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earL K. LoNg MedicaL ceNterThe American Lung Association has named the Asthma Program of the Earl K. Long Medical Center an Asthma Center of Excellence. The EKLMC Asthma Program is the only program in the State with this des-ignation. ...See Page 7

excHaNge PrograMJennifer Bevill, a high school technol-ogy instructor at the LSU Laboratory School, was selected from a national pool of more than 400 educators to participate in the Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program hosted by Ful-bright Japan...See Page 2

Brec PoSSiBLy iN JeoPardyUpset parents flooded the Recre-ation and Park Commission for East Baton Rouge Parish centers with calls wondering if some of its pro-grams for kids were in jeopardy of shutting down...See Page 5

Celebrated Southern University alum Lt. Gen. Russell Honoré (U.S. Army Retired) spoke to students in the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union. Honoré, the author of two books, held a book signing after his presentation.....Page 3

NatioNaL/State & coMMuNity watcH reLigioN NewSIn September the historic St. Francis Catholic School will cel-ebrate its 90th anniversary with a special Mass and Banquet gala. ..See Page 6

Longtime CBS News cor-respondent Harold Dow died suddenly Saturday morning, according to the network’s website. He was 62.

The five-time Emmy Award winner was best known for his work on 48 Hours, to

which he contributed since the program’s launch in January 1988. He was also a contribu-tor to the critically acclaimed 1986 documentary, 48 Hours on Crack Street, which led to the creation of the weekly news magazine.

“CBS News is deeply sad-dened by this sudden loss,” CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus said in a state-ment. “The CBS News family has lost one of its oldest and most talented members, whose absence will be felt by many

and whose on-air presence and reporting skills touched nearly all of our broadcasts. We extend our deepest condo-lences to his wife Kathy and their children Joelle, Danica

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the Black unemployment rate rose slightly last month, President Obama has signed the long-awaited jobs bill with hopes of turning around employment rates, which for African-Americans still nearly doubles the national average of 9.5 percent.

“The Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010 will create jobs, help Ameri-can companies compete, and strengthen manufacturing as a key driver of our economic recovery,” Obama said during a bill signing ceremony at the White House last week. “To make their prod-ucts, manufacturers - some of whom are represented here today - often have to import certain materials from other countries and pay tariffs on those ma-terials. This legislation will reduce or eliminate some of those tariffs, which will significantly lower costs for Ameri-can companies across the manufactur-ing landscape -– from cars to chemicals; medical devices to sporting goods. And that will boost output, support good jobs here at home, and lower prices for

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not wipe out all of the damage done during the economic crisis that started in earnest during the Bush Adminis-tration. But, there are high hopes in Black communities where the jobless rate reached back to 15.6 percent last month, up from 15.4 in June, accord-ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment among Black males – though dropped significantly from its high of 19 percent in March of this year - is still at 16.7 percent, nearly twice the average White rate of 8.6 and White male rate of 8.8 percent.

There is contention among some that Obama may need to take specific actions to help quell the disparate economic suffering in the Black com-munity.

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President Barack Obama signs a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and

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BATON ROUGE - A Fundraiser Reception was held in honor of the 27th Anniversary of The Center, Inc. Adult Day Health Care recently. The affair was sponsored by The Center, Inc. Board of Directors and was held at The Greater Baton Rouge Surgical Hospital in North Baton Rouge, Dr. Darryl Peterson, Orthopedic Surgeon, host. Attorney Veronica

Howard-Sizer, President of the Board of Direc-tor presided; Invocation was given by Reverend Alford Moore, Pastor, Westgate Church of Port Allen, LA; Ms. Irma Plummer representing the Office of the Mayor, The Honorable Re-gina Barrow, LA State representative, District

Left to Right: Mrs. Angela Weir, Dr. Darryl Peterson, Dr. Beverly Wade, Mr. James Hubbard, Mrs. Ruth Hub-bard, Ms. Irma Plummer, Ms. Josephine Fortune, Atty. Veronica Howard, Mrs. Jayne Massenburg and Mr. Marcus Hubbard.

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COLUMBUS, OHIO — When parents signed their chil-dren up for the track program, many just wanted to give them something to do over the summer. Some wanted help to provide an outlet for their child’s competitive desire for winning while others wanted to develop the natural tal-ents they were seeing. Did they see this summer activity lead-ing to a trip to the AAU Junior Olympics when they signed the consent forms?

Ghentry Payne, grandson of Baton Rouge Weekly Press Pub-lisher, Ivory Payne along with the Ohio Lightning Track and Field Club (OHL), under the direction of Dwayne Logan and Lisa Glassco, is making a difference in Colum-bus. The only traveling track club on the north side is making a state-ment in the track and field world. This year, OHL has 28 lightning bolts who qualified and competed in the 2010 AAU Jr. Olympics held in Norfolk, VA the week of July 30 through August 7, 2010. Payne qualified in three events, the long jump, the 400 yard dash and the

4x400 relay along with his cousin Michael Tabor.

The team first organized in 1999 and began competing in rec-reation meets under Woodward Park Recreation Center. In 2003, Dwayne took the team on a na-tional circuit under the former team name Scioto Track Club.

At the end of the 2008 season, it was clear that the travel team would continue so Dwayne along with the newly established Board of Directors organized the Ohio Lightning Track and Field Club.

These young athletes have committed themselves to working through the season’s cool start, the rainy practices and the sum-mer heat. Week after week, the shy and timid excelled in their given events and showed what hard work and dedication could do. All of the sweat and tears paid off. As Glassco stated “my pas-sion for coaching is driven by the kids, I love to watch kids develop into strong competitors over the season, I always tell my kids, I don’t care what place you get, I just want you to improve your time/distance.” And that they did. They showed up at the Na-tional Qualifiers in Springfield, OH and ranked in the top four of their events to move on to the Jr. Olympics.

If you ask, what does it take to make a team of lightning bolts strike gold, the answer would be… a team of all-star coaches who are

Payne competes in 2010 aau Jr. olympicsLightning Strikes Gold

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Ghentry Payne (L) with cousin, Michael Tabor at the qualifying meet in Spring-field Ohio. Payne and Tabor are one of two sets of cousins qualifying for the 4x400 yard dash.

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Get ready; get prepared for hurricanes. G. Royal

THE HURRI-CANE SEASON IS NOW UPON US! As we reflect on the try-ing time of hurricane Katrina, we want to be mind-ful of the basic necessities that are needed to survive during the storm. Remember to get the flashlights and batteries, generators, lots of food that is not perishable, etc. to help you and family make the duration of time, usually lasting one and a half weeks. A message to the persons who are oxygen depen-dent or those who have special needs: sign up for the Office of Homeland Security Special Medical Needs Registry.

