March 20 2014 - The Mississippi Link

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Vol. 20, No. 22
March 20 - 26, 2014
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Mayoral candidates in City Council honors legacy of workers
special election reach of Independent Linen Service Company
15 at filing deadline … A time when ‘laborer’ was a good name
By Ayesha K.
Mustafaa
Editor
Vote April 8
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Editor
Inside
In one week’s time, special
election for mayor of Jackson
candidates’ signs and billboards have blanketed the city.
And while most were waiting
for the close of the filing deadline for candidates to qualify,
few if any expected the number to increase from 10 to 15.
The filing deadline was
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
at 5 p.m., and now there are
15 candidates running to complete the term of the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba who
served only eight months as
Jackson’s mayor, starting July
1, 2013.
Declaring their candidacy
with press conferences earlier in the week were Harvey
Johnson Jr., City Councilman
Tony Yarber, City Council
President Melvin V. Priester
Jr., Atty. Chokwe Antar Lumumba, State Sen. John Horhn, Atty. Regina Quinn and
City Councilwoman Margaret
Barrett-Simon.
Other candidates also de-
clared early in the week that
they were in the race - Albert
Wilson, Kenneth A. Swarts,
and Francis P. Smith Jr.
And getting their petitions
in just under the wire were
candidates Gwendolyn Ward
Osborne Chapman, Rodrick
Walker, John E. Reed, Tonya
Brooks and Tammie Patterson.
Candidacy debate planners,
the Leadership Greater Jackson Alumni Association and
others, have said invitations
would only be sent to those
candidates who made the filing deadline.
It is now of concern how so
many will be accommodated
in a debate and whether the
criterion for participants will
become more refined. There
are three debates scheduled.
(See page 2).
A unique twist to this election is the greater use of social
media by three of the candidates, a strategy that was credited for the first election of
Candidates
Continued on page 4
In a resolution
and brief ceremony held Mon.,
March 17, 2014,
the men and women laborers of the
historic Independent Linen Service
Company of Jackson were honored
with a city proclamation and media
conference.
Johnny
Morrow is owner of
Acting Mayor Charles Tillman, Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps,
the building that
interim communications director Jewell Davis and J.W. Ragsdale (seated),
once housed the Independent Linen Service Company former manager and WWII veteran
Johnny Morrow, owner of The Room
Independent Linen PHOTOS BY AYESHA K. MUSTAFAA
Service Company,
now called The Room, at 421 ducers coming in and telling
Woodrow Wilson Blvd., in the life story of these workers
Jackson, where he now stores and their offspring.
many historic artifacts - from
Jewell Davis, interim directhe national championship tor of communication for the
of the 1964-65 Lanier High city, read the city proclamaSchool basketball team to vin- tion, which was sponsored by
tage cars.
City Councilman De’Keither
Morrow said not only are Stamps. It read in part:
the items he has collected and
“This resolution honors the
stored at this site historic but life and legacy of the men
so is the building itself. He and women of the Indepensaid, “The company estab- dent Linen Service Company
lished in this building made it of Mississippi … under the
one of the most famous build- management of J.W. Ragsdale,
ings in the city. The workers Henry Pittman and others.
here were laborers, but their
“…The men and women
children and grandchildren of Independent Linen Serrepresent some of the most vice Company of Mississippi
recognized leaders in the his- played a pivotal role in intetory of the city and state.
grating Jackson communities
Stamps said, “I appreciate tal role in moving our city for“From the descendants of from the 1930s to the 1970s the toil and dedication of these ward from the sharecropping
these workers several gradu- and set the foundation for tran- workers. Mississippians came age to the present.
ated from Harvard, several sitioning from sharecropping from all parts of the state to
“On the backs of your hard
were judges and members of to the professional age.
the capital city to help build work, you helped build this
the city council; they were
“[We] celebrate the exem- Jackson. The sweat of your city. We appreciate your saclawyers, doctors and profes- plary spirit of hard work and brow is valued, whether you rifices put in over 50 years as
sional athletes - all raised by determination demonstrated were a manager, a towel counthe workers of this company. which serves as a beacon for ters, pressers or on the clean
Legacy of workers
We look forward to movie pro- others.”
Continued on page 5
up crew, everyone played a vi-
Photo of the Week
Jackson goes green for
St. Patrick’s Day
Churches and organizations team up
for a better, greener, cleaner Jackson
Lorenzo Shorter, a volunteer, picks up litter and trash on Greenview Drive as demolition takes place of one
of the many abandoned and derelict houses on the street.
By Peggy Hampton
Special to The Mississippi Link
Nakerria Johnson takes in all the greenery at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade through downtown
Jackson Saturday, March 15, 2014, taking a rest on a Jackson Police Department motorcycle.
Photo By Kevin Robinson
More photos on page 21
Dr. John M.
Perkins delivers
opening prayer in
Mississippi State
Senate
Page 4
Jabberwock 2014
Contestants:
An Evening of
Elegance Under the
Stars
Page 6
Obamacare
March 31
deadline rapidly
approaching
Page 7
As the city of Jackson
showed their love of green at
the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Saturday, March 15, 2014,
others went “green” in volunteering with Habitat for
Humanity to reclaim abandoned and derelict areas along
Greenview Drive.
Along with Habitat for Humanity, teamwork was formed
with New Horizon International Church, the South Jackson Pastors Association, the
Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association and the Central
Mississippi Will Graham Crusade.
The effort cleaned up areas
around Greenview Drive and
McDowell Road located in
south Jackson between Peeples Middle School and St.
Therese Catholic Church and
in close proximity to a library,
Cleaner Jackson
Continued on page 3
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PSA
March 20 - 26, 2014
LGJA Mayoral Forum
Leadership Greater Jackson Alumni Association is collaborating with Jackson 2000,
Women For Progress & Working Together Jackson will host a public forum for candidates
in the upcoming mayoral special election for Jackson (election day April 8).
The 2013 mayoral election showed exactly how important the issues facing
Mississippi’s Capital City truly are to the citizens. This Mayoral Forum will serve as an
opportunity for the organizations to present an array of questions geared to bring attention
and solutions to the blight that exists here in Jackson, while providing an opportunity
for citizens to speak out on close-to-home issues that matter to them most.
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - Forum begins promptly at 12 PM
and end promptly at 1 PM (lunch begins at 11:30)
Location: Mississippi Public Broadcasting, 3825 Ridgewood Rd., Jackson, MS 39211
Pre-Registration Cost: $15 members of 4 sponsoring organizations;
$20 for non-members (includes buffet lunch)
Cost day of event is $25 per person
Pre-purchase (pre-register) for tickets through http://www.lgja.org/
In all efforts to be non-partisan, all mayoral candidates that qualified by March 19 will be invited.
The forum will be moderated by Mike Roberts of Working Together Jackson
and will be strictly timed. LGJA invites all interested voters to attend this
forum and hear the candidates’ vision for the future of Jackson.
WAPT, Clarion Ledger and Mississippi College
School of Law schedule mayoral debate
Jackson voters will get a
chance to hear from the candidates vying to be Jackson’s next
mayor at the 16-WAPT, Clarion
Ledger and Mississippi College School of Law sponsored
debate to be held April 4, 2014.
Location and time to be announced.
The person elected mayor in
this special election will complete the term of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba who died Feb. 25
after serving eight months of his
term that started July 1, 2013.
Special Election Tuesday April 8 • Run-off Election Tuesday April 22
Special Election for Mayor of Jackson
Vote Tuesday, April 8, 2014
•Candidates for Mayor of Jackson Qualifying Petition of 50
Electors Signatures Closed March 19
•Voter Registration Before Special Election Closed March 8
•Absentee Voting Accommodations at
•City Clerk’s Office Open
•Saturday, March 29 - 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Saturday April 5 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
•Run-off Election (if no candidate gets 51% of vote) will be
held Tuesday, April 22
NO VOTER ID REQUIRED FOR THIS SPECIAL ELECTION
March 20 - 26, 2014
Cleaner Jackson
Continued from page 1
Volunteers raking leaves and clearing overgrown yards at abandoned houses
a major thoroughfare and
the stable homes on Treehaven Street.
The abandoned houses
and yards had become illegal dumping grounds.
Three of the derelict properties were also demolished.
Clean up organizers and
volunteers hoped the work
here will serve as a catalyst
for revitalization of the entire street and for a better,
greener and cleaner Jackson.
Individuals,
churches,
businesses or civic groups
interested in helping this effort should contact Habitat
for Humanity Mississippi
Capital Area, New Horizon
International Church, or the
Will Graham Central Mississippi Celebration.
To learn more about
volunteer
opportunities
with Habitat for Humanity
Mississippi Capital Area,
contact Toy Gathings, volunteer coordinator, at 601353-6060 or email [email protected]
Bishop Ronnie Crudup Sr., pastor, New Horizon Church, bags leaves in the clean-up.
Volunteer Ingrid Cloy gets in the spirit of the day to reclaim a derelict area of Jackson with a
daffodil bloom tucked under her cap.
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STATE
March 20 - 26, 2014
Candidates
President Barack Obama.
While most use the standard
website to further their campaign, Yarber, Priester and Lumumba are leaning heavily on
all forms of social media.
Yarber’s website, www.yarberformayor.com, also leads to
an online newsletter, a Facebook page, Twitter notices,
YouTube full length videotaped interviews with briefer
video clips on Instagram.
Priester’s website, www.
electmelpriester.com, leads to
his facebook page, Twitter no-
tices and video messages on
vimeo.com.
Lumumba’s website, www.
ChokweAntarForMayor.com,
leads to his facebook page,
Twitter notices, YouTube video interview (many from media outside of Jackson), and
Instagram short videos.
Catching up quickly with social media campaigning, State
Sen. John Horhn has a wordpress website, http://johnhorhn.com, which includes a link
to his facebook page, twitter
notices and YouTube video
clips.
Margaret
Barrett-Simon’s
facebook page has historical
photos but no other social media links.
Harvey Johnson Jr. has a
facebook page that resembles
his last term as mayor rather
than a fresh approach to the
current election and a Twitter
account.
A YouTube post can be found
for Regina Quinn streaming a
clip from her announcement to
run with a WAPT reporter.
Zippity Doo Dah welcomes Vietnam
veterans during March 21-22 parade
and celebration through Fondren
Gov. Bryant proclaims “Vietnam Veterans Day in Mississippi”
AG Hood represents
states at United Nations
The Mississippi Link Newswire
Attorney General Jim Hood
recently joined the United States
delegation appearing before the
United Nations Human Rights
Committee in Geneva, Switzerland.
The delegation appeared before the U.N. in Geneva March
13-14, 2014 to help the U.S.
Government address questions
regarding the implementation
of treaty obligations under the
International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR).
The delegation was led by the
State Department and included
representatives from Homeland
Security, Department of Justice, Department of Defense and
Health and Human Services.
Every member nation of the
ICCPR must update the Human
Rights Committee every four
years. This presentation was the
first at which state and local governments from the United States
were part of the delegation. The
State Department paid for the
trip.
Although the covenant covers
human rights involved in issues
such as the use of drones and
torture, many of the issues raised
by the Committee involved actions and legislation passed by
states.
Hood addressed the work being done with the ICCPR at the
state and local levels. He has
worked on a variety of areas
related to the rights in the Covenant including civil rights, election law, human trafficking and
domestic violence.
As president-elect of the National Association of Attorneys
General, Hood is an active participant in the national organization of the U.S. state attorneys
general.
Hood responded to the committee’s questions concerning
the death penalty, domestic violence, human trafficking, corporal punishment, zero tolerance in
schools, life without parole for
juvenile offenders, and reinstatement of voting rights for felons.
In his closing comments the
Committee chairperson, Sir
Nigel Rodley, noted that the
delegation spoke with a “high
level of experience and author-
Govenor Bryant welcomes Vietnam veterans to the capitol
Hood
ity,” “with eloquence, with commitment and with ideas.” He
noted that he especially appreciated the “valuable perspective”
brought to the discussion by the
participation of Hood at the state
level.
Hood kept his role in perspective by concluding, “While
listening to Sir Nigel specifically brag about my participation to his Committee members,
I looked down at my shoe and
saw a little Chickasaw County
mud on it. I guess they didn’t
know what to make of a small
town boy from Houlka, Miss.”
Gov. Phil Bryant declared
Saturday, March 22, 2014,
“Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day in Mississippi,” as he
issued a proclamation Wednesday, March 19, at the State
Capitol in the ceremonial office
with two dozen Vietnam veterans as witnesses.
