March 26 2015 - The Mississippi Link

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www.mississippilink.com
Vol. 21, No. 22
MARCH 26 - APRIL 1, 2015
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Stephanie
Parker-Weaver
passes
See page 4
History-making journalisteducator passionate about
her return to JSU
A trail-blazing woman of many firsts
City Council Meeting at JSU
eCenter draws huge turnout
By Gail M. Brown
Contributing Writer
When the news made headlines that Elayne Hayes-Anthony would be returning to Jackson State University to direct
the same department she once
chaired more than 20 years
ago, many reacted with excitement while others wondered
why?
Hayes-Anthony
recently
shared “the why” with The Mississippi Link. “I wanted to give
back to the institution that gave
me so much,” she said. “This
is where I want my legacy to
be.” In addition to that, she
was intrigued by the fact that
JSU was interested in starting
a School of Mass Communication, which had been a goal of
hers when she was previously
Hayes-Anthony
at the helm of the department.
“Finding a leader of her caliber is an important first step
in the creation of a School of
Hayes-Anthony
Continued on page 3
Delta native
inspires Hills
audience
at CSLC
Scholarship
Annual Awards
Banquet
See page 17
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Editor
The Jackson City Council
held its regular council meeting Tuesday, March 24, 2015,
at Jackson State University’s
eCenter, located at 1230 Ray-
mond Rd., in west Jackson.
The huge turnout was a mixture of city officials, JSU officials and students, interns at the
city council, military veterans,
and residents who attended
from across the city.
JSU President Dr. Carolyn
W. Meyers gave welcoming remarks. The meeting was officiated by City Council President
De’Keither Stamps with the full
council present. Mayor Tony
Yarber filled his usual seat at
the left side of the council.
JSU students present represented the undergraduate department of political science
City Council
Continued on page 3
Nissan presents $250,000 to be shared by six local
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Funds to support STEM programs fueling innovation and opportunity
Chatman
A Women’s History
Month salute to “First
Woman Constable” of
Hinds County
The Mississippi Link Newswire
Upon a motion from Hinds
County Board Supervisor Peggy
Hobson Calhoun and a second by
Board Supervisor Robert Graham,
with “aye” votes from Supervisors
George Smith, Douglas Anderson,
and Phil Fisher, it was resolved to
“appoint Ms. Pamela Confer as
Constable for Hinds County District 3” effective August 18, 2008.
By law, constables keep and preserve the peace within the county;
advise Justice Court judges or other
officers of all riots, routs, unlawful
assemblies, and violations of the
penal laws; execute and return all
processes directed to them by any
county, chancery or circuit court
(not just Justice Court); and attend
the justices’ courts of their districts.
…. A little piece of Women’s and
Hinds County history you should
know.
Inside
PHOTO BY JAY JOHNSON
Clingman: Caught
between Barack
and a ‘Hard Place’
Page 12
Representatives from Alcorn State University, Coahoma Community College, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, Rust College and Tougaloo College, with Nissan, state and national officials, accepting the Nissan donation.
CANTON, Miss. - Nissan
announced Friday, March 20,
2015 the donation of $250,000
to be shared by six local Histor-
ically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to promote
STEM initiatives at each school
to inspire and develop talent.
U.S. Representative Bennie
Thompson (D-MS) and Nissan
executives presented representatives from Alcorn State University, Coahoma Community
College, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State
University, Rust College and
Tougaloo College with resources to support their programs.
“These six institutions have
Byrd
Pack
Nissan
Continued on page 3
FBI continues
investigation into
Mississippi hanging death
The Associated Press
PORT GIBSON, Miss. The FBI is consulting with
its behavioral analysis unit as
it continues investigating the
hanging death of Otis Byrd, a
black man in Mississippi.
Confer
Activist Flonzie
Brown Wright
shares ‘Mississippi
Stories’
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Jason Pack, supervisory
special agent for the FBI’s
Jackson, Mississippi, office,
said Monday, March 23, 2015
Byrd
Continued on page 7
Mississippi State Senate honors Callaway
High School for fourth straight basketball
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Activist Flonzie Brown Wright shares ‘Mississippi Stories’
For almost 50 years, Civil
Rights veteran Flonzie (Goodloe)
Brown Wright continues to share
stories of Mississippians, enlightening audiences throughout the
south.
Upon return to her home state
four years ago, she has been
called upon on to lecture to numerous gatherings of college and
university students.
In addition to sharing her own
first-hand experience of her involvement in the Civil Rights
Movement, she imparts from an
historical perspective on topics
that include the many struggles of
Mississippians gaining the right
to vote and the impact of gospel
and spiritual music on the movement.
However, said Wright, most
importantly she discusses the role
of young people and how students
must use their education to create
opportunities to help future generations realize the true meaning
of freedom.
Using the art of story-telling,
visuals, as well as singing the
freedom songs to bring life to the
stories, Wright said one of her favorite narratives is paying tribute
to her paternal grandfather, Robert Brown, who was the son of a
slave.
Consequently, the law in Mississippi prohibited him and his
generation from attending school.
So Brown could not read or write.
Then at the age of 16, due to a
life threatening illness, he lost his
hearing. He married and in this
union they were the parents of 13
children, all of whom worked as
sharecroppers.
What Brown could not understand was why at the end of the
harvesting season, he still owed
the landowner large sums of mon-
An authentic segregationist sign from a movie theater in Knoxville, Tennessee
Robert Brown
University of Minnesota students at Tougaloo with Brown-Wright (seated).
ey. So on a hot summer day, he
walked off the plantation with his
children.
Because he had been taught
how to work hard for a living, in
the summer time, he made molasses that he sold at 35 cents a
can. In the wintertime, he killed
and dressed hogs for $3 a head.
Year round, he was a grave digger
which netted him $7 per grave.
In 1968, Flonzie Brown Wright
became the first African American female to be elected to a position in a bi-racial town, post or
pre-reconstruction. The position
Texas Christian University students
Lone Star Community College students
of election commissioner in Canton, Mississippi, allowed her to
correct many voting injustices.
St. Louis University students at Smith Robertson Museum in Jackson
LOCAL
City Council
Nissan
Continued from page 1
and the graduate department of
public policy and administration
and the department of urban and
regional planning.
They participated in the public comments portion of the
meeting regarding current issues
facing the city such as infrastructure, water and sewer and
the recent closing of the South
Jackson’s Kroger Grocery store.
Stamps said, “We must prepare our future leaders of tomorrow, today by engaging them
with local government and other
fields, so they can receive real
world experiences. This collaborative effort with JSU also
shows the Council’s commitment in building, continuing
and strengthening relationships
across our community.”
The formal setting in the
eCenter was the backdrop to
several proclamations and resolutions honoring Mrs. Ineva
May Pittman, Rev. Clyde Tate
and in recognition of the 50th
Anniversary of the Vietnam War
Veterans represented by Post
9832.
This came on the heels of the
city’s March 23 announcement
to joined the growing list of
communities across the nation
working to end veterans’ homelessness by the end of 2015.
One of the most significant
ordinances created from this
council meeting was the unanimous council vote to establish
the Jackson Housing Trust Fund
Advisory Committee.
Forty members of Working
Together Jackson (WTJ) attended the council meeting and
filled the public comments line
with several of its members to
present the case in favor of the
ordinance.
The ordinance is the first step
toward establishing the first
Housing Trust Fund in Mississippi. WTJ members in support
of the ordinance were Hope
Enterprise Corporation, the
Mississippi Center for Justice
and allies, Metro Habitat for
Humanity, Mississippi Housing
Partnership, Jackson Housing
Authority and the Center for
Community Change.
The Housing Trust is the vehicle that will develop affordable housing in Jackson, according to WTJ leaders Rev. Jimmy
Edwards and Phil Eide, with
a direct route to applying for
federal funds reserved for cities
and states that have established
Housing Trust Funds.
WTJ representatives said
they would assist the mayor and
council in gaining Gov. Phil
Bryant’s cooperation for the
Fund.
The council will continue
study on the Fund to see how
present HUD funding may be
affected.
a rich history of continuously
advancing their programs to enhance their student’s educational
experience. This contribution
continues Nissan’s commitment
to HBCUs and to diversity, education and service in our community,” said Jeffrey Webster,
Director of Diversity and Inclusion.
Resources provided to each
institution will be used to promote a range of STEM related
programs and departments including applied sciences, engineering, math, computer and
information science and many
more.
The donation, according to a
Nissan statement, builds on the
success of Nissan Canton’s previous partnerships with HBCUs.
As a result of one such partnership, in March 2013 Nissan
donated two robots to Alcorn
State University’s Advanced
Technologies Program, which
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Congressman Thompson speaking at podium
gave students first-hand experience with the kind of technology
used in manufacturing facilities.
“I am very proud of the work
our HBCUs are doing to develop the scientists, engineers and
innovators of tomorrow,” said
Cong. Thompson. “As one of
the largest manufacturers in our
state, Nissan understands the
need to prepare today’s students
for tomorrow’s opportunities.
I applaud their demonstrated
commitment to our community
and look forward to their continued support in the future.”
at JSU, life’s journey took her
career in a slightly different
but related direction: public relations. She was appointed assistant superintendent of public
information for the Jackson
Public School District and
served as spokesperson for the
district beginning in 1990 and
lasted seven years.
Later in 1998, she was back
to her love for higher education in journalism and mass
communication at the now Belhaven University. At Belhaven,
Hayes-Anthony devoted herself to the same reputable passion for molding quality journalism students into talented
professionals, as she led and
helped this institution develop
its program.
“I’ve had the privilege
of working with Dr. Elayne
Hayes-Anthony for the past 16
years here at Belhaven University,” said associate professor
of English Rose Mary Foncree. “During that time, we’ve
worked closely together on
a number of committees and
projects. And I have come to
respect and admire her professionalism.
“Aside from building a
strong Communication department (and producing excellent
broadcast journalists), Dr. An-
thony has enjoyed the respect
and admiration of her colleagues. I like to think that I’m
her number one fan, but there
are many.”
Foncree said she has seen
Hayes-Anthony “spend many
hours outside the classroom
helping students find internships, summer jobs, and broadcasting careers. And never has
she complained that she is tired
and overworked.”
When most individuals by
now would be heading for the
easy chair, Hayes-Anthony is
still on her mission of helping students become superior
media professionals. It is with
that passion that she returns to
Tiger Nation.
Her vision is clear: “I want
this program to be nationally
recognized for excellence in
the field of journalism and mass
communication,” she said. She
desires to establish a national
internship program that will assist students in obtaining these
experiences around the nation.
She sees JSU as a clearing house where professionals
come to recruit for jobs. Personally, she would like to establish
an Anthony Mass Communication Scholarship program for
outstanding students. Part of
her plan is to bring professionals in residence back to campus
to talk with students about the
real world of media.
“I want to venture into programs that will propel JSU students internationally,” she said.
She envisions a faculty with
the professional enthusiasm to
give outstanding teaching and
research in the world of the
ever-changing media.
“I believe in the mass communication program at JSU
- with the continued help and
commitment of the students,
faculty, administrators and media, we can build a first class
program of which we can all be
proud.”
Hayes-Anthony
Journalism and Mass Communication,” said Dr. James
C. Renick, provost and senior
vice president for Academic
and Student Affairs when he
made the announcement three
months ago.
When it comes to the caliber
or level of character and ability
to do the job, Hayes-Anthony’s
career is reflective of the confidence the administration has
placed in her. The JSU alumnae, who earned both her B.S.
and M.S. degrees at the university, is a woman of many significant firsts.
She was the first AfricanAmerican female from Jackson State University to intern
at WJTV-TV12. Her work as
an intern developed into her
becoming the first AfricanAmerican female anchor there
as well.
Hayes-Anthony
attributes
that internship to her big break
into broadcast journalism,
something that she had desired
to do as a little girl. “I have always enjoyed talking and writing,” she said. “My grandfather
- O.W. Autrey -influenced me a
great deal by telling me that I
could be anything I wanted to
be.”
Reflecting on her internship
experience,
Hayes-Anthony
credits then department chair
with helping her. “I told my
department chairman Dr. Gloria B. Evans that I wanted to
be a television anchor,” she recalled. “She made an appointment with the general manager
of WJTV TV-12, Mr. Owens
Alexander, and we went to the
station to meet with him.”
It was at that meeting that her
career started. That opportunity
led to Hayes-Anthony becoming the first African-American
to win the prestigious Capitol
Broadcasting Employee Honor
Award from the station.
Her big break into this white
male dominated profession at
the time did not come without
its challenges. She would be
the first to admit that breaking
racial barriers is not easy for
obvious reasons.
