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MEET Entrepreneur Kimberly Beasley, CEO of downtown’s Curvitude Boutique Photo by Vincent Hobbs

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White Skin Black Masks Rachel Dolezal and the absurd flight from ‘whiteness’

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BusinessProFILE Curvitude Boutique

Entrepreneur Kimberly Beasley poses for a photo at the entrance to Curvitude Boutique on Broad Street. The women’s clothing and accessories shop caters to plus-size clientele. Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Broad Street Boutique offers plus-size designs

by Vincent Hobbs “You are beautiful just the way you are.”

This simple sentence greets every customer who walks through the doors of Curvitude Boutique in downtown Augusta. The words are cheerily painted on a wall in the front foyer of the plus-size women’s clothing store. It sets the stage for what the customer is about to experience – complete fashion acceptance. In this shop, curves are the new black.

It is a philosophy that boutique owner Kimberly Beasley has shared, taught and promoted over the past four years in her business on Broad Street.

Beasley, a United States Army veteran who served her country for 20 years, maintains a laser-like focus on empowering women of all shapes to embrace their unique look – and to look good doing it.

Beasley was born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey. Joining the Army after high school, she traveled to countries such as Kuwait and Germany, working in Communications for the military. After retiring from her military career, Beasley enrolled in Strayer University, pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree

Were you always interested in fashion?

No, Curvitude introduced me to fashion. I had to study fashion more because of the business. I wore a uniform for 20 years, so I never really gave it a lot of thought. Dressing yourself is easy. Dressing others - and to predict what they want - is another task in itself.

What made you decide to open a retail clothing store for plus-size women?

Curvitude was birthed out of void in our area. Around my 19th year in the military, I was trying figure out exactly what I was going to do with my life. I was convinced I was not working for

anyone else, and so I started researching certain voids in the community.

This was one of them, so I decided to take it on.

What is the meaning of the name “Curvitude”?

Curvitude means “Curves with Attitude!” The Curvitude woman is a go-getter and trend setter. She does not mind standing out in a crowd.

She is many things to many people and must look great at an affordable price. She does not have time to sift through the mall and enjoys the benefit of shopping at small boutiques who Continued on next page

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Kimberly Beasley (R), owner of Curvitude Boutique discusses a dress design with sales clerk Shawnda Kettles.

Photo by Vincent Hobbs

Curvitude from page 3 know her likes, dislikes, size and style.

She appreciates the personal service provided which makes her shopping experience impeccable and worth the trip. She is a full-figured woman and is tired of seeing the same “moo-moo” type of clothes in big box businesses.

She wants to be respected and treated just like the standard size woman and have the same selections in larger sizes.

Do you stock custom-made items?

I have designers who can supply me with their designs, and I have a local seamstress who makes custom-made items for my customers. It’s a great time for Curvitude and to see her grow is amazing.

What is the range of sizes for women that you carry in stock?

We carry sizes 1x to 3x. In the past, we carried standard sizes – but it never really worked for us. We are branded as a plus-size store.

Do you think there are more fashion choices now available for plussize women overall?

Plus-size is the new black. Now you see big-box businesses catering to plussize ladies. There are more boutiques popping up offering plus-size choices, which is great. Plus-size women need more choices. I remember when I first opened, a customer came to me and said, “I just want to look like everyone else”. I never forgot that comment.

When I go to shop for the boutique, I keep that in mind and heart. Fashion is art and a heartfelt thing - women won’t wear what they don’t feel. It has to move them and make them snap their fingers in the air and say “Yes”!

You recently celebrated your fouryear anniversary as a downtown business. Have you faced any distinctive challenges as a female business owner?

I’m grateful to celebrate four years downtown! It’s not an easy task at all to be a retail establishment in a restaurant/bar-driven downtown, but we are still here. We have moved twice in four years, and we are still here - so glory to God for blessing us to weather the storm. As a 100% woman/minority/veteran-owned business, I have not faced any more challenges than the average person.

My biggest challenge is to change the minds of those that feel downtown is Baghdad or a war zone. That is so untrue. It’s fun, safe, and I enjoy being here. Granted, we have some incidents associated with any downtown in America. But to the degree of other downtowns (we are the third largest city in Georgia), not so much.

Another one of our challenges is make everyone aware that we have a second location in Grovetown. Many of our customers still drive from Columbia County when they don’t have to, since our Grovetown location has the same inventory as downtown.

What led to the idea to launch a runway show to showcase plus-sized fashions?

It’s a celebration of Curvitude. Every year we shut a street down and let it rip!

I’m so proud of that concept – it’s mine, it belongs to Curvitude, it’s our stamp!

