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"America has no royalty. But we do have a chance to earn something more enduring. Aretha may have passed on to a better place, but the gift of her music remains to inspire us all."

-President Barack Obama Our 44th president is usually spot on but this time I have to respectfully disagree—slightly. While America has no monarchy we certainly do have royalty and her name is Aretha Louise Franklin, Queen of Soul.

Millions converged on Detroit this week to honor the life and legacy of Queen Aretha Franklin who died on August 16, 2018 at the age of 76 from pancreatic cancer. Ms. Franklin will lay Patreice A. Massey in state on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History an honor fitting a queen.And they didn’t all arrive in pink Cadillac’s; they came by planes, trains and bus to pay homage. Several people began lining up as early as Monday afternoon in efforts to beat the inevitable crowd that Tuesday morning will bring on the first day of the public viewing for Aretha

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Franklin. The mood Monday night was one of solidarity as people sat in their lawn chairs wrapped in blankets reminiscing on their favorite Aretha memory or song. Everyone talking about they journey

Harris’ mother died from a massive heart attack, in 1992 but she never forgot what Ms. Franklin’s music did for her mom. “I came here to pay tribute and show my gratitude for the joy and the happiness that Aretha put in my mom’s heart. There is no way I could miss this.”

Gwen Cook a 69-year-old disabled veteran from Augusta, GA had a few setbacks that threatened to stop her from making the 12-hour trek to the D. “I had my obstacles but I told everyone come hell or high water, I’m going to Detroit,” Cook recalled. “When I heard about Aretha’s passing it was extremely touching. I remember her very first record. I grew up with her. I felt like she was my sister, my confidant.”

Showing the wrist guards on both arms, she indicates that she has severe carpal tunnel and cannot drive. Cook went through two potential drivers before a fellow veteran and neighbor named Ralph agreed to bring her.

“When she asked me to drive her I said, ‘no problem’ not only because it’s Aretha but because it’s Gwen (Cook).

She is a great person,” said Ralph. “So when she called on me I was happy to share in this moment. I am lucky that my Queen isn’t across the ocean she is right here in Detroit, so it was no problem to drive up and say goodbye to the queen.”

Retired school teacher, Angell Harris, arrived by train from her hometown of Sacramento, Calif to be a part of this historical moment. The trip took two and a half days but Harris’ connection to the Queen is such that she felt she had to be here.

“As a child, I watched my mother battle depression,” said 54-year-old Harris. “But I noticed that when she would put on Aretha Franklin, it would lift her spirits. I mean whenever she put

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Duggan sues State of Michigan ‘unconstitutional’ no-fault insurance law

By Branden Hunter

fixed or declared unconstitutional.

Detroiters pay the highest auto insurance rates in the country and Mayor Mike Duggan is turning to the court system to lower the rates. Duggan filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, seeking to have Michigan’s nofault auto insurance law declared unconstitutional. The law has been in effect since 1973. He is joined in the suit by eight other motorists from around the state of Michigan, who are also plaintiffs, and face financial hardships over auto insurance premiums.

“I thought it was so obvious that the trial lawyers and the hospitals were ripping us off, that I would have no trouble convincing legislators to have a conscience and fix it,” Duggan said at a press conference at the Rosa Parks Transit Center. “I no longer have faith in Lansing to do the right thing.”

In the suit, against Michigan’s insurance director, Duggan contends that the state’s broken no-fault insurance system discriminates against people of lower income. Under Michigan law, drivers are required to have auto insurance, although countless Michigan residents simply cannot afford to pay rates that are often more than twice the rates charged in other states.

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her music on it just brought joy to her and in that moment she was all right.”

“This law is causing thousands of people across Michi-

gan to break the law by driving without insurance because they simply can no longer afford it,” said Duggan. “Because the Legislature has not shown the leadership to address the issue, we are asking the court to provide residents the relief they need from these unjustifiably high in-

surance rates.

Duggan said that because of the abuses we have seen of our insurance system by certain hospitals and trial lawyers, no-fault is no longer affordable to hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents and therefore must be

The suit names Patrick McPharlin, in his capacity as Director of the Department of Insurance and Financial Services, as the defendant. It asks the court to require the Governor and Legislature to fix Michigan’s broken auto insurance system within six months. If no-fault is not fixed in a way that guarantees affordability, the suit requests that the court order Michigan to go back to the system that was in place before no-fault was established 45 years ago.

After Michigan adopted the No-Fault Act of 1973, the Michi-

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Insurance From page A-1 gan Supreme Court ruled that because the state chose to make No-Fault insurance mandatory for all motorists, the state must ensure that coverage is available at fair and equitable rates.

According to the suit, Michigan’s mandatory nofault automobile insurance system violates the constitutional rights of Michigan’s citizens. Once the state issues a driver’s license, it cannot deprive a citizen of the primary benefit of the license – the ability to drive a motor vehicle – without first providing constitutional due process. Unfortunately, thousands of Michigan residents are denied the ability to drive because they are not given the opportunity to purchase nofault insurance at fair and equitable rates.

Michigan’s average auto insurance premium of $3,059 is more than double the average premium in Michigan’s neighboring states -- Ohio ($1,236), Illinois ($1,158), and Indiana ($1,365); the national average cost for auto insurance is $1,512.

The extremely high cost of no-fault insurance

coverage in Michigan is a statewide issue that is felt the most in the Detroit Metropolitan area.

More than 50 percent of Detroit workers commute to jobs that are outside the city limits and almost 75 percent of the jobs within the city are held by workers who commute from the suburbs.

Detroit drivers pay an average of $6,197 for auto insurance coverage, four times the national average. Residents of many other Metro Detroit communities also pay exorbitant auto insurance premiums; Dearborn ($5,135), Southfield ($4,443), Warren ($3,446), and Roseville ($3,378).

“It is beyond dispute that Michigan’s insurance rates have become unconstitutionally excessive, unfair, and inequitable,” the lawsuit reads.

“Michigan residents universally pay more for auto insurance than do residents of any other state.”

Excessive insurance premiums have a catastrophic impact for many Detroit residents. The average household income in Detroit is just over $26,000, less than half the national average of $55,322, and almost 40 percent of the city’s res-

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idents are living in poverty. Financial experts recommend allocating no more than 15 percent of a household budget to transportation expenses, including purchasing a vehicle, gas and motor oil costs, and other transportation costs. In Detroit, adding these basic costs to the average Detroit auto insurance premium would result in nearly $12,000 in transportation costs. For a driver with average income in Detroit, transportation costs would consume more than 45 percent of their total household income.

“I have to catch the bus and it’s not because I cannot buy a car, it’s because I can’t afford the insurance,” said Detroiter Harold Barr, who was waiting to take the Dexter 16 DDOT bus home. “It’s ridiculous what we have to pay here in Michigan for insurance. You don’t want me driving without insurance, yet, you won’t make it affordable for me

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In the wake of Duggan’s lawsuit over excessive auto insurance rates, he, along with officials from DDOT and SMART announced a proposal that would make ridership smoother for all those who use the two transit systems in the Detroit area. The proposal calls for eliminating transfer fares, adding a mobile payment app, and cutting pass options in hopes of simplifying the transit systems.

“Due to the high insurance premiums in the state, so many people have to catch the bus throughout the tri-county area,” Duggan said. “Until we address the issues of high insurance rates, we have to make sure residents are able to commute to and from work, and wherever else they have to go. We are playing catch-up with the rest of the country.”

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By Patreice A. Massey The Aging & Adult Services Agency (AASA), under the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, announced today that it has awarded nearly $1 million in state funding to 12 organizations to combat and increase reporting of elder abuse crimes in communities across the state.

Funding was available to applicants under AASA’s Prevent Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse, Exploitation, Neglect Today (PREVNT) initiative, which seeks to implement local tools and programs to prevent, detect, and address abuse, neglect and exploitation against vulnerable and older adults. The organizations that received grant funding include: • Area Agency on Aging of Western Michigan.

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• Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.

• Region 2 Area Agency on Aging.

• The Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress (UPCAP).

• Tri-County Office on Aging.

Final award amounts were approved by the Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging during its Aug. 17 meeting, totaling $965,000. Grantees will begin their work on Oct. 1, 2018.

The state estimates that as many as 90,000 vulnerable adults in Michigan are victims of crimes every year, with many of these crimes going unreported. If someone suspects elder abuse, neglect, or exploitation, they can call Centralized Intake for Abuse and Neglect at 855-444-3911. If someone is in immediate danger, residents should call 911 or the local police.

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DDOT and SMART propose connecting services for riding efficiency

By Branden Hunter Soon, Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) and Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) riders will not have to deal with paper transfers that break machines and fumble with loose change to pay for bus fare, according to officials who announced proposed fare and transfer changes Thursday at the Rosa Park Transit Center in downtown Detroit.

The proposed changes are designed to make using the region’s primary transit systems much simpler for riders.

“In the 1990s, I was general manager of SMART, and I couldn’t understand how it operated by only selling tickets by the trip instead of having a pass for a portion of time,” said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. “So now we’re going to provide four hours of unlimited rides on both DDOT and SMART for $2.”

to continue to collaborate on projects that will benefit our riders and drivers as well as our both of our agencies,” said John C. Hertel, General Manager of SMART. “With the elimination of the transfer fare, riders will be the biggest winners with an easier and improved riding experience.”

The proposed changes will streamline the fare system for riders by eliminating all transfer fares, allowing for seamless transfers between the two systems using new 4-hour, 24-hour, and 31-day regional passes, reducing the number of passes from 25 to six easy, flexible options, and eventually adding a mobile fare payment app and additional retail location for tickets.

A new mobile phonebased pass purchase option will allow riders to purchase and store the new unlimited regional 24-hour and 31-day regional and DDOT-only passes right on a mobile phone. After the initial release, DDOT and SMART will coordinate efforts to add additional passes to this new mobile option with the goal of all passes being available later in 2019.

