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Tommy Wyatt

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On May 2, 2010, JoyDickson’s movie, BetweenKings and Queens will bepremiering at the ParamountMovie Theaters. BetweenKings and Queens is a “mustsee” movie for all Central Tex-ans because it was producedand filmed locally. In addi-tion, Joy chose to film in Aus-tin, because the city has rolledou t the “red carpet” to thefilm industry. For instance,the state of Texas and the cityof Austin have providedgrants for this industry.

Through this film, ithelps to market the Austinand the Central Texas regionto the rest of world. Not onlycan we relate to the movie be-cause it was filmed in CentralTexas, but also because thestory is about the hope andfulfillment of one’s dream.

The audience who at-tend the movie BetweenKings and Queens will be“wrapped” up in story oflove, drama, action, andhope. It is a story that is setagainst the real “backdrop ofthe War on Drugs and thecontroversial immigrationpolicies.”

In addition it is a filmabout “love and a free will inthe land of liberty”. Further-more, the story focuses onKalu, who is a prince fromAfrica. In the movie, Kalu“leaves his native country forthe United States, looking forfreedom and an opportunity.Instead, Kalu finds himselfworking for a local deli andsleeping on his cousinNanna’s couch. When Kalucrosses paths with the friendof a notorious drug lord intown, his journey takes himon a dangerous path. Thenhe meets Susan, a beautifulAfrican-American womanwho connects with Kalu ashe becomes the target of thedrug cartel and a pair of cor-rupt cops. On the run fromboth sides of the law, Kaluuses his creativity and standsby his ideals to overcome the

challenges he faces in theland of liberty.”

Moreover, Kalu’sstory is the story of countlessimmigrants who have tonavigate and bridge to differ-ent cultures. It is also thenarrative of countless of im-migrants who at times leavebehind their “good” livingconditions, in order to searchfor the American dream.

The American dreamof countless of immigrantsare the pursuit of prosperity,peace, good governance, andfreedom. Some of them startat the bottom of a profes-sional ladder and eventuallyreach to the top. In their jour-ney to the United States, theyare often serving as a repre-sentative of their culture andcustom to Americans. Theyhave to explain their culture,just like Kalu broke the per-ception of countless Ameri-cans he meets.

In summary, BetweenKings and Queens is a mustsee movie that would appealto people of all ages and ofvarious ethnic groups. It is afilm that has a mix of drama,action, love and hope. Themovie is about “love and afree will in the land of lib-erty.” It is a story of how animmigrant, named Kalu per-ceives America before and af-ter his arrival. Furthermore,the story focuses on howKalu falls in love and thennavigates between both theAfrican culture and theAmerican culture.

At the end, Kalu isable to bridge both cultures,by taking the best from eachof them. Also, the film waslocally produced here inAustin, Texas; consequently,a big turnout for the premiereof the movie will show thatCentral Texas is a placewhere the film industry cangrow and prosper. Further-more, it would create a path-way for Joy Dickson, thewriter and director to con-tinue to make great movies inCentral Texas.

Joy Dickson’s movie, “Between Kings and Queens”

By Tsoke (Chuch) Adjavon

Joy Dickson

The City of Austin isseeking nominations for the2010 Austin Tree of the Yearawards that are given annu-ally to one large and onesmall tree within the city lim-its.

The Austin Tree of theYear awards program wascreated to inspire proper treecare and promote the out-

City seeks nominations forAustin’s 2010 Tree of the Year

standing results of nurturedand healthy trees.

Look for trees that arenative, healthy and beautiful.Deadline for nominations isJune 30. A nomination formmay be found at www. cityofaustin.org/treeoftheyear,or may be picked up at ZilkerGarden Center and localplant nurseries.

After months of nego-tiations, The Villager,Nokoa, and H.E.B. havereached an agreement thatwill allow the two papers tobe distributed in a numberof H.E.B locations. Through-out the area.

For years, both paperswere distributed throughthe stores. A couple of yearsago the papers were fulledout of the stores. It has takenthat time for an agreementcould be drafted that to solvethis problem.

Under the agreement,the two papers are to shareone rack that will be pro-vided by them. The locationof the racks will be decidedby the store managers.

There are eight (8)store included under thisagreement: SpringdaleShopping Center, Hancock

Center, E. 7th Street Store (atPleasant Valley Road),Oltorf and Congress Av-enue, Parmer Lane and IH -35, Pflugerville Store (WellsBranch and IH-35), andRound Rock Super Store(1700 East Palm Valley -

Hywy 79).These racks are now in

the stores for the convenienceof our readers. For informationor to report problems about theracks, call T. L. Wyatt at 476-0082 or Akwasi Evans at 499-8713.

H.E.B. Super Store of Round Rock

Villager, Nokoa and HEB reach agreement fordistribution in select stores

Atlanta, GA – On April24 Syracuse University Col-lege of Law’s (SU) Cold CaseJustice Initiative hosted“Never Too Late For Justice”at the Ebenezer BaptistChurch in Atlanta. Duringthis historic event some thirtyfamilies who lost loved onesto civil rights era murders allgathered in one location forthe first time.

There was a panel dis-cussion comprised of repre-sentatives of family memberswho’s loved ones were vic-tims of still unsolved murdersin Mississippi and Louisianaduring the civil rights era.Paula C. Johnson and JanisL. McDonald, SU professorsof law and co-directors of theCold Case Justice Initiative(CCJI) also participated inthe panel which exploredthe legal, historical, and soci-etal impact of these unsolvedkillings; the current effects ofthe crimes; and the future im-plications for society in fail-ing to resolve this unfinishedbusiness.

The event was free andopen to the public. “Thesecases are not cold for thefamilies. We are not talkingabout the past. They are liv-ing with the lack of answers,with the lack of judicial pro-cess and the trauma of theseevents,” says Johnson.“While the victims of theseacts of race-based domesticterrorism may be long gone,their families are very muchalive and continue to demandjustice. We are law professorsand lawyers. We and our stu-dents can do the work of in-vestigators and fact findersand try to determine theoriesto take to authorities.”

The CCJI in SU’s Col-lege of Law was founded inresponse to the 1964 murderof shoe shop owner FrankMorris in Ferriday, La., whichremains unsolved. SU Collegeof Law students, under thesupervision of Johnson and

fellow law professor and co-director of CCJI, Janis L.McDonald, researched thou-sands of documents andworked with local investiga-tive reporters. This led to wit-nesses providing new infor-mation; the appointment of aspecial agent by the FederalBureau of Investigation; anda pledge by the U.S. attorneyfor a full review of the case.

The students’ effortshave ignited law enforcementinvestigation of additionaldeaths long suspected by thecommunity to be racially mo-tivated and committed by theKu Klux Klan.

“CCJI’s work epito-mizes Syracuse University’sbold tradition of leveragingscholarship in the interest ofjustice,” says SU Chancellorand President Nancy Cantor.“Just as our faculty and stu-dents marshalled their intel-lect to fight for the rights ofwomen, members of minoritygroups, and people with dis-abilities in decades and cen-turies past, Paula Johnson,Janis McDonald and our stu-dents are bringing their exper-tise to bear on seeking justicefor the victims of civil rightsera atrocities. We are deeplyhonored to host this unprec-edented gathering in this hal-lowed location for families forwhom justice has been toolong delayed.

” Following the panel

discussion Grammy Awardnominee Mavis Staples gavea free concert. In the 1960s,the legendary family gospelgroup The Staple Singers be-came the musical voices ofthe Civil Rights Movement.Group member and civilrights activist Mavis Staplescontinues to inspire thosewho work for peace and jus-tice throughout the world to-day with her Civil RightsMovement-inspired blend ofgospel, soul, folk, blues andjazz.

“Mavis Staples’ musicepitomizes the faith and cour-age of the Civil Rights Move-ment. As a native of Missis-sippi, she sings what sheknows and has lived. It is anhonor to have her perform forus” says Johnson.

This was an opportu-nity for families to share ex-periences, identify needsand goals and to learn moreabout the CCJI. The initia-tive conducts investigationsand research on unresolvedcases; offers academiccourses, public forums andother special events; andserves as a clearinghousefor sharing and receivinginformation on activecases.Ebenezer BaptistChurch is located at 407 Au-burn Avenue, NE. For moreinformation on the CCJI visith t t p : / /coldcaselaw.syr.edu/.

Never Too Late For Justice event atAtlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church

Paula C. Johnson and Janis L. McDonald, SU professors of law

Special from the GIN fromthe NNPA(GIN) - Robert KipronoCheruiyot of Kenya trounced theBoston Marathon on Monday, set-ting a new course record in theprocess.His time of 2 hours, 5 min-utes and 52 seconds shattered theprevious record of 2:07:14, set byfour-time winner RobertKipkoech Cheruiyot (unrelated) in2006.Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia

won the women’s race in 2:26:11,three seconds better than TatyanaPushkareva of Russia in the third-closest women’s finish in eventhistory. Defending championSalina Kosgei of Kenya wasthird.Tekeste Kebede of Ethiopiawas second in the men’s race, fin-ishing 91 seconds behindCheruiyot, followed by last year’swinner Deriba Merga of Ethiopia

Kenyan Sets New Record at Boston Race and Americans Ryan Hall andreigning NY champion MebKeflezighi.It’s the first time twoAmericans have finished in the topfive since 2006. No American haswon the men’s race since 1983.Thechampions each receive $150,000and a golden olive wreath fromthe city of Marathon, Greece. The21 year old Cheruiyot will get a$25,000 bonus for setting the courserecord.

