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About Black History Month
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson and Rev. Jesse E. Moorland co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Their goal was to research and bring awareness to the largely ignored, yet crucial role black people played in American and world history. The following year, Woodson published and distributed his findings in The Journal of Negro History. He founded the publication with the hope that it would dispel popular mistruths. He also hoped to educate black people about their cultural background and instill them with a sense of pride in their race. The son of former slaves and the second black person to receive a degree from Harvard University, Carter Woodson understood the value of education. He also felt the importance of preserving one’s heritage and, upon his urgings, the fraternity Omega Psi Phi created Negro History and Literature Week in 1920. In 1926, Woodson changed the name to Negro History Week. He selected the month of February for the celebration as a way to honor of the birth of two men whose actions drastically altered the future of black Americans. Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. President who issued the
Emancipation Proclamation was born on February 12th and Frederick Douglass, one of the nation’s leading abolitionists was born on February 14th. Woodson and the ANSLH provided learning materials to teachers, black history clubs and the community at large. They also published photographs that depicted important figures in black culture, plays that dramatized black history, and reading materials. Dr. Carter G. Woodson died in 1950, but his legacy continued on as the celebration of Negro History Week was adopted by cities and organizations across the country. This observance proved especially important during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the inhumane and unequal treatment of black people in America was being challenged and overturned. Black Panther Badge: Power to the People The Black Power Movement of the 1970s emphasized racial pride and the significance of collective cultural values. This prompted the ASNLH, now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, to change Negro History Week to Black History Week. In 1976, they extended the week to a month-long observance. Black History Month is now recognized and widely celebrated by the entire nation on both a scholarly and commercial level. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History continues to promote, preserve and research black history and culture year-round.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
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Famous Black Inventors
Black Inventors through American History George Alcorn
Not many inventors have resumes as impressive as George Edward Alcorn’s. Among his credits, the African-American inventor received a B.A. in physics, a master’s degree in nuclear physics and a Ph.D in atomic and molecular physics. Despite such impressive credentials, Alcorn is probably most famous for his innovation of the imaging x-ray spectrometer.
Benjamin Banneker
In the Stevie Wonder song “Black Man,” the Motown marvel sings of Benjamin Banneker: “first clock to be made in America was created by a black man.” Though the song is a fitting salute to a great inventor (and African Americans in general), it only touches on the genius of Benjamin Banneker and the many hats he wore – as a farmer, mathematician, astronomer, author and land surveyor.
Dr. Patricia Bath
Imagine living in a world ranging from hazy, clouded vision to that of total darkness for 30 years. Before 1985, that was the plight of those with cataracts who did not want to risk surgery with a mechanical grinder. Now imagine sitting in a doctor’s office without being able to see her as she explains that it may be possible to restore your vision.
Otis Boykin
Few inventors have had the lasting impact of Otis Boykin. Look around the house today and you’ll see a variety of devices that utilize components made by Boykin – including computers, radios and TV sets. Boykin’s inventions are all the more impressive when one considers he was 4
an African American in a time of segregation and the field of electronics was not as well-established as it is today.
Marie Van Brittan Brown
While home security systems today are more advanced than ever, back in 1966 the idea for a home surveillance device seemed almost unthinkable. That was the year famous African-American inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown, and her partner Albert Brown, applied for an invention patent for a closed-circuit television security system.
George Washington Carver
Generally, when people think of famous AfricanAmerican inventors, one of the first names that springs to mind is George Washington Carver. Perhaps most famously, Carver discovered over 300 different uses for peanuts – including making cooking oil, axle grease and printer’s ink. Carver discovered over 300 different uses for peanuts – including making cooking oil, axle grease and printer’s ink.
George Crum
Every time a person crunches into a potato chip, he or she is enjoying the delicious taste of one of the world’s most famous snacks – a treat that might not exist without the contribution of black inventor George Crum.
Dr. Mark Dean
As a child, Mark Dean excelled in math. In elementary school, he took advanced level math courses and, in high school, Dean even built his own computer, radio, and amplifier. Dean
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continued his interests and went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, a masters degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford.
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
It’s impossible to determine how many hundreds of thousands of people would have lost their lives without the contributions of AfricanAmerican inventor Dr. Charles Drew. This physician, researcher and surgeon revolutionized the understanding of blood plasma – leading to the invention of blood banks.
Kenneth J. Dunkley
Kenneth J. Dunkley is currently the president of the Holospace Laboratories Inc. in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He is best known for inventing Three Dimensional Viewing Glasses (3-DVG) – his patented invention that displays 3-D effects from regular 2-D photos without any type of lenses, mirrors or optical elements.
Dr. Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali, who has been called the “Bill Gates of Africa,” was born in Nigeria in 1957. Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school at age 14 because his father could not continue paying Emeagwali’s school fees. However, his father continued teaching him at home and everyday Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour.
Dr. Betty Harris
Born and raised in Monroe, Louisiana, the young Betty
Harris was interested in chemistry. At college she obtained a BS degree in chemistry from Southern University and an MS degree in chemistry from Atlanta University.
Dr. Shirley Jackson
Dr. Shirley Jackson, a theoretical physicist, has been credited with making many advances in science. She first developed an interest in science and mathematics during her childhood and conducted experiments and studies such as on the eating habits of honeybees. She followed this interest to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she received a bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree, all in the field of physics.
Lonnie G. Johnson
An anonymous source said of the Super Soaker®: “I got fired from a job once because of my Super Soaker. I guess that’s what happens when you accidentally drench a customer when you’re trying to get a co-worker who ducks.”
Frederick McKinley Jones
Anytime you see a truck on the highway transporting refrigerated or frozen food, you’re seeing the work of Frederick McKinley Jones. One of the most prolific Black inventors ever, Jones patented more than 60 inventions in his lifetime.
Garrett A. Morgan
Many of the world’s most famous inventors only produced one major invention that garnered recognition and cemented their prominent status. But See INVENTORS, Page 5
encouragement & inspiration
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• Explore the definitions and biblical context of miracles. • Unfold revelation about the relevance of miracles. • Learn to recognize the signs that a miracle is near. • Have our fire and desire to see miracles revived. • Go from a place of wondering to a place of signs and wonders. As you read the following pages, open your heart to the reality that as a child of God you have the right to receive miracles.You should know of a surety that “God Has a Miracle for You!.”
Have You Looked in the Mirror Today? By Dr. Creflo Dollar How many of you have ever had the lights in your home go off? Perhaps because of a storm, or maybe because you didn’t pay the electric bill? Whatever the cause, you went to find a candle or a flashlight. Why? So you could see where you’re going in the dark. So you wouldn’t bump into things and injure yourself. This is exactly what God does with us. He guides you by your spirit, to show you where He desires to take you in life. Proverbs 20:27, says, “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.” Then over in Romans 8:14, we read, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” The question many of us have is, “How do I make contact with the unseen presence of the Holy Spirit? How do I do that?” You’re going to have to begin to pay attention to your spirit man. You have to create an awareness of Him so you can understand Who’s living in you.
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Now, you can’t see your spirit, but you can see the reflection of your spirit. If you want to see your face, you look in a mirror. The mirror shows you your reflection. It’s not you; it’s a reflection of you! By looking at the reflection, you can make contact with things you can’t see and get some direction (ex: comb your hair if it’s out of place). So likewise, God’s Word—the Bible— is a mirror that shows you the reflection of your born-again spirit! When you’re looking in the Word, you begin to see your spirit. You’re not going to be led by the Spirit if you never look in the mirror! Just like your hair won’t be combed properly if you don’t look at your reflection in a mirror. We’re trying to live our lives walking around believing that God is just going to interrupt us and say something to us. He can do that. But He would rather you understand that you can see the image of things when you look in the Word. When you do, He can really show you what’s out of place in your life.
Do you look in the mirror at your reflection every day to see what’s out of place? What needs to be fixed or adjusted? So likewise, God is saying, “Have you looked in the mirror of the Word today?” You would be surprised by the number of Christians who never look in the mirror, and they’re wondering, “Why am I stuck? Why isn’t this happening? Why isn’t that happening?” For a Christian, getting in the Word is not simply something you do to be religious. You have to look in the mirror of God’s Word so you can know how to adjust things that are out of order—things that contradict God’s Word in your life. God wants to lead you, but if you’re going to make contact with the spirit, you can’t do it with your physical body. You can’t do it with your mind. You do it by looking at the reflection that puts you in contact with something you can’t see, or make contact with, in this physical, natural world. God wants to lead and guide you every
day. He guides you by an inward witness. There’s going to be an “amen” in you when God is guiding you—a check in your spirit, a red or green light in your spirit that says “stop” or “go.” I can’t tell you the number of things I’ve heard while I’m in the Word! Reading and meditating on the Word of God puts you in a place that’s in agreement with the Spirit of God, Who will begin to speak to you. So, have you looked in the mirror today? “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). In my powerful teaching series SpiritLed Living, I share practical principles from the Word on how to train your spirit to hear from, and be led by, the Spirit of God. These principles include feeding on God’s Word, walking in love, and praying in tongues every day. Get this series today and discover why looking in the mirror of God’s Word every day will radically transform your life and revolutionize your walk with God!
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Garret Augustus Morgan, one of the country’s most successful AfricanAmerican inventors, created two – the gas mask and the traffic signal.
Valerie Thomas
Did you ever think of what it might be like if your television could project the on-screen image directly
into your living room as a 3-Dimensional image? Maybe not, but if it happens, you may have Valerie Thomas to thank for it.
John Henry Thompson
Even in high school, John Henry Thompson was interested in com-
puter programming languages. He taught himself several programming languages such as FORTRAN, PLI, COBOL and JCL while working in a New York research facility. Thompson’s goal was to absorb as much knowledge as possible so he could develop his own computer language.
James E. West
Ninety percent of microphones used today are based on the ingenuity of James Edward West, an African-American inventor born in 1931 in Prince Edwards County, VA. If you’ve ever talked on the telephone, you’ve probably used his invention.
