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IN MEMORIAM: Baseball Icon Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron Dies at 86 see page 4

African American Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman Performs at Inauguration see page 9

The Rise of Vice President Kamala Harris see page 10

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Happy New Year 2021! The year of “Hope” So far President Biden has been doing exactly what he said he would do signing dozens of Executive Orders in his first couple of days. We can take a sigh of relief that democracy has prevailed and is “alive and well” in America.

The spotlight is on Vice President Kamala Harris, as we learn more about her everyday. In this issue we feature “the Rise of Kamala Harris. (see page 10).

Dr. Marcella Maxwell continues to bring experts to inform seniors in our community. The Pandemic has not slowed her down as she is now presenting these programs virtually with the assistance of her Abyssinian team and the Links. Last week her program focused on senior eyes. (see page 12) I am ready to take my COVID 19 vaccination. Several people in my family and around me have already had their shot. They all said the same thing – It brought them a sense of “relief.” Some data is showing that African-Americans are underrepresented in terms of those getting the vaccinations. I am hopeful the Biden administration, Governor Cuomo and Mayor deBlasio will ensure that is not the case going forward as all of them have stated they understand the need our community. (see page 13) Remember to continue to shop with local businesses. When you shop with businesses in your community it is more likely that money will continue to circulate within your community. Many of our small business owners live in the community and are raising their family there.. See some small businesses you can shop with now in this issue.

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IN MEMORIAM: Baseball Icon Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron Dies at 86

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aseball’s recognized home run king and an African American hero, Henry “Hank” Aaron, has died at the age of 86.

Aaron, who broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record on April 8, 1974, was not just a baseball legend but a hero to superstars.

“He’s the one man that I idolize more than myself,” the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali once said about Aaron.

While with the Atlanta Braves, Aaron tied Ruth’s mark of 714 homers on April 7. A day later, he slugged No. 715 against the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing.

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his chase of Ruth’s longstanding record, Aaron was subjected to racism and hate. Death threats were common, and even some teammates and those throughout baseball despised Aaron as he approached their white hero’s record.

Despite beefed up security at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium, some fans breached the outfield walls as Aaron trotted around the bases following his record-setting dinger.

Legendary footage shows at least two fans were able to physically greet Aaron as he rounded second base and fireworks exploded in the Atlanta night.

“A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol,” Dodgers announcer Vin Scully, who called the game, proclaimed as Aaron’s mother, family, and teammates greeted him at home plate.

Born Henry Louis Aaron on February 5, 1934, in a poor Black section of Mobile, Alabama, called “Down the Bay,” Hank Aaron was the third of

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eight children born to Estella and Herbert Aaron.

Aaron’s father made his living as a tavern owner and a dry dock boilermaker’s assistant.

According to biography.com, Aaron and his family moved to the middle-class Toulminville neighborhood when he was eight years old.

Aaron, who became known as “Hammering Hank,” developed a strong affinity for baseball and football at a young age and focused more heavily on sports than his studies.

During his freshman and sophomore years, he attended Central High School, a segregated high school in Mobile, where he excelled at football and baseball.

Aaron first starred in the Negro Leagues in 1952 and again in 1953, batting .366, with five home runs and 33 RBIs in 26 official games. He began his Major League

Baseball career in 1954 with the Milwaukee Braves and spent 23 seasons as an outfielder with Milwaukee – the franchise eventually moved to Atlanta.

Aaron finished his career with 755 home runs, a record topped by Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants in 2007. However, many baseball purists recognize Aaron as the true record holder, alleging that Bonds used performance enhancing drugs to bolster his power.

Bonds has denied those allegations.

Aaron’s biography at the Baseball Hall of Fame, where he earned induction in 1982, noted that he was “a consistent producer both at the plate and in the field, reaching the .300 mark in batting 14 times, 30 home runs 15 times, 90 RBI 16 times and captured three Gold Glove Awards enroute to 25 AllStar Game selections.”

