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Facebook’s decisions were ‘Setbacks for civil rights,’ audit finds

By Mike Isaac

SAN FRANCISCO — Auditors handpicked by Facebook to examine its

policies said that the company had not done enough to protect people on the platform from discriminatory posts and ads and that its decisions to leave up President Trump’s inflam-matory posts were “significant setbacks for civil rights.”

The 89-page audit put Face-book in an awkward position as the presidential campaign heats up. The report gave fuel to the company’s detractors, who said the site had allowed hate speech and misinforma-tion to flourish. The audit also placed the social network in the spotlight for an issue it had worked hard to avoid since the 2016 election: That it may once again be negatively influenc-ing American voters.

Now Facebook has to de-cide whether its approach to hateful speech and noxious content — which was to leave it alone in the name of free expression — remains ten-able. And that decision puts pressure on Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, who has repeatedly said that his company was not an arbiter of truth and that it would not police politicians’ posts.

“Many in the civil rights community have become dis-heartened, frustrated and angry after years of engagement where they implored the com-pany to do more to advance

equality and fight discrimina-tion, while also safeguarding free expression,” wrote the auditors, Laura W. Murphy and Megan Cacace, who are civil rights experts and lawyers.

The audit, which was the culmination of two years of examination of the social net-work, was another signal of how power by the largest tech companies is increasingly under scrutiny. Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon are all facing questions over how they are wielding their influence and what effects it has had. Later this month, the chief executives of all four companies are set to testify in front of Congress.

But the report was especial-ly devastating for Facebook, because its executives had pointed to it as a sign that the company was seriously grappling with the content of its site.

In the audit, Facebook was repeatedly faulted for prior-itizing free expression on its

platform over nondiscrimi-nation, and for not having a robust infrastructure to handle civil rights. The report homed in on three posts by Mr. Trump in May, which the audit said contained hateful and violent speech or which harmed vot-ers. Facebook left those posts untouched, over objections by the auditors, the report said.

In doing so, the social net-work set a “terrible precedent” that others could copy and that could affect the November election, the report said. The move cheated the billions of other people who use Face-book out of equal treatment, giving powerful political lead-ers a special exemption to make false and divisive state-ments, it said.

“Facebook has made policy and enforcement choices that leave our election exposed to interference by the president and others who seek to use misinformation to sow confu-sion and suppress voting,” Ms. Murphy and Ms. Cacace wrote.

Some 35 states see a rise in new Covid-19 cases, average age of the infected shifts downward

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The US has recorded more than 3.3 million coronavirus cases since

the pandemic began, accord-ing to Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, and at least 135,205 Americans have died. Across the world, 12.9 million people have tested positive for the virus.

Despite another bleak mile-stone, the US numbers could just be the tip of the iceberg, as experts have often high-lighted infections could be around 10 times higher than what is reported, as many go untraced. And nearly 40% of Americans who were infected show no symptoms, according to new estimates by the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Prevention.

Across the US, both local

and state leaders have said in recent weeks new cases are largely driven by Americans who have opted to resume gatherings and outings to bars. In many states, the average age of new cases has shifted down-ward, with more young people testing positive than ever before since the start of the pandemic.

In Louisiana, officials re-ported more than 1,300 new coronavirus cases Sunday — 99% of which were spread through the community and more than a third of which were in people aged 29 or younger, officials said. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a mask mandate will go into ef-fect Monday morning follow-ing an uptick in cases. Many of those new cases are being traced to gatherings including informal backyard get-togeth-ers, the governor said.

Supreme Court rules Manhattan DA can obtain Trump taxes

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WASHINGTON — Rejecting President Dona ld Trump’s

complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s de-mands for the billionaire pres-ident’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his taxes and other financial re-cords almost certainly will be kept out of the public eye at least until after the November election.

In a separate case, the jus-tices kept a hold on banking and other documents about Trump, family members and his businesses that Congress has been seeking for more than a year. The court said that while Congress has significant power to demand the presi-dent’s personal information, it is not limitless.

The court turned away the broadest arguments by Trump’s lawyers and the Jus-

tice Department that the pres-ident is immune from inves-tigation while he holds office or that a prosecutor must show a greater need than normal to obtain the tax records. But it is unclear when a lower court judge might order the Manhat-tan district attorney’s subpoena to be enforced.

Trump is the only pres-ident in modern times who has refused to make his tax returns public, and before he was elected he promised to release them. He didn’t embrace Thursday’s outcome as a victory even though it is

Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, dead at 59

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Zindzi Mandela, South Africa‘s Ambassador to Denmark and daughter

of anti-apartheid icons Nel-son and Winnie Mandela, has died at the age of 59, the South African Department of Interna-tional Relations and Coopera-tion said Monday.

“Zindzi will not only be re-membered as a daughter of our struggle heroes, Tata Nelson and Mama Winnie Mandela, but as a struggle heroine in her own right. She served South Africa well,” Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Rela-tions, said in a short statement Monday morning.

The department said it was still gathering information on the cause of Mandela’s death and expects to release a de-tailed statement later.

Mandela, who was Nel-son and Winnie Mandela’s youngest daughter, died early Monday morning at a Johan-nesburg hospital, according to a statement from the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The premier is “deeply saddened” by her death, the statement said.

“I offer my deep condolenc-es to the Mandela family as we mourn the passing of a fearless political activist who was a leader in her own right,” Ra-maphosa said in the statement.

“Our sadness is compound-ed by this loss being visited upon us just days before the world marks the birthday of the great Nelson Mandela.”

The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation also re-

leased a statement mourning Mandela’s death.

She was “regarded by many as a child of the nation,” the foundation said in a statement, and her death means “South Africa loses an important gen-erational link connecting our divided history to the promise of better, more inclusive, to-morrows.”

A spokesperson for the Nel-son Mandela Foundation told CNN it is currently consulting with the Mandela family be-fore it issues its own statement.

Zindzi Mandela pictured with father Nelson in 1992.

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2010 census omitted 3.7m Blacks – nearly five times its original ‘Undercount’: claims National Urban League

By Hazel Trice Edney

- A special report released by the National Urban League reveals that the U. S. Census Bureau omitted at least 3.7 million African-Americans from its 2010 count, nearly five times the 800,000 “under-count” that the bureau has long reported.

Largely due to the Corona-virus, the sluggish response to the 2020 Census count now un-derway is on track for the same or even worse results, NUL predicts. The organization says the Black community stands to lose billions of dollars and significant political power if something is not done quickly to speed up and establish a more accurate count.

“As a gauge, last decade, 9% of Black people in the U.S. (approximately 3.7 million people), were missed in the 2010 Census–an “omission” rate higher than any other racial or ethnic group,” says NUL’s 12-page “State of the 2020 Census” report released June 17. “Preliminary assess-ments of 2020 Census house-hold response rates to date, portend the potential loss of billions of dollars in federal funding allocations, power and political representation for the Black population, if nothing is done to stop this trend.”

Using the mapping tool of the City University of New York (CUNY), the NUL re-ports that “currently, approx-imately 25% of households residing in predominantly Black areas are in the bottom 20% of response rates (below 50%),” so far.

Among the report’s key findings:

Young Black Children are poised to experience historic undercounts in the 2020 Cen-sus...Seven out of 10 black and brown children 0-5 years old were not counted in the 2010 Census.

Several large cities and jurisdictions with predominate or large Black populations trail their state response rates by 10 or more percentage points (i.e., St. Louis, Mo., Los An-geles, Calif., Miami, Fla., and Detroit, Mich.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s enumeration of persons expe-riencing homelessness has not occurred.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s difficulty in rescheduling the enumeration of college and university students and con-ducting outreach targeting these communities with clear and concise guidance, will impact local communities and the black count overall, if not corrected.

An undercount of the Black population in southern states will impact the overall Black count in America. One U.S. Census Regional Cen-sus Center is responsible for enumerating seven states (Flor-ida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi,

Alabama, and Louisiana), with significant Black populations in the 2020 Census.

The Census count started April 1. People can respond by phone, mail or online. Through July, August, September, and October, Census workers will escalate their attempts to count college students; plus anyone who has not responded by going to homes until the end of October.

Civil rights organizations have gone into high gear with an educational campaign push-ing the importance of an ac-curate Census count to the Black community and other communities of color. Yet, it appears that the extent of the Census omissions in 2010 is now being widely reported for the first time.

“The U.S. Census Bureau and the current Administration must do all that it can to ensure an accurate count of the Black population by reallocating media resources and outreach to address these circumstanc-es,” says NUL President/CEO Marc H. Morial in a release ac-companying the report. “His-torically, African Americans have been undercounted each decade. Approximately 3.7 million African Americans were entirely uncounted in the 2010 Census. The 2020 Census raises new risks and uncertainties that put an al-ready vulnerable Black count at extreme risk.”

The 3.7 million omission appears even more extreme when compared to numbers used by other civil rights groups. A simple Google search turned up a March 2019 “Fact Sheet” led by the Leadership Conference Edu-cation Fund (a subsidiary of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights) which was also signed by the George-town Law School’s Center on Poverty and Inequality and by the Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative.

The Fact Sheet states, “The 2010 Census undercounted the African-American population by more than 800,000.” The “800,000” number is footnoted and attributed to a 2012 U.S. Census Bureau press release announcing estimates of un-dercounts.

Yet another number has been used by the NAACP for the 2010 Census under-count. Page 7 of a federal lawsuit filed two years ago by the NAACP against the U. S. Census Bureau, Com-merce Secretary Wilbur Ross and President Donald Trump states, “The 2010 Census did not account for 1.5 million black and Hispanic residents, which would be enough peo-ple to fill two Congressional districts.”

NUL’s omission number of “3.7 million”; the Leadership Conference’s undercount of “more than 800,000” and the NAACP’s combined “under-count of 1.5 million Black

and Hispanic” residents. This scenario raises the question. Which one is correct?

In response to questions from the Trice Edney News Wire, the Census Bureau and the civil rights organizations sought to explain the conflict-ing numbers. For the most part, the explanations remain fuzzy at best, opening yet more questions than provid-ing answers. The confusion apparently comes down to the vague difference between the terms “net undercount” and “omissions”.

In response to an inquiry from the Trice Edney News Wire, Census consultant, Terri Ann Lowenthal, said she is the source of the NUL’s 3.7 million omission number. She emailed a one paged document in which she listed the “net undercount” of Black people as 827,152 (2.06 percent) and “Omissions” as 3,734,229 (9.3 percent).

