October 1, 2009

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October 1, 2009

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Friday, October 2, 2009
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Jack T. Franklin
There will be a TRIBUTE SERVICE at
5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at
the African American Museum, 7th and Arch
Streets. 215-574-0380
Hi Sonnie :
I was saddened to read of Jack Franklin's passing and
I shall remember him fondly for many reasons.
Chiefly among them is the fact that Jack aided in
jump-starting my career as a writer. He gave me
my first writing assignment back in the sixties when
he was assigned to "shoot" a Count Basie concert and
he suggested that I go with him and write the review.
That special review led to a weekly column with
"Scoop. U.S.A." that ran for nine years and ultimately led to my crafting of 46 plays and one book.
Needless to say... I am grateful for Jack's support
and faith in me. Jack was a great guy, a sterling
professional and this city's consummate master of
image creation. Certainly one of the greatest photographer's this city has known. And I'm just wondering...do Philadelphian's really know the extent of
Jack's artistry ? His photo's appeared in all of the
Johnson publications, in a myriad of other national
publications as well as our local Black press. To be
sure, he and his exceptional gift will be sorely
missed but please...please count me among the many
who will forever cherish his memory.
Lillian Brookins-Clarke
Playwright/Author
[email protected]
Gun Store License revoked
Men United for a Better Philadelphia along with several other community groups
held an Anti Hand Gun Rally on September 21, 2009 in front of Colosimo's Gun
Center.
We can say that this may be the last of the protest scenes at Colosimo’s Gun Store on
Spring Garden Street. Colosimo’s had been the site of protests in recent months by
community groups calling for the shop’s closure. Authorities moved to shut down
Colosimo’s gun shop for violations of federal firearms laws in connection with selling
guns to straw purchasers. The federal firearms license of Colosimo’s Inc., on Spring
Garden Street near 9th, was revoked on Wednesday.
Colosimo’s owner, James G. Colosimo, 77 pled guilty in federal district court on
behalf of the gun shop to charges that it had made false statements and had failed to
maintain proper records.
Colosimo himself was not charged because there was no evidence that he was aware
or involved in the illegal activities, authorities said. However, he will not be allowed to
William Z. Foster photo
apply for another firearms license.
Reach One, Teach One, Lets Save the Children
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Respect yourself and others will respect you
thera martin-connelly
Congressman Fattah Co-chaired Congressional Black Caucus
Finally, what I have been
waiting to happen for years, ----has now happened. I had
been waiting for the year
when Second Congressional
District Congressman Chaka
Fattah of Pennsylvania
would be one of the co-chairs
for the Annual Legislative
Black Caucus and this year
was his year. Congressman
Fattah co-chaired the weekend and he made certain that the 39th Annual
Congressional Black Caucus had a major
Philadelphia flavor. The CBC was held September
24- September 26, 2009 at the Washington, D.C.
Convention Center. “We were honored to be hosting for the first time a Congressional Black
Caucus member-emeritus, as he attended, as
President of the United States, especially at this critical
time in our nation’s history, “Fattah said. “Throughout
this important weekend, we showcased the Congressional
Black Caucus agenda, and its increasing impact as we
approach our fifth decade. We also featured the significant role that African Americans from Philadelphia are
playing in our nation.”
The Congressional Black Caucus is made up of fortytwo members and is currently chaired by Rep. Barbara
Lee of California. The CBC Foundation, the non-profit
arm of the CBC, is chaired by Rep. Kendrick BN. Meek
of Florida, with Reps. Fattah and Rep. Yvette Clarke of
New York as co-chairs of the weekend conference and its
theme of “Reinvest….Rebuild…..Renew.” Congressman
Fattah added, “ The CBC has never had a better relationship with the White House, and not just because President
Obama is a Democrat and an African American,” Fattah
said. “You’re talking about a President who was raised by
a single mother who was on food stamps, who worked as
a community organizer in Chicago where poverty was not
just an academic exercise. The President understands our
issues, and our policies are now becoming the law of the
land.”
The excitement began with a National Town Hall
Meeting on Thursday, September 24th inside the D.C.
Convention Center. This gathering was moderated by
NBC-10 television news anchor and wife of
Congressman Chaka Fattah, Renee Cheanult Fattah. It
was co-moderated by Ed Gordon, formerly of Black
Entertainment Television. George Burrell of PRWT
Services and a former Philadelphia City Councilman and
deputy Mayor, participated in that Town Hall Meeting
panel along with a series of other heavy hitters.
Congressman Fattah hosted an Education Brain Trust:
Ensuring the Academic Success of Black Youth on
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Chaka addressing prayer breakfast attendees.
September 24th. Sixteen year old Azeem Hill participated in
this discussion. He’s a student from West Philadelphia
high school’s Automotive Academy and part of the team
building the West Philly Hybrid X car for international
competition.
Also on September 24th, the Congressman hosted an
Issues Forum entitled “Tapping into the Stimulus.
Officials of the White House and various agencies provided information on funding possibilities in the federal
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, (ARRA).
That Issues Forum was led by Brenden Chainey and
Solomon Jones of Congressman Fattah’s staff. That
evening of the 24th, Congressman Fattah planned, (with
other CBC members) a musical event that featured rap
artists from Philadelphia and Brooklyn being showcased.
On Friday, September 25, 2009, Congressman Fattah
hosted a second Issues Forum. This one was called
“Building Capacity Among Our Nation’s Minority
Businesses. From Philadelphia, Congressman Fattah
invited E. Steven Collins of Radio One to participate as a
panelist. On Saturday, September 26th, Congressman
Fattah invited Bishop Richard Franklin Norris, Presiding
Bishop, First Episcopal District of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church to preach the Prayer Breakfast. Even
before Bishop Norris got up to preach, Rev. James P.
Baker, Pastor of Morris Brown AME Church offered the
invocation, and the Pine Forge Academy Choir, form
Berks County, Pennsylvania sang their hearts out during
the program. Pine Forge Academy was created in 1946 on
600 acres of farmland in Pine Forge, PA and is one of
only four remaining African American co-educational
boarding schools in the United States. Toward the end of
the Prayer Breakfast on September 26th, they got to sing
with the one and only Yolanda Adams, who threw her
thing down at the Prayer breakfast.
Congressman Fattah made it a point to see to it that a
couple of local authors would have their moment to shine
during CBC, at the Author Pavilion. Philadelphian
Solomon Jones signed copies of his books, “Pay Back”,
“The Bridge”, “CREAM” and “Ride Or Die”. As well
Philadelphian Sheila Vance, Esq. author of novels “Land
Mine” and “Chasing the 400” was on hand.
During the evening of September 26th, the Annual
Phoenix Awards dinner took place at CBC weekend.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama
were on hand. President Obama used the opportunity to
again make his plan for free health care for all, even more
clear. With some three thousand attendees in the audience, the Obama’s were very well received, as expected.
Four distinguished individuals received the prestigous
Phoenix Awards: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,
Susan E. Rice; President of the National Black Caucus of
State Legislators, Calvin Smyre; Humanitarian and Actor
Danny Glover and Musician and Humanitarian Wyclef
Jean. Philadelphia’s own, actress Cheryl Lee Ralph also
received an award during the Phoenix Awards Dinner at
the CBC weekend. She and State Senator Vincent
Hughes, (her husband) were selected for an award
because of their steadfast work on HIV/AIDS education.
The national anthem was performed by another
Philadelphian, eleven year old Michael Woodard of East
Falls. Congressman Chaka Fattah has been a member of
the CBC since his election to Congress in 1994. He is a
member of the House Appropriations Committee and
Chairman of the Congressional Urban Caucus. This was
his first time as Co-Chair of the ALC weekend.
On top of all of that, for the third consecutive year,
900AM WURD broadcast live from the CBC Thursday
and Friday, September 24th and 25th. The programs featured were Bill Anderson’s Wake Up With Bill Show,
Thera Martin Connelly’s News Source 900 and Al
Butler’s Al B. In The Afternoon Show. The radio broadcast was made possible because of sponsorship from the
Philadelphia Housing Authority and from The Beech
Companies.
FYI---Listen to 900AM WURD. We broadcast 24/7.
You can listen on line at www.900amwurd.com or at
www.wakeupwithbill.com. Listen to News Source 900,
hosted by yours truly, Thera Martin Connelly, Mondays
10am-11am and Tuesdays through Thursdays, 10am12noon. Call-in and share your thoughts at 215-634-8065
or toll-free at 1-866-361-900.
Councilman Curtis Jones hosts Utility Contracting opportunities and
Green Procurement seminar during minority enterprise development week
As part of Philadelphia
Minority Enterprise
Development (MED)
Week, taking place from
October 5 to 9, 2009,
Councilman Curtis Jones,
Jr. will host an evening
seminar entitled
“Contracting Opportunities
and Green Procurement in
the Utility Sector.” The
seminar will take place on
Tuesday, October 6th
from 6 to 9 pm at the
Philadelphia Business and
Technology Center, 5070
Parkside Avenue.“I am
pleased to partner with
our own Water
Department and Gas
Works along with PECO
and SEPTA to help minority, women and disadvantaged business entities
access the numerous contracts in these utilities,”
Councilman Jones said.
“As Chair of Council’s
Committee on Transportation
and Public Utilities, I
know that the utility and
transportation sectors are
some of the fastest growing markets in a rapidly
changing technological
and economic environment. It is a perfect time
for new entrepreneurs to
learn how to build their
capacity and bid on these
contracts,” Jones concluded.
The seminar will bring
small businesses and
aspiring entrepreneurs
together with representatives of the utilities as
well as the city’s Office
of Economic Opportunity
and Procurement
Department. In addition
businesses will have a
chance to network and
meet seasoned contractors
who have successfully
bid and performed contracts for any or all or the
utilities or SEPTA. Also
involved in the planning
of the seminar are the
Sustainable Business
Network, Energy
Coordinating Agency,
American Cities
Foundation, Awbury
Arboretum, and the
Philadelphia Horticultural
Society.MED Week is part
of a national observance
begun in 1983 to recognize the outstanding
achievements of minority
business enterprises and
to honor those corporations and financial institutions that support minority business development.
Philadelphia’s MED Week
began in 1984 and was
organized by Barbara
Daniel Cox, former
Director of Mayor
Goode’s Commission on
Women and Bilal Abdul
Qayyum, Assistant to the
Deputy Director of the
City Commerce Department.
Originally a three day
event with three workshops and concluding
with an award luncheon
honoring minority owned
businesses, the MED
Week Celebration has
grown to a full week of
successful workshops and
award luncheons with an
ever growing number of
sponsors to promote the
great accomplishments of
minority owned businesses.To RSVP for the Utility
Contracting Seminar,
either send an email to
[email protected]
or call his office at 215686-3416 or 17.
