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COMMENTARY:

U.S. Attempt to Erase

Harriet Tubman

By A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire Contributor

regimes, for LGBTQ people, for the poor and the voiceless.

And currently, the cognitive dissonance in America has reached a new, critical level of psychosis.

As a nation we exalt independence, freedom and equality—we boast of our shining city on the hill. Yet our shining city was built on genocide of the native peoples, enslavement of Africans and exploitation of immigrants.

Without a doubt, every people and every culture on Earth have had to deal with unpleasant facts of its history—America is not special in that regard.

Where most of white America goes off the rails is in completely denying and minimizing the facts

Juneteenth and Emancipation Day in Florida

With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Every May 20, Florida celebrates Emancipation Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 Day. Emancipation was proclaimed in Tallahassee plan to put escaped slave and Underground on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the end of the Civil Continue reading online at: Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman on the $20 thewestsidegazette.com War and two years after the proclamation was bill. Tubman would be the first African American first issued by President Abraham Lincoln. woman featured on U.S. currency.

June 19th is celebrated in many parts of the The $20 currently features a former president, United States as “Juneteenth,” to commemorate Andrew Jackson, who not only owned slaves, but the end of slavery after the Civil War. Many ordered the death march of thousands of Native Floridians, however, celebrate a separate Americans. Euphemistically called “Indian Emancipation Day on May 20th. So… which date Removal,” the Trail of Tears made way for white is correct, May 20th or June 19th? In taking a settlers to claim millions of acres of southern land. look at the history of these celebrations, we see The attempted erasure of Tubman represents that the answer is… both. yet another move in the Trump playbook to In today’s world, news of a single event can disconnect racial reality from white fantasy. be transmitted across the planet in seconds.

In the fantasy of white supremacy, traitors Social media, satellite telecommunications, and like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are the Internet in general have all but erased the memorialized for being freedom fighters — the meaning of distance when it comes to getting an freedom of whites to own Black human beings and important message from point A to point B.

By Monique Judge work them to death — while a woman who risked This was not the case in 1865, when the Civil her lifetime and again to free enslaved people is War was coming to an end. Many telegraph Police officers and departments across the simply dismissed. Ignored. Erased. lines had been destroyed during the conflict, and nation have been accused of having implicit bias In the fantasy of white supremacy, white people news about the war was often either incorrect against and racist views about Black people for are always justified in killing unarmed Black or contradictory. Neither the end of the war nor a long time. The accusations are not new, but men, women and children, the end of slavery was absolutely confirmed until they are often refuted by either with their own guns or Union troops arrived in each locality to receive those accused. by aiming the unquestioned the surrender of their Confederate counterparts.

We are supposed power of the police. No act This process happened in stages, with areas to believe that law is too repugnant, even those farther west learning the news weeks after the enforcement officers resulting in the sexual folks closer to the east coast. view everyone the same abuse or death of immigrant In Florida, the process began in May 1865. and treat everyone fairly children in American custody, Union General Edward M. McCook arrived in under the letter of the if it can be framed as a Tallahassee to receive the surrender of Florida’s law. We are supposed defense of white superiority.

Confederate troops on May 10th. On May 20th, to believe that, but we In the fantasy of white McCook formally announced President Lincoln’s know deep in our souls supremacy, the FBI spent Emancipation Proclamation from the steps of (Cont’d on page 2) millions in time and treasure the Knott House, effectively ending to plant false evidence of slavery in the state. As a result, many Communist influence on Floridians celebrate May 20th as Martin Luther King — while Emancipation Day. in reality, Russians today are News of emancipation and the using the racial tension in war’s official end did not reach Texas American to incite violence until the next month. On June 18th, and paralyze our society, Union General Gordon Granger landed while they work towards at Galveston with 2,000 soldiers to global dominance. occupy Texas. The following day, June By erasing Tubman, the 19th, he announced the Emancipation Trump forces again deploy Proclamation from the balcony of Gloster “Buck” Buchanan, on his their most effective weapon the Ashton Villa. Consequently, birthday June 6, 2019, the World in the quest to maintain emancipation is generally celebrated in War II veteran still has a very power— the unholy alliance Texas on June 19th. sharp memory. of racism and misogyny.

Juneteenth celebrations are not Gloster “Buck” Buchanan was born Because in America, it limited to Texas, however. The tradition in Hazlehurst, Georgia, Jeff Davis seems, freedom is for whites BUCHANAN of celebrating the end of slavery on June County on June 6, 1916. He grew up only, and more specifically, 19th has spread to many communities in in a very large family with 22 siblings. Their family history can be traced back for white men. other states, including some in Florida. to the 1800s. His father had an older brother named Jim and an older sister To be sure, Trump has There has even been a movement to named Fanny. They were freed from slavery in 1865 when the United States ordered his own digital Trail make June 19th a national holiday for passed the Thirteenth Amendment. Since his Uncle Jim was the oldest of the of Tears, as he rolls back commemorating emancipation. three, he took on the responsibility of selecting their last (Cont’d on page 5) civil rights protections for people of color, for women, WHAT’S for immigrants fleeing Greedy Developers Try Study Finds starvation or oppressive

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Honorable and Entrusting “Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.” Proverbs 17:6 (KJV)

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr.

Happy Father’s Day!!!

As we approach the celebration of fathers on this Father’s Day, I wanted to end our discussion on Father’s Day with the last letter in father which is R. Due to my miscalculations of days corresponding to the letters, I was off by one week.

Therefore, I will combine the last two letters H and R with their attributes and end on Father’s Day. E= Entrusting. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:38 R= Resourceful.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Timothy 3: 16-17 How coincidental during this time frame, that a horrible and insidious crime (Cont’d on page 13)

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The Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these contributions made by local students.

Exams and tests have been taken and another dynamic school year is over.

However, I would like to acknowledge a person who is instrumental to the school itself. I want to recognize Layla Davidson, 13 Principal Jeannie B. Floyd. Principal Floyd has been principal of Park Lakes Elementary School from 20052009. From 2009-2012, she was principal of Lauderhill Middle School. Lastly, from 2012-Present she has been principal of Nob Hill Elementary School. Mrs. Floyd has done and is doing great things for the school district and in the community. She is making a difference for many people, and I am one of those persons she is helping to inspire. She is one of my mentors. One of the many scriptures she refers to that has had the most impact on her life is Philippians 4:13 which reads, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Making healthier snack choices

School’s out for summer and I’m cruising

Leja Williams, 15 School is now over and it is summer.

All the hard work over the school year © 2019 Carnival Corporation finally paid off. Next year I am going to continue to work hard and reach my goals.

Now that I am no longer a freshman means I know a lot of the faculty and student, and I know a lot about how the school works.

Summer’s here and I’m cruising in all aspects. I plan on going on a cruise with my family, going to cheerleading practice, and I plan on getting ready for 10th grade.

CHILDREN’S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER COLLECTING SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR 1,000 SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS

Brielle Henry, 10 According to Nutrition Tips for Kids on familydoctor.org, “eating healthy can help prevent many chronic diseases.

These include obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.”

My mom makes my little sister and me eat at least 1 fruit or vegetable with every meal. When we eat too much junk food, my parents remind us to choose a healthy snack. We like eating oranges; they contain vitamin C, calcium, and vitamin A.

Pleasant City Family Reunion Committee and Heritage Gallery PRESENTS

A Salute to Fathers 2019 Honoring

Congressman Alcee L. Hastings SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2019 @ 5 P.M MARRIOTT HOTEL CITY PLACE 1001 OKEECHOBEE BLVD. WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33402

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- Back to School time is stressful for any parent. The season means an extra layer of stress and worry for parents of a child with special needs. For Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center’s (CDTC’s) physicians, care coordinators and volunteers, easing their burdens is critical to the entire family’s health and well-being. The Center is reaching out to the community to help collect and fill nearly 1,000 backpacks for children in their care between July 9 and August 2, 2019.

At the beginning of August, select CDTC families will be invited to a special Backpack Giveaway where nearly 1,000 of the Center’s patients will have an opportunity to select a new backpack and fill it with school supplies.

The annual Back to School Drive has become a tradition at the center, giving families an easy way to prepare their child for the classroom. In addition, the Center’s giveaway reduces the added financial burden which, in 2018, averaged just over $122 for school supplies per child.

Supplies are needed for students from pre-school through high school. The Center’s wish list consists of all the basics including backpacks for all ages, paper, pencils, pens, crayons, markers, folder and notebooks. Supplies can be donated during business hours, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and must be received by August 2, 2019.

“We do everything possible to help the families we serve thrive,” shares Dr. Ana Calderon Randazzo, executive director, CDTC. “Being ready for the classroom is important to every child’s success in life. We are so grateful to the community who helps us make preparations for the new school year a little easier for these amazing and dedicated families.”

You can help by dropping off school supplies or gift cards for the children and collecting school supplies from friends and neighbors. For more information about donating school supplies and a current wish list visit http://childrensdiagnostic. com/back-to-school/.

Police Officers Get Exposed for Making Racist Social Media Posts from Front Page that it’s not true.

So when the Plain View Project (PVP) took a look at the public profiles of law enforcement officers from eight jurisdictions and put together a database that showed these officers frequently posted racist comments, memes and expressions of violence—some of the very things that activists in the Movement for Black Lives have protested against—it was met with a feeling of “See, we told y’all” combined with a cup of “But what are y’all going to do about it?”

According to the Washington Post, it prompted multiple cities to launch investigations into the online activities of their officers.

The PVP database was shared by both Injustice Watch and BuzzFeed over the weekend.

