May 1 2014 - The Mississippi Link

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Vol. 20, No. 27
May 1 - 7, 2014
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Know the signs - page 16
American Stroke Month
Tornadoes kill 11 as
storm moves across South
Photo of the Week
MAYOR TONY YARBER
TAKES OATH OF OFFICE
Storm damage in Pearl, Miss., April 28, 2014 PHOTO BY KEVIN ROBINSON
By Adrian Sainz
and Jeff Amy
Associated Press
TUPELO, Miss. - A dangerous storm system that
spawned a chain of deadly
tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses,
forced frightened residents in
more than half a dozen states
to take cover and left tens of
thousands in the dark Tuesday
morning, April 27.
As the storm hopscotched
across a large swatch of the
U.S., the overall death toll was
at least 28, with 11 killed in
the South on Monday and 17
in the central U.S. on Sunday.
On
Tuesday
morning,
many woke to sirens, tornado
warnings, damaged property
and downed trees. Forecasts
showed Georgia as the next
likely target, with 89 counties
under a tornado watch until 11
a.m. Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee were hit with the
brunt of the storm Monday.
In Mississippi, Republican
State Sen. Giles Ward huddled
in a bathroom with his wife,
four other family members and
their dog Monday as a tornado
destroyed his two-story brick
house and flipped his son-in-
law’s SUV upside down onto
the patio in Louisville.
“For about 30 seconds, it
was unbelievable,” Ward said.
“It’s about as awful as anything we’ve gone through.”
The dangerous weather
jangled nerves a day after the
three-year anniversary of a
historic outbreak of more than
60 tornadoes that killed more
than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011.
The storm even sent staff
at a TV news station running
Tornado
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The LA Clippers Donald Sterling
Case: ‘Silence is not golden.’
By Leon Williams
Special to The Mississippi Link
Inside
“Repugnant!” “Stupidity!” “Unacceptable!” These are descriptions
used by current and former NBA
players describing their outrage at
racist remarks recently credited to
LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling.
There’s no quarrel over the unacceptability of Sterling’s purported
comments. However, the social, political and economic tapestry upon
which black America is woven has
been under siege historically and
continues to face mounting assaults
against civil liberties and freedoms,
many of which were considered
settled law.
The Tea Party inspired political
attacks on voting rights of minority
citizens, education and resistance
to increases in the minimum wage
presently fuel relentless bombardments on every aspect of presentday African American existence. In
the same manner, recent decisions
against Affirmative Action by the
U.S. Supreme Court also threaten to
turn the clock back.
Government
subsidy-inspired
deadbeat Cliven Bundy’s conjecture
that black Americans were perhaps
better off as slaves may seem unconnected to Sterling’s comments, but
further scrutiny reveals the thought
Prayer for
Jackson’s Mayor
Yarber
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process is inextricably linked. The adage silence is golden
provides the bedrock
upon which present
day bigotry exists.
Fox News pundits
and other conservative operatives who
supported
Bundy
tooth and nail, but
now can’t distance
themselves from him
fast enough, are not
motivated by the fact
Bundy is a racist, but
instead, are motivated by the fact he Sterling AP PHOTO/MARK J. TERRILL
verbalized it.
The NBA player’s outrage is also eral, nor the players in particular. In
driven by Sterling’s verbalization fact with few exceptions, the league
of his sentiments. Even more dis- and its players have remained silent!
Suggestions of boycotts and imposed
sanctions against the Clippers
COMMENTARY
organization should serve as a model
turbing is their silence in face of the for not only black Americans, but all
aforementioned onslaughts against Americans who value equality and
African American culture in general. fairness as it relates to other instituBasketball is a game, but the tions.
game of life, rife with unfaltering
The lesson to be learned for NBA
displays of inequality, injustice and players in particular is two-fold: in
insensitivity concerning the realities spite of their affluence and status, we
of the day-to-day existence of black are all in the same boat. But most of
Americans has not inspired the same all, silence is not golden!
level of outrage by the NBA in gen-
DeAnna Tisdale
in concert, “An
Enchanted
Evening”
Page 4
With his hand on the old family Bible held by wife Rosalind Yarber, Mayor Yarber takes oath to
serve the city of Jackson. Oath is being administered by Judge Frank Sutton. PHOTO BY JAY
JOHNSON
See photos on page 3
Conquering cancer: Susan G. Komen
and Fannie Lou Hamer - different
backgrounds, a common cause
Hinds County Tax Collector Eddie Fair (C) and employees raise cancer awareness.
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Editor
Hinds County Tax Collector
Eddie Fair stood with his employees at his office Monday, April 28,
2014, as they wore their solidarity
t-shirts to work, exclaiming: “My
God is bigger than the cure.”
One employee went further
noting that when you are in for
the fight of your life - like conquering cancer, then “fight like a
girl!”
The employees of the Hinds
County Tax Collector’s office
and their boss participated in the
2014 Susan G. Komen Race for
the Cure through downtown Jackson, April 12, 2014. They were
the largest government agency in
the annual race, with just over 20
joining in.
Fair said they were motivated
to come out and show solidarity
with employee Tawana Mallard
Mississippians
cherish Easter Egg
Roll at The White
House
who is battling stage 4 breast cancer. Fair also revealed that he is a
cancer survivor and the nephew
of Fannie Lou Hamer who died
from the disease.
“I am proud of my workers
who pitched in and showed their
concern about cancer,” Fair said.
“They bought the t-shirts they are
wearing with their own money,
which in turn was donated to help
purchase medicine for cancer patients.”
Fair said one of his priorities
is to bring attention to the Fannie
Lou Hamer Cancer Foundation.
There are citizens who don’t have
insurance and cannot afford medical care, he said. So the state senate recently allocated $300,000 to
the Foundation. “That’s a start,”
Fair said. “But we need $6 million
to make the Foundation work.”
Thursday, April 24, 2014, the
Fannie Lou Hamer Cancer Foun-
dation (FLHCF) and the Mississippi Network for Cancer Control
and Prevention hosted a developmental fundraising meeting. The
meeting was held at the Ruleville
Community House, 114 Church
St., in Ruleville, Miss.
Freddie White-Johnson is
founder and president of the FLHCF and program director of the
MS Network for Cancer Control
and Prevention at University of
Southern Mississippi. “We invited about 25 key stakeholders,
including Eddie Fair, who is a
native of Sunflower County and
relative of the late Fannie Lou
Hamer.
“Mr. Fair wants to eliminate
cancer mortality in our state.
Through resources, expertise and
Cancer
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Cancer
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referring donors, he
is a big asset. At this
workshop, we provided an overview of the
last meeting and discussed additional steps
required to move us
forward through fundraising initiatives.”
According to WhiteJohnson, participation
in phase II of construction of the headquarters for the Fannie Lou
Hamer Cancer Foundation, which is a statewide
organization), More employees who ran in the Susan G. Komen Run for a Cure race.
will help provide a
necessary critical sense
of the need to erect the
$5.5 million cancer
center, replete with furnishings and named in
honor of Mrs. Fannie
Lou Hamer.
“This project, from
process to completion, will give back to
the community both
in terms of improved
health status and as
an economic catalyst,
in ways that provide
a tangible reminder of
the good things that
overflow from the
work that we do,” said
White-Johnson.
She said the FLHCF also focuses on
children with cancer,
in 2012 assisting an
8-year-old boy battling
cancer.
“We are calling for
one million heroes to
donate $1, which has
been posted on Facebook, Twitter, etc.,”
she added. If anyone
would like to donation,
they can do it by mail:
FLHCF, P. O. Box 755,
Ruleville, MS 38771
or make a Paypal donation through their
website at www.flhcf.
com
Fair and employees show off t-shirt backs supporting cancer survivor Twana
Mallard. PHOTOS BY AYESHA K. MUSTAFAA
May 1 - 7, 2014
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Swearing-in Ceremony of Mayor Tony Yarber at City Hall
Thursday, April 24, 2014, Jackson, Miss.
photos by Jay Johnson
Flora Library patron
Dr. Francie A. Brown
In spite of huge obstacles
and with total commitment, our friend and patron, Francie A. Brown of
Bentonia, Miss., completed
her doctoral studies with
New Foundation Theological Seminary in Terry, Miss.
and will graduate May 3,
2014.
Brown, 60, overcame her
lack of keyboard experience
and her fear of the computer and plunged into her
work, having been inspired
by her friend and pastor, Dr.
Benjamin Wallace of Eden
CME Church, Carrollton,
Miss. She said he told her,
“Something about you tells
me that God has work for
you and you need to get to
it.”
Brown dedicated herself
to the task, stumbling into
the library every day with
terrible, crippling arthri-
Brown
tis pain. Two weeks before
completing her dissertation,
Brown was hit by a car. Undaunted and still enthusiastic, she soldiered on.
This kind of determination is rare and admirable.
We at the Flora Library are
so proud of Francie (now
Doctor of Theology) and
wish her the very best of
everything.
LOCAL
May 1 - 7, 2014
Tisdale coming to Jackson for
“An Enchanted Evening” concert
The Mississippi Link Newswire
DeAnna Esther Marie Tisdale, daughter of the late
publisher of The Advocate
newspaper Charles Tisdale
and its current publisher Alice
Tisdale, is coming to Jackson.
She will be in grand classical
style Thursday, June 19, 2014,
at 7:30 p.m., when she performs at the Belhaven Center
for the Arts, 835 Riverside Dr.
She also sung at the July 1,
2013 inauguration of the late
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba at
the Convention Center. Just
last month in Washington,
D.C., at the Black Press Conference, she stood in for her
family to accept the Legacy
Award honoring her father’s
work posthumously.
DeAnna is currently pursuing a graduate performance
diploma in vocal performance
from the Boston Conservatory, where Kathryn Wright is
her vocal instructor.
Her aspiration is to make
her own path as an opera singer. She has performed the role
of the Forester’s Wife and
covered the role of the Fox in
Janacek’s opera The Cunning
Little Vixen.
She studied the role of Nannetta from Verdi’s Falstaff
with the world-renowned
Martina Arroyo Foundation’s
Prelude to Performance program. She has also covered
Santuzza from Mascagni’s
Cavalleria Rusticana
at the University of
Southern Mississippi.
DeAnna has been in
the chorus of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Puccini’s
La Boheme with the
University of Southern Mississippi and J.
Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with the Mississippi Opera.
She sang with the
Mississippi
Opera
in their 2009-2010
Champagne season
as a soloist in The
Best of Opera Choruses and as a chorus member in Die
Fledermaus. During
the summer of 2009, Tisdale
she traveled to Rome
where she took part in the
Opera Festival di Roma, a
one-month school to train
rising opera singers.
Winning 1st place in a regional NATS competition in
November 2011 was right on
the heels of her accomplishment in July 2011 when she
performed in Los Angeles,
at the 102nd Annual NAACP
Convention during the Spingarn Awards.
DeAnna received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in music/
vocal performance from Tougaloo College and her Master
of Music (M.M.) degree in
vocal performance from the
University of Southern Mississippi, where she graduated
both magna cum laude.
She is also continuing the
legacy of her father Charles
Tisdale and the work that he
started with the Jackson Advocate newspaper in Jackson
as its associate publisher.
Tickets to the June concert
are $25 and can be reserved
at 601-948-4122 or by email
at alicethomastisdale@gmail.
com.
To learn more about DeAnna, visit her website at www.
deannatisdale.com
The Jackson Medical
Mall ‘Neighborhood
Clean Up Day’
Volunteers
The Jackson Medical Mall Foundation (JMMF) held its annual ”Neighborhood Cleanup Day” Saturday, April
12, 2014, 8 a.m. to 12p.m. This event
is one of the Foundation’s many efforts
in making a difference for the East Village/Homestead Heights Community.
Volunteers, sponsors, and partners
joined with the JMMF staff to work
together to make East Village/Homestead Heights shine. Among them were
church members, family members and
friends who were looking for the opportunity to give community service.
Participants were treated with pizza
after the cleanup.
The JMMF also accepted monetary
donations and paper products toward
the successful cleanup day. A dumpster
and cherry pickers were also required.
Monetary donors received receipts as
this is a non-profit
effort.
The
Jackson
Medical Mall Foundation is a non-profit organization and
management arm of
the Jackson Medical
Mall, based in Jackson. JMMF promotes health care
and economic development, benefiting an underserved
population in a designated revitalization district.
The
Jackson
Medical Mall is a
modern
medical
complex that pro-
vides medical care, human services,
and state-of-the-art ambulatory health
care for the urban poor and the economically disadvantaged residents of
Jackson.
It is the only facility of its kind in
the nation that provides to the community a collective of quality healthcare,
human services, and an economic development component. Renamed the
Jackson Medical Mall Thad Cochran
Center, in 2001, the Mall is a hub of
growth and revitalization.
For ways to participate in the next
clean up or to assist the programs
of the JMMF, call Erskine Brown at
601-982-8467 ext. 27 or fax to 601982-8468. JMMF is located at 350
W. Woodrow Wilson Ave., Suite 107,
Jackson, MS 39213. Visit the JMMF
website at www.jacksonmedicalmall.org.
May 1 - 7, 2014
Tornado
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for cover. NBC affiliate WTVA-TV
chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan
in Tupelo, Miss., was reporting live
on the weather around 3 p.m. when
he realized the twister was coming
close enough that maybe he and his
staff should abandon the television
studio.
“This is a tornado ripping through
the city of Tupelo as we speak. And
this could be deadly,” he said in a
video widely tweeted and broadcast
on YouTube.
Moments later he added, “A damaging tornado. On the ground. Right
now.”
The video then shows Laubhan
peeking in from the side to see if he
is still live on the air before yelling
to staff off-camera to get down in
the basement. “Basement, now!”
he yelled, before disappearing off
camera himself.
Later, the station tweeted, “We
are safe here.”
Weather satellites showed tumultuous clouds arcing across much of
the South over the course of the day
Monday.
The system is the latest onslaught
of severe weather a day after a halfmile-wide tornado carved an 80mile path of destruction through the
suburbs of Little Rock, Ark., killing at least 15. Tornadoes or severe
storms also killed one person each
in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.
Six people died in Winston County, Miss., on Monday, including
a woman who perished in the day
care center she owned in Louisville,
county Coroner Scott Gregory told
The Associated Press late Monday.
Louisville is the county seat and
home to about 6,600 people.
It was unclear if any children
were in the day care center at the
time, said William McCully, acting
spokesman for the Winston County
Emergency Management Agency.
Earlier Monday, emergency officials attending a news conference
with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant
said seven people had been killed
statewide. State Director of Health
Protection Jim Craig said officials
were working with coroners to confirm the total. It was unclear if the
deaths in Winston County were included in that tally.
In southern Tennessee, two peo-
ple were killed in a home when
a suspected tornado hit Monday
night, Lincoln County Emergency
Management Director Mike Hall
said. The winds destroyed several
other homes as well as a middle
school in the county that borders
Alabama, Hall said.
Along Mississippi Highway 397
on the eastern edge of Louisville
early Tuesday, firefighters could be
seen picking through the remains of
an unidentified number of pulverized mobile homes. Lt. Brian Arnett
of the Starkville Fire Department
said they were searching for three
people who were unaccounted for.