WEST NILE VIRUS has made a comeback in our sur-rounding area. While we are not panicking, the fact of the matter is that West Nile is not gone from our area. The Louisiana Depart-ment of Health and Hospitals has confirmed a fourth human case of this virus. Recent mos-quito samples collected from surrounding parishes tested positive. All citizens are advised to take necessary measures to protect themselves from mos-quito bites and mosquito borne diseases. Take precautions:

* Avoid outdoor activities at dusk and at dawn.

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* Wear repellents with DEET or other approved in-gredients when outdoors dur-ing times when mosquitoes are active.

THE RIVER PARISH COM-MUNITY COLLEGE announces its Chancellor’s and Dean’s Lists for the spring semester. Congratulations to the follow-ing students whom we know and all others whom we do not know but made one of the lists: Trinque Adams, Brian L. Wal-ton, Alisse Kelly, Walter Shelton, Patrick Arville, Lynn Minor, Cal-lie Rouyea and Treniece Jones. Best Wishes to you!!

SIMONELLA POISON is now on alert with the 550,000,000 eggs being recalled. If you feel

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W E L C O M E BACK TO THOSE WHO TRAVELED TO SPAIN THIS SUM-MER!! Yes, students from McKinley High and Ascension Catho-lic High Schools were surrounding area stu-dents who traveled to

Spain. Some parents acted as chaperones. The students trav-eled various locations in Spain including: Madrid, Toledo, Seville, Grananda and Costa del Sol. They also traveled into North Africa to tour the City of Morocco. Sounds like a winner!

OPEN HOUSE will be held at your child’s school very soon, if not already. Plan to see and visit with your child’s teacher and find out what’s happening at the school and in your child’s classrooms. Plan your visit.

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Mrs. Trina Condoll-Butler wants you to contact her if you are a 25 year graduate of Don-aldsonville High School. The very first meeting of planning will be August 28 at the Ascen-sion Parish Library. All class-mates are asked to attend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Sikeyah Lavine, Deon Moore, Rory Carlton, and Nathalie Smith - Chambers.

WITH LOVE & SYMPA-THY to the family of Meredith Nicholas, former employee of River West Hospital in Plaque-mine. She departed this life in Laurel, Mississippi.

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BATON ROUGE – Jennifer Bevill, a high school technology instructor at the LSU Labora-tory School, was selected from a national pool of more than 400 educators to participate in the Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Pro-gram hosted by Fulbright Japan. Forty-eight United States educa-tors and 48 Japanese educators were selected for this honor.

Focused on the theme of Education for Sustainable De-velopment, or ESD, the program aims to deepen mutual under-

standing and strengthen the re-lationship between Japan and the U.S. through teacher exchange, as well as to raise awareness of ESD-oriented school programs and enhance ESD-related cur-ricula in both countries.

The program, funded by both the U.S. and Japan, consisted of a joint meeting in San Francisco and a study tour in Japan.

The joint meeting, held May 3–5, 2010, included presen-tations by U.S. experts in ESD, as well as workshops and panel discussions focused on ESD cur-riculum development. Teach-ers shared their ESD curricula and collaborated to strengthen school activities in four vital areas of ESD focus: food and sustainable nutrition, environ-ment, energy and resources and international understanding, and cooperation.

From June 21-July 26, the contingent of U.S. teachers trav-eled for a reciprocal and fully funded two-week study tour of Japan, where they learned about Japanese culture, visited Japanese schools focused on ESD, participated in a home stay, and met again with their Japanese

counterparts for two days of workshops and curricular col-laborations in Tokyo.

The teachers will share what they have learned through the program and implement re-fined ESD curricula in their home schools.

“One of the most excit-ing things I am planning for the upcoming school year is a unit called the Peace Project,” said Bevill. “I am working with one other teacher from the United States and four in Japan to create a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and internationally interactive unit that will guide students to evaluate the importance of peace and increase the understanding of cultural differences.”

After beginning work on the plan in Tokyo, the team re-mained in contact over the sum-mer to work on the unit plans. Bevill says the attack on Pearl Harbor and the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima will be used to open dialogue with the stu-dents. The teachers’ U.S. and Jap-anese students will communicate with one another through video exchanges, e-mails and possibly one live video conference. The

group’s plan is to expand the unit to include schools in other countries in the 2011-12 school year.

“I have always known that experience is the best teacher, and this teacher exchange program taught me many unexpected and wonderful things that I could learn only through spending time in Japan with their wonder-ful people and in their schools, immersed in their way of life,” said Bevill.

The Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program for ESD is administered by Fulbright Japan, through the Japan-U.S. Educational Commission, with support in the U.S. from the Insti-tute of International Education in Washington, D.C. The program is jointly funded by the Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State and the Japanese Government’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sci-ence and Technology.

The University Laboratory School is a department within the LSU College of Education. For more information on the Lab School, visit www.uhigh.lsu.edu.

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“Unemployment rates for African-Americans and Lati-nos remain unacceptably high at 15.6 percent and 12.1 percent, respectively, and highlighting the disproportionate impact the re-cession has had and the need for targeted efforts to address chronic unemployment,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chair Barbara Lee (D-Calif). in a statement.

In the President’s bill-signing statement, there was no specific mention of the Black unemploy-ment rate at the bill signing Aug. 11. However, earlier this month, Obama acknowledged to thou-sands at the National Urban League Convention that Black communities had already been hit substantially by the economy before he ever took office.

“The African-American un-employment rate was already much higher, the incomes and

wealth of African-American families already lower,” he said. “There was less of a cushion. Many minority communities -- whether in big cities or rural towns -- had seen businesses and opportunities vanish for years, stores boarded up, young people hanging out on the street corners without prospects for the future.”

He added, “So when we came in to office, we focused not just on rescuing our economy in the short run, but rebuilding our economy for the long run -- creat-ing an economy that lifts up all Americans.”

He also told the NUL crowd

that certain actions by his admin-istration have been intended to at least respond to the Black unemployment rate, including “making sure civil rights and anti-discrimination laws are enforced.”

Meanwhile, the issue that was predicted to be his toughest is measuring up to its expectations, Obama said: “Now, we knew from the beginning that revers-ing the damage done by the worst financial crisis and the deepest recession in generations would take some time - more time than anyone would like. And we knew that it would require an ongoing effort across all fronts.”

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dedicated to the sport and have the passion and commitment of wanting to see these kids suc-ceed. The team is coached en-tirely by parents and volunteers. The coaching staff consists of Dwayne Logan, Lisa Glassco, Eddie Williams, Chris Santiago, Earl Williams, Sabree Ali, Jona-thon Thompson, Alex Holley and David McGee. Since late spring, the coaches have com-mitted to practice three days a week to help train and develop these future Olympians. Every Saturday they are on the side-lines cheering and motivating these youngsters to sprint, jump and throw their personal best and make them proud.

The OHL parents also play a role on this team. These par-ents watch our child(ren) sweat, complain, cry, fall, get up and

try it again. They pack up every Saturday mornings and head to the meets to cheer on and support all the lightning bolts as they compete.