Some of the highlights, according to the Post: After matching published employee rosters with Facebook profiles and examining the public posts those individuals made, the project found thousands of Facebook posts and comments that ran the gamut from racist memes to conspiracy theories to bombastic expressions of violence. Several expressed the desire to use a taser or deadly force on suspects, actions that have brought law enforcement under scrutiny in recent years and sparked nationwide protests police brutality.

“Instead of hands up don’t shoot, how about pull your pants up, don’t loot!” read

a meme that depicted the late African American singer Sammy Davis, Jr. in an apparent dig at the Black Lives Matter movement. The image was shared on Facebook in 2015 by a captain in the Philadelphia Police Department.

“What a POS, firing squad,” a man PVP identified as a Philadelphia police officer commented beneath a news story about a man who shot an elderly woman.

“Too bad this MF didn’t resist and meet a very violent and painful demise.

Would have saved the taxpayers a LOT of money,” reads a Facebook post by a man identified as a former officer from York, Pa., who was sharing the news of a Black man’s arrest in the killing of a police detective.

On their website, PVP wrote, “We believe that these statements could erode civilian trust and confidence in police, and we hope police departments will investigate and address them immediately.”

Philadelphia, Phoenix and St. Louis have all announced that investigations are happening after some of their officers were exposed in the database.

Other jurisdictions with officers who posted questionably racist content include Dallas and Denton, Texas; Twin Falls, Idaho; and Lake County, Fla. PVP founder Emily Baker-White told the Post that the impetus for creating the database was “alarming Facebook posts” by police officers that she saw while on a fellowship at the Federal Community

Defender Office in Philadelphia. BakerWhite was working on a police brutality case and said she found “several public Facebook pages, linked to officers involved in the case, that contained offensive memes and messages.”

Among those posts was one with the image of a police dog baring its teeth. The text superimposed over the picture read “I hope you run; he likes fast food.”

“I found that meme really alarming,” Baker-White told the Post. “That made me wonder how much more of this is out there. How many more police officers are posting things like this on the internet?”

“One of the most disheartening things in the posts we saw are the comments under them,” she said. “Some of them are by citizens, and some are by police officers. There’s very much a pileon culture, where someone may say something violent and the folks under that will ramp it up and say something even more violent or discriminatory. The feedback loop there has led a lot of people to lean into their worst instincts.”

And that is exactly why these types of things need to be exposed and properly dealt with. It is not enough to simply investigate the officers involved; there needs to be some sort of punitive action.

If these types of beliefs and behaviors can continue to fester in our nation’s law enforcement agencies, Black death at the hands of police will continue to be normalized and accepted.

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FAMU Announces Orlando Medical

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN BROWARD COUNTY

Department of Health Joins Hurricane Exercise to Prep for Upcoming Storm Season

By Sallie James The May 9th hurricane exercise centered around the fictitious “Hurricane Smith,” a made-up storm that made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in Tampa Bay on May 6th. Under the exercise narrative, Broward’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) was activated at 8 a.m. on May 9th due to heavy rain and high winds that caused widespread flooding and damage to the South Florida region.

The storm spawned several tornados, caused a breach in the dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee, and required the opening of several shelters. Emergency responders, which also include the Florida Department of Health (DOH), had to figure out what to do, when to do it and how to get it done.

Did you know the DOH is responsible for medical management and staffing the county’s special needs

shelters and coordinating the delivery of medical care in an emergency? During an emergency, the DOH works side by side with first responders like police, fire rescue and hospitals to coordinate resources such

as ambulances, hospital beds and other medical resources and services.

Although every scenario associated with the mock “Hurricane Smith” was fictitious, the focus and intensity of the exercise

at the EOC was not: More than 200 emergency responders had to think on their feet during the fourhour drill that included an unplanned computer glitch that affected the ability to transmit electronic messages and forced employees from 25 agencies to revert to the use of paper messages and talk face-to-face to arrange services and find solutions to help people in need.

Hurricane Season 2019 began June 1st and ends November 30.

“We are health and medical and so anytime there is an incident in the county that could overburden the healthcare system, we get involved,” explained Terri Sudden, Director of Public Health Preparedness for the DOH in Broward County.

“If there were a train (Cont’d on page 9)

Mayor Dyer and Chief Mina Accused of Excessive Force in Lawsuit:

What Has Changed?

By Roger Caldwell, OPINION

The silence from the residents in Orlando is appalling, and it is time to put pressure on Mayor Buddy Dyer and now Sheriff John Mina.

Dyer and Mina “supported, justified, condoned, and otherwise ratified” the officers’ actions through the agency’s use of force policy and failing to discipline officers for such incidents, the suit claims. Excessive force was the policy that Mayor Dyer and Chief Mina condoned in the Orlando Police Department, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation “covered up” the Departments’ actions.

During an arrest in 2015 of bank department executive Noel Carter, who happened to be Black, was viciously and brutally beaten along Orange Avenue early

in the morning. This gentlemen was kicked, pepper sprayed, beaten and stunned multiple times with a Taser by two Orlando police officers- David

Cruz and Charles Mays.

“Video of Carter’s arrest, which was captured by a resident Continue reading online at:

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Attendees at the April MMERI community forum in Tallahassee (Florida A&M University).

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. – Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) Medical Marijuana Education and Research Initiative (MMERI) today announced the second community forum as part of the campaign to educate and inform the state’s Peter Harris, Director diverse minority communities about of the FAMU Medical medical marijuana.

Marijuana Education and Research Initiative.

The MMERI forums provide community members with an op- (Florida A&M University) portunity to engage in a two-way conversation with medical marijuana stakeholders. Community members will be able to ask questions and get answers from the diverse panel made up of: • Cynthia Hughes Harris, Ph.D. Research Chair, MMERI, and Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences, Florida A&M University • Rep. Bruce Antone, Florida House of Representatives • Rep. Carlos Guillermo Cynthia Hughes-Harris, Smith, Florida House of Ph.D., Dean of the FAMU Representatives School of Allied Health • Valeria Robinson Baker, RPh, Sciences, Research Chair, C.Ph. MMERI, and Dean, School • Olympia Compounding of Allied Health Sciences Pharmacy (Florida A&M University) • Uday Daphtary, M.D. (Cont’d on page 11) • Affordable Care Clinics

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A HAPPY FATHER’S DAY “Panther For Life”

Greetings to all members of Dillard’s Comprehensive High School Class of 1969.

It has been Fifty years since we graduated from our Alma mater. During the 50-year span we have achieved many accomplishments. It is time to reunite and share our them.

We salute you all.

We are planning a week of activities of fellowship and fun. Don’t miss out on your reunion: Fifty years of your life accomplishments. The activities will start Monday, June 17 thru Sunday June 23, 2019.

The activities are in the planning stages and so far, these are the activities that have been confirmed. *A Meet and Greet for Thursday, June 20 *A Cookout for Friday, June 21 *A Banquet for Saturday, June 22 *Sunday worship service June 23 will culminate our week long activities For more info contact us to confirm your attendance of our Fifty year milestone. Call Robert L. Ingram, Jr. at (954) 448-5815.

EDUCATION MATTER EVERY CHILD DESERVE A CHANCE

Events Pompano Beach Library events at 50 W. Atlantic Blvd. Suite 2, Pompano Beach, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-7595. Book a Librarian; need help accessing Library Rsource with your device?

Schedule an Appointment Today.

All Programs are fist come, first served unless specially noted.

- Wednesday, June 12 from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (Conference Room) – Out of This World Sensory Experience: De-stress with Kinetic Sand.

Call to reserve your seat (954) 3577595 or register on Eventbrite! Refreshments will be served.

- Wednesday, June 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. (Multi-Purpose Room) – Adult Financial Literacy by Oasis - Wednesday, June 12 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (Conference Room) – Spirit Wisdom on Health and Healing.

- Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Multi-Purpose Room) – First Time Home Buyers Work Shop 2019 Oasis of Hope – registration required at http://oasiscdc. org/home-buyer-workshop-registration/ or call (954) 586-1283.

- Saturday, June 15 from 2 to 3 p.m. (Conference Room) - “Star Wars Yoga, The Force, & You” with author Cary Bayer.

- Saturday, June 15 from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Conference Room) CashFlow Gameboard Finanical Education.

- Monday, June 17 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Multi-Purpose Room) CareerSource Broward: Solutions for Your Career.

- Tuesday, June 18 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Multi-Purpose Room) - Eleanor Robinson Ageless Grace Practitioner, shares her story.

- Tuesday, June 18 from 2 to 3 p.m. (Multi-Purpose Room) - IIia Blandina, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping Trainer, and author of Give Birth a Chance: How to Prepare for an

Empowered VBAC-shares her story.

- Wednesday, June 19 from 2 to 3 p.m. (Multi-Purpose Room) - Julia Caira, of Healing Essence Studio, Aromatherapist, shares her story and a mini blending session.

- Wednesday, June 19 fom 2 to 4 p.m. (Front Lobby) - Social Security - Have Questions for the Social Security Administration?

Vice Mayor Dale V.C. Holness community events: - The north wing of the Broward County Courthouse will be named the Judge Thomas J. “TJ” Reddick, Jr. North Building in honor of the late Circuit Court Judge, Wednesday, June 19 at 11 a.m. reception at noon.

- Lauderhill Mall Citizenship Drive, Saturdays, June 15, 16, July 20, 21, August 17, 18, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Lauderhill Mall, 1267 N. State Rd. 7, Lauderhill, Fla. Free Assistance.