The proclamation reads as:
“Whereas, many Mississippians and Americans served
with honor in the Vietnam War,
which started in the early 1960′s
and came to an end in 1975. Of
the 3,403,100 Americans who
served in the Vietnam War,
there were 58,220 casualties,
which included 636 Mississippians who paid the ultimate sacrifice; and
Whereas, of the seven 766
prisoners of war, 114 died while
captive in Vietnam and 591 returned home during Operation
Homecoming. The Vietnam
War left over 1,600 Americans
unaccounted for. Of that number, 12 Mississippians are still
listed as missing in action; and
Whereas, the largest memorial to Mississippi Vietnam veterans sits on four acres in Ocean
Springs, Mississippi. Dedicated
in 1997, the memorial presents
both the names and images of
those from the state who served
in the war, including those still
listed as missing. It is a fitting monument to the men and
women who served in Vietnam
and adds to the rich narrative of
Mississippians and the Vietnam
War; and
Whereas, in 1966 the 199th
Light Infantry Brigade at Camp
Shelby received combat training in such areas as escape and
evasion training. When the soldiers left Mississippi, the community saluted the soldiers with
an event in the Reed Green
Coliseum at the University of
Southern Mississippi; and
Whereas, today there are approximately 227,000 veterans
living in Mississippi, which includes over 70,000 who served
during the Vietnam era; and
Whereas, in recognition of
the men and women who served
with dignity and honor during
this historic time period, let us
remember them and thank them
for their service:
Now, therefore, I, Phil Bryant, Governor of the state of
Mississippi, do hereby proclaim
March 22, 2014 as “Welcome
home Vietnam Veterans Day
in Mississippi” and call upon
the people of our great state to
join me in honoring Vietnam
veterans who valiantly fought
and served our nation during
the Vietnam War and express
our gratitude to the families
and loved ones of all those who
served.”
The governor then presented
the ceremonial first pen from
the signing to James Wiley, the
veteran responsible for the effort leading to Mississippi’s
first-ever welcome home Vietnam veterans parade to be held
as part of the BancorpSouth
Zippity Doo Dah® Parade in
Fondren.
Dr. John M. Perkins
delivers opening prayer in
Mississippi State Senate
Recent release of ‘Let Justice Roll On: The Life
and Legacy of John M. Perkins’ now available
The Seattle Pacific University Newswire
John M. Perkins was born into
Mississippi poverty, the son of
a sharecropper. He fled to California when he was 17, after his
older brother was murdered by a
town marshal.
Although Perkins vowed
never to return, in 1960 after he
accepted Christ, he returned to
his boyhood home to share the
gospel of Christ with those still
living in the region. His outspoken support and leadership role
in civil rights demonstrations
resulted in repeated harassment,
imprisonment, and beatings.
Perkins is now president of
the John and Vera Mae Perkins
Foundation of Jackson. He is one
of the leading evangelical voices
to come out of the American civil
rights movement. Despite dropping out of school in the third
grade, Perkins is an author and
international speaker and teacher
on issues of racial reconciliation,
leadership, and community development.
For his tireless work, he received honorary doctorates
from Wheaton College, Gordon
College, Huntington College,
Geneva College, Spring Arbor
University, North Park College,
and Belhaven College. In 2006,
he was named distinguished visiting professor at Seattle Pacific
University.
He is the author of nine books,
including ‘A Quiet Revolution,
Let Justice Roll Down,
With Justice For All,
Beyond Charity, He’s
My Brother, Resurrecting Hope, and A Time to
Heal.’ He has written numerous chapters in other
books.
Perkins formally served
on the board of directors
of World Vision, Prison
Fellowship, National Association of Evangelicals,
Spring Arbor University,
as well as 15 other boards.
In 2004, he partnered
with Seattle Pacific University to launch the campus-based John Perkins
Center for Reconciliation,
Leadership Training, and
Community
Development.
The Center is a first-ofits-kind partnership and
what Perkins describes
as “the fulfillment of a
lifelong dream.” A new
documentary about John
M. Perkins is now available via Seattle Pacific
University. He has had
a long-term relationship
with the university since
1977.
The film trailer can be
seen and ordered at http://
www.spu.edu/depts/perkins/
trailer/video-page.asp
Dr. John M. Perkins, lead pastor and founder of the Christian Community Development Association and
the John and Vera Perkins Foundation, delivered opening prayer to the State Senate Wednesday, March
19, 2014, at the invitation of Sen. Nancy Collins, who led the Pledge of Allegiance prior to Lt. Governor Tate
Reeves calling the body to order. PHOTO COURTESY MS STATE SENATE
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Legacy of workers
workers where sometimes the
temperature in this build rose
to over 137 degrees. You have
set an example for our young
people to follow about working hard.”
Acting Mayor Charles Tillman first came to Jackson as
assistant principal of Lanier
High School. He said, “This
was a major corridor traveled
with a lot of traffic coming into
this building of people getting
off work and coming to work.
“This was good old manual
labor, and back in the day when
you put down as your employment skills as ‘laborer,’ that
was a good thing. This company existed at a time when you
worked, wiped sweat and got
the job done.”
Attending were former
workers Charlotte Davis, foreman Doug Bragsdale, Joe Denley, Bill Knott, Danny Moore
and Henry Pittman. Morrow
introduced J. W. Ragsdale,
who was manager for nearly
47 years.
Ragsdale said, “We worked
for 10 cents an hour counting soiled linen. I went to my
supervisor and asked him for
a raise and he said, ‘I’m paying you 10 cents an hour now.’
That goes to show that we have
come a long ways.
“Going through this place,
I remember the children born
to these workers. It goes to
show that these people wanted
to work. We enjoyed working
here, though it was hard work.
At one time we had over 100
people working here. We went
from two routes to 61 routes
before we had to give the company up.”
Also present was Henry Pittman, who worked 22 years at
the linen company. He said, “I
was supervisor for 15 years of
my 22 years. It was a hard job
with low pay but it was good
work.”
In commemoration of Women’s History Month, a note
about the women who worked
at these type jobs. They were
known as The Washerwomen
of Jackson, who formed the
first labor union in Mississippi
June 20, 1866, These women
sent a resolution to Jackson’s
then Mayor Barrow which
read in part:
“Dear sir, at a meeting of the
colored washerwomen of this
city … on the subject of raising the wages was considered
and the following preamble
and resolution were unanimously adopted:
“Whereas under the influence of the present high prices
of all the necessaries of life
and the attendant high rates
of rent, we, the washerwomen
of the city of Jackson, state of
Mississippi, thinking it impossible to live uprightly and honestly in laboring for the present
daily and monthly recompense
and hoping to meet with the
support of all good citizens,
join in adopting unanimously
the following resolution:
“Be it resolved by the washerwomen of this city and county, that on and after the foregoing date, we join in charging
a uniform rate for our labor,
and any one belonging to the
class of washerwomen, violating this, shall be liable to a fine
regulated by the class. We do
not wish in the least to charge
exorbitant prices but desire to
be able to live comfortably if
possible from the fruits of our
labor. We present the matter
to your Honor and hope you
will not reject it. The prices
charged are:
“$1.50 per day for washing;
$15.00 per month for family
washing; $10.00 per month for
single individuals. We ask you
to consider the matter in our
behalf and should you deem
it just and right, your sanction of the movement will be
gratefully received. Yours very
truly, The Washerwomen of
Jackson.”
The brave women are featured in the book “We Are
Your Sisters: Women in the
Nineteenth Century” edited
by Dorothy Sterling and Mary
Helen Washington, available
at www.amazon.com.
Former workers at the famed Independent Linen Service Company of Mississippi Henry Pittman, Danny
Moore, Bill Knott, Joe Denley, Doug Bragsdale, Rossie Hill fiancée of worker Charlotte Davis and seated J.
W. Ragsdale. PHOTOS BY AYESHA K. MUSTAFAA
Current building owner Johnny Morrow (Right) renamed the facility The Room, where he houses historical
artifacts on one side and offers a spacious meeting room on the other. Above and below, Morrow and his
friend Louis Tucker, pose with cars in his vintage collection also housed at this location.
Dear Friends,
I hope you’re as excited as I am for what our grassroots movement can accomplish for the Citizens of Jackson in the next three years. The People’s Platform is not just a catchy phrase or vision, it is a tangible plan that has already proven to bring positive change to our great city. Within
the principles of The People’s Platform, we fundamentally believe that if we give the people the
right information and an opportunity to make a decision, they will make the best decision. The
91% passage rate of the local sales option referendum is a genuine reflection of this philosophy.
We all have the power to change Jackson if we work together to get it done -- and that belief is at
the core of our campaign. For we are “One City. One Aim. One Destiny”.
But for the most part, the direction our work takes will be completely in your hands -- together,
we can and will make Jackson rise and reach its potential as the capital city of Mississippi. We
need your help to make that a reality.
Please send me a message on Facebook at the “Elect Chokwe Lumumba” page, email me at
[email protected], or call The People’s Campaign headquarters at 601.362.0029
if you want to get involved. If you have a specific interest, such as door-to-door canvassing, or
making calls -- let us know. Join the People’s Movement and volunteer today!
Being entrusted as a leader is a sacred responsibility. Leading means understanding that when
you hold office, you hold it to the best of your ability for the people, not for the promise of 4 more
years. Jackson doesn’t need a politician. Jackson needs an Advocate.
Thanks,
Atty. Chokwe Antar Lumumba
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Little Miss Jabberwock contestants
Junior Miss Jabberwock contestants
Zakyla Fuller, a 4th grade student at
Eastside Elementary School and the
daughter of Kelvin and Zabrina Fuller.
Syeira N. Williams, a 2nd grade
student at Davis Magnet and the
daughter of Michael and Sarita
Williams.
Kalyn S. Mitchell, an 8th grade
student at Siwell Middle School and
the daughter of Jeanna M. Mitchell.
Treasure L. Fisher, an 8th grade
student at Byram Middle School and
the daughter of Winford and Smeadie
Fisher.
Jamiecia B. Madison, an 8th grade
student at Siwell Middle School and
the daughter of Jamie and Onnie
Madison.
Jabberwock 2014
A n Ev e n i n g o f El e g a n c e U n d e r t h e S t a r s
The Jackson (MS)
Alumnae Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority,
Incorporated, will present
its Jabberwock Pageant
Saturday, April 5, 2014, at 6
p.m. in the Rose E. McCoy
Auditorium on the campus
of Jackson State University.
Jabberwock 2014: An
Evening of Elegance Under
the Stars, will present 14
of the metro area’s most
promising young ladies, as
they vie for the title of Little
Miss Jabberwock, Junior
Miss Jabberwock and
Miss Jabberwock during
the evening pageant and
production.
Since 1925, Jabberwock
has been presented
nationally by Delta
Incorporated, to raise
scholarship funds. Jackson
(MS) Alumnae Chapter has
a strong and consistent
history of supporting
higher education in the
metro Jackson area.
The Chapter awards book
stipends to high school
seniors in Jackson Public
Schools and Rankin County
High Schools, and the
chapter also awards annual
scholarships at Jackson
State University and
Tougaloo College.
Additionally, contributions
are made each year to the
United Negro College Fund
to benefit Mississippi’s two
UNCF institutions. Funds
contributed by the sorority
have significantly impacted
the lives of hundreds of
students in the metro
Jackson area.
The idea of the
Jabberwock comes from
the poem told by Lewis
Carroll in his famous book,
Alice in Wonderland. The
Jabberwock, a mythical
character, called together
the members of his
kingdom at least once
a year to put on a show.
In a like manner, Delta
Incorporated calls its
members and friends
together to enjoy an
evening of pageantry and
entertainment.
The memories of
Jabberwock 2014: An
Evening of Elegance Under
the Stars will last forever,
and the public is invited
to attend. Tickets are $15
and can be purchased at
the door. For tickets and
additional information,
contact Julia Crockett,
President of the Jackson MS
Alumnae Chapter, at (601)
966-8668, or Winna Hyche,
Chair of the Special Projects
Committee, at (601) 6720682.
Miss Jabberwock contestants
Keaundra N. Gavin, an 11th grade
student at Murrah High School and
the daughter of Stephen and Angela
Gavin.
Demadria G. Davis, a 10th grade
student at Terry High School and the
daughter of Nakisha Davis.
Taylor M. Hodge, a 12th grade
student at Jackson Academy and the
daughter of Luigia Hodge and Kevin
Hodge.
Verlondrea R. Austin, a 9th grade
student at Northwest Rankin High
School and the daughter of Valtressia
B. Givens and Henry Lee Austin.
Brionna L. Wicks, an 11th grade
student at Murrah High School and the
daughter of Darryl and Pearl Wicks.
Caitlin R. Richmond, an 11th grade
student at Clinton High School and
the daughter of Timothy Sr. and Cybil
Matthew.
Raven T. Sampson, a 12th grade
student at Murrah High School and
the daughter of Rufus and Jossellyn
Sampson, Jr.
Kyla L. Manning, a 10th grade
student at Raymond High School and
the daughter of Loyd and Kakeyla S.
Manning.
Jerriah A. Knight, an 11th grade
student at Raymond High School and
the daughter of Tramell Weeks and
Jerry A. Knight.
