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MAKIN’ A DIFFERENCE COMMENTARY by Ken Makin

The Roads Leading To Nowhere

Why aren’t we spending SPLOST funds on the city’s main streets Let’s face it, Augusta’s commissioners have a lot on their plate: SPLOST, stormwater and other constant community concerns.

I also know commissioners care a lot about economic development, so much in fact, that they currently have an initiative among five commissioners to increase the city’s revenue stream. Well, if commissioners are serious about bringing in more revenue (and retaining it), they need to take a serious look at the thoroughfares in Augusta-Richmond County.

Personally, I have my eye on four: Gordon Highway, Tobacco Road, Deans Bridge Road and Peach Orchard Road. Compared to Washington and Wrightsboro roads, in both business and brightness, they are sorely lacking.

It is a shame, really. There was a time where Peach Orchard was the “Yellow Brick Road,” if you will.

When people sought things to do or

places to eat, that’s where they went.

Unfortunately, that’s not the case any more. South Augustans often hightail it down I-520 to the other side of town (or cross-county) to shop and eat.

Gordon Highway is even more perilous. Here’s what you’ll see (and smell) from the time you hit Gordon Highway at the Walton Way intersection out to I-520: A few restaurants, some gas stations, the remnants of a mall gone by and a great deal of eyesores.

Why is this important? It’s simple – the evidence of economics is in the population and popularity of business. Sadly, that is lacking on these thoroughfares that can often look like ghost areas.

In my opinion, this should be the next evolution of the special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) discussion. Commissioners and city officials should be able to adequately

answer these three questions: 1. What can SPLOST do to bring jobs to Augusta? Will those jobs be available to Richmond County residents?

2. What can SPLOST do to encourage the community? Is it possible to have a SPLOST project unique to each district?

3. What can we do with SPLOST to make sure commissioners and city officials are truly accountable for every cent they collect?

I am very comfortable in writing and subscribing to the notion that if residents had a specific idea of what SPLOST would do for them individually and in their immediate community, they would vote for it without hesitation. If folk who have searched tirelessly for employment or have worked without adequate pay knew that SPLOST would be used as a means to an end for better-paying jobs, they would vote for it without

hesitation. If businesses knew specifically that SPLOST would be used to promote growth and focused toward the improvement of transit … well, y’all get the point. SPLOST would pass in a landslide!

As the SPLOST vote approaches, our elected officials must provide insightful answers to these questions and various challenges. If not, they are only empowering skeptics of SPLOST and leading the tax proposal down one of these roads leading to nowhere.

Ken J. Makin is the host of “Makin’ A Difference,” an online radio program available on iTunes and Soundcloud (soundcloud.com/makinadif ference). Updates on the show are available atfacebook.com/makinadifferenceshow. You can also reach Ken by email at makinadifferenceshow@ gmail.com, or via Twitter @differencemakin.

GRU Libraries receive grant to promote Latino American history, culture AUGUSTA Georgia Regents University students and the greater Augusta community will get a glimpse into the history and culture of Latinos in America during a series of free events organized by the GRU Libraries during the 2015-2016 academic year.

The events were made possible through a $10,000 grant the GRU Libraries received from the National

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Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The GRU Libraries are one of 203 recipients of the competitive “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” grant selected from across the country.

“Latinos make up the largest minority group in the United States, and they have also been a part of our local community for generations,” said Erin Prentiss, GRU Libraries’ Latino

Americans project director and reference/instruction librarian. “We look forward to exploring the rich national and local histories of Latinos with the entire Augusta community during our planned events.”

The Libraries’ planned programs include screenings and discussions of the award-winning documentary series “Latino Americans” as well as other events thatcomplement the film screenings.

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Exousia Small Business Networking Summit Saturday, Sep. 12, 2015 Hours: 9AM-4PM Hilton Garden Inn 1065 Stevens Creek Road Augusta, GA 30907 Vendor opportunities are available.

For online registration, visit. www.esbns.com Networking and inspiration are on schedule for Exousias premier nontraditional marketing event.

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T.W. Josey football running back Demontez Miles (center) heads down the field during a home game against Portal High School at Grant Field. The Eagles crushed the Panthers 18-7 in the final score. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Josey football Eagles roll to victory A T.W. Josey “Sonic Boom of the South� Eaglette, Jasmine Hardage, marches down the field at the beginning of a home game against Portal High School at Grant Field. The Eagles crushed the Panthers 18-7 in the final score.