“We are working every day to make our transit system better and the fare changes will go a long way to make DDOT easier and simpler to ride,” said Duggan. “Seamless transfers for DDOT and SMART, flexible fare op-

Joseph Powell is a frequent transit rider and is currently sharing a car with his wife. He was a bit skeptical about the rumors of a price hike for DDOT, since he rides the Woodward 53 and Seven Mile 45 a lot but was pleased with the proposed methods the two transit companies are trying to implement for smoother rides.

PHOTOS: Kory Woods tions and more retail and payment choices will improve the experience for riders overall.”

adjustments to SMART’s fares will require approval of SMART’s Board of Directors.

The proposed changes aim to provide simpler choices and more flexibility for bus riders in Detroit and across the region. Riders can provide feedback and comments on the plan at community meetings and public hearings over the next three months. The proposal will go before Detroit City Council for approval in November. Pending approval, fare changes would be implemented starting December 1. Any

DDOT and SMART are working together to allow seamless transfers between the two transit systems. The proposed 4- and 24-hour passes, and new regional pass will let DDOT riders use the same base fare ticket to transfer to SMART, ending the need to carry extra change or an additional pass just to pay for the transfer. DDOT and SMART officials say ending the fares for transfers also will reduce boarding

times and eliminate confusion among bus drivers and passengers.

Consistent with SMART’s current practice, DDOT 7-day and 31day passes will be no longer expire at the end of the week or month. Passes will be active for the full 7 or 31 days starting on the first day of use. Weekly and monthly passes that have rolling times rather than fixed dates will give riders the full value for their money.

“Our working relationship with DDOT has never been better and we hope

“So far, from what I heard today, it seems like it will work out for our benefit,” said Powell.

“It seems like the changes will eliminate a lot of the stress that goes on between riders and the drivers, with transfers and broken machines.

Today’s news was actually beneficial to the riders and I can’t wait until it goes into effect.”

Student riders (under 18 years old) will see a reduction in fares, to 50 cents from 75 cents on DDOT and $1 on SMART, and seniors 65 or older, Medicare card holders and individuals with disabilities will enjoy all of the new benefits at the same price, with no increase.

“I’m a frequent rider of both DDOT and SMART and I catch the bus to work every day because of my disability,” said Detroit Ed Porcher, who is legally blind. “I don’t drive, and these changes will make things easier for me. I think these changes are good for those who cannot drive, for whatever reason, building a stronger regional transit system in the Detroit area.”

Complete information on the proposed fare changes can be found at RideDetroitTransit.com.

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Every Bird has Two Wings

By Rev. Jim Holley Pastor, Historic Little Rock Baptist Church

Every bird has two wings. Without both of those wings, no bird can fly. But sometimes that lesson is lost when it comes to government and how candidates get elected.

The African-American community faces a number of issues: jobs that don’t pay enough to make ends meet; no health care; no reliable transportation; no decent or affordable housing; failing public schools; unsafe streets and neighborhoods; lack of transition services for men and women re-en- Rev. Jim Holley tering the community after serving time in prison. The list goes on.

who wants the best for our community.

And one thing I know for certain: the African-American community can no longer be taken for granted.

The best thing voters can do is take a good look at both candidates, and that includes Bill Schuette.

Bill Schuette’s platform has a lot to offer. Cuts to sky-high auto insurance rates, improved 3rd grade reading, more emphasis on job training and vocational education, and more jobs for everyone, including the cities and urban areas.

It’s one thing to talk the talk. But Bill Schuette’s walked the walk. He provided the funding to test abandoned sexual assault DNA kits and put serial rapists behind bars. He fought to protect pensions when Detroit struggled through bankruptcy. And long before he was ever elected Attorney General, he and his wife Cynthia founded the Michigan Harvest Gathering to collect food and funds to help feed the hungry in Detroit and Michigan.

In short, the African-American community needs government to work for us.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated fifty years ago, in 1968.

The dream has become a nightmare:

To do that, African-Americans need to look at the policies and candidates of both political parties. They need to exercise both wings.

• Our children plan their funeral, not their future.

If the community only supports candidates from one political party – if we try to fly with just one wing – then two things happen. One political party gives up. The other political party takes our community for granted. Neither is a good outcome.

• We are sick and tired of the same old politics.

I am a Democrat. I am also a Detroiter

• Detroit is on the move, but Detroiters are not.

• Urban Michigan deserves and demands better leadership.

Remember this: “if you’re not at the table, then you’re on the menu.” That’s got to change. I stand with Bill Schuette, because Schuette stands with us.

Is Trump Looking Out for Workers?

By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

(NNPA Newswire Columnist)

This may seem strange, but there are apparently unions that feel that President Donald Trump’s policies on trade are in the interests of workers in the United States. I am a bit perplexed.

If you leave aside for a moment the horrendous assaults that Trump and his Republican allies have been conducting against American workers and their unions, it is still diffi- Bill Fletcher, Jr. cult to see how Trump’s views on trade are helping American workers.

Let’s look at the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for a moment. Trump has repeatedly suggested that the U.S.—as a nation—has been the principal victim of NAFTA; that turns out to be less than true. Workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have all been victimized by NAFTA. For instance, NAFTA destroyed Mexican agriculture, and forced a massive migration of Mexican farmers into the cities of Mexico

and later to the U.S. Many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed and gone to border areas of northern Mexico where the workers are underpaid. Canadian companies have left Ontario and moved to the U.S. in search of cheaper labor.

What does Trump say about this?

Nothing, as a matter of fact. Instead he acts as if the people of these other countries are out to carve up the U.S. the way that you carve a turkey at Thanksgiving.

This leads to another question.

If Trump is squeezing U.S. workers through his judicial appointments, destruction of worker and environmental regulations, and siding with the corporate “Right” against workers, why would anyone assume that in dealing with NAFTA negotiations or negotiations with China that he would be particularly concerned about the interests of U.S. workers?

I suppose that I look at it this way.

If the neighborhood bully regularly assaults me and then one day comes to me and says that “we” should join together against some people on another block, why would I believe them? In fact, why would I believe that my interests and those of the bully are at all aligned?

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer and activist. Follow him on Twitter @BillFletcherJr, Facebook and at www.billfletcherjr.com.

Proposed EPA Roll-Backs Have Air of Injustice EPA Roll-Backs Will Hurt People of Color

By Felicia M. Davis

The Grand Old Party Is Dying!

By Dan Dildy

the Nazi, shamelessly said, “I snookered them (the voters).”

Michigan’s primary election has trimmed the candidates for governor down to two nominees: Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, and Republican Bill Schutte. The crucial general election to decide who will sit in the governor’s seat is November 6, 2018.

Repulsive illustrations of this sort are rampant among the fake Republicans; there is the case of the infamous former sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona. Joe Arpaio, 86, had been criminally convicted for contempt for disobeying a judges lawful order to cease racial profiling and the mistreatment of prisoners in the county jail he supervised. Trump quickly pardoned Arpaio to allow him to run for a Senatorial seat in Arizona.

But, even though Schutte and Bill Calley both ran in the primary, the Republican Party really doesn’t have any candidates running for office. You see, if you look carefully you’ll find it almost impossible to locate a traditional, dyed-in the-wool Republican because there aren’t Dan Dildy any. The party of Abe Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, or even Richard Nixon no longer exists, and that is a turning out to be a disaster for the country.

Right now, Congress is filled with pseudo Republicans, imposters---people who won elections claiming to be Republicans---and many others are running for office this November. All have been endorsed by President Trump, and all of them fall far short of simple cordialities like respect, honesty, compassion, and kindness. Indeed, they don’t even attempt to hide behind a facade anymore. In fact, like the president, they are in your face flaunting their lack of compassion, honor, truth, and importantly, outright racism and bigotry.

The dying Republican Party has stocked itself with a dreadful and odious combination of thieves, sexual abusers, Nazis, unpatriotic conspirators, and liars; bold-faced liars who go beyond the accepted hyperbole Americans have come to expect from their politicians.

In Illinois, for example, a Nazi named Arthur Jones will be on the ballot running for a Congressional seat supposedly under the Republican orthodoxy.

Of note, American soldiers gave their lives to defeat fascism in WWII. Jones,

Shamefully, imaginary Republican candidates are trying to out-Trump Trump. In Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis is running for governor and has produced a ridiculous television commercial in which he teaches his own toddler how to build a wall using toy blocks. He tells her that doing so, “Will make America great again.”

Other former patriots include the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell. He cleverly devised a scheme in which he purposely delayed a vote for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee for almost a year, but as soon as Trump nominated a fringe right-wing candidate, McConnell primed the Senate to approve the nominee. Clearly, he stole Obama’s pick to suit his own tastes when the time was ripe. He is an overt and sinister thief.

And so the choices in Michigan could not be clearer starting with Gretchen Whitmer for governor. There is a stark difference between her Democratic ideals and goals than those of any of the wannabee Republicans. While Whitmer intends to overturn the tax on pensions, help our schools, and provide affordable housing for the poor, she also has plans to repair our infrastructure, strengthen healthcare, support equal rights, and curb gun violence. Meanwhile, the near-dead Republican Party continues to embrace regressive tax policies, voter suppression, and further disabling the poorest.

Rest in peace, Grand Old Party. We didn’t always agree, but we’ll miss your character, honor, and rectitude. ddandivine@comcast.net

President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork in the tunnel with one direction pitch black and a bright light at the end of the other. The choice seems so obvious and yet the President of the United States of America intentionally heads into the darkness.

At the turn of the millennium we knew for a fact that the planet is warming and that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide accelerate warming. We were aware of the human contribution and that Felicia M. Davis limiting carbon emissions is the best way for humans to try to avoid catastrophic upheaval.

