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THURSDAY, FEBURARY 3, 2011 a people’s publication Vol. 35 • No. 40

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INDEXLocal & State ...........................2Commentary ............................4 Business ...................................5Classified .................................5Religion ...................................6Health ......................................7Black History ............................8

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capitaL area ‘GoeS red’The American Heart Association in-vites the public across the state to wear red on Friday, February 4th to help raise awareness of heart disease as the number one killer of women. ..See Page 7

cLiNtoN Mardi GraS paradeOn February 19th, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. the town Clinton will be hosting its 6th Annual Mardi Gras parade. The parade in conjunc-tion with the monthly Community Market and the theme this year is “Stars.”...See Page 2

equippiNG SMaLL BuSiNeSSeSA workshop has been scheduled to prepare small businesses for compet-ing for state and local contracting opportunities. Local resource agen-cies will provide information on up-coming opportunities, qualifications. ..See Page 5

The Baton Rouge bus boycott started the direct action phase of the modern civil rights movement. It occurred in 1953, before the more famous Montgomery bus boycott from 1955-56. In 1953, Baton Rouge, Louisiana was under the Jim Crow system of segregation of the races...See Page 3

tHe BatoN rouGe BuS Boycott of 1953 reLiGioN NewSHeritage was founded and directed by Clarence Jones will host its an-nual “Festival of Negro Spirituals” on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at Mt. Zion First Baptist Church...See Page 6

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The community is mourn-ing the loss of a man whose mission was to empower the Black community.

Byron Weathersby, the founder and CEO of Beautiful Black magazine, died suddenly this weekend. The bi-monthly magazine featured news about family, health, education, and others issues affecting African Americans.

Weathersby was a native of New Orleans who came Baton Rouge after Katrina destroyed his home. He was a member of Living Faith Chris-tian Center in Baton Rouge. His funeral will be held at the Household of Faith Fam-ily Worship Church in New Orleans on Saturday.

He was a married father of two children.

Beautiful Black Magazine founder, ceo dies

Today, the month of Febru-ary is dedicated to the teaching of black history. Advocates say it takes a month because there is so much history to tell.

But that was not always the case.

Through the early decades of the 20th Century, teaching about the African-American ex-perience focused on the issue of slavery. In that telling of history, black Americans were victims, and there were few les-sons about black contributions to American history, culture and society.

Carter Godwin Woodson sought to change that, making it his cause to teach the broad spectrum of African-American history to all Americans, black and white alike. To call atten-tion to the issue, he established Negro History Week in 1926; today, that weeklong focus on African-American contributions to America has expanded and evolved into Black History Month. And Carter G. Woodson is acknowledged as the Father of Black History.

Woodson himself was the son of former slaves. He was born in rural Virginia in 1875, where he spent most of his time working on his family’s small farm. Growing up, he was able to attend school only four months a year. Yet the fact that he could read and write distinguished Woodson from

many of the people he met while growing up in rural America, and encouraged his lifelong passion for education.

Although he had an appe-tite for learning and a special interest in the history of African-

Americans, it was not until he was 20 that Woodson was able to begin a program of formal schooling. Once he began, he did not stop.

After completing high school in just two years, Wood-

son enrolled in Berea College where he earned a bachelor’s degree. He then attended the University of Chicago, were he was awarded a second under-graduate degree and a master’s degree. In 1912, he became the second African-American ever to earn a Ph. D. at Harvard Uni-versity.

Meanwhile, Woodson supported himself as a school teacher and principal. For a time, he taught in the Philip-pines, and then he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. After moving to Washington, D.C. to research his dissertation at the Library of Congress he taught in the city’s segregated public school system.

In addition to his studies and teaching, Woodson had become an author. In 1915, he published his first book, “The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861.” That same year, he par-ticipated in the Exposition of Negro Progress, which marked the 50th anniversary of eman-cipation. Before the year was out, Woodson had founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History -- today, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

Woodson explained the mission of the association, which would become his life’s

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BATON ROUGE – Jan. 28 marks the 25th anniver-sary of the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, one of the most devastating events in the United States’ history. Ronald E. McNair, one of seven crew members who perished in the tragedy, was only the country’s second African American as-tronaut. But McNair’s death in the Challenger mission did not define his life. Rather, his love for education and pursuit of excellence are what he left behind.

Despite racial tensions during the 1950s and 1960s, McNair was able to excel academically, and received a bachelor’s degree in phys-ics from North Carolina State University, graduating magna cum laude. At 26, he received his doctorate in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology. His academic and pro-fessional achievements were stellar: a Presidential Scholar,

Ford Foundation Fellow and Omega Psi Phi Scholar of the Year. He also was named Dis-tinguished National Scientist by the National Society of Black Professional Engineers. He de-veloped an expertise in laser physics while working at the Hughes Research Laboratory in Malibu, Calif. In 1978, NASA

LSu program celebrates Memory of astronaut ronald McNair on 25th anniversary of challenger explosionRonald McNair Program offers underrepresented populations increased chance of earning Ph.D.

Ronald McNair

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BATON ROUGE – Football fans across Louisiana and the nation are excited about the Feb. 6 Super Bowl XLV match up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. However, the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission is warning fans who are celebrating with alcohol to use good judgment and not drink and drive.

Super Bowl Sunday has become one of America’s most popular and entertain-ing sporting events. Even though the New Orleans Saints did not make it to Super Bowl XLV, many Louisiana sports fans will still watch the game at parties, bars or other establishments where alcohol is served.

“During Super Bowl celebrations, everyone can play a role in safety by either remaining sober or arranging for a desig-nated driver,” said Lt. Col. John LeBlanc, executive director of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. “Watching the big game on Sunday is a great American tradition. We

Safety officials say for Super Bowl: fans don’t Let fans drive drunk

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BATON ROUGE, LA - In honor of Black History month, The Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame will celebrate 20 years of preserving and honoring successful Af-rican American History and its inductees. The Inductee Honor Roll include national and state achievers such as Johnny Cochran, Joseph Delpit, Doug Williams, Eddie Rob-inson Sr., Rupert Richardson, Clementine Hunter, Madam C. J. Walker, to name a few; and at the Anniversary Celebration---greatness continues as Baton Rouge native Ms. Lynn Whitfield is inducted into The Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame in the category of Art-Music-Entertainment.

Ms. Whitfield has a successful ca-reer in the entertainment industry and her works were so honored that she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special and a NAACP Image Award for her performance

the Louisiana Black History Hall of fame host it’s 20th anniversary Benefit Gala featuring the “torches of Life award” induction ceremony

See awards, on page 2 Lynn Whitfield

Byron Weathersby, the founder and CEO of Beautiful Black magazine pictured with his wife and children. Weathersby died unexpectedly last weeked.

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BATON ROUGE - The 2010-2011 SWAC conference schedule began without a .500 team. Optimism was alive and well, but there was a clue that the Tiger’s from Texas Southern and Jack-son State seemed destined for a SWAC championship run. The two schools were the only SWAC schools to defeat a Division 1 opponent before the conference schedule began. So far this season neither Tiger squad has been slowed down by conference competition with the exception of the Delta Devils of Mississippi Valley State. Both teams are tied for first place at 7-1 in confer-ence, with Texas Southern holding the victory between the two of them. Texas Southern defeated Alabama A&M University to push their overall record to 9-10. Jackson State broke the .500 mark due to the SWAC season with an overall record of 11-9. Jackson State defeated Mississippi Valley State 85-73 to remain atop conference standings.

Southern University fell to 8th in conference standing courtesy of two road losses to Alabama A&M and Alcorn State. Julius Ingram scored a team high 21 points in the losing effort to the Braves of Alcorn State. Quinton Dogget chipped in 11 points with help from Blake Sanford.

Prior to defeating the Jaguars, Alcorn had just one lone victory on the season defeating the struggling Grambling State Tigers. The loss puts the Jags behind Alabama State whom the Jags defeated for their last victory. SWAC Standings 1. Jackson State - (7-1) (11-9) 2. Texas Southern- (7-1) (9-10) 3. Mississippi Valley State- (6-2) (7-14) 4. Alabama A&M- (5-3) (8-9)

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BATON ROUGE - The LSU Museum of Art, located in the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge, will open “Beyond Black: Ed Clark, Eugene Martin and John T. Scott” on Sunday, Jan. 30. With more than 50 works on display, this exceptional exhibition showcases never-before-seen paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and collages from private and public collections across the nation.

“Beyond Black” is the LSU Museum of Art’s first exhibit recognizing the contributions of Louisiana’s African-American art-ists who rose to the challenge of abstract art. Though overlooked in their time, the perseverance of Clark, Martin and Scott and their varied output has made a vibrant mark on American art history.

“Modern artists – abstract expressionists, geometric abstrac-tionists, minimalists – have been studied by numerous scholars and art institutions, but the con-tributions of African-American abstract artists have been widely overlooked, specifically those from, or working in, Southern states,” said Natalie Mault, cura-tor at the LSU Museum of Art. “Clark, Martin and Scott were among the first African-American artists to test the language of ab-stract art. They represent a core group of artists from the imme-diate area that explored unique visual languages to express their artistic freedom.”

The works of Clark, Martin and Scott are uniquely linked to one another through their innova-tive artistic approaches and their unquenchable desire to create as a definition of self-identity. They dedicated themselves to experi-mentation of structure, style and materials. From Clark’s gestural brush-stroke paintings, to Mar-tin’s vivid biomorphic mixed-media canvases, to the vibrantly colored three-dimensional work of Scott, “Beyond Black” high-lights a selection of works by art-ists who worked in the tradition of free-form abstraction since its modernization in the 1940s and 1950s.

“One of the greatest joys of museum work is to rediscover or redefine the works of artists who deserve greater renown and whose gifts promise to captivate new audiences,” stated Tom Live-say, director of the LSU Museum of Art. “It is our hope that this exhibition will deepen existing appreciation of these three art-ists among those already con-versant with them and become a revelation for those who are less familiar.”

The LSU Museum of Art is proud to partner with the New Orleans African-American Mu-seum in Tremé on programming, events and as a venue with ad-ditional paintings by Martin, and with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in New Or-leans, a venue with additional works on display by Scott. “Be-yond Black” is sponsored by AT& T Louisiana and Charles E. Schwing.