As for the NAACP’s law-suit, which says the “2010 Census did not account for 1.5 million black and Hispanic res-idents”, Lowenthal’s document appears to dispute that number.

“Many news articles and even some fact sheets have incorrectly cited a figure of ‘1.5 million minorities missed in the 2010 Census,’” Lowen-thal says in a footnote. “From what I can tell, that number is loosely derived from the na-tional net undercount of Blacks (~ 827,000) and Hispanics (of any race) (~764,000) in the 2010 Census.”

In another email, Beth Lynk, Census campaign director for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which report-ed the “more than 800,000” undercount in its fact sheet, recommended a book, titled “Differential Undercounts in the U. S. Census. Who is Missed?”

Lynk described the book as a “great resource on omis-sions.” But the “Terminolo-gy” chapter of that book, by social demographer William P. O’Hare, clearly implies that the Census use of the term “net undercount” to describe people who were not counted is erroneous.

O’Hare’s book states, “It is important to recognize that the net undercount does not reflect the number of people missed even though the term undercount is often used to suggest this. As stated earli-er, net undercounts reflect a balance of people missed and people counted more than once or otherwise included errone-ously,” O’Hare writes.

Jeri Green, consultant and senior advisor to the NUL on Census matters, said in an interview that its cited 3.7 mil-lion Black “omissions” from the 2010 Census is accurate without question.

Green is a former senior advisor for civic engagement

Kanye West takes anti-vaccine, anti-abortion stance in US presidential bid

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In an interview with Forbes, he announced that he would run under the banner of the

Birthday party, “because when we win it’s everybody’s birth-day”. His campaign slogan is a leaner version of Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” mes-sage, reading simply “YES”.

West has missed the dead-line to appear on the ballot in a number of states, but he argued that he could be added as a late-comer due to the coronavirus.

He said he was “going to speak with Jared Kushner, the White House, with Biden” to make his bid a reality – al-though he was also critical of the presumptive Democratic nominee.

He said: “Obama’s special. Trump’s special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Biden’s not special.”

West’s campaign advisers are his wife, the TV star Kim Kardashian-West, and the Tes-la founder Elon Musk, both of whom have endorsed him. Speaking about Musk, West said: “I proposed to him to be the head of our space programme.”

West said that if he were to win – either in 2020 or 2024, the year in which he previously hinted he would run – it would be “God’s appointment”. He praised Donald Trump as “the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation”.

Study: How societal challenges of Black men affect the Black family

By Victor Trammell Newyorkbeacon.com

A professional research study was conduct-ed in the late 20th

century by a team of edu-cated black professionals, which was a centerpiece of the 1985 Conference on the Black Family.

This historically relevant three-day event was held in Cleveland, Ohio. Though this event was organized over 30 years ago, the speeches and professional research presen-tations provided at the Con-ference on the Black Family remain relevant to black Amer-ica today.

In 2020, nearly 35 years after this historic black sum-mit, many people are reacting to the ongoing plight, which

still faces a vast number of blacks who are experiencing systemic racism. This ongoing oppression is being carried out by multiple facets of America’s different societal institutions (economic, criminal justice, education, etc.).

Black men, in particular, have been disproportionately disadvantaged in American society due to generations of social experiments. The im-pact on black men that these different social experiments created was overwhelmingly adverse. Not only that, these adversities created a lasting effect on black men, which persisted for years after the social experiments were con-ducted.

Ultimately, these lasting

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Black activist assaulted by a group of white men in Indiana

By Viviane Faver

The FBI began investigat-ing the reported assault of Vauhxx Booker, a

civil rights activist and mem-ber of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, who was cowardly beaten and racially insulted at Monroe Lake near Bloomington over the Fourth of July weekend.

Much of the assault was captured on cellphone video by Booker’s acquain-tances and Booker’s attorney, Katherine Liell, said the FBI was questioning witnesses and that charging decisions could be made soon.

“We want this investigated as a hate crime. It was clearly racially motivated,” Liell said. “We will continue our quest every day until some justice is served.”

Liell also complained that

law enforcement officers with the Indiana Department of Nat-ural Resources “did not move rapidly enough” in response to reports of the attack.

Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton said at the news con-ference that police continue to search for two people accused of knocking a woman uncon-scious and dragging a man with their car at a protest over the assault on Booker.

Police Capt. Ryan Pedigo told The Associated Press that the confrontation hap-pened near the Monroe County courthouse in Bloomington on Monday evening.

A male passenger got out of a red Toyota car and went to move an electric scooter that had been left in the road near the protest site, Pedigo said. A 29-year-old woman approached the car and placed her hands on the hood, he said.

The driver accelerated into the woman, launching her onto the hood. A 35-year-old man then grabbed the driver’s side of the car and held on as the ve-hicle continued to accelerate. Both were eventually flung to the ground and the car fled the scene, Pedigo said.

The woman was knocked unconscious and suffered a cut to her head, while the man scraped his arm. She was transported by ambulance to a hospital but her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, Pedigo said.

Authorities have not re-leased the identities of the injured nor said if they were participating in the protest.

The red Toyota has not been located and investigators are still trying to determine the identities and location of the male passen-ger and female driver, police said in a news release.

Several protesters provided police with cellphone footage, Pedigo said.

“The event last evening is being actively and aggres-sively investigated right now,” Hamilton said. “We are taking whatever steps it takes to bring justice to that event.”

The protesters had gathered in Bloomington, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south-west of Indianapolis, to de-mand arrests in the assault on Booker.

Man dumps red paint on Black Lives Matter mural

By Juan Ignacio Chavez

On Monday, a white man in a black baseball cap approached the Black

Lives Matter mural near the Trump Tower and splattered red paint over the letter “V“. A bystander got to make a video and shared it with the community.

The Black Lives Matter mural was painted in front of the Trump Tower last week in order to send a message to the authorities. In response, President Donald Trump has called the BLM movement a “Symbol of hate.”

After the mural was re-stored, Mayor Bill de Bla-sio addressed the incident on Twitter. “To whoever vandal-ized our mural on 5th Avenue: nice try. @NYC_DOT has already fixed it”.

In recent years Black Lives Matter movement has become a global organization that com-bats racism and police brutal-ity. Since the death of George Floyd and the intensification of protests, several murals have been vandalized across the country. According to local station WABC, New York City police are still looking for the person responsible.

Rapper Lil Marlo shot dead while driving in Atlanta

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Investigators believe Lil Marlo was shot while driv-ing and that he was the

intended target.The rap community has lost

another rising star. Rapper Lil Marlo, also known as Rudolph Johnson, was shot and killed while driving on Interstate 285 last night.

Authorities in downtown Atlanta say they were respond-ing to a call about a car crash, but when police arrived they realized that it wasn’t a simple accident.

Police found him in the car with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators believe Lil Marlo was shot while driving and that he was the intended

target, according to TMZ. As of right now, author-

ities are trying to determine the cause of the shooting. His body has been released to the medical examiner.

Many fans knew of Lil Mar-lo after he signed with Quality Control in 2017.

The record label is known for having launched the music careers of the Migos, City Girls, Lil Baby, and Lil Yachty.

Lil Yachty responded to the news of Lil Marlo’s death on Instagram by telling fans that the two just recorded a song together at 4 a.m.

Lil Marlo’s most known songs include “1st N 3rd,” “F****em” and “9 + Z6ne = 1’5.”

Lil Marlo was just 30. He leaves behind a son and a daughter.

Scrabble will ban racial, ethnic slurs from tournaments, game rules

By David Waldstein

Newyorkbeacon.comJosephine Flowers

became a ranked, com-petitive Scrabble player more than a dozen years ago, and to commemorate the moment, she inscribed her custom-built game board with one of her fa-vorite sayings: “Never under-estimate the power of words.”

The phrase serves as a con-stant reminder to her that, even when people say that the words formed on a Scrabble board are supposedly divorced of mean-ing, they can still inflict pain.

That is why Flowers, who is Black, and several other mem-bers of the North American Scrabble Players Association,

have called on the organization to ban the use of an anti-Black racial slur, and as many as 225 other offensive terms, from its lexicon.

“You could be sitting there for a 45-minute game just looking at that word,” said Flowers, a mental health work-er from West Memphis, Ark. “And if you don’t know the person who played it, then you wonder, was it put down as a slight, or was it the first word that came to their mind?”

The issue may never come up again.

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, said Tuesday night the players association had “agreed to remove all slurs

from their word list for Scrab-ble tournament play, which is managed solely by NASPA and available only to members.”

John Chew, the chief execu-tive of the association, seemed to agree. He had asked the or-ganization’s 12-person advisory board to vote on the matter in the coming days, but the statement from Hasbro was presented as a fait accompli, which could ran-kle those who oppose expurgat-ing any words from the lexicon.

“It is the right thing to do,” Chew said Tuesday night.

Julie Duffy, a spokeswom-an for Hasbro, also said the company will amend Scrab-ble’s official rules “to make clear that slurs are not permis-sible in any form of the game.”

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6 EditorialEmmett Till, George Floyd generational wake-up calls

By A. Peter Bailey

TriceEdneyWire.com) –For many black teen-

agers in my generation,

the JET magazine photo of 14-year old Emmett Till’s brutalized body after he was lynched by white supremacists was a wake-up call about the true nature of race in the Unit-ed States. The August 1955 horrific photo gave us a sear-ing memory that still lingers in our souls. Unfortunately, that memory did not lead us to create a strong black national unity organization designed to promote and protect our human rights in this country.

Hopefully, the white su-premacist cold-blooded lynch-ing of George Floyd will en-courage the current genera-tion to do what we failed to accomplish. To create the much-needed black nation-

al unity organization, they should study and learn from the following guidelines from committed, visionary warriors, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Brother Malcolm X.

In his book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, Dr. King noted: “A second important step that the Negro must take is to work passionately for group identi-ty. This does not mean group isolation or group exclusivity. It means the kind of group con-sciousness that Negroes need in order to participate more meaningfully at all levels of life in this country. Group uni-ty necessarily involves group trust and reconciliation....This form of group unity can do

infinitely more to liberate the Negro than any action of individuals. We have been oppressed as a group and we must overcome that oppression as a group.” [Italics his].

In a 1963 letter to 8 civil rights leaders, Brother Mal-colm stated: “If capitalistic Kennedy and communistic Khrushchev can find some-thing in common on which to form a united front despite their tremendous differences, it is a disgrace for Negro leaders not to be able to submerge our ‘minor’ differences in order to seek a common solution to common problems posed by a common enemy.”