NATIONAL
March 20 - 26, 2014
Obamacare March 31
deadline rapidly approaching
With just a few weeks left until the
Obamacare open enrollment deadline, Mississippi residents should be
aware of the free mobile outreach and
enrollment campaign.
The health and well-being company Humana has already helped
20,000 Mississippians sign up for the
Health Insurance Marketplace since
the tour’s inception in November
2013.
To provide Jackson residents with
information and assistance enrolling
in the Health Insurance Marketplace
prior to the March 31, 2014 deadline,
Humana will have certified agents
available Saturday, March 22, 10
a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson
Avenue.
For more information, call (855)
784-3605 or visit www.Mississippilink.com. Watch “Mississippi Shares:
My Humana Story”
Following is the viewing schedule:
Jackson (WDBD/FOX) - Saturday,
March 22, 9:30 p.m.-10 p.m. and Saturday, March 29, 1 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Jackson (WAPT/ABC) - Saturday,
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Malaysia, fbi analyze
missing pilot’s simulator
By Ian Mader
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
- The FBI is helping Malaysian
authorities investigate deleted
data on a flight simulator belonging to the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane,
while distraught relatives of the
passengers unleashed their anger Wednesday, March 19, wailing in frustration at 12 days of
uncertainty.
The anguish of relatives of
the 239 people on Flight 370
boiled over at a briefing near
Kuala Lumpur’s airport. Two
Chinese women who shouted
at Malaysian authorities and
unfurled a banner accusing officials of “hiding the truth”
were removed from the room.
In a heart-wrenching scene, one
woman screamed in sorrow as
she was dragged away.
“I want you to help me to find
my son! I want to see my son!”
one of the two unidentified
women said. “We have been
here for 10 days.”
Files containing records of
flight simulations were deleted
Feb. 3 from the device found
in the home of the Malaysia
Airlines pilot, Capt. Zaharie
Ahmad Shah, Malaysian police
chief Khalid Abu said.
It was not immediately clear
whether investigators thought
that deleting the files was unusual. The files might hold signs
of unusual flight paths that could
help explain where the missing
plane went.
Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news
conference that Zaharie is considered innocent until proven
guilty. He said members of the
pilot’s family are cooperating in
the investigation.
A U.S. official, speaking on
condition of anonymity because
the official was not authorized
to discuss the ongoing investigation by name, said the FBI
has been given electronic data
to analyze.
U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder said in Washington that
the FBI was working with Malaysian authorities.
“At this point, I don’t think
we have any theories,” Holder
said.
Flight 370 disappeared March
8 on a night flight from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian
authorities have not ruled out
any possible explanations, but
have said the evidence so far
suggests the flight was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with
its communications systems
disabled. They are unsure what
happened next and why.
Investigators have identified
two giant arcs of territory spanning the possible positions of
the plane about 7½ hours after
takeoff, based on its last faint
signal to a satellite - an hourly
“handshake” signal that continues even when communica-
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tions are switched off. The arcs
stretch up as far as Kazakhstan
in central Asia and down deep
into the southern Indian Ocean.
Police are considering the
possibility of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related
to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board,
and have asked for background
checks from abroad on all foreign passengers.
Hishammuddin said such
checks have been received for
all the foreigners except those
from Ukraine and Russia which account for three passengers. “So far, no information of
significance on any passengers
has been found,” he said.
The 53-year-old pilot joined
Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and
had more than 18,000 hours of
flight experience. People who
knew Zaharie from his involvement in opposition political circles in Malaysia and other areas
of his life have described him
as sociable, humble, caring and
dedicated to his job.
The crisis has exposed the
lack of a failsafe way of tracking modern passenger planes
on which data transmission systems and transponders - which
make them visible to civilian
radar - have been severed. At
enormous cost, 26 countries are
helping Malaysia look for the
plane.
Relatives of passengers on the
missing airliner - two-thirds of
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them from China
- have grown increasingly angry
over the lack of
progress in the
search.
Planes
sweeping
vast
expanses of the
Indian Ocean and
satellites peering A Chinese relative of a passenger aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane is carried
on Central Asia out by security officials as she protests before a press conference at a hotel in Sepang,
have turned up no Malaysia, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian
new clues.
investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missAt a hotel near ing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size
the Kuala Lumpur of Australia. AP Photo/Vincent Thian
airport, one of the
without being detected by miliChinese women who was re- Subaramaniam said.
Hishamuddin said a delega- tary radar systems of the counmoved from the room displayed
a banner that said, in part, “We tion of Malaysian government tries in that region.
Indonesian Defense Minisare against the Malaysian gov- officials, diplomats, air force
ernment for hiding the truth.” and civil aviation officials will ter Purnomo Yusgiantoro said
She later expressed frustration head to Beijing - where many Indonesia military radar didn’t
of the passengers’ relatives are pick up any signs of Flight 370
with officials.
“We launch our demands ev- gathered - to brief the next of on the day the plane went missing. He said Malaysia had asked
ery day but to no answer, and kin on the status of the search.
Aircraft from Australia, Indonesia to intensify the search
they tell me to come back the
next day,” she said. “No answer, the U.S. and New Zealand in its assigned zone in the Indian
searched an area stretching Ocean west of Sumatra, but said
every day.”
The father of passenger Push- across 305,000 square kilome- his air force was strained in the
panathan Subramaniam said in ters (117,000 square miles) of task.
“We will do our utmost. We
an interview that the wait was the Indian Ocean, about 2,600
kilometers (1,600 miles) south- will do our best. But you do
“really too much.”
“I don’t know why it is tak- west of Perth, on Australia’s have to understand our limitaing so long for so many people west coast. Merchant ships were tions,” Purnomo said.
Associated Press writers Eric
to find the plane. It’s 12 days,” also asked to look for any trace
Tucker in Washington, Rod Mcsaid 60-year-old Subaramaniam of the plane.
China has said it was review- Guirk, Satish Cheney and Chris
Gurusamy from his home on the
outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. His ing radar data and deployed 21 Brummitt in Kuala Lumpur,
34-year-old son, Pushpanathan, satellites to search the northern Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Inwas on the flight to Beijing for corridor, although it is consid- donesia, and Kristen Gelineau
ered less likely that the plane in Sydney, Australia, contriba work trip.
“He’s the one son I have,” could have taken that route uted to this report.
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March 20 - 26, 2014
Callaway wins third JPS students
served as pages for
state basketball
Mississippi senator
title in a row
Callaway defeated Vicksburg 49-33 for the Class 5A
MHSAA Boys Basketball title
March 14, 2014, at the Missis-
sippi Coliseum.
Junior, Malik Newman, led
the Chargers in scoring with 25
points and was named the Most
Valuable Player of the Game.
The team ended a nearly perfect season with a 32-1 record.
David Sanders is the firstyear head coach of the basketball team.
Name
Position
Grade
0 Keigan Haley
2 Cortez Mitchell
4 Dayall Harris
5 Dontelius Ross
10 Decardo Day
11 Marcus Summerville
12 Jamal Bolden
13 Bakari Conley
14 Malik Newman
20 Damian Moore
25 Chris Green
32 Dietrich Taylor
34 Javious Bardney
35 Mario Kegler
Small Forward
Shooting Guard
Small Forward
Point Guard
Point Guard, Guard
Guard
Small Forward
Guard
Point Guard, Shooting Guard
Center
Forward
Forward
Center
Small Forward
Junior
Senior
Senior
Senior
Sophomore
Sophomore
Sophomore
Senior
Junior
Freshman
Senior
Senior
Sophomore
Sophomore
Three JPS students served
as senate pages for one week
during the 2014 legislative
session. Doneisha M. Jenkins, Ronza J. Anderson Jr.,
and Creda D. Morgan, all of
Jackson, attend schools in
District 28 represented by
Mississippi Senator Sollie
Norwood.
The opportunity gives
pages an opportunity to learn
state government works.
Their duties usually include
running errands for officials
and Senate staff.
Each page is pictured with
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and
Sen. Norwood.
Ronza Anderson is the son
of Ronza and Patricia Anderson and attends Provine High
School. “Being a page in the
Senate has given me the opportunity to see how the legislature is run, and it gave me
the opportunity to meet all 52
senators,” commented Ronza.
Doneisha Jenkins is the
daughter of Jimmy and Rekesha Gholar and attends Lanier High School. When asked
about the week, Doneisha
said, “If there’s one thing I
learned in my week as a page,
it’s this: we can’t help everyone, but everyone can help
someone.”
Creda Morgan is the daughter of Craig D. Morgan and
Greda K. Morgan and attends
Jim Hill High School. “The
experience we all shared at
the Capitol over the course
of this week will be everlasting,” she said.
Anderson, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Sen. Sollie Norwood
Jenkins
Morgan
Watkins Elementary School
establishes new honor society chapter
On Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014,
Watkins inducted 31 students in
grades fourth and fifth into the
National Elementary Honor Society (NEHS). This is Watkins
Elementary School’s first NEHS
chapter. It is one of three JPS
elementary schools to join this
national student recognition program.
The National Elementary
Honor Society joins the National
Honor Society and the National
Junior Honor Society as the nation’s premier organizations recognizing outstanding students
who demonstrate excellence in
the areas of scholarship, responsibility, leadership, service, citizenship, and character.
Chapter advisors are Stephanie E. Wilson and Shante LoweSanders. Dr. Josie Blake is the
principal of Watkins Elementary.
2014 Watkins Elementary
NEHS Inductees
Fourth Grade
• Solomon Blackmon
• Reggie Bonds
• Amori Carter
• Jersie Chambers
• Shemar Devine
• Jacob Grayson
• Shakell James
• Marcell Jones
• Zakiyya Jones
• Jamecia Kency
• Mya Kennedy
• JaMorris Lewis
• Zakiya Lowe
• Mackenzie Patterson
• Derrick Patton
• Tyler Powe
• Shamyah Turner
• Reginald Weary
• Deshunti Webster
Watkins National Elementary Honor Society inductees
taking the ceremonial oath
Honor Society inductee accepts her certificate from
Principal Dr. Josie Blake
Fifth Grade
• Jadon Bethany
• Samunique Blackmon
• Richara Bryant
• Joshua Carter
• Sevion Devine
• Madison Eubanks
•
•
•
•
•
•
Kariah Evans
Kennedy Hobbs
Amaya Rogers
Romond Stiff
India Watkins
Tralicia Willlingham
A WARNING OF THINGS TO COME?
Such non-melanoma cancers
as basal cell carcinoma and
squamous cell carcinoma affect
about one million Americans
annually,
according
to
the
American Cancer Society. While
these other forms of skin cancer
are generally less likely to be
fatal, they may be a warning sign
of more serious things to come.
According to recent research,
individuals who have had the other
form of skin cancer have double
the risk of developing other types
of cancers. This increased risk,
which is especially pronounced
in younger people, suggests
that those who get these lessserious forms of skin cancer may
generally be more cancer-prone.
That is, some people may have
a genetic predisposition to skin
cancer that may also be linked to
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If you or a family member is
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told to have radiation therapy or
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EDUCATION
Women’s History Month Salute…
JSU alumnae highlights for
Women’s History Month
Katina Rankin
Rankin
Name: Katina Rankin
Graduation Year: 1997
Major: broadcast journalism
Current Residency: Metro area in Mississippi
Current Employment Status: Weekend Morning anchor at WLBT-TV3
Favorite quote: “The
temple of truth is within
your soul, you know the answer to every question, you
just need to listen to yourself in silence.”
During her journalism
career, Katina has covered
everything from the Mississippi murder trials of
Byron De La Beckwith and
Sam Bowers to the Space
Shuttle Columbia disaster
in Texas.
She also interviewed notable figures and broke many
stories in the Lacrosse rape
investigation at Duke University in North Carolina.
Katina’s daily reports about
the impact of Hurricane Katrina included an in-depth
interview with Mississippi
Governor Haley Barbour.
Katina has also interviewed
former NAACP president
Myrlie Evers, presidential
candidate John Edwards,
the late Rosa Parks, the
Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev.
Al Sharpton, basketball
greats Magic Johnson and
Charles Barkley, and blues
legend B.B. King. Katina
also distinguished herself as
a journalist by earning several awards.
Espy, former agriculture
secretary and U.S.
congressman, first ‘Scholarin-Residence’ for Institute
of Government
The Mississippi
Link Newswire
Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary
Mike Espy will be
featured in the first
“Scholar-in-Residence” Symposium
sponsored by Jackson State University’s Institute of
Government in collaboration with the
College of Liberal
Arts and the College
of Public Service.
Espy, also a former U.S. congressman, will lead discussions March 27 Espy
in the Mississippi
Public Broadcasting auditorium,
located at Universities Center at
3825 Ridgewood Road.
“Mike Espy has a wealth of
political and government knowledge to share with the institute’s
audience. His public service career spans local, state and federal government,” said Dr. Otha
Burton, executive director of the
Institute of Government.