The show is to celebrate my customers - to say thank you for being with us this year and thank you for rocking our clothes and believing in us. We give a free fashion show! Most people think it’s crazy and don’t understand how I profit on such an event, but I do! When they see the clothes that come down

the runway, I surely do!

9. Are you involved in any community awareness/outreach activities?

As a business owner downtown, we are currently working on Sidewalk Saturday! It’s a downtown initiative created by business owners to help promote a great family-driven event on First Saturday. Most of the businesses will have items out in front of their business for sale, thus the Sidewalk Saturday theme. We will also have artists and other vendors available.

10. What are some of your upcoming events at Curvitude?

On July 17th at 7pm, we are having our next Sip-N-Shop at our Grovetown location (5230C Wrightsboro Road). We are working on our 2nd Annual Ladies Networking Tea and Fall Showcase (our tentative date is October 16, 2016 location to be announced very soon).

I’m so proud of this event. Last year, it was great to see all the ladies in their hats and gloves looking so elegant, having fun and networking. Along with networking, we will be honoring two breast cancer survivors and other businesses as well. I can’t give it all away, you’re gonna have to come see for yourself!

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CITY LENS Keesha Graham goes for a dip in a pool to keep cool during hot weather. Graham, who is also the mother of two young boys, particpates in water activites with her family throughout the summer.

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COOL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES DURING THE HEAT WAVE

by Vincent Hobbs No, it’s not your imagination. The blast furnace heat that warps itself around your body the second you walk outdoors is real. Augusta is in the midst of a pre-summer heat wave.

With triple-digit heat index temperatures being forecasted through next week, Augustans should be aware of the dangers that hot weather can impose, especially for young children and the elderly.

“I’ve actually burned myself on the metal from the car seat belt on hot days,” local artist Morcasse Williams shared with UPW. “The window shade helps a little, but not much.”

Parents with small children should be especially vigilant during temperature extremes, as children’s bodies don’t adapt to hot weather temperatures as readily as adults.

Children have less ability to dissipate body heat by evaporative sweating and cooling, due to a lower sweating capacity than adults.

The temperature inside a vehicle, parked in direct sunlight with the windows rolled up, can reach

temperatures ranging from 131° F 172° F when outside temperatures are 80° F – 100° F, according to the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHSTA). Exactly how hot is 172°? Let your mind sizzle on the fact that meat is considered to be cooked “well done” when its interior temperature reaches that level – and that ethanol alcohol boils at 173.1°.

There are cases reported every year of children being left unattended in enclosed vehicles during hot weather with tragic results. According to KidsAndCars.org, every year an average of 38 children suffer a heat-related death from being trapped in a hot car environment.

The elderly are also at risk during extreme heat events.

“No one is comfortable when the temperature soars,” said Calvin Hirsch, professor of internal medicine and geriatric specialist at UC-Davis Health System, “but seniors account for a disproportionate number of heat-related hospitalizations and deaths.”

According to Hirsch, several factors that put seniors at risk include

health problems that make it more difficult for the body to circulate blood properly (such as heart disease), medications that cause water loss (diuretics) and even obesity.

“An elderly person may not even be aware of being thirsty or feeling too hot, especially if suffering from dementia or diabetes, which diminishes sensation,” said Hirsch. “Many medications, such as tranquilizers, can blunt an individual’s awareness of discomfort, as can alcohol.”

Augustans have found both practical and inventive ways to deal with the heat.

Earl Grey Summers used an innovative idea to beat the heat when his AC died during one summer. “I survived by making a bootleg A/C and drinking water like a fool for the whole summer!” Summers built the makeshift cooling unit after watching do-it-yourself YouTube videos – with the key ingredients being a Styrofoam or plastic cooler, ice jugs, and tubing.

Takisha Perry takes a more practical approach to staying cool in the summer. “I go to the beach!” she said. “And I use lots of ice cubes!”

To stay cool during hot weather days, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control recommends the following: Stay in air-conditioned buildings.

If needed, locate an air-conditioned shelter in your area (in Augusta, a listing of shelters can be found through the Augusta-Richmond County Emergency Management service).

Do not rely on a fan as your primary cooling device.

Limit outdoor activity, especially midday when it is the hottest part of the day, and avoid direct sunlight.

Wear loose, lightweight, light-colored clothing.

Take cool showers or baths to lower your body temperature.

Check on at-risk friends, family and neighbors at least twice a day.

To stay hydrated when temperatures are soaring: Drink more than usual and don’t wait until you’re thirsty to drink.

Drink from two to four cups of water every hour while working or exercising outside.

Avoid alcohol or liquids containing high amounts of sugar.