At such a meeting, he con-tinued, “There will be no de-

bating, arguing, criticizing or condemning. I will moderate the meeting and guarantee order and courtesy for all speakers....It will give you a chance to present your views to the largest and explosive element in metropolitan New York.”

It’s critically important that current and future generations of black folks do a much bet-ter job of creating the kind of black national unity advocated by Dr. King and Brother Mal-colm. It is the most effective way to honor the memories of Emmett Till, George Floyd, Dr. King, Brother Malcolm and other warriors whose lives were taken in the war against white supremacy/racism.

likely to prevent his opponents in Congress from obtaining potentially embarrassing per-sonal and business records ahead of Election Day.

In fact, the increasing like-lihood that a grand jury will eventually get to examine the documents drove the president into a public rage. He lashed out declaring that “It’s a pure

witch hunt, it’s a hoax” and calling New York, where he has lived most of his life, “a hellhole.”

The documents have the potential to reveal details on everything from possible mis-deeds to the true nature of the president’s vaunted wealth – not to mention uncomfort-able disclosures about how he’s spent his money and how much he’s given to charity.

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effects drastically altered black men’s connection to black women for the purpose of unifying with (not competing against) their female counter-parts. This tremendously cur-tailed the strengthening of the black family, the foundation of black existence all over the world.

In his literary contributions to 1985’s Conference on the Black Family, Dr. Lawrence E. Gray touched on this mon-umental drift within the black subculture. Dr. Gray is the former director of the Institute for Urban Affairs and Research at Howard University. He is the author of a research paper titled Black Men’s Perceptions of Their Problems: Implica-tions for the Family.

Dr. Gray’s research paper was based on an abundance

of scientific research that was backed by empirical data. In addition to this, the data described in Dr. Gray’s work was principal in nature, not peripheral.

“Although writers have consistently used secondary data sources to document the high risk status of Black families, this paper will rely on primary data to examine how Black men see problems in their lives.The author plans to report on a study of 142 Black men who lived in a large northeastern metropoli-tan area in the United States,” Dr. Gray wrote.

His literary contributions begin on the 18th page of a 144-page document. The document unifies all the pub-lished contributions, which underpinned the historic 1985 Conference on the Black Fam-ily in Cleveland, Ohio.

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in the office of the Census Bureau director. She is also a specialist on engagement with civil rights organizations and historically undercounted populations as they relate to critical 2020 Census issues.

“The cold-blooded straight up number of Black people that were missed in the 2010 Census is that number, 3.7 million,” Green says. “It’s a number that you won’t see out there. But I can give you reference after reference of 3.7 million Black people who were missed in the Census–using the Census Bureau’s own figures.”

Meanwhile, the NUL’s State of the 2020 Census” report has sounded an alarm,

apparently using the words “undercount” and “omissions” interchangeably.

“A census undercount of any population in the U.S. would have far-reaching impli-cations. For Black populations, the consequences would be devastating, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19 which has exposed deep systemic and underlying economic, wealth and health disparities within African American communi-ties.

Similarly, as racially-mo-tivated police brutality in the Black community continues with deadly effect, an accurate census count helps ensure fair political representation and federal funding to address these concerns,” Morial says

in the Executive Summary of the report. “The purpose of this State of the 2020 Cen-sus report is to ‘sound the alarm’ about the current status of the Black census count. Over the past three months of 2020 Census operations (starting last March 12th for most of the United States), the National Urban League has observed low response rates across heavily populated Black localities–both urban and rural. As a contributing factor, COVID-19 has disrupt-ed Census operations off and on, for the entire nation. A full, fair, and accurate 2020 Census count remains is imperative as we rebuild our communities in a post COVID-19 environ-ment.”

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From page 2 HealthCOVID-19 vaccine and treatment research

By Glenn Ellis

In the spirit of doing my best to keep you informed on important aspects of

this COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to continue to write about things we all will have to think more and more about moving forward.

Yes indeed, we must start doing a lot of thinking. Most of it is thinking about things that we otherwise wouldn’t pay any attention to: clinical trials; antibody testing; vac-cine candidates; experimental treatments.

You see folks, COVID is going to be with us for a long, long time, and it is important to get in the habit of learning as much as you can about these topics, and others. In this column, I will offer you a starting point by giving some general facts.

Clinical trials are required in order to have an FDA ap-proved treatment or vaccine. Since the coronavirus was first identified in China in De-cember 2019, over 1100 regis-tered clinical trials, registered globally. Of those, 170 are solely devoted to looking for a vaccine. The rest are looking at other treatments, including antibody plasma therapy.

Out of the 170 compa-nies, the Trump administration chose five companies to work on the development of a vac-cine at “Warp Speed” (what-ever that is). Even though, as of June 30th, the FDA issued guidelines calling for the in-clusion of diverse populations, many of the studies are already underway, as well as, under

these pandemic circumstances, we can rest assured that there will be little, or no, oversight to ensure compliance with including Blacks, and oth-er ethnic groups. Don’t let anyone fool you, this is im-portant. Your health status is determined 80% by the social determinants of health in the community in which you live. That is why it is good science to make sure that clinical trials for any medication or treat-ment includes research partic-ipants who reflect the general population that the drug or treatment is intended for. You want to look into this to inform any decision you make for yourself or you family.

Antibody testing is done following a person being in-fected with COVID-19. The test shows whether the per-son’s immune system is pro-ducing antibodies. This would be the normal response of the immune system. If virus shows up again, there are already antibodies ready to attack. With over 200 antibody tests, either in development or on the market, only 12 have been approved emergency use au-thorization. So, what about the other 188? Another concern is that no one knows, at this point, if the antibodies actual-ly offer any protection, and if so, for how long? In addition, the analysis of results shows a great range of accuracy for these tests.

Vaccines are steadily ad-vancing in the process of de-velopment. As mentioned ear-lier, “warp speed” is not your typical approach to vaccine development. I worry about

this, in particular, because of the sensitive, and sometimes political, nature of the word. The development of the polio vaccine was the last time we had a vaccine to prevent an pandemic like this. Remember that we still don’t have an HIV/AIDS vaccine after 40 years, and the flu vaccine last season was only 45% effective follow-ing the previous year when it was only 29 percent. Still, even a vaccine that’s not 100% ef-fective could be good enough. At the very least, vaccines do significantly reduce the sever-ity a viral infection. With the horrible way COVID takes over the body and destroys it, a reduction in the severity of that is not a bad deal. So, you have to consider your own health status, risk factors, etc., and make the best decision.

Even for those who would previously consider themselves as “anti-vaxxers”, COVID-19 has made it necessary for all of us to think in ways, and about thongs, that haven’t had to before.

E x p e r i m e n t a l t r e a t -ments are standard of care in the absence of an approved treatment. Remember the drug that President Trump tout-ed hydroxychloroquine, and it turned out to be a dud? Well, seems like he wasn’t the went for it. There were hundreds of trials around the world trying find out if it would work. Rem-desivir is another experimental medication designed to stop a virus from replicating in the body. the In times when there is no pandemic, carefully done clinical trials tell us drug’s effectiveness against an ill-

ness. Or disease. Now, there are so many “work-arounds” in clinical care: compassion-ate-use programs permit the use of untested treatments; older drugs are considered by doctors in never-before-seen situations; research is being rushed into publication without being peer-reviewed; and not to mention a constant stream of media reports jump on any re-search study result, often barely vetted, and typically, reported to us almost word-for-word from the company’s press release.

By now, whether we like it or not, we all have come to accept that things are going to be different; really different. We have to begin to get infor-mation and learn more about these things. Come on, y’all. Let’s do what we have done for so long; use good, common sense, make decisions based on the best information, and look

out for each other.Remember, I’m not a doc-

tor. I just sound like one! Take good care of yourself and live the best life possible!

The information included in this column is for educa-tional purposes only. I do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a replacement form of treatment for physical, mental or medical problems by your doctor either directly or indirectly. Glenn Ellis, MPH is Visiting Scholar at The National Bioethics Center at Tuskegee University and a Harvard Medical School Re-search Bioethics Fellow. He is author of Which Doctor? and Information is the Best Medi-cine. Ellis is an active media contributor on Health Equity and Medical Ethics. For more good health information visit: www.glennellis.com

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600,000 vote in Hong Kong opposition primary despite fears of new security law

(CNN)

Hong Kong–Braving scorching conditions, a new wave of corona-

virus infections and govern-ment warnings they could be breaking the law, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers took part in a primary election for the city’s democratic oppo-sition over the weekend.

The vote, held 10 days after China imposed a sweep-ing new security law on the city, was designed to narrow down the number of pro-de-mocracy candidates in Sep-tember elections to the city’s legislature.

The opposition camp is hoping to seize a historic majority in the parliament, through careful coordination to avoid splitting the pro-de-mocracy vote, and in making headway in the functional constituencies, seats chosen by business and professional

groups which form half of the legislature.

This would be a hard task at the best of times, and the government has already hint-ed that it may bar potentially dozens of candidates from those elections under the new security law, which criminal-izes secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with foreign forces.

Mood among the opposi-tion was considerably boosted Monday, however, after or-ganizers said some 600,000 votes were cast in the primary election. That’s around 27% of the number of people who voted in the most recent legis-lative elections, and far above organizers’ original target of 170,000.

“Hong Kong people have made history again,” Benny Tai, one of the organizers, said after the polling ended on Sunday night. “Hong Kong people have demonstrated

to the world, and also to the authorities, that we have not given up to strive for democ-racy.”

Erick Tsang, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, said on Friday that the primaries might violate Hong Kong’s new na-tional security law because of the candidates’ political stance, according to Hong Kong pub-lic broadcaster RTHK.

“Those who have orga-nized, planned or participated in the primary election should avoid carelessly violating the law,” he said.

Late Friday night, police raided the offices of the Public Opinion Research Institute, a polling company that was help-ing to organize the primary.

Organizers denounced the move as an attempt to disrupt the vote or intimidate people, while police said it was related to a tip about potential hacked data.

Black Lives Matter spurs more changes in Africa

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As Americans explore the renaming of army bases, statues, streets,

and schools that honor racist slave-holders or portray de-meaning relationships between whites and Black, Brown and Latinx citizens, similar efforts are underway in Senegal and Liberia most recently.

Goree, an island in Senegal linked closely with slave trade, has decided to rename one of its main squares in response to the anti-racist movements around the world.