Espy currently has his own
firms, Mike Espy PLLC and AE
Agritrade, Inc. He also serves as
counsel to Morgan & Morgan
PLLC, the nation’s largest plaintiff’s law firm, and as county
attorney for Madison County,
Miss.
Espy was elected as the first
African-American U.S. congressman from Mississippi since
the Reconstruction era, serving
from 1986 to 1993. President
Bill Clinton appointed Espy as
agriculture secretary in 1993.
Before his federal service, Espy
was an assistant Mississippi attorney general and assistant secretary of state.
Espy received his bachelor’s
degree from Howard University and his law degree from
the University of Santa Clara in
California.
The topic of the March 27
event, to be held from 6 p.m. to
8 p.m., is “Reflections: 20 Years
a Public Servant.” The panelists
are former Clinton Mayor Rosemary Aultman, State Rep. Lataisha Jackson, Cassio Battest of
JSU’s Urban and Regional Planning and Dr. Julie Schroeder,
an associate professor in JSU’s
School of Social Work.
The facilitator is Sylvester
Murray, visiting professor of
public policy and administration.
March 20 - 26, 2014
Towner, Hyde-Smith and Paige to
headline Small Farmers Conference
Dr. Valmadge T. Towner,
president of Coahoma Community College and superintendent of the Agricultural High
School, Coahoma, Miss., Commissioner of Agriculture and
Commerce Cindy-Hyde Smith,
and Dr. Raygene Paige, retired
assistant director for Mississippi State University Extension
Service, will serve as keynote
speakers for the 23rd annual
Small Farmers Conference slated for March 24-26, 2014, at
the Jackson Convention Complex in Jackson.
Congressman
Bennie
Thompson and Senator Thad
Cochran are invited guests at
the convening of the conference. Towner will be the keynote luncheon speaker at noon
Monday, March 24. Paige will
address the audience at the Cooperative Extension Centennial Banquet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25. Commissioner
Hyde-Smith will serve as luncheon speaker at the closing
session Wednesday, March 26,
at 12 noon.
A highlight of the conference
will be the observance of the
100th Year Anniversary of the
Cooperative Extension System.
During the Cooperative Extension Centennial Banquet, the
McDonald siblings - Georgia
Wright, 99, Major McDonald,
98, Ozola Eichelberger, 95,
and Mildred Bell, 94 - will be
honored for their family’s rich
farming legacy. The event will
also honor the farmer of the
year, woman in business and
cooperative of the year.
Other highlights include a
learning sites tour that will feature livestock husbandry, vegetable production and marketing,
women in business, asset building and a conservation farm
tour Tuesday, March 25.
“The livestock husbandry
learning site will primarily focus on the benefits of estrus
synchronization and artificial
insemination for small herds
and herd health practices for
meat goats and beef cattle,” explained Dr. Gregory Reed, conference chair.
“Participants attending the
vegetable production site will
gain knowledge on beekeeping
as an alternative enterprise, will
be exposed to the basics of organic gardening and will learn
how to market value added
products at farmers markets.
The women in business and
asset building site will provide
hands-on instructions for business plan development and
creating wealth from small
businesses. The final site is the
conservation farm tour which
will showcase new and innovative farm practices on local
farms in Rankin County. Participants will increase their knowledge on high tunnel vegetable
production and grazing systems
for livestock which will be led
by the USDA Natural Resource
Conservation Service.”
Dr. Valmage T. Towner became the fifth president of Coahoma Community College
and the ninth superintendent of
the Agricultural High School in
2013. Towner took the leadership of the college, having held
numerous administrative and
educational positions. Earlier
in his career, Towner served as
a mathematics teacher, ACT
and algebra tutor, head baseball coach and assistant football
coach at Coahoma Community
College, and adjunct mathematics professor at LemoyneOwen College. Towner served
Quitman County Schools as a
principal and superintendent.
Dr. Raygene C. Paige retired
from Mississippi State University in July 2000 where she
served as assistant director for
Alcorn State University is a premier comprehensive land-grant university that develops diverse students into globally competitive leaders, and applies scientific research through collaborative partnerships that benefit the surrounding communities, state, nation, and world.
MSU Extension Service. She
began her career as an extension agent and became the first
African-American
district program
leader, and later
the first AfricanAmerican state
home economics
program
leader.
During
her nearly 40
years of service
with the university she received
many awards and
recognitions including the prestigious Epsilon
Sigma Phi Ruby
Award (the highest award given
to an Extension
employee
by
peers). Paige was
the first AfricanAmerican
and
the only Mississippian to receive
this honor.
Mississippi
voters
elected
Cindy
HydeSmith commissioner of Agriculture
and
Commerce
in
November 2011,
following a 12year career as a
Mississippi State
Senator for District 39. With her
election, HydeSmith made Mississippi history as
the first woman
to ever be elected to the statewide
position.
Elected to the
Mississippi State
Senate in 1999,
Hyde-Smith
quickly became
known as a passionate advocate
for farmers and
ranchers in Mississippi, serving
as the chairman
of the Agriculture Committee
for eight years
and as an influential member of
numerous other
committees. During her time in
office,
HydeSmith authored
legislation
and
supported efforts
to promote and
protect all facets
of the agriculture
industry, defending private property rights, endorsing Right to
Farm legislation,
and working to
increase Countryof-Origin labeling requirements.
Also,
HydeSmith earned the
highest grade for
a strong pro-business and fiscally
conservative voting record from
the Business and
Industry Political
Education Committee.
For more information and to
register for the conference, visit
www.smallfarmersconference.
org or contact Alcorn Extension
at (601) 877-6128.
March 20 - 26, 2014
Message from the Religion Editor
W o men ’ s H i s t o r y M o n t h S a l u t e …
Black women who helped make America great
In the past two weeks, the
names of six black women who
helped to make America great
have been shared. These women
of African descent were Hattie
McDaniel, Fannie Lou Hamer,
Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth,
Vivian Malone Jones, and Harriett Tubman. These women, who
deserve the distinction of being
at the top of the list for Women’s
History Month, are just a few of
the legendary females whose
work is admired among generations. Their perseverance and
God’s guiding hand helped them
to achieve what many thought was
the non-accomplishable. They are
black women who helped to advance our nation under the most
challenging of circumstances.
More are being shared this week.
7) Elizabeth Eckford
A member of the Little Rock
Nine, Elizabeth Eckford was one
of nine high school students who
integrated Central High School
in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. On
Eckford
Bethune
the tumultuous day, racist white
crowds accosted Eckford and the
rest of the teens, making their first
day of school one of the worst
educational experiences any child
could ever have. But what puts
Eckford on this list is her steely resolve. She was as solid as a rock.
8) Mary McLeod Bethune
How many women, of any race,
will be able to say that they founded a nationally recognized university that flourished well after
their death? Mary McLeod Bet-
Winfrey
hune is one of them. Like many
universities founded not too long
after slavery, Bethune CookmanUniversity began as a school that
taught basic math and reading and
eventually grew into a college
over the years.
Now the university has a sizable sports program, a graduate
school and thousands of alumni
who have Bethune to thank for
their upwardly mobile careers and
lifestyles.
9) Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey will always be
remembered for having the strongest grip on white female television viewers ever. A dark-skinned
black woman who struggled with
fluctuating weight issues defied
the stereotypical notions of what it
takes to dominate prime-time television. There are very few people,
of any color, who can make an
up-and-coming author or business
person an instant millionaire just
by saying of their product, “I like
it.” Now that’s power.
Best-selling author Shirer hosted by NJC
LifeWay Christian Resources is
slated to simulcast Bible teacher
and best-selling author Priscilla
Shirer live from New Orleans on
April 5. New Jerusalem Church,
1285 Raymond Road, Jackson, is
serving as a host location.
Priscilla Shirer Live, sponsored
by Nashville-based publishing
company LifeWay Christian Resources, will feature Shirer’s dynamic storytelling and passionate
Bible teaching.
“She made the Bible come
alive,” event attendee Glynnis
Childress said. “To have a speaker
not lecture but just have a conversation with you was enjoyable.”
The event, which also features
a unique prayer time, both challenges and encourages women to
grow deeply in their faith.
Shirer has authored a number of
published Bible studies, books, and
devotionals specifically for women including LifeWay-published
Bible studies such as Gideon: Your
Weakness. God’s Strength, Jonah:
Navigating a Life Interrupted, and
N
ews
Discerning the Voice of God. Shirer’s organization, Going Beyond
Ministries, is based out of Dallas.
A communications major in college, Shirer planned to be a TV
news anchor but God had other
ideas. While interning at a Christian radio station in Houston, she
began to receive invitations to do
Bible studies at small women’s
events. At only 18 she shared the
simple truths of Scripture that she
was studying during her quiet
time, and she’s been in full-time
ministry ever since.
Shirer’s ministry is focused
on the expository teaching of the
Word of God. Her desire is to see
women come to a full understanding of who they are in Christ by
hearing the uncompromising truth
of Scripture.
Recording artist Anthony Evans, who also happens to be Shirer’s younger brother, is slated to
lead worship for the event.
Evans was recently featured on
NBC’s reality show The Voice. For
nearly a decade, Evans has voiced
the Gospel with such a melodic,
f
r
o
m
thought-provoking style that he
has immerged as one of Christian
music’s premiere male vocalists
and worship leaders. With five solo
projects and two music videos, Evans’ crossover music has vibrated
the doors of the church and ventured beyond.
The Priscilla Shirer Live Simulcast kicks off Saturday, April 5,
2014, at 8 a.m. and ends at 4:30
p.m. Doors for this free event will
open at 7:15 a.m. Saturday will be
one full day of music and worship;
sessions led by Shirer; and opportunities for fellowship with other
women from our community.
LifeWay Women’s Events is a
trusted source for biblical events
and training. Each year, more than
100,000 women participate in the
events held throughout the country. LifeWay Christian Resources,
established in 1891 in Nashville,
is one of the world’s largest providers of Christian products and
services, including Bibles, church
literature, books, music, audio and
video recordings, church supplies
and Internet services through Life-
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Way.com. The company owns and
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company is a nonprofit organization that reinvests income above
operating expenses in mission
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the world.
For additional information, visit
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To register for the Priscilla
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W
o
r
d
The need for bad things to happen to God’s people
By Rev. Leon Collier
In last week’s
study, we ended
with discussion
about a love that
is fully developed.
This is what God
wants for His
people and the way to get us to this
point, God often permits testing
and affliction.
Remember, Peter had love for
Jesus, but when Jesus was on trial
and the pressure was on Peter, he
discovered that his love was not
fully developed. In John 21:17, Jesus asked Peter for the third time,
do you love Me?
There are things I’d like for you
notice about this verse: the first one
is that Peter said Lord, you know
that I love you. In other words,
Lord I can’t trick you. You know
exactly how much I love you.
Peter’s love had risen to the point
to where now if he was put in the
same situation as before this time
he would not deny Christ but he
would be willing to die for Christ.
The second thing in this verse is
that after Peter said he loved Jesus
the Lord responded, feed my sheep.
When you develop your love for
God you will pour into the lives of
others and this is exactly what God
wants. So, if he has to use trouble
to help you develop your love for
Him then that is exactly what God
will do so that your life will become a blessing to others.
Genesis 50:18-19 reads: “His
brothers also came and fell down
before him, and said, behold, we
are your servants. But Joseph said
to them, “Fear not, for am I in the
place of God?”
By the way, notice in Genesis
50:18, Joseph’s brothers fell down
before him and cried they were his
servants, but in verse 19 Joseph
replied, Am I in the place of God?
No matter how high rise you in this
life you can never be in the place of
God. Joseph let his brothers know
that although they did him wrong
yet it was not his place to try to get
even with them.
Romans 12:19, “Don’t seek
to get revenge, but give place to
God’s wrath. For it is written, vengeance belongs to me; I will repay,
says the Lord.” No matter how bad
a person has treated you, it’s not
your place to pay them back…that
is God’s place because He is the
perfect Judge and judges rightly
without hypocrisy.
Joseph’s place was not to judge
his brothers and try to get even with
them. His place was to not judge
them, but help them. Your place is
not to judge your enemies but to
love them and even help them if
the Lord permits. This is why Jesus
said in Matthew 5:44, “Love your
enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully
use you, and persecute you.”
It’s never right to try to get even.
A female rapper back in the 80s and
90s called Sister Soldier once said:
“Two wrongs don’t make it right,
but it sure makes it.” She indirectly
admitted that it’s not our place to
try to get revenge and she is right.
Two wrongs don’t make it right because both are wrong!