About 100 yards away, 20 firefighters linked hands and waded
through an area where woodframe
homes had been heavily damaged.
Trees in Louisville had been
snapped in half and stripped of their
branches, while sheet metal had
twisted itself around road signs and
tree trunks. Rescue workers stepped
gingerly over downed power lines.
The tornado in Louisville also
caused water damage and carved
holes in the roof of the Winston
Medical Center, according to an Associated Press reporter at the center. There were about 15 patients in
hospital rooms and eight or nine in
the emergency room, where evacuations were underway.
“We thought we were going
to be OK then a guy came in and
said, ‘It’s here right now,’” said Dr.
Michael Henry, head of the emergency room. “Then boom ... it blew
through.”
One of the deaths in Mississippi
involved a woman who was killed
when her car either hydroplaned
or was blown off a road during the
storm in Verona, south of Tupelo,
said Lee County Coroner Carolyn
Gillentine Green.
In northern Alabama, the coroner’s office confirmed two deaths
Monday in a twister that caused
extensive damage west of the city
of Athens, said Limestone County
Emergency Director Rita White.
White said more victims could be
trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could
not reach some areas because of
downed power lines.
Separately, Limestone Commis-
sioner Bill Latimer said he received
reports of four deaths in the county
from one of his workers. Neither the
governor’s office nor state emergency officials could immediately
confirm those deaths.
Numerous watches and warnings were still active in Alabama,
with forecasters warning the severe
weather could continue all night.
In Tupelo, Miss., a community of
about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi, every building in a twoblock area south of U.S. Highway
78 suffered damage, officials told a
reporter on the scene. Some buildings had their roofs sheared off,
while power lines had been knocked
down completely or bent at 45-degree angles. Road crews were using
heavy machinery to clear off other
streets.
The Northeast Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo had received
30 patients as of Monday night,
four of whom were being admitted
with non-life-threatening injuries,
said center spokeswoman Deborah
Pugh. Pugh said the other 26 patients were treated for minor injuries and released.
Bryant declared a state of emergency Monday in advance of the
storms, which sent emergency officials rushing to put plans in place.
With the wind howling outside
and rain blowing sideways, Monica
Foster rode out a tornado warning
with her two daughters, ages 10
and 12, inside a gas station near
Fayette, Ala. One of the girls cried
as the three huddled with a station
employee in a storage area beside a
walk-in cooler.
Foster, who was returning home
to Lynn on rural roads after a funeral in Tuscaloosa, said she typically
would have kept driving through
the deluge.
“I wouldn’t have pulled in if I
didn’t have the two girls,” she said.
Amy reported from Louisville,
Miss. Associated Press writers
Jack Elliott Jr. and Emily Wagster
Pettus in Jackson, Miss; Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans; Jay
Reeves in Birmingham, Ala.; AP
Photographer Butch Dill in Fayette, Ala.; Phillip Lucas in Atlanta;
Russ Bynum in Savannah, Ga., contributed to this report.
Mississippians
cherish experience at
White House Egg Roll
Tiffany Williams and Jessica Bryant with children Semaj and Semyah at White House
Jackson, Miss. youth Semaj and Semyah
Bryant, accompanied by their mother Tiffany
Williams and aunt Jessica Bryant, were among
30,000 guess on the South Lawn of the White
House for the 136th Easter Egg Roll, April 21,
2014.
The trip to Washington, D.C. for the occasion was made possible by local businessman
Leroy Walker and the McDonald’s Corporation. Walker provided the family with four tickets, drawing their names in a lottery to make
the trip.
The 2014 Egg Roll theme was “Hop Into
Health, Swing Into Shape” and was part of
First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move”
initiative encouraging fitness and healthful eating among children.
There was so much excitement entailed in
“rolling an egg with a spoon and then finding
others on the White House lawn.” Souvenirs
given to the participants were decorated eggs
signed by President Barack and Michelle
Obama.
Williams and Bryant, with the children, attended cooking stations, participated in games
and crafts, took pictures with the Easter Bunny
and stood behind a replica of the president’s
podium.
While in the nation’s capital, the family visited the office of their U.S. Senator, Thad Cochran. Cochran’s office afforded them a tour of
the Capitol.
Storm damage in Sweet Home sub-division in Pearl, Miss. PHOTOS BY KEVIN JOHNSON
HEALTH
May 1 - 7, 2014
Study: Statins may lead
some patients to pig out
By Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO - Ten years of
U.S. data suggest cholesterollowering statins are giving patients a license to pig out.
Calorie and fat intake increased among statin users
during the decade - an indication that many patients might
be abandoning heart-healthy
lifestyles and assuming that
drugs alone will do the trick,
the study authors said.
They said the goals of statin
treatment should be to help
patients achieve benefits unattainable by other methods,
“not to empower them to put
butter on their steak.”
Statins may keep cholesterol low even if people eat less
healthy food and slack off on
exercise, but those bad habits
can contribute to obesity, high
blood pressure, diabetes and
other problems that are bad
for the heart. The study was
published online April 24 in
JAMA Internal Medicine.
Dr. Rita Redberg, the journal’s editor, said the study
“raises concerns of a potential
moral hazard of statin use,” in
addition to already known potential side effects risks including muscle aches and diabetes.
“Statins provide a false reassurance,” she said. “People
seem to believe that statins can
compensate for poor dietary
choices and sedentary life.”
The researchers examined
1990-2010 government health
surveys
involving
nearly
28,000 adults aged 20 and
older. Different people were
surveyed each year, underwent
physical exams and blood
tests, and reported their food
intake. The portion who used
statins steadily increased, from
eight percent in the first year to
17 percent in the final year.
Statin users in the first year
consumed on average 2,000
calories daily; those in the final year consumed 2,192 daily
calories. Average fat intake
also increased, from 72 grams
daily to 82 grams daily. Experts generally recommend no
more than 77 grams daily for
adults consuming 2,000 calories daily. The increase was
seen in total fat intake and
saturated fats, the least healthy
kind.
Average body-mass index
among statin users increased
from 29 - just below the cutoff
for obesity - to 31, or one point
higher than that cutoff.
Diabetes also increased - 29
percent of statin users had it in
2010 versus 22 percent in the
study’s first year. A link between statin use and diabetes
has been documented previously, but reasons for the trend
in the study are uncertain.
Calories and fat intake were
lower among statin users than
nonusers early on, but by the
final years that difference vanished.
Calories, fat intake and diabetes remained stable among
adults not using statins, and
there was a smaller increase
in body-mass index among
nonusers, although the average BMI remained in the overweight category throughout.
The study doesn’t prove that
statin use prompted patients to
slack off, or that there is a true
link between the drugs and
the changes seen. But the researchers said the results raise
troubling questions.
If, for example, the average
statin user is eating 192 more
calories daily than 10 years
ago, that could translate into
many extra pounds each year
- unless activity levels also increased, said Dr. Martin Shapiro, the senior author and an
internist and researcher at the
University of California in Los
Angeles.
The study “certainly doesn’t
mean that everyone responds
this way, but the concern is
that people who are on statins
ought to be particularly careful
about how many calories they
eat and what kinds of foods
they eat,” he said. “They don’t
appear to be doing that.”
Shapiro said the results mirror his own experience taking
statins.
With a family history of
heart disease, Shapiro said
he had carefully controlled
his weight and avoided high
cholesterol foods. But Shapiro said he “began to be less
stringent” about his diet after
his doctor prescribed a statin
to lower his “bad” cholesterol.
Heart disease prevention
guidelines issued last November by the American Heart
FILE - This June 14, 2011, file photo, shows the drug Lipitor at Medco Health
Solutions Inc., in Willingboro, N.J. In a study published online Thursday,
April 24, 2014, in JAMA Internal Medicine, 10 years of U.S. data suggest
cholesterol-lowering statins are giving patients a license to pig out. AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
Association and American
College of Cardiology stress
the need for healthy lifestyles
and include recommendations for regular exercise and
heart-healthy eating. But they
also would broaden statin use about one-third of U.S. adults
would be told to consider taking the drugs under the guidelines.
The study authors said they
worry that expanded statin
use could lead more people to
abandon healthy lifestyles.
But Dr. Neil Stone, a North-
western
University
heart
specialist who chaired the
guidelines committee, said he
disagrees.
Stone said the study “fits
right in with the guidelines’
message” that prevention is
best achieved by following a
heart-healthy lifestyle and appropriate statin use, rather than
striving for an arbitrary cholesterol level.
“My patients have always
been taught that it’s not just
enough to take medicine,”
Stone said.
Report: Health exchanges’
drug coverage confusing
By Carla K. Johnson
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO - The hunt for a
health plan that would cover
a particular drug or a favorite doctor proved particularly
frustrating for many consumers navigating the new insurance exchanges under the
federal government’s health
care overhaul, according to a
report released April 28.
In nearly half the 85 health
plans analyzed, it was difficult or impossible for people
to determine what drugs were
covered, according to the report by market research firm
Avalere Health, the first systematic analysis of consumer
experience on the exchanges.
The report analyzed health
plans in five states that relied
on the federal HealthCare.
gov website, as well as staterun exchange plans in Washington, D.C., and a dozen
states.
A directory of doctors was
somewhat easier to find, but
there were still some cases in
which it was a very demanding search, the report found.
What’s more, the websites
typically ranked plans by premium price, which could have
misled patients who needed a
specific costly medication if it
wasn’t covered by the cheapest plan, Avalere spokeswoman Caroline Pearson said.
“It was very difficult for
consumers to get a more nuanced view of what their
plans covered,” Pearson said.
In some cases, a consumer
would have to click six times
to find drug coverage information. Even worse, no links
to lists of covered drugs existed for some health plans.
That forced consumers to
search insurance company
websites, and, even if they
found the covered drug lists,
it could be tough to determine
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which lists went with the exchange plans they were comparing, Pearson said.
“Many chronic conditions
rely on medications for management and to keep people
out of the hospital,” Pearson
said. “If your drug is not covered, then you’re responsible
for the full cost or you have
to switch to a different drug.
The impact on the patient
could be several thousands of
dollars a year.”
The situation should improve soon, Pearson said,
noting the government will
require plans on the federal
exchange for 2015 to have direct links to lists of covered
drugs, also known as formularies.
“It has long been difficult
for consumers to tell what
prescriptions are covered by
different plans, which is why
the health care law has taken
steps to make this informa-
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said Health and Human Services spokesman Aaron Albright.
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Nevada was the only state
exchange the report analyzed
with a tool to search for drugs
so consumers could shop for
a health plan based on their
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didn’t estimate out-of-pocket
costs and was confusing when
trying to differentiate between
different tiers of medications.
Nevada’s website had other problems, which weren’t
mentioned in the report, requiring officials to authorize a
special enrollment period for
thousands of people who may
have tried to sign up but were
thwarted by consistent errors.
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this month said Nevada’s ex-
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performance benchmarks and
recommended Xerox, its designer, be assessed penalties.
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information for five health
plans, scoring it by the number of clicks and whether a
consumer would have to hunt
from an insurance company’s
home page or was directed
to a dedicated page with the
needed information.
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NATIONAL
May 1 - 7, 2014
Employee opens fire at Fedex sorting center
By Kate Brumback
The Associated Press
KENNESAW, Ga. - A FedEx
employee wearing ammunition
draped across his chest “like
Rambo” opened fire Tuesday,
April 29, at a package-sorting
center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide, police
and witnesses said.
In addition to a shotgun, the
gunman also had an undisclosed
number of Molotov cocktails,
but he did not use them in the
attack, police said.
The shooter, who was not
publicly identified, was found
dead inside. He worked as a
package handler at the sprawling facility, Cobb County police
Sgt. Dana Pierce said.
Investigators have an idea of
what his motive may have been,
but they were not prepared to
disclose it yet, Pierce said.
Three of the wounded were
hospitalized in critical condition, including two who were
in surgery with life-threatening
injuries.
The gunman first shot a security guard at a shack outside the
building before heading inside,
Pierce said.
David Titus, a FedEx truck
driver, said he was just coming
to work around 6 a.m. when he
saw a security guard get shot in
the abdomen. He said he heard
more gunfire later from inside
the building.
“It was chaos,” Titus said.
“Everyone was running, ducking and hiding, trying to get out
of there.”
FedEx clerk Liza Aiken said
she was working when she
heard something drop, looked
to her left and saw the gunman.
“He had bullets strapped
across his chest like Rambo”
and held a knife, Aiken said
at the entrance to a parking lot
where employees had gathered after the attack. Before
she could continue, a woman
wearing a FedEx jacket told
Aiken to stop talking and led
her away.
The two people in surgery
were a 28-year-old man and a
52-year-old woman. The third
critical victim was a 22-yearold man, said Dr. Michael Nitzken of Wellstar Kennestone
Hospital.
Another man, 38, remained at
the hospital but was stable. Two
other victims - a 42-year-old
woman and a 19-year-old man were treated and released.
The FBI and other agencies
were working to collect evidence at the package center in
Kennesaw.
The facility about 25 miles
north of Atlanta sorts packages
and loads them onto vehicles
for delivery. It’s next to the general-aviation airport for suburban Cobb County.
After the attack, police
blocked roads leading to the FedEx center.
The company offered no details about the attack, saying
only that it was “focused on the
needs of our team members and
cooperating with the law enforcement investigation of this
tragedy.”
The package center was
shut down and surrounded by
crime-scene tape. The full investigation is expected to take
a long time because authorities
have to search every part of the
500,000-square-foot facility for
evidence.
FedEx Employee Lisa Aiken, wearing bandana, is embraced by a coworker as other FedEx employees gather at a skating rink following
a shooting at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Ga., on Tuesday, April 29,
2014. A shooter described as being armed with an assault rifle and
having bullets strapped across his chest opened fire Tuesday morning
at a FedEx station outside Atlanta, wounding at least six people before
police found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Brant Sanderlin
Botched execution offers
new evidence to attorneys
By JIM SALTER
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A bungled execution in Oklahoma provides death
penalty opponents with a fresh,
startling example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds
of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of capital punishment will probably hinge on exactly
what caused the inmate’s apparent
agony.
If four-time convicted felon Clayton Lockett suffered because of a
collapsed vein or improperly inserted IV, the legal landscape might not
change much. If the execution drugs
or the secrecy surrounding them
played a role, defense attorneys for
other prisoners could have powerful
new evidence to press the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved, legal
experts say.
A day after the execution went
awry, attorneys for some deathrow inmates began planning new
appeals or updating existing cases
based on events in Oklahoma.
Many called for moratoriums and
independent investigations.
“Every prison is saying, `We
have it under control, trust us,’”
said Texas attorney Maurie Levin,
who spent Wednesday preparing
new briefs questioning that state’s
execution practices. “This just underscores in bold that we can’t trust
them, and prisons have to be accountable to the public and transparent in the method by which they
carry out executions.”
The 38-year-old Lockett, convicted of shooting a woman and watching as two accomplices buried her
alive, was declared unconscious 10
minutes after the first of three drugs
was administered Tuesday. Three
minutes later, he began breathing
heavily, writhing, clenching his
teeth and straining to lift his head.
Authorities halted the execution,
but Lockett died of a suspected heart
attack more than 40 minutes after
the process began.
An autopsy was conducted
Wednesday to determine his precise
cause of death, and Oklahoma Gov.
