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Simmons, RushCard
Fund Program to
Keep the Peace
between Police and
the Black Community
July 28 - August 3, 2016
Volume X XIX, No. 30
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Film and TV
Star, Derek Luke,
to Address
Tuskegee
Graduates This
Month
Global Network of Black People Working
to Stop HIV Finds Common Ground
7
Founder of
Miss Black U.S.
Pageant Says, “...
Black Women,
Let’s Conquer the
World”
Developer Sells Chicago
Property, Later Discovers
Emmett Till Lived There
By Erick Johnson, The Chicago Crusader\
By Linda Villarosa,
BAI Daily Contributing Writer
(NNPA) I first attended
the International AIDS Conference in 2002. I traveled to
Barcelona at the height of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African-American community
with a delegation of other journalists of color from around
the world, excited to cover the
global gathering and share,
learn and find common ground
with others from Africa and
our diaspora.
But to my surprise most of
the people I met that year had
no idea that HIV/AIDS was
still a concern in the United
States. When I mentioned that
I was working on a piece about
AIDS in the African-American community, another journalist asked, “Do you mean
AIDS in Africa, the issue Bono’s working on?” Most disappointingly several non-Ameri-
can people of African descent
in our group made comments
to the effect, “Lucky for you,
AIDS is not a problem in your
country anymore.” We had
been disappeared, made invisible, excluded from the conversation, erased.
That was far from the
truth. In fact, just as the disease had become “manageable” in the United States
with the advent of anti-retroviral medication, it grabbed
hold of the black community
in America and hasn’t let go.
Beginning at the end of 1996,
just as many of those most affected – primarily White gay
men – were coming back from
the dead thanks to life-saving
treatment, Blacks began to account for a larger proportion
of AIDS cases than Whites
(41 percent) for the first time
since the start of the epidemic.
Then (and now), in pockets of
America – in the South and in
communities of black gay and
bisexual men – African Americans were acquiring HIV at
rates that rivaled and surpassed many of the countries
on the continent. AIDS had
also just become the leading
cause of death among American black women of childbearing age.
Even as the epidemic has changed over the past
14 years and six international AIDS conferences – mainly for the better – each time I
have attended these large-scale
events the nagging question
resurfaces: Why the disconnect between people of African descent who care deeply
about the issue of HIV/AIDS
and have so much to learn and
share? The vast majority of
people living with the virus
around the world are Black, so
why are we creating separate
tables rather than all sitting together?
Marsha Martin, a longtime heroine in the AIDS
struggle, answered that question with action. Along with
her co-chair, Senegalese-born
scientist, she convened the first
meeting of the Global Network of Black People Working in HIV (GNBPWH) with
over a hundred black bodies in
the room. The goal? To move
from silos to solidarity when
it comes to finding tools, technologies and targets best suited to black people in order to
end the epidemic.
South African researcher Dr. Olive Shisana, says
she first realized the extent of
HIV in black communities in
the United States while working as a health statistician in
Washington in the late 1980s.
(NNPA) The Progressive
National Baptist Convention,
Inc. (PNBC) will celebrate its
55th Annual Session in New
Orleans from August 7-14,
2016. Considered the Emerald
Anniversary, PNBC President
Dr. James C. Perkins will lead
the denomination that represents over 2,000 churches
with week-long events. With
the upcoming presidential
election, a focus of the Annual Session will include the importance of the vote. PNBC is
expected to host one or more
of the presidential candidates
during the convention.
The denomination was
founded out of the Civil
Rights Movement and their
fight for human and civil rights remains a key mandate. While in New Orleans,
the group will focus on informational and education campaigns with an aim of assuring that people of color across
the country are registered to
vote. PNBC will work with
various local and national civic and faith-based organizations to help undergird their
message. Dr. Perkins’ views
on voter registration was the
basis of a recent Op-Ed article for BlackAmericaWeb.
com, “The resurgence of racism, the future of the Supreme
Court, the dismantling of the
Voting Rights Act, the future of the Affordable Health
Care Act, police brutality, and
a biased criminal justice system, all make it imperative
that we wake up and sound
the alarm to stir our people to
participate in this year’s election.” Dr. Perkins has called
on PNBC churches to hold
voter registration drives in
their congregations. The denomination is providing the
Freedom Sunday Coalition’s
Faith Leader’s Toolkit for
Civil Engagement as a guide
for hosting voter registration
drives. PNBC is compiling
their churches’ campaign results through posts provided
at voter-registration@pnbc.
org, which will be announced
during the Annual Session.
In addition to the voting
registration agenda, the Annual Session will provide the
expected 5,000 attendees with
ministry workshops, Christian Education classes, a pastoral division, and preaching. The Women in Ministry
track will feature daily sessions created to encourage
and support women ministers
and pastors. The Congress of
Christian Education features
nearly thirty classes with
topics from Bible studies to
church ministries. One of the
most popular components of
the Annual Session is the Pastors Division. This year, clergy will choose from learning
tracks that enable churches to
reach a yearning community.
Sessions include “Building a
Men’s Ministry” by Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood, “Using
Social Media to Grow Your
Church” by Dr. Sir Walter
Mack, Jr., and “Wedding The
Bible and Social Justice” by
Bishop John R. Bryant. A
highlight of the Annual Session is the passionate preaching, and the scheduled pastors. The following celebrated
pastors are featured speakers:
• Bishop J. D. Wiley Taylor
(Missions)
• Dr. Frederick D. Haynes
III (Opening Night)
• Dr. Kevin Cosby (Education Night)
• Dr. Charles E. Booth (Dr.
Gardner C. Taylor Hour)
• Dr. Ralph W. West (Closing Session)
Dr. Perkins will provide
a highly anticipated sermon
address during the President’s
Night event. Adding to the illustrious roster of pastors are
Bishop Walter Scott Thomas, Dr. Robert C. Scott, Dr.
Jacqueline Thompson, Dr.
Michael T. Scott, Dr. James
Victor, and Dr. Howard-John
Wesley who will offer stirring
morning and afternoon messages. On Thursday, August
11, 2016, PNBC will host the
Emerald Gala, which is in recognition of the contributions
of pastors’ spouses.
The Annual Session is
expected to map the goals
and objections for the upcoming year that will lead member churches to live out the
mission of equipping pastors
and churches to be effective
in ministry and lifting their
voices on behalf of the voiceless.
(NNPA) It looks like an ordinary building on the South
Side, but its occupants were not. For 121 years, the twostory structure has stood in Chicago’s predominately black
Woodlawn neighborhood. An unassuming edifice built with
Chicago’s muscular red brick, it’s a piece of black history that
was recently sold before the owner found out that Mamie TillMobley and her son, Emmet Till, once lived there.
Emmett was a 14-year-old boy whose brutal murder drew
global attention and helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
The building was the last Chicago home that Emmett lived
in before his life came to a tragic end on August 28, 1955 – a
time when racial tensions began to boil in the South.
His mother lived in a building that’s located just four
blocks east of the Chicago Crusader office. It’s one of many
structures in Woodlawn that have been purchased and
rehabbed by Elite Invest, LLC – a development and property
management firm in South Shore that’s in the midst of an
ambitious plan to restore residential and office buildings that
have been long neglected on the South Side.
Emmett continued on page 6
HIV Activists Wonder If
Black Gay Lives Matter
Network continued on page 5
Progressive National Baptists
Focus on Voting Rights
About PNBC
PNBC was founded in
1961 to give full voice, sterling leadership, and active
support to the American and
world fight for human freedom. PNBC membership
consists of approximately 1.5
million people in the United
States and 2.5 million people
around the world. Visit www.
pnbc.org. •
Michael Ighodaro, a Nigerian activist that works for the
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, listens to a speaker during the morning plenary session at AIDS 2016 in Durban,
South Africa on July 20, 2016. (Freddie Allen/BAI)
By Olivia Ford (BAI Daily Contributing Writer)
(NNPA) “When we say ‘Black Lives Matter,’” said Michael Ighodaro, “Where are not ‘Black Gay Lives’ in that?”
A young, gay Nigerian refugee living with HIV in New York
City, Ighodaro posed this question during a talk leading up to
the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016). Now a program and policy assistant for AVAC, Ighodaro is far from alone
in using the “hashtag that became a movement” as a lens to
view his own community, and to push boundaries in advocacy.
From Baton Rouge, La., in the United States to Durban,
South Africa, Black Lives Matter has become shorthand for a
networked, intersectional movement for civil rights and racial
justice, and has inspired activists in a wide range of sectors.
As the movement approached its third anniversary in mid-July, still reeling from the murders of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, it also experienced a
surge of international solidarity, inspiring marches for black
lives in at least five countries outside the US, including here
in South Africa.
Lives continued on page 6
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Dallas Tragedy Debunks Every Anti-Gun Control Myth
By Marc Morial, President
and CEO of the National
Urban League
“We can’t tolerate this
anymore. These tragedies must
end. And to end them, we must
change. We will be told that
the causes of such violence are
complex, and that is true. No
single law – no set of laws can
eliminate evil from the world,
or prevent every senseless act
of violence in our society. But
that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely, we can do better
than this.” – President Barack
Obama, Sandy Hook Interfaith
Prayer Vigil, 2012
One of the more unsettling revelations about the tragedy in Dallas is that the men-
tally unbalanced gunman was
rejected, after a background
check, for membership in an
extremist group, but was legally able to purchase a high-capacity assault rifle.
According to media reports, Micah Johnson was labeled “unfit for recruitment”
among a network of extremist
groups, including some designated as “hate groups” by the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
Yet within months of that
rejection, Johnson was able
to meet in a parking lot with
a gun seller he contacted online, and take possession of
a military weapon designed
to slaughter human beings as
quickly and efficiently as possible.
In what kind of a world
do we live when hate groups
that actually encourage violence against law enforcement
officers are more circumspect
than our current firearm safety laws?
The man who sold Johnson the AK-47 said Johnson
appeared normal during their
15-minute meeting – as though
dangerous mental instability is
written across someone’s face.
“It’s my belief he would
have passed a background
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check,” the man said. But it
wouldn’t have mattered, not
in Texas. Federal law requires
only licensed gun dealers to
conduct background checks.
Millions of guns are sold each
year online or at gun shows
through private sellers. Felons,
domestic abusers, the violently mentally ill are able to acquire firearms and the law does
nothing to stop them.
More than 90 percent of
Americans support universal
background checks. Legallyrequired background checks
have blocked more than two
million gun sales to dangerous
people since the system was instituted.
Maybe Micah Joh nson’s background would
have slipped past the system.
Seung-Hui Cho, who killed
32 people and wounded 17 on
the Virginia Tech campus in
2007, was banned from buying guns because a court found
him severely mentally ill. But
he passed a background check,
because his records never
made it into the system. And
if the current system wouldn’t
have deemed Johnson’s bizarre
behavior a red flag for a gun
purchase, it certainly should
have.
The background check
database must be complete,
and the types of incidents that
warrant prohibition must be
thoroughly examined.
Prior to the attack in Dallas, each mass-shooting incident in the United States has
prompted a bizarre chorus calling for even more guns in our
society. “The only thing that
stops a bad guy with a gun
is a good guy with a gun,” as
the saying goes. Setting aside
the impossibility of distinguishing a “good guy” from
a “bad guy,” there were plenty of people with guns at the
scene of the Dallas massacre
and not one of them was able
to stop the sniper. The police
were armed. About 30 of the
marchers at the demonstration
where the attack took place
were armed. Not one of them
managed to stop Micah Johnson with a gun.
Every modern study concludes that more guns equal
more crime. Right-to-carry
laws are associated with significantly higher rates of aggravated assault, robbery, rape
and murder. American children are sixteen times more
likely than children that live in
other high-income countries to
be killed in gun accidents, with
as many as 100 children dying
each year.
