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Vol. 23 No. 5
Showing the Way to Truth and Justice
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February 4 - February 10, 2016
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BLACK
HISTORY
MONTH
BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW
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Zika virus on the rise
Story Page 8
Legal assistance available
to New Yorkers in need
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February 4- February 10, 2016
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By J. Zamgba Browne
Special to NY Beacon
Enough is enough campaign against
sexual violence on campuses gets training
By J. Zamgba Browne
G
ov. Cuomo has created a
partnership between the
State Health Department and the State University
of New York to help college
faculty, staff and students
identify sexual assault and
interpersonal violence.
The Governor said this
collaboration is the latest in a
long line of efforts by him and
his “Enough is Enough” campaign to end sexual violence
on college campuses.
“New York is a national leader
in the fight against sexual assault
on college campuses and this
new training further strengthens
our efforts,” said Gov. Cuomo.
“If we are to truly put
an end to these very serious
crimes, New Yorkers must not
only understand how to protect
themselves, but also know
how to help when others are
in danger,” Cuomo continued.
The training utilize existing research related to sexual
violence prevention on college
campuses to teach bystanders
how to intervene safely before,
during and after an incident
of sexual abuse, relationship
violence, or stalking.
Following training SUNY
faculty and staff are certified
to implement bystanders are
made possible. Thanks to an
existing $496,000 federal Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Rape Prevention
and Education Program grant.
All SUNY campuses are eligible to participate at no cost to
the school.
M
ayor de Blasio and
City Council Speaker
Melissa Mark-Viverito have jointly created an Office of Civil Justice to provide
legal assistance to New Yorkers in need.
The program will be based
at the New York City Human Resources Administration
(HRA).
“Equal justice in the courts
is one of the cornerstones of a
free and democratic society,”
said the Mayor. “Too often,
vulnerable New Yorkers cannot afford legal representation
and do not receive the justice
they deserve,” he added.
Therefore, Mayor de Blasio
continued, “Providing legal
assistance through the Office
of Civil Justice is not just effective and efficient, it’s the
right thing to do to ensure equal
justice for all New Yorkers.”
Speaker Mark-Viverito said
that expanding access to legal
service is paramount in making
New York more fair and just
for all those who call this city
home.
“This Office of Civil Justice will work to ensure that
legal assistance is within
reach for all New Yorkers and
is part of the City Council’s
continued efforts to better
serve and protect our most
vulnerable populations,” said
Mark-Viverito.
The Office of Civil Justice
consolidates the city’s various
legal services contracts at
HRA, and will work to increase the availability of free
and low-cost legal services
and alternatives to court like
mediation citywide.
Funding for legal services
for at risk tenants will be over
$60 million in the city’s base-
line budget by fiscal year 2017,
more than ten times the $6
million spent on these services
in fiscal 2013.
According to Mayor de
Blasio the programs have
already made an impact in
the lives of low-income New
Yorkers facing eviction. “Legal service providers have
served nearly 17,000 New
Yorkers so far through recently expanded contract,” said
the Mayor.
When fully implemented,
Mayor de Blasio said they
will serve over 113,000 New
Yorkers per year.
Man posing as wealthy fashion designer defrauds investors of $400,000
N
EW YORK – Attorney General Eric T.
Schneiderman today
announced the convictions of
William Vogt, a resident of Orange County, on felony charges
in both Ulster County and New
York County, for posing as internationally renowned fashion
designer “Bill Bolland” to lure
victims into making more than
$400,000 in investments.
Instead, Vogt stole the monies and used them for personal
expenses. Today, Vogt pleaded
guilty in New York County
Supreme Court to Grand Larceny in the Second Degree.
In December, Vogt previously
pleaded guilty to Grand Larceny in the Third Degree in
Ulster County Court. Vogt faces up to 12 years in
prison on both cases.
“This defendant pulled
out several tricks to defraud
his investors,” said Attorney
General Schneiderman. An
investigation by the Attorney
General’s Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau revealed that over a threeyear period, William Vogt, 57,
of New Hampton, NY, held
himself out as millionaire
designer Bill Bolland, with a
company called “Bill Bolland
Haute Couture.” Vogt then
used this identify to fraudulent
solicit hundreds of thousands
of dollars from his victims,
through false promises that he
could use his connections to
secure high-return investments
in various businesses.
According to the two indict-
ments and statements made by
prosecutors in the New York
County case, Vogt used his
fake persona to convince a
victim in Manhattan to invest
with him in various fictitious
ventures from 2011 to 2014, including a purportedly tax-free
account at Credit Suisse, stock
in the VOSS Water Company
and cooperative apartment
units in Manhattan.
Vogt took the victim’s money by promising to secure office space at the Heron Tower
in Manhattan, to procure seats
on the Board of Directors of
Continued on page 3
ReCharge New York spurs economic growth
By J. Zamgba Browne
G
ov. Andrew this week
announced a ReCharge
NY Program which utilizes low-cost power from New
York Power Authority to spur
economic development. It is an
economic development power
program designed to retain
and create jobs through allocations of low cost power. The
initiative has supported over
400,000 jobs since its inception
five years ago, he said
“Through ReCharge NY,
we are making it cheaper for
businesses to compete, grow
and ultimately thrive in New
York State,” Gov. Cuomo said
“Electricity can be a major
expense for any company, but
by providing low-cost power
to employers we are making
local communities more affordable, helping create jobs
and ultimately strengthening
the economy,” he added.
In addition, Gov. Cuomo
said that ReCharge NY is
having a profound impact
throughout the entire state, and
he looks forward to seeing the
results continue to grow for
years to come.
As of Dec. 1, 2015, the
Governor said the Power Authority has awarded ReCharge
NY power to 741 business
operations, including 71 notfor-profit enterprises. He
said those allocations support
400.948 jobs and $33.2 billion
in commitments for new capital investment.
ReCharge NY provides
enterprises with competitively
priced power that costs less
than electricity generally available through their local utility.
A typical business, according to Gov. Cuomo, can save
approximately five to 25 percent on the New York Power
Authority allocation portion of
their electric bill.
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P
A
s Congressional hearings are set to take place
on the Flint water crisis,
Rev Al Sharpton will lead a
vigil in protest of the treatment
of Flint residents.
He will be joined by four
of the victims of the crisis
and National Action Network
Michigan state leader Rev.
Charles William and other
national activists.
The vigil will call for Governor Snyder to be subpoenaed
as they continue to call for him
to resign.
The vigil is set for Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 9:30
a.m across from the Rayburn House Office Building in
Washington, DC
The NAN vigil coincides
with the Congressional Black
Caucus’ call that Governor
Snyder failed to act swiftly
and mishandled the state’s
response in ensuring the safety
of its constituents.
Man posing as wealthy fashion designer
defrauds investors of $400,000
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Voss Foundation, to purchase
healthcare insurance and an
IRA, to facilitate an application for Swiss citizenship, and
make a contribution to Hillary
Clinton. In order to make the investments appear legitimate and
to conceal his theft, Vogt sent
numerous forged emails to the
victim purporting to be from
entities such as Credit Suisse,
VOSS, Voss Foundation, Morgan Stanley, and a law firm. Contrary to Vogt’s verbal
and written representations,
he made no investments and
transacted no business on behalf of the victim. Instead, Vogt
used the money for a variety of
personal and living expenses,
such as paying rent, shopping
at Home Depot, Target, and
Shoprite, and making purchases via Paypal.
Also according to the indictments and statements made
by prosecutors, in the Ulster
County case, as he did in New
York County, beginning in
June of 2012, Vogt convinced
his victim, a resident of Wilkes
Barre, PA, that he could get a
good rate of return by investing in a purportedly tax-free
account allegedly held by Vogt
at a major financial institution.
In order to make the investment appear legitimate and to
conceal his theft, Vogt sent
forged emails to the victim that
purported to come from the
financial institution attesting
to the existence of the alleged
account.
Believing that Vogt had
business expertise and financial savvy, the victim gave
Vogt more than $36,000 to
invest in the account. The AtContinued on page 10
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Rev Sharpton, vigil
calling for subpoena of
Flint Governor Snyder
resident Barack Obama
said this week he plans to
require large employers
across the nation to “peel back”
the curtain on how much they
pay men and women in a push
to narrow long-standing earning gaps between the genders.
In his final year in office,
the President is returning to an
issue that was at the heart of
the first piece of legislation he
ever signed at the White House:
equal pay.
As the New York Beacon
went to print, the Administration was set to unveil new rules
that would compel companies
with more than 100 employees
to provide the federal government annual data for how much
they pay employees based on
gender, race and ethnicity.
This information would
be used to help public enforcement of equal pay laws
while giving more insight into
discriminatory pay practices,
according to the White House.
The proposal would cover
more than 63 million employees - -potentially providing a
new wealth of data for understanding the pay gap issue and
determining whether certain
workers are getting shortchanged.
In addition, President
Obama renewed his call to
Congress to pass the Paycheck
Fairness Act, which would
potentially close loopholes in
the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and
require employers to prove
pay gaps are due to legitimate
business resources, not discrimination.
He said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
will roll out details of the plan
shortly by gathering a summary
of pay data from employers
with 100 or more workers.
“What kind of example does
paying women less sets for our
sons and daughters? President
Obama asked. He announced
that he will host a summit,
“The United States of Women” in May to examine gender
equality in America.
White House officials said
that if push comes to shove,
President Obama would use his
executive powers to put his pay
equity agenda in place.
“I don’t think this is an empty move,” said Robyn Muncy, interim chair of Women’s
studies and a history professor
at the University of Maryland.
“I think the new pay data proposal can have a galvanizing,
conscious-raising effect on
people,” she added.
Andra Gillespie, a political
science professor at Emory
University, said gender inequality and fair pay became
a marquee issue during the
presidential election four years
ago, so it is not surprising that
President would wind down
his term talking about it again.
Women in 1014 earned 79
cents for every dollar that a
man earned for a full-time job,
according to a White House
brief on the issue released late
last week. But there’s been
some progress in the past two
years, with the gap closing by
l.8 percentage point from 2012
to 2013 and by an additional
percentage point between 1213
and 2014, the brief said.
“One thing that is very
clear is that President Obama’s
being consistent with how
he’s looked at this issue,” said
Gillespie. “So the idea that
he is doing at the end of his
presidency and doing this in
the name of achieving equal
pay for women, it speaks to his
legacy,” she added.
President Obama’s push to
advance equal pay comes on
the Seventh Anniversary of
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay
Act. “It is fitting that with
the first bill I sign...We are
upholding one of this nation’s
first principals: that we are
all created equal and each
deserves a chance to pursue
our own version of happiness,’
said Obama.
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair
Pay Act, named after a woman
who discovered her employer
was paying her less than men
doing the same job, has made
it easier for working Americans
to effectively challenge illegal
unequal pay.
Ledbetter took her pay discrimination complaint all the
way to U.S. Supreme Court,
which ruled in 2007 that claims
like hers had to be filed within
180 days of an employer’s
decision to pay a worker less –
even if she did not learn about
the unfair pay until years after
the discrimination began
To make sure that people can effectively challenge
unequal pay, the law signed
by the President shortly after
taking office, amended the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 so
that unfair pay complaints can
be filed within 180 days of the
discriminatory paycheck – and
that 180 days resets after every
such paycheck is issued.
Congressional Black Caucus calls for
funding, investigation in Flint water crisis
By J. Zamgba Browne
T
he Congressional Black
Caucus has called for
immediate federal funding and investigation for the
City of Flint, Michigan Water
Crisis.
“The lack of proper oversight and action, leading to tens
of thousands of civilians being
exposed to toxic levels of lead
in drinking water demands a
thorough federal response,”
a statement from the Caucus
reads.
Caucus Chairman G.K.
Butterfield underscored that
more than ten thousand children, many under the age of
six, have been exposed to dangerous amounts of lead in their
drinking water which can lead
to a series of lifelong development and learning disabilities.
G.K. Butterfield, chairman
Congressional Black Caucus
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New push to close gender pay gap
Butterfield charged that
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
failed to act swiftly and has
greatly mishandled the state’s
response. “In return, thousands
of families throughout the City
of Flint have been harmed,”
said Butterfield.
“As elected officials, we all
have a responsibility to ensure
the safety of our constituents,
especially when it concerns
some of our youngest and most
vulnerable citizens, and the officials of Flint, Michigan failed
to do so,” he added.
The 44-member Caucus
also sent a letter to President
Obama calling for a thorough
federal investigation of all
entities that have regulatory
and oversight jurisdiction in
the matter and for immediate
funding to assist the City of
Flint in its recovery and future
preventive efforts.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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Why we celebrate Black History Month
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Excerpts, Malcolm X
speech: why Afro-American
history is important
Part 1
I
don’t think any of you will
deny the fact that it is impossible to understand the
present or prepare for the future
unless we have some knowledge
of the past. And the thing that
has kept most of us—that is,
the Afro-Americans— almost
crippled in this society has been
our complete lack of knowledge
concerning the past. The number
one thing that makes us differ
from other people is our lack of
knowledge concerning the past
When you deal with the past,
you’re dealing with history,
you’re dealing actually with the
origin of a thing. When you know
the origin, you know the cause.
If you don’t know the origin, you
don’t know the cause. And if you
don’t know the cause, you don’t
know the reason, you’re just cut
off, you’re left standing in midair.
So the past deals with history
or the origin of anything—the
origin of a person, the origin of a
nation, the origin of an incident.
And when you know the origin,
then you get a better understanding of the causes that produce
whatever originated there and
its reason for originating and its
reason for being. It’s impossible for you and me
to have a balanced mind in this
society without going into the
past, because in this particular
society, as we function and fit
into it right now, we’re such an
underdog, we’re trampled upon,
we’re looked upon as almost
nothing.
Now if we don’t go into the
past and find out how we got
this way, we will think that we
were always this way. And if
you think that you were always
in the condition that you’re in
right now, it’s impossible for you
to have too much confidence in
yourself, you become worthless,
almost nothing. But when you go back into
the past and find out where you
once were, then you will know
that you weren’t always at this
level, that you once had attained
a higher level, had made great
achievements, contributions to
society, civilization, science, and
so forth.
And you know that if you
once did it, you can do it again;
you automatically get the incentive, the inspiration, and the energy necessary to duplicate what
our forefathers formerly did.
But by keeping us completely
cut off from our past, it is easy for
the man who has power over us
to make us willing to stay at this
level because we will feel that
we were always at this level, a
low level.