Mary Fallin named a member of her
cabinet to lead a review of the state’s
execution procedures.
The White House said the execution fell short of the humane standards required.
Courts, including the Supreme
Court, have been reluctant to halt
executions over arguments that they
violate an inmate’s constitutional
guarantee against cruel and unusual
punishment. In four rulings over
the past 135 years, the Supreme
Court has upheld the use of the firing squad (1879), the electric chair
(1890), the ability of a state to try
FILE - This June 29, 2011 file
photo provided by the Oklahoma
Department of Corrections shows
Clayton Lockett. Oklahoma prison
officials halted the execution of
Lockett Tuesday, April 29, 2014,
after the delivery of a new threedrug combination failed to go
as planned.. AP Photo/Oklahoma
Department of Corrections, File
to execute a condemned inmate by
electrocution again after a first attempt failed (1947) and lethal injection (2008).
The Constitution “does not demand the avoidance of all risk of
pain in carrying out executions,”
Chief Justice John Roberts said in
the court’s 2008 decision upholding
Kentucky’s lethal injection system.
Still, a minority of the high court
has shown some recent trepidation
about the secrecy of the process
used by many states.
Many states - Oklahoma, Texas
and Missouri among them - purchase execution drugs from lightly
regulated compounding pharmacies and refuse to name the supplier,
whether the drug has been tested,
even who is part of the execution
team.
In February, three justices - two
short of the required five - said they
would have blocked the execution
of Michael Anthony Taylor in Missouri. A month later, four justices
fell one vote short of blocking the
execution of another Missouri inmate, Jeffrey Ferguson. They offered no explanation for their vote.
If Tuesday’s problems are traced
to a collapsed vein, the high court
“probably won’t feel a lot more
pressure to step in,” said Thomas
Goldstein, an experienced Supreme
Court lawyer who also has represented death-row inmates. But if the
injection chemicals themselves and
the state’s secrecy emerge as important factors, “there will be great
pressure for them to hear a case and
require transparency.”
Madeline Cohen represents
Charles Warner, an Oklahoma inmate who was scheduled to be
executed Tuesday just hours after
Lockett. She said she plans new appeals on behalf of Warner, whose
execution was postponed for at least
two weeks.
She also is pressing for an independent investigation of Lockett’s
death, including examination of his
remains by an independent pathologist.
In Missouri, convicted killer Russell Bucklew is scheduled to die
May 21. His attorney, Cheryl Pilate,
said she plans to file new appeals
next week seeking to halt the execution or at least delay it until the
state’s procedures “are subject to
full disclosure.”
The potential for something to
go wrong is escalated for Bucklew,
Pilate said, because he suffers from
a lifelong medical condition that has
left his blood vessels malformed
and weakened. It’s so bad that he often bleeds from the eyes, Pilate said.
“Executions are not medical
acts,” Pilate said. “They are experiments conducted on human subjects
with no accountability or oversight.”
The White House stopped short
of suggesting a moratorium. Legislatures and governors could also
order investigations or a temporary
halt to executions. So far, only Oklahoma’s governor has taken action.
Missouri’s protocol has been
upheld by the courts and Gov.
Jay Nixon continues to support
“the ultimate punishment” for
the “most merciless and violent
crimes,” spokeswoman Ansley
Channing said.
Ohio planned to follow its
normal procedures, including an
exam of the condemned inmate
three weeks before the execution
to evaluate his veins and plan for
the insertion of intravenous needles.
Jerry Cox, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said the botched
Oklahoma execution should
“shock the conscience of all Americans,” even those who previously
supported the death penalty.
“Most of the world and virtually
all democracies have abandoned
the death penalty,” Cox said. “This
is just horrific.”
Tuesday’s problems marked the
third time this year that an execution raised concerns about an inmate’s suffering.
In January, Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire took 26 minutes to
die, gasping repeatedly as he lay
on a gurney with his mouth opening and closing. That same month,
Oklahoma inmate Michael Lee
Wilson’s final words were, “I feel
my whole body burning.”
--Associated Press Writer Mark
Sherman in Washington, D.C.,
contributed to this report.
May 1 - 7, 2014
JPS educators honored
among best in the state
Jim Hill teachers Tracee Thompson and Susan Bender with principal, Bobby Brown
Mississippi Department of
Education (MDE) recognized
Jim Hill teachers Susan Bender
and Tracee Thompson as two of
the best educators in the state.
Bender, the 2014 Jackson
Public Schools (JPS) Teacher
of the Year, was a Congressional District finalist and runner
up to Mississippi Teacher of the
Year. Thompson was recognized
as the only Milken Award winner in the state of Mississippi for
the 2013-2014 school year. She
was the 2013 JPS Teacher of the
Year.
Pecan Park Principal Wanda
Quon, the 2014 JPS Administrator of the Year, was also one
of the honorees recognized by
MDE during an annual luncheon
held April 23, 2014.
MDE hosts the event to honor
JPS Supt. Dr. Cedrick Gray accepts a check for nearly $33,000 from The LeFleur’s Bluff Chapter of the Links to
provide summer reading books for JPS middle school students.
sored Raring to Read, a book
drive and fundraiser held
March 29 with collection
points at all 11 McDonald’s
locations in the city of Jackson. Residents of the city
gave generously to the program. Funds were still pouring in days after the Saturday
event and totaled more than
$34,000.
All JPS students are required to read during the
summer months to prepare
for the fall school term. Summer reading helps to prevent
learning loss that can occur
over the summer. This drive
supports the District’s literacy goals by helping to ensure
that the District’s middle
school students have books
to read during the summer.
“We look forward to a
lasting relationship with the
middle schools of Jackson
as we provide resources for
all students to improve literacy,” said Links President
Rowan and Murrah
technology students win
trip to D.C. competition
Murrah students
the District Teachers of the Year
and District Administrators of
the Year from public school districts across the state. Held in
downtown Jackson, the program
featured a performance by the
Callaway High School band as
well as speeches by State Superintendent Dr. Carey Wright and
the 2013 National Teacher of the
Year from Washington state, Jeff
Charbonneau.
Raring to Read drive pays off
for JPS middle school students
The LeFleur’s Bluff Chapter of the Links, Inc., presented a check for nearly
$33,000 to Superintendent
Dr. Cedrick Gray at Jackson
Public Schools’ central office headquarters on April
16, 2014. Collected through
a city-wide reading campaign, the funds will be used
to purchase summer reading
books for JPS middle school
students.
“We are extremely excited that the community has
come together through the
body of the LeFleur’s Bluff
Chapter of the Links and
McDonald’s,” said Dr. Gray.
“We’re very grateful that our
students will have an opportunity to read this summer
without barriers that have
been lifted by the generous
donations of the citizens in
the Jackson area.”
The LeFleur’s Bluff Chapter of the Links, Inc., spon-
Dorothy Stokes.
Members of The Links
joining Stokes in the presentation to Dr. Gray and
Jackson Public Schools were
Yvonne Brooks, Lurlene Irvin, Danita Joyner, Davetta
Lee, Debra McGee, Eleanor
Mitchell, Rica Lewis Payton, Erin Pickens, Gailya
Porter, Linda Smith, Sharolyn Smith, Dorothy Stokes,
Kimberly Sweet, and Armerita Tell.
Along with The Links,
McDonald’s, and Jackson
Public Schools, additional
supporters of Raring to Read
included the City of Jackson,
WJTV News Channel 12,
BankPlus, Kixie 107.5 F.M.,
99 JAMS, and Gospel 1300.
Donations to the Raring
to Read are still being accepted. Donors may visit any
local BankPlus and make
a monetary contribution to
the Jackson Public Schools
Summer Reading program.
Rowan students
Technology Student Association (TSA) members from
Rowan Middle School and
Murrah High School have
earned a chance to compete
at the National TSA Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., June 26-July 1,
2014. Both teams qualified
based on their outstanding
achievements at the annual
state conference. The teams
brought home the following
state awards:
Rowan
Website Design, 1st place
Agriculture and Biotechnology Design, 2nd place
Environmental Focus, 3rd
place
Medical Technology Issues,
3rd place
Murrah
Chapter Team, 1st place
Website Design, 3rd place
Expenses, including travel,
lodging and meals for the
28 qualifying students and
their chaperones from the
two schools, total more than
$26,000. Rowan and Murrah
are both planning fundraising
events as well as accepting
donations to ensure these deserving students get a chance
to compete on the national
level.
“Both TSA chapters are
networking together to make
this trip a reality, not a dream
for our students,” said Rowan
Principal Dr. Shimelle Mayers. “This will be an experience of a lifetime for our children.”
To help the team with expenses to make the trip, visit
Murrah High School TSA’s
online fundme.com site.
To find out other ways to
donate, call Murrah at (601)
960-5380 or Rowan at (601)
960-5349. Or e-mail one of
the contacts below.
Connie
Navarro-Allen,
Murrah TSA sponsor
Damian Davis, Murrah TSA
sponsor
Dr. Shimelle Mayers, Rowan principal
Michael Johnson, Rowan
TSA sponsor.
EDUCATION
May 1 - 7, 2014
Tougaloo College announces
2014 commencement speaker
Brown University President to address Tougaloo’s Class of 2014
Tougaloo
College
announced the schedule for
the 2014 Commencement
Week, which starts with the
Wednesday, May 14 Seniors’
Consecration Service at 6
p.m. in Woodworth Chapel.
Other events include the
Thursday evening (May 15 at
6 p.m.) Golden Class Dinner;
the traditional alumni picnic
(May 16 at 5 p.m.) and the
Annual Alumni Banquet that
will take place on Saturday,
May 17 at 7 p.m. at the Hilton
Jackson Hotel.
Rev. Dr. Marcus Cosby will
serve as the speaker for the
Baccalaureate Service that
will be held in Woodworth
Chapel at 8 a.m. on Sunday,
May 18. He is the senior
pastor of Wheeler Avenue
Baptist Church in Houston,
Texas.
The Commencement Exercise will be held on the Campus Green at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 18 (in the event of
rain, the event will be moved
to the Kroger Gymnasium).
The commencement speaker
will be Christina Hull Pax-
son, Ph.D., nineteenth president of Brown University,
Providence, R.I. Dr. Paxson’s
invitation and acceptance as
commencement speaker will
be coupled with a celebration and commemoration of
the 50th anniversary of the
Brown-Tougaloo Partnership
(BTP).
The BTP has had more than
500 student, faculty and staff
participants who have engaged in various exchanges
including: student leaders,
scholars and summer research opportunities.
JSU media relations
specialist wins PRism
Award of Excellence
Shelia Hardwell Byrd, media
relations specialist in Jackson
State University’s University
Communications, has won an
Award of Excellence PRism
from the Public Relations Association of Mississippi.
Byrd received the highest
award in the category for a
feature story she wrote about
Timothy Kendrick, a 2013 JSU
graduate who overcame cancer.
Byrd also received an Award
of Merit for a feature story she
wrote about a JSU alumnus
who cared for victims of the
Boston Marathon bombing.
Both stories were picked up
by the media, including The
Clarion-Ledger, USA Today
and a host of Gannett papers.
The awards were presented
April 17.
PRAM began the PRism
Awards program to honor and
recognize outstanding work in the field
of public relations by
professionals and students within the state
of Mississippi.
PRAM is a network of 11 chapters
throughout the state
consisting of nearly
600 members. The
association includes
memberships for students majoring in
public relations and
professionals
who
hold positions in a
variety of fields including corporations,
industries,
government entities, not-forprofits and agencies.
PRAM members are
concurrent members Shelia Hardwell-Byrd
of the Southern Public Relations Federation, a net- fessionals in Alabama, Florida,
work of more than 1,300 pro- Louisiana and Mississippi.
WHAT IS BEHIND CANCER-DEATH DECLINE?
Largely due to anti-smoking efforts
that have led to a decline in deaths
related to lung cancer, cancer-related
death rates continue to fall in the
United States. A recent report from the
nation’s leading cancer institutions
notes that death rates from all cancers
combined decreased by 1.8 percent
per year among men and by 1.4 percent
per year among women. Two-thirds of
the falloff is attributable to declines in
four major cancers: lung, colorectal,
breast, and prostate. The report also
draws attentions to the fact that onethird of cancer patients over 65 have
other health conditions (diabetes,
chronic
obstructive
pulmonary
disease, congestive heart failure,
and cerebrovascular disease) that
can lower their chances of survival.
Thus, general health impacts cancer
outcomes.
Health care professionals encourage
people of all ages to take charge of
their health by making smart lifestyle
and nutrition choices, seeing their
doctor regularly for checkups and
health screenings, and monitoring
their bodies for any changes that
should be brought to the attention
of medical professionals.
THE
MISSISSIPPI CANCER INSTITUTE is
a premier cancer treatment center.
To schedule a consultation, please
call (601) 249-5510. We are located
at 1501 Aston Avenue. Diabetes (and
its related complications) is the most
common health problem affecting
cancer patients.
Christina Paxon, Brown University president
Rev. Dr. Marcus Cosby, senior pastor, Wheeler Ave
Bishop Joseph Warren Walker III
to address Alcorn graduates at its
143rd Commencement Convocation
Humanitarian and Philanthropist Bishop Joseph
Warren Walker III, a servant
leader and the charismatic
pastor of Mount Zion Baptist
Church of Nashville, Tenn.,
will impart final words of
wisdom unto Alcorn graduates at its 143rd Commencement Convocation on Saturday, May 10, at 8:30 a.m. in
the Davey L. Whitney HPER
Complex on the Lorman campus, announced Executive
Vice President and Provost
Samuel L. White.
Alcorn will award degrees
to nearly 600 students who
have applied to receive 440
bachelor’s and 156 master’s
degrees. Walker will receive
an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at the
ceremony.
Bishop Walker was reared
in Shreveport, La., in the
1970s and he grew up in a
household parented by Deacon Joseph and Rosa Walker.
His parents emphasized the
importance of education. After obtaining his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Southern
University in Baton Rouge,
a Master of Divinity degree
from Vanderbilt University,
Bishop Walker proceeded to
earn a Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton University.
In 1992, at the age of 24,
Bishop Walker began his pastorate at Mount Zion with 175
members. Today, the ministry
has grown to over 28,000 and
continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. Under his leadership, Mount Zion’s ministry
has expanded beyond its original location on historic Jefferson Street to seven weekly
services in three physical locations and includes www.
mtzionanywhere.org.
Bishop Walker’s philanthropic efforts shifted to a
new level with the founding
of the non-profit Drs. Joseph
and Stephaine Walker Foundation.
The Foundation is committed to helping people
help themselves and to helping those around them lead
productive, satisfying lives.
The mission of the Foundation is primarily advanced
through education, mentorship and outreach. The Foundation gives thousands of
dollars each year to deserving students and also awards
a scholarship in the name and
memory of his late wife, Dr.
Diane Greer Walker.
A recipient of numerous awards and
honors, Bishop Walker sits on noteworthy
boards, including the
Board of the American Red Cross, and
holds a governorappointed post on the
Tennessee
Human
Rights Commission.
He also serves on
the Executive Council and as Bishop of
Senior Pastors in the
Full Gospel Baptist
Church Fellowship,
International. In July
2013, he was chosen
to succeed International Presiding Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr.
in 2015.