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The Life and Times of
NELSON MANDELA Rolihlahla Mandela was born
into the Madiba clan in Mvezo, Transkei, on July 18, 1918, to Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu people, Jongintaba Dalindyebo. His father died when he was 12 years old (1930) and the young Rolihlahla became a ward of Jongintaba at the Great Place in Mqhekezweni.* Hearing the elder’s stories of his ancestor’s valour during the wars of resistance, he dreamed also of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people. He attended primary school in Qunu where his teacher Miss Mdingane gave him the name Nelson, in accordance with the custom to give all school children “Christian” names. He completed his Junior Certificate at Clarkebury Boarding Institute and went on to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school of some repute, where he matriculated. Nelson Mandela began his studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Uni6
versity College of Fort Hare but did not complete the degree there as he was expelled for joining in a student protest. He completed his BA through the University of South Africa and went back to Fort Hare for his graduation in 1943. On his return to the Great Place at Mqhekezweni the King was furious and said if he didn’t return to Fort Hare he would arrange wives for him and his
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cousin Justice. They ran away to Johannesburg instead, arriving there in 1941. There he worked as a mine security officer and after meeting Walter Sisulu, an estate agent, who introduced him to Lazar Sidelsky. He then did his articles through a firm of attorneys, Witkin Eidelman and Sidelsky. Meanwhile he began studying for an LLB at the University of the Witwa-
tersrand. By his own admission he was a poor student and left the university in 1952 without graduating. He only started studying again through the University of London after his imprisonment in 1962 but also did not complete that degree. In 1989, while in the last months of his imprisonment, he obtained an LLB through the University of South Africa. He graduated in absentia at a ceremony in Cape Town. Nelson Mandela, while increasingly politically involved from 1942, only joined the African National Congress in 1944 when he helped to form the ANC Youth League. In 1944 he married Walter Sisulu’s cousin Evelyn Mase, a nurse. They had two sons, Madiba Thembekile ‘Thembi’ and Makgatho and two daughters both called Makaziwe, the first of whom died in infancy. They effectively separated in 1955 and divorced in 1958. Nelson Mandela rose through the ranks of the ANCYL and through its work, in 1949 the ANC adopted a more radical mass-based policy, the Programme of Action. In 1952 he was chosen at the National
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Volunteer-in-Chief of the Defiance Campaign with Maulvi Cachalia as his deputy. This campaign of civil disobedience against six unjust laws was a joint programme between the ANC and the South African Indian Congress. He and 19 others were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act for their part in the campaign and sentenced to nine months hard labour, suspended for
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two years. A two-year diploma in law on top of his BA allowed Nelson Mandela to practice law, and in August 1952 he and Oliver Tambo established South Africa’s first black law firm, Mandela and Tambo. At the end of 1952 he was banned for the first time. As a restricted person he was only permitted to watch in secret as the
Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown on 26 June 1955. Nelson Mandela was arrested in a countrywide police swoop on 5 December 1955, which led to the 1956 Treason Trial. Men and women of all races found themselves in the dock in the marathon trial that only ended when the last 28 accused, including Mr Mandela were acquitted on 29
March 1961. On 21 March 1960 police killed 69 unarmed people in a protest against the pass laws held at Sharpeville. This led to the country’s first state of emergency and the banning of the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress on 8 April. Nelson Mandela See Mandela, Page 8
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and his colleagues in the Treason Trial were among thousands detained during the state of emergency. During the trial on 14 June 1958 Nelson Mandela married a social worker, Winnie Madikizela. They had two daughters, Zenani and Zindziswa. The couple divorced in 1996. Days before the end of the Treason Trial Nelson Mandela travelled to Pietermaritzburg to speak at the All-in Africa Conference, which resolved that he should write to Prime Minister Verwoerd requesting a non-racial national convention, and to warn that should he not agree there would be a national strike against South Africa becoming a republic. As soon as he and his colleagues were acquitted in the Treason Trial Nelson Mandela went underground and began planning a national strike for 29, 30 and 31 March. In the face of massive mobilisation of state security the strike was called off early. In June 1961 he was asked to lead the armed struggle and helped to establish Umkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation). On 11 January 1962, using the adopted name David Motsamayi, Nelson Mandela secretly left South Africa. He travelled around Africa and visited England to gain support for the armed struggle. He received military training in Morocco and Ethiopia and returned to South Africa in July 1962. He was arrested in a police roadblock outside Howick on 5 August while returning from KwaZulu-Natal where he briefed ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli about his trip. He was charged with leaving the country illegally and inciting workers to strike. He was convicted and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment which he began serving in the Pretoria Local Prison. On 27 May 1963 he was transferred to Robben Island and returned to Pretoria on 12 June. Within a month police raided a secret hide-out in Rivonia used by ANC and Communist Party activists, and several of his comrades were arrested. On 9 October 1963 Nelson Mandela joined ten others on trial for sabotage in what became known as the Rivonia Trial. While facing the death penalty his words to the court at the end of his famous ‘Speech from the Dock’ on 20 April 1964 became immortalised: “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” On 11 June 1964 Nelson Mandela and seven other accused: Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Denis Goldberg, Elias Motsoaledi and An8
drew Mlangeni were convicted and the next day were sentenced to life imprisonment. Denis Goldberg was sent to Pretoria Prison because he was white, while the others went to Robben Island. Nelson Mandela’s mother died in 1968 and his eldest son Thembi in 1969. He was not allowed to attend their funerals. On 31 March 1982 Nelson Mandela was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town with Sisulu, Mhlaba and Mlangeni. Kathrada joined them in October. When he returned to the prison in November 1985 after prostate surgery Nelson Mandela was held alone. Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee visited him in hospital. Later Nelson Mandela initiated talks about an ultimate meeting between the apartheid government and the ANC. On 12 August 1988 he was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. After more than three months in two hospitals he was transferred on 7 December 1988 to a house at Victor Verster Prison near Paarl where he spent his last 14 months of imprisonment. He was released from its gates on Sunday 11 February 1990, nine days after the unbanning of the ANC and the PAC and nearly four months after the release of his remaining Rivonia comrades. Throughout his imprisonment he had rejected at least three conditional offers of release. Nelson Mandela immersed himself in official talks to end white minority rule and in 1991 was elected ANC President to replace his ailing friend Oliver Tambo. In 1993 he and President FW de Klerk jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize and on 27 April 1994 he voted for the first time in his life. On 10 May 1994 he was inaugurated South Africa’s first democratically elected President. On his 80th birthday in 1998 he married Graça Machel, his third wife. True to his promise Nelson Mandela stepped down in 1999 after one term as President. He continued to work with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund he set up in 1995 and established the Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. In April 2007 his grandson Mandla Mandela became head of the Mvezo Traditional Council at a ceremony at the Mvezo Great Place. Nelson Mandela never wavered in his devotion to democracy, equality and learning. Despite terrible provocation, he never answered racism with racism. His life has been an inspiration to all who are oppressed and deprived; to all who are opposed to oppression and deprivation. He died at his home in Johannesburg on 5 December 2013. *Nelson Mandela’s father died in 1930 when Mr Mandela was 12 and his mother died in 1968 when he was in prison. While the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom places Madiba’s father’s death in 1927, historical evidence shows it must have been later, most likely 1930. In fact, the original Long Walk to Freedom manuscript (written on Robben Island) states the year as 1930.
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Famous Black Educators
Black Educators through American History Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became BethuneCookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to bettering African Americans. Born in South Carolina to parents who had been slaves and having to work in fields at age five, she took an early interest in her own education. With the help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. When that did not materialize, she started a school for African-American girls in Daytona Beach. From six students it grew and merged with an institute for African-American boys and eventually became the Bethune-Cookman School. Its quality far surpassed the standards of education for African-American students, and rivaled those of schools for white students. Bethune worked tirelessly to ensure funding for the school, and used it as a showcase for tourists and donors, to exhibit what educated African-Americans could do. She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942 and 1946 to 1947, one of the few women in the world who served as a college president at that time. Bethune was also active in women’s clubs, and her leadership in them allowed her to become nationally prominent. She worked for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and became a member of Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet, sharing the concerns of black people with the Roosevelt administration while spreading Roosevelt’s message to blacks, who had been traditionally Republican voters. Upon her death, columnist Louis E. Martin said, “She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and she some sort of doctor.” Her home in Daytona Beach is a National Historic Landmark,[3] her house in Washington, D.C. in Logan Circle is preserved by the National Park Service as a National Historic Site,[4] and a sculpture of her is located in Lincoln
Park in Washington, D.C.
Charlotte Forten
Charlotte Forten Grimké was born August 17, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Robert Bridges Forten, an abolitionist, and Mary Virginia Forten. On December 19, 1878, Charlotte married Francis James Grimké, a Presbyterian minister with whom she had a child. Her daughter Theodora Cornelia died in infancy. Charlotte was privately educated until 1854, when she moved to Salem, Massachusetts, and attended the Salem Grammar School. Two years later, she obtained her teaching certificate and became a member of the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society. While she was at the Salem school, she also began her most famous work, Journal, which chronicled the abolitionist movement around the Civil War. Grimké was an abolitionist like her father. She wrote of racial discrimination against slaves and freed blacks and segregation. Though discrimination troubled Grimké, she used it as fuel to better herself. She wanted to prove that the black community was just as capable of being productive members of society as whites. She taught herself several languages, including German, Latin, and French. She became well-read in the classics and contemporary literature. After finishing grammar school, Grimké became a teacher at Epes Grammar School. She was the first African-American in Massachusetts to teach white students. Though she was accepted by the school, she left because of an illness. After recovering from tuberculosis, Grimké asked her friend, the famous poet John Greenleaf Whittier, to write her a recommendation so that she could teach for the Port Royal Experiment, a school set up to educate former slaves. After the fall of the South, many plantation owners fled their lands but left their slaves. Eight thousand slaves were in need of education. Both the Union command and Grimké felt that this was a chance to prove how powerful education could be to former slaves. Charlotte taught at a small school on St. Helena Island. While there, she wrote “Life on the
Sea Islands,” an essay on her experiences. In May of 1864, she returned to Philadelphia, where she taught and wrote poetry. In 1878, she married Francis Grimké, a former slave, who became educated and graduated from Princeton University. Charlotte Grimké died of a cerebral embolism in Washington, DC, in 1914. She is also buried in that city.
