Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom, U.S. State Department, was visibly moved as she accepted her award atthe SCLC/Women's Organizational Movement for EqualityNow Inc.'s (sclc/WOMEN Inc.) 34th Annual Drum Major forJustice Awards Dinner held in Atlanta last week."I could not miss this moment," Ambassador Cook

said as she accepted the Religious Freedom Award. "It is such an honor to be here on this day with civil rights royalty --especially our queen, Mrs. Evelyn Lowery."For the past 34 years Dr. Evelyn Gibson Lowery, founder

of sclc/WOMEN Inc., observes April 4, the day Dr. MartinLuther King Jr. was assassinated, by celebrating leaders whoexemplify the spirit of Dr. King. Lowery recruited an impressive, intergenerational group of leaders to participate in the program including: Dr. King's sister, Christine King Farris; former Atlanta Mayor, Shirley Franklin; Atlanta CityCouncilman Kwanza Hall; and civil rights leader and King

confidant, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery."Having been a part of the Civil Rights Movement from the

beginning, I am very proud to present Drum Major Awards tothese accomplished leaders," said Mrs. Lowery. "Each of thehonorees, in their own way and respective areas, are answering Dr. King's call to be a Drum Major for Justice."

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The last of the Louisville players to getthe scissors, Kevin Ware stood in front ofthe basket as it was lowered to him. Grinning from ear to ear, he cut what remained of the net after the Louisville Cardinals defeated the Michigan Wolverines, 82-76, to win the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship.The showdown was one for the ages,

with a dazzling array of airborne theatrics,jaw-dropping dunks and 3-pointers fromwell behind the line.Junior Forward Luke Hancock, who was

named Most Valuable Player, made fourstraight 3-pointers in the first half, and Peyton Siva and Chane Behanan had

monster second halves to lead the top-seeded Cardinals to their third nationaltitle and first since 1986.The Cardinals surged from a

double-digit deficit in the first half to leadduring much of the second half and finallyclinch the victory.Louisville Head Coach Rick Pitino said

his team was able to top the Wolverines'"absolutely incredible" performance "probably because I have the 13 toughestguys I've ever coached."The Cardinals played without Ware, the

sophomore guard who suffered one of themost grotesque injuries in college sportswhile playing Duke on March 31.

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Injured Louisville guard Kevin Ware, a Conyer’s resident, holds the net afterLouisville defeated Michigan 82-76 after the second half of the NCAA FinalFour tournament college basketball championship game this week.

Louisville forward Chane Behanan (21) reacts after defeating Michigan 82-76in the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game,Monday, April 8, 2013, in Atlanta.

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Dr. Evelyn Gibson Lowery (left), sclc/WOMEN Inc. present Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, U.S. Am-bassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom,with the Religious Freedom Award at sclc/WOMEN’s recent Drum Major for Justice Awards Dinner. WXIA-TV's Karyn Greer (right) served as MC of the event.

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A coalition of more than 175 artists, actors, athletes, elected offi-cials and advocates, brought together by hip-hop pioneer RussellSimmons and author/economist Dr. Boyce Watkins, have joinedwith the NAACP to present an open letter to President Obama, urg-ing him to double down on his efforts to change the United States'criminal justice policy.According to Department of Justice data, the U.S. leads the

world in the incarceration of its own citizens, both on a per capita

basis and in terms of total prison population. More than 500,000 ofthe 2.3 million people behind bars in the U.S. are incarcerated fornothing more than a nonviolent drug offense."It is critical that we change both the way we think about drug

laws in this country and how we generate positive solutions thatleave a lasting impact on rebuilding our communities," saidSimmons. "We need to break the school to prison pipeline, supportand educate our younger generations and provide them with a paththat doesn't leave them disenfranchised with limited options."Concerned activists, humanitarians and celebrities have endorsed

the letter, including Sir Richard Branson, Will Smith, Sean "Diddy"Combs, Scarlett Johansson, Ron Howard, Jennifer Hudson, DemiMoore, Eva Longoria, Michael Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Harry Belafonte, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cameron Diaz, Lil Wayne, NickiMinaj, Chris Rock, Russell Brand, John Legend, DJ Pauly D, MikeTyson, Rick Ross, Jon Hamm, Natalie Maines, and Ludacris, toname a few. The coalition suggests that the president continue to take a

number of reformative actions, including extending the Fair Sentencing Act to all inmates who were sentenced under the 100-to-1 crack/powder disparity, supporting the principles of theJustice Safety Valve Act of 2013 (which allows judges to set asidemandatory minimum sentences when they deem appropriate), and

supporting the Youth PROMISE Act."So-called 'tough on crime' policies have failed our nation and its

families, while 'smart on crime' policies work," said NAACP President & CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "When we know thatdrug treatment is seven times more effective than incarceration fordrug addicts, basic human decency demands our nation makes theswitch. The fate of hundreds of people and the children who needthem home and sober hang in the balance. Great progress is beingmade in states from New York to Georgia with strong bipartisansupport. The time has come for all of us to do all that we can. Thefuture of our families, states, and nation demand it."Misguided drug laws and draconian sentencing requirements

have produced profoundly unequal outcomes for communities ofcolor. Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable acrossracial and ethnic lines, Blacks and Latinos are far more likely to becriminalized for drug law violations than Whites. More than 2.7 million children are growing up in U.S.

households in which one or more parents are incarcerated. Two-thirds of these parents are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses.One in nine Black children has an incarcerated parent, compared toone in 28 Latino children and one in 57 White children.To read the full letter to President Obama and to view the

complete list of supporters, visit www.naacp.org/EndWarOnDrugs.

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‘Hip Hop Cares’ Plans Festival Fund RaiserOver the years, the hip-hop music industry has earned a

discreditable reputation for glorifying criminal street life and misogyny while boasting about the trivial -- expensive jewelryand designer clothing. In Atlanta, hip-hop artists who believe in giving back to the

communities that raised them are working to repair that imagethrough a foundation called Hip Hop Cares established in January of this year. Members of Hip Hop Collective Solo Grand will hold a Hip

Hop Cares Festival in order to support its causes. The festivalwill take place Sunday, April 21, from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Space Atlanta. Tickets for the event can be purchased at HipHopCaresATL.com for $10.Since most of the group members have experienced

homelessness at some point in their lives, the Hip Hop CaresFestival is dedicated to raising awareness and support to endhomelessness, according to festival organizer Jackie Murphy.The Homelessness Task Force reports that Atlanta is the

poorest city in the U.S. for children. More children in Atlantalive in poverty than in any other city and the average age of ahomeless child in Atlanta is 6.

It has also been estimated that over 21,000 people are homeless in Georgia. A survey by the Georgia Department ofCommunity Affairs concluded that 50 percent of homeless people in Georgia are African American.