It took much time and work to get the Clean Power Plan in place that eliminating it is just short of insane. The president’s announcement sent me back to our 2002 report “Air of Injustice: African Americans & Power Plant Pollution.” The collaboration brought Dr. Joseph Lowery and Dr. Yvonne Scruggs-Lefwich of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda and Black Leadership Forum, respectively, together with Martha Keating and Angela Ledford Anderson formerly with the Clean Air Task Force and Clear the Air to mobilize and educate the African American community about the impact of power plant pollution on air quality, climate change and public health.

We reported that coal-fired power plants are the largest industrial emitters of a list of pollutants with negative health impacts such as increased asthma, lung disease, premature deaths and even increases in infectious disease.

Long before Hurricane Katrina we tried to sound the alarm connecting poverty, race, geography and even insurance status to climate impacts. Scientists tried to explain that while we can’t point to any single weather event as evidence of climate change, by the time the pattern is proven it will be too late. We’re like slowly boiling frogs unable to grasp the upheaval that climate change is already causing.

We did a poor job of explaining what a global degree Celsius actually means, our hockey stick graphs and bathtub analogies only worked for people who understand climate science. People can’t seem to connect floods, drought, fires, hurricanes and extreme weath-

er to climate change. We should have stressed the fact that there are only ten global degrees of difference between today’s climate and the ice age. We need to break things down in terms everyday people can appreciate. Perhaps we should remind Americans about the days of the Dust Bowl or the water wars between ranchers and farmers featured in western movies.

Looking back the 10 Principles of Just Climate Policy developed by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (a diverse group of 28 US environmental justice, religious, policy and advocacy groups) included in the Air of Injustice appendix should have been featured more prominently. Principle number one: Stop Cooking the Planet and states plainly that, “Global warming will accelerate unless we can slow the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. To protect vulnerable Americans, alternatives must be found for human activities that cause global warming.”

If we started there and elevated these principles, there would have been a focus on workers and communities. We were adamant that “no group should have to shoulder the burden alone of transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a renewable energy-based economy. We had in mind training and economic development for miners and other displaced workers.

While caring about the needs of local communities down to the individual, it is important to recognized that, “Global Problems Need Global Solutions” and as one of the largest contributors the US should be out front. The Paris Agreement was a major accomplishment. After decades of negotiations finally the whole world was on one accord when it came to the urgent need to collectively work to reduce emissions and adapt to changes that are inevitable. Resilience emerged as a priority given the magnitude of change underway.

We were headed in the right direction. How could we know that the fact that progress was made under America’s first Black president, Barack Obama, would usher in a period that is best described as retrograde?

Truth and science are under attack and our most effective weapon is education. There is little that we can do to move those that know better but still make poor choices and head into the darkness. It is up to us to educate and embrace those that do not know better.

We know better and it is up to us to do better.

Felicia M. Davis is Director of the HBCU Green Fund and on the boards of Green 2.0 and The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.

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From page A-1 As they prepare to hunker down for the night the magnitude of moment is not lost on anyone. Even world-renowned photographer Monica Morgan became sentimental seeing everyone expressing love for the woman she had the honor of photographing for over 30 years.

“This is a very big deal,” said Morgan. “To spend two and a half days on a train, they didn’t know what they would encounter, they didn’t know the weather and they didn’t care,” she continued. “You can feel the energy and I am excited because being here and having this moment gives closure. They’re listening to the songs that touched them and they are able to say goodbye.”

As daylight approaches, the line the campers anticipated starts to form.

It’s all very orderly everyone is in good spirits. It is truly a heartening occasion. Radios, phones, tablets and any other device that plays music is pumping Aretha Franklin. There’s a joyous atmosphere. People laugh when someone mentions there’s a Taylor Swift concert the same day… recounting Ms. Franklin’s viral moment where she complimented the artist on her wardrobe rather than her vocal abilities, saying “Great gowns.

Beautiful gowns.” Everyone within an earshot starts laughing and recalling his or her favorite Aretha moments.

People have come from Atlanta, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Amsterdam, Australia and beyond— bonded by their love for Ms. Franklin.

Around 8:30 am, Mr. O’Neil Swanson and staff from Swanson’s Funeral Home escorted Ms. Franklin’s body inside the museum. Her gold casket gleamed in the

p.m. on August 30, 2018.

sun as supporters waved, wept and clapped for the Queen

The final service will start at 10 a.m. Friday, August 31 at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit.

Announced performers include Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Ronald Isley, Chaka Khan, Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson and Yolanda Adams.

Upon entering the museum you see Ms. Aretha in the rotunda and its absolutely breathtaking—this great woman taking her rightful place among all things of cultural and historical importance. The room is gorgeous adorned lilac, pink and ivory colored roses.

Decked out in all red Ms. Franklin is the epitome of diva elegance. Her gown boasts beading and floral accents and red Christian Louboutins.

Her legs crossed at the ankles showing the same class she exuded in life.

As fans filed in and out the moment was underscored perfectly by her hit song “Angel” echoing through the walls of the museum. Some people sang along others opted to have a silent moment

Speakers so far include former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Clive Davis.

The Friday service will be made available for viewing live online and on television.

with the queen. There wasn’t an overwhelming sense sadness. But instead an air of gratitude, people were grateful and happy to have a moment to spend with the woman

who gave them so much.

The public viewing at the Charles H. Wright museum will conclude on Wednesday, Aug 29, 2018 at 9pm. From there Ms. Franklin will be transport-

ed to New Bethel Church, the church founded by her father, the late Rev. C.L. Franklin. Located at 8430 Linwood St, Detroit, New Bethel will host its viewing from noon to 4

For TV viewers in Detroit, the service will be broadcast live by several stations, including WDIVTV (Channel 4), WJBK-TV (Channel 2) and WXYZ-TV (Channel 7). The stations will stay with the funeral through its duration, which could be well into Friday afternoon.

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Check with Voter Registrar – Are You Still on the Rolls?

By Mark Hedin U.S. citizens across the country soon will vote on all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, for 35 U.S. senators and three dozen governorships. The House of Representatives and possibly the Senate are up for grabs.

Given the high stakes, voters would do well to check at least a month ahead of time with their local board of elections to see if they’re still registered to vote. This is especially true for people of color.

The reason is that millions could find their right to vote challenged or taken away under suspicion that they’re trying to vote more than once, largely due to 26 states using the Interstate Voter Crosscheck system, which compares lists of voters in different states and challenges the registration of those whose names come up more than once.

For the 1,166,000 people in the country who share the surname Garcia, this could be a problem. Likewise for the Rodriguezes (1,094,924), Jacksons (708,099), Washingtons (177,386), Kims (262,352), Patels (229,973), Lees (693,023) and Parks (106,696).

Crosscheck, developed in 2005 by Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh as a free service for participating states, promised to detect voter fraud by comparing people’s names, social security numbers and birthdates. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri first implemented it in 2006.

During his tenure as Kansas’ secretary of state, current GOP gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach expanded Crosscheck to 15 states by 2012 and 29 by 2014 and in 2017 was appointed to a leading role in the White House’s short-lived Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

In 2017, of 98 million voting records Crosscheck analyzed, it deemed 7.2 million potential duplicates, although Crosscheck has yet to produce its first voter fraud conviction.

Eight states that originally signed on have since dropped out, citing unreliable data.

Nonetheless, it’s still in use in dozens more.

Eight of those state have Senate seats up for a vote this year in contests that are expected to be close: Arizona, Nevada, Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan.

And 19 Crosscheck-using states are voting on their governor for the next four years.

In a 2015 named “The Health of State Democracies,” the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit funded in part by the Gates Foundation, Wal-Mart, Ford Foundation and many others, concluded that the voters Crosscheck tagged for review are disproportionately non-white.

“States participating in the Interstate Crosscheck system risk purging legally registered voters ꟷ with a significant oversampling from communities of color,” it said, citing the work of journalist Greg Palast, who’s been studying the U.S. voting system since 2000, for the BBC, al-Jazeera America, Rolling Stone magazine and others and produced a film about it, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.” Working with data analyst Mark Swedlund, Palast found that among states using Crosscheck, one in six Hispanics, one in seven Asian Americans and one in nine African Americans landed on its list of suspect voters.

“The outcome is discriminatory against minorities,” Swedlund says.

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Kindergarten ‘boot camp’ aims to ready young Detroit children — and their parents — for school

By Kimberly Hayes Taylor In a back room of a church on the city’s near east side, Abraham and Magaly Gonzalez attended a summer camp with their 5-year-old twins.

Six other children from the church’s child care center were seated around a rectangular table lit by fluorescent overhead lights, working on exercises to teach them colors, numbers, and shapes.

“They have to learn more,” Magaly Gonzalez said, explaining that the couple has been working with the boys, Rafael and Nicholas, at home using books and videos, “and we have to learn more to help them.”

This was their second session in the Detroit main district’s newly launched Kindergarten Boot Camp, a four-week summer program led by district staff that focuses on the basics children need to start school.

The Gonzalezes sent their sons to preschool when they were 4 years old. But the couple was so excited about what their boys learned in an earlier camp that they came to the People’s Missionary Baptist Church, a community site, to help them learn more: how to count to 20, spell and write their names, and recognize letters and shapes.

Although school readiness is not a new notion for educators, in the past couple of years, the summer programs for children who are about to start kindergarten have become a national trend, said Robin Jacob, a University of Michigan research associate professor who focuses on K-12 educational intervention.

“They are a fairly new idea, and they are important,” said Jacob, who researched more than a dozen similar programs that recently have sprung

up from Pittsburgh to Oakland, Calif., many targeting children who had no prior preschool education.

A full year of preschool is the best way to get children ready for kindergarten, she said, “but we know there are kids who fall through the cracks and it’s important to catch those children, and preschool doesn’t always include parents so they learn how to help their children at home.”

A growing number of districts and schools have added the programs, recognizing that they last only a few weeks, are relatively inexpensive, and keep students engaged during the summer months, she said.