You can also “friend”
Councilman Jones on
Facebook at Curtis Jones
Jr. For more information
on Philadelphia MED
Week events contact
Barbara Oliver at (215)
686-6376 or go to their
website at http://phillymedweek.com/spotlight.
htm.
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SCOOP U.S.A. - Friday, October 2, 2009
ChildWatch
marian wright edelman
In April 2005, a group of
scholars at the George
Washington
University
School of Public Health
and Health Services published a policy brief on
"National Security and
U.S. Child Health Policy:
The Origins and Continuing
Role of Medicaid and
EPSDT."
<http://www.gwumc.
edu/ sphhs /departments/
healthpolicy/dhp_publications/pub_uploads/dhpPublication_35A8D6715056-9D20-3DEFF238AEFA7071.pdf>
The Department of Health Policy chair, Dr. Sara
Rosenbaum, and her colleagues studied how
Medicaid and its comprehensive benefit package
for children, the Early and Periodic Screening,
Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program, were
seen from the beginning as a key way to help ensure that
we would have enough healthy young Americans prepared to serve and defend the country. As Congress and
the nation focus more on health care reform now, it's well
worth reexamining the history of how this vital connection was made between child health and national security.
As Dr. Rosenbaum and her colleagues looked at the
roots of this link, they focused on an important 1964 government report titled, One Third of a Nation: A Report on
Young Men Found Unqualified for Military Service. This
study was commissioned as a response to the 50 percent
rejection rate among young men drafted into the military
in 1962, a rate so high it raised red flags about the nation's
ability to develop a well-prepared military. The rate
among men who had stepped forward as volunteers was
slightly better, but overall, approximately one-third of
prospective recruits were being turned away in the early
1960s. In September 1963, President Kennedy asked the
Secretaries of Defense, Labor, and Health, Education, and
Welfare to lead a Task Force on Manpower Conservation
to study why this was so and determine what could be
done to fix it.
What they learned was that far too many prospective
recruits just weren't healthy enough for service. The Task
Force's final report, Dr. Rosenbaum and her colleagues
found, "concluded that the military draft failure rate provided powerful evidence of 'the unfinished business of
the Nation.'" They note, "Among [the report's] most significant findings: the majority of young men rejected for
compulsory military service in the early 1960s failed as a
result of physical and mental health conditions, many of
which could have been diagnosed and successfully treated in childhood and adolescence. These young adults typically came from impoverished families and had experienced unrelenting deprivation in health care, education,
and employment. The report's findings provided compelling evidence for an underlying tenet of President
Johnson's conclusion that improving the health and well
being of the nation's poor required strategies aimed at
ameliorating the effects of social, economic, and health
disparities."
President Johnson said after the report was released in
January 1964 that "The findings of this Task Force are
dramatic evidence that poverty is still with us, still exacting its price in spoiled lives and failed expectations. For
entirely too many Americans the promise of American
life is not being kept." Ultimately the Task Force, and the
politicians who shaped its initial findings into policy,
concluded that one answer was for the government to
take a more active role in safeguarding the health of the
nation's children, especially the poorest children who
needed the most help. They realized that fighting the
inequalities that existed and keeping all children as
healthy as possible was necessary for them to grow up to
Speak to your neighbors and spread the word.
THIS IS NO SMALL MATTER!!
POST OFFICES ARE AN IMPORTANT
PART OF THE COMMUNITY!!
WE MUST TAKE ACTION NOW BEFORE THE
FINAL DECISION IS MADE AND THE DOORS
OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD POST OFFICES ARE
CLOSED FOREVER!
Call the following USPS Reps and tell them
you want your Post Office keep Open James
Gallagher, District Manager 215-863-1608
-- Megan Brennan 215-412-494-2510
**Call Congressman Robert Brady 2153894627 and Congressman Chaka Fattah
215-3876404 also your City Council members to share your concerns about these proposed
closing and how they will affect you.
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Child Health as a Critical
National Security Issue
be productive citizens-including members of the military.
Forty years later, evidence still overwhelmingly shows
that early intervention and prevention make a critical difference in children's health. Meanwhile, our national
security needs-as well as our nation's overall needs for
healthy, educated citizens prepared to compete in a globalized economy-are more serious than ever. Dr.
Rosenbaum and her colleagues say in their conclusion,
"The importance of a continuing commitment to broad
child health policy endures, even as the health system
itself is transformed. National security depends on the
growth and development of children; in view of the
demographics of those who serve, this dependence is particularly striking in the case of the low-income children
who are at greatest risk for poor health outcomes."
Health disparities still exist for poor children and chil-
dren of color. But Congress has the opportunity and
responsibility this year to make certain that the promise
of American life is being kept for all children by committing to real child health system reform. They can include
amendments by Representative Bobby Scott that provide
comprehensive child-appropriate EPSDT benefits for all
children and they can enact amendments offered by
Representative Bobby Rush to simplify the health
bureaucracy and to make sure that millions of children are
better off, and not worse off, than they are today. We must
ensure that health coverage in any final health care reform
bill will guarantee all children the comprehensive health
and mental health care they need and be affordable and
simple to get and keep. Our children's and our nation's
security still depend on making sure that our children
really get the health care they need now.
Coalition to erect a Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. life-size Bronze Sculpture at the entrance
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
The Artist Sculptor Rebecca-Rose tm (RMFAC
Studio) Present Plans for a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Freedom Dream” Monument in Historic Philadelphia.
The monument will be made a Gift to the City of
Philadelphia as a Legacy and Symbol of International
Human Rights and dignity for all people.
Ms. Rose, a fourth generation African-American
sculptor revealed to the public her designs for the monument, as well as the Coalition’s plans to bring visibility
to the Drive, in Dr. King’s honor.
This is a history in the making tribute in Philadelphia
to Americas Renown Nobel Peace Laureate. This tribute
honors Dr. King, the City of Philadelphia, and R. Sonny
Driver, Publisher, SCOOP, USA Incorporated. Mr.
Driver spearheaded the naming of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Drive, with the support of the City of
Philadelphia and over 60,000 citizens in petition.
Philadelphia’s leaders, community organizations, cultural families and sponsors are being asked to support
the Dr. King’s “Freedom’s Dream” Monument.
We ask your support at this time to provide us with a
letter of interest if you are able and willing to make this
tax-exempt donation. For your contribution of one thousand dollars ($1,000.) dollars, your name or that or your
organization’s will be engraved on the granite base of
the monument as a living legacy of your support.
Neither deposits nor payments are required at this time.
Please forward to PJC, the enclosed Expression of
Interest Pledge Form, so that we may gather and forward
your letter along with others to the Greater Philadelphia
Urban Affairs Coalition for they have expressed an interest to be our Fiscal Agent on the project.
We welcome an opportunity to talk or meet with you
regarding the details. Contacts: Rebecca Rose: (215)
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4 - SCOOP U.S.A. - Friday, October 2, 2009
junious r. stanton
“Experimentation and
development work hand in
hand toward progress.
Effective advances are
made daily because new
things are tried and occasionally they are successful.
The refusal to venture out in
the unknown, to only use
one way, to remain constant
and sometimes stagnate is
certainly defeatist in terms
of ideology of education for
oppressed people. We must
view failure as a reward for
having come forth and triedto do something new.”
Jitu Weusi
Last week I ventured to Washington D.C to see
what as going on at the annual Congressional Black
Caucus Legislative Conference. I applied for press credentials, took in the sights and attended a few panel discussions.
There was a plethora of information and analysis which are
certainly good and needed; but what I found in extremely
short supply were solutions to the issues and problems presented during the conference. I went to one panel discussion
called Disappearing Voices The Decline of Black Radio
hosted by Congressman Bobby Rush out of Chicago Illinois.
It was good to see Congressman Rush. I had heard and read
about him during his days as an activist and one of the
founders of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Chicago is
known for its down and dirty, rough and tumble style of politics so I figured any panel sponsored by a man like Bobby
Rush would be hard core solutions oriented. I must confess
I was disappointed by what I saw and heard. I went because
I suspected the panel was named after the 2008 documentary
of the same name directed by Iyanna Jones and produced by
Usavior Washington who were panelists. The film chronicles the rise and fall of black radio. While the film talks
about legendary radio pioneers like Jocko Henderson, E.
Rodney Jones and Frankie Crocker it is not an attempt to
generate nostalgia for a by gone era. Last year I interviewed
Bob Law who had the original idea for the film, wrote most
of the narration and served as the narrator. He told me the
film was designed and formulated to tell the story about how
serious community oriented black radio is being deliberately
squeezed out and destroyed not by “market forces” but by
racism.
I got to the panel a little late because the other panel I was
at ran over. I missed what the FCC Chairman had to say who
had left by the time I got there. The panel members were
speaking when I got there. What I heard was really disheartening; the number of black owned radio stations is steadily
shriveling, black owned radio has lost its originality, creativity and potency and the economic model of radio advertising is being used to deliberately keep black radio poor
even when a black owned station is a top rated station in its
market! The panelists shared their experiences and articulated a litany of scenarios and situations about programming,
advertising and pending legislation like HR 848 (The
Performance Right Act) that will negatively impact black
owned radio.
What disturbed me the most was the question and answer
segment. Most people didn’t ask a question, they ranted or
gave a statement which was ok beacause they provided additional information. But the two people who raised the issues
about technology, Internet radio and television were glossed
over and their comments and questions went unanswered.
harry polis
Left Standing
Love is not for the faint of
heart and those left behind.
We know there will be a
price for what we feel. The
petty problems that life presents are usually forgettable;
yet, love creates a worry
knowing that at some point,
the connection will end. As I
get older and watch friends
and relatives pass on, I realize that the parting is also a
piece of love. I see that the death of a beloved is
felt most by the people left
standing.
The veil separates us, but nothing
ends the love we feel. I believe
love is eternal. It is a gift given by
God, for each of us to treasure and
trust. I cannot accept that my love
will stop when my heart stops. I
extend my hand to my family and
friends. I love deeply, totally. I do
not have words to describe how I
feel. It runs far and deep inside me.
Left standing is a place I fear
because who I am. Given the choice, I would rather lie
beside the still waters.
Copyright 2006 by Harry Martin Polis and edited
by Jaynee Levy-Polis
Harry is available for lectures and entertainment with stories
and poetry. Contact SCOOP USA, or e-mail Harry
Granted I have a bias towards Internet radio and television
because I’ve been involved with Internet radio since 2000
and Internet TV since 2008. The Internet offers a low cost
(money is still needed to maintain and operate an Internet
station which is why so many Black Internet stations go
belly up) alternative to many of the very problems terrestrial radio (that’s what Internet and satellite radio people call
traditional radio) stations are facing such as: declining black
ownership, consolidation, acquiring and retaining FCC
licensing, rising station and equipment costs, racist advertising policies, a woeful lack of originality and diversity and
less commitment to the communities they serve.