Bishop Joseph Warren Walker III
Bishop Walker was
recognized in the March 2010 emonies.
Wednesday, May 7
Nashville Post Magazine as
10 a.m., School of Agrione of Nashville’s most well
educated and influential min- culture, Research, Extension,
isterial leaders. In early 2013, and Applied Sciences, Ray
The Root.com named him Johnson Assembly Center
2 p.m., School of Educaas one of the 20 Top Black
Preachers in the country, and tion and Psychology Teacher
most recently, EBONYrecog- Induction Ceremony, Oaknized him on its “Power 100” land Memorial Chapel
5 p.m., School of Graduate
list as one of the nation’s most
influential African-American Studies Reception, Dr. Clinton Bristow, Jr. Dining Hall
leaders.
Deeply concerned about - Gold Room
Thursday, May 8
America’s youth and young
1 p.m., School of Nursing
adults, Bishop Walker explains his passion behind Pinning Ceremony, Davey L.
Mount Zion’s College Min- Whitney HPER Complex
3 p.m., School of Arts and
istry, which provides to thousands of college students a Sciences, James L. Bolden
positive environment for aca- Campus Union Ballroom
5 p.m., School of Business
demic adroitness and spiriPinning Ceremony, Dr. Clintual growth.
“God has called me to ton Bristow Jr. Dining Hall SHIFT this generation into a Gold Room
6 p.m., International and
new paradigm of excellence
- to spur them to leave some- Multicultural Student Conthing of substance on record gratulatory, J. D. Boyd Lithat extends beyond two to brary - Medgar Wiley Evers
Auditorium
three generations forward.”
Friday, May 9
Bishop Walker is married
9 a.m., Army ROTC Comto the former Dr. Stephaine
Hale, who is an assistant pro- missioning Ceremony, Oakfessor of Pediatrics and Neo- land Memorial Chapel.
The convocation can be
natology at Vanderbilt University. Both agree that their viewed online at www.almost joyous accomplishment corn.edu, with a live stream
to date has been the birth of beginning 15 minutes before
their daughter, Jovanni Wil- the ceremony.
Alcorn State University
low Walker, who was born in
is a premier comprehensive
May 2012.
Family
members
and land-grant university that deguests attending commence- velops diverse students into
ment convocation and school globally competitive leadceremonies are asked to ar- ers, and applies scientific rerive early as event locations search through collaborative
traditionally fill to capacity. partnerships that benefit the
communities,
Overflow areas will be pro- surrounding
state, nation, and world.
vided.
For additional information,
Following is a compilation
of other commencement cer- call (601) 877-6142.
10 • THE mississippi link
May 1 - 7, 2014
A prayer for the new
mayor of Jackson
By Rev. CJ Rhodes, M. Div.
The
first
thing I want
you to do is
pray. Pray every way you
know how, for
everyone you
know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to
rule well so we can go quietly
about our business of living
simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our
Savior God wants us to live.
(I Timothy 2:1-3).
It was my honor to have
been asked to offer the invocation at the swearing-in
ceremony for Mayor Tony
T. Yarber. It was a powerful
service, and Mayor Yarber
shared a dynamic message
to us about his servant leadership and the future of our
capital city.
The prayer follows in its
entirety:
Lord,
You are Alpha and Omega.
And the government rests
upon Your shoulders.
For the revolutionary love
and legacy of our late mayor,
Chokwe Lumumba, and for
the sage and quiet leadership
of Acting Mayor Charles Tillman, we give You thanks and
praise.
And now, O Lord, we praise
You that by Your grace we
photo by jay johnson
have seen another peaceful
transfer of executive power.
Everyday people throughout
our city have called upon
Tony T. Yarber to serve and
lead us as our next mayor. We
thank You that this educator
and motivator has been chosen to lead the City with Soul
at such a time as this. In days
and years to come, guide Tony
as he initiates progressive infrastructure improvements,
promotes an aggressive approach to crime reduction,
and innovates in order to support economic stability downtown and around town.
We intercede for Tony and
for the noble task that is before him. Grant him Abra-
ham’s faith, Joseph’s integrity, Joshua’s courage, David’s
heart, Solomon’s wisdom,
and Peter’s boldness. Grant
him spiritual wisdom and supernatural insights beyond
his 36 years. Show forth Your
glory through his administration and help him shepherd
Jackson with excellence so
that peace and prosperity will
be our portion.
Bless also our First Lady
Rosalind, and Carmen, Cameron, and Toni Michelle. Envelope the First Family with
Your protection and care.
As we move Jackson ahead
together, let Your favor radiate over every ward and every
sub, every business and every
Black Baptist
churches look to
youth for leadership
By Sharyn Jackson
The moment Ashton Bell
told his congregation that he
wanted to preach, he might as
well have scored a touchdown
in one of his Roosevelt High
School football games.
At the time, Bell was a
15-year-old drummer, singer
and organ player at King of
Kings Baptist Church in Des
Moines. But he didn’t know he
was ready to preach from the
pulpit until something inside
told him one Sunday to stand
up and say that he’d been called
to ministry. His spontaneous
declaration resulted in a thrilling reaction from the pews.
“The whole church goes
crazy,” said Bell, now 18, remembering that day. “‘Yeah!
Yeah!’”
Bell’s spirited and supported entry into ministry at one
of Des Moines’ black Baptist
churches was not singular. He
is one of five young ministers,
ages 18 to 27, who have been
welcomed into church leadership by an older generation of
pastors and congregants hoping
to keep young people engaged
in the religion.
All five of these young ministers are friends - two of them
cousins - who support one another as they approach a common endeavor with individual
strengths. They are working to
keep other young people interested in the church via pop culture and social media, addressing modern issues, being a peer
and applying the Bible to today’s challenges for 20-somethings.
Their involvement comes
at a time when shrinking participation by youth has caused
alarm among many religious
denominations. Millennials are
less likely to be affiliated with a
religion than their parents’ and
grandparents’ generations were
when they were young, a 2010
survey from the Pew Research
Center’s Religion & Public Life
Project found.
While young members of
historically black churches are
more involved in religion than
the general population, their
affiliation still pales in comparison with that of their older
counterparts. One in five African-Americans under age 30 is
unaffiliated, compared with one
in eight African-Americans of
all ages and one in 14 AfricanAmericans over age 50, according to Pew.
The effort to retain young
members in Des Moines’ black
Baptist churches is part of a
greater movement to keep the
church relevant and long-lasting.
“We have a deep concern
and make a concerted effort
towards attracting and retaining those that have grown up
within our convention,” said
the Rev. Morris Tipton, spokesman for the National Baptist
Convention, USA. Morris’ organization, the unifying body
of national Baptist churches,
boasts a membership of approximately seven million individuals, including Des Moines’
young ministers.
Part of the effort to retain
young people involves recognizing them as potential lead-
home, every church and every
school. Unite us across gender and generation, colors
and creeds, so that we will be
one city, with one aim, moving toward one destiny, for
Your glory and the good of
our city.
Bless Tony and bless Jackson, our capital city.
In Your Name we pray,
Amen.
The Rev. CJ Rhodes serves
as rector of Oakland Memorial Chapel and director of
student Religious Life at Alcorn State University. He is
a graduate of the University
of MS and Duke University.
Pastor Rhodes is married to
Allison Thomas-Rhodes.
Message from the Religion Editor
By Daphne Higgins
Religion Editor
The past few
days have been
very interesting
to say the least.
I want to share
as much as I can
with you but
yet, I want to be respectful of
your time and the space that
I have been allotted. So, with
that being said, I’m going to
do my best to keep it short,
but yet informative.
I’d like to begin by thanking the chairs of the Couples
Ministry of College Hill M.
B. Church for a very entertaining and enriching morning of study. The Couples
Ministry recently hosted a
breakfast for all couples of
the church and had as the
guest speaker for the morning, Rev. Green and Barbara
Davidson, of Alabama. Their
presentation to all who were
present was very enlightening and entertaining. As servants of God, they reminded
all of us, that God has joined
us together to make and keep
each other happy and it is our
duty as man and wife to honor that commitment. However, the flair that they brought
to the presentation is one that
you would have had to witness for yourself. Again, I say
- Good job to all involved in
the planning and implementation of the program. It was
definitely an experience.
Now on to the weather news reports began late Saturday evening of warnings
about torrential rains hitting
central Mississippi. Well,
those storms made their arrival Monday afternoon just
as announced. Many area
schools dismissed early and
those that did not, did cancel
all afterschool activities. Parents of younger children hurriedly made preparations for
their youngsters’ care while
the older students headed
home to prepare themselves
for the storm ahead.
Unfortunately, there were
several outages, flash floods,
excessive winds, fallen trees
and yes, deaths that occurred
Monday afternoon/evening.
As I thought about all of
the commotion that was going on during the storm, I reflected on the warnings that
were given earlier and how
everyone began to fall into
place to make sure that they
were prepared for what the
rest of the day had to offer.
Wow, I thought, everyone’s
snapping into place because
of the uncertainty of the day.
I concluded that as believers, we are given the choice
of free will and I praise God
for that but we also have a
choice in adhering to the National Weather Service. Why
would we move so methodically for the unknown but not
show God that same respect
for what is known - His only
begotten Son.
The last thing on my list of
sharing is the observance of
National Day of Prayer. The
official day is the first Thursday of May, which this year is
May 1, 2014.
The National Day of Prayer
calls on all people of different faiths in the United
States to pray for the nation
and its leaders. This year’s
theme is “One Voice, United
in Prayer,” emphasizing the
need for individual, corporately and individually to
place their faith in the unfailing character of their Creator, who is sovereign over
all governments, authorities
and men. To further highlight
the theme, Romans 15:6 was
chosen as the scripture for
the year. It reads: “So that
with one mind and one voice,
you may glorify the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.”
Remember, prayer changes
things. Regardless of the day
or the hour, let us always look
to the Father, the Son and
Holy Spirit for a new beginning - because He is our all
and all.
If you will, please recall
the verse that I often share
with you - Isaiah 52:7 (NIV),
which reads: “How beautiful on the mountains are the
feet of those who bring good
news, who proclaim peace,
who bring good tidings, who
proclaim salvation, who say
to Zion, Your God reigns!”
The Mississippi Link, a
messenger for news in and
around the state of Mississippi, would like to not only
share your news but all who
would like to tell others about
the Lord’s goodness and
about their places of worship
and even those religious institutions that are visited.
Contact Daphne M. Higgins
at religion@mississippilink.
com. Fax 601-896-0091 or
mail your information to The
Mississippi Link, 2659 Livingston Road, Jackson, MS
39213.
ers, Tipton said.
In the past, he
said, leadership
in black Baptist
churches was
reserved
for
older pastors.
“The youngAshton Bell, a minister who got his start at the King
er pastors had
of Kings Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, is
to sit back
one of the youngest ministers in Des Moines at just
and wait your
18 years old.Photo: Bryon Houlgrave/The Register
turn,” he said.
In recent years,
convention leadership noticed
young people defecting from
the church, and feared the loss
of membership could result in
a loss of leverage as a socially
conservative and largely Democratic group that weighs in on
College Hill M. B. Church, 1600 Florence Ave., Jackson, Intercessory Prayer Ministry
public policy.
In the last few years, said
will host a National Day of Prayer Hour on Thursday, May 1, at noon. The observance
Tipton, an effort to give young
will take place in the Room 11 of the R. E. Willis Annex. National Day of Prayer calls on
leaders “a greater voice” has
all people of different faiths in the United States to pray for the nation and its leaders.
grown.
Young ministers in turn reach
For more information call 601.355.2670.
their peers more authentically
than older pastors can.
“They’ve got a better idea
Evangelist Temple House of Refuge for all Nations C.O.G.I.C., 704 University Blvd,
about what kinds of challengJackson, will host a Love Day Celebration, on Sunday, May 4, 2014, at 11:30 a.m.
es people their age are faced
honoring Supervisor W Marie Johnson. The speaker will be Bishop C. David Willis and
with,” said Anthea Butler, a
professor of African-American
the Evangelist Temple Mass Choir will render the music. The event theme is “Rooted
religious history at the Univerand Grounded in Christ.” For more information call 601.665.9967 or 601.352.5405.
sity of Pennsylvania. “They’re
not some older person talking
down to someone younger.”
St. Mark Church, 1638 Clinton-Raymond Rd., Clinton, will have its annual Women’s/
“The data is pretty clear that
the younger generation is more
Mother’s Day Program beginning at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, May 11, 2014. For more
liberal, more socially coninformation, call 601-813-8704. Rev. Willis Washington Jr., is pastor-teacher.
scious,” said Eddie Glaude Jr.,
a professor of religion and African-American studies at PrincSaint Paul A.M.E. Church is holding a spring flea market on the lawn Saturday, May
eton University. “I hope that’s
3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vendor spaces are still available. Contact Connie Thompson
reflected in these ministries,
because we definitely need it,
at 601-212-3500 or download the packet from our website.
especially in black communities.”
R e i g n i n g A n n o u n c eme n t s
May 1 - 7, 2014
A Servant’s Heart - Part II
By Pastor Simeon R. Green III
Real servants
do every task
with dedication!
Real
servants
are faithful! Real
servants
keep
a low profile
because self-promotion and
servanthood don’t mix. They
don’t serve for the approval of
others; they live for an audience of one. The Apostle Paul
said, “If I were still trying to
please men, I would not be a
servant of Christ” (Galatians
1:10). You won’t find many
real servants in the limelight.
Can others depend on you?
Can God? Are there promises
you need to keep, vows you
need to fulfill, or commitments you need to honor? This
is a test - God is testing your
faithfulness. If you pass the
test, you’re in good company:
Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Daniel, Timothy and Paul
were called “Faithful Servants
of God”.
Jesus taught the parable of
the talents to emphasize this
truth. He said, referring to the
servant who failed to use his
one talent: “Take the talent
from him and give it to the
one who has ten talents” (Matthew 25:28). Fail to use what
you’ve been given and you’ll
lose it. Use what you’ve got
and God will increase it.
Real servants don’t leave a
job half done and they don’t
quit when the going gets tough.
Faithfulness is a rare quality.
Many folks don’t know the
meaning of it; they make commitments casually, then, break
them for the slightest reason
without hesitation or remorse.
Every week churches and organizations have to improvise
because volunteers didn’t prepare, show up, or even call to
say they weren’t coming.
In Heaven, God is going to
openly reward people we’ve
never heard of on earth; people who taught emotionally
disturbed children, cleaned
up after elderly, nursed AIDS
patients, or served in a thousand unnoticed ways. Listen:
“Throw yourselves into the
work of the Master; confident
that nothing you do for Him is
a waste of time or effort” (1
Corinthians 15:58).
Rev. Simeon R. Green III is
pastor of Joynes Road Church
of God, 31 Joynes Road,
Hampton VA 23669. He is
married to Velma L. Green. He
honorably served in the U.S.
Army for 20 years. Rev. Green
is a member of the National
Association of Evangelism
Church of God, Anderson, Ind.
He serves as chairman of the
Southeastern Association of
The Church of God, Inc.
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Moving the Masses Toward the Mission of the Master
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e
Twelve
blessings of
singleness
By Shewanda Riley
Columnist
One of my
favorite songs
to play when
I was a gospel radio announcer was
“When
the
Praises of God are Going
Up” by James Moore and
the Mississippi Mass Choir.