It is impossible to encom-pass the revolutionary movement of American abstraction without the works of Clark, Martin and Scott. Come view artworks that are characterized by high-energy color and a bold physicality that

refused to be overlooked. For more information visit

the LSU Museum of Art’s website at www.lsumoa.com.

Programs & EventsLSU English Department

Writing WorkshopSaturday, Feb. 12 – Noon - 2

p.m., Turner GalleryLSU Readers & Writers will

host two, one and a half hour writing workshops facilitated by critically acclaimed author Robert Antoni and poet, essayist, novel-ist, playwright and short story writer M. NourbeSe Philip.

Learn Antoni’s recipe for reading “Finnegan’s Wake,” cover to cover, in an hour! James Joyce’s comic masterpiece – in some ways modernism’s great last gasp – may be the most talked about and under-read – or even unread – texts in our literary can-non. In the space of a single class session, however, Caribbean nov-elist Antoni will provide a road map allowing almost anybody to negotiate this ostensibly unread-able book “almost effortlessly.” In fact, participants will read the book aloud, “cover to cover,” in the time period of the class. And, there will be time afterward for a generative discussion of how to use the vernacular and local dia-lects in fresh inventive ways.

That which connects yet sep-arates; that which is both conduit and barrier: such has been the role of water for Africans forcibly removed from their indigenous cultures and transplanted to a new yet old world during the transatlantic slave trade. Water is that which is feared, yet that which must be traversed to re-connect. Often when thinking of water and, more particularly, that body of water that comprises the Atlantic, we think of the activi-ties on either or both sides – the brackets around the parenthesis that is the submerged memory of bone in water. “Zong!” is located within this parenthesis while simultaneously, through the finding of memory in water, also manifesting it. Although par-enthetical, this memory, that is only to be found in water – in the Atlantic – challenges all that bracket it, including the silence of history and the history of loss, to become, eventually, central.

Within this context of par-enthetical memory poet, Philip will explore the connections, both personal and objective, between law and poetry and how these led to the “writing” of “Zong!”; the challenges of writing the anti-

narrative – how to not tell that which must be told; the long-ing for meaning and the need to resist; the freedom that is to be found in limitations and for-mal constraints; and, finally, the role of the reader as co-creator. Participants are encouraged to bring documents of their own – historical, legal or otherwise – from which they can create their own poems.

This program is funded through a grant from the Southern Arts Federation and the NEA.

“Beyond Black” in Context Gallery Talk

Sunday, Feb. 13Free admission for LSU

MOA members, all others free with museum admission, Fifth Floor

Is there such a thing as a “black art” tradition? What qualities do artworks from this tradition share? And how were John T. Scott, Ed Clark and Eu-gene Martin – the artists in “Be-yond Black” – influenced by that tradition while ultimately creating works that set them apart? Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, assistant professor of art history in the Department of Art and cu-rator of Art Collections at Xavier University of Louisiana, provides her insights into these intrigu-ing questions and inspirational artists.

“Beyond Black”: A Panel Discussion

Sunday, March 27 – 2 p.m. Free admission for LSU

MOA members, all others free with museum admission, Fifth Floor

Arts professionals from a variety of disciplines will dis-cuss their thoughts on work-ing within and “beyond” the African-American tradition in each of those disciplines. Have these disciplines developed, re-tained and/or moved beyond a black tradition? How would they describe that tradition: helpful, empowering, stifling? How does living and working in the South impact on those tradi-tions? Derek Gordon, CEO for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, will mediate. Panelists will include musician John Gray, visual artist Clifton Webb, per-formance poet Chancelier “xero” Skidmore and the Director of New Venture Theater Greg Wil-liams Jr.

Please contact Melissa Foley the LSU Media Relations at 225-578-3869 or by e-mail to this address [email protected].

LSu Museum of art to open “Beyond Black,” celebrating the works of a trio of african-american abstract artists

The Works will be Recognized from Jan. 30 Through May 8

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work, in a series of speeches and in the organization’s journal. He expressed a belief that education was the key to change and that widespread knowledge of African American history would inspire black Americans and overcome prejudice among white Ameri-cans.

Woodson finally left the Washington schools, first to become a dean and head of the history department at Howard University, where he added les-sons on black history to the cur-riculum. Subequently he became dean of West Virginia Collegiate Institute, which today is known as

West Virgina State College. Again, he broadened the curriculum and was credited with attracting more students to the school.

He eventually left the aca-demic world when support from the Carnegie Foundation and other philantropists enabled him to take a full-time staff posi-tion at the ASLFA and to begin hiring staff researchers. He soon published two more books. “The Negro in Our History” was a stan-dard text used in high school and college classrooms for a quarter of a century.

By the mid-1920s, however, foundation support for Woodson’s work diminished and eventually was withdrawn. Many commen-tators have seen that as the result of the segregationist underpin-nings of American society and, in fact, Woodson was investigated by the FBI. Woodson turned suc-cessfuly to the black community for funding to make up for the loss of foundation grants. The work of the association continues to this day.

Although his academic cre-dentials and scholarship and his leadership role could have secured his reputation, it was his decla-ration of Negro History Week in 1926 that led to his popular rec-ognition as the Father of Black History.

This achievement, which has become a national tradition ob-served annually as Black History Month, has made Woodson the “Father of Black History.”odson died in 1950. His Washington home is being preserved as a Na-tional Historic Site by the National Park Service.

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as Josephine Baker in the tele-vision movie “The Josephine Baker Story.” These awards symbolize the greatness of Ms. Whitfield’s talents and abilities as an actress and her personal causes to advocate for Breast Cancer Awareness which has helped to save lives throughout the communities across the na-tion as one of its former national spokespersons and now she is a recipient of The Torches of Life Award. “. This award symbol-izes the successful passing on of knowledge, education, op-portunity and desire to instill faith and determination. The contributions and achievements of the Inductee’s “Torch” for-ever burns in history to educate and inspire achievement. The Inductee’s Letter of Achieve-ment will be showcased in The Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame Museum.

“The Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization with the mission to educate and inspire achievement. We purchased The Lincoln Theater because it is a historical monument of entertainment, civil rights and community heritage. It is one of our greatest accomplishments of these 20 years because now

we have a home. We have sup-porters of the past and present that are dedicated to making these projects a success. Yes! We are blessed. These 20 Years deserve a great celebration and there are many to thank” said Brenda Perry, Founder of The Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame.

Mike McClanahan, Chair-man of the Board of Directors stated “We invite the commu-nity to come, support and cel-ebrate with us. Meet Ms. Lynn Whitfield, who is also a Lincoln Theater Patron, listen to the sounds of live R & B, Jazz and be entertained as we celebrate 20 years of successful African American History! And as we celebrate our progress!”

The event will take place at The Southern University Royal Cotillion Ballroom on the campus of Southern Uni-versity - Baton Rouge, Saturday – February 26, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. The Attire is Semi-Formal and you are welcome to wear the anniversary colors of black and white.

For contact and ticket information, please call Ms. Monica Butler at (225) 924-9431 or Ms. Evelyn Dumas-Augustus at (225) 936-0921.

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selected him for the astronaut corps. Because of his commit-ment to academic achievement in the face of adversity, the Ron-ald E. McNair Program was created by U.S. Department of Education. LSU is home to one of the most successful McNair programs in the country.

The goal of the program is to increase the attainment of Ph.D. degrees by students from underrepresented segments of society. Students participate in undergraduate research projects and are supervised by faculty volunteers from a variety of disciplines, giving them an abundance of individual time working with experts in their chosen field. The LSU McNair program, which serves approxi-mately 30 students per year, has some of the highest achieving students nationwide. It is unique among the country’s McNair programs because it does not serve just its home institution – it assists students from across the state of Louisiana. In fact, since its inception in 1992, the LSU McNair Scholars Program has served 268 students – 192 from LSU; 33 from Southeastern Louisiana University; 39 from Southern University; three from UNO; and one from LSU-Shreveport.

“The McNair program instilled the confidence in me that I could perform the tasks I learned about in a classroom and in the actual lab setting,” said Amber Papillion, current McNair Scholar. “I learned that with practice and hard work I could transfer the concepts from the classroom into science that will become part of the greater good and keep building the foundation of what we know and what we don’t know.”

Students participating in the LSU McNair program receive one-on-one time with faculty in the form of a faculty mentor and research director. McNair scholars are actively involved in hands-on research and scholarship on everything from sociological studies of the connection between crime and poverty to nanofabrication to analysis of the BP oil spill. Such in-depth undergraduate research experience not only thoroughly prepares these stu-dents for graduate school, but also makes them nationally com-petitive for admission into the best schools and consideration for highly-sought after positions. The summer component of the program brings students from Southern University, Southeast-ern Louisiana University and University of New Orleans onto LSU’s campus as they seek at least six hours classroom credit and focus on research.

“I have mentored several LSU McNair scholars over the years, and it is always a very rewarding experience. The stu-dents are very talented, and I’ve learned as much (or more) from them as I have been able to teach them,” said Saundra McGuire, assistant vice chancellor for learning, teaching and retention in LSU’s Division of Student Life and Enrollment Services and professor of chemistry.

“It is very gratifying to see the students develop into skilled researchers who are able to con-fidently present their research to professionals in their fields. Typically it is participation in the McNair program that introduces these students to the possibility of pursuing a Ph.D., and helps them develop the skills required for completing the degree.”

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BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge bus boycott started the direct action phase of the modern civil rights movement. It occurred in 1953, before the more famous Montgomery bus boycott from 1955-56. In 1953, Baton Rouge, Louisiana was under the Jim Crow system of segregation of the races. Public buses had a “colored section” in the back and a “white section” in the front. African Americans had to stand when the colored sec-tion was full, even if there were seats in the white sec-tion. This unfair system was compounded by the fact that the Baton Rouge bus company was financed by African Americans who accounted for about two-thirds of the company’s revenue.

In March of 1953, Afri-can American leaders in Baton Rouge were successful in hav-ing the City Council pass Or-dinance 222, which permitted them to be seated on a first-come-first-served basis. This Ordinance stipulated that African Americans had to sit from the rear to the front and whites from the front to the rear. All of the bus drives were white and they refused to accept the Ordinance. They continued to demand that Af-rican Americans not occupy front seats that were reserved for whites. As a result of the bus drivers’ noncompliance, the Ordinance was ruled il-legal because it conflicted with the segregation laws of Louisiana.

