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3rd Annual Augusta Literary Festival Set On Saturday, March 1st, from 9-5 PM, Augusta will once again embrace the literary world with both arms wide open by hosting the 3rd Annual Augusta Literary Festival. Fifty local and national authors will be on hand at the main library branch on 823 Telfair St. in Downtown Augusta, Georgia.

The Augusta Literary Festival (ALF) will be the climax of two days of literary excitement, starting with activities planned for Friday, February 28th.

The festivities kick off at the main library branch on Friday, Feb. 28th with two workshops designed for both prospective and current authors. The first workshop will be from 10-12, and is titled, Marketing and the Modern Author. It will be taught by Hildie McQueen (Amazon Best Selling author). The second workshop will be from 2-4 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 PM 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. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Anthony Neal, Chair of the Yerby Selection Committee. After the discussion, there will be a tour of the Yerby House on Paine’s campus.

Friday’s activities will be concluded with the awarding of the 2nd Annual Yerby Award for Literary Fiction. All media, participating authors, and guests, are invited to attend. This event will begin at 6 PM at the main library branch on 823 Telfair St. Refreshments and live jazz by guitarist Robert Reid will be offered at the event.

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Finally, Tameka Allen named interim city administrator while search for Fred Russell’s replacement continues.

By Frederick Benjamin Sr. UrbanProWeekly staff writer AUGUSTA After a bit of ducking and dodging on the heels of the unceremonious sacking of former city administrator Fred Russell nearly a month ago, the Augusta commission two-stepped in the direction of deputy administrator Tameka Allen.

Why it took nearly 30 days before commissioners could form a consensus to promote the second-in-command to the top spot is a testament to the predicaments in which these commissioners usually find themselves.

While Allen found immediate support from some commissioners in the wake of the Russell firing (most notably from Commissioners Bill Lockett and Bill Fennoy) some stalled as they questioned her readiness to assume the job and others even suggested that the city recall retired civil servants.

After emerging from a pre-meeting legal session, Commissioner Alvin Mason

offered the motion to name Allen the interim city administrator and the vote was unanimous (Donnie Smith was not present).

A year ago, Allen was one of two deputy administrators. With the departure in August of Deputy administrator Bill Shanahan and the abrupt bouncing of Russell, Allen was the “last man standing.”

The commission made no move to modify Allen’s salary. Prior to the departure of Russell, whose base salary was $136,859, Allen’s salary as Deputy administrator and IT Director was $131,789.

Allen is expected to be in charge for about six months.

A search is now being conducted for interim IT director and interim deputy city administrator, the two positions that Allen held before her latest assignment.

Allen, 44, a native of Thomson, Georgia has been a city employee since 1992. The IT department was recently recognized for excellence by a national organization.

Tameka Allen was named interim city administrator on Tuesday, while the the Augusta Commission searches for a replacement for recently-fired Fred Russell. Allen has worked for the city since 1992. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Mayoral candidate to host public “I have a Dream” listening session AUGUSTA M ayor a l Ca nd id ate Helen Blocker-Adams will hold an “I Have a Dream’” Listening Session, Saturday, January 11, 2014 10 a.m.

- 12 noon at Dougherty Park Community Center, 1200 Nellieville Road (off

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Drive). The free Listening Session is designed for the public at-large to meet the candidate and share their dreams and hope for Augusta. It’s also a chance for their voice to be heard.

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for leaders to ‘listen’ to the needs of her constituents. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, I wanted to use his famous speech “I Have a Dream” as a theme that people can relate too. I will have my pen and pad ready to take notes and hear from

people in the community on what’s on their mind,” says Blocker-Adams. As a pragmatic and solutions-oriented person, hearing first hand from citizens living in this community will help me identify ways to resolve any issues they may have, she

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The atmosphere will be casual and refreshments will be provided by Big Sisters in Action, a local non-profit organization that works with economically disadvantaged children. The public and media are invited.

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Richmond County School Board Dist. 2 Rev. Dr. Franklyn V. Beckles Jr. Monique Braswell *

By Frederick Benjamin Sr. UrbanProWeekly Staff Writer AUGUSTA As possibly the lone white candidate in a crowded field of mayoral hopefuls, former city administrator Fred Russell is being touted in some quarters of town as ‘The Great White Hope.” It is a label that he should avoid, as there is nothing to be gained by its embrace.

“Great White Hopes” are generally underdogs, hence the “hope” tag.

Russell would be better advised to seek to become Augusta’s next “black” mayor in the manner that Bill Clinton has always been affectionately dubbed America’s “first black president.”

Simply put, if Russell has earned any political capital from the black community, now is the time to think about cashing it in.

Many political observers feel that he is attempting to do just that. From his support of inner city development, his penchant for working with African-American lieutenants and his cultivation of ties within the black community, Russell is poised to enjoy significant support, if not outright endorsement, from some quarters of the black community. The recent over-

recently begun to wane. It is interesting receive a close-to-solid bloc vote from to note that Russell has never served the white community to be successful. at the pleasure of a majority-black city Another white candidate in the race commission and if he is being asked to could knock that possibility right out of run away from his record in city gov- the window. ernment that is a plank in his defense Also, if the African American candidates have any white support at all, tures from Paine College is a thread in platform.