In conjunction with I Care Atlanta Inc., members from Solo Grand, BlackShades Music Group and TTM will host thefestival. The festival will offer an artist showcase, Miss Hip Hop Cares Pageant, beat and freestyle battles judged by producer Mike Will and hip-hop trivia contests among other activities.“We all come from similar struggles,” said rapper MH of

BlackShades Music Group. “We all experienced some type ofhomelessness and we all do music, so we decided to bringawareness to this issue through the music.”Music from the festival’s performers will be combined into a

compilation mixtape and will be sold during the festival. Proceeds from the festival and the mixtape will be donatedto I Care Atlanta Inc. and its effort to end homelessness.Featured artists for the festival include Colonel Stahl,

Yunge Ace, Fasho, Forever Young Ent. and Don Cazz.I Care Atlanta Inc., formerly known as My Brother's

Keepers Reaching Out, provides resources such as mentor programs, job placement and food collectionin order to help end homelessness.“Our main objective is to build awareness,”

said MH. “We want to get people regularlyinvolved in giving back. It doesn’t always have to be monetary. It could be spiritual, or advice or just a kind gesture.”Those interested in giving back for the cause are encouraged

to make donations at the festival’s website. Donations will alsobe collected on the day of the festival. The festival’s organizersare looking for sponsors and volunteers.

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“I don’t care where you live in America, if you’re onMartin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going on.”— Chris Rock

With the new billion dollar stadium all but a done deal, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is hoping that the addedattention and focus to the area will serve as a launching padto spark growth and development along one of the city’smost important, yet ignored, avenues -- Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.The street named after one of Atlanta’s most famous

sons hosts the state capitol, some of the oldest churches inthe city, a consortium of educational institutions, includingsome of the nation’s most prominent Black colleges, andsprinklings of new development. But miles of the street remain undeveloped, underdeveloped or dilapidated withboarded up stores and houses. Underemployed people walkthe streets, while drug dealers ply their trade. One of thecolleges along the street is crumbling at the seams.“If you want to find a corridor that is neglected, then you

ask someone to direct you to Martin Luther King Drive in amajor American city,” Reed said. “But we have the capacityto change that in Atlanta. The ‘how’ certainly relates to thenew stadium, because there is essential work that has to bedone to a large part of the corridor that can give us theblueprint of what the rest of it should look like.”Last Thursday — on the 45th anniversary of

King’s death — Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm, approved a planthat would allow the city to use $200 millionworth of hotel-motel taxes to help fund the newstadium, which the Falcons expect to move intoin 2017. Of the two sites under consideration, the one

located on the south side of the to-be-demolishedGeorgia Dome appears to be the more favorable,because of the easy access to the surroundingneighborhoods, MARTA and King Drive, parts of which would have to be re-routed.Reed said that within the next 18 months he

plans to go the capital markets for a quarter-billion dollars in investment that wouldhelp fund much-needed repairs on roads, bridgesand sidewalks and address the city’s $922 million infrastructure backlog. He said part of that bond moneywould be invested into King Drive and used to build newstreetscapes and sidewalks, install new light fixtures and repair roads – similar to work that has been done along Marietta Street and Five Points downtown, 14th Street inMidtown and Peachtree Road in Buckhead.

“It doesn’t mean that I am going to be able to change theeconomies of the communities along MLK corridor,” Reedsaid. “But it does mean that I am committed to this notionof our best self with regard to the corridor. I don’t want tocreate unrealistic expectations, but you will be able to drivedown MLK with a sense of quiet dignity that this street isattractive, well-maintained and cared about by the city.”Aside from an economic infusion a new stadium could

bring to the area, it would take millions in private and public funds to restore King Drive. Businesses would have to follow Wal-Mart and invest. Young, vibrant home-owners would have to move in. Crime would have to drop and the dreadful financial condition of MorrisBrown College, which is all but abandoned, would have to be addressed.“If the neighborhoods that border MLK are revived,

then they will revive MLK,” said Atlanta City CouncilmanIvory Young, who represents the neighborhood where thedome is, as well as segments of King Drive. “The tragedyin all this is that it took a stadium to have a conversationabout economic development in these core neighborhoods.”What is now known as Martin Luther King Jr. Drive was

established in 1976 when the city council voted to renameand connect the 10-mile stretch of Hunter Street, MozleyDrive and Gordon Road from the Oakland Cemetery insoutheast Atlanta to the Fulton County Airport just shy ofthe Cobb County line.It passes through Vine City, where King lived.Further up the street is a condominium complex and

the new Wal-Mart, part of the proposed $130 million Historic Westside Village, a mixed-use project that was expected to revitalize the corridor more than a decade ago,but has stalled at times. Keep going and you run into neighborhoods and commercial districts that at one timemarked Black westward expansion, but now representspoverty and crime.“It used to be a hub for African-American businesses

before segregation, because there weren’t that many placeswhere we could freely come and go,” Young said. “Everyservice you could image was provided here on old HunterStreet. So when you talk about reclaiming MLK, you aretaking about the old economic development model that

previously existed.”University of Tennessee geography professor Derek

H. Alderman, the country’s leading authority on King street names, said Atlanta’s desire to redevelop the streetfollows a national trend, as similarly-named streets havesuffered for decades.“This notion of improving or making these streets

more livable or prosperous is something other cities are trying to do as well,” Alderman said. Alderman, who wrote “Civil Rights Memorials and the

Geography of Memory,” said there are currently more than900 places in 40 states with streets named after King. Most(75 percent) are located in Southern states, with Georgialeading the way with 122.But the common theme — like in Atlanta — for most of

the streets is that they were put in Black neighborhoods,some of which have lagged behind their White counterpartscreating a sometimes false impression that all King streetsequate to crime, poverty and violence, Alderman said.“Often when African-American communities bring

proposals, they often ask for a prominent road, but theproblem is they often run into public opposition,” Alderman said. “So they have to settle for a different street. White politicians say we don’t have a problem withthe name, as long as it is confined to the Black community.So King’s memory continues to be segregated.”On the corner of King Drive and Paschal Street, in the

heart of the commercial district, the street’s past looks directly into the future. At 11 a.m., Busy Bee, a local soulfood restaurant that originally opened in 1947, is alreadypacked.Across the street, the parking lot of Wal-Mart,

which opened in January as a needed source of quality merchandise and fresh food, is bustling.“I think it is an excellent idea for the mayor to come

in and redevelop it, instead of letting it continue to be another abandoned urban center,” said Busy Bee ownerTracy Gates.The question now is: Does Busy Bee have time to wait

for King Drive to change? With a 49-seat capacity in abuilding built in 1955, Busy Bee outgrew itself a long time ago. Long-time rival and next door neighbor, Pascal’smoved several years ago, leaving behind a boarded-up, dilapidated hotel.“We have become a destination restaurant, so we don’t

need to stay here to be successful,” Gates said.Meanwhile, Quincy Springs, Wal-Mart’s 32-year-old

general manager said up to 25,000 customers visit the75,000-square foot supercenter weekly. Nearly 200 people– 60 percent from the community — work there, includingstudents from all of the Atlanta University Center schools.“The community has received us very well,” Springs

said. “And the associates who work here built this storefrom scratch. This is history, because they never thoughtthey would see a Wal-Mart on MLK. This is just the beginning.”

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Pro Cuts barbershop owner Calrie Coleman talksabout MLK Drive on Wednesday, April 3, 2013.

The old Paschal Center sits boarded up along MLK Drive.

Busy Bee owner Tracy Gates is inside her restaurant onWednesday, April 3.