The Austin Revital-ization Authority (ARA)seems to have gotten somenew legs. After months ofinactivity, things seem tobe looking up again. Aninterview with Acting Ex-ecutive Director, GreggSmith, reveals some ofthe reasons that activityseems to be picking up.

When Smith tookover in agency last fall, af-ter the departure of ByronMarshall, they were in themiddle of an audit. Duringthat time, all activity hadbeen put on hold. The au-dit is over and the agencyhas gotten a clean bill ofhealth.

There seems to beactivity on all fronts. Oneof the first items of busi-ness was to expel twoboard members who hadsigned a petition to thecouncil to close theagency. They are alsolooking into amending thecharter of the organiza-tion.

There has been a lotof concern about the vacan-cies that have occurred inthe office building on E. 11thStreet. Several tenantshave moved out. Ms B’s Res-taurant was one of the firstto go, the Italian Restaurantwas the second to go and BigAustin also moved out.

Smith says that therepending leases on both res-taurants and part of the of-fice space that was used byBidAustin. The first restau-rant should be openingwithin the next threemonths. One of the holdupsis that the restaurant iswaiting on its bar license.The other eatery will be abranch of a local change.

The long awaited plansto renovate the old EastRoom building is now mov-ing along very well. It shouldbe completed by August ofthis year.

Smith said that theyare working on other activi-ties and events with otherorganizations in the area.They have partnered withBydee Arts to place a com-munity wall inside of hisstudio that will feature newartist displays monthly. InJuly and August there willbe a Youth Arts Display.

A partnership withThe African American ArtsDistrict will provide a num-ber of activities on thestreet. This area has beendeclared the African Ameri-can Cultural Historic Dis-trict. They will be sponsor-ing an African AmericanArts Festival in the nearfuture.

We will keep our eyeson other activities in thearea.

ARA gets its

Legs back

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EDITORIALS/COMMENTARY

Bill O’Reilly’s Obsession with“Playing the Race Card”

By A. Peter Bailey

Bill O’Reilly

(NNPA) - So-called con-servatives in this countryspend much of their time ac-cusing Black folks of “play-ing the race card” when prac-tically any comment is madeabout expressions of whitesupremacy.

The leader of the conser-vative mantra on this subjectis Fox “fair and balanced”Cable News’ reigning propa-gandist, Bill O’Reilly.On his television programand in his newspaper col-umn, O’Reilly regularlyscolds those whom he consid-ers “playing the race card.”In a recent column he pontifi-cated about speaking to agathering of Al Sharpton’sNational Action Networkduring which he told the at-tendees that “…branding thetea party as a racist groupwould be a huge mistake thatcould actually create rac-ism….”

Though calling the teaparty gang and their support-ers such as O’Reilly “racist”may be a mistake calling themWhite supremacists is righton target. A survey conductedat the University of Michiganon what Blacks and Whitesconsider to be “integration”backs up this description.Black, according to the sur-vey, regards integration as 50

percent Black, 50 percentWhite with a Black or Whiteperson in charge.

For Whites, it is 15 per-cent Black, 85 percent Whitewith a White person alwaysin charge. That is a White su-premacist position probablyshared by most tea partiersand their journalistic sup-porters.

That’s why they regardthe Obamas being in theWhite House as an abomina-tion, a serious violation of thenatural order of the universe.A Black person who pointsout this fact of life is “playingthe race card,” according toO’Reilly, a charge, by the way,he never hurls at Whites. Hedidn’t accuse Newt Gingrich

of “playing the race card”when, prior to passage of thehealth reform bill, Newt re-portedly said the Democratswho voted for the bill “willhave destroyed their party,such as Lyndon Johnson didfor 40 years.”

Nor did he hurl racecard playing accusations atInvestor’s Business Daily forsaying that the bill “is affir-mative action on steroids, de-ciding everything from whobecomes a doctor to who getstreatment on the basis of skincolor.” When his buddy andobnoxious side-kick GlennBeck lied that “Obama hatesWhite people” and when a teapartier’s sign proclaimed that“Obama Plans White Sla-very,” there wasn’t a mum-bling word from O’Reillyabout “playing the racecard.”

A knowledgeable Blackperson doesn’t expect anysuch response from O’Reillyand his fellow propagan-dists. We just have to beaware of what such toxicflacks are saying, writing anddoing so we won’t be caughtoff guard when one or moreof their feverish followersmake a move against us. Ofcourse, in doing this we, notthe Whites, in O’Reilly’s viewwill be “creating racism.”

By. Julianne MalveauxNNPA Columnist

Dorothy I. Height -Icon and Friend

(NNPA) - When Dr. DorothyIrene Height sought a pub-lisher for her memoirs, therewas no bidding war. I’d havethought that every publish-ing house would have viedto publish the life of myfriend, mentor, and civilrights icon, but she wrylynoted that she’d sold neitherdrugs nor her body, and thather life didn’t conform to anystereotype. What a life it was!It spanned more than 70years of activism, personalmeetings with every Presi-dent from FDR throughBarack Obama, leadershippositions in several women’sorganizations, including theNational Council of NegroWomen and Delta SigmaTheta Sorority, Inc., and in-ternational travel that incor-porated advocacy for womenand girls around the world.She has protested everythingfrom lynching to joblessness,and her protests have alwayshad a quiet dignity aboutthem. Indeed, when the jour-nalist Bill Moyers aired a tele-vision special on the “vanish-ing” black family, her inspi-ration was to organize anantidote, an annual “BlackFamily Reunion” held inWashington, DC and othercities to show the nation andthe world that the black fam-ily is hardly dying.Dr. Height’s autobiography,“Open Wide the FreedomGates” (Public Affairs Books,2005) is a gentle set of remi-nisces of a life well lived,showcasing both Height’sactivism and her wit. She tellsof someone describing an el-der as “clothed and in theirright mind” and wondering

why such a comment wouldbe made. Then, she adds thatas she aged, she realizedwhat a blessing it was to beclothed and in your rightmind. Always stylish, andunfailingly sporting a suitand matching hat, shedressed and went to her of-fice every morning until shewas hospitalized in mid-March. While most 98 yearolds would be enjoying retire-ment, Dr. Height was up toher earlobes in activism. Shewas only prevented from aFebruary meeting with Presi-dent Obama and other civilrights leaders by thigh-highsnowdrifts that would be dif-ficult for her to navigate.When she could not get out,she could work that phone!An early morning phone-callfrom her would not be pref-aced with “good morning”,but more frequently with agentle, but insistent requestthat some task be performed.Once you agreed to the task,the call would most likely beended, sometimes without agoodbye. When Dr. Heightwas focused, she was fo-cused. She also knew how tohave fun, how to enjoypeople, and how to teasethem. When I attempted aChristmas carol parody foran annual gathering offriends, she remarked that“economists really shouldnot write poetry”, whichprompted laughter and alittle chagrin. On another oc-casion, she urged me to at-tend an after party after a long(went into the next day) din-ner. When I told her that I wastired, she said, “Well, I’m go-ing”. Since I couldn’t let a 90something woman have morestamina than me, I taggedalong. She loved beingaround young people and gota kick out of talking to them.One might think that some-one who had conversed withPresidents wouldn’t havemuch to say to little girls, butAntonae Horton and TierraHolloway from the SoutheastTennis and Learning Centercould tell you differently. In-deed, Dr. Height loved people

regardless of their age. Sheoften said you could learnsomething from anyone. Shewas a great friend to havebecause she always showedup. Even though travel wasdifficult for her (she couldn’tfly on small planes), shemade the five-hour drive fromWashington and brought herteam so that she could attendmy installation as Presidentof Bennett College for Womenin March 2008. She didn’t justcome for the installation, butfor a fundraising luncheonand for the gala that fol-lowed! If a friend needed her,she was there. Much will bewritten about Dr. DorothyIrene Height and her tremen-dous contribution to thepolicy arena. There are sto-ries I can tell about editingVoices of Vision, the compen-dium that was produced in1996 to coincide with theopening of the NCNW Build-ing, or about representing herin Ghana for a meeting of Af-rican business women. Thereare stories others can tellabout her work with the Mil-lion Man March and her em-powerment of so manywomen whose roll call ofnames would resemble a“who’s who” of blackwomen. Those stories deservetelling, but I now smile mostat the personal stories, per-sonal interactions, her witand her humor. Dr. Height’sdeath last week is a reminderof how far African-Americanwomen have come since shebegan her work in civil rightsleadership, and how muchmore work must be done toattain social, economic, andgender justice. She was en-gaged in this work to the veryend of her life, to the end con-cerned about high unemploy-ment rates and the specialburden African Americanwomen face in this economicclimate. Her activism, dig-nity, gentility, passion andcompassion are a rare com-bination, and an example forthose who follow in her foot-steps. I will miss her as a civilrights leader, and also as awise and witty friend.