Marva Collins
Marva Collins (born August 31, 1936) is an American educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in Garfield Park, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. She ran the school for more than 30 years until it closed in 2008 due to lack of sufficient enrollment and funding.[1] She is famous for applying classical education successfully with impoverished students, many of whom had been wrongly labeled as learning disabled by public schools. She once wrote, “I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.”[2] She has written a number of manuals, books and motivational tracts describing her history and methods, and currently (2006) has a website and public speaking service. She was most widely publicized in the 1981 biographical TV movie The Marva Collins Story starring Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman.
Patterson, Mary Jane
Educator Mary Jane Patterson is considered to be the first African American woman to receive a B.A. degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. A fellow Oberlin alumnus, Lucy Stanton Day Sessions, graduated twelve years earlier but was not in a program that awarded official bachelor’s degrees. Although Patterson’s early years are unclear, it is believed that she was born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1840. As a young girl, she arrived in Oberlin, Ohio with her family during the mid-1850s. In 1857 she completed a year of prepara-
tory coursework at Oberlin College. Rather than transitioning into Oberlin’s two-year program for women, she enrolled in the school’s “gentlemen’s course,” a four-year program of classical studies that led to a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors in 1862. Patterson spent the next year as a teacher in the southern Ohio town of Chillicothe. At the age of 22 she left Ohio for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she taught at the Institute for Colored Youth for the next five years. In 1869 Patterson moved to Washington, D.C. to teach at the newly founded Preparatory High School for Colored Youth (later M Street High School and now Paul Laurence Dunbar High School) which was the first U.S. public high school for African Americans and the first public high school in Washington, D.C. Two years later in 1871 Patterson became principal of the school, serving for one year before being appointed assistant principal when Richard T. Greener, the first black graduate of Harvard University, came on as principal. Greener left after one year, and Patterson resumed her position as principal, staying there until her resignation in 1884. During her tenure the school thrived and became well known as a prestigious institution for secondary education. It is believed that Patterson remained at the school as a teacher following her tenure as principal. Aside from her career as an educator, Patterson was involved in women’s rights, helping to found the Colored Women’s League of Washington, D.C. She died at the age of 54 on September 24, 1894. Her home at 1532 15th Street, NW is part of the Washington, D.C.’s historic walking tour. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/patterson-mary-jane1840-1894#sthash.ProRLi7v.dpuf
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and See Educators, Page 11
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Black History In Healthcare
Black Medical Professionals through American History Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931)
Dr. Williams performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893 and founded Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses (the first black-owned hospital in America) in 1891. From 18931898, he was Surgeon-in-Chief, Freedmen’s Hospital, Washington, DC. He also helped form the National Medical Association in 1895 (Negroes were denied membership in the American Medical Association) and was a charter member of the American College of Surgeons (first and only Negro member for many years) in 1913. (SOURCE: Duke University Medical Center Library Online; information and photo)
Dr. William Augustus Hinton (1883-1959)
First Negro physician to publish a textbook - Syphilis and Its Treatment, 1936. Known internationally for his development of a flocculation method for the detection of syphilis called the “Hinton Test.” Dr. Hinton is also the first Negro to hold a professorship at Harvard University. (SOURCE: Duke University Medical Center Library Online
Dr. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950)
Charles Drew was a pioneer researcher in blood plasma for transfusion and in the development of blood banks. He was the first Director, American Red Cross Blood Bank, Professor, Howard University, and Chief Surgeon, Freedmen’s Hospital. The U.S. Postal Service issued a Commemorative Stamp with his portrait in 1981. (SOURCE: Duke University Medical Center Library Online; information and photo)
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James Derham (1762-1802)
First recognized Black physician in the United States - Born a slave in Philadelphia, his early masters taught him the fundamentals of reading and writing. Derham was owned by a number of doctors, ending up in New Orleans with a Scottish physician, who hired him in 1783 to perform medical services. When he was 21, he bought his freedom and went to New Orleans where he set up his own medical practice. He was invited to Philadelphia in 1788 to meet Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Rush was so impressed with Derham’s success in treating diphtheria patients, that he read Durham’s paper on the subject before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. In 1789, Durham returned to New Orleans, where he saved more yellow fever victims than any other physician in colonial Philadelphia. During an epidemic that killed thousands, he lost only 11 of 64 patients. He moved back to New Orleans and was lauded by prominent local doctors. Despite his skill, his ability to save so many lives, and his flourishing practice, his practice was restricted in 1801 by new city regulations because he did not have a formal medical degree. He disappeared after 1802. The idea that Black people were incapable of understanding medicine remained widespread for decades. (SOURCE: African-American Registry)
Dr. David Jones Peck (1826-1855)
first black man to graduate from an American medical school, 1847 (Rush Medical College in Chicago ). Between 1844 and 1846 David Peck studied medicine under Dr. Joseph P. Gaszzam, an anti-slavery white doctor in Pittsburgh. He then entered Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1846, three years after the institution opened. After he graduated in 1847, Peck toured the state of Ohio with William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass promoting abolitionist ideals. His status as the first black graduate of a medical college was used by abolitionists to promote the idea of full black citizen-
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ship and was implicitly an attack on slavery. In 1849 Peck established his practice in Philadelphia. Peck’s medical practice, however, was not successful. Few doctors recognized his status, referred patients to him, or consulted with him. (SOURCE: BlackPast.org)
derserved. He broke racial barriers when he pushed for certification of black medical students. (SOURCE: Duke University Medical Center Library Online; information and photo)
First Black professional nurse in the United States (1879). On March 23, 1878, she was the “first coloured girl admitted” (Medical and Nursing Record Book, 1878) to the nurse training program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children. (SOURCE: Duke University Medical Center Library Online; information and photo)
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, M.D., was born Norfolk, Virginia. She graduated from Tufts Medical College at the age of 37 and as with many young health care professionals of African descent born during that tense racial era, this consistent honor roll student was denied professional access into predominantly white hospitals. Determined, she moved to Washington DC for an internship at Freedmen’s Hospital (now Howard University Hospital). Dr. Ferebee was actively involved in countless organizations until her death at the age of 90. Here are some of her life’s work: Founder of the Southeast Settlement House; 10th President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc; President of the National Council of Negro Women; Medical Director of the Mississippi Health Project; Vice President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia; Vice President of the Washington Urban League; Chair of the Washington Community Chest; Chair of the Women’s Division of the United Negro College Fund; Board Member of D.C. Social Hygiene Society, the Washington Housing Association and the Council of Social Agencies. (SOURCE: National Medical Association)
Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926)
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895)
First Negro female to earn a medical degree, 1863 - Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. was born in Delaware in 1831. Dr. Crumpler is recognized frequently in history books as the first African American woman to earn a doctor of science degree. According to National Library of Medicine (NLM), she graduated in 1863 from the New England Female Medical College. Crumpler in her published writing entitled, “Book of Medical Discourses,” mentioned observing the aunt who raised her, skillfully care for the sick and credits that experience for awakening a passion for the field of medicine. Additionally, she cared for newly freed slaves after the Civil War while living in Richmond, Virginia. After several years there, she relocated to Boston with her husband, where according to Partners of the Heart, “Crumpler established a practice at 67 Joy Street dedicated to serving women and children, especially through nutrition and preventative medicine.” (SOURCE: National Medical Association)
Dr. Charles DeWitt Watts (1917-2004)
Dr. Watts spent more than 50 years advocating for civil and human rights and for the quality of medical care for all residents of Durham, especially the poor and un-
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, M.D. (1898-1980)
Samuel L. Kountz, M.D. (1930-1981)
Samuel L. Kountz, M.D. was an African American kidney transplantation surgeon from Lexa, Arkansas. He was most distinguished for See Healthcare, Page 11
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1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants, who were newly oppressed by disfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1895 his Atlanta compromise called for avoiding confrontation over segregation and instead putting more reliance on longterm educational and economic advancement in the black community. His base was the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Alabama. As lynchings in the South reached a peak in 1895, Washington gave a speech in Atlanta that made him nationally famous. The speech called for black progress through education and entrepreneurship. His message was that it was not the time to challenge Jim Crow segregation and the disfranchisement of black voters in the South. Washington mobilized a nationwide coalition of middle-class blacks, church leaders, and white philanthropists and politicians, with a longterm goal of building the community’s economic strength and pride by a focus on selfhelp and schooling. Secretly, he supported court challenges to segregation.[1] Black militants in the North, led by W.E.B. DuBois, at first supported the Atlanta Compromise but after 1909 they set up the NAACP and tried with little success to challenge Washington’s political machine for leadership in the black community.[2] Decades after Washington’s death in 1915, the Civil Rights movement generally moved away from his policies to take the more militant NAACP approach. Booker T. Washington mastered the nuances of the political arena in the late 19th century which enabled him to manipulate the media, raise money, strategize, network, pressure, reward friends and distribute funds while punishing those who opposed his plans for uplifting blacks. His long-term goal was to end the disfranchisement of the vast majority of African Americans living in
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southern states, where most of the millions of black Americans still lived.[3]
William Edward Burghardt
“W. E. B.” Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, PanAfricanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the talented tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership. Racism was the main target of Du Bois’s polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. His cause included colored persons everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in their struggles against colonialism and imperialism. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several PanAfrican Congresses to free African colonies from European powers. Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of
American black soldiers in France and documented widespread bigotry in the United States military. Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, was a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. He wrote the first scientific treatise in the field of sociology; and he published three autobiographies, each of which contains insightful essays on sociology, politics and history. In his role as editor of the NAACP’s journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament. The United States’ Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.