In opposition to this ruling, the black community began a mass boycott of the

buses in June of 1953. The leader of the boycott was Rev-erend T. J. Jemison, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist, which was one of the city’s largest black churches. According to Jemison, “The Negro passen-ger had been molested and insulted and intimidated and all Negroes at that time were tired of segregation and mis-treatment and injustice.”

During the boycott, mass meetings were held at Rev-erend Jemison’s church. Of-ficials of the movement closed down the bars at 6:00 p.m. and set up a police depart-ment to patrol the community and provide bodyguards for the leadership. A free car lift was established to transport the black work force. Jemison recalls,

“Nobody rode the bus during the strike. There were about eight people who didn’t hear the call that night and they rode to work. But by afternoon there was nobody riding the bus. For ten days not a Negro rode the bus.”

The leaders of the boy-cott did not charge fares for the car lift, because they would have been illegally function-ing without taxi license. The movement’s strategists were careful not to break any laws. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP), and the United Defense League (UDL) provided legal assistance and strategic training for the orga-nizers. All the churches in the African American community united to help support and finance the boycott. Accord-ing to Jemison:

“We brought all of the leaders of the other commu-nity organizations in, and recognized them as leaders, so that they would feel a part of the movement, and that it wasn’t just my move-ment. And that was the one thing that kept us together. No matter how the power structure and splinter white groups tried to tear us apart, we were able to maintain a united front.”

To end the boycott, the white power structure of Baton Rouge agreed to a compromise. It stipulated that the two side front seats of buses were to be reserved for whites and the long rear seat was for African Americans. The remaining seats were to be occupied on a first-come-first-served basis. The black community agreed to the compromise and the boycott ended on June 25, 1953. This boycott was a major victory against the Jim Crow system in Baton Rouge. The boycott proved that the Jim Crow sys-tem could be challenged by mass action in other states. The blueprint of the Baton Rouge boycott was shared with Afri-can American leaders in other communities throughout the South. The celebrated Mont-gomery bus boycott, which was sparked by Rosa Park’s refusal to relinquish her seat, borrowed the strategies from the Baton Rouge boycott. Sub-sequent anti-segregation pro-tests were modeled after the Baton Rouge boycott, which opened the direct action phase of the modern civil rights movement.

the Baton rouge Bus Boycott of 1953The first massive bus boycott by African Americans of the modern civil rights movement dedicated to destroying the

Jim Crow system of segregation in the South.BATON ROUGE - Lata

Johnson, director of informa-tion technology at the Southern University Law Center, has been elected president of the Council of Information Services Directors (CISD), a state-based IT organi-zation to support the growth, advancement, and sustainabil-ity of information technology resources in Louisiana. CISD is comprised of technology direc-tors of Louisiana government entities and higher education institutions

The organization promotes coordination among the state in-formation services organizations and serves as a primary advisory group for the state decision-makers on IT matters.

Johnson served as first vice president of CISD in 2009-2010. In that capacity, she was confer-ence chairman for the Annual CISD Conference.

For more information, call Lata Johnson the Director of In-formation Technology, Southern University Law Center at 225-771-4912.

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CLINTON, LA - On Febru-ary 19th, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. the town Clinton will be hosting its 6th Annual Mardi Gras parade. The parade in conjunction with the monthly Community Mar-ket and the theme this year is “Stars.”

Entries should be registered by February 16, 2011 at Clinton Town Hall.

For more information, please call Sheilla Flowers at (225) 683-4531 or Mildred Worrell at (225) 683-5594.

BATON ROUGE - The public is invited to attend the William Now And Then African-Ameri-can History Museum on Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 3:00 p.m., for the discussion of the book entitled “Pyramids in America” by Dr. R. A. Umar Bey. A book signing of the newly released book will be held. You can visit the book on this website at www.Pyramid-sInAmerica.com.

The museum is located at 538 South Boulevard. Admission is free to the public, but donations are accepted.

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want everyone to remain safe so they’ll be able to enjoy another Super Bowl, especially when it will be held at the Louisiana Su-perdome in 2013.”

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-istration (NHTSA), nearly half of all fatal crashes that occurred nationwide on Super Bowl Sun-day in 2008 involved impaired drivers.

Super Bowl partygoers must also remember that Louisiana law requires all vehicle occupants to wear a seatbelt whether they are in the front or back seat.

For individuals who plan on attending or hosting a Super Bowl party, the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission and NHTSA offer the following tips:

If you are hosting a Super Bowl party:

· Make sure all of your guests designate their sober driv-ers before kick-off or help arrange ride-sharing with others who are not drinking.

· Keep the numbers of local cab companies handy, and remove the keys from anyone who is thinking of driving while impaired.

· Serve lots of food and be sure to include plenty of non-alcoholic beverages such as soft drinks, juice and water.

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It may be the ugliest, cruelest, and most vicious process engaged in by the Legislature. It is called “redistricting.” In some ways it is reminiscent of the Civil War: North against South and friend against friend, with significant racial implications added to the mix. It is the most contentious process legislators are engaged in—and it begins soon.

On February 3, all of the key population numbers for par-ishes and legislative and congres-sional districts will be available. Public hearings will then be held around the state and on March 20 the Legislature will convene in Special Session to draw the lines. When the opening gavels bang, the Capitol may quickly devolve into a spectacle reminiscent of the opening scene of the movie “Gladiator.”

Compounding the situa-tion for the current redistricting process is Louisiana’s loss of a congressional seat. That means two sitting congressmen will have to oppose each other in 2012 regardless of how the lines are drawn, and, at this juncture, none of the incumbents are planning not to run for re-election. Con-gressional redistricting will be the opening volley in the North ver-sus South war. In essence, either one of the two North Louisiana

congressional districts is going to disappear, or one of the South Louisiana seats will be merged into a neighboring district. Since no consensus plan appears to be evolving from the congressional delegation members, a real fight is brewing in the Legislature over how to configure the remaining six districts.

Population losses from hurricanes and out migration are also driving the controversy surrounding redistricting. It ap-pears likely at this juncture that the New Orleans area will lose one Senate seat and three House seats. The question is: where will they go? The racial implications enter the picture here.

In spite of the population losses due to the hurricanes, Louisiana’s African-American population has not declined. Under Voting Rights Act guide-lines, that means that the num-ber of minority districts cannot be reduced. The Orleans Parish minority districts that disappear must reappear elsewhere as mi-nority districts. That will have a significant domino effect on the surrounding districts in the vicin-ity of where the new minority districts are located.

There are two possible ap-proaches to creating these new districts. Under one scenario, heavy numbers of black voters can be crammed into the new

commentaryThursday, Feburary 3, 2011 • The Weekly Press •

By DR. BenJamin Chavis, JR.NNPA Columnist

The cry for change and free-dom across Egypt sheds a pro-phetic light on the future of the entire continent of Africa. As the media from around the world continues to be focused on the massive street demonstrations that called for a change of the leadership in Egypt, it is incum-bent for African Americans to see the broader socioeconomic, political, and cultural implica-tions. Egypt is one of the oldest nations in the world. It has a diverse population of more than 80 million people. While the Western media characterizes Egypt as an Arab nation located in the Middle East, it is actually located in Northern Africa and is an African nation.

African people on the continent and throughout the Diaspora of African people should be interested in the ul-timate outcome of the current crisis in Egypt. In the 21st Cen-tury, the majority of people in Egypt and throughout Africa are demanding an end to centu-

ries of poverty. All governments should be critically aware that the elimination of poverty has to be a top priority. The failure of political leaders to take effective steps to end poverty will only certainly encourage the cry and demand for political change.

If you looked at what demographic of people that mainly got the movement for change going inside of Egypt, it was overwhelmingly young people. The youth of Africa are demanding and taking social action for change. Such was the case in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, the Ivory Coast and in the Sudan. How are the youth taking social ac-tion? First through the use of the Internet and social media: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other Internet services. The first peaceful street protests in Egypt were actually organized by the April 6 Youth Movement.

The point here is to em-phasize, once again, the impor-tance of youth consciousness and youth activism. Whether it is in Africa, Europe, Asia, or in the Americas, the youth of

the world are justified in their demands and actions to end poverty, corruption, war and injustice. The youth of Egypt should be saluted for their sense of moral and political outrage matched with their ability to use technology in a sustained, disciplined manner.

The end result of what will happen in Egypt is in the hands of the Egyptian people. The emerging leadership of new youthful leaders is encourag-ing. When the government of Egypt led by President Hosni Mubarak made a decision early in the crisis to cut off the Internet access to millions of Egyptians, it only showed the Egyptians and others throughout the world how useful the Internet can be as a tool to bring about social change.

Of course, we all remember how useful and game-changing it was in 2008 for the election of President Barack Obama to use the Internet and social media to mobilize millions of new young voters. But, the Tea Party and others in opposition to President Obama will be using

that same technology to benefit their politics. It would be well if millions of African American, Latino and other youth who are witnessing what is now taking place in Egypt to remember that 2012 is next year and their voices and votes need to be counted in the next national elections in the United States.

The truth is more must be done also here as well to end poverty and injustice. While what is now happening in Egypt and in other parts of Africa or in other nations may seem like a far away place, we live in a closer global village. We should learn from the situation in Egypt. We should be more than a distant witness. We offer our prayers and support to the people of Egypt. We hope that the final transition of leadership and outcome will serve the interests and aspirations of the Egyptian people.

The future of Africa will be determined by African people. Poverty should be eliminated everywhere. We all have to

By GeoRGe e. CuRRyNNPA Columnist

Speaker of the House John Boehner wants to cut at least $100 billion from the federal budget. President Obama agrees that there should be some spend-ing reductions, but the budget shouldn’t be balanced on the backs of poor and working-class Americans. There is a way that both camps can have their way – end corporate welfare.

According to the Cato Insti-tute, a libertarian policy group in Washington, corporate welfare cost American taxpayers $92 bil-lion in fiscal 2006, a figure that has grown to approximately $125 billion per year. And, the beneficiaries include such major companies as Boeing, Xerox, IBM, Motorola, Dow Chemi-cal, and General Electric.

The Cato Institute defined corporate welfare as “any federal spending program that provides payments or unique benefits and advantages to specific compa-nies or industries.” Stephen Slivinski, director of budget studies of the think tank, con-ducted a detailed policy analysis of the issue in 2007 titled, “The corporate Welfare State: How the Federal Government Subsidizes U.S. Businesses.