By. John PaytonNNPA Guest Commentary

Displacing theDisplaced: Results of

Current Policy in Haiti

(NNPA) - Last week, Iasked a young journalist whyhe decided several monthsago to begin his career inHaiti. He told me that journal-ists must go where the silenceis. For years I have been a stu-dent of Haiti, and I have ob-served the unbearable silencethat threatens every Haitian,both in Haiti and abroad.There was silence as Haitianswere brutalized by their colo-nial oppressors. Silence asdictators cannibalized the re-sources the Haitian people.Silence as fleeing Haitians areinterdicted at sea and re-turned to Haiti with littlehope for their futures.Today, the international com-munity has again fallen silentin the face of the forced re-moval, and the second dis-placement, of Haitians livingin Port au Prince. As the cam-era bulbs dim and Haiti fallsback into media obscurity,thousands of Haitians arevictims of forced displacementand threats of violence.After surviving the terribleearthquake in January, andseeking refuge in public areas,at schools and on soccer fields,many surviving families arenow being forced out withoutadequate alternatives. Cur-rently over a thousand peopleat the San Louis de GonzagueSchool in Delmas outside of

Port au Prince are being forcedto leave the soccer grounds sothe school can be reopened.While reopening the school isa laudable goal, no provisionsof land have been made for thedisplaced families. Food andwater rations have been cutoff to coerce these families toleave, and violence by bothHaitian and UN forces hasbeen repeatedly threatenedagainst these victims.The Gonzague School, hometo the financial and intellec-tual elites, has educated thechildren of the most well con-nected in Haiti. Ironically, toopen this school again, aschool founded by the dis-placed families which edu-cates 1100 children mustclose. Removals of the dis-placed have also been threat-ened in the most notable ar-eas of the city such as theChamp de Mars, an area ad-jacent to the National Palacewhere every national celebra-tion has been held for the past200 years. Over the past fewweeks, this scenario hasplayed over and over again.First time you are hearingabout this latest atrocity? Nota surprise. While billions ofdollars have been raised in thename of the people of Haiti,thousands of those same Hai-tians are now being dis-placed again — not at thehand of nature but at the handof men.

When people are dis-placed because of conflict ordisaster, there is always therisk that this vulnerable popu-lation might be victimized oreven displaced again. Be-cause of this, the UN General

Assembly unanimously en-dorsed standards for the in-ternational community to fol-low while dealing with anIDP crisis.According to these standards,

he displaced popula-tion must be fully informedand must be empowered toplay an active role in their re-location. In most cases inHaiti, the people are beingstarved out or threatened withviolence. It appears that theUN — the body charged withprotection and aid — has atbest turned a blind eye to theremovals, and at worst is aid-ing in them.

Without a doubt, theworldwide outpouring ofcompassion for Haiti was un-precedented. Regular peoplecared and gave. Over 50% ofAmerican households do-nated money, with compa-rable numbers worldwide.The world community antici-pated a response that wouldprotect lives and bring thepeople back to wholeness.But despite the compassionand donations, these reloca-tions are happening withouta peep from the internationalmedia or community. As wepat ourselves on the back forour generosity, a plan hasbeen unleashed to quiet yetbrutally move undesirablepeople out of desirable areas.We must ask how Haiti canpossibly recover when Hai-tians are treated in this man-ner. A Haitian centered ap-proach is the only way tobuild Haiti back better. If theseforced relocations are any in-dication, we are already off toa very rocky start.

By. Marc H. MorialNNPA Columnist

(NNPA) - “You’ve gotto believe that tomorrow some-how can be and will be betterthan today.” - Dr. BenjaminL. Hooks. The National Ur-ban League joins the nationin mourning the passing ofcivil rights pioneer, BenjaminHooks. A recipient of thePresidential Medal of Free-dom in 2007, Dr. Hooks wasone of the nation’s most re-vered champions of racial rec-onciliation. He served as ex-ecutive director and CEO ofthe NAACP for 15 years,from 1977-1992. During histenure, he revived theorganization’s influence, andworked closely with NationalUrban League past presidentsVernon E. Jordon, Jr., and JohnE. Jacob to form a cooperativepartnership that has grownand strengthened over theyears.” In the words of cur-rent NAACP President andCEO, Benjamin Todd Jealous,Dr. Hooks “was simply thegreatest living person to haveserved as Executive Directorand CEO of the NAACP.”

Born in Memphis, Tennesseein 1925, Dr. Hooks’ lifespanned much of the modernday African-Americanstruggle - from the darkestdays of Jim Crow segregationto the historic breakthrough ofAmerica’s first Black Presi-dent. Many of the rights wetake for granted today weremade possible by the courageand tenacity of Ben Hooksand others of his generationwho devoted their lives to therelentless pursuit of equalityand justice for all.

Dr. Hooks pursued thatmission wherever he went - asa soldier, lawyer, judge,preacher, teacher, FCC com-missioner, and civil rightsleader. As a Sergeant in WorldWar II, assigned to guard Eu-ropean prisoners of war, hesuffered the indignity of beingrefused service at “whitesonly” restaurants, while hisprisoners were allowed to eat.After leaving the military, hepursued a career in law. Hegraduated from Howard Uni-versity in 1944 and, unable toobtain admittance to lawschool in Memphis, enrolledat the DePaul University LawSchool in Chicago, where heearned his law degree in 1948.As an ordained minister, Dr.Hooks also preached his mes-sage of racial equality frompulpits in Memphis and De-troit. And he was a participantin numerous NAACP-spon-

sored protests, sit-ins andboycotts. In 1965, he becamethe first African Americancriminal court judge in theState of Tennessee.

In 1972, President Nixonappointed him the first Afri-can American member of theFederal CommunicationsCommission (FCC), where hefought tirelessly to increaseAfrican American presence,employment and ownershipin the broadcast industry. Inhis later years, he served asChairman of the NationalCivil Rights Museum and es-tablished the Benjamin L.Hooks Institute for SocialChange at the University ofMemphis.

As the National UrbanLeague begins its second cen-tury, we are inspired by thelife, works and words of Dr.Hooks, who once said, “Thecivil rights movement is notdead. If anyone thinks that weare going to stop agitating,they had better think again. Ifanyone thinks that we are go-ing to stop litigating, they hadbetter close up the courts. Ifanyone thinks that we are notgoing to demonstrate and pro-test, they had better roll up thesidewalks.”

Dr. Benjamin Hookswas a giant of the civil rightsmovement. Our thoughts andprayers go out to his wife ofnearly 60 years, Frances, andtheir daughter, Patricia Gray.

Dr. Benjamin L.Hooks - A Civil Rights

Giant

Will Obama Fight for a Liberal on the Supreme Court?

President Barack Obama

(NNPA) - The comingresignation of Justice JohnPaul Stevens from the Su-preme Court sets up a newfight for his successor and aquestion that I –and others –have is will President Obamaappoint someone as liberal asStevens has become. An indi-cation of where the Presidentmight be coming from is thecomment that he made when

the Citizens United case wasdecided last year. Then, hesaid it was a victory for pow-erful interests like banks, oilcompanies and etc. that,“marshal their power everyday in Washington to drownout the voices of everydayAmericans.”

By Ron WaltersNNPA Columnist

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By Dianne AndersonSpecial to the NNPA from

the Precinct Reporter(NNPA) - Something

once thought to be just a fig-ment of African-Americanimagination – racial discrimi-nation at the doctor’s office –might get a reality check soonin light of the new numbers.That’s the assessment ofGeorgetown University re-searchers, who found thatBlack women with sufficienthealth insurance and diag-nosed with breast cancer hadtheir treatment delayed twiceas long as insured Whitewomen.

“We thought havinghealth insurance would eventhe field and that insuredblack women would havehad the same rate of evalua-tion as insured White women,but that was not the case inour study,” said HeatherHoffman, Ph.D., assistantprofessor of Epidemiologyand Biostatistics at the GeorgeWashington UniversitySchool of Public Health andHealth Services.

Looking at 581 womenwith breast cancer examinedbetween 1997 and 2009, re-searchers found that delayedtreatment was greater forBlack women, but at the samerate as uninsured Whitewomen, who faced similardelays.

The test area includedseven hospitals in the Wash-ington, D.C., and was fundedby the National Cancer Insti-tute.

“Black women shouldbe the focus of breast cancer

screening outreach and fol-low-up because they experi-ence greater delays in diagno-sis and in treatment thanwhite women, regardless ofinsurance status,” said Dr.Hoffman. “We need to deter-mine what other barriers con-tribute to diagnosis and treat-ment delays in insured blackwomen and all uninsuredwomen.

”Elizabeth Martin, a“Reach to Recovery” volun-teer for American Cancer So-ciety, said the study rings true,especially in her own case,where she had excellenthealth insurance, but at ayoung 41 years old, her owndiagnostic delay could havecost her life.

Back in 1998, she wastold her first mammogramcame back normal. A fewmonths later, she felt the threesmall lumps, and basicallybrushed off as a Black femaleproblem of fibroid tumors, notto be overly concerned.

“They examined meand told me that AfricanAmerican women have densebreasts and are known tohave a lot of fibroids so don’tworry about it. At that time Ialways heeded my doctor’swords so I didn’t worry aboutit,” she said.

But, as the months wentby, the lumps got larger. Later,she went in for an unrelatedcheckup and mentioned thelumps again to her doctor,who attributed the increasedsize of the lumps to waterweight gain during her men-strual cycle.