I liked it for a number of
reasons (it was anointed)
plus it was long enough
(the extended version being
over seven minutes long) to
take a break from the studio.
This was before the days of
digital automation in broadcasting and we were still
playing records.
And when I thought about
the part of “the blessings,”
the question that came to
my mind was which ones?
There is indeed more than
one kind of blessing from
God. Regardless of what
some say or try to make
singles (especially those of
us over a certain age!!!),
there is a blessing to being
single. Many like to say that
the gift of singleness allows
those who are unmarried to
fully devote themselves to
the Lord as stated in I Corinthians 7:32. Deuteronomy
28:2-14 says that blessings
will overtake us when we
obey the voice and commands of God. As I meditated more on these various
blessings, God showed me
“the 12 blessings of singleness.”
12 Blessings of Singleness
• Blessing of Anticipation
- Have the assurance that no
matter how long the wait,
God will answer our prayers
and fulfill our hearts desires.
• Blessing of Revelation Know that we are able to go
deeper into God’s word and
develop a more spiritually
mature life.
• Blessing of Restoration Believe that as we embrace
d
God’s grace, no longer will
we be held hostage by the
mistakes of our past.
• Blessing of Resurrection
- Accept that sometimes in
order for God to bring to
life the seeds of destiny inside of us, some things (attitudes, etc) must die.
• Blessing of cheerful
obedience - Realize that it’s
not just enough to be obedient but to have the right attitude while being obedient.
• Blessing of Pursuing
Purpose - Make the lifechanging decision to seek
after your God ordained
professional, spiritual and
personal purpose.
• Blessing of Repentance Be willing to honestly admit
to yourself and God about
your past sins…and commit
to changing destructive behaviors.
• Blessing of Submission Commit to allowing God to
show us the importance of
trusting his will and letting
go of the desire to control
our lives.
• Blessing of Integrity
- Seek to build a life and
character that honors God
both in public and private.
• Blessing of Sincerity
- Decide that living a life
purely motivated by a desire
to do right.
• Blessing of Solitude Recognize that seasons of
solitude are designed to
build 100 percent dependence on God.
• Blessing of Vision and
Directed Focus - Stay focused while following after
Godly visions and plans for
our lives.
In the next few weeks,
we’ll explore how God has
designed these blessings to
overtake you and change
your life as you impact others.
Shewanda Riley is a Dallas-based author, speaker
and educator. She can be
reached at lovehangover@
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REV. DR. AVA S. HARVEY, SR., OVERSEER
Opinion
May 1 - 7, 2014
Racist NBA owner has fouled out
By George E. Curry
NNPA Columnist
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver,
who replaced David Stern just two
months ago, did
what we’ve all been
waiting for - he
showed Los Angeles Clippers bigoted owner Donald Sterling the nearest
exit and told him not to look back.
Tuesday, April 29, Silver banned
Sterling from the NBA for life and
fined him $2.5 million, the maximum allowed under the NBA constitution and bylaws.
Of course, that’s only shoe shine
money for someone worth $1.9 billion. Still it sends a powerful message not only to Sterlling, but to
others, that at least one sector of
America is willing to confront brazen racism.
Now, the NBA Board of Governors needs to complete what Silver
started by forcing Sterling to give up
ownership of the Clippers.
Unless you’ve been under a rock
or just landed from Mars, you should
know by now that Sterling, who has
a long and acrimonious history with
people of color, exposed his true
feelings about African Americans
in a conversation with his mistress,
Vanessa Stiviano, who is almost 50
years his junior.
The conversation was apparently
taped surreptitiously in Sterling’s
home by Stiviano, who describes
herself as part Mexican and part
black.
A nine-mintute segment of the
conversation was posted Saturday to
celebrity website TMZ. A 15-minute
excerpt was later posted by Deadspin.
There was this exchange in one
segment:
VS: I don’t understand, I don’t see
your views. I wasn’t raised the way
you were raised.
DS: Well then, if you don’t feel
- don’t come to my games. Don’t
bring black people, and don’t come.
VS: Do you know that you have
a whole team that’s black, that plays
for you?
DS: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food, and
clothes, and cars, and houses. Who
gives it to them? Does someone else
give it to them? Do I know that I
have - who makes the game? Do I
make the game, or do they make the
game? Is there 30 owners that created the league?
At one point, Sterling said:
“It bothers me a lot that you want
to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have
to…?”
“You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can
do whatever you want. The little I
ask you is not to promote it on that
… and not to bring them to my
games…”
“I’m just saying, in your lousy
f******* Instagrams, you don’t
have to have yourself with, walking
with black people.”
“Don’t put him (Magic Johnson)
on an Instagram for the world to
have to see so they have to call me.
And don’t bring him to my games.”
Finally, there was the following
exchange:
DS: You think I’m a racist, and
wouldn’tVS: I don’t think you’re a racist.
DS: Yes you do. Yes you do.
VS: I think you, youDS: Evil heart.
DS: It’s the world. You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like
dogs.
VS: So do you have to treat them
like that too?
DS: The white Jews, there’s white
Jews and black Jews, do you understand?
VS: And are the black Jews less
than the white Jews?
DS: A hundred percent, fifty, a
hundred percent.
VS: And is that right?
DS: It isn’t a question - we don’t
evaluate what’s right and wrong, we
live in a society. We live in a culture.
We have to live within that culture.
VS: But shouldn’t we take a
stand for what’s wrong? And be the
change and the difference?
DS: I don’t want to change the
culture, because I can’t. It’s too big
and too [unknown].
VS: But you can change yourself.
DS: I don’t want to change. If my
girl can’t do what I want, I don’t want
the girl. I’ll find a girl that will do
what I want. Believe me. I thought
you were that girl - because I tried
to do what you want. But you’re not
that girl.
Sterling, 81, has a long history of
antagonizing blacks.
In 2009, he paid $2.7 million to
settle a suit accusing him of discriminating against blacks, Latinos
and families with children at an
apartment building he owned in Los
Angeles.
In addition, NBA Hall of Famer
Elgin Baylor, who spent 22 years
with the Clippers, filed a suit against
Sterling in 2009 for wrongful termination.
According to the Los Angeles
Times, “In his deposition, Baylor
spoke about what he called Sterling’s ’plantation mentality,’ alleging
the owner in the late 1990s rejected
a coaching candidate, Jim Brewer,
because of race.
“Baylor quoted Sterling as saying:
‘Personally, I would like to have a
white Southern coach coaching poor
black players.’ Baylor said he was
shocked.
“‘And he [Sterling] looked at me
and said, ‘Do you think that’s a racist statement?’ I said, ‘Absolutely.
That’s plantation mentality.’”
Donald Sterling is the Paula Deen
of professional basketball. Accordingly, the NBA should stick a fork in
him and tell him he’s done.
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine,
is editor-in-chief of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association
News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media
coach. www.georgecurry.com. You
can also follow him at www.twitter.
com/currygeorge and George E.
Curry Fan Page on Facebook.
Rancher Cliven Bundy and ‘The Negro’
By Lee A. Daniels
NNPA Columnist
As is typical of
blowhards, Cliven
Bundy, the conservative movement’s
most recently defrocked hero/criminal, opened his
mouth once too often. In doing so,
the Nevada rancher revealed who
he really is behind all the Stars-andStripes flag-waving and man-of-theWest rhetoric.
The man who has grazed his cattle
on federal land for more than two
decades but has refused to pay the
minimal grazing fees the government charges all ranchers (Bundy
now owes about $1 million) is an
arch-racist as well as a chiseler.
On Saturday, April 19, Bundy,
speaking to a small group of his supporters - and, fortunately for the rest
of us, a New York Times reporter and
photographer - went off-message to
hold forth on a number of topics, including race.
According to the Times, Bundy
said: “I want to tell you one more
thing I know about the Negro,” as
he recalled driving past a Las Vegas
public housing project, “and in front
of that government house the door
was usually open and the older people and the kids - and there is always
at least a half dozen people sitting on
the porch - they didn’t have nothing
to do. They didn’t have nothing for
their kids to do. They didn’t have
nothing for their young girls to do.”
Bundy didn’t stop there: “And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they
do? They abort their young children,
they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick
cotton.
“And I’ve often wondered, are
they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under
government subsidy? They didn’t get
no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
Did Cliven Bundy form those
views just from driving past - once?
twice? - a federally subsidized housing project where black Americans
live? Or did they come from the stew
of racist notions that still have wide
circulation in the political ideology conservatism - Bundy claims to be an
adherent.
Some of his well-known enablers
among the conservative echo chamber of politicians, talk-show jockeys
and pundits quickly distanced themselves from Bundy as soon as the
Times story appeared. Others, doubling-down, claimed his racist views
were irrelevant to what they asserted
were his proper resistance to federal
government overreach.
But it’s too late for that flimflam.
Beyond the laughable hypocrisy of
Cliven Bundy, chiseler, asserting
that “the Negro” is too dependent
on government largesse, his words
underscore that American conservatism’s central motivating force from
the long-ago past to the present has
always been the oppression of “the
Negro.”
For one thing, consider that Bundy
brought up the topic himself - and not
only made it clear he thinks blacks
were better off when the vast majority were enslaved but would be better
off now if reduced to something approximating slavery.
Bundy’s views aren’t at all unique
among American conservatives. Especially since President Obama took
office, conservatives, high and low,
have shown an obsession with twisting the truth about Negro slavery.
If it’s not the Tea Party fanatics
contending that President Obama’s
intent is to “enslave” whites; it’s
white conservatives – and their black
front-men such as Ben Carson, Herman Cain and Allen West – asserting
that blacks who vote Democratic are
unthinkingly content to laze about on
the Democratic “plantation.”
If it’s not the Family Leader, an
Iowa-based conservative group,
proclaiming that blacks were better
off during the Slave era because the
slave-owners kept their families in-
tact - a brazen lie - it’s former U.S.
Senator Jim DeMint, now head of
the powerful, conservative Heritage
Foundation, declaring on a rightwing Christian talk show earlier this
month that the slaves were not emancipated by “big government” but by
“a growing movement among the
people, particularly people of faith
that [slavery] was wrong.”
I’ve no doubt that the ignorance
on display in the conservative movement’s obsession with American
slavery is largely a deliberate gambit
to obscure how evil - and widely accepted among whites - slavery and its
successor, legalized racism, was.
But I also think that, as with Cliven Bundy, some of it stems from the
deep-rooted fear of what “freedom”
for black Americans means for those
whites who need the crutch of white
supremacy to feel good about themselves.
If blacks were “free,” you could
get black Americans contributing a
full measure of their talent to American society. Why, you might get a
Paul Robeson, or an Althea Gibson,
or a Leontyne Price, or even a president of the United States.
And then, what would America
be?
Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His
latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.
Supreme Court continues to limit Affirmative Action
By Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
The
Roberts
Supreme Court decided recently that
voters in the state
of Michigan had the
right to ban affirmative action policies
in college admissions.
The challenges to affirmative action have roots in the 1976 Bakke
case, where the 38-year-old Alan
Bakke sued because his application
to medical school was rejected and
he felt that he was displaced in favor
of a minority student.
The Supreme Court ordered
Bakke admitted to the University of
California at Davis, and also ruled
that affirmative action was permis-
sible under law.
What bothers me most about
these anti affirmative action cases is
the implicit white skin privilege that
compels them. College admissions
are an art, not a science. Students
whose parents contribute generously
to a college get an edge.
In the name of diversity, a student
from California, regardless of race,
may get a bit of an edge at Dartmouth
or Columbia. A violist, newspaper
editor, or budding sports star, might
also get a break.
Meanwhile, obdurate and privileged whites don’t go after these
people. Their ire is directed toward
African Americans and other people
of color.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor got it
completely right when she said that
race still matters. When the Supreme
Court upholds these anti affirmative laws, they deny history. Make
it plain. The Civil Rights Act was
passed in 1964, a scant 60 years ago.
Affirmative action policies were
developed shortly after that so that
the formerly closed doors of academia could be opened.
Affirmative action had a short
shelf life before it was challenged in
1978, just 14 years after the passage
of the Civil Rights Act.
The opponents of affirmative action say that the color blindness that
the Civil Rights Act mandated prevents remediation from past discrimination. What about contemporary
discrimination?
The University of Michigan, in its
admissions policies, has evaluated
students by a points system. Students
get extra points if they have participated in Advanced Placement (AP)
or International Baccalaureate (IB)
courses.
How many high schools in troubled Detroit have access to these
classes? Yet the people of Detroit pay
taxes to support a college that discriminates against them. When the
anti-affirmative action crowd talks
about fairness, do they take this into
consideration?
In a few weeks we will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Brown
v. Board of Education. While it took
some time for Brown to be implemented, it was a Supreme Court
decision that opened doors to equal
education for those who have been
discriminated against.
?
Ask Alma
Alma Gill
NNPA Advise Columnist
Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans more than 25
years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday
and the Washington Post. Email questions to: alwaysaskalma@gmail.com. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask
Alma” and twitter @almaaskalma.
Reverend needs
heavenly advice
Dear Alma,
My brother-in-law is a minister,
but he’s also an oblivious, selfcentered fool.
He irritates people by doing
things like sitting in my 94-yearold mother’s favorite chair and
acts hurt when we tell him to get
up. Or he goes shopping and is late
for the big dinner.
I said we shouldn’t wait for him,
but that’s a hard one to enforce. I
try to not let it get to me, but part
of me says he needs to be told that
he is not the center of our universe.
My poor sister is constantly
making excuses for him. How
long should we suck it up, or is it
time to finally dish some out?
W.P., Springfield, Va.
Family gatherings; they’re a
blessing, aren’t they? Some relatives come from far away; others
just drive across the bridge. But,
oh, what a time it is … for the first
good hour.
Which group will you hang with
- the ones on the couch watching
the game, the ones drinking in the
basement and doing whatever, or
the ones at the kitchen table?
I’m a kitchen table kinda girl
myself. That’s where you find out
everybody’s business. LOL.
Sorry, this isn’t about me; it’s
about your BIL - the minister who
wants all the attention. I can hear
him now: “Hello, world. Yea, the
one that revolves around me.”
Sounds like your BIL is accustomed to having things go his way.
Whatever he says, it’s fine. Whatever he does, it’s fine. Many in his
congregation affirm that for him
every Sunday, don’t you know.
I know because my father was
a minister, and I watched how he
was treated. We sometimes dis-
cussed this very topic while riding
home from service or after visiting
with church members. We’d talk
about how ministers have to work
on their humility. They’re local
celebrities, and that makes it very
hard.
Since your BIL is a minister,
I would be remiss if I didn’t refer to a Bible verse. The one that
comes to mind goes something
like, “God resists the proud or the
scornful, but He gives grace to the
humble.”
We all could use some extra
grace, can I get an amen. Just like
compassion, humility doesn’t always come naturally.
I know I’ve taken the long road
in answering your question, but I
think it’s important to understand
where your BIL is coming from.
Clearly, the Reverend-Mister-Local-Celebrity in your family has
taken it to the next level.
Yes, you could have a talk with
him, but not at a holiday gathering.
Do it in smaller company, maybe
even the next time you call your
sister and he answers the phone.