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White Skin, Black Masks Why do some people feel that it is hard to feel ‘positive about being white?’

The bizarre ‘transracial’ journey of Rachel Dolezal has focused mainly on why a white woman would want to shed her ‘white privilege’ to be black.

However, the most important question to ask may be, what is it about ‘whiteness’ that so many white people are finding to be so unfulfilling.

(Far right) Rachel Dolezale at a protest rally. Dolezale, when asked whether or not she was white, said, “I identify with being black.’

The Rachel Dolezal Syndrome

By Ali Michael Rachel Dolezal is a fascinating case study in White racial identity development. She is stuck in the immersion/ emersion stage, in which White people, having learned extensively about the realities of racism, and the ugly history of White supremacy in the U.S., “immerse” themselves in trying to figure out how to be White in our society, and “emerge” with a new relationship to Whiteness. Only in the case of Dolezal, her way of dealing with the pain of the reality of racism, was to deny her own Whiteness and to become Black.

She is an extreme example of a common phenomenon. The “immersion” stage is typified by White people taking more responsibility for racism and privilege and often experiencing high levels of anger and embarrassment for racism and privilege, which they sometimes direct towards other Whites.

They sometimes try to immerse themselves in communities of color, as Dolezal did. She’s not alone.

I definitely experienced this. There was a time in my 20s when everything I learned about the history of racism made me hate myself, my Whiteness,

my ancestors… and my descendants.

I remember deciding that I couldn’t have biological children because I didn’t want to propagate my privilege biologically. If I was going to pass on my privilege, I wanted to pass it on to someone who doesn’t have racial privilege; so I planned to adopt. I disliked my Whiteness, but I disliked the Whiteness of other White people more. I felt like the way to really end racism was to feel guilty for it, and to make other White people feel guilty for it too. And then, like Dolezal, I wanted to take on Africanness. Living in South Africa during my junior year abroad, I lived with a Black family, wore my hair in head wraps, shaved my head. I didn’t want to be White, but if I had to be, I wanted to be White in a way that was different from other White people I knew.

I wanted to be a special, different White person. The one and only. How very White of me…

Beverly Daniel Tatum has written that White people don’t choose to identify as White because the categories to choose from are loaded from the start. Traditionally one can identify as a colorblind White person, a racist White person or an ignorant White

person: those are the three ways White people get talked about as White. If those are the options, who would choose to identify as White?

And so White people identify as “normal” and “Irish” and “just American” and do not self-identify racially. And that leaves us with a society in which only people of color have a race, Ali Michaelteaches a course entiwhere only people of color seem to tled, “Whiteness: Counseling and be responsible for racialized probEducational Perspectives.” lems. It makes it hard for all of us to know and tell our racial stories— There was a time in my because White people think we don’t have any. And it makes it hard for us 20s when everything I to own our history, because we don’t learned about the history see it as ours.

Many White people also feel like of racism made me hate we don’t have culture, and this isn’t a coincidence. Throughout the 20th myself, my Whiteness, century, countless immigrant groups abandoned the artifacts of cultures my ancestors… and my that racialized them as immigrants descendants. I remember (language, religion, food, styles of speaking, gesticulations, family struc- deciding that I couldn’t tures, traditions, etc.) in order to become White. And this was not just have biological children a matter of fitting in; it was about because I didn’t want to accessing rights that were reserved for White people: citizenship, land propagate my privilege Continued on next page

biologically. — Ali Michael

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Syndrome from page 3 ownership, police protection, legal rights, etc..

The more one could cast off the markers of otherness, the more likely it was that one could become White.

And so while the desire to become White is really the opposite of what Rachel Dolezal had, the process of becoming White that her ancestors undoubtedly went through in the great American star-off machine, may be connected to her desire to un-become White, to lose that feeling of being cultureless, of being part of an unidentified group, and to leave behind that identity that has no positive way to be. And lots of White people—myself included—do this in thousands of tiny ways as we appropriate the cultures of others (from Africa, India, Compton, Guatemala, Harlem, Mexico…) to fill in the blanks in our own.

Daniel Tatum said we need to change this. We need to give White people new ways to identify as White.

Because at the end of the day, we need White people to see that we are White. When we recognize and own our Whiteness, we can account for our own portion, our one 1/billionth of responsibility for what White people have done throughout history. We can work with other White people to begin to challenge bias, ignorance and colorblindness. We can use our privilege to confront the sources of that unfair favoring.