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Jazz concert series evolving as a vehicle to support local charities Benefiting The Wilson Family Y and JAMP September 6, 2015 Augusta Common 6:00 p.m. $10 advance; $15 day of show Garden City Jazz teams up with iHeartMedia and Augusta Recreation and Parks to present the Labor Day Jazz Weekend 2015 – Candlelight For A Cause event. Sunday, September 6 in historic downtown at the Augusta Common. This event began as a capstone concert for the popular Candlelight Jazz Concert Series, but has now come into its own as a fundraiser for various charitable organizations.

In 2010, Garden City Jazz presented a Labor Day Weekend celebration of classic jazz at the Augusta Common in beautiful downtown Augusta, Georgia. Since then, the annual event has incorporated local/regional recording and touring artists. The musical mix has included mainstream + traditional + smooth + straight.ahead + swing + fusion + funk + free + classic + contemporary.

The year 2013 saw a change in format and the team presented a pop-up event. Complete with cocktail tables, linens, and ambient lighting, the Augusta Common was transformed into a jazz club.

For 2014, iHeartMedia embraced the popup concept and incorporated a fundraising component, hence “Candlelight For A Cause.”

Organizations supported were Augusta Partnership for Children and JB Academy of Musik Pupils (JAMP). A visual art component was incorporated as local artists painted live for hours during the event.

For 2015, the team is bringing in a couple of crowd pleasers to perform original and popular tunes that keep the crowd on their feet. Featured artists are the Mike Frost Band (jazz) and Finesse (R&B). Charities supported include JAMP and Wilson Branch Family YMCA Miracle League and Live Strong Programs.

The event will take place rain or shine.

Guests are encouraged to bring their own seating and picnic. Vendors are welcomed.

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THE TRADITION CONTINUES: Wayne Lanier poses for a photo at Lanier’s Fresh Meat Market on Walton Way. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Think meat, Think Lanier’s UPW: You are fond of saying, “The tradition lives on.” Explain that tradition.

Since 1969, on a little dirt road in Blythe, Georgia, Lanier’s has served families in the CSRA with good service and quality meats. The tradition continues to this day with a Lanier’s Fresh Meat Market located at 1831 Walton Way in downtown Augusta.

UPW: What’s the importance of having served so many satisfied customers?

“I see customers everyday that say, “I shopped with my grandmother when I was a little girl and now I have teenagers of my own.” I remember

them, also, and it seems like such a short time since they were children.

UPW: How is the current business similar to the past?

Well, time flies and things change, but Lanier’s has continued to have a country style and personal service.

We have plenty of friendly sales people that are happy to help our customers. We always carry customers bags to the car and help anyway we can. Often we even give customers a ride home.

UPW: You could have located your business anywhere. What attracted you to downtown

Augusta?

I had a dream to own a store in downtown and I had faith in the Lord. In 2012 I was 53 years old. I had a 10-acre farm with goats, chickens, peacocks and seven dogs. My small house and truck were paid for, but I had no retirement. I mortgaged my little farm and home and borrowed a few thousand from family members.

There were a few times that I felt that I was going to lose everything, but God had plans that were higher than mine. I put all I had into this store and God has blessed me so much.

UPW: Your store is unlike any in the neighborhood. Explain the

“country store” feel and why do you think that it’s important?

Right before we opened in October 2013, I brought all of the old stuff that I had collected around my barn and cleaned it and displayed it in the store. I feel at home in the store and I want my customers to feel at home too.

UPW: Tell us why your meats are special.

We have the best meat in town.

We carry certified Angus Beef which is the most tender, best tasting beef you can get. Our chicken is fresh and Continued on next page

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(Above) Lanier’s has hundreds of items to choose from including homemde jellies, jams and sauces.

(Left) Lanier’s carries certified Angus Beef, fresh locally grown chicken and homemade sausage.

great frozen vegetables and hundreds of other items to choose from.

The Big Red Cow has been the logo for our business since 1969. Look for the Big Red Cow on Walton Way. Think Meat, Think Lanier’s. Check out our website at Laniermeats.com and like us on Facebook

local with no hormones added. Our pork is processed in house and we feature our own homemade sausage.

