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Where do we go from here?

Dr. Martin Luther King’s masterpiece on economic justice

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AUGUSTA On Saturday, March 1st, from 9 - 5 p.m., Augusta will host the 3rd Annual Augusta Literary Festival (ALF) at the main library branch on 823 Telfair St. in Downtown Augusta, Georgia.

The ALF will be the climax of two days of literary excitement, starting with activities planned for Friday, February 28 with two workshops designed for both prospective and current authors. The first workshop will be from 10 a.m. - 12 noon, and is titled “Marketing and the Modern Author.”

It will be taught by Hildie McQueen. The second workshop will be from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. and is titled “Advanced Novel Writing: Tips and Techniques that will take your Novel to the Next Level.”

National Best Selling Author Karen Gillespie will be the instructor for this workshop.

At 1 p.m. on Friday, on the campus of Paine College, there will be a Roundtable Discussion with the five finalists of the Yerby Award for Literary Fiction followed by a tour of the Yerby House on Paine’s campus.

At 6 p.m., the 2nd Annual Yerby Award for Literary Fiction will be presented at the main library branch on 823 Telfair St. For more detailed information, please visit the official website at: http://www.augustaliteraryfestival.org.

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King met with Lyndon B. Johnson several times during the civil rights era. The first of such meetings occurred when King visited Washington D.C. with a delegation of civil rights activists to meet with U.S. Senators and later when Johnson was president.

King’s push for economic justice Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for economic justice called for nothing less than the restructuring of American Society.

Unfortunately, much of Dr. King’s broad and powerful message is in danger of being left behind as new generations come to know him only through history and see him more as myth than as man. His life and great works are still relevant to the complex realities of today’s social problems, and if we allow the richness of his example to recede, we lose the opportunity to continue to learn from him.

There is still much to learn by walking in his path. Change a few words in the speech — replace “Negro” with “African American” — and readers will think they’re reading the work of one of the best and brightest of today’s

social commentators. This great speech touches on many specific issues that are especially important today, such as economic opportunity, community reinvestment, affordable housing and home ownership, and education.

The following address was delivered at the 10th Annual Session of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on August 16, 1967. The speech has been edited (some day-to-day references in the category of “old business” has been omitted in the very beginning. The original text was several thousand words long. Dr. King’s core message, however, has been retained without unnecessary alteration. — Editor

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1967)

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en years ago during the piercing chill of a January day and on the heels of the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott, a group of approximately one hundred Negro leaders from across the South assembled and agreed on the need for an organization to be formed that could serve as a channel through which local protest organizations in the South could coordinate their protest activities. It was this meeting that gave birth to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

And when our organization was formed ten years ago, racial segregation was still a structured part of the architecture of southern society. Negroes with the pangs of hunger and the anguish of thirst were denied access to the average lunch counter. The downtown restaurants were still off-limits for the black man. Negroes, burdened with the fatigue of travel, were still barred from the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. Negro boys and girls in dire need of recreational activities were not allowed to inhale the fresh air of the big city parks.

Negroes in desperate need of allowing their mental buckets to sink deep into the wells of knowledge were confronted with a firm “no” when they sought to use the city libraries. Ten years ago, legislative halls of the South were still ringing loud with such words as “interposition” and “nullification.” All types of conniving methods were still being used to keep the

Negro from becoming a registered voter. A decade ago, not a single Negro entered the legislative chambers of the South except as a porter or a chauffeur.

Ten years ago, all too many Negroes were still harried by day and haunted by night by a corroding sense of fear and a nagging sense of nobody-ness.

But things are different now. In assault after assault, we caused the sagging walls of segregation to come tumbling down. During this era the entire edifice of segregation was profoundly shaken. This is an accomplishment whose consequences are deeply felt by every southern Negro in his daily life. It is no longer possible to count the number of public establishments that are open to Negroes. Ten years ago, Negroes seemed almost invisible to the larger society, and the facts of their harsh lives were unknown to the majority of the nation. But today, civil rights is a dominating issue in every state, crowding the pages of the press and the daily conversation of white Americans. In this decade of change, the Negro stood up and confronted his oppressor. He faced the bullies and the guns, and the dogs and the tear gas. He put himself squarely before the vicious mobs and moved with strength and dignity toward them and decisively defeated them. And the courage with which he confronted enraged mobs dissolved the stereotype of the grinning, submissive Uncle Tom. He came out of his struggle integrated only slightly in the external

society, but powerfully integrated within. This was a victory that had to precede all other gains.