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African Diaspora WorldExpo Planned HereThe online magazine AfricanDiaspora-

Tourism.com (ADT) in association with theAD King Foundation will present the AfricanDiaspora World Tourism Awards & TravelShow Expo in Atlanta on Friday and Saturday, April 26-27. The two-day event will also include an

Africana Culture Performances Extravaganzaand a Hall of Fame Luncheon. The awardsceremony will take place at the Atlanta Airport Marriott. The official gala awards ceremony,

recognizing people who have made uniqueand significant contributions in the fields ofBlack culture and heritage tourism, will takeplace on Saturday, April 27 beginning with areception at 6 pm. Noted broadcast journalistMonica Kaufman Pearson is the host for theawards gala. The African Diaspora World Tourism

Awards ceremony will recognize tour operators, travel planners, culture and heritagescholars, tourism ministers and CEO'S, andother professionals in travel. Tribute will bepaid to politicians, government officials, andpeople of all races who have contributed tothe development and promotion of culture and heritage tourism in the African Diaspora.

In addition to giving out awards at theceremony, AfricanDiasporaTourism.com willhonor 100 leaders in the Hall of Fame who

have made legendary contributions to the field of Black culture and heritage in such away as to significantly influence tourism. These include notables like Congressman

John Lewis, Mr. And Ms. Muhammad Ali,Ms. Coretta King, Danny Glover, Dr. JuliusGarvey, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Bob and Rita Marley, former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, former Ambassador AndyYoung, Tavis Smiley, Dr. Maulana Karenga,Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Dr. Jean Ping, and many others. The Hall of Fame luncheonhonoring these legends will be Saturday at noon.The Africana Extravaganza, consisting of

cultural performances, artistic exhibits and Diasporic cuisines will happen on Friday at 7 p.m. The Travel Show Expo, which willtake place on both Friday and Saturday, willallow tourism destinations, corporations andvendors of the hospitality industry to showcase and promote their productsFor registration and more information, visit

www.ADWT-Awards.com. Discounted tablesare available for special seating at the AwardsCeremony for organizations, associations andcorporations. Travel Show Expo booths areavailable for businesses and vendors. Call404-549-7215 or 404-784-4095 for further details.

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Injured GA Native Kevin Ware Getsto ‘Cut the Net’ for LouisvillePage 1During a routine block attempt, Warelanded awkwardly and snapped his rightshin, drawing gasps of horror as the boneprotruded through his skin.In the most touching moment of all,

Ware hobbled onto the court for the finalseconds of the game. He had urged histeammates to ``just go win'' and he madegood on his promise to join them when they cut down the nets.``Kevin Ware would do anything to be

out there. We were just all locked in forhim, and also for ourselves and our coaching staff,'' said Behanan, Ware's bestfriend on the team. ``Kevin was a big part

of this team, and to see him go down was devastating. It was a big motivator for us.''"These are my brothers, you know,”

Ware said. “They got the job done, and I'mso proud of them."Naismith Trophy winner Trey Burke led

a ferocious Michigan squad with 24 points,but it wasn't enough to top No. 1 seedLouisville.Now, Pitino must live up to a promise

he made to his players this season."They said, 'If you win the national

championship, coach, you're getting a tattoo.' I said, 'Hell yes, I'm getting a tattoo.'"

SCLC Honors Leaders with DrumMajor for Justice AwardsPage 1In addition to Ambassador Cook, 2013

Drum Major for Justice honorees are:• Dr. Henry Panion III, Ph.D.

(Magnificent Maestro Award),University of Alabama professor and Grammy/Dove Award-winning producer, composer, and conductor

• DeMaurice Fitzgerald Smith (Sports Award), executive director, NFL Players' Association

• Rep. Stacy Y. Abrams (Government Award), GA House Minority Leader

• Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (Government Award), U.S. House

of Representatives• Minnie Morgan (Faithful Servant

Award), Teamsters Local Union 528• Seaborn Johnson (Auburn Avenue

Entrepreneur Award), Barber• Lynard Thomas (Youth Award),

Evelyn Gibson Lowery Heritage Tour talent contest winner

Karyn Greer, WXIA-TV news anchor,served as mistress of ceremonies and stellar performances by Miles College Golden Voices of Fairfield, Ala., earned standing ovations.

Local Jan-Pro Owner CharityStephens Wins Top AwardBy ADW StaffJan-Pro, a leader in the commercial

cleaning industry, has announced that Charity Stephens, of the company’s Atlantaoffice, has been selected as the recipient ofthe 2013 Unit Franchisee of the Year awardfrom over 10,000 franchisees around theworld. Brad Rush, president and CEO of

Jan-Pro of Atlanta, nominated CharityStephens for this national award. “Charity epitomizes what an ideal

business owner is all about. She developsand nurtures tremendous relationships withher clients,” says Rush. “The confidenceand trust she is able to establish with herclients through her interactions is the modelwe try to get other franchise owners to emulate.” In 2006 Stephens and her family moved

to Atlanta from Philadelphia. “I alwayswanted to pursue business ownership, but Iknew I needed the backing, support andbrand of an established company,” she said.She joined the Jan-Pro Atlanta office in2007. She discovered that the Atlanta market was much different than her Northern roots and the opportunity forgrowth was tremendous. Six years later, from a small part-time

beginning, Stephens now has a thriving full-time business and has increased

monthly billing by 166 percent. “My business has not only been a blessingto my household, but also to the families Iam able to employ and the customers Iserve,” she said. With more than 90 offices worldwide,

Jan-Pro was ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine 2013 as the #1 CommercialCleaning Franchise and the Fastest-Growing in the world today.

Pictured at the Jan-Pro Awards Celebration are Charity Stephens and her husband Marc.

Entrepreneurial Student to be Honored at New York Gala After starting her first business at the age of 14, an Atlanta

high school student is about to be recognized for her businessacumen under the bright lights of New York City.

Youth Entrepreneurs® Georgia student JuShawn Carter, asenior at Benjamin E. Mays High School, began her business,CakesbyFourteen, in 2009. It has grown over the years and in2012 generated gross annual sales of more than $6,000 – nosmall feat for a teenager. Carter offers decorated cakes from her home and provides a

wide variety of tastes and styles. “Growing up, I tuned in constantly to the cake shows, and then my cake decorating

hobby became my passion,” says the young pastry chef.“Working with pastries takes a lot of time and creativity. I plan to attend La Cordon Blue and extend my knowledgein the culinary field.” On April 23, 2013, Carter and Franchesca L. Thompson, a

Youth Entrepreneurs® Georgia teacher at North Atlanta HighSchool, will be honored at the 25th Anniversary Network forTeaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Gala at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Youth Entrepreneurs® Georgia is a high school business education program that helps create productive

members of society and improve communities bycultivating an entrepreneurial way of thinking.

For more informationon Cakesbyfourteen visit cakesbyfourteen.webs.com.