Ask him, straight up: “What’s
up, Chuck? Why you always taking Mama’s seat?”
Then take two steps back and
remind him of his ability to humble himself and acknowledge the
needs of others. He’ll be shocked
and taken aback but also wise
enough to listen to what sounds, to
him, like a compliment.
Family gatherings and special
events are just that - special events.
It’s not the time to let him, her or
them “have it.”
Use these celebrations to build
unforgettable memories and traditions that will live forever within
your heart.
Alma
To tell or not to tell
Hi Alma,
The mom of one of my
10-year-old daughter’s friends
confided in me that her husband
had been physically and verbally
abusive to her several times. (Unfortunately, as many people do in
this situation, she did not press
charges because she didn’t want
her kids to have to deal with the
fallout.)
The husband and wife are
separated now. Now my daughter’s friend has invited her to a
birthday party at her dad’s new
house. The husband has been polite to me and my child, but I’m
uncomfortable with the situation,
particularly since I have some
experience with an abusive partner who was a “nice person” to
outsiders.
I’m planning to tell my daughter she can’t go (but not tell her
the real reason). What do you
think? I’ve pointed the mom
to some resources on domestic
violence and counseling. Here’s
hoping she can heal.
Cautious, Reisterstown, Md.
Dear Cautious, I see your red
light earrings flashing, and I
can understand why. But you’re
wrong on this one. I say you
should let your daughter go.
Here’s why: your daughter is 10.
It’s a birthday party.
Her best friend’s father has
never hurt his own daughter or
yours. If he had, I suspect his
wife would not allow him to host
a birthday party. You said yourself that the BFF’s father has been
polite to you and your daughter.
You also said you’re familiar
with abusers being “a nice person
to outsiders.”
So why not let your daughter
go? She was not the only one invited to the party. I’m sure other
adults (parents and family members) will be there. A part of me
wonders if you think that by allowing your daughter to attend
you would be giving approval to
the father’s behavior.
Don’t worry; that’s not so.
Unless her mom asked you not
to participate, I just can’t come
up with a good reason for your
daughter not to go. This isn’t
a sleepover. Don’t make this a
grown-up issue for your daughter.
I understand that you and the
other mother have bonded over
shared sorrows, but you can’t
let the pain and suffering of your
marriages overshadow a very fun
time and lifelong memory for
your daughters.
Joint custody arrangements,
especially after a spiteful split,
can be extremely exasperating.
It’s horribly difficult to move past
the hurtful events and heartbreaking history you have with an expartner.
The key is to put your child
first.
Alma
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RE-ADVERTISMENT FOR BIDS
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL EXCEPTION
Sealed bids will be received by the City of Jackson, Mississippi until 3:30P.M., local
time, May 27, 2014 at Jackson City Hall, for the Brookwood Drive Bridge Replacement,
City Project No. 13B4500,
The entire projects must be completed within 45 calendar days. The contract will be
subjected to liquidated damages in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per
calendar day for each consecutive calendar day in which the contract time is exceeded.
The City of Jackson is committed to the principle of non-discrimination in public contracting. It is the policy of the City of Jackson to promote full an equal business opportunity for all persons doing business with the City. As a precondition to selection,
each contractor, bidder or offeror shall submit a completed and signed Equal Business Opportunity (EBO) ordinance. Failure to comply with the City’s ordinance shall
disqualify a contractor, bidder or offeror from being awarded an eligible contract. For
more information on the City of Jackson’s Equal Business Opportunity Program, please
contact Pam Confer in the office of Economic Development at (601) 960-1638. Copies
of the ordinance, EBO Plan Applications and a copy of the Program are available at
200 South President Street, Warren Hood Building, Second Floor, Jackson, Mississippi.
One (1) copy of the Plans, Specifications, and Contract Documents may be procured
from the Engineering Division upon payment of $50.00 dollars, which will not be refunded. Please contact Charles Williams Jr, P.E., at (601) 960-1656 for directions or
any additional information for procurement of plans and specifications. The Standard
Specifications adopted by the City Council may be procured from the Department of
Public Works, if desired upon payment of $5.00 dollars for each specification.
A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on May 13, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. local time, in the 5th
floor conference room of the Warren Hood Building, 200 South President Street, Jackson, Mississippi. All potential contractors, subcontractors, and other interested parties
are encouraged to attend.
Bidders must be qualified under Mississippi law and possess a certificate of responsibility issued by the Mississippi State Board of Contractors establishing its classification as
to the value and type of construction on which it is authorized to bid. Each bidder must
deposit with its proposal, a bid bond or certified check in an amount equal to five percent
(5%) of the total bid for the work, payable to the City of Jackson, as the bid security.
The successful bidder shall furnish a Performance Bond and Payment Bond each in the
amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded. Attorneys-infact who sign Bid Bonds or Payment Bonds and Performance Bonds must file with each
bond a certified and effective dated copy of their power of attorney.
Proposals shall be submitted in triplicate, sealed and deposited with the City of Jackson’s City Clerk prior to the hour and date designated above. Each bidder shall write
its certificate of responsibility number on the outside of the sealed envelope containing
its proposal.
The City of Jackson reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any and
all informalities
Synarus Green
Chief Administrative Officer
Terry Williamson
Legal Counsel
ZONING CASE NO. 3864
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority and direction of that Ordinance
by the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi, appearing in Minute Book
3G at page 115 thereof, notice is hereby given to all persons interested
in or in any way affected thereby, that Darlene Harper has filed with
the Planning Board for the City of Jackson, an application requesting a
Special Exception to operate a residential child care center in an R-1
(Single-Family) Residential District for property located at 3211 Jayne
Ave., in the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, and being
more particularly described as:
LOT 2, BLOCK 7, WEST PARK ADDITION.
Said application will be heard at the City Planning Board Hearing in the
Andrew Jackson Conference Room, First Floor, Warren A. Hood Building, 200 S. President Street in Jackson, Mississippi, at 1:30 p.m., on
NOTICE OF APPEAL FOR A USE PERMIT
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority and direction of that Ordinance by
the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi, appearing in Minute Book 3G at page
115 thereof, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in or in any way
affected thereby, that Thuy Tran Woo has filed with the Planning Board for
the City of Jackson, an application requesting a Special Exception to operate a
professional office for a fashion design & art studio in an R-1A (Single-Family)
Residential District for property located at 4570 Old Canton Rd., in the First
Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as:
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority and direction of that Ordinance
by the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi, appearing in Minute Book 3G
at page 115 thereof, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in or
in any way affected thereby, that Highland Village Holdings, LLC has filed
with the Planning Board for the City of Jackson, an application requesting
a Use Permit to allow for accessory automobile parking to serve commercial use immediately across from Old Canton Rd in an R-1A (Single-family)
Residential District on property located at 1305 Kimwood Drive (Parcel
535-2) and 1306 Kimwood Drive(Parcel 535-4) , in the First Judicial District
of Hinds County, Mississippi, and being more particularly described as:
LOT 3, KIMWOOD SUBDIVISION, PART 1.
Said application will be heard at the City Planning Board Hearing in the Andrew
Jackson Conference Room, First Floor, Warren A. Hood Building, 200 S. President Street in Jackson, Mississippi, at 1:30 p.m., on Wednesday, May 28, 2014,
at which time all parties interested in or affected thereby will be heard both pro
and con on said question, after which a record will be established upon which
the City Planning Board can make its recommendation to the City Council of
Jackson. Any objection thereto may be made by any person owning property
within the area, and if made in writing must be filed with the City Zoning Administrator before said time if a hearing thereof or consideration thereof is desired,
or by counsel on said date. If a request is made to the Zoning Administrator at
least 72 hours in advance, the City will take steps to accommodate citizens
need for interpreters or auxiliary aids for the visually/hearing impaired.
WITNESS my signature this 24th day of April 2014.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after passage and
proper publication.
Said application was heard by the City Planning Board on Wednesday,
March 26, 2014 with a recommendation to deny. The applicant has filed
an Appeal of the recommendation of the Planning Board. The Case will be
heard at the City Councils Zoning Meeting in the Council Chambers, First
Floor, City Hall, 219 S. President Street in Jackson, Mississippi, at 2:30
p.m., on Monday, May 19, 2014.
05/1/2014, 05/15/2014
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE JACKSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION (JHPC) WILL HOLD ITS MONTHLY MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014, AT
11:00 A.M. IN THE ANDREW JACKSON CONFERENCE ROOM (RM.
105) OF THE WARREN HOOD BUILDING, 200 SOUTH PRESIDENT
STREET, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.
I. APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS
A. CURRENT BUSINESS
1. CASE NO. 2013-35&36, REQUEST BY: UNIVERSITY PLACE, LLC
(APPLICANT: CLARENCE CHAPMAN) TO AMMEND THE ORIGINAL
COA TO BUILD 88 NEW TOWNHOMES FOR PROPERTY LOCATED
ON VARIOUS PARCELS IN THE FARISH ST. HISTORIC DISTRICT.
II. OTHER ITEMS
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY W JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI ESTABLISHING THE
HONORARY RENAMING OF OAK FOREST DRIVE (FROM MCDOWELL ROAD
10 COOPER ROAD) TO LEONARD TERRELL DRIVE.
WHEREAS, on Wednesday, October 30, 2013, the Jackson Public School District,
along with the entire City of Jackson, lost a distinguished citizen and public servant with
the passing of Mr. Leonard 13. Terrcll: and
WHEREAS, the long-time head custodian al Marshall Elementary School, Mr. Terrell
was a beacon of light to the Marshall Elementary Family and derived significant gratification from helping others; and
WHEREAS, is fitting and proper that Oak Forest Drive (from McDowell Road to Cooper
Road) be renamed in his honor.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED:
Section 1. Thai the Jackson City Council does hereby designate the honorary renaming
of Oak Forest Drive (from McDowcll Road to ‘Cooper Road) to Leonard Terrell Drive.
Section 2. That the City Clerk shall notify all appropriate City Departments and oilier
necessary parties of said honorary designation.
III. ADJOURN
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall notify the United States Postal Service, the
Mississippi Department of Transportation, the Public Safety Communication Division, all appropriate City, County and State entities, and all necessary parties
of the renaming of said street
SECTION 3. The City Engineer is authorized and directed to make appropriate revisions to the official map of the City of Jackson, Mississippi to reflect the
renaming of said public street and to take further appropriate actions as required
by Ordinance to affect said street renaming.
1306 Kimwood Drive(Parcel 535-4)
Lot 2, Kimwood Subdivision, Part 1.
05//1/2014, 05/15/2014
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE
JACKSON HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
SECTION 1. The name of Highland Drive (from Riverside Drive to Lakeland
Drive) be hereby changed to Museum Boulevard.
1305 Kimwood Drive (Parcel 535-2)
Lot 1, Kimwood Subdivision, Part 1. Less to City for St
/s/Ester L. Ainsworth
Zoning Administrator
City of Jackson, Mississippi
ORDINANCE OF THE CTTY COUNCIL OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
RENAMING HIGHLAND DRIVE (FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE TO
LAKELAND DRIVE) TO MUSEUM BOULEVARD.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI THAT:
05/1/2014, 05/15/2014
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL EXCEPTION
WHEREAS, the Jackson City Council finds that it is proper and fitting that the
name of Highland Drive (from Riverside Drive to Lakeland Drive) be changed to
Museum Boulevard.
WHEREAS, the renaming of Highland Drive to Museum Boulevard would result
in the museum’s location being more identifiable to tourists and would address
concerns regarding response times in the event of an emergency at the museum; and
05//1/2014, 05/8/2014
WHEREAS, the Mississippi Children’s Museum desires to rename Highland
Drive (from Riverside Drive to Lakcland Drive) to Museum Boulevard; and
Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at which time all parties interested in or affected thereby will be heard both pro and con on said question, after
which a record will be established upon which the City Planning Board
can make its recommendation to the City Council of Jackson. Any objection thereto may be made by any person owning property within the
area, and if made in writing must be filed with the City Zoning Administrator before said time if a hearing thereof or consideration thereof is
desired, or by counsel on said date. If a request is made to the Zoning
Administrator at least 72 hours in advance, the City will take steps to
accommodate citizens need for interpreters or auxiliary aids for the visually/hearing impaired.
05//1/2014
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
DESIGNATING THE HONORARY RENAMING OF GLENDALE STREET
(FROM BAILEY AVENUE TO RONDO STREET) TO PASTOR KEITH
TONKEL WAY.
WHEREAS, Pastor Keith Tonkel, a community leader in the City of Jackson, has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes; and
Council Member Barrett- Simon moved adoption; Council Member Yarber seconded.
WHEREAS. Pastor Keith Tonkel has served for many years as pastor of
Wells Memorial United Methodist Church in the Bailey Avenue Community;
and
Yeas- Barrett-Simon, Priester, Stamps, Tillman and Yarber.
Nays- Whitwell.
Absent- Cooper-Stokes.
WHEREAS, Pastor Keith Tonkel recently celebrated his 75th birthday with
a Diamond Celebration at Wells Church in the City of Jackson.
Council Member Yarber moved adoption; Council Member Stamps seconded.
Yeas- Barrett-Simon, Priester. Stamps, Tillman and Yarber.
Nays- Whitwell.
ATTEST:
Brenda Free City Clerk
I, Brenda Free, the duly appointed, qualified City Clerk and lawful custodian of records
of the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi and seal of said City, certify that the foregoing
is a true and exact copy of an Ordinance passed by the City Council at a regular meeting on the 25th dav of March, 2014, and recorded in Minute Book “6E”, pages 529- 530.
WITNESS my signature and official seal of office, this the 29th day of April, 2014.
Brenda Pree, City Clerk
05/1/2014
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED:
ATTEST:
I, Brenda Pree, the duly appointed, qualified City Clerk and lawful custodian of
records Of the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi and seal of said City, certify
that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of an Ordinance passed by the City
Council at a regular meeting on the 25th day of March, 2014, and recorded in
Minute Book “6E”, page 531.
WITNESS my signature and official seal of office, this the 29th day of April, 2014.
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Section 1: That the Jackson City Council does hereby designate the honorary renaming of Glendale Street (from Bailey Avenue to Rondo Street) to
Pastor Keith Tonkel Way.
Section 2: That the City Clerk shall notify all appropriate City Departments
and other necessary parties of said honorary designation.
Council Member Yarber moved adoption: Council Member Barrett-Simon
seconded.
Yeas- Barrett-Simon, Priester, Stamps, Tillman and Yarber.
Nays- Whitwell.
ATTEST:
Brcnda Pree City Clerk
I, Brenda Free, the duly appointed, qualified City Clerk and lawful custodian
of records of the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi and seal of said City,
certify that the foregoing is a true and exact copy of an Ordinance passed
by the City Council at a regular meeting on the 25th day of March, 2014,
and recorded in Minute Book “6E”, page 529.
WITNESS my signature and official seal of office, this the 29th day of April,
2014.