Payne and the Lightning Bolts culminated their national experience by enjoying time well earned at Virginia Beach after the final Lightning Bolt competed on Saturday morning. Some team members recorded their best times and distances and was for-tunate to have one team member medal in her event. Still young and growing, the Ohio Lightning Track and Field Club produced twenty eight of the nation’s best athletes and are looking to return next year in New Orleans, LA., site of the 2011 Jr. Olympics. To learn more about the track team, visit their website at www.ohio-lightningtc.org.

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BATON ROUGE - Cel-ebrated Southern University alum Lt. Gen. Russell Honoré (U.S. Army Retired) spoke to students and the public at 11:00 a.m., Aug. 23, in the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union. Honoré, the author of two books, held a book signing after his presentation.

Honoré gained national ce-lebrity when he brought order to the chaos in New Orleans in the early days after the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. He was the desig-nated commander of Joint Task Force Katrina responsible for co-ordinating military relief efforts

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CommentaryThursday, August 26, 2010 • The Weekly Press • Page 4

By Julianne MalveauxNNPA Columnist

(NNPA) - Only one in four young Black men graduates from high school in Detroit. The rest are lost and left out, swallowed by a city where urban blight, indus-trial desertion, and educational failure define daily life. Detroit is ground zero, exemplifying the absolute worst of urban life. It had a passionate champion in Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, who recently lost her bid for reelection. But as pas-sionate as Cheeks Kilpatrick and Senator Debbie Stabenow have been about Detroit, this is a city that won’t bounce back without revolutionary intervention.

Government has intervened for Detroit, bailing out General Motors (now Government Mo-tors) to the tune of billions of dollars. The bailout has yet to trickle down. Instead, we have seen schools closed, hours cur-tailed, and a man who is more bureaucrat than educator placed in charge of that city’s educa-tional system. Across the nation, millions of students are going back to school. What are they

going back to in cit-ies like Detroit? With budget cuts defining everything that is done, are they going back to fewer hours, broke down schools, and chaos? In going back, are they being embraced or repelled by those city admin-istrators who place a higher priority on bal-ancing budgets than educating young people.

The Massachusetts-based Schott Foundation has released a report that speaks to the ways that so many states are failing black male students. Michigan’s black male graduation rate, at 47 percent, is at the US average, and higher than the rate in Missis-sippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Hawaii, Georgia, Alabama, Indi-ana, DC, Ohio, Nebraska, Louisi-ana, South Carolina, Florida and New York. New York’s rate is an abysmal and frightening 25 percent. Aaaugh. Inner cities in several states do extremely poorly, like Detroit. The Schott Foundation report ought to raise alarm among educators

and policy makers and raise questions about the work we must do to properly focus on Afri-can American students, male and female.

This week, Rev. Jesse Jackson has taken his team on the road to the state of Michigan, with stops in Kalama-zoo, Grand Rapids, Flint, Lansing and De-

troit. The purpose is to lead up to a Saturday march for Jobs, Peace and Justice, 37 years after Dr. Martin Luther King’s pivotal March on Washington. It is so appropriate that Rev. Jackson is taking it to Detroit, with the help of allies in the labor movement and the civil rights movement. Indeed, to go to ground zero re-minds us how important Detroit has been for working class Afri-can Americans, and how many ways those who were willing to work were once embraced in a manufacturing economy. Now, willing workers, in the millions, languish waiting for opportu-nities, while we have exported them in our global economy.

Those who are unemployed

are unable to support them-selves. How many underwater mortgages are there in Detroit? Who much abandoned hous-ing? Which services have been curtailed because the city sim-ply can’t afford to provide for seniors, children, library users, hungry people, all of that? The deindustrialization of Detroit has led to a colossal urban crisis, and government stimulus has simply bypassed that city. It is important and exciting to gather in Detroit on august 28, both in commemoration of Dr. King’s 1963 march, and in recognition of the fact that politics and policy are both local and global.

What would happen if the Obama administration were as kind to Detroit as it has been to automakers? What would hap-pen if someone decided to make Detroit a “model city” and to see how government programs could not only improve lives in a city described as “ground zero” but also model work in other cit-ies? What would happen if there were a renaissance and rebirth in Detroit, one that presaged other

By George E. CurryNNPA Columnist

Dear Dr. King,

There will be a march this Saturday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Actually, there will be two marches, with the lead-ers of each claiming to be walk-ing in your footsteps.

The march being led by Al Sharpton is the only one with any legitimacy. Sharpton was mentored by Jesse Jackson sim-ilar to the way you mentored Jesse. Sharpton is being joined by Marc Morial, the president and CEO of the National Urban League; Benjamin Jealous, the head of the NAACP, and your oldest son, Martin Luther King III. You would be proud of all of them. You’d be especially proud because they are refus-ing to let Glenn Beck, an ultra-conservative talk show host, hijack your memory.

If you thought Paul Har-vey was terrible in your day, this guy is far worse. Beck is a shameless liar who refuses to back down even after being caught in a blatant lie. He will be joined by former Republi-can vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who in the mem-orable words of former NFL great Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson, couldn’t spell cat if you spotted her the “c” and the “a.” They are headliners for

a separate march at the Lincoln Memo-rial. In typical fash-ion, Beck pretends that selecting the August 28 date for his rally was pure happenstance. Of course, that’s pure nonsense.

I am sure you know by now that in 2008 we elected Barack Obama, the son of a Black man from Kenya and a White woman from Kansas, president of the United States. Beck accused our nation’s first Black president of having “a deep-seated hatred for White people or the White culture.” Beck said that about an African-American who was reared by his White grandpar-ents. In Obama’s best-selling books, he speaks fondly of his grandparents and has never ex-hibited any hate, deep-seated or otherwise, toward Whites or any other racial or ethnic group.

Not content with merely attacking President Obama, Beck even attacked his wife and children. After Obama’s then 11-year-old daughter, Malia, asked when the BP old spill in the Gulf of Mexico would be plugged, Beck mocked her on his national radio program and questioned her intelligence. He did that just two days after declaring a politician’s family should be off limits.

Not only did Beck not

apply that to Obama’s daughter, he didn’t apply it to his wife, Michelle. He said. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen the first lady with her – excuse the ex-pression – but with her breasts all smooshed up…”

When Beck was reminded that August

28 is a sacred day for those interested in jobs, peace and justice, he claimed that it was “divine providence” that his rally was scheduled to coin-cide with the 47th anniversary of your “I Have a Dream” speech. He contends, “…Too many have gotten just lazy or they have purposely distorted Martin Luther King’s ideas of judge a man by the content of his character.”

Of course, he and Rush Limbaugh, another conser-vative talk show host, are the main culprits. Beck is one of many conservatives who have tried to invoke your memory while fighting against every-thing you represented.