In short, over the last ten years the Negro decided to straighten his back up, realizing that a man cannot ride your back unless it is bent. We made our government write new laws to alter some of the cruelest injustices that affected us. We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights. We gained manhood in the nation that had always called us “boy.” It would be hypocritical indeed if I allowed modesty to forbid my saying that SCLC stood at the forefront of all of the watershed movements that brought these monumental changes in the South. For this, we can feel a legitimate pride.

But in spite of a decade of significant progress, the problem is far from solved. The deep rumbling of discontent in our cities is indicative of the fact that the plant of freedom has grown only a bud and not yet a flower. . . . . . . With all the struggle and all the achievements, we must face the fact, however, that the Negro still lives in the basement of the Great Society. He is still at the bottom, despite the few who have penetrated to slightly higher levels. Even where the door has been Continued on next page

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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE forced partially open, mobility for the Negro is still sharply restricted. There is often no bottom at which to start, and when there is there’s almost no room at the top. In consequence, Negroes are still impoverished aliens in an affluent society. They are too poor even to rise with the society, too impoverished by the ages to be able to ascend by using their own resources. And the Negro did not do this himself; it was done to him. For more than half of his American history, he was enslaved. Yet, he built the spanning bridges and the grand mansions, the sturdy docks and stout factories of the South. His unpaid labor made cotton “King” and established America as a significant nation in international commerce. Even after his release from chattel slavery, the nation grew over him, submerging him. It became the richest, most powerful society in the history of man, but it left the Negro far behind.

And so we still have a long, long way to go before we reach the promised

land of freedom. Yes, we have left the dusty soils of Egypt, and we have crossed a Red Sea that had for years been hardened by a long and piercing winter of massive resistance, but before we reach the majestic shores of the promised land, there will still be gigantic mountains of opposition ahead and prodigious hilltops of injustice. We still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert every hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at hand. Yes, we need a chart; we need a compass; indeed, we need some North Star to guide us into a future shrouded with impenetrable uncertainties.

Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now.

When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was sixty percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is fifty percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus,

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A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will “thingify” them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together.

What I’m saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, you must be born again!” half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we turn to the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share: There are twice as many unemployed; the rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites; and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population.

In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. Onetwentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, seventy-five percent hold menial jobs. This is where we are.

Where do we go from here? First, we must massively assert our dignity and worth. We must stand up amid a system that still oppresses us and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of values. We must no longer be ashamed of being black. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.

Even semantics have conspired to make that which is black seem ugly and degrading. In Roget’s Thesaurus there are some 120 synonyms for blackness and at least sixty of them are offensive, such words as blot, soot, grim, devil, and foul.

And there are some 134 synonyms for whiteness and all are favorable, expressed in such words as purity, cleanliness, chastity, and innocence. A white lie is better than a black lie. The most degenerate member of a family is the “black sheep.” Ossie Davis has suggested that maybe the English language should be reconstructed so that teachers will not be forced to teach the Negro child sixty ways to despise himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of inferiority, and the white child 134 ways to adore himself, and thereby perpetuate his false sense of superiority. The tendency to ignore the Negro’s contribution to American life and strip him of his person-hood is as old as the earliest history books and as contemporary as the morning’s newspaper.

To offset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood. Any movement for the Negro’s freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried. As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. No Lincolnian Emancipation

Proclamation, no Johnsonian civil rights bill can totally bring this kind of freedom. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.

And with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, “I am somebody. I am a person.

I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and noble history, however painful and exploited that history has been. Yes, I was a slave through my foreparents, and now I’m not ashamed of that. I’m ashamed of the people who were so sinful to make me a slave.” Yes, yes, we must stand up and say, “I’m black, but I’m black and beautiful.”

This, this self-affirmation is the black man’s need, made compelling by the white man’s crimes against him.

Now another basic challenge is to discover how to organize our strength in to economic and political power.

Now no one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From the old plantations of the South to the newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make decisions concerning his life and destiny he has been subject to the authoritarian and sometimes whimsical decisions of the white power structure.

The plantation and the ghetto were created by those who had power, both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness.

Now the problem of transforming the ghetto, therefore, is a problem of power, a confrontation between the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to the preserving of the status quo. Now, power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, and economic change.

Walter Reuther defined power one day.