The report shows that despite all of the public pleas for the federal government to play a reduced role in private businesses, many Fortune 500 companies are using the federal government as their personal ATMs and have made no moves

to get off of the dole.In fiscal 2006,

the study found, the federal government spent $92 billion in di-rect and indirect sub-sidies to businesses and private-sector corporate entities.

“Supporters of corporate welfare programs often justify them as remedying some sort of market failure,” the report stated. “Often the market failures on which the programs are predicated are either over-blown or don’t exist.”

That notwithstanding, the report is replete with ex-amples of the type of wasteful government spending that both Democrats and Republicans pretend to abhor. The largest subsidies studied in the report were granted by the Department of Agriculture ($43.7 billion). Much smaller subsidies were provided by the Department of Defense ($11.8 billion), the Department of Transportation ($5.7 billion), the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-ment ($5.1 billion) and the State Department ($4.6 billion).

The Export-Import Bank is a perfect example of unjus-tified federal spending. The stated purpose of the bank is to finance the purchase of U.S. goods in foreign countries. Its 2008 budget request said it was needed “to sustain U.S. jobs by financing U.S. exports.”

The Ex-Im Bank, as it is known, does that “by using

taxpayer money to subsidize loans to foreign purchasers of U.S. products and to provide loans and loan guarantees to U.S. com-panies seeking to enter the export market. It also provides insurance for companies invest-ing overseas,” the Cato report stated.

Boeing, the aircraft giant, receives 54.5 percent of long-term guarantees, causing some to refer to the Export-Im-port Bank as “Boeing’s Bank.” Other major recipients include General Electric and Conoco Phillips.

“Supporters of the Ex-Im Bank suggest that government credit is needed to level the play-ing field for U.S. companies as they compete against foreign countries that receive support from their government. Yet, the Ex-Im Bank’s most recent annual Competitiveness Report points out that fewer than one-third of all its loans and guarantees go to counter subsidized com-petition.”

The Department of Agri-culture’s Farm Service Agency Market Access Program “pro-vides the trade associations of private agricultural firms with taxpayer dollars to help offset their foreign advertising cost,” the study noted. “At least 20 percent of this spending goes to promote brand-name prod-ucts overseas.”

Why should American taxpayers subsidize the foreign

advertising budgets of McDon-alds, General Mills, Campbell’s Soup, Pillsbury, Miller’s beer and Gallo wines, as has been the case in the past?

The largest direct subsidy program in the federal budget is for crop and farm subsidies. Even though Congress voted in the late 1980s to phase out agricultural subsidies, they have instead increased during the past years, rising from $9.3 billion in 1990 to $24.3 billion in 2005.

According to the study, the proportion of Americans living on farms has declined 16.3 per-cent in 1948 to approximately two percent in 40 years. Yet, because of technology, farm pro-ductivity is at its highest level.

Most farmers don’t receive direct subsidies from the fed-eral government,” the report states. “The taxpayer-financed handouts go to only about one-third of the nation’s farmers and ranchers. So, where does all the taxpayer money spent on farm-ers actually go? Mainly to large corporate agribusinesses and the richest farmers. In 2005…the richest 10 percent of all subsidy recipients received 66 percent of all subsidies.”

Cash-strapped states will be forced to re-examine state corpo-rate welfare. In Pennsylvania, for example, the state provided more than $40 million in subsi-dies to a Sony plant, only to see it leave the state just as Volkswa-gen, the previous owner of the

democrats and republicans Should end corporate welfare

The views expressed in the editiorial columns are not necessarily the veiws of The Weekly Press or its staff. Address all opinions and comments to: Letters to the Editior, P.O. Box 74485 Baton Rouge, La. 70874 or E-mail them to: [email protected]

By William Jones

Who was that who said, Kwanzaa is losing its steam? It certainly cannot be validated by the standing room only crowd that attended ceremony held in early January 2011 in the Southern University Cotillion Ballroom.

Kwanzaa is a cel-ebration of family, community and culture observed for seven days following Christmas each year. It is by no means to take away any of the spirit from Christmas. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it is nothing of a cult in case there may be some one out there has no real understanding of its meaning. You need only to read the seven days order of

information pertaining to how we as a people should live by them on a day to day basis.

Keynote speaker Dr. Maulana Karena, original person who created Kwanzaa and brought it home in his address the norms of lives of Black people including the past, the present and times to come. His speech

served as a guiding light to the many young people and a re-kindling focus for those older people in attendance. This was the 22nd Annual celebration hosted by Eurocentric/moat study group of Baton Rouge.

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egypt and the future of africa

Mark Hampton Thought Leader on African American Leadership, author of Rebranding the Brand called Black and col-lege lecturer will hold a series of Rebranding Black America events starting in Columbus, Ohio with the initial event held at the King Arts Complex 6:00pm Sunday February 20, 2011.Hampton will lecture and facilitate a QA ses-sion during this ground break-ing event.

The African Ameri-can brand, once known for its strength, courage, character and strong families has lost its market value in America, particularly among African Americans. And Hampton is determined to change that. Today the black brand is a polar opposite to the civil rights era of black Americans. Now the African American Brand is known for; Athletics, entertain-ment, high crime rates, a high dropout rates, the breakdown of black families, teen pregnancy and gang violence. Hampton makes a distinction between problem and system; “these are all symptoms and as long as we treat symptoms the real problems will continue to get worse and I see the real problem as Market-

ing!” Hampton says, “African Americans have engaged in the same fifty year old conversa-tion held by civil rights leaders in the 1960’s, that conversation consisted of; education, social change

and economic development. Hampton said; “we’re talking about the right issues but in the wrong context”. Our strat-egy needs to change because American business has mixed a toxic marketing cocktail that is destroying African Americans. Marketing/branding has become the new tool of opression and we as African Americans have not understood its impact on our society.

African Americans are the recipients of an extremely high dosage of marketing and branding strategies that oppress and suppress black achievement. No one can argue that African Americans are the most nega-tively branded ethnic group in America and we are now living with the results of this brand.

The model of conversa-tion must change, becoming more sophisticated and demand

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DALLAS – Red Mang , the fastest-growing retailer of all-natural, nonfat frozen yogurt and fresh fruit smoothies, is expanding throughout Baton Rouge. The company recently signed a franchise agreement for one new location in the area.

Ngoc Loan Le and Vincent Chan, of Baton Rouge, La., have signed a development agreement to open one location in Baton Rouge.

“We are very excited to in-troduce Red Mango to the Baton Rouge area,” says Vincent Chan. “Red Mango is an experience and so much more than frozen yogurt. It’s the perfect nutritious treat for our health conscious community.”

Red Mango offers 30 fla-vors of all-natural, nonfat frozen yogurt, including the company’s core flavors – Original, Pome-granate by POM Wonderful®, Madagascar Vanilla and the seasonal flavor Pumpkin Spice – all at around 100 calories per serving, as well as 20 varieties of fresh fruit smoothies, made-to-order fruit parfaits and all-natural probiotic iced teas.

Since opening its first store in 2007, the company has reached more than 80 stores in 25 states. Red Mango credits the achieve-ment to consumers who want healthier food options as well as business owners who want suc-cessful investment opportunities, coupled with the popularity of the brand’s signature tart frozen yogurt and the innovations and support of a seasoned manage-ment team.

Red Mango is currently awarding franchise opportuni-ties in select markets across the country, and the company is on track to reach as many as 550 locations across the country in five years.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Federation of In-dependent Business, America’s leading small business associa-tion, has named Pat Felder of Baton Rouge as one of the or-ganization’s four regional win-ners of the Solveras Payment Solutions/NFIB Small Business Champion Award. Felder is the South Region winner.

“The only reason we’re successful in Washington and all 50 state capitals is because of the support of our member activ-ists,” said Dan Danner, NFIB’s president and CEO. “We’re indebted to them for their ef-forts to help protect and promote

our free-enterprise system. This award honors those members who are truly the ‘best of the best’ advocates for NFIB and our members.”

“The regional Small Busi-ness Champions have committed their time and energy to make our country a better place to do business,” said Brian Bates, chief executive officer of Solveras Pay-ment Solutions. “We’re proud to do our part to recognize and honor their contributions.”

Pat Felder, an NFIB mem-ber since 2007, co-owns Felder’s Collision Parts in Baton Rouge with her husband, Wayne. The company was founded in 1987

and provides after-market col-lision parts, as well as remanu-factured bumpers.

“Pat is a dream activist that any state director would like to have,” said Renee Baker, state director of NFIB/Louisiana, the state’s leading small business association. “She’ll do anything she can to make it easier for small businesses in Louisiana to grow and create jobs.

Felder chairs the NFIB/Louisiana Leadership Council, which advises the association on issues affecting small busi-nesses throughout the state. This spring, Felder was selected by Louisiana Department of Eco-

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Every year, NFIB singles out a small business owner in all 50 states for special recogni-

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The food collected will be given to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.

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BATON ROUGE—Baton Rouge ranks as one of the best and worst places to live in Loui-siana, according to a recent study by the American Human Development Project.

The study ranked areas of southern East Baton Rouge parish and West Baton Rouge parish as the best area and north Baton Rouge and parts of the downtown area as the worst.

The study was based the findings on the American Human Development Index, which studies the “health, knowledge and standard of liv-ing,” according to the American Human Development Project website.

The index rates areas using a scale from one to 10 based on these factors. The southern area of East Baton Rouge and

West Baton Rouge ranked 5.73 on the scale.

The results are somewhat unsurprising, according to Jor-dan Johnson, broker at local real estate agency Beau Box Inc.

“Driving down the street, you can tell where the good places to live are,” Johnson said.

But while there are many developing areas in West Baton Rouge parish, the required commute could be a deterrent to living in the area, Johnson said.

North Baton Rouge and the downtown area ranked 2.51 on the index.

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Louisiana’s total score was 4.07. Only West Virginia, Arkansas and Mississippi ranked below Louisiana.

Connecticut earned the highest state ranking on the index at 6.30.

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“This is a fundamental issue of fairness,” said HUD Sec-retary Shaun Donovan. “We have a responsibility to make certain that public programs are open to all Americans. With this pro-posed rule, we will make clear that a person’s eligibility for fed-eral housing programs is, and should be, based on their need and not on their sexual orienta-tion or gender identity.”