That’s why I say it is so important for you and me to spend
time today learning something
about the past so that we can
better understand the present,
analyze it, and then do something
about it. Another thing that you will
find is that those who go to other
places usually think of themselves as a minority. If you’ll
Continued on page 10
ome might ask the question: Why do we celebrate
Black History Month and
what is its history. we celebrate
Black History month because
we need to know, our children
need to know and the world
needs to know the history of
the African American people
and the contributions they’ve
made to society.
In the words of Malcoilm X,
“ It is impossible to understand
the present or prepare for the
future unless we have some
knowledge of the past” “History is a weapon”
The study of Black history
began out of necessity. There
was a void in information
about Black people. The history and contributions of Black
people had never been studied
or documented. Although
Blacks have been in America
since the first slaves were
brought here in 1619, it was
not until the 20th century that
they began to be mentioned
respectably in history books.
We owe the celebration
of Black History Month, and
more importantly, the study of
black history, to Dr. Carter G.
Woodson.
Born to parents
who were former slaves, he
spent his childhood working in
the Kentucky coal mines and
enrolled in high school at age
20. He graduated within two
years, became an alumnus of
the University of Chicago, and
later went on to earn a Ph.D.
from Harvard.
Although Black History
Month has been celebrated
annually since 1926, first as
“Negro History Week” and
then Black History Month,
the idea began in Chicago in
1915 when Dr. Woodson went
to Chicago to participate in
a national celebration of the
50th anniversary of emancipation. Although held at the
grand Coliseum, where the
Republican convention was
held in1912 , an overflow
crowd of six to 12 thousand
waited outside for their turn to
view the exhibits showcasing
their progress since the end of
slavery.
Reflecting on his disturbed
feelings to find that during his
studies, history books totally
ignored the existence of Black
people, except to portray them
negatively, or to reflect on the
inferior social position they
were assigned to at the time.
Woodson was inspired to
start the crusade to write Black
Americans into the nation’s
history. He established the
Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History (now
called the Association for the
Study of Afro-American Life
and History) in 1915, and a
year later founded the widely
respected Journal of Negro
History.
In 1926, he launched Negro
History Week as an initiative to
bring national attention to the
contributions of black people
throughout American history.
Woodson strategically
chose the second week of
February for Negro History
Week as tradition and reform
because it coincided with the
birthdays of two men who
greatly influenced the Black
American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln.
Since Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, the black community, along with other Republicans, had been celebrating
the fallen President’s birthday.
And since the late 1890s,
black communities across the
country had been celebrating
Douglass’.
Well aware of the pre-existing celebrations, Woodson
built Negro History Week
around traditional days of
commemorating the Black
past. He felt the public would
view the request as merely
an extension of their study of
black history, and not to create
a new tradition. Accordingly,
he would increase his chances
for success.
From the onset, Woodson
was overwhelmed by the response. Negro History Week
appeared across the country in
schools and before the public.
The 1920’s was the decade
of the New Negro, a name given to the Post-War I generation
because of its rising racial pride
and consciousness. Black history clubs sprang up, teachers
demanded materials to instruct
their pupils, and progressive
whites endorsed the efforts.
In the 1940s, efforts began
slowly within the black community to expand the study of
black history in the schools and
black history celebrations before the public. In the South,
Black teachers often taught
Negro History as a supplement
to United States history. One
student during the movement
recalls that his teacher would
hide Woodson’s textbook beneath his desk to avoid drawing
the wrath of the principal.
During the Civil Rights
Movement in the South, the
Freedom Schools incorporated
Black history into the curriculum
to advance social change. The
Negro History movement was
an intellectual insurgency that
was part of every larger effort to
transform race relations. Woodson died in 1950
The 1960s had a dramatic
effect on the study and celebration of Black history. Before
the decade was over, Negro
History Week would be well
on its way to becoming Black
History Month. The shift to
a Negro History Month, a
month-long celebration which
occurred in the mid-1960’s began even before Dr. Woodson’s
death. Woodson died in 1950
In the 1960s, as young
blacks on college campuses
became increasingly conscious
of links with Africa, Black
History Month replaced Negro
History Week at a quickening
pace. Since the mid-1970s,
every American president,
Democrat and Republican, has
issued proclamations endorsing the annual theme.
Inoculation was introduced to America by a slave.
F
ew details are known
about the birth of Onesimus, but it is assumed he
was born in Africa in the late
seventeenth century before
eventually landing in Boston.
One of a thousand people of
African descent living in the
Massachusetts colony, Onesimus was a gift to the Puritan
church minister Cotton Mather
from his congregation in 1706.
Onesimus told Mather
about the centuries old tradition of inoculation practiced in
Africa. By extracting the material from an infected person
and scratching it into the skin
of an uninfected person, you
could deliberately introduce
smallpox to the healthy individual making them immune
to the disease.
Onesimus revealed to him
that he had undergone this
procedure while still in Africa.
He had the scar on his arm
to confirm it.
Considered extremely dangerous at the time, Cotton
Mather convinced Dr. Zabdiel
Boylston to experiment with
the procedure when a smallpox
epidemic hit Boston in 1721
and over 240 people were
inoculated. A survey of the nearly six
thousand people who contract-
ed smallpox between 1721
and 1723 found, however,
that Onesimus ,Mather and
Boylston had been right. Only
2 percent of the six hundred
Bostonians inoculated against
smallpox died, while 14 percent of those who caught the
disease but were not inoculated
succumbed to the illness.
Opposed politically, religiously and medically in the
United States and abroad, public reaction to the experiment
put Mather and Boylston’s
lives in danger despite records
indicating that only 2% of paContinued on page 14
Fats Domino Story airs during Black History Month
Jackie Robinson, a man
of many firsts 1919-1972
leagues.
In 1962 Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame.
Robinson also was the first
black television analyst in
MLB,
He was first Black vice
president of a major American corporation, Chock full
o’Nuts.
In the 1960s, he helped
establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution
based in New York.
In recognition of his
achievements on and off the
field, Robinson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Magic Johnson, Mark
Roesler join Jackie
Robinson board of directors
T
he Jackie Robinson
Foundation recently
announced that Earvin
Magic Johnson and Mark
Roesler have been elected to
its board of directors, said its
chairman, Greg Gonsalves,
and president and CEO Della
Britton Baeza. .
They join a 33-member
board overseeing the Foundation that perpetuates the legacy
of Jackie Robinson through administering one of the nation’s
premier college scholarship
programs for minority students
and, more recently, with the
creation of the Jackie Robinson
Museum.
“Even bigger than the barriers that Jackie Robinson
broke on the field of play, is his
legacy of working for equal opportunity for all people,” said
Johnson. “I am proud to pay
homage to Jackie Robinson by
being part of JRF’s important
mission of educating and inspiring young people.”
In addition to his role as
Chairman and CEO of Mag-
ic Johnson Enterprises, Mr.
Johnson’s co-ownership of the
Los Angeles Dodgers, one of
Major League Baseball’s most
renowned franchises, speaks
to Jackie Robinson’s wish,
verbalized in his last public
appearance in 1972, that there
would be diversity not only
on the field but throughout the
ranks of professional baseball
organizations. Mr. Johnson
was honored by the Jackie
Robinson Foundation in 2002,
receiving its prestigious “ROBIE Humanitarian Award.”
“We are thrilled about attracting two very dynamic people to the Foundation board,”
said Gonsalves. “They bring
a wealth of talent and real
commitment and add to our
presence and resources on
the west coast.” Ms. Britton
added that “Magic, himself,
broke barriers and stereotypes
within professional sports. And
he and Cookie Johnson have
supported the Foundation for
years as part of our extended
family. We are thrilled that he
has joined us in a more formal
capacity.”
Mark Roesler, Chairman
The New York Chapter of the National Association of
Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) in conjunction with
the International African Arts Festival (IAAFestival)
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D
uring Black History
Month we celebrate
Jackie Robinson for his
talent, his character and use of
non-violence, characteristics
that helped challenge the basis
of segregation in America.
He contributed to the Civil
Rights Movement by achieving
many firsts that broke the color
barriers and paved the way for
others to come through.
Robinson was a Major League
Baseball second baseman. He
broke the baseball color lines
when he became the first African
American to play in the major
leagues in 1947. He played for
the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Prior to that, dating back to
the 1880’s, Black players were
relegated to play in the Negro
his first record, The Fat Man,
which attracted national attention, rising to #1 on the February 1950 R&B charts. The Fat
Man is often cited as one of
the first records in the rock ‘n
’roll style.
For the next five years,
Domino and Bartholomew’s
band recorded a steady stream
of hits for Imperial Records.
The crossover record that
would sell to blacks and whites
was Domino’s 1955 Ain’t That
a Shame. Within a week, the
song was covered by Pat
Boone. Vintage performances
of Domino and his band featured in the film include I’m
in Love Again, Blueberry Hill,
Blue Monday and Walking to
New Orleans.
By the end of 1956, Domino was making appearances
on major network television
(e.g., The Steve Allen Show,The
Perry Como Show and The Ed
Sullivan Show), and even in
Hollywood films (The Girl
Can’t Help It andShake, Rattle
and Rock).
In 1957, the Domino band
traveled 13,00o miles across
the United States working 355
shows, and selling out nightclubs and concert halls whenever they played. Yet, despite
being the most popular rock ‘n’
roll band in the country, with a
sizable number of white fans,
Domino encountered racial
segregation. As they toured,
they were denied access to
lodging, food and services, and
forced to used “For Colored
Only” facilities.
Domino had four major riots at his shows partly because
of integration,” says Fats Domino biographer Rick Coleman.
“But also the fact they had
alcohol at these shows. So
they were mixing alcohol, plus
dancing, plus the races together
for the first time in a lot of these
places.”
“There was this historic
moment in American history,” says Coleman. “That the
things were kinda coming
together and people don’t
really credit rock ‘n’ roll for
integrating America, but it
really did.”
By the end of 1963, a new
generation of rockers was
taking center stage. Though
his days of top 10 hits were
behind him, Domino continued
to record.
For the next 40 years, he
toured internationally performing his hits at sold-out shows
around the world.
In 65 years, he never departed from his boogie woogie
roots. And until his final public
performance in 2006, Bartholomew and Hardesty were
often in the band.
Domino was named to the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1986 and received a Grammy
lifetime achievement award
in 1987 and a National Medal
of Arts in 1998. In 2005, his
home was heavily damaged by
Hurricane Katrina, and he and
his family had to be rescued
during the storm.
Domino currently lives in
his native New Orleans.
In celebration of Fats
Domino’s 88th birthday,
Thirteen’s American Masters presents, Fats Domino
and The Birth of Rock ‘n’
Roll, premiering nationwide
during Black History Month
on Friday, February 26 at 10
p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local
listings).
Launched in 1986, American Masters has earned 28
Emmy Awards — including 10
for Outstanding Non-Fiction
Series since 1999 and five
for Outstanding Non-Fiction
Special — 12 Peabodys, an
Oscar, three Grammys, two
Producers Guild Awards and
many other honors. Now in its
30th season on PBS, the series
is a production of THIRTEEN
PRODUCTIONS LLC
for WNET and also seen on
the WORLD channel.
Funding for American Masters is provided by
The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, Rosalind P.
Walter, The Philip and Janice
Levin Foundation, Judith and
Burton Resnick, The Blanche
& Irving Laurie Foundation,
Vital Projects Fund, Ellen and
James S. Marcus, Michael &
Helen Schaffer Foundation,
Lenore Hecht Foundation, The
André and Elizabeth Kertész
Foundation, and PBS. Support
for this program also provided
by National Endowment for
the Arts and Paul W. Zuccaire
Foundation in honor of William
S. Wood.
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F
ats Domino was one of
the most popular rockers
of the 1950s and early
60s. His achievements and
record sales during that time
were rivaled only by Elvis
Presley. With his boogie-woogie piano playing rooted in
blues, rhythm & blues, and
jazz, he became one of the
inventors, along with Presley,
Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis
and Little Richard of a revolutionary genre of music, rock
‘n’ roll.
Fats was born in 1928, the
last of eight Domino children. His journey from a poor
childhood in the Lower Ninth
Ward in New Orleans to a key
figure in rock ‘n’ roll is told
on film, premiering nationally
on American Masters, Friday,
February 26 at 10:00 pm.
The one-hour documentary traces how Fats Domino’s
brand of New Orleans rhythm
and blues morphed into rock
and roll, appealing to black and
white audiences alike. Actor
Clarke Peters narrates
As a child, Domino liked
to tinker on the family piano.
His life was changed when his
sister married Harrison Verrett,
a New Orleans musician (banjo
player), who taught him how to
play the piano and introduced
him to the music scene.
Domino wanted to play
the piano so much that he quit
school after fourth grade, and
worked in a factory in order
to perform in local nightclubs
While playing in the Ninth
Ward clubs, Domino met Billy
Diamond, a local bandleader
and bass player, who invited
him to play in his band at
the Hideaway Club in New
Orleans.
It was Diamond who gave
him the nickname “Fats” –
even before Domino made a
record — after the great piano player Fats Waller. Soon,
Domino became a regular at
the Hideaway Club, drawing
crowds and accolades for his
musical abilities.
However, it was his partnership with Bartholomew,
pioneering R&B producer,
songwriter, and New Orleans
trumpeter, whose collaboration
and guidance as collaborator,
arranger and bandleader that
would have the most profound
impact on his career.
When Bartholomew took
Lew Chudd, Imperial Records,
to the Hideaway to hear Domino play Swanee River Boogie,
which was his specialty number at the club, Chudd signed
Domino on the spot. Two
weeks later, Domino recorded
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Standing on sacred ground
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Walter Smith: Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
Miatta Haj Smith: Co-Publisher & Executive Editor
William Egyir: Managing Editor
Former cop Daniel Holtzclaw
sentenced to 263 years
By Attorney Benjamin
L. Crump
NNPA News Wire Guest
Columnist
“Wrong is wrong: justice
needs to be served,” is a statement that my client Jannie
Ligons made when she was
interviewed shortly after Daniel
Holtzclaw was found guilty of
rape, forcible oral sodomy and
other charges against 13 Afri-
media did a disservice by refusing to inform America about
what had been happening in
Oklahoma City.
The role of the police department is to protect its citizens and property from criminal activity, enforce laws,
and assist the prosecution in
preparing cases against alleged
criminals. However, there is an
additional role and expectation
where law enforcement should
Benjamin Crump represented five of the 13 women involved in
the Daniel Holtzclaw case.
can-American women. Ligons,
a 58-year old grandmother
and day care worker with no
criminal history, was one of the
women sexually assaulted by
Holtzclaw while he served as an
Oklahoma City Police Officer.
In 2014, Ligons made a
complaint about Holtzclaw,
which triggered a police investigation that ultimately led to
his conviction. Last Thursday,
a jury responded by sentencing
him to 263 years in prison.