The Hall biography notes that 1957 was arguably Aaron’s best season.

He hit .322 that year with 44 home runs and 132 RBI, captured the National League MVP Award, and led the Braves to their first World Series Championship since 1914.

The U.S. Postal Ser-

vice once honored Aaron for receiving nearly 1 million pieces of mail, more than any non-politician.

On the 25th anniversary of Aaron’s 715th home run, Major League Baseball created the Hank Aaron Award, given annually to the players with the best overall offensive performances in each league.

Aaron received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, from President George W. Bush in 2002.

According to the New York Times, the Baseball Hall of Fame opened a permanent exhibit in 2009 chronicling Aaron’s life.

His childhood home was moved on a flatbed truck to the grounds of Hank Aaron Stadium, which was the home of the Mobile BayBears, a former minor league team, and opened as a museum in 2010.

“Through his long career, Hank Aaron has been a model of humility, dignity, and quiet competence,” former Atlanta Mayor and U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young noted in a statement. “He did not seek the adoration that is accorded to other national athletic heroes, yet he has now earned it. ”

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QUEENS UPCOMING EVENTS January 28 6:00pm Jamaica: Rising & Resilient with QBP Donovan Richards Greater Jamaica Development Corporation is proud to present “Jamaica: Rising & Resilient,” a conversation series featuring the best in leadership. Join for an exclusive interview with the new Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.

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January 29 A Conversation with Vivica A. Fox Vivica shares the trials and tribulations of her career in the Hollywood film industry and her blockbuster film roles along the way. Watch online at blackspectrum.com

January 30 10:00-12:00pm NJWC Food Drive The Missions Ministry of the New Jerusalem Worship Center is pleased to coordinate a food drive for a pop-up food pantry that will occur on January 30th. Non-perishable donations are being collected through January 29th from 10:00-3:00pm. New Jerusalem Worship Cen-

Marbled Paintings (Jan 30)

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National Hot Tea Workshop (jan 31) ter. 122-05 Smith Street.

January 30 8:30pm Willie Martinez Trio Register to get your streaming pass and join the folks at the Jackson Room’s virtual performance! They’re pushing through COVID-19 with a Latin Jazz Performance by the Willie Martinez Trio Lives with Willie Martinez on Drums/Vocal, Enrique Haneine on Piano and, Essiet Okon Essiet on Bass, and a Special Guest Ed Jackson on Saxophone. Jamaica311.com $10.

January 30 1:00-2:00pm

Virtual Family Workshop: Did Anyone Say Marbled Paintings These fun, educational workshops offer families the opportunity to reflect on artworks that are on display at the Museum and to work collaboratively to create unique works of art. The activities are as wildly diverse as the Queens Museum’s dynamic permanent and changing exhibitions.

Marbled Paintings workshop. Online at queensmuseum.org January 31 2:00-3:00pm National Hot Tea Month Online Workshop

Willie Martinez Trio (Jan 30) Celebrate National Hot Tea Month online with King Manor’s Executive Director and food

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Is Removing Confederate Monuments, Changing Sports Teams Names Just A Distraction?

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rotests and unrest in 2020 sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, shined an even brighter spotlight on police brutality against African Americans.

The actions led to renewed calls to remove Confederate statutes and other racially insensitive structures.

Professional sports teams, including the Washington Football Team (formerly the Redskins) and Cleveland Indians announced they would change the monikers that many said are offensive to Native Americans.

Despite incremental progress, many still argue that unless much more is done to show that Black lives matter, removing racist monuments and changing racially insensitive team names and logos are just mere distractions.

In other words, those who spoke with the Black Press on the subject said they are eager to see more tangible results.

“Dismantling Confederate monuments and ridding sports teams and brands of racist imagery is not enough,” Marcos Martinez, the owner of the blog, www. themenwhobrunch.com, wrote in an email.