Two people raised a question about Internet radio and the
benefits of it’s technology but none of the panelists
addressed it. By the time the session was over no concrete
solutions had been presented or articulated. For me the session was like a pastor preaching the same old sermon to his
choir; we’ve heard it over and over. I will admit the message
about the not so subtle attack on black owned radio needs to
be repeated so more of us know why more and more black
owned stations are going under. We need to take action. If
we don’t have media that advocates for us, shares vital information, helps us define our issues and solve our problems
we will remain at the mercy of our oppressors. Newspapers
are dying as are black owned radio stations espeically in this
depression like economy.
The solutions to our media dilemma are readily available.
We can support existing stations like WURD 900 AM by
shopping at the retail stores and supporting the service
providers who advertise on the station, We can also apply for
low band community FM radio station licences, one WPEB
already exists in West Philadelphia. We need more. We can
start and support and the operative word here is support
Internet radio and television stations. We have the skills to
create and plan stations to meet the needs of our community
and the Diaspora. I’ve been dealing with Internet radio since
2000 and so many stations I’ve been on over the years have
died from the lack of support from the very people who
swore up and down they loved our programming and what
we were doing.
We are in a war for the hearts, minds and souls of our people. The corporate Medusa of public relations/advertising/
production/mind control is effectively targeting us; especially our children. They don’t call it “programming” and
“branding” for nothing.
They are trying to reduce us to cattle with a bovine mentality. And they are programming us for self destruction.
Critically examine most television and music videos and ask
yourself are the values and “lifestyles” being promoted
healthy? As Bobby Rush told the audience at the panel discussion, “If all we do during the Obama administration these
next four, hopefully eight years is revel in the fact we have
a black president, history needs to and should damn us.” The
solutions to our problems are up to us.
Surrounded here by family, Lorraine Jones-Chandler celebrates her retirement from the
city of Philadelphia after 40 years of continuous dedicated service. Pictured here with her
husband Mark Chandler and a host of family. Citations from the City, State and
Congressman Fattah were presented to Lorraine. Over 100 friends and well wishing coworkers came to share this festive event with Lorraine at Drexelbrook. Leaping Lion photograph
Closing the Season
This week's rap from the
Mayor of Girard Avenue,
Toby Rich, is called "Closing
the Season." This article will
talk about the closing of the
summer season and entering
into the fall season with so
many things unfinished.
Nathaniel Sabir's sons
recently held the annual
Nathaniel Sabir Memorial
Scholarship Fund dinner at Local 332's Labor Union Hall
to promote the fund which was created to enrich the lives
of youths through education. These are people with the
love of God who understand that they must find ways to
make sure that children are educated. You cannot always
look for other people to send your children to college we
must save and make sacrifices. This is what makes this
scholarship fund so unique and the fact that the men and
women of Local 332 would create a program that allows
children who don't have the means to attend college is
what caring about life and what brother Nate Sabir was
all about. God bless his two wonderful sons for keeping
his wonderful legacy alive. Also while I'm on the topic of
legacy I'd like to mention the passing of a fallen leaf
named Tom Smith. As my cousin Pastor Alyn Waller put
it, he left par for the course, showing us younger men
what it is like to be a real man with respect and principles.
I knew his niece Lorna, and her father and all of the
Smith brothers were men we could all learn from. I also
knew Mr. Willie Smith and he too was a gem of a man.
For the books if you can remember they had the bars
called, The Hunt Room North, South, and West Oak
Lane. So may peace go to all of the members of the
Smith family. This week a fashion show was held at the
Loews Hotel, and fashion was an understatement. The
event reminded me of Jay-Z's video, "Change Clothes."
Toby Rich
Solutions
All of the models there were top notch and although you
might not recognize their names, you could definitely
recognize the quality of the garments that were shown.
It's not always in the name, it's in the garment.There was
also a recovery fair at the Girard Medical Center, located
at 8th and Girard (the old St. Luke's Hospital). Dr. Jones
and Mr. Ron Tyree always put together a very caring and
informative event for recovering people. During the event
there was a recovery walk and a well put together rap
session, that had a wonderful speaker who was a friend of
counselor Marty, who everyone learns from and loves
dearly. It's one thing when you respect someone but when
you can learn from them as well that's special.The all Gtown picnic was held Saturday and because of some very
important family business I could not make it, however a
very good friend of mine and a beloved friend of the
Philly Association of Former Gang Members, Mr. Neil
Blunt from the G-town Seven Gs gave me a wonderful
report about the event. He said many folks were there
including State Representatives and City Council members. The Mayor wanted to attend but his schedule was
booked solid. I was supposed to represent him, however
I had some problems, but thank God everything went
well. At the Moshulu, a book signing was held for a wonderful author named Shannon Bellamy and her new book
entitled, "Pimps In The Pulpit" which is a true story about
her life in church around some very irresponsible socalled ministers. The book talks about where they went
wrong and why? Did they not know that what they did
would affect other people very strongly? How selfish
could one person be? God doesn't like ugly however so
believe me all that will come back on them big time.
Also at the event was Carl "One Punch" with his new
clothing line, along with Kareema Alston, (Charlie
Mack's lovely daughter), plus singing sensation Sweet 1,
2, 5, a great group. Also the young great singing sensation
Ms. Rabiyah sang her hit song, "At Last" and she really
set it off. Rabiyah really sings that song. One day look for
her to make a record real soon. With love, honor and
respect, Your Mayor of Girard Avenue, Toby Rich, peace.
SCOOP U.S.A. - Friday, October 2, 2009 -
5
Letters to the Legendary NFL Great Jim Brown sits down with Sirius
XM host Joe Madison for extraordinary interview series
Editor
Good Luck Michael Vick
I had written an recently about the release of
Michael Vick to the local newspapers that I purchased
everyday and what I figured would be some of the
problems he would face upon his release.
And low and behold, just about everything I had
written come to pass, as he had commanded more
attention in the news than all the other High Profile
African Americans across this country, including
President Obama.
The press, as they define, News, will attempt to get
all the coverage they can to sell their news, but what
they are doing to Michael Vick is unbelievable.
As has been stated many time, he did the crime and
he served his time, but where did all those animal
lovers come from. It appeared that some of them
seemed to have come out from cracks in the ground
and fallen from outer space. I had no idea there were
that many groups concerned about animals in this
country. Wonder what this sick, racist society of ours
would be like if there were that many groups truly
concerned about our youth, and I wonder how many
of them watch the Animal Channel on their TVs and
are aware of the many other people mistreating animals.
Very little has been said or written regarding Race
as it applies to the treatment Michael Vick is going
through and many will say that it is not a major factor
(Wow!). Philadelphia has every right to sign Vick,
even though is surprised me based on my opinion of
that city and Race.
An article I read recently said that the NFL has not
called their agency concerning the condition of the
dogs that were saved and are in their care. Maybe
someone should tell them the NFL is about football
and they should get more involved in those still fighting dogs and cocks across this country and let
Michael Vick pursue a living.
Bob Johnson
Chester, PA
**********
A perspective from a “Real” Victim
Rights Activist regarding Michael Vick
Good morning, For the last 33 years of my life I
have volunteered as a very effective community
activist in fighting for victims rights, assisting at-risk
youth and working in improving the general quality
of life for all in the Philadelphia area including
assisting in animal right concerns and safety in general.
For the past few weeks all I have heard is Michael
Vick "this" and Michael Vick "that" It is my opinion
as that of a person who has dedicated his life to fighting for human and animal rights in Philadelphia that
Michael Vick made a mistake in a poor life style
decision and paid for the poor choice with the criminal justice system of our nation. I believe that
Michael Vick truly would like to correct the poor
choice that he involved himself with in the past and
truly deserves a second chance in correcting a wrong
into a right.
And as for all of those backseat Monday morning
animal victims rights quarterbacks and their great
concern regarding the issue, here are some questions
for you?
1) Where are you when there is a violent crime in
our city involving humans and animals and what are
you doing about it?
2) If Michael Vick was a white athlete would there
be such outrage?
3) If a person makes a poor choice in judgement
and lifestyle then pays for that poor choice by being
found guilty in a court of law then respectfully serves
out that sentence issued by the court, shouldn't he or
she be given a second chance in moving on with their
lives and becoming a positive & productive member
of our society once again?
4) Can those who cast doubt and point fingers in
placing blame and wrong doing look into their own
set of morals and religious beliefs in truly believing
that a person can change for the better if given the
opportunity as it states in all forms of religion; or is
it just for a selective choice of people?
Respectfully
Greg Bucceroni, Coordinator
Crime Victim Services / Youth at Risk Program
East Police Division Community Partnership
PO Box 22714 Philadelphia Pa 19110
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Madison Tackles Brown: The Athlete, Activist and Actor
Sirius XM Radio
(NASDAQ: SIRI)
announced that it will
broadcast an exclusive
series of hard hitting, noholds barred interviews
with Hall of Fame running back, activist and
actor Jim Brown conducted by award-winning
Sirius XM Radio host Joe
Madison. The MadisonBrown interview specials
will air across multiple
Sirius XM channels in
three hour-long installments, featuring in-depth
discussions on sports;
race, politics and
activism; and Hollywood
and celebrity.
Madison's insightful
interviews provide an intimate portrait of the man
whose legendary career,
influence and impact on
American culture is multifaceted. With unflinching
candor, Brown reflects on
his extraordinary life
experiences, the lessons
he's learned, and how he
applies them to his life
today.
"Jim Brown is one of
the most fascinating figures of our times, and his
amazing accomplishments
on and off the field broke
new ground at every turn
and have left an indelible
mark on our culture," said
Scott Greenstein,
President and Chief
Content Officer, Sirius
XM Radio. "Many people
think they know the 'Jim
Brown story' but until
now, the whole story has
not been told. With this
satellite radio broadcast
event, Joe Madison connects Sirius XM's millions
of listeners across the
country with the complete
Jim Brown."
The first interview,
"The Athlete," will air
October 2 at 8:00 am ET
on The Power, XM channel 169, and at 11:00 am
ET on Sirius XM Stars,
Sirius channel 102 and
XM channel 155. It will
replay October 3 at 6:00
pm ET on The Power.
"The Athlete" focuses on
Brown's storied years in
the NFL as a Hall of
Fame running back with
the Cleveland Browns. At
the height of his career
Brown was the highest
paid player in the NFL,
earning $85,000 a year.
He was also the first NFL
player to have an agent.
Brown reflects on his
experience in professional
sports and offers advice
for the next generation of
young star athletes on
how to deal with newfound fame, wealth and
success. He also offers
insight on players' relationships with their
coaches.