Our firearm safety system
is broken – tragically, fatally
broken. Lobbyists for the firearm industry hold our lawmakers in an almost literal death
grip, blocking common sense
reform at every turn. Call
your U.S. Congress members
and demand action on gun violence. •
No Interest in
Restoring the
Voting Rights Act
home state of Louisiana on the
last day for qualifying for the
race.
“The fact is that European-Americans need at least one
man in the United States Senate, one man in the Congress
who will defend their rights
and heritage,” Duke said in a
video published on YouTube
this morning.
Following his announcement, white nationalist Brad
Griffin of Occidental Dissent
celebrated the news and endorsed his candidacy:
Duke! Duke! Duke! Because, why not? He is absolutely right. We need one man in
the Senate who is unapologetically pro-White. We need one
man in the Senate who will tell
the truth about Jewish power and influence. We need one
man in the Senate who has decades of bona fide conservative
nationalist credentials and experience.
Duke has a long history
of political activism in Louisiana, most notably getting elected to the Louisiana House of
Representatives in 1989. Duke
got the attention of the world
when, during the 1991 Louisiana governor's contest, he
forced a runoff with the Democratic candidate, Edwin Edwards.
Earlier this year, Duke
suggested he might run against
Rep. Steve Scalise (LA-R), a
man who gave a speech to
Duke’s European-American
Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) in 2002. After his
EURO conference attendance
was revealed in late 2014, Scalise claimed, improbably as a
local politician and former
neighbor of Duke’s, that he had
no idea what EURO was or its
connection to Duke.
Following the Scalise
scandal, Duke dropped out of
the limelight, doing the occasional interview and attending Holocaust denial conferences until the 2016 election
cycle kicked into gear. Duke
and the rest of the radical right
are staunch supporters of Donald Trump and have used his
campaign to push their messages into the mainstream.
Throughout the campaign,
Duke’s name has been in the
media, most notably in February, when Donald Trump
refused to disavow his support during an interview with
CNN.
“I’m overjoyed to see
Donald Trump and most
Americans embrace most of
the issues I’ve championed for
years,” Duke said in his announcement video.
Duke no doubt senses an
opportunity to use this attention to go even further than the
Trump campaign which has
elevated ethno-nationalist appeals to the forefront of a major American political party.
Political Need-to-Know
Congressman Keith Ellison took the floor at the Democratic National Convention
and called out House Republicans for refusing to allow
a vote to update the Voting
Rights Act. While the Judiciary Chairman stalls the
legislation, Speaker Ryan refuses to use his authority to
make sure millions of vulnerable voters have critical protections at the ballot box.
Texas’s discriminatory Voter ID law was recently
struck down by the courts as
was a similar law in Speaker’s
Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin. Because of Speaker Ryan’s failure to act, 2016 will
be the first presidential election since the passage of the
first Voting Rights’ Act during which communities of color will go to the polls without
critical protections.
“By refusing to bring an
update of the Voting Rights
Act to the floor, Speaker Ryan
is doing this country a great
disservice,” said Jermaine
House of DCCC. “While it’s
abundantly clear that millions
of voters need protections at
the ballot box this November,
Speaker Ryan appears paralyzed at best by the extreme
conservatives in his caucus or unwilling to act at worst.”
Former Ku Klux
Klan Leader Runs
for U.S. Senate
After weeks of rumors,
David Duke, the former leader
of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan, has formally announced
his bid for U.S. Senate in his
Republicans
Calling for GlassSteagall Divide
Republicans added a
plank to their platform calling for the reinstatement of
the Glass-Steagall divide between investment and commercial banking.
For decades, the original
Glass-Steagall Act separated
general banking – like savings deposits and small business loans – from the kind of
high-risk speculative trading
done by investment banks that
crashed the economy. But ever
since banks started chipping
away at the law and eventually repealed it in the 1990's,
we've seen a resurgence of
risky gambles and financial
crashes from banks that hold
Americans' savings.
Divide continued on page 4
Health
&
Wellness
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Twelve-Year Old Shiona “Shi” Curry’s Natural Approach to
Cooking Book Inspires Children to Make Healthy Choices
Atlanta – S.N.A.C. it
up! CEO/Chef, Shiona “Shi”
Curry authors “S.N.A.C. it
up! Cookbook: Shi’s Natural
Approach to Cooking” www.
snacitup.com to inspire children to make healthy food
choices. Shi’s passion for eating healthy ultimately translated into an aspiration for all
children to be healthy, while
enjoying food that tastes
great.
Shi credits her parents’
desire in supplying her siblings and herself with a diet
of natural foods, even though
she was initially hesitant.
However, after adopting positive affirmations into her life,
Shi found it easier to make
healthy food choices. After
making a conscious decision
to eat healthy, Shi also began
exploring her love for cooking, which stemmed from her
fascination as a four-year-old
when she would watch cooking shows, and read every
cookbook she could get her
hands on.
Shi, with the guidance of
her supportive parents, began
transforming natural foods
that are usually considered
unappealing to children, such
as brussel sprouts and broccoli, and made them “SNACalicious.” Shi then decided
to create a platform to educate
children on the benefits of eating healthy and thinking good
thoughts, i.e. “affirmations,”
while remarkably encouraging her peers to take charge
of their lives at a young age.
In the S.N.A.C. it up!
Cookbook, Shi uses all natural ingredients and spices,
and creates delicious gourmet dishes that are easily re-
Strokes Among African Americans Can Be Prevented
A stroke occurs when a
blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain
is either blocked by a clot or
bursts (ruptures). African
Americans are affected by
strokes more than any other
racial group, but there is one
important thing they can do to
prevent strokes.
80 percent of strokes
can be prevented
According to The American Heart Association, 80 percent of strokes are preventable. The most important step
African Americans can take is
to control their blood pressure.
The number one risk factor for
stroke, according to The National Stroke Association, is
high blood pressure, and one
in three of African Americans
have high blood pressure.
A recent study involving
Here's how:
• Eat healthy
• Exercise regularly
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Don't smoke
• Cut back on alcohol and
caffeine
27,000 people diagnosed with
high blood pressure showed
that eliminating high blood
pressure was estimated to reduce stroke risk by nearly 48
percent.
How to reduce high
blood pressure
Stroke is preventable,
and so is high blood pressure.
According to the National Stroke Association,
strokes happen earlier in African Americans, and blacks
are twice as likely as whites
to die from stroke. This is reason enough for African Americans to prevent strokes from
happening by doing all the
right things to prevent high
blood pressure.
Read more at www.
stroke.org/stroke-resources/resource-library/africanamericans-and-stroke •
Shiona “Shi” Curry, author of S.N.A.C. it up!
Cookbook: Shi’s Natural Approach to Cooking
produced, and as such is a
great guide to keep children
engaged in taking control of
their overall health.
Shi also conducts a number of workshops and seminars to engage children with
the message of healthy eating and thinking, while highlighting the correlation with
childhood obesity and diabetes. Program titles include:
“Think Inside the Lunchbox,”
“S.H.A.R.E.W.I.T.H.,” “Sweet
Life on S.N.A.C,” and “Toby’s
War on S.N.A.C.!” All programs, including the S.N.A.C.
it up! School DVD Curriculum, which are designed to
address different aspects of
health.
To lear n more about
S.N.A.C. it up!, visit www.
snacitup.com for further information. •
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Career
&
Education
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Getting Teens’ Passport Ready
Oakland, Calif. –
The Passport Party Project,
a National Geographic Travel
award-winning philanthropic global awareness initiative
for underrepresented American girls 11-15, just announced
its Phase 4 initiative The
#365PassportProject, which
will put passports in the hands
of 265 girls. And, for the first
time, 100 boys with the help
of travel advocates worldwide
will receive passports as well.
Spearheaded by travelpreneur
Tracey Friley, the project’s
goal is to encourage young
underrepresented tweens to
start down the path to global
citizenship early by becoming passport holders and travel
ambassadors who ultimately
pay it forward by encouraging
passport ownership, teen travel and study abroad amongst
their peers.
According to passport
statistics, less than 39 percent of Americans hold a U.S.
passport and study abroad statistics indicate that only 25
percent of underrepresented
youth (8.3 percent Hispanic/Latino American; 7.7 percent Asian/Pacific Islander;
5.6 percent African-American; 3.6 percent Multiracial;
0.5 percent American Indian/
Alaska Native) make up the
study abroad population. In
line with Diversity Abroad
Divide
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This law is needed today more than ever before.
The biggest banks continue
to balloon in size and control
huge portions of our economy. Risky trading continues, with high-frequen-
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.,
NNPA President and CEO
and the Institute of International Education’s #GenerationStudyAbroad initiative,
The Passport Party Project
aims to make a difference
in both passport and study
abroad stats in its own way
by shifting the global mindset of teens in their formative
years so that they are prepared
for international travel and ultimately, the global marketplace.
To date, Passport Party
Project passport scholarship
applicants have hailed from
cities like Atlanta, Miami, Los
Angeles, Chicago, and New
York, and passport gifts have
come in from as far away as
Beijing China and Toronto
Ontario with even more world
travelers being encouraged to
give via Friley’s social media
channels as well as those social media channels of Passport Party Project advocates.
“This is a true grassroots effort for our kids,” says Friley.
“Imagine being 11-15
years old and getting your
very first passport. Imagine
knowing a world traveler who
possibly even looks like you
bearing that gift. Imagine the
global mind shift. Imagine the
possibilities. With or without a
plane ticket or immediate travel plans in sight, being in possession of a global permission
slip changes everything, don’t
you think?”
For more information
about The Passport Party
Project’s Phase 4 #365PassportProject initiative, please
visit www.PassportPartyProject.org. Follow along on Facebook at @PassportParty and
Twitter @TraceyFriley #PassportPartyProject. •
cy computer-driven trading
adding new risks.And nearly five years after Congress
passed Wall Street reform,
the Federal Reserve continues to delay implementing
even a watered-down version
the Volcker Rule, a ban on
using federally insured funds
for risky trades that is considered "Glass-Steagall light."
Under Glass-Steagall,
the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor poration would
insure the money everyday Americans deposited
in banks – ensuring middle
class economic stability and
preventing bank runs – but
any bank that took deposits could not engage in risky
trades and speculative gambles.It worked for decades.
But as Sen. Warren describes,
"That high wall between
high-risk trading and boring
banking was punched full of
holes until, in the late 1990s,
it was knocked down when
Glass-Steagall was eventually repealed. And not long after that, the worst crash since
the 1930s hit the American
economy. •
Low Income Mothers With Addictions Urged
to Use New Free Government Program
The U.S. government's
Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) for Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC) provides
access to food and health resources to low income women
and their children. But now,
the program is also helping
families in another way!
They are now offering
free services and resources to
women who are dealing with
drug and alcohol addictions.
The services aid both pregnant women and mothers who
are struggling to get the help
they need!
Substance abuse, specifically opioid use, has increased 400 percent in the
U.S over the past few years.
It is a health danger to both
pregnant women and their
children. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
reports that babies born with
withdrawal symptoms due to
their mother using drugs has
increased 5 times from 2000
- 2012. Opioid use has resulted in 28,000 deaths in 2014
alone.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a
baby is born suffering from
opioid withdrawal every 25
minutes, leading to an average hospital stay of 16.9 days
versus 2.1 days for a non-NAS
child and to $1.5 billion in additional hospital costs.
Research shows that
many women are still unaware of the program's new
changes, and how it can help
them with their addictions.
So, Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack is urging state
health officers to do their
part in promoting the program. He is also encouraging
the 1,900 local WIC agencies
and 10,000 WIC clinic sites
across the country to help
make women more aware that
help is available.