At your shop, it’s not all about the meat. What else is available?

We also carry whole milk from a local dairy and local homemade jellies, jams and sauces. We have lots of

Lanier’s is not affiliated with the store currently on Deans Bridge Road.

Photos by Vincent Hobbs.

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AUGUSTA One out of three adult Georgians is functionally illiterate, according to a recent report from the Georgia’s Task Force on Adult Literacy. In the Augusta area alone, there are more than 65,000 adults whose basic educational levels are less than those of the average eighth grader.

In an effort to combat these statistics, Georgia Regents University’s Literacy Center has partnered with the Augusta-Richmond County

Library and Paine College to open satellite locations to address the illiteracy rates in the Augusta area. Both centers are set to open Sept. 8, which is also International Literacy Day. “Literacy impacts everything from poverty and income level to incarceration rates,” said Dr. Paulette Harris, director of the GRU Literacy Center and Cree-Walker Endowed Professor of Education for the GRU College of Education. “Research makes it clear that we must do everything in our

Coaches Campbell, Curry to be latest inductees into the City Classic Hall of Fame AUGUSTA The 2015 Augusta City Classic Hall of Fame Inductees were named this week by the Classic Board of directors and president Henry Ingram.

The Augusta City Classic Hall of Fame has become one of the most prestigious Halls of Fame in our community and this year the inductees to be honored include legendary Lincoln County High School Football Coach Larry Campbell and retired NBA Player and coach Michael Curry.

Coach Larry Campbell, who retired in 2014, went 477-85-3 in his 42 seasons as Lincoln County’s head coach. Not only did his wins total put him first on the state’s all-time list, but he also won 11 state championships. More importantly Coach Campbell impacted many students who went on to play in the NFL. Michael Curry is a graduate of Glenn Hills High School and Georgia Southern University. Curry played eleven seasons in the NBA. He later served as a head coach and for several years served as president of the NBA Players Association.

Board President Henry Ingram stated, “We are looking forward to anoth-

er Herculean August City Classic.” Mr. Ingram adds, “The Classic is the largest minority event in our community. We have tremendous support from the CSRA Community and we anticipate even larger growth this year. This year’s Class of Hall of Famers is outstanding.

This year’s Hall of Fame Banquet Keynote Speaker will be NBA Hall of Famer Artis Gilmore. We are proud to also announce that Taylor BMW is our Title Sponsor for this Classic Year. We are also proud to announce that Georgia Regents University is a significant sponsor for the Augusta City Classic.”

The 2015 Augusta City Classic will kick-off with the Augusta City Classic Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, October 8 at 7 pm at the Augusta Marriot on Riverwalk.

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power to ensure children do not fall behind in their reading skills, and these satellite locations will give us more opportunity to help our community.”

With the current limited space at the GRU Literacy Center, tutors have only been able to serve 1,000 people a month. And so, Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System and Paine College have offered more tutoring space in partnership with the center, with Paine College focus-

ing on mathematics literacy, also known as numeracy.

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Film Review: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

‘The Black Panthers’ captures a militant movement’s soul and swagger

By A.O. Scott The New York Times

The beginning of “The Black Panthers,” Stanley Nelson’s excellent new documentary, includes a television news report on tensions between black citizens and the police in American cities. If not for the fuzzy, monochrome images and the voice-over’s unironic use of the word “Negroes,” the clip could have been broadcast last week, instead of almost 50 years ago. And if Mr. Nelson doesn’t strain to establish the present-day relevance of the story he has to tell, it’s partly because he doesn’t have to. The problems of poverty, police brutality and economic plunder that gave birth to the Panthers are with us still.

Like any good work of history, “The Black Panthers” sticks close to the facts, plotting complex events into a packed, fast-moving timeline and leaving to the viewers the work of drawing lessons and analogies for our own time. The chronicle commences in 1966, as the civil rights movement begins to shift beyond the South and into a new phase of militancy. While the original Black Panther Party was started in Lowndes County, Alabama, by veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther name, style and ideology took hold most consequentially in the cities of the North: New York, New Haven, Chicago and, above all, Oakland, Calif.