WHAT TO BRING: * Home addresses for the last 5 or 3 years * Recent Tax Return/W2s/2 months paystub * Green Card and all Cards * School/Empoyment history for the last 5 or 3 years * Children’s info (date of birth, A# addresses)* * Marital history/Criminal history “If applicale - FunNFit Summer, Free Summer Recreation Program 2019 for ages 6-17 from Monday, June 17 thru Friday, Aug. 9 (closed Fourth of July) from 9 a.m. to 5 Program from 8-9 a.m.

- Early Dropoff and from 5-6 Late Pickup. Space is limited.

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Eta Nu 50th Anniversary Celebration Week Sunday, June 9 thru 15. * Family & Friends Bowling Party, Wednesday, June 12 from 7 to 11 a.m. at Diamond Strikes Lanes, 2200 N. Fed., Hwy., Pompano Beach, Fla. Cost $15 * 4 Ques of Comedy Jokes & Smoke, Thursday, June 13 from 7 p.m. to Pompano, 50 W. Atlantic Pompano Beach, Fla. Cost $15 * Felix “Chin” Evans & Charles Johnson 2019 Golf Tournament, at 8 a.m. Tee off, Woodmont Country Club, 7801 N.W. 80 Ave., Tamarac, Fla. Cost $125 * Casino Night Golden Celebration, Friday, June 14 from 7 to midnight $75. Special, guest Grand Basileus, Brother Dr. David Marion at Westin Hotel, 400 Corporate Dr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. * Annual Mardi Gras Party, Saturday, June 15 from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., at The Event Center, 6101 N.W. 31 St., Margate, Fla. Cash prize to the Best Costume. Cost $30 GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! VISIT ETANU.ORG

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African-American Research Library & Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more info call (954) 357-6282.

- Kaleidoscope: Stonewall POC Experience, A Panel Discussion with Interval Poetry and Q&A, Wednesday, June 26, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. adult 18 and up.

-South Florida Black Film Festival calling Black Filmmakers! Submit Your Work Before September 10th. Submissions of short films by Black Filmmakers are being accepted from now until Tuesdaym Sept. 10 for the South Florida Black Film Festival, a free public event on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019.

- Special Collections Exhibit now thru Wednesday, July 31 A Commemoration of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad.

- Matter of Blance (8) weeks: June 18, 25, from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

- Poetry Comedy Music, Saturday, Jue 29 at 6:30 p.m.

- Living My Best Life in 2019: Free Wellness Workshops for Seniors/Caregivers,NOW through June from 10:30 a.m.

1 p.m., pre-registraion is required at (954) 357-6282 or online at at Eventbrite.

- Save the Date: 2019 B South Florida Book Festival - Book Life 8th Annual, Friday, July 19 & Saturday, July 20.

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Lauderhill Living The Source: News from the City of Lauderhill: * Saturday, June 15 & 16 Artists In Motion * Tuesday, June 18 - Dream and Dance - A Kirova Ballet Academy Presentation * Saturday, June 29 - Marcia Griffiths & Freddie McGregor live in Lauderhill For more info call (954) 7303000.

Broward County Public Forums Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Availability and Opportunity, Prime contractors, subcontractors, Supplies, Vendors and Consultants, invited to join one of the following forums: Saturday, June 15 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at South Regional/Broward College Library Multipurpose Room 7300 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, Fla. To learn more or to register online, visit Broward.org/EconDev or call (954) 357-6400.

Musical The Northwest Federated Woman’s Club, Musical Extravaganza, Friday, June 21 from 5 to 9:30 p.m., at 2161 N.W. 19 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. There is a donation fee.

For more info (954) 909-4662.

The Pantry will be serving twice a month The Second and Fourth Saturday of each month. Now you can call ahead of time to see if their pantry will be serving. Call (954) 800-3955 The Lighthouse Worship Pantry, 2201 N.W. 21 St., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and listen to the announcement each month. You can also leave a message with any concerns.

M-DCPS Business & Job Fair Expo, Thursday, June 13 from 6 to 8 p.m., at Miami Carol City Senior High School, 3301 Miami Gardens, Dr., Miami Gardens, Fla. * Opportunities for Vendors * Non-Instructional Positions * Talk with our Staff * Certification Info RSVP Procevents@dadeschools.net Fore more info call (305) 995-3131.

Event The School District of Palm Beach County will present its 25th annual African and African-American Studies Summer Institute at Palm Beach Lakes High School.This year’s theme will be The African Diaspora: Exploring the Cultural Diversity of Black Students in PBC Schools. The even begins on Wednesday, June 12 through 15. The history and culture of Haiti--apropo, since May is Haitian Heritage Month. The Institute will be held each day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public.For more information, call (561)434-8879 or send an email here.

Festival South Broward Juneteenth Festival: Highlighting a Forgotten Holiday, Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., at Washington Park Community Center, 5199 Pembroke Rd., Hollywood, Fla. For more info call Tifanny Burks at (954) 249-1995.

Event Mayor Oliver Gilbert invites you to attend State of the City Address, Wednesday, June 19.The reception starts at 5:30 and the event at 6:30 p.m., at City Hall Courtyard, 18605 N.E. 27 Ave., Miami Gardens, Fla. For more info call (305) 914-9170.

Events The Broward County Office of Economic and Small Business Development events * The public is invited to a Public Forum, Saturday, June 15 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, at South Regional/Broward College Library, 7300 Pines Blvd., Pembroke, Pines, Fla. * Workshops and Training for 2019 -Register Today, Wednesday, June 12 from 3 to 4:30 p.m., at Broward County Gvernmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Ave., Room 302, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. * Business Resliency Workshop and Broward County Emergency Opeartions Center (EOC) Tour, Wednesday, June 26 from 9 to 11 a.m., at Browward County, EOC, 201 N.W. 84 Ave., Room 332B, Plantation, Fla.

Performances Adrienne Arsht Center For the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Summe Live!

At Arsht from Sunday, June 23. All tickets may be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center Box Office by calling (305) 949-6722 or online at arshtcenter.org.

- Vistanova Entertainment presents Beachtone Jazz Festival, Saturday, June 15 at 7 p.m.

- The Ultimate Queen Celebration, Sunday, June 30 at 7:30 p.m.

- John Leguizamo, Latin History For Morons, Friday, July 12, 13, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, July 14 at 3 p.m., at Ziff Ballet Opera House.

- Siempre Flamenco Miami’s 14th Annual Festival De Cante, Friday, Aug. 30- Sunday, Sept.

1 at various times, at Carnival

Events Broward County Library eNews events: * 19th Annual Juneteenth Blues and Sweet Potato Pie Festival, Saturday, June 15 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Northwest Branch Library, 1580 N.W. Third Ave., Pomopano Beach, Fla. * College is Coming Ready or Not! Broward County Library wants to prepare you for college! We offer SAT/ACT prep courses and college admissions readness workshop all summer long and they’re Free. *Virtual Reality Space Tour dates: - Thursday, June 13-15 at Carver Ranches Library, call (954) 357-6245.

- Monday, June 17-19 at Deerfield Beach Percy White Library call (954) 357-7680.

- Thursday, June 20-23 at Northwest Regional Libary call (954) 357-7990.

- Tuesday, June 24-26 at Margate Catharine Young Library, call (954) 357-7500.

- Thursday, June 27-July 3 at Southwest Regional Library, call (954) 357-6580

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America’s Challenge: Moving Toward Racial Healing and Transformation

By Gail C. Christopher NATIONWIDE (BlackNews. com) -- Months after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came under fire for the racist images on his yearbook page from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984; he remains in office, a battered and chastised, public figure. But maybe this isn’t a bad thing.

A quick resignation would have elicited rhetorical condemnations, a symbolic “washing of hands,” and sent the wrong message that everything

of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. These laws were modeled after racist laws and practices here in the United States. The 2017 book, Hitler’s American Model by Yale Legal scholar James Whitman, documents how America’s racial oppression helped inspire the Nazis’ anti-Jewish legislation.

Clearly, if America only “washes our hands” after every incident of racism, we fail to enact any meaningful change. The action that is long overdue in Virginia and the whole of America is a truth and racial healing process.

To heal is to make whole, to set right. A broken bone must be re-set in order to heal without deformity. Setting the United States right requires humanely and sincerely facing and unpacking the truths of our past; and finally burying the myth of a hierarchy of human value; replacing it with awareness and appreciation of the sacred interconnected reality

of humanity. We must all realize that we are truly one human family, ultimately tracing our genomic ancestry to common ancestors on the continent of Africa.

Only at this point can we begin to envision a healed and shared future together as one America - not simply as red or blue - but with a shared vision of a truly reconstructed America that values all equally. No more susceptibility to manipulation through “dog whistle politics” and social media tricksters. No more deeply held racial resentments ripe for the picking by domestic and foreign enemies.

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MAYOR DEAN TRANTALIS TO LEAD TRADE AND Capt. Bill Schultz CULTURAL MISSION TO ISRAEL Development; of the Police Department;

tech businesses in Fort Lauderdale.

A key component of the trip will be promoting a new collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Fort Lauderdale, and Florida International University (FIU) to prepare small business start-ups to be successful in the high-tech field.

Through a series of agreements being signed, the DOE and FIU have created a mission-to-market program to leverage underutilized patented technology developed by the DOE with Fort Lauderdale serving as the project’s location for a global entrepreneurial resources center.

Broward County and Broward College are looking to partner in this initiative as well.

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has been resolved. It most certainly has not been, and in late May an investigation by the medical school couldn’t conclusively determine whether it’s the governor in the photo. But the Commonwealth of Virginia, and our nation, have an even weightier problem: they must address the root cause of racism 35 years ago, and today - the belief in a hierarchy of human value that poisons our society.