Holtzclaw misused his position and authority as a police
officer for at least 15 months
while he sexually assaulted 13
African-American women. It
is truly courageous that Ligons
even came forward against
him, because most victims
of sexual assault never report
their assault.
The case against Holtzclaw
was by all counts ignored by
mainstream media. Here, we
had a police officer preying on
African-American women in
one of the poorest neighborhoods in Oklahoma City and
no one was paying attention.
From the moment Ligons filed
a complaint against Holtzclaw
to when Holtzclaw was indicted to when he sat down for trial
in front of an all-white jury, the
provide oversight and training
to ensure that misconduct
in their department does not
occur. When it does happen,
they have an obligation to investigate fully and ensure that
there are real consequences.
The crimes committed by
Holtzclaw are too important
to ignore. This man violated
13 women that he vowed to
protect. In doing so, he also
raise awareness about the realities of sexual assault; confront
and change insensitive attitudes wherever they persist…”
Two years later, the White
House Council on Women and
Girls issued a report entitled
“Rape and Sexual Assault:
A Renewed Call to Action.”
This report examined rape and
sexual assault from numerous
angles including the economic
impact, campus sexual assaults,
and the sexual assault of imprisoned men and women. But, it
did not focus on the increasing
complaints of sexual misconduct against arresting officers;
nor did it discuss the underreporting of sexual misconduct
and harassment that is endured
by women working in law
enforcement from their male
counterparts and/or supervisors.
As citizens of this nation,
we must ensure that mistreatment of women will not be tolerated, particularly while in the
custody of law enforcement.
Holtzclaw’s victims ranged
in age from 17 years old to 57
years old. In many ways, this
case represented the 400 years of
racism, oppression, and sexual
assault African American women have always had to face. This
was a victory not only for the
OKC 13, but also for so many
unknown victims of sexual
assault. We were able to stop a
serial rapist with a badge when
everyone else ignored these
Black women. My hope is that
now this case will become an
example for the rest of America
Rapist former cop Daniel Holtzclaw
violated his badge and the trust
that people within the community have placed in police.
In 2012, President Obama
issued a proclamation stating,
“It is up to all of us to ensure
victims of sexual violence
are not left to face these trials
alone…We must do more to
and the world to follow.
Benjamin L. Crump is the
President of the National Bar
Association and represents the
families of Trayvon Martin and
Michael Brown, and the father
of Tamir Rice. He also represented five of the 13 women in
this case.
By Julianne Malveaux
NNPA News Wire
Columnist
T
hree unarmed Black
men encountered a group
of White men walking
down a dirt road in Slocum,
Texas on July 29, 1910. Without warning, and with no reason, the White men opened
fire on the Black men. And
for two days White men simply slaughtered Black people.
Eight deaths have been officially acknowledged, but historians
who have studied the Slocum
Massacre say that it is likely
that dozens more were killed,
with some saying as many were
killed in Slocum as in Tulsa in
1921 (and those numbers range
into the hundreds). The New
York Times quoted William
Black, the sheriff at the time of
the massacre:
“Men were going about
killing Negroes as fast as they
could find them, and so far as I
was able to ascertain, without
any real cause. I don’t know
how many were in the mob,
but there may have been 200
or 300. … They hunted the
Negroes down like sheep.”
History mostly swallowed
the horror of the Slocum Massacre. Some descendants of those
massacred pushed for official
acknowledgement of the horror,
but there have been efforts to
cover up the carnage, with some
in Slocum pretending that the
Massacre never happened. It
took more than a century, until
2011, for the Texas Legislature
to formally acknowledge the
massacre. A roadside marker
commemorating the tragedy
was just placed on January
26, 2016. A local member of
the Anderson County Historical Commission opposed the
marker because, “The citizens
of Slocum today had absolutely
nothing to do with what happened over a hundred years ago.
This is a nice, quiet community
with a wonderful school system.
It would be a shame to mark
them as racist from now until
the end of time.”
E.R. Bills, author of The
1910 Slocum Massacre: An
Act of Genocide in East Texas,
says that there are more than
16,000 historical markers in
the state of Texas. “The Slocum
Massacre historical marker
will apparently be the first one
to specifically acknowledge
racial violence against African
Americans.” His book meticulously documents the Slocum
facts, and asserts, “Many white
folks got away with murder”.
Only 11 were arrested for their
role in the massacre. Seven
were indicted but none were
prosecuted for their crimes. The
eleven were only the known
criminals. According to Bills,
many murderers buried dead
bodies on their land to perpetuate the cover up.
The Slocum historical marker stands on sacred ground.
There is much other sacred
ground in these United States,
ground that is soaked with the
blood of lynched and murdered
African Americans. Yet there
are few markers of our nation’s historical madness. The
Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based organization that
has documented the magnitude
of our nation’s lynching history,
hopes to build markers and memorials on lynching sites, much
like the one in Slocum. We need
these memorials to remind us
of an era of racial terror, and
to consider the contemporary
consequences of that terror.
This year the association for
the study of African American
life and history (ASALH) has
chosen Hallowed Grounds:
Sites of African American
Memories as their Black History Month Theme. While
ASALH has not focused specifically on markers and memorials for sites of lynching and
massacres, the focus location
is important. They mention
plantations, historic homes,
and historic streets (like Beale
Street in Memphis, Sweet
Auburn Avenue in Atlanta,
and 125 Street in Harlem) as
important places to embrace
and celebrate.
Many of our nation’s major
cities have experienced gentrification in the past decade or so.
Washington, DC is no longer
Chocolate City – more like
neapolitan or chocolate chip.
The 125 Street of the Harlem
Renaissance has diversified,
as young whites with deep
pockets are pushing the prices
of historic brownstones into
the seven or eight figure price
range. No matter. The places
are still sacred ground, and
should be recognized as such.
It is important to acknowledge
these places with statues, markers, and memorials, lest we
forget. Those who don’t know
history are doomed to repeat it.
We assert that Black Lives Matter because so many black lives
were obliterated in Slocum, and
because for far too long it was
convenient and comfortable to
forget a heinous massacre.
Julianne Malveaux is an
author, economist and Founder
of Economic Education. Her
latest book “Are We Better Off?
Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available for pre-order at
www.juliannemalveaux.com.
By Michael H. Cottman,
Urban News Service
D
Frances Rice President National Black Republican Association
cent conclave of all-democratic
mayors. Led by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D Baltimore), two weeks before the
first votes are cast in the 2016
presidential race, a multicultural coalition of local chief
executives from across America met in Des Moines, Iowa, to
shift the debate to urban issues.
Gathering in the Hawkeye
State’s largest city, these key
mayors presented their proposal at the Brown & Black
Presidential Forum. The 2016
Compact for a Better America:
Call to Action urges the
democratic presidential candidates and the republican-controlled congress to boost federal spending and invigorate
America’s urban centers.
According to the 2010 Census, 81 percent of Americans
live in cities and metropolitan
areas.
These mayors aimed to
explain how smaller municipalities often experience some
of the same social challenges
that plague inner cities across
America.
“We believe mayors are
the elected officials closest to
Stephanie Rawling Blake, Pres U.S. Conference of Mayors
the people and, thus, are best
suited to know the challenges
working families grapple with
every day, Rawlings-Blake,
president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, told Urban
News Service. We also know
that, many times, those challenges are felt more acutely
in minority communities, she
said.
This is precisely why we
are calling on the presidential
candidates and congress to take
seriously our mayors’ Compact
for a Better America urging
that we invest in and protect
our cities and urban centers.”
Large cities and small towns
alike are experiencing similar
problems including insufficient
jobs, limited access to quality
healthcare, illegal immigration, rising crime, unlawful
guns and scarce affordable
housing, the mayors said.
The mayors also released a
16-point plan to overhaul U.S.
urban centers. It specifically
recommends that America
bolster the Metro-City economic engines that drive the
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ays before the Iowa
caucuses, the nation’s
largest association of
Black Republicans is endorsing Donald Trump, a candidate
with little history of working
on civil rights, housing or other
traditional African-American
issues.
“We, the grassroots activists
of the National Black Republican
Association, are pleased to
announce our endorsement of
Donald J. Trump for
President of the United
States of America,” Frances
Rice, co-founder and chairman of
the National Black Republican Association, wrote on Jan.
22 in an essay on the association’s website.
“As citizens who happen
to be black, we support Mr.
Trump because he shares our
values,” Rice wrote in an essay
that alluded to the candidate’s
current position on abortion.
“We, like Mr. Trump, are
fiscally conservative, steadfastly pro-life and
believers in a small government that fosters freedom
for individuals and businesses,
so they can grow and become
prosperous,” she wrote.
The Black republican group
contrasted sharply with a re-
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democratic mayors unveil urban agenda
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Mosquitoes, a growing concern
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mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host
New anti-malaria
push through
affordable home spray
A
new $65 million initiative to boost malaria
control and combat resistance to insecticides by improving access to new, low-cost
anti-mosquito sprays across
Africa was recently announced
The initiative by the health
agency UNITAID and non-profit group IVCC will be rolled
out over four years with a goal
of protecting as many as 50
million people in 16 African
countries.
Although effective in fighting malaria, the indoor spraying of walls has fallen by 40
percent in the past four years
due to increased resistance to
older products and high cost
of new alternatives, UNITAID
and IVCC said.
“If the resistance continues
to spread unabated, there could
be 120,000 more deaths from
malaria a year,” Lelio Marmora, executive director of
UNITAID, said in a statement.
“Unless newer insecticides
are used, we run the risk of
considerable reversals in the
fight against malaria.”
The new project will ini-
tially use financing from UNITAID to lower the price of new
products with a long-term goal
of bringing down prices by
encouraging competition.
Malaria prevention measures - such as bednets and
indoor and outdoor spraying have averted millions of deaths
and saved millions of dollars in
healthcare costs over the past
14 years in many African countries, according to the World
Health Organization).
In the past five years, 60 of
the 78 countries that monitor
insecticide resistance have
reported mosquito resistance
to at least one insecticide used
in nets and indoor spraying.
In December, the WHO’s
annual malaria report showed
deaths falling to 438,000 in
2015 - down dramatically from
839,000 in 2000 - and found a
significant increase in the number of countries moving towards
the elimination of malaria.
The United Nations wants
to cut new cases and deaths
from malaria, a parasitic mosquito-borne infection, by 90
percent before 2030.
here are 3,500 known
species of mosquito but
most of those don’t bother humans . They live off
plants and fruit.
It’s the females from about
6% of species that draw blood
from humans. This helps them
develop their eggs.
Of that 6%, about half carry
parasites that cause human diseases. But the impact of these
can be devastating.
The mosquito is the most
dangerous insect in the world,
carrying diseases that kill one
million people a year. Now the
Zika virus, which is carried by
mosquitoes, has been linked
with thousands of babies born
with brain defects in South
America
The deadly disease spreading mosquitoes are:
Aedes aegypti – They
spread Zika, yellow fever and
dengue fever; they originated
in Africa but are found in
tropical and subtropical regions
throughout the world
Aedes albopictus – They
spread yellow fever and dengue fever and the West Nile
virus; they originated in Southeast Asia but ares now found
in tropical and subtropical
regions throughout the world
Anopheles gambiae - also
known as the African malaria
mosquito,
More than a million people
die each year from mosquito-borne diseases including
malaria, dengue fever and
yellow fever.
Some mosquitoes also carry
the Zika virus, which was first
thought to cause only mild
fever and rashes. However, scientists are now worried it can
damage babies in the womb.
The Zika virus has been linked
with a spike in microcephaly
- where babies are born with
smaller heads now in Brazil.
There’s a constant effort to
educate people to use treated
nets and other tactics to avoid
being bitten.
But there has been talk
about making disease carrying
mosquitos extinct
Biologist Olivia Judson has
supported “specicide” of 30
types of mosquito. She said
doing this would save one
million lives and only decrease
the genetic diversity of the
mosquito family by 1%.
In Britain, scientists at Oxford University and the biotech
firm Oxitec have genetically
modified (GM) the males of
Aedes aegypti - a mosquito
species that carries both the
Zika virus and dengue fever.
These GM males carry a gene
that stops their offspring from
developing properly. This
second generation of mosquitoes then dies before they can
reproduce and become carriers
of disease themselves.
About three million of these
modified mosquitoes were
released on to a site on the
Cayman Islands between 2009
and 2010. Oxitec reported
a 96% reduction in mosquitoes compared with nearby
areas. A trial currently taking
place on a site in Brazil has
reduced the numbers by 92%.
So there must be some
downsides to removing mosquitoes? According to Phil
Lounibos, an entomologist at
Florida University, mosquito
eradication “is fraught with
undesirable side effects”.
He says mosquitoes, which
mostly feed on plant nectar,
are important pollinators. They
are also a food source for birds
and bats while their young - as
larvae - are consumed by fish
and frogs. This could have an
effect further up and down the
food chain.
However, some say that
the role of mosquito species
as food and pollinators would
quickly be filled by other insects. “We’re not left with a
wasteland every time a species
vanishes,” Judson said.
But for Lounibos, the fact
this niche would be filled by
another insect is part of the
problem.
He warns that mosquitoes
could be replaced by an insect
“equally, or more, undesirable
from a public health viewpoint”. Its replacement could
even conceivably spread diseases further and faster than
mosquitoes today.
Contemporary African art is hot
C
ontemporary African art
appears to be the hottest
new investment commodity, and wealthy Africans
are leading the charge.
The ever-growing African
art boom which centers mostly
around Nigeria, is due to several factors:
the country’s large population, its growing economy, and
the benefits of oil production.
But demand has spread
across the continent.
While most art sales take
place between Nigeria and
South Africa, auction houses
are popping up across the continent, with auctions being held
in Kenya, and Uganda.
Over the past 10 years, collectors, investors, and galleries
have seen prices skyrocket. The British Auction House,
Bonhams has seen a five-fold
increase in the value since the
company started specializing
in African art in 2007.
Prince Yemisi Shyllon, who
is considered Nigeria’s largest
art collector, with an over
7,000-piece collection said,
until recently, contemporary
African art wasn’t considered
that valuable.
“When I started collecting
art as an undergraduate at the
university in the mid 1970’s,,
it had virtually no value,” Shyllon says.
“You could buy a piece
of good art for 20,000 Naira
[about $100 at current conversion rates]. Today it would sell
for millions.”
“I’ve studied the movement
of the prices of artwork sold
in auctions in Nigeria since
1999,” he continues. “And I
can tell you how much the artworks have grown over time,
of different artists —
Shyllon also revealed plans
to open a contemporary art
museum in Lagos.
Africans are a huge presence in the global market as
well, accounting for about half
of all sales.