“My most memorable challenge was my first day on the
air, and the Hinds County
Sheriff’s Office surrounded
the station,” she recalled. “I
remember calling by mom at
Wingfield High School and
telling her that the welcome
wagon was at the station to
welcome me. She was certainly
not convinced of that.”
Hayes-Anthony also recalls
covering a story where a national third-party candidate
came through Jackson and held
a news conference at the then
Jackson International Airport.
“I was the only female and African-American covering the
news conference,” she said.
“Before starting, the candidate turned and asked me,
‘What are you supposed to be
doing?’ I told him I was covering the story for the CBS affiliate in Jackson, Miss. He said,
‘What is this world coming
to?’”
And that slimly built trailblazing female reporter/anchor
also met with some physical
racial challenges during her
early career. One such incident
occurred during a protest at a
plant in McComb, Miss.
“I tried to get both sides of
the story,” she said. “I interviewed the protesters and then
tried to talk with management.
I was pushed down, and the
cameraman was rolling at the
time. We aired the entire scene
on the newscast.”
Later realizing that in order
to make a difference in a field
in which African-American
professionals were scarce,
more and more of them who
had the same dream as HayesAnthony, even as a little girl,
would have to be educated to
break into the field.
So to be sure she was educated for the job, off to Southern Illinois University (SIU) at
Carbondale she went. There,
she earned her Ph.D. in organizational
communication/
broadcast law. She also received a Dissertation Research
Award.
Now equipped with her doctorate, she returned to her alma
mater, earning an opportunity
to serve as the first director
of graduate studies for the department of mass communication and later as head of the
department. During her tenure
as department chair, the effort
she spearheaded, included long
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This “Stilettos on the Pavement”
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hours of work beyond the call
of duty on the part herself, faculty, staff and student workers
(often burning mid-night oil).
Those efforts paid off in
1984, as they propelled the department and university into
achieving accreditation from
the Accrediting Council on
Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication (ACEJMC) that year. ACEJMC is
the agency responsible for
the evaluation of professional
journalism and mass communication programs in colleges
and universities.
This was a crowning achievement for the university as well
as for that once little Jackson
girl who had dreams of becoming a broadcast journalist. “It
was the second time that an
HBCU received National Accreditation from ACEJMC, but
the first under the leadership of
an African-American female.
Hayes-Anthony said, “That
honor really put JSU on the
map. There were many people
in the industry that turned to
us for talent, and our students
were really sought after by the
professionals. We were able
to get meaningful grants and
professional in residence programs.”
After her tenure of 10 years
IN MEMORIAM
Beverly Nelson Shaw
September 15, 1959 - March 15, 2015
God plucked a rose from his
earthly garden on Sunday morning, March 15, 2015 and after a
courageous battle, Beverly Nelson Handy Shaw went home
to be with her Lord and Savior.
Beverly, affectionately known as
“Bebby” to her family, was born
on September 15, 1959 in Jackson, Miss. to Mr. and Mrs. Henry
& Lottie Nelson. She was the
sixth of eight children. She was
the apple of her dad’s eye, and
when she couldn’t get her way,
they would often hear her say,
“Don’t talk to Bebby!” Beverly
was preceded in death by her sister, Janice Miller, and her father,
Henry “Bud” Nelson.
As a young child, Beverly confessed Christ and was baptized at
Farish Street Baptist Church in
Jackson, Miss. She would later
join Anderson United Methodist
Church. It was Beverly’s deep
and abiding faith in God that gave
her the strength to get through the
difficult trials of her illness.
Beverly was educated in Jackson Public School District and
graduated from Lanier High
School in 1977. Beverly earned
many honors and awards at Lanier where she was a class favorite.
During her senior year, she was
selected as a senior homecoming maid, and was also inducted
in Lanier’s Maroon & White Hall
of Fame which recognized the
top seniors for their academic
and civic contributions. Beverly
delivered the commencement
speech for her class which was
entitled, “Visions of Reality.”
After graduation, Beverly attended Jackson State University
where she was member of the
prancing J-Settes!” She graduated with honors from Jackson
State with a B.S. in biology. A
compassionate person who loved
to serve others, Beverly completed paramedic training with the
University of Mississippi Medical Center; one of the first paramedics to work with the AMR
Ambulance Service, Beverly provided advanced medical care to
the citizens of Jackson.
Continuing to pursue her advanced career goals, Beverly
graduated at the top of her class
from the Jackson Fire Academy
and was awarded the “Top Student Award.”
While with the City of Jackson’s Fire Department, Beverly
worked long hours, and was
well-respected by her peers in
the firehouse. She was ultimately
promoted to EMS coordinator in
1991, becoming both the first female and first African American
to serve in this position.
She taught emergency medical
refresher classes to Emergency
Medical Technicians (EMTs),
and also served as an instructor
on the training staff. A pioneer
in her field, she served as a role
model for many female fire personnel who would later follow
her.
During her tenure with the City,
Beverly was also promoted to fire
captain, served as a reserve JPD
officer, and sat on the advisory
Board for Hinds Junior College.
Beverly loved animals and
at one time wanted to become a
veterinarian. She worked at the
Powell Veterinary Clinic in Jackson, often bringing home stray
animals and caring for them.
Beverly married Cecil Handy
who preceded her in death. She
would later meet Richard Shaw,
the other half of her heartbeat
while teaching dance at Adhiambo School. These two would
spend the next 29 years building
a dynasty with their two sons,
Richard Allen Handy and Shimon Christopher Thomas Shaw.
Beverly worked tirelessly at
Richard’s side to help start Dynastics, their screenprinting and
promotional business.
Soul-mates and business partners, Richard and Beverly completed their dynasty when they
eloped while on family vacation
in Disney World in
2007.
Beverly loved her
family, and she will
be especially missed
by her mom, Lottie. They would talk
daily and after Beverly retired, she and
her mom would go
‘junk” shopping often. The highlight of
their shopping trips
would be curly fries
from Arby’s.
Her
memories
will be cherished by her loving
husband, Richard Shaw; devoted
sons, Richard Allen Handy and
Shimon Christopher Thomas
Shaw, all of Jackson, Miss.;
her mom, Lottie Nelson, Flora,
Miss.; Three sisters, Patricia (Lamar) Radney, Birmingham, Ala.;
Rochelle (Burton) Ballard, Phoenix, Ariz.; Gloria Nelson, Flora,
Miss.; three brothers, Darryl
(Mildred) Moore, Bolton, Miss.;
Frederick (Adriann) Nelson,
Houston, Texas; Steve Nelson,
Flora, Miss.; Three grandchildren, Caleb, Elijah and Bailey
Shavers; Four stepchildren, Gerald Gettis, Latonya Anderson, Alphonso Johnson, Blake Stoner; a
goddaughter, Angela Powell; and
a host of nieces, nephews, and
other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Satuday, March 21, 2015.
Austin Curry Ross Sr.
February 2, 1932 - March 11, 2015
Austin Curry (“AC”) Ross Sr.
was born in Magnolia, Miss.,
Tuesday, February 2, 1932 as the
second son of TC (“Tom”) and
Leucretia (Simmons) Ross. AC
was baptized at an early age and
attended the church of his ancestry, Kelly Missionary Baptist
Church in rural Magnolia, near
the township of Osyka.
He grew up working his parents’ farm, learning to garden,
taking care of animals, and the
enjoying sport of fishing and
hunting. He attended Rose Hill
High School and in later years
served as a board member of the
high school family reunion.
AC served his country in the
Army during the Korean War
conflict. He returned to the state
and began working his way from
the South to the eastern shores
helping to complete the New
Jersey pipeline.
It was November 1954 when
a 22-year-old AC first met
21-year-old Dora Glasper one
weekend during a night on the
town in Dora’s hometown of
Houma, La.
It was less than a year later,
Thursday, May 12, 1955, when
he married his sweetheart after
moving to Milwaukee, Wis. to
find suitable work.
They soon initiated God’s
command to be fruitful and multiply, adding six boys to their
family: Steven in 1957, Melvin in 1958, twins Bernell and
Vernell in 1959, Roosevelt in
1960, and Austin Jr. in 1962.
In 1957, AC and his young
bride joined in fellowship with
Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist
Church, in Milwaukee, under
the sequential pastorates of C.V.
Harrington and Leroy B. Mixon.
There, he became a trustee and
then served as a deacon.
He raised his six boys in the
church. He loved to sing, displaying a delightfully smooth
baritone voice; he sang in the
male chorus and the gospel
chorus faithfully throughout his
years there. AC also served as
the director of the Youth Department in the early 1970s, producing future leaders for the church.
His love for good music (and
Dora’s) translated into a serious
musical passion for his sons and
ultimately his grandchildren.
AC filled his station wagon to
over-capacity as he carted his
sons (The Gospel Messengers)
and their “groupies” from one
singing engagement to another.
Never was a father more proud
of his singing-sons than AC of
the “Ross Boys.”
He worked in a variety of capacities, generally in blue collar
labor. During his 30-year stint
with the Coca Cola Bottling Co.,
he was elected and served with
distinction as the union steward. He was also very active in
initiating and leading numerous
family reunions and served as its
national treasurer until his death.
In 1997, AC retired and moved
back to the land of his birth with
his bride. He rejoined Kelly
Church and served as a deacon.
In the midway point of the
first decade of the 21st century, he joined Walker’s Chapel
Freewill Baptist Church of McComb, Miss., under the pastoral
leadership of Gregory Partman,
serving on the church’s deacon
board.
Upon the death of his wife,
Dora, he returned home to Kelly
Baptist where he remained until he took ill and lived out his
remaining months in Jackson,
Miss., under hospice and family
care.
Austin, who was affectionately known by his children and
grandchildren as “Superman,”
entered into eternal life Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 11:28
p.m. He was preceded in death
by his parents; two
brothers, Roosevelt
Ross and Major
Curtis Ross; one
sister,
Geraldine
Ross; his son Melvin Ross; and his
beloved wife of 58
years, Dora.
He is survived
by five children,
Steven (Olivia) of
Milwaukee, Wis.,
Bernell (Youlander)
of Jackson, Miss.,
Vernell
(Beverley) of Dallas, Texas, Roosevelt
(Debra) of Milwaukee, and
Austin Jr. of Milwaukee; two
brothers, Wallace (Shirleen) of
Magnolia, Miss., and Rolland
(Birdie) Ross; a sister-in-law,
Lillie Mae Simmons; and a host
of cousins, nieces, nephews,
grandchildren,
grand-nieces,
grand-nephews, other relatives
and friends.
Craft Funeral Home, at 210
Martin Luther King Dr., McComb, Miss. hosted visitation,
Friday, March 20. The funeral,
burial, and repast were held
at Kelly Missionary Baptist
Church, 7005 Osyka Progress
Rd., Osyka, Miss., Saturday,
March 21, 2015. Rev. Kendal
Poole officiated and Rev. Gregory Partman presented the eulogy.
Stephanie Parker-Weaver, “the fighter, warrior,” passes
By Stephanie R. Jones
Contributing Writer
Ask just about anybody
about community activist and
advocate Stephanie ParkerWeaver and you’ll hear words
like “fighter, warrior, committed and passionate.”
Parker-Weaver
built
a
strong reputation as one who
fought hard for the civil and
human rights of others. Her
efforts were felt in areas in
Jackson and throughout the
state of Mississippi. Her “unstoppable” attitude earned her
the nickname “Sister Hurricane.”
A Jackson native, ParkerWeaver died Tuesday, March
24, 2015 at St. Dominic Hospital, from congestive heart
failure, according to her husband Cordell Weaver, who
was by her side. She was 52.
One of her last passions was
providing service and encouragement to breast cancer patients and survivors, through
a nonprofit organization she
founded in 2008, Rebirth Alliance, Inc. She too was a survivor of a rare form of breast
cancer.
In 1999, Parker-Weaver was
key advocate in a successful fight to keep residents of
Canton and Madison County
from losing their land under
a state plan to take it by eminent domain for development
of the Nissan North America
facility.
She was actively involved
in former Jackson Mayor
Frank Melton’s elections and
worked with his administration. She helped re-establish
a Jackson chapter of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference and served
as its executive secretary and
worked in the Jackson Branch
of the NAACP.
She was a 1980 graduate of
Callaway High School and attended Jackson State University and Tougaloo College.
Bishop Jeffrey Stallworth
of Word and Worship Church,
where Parker-Weaver attended, has known her for more
than 35 years.
“She was strong, she was
serious and she was steady
and steadfast in everything
that she did - in her causes,
in her marriage, in her spirituality,” said Stallworth, who
performed her and Weaver’s
wedding and recommitment
ceremonies.
