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Now Hiring: City Kicks off 5th Year of Grow Detroit’s Young Talent Summer Jobs Program

By Trevor W. Coleman At a kickoff breakfast hosted at DTE Energy headquarters Thursday morning, Mayor Mike Duggan joined employers, business and community leaders philanthropic organizations, and Detroit youth to officially launch the application period for Grow Detroit’s Young Talent (GDYT) 2019 — the City’s summer youth employment program.

Now in its 5th year, GDYT is the lead coordinator, fundraiser, and marketer for the City’s efforts to provide summer employment opportunities for youth ages 14-24. Last year, 8,210 youth were employed at 669 worksites through 233 employers for six weeks. Prior to GDYT, approximately 2,500 Detroit youth would have summer jobs each year through a series of smaller independent programs.

Mayor Mike Duggan purchases the Ceremonial 1st ticket for the 64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner.

Leveling Up through Leadership:

Detroit Branch NAACP Selects New Executive Director

By KC Wilbourn Snapp

Tyrone Bean “Grow Detroit’s Young Talent is all about showing your young people that they matter and that all of these businesses, civic and philanthropic partners are unified in their efforts to help them develop their talent and get on a career path,” said Mayor Duggan. “After five years, providing these opportunities is no longer extraordinary to our youth, it’s an expectation for them, and that’s how it should be.”

As part of the program’s commitment to continual improvement, the Mayor announced a major commitment from the Marjorie Fisher Fund to provide up to $150,000 in Dollar-for-Dollar matching of donations to GDYT from new individuals, small businesses and community supporters.

“There is a pent up desire in the community to be able to support programs that uplift our youth and this generous offer from the Fisher Foundation will help unlock of that individual giving,” he said.

The importance of having a summer job was highlighted by a presentation

by Tyrone Bean, a westside native of Detroit who started participating in the summer youth program in 2015 when he was a 14-year-old freshman at Henry Ford Academy.

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The Detroit Branch National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) NAACP-Detroit chapter kicked-off its hosted its Kick-Off for the 64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner and Installation Ceremony for 2019-2020 64thAnnual Fight for Freedom Dinner launch with a reception at the Detroit Roostertail. The reception was replete with announcements regarding transitions and promotions in leadership within the 107 year old local branch, whichwas established in 1912. The kick-off includedan installation ceremony for the Detroit Branch NAACP elected officers and executive committee for 2019-2020 under Under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, who was sworn in for an unprecedented 14th term as PresidentPresident, the event included an installation ceremony for the newly appointed Detroit elected officers and the executive committee for 2019-2020. Those installed were Atty. John E. Johnson, Jr., 1st Vice President, Kevin Tolbert, 2nd Vice President, Alice Thompson, 3rd Vice President, and Lakeisha Bacon, as Treasurer. The Honorable Prentis Edwards, Jr. performed the ceremony.

The evening hallmarkedHistory was also made that evening history as Kamilia Landrum was recognized asofficially named the successor toDonnell R. White as the new Deputy Executive Director of the branch and the successor to Donnell R. Whiteof the branch.

After a national search, Landrum proved to be the best candidate to continue the legacy of leadership with the organization . and at 30 years old is the youngest to hold her current position in the organization’s history.

“Our search committee was appointed in July of 2018.” Said Rev. A ­ nthony.

Camilla Landrum is following the likes of former NAACP Executive Director’s: ■ Rev. Joann Nichols Watson, former Detroit City Council Member and now professor at Wayne County Community College District; ■ Attorney John E. Johnson, Jr., former City of Detroit Corporation Counsel, now Executive Director for Michigan Legislative Black Caucus; ■ Heaster Wheeler, former Assistant Executive for Wayne County and now Assistant Secretary of State; ■ Donnell White, now the Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Strategic Partnerships for Chemical Bank.

“They held several meetings and now the work is completed. Nearly 70 applications were received, locally and nationally. After a review of all the applicants, it was narrowed down to four and of that four, three were interviewed.

After much deliberation, conference calls, and discussion, the search com-

mittee brought forth a recommendation to our board for the new executive director for the Detroit Branch NAACP. “I felt like I was interviewing the entire time for the process, but it allowed me the opportunity to see the internal workings of the organization on a broader scale and the exposure helped me to prepare for this current role that I have been blessed to receive.”receive,” Landrum remarked.

Recently named one of the Michigan Chronicles 40 under 40, the Florida A&M University graduate is living her dream. Landrum is a graduate ofFlorida A&M University. When asked about seeking such a high position in the organization, she notes, “this is something that I have wanted since I was the Youth Council President back in 2005.”

Landrum is only the second woman to hold this position in the organizationin its ’s 107-year history. The first woman was Rev. Dr. JoAnn Watson. She Landrum is a child of the NAACP and has served on the local, state and national level of NAACPthe organization. andatisthe youngest to hold her current position in the organization history. She was a leader in the Youth Council, has served on the national board of directors and is also involved in several community organizations. Most recently she organized our Take Your Soles To The Polls campaign for voter registration and mobilization, Back to School initiatives for Detroit Public School students, and the Second Chance Initiative for non-violent offenders seeking to have their records expunged in the criminal justice system.

She feelsThe NAACP has always been a proponent of reaching back to younger generations to ensure that there will always be someone on the

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Chairman Gary Torgow bestows priceless treasure to NAACP President Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony

By K.C. Wilbourn Snapp The NAACP’s 64th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner KickOff Reception was brimming with historical moments as the organization celebrated transition and change. At the helm remained the man who has worked tirelessly to champion the cause of civil and human rights in America— Rev. Dr. Wendell C. Anthony. A member of the NAACP National Board of Directors, he was installed for his 14th term as President of the Detroit Branch NAACP, a position he has held for 27 years.

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64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner Senior Corporate Chair Gary Torgow, Chairman, Chemical Bank, presents Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, President, Detroit Branch NAACP, with his Torah to be used for Rev. Anthony’s installation to serve his historic 14th term as Detroit Branch NAACP President.

Beyond the “Sell Your Tickets” poem Rev. Anthony delivered, the room was filled with his impassioned words as he told of the plight of enslaved Black’s stolen from the continent of Africa who arrived at Point Comfort (Hampton), Virginia in 1619. His words were a sharp reminder of the struggles

of Black Americans in this country and the legacy of forced separation from children. The words had a range of meaning for the audience exposing the countries fragmented perspective on what liberty still “isn’t” while delivering a jarring comparison to the current state of government affairs.

Rev. Anthony’s words were delivered in the cadence of a Baptist preacher, but also carried a rabbinic sentiment , which made the special gift from this year’s Senior Corporate Chair and Chairman of Chemical Financial Corporation, Gary Torgow, invaluable.

To commemorate their friendship and the appreciation Torgow has for Rev. Anthony, he presented the Civil Rights pioneer with another word. As a tribute Torgow presented Rev. Anthony with a leather bound ArtScroll Stone edi-

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Youth jobs From page A-1 Now, 20, and a business major at Henry Ford Community College, Tyrone said the summer program provided him more than a job, it taught him valuable life lessons in responsibility, time and money management, and the importance of prioritizing and spending his money wisely.

He recalled how during his first summer as a program participant, after receiving his first paycheck of $215, he immediately went to the mall after work and plunked down $200 for a fancy new pair of Air Jordans.

“And the next day I had to attend a mandatory money management session and they talked to us about the importance of opening a bank account and what budgeting was,” Bean said. “I thought about everything they were telling me and felt kind of ashamed for going broke by spending all my money on those shoes without even hesitating.”

The next day he took the sneakers back to the store, got a refund and saved the money to go towards a new iMac computer. Within six weeks he had saved up enough to buy the computer and now believes it was the best decision he has ever made.

“I’m still making revenue to this day from a decision I made in 2015,” Bean said. “Because I taught myself how to edit videos, how to use photoshop and have progressively gotten better. Now I have my own YouTube Channel and get paid to edit other people’s channels and to create content.”

And this past summer

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his hard work and due diligence paid off when GDYT management decided to hire him as a full-time staff member at the end of the summer.

With that new position and assistance from financial aid, Bean said is confident he will be able to finish his degree.

“Before this program, I wanted to do something basketball related because basketball is all that I knew,” he said. “So, it broadened my horizons.”

Joining Mayor Duggan at the event was many of the program’s key supporters and partners, including Dave Meador, DTE Energy Vice Chairman, and Chief Administrative Officer.

“DTE continues to increase participation in Grow Detroit’s Young Talent because young people who have real-world work experience grow into adults with more career options.

That’s especially important for the energy industry, where 50 percent of employees are eligible to retire in the next five years,” said Meador.

“DTE and the DTE Energy Foundation have provided more than 3,000 youth with meaningful work ex-

periences. Our summer interns also make our company better, bringing new ideas and energy. I strongly encourage fellow business leaders to participate in the program; together we can provide even more opportunities for youth in Detroit.”

In fact, a University of Michigan study concluded GDYT is improving educational outcomes for Detroit’s youth. Based on a multi-year analysis of GDYT conducted by U-M’s Youth Policy Lab, participants, two years after participating in the program, are: • More likely to be enrolled in school • Less likely to be chronically absent • More likely to take the standardized college readiness test • More likely to have graduated from high school “I would encourage other kids to join GDYP,” Bean said. “Most people in the inner-city all they know is what they’ve been around whether it is something in the streets or basketball. So, having this opportunity to be involved in GDYP gives them the opportunity to learn more about money, professionalism, and

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tion of the Five Books Of Moses from his personal collection. Torgow, a Detroit businessman active in business, civic, charitable and communal endeavors has been a silent giant in the city, noted that he read from the book daily and was more than happy to present it to his friend. “It was truly honor to present Reverend Anthony with this book,” said Torgow.

“It is a wonderful English translation of the Torah which the Reverend used as he took the oath of office marking his 27th year as the President of the NAACP." To help present the token was Donnell R. White, former Detroit NAACP Director, who worked under Rev. Anthony. White is now the Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Strategic Partnerships.

Torgow and Rev. Anthony have celebrated milestones together.

Last summer Rev. Anthony was on hand to celebrate Chemical Bank moving its headquarters to Detroit. The two

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ground to fight back against injustice and discrimination. Tthat young adult participation in the NAACP is has been paramount for its leadership development and and something that Landrum creditsit to her success. “I feel like my involvement evolvement is a testimony to the mentoring, exposure and access to opportunities that are provided by the NAACP.” Landrum’s Her initiatives includes making sure the areas that she calls “game changers” for a community:, health, education, civic engagement, criminal justice, and economic sustainability all have advocacy and action items attached to them for the community to remain involvedengaged.

Although Donnell R. White, Landrum’s predecessor, has also taken on a new role as the Chief Diversity Officer and Director of Strategic Partnerships for Chemical Bank he still remains committed to the goals and ideals of the NAACP and offers his support.

Both have worked under the dynamic leadership of Reverend Anthony who remains a trailblazer for civil rights and social justice in Detroit and around the country.