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By Alma Gill
NNPA News Wire
Columnist
Dear Alma,
I was married for 12 years.
I raised our son and his twin
daughters from his first marriage. When we separated and
divorced I was heartbroken.
But all the children remained
with me. They are adults now,
all finished college, married
with children and living wonderful lives of their own. I’ve
never remarried.
Recently after all these
years my ex-husband married
a very young woman. It works
well for the local political
life that he lives. He has a
high-ranking position with the
city and is constantly busy and
on the go.
Because of his career, I’ve
always remained close to his
mother, who is in her late 80’s,
a widow, who raised her only
son and everyone else on the
block. She’s the nicest woman
you could ever meet and has
helped single mothers in our
area with childcare for years.
I lost my mother when I was
young, so I’ve really enjoyed
the bond that we share. She recently told me that, “I’ll always
be her daughter-in-law (DIL)
no matter what.” I’ve always
shopped, cooked her meals
and taken her to her doctor
appointments, but I understand
this has to stop.
My ex and
his new wife should take care
of her now, although I don’t see
that happening.
My problem is, now that my
ex is remarried, I want to step
out of the way when it comes to
my mother-in-law (MIL). How
do I get them to recognize their
responsibility to step up and
start taking care of his mother?
— Robin
Dear Robin,
I hear you Robin, but I don’t
believe you. You don’t wanna
let go, nor should you. You
love your MIL like you would
your birth mother, and that’s
fantastic. What a blessing you
two are for one another.
Sadly, your marriage didn’t
last but your obligation to
family remains unmovable.
Maintaining your role as a
stepmother and DIL was not
an easy task, I’m sure. There’s
a reason you did and it’s
bigger than you and your
ex-husband.
Listen, the truth of the
matter is the new DIL is
not interested in caring for
her MIL or she would have
stepped up or paid someone
to do it by now. In the same
breathe, your ex couldn’t
find his mother in the forest
for the trees and that ain’t
gonna change any time soon.
When and if your ex and his
new misses want to make a
change, they’ll let you know.
I’m sure both don’t find it
broken, so there’s no need to
fix it, at least not for now. Not
to mention, your MIL probably wouldn’t welcome the
change anyways. That’s why
she told you your role, in her
heart, will remain the same.
I say, continue to be her
caregiver. I know this isn’t
ideal, but it’s doable. Do it out
of love for family, not as a favor to your ex. Your MIL is in
her 80’s, commit to loving her
delightfully for the rest of her
days. I promise you, your heart
will be glad you did.
— Alma
Alma Gill’s newsroom experience spans more than 25
years, including various roles
at USA Today, Newsday and
the Washington Post. Email
questions to: alwaysaskalma@
gmail.com. Follow her on
Facebook at “Ask Alma” and
Twitter @almaaskalma.
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torney General’s investigation
revealed that no such account
ever existed.
In January 2015, Vogt was
indicted in New York County
and charged with Grand Larceny, Forgery and violations of
the Martin Act. Thereafter, in
July 2015, the Attorney General filed a second indictment
against Vogt in Ulster County,
charging him again.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 19, 2016 in
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notice, in all of their struggling,
programming, or even crying or
demanding, they even refer to
themselves as a minority, and
they use a minority approach. By
a minority they mean that they
are lesser than something else,
or they are outnumbered, or the
odds are against them—and this
is the approach that they use in
their argument, in their demand,
in their negotiation. But when you find those of
us who have been following the
nationalistic thinking that prevails in Harlem, we don’t think of
ourselves as a minority, because
we don’t think of ourselves just
within the context of the American stage or the American scene,
in which we would be a minority.
We think of things worldly, or
as the world is; we think of our
part in the world, and we look
upon ourselves not as a dark
minority on the white American
stage, but rather we look upon
ourselves as a part of the dark
majority who now prevail on
the world stage. And when you
think like this, automatically,
when you realize you are part of
the majority, you approach your
problem as if odds are on your
side rather than odds are against
you. You approach demanding
rather than using the begging
approach. This is history that in the
past the white world was in
Show Some Love!
V
alentine’s Day is next
week, and I know that
you are expecting me
to write about all sorts of Valentine’s related things—gift
ideas to consider buying hot,
sexy lingerie to surprise your
significant other, getting one
of those glamour photos, etc
. . . Not this year! Valentine’s
Day is, simply put, the commercialization of romance!
Advertisers send a subliminal,
unable to pay the restitution,
he will receive a sentence of 6
to 12 years in prison and must
sign a confession of judgment
for the entire amount stolen of
over $350,000. This sentence will run concurrent to his Ulster County
sentence.
“No matter how outrageous the scheme, my office
will bring the full force of the
law against those who seek to
defraud New Yorkers out of
their hard earned money.” Said
Schneiderman.
Excerpts, Malcolm X speech: why Afro-American history is important
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yet very powerful message that
everybody should be in a relationship, and that something
is wrong with you if you are
not. Valentine’s Day is also a
day that you can use to let all
the people in your life know
that you love them, which
means you’ll have different
expressions of love for each.
So, instead of giving into the
hype, consider giving a gift
from the heart instead. •If you are in a relationship,
don’t put so much weight on
what your significant other
gives you on V-Day. How
does he or she treat you the
other 364 days of the year? If
they treat you well, then don’t
quibble if you don’t get the
flowers, candy or whatever
you feel you should get . . . If
Ulster County to 2 to 4 years
in prison if he pays $36,720
to his victim, or 3 to 6 years
in prison if he cannot pay
restitution.
Today, Vogt pleaded guilty
before the Judge Michael J.
Obus in New York County
Supreme Court to Grand Larceny. He is scheduled to be
sentenced on August 4, 2016,
to 5 to 10 years in state prison
if he pays $120,000 restitution to his victim and signs a
confession of judgment for the
remaining amount; if Vogt is
he/she treats you badly that
means it is time to re-think
the relationship.
•If you are single, don’t get
caught up in what others are
getting—show some love to
your family and friends and
most importantly to yourself!
If it will make you feel better,
get your own flowers and
candy.
•Are you a parent? Do something unexpected for your
children. At breakfast or
dinner do something silly;
“draw” hearts on their plates
with ketchup or write “I love
you” in chocolate syrup on
their ice cream or cake. Yes,
you run the risk that they will
tell you it’s corny, but what
you’ll gain is their memory
of your love for them.
power, They ruled all the dark
world. Now when they were
in power and had everything
going their way, they didn’t
call that racism, they called it
colonialism. [Applause] And
they were happy too when they
could stand up and tell how
much power they had.
Britain used to brag about
the sun never set on her empire.
Her empire was so vast, you
know, that the sun would never
set on it, she bragged. I heard
Churchill say it, and Macmillan,
and some of those others who sat
over there telling everybody else
what to do. And this is one of the things
that is frightening (to America).
As long as the Black man in
America thinks of himself as
a minority, as an underdog, he
can’t shout but so loud; or if
he does shout, he shouts loudly
only to the degree that the power
structure encourages him to. He
never gets irresponsible. He never goes beyond what the power
structure thinks is the right voice
to shout in.
But when you begin to connect yourself on the world stage
with the whole of dark mankind, and you see that you’re
the majority and this majority
is waking up and rising up and
becoming strong, then when
you deal with (the oppressor),
you don’t deal with him like
he’s your boss or he’s better
than you or stronger than you.
You put him right where he
belongs. When you realize that
he’s a minority, that his time is
running out, you approach him
like that, you approach him like
one who used to be strong but
is now getting weak, who used
to be in a position to retaliate
against you but now is not in
that position anymore. This is history, this is fact.
They called it European history,
or colonialism. They ruled all the
dark world. Now when they were
in power and had everything
going their way, they didn’t call
that racism, they called it colonialism. And they were happy
too when they could stand up and
tell how much power they had.
Britain used to brag about
the sun never set on her empire.
Her empire was so vast, you
know, that the sun would never
set on it, she bragged. I heard
Churchill say it, and Macmillan,
and some of those others who sat
over there telling everybody else
what to do. Another characteristic of
this era that we’re living in,
that’s causing it to be a troubled
world, is the fact that the dark
world is rising. And as the dark
world rises, the white world
declines. It’s impossible for
the dark world to increase in
its power and strength without
the power and strength of the
white world decreasing. www.
historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/
malconafamhist.html
•For family members, instead
of the standard card giving,
share some family love across
the country with a conference
call. If your family is local,
keep “the ties that bind” with
an impromptu potluck or dessert party.
•Your sister-friends and male
friends usually have the least
expectations of receiving
acknowledgement on Valentine’s Day. Not because they
don’t think you care but like
you, they may be addressing
their own Valentine’s Day
issues. Give them a gift that
is one of the best and easiest
to give; just pick up the phone
and say, “Happy Valentine’s
Day, I love you my friend.”
Or whatever message of love
and support you would like
to convey.
As for those of you who
are reading this but feel blue
because you are afraid that no
one will acknowledge you on
Valentine’s Day, please allow
me — Happy Valentine’s Day!
See you next week.
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Black History Month Spotlight: Lena Horne
I
n celebration and recognition of Black History
Month, The New York
Times is opening up its vault
and will showcase revealing
moments in Black history featuring unpublished photos from
The New York Times’s archives
for a deep, provocative explo-
ration of race. The first photo
is titled: For Lena Horne, a
Home at Last, Unpublished
Black History by Rachel L.
Swarns . . . She was one of the
most famous performers in
the country, a recording star, a
Hollywood actress and a nightclub sensation. But in the late
1950s, Lena Horne still struggled to find property owners in
Manhattan who were willing to
sell co-ops or condominiums to
African-Americans, even very
wealthy ones. So how exactly
did she snare the penthouse
apartment, featured in this
photograph, at 300 West End
Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side? With the help of a
good friend, Harry Belafonte.
Back in 1958, Mr. Belafonte, who was the first recording
artist to sell more than a million
LPs, was turned away from one
Manhattan apartment after another. And he was furious. So
Chaka Khan 2016 She Rocks Awards Winner
A
who’s who of music industry execs, celebrities,
luminaries and supporters of women in music gathered
on Friday, January 22, 2016 in
the Anaheim Hilton hotel’s Pacific Ballroom to celebrate the
2016 She Rocks Awards, an
event paying tribute to women
who display leadership and
stand out within the music industry. The She Rocks Awards
were held by parent organization the Women’s International
Music Network (the WiMN),
and were co-hosted by WiMN
Founder Laura B. Whitmore
and guitarist Nita Strauss.
Honorees included Chaka
Khan, Jennifer Batten, Amy
Heidemann, Becky Gebhardt and Mona Tavakoli
(Rock Camp for Girls L.A.
and Raining Jane), Chalise
Zolezzi (Taylor Guitars), Mary
Luehrsen (NAMM), Crystal
Morris (Gator Cases), Mindy
Abovitz (Tom Tom Magazine),
Cathy Carter Duncan (Seymour Duncan), Leigh Maples
and Pamela Cole (Fanny’s
House of Music), Leslie Ann
Jones (Skywalker Sound),
Sujata Murthy (Universal
Music), and surprise honoree
Tom Gilbert, the Creative and
Marketing Manager for Mad
Sun Marketing and co-producer of the She Rocks Awards.
The event featured electrifying performances by singer-songwriter, Jenna Paone;
guitarists Nita Strauss, Malina Moye, and Jennifer Batten; Jason Mraz touring band,
Raining Jane; pop sensations,
Karmin; The Command Sisters; and the incredible house
band Rock Sugah featuring Divinity Roxx on bass, Kudison
Kai on vocals, Kat Dyson on
guitar, Benita Lewis on drums
and Lynette Williams on keys.
Highlights of the event
include a stellar performance
by Karmin of songs from their
upcoming release, Leo Rising;
killer guitar acts by Jennifer
Batten, Nita Strauss and Malina Moye (a 2014 She Rocks
Award winner); a rousing
speech by percussionist Mona
She Rocks Award honorees & guests: From left (top row) Kat
Dyson, Amy Heidemann, Malina Moye, Jennifer Batten, Seymour Duncan, Cathy Carter Duncan, Laura B. Whitmore, Chalise Zolezzi, Mary Luehrsen, Leslie Ann Jones, Sujata Murthy,
Kudisan Kai, Crystal Morris, Benita Lewis, Leigh Maples, Jenna
Paone, Charlotte and Sarah Command; (bottom row) Lynette
Williams, Mindy Abovitz, Divinity Roxx, Chaka Khan, Nita
Strauss, Mona Tavakoli, Becky Gebhardt (Photo by Kevin Graft)
Tavakoli of Raining Jane and
the Rock N’ Roll Camp for
Girls of L.A.; and a grand
finale closing performance
by The Command Sisters,
Jennifer Batten, Nita Strauss
and Rock Sugah as they joined
together in a tribute to Chaka
Khan ending with power anthem, “I’m Every Woman,” that got the crowd of 700
attendees on their feet and
dancing.
The 2016 She Rocks
Awards were sponsored by
Martin Guitar, Seymour Duncan, Roland, Boss, Gretsch,
Avid, Taylor Guitars, Zildjian,
Guitar Center, D’Addario,
Fishman, Berklee College of
Music, Tech 21, PRS Guitars,
108 Rock Star Guitars, Korg
USA, Volume & Tone, Casio,
Ear Trumpet Labs, Merch Cat,
John Page Classic Guitars,
West Coast Pedalboards, and
Recording King, with additional support from these media
partners: Tom Tom Magazine,
Guitar Girl Magazine, Music-News.com, Guitar World,
Guitar Player, Keyboard, Bass
Player, Electronic Musician,
Music Inc., Making Music, International Musician, Premier
Guitar, LAWIM, Rock N Roll
Industries, and more.
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Lena Horne is photographed on Dec. 17, 1964 at 300 West End Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side by NYT photographer, Sam
Falk
he sent his publicist, who was
white, to rent a four-bedroom
apartment in the building at 300
West End Avenue. His publicist
passed on the paperwork, and
Mr. Belafonte signed the oneyear lease in his own name.
Within hours of moving in, Mr.
Belafonte said, the building’s
manager “became aware that he
had a Negro as a tenant.” The
building’s owner asked him to
leave. Mr. Belafonte refused.
Instead, he bought the building,
using dummy real estate companies to cloak his identity.
Some tenants who had
been renting there bought their
apartments and some of Mr.
Belafonte’s friends moved
in, too. “Lena Horne got the
penthouse,” said Mr. Belafonte,
who described the real estate
deal in his memoir, “My Song:
A Memoir of Art, Race and
Defiance.” By Dec. 17, 1964,
when this photograph was taken by our photographer, Sam
Falk, Ms. Horne and her husband, Lennie Hayton, a white
composer and conductor, were
comfortably settled in. She was
hanging Christmas decorations
that day as she prepared for the
debut of her television show,
“Lena.” In the article that ran
10 days later, accompanied by
a different photograph, a closeup, she mentioned her difficulties in finding an apartment,
but not the back story to where
she had landed. “Lennie and I
lived in hotels for years while
we were on the road,” said
Ms. Horne, who was 47 then.