The second installment,
"The Activist," focuses on
race, politics and
activism, and will air
pm ET on The Power. The
drive that fueled Brown
on the football field car-
Football great Jim Brown with radio host Joe
Madison at SIRIUS XM's New York City stuphoto: Maro Hagopian, SIRIUS XM
dios
ried over to his role as
community activist. For
many years Brown has
worked with black communities across the country, helping to eradicate
violence and emphasizing
the importance and power
of education. As part of
this mission, Brown also
visits prisons to speak to
inmates, and works with
gang leaders in cities
large and small. Through
Amer-I-Can, Brown's
non-profit organization
created to offer social
support and services to
underserved populations
and cities, he acts as a
mentor and helps millions
of young men and women
across the country achieve
success and self-confidence.
The third and final hour
of Madison and Brown's
in-depth conversation,
"The Actor," will air
pm ET on The Power.
"The Actor" explores
Brown's transition from
star athlete to Hollywood
box office champ. Brown
reveals what it was like to
be black in 1960s and
1970s Hollywood; the
role race played in the
parts he was offered and
the parts he sought; why
"The Dirty Dozen" is his
favorite of his movies; his
on-and off-screen relationship with Raquel
Welch; his friendship and
partnership with comedian Richard Pryor, and
how that disintegrated
because of Pryor's drug
addiction; his days managing Earth, Wind & Fire;
and more.
Joe Madison, also
known as "The Black
Eagle," is recognized as a
human and civil rights
activist, abolitionist
against slavery in Africa,
television commentator,
columnist, lecturer, labor
and corporate spokesman,
musician, and athlete. He
is the former executive
director of the Detroit
NAACP and was later
appointed director of the
national NAACP political
action department. Joe
Madison's daily, call-in
show airs from 6:00 10:00 am ET on The
Power, XM channel 169.
Madison has been named
one of Talker Magazine's
"100 Most Important
Radio Talk Show Hosts"
nine times.
For more information
visit www.sirius.com and
www.xmradio.com.
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Film
Review
Surrogates…No heralding this Hype
You know, I’m not even
sure how great this film
looked on paper.... and it
certainly rendered itself a
dismal failure on film.
Rahda Mitchell .... beautiful - but nothing there in this
film. Bruce Willis ... was he
even there? And Ving"Come and get my Award,
Mr. Lemmon"- Rhames;
who looked a cross between
Ving-the iron-poor-bloodedlion, and Mama-Rhamesthe-Clairvoyant, was about
as lackluster as any Actor
could be. Ineptly directed by
Jon Mostow (Terminator 3) and half-wittedly Written
by Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato
(Terminator Salvation) - you might have expected
more from these Terminator scribes and directors,
especially with respect to another futuristic tale about
Machines. But herein is no Terminator comparable.
Surrogate was probably a hurried script (for a big payday)
riddled with a mish-moshing-mess of ingredients that culminates into a ineffective and chafing cross between I-Robot,
Wall-E, Minority Report and a few others. Shame on the creators here. If you must beg, borrow and steal... at least make
it good. Surrogate is the tale of a futuristic world in which
human beings trade in living their lives via their own human
flesh and bones, and opt to live it virtually via Surrogate
robots, leaving them in the comfort of their homes, free from
real-life interactions, including the dangers of crime. The
result is a crimeless society, and the best part - you can
choose to be 20and look like whomever you want to be. A
flawless society. But as there is always dissension in any
society, this Surrogate dominated world is not without its
critics who reject this way of life. Hence, humans who opt
not live life via a Surrogate live on human reservations, and
are led by "The Prophet" (Rhames) . Humans who opt to live
via a Surrogate never fear crime because if a Surrogate gets
injured in any way - the human being is never harmed. Or
Until now. Surrogates are being knocked-off and in the
process, the human being is also rendered dead. Enter in
Bruce Willis as Officer Tom Greer who also lives life via a
Surrogate. Greer is older and grungier than his Surrogate.
He’s tattered and worn, with attractive lines in his face. He’s
bald and yet, for my money, hands-down sexier than his
Surrogate counterpart who dons a face as smooth as baby’s
bottom, a ridiculous head of silky boyish blonde hair. But
after the flesh and blood Greer is also injured via his
Surrogate’s injury - he finds himself forced to re-enter the
real world (of Surrogates) as himself in order to continue his
investigation of the murders. Everything about Surrogate
fails for me. And with a depressing second place opening
(after a monumental advertising campaign) it’s not likely to
garner any sudden favor after this weekend. There’s simply
no heralding this hype. This film is lukewarm on action
sequences, and practically devoid of suspense, thrills and
intrigue. Top this off with lackluster performances and you
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have the makings of a production likely too end up in
the red. Even the trailers for
this film rendered itself only
mildly interesting. Just good
enough to cross into the
‘piqued-my-interest’ line.You
might enjoy this film on an
after work Friday night
unwind... but I do assert...
you won’t want to waste thirteen dollars for a ticket and
eight dollars for a bag of popcorn on this film. Spend three
or four bucks and wait for the
Ving Rhames
DVD. Two and Three quarter
Scoops. Scoopjwl @aol.com.
Janet Walters Levite is an Optioned Screenwriter.
King Center Boxing Sensation
There’s a buzz happening at Martin Luther King
Recreation Center. His
name is Mingee (Mark)
Lee. He’s one of the new
boxing sensations coming
out the King Center;
standing 5’ 7”, weighing
in at 142 lbs. and knocking people shoe strings
loose. Affectionately
known as just “ Mark”,
you would probably not
notice him if you saw him
walking down a North
Philadelphia Street. He is
a soft spoken person and
well mannered. He’s a
role model for all kids in
his community. When he
speaks people listen. A
rising star coming out of
Chunky “The Clever
Coach Mills” boxing stable. Mark is a very fast stylish boxer, who has his opponents back peddling
from the starting bell. Something happens when he
get in the ring. He starts to focus on his target and
the rest is history. On July 18th he won by TKO
and in August and September he won by decision.
Mark feels it’s a Team effort so, he wanted to
recognize his Teammates and Sparing Partners,
Donte Morgan, Terrel Woodbury, David Harper,
Newman Lewis, Azim Stinson, and Timothy Mack.
Last but not least the tireless Coaching Staff headed
by Jay Moody, Poncho Via and Lovell Hartley.
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Black History
October 2-3
2002- A African American Designs The Cotton Bag
Fort: When Andrew Jackson assembled his force at
New Orleans, his soldiers, many of whom were
African American slaves, were outnumbered by the
British forces ten to one. Faced with this disadvantage, Jackson consulted with men as to what was the
best defense. According to, The Narrative of James
Roberts, there was in Jackson's army an African
American soldier named Pompey, who gave Jackson
the first idea about the cotton bag fort, and superintended the construction of it. We engaged in making
it, and it was completed in the latter part of the second
day. The cotton bags were so placed as to leave port
holes for three muskets to point through each. It
would be from behind that makeshift cotton bag fort
that Jackson's outnumbered forces would mow down
the onrushing British soldiers like grass before the
scythe, and achieve the initial destruction of the center of the British army.
1989- Jump Start premieres in 40 newspapers in the
U.S. It is created by 26 year old Robb Armstrong, the
youngest African American to have a syndicated
comic strip. He follows in the footsteps of Morrie
Turner, the creator of Wee Pals, the first African
American syndicated comic strip.
1986- The U.S. Senate overrides President Ronald
Reagan's veto of legislation imposing economic sanctions in South Africa.
1986- On this date, President Ronald Reagan
appointed Edward J. Perkins ambassador to South
Africa.
1967- Robert H Lawerence (Named the first Black
astronaut), dies in a plane crash before his mission.
1967- Thurgood Marshall is sworn in, and becomes
the first Black Supreme Court Justice
1958- The Republic of Guinea gains Independence
under Sekou Toure
1942- Bernice Johnson Reagon was born in Albany,
Georgia. She became a vocalist, composer and historian. As an historian, she founded "Sweet Honey in
the Rock."
1937- Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. was born in
Shreveport, Louisiana. He became the noted controversial lawyer, who defended pro football star and
actor, O.J. Simpson, in the infamous trial, for which
Simpson was accused of killing wife and her friend. A
member of the "Dream Team."
1935- Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., was born. He
became an astronaut and pilot. He was the first
African American selected for space travel. Lawrence
was killed in a conspiracy-filled training accident in
December of 1967. In 1989, a memorial foundation
was erected in honor of those astronauts who gave
their lives for the space program. Lawrence's name
was not included, until after much advocacy by historian, James Oberg, in February of 1997.
1898- Otis J. Rene (born) and his brother Leon will
establish Exclusive and Excelsior Records in the
1930's. By the mid-1940's the brothers will be leading
independent record producers whose artists will
include Nat "King" Cole, Herb Jeffries, and Johnny
Otis.
1865- North Carolina amends constitution forbidding slavery.
1800- Nat Turner was born in the Tidewater region
of Virginia. He became an anti-slavery revolutioniary
and an insurrectionist (rebel).
October 3rd
1995- Ex-football star O.J. Simpson is cleared
today of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown
Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1979- Death of artist Charles White (61), in Los
Angeles.
1974- Frank Robinson named manager of the
Cleveland Indians and became the first Black manager in the major leagues.
1956- Nat King Cole was the first black performer
to host his own tv show.
1949- WERD, first Black-owned radio station,
opened in Atlanta.
1941- Birthday of Singer Chubby Checker, born
Ernest Evans, in Philadelphia. Checker was best
known for "The Twist" a hit song that soon became a
style of dance.
1935- Ethiopia, one of the only two independent
African nations at the time, was invaded on October
3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The
Italians, seeking revenge for their prior humiliating
loss to Ethiopia over 40 years earlier, committed
countless atrocities on the independent African state.
Poisonous gas, aerial bomabrdment, flame throwers
and concentration camps were all employed against
the ill equipped Ethiopian people. Black outrage
throughout the world was unified. The League of
Nations, forerunner to the UN, was criticized sharply
for supplying weapons to Italy and not to Ethiopia.
Such actions confirmed Black suspicion that the war
See “Black History” page 13
7
Twentieth Century African American History from within: the Hip
Hop Nation as a site of Cultural and Historial Memory (Part II of II )
Copyright James G. Spady 2009
Dedicated to Sterling A. Brown, Ophelia Egypt,
Lawrence Reddick, Letitia Brown, Carolyn Gerald,
Larry Neal, Jimmy Stewart, VeVe Clark, Katherine
Dunham, Kateb Yacine, Desdemones Bardin, Michel
Fabre, Carter G. Woodson, Lorenzo Greene, Charles H.
Wesley, Marian Thompson Wright, Merze Tate, John
Blassingame, Geneva Smitherman, John Baugh,
Marvin X, S.O. Biobaku, Samir Meghelli, Richard
Aldrich, Charles G. Lee, H. Samy Alim, Cheryl Keyes,
Portia Maultsby, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez,
Benjamin Quarles, Jeff Chang, Tricia Rose, Robin D. G.