Intellectual Honesty
About Race and Criminal
Justice Reform
Women who are already
taking advantage of WIC services and are also suffering
from addictions will be first
in line to find the resources,
referrals and education that
will help them. The program
has been helping low-income
women and children since
1974, and their web site provides toll-free numbers to call
for eligibility guidelines and
information on how to apply
for help.
For more details, visit
www.fns.usda.gov/wic/women-infants-and-children-wic
Color of Drug Use:
If you think that African Americans are the biggest users of drugs, think
again! According to a study
by the American Journal of
Public Health, among all users of hard drugs such as cocaine, opiates and PCP, whites
are more likely to abuse "hard
drugs," such as cocaine or opiates, than their black counterparts.
During the study, which
was actually conducted 12
years ago, researchers studied
more than 1,800 delinquent
youth and followed their lives
through their late 20s.
Although blacks, were
not most likely to use drugs,
they were in fact most likely
to be arrested and sent to prison for drug use. That proves
what blacks have been saying
all along -- that they are being
disproportionately incarcerated!
The facts don't lie, according to the study:
• Whites are 30 times
more likely to have cocaine-use disorder than
blacks
• Whites are 50 times more
likely to develop opiateuse disorder than blacks
• Whites are 18 times more
likely have PCP-use disorder than blacks
• Drug us is highest among
non-Hispanic whites, followed by Hispanics then
African-Americans
This research raises big questions on just why blacks are
being targeted as the biggest
drug users. Disproportionate?
Yes! Unfair? You betcha!
Finally, The Truth
About Welfare
Most black people believe that more whites are
on welfare, and most white
people that more blacks are
on welfare. So who's right?
Well, here are the facts according to a newly released
2016 report by the US Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Commerce, CATO
Institute.
• Number of Americans
receiving welfare assistance: 110,489,000
receiving food stamps:
41,700,000
on unemployment insurance: 10,200,000
• Percentage of the US
population on welfare:
35.4 percent
• Total government spending on welfare annually:
$131.9 billion
So how many blacks vs
whites?
Well, believe it or not,
the numbers are actually
about the same. There are
just about as many whites on
welfare as there are blacks.
• Percent of welfare recipients who are white: 38.8
percent
• Percent of welfare recip-
ients who are black: 39.8
percent
(Note: Many people confuse these statistics. This
does not mean that 38.8 percent of all white Americans,
and 39.8 percent of all black
Americans are on welfare.
It means that 39.8 percent of
all the actual welfare recipients are black, and 38.8 percent of all the welfare recipients are white.)
And contrary to popular
belief, a lot less immigrants
are on welfare.
• Percent of welfare recipients who are Hispanic:
15.7 percent
• Percent of welfare recipients who are Asian: 2.4
percent
• Percent of welfare recipients who are Other: 3.3
percent
(Note: Again, this does
not mean that 15.7 percent
of all Hispanic Americans
and 2.4 percent of all Asian
Americans are on welfare. It
is referring to the percentage
of welfare recipients)
Those numbers might
shock you but the numbers
don't lie, and these are federal government statistics!
So what exactly is welfare anyway?
According to StatisticBrains.com: “Welfare is
the organized public or private social services for the
assistance of disadvantaged
groups. Aid could include
general Welfare payments,
health care through Medicaid, food stamps, special
payments for pregnant women and young mothers, and
federal and state housing
benefits. The Welfare system in the United States began in the 1930s, during the
Great Depression.” •
There is an old adage
that posits “The more things
appear to change, the more
they stay the same.” Once
again, millions of Americans
are engulfed in what has become a reluctant national debate and dialogue concerning race and the urgency to
reform the nation’s criminal
justice system. Finding and
identifying transformative
remedies and solutions are
long overdue.
In the wake of the most
recent fatal tragedies in Dallas, Minneapolis, and Baton
Rouge, there are renewed fervent calls for improving relations between police officers
and the communities they are
sworn to protect and serve.
I believe these calls are being made in earnest, seeking
conclusive change.
However, the underlying
systemic reasons why these
and other tragedies continue to happen are somehow
routinely avoided. There is a
pervasive fear to speak and
articulate the truth about race
and the institutionalized devolving impact of racism on
all levels of the criminal justice system.
To put it bluntly, there is
too much intellectual dishonesty concerning the historical and contemporary role of
race in America. In particular we need more intellectual honesty about why and
how real reform of the criminal justice system should be
achieved.
We need remedies that
actually work to enable and
to empower people to improve their quality of life
without the debilitating
and too often death-rendering consequences of a broken criminal justice system.
Mass incarceration, prosecutorial misconduct, judicial inequality, racial profiling, and
police brutality are all interrelated and interconnected in
the counterproductive web of
the system named criminal
justice.
It is a system that lacks
honesty, truth and integrity.
Yet, my purpose here is to
go beyond merely joining the
public chorus that bemoans
the prolonged contradictions
of this failed social system.
I know that there are some
preventative programs and
initiatives that are producing
positive results about which
more people should be made
aware.
Criminal justice reform
requires the coordinated and
combined efforts and support of principled leaders in
the private sector along with
government officials, community organizations, and
family members who are impacted. We should also acknowledge that poverty and
economic insecurity feeds
the pipeline to the jails and
prisons in the United States.
Acquiring a good education and training that provide a means of generating a
sustainable income are also
key factors that are necessary, if reform of our system
of justice is to be productive.
Last year in Baton Rouge,
ironically, I was pleased to
be on a panel about criminal justice reform at the 57th
national convention of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We discussed
the need for re-entry programs for the thousands of
ex-offenders who are returning to our communities
across the nation.
One such program I
want to highlight, Project
JumpStart in Baltimore,
Md., is an effective and ef-
ficient model to reforming
an important aspect of the
criminal justice system: offender re-entry workforce
development. The construction trades are a growing skilled-workers industry
in most urban areas where
there are high-paying job
opportunities.
JumpStart is Baltimore’s premier construction training program. It
is a 14-week skills training program in plumbing,
carpentry and the electrical
trade. Trainees also receive
financial literacy coaching
as well as practical courses
in mathematics as it relates
to the construction industry.
Most importantly more than
70 percent of the JumpStart
trainees actually go on to attain apprenticeships, licenses, and high-wage jobs.
Mark Holden, general counsel and senior vice
president at Koch Industries, was on the SCLC panel with me in Baton Rouge.
We agreed that bipartisan
support of results-oriented
criminal justice reform programs is essential. I was also
pleased recently to review
Mark’s appraisal of Project
JumpStart.
Holden emphasized,
“Project JumpStart allows
ex-offenders to rebuild their
lives, providing opportunity and hope. We all have
a moral obligation to stop
punishing people for their
past actions once they have
paid their debt to society. We
need to build and support
a culture of opportunity so
that the ex-offender leads a
productive and purposeful
life – Project
JumpStart is essential to that
process.”
Maryland, like many of
other states, disproportionately incarcerates African
Americans. What will happened to our brothers and
sisters once they complete
their prison sentences? I
support President Obama’s
“My Brother’s Keeper” initiative as one of a series of
programs targeted to keep
our young people from entering prison. But we also
have to be concerned about
the millions of people who
are now hopelessly languishing in America’s prisons and jails.
When I was unjustly imprisoned in my home
state of North Carolina during most of the 1970’s as a
member of the Wilmington
Ten, I witnessed firsthand
how thousands of young,
gifted and talented prison
inmates were given no rehabilitative chance to re-enter
society with an opportunity
to become productive and
successful in their respective life journeys.
To t h at e nd t he r e
should be more programs
like JumpStart in every city
and state. We need principled national, state and local leadership on all the key
reform issues, in particular
on over-criminalization, reentry training, prosecutorial accountability, community policing, and restorative
equal justice. Today, across
America, we urgently need
more intellectual honesty
about race and criminal justice reform.
Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis,
Jr. is the President and CEO
of the National Newspaper Publishers Association
(NNPA) and can be reached
for national advertisement
sales and partnership proposals at: dr.bchavis@nnpa.
org; and for lectures and
other professional consultations •
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Financial Justice Key Focus at NAACP Convention
By Charlene Crowell
( N NPA) With 2,200
branches across the country
and added presence on 60 military installations, five located
overseas, the NAACP’s grassroots reach is unparalleled.
A nd t h roug hout it s
107 year history, the annual
NAACP conference has addressed issues that affect people of color. From the Niagara Movement, to Jim Crow,
and discriminatory education, employment and more,
the NAACP still stands as this
nation’s largest and oldest racial justice advocacy organization.
In 2016 another issue –
just as pressing as those for
which the NAACP is historically known – echoed
throughout the convention by
several speakers and resolutions: financial justice.
“Vote to stop the payday
lenders and the car title lenders that come in like vultures
and prey on our communities,”
said Ohio Senator Sherrod
Brown, the Ranking Member
of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs, on July 18.
Similar remarks on financial justice were also offered during a legislative session by Houston Congressman
Al Green, a former NAACP
branch president, and Oregon
Senator Jeff Merkley, a marcher in last year’s sponsored by
the NAACP.
On July 19, the conven-
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“I saw so many death
certificates come across my
desk,” said Dr. Shisana, who
returned home in 1991 and
later worked hand in hand
with Nelson Mandela on
the AIDS issue. “That was
an indication that something
wasn’t right.”
Dr. Shisana, co-chair
of AIDS 2016, described
the goal of GNBPWH simply and elegantly. Looking
at the faces in the room, she
said, “This is not about sharing ideas and going back to
the comfort of our own countries, but establishing a bond
like an umbilical chord tied
between mother and child.”
As we talked and listened to each other yesterday morning, one point became crystal clear: People
of African descent, on both
sides of the ocean, have long
been leaders in the 35-year
epidemic, and often without
credit. In the room: A prominent U.S. legislator, former
White House AIDS “czar,” a
former United States Global AIDS coordinator, several
members of the Presidents
Advisory Council on AIDS
tion unanimously approved
a resolution that reaffirmed
the NAACP’s forceful stance
against predatory payday
lending. This year, the resolution specifically called for
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to finalize strong rules to stop the
payday loan debt trap.
Noting how payday loans
are heavily marketed in communities of color, and its hopes
for regulation that would require loans be affordable, the
resolution tied major banking institutions to the predatory, small dollar loan. In part
it reads, “The NAACP recognizes the significant enabling/
collaborative role of the major
banking institutions in providing payday and other predatory lenders favorable financing.”
Other sections of the
resolution stated how highcost, small-dollar loans are
designed to last months, if
not years, forcing borrowers into repeated refinancing
and high default rates. Making these loans affordable, in
the NAACP’s view, should require lenders to take into account borrowers’ incomes and
expenses.
A number of studies have
found that each year payday
and car-title loans strip more
than $7 billion -- largely from
people of color and other lowincome consumers. According
to consumer advocates, these
loans are the most predatory
and further, exploit those with
the fewest financial resources.
Financial justice remained the convention focus
with a keynote address from
Richard Cordray, Director of
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Created as a cornerstone of the
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, CFPB has in five
years enacted financial regulations and returned $3.48
billion in restitution to consumers who were harmed by
unfair financial practices.
“[F]or African-American
communities in this country, credit is often unavailable, may be quite expensive,
or is offered through predatory practices,” noted Cordray.
“For too many consumers of
color, the pursuit of prosperity can be difficult or even ruinous. Active discrimination,
fueled by conscious or unconscious prejudice, has hindered
millions of African-American consumers from getting
ahead, or even keeping up.”
“We are taking on systemic efforts to deny credit to minority
populations,” continued Cordray. “We are taking on credit
that is offered on worse terms
than those extended to others
in similar circumstances. And
we are taking on credit that is
offered on terms that consumers cannot afford to repay and
that leaves them substantially worse off. These problems
are intertwined, and they can
choke off the ability of entire
communities to build and sustain opportunity and prosperity. They perpetuate inequality.”