I was lucky. The Black family I embedded myself in during my “Rachel Dolezal phase” insisted on my inherent goodness, and that of my family and even—I thought this was a stretch—of my ancestors. They helped me focus on my capacity to make change as a White person. They appreciated my desire to be Black, they teased me, they let me know in no uncertain terms that I would never be Black. I read James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Steve Biko. I swore off

White authors. But the Black authors I read saw the immersion stage coming, and they reminded me that Black people don’t need White people to help them pursue liberation, that the job of White people lies with teaching other White people, seeing ourselves clearly, owning our role in oppression.

I’m not sure what happened with Rachel Dolezal. Maybe it was mental illness. Maybe it was a desire to connect to her adopted brothers. Maybe she felt safer and more loved in Black communities. Maybe it felt good to distance herself from the overwhelming oppressiveness of Whiteness—her own and that of her country and of her ancestors. But the lesson for me is remembering how deep the pain is, the pain of realizing I’m White, and that I and my ancestors are responsible for the incredible racialized mess we find ourselves in today. The pain of facing that honestly is blinding. It’s not worse than being on the receiving end of that oppression. Being White— even with the feeling of culturelessness and responsibility for racism—is nothing compared to not being White.

But being White—and facing the truth of what that means historically and systemically—can drive you to do the weird and unthinkable that we see in Dolezal today.

It seems like a good warning. The “Rachel Dolezal Syndrome” is a potential pitfall for any White people on the journey towards recognizing the truth of what it means to be White and accepting responsibility for it. But we cannot not be White. And we cannot undo what Whiteness has done. We can only start from where we are and who we are.

Ali Michael is a filmmaker and educator with a PhD in Teacher Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Anthropology and Education from Teachers College. As an adjunct instructor at Penn, she teaches a course that she designed, entitled “Whiteness: Counseling and Educational Perspectives.”

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I read James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Steve Biko. I swore off White authors. But the Black authors I read saw the immersion stage coming, and they reminded me that Black people don’t need White people to help them pursue liberation, that the job of White people lies with teaching other White people, seeing ourselves clearly, owning our role in oppression. — Ali Michael

Jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow (center) called himself “a voluntary Negro.” He married a black woman, moved to Harlem, when jailed for possession of marijuana pleaded with the guards that he was black so he’d be put in the black cell blocks where he was more comfortable.

The strange racial odyssey of Mezz Mezzrow Mezz Mezzrow was born in Chicago in 1299 and was one of that city’s leading clarinetists during the twenties, golden age of the blues. Following his appearance at the Nice Jazz Festival in 1948, he became a big star in Europe, touring regularly with various bands and with Louis Armstrong.

For a white musician, Mezzrow was acclaimed for his exceptional feel for jazz, but his most important contribution is his autobiography, Really The Blues, written with Bernard Wolfe and first published in 1946. In it Mezzrow gives an amazing ‘insider’s’ look at the jazz scene in Harlem when it was becoming the mecca for Black America.

Here’s how Wolfe describes Mezzrow’s affinity for the ‘black experience.’

“Mezz Mezzrow’s obsessive and unrelenting embrace of the pariah nether world did, to be sure, take him to extremes. He was not unique in adopting the black man’s music, slang, bearing, social and sexual modes — ­ those cultural co-optations were and are to be observed in hundreds and hundreds of whites, sometimes in many millions. He was not alone in hanging around with blacks, moving physically into the closed black world, marrying a black girl and having a

child with her. But search all the histories of personal “negrification” as you will, you’ll never turn up another case of a man who after extended immersion in the ghetto came to believe he had actually, physically, turned black.

Mezzrow, after his long years in and under Harlem, did truly think his lips had developed fuller contours, his hair had thickened and burred, his skin had darkened. It was not, as he saw it, a case of transculturation. He felt he had scrubbed himself clean, inside and out, of every last trace of his origins in the Jewish slums of Chicago, pulped himself back to raw human material, deposited that nameless jelly in the pure Negro mold, and pressed himself into the opposite of his birthright, a pure Black.”

When Mezzrow was arrested and sent to Rikers Island where they had segregated the white inmates from the black inmates, he had an important choice to make. He said to the prison official who was processing him in: ‘I’m colored, even if I don’t look it, and I don’t think I’d get along in the white blocks.’ According to Mezzrow, just before he got his wish, the prison official, “jumped back, astounded, and studied my features real hard. He seemed a little relieved when he saw my nappy head.”

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“The New Black” screening The Humanitree House, Promise Land Film, Georgia Equality, and Augusta Pride will a host a screening & discussion of the documentary film The New Black on Tuesday, June 23rd from 8 - 10:30 pm at The Humanitree House, 230 8th Street.

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the AfricanAmerican community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.

