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Federal Judge Rules New York Stop-and-Frisk Policy Unconstitutional

Atlanta’s C.T. Vivian Among 2013 Presidential Medal Winners

The New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy violates constitutional rights and must be altered, a federal judge ruled Aug. 12. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling stems from a class-ac-tion lawsuit claiming that the city’s police officers routinely stopped minority men, particularly Blacks and Latinos, without legal reasons. Scheindlin said that an outside monitor will be appointed to oversee changes to the policy. “This is a groundbreaking victory. Judge Scheindlin recog-nized what the NAACP has been saying for years: the racial profiling tactic of stop-and-frisk has no place in our enlight-ened society,” stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “We hope that Mayor Bloomberg and Com-missioner Kelly will heed this decision and end their crude and abusive policy.” The police department had said that the policy -- in which police stop, question and frisk people they considered suspicious -- is used to deter crime. The practice is widely criticized. The lead plaintiff in the case is David Floyd, a medical student who was stopped twice -- once in the middle of the afternoon when he was in front of his home in the Bronx, according to the suit, which was filed in 2008. The trial, which ended in May, featured nine weeks of testimony, including from men who say police stopped them for no reason and from police officers who say quotas forced them to make unnecessary stops. Closing arguments gave conflicting accounts of stop-and-frisk incidents. While attorneys for the city argued that one man was stopped because he appeared to be smoking marijuana, the plaintiffs’ attorneys argued that he was simply talking on a cell phone. Another man was reportedly stopped because he fit the description of a wanted man in a high-crime area with a recent string of burglaries, but the plaintiffs’ attorneys argued that he was more than a mile from where the burglaries oc-curred and that the last burglary in that area occurred more than 25 days earlier. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, the po-lice department logged its 5 millionth stop-and-frisk under Mayor Michael Bloomberg in March.

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Vivian will be honored along with 15 others, including television superstar Oprah Winfrey. Vivian will travel to the White House where President Barack Obama will present the award later this month. “Of course Oprah Winfrey’s name is going to be above ours, but that makes the point that when you are receiving an honor with people like that, it makes it easier to get things done,” he said. “More people know about what you’re doing and what you’re thinking and who you are and what your past has been, so they can trust you and move forward on the things that you’re trying to do. This is what was on my mind.” A longtime member of the SCLC and a lieutenant of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Vivian has been a leader for nonviolent social change and civil rights in the U.S. He was a member of the Freedom Riders and helped organize numerous sit-ins, most notably the Nashville Movement, and pushed for justice and racial equality alongside King and leaders from the Congress of Racial Equality, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and other luminary organizations. In a press release, the White House said: “C.T. Vivian is a distinguished minister, author, and organizer. A leader in the Civil Rights Movement and friend to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he participated in Freedom Rides and sit-ins across our country. Dr. Vivian also helped found numerous civil rights organizations, including Vision, the National Anti-Klan Network, and the Center for Democratic Renewal. In 2012, he returned to serve as interim President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.”

For C.T. Vivian, being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom isn’t about recognition for what he has done so far, but about the good that he still can do. The 89-year-old Atlanta resident, who currently serves as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was informed last week that he would be among those given the nation’s highest honor for a civilian. But rather than reflect on a life of accomplishment and honor, the civil rights legend chose to look forward to the greater positive impact that the award could bring. “I was thankful. I was just thankful, because here’s the thing, I know how much good you can do with that,” Vivian told the Daily World. “Programs and ideas that I’ve wanted to do in order to push things ahead and make things better [could be done]. But it’s so difficult, number one, to get attention and difficult to raise money.” Among the good works Vivian wants to focus on are lowering the nation’s high dropout rate, particularly for Af-rican-American students; creating a C.T. and Octavia Vivian library to share the archives of himself and his wife; and working for social justice. Vivian spoke specifically about the importance of education in what he called a “racist culture.” “We’re living in a global world where education becomes even more valuable now than ever,” he said. “And here we are, this is what W.E.B. DuBois called the coalition of people trying to function within a racist culture, where a child can be murdered and they don’t even pick up the White guy that murdered him for over a month -- about a month and a half really.”