“These economic injustices deny opportunity, drain
wealth, and desecrate communities,” added Cordray. “We
have committed ourselves to
pursue fairness and equal justice in the financial marketplace, and we will continue
to bring that same commitment to every single community throughout this country.”
Cordray continued: “We
will seek to attain the same
dignity and respect for every
one of us that each one of us
deserves. Because that is what
America must be about – making every consumer count.”
For Diane Standaert, a
convention delegate and executive vice president with the
Center for Responsible Lending, the resolution and speaker
remarks on economic injustice
provided a boost to ongoing
efforts to engage communities
(past and present), a highranking National Institutes
of Health official, and several directors of well-respected
NGOs.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has authored
or co-authored every major
piece of HIV/AIDS legislation, pointed out that, quiet
as it’s kept, black American
legislators spearheaded both
The Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and PEPFAR – which
changed the course of the epidemic worldwide. In 2010,
members of the Congressional Black Caucus were also
instrumental in lifting the
discriminatory U.S. travel
ban that had kept people with
HIV from entering the country for 22 years.
“It was African Americans who led the way, but
don’t get recognized for it,”
says Lee, also naming representatives Eddie Bernice
Johnson, Maxine Waters and
Donna Christensen as her
CBC allies. “We have the
documentation because we
don’t want history to be revised.”
Though numerous challenges remain, sub-Saharan Africa has seen huge
HIV successes, again, large-
ly driven by black leaders.
Deaths have dropped and
growing numbers of PLWHA
have gained access to treatment. Of the 17 million people on ARVs worldwide, 10
million are in Eastern and
Southern Africa. “I must
boast and say my region has
really moved ahead,” says
Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, director of the UNAIDS regional
support team for Eastern and
Southern Africa. We cannot
sit on our laurels, but we have
seen a real saving of lives.”
African Americans have
much to learn from our brothers and sisters on the continent. Solutions are not “one
size fits all,” and we have
seen too often that we don’t
fit comfortably into the prevention and treatment models
left over from an earlier era
of the epidemic. To be blunt,
they don’t work. As in Africa, the African American
AIDS epidemic has hit communities that are least able to
fight back – poor, disenfranchised, riddled with stigma
and discriminatory laws.
In all parts of the Diaspora, it’s critical to understand that HIV/AIDS is more
than just a disease; it’s a human rights and social justice
issue. •
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directly impacted by predatory lending.
“We are grateful that the
NAACP’s foot soldiers are actively joined with its leaders
and others in the fight for an
end to predatory lending,” said
Standaert. “Everyone – whether with families and neighborhoods or on social media –
will generate a drum beat for
justice that includes financial
fairness for all.”
According to Roslyn
Brock, NAACP Chairman, the
organization is ready and able
to carry on. “There is something on the inside that is resilient in the lives of people of
color who somehow, despite
the odds, manage to take one
more step, fight one more battle, and cast one more vote to
affect the outcome. We may
get knocked down, but we
won’t be knocked out!”
Charlene Crowell is a
communications manager
with the Center for Responsible Lending. •
Simmons, RushCard Fund Program
to Keep the Peace between Police
and the Black Community
Russell Simmons speaks at a convention of the
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
Executives in Washington, D.C. (NOBLE)
By Stacy M. Brown
(NNPA) Russell Simmons
is as afraid of a confrontation with police as most other
black men.
However, despite a recent incident in which he
was pulled over by cops in
the Hamptons, the RushCard
co-founder and music mogul
is most concerned about the
relationship between African-Americans and law enforcement.
“I have a healthy fear
[of being pulled over],” said
Simmons who was a keynote speaker at a convention
of the National Organization
of Black Law Enforcement
Executives (NOBLE) in the
nation’s capital on Tuesday,
July 19.
“The other day I was
pulled over in the Hamptons
and I was scared. I was really scared,” he said.
“There was a rabbi behind me and [the officer] told
the rabbi, ‘You go ahead and
keep it moving.’ I told the
rabbi to stay right here. I
didn’t think they were going to abuse me, but I was
scared.”
Simmons remarks came
after recent tragic events involving police officers and
young black men in Baton
Rouge, La., Falcon Heights,
Minn., and Dallas, Texas.
At the NOBLE conference, Simmons and RushCard announced the expansion of their partnership and
support of The Peace Keepers, a nonprofit whose goal
is to maintain peace in communities where gun violence
is high and whose mission is
to bridge the growing wedge
between law enforcement
and the African-American
community.
The Peace Keepers are
also partnering with NOBLE in an effort to strengthen relationships between
the black community and
law enforcement. Simmons
spoke of building stronger
relationships between communities and the police, restoring community faith and
trust in law enforcement.
He also discussed ways
to reduce community deaths
at the hands of law enforcement as well as methods to
help eliminate violence to-
wards police officers.
“My heart is broken for
the families of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and
the law enforcement officers in Dallas who senselessly lost their lives,” Simmons said.
“While I am saddened
and outraged, I realize that
throwing my hands up in
frustration won’t accomplish
anything,” he said.
Muhammad, who also
attended the NOBLE conference, said men in particular and the community in
general must take responsibility to help make their
neighborhood a decent and
safe place to live. That also
means working in partnership with law enforcement.
“However, due to the recent national attention of police misconduct and controversial shootings of young
black males, police and
community relationship is
at an all-time low,” Muhammad said.
Further, Simmons said
he sympathizes with black
officers who have a tough
job.
He said he wants to
build a bridge between them
and the community and between the black officers and
their white counterparts.
“We have 25 cities
where The Peace Keepers
are funded by RushCard,”
Simmons said. “We want to
work with police, not only in
protecting our community,
but building a bridge so the
future can be different from
where we are today.”
Simmons continued,
“It’s obvious the black community has had trouble with
police for many more years
than we’ve had iPhones. I
announce that it is better today than yesterday, which is
surprising to some, but black
law enforcement is sensitive
to it and uniquely aware of
the issues we have had for
hundreds of years.”
The biggest lament expressed by Simmons was the
absence of members of the
Black Lives Matter movement.
“In our community, we
believe we need a revolution.
We need a revolution in how
we engage with police and
vice versa, so revolutionar-
ies create a discussion and
we have to create organizations to guide you and, in
some cases, give you direction.”
The Def Jam Records
founder also spoke of the
importance of having a special prosecutor for police involved incidents.
In New York, after legislation failed, Gov. Andrew
Cuomo issued an executive
order mandating the use of
special prosecutors in such
cases. Simmons said a special prosecutor likely would
have indicted the officers in
the Eric Garner case.
While many argued that
Baltimore State’s Attorney
Marilyn Mosby should have
called in a special prosecutor for her case against the
officers charged in the death
of Freddie Gray, Simmons
agreed that Mosby may have
erred, but still applauded her
efforts even as a judge continues to acquit the officers
involved.
“She was courageous
and went against the grain.
The local district attorney in
Staten Island could have indicted the officers in the Eric
Garner case, but didn’t,”
Simmons said.
“The Baltimore case
wasn’t as easy as the Garner
case and I applaud Mosby
for trying. I know it didn’t
work out and they’ll probably get rid of her now because they probably believe
she betrayed [the police department].”
Simmons appearance at
the conference was a reflection and extension of NOBLE’s national president’s
recent role on a panel that
the RushCard founder convened last month in Los Angeles to address the needs
for reform in the criminal
justice system, said Dwayne
Crawford, the executive director of NOBLE.
Crawford added: “NOBLE looks forward to working with RushCard and
Russell Simmons to build
bridges and strengthen communities throughout the
country.” •
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Film and TV Star, Derek Luke, to Address
Tuskegee University Graduates This Month
T USK EGEE , A la . –
Television and film actor
Derek Luke will share his
knowledge with the summer Class of 2016 with the
Tuskegee University community. Friday, July 29 at 10 a.m.
CST, he will be the keynote
address for the 2016 Summer
Commencement Exercises in
Tuskegee University Chapel.
Luke is best known for
his breakout performance in
the title role in the critically acclaimed film “Antwone
Fisher.” The 2002 autobiographical film was written by
the real-life Antwone Fisher and directed by Denzel
Washington. His other film
credits include: “Supremacy,” ”Baggage Claim,” “Sparkle,” “Captain America: The
First Avenger,” “Madea Goes
to Jail,” “Notorious,” “Miracle at St. Anna,” “Definitely, Maybe,” “Catch a Fire,”
“Glory Road,” and “Friday
Night Lights.”
Most recently, the New
Jersey native has starred in
the remake of the TV miniseries “Roots” as Silla Ba Dibba, Kunta Kinte’s uncle. He
has also had roles in several television shows including “Empire,” “Trauma,”
“The Americans,” and “Hawthorne.” He currently stars in
Emmett
Some of these structures were
occupied by prominent black
Chicagoans in sports and
politics.
This year, the firm has
been busy seeking buyers
for properties that have some
curb appeal in neighborhoods
that were once shunned by
investors.
One of them is the
building that Emmett and
his mother once called home.
Based on public records, since
2001, the building at 6427 St.
Lawrence Avenue has been
sold five times. Decaying
from time and neglect, the
building was once worth just
$23,500; that’s when Elite
Invest purchased it from a
bank in 2015.
Last spring, without
k nowi ng the famous
occupants, Alex Al-Sabah,
principal of Elite Invest,
completed an extensive
renovation, which included
installing a new set of wooden
steps for the porch. After the
makeover, the building’s
value more than tripled to
$185,000.
“There were squatters
there and a big drug raid, so
I think they were running
drugs,” Al-Sabah said in an
email to the Crusader.
Weeks after closing a
deal with a property owner,
Al-Sabah learned that he sold
the building where Emmett
and his mother lived.
“We found out about
it later; pretty cool,” AlSabah said in an email. “If I
would have known sooner, I
wouldn’t have sold it.”
T he new ow ne r of
the building has not been
disclosed. The building was
still boarded up during a
visit by a Crusader reporter
on July 5. Properties such as
this can be a prime target for
“flipping” – a practice where
owners purchase properties
then resell or rent them out.
On the firm’s website,
it states that Al-Sabah’s has
done $200 million in real
Most recently, the New Jersey native has
starred in the remake of the TV miniseries
“Roots” as Silla Ba Dibba, Kunta Kinte’s uncle.
estate deals, closed over
1,000 t ransactions, and
currently has $120 million
under management, and
1,500 units under his firm’s
management. Elite Invest
recently purchased another
building – 7109 S. Yates
– where former 7th Ward
alderman Sandy Jackson,
wife of former congressman
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s, operated
her office. The group also
purchased the childhood
home of former Chicago Bulls
star Derrick Rose.
Buyers interested
in purchasing or renting
properties that are rehabbed
and sold by Elite Invest can
go on the firm’s website,
EliteInvest.com.
According to the website,
four out of nine executives
with Elite Invest are Black.
Property records show
the 2,308 sq. ft. building
where Emmett Till called
home has two bathrooms, one
on each floor. Here, Mobley
gave several interviews after
the death of her son.
Two of Till-Mobley’s
surviving extended relatives:
cousins, Ollie B. Gordon, 68,
and her daughter, Airickca
Gordon-Taylor, 48, spoke to
the Crusader about the living
arrangements at the house.
“We were living in the
house when Emmett was
killed in 1955,” said Gordon.
“I was around seven years
old at the time. Mamie and
Emmett lived on the second
f loor, and Mamie’s uncle,
Mack Carthan, lived on the
first floor.”
Gordon said Till-Mobley
owned the house and moved
into the building in the early
50s after moving from her
native city, Webb, Miss.
At the time, Gordon said
Emmett’s grandmother, Alma
Spearman, lived on the West
Side and helped other relatives
move from Mississippi to
Chicago during the second
half of the Great Migration.