The reception also boasted the ceremonial purchase of the 1st ticket by Mayor Mike Duggan of Detroit, remarks from Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and Reverend Anthony’s signature poem “Sell Your Tickets” was recited in

64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner Kick-Off Reception and Passing of the Gavel (from left to right): 63rd Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner General Co-Chair Michael Turner, Chief of Staff, Wayne County Sheriff’s Office; 63rd Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner General Chair Melvin Butch Hollowell, Esq., Managing Partner, The Miller Law Firm; Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, President, Detroit Branch NAACP; 64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner Senior Corporate Chair Gary Torgow, Chairman, Chemical Bank; 64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner Senior Community Chair Tanya Allen, President & CEO, Skillman Foundation and Kamilia K. Landrum, Executive Director, Detroit Branch NAACP.

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Chairs from the 63rd Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner passed the gavel to the 64th Annual Chairs. The chairpersons for the dinner are Senior Corporate Chair, Gary Torgow, Chairman of Chemical Bank and Senior Community Chair, Tonya Allen, President and CEO of Skillman Foundation. Allen, a longtime community advocate and champion for children, offered inspiring words about Detroit’s rebirth. “When we recover, it can’t just be a recovery for a few, but for all [of Detroit’s residents]”.

Allen adds, “equity can exist for us all,” Aas she points out the need for community leaders to be intentional about community development and social justice, .Allen adds, “equity can exist for us all.”

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.

The Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner of the Detroit Branch NAACP started in 1956 during a time when segregation and inequality was a fixed pattern in Detroit, the endeavor was a response to the disparities of Black Americans throughout the country. The first dinner was held at the Latin Quarters venue in Detroit. Today, it remains the largest sit down dinner of its kind in the world. This year, the 64th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner is scheduled for May 5, 2019. For mor information please visit http://detroitnaacp.org.

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Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony,President, Detroit Branch NAACP and Kamilia K. Landrum, Executive Director, Detroit Branch NAACP, are presented a check by 64th Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner Senior Corporate Chair Gary Torgow, Chairman, Chemical Bank and Donnell R. White, Senior Vice President, Chemical Bank. have a storied friendship and have supported each other immensely over the years. The sentiment was not lost on the reverend.

“I was deeply moved and specifically inspired by someone who I have a great respect for," said Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony, President, Detroit Branch NAACP. "He gave me his personal book. It doesn't get Mo Betta than that. It's upon that kind of rock that we can collectively build the future of our people together."

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“Our Lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”.

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Out of 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. more than 498,400 are Black; statistically speaking, Blacks are 12% of the United States population but account for 44% of persons living with HIV/AIDS. From the start, Blacks have been most disproportionately affected by the HIV/ AIDS epidemic with the lifetime risk of HIV far higher among Blacks than any other ethnic group. Black women, Black youth and gay and bisexual Black men have been especially hard hit.

There are many challenges facing the Black community regarding HIV/AIDS: stigma, fear, discrimination, homophobia, poverty, lack of access to health care, lack of awareness of HIV status and mainly lack of education. These challenges continue to perpetuate HIV/AIDS in the Black community.

Detroit has the highest rate — four times the state average, raising concerns among local advocates and organizations who say it feels as if they’re battling a silent epidemic that no longer receives public attention.

In recognition of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day February 7, 2019; please use your platform to bring awareness to this crisis in our community, it can be live saving!

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John Engler

Engler, Out! Michigan State president resigns after claiming

Nassar sexual assault victims were ‘enjoying’ spotlight

By Trevor W. Coleman

manding that Engler be replaced.

Former Michigan Gov. John Engler was appointed last year as interim President of Michigan State University to bring stability to the school while its Board of Trustees searched for a permanent replacement following the fallout from the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal.

However, at the time of his appointment, there were two Michigan women in particular who were aghast at the choice and told people they knew it would not end well.

And it didn’t.

Recently, Engler was forced to resign by the MSU Board of Trustees after cruelly mocking survivors of Nasser’s lechery and assault. During an on the record interview with the Detroit News editorial board, he told them that Nassar survivors were “enjoying the spotlight” while the university is “trying to go back to work.”

Those comments outraged the survivors, their family, friends, alumni and entire campus; many of whom were skeptical about the former governor’s appointment when it was announced last January. And had already grown weary of the insensitivity he had shown toward the survivors on several occasion prior to his last remarks.

According to the Detroit Free Press, following those remarks 23 of MSU’s top academic administrators — mostly deans of various colleges and schools — signed a letter sent to the board de-

“The pattern of comments by interim President Engler, including his most recent statement suggesting that some of the survivors of sexual abuse are ‘enjoying’ the spotlight, further harms the very people it is our responsibility to support,” the letter said. “We do not support his continued leadership.” https://www.freep.com/story/news/ education/2019/01/16/john-engler-resigns-msu-president/2594498002/ But far away from Lansing in her home in Bloomfield Hills, Stacy Barker, a native Detroiter who grew up in northwest Detroit, read his comments with disgust, but was not surprised by them.

You see, years ago, Barker had her own encounter with Engler over the issue of sexual abuse and assault and his attitude back then foretold what eventu-

Stacy Barker ally would happen at MSU, she said.

“I definitely know first-hand that Engler doesn’t care about sexual assault victims, because when I was sexually assaulted in prison by a Michigan Department of Corrections officer he was the governor of Michigan and everything but tell me I was lying and fought me tooth and nail with the attorney general to dismiss my case after I filed a lawsuit,” Barker said.

A victim of child sex trafficking, Barker was freed from Camp White Lake prison in August 2010 after serving 22 years for the murder of a man who tried to sexually assault her. Three years prior to that incident, she had been ganged

raped by three men; leaving her physically and emotionally traumatized—and hospitalized.

While in prison she later became one of the faces of the more than 800 women who came forward to join a class-action lawsuit against the state charging it with allowing the systematic sexual assault and rape of inmates by prison guards at female correctional centers.

After a protracted legal battle lasting 13 years, the state of Michigan agreed in 2009 to pay $100 million to settle the lawsuit. After literally serving half her life in prison—Barker, now 52, said she felt as if she was released from an ancient gulag. Her painful experience was compounded by the repeated efforts by the Engler Administration to deny her and hundreds of other women’s claims of sexual assault that was so brazen, evident, and widespread, that the United Nations even tried to intervene to stop it.

But then-Gov. Engler refused to allow an envoy on women’s rights for the United Nations to visit the prisons to investigate, said Ann Arbor civil rights attorney Deborah LaBelle, who represented Barker and most of the other women in the lawsuit.

“Gov. Engler refused to let in the U.N. envoy on women’s issues, even though the State Department had approved her,” she told the Chronicle. “Every other state in the nation allowed her in.

Only one other country in the world had refused to cooperate with a similar investigation and that was Sudan.”

Labelle, who also represents some of

the litigants in the Larry Nasser lawsuit said she had warned a friend who was connected to MSU against the Board of Trustees hiring Engler for that very reason.

“He had in the past exhibited significant lack of empathy and compassion for issues surrounding the sexual abuse of young girls and women,” she said.

While noting there are plenty of men who are sensitive and caring fathers who truly understand how traumatizing sexual assault can be, LaBelle rejected Engler’s defenders who claimed the mere fact he was the father of three college-age girls would sensitize him to the trauma experienced by Nasser’s victims.

“To assume simply because someone is a husband and a father that they have the ability to understand these issues is wrong,” she said. “Being a father or husband does not necessarily render you being able to understand issues of sexual violence.”

Barker agreed and offered a much harsher assessment.

“Thank God those girls have a mother,” she said. “Because their father doesn’t have the sensitivity they will need. I know that’s cruel, but it’s true. I know how his attitude affected me when I was incarcerated and looking for him to understand and help me and other women being assaulted by state employees when he was the head of the government.”

“So, no one should have been surprised that his tenure at MSU ended this way.”

DMC launches innovative Opioid treatment program to combat addiction epidemic in Metro Detroit

By Patreice A. Massey

ment of an overdose patient by administering an opioid overdose reversal drug. Once the patient has been medically treated, Team Wellness Center will manage the chronic aspect of a patient’s addiction by providing physical and behavioral health services.

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Detroit Medical Center (DMC), a leading regional healthcare system with a mission of excellence in clinical care, research and medical education, today announced a newly implemented addiction recovery program aimed at decreasing opioid overdoses and deaths in the Detroit region.

The Crisis Addiction Response Transportation (CART) program, formed in conjunction with Team Wellness Center, a clinic dedicated to enhancing the well-being of individuals dealing with severe or chronic mental illness in Southeast Michigan, seeks to address the growing opioid epidemic. CART focuses on providing medication-assisted treatment and management to patients by a team of medical experts trained to identify high-risk patients in the emergency room and offer them practical solutions and treatment options for a sustained recovery.

“In this city and in this country, the opioid epidemic

continues to be a major issue that must be combatted,” said Dr. Andrew King, Emergency Medicine specialist at DMC’s Sinai-Grace, Detroit Receiving Hospital. “The CART program was created to provide the hundreds of opioid addicts we treat each year with a more sustainable treatment solution. We’ve

designed a holistic approach for overdose patients in an area of the state with a high incidence of opioid addiction and related deaths. By partnering up with Team Wellness Center, I know we can make a difference in suppressing the Detroit opioid crisis.”

In 2017, a report conducted by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services disclosed that 1,901 of the 2,700 deaths attributed to overdoses were opioid-related, which represents about an 8 percent rise in the state from the year prior.

Through this partnership, DMC will oversee the acute treat-

“At Team Wellness, we offer proven continuum-of-care options for those afflicted by the opioid epidemic. Once a patient has consented to our individualized treatment, we provide everything a person battling addiction might need to get their life back on track, such as group sessions, counseling, mental health therapy, medication-assisted treatment, basic living essentials and more,” said Dr. Kamal Khalil, a medical researcher at Team Wellness Center.

“Opioid addiction remains a growing epidemic and no one person or entity can handle it alone, which is why we are so pleased to be partnering exclusively with Detroit Receiving Hospital’s Level 1 trauma center to fight this disease and create positive change.”

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The American Dream Isn’t for Black Millennials What I learned from talking to more than 70 of my peers — and trying to buy a house

By Reniqua Allen

Ralph Northam (D), Yearbook Page Shows him in Blackface, next to man KKK Garb

Do yourselves a favor Virginia and Dump Gov. Northam

By Trevor W. Coleman

yearbook, as if it was something to be fondly remembered in the future.

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia needs to resign.

If I was that venal and confused to have post such a thing in my college yearbook I never would have been hired as a chief speechwriter for a governor; much less elected as THE governor of an ostensibly enlightened and civilized state - even three decades later.

The recent news exposing his vile racism as a young medical student in 1984 at his alma mater, the Virginia Military Institute, accompanied by a lurid photo of him in blackface standing next to a buddy in a Ku Klux Klan uniform is not only offensive, it is inexcusable.

It is totally unacceptable for any person in a position of responsibility in this country today, who exhibited such behavior as an adult to be considered as a local, state, or national political leader.

The photo may have been from 35 years ago, Trevor W. Coleman but this wasn’t a sorry example of middle school or high school hijinks. It was Northam as a full grown man of 24-years-old and in medical school on the verge of earning his medical degree on the path to becoming a doctor; a pediatrician of all things mocking the very people he would have to interact with on the most intimate level.

Can you imagine how a black parent would have felt about him touching their child if they had seen such a photo? He couldn’t be trusted.

The fact is, Gov. Northam and I are the same age. And at 24-years-old, I would never even have thought of wearing something like a Nazi uniform or cruelly mocking another person’s ethnicity by dressing stereotypically for the entertainment of my friends - even as a goof.

