and timely initiative to focus on the need for people around the world to be fully inclusive and to recognize our own unconscious biases, specifically surrounding skin tone.

Unconscious biases are attitudes and stereotypes that are largely unintentional, automatic and outside of our awareness.

Unconscious biases can cause “blind spots” that prevent us from seeing the beautiful humanity we all share. Recognizing our own bias may allow us to challenge it, overcome it and ultimately, create a world where diversity is celebrated.

“Obagi’s SKINCLUSION initiative represents our commitment as leaders in the skin care space to elevate the global dialogue about diversity and inclusion, and spark actions that are more inclusive and reflective of all of our beautiful differences,” said Jaime Castle, Obagi President and member of the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace.

“We’re proud of Obagi’s 30-year legacy of providing effective, science-based skin care products for all skin tones and that we were the first professional skin care company to specifically design clinical research protocols to include all six Fitzpatrick skin types. We’re also so proud to partner with Priyanka, who has brought an amazing level of passion and integrity to this initiative, and to support the significant work being done by the “International Cultural Diversity Organization and Project Implicit.”

Obagi Skinclusion Initiative Call To Action As part of the SKINCLUSION initiative, Obagi is supporting groups who work to expand diversity and inclusion efforts around the world, including the significant work being done by the International Cultural Diversity Organization (ICDO) and Project Implicit.

The SKINCLUSION initiative encourages people to:

are designed to include skin types across the entire Fitzpatrick skin spectrum is significant and should be the way forward for the entire skin care industry.”

Priyanka Chopra Jonas with Obagi Professional-C Serum 10%

Visit SKINCLUSION.com to view resources from the ICDO and Project Implicit, and take the Skin Tone Implicit Association Test Join the global dialogue celebrating diversity and inclusion by using #SKINCLUSION on your social channels and share why diversity and inclusion are important to you Watch, like and share Priyanka’s SKINCLUSION video to keep spreading the word Follow Obagi social media channels to participate in social challenges led by Priyanka and Obagi throughout the year, including a chance to meet Priyanka at a special SKINCLUSION event For every social action taken using #SKINCLUSION, Obagi will donate $1 to support the ICDO and Project Implicit, with a total donation of $150,000.

Obagi Raises The Bar, Focuses Clinical Research On All Fitzpatrick Skin Types Obagi has pioneered many skin care advances, including being the first medical skin care brand to design its clinical research protocols to cover all six skin types across the Fitzpatrick skin spectrum. The Fitzpatrick skin spectrum is a scientific classification that identifies six different skin types according to the amount of pigment in the skin and the skin’s reaction to sun or ultraviolet light (UV) exposure.

Obagi believes that protecting and nourishing skin depends on developing a skin care regimen with a provider, and choosing products that are highly effective, clinically proven and right for an individual’s specific skin type, age and skin care needs.

“I am delighted to see that Obagi is putting its commitment to diversity and inclusion front and center,” said leading dermatologist Jeanine B. Downie, MD, FAAD, and director of Image Dermatology P.C. in Montclair, New Jersey. “The reality is that not all skin tones are the same when it comes to determining what kinds of products and treatments are effective. The fact that the team at Obagi has ensured their clinical trials

About The International Cultural Diversity Organization (Icdo) ICDO is a Vienna-based global nonprofit dedicated to promoting peace, humanity, diversity and interculturality. Its mission is to raise awareness of contemporary societal issues and of the positive influence of cultural diversity.

ICDO challenges cultural misperceptions to ensure equal participation of every individual or group within society. By bringing attention to different cultural expressions and their values, ICDO encourages cultural interaction and connects people by closing cultural gaps.

To fulfill its mission, ICDO organizes international events, workshops, research, and social, cultural and development projects.

It gathers academic, professional, local and international voices in a mutual dialogue to safeguard diversity and to enhance society through action.

About Project Implicit Project Implicit is a virtual laboratory and research organization developed by behavioral scientists to provide education about implicit bias through Implicit Association Tests (IATs).

The tests focus on 11 different areas, including skin tone, gender, race and sexual orientation; are free to take; and can be completed in under 10 minutes. The IAT is designed to reveal our biases toward various social groups. Individual results are private and become part of ongoing collective research results. Since its founding in 1998, more than 22 million people have taken the IATs and 28 peer-reviewed research articles have been published on their findings, including the January 2019 publication in Psychological Science that highlights strides made in skin tone implicit bias.