Gordon-Taylor said she
and her mother revisited
Emmett’s house in 2011. At
that time, Gordon-Taylor said
a black woman who was blind
stayed on the first floor while
the second level was being
renovated. After the two told
the woman who they were,
she let them inside to see the
house.
The cousins said TillMobley owned the house for
years. Since many relatives
who lived in the building have
died, they had no information
on the exact dates Till-Mobley
or her extended relatives lived
in the house. Gordon said at
one point, she wanted to turn
the Emmett’s childhood home
into a museum.
In a 2003 PBS
documentary, “The Murder
of Emmett Till,” Mobley is
captured in a photo in front
of the house. A wooden
building that stood to the left
of her home is no longer there.
Today, an empty lot is all that
remains next to the famous
building. To the right, a twostory greystone still remains.
In the documentar y,
Mobley learned about her
son’s brutal death at the house,
which is shown in black and
white several times as Mobley
speaks.
“The words were like
arrows sticking over my
body,” Mobley said in the
documentary. “My eyes were
so full of tears until I couldn’t
see. And when I began to
make the announcement that
Emmett was found and how
he was found, the whole house
began to scream and cry. And
that’s when I realized that this
was a load that I had to carry.”
Gordon and GordonTaylor are part of the Mamie
Ti l l - M o bl e y M e m o r i a l
Foundation, which marked
the 60th anniversar y of
Emmett’s death last year with
a weekend-long memorial in
Chicago.
At the time of her death,
Mobley was writing a book,
“Death of Innocence: The
Story of the Hate Crime that
Changed America.” It was
published in 2004.
The Chicago Crusader
is a member publication of
the National Newspaper
P ublishers Associat ion.
Learn more about becoming
a member at www.nnpa.org. •
Lives
Keletso Makofane, a
Johannesburg-based senior
program associate and researcher at the Global For u m on MSM and H I V
(MSMGF), has obser ved
movements on the continent like Rhodes Must Fall,
which critiques the colonial
influence in South African
education, adopt an intersectional approach to organizing
that he sees as being rooted
in the U.S. And while Black
Lives Matter by no means invented intersectionality, the
Black Lives Matter network
unapologetically affirms and
centers the experiences, and
leadership, of black LGBTQ
individuals and other marginalized groups within the
black community.
"We must have some
way of talking with these
movements seriously," Makofane said, following a panel discussion at MSMGF's
AIDS 2016 pre-conference,
where he asked attendees to
reflect on the relationship of
the global MSM community's HIV response to social
justice movements like Black
Lives Matter. "We must be in
service to these movements
in terms of the information
and analysis they need to
speak about the issues that
we're working on."
He also named barriers to this kind of engagement from the perspective
of HIV agencies working
with black MSM. "The professionalization of this field
has also tricked us into thinking there are technical [rather than structural] solutions
for problems that we work
on," he explained. "We don't
explicitly have radical activism in our frameworks for
change and how we imagine change … I don't know
if the Civil Rights Movement happened because there
were large NGOs implementing antiracist work." •
the DirectTV series, Rogue,
as Marlon Dinard.
Luke is the latest in a
succession of notable figures that have been invited to enlighten the university community, reviving the
tradition of having world-renowned speakers at the institution. Luke follows Tyler
Perry, who addressed graduates this spring. In 2015, U.S.
First Lady Michelle Obama
was the spring commencement speaker and actress and
director Phylicia Rashad was
the speaker for the Summer
Commencement Exercises.
“Tuskegee University is
very pleased that Mr. Luke
will be addressing our summer 2016 graduates. Without
question, he has been a trailblazer on many fronts within
the filmmaking industry, and
what I have come to know
of him as a person clearly
trumps these achievements.
Derek, indeed, represents
the caliber of commencement speaker fit to pour into
the lives of our very best
and brightest here at Tuskegee University, and we welcome him with open arms,"
Dr. Brian L. Johnson, Tuskegee University president.
Follow updates on social media by using #TuskegeeGrad16
Founded in 1881 by
Booker T. Wa sh i ng ton,
Tuskegee University is home
to approximately 3,000 students from the U.S. and 30
foreign countries. The academic programs are organized into seven colleges and
schools: 1.) Andrew F. Brimmer College of Business and
Information Science, 2.) College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences,
3.) College of Arts and Sciences, 4.) College of Engineering, 5.) College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing
and Allied Health, 6.) Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction
Science, and 7.) School of Education.
Tuskegee University is
accredited with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission
on Colleges to award baccalaureate, master's, doctorate,
and professional degrees. The
following programs are accredited by national agencies:
architecture, business, education, engineering, clinical
laboratory sciences, nursing,
occupational therapy, social
work, and veterinary medicine.
To lear n more about
Tuskegee University, go to:
www.tuskegee.edu. •
Shepherd to Shepherd
Network of Clergy
Bishop Antwi Boasiako
The Shepherd To Shepherd Network of Clergy
(SSNC) will from September 23-25, 2016 hold its first
Pastors and Leaders Conference in Springfield, Virginia
at the Residence Inn, Marriott Hotel on 6412 Backlick
Road in USA.
Bishop Dr. Daniel M.
Antwi Boasiako; Founder,
president and general overseer of the Power of Faith
International Ministries and
founder of the SSNC tells
TheAfricanDream.net that
this first ever conference for
clergies and religious administrators is being held
under the theme “The Gathering Of The Shepherds
2016.”
“Our motto at SSNC is
both ‘Unity and love’ and
‘Iron sharpens iron’. It is on
this premise that our network of clergy was formed,
based on the understanding of the fact that the work
that is demanded of clergies
sometimes creates unique
pressures and problems that
only fellow clergies can relate to…” – Bishop Antwi
Boasiako.
Bishop Antwi Boasiako
goes on to tell TheAfricanDream.net that “this organization lets us members of
the clergy and other branches of it find a voice and a
place to go to for solace in
times of hardship, for advice
in times of confusion and for
guidance in times of doubt
and hardships.”
The Bishop also said
SSNC provides an arena
where all clergies can go to
give and receive strength
to build their respective
churches while nurturing
their faith in the Lord.
Bishops, Pastor s,
Church administ rators,
persons and organizations
from Christian religious
networks across the world
from countries like Ghana,
Nigeria, India, the UK, and
from other parts of the world
would be convening in the
USA for this 3 day fellowship and networking event.
The Bishop urged all
to register for and find out
all about the conference by
visiting the Shepherd To
Shepherd Network of Clergy official website at www.
shepherd2shepherd.org •
Spiritual Wisdom, Health
and Life Resources
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The Black Church and the Response to
HIV/AIDS: Where Faith Meets Advocacy
member of the Black AIDS
Institute, to bring black faithbased institutions on board.
One way the duo will do so is
by sharing their own personal faith journeys as people of
faith in the HIV/AIDS arena,
Milan says. “I think the world
does not have enough examples of both clergy and laypeople sharing. It’s when our stories are shared that people feel
not only touched but inspired
about how their own stories
can change.”
The effort gives black
faith-based institutions the op-
Reverend Edwin Sanders
By Tamara Holmes,
BAI Daily Contributing Writer
The United States President’s Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and
UNAIDS have launched a
$4 million two-year initiative
to strengthen the capacity of
faith-based organizations to
respond to HIV/AIDS. The
effort will focus on five areas: collecting, analyzing and
disseminating data; strengthening leadership and advocacy; addressing stigma and
discrimination; improving the
provision of HIV-related services; and increasing demand
for HIV services and ensuring
that people remain in care.
Cultivating Better
Relationships
The faith-based initiative comes in response to 10
recommendations made by
more than 50 faith leaders in
April 2015. The United Nations General Assembly, UNAIDS, PEPFAR and Emory
University in September 2015
released a report titled, "Building on Firm Foundations” that
is based on those recommendations.
Other events have highlighted the faith community’s
desire to step up its involve-
ment in the fight against HIV/
AIDS. An interfaith service
held in June 2016 led to a call
to action to end the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. Following the service was a U.N. High Level
Meeting on Ending AIDS, in
which world leaders adopted a
Political Declaration on HIV
and AIDS. Their intention: to
end the epidemic by 2030.
Religious leaders have
also voiced support to PLWHA
and members of the LGBT
community, who have been
disproportionately affected
by the disease. For example,
in June, Pope Francis said that
Christians should apologize to
the gay community for the way
Christians had treated them in
the past.
In February, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Anglican archbishop of Cape Town,
South Africa, also adopted an
accepting posture about the
LGBT community. In a letter
describing a resolution of the
Anglican Synod of Bishops,
an advisory body to the pope,
Makgoba wrote, “We reaffirm
our assurance to them that they
are loved by God and that all
baptised‚ believing and faithful persons‚ regardless of sexual orientation‚ are full members of the Body of Christ.”
Faith communities across
the world have the responsibility to represent those who are
affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly those whose voices
aren’t being heard, says Manoj
Kurian, M.D., coordinator of
the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance. “As communities of
faith, we are powerful. It is important that we utilize this influence to do the right thing,
and the right thing is to stand
with people who are marginalized.”
belief. Such belief will not
bring me into a saving relationship with Jesus. The faith
that God has placed in me has
not lead me to this belief, it’s
just common sense.
While we may believe in
God it is faith that leads us to
that saving belief that causes
us to place our trust in God.
We all know that trust can
have far reaching and in this
context eternal ramifications.
It is faith that has brought us
to a place where we can believe, rely on and depend
upon the person and character of God. We all believe in
air travel, yet many of us will
not board an airplane. Why
because we have no belief that
the plane is safe. We have a
fear of crashing or a fear of
closed in spaces. Fear will
hinder our belief. However,
by faith we can overcome our
fears which will in turn cause
us to believe beyond our fears
and earthly experiences and
dare I say even cause us to
believe and trust in the safety of air travel thereby releasing us to receive the benefits
of air travel.
When we believe by faith
in Jesus Christ it changes our
view of this world. By faith
we believe that the Holy Spirit leads and guides through
the reality of what is going
on in our world which in turn
causes us to think differently
and dare I say releases us to
receive the benefits of God’s
blessings of Grace and Mercy in spite of the worldview
of things.
Many of our beliefs are
in our heads and come to
no fruition when it comes
to how they affect our lives.
To simply say “I believe in
God” means very little if it
is in our heads and not in
our hearts. People can, and
do, say that they believe in
God, but their lives never
change at all. However, if
they have been led by faith
to truly believe in God, their
lives can’t help but reveal this
truth. True dependence/reliance/trust, in God reveals itself in our acts of faith, our
thoughts and our living. A
saving relationship with the
Author and Finisher of our
faith can result in nothing less
than a radical readjustment of
our entire outlook. We will
love God with all our hearts
and we will love others as we
love ourselves. If we claim
we are Christians, but this is
not the attitude of our hearts,
it would be wise to ask God
to search our hearts, cleanse
us, mold us into the people that
he wants us to be, and strengthen us by faith to believe. (Matthew 19:19, 22:39) (Mark 12:31)
(Luke 10:27) (Romans 13:9)
(Galatians 5:14) (James 2:8) •
“By grace you have been saved
through faith. And this is not
your own doing; it is the gift of
God.” Ephesians 2:8
Many people say they
believe in God and they stop
right there. They believe
that’s all they have to do to
have their sins forgiven and
be granted salvation. Sadly
I must tell you a simple “belief” in God isn’t enough. Is
this belief the same as the
faith spoken of in the Bible?
No doubt faith is an element of belief but they are
not one and the same. We believe in many things that have
no bearing on our lives, like
the price of tea in China. I
know there must be a price
on it, I believe there is a price
on tea in China but my living
is not changed because of this
Psalm 19:1
New Life Version
The Works and the
Word of God
19:1 The heavens are telling of the greatness of God
and the great open spaces
above show the work of His
hands. •
and the world,” Milan says.