On the other hand, positioning him- Russell could be ‘out of the money’ in that quilt.

Russell’s challenge is to avoid being self as the next “black” mayor is not the case of a runoff.

Stay tuned. seen as a cog in the Billy Morris private without its pitfalls. Russell has got to development program. The fact that Russell has apparently never seen a Paul Simon proposal that he was not in favor of, will be used by his critics to pummel him — and rightly so.

During his tenure as city administrator, Russell has worked with commissioners who saw no need get serious about the disparity study which clearly outlined steps that the city could take to address the imbalance in women and minority purchasing.

ATTORNEY AT LAW He also oversaw the deterioration of the city’s public transit system which Criminal Law • Divorce • Personal Injury • Employment Law several Augusta commissions relegated to the back burners.

Russell’s only hope on that score is for him to appeal not to be castigated 407 Sixth Street for the “sins of the city fathers.”

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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?

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 1:00 P.M.

The Augusta Branch of the NAACP is accepting applications for participation in the 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade.

The parade will be on Saturday, January 18, 2014. 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.

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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 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.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, @ 3:00 P.M. Trinity CME Church presents “Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Guest speaker will be Clifton Davis and there will be a special performance by Jennifer Holiday.

The church is located at 2930 Glenn Hills Drive, Augusta, Georgia.

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The completed public mural on the Rosa T. Beard Memorial Bridge is part of the 15th Street pedestrian improvement project, financed by a community grant from HUD. The mural was unveiled on Friday, January 3rd and features the art of the McTier family, as well as other local artist volunteers. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

A Georgia Regents University cheerleader rallies the crowd during a men’s basketball game at Christenberry Fieldhouse. The Jaguars prevailed over UNC Pembroke with a final score of 76-72.

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GRU teams up with 12 Bands for charity CD AUGUSTA Georgia Regents University and The 12 Bands of Christmas will celebrate local bands with ties to the university with the release of a new CD featuring their music.

Volume I, which includes music by GRU students, alumni, faculty, staff, and supporters, features tracks by Black Swan Lake, Eskimojitos, Funk You, Impulse Ride, Jeremy Graham Band , People Who Must, Snapdragon, The Radar Cinema, The Ramblin’ Fevers, and Will McCranie.

The album also features two recordings from the GRU Orchestra, including the “GRU Alma Mater,” performed together with Tonya Currier, 12 Bands artist and Administrative Director of the GRU American Opera and Musical Theater Institute.

“This is an opportunity for us to acknowledge and thank those who have dedicated their resources and talent to our university and community with a gift that keeps giving,” said David Brond, GRU Senior Vice President of Communications and Marketing. “Through our partnership with 12 Bands, we hope to create an annual tradition with a CD release that celebrates the talents of our university and local community.”

Copies of the CD will be available later this month at GRU bookstores on the Summerville and Health Sciences campuses and select campus events, for a donation to the Children’s Hospital of Georgia.

“All CD donations will benefit the Children’s Hospital of Georgia,” said 12 Bands Director Joe Stevenson. “We’re excited to partner with GRU in support of the children and families who visit CHOG each year, and for the opportunity to showcase local talent.”

The 12 Bands of Christmas started in 2001 with a mission to raise funds to fight pediatric cancer. In 2003, a recorded CD was added. To date, 12 Bands has raised more than $250,000 to support families of pediatric cancer patients.

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Rally for School Board Candidate Rev. Dr. Franklyn V. Beckles Jr. On Friday, January 17, 2014, there will be a Campaign Rally for District 2 Board of Education candidate Rev. Dr. Franklyn V. Beckles Jr. Beckles is a respected community leader and Pastor of the Sons For Christ

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The government should fight poverty 86 PERCENT OF AMERICANS THINK GOVERNMENT SHOULD USE ITS RESOURCES

When it comes to equality of opportunity,

by Zoë Carpenter

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ifty years after President Lyndon Johnson announced a “War on Poverty,” a majority of Americans believe that persistent economic hardship is the result of a broken economy, not of personal or government failures. They broadly agree that the government has a responsibility to use its resources to fight poverty, and should pursue a target of reducing it by half over the next decade.

Those are the conclusions of a public opinion survey published Tuesday by the Center for American Progress.

The report assessed perceptions of poverty in general, as well as opinions of the War on Poverty in retrospect and of policy proposals on the table now. As lawmakers move to cut benefits and refuse to consider serious investments in the economy, in education and in healthcare, the survey is another reminder that those are precisely the investments people want the government to make.

News of falling unemployment, a rising stock market and an end to the recession hasn’t shaken the public’s perception that a vast proportion of Americans can’t meet their basic needs. In fact, Americans see poverty as being far more widely spread than the government does. Asked what percentage of their fellow Americans were living in poverty, the average guess was 39 percent—a sharp rise from the official estimate of 15 percent. Poverty is also a common personal experience, with more than half

a majority of Americans don’t believe that poor Americans face a level playing field. of respondents reporting that they knew someone who was poor.