Just imagine the level of hubris and utter contempt you have to have for the very humanity of an entire group of people to post such a photo in your college

Think of how such a photo would have impacted the political prospects of President Obama if he was photographed in a Nazi uniform or dressed mockingly as an Arab after finishing law school in the mid-80s. It would have sunk his presidential campaign before it took off.

So why shouldn’t Northam, a moderately progressive Democrat who ran against a Republican who was an outright racist, and won handily due to the black vote, be held accountable for his actions? Just because he wasn’t as crazy as the other guy isn’t a reason to keep him in office.

He isn’t entitled to keep his job as a defender of the public trust after revealing such a grotesque flaw in his character and lack of morals. And it’s not as if the state doesn’t have a fully competent Lt. Gov. - Justin Fairfax, who happens to be a progressive African American - to take his place.

Given the toxic racist political environment infesting this country right now, thanks to the man occupying the White House, the people of Virginia need to take a stand.

They have already shown by recent voting patterns that they are willing to move the former “Capital of the Confederacy” into the 21st century, slowly but surely as they reject the neo-confederate politics and culture that still lingers in that state like a virus.

As someone whose family is from Virginia, I know the people of Virginia deserve better. And I’m certain they can do much better.

So, do yourselves a favor Virginia and dump Gov. Northam.

Preventing the Fall of America

By Dr. John E. Warren As we have celebrated the birthday and contribution of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one has to be concerned about the America that has inherited his dream.

There is a movement afoot to turn back the clock and to undo all our social gains. If it were not for the internet and the rising tide of social consciousness, we would repeat the history of so many civilizations before us that fell from within. If we allow the government shutdown to continue, we will accelerate the collapse from within.

Consider the hundreds of thousands of people now missing their second paycheck, those responsible for our nation’s security, like the Coast Guard and TSA, working without a paycheck.

Food inspectors and those who inspect our airlines working without pay; national parks closed, contractors who perform vital services — out of work and without means of collecting back pay because of the nature of their contracts — and air traffic controllers, who, like so many Americans, are staying on the job out of commitment to this great nation, in spite of the financial hardships.

Consider the mortgages, rents, loans and car payments not being made with no requirement for landlords and banks to understand and extend grace periods for repayment. The 38 million persons receiving food stamps who are at risk of no food while many good-hearted Americans are creating food pantries to help their neighbors.

The homeless, once marked by many, are now on the verge of having company as thousands of persons could lose their federal housing assistance for rents. And now we see that even FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation within the Department of Justice) employees are at risk to lose their health insurance coverage if payments are not restored soon.

The issue is bigger than “A Wall” and President Trump should be tried for treason and breach of his duties as

President of the United States. He took an oath to Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States and, in doing so, the American people. His actions on the government shutdown have done more to support Russia and our “enemies, foreign and domestic” than pushing the button on his nuclear briefcase.

The chaos he and those members of the U.S. Senate who have supported him have created by doing nothing, has caused greater harm to our global standing than the threat of an outright attack. The actions of the President and the Republican Senate that stand with him have sent a global alarm to our enemies that we are now weak and disorganized. Such a position invites military conflicts.

We as a nation must not only pray that God will once again forgive our sins and heal the land, even as Dr. King prayed so often, but we must also move to pressure those Republican members of the United States Senate standing with Trump to either join the number necessary to override a Trump veto and a Mitch McConnell block vote in the Senate to end the shutdown, or have them face recall or impeachment for malfeasance in office or trial for high crimes.

Eleven to thirteen Republican senators joining with the Democrats can pass the bill, which both houses agreed to before Christmas, and override a Trump Veto. The very existence of this nation rests on such actions.

Already, over 7 million people have signed petitions calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. America no longer has the luxury of waiting for the Mueller Report.

We must reach out to our friends, relatives and neighbors in every state in which a Republican Senator supporting Trump’s shutdown is seated and demand that he or she (the U.S. Senator standing with Trump on this shutdown) either break away and vote to reopen government or resign. The issue is greater than our differences and “The Wall.” The Democrats in the House and Senate should “Stand Their Ground.”

At the time, I was making $28,000 a year — nothing much, especially when you live 10 minutes away from Manhattan — but credit was free flowing, and I qualified for a $250,000 “no doc” adjustable loan. It wasn’t a lot, but with some savings and some money that my mom and great-aunt promised to give me — a privilege a lot of black people don’t have — I knew I’d be able to make a 20 percent down payment.

Almost all of my closest family members owned their home: My grandparents, my great-aunt and, most important, my mother. She bought her home several years after I was born and constantly talked about how tough that was to do in the early 1980s as a single woman. She was always clear about the importance of owning your own things.

It meant having control over your life; it meant freedom.

So back in 2005, it seemed like a good idea to buy an apartment. I looked in Englewood, where I grew up, but across town from where I was raised, in the East Hill neighborhood. My mortgage broker told me I needed to get out of my adjustable loan in two years and get a conventional mortgage. She sort of warned me it was a bad deal, and I could understand why. But she didn’t warn me against doing it at all. She was black, middle-aged and seemed to take a “by any means necessary” approach to black people owning property. I understood that, too. I marched up to my new, small, one-bedroom apartment on the Hill, satisfied. It felt as if I’d broken barriers.

But when I got a notice in the mail about five years after I closed, I felt dizzy. It was not long after the financial crisis. The letter said that my mortgage company had been charged with giving subprime loans to black and Hispanic people around the country and asked if I wanted to join a class-action suit. I had most likely been the target of predatory lending. I had known from the start that my income could make me a target. I’d heard the words of the broker. But because of my race? It hadn’t crossed my mind. I was devastated.

I was reminded of this moment years later, when I was talking to a young man named Bleu who lived in Florida.

He loved playing basketball, did well at his charter school and hoped to become a forensic scientist — the version of the American dream that rewards merit and achievement, his version of saving for a mortgage. His family had no resources to get him to college, though, and he took a job at a fast-food restaurant after graduating from high school.

He tried to enroll in a for-profit college, but the monthly fees got too expensive.

He dropped out after he missed the third payment.

We were talking by phone as he drove home from work one night, through Tampa. He was talking about the political climate and racism today. “Not only do you have to worry,” he said, “about not having food to eat, but as a black person, you have the added burden of just trying to make it home alive.”

And then he got pulled over by the police.

The two officers, one black and one white, pulled him over because they

Reniqua Allen said he ran a stop sign. They let him go with a warning, but Bleu said it was a good example of how precarious his life is: “Imagine if I got a ticket. Now think about how would I pay my bills and pay that ticket and pay whatever court cost that they would give me if I had to go to court?” He continued: “Making $200 every two weeks doesn’t leave much room for incidentals like this.”

How much room is there in anyone’s life for a mistake or the perception of a mistake if you’re young and black in America? How much of the American dream hangs in the balance? For the dozens of people I talked to, the reality is that if we want our dreams to come true, all too often we have to be almost perfect, making the right decisions all the time. Not getting that ticket. Not listening to that mortgage broker. Not speaking up.

I left the letter open on my dining room table for months. Ignored the others that followed. I was never able to send back the form to join the class-action suit. I couldn’t admit that I had been duped. I wanted to have something that felt like mine.

I know the history of this country, know the history of redlining, know how my grandparents were locked out of neighborhoods because of their skin color. But for some reason I was still surprised. I would say I was mad, but more than that, I was hurt that I had been lulled into some kind of false bourgeois comfort that had made me think that my life was different from my predecessors’ lives. Sure, I had made it up that Hill, but at what cost?

I let the letter sit until it was too late.

Years later, I got another notice. The mortgage company had decided to settle the discrimination case. It would pay a fee of several hundred dollars to each homeowner who had signed on to the class-action suit. Sometimes I’m still mad about that money I lost.

I finally decided to put the condo on the market in 2018. My version of the American dream downsized and put on hold. I sold it for far less than I paid in 2005.

Reniqua Allen (@rnz1) is the author of the forthcoming “It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America,” from which this piece is adapted.

Letter to the Editor Dear Michigan Chronicle Editor, Beware; everyone has come out of the closet, including the ambitious house Negro. That’s why no matter how many Blacks are elected or appointed to prominent positions the majority remains at the bottom with little wealth.

A Prosperitynow.org report, The Road to Zero Wealth, How the Racial Wealth Divide is Hallowing Out America’s Middle Class, states, “The medium wealth of Black households is $1,700 compared to $116,000 for White households. By the end of the next presidential term (January 2025) median White households will own 99 times more wealth than their Black counterparts. If unattended, trends at the median suggest Black household wealth will hit zero by 2053.” This does not include the ambitious educated house Negro.

Moreover, according to a report, Race, Racism, and Whiteness, by Dr. Alex Mikulich, “At Emancipation, nearly 100 percent of African-American households had zero net worth, having built wealth for White generations.” In other words, the net worth of the majority of Black people is trending toward the wealth of an Emancipated slave.

This condition persists because common Black folk are easily fooled by the fork tongue Black sellout. They are the White controlled Black faces in high places that get paid for upholding white supremacy while pretending to promote Black interests.

Indeed, Blacks should be less concerned about the White in Blackface and be more concerned with the Black face controlled by the White hand.

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James H. Cole Home for Funerals president Karla Cole and her sons Brice (left) and Antonio (right) Green. All photos courtesy of Annistique Photography

Cole Centennial Part I:

The founding of Detroit’s oldest black-owned funeral parlor

By Branden Hunter

also opened up a second location on Schaefer and Puritan in 1972.

The history of the James H. Cole Home for Funerals dates back to 1856, when James Henry Cole I arrived in Detroit via Yazoo City, Mississippi. He was a mulatto slave that lived on the farm of Richard Swayze.

A yellow fever epidemic swept through Yazoo County in 1853, possibly causing the death of his mother. But on her death bed, she requested that her son be freed.

Karla M. Cole-Green, the youngest daughter of James H. Cole IV, began working at the funeral home in 1975, graduating from Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and becoming a licensed mortician in 1979. She has been president since 1991, when her father passed away, continuing to operate the business with her two sons, Antonio and Brice Green.

He was granted his freedom at age 15 and during his travels north, he made a stop in Livingston County, Kentucky, where he met a farmer and attorney named Chester Cicero Cole.

“The family story goes, my great-great-grandfather was working on Chester Cole’s farm and when my great-great-grandfather decided to leave, Chester Cole told him that he couldn’t leave without a name,” said Kimberly Cole-Crafton, who is the family historian. “And he gave my great-great-grandfather the name James Henry Cole.”

Chester C. Cole later become a Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court and the Chief Justice in 1869.

James H. Cole I (1838(?)1907) went on to build his wealth through livery stables and real estate in Detroit. He had a number of children, including James H. Cole II (18661937), who managed some real estate himself and was a clerk for the Department of Public Works. He is the father of James H. Cole III (1894-1970), who founded the James H. Cole Home for Funerals, Inc. 100 years ago.

It is unclear why James H. Cole III started his own funer-

Kimberly Cole-Crafton, Brice Green, Karla M. Cole, and Antonio Green. al home. Maybe because black families were not treated as fair during the burial process by white undertakers. Racism and discrimination ran rampant in early 20th century Detroit, so that is possible. The family even told a story about him attempting to bury a body at a cemetery in Oakland County and he was turned away because of the color of his skin.