“For there to be racial progress, there need to be drastic improvements in failing schools in minority communities,” Martinez exclaimed.

He noted the many academic studies that prove education leads to better life opportunities.

“I know this firsthand because I lived in Brownsville, one of the most impoverished neighbor-

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hoods in New York,” Martinez remarked.

“Many of my [peers] who attended the schools in Brownsville didn’t graduate or didn’t pursue higher education. Most of them are either incarcerated or deceased due to gun violence.”

Darryl Smith, the founding partner for the firm, Florida Car Accident Law Team, said backlash remains from the dismantling of racist statues and the changing of names by some sports teams.

“The dismantling of the monuments and the rebranding of the teams’ racist imagery is not an end unto itself, and that should be remembered in the face of the expected backlash from those who really don’t want to see that imagery go away and make outsized noise about it,” Smith offered.

“We want to remember that these things are distance markers on the road to moving society toward a more inclusive future,” he continued. “[Monuments] are inappropriate for spaces that are meant to represent all of the people in a particular jurisdiction as opposed to a select few. This is different from the concept of fighting systemic racism.”

Since the murder of Floyd in May, an estimated more than 100 Confederate symbols have been removed from around the country, including a Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol that had represented Virginia for more than a century.

In July, the Washington Football Team announced it would drop the racist nickname,

Redskins, after Pepsi, Nike, and FedEx received letters from investors calling on them to end their more than $620 billion sponsorship deals with the team.

The Cleveland baseball team later announced it would drop “Indians” as its nickname after the 2021 season.

“Changing sport teams names and tearing down statues are great PR moves by companies and politicians, but we’re never going to fix the problem until we educate the youth,” pronounced Jamie Hickey, the founder of https://coffeesemantics.com/.

“Racist parents that raise racist kids is the reason why we still have an equality issue in America.

Kids aren’t born racist. They are raised to be racist,” Hickey declared.

“It’s the same as when people say pit bulls are mean. There is no such thing as a mean pit bull, only mean owners.”

Ken Eulo, the Smith & Eulo Law Firm’s founding partner in Orlando, Florida, said tangible change is needed.

“In 2021, rebuilding is likely to be a recurring theme. Black Americans want to reinforce the

idea of rebuilding and developing communities in what we hope will be a post-COVID-19 society,” Eulo said.

“We want to see news, think pieces and human-interest stories that lend themselves to the idea of this being the time for Black innovation and excellence in a way that may not have been advisable before.”

This year needs to be a time “where we as individuals and a community find new ways to uplift ourselves after a year where we saw widely held beliefs, and long-standing conventions broken and cast aside in the wake of a global pandemic,” concluded Smith, of the Florida Car Accident Law Team.

“This is a time where finding ways to function outside the box can reap real benefits at a time when all bets appear to be off,” Smith demanded.

“We need to see examples of Black people and black communities thriving in the face of this unprecedented adversity, and examples of our political and economic influence being wielded for the betterment of Black Americans and the Black diaspora.”

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Now Until January 31 Mr. Soul!

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African American Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman Performs at Inauguration

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

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manda Gorman was born in Los Angeles and studied sociology at Harvard University.

In 2017, the now 22-year-old became the first national youth poet laureate.

On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Gorman, an African American, was the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.

Gorman performed alongside Lady Gaga, who sang the national anthem, and Jennifer Lopez.

The young poet delivered “The Hill We Climb,” which included lines about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

“We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, / Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. / And this effort very nearly succeeded. / But while democracy can be periodically delayed, / It can never be permanently defeated,” Gorman has written.

It is not the first

time Gorman will have a national stage.

In 2017, she read at the inauguration of the 22nd U.S. poet laureate, Tracy K Smith. She has also performed for Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Reportedly, Dr. Jill Biden selected Gorman to perform during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration.