(L-R) Sibea Lewis, President of the Zeta Zi Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Brianna McClendon(student), and Deneshia McClendon, Chairperson of ASCEND. Photo by Sean Nelson

ASCEND program salutes students The Augusta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. hosted the culminating program for the ASCEND Mentoring Program on Sat., June 13 at the AKA sorority house on Phillips Street.

ASCEND students had the opportunity to receive academic enrichment

and life skills training which can lead to meaningful employment and careers. The event was sponsored by Zeta XI Omega Chapter. The event featured various activities including a rocket launch (STEM activity). At the closing ceremony, award certificates were distributed to the participants.

The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.

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Hosted by Zeta Xi Omega Chapter, AKA Sorority, Inc. Saturday, June 20, 2015 6 am-8 am: The Walk will begin at 222 8th Street 9 am-11 am: Bowling (Brunswick National Lane) 11 am-12 pm: Sorors visit the sick & shut-in 1 pm-3 pm: Photo Scavenger Hunt 3 pm-5 pm: Line dance (activity will be at the sorority) 5 pm-7 pm: Game night 7 pm-8:30 pm: End of “Longest Day “ Celebration”

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Among the awards presented to the or any other kind students were those for outstanding of discomfort, including headaches, academic achievement. Others recognized included LaXavier Twiggs and or any other kind of discomfort, neck stiffness, shoulder pain, muscle Dylan Smith who received awards including headaches, neck stiffness, at the Augusta City Classic Banquet tension, sleep difficulty or hand earlier in the year. Members Montrez shoulder pain, muscle tension, sleep McCoy, Tae’von Walker and Malik difficulty or Brice hand numbness/weakness. numbness/weakness.

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Fellowship Churches United THE 29TH ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP CHURCHES UNITED CONVENTION OF 2015 will be held June 25 thru June 28 at Fellowship Churches United Headquarters/Cathedral of Atonement at 415 Laney Walker Blvd., Augusta, Ga 30901.

The theme for the convention is “Church Alive! Line Up With His Word, Light Up With HIs Presence! He’s Got You Covered.”

Services nightly Thurs: June 25 - Anointed Guest Speaker, nightly 7:30 p.m.

Sat: June 27 - Sparkle and Glitter Banquet, 6 p.m.

Sun: June 28 - Culmination of Convention, 11 a.m.

For further information, call 706 306-1194.

Presiding Prelate: Archbishop Dr. Gracie L. Jackson

McCULLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH McCullough Baptist Church in Waynesboro will hold Summer Revival at 7 p.m each Thursday in June.

June 18: the Rev. Christopher Waters, pastor of Thankful Baptist Church June 25: the Rev. Karlton Howard. The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Dunn is pastor.

Sunday School 8:30 am Morning Worship Services: 9:45 am Evening Worship Services 6 pm (4th Sunday) Bible Study: 6pm (Mondays) Midday Bible Study: 12pm (Tuesdays) Prayer Services: 6pm (Wednesdays) Celebrate Recovery: 6pm (Fridays) and 12pm (Mondays) 2323 Barton Chapel Road • Augusta,GA 30906 706.790.8185 / 706.922.8186 (fax) Visit Us @ www.broadwaybaptistaug.org • Join us on facebook Dr. C. William Joyner, Jr. Senior Pastor

Good Shepherd Baptist Church

Rev. Clarence Moore, Pastor 1714 Olive Road / P. O. Box 141 (mailing address) Augusta, GA 30903 706/733-0341- Telephone/706/667-0205 – Fax E-mail address: admin@goodshepherdaugusta.org Web address: goodshepherdaugusta.org Rev. Clarence Moore Church Service: 7:45 & 11:00 a.m.

Church School: 9:45 a.m. / Prayer Service: 11:00 a.m. – Wednesday Bible Study: 9:00 a.m. - Saturday / 7:00 p.m. - Wednesday

Everfaithful Missionary Baptist Church

314 Sand Bar Ferry Road Augusta, Georgia 30901 (706) 722- 0553 Church School Sunday 9:25am Morning Worship Sunday 11am Evening Worship 6pm (1st & 3rd Sunday) Midday Prayer 12pm Wednesday Intercessory Prayer/Bible Study 6pm Wednesday

Bishop Rosa L. Williams, Pastor

Radio Broadcast: Sundays • WKZK 103.7 FM at 7:30 a.m.

Start your calling today! Mount Olivet Certified Academic Institution 706.793.0091 • 706.793.0335 • www.mocai-aug.org

The CSRA Clergy Board of Directors

Board of Coalition Pastors P.O. Box 16013 Augusta, GA. 30919-2013 Bishop L.A. Green, Sr., Chairman

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