He said, “Power is the ability of a labor union like UAW to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say, ‘Yes’ when it wants to say ‘No.’ That’s power.”

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often we have problems with power. But there is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base.

And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites, polar opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. It was this misinterpretation that caused the philosopher Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to

power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject Nietzsche’s philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love.

Now, we got to get this thing right.

What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best, power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Now what has happened is that we’ve had it wrong and mixed up in our country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through love and moral suasion devoid of power, and white Americans to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience. It is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.

Now we must develop progress, or rather, a program that will drive the nation to a guaranteed annual income.

Now, early in the century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and denunciation as destructive of initiative and responsibility. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s abilities and talents. And in the thinking of that day, the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. We’ve come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. The poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our conscience today by being branded as inferior and incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.

The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold: We must create full employment, or we must create incomes. People must be made consumers by one method or the other.

Once they are placed in this position, we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted. New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available. In 1879 Henry George anticipated this state of affairs when he wrote in Progress and Poverty: The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power and enriches literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the, that of a taskmaster or by animal necessities. It is the work of men who somehow find a form of work that brings a security for its own sake and a state of society where want is abolished.

Work of this sort could be enormously increased, and we are likely to find that the problem of housing, education, instead of preceding the

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE

. . . . I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here?” that we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, “Why are there forty million poor people in America?”

And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. And you see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds water?” These are words that must be said.

Now, don’t think you have me in a bind today. I’m not talking about com-

munism. What I’m talking about is far beyond communism. My inspiration didn’t come from Karl Marx; my inspiration didn’t come from Engels; my inspiration didn’t come from Trotsky; my inspiration didn’t come from Lenin.

Yes, I read Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital a long time ago, and I saw that maybe Marx didn’t follow Hegel enough. He took his dialectics, but he left out his idealism and his spiritualism. And he went over to a German philosopher by the name of Feuerbach, and took his materialism and made it into a system that he called “dialectical materialism.” I have to reject that.

What I’m saying to you this morning is communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say questioning the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

And if you will let me be a preacher just a little bit. One day [applause], one night, a juror came to Jesus and

he wanted to know what he could do to be saved. Jesus didn’t get bogged down on the kind of isolated approach of what you shouldn’t do. Jesus didn’t say, “Now Nicodemus, you must stop lying.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, now you must not commit adultery.” He didn’t say, “Now Nicodemus, you must stop cheating if you are doing that.” He didn’t say, “Nicodemus, you must stop drinking liquor if you are doing that excessively.” He said something altogether different, because Jesus realized something basic: that if a man will lie, he will steal. And if a man will steal, he will kill. So instead of just getting bogged down on one thing, Jesus looked at him and said, “Nicodemus, you must be born again.”

In other words, “Your whole structure must be changed.” A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will “thingify” them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together.

What I’m saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, you must be born again!”

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations for 2014 SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 6:45 P.M.

The Progressive Religious Coalition of Augusta Presents The 7th Annual Interfaith Service of Celebration at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church, 1330 Monte Sano Avenue, Augusta, Ga. 30909 The theme of the celebration is Keeping the Dream Alive: Why Dr. King Still Matters The keynote speaker will be Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, founder of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute. Mr. Gandhi’s presentation is entitled “Lessons from My Grandfather: The legacy of nonviolence that changed American history and inspired Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Arun GANDHI is the author of A Patch of White (1949), is about life in prejudiced South Africa; he also wrote two books on poverty and politics in India; followed by a compilation of M.K. Gandhi’s Wit & Wisdom. He also edited a book of essays on World Without Violence: Can Gandhi’s Vision Become Reality? And, more recently, wrote The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, jointly with his late wife Sunanda and his bestseller Legacy of Love: My education in the path of nonviolence.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 1:00 P.M. The Augusta Branch of the NAACP is hosting the 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade.

The theme for the event is “Stop the Killngs, Stop the Violence Now.” Parade participants will meet up at 11:00 AM. At 1 p.m. the parade will start at Dyess Park Community Center, located at 902 James Brown Blvd. The parade will proceed south on James Brown Blvd., then west onto Wrightsboro Road, north onto Augusta Ave., east onto Laney Walker Blvd., north onto 11th Street, and east onto D’Antignac Street.

The official viewing stand will be in front of the Lucy C. Laney H.S. football stadium.

For more information and to apply contact: Augusta Branch NAACP, augustanaacp@earthlink.net Or Dr. Charles Smith at drsmit4@earthlink.net; 706724-0390 (Phone); 706-284-0275 (Cell).