But he was an apprentice for an unknown undertaker in the city, which is where he got his start.

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, James H. Cole III opened his own funeral home in 1919 in the heart of the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Black Bottom at 1710 St. Aubin.

Hastings street was the main thoroughfare that ran through the former Black Bottom neighborhood. The predominately African-American neighborhood

and Hastings Street (now the I-75 freeway) were both razed in the late 1950s for urban renewal.

During the Great Depression, many businesses were affected by the economic crisis that rocked the nation from 1929–1939, including the Jams H. Cole Home for Funerals. But they continued to grow and persevere, moving the business to two different locations on East Warren Avenue in Detroit. Then in 1962, they settled at the current location on West Grand Boulevard.

“The parking lot next door is actually where the Cole Funeral Home stood when we moved on West Grand Boulevard,” Karla Cole, president of the James H. Cole Home for Funerals said. “That was at 2640 West Grand Boulevard. It was a regular home and we actually lived there. In 1982, we moved into the current facility at 2624

The James H. Cole Home for Funerals has served the Detroit community since 1919.

West Grand Boulevard.”

The James H. Cole Home for Funerals moved to West Grand Boulevard right around the time Berry Gordy and Motown Records did in 1959. The two establishments are right next door to each other.

“I remember seeing Stevie Wonder walk down the street,” Kim Cole-Crafton recalled.

Although James H. Cole III did not go to mortuary school, he was still able to grow his business into a well-respected funeral home business in the city of Detroit.

By 1950, James H. Cole IV (1928-1991) joined the family business, receiving his license of Mortuary Science from Wayne State University. The business thrived and continued to set the standard for funeral service in the Detroit community. When his father passed in 1970, he succeeded him as president of the company. He

“We’ve always given good service,” said Karla Cole, on why the business that carries her family’s last name has been around for 100 years. “We’ve always taken care our families, looked out for people, and it’s been in our DNA for the last century. It’s because of the community that we are still here.”

James H. Cole Home for Funerals has been dedicated to building a legacy of professionalism, dedication, compassion, and affordability in the Detroit community and has a full year of activities and events planned for its centennial anniversary in 2019.

“To really mark this momentous occasion, we wanted to include a number of celebrations that involved the community,” said Jocelyn Allen, Co-Founder and CEO, The Allen Lewis Agency. “There are three milestone events that we are going to do: a legacy breakfast April 18 at the Northwest Activities Center, July 21 is the family festival that’s going to be here at the funeral home, and the gala will be September 14 at the Roostertail. It’ll be the culmination of the year-long celebration.”

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Detroit Pistons recognize Focus Hope CEO

Portia Roberson

By Branden Hunter

it’s your hometown basketball team or your homies from your hometown, it means a lot.”

The Detroit Pistons and corporate partner Crown Royal will honor prominent African-American leaders in the Detroit community during each of the five home games in February for Black History Month. The Pistons and the NBA are supporting the national dialogue on race and equality through efforts that bring people together, amplify the voices of fans and players, while taking collective action to promote unity.

Roberson said she enjoyed Detroit’s 129-103 win over Denver and is a fan of basketball. And since she grew up in 1980s Detroit, her favorite Pistons team and players are the Bad Boys: Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Rick Mahorn, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Vinnie Johnson and the rest of the crew. She also has a favorite Piston from the 1960s and 70s.

“I worked for Dave Bing, one of the greatest Pistons to play the game,” Roberson said of Bing, who was in attendance.

“He has given me a number of opportunities, so he is definitely a Piston that I admire and somebody that I know has done good work on and off the court.”

Group Executive – Neighborhoods for the City of Detroit and former UAW-Ford Vice President Jimmy Settles was the first to be honored at the game on Saturday against the Clippers.

Focus Hope CEO Portia Roberson was recognized for her community efforts during the second quarter of the Pistons’ win over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night.

She served as group executive of the Detroit Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity Department prior to leaving for Focus Hope last summer, working to ensure all major economic development projects subsidized by the city’s taxpayers employ Detroiters for at least 51 percent of the work hours on the project.

“I’m in really high cotton,” Roberson said on being chosen as one of the five honor-

ees and the only woman along with Aretha Franklin. “I don’t think I’m quite far along in my career, but it’s quite an honor to have someone recognize the work that I’ve done so far and acknowledge it.”

Roberson was modest about her life accomplishments, track record, and service to the community.

She previously served as corporation counsel for the White House Domestic Policy Council for Strong Cities, Strong Com-

munities and was director of the Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison under former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Roberson has extensive volunteer experience throughout the Detroit area, serving as a Board Member for Michigan Political History Society, Habitat for Humanity, ACLU, and Delta Manor.

She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the Wolverine Bar Association. Rober-

son is also a graduate of Cass Technical High School, the University of Michigan where she majored in English and holds a juris doctor degree from Wayne State University Law School.

“I hope that I’m someone that people respect in the community and people see as a leader,” said Roberson. “I hope I’m working towards that, to continue to grow and earn people’s respect. Detroit is home and anytime your hometown gives you anything, whether

The Pistons plan to honor prominent Detroit businessman Dr. William Pickard, former Bad Boy Rick Mahorn, and the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin at later games this month.

“Black history is America’s history,” said Dwane Casey, head coach for the Detroit Pistons. “It’s the shared connectivity that we honor during this month. As players and coaches, we are pleased to join the organization in celebrating this month and participating in the dialogue on equality in a city that birthed so many important civil rights moments.”

Will Detroit students pay for Ford tax breaks? The school board wants to know The news that an automaker planned to renovate a long-abandoned train station in Detroit was hailed as a milestone for the city.

Now Detroit school leaders are asking what the $208 million tax break given to Ford Motor Co. for the project could eventually cost Detroit students — and why the board didn’t get a say in the process in the first place.

A heated, long-running debate about tax breaks in Detroit has not put the issue to rest.

The only thing everyone can agree on about the Ford deal is that there’s a lot of money in play.

Sonya Mays, chair of the board’s finance committee,

asked the district’s top financial officer last week to produce a report about the long-term effect of deals that entice developers into the city by offering to waive their taxes.

“These are going to be really big numbers at some point,” Mays said. She added: “Decisions are being made that will have an untold impact 10 years from now. I just want to make sure that we’ve all done the work on our side to make sure that we’re comfortable.”

District leaders asked why they had no say in a process that could affect school funding.

“It’s not logical that another elected body can unilaterally decide how taxes that should

be coming to the district can be diverted,” said Superintendent Nikolai Vitti, responding to Mays’ concerns.

He said he’d like to see changes to the state statute that allow for tax breaks.

“We could have some allies in this across the state,” he said.

The Ford project could eventually be worth $1 billion if all goes according to plan, and some of that would normally go to the district in the form of property taxes. And as development booms in some parts of Detroit, Ford is far from the only company getting a pass on tax payments that might have gone to schools. A new hockey arena received a $325 million

tax break in 2017.

But does this mean less funding for Detroit schools?

There’s a lot of debate on this, and the two sides tend to end up with very different conclusions.

Here’s a guide to the key questions: Will the tax break impact students in Detroit?

Not directly.

Any losses from the tax breaks would hit the struggling state education budget, not the district.

In Michigan, the state makes sure every district gets a fixed amount of funding per pupil.

When tax revenue goes down, the state makes up the differ-

ence, and when it goes up, the state pays districts less.

If the Ford tax break means less property tax money for the Detroit district, “that’s a direct hit to the school aid fund,” said Craig Thiel, research director for the Citizens Research Council of Michigan.

And that means less for every school in the state, and could eventually mean lower per pupil funding when lawmakers look at the state budget.

How much money might be at stake?

The short answer: Potentially tens of millions of dollars over the 30-year life of the Ford tax break. Though again, that

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The reason Black History Month is in February

By McKenzie Jean-Philippe Every February we celebrate a very special holiday. And no, we’re not talking Valentine’s Day. We’re referring to the 28 days we dedicate to honoring Black History Month, our nation’s way of showing respect and recognition for the hard work and sacrifices made by African-Americans.

But, out of all the calendar days, why is Black History Month in February? (aka the month of love). And who started this tradition?

We put together a quick timeline that will have you brushed up on the black history that created Black History. See what we did there?

1915 Harvard-educated historian Carter G. Woodson is credited with starting Black History Month. According to Daryl Michael Scott, a history professor at Howard University, Woodson got the idea after attending a celebration in Illinois of the 50th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, which under Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, abolished slavery in the U.S. The festivities lasted for three weeks, with various exhibits depicting events in African American culture. After seeing this display, Scott says, Woodson decided to form what is now named the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in order to encourage the study of Black life in America.

1924 According to Scott, after Woodson wrote “The Journal of Negro History” in 1916, which chronicled the overlooked achievements of African-Americans, he sought to spread his findings to a wider audience. Through community outreach, he encouraged his old fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, to promote his work. The fraternity responded by creating “Negro Achievement Week.”

1926 Two years later, despite Omega Psi Phi’s efforts, Woodson still wanted to make a bigger impact.

So in 1926, he and the ASALH officially declared the second week of February to be “Negro History Week,” announcing the news through a press release, according to Scott.

“This was celebrated for years and was chosen because of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12, and noted abolitionist Frederick Douglas on Feb. 14,” said Zebulon Miletsky, co-chair of the marketing and public relations committee for ASALH. 1976 In the 50 years that followed, according to History. com, clubs, schools and communities across the country began taking part in the weeklong festivities — slowly, more and more cities declared official recognition of “Negro History Week.” Particularly in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, with wider public knowledge of the trials and triumphs of African-Americans, a mere seven days turned into monthlong recognition.

To solidify this change, President Gerald Ford de-

clared February “Black History Month.” He urged citizens to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

2019 Today, Black History Month is still widely celebrated across the U.S. as we take the time to honor greats such as Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey. But as time goes on, just like Woodson’s idea of highlighting people of color went from a single organization to an entire month of recognition, many feel it’s time, again, to think bigger when it comes to appreciating black lives.

“I have a wonderful phrase that Maya Angelou wrote in one of her poems,” Winfrey said in an Instagram post last year. “It said ‘I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.’ I’m doing that right now ... I don’t reserve it for one month. I believe that Black history is a part of every day, every life, every year, all the time.”

Sex, relationships, life and love on the agenda at AARP event It’s almost time to talk about sex.

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The free, interactive event examines how adults 50 and older approach life, love and dating, while exploring health and social perspectives.

Health experts from DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital will be on hand to lead a panel conversation on the physical aspects of love and sex for older adults.

“Through our partnership with AARP, Sinai-Grace has been able to candidly address pertinent and relevant health issues plaguing the community,” said Katrina McCree, Market Director, ACA Operations, DMC and Director of Government & Community Affairs for Sinai-Grace Hospital. “AARP is an ideal partner for us because of their long standing commitment to improving the health and well-being of the community.”

An AARP Michigan panel of experts on financial security and relationships will talk about love and the role money plays

in connections with family, friends and partners.

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Tax breaks From page B-1

money would be coming out of the state school budget.

The Ford-owned train station and surrounding buildings could eventually be worth $1 billion.

Some of that value could eventually go to schools in the form of property taxes.