In recent years, several

scientific studies indicate thatAfrican American women areat risk of more aggressive can-cer starting an earlier stage.They are half as likely asWhite women to have breastcancer, but twice as likely todie from it.

Many months later, shebrought up her concernsagain with her internist onanother visit.“I said my OB/GYN told me not to worryabout it and he looked at meand said, ‘No, we’re goingtoworry about it,’” she said.“He sent me to a breast sur-geon for a biopsy and the restis history.” After trailing thestate, holding workshops,and listening to women’s in-dividual stories, she doesn’tbelieve that her own experi-ence is isolated. And she be-lieves that women must fightfor their proper healthcare ifthey feel that lump.

Today, Martin is theAmerican Cancer Society’sRegional Council Chair forthe Border Sierra Region, cov-ering San Bernardino, River-side, San Diego, ImperialCounties. She also goes intochurches, wherever invited,to share her story and helpother women in the commu-nity.

“My journey has em-powered me to be my ownadvocate. My journey alsoproves that this article istruthful,” she said.

By the end of this year,roughly 40,000 women areprojected to die from breastcancer in the United States. Atthe same time, statistics showthat women who catch theircancer early will have a 98percent chance of living pastthat critical five-year survivalwindow.

“Black women shouldbe the focus of breast cancerscreening outreach and fol-low-up because they experi-ence greater delays in diag-nosis and in treatment thanwhite women, regardless ofinsurance status,” said Dr.Hoffman. “We need to deter-mine what other barriers con-tribute to diagnosis and treat-ment delays in insured blackwomen and all uninsuredwomen.

”For more informationon free mammograms andcervical cancer checkups forwomen under and over 40,contact the Inland Agency“Every Woman Counts”program at (951) 241-8723.To reach out to churcheswith breast cancer informa-tion, contact Martin atqemartin @san.rr.com.

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Managing campaigns for corporationsaround the clock, around the world.

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As you know, therewas a performance called 100black women, 100 actionsthat took place Saturday April24, 2010. Instead of it beingat the Carver Branch librarywas downtown located in

front of HT around the cor-ner. Thanks Ms.WuraNatajsa Ogunji for preparingthis for us.Thanks for all thepeople who attended this per-formance.

The first KAC dance isMay 7th. It cost 5 dollars aticket and you can bring aguest that is 18 and underunless it is an immediate fam-ily member. Thanks for every-one who is going to partici-pate in the dance especiallyleadership.

I will follow you up onthe KAC dance and the rest ofany KAC information in fol-lowing articles.

First Dance Set for KAC

Several Connally HighSchool students showed uprecently at GSD&M Idea Citywith some big ideas of theirown. The Show Your ReelAwards Show, held the weekof SXSW, showcased the me-dia talent of area high schoolstudents. Each winner andfinalist at the show was in-vited to become a MediaProtégé. Media Protégé spenda year job-shadowing mediaprofessionals, interactingwith entrepreneurs and work-ing on service learningprojects. As students gain ex-perience and develop profes-sional portfolios, they’ll be-come eligible for intern andemployment opportunities inthe media industry.

As the awards showgot underway, current MediaProtégé received recognitionfor their work with MediaXperiments. Those MediaProtégé included current CHSstudents Christian Nelsonand Peter Jiang and CHSgraduates Gabriel Leal andJohn Luke. Named Best ofShow was Sofia Castellanos.The students wowed thejudges with their outstandingportfolios.

Other Show Your ReelAward winners were:Alfredo Escamilla - GraphicD e s i g n / I l l u s t r a t i o nChris Fuson - AudioJared Lawrence - JournalismDavid Frias - PhotographyIrving Juarez - Video

All winners received aplaque and written critiquesfrom media professionalsontheir digital portfoliosposted on MediaXperiments Web site. OtherShow Your Reel finalistswere Sebastian Gomez-Martinez, Marissa Luna-Padron, Celia Gonzales andShae Kuykendall.

CHS Honored at Reel Awards

Friday was phenom-enal; it was truly a great ex-perience. I went home confi-dent about my science/socialstudies test. 3:15 they feed uspizza and drink, gave us awhile to hang out withfriends, and then we movedon to session 1.

Everyone had their dif-ferent classes to attend, butyou were lucky to have atleast one class with a friendor two. All sessions covered

either science or social stud-ies; which prepared us for ourupcoming T.A.K.S.

We played games, didreviews, won prizes, and ofcourse had fun. There weresix sessions total, and theevent lasted from 3-7 thatsabout 30-45 min. each. Mysessions were mainly science,only because I understandTexas history, and struggle inthe scientific area.

Friday night we used somuch candy, I couldnt standto eat any more. Besides itsnot good for you. After all thesessions were complete, weall went to the gym to hangout for the last hour. Duringthat time we all thanked Mr.Padavil for thinking of thiscreative event. You know hetends to think of a lot of funoccasions for us.

T.A.K.S Night was phenomenal

Marcus ArmendarizStony Point High School

The TAKS test is onThursday April 29, 2010 andit is very important that wepass the TAKS test. The rea-son why I say it is importantto pass the TAKS test is be-cause if we don’t pass theTAKS test we can be put in aextra math class our sopho-more year which will causeus to lose one of our electives.That is why it is very impor-tant to pass the TAKS test.

Some helpful hints for

Helpful tips for passing TAKSthe TAKS test are; dress in lay-ers so if you get cold you canput your jacket on or if youget hot you can take yourjacket off, another tip is tohave a good breakfast the dayof the TAKS test. You alsodon’t need to stress out be-cause if you do then it onlybrings more anxiety on you,last but not least do not putoff your studying until theday before the TAKS studyahead.

For NBA it is playofftime. The Boston Celtics areplaying the Miami Heats inthe playoffs. The BostonCeltics leads the playoff series3-1. The reason why I talkabout the Boston Celtics isbecause they are my favoriteNBA team.

That is all for this weekthanks for reading, I hope youhave a great week.

Tonight is one of thegreatest times of a high schoolstudent’s life, it’s the Prom.Prom is a once in a lifetimeexperience and you never getthat feeling and fun everagain. Some people don’t re-gret not going to Prom andothers, who do regret miss-ing out on Prom, but its okay,because it’s not a big deal.

I’m excited about Prom,because I have a beautifuldate that I’ve known since el-ementary school, second isthat I will be with my friends,

On April 22, it wasEarth day. Earth day is aboutreminding everyone abouthow the Earth is being af-fected by pollution and whatwe can do to stop the all ofterrible things from happen-ing to it. So we still need toshow that we care aboutEarth and its environment.I’m pretty fond of Earth Daybecause to me, it’s relaxingand smooth and a celebration

Earth Day: A celebrationof all the Earth has to offer. Iremember when I had to do aproject at school about theEarth. I was required to picka country in Europe andmake a PSA (Public ServiceAnnouncement) about pre-venting pollution. It doesn’tmatter what country is beingaffected, because every coun-try is still apart of Earth. Hu-mans making pollution iswhat causes the Earth to beunhealthy. We need to stopmaking huge factories, whichcause smog and stop smok-ing drugs and keep the Earthhealthy. That’s what EarthDay is all about. The Earthneeds energy to survive andwe’re just taking that energyaway from it. We need to giveenergy back to Earth instead.So, please keep in mind thatour planet, Earth is suffering.

Prom Night happens oncein a lifetime

and third is that I will be hav-ing fun and enjoying Prom.All seniors have been prepar-ing for this wonderful nightand let me tell that has beentiring, because the guys arefinding and buying their tux-edos and the girls are lookingfor beautiful dresses and allthe other preparations forthis great night.

With all the prepara-tions and last minute things,it will all be worth it, becausethe Senior Prom only hap-pens once and whether yougo or not, it’s not a big deal,but if you do or are going thenyou have a great time andthen once it’s over, then it’sover and you can say that Iwent to the prom and I that Iwill remember this foreverand that I had a great time.

Once Again, thisnight only happens once inyour life, but it doesn’t matterif you don’t go, because it’snot a big deal.

Austin School Superinten-dent Dr. Meria Carstar- phenannounced today that six el-ementary schools — Sanchez,Ortega, Dawson, Blazier,Pickle, and Winn — will offera One-Way Dual Languageprogram for children in pre-kindergarten and kindergar-ten, beginning in 2010-2011.

Earlier this year, Dr.Carstarphen announced thata Two-Way Dual Languageprogram would be imple-mented this fall at Perez,Ridgetop, and Wooten el-ementary schools for studentsin kindergarten and first grade;and at Becker Elementary forstudents in pre-kindergartenthrough first grade.

A One-Way Dual Lan-guage Program supports onelanguage group, such as stu-dents whose primary lan-guage is Spanish, to becomebilingual, bi-literate, and is atransitional program from tra-ditional bilingual instruction.

A Two-Way Dual Lan-guage Program supportstwo language groups in be-coming bilingual, bi-literate,and bicultural in two lan-guages. For example,classes of approximatelyequal numbers of two lan-guage groups are providedinstruction by optimizing

the use of two languages.Superintendent Carstarphensaid Dual Language imple-mentation supports the goalsstated in AISD’s Strategic Planfor 2010-2015. Research sup-porting AISD’s move towardDual Language includes:

· English LanguageLearners (ELLs) achieve thegreatest long-term academicgains through participation inDual Language.