Tamara E. Holmes is a
Washington, D.C.-based journalist who writes about health,
wealth and personal growth. •
Founder of Miss Black United States
Pageant Says, “Forget the Hairspray…
Black Women, Let’s Conquer the World”
Ms. Black U.S. Founder
Sonja McCord
Getting the Black
Community Involved
Not only does the initiative aim to get clergy involved,
but it also wants all members
of faith-based institutions to
take part. “When we think of
faith-based institutions, we,
too, often think only of the role
of clergy, but laypeople have
an enormous role to play in
faith institutions,” says Jesse
Milan Jr., current chair emeritus and past board chair of the
Black AIDS Institute and former president of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition.
“When it comes to HIV/AIDS,
we cannot rely exclusively on
clergy to lead; we need laypeople to lead as well.”
Milan is working closely
with the Rev. Edwin C. Sanders II, founder of Metropolitan
Interdenominational Church
in Nashville, Tenn., and board
Faith to Believe
By Pastor Dale Haynes
portunity to lay out their vision for defeating HIV/AIDS,
while also showing that the
spiritual community and
HIV/AIDS activists are working for the same greater good.
“In this world where we
are constantly struggling with
the stigma of HIV and the disparities for the black community, the more that we can embrace HIV/AIDS as a justice
issue rooted in our personal
faith mission, the stronger our
efforts can be to break down
the stigma and to inspire greater justice in our communities
The Living
Word
In a world that seemingly revolves around hairspray a nd rh i nestones,
Fou nder Sonja McCord
transcends the archetypal
pageant into a quintessential
finishing school and enrichment program. Miss Black
United States is not your average pageant. Contestants
will not spend a mere three
to four months searching for
the perfect evening gown,
starving themselves for the
perfect body, and cramming
in some practice personality
questions. To the contrary,
these power women, ages
20-38, will actively participate in an on-going program
that promises to leave contestants with the resources
and network to conquer the
world.
One might be inclined
to resist the idea of an age
range so vast—an 18 year
span of women vying for
the national title. However, the program intends to
bridge the generational gap.
Serving to unite young and
budding rosebuds with the
confidently polished, fully
bloomed. The assumption
might be that youthful women in their twenties may
have an advantage over older women in their thirties.
Do not be fooled. Wiser,
confident, and established
women in their thirties can
definitely give young women a run for their money. It
has been said that thirty is
the new twenty. These women are fit, motivated and as
confident as the innocently
hopeful, ambitious twentysomethings.
Regardless, the younger women need not be discouraged. This system is
designed such that each
woman independently competes against herself. Each
woma n —lea r n i ng f rom
each other, networking, and
creating a unified sisterhood
that could run the world.
With a grand prize seed
fund of $25,000 along with a
host of other prizes, the national queen will conclude
her reign with the launch of
an independent, entrepreneurial project. The newly
crowned 2018 Miss Black
United States will be crisscrossing the country advocating on behalf of several
organizations that promote
HIV/AIDS, heart disease,
and diabetes prevention.
She will empower children
and teens with self-esteem
and body confidence. Moreover, she will champion other causes impacting the African American community.
For the beauty and fashion
lovers out there, Miss Black
United States will receive a
new wardrobe, image consulting, hair services, photo-shoots, filming sessions,
and numerous other branding opportunities.
Local contestants vying
for the state and national title stand to gain the ultimate
enrichment experience. Not
only does the program provide contestants with preparation and training to be
an elite pageant competitor.
It provides networking opportunities to last a lifetime.
Contestants will be offered
opportunities to attend special events, volunteer with
local charities, and participate in workshops hosted
by some of the worlds most
established leaders. “We are
aligning the program with
some major players. It’s not
a traditional pageant, but
one day the complete vision
for the program will be revealed. At that time, people will respond, ‘Ahhhh,
I get it now.’ This is much
bigger than a pageant. It’s
a movement,” says founder,
Ms. McCord.
The Miss Black United States program seeks to
reestablish a strong, unif ied Af r ican A mer ican
community. A community
that centers around crossgenerational respect, leadership, solidarity, collective economics, elegance,
health, and cultural pride.
There is a bigger vision for
the program. Consequently, its success relies on it’s
participants—those ambitious, self-nominated heroines who will serve as the
catalyst for restoring Black
America as a unified, empowered, and respected
community.
M iss Bla ck Un it ed
States is a registered trademark owned by Sonja McCord, is not affiliated with
any other pageant system,
and should not be confused
with Miss Black America or
Miss Black U.S.A. However,
Miss Black United States,
also known as Miss Black
U.S. (lose the “A”), pays
homage to those founders
of Miss Black America and
Miss Black USA for giving Black America its first
opportunity to shine in the
world of pageantry.
For more i n for m ation on Miss Black United
States, please visit www.
missblackunitedstates.com
and follow the pageant on
social media (Instagram,
Twitter, and Facebook) @
missblackus. For partnerships and sponsorship opportunities, please contact
the pageant office at director@missblackunitedstates.
com or 929-399-M BUS
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Raleigh, NC
Electronic or sealed proposals will be
received until 3:00 pm on August 18, 2016
for the Cedar Building Roof Replacement
project at J. Iverson Riddle Developmental
Center in Morganton, NC.
Complete plans and specifications for this
project can be obtained from Architectural
Design Studios, PA, 90 Church Street,
Asheville, NC 28801, (828) 252-0355
during normal business hours.
A pre-bid meeting will be conducted on
August 4, 2016 at 10:30 am.
Signed:
NC Department of Health
& Human Services
Division of Property and Construction
Raleigh, NC
“Lomax Construction, Inc. P. O. Box
35169, Greensboro, NC 27425-5169,
solicits MBE/WBE/DBE subcontractors
for the High Point Courthouse and
Detention Center HVAC Upgrades,
High Point, North Carolina. Lomax
requests quotes be received by 2:00 PM,
Monday, 08/22/16. PLEASE CONTACT:
Maria Harvell @ Lomax Construction
Inc @ 336-992-7000; Ext. 111 for more
information.”
The Sanford Housing Authority (SHA),
North Carolina requests sealed proposals
for qualifications (RFQ#16-001), so
marked for Sanford Housing Authority
Architectural and Engineering Services.
Sealed proposals will be received until 4:00
p.m. EDST; on Wednesday, September
14, 2016 at SHA, 1000 Carthage Street,
Sanford, North Carolina.
Proposed contract documents and
specifications, are available beginning July
24, 2016 at www.sha-nc.org.
SHA reserves the right to reject any or all
proposals or to waive any informalities in
the bidding, or select the proposal which in
its opinion, is in the best interest of SHA.
No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of
60 days subsequent to the opening of bids
without the consent of SHA.
Sanford Housing Authority
Shannon McLean
Chief Executive Officer
35169, Greensboro, NC 27425-5169,
for the UNC-CH Gillings School
of Public Health – Rosenau 133
Renovation Chapel Hill, NC. Lomax
requests quotes be received by 2:00
PM, Wednesday, 08/10/16. PLEASE
CONTACT: Maria Harvell @ Lomax
Construction, Inc. @ 336-992-7000; Ext.
111 for more information.”
M/WBE
SUBCONTRACTORS
WANTED TO BID
Crowder Construction Company is
preparing a bid for the Muddy Creek
Wastewater Treatment Plant Power
Generation Upgrade project. We are
soliciting in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina and surrounding areas for pricing
from subcontractors for the following:
SCOPES of WORK (including, but
not limited to): hauling, selective demo,
pavement patching, seeding, concrete,
rebar, painting, pre-engineered metal
canopy, piping supplies, heat tracing &
pipe insulation, and electrical supplies.
Bid Date: August 8, 2016 Close of
Business
Historically Underutilized Businesses
including Minority and Women Business
Enterprises and all others are encouraged
to participate. Crowder Construction
Company is willing to review any
responsible quote and will negotiate terms,
if appropriate.
If you need assistance with obtaining
bonding, loan capital, lines of credit,
insurance or joint pay agreements, please
contact our office for review of your needs.
Bid Proposals will be received at the
following address:
Crowder Construction Company
1111 Burma Drive
Apex, North Carolina 27539
Telephone: (919) 367-2000;
Fax: (919) 367-2097
Contact: Kathy Shear
We request M/WBE companies include
a copy of their M/WBE documentation
with their quote. Complete plans and
specifications may be viewed at Crowder
Construction Company at the address
listed above. Contact us for a list of other
locations where plans are available.
The HOUSING AUTHORITY OF
THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO
(HACG) is accepting bid proposals for the
removal/installation of fourteen (14)
HVAC units at the Elmwood Housing
Development. Bid proposals must be
received at the HACG Administrative
Office located at 700 N. Jefferson Ave.
in Goldsboro, NC 27533 and are due no
later than 10:00am, Wednesday, August
10, 2016.
Those qualified and interested in
submitting an offer, may obtain project
specifications for Solicitation # 07211601, by contacting Eliana Jones at (919)
735-4226, Ext. 118 or by email at ejones@
hacg.org. A Request for Proposals (RFP)
packet can be emailed or mailed at your
request.
The owner reserves the right to reject any
and all bids and to waive informalities.
Section 3 preferences given.
Anthony Goodson, Jr., CEO
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE
CITY OF GOLDSBORO
A Pre-Bid Meeting is scheduled for
August 3, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Airport
Conference Room. Attendance at the PreBid Meeting is NOT mandatory, however
it is strongly recommended. Site visits
will be available following the meeting.
The project shall consist of furnishing
all labor, materials, and equipment
and performing all work required to
satisfactorily complete the construction
of a new general aviation hangar taxilane
at the Wilmington International Airport.
Items of work include demolition of
pavements and abandoned utilities;
earthwork; construction of new concrete
pavement (FAA P-501) over crushed
aggregate base course (FAA P-209);
installation of reinforced concrete
drainage pipe; installation of pre-cast
concrete drainage structures; installation
and removal of chain link fencing and
gates; utility abandonment; and erosion
control. Work will be outside the airfield
security perimeter, except for placement
of temporary jersey barriers and fence
removal. The project is being funded
primarily by the NCDOT Division of
Aviation.
Bid Forms, Plans, Specifications, and
Contract Documents are on file at
the Wilmington International Airport
Manager’s Office; iSqFt Plan Room
Website; and Talbert & Bright, Inc.,
4810 Shelley Drive, Wilmington, North
Carolina; and may be obtained from
Talbert & Bright, Inc., 4810 Shelley
Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina,
28405, Telephone (910) 763-5350, Fax
(910) 762-6281, between the hours of
8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, upon non-refundable payment
of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
All plans will be sent UPS Ground. For
faster service, please fax a copy of your
request, including a copy of your check
with the Contractor’s name and contact
person, mailing and shipping address,
phone and fax numbers, e-mail address,
and project name for which you are
requesting documents.
Each bid must be accompanied by a Bid
Bond, a deposit of cash or by a certified
check payable to New Hanover County
Airport Authority, and drawn on some
bank or trust company authorized to do
business in the State of North Carolina,
for an amount equal to 5% of the total
base bid, as a guarantee that if the bid is
accepted, the required Contract will be
executed and the required Performance
Bond and Payment Bond furnished
within ten (10) days after receipt of written
notice of formal award of Contract.