Photo By M. Alexis Scott C.T. Vivian (left) stands with Bernice King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and CEO of The King Center, and President Jimmy Carter on Aug. 11 at a special 50th anniversary event at The Carter Center. Vivian congratula-tions and received a round of applause for being named a 2013 Presidential Medal honoree.

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Rep. Hank Johnson announced last week that Standing to Achieve New Directions is receiving a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to pro-vide behavioral health services for men released from prison. Charles Sperling, STAND’s founder and executive direc-tor, said the grant will go toward expanding their work to reintegrate former prisoners back into society. “Over a long period of time, Congressman Johnson and his office have been instrumental in the work we do and we look forward to continuing to work to together in service to our community,” Sperling said. STAND – based on Covington Highway – is one of metro Atlanta’s leading community-based organizations focused on HIV, domestic violence, substance abuse inter-vention and comprehensive re-entry services for men. “STAND has a proven track record of helping former in-mates turn their lives around,” said Johnson, a co-sponsor of the Second Chance Act and longtime advocate for criminal

Johnson announces $1.2M Grant to Aid Former Prisoners

Rep. Hank Johnson (center) meets with Charles Sperling (right) and his staff at STAND Inc. on Covington Highway.

The Westlake Marching Band performed at the National Night Out event at Old Na-tional Commons, as more than 700 people came out for the crime prevention educa-tion, entertainment and food on Aug. 6. The 30th anniversary evening was steamy, but it did not take away from the excitement among the individuals and families as they danced and swayed to the music. Law en-forcement officials from the Fulton County Police Department, the Marshall’s Office, the Sheriff ’s Department and MARTA Police mingled with the crowd and proudly dis-played state-of the-art law enforcement

Westlake High School Band Performs during National Night Out

vehicles and equipment. The Fulton County Fire Department also supported the event with fire engines and the Fire Safety House. Entertainment also included the Dazz with Jazz dance group, the Dance Project, Korin Deanna and “We R I Am” of Restor-ical Entertainment and the Reign Praise Team of the Kingdom of God International Ministry. The annual event also enjoyed support from four national sponsors: Target, Kroger, Publix, and Walmart, along with dozens of local sponsors, Fulton County departments and local vendors.

Members of the Westlake High School Marching Band, including the Lions Mane Attraction dance team, perform during recent National Night Out activities in south Fulton County.

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Atlanta Public Schools Supt. Erroll B. Davis Jr. responds to a question about the state of the schools from facilitator ADW Publisher M. Alexis Scott.

The state of the Atlanta Public Schools is “moving in the right direction,” Supt. Erroll B. Davis Jr., told education, civic and busi-ness leaders in his annual and last address on Aug. 13 at The Carter Center. Davis made an upbeat and aspirational presentation to the group as he goes into his last year as superintendent. He was appoint-ed on July 1, 2011, in the wake of the school system’s test cheating scandal, which left 35 teachers and former APS Supt. Beverly Hall indicted and awaiting trial later this year. Davis, a former corporate executive and chancellor of the University System of Geor-gia, has brought a sense of stability to the system and put the focus back on student achievement. Amid the state and national controversy over national student compe-tency standards, Davis vowed that APS will not step back from implementing a common core curriculum for APS students.