The island’s municipal council unanimously agreed to rename Europe Square as “Liberty and Human Dignity Square.”

According to a statement from authorities, the move is in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread across the world, denouncing recurrent racial violence targeted at the black community.

The 28-hectare island, sit-uated two kilometers offshore from Dakar, was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast between the 15th and 19th century, according to the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO.

Goree Island is also regis-tered by UNESCO as a World Heritage centre and act as a “symbol of human exploita-tion.” Europe Square was inaugurated in 2003 by Mayor Augustin Senghor and the then President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi.

Mayor Augustin Senghor initially argued that street names should not be changed in order not to forget the pain and drama experienced on Goree Island–the “last stop of freedom” for many Africans in Senegal.

The Senegalese also want the statue of former colonial governor, Louis Faidherbe, to be removed. Faidherbe was governor of French Senegal in 1854–61 and 1863–65 and a major founder of France’s colonial empire in Africa. During Faidherbe’s tenure, his major accomplishment was to create a vast colony dominated by Europeans.

The date for the renaming has yet to be fixed as access to the island, a commune of Da-kar, is currently restricted due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In a related development, an open letter by Sekou Keita, a “proud son of Nimba”, de-mands that Liberians consider the renaming of Liberia’s cap-ital, Monrovia, named for a staunch supporter of the move-ment to send Blacks to Africa.

He writes: “MONROE WAS A SLAVE OWNER! The task NOW is given to you to seek guidance from your Citizens to suggest a name that is both SYMBOLIC and HISTORICALLY relevant.” The full text may be found on the internet.

France returns remains of Algerian resistance fighters killed decades ago(GIN) –

“The martyrs are re-turning home.”

Those were the words of noted historian Ma-lika Rahal on learning that the remains of 24 Algerian resistance fighters, killed in the Algerian independence war of 1954-62, would be flown back to Algeria after years kept by the French in a museum’s storage area.

“The body parts of those who fought the conquest of their country are returning home after a very long stay in cardboard boxes at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris,” Rahal said.

Algeria had officially asked for the return of the re-mains in 2018, as well as a han-dover of colonial archives but bureaucratic obstacles blocked their return until now, when a

worldwide reexamination of the legacy of colonialism since the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a white police officer is taking place.

The remains – skulls of decapitated fighters–were viewed as war trophies by French colonial officers.

“This is the monstrous face of colonization,” Algerian army chief Said Chengiha said in a speech on July 3.

Algerian historian Ali-Far-id Belkadi, the first to make the grisly discovery while doing research, alerted Alge-rian authorities. He said the skulls were kept in “vulgar cardboard boxes that resemble shoe boxes”.

On July 5, Algeria’s 58th anniversary of independence, the fighters’ remains will finally be laid to rest in the martyrs’ section of the capital’s El Alia

cemetery, local media reported. They were flown into

Algiers airport from France on a Hercules C-130 transport plane, escorted on arrival by Algerian fighter jets, an AFP correspondent said.

To a 21-gun salute, Alge-rian President Abdelmadjid

Tebboune and a military guard of honor gave the war heroes an official welcome.

Tebboune bowed in front of each coffin and a Muslim cleric recited a prayer for the dead.

France’s 132 years of colonial rule, and the brutal

eight-year war that ended it, have left a lasting lega-cy of tensions between the two governments and peo-ples. The French presidency described the handover as an effort to “reconcile the memories of the French and Algerian people”.

Historians welcomed the return of the remains, but say they are just part of Algeria’s history that is still in French hands.

“We have recovered part of our memory,” historian Mohamed El Korso told the AP news agency.

“But the fight must con-tinue, until the recovery of all the remains of the resistance fighters, which number in the hundreds, and the archives of our revolution.” w/pix of Algerian resistance fighters in coffins

Door of no return

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10 Black Lives Matter more than ever

By Jimbe Carroll Contributing Scribe

After missing out on be-ing involved with the first Black Lives Mat-

ter (BLM) mural in Brooklyn, I got a call that the Village of Harlem was in the process of creating one. This one was NOT going to piggyback off the DC mural. BLM, the movement, co-founded by Activist Alicia Garza in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin by self pro-claimed vigilante George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012, is now part of the leg-acy of Harlem.

The mural was created on the late great Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. from 125th to 127th street right beside the statue of the man himself that the boulevard was named after.

It was commissioned by the Harlem Park to Park and was approached from a slightly different angle than the initial mural commissioned for DC by Mayor Bowser.

This mural mirrored DC and Brooklyn’s BLM mural in that the public was encouraged to be a part of the painting process but with one unique spin, 8 established artists were commissioned to bring their

own flavor to the mural. The general public of volunteers and Harlemites got one side of

the Boulevard and the artists the other.

Everyone who participated

were conscious to the Caro-navirus COVID-19 and had masks on to stop the threat

of spreading it. The painting began on the 1st of July and on the 3rd the mural was given praise by many public officials including Mayor de Blasio, Hazel Dukes Attorney General Leticia James, Rev. Al Sharp-ton, Manhattan Borough Pres-ident Gale Brewer and State Senator Brian Benjamin and Erica Lucille Ewing founder of the Social Impact Agency Got To Stop who had major input to having the mural come to fruition.

The mural was approved by the mayor but was not funded, instead the artist and donations by Harlem Park to Park and the Rockwell Group funded the mural. The Eight artist Omo Misha, Lesney JN Felix, Dianne Smith, LeRone Wilson, Guy Stanley Philoche, Thomas Heath, Jason Wallace, Joy-ous Pierce and moderated by Thomas Long owner of the Long Gallery of Harlem talked about their work with the public.

The Black Lives Matter mural is a fixture in the Village Harlem and a phrase that will resonate to the public that there still needs work to be done in the relationship of white and Black America (All photos: Jimbe Carroll)

Rev. Al Sharpton addresses huge BLM crowd Sing Harlem Choir performs “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

BLM murals on uptown and downtown sides of ACP Blvd

BLM Artists Omo Misha, Lesney JN Felix, Dianne Smith, LeRone Wilson, Guy Stanley Philoche, Thomas Heath, Jason Wallace, Joyous Pierce

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Wednesday's WomanBy Audrey J. Bernard

Breaking All Kinds Of Barriers: NASA names headquarters after Mary W. JacksonMary W. Jackson

(1921-2005), the first African American fe-

male engineer at NASA, suc-cessfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become a professional aerospace engineer and leader in ensuring equal opportu-nities for future generations. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA succeed in get-ting American astronauts into space. Jackson, who is use to breaking barriers, will be im-mortalized with the renaming of NASA’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, in her name.

The HBCU graduate was being honored posthumously because of her devotion not only to her profession but also to her heritage, NASA Admin-istrator Jim Bridenstine said in a press release.

“Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA succeed in getting American astronauts into space. Mary never accepted the status quo, she helped break barriers and open opportunities for African Americans and women in the field of engineering and tech-nology,” said Bridenstine.

Bridenstine continued: “To-day, we proudly announce the Mary W. Jackson NASA Head-quarters building. It appropri-ately sits on ‘Hidden Figures Way,’ a reminder that Mary is one of many incredible and tal-ented professionals in NASA’s history who contributed to this agency’s success. Hidden no more, we will continue to recognize the contributions of women, African Americans, and people of all backgrounds who have made NASA’s suc-cessful history of exploration possible.”

Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, went on to lead programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NASA’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. In 2019, she was posthumously award-ed the Congressional Gold Medal.

The work of the West Area Computing Unit caught wide-spread national attention in the 2016 Margot Lee Shetterly book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Un-told Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.” The book was made into a popular movie that same year and Jack-son’s character was played by award-winning actress Janelle Monáe.

In 2019, after a bipartisan bill by Sens. Ted Cruz, Ed Markey, John Thune, and Bill Nelson made its way through Congress, the portion of E Street SW in front of NASA Headquarters was renamed Hidden Figures Way.

“We are honored that NASA continues to celebrate the legacy of our mother and grandmother Mary W. Jack-son,” said, Carolyn Lewis, Mary’s daughter. “She was a scientist, humanitarian, wife, mother, and trailblazer who paved the way for thousands of others to succeed, not only at NASA, but throughout this nation.”

Jackson was born and raised in Hampton, Virginia. After graduating high school, she graduated from Hampton Institute in 1942 with a dual degree in math and physical sciences, and initially accept-ed a job as a math teacher in Calvert County, Maryland. She would work as a bookkeeper, marry Levi Jackson and start a family, and work a job as a U.S. Army secretary before her aerospace career would take off.

In 1951, Jackson was re-cruited by the National Adviso-ry Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 was succeeded by NASA. She started as a research mathematician who became known as one of the human computers at Langley. She worked under fellow “Hid-den Figure” Dorothy Vaughan in the segregated West Area Computing Unit.

After two years in the com-puting pool, Jackson received an offer to work in the 4-foot by 4-foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel, a 60,000 horsepower wind tunnel capable of blasting models with winds approach-ing twice the speed of sound. There, she received hands-on experience conducting experiments. Her supervisor eventually suggested she enter a training program that would allow Jackson to earn a pro-motion from mathematician to engineer. Because the classes were held at then-segregated Hampton High School, Jack-son needed special permission to join her white peers in the classroom.

Jackson completed the courses, earned the promotion, and in 1958 became NASA’s first Black female engineer. For nearly two decades during her engineering career, she

authored or co-authored re-search numerous reports, most focused on the behavior of the boundary layer of air around airplanes. In 1979, she joined Langley’s Federal Women’s Program, where she worked hard to address the hiring and promotion of the next genera-tion of female mathematicians, engineers and scientists. Mary retired from Langley in 1985.

In 2019, President Donald J. Trump signed the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act that posthumously awarded the honor to Jackson, who passed away in 2005, and her “Hidden Figures” colleagues Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Chris-tine Darden.

In 2017, then 99-year-old Katherine Johnson was there to personally dedicate a new state-of-the-art computer re-search facility the bears her

name at Langley. Johnson, another original member of the West Area Computing Unit, also was honored as a trailblaz-er and given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. In addition, Johnson was part of the group honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, and NASA’s Independent Veri-fication and Validation facility in Fairmont, West Virginia, also bears Johnson’s name.

“NASA facilities across the country are named after people who dedicated their lives to push the frontiers of the aerospace industry. The nation is beginning to awaken to the greater need to honor the full diversity of people who helped pioneer our great nation. Over the years NASA has worked to honor the work of these Hidden Figures in various ways, including nam-ing facilities, renaming streets and celebrating their legacy,” added Bridenstine.