It was there that Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, partly inspired by Stokely Carmichael’s rhetoric of black power, began organizing activists to confront the local police with guns. The intention was, at least at first, not violence but vigilance, and the exercise of rights guaranteed by the California Penal Code and the Second Amendment. When a group of Panthers demonstrated at the Statehouse in Sacramento carrying loaded rifles and shotguns, the organization drew national news attention and (at least temporarily) rallied many political conservatives, including Gov. Ronald Reagan, to the cause of gun control.

Images of black men in black leather jackets and berets, brandishing firearms and raising their fists are part of the collective memory of the ’60s. At the

Gifted at political theater, the Panthers also organized free breakfast programs and health clinics in poor neighborhoods. time, those images inspired a wave of publicity and recruiting: Black Panther chapters sprouted across the country; Mr. Seale and, especially, Mr. Newton became political celebrities, soon to be joined by Eldridge Cleaver, the party’s minister of information and author of the best-selling prison memoir “Soul on Ice.” Gifted at political theater, the Panthers also organized free breakfast programs and health clinics in poor neighborhoods. They managed, at least for a time, to be both glamorous and grass-roots, and to put a scare into what was known in those days as the white power structure.

J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the F.B.I., designated the Black Panthers a nationalist hate group and would soon declare them “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.”

Most of the activity of his bureau’s notorious counterintelligence program (known as Cointelpro) was devoted to trying to disrupt, divide and destroy the Panthers. Hoover was particularly concerned with preventing a black “messiah” from rising within the party’s ranks and uniting blacks with white radicals on college campuses and in the antiwar

movement into a potentially revolutionary force.

One of the curious things about Hoover as a historical figure is the symmetry between his paranoia and some of the grander aspirations of his adversaries. Mr. Nelson’s film is subtitled “Vanguard of the Revolution,” which is certainly how the Panthers came to envision themselves. But the revolution that unfolded in their wake was the one that took Reagan to the White House, and that has frequently taken pains to disguise its origins in racial backlash politics.

The Panthers’ own record, as Mr. Nelson shows, was a more complicated affair, and his film captures the drama of their rise and fall without sacrificing the nuances, the shifting play of strategy and tactics, means and ends, personalities and procedures. He talks to a handful of historians, journalists and law enforcement officers, but the bulk of the testimony — rousing, rueful, funny and frank — comes from within the Black Panther rank and file.

A few of those members are fairly well known, like Kathleen Cleaver, who was married to Eldridge Cleaver

from 1967 to 1987, and Elaine Brown, head of the party from 1974-1977. (Ms. Brown, author of a memoir of her time in the party called “A Taste of Power,” has accused Mr. Nelson of turning “the history of the Black Panther Party into a two-dimensional palliative for white people and Negroes who are comfortable in America’s oppressive status quo.”) Mr. Newton, whose 1968 manslaughter conviction made “Free Huey” a rallying cry for the New Left, died in 1989 in a gunfight on an Oakland street. Mr. Cleaver, who left the United States in 1968 to escape arrest on attempted murder charges after a shootout with the Oakland police, and who became a conservative Republican after returning from his exile, died in 1998. Mr. Seale is not interviewed in the film. But the absence of firsthand testimony from these three leaders doesn’t limit the film’s scope. Instead, it allows us to see them through the eyes of their followers, and to see from a distance how they reflected the passions of their moment.

“The Black Panthers” is both a case study in effective political repression — through violence, subterfuge and the courts — and an object lesson in the vulnerability of political resistance. Pressed from the outside by the F.B.I. and local police departments, the Panthers suffered from the factionalism, disorganization and personality cults that so often afflict oppositional movements. Their fall is a sad tale, one that casts a shadow over the defiant energy of their beginnings.

Their legacy is very much worth discussing, and Mr. Nelson makes a strong case for their importance as both a political and a cultural force. They helped to popularize the slogan “black is beautiful” and to promote an aesthetic of pride and self-sufficiency. It’s easy enough, in hindsight, to romanticize the charisma of the Panthers and their leaders, or to criticize them for focusing on self-presentation and imagery rather than on more substantive issues.

But what is clear from this sober yet electrifying film is that the power of the Panthers was rooted in their insistence — radical then, radical still — that black lives matter.

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