For example, anti-affirma-tive action foe Ward Connerly, a Black man, professed to be acting in your spirit as he trav-eled around the nation trying to get states to ban affirma-tive action. When your chil-dren challenged him in public, Connerly had the gall to claim that he – not your offsprings – was being true to your words

and deeds.But we know, as you

reminded us, “A lie cannot live.”

At the original March on Washington for Jobs and Free-dom, the leaders of all of the major civil rights organizations were present. Today, however, SNCC is defunct, CORE exists in name only and the infight-ing is so fierce in SCLC, your old organization, that although your daughter, Bernice, was elected president last October, she refuses to assume office until there is a cease fire among feuding factions.

Of the remaining major civil rights organizations, the heads of all of them will par-ticipate in the march Saturday except one – Jesse Jackson. He will be leading a march 525 miles away in Detroit to com-memorate the Walk to Freedom March you led there on June 28, 1963, exactly two months before the March on Wash-ington.

After laying claim to your legacy through hard work and even harder self-promotion, Jesse’s star has faded. Unfor-tunately, your former protege is still clinging to the lie that he was the last person to cradle you in your dying moments in Memphis. To the contrary, your best friend Ralph Al-bernathy told me in a tape-recorded interview before

Open Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Detroit - America’s Ground Zero

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By WilliaM Jones

I did not real-ize that picking up a piece of paper, a plastic bottle, or an empty can could mean so much until yesterday here in Baton Rouge at the beautiful renovated Hilton Hotel.

It really hit me when Mr. Jesse Deemer and myself was called to the stage and was issued a certificate declaring Thursday, August 19, 2010 Jesse Deemer and William Jones Day by our own mayor the honorable Mel-vin “Kip” Holden. We were picked up by a limo and taken downtown and received outside the Hilton Hotel by the sponsors of the conference and escorted to our special reserved seats. Of course lunch was served.

I was amazed to learn of the million of tons of litter picked up over the United States. There were so many stats given, it is too many to write down in my assigned space. One thing I

must mention is one of the speakers stated that here in Louisiana more time is spent here in Louisiana pick-ing up trash than time spent for mowing the grass on our highways and byways.

That is a shame! Again, my inter-

est is to make the two block area between Scenic Highway and

Kansas City railroad tracks the mecca of how I would like to see all of Scotlandville look. This is the entrance to Southern University. Don’t worry about picking it up even if you did not throw it down. As I told the group at the conference, as a kid coming up my parents taught us that even though you wear raggedy clothes, there is no ex-cuse for them to be dirty. And for the yard - we had to keep it spotless. Let us all pick up and pitch in that will Keep Louisiana Beautiful.

That is the way I see it.

GeorgeE. Curry

JulianneMalveaux

Keep Louisiana Beautiful

WilliamJones

The Way I See IT

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By Marian Wright edelManNNPA Columnist

(NNPA) - Children have only one childhood and it is right now. Millions of children in our nation require emergency attention in our recession rav-aged economy as poverty, in-cluding extreme child poverty, hunger, and homelessness have increased, if irreparable harm is not to be inflicted on them and on our nation’s future.

The greatest threat to America’s national security comes from no enemy with-out but from our failure to protect, invest in, and educate all of our children who make up all of our futures. Every 11 seconds of every school day a high school student drops out of school; every 32 seconds a baby is born into poverty; every 41 seconds a child is confirmed abused or neglected; every 42 seconds a baby is born without health insurance; every minute a baby is born to a teen mother; every minute a baby is born at low birthweight; every three hours a child or teen is killed by a firearm. A majority of children in all racial and income groups cannot read or do math at grade level in 4th, 8th or 12th grade. Over 80 percent of Black and Hispanic children cannot read or compute at grade level. These numbers are a moral travesty and an impending national disaster requiring priority at-tention at the highest level of decision making.

If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don’t say you cannot afford to fix it. Children are the foundation of America’s future. We need to invest now in their health, early childhood development, and education. Today is tomor-row.

God has blessed America with great material wealth but we have not shared it fairly with our children and our poor. Al-though we lead the nations of the world in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in billionaires, and in military technology, de-fense expenditures, and mili-tary exports, our money and our military might have not translated into moral might, adequate child safety and well-being, and a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom.

Children are the poorest age group and the younger children are, the poorer they are. We rank highest among industrialized nations in relative child pov-erty and in the gap between rich and poor, which is the highest ever recorded in America. In the

1960’s, when the economy was expanding, about two-thirds of the nation’s income gains went to the bottom 90 percent of U.S. households. In the first half of this decade, it was just the opposite: the wealthiest one percent reaped two-thirds of income gains. In 2007, the in-come share for the wealthiest 10 percent of households, 49.74 percent, was the highest ever recorded. It is obscene for any-one to advocate for continuing of the unjust Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans at a time of economic downturn and escalating child poverty and budget deficits.

Where is our anti-poverty movement at a time when one in 50 Americans, according to a New York Times front page story, has no cash income? “Al-most six million Americans re-ceiving Food Stamps report they have no income. They described themselves as unemployed and receiving no cash and no wel-fare, no unemployment insur-ance, and no pensions, child support or disability pay. About one in 50 Americans now lives in a household with a recorded income that consists of noth-ing but a Food Stamp card,” the New York Times’ Jason DeParle reported.

This shocking New York Times article provoked no pub-lic outcry, action or shame. It did not stop most Republican politi-cal leaders from trying to block or resist extension of unemploy-ment insurance, investing more federal dollars in creating jobs, expanding tax credits for work-ing families desperately trying to feed, house and clothe their children, or investing more in stimulating an economy slowly struggling to recover with 14.6 million workers still unemployed and massive state deficits which will cause more job loss. How morally obscene it is that a nation with a GDP ex-ceeding $14 trillion cannot find the will, common sense and de-cency to provide a safety net to protect its over 14 million poor children—the number before the recession, which is expected to push millions more children into poverty and extreme pov-erty, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Brookings Institution. This is a time when America can and must turn economic downturn into an opportunity to step forward to correct the gross imbalance of government subsidization of the wealthiest and most powerful among us and provide a safety net for all

Children Need Emergency Help in this Deep Recession Now!

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A household that has been determined eligible for PSH and resides or previously resided (within the 6 months prior to requesting this preference) in a unit in which the household received PSH support-ive services through DHH, including but not limited to the Louisiana Shelter Plus Care Program, the Housing Authority of New Orleans PSH Program and other multi-family development with PSH set-asides.

All units are tied to Section 8 Project Based Vouchers (PBV). In order to qualify the household must be at or below 50% of the Area Median Income with a preference for families with incomes at or below 30% of AMI; a member of the household must have a severe, long-term dis-ability; and, because of the disability, the household must be in need of supportive services in order to live independently and successfully in the community.