These early lessons are important for children and their parents, said Sharlonda Buckman, the Detroit district’s assistant superintendent of

family and community engagement, because officials too often hear from teachers that children don’t know how to sit in their seats, line up, or hold a pencil.

Even when they’ve gone to preschool, she said, some children still have trouble, because kindergarten requires more discipline and structure than preschool. The children’s parents often don’t know how to prepare their children for kindergarten and lifelong learning.

That’s why the district’s program requires parents like the Gonzalezes to attend the boot camp sessions with their children.

“People automatically assume Kindergarten Boot Camp is about the

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55th Anniversary Commemoration: 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing and the Historic Children’s March Marking the 55th anniversary of the horrific church bombing that claimed the lives of four little African American girls and energized the civil rights movement, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on September 8 at 2 p.m. will present a program featuring an appearance of Sarah Collins Rudolph, the bombings often overlooked fifth victim who survived but not unscathed. It is widely thought that the church bombing was a retaliation for the Birmingham March, which took place five months earlier.

The two-hour program will also feature Detroit resident Mamie King-Chalmers, a Birmingham native and veteran of the historic Children’s March of 1963 in which thousands of youths were willingly arrested in order to force Birmingham, at the time America’s most virulently racist city, to end the practice of American apartheid. An iconic photo of King-Chalmers being hosted by firemen, along with a host of images of police terror alerted the world to the horrors faced by blacks in Birmingham. Both Rudolph and King-Chalmers will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Gloria Aneb House, professor emerita of Humanities and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and associate professor

Klan. A slideshow titled “The Struggle Continues” will be presented by Dale Rich, noted genealogist, photojournalist and black military researcher. Poet Demetrius Orr will recite an original poem written for the occasion, “A Poem for Sarah.” Nine-year-old Alicen Felder will read Martin Luther King’s speech, “How Long, Not Long,” and “A Birmingham Ballad” by Dudley Randall. Dominique Davis will sing “A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke.

Sarah Collins Rudolph emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University. Dr. House was a field secretary in the 1960’s in Alabama for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

The opening musical selection will be John Coltrane’s “Alabama,” which the legendary saxophonist composed in response to the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, allegedly by four members of the Ku Klux

There will also be two videos concerning the church bombing and the march.

Birmingham resident Rudolph, 12-yearsold when the church was bombed, lost an eye as a result and has other related health issues. She was hospitalized for more than two months. Her 14-year-old sister, Addie Mae Collins, was among those killed. King-Chalmers had recruited people in her neighborhood to participate in the Children’s March and consequently was targeted by police for her leadership, determination and courage.

In addition to being hosed, she spent five days in jail under horrible conditions, and was chased by dogs and beaten.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is located at 315 E. Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201.

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From page B-1 The chief explanation for the racial inequity is that ethnic communities are more likely to share a surname, such as Washington, Lee, Patel or Kim, Palast told Ethnic Media Services.

Swedlund and Palast found that the Crosscheck system seems satisfied that if two people share a common first and last name, they’re suspect. Differences in their birthdate, middle initial, Social Security numbers or suffixes such as “Jr.” and “Sr.” don’t keep registered voters off Crosscheck’s lists.

Not all 7 million people whose names appear on Crosscheck’s lists will be denied a vote, though. For one thing, only 36.4% of the people who were registered to vote even showed up at the polls in 2014. In one survey of elections between 1960 and 1995, the United States ranks dead last in the democracies of the world, with an average turnout of 48%.

Kindergarten From page B-1 kids,” Buckman said. “For us, it’s about the parents.”

About 100 parents attended the classes this summer in nine elementary schools and the church to build on the belief that “parents are the child’s best teacher,” Buckman said.

Parents also are involved in programs sponsored by Living Arts, a nonprofit arts organization, that is offering a range of programming in Detroit through Head Start to help preschool children and their parents get ready for the first day of school.

“Our movement, drama and music activities encourage children to learn how to be part of a line to transition to another part of the day such as going outside, the bathroom or a circle,” said Erika Villarreal-Bunce, the Living Arts director of programs. “The arts help children understand this new space they’re in is not like things were at home, and helps children learn to function in those spaces.”

Although not all camps require parent involvement, they offer similar lessons to prepare children for kindergarten.

In suburban cities such as Southfield and Huntington Woods, the Bricks 4 Kidz program uses models made of brightly colored bricks to teach preschool children letter recognition, patterns, colors, counting, and vocabulary.

Maria Montoya, who works for the charter school office at Grand Valley State University, the city’s largest charter school authorizer, said Detroit charter schools have offered a range of options over the years including week-long and single-day programs to help kids get ready for kindergarten.

The best of them teach basic academics, instruct children in a classroom setting, and engage parents in student learning, Jacob said.

“Educators have thought about school readiness for a long time, but understanding how important that summer transition period can be is something that people have started to think about more carefully recently,” she said. “Summertime is a key time where kids can be learning.”

Regina Bell, a W.K. Kellogg Foundation program officer, said the foundation funded Detroit’s Kindergarten Boot Camp because of the importance of focusing on the earliest years of life to ensure students’ success in K-12 and beyond.

“Part of this is recognizing that most

of the human brain is developed by the age of 5, and when you think about early learning opportunities, those are the foundation for the future,” she said. “It is that foundation that really takes children into the K-12 system.”

Kindergarten Boot Camp, funded by a $3 million Kellogg grant, is only one part of the Detroit district’s efforts to increase parent involvement to improve student attendance, discipline issues, and test scores. The three-year grant also funds the Parent Academy and teacher home visits. (Kellogg is also a Chalkbeat funder).

As for Abraham Gonzalez, the twins’ father, parenting and teaching children doesn’t come naturally. So he says the early learning opportunity for his sons is essential for them — and their parents, although they spent a year in preschool at the Mark Twain School for Scholars in southwest Detroit.

“We are trying our best to teach these kids,” he said, and it’s even more challenging teaching them when Spanish is their first language.

Now, he said, the boys’ are getting so proficient at English, they understand more than their parents.

“They are understanding what the people tell them,” he said. “Sometimes, we don’t.”

Would-be voters whose names are missing from the lists of registered voters will be given what’s called a “provisional ballot,” to be tallied if the voter is ultimately found to have been wrongly left off the lists. Palast, however, skeptical that many provisional ballots are ever counted, refers to them as “placebo ballots.”

Voters eager to cast genuine ballots, then, might want to call their local board of elections well in advance of Nov. 6 to be sure that they’ll be allowed to vote.

In 2018’s highly charged political environment, individual votes may count more than ever. Take, for example, the recent special election for the vacant seat representing Ohio’s 12th congressional district.

In that still undecided Aug. 7 race, 1,200 votes separate Republican Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor at press time.

Ohio has removed almost 200,000 voters from the rolls because they appeared on the Crosscheck lists.

The margin of victory in the state’s 12th District race may ultimately be found among the 5,048 absentee ballots not yet tallied and the still uncounted 3,435 provisional ballots.

No matter which of the candidates is awarded Ohio’s vacant 12th District Congressional seat based on the August election, voters will get another chance to decide between Balderson and O’Connor in November.

That’s why voters who want to have their voices heard Nov. 6, in Ohio and elsewhere, should call local officials ahead of time to see if any problems have come up with their registration.

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Historic African- American Owned, Roberts Riverwalk Hotel receives Wayne County’s Largest PACE Deal

By Patreice A. Massey $4.8 Million Energy Efficiency Program Will Help Sustain Property and Revitalize the Riverfront The Roberts Riverwalk Hotel, with the assistance of PACE Energy Services, Structured Finance Associates and Wayne County has been approved by Lean & Green Michigan for PACE, an energy efficiency and property sustainability program.

Under the program and through PACE Energy Services, the hotel is in the process of implementing a wide variety of energy and water efficiency measures including LED lights inside and out, new heating and cooling units, state-of-the-art building controls, multiple water saving measures, building envelope upgrades, solar-powered parking lights and will address certain storm-water controls. The $4.8 million project was financed over 20 years, and is projected to save $15.6 million over that time span.

This landmark project is the first in the state for an African-American owned business.

Prominent St. Louis Business Mogul and Hotelier, Dr. Michael V. Roberts, Sr. pursued the program after discovering the opportunity to lower energy costs while significantly decreasing the buildings carbon footprint. PACE, Property Assessed Clean Energy, is a legislative program developed as a longterm financing tool for commercial property owners to pay for energy efficiency, water efficiency and renewable energy upgrades. Property owners receive 100% prefunding for energy saving upgrades on their facilities and pay the PACE loan back through a special assessment on their property taxes.

As a visionary and sustainability advocate, the highly sought after public speaker and author of “Action Has No Season” is not new to urban green revitalization. Over the past 3 decades, he has developed several energy efficient commercial and residential properties.

These developments consist of hotels, television/radio stations, and mixed-use buildings spanning the country in such cities as Houston, Dallas, Denver, Tampa, Atlanta and his hometown of St. Louis. He is a true pioneer in the revival of Detroit and recognized massive rebounding potential prior to participating in the recovery of the city when he purchased the property in 2010.

“The rebirth of Detroit is happening Once a struggling city, it has now turned the corner and is experiencing an extraordinary Renaissance with new commercial and residential developments, national conferences, sporting events, concerts, and job creation. This is an exciting time to be invested in this beautiful city and an integral part of the community,” says Dr. Roberts.

In addition to the expansive renovations made by Dr. Roberts since his acquisition of the property, he has also cultivated impactful partnerships with community stakeholders and influencers including Prestige Automotive owner, Greg Jackson. These two entrepreneurs and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity brothers joined forces to give back to the community in the form of an outdoor concert series called “Jazz on the Riverwalk.” This summer

has marked the 5th anniversary of Jazz on the Riverwalk, a free concert series presented from June through August each Thursday along the Detroit riverfront at the Roberts Riverwalk Hotel. Each concert draws more than 2,000 patrons who come from near and far to enjoy hours of free jazz entertainment, popular food items, and drink specials.