Jeremy Vidito, the district’s chief financial officer, says his office is working on a study that would show exactly how much money could be at stake. It’s due out later this year.

But won’t the state pay school districts back if they miss out on funding because of tax breaks?

Partially. The Ford project received several types of tax breaks, and only one — the Renaissance Zone — requires the state to reimburse schools for any tax revenue they miss out on as a result of the arrangement.

Other than that, there is no backstop in place to exempt schools from tax breaks.

Ford would never have tried this project without tax breaks. Right?

Different people tend to disagree on the answer, and it’s hard to say who’s right. This is the crux of the debate.

Cities often argue that major developments wouldn’t happen without tax breaks. Ford officials said explicitly that they wouldn’t renovate the train station unless they got an abatement. To city and state officials, “no project” means lower property values, fewer jobs, lower tax revenue, and a smaller population.

Indeed, city officials estimated that the Detroit district would bring in additional revenue over the 30-year timeline of the Ford project thanks to the increased value of the train station, state reimbursements for some of the tax breaks, and increased value of other property around the station.

Critics say Ford is bluffing.

They point out that Ford is valued at $17 billion and allege that a host of other factors — proximity to shipping routes, an educated workforce — can be as important as tax breaks, or more so, in decisions about new development.

“Nothing is free,” said Mike LaFaive, who studies fiscal policy for the libertarian-leaning Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He says tax breaks mean “less money for pensions, for schools, police, and fire.”

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The children of 8B: One classroom, 31 journeys, and the reason it’s so hard to fix Detroit’s schools

By Erin Einhorn and Chastity Pratt Dawsey

It means new students are perpetually throwing off the dynamics of classrooms, forcing teachers, week after week, to shelve planned lessons so they can help new students get settled.

This story is part of a four part series Moving Costs: How students changing schools disrupts Detroit classrooms, a joint project from Chalkbeat and Bridge Magazine. This is part 2 The 8B homeroom started last September with 26 students. Then new faces began to appear. Between November and June, one student came for a week, then left. Another left for a different school, then returned.

One new student didn’t join 8B until May 21 — just weeks before the eighthgrade prom and graduation.

By the end of the year, 11 of the 31 students had arrived at Bethune as eighth-graders.

In Detroit, there are many reasons why schools are in crisis. There are overcrowded classrooms and buildings in poor condition. There are children experiencing trauma at home, unable to find a quiet place — or a reason — to do their homework. But spend time in almost any Detroit school, and educators will tell you that perhaps the single most significant factor standing in the way of children’s success is this: Students don’t stay.

“It’s one of the most difficult things we deal with,” said Alisanda Woods, Bethune’s principal, who has led the 550-student school for the past two years.

Enrollment instability — often called student mobility — is not only under-discussed, it’s also inconsistently documented. That makes it difficult to clearly compare the problem across cities and states. But Detroit, along with Milwaukee and Denver, is among several big cities where nearly a quarter of students change schools every year.

And that average actually understates the problem in Detroit.

Here, decades of evictions, foreclosures, and financial distress have ravaged communities and destabilized housing. Nearly 200 school closures have distanced families from what used to be neighborhood schools. And state

And it means that a significant share of the students who sit down every year to take annual state exams are children who could have fallen behind years ago, at another school. They might have arrived at their latest school just months before taking the exam.

Those exams are especially crucial for schools like Bethune.

The school, in a neighborhood that’s just now beginning to show signs of improvement after years of deterioration, was one of 38 Michigan schools threatened with closure last year because of persistently low test scores.

The 31 students in homeroom 8B at Bethune Elementary-Middle School in Detroit collectively attended 128 schools by the time they reached eighth grade. Citywide, one in three elementary school students changes schools every year. policies engineered in part by Michigan philanthropist Betsy DeVos before she became U.S. education secretary have created one of the most robust systems of school choice in the nation.

The effect: A recent analysis by two Wayne State University professors found that roughly one in three elementary school students changes schools every year — often in the middle of the school year.

Bethune doesn’t have the highest rate of student churn in the city — it’s fairly typical of district and charter schools in Detroit — but the long-struggling school housed in a stately red brick building sees new students arrive nearly every week of the school year, Woods said.

They turn up after moving from the other side of town, or arrive in search of better options after a bad experience.

At the same time, other students disappear. They’re in class one day, raising their hands to ask a question or volunteering to solve a math problem. The next day they’re gone, a single-day absence that soon turns to weeks. Staff often don’t know where they’ve gone until another school calls for their records.

“Four or five students a week are al-

ways coming or going,” Woods said. “We received new students this year all the way up to June where kids just showed up and then we were trying to figure out, ‘Should we pass this kid?’ How do we know?”

When the Wayne State professors, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Ben Pogodzinski, analyzed data from Detroit district and charter schools in the 201516 school year, they found that nearly 60 percent of students who live in Detroit — almost 50,000 children — were enrolled in two or more Detroit schools that year. Many had apparently boomeranged, returning eventually to the school where they started.

That includes nearly 7,000 children who were enrolled in three schools that year and some 900 children who were enrolled in four or more schools in a single school year.

“It’s a chaotic system,” Pogodzinski said. “If kids are moving in and out, you can’t build the systems in the school that are helpful and necessary to create a rich educational environment.”

That chaos means teachers don’t have the chance to make deep connections with their students.

When the Detroit Public Schools Community District analyzed seventhand eighth-grade student scores on tracking tests that schools use to figure out what students know, the trend line looked like a playground slide, with students who had attended just one or two schools at the top of the ladder, and those who’d attended the most schools down at the bottom.

Those transferring students are not the only ones suffering the consequences of instability. Studies show that even students who don’t themselves change schools are more likely to drop out if they attended schools where many classmates are coming and going.

“It has an impact on the students and it has an impact on the school environment itself,” said Richard Welsh, a professor of educational policy at the University of Georgia who has extensively studied the issue.

Students might benefit somewhat if they move from a low-performing school to a high-performing school, Welsh said.

But in cities like Detroit, where the vast majority of schools are low-performing, most student transfers have largely negative consequences.

When there’s so much flux, Welsh said, teachers “have a hard time with momentum and a hard time with overall classroom management.”

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Motown legend Lois Holden celebrates her 109th birthday

By Branden Hunter Tamla Records was founded 60 years ago in Detroit by songwriter and budding music executive Berry Gordy Jr. The following year, it was incorporated as Motown Records. One of the label’s first artists, Lois Holden, celebrated her 109th birthday on Saturday.

She was known as Lois Russell then, performing with the Motown Gospel Stars group, led

by Mae Gooch, her sisters Etta and Sandra Gooch, Elizabeth Davis, and Lillian Woods. The Gospel Stars signed with Motown in 1961 and actually had the first album released by the label, along with two singles.

“I knew Berry Gordy,” said Holden, recalling how she first started with the famous Detroit music label. “His father had a shop over there on Hastings street.”

Berry Gordy Sr. and his wife Bertha Gordy owned the Booker T. Washington grocery store and several other businesses near Hastings Street in the early 1900s. Hastings was the main thoroughfare that ran through the former Black Bottom neighborhood. The predominately African-American neighborhood and Hastings Street (now the I-75 freeway) were both razed in the late 1950s for urban renewal.

Mother Holden was born February 2, 1910 in Thomaston, Alabama to Rev. John Wesley Cade and Lena Alice Harris.

She migrated north to Detroit in 1936, settling on Quincy Street near Dexter Avenue, a little under two miles from where Motown Records’ headquarters were on West Grand Boulevard.

Holden had one son, Richard J. Williams with deceased hus-

Mother Lois Holden has a sash placed on her by granddaughter Michelle Williams. Her pastor, Rev. Earnest O. King Sr. looks on in the background. band Ruben Holden.

Holden has spent her entire life in the church, since her father was a minster. She attended New Bethel Baptist Church when it was located in Black Bottom, then joined Coggins Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal in 1962, and when that church closed, she joined Mt. Calvary Baptist Church on Detroit’s east side last August.

That is where she celebrated her milestone, surrounded by family, friends, and her church home. Seated front-row, in her black fur coat, gold hat, and birthday sash, all eyes were on a woman that has lived through racism, segregation, discrimination and the Civil Rights Movement and is a part of the rich tradition at Motown Records.

“God has been good to me for 109 years and I lived the

way he wanted me to live,” said Holden, as she addressed the Mt. Calvary congregation. “He brought me, my mother and father out of Alabama and I just want you to know, that I am somebody.”

During the birthday celebration, “Golden Holden”, as the church affectionately calls her, was honored with her own day at the church, State Rep. Isaac Robinson presented her with a proclamation from the state of Michigan, as well as the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, and her niece who works for the city of Detroit, Cereta Cade, was able to get a Spirit of Detroit Award from City Council President Brenda Jones.

“Mother Holden is one of my constituents and they asked me to do a tribute to her life,”

said Robinson, who represents District 4. “This is the first tribute I’ve given to one of my constituents and what an honor is it to have it be Mother Holden.

Her granddaughter said she has a picture of me and former President Barack Obama in her living room, so it’s cool to be backed by such a matriarch in our community.”

Holden lives on the city’s east side On Iroquois near Gratiot and receives 24-hour care from her family. But do not get it confused, she still speaks and moves well for her age. Her granddaughter, Michelle Williams, said she still cooks her famous gumbo and rolls around the house in her wheelchair vacuuming and cleaning her home. Holden was not able to go into great detail on her short tenure at Motown, and because she does not has Alzheimer’s

disease at age 109, on any given day, she can tell you untold stories of Motown’s early days.

“She always talks about Berry Gordy and Diana Ross,” said Williams, whose father was a part of the Stylistics. “But her details of Diana Ross are different from our details of Diana Ross. She talks about Diana Ross’ parents and she can tell you what happened on the bus and in the hotels when all the Motown singers went on tour and what happened when Motown first started.”

Holden impacted the lives of many people, including that of John Awrey, whose parents owned Awrey’s Bakery. Holden worked five days a week as a housekeeper for the family and often stayed at the home when Awrey’s parents were away. He and his wife Dawn made the trip over from Brighton to be there for Sunday’s church service and ceremony.

“This is a woman, a mom, a person, that I don’t know what I would do without,” said Awrey, speaking to the congregation on Holden’s importance to his life.

“This is one of the only people that I know was praying for me, even when I was two days old. I was born on December 22 and I came home on Christmas Eve. My parents were having a big Christmas party, they handed me to her and she took me up to my crib and prayed for me.

And because of her prayers, I now know the Lord.”

Holden has outlived most of her family, but still has two grandchildren, Williams and Lisa Watkins of Virginia, four great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren that love her dearly. She said she cannot wait to celebrate her 110th.

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POWER MOVES Central City Integrated Health promotes Curtis Smith to Chief Housing Development Officer

By Patreice A. Massey MANAGING EDITOR

Central City Integrated Health (CCIH), a federally qualified health center that provides medical and behavioral health treatment and services in tandem with affordable housing opportunities for Detroit’s most vulnerable populations, has named Curtis D. Smith as its Chief Housing Development Officer. The announcement was made by CCIH CEO Ryan Lepper.

“At CCIH, we are passionate about working for individuals and families in Detroit to improve the quality of life,” said Lepper. “With his proven track record of developing affordable housing resources, Curtis will continue to help vulnerable segments of the population secure and maintain affordable Curtis D. Smith housing.