“And then we went through
the hysteria of trying to find
an apartment – all those stupid
problems – and when we finally
found a place that would admit
both me and Lennie, we put our
roots down.”
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Compiled by Woman's Editor
Audrey J. Bernard
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Zendaya launches her “Daya” shoe collection
O
n F r i d a y, J a n u a r y
29, 2016 Zendaya
kicked off her new
shoe line “Daya” with a prelaunch party planned by celebrity event planner, David
Tutera. The ‘Daya’ By Zendaya Shoe Collection party
was held at Raleigh Studios
in Los Angeles, California.
The 19-year-old actress was
joined by her stylist and
co-designer, Law Roach,
plus Yara Shahidi, Skai
Jackson, Veronica Dunne,
Max Ehrich, Paris Berelc,
Nia Frazier and MacKenzie Ziegler. Other guests
included Kamil McFadden,
Ross Butler, August Maturo, and Aubrey Miller.
Daya is a line of fashionable shoe ware designed for
everyday women. Whether
it’s high-heels, fringed flats,
or sporty wedge sneakers,
Daya provides access to
affordable footwear without sacrificing red carpet
style. The collection will
debut this spring. Daya is
a line of fashionable shoe
ware designed for everyday women. Whether it’s
high-heels, fringed flats,
or sporty wedge sneakers,
Daya provides access to
affordable footwear without sacrificing red carpet
style. The collection debuts
spring 2016. The event will
be featured in an upcoming
episode of WE tv’s “David
Tutera’s CELEBrations” airing this Spring. “David Tutera’s CELEBrations” gives
viewers VIP access to the
most exclusive events for
stars such as Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Ian
Ziering, Cynthia Bailey
and more. New episodes of
the WE tv hit series will be
back this spring with even
bigger star-studded events.
Guest
Zendaya with shoe fetish cake
Zendaya kicks up her Daya heels
Zendaya, David Tutera
Zendaya, Law Roach
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Apollo Theater takes showtime to New York Stock Exchange
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Representatives and guests of Apollo Theater visit the New York Stock Exchange. Jonelle Procope, President and CEO rings the NYSE Opening Bell in celebration of
their 82nd Anniversary. From the podium (Front, L to R) Marilyn Booker, Morgan Stanley Managing Director; Jacqueline Nickelberry, Owner of J Howell Holdings LLC; Christian Guardino, Former Amateur Night Child Stars of Tomorrow winner; Jonelle Procope, President and CEO, Apollo Theater; John Merrell, NYSE
Co-Head of Listings; Racquel Oden, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch; Patricia Zollar, Managing Director, Neuberger Berman and Daisey Holmes, President, BNY
Mellon Foundation, and Managing Director, Corporate Affairs (Back, L to R) Billy Mitchell, Apollo In-House Historian and Tour Director; Marion J. Caffey, Amateur Night Producer; Nina Flowers, Apollo Director of PR and Communications; Carolyn Minick-Mason, Owner and Creative Director Love Notes, Inc. and CM2
Signature Events; and Joan Haffenreffer, Citi Global Public Affairs Managing Director (Photo Credit: NYSE/Amy Sims)
I
n celebration of the iconic
Apollo Theater’s 82 years
of rich history, cultural
achievements and artistic brilliance on Tuesday, January
26, 2015 the Apollo brought
its signature Showtime at the
Apollo to the New York Stock
Exchange where it was invited
to ring the Opening Bell. Apollo Theater President and CEO,
Jonelle Procope, rang the
NYSE Opening Bell as Apollo
board members, supporters and
staff looked on beaming with
unbridled pride. The theater
brought its own opening act
to the opening -- the 2014
Amateur Night Child Star of
Tomorrow winner, Christian
Guardino -- who rocked the
house!
As the soul of American
culture, the theater has always played a vital role in
cultivating emerging talents
and launching legends. Since
its inception, it has served as
a center of innovation and a
creative catalyst for Harlem,
the city of New York, and the
world. Ironically on this very
same day January 26, 1934,
the Apollo Theater opened its
doors for the very first time
presenting its inaugural show,
Jazz à la Carte, featuring
Ralph Cooper, Aida Ward,
Benny Carter and his orchestra, and “16 Gorgeous Hot
Steppers.” February is Black
History Month and an appropriate time to showcase the
theater’s rich history (Source:
blackpast.org):
The Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York is the most
famous performance venue
associated with African American entertainers. The New
York Theatre that became the
Apollo was built in 1913 by
Jules Hurtig and Harry Seamon, two burlesque theatre
operators and opened as Hurtig
and Seamon’s New Burlesque
Theater. In 1928 the Apollo
was purchased by Bill Minsky
and renamed the 125th Street
Apollo Theatre as Harlem was
rapidly becoming the largest
urban black community in the
nation. Nonetheless both the
audience and entertainers at
the Apollo remained all-white. Sydney S. Cohen and Morris Sussman purchased the
Apollo in 1932. On January
26, 1934 they reopened the
Apollo as a Black-oriented
theatre, nearly twenty years
after it originally opened. The first Black performance
was an “all-colored review”
called Jazz a la Carte. Theatre
owners Cohen and Sussman
donated all of the performance
proceeds to the Harlem Children’s Fresh Air Fund. After
Sydney Cohen’s death, Frank
Schiffman, owner of the Harlem Opera House, became
Sussman’s partner. With that
partnership, the Opera House
and the Apollo merged to become for many years the only
New York City Theatre to hire
Black entertainers.
The Apollo soon featured an “amateur night”
About the Apollo Theater
The Apollo is a national treasure that has
had a significant impact on the development
of American culture and its popularity around
the world. Since introducing the first Amateur
Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has
played a major role in cultivating artists and
in the emergence of innovative musical genres
including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel,
blues, soul, and hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah
Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr.,
James Brown, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby,
Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D’Angelo,
Lauryn Hill, and countless others began their
where unknown performers
appeared. On November
21, 1934, 17-year-old Ella
Fitzgerald made her singing
debut at the Apollo, winning
a $25 prize. Over the years
other famous performers
who debuted at the Apollo
included Billie Holiday,
Sarah Vaughn, Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge,
and in later years, Luther
Vandross, Lauryn Hill and
Mariah Carey.
road to stardom on the Apollo’s stage. The
Apollo Theater’s new artistic vision builds on
its legacy. New Apollo programming has music
as its core, driving large scale and more intimate music, dance and theater presentations.
The Apollo will continue to present historically relevant presentations, as well as more
forward-looking, contemporary work. Based
on its cultural significance and architecture,
the Apollo Theater received state and city
landmark designation in 1983 and is listed on
the National Register of Historic Places. For
more information, visit www.apollotheater.org.
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Inoculation was introduced Black republicans back Trump,
to America by a slave.
democratic mayors unveil urban agenda
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From page 4
tients requesting inoculation
died compared to the 15% of
people not inoculated who
contracted smallpox. Much
opposition to the inoculation
stemmed from its source, an
African slave.
Onesimus’ traditional African practice was used to
inoculate American soldiers
during the Revolutionary War
and introduced the concept
of inoculation to the United
States. Because of his role in this
act of knowledge transfer,
Onesimus has a significant
place in the history of smallpox
inoculation.
For an enslaved man, such
a profile is unusual. The lives
and voices of the vast majority
of enslaved men, women and
children are effectively lost to
history - such was the inhumane nature of slavery.
Alas, very little is known of
Onesimus’s life. He remains a
fleeting figure in the historical
record.
Mather may have acted on
Onesimus’s experience and
knowledge of smallpox, but
Onesimus remained a slave
in the household and one
that Mather eventually turned
against.
After failing to convert him
to Christianity and considering
him to be increasingly rebellious, Mather signed a conditional document in 1721 that
allowed Onesimus to purchase
his freedom.
Magic Johnson, Mark
Roesler join Jackie
Robinson board of directors
From page 5
and CEO of CMG Worldwide,
a marketing and management
firm for over 300 of the world’s
most recognizable celebrities,
brings tremendous legal, strategic planning and branding
expertise to the JRF Board.
A longtime JRF supporter,.
Roesler, who is lauded for
his role in creating laws that
protect the image and likeness
of celebrities, represents the
Estate of Jackie Robinson.
“It is an honor to be part
of preserving and protecting
Jackie Robinson’s legacy,”
said Roesler. “As a member
of the Board, I look forward
to expanding my involvement in ensuring that his
name and heroic achievements continue to inspire all
of us and many generations
to come.”
“Mr. Roesler has vast
knowledge and experience in
areas that will be vitally important as we move towards
opening the Jackie Robinson
Museum. He brings indispensable expertise to our efforts,”
said Ms. Britton.
Black University of Albany female
students attacked on city bus
T
he Albany Police Department are investigating an incident where
three Black women reported
that they were harassed and
assaulted by a group of white
men and women on a city bus.
The victims said they were
riding on a city bus after 1:00
a.m. on Saturday, when during
an argument the white people
shouted racial epithets at them
and then attacked them..
One of the three was taken
to a nearby hospital for treatment for minor injuries after
she was knocked to the floor
and kicked by several men.
The police department said
they would look into whether
a hate crime was committed.
They circulated a letter to all
students and faculty asking
for their support in providing
information and giving them
time to handle the matter.
University president Robert
Jones said in an email to all
students, “I am deeply concerned, saddened and angry
about this incident.”
Jones said the University
will do everything it can to find
the individuals responsible and
“will hold them fully accountable for their behavior.”
From page 7
national economy; invest in
and modernize the D+ rated
transportation system; and educate and train a 21st Century
USA workforce.”
The issues of Des Moines
and of cities around Iowa are
the same issues that face mayors around the country each
and every day,Tom Cochran,
executive director of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors, said in
a statement.
We support The Brown &
Black Forum in its mission to
present to the next President of
the United States the challenges and opportunities before us,
and we believe it is critical that
mayors participate.
Race figures prominently
among Democratic presidential contenders, in part, because most African-Americans
traditionally vote Democrat,
although some black Republicans are becoming more vocal
in this contest through blogs
and online pronouncements.
Meanwhile, Democrats
say they support policies that
would revitalize urban centers,
if they could get the Republican-controlled Congress to
cooperate.
As presidential candidate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D Vermont) appeals to black voters
by backing the Black Lives
Matter movement, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton
recently secured the endorsement of 50 African-American
current and former mayors.
This could help Clinton
solidify the black vote behind
her presidential bid.
Neither of the two republican front-runners has offered
an urban blueprint However,
real estate tycoon Donald
Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R
Texas) both say they want to
create jobs and strengthen the
economy, which, they say, will
benefit all Americans.
Jobs, growth and opportunity will reignite promise for millions of American families who
are currently being crushed
by the Obama economy, says
Cruz’s website.
The best way to jump-start
growth is through fundamental
tax reform.”
“Real immigration reform
puts the needs of working
people first — not wealthy
globetrotting donors,” says
Trump’s website. “We are
the only country in the world
whose immigration system
puts the needs of other nations
ahead of our own. That must
change.”
Trump currently leads Cruz
nationally and, increasingly,
in Iowa and New Hampshire,
according to most major polls.
Voters will decide in November
which candidate and whether
Democrats or Republicans has
the best plan to lead America
forward.
In a recent roundtable
with black leaders in Baltimore, where black gang-related homicides and shootings
are climbing, Mayor Rawlings-Blake offered sobering
support for her campaign to
increase funding for urban
centers.
This is a very important
conversation, Rawlings-Blake
said about the growing crime
problem.
Its almost exclusively us
killing us. We’re losing a generation one life at a time
Princeton Review names Baruch
“Best college value in NYC”
N
ew York - Baruch College is one of the nation's best colleges for
students seeking great academics, outstanding career preparation, and generous financial
aid, according to The Princeton
Review.
Baruch is one of 200
schools that the education services company profiles in its
2016 edition of its book, Colleges That Pay You Back: The
200 Schools That Give You
the Best Bang for Your Tuition
Buck. The schools are also
featured on The Princeton
Review’s site.
The “Career Information”
section of the profile lists a
high Return-on-Education
(ROE) rating score of 89 for
Baruch College. The profile
also reports PayScale.com
figures on median salaries of
Baruch’s alumni, showing
the median starting salary as
$49,700.
The Princeton Review applauds Baruch College’s affordability and value stating
Baruch is widely considered
“the best college value in New
York City.”
The publication also praises the College’s career of-
fice that “works tirelessly to
prepare its students for the
working world. Not only do
they offer workshops on how
to make yourself an attractive
candidate, they also offer
counseling and even resume
reviews to make sure your
resume is perfect, as well as
mock interviews that help you
analyze your strengths and
weaknesses as an interviewer.”
Methodology: The Princeton Review chose the schools
based on ROI (return on in-
vestment) ratings it tallied
for 650 school last year. The
ratings weighted 40 data points
that covered everything from
academics, cost, and financial
aid to graduation rates, student
debt, and alumni salaries and
job satisfaction. The Princeton
Review editors cullled data
from the company's surveys
of administrators and students
in 2014-15 and from PayScale.
com›s surveys of school alumni conducted through April
2015.
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dressing our history of injustice
while also celebrating the
positive steps being taken to
create a society where EVERYONE thrives. Williams
invites your participation
in this extraordinary FREE
online event presented by
The Shift Network. RSVP
here for The African American Wisdom Summit- at no
charge!
During this powerful
month-long gathering, attendees will cherish the unique
flavors, traditions and spiritual
wisdom that African Americans and others of the African
Diaspora contribute to our society through wise leadership,
profound artistry, words of
truth and inspired actions that
transcend what we believe to
be possible. Participants will
discover:
Ways you can become empowered to create change by
using your heart, your voice
and your connection with
Spirit; Accessible, soul-powered practices you can use in
your daily life to support personal and collective healing; A
deeper awareness of the African American experience and
the unspoken power dynamics people of color face every
day; Positive, inspirational
stories of individuals making
positive shifts (both large and
small) despite facing racism
Self-care, creativity and
other restorative practices that
can help you sustain inspired
action in social justice work;
A fascinating look at the embodied, holistic, spiritual healing traditions of Africa and
the African diaspora; and
Effective ways to integrate
the wisdom that is naturally,
organically and authentically
within you and your community
“Now’s the time to ignite
a great transformation that
reunites our American family, fosters the healing of
history,” explains Williams.
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and empowered to create sustainable changes... in your life,
your neighborhood and in our
global community.