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Celebrities, dignitaries and community leaders will gather on“Sweet Auburn” on Sunday, April 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. to celebrate 100 years of the historic Odd Fellows Building.The event will feature an installation of photos and

memorabilia, anecdotes from people who are especially familiar with the building, and a musical tribute, as well as

hors d’oeuvres.The phenomenal growth of

Black enterprise in the post-Civil War period was typified by the "Sweet AuburnHistoric District." The nameSweet Auburn was coined byJohn Wesley Dobbs and applies toAuburn Avenue, which was oncecalled the "richest Negro street inthe world." The Odd Fellows Building is

one of the most architecturallyoutstanding of the business struc-tures along Auburn Avenue. Constructed in 1912 and dedi-

cated by Booker T. Washington, the building waslocal headquarters of the Atlanta Chapter of the GrandUnited Order of Odd Fellows, afraternal organization founded in1843 for African-American mem-bers.

It was one of the major Black entrepreneurial centers in America,with office space for Black doctors, dentists, and craftsmen in thetower, a 1,296 seat auditorium and an exquisite roof garden. It wasthe site of most of Black Atlanta's elegant dances and social func-tions during the 1920s and 1930s.

For example, the building once housed the Royal Peacock Club,one of the city’s premier African-American music venues early inthe 20th century. Originally named The Top Hat Club, the RoyalPeacock Club officially opened its doors in 1938, hosting both localtalent and national acts, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, theFour Tops, Ray Charles, James Brown, Sam Cook, Jackie Wilson,Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Joe Lewis, JackieRobinson, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner and Atlanta’s own Gladys Knight.It also housed the Yates and Milton Drugstore, where African-

American teens gathered to sip sodas and eat ice cream. The Odd Fellows is presently listed on the National Register of

Historic Places. This six-story brick building is noted for the uniqueterra-cotta figureheads with their African features. These figures arelocated on opposite sides of the entrance and are clearly visible tothe passerby or visitor. A portion of all financial gifts for the invitation-only

celebration will be donated to the Apex Museum for the continued preservation of the history and legacy of The Odd Fellows Buildings and Auburn Avenue. To learn more about theirwork, visit http://www.apexmuseum.org/.

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the Odd Fellows Building Celebrates 100 YearsBy ADW Staff

Graduating senior Jan Anderson was grateful she was able to attend the “Teens TalkBack” event, which drew a full house lastweek at the Exchange Park Recreation Centerin Decatur, Ga.And, though she noted that most of the

teens did not have a lot to say, “I think it wasgreat for the panelists to be here dispensingtheir knowledge. I’m really thankful that theycame out to share with us what is going on inthe community,” said Anderson, who attendsRedan High School in Stone Mountain, Ga. A member of the “Preparing Innovative Leaders of Tomorrow” program, she was themoderator of the forum.The “Teens Talk Back” program was

created to give students, ages 14 to18, thechance to engage in amicable dialogue withlawyers about the realities of the criminal justice system.Organizations and community leaders, such

as NAACP President John Evans, former po-lice officer and panelist Gregory Adams andhis mentoring group DRRLL, Strategic Academic Planning, LLC and the Robert D.Champion Drum Major for Change Foundation, attended the event.Dionne McGee, the 29th president of the

DeKalb Lawyers Association Inc., created theevent as a way for her organization to reachout to the youth in the community in whichshe grew up.

“This is an idea I brought to my organization.I really wanted us, as an organization, to go outinto the community and put our hands on theyouth and impart some wisdom,” said McGee,who named the event “Teens Talk Back” frommemories when she was a teen.“My mother would always say ‘don’t talk

back to me.’ And now I tell my girls, ‘don’tyou talk back to me.’ Well, this is where youneed to talk back,” said McGee.But, most of the teens weren’t ready to talk

back. They were all ears but tight-lipped withthe attorneys and guests who had plenty to sayabout a wide variety of challenges that teensoften face.Popular topics like using social media

wisely and with discretion, the consequencesof the thug life, being aware of the “companyyou keep” and heavy subjects about sex likesodomy, sexting and statutory rape were dis-cussed. “It’s so important when we give these kids

the knowledge and help them understand thesignificance of some of their actions. I thinkwe gave them information they need so theycan make better decisions,” said Donna Stribling, who is the Deputy Chief AssistantDistrict Attorney for the Crimes Against Chil-dren Unit with DeKalb County.“I think the students got a lot out of it.

There was a lot of very heavy informationshared,” said McGee.

‘teens talk Back’ Event HadLarge turnout but Little DialogueBy CAtHERINE WItHERSPOONADW Staff

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On Education, Georgia Lawmakers Make Few Major ChangesBy CHRIStINA A. CASSIDYAssociated PressState lawmakers made few major changes to education

policy during this year's legislative session. Bills to empower parents and teachers to convert failing publicschools into charter schools stalled in committee. So did ameasure to change state curriculum standards.Instead, lawmakers lowered the grade-point average

requirements so more people would qualify for the popularHOPE grant program for technical college students. Theyalso expanded a student scholarship program that has drawnsome questions about transparency and effectiveness.Perhaps the biggest change was the standardization of

teacher evaluations based, in part, on student performance.The bill, sponsored by Rep. Randy Nix, R-LaGrange,

calls for each local school district and all charter schools toimplement an evaluation system to be defined by the stateBoard of Education. Nix said it was based on a state pilotprogram and included input from superintendents, principals and teachers.Under the bill, student performance will comprise at

least 50 percent of the evaluation for teachers who teachcourses that are part of annual state tests.``It not only fundamentally changes how the teachers

and principals will be evaluated but how those evaluationswill be used,'' said Angela Palm, director of policy and

legislative services for the Georgia School Boards Association.The bill is under review by the governor.Separately, the governor is expected to sign legislation

restoring a lower GPA requirement for students seekingHOPE grants to attend the state's technical colleges. Twoyears ago, lawmakers raised the grade-point average to 3.0because of a decline in lottery revenues that fund the HOPEprogram. In the years since, there was a notable decline inenrollment.The plan returns the qualifying GPA to 2.0. Supporters

say an increase in lottery revenues allows for the changeand the move will benefit several thousand students at anestimated total cost of $5 million to $8 million annually.The student scholarship program that was expanded

helps children attend private schools. It is funded throughdonations from individuals and corporations who, in turn,are eligible for a tax break.

Among those bills that stalled in committee was theproposed ``Parent and Teacher Empowerment Act,'' whichlets parents and teachers petition a local school board toconvert a failing public school into a charter school. The so-called parent trigger bill would have also compelled afailing public school to implement certain measures, possibly removing all school personnel to improve performance.

A bill that would have allowed students with a licenseto carry a gun to take their firearms onto parts of public colleges and universities also failed to come up for a finalvote. The university system chancellor and the Board of Regents opposed the plan, although it's likely to resurfacenext year.

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www.ADWnews.com‘Man of the Year’ Candidates OpposeGuns on Campus LegislationBy ADW Staff

Clark Atlanta University “Man of theYear” candidates have created a public service announcement opposing state legislation that would allow students withlicenses to carry their guns on campus. The bill, which stalled in committee thissession, is considered likely to resurfacenext year. The PSA can be viewed at

http://youtu.be/mvbwstcqye0.The “Man of the Year” scholarship

competition and pageant showcases someof CAU’s top male students and role models. In light of recent campus

shootings, the students have embraced The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus. The competition, which also shines a

spotlight on the importance of Black maleenrollment and retention at CAU, will beheld April 29 at 7 p.m. in the HendersonStudent Center. Tickets will be $5 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information, email

lcalhoun@cau.edu or call 404-880-6040.The contestants picture here are, from left,Jaylyn Neal, Leon Valentine, ChristopherScott, James Honore, Jalen Gildersleeveand Taurean Parker.