MONDAY, JANUARY 20 @ 5:30 P.M.

desperately need, she added.

Our Mistress of Ceremonies is Greenbriar High School Senior Ally Delgado. Live jazz will be provided by Artist Bill Karp. Spoken Word Artist and 2014 Poet Laureate Anthony ‘Sleepy Eyez’ Carter will also perform one of his most recent works.

This year’s sponsors include International Paperboard, SRPFCU, Maryland Fried Chicken and the Augusta Judicial Juvenile Court and Judge Doug Flanagan.

The event is open to the public. Advance tickets are on sale now. Adults $35 and Youth (under 18) is $18. To purchase tickets, please call 706.619.4176. No tickets will be available at the door.

MONDAY, JANUARY 20 @ 7:00 P.M.

The theme of the event is “We Shall Not Be Moved.” The keynote speaker is the Reverend Dr. Francys Johnson, president, of the Georgia State Conference.

The meet and greet begins at 6:00 p.m. For tickets, call 706-284-0275 or 706-724-0390.

3rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Reception will be held Monday, January 20, 2014 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at The Partridge Inn in Augusta.

This year an Essay Contest for middle and high school students has been added. “We wanted to expand the event to give our young people an opportunity to express themselves on paper. The Essay theme is ‘How has Dr. King Inspired me to Community Service?”, said event organizer Helen Blocker-Adams.

This annual event is about inspiring youth to be the best they can be and for adults to engage with them in a fun and elegant atmosphere to give them the support they

The Augusta Branch NAACP will be hosting its 40th Annual Martin L. King, Jr. Freedom Fund Banquet. The banquet will be held at the Gordon Conference and Catering Club at Fort Gordon.

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elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.

The poor, transformed into purchasers, will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes, who have a double disability, will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.

Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts between husband, wife, and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on a scale of dollars is eliminated.

Now, our country can do this. John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth . . . .

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Stanford scholar:

Global struggle continues for social justice, human rights

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BY CLIFTON B. PARKER s the nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 20, Stanford historian Clayborne Carson reminds us that King’s vision is unfulfilled – especially in the global struggle for human rights and peace.

“Martin realized that the black struggle in the 1960s was about more than civil rights,” said Carson, director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute and the foremost King scholar. «He was concerned about expanding human rights – rather than merely civil rights – in the 21st century. This would be the culmination of King›s vision, but we are a long way away from achieving this.»

On Jan. 15, the institute will hold its annual open house at its campus offices in Cypress Hall D, 466 Via Ortega. The event, which features a unique display of historical photographs and documents, will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

Under Carson’s direction, the King Papers Project, a component of the institute, is now publishing the seventh of a planned 14-volume series of the civil right leader’s correspondence, sermons, speeches, writings and unpublished manuscripts.

The continuing crisis Carson said that the right to pursue economic opportunity by crossing national borders is one of the flash-

points in today’s inequality.

“The Declaration of Independence speaks of universal, inalienable rights. But we have only begun to define what rights we have regardless of where we choose to live,” he said.

King, in his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize speech, said he sought to overcome racial injustice and build a world where everyone could enjoy “three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.”

But as Carson points out, millions of people today are held back from countless opportunities because they are not official citizens. He said that while it is relatively easy for a hightech worker without U.S. citizenship to enjoy a prosperous career in the Silicon Valley, it is dangerous and deemed illegal for a Mexican migrant worker to cross into the United States without the proper documents.

“There are thousands of people in this area who are living in fear because they did what my parents and grandparents did – that is, migrate in search of better opportunities. No country in the world wants to put out a welcome mat for the poor,” he said.

Citizenship rights are those backed by a particular government and political system – such as the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence in the United States – but human rights are a more universal, global concept, Carson said. The ideal, he said, would be for everyone in the world to

have the same protections and rights as a human being.

“Maybe in 100 years we will have an answer,” he said.

The two decades after World War II saw progress on issues like eliminating legalized racial discrimination, but there are still major obstacles to equal opportunity, Carson said.

King, for example, believed that “international violence” was one of the three major issues of modern times, along with racial oppression and poverty, Carson said.

Wars of the past half-century have been fought mainly in “undeveloped countries with weapons from the developed world.” These wars produce a lot of “collateral damage,” especially for poor people who don’t have the means to leave war zones, he added.