E. V. Wilkins
Born on the Fourth of July in 1911, in Roper, North Carolina, E.V. Wilkins went on to become a teacher and principal at J.J. Clemmons High School, where he was active in raising money for bus services for African-American students. He later helped institute voting rights for black citizens in his county and was elected the first African-American mayor of Roper in the mid-1970s. The recipient of many awards, Wilkins died on June 2, 2002, at age 90. Elmer Vanray Wilkins was born on July 4, 1911, in Roper, North Carolina, the second of 10 children born to Maggie and Tom Wilkins. The young Wilkins went on to attend North Carolina Central University, where he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, before returning to his home town to teach math at J.J. Clemmons High School (also known as Washington County Union School). There, he met his future spouse, fellow educator Elizabeth
Witherspoon. E.V. Wilkins became principal of Clemmons High in the early 1940s and held the position for more than three decades, until 1974. His care for his students transcended pre-existing bureaucracy as he actively raised money to provide a school bus for African-American children beginning in 1946, whereas previously only white students had transportation services. In the following years, Wilkins worked with the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to file a lawsuit and institute voting rights for African-American citizens in his community of Washington County—which was made a reality in the mid-1950s. Wilkins officially entered politics when he won a seat on Roper’s town council in 1967, thus becoming the first African-American elected official in the region since the days of Reconstruction. After helming the town’s Industrialization Center from 1974 to ‘75, Wilkins won the area’s mayoral election, thus becoming the first African-American mayor of Roper—a seat that he would hold for the next 20 years. Wilkins was involved in politics on a national level as well, becoming a delegate to the Democratic National Convention throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. He was thus part of the nominating process for presidential candidates such as Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. He was also active on boards for a number of civic organizations and educational institutions, including East Carolina University’s Rural Education Institute and North Carolina’s education and railroad services. The recipient of many awards and dedications, including posthumous honors, E.V. Wilkins died in Roper on June 2, 2002, at 90 years old. He was survived by his daughters, Joy Price and Bunny Sanders, with Bunny later serving as mayor of Roper as well. Her son, Scott Sanders, is a movie director and screenwriter known for working on episodes of the sitcom A Different World, and for film projects like Thick as Thieves (1999) and Black Dynamite (2009).
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his pioneering work in the field of kidney transplantations, and in research, discoveries, and inventions in Renal Science. In 1961, while working with Dr. Roy Cohn at the Stanford University Medical Center, he performed the first successful Kidney transplant between humans who were not identical twins. Six years later, he and a team of re-
searchers at the University of California, San Francisco, developed the prototype for the Belzer kidney perfusion machine, a device that can preserve kidneys for up to 50 hours from the time they are taken from a donor’s body. It is now standard equipment in hospitals and research laboratories around the world. (SOURCE: Wikipedia) February 2014 | praisereporter.com | 866.961.7191 |
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Bishop T.D. Jakes Announces 2014 International Pastors & Leadership Conference Assembling Influential Leaders Within The Global Faith-Based Community Theme “Branching Out” Promises to Expand Ministry Impact Beyond Church Walls
Bishop T.D. Jakes
DALLAS—Bishop T.D. Jakes, senior pastor of The Potter’s House and global influencer, is hosting his 2014 International Pastors & Leadership Conference, March 6th – 8th, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The conference aims to help church leaders to transform their ministries and strengthen their organizational infrastructures to serve their communities within an increasingly complex society. Within the core curriculums of: Technology, Leadership, Fine Arts and Administrative Support, the highly anticipated gathering of faith-based experts will equip church executives, leaders and staffs with executive strategies intended to boost their ministries during an ever-changing global and economic landscape. Taking heed to the 2014 “Branching Out” theme, Bishop Jakes moves beyond the conventional barriers by bringing together culturally, ethnically and 12
denominationally diverse leaders to Orlando to speak to a wide-range of perspectives, expertise and leadership. “We want to ensure the next generation of leaders maximizes their potential and believe in their dream enough to be exposed to this level of teaching by legends in the faith” Bishop Jakes remarked. “Developing people is one of the most important things a leader can do. Equipping yourself as a leader but failing to develop the organizational structure under you can cause unnecessary struggles for any organization. This conference provides that opportunity for individuals to strengthen those behind-thescene aspects that often keep leaders from reaching their dreams.” Several thousand are expected to convene at the annual three-day event. For more than 15 years, leaders, church executives, lay-ministers, support staff and finearts leaders have come from all corners of the globe to hear from some of the world’s most knowledgeable leaders and gain revelatory principles to learn how to grow their ministries.
Inaugural Leadership School Graduation
This year’s conference marks the second year T.D. Jakes School of Leadership , powered by Regent University will be present and the first year the University will conduct graduation ceremonies for individuals who have successfully completed the executive course program.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: BISHOP T.D. JAKES, senior pastor of The Potter’s House, a global humanitarian organization and 30,000-member nondenominational, multicultural church located in Dallas and twice featured on the cover of Time Magazine as “America’s Best Preacher” and as one of the nation’s “25 most influential evangelicals.”
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Bishop Charles Blake is the pastor of West Angeles Church of God in Christ. April 6, 2009, in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama sought Bishop Blake to serve on his 25-person White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. PASTOR BRIAN HOUSTON is the Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church in Australia. Pastor Houston’s innovative leadership style, teaching resources and podcasts are in high demand. Hillsong Television can be watched from nearly every nation, through traditional TV platforms and digital Internet technology. DR. E. DEWEY SMITH is the Senior Pastor & Teacher of The House of Hope Atlanta. Smith’s writings have been published in The African American Pulpit Journal while his media ministry is viewed by millions. Smith has also served on the Board of Directors for the Morehouse School of Religion. APOSTLE FREDERICK K.C. PRICE is the founder of Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC) in Los Angeles, California. Author of over 50 books on faith, healing, prosperity, and the Holy Spirit, Apostle Price has established several schools for ministry and formal education in California and in Africa. PASTOR MATTHEW ASHIMOLOWO is the founder of Kingsway International Christian Center. His philanthropic work earned him recognition as one of 5000, invited to carry the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Celebration Torch. He’s been honored sev-
eral times in the “The Powerlist” a unique publication that profiles and celebrates the most influential black people in Britain.
LECTURERS: DR. CYNTHIA JAMES is a Christian Psychologist, whose notable awards extend from the National Science Foundation Fellowship to the United States President’s Volunteer Action Award. She’s served over 2,000 congregations nationally providing support in the area of leadership development and congregational health. BISHOP VASHTI MCKENZIE serves as the 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Her election marked the first time a woman obtained the level of Episcopal office. Currently, she serves as the presiding prelate of the 10th Episcopal District, which is the entire state of Texas.
GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERS: MRS. SERITA A. JAKES is the First Lady of the Potter’s House. As Executive Director of The Potter’s House Women’s Ministries, Mrs. Jakes oversees the International Ministries for survivors of domestic vioSee Pastors and Leaders, Page 13
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lence as well as the highly acclaimed God’s Leading Ladies Life Enrichment Program for women. BISHOP ALFRED OWENS has served as the Dean of the Joint College of Af-
rican American Pentecostal since 2000. As an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Divinity he teaches classes in the field of Homiletics and Church Leadership.
Raleigh/Durham, NC. World Overcomers was recently named the 16th fastest growing church in America, and ranks as the 46th largest church in the nation—according to Outreach Magazine.
PASTOR ANY THOMPSON is the founder and senior pastor of World Overcomers Christian Church in
DR. SAMUEL CHAND was named in the top-30 global leadership Gurus list and serves pastors, minis-
tries and businesses as a Leadership Architect and Change Strategist. Dr. Chand has served as senior Pastor, college President, Chancellor and President Emeritus. For more information and a list of sessions, please visit: www.pastorsandleaders. org.
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The Battle For the Family Fighting For Families, One Family At A Time
The Battle For the Family’s vision was born out of a troubling observation Pamela Frazier made early in the Fraziers’ ministry. She said “Honey, it looks like all we’re doing is putting out fires. There must be a better way to deal with the family issues we’re handling.” The Fraziers interpreted her observation as a divine call to them to focus attention on helping people realize the true value and worth of successful family living. The result of their prayer, planning and commitment was The Battle For The Family vision. Its beginnings were small to be sure, but always focused in the monumental task of helping broken families, angry and disillusioned couples, abused and stunted children emerge from their pain through teaching, counseling and compassionate involvement in their lives to enjoy the blessings of wholesome family life. From the start, the Battle for the Family concept was enthusiastically received. At first, The Battle for the Family vision was confined to a series of seminars and training sessions conducted each year in the month of February. With Valentine’s Day being the weekend in February recognized as the weekend of love, and coincidently the same weekend of Clifford Frazier’s birthday, it seemed that dedicating the month of February was an ideal way of promoting The Battle For The Family concept. However, not even a whole month of intensive, focused and family specific events were sufficient remedies for the problems. People needed perpetual and long-term help. The Battle For The Family concept was expanded to a weekly series of classes designed to offer life-changing information to people in all categories of family living. The Fraziers designed programs for Married people that covered not only relationship issues but also money management, extended family management, and other strategies for helping people discover that wholesome family life was not the impossible dream. Thinking that they had effectively responded to the mandate to help families, the Fraziers were satisfied that they were doing what needed to be done. Once again, though, Pamela was troubled. She observed, “Honey, do you realize that we have more singles than married people? And yet all of our emphasis is on married life. If we’re not 14
with understanding why they don’t call the same man father. Indeed this is not just a battle we are in a WAR! The Battle for the Family vision broadened its horizons beyond the church house to go to the community at large. We started a daily, live radio broadcast titled “Straight From The Heart.” This outreach was a combination of teaching and live phone callins where real life issues were ministered to right then and there. The response was overwhelming. The program began as a 15-minute show. The station manager convinced us to expand it to 30 minutes. Within months the show aired for an hour each day. The next step was obvious – television. The Battle For the Family vision launched the “Straight From The Heart” telecast on the DayStar Network. But the vision could not be contained by our local area, soon the Battle For the Family vision started serving ministries, corporations and organizations around the country and the world. It is the expansion of the Internet, though, that has ushered in a new era in the Battle For The Family vision. Now, via the battleblog, Battle For the Family webisodes and webinars, life-changing teaching is available to people around the world
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Bishop Clifford L. Frazier and Pamela J. Frazier careful, we’re going to alienate the largest population we serve.” It was out of that observation that Battle For the Family vision fleshed out its total purpose. For if the battle was for the family, all members of the family must be served. The Battle For The Family vision encompasses the realities of contemporary life.