“I look forward to not only the continuation of giving

back to the people of Detroit, but, also aiding in improving the environment in which we live and work. This is truly a magnificent city and I encourage more businesses to incorporate environmentally friendly sustainable measures within their facilities and operationally,” says Dr. Roberts.

Dr. Roberts credits Lean & Green Michigan as the administrator for recognizing the hotel as a viable candidate for

such a groundbreaking loan.

He also graciously acknowledges Structured Finance Associates for providing funding for this historic project and extends great appreciation to PACE Energy Services whom assisted with securing the financing and is serving as the project manager.

Wayne County Executive, Warren Evans is lauded for his encouragement and dedication regarding the process to apply

Firestone building at former Northland Center Demolished City moves forward with demolition and sale of property to pave the way for redevelopment Demolition of the Firestone building at the former Northland Center is slated to begin on Monday, August 27 at 9 a.m. The Southfield City Council unanimously voted to award the contract for the Firestone and Target buildings demolition to Dore & Associates of Bay City, Michigan ($572,650.00 + contingency) last fall.

In October of 2015, The city of Southfield purchased the closed Northland Center mall at Eight Mile Road and the Lodge Freeway, located in the City’s Downtown Development Authority (DDA) District, from the court-ordered receiver for $2.4 million with plans to remediate, demolish and sell the property to a qualified developer. Th90we environmental assessment, asbestos abatement and remediation of the former Firestone building has been completed. The complete demolition of the building is expected to take less than two weeks. As the environmental assessment and remediation of the remainder of the mall and other buildings continues, further demolition is expected to take place in the coming months.

Numerous developers have submitted letters of intent and the City has entered in to due diligence agreements with several developers who have expressed a strong interest in the property. The City is currently in continued discussions

with Edward Rose & Sons, a Bloomfield Hills-based luxury residential developer that is interested in approximately 30 acres on the northwest side of the property for a residential development, including senior housing. Negotiations also continue with San Diego-based Pacific Medical Buildings (PMB), one of the country’s preeminent full-service healthcare real estate developers. PMB is proposing to build a mixed-use medical development on 25-30 acres on the northeast side of the property directly across from Providence Hospital. General Development Corporation (GDC), a Southfield-based commercial real estate development firm which specializes in built-to-suit office, industrial and R&D projects, has also expressed interest in developing 20 acres of the property on the southwest side.

As each developer has progressed to various stages of their respective due diligence process, a continuing point of discussion relates to the cost of infrastructure improvements required to support the proposed developments. To facilitate and expedite progress, the Southfield City Council recently approved expenditures to perform infrastructure improvements at the site. These expenditures are delineated among sanitary sewer, water, storm sewer, road improvement (JL Hudson Drive-Greenfield to Providence), and further demolition beginning on the northern portion of the mall. The City’s infrastructure expenditures will be repaid through the sale or lease of the Northland property and the Tax Increment Finance Authority. Repayment is predicated on a taxable development taking place at the property.

for the program. Under Evans leadership, Wayne County has become a trailblazer in PACE implementation.

Over the next 6 months, the Roberts Riverwalk Hotel will be transformed into a green facility. Not only will this project increase property values it will also be a business sustainability model for the surrounding community while lowering its carbon footprint within the city of Detroit.

“The former Northland site represents an outstanding opportunity for a vibrant new mixed-use development of residential, retail, office, medical and green space,” commented Southfield Mayor Kenson Siver. “The Northland name is synonymous with Southfield, and it is imperative that we find the very best use of the site and fit for the community. We are very excited about the current developments proposed and we remain confident that this project will be a great success. We are literally paving the way for redevelopment and we hope that this project can be a model for other communities across the country.”

The Southfield City Council approved a master plan for the 125-acre redevelopment last year that is a conceptional, market driven blueprint that outlines the standards and vision for developers of the former mall property. Planning consultants OHM Advisors and HRC conducted a thorough technical analysis of the site, examination of the existing buildings/structures, an assessment of environmental factors, and a market analysis to determine the best possible development potential for the former mall. The resulting plan offers a dynamic mix of housing options, R&D, medical office, retail, entertainment and dining.

The master plan is based on a series of development blocks/districts that collectively create a safe and vibrant mixeduse destination for southeast Michigan residents, businesses, and visitors. The Plan is intended to be highly flexible to adapt to market conditions. While adaptable, the development of the area will stay true to the vision of vibrancy, safety, inclusion, innovation, health and wellness, sustainability, and community. High quality architecture and public spaces are essentials to the long-term success of the project. Attention to detail and brand elements will continue to be a key focus of the redevelopment of the area with the goal of creating more than just another new development – Northland will be a place to call home.

When Northland Center opened in March 1954, it was the largest shopping mall in the world, 20 years later, in 1974, the mall was enclosed. Northland led the way for Southfield to become a major commercial, business and residential center in metropolitan Detroit. At the time of the original center’s completion, Southfield’s population was only 25,000.

Fifteen years later, the population had more than doubled to 69,000, and today the city boasts over 73,000 residents and a daytime population reaching 175,000.

Alongside the contribution to population growth, the Center helped foster enormous office expansion. Today, Southfield boasts more than 27 million square feet of office space, making it one of Michigan’s leading business centers.

For more information, contact the Southfield Downtown Development Authority at (248) 796-5190 or visit www. imaginenorthland.com.

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Daughter of a Preacher Man honored with musical tribute at her church home

By Branden Hunter

Hundreds of people packed into the sweltering chapel of New Bethel Baptist Church, where Aretha Franklin began her long and accomplished musical career, at a Gospel Tribute paying respect to the “Queen of Soul.”

The native Detroiter and international icon passed away August 16 in her hometown after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

The tribute featured some of the more notable pastors and gospel music singers in the city of Detroit, including Dorinda Clark-Cole of the Grammy Award-winning gospel group The Clark Sisters, Rev. Robert Smith Jr. of New Bethel Baptist Church, Evangelist Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, Rev. Kenneth Flowers of Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Minister Des’Monicka Jones, the Detroit Youth Choir, and many others.

“It’s great to be here where it all started for Aretha Franklin,” said Clark-Cole. “I’m kind of lost for words right now because Aretha did so much for me and my sisters. She sung at my mother’s funeral and I was a part of one of her last concerts that she had here at the church. I think’s it’s wonderful that they are honoring her at her father’s church and to see the entire neighborhood come out in droves shows you just how much she meant to us all.”

In 1946, Rev. C.L. Franklin moved his family to Detroit to become pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church.

Aretha Franklin’s mother died before she turned 10 and that is when Franklin began her singing career, singing solos at her father’s church in 1952. Long before No.1 hits such as “Respect” and “Chain of Fools” and a successful career in secular music, Franklin began her career as a gospel singer. She released a number of gospel songs, including “Precious Lord” in the late 1950s.

Franklin was known as the Queen of Soul, but gospel music remained a constant force and source of comfort throughout her life. Franklin annually hosted gospel concerts at New Bethel Baptist, located on a stretch of Linwood Avenue in Detroit renamed in her father’s honor, and donated to its fund, never forgetting about her Detroit and gospel music roots.

“New Bethel is her home,” said Smith. “It all started here for her and the attention the church has gotten since her passing shows you just how important the church and gospel music were to her career. She loved the lord and gave so much to the world and to this community. Before she passed, she told me that she was going to be alright; the church was going to be alright.”

Terry Tarrant created the shrine outside of New Bethel Baptist Church for Franklin. He started building the memorial one hour after Franklin passed away and

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has watched it grow to feature a multitude of balloons, stuffed animals, posters, pictures, and a stereo blasting Franklin’s most popular songs. Tarrant has been in front of the church every day, sometimes for 8-12 hours, watching the world convene at the site where it all started for the Queen.

“I created this so that Detroiters and people from all around the world can pay homage to the Queen of Soul,” said Tarrant. “It started with the posters on the end of the church and then I started planting the roses. I placed some balloons and poster boards to make it more appealing.

“Every day, I stood here and witnessed the emotion and heartfelt feeling people had over the loss of our Queen of Soul. She was committed to showing Detroit that she cared and today, people came here to New Bethel to show her how much they cared for her in return.”

A public viewing of Franklin will be open to the public at New Bethel Baptist Church Thursday, August 30 from 12-4 p.m. Her body will lie in state for two days at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American Museum History August 28-29. The viewing will run 9-9 p.m. each day.

Franklin’s life and legacy will be celebrated with a free concert at Chene Park’s Amphitheatre on Thursday from 6-9 p.m. Her funeral at Greater Grace Temple on Friday will not be open to the public but will be live streamed by Local 4 beginning at 9 a.m. Expected guests include Stevie Wonder, Fantasia, former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, music mogul Clive Davis, and a long list of other dignitaries.

“It’s important for me to be out here celebrating her life,” said Melvin Stephens, who was at the musical tribute selling shirts with her likeness on them. “She meant so much to the world. She was inspirational, powerful, moving, and she left a legacy through her powerful voice and music.”

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By Nicole Black

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With a 100 voice choir singing and a 1,500 seated church filled, praises rung throughout the sanctuary of the New Bethel Baptist Church in honor of our very own Queen, Ms. Aretha Louise Franklin. New Bethel Baptist Church is where it all started under the great leadership of her father, Rev. C.L. Franklin. Hundreds came out to pay their RESPECTS to Franklin’s Gospel Roots.

Being the first gospel tribute of its kind, attendees stood in line in for almost three hours just to guarantee seating for the star- studded gospel musical tribute concert.

The tribute included some of Franklin’s close friends and gospel artist, who shared in her revival concerts at New Bethel Baptist Church yearly along with some of Detroit’s local talent such as Detroit’s own Dr. Dorinda Clark Cole, Esther V. Smith, Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, Douglas Miller, Dorothy Norwood, Laura Lee, the Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir, Greater Burnette Baptist Church Choir, the Matthews Family and the Anointed Four under the direction of Pastor Ryan Johnson of the Greater Burnette Baptist Church all whom have been impacted by the queen musically. Pastor Alvin E. Jackson, pastor of the Wings of Love Ministries opened the musical tribute with a soul stirring prayer that could be heard and felt down the aisles of the church as well as outside.