05/1/2014
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Sealed, written formal bid proposals for the above bid will be received by the Board
of Trustees of the Jackson Public School District, in the Business Office, 662 South
President Street, Jackson, Mississippi, until 10:00 A.M. (Local Prevailing Time) May 12,
2014, at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read aloud. The Board
of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive informalities, and to
withhold the acceptance of any bid if approved for forty-five calendar days from the date
bids are opened. Proposal forms and detailed specifications may be obtained free of
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Sealed, written formal bid proposals for the above bid will be received by the Board
of Trustees of the Jackson Public School District, in the Business Office, 662 South
President Street, Jackson, Mississippi, until 10:00 A.M. (Local Prevailing Time) May 08,
2014, at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read aloud. The Board
of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive informalities, and to
withhold the acceptance of any bid if approved for forty-five calendar days from the date
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May 1 - 7, 2014
legal
RESOLUTION DECLARING A NEED TO LEASE SCHOOL FACILITIES
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
City of Jackson
Jackson, Mississippi
Sealed bids will be received by the City Clerk of Jackson, Mississippi,
at 219 S. President Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39201 or at Post Office
Box 17, Jackson, Mississippi 39205 until 3:30 PM, local time, May 27,
2014, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud for:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of the Jackson Public School
District, Jackson, Mississippi (herein referred to as the “District”), as follows:
1. A need exists in the District for the acquisition, renovation, improvement, construction
and equipping of up to one (1) school facility within the District.
2. The District cannot provide the necessary funds to pay the cost or its proportionate
share of the cost of the renovations, acquisitions, improvements, construction and equipping of the school facilities required to meet the present needs of the District.
3. The District desires to sell, lease, lend, grant, or otherwise convey to a corporation,
individual or partnership, with or without consideration, or to permit such corporation,
individual or partnership to use, maintain or operate as part of public school facilities,
pursuant to Sections 37-7-351 through 37-7-359 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as
amended (the “Act”) up to one (1) school facility together with other real or personal
property which may be necessary, useful or convenient for the purposes of the District.
Any such sale, lease, loan, grant or conveyance shall be for a period of time not to
exceed twenty (20) years, and title to any real property transferred by the District shall
revert to the District at the expiration of such term.
4. The District desires to lease or lease-purchase up to one (1) school facility, which may
include the school facilities sold, granted, or otherwise conveyed by the District pursuant
to paragraph 3 above.
5. The District proposes to take final action upon the question of the sale, lease, loan,
grant or other conveyance of such school facilities, and on the question of leasing or
lease-purchasing such school facilities, at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the District to be held at 5:30 p.m. on May 20, 2014, at the Board’s regular meeting place
in the Board Meeting Room located at 621 South State Street, in the City of Jackson,
Mississippi, which date is not less than thirty days after the date of first publication of this
resolution, unless prior to such meeting a petition signed by not less than twenty percent
(20%) or fifteen hundred (1,500), whichever is less, of the qualified electors of the District
shall be filed with the District requesting that an election be called on such question. If
such a petition is timely filed, the District shall, not later than its next regular meeting,
adopt a resolution calling an election to be held within the District upon the questions of
authorizing the Board to sell, lease, lend, grant or otherwise convey such facilities, and to
lease or lease-purchase such facilities. Such election shall be called and held, and the
result determined, pursuant to and as provided by the Act.
6. The Board retains the firm of Young Law Group, PLLC to serve as bond counsel to
provide legal assistance relating to the structuring, sale, issuance, and closing of the
Lease and provide other legal services as are typically provided by bond counsel in similar transactions. Bond counsel shall be paid a reasonable and customary fee for its services, such fees to be approved by the Board at a later meeting, and shall be reimbursed
for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in connection with its services as bond counsel.
Having received a majority of the affirmative votes of the Board, the Resolution passed
on April 1, 2014.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
Sealed, signed bids are invited and will be received by the City of Jackson, Mississippi,
until 3:30 P.M. in the City Clerk’s Office of Jackson, the bid must be stamped in by 3:30
P.M. Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at which time said bids will be publicly opened at the City
Hall located at 219 South President Street (City Council Chambers) in City Hall for the
following:
00190-052014
07078-052014
07045-052014
07208-052014
24 Month Sale of Salvage Defaced/Bent Aluminum Signs
Bent/Twisted Steel Post & Various Other Scrap Iron
Three Axle 50 Ton Lowboy Trailer
Tandem Axle Lowboy Tractor
(3) 58,000 G.V.W. Truck-108 CA with 12 CYD
BIDS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.JACKSONMS.GOV.
The above must comply with the City’s specifications. Copies of proposal forms can be
obtained from the Purchasing Division, 200 South President Street, Room 604, Hood
Building, Jackson, Mississippi 39201. Copies of bid specifications are filed with the City
Clerk for public record in accordance with House Bill No 999, 1986 Regular Session of
the Mississippi Legislature.
The City of Jackson is committed to the principle of non-discrimination in Public Purchasing. It is the policy of the City of Jackson to promote full and equal business opportunities for all persons doing business with the City. As a pre-condition to selection,
each contractor, bidder or offer shall submit a completed and signed Equal Business
Opportunity (EBO) Plan Application, with each bid submission, in accordance with the
provisions set forth by authority of the City of Jackson’s EBO Ordinance. Failure to
comply with the City’s EBO Ordinance shall disqualify a contractor, bidder or offer, from
being awarded an eligible contract. For more information on the City’s EBO Program,
please contact the Office of Economic Development at (601)960-1638. Copies of the
EBO Ordinance, EBO Plan Application and a copy of the EBO Program are available
with the Office of Economic Development at 218 South President Street, Second Floor,
Jackson, Mississippi.
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The City also reserves the right
to waive any and all informalities in respect to any bid submitted. Bid awards will be
made to the lowest and best bidder quoting the lowest net price in accordance with
specifications. The award could be according to the lowest cost per item; or to the lowest total cost for all items; or to accept all or part of any proposal. Delivery time may be
considered when evaluating the bid proposal. In those cases where it is known prior
to advertising that the City’s intention is to award according to the lowest total cost for
all items, or in some variation thereof, statements to this affect will be included on the
proposal form. Absence of such statement means the City will make that determination
during the bid review.
Hellene Greer, CPPB, NPCA, Manager
Purchasing Division
(601) 960-1533
04/24/2014, 05/1/2014
04/17/2014, 04/24/2014, 05/1/2014, 05/8/2014
ZOO DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT
The City of Jackson, Mississippi (“City of Jackson”) is committed to cultivating and ensuring the quality of life of its citizens, through various programs, employment, initiatives, and assistance. The City encourages all
persons, corporations, and/or entities doing business within the City, as
well as those who seek to contract with the City on various projects and
or conduct business in the City, to assist the City in achieving its goal by
strongly considering City residents for employment opportunities.
The City of Jackson is committed to the principle of non-discrimination in
public contracting. It is the policy of the City of Jackson to promote full
and equal business opportunity for all persons doing business with the
City. As a pre-condition to selection, each contractor, bidder or offeror
shall submit a completed and signed Equal Business Opportunity (EBO)
Plan, with the bid submission, in accordance with the provisions of the
City of Jackson’s Equal Business Opportunity (EBO) Ordinance. Failure
to comply with the City’s Ordinance shall disqualify a contractor, bidder
or offeror from being awarded an eligible contract. For more information
on the City of Jackson’s Equal Business Opportunity Program, please
contact of the Division of Equal Business Opportunity at 960-1856. Copies of the Ordinance, EBO Plan Applications and a copy of the Program
are available at 200 South President Street, Second Floor, Jackson,
Mississippi.
Contract Documents may be obtained from and/or examined at the offices of the City of Jackson’s Public Works Department Engineering Division located at 200 S. President Street, Suite 424, Jackson, Mississippi
39201. Telephone 601.960.1823. Prospective bidders may obtain copies of all materials required for bidding purposes. For General Contractors and subcontractors, there is a NON-refundable deposit of $50.00 for
hard copies and no charge for electronic, or e-mail copies.
Bid preparation will be in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders
bound in the project manual. The City reserves the right to reject any
and all bids and to waive any and all irregularities in respect to any bid
submitted or to accept any proposal which is deemed most favorable to
the City of Jackson.
Willie C. Bell, Jr., Interim Director
Department of Public Works
Kwame Kenyatta
Deputy CAO
Terry Williamson
Deputy City Attorney
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Knowing these two things
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Heart
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which may save a life.
1. Know if you are at risk
for stroke.
2. Know the stroke warning signs and what to do in a
stroke emergency.
Stroke is the No. 1 preventable cause of disability and
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Someone in the United States
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“Knowing if you are at risk
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because many risk factors can
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Center and American Stroke
Association volunteer.
“The No. 1 stroke risk factor is high blood pressure.
Nearly 78 million Americans
have high blood pressure and
many more aren’t even aware
that they have it. It’s important to check your blood
pressure regularly and talk
to your doctor about healthy
levels for you.”
Through the American
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association provides information and tools to help people
to prevent, treat and beat
stroke. A free stroke risk as-
sessment, available at StrokeAssociation.org/strokemonth
helps individuals to evaluate
their personal stroke risk and
to work with their doctor to
begin a prevention plan.
Together to End Stroke,
nationally sponsored by Covidien, a global healthcare
product company, teaches
the acronym F.A.S.T. to help
people to recognize a stroke
and what to do if one occurs:
• F - Face Drooping: Does
one side of the face droop or
is it numb? Ask the person to
smile.
• A - Arm Weakness: Is
one arm weak or numb? Ask
the person to raise both arms.
Does one arm drift downward?
• S - Speech Difficulty:
Is speech slurred, are they
unable to speak, or are they
hard to understand? Ask the
person to repeat a simple sentence like, “The sky is blue.”
Is the sentence repeated correctly?
• T - Time to call 9-1-1: If
the person shows any of these
symptoms, even if the symptoms go away, call 9-1-1 and
get them to the hospital immediately.
“Prevention is the best
cure, but in the event of a
stroke emergency, quick recognition and treatment may
have a dramatic impact on the
outcome,” said Mark Turco,
M.D., chief medical officer,
Covidien Vascular Therapies.
“If you are at risk for stroke
or spend time with someone
who is, learning and sharing the stroke warning signs
to where this process started last
year. What they have put on the
table is totally unacceptable.”
If the NNPA files a motion in
opposition to the revised plan,
as expected, the judge has a
number of options from which
to choose, including making a
final decision on the merits of
the case or ordering the defendants to come up with a more
comprehensive plan.
After being sued by the Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund, the
major tobacco manufacturers
were found guilty in 2005 of
violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations Act (RICO) when they
deliberately misled the public
about the dangers and addictiveness of smoking.
U.S. Judge Gladys Kessler
ordered them to halt the offending practices and place a series
of full-page ads in newspapers
and commercials on network
TV during prime time for a year,
reported by Target Market News
to be valued between $30 million and $45 million, acknowledging their wrongdoing.
The defendants - Philip Morris USA, Inc., Altria Group,
Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company (in its own capacity
and as successor to Brown &
Williamson Tobacco Corporation and American Tobacco Co.)
and Lorillard Tobacco Company - went along with a plan proposed by the judge that excluded all Black-owned newspapers
and broadcast companies.
The tobacco companies submitted a revised plan after the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) and the
National Association of Black
Owned Broadcasters (NABOB),
two trade associations whose
member businesses reach more
than 95 percent of all African
Americans, filed an amicus or
friend of the court brief chal-
lenging the original plan to run
court-ordered ads only in White
and Latino publications and on
the three major television networks.
In an amicus brief supporting
the Black Press, the NNPA said,
“To rectify the damage created
by Defendant in their targeting
of African American communities, this Court should require
Defendants to use NABOB and
NNPA member organizations to
fulfill its remedial order. Blackowned print and visual media
remain a primary method of receiving information for African
Americans.”
After accepting the filing by
NNPA and NABOB, Judge Kessler ordered the defendants to
address the issues raised by the
two trade associations and cable
networks that later filed similar
briefs protesting the arrangement that favored the three
major broadcast networks over
them.
Among those joining the action were Fox Network News,
Viacom (the parent company of
BET, MTV and VH1), Univision, TV One, Radio One, CW
Network and A&E Television
Networks.
Under its latest plan, the tobacco firms propose advertising
in only 14 of approximately 200
Black newspapers: The Arizona
Informant, the Denver Weekly
News, the Inner-City News
should be a priority.”
Additional stroke signs include: Sudden severe headache with no known cause;
sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination; sudden trouble
seeing in one or both eyes; or
sudden confusion or trouble
understanding.
Together to End Stroke
offers a free “Spot a Stroke
F.A.S.T.” mobile app for iOS
and Android, including the
warning signs and a searchable map to find local hospitals recognized for heart and
stroke care.
For
more
information
about stroke or American
Stroke Month activities, visit
StrokeAssociation.org/strokemonth. Follow #StrokeMonth
on Facebook and Twitter to
add your voice to the conversation.
About the American Heart
Association/American Stroke
Association: The American
Stroke Association is devoted
to saving people from stroke
- America’s No. 4 killer and a
leading cause of serious disability.
The association teams with
millions of volunteers to fund
innovative research, fight for
stronger public health policies, and provide lifesaving
tools and information to prevent, treat and beat stroke.
The Dallas-based association
was created in 1997 as a division of the American Heart
Association.
To learn more or to get involved, call 1-888-4STROKE
or visit strokeassociation.org.
Kessler
Campbell
(Conn.), the Gary Crusader (Indiana), the Louisville Defender,
Insight News (Minnesota), the
St. Louis American, the Omaha
Star, the Ohio City News, Black
Chronicle (Nebraska), the Portland Skanner, the Seattle Skanner, the Milwaukee Courier and
the Charlotte Post.
The tobacco companies proposed reducing what it called
“major-circulation
newspapers,” i.e. white dailies, from
29 to 27, eliminating the Boston Herald, the Florida TimesUnion, the Fort Worth StarTelegram, the Fresno Bee, the
New York Post, the New York
Sun [which has closed], the Orlando Sentinel, the Palm Beach
Post, the Sacramento Bee, the
San Diego Union-Tribune and
the Tallahassee Democrat from
the original list.
Added were: the Baltimore
Sun, the Birmingham News,
the Charleston Post & Courier,
the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson,
Miss., the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Detroit Free
Press, the New Orleans Picayune, the Newark Star-Ledger
and the News Journal in Delaware.
Remaining on both ad buy
lists were: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Boston
Globe, the Charlotte Observer,
the Chicago Sun-Times, the
Chicago Tribune, the Dallas
Morning News, the Houston
Chronicle, the Los Angeles
Times, the Miami Herald, the
New York Daily News, the
New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Richmond
Times-Dispatch, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Tampa
Bay Times (formerly the St.
Petersburg Times), USA Today, the Wall Street Journal
and the Washington Post.
New tobacco ‘apology’ ads plan
still excludes most black media
By George E. Curry
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
WA S H I N G TON, D.C. - A
revised plan for
major tobacco
companies
to
purchase courtordered ads to
admit that they deliberately
misled the public about the dangers of smoking would add nine
white-owned newspapers to the
list of publications carrying tobacco ‘apology’ ads.
But then it shuts out more than
90 percent of black newspapers
and all black-owned radio and
television stations, according to
documents filed in federal court.
“If they had asked, we could
have helped them develop a
better plan than this,” said National Newspaper Publishers
Association Chairman Cloves
Campbell.