APS Is ‘Moving in the Right Direction’By M. Alexis Scott

“We will not retreat,” he said. He said he agrees with federal guidelines for student learning. He said it’s not about teaching the same thing the same way, but enabling students to have a basic level of learning that will enable them “to evaluate evidence and come to an independent judgment” as they proceed in life. Noting this year’s theme of “honoring our legacy, building our future,” Davis paid trib-ute to several people and groups throughout his presentation, including thanking school board member Emmett Johnson for his 16 years of service, or more than 10 percent of the history of the 141-year-old system. Johnson is not seeking re-election. Davis concluded his presentation by responding to questions from members of the audience. ADW Publisher M. Alexis Scott facilitat-ed the Q&A.

justice reform. “Encouraging people released from prison to be productive members of society not only strengthens our communities, it saves taxpayers billions of dollars. These grants are a testament to a commitment by local and state leaders to address the problem, and a bipartisan consensus at the federal level about the need for smart investments in effective re-entry programs. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad-ministration (SAMHSA) award is part of a national recidi-vism effort titled Project Synergy. STAND will receive anannual grant of $430,000 for three years and will run until 2016. “This grant allows us to continue our now more than 14-year mission of helping former inmates in south DeKalb and throughout metro Atlanta become healthy, productive members of our communities,” Sperling said.

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In addition to the long-planned March on Washington scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 24, the White House has announced that President Obama will speak at a commem-orative service at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. “National Action to Realize the Dream March” on Aug. 24 will be co-chaired by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III. Ac-cording the list of speakers announced thus far, it will be held in the spirit of the original march. On the other hand, the King Center in Atlanta, headed Bernice King, is more commemorative. It is celebrating Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech by asking com-munities to organize “Let Freedom Ring” bell-ringing events on Aug. 28 at 3 p.m. East-ern Standard Time to observe the exact time Dr. King delivered his historic address. The Let Freedom Ring” commemoration and call to action” will be held on the Na-tional Mall in Washington, D.C. on August 28. The program begins with an interfaith service from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall, followed by the “Let Freedom Ring” ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. President Obama is scheduled to speak at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Ironically, Obama accepted his party’s nomination on 45th anniversary of the march on Aug. 28, 2008 in Denver. In his acceptance speech, he made reference to Dr. King but did not call him by name, preferring to refer to him as “a young preacher from Georgia.” Both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Bayard Rustin Institute are holding their annual conven-tions in Washington that week. Obama’s speech will culminate a week of activities centered around the original march. Among the events planned:

Many Events Planned for March on WashingtonBy George E. CurryNNPA Editor-in-Chief

Wednesday, August 21.Praise and Worship Service for 50th Anniver-sary Celebration7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Mt. Airy Baptist Church 1100 North Capitol Street, NW, Wash-ington, DC 20002. Open to the public.Thursday, August 22, 2013Celebrating the Legacy of Youth in the Move-mentProtect Our Voting Rights & Social Justice Youth Organizing Training 10th Annual Black Youth Vote! National Civic Leadership Training Conference, 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. Nation-al Education Association 1201 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. “Covering Civil Rights: On the Front Lines”7 p.m. Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, D.C. Free and open to the public. Reserve seats at CoveringCivilRights.eventbrite.com.Friday, August 23, 2013Redeem the Dream National Summit & Reception 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. National Building Muse-um 401 F Street NW Washington, DC Host-ed by National Urban League. Open to the public.Celebrating the Legacy of Youth in the Movement -- Protect Our Voting Rights & Social Justice Youth Organizing Training 10th Annual Black Youth Vote! National Civic Leadership Training Conference 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. National Education Association 1201 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. National Town Hall Meeting on Poverty & Economic Empowerment, 2 p.m. – 7 p.m. Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC. Open to the public. Saturday, August 24, 201350th Anniversary March on Washington National Action to Realize the Dream March and Rally for “Jobs, Justice & Freedom.” 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., Lincoln Memorial Washington, D.C. Open to the public.Sunday, August 25, 2013SCLC Worship Service -- 11 a.m.– 1p.m. Howard University Washington D. C. Convention Center. Hosted by SCLC. Open to the public.Monday, August 26, 2013Legacy & Leadership Gala. Time: TBD Capital Hilton 1001 16th St NW, Washington, DC. To register go to: www.sclc.org.