Once again Genesis 50:19 says,
“…Fear not, for am I in the place of
God?” Remember Joseph used to
be his father’s favorite son and he
was a watchman over them for his
father. During that time he probably felt like his place was above his
brothers because he was without a
doubt his father’s favorite son, but
after Joseph’s troubles and afflictions, he found his true place. His
place was to prepare a place for his
brothers. His place was to prepare
food so people from around the
world could come and get nourishment during a time of famine.
Genesis 41:57, “All the earth came
to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over
all the earth.”
Joseph found his ultimate place
of service in the king’s court, but
keep in mind had he not been sold
into slavery by his brothers he
would have missed his ultimate
place in God. Your enemies and
problems actually benefit you because they help steer you in the
direction of your ultimate place in
God.
Ron Carpenter, the author of The
Necessity of An Enemy asked the
question of who was a friend to
Jesus? Was it Peter who told Jesus not to go to Jerusalem if His
enemies planned on killing him or
was Judas a better friend to Jesus
because he actually delivered Jesus
into His enemies hands to be crucified?
Judas is viewed as a betrayer,
but he was actually a benefit disguise, because no matter what Judas’s intentions were all he did was
help Jesus get to His ultimate place
which was the cross at Calvary.
Remember Matthew 4:5 says,
“…the devil took Him up into the
holy city, set Him on the pinnacle
of the temple…” The Devil, who is
Jesus’ worst enemy, took Him up
and the Devil placed Jesus up on
the highest point of the Temple. Is
not Jesus the head of the Church?
So, all Satan did was escort Jesus
to His rightful place.
Never fool yourself into thinking that people can keep you from
reaching your destiny. Only you
can do that. As long as you trust
God He can use your worst enemy
to help thrust you to your destiny.
Genesis 50:20, “As for you, you
By Daphne Higgins
Religion Editor
So far, each
editorial that I’ve
shared with you
this month has
been in celebration of Women’s
History month. As
you know, many African American female pioneers are celebrated
because of their contributions as
leaders (sometimes unintentional) among a race of people once
thought to be insignificant.
Just like our editorial partners,
NewsOne Magazine, The Mississippi Link would like to join in the celebration of Women’s History Month
by highlighting a few women; but
our recognition is probably a list of
names that may not be familiar.
In my research to provide you
with outstanding women whose
stories are often overlooked, I came
across two women who were beacons of light in the race for equality but whose names are not as
well known as Harriett Tubman,
Sojourner Truth, Patricia Harris,
Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King,
Oprah, or Michelle Obama.
These stories may be viewed on
the website: http://womenshistory.
about.com. Their lives are extraordinary and the lessons learned from
each of them are life-long for not
only Christian women of color, but
for all women.
Old Elizabeth, an emancipated
slave who wrote and published an
autobiography, was a preacher and
writer. Her story “Memoir of Old
Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman” was
published in 1863, when she was 97
years old. Also known as Elizabeth,
the author was born a slave in 1766
in Maryland. Her parents were also
slaves. Her father could read and
would frequently read to her from
the Bible, but Elizabeth remained
illiterate. At age eleven, Elizabeth
was sold to a new owner who lived
some miles from her family. Elizabeth was lashed for returning to
visit her mother, and it was after this
that she received a spiritual call to
become an evangelist. After a short
time of being reunited with her
mother, Elizabeth was sold again.
Her religious visions continued. A
fourth owner freed her in her 30s;
he did not believe in slavery for life.
At the age of 42, while in Baltimore,
Elizabeth began a career as a religious evangelist. While following
her call to preach, she was discouraged from doing so, especially by
men who did not believe that women were permitted by the Bible to be
preachers. She traveled to Virginia,
and as far as Canada. She often had
a warmer reception by Quakers than
by others. At the age of 80, Elizabeth moved to Michigan, and during
her four years there, founded an orphanage for black children, getting
around opposition by staffing it with
white teachers. At 87, she moved
to Philadelphia where, in 1863, she
published her autobiographical account. Elizabeth died in 1867 and
the book was republished by Quakmeant evil against me; but God meant
it for good, to bring it about that many
people should be kept alive, as they are
today.”
Every place after the pit was a promotion although Joseph was a slave.
Notice also that each place where Joseph served there was someone around
him who had connections with the
king (Pharaoh). Potiphar was a high
chief officer of Pharaoh. While Joseph was in prison the cook and cup
bearer were employees of Pharaoh.
These people had connections to the
King and Joseph would be connected
to the King someday. So, although Joseph was a slave and even a prisoner
at one point he yet rubbed shoulders
with people who were connected with
the king.
So, Joseph was already promoted,
but God had not manifested it yet.
Look at it this way. When Joseph was
thrown into the pit, the pit was his inauguration or better yet, his graduation
towards greater things. Before the pit
he was a watchman over his brothers,
but after the pit he became the watch-
ers, re-titled “Elizabeth, A Colored
Minister of the Gospel, Born in
Slavery.”
Henriette Delille, known for
founding an African American religious order in New Orleans, was
born in New Orleans in 1813. Her
father was a white man and her
mother a “free person of color,”
of mixed race. Both were Roman
Catholics. Her parents could not be
married under Louisiana law, but
the arrangement was common in
Creole society. Delille was influenced by Sister Marthe Fontier, who
opened a school in New Orleans for
girls of color. Delille refused to follow the practice of her mother and
two siblings and identify as white,
and she also defied her mother to
work with slaves, nonwhites, and
whites among the poor of New Orleans. Delille worked within church
institutions, but when she tried to
become a postulant, she was refused
by both Ursuline and Carmelite orders because of her color. If she’d
passed for white, she most likely
would have been admitted. With
friend Juliette Gaudin, also a free
person of color, Delille established
a home for the elderly and bought
a house to teach religion, serving
nonwhites. In teaching non-whites,
she defied the law against educating
non-whites. With Gaudin and another free person of color, Josephine
Charles, Delille founded a sisterhood, Sisters of the Holy Family.
They provided nursing care and a
home for orphans. They took vows
before Pere Rousselon, a white
French immigrant, in 1852, and adopted a plain religious habit. Delille
lived until 1862. After her death, the
order grew from the 12 members it
included at the end of her lifetime
to a peak of 400 in the 1950s. As
with many Roman Catholic orders,
the number of sisters dwindled after
that and the average age increased
significantly, as fewer young women entered. In the 1960s, the sisters
of the order began exploring canonization of Delille. They formally
opened their cause with the Vatican
in 1989. In 2001, Lifetime cable
premiered a movie about Delille,
The Courage to Love. The project
was promoted by and starred Vanessa Williams.
Throughout this month, you
have been blessed with information
about sisters from all walks of life
who have made accomplishments
in various areas. Their news is good
news and I’ve enjoyed sharing it
with you.
Remember the verse that I often
share with you - Isaiah 52:7 (NIV),
which reads: “How beautiful on the
mountains are the feet of those who
bring good news, who proclaim
peace, who bring good tidings, who
proclaim salvation, who say to Zion,
Your God reigns!”
The Mississippi Link, a messenger for news in and around the state
of Mississippi, would like to not
only share the news of sisters but all
who would like to tell others their
news and about their places of worship and even those that are visited.
man for a nation (Egypt). Before the
pit Joseph was his father’s favorite
son, but after the pit he became the first
pick of a king.
So, when Joseph brothers threw
him into a pit they were not really
putting him down, they were actually
raising him or promoting him…they
performed his coronation unawares to
help Joseph walk in his divine destiny.
If you slam a basketball to the floor it
will bounce and the harder you slam it
to the floor the higher it will rise. God
permits trouble in our lives to help us
rise to our destiny in Christ.
I look forward to sharing more with
you next as we continue the study,
“The need for bad things to happen to
God’s people.”
Rev. Leon Collier is the pastor of
Makarios Worship Center, 464 Church
Rd., Madison. He has received degrees from Criswell College in Dallas,
Southern Methodist University - Perkins School of Theology and a Masters of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary. Call 601.260.3016,
601.855.7898 or [email protected]
March 20 - 26, 2014
A call to holiness
By Pastor Simeon R. Green III
We are living in
unholy times. The
standards of morality in the world are
so low that our civilization is in danger.
The spiritual standards of many churches are so low
that they no longer challenge the
world as in the days when churches
were faithful to the Word of God.
The standards of some professing Christians have been so lowered that it is difficult to distinguish
between professing Christians and
sinners.
The God of the Bible is a Holy
God, and holiness is the all essential
attribute of God’s character. Holiness is His basic nature. Therefore,
He yearns to produce holy people
with whom He can commune and
have fellowship.
God’s Word teaches that men are
saved so that they might be sanctified to Him and so that they might
be separate from the world and be
a separate people to God. Christians
could not be Christians and God
could not be God without holiness.
Heaven is still a Holy place, and
it is prepared for a Holy people. Sin
can never enter into Heaven.
Holy living is not an afterthought, but it is a part of God’s
original plan of salvation. The call
to holiness is not man’s call or a pastor’s call, but it is God’s call. Therefore, it is a sacred and serious call.
God is the one who calls men and
women to holiness.
Do you walk holy and righteously before God? Is your heart set on
obeying God? Are you hungry for
God and walking according to all
the light that you have been given?
You are called to present your body
a living sacrifice. God is calling you
to present all that you have and ever
will have to His glory, His power
and His honor.
As Christians, you are set apart
for His use. The Apostle Paul records, “I beseech (beg) you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable
service. And be not conformed to
this world; but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what is that good,
and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.” (Romans 12:1-2)
The word present suggests a once
and for all action. You should not
present your body to God and then
take it back for your own use. Once
you have given it to Him, it ought
to be His forever. As you grow and
mature, God will show you more
things that you need to put on the
altar. You cannot give all to God
one week and then take those things
back the next week. You need to
keep them yielded to God.
God has good, acceptable, and
perfect plans for His children. He
wants us to be transformed people
with renewed minds, living to honor
and obey Him. He wants only what
is best for us and because He gave
His only begotten son to make our
new lives possible, we should joyfully give ourselves as living sacrifices for His services.
Christians are called to “not be
conformed to this world” with its
behavior and customs that are usually selfish and often corrupting. It
is possible to avoid most worldly
customs and still be proud, covetous, selfish, stubborn and arrogant.
Only when the Holy Spirit re-
news, reeducates, and redirects our
minds are we truly transformed.
Spiritual transformation is the process through which we grow more
and more into the likeness of Christ.
Being physically rich may be
pleasing, but being spiritually rich is
far greater and far more rewarding.
Rev. Simeon R. Green III is pastor
of Joynes Road Church of God, 31
Joynes Road, Hampton VA 23669.
He is married to Velma L. Green.
He honorably served in the U.S.
Army for 20 years. Rev. Green is a
member of the National Association
of Evangelism Church of God, Anderson, Ind. He serves as chairman
of the Southeastern Association of
The Church of God, Inc.
R e i gn i ng A nn o u nc e m e n t s
Cade Chapel M. B. Church, 1000 W. Ridgeway St., Jackson, will observe
its Woman’s Day Celebration on Sunday, March 16, at 11 a.m. The Women’s
Missionary Ministry will host its special service, using the theme “What in
the World Are Christian Women Doing?” The guest speaker for the day is
First Lady Mary Polk Day of St. John M. B. Church. The events will begin
Saturday, March 15, at 8 a.m. with a prayer breakfast and Women’s Conference. Young ladies, ages 12 -17, are encouraged to attend. The women of
Cade Chapel celebrate the gift from God with their rich legacy of mission and
service to God and His people; serving citizens in the local communities and
beyond the Jackson Metro Area. For more information about the Women’s
Day events and the Women’s Missionary Ministry, call 601.366.5463.
Holy City International Empowerment Ministries, 251 Kearney Park Rd.,
Flora, will host its revival Tuesday through Friday, March 25 – 28, at 8 p.m.
each night. Prophet Cecil Hale from Santa Rosa, Calif. will be revivalist. For
more information call 601.879.3999.
The Youth Congress Concert 2014 will bring two Gospel greats to the Jackson Convention Center in downtown Jackson Thursday and Saturday, March
27 and 29. Thursday, Grammy Award Winning and Platinum selling recording
artist Kirk Franklin will take the stage at 7 p.m. as well as participate in a speakB I B L E B A S E D • C H R I S T C E N T E R E D • H O LY S P I R I T L E D
Since 1907
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engagement during the Da Truth concert. On Saturday, Grammy winning
SUNDAY: comesWorship
Serviceswith his full choir and band for a
Gospel Artist Tye Tribbett
to Jackson
8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
live concert. For more information
call 601.973.7002 or 615.226.6500. Visit
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
ticketmaster.com for tickets.
College Hill Missionary Baptist Church
1600 Florence Avenue
Jackson, MS 39204
Ph: 601-355-2670
Fax: 601-355-0760
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By Shewanda Riley
Columnist
SONGS Prayer Service 6:30 p.m.
Classes: Children • Youth • Adult - 7:00 p.m.