“We know there are many other people of color and di-verse backgrounds who have contributed to our success, which is why we’re continuing the conversations started about a year ago with the agency’s Unity Campaign. NASA is dedicated to advancing diversi-ty, and we will continue to take steps to do so,” Bridenstine concluded.

For additional informa-tion on Mary W. Jackson, the “Hidden Figures,” and today’s Modern Figures, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/modernfig-ures. (Photos courtesy NASA)

Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005) overcame barriers of segregation and gender bias to become an engineer and leader at NASA

Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C.

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The Greater Hudson Valley (NY) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated COVID-19 response issues $12,000 to support 6 critical nonprofits during pandemicWestchester, NY – The

Greater Hudson Val-ley (NY) Chapter

of The Links, Incorporated announced that 6 Westches-ter-based social service and nonprofits affected by the coro-navirus public health crisis have received support for their oper-ating expenses. These mainly small and mid-size nonprofits received grants totaling $12,000 will help these vital community organizations across Westches-ter and Rockland County with the continuity of their daily operations and fulfill their public service missions.

“The response of these community nonprofits during this crisis represents West-chester and Rockland County at its very best,” said Robin Williams, President of Greater Hudson Valley Links Chapter. “Nonprofits have stepped for-ward to serve low-income fam-ilies and communities of color hardest hit by COVID-19. These nonprofits need help to maintain services, and meet operational expenses. We are

pleased to give that help.”The organizations awarded

grants include – Feeding West-chester (Elmsford), Ossining Open Door (Ossining), Martin Luther King Center (Rock-land), Mt. Vernon Neighbor-hood Health, and Mt. Vernon Boys and Girls Club (Mount Vernon). The Greater Hudson

Valley (NY) Chapter was char-tered 30 years ago, as part of The Links, Incorporated an international nonprofit orga-nization established in 1946.

As a volunteer service orga-nization, the Greater Hudson Valley Links Chapter mem-bers provide more than 1,600 volunteer hours annually to

support community partners. Given the “shelter-in-place” during this unprecedented pandemic, the chapter was determined to continue sup-porting the critical needs of the communities they serve.

“For many people in West-chester, the crisis has left them food insecure. That’s

not something we can fix with a vaccine and we won’t need a test to know that it’s there,” says Matt Honeycutt, VP of Development. “Generous do-nations like this enable us to provide nearly 8,000 meals for families in need. Right now, every dollar counts.” (Photos courtesy G-NY Links)

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Greater Hudson Valley Links Chapter President and VP of Program Robin H. Williams with National Trends and Service Committee Members

GHV Chapter President Robin H. Williams and Feeding West-chester VP of Development Matt Honeycutt

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14 In the communityLecrae delivers 70,000 masks to incarcerated people

Posted By Don Thomas

Lecrae the two-time Grammy Award-win-ning hip-hop artist has

partnered on several major projects and business part-nerships all connected under the theme of restoration. On June 1st 2020, he announced his partnership with Live Free USA’s Masks For The People initiative to supply 70,000 masks to incarcerated people, essential workers, protesters, and the most vulnerable resi-dents beginning in the Atlanta metro area.

Lecrae and the Reach Re-cords family joined Live Free USA and Billy M. Honor, director of the New Georgia Project’s “Loose The Chains” program to deliver the first batch of masks and sanitizers to Fulton County Jail (901 Rice Street NW, Atlanta, GA) on Fri., July 10th.

The institution was the first to receive the allotment of masks and personal protective equipment (PPE). A special amount of the PPE will be set aside for families of the incarcerated when visitation restrictions are lifted. Remain-ing hand sanitizers will be distributed to protesters, the homeless, and other directly impacted communities.

Live Free USA’s Masks For the People’s initiative is a humanitarian campaign launched by Pastor Mike Mc-Bride, Director of the Live Free USA and Director of Urban Strategies for Faith In Action and Comedian W. Ka-mau Bell, created to service the disproportionate number of people in underserved minority communities infected with COVID-19.

The initiative provides and distributes FDA approved masks to disenfranchised com-munities including existing and newly incarcerated individuals, essential workers and minority communities increasing their access to FREE lifesaving PPE and preventive care.

“When we launched this partnership June 1st, with Lecrae and Masks For the People we forged a mission synergy which has literally been life giving. His message of restoration was a perfect fit as we targeted jails and prisons across the country in need of masks and sanitizer. Collectively we raised almost $50,000 which provided tens of thousands of masks and san-itizer to currently and formerly incarcerated loved ones,” said Pastor Mike.

The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has one of the largest prison systems

in the United States, and is responsible for supervising nearly 54,000 state prisoners. It is the largest law enforcement agency in

the state with approximately 10,500 employees. According to The Georgia Department of Corrections’ website, to date, at least 721 Georgia prisoners and 241 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19.

According to the Georgia Dept of Health’s most recent daily status report, the state is reporting a total of 97,064 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 11,919 people hospitalized, and nearly 2,878 deaths as of July 4. At the onset of COVID-19, Lecrae helped to fund and place portable handwashing around the Atlanta metro area for homeless and displaced people to clean their hands in response to Coronavirus.

“Bringing restoration to dis-placed and forgotten has always been a part of my DNA. It was

an honor to join Terence Lester and my good friends at Love Beyond Walls as we kicked off the ‘Love Sinks In’ campaign.

“Together we distributed 15 portable handwashing basins for the homeless and displaced in the Atlanta metro area. I’m proud to share that now there are over 50 sinks throughout Atlanta and the campaign has expanded to over 20 cities across the nation.

“When my album Anomaly came out, it was released inde-pendently on my label, Reach Records and went to #1. My first show was at Rikers Island in New York. This partnership with Mask For the People is faith in action, a vital extension of restoration and yet another opportunity to be able to serve our family on the inside who have been overlooked.

“In order to begin resto-ration or rehabilitation first you have to show that you care. This is my way of saying I care

about you. I see you and want to see you healthy and whole. A two-year sentence shouldn’t become a death sentence. Re-gardless of their circumstanc-es, how ugly it is, this is not the end!” said Lecrae.More About Lecrae

Lecrae has evolved into a New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, speaker, thought leader, philanthropist, and Co-Owner/President of Reach Records. A catalyst for restoration in faith, music, and popular culture, he is part of the new wave of thought leaders who are engaging the culture and taking Jesus out of the pulpits into the wider world in hopes of restoring faith.

This year Lecrae will be releasing his 9th studio album, Restoration, to be released on Reach Records, a documentary also titled Restoration, and a new book, “I am Restored: How I Lost My Religion,

But Found My Faith,” a fol-low-up to his New York Times best-seller “Unashamed.”

Lecrae is partnered on sev-eral major real estate projects to restore Atlanta’s English Avenue a/k/a The Bluffs, an area known for its rampant drug trafficking and violent crime statistics. Only a block away from the new Mercedes Benz Stadium, two-thirds of its residents live below the federal poverty line and 44% of the homes are vacant.

As part Lecrae and Peace Prep’s Restoration campaign he has partnered with Invest Atlanta to revitalize English Avenue. He is an active mem-ber of the Board of Advisory for Peace Preparatory Acade-my, the first school in the En-glish Avenue area to be opened in more than 20 years. The last one, English Avenue Elemen-tary, closed in 1996. For more information on Lecrae, follow him everywhere @Lecrae.

(L-R) Pastor Raphael Warnock, Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church poses with Lecrae. Reach Records received the first batch of PPE at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. If you’d like to donate to Masks For the People, visit https://faithinaction.salsal-abs.org/masksforthepeoplelecrae/index.html

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Folks!Eddie C. Brown: A Black man’s perspective from the board roomPosted by Audrey J. Bernard

In an opinion that appeared in the Washington Post Wednesday, July 8, 2020,

Baltimore’s esteemed broker and business icon Eddie Carl Brown affirmed, “I’m a Black CEO. I’ve been discounted on Wall Street because of my skin color.”

I was raised in the Jim Crow South, when the railroad tracks separated whites from blacks and African Americans were considered second-class citizens. Raised by common laborers who worked hard in Florida’s citrus groves, I had my world widened by weekend excursions to Orlando, where seeing white men in suits and ties behind desks left an im-pression. It was there where possibility was seeded.

I began my investment career as the first African American portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price in 1973, not because of some quota or the good graces of white execu-tives, but because the merito-cratic model made me visible and managers were supportive. After 10 years in the business, I became an entrepreneur.

I founded Brown Capital Management in Baltimore, which now employs predomi-nantly African American pro-fessionals and manages more than $14 billion in client as-sets. Alongside my business partner Keith Lee, Brown Capital intentionally hired a diverse staff to gain broader perspectives and insight, pur-posely interviewed talent in non-finance professions and unabashedly approached black college graduates at confer-ences and job fairs, looking for well-rounded team players with ambition, intelligence and versatility.

But over the years, no amount of wealth, education or prestige has distracted me from the discrimination, prejudice and segregation of opportunity that America’s communities of color endure. In my years on Wall Street, I have been doubted, discounted and judged reflexively on the basis of my skin color. The past few months have exposed our societal fail-ures even further. We must heed the call to dismantle the inequality that makes careers such as mine the exception — rather than the rule.

It is no coincidence that African American represen-tation in corporate America is abysmal when young blacks are told through societal cues that they are not as capable, in-telligent, viable or even equal to their white counterparts. The fact that black adults make up 10 percent of college grads and 8 percent of professionals but just 3.2 percent of execu-tives or senior-level manag-ers and just five of Fortune 500 chief executives is an abrasive reminder that our country is committed to structural racism.

Following the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, Fortune 100 company donations to battle racism and inequality now amount to more than $2 billion. But what does this all mean when diversity programs and pledges through-out the years have still not been enough? What will change when corporate leaders still falsely claim there is not enough black talent to ascend the ranks?

The push for diversity has shown little resolve in the last decades. Chief executives still lack the intent to promote and retain more diverse leaders, and not enough attention is given to minorities who have to accomplish twice as much to be considered for promotions at the next level.

In finance, firms owned by white men manage 98.7 percent of the $69 trillion man-aged by the U.S. asset manage-ment industry. Similarly, 88 percent of senior fund manag-ers are white and even analysts

and associate managers, more junior positions, are more than 70 percent white. When it comes to the Federal Reserve, the State Department, the legal profession or myriad other fields, extraordinary qualifi-cations are required for blacks to compete at the same level as their white colleagues.