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CFR Part 26, Regulations of the Office
of the Secretary of Transportation, to
subcontract a portion of the dollar value
of the prime contract for the project to
Minority Business Enterprises (MBE)
and to Women Business Enterprises
(WBE). Goals will be available in the
bid documents. Only firms certified as an
MBE or WBE by the NCDOT Unified
Certification Program may be applied to
the goal. In the event that the bidder for
this solicitation qualifies as a MBE or
WBE, the contract goal shall be deemed
to have been met. Individuals who are
rebuttably presumed to be socially and
economically disadvantaged include
women, Black Americans, Hispanic
Americans, Native Americans, AsianPacific Americans, and Asian-Indian
Americans. The apparent successful
competitor will be required to submit
with the bid information concerning the
MBE/WBE firms that will participate
in this contract. The information will
include the name and address of each
MBE/WBE, a description of the work to
be performed by each named firm, and the
dollar value of the contract. If the bidder
fails to achieve the contract goal stated
herein, it will be required to provide
documentation demonstrating that it made
good faith efforts in attempting to do so.
A bid that fails to meet these requirements
will be considered non-responsive.
The bidder must supply all the information
required in Section 20, Appendix “B”,
and Appendix “C” of the specifications
within the time limits therein specified.
It is the intent of the New Hanover County
Airport Authority to award the work,
however, the award of this contract is
contingent upon the availability of funds.
New Hanover County Airport Authority
reserves the right to reject any and all bids,
to waive informalities, and to re-advertise
this solicitation at the Authority’s sole
discretion. Nothing herein shall be
construed as a commitment on the part
of the authority to award a contract. The
authority reserves the right to reject all
bids and abandon the solicitation at its
sole discretion.
The Airport Authority reserves the right
to reject any or all proposals.
Thomas Wolfe, Chairman
New Hanover County Airport Authority
ADVERTISEMENT for
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
Galvanized Water
Main Program
CIP Project No. 275-77
Issue Date: July 28, 2016
Submittal Deadline:
August 23, 2016 at 2 PM
O r a n g e Wa t e r & S e w e r A u t h o r i t y
(OWASA) is inviting firms to submit a
written statement of qualifications to
provide engineering services for the
Galvanized Water Main Program.
OWASA intends to select an engineering
consultant based on the qualifications
packages received in response to the
Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO BIDDERS:
Each bidder for this project shall be
registered as a prequalified bidder with
the NCDOT at the time of the bid opening
and shall hold a North Carolina General
Contractor’s License. The proposed
Contract for this project is subject to the
MBE/WBE Bid Conditions contained
in Appendix “C” and to the Federal
Requirements contained in Appendix “D”
of the Contract Documents.
Interested parties should contact the
OWASA project manager at vgangad
haran@owasa.org or 919-537-4248 to
receive the complete RFQ.
Prospective bidders should read the
instructions for preparing bids in Section
20 of the project specifications carefully
before submitting their bids.
No pre-submittal conference or
individual consultant meetings will be
held for the project.
Envelopes containing proposals must
be sealed, addressed to Mr. Whitney
Prease, Facilities Director, Wilmington
International Airport, 1740 Airport
Boulevard, Suite 12, Wilmington, NC
28405, and marked on the envelope as
follows:
“PROPOSAL FOR NORTH
GENERAL AVIATION
HANGAR TAXILANE”
SPECIAL NOTE: The New Hanover
County Airport Authority, in accordance
with the provisions of Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42
U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the
Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders
that it will affirmatively ensure that any
contract entered into pursuant to this
Advertisement, Disadvantaged Business
Enterprises will be afforded full and fair
opportunity to submit bids in response
to this invitation and will not be
discriminated against on the grounds
of race, color, or national origin in
consideration for an award.
The New Hanover County Airport
Authority hereby notifies all bidders
that in regard to any contract entered
into pursuant to this advertisement,
that the bidder shall make good faith
efforts, as defined in Appendix A of 49
The primary objective of the project is
to:
a) Efficiently complete small diameter
water main replacements at roughly
31 sites no later than the end of
OWASA fiscal year 2019 (June 30,
2019)
Responses to the RFQ must be received
by 2:00 p.m. on August 23, 2016.
INVITATION TO BID
MWBE/DBE SUBCONTRACTORS
BAR Construction Co., Inc. is
soliciting quotations for the following:
Gillings School of Public Health,
Rosenau Hall Room 133 Renovation
at UNC-Chapel Hill. Bids are due
at 3:00 pm on 08/11/2016. Interested
subcontractors should contact Bruce
Guarini at 611-A Industrial Ave,
Greensboro, NC 27406,
(336)-274-2477, or
bguarini@barconstruction.com.
INVITATION TO BID
MWBE/DBE SUBCONTRACTORS
BAR Construction Co., Inc. is
soliciting quotations for the following:
Guilford County Courthouse
Parking Deck - Permanent Repair
Phase II-. Bids are due at 2:00
pm on 08/17/2016. Interested
subcontractors should contact Mike
Schultz at 611-A Industrial Ave,
Greensboro, NC 27406,
(336)-274-2477, or
mschultz@barconstruction.com.
administration, student personnel services, educational or guidance counseling,
career development, or related area required.
Deadline to apply: Aug. 19, 2016. Employment date: Sept. 15, 2016.
July 28, 2016 - August 3, 2016
Candidates should have good interpersonal skills, an understanding of the
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Additional information can be obtained at the college
Website www.cravencc.edu or by calling (252) 638-7335. EOEE
Attention: DBEs - WBEs
Barnhill Contracting Company will
be bidding on Beaufort County WBS
2017CPT.02.12.10071.1 – DB00291
on Tuesday, August 9, 2016. This project
includes opportunities on, but is not
limited to hauls, asphalt hauls, milling,
pavement markings, silt fence and
seeding & mulching..
Barnhill Contracting Company will
have a Pre-Bid Meeting on Wednesday,
August 3, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. at our Rocky
Mount, N.C. office. Complete plans and
specifications and contract documents
will be open for inspection by
appointment at our Rocky Mount, NC
office, NCDOT Website @ https://
connect.ncdot.gov/’letting/pages/
letting-list.aspx?let_type=2&let_
status=Advertised or NCDOT Division
2 Office located at 105 Pactolus
Highway, Greenville, NC
If you have any interest in this project,
we would appreciate your quote on the
items that you may be interested in
performing no later than 12:00 Noon
on Tuesday, August 3, 2016. We will
accept quotes on any portion of this
project, large or small. Please contact
Jonathan Proctor in our Rocky Mount
office at (252) 823-1021, FAX (252)
977-7512 at any time (collect calls will be
accepted). We would appreciate hearing
from you at your earliest convenience.
All firms or persons interested in bidding
on any portion of this project or supplying
materials for any portion of this project,
please contact us.
Attn: Mr. Scott G. Fisher
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals will be received by
County of Wake in the Purchasing
D e p a r t m e n t , R o o m 2 9 0 0 , Wa k e
C o u n t y J u s t i c e C e n t e r, 3 0 1 S .
McDowell Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
f o r p r o v i d i n g l a b o r, m a t e r i a l a n d
equipment entering into Single Prime
Construction Work for project known
as East Regional Library Roof
Replacement located at 946 Steeple
Square Ct, Knightdale, NC, 27545.
Sealed Single Prime bids will be received
until 2:00 p.m. on August 25, 2016.
All bids will be publicly opened and read
starting at 2:00 p.m.
The general scope is as follows:
1. Work consists of replacement of all
roof membranes, reuse of existing
insulation, replacement of damaged/
deteriorated roofing insulation,
and installation of new modified
bitumen membrane and associated
roof components on the various roof
levels of the East Regional Library.
A Mandatory Pre-bid Conference will
be held at East Regional Library located
at 946 Steeple Square Ct, Knightdale,
NC, 27545 on Wednesday, August 17,
2016 at 10:00 a.m. All Contractors are
to be present.
Complete contract documents will be
open for inspection in the office of the
Engineer or can be obtained by one of
the following methods:
1. Requesting a PDF electronic set to
Bob Tomlinson at rtomlinson@
reiengineers.com.
2. Sending a refundable plan deposit of
Seventy-Five Dollars ($75) in cash
or certified check. The plan deposit
will be returned to Contractors
submitting bids provided all
documents are returned in good
condition within ten (10) days after
the bid date. The plan deposit will be
returned to Contractors not
submitting bides provided all
documents are returned in good
condition at least five (5) days prior
to the bid date.
Wake County provides minorities and
women equal opportunity to participate
in all aspects of its construction program
consistent with North Carolina Law.
Wake County reserves the right to
reject any or all bids and to waive
informalities and irregularities.
Roof Consultant:
REI Engineers, Inc.
9121 Anson Way, Suite 100
Raleigh, NC, 27615
Signed: County of Wake
By: Mark Forestieri
D i r e c t o r, F a c i l i t i e s D e s i g n &
Construction
35169, Greensboro, NC 27425-5169,
for the Town of Kernersville Public
Services Operation Building,
Kernersville, North Carolina. Lomax
request quotes must be received by
2:00 PM, Tuesday, 08/23/16. PLEASE
CONTACT: Maria Harvell @ Lomax
Construction, Inc. @ 336-992-7000; Ext.
111 for more information.”
ATTENTION
INVITATION TO BID
DBE/WBE/MBE
SUBCONTRACTORS
Jacksonville Mechanical, Inc. is soliciting
bids and encouraging participation by
DBE/MBE/WBE subcontractors and/or
suppliers for the following
Smith-Rowe, LLC, 639 Old US 52
South, Mount Airy, NC 27030 will be
bidding the following project at the
August 10, 2016 bid opening of the
Division 5 North Carolina Department
of Transportation:
Contract #
DE00150
County
Warren
Description
Replacement Bridge #3 Over Fishing
Creek on SR 1001 (Martin Luther King
Blvd)
We are interested in your quotations for
hauling, construction surveying, grading
& drainage, asphalt, shoulder berm
gutter, guardrail, work zone signs,
portable changeable message sign,
thermoplastic pavement marking lines,
temporary silt fence, seeding and
mulching, and vertical concrete barrier
rail. A pre-bid conference will be held
in our office on Wednesday, August 3,
2016 to discuss the proposed project
with any interested DBE/WBE/MBE.
Please call 336-789-8221 if you plan to
attend the pre-bid meeting. You may call
in your quote to our Mount Airy office at
336/789-8221, fax it to 336/789-6807,
or email Tom Barton at tom@smithrowe
.com .
Advertisement for Bids
NCDOT Rail
Maintenance Facility
Winston-Salem,
North Carolina
New Atlantic Contracting, Inc. is
hereby soliciting quotations from MBE/
WBE/DBE firms for the abovereferenced project that involves
construction of 6,800 SF building and
trackwork.
Our goal is to maximize minority/
DBE participation in the project and
we would greatly appreciate your
involvement in these efforts. Please fax
your quotes to our office no later than
11:00 AM on Tuesday, August 2, 2016
or, if you prefer, you can email your
quotation directly to our bid room email
account at bids@new-atlantic.net.
Project bid documents may be viewed
at the New Atlantic Contracting, Inc.
online ShareFile Website at http://www.
new-atlantic.net -> Subcontractor Portal.
For additional information regarding
this project, please contact Jay Morgan at
jmorgan@new-atlantic.net or 336.759.
7440.
NOTICE MBE/WBE/DBE
ENTERPRISES
Young McQueen Grading is currently
soliciting bids from NCDOT certified
DBE certified contractors and suppliers
for the project below. We will be receiving
bids for all materials and for the
following scopes of work, if applicable:
hauling, erosion control, seeding storm
drainage, asphalt, guardrail, signage,
striping, retaining walls, structures,
clearing & grubbing, curb & gutter,
surveying, and all other areas related to
the project.
NCDOT #C203821 in Alleghany
County. Bid Date: 8/16/16. Plans and
specs may be examined at our office,
at the NCDOT office in Raleigh, or
downloaded at NCDOT.gov
ALL DBE Subs and Suppliers are
encouraged to participate. Please notify
us at the email address below if you
intend to bid.
