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K AESNDOLYN S! E GW N I BA MY FIANCÉ PUTS HIS EX-WIFE’S WISHES BEFORE MINE! Dear Gwendolyn: I have dated a man for four years. When we met, he had just gotten a divorce. He and his wife did not have children. At the end of our third year of dating, he proposed marriage. This is the problem: All during our courtship he has had a bad habit of putting his ex-wife’s wishes before mine. During the first year of our courtship, he purchased a new car for her. He told me that gift was a ‘parting’ gift because after their divorce, she was left without transportation. Gwendolyn, during our second year of courtship, he gave her money to purchase a new house. That gift he did not explain. His ex-wife is very pretty and has never had a j-o-b. He is now laid off after working a job for 22 years. Since his layoff, he is still trying to pay her car note and house mortgage. Last month we had a harsh argument. He told me if I did not give him money to pay his ex-wife’s bills, his marriage proposal to me was off. Rosline

Dear Rosline: Girl, hurry and get this man out of your life. Let me tell you this: Don’t be too anxious to get married to the point you overlook trouble while dating. If trouble is during your courtship, there will be ‘double-trouble’ after you say I do. You said you could understand if the two of them had children. Well, they don’t. And if they did, too bad. Think about it. There is a limit for a man to return to his first marriage and put the first wife over the second. The first wife often feels he still loves her. However, the truth is he realizes that if he hangs around his first wife, that will keep her from finding new love and happiness --- in the arms of someone else.

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12 Things to Remember about

THE TRAYVON MARTIN CASE

1) Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old Miami student visiting Sanford, Fla., near Orlando, with his father when he was killed On Feb. 26. His father, who also lives in Miami, was visiting his girlfriend in Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated townhouse community. George Curry 2) Trayvon had made a short trip to a nearby 7-Eleven store to pick of a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona iced tea as was returning when he was stalked by Zimmerman. 3) George Zimmerman, whose father is White and mother is of Peruvian descent, fatally shot unarmed Tayvon in chest. 4) Zimmerman was an unregistered neighborhood watch captain who was not supposed to carry a weapon while on patrol. Chris Tutko, director of Neighborhood Watch for the National Sheriffs’ Association, told the Orlando Sentinel that Zimmerman had broken a couple of cardinal rules. “If you see something suspicious, you report it, you step aside and you let law enforcement do their job,” Tutko said. “This guy went way beyond the call of duty. At the least, he’s overzealous.” Tutko also said volunteers should never carry lethal weapons. He said “There’s no reason to carry a gun.” 5) Though Zimmerman acknowledged killing Trayvon, he was questioned and then released. Police did not follow basic guidelines of homicide investigations such as testing him for drugs and alcohol, though they performed the tests on Trayvon. 6) Trayvon was talking on his cell phone to his girlfriend shortly before his death and reported being followed by a strange man in a vehicle. 7) A police dispatcher specifically told Zimmerman not to follow Trayvon, instructions he ignored. When Zimmerman confirmed he was following Trayvon, the dispatcher said. “OK, we don’t need you to do that.” Zimmerman continued anyway. 8) Benjamin Crump, the family’s lawyer, said that based on 911 tapes, Zimmerman harbored at least three stereotypes

of Black males: “He said, No.1, he looked suspicious. No.2, he must be high. No. 3, he’s looking to break in some place.” 9) Some said that Trayvon became a suspect because he wore a hooded sweat shirt, known as a hoodie. Some have even blamed Trayvon’s death on his clothing. On the March 23 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, network contributor Geraldo Rivera said, “I am urging the parents of Black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” However others, such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper, say they frequently adorn hoodies and have never been viewed as suspected criminals. And no one dare suspect New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick or Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, both known for wearing hoodies, of being criminals. Some kooks posting on Fox News Network site were extremely crass. One wrote, “GOOD SHOT ZIMMY. I’m just glad Zimmerman didn’t miss and hit an innocent bystander.” 10) Police say Zimmerman was not arrested because of Florida’s stand your ground law, a measure that gives broad protection to any citizen acting in self-defense. However, Jeb Bush, who as governor of Florida signed the stand your ground bill into law, said the legislation does not cover the neighborhood watch captain who shot Trayvon Martin to death. “This law does not apply to this particular circumstance,” Bush said after an education panel discussion at the University of Texas at Arlington. “Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn’t mean chase after somebody who’s turned their back.” 11) At 9 years old, Trayvon saved his father’s life. In an interview with Roland Martin on TV One, the elder Martin said: “At the time, he was 9 years old. We had just came from the Little League football park. We fell asleep while the stove was on. A grease fire started. I went into the kitchen to try to put the grease fire out. The grease Continued Page 7

