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H sti Krause, and other m sh e a e ex la v th is ri inoriwhat p et will honor Misty Copeland with their esteemed Trailblazer ec zi e k er exactly I needed for that time in my life.” n p tsofthAmerica eeping his inarian, atell g oliticawoman ties livholding e 11-pounshirt l spectruinm a Kampgrounds ontinand focustoonsee k into th d (5-kthey Award during the CBC’s annual “Celebration of the Arts” uedany are tellsbac “I represent C ballet that needs ilograhad s th fairnrevolver on pchild as she theM couple etowilleave because es d a s g af an e te A d r 2 it ju cGuire visit regains strem) cat to stice event—an award that Copeland deemed as not only an someone persevere,” Copeland continued. “What it means no reservation. ngth. that if he se ed the honor but also a necessity. to be an underdog and to be mentored and have an amazing eswas it ag ain, he’ll bisobcat on Friday. KOA has said the woman fired. “It’s so important for other Black dancers to see a support system and represent that American dream.” sue a ticket Jessica and Franklin Richardson, the couple, said they for j possibility, a future for themselves, in a world that still Since joining the American Ballet Theatre in 2001, didn’t realize they needed a reservation and would have doesn’t include many other Black ballerinas,” Copeland Copeland has gone on to be inducted into the Boys & said. Girls Club National Hall of Fame; serve on the President’s left if asked. “There’s definitely still a glass ceiling in the ballet Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, under the world,” Copeland continued. “There’s only one Black Obama administration; publish three books, including the principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre in their New York Times Bestselling memoir, “Life in Motion;” entire almost 80-year history and a lot of people don’t have secure her own clothing line with Under Armour; and the understanding that just because it’s been done once, receive an honorary doctorate from the University of doesn’t meant that that problem goes away… having one Hartford. All the while Copeland has been an ardent beliver Black president didn’t mean that racism didn’t exist.” in reminding others that “representation is important.” “If I didn’t have art in my life, then I wouldn’t be “I’m still a Black ballerina and a Black woman in this the articulate, confident person that I am today. Fields in world and that doesn’t just disappear with titles,” Copeland STEM are important but the arts are also so vital… not said. “The more I use my visibility, my platform, my voice, every child learns the same way and sometimes the missing to continue to speak about diversity both in front of the NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A longshot candidate for link is art.” scenes and behind them, the more I’ll be able to help Louisiana governor is facing backlash for using a racist Growing up as the fourth child of six in underserved change the directory of dance.” areas of San Pedro, California, Copeland spoke to a time “A lot of underserved areas and youth either don’t epithet on talk radio. Gary Landrieu, a white independent, was on WGSO where she and her five other siblings found themselves all receive access to dance courses or don’t receive quality living in a small motel after her mother’s marriage to her training, which limits their chances of going even further radio in New Orleans this week. The Advocate reports he fourth husband became abusive — both emotionally and when that time comes,” Copeland continued. “My hope, is was talking about names used against him when he was physically — to Copeland’s mother and all of her children. that with my platform, I can continue this conversation to a child. One was a racially offensive term used against Despite the economic and social hardships, Copeland bring about change, to show younger people how to own people who support African-Americans. Book Cover for Life In Motion memoir. / Wikimedia said that she was able to find solace and her voice through their own power, to embrace who they are, to walk in their A Gary Landrieu spokeswoman said he was just Commons the world of dance. At the age of 13, the ballet lessons that own path and to be represented.” bluntly explaining his childhood experiences as a nephew of former Mayor Moon Landrieu, who had championed civil rights. Gary Landrieu’s campaign stances are starkly different from those of his famous relatives. For instance, he calls for protection of Confederate monuments. His cousin, former Mayor Mitch Landrieu, worked to remove three monuments to Confederate figures from New Orleans streets.
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2 SoCal Youths Killed in Shooting MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – Riverside County homicide detectives are investigating the shooting deaths of two youths. The Sheriff’s Department says working on another incident heard gunfire early Saturday morning in Moreno Valley and found two male juveniles who had been shot. One died at the scene and the other died at a hospital. The victims have been identified but the names are not being released.