U.S. Congressman Bennie
G. Thompson said, “Stephanie was a fighter until the end.
She did a tremendous amount
of good for the Jackson community and will be greatly
missed by her friends.”
Wayne McDaniels, Jackson Branch NAACP president, said, “Weaver was one
of the most dedicated persons
that graced this city and state.
Her determination and hard
work for what she believed
in will never be matched. The
NAACP family will miss her
and keep her memories dear
to us.”
State Rep. James “Jimmy”
Evans worked with ParkerWeaver in re-establishing the
Mississippi chapter of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference and on the
Canton Nissan issue.
“She adopted the causes of
black and white landowners,”
Evans said. Parker-Weaver
organized a team of lawyers
(and funds for the fight), who
took the case all the way to
the U.S. Supreme Court and
emerged victorious in 2002,
he said.
Erik Fleming called ParkerWeaver his sister and mentor in the struggle for human
rights and dignity. “We didn’t
always agree or take the same
side on every campaign/issue,
but more times than not, we
stood together to challenge
the comfortable and comfort
the challenged,” said Fleming.
He said her appeal broadened with breast cancer activities, especially pushing
awareness of the Her2 gene
that predisposes some to a
rare form of breast cancer.
“And she did it really well,”
he added.
Brenda Scott, another ally
of Parker-Weaver’s, called
her a friend who stood against
all odds for what was right.
“Whether it was the eminent domain fight with Nissan, fighting back against
her rare form of cancer, over
which she claimed healing;
fighting back against her congestive heart failure even after
she knew additional surgery
wasn’t an option, against the
UMMC when she was convinced that monies set aside
for a cancer treatment destination was being used for
others purposes; just a fighter
with a purpose always,” said
Scott.
During the 2014 Christmas
season, the alliance provided
pink blankets and other items
to those receiving chemo
treatment at St. Dominic Hospital because she knew they
would be cold in the hospital.
All who spoke of ParkerWeaver also mentioned her
husband of 26 years, Cordell
Weaver. He said he and Steph-
anie have married
each other three
times but have
never divorced.
The first time
was 1988. The
second was 20
years later after
she became ill
with cancer. The
third was at 25
years when she
was cancer free.
Bishop
Stallworth, who performed all the
ceremonies, the
couple
“speak
love
through
each.”
Weaver
said
Stephanie was especially proud of
the autobiography
she wrote in 2009,
Rebirth: A Breast
Cancer Journey
of Many; Survival Parker-Weaver, Sept. 30, 1962 - March 24, 2015
of Few, and the
founding of Rebirth.
charge of arrangements. SerIn addition to her husband, vices will be held Saturday,
Parker-Weaver is survived March 28, 10 a.m. at Word
by stepsons Marcus Weaver, and Worship InterdenominaMichael Weaver and Maurice tional Church, 6286 HangWeaver. She was preceded ing Moss Rd., Jackson, MS
in death by her father, Civil 39206.
Rights Attorney Frank Parker
Stephanie R. Jones can be
and mother Carolyn.
reached at srjones13@gmail.
People’s Funeral Home has com or (601) 454-0372.
NATIONAL
Preparing for 2016 campaign,
Hillary Clinton embracing Obama
By Julie Pace And Ken Thomas
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Rather than
keeping him at arm’s length, Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing
President Barack Obama - sometimes even literally.
Clinton had been expected to
look for some ways to separate
herself from the president to avoid
the impression that having her in
the White House would amount
to a third Obama term. But as she
prepares for another presidential
campaign, Clinton has aligned
herself with Obama far more often
than not.
On Monday, a few hours after meeting Obama at the White
House, Clinton tweeted a list of
accomplishments of the president’s health care law on its fifth
anniversary. “Repeal those things?
Embrace them!” she declared,
posting an old photo of herself extending her arms to hug Obama at
the White House.
The tactics carry risk with an
electorate that often seeks change
after one party runs the White
House for eight years. Republicans are already warning voters
that Clinton would merely cement
Obama’s most unpopular policies
and continue in his vein.
“She will have to break with
Obama significantly and substantively if she wants to win,” said
Phil Musser, a former executive
director of the Republican Governors Association. “Obama is no
Reagan, and America is ready for
the end of his presidency, not the
extension of it.”
Clinton, who is expected to announce her campaign in April,
hasn’t presented an overarching
message of where she would take
the country. For now, she’s talking about finding consensus and
building on “what has worked in
the past.”
She has also begun taking on
the Republican-led Congress recently blasting the House GOP
budget plan on Twitter, the letter
written by Senate Republicans
that was seen as interference in
Iran nuclear talks and delays in the
confirmation Loretta Lynch as attorney general.
Aligning herself with Obama
may pose fewer risks than once
thought. While his approval rating is still under 50 percent, it has
stabilized following a noticeable
dip last year. Obama could help
Clinton connect with the diverse
coalition of voters who powered
him to two victories. And perhaps
more important, the economy is
steadily improving, with job creation up and unemployment down
to 5.5 percent.
Dan Pfeiffer, a longtime Obama
adviser who recently left the White
House, said that while he expects
Clinton to break with the president
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks
in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Rather than
keeping him at arm’s length, Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing
President Barack Obama - sometimes even literally. AP Photo/Manuel
Balce Ceneta, File
when she actually disagrees with
him, it would be unwise to create
differences where none truly exists.
“Manufacturing agreement or
disagreement to score some political points would be a mistake,”
Pfeiffer said. “Candidates that get
all tangled up trying align with or
separate from their party or their
president have a very poor track
record of success.”
While Clinton has been avoiding substantive policy splits with
the president, she’s suggesting her
presidency would mark a change
in style. While Obama has long
been criticized for his lack of outreach to Congress, Clinton has emphasized the importance of having
strong ties across the aisle, saying
“I don’t think there’s any substitute to building relationships.”
Hillary and Bill Clinton know
firsthand what it’s like to be in the
White House when an ally is running for the Oval Office.
In 2000, Vice President Al Gore
distanced himself from Bill Clinton’s impeachment battles and
some of his centrist policies, framing the contest against Republican
George W. Bush as “the people
versus the powerful.” Bill Clinton
said in his autobiography that the
message mobilized conservative
interest groups against Gore.
“The problem with the slogan
was that it didn’t give Al the full
benefit of our record of economic
and social progress or put into
sharp relief Bush’s explicit commitment to undo that progress,”
Bill Clinton wrote. The populist
approach, he argued, “sounded to
some swing voters that Al, too,
might change the economic direction of the country.”
One of Hillary Clinton’s most
public breaks with Obama came
last summer when she took a
veiled shot at his “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff” foreign policy doctrine.
In an interview with The Atlantic
magazine, she said, “Great nations
need organizing principles, and
‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”
Clinton scrambled to walk back
the jab, calling up her old boss to
try to smooth things over. Obama
and Clinton met in person a few
days later and “hugged it out,”
aides said.
Still, foreign policy matters
could be an area of divergence,
reflecting Clinton’s position as
one of the more hawkish members of his first-term national se-
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By Holbrook Mohr
Associated Press
FERGUSON, Mo. - Along
a short stretch of winding road
through a nondescript apartment
complex, two memorials of
stuffed animals mark the spots
where young men died. The
sites are separated by roughly
1,000 feet, but in a sense are
worlds apart.
One is for Michael Brown,
whose fatal shooting by a Ferguson police officer ignited
months of protests and unrest
and started a national conversation about race and law enforcement tactics.
The other is for DeAndre
Joshua, a young black man
found shot to death and set on
fire on Nov. 25, the morning
after a grand jury decided not
to indict Officer Darren Wilson
in Brown’s death and Ferguson
erupted in another round of violence. Outside his circle of family and friends, Joshua’s name is
mostly unknown.
There have been no arrests.
Police have few leads. And
while 40 people claimed to have
seen some aspect of the confrontation that led to Brown’s
death, police have turned up not
a single cooperating eyewitness
to Joshua’s slaying.
The U.S. Justice Department
would find that Wilson was justified in shooting Brown. But
in another report, it determined
that minorities in Ferguson are
disproportionately stopped and
searched, fined for petty offenses and subject to excessive
police force.
If blacks have reason to distrust police, that distrust also
makes it harder for police to
investigate crimes - especially
in Ferguson, especially over
the past eight months. “Just
with that time frame, with the
whole Michael Brown case, and
the hatred toward law enforcement, our detectives are having
a tough time with people coming forward and letting us know
what happened,” said Shawn
McGuire, a spokesman for the
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curity team. But there have been
few public signs of that in recent
months.
Clinton has avoided commenting on U.S.-Israeli relations in
recent weeks, which have been
strained by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to
Palestinian statehood and his late
campaign warning that Arab voters were heading to the polls “in
droves,” comments he has since
backtracked.
Clinton also has largely backed
Obama’s decision to take military
action against the Islamic State
group in Iraq and Syria. She’s supported his nuclear negotiations
with Iran and joined him in sharply criticizing Republican senators
who wrote to Tehran’s leadership
warning that Congress could disrupt a deal.
It’s unclear whether Clinton
will ultimately back a nuclear
deal if the U.S. and its negotiating
partners achieve one. But she was
involved in the administration’s
early efforts to start secret talks
with the Iranians, dispatching her
policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, to
lead them.
“It’s by no means a referendum completely on the current
president,” Democratic strategist
Mike Feldman said of the 2016
campaign. “It will be a choice, and
President Obama won’t be one of
the choices.”
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Joshua, poses for a photo at her home in University City, Mo. Her 20year old son was killed in the hours after the Nov. 24, 2014 announcement that a white police officer would not be indicted in the killing of
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St. Louis County Police Department, which is investigating
Joshua’s death.
Police must also contend with
the fear that cooperation with
authorities invites retribution
from criminals.
Regardless of the reason, DeAndre Joshua’s killer remains
at large. And his loved ones are
angry.
“If it was me, if I knew something like that, it would eat my
brain up not to tell,” said his
mother, Maria Joshua, in an interview at her home. “Because if
you don’t, they are going to do
it to someone else. And just put
yourself in my shoes. What if it
was your family member?”
Joshua was 20 years old, an
aspiring rapper and overnight
stocker at Wal-Mart. Known to
his buddies as “Twin,” and described by friends and relatives
as playful and quick to smile,
he graduated from Jennings Senior High School, and lived at
the time of his death with his
mother and siblings in University City, about a 20-minute drive
south from Ferguson. He spent
his last day hanging out with
relatives at his aunt’s house in
Ferguson, where he often stayed
to be closer to his job.
Joshua had had brushes with
the law in the past, but his family said he was on the right track.
They insist that he wasn’t involved in dealing drugs or gang
activity -and did not join in the
protests or riots that followed
Brown’s death.
Records show that he was arrested in St. Louis in April 2013
for resisting arrest, when Joshua, his twin brother and three
others were in a white Chevrolet
Impala that was believed to be
used in an armed robbery. One
of the men allegedly pointed a
gun at police officers before the
Impala sped off, and they all ran
or resisted when the car stopped
after a chase, according to court
documents; Joshua was given a
suspended jail sentence and probation.
In anticipation of the grand
jury’s decision, Wal-Mart had
decided to close, and Joshua was
happy to have the night off.
According to interviews with
relatives and friends, he spent
the afternoon and evening visiting with his cousins at his aunt’s
house. At 7:48 p.m., Joshua,
who liked to share pictures of
himself flashing cash, posted
his last public message on Face-
Ferguson
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HEALTH
Male nurses scarce but make more Obama says he’s ready to sign
money than women RNs: study
medicare doctor payment fix
By Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO - Even in an occupation that women overwhelmingly dominate, they still
earn less than men, a study of
nurses found.
The gender gap for registered nurses’ salaries amounts
to a little over $5,000 yearly on
average and it hasn’t budged
in more than 20 years. That
pay gap may not sound big it’s smaller than in many other
professions - but over a long
career, it adds up to more than
$150,000, said study author Ulrike Muench, a professor and
researcher at the University of
California, San Francisco.
“We were somewhat surprised to see that this gap was
so persistent over the years,
given the female-dominated
profession where you would
think women may have caught
up with men” or surpassed
them, Muench said.
Five key points about nursing
and the new study, published in
Tuesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association:
Women Outearned
The average 2013 salary for
male nurses was about $70,000,
versus about $60,000 for women. Taking into account factors
that influence salary including
geographic location, nursing
specialty and years of experience trimmed that $10,000 pay
gap by about half. The gap was
smaller in hospitals than in outpatient centers but it existed in
all nursing specialties except
orthopedics.
The biggest pay gap by position - about $17,300 - was for
nurse anesthetists; the smallest
- nearly $4,000 - was for middle-management nurses.