HUD is seeking public com-ment on a number of proposed areas including:

* Prohibiting lenders from using sexual orientation or gen-der identity as a basis to deter-mine a borrower’s eligibility for FHA-insured mortgage financ-ing. FHA’s current regulations provide that a mortgage lender’s determination of the adequacy of a borrower’s income “shall be made in a uniform manner with-out regard to” specified prohib-ited grounds. The proposed rule would add actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity to the prohibited grounds to ensure FHA-approved lenders do not deny or otherwise alter the terms of mortgages on the basis of irrelevant criteria.

* Clarifying that all other-wise eligible families, regardless of marital status, sexual orien-tation, or gender identity, have

the opportunity to participate in HUD programs. In the majority of HUD’s rental and homeown-ership programs the term “fam-ily” already has a broad scope, and includes a single person and families with or without children. HUD’s proposed rule clarifies that families, otherwise eligible for HUD programs, may not be excluded because one or more members of the family may be an LGBT individual, have an LGBT relationship, or be perceived to be such an individual or in such relationship.

* Prohibiting owners and operators of HUD-assisted hous-ing, or housing whose financing is insured by HUD, from inquir-ing about the sexual orientation or gender identity of an applicant for, or occupant of, the dwell-ing, whether renter- or owner-occupied. HUD is proposing to institute this policy in its rental assistance and homeownership programs, which include the Federal Housing Administra-tion (FHA) mortgage insurance programs, community develop-ment programs, and public and assisted housing programs.

Other actions:* HUD is conducting the

first-ever national study of dis-crimination against members of the LGBT community in the rental and sale of housing. Every ten years, HUD does a study of the impact of housing discrimina-tion on the basis of race and color. HUD undertook this important research in 1977, 1989 and 2000 and is currently undertaking this study again. It is believed that

Hud propose New rule to ensure equal access to Housing regardless of Sexual orientation or Gender identity

See Hud, on page 7

BATON ROUGE - Econ-omists have predicted a re-covery in 2011 for the Baton Rouge area and leading the way, Campus Federal Credit Union today announced the grand opening of its fourth full-service branch in the capi-tal region. The newest branch is located at 5711 South Sher-wood Forest Boulevard near Airline highway.

The new location fea-tures two drive-up lanes and drive-up ATM. This is the seventh full-service location, joining three others in Baton Rouge, two in Shreveport and one in New Orleans.

Campus Federal is a pro-gressive financial institution providing flexible, competitive financial and related products to meet member needs by pro-viding world-class second to none service. Formed in 1934 by seven employees of Louisi-ana State University, Campus Federal is financially sound and has grown to over 38,000 memberships and seven lo-cations in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport.

Please contact Whitney Breaux at [email protected], telephone number is 225-769-4844 or by cellphone at 225-288-1202.

campus federal Hosts Grand opening for New Branch credit union cites added convenience and Service to the Business communityBATON ROUGE - A

workshop has been scheduled to prepare small businesses for competing for state and local contracting opportuni-ties. Local resource agencies will provide information on the following: upcom-ing opportunities, qualifica-tions, application processes, micro-lending opportunities, customer relations and busi-ness etiquette. Additionally,

agencies have been asked to offer solutions to obstacles previously identified by Disadvantaged Business En-terprises (DBEs) in relation to obtaining state and local government contracts.

The workshop will be held on Friday, February 18, 2011 – 5:00 p.m. at Star Hill Church, 1400 N. Foster Drive.

Register on-line at HY-

PERLINK “http://brgov.com/biz/” \t “_blank” http://brgov.com/biz/ or fax contact information to (225) 358-8674.

This educational work-shop is sponsored by North Baton Rouge Community Reinvestment Alliance with contributions from Star Hill Church, Elm Grove Baptist Church, and Donaldson Cha-pel Baptist Church.

equipping Small Businesses for upcoming opportunities

Many working taxpayers are eligible for the Making Work Pay Tax Credit in 2010. The credit is based on earned income and is claimed on your 2010 tax return when you file your taxes in 2011.

Here are five things the IRS wants you to know about this tax credit to ensure you receive the entire amount for which you are eligible.

1. The Making Work Pay Credit pro-vides a refundable tax credit of up to $400 for individuals and up to $800 for married taxpayers filing joint returns.

2. Most workers received the benefit of the Making Work Pay Credit through larger paychecks, reflecting reduced federal income tax withholding during 2010.

3. Taxpayers who file Form 1040 or 1040A will use Schedule M to figure the

Making Work Pay Tax Credit. Completing Schedule M will help taxpayers determine whether they have already received the full credit in their paycheck or are due more money as a result of the credit.

4. Taxpayers who file Form 1040-EZ should use the worksheet for Line 8 on the back of the 1040-EZ to figure their Making Work Pay Credit.

5. You cannot take the credit if your modified adjusted gross income is $95,000 for individuals or $190,000 if married fil-ing jointly or more, you can be claimed as a dependent on someone else return, you do not have a valid social security number or you are a nonresident alien.

Visit http://www.irs.gov/recovery for more information about the Making Work Pay Credit.

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reLigionPage 6 • The Weekly Press • Thursday, November 18, 2010

Religion

Sunday Morning Worship - 10:45 AMLord’s Supper -3rd Sundays

Sunday School - 9:30 AMPrayer Service - Wed. @ 6:00 PM

Bible Study - Wed- @ 7:00 PM

Mission Statement: New Hope Baptist Church is a family of baptized believers who worship the Lord our God in spirit and in truth, teach the saved to reach the lost and minister to the needs of others, while encouraging one another through acts of love and living in obedience to Gods Word

NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH5856 Greenwell Springs Road • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806

Telephone: (225) 926-0246 • Facsimile: (225) 927-8500 • Toll Free # 1-888-700-6174

E- Mail Address # [email protected]

Pastor Leo D. Cyrus Sr., Pastor

Sunday Morning Worship ................................................................10:45 AMLord’s Supper ...............................................................................3rd SundaysSunday School .................................................................................. 9:30 AMPrayer Service ...................................................................... Wed. @ 6:00 PMBible Study ...........................................................................Wed- @ 7:00 PM

CHurCH SCHeduLe

Mission Statement: New Hope Baptist Church is a family of baptized believers who worship the Lord our God in spirit and in truth, teach the saved to reach the lost and minister to the needs of others, while encouraging one another through acts of love and living in obedience to Gods Word

Good Shepherd Full Gospel B.C.The People’s Church

2865 Mission Drive • Baton Rouge, 70805 • Telephone (225)356-5873Bishop H. Hayes, Pastor

Hour of Power 12 NooN eacH wedNesdaySunday School 8:00 AMChurch Service 9:00 AMLord’s Supper 2nd Sunday 6:00 PMBible Study Wednesday 7:00 PMSister/ Brotherhood 6:00 PM

you will Be Blessed uNder THe aNoiNTed MaN of God

CaMPHoR MeMoRial UniTeD MeTHoDisT CHURCH

8742 scenic Highway • Baton Rouge, louisiana 70807Telephone: (225) 775-4106 • Fax: (225) 615-8359

sunday school ..........................................................................9:30 a.m.Worship service......................................................................10:55 a.m.Bible study.............................................................Wednesday 5:00 p.m.Prayer Meeting ......................................................... Tuesday 6:00 p.m.

St. Mary Baptist Church“The Church that Love Built”

1252 N. Acadian Thruway East • Baton Rouge, LA. 70802Telephone (225) 387-2926

Rev. Conway L Knighton, Pastor

Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship Service - 11:00 a.m.Lord’s Supper - 1st Sunday 11:00 a.m.Prayer Meeting - Wednesday 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.Thursday 10:00 a.m.

New Birth Full Gospel MiNistries

1283 Rosenwald Road • Baton Rouge, La. 70807Phone: (225) 775-6713 •

Fax: (225) 775-4216ivory J. payNe, pastor

order oF serviceSunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 A.M.Holy Communion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3rd Sunday1:00 P.M.Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 A.M.Bible Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 7:00 P.M.

“THe NeW LiFe”Therefore if any man be in christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold

all thing are become new. —I Corinthians 5:17

Radio Broadcast 1st & 3rd Sunday WXOK at 8:00 am

Reverend H. MartinPRAYeR SeRViCeWeDNeSDAY 12:005013 WiNDFALL COURTBATON ROUGe, LA. 70812FOR DiReCTiON CALL 225-358-8100We are seeking Prayer Warriors and SingersRemember Acts: 16,25-26

CHURCH oF THe living goD BUlWaRk oF TRUTH

1042 Rosenwald Road • Baton Rouge, louisiana 70807Telephone: (225) 775-8252

Pastor Harriet scott

eveRy oTHeR Week seRviCeMondays & Fridays ...................................................................7:30 p.m.saturdays .........................................................10.00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

“A New Church”Living Word

Christian Ctr. int’LRev. Donald Britton, MA,LPC, LAC, CCC

1640 North 48th Street • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70805 Telephone: (225) 235-6955 • Fax: (225) 775-0213E-mail address: [email protected]

sUndaY WorshiP ..........................................................9:00 A.M.BIBLE STUDY ..................................................Thursday 7:00 P.M.COUNSELING BY APPOINTMENT

Matthews 6:24-34

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. - Hebrews 10:25

Church Directory

NASHVILLE, TN – One million children each year will experience divorce. Many of these will not receiving the spiritual guidance necessary to help overcome the related familial challenges reports the current issue of Recon-sider, a LifeWay publication for the leaders of today’s Black Churches.

This issue, Ministering to Children of Divorce, reveals the importance that children’s ministries play in providing comfort, consistency and spiri-tual development for children going through a difficult time at home. Thirty percent of par-ents indicate that their family’s spiritual life is either fair or poor. Additionally, 83 percent of individuals believe parents should be most responsible for a child’s spiritual development, yet only 35 percent say their religious faith is one of the most important influences on their parenting.

LifeWay’s study also

found that children can and will learn about prayer and how to pray if they have significant adults in their lives who are willing to teach them. Children who have consistency, support and spiritual guidance in their lives will be more likely to over-come the challenges related to divorce.

“We at LifeWay believe Church ministries can improve their efforts to reach children struggling with family issues and support them through these difficult circumstances,” said Elgia “Jay” Wells, LifeWay’s director of Black Church Out-reach, who also serves as pas-tor at a Nashville, Tenn.-area church. “Our hope is that every child will be given the oppor-tunity to experience the power of spiritual development and prayer through their church ministries.”