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Vanessa K. Bush, award-win-ning journalist, editor and author, has been named editor-in-chief of ESSENCE, according to Martha Nelson, editor-in-chief of Time Inc. Her appointment is effective immediately. As editor-in-chief, Bush will serve as the brand’s editorial leader and oversee the maga-zine’s content and vision. Most recently, Bush has served as acting editor-in-chief since February of 2013, responsible for leading the editorial team. Bush recently introduced ESSENCE’s #HeIsNotASuspect social media campaign aimed at reducing racial profiling of young African-American men. She has spearhead-ed numerous editorial franchises including “Guns Down,” ESSENCE’s multi-part series addressing gun violence in our communities and “Where Smart Starts,” a year-long initia-tive around education. During her tenure, ESSENCE launched a new Twitter program, #ESSENCEDebates, and Essence.com intro-duced the innovative Beauty Matchmaker tool. In addition, under her leadership, the 2013 ESSENCE Festival’s ESSENCE Em-powerment Experience daytime program-ming enjoyed record-breaking attendance; bringing ESSENCE content to life around the pillars of family, health, relationships, beauty, careers, personal empowerment, activism, and more. She first joined ESSENCE more than a de-cade ago as beauty and fashion features ed-itor, where she directed all style and beauty sections. In 2003, Bush was named lifestyle editor, responsible for coverage including food, home, parenting and lifestyle. Addi-tionally, Bush was a member of the editorial features team, writing and editing numerous impactful stories – such as Thin Line

Vanessa K. Bush Named Editor-In-Chief Of Essence

Between Love and Hate on teen dating violence and Fat Chances chronicling childhood obe-sity. In 2005, she was named executive editor, managing the editorial team to implement the brand’s creative vision, as well as overseeing staffing, systems, operations and the magazine’s operating budget. “Vanessa’s more than 10 years of experience as an editorial leader at ESSENCE will ensure continued success for the

preeminent African-American women’s media brand,” said Nelson. “She has the full support of Time Inc. to execute on her vision to honor this loyal and cherished audience.” As acting editor-in-chief, Bush recruited Dawnie Walton as deputy editor, Aretha Busby as beauty director and Melissa Kramer as fashion director. “Vanessa’s wealth of knowledge about the ESSENCE brand and connection to our community of nearly 10 million readers has deepened reader engagement,” commented ESSENCE President Michelle Ebanks. “Va-nessa is poised to deliver on our mission to help African-American women move their lives forward – not only through the maga-zine, but by meeting their needs across all of our branded platforms.” Prior to joining ESSENCE, Bush served in a variety of editorial capacities at pub-lications such as Life and Glamour. She is also the co-author with Tyra Banks of the best-selling beauty and empowerment book, Tyra’s Beauty Inside & Out. Bush received her Bachelor of Arts de-gree, cum laude, in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and her Master of Science in magazine concentration from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Kathleen Bertrand, senior vice president of community and gov-ernmental affairs for the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau, has been named among “The 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry in 2013,” by Successful Meetings magazine. The annual list honors pro-fessionals who have contributed to the business of meetings, and through their actions, have made a significant impact on the meet-ings industry. “Kathleen is an instrumental force in positioning Atlanta as one of the country’s premier convention and tourism destinations,” said William Pate, president and CEO, ACVB. “We’re proud of Kathleen’s newest accomplish-ment as one of the 25 most influential people in the meetings industry.” Celebrating 30 years with the ACVB, Ber-trand created the Atlanta Heritage Guide,

Kathleen Bertrand named One of 25 Most Influential

the ACVB’s first-ever Afri-can-American visitor-oriented publication. She spearheaded the groundbreaking “Diversi-ty in the Hospitality Industry Summit,” designed to foster nationwide hospitality industry discussion on issues regard-ing diversity and inclusion. Bertrand also co-founded the Hospitality Industry Profession-als (HIP), an organization ded-icated to the growth of diverse leadership through educational

development, professional development, mentoring and networking. In 2009, Bertrand founded the BronzeLens Film Festival with the mission of promoting Atlanta as the new film mecca for people of color and to showcase and foster the next generation of filmmakers. Now entering its fourth year, BronzeLens is one of the most anticipated film events in the country.