While average annual nursing salary for both genders has
increased since 1988, the first
year studied, the pay gap has
remained unchanged.
Men Outnumbered
Among the more than two
million registered nurses nationwide, about 10 percent are
men, according to 2013 data,
the most recent year studied.
Census data show the gender
gap in nursing has narrowed
a little since 1970, when only
about three percent of nurses
were men.
More men are getting nursing degrees than in previous
decades, so the gender gap is
likely to continue to shrink,
said Peter McMenamin, health
economist for the American
Nurses Association, an advocacy group. He was not involved in the study.
Study Methods
The researchers analyzed
1990-2008 salary trends from
a discontinued government
survey of registered nurses,
and from U.S. Census community surveys in 2001-13.
Nearly 300,000 registered
nurses were involved in both
data sets.
The Reasons
The study didn’t examine
why the pay gap exists, but
Muench listed several possible reasons:
-Some women nurses may
leave the work force to have
children, returning to a lower
pay scale than male peers who
continued working during
those absences.
-Male nurses may be better at negotiating pay raises,
as has been suggested in research on gender pay gaps in
other professions.
-Gender discrimination.
Muench said studies are
needed to determine whether
any of these explains the gap.
The Quote
“Are we surprised? No. Are
we dismayed? Yes,” McMenamin said. “Any pay differentials should reflect differences in experience and skill
and not simply differences in
gender.”
Ferguson
book: “All I want is sum money.”
Along with his relatives, and
still wearing his Wal-Mart uniform, Joshua watched the violence unfold on the TV news.
Joshua sent a private message
to his girlfriend, Georgia Young,
saying he needed to pick up a
coat from her apartment in the
Canfield Green complex, steps
from where Brown had been
killed. Sometime that evening it’s not entirely clear when, but
it was at least a couple of hours
after he had sent the message Young said Joshua showed up
at her apartment.
Joshua was in and out of
the apartment, Young said. At
one point, well after midnight,
he returned to the house of his
aunt, Monique Joshua, to pick
up an iPad he said he had been
trying to sell. He had left her
house earlier with two iPads,
before returning for the third,
his aunt said.
The last time he returned to
Georgia Young’s apartment, she
said he stayed for about a half
hour before slipping out of his
pants and into bed. Five minutes
later, sometime around 2 a.m.,
Joshua suddenly got out of bed,
grabbed three iPads and his pistol, and departed, without saying where he was going. Young
said it wasn’t unusual for him
to have a weapon, because in
that neighborhood, “everybody
carries a gun.” She did find it
unusual that he left behind the
iPads’ chargers if he was trying
to sell the devices.
After leaving Young’s apartment, Joshua showed up at
another apartment in Canfield
Green and knocked on the door
of a friend, Sabrina Webb - a
cousin of Michael Brown’s. It
was between 2:30 and 3 a.m.,
Webb said. She said Joshua
banged on the door so hard that
it startled her. He was usually
playful - he might cover the peep
hole after he knocked. But now,
“It seemed like he was afraid
of something,” Webb said. “He
was looking all around like he
needed to come in, but he never
asked to come in.”
A tall, thin black man with
“a low haircut,” someone she
did not know, stood off to the
side. She asked Joshua who
the stranger was, and the man
quickly responded, “I’m his
cousin.”
“DeAndre looked up at him
like it wasn’t his cousin, but
like he didn’t want to disagree
with him, like he was afraid,”
Webb recalled.
Webb said Joshua turned
around and trotted down the
stairs. The unknown man followed after him, catching up to
Joshua in the parking lot. They
walked away together. The entire visit lasted a minute or so,
Webb said.
About an hour after sunrise
the next morning, Joshua’s
corpse was found in the driver’s
seat of his white 2004 Pontiac
Grand Prix. He had been shot
once in the left side of his head,
and had been set on fire with
some sort of accelerant that left
burns on his arm, fingers and
legs. Based on the body’s condition, police say they believe
he had been dead for several
hours.
--Word spread quickly, fueled
by blogs and Facebook postings, that Joshua had been murdered because he had testified
before the grand jury investigating Brown’s death, presumably giving a version favorable
to police. The rumor gained
traction when people pointed
out the words spray-painted on
the wall of a burned gas station
nearby: “Snitches Get Stitches.”
It was so pervasive that the
county prosecutor’s office felt
compelled to publicly state
that Joshua had not appeared
before the grand jury.
Ferguson, with 21,000
residents, is not a large town.
Perhaps inevitably, while
there has been no indication
that Joshua and Brown knew
each other, they did have
connections. Webb was one.
Another was Joshua’s longtime friend Dorian Johnson,
who had been with Brown
when he was killed and subsequently told contradictory
stories about what he had
seen and what had occurred.
Johnson told AP in a telephone interview that he was
not sure why Joshua was out
that time of morning, but
speculated that it was probably “to support me.”
Johnson agreed to an
in-person interview about
Joshua early last month; the
AP arranged to use a conference room at the Ferguson
Municipal Public Library,
but he never showed up and
stopped responding to messages.
Johnson hasn’t been the
only one reluctant to talk
about Joshua and his death.
An AP reporter attempted to
interview more than a dozen
residents who live in the immediate vicinity of where Joshua’s
body was found, but most declined. There is a lot of suspicion in this neighborhood, and
few answers.
The same day that AP interviewed Young and others at
Canfield Green and Northwinds
Apartments, the neighboring
complex where his body was
found, someone threw a sparkplug through the living room
window of Maria Joshua’s
home in a nearby city. Whether
or not the incident was related
to her son’s death, it frightened
her.
By Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON - President
Barack Obama said Wednesday
that he’s ready to sign good bipartisan legislation to fix Medicare’s doctor payment problem,
without endorsing any specific
legislation.
Without a fix, doctors face a 21
percent cut in Medicare fees, the
consequence of a 1990s budget
law that Congress has repeatedly
waived.
The House is expected to vote
Thursday on a bill with rare support from both top leaders in the
House that would permanently
fix the problem. Obama backed
the idea of a fix at a White House
event marking this week’s fiveyear anniversary of his signing
the Affordable Care Act, while
stopping short of backing the
House compromise.
“As we speak, Congress is
working to fix the Medicare physician payment system. I have
my pen ready to sign a good bipartisan bill,” he said.
Asked later if that means
Obama would sign the House
bill, White House press secretary
Josh Earnest said the administration doesn’t have a position on
it. But Earnest said the White
House puts “a lot of stock” into
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s position in support of the
legislation.
Republican House Speaker
John Boehner also is behind the
bill, in an unusual show of bipartisanship on health care amid
the battles over President Barack
Obama’s overhaul. “If something bipartisan emerges from
the House, that would be good
news,” Earnest said.
The House bills calls for a period of basically stable reimbursements, followed by gradually
President Barack Obama speaks on the fifth anniversary of his healthcare law, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in the South Court Auditorium
of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
shifting a larger share of doctors’
pay so that it’s keyed to quality,
rather than quantity, of service.
The Medicare fix is packaged
with an extension of children’s
health insurance, funding for
community health centers and
dozens of other provisions. The
outlook in the Senate is unclear.
The legislation aims for the
political center and is being criticized from the right and the left.
Conservatives don’t like that
most of the cost will be added to
the federal deficit. Liberals object
to higher premiums for upperincome beneficiaries, when drug
companies are not being asked to
share the burden through Medicare rebates.
Obama also announced a costcutting effort that the White
House calls a Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network. The White House said
more than 2,800 health care providers, patients and consumer
groups have agreed to take part.
The goal is to tie more payments for health care services to
the quality - not quantity - of services rendered. Earlier this year
the administration set a goal to
tie 30 percent of Medicare payments to quality and value, but
Obama wants to go further.
“A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an
inefficient system with a lot of
waste that didn’t also deliver the
kind of quality that was needed
that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted
to do better for their patients,
but financial incentives were
skewed the other way,” Obama
said.
“We don’t need to reinvent the
wheel - you’re already figuring
out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs,”
Obama told health care providers gathered in the Eisenhower
Executive Office Building next
to the West Wing. “What we
have to do is to share these best
practices, these good ideas, including new ways to pay for care
so that we’re rewarding quality.”
that it could be days before investigators receive an autopsy
report for 54-year-old Otis
Byrd.
The report is expected to
show whether Byrd was killed
or committed suicide. Officials
have said 30 state, local and
federal investigators are on the
case.
However, Claiborne County
Sheriff Marvin Lucas Sr. said
Friday that Byrd’s hands were
not bound and it appeared Byrd
had not stepped off anything.
Meanwhile, about a dozen
people gathered Monday in
downtown Port Gibson to
show support for Byrd’s fam-
ily, though his relatives did not
attend. They called on authorities to thoroughly investigate
the death.
Byrd’s body was found
Thursday, March 19, hanging
by a sheet from a tree in a rural area outside Port Gibson, a
small town near the Mississippi
River.
His body is being cremated,
and a memorial service is set
for Friday, March 27, Brenda
Chambers of Rollins Funeral
Home said.
Elmo Cooper and Darrell
Noble, who graduated from
Port Gibson High School in
1978 with Byrd, said they be-
lieve he would not have taken
his own life.
Byrd served about 26 years
in prison after being convicted
of killing a store owner in Claiborne County in 1980. Noble
said Byrd reconnected with
friends and adjusted well after
leaving prison. He said Byrd
attended class reunions in 2008
and 2013.
Cooper said when he and
Byrd were in high school, they
would talk about what they’d
do if something terrible ever
happened in their lives.
“He was very adamant, very
adamant that he would never
take his own life,” Cooper said.
“What I’m afraid of is the unknown, seriously, the unknown.
I don’t know who did this, and
why. But I do want some justice,” Maria Joshua said.
So much is unknown: Was
it the jealous ex-boyfriend of
a lover? Was he set up for a
robbery? Did someone with a
score to settle use the chaos of
that night to shoot him while
bullets were literally flying all
over town?
Webb told the AP that Joshua did not have any iPads with
him when she saw him. Police
won’t say if they recovered
iPads or a gun in the car with
Joshua’s body, citing the on-
going investigation. Joshua’s
mother told the AP investigators found $360 in her son’s
pocket. It’s not clear, then, if
robbery could have been a motive.
Maria Joshua said the description of the man given
by Webb does not resemble
any of her son’s cousins. She
added that to her knowledge,
none of his cousins went with
him to Webb’s apartment that
morning.
She said police haven’t told
her much - they say they do
not want to compromise their
investigation. They have yet to
talk to Joshua’s friend, Webb.
Teresa Williams, who lives
in an apartment adjoining the
parking lot where the body
was found, told AP she saw
the car that morning through
her window and was disturbed
to learn that a man had died.
She said police interviewed
her that day, and she told them
she heard gunshots all night
long, but wasn’t sure when
the one that killed Joshua was
fired.
“They asked me if I stuck my
head out to see who was shooting,” she recalled, standing in
the doorway of her apartment
and shaking her head. “I said,
‘Why would I do that?’”
Byrd
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JPS Public and Media Relations professionals
recognized by statewide organization
Media professionals with the
Jackson Public School District
were recognized as first, second
and third place winners in the
Mississippi School Public Relations Association’s (MSPRA)
Awards of Excellence statewide
competition.
Instructional Television received first place in the audio
visual category for a promotional video produced to promote
the JPS Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube pages. Graphic arts
received first place for publishing the JPS Annual Report. The
finance department received
second and third place honors
for their electronic newsletter
entitled “Finance Publications.”
“Effective communications is
critical to the success of school
systems,” said Katherine Nelson, president of MSPRA. “In
today’s economic climate, it has
never been more important for
us to tell the story of public education. This group does it better
than anyone.”
During the awards dinner held
Superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray (center) with JPS Public and Media Relations professionals during the March 3, 2015, Board meeting
in Jackson, school districts and
school public relations professionals across the state were
honored for their publications,
marketing efforts and online
communications. The recogni-
tions are part of MSPRA’s annual Awards of Excellence program.
Also on the final day of the recent annual conference, Sherwin
Johnson, executive director of
JPS Public and Media Relations,
was elected president of the association.
Mississippi State Senate honors Callaway High
School for fourth straight basketball championship
Standing left to right are Senators Hillman T. Frazier and Sollie B. Norwood, assistant coach Trent
Hysten, Jaquarious Kinnard, J’varui Thigpen, Decardo Day, head coach David Sanders, Senator
John Horhn, Jamal Bolden, Marcus Summerville and Senator David Blount
The Mississippi Senate honored Callaway High School
boys basketball team with presentation of Senate Concurrent
Resolution 625, commending
their winning of a fourth straight
state championship title.