The data illustrate content-ment with homogeneity. We hire, support and mentor those who look like us and sustain a broken pipeline by playing down the outsize influence managers have when it comes to positioning their employees for success. Executives often hire neophytes within their close networks, recycling the same stream of privilege.

America does not breed talent, it prefers to breed gen-erational elitism, where very few minorities get to com-pete on a level playing field. This has catastrophic conse-quences for minorities and for blacks, made visible in

the racial wealth gap. Today, younger generations of blacks experience the same economic disparities as their grandpar-ents did in the 1950s. Equity ownership, the rocket fuel for wealth creation, is also in few black hands. Economic oppor-tunity and career advancement are too often denied for those born without privilege. When black Americans say they are angry, believe them.

I have been saddened by the news and suspicious of the promises made by corporations and hiring managers that this time will be different. What gives me hope is the new faces who know all too well that this world is not equal, and who are paying attention to the change they want to see. I am reinvig-orated by this youthful spirit of the masses and demand alongside them that we all de-serve the same access, respect, opportunities and freedoms.

In the words of Frederick Douglass, power concedes

nothing without a demand. We all have the power to be change agents within our orga-nizations. This country cannot afford to be lulled back to sleep. (Photos courtesy Brown Capital Management)

About Eddie C. BrownAmerican investment man-

ager, entrepreneur and philan-thropist Eddie Carl Brown is the founder, chairman, chief executive and senior portfolio manager of Brown Capital. Renowned for his stock-picking acumen, Brown is the founder and president of Brown Capital Manage-ment, a Baltimore-based firm that’s amassed more than $10 billion under management since it opened for business in 1983. An avid traveler and jazz aficionado, Brown and his wife, Sylvia, have given millions to various charitable causes under the aegis of the Baltimore-based Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation.

Illustration: “I’m a Black CEO. I’ve been discounted on Wall Street because of my skin color.”

Eddie C. Brown (lower right corner) with Brown Capital Man-agement Executive Team Eddie C. Brown Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown

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All Star Code welcomes 160 men of color to virtual brotherhood

All Star Code (ASC) is a computer science organization that cre-

ates economic opportunity by developing a new generation of boys and young men of color with an entrepreneurial mind-set who have the tools they need to succeed in a technolog-ical world. The brainchild of Founder and Executive Direc-tor Christina Lewis Halpern, the company is set to welcome 160 young men of color to the ASC brotherhood.

“Amidst a pandemic and rising racial tension across the country, and as COVID-19 developments continue to un-fold, our organization looks at this challenge as an opportu-nity to innovate,” says Lewis Halpern. “We converted our in-person Summer Intensive curriculum to a virtual pro-gram this year to continue this important work.”

The team has also been busy preparing for their first ever Virtual Summer Benefit on July 25! “We invite you to join us on July 25 to celebrate with us! All donations to the Virtual Summer Benefit will go to the All Star Code Emer-gency Relief Fund for 2020 programming,” added Lewis Halpern. ASC encourages you to register, fundraise, or spread the word so that they can con-tinue to serve and celebrate their Scholars in the months and years to come.

The Virtual Summer Ben-efit Emergency Fund will

ensure the health and longevity of ASC’s work and allow this savvy organization to continue delivering their life-changing Summer Intensive and Schol-ar Services programming to nearly 800 young men of color this year.

Recently ASC kicked off its Summer Intensive with Pro-fessional Development Week for its instructional staff. After participating in virtual Zoom workshops on teaching best practices, growth mindset, and intersectionality awareness, ASC is more than confident

that the teaching staff will get their students excited about a future career in coding. This year 75% of their instruc-tional staff are All Star Code Scholars!

The ASC Summer Benefit gala is traditionally held in East Hampton, NY but this year the nonprofit brother-hood is opening up the event for everyone to join virtually with a free registration. The benefit event will honor Rob-ert F. Smith, Founder, Chair-man, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners and Marcus Samu-

elsson, Chef & Restaurateur. In addition to an amazing silent auction, the event will showcase innovative demos by ASC’s Scholars with apps and projects that they’ve de-veloped all on their own. ASC’s commitment to their students has not wavered and is now more important than ever.

In the weeks and days lead-ing up to July 25 some of ASC’s remarkable Scholars and biggest supporters will engage with their Scholar Projects and take part in an incredible silent auction. That evening ASC

will celebrate with a special message from the event’s stellar Co-Chairs Frank A. Baker, Valentino D. Carlotti, and Loida Nicolas Lewis, followed by a Call-to-Action from Lewis Halpern, along with the hon-orees, and a few fun surprises topped off with an electrifying musical performance.

Lewis Halpern is the daugh-ter of the late Black billionaire and business legend Reginald F. Lewis who is carrying on his legacy by giving Black young people the tools for success. The 2020 Benefit Committee includes 645 Ventures, Elois Austin, Celeste Bell, Stephen Catera, Kenneth Frazier, An-drea Hoffman, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Michael Ruben-stein, and Marva Smalls. (Photos by Rob Richard)

Screen shot of 2020 All Star Code Scholars

Christina Halpern Lewis with All Star Code Scholars (Image courtesy of ASC)

Co-Chairs Frank A. Baker, Christina Lewis Halpern, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Valentino D. Carlotti at 6th annual benefit

Students with honoree Loida N. Lewis, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Christina Lewis Halpern, Charles Phillips, and Frank D. Carlot-ti at the 6th annual benefit

Honoree Robert F. Smith

Honoreee Marcus Samuelsson

Loida N. Lewis, Hon. David N. Dinkins attend 6th annual benefit

Hon. David N. Dinkins, Marcus Samuelsson attend 6th annual benefit

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COVID19 UPDATESNYC: While the COVID19

curve has flattened, ongoing problems like hunger, unem-ployment, rent and evictions, plague the city’s underserved. Food pantry stations are set up at NYCHA buildings and local churches once week.

Rent arrears and evictions are new NYC epidemics. The $600 weekly unemployment bonus by the Feds expires on 7/31. An extension is inevi-table under a new stimulus, but reduced to $200-$400 weekly, a GOP stipulation.

ECO DEVELOPMENTNote some new move-

ments towards Black com-munity-based economic em-powerment. NETFLIX, the worldwide streaming giant, plans to move $100 million or two percent of its $5.2 billion cast assets to Black banks and related institutions that directly support Black communities. The Netflix film production portfolio includes “When They See Us,” about the Central Park 5; “13th,” the documentary about the amendment which abolished US slavery, which later ushered in a long period of racial inequality, Jim Crow and mass incarceration; and

SELF MADE, a biopix in-spired by the life of Madame C.J Walker, a self made Black millionaire.

Billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation will invest $220 million into efforts towards racial equality in America. The initiative will support a number of Black-led racial justice groups, including an $150 million investment in 5-year grants for organizations such as the Equal Justice Initiative, Black Voters Matter Fund and Repairers of the Breach, founded by Rev. Dr. William Barber II of the Poor Peoples Campaign.

EDUCATION UPDATESMichael V. Drake, 70, was

named the 21st President of the University of California, the sprawling 10- campus public university which in-cludes UCLA, Berkeley, Ir-vine, Davis and which boasts a 285,000 student body. UC is the world’s leading public research university system. Dr. Drake is UC’s first Afri-can- American president in its 152 year history. A UC medi-cal school graduate, Drake led Ohio State University and the UC, Irvine campus.

While a COVID19 surge is busting out all over America, the US President has threat-ened to cut off funds to K-12 school systems which do not have in-school classroom settings this fall. That is not his jurisdiction. California Governor Newsom announced that Los Angeles will hold remote classes in September. NY Governor Cuomo said that schools can open who have met stage 4 criteria. Regard-ing higher education, Trump plans to revoke passports of all international college students who are not taking on-campus classes during the September semester. Massachusetts based Harvard, MIT and 15 states are suing Feds to block the Trump action.

Why does Trump politi-cize everything. The school threat comes on the heels of his America is back to busi-ness threat to the states. See where that got us, a record number of COVID19 infec-tions nationwide. The nation will not experience any sub-stantial economic recovery, if people are sick and unable to work….or if they go to

work and spread the virus to co-workers.

The Center for World University Rankings is an annual list of the 100 top schools based on quality of education, alum employment, quality of faculty, and re-search performance. The top universities this year include Harvard, which ranked #1 for first 9 years, MIT, Stanford, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Colum-bia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and Yale. Trump has threatened to rescind visas of all international college stu-dents enrolled at institutions which do not have on-cam-pus classes. Does he know how much revenues foreign students generate? Already Massachusetts-based Harvard and MIT and 16 states have filed a lawsuit against the Feds to block this visa threat.

New York universities announced their fall 2020 for-mat. Columbia will hold hy-brid classes (on campus and remote.) CUNY’s 275,000 students will take courses online as will New School University students

A Harlem-based management consultant, Victoria Horsford can be reached at Victoria.horsford@gmail.com

What's going onBy Victoria Horsford

SUMMERTIME IN AMERICAThe July 4th gun violence

afflicting Black America from coast to coast, contin-ues in NYC. During the July 11/12, fifteen people were shot. On Monday, July 13, seventeen people were shot in the city, ten of them in Brooklyn where there were seven fatalities, including a one year old girl. Nation is battling COVID19 pandemic and now the Black on Black violence epidemic.

The USA is a nation with many moving parts and sub-cultures–education, business, rich and poor, unions, and race/ethnicities – who ipso facto must comingle. In June/July, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the rights and protections for DACA (Dreamers) Native Ameri-cans, and for abortions. More

importantly last week, it con-firmed that the President was not above the law, denying Congress access to his tax files, but allowing the Man-hattan DA to move forward with its request for same.

Add to the above, the “WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT” matters un-folding in America since the George Floyd assassination like the COVID19 July surge like a wildfire in the Sunbelt states and beyond. The Black Lives Matter movement is suffering from an embarrass-ment of riches via donations. American businesses are revisiting and revoking their re-opening practices and viewing Corporate respon-sibility through a new lens. Kanye West and his quest for a 2020 Presidential run. The National Football Asso-ciation will allow two songs, the National Anthem and Lift Every Voice and Sing, the Black Anthem to precede each game. The NFL Wash-ington Redskins franchise acknowledges an imminent name change. Most people understand that defunding the police is not akin to the elimination of police depart-ments. In Minneapolis, scene of the George Floyd murder, the City Council will dis-band the Police Department and replace it with a com-munity-based public safety program. Perhaps something

akin to the Camden, NJ po-lice reform model. All of the above merit single themed narratives. America’s new mantra is race equality. Wish that race agitator POTUS 45 gets the message before surrendering his office and the US Senate to Democrats.