Through centuries, America has failed to do the required work of uprooting and finally eliminating the idea and belief in a hierarchy of humanity - the empowering of one human being over another because of skin color or religion or ethnicity. It was stunning that when USA Today examined 900 yearbooks from the

same era, they found more than 200 examples of racist materials, demonstrating the depth of racial bias in our society.

The heart of the problem is the hierarchy of human value. This core belief is the myth that built America. Human value hierarchy fueled unfettered land confiscation from Native Americans and unprecedented human decimation and enslavement of Africans, all of which fueled a young country’s rapid economic growth and emergence as a world power.

If the foundational myth of unequal human value is allowed to fester consciously and unconsciously, the idea can, will and indeed IS being manipulated for political gain and potentially authoritarian power.

Hitler perfected this art of fearmongering and emotional manipulation using the idea of a hierarchy of human worth and value. His Nuremberg laws became the basis

Delegation to focus on infrastructure, security, environment, and business investment Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis will lead a delegation of community leaders on a trade and

The making of restorative justice public policy

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By Erica R. Williams, Special to The New Tri-State Defender

cultural mission to Israel from June 8-17. The group will focus on investigating infrastructure, security, and environmental issues that could benefit our community and establishing connections with potential business investors. Another aspect will be strengthening relationships with officials in the Israeli government, business, and education sectors.

The delegation will be comprised of City Manager Chris Lagerbloom; Scott Wyman, chief of staff to Mayor Trantalis; Broward County Vice Mayor Dale Holness; Greg Haile, president of Broward College; Anthony Fajardo, director of the Department of Sustainable

“Don’t be afraid to disrupt the system,” Shelby County ComEmpowerment expert Pametria missioner Tami Sawyer Brown (right) shares a reflection said to a crowd of adas part of a symposium panel that vocates, parents, and also featured (l-r) Archie Moss Jr., educators gathered at Shahidah Jones, Cameron Jones the inaugural Public and state Sen. Raumesh Akbari, who was the moderator.

Policy and Restorative Justice Symposium.

(Photos: George W. Tillman Jr.) This charge came after Sawyer gave a personal account of her experiences with racial biases while attending a local private middle school, where she said there were only a handful of other Black students.

“I was the only person in my class to ever get detention,” she said. “I would get it for things like being stopped in the hall because they thought my skirt was too short, although I was the tallest girl in 7th and 8th grade. Or because they thought I was talking back when I asked questions.”

Sawyer, who was the first guest speaker at the symposium, set the tone for the conversations that would follow throughout the five-hour event, hosted by the Memphis Restorative Justice Coalition. The Memphis-based group consists of a collection of four organizations working together to reduce the rate of suspensions for African American and Latino students.

“There are so many people in silos doing this work, but there hasn’t been a space where people can all come together and do it collectively,” said Tim Green, co-founder of the symposium and founder & executive director of The Dividend, a social (Cont’d on page 11) emotional empowerment organization for youth.

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name; making them the Buchanan family.

Buck said his grandmother lived to be 123 years old. In 1933, Mr. “Buck” Buchanan arrived in St. Simons Island, Georgia that many wouldn’t recognize today.

“Buck” Buchanan was able to contribute to the nation during World War II. He was drafted into the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943. He trained at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia then he was shipped to Sheffield, Texas Air Forces Technical Training Command to become Army Air Forces Training Command on July 31,1943. He stayed there a while before transferring to Luke Airfield Base (AFB) near Phoenix, Arizona. Luke AFB is one of the largest bases in the world. Buck said, “When I worked in the Medical Department, I set bones, arms and legs.” Adding that he made $20 a month while in the Service. After serving a total of three years and nine months, Buck Buchanan returned to St. Simons Island, Georgia. Back at home, he took up a trade in Brick Masonry. He laid bricks for 35 years before retiring. Some buildings he helped construct is still standing today. “Buck” Buchanan received a 32nd Degree Mason June 13, 1952, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret 32 of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Life Membership of 30 years of Continuous Membership in August 2007. Additionally, “Buck” Buchanan was a Member of Omar Temple No. 21, Cornerstone Lodge No. 8, and American Legion Post 166, where he was honored last May 2016 for 60 years of continuous service. Buck enjoyed serving as

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Alexandra P. Davis

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Maxwell B. Chambers

a 32nd Degree Mason Prince Hall Affiliated and is the oldest Mason living in the state of Georgia at the age 103. (Prince Hall Affiliated) Buck” Buchanan enjoyed fishing and tending to his tree farm. He owned five acres of land planted with various trees, e.g., tangerines, navel oranges, pears and different types of figs. Looking out of the window of Buck’s bedroom, you can see the fig trees full of green figs. Back in the good days, after a hard day of work in his garden, Buck would retreat to one of his favorite fishing holes. He had discovered several on the island. Buck Buchanan remained active for many years in the community. He would store meats from hunting in his freezer and at home to give to those who were in need. When he isn’t hunting, gardening, or fishing, he enjoys spending time with his family. Earlier this year, Buck’s wife Celia Buchanan, passed away back in March 2019. They were married for 78 years, and June 15 would have been 79 years. Both were members of Saint Paul Baptist Church on Saint Simons Island, Georgia. They have a daughter, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Mr. “Buck” Buchanan has uncovered the mystery of living a full life well into his golden years. He believes it has a lot to do with his dedication to living by the Golden Rule. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto yo u.” “Do the right thing and God will store up a blessing f or you and give you a long, good life,” says Mr. Gloster “Buck” Buchanan, 103.

Paola Isaac Baraya, economic development specialist for Broward County; and Bill Feinberg, incoming chairman of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. Local businessmen Eyal Peretz and Jonathon Fish will also join the group.

The delegation will meet with five major Israeli investment groups — OurCrowd, SOSA, Start-Up Nation Central, Harel Insurance Co., and El-Ad National Properties.

There are two goals of these meetings: discussions involving partnerships for major infrastructure and public works projects in Fort Lauderdale and investment in start-up and high-

Commissioner Yvette Colbourne hosts

THE MIRAMAR MIX-UP

2019 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION ROUNDTABLE

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DENTON, TX. May 16, 2018 – Donald Norman-Cox, a 64 year old resident of Denton, Texas has a message for the nation regarding Juneteenth: “Tell it right or stop talking.” Since the mid-2000s, Mr. NormanCox has sporadically informed college and community groups that parts of the Juneteenth explanation are flagrantly wrong. This year, his message has muscle.

“Every explanation I’ve heard since childhood made little sense,” Norman-Cox said.

But like many others, he never bothered to search for facts.

“I wondered how news of the proclamation could travel to Europe faster than it floated across the states. How did news reach what is now New Mexico without going through Texas? When did other states free their slaves?”

Those quandaries and more are addressed in Norman-Cox’s new book Juneteenth 101. The book debunks several widely held myths about Juneteeth, including its primary tenet: news of the Proclamation didn’t reach Texas for two and a half years. “You hear that everywhere, but it’s wrong,” Norman-Cox said.

“Delayed emancipation was not caused by not-knowing. The culprit was lack of enforcement.”

Cox admits to holding a near life-long hope that others had researched their explanations.

“I challenged nothing,” he laughs, “until one question refused to be ignored.” That question was why do Texans commemorate both Watchnight and Juneteenth?

Watchnight was the night slaves held vigils to watch for freedom, courtesy of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth occurred supposedly because no one knew the Proclamation existed.

Cox said, “Those opposing explanations coexist peacefully only in minds of the oblivious.”

While digging for clarification, Norman-Cox discovered some Texans knew about the Emancipation Proclamation before it was issued. “On September 15, 1862, a newspaper in tiny Clarksville, Texas reported Lincoln was about to issue ‘a proclamation of general universal emancipation’. Nine days later, Lincoln issued his preliminary proclamation. What little guys knew, the big ones did, too.”

That and other discoveries are packed in a new book titled Juneteenth 101.

Norman-Cox calls his findings, “Earth shaking, but nothing new.” He said, “Professional historians – which I’m not – have known these facts probably since emancipation became a topic worthy of scholarly examination. This book translates existing academic discourse into street speak … to help Big Mama and Ray-Ray ‘nem not be wrong.”

Juneteenth 101 claims incorrect explanations oversimplify the complex and chaotic way slavery ended. Believing slavery continued because they didn’t know, misidentifies ‘they’.

“They” refers to slave owners,” Norman-Cox contends. “What slaves knew was irrelevant.

Their walking off the job is called running away, not emancipation.”

According to Norman-Cox, Juneteenth falsehoods are pervasive. Even Congress incorrectly refers to Juneteenth as “the day slavery ended in the United States”. Juneteenth 101 identifies 31 congressional resolutions that include or were defended by that statement. “As if six months later, the Thirteenth Amendment did nothing,” Cox added.

To replace that inaccuracy the book offers this explanation, “Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery; not the day slavery ended.”

Rainbow Pride - > “Love Thy Neighbor”

Guilt fueling rising white mortality

in mid-life mortality among White non-Hispanic Americans is primarily caused by “deaths of despair” from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.

According to the article, “The authors suggest that the increases in deaths of despair are accompanied by a measurable deterioration in economic and social well-being, and an accumulation of pain, distress, and social dysfunction in the lives of working-class Whites.” This is more of an excuse, not a plausible explanation since mortality among Blacks is lower than Whites.

Whites in America have no reason to be hopeless. In every economic and social category Whites are enjoying a higher standard of living than Blacks.

Therefore, the increase in White mortality cannot be from deteriorating economic or social conditions. For centuries Blacks have lived under the worst economic and social conditions during slavery and Jim Crow. Even today they are a marginalized subgroup. Nevertheless, Blacks did not succumb to hopelessness.

