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Wow, we have finally made it to the last month of the year and what a year 2020 has been. Many families are preparing to celebrate the Christmas holiday, but the celebration will be different this year because of the social distancing requirements due to the Covid-19 virus. We all probably learned new ways to celebrate holidays recently during Thanksgiving. It is being suggested that we continue to scale back the family gatherings and stay at home again with a small group of family and friends. As we know, this too shall pass. Let us continue to pray for everyone that is affected by this virus and let’s not forget our essential workers when we pray. This month’s December cover features the living legend and remarkable songstress, Melba Moore. An awesome singer and actress, Melba Moore is a force to be reckoned with. She is a four-time Grammy nominee and a Tony Award winner who is still a giant in the entertainment industry. The article will give you insight on how she has thrived for over 50 years as a musician, performer, and an award-winning actress. This issue also features a plethora of great stories that are filled with heartwarming sentiments and words of encouragement. We are excited for you to turn each page and enjoy the articles from front to back. We are striving to be a favorite magazine to readers around the world. We are reaching homes across nations and sharing stories of empowerment, inspiration and entertainment from the film, music and literary industries. In keeping with our broad approach to bringing you the very best information in a highly professional manner, we are striving to be the best. We value the feedback from our readers because it helps us to grow. Please email us at reginald.kearney@marylanddailyexaminer.com with your feedback. If you would like to advertise with us, send an email with the word ‘Advertise’ in the subject line. Like us on FaceBook at The Urban Sentinel, follow us on Twitter at @UrbanSentinel and you may follow us on Instagram at @theurbansentinel . Visit our website at www.UrbanSentinelMagazine.com . I invite you to view our new show, ‘Urban Sentinel Live’, which can be viewed on Facebook @UrbanSentinelLive on Monday nights at 8:30pmET. It is a half hour show that features guests that have been featured in the Urban Sentinel magazine. Shows will resume on January 11, 2021, as the staff is enjoying the Holiday Season.
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SUMMARY
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The Symphony of Words Spoken by Nate Couser
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Vice President Elect Kamala Harris
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Veronika West-Nothing Can Keep Me Down
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Entrepreneurial Leadership is a Must
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The Rise of African American Leaders
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A Revealing Look at the Life and Times of Living Legend Melba Moore
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Camouflaged Blessings
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Thankful Just Because
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SHEBIZ! Meet May El Maraashly (Egypt)
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Quality Legal Resources That Help Empower Black-Owned Businesses
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The Spark that Continues to Thrive - Hattye C. Knight
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4 Principles of Effective Leadership Part 1
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Clean Canvas
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For Your Health: Diabetes and Nutrition Part 2
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Spiritual Nourishment: The Perfect Gift
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The Christ Story
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A Gifted Minister
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VICE PRESIDENT ELECT
KAMALA HARRIS Biden’s Thank You to Black Women and His (Maybe) Apology to Anita Hill by Jay Arrington for urban sentinel Going into the South Carolina democratic presidential primary most people had virtually written off Joe Biden’s lackluster 2020 presidential campaign. In fact, a loss in that state would have represented the tolling of the death knell and the final nail in the coffin for said campaign. But then along came Jim Clyburn, U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district who gave Biden a full-throated endorsement which many view as the major contributing factor in Biden’s chasm wide margin of victory. Biden carried every county in the state and won nearly 49% of all the votes cast- 61% being votes cast by African Americans- credit Clyburn's endorsement. And while 61% represents both male and female African Americans voters, it is widely held that it was African American women, that led the charge that put Biden over the top. Not only in South Carolina on that leap year day in February, but also enabled Biden to leap, if you will, over his rivals going forward to become President-Elect Biden. NBC News exit polls showed that 91% of African American women voted for Biden in this year’s presidential election. Thanks in large part to women like Stacey Abrams, Founder of the voter rights organization
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‘Fair Fight’, and LaTosha Brown, Co-founder of ‘Black Voters Matter’. Not to mention the countless local and community African American women activists whose names we never hear. The point is, is that African American women have been and continue to be the turbo in the engine of the Democratic Party and as such, were owed more than just a mere thank you. So, when I watched Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris’ historic speech as the first Black/Asian American and woman elected to the nation’s second highest office, it suddenly dawned on me that there was perhaps an unspoken reason why President-Elect Biden chose then Senator Harris. Could Biden’s selection of Harris be not only a thank you to the millions of African American women whose votes propelled him to victory during the primaries, but also a longstanding and overdue apology to Anita Hill? It was reported in 2019 that Professor Hill would back Biden’s candidacy, but also that after nearly 30 years, she was “ready to hold Joe Biden accountable” regarding Biden’s role as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during then nominee Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings for a seat on the United States Supreme Court when Professor Hill accused Thomas of
She concluded by saying, “The focus on an apology, to me, is one thing,” Ms. Hill said. “But there needs to be an apology to the other witnesses and there needs to be an apology to the American public because we know now how deeply disappointed Americans around the country were about what they saw. And not just women. There are women and men now who have just really lost confidence in our government to respond to the problem of gender violence.” Prayerfully, Biden’s selection of Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris will serve not only as a thank you to black women and an apology to Anita Hill, but that it will also give us clear information that he (Biden) has made a change and that he is going to do something to make us all better off around gender discrimination and also a nation as a whole.
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A major point of contention for Professor Hill was Biden’s failure during the Judiciary Committee hearings to call other women as corroborating witnesses. Professor Hill told the NY Times in April 2019 that “by leaving them out, she said, he created a “he said, she said” situation that did not have to exist.”
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During an October 2019 interview at the Citizen by CNN conference in New York, Professor Hill told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, "Have I forgiven Joe Biden? I'm ready to move on, but I am also ready to hold Joe Biden accountable. Accountability means acknowledging your role in a problem and the harm it's caused. Acknowledging that you have culpability," She went on to say "Giving me clear information that you have made a change and that you are going to do something to make us all better off around gender discrimination."
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pictures of Melba Moore- Photographer Marget Long Pages 3 & 4 pictures of Nate Couser- Photographer Kedrick Foster Page 5 picture of Nate Couser- David Odom Page 3 picture of Hattye C. Knight- Photographer @Tyghtshotsphotography Page 32 and 34 pictures of Hattye C. Knight- Photographer Lisa Henson @queen1283
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