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THIBODAUX — Officials with the Institute for Seafood Studies at Nicholls State Uni-versity say consumers of Loui-siana seafood can be confident in the findings of the safety as-surances issued by government agencies.

In a Tuesday statement, Dr. Marilyn Kilgen said the results of intensive investigations have consistently shown that seafood harvested from state and feder-ally designated open fishing areas present no public health risk from the oil spill.

Kilgen has conducted re-search in seafood safety at Nich-olls for 30 years and served on many national and international seafood safety committees, in-cluding the National Academy of Sciences’ congressionally man-dated Seafood Safety Study.

Operators who scammed people who did not have health insurance - the uninsured, the unemployed and the uninsur-able - have been targeted by Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon and a federal and state coalition of law enforce-ment agents for fraudulently marketing “medical discount plans” as health insurance plans. In addition to the Louisiana De-partment of Insurance, the Fed-eral Trade Commission and law enforcement agencies in 23 other states have filed 50 lawsuits and regulatory actions to stop the scammers’ deceptive practices. “The Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section is working in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission and law enforcement authorities to protect unsuspecting citizens from falling victim to insurance scams. Consumers need to be aware that scams are out there and ensure that they know what they are buying . If in doubt, call the Louisiana Department of Insurance and confirm that the policy, agent, and company are legitimate,” said Commis-sioner Donelon.

Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section Inves-tigators served American Trade Association, its 13 companion companies and 14 personnel with cease and desist orders by certified or registered mail

on June 7, 2010, for selling un-authorized insurance in Louisi-ana. Fraud Section Investigators served cease and desist orders to American Trade Association, Inc. (an Indiana corporation); American Trade Association, Inc. (a Tennessee corporation); Smart Data Solutions, LLC; Real Benefits Association; Serve America Assurance, Ltd.; Beema-Pakistan Company, Ltd.; Healthcare America; Integrated Health Plan, Inc.; National Asso-ciation of Business Leadership, LLC and/or Inc.; Benefit Plan Administration; Insurance Re-source Group; CEO Clubs, Inc. (and CEO Club Benefits); Star Group U.K., Ltd., aka Phoenix Insurance Company; Associa-tion for Independent Managers (AIM Health Plans, Inc.); Bart S. Posey; Angie Posey; Obed W. Kirkpatrick, Sr.; Linda Kirkpat-rick; Richard H. Bachman; Kristy Wright; Colin J. Youell; David L. Clark; William M. Worthy, II; Ryan Adams; Tina Bennett; James Sean; Patrick Collins and Phillip Sylverin.

All entities and individu-als mentioned above were di-rected to cease and desist from engaging in or transacting un-authorized insurance business, soliciting, offering, issuing, mail-ing or delivering any Louisiana resident a plan, policy, coverage, certificate, or any other contract which purports to provide in-

surance benefits or medical dis-counts for health benefits.

All entities and individ-uals issued a cease and desist order have 30 days of receipt of the C&D to furnish the De-partment with a complete list-ing of all Louisiana residents and businesses that purchased any insurance or discount plan product from them and report to the Department all premiums re-ceived in connection therewith. They are also ordered to notify any affected Louisiana custom-ers of the C&D and issue an im-mediate refund of any monies or premiums held on behalf of the customers.

In addition to this case, the FTC filed 3 lawsuits target-ing bogus medical discount scams, and Attorneys General and Insurance Commissioners have brought numerous enforce-ment actions to stop the scam-mers. They include lawsuits or regulatory actions addressing sham insurance, as well as illegal robocalls and fax blasting, and licensing violations.

Commissioner Donelon urges consumers who feel uneasy about any insurance related transaction to call the Department of Insurance Fraud Section at 225-342-4956 or 1-800-259-5300. If callers do not want their names used, they can re-quest that their involvement be kept confidential.

Crack-down on Bogus “Medical Discount Plans” Peddled to Uninsured, Uninsurable, and Unemployed Consumers

Nicholls State Confirms Safety of Seafood

BATON ROUGE — Upset parents flooded the Recreation and Park Commission for East Baton Rouge Parish centers with calls wondering if some of its programs for kids were in jeopardy of shutting down.

A complaint to the Depart-ment of Children and Family Services generated an investiga-tion of the 11 facilities in ques-tion and found BREC did not have licenses to operate daycare centers.

BREC’s response was its focus is recreation, not daycare,

so it has never had and does not need a daycare license.

“BREC is about recreational programs and we put out good recreational programs,” said Kristi Williams, a BREC spokes-person. “We are not a daycare facility. This office, this state of-fice licenses daycare facilities and we are not that.”

BREC said its centers will continue to operate as always and its lawyers will meet with DCFS attorneys next week to hopefully reach a better under-standing.

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and David.”Dow covered many of the

most important stories of his time, including 9/11, where he barely escaped one of the falling Twin Towers. He also covered the return of prison-ers of war from Vietnam, the movement of American troops into Bosnia, the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster, and the kidnap-ping of Patricia Hearst, who he interviewed exclusively in 1976. He also conducted the first network TV interview with O. J. Simpson after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

In addition to his five

Emmys, Dow was honored with a Peabody Award for his 48 Hours report on runaways and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for a report on public housing. He was also recently recognized by the National As-sociation of Black Journalists for his report about civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which was featured in a CBS News special about the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Dow’s cause of death was not immediately released.

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BATON ROUGE, LA - In September the historic St. Francis Catholic School will celebrate its 90th anniversary with a special Mass and Banquet gala. As the only remaining predominantly Black Catholic school in the dio-cese of Baton Rouge, St. Francis Xavier has a rich tradition and proud heritage of providing for the spiritual, moral, academic, social, physical and cultural wel-fare of the thousands of African American youth of metropolitan Baton Rouge who have ben edu-cated at the school since it opened its doors in 1920. From that day until the present, the Sisters of the Holy Family and the priests of the Josphite Society, as well as dedicated lay men and women have maintained the school which now enrolls students

from pre-K through 8th grade. The school, which is located on the fringes of downtown Baton Rouge, is bordered by Myrtle, Julia and South 12th Streets.

Sister Joseph Charles, who is in her fourth year as principal of the school, said “the anniversary banquet-gala will be held from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Saturday, September 18th in the atrium of the Belle of Baton Rouge Hotel located at 103 France Street on the River Front in downtown Baton Rouge, and the Mass-church ser-vice will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. Sunday, September 19th at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church located adjacent to the school on Myrtle Street.”

According to Sister Joseph Charles tickets for the banquet are on sale and can be purchased by contacting the St. Francis Xavier School office at 225-387-

6639. Sister Joseph Charles also indicted that the theme of the observance is “Celebrating a Legacy of Educational Excel-lence to God’s Children for 90th Glorious Years.”