Guilt traumatized oppressors can learn from the oppressed.

Therefore, instead of analyzing what is emotionally wrong with Whites, analyze what is emotionally right with Blacks.

Banner Man

By Lucius Gantt

Almost every day someone is “banned” from a social media site. Black religious leaders, Black community activists and even some Black journalists are prohibited from different web sites, publications broadcast programs.

However, owners of social and other media outlets don’t ban their own! White supremacists don’t ban the ku klux klan. Nazis don’t ban neo-nazis. Nationalist media outlets don’t ban imperialists.

If your favorite person has been banned, don’t get mad, get even!

God bless the community, the ethnic group, the race and the people that have their own!

Build and support your own social media networks and other media outlets.

Together, we can do it. The key word is “together”!

People of African descent in America, Africa and all around the world have the money and the power to communicate with each other and to communicate with everybody in the world.

Black people are so upset when someone they respect and admire is banned because they think Western media is fair and every Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and SnapChat user should be treated equally.

They think if you ban Minister Louis Farrakhan from an internet site, the people that have different perspectives than the Minister should be banned too.

I love Minister Farrakhan as a messenger of Allah, I think he is a strong voice on many issues of concern to African Americans and I had him as a guest on my TV show ”Vibrations” but my expressed love for the Minister won’t get The Gantt Report in The Final Call newspaper.

The Final Call is a media outlet for members and supporters of the Nation of Islam.

I wish the NOI well and it doesn’t matter to me if I’m not welcomed in The Final Call like Minister Farrakhan was welcomed on “Vibrations”.

I think all people of African descent have a role in African unity and Black progress.

Facebook can ban me anytime they want to but Facebook can’t stop me, Facebook can’t control me and Facebook can’t kill me!

I am going to do what I do to unite my people, empower my people and tell the my people the truth and I don’t care if social media, religious media, white media or the imperialist press likes what I do or not!

We love people that can sing, dance, play ball, make a good speech or preach a good sermon.

While we buck dance, our oppressors are nation building. They are constantly exploiting, colonizing, discriminating, using and abusing everyone they can.

If we don’t want Facebook to ban posts made by people we love, let’s suspend our social media accounts for one week or one month and watch Mr. Zuckerberg lose millions of dollars in revenue daily.

Everything in a capitalist society is about the money. When Facebook does someone you care about badly, do Facebook badly and close your accounts and profiles!

Minister Farrakhan is OK with or without Facebook and The Gantt Report editorial columns and The Gantt Report Facebook page is too.

The race war in

America

By Kevin Palmer

Latent guilt, not diminished economic or social well-being, is more likely the cause of rising White mortality.

A March 2017 Brookings article by Ann Case and Sir Angus Deaton, Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st century, suggested the shocking increase

The

By Don Valentine To my students of the scriptures let me remind you of Matthew 7:12 (English Standard Version) “So whatever you wish others would do to you, do also to them.”

That is commonly summarized as the “Golden Rule.”

My question for you to ponder today is how many of our readers would cherish being ostracized, banished from their church, work or any other place of decorum.

I want you to Go with me, Take a ride with me, Shake a hand with me, Make a new friend with me!

In the words of the song

by Gladys Knight, “Let’s Ride The Friendship Train.”

Thanks to President Trump, a window of abomination has been opened. If you contrasted the last administration [one Black and one White vocally xenophobic, homophobic and racial.] The latter advocating racial and political divisiveness to the degree it is becoming ubiquitous.We need

love and unity more now than ever.

The “Diversity Monthly History” is a very interesting evolution. This year in 2019 President Trump gave “Pride Month” just a modicum of ack-nowledgement more than he has ever given the N.A.A.C.P. That would be equal to the amount of votes he received from me “ZipZero!”

57 years have enlightened me that as one pastor succinctly said, “There are only 2 kinds of Christians.

‘Sho Christians.’ They just want to be seen to be working for the Lord. Then there are the ‘Fo Sho’ Christians. They are the ones who DO THE WORK FOR THE LORD! Which one are you? The Trump type and just for “Sho” or are you willing to follow Christ’s words? Jesus preached love and tolerance for all men.

Please Go with me, Take a ride with me, Shake a hand with me, Make a new friend with me! We need love

slave—and seven generations v. Board of Education. In of his descendants in the 1956, the Supreme Court United States. ruled segregated seating was When Roots was televised, unconstitutional. In 1957, I was a college student. I President Eisenhower signed

By Melissa Martin Ph.D., remember a small group the Civil Rights Act. In 1964, of African American males President Lyndon B. Johnson LPCC-S gathered outside their signed the Civil Rights Act. How do we learn to be dorm during the miniseries In 1965, President Johnson human together?

White and sang. So surreal. The signed the Voting Rights Act women—Black women. Black horrifying history of slavery into law. In 1968, the Fair men—white men.

White hit me between the eyes like Housing Act became law.

It’s 2019. Have blacks children—Black children. a ton of bricks. Marshall University in Huntington, gained equal rights under the White—Black.

In 1863, (white) President West Virginia—the first time I law? Did social justice prevail?

Abraham Lincoln issued the interacted with people of color. Does freedom ring true for all Emancipation Proclamation Growing up as a white girl African Americans today?

The History of White People when the Civil War ended. from Appalachia, minorities were not discussed because (2011) by historian Nell Irvin Ratifi-cation of the 13 they were not around— Painter.

“Our story begins in Amendment abolished Greek and Roman antiquity, slavery everywhere in the invisible as if nonexistence.

Black Like Me, a nonfiction where the concept of race did United States. In 1868, the book by John Howard not exist, only geography and 14th Amendment to the Griffin, opened my eyes the opportunity to conquer Constitution gave Blacks equal protection under to racism, oppression, and and enslave others. Not until the law. In 1870, the 15th prejudice. Maya Angelou’s the eighteenth century did Amendment granted Blacks autobiography, I Know Why an obsession with whiteness the Caged Bird Sings, showed flourish, with the German the right to vote.

In 2008, (Black/biracial) me the amazing courage of a invention of the notion of Caucasian beauty. This theory Barack Obama was elected traumatized black woman.

The American civil rights made northern Europeans President of the USA. He movement took place mainly into “Saxons,” “Anglo-Saxons,” became the 44th president, and “Teutons,” envisioned as and the first African American during the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1948, President Truman uniquely handsome natural to be elected to that office.

Roots (1976) by Alex Executive Order 9981 to end rulers.” Beginning at the Haley tells the story of Kunte discrimination in the military. roots of Western civilization, Kinte—a young Black man In 1954, the United States Painter traces the invention taken from the Gambia when Supreme Court made se- of the idea of a white race — he was seventeen and sold as a gre-gation illegal in public often for economic, scientific, schools in the case of Brown and political ends.

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Sunday School .............................................................................. 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday (Bible Study) ........................................... 11a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Living Waters Christian Fellowship Meeting at Central Charter School Building #5 4515 N. St. Rd. 7 (US 441) Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33319 (954) 295-6894

SUNDAY SERVICE: 10 a.m.

Rev. Anthony & Virginia Burrell

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“Jesus said, let anyone who is thirsty come to Me and drink.” (John 7:37)

New Birth Baptist Church The Cathedral of Faith International Bishop Victor T. Curry, M.Min., D.Div. Senior Pastor/Teacher 2300 N.W. 135th Street Miami, Florida 33167

ORDER OF SERVICES Sunday Worship ........................................................ 7:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Sunday School ....................................................................................................... 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday (Bible Study) ......................................................................................... 6:45 p.m.

Wednesday (Bible Study) ............................................................................... 10:45 a.m.

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Shaw Temple A.M.E. Zion Church 522 N.W. Ninth Avenue Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Church: (954) 462-1413 or (954) 647-8254 Email: AMEZ522@yahoo.com

Rev. Dr. William Calvin Haralson, Pastor SERVICES

Sunday School .................................................................................. 10:15 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship ............................................................ 11:00 a.m.

Bible Study (Wednesday) ............................................................... 7:30 p.m.

"Reaching beyond the four walls touching lives, touching communities".

Mount Hermon A.M.E. Church Reverend Henry E. Green, Jr., Pastor 401 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 Phone: (954) 463-6309 FAX 954 522-4113 Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

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Gems & Jewels Ministry Senior Wednesday Wednesday (Bible Study) .................................................... 12 Noon & 7 - 8 p.m.

Daily Prayer Line ...................................................................................... 6 a.m.

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Obituaries James C. Boyd Funeral Home

McWhite's Funeral Home

DANIEL Funeral services for the late Michael Charles “Mike Mike” Daniel, Jr. - 28 were held June 8 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Mr. Jeffrey Williams officiating.

CUMMINS Funeral services for the late Eileen Cummins - 66 were held June 8 at Emmanuel House Of Prayers, Inc., with Wilfred Gooden officiating.

FABIEN Funeral services for the late Davidson Lumas Fabien - 23 were held June 8 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Bishop L.L. Ward officiating.

HALL Funeral services for the late Sammie Lee Hall - 86 held June 7 at The Church in the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostle’s Doctrine with Bishop Joe C. Tisdale officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

LANDERS Funeral services for the late Marie Landers - 98 held June 8 at Agape Worship Center , Inc., with Pastor Jimmy Witherspoon officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Central).

MCGOWAN Funeral services for the late Annie Bea McGowan - 83 held June 8 at Mount Hermon ME Church with Rev. Henry E. Green, Jr. officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens.

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SMITH Funeral services for the late Albert “Pop” Smith - 83 held June 8 at House of God with Rev. Melinda C. Hall officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Central).