About Obagi Obagi is a female-led independent global skin care company dedicated to providing advanced, clinically proven skin care treatments for all skin types. With a 30-year legacy and commitment to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its business – from its corporate culture to product development – Obagi has pioneered a number of skin care advances, including being the first skin care brand to design its clinical research covering all six skin types across the Fitzpatrick skin spectrum. Through an extensive network of distributors, partners and physician offices around the world, the company provides more than 100 Obagi Medical™ products to brighten, nourish, protect and enhance skin tone and texture. Obagi also offers dermatologist-tested, technologically advanced formulas through its Obagi Clinical™ line, which is accessible to consumers exclusively through Sephora.

Learn more about Obagi and find a provider near you by visiting www.obagi.com, and connect with Obagi Medical and Obagi Clinical on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Canon Printable Nail Stickers

New Tools For Printable Nail Art Design Look down – how are your nails looking? Is it time for a new set? No problem – Canon has you covered!

Eliminating the need to visit your local nail salon, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, introduces printable nail stickers for select PIXMA series printers. Now, you can refresh your manicure in the comfort of your own home.

With a quick download of the Canon Nail Sticker Creator App*, users of compatible iPad®, iPhone® and Android™ mobile devices, and Canon PIXMA TS9521C, PIXMA TS9520, PIXMA TS8220 and PIXMA TS702 Printers can select from an assortment of 200 designs and have access to newly uploaded designs four times per year, or create their own nail art** within the app. When using the Canon Printable Nail Sticker sheets, the nail sticker design of choice will print onto a precut sheet of stickers placed on the printer’s multipurpose tray, and can be peeled off and adhered to the user’s nails.

After a quick filing of the edges and application of a top coat to seal the design(s) – the mani is complete!

“With the launch of printable nail stickers, we are excited to provide our customers with another reason to expand their printing needs and let their creative expression flourish right on their fingertips,” said Kazuto Ogawa, president and chief operating officer, Canon U.S.A., Inc. The new Canon Printable Nail Sticker sheets (twelve stickers per sheet) are available two per pack and initially, will be available exclusively on the Canon Online Store for $12.99 per pack***. For more information and the full list of product specifications, visit https:// shop.usa.canon.com/shop/en/ catalog/glossy-paper.

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Slate of Films Announced for the 2019 American Black Film Festival The 23rd Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) recently announced its distinctive 2019 lineup of narrative features, documentaries and short films in competition. Films are set to screen in Miami from June 13-15 at the Regal Cinemas South Beach and the New World Center.

Adhering to its mission of

providing a platform for diverse voices in cinema, the festival is set to showcase 25+ films and web series to a record number of

attendees through its narrative, documentary, web series and HBO® Short Film Competition. The slate will boast an array of genre’s surrounding the black diaspora and feature a multitude of emerging and veteran filmmakers. Each of this year’s selections tackle topical issues including, survival, violence,

parenthood, health, love, forgiveness, mental illness and friendship. These stories continue to illustrate the Festival’s commitment in being the cornerstone for emerging content creators of color, as well as highlight empowering stories pertinent to today’s society.

The winners of each category

will be announced during the “Best of ABFF” Awards, presented by Dream in Black | AT&T, on the evening of Saturday, June 15th at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel. The nominees for Best Director, Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor and Best Screenplay were announced on Friday, May 17th.

CPL Community Cinema initiative provides opportunity for more city residents to have access to film screenings The Chicago Public Library recently launched a new citywide program titled Community Cinema. There are 50 library branches participating in this yearlong pilot. This was made possible through the Chicago Public Foundation and with Swank Movie Licensing, which is the largest film licenser and carries all the latest movie releases. This program is an initiative led by CPL’s Adult Services department but offers an opportunity for intergenerational programming.

The Community Cinema showings can be found on the CPL website at chipublib.org/ CommunityCinema.

“Partnerships such as this one ensure that we provide accessible programing to all our patrons, especially when the resource may not otherwise be available in many areas of the city,” said Commissioner Brian Bannon.

“Our libraries serve as anchors in our communities and this initiative certainly reflects that.”

All CPL branches will show at least four films each month, half of which are targeted at adult audiences while the other half are open to all ages. The

participating branches are spread throughout the city, but many are on the West and South sides of Chicago. Each branch gets to choose their own films to reflect the needs and desires of their specific communities.