Sister Joseph Charles said, two of the school’s outstanding graduates will have major roles in the anniversary event: Dr. Lisa Delpit, who is a nationally recog-nized expert on educating Urban African American students and author of several books, includ-ing the award-winning book entitled “Other People’s Chil-dren”, will serve as the banquet speaker. Dr. Delpit received her doctorate from Harvard Univer-sity and is currently a professor in the College of Education at Southern University. The other graduate who will participate in a significant capacity is the Reverend Roderick Coates, a

priest of the Josephite Society who will be the main celebrant of the anniversary Mass that will be held at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church on the morn-ing of Sunday, September 19th. Both Delpit and Coates are native Baton Rougeans whose families have long-standing ties to the St. Francis Xavier church-school community, according to Sister Joseph Charles.

Sister Joseph Charles said a significant feature of the 90th anniversary for the school’s fac-ulty and staff will be their special focus on upgrading technology services and equipment, enhanc-ing curriculum materials and improving the school’s general physical plant all designed to provide a better learning envi-ronment for the students en-rolled at the historic Christian school.

St. Francis Xavier Catholic School to Celebrate 90th Year Anniversary

BATON ROUGE, LA - The first anniversary of The Hope Christian Center located at 5013 Windfall Court will be celebrated on September 1, 2010 at 12 noon. Reverend Henry Martin is the pastor of the church.

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The First Anniversary of the Hope Christian Center

NEW ORLEANS, LA - Sister Josephine Jones was ordained at the 2nd District Missionary conference that was held in New Orleans, Louisiana at the United Metropolitan Spiritual Church of Christ recently.

The guest speaker of the con-ference was Archbishop Jackie Robert from Los Angeles, Cali-fornia.

Josephine Jones Ordained at United Metropolitan Spiritual Church of Christ

It is one of the most compassionate scenes in the New Testament. In his final agony on the cross, Jesus promises para-dise to Dismas, the “Good Thief.” Who was Dismas, and what events led him to Golgotha that fateful day?

In his novel, “The Good Thief,” au-thor Barry Connolly weaves a powerful and exciting story of love, loss, revenge and redemption. Set in the tumultuous weeks leading up to Christ’s passion and crucifixion, “The Good Thief” follows the life of Dismas, a young Jewish man, whose peaceful world is suddenly and violently turned upside down.

Returning home to announce his en-gagement, Dismas finds the family vine-yard in flames and his brother and sister dead at the hands of an arrogant Roman tribune. Dismas becomes obsessed with finding and punishing the tribune. Against the advice of his fiancée and others who love him, Dismas embarks on a dangerous

quest that takes him from the shadowy back alleys of Jerusalem to a thieves’ lair in the remote mountains of Judea and finally to a fateful confrontation with the man he has sworn to kill.

“Traditionally, many have seen the Good Thief as simply a hardened criminal who had the grace and good fortune to be granted a last-minute pardon,” Connolly said. “I was inspired to take a different approach, to see his story as richer and more complex -- a good man confronted with overwhelming tragedy, engaged in a painful struggle between faith and love, and pride and revenge. It’s a story as rel-evant today as it would have been 2,000 years ago.”

“The Good Thief” by Barry Connolly, (308 pages; ISBN: 978-1-4502-3287-6) is published by iUniverse, based in Blooming-

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Space is not available to cover concerns of so many people

concerned with the conditions at Jetson. it is happening there. What i do know is that most of these youth can be changed, from contrition in a prepatory school for Angola to rehabilitation for a positive life that may lead to a life of meritorious glory. That is the Way I See It!

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all funny or remotely appropri-ate about the use of a lynching reference about Michelle obama,’’ he said. ‘’it’s - i’m speechless.’’

As President Bush pointed out so eloquently during the Black history Month event, the noose represents ‘’more than a tool of murder but a tool of intimidation’’ to generations of African-Ameri-cans. Nooses not only robbed some of their lives but many of their peace of mind.

‘’As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive. they are wrong. And they have no place in America today,’’ he said.

Neither o’reilly nor ingraham has been reprimanded by their re-spective employers even though the Fox News personality did offer a half-hearted apology.

At least ingraham didn’t drop the l-word but her suggestion that Sharpton, a former presidential candidate and respected member of the African-American community and beyond, is a petty thief reeks of race-baiting and negative ste-reotyping of African-Americans and black men in particular.

But it’s hardly the first time ei-ther has ventured into questionable and offensive territory. how can

we forget o’reilly’s less-than-informed comments regarding a dinner he shared last year with Sharpton at Sylvia’s in harlem? o’reilly expressed surprise over how similarSylvia’s was to other restaurants in New York restau-rants.

‘’there wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, i want more iced tea,’’’ he said.

As the Washington Post’s rob-inson sadly observed on MSNBC in February, ‘’All you can go by is his words and his actions. And he keeps saying these things that sound pretty darn racist to me.’’

has talk radio learned anything from imus’ decline and fall? of course not, because it didn’t take imus too terribly long to get a new gig.

our nation’s media outlets should not provide a platform for racialhostility and hateful speech now or in the future. What kind of messageare we sending to our chil-dren, our nation and our world?

in such an historic election year, we cannot stand aside and allow individuals to use the airwaves as an outlet for insensitive and misguidedcommentary. if you hear something that offends you, speak up.

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ering all children.the CDF Action Council, build-

ing on the best practices in states and lessons learned about children falling through the bureaucratic cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, strongly urged Congress to enact the All healthy Children Act, S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced by representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) in the house and Senator Bernie Sanders (i-Vt) in the Sen-ate. the measure would provide comprehensive benefits including dental and mental health, simpli-fied bureaucracy, and a national eligibility plan for families up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. We thank the 62 house co-sponsors for their support. how-ever, we regret that neither a single house republican nor any other Senator joined them to push for coverage for all children.

the CDF Action Council strongly supports long overdue health cov-erage for everyone in America as soon as possible—because children cannot wait. As SChiP comes up again for reauthorization in early 2009, we hope every Member of Congress will insist on covering every child and pregnant mother now by enacting and adequately funding the provisions of the All healthy Children Act.

Specious claims that we could not find the money—$70 billion over five years—to cover all children is belied by that amount spent in eleven months for tax cuts for the top one percent of richest Americans and in seven months for the iraq War. We do not have a money problem in America: We have a priorities and political will deficit. it is time for all adults to protect the health of our children.

the citizens of the nation must demand that our leaders free our children from the false ideological and political tugs of war among those who put excess profits ahead of children’s lives.

how well did Congress protect children in 2007? Not well enough: 276 Members of Congress had good CDF Action Council Con-gressional Scorecard scores of 80 percent or higher, and 198 of those had stellar scores of 100 percent. But 231 members scored 60 percent or lower—a failing grade from our school days.