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Mayor Kasim Reed joined Google and representatives from Atlanta’s business com-munity on Aug. 14 to accept the 2013 Google eCity Award. The Google eCity Awards recognize the strongest online business community in each state -- the digital capitals of America. As part of the initiative’s launch, Mayor Reed joined Google representatives in recognizing businesses that are embracing the web to find new customers, connect with existing clients and fuel their local economies. “This award is a strong step in affirming Atlanta’s reputation as a leading technology city,” said Reed. “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, both in Atlanta and across the nation. By getting online, Atlanta’s businesses can better share the services they have to offer with people across the state and world, and reinforce the con-nectivity that makes Atlanta a digital capital of America.” The winning cities exhibited strong engagement and potential for growth within the digital economy. To analyze the online strength of local small businesses in cities in all 50 states, Google worked with the inde-pendent research firm, IPSOS. Its findings

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ranked Atlanta among America’s leading cities in the digital economy. “Our ‘e-City Awards’ recognize the new ‘digital capitals’ of America,” said Scott Levitan, Google’s director of small-business engagement. “We’re proud to recognize this growing entrepreneurial spirit—and the role that it plays in both creating jobs and sustaining local economies. With 97 percent of Internet users looking for products and services online, it’s clear that success is about being connected.” For more information on the eCity initia-tive, visit www.google.com/ecities.

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Editor’s Note: This is the fIfth article in an 11-part series on Race in America - Past and Present, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. It has been edited for space considerations.

Children in elementary school often come home with the idea that the purpose of the Civil War was to end slavery. But if that were true, then why did it take Abraham Lincoln so long to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, and why was it less than univer-sally popular in the Union states? If you see the movie “Lincoln,” you get a much fuller picture of the contingency of emancipation, and of the difficulty of passing the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery completely. But why didn’t Lincoln and the Congress think to address at the same time the obvious question of what status the freed slaves would have after that? After Lincoln’s as-sassination, Congress and the state governments settled that mat-ter by passing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, which gave the former slaves full civil rights and voting rights. But why was it necessary for exactly the same rights to be reenacted, after enormous struggle, nearly a century later, during the civil rights era? The answers to all these questions are essentially the same: For most of American history, White America has been highly am-bivalent, or worse, about the idea of full legal equality for Black Americans. Emancipation itself was a forced move, an obvious consequence of the war only in retrospect; it happened because in war zones in the Confederate states, slaves left their plantation homes and appeared at Union army encampments (they were known at the time as “contraband”), and somebody had to decide what to do about them; sending them back to their owners would be both morally suspect and a form of material aid to the enemy. Reconstruction -- the tumultuous decade or so that followed the Civil War -- was an enormous shaping force in American his-tory, and not just in the area of race relations. The word “Reconstruction” is somewhat misleading in the American case, because it implies that the main challenge was managing the tension between punishing the South for seceding and getting it back on its feet economically and politically. In this instance the more pressing question was what the lives of the mil-lions of freed slaves in the South would be like. In the period just after the Civil War, Lincoln’s vice president and successor, Andrew Johnson, was impeached for moving too slowly on these matters, and for being too lenient with the South. Then the fiercely antislavery “radical Republicans” took pow-er, rammed through the Fourteenth (civil rights) and Fifteenth (voting rights) Amendments, maintained the presence of federal troops in the South to enforce those laws, and ran a proto-War on Poverty through a new federal agency called the Freed-men’s Bureau, which was meant to help the freed slaves. Just as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment were enormously controversial in the North as well as the South, so too -- only more so -- were these “rad-ical Reconstruction” measures. The freed slaves never got “40 acres and a mule,” a land-reform idea that has resonated through the years but wasn’t enacted (see “Rumors of the Land” but they did get the basics of citizenship -- most importantly, the right