ARTISTS
ALBUM
www.collegehillchurch.org
• [email protected]
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Beautiful Day
Jamie Grace
2.
Every Praise
Hezekiah Walker
3.
Break Every Chain
Tasha Cobbs
4.
It’s Working
William Murphy
5.
Help
Erica Campbell featuring Lecrae
6.
I Can Only Imagine
Tamela Mann
7.
1 On 1
Zacardi Cortez
8.
Nothing Without You
Jason Nelson
9.
Live Through It
James Fortune & FIYA
10.
Amazing
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What??! I don’t even have any
green grass yet. My hope was
that the bitter cold temperatures
would kill them.
Now that it’s warming up, it
seems like the exact opposite is
happening. Deceptively looking like pretty green flowers,
there are more weeds popping
up all over my lawn. But since
the lawn is very new, it’s not
recommended that I use weed
killer.
Where did the weeds come
from and most importantly,
how do I get rid of them? As I
was thinking of my next move,
I thought about what the bible
says about weeds. The parable
of the weeds in Matthew 13 describes how weeds sprouted at
the same time as the wheat harvest. Verses 29-30 warn against
pulling up the weeds, “No,’ he
answered, ‘because while you
are pulling the weeds, you may
uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the
harvest.”
Now I see that scripture in a
whole new light. Even though
they are a nuisance, pulling up
weeds can destroy a good landscape. Weeds look nice on the
surface but can destroy a lawn
kind of like people we know
who appear deceptively nice
but create chaos wherever they
go. Despite our desire to ostracize them and treat them poorly, we have to show grace and
Godly compassion. If not, we
might destroy our own Christian witness.
Shewanda Riley is the author
of the Essence best-seller “Love
Hangover: Moving From Pain
to Purpose after a Relationship
ends.” She can be reached at
[email protected], at
www.shewandariley.com.
Coming from
a family of all
girls, in addition to cleaning and dusting
the house, one
thing that we
had to do as part of our weekly
chores was yard work. We did
it old school and without the
use of motorized or electrical
equipment: we raked leaves,
mowed the lawn and trimmed
the edges. I made a decision
back then that when I was an
adult, the closest I would ever
get to a yard would be to walk
through one. I vowed to never,
ever do yard work again.
Fast forward 35 years. Earlier this year, I purchased a home
and as a new home owner, I
decided that I wanted to try
yard work as a way to build a
“bond” with my house. Since
its still winter and the grass
is dormant, most of the work
consists of watering the yard
periodically. Comically, I’ve
mistakenly moved the sprinkler
the wrong way and got sprayed
in the face and hair making me
think I should go back to my
vow of no yard work.
Despite my comical but sincere attempts to maintain my
lawn, I’ve already had a few
weeds already sprout up. When
I first saw the green specks in
the grass, I was initially proud
that my efforts were paying
off. Finally, some green grass. I
looked closer and it looked like
a flower. Weird, I thought since
I hadn’t planted any flower
seeds. A friend came over and
said bluntly, “At least you know
your yard is taking root; you’ve
got weeds growing.” Weeds!
New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church
Pastor, Dr. F. R. Lenoir
Sunday School - 9:15 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Live Radio Broadcast
WOAD AM 1300 - 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The Top 10 Gospel Songs from the Billboard Gospel Charts for the week of March 20
WEDNESDAY:
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Got weeds?
Intercessory Prayer 9:00 a.m.
MONDAY:
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Shekinah Glory
Baptist Church
“Shining the Radiant
Light of His Glory”
“A Church Preparing for a
Home Not Built by Man”
New Bethel M. B. Church • 450 Culberston Ave. • Jackson, MS 39209
601-969-3481/969-3482 • Fax # 601-969-1957 • E-Mail: [email protected]
W E E K LY A C T I V I T I E S
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
Fulfillment Hour (Sunday School)
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship Service
To listen to snippets of these songs, please visit billboard.com/charts/gospel-song
Tuesday 6:30 p.m.
Prayer Time & Bible Study
Thursday6:30 p.m.
Adult Choir Rehearsal
Saturday 11:00 a.m. Youth & Young Adult Choir Rehearsal
Moving the Masses Toward the Mission of the Master
Bishop Ronnie C. Crudup, Sr.
1770 Ellis Avenue • Jackson, MS 39204
OFFICE. 601-371-1427 • FAX. 601-371-8282
www.newhorizonchurchms.org
Please join us in any or all of these activities. You are WELCOME!
485 W. Northside Drive • Jackson, MS
601-981-4979 • Bro. Karl E Twyner, pastor
S U N D A Y
9:00 a.m. - Worship Services
W E D N E S D A Y
7:00 p.m. - Bible Class
Sunday
Worship Services
8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Monday
T V
B R O A D C A S T
8:00 a.m. - Channel 14 (Comcast)
Prayer Everyday: 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
H oly Temple M.B. Chur ch
5077 Cabaniss Circle - Jackson, MS 39209
(601) 922-6588; [email protected]
Sunday School - 8 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship - 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday Bible Study - 6:30 p.m.
Intercessory Prayer 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday
Prayer Service 6:30 p.m.
Michael T. Williams
Pastor
Classes: Children • Youth • Adult - 7:00p.m.
“The Church That’s on the Move for Christ
for Such a Time as This”
________________________
REV. AUDREY L. HALL, PASTOR
REV. DR. AVA S. HARVEY, SR., OVERSEER
OPINION
March 20 - 26, 2014
Romancing the vote, President Obama’s
surprising jobs record
but not the dollar
By James Clingman
NNPA Columnist
It’s so silly
for black people
to fight over the
Dems and Repubs
when it is counterproductive for us
to be enslaved by
either party. Between the late 1800s
and the early 1900s we voted nearly
100 percent Republican.
Now we vote nearly 100 percent
Democrat. What has that gotten us
besides being ignored and taken for
granted? Do we have real political
power?
We have been instructed and
admonished to be independent and
only give our votes to individuals
who act in our best interests, but we
have failed miserably in response to
that advice by doing the exact opposite.
It makes no sense to give virtually all of our support to one political party and receive patronizing
crumbs in return.
To a large extent, our problem is
centered on our romance with the
vote itself. We hold our ability to
cast a ballot in such high esteem,
sadly, as though that alone will
solve our problems. Not so.
Voting is simply the first step,
not the final step. Without power
behind our precious votes, we are a
paper tiger, helpless to effect positive change for ourselves in the political arena. The key word in the
last sentence is ourselves, because
we have certainly helped make
things better for other groups.
So, with our political predicament in mind, here are my thoughts:
If we are unwilling to vote as independent critical thinkers, we should
stay out of the voting booth. If we
are not inclined, on a local and national level, to collectively leverage
our voting power, then all we will
ever have is the power to vote. If all
we are going to do is vote, there is
no need to vote at all.
Now before some of you get
your jaws tight, just think about all
the energy black folks have put into
voting. Think of all the sacrifices we
have made, all the mistreatment we
have suffered and even this month,
as we remember “Bloody Sunday,”
how we are still fighting to keep our
precious vote.
Compare all of that to what we
have gained by merely casting our
votes and then going back to sleep.
We have treated elections like
popularity contests and euphoric
exercises that only give someone
a “job” for as long as they want it,
whether they produce or not.
We have misused and abused our
precious vote by being uninformed
on issues and candidates alike, and
by being unwilling to do anything
except vote for whatever or whomever the party tells us to. That’s
sheer nonsense. If our vote is so
sacrosanct, why do we mistreat it?
As much as we say we need
“power,” both political and economic, our actions belie our words.
Claud Anderson, in his book, Black
Labor White Wealth, wrote, “…
groups aspiring to gain political
power can only obtain and use it
if they have economic power as
well…. Voting rights have pacified
blacks by allowing them to make
choices but never decisions.”
If voting alone gave us power,
we would not have heard “You lie!”
during the State of the Union Address; if it gave us power, Darrell
Issa would not have dissed one of
our most respected and respectable
congressmen, Elijah Cummings;
and Paul Ryan would not have uttered his ridiculous comments
about “inner city” men.
Voting is part of the process that,
if supported by economic power,
leads to real political power.
The late Amos N. Wilson, an author and assistant professor of psychology at City University of New
York, wrote, “The idea that [blacks]
can exercise effective power, politi-
cal or otherwise, without simultaneously exercising economic power is
a fantasy….
“In the absence of access to and
influence on relevant government
centers of power, the absence of
an ‘independent’ political party,
and the absence of an influential,
wealthy, nationalistic upper or leading class [blacks] are unable to effectively secure [our] special interests.”
For example, Wilson also said,
“We have a leadership that talks
about income equality. A man can
have $1 million of land and get an
income of $10,000, and another
get an income $10,000 working for
someone else. Even though they
have equal incomes, they are not
equally wealthy.”
Politics leads to incomes; economics leads to wealth. That’s
why back in 1998 I coined the
term, “Blackonomics” rather than
“Blackolitics.”
Tarikh Tehuti Bandele wrote in
2006, “Indeed, black people should
register to vote, but not to become
lackeys for [any] party…. Voting,
by itself, should never be looked
upon as the ultimate solution.
“Voting is but a tactic, a strategy,
or a means to an end … far too
many are promoting the idea that all
black people need to do is vote, and
heaven is just around the corner.”
We want “voting power” but
we settle for the “power to vote.”
We fight for the “right to vote” but
we fail to “vote right.” Voting is a
means to gain political power, not
an end that simply allows one to
participate in the act. If we fail to
follow that truism, we may as well
not vote.
Jim Clingman, founder of the
Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is a
writer on economic empowerment
for black people. He is an adjunct
professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through
his Web site, blackonomics.com.
Obama keeps promise to
use ‘Power of the Pen’
By Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
During
his
State of the
Union Address,
President Barack
Obama
promised to use the
power of his pen
to achieve the policy objectives
that Congress continues to block.
After advocating fairness and
being rebuffed by Congress, the
president chose to use the power
of his pen to require federal contractors to pay workers at least
$10.10 per hour, or $21,800 per
year. That still puts a single parent with two children below the
poverty line.
Now the president is using the
power of his pen to ensure that
workers receive overtime pay.
Currently, the only workers required to receive overtime pay
are those who earn $445 a week,
about $11 an hour or $23,000 per
year.
The president has proposed
that that amount be raised to
somewhere between $550 and
$970 a year. Splitting the difference means that those who earn
about $760 a week or $39,500 a
year would be entitled to overtime.
Already the business lobby has
said that both a higher minimum
wage and mandatory overtime
cuts into their profits. Already
they have talked about cutting
the number of workers they will
employ, and the number of hours
they will employ people.
These greedy corporate giants
fail to note that while wages and
salaries for the top one percent
soared by nearly a third in the
past three years, the wages of
those in the remaining 99 percent rose by a fraction of one
percent in three years.
A worker earning $30,000
a year saw her wages rise to
$30,300; someone earning
$300,000 a year saw his wages
rise to $396,000.
Clearly, those who earn
$30,300, if not poor, are a stone’s
throw away from poverty. These
are the folks who struggle from
paycheck to paycheck, who
make decisions about whether to
buy their children new shoes or
pay the cable bill.
These folks aren’t trying to
purchase luxuries, and they
aren’t looking for handouts.
They just want to live decently,
with enough food on the table,
with bills paid, and with a little
breathing room.
These are folks who don’t take
vacations. Luxury for them may
mean a couple of days off to
visit neighborhood parks. Summertime, when the living is easy
for children, may be a burden to
those parents who can’t afford
childcare.
With his effort to reduce income inequality and improve
the lives of those at least the
President is moving in the right
direction. Unfortunately he can’t
get enough members of congress
to follow, because they are committed to obstructionism.
Aren’t there poor people in
these Republican districts? Are
they willing to sacrifice the well
being of their constituents to
hold fast to party principles? Researchers should look at the levels of poverty in each Congressional district and shame these
miscreants into doing the right
thing.
Republicans forget, and some
Democrats fail to argue, that
increasing the economic well
being of those at the bottom
improves the nation’s economic
status.
Those at the bottom will use
added wages to pay bills, to buy
some of the things they’ve put
off purchasing, to pump money
into the economy.
In contrast, those at the top are
likely to save their money or invest it, failing to spend enough
to trickle down their spending to
benefit those at the bottom.
It is said that a rising tide lifts
all boats. But some folks are riding a luxury yacht, while others
are struggling to survive on a
raft. The rising tides argument
only works for those at the top
who have seen their wages grow
dramatically.
Those at the bottom are barely
floating on a tottering raft that
has dozens of holes, as evidenced
by their small pay increases, low
wages, and lack of overtime.
To the extent that President
Obama has the power of the pen
he can both improve the lives of
those at the bottom, but also remind us of the meaning of fair
By George E. Curry
NNPA Columnist
Although unemployment rates
are unacceptably
high, especially
for African Americans, President
Obama has done
a better job improving the jobless
rate than most critics are willing to
concede.