Whether Members of Congress are liberal, conservative or mod-erate; Democrat, republican or independent, children need all of them to vote, lobby, speak for and protect them. Adults need to listen carefully to what candidates say they will do for children and fami-lies and, once they are in office, we need to hold them accountable. Please thank your Members of Con-gress with scores of 80 percent or above and let those with scores of 60 percent or below know you are dissatisfied with their performance. And please convey that same mes-sage to each presidential candidate. We must demand that our leaders commit to children as a condition of our vote.

Marian Wright Edelman is Presi-dent of the Children’s Defense Fund and its Action Council whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

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(NAPSM)-A survey commissioned by two leading health organizations found that although two out of three African Americans (61 percent) ex-pressed concern about developing heart disease and two out of five (40 percent) expressed concern about developing Alzheimer’s, only about one in 20 are aware that heart health is linked to brain health.

the Alzheimer’s Association is joining forces with the American heart Association to educate African Americans that by managing their cardiovascular risk, they may also strengthen their cognitive health.

“What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” says Jennifer Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Associa-tion spokesperson. “every healthy heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of your blood to your brain to carry on the daily processes of thinking, prob-lem solving and remembering.”

“By the year 2030, the number of African Americans age 65 or older is expected to more than double to 6.9 million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., American heart Association spokes-person. “Although Alzheimer’s is not part of normal aging, age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. So it is important that Af-rican Americans take steps now to decrease their risk of heart disease, which research has shown could also decrease the risk of cognitive decline.”

Did You Know?• Compared to the general public,

African Americans have a higher risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and vascular dementia.

• More than 40 percent of African Americans have high blood pres-sure (hBP) and are at risk for stroke, which can lead to greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s or other vascular cognitive dementias.

• every year, more than 100,000 African Americans have a stroke.

• having high cholesterol increases the risk for stroke and may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s.

Manage Your Risks• Watch the numbers. remember

that desirable blood pressure is less than 120/80 mmhg. Keep your body weight in the recommended range and make sure that the total choles-terol is less than 200mg/dL.

• healthy lifestyle choices include staying mentally and physically ac-tive, staying socially involved, reduc-ing your intake of fat and cholesterol and not smoking.

Visit www.alz.org/heartbrain or call the American Stroke Associa-tion, a division of the American heart Association, at (888) 478-7653 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 272-3900 and you’ll receive a bro-chure with heart and brain health information and a free pedometer, while supplies last.

What’s Good For Your Heart Is Good For Your Brain

Research shows a link between heart and brain health, which means impaired heart function could lead to impaired brain function.

apart. You must continue to hold on to your faith and stay before the Lord. But, it may be that the time has come when you may need to take some quality time for yourself and spend some of that time with God.

Get on your knees before God and tell him of how you are feel-ing inside. And maybe the words wont come out exactly as you wish but you can have a good weeping, wailing crying falling, out tantrum and give all those problems to him.

While you are praying, you might forget some of the things that vexed you but God knows what you are going through. he can read the pain, which flows through your tears. even though he knows what’s troubling you, he still wants to tell him about it and bring your problems and burdens to him.

therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hands of God, that he may exalt you in due time, “casting all your cares upon him, for he cares for you,”(1st Peter 5:6-7).

After you finished having your tantrum. You may have a stopped up nose and swollen eyes and mucus running down your lip and dried tears on your face, but you’ll feel better after emptying yourself of those things which had been heavy on your heart.

Sometimes we go for weeks or months trying to take matters into our hands and try to solve our own problems. We are not super humans; we can’t handle every-thing alone. We need God’s help. We have to let go of those situ-ations and let God handle them. there are some things we can’t humanly do anything about.

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(NAPSi)-here’s an alert worth paying attention to: According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), learning your risk for type 2 diabetes could save your life.

Diabetes is a serious disease that strikes nearly 21 million children and adults in the U.S. it is named the “silent killer” because one-third of those with the disease--more than 6 million--do not know they have it.

For many, diagnosis may come seven to 10 years after the onset of type 2 diabetes. early diagnosis is critical for successful treatment and can delay or prevent some of the complications such as heart diseases, blindness, kidney disease, stroke and amputation.

that’s one reason the ADA holds the American Diabetes Alert® Day, a one-day wake-up call to inform the American public about the serious-

ness of diabetes, particularly when it is left undiagnosed and untreated. the day is held on the fourth tuesday of every March.

on that day, people are encour-aged to take the Diabetes risk test, either with paper and pencil or online. the risk test requires users to answer seven simple questions about age, weight, lifestyle and family history--all potential risk factors for diabetes. People scoring 10 points or more are at a high risk for type 2 diabetes and are encouraged to talk with a health care professional.

An estimated 54 million Ameri-cans have pre-diabetes. those with pre-diabetes have blood glucose lev-els higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

early intervention via lifestyle changes such as weight loss and

increased physical activity can help delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Among the primary risk factors for type 2 diabetes are being over-weight, sedentary, over the age of 45 and having a family history of diabetes. African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and Pacific islanders are at an increased risk, as are women who have babies weighing more than 9 pounds at birth.

the Diabetes risk test is avail-

able in english and Spanish by call-ing the ADA at 1-800-DiABeteS (1-800-342-2383) or online at www.diabetes.org/alert.

though the Alert is a one-day call to action, awareness about type 2 diabetes is important anytime of the year, so free Diabetes risk tests are available online and by calling ADA all year long.

A free Diabetes risk test is avail-able all year long to determine the risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

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children from growing hunger, homelessness and stress. Now is the time to correct the laissez-faire federal policies that en-abled the few to run roughshod over the life savings of many hard working Americans and wreck the lives and dreams of millions of children.

The Children’s Defense Fund’s new report The State of America’s Children 2010 de-scribes the status of children in a range of areas—what has improved, worsened or stag-nated; the continuing racial and income disparities faced by children of color who will make up a majority of our work-force which must support our increasingly aging population by 2025; and the higher costs of child poverty and neglect and the savings from preventive investment. I hope the facts in the report will wake us up and provoke us to speak out and stand up and demand our lead-ers act now to alleviate today the massive child suffering around the nation. The cata-strophic BP oil spill’s assault on our environment is an ur-gent national emergency. But so is the catastrophic impact of this recession and the chronic plight and suffering of millions of children left adrift in a sea of poverty, hunger and homeless-ness, and political neglect. If we could bail out bankers to steady the economy, we can bail out babies who without our help will see their hopes and dreams for a better life wiped out. It should be a no brainer.

Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.chil-drensdefense.org.

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urban renewals? Once upon a time, urban

renewal meant black folk re-moval. Now, the revival of cities will necessarily improve African American economic fortunes. When Rev. Jesse Jackson and thousands of others march in Detroit they spotlight one of our nation’s urban failures. The spotlight must be followed by a focused effort to turn this failure

into success. If Detroit can rise up out of its ashes, increasing graduation rates, entrepreneur-ial engagement, industrial de-velopment, and social service efficiency, so can every other challenged American city.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is President of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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he died that Jesse was lying and dared him to make that claim in his presence. Even so, most Blacks were willing to overlook Jesse’s obvious foibles. But that, too, had its limits. For most African-Americans, the last straw was hearing Jesse say during the presidential campaign that he wanted to dismember certain delicate body parts of Barack Obama.