She did so much for me and my sisters, she sung at my mom’s funeral and that is something that me and my sisters, The Clark Sisters will never forget, the surrounding neighborhoods are coming out in droves just to see the memories that she imparted right here at this corner at this historic church, says, Dr. Clark- Cole.

Longtime members, family, friends, and

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President, Pastors and Ministers Division National Baptist Convention USA Inc. Aretha Franklin will unequivocally go down in history as the greatest singer...ever. No voice or vocalist with such longevity was as versatile, and no artist was as consistent with such sentimental messages in their lyrical expressions as was the Queen of Soul. Thus, Aretha Franklin didn’t just sing songs, she was a song. Having emerged from the African American church tradition, her incomparable talent penetrated cultural barriers of her time and affected the contradistinguishing values that propagated sexism, chauvinism and racism. She took the ‘blue notes’ of life and turned all of them into ‘high notes’, sung them in the key of pain, love, joy and social justice, and sung them with the spirit of excellence. Everything she touched turned into ‘soul’ as she unapologetically precipitated R-E-S-P-E-C-T from artists and actors, Kings and commoners, nobles, royals, popes and even presidents of the United States. She was not a peer, she was a superior; a ‘natural’ woman, a godly woman, a stately woman, a giving woman, a proud woman, a proper woman, felicitous woman, and unmistakably ARETHA! She didn’t just sing songs, she was a song, and she was a song well sung. Take a bow Miss. Aretha Franklin, you are the queen of them all!

PHOTO: Nicole Black Dr. Dorinda Clark -Cole and Pastor Alvin E. Jackson Sr. visitors from all over the country remembered the churches trademarked lighted cross that says One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism that is displayed in the middle of the sanctuary. The cross is known throughout the country due to her 1987 Album Cover that was a three- day Live Recording Session at her home church. Even though Franklin went on to be the best singer of all times, she never forgot where she came from says, Pastor E.L. Branch.

Franklin’s gospel roots will always be remembered because of where it all started. The seed that her father planted in her as a kid, which was Jesus Christ. She was anointed from birth to be the natural woman that she was and because of her gospel roots, the music industry has been blessed by the best, the Queen of Soul.

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Pastor, Third New Hope Baptist Church “I’ve been in several countries where English is hardly spoken, yet you could hear Ms. Aretha Franklin’s songs all over the place. Her gift is universal! We will always love and cherish her musical genius. Aretha is the real deal for over five decades.

She and her music have been with us through the years.”

Sister of The Clark Sisters Elect Lady, International Department of Evangelism Church of God in Christ Our Sister, our Friend, our Queen, Ms. Aretha Louis Franklin was and will forever remain the most celebrated female singer of times. Last year she invited me to be a special guest at your revival at New Bethel Baptist Church. I had already sung, but unfortunately was conducting business and did not get a chance to see or hear me. She called me back in the room and said, Dorinda I need you to go back out there and sing for me. You can’t be a guest at my program and I not hear you, go out there and sing one more selection for me, says Aretha, and yes, I did just that. The words that she spoke to me that night changed my life forever. Real sister friends care and discuss concerns for each other without disclosing them to anyone. The battle she fought, she fought it with class, poise, and dignity. She taught us how to continue to strive and be the best even when we’re not feeling our best. She showed us how to preserve through it all. Ms. Aretha Louise Franklin was a phenomenal mother, singer, sister, but to me, she was an extraordinary friend.

Pastor Ryan Johnson,

Greater Burnette Baptist Church The Queen of Soul, Ms. Aretha Louise Franklin has made an imprint and impact in this world that will never be forgotten. She was not only talented, but she was gifted by God! A woman of conviction, character, and class often imitated but never duplicated. Rest from your labor our queen!! We love you!!!

Pastor Curtis Williams Owner- Trinity Funeral Home “My first encounter with Aretha was through her father, the late Rev. C. L. Franklin. In the mid to late 1970’s Rev. Franklin often opened up his pulpit to young ministers in the City of Detroit and allowed them an opportunity to preach during the Sunday evening broadcast.

I was fortunate enough in 1977 to begin periodically driving Rev. Franklin around in the metro Detroit area.

Many times, I would interact with Rev. Franklin’s children. Aretha was always kind, personable and shared a “biteto-eat”.

After the tragic robbery which left Rev. Franklin in a semi-coma, I would often go over to the home to give him a shave. Aretha appreciated and allowed many prominent Pastors throughout the country to accompany me to the home and pray for her father.

In later years, she would always thank me for my continued support to her father and family during those times.

Aretha’s music was “light” to our lives. Through her music we were enhanced, embraced, engulfed and loved. There will never be another Aretha Franklin!

Dr. Dorinda Clark Cole

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Living Single in a Millennial’s Kind of World

By Shannon Stecker There is a stigma associated with being single. Whether you’re an independent career-oriented woman, a successful bachelor, a parent or a homebody that prefers technology and animals over human interaction, people will always look at you sideways if you’re single after a certain age.

And Another One:

“Why are you single? Are you crazy? Have you killed someone? You hiding people in your basement? What did you do? Something MUST be wrong?”

The struggle is real. Between the season premiere of “Insecure,” logging on to Facebook on August 18th and seeing that everybody got married, and the cooling temperatures signaling “cuffing season,” your “why am I still single, what the f*#k is wrong with me” meter is at an alltime high.

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But don’t fret, being single isn’t all the way bad. In fact, I have a few reasons to tell you why being single can be material to your personal growth, and sanity.

Mainstay!

1. You don’t have to wait for anyone to watch the new episode of your favorite TV shows.

By AJ Williams

2. You have more money in your pocket. If you’re a woman, this can go either way, but if you’re a man, this is certain. When you aren’t obligated to always pick up the tab, you have more money to spend on yourself, and the things you want. The new Air Maxes? *Pre-ordered* Another make-up palette? *Adds to cart*

City.Life.Style. Editor Celebrity Chef. Restaurateur. Cleary Residence Chef. If you haven’t heard of Chef Max Hardy, then you must haven’t dine in D. Detroit Native returned home from his culinary journeys aboard, Max Hardy and his traveling culinary creations have in little over a year taken Detroit by storm.

3. You don’t have to answer to anyone (except the bill collectors) about the decisions you make. Refer to number 2 and your impulsive purchases.

Chef Max as he’s affectionately known amongst friends and colleagues opened his first Detroit restaurant River Bistro Detroit’ known as “his baby” in 2017. The restaurant located in Detroit’s Grandmont-Rosedale neighborhood is inspired by low country, Caribbean, and African cuisine.

4. You’re free of the BS, and drama. Need I say more?

5. I do actually have more to say, and this is the most important: you-time. When you are alone, you are forced to face your thoughts, and although this is sometimes scary, this is key when you need to self-reflect.

Riding the success of River Bistro Detroit, Chef Max is now experiencing the same rave reviews for his latest culinary venture, “COOP” continuing in a similar fashion of Caribbean ­Fusion but street food style. COOP is located in the new Detroit Shipping Company building, a food hall style social gathering hole in Midtown Detroit.

Being single isn’t easy, but don’t rush the process, and don’t settle. What you’re experiencing is a PTO from love, and this is an intricate part of your growth. In the time of social media validation, use your PTO to establish your identity, and learn to love yourself before expecting someone else to love you. If you’re past this point, use your PTO to figure out why your love life is loveless.

Perhaps you aren’t in the relationship you want, or need because you aren’t mentally prepared for, or projecting the right energy to receive it.

COOP has several signatures dishes served cafeteria style; my personal favorites are the Midtown Crispy Chicken Sandwich, a juicy chicken thigh served with smoked bacon jam, pimento cheese, house pickles and the street style Caribbean Corn.

As if that wasn’t enough to make anyone deem themselves a success at their profession, it’s not enough for the never-ending ambition of Chef Max, who was recently named ‘Cleary University’s Executive Chef In Resience.

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5 Curly Hair Travel Hacks with Celeb Stylist Ursula Stephen 1 – Refresh your curls We’ve all been there, you just spent a day pool side drinking with your pals out in the sun, splashing around only to realize if you want to show off your flawless hair at dinner that night, you’ll have to wash and condition your curls to revive them. However, Stephen shares a great tip for refreshing your locks without having to start from scratch. “For someone wanting to refresh their curls while traveling, the trick is to mix your favorite conditioner like Suave Professionals Avocado + Olive Oil Smoothing Conditioner with water in a spray bottle. I find this is a

simple and efficient way to create your own ‘leave-in spray’ to providing the needed moisture to reactive your curls.”

2 – Say no to heat damage Especially in the summer months, when we are more prone to be outside, it is extremely important to use a heat protection, not only to protect it from the electric dryer, but also from the elements.

“To keep hair protected from sun damage which is equivalent to heat damage, use a heat protectant throughout the day if you’re lying in the sun. Reapply often like you

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as it is alcohol-free and its anti-frizz complex is designed to help define and hold natural curl patterns without having to use any hot tools. Be sure to squeeze the excess product out and allow hair to dry naturally.

Try not to touch the hair too much to avoid causing frizz.”

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3 – Master the ‘Wash & Go’ The secret behind managing your hair while traveling, is all in the prepping the night before or morning of. Ursula shares her favorites to master the ‘wash & go.’ “Be sure to apply product while the hair is still soaking wet. I usually mix in about three different products, what we like to call ‘cocktailing.’ I use the Suave Professionals Coconut Oil Infusion Damage Repair Conditioner, which is infused with pure coconut oil, a natural moisturizer and delivers lightweight moisture without weighing hair down,

4 – Travel size containers are your best friends

Avocado + Olive Oil Smoothing Conditioner which I find particularly helpful given that the avocado and olive oil duo is known for their hydration, pro-

COOP

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In his new role, “Chef Max” will work collaboratively with Chef Jeff Bane, head instructor of the culinary program, to shape curriculum based on his diverse experience and serve as an ambassador for Cleary’s Culinary Academy.