That becomes abundantly clear
when reading FactCheck.org’s dismantling of Senator Rand Paul’s
attack on the president’s unemployment record. Just as he was
caught plagiarizing, Paul has been
caught again, this time for providing misleading information about
Obama’s accomplishments.
FactCheck.org, a project of the
Annenberg Public Policy Center at
the University of Pennsylvania, is
a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer
advocate” for voters that aims to
reduce the level of deception and
confusion in U.S. politics.
“Sen. Rand Paul said ‘black unemployment in America is double
white unemployment’ and ‘hasn’t
budged’ under President Obama,”
the research group recounts before adding: “Actually, the black
unemployment rate is lower now
than when Obama took office, and
the gap between the races is below
the historical average. The black
unemployment rate has averaged
more than double the white rate for
several decades.”
Like most believable lies, Paul’s
charges are wrapped in partial
truths.
“It is true that the black unemployment rate for November was
double the white unemployment
rate. The rate in November was
12.5 percent for blacks and 6.2
percent for whites, according to
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unfortunately, this is not new,” FactCheck.org noted.
However, it pointed out, “The
current 12.5 percent unemployment rate for blacks is unquestionably high. But by historical
standards the current black unem-
ployment rate is consistent with the
average from 1972 to 2004, and the
ratio of black-to-white unemployment rates is actually below the
historical average.”
The deeper the researchers dug,
the stronger they made Obama’s
case.
“We looked at the average rate
of unemployment for blacks and
whites in the first 58 months of the
last four presidents who were reelected to a second term: Obama,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and
Ronald Reagan,” FactCheck,org
stated.
(FactCheck.org explained: “We
averaged the monthly unemployment rates from the first February
in office to the first November in
their second term.”)
And what did they find? “Obama
had the lowest average ratio (1.9),
followed by Bush (2.1), Clinton
(2.2), and Reagan (2.3).”
Seeking to further clarify, researchers acknowledged, “Paul
was talking about the November
unemployment rates and ratio - not
the 58-month average unemployment rate and ratio - but even by
that measure the black-to-white
unemployment ratio is lower under
Obama (2.0) than it was under Reagan (2.6), Clinton (2.4) and Bush
(2.5) at this point in their second
terms.”
Further dismantling Paul assertions, FactCheck.org stated, “Paul
also said that the black unemployment rate ‘hasn’t budged’ under
Obama, but it has.
It reached a high of 16.8 percent
in March 2010 and dropped to a
low of 12.5 percent in November
- lower than the 12.7 percent rate
when Obama took office. That
wasn’t the case for two of his recent
predecessors, Reagan and Bush.
“Under Reagan, the black unemployment rate went up a full
percentage point from 14.6 percent
in January 1981 to 15.6 percent in
November 1985 - even as the white
unemployment rate fell from 6.7
percent to 5.9 percent.
Under Bush, the rates went up
for both blacks and whites. But it
went up faster for blacks, from 8.2
percent in January 2001 to 10.6
percent in November 2005 - the
biggest increase in the black unemployment rate of any of the four
presidents at that point in their second terms. The white unemployment rate went up more than a half
percentage point, from 3.6 percent
to 4.3 percent.”
Paul is a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2016. Last
week, one of his chief rivals for the
White House, Rep. Paul Ryan (RWisc.), created a controversy when
he said on former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett’s radio show:
“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular,
of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking
about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so
there is a real culture problem here
that has to be dealt with.”
The comment was immediately
criticized by Rep. Barbara Lee (DCalif.) as “a thinly veiled racial attack and cannot be tolerated.”
Ryan refused to apologize for his
comments, saying in a statement
later, “After reading the transcript
of yesterday morning’s interview, it
is clear that I was inarticulate about
the point I was trying to make. I
was not implicating the culture of
one community - but of society as
a whole.”
Whether a brazen affront such as
Ryan’s comment about “inner city”
Black men or Rand Paul’s more
subtle attack on Obama’s record
dealing with unemployment, the
Republican Party keeps proving
it has done nothing to deserve the
support of African Americans.
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine,
is editor-in-chief of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is
a keynote speaker, moderator, and
media coach. He can be reached
through his website, www.georgecurry.com; follow him at www.
twitter.com/currygeorge and the
George E. Curry Fan Page on
Facebook.
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By Eric Garcia. Chicago, IL, courtesy of BlackCommentator.com
labor standards. This is a conversation our nation has not had in
awhile.
We have been content to let
the wages of those at the bottom continue to drift downward,
while using tax policy and fiction (rising tide) to enrich those
at the top. What does it take to
sensitize those at the top to the
plight of those at the bottom?
The Occupy movement looks
better by the day.
Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist
and writer. She is President
Emerita of Bennett College for
Women in Greensboro, N.C.
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
PROPOSAL FOR DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TESTING
AND
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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
BUREAU OF BUILDING, GROUNDS AND
REAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
NOTICE OF APRIL 8, 2014 SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO FILL THE
UNEXPIRED TERM OF THE LATE MAYOR CHOWKE LUMUMBA.
Notice is hereby given that the City of Jackson, Mississippi (hereinafter “City”),
will receive sealed proposals for the Development, Administration and Management of Testing and Assessment Processes for Promotion to Fire Captain at
the Office of the City Clerk at 219 Sou^h President Street in Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0017 or P. 0. Box 17, Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0017 until 3:30
p.m. central standard time, Tuesday, March 25,2014.
Copies of the Specifications and Proposal Form for the Development and Management of Testing and Assessment Processes for Promotion to Fire Captain
are on file in the Office of the Director of Personnel Management, 1000 Metrocenter, Suite 102, Jackson, Mississippi 39209, and copies will be provided
upon request. All proposals must be submitted to the City Clerk no later than
3:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 25,2013 in a sealed envelope, addressed as follows;
For Delivery:
For Mailing:
City of Jackson City Clerk City Hall
219S. President Street Jackson, MS 39205-0017
City of Jackson
City Clerk
P.O. Box 17
Jackson, MS 39205-0017
Sealed bids will be received at the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real
Property Management, 501 North West Street, Suite 1401 B, Jackson, Mississippi, 39201, until 2:00:00 p.m. on Thursday, 04/03/2014 , for:
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at which time they will be publicly opened and read. Contract documents may
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Sealed, signed RFP’s are invited and will be received by the City of Jackson,
Mississippi, until 3:30 P.M. in the City Clerk’s Office of Jackson, the proposal
must be stamped in by 3:30 P.M. Tuesday, April 08, 2014, at which time said
proposal will be publicly opened at the City Hall located at 219 South President Street (City Council Chambers) in City Hall for the following:
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BIDS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.JACKSONMS.GOV.
The above must comply with the City’s specifications. Copies of proposal
forms can be obtained from the Purchasing Division, 200 South President
Street, Room 604, Hood Building, Jackson, Mississippi 39201. Copies of
bid specifications are filed with the City Clerk for public record in accordance
with House Bill No 999, 1986 Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature.
The City of Jackson is committed to the principle of non-discrimination in
Public Purchasing. It is the policy of the City of Jackson to promote full and
equal business opportunities for all persons doing business with the City. As
a pre-condition to selection, each contractor, bidder or offer shall submit a
completed and signed Equal Business Opportunity (EBO) Plan Application,
with each bid submission, in accordance with the provisions set forth by authority of the City of Jackson’s EBO Ordinance. Failure to comply with the
City’s EBO Ordinance shall disqualify a contractor, bidder or offer, from being
awarded an eligible contract. For more information on the City’s EBO Program, please contact the Office of Economic Development at (601)960-1638.
Copies of the EBO Ordinance, EBO Plan Application and a copy of the EBO
Program are available with the Office of Economic Development at 218 South
President Street, Second Floor, Jackson, Mississippi.
The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The City also reserves
the right to waive any and all informalities in respect to any bid submitted.
Bid awards will be made to the lowest and best bidder quoting the lowest net
price in accordance with specifications. The award could be according to the
lowest cost per item; or to the lowest total cost for all items; or to accept all
or part of any proposal. Delivery time may be considered when evaluating
the bid proposal. In those cases where it is known prior to advertising that
the City’s intention is to award according to the lowest total cost for all items,
or in some variation thereof, statements to this affect will be included on the
proposal form. Absence of such statement means the City will make that
determination during the bid review.
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on or before March 19, 2014. Said petition must be signed by not less than fifty (50)
qualified electors. Qualifying packets will be available for pick-up on Wednesday,
March 5,2014.
The City Clerk’s Office will be open March 4, 2014 to March 7, 2014 for Voter
Registration from 8:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., and on Saturday, March 8, 2014 from 8:00
a.m. uniil 12:00 (noon).
The scheduled absentee voting period is March 29 - April 5, 2014. The City Clerk’s
Office will be open on Saturday, March 29, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 (noon),
and on Saturday, April 5, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 (noon).
If necessary, a run-off election will be held on Tuesday, April 22,2014. All inquiries
should be directed to Cily Clerk, Brenda Pree at 601-960-1036.
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PROPOSAL FOR DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TESTING
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FIRE LIEUTENANT/DRIVER OPERATOR
SEALED PROPOSALS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
OF TESTING AND ASSESSMENT PROCESSES FOR PROMOTION TO
FIRE CAPTAIN TO BE RECEIVED AND OPENED AT CITY HALL 3:30 P.M.,
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014
Hellene Greer, CPPB, NPCA, CPPO, Manager
Purchasing Division
(601) 960-1533
Burris/Wagnon Architects, P.A.
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Jackson, Mississippi 39216
601-969-7543
A deposit of $50.00 is required. Bid preparation will be in accordance with
Instructions to Bidders bound in the project manual. The Bureau of Bu ilding,
Grounds and Real Property Management reserves the right to waive irregularities and to reject any or all bids. NOTE: Telephones and desks will not be
available for bidders use at the bid site.
All proposals must be delivered or mailed in a sealed envelope (mailed proposals must be contained in a scaled envelope inside the mailing envelope) and
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On Monday March 3. 2014, the Jackson City Council voted to set the date of April
8, 2014 for the Municipal Special Election to fill the unexpired term of the late Mayor
Chowke Lumumba.
Notice is hereby given that the City of Jackson, Mississippi (hereinafter “City”), will receive sealed proposals for the Development, Administration and Management of Testing and Assessment Processes for Promotion to Fire Lieutenant/Driver Operator at the
Office of the City Clerk at 219 South President Street in Jackson, Mississippi 392050017 or P. 0. Box 17, Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0017 until 3:30 p.m. central standard
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DISTRICT FIRE CHIEF
Notice is hereby given that the City of Jackson, Mississippi (hereinafter
“City”), will receive sealed proposals for the Development. Administration and Management of Testing and Assessment Processes for Promotion to District Fire Chief at the Office of the City Clerk at 219 South
President Street in Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0017 or P. 0. Box 17,
Jackson, Mississippi 392U5-0017 until 3:30 p.m. central standard time,
Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
Copies of the Specifications and Proposal Form for the Development and Management
of Testing and Assessment Processes for Promotion to Fire Lieutenant/Driver Operator
are on file in the Office of the Director of Personnel Management, 1000 Metrocenter,
Suite 102, Jackson, Mississippi 39209, and copies will be provided upon request. All
proposals must be submitted to the City Clerk no later than 3:30 p.m.. Tuesday, March
25, 2013 in a sealed envelope, addressed as follows:
Copies of the Specifications and Proposal Form for the Development
and Management of Testing and Assessment Processes for Promotion
to District Fire Chief are on file in the Office of the Director of Personnel
Management, 1000 Metrocenter, Suite 102, Jackson, Mississippi 39209,
and copies will be provided upon request. All proposals must be submitted to the City Clerk no later than 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2013 in
a sealed envelope, addressed as follows:
For Delivery:
219 S. President Street Jackson, MS 39205-0017
For Delivery:
City of Jackson
City Clerk
P.O. Box 17
For Mailing:
For Mailing:
219 S. President Street Jackson, MS 39205-0017
City of Jackson
City Clerk
P.O. Box 17
All proposals must be delivered or mailed in a sealed envelope (mailed proposals must
be contained in a sealed envelope inside the mailing envelope) and labeled in the lower
left comer as follows:
All proposals must be delivered or mailed in a sealed envelope (mailed
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By virtue of and pursuant to the authority and direction of that Ordinance by the City
Council of Jackson, Mississippi, appearing in Minute Book 3G at page 115 thereof,
notice is hereby given to all persons interested in or in any way affected thereby, that
Danielle Frazier-Armistad has filed with the Planning Board for the City of Jackson,
an application requesting a Use Permit to allow for the operation of a residential facility
for the handicap in a R-1 (Single-family) Residential District on property located at
105 Poole St, in the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, and being more
particularly described as:
Lot 5, Carberry Survey.