So while Jesse is in Detroit commentating a march two months after it’s anniversary,

Al Sharpton, Marc Morial, Ben Jealous and Martin III will be resisting Glenn Beck’s latest ef-fort to appropriate your good name. In doing so, they will be keeping the dream alive.

George E. Curry, former ed-itor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, modera-tor, and media coach. He can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.

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ALEXANDRIA, VA--(Marketwire - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) is join-ing forces with the American Diabetes Association to stop diabetes in the African Ameri-can Community.

The collaboration is driven by the reality that African Americans are greatly affected by diabetes; they are 1.8 times more likely to have type 2 dia-betes than non-Latino whites. To combat this epidemic, be-ginning in the spring of 2011, the AKA’s will designate 10 undergraduate chapters at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to lead diabe-tes workshops and activities. Through this initiative, the Sorority hopes to spread the message about how to prevent diabetes and provide tools to assist those with diabetes to live a productive life with this disease. In announcing the partnership, AKA’s newly installed international presi-dent Attorney Carolyn House Stewart stated, “Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s goal is to help our community recognize the risks of this disease, its many complications and treatment options. We will host forums that will heighten awareness and offer prevention strategies

to help eliminate this deadly disease that shortens lives and impacts the quality of life of many African Americans of all ages.”

AKA and the American Diabetes Association share common priorities and inter-ests in reaching African Ameri-cans, students and other key constituents with important awareness messaging relat-ing to diabetes, including risk factors, prevention strategies, warning signs, and manage-ment of the disease. Both organizations have unique competencies to address these issues and believe that there will be a greater opportunity to promote mutual goals through multiple communications channels. This collaboration is especially significant, because African-American women are at a greater risk for the number one complication of diabetes: heart disease.

“By getting this pow-erful group of women to join us in our movement to Stop Diabetes, we have the poten-tial to change many lives and communities,” said Earnestine Walker, Director of Commu-nity Outreach at the American Diabetes Association.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Joins the American Diabetes Association’s Movement to Stop Diabetes

BATON ROUGE – The American Lung Association (ALA) has named the Asthma Program of the Earl K. Long Med-ical Center (EKLMC) in Baton Rouge , La. , an Asthma Center of Excellence. The EKLMC Asthma Program is the only program in the entire State of Louisiana with this designation.

The program has met rig-orous ALA criteria including having asthma educators with certification from the National Asthma Educator Certification Board. The EKLMC Asthma Pro-gram has two such educators: Kerri Capello, RRT, RPFT, AE-C, who is a Registered Respiratory Therapist and a Registered Pul-monary Function Technologist, and Robin Hoover, who is a Re-spiratory Therapist.

Board-certified in both In-ternal and Pulmonary Medicine, Dr. Kevin Reed, EKLMC Chief Medical Officer, educates all In-

ternal Medicine staff and resi-dents on evidence-based treat-ment of the patient with asthma. Board-certified in Family Prac-tice, Dr. Jule Assercq, EKLMC Chief of Family Practice, initiated the Clinical Asthma Program in 2001 and has led it since. She also educates all practitioners in Family Practice on best practices in asthma care.

With two asthma educators and a prescribing practitioner, the EKLMC program surpasses most programs. The practitioner can evaluate the patient for medicinal needs and immediately prescribe them, increasing the likelihood that the patient will fill and use the prescriptions, which are well established to prevent asthma attacks.

Another unique aspect of the program is that patients receive Ms. Capello’s phone number for health or prescription needs, eliminating unnecessary

Emergency Room visits. “Our program has an excel-

lent record of patients receiving controller and rescue medicines and of achieving low asthma di-agnoses rates in the emergency room,” said Dr. Assercq.

Unlike many programs, the EKLMC program provides medicines for the indigent at low cost due to the generosity of the pharmaceutical industry.

ALA criteria call for writ-ten procedures for asthma educa-tion and management, measured outcomes of the program and re-sources for the community. “We educate our internal medicine and emergency room residents so that they will implement good asthma practices as physicians in their communities,” said Dr. Assercq.

Resources include the avail-ability of EKLMC to the insured and uninsured and educational efforts, such as participation by Dr. Assercq in local health fairs, lectures to community groups, media opportunities, and advo-cacy for tobacco control.

Since its inception, the

EKLMC Asthma Clinic has had 990 patients attend 2,686 appoint-ments. Its Asthma Education Group Class has educated 436 patients.

The ongoing collabora-tive efforts of Dr. Assercq and Ms. Capello for nearly a decade have resulted in improved com-munication with patients and increased access to the clinic and to medication. This has led to a profound cost savings to the hospital in terms of ER visits, as well as marked improvement in patient perceived quality of life. The EKL Asthma program has been a “winning” program since its earliest years, having taken the annual LSU Health Care Ef-fectiveness (HCE) award for the best Asthma disease manage-ment program every year since 2002. In 2008, it also won the LSU HCE TRRAQSSS award which recognizes an outstand-ing program in the LSU Health Care Services Division (HCSD) and is based on the program’s performance, quality and sig-nificant contributions to HCSD healthcare.

Earl K. Long Medical Center Asthma Program Named Center of Excellence by the American Lung Association

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No oil has flowed into the Gulf for weeks. But we know this is just the beginning of our work. BP has taken full responsibility for the cleanup in the Gulf and that includes keeping you informed.

Restoring Gulf CommunitiesWe can’t undo this tragedy. But we can help people get back on their feet. We have been working with impacted communities since day one.

Partnering with local governments and community organizations, my job is to listen to people’s needs and frustrations and find ways to help. We have 19 community centers and teams in four states, listening and helping.

Restoring The EconomyBP is here in Gulf communities with shrimpers, fishermen, hotel and restaurant owners, helping to make them whole.

More than 120,000 claim payments totaling over $375 million have already gone to people affected by the spill. We have committed a $20 billion independent fund to pay all legitimate claims, including lost incomes until people impacted can go back to work. And none of this will be paid by taxpayers.

BP has also given grants of $87 million to the states to help tourism recover and bring people back to the Gulf beaches.

Restoring The EnvironmentWe’re going to keep looking for oil and cleaning it up if we find it. Teams will remain in place for as long as it takes to restore the Gulf Coast.

And we’ve dedicated $500 million to work with local and national scientific experts on the impact of the spill and to restore environmental damage.

Thousands of BP employees have their roots in the Gulf. We support over 10,000 jobs in the region and people here are our neighbors. We know we haven’t always been perfect, but we will be here until the oil is gone and the people and businesses are back to normal. We will do everything we can to make this right.

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