As if success wasn’t enough, Chef Max’s truest heart desire? To give back. Hardy is also the founder of One Chef Can 86 Hunger; a nonprofit organization focused on raising awareness and fighting hunger in the U.S. “I moved back to Detroit to con-

tection and frizz fighting benefits, and add a dollop of Suave Professionals Captivating Curls Whipped Cream Mousse. This mousse is one of my favorites

Travel size products are convenient whether you are flying or taking the train to visit your friends for the weekend. It is also the best way to ensure your hair will look it’s best for the gram. “If you want to maintain your healthy hair regimen while traveling, find your favorite products in travel size or condense your favorite products into travel size. If not, you can also buy reusable travel size containers that can store

tribute to, and help grow the culinary scene,” said Chef Max Hardy. “Working to teach and develop the future culinary leaders in Detroit will help support not only the restaurant industry but the region,” he added.

Knowing is unquenchable passion, I know this is not the final stop for Chef Max. When asked how does it do it all? He said, “I don’t sleep.”

Well, Detroit’s culinary palette thanks you Chef Hardy for your gift and sacrifice.

Follow Chef Max on IG @ChefMaxHard Follow COOP on IG @Coop_Detroit Follow River Bistro Detroit on IG @RiverBistroDetroit

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enough product that will last you the entire trip. are known for their rich emollients. This formula works to replenish hair to leave it feeling well-nourished and looking beautiful. An added bonus is that this wash and care system is also free of parabens and harsh dyes,” mentions Ursula.

5 – Always protect your hair Even when we sleep, frizz is out there waiting to happen.

“Always travel with your own satin pillow case or satin scarf.

Silk retains moisture and helps fight frizz during those high humidity days. For added frizz control use the on-the-go trick of mixing your favorite conditioner like Suave Professionals Almond and Shea Butter Conditioner with water in a spray bottle and spritz as needed,” suggests Ursula.

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Cost Engineer Warren, MI, General Motors. Analyze &evaluate psgr vehicle interior systems incldg radios, amplifiers, speakers, electronic modules, batteries, generators, wiring harnesses, instrument clusters, horns, sensors, airbag electrical components, &brackets, using Teamcenter VisMockup &UGNX tools to obtain technical data incldg dimensions, tolerances, material, &part drawings using assembly reqmts. Evaluate global component costing using Magics, GM CO$T &TcPCM tools, &estimate vehicle component &supplier tooling costs through anlys of content of raw materials, component mfg processes incldg stamping, casting, injection molding, thermal forming, physical vapor deposition, milling, machining, welding, painting, &chroming required equipment for component mfg facilities, &required component volumes. Evaluate &validate efficiency of Tier I &II supplier stamping &injection molding production lines, tools, die-sets, fixtures &gauges, to ensure near netshaped manufactured part durability, robustness &strength according to actual &expected piece cost.

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Product Engineer Warren, MI, General Motors. Engr, dvlp, using UGNX &Teamcenter Vismockup, execute &validate psgr vehicle passive safety systems (driver, psgr, knee, seat side, &roof rail airbags) to ensure component &vehicle compliance with FMVSS#208 Occupant Crash Protection, #226 Ejection Mitigation, #201 Occupant Protection in Interior Impact, &#214 Side Impact Protection standards, UNECE R94 Protection of Occupants in Event of Frontal Collision &R95 Protection of Occupants in Event of Lateral Collision, &NCAP, Latin NCAP, China NCAP, Asian NCAP, Australia NCAP standards &reqmts, &IIHS recommendations for front (offset deformable &small overlap rigid barrier), &CONTRAN 311 Airbags. Ensure conformity of passive restraint systems specs to strict standards &reqmts for frontal &side airbags.

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Cost Engineering Supervisor - GMCO$T Warren, MI, General Motors. Supervise &lead team of four Product Program Cost Optimization Dept. Cost Engineers, to maintain &improve GMCO$T costing system for material cost &vendor tooling, &support GM &JV global cost estimating for production components, productive materials, tooling, devices, secondary tools &assembly stations. Evaluate global component costing using Magics, GMCO$T &Teamcenter Product Cost Management System (TcPCM) tools, &ensure accurate &robust estimates vehicle component &supplier tooling costs through anlys of content of raw materials, component mfg processes incldg stamping, bending, casting, injection molding, thermal forming, milling, machining, welding, painting, &chroming required equipment for component mfg facilities, &required component volumes. Coordinate GMCO$T implementation in U.S. &intl business units (Mexico, Korea, Brazil, China), using CEPRO &GMCO$T as user to identify systems gap &issues, dvlpg strategies. Lead &execute weekly meetings to discuss strategies with stakeholders &3rd party suppliers supporting GMCO$T deployment. Meeting with support IT personal to evaluate recommendations for types of analytics &procedures. Required domestic &international (Mexico, Korea, Brazil, China) travel to visit GM &JV sites to furnish GMCO$T system troubleshooting, training &new release guidance up to ~25 days per yr (equal to ~7% annual travel).

Bachelor, Mechanical, Electrical, Automotive Engrg, or related. 12 mos exp as Cost Engineer, Buyer, Purchasing Coordinator, Regional or Global Sourcing Program Coordinator, or related, evaluating component costing using TcPCM tools, &estimating vehicle component &supplier tooling costs through anlys of content of raw materials, component mfg processes incldg stamping, casting, injection molding, thermal forming, machining, welding, painting, &chroming required equipment for component mfg facilities, &required component volumes. Mail resume to Ref#49894, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

Laboratory Engineer Transmission/Electrification Pontiac, MI, General Motors. Engr &improve data anlys &testing processes &techniques, using AVL Puma, ETAS, CAN tools, for psgr vehicle engine, hybrid electric, electric drive unit, &powertrain transmission dvlpmt &validation testing in laboratory on dynamometers, according to GMW &supplier product reqmts for validation testing &implementation of best practices &guidelines. Write &verify conventional engine, hybrid electric, electric drive unit, &powertrain transmission dvlpmt &validation testing Job Instruction Training (JITs) documents &Task Instruction Sheets (TISs), present JITs/TISs to Team Leader &Supv in group meetings, &verify colleagues’ JITs/TISs. Plan &execute activities such as advising Product Engrg &Scripting depts to support project engrg, &schedule technical maintenance incldg Programmable Logic Control (PLC), Mechanical Drives &Power Transmission Systems, Fluid Power &Pneumatics. Train lab employees on lab standards processes such as test installs, removals, &troubleshooting of dynamometer test cell problems stemming from interaction of testing hardware &software. Bachelor, Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, or Materials Engrg. 6 mos exp as Engineer or related, writing &verifying hybrid electric, electric drive unit, &/or powertrain transmission dvlpmt &validation testing JITs documents or TISs, &train lab employees on lab standards processes such as test installs, removals, &troubleshooting of dynamometer test cell problems. Mail resume to Ref#18373-33, GM Global Mobility, 300 Renaissance Center, MC:482-C32-C66, Detroit, MI 48265.

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Assists the Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance, who reports to the General Counsel, in the coordination of athletic rules and NCAA compliance for Oakland University intercollegiate athletics. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Sports Management or related business or higher education fields or an equivalent combination of education and experience. One year experience in NCAA Athletics compliance or intercollegiate athletics related functions.

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Cass Tech runs over River Rouge 40-7 at Wayne State

By Branden Hunter Detroit Cass Tech long-time head coach Thomas Wilcher knew he had one of the best running games in the state. Maybe the best. It would turn out to be the key to CT’s 40-7 win over River Rouge in the Prep Kickoff Classic at Wayne State University. The Technicians racked up 315 yards on the ground rushing to River Rouge’s 156.

Cass Tech arguably has the best backfield in the state as well, with seniors Jaren Mangham and Lew Nichols, who took turns punishing the River Rouge defense. Mangham is committed to Colorado and had seven carries for 82 yards and two scores, while Nichols won MVP of the game with 108 yards on 12 carries and two scores.

“The most important thing to me is that they able to work together,” said Wilcher about his two standout running backs.

“As long as they continue to work together, we will be fine. We also have to get the other guys involved also so those two don’t have to do all the work. But those two certainly were special for us today.”

Cass Tech (1-0) was in a dog fight with River Rouge (0-1) to begin the game, until Nichols got the assault started on a 4th and 9 play late in the first quarter, breaking off a 35-yard run for a touchdown to give Cass Tech the 6-0 lead. Mangham got in on the action just before the half, high-stepping into the end zone on a 15-yard run to take a 13-0 lead into the half.

The running clinic continued in the third quarter for Cass Tech with Mangham and Nichols. First, Mangham scored on an 11-yard run to go up 26-0, then Nichols added his second score of the game with a long 40-yard run with 1:35 left in the quarter.

The Grosse Pointe Woods-Shores little league baseball was team was greeted by the Grosse Pointe community after losing in the Little League World Series.

Change-up:

Black players leadoff Grosse Pointe Little League World Series team

By Branden Hunter Grosse Pointe Woods, MICH. - When Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, who is black, was asked why baseball players did not kneel for the national anthem like former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, his response was:

Detroit Cass Tech senior running back Lew Nichols running away from River Rouge defenders.

Rouge’s lone score would come in the third on a 55-yard touchdown run from Daruan McKinney.

“Me and Lew, we both came out and played phenomenal,” Mangham said. “First, I would like to thank my offensive lineman. If it wasn’t for those guys, me and Lew wouldn’t be where we’re at right now.”

Nichols said he knew River Rouge’s game-plan would be to stack the box against he and Mangham, but with the offensive line that Cass Tech has, that would be easier said than done.