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the past, and forges a more
sacred future together. This
extraordinary gathering is not
only for African Americans,
but for ALL citizens of the
world who wish to be blessed,
transformed and bear witness
to the flowering of real genius
and great love from a people
who have gleaned profound
wisdom in the process of
transcending a traumatized
by the Rev. Ignatius Lissner in the
wake of proposed
segregationist legislation that
would prohibit White religious leaders from educating
and providing pastoral care to
Blacks in the state. To thwart
this plan, Father Lissner enlisted the help of Miss Barbara Williams (later to become
Mother Theodore Williams,
# # #
Harlem-Based
Order of Black
Nuns to celebrate
100 years of
service
An order of Black nuns,
little known beyond New
York and one of three original
orders of this kind in the United States, is marking its centennial with a gala and benefit
on Tuesday, March 29, 2016,
at 6 p.m. Considered by many
to be a New York treasure,
the Harlem-based Franciscan
Handmaids of the Most Pure
Heart of Mary (FHM) will
celebrate 100 years of serving
the needs of the community
at the New York Academy
of Medicine in Manhattan
during Black History Month. The centenary year is an
opportunity to bring to light
FHM’s history and honor its
unsung heroes, the co-founders of the FHM community.
FHM was formally founded
1916 in Savannah, Georgia,
FHM), a Black woman from
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The
two joined forces, founding a
congregation of Black women
to continue to educate Black
children and provide pastoral
care to the Black community.
It was the birth of a religious
order with a social justice
mission.
In 1923, the sisters moved
to Harlem at the request
of Cardinal Patrick Hayes,
where they launched one of
the first pre-school educational programs in the United
States. They eventually established three schools, which
have gone on to educate some
of New York’s brightest, including Congressman Charles
B. Rangel and Kevin Lofton,
president of the Catholic
Health Association of America. St. Benedict Day Nursery
remains to carry on the legacy
of excellence and services 80
children annually.
Since 1928, the sisters
have fed the hungry and
provided clothing as well as
Christmas gifts and toys, operating the St. Edward Food
Pantry, which is now located
at Mt. Loretto, a center for
Catholic Charities, in Staten
Island and serves more than
20,000 families each year;
they were awarded the Kathy
Goldman Beyond Food Award
at the 15th Annual Food Bank
of New York Conference in
2006 for their tireless efforts.
The nuns continue to provide
altar bread to many parishes
in the Archdiocese of New
York and have
led several
preventative
care medical
missions to
Nigeria servicing approximate-
Sister Gertrude Lilly Ihenacho, who as congregation
minister heads up the mostly
Black order. To that end, the sisters
launched their “100 Days
of Kindness” campaign on
January 6, to coincide with
the arrival of the Magi, who
brought gifts to celebrate Jesus’ birth. Through April 14,
the nuns are asking everyday
New Yorkers to each perform
a daily random act of kindness—big or small—to enrich
someone’s day, in homes,
offices and on city streets.
The campaign embodies the
spirit of Ephesians 4:32, “Be
kind and compassionate to
one another, forgiving each
other, just as in Christ God
forgave you.”
The effort is part of the
Jubilee Year of Mercy 2016
as declared by Pope Francis
(which began on December 8
and runs through November
20, 2016) to focus Catholics everywhere on mercy
and forgiveness rather than
judgment. A Jubilee Year, or
Holy Year, is a special time
announced by the Catholic
Church of blessings and pardon from God for Catholics
internationally. Proceeds of
the benefit will help the order
provide scholarships to needy
children to attend and revitalize the St. Benedict Day
Nursery, which services children from ages two to four. Nestled in a 1926 historic building on Manhattan’s
Museum Mile, the New York
Academy of Medicine Conference Center is located
at 1216 Fifth Avenue, New
York, NY 10029, between
102nd and 103rd Streets in
East Harlem. Tickets to the
Centennial Celebration range
from $25 for ceremony-only
tickets to $1000 for
ly 2,000 people per
mission since 2000.
“We joyously take a moment to reflect on our 100
years of providing vital assistance to the community,
but amid a renewed calling
to revitalize our purpose and
expand our mission of service
for the next 100 years,” said
special seating and access
to all events of the evening,
which include pre-reception,
celebration program, dinner
and post reception. Sponsorship packages are available
from $25,000 to $100,000.
For tickets and for more information, email [email protected].
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“In recent times, it’s easy
to experience heartbreak over
the struggles facing our communities and our global family
-- even our own loved ones.
Everywhere you turn, it seems
you hear about (and sometimes even witness first-hand)
violence, racism, corruption,
planetary destruction, human
rights abuses and more. And it
can be difficult to know where
to turn to find the inspiration,
soul-powered practices and
guidance we need to not only
transcend these challenges,
but to discover UNITY as well
as great personal and collective healing,” according to
Terrie Williams of The Terrie
Williams Agency.
Williams is coupling with
others and invites everyone
to a life-changing (and culture-changing!) free online
gathering, the African American Wisdom
Summit. “I’m
excited to be
among visionaries, community leaders and
cultural change
advocates -- including people
like LeVar Burton, Dr. Cynthia
James, Michael
Sam, Nikki
Giovanni, Sonya Renee Taylor,
Luisah Teish and
so many others,”
stated the ace
publicity guru.
To h o n o r
Black History
Month in a truly
unique way, African Americans
and allies of every ethnicity are
coming together
to explore ways
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AUDREY'S
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#HotOffThePress
Susan L. Taylor celebrates 70 Turns Around
The Sun while raising over $1M for her charity
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BEACON,
By Dedra N. Tate
C
Dedra N. Tate
lose to 600 VIP’s, friends
and supporters braved
frigid temperatures to
bask in the warmth of Susan
L. Taylor’s celestial celebration held at the breathtakingly beautiful 583 Park The “70” Birthday Cake MasAvenue event space. The edi- terpiece
tor-in-chief emerita of Essence
Magazine chose to commemo- movie “August Rush.” DJ
rate her 70 Turns Around The Beverly Bond provided the
Sun themed birthday celebra- sounds for the dinner & dance.
tion with a star-studded For Other standout performances
The Love Of Our Children were delivered by Cassandra
Gala raising over $1.2M for Wilson, Mikayla Williams,
her National CARES Men- Gordon Chambers and Valtoring Movement (CARES) erie Simpson’s “I’m Every
Woman” musical tribute feanon-profit organization.
Amongst the galaxy of turing Alyson Williams and
stars in attendance were the Vivian Reed -- who literally
legendary Harry Belafonte, shut it down!
Taylor was pleased that we
CBS This Morning Host Gayle
King, BET’s President of Pro- were able to see the results
gramming Stephen Hill and of CARES’ work through
Chairman/CEO Debra Lee, the words of Chicago-based
Essence Magazine co-founder “Who We Are” mentor HarEd Lewis, Essence Magazine old Jenkins and mentees
Editor-at-Large Mikki Taylor, Teonte Miller and Kaity Ferauthor Terry McMillan, ACE guson-Shand. She also gave
Media Corp. CEO Andrea special thanks to Presenting
Holmes Thompkins, and Sponsor Verizon for stepping
hairstylist to the stars, Ruth up to the plate with a $250,000
Sanchez. Unfortunately, Gala investment that helped make
Host Lee Daniels was snowed the evening possible. TV
out but sent an elegant video One’s Roland S. Martin and
Hall took to the stage engagtribute.
The evening’s festivities ing guests in “live” auctions
kicked off with a cocktail and a frenzy of text message
hour in the spacious Arcade donations that appeared on
level, and guests later entered the giant overhead screen.
the main ballroom, immedi- Special mention to Couture
ately experiencing the beauty Cake Designer Margo Lewis
and grandeur of its enormi- who took the cake with her
ty. Master of Ceremonies crafted 6-tiered golden Cake
Michael Eric Dyson spoke Bliss masterpiece decorapassionately of CARES, the tively topped off with a pearl
foremost supplier of Black adorned “70.” The entire
mentors, whose mission is to production was harmoniously
fill the mentoring pipeline with executed by Sidra Smith and
caring adults and profession- her Gatepass Entertainment
als in many under-resourced event management team.
The Harriet Tubman North
schools and local youth-support and mentoring organiza- Star Award was presented to
philanthropists C. Sylvia and
tions throughout the nation.
The accolades and praise Eddie C. Brown (founder
for CARES continued with of Brown Capital ManageReverend Al Sharpton, Ver- ment) who have given milizon Foundation’s President lions to various charitable orRose Stuckey Kirk, CARES’ ganizations through their BalChairman Reginald Van Lee, timore-based Eddie C. and C.
former restaurateurs B. Smith Sylvia Brown Family Foun& Dan Gasby, NBC To- dation. Each of them were
day Show co-host Tamron beaming with pride during the
Hall, CARES’ Asha Bandele, video tribute (produced by Jac
Jayne Chu & Stephen Pow- Benson) chronicling their life
ell and actress Renée Elise and love, from the campus of
Howard University where they
Goldsberry.
Jamal Joseph’s Impact met, through the challenges
Repertory Theater set the and triumphs of family, health
tone for the evening perform- and business.
Khephra Burns’ eloquent
ing their Oscar nominated
song “Raise It Up” from the words spoke volumes of his
Susan L. Taylor & Khephra Burns Lee Daniels sent a video tribute
Mikki Taylor
C. Sylvia & Eddie C. Brown
MC Michael Eric
Dyson
Dan Gasby, B.
Smith
Valerie Simpson performs
Rose Stuckey Kirk, Robert Kirk
Gordon Chambers, Tamron Hall Stephen Hill, Debra Lee
Harold Jenkins, Jasmine Ward, Teonte Roland S. Martin, Tawana Tibbs,
Miller
Bruce Gordon
Rev. Al Sharpton, Andrea Holmes Thomp- Raymond P. Lewis,
kins
Reginald Van Lee
respect, love and passion for
his wife, who lovingly leaned
on “her rock” at the podium.
When Taylor finally graced
the mic, she spoke about her
passion for CARES. “The
rough side of the mountain
has been navigated already, we
can do this work with joy and
love, said Taylor. “So many
of us have forgotten what our
arrival cost…not everyone has
a roof over their heads, clean
drinking water or the opportunities that we have.” She then
challenged the audience to link
arms and aims and stop whin-
DJ Beverly Bond
R&B Divas Alyson Williams and Vivian Reed
Ruth Clark & Gil McGriff
ing and complaining about the
natural cost of life, reminding
us all that we can break the cycle of intergenerational pover-
Asha Bandele and
daughter Nisa
ty that so many of our children
are trapped in “living in dream
crushing pain.” (Photos by
Dedra N. Tate)
WHAT’S GOING ON
NY BUSINESS/ POLITICS
THE WEEK IN REVIEW
Bill Cosby
poverty gap, from imaginary
headlines like “Bill Cosby
Cleared of All Charges” to
“Caitlyn Jenner’s Wedding of
the Century.” Answers were
segregated along ethnic lines.
It is well worth the read. The
first paragraph reads. “White
Americans are the angriest
of all. And Black Americans
are more optimistic about
the future of the country and
the existence of the American Dream.” One reads and
learns!
After digesting that survey, get ready for the 2/1
Fortune Magazine “Special
Report, Race and Culture
In the C-Suite, C stands for
corner. This essay focuses
on being Black and male in
Corporate America. It is like
being in Dante’s Inferno.
Story relies heavily on interviews with Black current and
former C-Suite occupants,
some cynical millennials
and a preponderance of related theories by psychologists and diversity specialists
about the white psyche, and
its misperceptions about
Blacks and Blackness. It
also reveals the multiple
roles a Black man in the C
Suite must play everyday
at the workplace. IT executive Charles Phillips, CEO
of Infor and former Oracle
co-president skillfully navigates the C-Suite terrain
and deftly works on person-
The New York State Association of Black and Puerto
Rican Legislators will host
its 45 th Annual Weekend
Conference from February
12 to 14 at the Convention
Center in Albany, New York.
For full Conference calendar
visit nysabprl.org or call 518
BLACK HISTORY
MONTH
Charles Phillips
nel diversity. The stats for
Blacks heading Fortune 500
companies are an embarrassment. Article is instructive
and must marinate in the
consciousness for awhile.
The Corporate Council on
Africa hosts its 10th Biennial
US-Africa Business Summit
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
from February 1-4. Summit
attendees include many African heads of state, corporate
titans and more than 1000
private sector and government representatives from
Africa, the USA, Europe
Asia, and the Middle East.
Founded in 1993, the Corporate Council is an American
nonprofit which promotes
business and investment between the United States and
African nations.
NEWSMAKERS
Bill Perkins
NYS Senator Bill Perkins, one of many contenders
for Congressman Charlie
Rangel’s throne, was knee
deep into Francophone international affairs. On 1/30,
Senator Perkins received his
Excellency Gandjegni Awoyo
Gbaguidi, King of Savalou,
Benin, on the occasion of his
historic visit to Harlem. On
1/31, the Senator joined the
local Burkino Faso Community in a moment of silence
to commemorate the victims
of the recent massacre there.
Both events were held at the
Adam Clayton Powell State
Office Building in Harlem.
Iman, the Somalian mannequin turned business woman and international newsmaker, gets 50% of her late
hubby David Bowie’s $100
million fortune. The remainder will be split between
Bowie’s older son, Duncan
and the couple’s daughter
Lexi Zahra. Bowie left $1million of Duncan’s nanny and
$2 million for his long time
personal assistant.
Lee Daniels is a Hollywood producer/director with
a Midas Touch for film and
television. His credits include
“Monster’s Ball,” “Precious,”
“The Butler,” and prime time
TV megahit EMPIRE credit
is EMPIRE on Fox TV. He
will chart new territory of a
feature- length documentary,
“The Apollo Theater Film
Project.”
RIP: Michael Feeney, 32,
died on January 31. Indefatigable journalist, he worked
for the NY Daily News and
was the dynamic president
of the NY Association of
Black Journalists, both roles
he consumed 24/7. Feeney
427.8363.
The Harlem Business
Alliance celebrates its 35th
Anniversary with an Awards
Dinner at the City College of
New York campus, in Harlem
at the Great Hall on March
29. Visit nbany.org.
Effective February 2, Emmet Causey and Bob Tate
will expand their music sessions, at Lenox Saphire, offering Harlem music talents,
twice a week on Tuesday and
Thursday. Heading their new
music lineup are R&B, jazz,
blues phenom King Solomon
Hicks, on Feb 4, 11, 18, 25;
JAMBO, the Latin, Caribbean, Afro Jazz combo, on
February 2, 16; and Jazz and
R&B vocalist Clarissa Sinceno, on February 9. Lenox
Saphire is located at Lenox
Avenue at 127 Street, Harlem. For updates, call Bob at
917 402.2644 or Emmett at
917.742.1239.