Clark Atlanta University 2013-2014 Man of the Year contestants.

Atlanta Celebrates, Showcases Jazz throughout the Month of May

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Throughout the month of May, the City of Atlanta willcelebrate the 36th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival.

With the theme “Generation Next,” the festival willshowcase some of the most innovative, up-and-comingartists like José James, Gretchen Parlato, Meshell Ndegeocello, Dominick Farinacci, Aaron Diehl, Tia Fuller,Jacob Deaton, Julie Dexter and Ambrose Akinsurire.The festival is presented by the City of Atlanta Office

of Cultural Affairs, a division of the Department of Parks,Recreation and Cultural Affairs. The Atlanta Jazz Festivalis a 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural organization whose mission is to educate and entertain a diverse audience of jazz fans and to nurture the next generation of jazz

musicians.The festival’s organizers are also excited to introduce

new artists like Alexandra Jackson and give youth jazzbands their first big break.The festival is slated to begin on May 1 and will

conclude with three days of music over Memorial DayWeekend. Audiences will enjoy concerts in clubs,museums and parks throughout the city of Atlanta. The festival will feature various types of jazz ranging fromLatin jazz to swing to traditional straight-ahead and evenAfro-Cuban jazz enlivened with neo-soul and R&B.Concerts and activities for this year’s festival include 31

Days of Jazz, Neighborhood Jazz Series, Concert at Chastain Park Amphitheatrewith special guest ChrisetteMichele, Late Night Jazz Concert featuring Dionne Farris with The Russell GunnQuartet, Youth Jazz BandCompetition, AJF36 at Piedmont Park starringRudresh Mahanthappa, Uri Gurvich, Aruán Ortiz,Ginou, Rio Negro, Miguel Zenón and Cécile McLorinSalvant and Jazz Education Workshops.For more information about

the festival, visit www.atlantafestivals.com.

ADW Showcases Photographersat ‘World of Pictures’ Event

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The Atlanta Daily World recently hosted its third "World of Pictures" reception featuring Atlanta photographers. "We were thrilled to share the tal-ents and stories of photographers who have graced the pages of our city’s newspapers and magazines for many years," said Atlanta Daily WorldPublisher M. Alexis Scott. Pictured here at the evening event held at the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library, are, from left, photographers Bud Smith, Horace Henry, Scott, John Glenn, JiMi!, Rashidah Sudan, Sue Ross, Willie E. Tucker Jr. and Brenda J. Turner with Atlanta’s “Dean of Photography” J.D. Hudson (seated).

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Bracket town and OtherNCAA Final Four Activities Light up Atlanta

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Atlanta was brightened by NCAA funactivities in and around The Georgia WorldCongress Center (GWCC) campus whichhosted the 75th NCAA Men’s Final FourBasketball Championship.

Fans got a chance to do more thanwatch at numerous activities over thecourse of this week. The Congress Centerspecifically hosted Bracket Town, an interactive sports fan fest, and many otherevents including private parties, the mediahub for the Final Four, the National Association of Basketball Coaches Convention,the staff check-in area, a sports bar and theDome Dribble on International Plaza, anopportunity for thousands of kids to dribbletheir way through Final Four activities.

Centennial Olympic Park hosted TheBig Dance, a three-day concert series. DJssounded off with music, karaoke, acousticjam sessions and a conglomeration of foodtrucks set up to feed hungry fans. Centennial Olympic Park also made thetransformation to an outdoor amphitheaterFriday, Saturday and Sunday leading up tothe championship game. On Saturday, theCoke Zero Countdown Concert entertainedthousands with live musical sensationsscheduled throughout the day.

The Georgia Dome hosted the two

semifinals and the championship game. Saturday’s semifinal games broke thevenue’s all-time basketball attendancerecord with 75,350 fans, which was previously set in 1998 when the Hawkshosted the Chicago Bulls during MichaelJordan’s final season. Neighboring facility, Philips Arena

hosted the Division II and III championshipgames this past weekend. All activities took place within a short three block areaalong Andrew Young International Blvd. in downtown Atlanta. Bracket Town, the cornerstone event at

the 3.9 million square-foot convention center, offered an affordable, family-friendly, indoor interactive eventfeaturing 300,000 square feet of activitiesrelated to all NCAA sports, including basketball, hockey and lacrosse. Fans had the opportunity to meet

legendary coaches and former college starsat autograph sessions, to learn new skillsduring daily youth clinics and to participatein three on three basketball tournaments.Bracket Town included a regulation-sizebasketball court with seating for 2,400, andappearances were made by the Harlem Globetrotters, Cody Simpson and KareemAbdul-Jabbar.

By RutH MANuEL-LOGANNews One

Outfitted with face paint and wearing Powerade-logoed Final Four T-shirts,kids and their families dribbled basketballs through the heart of “the Madness” for a one-mile stretch of Andrew Young International Boulevard. NBA and NCAA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, pictured here withMayor Kasim Reed and tiny dribblers, was Grand Marshall of the DoubleDribble. Bracket Town at The Congress Center offered interactive games to the delight of thousands of NCAA fans.

time has Changed the Colorof NCAA GamesBy JIM LItKEAP Sports ColumnistIf you tuned into the start of the 1963

NCAA championship between little Loyolaof Chicago and mighty Cincinnati, it lookedlike few, if any, of the college basketballgames you'd ever watched before.Seven of the 10 starters from the two

teams were black.Fifty years later, one of the more

revolutionary contests in sports has largelyfaded from memory. Ask any player at thisyear's Final Four about the game thatchanged the color of college basketball andthey'll likely cite the 1966 finale, when tinyTexas Western, with its five black starters,upset all-white Kentucky. That's because ofthe popularity of the book, ``Glory Road,''and even moreso the movie released in2006, which detailed the exploits of TexasWestern and its coach, the late Don Haskins.But if anything, the mood in the country

was much more racially charged in 1963.That atmosphere provides the backdrop for``Ramblers,'' a new book in which authorMichael Lenehan pulls together all the disparate threads that produced Loyola'sserendipitous championship run. The previous fall, riots erupted at the Universityof Mississippi when a lone black man

enrolled there, and the unwritten ruleamong college coaches was you could playone black on the road, two at home andthree if you were way behind.``When I tell my kids those stories,'' said

Ron Miller, who became Loyola's fourthblack starter at the end of the 1962 season,``they think I'm exaggerating.``The night we played, none of us had a

sense of what it meant. We'd run acrosssome ugly scenes, playing in the South, butI grew up in New York City watching St.John's and NYU, so I'd seen black playersbefore and never thought much about it. Butnot long after we won, I went home forEaster break and so many people came byto congratulate me, my mom just left thedoor open. Then I went over to my cousin'sstore. He said, `I'm really proud of youguys. I never thought I'd see so many blackfaces on a court all at the same time.'``That was the first time I realized it was

more than just another game, more eventhan a championship game. It's nice to beable to look back now, from a distance, andthink we helped a little, maybe gave somepeople an opportunity that wasn't there priorto that.''