Kelley and Ronald Jemal Stephens
Tupac Shakur’s Human Agenda
Rap artists are deeply rooted in a kind of African
American folk wisdom that enables them to understand
that the contradictions of life are not in themselves either
final or ultimate. Many rappers exhibit a fundamental
understanding that life is indeed it’s own restraint. For
Tupac Shakur, this optimism in the face of overwhelming
vicissitudes, informs his human agenda. In one of many
conversations with Pac, he said, “ I am a revolution in
every sense of the word. I take care of anything that’s
mine and I’m handling my business every day. The fact
that I can still sit here and look in people’s faces and still
be smiling shows you that I am a human being. This is
my agenda. I tackle some of the problems head on. My
whole thing is to show young black men that you do not
have to give up the essence of you to be successful in
this country.” [Tupac Shakur Interview in Street
Conscious Rap by James G. Spady, Charles G. Lee and
H. Samy Alim, Philadelphia, Pa., Black History Musuem
Umum Publishers, 1999, p. 567].
Tupac Shakur, like Noreaga, Eve, 50 Cent, Jill Scott,
Jay Z, Common, AZ and others offer profound insight
into contemporary Black life through their lyrics. I can
recall Pac’s deep insight into such l9th century progenitors as David Walker(author of Walker’s Appeal, 1827)
and Frederick Douglass (author of Narratives of My Life
as A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom). What did
Tupac find of value to a Hip Hop Head in studying the
lives of Douglass, Walker and other 19th century leaders
in the freedom movement.?
African American Contributions to Dramatic
Form
And Hip Hop Narrative Modes
Actually, a close investigation of the speech acts of
current day rappers and the autobiographical narratives
of ex-slaves like Douglass reveal shared notions of liberty and democracy. What is it about the narratives of rap
musicians that link them to the narratives of ex-slaves?
Perhaps, we should begin assessing the current body of
rappers’autobiographical narratives within the historical
context of ex-slave narratives. This could be done against
the background of Dr. Eleanor Traylor’s brilliantly constructed but grossly neglected essay published in
Indigene: An Anthology of Future Black Arts in 1978,
exactly one year before the release of the first known rap
recordings. Writing in the essay, “Two Afro American
Contributions to Dramatic Form,” Traylor states, “When
the oral accounts of run-away slaves entered literary history, a native American narrative mode developed.
‘Something new and entirely different,’ happened to the
art of storytelling, several genres enmeshed and a new
way of relating experience manifested itself in the slave
narrative. Not merely an autobiography, eschewing the
precise chronology of a history, substantially not a novel,
conventionally, not an epic, structurally not a romance;
neither epistolary nor picaresque nor homiletic; if gothic,
not as an imaginative device, the slave narrative may
encompass the ingredients disturbed existing generic distinctions. It extended the act of language, it increased the
nature of written expression in English. It enters into the
history of experience the panoramic struggle of a particular people at a particular time in their historical development.”
[Eleanor Traylor, “Two Forms…” Indigene, p. 34]
Shall The Circle Remain Unbroken?:
Writing From Within Tha Cipha
“I was myself within the circle, so that I neither saw
nor heard as those without might see and hear..the songs
of the slaves represent the sorrows of the heart, and he is
relieved by them only as an aching heart is relieved by
its tears…these songs still follow me, to deepen my
hatred of slavery and quicken my sympathies for my
brethen in bonds.’ [Douglass, Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass (1845) reprinted , New York, New
American Library, 1978) p. 31
Frederick Douglass’ autobiographical narrative of
1845 serves as a wonderful point of entry into an ever
expanding Hip Hop Nation. What distinguishes the so
called narratives in African American arts and letters?
Traylor rightly notes, “ The 1845 Narrative of Frederick
Douglass serves as an outstanding revelation of the great
form and the great subject inherent in the slave narrative
as an African American model genre. In it, a new literary
voice (Aframerican) announces itself; a distinct sensibility is illumined. A particular myth asserts itself, and a
hero experiencing a
unique initiation, understanding a specific
quest, and dramatizing a
certain view of existence emerges.” Could
Douglass or Traylor
have imagined that
young African
American rhymers
would establish a model
genre in the latter part
of the twentieth century
both in the aforementioned literary tradition
and expanding that tradition.It is difficult to
imagine the birth and
Lady B
development of Hip
Hop Culture without
those significant innovations in narrativity and dramatic
form introduced by their African forbearers.
The Sugar Hill Gang
When the Sugar Hill Gang was released in 1979, both
the subject matter (the lives of urban black youth) and
it’s aesthetic mode (rapping) immediately came under
intense scrutiny. It was the verbal sign of the time, a consistent realization of the musical-rhythmic demands of a
movement led by young Black people with a vision of a
liberated future. They recorded images, ideas, impressions, ideals and details heretofore unavailable to the
general mass public. Who were these young African
Americans and Latinos and what did they have to say?
How did they choose to express themselves? What did
you see, feel and hear?
The physicist Niels Bohr is right . When an observation is made, it is imperative to determine exactly the
relation between the observer and the observed thing.
How does one move beyond the idea of attempting to
rush from the text to the code? In the case of Hip Hop
Culture, is it not necessary to absorb the code and try to
use the code as a means of better understanding the message imbedded in rap lyrics and hip hop culture generally? How did that rich and varied Transatlantic African
culture get from the streets of Philly, New York and
Newark to global communities?
Sylvia Robinson: Mother of Hip Hop Music
in Harlem World
In preparing the text, Street Conscious Rap, we had the
opportunity of talking to the Black woman who recorded
the music that spawned a multibillion dollar industry.
Few discussions of Hip Hop music include the testimony
of Sylvia Robinson, the African American woman behind
the launching of Rap’s pioneers, Sugar Hill Gang. After
many attempts to engage her in ‘real talk’, on her role in
initiating the rap recording industry, we finally asked her
to tell her story: “ Well, really it was a Revelation from
God. I was at a Disco one night in Harlem…Harlem
World. My sister was having a birthday party for me and
it wasn’t even my birthday. She was managing the place
and she wanted to drum up business. She knew I had
been very depressed at the time because I was going
through a very sad time in my life and she was having
this party for me. I didn’t want to go out. I said, ‘I can’t
disappoint her.” So I made myself go that evening and
while I was there, you know. I used to ask God. I said,
you know every time I was in trouble I could always
pick up my guitar and write a hit record.’ [Street
Conscious Rap, p. 85]
Sylvia continues the narrative, “ I was sitting up in the
balcony and I saw all these kids out on the floor…. And
here was fellow talking on a Mic with music playing
and I saw if he told them to do this, or do that, they did
it….All of a sudden I felt a chill all over my body and a
voice said to me, ‘You put that on tape and you’ll be out
of all the trouble you’ve ever been in. And all at once, I
felt the chills all over my body, like the Holy Spirit overcoming me. And that’s how that happened. It was really
a Revelation of God how that happened.” [Street
Conscious Rap, pp. 86 &87].
The oral testimony from the African American woman
who recorded the rap record credited with kicking off
the Hip Hop Cultural Revolution is most interesting in
that she sees her role in launching rap music as a
Divine intervention. Celestial motions in the Hip Hop
Omniverse. Sylvia Robinson’s popular career began as
part of the l950’s duo known as Mickey and Sylvia,
[‘Love is Strange’] and she had a popular hit during the
Disco era just prior to the birth of Rap . She is the one
who did the song, ‘Pillow Talk.’ All of this back and
forth motion in African American musical history. As
Sonia Sanchez says, “It’s deeply deep.’
Black Spades to Zulu Nation to Hip Hop Nation
Even before The Sugarhill Gang ever entered a
recording studio, the Hip Hop Nation was already in formation. At the end of the turbulent l960’s Civil Rights
See “Hip-Hop” page 14
8 -SCOOP U.S.A. - Friday,
October 2, 2009
Hughes applauds progress on Salvation Army’s Kroc Family Center
State Sen. Vincent Hughes (D-Phila.), applauded the
Salvation Army’s progress on the construction of its
Ray and Joan Kroc Family Center at the organization’s
“Topping Off’ ceremony on Friday, Sept. 25. Hughes,
who was on hand for the event, celebrated the placement of the final steel beam of the 130,000 square-foot
facility. Hughes was pivotal in securing a $3.45 million state grant to support the $69 million construction
project, which is being built at 4200 Wissahickon Ave.
“The tough economic times that we are facing here
in the Commonwealth make it all the more imperative
that we invest mightily in families and communities,"
Hughes said. "This community and the families who
reside here will be enriched for generations to come.
The return on this type of an investment is immeasurable.”
Kroc Centers are part of a national initiative
bequeathed by the late Joan Kroc, philanthropist and
widow of McDonald’s restaurants founder Ray Kroc,
to build 25 family “super” centers of opportunity, education, recreation, and inspiration throughout the
United States as “beacons of hope” for troubled communities.
Upon completion the Salvation Army Kroc Center
will sit on 12.4 acres located adjacent to the old Budd
plant build Key features of The Salvation Army Kroc
Center will include:
* The Sunoco Learning Center
* A Three-Pool Aquatic Center with an indoor water
park, competition/t raining pool, and warm water pool,
with a full range of aquatics programs run by
renowned swim coach and founder of the nationallyrecognized PDR swim team, Jim Ellis
*Performing Arts Center/Worship Center, Dance
Studio, Music Studios, Rehearsal Rooms Film
Production Room
* Fitness Center and Gymnasium
* Culinary Arts Job Training Kitchen with fullyfunctioning public café
* Classrooms for after-school, adult education, and
job-training programs Community Farm and
Horticultural Education/ Job-training Center
* Multi-sport Athletic Field
* Youth and Senior Drop-in Rooms
* Early Childhood Education Center
* Social Services Center
Hughes stated that the Kroc Center’s economic benefit to the City of Philadelphia is significant.
Most immediately, the two-year construction project
is stimulating $75 million in economic activity and
supporting more than 320 jobs. When the family center opens, $12 million of economic activity will be
generated annually, supporting 170 jobs each year.
With the Kroc Center serving as an economic
anchor, other development efforts are being targeted
and planned in the surrounding areas.
Above: Senator Vincent Hughes shown at the podium at the Topping Off ceremony for the
Kroc Family Center, shown below is Senator Vincent Hughes and Major Bonnie Camarda
of the Salvation Army
Ron Allen photo
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Emergency Services and ICU, St. Mary Medical Center.