The Essie Green Gallery’s
new Winter Show opens on
February 6; and it showcases
works by Black fine arts masters such as Norman Lewis,
Charles Ethan Porter, Edward
Bannister, Romare Bearden,
Charles Alston, John Wesley
Hardrick, William Sylvester
Carter and Geraldine McCullough. Show runs through
March 19. The 2/6 opening
reception, from 3-6 pm, will
be held at 419A Convent Avenue at 148 Street, Harlem.
Call 212.368.9635.
The Black Women of Influence host its signature
EMC Corporation, located
at 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 18,
in the Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. A distaff
networking affair, admission
is $25. For more info, send
email to [email protected]
The NY Urban League
hosts its 13th Annual Champion of Diversity Awards
Breakfast, at the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel,
Manhattan, on February 11
at 7:30 am. The honorees
are Jackie Glenn, VP, Global
Chief Diversity Officer EMC
Corporation; US Tennis Association, USTA, accepted
by Katrina M. Adams, Chairman, CEO/President; and
the Interpublic Group. The
Honorable David Dinkins
and Joyce Dinkins are event’s
honorary patrons. For more
info, call 646.245.8217 or
email [email protected].
Hold the date, February
11, 6-8 pm for the Valen-
Michael Feeney
wrote regularly and eloquently about Harlem, its people,
its culture and its politics
while at the NY Daily News.
CNN recently hired him as
an entertainment reporter,
in its Atlanta office. Born in
NJ, a graduate of Delaware
State University, his resume
includes journalist stints at
the Associated Press and the
NJ Record. He was a popular lecturer on the college
circuit. Fellow journalist and
Teaneck H.S buddy, Jennifer
Cunningham, says. “He was
an advocate for diversity in
journalism and helped me
and others get our feet in the
door at major media outlets.”
She adds. “His passion for the
craft was infectious.”
Inez Dickens
Alice Dear
Black History Month event,
honoring two phenomenal
role models and trailblazers,
Alice Dear, President, AM
Dear & Associates, former
Executive Director, African
Development Bank, and Kaylin Whittingham, Esquire.
President, of the Association
of Black Women Attorneys,
on February 9, from 6-8 pm.
Event will be held at the
tine’s Day Party to kick off
the Honorable Inez Dickens’ Campaign for the NYS
Assembly. Where: Green
Parrott Bar and Lounge,
located at 2509 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, Harlem. Tickets are $150, $250
and $500. RSVP to Darren
Rigger at 212.862.4990 or
email darren@dynamicsrg.
com.
Vy Higginsen’s MAMA
FOUNDATION FOR THE
ARTS begins its 2016 season, with its joyful-noises
musical “ALIVE! 55+ and
Kickin,” on February 13 at
1 pm. For reservations, call
212.280.1045.
A Harlem-based journalist and pop culture historian, Victoria Horsford can be contacted at [email protected]
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Media is just as fixated
on race affairs today as it is
on the 2016 election season.
And with good reason. The
emotional temperature of the
American electorate will determine the November presidential victor. Two national
magazines include stories
that address race and the
election. They are required
reading. Esquire’s February
issue bears the cover line
“AMERICAN RAGE: An
Esquire/NBC News Survey:
Who’s Mad, Why Now. And
How It Will Choose Our Next
President. Three thousand
Americans were surveyed;
and topics covered the waterfront from perceptions
of Black Lives Matter, to
school shootings, to wealth/
By Victoria Horsford
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Entertainment
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By Don Thomas
BEACON,
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The 47th NAACP Image Awards
8 Individuals and Organizations to
receive NAACP Chairman’s Award
A
ctor Anthony Anderson
will be the official host
of the 47th NAACP Images Awards. He is also the
star and executive producer
of ABC’s sitcom “Black-ish,”
and he won an NAACP Image
Award and earned an Emmy
nomination for his role as
(Dre), a family man that struggles to gaina sense of cultural
identity while raising his kids
in a predominantly white,
upper-middle-class neighborhood. On “Black-ish,” Anderson stars opposite Tracee Ellis
Ross and Laurence Fishburne.
This year Roslyn M. Brock,
the Chairman of the NAACP
National Board of Directors,
will present the Chairman’s
Award to individuals and organizations who have used their
distinct platforms to be agents
of change. The recipients are
Brittany “Bree” Newsome,
Justice League NYC, Concerned Student 1950 Collective
at the University of Missouri,
The University of Mississippi
NAACP College Chapter;
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Rev.
Dr. Howard-John Wesley, Rev.
Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant and
Actor/Composer/SingerJussie
Smollett.
The presentation will take
place during the 47th NAACP
Image Awards, broadcast live
on Friday, February 5 (9:00
Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the
NAACP National Board of Directors
Host Actor Anthony Anderson
p.m. ET/PT tape-delayed) on
TV One.
“It is a rare privilege for
me to present the NAACP
Chairman’s 2016 Award to an
outstanding group of trailblaz-
ing leaders all under the age
of 50 who have given voice
and vision to the mantra that
Black lives matter. The five
individuals and three organizations have raised awareness
of social, educational and
economic injustice from college campuses, church pulpits
and the streets, and exemplify
what this award symbolizes
Courage Will Not Skip this
Generation,” stated Brock.
The NAACP Image Awards
celebrates the accomplishment
of people of color in the fields
of television, music, literature
and film and also honors individuals or groups who promote
social justice through creative
endeavors. The multi-cultural
show is one of the most respected events of its kind and
is well attended by many of the
top names in the entertainment
industry.
Winners will be voted upon
by NAACP members and
announced when the envelopes are opened on Thursday,
February 4 during the Awards
Ceremony for non-televised
categories. The remaining
categories will be announced
LIVE on stage during the
two-hour star-studded TV One
telecast. The telecast will also
include a one-hour pre-show
airing from the red carpet
(8p.m. ET/PT tape-delayed).
Diversity Wins Big
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Winners Are…
Ensemble Cast “Orange is the New Black”
O
utstanding Performance
by a Female Actor in
a TV Movie or Mini-
series
WINNER: Queen Latifah, “Bessie”- Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble
in a Drama Series, WINNER:
“Downton Abbey” - Outstanding Performance by an
Ensemble in a Comedy Series,
“Orange is the New Black” Outstanding Performance by
a Female Actor in a Comedy
Series
WINNER: Uzo Aduba,
“Orange is the New Black”
- WINNER: Downton Abbey
Outstanding Performance by
a Female Actor in a Drama
Uzo Aduba
Series
WINNER: Viola Davis,
“How to Get Away With
Murder” Outstanding Performance
by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role WINNER: Alicia
Vikander, “The Danish Girl”
- Outstanding Performance by
a Female Actor in a Leading
Idris Elba
Role, WINNER: Brie Larson,
“Room” Outstanding Performance
by a Male Actor in a Leading
Role, WINNER: Leonardo
DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
- Outstanding Male Actor Drama WINNER: Kevin Spacey
- Outstanding Performance
by a Male Actor in a Comedy
Series, WINNER: Jeffrey
Tambor, “Transparent” Outstanding Performance by
a Male Actor in a TV Movie
or Miniseries, WINNER: Idris
Elba, “Luther” - Outstanding
Performance by a Male Actor
in a Supporting Role, WINNER: Idris Elba, “Beasts of
No Nation”
Panda-monium breaks out at box office as
‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ kicks its way to #1 spot
Kung Fu Panda 3 Theatrical
Poster
D
reamWorks Animation and Twentieth
Century Fox’s Kung
Fu Panda 3 caused an upset at
the weekend box office when
it’s most successful animated
franchise in the world and its
biggest comedy adventure
yet kicked butt and landed in
the #1 spot with a cool $41M
during its debut. And on its
home turf in China, the movie
earned a whopping $52.2M in
its first three days, setting a
new opening weekend record
for a Chinese-made animation. The “Kung Fu Panda”
franchise is one of the most
successful animated series in
Hollywood, bringing in over
$3.1 billion globally since the
original in 2008!
The third installment in
the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise features the voices of
Jack Black, J. K. Simmons,
Bryan Cranston, Dustin
Hoffman, Angelina Jolie,
Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan,
Seth Rogen, David Cross,
James Hong, and Kate Hudson. Also Jean-Claude Van
Damme and Randall Duk
Kim reprise their roles as
Master Croc and Oogway
from the two films. When
Po’s long-lost panda father
suddenly reappears, the reunited duo travels to a secret
panda paradise to meet scores
of hilarious newpanda characters. But when the supernatural villain Kai begins to
sweep across China defeating
all the kung fu masters, Po
must do the impossible -learn to train a village full of
his fun-loving, clumsy brethren to become the ultimate
band of Kung Fu Pandas! The
movie was released on Friday,
January 29, 2016.
The threequel is a family
affair as some of the children
of the film’s stars have small
voiceovers. Black’s son,
Sammy is in the movie. Jolie’s kids – Pax, Zahara and
Shiloh – all have bit parts.
Also making his voiceover
Dustin Hoffman, Panda hostesses
Lucy Liu
Kate Hudson
DreamWorks Animation CEO
Jeffrey Katzenberg
appearance is Hoffman’s
grandson.
On Saturday, January 16,
2016, the stars came out with
their families to attend the
star-studded Panda-licious
Hollywood premiere at the
royal TCL Chinese Theatre
in Hollywood, CA. Directors
James Hong, Bryan Cranston
Toc Tien
Dustin Hoffman
Hans Zimmer
Jennifer Yuh Nelson and
Alessandro Carloni joined
cast members from the film
– many of whom brought
along their children. In attendance from the film were:
Jack Black, Angelina Jolie,
Kate Hudson, Lucy Liu,
Bryan Cranston, Dustin
J. K. Simmons
Angelina Jolie
Steele Gagnon
Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Hoffman, J. K. Simmons,
James Hong, and more.
Kung Fu Panda 3 is a 3D
American-Chinese computer-animated action comedy
martial arts film, produced
by DreamWorks Animation
and Oriental DreamWorks,
and distributed by 20th Cen-
Angelina Jolie with red carpet Panda
tury Fox. It was directed by
Jennifer Yuh Nelson and
Alessandro Carloni; written by Jonathan Aibel and
Glenn Berger; produced by
Melissa Cobb; and executive
produced by Guillermo del
Toro. Composer Hans Zimmer returns as music director.
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Angelina Jolie and her children Jack Black and son Sammy with Kate
Alessandro Carloni, Melissa Cobb, Jack Black, Jennifer Knox, Pax, Zahara, Vivienne,
Hudson and sons Ryder Robinson &
Yuh
Shiloh
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Marlon Wayans spoofs romance genre
in shocking parody of S&M adventure
By Kam Williams
Senior Movie Critic
E
ver since “Scary Movie” (2000), Marlon
Wayans has carved
out quite a career for himself writing and starring
in a string of silly spoofs
that includes “Scary Movie
2” (2001), “Dance Flick”
(2009), “A Haunted House”
(2013), and “A Haunted
House 2” (2014). The latest offering in his cottage
industry of genre-bending
parodies is “Fifty Shades
of Black,” a jaw-dropping
lampoon of the already outrageous “Fifty Shades of
Grey.”
Released just a year ago,
“Fifty Shades of Grey” was
based on the best-selling
erotic novel by E.L. James.
That explicit adventure
chronicled the sadomasochistic sexploits shared by a
handsome billionaire and
an impressionable, young
college student.
This relatively-kinky
variation on the theme remains fairly faithful to the
source material’s basic plotline, so it helps immeasurably if you’ve seen the
original. The major difference, however, is that
the two leads are African
American, and much of
the humor revolves around
graphic nudity and stale
racial stereotypes.
At the point of departure,
we’re introduced to Hannah
(Kali Hawk), a Literature
major at mythical Howell University. Since her
promiscuous, foul-mouthed
roommate, Kateesha (Jenny
Zigrino), has a crippling case
of Chlamydia, Hannah finds
herself recruited as a standin to interview filthy-rich
Christian Black (Wayans).
She asks “How did you
get your money and can I
have some?” His answer:
“Drug dealing, like most successful Blacks.” And “Is you
gay?” is met with “You’re
only gay if you enjoy touching penises.”
After that dubious exchange, Christian tricks the
naive virgin into unprotected
intercourse despite the fact
that she’s ovulating. That
disturbing date rape scene is
a little hard to laugh at, especially in light of the recent
Bill Cosby revelations.
Furthermore, when Hannah ends up pregnant, she
takes him home to meet her
misogynistic step-father,
Ron (Mike Epps). Instead
of protecting his daughter’s
honor, he sides with Christian’s refusal to marry her,
saying “I like this N-word,”
before denigrating Hannah’s
mother as a slut.
In other skits, Christian
water boards Hannah (while
shouting “Where’s Bin Lad-
en?”, delivers an insulting
commencement address at
Howell (“Thank God, I’m
not you!”) and tosses his
poop-filled underwear in
the face of a screaming
fan during a gross homage
to “Magic Mike.” Still,
the movie’s most tasteless
moments arrive on those
occasions when Christian
gratuitously exposes his
genitalia.
A descent into depravity
far more shocking than funny
that’s morally-objectionable
in part for all. Fair (1 star).
Rated R for crude sexuality,
graphic nudity, ethnic slurs,
coarse humor, rape and pervasive profanity. Running
time: 92 minutes. Distributor: Open Road Films.
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Actor Nick Cannon (seated right) speaks up regarding Oscar controversy
Cannon’s response to Oscar…
By Nick Cannon
“Damn! Look what they
did to Oscar. Nah, not another
trophy rant. I’m talking Oscar
Grant, Sandra Bland, Mike
Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray. Why we
trust what the news say anyway? It’s blasphemous, don’t
get distracted by these lottery
tickets and statues. It’s just
fake gold and plastic.
“We come from Pharaohs
with no masters. What happened? We went from golden
tombs to closed caskets. The
Black Plague, they want us to
catch it. Just ask Magic, Malcolm, Martin, Muhammad Ali,
Bill Cosby. It’s tragic.
“How the enemy can tear
down our community and
rewrite the history by highlighting our flaws. But let
he who cast the first stone,
who constitutes the new
laws. Nah, I ain’t never seen
“Empire” but I serve my own
throne. What I look like begging them to let royalty into
they home.
“As for me and my house,
we’ll serve the Lord! We crying for votes but how many
of us is on the board. Better
yet, when’s the last time you
showed up and supported
the NAACP Awards? I want
what’s mine, not yours. F#%k
getting my foot in. I’m building my own doors.