Then I watch DEMOC-RACY NOW interviewed with African American Vauhxx Rush Booker, who was almost lynched by a mob of white men near Lake Monroe in Indiana during the July 4, 2020 weekend. Then I wonder…. Do Black Lives really matter in the national consciousness. Trump, des-perate for the economy to revive via classrooms, plans to revoke the visas of foreign college students in the US, who at not taking courses on campus in the fall.

NYC UPDATESJudith Harrison, 52, is

the first woman to run the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Command, which encom-passes 10 precincts that run East NY to Brooklyn Heights, and which includes some of the city’s “most violence-prone neighbor-hoods.” She is one of four Black women to ascend to the NYPD’s chief rank.

More police have been sent to Harlem after the

July 4 gun violence car-nival.

People are still talking about Maya Wiley’s NY Daily News oped “Dermot Shea’s Time is Up.” That is a reference to the NYPD Com-missioner. Wiley, currently teaches at the New School University is former NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board Chair and Counsel to Mayor deBlasio, is interested in the NY 2021 mayoral race.

NEWSMAKERSGregg Bishop, NYC Com-

missioner of Small Business Services, during the de Blasio Administration, was recently named Interim Executive Director of Coro New York, a civic leadership organiza-tion purposed with achieving change through collaboration and identifying creative solu-tions to strengthen American democracy. Bishop’s CV

includes senior management stints at NPower, Oxygen Media and TheStreet.com.

RIP: Zindziswa Mandela, 59, youngest daughter of South Africa’s most prom-inent anti-Apartheid advo-cates, Winnie and Nelson Mandela, died on Monday, July 13. She was a poet, and activist and formal SA Am-bassador to Denmark.

Vauhxx Rush Booker

George Floyd

Gregg Bishop

Judith Harrison

Michael V. Drake

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EntertainmentBy Don Thomas

Harlem-based ChiChi Anyanwu launches CHI Talent Management

After the economic effects of the Coronavirus cri-sis left her unemployed,

Harlem-based Talent Manager ChiChi Anyanwu turned ad-versity into opportunity and launched her own business. She thought about switching careers or going back to school when the pandemic struck, but her clients insisted they still needed her, and she did not want to let them down.

“I have always been pas-sionate about connecting a diverse arts community and providing opportunities that advance and strengthen artists’ careers. Building talent from the ground up is what I want to do, what I love to do and what I am good at. This realization led me to take matters into my own hands. Hence, CHI Talent Management, LLC was born,” says ChiChi.

CHI Talent Management represents theater, film, and television clients with a mis-sion to advise and guide an array of talent in the entertain-ment industry. Anyanwu em-powers her clients to achieve their personal and professional goals through strategic career development and innovative marketing.

T h e c o m p a n y w h i c h launched in March, manages the details of artists’ profes-sional lives so they can focus on creative productivity. “I enable artists to thrive and create, while I manage their business and career matters,”

says Anyanwu who also serves as her clients’ spokeswoman.

Her clients have appeared in theater, television, and film. Several of the actors, dancers,

singers and comedians have been on Broadway and in national tours of “Wicked,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Jesus Christ Su-

perstar.” They have been seen in films such as “Standing Up, Falling Down,” and “Vampires vs. the Bronx.”

Their television credits have included “The Deuce,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “Power,” “Gotham,” “Snowfall,” “Bull,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Code,” “Godfather of Har-lem,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “FBI” and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga.”

“CHI Talent Management aims to advise, guide, and em-power a diverse array of talent in the entertainment industry. We represent top-notch talent in the fields of theater, film, and television. Our company’s guiding principles of commu-nication, creativity, and com-passion. Our 3 C’s create the foundation we use to amplify our clients’ careers.

“In an ever-changing com-plex and dynamic industry, CHI Talent Management strives to re-establish skill, integrity and leadership within personal talent management,” said ChiChi. Her clients also include Toree Alexandre, Tay-lor Blackman, Keith Arthur Bolden, Tommy Bo, Esther Chen, DeLeon Dallas, Kyle Decker, Jasmine D. Ellis, Sar-ah Anne Fernandez, Esmeralda Garza, Mia Gerachis, Nathan James, Julian Joseph, Pepe Nu-frio, Marsha Regis, Brandon

St. Clair and Rachel Schur and Naren Weiss.

Anyanwu started her pro-fessional career in casting at Laura Stanczyk Casting and Finnegan/Keller Casting. She has served as produc-er for the NOW AFRICA: Playwrights Festival. NOW AFRICA works in partnership with the Center for Art and Public Policy, the Institute of Performing Arts at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Anna Deavere Smith’s Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.

NOW AFRICA’s mission focuses on bridging the con-tinental divide and exposing communities to playwrights from the African Diaspora. ChiChi’s past producing proj-ects include workshop pro-ductions of the 1st Gen Nige-rian Project at the Bank Street Theatre and the Humanitas award-winning play “Good Grief” written by her sister, Ngozi Anyanwu, at the INTAR Theatre in Manhattan.

Anyanwu serves as a diver-sity audience consultant for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Communication, Theater Studies minor and an African Studies Certificate. For more info visit: www.chi-talentmanagement.com

Every Sat. listen to some great oldies when you tune into IRIEtimes.com for “Classic Hits with Lady C” from 1pm - 5pm. [Pictured] Winsome Lady C Charlton (center) flanked by Barron Channer (left) and David Hitt (right)

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Harlem By Audrey J. Bernard

'I Vote Because #BlackHealthMatters' – freeSpend Day with Health & Wellness InfluencersHA R L E M , N E W

Y O R K — B l a c k H e a l t h M a t t e r s

(BHM), the leading health and wellness communica-tions platform, is excited to be launching a new partnership with When We All Vote— a nonprofit, nonpartisan or-ganization launched by Co-Chair Michelle Obama in 2018 to increase participation in every election. When We All Vote is a mission to change the culture around voting and close the race and age voting gap to make sure every eligible voter is registered and ready to vote. Attendees will be treated to a special video message from Mrs. Obama during the program.

The esteemed health orga-nization will host its 4th BHM Virtual Summit on July 18, 2020, from 8:30am to 6:00pm at Riverside Church, 91 Cla-remont Street, Harlem, New York. This year, BHM will unveil its new slogan: “I Vote Because #BlackHealthMat-ters.”

The BHM Virtual Sum-mit was created for African American families committed to living their healthiest life by educating themselves. With knowledge comes understand-ing and with understanding, action! BHM always perse-

vere, whatever the obstacles. “Now more than ever we live in a state of urgency that we want used to advance health equity,” says BHM’s pres-ident and founder Roslyn Young-Daniels. “Voting pro-vides that opportunity.”

When We All Vote will provide easy on-line access to voter registration for all par-ticipants in the virtual Summit who have yet to register to vote. This educational pro-gram is free and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch will be served. There will be door prizes for all attendees.

The Summit will focus on patient-centric issues convened to educate patients, caregivers, health enthusiasts, advocacy groups, and media outlets. Over 20 best in class health care experts and thought lead-ers will participant in live chat Q&A with leading doctors and advocates. This world-class faculty is passionate about connecting with patients about advances in care, especially in the age of COVID-19.

Topics include: Affording Medications, Breast Cancer, Clinical Trials/Research Study Participation, Kidney Disease (FSGS); HIV/AIDS, Kidney Disease (FSGS), Fibroids/Endometriosis/Reproductive Health, Hereditary ATTTR am-

yloidosis, Heart Disease, Lung Cancer, Mental Health, Sickle Cell and Prostate Cancer.

“We want attendees to be-come intentional about their health by attending the biggest forum on health and wellness created for African American families,” added Young-Dan-iels. “They have the opportu-nity to dialogue with excep-tional physicians, scientists, advocates and peers focused on health equity. It’s our time

to reaffirm that #BlackHealth-Matters.”

Helping BHM create a cul-ture of health is gold sponsor Retrophin. The event is also sponsored by: Akcea Thera-peutics, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Myovant, Alnylam Pharma-ceuticals, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Eisai, Gilead, Pfizer, and PhRMA. Professional Partner: Empire State Medical Association and Kappa Alpha Psi Frater-

nity, Inc. Community partners: AKA Tau Omega Chapter and GNYC-BNA.

The BHM Summit is the biggest and most significant health and wellness event of the summer. For more information and to register visit: https://blackhealthmat-terssummit.vfairs.com/en/registration. This event is produced by Dedra N. Tate. (Photos courtesy Black Health Matters)

When We All Vote Co-Chair, Michelle Obama

Roslyn Daniels Dr. Lewis J. Kampel Benita Perkins

Dr. LaJoyce Hunt-er-Brookshire

Sunil E. Saith, MD, MPH

Nkem Osian, MPH

Amber English Coleman

Debra Fraser-Howze Dr. Icilma Fergus

Kecia Gaither, MD MPH FACOG

Linda Bulone Jamal Grooms

Dr. George Johnson

Lynette Shaw

Randy Sconiers, DSW, LCSW

Niesha Foster Kirk Campbell Gina M. Brown, MDGloria Rochester

Jurline K. Redeaux, MSW

Dr. Carol L. Brown

Dr. Kirk Campbell Dr. Lisa A. Newman

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Paul K. Paik, MD

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20 A Brave New World of Theater

By Ernece B. Kelly Drama Critic

Yes, we know New York City is the arts capital of North America and

home to more theaters than any other city in the world.

And we know Broadway will stay shut down thru Labor Day. But that doesn’t mean it has a lock on moving aggres-sively into a largely unknow-able future.

To our west in the Berk-shires region of Western Mas-sachusetts— where the local economy is largely dependent on tourists, many coming for theater—the musical “God-spell” will be performed out-doors, and the one-man play, “Harry Clark” will be per-formed indoors.

In both cases, special pro-tocols will be followed—au-dience members must wear masks as well as be socially distanced, and both perform-ers and stage managers will regularly be tested for the virus.

“People need live theater,” Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company where the one-man show will be performed.

She continued, “Art has healing powers, and I want to start that healing process safely and responsibly.”

This is all well and good, but a recent audience outlook survey administered by the 41 year old, Black Crossroads Theater (New Brunswick, New Jersey) asked these per-tinent questions of its recipi-ents: Where have you been?