Atlanta Dream Partners WithFinal Four In Service EffortBy DEItRA JOHNSONADW StaffThe Atlanta Dream recently

partnered with the University of Louisville, the University ofMichigan, Syracuse Universityand Wichita State University ina cooperative communityservice project in Atlanta during last week’s NCAAMen’s Final Four. Representatives of the Dream

and the four universities, aidedby Hands On Atlanta, workedwith “Lift Up Atlanta” – an organization that helps the homeless and feeds the hungry.On Saturday, April 6,

volunteers sorted and packagedclothing and supplies that willlater be distributed by “Lift Up Atlanta” to homeless families in Atlanta. Busses shuttled the volunteers to the job site at Medlock Commons Self Storage in Norcross.

The project was conceived by representatives of the University ofLouisville, which is the alma mater ofDream star forward Angel McCoughtry. Volunteers from Louisville donned Dream

t-shirts with McCoughtry’s name and number at the event. Representatives fromthe other three schools were notified of theevent, and were all quick to volunteer theirservices as well.More information on Hands On Atlanta

and “Lift Up Atlanta” can be found atwww.handsonatlanta.org and www.liftupatlanta.org, respectively.

Volunteers from univ. of louisville and Michiganuniv., along with hands On Atlanta and the twoother 2013 Final Four schools – Syracuse andWichita State – joined ranks with the WNBA At-lanta Dream last week to help sort and packageclothing and supplies to be distributed by “liftup Atlanta” to homeless families in Atlanta.

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Calvary united Methodist ChurchMother, Daughter and Friends luncheon

“Tea for Life and Living” I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Psalm 139:14a

Saturday, April 27, 20132-4pm

Ticket: $25 (16 & over)$15 (15 & under)

Attire: Accessories Hats and GlovesContact: Latina Carhee 678-480-8185

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urban Entrepreneurs Learn How to StARt Digital CompaniesSTART ATL, an interactive symposium that teaches

urban entrepreneurs how to start and grow digital busi-nesses, will hold its inaugural conference at the SpelmanCollege Science Center NASA Auditorium on Saturday,April 13, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Attendees will be able to pitch their digital businessideas and could win up to $5,000 in prizes. Early bird regis-tration, ending April 12 is $49. To register, visit http://star-tatl.eventbrite.com or call 1-347-460-5115 for moreinformation.START is part of a nationwide series created by digi-

talundivided (DID). DID is a social enterprise that buildsforward-thinking initiatives that change the digital space byincreasing the number of Black and Latino women digitalentrepreneurs.Business experts such as Navarrow Wright, CTO of In-

teractive One, and Kendra Bracken Ferguson, founder ofDigital Brand Architects, and leading investors LaurenMaillian Bias, managing director of Gen Y Capital, andEghosa Omoigui, managing director of EchoVC, will be onhand to offer expert advice and information to those who at-tend and have an idea for the next big website, mobile appor blog. Some of the panels include everything from “What You

Need To Know Before Leaving Your Day Job” and “Every-thing You Need To Know To Build Your Site/Product” to“How to Ask for Money for Your Business” and “How toMarket Your Company on the Cheap.”"There are 10.1 million firms in the United States that

are owned by women, and people of color are among thefastest growing demographic of the population,” said JaneSmith, executive director of the Spelman College Center forLeadership and Civic Engagement. "It is this reality, alongwith the role of technology in our lives, that motivatedSpelman to become the host sponsor of this event."From the Wall Street Journal to Essence Magazine,

DID’s activities and initiatives continue to drive the discus-

sion around people of color in the digital space. DID(www.digitalundivided.com) was founded in 2012 byKathryn Finney, a leader in the social media space, editor-at-large at the global social media powerhouse BlogHer andone of the first style bloggers on the web. In less than sixmonths DID has had a significant impact on increasing thenumber of successful digital entrepreneurs of color.

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ADVeRTISeMeNT for GOlF COuRSe OPeRATORThe City of College Park is accepting Sealed Bids from qualified vendors forCOLLEGE PARK GOLF COURSE OPERATOR. Sealed proposals will be re-ceived no later than 10:00am, Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the City of CollegePark Purchasing Department, 3667 Main Street, College Park Georgia,30337, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Bids re-ceived after the above date and time, or in any other location other than thePurchasing Department will not be considered.A bid packet may be obtained from the City of College Park Purchasing De-partment, 3667 Main Street, College Park, Georgia 30337, or from www.col-legeparkga.com.A Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting will be held at 10:00am, April 18, 2013 at theCity of College Park City Hall. Questions arising AFTER the Pre-Bid Meetingwill be accepted via email ONLY to bgregory@collegeparkga.com until COBApril 23. An Addendum with all Q&A will be posted to the City’s website on orabout COB Friday, April 26. It is always the vendor’s responsibility to checkthe City’s website for any/all addenda.The City of College Park reserves the right to reject any or all bids based onpast performance and to waive technicalities and informalities and re-adver-tise. All Minority, Woman and Small Businesses are strongly encouraged toapply. Only responsive proposals that are determined to meet the require-ments and criteria set forth by the City of College Park will be considered.

_______________________________________________Calvary United Methodist Church

Mother, Daughter and Friends Luncheon“Tea for Life and Living”

I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made Psalm 139:14aSaturday, April 27, 2013

2-4pm6226 Providence Club Drive

Mableton. GA 30126Ticket: $25 (16 & over)

$15 (15 & under)Attire: Accessories Hats and Gloves

Contact: Latina Carhee 678-480-8185 or slcarhee@aol.com_______________________________________________NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINAMECKLENBURG COUNTY

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVISION

Nicole Bethea v. Nyshonda Kinder and Tavon Coley13-CVD-5639(CB)Attention “Tavon Coley”Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in theabove entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Per-manent custody of the minor child born to Nyshonda kinder and TavonColey in Mecklenburg County, NC on February 28, 2010. You are re-quired to make defense to such pleading not later than May 21, 2013 andupon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply tothe court for the relief sought.

This, the 11th day of April, 2013Valerie G. Quick, AttorneyFamily Law Facilitator

P.O. Box 35Thomasville, NC 27361

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STReeT ReSuRFACING PROJeCTThe City of College Park is accepting Sealed Bids from qualified ven-dors for STREET RESURFACING PROJECT - 2013 LOCAL MAINTE-NANCE AND IMPROVEMENT GRANT. Sealed proposals will bereceived no later than 10:00am, Thursday, May 2, 2013 at the City ofCollege Park Purchasing Department, 3667 Main Street, College ParkGeorgia, 30337, at which time they will be opened and publicly readaloud. Bids received after the above date and time, or in any other loca-tion other than the Purchasing Department will not be considered.A bid packet may be obtained from the City of College Park PurchasingDepartment, 3667 Main Street, College Park, Georgia 30337, or fromwww.collegeparkga.com.A Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting will be held at 10:00am, April 11, 2013 atthe City of College Park City Hall. Questions arising AFTER the Pre-BidMeeting will be accepted via email ONLY tobgregory@collegeparkga.com until COB April 17. An Addendum with allQ&A will be posted to the City’s website on or about COB Friday, April19. It is always the vendor’s responsibility to check the City’s websitefor any/all addenda.A ten percent (10%) Bid Bond is required to be submitted with bid.Prospective bidders should also be aware that a Performance and Pay-ment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of contract amount will berequired of the successful bidder.The City of College Park reserves the right to reject any or all bidsbased on past performance and to waive technicalities and informalitiesand re-advertise. All Minority, Woman and Small Businesses arestrongly encouraged to apply. Only responsive proposals that are deter-mined to meet the requirements and criteria set forth by the City of Col-lege Park will be considered

Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) wishes to advance design engineering work forthe 5.9-mile Atlanta BeltLine East corridor and Atlanta Streetcar extensionsand is seeking proposals from qualified firms, teams or consultants withdemonstrated experience in planning, civil design and engineering, electricrail and overhead electrification systems, costing, traffic operations and en-gineering, parking analysis, tunnel engineering, and intermodal freight andrail yard planning and engineering to provide design engineering servicesto support the NEPA environmental documentation, New Starts analysisand other FTA Project Development phase services for the Atlanta BeltLineEast corridor. Proposals are due April 29, 2013 at 3 pm EST.

_______________________________________________.ADVeRTISeMeNT FOR BIDS ThAT OPeN ON TueSDAy,

April 30, 2013SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PRO-CUREMENT, CITY OF ATLANTA, 55 TRINITY AVENUE, S. W., SUITE1790, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303, TELEPHONE NUMBER (404) 330-6204, NO LATER THAN 1:59 P.M., (AS VERIFIED BY THE BUREAU OFNATIONAL STANDARDS), OPENING DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013FOR BID NO. 6561-AP, 2013 HEAVY DUTY SLOPE MOWERS

Kasim Reed Mayor City of A tlanta Adam L. Smith, Esq., CPPO, CPPB, CPPM, CPP

Chief Procurement OfficerDepartment of Procurement

ADVeRTISeMeNT FOR BIDS ThAT OPeN ON TueSDAy,April 23, 2013

SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PRO-CUREMENT, CITY OF ATLANTA, 55 TRINITY AVENUE, S. W., SUITE1790, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303, TELEPHONE NUMBER (404) 330-6204, NO LATER THAN 1:59 P.M., (AS VERIFIED BY THE BUREAU OFNATIONAL STANDARDS), OPENING DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013FOR BID NO. 6572-AP, 15 PASSENGER WINDOW VAN

Kasim Reed Mayor City of A tlanta Adam L. Smith, Esq., CPPO, CPPB, CPPM, CPP

Chief Procurement OfficerDepartment of Procurement

ADVeRTISeMeNT FOR BIDS ThAT OPeN ON TueSDAy,April 23, 2013

SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PRO-CUREMENT, CITY OF ATLANTA, 55 TRINITY AVENUE, S. W., SUITE1790, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303, TELEPHONE NUMBER (404) 330-6204, NO LATER THAN 1:59 P.M., (AS VERIFIED BY THE BUREAU OFNATIONAL STANDARDS), OPENING DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013FOR BID NO. 6533-AT, ELECTRIC ROLL UP DOORS REPAIR & SERV-ICE, A PRE-BID CONFERENCE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 AT 1:00P.M. LOCATED AT ATLANTA FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT, 165 16THSTREET NW , ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30363

Kasim Reed Mayor City of A tlanta Adam L. Smith, Esq., CPPO, CPPB, CPPM, CPP

Chief Procurement OfficerDepartment of Procurement

ADVeRTISeMeNT FOR BIDS ThAT OPeN ON TueSDAy,April 30, 2013

SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PRO-CUREMENT, CITY OF ATLANTA, 55 TRINITY AVENUE, S. W., SUITE1790, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303, TELEPHONE NUMBER (404) 330-6204, NO LATER THAN 1:59 P.M., (AS VERIFIED BY THE BUREAU OFNATIONAL STANDARDS), OPENING DATE: TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013FOR BID NO. 6512-PL, AIRPORT SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM TACTI-CAL BODY ARMOR

Kasim Reed Mayor City of A tlanta Adam L. Smith, Esq., CPPO, CPPB, CPPM, CPP

Chief Procurement OfficerDepartment of Procurement

Apt for Rent Southwest near Marta. 1 Bdrm; 1 1/2 Baths; Den; furnished

Kitchen and Sunroom. $450 @ month + deposit. Call 404-691-5656 .

_______________________________________________Property For Sale – 1921 Cummings Dr. S.W., Atlanta 30311 Contact

trustee 404-353-6222. Best Offer/Highest BidderContact: Barbara Cullings

P.O. Box 5043Atlanta, GA 30302(404) 353-6222

hOuRly/NON-TeChNICAl(POULTRY PROCESSING POSITIONS)

Koch Foods, LLC has employment opportunities in poultry processing(deboning)at their Gainesville and Cumming, Georgia deboning facilities. Positions arefulltime/shift work. Experience preferred but not required. Competitive pay/bene-fitprograms, including health, dental, 401-k. Apply in person for Gainesville po-sitionsat 950 Industrial Blvd., Gainesville, GA 30501, Wednesdays only, 10:00 AM –11:00 AM or for Cumming positions at 221 Meadow Dr., Cumming, GA 30040,Wednesdays only, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. EEO M/V/F/D.

_______________________________________________Attorney, Korean Practice Team, Atlanta, GA: JD Degree and GA licensereq’d; must have 1 yr. exp. inint’l business transactions at Asia-based multinational corporations. Send re-sume to Nelson Mullins Riley& Scarborough, LLP, 201 17th St., Ste. 1700, Atlanta, GA 30363.

_______________________________________________Master Teacher – Sci&Tech: Fernbank Elementary Foundation in Atlanta,GA: Dev. & lead schoolwide sci&tech instr prog for K-5 science curriculum.Req Master’s or foreign equ.in Edu/Sci/Pol, Soc, or Cult Studies /rel & 2 yrselem sch teaching exp. In lieu of Master’s or foreign equ.in Edu/Sci/Pol,Soc, or Cult Studies /rel & 2 yrs elem sch teaching exp will acc Bach or for-eign equ in Edu/Sci/Pol, Soc, or Cult Studies /rel & 5 yrs prog post-baccelem sch teaching exp. Also req 1 yr exp integrating Promethean Int White-board technology AND following skills through edu or work exp: coord/man-age after-school sci activities/clubs; grant writing AND GA certification. Allexp may or may not be acq concurrently. To apply, cont Drew Schuler,schuleram@bellsouth.net or 157 Heaton Park Dr. Atlanta, GA, 30307.