“I wasn’t trying to write something in which those events were painted as an irregularity or differ-

Reportedly, Dr. Jill Biden selected Amanda Gorman to perform during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration.

ent from an America that I know,” Gorman told the Los Angeles Times.

“America is messy.

It is still in its early

development of all that we can become.

And I have to recognize that in the poem.

I cannot ignore that or erase it. And so, I

crafted an inaugural poem that recognizes these scars and these wounds. Hopefully, it will move us toward healing them.”

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The Rise of Vice President Kamala Harris

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

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ice President Kamala Harris will be the most influential vice president of the 49 that we have had, declared a proud Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick.

With 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans seated in the Senate, Vice President Harris holds the tiebreaking vote, which adds to the power she now wields.

“The power in politics is from influence,” Frederick remarked.

“I think, for that reason, she could potentially be the most influential vice president in our history.”

Following President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris’s inauguration, The Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on Howard’s campus rang its bell 49 times to honor Harris.

More than 3,000 miles away, in San Francisco, many remember when the nation’s first Black vice president cut her teeth as a valiant prosecutor.

The daughter of a Jamaican immigrant father who taught at Stanford University, Vice President Harris’ mother, a cancer researcher, was the daughter of an Indian diplomat.

And, the new Vice President has never forgotten her roots, nor has she forgotten those who helped her achieve the American dream.

During a 2018 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) award ceremony honoring Harris as “Newsmaker of the Year,” Vice President Harris talked about her years as a San Francisco’s district

attorney.

As San Francisco’s top prosecutor, Vice President Harris worked to reduce

state attorneys general in brokering a $25-billion nationwide settlement deal with the nation’s five largest mortgage institutions

argued how everyone deserves a chance to live the American dream.

“The American dream belongs to the student in

ocratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Just ahead of Vice President Harris’ inauguration, Frederick said her ascension to the second-highest

a nation divided by racism and classism.

“We all come from somewhere, and it’s important that we remember from

Vice President Kamala Harris receives the oath of office during the inauguration ceremonies.

recidivism by offering nonviolent, low-level drug trafficking defendants’ job training and other life skills education as an alternative to jail.

Her office reported that during the first two years of the program, “less than 10 percent of those who graduated from the program were re-offenders — compared to 53 percent of drug offenders statewide who returned to prison or jail within two years of release.”

In 2010, she defeated Steve Cooley to become the first woman, the first African American, and the first Indian American in California history to win the attorney general’s seat.

She later joined other

for improper foreclosure practices during a housing market crash.

Born October 20, 1964, in Oakland, the overachiever attended Howard University, where she earned a degree in political science and economics.

Three years later, she earned a law degree from Hastings College in Nebraska.

The tenacious California native entered the national spotlight in 2012 when she delivered a remarkable address at the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina.

During the address, she touted President Barack Obama’s desire to hold Wall Street accountable and

Sacramento who doesn’t have much money but who goes to bed each night dreaming big dreams. It belongs to the men and women across this country who know it shouldn’t be against the law to marry the person you love,” the then-aspiring Senator Harris proclaimed.

“It belongs to the immigrants, young and old, who come to this country in search of a better life. And it belongs to little girls who have the joy of watching their mother, like I did, buy her first home. The American dream belongs to all of us.”

In 2017, Harris easily won election to the U.S. Senate from California, taking the seat that once belonged to the popular Dem-

office in America is also a testament of Howard University and HBCUs’ exact role in holding politicians and others accountable.

“HBCUs have always been at the forefront of holding America to account and insisting on better. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has always embodied our ideals of truth and service. We can find no better role model for all leaders and institutions to emulate,” Frederick remarked.

When Harris accepted her 2018 Newsmaker Award from the NNPA, she urged everyone never to forget the community and always lend a hand.

She also spoke about the importance of unifying

whence we came,” Harris concluded.

“The Black Press best represents the vehicle in which real and important stories can and have been told. All of the Black newspapers know that the best way our voices can be heard is when we use our voices to tell our stories instead of leaving others to tell it.