For a copy of Reconsider, or to learn more about the find-ings, visit http://www.lifeway.com/blackchurchlife.

Children of Divorce Require the Support of the Church BATON ROUGE - Southern

University’s Interdenominational Gospel Choir will celebrate its ‘Finale,’ in appreciation of the choirs’ founder and director, Reginald Collins, Nov. 19 - 21 with a host of events including a musical featuring Baton Rouge area choirs and music workshops leading up to a Finale Concert.

Festivities kick-off with a “Local Choir Night” at 7 p.m., Nov. 19, at Living Faith Chris-tian Center, 6375 Winbourne Ave. Gospel recording artist Wess Morgan will be the spe-cial guest. Morgan is the writer of the song, “I Choose to Wor-ship.” Other guests will include the Showers Family from Ham-mond, the Gospel Soul Children of New Orleans and the Jackson

State University Interfaith Gos-pel Choir.

Local choirs will include the Living Faith Mass Choir, Greater King David Mass Choir, Elm Grove Baptist Church, Bea-con Light of Baton Rouge, New Gideon Baptist Church, Rose Hill Baptist Church, Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church and Glo-ryland Baptist Church.

Doors will open at 6 p.m. A “College Day Finale and

Workshop” will be held from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., on Nov. 20, in the auditorium of W.W. Stewart Hall on the SU campus. The event will feature an array of music seminars and choir rehearsals in preparation for the “College Day Finale Concert,” at 7 p.m., at New Light Baptist Church,

650 Blount Road. Workshop par-ticipates will sing in the choir during the concert.

The concert will also fea-ture performances by the Voices of Joy from Bogalusa; Psalm 150 Gospel Choir from Beaumont, Texas; Living Testimony Gospel Choir from Texas Southern Uni-versity; UnMeasurable Praise from the University of New Or-leans; Higher Level Gospel Choir from McNeese State University; the University of Louisiana at Monroe Interdenominational Ensemble; New Beginnings Multicultural Gospel Choir from Texas A&M University; Strong Tower Gospel Chorale from Grambling State Univer-sity and Southeastern Louisiana University’s Gospel Choir.

The workshop is free and open to all college students and the public.

The “Finale Concert” will be held at 4 p.m., Nov. 21, at New Gideon Baptist Church, 2542 Balis Drive. The concert will feature the melodious voices of former SU Interdenominational Gospel Choir members from 1987-2010 and musicians Greg Jones, Cecil Houston, Michael Temple, Alfonso Waters, George Chesterfield, Willie Richard, Reu-ben Griffin, Shantran Hawkins and Ricky Draper.

Lawrence Jackson, SU Di-rector of Bands, will also make a special musical tribute during the concert.

All events are free and open to the public.

SU Interdenominational Gospel Choir set for “Finale” Concert

CHADDS FORD PA: Ed-mondson Communications, a full-service entertainment pro-motions company, will launch a new division, Adonai Video Ministries, a global pay-per-view video-on-demand service, November 15, 2010.

The new firm will offer Top Christian and gospel con-certs, sermons/church services by dynamic preachers, and a wide-ranging variety of Chris-tian-oriented programming. “The economic downturn has made it taxing for people to afford to treat their families to a night out on the town,” says founder Al Edmonson, who has 27 gold and

platinum records to his credit as a music executive working with artists such as Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, and Gladys Knight. “We offer them the opportunity to watch a concert or a special feature on their PC or TV at their own leisure for only $9.99. On the other hand, many music ex-ecutives have been looking for ways to increase their revenue as a result of dwindling record sales. A label can now increase its sales by offering videos and other visual entertainment through this service.”

Some of the initial titles that viewers can watch include Grammy-winner Smokie Norful’s

live concerts, Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers’ “Finale” concert, the gold-selling Shekinah Glory Ministry’s majestic concerts, and even the legendary Mighty Clouds of Joy in concert. There are also dynamic sermons such as “Money Is My Friend” and “I Love You But I Don’t Understand You” by Bishop David G. Evans, who pastors a 27,000-member church outside of the Philadel-phia area. The atalog will expand monthly as more companies make their products available.

Today’s top Christian en-tertainment companies such as Abundant Harvest Entertain-ment, Rosyl Productions, Emtro

Gospel, David G. Evans Minis-tries, EMI Gospel and Kingdom Records have all signed on with more to follow. Finding a video to view is easy. Customers will browse through the catalog to find a selection. A 30 second preview is available to help them choose. The cost for any single video pre-sentation is $9.99. Once they’ve made their selection, they have up to 48 hours to view the video as many times as they like. Visit www.AdonaiVideoMinistries.com for more information.

Please contact Bill Carpen-ter at (202) 506-5051 or [email protected] for additional information.

Edmondson Communications Launch Adonai Video MinistriesNew Firm Will Bring Church To The Living Room With Christian/

Gospel Concerts, And Sermons 24 Hours A Day!

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By DonalD lee

Question: I was recently asked, Why is everybody (in-cluding babies) paying for the sin of one man (Adam)?

Answer: Because when the one man, Adam, sinned by disobeying God and eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree, he passed the sin nature (or the state of sin) on to every other person born from him and his wife, Eve. So, what this means, is that even though a newborn baby isn’t old enough to perform the act of sin, the sin nature still is passed down to him by his parents (or lineage).

Take, for instance, a baby who is born addicted to crack co-caine because his mother smoked crack while he was in her womb. Just as the “addiction” is passed through the mother’s blood, so it is that the sin nature [or the state of sin] is passed down the lineage of man.

So because of this fact, God’s plan for redemption of mankind (restoring “man” back to his original state of “in-nocence” and uprightness and fellowship with God) meant that God had to send His Son, Jesus Christ, down here to the earth to suffer the punishment that we all “inherited” from Adam.

Remember what God told Adam in the beginning: The day you eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you shall SURELY die.

What happened? Adam ate of the forbidden fruit, or forbid-den tree. So, what was his pun-ishment? He was banned from paradise and he was sentenced to die (even though God’s perfect plan was for Adam and Eve to live forever in paradise).

God’s judgment handed

down to the serpent (through whom the devil spoke) was that he’d (the serpent) crawl on his belly and eat of the dust of the ground; God tells the serpent that He’d create “enmity” (which is a natural hatred) between the woman’s “seed” and the ser-pent’s .

God goes on to tell the ser-pent that the seed of the woman (He was speaking prophetically about Jesus Christ, God’s sacrifi-cial Lamb, sent here to die for the sins of the world) would bruise his head (the “seed” of the ser-pent) and the “seed” of the ser-pent would bruise his heel.

God is speaking proph-ecy. He’s letting the devil know (through these scriptures) that even though the devil “beguiled”, or tricked, the woman into eating of the forbidden tree, and she in turn gave some of the fruit to her husband, and he disobeyed God and ate it because his wife sug-gested he eat it, God already has a plan to redeem the “fallen” man (or mankind) back to him.

That plan is by send-ing Jesus Christ, the sacrificial Lamb and Savior to the world, to earth to fulfill prophecy. In other words, God’s plan was to kill Jesus, the Lamb, and shed His blood (which holds in it the power to wash away ALL sins) so that through Jesus’, the Lamb’s, death, mankind (those who ac-cept Jesus’ sacrifice of His blood to pay the cost of their sins) can live throughout eternity with God.

Man, still must die a literal death (as you know). But instead of going to hell and eternal tor-ment after dying, everybody who confessed Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior before they died (or die) will be (or will have been) “SAVED” from eter-

nity in torment and saved into everlasting life in the presence of God (or BACK in the presence of God, rather).

In other words, everybody who accepts that Jesus sacri-ficed His life so that they can be “saved” (or “born again”) will have eternal life. And everybody who rejects God’s plan for salva-tion and who rejects Jesus’ sacri-fice will be banished into outter darkness (eternal torment in the lake of fire).

So, from this lesson, you see that God is “fair” and He is “just.” Just like the state of sin [or the very nature of sin] was passed down through the disobedience of one man (Adam), salvation also is passed down through the obedience (or sacrifice) of one Man, (Jesus, who also is referred to as the “Son of Man” or “the Last Adam”).

In other words, just like the only thing we had to do to be guilty of sin is to just be born, the only thing we have to do in order to be made righteous (in Christ) is to just be “born again.” So, by one man (Adam), death passed to ALL men (good men and bad men).

So is it that by one Man (Jesus Christ), eternal life has been made available to ALL men (meaning all of mankind). But in order to be “saved,” or “born again,” a person MUST confess Jesus Christ as his (or her) Lord and Savior.

Romans 10:9,10 (in the Am-plified Bible) says Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 5:15 says But God’s free gift is not at all to be com-

pared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the unde-served favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.

Verses 16 through 19 con-tinue to explain how Adam’s sin brought death on everybody, but Jesus’ sacrifice of His life has made it possible that all can be saved and be made righteous. You very well know that not ev-erybody will accept Jesus’ sac-rifice. Those who don’t accept what Jesus did for us will have to pay the price for Adam’s fall. That price, again, is eternity in torment.

So, if you haven’t made Jesus your Lord and Savior, I encourage you to do so. It’s the greatest, most profound, decision you’ll ever make in your life. Ac-cept His gift of eternal life.

The Rev. Donald Lee, pas-tor of Kingdom Living Christian Center in Dallas, can be contacted at [email protected] or (225) 773-2248. You can join him at 10 a.m., CST, each Sunday for morning worship in the residence center at Arborstone Apartments, 6500 S. Cockrell Hill Rd. in Dallas or by way of teleconference by calling toll-free (712) 432-3900 (conference code: 279498#). Bible study, which can be accessed via the teleconference line, is each Thursday at 7 p.m. To sow a

love offering to Kingdom Living Christian Center, please send to KLCC at P.O. Box 211186, Dallas, TX 75211-4303. Look for “Married to Commit-ment,” Pastor Lee’s first book,

the Bible explains How Sin passed down from one Man

See tHe bible, on page 7

BATON ROUGE, LA - Her-itage was founded and directed by Clarence Jones to restore and preserve the singing of the old “Negro Spiritual,” will host its annual “Festival of Negro Spiri-tuals” on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at Mt. Zion First Baptist Church located at 356 East Boulevard.