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People are dealing with profound challenges. Gone are the picket fence 2.5 children traditional styled families. In its place are the realities of a new kind of family life. Single parent homes will soon out number dual parent homes, divorce recovery is a growth industry, people are remaining single well into their forties, child siblings have to deal
Bishop Clifford L. Frazier was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his education at Ohio University, graduating Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications with a minor in English in 1973 and earning a Masters of Theology from Tyndale Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX June 1992. He is presently working towards his Sac.Th.D., Doctor of Systematic Theology degree. In 1975, he began pursuing a career in the television industry working as on-air talent, producer-director and in production. Beginning working at WVIZ-TV Cleveland, See FAMILY, Page 15
Family from page 14 he then worked with the NBC Network in engineering and subsequently with the 3M Company in its Public Relations Department and as an eight state regional salesman in the Video Products Department. In March 1975 he married Pamela J. Parks, also a Cleveland native. After they received the call to the ministry, the Fraziers abandoned their professional careers and concentrated on God’s work. Bishop Frazier was ordained in August 1980. In 1981, one year after moving to Dallas, Texas, they started Calvary Temple Church, later renamed Heartline Ministries Worship Center. In 1997, he accepted the invitation to pastor The City of Life Christian Church in St. Louis, MO, a thriving, multi-cultural church with an ever-expanding vision for bringing families together through a comprehensive approach including teaching and specialized counseling services.
Pamela J. Frazier was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in the Cleveland Public School system. She enrolled in BaldwinWallace College majoring in music. She completed her education at Southern Methodist University, graduating with honors with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. In 1975, she married Clifford L. Frazier, also a Cleveland native. She is the mother of two lovely daughters, Leah and Janelle and is the proud grandmother of four beautiful children Khemberlyn, Nylah, Jayden, and Landon. Early on, Pamela Frazier distinguished herself as a consummate musician with the woodwind instruments, playing the Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Contrabass Clarinet, ultimately specializing in the Bassoon. She attended the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC and had several guest appearances with the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. In 1981, Pamela Frazier answered the call of God on her life and partnered together with her husband to establish Calvary Temple Church later renamed HeartLine Ministries in Dallas, TX. There was always a fresh anointing on her life as she immersed herself in all areas of the work of the Lord. While she became a profound teacher, counselor, administrator and friend to the congregation, she never lost sight of her first love - music. As a result she brought her considerable musical skills to the min-
istry operating as Minister of Music. In this capacity, she was the founder and musical director for the “Breakthrough Choir.” That choir soon became known in Dallas as an awesome music ministry. This choir was featured at numerous Christian Theatrical presentations including Michael Matthew’s “Mama I want to sing,” “Mama Don’t” and “Fake Friends.” The Breakthrough Choir also performed at the Black Expo, The Texas State Fair and other prominent events. Everyone knew that “Mama’s” passion was her music.
Leah A. McCoy was born in St. Paul, MN on December 15, 1975 to Bishop Clifford L. and Co-Pastor Pamela J. Frazier, founders of the Battle for the Family Organization. She spent most of her life in Dallas, TX. Early on she developed a reputation for leadership. Leah was known as a good friend and confidant to all signaling then her developing gift as a counselor. As a Psychology major at Baylor University she was involved in various activities both social and professional in nature. She also spent countless hours in Play Therapy Research focusing on Child Psychology. In the spring of 1999, just before graduation, Leah received her certification in Rape & Incest Crisis Counseling from the Texas Association Against Sexual Abuse. Shortly after her graduation she joined the rest of her family in St. Louis, MO. Leah received her Masters of Arts in Counseling from Webster University – October 2004, graduating with honors distinction. She currently works as a Marriage and Family Counselor. Leah is known for her counseling focus in Sexual Health and Dysfunction, Sexual Abuse, Human Sexuality and Couples Therapy.
Janelle E. Frazier was born in Dallas, TX to Bishop Clifford L. and Co-Pastor Pamela J. Frazier, founders of The Battle for the Family Organization. In 1999, Janelle graduated from Pattonville High School, after moving to St. Louis, MO with her parents. During her time at Pattonville, she participated in a variety of activities and clubs. See FAMILY, Page 32
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Ohio State Names California Educator as President
DR. MICHAEL DRAKE COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University trustees picked a California educator as the school’s next president Thursday, ending a search that began with the former president’s retirement following remarks critical of Roman Catholics and Southeastern Conference schools. “Dr. Drake was the strongest and the consensus candidate,” said Jeffrey Wadsworth, an Ohio State University trustee who led the search. Drake, 63, is an ophthalmology professor who also is a published textbook author. In 2005 he was named the fifth chancellor of UC Irvine, where he also served as a professor. Drake, who will be Ohio State’s first black president, begins June 30. His salary 16
is still being negotiated. Former president Gordon Gee was one of the country’s highest paid presidents with total compensation of almost $2 million. Drake said he was humbled by the opportunity and looking forward to working at Ohio State. He said the university is “in many ways the premier position in higher education in the United States today.” “The trajectory of Ohio State and the power of Ohio State are admired and understood throughout the world of higher education,” Drake said. He said the university is one of only a few with “the heft, the power and the capacity” to serve not just the state but the country and world. Under his tenure, undergraduate applications at Irvine increased more than 90 percent and the four-year graduation rate
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rose by nearly 20 percent. In 2006, Drake oversaw the creation of the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years. He also launched new programs in public health, pharmaceutical sciences and nursing science tailored to meet the community’s hiring needs. Before the chancellor’s job, Drake worked for five years as vice president for health affairs for the University of California system, where he oversaw academic program policy at UC’s 15 health sciences schools. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine for more than two decades. He also serves on the NCAA board of directors. Drake received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from UC San Francisco. He and
his wife, Brenda, have two adult sons and two grandchildren. Drake’s mother grew up in Youngstown where she graduated from high school, and Drake said he felt a sense of completing a circle by coming to Ohio for the president’s job. At Ohio State, Drake will lead one of the nation’s largest public universities, one with a national profile in both academics and sports. The search committee had said that it was looking for someone with a record of significant fundraising and that an understanding of an academic medical center and top NCAA athletic programs would be desirable. The presidential search was on track to cost more than $300,000. About a third of that is expenses for a one-day
Political Activism Unites New Columbus School Board Members
Pictured from left to right Michael Cole, Dominic Paretti and Mary Jo Hudson.
COLUMBUS, OH — The Columbus Board of Education has brought on three new members in the past month. Out are Mike Wiles, a South Side truck driver; Hanifah Kambon, the former district teacher from the Near East Side; and longtime President Carol Perkins, a North Linden resident who is a recently retired manager at COTA. The new members are Michael Cole, of the Far East Side; Dominic Paretti, a German Village resident who works at the Statehouse as an aide to Democratic lawmakers; and Mary Jo Hudson, a Victorian Village resident who is a former member of the Columbus City Council and former Gov. Ted Strickland’s administration. Each joins the board at a time when the district faces continued fallout from a datarigging scandal, budget cuts and school closings.
Michael Cole
Cole and his wife, Lee, have two chil-
dren in district schools — a daughter in middle school and a son in elementary school. Cole, 40, grew up in Cleveland Heights, east of Cleveland near Lake Erie. His dad worked for an industrialequipment manufacturer, and his mom worked for the telephone company. At age 16, he said he got involved in a gang and the associated violence and fighting. “There were few instances where I saved my behind, but how many times can you do that before the gig is up?” Cole said. “I was just angry, but I always had a burning curiosity to know more and know better.” After graduating from high school in 1991, he “bombed out” of Cleveland State University, he said, and worked some factory jobs. At age 25, he returned to Cleveland State with a new attitude and studied international relations and political science. While visiting friends at Ohio State, he fell in love with Columbus and transferred to OSU, where he graduated in 2002 with a
ning the campaigns of Democrats. His jobs have included deputy campaign manager for Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman. Cole also has a high-school-age daughter, who lives in the Cleveland area, from another relationship. He received more votes than any other candidate in the November school-board field race.
Dominic Paretti
bachelor’s degree in international studies and minors in French and political science. Over the years, he has worked as a local politico, “somebody who got half of the Columbus city school board elected” by run-
Note to politicians: Be careful whom you appoint to those seemingly meaningless committees. Former school board member Mike Wiles appointed Dominic Paretti to the school board’s “monitoring committee,” whose members sit through board meetings and write reports on how the board performed. Paretti didn’t like what he saw, decided to run and defeated Wiles. The board seemed to have no grasp of See Board Members, Page 19
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Mayor Coleman Announces Public Art Program Realizing the need for a formal public art program in the city of Columbus, Mayor Michael B. Coleman today signed an Executive Order to establish the Columbus Public Art Program, with a minimum annual budget of $250,000. City Councilmembers as well as members of the Columbus Art Commission were on hand for the signing. “Public art is an essential component of a community’s cultural identity and vibrancy,” said Mayor Michael B. Coleman. “By signing this executive order I am ensuring that public art remains a priority for future design in the City of Columbus, and that our residents and visitors have unique monuments to enjoy for your years to come.” The program will be administered by the Department of Development. Development will work with the Department of Public Utilities, Public Service, Recreation and Parks, the Department of Finance and Management, and the Columbus Art Commission to identify art opportunities and manage the city’s public art collection. “Public art enhances the quality of life in a community,” said Councilmember Michelle M. Mills, chair of the Development Committee. “It can inspire and challenge us as a City to achieve greater heights and adds value to our public spaces.” Public art could be singular installations like the Flowing Kiss public art installation last year at North Bank Park or incorporated into major city building, park and infrastructure projects. The city will work with the Columbus Art Commission to develop an annual Columbus Public Art Report that will outline the progress of existing public art projects and establish working budgets and schedules for newly identified projects. The Art Commission will also work with the city to develop a city-wide public art master plan that will be funded and initiated in 2015. “With this Executive Order, Columbus joins over 400 cities nationwide that enliven their communities with public art through a funded program approach,” said Diane Nance, Chair of the Columbus Art Commission. “The Commission is thrilled that Columbus will have a structure for integrating art into public space design and looks forward to working with the Mayor, Council and staff on establishing a municipal public art proSee Art Program, Page 38 18
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the $1.3 billion budget. It seemed like the superintendent was telling members: “Sit down, we’re going to take care of it, you just come here and vote every now and then,” Paretti said. “I couldn’t believe it.” Paretti, 32, is the youngest of six kids and was raised primarily by his mother, the daughter of immigrants from Italy. After his parents divorced, his mom supported the family as a civilian accountant for the military. The Parettis moved from Pennsylvania to Dayton after she took a job at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Paretti attended community college intent on working in the technical side of TV journalism but moved to the University of Cincinnati, at first majoring in anthropology, he said. When a fellow student got an internship at the Cincinnati mayor’s office, Paretti applied, too. “That’s what opened the door for me, and I fell in love with public service,” Paretti said. He graduated and took a job with the Ohio House Democrats as a policy aide. He currently works for state Rep. Barbara Boyd. Since moving to Columbus, Paretti has
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lived in a two-bedroom house in German Village, allowing him to walk to work on Capitol Square when the weather is nice. He lives with his fiancee, Leslie McGee. They’ve been together a decade and are to be married in June.