“The Black Press always played a role in making sure that our community has something it can trust.

I cannot think of a moment in time when it’s been more important than ever to support the Black Press. Especially in the face of powerful voices trying to sow hate and dissension in this country.”

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any people thought the Lighthouse was only for those who were totally blind.

Lighthouse Guild has shed a bright light on the services being offered to anyone who is visually impaired.

They offer life changing services and products helpful from the slightest to the most debilitating eye impairments, of which there are many.

A recent Webinar titled AGING & VISION – Living Better with Vision Challenges was presented in partnership by the Abyssinian Baptist Church Health Ministry, Linda Thompson, President; the Golden Life Ministry, President Dr. Marcella Maxwell and the New York Chapter of Greater Links, Inc. to focus on vision care.

Rhonda Joy McLean, Attorney, Author, and Philanthropist and former President of NY Chapter of Greater Links, Inc. served as moderator. Lighthouse Guild panel included: Calvin Roberts, MD, is President and CEO of Lighthouse Guild, the leading organization dedicated to addressing and preventing vision loss. It is designated with a focus on three words service, inspire and goal.

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Dr. Roberts is a clinical professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was formerly Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Eye Care, at Bausch Health Companies where he coordinated global development and research efforts across their vision care, pharmaceutical and surgical business units.

Janet Weinstein, Director of Outreach addressed various challenges of low vision.

Of most concern are difficulties such as recognizing familiar faces, perceiving contrast, seeing obstacles such as curbs and steps and loosing peripheral vision. The aim is to enable people of all ages to make the best use of their remaining vision.

The first step in comprehensive vision evaluation is a low vision examination, which is a functional exam by a specialist. Low vision complication can include Macular degeneration, Diabetic retinopathy, Glaucoma, Cataracts, and genetic disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa and albinism.

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This Webinar on vision care was a message of importance during the ongoing COVID limitations we must maintain out and about. Being mindful of our overall wellness must include concern and care of our eyes. There are normal changes in vision as we get older that include some barely noticed and yet tolerable and those that can be symptoms of more serious diseases. What we do not see, a doctor can. Do not forsake your eyes, Lighthouse Guild is there for you at 250 West 64th Street, NYC (212) 769-6200.

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hen the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two new vaccines to combat the coronavirus, the initial concern was whether African Americans would accept vaccination.

The rollout of the medicine from Pfizer and Moderna featured heavy promotion.

High-profile African Americans like former President Barack Obama, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Coronavirus Task Force Member Dr. Ebony Hilton, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson received their shots publicly.

An African American nurse in New York earned distinction as the first person in the country to receive a vaccination, and Meharry

Medical College President Dr. James Hildreth, a Black man, sat on the FDA board that approved the vaccines.

Now, concern has shifted from whether African Americans will accept the vaccine.

Many now wonder whether doses would be available to the Black community.

A new Kaiser Family Foundation report has revealed that African Americans are getting vaccinated at much lower rates than whites.

The report, released on Saturday, Jan. 16, shows that in 16 U.S. states where the vaccine is available, white residents are being vaccinated by as much as three times higher than African Americans.

One example is Pennsylvania, where 1.2 percent

of white residents had been vaccinated, compared with just 0.3 percent of African Americans in the Keystone State.

Kaiser Family Foundation researchers noted that vaccine distribution is supposed to align with healthcare and frontline workers’ demographics, presumably making the vaccine equally available to all races.

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“That’s what structural racism looks like,” Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association,

told NBC. “Those groups were seen and not heard — nobody thought about it.”

As of Jan. 16, the U.S. had surpassed more than 23.3 million total cases and 388,700 deaths due to the pandemic, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported.

According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis, African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are dying from COVID-19 nearly three times the rate of white people.