SPENCE Funeral services for the late Allan Gifford Spence - 4 were held June 9 at New Hope Seventh Day Adventist Church with Pastors Anslem Paul and Pastor Dolphy Cross officiating. Interment: Bailey Memorial Gardens.

WRIGHT Funeral services for the late Lula Mae Right - 63 were held June 8 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor C. Hope Smith officiating.1 at Kingdom Hall.

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SUDARKASA Funeral services for the late Dr. Niara Sudarkasa 81 were held June 8 at African American Research Library and Cultural Center with Rev. Adora Iris Woodside Lee officiating. Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

WILLIAMS Funeral services for the late Gregory Aaron Williams, Sr. - 72 were held June 8 at Mt. Hermon African Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev. Don Gaskin officiating.

Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Central.

The Westside Gazette Wishes All FATHERS A HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

Rest in Peace Daddy Pastor James E. Laramore We Miss You. Happy Father’s Day

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First-Ever Black South Miami Alphas Honor Dade County Schools’ Unsung Heros Student Body President Elected at Yale University

KAHLIL GREEN

By Monique Judge Yale University was founded in 1701 and is the third-oldest institute of higher learning in the United States.

It is one of the nine Colonial Colleges, founded prior to the United States becoming a sovereign nation following the American Revolution. In its 318-year history, the college has never had a Black student body president—until now.

Kahlil Green is a junior and a native of Montgomery County, Md. He made history earlier this month when his classmates elected him head of the Yale College Council, the student body organization founded in 1972 to address undergraduate concerns and campus issues at the un-

iversity.

The economics and political science major told Fox 5 that he is considering a career in politics. This should put him off to a great start.

“I feel like I wanted to kind of amplify the voices of the underserved communities on campus, especially students of color. So being the first Black president, I feel like I’m in a position where I can really do that,” Green said.

When asked if he feels pressure being the first Black president, Green told Fox 5, “In a way, but I feel like it more so symbolizes the progress the university has made over the years for the journey that we

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Department of Health Joins Hurricane Exercise from Page 3 with multiple injuries, a plane crash or bad accident on I-95 with numerous fatalities, we would respond.”

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Support Function #8 (Public Health and Medical Services) coordinates health and medical services in response to a disaster, emergency, or incident that may lead to a public health, medical, behavioral, or human service emergency.

Exercises like the Hurricane Smith scenario provide an opportunity for emergency responders to practice what they know and learn to ask when they don’t know the answer so they can be prepared when a real event occurs, Sudden said.

“Our job is to exercise those plans and make sure they work and tweak them so they work better,” Sudden noted. “It’s a training exercise to test how resourceful someone can be. You

basically do whatever you need to do to be responsive to whatever the need is. It’s also about relationships so you get to know the people at other tables. It gives familiarity as to where everybody is located at the EOC.” Tracy Jackson, Director of Broward County’s Emergency Management Division, said the hurricane exercise allowed participants to practice their responses and then evaluate them with no adverse consequences.

“We get the opportunity without the stress of a real incident to practice the skills we need,” Jackson said at the end of the exercise. “It gives us the chance to troubleshoot things that work and things that don’t work as well. It also gives us a chance to get input from our partners.”

Jackson opened the exercise by emphasizing the importance of teamwork.

“We can’t over-emphasize how important it is for us to be unified,”

Brothers of the Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. during their award presentation at Herbert Ammons Middle School. First row: Bro. Chris Stevenson, Mrs. Soraya Davis, Mrs. Pamela Tiensley-Hall (2019 GSEA Support Staff Winner), Maria Costa (Principal), and Bro. Leslie Elus. Second row: Brothers Takevess Hatcher, Edward Woodbury, Brian Davis, and Bryan Jones.

Bro. Chris Stevenson, Derek Negron, Ms. Rhonda Y. Williams (2019 GSEA School Leadership Winner), Brothers Bryan Jones and Takevess Hatcher during the award presentation held at Barbara Hawkins Elementary School.

The Iota Pi Lambda Education Foundation, Inc. (IPLEF) congratulates its 2019 Golden Standard in Education Award (GSEA) Recipients: Ms. Rhonda Y. Williams (Barbara Hawkins Elementary School) - Administrator, Ms. Julie Francis (Miami Shores Elementary School) - Fourth Grade Teacher, and Mrs. Pamela Tiensley-Hall (Herbert Ammons Middle School) - Head Custodian. Impart to our community partners - Casa Faroy, Target, Massage Envy, Office Depot, and Apple - this year’s GSEA nominees received select gift card prize packages in addition to an award. GSEA winners were selected from a pool of nominations submitted by their peers and/or community members. One winner is selected (for their commitment and selfless service to the students of Miami Dade County Public Schools) from each of the following categories: Brothers Chris Stevenson and Bro. Takevess Hatcher, Julie District, School Leadership, Instructional Staff, and Support Francis (2019 GSEA Instruction), Brenda Swain (Principal), Brothers Edward Woodbury, and Bryan Jones during the award Staff. The IPLEF is the charitable and philanthropic arm presentation at Miami Shores Elementary School. of the local fraternity, the Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. For nearly 50 years, the Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has served the southern Miami-Dade community through its execution of myriad social, civic, and philanthropic initiatives. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is the first collegiate fraternity established for men of African descent. Among its most notable members include Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thurgood Marshall, Jesse Owen, Duke Ellington, W.E.B DuBois, Frederick Douglass, and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

Jackson said. “More than 1.9 million people outside this room are depending on the decisions you are going to make.”

Jackson told participants they would have to make decisions even though they might not have enough information and warned there would be no guarantee of success. He urged them to soldier on.

“Our confidence is high in you and in us,” Jackson said.

Participants from across the county sat in chairs at long tables equipped with phones and computers.

Drill monitors walked the room, wearing vests that bore names like “evaluator” (they record how projects were accomplished) and “controller” (they provided “injects” or scenarios for the exercise and made sure it maintained its pace).

Participants were instructed to do their best to resolve whatever problems they were given. They made phone-calls, consulted with representatives from other cities and agencies and figured out solutions for complicated problems.

DOH employee James Turchetta, Cities Readiness Coordinator, served as a controller during the exercise and kept his team busy with an array of jarring incidents. His team members were resourceful and determined.

They found answers.

“I think overall it went great,” Turchetta said. Jackson’s assessment was similar.

“We are happy with the information

we gained, the observations we made and the opportunity to improve,” Jackson said.

For more information about how you can be better prepared for emergencies, visit: http://broward. floridahealth.gov/programs-andservices/emergency-preparednessand-response/personal-and-familypreparedness/index.html

Broward League of Cities 62nd Annual Gala

2019-20 OFFICERS & DIRECTORS More than 500 guests attended the Broward League of Cities 62nd Annual Gala on May 18, 2019 at Margaritaville Beach Resort in Hollywood, Fla. During the gala, the Broward League of Cities, representing Broward County’s 31 cities and more than 120 associate members, installed Mayor Daniel J. Stermer of Weston as its new president, as well as the 2019-2020 executive committee and board of directors.

As the new president of the League, Mayor Stermer shared his vision of Unite ONE Broward: a mission to unite Broward County around shared goals. “The

League’s Unite ONE Broward initiative will focus on addressing issues and adopting initiatives that matter most to all residents of Broward County, regardless of municipal boundaries,” said President Stermer.

In addition, County Commissioner of Broward County’s District Six Beam Furr was awarded the 2019 Samuel S. Goren President’s Award. The Samuel S. Goren President’s Award is the highest ranked leadership award given by the League in recognition of extraordinary commitment and contribution from an individual to the organization and its membership.

The Able Trust Announces South Florida Regional Winner of its Jeannie Amendola Speech & Research Competition Finalists Will Move on to Present at State Finals on June 21, 2019, in Orlando

By Kelsey Swithers MIAMI, FLA. – Marnel Jean, of the MiamiDade North High School High Tech Program, today won The Able Trust’s South Florida Regional of its Jeannie Amendola Speech & Research Competition.

Marnel will move on to compete with the other regional winners in the state finals on June 21, 2019, in Orlando, Fla., and will be judged by The Able Trust Board of Directors.

Six students with disabilities from South Florida High School High Tech Programs, which The Able Trust has managed for more than two decades, L to R: Dr. Susanne Homant, President & CEO, The Able competed at the regional competition. The Jeannie Trust; Marnel Jean, Miami Dade North High School Amendola Speech & Research Competition was High Tech; and Florida Representative Michael Grieco, designed to help give students with disabilities the House District 113. speaking and research skills that will help in their career paths and future professional growth.

“These students worked very hard on their presentations and we are so proud of their accomplishments,” said Dr. Susanne Homant, president and CEO of The Able Trust. “The competition is designed to address the development of critical communications skills among high school students with disabilities, to develop speaking skills, and to understand the need to research their presentations to support their opinions with facts.”

“We congratulate our finalists and look forward to seeing them present in Orlando at the state finals in June,” concluded Dr. Homant.

As part of the regional contests, competitors had to compare and contrast post-secondary education options using research, evidence, and references to back up their analysis and conclusions. Competitors were evaluated based on an eight-point scoring rubric that focuses on three main tenants – oral communication, research and non-verbal communication.

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Deeply Rooted Florida Memorial University Set to launch Inaugural Football Season in 2020

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activities because now they something big to look forward to. We are going to have a lot of support, definitely more than what most people think we will have” Jones also elaborated on the importance of recruiting and how they plan on getting the best talent for their program.

“We are going to get into every high school in the state of Florida and that is our priority. We don’t need to go to any other state to recruit because as we all know we have the best talent in the world right here.”