The special guest groups will be as follows:

The New Dimensions Cho-ral Society of Shreveport;

The University of Louisi-ana at Monroe Interdenomi-national Ensemble;

The Lafayette Tri-Parish Chapter of the Gospel Music

Workshop of America Choir;“Sankofa” of Denver,

Colorado;The Southern University

Concert Choir;The McMains High School

Concert Choir of New Or-leans;

The Mckinley High School Concert Choir of Baton Rouge; and others.

The festival is free and open to the public. Everyone is invited to attend the festival and the reception will follow.

For any additional in-formation, please contact this numbers (225) 344-4888 or (225) 922-7944.

“Heritage” to celebrate the annual festival of Negro Spirituals

GMC, America’s favorite channel for uplifting music and family entertainment, will pres-ent a “Be My Video Valentine” special on Monday, Feb. 14 from 7-10 a.m. ET.

GMC is soliciting viewer dedications through Feb. 4 via Facebook and at www.watch-gmctv.com/valentine. Select dedications will be read during the show by its host, Tiffany Thorpe, who also will present popular love-themed music videos. Featured artists will include Train (“Marry Me”), Dave Barnes (“God Gave Me You,” “Until You”), Taylor Swift (“Mine”), The Afters (“Beauti-ful Love”), Francesca Battistelli (“Beautiful, Beautiful”), Bebe & CeCe Winans (“Close To You”) and many more.

About GMCGMC ( www.watchGM-

Ctv.com), the fastest-growing network in television and the number one digital network in perceived value (source: BETA Research), is America’s favor-ite channel for uplifting music and family entertainment. In 2010, The Parents Television Council(tm) awarded its Enter-tainment Seal of Approval(tm) to GMC for being “an authentic family-friendly cable network.” GMC was the only television network to receive the highly coveted honor last year.

GMC can be seen in nearly 48 million homes on various cable systems around the coun-try, on DIRECTV on channel 338 and on Verizon FiOS on channel 224.

GMc to present ‘Be My Video Valentine’ on February 14

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cally pointed out that changes which occur in a human being is redirected to pull from the core of his own humanity to reaffirm self worth and purpose. he will then by nature acquire the will to do for himself and others.

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!

SyStem from page 4

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.

talk Radio from page 4

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.

Could You Be At Risk?

Free Cancer ScreeningsNo appointment required for most screenings.

If you do not have a doctor and have not been screened in the last 12 months, these cancer screenings are available to you for free.

Presented as part of the comprehensive Cancer Program

of Our Lady of the Lake and Mary Bird Perkins. Screenings

made possible by donor gifts.

(225) 215-1234 (888) 616-4687

Breast Cancer ScreeningTuesday, March 1110am – 12pm & 1pm – 4pm

LSUHSC Mid City Clinic1401 N. Foster DriveBaton Rouge

Colorectal Cancer ScreeningThursday, March 1310am –2pm

Wal-Mart2171 O’Neal LaneBaton Rouge

Breast Cancer ScreeningTuesday, March 185pm – 7pm (Appt required)

Woman’s Hospital9050 Airline HighwayBaton Rouge

Prostate and ColorectalCancer ScreeningsWednesday, March 2610am –2pm

Ed Price Building Materials7835 Airline HighwayBaton Rouge

In Partnership With:

Our Lady of the LakeWoman’s HospitalYWCA Encore Plus

LSU Hospitals Health Care Services Division

Breast Cancer ScreeningFriday, March 1410am – 12pm & 1pm – 4pm

Leo S. Butler Community Center950 E. Washington StreetBaton Rouge

Colorectal Cancer ScreeningMonday, March 1710am –2pm

Brusly Town Hall601 S. Vaughan StreetBrusly

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Free Cancer Screenings (225) 215-1234 • (888) 616-4687

If you have not been screened in the last 12 months, this cancer screening is available to you for free.

Insurance will be billed for mammograms. For those with no insurance, there will be no charge.

Screenings made possible by donor gifts.

Have YouBeen Screened?

www.marybird.org

In Partnership With:Woman’s Hospital YWCA Encore Plus

LSU Hospital’s Health Care Services Division

Breast Cancer Screening

Tuesday, February 810 a.m. - 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

LSU Mid City Clinic

1401 North Foster Drive Baton Rouge

Skin and Colorectal Cancer Screening

Saturday, February 57 a.m. - 12:30 p.m

Pennington Biomedical Women’s Wellness Day

6400 Perkins Road Baton Rouge


Friday, February 119 a.m. - 11 a.m.

& 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Appointment required

Scotlandville Library

7373 Scenic Highway Baton Rouge


Tuesday, February 155 p.m. - 7 p.m.

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Woman’s Hospital 9050 Airline Highway

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work harder to ensure more social and economic progress. The cry for human freedom and a better way of life is a universal cry. Because of our history, as an African people, we cannot and should not ever turn a deaf ear to others who yearn and struggle for freedom,

justice, and equality. We stand in solidarity with our Egyptian brothers and sisters.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr is Senior Advisor to the Black Alli-ance for Educational Options and President of Education Online Services Corporation.

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districts almost assuring the election of a minority candidate. This method would likely cre-ate strong conservative districts surrounding the minority dis-tricts, almost assuring the elec-tion of Republicans. The other scenario (and the one less likely to be employed) would create districts with not as strong a black majority and more whites in them. This would create a little less likelihood that a black candidate would win in those districts, but it would give Democrats more of an oppor-tunity to win in the surrounding majority white districts.

For 35 years, I have watched the redistricting pro-cess unfold. In those 35 (and four redistricting special ses-sions) I have watched close friends and strong political

allies become blood enemies during these battles. Redistrict-ing to congressmen, legislators, public service commissioners, BESE board members, and judges isn’t about issues or philosophy—it is about sur-vival. Elected officials become competitors for precincts that they believe will offer them an advantage in their next run for re-election, and that competi-tion can become brutal.

Pundits and political analysts have written much about the big budget battle that is going to ensue in the Regular Session of the Legislature that begins in late April. But after the bloodshed that will likely occur in the redistricting ses-sion, addressing a $1.5 billion hole in the state budget may seem like a piece of cake.

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a new level of strategy. Afri-can Americans must Re-brand themselves immediately. They must reject every image, action, advertisement, conversation or product that does not improve how they see themselves. When this happens there will be re-cord numbers of African Ameri-

cans going to college, starting business, establish families and fulfilling their dreams which is the “The Dream.”

Please contact Mark S. Hampton at 1-614-432-4097 or by e-mail at this address [email protected] for any additional information.

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site, had done earlier.Recognizing the powerful

intersection of lobbyists, elected officials and money, the Cato report recognized that reform-ing corporate welfare is not likely to come about through the works of federal lawmakers heavily influenced by lobby-ists. It therefore recommended creating a corporate welfare reform commission. But given the success of Obama’s high-profile deficit commission, his eagerness to make peace with the business community and

the Republicans’ traditional pro-business positions, Con-gress and the executive branch are unlikely consider ending corporate welfare as we know it.

George E. Curry, former ed-itor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, 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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LGBT individuals and families may remain silent because in many local jurisdictions, they may have little or no legal recourse. While there are no national assessments of LGBT housing discrimination, there are state and local studies that have shown evidence of this sort of bias. For example, a 2007 report by Michigan’s Fair Housing Centers found that nearly 30 percent of same-sex couples were treated differently when attempting to buy or rent a home.

* HUD currently requires its recipients of discretionary funds to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that cover sexual orientation or gender identity. In July, the Department issued new guid-ance that treats discrimination based on gender nonconfor-mity or sex stereotyping as sex discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, and instructs HUD staff to inform individu-als filing complaints about state

and local agencies that have LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimi-nation laws.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in rental, sales and lending on the basis of race, color, na-tional origin, religion, sex, disability and familial status. Approximately 20 states, and the District of Columbia, and more than 150 cities, towns and counties across the nation have additional protections that specifically prohibit such discrimination against LGBT individuals. Under guidance announced last year, HUD will, as appropriate, retain its jurisdiction over complaints filed by LGBT individuals or families but also jointly in-vestigate or refer matters to those state, district and local governments with other legal protections.

Please contact Brian Sul-livan at (202) 708-0685 or by e-mail at this address www.hud.gov/news/index.cfm.

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a collaboration he did with Pastor Brigitte “Bre” Eaton of Houston centering on mar-riage, living single, life after

divorce and nonromantic re-lationships, will be coming soon to a bookstore and book club near you.

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BATON ROUGE, LA - The American Heart Association in-vites the public across the state to wear red on Friday, February 4th to help raise awareness of heart disease as the number one killer of women. It’s a shocking reality that 1 in 3 women will die of heart disease and it kills more women than the next four causes com-bined, including breast cancer.

By wearing red on February 4th you can help spread the mes-sage about this life threatening disease. The American Heart As-sociation is encouraging women, and men, to Make it Your Mission to fight heart disease by telling five women they are at risk.

Join the community, local businesses Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana and Governor and First Lady Jindal by “Going Red.” The man-sion and both Our Lady of the Lake and Blue Cross will turn red all month long. Feel free to photograph these sights as the Capital Area “Goes Red.”

On February 10th, join the American Heart Association at the Capital Area Go Red for Women Luncheon. Educational and interactive health stations will be provided by event spon-sors, with Ochsner Health System providing health screenings. It’s your chance to see if you are at risk of heart disease. Come join us and help the American Heart Association save your life.

During the morning, there will also be a silent auction for guests. Every dollar raised helps fight heart disease.

The luncheon will follow with a heart healthy lunch de-signed by noted author Holly

Clegg. During lunch, enjoy a fashion show. See who’s showing off their red and wear yours, too! There is a fee for the luncheon.

The American Heart As-sociation makes it easy to help you help save lives. You can go online and get a makeover that could change your life, get a heart checkup and make a dif-ference in a loved one’s life. Go to HYPERLINK “http://www.goredforwomen.org” www.gore-dforwomen.org to join.

Go Red for Women is sponsored nationally by Macy’s and Merck and locally by the Albemarle Foundation. Local sponsors also include: People’s Health, BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Ochsner Medical Center, and Paris Parker Salon & Spas.

The American Heart Asso-ciation has several health experts and doctors available to supple-ment any coverage needs. We can also provide further statistics.

You can join the nation’s hundreds of thousands affected by heart disease by joining our Go Red for Women movement. Go to HYPERLINK “http://www.goredforwomen.org” www.gore-dforwomen.org to join.

This February, you can help women fight heart disease by joining the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Movement and Wear Red on Feb-ruary 4th and attend our Go Red for Women Luncheon February 10th. Here are some great per-sonal stories you may want to highlight.