We firmly believe that ‘housing is healthcare’ as it is absolutely fundamental to an individual’s overall health and wellbeing.”

In his new role, Smith is responsible for financial and strategic management of CCIH’s housing division, which develops affordable housing and provides supportive services to low-income individuals in Detroit, especially those with physical and mental disabilities. Smith joined CCIH in 2014 as the Housing Development Director.

From 2003-2012, Smith served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Coalition on Temporary Shelter (COTS), developing affordable and supportive housing for homeless families with children in Detroit.

Prior to this, Smith served as the Acting Director for the Department of Community and Economic Development for the City of Highland Park, Michigan, and as a community planner with the Boston-based urban planning consulting firm, Capital Needs Unlimited. In both positions, Smith focused on developing affordable housing in metro Detroit.

In addition to his role at CCIH, Smith also is a film producer, launching his career in film production in 2005 as associate producer on the internationally-acclaimed, award-winning documentary, The Water Front.

The thought-provoking film examines the battle between concerned Highland Park residents and city officials over the privatization of the municipal water system in the city of Highland Park.

He currently resides in Detroit with his wife. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Michigan.

Keli Hammond

The American Dream Remains Deferred for

Black Millennials

By Stacy M. Brown

The American Dream is described as a national ethos: a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

That’s the Wikipedia definition.

For African American millennials, the dream remains deferred – and in some cases, is a nightmare.

“The American Dream, the idea that anyone can succeed through hard work, is one of the most enduring myths in this country. And one of its most prominent falsehoods,” Reniqua Allen, the author of “It Was All a Dream” wrote in a recent New York Times Op-Ed. “As I entered my 30s, still navigating what achieving the dream would mean, I wondered what other black millennials were feeling. I wanted to figure out what my generation of Black Americans thought about the promise of the American dream and how we can attain it,” Allen said.

Keli Hammond, the owner and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based B Classic Marketing & Communications and author of “Craved: the Secret Sauce to Building a Highly-Successful, Standout Brand,” said Black millennials have an uphill climb to achieve the American Dream.

“Unfortunately, this is a very true reality. Race is a touchy subject in this country – always has been, always will be,” Hammond said. “It’s funny because, even thought it’s part of our social construct, it’s still incredibly uncomfortable when it’s talked about.”

Hammond, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Advertising from Temple University and a certification in Change Leadership from Cornell University, noted that race has a way of humbling dreams quite fast.

“Although I believe that millennials in general are struggling to identify with the American Dream, for Black millennials it can often feel like a dream you can’t achieve,” she said.

“We weren’t afforded the same job opportunities or raises, we don’t have the same networks, we’re not given the same leeway if we make a mistake, and we don’t have the same access to capital or generational wealth – it’s hard every day,” Hammond said.

In a survey customized exclusively for NNPA Newswire, Branded Research asked 452 African Americans which aspect of the American Dream is most important.

A total of 30 percent said having a comfortable retirement; 21 percent said homeownership; 21 percent said setting up their children for success; 15 percent said owing a business; 7 percent said a college education; and 6 per-

cent said having a nuclear family.

When broken down by gender, 22 percent of men and 34 percent of women said having a comfortable retirement was most important.

Twenty-two percent of men identified homeownership as most important as compared with 21 percent of women.

When broken down by age, 24 percent of those between 18 and 24 identified setting up their children for success was most important and 21 percent of the same age group said having a comfortable retirement and owning a business is paramount.

Twenty-eight percent of African Americans between 25 and 34 identified home ownership as most important followed by setting up their children for success (27 percent); and having a comfortable retirement (19 percent).

Overall, African American consumers are most likely to say that the most important aspects of the American Dream are having a comfortable retirement, homeownership and setting children up for success.

African American women are more likely than African American men to say that having a comfortable retirement is the most important aspect of the American Dream.

Younger African Americans value

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The HistoryMakers Kicks Off Black History Month on PBS with a One-On-One Interview Program:

An Evening With Ken Chenault as part of its Groundbreaking Business Initiative

The HistoryMakers announces the one-on-one interview program, An Evening With Ken Chenault. The hour-long program provides a rare, inside, look into the life and career of one of America’s most successful CEOs – Ken Chenault.

The program is hosted by CBS sportscaster and NFL network host James “J.B.” Brown and serves up a master class on corporate and civic leadership featuring interviews from those who know and have worked with Chenault during his phenomenal career.

Viewers will hear from Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett; former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns; Merck CEO Kenneth C. Frazier; Lazard Freres Senior Managing Director Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.; Media legend Oprah Winfrey; Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group David Rubenstein; former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Harvard President Larry Bacow and former Harvard University President Drew Faust; NBA legends and Hall of Famers Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Earvin “Magic” Johnson

Jr.; Chair of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Katherine Farley; his sons Kenneth and Kevin Chenault and his wife, Kathryn Chenault, among many others. An Evening With Ken Chenault peers behind the veil of Chenault’s rise to the head of one of the world’s most successful companies, and sheds light on his effective leadership as well as his legacy.

“We’re excited to have produced the ‘must see’ program,” says Julieanna Richardson, Founder and President, The HistoryMakers. Having the opportunity to showcase the life and career of the most preeminent business leaders of our time – Ken Chenault presents a unique master class on corporate and civic leadership.

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett describes Chenault “as one of the greatest leaders of our time.

He is a leader, he is competitive, and he is smart. The real test of leadership is when you go up the mountain and your troops follow you,” says Buffett. “They follow you because they believe in you and they believe you do see the value over

lishing founder John H. Johnson, former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Motown founder Berry Gordy, RadioOne founder Cathy Hughes, and Ariel Investments President, Mellody Hobson.

Currently, the history of African Americans in business make up less than one percent of Harvard Business School case studies, and there are no dedicated exhibits or collection of African American business leaders in any of the nation’s repositories.

Ken Chenault the top mountain. If they don’t see it, they will still follow.”

tus quo—you should always try to change the status quo.”

Chenault when asked about his legacy ends the program saying: “My most important legacy that I can leave is that I made a meaningful difference in people’s lives, I hope I have been a catalytic agent for change,” says Chenault. “I firmly believe that none of us should be satisfied by the sta-

Over the next two to three years, according to Richardson, The HistoryMakers will focus on adding 150 additional interviews of noted African American business leaders to its collection – increasing its BusinessMakers category to 500.

Some of those already interviewed include Johnson Pub-

“It is critical to show the world that African Americans have had an active role to play in both entrepreneurship and in corporate America,” said Richardson. “This story has been overlooked for far too long and deserves to be highlighted.”

Check your local listings for An Evening With Ken Chenault starting Sunday, February 3.

For more information and to view trailer of An Evening With Ken Chenault, click here visit The HistoryMakers website at: http://www.pbs.org/program/evening-ken-chenault/

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Wheels up: Detroit Metropolitan Airport ends 2018 with an increase of half a million passengers

By Patreice A. Massey MANAGING EDITOR

Passenger traffic at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) grew to 35,236,676 in 2018 compared to 2017, an increase of more than 535,000 travelers, according to data released by the airport’s Department of Financial Planning & Analysis.

The number of outbound passengers visiting or residing in the Detroit area, also known as origin and destination – or ‘O & D’ – traffic, is contributing to the jump in total passengers. It is expected the final 2018 O & D data will show a nearly 5 percent increase for the year.

Larry Robinson

“Unequally Yoked” Play Hits the stage Valentine’s Day Weekend Nationally renowned playwright Vanessa Lynn takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride of love and laughter that promises to leave them on the edge of their seats.

As an Amazon Best-Selling DVD, the hit stage production, Unequally Yoked, received national distribution in Walmart Vanessa Lynn stores—capturing the hearts of over a million viewers nationwide.

Complete with new twists and turns, this story will inspire the married, single or dating alike long after the final curtain call.

In this gripping, compelling stage play, Lynn chronicles the all-too-familiar story of single women worldwide who are simply growing weary in the wait.

Unequally Yoked hits the stage Friday, February 15th and 16th at the Wayne State Community Arts Auditorium located at 450 Reuther, Detroit, MI 48202. Showtimes will be Friday at 7 p.m., and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Directed by Calvin Ray, producer and director of Listen to the Silence, this story of love and

suspense, comedy and faith, also features local recording artists Tamara Robinson and Mike Jeffers, among others. This strategic collaboration between Parables Entertainment and God’s World is truly a celebration for both parties. “God’s World is a Detroit icon,” Lynn said. “Celebrating their 40th anniversary, it’s more than an honor to collaborate with this Detroit staple and Larry Robinson.”

For four decades, God’s World Superstore has been Detroit’s one-stop shop for inspirational books, CDs, DVDs and more.

Their rich heritage, history, and commitment to the city of Detroit and the surrounding areas is what has caused them to withstand economic downturns. Proudly, they’ve been able to remain open when other competitors were forced to close their doors. This collaboration is just one of the many reasons God’s World has withstood the test of time.

All tickets can be purchased online through www.playticketsonline.com. Physical tickets can also be purchased through God’s World, 13533 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit, MI 48235. For interviews or more information, email Bishopkafarmer@gmail.com.

“The continuous growth in travelers shows that Detroit’s economy is strong and Detroit Metropolitan Airport plays a critical role in this region,” said WCAA Board Chair Nabih H. Ayad, Esq. “DTW’s annual economic impact is estimated at $10.2 billion, and the airport is responsible for sustaining more than 86,000 jobs across Michigan. That’s why the DTW team won’t stop striving for excellence—inside the terminals and on the airfield.”

The 2018 total, which is the highest number of passengers at DTW since 2007, can also be attributed in part to new domestic and international service.

Several new international flights were added in 2018.

WOW Air became the first new international carrier in DTW’s North Terminal since it opened nearly a decade ago, offering daily service to Reykjavik, Iceland. Spirit made it easier to get away by starting service to the popular vacation destination Montego Bay, Jamaica in December 2018.

And, Aeromexico has dramatically expanded at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, adding more routes at DTW than any other airport outside Mexico.

In May 2019, flights to Guadalajara and San Luis Potosi are scheduled to begin. Several domestic routes were also added last year, including Spirit’s nonstop service to

Jacksonville and West Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Delta’s San Jose, California route.

“Our 2018 passenger total is the highest since 2007, when Detroit Metropolitan Airport welcomed 36 million passengers,” said Wayne County Airport Authority (WCAA) CEO Chad Newton.

“Customers have a choice when they fly. We’re working hard to offer flights that have a wide appeal and deliver an excellent customer experience in our terminals.”

This year, new dining options will be offered at the North Terminal, as part of the first phase of a nearly $21 million food and beverage program transformation.

Plus, there will be more rea-

sons to fly from DTW. Spirit will offer nonstop service to Austin, Texas. In March, Delta will add flights to Bozeman, Montana. In April, Frontier will offer service to Las Vegas, and Spirit will begin service to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina in May. The list goes on; however, one of the most anticipated additions in 2019 is Delta’s service to Honolulu, Hawaii, which begins in June. Previously, Honolulu was DTW’s third largest market without nonstop service from Detroit.

Visit https://www.metroairport.com/business/ about-wcaa/facts-figures/aviation-statistics for more detailed statistical information.

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homeownership, setting up children for success and owning a business while older African Americans value a comfortable retirement most.