“They didn’t consult us and
the end result is that we’re back
May 1 - 7, 2014
A-TEAAM: mentoring black boys for a better future
By Stephanie R. Jones
Contributing Writer
Tears were flowing even before
Peggy Rhodes’ son Billy Rhodes
was named an Ambassador of the
Year from Blackburn Laboratory
Middle School. She sat with other
parents snapping photos of their
sixth-grade sons, graduates of the
Ambassadors of The Evers Academy for African American Males
- the A-TEAAM.
“I was so proud,” Peggy Rhodes
said. The program has helped her
son and she thinks it will help him
as he makes decisions later in life,
said Rhodes, who has two other
children. Billy is the youngest. “I
hope he will go on to be a mentor
to other kids.” Billy was mentored
by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Inc., Jackson Alumnae Chapter.
The boys from Blackburn and
Nichols Middle School in Canton
were recognized Sunday during a
banquet at Jackson State University for their participation in the
program, where they were mentored by adults from various civic
and social service organizations in
the Jackson area and Canton.
The Ambassadors of The Evers
Academy for African American
Males mentoring program is administered by the Juanita S. Doty
(JSD) Foundation in partnership
with the Medgar and Myrlie Evers
Institute. It inspires young males
of color to honor the life and live
the legacy of Medgar Evers, slain
civil rights leader and NAACP
field director for Mississippi.
The Community Engagement
and Empowerment Network
(CEEN), comprised of 21 community-based organizations, provides
mentors for the boys. The men and
women mentors taught the boys
the skills of leadership.
Sunday’s program, April 27,
2014 was hosted by Juanita Sims
Doty and emceed by Byron Brown
and Erin Pickens of WJTV - Channel 12.
The boys heard from Jackson’s
newly elected Mayor Tony Yarber
and his recent campaign opponent
Atty. Chokwe Antar Lumumba.
The two embraced on stage in a
show of unity and encouragement
to the boys.
Yarber said the three things
young men need are acknowledge-
ment, acclamation and affirmation.
He explained to the boys that they
are essential to the future of this
country, that they are important.
“Don’t be like us,” Yarber challenged the boys. “Be better than
us.”
Lumumba’s father, the late Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba,
was a mentor in the program and
honorary co-chairman of the ATEAAM. Chokwe Antar Lumumba was presented with a photo of
his father with Myrlie Evers Williams and Jackson Public Schools
Superintendent Cedrick Gray.
Dwight Luckett Sr., superintendent of Canton Public Schools, likened the struggle of young black
males to war. “We have to have a
vision. We have to have a plan of
action to back that. We have to arm
our young soldiers in this war,”
Luckett said. He urged the boys to
learn good manners, good morals,
respect for elders and respect for
girls and women.
Tim Collins, vice-president of
the board of trustees of Jackson
Public Schools, said Yarber and
Lumumba were good representatives of the community and told
the boys they, too, could achieve
success. He said the boys needed
to see doctors, lawyers, public servants and art teachers in the audience.
JPS Superintendent Gray gave
the boys the ABCs: Align themselves with good people; Believe
they are special; and Commit to do
the right thing. While Evers Wil-
liams told the boys they “are the
light that will lead us in the future.”
An inaugural award, Health Equity Ambassador, Advocate and
Leader (HEAAL) was given to Dr.
Yvonne T. Maddox, acting director, National Institute on Minority
Health and Health Disparities.
Other awardees included:
Nichols Middle School: Ambassador Joshua Jackson, Ambassador of the Year. Ambassador Rigoberto Leon, Honorable Mention.
Blackburn Laboratory Middle
School: Ambassador D’Quon
Sanders, Honorable Mention
The Ambassadors of the Year
received bikes compliments of Regions Bank.
photos by Jay Johnson
May 1 - 7, 2014
Book Review:
“Things I Should Have Told My
Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love
Affairs”
Pearl Cleage
by
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
Book Reviewer
“Dear Diary….”
You’ve written that many
times in your life. Those little
hurts, schoolgirl crushes, firsts,
lasts, and thoughts. It’s all written in your journal so you’d
see where you came from and
where you’re going.
But would you want your
children or grandchildren to
read your journals, unedited,
warts and all? Pearl Cleage
thinks she might. Maybe. And
in her new book, “Things I
Should Have Told My Daughter,” she explains why.
The “no” came as no surprise; as a 15-year-old, Pearl
Cleage’s daughter, Deignan,
declined the opportunity to read
her mother’s journals. So when
Cleage offered to keep the journals for her granddaughter to
read someday, Deignan turned
her down, saying that the tod-
c.2014, Atria
$23.99 / $27.99 Canada • 320 pages
dler didn’t need to read them,
either.
Deignan figured she understood what happened in
Cleage’s life. She was there
for much of it, after all, but
Cleage wondered if the things
her daughter never knew were
just as important as the things
she knew. There were lessons to
learn, and Cleage chose to begin with January 9, 1970.
Twenty-one-year-old Cleage
was at a party that night, commiserating with the wife of a
friend on his way to jail.
Politics and activism were a
major part of Cleage’s life then.
She had many friends in the
SNCC, had met Coretta Scott
King, was a supporter of Angela Davis and, later, worked with
Maynard Jackson. Racial issues
were on her mind a lot then, as
was sexism and feminism.
Though it would alter her
plans for her future, Cleage
thought about having a baby
in her mid-twenties. She didn’t
mention it to her then-husband,
Michael Lomax, but she often wondered what their child
might look like. In August of
1974, she found out. Giving
birth wasn’t hard. Motherhood
sometimes was.
And as her daughter grew,
so did Cleage. Still politically
active, she honed her writing
skills and became a playwright,
columnist, and author. She got
divorced. Her mother died as
Cleage’s career and her love life
thrived. Yes, things happened
that her granddaughter “probably” didn’t need to know, but
Cleage is overall “glad” she
wrote them down anyhow.
You know those nature shows
where you watch a flower open
in quick-time? That’s what
reading “Things I Should Have
Told My Daughter” is like: we
watch an accomplished writer
Crossword Puzzle
blossom before our eyes,
in a book written while she
bloomed.
But that’s not the only
appeal here: author Pearl
Cleage gives us a front-row
seat, not only to her life but to
the social issues of the days
in which she journaled.
That allows us to see history in the eyes of an idealistic young woman, then a new
mother, then someone who’s
on the edge of attaining her
dreams - all perspectives for
which we know the outcome
but getting there, as they say,
is half the fun.
Though clarifying notes
might’ve been occasionally
helpful (particularly in determining ownership of pronouns), this is one diary you
needn’t read furtively.
For you, “Things I Should
Have Told My Daughter” is a
book you should see.
Sudoku
The challenge is to fill every row across, every column down, and every
3x3 box with the digits 1 through 9. Each 1 through 9 digit must appear
only once in each row across, each column down, and each 3x3 box.
© Feature Exchange
Cryptogram
A cryptogram is a puzzle where a sentence is encoded by substituting the
actual letters of the sentence with different letters. The challenge of the
puzzle is to ‘decode’ the sentence to reveal the original English sentence.
We have provided a few of the decoded letters to help get you started.
Hint: Quote by Steve Jobs
© Feature Exchange
This Week’s Horoscopes
You are more perceptive than usual
this morning and see other people's
true colors.
1/21 - 2/19
Aquarius
ACROSS
1. Small licorice treats
5. Rancor
9. Realm
10. Asian country
11. False bible god
12. Correct
13. Brief storm
15. Ripen
16. President James ___
18. PC valley
21. Dined
22. German letter topper
26. City Boca ___
28. Too
29. Birds “thumb”
30. Connection
31. Promotion
32. Kaput
DOWN
1. Nails
2. Asian nation
3. Swain
4. Italian sausage
5. Exercise place
6. Regions
7. Slang
8. Weighed down
10. Infrequent
14. Gap
17. Midland
18. Biblical woman
19. European country
20. Abated (2 wds.)
23. Lotion ingredient
24. U.S. Department of Agriculture
25. Has toed
27. Bullfight cheer
© Feature Exchange
You may be on a major winning streak
today so just go with the wind behind
your back before it changes direction.
7/23-8/21
Leo
You may discover a secret or the
hidden pleasures of some other
situation this week.
2/20 - 3/20
Pisces
Keep up the pace today without straining
so when its time to take a rest, you'll have
a new accomplishment under way!
8/22 - 9/23
Virgo
This week something lost or forgotten may
suddenly come to light, surprising you.
3/21 - 4/20
Aries
4/21 - 5/21
Taurus
For the greatest gain just sustain your
positive thinking levels without burning
out before the week is over.
9/24 - 10/23
Libra
Conflicting energies may have left
you drained of late, but realignment is
now underway that allows you to get
back in tune.
You're restless now and you'll be active,
needing stimulus like a good suspense
novel or play to keep you interested.
10/24 - 11/22
Scorpio
You may find yourself better able to take
charge of your daily routine and let it
energize you all this week.
5/22 - 6/21
Gemini
You may be bored, especially with
your routine and this may cause you
to seek out a different type of social
interest today.
11/23 - 12/22
Sagittarius
Put aside time-wasting diversions today
and go with what really makes you feel
alive and energized.
6/22 - 7/22
Cancer
This should be a happy, relaxed, and
successful period, one in which you could
take advantage of all opportunities.
12/23 - 1/20
Capricorn
(For puzzle answer keys, see page 14)
GE T YOU R C U R R EN T NEWS ONLINE AT:
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ENTERTAINMENT
May 1 - 7, 2014
Report: FOX cancels Michael Limbaugh takes a shot at
Lemon; alludes to CNN
Ealy’s ‘Almost Human’
eurweb.com
Bad news for Michael Ealy.
Deadline.com is reporting
that his Fox series “Almost
Human,” starring the actor
as a cyborg cop, has not been
picked up for a second season.
According to the website, the futuristic drama costarring Karl Urban got off
to a slow start in November
but held enough ground to at
least earn renewal consideration, often finishing on par
with its Monday companion
(the already-renewed drama
“The Following”). In fact,
the March season (and series)
finale of “Almost Human”
logged a 1.5 rating in 18-49,
matching the Live+Same Day
rating for last night’s finale of
“The Following.” (The Following is a bigger DVR draw).
personality’s sexuality
Michael Ealy in FOX’s “Almost Human”
According to Deadline’s
Nellie Andreeva, “Almost Human’s” chances started to slip
once Fox’s drama pilots started coming in. “Gotham” (costarring Jada Pinkett Smith),
“The Red Band Society” (costarring Octavia Spencer) and
“Empire” (starring Terrence
Howard and Taraji P. Henson)
are all considered strong contenders for a series pickup,
which didn’t bode well for
“Almost Human.”
Urban played a human
cop paired with Ealy’s lifelike combat-model android
in “Almost Human,” from the
“Fringe” team of JJ Abrams
and J.H. Wyman.
Columbus Short
fired from ‘Scandal’
eurweb.com
Well, this is not exactly a
surprise.
According
to
reports,
“Scandal” actor Columbus
Short is history as far as that
show is concerned.
Sources connected with
ABC - as you’ve probably
already guessed - say it’s because the network decided to
release him due to allegations
of domestic violence.
In fact, the actor just released this statement to TMZ:
“At this time I must confirm my exit from a show I’ve
called home for three years,
with what is the most talented ensemble in television
today.”
He continues:
“Everything must come to
an end and unfortunately the
time has come for Harrison
Wright to exit the canvas. I
wish nothing but the best for
Short
Shonda, Kerry and the rest of
the cast…”
Dang, it’s almost like it was
predestined to happen ‘cause
in the series’ season finale, he
caught a bullet, so now …
As we reported, Short’s
wife just got a restraining
order against him after he
allegedly put a knife to her
throat and threatened to kill
her. He’s also been charged in
connection with another incident with domestic violence
and child abuse. He was arrested for yet another incident
of alleged domestic abuse.
And he was arrested recently
for allegedly clocking a dude
in a bar.
The-Dream accused of beating
his ex; releases song inspired
by Donald Sterling ban
eurweb.com
The-Dream
has
made
headlines this morning on
two fronts.
TMZ is reporting that he’s
wanted by New York authorities for allegedly punching,
kicking, and strangling his
ex-girlfriend, who was pregnant at the time. And in the
midst of this, he found time
to record and release a record
last night ripping racist LA
Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
The alleged domestic incident took place in April 2013
at the Plaza Hotel, roughly
three months before Dream’s
ex-GF Lydia Nam gave birth
to his son, TMZ reported.
It’s unclear what prompted
the alleged attack and if Nam
ever sought medical attention
- but for some reason,
she didn’t file a police
report until November, which is when she
described the alleged
assault to police.
According to law
enforcement sources,
Dream (real name
Terius Nash) is now
wanted for questioning by police in connection with Nam’s
The Dream
allegations - which means if
they find him, he’ll be taken
into custody.
Dream insists Nam is lying, and sources close to the
producer tell TMZ that he
thinks she’s a vengeful wom-
an plotting to use this alleged
crime as a way to extend her
visa in the U.S. (Nam is Canadian.)
According to law enforcement sources, Dream was
already arrested in connection with a separate domestic violence incident (also
involving Nam) last June in
Newport Beach, Calif., but
she refused to press charges.
As a result, the D.A. rejected
the case.
As for his song, it’s called
“Black” and was posted as a
video yesterday, hours after
NBA commissioner Adam
Silver announced that Sterling has been banned for life
and fined $2.5 million for his
racist remarks. The song’s
chorus: “I feel real black
right now.”
eurweb.com
Another day, another beef.
This time, the contenders
are Rush Limbaugh and Don
Lemon.
The feud between the talk
show hosts is one of many
stemming
from
Donald
Sterling’s racist comments.
While addressing the Sterling situation on April 28,
Limbaugh mentioned how
the things said by the LA
Clippers’ owner were causing him problems in light of
the fact that he “did not give
enough money to Obama.”
From there, it was on as
Lemon reacted to Limbaugh
by telling his fellow CNN
commentator Erin Burnett,
“If we didn’t know then, that
Rush Limbaugh is a stunt
king, then we know now.”
The back and forth continued April 29 as Limbaugh
weighed in while firing a shot
at CNN and Lemon’s sexuality.
“Over at CNN, they interpreted that to mean that I
was defending Sterling.” the
conservative firebrand said.
“How did they get there?
I don’t know how they get
there. Erin Burnett played
the sound bite and then went
to Mr. Black Hole himself,
Lemon
Limbaugh
Don Lemon (who sleeps with
men, proudly) for comment.”
Lemon wasn’t the only one
to catch it from Limbaugh,
who blasted media watchdog
Media Matters for not picking up on the fact that he was
making a joke.
“These people have no
sense of humor, particularly
when it comes to Obama,”
Limbaugh stated while giving his theory on why Sterling has landed on a lot of
people’s bad side. “They
have no sense of humor whatsoever. Everybody listening
to this program knew I was
making a joke (and a quite
good one, by the way, if I say
so myself) that if Sterling had
just given a little bit more to
Obama, everything would be
okay.”
Limbaugh then shifted back
to Lemon as he started mocking the CNN commentator’s
infamous question about
whether it really is “preposterous” to think the missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
plane flew into a black hole.
“You have a story like Sterling and all these people go
on TV,” Limbaugh said, “and
they try to out do each other
being the most offended, the
most outraged, the most hurt,
the most harmed, the most
sensitive, the most in touch
and so forth… Crackpots everywhere.”
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