USA Today’s Super 25 ranked
Callaway as the No. 4 program
in the country. Callaway has
won six championships in the
past seven years.
Their dominance has drawn
national attention for its players, who turned down the opportunity to represent the state
by playing in Dick’s Sporting
Goods High School Nationals
because of an antiquated Mississippi High School Activities
Association rule that prevented
them from accepting the trip.
Head coach David Sanders
told the senate most of his players, including stars like Malik
Newman, the high scoring wonder of the team, were unable to
attend because of testing, but
thanked them for the honor and
said it was his goal to again win
the state title next season.
Senator John Horhn, primary
author of the resolution, said he
would draft legislation to seek
removal of the ancient law.
EDUCATION
JSU students front and center
at Jackson City Council meeting
Dr. Patricia Murrain, coordinator of speech studies, addresses the Jackson City
Council, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Looking on are speech communications and
theatre students Whitney Gibson, Randrika Henderson, Briana Davis; political
science junior Justin Wills, and speech communications and theatre junior Delbert Griffin. Photos by Charles A. Smith, JSU
JSU President Carolyn W. Meyers (left) watches the Jackson City Council Tuesday, March 24, 2015, along with (from left): Dr. Mary M. White, interim vice president of institutional advancement; Dr. William McHenry, executive director of
the Mississippi e-Center @JSU; and Dr. Otha Burton, executive director, JSU
Institute of Government.
Jordan Carter, a junior in political science, complains about deteriorating
streets at the Jackson City Council meeting held at the Mississippi e-Center @
JSU, March 24, 2015.
Jackson State University students stood front and center at
the Jackson City Council meeting
Tuesday held at the Mississippi eCenter at JSU.
Early on during the lengthy
meeting that went on well into
the night, JSU student interns and
Council members were recognized
by Council President DeKeither
Stamps, who lauded their enthusiasm, hard work and importance
to keeping the meetings going
smoothly.
Dr. Patricia Murrain, coordinator of speech studies, addressed
the Council, introducing the students to the packed ballroom at
the e-Center. Receiving applause
were speech communications and
theatre students Whitney Gibson,
Randrika Henderson, Briana Da-
Mary Elizabeth Gilbert Manogin, a graduate student, told the
Council that substantive urban
and regional planning issues are in
critical need. Citing the loss of the
South Jackson Kroger store, she
suggested the Council:
- Approve tax increment financing for the area around Kroger, to
provide incentives for new businesses;
- Consider more public/private
partnerships that produced such
successes as the e-Center that was
converted from an abandoned
building to a high-technology research facility, and the Jackson
Medical Mall which is now a
leader in health care and houses
JSU’s School of Health Sciences,
College of Public Service.
Mayor Tony Yarber welcomed
Manogin’s suggestions and said
ing on an Infrastructure Master
Plan that the Council is addressing.
Not only current students, but
former students and their ties were
prominent at the meeting. Yarber, a
JSU grad, praised the university, as
did Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth I.
Stokes, who noted he was an alum
as well as members of his family.
That prompted Ward 5 Councilman Charles Tillman to remind the
Council that JSU is in his district.
The invocation was given by
JSU Pastor Elbert McGowan.
The Council also honored
81-year-old activist and retired
school teacher Ineva May Pittman
with its 2015 Woman of the Year
Award. The 1956
The JSU grad urged everyone in
attendance to step up their community involvement. “I’m challenging each of you to give something
vis, Political Science junior Justin
Wills, and speech communications
and theatre junior Delbert Griffin.
Also singled out for her service
as an intern by the Council was
Terriannah Anderson. “I’m very
honored to be here tonight,” said
the freshman in graphic design
from Jackson.
President Carolyn W. Meyers
earlier in the meeting had welcomed the Council to the JSU
campus, noting that JSU and the
city are inextricably linked in the
development of the city. “It’s important to us because if the city
thrives, the university will thrive,”
adding, “We’re all in this together.”
In that vein, between the many
motions for authorizing contracts
and paying bills, the Council heard
from students about city issues that
need to be addressed.
the JSU Department of Urban and
Regional Planning and its students
have proven invaluable in helping
shape innovation in the Capital
City.
The Council also got an earful
about potholes in and around the
JSU campuses and the city where
students reside.
Both Jordan Carter, a junior in
Political Science, and Kiyadh Burt,
a senior in Political Science, detailed road woes that have caused
students, their parents, and local
citizens astronomical auto repair
costs for wheel alignments, broken
suspensions, and flat tires.
“We didn’t get here overnight,”
Yaber said about the deteriorating streets. They were a long time
coming and will take some time to
fix.
Yarber said that the city is work-
back to the community,” she said.
Jean C. Frazier, state relations
coordinator, JSU Division of Institutional Advancement, said the
Council previously held a meeting
at the Student Center in 2013. Dr.
William McHenry, executive director of the e-Center, said this is
the first time the Council has met
there.
“It’s good to have the City
Council back,” said Meyers. “We
are pleased to share our resources
with them because our futures are
intertwined.”
Noting that JSU will also be
hosting a meeting of the Hinds
County Board of Supervisors this
year, Dr. Otha Burton, executive
director, JSU Institute of Government, said “it’s good anytime we
can bring government to the people.”
Bailey named MDCC staff Guest lecturer offers
member of the month
world-class expertise
Jackie Bailey of Moorhead was
selected by her co-workers as Mississippi Delta Community College’s Staff Member of the Month
for March.
Bailey serves as a technology
specialist in the college’s Office of
Admissions. “The most enjoyable
part of my job at MDCC is working with students,” said Bailey.
An MDCC employee for 20
years, her daily responsibilities
include entering admissions data,
evaluating students for graduation,
and providing overall support to
students.
The MDCC Development
Foundation, Inc. and Sodexo
(MDCC Cafeteria) sponsor the
Staff Employee of the Month
Award. The staff appreciation
committee is comprised of staff
members representing different
areas of the college. This committee randomly
selects a department each month,
and the employees
working in that department select the
award recipient.
For more information about the
selection process,
contact Felecia
Nash at fnash@
msdelta.edu.
For more information,
visit
MDCC’s website
at www.msdelta.
edu or call 662Bailey
246-6322.
Guest lecturer Emanuele Berti interacts with MDCC students Blake Gibson and Michael Thompson as they watch an
Euler’s disc demonstration of the sound created by two black holes colliding. Berti, an astrophysicist at the University
of Mississippi, spoke to MDCC students this week in two lectures.
MDCC Associate Degree
Nursing students visit Capitol
Mississippi Delta Community
College sophomores in the associate degree nursing program recently attended a legislative event
at the State Capitol.
MDCC students met many senators and representatives, toured
the Capitol and represented the
college and their new profession
well.
Senator Willie Simmons, DCleveland, visited with the students and provided insight into
the state’s legislative process. Students also researched health care
related bills and were encouraged
to embrace the political process
that often influences health care
decisions.
The Associate Degree Nursing
(ADN) Program at Mississippi
Delta Community College is designed to provide educational opportunities to qualified students
for a rewarding career that will
help meet the expanding health
care needs of the community. The
program prepares individuals to
practice as a registered nurse.
Graduates receive an associate of applied science degree and
are eligible to take the National
Council Licensing Examination
(NCLEX) for licensure as registered nurses. MDCC’s ADN was
established in 1964 and has an
overall pass rate of 99 percent on
the national licensure exam.
For more information, visit
MDCC’s website at www.msdelta.
edu or call 662-246-6322.
Mississippi Delta Community College students gained
in depth scientific insights this
week from an expert in astrophysics.
Emanuele Berti, Ph.D.,
associate professor of astronomy and physics at the
University of Mississippi,
was a guest lecturer on the
Moorhead campus Monday.
Berti made two presentations
for MDCC students on some
deep subjects: black holes and
gravitational waves.
He’s part of a global team of
scientists that has uncovered a
curious case of “cannibalism”
among super-massive black
holes in space.
The research findings by
Berti and three co-authors
appeared in the July issue of
Sophomore Associate Degree Nursing students from Mississippi Delta Community College pose with State Sen. Willie
Simmons at the Capitol earlier this month.
Physical Review Letters, one
of the most prestigious peerreviewed academic journals
in the field. The paper detailed
how the scientists explored
the impact of the black hole
spins on the dynamics of highenergy black hole collisions.
“When black holes collide,
their encounter gives birth to
large amounts of gravitational
waves,” Berti said.
“These waves are traveling
ripples in the fabric of spacetime-the same fabric that
black holes are made of.”
According to the team’s
results, when black holes collide close to the speed of light,
the outcome of their encounter is surprising: regardless
of their structure, the black
holes swallow the waves they
generated, eating about half
of their gravitational - wave
progeny.
“Therefore, two small black
holes colliding at large energies may result in two slowmoving, fat black holes.”
For more information, visit
MDCC’s website at www.
msdelta.edu or call 662-2466322.
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Proverbs, the ultimate life coach
By Rev. Leon Collier
Special to The Mississippi Link
In this week’s
discussion of
“Proverbs, the
ultimate
life
coach,” we will
continue with
our study on
“Contentment.”
The word of God definitely
instructs us on how to live a
contented life, as we saw last
week during our first three
points. Today we will begin
with the philosophy of contentment and continue with
additional points.
Now, let us look at I Timothy 6:7-8, the rationale or
philosophy of contentment:
“For we brought nothing into
the world, and it is clear that
we can carry nothing out. But
having food and clothing, we
will be content.” First, the
philosophy of contentment is
that none of this stuff in the
world belongs to you anyway
so, why worry about things
that belong to someone else?
Secondly, if you have food,
clothes, and shelter then you
have enough to make you
content. If you have the basic
necessities, you have all you
need. Thirdly, if you live a
holy life and learn to be content, God promised to bless
you with more stuff that does
not belong to you. I Timothy
6:6, “But godliness with contentment is great gain.” Notice it did not say “gain,” but
it said “great gain.” When you
learn to be content with what
God has already given you it
is then He can trust you with
more.
Fourtly, don’t allow the
success of others make you
discontent. Proverbs 23:17
reads: “Let not your heart
envy sinners, but continue in
the fear of the LORD all the
day.” Don’t let the prosperity
and glamour of some wicked
people discourage you. One
writer went on to say, “We
must not harbor in our hearts
any secret discontent at the
providence of God, though it
seems to benefit the wicked,
nor are we to wish ourselves
to be in their condition.” You
may not agree, but to wish
you were in some else’s shoes
says that you are not fully
grateful for what God has already provided for you in the
present time.
Verse 17 not only tells us
not to be discontent when sinners prosper, but it also tells us
how we can maintain our contentment: “…continue in the
fear of the LORD all the day.”
Discontentment will cause
you to lose focus of God and
you will place the situation of
other people above God.
One writer said, “…maintain high thoughts of God in
our minds at all times…” In
this context, one who is discontent makes the blessings
of the person they envy greater than God. So, in order to
avoid being discontent we are
to constantly walk in the fear
of the Lord.
What is walking in the fear
of the Lord? We must subject ourselves to His word in
obedience and learn to accept
whatever comes our way and
make pleasing God our main
objective. The Holy Ghost
brought to mind that when we
make pleasing God our main
goal we can remain content,
but when we make pleasing
self the main objective then
we will become discontent
eventually.
Once again Proverbs 23:17
says, “continue in the fear of
the LORD all the day.” There
is a reason why the Lord instructs us to fear Him at all
times. The word of God tells
us that if we fear God, it drives
out discontentment and grants
us happiness. Proverbs 28:14
says, “Happy is the man who
fears the LORD always…” If
we learn to fear God always
then we can always be content
no matter what, rich or poor.
By the way, listen to how
the Matthew Henry Commentary defined fear in Proverbs 28:14: “…there is a fear
which is so far from having
torment in it that it has in it
the greatest satisfaction.” The
kind of fear verse 14 refers to
is not dread or being terrified,
but rather it is a high respect,
to be in awe of and loving
adoration which has in it great
contentment. Not only will
you be happy if you fear God
constantly, but also Proverbs
23:18 says, “…surely there is
a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.” The
wicked that thrives in their
material gains will be punished, but those who fear the
Lord will be blessed for the
long haul.
Therefore, it is not wise to
begrudge the wicked for the
liberty they take to sin or the
success they have in sin, because it will cost them dearly
one day. Therefore, they are
to be pitied not envied which
is why Proverbs 23:21 says,
“For the drunkard and the
glutton shall come to poverty...” There are consequences
for overindulging in anything with no regard for the
Lord. If you fear God, your
life’s story will have a happy
ending unlike the wicked.
This life’s trouble will soon
be over, and then the godly
shall begin their best life.