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In August 2018, the National Newspaper Publishers Association began a series on the transatlantic slave trade. The series started in conjunction with the annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance. With the observance of the first African landing in America, some question whether it’s the 400th or 500th anniversary. Historians point out that the 400th anniversary is the 400th year of the Anglo-centric history of Africans in the Americas. “Dating the history of Africans in North America to 400 years ago reinforces this narrative of English superiority,” Greg Carr, the Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, told Time. com. “Remembering the Spanish and indigenous sides of the history is more important now than ever as the people are closing the borders to those who are descendants from people who were here when you came,” Carr said. In his 2013 PBS documentary, “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., said slavery was always an essential ingredient of the American experiment. Gates called slavery, “The supreme hypocrisy,” and “capitalism gone berserk.” The first African to come to North America was a free man who accompanied Spanish explorers to Florida in 1513 – or 106 years before the 20 Africans who were kidnapped and brought to Point Comfort, Va., in 1619, Gates said. “The father of our country was one of its largest slave owners,” Gates said in the documentary. “Because of the profound disconnect between principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the simultaneous practice of slavery, we’ve had historical amnesia about slavery,” he said. Indeed, the slave trade began in the 15th century, said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe. It was driven by colonial expansion, emerging capitalist economies and the insatiable demand for commodities – with racism and discrimination serving to legitimize the trade, Chidyausiku said. Chidyausiku, then the acting president of the United Nations General Assembly, made the remarks in 2007 during the UN’s observance of the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. “Fortunes were made, and financial institutions flourished on the back of human bondage…[so] today’s commemoration must encourage everyone to live up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says: ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and to redouble efforts to stop human trafficking and all forms of modern slavery,’” said Chidyausiku, who who is now 69. Michael Guasco, a historian at Davidson College and author of “Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” suggests it’s the 500th anniversary. “There’s a Hispanic heritage that predates the U.S., and there’s a tendency for people to willingly forget or omit the early history of Florida, Texas, and California, particularly as the politics of today want to push back against Spanish language and immigration from Latin America,” Guasco Continued on page A7
People of African descent have been ‘here’ longer than the English colonies.
Congress of Black Women to Honor Shirley Chisholm By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent On Sunday, September 15, the National Congress of Black Women will celebrate its 35th annual brunch in the Thurgood Marshall Room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. The non-profit dedicated to the educational, political, economic and cultural development of Black women, will also honor the 50th anniversary of Shirley Chisholm’s election to Congress. “We in the National Congress of Black Women consider it an honor to tell the stories of Black women and to remember them at our events as well as in our daily activities,” said Dr. E. Faye Williams, president, and CEO of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. “We are inspired by so many of them – especially Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm,” Williams said. “Black women are awesome, but unfortunately, our true stories don’t always make the news. Mrs. Chisholm was our founder along with many great women like Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, Dr. Lezli Baskerville, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, and the Honorable Alexis Herman,” Williams said. In 1968, Chisholm became the first Black woman to serve in Congress. In 1972, Chisholm became the first Black woman to seek the nomination for President of the United States from a major political party. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924, Chisholm was the oldest of four daughters to Charles St. Hill, a factory worker from Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. Her motto and the title of her autobiography, “Unbought and Unbossed,” illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Williams said. Chisholm died in 2005 at the age of 81. The 10 a.m. brunch will include a special tribute to Chisholm by Congresswomen Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and Barbara Lee (D-Texas). During the 35th celebration, the National Congress of Black Women will also honor Congresswomen Lucy McBath (D-GA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Jahana Hayes (D-Conn., Lauren Underwood (D-IL), and
Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York, looking at list of numbers posted on a wall, 2 November 1965, Library of Congress. (New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer)
Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Several women serving in Congress today were inspired by Mrs. Chisholm. They will be at our event to pay tribute to her. When I see the newest group of Congresswomen, I can see the influence of Mrs. Chisholm in their actions, and I am so proud of them,” Williams said. “They are not just pathfinders. They are trailblazers. I love their spirit and their courage, and I know that their terms in Congress will definitely make a difference for other Black women as well as our community in general,” she said. Joining the organization at the brunch will be three descendants of Harriet Tubman, and Alelia Bundles, a descendant of Madame C.J. Walker. “We will also be introducing an initiative called, ‘Healing the Wounds of Circumstance,’” Williams said. “Your readers will hear a lot more about this initiative soon,” she said.
Lost African American Cemetery is Found TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – More than 120 coffins from a lost African American cemetery appear to be buried on the grounds of a Florida public housing complex. The Tampa Bay Times reports a contractor using ground-penetrating radar discovered the coffins. They appear to be part of Tampa’s lost Zion Cemetery. The cemetery was established in 1901 and is believed to be the city’s first African American burial ground. But the cemetery disappeared nearly a century ago when the 2.5-acre burial ground was parceled off for white development. The Tampa Bay Times began looking for the lost cemetery last year and published a story in June that led the city and Tampa Bay Housing Authority to research the site. It’s possible more bodies are buried on the site where five apartment buildings now stand.
Punching Teen in Face Reasonable? - Not So Much INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Indianapolis Police Chief Bryan Roach says it was not “reasonable” for one of his officers to punch a teenager in the face during a confrontation outside a school captured in a video posted on social media. The Indianapolis Star reports Roach said in a statement Saturday, “The video shows a clear image of a closed fist punch to the face, a technique which is not taught or reasonable given the facts known to us at this time.” Roach said the officer has been suspended without pay and the incident is being investigated internally. The officer’s name hasn’t been released. He was among officers called to Shortridge High School on Thursday for a large fight. The video shows the black 17-year-old boy falling to the ground. The officer is white.