Mary Jo Hudson
Mary Jo Hudson is technically not yet on the school board; the board is expected to appoint her this week. But the board voted unanimously on Tuesday to accept her as its next member. Hudson grew up in St. Marys, in western Ohio, a town of 8,200, where she says she lived “six blocks from just about everything.” Her mom was a nurse. Her father ran a jewelry store, Hudson Jewelers, that has been in the family for four generations. She worked there as a youth and was allowed to show all jewelry except the diamond rings. She graduated high school in 1981 and attended Miami University, graduating with a degree in public administration. She attended law school at the University of Cincinnati, graduating in 1988, the year she arrived in Columbus for her first job with a private law firm. After a year, she took a job as a low-level staff attorney for the Ohio Department of Insurance — an agency she would return to lead during the Strickland administration. Her first office was in a converted broom closet, with barely room for a desk and chair, she said.
In the early 1990s, Hudson, who is gay, became active in LGBT issues with the Ohio Human Rights Bar Association and other groups. She educated public officials about child-custody issues, adoption, employment and nondiscrimination. “I was not in politics so much, but I helped public officials learn about the gay and lesbian community, who we were,” said Hudson, 51. As an openly gay woman, she never thought about running for office. “I didn’t think we’d see folks who were openly gay be elected in our lifetimes,” she said. But Hudson applied for vacancies on the Columbus City Council twice. In 2004, she became the first openly gay person on the council. Within months, she was campaigning to keep the seat, and voters elected her to a four-year term. In 2007, Strickland tapped her to become director of the state Department of Insurance. She returned to private law practice when Strickland was defeated and was named to Mayor Coleman’s education commission last year. She is married to her partner of 13 years, Lynn Wallich. They had a marriage ceremony in Columbus a year ago, but because Ohio doesn’t recognize gay marriage, they went to New York state and got married again, which means it’s federally recognized, Hudson said.
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2014 Black Enterprise
Entrepreneurs Conference & Expo Coming To Columbus, Ohio In May Hundreds of Entrepreneurs, Business Experts and Aspiring Business Owners to Gather at 2014 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference & Expo NEW YORK, NY -- BLACK ENTERPRISE will hold its 2014 Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo hosted by Nationwide Insurance on Wednesday, May 14 through Saturday, May 17, at the Hyatt Regency Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, with a powerhouse line-up of some of the nation’s most accomplished and celebrated entrepreneurs. Driving the excitement and anticipation of this year’s conference is news that T.D. Jakes Enterprises CEO T.D. Jakes will serve as the featured headliner at the Black Enterprise Small Business Awards Luncheon. Bishop Jakes will also hold a major book signing event for his highly anticipated book Instinct: Unleashing Your Natural Drive for Ultimate Success, in the Deal Makers Expo. Bishop T.D.Jakes is world-renown as a spiritual leader, as CEO of Potter’s House Ministries, and is also an accomplished entrepreneur of T.D. Jakes Enterprises - which has successfully engaged in businesses ranging from publishing and live events to film and television production. He is the first of several internationally recognized 20
business leaders announced as headliners for this year’s conference.This marks the second year that the three-day power conference, which annually brings together more than 1,200 of the country’s leading entrepreneurs and corporate executives, will be held in Columbus. The Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo (BEEC) is designed to provide attendees
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with the latest and most innovative strategies from today’s top business minds. The conference will also provide high-powered networking opportunities that are critical to attendees’ efforts to take their businesses from successful launch to growth and profitability. Business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs will gain insight about business plan development and start-up planning as well as tactical growth and their continued business endeavors. “Nationwide is proud to sponsor this year’s conference because we share Black Enterprise’s commitment for empowering minority businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the country,” said Matt Jauchius, Nationwide Chief Marketing Officer. “We are pleased to work with Black Enterprise and the City of Columbus to bring this exciting event to our hometown for the second consecutive year. I am confident that participants will have a great experience, and will walk away with valuable resources and networks to support their continued business endeavors. “It is with great enthusiasm that we
bring the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference back to Columbus, Ohio, for the second consecutive year,” says Black Enterprise CEO Earl “Butch” Graves, Jr. “Working in partnership with host sponsor Nationwide, Mayor Michael Coleman and the business communities of Columbus and the state of Ohio, the Entrepreneurs Conference enjoyed significant success last year. We look forward to working with Nationwide and our other event sponsors and partners to deliver an even more impactful conference for entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners from across the nation and around the world in 2014 The conference will take place in the heart of downtown Columbus located in close proximity to a wide variety of locally owned eateries, theaters, and retail shops. The Columbus Convention Center, which will host the Deal Makers Expo, is situated in the center of the city’s Discovery District, Short North Arts District, Arena District and the historic African-American neighborhood, the King-Lincoln district. See Conference, Page 38
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be less than 120/80 mm Hg for women age 20 or over. Here’s how the numbers are evaluated: • Normal: Less than 120 systolic and less than 80 diastolic • Pre-hypertension: 120-139 systolic or 80-89 diastolic • Hypertension: 140 or higher systolic or 90 or higher diastolic • Hypertensive Crisis: higher than 180 or higher than 110 diastolic Because blood pressure can fluctuate, consider investing in a home blood pressure monitor to record your numbers regularly. Doing so can help your healthcare provider determine whether you really have high blood pressure and, if you do, whether your treatment plan is working. Decreasing your risk As a woman, you have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure if you are 20 pounds or more overweight, have a family history of high blood pressure, or have reached menopause. But you don’t have to suffer two strokes, like Shermane, before you start taking action to prevent it. While there is no cure, HBP is manageable and preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle that includes a diet low in salt, saturated fats, cholesterol and alcohol. Physical activity and weight loss are also key factors in lowering your numbers. And these simple changes can go a long way. Today, Shermane’s eats right, exercises regularly and tracks her blood pressure every day. She also makes sure others don’t underestimate the importance of knowing their blood pressure numbers and family history. Are you ready to join her in the fight against heart disease?