Many Chicago neighborhoods do not have movie theaters within walking distance and, even if they do, it can be prohibitively expensive. As a result, a significant amount of the community is being left out of conversation when it comes to new film releases. Chicago Public Library is attempting to address this issue with the new Community Cinema initiative.

As films are selected, a special effort will be made to ensure representation of a wide range of communities, especially highlighting people of color from around the world.

Most screenings will run with subtitles or audio descriptions dialogue to make sure they are accessible to all adult populations with different abilities. Everyone is encouraged to attend the Community Cinema screenings, as the wide selection of movies should provide something of interest for everyone.

All CPL branches will show at least four films each month, half of which are targeted at adult audiences while the other half are open to all ages.

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NBA Superstar Stephen Curry Invites You To Experience Trailer For ‘Emanuel’ NBA Superstar Stephen Curry continues to delve into the film industry with the upcoming documentary, EMANUEL. Curry joins an all-star production team that includes Viola Davis and Mariska Hargitay, in presenting the emotional film that documents the tragedy that took place four years ago at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC. EMANUEL will open in theaters nationwide through a Fathom Events limited release on June 17th and 19th only. EMANUEL compellingly weaves the history of race relations in Charleston, the significance and impact of Mother Emanuel Church, and the hope that somehow emerges in the aftermath of the shooting. Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members, it is a poignant story of justice and faith, love and hate and examines the healing power of forgiveness. The www.thechicagocitizen.com

film was made in direct partnership with the City of Charleston and the families affected by the tragedy. The producers of EMANUEL will donate their share of profits from the film to the survivors of the shooting and the families of the victims.

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NEWS

Democrats call expungement provision ‘critical’ to marijuana legalization State’s attorneys group calls it unconstitutional; hearing Wednesday on bill draft

By REBECCA ANZEL Capitol News Illinois ranzel@capitolnewsillinois.com

SPRINGFIELD – Criminal record expungement language in a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in Illinois might be unconstitutional. That is the warning one chief county law enforcement official gave to the State Journal-Register for a story first published online Monday.

At issue is the General Assembly’s legal authority to erase criminal records for those previously convicted of possession crimes.

Robert Berlin, president of the Illinois State’s Attorneys Association, said the Legislature can create a process by which people can petition to have their records erased. But the language in question goes beyond that and “provides for an automatic expungement.”

“The issue is a separation of powers issue,” he said.

The first draft of Senate Bill 7, which is scheduled for a committee hearing Wednesday, details an expungement procedure and schedule for state and local law enforcement agencies, state’s attorneys, and courts to follow.

It is a “critical” component of the legalization measure, Chicago Democratic Rep. Kelly Cassidy said. She is the bill’s sponsor in the House, and spent more than two years working with Sen. Heather Steans, a Democrat from Chicago, negotiating the pieces of a potential recreational program.

“We’ve always said that the language about how this gets done is a work in progress,” Cassidy said in an email Tuesday. “We have been talking to the prosecutors and law

enforcement from day one.”

The bill instructs law enforcement to comb through its records and identify everyone convicted of a possession charge that would be eligible for “automatic expungement,” according to the bill. A list is sent to state’s attorneys, who then submit it to a court for a judge’s approval.

The provision is included in the measure because if recreational marijuana becomes legal in Illinois, the individuals’ conviction would become “legally invalid,” the bill states.

It is additionally part of an initiative by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker to focus on “equity,” he said Tuesday.

“Expungement is also part of something that I said from the very beginning, which is that this needs to be about equity as much as anything — that we need to focus on the criminal justice reform aspects of it, the safety aspects of it — and indeed lots of that was included in the bill,” the governor said.

Berlin said the proposal does not allow for oversight on each of the cases, or give judges enough discretion before erasing individuals’ records. Some cases, for example, could have a reduced charge because the individual took a plea bargain, he said.

“The problem I see is it requires the states’ attorneys to actually present this list to a judge

and it tells a judge to sign it,” Berlin said.

Instead, he proposes leaving the current expungement process in place — let those convicted of marijuana possession petition a court to have their record wiped clean. A state’s attorney would have time to respond to such a request and a judge the time to review the details of each case.

“Our criminal justice system is built around judges being able to make these decisions,” Berlin said. “Give the judge the power and the authority and the discretion to grant a petition for expungement. I think that system works very well.”