· Dual Language is theonly program for ELLs that de-finitively closes the achieve-ment gap.

· Students in DualLanguage do as well, or better,than students learning only inEnglish on standardized testsgiven in English.

· Learning a languagepositively impacts the struc-ture and cognitive function ofthe brain.

· Respect of multiplecultural heritages and lan-guages leads to friendshipsthat cross class and languageboundaries.

· Dual Language in-creases the marketable skills ofa student in a global society.

Parents with additionalquestions may contact CeliaGlick, Dual Language Direc-tor, at 414-3705, or by email,celia.glick@austinisd.org.

Program to Be Offered at PreK and Kindergarten—

Additional Austin Schools Chosen for One-Way Dual Language Program

Students in MarkBarron’s engineeringclass at Eastside Memo-rial Green Tech HighSchool built a environ-mentally friendlyschool sign at the cam-pus , located at 1012Arthur Stiles Road, Sat-urday, April 24.

The studentshave worked for the

past six weeks research-ing recycled and recy-clable building materi-als and doing mock-upsof proposed signs. Withthe assistance of schoolpartners Clark Wilson ofGreen Builders, andRandy Jewart of AustinGreen Art, studentsbuilt and erected thesigns.

Green Tech students buildenvironmentally friendly

sign on campus

More than 10,000young entrepreneurs will par-ticipate in Lemonade DayAustin this Sunday all overAustin. Lemonade Day is afun, free, event where kids getto make and keep the moneythat they earn while learningfirst-hand about businessand entrepreneurship. Everylemonade stand will be differ-ent, depending on the entre-preneur, their lemonaderecipe, and the locations.Help support these entrepre-neurs by buying lemonade atseveral locations this Sunday!

By setting up and oper-ating their own business, kidsget to experience success andlearn valuable lessons abouthow businesses operate.They’ll also learn about thevalue of saving and investingmoney, and giving back to thecommunity.The second an-nual Lemonade Day Austinis a fun, free, event where kidsget to make and keep themoney that they earn. Kids ofall ages learn to set goals, de-velop a business plan, estab-lish a budget, seek investors,provide customer service,and give back to their com-munity.

Families all over Austinspend time creating secretlemonade recipes, brandinglemonade products, and mar-keting lemonade in prepara-tion for the big event on May2. For example, sister teamSara and Paola are buildinga business to reel in custom-ers at Guero’s Taco Bar onSouth Congress, and theyoung BeeSweet (a.k.a.Mikaila) sent out a news re-lease to promote her honey-sweetened Texas drink. Cre-ativity and fun is not in short

supply as kids learn the valueof planning and hard work.

Early participation inbusiness opportunities devel-ops successful adults. Talk tomost successful business per-sons and you’ll find they hadsome sort of business as a kid– from Richard Garriott (Ori-gin Systems) who sold BoyScout products door-to-doorto Julie Gomoll (Jules Says)who created a cardboardpuppet show theater onesummer and a haunted houseone Halloween.

“Lemonade Day helpskids begin to think like entre-preneurs,” says EugeneSepulveda, president of theEntrepreneurs Foundation ofCentral Texas, sponsor ofLemonade Day Austin. “Allsuccessful business personsstarted out with a small busi-ness: mowing lawns, deliver-ing newspapers or running alemonade stand.

Who knows? MaybeAlesha Barnett, winner ofSweet Leaf Tea’s Most Cre-ative Lemonade Flavor at theBest Tasting Lemonade com-petition, will be the nextMichael Dell? Join us Sunday,May 2, to find out.

Lemonade Day Austinis sponsored by Trilogy, Im-perial Sugar, H-E-B, Entrepre-neurs Foundation of CentralTexas, Acton MBA, CharlesSchwab, Buena Vista Foun-dation, 7-Eleven, and manyother community businessand nonprofit partners. Lem-onade Day was founded byPrepared4Life and takesplace in 17 U.S. cities.

For more information,go to www.lemonadeday.orgor call Leigh Christie, 512-289-9831.

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Black Farmers Still Waiting toCollect on USDA Race Settlement

by Pharoh Martin

Ralph Paige, executive director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land AssistanceFund, at the mic during a Capital Hill press conference, and Black famers from around the nationhave still not collected on the $1.2 billion USDA race discrimination settlement promised to the bythe federal government. CREDIT: Pharoh Martin/NNPA

W A S H I N G T O N(NNPA) - Like many Blackfarmers around the country,Willard Tillman is waiting.He’s been waiting for morethan a decade to collect on asettlement from the govern-ment for being discriminatedagainst by the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture.But waiting is all he can dofor now because the govern-ment that owes him is stilldragging its feet to pay him.Tillman is one of thousandsof African-American farmerswho is due to collect part of a$1.25 billion dollar settlement

from the government but isunable to collect becauseCongress has yet to appropri-ate the payout. Congress haduntil the March 31 congres-sional recess to appropriatethe amount before plaintiffscould opt out of the settle-ment and pursue individuallitigation. No farmers, in-cluding Tillman, have optedout as of yet.

”I believe the systemwill work in our best interestsbecause this is supposed tobe law,” said the a 63-year-old Tillman from SeminoleCounty, Okla. “I really be-

lieve this administration hasthis thing at heart and thatthey will do what’s right withthis.”

The case in whichTillman is a litigant, widelyknown as “Pigford II”, is anextension of the “Pigfordcase”, a 1999 class action law-suit against the USDA thatstem from decades of discrimi-nation against Black farmerswith its services and credits.The $2.4 billion dollar settle-ment in the Pigford case wasthe largest in civil rights his-tory. Class members of theoriginal case had a certain

amount of time to file a claimand have it adjudicated in or-der to collect their payout. Butbecause of a failed notificationprocess an estimated 65,000eligible farmers filed late andwere left out in the cold sim-ply because they were im-properly notified.

“What happened wasthat the notice of this particu-lar case was not properly dis-tributed into our communi-ties,” Tillman said. “And asa result of that, we ended upfiling after the October cutoffdate.”

Pigford II is set to cor-rect that by giving another op-portunity for late filers to col-lect their payout. The case ofthe Black farmers, wrongedby the federal governmentsimply because of their race,has dragged on for years. Sev-eral times recently it appearedto finally be over, but has nowfallen back to struggle.

President Obama andagriculture secretary TomVilsack announced in Febru-ary that a $1.25 billion settle-ment has been reached forPigford II. But, as of now, only$100 million dollars from the2008 Farm Bill is available.The rest of the funding mustbe appropriated by Congress.

”We’re talking aboutmuch more than the money,”said Ralph Paige, executivedirector of the Federation ofSouthern Cooperatives/LandAssistance Fund, during apress conference at the U.S.Capitol. “We’re talking aboutremedying past discrimina-tion and going further with astronger and better agricul-tural system and country.”

Paige called the uncol-lected settlement a “smallamount of money” that will,in effect, be used to help sus-tain the American agricultural

system.Paige and Black Farm-

ers and Agriculturalists As-sociation president GaryGrant called the press confer-ence to urge Congress to in-clude the remaining $1.15 bil-lion dollars in the next fiscalbudget.

Grant said that it’s go-ing to take more than justBlack farmers to convinceCongress on this issue. Hesaid that “People who eatfood need to understand thatthis is about them as well.”

He continues, “Wespend a billion dollars on ajet to bomb somebody …We’re talking about a billiondollars to help feed our coun-try. So I just don’t see whyCongress and the presidentcan’t go ahead find it.”

Meanwhile, the offensesby the federal governmentcontinue to mount. Eventhough some claimants nevercollected on their portion ofthe settlement they were stilltaxed on the interest that theiraward accrued. They are get-ting taxed on income theyhave yet to receive.

”No one explained theprocess to them and so basi-cally, they went from beingindebted to the USDA to be-ing indebted to the InternalRevenue Service,” Grant said.According to Grant, since thepayout has been delayedBlack farmers have been putoff their lands, lost theirhomes and their credit hasbeen ruined.

“The leadership is veryaware of the urgency of thismatter. I predict to you that itwill happen sooner thanlater,” said Rep. G.K.Butterfield (D-N.C).Butterfield represents Timo-thy Pigford’s congressionaldistrict. He filed the 1999

class-action lawsuit againstthe USDA.When asked about why Con-gress is dragging their feetButterfield raised the nation’sfiscal concerns as the reason.“We are $12 trillion dollars indebt,” Butterfield said. “Thisfiscal year we are looking at$1.5 trillion dollars in deficit.We cannot be unmindful ofour principle dilemma. Andnor can we unmindful on theneed to settle with the Blackfarmers.

Hopefully, we can ac-complish both of those re-sults.”

Butterfield said that ifCongress wasn’t able to findan appropriate vehicle to getthe funding then he wouldsupport declaring the settle-ment as a national emergencyin order to add it to the nextsupplemental budget when ithits the House floor.

Funding for the PigfordII settlement is held back bythe congressional PAYGOrule, which, in an effort tocontrol new spending, man-dates that Congress financeexpenditures with funds thatare already available ratherthan borrow.

So until Congresspasses an appropriation, allfarmers like Tillman can dois wait, continue pushing andkeep their faith in hoping thisissue eventually shakes itselfout.