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29th Annual Stellar Awards Winners 2014
David & Tamela Mann
ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Tamela Mann, “Best Days” SONG OF THE YEAR – Kirk Franklin, Take Me To The King – “Best Days”
Shirley Caesar
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR – Fred Hammond & Derek “DC” Clark, “United Tenors: Hammond, Hollister, Roberson, Wilson”
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR – Tye Tribbett, “Greater Than”
CONTEMPORARY GROUP/DUO OF THE YEAR – Fred Hammond, Fred Hammond & Derek “DC” Clark, “United Tenors: Hammond, Hollister, Roberson, Wilson”
ALBERTINA WALKER FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR – Tamela Mann, “Best Days”
TRADITIONAL GROUP/DUO OF THE YEAR – John P. Kee and New Life, “Life & Favor”
GROUP/DUO OF THE YEAR – Anthony Brown & group TherAPy
CONTEMPORARY MALE OF THE YEAR – Anthony Brown, Anthony Brown & group TherAPy
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Tasha Cobbs
TRADITIONAL MALE OF THE YEAR - John P. Kee and New Life, “Life & Favor”
CD OF THE YEAR - Tamela Mann, “Best Days” CHOIR OF THE YEAR – Hezekiah Walker, “Azusa The Next Generation”
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CONTEMPORARY FEMALE OF THE YEAR - Tasha Cobbs “Grace”
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TRADITIONAL FEMALE OF THE YEAR - Tamela Mann, “Best Days” CONTEMPORARY CD OF THE YEAR - Tasha Cobbs “Grace” TRADITIONAL CD OF THE YEAR – Tamela Mann, “Best Days” URBAN/INSPIRATIONAL SINGLE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - Tamela Mann “Take Me to the King” MUSICVIDEOOFTHEYEAR—BrandX,“Testimony,”Anthony Brown & group TherAPy TRADITIONAL CHOIR OF THE YEAR – Hezekiah Walker, “Azusa: The Next Generation”
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CONTEMPORARY CHOIR OF THE YEAR – Earl Bynum & The Mount Unity Choir, “Bishop K.W. Brown Presents Earl Bynum & The Mount Unity Choir” SPECIAL EVENT CD OF THE YEAR - Tamela Mann, “Best Days”
RECORDED MUSIC PACKAGING OF THE YEAR – Patrick Dopson, “Best Days” PRAISE AND WORHIP CD OF THE YEAR - Tamela Mann, “Best Days”
RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR MAJOR MARKET OF THE YEAR - WPZE 102.5/102.9, Atlanta, Lori Hall LARGE MARKET OF THE YEAR- HEAVEN 600 – WCAO 600 AM, Baltimore, Lee Michaels
RAP HIP HOP GOSPEL CD OF THE YEAR - Lecrea, “Gravity”
SPECIAL AWARDS JAMES CLEVELAND LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD-Hezekiah Walker
CHILDREN’S PROJECT OF THE YEAR– Jekalyn Carr, “Greater Is Coming”
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McDonald’s Gospelfest 2014 ‘’Women Who Worship’’ Mother’s Day experience featuring Yolanda Adams, CeCe Winans, The Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar, Tramaine Hawkins, Dorothy Norwood, Dottie Peoples, Cissy Houston, Melba Moore, Vickie Winans, Kim Burrell, Tasha Cobbs and Erica Campbell Iselin, NJ - Gospel fever returns to the New York Tri-State area on Saturday, May 10, 2014 at the Prudential Center (165 Mulberry Street, Newark, NJ). After auditions in January 2014, the competitors will be preparing to share the stage with the top Women in Gospel including Yolanda Adams, CeCe Winans, Clark Sisters, Shirley Caeser, Tramaine Hawkins, Dorothy Norwood, Dottie Peoples, Cissy Houston, Melba Moore, Vickie Winans, Kim Burrell, Tasha Cobbs and Erica Campbell! Produced and directed by Emmy Award winning Producer, A. Curtis Farrow, McDonald’s Gospelfest is a talent competition that features many abilities. Rising stars of all colors, ages, cultures and faiths will compete in a variety of categories including Soloists, Youth Choir, Adult Choir, Praise Dance, Step, Singing Groups, Gospel Comedians, Gospel Poets and Gospel Rappers. Tickets can be purchased at the Prudential Center Box Office or through Ticketmaster by calling 800.745.3000, or at www. ticketmaster.com starting December 23, 2013. For further information, please call the McDonald’s Gospelfest Hotline at 973643-6262. McDonald’s Gospelfest originated in 1983 under the auspices of the McDonald’s Corporation and the McDonald’s Tri-State Owner/Operator Association. Over thirty years later, it has emerged as the nation’s preeminent Gospel celebration, bringing joy, inspiration, encouragement and hope to millions of Americans. Previous McDonald’s Gospelfest participants have gone on to successful careers in entertainment, including the renowned Bishop Hezekiah Walker. Over the course of the past 31 years, The McDonald’s Tri-State Owner/Operator Association has awarded millions of dollars in scholarship money. The McDonald’s Gospelfest competition has been an important fundraising event which supports education opportunities within local communities. 26
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Bounce Tv Honors Black History Month 2014 Sunday Nights in February (All Times Eastern) February 2:
Malcolm X (7:00 p.m.) Denzel Washington’s 1992 Academy Award®nominated performance as the famous African American leader. To Sir, With Love (11:00 p.m.) featuring Sidney Poitier’s memorable turn in this 1967 classic. Rising From the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter (1:00 a.m.) which tells
the story of the relatively unheralded Pullman Porters, generations of African American men who served as caretakers to wealthy white passengers on luxury trains that traversed the nation in the golden age of rail travel.
February 9:
The Color Purple (7:30 p.m.) 1985’s multiple Oscar® nominee including Best Picture chronicles 30 years in the life and trials of a young African American woman played by Whoopi Goldberg who won
a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Jackie Robinson Story (11:00 p.m.) is a theatrical movie starring Robinson himself that showcases Robinson’s life, from youth, through his college career at UCLA, his time in the Negro Leagues and his pioneering experiences and career with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A Defining Moment (1:00 a.m.) Examines the personal stories of four of the famed Tuskegee Airmen whose contribution to the civil rights movement helped pave the way for an historic event: The
inauguration of the first African-American president of the United States.
February 16:
Glory (7:30 p.m.) The acclaimed tale of the Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company featuring Denzel Washington’s Oscar®-winning performance. A Raisin in the Sun (10:00 p.m.) The 1961 classic starring Academy Award® winner Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil about a substantial insurance paySee Bounce TV, Page 39
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“MARY MARY” Is Back With An Explosive Third Season NEW YORK, NY - January 21, 2014 Faith will be tested in the most intense season of WE tv’s MARY MARY, premiering Thursday, February 27 at 9PM ET/PT. Their personal lives are demanding all the attention as Erica and Tina Campbell’s world is turned upside-down from shocking betrayals and devastating news. Tina deals with an intimate issue fans will be shocked to learn the details about, and as Erica struggles to care for her sister, she begins to launch her solo career. When all is shattered, the ladies must look within themselves, and each other, to find the strength to pick up the pieces. After landing the high profile cover on Ebony Magazine - where Tina unexpectedly decides to tell all about Teddy’s infidelity - Tina’s picture perfect dream becomes a nightmare. Devastated by Teddy’s actions,
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Tina struggles with her desire to forgive her husband. A broken Tina is unsure whether she has it in herself to forgive the man she thought she knew and searches for answers. Erica tries to be there for her sister, but finds that Tina is not always interested in her sister’s advice. While Erica’s heart is breaking for her sister, she realizes that her desire to transition from Mary Mary to solo artist is more difficult than she anticipated. Erica takes the spotlight when she debuts her new single in New York City; however, she worries that she is unable to connect with the crowd without her sister. As she pushes on, Erica realizes that success has a cost: a ruptured vocal chord. Will the stress of balancing a solo career, her health and Mary Mary be too much for Erica?
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After losing multiple Mary Mary bookings and forfeiting Erica and Tina’s trip to Africa, the fate of their manager, Mitchell, hangs by a thread. Erica and Tina are facing major life issues, including the news of their father’s terminal illness and untimely death. Famous or not, the ladies of Mary Mary have some major life changes to contend with, but who will come out the victor?
FOR MORE MARY MARY VISIT WETV.COM The Mary Mary Singing Contest is coming back for another round! Fans will have a chance to raise their voices by belting out one of the three newly-selected Mary Mary songs. Additionally, wetv.com is adding new features such as deeper social integration, mobile uploading, and the op-
portunity for fans to send one lucky entrant to the finals. This year’s grand prize is a trip for two to the 2014 Essence Festival, tickets to the nightly concert events, a meet and greet with Tina and Erica and the chance to perform for other Mary Mary fans! Log on to wetv.com for an exclusive video series where viewers will get to witness Erica and Tina’s authentic reactions to each episode as they relive the scenes with the viewers. Episode blogs written by Tina and Erica will give additional insight to each episode, and sneak peeks, clips and deleted scenes will also be featured. MARY MARY is produced for WE tv by Entertainment One (eOne) Television and executive produced by Tara Long, John See Mary Mary, Page 39
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Dr. Teresa Hairston
Gospel Heritage 2014: The Superbowl of Worship! The #1Praise & Worship Conference Back to Atlanta
Bishop Paul S. Morton
Dr. Creflo Dollar
Dr. Jackie McCullough
Dr. Todd Hall
tory of the Gospel genre. She has hosted and produced Gospel celebrations at the White House and across the world. “The culture has changed and it’s time for the Church to change as well!” says Hairston. In 2014, Hairston is leading an initiative to champion a philosophy that moves beyond Gospel music, embracing “worship,” She declares, “Worship is a lifestyle, not just a musical style.” Here’s what that means. First, she says, “Our next generation is a priority. We’ve got to reach out to our young adults and get them excited, involved and immersed See Heritage, Page 31
Dr. Van Moody
Bishop Timothy Clarke
Dr. Hart Ramsey
After calling together Gospel artists, songwriters, musicians and pastors to celebrate the Gospel heritage and perpetuate its legacy for the past 19 years, Dr. Teresa Hair-
ston is declaring that its time for change. Hairston, 57, is the founder and president of the Gospel Heritage Foundation. She is
a leader, trailblazer and trendsetter in the Gospel idiom. In 1989, she founded Gospel Today, a magazine that became the most widely distributed publication in the his-
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in the worship culture of inspiration and empowerment, because it really is a life-inspiring culture!” Many churches have retreated behind their four walls and are no longer active participants in their communities. There is unprecedented violence, depression and homelessness among teens. College students and young adults are being left behind. Secondly, “Worship is the answer to racism. Worship breaks racial and denominational barriers. I’m continuing to reach out and invite every nationality to join in with this worship celebration.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, in 1968 during his last Sunday sermon before he was assassinated, “We must face the sad fact that at 11 o’clock on Sunday morning when we stand to sing ‘In Christ there is no East or West,’ we stand in the most segregated hour of America.” Gospel Heritage’s goal is to “transform nations and generations through worship.” At the February 20-22 event, Hairston will host several presenters who echo this new movement that is changing the Church’s worship culture. Among the presenters will be: Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr (host pastor, pastor of Changing A Generation Church, presenter); Dr. Creflo A. Dollar (keynote speaker, pastor of World Changers Ministries, Atlanta, GA); and Dr. Van Moody (keynote speaker, pastor of The Worship Center, Birmingham, AL). Rounding out the keynote speaker lineup are pioneers, Dr. Jackie McCullough (New York), Dr. Todd Hall (Florida), (Ohio) and Dr. Hart Ramsey (Alabama). Of course, Gospel Heritage is noted for incredible top-flight Gospel music celebrations. This year’s conference will host Grammy and Stellar-Award winning artists: Earnest Pugh, Vashawn Mitchell, William McDowell, Judy McAllister, Richard Smallwood, Kurt Carr and Hezekiah Walker. Gospel Heritage offers a strong educational component (supervised by Dr. John Guns, Jacksonville, FL). which attracts thousands of pastors and creative arts leaders each year. Daytime sessions are open to registrants, while nighttime events are open to the public. This year, on Friday, February 21, a special late-night Worship Concert will celebrate the organization’s 20th anniversary. This will be a ticketed event. For more information/schedule: gospelheritage@aol. com or gospelheritage.org or call 770.866.2427. February 2014 | praisereporter.com | 866.961.7191 |
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Family from page 15 She was a member of the Minority Achievement Club (MAC), Parrot Pep Squad, and the Choir. While diverse in her interests, she focused much of her attention on her journalistic passion influencing students and community members alike as a student writer for the Pattonville school paper. After working for several years in accounting as a night auditor, Janelle realized that she was very much interested in business administration and management. Janelle enrolled in Fontbonne University where she majors in Business Administration with an emphasis on Human Resource Management. She is a full-time student, and BFTF team member specializing in issues related to young adults and single young adult mothers. Janelle is the proud mother of two beautiful daughters, Khemberlyn and Nylah. Being a single mother and full-time student, while actively engaged in her career, Janelle is no stranger to the pressures of life. She has experienced her share of dating and relationship disappointments and financial hardships as well. However, Janelle remains steadfast in her belief that “With God All Things are Possible.� Lester McCoy, Jr Lester McCoy, Jr., the second oldest child in a family of four siblings, was born April 15, 1979. He is a native of Wichita, Kansas. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 8, and received special permission to join the band while only in the 3rd grade. His musical talent consistently ranked him in 1st chair and he was named All City Performer. An honor graduate of Southeast High School, he gained a reputation for being an exceptional two-sport athlete playing Football and Basketball. While there, he received numerous awards, including being named All City and All State Wide Receiver and Defensive Back, City League Conference Single Season Reception and Receiving Yardage Records Holder and All City Guard in Basketball. He was a State Champion 4x100 Relay member and in 1997 he was invited to participate in the Kansas Shrine Bowl, the state high school All Star game. These athletic accomplishments led to his induction as a member of the High School Sports Hall of Fame for Scholar Athletes.