Deconstructing ReconstructionThe tumultuous decade that followed the Civil War failed to enshrine Black voting and civil rights, and instead paved the way for more than a century of entrenched racial injusticeBy Nicholas Lemann

to vote. One of the most amazing achievements in the history of Black America was the creation, in just a few years, of an elabo-rate political machinery -- Republican, of course --that produced far higher (in fact, pretty close to 100 percent) voter turnout among freed slaves in the South than the United States as a whole has now. One result of this was that the South elected dozens of Black officials to national office, and another was that state and local governments delivered, at least to some extent, what the freed slaves wanted, notably education at all levels. The Ku Klux Klan, which began in the immediate aftermath of the war and was suppressed by federal troops, soon morphed into an archipelago of secret organizations all over the South that were more explicitly devoted to political terror. These organizations -- with names like White Line, Red Shirts, and White League -- had shadowy ties to the more respectable Democratic Party. Their es-sential technique was to detect an incipient “Negro riot” and then take arms to repel it. There never actually were any Negro riots; they were either pure rumor and fantasy that grew from a rich soil of White fear of Black violence (usually entailing the incipi-ent despoliation of White womanhood) or another name for Re-publican Party political activity, at a time when politics was con-ducted out of doors and with high-spirited mass participation. The White militia always won the battle, if it was a battle, and nearly all the violence associated with these incidents was suf-fered by Black people. In the aggregate, many more Black Amer-icans died from White terrorist activities during Reconstruction than from many decades of lynchings. Their effect was to nullify, through violence, the Fifteenth Amendment, by turning Black political activity and voting into something that required taking one’s life into one’s hands. The Army was in the South to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteen Amendments, and it became increasingly clear that with-out its presence, the White South would regionally nullify those amendments through ter-rorism. But the use of federal troops to confront the White militias was deeply unpopular, includ-ing in the North. President Ulysses S. Grant, perhaps out of conviction and

perhaps out of political calculation (Black Southern voters were a big part of the Republican electoral base at this time), placed himself close to the pro-Reconstruction edge of White opinion. Every member of his Cabinet was more hostile to Reconstruc-tion than he was. But he did not feel confident that he could empower federal troops again and again to enforce black voting rights until the South finally accepted those rights. The crucial moment came in the fall of 1875 (election dates were less stan-dardized then than they are now), when Mississippi and Ohio held state elections. Grant tried to compromise by sending a negotiator to Mississippi to broker a peace treaty between the Republicans and the White Line organization, but the Democrats immedi-ately violated the treaty, there was a wave of electoral violence in November, and the Democrats swept back to power (while the Republicans held Ohio). The next year, militia organizations across the South copied “the Mississippi plan” for Black vote suppression, and this was one reason the 1876 presidential election ended in a tie -- which was resolved by the Republicans promising to withdraw federal troops from the former Confederacy, in return for the presi-dency. From that point on, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in the South grew increasingly lax. By the 1890s the Southern states were able legally to institute the Jim Crow system, which formally rescinded Black civil rights and voting rights, without challenge from the federal government. In 1957, Congress passed a civil rights bill, and President Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to the South to ensure Black Americans’ rights (specifically, the right to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas) -- the first time either had happened since 1875. Once your ear is tuned to hear them, echoes of Reconstruc-tion are all around us today. The distinctive voting patterns of the South are a product of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and the dramatic switch in the South’s political loyalties beginning in the 1960s is a direct result of the Democratic Party’s aligning itself with the original goals of Reconstruction. It’s no accident that African Americans are consistently the group with the most favorable view of government; essentially all of their progress toward full legal equality came as a result of government -- specifically, federal government -- action. Periods of greater state and local power were periods of at best no progress, and at worst, more terror.

Nicholas Lemann, a Washington Monthly contributing editor, is dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journal-ism and the author of “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War.” This article was originally published by the Washing-ton Monthly Magazine.