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ShopRite Partners In Caring Day
Councilman Curtis Jones helps the ShopRite
of Parkside celebrate "ShopRite Partners in
Caring Day," officially proclaimed by the state
of Pennsylvania to help commemorate the 10th
anniversary of ShopRite's hunger-fighting
charity and their efforts to educate others
about the problem of hunger in local communities. See “Shoprite Partners in Caring Day”
Customers shopping at the ShopRite of Parkside last
week came across a familiar face bagging their groceries. Mayor Michael Nutter and other community
leaders teamed up with the ShopRite of Parkside to help
bag hunger in recognition of "ShopRite Partners In
Caring Day," a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the
store's year-round community based hunger fighting
charity, ShopRite Partners In Caring. This morning,
Mayor Michael Nutter, Councilman Curtis Jones, and a
member of the 19th Police Department bagged groceries
to help raise awareness and funds for local community
food banks.
In addition, September 23rd was officially proclaimed
"ShopRite Partners In Caring Day" in Pennsylvania to
help commemorate the 10th anniversary of ShopRite's
hunger-fighting charity and their continuing efforts to
educate others about the problem of hunger in local
communities
ShopRite stores across six states participated in
"ShopRite Partners in Caring Day," working with their
local officials to raise awareness and money to help bag
hunger in their community. Throughout the day,
cashiers were busy scanning a "Heart and Hands" card
for every monetary donation made to the ShopRite
Partners In Caring Fund, dedicated to helping fill the
shelves of local community food banks.
"We are honored to have distinguished community
leaders join our efforts to fight hunger" says Christine
Magyarits, spokesperson for ShopRite Partners In
Caring. "Having Mayor Michael Nutter, Councilman
Curtis Jones, and a member of the 19th Police
Department of Philadelphia here with us today as hon-
Mayor Nutter takes a break from bagging to pose with Parkside store owner Jeff Brown.
With the hard work and dedication of ShopRite stores like Parkside, the ShopRite Partners
in Caring program donates more than $2 million each year to feeding families who may
orary ShopRite baggers demonstrates the commitment
and dedication of this community to help raise awareness and funds for local food banks."
September is "National Hunger Action Month." For
thirty days, hunger relief organizations and businesses
across the country will be doing their part to help raise
awareness and fight hunger in their communities.
About ShopRite Partners In Caring
ShopRite Partners In Caring is a year-round, community-based, hunger-fighting initiative that works with
more than 50 food industry manufacturers to provide $2
million annually to qualified charitable agencies in New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Maryland and Rhode Island. Since its
inception in 1999, ShopRite Partners In Caring has
donated $20 million to more than 1,500 charities.
ShopRite Partners In Caring supports emergency food
pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, child care
centers, battered women's shelters, senior citizen programs, drug rehab centers, programs for the mentally
and physically disabled, after-school programs and other
organizations that aid those in need. The ShopRite
Partners In Caring Fund was established in 2002 as a
component fund of the Community Foundation of New
Jersey to accept private donations that help fund its
charitable endeavors.
For more information or to learn how you can help,
please visit www.shopritepartnersincaring.org
Spiral Q Theater invites you to Make Art in the Park
for the 10th Annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant
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Make a flag dance for the 10th annual Peoplehood Parade and Pageant
As summer draws to an end, Peoplehood season begins.
Spiral Q invites everyone in Philadelphia to join hands in
creation and celebration of the 10th annual Peoplehood
Parade and Pageant! Peoplehood is a ten-year long tradition of transforming Philadelphia’s hopes and concerns
into art, giant puppets, and pageantry through neighborhood collaboration and creativity.
People of all ages work with each other and with Spiral
Q’s artists to produce a colorful spectacle of dance, giant
puppets, music, and theatrics that will parade through
West Philadelphia and culminate in a performance at
Clark Park on October 17th, 2009!
In preparation for the Peoplehood Parade, Spiral Q is
hosting FREE community art making at five different
sites: the Paul Robeson House, Malcolm X Park, Clark
Park, Village of Arts & Humanities, and Spiral Q Puppet
Theater. Everyone is encouraged to stop by, share ideas,
make puppets for the parade and performance, and play
with Spiral Q in the parks. Families, friends, community
organizations, students, teachers, artists of all kinds…
Come make Art in the Park with Spiral Q! Then parade
and perform with us on October 17th!
- Paul Robeson House, 4951 Walnut St., Fridays 3-7
P.M., Sundays 12-4 PM
- Malcolm X Park, 5150 Pine St., Fridays 3-7 PM,
Saturdays 12-4 PM
- Spiral Q Puppet Theater, 3114 Spring Garden St.,
Wednesdays 5-9 PM, Thursdays 5-9 PM
- Clark Park, 43rd & Chester Ave., Saturdays 12-4 PM,
Sundays 12-4 PM
- Village of Arts & Humanities, 2544 Germantown
Ave., Fridays 3-7 PM, Saturdays 12-4 PM
Don’t forget to save the date for Peoplehood: October
17, 2009!
Mission
Spiral Q Puppet Theater seeks to mobilize communities, empower marginalized people, and illuminate the
victories, frustrations and possibilities of living in the
neighborhoods of Philadelphia and similar urban settings
through the construction of full-scale giant puppet
parades, toy theater and neighborhood pageantry.
10 -SCOOP U.S.A. - Friday, October 2, 2009
Fostergrandparent Stakeholders helping youth clean-up soiled sites
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Fostergrandparents and
local community leaders are
preparing to help middle
school students plant grass
on Philadelphia and
Delaware County land tainted by oil pollution. Many
parents are tired of seeing
any inner-city neighborhood
closed gas stations, crumbling industrial buildings,
and old shuttered [email protected] es. It’s the Fosterparent
(610) 931-8810 Stakeholders who are educating kids that these abandoned commercial sites are
called brownfields. And something should be done by
youth about these eyesores.
Brownfields can contain contaminants that can be
harmful to people and animals living nearby. An abandoned gas station, for example, may have a leaking
underground storage tank. Many communities in West
Philly, Chester, Darby Township, and Wilmington face
the problem of abandoned gas stations. And Fostergrandparent Stakeholders want youngsters to know that the
chemicals seeping out can pollute the soil and drinking
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Community leaders interested in greening are trying
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notice green spaces in their neighborhoods giving way
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abandoned
commercial
sites sit
untouched.
Youth are being
encouraged to
look at this as a
science project
that will help
clean up
brownfields so
the land could
be transformed
into parks,
housing developments, or
youth business
areas.
Many youths
can have some- Officer Tyrone Johnston,
thing to do by Environmental Redevelopment
joining in
Leader. A Fostergrandparent
learning
whether plants Stakeholder serving West Philly
and Darby Township areas.
could help
remove oil pollution from soil. One of the common contaminants
around is called Petroleum. And the use of plants to
remove toxins from the environment can be a fun activity for youth helping them to avoid just hanging out on
the street corners. Cleaning up these sites usually
requires removing all of the contaminated soil and taking it to a toxic waste facility. But as Fostergrandparent
Stakeholders see it there must be a least expensive way
for participants to do this before a long-term project like
this is started.
Phytoremediation, the use of plants to remove toxins
from the environment, offers a low and green alternative. Growing plants at industrial sites helps keep toxic
dirt in place so the contamination can’t spread into the
surrounding environment. The plants can also remove
chemicals, such as dangerous heavy metals, from the
environment by absorbing them. And youth can be
taught about how bacteria that live on plant roots can
break down organic carbon based pollutants like oil.
Different grasses can work to help clean up contamination. One such grass is called rye grass. If youth get
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Connecting: body, soul
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ages 8-12 years old.
Running October 9 to
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plant rye grass seeds or fescue grass seeds in contaminated soil they will soon see a change in the abandoned
gas stations’ brownfields. These two grass varieties are
most often found in lawns. It might take about six
weeks for the grass to grow dissolving significant
amount of oil from the soil. Youth can change their
feelings about having nothing to do if and when they are
able to work along with businesses that know much
about ground maintenance and green thumb work.
Fostergrandparent Stakeholders want to spread the
word about applying this simple yet effective cleanup
activity to brownfields. Philadelphia in particular could
use some grass planting because it has been working on
turning many unused spaces into usable land.
There is a high level need for revitalizing neighborhoods by curbing messy dirt, protecting public health
more, and going greeener. Youth can get the word out
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from local leaders to bring in funding so that they can
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Parasites are organisms
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and protection from other
living organisms, called
hosts. That could be you!
The eggs are transmitted
from host to host through
the consumption of contaminated food and water, or,
by putting anything in your
mouth that has touched the
stool of an infected person
or animal. It sounds gross,
but even if you are very conscious of washing
your hands and staying clean, your kids or pets
or the friend you just shook hands with may not
be as clean. Toxins and parasites place a heavy burden
on the body's systems, weakening them and making
them vulnerable to a variety of health concerns. If you
think being infected is something that happens only to
people in under-developed countries or to those who
live in unsanitary conditions, the following information might shock you: Parasites are everywhere.
What may be more alarming is the fact that they are
commonly transmitted to humans. They are organisms
that feed off a host -- and that host may be you. These
uninvited guests thrive within your body, affecting
various tissues and organs, and often without your
realizing it. In fact, parasitic infection frequently is
undiagnosed because symptoms can be confused with
a variety of conditions and diseases. But as they steal
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Both plant and animal foods carry them, and cleaning
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Chester, PA Weep Not for Me!
St. Luke 23: 27 & 28
“And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women which also
bewailed and lamented Him.
But Jesus turning unto them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but
weep for yourselves and for your children.”
The Biblical historian
tells us of two incidents
that happened on the way
to the cross. The first incident involved a man. Jesus
had carried his cross partway up to Calvary, but his
strength was about gone.
The soldiers seeing a strong muscular Black
Man seized him and commended him to bear the
cross of Christ. The man was Simon of Cyrene.
The second incident occurred with some kindhearted women of Jerusalem. Now the Scriptures say
that these certain daughters of Jerusalem followed Him
and bewailed and lamented Him. Jesus seeing this
turned and said unto them, “Daughter of Jerusalem,
“Weep not for me but weep for yourselves and your children.”
Of all the cities where Jesus preached and taught none
seemed as cruel and indifferent to Him as Jerusalem.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem. He desired so much for
Jerusalem as a city to receive Him. Instead he was now
being led to death. How surprising then that certain
women of Jerusalem in spite of what their husbands and
sons were doing, found strength enough to publicly cry
and lament over the tragic treatment Jesus was facing.
But the again, it shouldn’t surprise us because if you
check the record you will find that with all the people
who came into contact with Christ, while on earth not
one single incident can be found where a woman denied
Him, cursed Him, or fought Him. No woman spat in His
face, or ridiculed Him. Instead, women anointed His
body, fed Him and administered to His needs. They
cheered Him as He rode into Jerusalem. Then as He carried His cross toward Calvary, the women were crying.
We should remember that women were at the bottom
of the social, economic and religious ladder when Jesus
came into this world. Jesus took the yoke of oppression
from women and wherever the Gospel has been
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preached, womanhood has been lifted to new levels and
higher heights.
From the teaching of Jesus came the concept that
women are co-equal with men. From Jesus came the significance of the widow’s mite.