Edwin Edwards, who is an
ex-convict and former governor of Louisiana went to prison for extortion. Now in his
eighties, he married a thirtyfive year old woman that was
his pen pal when he was in
prison. They have a baby and
he is running for U.S. Senator. When asked what about
the people who say why we
should vote for an ex-convict, Edwards responded,
“Since politicians are crooks
anyway you may as well vote
for an experienced one.” He
went on to say that it would
be better for me financially to
not run, but I just feel like I
have to do it. He just cannot
let go of that kind of life, being in the lime light and having people know his name.
He is not content with living a quiet life with his wife
and baby although he should
be since he is in the twilight
season of his life.
Rev. Leon Collier is the
pastor of Makarios Worship Center, 464 Church
Rd., Madison. Residents of
Madison, he and wife, Minister Yolanda; are the proud
parents of three daughters.
He received degrees from
Criswell College in Dallas;
Southern Methodist University - Perkins School of
Theology; and a Masters
of Divinity from Memphis
Theological Seminary. A
pastor for 23 years, Collier
serves as a volunteer chaplain for various law enforcement agencies in the metro
area and for the Mississippi
Governor’s Mansion. He
may be reached by calling
601.260.3016, 601.855.7898
or e-mail [email protected].
R e i g n i n g A nn o u n c emen t s
New Beginnings Christian Fellowship, 2920
Highway 468, Pearl, will be the location where
Empowering Leaders for the 21st Century Church
– UPLIF International will present the Pastors
and Ministers Conference on Friday, March 27,
at 7:15 p.m. and Saturday, March 28, at 8:30 a.m.
A registration fee is required. To RSVP, please
visit uplif.eventbrite.com. For more information
call 601.932.4444 or visit www.nbcfonline.org.
Bishop James Griffin is the pastor.
Message from the Religion Editor
By Daphne Higgins
Religion Editor
Here we are
at the end of
Women’s History Month and
there is still so
much more to
share. Honestly,
the contributions made by the
women of America could be
shared every week of the year
but the actual celebration has
come to an end (even though
I will continue to spotlight
my sisters across the course
of the year). I asked that you
indulge me then and now I do
the same because I am going
to discuss several topics with
you this week.
First, as I mentioned earlier, Women’s History Month
is coming to an end and oh,
what a wonderful month it
has been. The days of this
month have been filled with
information about strong African American women and
the contributions they have
made to better a nation; the
world.
Now, let me share the
words of the Lord as we bring
the official month of celebration to a close.
• Genesis 2:18
“Then the LORD God said,
‘It is not good for the man to
be alone; I will make him a
helper suitable for him.’”
• Proverbs 31:10-19; 26- 31
“An excellent wife, who
can find? For her worth is far
above jewels. The heart of
her husband trusts in her, And
he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not
evil All the days of her life.
• She looks for wool and
flax And works with her
hands in delight. She is like
merchant ships; She brings
her food from afar. She rises
also while it is still night And
gives food to her household
And portions to her maidens.
• She considers
a field and buys
it; From her earnings she plants
a vineyard. She
girds
herself
with
strength
And makes her
arms strong. She
senses that her
gain is good; Her
lamp does not go
out at night.
• She opens
her mouth in
wisdom,
And
the teaching of
kindness is on
her tongue. She
looks well to
the ways of her
household, And
does not eat the
bread of idleness. Her children rise up and
bless her; Her
husband
also,
and he praises
her,
saying:
‘Many daughters
have done nobly,
But you excel
them all.’
• Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But
a woman who
fears the LORD,
she
shall
be
praised. Give her
the product of
her hands, And
let her works
praise her in the
gates.”
To my beautiful, strong, hardworking,
and
dedicated sisters,
I applaud you and
honor you. Life
has not always
been fair to the
Mt. Helm Baptist Church, 300 E. Church St.,
Jackson, will have a special schedule on Sunday,
March 29. Sunday School will begin at 8 a.m. and
worship service will begin at 9:30 a.m. For more
information, e-mail [email protected] or call
601.353.3981. Rev. CJ Rhodes is the pastor.
New Hope Baptist Church, 5202 Watkins Dr.,
Jackson, Music Ministry will present “Have You
Heard About Jesus?” – an Easter musical on Palm
Sunday, March 29, at 11 a.m. For more informaCollege Hill M. B. Church, 1600 Florence Ave., tion call 601.366.7002 or visit http://newhopeJackson, will celebrate its 108th Church Anni- baptist.org/. Rev. Jerry Young is the pastor.
versary on Saturday, March 28 – Sunday, March
29. On Saturday, a picnic will be held on the Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, 1245 Tunica St.,
church grounds from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. On Sun- Jackson, will host its Sunday School Teacher’s
day, March 29, Sunday School will begin at 8:30 Appreciation Program on Sunday, March 29, at
a.m. and Worship Service will begin at 10 a.m. 9:45 a.m. For more information call 601.969.3511
Dr. Valmadge T. Towner, president of Coahoma or visit www.mountnebochurch.com Rev. John A.
Community College in Clarksdale, and pastor Wicks Jr., is pastor.
of Friendship M. B. Church, Greenwood, will
be the guest minister. The celebration theme You are invited to the annual “Good Friday” seris “TEAM: Together Each Accomplishes Much” vices, which will be held at the Green Pastures
based on scripture from Ephesians 4:3 – 6 and Baptist Church, Friday - April 3, 2015 @ 12:00
1 Corinthians 12:12 – 13. For more information - noon. The church is located at 2239 Flag Chacall 601.655.2670. Rev. Michael T. Williams is pel Road, Jackson, MS. Come and be blessed by
great preaching and messages in song.
the pastor.
female gender and there are
still many struggles ahead,
but as women who walk in
God, we have overcome and
accomplished much and as
we continue to praise Him,
there is so much that we will
do!
Now, the mother in me cannot let this week end without
a special salute to someone
who is near and dear to my
heart, my baby boy, John
Higgins, II.
March 28, marks the 19th
birthday of my youngest
child. As the mother of a son
and daughter, it has always
been my prayer that my children would grow to respect
each other and those around
them; they would grow to be
leaders in their respective areas of interest and know that
none of this is possible without God’s hand guiding them
along the way.
My son has developed into
a loving and caring young
man, who will in years (many
years I might add), make a
good husband for his chosen
spouse. He is very obedient and for those who know
him, yes, he’s my silly playful child but he is a man-child
who knows that his mother
and father both know God
and we expect him to be a
servant of the Lord, as well.
Thank you, Lord, for the
blessing of a son. To my baby
boy, Happy Birthday JP!
Moving on - In case you
didn’t know, Women History Month is also Sisterhood
Month. Many female organizations have and are still
celebrating each other within
their circles of love. At this
time, I would like to thank
God for each of them.
Now, of course, I have to
give a special shout-out to my
wonderful group of sisters.
On March 14, 1981, I, along
with 43 other chapter sisters,
was initiated into a very illustrious group, known as
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc., an organization founded
on Christian principles. Here
I am, 34 years later, and still
a financially active member
of the organization that does
great work for the communities we serve.
Now, I have to close by
saying, “It’s wonderful to be
a woman.”
Thank you, God, for the future that you have charted for
each of us. I also thank you
for the past that you have allowed us to live. Because of
our past, we can better appreciate our future and the love
that grows stronger within
each of us every day.
So, you see, during this
month of celebration, there
are so many stories that have
been told, and so many more
to hear. When you can, please
allow yourself to share a story with others.
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 serve as
your personal messenger to
share your news and the news
of your place of worship and
those you may have visited.
Contact Daphne M. Higgins
at religion@mississippilink.
com. Fax 601-896-0091 or
mail your information to The
Mississippi Link, 2659 Livingston Road, Jackson, MS
39213.
Do you want to be made well? - Part III
By Pastor Simeon R. Green III
Jesus meets a
man at the pool
called Bethesda,
who has been
sick for 38 years.
This man has
been lying on a
mat by the pool, hoping to be
the first one in the pool when
the Angel stirs the waters, so
that he might be made well.
However, he was so weak
and feeble; somebody always
beats him into the water. Jesus, knowing how long he
has been sick, asks him if he
wants to be made well. I find
his response quite interesting.
He never answers Jesus’
question. Instead, he gives
the reason for why he cannot
receive the healing offered in
the pool. In John 5:8, Jesus
says to the man, “Rise, take
up your bed and walk.” Verse
9 goes on to tell us, “And immediately the man was made
well, took up his bed and
walked.”
The first point I want to
make is that Jesus not only
knew the man was sick, He
even knew how long he had
been sick. He knows all about
our wounds: what or who
caused them, how deep they
are and how long they have
been there.
Just like with this man,
nothing is too severe for God
to heal. It does not matter if it
is a one week old, a 38-yearold, or even a 98-year-old
wound. God sent Jesus to heal
us and He did not put limitations on that healing.
We find in Psalm 107:20,
“He sent His Word and healed
them and delivered them from
their destruction.”
Also, we read in the Gospel
of Luke 4:18, Jesus speaks,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon
Me, because He has anointed
Me to preach the Gospel to
the poor; He has sent Me to
heal the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty
those who are oppressed; to
proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord.”
Another thing I find in this
story comes from John 5,
verses 6 and 7, when Jesus
asks the man if he wants to be
made well and the man’s response is not a “yes” or “no”
but rather excuses for why he
is not yet healed.
During Jesus time on earth,
we often heard Him say,
“Your faith has made you
well.” He didn’t say that to
this man, this man did not
have faith. However, God
healed him despite his lack of
faith. God does not base His
healing on our faith. He heals
because He desires to see His
children whole.
Sometimes, He wants to
test our faith in the situation.
Other times, He simply wants
to lavish His love on us, His
children. In this case, this
man had all but lost hope and
faith in ever getting well. God
chose to show His power and
in doing so caused the man to
have faith in Him.
This man had suffered from
his ailment for 38 years. He
was so weak that he could
not even get himself into the
pool before others. Yet, when
Jesus told him to rise, verse 9
tells us he was immediately
made well.
When Jesus told this man
to arise, He was pronouncing
healing on him. This healing
was instantaneous, leaving
no room for doubt, and this
man suddenly had hope again
and faith. When God heals us,
He presents us with new opportunities, opportunities to
make progress, opportunities
to walk in His healing.
It is up to us whether we are
going to stay by the pool or
take up our bed and walk.
Next week: “You can
change!”
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
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“Still waters
run deep” is a
phrase that I’ve
heard frequently and always
been intrigued
by. Maybe it’s
because one of my fondest childhood memories was playing on
the beach with my family when
I was four years old. I remember
the sand being hot and my older
sister almost getting pulled under
by a mysterious sea creature. She
said it was something that grabbed
her leg and she felt like she was
getting pulled down. I still think it
was just seaweed wrapped around
her leg.
Even though I was young, I still
remember being mesmerized by
the water. I thought it was so beautiful. Now that I’m older, I can see
that the phrase “still waters run
deep” might explain my fascination with beaches and the ocean.
I always wondered, “what were
those ships doing sailing so peacefully miles away from the shore?’
Additionally, “still waters run
deep” means that when someone
is quiet that usually means there is
more than meets the eye and that
their exterior might mask something else.
Think of how many times
we’ve heard on the news that
someone committed a crime. Inevitably, a neighbor will be interviewed and say, “I had no idea he
was like that…he was always so
quiet!” Still waters running deep.
Remember, what looks calm on
the outside might actually mask
an active and insightful heart and
mind.
Lately, I’ve participated in conversations with women and men
who are wondering where is that
spouse that was promised, proph-
esied, or prayed for years ago. It
seems like everything else in life is
going in your favor: great job, new
house, awesome car. But there’s
this one area where there seems
to be silence and inactivity…the
love life: no dates worth remembering and no relationships worth
keeping.
Recently released statistics
show that more women are choosing to remain single longer. And
in the case of African American
women, only 30 percent are in
legal marriages. For that 70 percent who are never married or
divorced, there’s got to be some
times of stillness. The question
shouldn’t be where your man or
woman is. The question should
be what do you do in the stillness
of singleness…when you don’t
hear anything from God…not
even, “I’m with you, my child?”
Psalm 23:1-2 says, “The LORD
is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green
pastures; He leads me beside the
still waters.”
It may seem that when any part
of your life is still, it’s a perfect
opportunity to go deeper into the
word of God. Go deeper in your
commitment to serving him in
your local church home. Go deeper in your times of intimacy and
prayer. That’s where God (and his
higher standards for your life) has
led you.
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Caught between Barack
and a ‘Hard Place’
By James Clingman
NNPA Columnist
The experiment that featured a black
man in the
White house is
on the downside now. Folks
in the Obama administration
are busy looking for their next
job and jumping ship faster
than rats.