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events claendar Rhythm Of Gospel Awards * July 23rd - 27th, 2014: The 6th Annual Rhythm Of Gospel Awards 2014 will be held at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. The event recognizes churches, pastors, choirs and independent gospel artists nationwide for their outstanding contributions to Gospel. For the 2014 nominees and more information, visit www.therhythmofgospelawards.com or call Mark Rogers at 210-745-5858 ext. 109.
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* October 2014: The 45th Annual Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Awards will be held. For details as they become available, visit www.doveawards.com.
Award Presentations by others in the USA (listed by state, date) FLORIDA * 2014: The 8th Annual South Florida Gospel Music Awards 2014 will be held. The event will feature networking, showcases,
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vendors, an awards presentation and much more. For more details as they become available, visit www.sfgma.com or call Peppi Hendrix at 561-853-8300. (Photo: South Florida Gospel Music Awards logo). TEXAS * February 13th - 16th, 2014: The 16th Annual Texas Gospel Music Excellence Awards will be held at the Houston Marriott South @ Hobby Airport, 9100 Gulf Freeway, Houston, TX 77017. The event features awards, workshops, showcases, vendors and more. For area hotels and more info, call Pastor
Larry Davies at 281-935-3573.
Concerts
(listed by state, date) GEORGIA * February 8th, 2014: Humility Music presents Family Reunion Fest 2014 featuring Joe Ligon & The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Lee Williams & The Spiritual QC’s, Doc McKenzie & The Hi-Lites, Darrell McFadden & The Disciples, The Gospel Legends, Roy & Revelation, Tim Rogers & The Fellas, The Swanee Quintet and others at the Albany Civic Center, 100 West Oglethorpe Boulevard, Albany,
other events & news GA 31701. 3 pm. For more information and tickets, call 706-235-2065.
Conferences
NORTH CAROLINA * February 14th, 2014: Dorothy’s Music By G-Man presents the Ladies Night Out concert featuring Doc McKenzie & The Hi-Lites, The Canton Spirituals, Roy & Revelation, Darrell McFadden & The Disciples, Spencer Taylor & The Highway QC’s, Highly Favored, The Brooklyn Allstars and others. To be held at New Shiloh Baptist Church, 2600 Elmin Street, Charlotte, NC 28208. 6 p.m.. For more info and tickets, call G-Man at 704287-4682.
CALIFORNIA * March 10th - 13th, 2014: The 2014 Board Meeting of the Gospel Music Workshop of America will be held at the Hilton Airport Hotel, 5711 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045. For more details as they become available, visit www.gmwanational.org.
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GEORGIA * February 20th - 22nd, 2014: The Gospel Heritage Praise and Worship Conference
2014 will be held at Changing A Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr. is host Pastor. The event features a multitude of nationally-known Pastors, artists and panelists. For complete details, visit www.gospelheritage. org or call Dr. Teresa Hairston, President, at 770-866-2427. (Photo: Dr. Teresa Hairston). view flyer * April 2014: The National Association of Gospel Promoters, Managers, Radio & TV Personalities 16th Annual Conference and Black-Tie Gala will be held at the Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel, 1031 Virginia Avenue,
Atlanta, GA 30354. For more information as it becomes available, call Minister Barbara McLaughlin (NAGPM President & Founder) at 267-980-2079. (Photo: Minister Barbara McLaughlin). LOUISIANA * February 2014: Ms. Esther Wooten... in memory of the late Roy “Mr. Malaco” Wooten, presents Exclesisa Enterprises 13th Annual Showcase Extravaganza. The event features workshops, showcases and more. For information as it becomes available inSee NEWS, Page 36
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other events & news formation, call Exclesisa at 601-366-0220 or 601-316-1405. NEW YORK * April 2014: TAO Ministries presents their 13th Annual Pressing Towards Your Vision Conference in Rochester, New York. The event features showcases, workshops, an awards presentation and concert. For registration details as they become available, visit www.taoministries.com or call Golden Lewis, Founder, at 585-224-3590. TEXAS * June 2014: The 2013 Gospel Quartet “Meet And Greet� Network Showcase & Conference will be held in Houston, Texas. For more information as it becomes available, call Darrell Jay Jones, CEO, at 936222-4006. VIRGINIA * July 2014: The 5th Annual Independent Gospel Artist Alliance Conference will be held in Chesapeake, Virginia. This event is designed for independent artists desiring to learn the business of Gospel Music. For more information as it becomes available, visit www.indiegospelalliance.com or call Phillip Carter, Founder, at 301-509-3459. (Photo: Phillip Carter).
Conventions
(listed by state, date) ALABAMA * January 21st - 24th, 2014: The 22nd Annual American Gospel Quartet National Convention will be held at Greater St. John Baptist Church, 2401 Carlos Avenue SW, Birmingham, AL 35211. For vendor, showcase, registration and hotel information, visit www.agqconvention.ning.com or call Rev. George Stewart at 205-798-4093 or 205-602-7792 (cell). GEORGIA * July 26th - August 1st, 2014: The 2014 National Convention of the Gospel Music Workshop of America will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information as it becomes available, visit www.gmwanational.org. NORTH CAROLINA * May 2014: The North Carolina Gospel Announcers Guild - GMWA presents their 2014 Convention. For more information as it becomes available, visit www.ncgag.com or call Rev. Arvetra Jones, Jr., State President, at 910-988-4614. 36
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What Is Soulfunny Soulfunny: adj \sl -f-n\ the quality that arouses emotion and sentiment, seeking or intended to amuse the central or integral part of a human being; the vital core.
The Soulfunny Radio Show The Soulfunny Radio Show is a radio show that airs on Rejoice Musical Soul Food to approximately a half million listeners weekly through approximately 50 radio stations around the country. With nationally recognized Comedian Steffon Vann hosting and Spoken Word Artist Vicky Clark and Pastor Sharon Riley as co-hosts, The Soulfunny Radio Show enlightens, encourages and entertains its listeners through music, shared testimonies, guest interviews and listener interaction all done with a twist of comedy to keep it fun, fresh and exciting. www.soulfunnyradio.com
The Soulfunny Comedy Cruise The Soulfunny Comedy Cruise is a cruise that combines the Soulfunny Comedy Show and a Royal Caribbean Cruise to provide an affordable way to Refresh, Relax and Rejuvenate your Soul! Traveling to tropical places like Cozumel and The Bahamas and sharing in fellowship and activities such as a night of comedy and a morning worship service The Soulfunny Comedy Cruise is a way to have fun in the sun with other Christians from around the country and plenty of opportunities for witnessing to those outside the body of Christ. www.soulfunnycruise.com
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gram.” The announcement of the new program has already garnered excitement and support in the Columbus arts community. “The Mayor’s Executive Order is an important step in making public art a permanent and visible part of the fabric of the Columbus community,” said Tom Katzen-
meyer, President of the Greater Columbus Arts Council. “The Arts Council looks forward to working with the City and the Columbus Art Commission to ensure broad artist engagement in the program and to foster opportunities for the larger community to engage in the dialogue about public art.”
Conference from page 20 “Columbus is proud to welcome the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference to our thriving city for the second consecutive year,” said Mayor Michael B. Coleman. “Once again we’re looking forward to sharing our community’s greatest assets including restau-
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rants, shops, and nightlife throughout the city with conference attendees and visitors.” For updates, follow BLACK ENTERPRISE Entrepreneurs Conference page on Facebook and search the #BEEC2014 hash tag on Twitter
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ment that could change a poor African American family’s future, for better – or for worse. A Colored Life: The Herb Jeffries Story Story (1:00 a.m.) An honest, entertaining, and often humorous look at a charismatic personality who used his light complexion to survive — and thrive — in both the black and white worlds.
February 23:
Ghosts of Mississippi (7:00 p.m.) The critically-acclaimed story of the search for justice by the widow (played by Whoopi Goldberg) of slain Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (10:00 p.m.) The iconic movie featuring the unforgettable performance by Cicely Tyson (EMMY® for Best Lead Actress in a Drama) in the title role as a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to be-
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come a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The Good Fight: James Farmer Remembers the Civil Rights Movement (12:30 a.m.) The life of Freedom Rides founder and pioneer of the earliest sit-ins James Farmer, in his own words. Bounce TV targets African American adults with a programming mix of original series, theatrical motion pictures, live sports, documentaries, specials, game shows and inspirational faith-based programs. Since its launch in 2011, Bounce TV has seen overwhelming success, with accelerated growth and expansion among station groups, advertisers and viewers alike. Bounce TV is seen in: 88 markets, including all of the top African American television markets; 89% of African American television homes; and 72% of the total television homes in the United States.
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Morayniss, Eric Hoberman and Howie Long. Lauren P. Gellert and Kate Farrell are executive producers for WE tv. Read more at http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2014/01/21/
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