How comfortable were you? What would allow you to go out? In other words, it’s one thing for a theater to open but quite another for audiences to show up!

And there continue to be many opportunities to ex-perience theatre—readings, discussions, and the occasional filmed performance— through television, streaming, and

podcasts. Three outstanding productions come to mind. “Hamilton” created by the multi-talented Puerto Rican Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda is available on Disney+ at their $6.99 introductory cost.

Phylicia Rashad and An-dre Holland “Moonlight” star in the four-part serial of “Rich-ard II” available as a WNYC podcast in July. And in August,

PBS will rebroadcast the filmed version of “Much Ado About Nothing” directed by Kenny Leon (2014 Tony for “Raisin in the Sun”) with an all-Black cast. Those of us hungry for live theatre, need not starve.

Creativity is driving the fashioning of new ways to experience it even when their physical spaces are closed.

Andre HollandPhylicia Rashad

Crossroads Theater

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Theater talk By Audrey J. Bernard

50th Anniversary

Ballet Hispánico celebrates a night of dance and unity with Noche UnidosBallet Hispánico, Amer-

ica’s leading Latino dance organizat ion

known for “piercing stereo-types” (The New York Times) and to provide artists, students and communities of color a platform for their voices, continued its celebration of 50 years of uniting people through dance with Noche Unidos on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. The dazzling dance production was hosted by Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director & CEO of Ballet Hispánico. For addi-tional information please visit online at https://www.balle-thispanico.org/support/events/noche-unidos.

Noche Unidos was watched live by over 6,600 viewers and raised nearly $950,000 in support of the organization’s artistic, educational, and com-munity outreach programs in New York City, across the United States and around the world. This includes the cre-ation of new Company works, scholarships for students at the renowned Ballet Hispánico School of Dance, as well as numerous community arts and educational programs.

“It takes a village, and last night’s Noche Unidos, proved that our New York City com-munity understands that dance and the arts are essential. I am so moved by the outpouring of love and support,” said Vilaro.

Noche Unidos included eleven virtual world premiere performances featuring Ballet Hispánico Company danc-ers and students, new works created remotely in the past weeks by world renowned choreographers Carlos Pons Guerra, Michelle Manza-nales, Andrea Miller, An-nabelle Lopez Ochoa, Pe-dro Ruiz, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano , Nancy Tura-no, and Eduardo Vilaro; as well as celebrity appearances including Lin-Manuel Mi-randa, Rita Moreno, Glo-ria Estefan, Norman Lear, Paquito D’Rivera, Adam & Arturo O’Farrill, and other Latinx artists.

A highlight of the evening was performances by Ballet Hispánico School of Dance students Julienne Buenaven-tura and Ruby Castillo, Nues-tro Futuro scholarship recipi-ents in BH’s La Academia pro-gram, works choreographed by Kiri Avelar and Rodney Hamilton.

The pre-recorded show in-cluded new works set remotely on our dancers by prominent choreographers. The choreog-raphers are social distancing in locations around the world, and our dancers are across the country, yet the beauty of

dance transcends the distance between them.

Funds raised during the show will provide artists, stu-dents, and communities of col-or a platform for their voices. Donations are still accepted at ballethispanico.org/support.

The iconic dance company gratefully acknowledges the generous lead sponsorship support by Goya Foods for Ballet Hispánico’s Noche Uni-dos, and recognizes their work meeting the overwhelming demand for food donations during the pandemic.

Presenting donors of the show were Jody and John Arnhold, and Kate Lear and Jonathan LaPook, with cor-porate support from Goya Gives, Univision Communi-cations, Viacom/CBS, MetLife Foundation, Omnicom Media Group, PWC, Chubb, and Goldman Sachs. (Photos cour-tesy Ballet Hispánico)

PREMIERE DETAILSAyer y HoyChoreographed by Rodney HamiltonPerformed by Julienne Rane Buenaventura, La Academia Student

CautivadxChoreographed by Michelle Manzanales in collaboration with Jared Bogart and Simone Cameresi, Company Members

GazpachoChoreographed by Carlos Pons-GuerraPerformed by Omar Rivéraand Antonio Cangiano, Company MembersLady of Spain

Choreographed by Gus-tavo RamírezSansanoPerformed by Shelby Colona, Company Member

Mambo for 50Choreographed by Nancy TuranoPerformed by Lenai Wilkerson

Mi Baile en Casa, a film by Kiri AvelarChoreographed by Kiri AvelarPerformed by Ruby Castillo, La Academia Student

OrillaChoreographed by Andrea Miller in collaboration with Chris Bloom and Gabrielle Sprauve, Company Members

Pajarillo EscondidoChoreographed by Annabelle Lopez-OchoaPerformed by Dandara Veiga, Company Member

Punto de VistaChoreographed by Rodney HamiltonPerformed by Paulo Hernan-dez-Farella, Company Mem-ber

SerenataChoreographed by Eduardo VilaroPerformed by Laura Lopez, Company Member

Sobre ei Siglo de las LucesChoreographed by Pedro RuizPerformed by Lyvan Verdecia and Melissa Verdecia, Compa-ny MembersAbout Ballet HispánicoBallet Hispánico, America’s leading Latino dance organiza-tion has been bringing people together to celebrate the joy and diversity of Latino cultures for 50 years. Over the past five decades, Ballet Hispáni-co’s mission-driven ethos has been a catalyst of change for communities throughout our nation. By bringing the rich-ness of the Latinx culture to the forefront of performance, education and social advocacy, Ballet Hispánico is a cultural ambassador. The organiza-tion’s founder, National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez, sought to give voice to the Hispanic experience and break through stereotypes. Today, Ballet Hispánico is led by Edu-

ardo Vilaro, an acclaimed cho-reographer and former member of the Company whose artistic vision responds to the need for social equity, cultural identity, and quality arts education for all. Ballet Hispánico has been, and will continue to be, a beacon for diversity. The art we create explores and cele-brates the culture without the trappings of stereotypes. We foster the pursuit of art as a way of providing transforma-tion through the exploration of the human condition. Our art often defies gravity, acting as a frontline against cultural division by releasing precon-ceived notions of culture and instead offering our audiences new perspectives.

Ballet Hispánico

Adam & Arturo O’Farrill

Gloria Estefan

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Rita Moreno

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22 Ponder this Glad and sad under the mask

By Hazel Rosetta Smith Contributing Scribe

No one can deny the fact that most of us are on an emotional roller coastal.

What, when, who and how was a chaotic conversation in the early weeks of March 2020 between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding

COVID-19 “shelter in place” mandates, ultimately agreeing on non-essential businesses and schools shutting down. Multitudes of New Yorkers took the warnings seriously, shut-in, shutdown and watched the mounting numbers rising moment to moment of those infected and hospitalized.

The invisible enemy’s grasp was overtaking the city that never sleeps, but New Yorkers did not doubt that we could bust a curve and bring it down, as we masked up, gloved up and took to serious social dis-tancing when out and about.

We came together as a multi-cultured population of residents who refused to be naysayers or doubters. I be-lieve by the Grace of God, ideas flourished, and action was taken with a determination that is commonplace in New York City, a major metropolis with numerous other concerns long before COVID-19.

I am a wearer of the mask; my heart is glad for my city and proud of my state. I love New

York and have no desire to live elsewhere. It is my daily prayer that we will not fall into foolish folly by reacting to the bless-ings this city has been given, with haughty overconfidence and an ungrateful spirit.

The virus has already prov-en itself to be a sneaky enemy with an invisible grasp lurking in unimaginable places. PPE, personal protection equipment is still on the battlefield fight-ing in a war like a military guard. We know one mistake can affect many and the virus is able to make a sudden revisit.

I am a wearer of the mask with thoughts that are often sad. We must re-open and get on with the restructuring of businesses to provide em-ployment. As different and as difficult as re-opening is now and for years to come, it will be devastating and detrimental to the lives and livelihood of everyone if protective steps are not taken seriously and prac-ticed consistently. Signs must continue to state, “No mask, No entry.” Proximity seating

inside restaurants is not per-missible, at least while some seating is possible outdoors in favorable weather.

It is sad to know there are still people in cities across the nation that are not yet convinced they are susceptible to the virus, which has no age or gender exceptions. How long will it take to come to the realization that the virus is a killer.

If we know what to do and been advised on what not to do, over and over again, by the best of CORONAVIRUS scientists, researchers and medical doctors worldwide, why would we decide to gather up large groups that are nearly impossible to properly main-tain social distancing, even wearing masks.

Technical devices of every kind have become our best friends with virtual viewing. Live Streaming is as good as being there in person. Your cause may be great, your rights politically correct by law, even your heart may have a valid

purpose, but your reality may not be rooted in the facts – the struggle to survive COVID-19 is real. Is this the time to do that?

Let us keep common sense on our mind. Even as we re-open and rebuild, let it be done decent and for a cause greater than our own, good health and safety for all. We can become all that we want to be if we are moving forward in love, caring, and sharing whatever it will take for the new normal to become new life.

We must keep hope alive while God is working it out. Think safely, make decisions wisely and walk carefully. May you have PEACE IN and OUT whenever you must go. [Hazel Rosetta Smith is a journalist, playwright and artistic director of Help Somebody Theatrical Ministries, retired former Man-aging Editor and Woman’s Ed-itor of The New York Beacon News and current columnist for Harlem Community News, Inc. Contact: misshazel@twc.com]

The world famous 1963 March on Washington [PICTURED] before the current day CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) pandemic, where no one was required to wear face masks, gloves or practice social distancing. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: A major March on Washington is planned for this August, 2020. If you and yours attend will you wear a mask, gloves or stand 6 feet apart? Or will you stay safely at home? REMEMBER the virus is a KILLER…VOTE! Nov 3rd 2020... Don Thomas, NYB ENT ED

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THANK YOUBy Andrew Rosario

As l celebrated another year in this world this past Monday, l want to

acknowledge and thank the people who have made it pos-sible. This long and fantastic journey is a tribute to those who have made my dreams come true:

My mom Diana, my grand-parents Isabel and Ernesto...My sister Yvonne, brothers Charles, David, Gene...Na-dine, Tanya, Melissa, Randy, Darren, Jonathan, Daniel, Li-sette, Jennette, Theresa, Gina, Steven, Kelli, Monica, Lisa, Doreen, Eric, Eddie Sr, Eddie Jr, Julie, Serena, Terrance, Ernesto Penn, Jr, Abita and my great nieces, nephews and cousins who l have not seen forever!

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