_______________________________________________RFP/Part-time Grants AdministratorGo to www.afcra.com

_______________________________________________TIBCO Software Inc. has an opening in Atlanta, GA for a Principal Consult-ant (Software Engineer) to deliver system architecture & hardware/softwarespecification consulting project activities. Must have unrestricted U.S. workauthorization. Mail resumes to Att: D. Dzapo, HR, Ref#AGA3, 3307 HillviewAve., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

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ADVeRTISeMeNT for PARkING lOT eXPANSION DeSIGN for BIllBADGeTT STADIuM

The City of College Park is accepting Sealed Bids from qualified vendors forPARKING LOT EXPANSION DESIGN for BILL BADGETT STADIUM. Sealedproposals will be received no later than 10:00am, Thursday, May 16, 2013 atthe City of College Park Purchasing Department, 3667 Main Street, CollegePark Georgia, 30337, at which time they will be opened and publicly readaloud. Bids received after the above date and time, or in any other locationother than the Purchasing Department will not be considered.A bid packet may be obtained from the City of College Park Purchasing De-partment, 3667 Main Street, College Park, Georgia 30337, or from www.col-legeparkga.com.A Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting will be held at 10:00am, Monday, April 22,2013 at the City of College Park City Hall. Questions arising AFTER the Pre-Bid Meeting will be accepted via email ONLY tobgregory@collegeparkga.com until COB April 26. An Addendum with allQ&A will be posted to the City’s website on or about COB Wednesday, May1. It is always the vendor’s responsibility to check the City’s website forany/all addenda.The City of College Park reserves the right to reject any or all bids based onpast performance and to waive technicalities and informalities and re-adver-tise. All Minority, Woman and Small Businesses are strongly encouraged toapply. Only responsive proposals that are determined to meet the require-ments and criteria set forth by the City of College Park will be considered.

_______________________________________________Notice of Incorporation

Notice is given that Articles of Incorporation which will incorporate “DENIMGARAGE, Incorporated, INCORPORATED,” will be delivered to the Secre-tary of State for filing in accordance with the Georgia Nonprofit CorporationCode (O.C.G.A. $14-3-202).The initial registered office of the corporation will be located at 2916 Brook-field Lane SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30331 and its initial reigstered agent at suchaddress is JOSHUA C. LEWIS

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Unemployment rates were “little changed” in March 2013 – they were either holding steady or dropping by a tenth of a percentage point or so. The unemployment rate dropped from 7.7 to 7.6 percentrepresenting a steady, if painstakingly slow, decrease. This declining unemployment rate was reportedwith some circumspection because even as the rate dropped, nearly half a million people left the labormarket, presumably because they could not find work. Further, in March, the economy generated ascant 88,000 jobs, fewer than in any of the prior nine months. An economy that many enjoy, describingas “recovering,” has not yet recovered enough to generate enough jobs to keep up with population increases.Of course, there are variations in the unemployment rate, which is 6.7 percent for Whites, but 13.3 percent for African Americans. Hidden unemployment pushes the actual White rate up to 13.8 percentand the Black rate to 24.2 percent. More than 4.6 million Americans have been out of work for morethan 27 weeks.I parse these numbers on the first Friday of each month and note the vacillations in these rates. In thepast four years, we have seen a downward drift in rates, but it neither been as rapid or as inclusive as wemight like. We know that, in spite of talk of economic recovery, job creation is stagnant, not keeping upwith increases in the population. In no month have we created the 300,000 jobs we need to “catch up”and push unemployment rates down.We should pay attention to unemployment vacillations, but we might also consider the human cost ofunemployment. Those who are unemployed experience malaise, displacement, and often depression.This malaise, or worse, affects dynamics in families, workplaces, and communities.Some workers exhale when they dodge the bullet of a layoff. Next, they inhale when they realize that,thanks to layoffs, their workload will increase. In families and communities, the unemployment of justone person has a series of unintended costs for those close to them.Speaking to the National Association of Black Social Workers conference last week, I reminded themthat social workers are among those who bear the burden of unemployment. These committed publicservants work with the threat of layoffs in their worksites, given sequestration and state budget cuts. Yetthey are also challenged to advise those who have experienced the fate they may have to grapple withthemselves. As employment is cut among social workers, others are forced to take on larger caseloads.Unless some of these social workers are superhuman, there will be clients who will slip between thecracks.Heretofore, we have mostly looked at unemployment data as a reflection of the number of jobs oureconomy generates. We’ve also looked at those who hold them, those who lose them, and what thismeans in terms of poverty, education, and community health. We could expand our understanding of theemployment situation if we looked at those who bear its burden.There are politicians who rail that people are unemployed because they are lazy. The fact is people areunemployed because the economy is not generating enough jobs. The French philosopher, AlbertCamus, mused, “Without work all life is rotten.” Everybody wants to be useful; and until “use” is defined as something other than paid employment, many will feel marginalized because of their vocation situation.When unemployed, people hear about our “recovering” economy. They wonder what is wrong withthem. We all need to wonder what is wrong with an economy that generates such unemployment. Weneed to wonder about an economy that has soaring stock prices and robust corporate profits, while somany individuals are struggling financially. We need to do more to include those at the margins into thevitality of our “recovering” economy. And we need to understand that if one in four African Americansand one is six of the overall population, experiences unemployment, this is not a personal problem, but asocietal one. Will our society fix it, or let it roll? And who pays?

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is president emerita ofBennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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I’ll begin by saying I’m heartbroken about the arrests and “perp walks” of 35 Atlantaeducators last week, including former Superintendent Beverly Hall.This has to be the saddest thing that’s happened to our school system since it was

officially “separate but equal.”I must also say that the charges of criminal racketeering that have been leveled

against these educators is beyond horrible. I do not believe that Supt. Hall was intentionally leading a criminal enterprise of school test cheating for money. This is nonsense.I do agree that changing test scores was a total disservice to the children in the

Atlanta Public Schools. I also agree that using the results of a single test to determine thefate of a teacher’s or principal’s job makes a mockery of education.The combination of the pressure brought on by “no child left behind” with testing

being the standard for evaluating student and teacher performance, with the use of moneyas a reward and firing as a punishment was a witch’s brew that brought the APS system toits knees.Dr. Hall’s salary and pay bonuses were tied directly to student achievement, and

she used that same standard with her principals and teachers. Not only did they getbonuses for improved student performance on tests, but they also risked losing their jobsif students did not improve their (test) performance.Here’s the big problem with this. APS students are not widgets on an assembly line,

waiting to be stacked into a thing-a-ma-jing. As if teachers could get 10 more dollars forevery 10 more students they stacked. And here’s another thing. Most of the educators accused of cheating had either quit,

retired or lost their teaching licenses after hearings before the Professional StandardsCommission, the body designated to oversee such things as bad professional behavior byteachers. Plus, Dr. Hall had quit and left town. This was the appropriate way to handlethese cases. Why are we spending tax payers’ money to criminally prosecute peoplewho’ve already been removed from the system?And finally, I have long objected to a single standardized test being used to determine

the fate of students, much less teachers. This whole sordid business is a wake-up call formodern education. Students need to be taught how to think, analyze and discern, not howto memorize. With technology, students can find any fact at their fingertips. It’s now timefor some real reform. Teachers can help students most by serving as coaches, advisersand synthesizers of information. They can offer feedback on their thinking and guidethem in exploration of new ideas. They can work with their parents to figure out thebest path for them to take, using instruments that measure their interests along with theiraptitude.We’ve got to figure this out. We’ve got to provide support for children in poverty who

don’t have the financial and other support they need at home to help them learn how tolearn. Everyone’s quality of life in the future depends on it.

M. Alexis Scott is publisher of Atlanta Daily World.

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