”My philosophy is thatyou can’t miss somethingthat you never had,” Tillmansaid. “I can’t put a time lineon how policy and the gov-ernment works. If the presi-dent wants it and he’s askedfor it than I’m pretty sure thatit will eventually happen. It’staken ten years just to gethere. Nothing is going to hap-pen overnight.”

EEOC Finds Racism at TurnerIndustries Texas Plant

Photo by Karl Mitchell / February 24, 2009A Confedrate flag inside Turner Industries in Paris, Texas. Racist graffiti, a hangman’s noose

and a Confederate flag that have reportedly been displayed for months to intimidate black employ-ees. Photo taken in January by Karl Mitchell, 41, an employee at the Turner Industries plant who hasalso filed a formal EEOC complaint alleging a pattern of discrimination at the plant.

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(NNPA) - African-American employees at aTurner Industries plant inParis, Texas were the subjectof racial discrimination andwere targeted by managementif they complained, the EqualEmployment OpportunityCommission has confirmed.According to an April 14EEOC letter, Black employeesat the plant “were subjectedto unwelcome racial slurs,comments and intimidation,racial graffiti, nooses in theworkplace and other symbolsof discrimination.” TheEEOC also said Blacksweren’t given equal employ-ment and advancement andthat those who complainedabout their treatment weresubject to reprisals.

“I’ve been called coloredboy, coon, monkey,” DontrailMathis, 33, a painter’s helper,told the Dallas Morning

News. “When Obama won,they went off. My superiorssaid, ‘If he ain’t white, it ain’tright. I saw nooses, swastikason the wall. It was horrible.”Turner Industries, an indus-trial construction and main-tenance company based inBaton Rouge, La., has issuedstatements to both employeesand clients.

In his letter to employ-ees, chairman and CEORoland Toups said, “As youmay be aware, the EEOC hasissued a statement that cer-tain employees in our Paris,Texas fabrication plant wereharassed or were victims ofretaliation. I want you to un-derstand that we stronglydisagree with the EEOC’sfindings, and we are defend-ing our employment prac-tices at that facility, as wellas any job site that may bementioned.”

Toups also wrote, “Be-cause of the personal and pro-fessional relationships wehave forged with you, we areconcerned that you might bemisguided by any negative in-ferences or portrayals in themedia ... We are committed toproviding you with as muchinformation as you requirethat will assist you in sortingthrough the information beingdisseminated.”

The NAACP has alsobeen involved in the case. Ken-neth Rogers, senior pastor atSt. Paul Baptist Church inParis, Texas and spokesmanfor the local chapter of theNAACP said greater racialdiversity among Turner man-agement would help.“Turner is a big fish in a smallpond,” he told the Wall StreetJournal. “We want jobs herein Paris but we want it to be afavorable place to work.”

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By Bill Fletcher, Jr.NNPA Columnist

(NNPA) - When the so-called pro-gun demonstratorsdecided that April 19thwould be their day to ‘marchwhile packing’ (weapons),the first thing that i said to mywife was this: “So, whatwould happen if hundreds ofBlack folks were to go to anational park fully armedand march?”

I think that there is littledoubt but that the subsequentscene would make Custer’sLast Stand look like asquabble. The forces of thepolice; more than likely theNational Guard; and someright-wing extremists wouldall have shown up to preparefor Armageddon.

Yet, in the face of theApril 19th mobilization, themainstream media, and manyof us, simply shook our headsat the insanity in our midst.It was not just that these right-wing idiots were marchingwith guns.

It is that there is a sec-tion of the political Right thatis so out of touch with realitythat even when PresidentObama advances their rightto bear arms that they are sus-picious and believe that he

has a secret motive. In read-ing comments offered bythese play warriors what wasequally striking was theirfixation on how they believethat the government is mov-ing towards totalitarianism;taxes are going up; and theirright to possess weapons isunder threat. In reality, onecan disagree with nationalhealthcare reform but it is any-thing but totalitarian, par-ticularly since PresidentObama made concessions tothe insurance companies onit; taxes have decreased formost people; and the right topossess weapons, includingin public locations, has in-creased!

Forgive me for letting thefacts get in the way of the per-ceptions by the Right.The numbers of these extrem-ists are turning out to be farlower than presented in themedia. It is also becomingclear that those who marchedon April 19th, along with theTea Party crowd, are farwealthier than had been pre-sented and assumed even afew weeks ago. They are notexactly working America, tosay the least.

Yet this does not makethem any less dangerous.They have created a mytho-logical world in their headsthat has no resemblance toour actual reality. They are sounsettled by a Black Presi-dent of the USA, not to men-tion the changes that are un-derway in the USA—demo-graphically speaking—thatthey are searching for an-

swers wherever they may befound.

The fact that none of uscould contemplate a similar,armed mobilization by Blacksshows that while there havebeen important changes in themanner in which race playsout in the USA, the April 19thcrowd still holds a very privi-leged position. More thanlikely they were able to showup at the rallies without theircars or buses having beenstopped for inspections. I amsure few, if any, were taken infor questioning on thegrounds of potential terroristactivity, despite both theirwords and their armament.Yet had an African American,Latino, Arab, South Asian orNative American shown upfully armed, with a bandoleeracross their chest, therewould have been a differentresponse.

April 19th spoke to thecontinuing racial differentialin treatment; to the fact that asegment of white Americasimply cannot accept the ra-cial changes underway in theUSA; and that myths can bestronger than the truth forsome people, potentially lead-ing to all sorts of unfortunateconsequences.

Speaking of unfortunateconsequences, think aboutApril 19th for a minute...theanniversary of the OklahomaCity bombing by a home-grown white American terror-ist who was angry andwanted to send a message. Iwish that he could have beenlimited to harsh language.

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In the next two weeks,the resident of Travis Countywill be heading to the polls tovote on local issues whichmainly deal with educationalmatters. These elections willdetermine the next AustinCommunity College BoardMembers and determine thenext board members for bothAustin Independent SchoolDistrict and also for thePflugerville IndependentSchool District. Moreover,these elections will leave animprint on how TravisCounty educates its popula-tion of both Kg -12 grades andhigher education. Conse-quently, these local races areequally important to that ofthe general elections; how-ever, the turnout rate will bevery low. In other words, lessthan 10% of the populationwill determine the individu-als who will be making andimplementing policies.

The Austin Indepen-dent School District race in-cludes the following: District1, District 4, District 6, District7 and Trustees At-Large Po-sition 9. In District 1, CherylBradley is running un-op-posed. In District 4, VincentTorres is also running un-opposed. In District 6, GlenP. Mayes II is running againstLora Moya. In District 7,Warren Faulkner is runningagainst Robert RaySchneider. At-Large Position9, includes four candidateswho are Tamala Barksdale,Cassandra Enoch Brown,Julie Cowan, Dianne T.

Mendoza and Mike Reed.Moreover, the Board of Trust-ees is comprised of commu-nity members who are electedto serve four year terms. On arotating basis, Board seats arefilled during biannual elec-tions held on the second Sat-urday in May. Trustees pro-vide public service to the Aus-tin community without finan-cial compensation. Candi-dates to the Board of Trusteesmust conform to the eligibil-ity requirements of the TexasElection Code.

For the Austin Commu-nity College Board elections,there are three "up for grabs,"which include place 4, place5, and place 6. In place 4, Jef-frey Kyle Richard, who is theincumbent, runs unchal-lenged. In place 5, the chal-lengers include, Fred L.McGhee, David S. Reiter, VicVillarreal, and Davis Jones. Inplace 6, Guadalupe Sosa isrunning against RaymondHartfield. Moreover, theboard represents theCollege’s "owners". Trusteesare elected at large by thepeople of the City of Austin,Leander, Manor, Del Valle,and Round Rock Indepen-dent School Districts; and theresidents of those portions ofthe Eanes and PflugervilleISDs which fall within the Cityof Austin, provide appropri-ate high-level guidance andleadership to ensure the Col-lege acts to meet communityneeds. Much of the time BoardMeetings of individual trust-ees are spent consulting with

community members abouttheir needs and the College’ssuccess in addressing them.Furthermore the duties of theboard are to select and toevaluate the College Presi-dent; adopt strategic policiesand priorities; and to planand direct the operations ofthe College. The Board doesnot make specific operationaldecisions or approve opera-tional rules; these decisionsare made by the Presidentand to those to whom he orshe delegates authority. Spe-cific complaints or grievancesare handled by the President,not the Board. The particulartopics to be discussed at aspecific meeting are deter-mined by the President andBoard officers, and are postedon the web site prior to themeeting.

It is important for all ofus to come out to the polls andvote for the local elections.These local elections will de-termine who sits on the vari-ous school boards and alsowho sits on the board of theAustin Community College.Moreover, these elections givethe population an occasion toimpact the education from Kg- 12 grades and also that ofhigher education. When per-sons take the time to vote, thenthey are making the statementof commitment to the devel-opment of their community.Also voting will let boardmembers know what type ofleadership needs to be imple-mented for the school dis-tricts.

Togo, Commemorating FiftyYears of Independence

On April 27, 2010 thenation of Togo will be com-memorating their fifty years ofindependence from colonialrule. For a large segment ofthe population, the com-memoration will not be thatof joy or of festivity due to thelack of transparent demo-cratic elections. However, forthe ruling elite it would a timefor them to try to unite all the"sons and daughters" ofTogo. Consequently, the na-tion of Togo is caught in thedilemma of whether theyhave true freedom and inde-pendence since it became acountry. However, to betterunderstand that dilemma, wemust first examine Togo's his-tory.