When it comes to equality of opportunity, a majority of Americans don’t believe that poor Americans face a level playing field. And when forced to choose between core arguments about the roots of American poverty—that it stems from a flawed economic system, or from personal failings—nearly two-thirds agreed with the structural argument.

At the heart of opposition to safety net programs is the idea that poor Americans are undeserving of assistance, and that they are poor because they are lazy. It turns out that very few Americans polled by CAP support this core principle. Nearly 80 percent agreed that “most people living in poverty are decent people who are working hard to make ends meet in a difficult economy,” including 66 percent of white conservatives and libertarians. The poll showed nearly equal agreement across race and party lines on the point that a shortage of jobs with good wages is the primary reason for poverty in America, and that the poor receive unfair criticism.

Still, the welfare-queen archetype endures: even while agreeing that laziness is not the cause of poverty,

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

BY KRISTIE ROBIN JOHNSON

A word of thanks

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he beginning of a new year signals not only the start of another calendar, the incessant declaration of resolutions and swearing off of various vices and ills; but it is also a time to take a retrospective look at the past year and reflect on the events that shaped the last twelve months. As I take a look back at my last twelve months, I have a lot to be thankful for. And I would be remiss if I did not take the time to express my complete and unwavering gratitude to Ben Hasan, Frederick Benjamin, and the staff at Urban Pro Weekly not only for the opportunity that they have given to me, but also for the service they provide to our community.

One of the greatest gifts that one could ever give to a writer is a platform — a place where she can express her opinions and share her perspec-

a majority of respondents said that poor Americans abuse government programs. And yet people appear to believe they’re worthwhile anyway.

Several progressive policy proposals, including expansions of the safety net, received at least 80 percent total support: financial assistance for childcare, an expansion of nutrition assistance, universal pre-K, more publically funded scholarships, and increasing the minimum wage.

Similarly, more Americans reported a negative association with the term “War on Poverty” than positive, but the perception shifted after the programs made possible by President Johnson’s war were sketched out for them. Then, a whopping 86 percent agreed that the government should use its resources to fight poverty, and 61 percent said the War on Poverty has made at least some positive difference.

We’re sure to hear much this week about the disappointments of Johnson’s war, but that’s simply a convenient means of condemning any new investments in the economy, in education and in the safety net. As The Washington Post reported Tuesday, Republicans including Senators Paul Ryan and Marco

Rubio, who will speak separately on the subject on Wednesday, are struggling to put forward specific policies to back up their claims to care about the millions of Americans in economic distress. We’re likely to hear about school choice, “economic freedom zones,” and tax breaks for “job creators.” If some Republicans are distancing themselves from the old argument that personal failings cause poverty, it’s to assert that government failure is responsible instead.

But privatization is not a new policy, and it’s had countless failures of its own. When it comes to critical tests of their commitment to struggling Americans, Republicans fail again and again. Their refusal to back the expansion of Medicaid and an extension of unemployment benefits are pressing examples. Certainly Americans are concerned about the failings of government, but there are plenty of indications that such frustrations are more about what the government is not doing now than what it did fifty years ago. Even among Democrats, much of the economy talk remains focused the middle class, and lawmakers are loath to embrace any serious spending.

But as the CAP poll suggests, many Americans have the appetite for an anti-poverty agenda driven by government investment. That lawmakers, both national and local, found the courage to fight for it could be the story of the year. © 2014 The Nation

tives freely, without censorship.

Urban Pro has given me exactly such a platform since July 2013. Like many Americans, I was stunned and disappointed by the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial and wanted to express that sentiment. Thousands of citizens rallied. Some protested. I wrote.

But it wasn’t enough to just write a brief essay and keep it to myself. I wanted my voice to be heard. I needed a platform. I made a single phone call to Ben Hasan and the rest, as they say, is history.

Since then, Mr. Hasan and Mr. Benjamin have allowed me to offer thoughtful, sometimes colorful, commentary on everything from football to race relations to politics in their publication.

Writing with the support of Urban Pro has literally been one of the

most freeing experiences of my life.

I look forward to 2014 and all of the promises and opportunities it holds and I especially look forward to continuing to offer thought provoking commentary and unique perspectives on popular culture and current affairs within the pages of Urban Pro Weekly.

Most readers don’t really understand or appreciate the sacrifice involved with operating a free, weekly news publication. Lining up committed advertisers, chasing down hot local stories, and physically delivering the finished product is a huge amount of work.

Somehow, some way, Ben and Frederick make it happen every week. They do it because they know how important their paper is to the CSRA. It’s more than just something to thumb through while you wait for

your name to be called.

Urban Pro offers a fair and necessary alternative to the predominantly conservative voices found in the major Augusta-area print outlet.

Urban Pro takes into consideration all sides of a story and represents the often unheard or misinterpreted voice of Augusta’s diverse AfricanAmerican population.

So if you are reading these words right now, there are two things that you must do when you put this paper down: (1) Thank Ben Hasan and Frederick Benjamin the next time you see them. Let them know that their hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed; and (2) Share this publication with three of your friends and family members. Remind them that there is a media outlet that shares their point of view –­­ Urban Pro Weekly.

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