“The American Dream isn’t what I strive for [because] my goal is to be successful in my chosen creative path of singing and to travel the world doing that – not to be tethered to a job I don’t like, to pay a mortgage I don’t want in order to live permanently anywhere,” said New York musician Risa Branch.

“I finally paid off my student loans. I want the freedom to be wherever I want to be,” Branch said.

“If I did get the surplus funds to buy a house, I’d rent it out and use the investment

to fund a more mobile lifestyle.”

Hammond argued that Black millennials want equality, opportunity and freedom.

“We want the same business and home loans, we want the same job offers, we want the same – everything,” she said.

“I’m college-educated, well-read, and well-traveled.

I’m a business owner and a homeowner, and even with all of that, I’m keenly aware that I am still very much an underdog,” Hammond continued.

“Freedom means you don’t struggle financially or live paycheck-to-paycheck. Freedom means you’re able to relax sometimes and not worry about all the ways that you have to work to dispel racial myths and stereotypes.”

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How to Stop Being So Judgemental

By AJ Williams Making a good first impression is important, but it’s even more important to not judge people from the moment you meet them. There’s a reason that the saying “you should never judge a book by its cover” is so popular, and that’s because it’s true. Being judgmental is something that many of us are guilty of from time- to-time, but there are some things we can do to stop doing it.

1. Understand it’s not a good look – judging someone may make you feel good, but it’s not a good look and may end up hindering your opportunities.

If you’re openly judgemental about someone, it may come around a bite you in the future. Being judgmental isn’t a good look and you should remember that when you’re doing it.

2. You’re not more important than them – often, judgmental people suffer from a superiority complex and believe that their opinion is more valid than that of other people. However, if you want to stop being so judgmental, stop holding yourself on such a pedestal. By bringing yourself down to a level playing field with everyone else, you’ll automatically be less judgmental.

3. Have empathy – no one wants to be known as an awful person and feel like people don’t like them. Rather than judging someone from the off, consider that they may be nervous or behaving in a certain way for a reason. Have empathy with people and try to understand them rather than just passing judgment and deciding that you don’t like them.

4. See it from their view – do you like to be judged? No. So why judge other people? If you treat people how you would like to be treated, you’ll notice that you will become a lot less judgemental. Rather than judging people for who they are, put your self in their shoes and try to understand how it feels to know that someone is actively judging you.

5. You can be wrong – despite what judgmental people may say, you’re not always going to be a good judge of character. By stopping your judgemental ways, you will notice that you’ll find peace of mind and make more friends.

Not only that, but often judgements can be wrong and people you perceive to be horrible may actually turn out to be nice. Give people a chance, you might be wrong!

By AJ Williams

For Women And Men

Much like tattoos and piercings, aesthetic procedures are becoming commonplace in society. Whether it’s celebrities that we see on TV or just regular people in the street, there are a host of procedures that people from all walks of life are undertaking in order to increase their confidence and make them feel better about themselves.

1. Botox – we’ve all heard of Botox, but some people may be unsure about what it actually is. Botulinum Toxin Injections are medical treatments that relax facial muscles and help fight the signs of ageing. By making lines and wrinkles less obvious, Botox injections can make you look younger and healthier without the need for surgery.

2. Lip fillers – arguably one of the biggest cosmetic trends in the world, lip fillers have had a meteoric rise in popularity over the past few years due to celebrities such as Kylie Jenner and other megastars. Fillers can

alter the shape of the lips and give them more volume.

As we get older, our lips deplete and become thinner, lip enhancement procedures can help reverse these symptoms.

3. Jawline fillers – as you grow older, you may notice that your jawline has lost its definition and is not as tight or shapely as it previously was. Thankfully, the rise in modern medical procedures means that you can have jawline fillers injected in order to give your jaw more definition and give your face that youthful appearance that we’re all chasing.

4. Cheek fillers – sagging skin is a part of life that affects us all, but thankfully, we can now fight ageing skin on our face. Voluminous cheeks give the face a much more youthful appearance and cheek fillers can help give your cheeks volume and eradicate the obvious signs of ageing.

5. Facial Peels – are liquids that are brushed onto the skin to remove dead skin cells and promote the growth of new cells. The procedure can reduce ageing spots and even out skin tone, making skin appear youthful and healthy.

How to Keep Personal Life from Impacting Business Life

By AJ Williams To be a successful in business, you need to be able to separate your work life from your personal life. While this is easier said than done, bringing personal issues into the office can have a major impact on how you handle your business and can be detrimental to your company.

1. Get aware – if you suspect that your personal issues may be impacting your business acumen, it’s important that you pinpoint the issues in order to ad-

dress them. Ask for trusted feedback and gain clarity on how to shift such issues. They say a business is an extension of its owner’s issues, so dig in and turn both around 2. Look for repetitive scripts – are there relationships within your business that are mirroring the issues you have at home? Are you used to being walked all over and taken advantage of? Does the blame always land at your door? Does everyone hand their power over to you and avoid responsibility?

Get to know the bigger picture, repeti-

tive patterns and distracting dramas and break the spell.

3. Look for the source – once you have identified what your issues are, you’d be wise to trace them back and find the root of the problem. Were you betrayed in the past feel you still can’t trust anyone? Do you fear abandonment? Follow current feelings back to their source and tackle issues at their root.

4. Get present – leave the past in the past and respond to situations in hand with current calm, rather than past trauma, pressure and panic. List the sourc-

es of these scripts and burn them on a fire, making space for new communications, collaboration and more favorable outcomes.

5. Give yourself space – as you treat yourself differently, your core beliefs will change, and life will bring new opportunities. Give yourself space for growth in both your personal and professional life and don’t suppress your feelings and beliefs. Don’t sell out on yourself. As always, never be afraid of seeking professional help that will empower you to sustainably walk your own path.

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Eastern and King High School alumni groups honor

2018 football state title team

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April 4, 1968 changed the entire course of history for the historic Detroit Eastern High School. On that day, civil rights pioneer Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. A few months later, Eastern’s name was changed to Detroit Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School.

The two schools’ alumni associations have worked closely together over the years, honoring their jointed history through programs, alumni picnics, and other events.

There is even a small Eastern High School museum inside of King’s building, featuring old trophies, newspaper clippings, and yearbooks on display. continued their collaboration, honoring the 2018 Division 3 football state title team Monday at the school with a trophy. Representing alumni of both Eastern and King high schools were Ed Deeb (Eastern class of 1954), Larry Wilson (King class of 1970), Marilyn Ward-Hogan (Eastern class of 1967), and Pandora Brown (King class of 1970 and class treasurer).

King head football coach Tyrone Spencer was also in attendance, as well as members of the football team.

Detroit King football head coach Tyrone Spencer (middle) and seniors Curtis Maxwell (left) and Rayshawn Williams (right) accept the trophy from the Eastern and King High School alumni groups.

“It’s an honor to be here with you because you’re carrying the torch that once was Eastern,” said Deeb, who played football for Eastern. “We (Eastern) used to have great football and basketball teams and now we don’t have that anymore. It’s you who’s carrying the ball for us and we appreciate that.”

ern never won a state title, but they did win a couple of city football titles. The high school also produced some football greats such as Harold Dukes and Johnny Fuqua, who was the intended receiver for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw’s pass referred to as the “Immaculate Reception.”

Detroit King football went 12-2 during the 2018 season, defeating Muskegon 41-25 in the championship game at Ford Field to capture its third state title in four years. East-

“I want my guys to understand what’s going on here,” said Spencer, who played football for King in 2003. “Eastern is a part of King High School and knowing your history is im-

portant, in order to know where you came from. My family went to Eastern and then they went to King when they built the new school, so, attending, playing, an coaching at King means a lot to my family and me. This is a great opportunity for them to learn some of their history.”

During the summer of 1966, Eastern High School relocated from the corner of Mack Avenue and East Grand Boulevard to a new building at 3200 East Lafayette. The new high school remained the Eastern Indians,

Larry Wilson attended both Eastern and King has a letterman sweater to prove it.

Marilyn Ward-Hougan graduated from Eastern in 1967.

colors black and orange, for two more years, up until Dr. King’s death in 1968.

Wilson is a part of a select few who attended both schools during the transition. He said students even had petitions going around to change the name and colors, much to the dismay of Eastern alum.

“During the transition, we had a group of students here known as the ABS, which stood for the Association of Black Students and they were the

main group who spearheaded the change,” said Wilson, who played football for both high schools. “We worked hard to get the job done, but some of the Eastern alumni weren’t really pleased with the change.

But that was during the Civil Rights Movement and those were a different breed of students then.”

This was the first year both alumni associations decided to honor the football teams at King and Deeb said they play on making it an annual event.

Eastern High School alums Ed Deeb (class of 1954) and Marilyn Ward-Hougan (class of 1967).

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When he was six years old, his family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from St. Paul’s John Marshall high school in 1951 and entered Lincoln University, later transferring to Minnesota State University-Mankato, where he was the campus’ first black basketball player. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1960. He would later earn a master’s degree in education from Michigan State University and an education specialist degree from Wayne State University.

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Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation Board Cal Sharp, Interim Chairperson Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation Nicole A. Sherard-Freeman, President and Chief Executive Officer

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Pgrm Validation Engineer - Senior

Software Engineer Over the Air (OTA)

Test & Validation Engineer General Motors, Detroit, MI. Analyze business &functional documents, write test plans/strategies/scripts/scenarios &reusable test cases in Agile envir. Perform test on vehicles &backend communication for request completion (VNM-SPN communication) &validate back office comms. Analyze VNM &SPN logs to validate &measure accurate test results. Resolve critical &complex HW &SW data setups. Create test data using SQL query, manual data setup &verify data reflection in various apps. Use apps &hardware tools incldg Global Access Application, Mobile No. Management Serv (MNMS), Vehicle Communication Serv, Vehicle Data Upload, SalesForce.com (SFDC), GM Owner Center, Integrated Gateway (IG), Vehicle Notification Mgr, Server Push Notification, DBeaver, Cassandra & ADB commands, VehicleSpy, &NeoVI, &Center Gateway Module (CGM), Telematics Communication Platform (TCP), &ECUs in Center Stack Module (CSM), to test &validate infotainment &telematics modules to improve user experience &Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) &Vehicle to Back Office comms. Mentor new technical professionals &help them to execute tasks in infotainment services testing &validation projects.