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The Georgia United basketball team recently captured the 2013 AAU 7th Grade National Championship in Memphis, Tenn. The two-time defending State AAU champions went 8-0 to win the week-long competition featuring 87 Division I teams. Pictured are (bottom row, from left) Travis Anderson II, Mandarius Dickerson; Chase Fiddler, Rodney Lewis Jr., Myles Beleyu, Kennedy Minx-Rogers, Malik McClain, Realus George Jr., Corderius Hastings, Eric Ross II, James Lewis, Daviyon Dennis, Rapheal Rogers, Gavin Lewis, and coaches Tee Cofer, Rodney Lewis, Scott Beleyu and Eric Ross.

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The highly-anticipat-ed college football rematch between reigning nation-al champion Alabama and Virginia Tech is now a sellout. Chick-fil-A Bowl offi-cials announced the game and both teams have completely sold through their allotment of tickets for the Georgia Dome showdown. “The Georgia Dome is always an exciting place to play and a sold-out Georgia Dome is going to be very special,” said Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer. Despite ticket allotments being sold out, fans looking to get to the game still have great ticket package options available through PrimeSport, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game’s Official Ticket Exchange and VIP Hospitality provider. “This is a nationally compelling match-up with two legendary coaches, passionate fan bases and perennial top-10 teams in the country,” said Chick-fil-A Bowl President and CEO Gary Stokan. “For Alabama this is a chance to start another championship run, to make history and go for the three-peat. For Virginia Tech, you can’t make much big-ger of a statement than knocking off number one.” The teams, who last met in 2009 when the #5 Crimson Tide defeated the #7 Hokies 34-24 in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, will face off again at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31 to open the 2013 college football season. Since the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game began in 2008, the two matchups between Alabamaand Virginia Tech (2009 and 2013) represent

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Trophy. “We are looking forward to another great game and we have a lot of respect for Coach Beamer and Virginia Tech,” said Nick Saban, Alabama head coach. “We’ve had the opportunity to open the season twice before in Atlanta, and the experience has been extremely positive for our team and our fans. The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in the Georgia Dome is a great venue for college football. It has a bowl game feel, and the staff has done an outstanding job of making it a first-class event.” “Playing in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game creates a very exciting environment for the fans and players of both teams,” said Jim Weaver, Virginia Tech athletics director. “We look forward to opening the season with the defending National Champions in a sold-out Georgia Dome.” In its third Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game appearance, Alabama will look not only to increase its record to 3-0, but will also look to secure a victory that could prove to be im-perative in appearing in its third consecutive national championship game. For Virginia Tech, a victory against top-ranked Alabama would immediately thrust the Hokies into the national spotlight and set them up for a championship run of their own.

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After finishing No. 2 in last year’s final poll, Bethune-Cookman begins the 2013 col-legiate football season at No.1 in this year’s Boxtorow FCS HBCU Coaches’ Poll. The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats received 10 of 17 first-place votes in the annual poll, which is administered twice yearly from the press box and press row, and voted on by coaches of Historically Black College and University’s ( HBCU). Arkansas-Pine Bluff (UAPB) garnered five first-place votes this preseason to finish at No. 2 behind Bethune-Cookman, and just one point ahead of the Tennessee State Ti-gers, despite finishing last season in the top position in both preseason and post-season polls. Tennessee State received two first-place votes in the recent poll after finishing third in the final 2012 tally. Bethune-Cookman’s margin of 19 poll points on No. 2 Arkansas-Pine Bluff is the biggest preseason lead for No. 1 since South Carolina State’s 24-point edge on Prairie View A&M heading into the 2010 season.In the preseason voting, five of the top 10 teams are from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), and four are from the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), along with Tennessee State of the Ohio Val-