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GROUNDBREAKING CERMONY FOR GRAHAM PARK RENOVATION Staff Reports

The City of Greenville last week hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the renovation of Graham Park. The park, located at 800 Walnut Street is one of Greenville’s oldest and most beloved parks. Situated in the North Greenville minority community and still heavily used by residents, the park has been in continued decline over the last few decades. Continued Page 4

Greenville resident Juanita Tidwell. PHOTO /KHN

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The $1 million renovation is scheduled for completion in about six months according to Greenville Parks and Recreation Director Colby VanGundy. City Manager Steven Alexander thanked Mayor Tom Oliver, members of the City Council and Parks and Recreation Department board and

staff for their efforts on the project. “We could not have gotten this done without their leadership and support,” he said. Greenville resident Juanita Tidwell and Mayor Oliver were among the groundbreaking ceremony speakers who spoke about what Graham Park has meant to them and their families down through the years.

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News, local houses of worship For as the body is one, and has many members. And all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: So also is Christ. 1Corin. 12:18

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FORMER LION STANDOUT JOHN CARLOS TO RECEIVE HONORARY DOCTORATE

Carlos (above) attended A&M-Commerce (then East Texas State University) from 1966 to 1967 on a full scholarship for track and field. Photo courtesy of the A&M-Commerce Public Relations office

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For as the body is one, and has many members. And all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: So also is Christ. 1Corin. 12:18

John Carlos

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y b Ru ANT GR JESUS IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE A role in which the soul must know Christ before it will steadily abide in Him is that of the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25). (Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he was dead, yet shall he live.) Through and by Christ, the soul is raised from spiritual death. Christ raises or revives the divine image out of the spiritual death that reigns within us. Christ, as the Resurrection and the Life, is raised in the soul. He is begotten by the Holy Spirit and is born within us. He arises through the death that is within us and develops His own life with in our own beings. Until we know by our own experience the power of this resurrection within us, we will never understand “the fellowship of His suffering” and be “conformed to His Death” (Phil.3:10). (That I may know him in the power of his resurrection and fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death). Christ raises our wills from their fallen state of death in trespasses and sins or from their state commitment and voluntary enslavement to lust and to self, to a state of conformity to the will of God. He pours a stream of quickening truth upon the soul. This is how He quickens the will into obedience. By making fresh revelations to the soul, He strengthens the will in obedience. (Eph. 2:1) (And you hath he quickened, who were dead trespasses and sins). I want to learn more about the Resurrection; I know one day we all will come in contact with the Resurrection and the Life. Jesus Christ the Son of the living God.

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degree at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at the Spring 2012 commencement ceremony for masters and doctoral graduates. He will also serve as the keynote speaker for the event at the A&M-Commerce Field House. Carlos attended A&MCommerce (then East Texas State University) from 1966 to 1967 on a full scholarship for track and field, winning both the 100 and 200-meter dashes and was a member of the 4x400-meter relay team as the Lions captured the 1967 Lone Star Conference Championship. The following year, after earning a bronze medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the former track star from Harlem joined Tommie Smith on the medal stand, raised a gloved fist in silent protest and made world history. “John Carlos is not only one of the finest athletes ever to have competed for our university, he is also an internationally

recognized crusader for human rights for people the world over,” said President Dr. Dan Jones. “John Carlos is a history maker, and we are proud that he is an important part of the history of A&M-Commerce.” Carlos commitment to the worlds ongoing struggles for human rights has been unwavering and his impact beyond measure. He believes in the rights and dignity of every human being. It is this core value that drove him to risk everything he had to stand up for social justice atop that medal stand in 1968 before millions of viewers around the world. “I am honored to receive such prestigious acknowledgment since I have history here at A&M-Commerce,” Carlos said. “There were good and bad times along the way, I like to think about the good that has come about over the years. This honorary doctorate will be accepted on behalf of my family and my fellow classmates of my era.”

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Trayvon Martin Case splattered all over my leg. My body went into shock and by me and him being in the house, I started calling out his name. He finally woke up and, at 9 years old, he pulled me from out of the kitchen, where the kitchen cabinets were on fire. He pulled me out of the kitchen onto the balcony. He actually went back into the house and got the cell phone and called 911.” 12) Trayvon’s parents still have nightmares about his death. His father, in an exclusive interview with NNPA publishers, said: “I can’t describe the feeling, I can’t describe what was going through my mind because I was actually staring at a photo of my pride and joy on the ground dead. I still see the photo now – his eyes weren’t closed all the way, his mouth wasn’t closed, it was the worst feeling of my life.” George E. Curry, former

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