“With the country’s coronavirus pandemic continuing unabated as cases and deaths increase, and a more contagious variant of the virus spreads, there is a greater focus on vaccine distribution troubles,” Kaiser Family Foundation President and

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The covid-19 vaccine distribution effort is in trouble, Altman demurred.

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“Hundreds of different distribution programs are being organized across states and counties for frontline health workers, residents of long-term care facilities, the elderly and others that states are prioritizing in different sequences,” Altman continued.

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unique healing effect on the mind and body.

Here are a few of the many benefits that each of the Solfeggio frequencies can provide: 174Hz Meditation and stress relief, 285Hz visualization, 369Hz getting rid of fear and guilt, 417 Hz to look positively into the future, 528 Hz love of self, regeneration of mind and body, 639 Hz love and trust of others, strengthening relationships, 741Hz strengthening your intuition, 852 Hz stability, and inner strength and 963Hz opening of the third eye, activation of energy.

Solfeggio frequencies were used as the fundamental sounds in ancient Indian Sanskrit chants, Taoist chants, and in other

Eastern, Asian, and African religious chants. These frequencies can also be found in Western Christianity.

Physician and researcher, Dr. Joseph Puleo, rediscovered Solfeggio frequencies in the 1970s, bringing their benefits back into public awareness. In his research, he used mathematical numeral reduction to identify six measurable tones that bring the body back into balance and aid in healing.

These Solfeggio frequencies were believed to profoundly affect the conscious and subconscious mind to stimulate healing and promote vitality.

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supporting the positive effects that these frequencies have on the human body.

The most common way to experience Solfeggio frequencies is by listening to music that begins at 8Hz. It works up the musical scale octave by octave until the C note is vibrating at the 256Hz frequency. The A note is vibrating at 32Hz. Music tuned to harmonize with frequency is called scientific tuning and can be easily downloaded from YouTube or other music downloading options.

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“Finding a Way Home: Mildred and Richard Loving and the Fight for Marriage Equality” by Larry Dane Brimner REVIEW by Terri Schlichenmeyer, Harlem News contributor

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Imagine it: the people you love, your room, your pets, you couldn’t see them again. No more hanging with your friends, no more grabbing a soda at your favorite store. How would you feel if you were told that you have to stay away now, all because – as in the new book “Finding a Way Home” by Larry Dane Brimner – you fell in love with someone whose skin didn’t match yours?

Richard Loving never set out to find a wife but, growing up in Central Point, Virginia, he knew a lot of girls, including Mildred Jeter, the sister of his race-car bud-

dies. After awhile of seeing one another, Richard and Mildred realized they were in love so they got married; though it was 1958 and it mattered elsewhere in America, it didn’t matter in Central Point that Richard was white and Mildred was Black.

It was a big deal, however, to the local sheriff, who busted into the Loving’s home in the middle of the night about a month later and arrested the pair, saying that what they were doing (sleeping in the same bed) was illegal. They were told that their marriage license was “no good,” because, at the time, Virginia and twenty-three other states upheld laws that made interracial

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Eventually, the Lovings were released and told to leave the area or be arrested again.

They packed up and moved to Washington, D.C., but they missed their families. Once in awhile, they sneaked back and visited but it just wasn’t the same and Mildred didn’t want to raise their kids in the city. Urged by family, she wrote to then-Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and asked for help; he pointed her toward the ACLU where, six years after the wedding, a young, fresh attorney “found the circumstances of their case irresistible.”

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Their win at the Supreme Court isn’t the end of the story, however. Author Larry Dane Brimner says that the ruling for Richard and Mildred Loving set into slow-motion the upholding of rights of same-sex couples to marry, the details of which are inside “Finding a Way Home.”

Brush up on your courtroom skills first, though, before tackling it.

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almost-incomprehensible, absolute must-read supported by rarely-seen photos, recreations of documents, and direct quotes, sadly, the story is tightly chained to dizzying accounts of the various trials involved in their ultimate Supreme Court win, details that almost demand a law degree to follow completely.

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