Ann Lousin, a constitutional a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, helped draft Illinois’ governing document at the Constitutional Convention five decades ago.

She said only the governor can make pardons or commutations.

She said alternatively, the cleanest way to handle this constitutional challenge would be for Pritzker to announce that he would issue a blanket pardon for Illinoisans convicted of possessing marijuana, and for the General Assembly to remove the expungement component from the recreational marijuana legislation.

The last time a governor exercised his ability to commute a large number of sentences was in 2003, when then-Gov. George Ryan mitigated the sentences of Illinoisans on death row. The attorney general challenged the act and the state’s highest court issued an opinion agreeing the governor had the authority.

“The grant of this essentially unreviewable power carries with it the responsibility to exercise it in the manner intended,” the court

wrote. “Our hope is that governors will use the clemency power in its intended manner — to prevent miscarriages of justice in individual cases.”

If the language remains as is, Lousin added, the state’s attorneys would probably file a legal challenge.

Berlin said the State’s Attorneys Association has taken a neutral position on the bill as a whole, but added members of the group have had “a very good dialogue” with Cassidy and Steans over the past few weeks.

“They’ve taken all of our input,” he said.

“May 31 is approaching and there’s still a lot of work to be done.”

Steans said changes will be made to the proposal, and the hearing scheduled for Wednesday is to allow members of the public to hear reaction from stakeholders on the current version. But expungement has been a “strong goal” of the bill and there are “compelling reasons” why it needs to be achieved.

“One thing we’re finding is that some folks are just against expungement but need a fig leaf – any fig leaf – to hide their objection to the idea,” Cassidy said in an email.

Chicago Democratic Sen. Kimberly Lightford, the chairwoman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said erasing the records of individuals is a “key provision” to the bill moving forward.

“I believe the automatic expungement of nonviolent marijuana convictions is imperative to this legislation. It’s not an area that we’re willing to ignore,” she said. “Conversations are still taking place. We want to have a strong law.

We want it to be a law that is constitutional, but we want to make sure it is also fair.”

Negotiations Continue On Property Tax Reform Bill Legislative leaders and Assessor Kaegi meet with unions and industry interest groups on language in SB 1379 House Assistant Majority Leader Will Davis, Revenue Committee Chairman Mike Zalewski, and Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi met Tuesday afternoon with representatives of labor unions and industry interest groups to clarify language in a significant legislative property tax reform effort. The meeting was part of a process to move toward successful passage of SB 1379, the Data Modernization Bill.

SB 1379 would give the Cook County Assessor’s Office the

ability to collect operating income and expense data for income-generating, commercial properties. Collecting income and expense data up front — on an anonymized and bulk basis—would bring Cook County (and other counties in Illinois who choose to opt-in to this practice) in line with professional practices used by Assessors in at least 17 other states.

In the meeting today were Revenue Committee Chairman Mike Zalewski and Illinois House Assistant Majority Leaders Davis, Rep.

Fred Crespo and Rep. Kelly Burke, all sponsors of SB 1379.

In addition, supporters of SB 1379 who participated in the discussion included Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, and a representative of Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot.

After passing the Illinois Senate in a bi-partisan, supermajority vote, SB 1379 was scheduled for a vote last week in the House Revenue Committee, but was pulled at the last minute after all parties agreed to clarify some language in

the bill.

“I am pleased this structured process, led by House legislative leaders, continued today,” said Assessor Kaegi.

“These months-long negotiations should ensure passage of property tax reform by May 31. The data collection authorized by SB 1379 is necessary to achieve more accurate, fair and predictable assessments that Cook County taxpayers and homeowners deserve.”

Last week, SB 1379 picked up additional union support as

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well as endorsements from Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) and U.S. Congressman Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.

Teamsters Joint Council 25, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Unite Here, ATU Local 38 and the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters all publicly announced their support for the bill. MPC said SB 1379 would provide “a fairer system” while Rep. Garcia said it would “modernize the property assessment system.”

These recent endorsements of the bill solidify the support for this common sense legis-

lation. Previously announced supporters of SB 1379 include Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot, Brookfield Properties’ Retail Group (owner of Water Tower Place), International Council of Shopping Centers and BMO Harris Bank, Community Renewal Society; Chicago Rehab Network; Latin United Community Housing Association, AFSCME 31, UFCW Local 881, Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 as well as county and township assessors across the state and the South Suburban Mayors & Managers Association.

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