“Hollywood mainstream
don’t validate me, yo! Like
Hov say, Save the accolades, just the dough. You
in this show for the business, or this business for
the show? Talent and brilliance? Hands down, man
we got that sh*t. That’s why
I told Chris, man go ‘head
and rock that sh#t.
“You got the Juice now.
Fight the Power. Hell yeah, I’m
gonna watch that ceremony
where they gonna let a Black
man be the Master for at least
two hours. So don’t waste
your voice, don’t waste your
prayers.
“Save ‘em for the thousands killed in Nigeria, Kenya, The Philippines, Syria or
right here in our urban areas.
Low America. Nah, now no
one cares. What about my
mother raising a son while
working three jobs and still
equating to less than minimum wage?
“What about me being
placed on medication before
my system could age? What
about that prison industrial
system turning Brothers into
new slaves? Where’s the outrage? Where the complaints
at? Overcoming obstacles,
definition of Black. Hashtag
#facts. But I guess they don’t
make no awards for that. Real
talk. Real Kings don’t need
no pats on the back.”
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Hoofer Ambassador Maurice Hines
is ‘Tappin’ Thru Life’ Off-Broadway
O
Carmen de Lavallade, Maurice
Hines
Catch Maurice Hines and his talented
tappers at New World Stages!
Leo Manzari, Maurice Hines, John Manzari
John Manzari, Savion Glover, Maurice
Hines, Luke Spring, Leo Manzari
Devin Ruth, Leo Manzari, Julia Ruth,
Luke Spring, John Manzari, Dario Natarelli
Brooke Shields, Tommy Tune, Luke
Spring, Maurice Hines, Michele Lee, Savion Glover
John Eric Parker, Capathia Jenkins,
Maurice Hines
The Tappin’ Manzari brothers pose with their
proud mom.
tarelli and Luke Spring who all
perform at alternate performances. Hines is credited with his
choreography and the Manzari
Brothers with Anthony Morigerato take credit for their hip
tap choreography. The show is
Vivian Reed, who appeared in
Bubbling Brown Sugar with
Maurice Hines.
Producers Robert Wankel and Leonard Soloway
and Sardi’s Max Klimavicius and Sean Ricketts
with Maurice Hines.
performed without an intermission. Hines’ numerous credits
include a Tony-nominated turn
in Uptown...It’s Hot!, Bring Back
Birdie and The Cotton Club. The
production features set design by
Tobin Ost, lighting design by
Carol Woods
Michael Gilliam, sound design
by Michael Hahn, projection
design by Darrel Maloney,
and costume design by T. Tyler
Stupf. Keith Sherman & Associates is the press representative.
Tappin’ Thru Life is produced by
Maurice Hines, Julie Budd
Leslie Uggams, Maurice
Hines
Leonard Soloway, Bud Martin,
Riki Kane Larimer, Jeff Wolk,
Phyllis & Buddy Aerenson,
Darren P. DeVerna/ Jeremiah
J. Harris, and the Shubert Organization. (Photos by Bruce
[email protected])
newyorkbeacon.net
n Monday, January 11,
2016 Maurice Hines
Tappin’ Thru Life played
to a lively Opening Night audience at New World Stages,
340 West 50th Street, New York
City. The highly sophisticated
audience could hardly contain
themselves jumping up and down
in their seats as they watched one
of the greatest hoofers of all times
– Maurice Hines – stylistically
revitalize a moving art of a bygone era . . . tap! The critically
acclaimed show celebrates his
life and career from working at
the tender age of five with his
brother Gregory to establishing a
career inspired by such greats as
Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra,
Lena Horne and Judy Garland.
Hines, one-third of the great
Hines, Hines & Dad tap trio,
is joined on stage by two of his
discoveries, the incredibly talented John and Leo Manzari, a pair
of tap dancing siblings who are
not too unlike a young Maurice
and his brother Gregory. The
brothers join Hines as he tells
his story through dance backed
by the awesome Diva Jazz Orchestra led by drummer/music
director Sherrie Maricle who
shut it down!
The divalicious orchestra is
composed of: Liesl Whitaker
(lead trumpet); Jami Dauber (trumpet); Sara Jacovino
(trombone); Alexa Tarantino
(alto saxophone); Roxy Cross
(tenor saxophone); Lauren
Sevian (baritone saxophone);
Jackie Warren (piano); and
Amy Shook (bass). Maurice,
John & Leo put on a show that
they should take on the road and
share their tap brilliance with the
world! It’s just that good! All
three hoofers danced up a storm
– literally -- as it started to snow
as opening night guests made
their way over to the swinging
after party at the trendy Thalia
Restaurant at 828 Eighth Avenue, New York City.
This fabulously fierce production is directed by Jeff Calhoun (Newsies, Deaf West’s
Big River, Grease) and also stars
Devin & Julia Ruth, Dario Na-
THEATER TALK
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22 Roxbury Youth Orchestra
There’s a Orchestra in the ‘hood’
outcomes for these young
people won’t be the ones we
have written down on paper
but will be birthed from the
experiences gained over time
in an environment that is safe
and saturated with the proper
tools to succeed.
“We believe that when
we place the arts at the intersection of innovation and
community we can catalyze
social change and propel
economic growth in a city.
In Boston we’re building a
world-class youth Orchestra
in the to develop grit in the
lives of urban youth.
“We are also creating a
paradigm shift away from mediocrity and towards excellence
About Visionary
Leader David
France
International performer,
innovative educator, visionary
leader – all describe violinist,
David France. But he is making
an impact on society not only
with his music, but through
sharing his knowledge as a gift
in service toward the happiness
of others. David is a graduate
of the New England Conservatory of Music’s Sistema
Fellows Program which trains
socially minded musicians in
the movement to bring ‘Music
for Social Change’ programs
to the United States.
Isai
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D
o you remember how
you felt the first time
music moved you....I
mean REALLY moved you...
maybe even to tears? Now
imagine wanting to learn an
instrument and not having
the means to afford lessons.
This may or may not be your
story but it’s definitely the
story for many young people
in the ‘hood.’ This is why
Revolution of Hope launched
The Roxbury Youth Orchestra in one of Boston’s most
resilient neighborhoods,
Roxbury.
The students come with
the desire to learn.....and we
provide the instruments and
training. “We’re changing
Kiah
David France
the script on the old model of
private lessons once a week
and we’re building a community through the vehicle of an
orchestra. The students come
up to 5 days a week for 3 hours
each day after school and learn
3 of the toughest instruments
on the planet: The violin, viola,
and the cello, but the main goal
is social change.
“In the last three years
we have seen increases in
academic performance and
self-esteem, the creation of
positive peer relationships,
and incredible increases in
focus and determination. The
through music taught with an
emphasis on artistic excellence.
For so many young people the
arts are their only connection
to the American dream and can
serve as a bridge to the sciences
and so many other pathways out
of poverty.
“Revolution of Hope is a
sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts
service organization. Contributions for the charitable
purposes of Revolution of
Hope must be made payable
to Fractured Atlas only and
are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
He is currently the executive director of Revolution
of Hope, a world-class youth
orchestra in the underserved
Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. He was recently named A
Top 40 Urban Innovator Under
40 by Next City.
France is
a sought after speaker and has
spoken at Imagination 2013 in
Hilton Head, South Carolina,
Music Tech Fest, Together
Boston Festival, SXSW V2V
conference in Las Vegas, and
TEDx Fenway.
Before moving to Boston, he
encouraged more than 300 kids
in Bermuda to study violin at
the Bermuda School of Music
and through programs at low
income schools. In 2012 he
went to Venezuela to teach in the
world-renowned program affectionately known as El Sistema.
David and his avant-garde
videos have been featured in
many national and international
programs and publications including CNN, The CBS Early
Show, BBC News, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and
more. He was selected to be one
of the Concert masters of the
first ever YouTube Symphony
in 2009, which performed to a
sold out audience at Carnegie
Hall under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
France has collaborated
with some of today’s most
popular artists including John
Legend, Smokey Robinson,
Josh Groban and Grammy
award winning producer Quincy Jones. His work in the film
and television industry include
an internship with Smooth
Feather Productions, The Gayle King Show, and he appears
as himself in the documentary
“Harmony: The Road to Carnegie Hall” by director Stephen
Higgins.
France has performed with
a number of orchestras including the Wichita Symphony,
the Minnesota Orchestra, The
Ubuntu-Shruti Orchestra, the
Sphinx Symphony, the National Orchestral Institute, and the
Espirtu Barroco Venezolano in
Caracas. In the fall of 2009 he
performed the Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto with the Bermuda Festival Orchestra.
In the United States he has
taught at The Saint Joseph
School of Music, The Saint
Paul Conservatory of Music,
Wichita State University, and
has given guest lectures at
The Longy School of Music of
Bard College, Eastern Illinois
University, and Northeastern
University. He has studied
with Sally O’Reilly at the University of Minnesota and cu
rrently studies with world-famous teaching couple Roland
and Almita Vamos. (D.T.)
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the late 60s and concluded in
September 2000.
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M
uch has been made
about the way the
flamboyant Panthers
QB Cam Newtown has conducted himself this year. Many
old timers or traditionalist wish
he would conduct himself
more like his counterpart in
Sunday’s Super Bowl, the subdued Peyton Manning. Some,
including Newton, are suggest-
and he is not ashamed of that.
Another fact that we can not
ignore is that he enjoys what he
does as a football player. He is
has grown into the superstar
role where he is commended
for his ability to read defenses. He runs the offense with
his athletic ability. Add the
fact that he is an icon in the
community where he does so
many things that are not even
publicized. At least you do not
icons of the 20th century. Hell,
they might be two of the most
recognizable individuals of the
past 100 years. Speaking of Namath, this
Super Bowl reminds me of
somewhat of Super Bowl III
when he was on the opposite
side of the field against Johnny Unitas. Although Unitas
did not start the contest due
to a season-long injury, he
still played a huge role in the
see him on any police blotter
or see him embarrassing the
league like Johnny Manziel
who is still beloved by some
for some reason. The thing I
like most about Cam is that
he does not care if hurts your
feelings. “ Too bad there are no
band aids for feelings,” he told
reporters on Monday during
Media Night. Yes, most traditionalists
prefer a Manning-like general
at the helm. They would have
someone who looks like a
CEO of some Fortune 500
corporation like, the clean-cut
well-spoken leader (see Peyton) that you see conducting
a company’s annual meeting.
Those same individuals don’t
see Newton in that role.
Go back some 40 or 50 years
ago. Remember when Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath were
two of the most talked about
athletes of that era? They were
not generally accepted individuals during that time. A lot of
Americans held Ali’s stance on
the Vietnam War against him.
Some folks cringed at the sight
of Namath’s long hair, white
cleats and off-the-field antics.
Now, both men are revered as
two of the most beloved sports
game. Unitas represented the
old school vision of what an
QB should look and act like.
With his crew cut and black
high top cleats, he was the embodiment of the NFL. Peyton
does not have the skills that
he once had. He is more or
a “Game Manager” than the
ruthless assassin that he once
was but he can still weave his
magic. There were many people
rooting for Unitas when he
came in to relieve the ineffective Earl Morrel just like they
are backing Peyton. They like
their QBs handing the ball to
the referee after a score verses
doing the Dap Dance or the
Moon Walk.
I do not have a horse in this
race. I just want to see a good
game. I still feel the respective
defenses will determine the
outcome of this game. The
QBs will have their say as well.
I’m not saying that race does
not play a part in how the two
QBs are perceived. However,
It should not warrant or dominate the dialogue it has over
the past week. Like Ali and
Joe Frazier, the signal callers
contrasting styles will be the
story line of this contest.
The Knicks off-signing has not lived up billings thus fa
Young New York
Knicks team
struggles to find
consistency
by Derrel Jazz Johnson
T
he New York Knicks are
playing better than most
expected this season, and
with better play comes higher
expectations. But as the official
midpoint has passed and the
All-Star Break approaches next
weekend, the biggest thing the
Knicks need in the second half
is consistency if they are going
to make a playoff run.
Carmelo Anthony leads
the team with 21.3 points per
game and 4.1 assists per game,
and is 0.1 rebound away from
leading the team in rebounding
as well with 7.6, compared to
7.7 by heralded rookie Kristaps Porzingis. In the Latvian
forward, the Knicks have talented big man with versatility
that has never been seen in
a player who is 7’3”. He can
shoot the three, block shots,
run the break, handle the ball
and more.
Porzingis is the future of the
franchise, but what he isn’t is
a reliable second option on the
team. KP, as his teammates call
him, hasn’t been able to put
together a streak of more than
three games scoring 14+ points
all season, crucial for a second
option on offense.
The man the Knicks signed
to be the second offensive
option, Arron Afflalo, is scor-
ing 14.0 points per game, 0.1
above KP’s 13.9 points, and is
experiencing similar inconsistency as the rookie. The veteran has only put together two
stretches where he has scored
15+ a game, not the kind of
consistency you would expect
from an eight-year veteran.
Barring a trade that would
bring a legitimate scorer to the
team, the Knicks will continue
to be inconsistent because they
don’t have dependable scoring
after Carmelo. The team is in
the bottom third in points per
game, and with the aging Jose
Calderon being the starting
point guard all season until his
recent injury, the Knicks don’t
have much of an opportunity
to get easy fast break buckets.
Very quickly, Phil Jackson
has turned the Knicks around,
but with that comes raised expectations. It would be wise to
keep hopes within reason this
season, because if the Knicks
don’t land consistent scoring in
a trade, it is unrealistic to expect either Porzingis or Afflalo
to become that this season.
Draymond Green, arguably
the best stretch four in the
game, joined many in the NBA
with his great words about Porzingis after the Warriors win
over the Knicks Sunday. “He
is very skilled. He is going to
be very good.”
Cam will not fall in line
ing that it is a racial thing. I
believe race plays a part in this
saga. However, there are other
factors in play here. I just wish
we could enjoy both without
bringing in the racial aspect.
When Newton came out last
week and said, “’I’VE SAID
THIS SINCE DAY ONE. I’M
AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Q U A RT E R B A C K T H AT
MAY SCARE A LOT OF
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY
HAVEN’T SEEN NOTHING
THAT THEY CAN COMPARE TO ME.” All hell
broke loose. Some Caucasians
thought he was calling them
racist. That might be true for a
small segment of the population out there. But in general,
I believe it is a cultural or generational thing going on here. Newton is as talented as he
is out-spoken. He is good and
he lets you know it. Newton
can hurt you in many ways.
Newton can dissect defenses
with a 60-yard bomb or can
run through you like Walter
Peyton. He dances after every touchdown as if he was
Usher. It rubs some folks the
wrong way but it also empowers the millennials of his generation. Newton represents them

B - New York Beacon

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