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A. Hood Building, 200 S. President Street
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Kelli London
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Warm and fuzzy. That’s
what you get when you help
someone. You feel good because you did some good.
Honestly, it’s sometimes
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even the best intentions get
out of hand, as you’ll see in
the new novel “Charly’s Epic
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Kelli London.
As the star of TV’s Extreme
Dream Team reality show,
Charly St. James should’ve
known better than to make a
scene in a crowded store. She
knew how to deal with fans.
But when a bunch of them
swarmed her and things got
out of hand, there was really
no reason for some handsome
boy to grab her and drag her
out of the fray.
He deserved her attitude,
for sure. Still, that wasn’t the
way Charly wanted to meet
the singer Mēkel. It wasn’t the
way she wanted him to know
her, either - especially when
she learned that she’d been
chosen to work with him,
boxer Lex, and actor Faizon
on a splashy special project
for sick inner-city girls.
It was an opportunity of a
lifetime, made even more appealing when Charly’s boss,
Mr. Day, told her that this
project would lead to a spinoff show of her very own.
How could she pass that up?
She couldn’t, but she hated
Mēkel for being a jerk.
Lex was awesome and energetic. Faizon was funny,
smart, and Charly was eager
to see him on-screen and in
person. The boys introduced
her to their entourage: Bobsy,
who had a chip on his shoulder; Eden, the chaperone; and
Coop, who seemed dangerous
but totally trustworthy.
As the project started to
get off the ground, however,
Charly began to think that
she’d made a mistake by
getting involved. There was
something odd about how
the three boys interacted, and
there was tension all over the
place.
Something wasn’t as it
seemed, and it threatened to
destroy everything - but what
was wrong? Was there something of which Charly needed
to beware?
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her own mind. I think that’s
a vast improvement over the
first book in the series, and
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While boys can surely
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This week moderate your working habits
to take your wellbeing to an even higher
level of satisfaction.
ACROSS
1. American Cancer Society (abbr.)
4. Looms
10. Entrance rug
11. Hawk
12. Whiz
13. Animal
14. Scream
16. Boxer Muhammad
17. Mailed
18. Air Force (abbr.)
20. Charleston locale
22. Freudian selves
26. Hertz
29. Abbot’s jurisdiction
31. Re-employ
33. Bog
34. Panther
35. Food and Agriculture
Organization (abbr.)
36. Sacred poems
37. Stop
DOWN
1. Hoard
2. Lay away
3. Back of a boat
4. Very large book
5. City
6. Words per minute
7. Writer Bombeck
8. Concrete
9. Monetary unit
15. Possessive pronoun
19. February (abbr.)
21. Rebound
23. Bungle
24. Pacific, for example
25. Council
26. Cut hair short
27. Upper body muscles
28. Popular stadium
30. Antes
32. Ailing
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Aquarius
Recovery of sorts is possible, particularly
if you've had some minor problems with a
future mother-in-law over the recent past.
7/23-8/21
Leo
Family, home, and other roots in your life
give you a sense of mission this week.
2/20 - 3/20
Pisces
You draw emotional sustenance and a
sense of security from ideals and social
involvement today.
8/22 - 9/23
Virgo
This week there may be a surprising
friendship made through owning a
new pet!
3/21 - 4/20
Aries
There is a need for change, a desire to
break with outdated patterns this week.
9/24 - 10/23
Libra
Generally, this may be a fruitful period
for carefully researched investments.
4/21 - 5/21
Taurus
Today you may have a longing for the
new, the different, the unusual!
10/24 - 11/22
Scorpio
This week don't bite off more than you
can chew.
5/22 - 6/21
Gemini
If you have taken the time to plan ahead,
you could be reaping the rewards by as
early as today.
11/23 - 12/22
Sagittarius
Be very careful this week financially and
emotionally as well.
6/22 - 7/22
Cancer
By the weekend, you'll be pleased with the
way the communication is shaping up
between you and a hard-to-please friend.
12/23 - 1/20
Capricorn
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Callaway captures 3 peat
By Tim Ward
Sports Writer
Very few doubted that it was possible. Those who
doubted, did not
really have a strong
conviction. It was
practically a given.
What am I speaking of? Callaway
winning the state
title in 5A.
Armed with two
dandy dozen players with one of
them being ranked
number one is his
class
nationally,
Callaway took care
of business and
won their third consecutive gold ball,
cementing
their
dominance.
It was Cal- Malik going up for a dunk
laway’s fifth in six
years.
But it was also an added pressure
JSU men’s basketball coach, - Malik gets enormous attention.
Wayne Brent, built a solid founCoach Brent was in the middle
dation for basketball before the of a dynasty, coming off a back to
superstar players were at Cal- back championship when he left
laway. The only difference this for Jackson State. Fans wondered
year was, coach Brent was gone. if Malik would leave, how will
Coach David Sanders has the the team be without coach Brent,
task of managing the “franchise” is coach Sanders a good coach,
if you will.
etc, etc.
Sanders, who coached last seaThe thing unquestioned was
son at Northwest Rankin, is a for- the talent at Callaway. Most of
mer Mr. Basketball himself, that the guys on the team have been
enabled him to relate to Malik at Callaway since 9th grade. Due
Newman on a basketball level. to sanctions from the altercation
The Callaway Chargers, 5A Boys Champions
in the championship game last
season, Callaway could only play
a regular schedule; no tournaments, no out of town games, etc.
Callaway finished the season 32 & 1 with their lone loss
to Meridian; a loss they later
avenged. While they relatively
eased through the season, there
were a few close games. Provine,
their arch rival in basketball, always plays them tough. But the
one that will stand out will be the
semifinal game against Laurel
at the coliseum. Callaway was
leading by roughly 8 points with
two minutes to go. Laurel stayed
diligent with their game plan of
fouling to extend the game. The
strategy worked.
The Callaway Chargers missed
crucial free throws down the
stretch, allowing the game to go
into overtime. Laurel gave Malik
fits. Grabbing, holding, bodying, whatever they could do to
frustrate Malik they did. In the
extra quarter, Callaway was able
to knock down shots, but the defense of Cortez Mitchell, helped
PHOTOS BY TIM WARD
seal the deal. Mitchell made two
steals at half court, racing to the
other end for scoring opportunities. Callaway won 79 to 75.
The championship game
wasn’t close. Vicksburg simply
did not have the fire power to
match Callaway. One of their key
players was also injured in the
first quarter, handicapping them
even more. Malik didn’t have the
same trouble getting free like he
did the previous game.
When the horn sounded, Callaway had won its third consecu-
tive state championship, its fifth
in six years. Malik won his third
in a row. Coach David Sanders
won his first as a coach, but more
importantly, the pressure valve
was turned. He could exhale
now. He met expectations. He
kept the streak alive.
Next season will be Malik’s
senior season. He stated as a
freshman that he wanted four
state titles. He has put himself in
position to accomplish that. The
question is simply, “Will he do
it?”
Velma Jackson rolls past East Side for
second straight 3A boys championship
The Associated Press
Moses Greenwood scored 13 points,
Quinndary Weatherspoon added 12 points
and eight rebounds and Velma Jackson beat
East Side 50-35 to win the MHSAA Class 3A
boys state championship Friday, March 14.
Velma Jackson (34-2) won its second
straight state title. Weatherspoon also added four steals, two assists and a thunderous
dunk midway through the second quarter
that helped the Falcons take a 28-18 halftime
lead.
Velma Jackson shot 18 of 39 (46.2 percent) from the field and had a 24-20 rebounding advantage.
East Side (27-6) was led by Jon Paul Davis’ 12 points, six rebounds and four blocked
shots. The Trojans were held to just six
points in the final quarter and shot 12 of 33
(36.4 percent) from the field for the game.
Velma Jackson forward Moses Greenwood (13) dunks
against East Side in the first half of their MHSAA Class 3A
boys’ championship basketball game in Jackson, Miss., Friday, March 14, 2014. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Malik going up for a dunk
March 20 - 26, 2014
Jackson Goes Green
Mal’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Downtown Jackson, Miss. • Saturday, March 15, 2014
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March 20 - 26, 2014
Lupita Nyong’o in talks to
star as lead in ‘Star Wars VII’
Eurweb.com
She’s taking her critical acclaim,
award wins and love by the public
to the top.
Lupita Nyong’o had a meeting
with “Star Wars VII“ director J.J.
Abrams about starring in the upcoming epic fantasy film.
Nyong’o just took home her
Best Supporting Actress Oscar for
“12 Years a Slave” two weeks ago
and is riding high with a supporting
role in “Non-Stop” in theaters now,
but she’s ready to take the lead.
Abrams might be the guy to
make that happen for her.
According to Hollywood Reporter, she met with Abrams for
the female lead - could that mean
Princess Leia?
No word yet on who is the female lead character - especially
since the film is in high secrecy.
But starring in a “Star Wars” film
could be really big for Nyong’o
and could show her range as in actress - going from drama to fantasy.
But she’s not
the only black actor up for a lead
in the upcoming
saga. John Boyega is one of five
actors up for the
male lead.
Could there be
two black actors
leading the film?
We find that almost impossible
to fathom, but
hey, maybe. You
just never know.
Although
Abrams reported- Nyong’o
ly wants a diverse
cast, it’s still a big budget Hollywood film.
In Hollywood, there’s still this
idea there can only be “one” or
“filling that one slot” and passing it off as diversity - is all that’s
needed.
And there, of course, could be
the typical “The Hunger Games”
hate of the casting based off of colorism than talent.
But hopes are high for Nyong’o
to take the lead in the film. But no
matter how it goes, she’ll be “listening to her gut” when it comes to
picking her projects.
Chris Brown got too close to female
personnel at rehab so he was booted
Eurweb.com
Now we know why Chris
Brown was dismissed from the
Malibu rehab facility last Friday. He had spent the last several
months there for his anger issues.
In any event, he’s no longer
there because he violated three internal rules … including a special
rule imposed specifically on him:
stay at least two feet away from
women (at the facility).
TMZ quotes sources as saying the rehab facility imposed the
2-foot rule because of the Rihanna
case … you know, the beating he
gave her. The people who run the
facility imposed the highly unusual rule, and we’re told Chris
violated it by touching elbows and
hands with a woman.
As for the two other violations,
#2: Chris left the facility last week
on an authorized outing, but when
he returned he was told to submit
to a random drug test and he refused. Sources at the facility say
he later took the test
and the results were
negative, but the initial
refusal was a violation
of rules.
As for #3, the third
violation, the facility
claims Chris went in
on the rehab facility
during a group session
with some harsh comments.
TMZ is also reporting that Chris was
also in some sort of
sexual encounter with
a woman at the facility
at the beginning of the Brown
month, but for some
reason that is not part of the basis
for booting him.
As we reported Chris Brown
was arrested because he violated
the order of the judge in the Rihanna case … the judge required
him to stay in rehab for anger
management until mid-April,
Maxine Jones, formerly of
En Vogue, ready to go solo
Eurweb.com
She might have been told “don’t let
go” and “hold on,” but Maxine Jones
left En Vogue (for good?) in 2012.
Now she’s embarking on her own
solo career and has big plans in 2014!
Her debut single, “Didn’t I” is
dropping May 15, 2014. And that’s
not all she has in store for her fans.
She seems to be trying to ride her
new solo career to the top.
Many fans waiting on new music
from the 90s R&B star will finally
get the chance to hear and see her
shine with her own world tour, “To
the Max” sometime this year.
But her fans definitely know her
as a quarter of the original lineup of
En Vogue, the one with the “Motown
voice” - deep, soulful, classic and
powerful.
En Vogue kicked off the 1990s different from other groups - by making sure each member was equally
talented, fashionable, personable and
ready to take center stage.
Each member sung lead
and created some of the most
memorable hits of the 90s including “My Lovin’ (You’re
Never Gonna Get It),” “Free
Your Mind” and “Giving
Him Something He Can Feel”
among many others.
Their first three albums became multi-platinum and plati-
num successes.
But after Dawn Robinson left
the group in 1997, the group’s
issues became more apparent
to the public overtime.
Robinson left since the
group’s management and
money wasn’t right.
Jones
finally
joined after leaving
the group in 2001.
She left the group in
2012 a second time
after a major falling out with members Cindy Herron
and Terry Ellis - finally becoming fed
up with the group’s
management issues.
Ellis and Herron
remained OK with
the group’s management while the
other two were not.
They fought over
who could use the
En Vogue name in
2012.
But although Ellis
and Herron perform
under the group’s
name, Jones is finally stepping out
on her own with her
new single, upcom-
ing album and world tour,
which will feature various
supporting acts.
Fans will get to see new material and favorites from the
90s versatile R&B singer with
the Motown voice.
Jones
when his Washington D.C. assault
case ran its course.
As of this posting he’s still being held in jail without bail. His
lawyer, Mark Geragos, will appear in court sometime Monday
with Brown in an attempt to get
him freed.
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