Chairman Elect and Florida Memorial University Alumni William McCormick shared his thoughts on the funding aspect of this new team and the major possibilities at stake for all of those who are involved in the process of making the program flourish.

“What’s attractive about this opportunity is for over 50 years FMU has been embedded in the south Florida’s football Mecca and with

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rebirthing football and all its external affiliations is a winwin proposition for all stakeholders. Most of our current revenue is attributed to student enrollment, so it’s a numbers and execution game for us to manage, enhance and sustain enrollment. In the coming years, the goal will be to have a total student enrollment of 3500.

So far, we are experiencing a great deal of all around excitement and that’s encouraging. Our focus of ensuring educational excellence will only be enhanced by sure opportunity because with more net revenue we will be positioned to offer and explore more for our students.”

With FMU’s amazing history and community support, the ensuing football program is due for success and will not only fire up the campus but also will give many children across the state an opportunity to better themselves.

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By Vincent Jones Jr. FAMU Intern It has been 61 years since the Florida Memorial Lions have stepped on a football field to compete against other schools across the nation. The Lions’ last game was played in 1958 where they capped off a 14-8 win over Albany State.

At the initial inception of the program, the University was then called Florida Normal and Industrial Institute and competed in the now defunct

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South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association where they accumulated 45 wins and 21 losses between 1945 and 1958. Given that the city of Miami Gardens hosts the Lions, they are surrounded by some of the best talent that the nation has to offer and without question a staple in the history of collegiate sports.

This past Tuesday, The FMU Lions announced the rebirth of their football program as they are set to compete in the Sun Conference as members of the National Association of Intercollegiate athletics in 2020.

Athletic Director Ernest T. Jones was very eager to inform the public about not only the potential of the program but the impact it will have on the school as well as the community and city of Miami Gardens.

“It will most definitely bring a lot of fun and excitement. The students have been talking about the possible arrival of a football team since I took the job here and I believe it will energize this campus and it will make these students want to get up and do their day to day

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A few years back, I made it a point to make time for the people I love, cherish and value. I noticed that I, like the rest of America, was overly consumed with the hustle and bustle of life. I was making time for work, work projects, work lunches, work meetings but very little time for family and friends. Luckily, my friend and mentor, Suzzette Turnbull, felt the same way and our quarterly lunches were born.

In bragging about my mentor, I am always eager to tell people that Suzzette Turnbull is the owner of Uncommon Marketing, an established social media marketing & training firm that brings 20 plus years of business and industry authority. Most recently Turnbull was recognized with the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and named one of the 100 Most Successful Women in Business. She is a transformational leader and highly sought-after voice of social media marketing and business acumen.

All leaders, regardless of age, industry, race, et al, should have a mentor. On inc.com in an article entitled 10 reasons Why a Mentor is a Must, we learn that mentors give knowledge, serve as idea sound boards and provide insight on improvements that we may not readily see. Suzzette has been mentoring me on how to improve my brand and its visibility for years. Her expertise of my industry is indispensable as she has prepared me Suzzette Turnbull (right) and I at Facebook’s workshop for opportunities as well as connected at the African American Library and Cultural Center in me with resources that have been 2018.

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instrumental in the growth of my business.

In most cases, mentorship is free, but it should be treated as invaluable. I encourage mentees to be proactive in scheduling time with their mentors, mapping out bullet points for meet ups and following through with the advice given. Personally, I block off time to meet with my mentor quarterly for lunch. In confidentially, we discuss the past, present and future. In Inc. com’s article, it is stated that “In the world of business, it can be hard to know who to trust - and that you can trust someone, especially with proprietary information or intellectual property.” Typically, mentors are objective third-parties with no stake in [your ideas or ventures].”

In that regard, you are free to discuss ideas, determine which ones have potential, and which ones should be left alone.

Additionally, I suggest that you do volunteer to work for your mentor. If we all believe that nothing in life is free, when possible, we should be available for our mentors just as they are available for us.

When it comes to a mentor, I am always open to being supportive, giving discounts and attending events when needed. Mentors need to know that you are grateful and willing to show it with your time, just as they have been doing for you.

In my most recent meeting with Suzzette Turnbull, we had a chance to discuss her business plans, current and future. Her social media youth focused summer camp, CyberED, starts June 17 and ends July 26, and I am so excited. CyberED will teach youth ages 10-14 how to use social media safely, deal with cyberbullying and protect

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The Black Church: Political and Social Links

As a nation conceptualized and founded “under God,” but that also served as a haven for those persecuted for their beliefs in other societies, religion and sacred spaces have always been inextricably linked to the political and social history of the United States. In the African American community, this sentiment can be seen to run even deeper, with the “Black church” serving not only as a foundation and backbone for the community, but also as one of the only safe spaces for African Americans to gather and confront the issues of the day.

The first Black Christian congregations began to appear during the 18th century, when for the first time, northern Baptist and Methodist itinerant preachers began to convert and minister to slaves and free Blacks throughout the southern Tidewater and Low Country regions with a message of anti-slavery and spiritual equality.

They advocated for slaves to be educated in order to study and read the Bible, and even trained these early converts for active roles in the church, like George Leile who was born a slave but ordained as a missionary in 1775 and preached in the Savannah, Georgia area before taking his mission to Jamaica ten years later. There is still debate as to which of the earliest recorded Black congregations was “first,” because as religion professor Reverend Henry Mitchell explains, it is, “said that the first Black Baptist church was in South Carolina, Silver Bluff. Well, it’s true that one of the earlier churches was there, but there were churches in Virginia that were just as old…Even though it was under the leadership and sponsorship of whites, Black folks did all

kinds--they didn’t, they didn’t allow them to preach, but when they allowed them to pray, they preached anyhow.” Despite the debate, it is clear that the earliest black Baptist congregations began to organize under white ministers as early as the 1750s, and became independent and officially recognized in the 1770s with the Silver Bluff Baptist Church (1773), Savannah, Georgia’s First African Baptist Church (1773), and Petersburg, Virginia’s First Baptist Church (1774) – all prior to the Revolutionary War. Though many of the early churches were actually mixed congregations, many whites throughout both the south and north were not open to sharing their religious spaces with Blacks. In fact, the founding of the AME Church arose from a reaction to segregation in the church. Theologian James H. Cone recounts, “So when Richard Allen and his group of about twenty or so came that morning to worship at St. George, that’s where they were members. Somebody was praying as they were going to their place, and they just stopped in respect for the prayer. And the ushers were stunned that they should stop at a section that was not theirs. And so, the ushers came over and said no you cannot stop here you gotta go, and Richard Allen just said wait until the prayer is over and we will go. But he said no you gotta go now, and he began to manhandle them out. And that’s when Richard Allen rose, and the other group--Absalom Jones was a part of that group too--they got up, and they left. Never again to come in that church to worship in that way. And they started their own church which is Bethel A.M.E. Church.”

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FAMU Announces Orlando Medical Marijuana Community Forum from Page 3 • Mark Canty • Undersheriff, Orange County Sheriff’s Office • Rev. Leo Stoney, Pastor, The MaxOut Church

MMERI Director Peter Harris said community feedback is crucial to his team’s efforts.

“It is critical that we hear directly and in-person from Florida’s diverse minority communities so that we clearly understand their needs and concerns around medical marijuana,” Harris said. “We are on an aggressive timeline to make sure that we hear the voices of interested Floridians as we work to inform legislation and develop policies that will surely affect their lives.”

MMERI forum organizer and Public Affairs Liaison Angela Hardiman said the location of the

event is vital in order to reach as many affected groups as possible.

“Orlando is an important market for us because the com-munity consists of so many diverse minority groups. Our two-way communication methodology allows for the greatest exchange of information,” she said. “We’ve heard from past forum attendees that are very appreciative of the opportunity to ask questions and get answers, and we are extending this model throughout the state.”

MMERI has several ad-ditional panels scheduled this sum-mer.

Forums are also being planned in South Florida.

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The making of restorative justice from Page 5 Saturday’s panelists included Pametria Brown (empowerment expert), Shahidah Jones (Black Lives Matter), Archie Moss Jr. (principal, Bruce Elementary) and Cameron Jones (recent high school graduate).

State Sen. Raumesh Akbari (D-29) served as the moderator for the panel.

Earlier this year, Akbari co-sponsored a bill requiring local education organizations to provide adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) training to teachers. During the symposium, the Akbari noted that understanding childhood trauma could aid in preventing some disciplinary infractions and biases.

Organizers of the event said the symposium grew from an immense need to have conversations sur-rounding restorative justice practices in schools. Emerging statistics back up their claims.

According to a 2019 study conducted by a group of Princeton University researchers, African American students are four times more likely to be suspended than white students. The study also suggests that these students usually face more challenging life outcomes as a result of the harsh disciplinary actions.

“When I was in the classroom in 2012, that’s when I saw how much we needed restorative practices in schools,” Green said. “I saw students get suspended for things that we could have just talked about.”

Cameron Jones, the youngest panelist, gave his personal account of biases while a student.

“I noticed that I was treated differently when I wore Jordans than when I wore button-ups and chinos,” said Jones. “There were definitely predetermined stereotypes.”

Dr. Joris Ray, Shelby County Schools superintendent, who received the Pioneer in Justice Award at the symposium, said he and his team have restorative justice plans in the works for the 2019-20 school year.

“How are we going to change the narrative for all children particularly African American males?” he asked the crowd rhetorically, adding that his leadership team will launch an equity office within SCS. “I look forward to pioneering justice for all students.”

According the Restorative Justice Coalition, although suspension rates are down in SCS, 95 percent of the students who receive suspension are African American or Latino.