Young & McQueen will consider a
reasonable request for assistance from
contractors for equipment, supplies
and other items necessary to perform
work. We will also break work out into
economically feasible units. Please call
to discuss any requests you may have
prior to bid.
If you have questions regarding this
project please call 828-682-7714, ext
40.
All project item lists, specifications and
plans are available in .pdf format at:
http://ncdot.org/doh/preconstruct/ps/
contracts/letting.html or can be viewed
at our office:
25 Crest View Road
Burnsville NC 28714
A LL Q U O T E S M U S T B E
RECEIVED BY 08/15/16 AT 12:00
PM.
Send quotes to 828- 682-9286 or email
to atipton@youngmcqueen.com
TECHNICAL
technical
Project:
Pender Co. Government Complex HVAC
Renovations, Pender Co., NC
Bid Date:
Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 2:00 P.M.
Scope of Work
Renovation of a municipal facility in
Burgaw, North Carolina.
Your future is waiting to be written.
The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be
examined at:
Jacksonville Mechanical, Inc.
www.jvillemech.com
www.randwconstruction.com
Contact Information
Kyle Becher, Estimator
Office: (910) 455-1830
Fax: (910) 455-9163
Email: Kyle@jvillemech.com
Sealed proposals will be received until 3:00
pm on August 30, 2016, in the Classroom
on the Meadows Chimney Rock Access,
Chimney Rock State Park, 743 Chimney
Rock Park Road, Chimney Rock, NC
28720, for the construction of TRAIL
STRUCTURES & IMPROVEMENTS
– PHASE 6 at which time and place bids
will be opened and read.
An open pre-bid meeting will be held for
all interested bidders at 1:00 pm on August
16, 2016 at the Classroom on the Meadows
Chimney Rock Access, Chimney Rock
State Park, 743 Chimney Rock Park Road,
Chimney Rock, NC 28720.
Complete plans and specifications for
this project can be obtained from ARC
Document Solutions, 800 Clanton St.,
Suite S, Charlotte, NC 28217, (704)3333009 during normal office hours August
1, 2016.
Plan Deposit: $30 + Tax
Signed:
N.C. Dept. of Natural
and Cultural Resources
Division of Parks and Recreation
512 North Salisbury Street
Raleigh, N. C. 27604
919-707-9300
Contact: Owen Daniels
medical
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EMPLOYER
THE CITY OF STATESVILLE
THE CITY OF STATESVILLE IS
CURRENTLY ADVERTISING TO
FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS.
APPLICANTS MUST APPLY ONLINE AT WWW.CI.STATESVILLE.
NC.US
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
GARAGE DIVISION
AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC
SALARY RANGE:
$32,526.83 - $53,670.03
RECREATION & PARKS
DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC GROUNDS &
CEMETERIES
SKILLED LABORER
SALARY RANGE:
$28,098.10 - $46,362.99
PARK MAINTENANCE
SKILLED LABORER
SALARY RANGE:
$28,098.10 - $46,362.99
POSITIONS OPEN UNTIL FILLED
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The Housing Authority of
the City of Wilmington
Tenant Accounts
Receivable Clerk
The Housing Authority of the City of
Wilmington is seeking a Tenant Accounts
Receivable Clerk. A copy of the full
job description can be accessed from
our website at www.wha.net. Starting
Salary: $27,840. Please submit a cover
letter, resume and three references to:
Tenant Accounts Receivable Clerk Search,
Attention: Human Resources Department,
PO Box 899, Wilmington, NC 28402 or
email to jobs@wha.net. Applications will
be accepted until August 12, 2016.
City of Virginia Beach
Deputy City Managers
C i t y o f Vi rg i n i a B e a c h i s s e e k i n g
qualified candidates to fill 2 Deputy
City Manager Positions in Economic
Vitality and Public Safety
The City of Virginia Beach is a full-service
city located in Southeastern Virginia
along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most
populous city in the Commonwealth of
Virginia (pop. est. 439,000) and lays
claim to being the 39th largest city in
the United States and the largest resort
city in the world. The City, named one
of the 50 best cities in the United States
by Bloomberg Businessweek, has a
council-manager form of government.
The Mayor and three City Council
members are elected at-large and seven
Council members are elected by Districts
in which they must reside. The City
Manager is appointed by and serves at
the pleasure of the City Council, is the
Administrative leader of the municipal
government, carries out the policies of
the City Council, and is supported by
four Deputy City Managers. The annual
operating budget is $1.9 billion,
and the city employs a workforce of
approximately 7,100 persons.
The Deputy City Manager - Economic
Vitality position is responsible for several
departments including Agriculture,
Economic Development, Museums
and Historic Preservation, Convention
and Visitor ’s Bureau, Housing and
Neighborhood Preservation, and
Planning.
The Deputy City Manager – Public
Safety position is responsible for
departmental and program oversight
for Police, Fire, Emergency Medical
Services (EMS), Emergency
Communication and Citizen Services
(ECCS), Office of Emergency
Management, homeland security,
community engagement, military
affairs, and regional public safety
partnerships.
For more information and to apply
on-line go to www.vbgovcareers.com
The City of Virginia Beach is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.
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EDUCATION
education
ROBESON COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
ADJUNCT FACULTY POSITIONS
The college is accepting applications
to increase its pool of adjunct faculty to
teach curriculum classes on the main
campus in the following areas:
Diploma Programs
Air Conditioning, Heating, and
Refrigeration Technology
Welding Technology
Associate Degree or a Diploma in the
teaching fields from a regionally accredited
institution with more than three years
of work-related experience and one to
three years of teaching experience is
preferred.
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Bachelor’s
Degree
from
a
regionally
INSTRUCTOR - Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally
accredited
accredited institution
institution or
or advanced
advanced degrees
degrees in
in subject
subject
matter
preferred.
Previous
military
experience
matter preferred. Previous military experience aa plus.
plus.
Minimum
Minimum of
of five
five years’experience
years’experience and
and formal
formal training
training in
in aerostructure
aerostructure manufacturing
manufacturing
and/or
and/or repair
repair techniques
techniques including
including the
the fabrication
fabrication and
and assembly
assembly of
of composite
composite and
and
metallic
based
aerostructure
components
required.
metallic based aerostructure components required.
INSTRUCTOR/CLINICAL
INSTRUCTOR/CLINICAL COORDINATOR
COORDINATOR RPSGT
RPSGT -- Associate
Associate Degree
Degree
required;
Baccalaureate
Degree
preferred,
each
from
a
regionally
required; Baccalaureate Degree preferred, each from a regionally accredited
accredited college
college
or
or university
university in
in the
the teaching
teaching discipline/related
discipline/related field,
field, two
two years
years clinical
clinical experience
experience
in
in the
the professional
professional discipline
discipline required,
required, experience
experience as
as an
an instructor
instructor in
in aa CoA
CoA PSG
PSG
accredited
program
highly
preferred,
must
hold
current
Board
of
Registered
accredited program highly preferred, must hold current Board of Registered
Polysomnographic
Polysomnographic Technologies
Technologies certification
certification of
of Registered
Registered Polysomnographic
Polysomnographic
Technologist
(RPSGT)
and
current
unrestricted
North
Technologist (RPSGT) and current unrestricted North Carolina
Carolina Medical
Medical Board
Board
Polysomnography
License,
previous
teaching
experience
at
a
community
Polysomnography License, previous teaching experience at a community college
college
or
or university,
university, experience
experience using
using instructional
instructional technologies,
technologies, and
and teaching
teaching online
online courses
courses
are
preferred,
licensure
and/or
certification
requirements
specific
to
are preferred, licensure and/or certification requirements specific to the
the teaching
teaching
discipline
discipline and
and external
external governing
governing agencies
agencies are
are on
on file
file with
with Human
Human Resources.
Resources.
June 30th Travel & Vacation Special Edition
and follow
follow instructions
instructions to
to submit
submit all
all
To
To apply,
apply, visit
visit www.lenoircc.edu/jobs
www.lenoircc.edu/jobs and
required
materials.
For
more
information,
call
(252)
527-6223,
ext.
390,
or
required materials. For more information, call (252) 527-6223, ext. 390, or
Lenoir
Community
College
is
an
equal
email
humanresources@lenoircc.edu.
email humanresources@lenoircc.edu. Lenoir Community College is an equal
opportunity
opportunity employer.
employer.
African Americans account for 172.6 million domestic
person trips in the United States per year and growing.
Associate Degree Programs
Industrial Systems Technology
Electrical Systems Technology
Culinary Arts
Bachelors or an Associate Degree in
the teaching fields from a regionally
accredited institution with more than
three years of work-related experience
and one to three years of teaching
experience is preferred.
All applicants must submit a cover letter,
an RCC Application, reference forms,
and official transcripts to: Personnel
Services Specialist, Robeson Community
College, PO Box 1420, Lumberton, NC
28359.
ADJUNCT
ADJUNCT COMPUTER
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING
INSTRUCTOR
INSTRUCTOR -- Associate
Associate degree
degree from
from aa regionally
regionally
accredited
institution
or
higher
in
Computer
accredited institution or higher in Computer Engineering
Engineering
Technology
Technology or
or other
other related
related field
field required.
required. Computer
Computer
skills
in
Microsoft
Office,
an
understanding
of
computers
and
skills in Microsoft Office, an understanding of computers and how
how they
they work,
work, an
an
understanding
of
how
the
electronics
that
drive
computers
and
computer
understanding of how the electronics that drive computers and computer related
related
equipment
equipment work
work required.
required. Understanding
Understanding of
of oscilloscopes,
oscilloscopes, signal
signal generators,
generators, power
power
supplies,
and
VOMs
also
required.
supplies, and VOMs also required.
To
and follow
follow instructions
instructions to
to submit
submit all
all
To apply,
apply, visit
visit www.lenoircc.edu/jobs
www.lenoircc.edu/jobs and
required
materials.
For
more
information,
call
(252)
527-6223,
ext.
required materials. For more information, call (252) 527-6223, ext. 390,
390, or
or
email
Lenoir Community
Community College
College is
is an
an equal
equal
email humanresources@lenoircc.edu.
humanresources@lenoircc.edu. Lenoir
opportunity employer.
employer.
opportunity
RCC is an Equal
Opportunity Employer
Enriching Lives
Lives
Enriching


Creating Futures
Futures
Creating
Currently recruiting
recruiting for
for the
the following
following Full-Time
Full-Time position:
position:
Currently
Fayetteville Technical Community
College is now accepting applications
for the following positions:
Business Administration
Instructor
(10-month contract)
Child Care Teacher
Collision Repair and
Refinishing Technology
Instructor
Funeral Service
Instructor
(10-month contract)
Director,
Director, TRiO-Student
TRiO-Student Support
Support Services:
Services: Master’s
Master’s degree
degree in
in education
education
administration,
student
personnel
services,
educational
or
guidance
administration, student personnel services, educational or guidance counseling,
counseling,
career
career development,
development, or
or related
related area
area required.
required.
Deadline
to
apply:
Aug.
19,
2016.
Deadline to apply: Aug. 19, 2016. Employment
Employment date:
date: Sept.
Sept. 15,
15, 2016.
2016.
Candidates
Candidates should
should have
have good
good interpersonal
interpersonal skills,
skills, an
an understanding
understanding of
of the
the
community
college
mission,
and
excel
in
a
team
environment.
community college mission, and excel in a team environment.
See
See all
all Vacancy
Vacancy Listings
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and Job
Job Descriptions
Descriptions on
on our
our JOBCENTER
JOBCENTER
Additional information
information can
can be
be obtained
obtained at
at the
the college
college
Additional
Website www.cravencc.edu
www.cravencc.edu or
or by
by calling
calling (252)
(252) 638-7335.
638-7335. EOEE
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Website
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