But you can’t blame them;
that’s the way it is in politics.
You ride your horse as long
as you can and then you find
a new horse. That’s just what
folks in presidential administrations do.
The question is: What horse
will black folks ride now?
With Barack came new
line-dances at the clubs, new
phrases, and new “hope” that
would finally move black people to the front of the line for
a “change.” We were large and
in charge, big-ballers and shotcallers, cool and stylish, but
we soon found that we were
not really running anything.
Having bet the farm on our
horse, we now look on in agony as he comes down the home
stretch. We want to move the
finish line a bit farther down
the track because we don’t yet
have the victory, and it looks
like we’re not going to get it.
All we can hope for now is just
a little more euphoria before
November 2016.
Black folks are now between
Barack and a hard place. We
don’t know if we are pitching
or catching. As that Richard
Pryor movie asked, “Which
way is up?” We invested nearly 100 percent of our political
capital in our current president, thinking we would get a
decent ‘Return on Investment’
(ROI).
Unless there is a drastic uptick in the next few months,
our investment will be lost
forever, because we know this
experiment will not be done
again for a long time.
Between Barack and a hard
place means that black people,
collectively, are now without
a comfortable place to turn,
without someone we can look
to for hope and change, and
without what we considered to
be a foothold in politics.
Being between Barack and a
hard place is causing anxiety,
doubt, and even fear among
some of our people.
Being between Barack and a
hard place will make many of
us revert to our political ways
by staying on the Democrat’s
wagon because the Republicans ignore us and don’t like
us, anyway. We will rationalize our allegiance to the same
party that takes us for granted.
And some of us will opt out of
the system altogether because
we are so frustrated and angry
at how the previous two terms
went down.
It’s very uncomfortable being between Barack and a hard
place. To whom will we turn?
Will Hillary help us? Will one
of the Republican candidates
help us? Maybe Dr. Ben (Carson) will win and come to our
rescue.
What are black folks to do in
2016 as we now find ourselves
wedged between Barack and
a hard place with no wiggle
room? Maybe we could “apologize” to Hillary for abandoning her in 2008. Maybe we
could do a public mea culpa to
the Republicans. After all, we
need someone to turn to now,
right?
Well, here are a few
thoughts. Maybe we can now
turn to ourselves. Maybe now
we will fully understand the
error of our ways and make
appropriate change. Maybe we
will finally work together as a
solid bloc to leverage our precious votes against the 2016
candidates.
Maybe we will understand
that no matter who resides at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
black folks still have to be
vigilant about our political
and economic position in this
country. And maybe, as we
struggle to remove ourselves
from between Barack and a
hard place, at least a small
percentage of us will organize
around economic and political
empowerment.
The Barack experiment was
cool. He sings like Al Green,
dances like the steppers in
Chicago, shoots three-pointers
on the basketball court, plays
golf with Alonzo Mourning,
and even gets his preach on
when speaking to black audiences.
In other words, Barack
could make us feel real good,
so much so that we kicked
back, relaxed, and waited for
him to fix our problems, to
speak on our behalf, and to
give us the same deference he
gives to other groups.
Now, we find ourselves between Barack and a hard place
- no turning room, very little
breathing room, and much uncertainty about our future in
the political arena.
There will be a new sheriff
in town in January 2017, and
our guy will stand there with
him or her to give congrats and
well wishes right before he
rides off into the sunset, back
to Chicago, Hawaii, or wherever, to enjoy the fruit of his
labor, and I do mean fruit.
He and his family will be
well taken care of, but most
of our families will be in the
same or worse condition,
having been stuck between
Barack and a hard place for
eight years.
Jim Clingman, founder of
the Greater Cincinnati African
American Chamber of Commerce, is one of the nation’s
most prolific writers on economic empowerment for black
people. He can be reached
through his website, blackonomics.com.
Three black Republicans’
race to the bottom
By Lee A. Daniels
NNPA Columnist
Recently, I wrote
that today’s Republican Party is
gripped by a severe problem - an
acting-the-fool
dynamic produced
by their allegiance to crackpot-conservatism - that causes Republicans
of high and low status to say or do
things that range from the silly to
the vicious.
I concluded in part that because
these things largely go unchallenged by the GOP leadership, they
help underscore how much the bigoted radical right controls the party.
All of the individuals I discussed
then are white. However, recently
a trio of blacks who love the GOP
- Ben Carson, Jason L. Riley, and
Stephen A. Smith - stepped forward
with their own crackpot notions.
You might say they proved once
again that some blacks are as capable of engaging in a race to the
bottom of common sense and/or respectability as some whites.
Speaking at a symposium at
Vanderbilt University, Smith, an
ESPN personality, declared that
his “dream” was that “for one election, just one, every black person in
America vote Republican….”
He continued, “Black folks in
America are telling one party, ‘We
don’t give a damn about you.’
They’re telling the other party,
‘You’ve got our vote.’ Therefore,
you have labeled yourself ‘disenfranchised’ because one party
knows they’ve got you under their
thumb. The other party knows
they’ll never get you and nobody
comes to address your interest.”
Thus, Smith put on display his
stunning misunderstanding of the
basic point of political electioneering: it’s the political party that substantively appeals to the voters for
support.
Equal to that was his astonishing
ignorance of the past half-century
of American politics - a period
when blacks forged a remarkable
record of playing pragmatic politics
in the only party, the Democrats,
that sought their support.
Remarkably, Smith also either
didn’t notice or ignored the fact
that in one recent election, his wish
had come true. That was the 2014
bitterly contested race for the U.S.
Senate in Mississippi between sixterm Republican conservative Thad
Cochran and the Tea Party-backed
extremist, Chris McDaniel.
Cochran is a dyed-in-the-wool
conservative but also a man of
courtly manners who has never
treated his Democratic Senate colleagues as “the enemy,” as McDaniel promised to do.
He was in significant danger of
losing. Mississippi’s black voters the most reliably Democratic in the
country - rushed into the Republican primary to vote for Cochran in
massive numbers, ensuring that he
would defeat McDaniel and be returned to Washington.
That was a dramatic example of
the principle that has always ruled
traditional black politics: pragmatism trumps political ideology.
That’s something Jason L. Riley
has made a career of pretending
isn’t true, which is why he’s held
down a spot on the editorial board
of the Wall Street Journal - the
global financial community’s main
newspaper - for nearly two decades.
Despite his tenure at one of the
most powerful media companies in
the world, Riley spends a lot of ink
railing against “black elites” who,
as he wrote in a March 17 column,
are “always eager” to blame white
racism for what he wants the world
to see as black people’s internally
generated flaws.
What he also wrote there, in declaring that we should ignore the
racist ditty of the University of
Oklahoma white fraternity chapter,
was this: “History shows that faster
black progress was occurring at a
time when whites were still lynching blacks, not merely singing
about it.”
Yes. Those who have a sense of
decency about them, not to mention a working intellect, ought to
be shocked. Riley offers not a shred
of evidence in his lengthy opinion piece to support that claim, of
course.
He knows it’s just “red meat” for
the WSJ’s constituency - another
falsehood they can grab to build
their fortress against the truth.
Finally, Ben Carson continued to
prove on the campaign trail that, as
the headline in the prominent conservative web-zine, Hot Air, put it,
“Ben Carson is not ready for prime
time.”
Trying to establish foreign-policy
credentials, Carson was at times
flummoxed by the properly sharp
questions of commentator Hugh
Hewitt, whose huge following
among conservatives testifies to his
longtime impeccably conservative
credentials.
Carson’s errors were glaring and
produced headlines elsewhere such
as: “Presidential contender Ben
Carson stumbled in an extremely
uncomfortable interview,” leading
another conservative commentator, David Weigel, to remark, “The
?
Ask Alma
Alma Gill
NNPA Advice Columnist
Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans more than 25
years, including various roles at USA Today, Newsday
and the Washington Post. Email questions to: [email protected]. Follow her on Facebook at “Ask
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Long distant lover
Dear Alma,
I am a 50-year-old field service engineer who travels 75
percent of the year for work. I
love my job and appreciate the
opportunity that I am able to
travel around the world. No, I’m
not in the military, so I can pick
and choose where I decide to reside long term.
Basically, the problem is
maintaining long distant relationships with my family,
friends and holding down a love
life. I try to stay in touch with my
family and friends through cell
phone calls and Facebook, but
sometimes it’s just not enough.
I miss them when I’m traveling and honestly, it’s hard to
maintain a healthy adult relationship with a woman without
her eventually telling me that
I’m away too much.
I’m single, active and I would
consider myself to be handsome.
How would you suggest I meet
a woman who would understand
my situation and consider being
in this type of a relationship?
Lamont in Ohio
Dear Lamont in Ohio,
Yes, I’m putting you on blast,
cause this is the first time I’ve
run across a truly handsome (yes
girls, I saw his picture) and gainfully employed engineer with
benefits, who’s discussing how
difficult it is to maintain a long
distance healthy adult relationship.
The first thing that comes to
my mind is, “Seek and ye shall
find, my brotha - you came to
the right place!” LOL.
I’m here to agree with you,
sweetheart, there’s no double
about it, long distance relationships (LDR’s) take an enormous
amount of hard work. But then
headlines came down like acid rain
all week.”
I suppose one could say, then, we
should judge these conservatives
not by the color of their skin, but
by the loony content of their comments.
Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His
again, a regular in your face, every day relationship does, too. I
say, navigate the negativity.
As long as the two of you are
serious about your commitment
and devotion to each another, a
LDR can be quite successful.
In my opinion, a LDR requires two mature adults who
are completely confident in their
own right. Each has got to be
comfortable in their own skin
and not looking to be completed
or validated by the other. All
lines of communication must
remain open and honest always.
You’ve gotta trust each other.
That’s super important! With
today’s technology options, you
can keep in touch daily, practically face to face. I’m sure
you’ve heard it said before, absence does make a loving heart
grow fonder.
Can you see it in your minds
eye? Lawddy, can you imagine
anticipating the next time you’ll
see each other? Wheew, kool it
down! This column is rated PG,
LOL. I could go on and on with
the positives, but no need. I’m
sure you feel me.
Evidently, you’ve been looking in all the wrong places or
you’d be hooked up by now.
Today’s the day to steer yourself
in a new direction. Start looking
to find a woman who’s pursuing
her dreams, occupying her time,
joyfully participating in her life.
Since you’re on the road most
of the time, I’m sure this task
won’t be easy. Soooo, you know
me, I just can’t help myself, I’ll
see what I can do to help you
out.
Ladies: If you’re interested in
contacting Lamont, shoot me an
email. I see springtime and love
just around the corner.
Alma
essay, “Martin Luther King, Jr.:
The Great Provocateur,” appears
in Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel
Peace Laureates of African Descent
(2014), published by Zed Books.
His new collection of columns,
Race Forward: Facing America’s
Racial Divide in 2014, is available
at www.amazon.com
We march for good but racism marches too
By Dr. James B. Ewers Jr.
Recently, we
celebrated the
50th anniversary of the Selma
to Montgomery
march. It was in
1965 that men
and women of both races and
all ages made this historic walk
to protest racial intolerance.
Men like John Lewis and
Hosea Williams will be in our
history books forever, as they
were among hundreds who
made that eventful walk across
the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
Now that the anniversary
march is over and the speeches
have been made, what have we
learned from this significant
event in our nation’s history?
First and foremost, I believe
that people genuinely care
deeply about this country despite its continued racial divide.
The majority of Americans
want to eradicate racism and
sexism in this country.
We know that the Selma
March and The Voting Rights
Act of 1965 will forever be
linked together. However, we
see restrictions are now being
placed on our ability to vote in
some states.
It grieves me that any state
would try to limit our right as
citizens to vote. But we see it
unfolding right in front of our
eyes. If there is ever a time to
contact our state and national
legislators, it is now.
Many young people were
there marching, and I can only
hope they marched with a purpose. The pomp and the circumstance without the commitment
and the compassion are hollow.
One of the recent Selma
marchers, Margaret Howard,
said in the USA Today newspaper, “There’s been great progress, but it feels like as a country we’re 10 years behind where
we should be at this point.”
The racial climate in America continues to be a stumbling
block which derails any prog-
ress that we make. Just when
we think a modicum of victory
has been won, something happens. It seems as if “something
happening” has been an ongoing refrain for much too long
now.
Earlier this month, members
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fraternity at the University of
Oklahoma were seen in a racist video which was offensive
to African Americans and quite
honestly to any citizen, regardless of ethnicity. While black
folks were the targets, we are
all targets because we are our
brothers’ and sisters’ keeper.
The president of the University of Oklahoma denounced
the video, closed the fraternity
house and took strong disciplinary actions against the students.