Kathryn Spano, 30, survi-vor

When Kathryn Spano was

a young teen she started pass-ing out, losing her appetite and felt like her heart was beating in her throat. Doctors couldn’t figure out just exactly what was wrong.

For years, she endured all kinds of struggles. Nothing worked; medication, even sur-gery. When she was 22 years old, finally some hope. Kathryn needed a pacemaker, a device American Heart Association scientists were the first to intro-duce. She got it, but it didn’t solve everything.

The pacemaker started sticking out of her skin, the pain wouldn’t go away. A final surgery when she was 24 did the trick. Kathryn had bounced around from doctor to doctor. “Finding the right doctor is like dating,” her doctor said. “Date until you find the perfect match.”

Without the American Heart Association’s research, Kathryn said, “I wouldn’t have my pace-maker.”

Kathryn is a perfect ex-ample of how you cannot ignore the symptoms of heart disease. She knew something was wrong and her persistence and patience saved her life.

Check Kathryn out in our Go Red For Women fashion show at our February 10th Luncheon. She’ll be showing off her red and you can, too.

Alexandra Montes de Oca, 16, survivor

Born with a heart condi-tion at Baton Rouge’s Women’s Hospital, Alexandra Montpelier, now 16, was rushed to the NICU minutes after her mom Becky saw her resting in her crib. A nurse grabbed her because she

knew something was wrong. A few days later, Alexandra had her first heart surgery. It was major. Doctors had to patch her heart in two places and perform and Arterial Switch.

In 5th grade, she had a stint put in her heart. Next sum-mer, she’ll have to get it fixed. Looking at her, you would never know her life was threatened in those precious first days. She’s a cheerleader, on the student coun-cil and just an overall positive and happy person. Alexandra has everyone that meets her cheering for her.

Bridgette Montpelier, 42, survivor

At 38, Bridgette Montpelier survived a heart attack. Now she’s helping the American Heart Association help others like her. Bridgette is a perfect example of how education can save lives. She decided to Go Red for Women to help others learn what she says saved her life. She was a smoker and overweight. Bridgette went online and joined the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement.

On the website, you can Make it Your Mission to fight heart disease. One-third of women that have done it have lost weight. More than half have increased their exercise. Bridgette’s exercise regiment keeps her in good heart health. Bridgette has lost 94 pounds since her heart attack. She’s stopped smoking, too. Smoking kills 440,000 people every year.

It’s all preventable. Bridgette knows and wants you to Go Red, too. Join here at the lun-cheon where she’ll share how she did it.

capital area “Goes red” for Heart Month to raise awareness of Heart disease as the Number one Killer of women

BATON ROUGE – As part of a marketing communications class at LSU, students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business recently partnered with Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center to develop mock campaigns for a class project.

Eli Jones, dean of the E. J. Ourso College of Business, viewed the project as a great experience for the students.

“We want our business students to not only expand their knowledge in the classroom, but also build leadership skills at LSU and apply those skills to dif-ferent areas of work within their communities,” Jones said.

Nine groups of students produced comprehensive mar-keting campaigns that included 30-second commercials, print advertisements and brochures about the various cancer services Mary Bird Perkins has to offer.

After receiving direction from professionals at Mary Bird Perkins, students used skills they developed during the semester to create effective and memo-rable campaigns. Students were under the guidance of V. Price LeBlanc Developing Scholar Pro-

fessor in Marketing Judith Anne Garretson Folse, who teaches the class each semester.

“Throughout this proj-ect, the students realized how non-profits truly help the com-munity, and they became pas-sionate about telling their story,” Folse said.

After seeing the students’ work, members of the commu-nications department at Mary Bird Perkins identified Group Five as having the most creative and strategically constructed campaign. Group members included Stephanie Riemer, Jayme Broussard, Leslie-Anne Francinguines and Celeste D’Arcangelo.

A link to the group’s engaging commercial about the many different communi-ties Mary Bird Perkins serves is available at http://www.youtube.com/marybirdper-kins. The commercial will be featured on Mary Bird Perkins’ Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages.

“We are very excited to share the results of this project with the community,” said Amy Benton, vice president of com-

munications and governmental affairs at Mary Bird Perkins. “Seeing the creative ways the students chose to communicate Mary Bird’s fight against cancer in southeast Louisiana was fun and inspirational.”

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center has been fighting cancer for more than 40 years with lo-cations in Baton Rouge, Coving-ton, Gonzales, Hammond and

Houma. It has comprehensive cancer programs with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge and St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington. These programs are accredited by the American College of Surgeons – the gold standard for community-based cancer care.

For more information visit www.marybird.org.

Mary Bird Perkins Partners with LSU for Marketing Project

BATON ROUGE - On Feb-ruary 13, 2011 at the Liberty Chapel Baptist Church located at 720 South Boulevard their will be a Valentine service at

8:00 a.m. For additional informa-

tion, please contact Aronious Dorris at 225-328-1394.

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BATON ROUGE - Southern University has a number of events scheduled to commemorate Black History Month, including a statewide conference of black elected officials focusing on the state of higher education in Louisiana.

The events, dates and times are as follows:* Feb. 7: SU grad, Brigadier Gen. Craig C.

Crenshaw will give a lecture at 1 p.m. in W.W. Stewart Hall, sponsored by the SU NAVY ROTC, the Office of Student Programs and the Living, Learning Community.

* Feb. 8: Community Activist Dr. Calvin Mackie will be speaking to Southern’s Business & Industry Cluster’s Black Business Assembly at noon in the Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Union.

* Feb. 11: The BLACKOUT, a student “lock-in” with the Student Government Association and the student fundraising group “Up Til’ Dawn,” from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., to raise money for charity.

* Feb. 13: Student Affairs Lifetime Achieve-ment Awards, “Going Back to the Old Landmark,” honoring composer/songwriter, founder and CEO of the Heritage Music Foundation Dr. Margaret Pleasant Douroux at 5 p.m. in the Cotillion Ball-room. The Southern University Interdenomina-tional Gospel Choir and local area church choirs will perform during the event. Douroux attended Southern and obtained a B.A. degree at California State University Los Angeles, an M.S. degree, teach-ing credentials, and an advanced Master’s Degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from the University of Beverly Hills.

* Feb. 15: Ashé Cultural Arts Center Dance and Drums Seminar and Performance “Origin of Life on Earth” workshop at noon in the Lake Front Room of the Union. Performance at 6:30 p.m. in the Cotillion Ballroom.

Black Movies in History Showcase presented by the History Department, 5 p.m., J.K. Haynes

School of Nursing auditorium. * Feb. 16: “Greek Life History and Effects of

Hazing,” with guest speaker Dr. Walter Kimbrough, 5:30 p.m., Cotillion Ballroom.

* Feb. 17: Biblical Account of Black History with ‘The Son of Man,’ Nursing School audito-rium, 6 p.m.

* Feb. 18: Red Fashion Show, benefiting the American Heart Association at noon, in the Cotil-lion Ballroom. There is a fee.

* Feb. 22: Rape Crisis Center, Student Life and Students Affairs will present “Relationships and Troubles,” in the Nursing School auditorium, 5 p.m.

* Feb. 23: The Student Government Associa-tion “Teaches Black History” initiative with Capitol High Pre-College Academy- Quiz Bowl, which will include scholarship and poster contests. In the Union from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The Carter G. Woodson Black History Society

will hold a lecture at 9 a.m. in rooms 118-119 of Rodney G. Higgins Hall.

* Feb. 25: The Nelson Mandela School of Pub-lic Policy and Urban Affairs will host the Statewide Conference of Black Elected Officials. Their focus will be the state of higher education in Louisiana. From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Cotillion Ballroom.

* Feb. 26: Black College Reunion, music and fellowship, from noon to 4 p.m., LSU Fair-grounds.

* Feb. 27: ‘Jumping the Broom,” a black bridal expo by Andie’s Bridal Shop, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., in the Cotillion Ballroom.

* Feb. 28: The Department of Residential Life will hold “Black History 365,” a talent ex-pressions and challenge bowl, at 6 p.m., Cotillion Ballroom.

Please contact either Edward Pratt or LaKeeshia Giddens at 225.771.4545 for any ad-ditional information.

Su Host Black History Month activities

The Tuskegee Airman were an elite group of African-American pilots in the 1940s. They were pioneers in equality and integration of the Armed Forces. The term “Tuskegee Air-men” refers to all who were involved in the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat air-craft. The Tuskegee Airmen included pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors, and all the person-nel who kept the planes in the air.

The primary flight training for these ser-vicemembers took place at the Division of Aeronautics of Tuskegee Institute. Air Corps officials built a separate facility at Tuskegee Army Air Field to train the pilots. The Tuskegee Airmen not only battled enemies during wartime but also fought against racism and segregation thus proving they were just as good as any other pilot. Racism was com-mon during World War II and many people did not want blacks to become pilots. They

trained in overcrowded classrooms and air-strips, and suffered from the racist attitude of some military officials. The Tuskegee Airman suffered many hardships, but they proved themselves to be world class pilots.

Even though the Tuskegee Airmen proved their worth as military pilots they were still forced to operate in segregated units and did not fight alongside their white country-men.

The men earned the nickname “Red Tail Angels” since the bombers considered their escorts “angels” and the red paint on the propeller and tail of their planes.

In March of 1942 George Roberts, Benjamin Davis Jr., Charles BeBow Jr., Mac Ross and Lemuel Custis received silver wings of Army Air Force pilots. These men completed the standard Army flight classroom instruction and many hours of flight time. Receiving their silver wings marked a milestone in being the first African Americans to qualify as military

pilots in any branch of the armed forces.By the end of the war, 992 men had gradu-

ated from Negro Air Corps pilot training at Tuskegee; 450 were sent overseas for combat assignment. During the same period, about 150 lost their lives while in training or on combat flights. These black Airmen manage to destroy or damage over 409 German air-planes, 950 ground units, and sank a battleship destroyer. They ran more than 200 bomber escort missions during World War II.

On Nov. 6, 1998, President Clinton ap-proved Public Law 105-355, which established the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Ala., to commemo-rate and interpret the heroic actions of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.

When the site opened Oct. 10, 2008, at Moton Field, Ala., National Park Officials designated part of Interstate 85, which passes near the city of Tuskegee, as the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway.

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