“We have an opportunity to move Memphis forward through our kids,” Sawyer said. “And it starts with restorative justice.”

With a long-term goal of establishing partnerships with local schools to facilitate mandatory restorative justice training, organizers said the symposium is just a small piece of the puzzle.

“We are making restorative justice public policy gumbo,” Green said during the event.

“And we hope everyone who attended the symposium will leave with something that they can take back to their homes or schools to begin implementing immediately.”

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Caught Between A Rock and A Hard Place

By Perry Busby “Cocaine is a hell of a drug,” legendary R&B artist Rick James once said on an episode of Chappelle’s Show, when asked about a series of events comedian Charlie Murphy hilariously claims he witnessed.

Considering Rick’s wellknown reputation for showing up to concerts stoned and passing out a few times, I’m inclined to take him at his word.

Like Rick James, American voters are explaining their actions, and in some cases inaction, through their addiction. Unlike cocaine or opioids, the drug Americans prefer will never be viewed as an epidemic, despite its corrosive impact on our communities and system of governance.

Americans drug of choice is a psychedelic sedative, a concoction comprised of apathy and complacency.

It enables the user to comprehend the need for change, while simultaneously convincing the user that there is nothing he or she can do, personally, to enact change.

Among social addicts—those users committed solely to praying for change, tweeting and posting on Facebook about change, signing an occasional online petition and voting in most elections—it lulls the user into a sense of self-accomplishment for their active sideline participation.

All addicts face a moment of reckoning; a time when the user must decide between pursuing the next high and

falling deeper into dependency or denying the urge and face the challenges that come with sobriety. America’s moment of reckoning began the day after the 2016 General Election.

After two years of party leaders locked in a partisan stalemate while the current administration dismantles every achievement that doesn’t bear its gold-plated brand, American voters, and African American voters specifically, must now answer the pivotal question: Do I accept a status quo leadership even though things aren’t as well as I’d like? Or, do I disrupt my comfortable life to actively engage in bringing about the changes, including leadership, that I want?

Frederick Douglass, the famous abolitionist and former slave famously said, “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

Douglass’s words hold true to this day. Many of us are sitting idly by as leaders in

one party chip away at rights already established, while leaders in the other party provide a bucket load of ideas for the future but no plan for disrupting the other party’s current efforts.

For Florida voters, one pressing issue which comes to mind that require our immediate attention is Amendment 4. It is a measure to automatically restore the right to vote for people with prior felony convictions, except those convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense, upon completion of their sentences, including prison, parole, and probation.

In November 2018 Florida voters passed Amendment 4 with a near two-thirds majority (64.5%) of the vote.

After its implementation on January 8, 2019, the Secretary of State asked for direction on implementation and definitions because county election supervisors were asking questions.

Initially Senate President Bill Galvano (R-21) said, “By a lot of accounts, there's no action even required for its implementation.” And proponents of the amendment said that the initiative's language is self-executing and did not require implementing legislation.

State Legislators eventually passed a bill on May 3rd, requiring ex-offenders to pay all financial obligations from their sentencing or get these obligations excused by a judge before they can have their voting rights restored. Adding Continue reading online at: www.thewestsidegazette.com

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Amid Go-Go Fight, D.C. Gentrification Threatens Important Black-Owned Bookstore “Sankofa is an institution, holding down representation in gentrifying Washington, D.C.”

Written By Megan Sims The negative effects of gentrification, especially in Black communities, has caused outrage around the country. Washington, D.C., in particular, has made national headlines following showdowns between the city’s new and longtime residents that many saw as a battle to preserve Black culture in the District.

Now, after the forces of gentrification tried to come for the city’s signature go-go music, its sights have been set on one Black-owned bookstore located in a historic African American neighborhood, where its downfall could deal a crushing blow to the city’s Black residents.

Sankofa Video, Books and Cafe was founded in 1998 by filmmakers Haile and Shirikiana Aina Gerima and named after their acclaimed film. According to their website, the store’s symbol, the Sankofa Bird, looks backward constantly checking as she moves into the future. But with the rising property taxes in D.C.’s first ward, the store is barely hanging on.

“Being in D.C. has been a lot of work in terms of our relationship with the city,” Shirikiana said. “Now with gentrification, the relationship has become more hostile so that the taxes we have to pay each year – $30,000 – is completely

outrageous.”

Nestled directly on Georgia Avenue in northwest Washington, Sankofa has helped to shape young minds, some of whom attended Howard University, which is located just across the street. It offers a safe space for African languages to be spoken, African food to be enjoyed and African books to be read. The bookstore also

hosts events where patrons can explore Pan African themes and much more.

The owners have taken their fight to the D.C. City Council in hopes of getting a tax abatement to alleviate them of that financial burden for 10 years. A public hearing about it was scheduled for Monday morning.

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Astonishing theft of $10 million from Black businesswoman

Anne Kihagi – here is her plight NATIONWIDE (BlackNews.com) -- Anne Kihagi, an African American businesswoman and real estate investor, has been the victim of judicial injustice in San Francisco. Judge Angela Bradstreet has perpetrated many injustices against her, chief among them that she was harassing tenants. Kihagi, says though, that the tenants were harassing her, even circulating a group email detailing how they planned to harm her and her businesses.

Judge Bradstreet awarded a sum of $140,000 to two female tenants locked in a domestic dispute that moved out. The judge awarded this sum on the basis the couple broke up because they experienced harassment from Kihagi, even though she never met these tenants. Can you imagine a ruling that a landlord broke up a relationship? Yet the same judge would ignore threats of harm to the landlord from this same couple?

This monetary award is just one of many outrageous rulings by Judge Bradstreet, culminating in over $5 million for the city of San Francisco. Kihagi brought all these rulings to

the Court of Appeals; however, none of them were overturned as the higher court does not evaluate ruling on facts, even when the facts are unsupported.

After losing more than $5 million in these outrageous rulings, Kihagi was then victimized by Umpqua Bank, the lender on three of her properties. Although she never missed a mortgage payment in over a decade, the bank claimed she defaulted on her loans due to not providing financial information. She had never been asked to provide such information, but suddenly last year, the bank wanted it provided in 30 days else they would declare her loans to be in technical default.

Kihagi received a payoff demand in March 2019 and wired nearly $2 million to the bank within three weeks. However, the bank rejected the money without explanation. Upon appearing in court, the bank said Kihagi’s payment was short $29,000. This was not true; however, the bank refused to cooperate with the escrow company and stated they would refuse any additional money wired to

ANNE KIHAGI them.

Judge Charles Haimes was assigned to her case and sadly followed in Judge Bradstreet’s

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McBride Masonic Lodge No. 390 Celebrating their

105th Anniversary

McBride Masonic Lodge No. 390 was organized and chartered to operate as a subrogated Lodge, May 24, 1914, working under the protection of the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge located at 410 Broad Street, Jacksonville, Florida by the late Grand Master C. H. Henry.

Our original chartered officers are not known at this time due to our original charter being destroyed in a fire at Tom Raines Lodge No. 484 Masonic Hall Building in 1978, where meetings were held.

McBride Lodge No. 390 petitioned The Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge for a charter replacement. On April 17,1978, a duplicate charter was granted by the Honorable Rudolph Bradley, 33° Grand Master, who at that time had succeeded the late Grand Master C. H. Henry.

Since our tenure, McBride Lodge No. 390 has had much growth and success in Prince Hall Masonry. On May 25, 1980, McBride Lodge No. 390 Cornerstone Edward Gibbons, 32° Worshipful Master, Abner McDuffie, 32° Senior Warden, and Building Dedication was performed under the Darnell Hawe, 32° Junior Warden, Timothy Doughty, Secretary, Wilfret Anderson, leadership of Past Master John M. Walden. Our current 32° Treasurer, Emmett Kater, 33° Trustee Grand Master is M.: W.: Walter Gulley Jr., 33°.

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committed by a precondition society that is filled with hatred to the point that five innocent Black and Brown teenagers would be framed and sent to prison for a crime they did not commit.

This was not the first time that such a vile display and disdain treatment of people of color have fallen victim to under the disguised of freedom and justice for all.

The movie When They See Us is like tearing open and peeling off the skin of a crushed skull. Each piece of crumbly bone, hair and skin pieces makes you squirm when you think of separating them.

As repulsive as that might sound, what impression do we as fathers give when we don’t live up to our responsibilities of being a father? How do they, our loved ones, see us?

When they see us recommitted, refocused and reunited, we can be benign and stern without seeming to be as if we’re an “angry Black man.”

On this Father’s Day let’s do us. We know what hurt feels like; a lot of the time we’re the subject even without our knowing participation so let’s flip the script and just be us: real and give what the Father gives-LOVE. No matter what image comes to mind when we have to cut away that which prohibits us from reaching our full potential, as a father this is a surgical procedure that has to be done, if we want to be that Fearless, Adoration, Teacher, Honorable, Entrusting, Resourceful men that we were meant to be.

Now, “when they see us” they won’t fear us; prayerfully,they will imitate us.

“Dear God in the name of Jesus. I pray that all fathers and father figures truly understand that we were made in Your image and that You poured your Holy Spirit in us, and we can become come love like You. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

THE WINSTONS - COLOR HIM FATHER LYRICS There’s a man at my house he’s so big and strong He goes to work each day, stays all day long He comes home each night looking tired and beat He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat Never a frown always a smile When he says to me how’s my child I’ve been studying hard all day in school Tryin’ to understand the golden rule Think I’ll color this man father I think I’ll color him love Said I’m gonna color him father I think I’ll color the man love, yes I will…

Songwriters: RICHARD SPENCER © HOLLY BEE MUSIC COMPANY

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