The Panthers had a tough time shedding blocks against Cass Tech and an even tougher time bringing down Mangham and Nichols, who thinks other teams will have a hard time as well stopping them.

“As long as the offensive line does their job, it’s going to be pretty hard for anyone to stop our running game,” Nichols said.

“I don’t want to jinx anything, but we looked pretty good today.

We just have to keep doing that week after week and the sky is the limit.”

Cass Tech heads down to Cleveland this Friday to take on Ohio powerhouse St. Edward.

PSL Gold Division: EEVP, Western, Osborn, Southeastern, CMA.

PSL Black Division: King, Central, Renaissance, Denby, Frederick Douglass, Pershing

PSL Green Division: Cass Tech, Mumford, Cody, Northwestern, Henry Ford.

Week 2 Detroit PSL standings: King (1-0) Cass Tech (1-0) Denby (1-0) Cody (1-0) Mumford (0-1) Renaissance (0-1) Henry Ford (1-0) Western (1-0)

Osborn (1-0) Pershing (1-0) Central (0-1) Southeastern (0-1) CMA (0-1) EEVP (0-1) Northwestern (0-1) Frederick Douglass (0-1)

Detroit PSL football week 2 schedule: Thursday, August 30: OSBORN at Old Redford Academy, 4 EEVP at River Rouge, 7 NORTHWESTERN at SOUTHEASTERN, 6 WESTERN at CODY, 4 Friday, August 31: KING at Muskegon, 7 Chandler Park at DENBY, 4 Hamtramck at HENRY FORD, 7 CMA at PERSHING, 5 RENAISSANCE at MUMFORD, 4 CENTRAL vs. University Prep at Chandler Park Golf Football Field, 4:30 FREDERICK DOUGLASS at Zeeland East, 6 CASS TECH at St. Edward (Ohio), 7:30

“We already have two strikes against us already, so you might as well not kick yourself out of the game. In football, you can’t kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don’t need us. Baseball is a white man’s sport.”

By the numbers, baseball is indeed a white man’s sport.

At the game’s highest level, Major League Baseball is only composed of 7.8 percent African-American athletes, with 58 percent of all players being white.

ington D.C., the 2014 Jackie Robinson team from Chicago that won the LLWS U.S. Championship, and Mo’ne Davis’ Philadelphia’s Taney Youth Baseball Association team in 2014 were all praised nationally for their baseball exploits.

Why? In communities where those programs are from, Southside Chicago, South Philadelphia, and parts of the nation’s capital, baseball is not a prominent sport for a complex number of reasons: the lack of refunds, exposure and opportunity, sport specialization, the cost to play, and lingering racial stereotypes about race and baseball.

“That’s one of the biggest issues going on in Detroit; kids don’t play baseball,” said Marwynn Matthews Sr., who coached the Westside Steelers little football program for

power-hitter in left field, and Matthews is the utility guy who doubles as a jokester. The foursome has been playing baseball together for a few years and have built a bond that only grew stronger during their historic LLWS run.

“Our bond is really tight,” said Matthews Jr., whose favorite player is Cal Ripken Jr. “Me, Reggie, and Jarren had been playing baseball together for a few years on and off, and then we met Oliver. We all started hanging out and now here we are making history for out little league baseball team. A lot of black kids don’t make it this far and we will never forget this.”

The Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (R.B.I.) program was created in 1989 to reintroduce baseball in urban areas and has been operated by MLB since

The representation of black players in college is low as well, at less than five percent.

At the sport’s lowest level, much is the same. At this year’s Little League World Series (LLWS) in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, majority of the teams were predominantly white, including the Grosse Pointe Woods-Shores team that represented Michigan.

Of their 13 players, only four were black: Oliver Service (13), Jarren Purify (12), Reggie Sharpe Jr. (12), and Marwynn Matthews Jr. (13).

People may question Grosse Pointe Woods-Shores baseball players Oliver Service, Jarren why the racial make- Purify, Marwynn Matthews Jr., Reggie Sharpe Jr., and assistant coach up of a team that won Reggie Sharpe Sr. more games at the Little League World Series than any 15 years in Detroit. “There 1991. This program is in place other team from Michigan since are multiple reasons why that in more than 200 cities worldthe 1959 Hamtramck world is but I’m hoping that black wide and had 250,000 particichampions would matter. But kids watched the Little League pants this year. The first Urban race absolutely matters when it World Series and saw my son Youth Academy in the U.S. was comes to grassroots baseball in and the other players play at started in Compton, California, the sports highest level and in 2006 and has spread to many America. want to pick up a baseball bat cities. Each complex typically “One of the things that’s now.” has two full fields, a softball been very obvious, certainly to field and a youth field, and drew With the decline of baseour Grosse Pointe community almost 40,000 participants last and nationally, is that seeing ball participation around the year. country over the years, youth African-American guys on a In Detroit, the Police Athteam at that level at Williams- leagues and teams have been port is almost unheard of,” said forced to shut down or merge letic League (P.A.L.) has baseassistant coach Reggie Sharpe and travel teams have become ball for all ages. Their baseball Sr. “To see that we have five more popular, which restricts games and programs are held at African-American guys on our access for poorer youths, mak- the old Tiger Stadium location, team and really six, because ing the sport whiter and more now called the Corner Ballpark.

In 2015, P.A.L. launched the one of the other players is affluent. mixed, makes for a great stateThe players of color on the Kids at the Corner Campaign to ment nationwide.”

Grosse Pointe team were for- raise $20 million towards the redevelopment of the site. The Even the kids noticed the tunate enough to have been field is named the Willie Horton exposed to baseball at an early discrepancy between them Field of Dreams and aims to and everyone else at the Little age, in one of the more afflu- give the next generation of kids ent communities in Michigan, League World Series. which is a direct result of their in Detroit an opportunity and “We definitely noticed the success to this point. Service place to play baseball. difference between our team began playing at an early age, “I don’t really know why and the others,” said the Sharpe’s dad bought him a Wif- baseball is not popular in uryounger Sharpe, whose favorite fle Ball set when he was young- ban communities, but it should player is Jose Altuve. “There er, Purify’s mother got him be,” said Grosse Pointe Woodswas not one black kid on any started at age two with a tee- Shores head coach Kurt Barr. of the other teams. I honestly ball set, and Matthews Jr. has “There’s no reason it shouldn’t think it’s sad and something been playing baseball since he be. These kids on this team needs to be done about it.” was six. were amazing, regardless of In the previous years, preSharpe is the lead-off hitter race, and hopefully they will indominately black teams such for the team, Purify is the star spire other African-Americans as the 2018 Mamie Johnson at third base, Service is the to play this game and try to play it at the highest levels.”

Little League team from Wash-

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out randomly; it’s likely the check will bounce, or you’ll be asked to send money back for “processing” or an “accidental” overpayment. Your safest bet? Tearing up the check and, if you have time, filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

Often unexpected “opportunities” are attempts to get you to divulge personal information. Even clicking on links can expose your data to scammers.

Social Scammers

Scholarship programs charging a fee to apply often look legitimate. But look at the bigger picture: if the provider is awarding $500 in scholarships and collecting fees from thousands of applicants, it’s not funding education so much as making money. Your chances of earning a scholarship are slight if not impossible -- sham providers often collect fees and disappear.

A new scam making the rounds starts with a random friend request on Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. Accept, and your new friend will start messaging you about a foolproof way to make money for college: they work for a scholarship provider and have found a loophole. They just need to enter you as a winner and you can split the money.

Remember, scholarship providers aren’t in the practice of sending funds

$48,562 – $71,931 Plus Comprehensive Fringe Benefits Package

Responsible for planning, promoting, managing and executing the President’s signature events, cultivation meetings, and special meetings and events for the Board of Trustees that advance the mission and vision of Oakland University. Plan, manage and execute all event logistics, including scheduling, invitations and RSVPs, promotion, audio visual technology, live streaming, photography, video, signage, staffing, catering, transportation and appropriate event staff. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, event planning, hospitality or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

A minimum of five years’ experience in managing the logistics of high level special events from start to finish to include, but not limited to, menu and beverage selections, decor and complete venue logistics planning.

Ability and willingness to work extended hours; including early morning, evenings an occasional weekends. Salary commensurate with education and experience. Refer to online posting for additional requirements.

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Be cautious: Google the name of the scholarship or organization. Scams have often been flagged by the FTC or Better Business Bureau.

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Summary of Duties: Under the direction of the Director of Police Authority, the Campus Police Officer will be responsible for law enforcement work involving the protection of life and property, and the enforcement of laws and ordinances on all property owned and operated by Wayne County Community College District. The Police Officer may be designated to represent the police department in various uniform and non-uniform capacities. MCOLES sworn police officer will perform all related duties including, but not limited to, patrolling on foot or by vehicle, college property and on the public way adjacent to all college owned or controlled property to discover and prevent crimes; enforce State and Federal laws; enforce traffic regulations; conduct investigations on criminal offenses and traffic accidents to gather evidence, obtain witnesses and make arrests; provide documentation and testimony to Judicial Board and courts; and provide general security for college properties and citizens on campus to insure a safe environment for all.

“Scammers know to take advantage of those who are stressed,” says Robert C. Ballard, president and CEO of Scholarship America, the nation’s largest nonprofit scholarship and education support organization. “Fortunately, there are some ways you can avoid getting duped.”

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If this was real, it’d be incredibly unethical. However, in the midst of stress, you may be tempted -- and that could cost more than money. While you may be asked to send cash as an advance, most such scammers are phishing. Give them enough info, and you’ll be worrying about getting your identity back.

For more scholarship tools, resources and opportunities, including the annual Scholarship America Dream Award, please visit scholarshipamerica.org.

“Scholarship scams seem to work just enough for people to keep trying it,” says Ballard. “However, two main rules will help you avoid them: never pay to apply and if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

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