King, said Carson, would be a staunch critic of any nation that tolerated extensive poverty while wasting precious human and material resources on war.

“He would want people to know that his dream was still unfulfilled at the end of his life and remains unrealized even now,” he said.

Clayborne Carson, an expert on Martin Luther King Jr., explores what the late civil rights leader would think about social and economic justice in today’s world – and how to bridge the gap in inequality. On Jan. 15, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute will hold its annual open house to celebrate King’s vision.

Local institutions partner to honor the life and contributions of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bishop Woodie White Keynote Speaker

AUGUSTA Each year, Augusta Technical College, Georgia Regents University and Paine College come together to celebrate the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Through this celebration, the institutions encourage the community to reflect upon the teachings of Dr. King and his work for peace and equal rights for all people throughout the world.

This year, Paine College will host the event on the campus in the Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel located on Druid Park Avenue, in Augusta, Georgia. The celebration will occur Friday, January 17th at 12 noon. World renowned theologian, Bishop Woodie W. White, will serve as the keynote speaker. Bishop White is the Bishop in Residence at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, located in Atlanta, Georgia. The event is free and open to the public.

Paine College has a historical tradition of open access and a commitment to social justice. Through this joint

celebration, the institutions encourage the community to embrace a climate that is open and accepting of differences.

About Bishop Woodie White Born in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in the 1930’s, Bishop White emerged as one of the most respected religious leaders in America. Of particular note, Bishop White earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Paine College in 1958. After graduation from Boston University School of Theology in 1961, he served as a pastor in Worcester, Massachusetts and Detroit, Michigan at the height of the Civil Rights movement. In the early 1960s he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi and fined a thousand dollars for trying to worship at Saint Luke’s Methodist Church (an all-white congregation), where almost three decades later he was invited to be a guest preacher.

For more information about this event, please contact Helene Carter at 706.821.8323, 706.414.7490 (mobile), or via email: Hcarter@paine.edu.

Trey McLaughlin among performers at ‘14 Stellar Awards 338 and DISH CH 188.

During the Stellar Award Weekend, Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds Of Zamar will also perform at the 2014 Yes Lord Radio Stellar Award Showcase. The event is one of the premier events during Stellar Award weekend that showcases and celebrates gospel music’s independent artists. The concert will be held at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville on Friday, Jan. 17. Admission is free.

“I am very happy and grateful for this opportunity. I’m looking forward to networking with artists and Gospel greats that I’ve watched for so long,” McLaughlin said. “The group and I are also excited about performing at some great showcases.”

In 2009, McLaughlin became the founder and director of his own gospel ensemble; Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar. The Group has undoubtedly made a name for itself in

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AUGUSTA Augusta native and recording artist, Trey McLaughlin is officially a part of the biggest award show in Gospel Music. McLaughlin was recently chosen to perform at the 29th Annual Stellar Awards on Saturday, January 18 in Nashville, Tenn. as a winner of the first Take Me To The Stellar Awards Emerging Artist Competition. The contest is for promising new talent and is designed to discover Gospel’s next big superstars to be presented during the 29th Annual Stellar Awards.

ABC’s The View, host Sherry Shepard and Comedian, Rickey Smiley, will host the 29th Annual Stellar Awards. Performance highlights from the event will be streamed LIVE on Gospelvideotv. com and Thestellarawards.com as part of The Stellar Awards live coverage.

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Trey McLaughlin will be a part of the Stellar Award Weekend. Highlights will air LIVE on UP TV at 7 PM EST/ 4 PM PST on Saturday, Jan. 18. the Music industry by performing with gospel greats like William McDowell, Kierra “Kiki” Sheard, Brian Courtney Wilson, and James Fortune. Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar is featured on GRAMMY® award-nominated artist Vashawn Mitchell’s “Triumphant” (Deluxe Edition) DVD for their rendition of “Chasing After You.” Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar released their first single, “I Will Praise” in 2012, which was followed by “More Like Him” in 2013.

The singles, available on I-Tunes, are featured on the group’s current project “Limitless,” which was released November 2012. “I Will Praise,” soared to the #63 spot on the Billboard Gospel 100 Chart. The singles, “I Will Praise” and “More Like Him” have been added to rotation throughout the United States.

To keep up with the group at http:// www.treymmusic.com/or follow them on Twitter: @treymclaughlin and @ soundsofzamar; or check them out on Facebook andYouTube!