From Jesus’ own mother, Mary, came the exalted concept of motherhood and sincere piety.
Beloved, these Daughters of Jerusalem had something
to cry about. For their Emancipator was about to be put
to death!
How notable then that Jesus turned and addressed
himself to this group saying: “Weep Not For Me, But
weep for yourselves and for your children.”
You know there comes a time in life when we must
honestly shed some tears over the conditions that face us
and our children. Drugs, Poor Education, Racism,
Homelessness, AIDS, Crime; just to name a few.
However; it is not enough to cry, we must cry seeking
to relate ourselves to the will of God.
Now, Jesus told these daughters to weep for themselves and their children because He saw a spark of hope
in them. Yes we must weep sometimes, but let us make
sure we are weeping tears of prayers. Let us weep leading our children in the steps of Christ. It matters not how
bad things are if there is still a chance for a sparkle in
every child’s eye. It is up to us to see that our children
are given proper training and religious instruction. The
crime wave of our youth cannot be separated from the
delinquency of adult. (Parents who have no morals produce children with no morals.) So let us weep as we lift
high the bloodstained banner of Christ, because a tear
for Christ is a fountain of great strength. It can mean the
difference between a converted soul and a lost soul.
Jesus does not tell us not to weep; He simply tells us
how to weep. One may even say that crying is not
enough. But repentance must start somewhere. The
Changed heart is of ten preceded by tear-filled eyes.
For true religion must start in our emotions including
our feelings before it can sink deep down in our hearts
and control our wills, our thoughts and desires. If we
shed redemptive tears now, our future tears will be tears
of joy. For weeping may endure for a night, but Joy
cometh in the morning.
So Jesus tells us to follow the cross and shed tears, but
we must be working and praying while we are crying.
-We must cry, work and pray until every sinner is saying, “What must I do to be saved.”
-We must cry, work and pray until the SHOOTINGS
stop happening in communities.
-We must cry, work and pray until the hungry and
starving have 3 meals a day.
-We must cry, work and pray until the Homeless have
a decent House in which to live.
-We must cry, work and pray until the Drugs and Drug
Dealers are ran out of our neighborhoods.
-We must cry, work and pray until Justice rolls down
like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
-We must cry, work and pray until the wicked cease
from troubling and weary souls are at rest.
Then and only then will God Himself wipe all tears
from our eyes!
This is Rev. Dr. Wm. Rocky Brown, 3rd asking you
to:
Please Join Today to Change Tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!
Fall fun at
Crozer Library
The J. Lewis Crozer
Library has plenty of free,
fun fall programming for
adults. All programs are
free and open to the public.
Join us for Arthritis
Foundation Exercises
Classes on Thursday
mornings, October 1st,
8th, 15th, and 22nd, from
11:00-11:45a.m. Exercises
can be done sitting or
standing. Especially for
persons with arthritis,
fibromyalgia,lupus, gout,
or osteoporosis. Paid for
by MetLife with a Fit for
Life grant administered
by the Delaware County
Library System.
Crozer Library’s Fall
Book & Furniture Sale
will be held on Saturday,
October 3rd from
9:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. All
books are priced at $1 or
less. Large wooden tables
will sell for $25; children’s tables for $20; and
chairs for $5 each. All
will be sold as-is; buyers
must transport items the
day of the sale. There will
also be a small bake sale
and raffles. All proceeds
benefit the library.
On Saturday, October
10th from 11:00a.m. to
12:00 noon, join environmentalist Lori Hayes as
she demonstrates four
season gardening, including plant selection, care,
and maintenance. This is
a Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society
workshop.
Are you a Scrabble
fanatic? Come show off
your way with words as
we celebrate Scrabble
Month! Join us for friendly games each Tuesday
evening in October from
6:00-7:00p.m.
Crozer Library is located at 620 Engle Street in
Chester. Registration is
encouraged at (610) 4943454.
Corner of Rt. 291 & Kerlin Street
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Open Monday thru Saturday 7 a.m. ~ 2 a.m. Sunday noon to 2 a.m.
Come have lunch Daily 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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TUESDAYS 4 - 8 p.m. ~ D.J. “G MAN”
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L ADIES A UXILLIARY HOSTS A NNUAL C ABARET
The Ladies Auxilliary of Post #300 hosts their
annual Cabaret on Saturday, October 3 from 8
p.n. until midnight at the Minaret Temple, 4th
and Ward Streets in Chester, PA. Tickets are
$12.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door.
B.Y.O.B. 50/50 Drawing. For more info see any
A.L.A. member. President: Linda Green.
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B US T RIP T O S HOWBOAT C ASINO
Sporty’s End of Summer Event, a Bust Trip to the
Showboat Casino will be held on Sunday, October
11. Come join us for in a celebration of fun. Bus
departs at 2:00 p.m. from 2701 W. 3rd St. in Chester.
Returns 10:00 p.m. Cost per person $35.00. Includes
$30.00 slot voucher and snacks on the bus. Before
departing there ill be a one-hour pre-departing Party
at Sporty’s.
For tickets contact Sporty’s Bar: 610-497-9037;
Arlene: 302-229-6212; Morton: 302-593-4238; Edith:
302-897-9621; or Phil: 302-299-7899.
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Come spend a weekend of fun with the American
Legion Post 300 of Chester as they travel to the
Foxwood Casino in Connecticut. Bus leaves
Friday, October 30 at 9:00 a.m. Returns Sunday,
November 1 at 11:00 p.m. Single occupancy
$300.00; double occupancy $240.00 (per person).
Deposits are due now. For more information call
Benjamin Quarles: 610-453-0972 or 610-872-2751.
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Yo u r I n v i t a t i o n
This weekend will
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Bonnets, all in celebration of “The
Boss Man” NATE
ELLIS’ Birthday,
Saturday and
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Crozer Library Fall Book & Furniture Sale
Chester, PA — Have you discovered the thrill of finding a hidden gem at a book sale? The J. Lewis Crozer
Library’s Fall Book Sale will be held on Saturday,
October 3rd from 9:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. at the library.
All books are priced at $1 or less. Gently used former
library books and donated items will be sold. The sale
includes fiction and nonfiction for adults and children,
with a number of African American titles available.
There will also be a small bake sale and raffles. The
library will also be selling large wooden tables for $25,
smaller, child-size tables for $20, and
adult and children’s chairs for $5 each. All will be sold
as-is; buyers should be able to transport the tables the
day of the sale. The library is selling the tables and
chairs to make room for new furniture provided through
Community Development Block Grant funds from the
City of Chester.
All proceeds benefit the J. Lewis Crozer Library. Crozer
Library is located at 620 Engle Street in Chester. Please
call 610-494-3454 with any questions.
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Another big celebration coming up
on October 18th,
celebrating the
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THURSDAY, Oct. 22 - 2 pm until
TUESDAY, ~ BLIND DATE BAND ~ 7 to 10 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, ~ 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
LADIES NITE with “ATIYA” and “MR. CEE”
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Delaware News
Continued from page 7
Fire prevention week, Stay fire smart
Once a child touches a hot stove, as the cliché goes-he
learns his lesson, stay away from a hot stove. This
cliché does not take into account the pain and suffering
from burns and burns should not be part of the learning
process.
October 4 - 10, is FIRE PREVENTION WEEK. The
Wilmington Fire Department urges Wilmington residents to "Stay Fire Smart! Don't Get Burned."
This year's campaign focuses on ways to keep homes
fire safe and prevent painful burns.
The statistics are staggering. Each year roughly 3,000
people die as a result of home fires and burns, and more
than 200,000 individuals are seen in the nation's emergency rooms for burn injuries.
"The most common types of burn injuries result from
fire, scalds and contact burns," said George H. Merrill
III, Deputy Chief of the Fire Prevention Division.
"Burns are painful and can result in serious scarring and
even death. When we take extra caution in our homes
to ensure that the curling iron is out of children's reach
or pot handles are turned away from the edge of the
stove, such injuries are entirely preventable. Keeping
our homes safe from fire and preventing devastating
burn injuries is a healthy change we can make happen."
By following simple safety rules, you can "Stay Fire
Smart! Don't get Burned."
* Keep hot foods and liquids away from tables and
counters edges so they cannot be pulled or knocked
over.
* Have a 3-foot "kid-free" zone around the stove.
* Never hold a child in your arms while preparing hot
food or drinking a hot beverage.
* Be careful when using things that get hot such as
curling irons, oven, irons, lamps, heaters.
* Install tamper-resistant receptacles to prevent a
child from sticking an object in the outlet.
* Never leave a child alone in a room with a lit candle, portable heater, lit fireplace or stove, or where a hot
appliance might be in use.
* Wear short or close-fitting sleeves when cooking.
* Set your hot water temperature no higher than 120
degrees.
* Install anti-scald valves on shower heads and
faucets.
Finally, as in every season, have working smoke
alarms installed on every level and in sleeping rooms of
your home. Test smoke detectors monthly and keep
them clean and equipped with fresh batteries at all
times. Know when and how to call for help. Practice
your home escape plan.
During Fire Prevention Week each of the Wilmington
Fire Stations is open to the public for the distribution of
fire prevention materials and smoke alarms. So stop by
your local fire station to learn more about preventing
fires in your home.
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Black History
succeeded in defeating the African nation, Blacks everywhere would continue the struggle until Ethiopia was
free.
1904- Mary McLeod Bethune opened Daytona Normal
and Industrial School in Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1923
the school merged with Cookman Institute and became
Bethune-Cookman College.
1856- Timothy ("T.") Thomas Fortune was born on this
day.
Continued from page 7
was of racial motivation and sought to extinguish the last
light of African power in the world. From Kingston to
Johannesburg, from Detroit to Ghana, form Port-of-Spain
to Paris, Black men and women offered to go fight in
defense of Ethiopia. And as battles raged between
Ethiopians and Italians in Africa, battles raged between
Blacks and Italians in the streets of New York. In South
Africa, Black workers began a lengthy march up the continent to assist their African brothers in Ethiopia.
Elsewhere, ex-service men discarded their European and
American citizenships to bring their military expertise to
the defense of Ethiopia. The exiled Ethiopian Emperor
Haile Selassie became a near legendary figure to many.
Not before or ever since was such a strong sense of PanAfricanism seen throughout the world. And though Italy
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and Black Power Movements came the Hip Hop
Cultural Revolution. It was a natural outgrowth of the
Black Power/Black Arts Movement, in part because these
young people were the sons and daughters, nieces and
nephews and students of Black Power Movement People.
The social/racial consciousness generated within a mass
movement was passed on to Generation X. Perhaps, one
of the most influential leaders in the history of Hip Hop
is Afrika Bambaataa of the Mighty Zulu Nation. He
explains, “ The Bronx River Community Center was one
of the original hip hop spaces---hundreds of people could
fit in at one time. Then we had another place called
Junior High School 123, which we renamed The Funky
3. We used to always give tribute to James Brown, Sly
and The Family Stone and then later on to Uncle George
Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic for bringing us the
Funk. [See Yes, Yes Y’all, pp. 46 & 49].