Master, Computer Science, Computer Engrg, Computer Applications, Software Engrg, or related. 6 mos exp as Engineer or Test Lead, using SFDC, IG, VehicleSpy, &NeoVI, &CGM, &TCP, &ECUs in CSM, to test or validate infotainment &telematics modules to improve user experience &V2V &Vehicle to Back Office comms, or related. Mail resume to Ref#35735, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

Strategic Supplier Quality Engineer

Warren, MI, General Motors. Validate components, subsystems &vehicle integration &all validation &prog. deliverables incldg Integration Vehicle Start, Vehicle Test/Document Complete, on vehicle pgrms. Dvlp &issue global &emerging market small, mid-size &full size psgr car platform &SUV platforms full vehicle mthly Validation Metric &High Risk reports incldg Chassis, Body, Exterior, Interior, Electrical, Powertrain, Thermal, &Safety/Certification, to Validation Leadership. Coordinate Shared Property Usage Requests for each pgrm &create PreProduction Property Requests for on-time submission to Pre Production Ops. Participate in mthly Product Validation mtngs among US, Korea, S.America, China grps. Create &monitor Architecture Learning, Analysis, Devel. &Validation (LADV) plan. Monitor &report LADV plan execution status &issues for various pgrm reviews for current &new pgrms. Prepare Certification plan to meet Country of Sales reqmts (type approval, exhaust emission, evaporative emission, fuel economy &passby noise) for 6 countries where vehicles are sold, incldg witness test plan. Bachelor, Mechanical, Automotive, Electrical, or Production Engrg. 12 mos exp as Engineer, dvlpg &issuing psgr vehicle full vehicle mthly Validation Metric or High Risk reports incldg Chassis, Body, Exterior, Interior, Electrical, Powertrain, &Thermal to Validation Leadership, or related. Mail resume to Ref#6245, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

General Motors, Detroit, MI. Gather reqmts, dvlp, debug, &support OTA reflash applications for psgr vehicle embedded ECUs in Center Stack Modules, Central Gateway Modules (CGM), &infotainment &telematics features on psgr vehicles, using Java/J2EE, Spring, jOOQ, liquibase, &SQL tools, MySQL &Oracle databases, &Unix server. Build REST based web services with Spring Rest Api, jOOQ, liquibase &MySQL database. Design components with Spring Boot to bootstrap application &used spring cloud Hystrix &retry mechanisms. Deploy components in Pivotal Cloudy Foundry. Work in message based envir using Spring JMS API, Active Mq &Kafka. Perform software/code/reqmts anlys, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk/software reliability/&OOPS anlys &design to improve ECU functionality &ensure effective OTA reflash. Analyze problems in data, natural language &contextual spaces from Proof of Concept through software reflash updates. Bachelor, Computer, Electrical, Electronics, or Electronics &Communication Engrg, or related. 6 mos exp as Engineer, Programmer Analyst, Developer, or related, dvlpg &debugging OTA reflash applications for psgr vehicle embedded ECUs in CGM, &infotainment &telematics features on OEM psgr vehicles, using Java/J2EE, Spring, &SQL tools, MySQL database, &Unix server. Mail resume to Ref#2206, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

Wireless Validation Engineer

Senior Process Engineer - Vehicle Systems

Senior Analyst - Data Ops

Warren, MI, General Motors. Engr &perform LTE Wireless telematics validation, launch, dvlp &continuously improve 4G &5G wireless connectivity capability (device to connected psgr vehicles). Communicate, coordinate &consult with internal Backoffice Engrg Dept &external suppliers to assure performance of telematics units according GM &3GPP specs. Validate &provide design change improvements for OnStar telematics system design incldg vehicle crash response sequence, vehicle theft response sequence, &sequence for advisor call support from wireless telecom service perspective, &discuss with VCP &TCP suppliers incldg dvlpmt &design validation timelines. Analyze complex wireless math &protocol level call flows, emergency services, &wireless coverage data for global OnStar programs. Create &dvlp complex wireless network models incldg wireless technologies, network capabilities, &cellular services, using ATT, GOCC SIM, Wireshark, QXDM &QCAT tools, &according to 3GPP specs.

Lead functional validation for GM North America, global &emerging market LTE, UMTS, &GSM connectivity services. Master, Telecommunications, Electrical, or Electronics Engrg. 12 mos exp as Engineer, creating &dvlpg wireless network models incldg wireless technologies, network capabilities, &cellular services, using ATT, Wireshark, QXDM &QCAT tools, &according to 3GPP specs. Mail resume to Ref#31000-63, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

Warren, MI, General Motors. Engr &dvlp solutions to technical problems of HW &SW for design, build &integrate vehicle assy plant tooling &equipment incldg PLCs &HMIs for robotic framers, transfer lines, &turn tables, for Body Shop (BS) General Assy (GA) to ensure reliability/safety of high volume psgr vehicle assy lines. Provide technical direction, instruct, &train engrs, engrg support teams, &plant skilled trade Electricians on Controls &Global standards reqmts incldg Global Common Controls (GCC) HW, GCC SW, GCC Build, Global Robotics Standard, EPLAN Electric P8 &GM Control Networks. Define span of control &system layouts. Dvlp job scheduling plans, Option Data Delivery &bitmap &spec statements. Dvlp concurrent build plans. Execute &validate Plant Floor Systems interfaces incldg configuration &validation of Industrial Ethernet Controls Network switches, Cimplicity models &Webtip reports, Ethernet IP System/User Acceptance Tests for Global Plant Monitoring &Control, Quality Andon Systems, &Part Routing &Tracking. Required domestic travel to assy plant to ensure accurate &safe performance of equipment hardware &software controls, up to 8 weeks per year (equal to ~15% annual travel).

Bachelor, Mechanical, Electrical, Automotive, or Mechatronic Engrg. 12 mos exp as Engineer, engrg &dvlpg solutions to technical problems of HW &SW for design &build of vehicle assy plant tooling &equipment incldg PLCs for robotic framers, transfer lines, &turn tables for BS &GA. Mail resume to Ref#14380, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

General Motors, Detroit, MI. Perform data discovery, data mining, statistical anlys, predictive modeling, &visualization, using Tableau, to generate insights &drive decisions based on data.

Design, &implement high performance/availability, &large-scale Extract, Transform &Load (ETL) deployments. Model &analyze demand peaks for vehicle parts in warranty &field action scenarios building predictive models using R &SAS tools based on attributes of component repair/replacement. Use Kafka, HBASE, Map-Reduce, Hive, Pig, Spark, &HDFS tools to perform Big Data anlys incldg warranty, field actions, &incentives data. Dvlp predictive models using classification techniques incldg logistic regression &Classification &Regression Trees to identify unusual warranty &incentive claims. Build warranty cost forecasting models using hybrid time-series approaches to identify potential areas of cost reduction. Optimize &troubleshoot technical issues in team setting.

Coordinate, mentor, train &lead internal customers &colleagues in dvlpg &deploying emerging technologies for business use cases.

Master, Business Analytics, Analytics, Data Analytics, Operational Research, or Statistics. 12 mos exp as Data Scientist, Statistician, Business Intelligence Analyst, Senior Analyst, Big Data Engineer, or related, performing data discovery, data mining, statistical anlys, &visualization, using Tableau, to drive decisions based on data, &designing &implementing high performance/large-scale ETL deployments. Mail resume to Ref#4500-206, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

(Detroit, MI) Detroit Diesel Corporation.

Determine supplier's compliance with Daimler and industry quality standards; ensure implementation of company-wide quality systems and policy compliance to ISOTS16949 standard regulations; develop supplier performance and report supplier quality trend data; provide support to various supply chain activities to ensure ample coverage and support for engineering projects and product release activities. Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Eng, Supply Chain or related + 1 year exp in any related engineering position. Must have exp in PPAP (Production Parts Approval Process), APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), statistical process control, quality management systems, FMEA, and DFMA. Must have exp in GD&T and root cause analysis. Resumes to Tony Long, Daimler Trucks North America, 4555 N. Channel Ave., Portland, OR 97217. Include position reference #DDCV1 in response.

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Treasury: Individual income tax filing season officially begins Michigan’s individual income tax filing season officially begins today, according to the Michigan Department of Treasury.

New cars depreciate fast: How to protect your investment

Effective immediately, Michiganders can start filing their 2018 tax year state individual income tax returns online or submit paper forms through the U.S. Postal Service. All individual income tax returns must be e-filed or postmarked

by Monday, April 15, 2019.

“All systems are operating as normal,” said Deputy State Treasurer Glenn White, who oversees Treasury’s Tax Administration program. “Filing electronically is the easiest and quickest way for Michigan taxpayers to get their refund.

This helps ensure tax returns are accurate and improves tax refund turnaround times.”

Choosing electronic filing and direct deposit is convenient, safe and secure. Last year, more than 4.2 million Michigan taxpayers e-filed, which is 83 percent of state income tax filers.

For more information about e-filing, go to www.mifastfile.org.

After Feb. 1, printed tax forms will be available in limited quantities at public libraries, some northern Michigan post offices, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services county offices and Treasury Field Offices.

For the benefit and convenience of taxpayers, both the beginning and end of the individual income tax filing season are the same as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Tax-Related Identity Theft Protections To protect Michigan taxpayers, the state Treasury Department continues to implement security measures to stop tax-related identity theft. As a result, some individual income tax returns may be selected for identity confirmation.

(StatePoint) Buying a new car? Before taking the plunge, it’s important to make sure that shiny new ride is fully covered from an insurance standpoint.

even driving the car off the lot, New Auto Security coverage isn’t restricted to when the car is purchased; it can be added later.

Why? Most people are familiar with that old adage that a new car drastically depreciates the minute it’s driven off the lot. According to Carfax.com, it’s true. The vehicle history information database says a new car loses 10 percent of its value the minute it’s driven off the lot and another 10 percent by the end of the first year. And cars with lesser brand name appeal and fewer options can depreciate even more, some by as much as 50 percent in a single year. That means if your new ride gets totaled, your insurance payout could be much less than what you paid for the car (or what you owe on your loan, for that matter).

“Buyers should to be aware of the risks associated with depreciation and take the necessary precautions to protect their investment,” says Jon Bloom, vice president of personal auto, Erie Insurance. “We recommend that anyone buying a new car talk with their insurance agent to make sure they would be able to replace it in the event it’s totaled, or at least be able to pay off their loan. Having the right coverage will provide peace of mind and make that new car ownership experience that much more enjoyable.”

Fortunately, new car buyers can protect themselves from this situation with what’s generally known as new car replacement coverage. For example, at Erie Insurance, this coverage comes in the form of an add-on called New Auto Security that can be tacked onto a policy for a modest cost.

If an owner has had a car for less than two years and it gets totaled, Erie Insurance would pay the cost to replace it with a car in the newest model year, minus the deductible. And, if the new car is in a crash but is not deemed a total loss, the company would pay to repair the vehicle to brand new condition, without any deduction for depreciation. While new car buyers would be smart to add this coverage before

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If an individual income tax return has been selected for identity confirmation, the taxpayer will receive a letter from Treasury asking them to confirm their identity by completing a short online quiz or submitting paperwork. A phone option is available for those individuals who need additional assistance.

After a taxpayer confirms his or her identity, their tax refund will be issued in about a month.

“Don’t wait to file your tax return,” White said. “By filing early, taxpayers can prevent cybercriminals from stealing their refunds.”

Taxpayers who have been recent victims of identity theft are asked to report their circumstances to the state Treasury Department. Reporting identity theft helps thwart cybercriminals who attempt to file returns and steal state tax refunds.

To learn more about reporting tax-related identity theft, go to www.michigan.gov/identitytheft.

Since 2016, the state Treasury Department’s increased security measures protected more than 4,500 taxpayers who confirmed their identity was stolen and used to request state of Michigan income tax refunds. This prevented more than $19 million from being distributed to scammers.

Free Tax Help Individuals with low income, disabilities or are 60 years of age or older may qualify for free tax preparation help from IRScertified volunteers. For information about free tax help, go to https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/ or dial 2-1-1.

To learn more about Michigan’s individual income tax or to download forms, go to www.michigan.gov/incometax.