International physical therapy Augusta Mini Theatre to present the restaging of What Black leader to speak at GRU Folk Say About Black Folk

AUGUSTA Dr. Marilyn Moffat, President of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, will visit Georgia Regents University to speak about challenges presented by non-communicable diseases and aging. The program is planned for noon, Thursday, Jan. 23 in the Lee Auditorium, Health Sciences campus.

Moffat’s visit is the latest in the ongoing College of Allied Health Sciences Dean’s Research Seminar Series, which brings nationally and internationally known speakers to campus to discuss topical health care issues.

Moffat, an internationally recognized leader in physical therapy, is a practitioner, teacher, consultant, and author. In addition to her role with the WCPT, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Physical Therapy and on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the World Rehabilitation Fund.

With the WCPT Task Force, she is developing international guidelines for physical therapist education and practice under an international definition of the field. She has given over 800 professional presentations and has taught and provided consultation services in Taiwan, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Panama, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Israel, Finland, Barbados, Trinidad-Tobego, and Nigeria.

Her many professional awards include the American Physical Therapy Association’s Mary McMillan Lecturer, the organization’s highest honor; the WRF Howard A. Rusk Humanitarian Award; and the United Cerebral Palsy Citation for Service.

She is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Women, and Who’s Who in the East.

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AUGUSTA The Augusta Mini Theatre Community Arts and Life Skills School, founder and executive director Tyrone J. Butler is restaging his play, “What Black Folk Say About Black Folk.” The play will be the Theatre’s annual salute to the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The production of “What Black Folk Say About Black Folk” will run Friday, January 17th – Sunday, February 16th. A special performance will take place on February 1st at Old Macedonia Baptist Church located 200 Macedonia Road, North Augusta, SC 29860.

The production will take place in Dr. Marilyn Moffat, President of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy of Georgia will honor Moffat with a public reception from 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 22 in the lobby of the Health Sciences Building, 987 St. Sebastian Way.

GABEO MLK Events January 18, 2014 – 12 Noon – The Georgia Informer, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, The New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, 4388 Robinson Road, Macon, GA. Rev. Curtis Raines, pastor and President of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of GA. 478-4743009.

January 19, 2014 – 11:00 a.m. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Hickory Grove Baptist Church, Sparta, GA 31087. The phone number to this event is 706-444-5883.

the Judith Simon Drama Studio located in the Augusta Mini Theatre, Inc. at 2548 Deans Bridge Road, Augusta, GA 30906. Admission for “What Black Folk Say About Black Folk” is $13 adults, $10 students & children (Ages 2-­18) and $8.50 per youth (groups of 10 or more).

“What Black Folk Say About Black Folk” is one of the number of plays Butler has written. His plays include “The Johnny Williams Story;” “My Dream;” “Before the Storm;” “Last Chance;” and “Pickin,” which is published in 2003 by Pioneer Drama Services in Englewood, Colorado.

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Augusta Regional introduces a traveling airport mascot AUGUSTA Augusta Regional Airport (AGS) is proud to introduce our Airport Mascot Program. This program has been established to honor AGS’s former canine employee, Mayday. She will be represented by two traveling plush border collie companions, Mayday and Little Miss Mayday. Together these two travelers will help promote the love of aviation in the hearts of the young and old alike!

Mayday will become a hitchhiker with the goal of visiting all 50 states in the U.S. and 10 different countries. She will hitch rides with pilots and/or passengers transiting through general avia-

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Little Miss Mayday will be temporarily adopted out to select youngsters within the CSR A to accompany them on their family vacation. Students from first through eighth grade with an interest in participating in the program must submit a one page essay stating why they believe Little Miss Mayday should accompany them on their family’s next vacation.

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Lady Lions push through to get win over Kentucky State, 65-62

AUGUSTA The Paine College women’s basketball team turned in another strong performance on the hardwood with a 65-62 win over Kentucky State on Monday, Jan. 13. With the win, the Lady Lions improve to 6-8 on the season and 4-1 in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). Kentucky State falls to 4-10 overall and 0-6 in the SIAC. The Thorobrettes got off to a quick start and pulled to an early seven point lead. Paine’s persistence did not waver, however, and a Jemetria Fletcher layup off of a fast break gave the Lady Lions their first lead 3:46 before halftime. At the half, Paine led 31-28.