When James Brown announced, “It’s Going To Be
Funky from Now On,” and “We are Going to Have A
Funky Good Time” , he provided a vision of this Hip
Hop Nation being born. For Bambaata and other pioneers
of the Hip Hop movement, James Brown provided them
an important link to the l960’s Black Arts Movement.
Bambaata was equally linked to the anticolonial movement sweeping Africa during the decades of the fifties,
sixties and seventies.
Afrika Bambaataa, a key organizer in the Hip Hop
Movement, traces the origins of the Zulu Nation to
Africa itself. He states what led him from active leadership in New York’s largest street gang---The Black
Spades—to activating a mass based youth cultural movement. For him, the street consciousness of the Black
Spades was most educational: “ It got me to learn about
the streets, and the Black Spades, they had a unity that I
couldn’t find elsewhere. I’ve been in a lot of different
gang groups but the Black Spades had a unity among
each other. The gang was like your family.” [Rap Attack:
African Jive to New York Hip Hop, by David Toop,
Boston, South End Press, l984].
Bambaata continues, “ The Zulu Nation…I got
the idea when I seen this movie called Zulu with Michael
Caine. It was showing how when the British came to
take over the land of the Zulus, how the Zulus fought to
uphold their land. They were proud warriors and they
were fighting very well against bullets, cannons and
stuff. They fought like warriors for a land that was theirs
. When the British thought they had won, the next you
see is the whole mountain full with thousands of Zulu
and the British knew they were gonna die there. But the
Zulus chanted…praised them as warriors and let them
lie. So from there that’s when I decided one of these days
to hope to have a Zulu Nation, too. And then, as the
years went by through all the Civil Rights Movement,
human rights, Vietnam war and all the folk and rock that
was happening---all the change of the 60’s that was happening to the whole world, it just stayed with me to have
some type of group like that.” How was he to know that
the Hip Hop Nation being born would be bigger than the
Black Spades or the Zulu Nation.
No single organization has had more impact on
the Hip Hop Nation than the Nation of Islam.
Additionally, Islam had previously impacted both the
Bebop Cultural Movement and the Black Arts
Movement. In an exclusive interview tracing the historical evolution of the Hip Hop Nation, Afrika Bambaata
[founder of the Zulu Nation and generally credited as the
unifying factor in the establishment of the global Hip
Hop community and the Soulsonic Force of it all ]states,
" The Nation of Islam has had a big impact on me and
the Universal Zulu Nation for years. Starting from the
time I was in the Black Spades (the Street Gang phase)
we have always had our elder brothers who had concern
for us and everybody's Mama was your Mama. We had
the Nation of Islam speaking to us, The Ansaru Allah
Comnmunity speaking to us. All of the brothers , all of
the different groups influencing me. Seeing the love of
our people from the 60's who knew who the enemy was
and what was the struggle. We kept that influence in the
Zulu Nation but more on a world level where the Black,
the Brown, Yellow and white people where we traded
our knowledge and understanding about each other's
place and country…I first heard the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad when I was real little. A lot of my family
were a part of the Nation of Islam. Some uncles and
aunts and cousins. I began hearing the speeches of
Malcolm X and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke
and I was there in 1975 when Wallace D. Muhammad
took over and there was a shift in power. Mr.
Muhammad wasn't the kind of speaker Minister
Farrakhan and Malcolm were but you heard everything
that you needed to hear and he got right to the point. A
lot of times now when I get lazy, like I've got to fix
somewhere in the house or something. It's not that I hear
Minister Farrakhan's voice or Malcolm 's voice speaking
to me . I hear Elijah saying, " Brother, you better get up
and do something for self. Sometimes his voice comes ot
me like an angel in the night. You can hear it telling me,
" You better get up and do that."
Bambaata concludes, " Having the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad's teachings first made me realize that I
should go and use those teachings and place it on a
world basis.”
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W EST P HILADELPHIA H IGH C LASS OF 1965 R EUNION
The West Philadelphia High Class of 1965 will hold their
40th Class Reunion on Saturday, Oct., 3, at Penn’s Landing
Caterers, 1301 Columbus Blvd. Reception 6:00 p.m., Dinner
and Dance 7 - 11 p.m. For information contact Marcel Harris:
267-515-4174; Gary Dempsey: 215-877-1885 or Victoria
Hughes Puerifoy: 215-202-3063. Visit website at www.
westphillyclassof69.vpweb.com
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H OPE FOR A FRICA C HILDEN ’ S C HOIR
The Hope for Africa Children’s Choir will
perform on Friday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m. at
Mother African Zoar, United Methodist
Church, 1204 Melon St. For information call
215-769-3899.
********
B OOK S IGNING
On Friday, October 2, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm, the Garvey
Wells Bookstore located at 2231 N Broad will host the First
Friday sereis for the fall. A book signing event for the new
book written by Yvette Hachoose reveals the issues confronting African American Families during this recent financial crisis and planning for wealth building. Refreshments
will be served. Please contact Linda Richardson at 267-2372647.
********
C OMMUNITY S ERVICE
ERVICE C ARNIVAL
ARNIVAL
Children of all ages are expected to attend the Fifth Annual
Community Service Carnival, hosted by the Rho Theta Omega
(RTO) Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. It will be
held on Saturday, October 3th, at the Anna Blakiston Day
Elementary School, 6324 Crittenden St. The purpose of the
event is to provide a venue for the improvement of a healthy,
mind, body and spirit for members of the A.B. Day School community.
********
H AITIAN H EALTH
EALTH FAIR
The Elise Joseph Foundation, a non-profit, charitable
organization serving the Haitian and Haitian-American communities, is holding its Fourth Annual Haitian and Haitian-
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American Free Health Fair on Saturday, October 3, from
1pm to 6pm at the Cardinal Dougherty High School, located
at 6301 North 2nd Street (near Godfrey Avenue),
Philadelphia, PA 19120. All are welcome! For information
call: 267-868-4714.
********
Cooking Up Healthy Experinces through Food Program
The Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center welcome's
the C.H.E.F. program (Cooking up Healthy Experiences
through Food), a family cooking class sponsored by The
Food Trust. Come in a sign up for the 1st class held
October 15, 6:30pm - 8:30pm @ the Martin Luther King Jr.
Recreation Center located at 2101 Cecil B Moore Ave. For
more information please call 215-685-2733 and ask for
Wanda Darden. Must pre-registar, space limited.
********
H EALTH
EALTH WALK AND FAIR
State Sen. Anthony H. Williams, along with Health
Partners and West Philadelphia YMCA, invite the public to
attend an upcoming free health walk and fair on Saturday,
October 10, rain or shine, at Laura Sims Skate House, 63rd
and Walnut streets. There will be a warm-up stretch at 8 a.m.,
followed by the walk at 8:30 a.m. Participants can join in a
2- or 4-mile walk. The health fair will take place after the
walk from 10 a.m. to noon.
Participants and organizations are encouraged to sign up
in teams for the walk, and awards will be given to team winners. To sign up or for more information, contact the senator’s district office at 215-492-2980.
********
F REE W ORKSHOP : O PENING A S UCCESSFUL R ESTAURANT
ESTAURANT
A Free Workshop in which the owners of some of
Philadelphia's most successful restaurants will speak and
answer questions will be held on Monday, October 12th,
6:00 pm at 418 E. Girard Avenue. The Opening a Successful
Restaurant Panel is going to be the first of a series of workshops on opening a restaurant which will also include
Workshops on Marketing, Social Media, Design, and Cash
Flow. Space is limited so send an email to [email protected] or call 215-825-8821 to reserve your place
today. This workshop is presented by the Girard Coalition,
Inc. and the Philadelphia branch of SCORE.
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Fallen Leaves:
William H. Hawes
William H. Hawes
departed this life on
Friday, September 25,
2009. Funeral Services
will be held on
Tuesday, October 6,
2009 at Wayland
Temple Baptist Church,
25th and Cecil B.
Moore Ave at 11 a.m.
Viewing will be from
10 to 11 a.m.
Rev.
Rev. Jean Houghton
ARIES - March 21- April 19
Time again to seek your dream. Too many
things have been pushed aside for the lack of
feeling with true ideas. The way you are is where you
should be. Make the most of it. Nothing stinks more than
a person not knowing where to go. Psalm 47-3
TAURUS - April 20 - May 20
Make the words you use this week means
something. Some words can heal others hurt.You can
organize many things, but that does that put you in
charge. Study and stay in the flow. You may have much
to offer, but you still have much to learn. Many skiers
will fall before they learn this. John: 3:16
GEMINI - May 21 - June 20
There is a way to understanding new path only
a few know that it is there. Money assistance will be
needed though. Think about it before you speak. Many
will try to take advantage of you. Know of mercury. The
day will light and show the way. Crying will be shed
before major piece of money is given. Psalm 100
CANCER - June 21 - July 22
Try not to try too hard. Soft will work like
magic. Let's face it, some people are really hard to live
with. Sometimes it's better to be by yourself. To be more
than just too high morale is nonsense. Cried, can say all
cried tomorrow. Matthew 14:12
LEO - July 23 - August 22
Delight in the waves of peace.What tool is in
the eye of the beholder. Don't look for love, it's in a low
moan place. Bring sense in in your present situation and
there will be a happy ending. Psalm 97:3-7
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Sometimes things just don't go right. You have
to show a little click. You can make it work with the help
of the Almighty. The best is yet to come. Hang in there, it
will work. Psalm 87:2-4
LIBRA - September 23 - October 22
Good time and good idea to go on a trip. Be careful of an event depending on others. Psalm 18:12
SCORPIO - October 23 - November 21
I would say the answer to your question is yes:
Make it work for you in the way that you wish. Leave others
with things unknown. Be your own person. Psalm 12:3
SAGITTARIUS - November 22 - Dececember 21
What ever you had your mind you will locate
Friday. They will be at the U. Psalm 15:12.
CAPRICORN - December 22 - January 19
You might need more money to reach a
goal. Remember every shut eye is not sleep. Buy something you really want this week. Psalm 27: 4-7
AQUARIUS - January 20 - February 18
Another place of money will be selected.
Don't fight going all out on a passing ship. What ever will
be will be as the Almighty has meant for it to happen.
Psalm 142
PISCES - February 19 - March 20
Before the week is over, new shoes will be
needed. I would change the whole clothing attire. Much
will give way to knowledge. Hang on to the true and let
the good times roll. Psalm 21
A good time party scene at the Gray Fox Lounge in West Philly, pictured (2nd
front left) is Ernie “The Gray Fox”
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