Now of course, the students
in question fear for their lives
as they have received death
threats. Their parents are worried and are fearful of reprisal.
As a parent and a grandparent, I understand their concerns
and don’t wish upon their children any hurt or harm. However, what concerns me is what
went on around their dinner
table when their children were
young. Did the parents tell their
children to be respectful of all
people and cultures? If they
did, the lessons did not stick.
With all that is happening in
this country that is racially motivated, you simply cannot say I
didn’t know or offer an apology
and think your transgression
will simply go away. It won’t.
You give up the perception
that you are a good citizen
when you engage in this vile
and mean-spirited behavior.
When you think about it, too
many of these acts are happening on college campuses.
Cross burnings, racist graffiti
and video productions all send
the wrong message about this
country.
We cannot be the melting pot
of ideas and be the cesspool of
hatred. It didn’t work 50 years
ago at Selma and it won’t work
now in 2015.
College campuses are supposed to be the training ground
for the next generation of leaders. As we go into the halls of
ivy how many other individuals
and groups have the same message of racism and sexism but
just haven’t been caught.
The march for equality and
justice is headed in the right direction so we must march on!
Yet we must also know that evil
marches and sings too.
Stomp on and stomp out evil
and incivility. March for what
is right, fair and just. The future
of our country depends upon it.
Dr. James B. Ewers Jr. is
President Emeritus of The Teen
Mentoring Committee of Ohio.
He is also the author of ‘Perspectives From Where I Sit: Essays on Education, Parenting
and Teen Issues.’ He has over
40 years of service as a college
vice president and is currently a
motivational speaker and guest
lecturer. He can be reached at
[email protected]
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ORDINANCE APPROVING MAGNOLIA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION A
REZONING R-1A (SINGLE-FAMILY) RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT TO C-2
(LIMITED) COMMERCIAL DISTRICT TO CONSTRUCT AN OPERATION
CENTER FOR MAGNOLIA CREDIT UNION FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT
PARCELS 723-88 & 723-89 (FERNWOOD SUBDIVISION), CASE NO. 3891.
WHEREAS, Magnolia Federal Credit Union has filed a petition to rezone property
located on Parcels 723-88 & 723-89 (Femwood Subdivision), in the City of Jackson,
First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, from R-1A (Single-family) Residential District to C-2 (Limited) Commercial District to construct an operation center
for Magnolia Credit Union; and
WHEREAS, the Jackson City Planning Board, after holding the required public
hearing, has recommended approval to rezone the property from R-1A (Single-family) Residential District to C-2 (Limited) Commercial District to construct an operation center for Magnolia Credit Union; and
WHEREAS, notice was duly and legally given to property owners and interested
citizens that a meeting of the Council would be held at the City Hall at 2:30 p.m.,
Monday, February 23, 2015 to consider said change, based upon the record of the
case as developed before the City Planning Board; and
WHEREAS, it appeared to the satisfaction of the City Council that notice of said
petition had been published in The Mississippi Link on January 2, 2015 and January 15, 2015 that a hearing would be held by the Jackson City Planning Board on
January 28, 2015, all as provided for by ordinances of the City of Jackson and the
laws of the State of Mississippi, and that the Jackson City Planning Board had
recommended approval of the petitioned rezoning of the above described property
to C-2 (Limited) Commercial District to construct an operation center for Magnolia
Credit Union; and
WHEREAS, the Council after having considered the matter, is of the opinion that
such changes would be in keeping with sound land use practice and to the best
interest of the City and that there has been a substantial change in the land use
character of the surrounding area that justifies rezoning the property and there is a
public need for additional property in that area zoned in accordance with the request
in said application since any previous City Council action; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI:
That the property located in the City of Jackson, First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, more particular described as follows:
Lots 54 and 55, BLOCK B, FERNWOOD SUBDIVISION, a subdivision according
to a map or plat thereof which is on file and of record in the office of the Chancery
Clerk of Hinds County at Jackson, Mississippi, in Plat Book 4 at Page 76, reference
to which is hereby made in aid of and as a part of this description.
ALSO:
Lot 53, BLOCK B FERNWOOD SUBDIVISION, a subdivision according to a map
or plat thereof which is on file and of record in the office of the Chancery Clerk of
Hinds County at Jackson, Mississippi, in Plat Book 4 at Page 76, reference to which
is hereby made in aid of and as a part of this description, LESS & EXCEPT the following described part of said Lot 53:
A parcel of land described as being in Lots 51, 52 and 53 of Block B of Fernwood
Subdivision, according to a plat or map thereof on file and of record in the office of
the Chancery Clerk of Hinds County, Mississippi, and recorded in Plat Book 4 at
Page 76, reference to which is hereby made in aid of and as a part of this descrip-
tion, and being more particularly described as follows:
Begin at a found iron pin marking the northeast corner of Lot 51 of Block B of said
Fernwood Subdivision, and run thence North 89° 00’ 00” West along the South
right-of-way line of Fernwood Drive for a distance of 284.04 feet to a point; run
thence South 00° 09’ 19” West for a distance of 435.99 feet to a point on the South
line of Lot 53 of Block B, of Fernwood Subdivision; run thence South 89° 00’ 48”
East along the South line of Lot 53 of Block B for a distance of 84.38 feet to southern
most corner common to Lots 52 and 53 of Block B; run thence North 00° 06’ 35”
East along the common to said Lots 52 and 53 of Block B for a distance of 130.05
feet to a point; run thence South 89° 00’ 48” East for a distance of 200.42 feet to a
point on the West right-of-way line of County Cork Road; run thence North 00° 01’
50” East along said West right-of-way of County Cork Road for a distance of 305.89
feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 2.25 acres, more or less.
is hereby rezoned and changed from R-1A (Single-family) Residential District to C-2
(Limited) Commercial District to construct an operation center for Magnolia Credit
Union provided, however that before a permit is issued for any structure to be erected or modified on the property located at Parcels 723-88 & 723-89 (Femwood Subdivision), or for any use thereof, the applicant must meet the requirements established through the Site Plan Review process. The Zoning Administrator is ordered
to note such change on the Official Zoning Map to the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
SECTION 2. That the cost of publication of this Ordinance shall be borne by the
petitioner.
SECTION 3. That this Ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its passage
and after publication of same by the petitioner.
President Stamps recognized John Birch, a representative of Magnolia Federal
Credit Union, who addressed the Council and argued in favor of the property located at parcels 723-88 & 723- 89 to allow rezoning R-1A (Single-family) Residential
District to C-2 (Limited) Commercial District to construct a new operations center
for the Magnolia Credit Union on the subject property which is contiguous to its
existing facility.
There was no opposition from the public.
Council Member Priester moved adoption; Council Member Stamps seconded.
Yeas- Foote, Hendrix, Priester and Stamps.
Nays- None.
Absent- Barrett-Simon, Stokes and Tillman.
ATTEST:
Kristi Moore City Clerk
I, Kristi Moore, the duly appointed, qualified City Clerk and lawful custodian of records of the City Council of Jackson, Mississippi and seal of said City, certify that the
foregoing is a true and exact copy of an Ordinance passed by the City Council at its
regular zoning meeting on the 23rd day of February, 2015, and recorded in Minute
Book “6G”, pages 384-386.
WITNESS my signature and official seal of office, this 19th day of March, 2015.
Kristi Moore, City Clerk
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Sealed, written formal bid proposals for the above bid will be received by the Board
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President Street, Jackson, Mississippi, until 10:00 A.M. (Local Prevailing Time) April
02, 2015, at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read aloud. The
Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive informalities,
and to withhold the acceptance of any bid if approved for forty-five calendar days
from the date bids are opened. Proposal forms and detailed specifications may
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2:00 P.M. (Local Prevailing Time) April 02, 2015, at which time and place
they will be publicly opened and read aloud. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all rfps, to waive informalities, and to
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from the date rfps are opened. Proposal forms and detailed specifications may be obtained free of charge. Interested parties may obtain a
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Sealed, signed bids 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 bid must
be stamped in by 3:30 P.M. Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at which time said bids
will be publicly opened at the City Hall located at 219 South President Street
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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
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during the bid review.
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Sealed, written formal bid proposals will be received for the sale of a
building (log cabin) located on the 16th section lands at 240 Interstate 20
West Frontage Road, Jackson, Mississippi on tax parcel 201-96-1 by the
Board of Trustees of the Jackson Public School District, in the Business
Office, 662 South President Street, Jackson, Mississippi, until 10:00 a.m.
(local prevailing time) on April 13, 2015 at which time and place they will
be publicly opened and read aloud. The building must be moved off the
property within ninety (90) days after the Board of Trustees awards the
bid.
The building will be sold “as is” and the expenses to move the building
and to leave the site clean of all building debris are the responsibility of
the winning bidder. The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any
and all bids and to waive informalities, also to withhold the acceptance of
any bid if approved, for forty-five (45) calendar days from the date bids
are opened.
The District will make the building available for public viewing on Monday,
March 30, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at which any persons
interested may inspect the building.
All payment must be made with cashiers’ check, certified check, money
order or cash. Further inquiries and proposal forms may be obtained free
of charge by contacting real estate consultant David Lane Sr., at (601)
936-9910 or by emailing [email protected].
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The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA) will accept proposals until 3:00 PM on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 for the purpose of
providing professional level assistance in the development of an
airport strategic planning and management system decision-making framework.
Information for Respondents relating to this Request for Proposals
(“RFP”) is on file and open for public inspection at the offices of
JMAA. The Information for Respondents contains a copy of the RFP,
General Information for Respondents, Information Required from
Respondents and Criteria for Selection. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the Information for Respondents from JMAA by contacting JMAA’s Procurement Specialist, Karen Hatten as follows:
Jackson Municipal Airport Authority
100 International Drive, Suite 300 (39208)
Post Office Box 98109
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Attention: Karen Hatten, Procurement Specialist
Telephone No.: (601) 939-5631, ext. 210
Facsimile No.: (601) 939-3713
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10, 2015, at which time and place they will be publicly opened
and read aloud. A Pre-Bid Conference concerning the project
will be held at Enoch Conference Room, 101 Near Street, Jackson, MS 39203 on April 1, 2015, at 10:00 A.M. Attendance at the
pre-bid conference is non-mandatory but strongly suggested.
The Board of Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all
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Softball: Lady
Lady Tigers defeat
Braves drop a pair Grambling 7-0
on day 1 of SWAC
The Lady Braves opened the
2015 SWAC Softball RoundUp with a pair of games against
the Louisiana Schools, Southern and Grambling in Conroe,
Texas.
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lost a heartbreaker to Southern
10-6 and fell to Grambling in
game of the day, 8-1 in 6 innings.
Game 1: Lady Braves 6,
Southern 10
The bats were flying in the
1st inning for the Lady Braves.
Sametria Collins led off with
a single followed by another
single by Adriana Gutierrez.
Alexandria Harris stepped in
and hit a sacrifice fly to score
Collins (1-0 Lady Braves).
Up next, Taylor Hughes connected on a RBI single to score
Gutierrez (2-0 Lady Braves).
Senior Rayven Riggs hit a
single to center field to score
Hughes (3-0 Lady Braves).
Jordenne Taylor would get in
the scoring column on an RBI
single by pitcher Jazmin Castillo to give the Lady Braves a
4-0 after the top of the 1st.
Southern scored one run in
the bottom of the 1st and 2nd
innings to make the score 4-3.
With bases loaded and two
outs in the top of the 3rd, Hannah Vesper reached on a fielder’s choice to score Harris to
maintain a two-run lead for the
Lady Braves, 5-3.
After Southern scored a run
in the bottom of the 3rd inning,
Harris hit a homerun to right
field to give the Lady Braves a
6-4 advantage in the 4th inning.
But Southern had other plans
hitting a homerun in the bottom
of the 6th inning to tie the game
at 6-6.
The Lady Braves couldn’t
score any runs in the top half
of the 7th but Southern wasn’t
done just yet. Southern’s Kiara
Suttles hit a grand slam to give
the Lady Braves their first loss
of the SWAC Round-Up.
Harris finished with two hits,
two RBIs, scored two runs and
hit a homerun to lead the Lady
Braves.
CONROE, Texas - The
Jackson State women’s softball team picked up their
first conference win against
Grambling State during the
Southwestern Athletic Conference Roundup on Tuesday, March 24.
JSU defeated GSU 7-0
with senior pitcher Kelsey
Townsend picking up her
sixth win of the season. Canessa Swanson and Amy
Lara led JSU offensively
with two runs and two RBIs
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March 27 when they host
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LEXINGTON, Miss. – Mississippi Delta, poverty-born Pam
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