Kentucky State regained the lead just three minutes into the second half. With 11:14 remaining in the game, Paine was down 41-47. Ashley Watts then nailed back-to-back 3-pointers and Ariel Brown hit a layup to tie the game at 49. Paine’s energy increased and their momentum shifted as Lashonda Canty made a bucket from the field to give the Lady Lions the lead 51-49. The Thorobrettes tried their best to edge back but Paine held on leading by no more than five in the last nine minutes of the game.

“Today we played a good game,” said the team’s lone senior Brown. “We played defense the whole time but we did let the game get too close. We had a lot of turnovers and had to come back after that.”

The Lady Lions had 17 turnovers and the Thorobrettes had 20. Both teams capitalized off of the others turnovers.

Kentucky State scored 13 points off of turnovers and Paine scored 18. Watts, the leading scorer in Division II basketball, led the game in scoring with 29 points. She also had five assists, two steals, two rebounds and was perfect from the free throw line making 10. Paine’s second leading scorer was Brown with 15 points, six rebounds, six steals and one assist. BreAsia Burns led the game in rebounding with seven defensive boards and two offensive boards.

Paine shot 38 percent from the field, 33 percent from the line and 74 percent from the free throw line.

Kentucky State shot 39 percent from the field, 33 percent from behind the arc and 59 percent from the free throw line. Kentucky State outrebounded the Lady Lions 44-34. They were led by Teeuntra Moore who had 18 points and five rebounds and Brieona Warner who had 15 points and nine rebounds.

Up Next: The Lady Lions play at Fort Valley on Jan. 18 at 6 p.m.

For additional information on all aspects of the Paine College Department of Athletics, please visit www.paineathletics.com or contact Kayla Thomas at 706-821-8438 or kthomas@paine.edu.

The Paine College dance team, “Mahogany Essence”, performs during an SIAC conference game against Kentucky State University.

Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Ashley Watts prepares to make a move during an SIAC conference game against Kentucky State University. The Lady Lions triumphed over the KSU Thorobrettes with a final score of 65-62 at the HEAL Complex. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Paine’s Lashonda Canty takes the ball down the court. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

BreAsia Burns takes a free throw during an SIAC conference game against Kentucky State University.

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Georgia Regents Medical Center limits visits due to flu AUGUSTA Georgia Regents Medical Center is temporarily restricting hospital visitation of friends and family under age 12 in an effort to help prevent the spread of influenza virus and other circulating respiratory illnesses. In addition, guests who are experiencing flu-like symptoms should not visit patients at the medical center or Children’s Hospital of Georgia.

“Hospital patients, especially those with weak immune systems or with severe underlying illnesses, are vulnerable to influenza, and we have an obligation to protect them,” said Dr. Kevin C. Dellsperger, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at GRMC. According to national reports, the most common strain circulating this year is the H1N1 (2009 pandemic) strain, which is also the dominant strain currently being diagnosed at Georgia Regents.

“There have already been several hospital admissions of patients with f lu infection,” said Dellsperger. “The f lu virus is very contagious and spreads rapidly, and we will do our best to minimize the risk.”

Dellsperger advises the best way to keep the flu from spreading is for those infected to stay home and recover. He said that symptoms include fever of 100 degrees or higher and any of the following: • Cough and/or sore throat • Runny or stuffy nose • Headache and/or body aches • Chills

• Fatigue • Nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea (most common in children) Besides limiting exposure, frequent hand-washing is a good preventive measure as is getting a flu vaccine.

This is not the first time the health system has implemented temporary visitation restrictions due to flu.

“We take the health and safety of our patients, families and staff very seriously,” Dellsperger said.

“While it could pose a minor inconvenience to some, it is for the greater good.”

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Main Branch Library, Room B, 1st floor, 11 a.m. “Black History Month Program on Lucy Laney” will feature Dr. Kent A. Leslie, a historian who’s finishing up a biography on Augusta’s education giant. Dr. Leslie will share little know facts about the life and legacy of Miss Laney.

AUGUSTA Faculty, staff and students at Georgia Regents University campuses throughout the state will enjoy celebratory cupcakes today in honor of the institution’s first anniversary.

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Notice to Lower Income Families Augusta Housing Authority This notice is to advise that effective Wednesday, January 15, 2014 that the Augusta Housing Authority will open the waiting list for the Project Based Voucher Program for Maxwell House Apartments. The waiting lists for the Public Housing Program and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program are currently closed. The waiting list for the Moderate Rehabilitation Program (River Glen Apartments) is currently open. The Augusta Housing Authority will also accept updated information from persons who have previously applied for the Section 8, Moderate Rehabilitation Notice to Lower Income Families and Public Housing Programs.