Prior to independence,Togo was a French colony andterritory. On April 27, 1960Sylvanus Olympia served as

the first president of Togo. In1963, he was overthrown bythe army. In 1967, GnassinbleEyadema seized the power.From 1967 to 2005, Eyademaruled Togo. After his death,his son came to power. Sincehis son was appointed to thepresidency, he has sought toreconcile the nation by talk-ing about it; but not, by anytype of concrete gestures. Fur-thermore, his son has tried togive the people more freedom.As a result, Togolese are splitand divided among politicalparties.

Many Togolese living inthe United States, especiallythe Central Texas regionshave echoed the same idearegarding celebrating thenation's independence. Forinstance, Kokou, who is fromTogo mentioned that, “Thereis no need to celebrate the in-

dependence because goodgovernance does not exist."Moreover, for a large sectionof the people, April 27 will beday to ponder on what de-mocracy means. It wouldmean that its diasporathroughout the United Stateswould utilize April 27 as away to protest against thecurrent government repres-sion of human rights.

In summary, Togo willofficially celebrate its inde-pendence on April 27, 2010.For some Togolese this will bea day of protest and reflectionon what true democracy lookslike. Some will stay home be-cause they don't believe thatTogo’s people are free from allforms of government suppres-sion. While the ruling party,will try to use the indepen-dence as a way to reconcilethe past to the present.

Observers Notice Clear Increasein Black Tourism

Since Obama PresidencyW A S H I N G T O N

(NNPA) - The national ParkService is prohibited fromgathering race-connected ac-tivity or numbers; so any-thing that its employees mightobserve about the people vis-iting Washington, D.C. monu-ments would be unscientificand just based on personalanecdotes.

That’s why Bill Line, aspokesman for the NationalParks Service who hasworked for NPS for nearly adecade, was strongly re-served about commentingwhen asked by a reporterwhether he could confirmspeculations that African-American tourists have be-gun to flock to the Nation’sCapital to see the WhiteHouse, monuments and mu-seums that have been moreoften visited by White Ameri-cans over the years.

But, ultimately, he saidthe obvious: “The short an-swer is yes, I would say thatto the eye – to my eye andprobably other people as well- I think that we have seen anincrease in the number of Af-rican-Americans that arecoming to visit the sites on theNational Mall whether it’sthe Lincoln Memorial, theWashington Monument, theJefferson Memorial, the

World War II Memorial oralso to visit the White House,”he said in an interview withthe NNPA News Service.“Can I prove anything,? No.But my guess is that it maywell be as a direct result ofBarack Obama being presi-dent. I can’t prove anything,but it’s a guest at best on mypart.”

Line is not alone in hisobservations. As Washingtonwelcomed spring at the Na-tional Cherry Blossom Festi-val that attracts thousands toD.C.’s National Mall everyyear, African-Americanswere clearly there in greaternumbers, say long-time ob-servers who agreed that in-crease is being seen across theboard.

Chriss Portella, a 35-year-old native of Paris,France, has been living in theDistrict for 10 years and man-ages Bistro Franca restaurantat M and Wisconsin inGeorgetown. Every spring,Portella visits the floweringtrees festival, but lately he hasalso noticed the colorful diver-sity in the throngs of people.More Black folks are now vis-iting the National Mall andthe Cherry Blossoms than be-fore Obama’s inauguration,he said.

Virginia Johnson, a

roads crossing guard for theNational Mall, said, she hasseen a change, too.“Forty percent of the touristsare Black that I have no-ticed,” she said. “The rest area diverse group.”

African-American tour-ists and international touristsare not distinguished by theU.S. Capitol Visitors Center,but an increase in visitorsoverall has been noticed. TomFontana, the Marketing andCommunications Director forthe U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Cen-ter said, “Since 2008 therehas been double the amountof visitors. We welcomed 2.5million visitors last year com-pared to half that in prioryears.” Fontana credits theincrease to the accessibility ofthe visitor center.

The change is beingwelcomed by those who workthe tourist industry and en-joyed by those who are par-taking.

It was a balmy SpringSaturday afternoon and LorisAyierebi watched as her threegrandchildren made an Eco-vase at one of the exhibittables at the National Build-ing Museum in the District.

Ayierebi was one of thethousands of Cherry Blossomrevelers who flocked to theTidal Basin at the beginning

of the two-week long annualNational Cherry BlossomFestival.

“I needed somethingfabulous and fun to go to formy grandkids and I couldn’tbe happier,” said Ayierebi, aSilver Spring resident, bob-bing her head to the tunes ofsalsa music in the back-ground. “This is my first timecoming, but it was the bestchoice we could have made. Iwill definitely come back nextyear and maybe even be a vol-unteer!”

The Cherry BlossomFestival began in 1935 to com-memorate the friendship be-tween the United States andJapan, which gave the citycherry blossom trees in 1912.Organizers said they expectone million visitors, 45 per-cent of whom will be touristsfrom the nation and theworld.

Gaithersburg residentKatrina Thomas was alsoamong the first-time African-Americans at the festival. Shebrought her son with her andboth would be coming backnext year, she said.

“There is a lack of expo-sure in our communities,”Thomas said. “You must beopen to exposing yourself todifferent cultures. I wouldhave still come to the celebra-

tion even without a Blackpresident in office.”The two week annual CherryBlossom Festival is kicked offin late March with a FamilyDay in the National BuildingMuseum which this yearcrowded with young familiesof different backgrounds andcultures, including a sprinkleof Black families. They en-gaged in activities, perfor-mances, and displaysthroughout the expansive halldecorated with origami andJapanese pastel pink andgreen umbrellas. A warmfamily atmosphere arose asthe hum of chatter and laugh-ter echoed throughout thebuilding.

It was a bit overwhelm-ing for the 4-year-old daugh-ter of Lorna Mccandless-Moss, who moved to DC fromTennessee three years ago.“She’s having a hard timeadjusting to the crowds,”said Mccandless-Moss, afirst-time visitor to the festival.“In Tennessee, there were sel-dom free events. I see a lotmore diversity here; it’s notjust Black and White.”Meanwhile, Ayierebi couldnot contain her enthusiasmfor the festival.

“The children are fasci-nated to be here; kids love thisand it’s great for all families!”

she said.Line, at the National

Park Service, enthusiasticallyspeculates that the increase inAfrican-American will con-tinue as exhibits grow to in-clude racial history.“In about two years, whenthe Martin Luther King Jr.Memorial is completed andfinished and open to the gen-eral public, we would furthersuspect that that would be yetanother reason for an in-crease in African-Americansvisiting the National Malland that the MLK Memorialwill cause a spill over affect[to other exhibits], for ex-ample, because its located insuch close proximately to theFDR Memorial, the LincolnMemorial, the Korean WarMemorial, the Vietnam VetsMemorial and the World WarII Memorial,” Line said.Line says the apparentgrowth in diversity amongthe 25 million annual visitorsto the National Mall is a posi-tive change that the NPS em-braces.

“We the National ParkService, as we always have -and we always will - we wel-come every body here,” hesaid. “We believe there arereasons for all Americans andinternational visitors thatcome here.”

(GIN) – Public interestlawyer Thuli BrillianceMakama of Swaziland isamong this year’s winners ofthe prestigious Goldman En-vironmental Prize for herwork attempting to halt thekilling of suspected poachersby private park rangers in na-tional parks.The “poachers”in some cases come from com-munities forced off traditionallands and left with no legalway to feed their families. In

one well-documented case, ayoung man, Musa Gamedze,accused of poaching was shotand killed in front of his fam-ily and children. In anothercase, 32-year-old SiceloMamba was shot and killedafter he bagged an impala onprivate land where game wasraised for sale to parks. Un-der Swazi law, rangers canshoot and kill poacherscaught in the act.Makamaand her organization Yonge

Nawe Environmental ActionGroup represent the sus-pected poachers against BigGame Parks.

Makama is also callingfor the court to declare uncon-stitutional the part of theGame Act that shelters staffof private safari companiesfrom prosecution.Makamaand the five other winnerswill receive $150,000 apiece“for their efforts to make theworld a better place.”

Swazi Woman Hailed as “Fearless” Environmental Activist”

(NNPA) - You’ve heardthe saying; it was made fa-mous by John F. Kennedy tosuggest that an increase in aparticular region’s wealthwould enhance the overallwealth of the entire country.Ronald Reagan and his min-ions came along and used thesame aphorism to suggestthat an increase in individualwealth, namely through taxcuts, would result in a “Trick-ling-Down” of prosperity tothe poor (Supply-Side Eco-nomics). Now we hear thephrase being uttered by Presi-dent Barack Obama – I won-der what he means by it.