Augusta Housing Authority

Maxwell House, LLC provides 44 1-bedroom units of permanent supportive housing at Maxwell House Apartments. The Project Baron Curtis, Vouchers are usedMonday, to provideNovember rental assistance for 44 This notice is toBased advise that effective 25, 2013 that the Pharmacist extremely low to lower income families. Maxwell House, LLC offers Housing Authority will open the waiting lists for the Section 8 Moderate Reha quality affordable housing while providing essential supportive Program (River Glen Apartments).

The waiting lists the Public Housing services to assist special needs families to for move successfully from Prog the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program are currently closed.

The Augusta dependency to self-sufficiency. Applications for the Section 8 Authority will also accept updated information from persons whoApartments have previously Project Based Voucher Program for Maxwell House for the Section 8, will Moderate Rehabilitation and Public Housing be accepted by contacting Maxwell House Programs.

Apartments at (706) 724-1927 and completing an on-line application at www.

Walk-in customers wantingProgram to apply will not Glen be Applications for augustapha.org. the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation (River Apa seen during the open application period. will be accepted by completing an on-line application at www.augustapha.org.

The Richmond County School System will customers accept wanting to apply for the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Program (Ri This notice is also to advise that effective July 14, 2014 at 5:00p.m., bids and request for proposals until 3:00 p.m. on Apartments) will the notAugusta be seenHousing during Authority the openwill application close the period. waiting lists for the Wednesday, February 12, 2014, for the following: Project Based Voucher Program for Maxwell House Apartments.

This notice is also to advise that the waiting list for the Section 8 Moderate Reha The Augusta Housing Authority notindefinitely. discriminate in admission Program (River Glen Apartments) will remaindoes open or access to its federally assisted programs. Any potentially eligible 1. Transit School Buses RFQ #14-653 individual who has a visual or hearing impairment will be provided The Augusta Housing Authority does not discriminate in and admission or access with information necessary to understand participate in the to its 2. Student/Faculty Identification Badge System assisted programs.

Any potentially eligible individual has visual or Augusta Housing Authority’s programs.

Richard who Arfman hasabeen 3. LED Sign for Diamond Lakes Elementaryimpairment School will be provided with information necessary to understand and parti designated as the responsible employee to coordinate the Augusta 4. Dance Floor Replacement for Davidson Fine Arts the Augusta Housing Authority's Richard has been designate Housing Authority’sprograms. efforts to comply withArfman the nondiscrimination based on regulations. responsible employee to handicap coordinate the Augusta Housing Authority's efforts to com School the nondiscrimination based on handicap regulations.

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COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF RICHMOND COUNTY

Bid specifications may be obtained by contacting Amy Bauman in the Business Office at 706-826-1298, on our web site at www.rcboe.org, or at the Richmond County School System, Central Office, 864 Broad Street, 4th Floor, Augusta, Georgia 30901.

The Richmond County School System reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive technicalities and informalities.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION OF RICHMOND COUNTY By: Dr. Frank G. Roberson, Secretary

Equal Housing Opportunity The Housing Authority of the City of Augusta, Georgia By: Jacob Oglesby, Executive Director

Mission Statement: To promote adequate and affordable housing, economic opportunity and a suitable living environment free from discrimination.

“Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to reestablish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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- the first mixed-income public housing community within the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA).

Augusta Housing Authority has completed the first two phases of construction, which include Legacy at Walton Oaks (for seniors) and the first phase of the family housing. The third phase - second phase of family housing - is currently underway.

The fourth phase - Legacy at Walton Oaks II - is scheduled to begin during the fall 2014 and is to be completed in fall 2015.

Legacy at Walton Oaks

Walton Oaks

Walton Oaks It is the goal of Augusta Housing Authority to bring to fruition the ideals: “By providing housing to an array of incomes, the development creates a place and sense of community. It promotes the further development for high quality housing and economic development.”

3rd Phase Augusta Housing Authority is working Walton Oaks with Walton Communities, the City of Augusta and other area partners within the CSRA on Walton Oaks.

For more information contact Jacob L. Oglesby Executive Director at 706-312-3158 or joglesby@augustapha.org

...in honor and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... “...a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint...in your life's blueprint, you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life — what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well.”

--- excerpt from speech given at Barratt High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967

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