Whatever the intent, original,twisted, or revised, there is anoverriding truth in the phrase:A rising tide lifts all boats, thatis, if you have a boat, it has noholes in it, and it is in the wa-ter rather than in dry-dock.Unfortunately, this tiredphrase is used to justify theridiculous amounts of annualcompensation for some folks;it is used to support what mostof us know is a false outcome;and it is put forth as a beaconof light for poor people, hopethat as soon as the rich getricher everyone will do better.Looking at today’s economy,I think we can see the fallacy

of that contention.Folks on Wall Street, af-

ter making their way aroundthe monopoly board a fewtimes, passing “Go” and col-lecting hundreds of billions ofdollars and numerous “Getout jail free” cards along theway, are being paid embar-rassing amounts of money.The annual bonuses given outby investment banks andother financial institutionsare more than most of us earnin a lifetime. I guess theybought a lot of boats with thatmoney.

Another saying becamepopular during this latest rip-

off of society by corporatethieves: “Too big to fail.” Weassured not only that theywould not fail but that theywould succeed. We assuredthat the tide would indeedraise their boats, or should Isay their yachts, while ourlittle dinghies sprung leaksand started to sink. So muchfor the rising tide.

I don’t know when weare going to stop falling forthe games being played on usby our government and theircorporate shysters, but I hopeit’s very soon. The eloquenceof their cute little sayings pla-cate us and soothe our emo-

tions. Their phrases go downin history while we go downthe tubes. When will we learnthat it’s all about them – notus.

Here’s the deal, onceagain for the umpteenth time.No one is going to save us butus. We are all we have. Eco-nomics, like politics, is local.You have to own a boat in or-der for it to rise with the tide.So, let’s move forward onthose basic principles. Let’slower our penchant for nicesayings and decrease ouremotional investment in poli-tics. Let’s get real, brothersand sisters, and raise our

awareness and activismaround collective economicempowerment.

The economic assump-tions inherent in a rising tidelifting all boats are flawed tosay the least; and we haveseen them in action. This lat-est use of the phrase will beno different, especially if wedo not adhere to the first prin-ciples of economics: Owner-ship and control of incomeproducing assets. Until wenot only acknowledge thattime-tested truth, but act uponit as well, please be aware thata rising tide can also drownyou.

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Hello my good friends.I want to ask you to come for-ward and do what you can tohelp us prevent what mightbe an incredible miscarriageof justice. A conservativegroup on the Texas StateBoard of Education is at-tempting to re-write history.The proposals would re-writehistory in such a manner asto harm not just African-Americans but essentially allschool children in the State ofTexas. It would harm allschool children by teachingfalsehoods or refusing toteach truths that are politi-cally unpalatable to extremeconservatives in Texas. Thiswill cause all Texas publicschool students to be put at adisadvantage with their coun-terparts in other states whencompeting on national examsand in many ways make ourState be looked at by otherswith low regard. What ap-pears to be obvious is a desirefor some to brain wash Texasstudents so that they will be-lieve and act a certain way,even become a member of cer-tain political parties. Somethings should be sacrosanct,like the future of the youngpeople of this State. Theyshould be taught the truthand not be taught things sothat will act, look, talk or thinkin a robotic and monolithicway that some may desire.

The African-Americanand Latino Members of theTexas Education Agency(there are 5 of them combined)have done a tremendous jobin trying to prevent this.However, there are 7 membersof the Board who seem intentto follow through with thiscome hell or high water, andthe conservative movement issuch to where there are 3 othermembers who are presentedwith serious political risks ifthey buck this anti-truthmovement. The Board wantsto do things such as: (a) have

school children taught aboutthe failures of affirmative ac-tion and the Great Society; (b)have students taught aboutthe value of limited govern-ment (remember it was theGovernment that said youhad to permit Black childrento your schools or let themvote in elections); (c) have theConfederacy taught in a posi-tive light particularly regard-ing the contributions ofJefferson Davis and Robert E.Lee; (d) limit teaching anddescriptions of former Presi-dent Thomas Jefferson be-cause of his belief that thereneeded to be a separation ofchurch and State, (e) teachthat gains by racial and eth-nic minorities were the resultof the Good Graces of whitesrather than the civil rightsmovement; (f) teach that theTexas War of Independencewith Mexico led to freedom forall Texans when in fact thetwo primary reasons the Tex-ans wanted to secede in 1836was that the Mexican Gov-ernment prohibited slaveryand required that in order toown property you had to beCatholic; (g) not teach aboutmany great and importantBlack and Hispanic leadersin Texas history while requir-ing that non-Texans likePhyllis Schafly be empha-sized (she is the conservativewho opposed women’s rightsback in the 1970’s); (h) havelimited teaching about worldgeography and objectiveanalyses of circumstances re-lating to America’s largestcites; and (i) even questionone’s right to vote if you arenot sufficiently informed.The list goes on and on, greatBlack Texans like HendrickArnold, Samuel McCullough,Lonnie Smith, Juanita Craft,Maceo Smith and others arenot mentioned. Additionally,it limits to early grade teach-ings such great Americanslike Thurgood Marshall.Looking at the proposed cur-riculum in social studies itwould appear Lyndon BainesJohnson must be from anotherState and that one politicalparty is for whites and theother is for minorities. This isreally divisive for our Statepotentially.

If people can shape andmake your history they candefine who you are. There isclearly a movement to say that

Government doing thingsthey don’t like is a bad thingand to try and get our chil-dren to agree with them. Andthey want to change historyand negate the positives of thecivil rights movement andeven brain wash individualsinto thinking that when theGovernment provides rem-edies for past wrongs such aswhen affirmative action isengaged or when the GreatSociety attempts to lift peopleout of poverty that our chil-dren will be taught that thesethings are wrong in such amanner as to suggest thatsuch teachings are true. Nowit is true that people shouldbe entitled to have such posi-tions but our children shouldnot be made to suffer frompolitical idolatry.

One of the members ofthe group of 7 is a lawyerBoard Member who was re-ported to have said or sug-gested that during the first 6months of an Obama admin-istration there would be anattack on the United Statesbecause of actions by peoplewho Obama [or his people]were engaged with in someway. When the AssociatedPress confronted her aroundthe 2nd of November of 2008about this, she indicated therewas nothing to correct. Weneed you to ask the Board toback off and teach truth to ourchildren. Teach our childrenabout the good and bad ofboth parties but don’t try touse them as guinea pigs for alarge scale brainwashing op-eration, and teach history inan accurate light and don’tbelittle the contributions orefforts of African-Americansand Latinos as is presentlyproposed. The Texas NAACPwill be working with the Leg-islative Black Caucus of Texasand the League of UnitedLatin American Citizensamong others to address thisissue. Please fax letters com-plaining about this to theState Board of Education andto the Texas NAACP Office,attention Yannis Banks at512-322-0757. We will be join-ing together for a rally at theCapitol early on May 19th andthen will proceed to the lastpublic hearing by the StateBoard on this subject beforethey vote (the public hearingis on the 19th and they are ex-pected to vote on the 21st).

BY GARY BLEDSOE

Take Control of Your History

Special to the NNPA from theAfro-American NewspapersWASHINGTON (NNPA) -Federal officials will not filecharges against seven guardsand a nurse in the Floridaboot camp death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson.Anderson died on January 6,2006, a day after he was at-tacked by the guards, whilethe nurse looked on. The en-tire incident was caught onvideotape.

The video showedthe seven guards punchingand kicking Anderson, push-ing ammonia capsules intohis nose and dragging hisbody around the camp’syard.

The eight people in-volved were acquitted ofmanslaughter charges by anall-White jury in 2007, but

Guards Not Charged in Beating Death of Martin Lee Anderson, 14

Florida closed all boot campsfor juvenile offenders in theaftermath.

Officials from theJustice Department say thatafter an extensive investiga-tion, there was insufficientevidence to file charges. “Un-der the applicable federalcriminal civil rights laws,prosecutors must establish,

beyond a reasonable doubt,that an official “willfully”deprived an individual of aconstitutional right, meaningthat the official acted with thedeliberate and specific intentto do something the law for-bids,” the Justice Departmentsaid in a press release. “Nei-ther accident, mistake, fear,negligence nor bad judgmentis sufficient to establish a fed-eral criminal civil rights vio-lation.”

Despite the ruling,Anderson’s family says theywill continue to fight for jus-tice. ”It’s not over,” GinaJones, Anderson‘s mother,told the Associated Press.“It’s not closed and I’m go-ing to make sure it staysopen. That was my baby.There was no reason to bebeaten like that.”

Notre Dame’s First Black Valedictorian

Katie Washington

(NNPA) - Katie Wash-ington, a biological sciencesmajor from Gary, Ind., hasbeen named valedictorian ofthe 2010 University of NotreDame graduating class andwill present the valedictoryaddress during Commence-ment exercises on Sunday,May 16, in Notre Dame sta-dium.

Washington, whoearned a 4.0 grade point av-erage, has a minor in Catho-lic Social Teaching.

She has conducted re-search on lung cancer at theCold Spring Harbor labsand performed genetic stud-

ies in the University’s EckInstitute for Global Healthon the mosquito that carriesdengue and yellow fever.

She is the co-author ofa research paper with David

Severson, professor of bio-logical sciences.

Washington directsthe Voices of Faith GospelChoir at Notre Dame, is amentor/tutor for the Sister-to-Sister program at SouthBend’s Washington HighSchool and serves as the stu-dent coordinator of the Cen-ter for Social Concerns’“Lives in the Balance:Youth Violence and SocietySeminar.”

Upon graduation,Washington plans to pur-sue a joint M.D./Ph.D pro-gram at Johns Hopkins Uni-versity .