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ley Athletic Conference (OVAC). Last year, UAPB became the first non-MEAC team to finish the season ranked No.1 in the polls.Bethune-Cookman and Tennessee State open their seasons against one another on Sunday, Sept. 1 in the John Merritt Classic at LP Field in Nashville, also home to the NFL Tennessee Titans. Traditionally, the team that has been ranked No. 1 in the polls at the close of the season has never lost its opening game the following year. Three of the last four seasons, the top-ranked team has played host in the season opener, and last year UAPB defeated Langston 17-14 in Little Rock. Historically, no team that has started the season ranked No.1 has finished the season atop the poll. And despite not finishing in the top 10 last year, South Carolina State is the only team that has been in all five pre-season polls. The No. 10 ranking is also the Bulldogs’ lowest preseason ranking. This is the first year that neither Gram-bling, Florida A&M, Norfolk State, nor Hampton are in the preseason poll. In addition, this marks the first year that North Carolina Central, Howard and North Caroli-na A&T are in the preseason poll.

Others receiving votes: Delaware State (6-5) 31, Southern (4-7) 11, Florida A&M (4-7) 9, Savannah State (1-10) 7, Alcorn State (4-7) 5, Mississippi Valley State (5-6) 2, Prairie View A&M (3-8) 2, Hampton (3-7) 2.

Executive Director and Head Football Coach Michael Carson (center) is flanked by GPSA Asst. Coach Kwame Crump (from left); NBA legend Walt Bellamy; Andre Benson, president/CEO OF Global Acquisition and Consolidation; Alvin James, president/CEO of the Alvin James Group,; Atlanta City Council member Kwanza Hall; student athletes Marquis Robinson, Justin Arnold and Tai Aprisa, and former B.T. Washington High School and NFL standout Walter Stith during Georgia Prep Sports Academy’s “A Boost Forward” reception and showcase on Aug. 8 to garner support for the non-profit, post-secondary school’s inaugural class of student-athletes.

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Singer Toni Braxton Loses Rights to 27 Songs Six-time Grammy award winner Toni Braxton may not have her trophies, Gucci flatware, or the rights to 27 of her hit-songs — but she still has a lot to smile about. Braxton has finally tied up all the loose ends of her sec-ond bankruptcy filing, and what’s more, she is still here. In addition to her financial woes, Braxton was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Lupus and microvascular angina. Part of Braxton’s bankruptcy settlement included an opportunity for her to buy back her own songs. But she was outbid by Ross M. Klein, who paid more than double the $20,000 the singer had to put toward the material she helped write. Included in the sweep are hits such as “Always,” “You’re Making Me High,” and “How Many Ways.” Noticeably missing from the cache of chart-toppers is “Un-break My Heart,” which was written by Dianne Warren, according to TMZ. The news comes on the heels of her divorce from hus-band Keri Lewis. The two married in 2001, however, the union couldn’t stay in “Mint Condition,” even after they had two sons, Denim and Diezel.

I recall a few years ago when I attended a motivational speaking event to hear the highly energetic and always entertaining motivational speaker Les Brown. It was interesting that his daughter and son came out before him (separately). It was like a Les Brown Revue, with his kids serving as “warm-up acts.” They too are motivational speakers. Well, Brown is not the only one getting the family in o the act. Diana Ross also believes in making her offspring a part of the show. At her recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, the iconic megastar had her daughter, actress Tracee Ellis Ross, served as emcee. Before she made her dramatic debut, there were performances by another daughter, singer Rhonda Ross, and her son, singer/actor Evan Ross. As for the Diana Ross performance, one reviewer wrote, “The legendary artist still knows how to keep fans wanting more while also reminding them that she put the ‘D’ in diva.”

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Braxton’s first public signs of financial trouble began when she unsuccessfully sued her record label and later filed for bankruptcy in 1998. The singer recovered from the financial hit by delivering hit song after hit song, but during an in-ternational tour, misfortune hit the legendary vocalist again when she was hospitalized for complications from Lupus and microvascular angina. The star was hospitalized, but promoters and tour spon-sors charged her for the millions in missed revenue and monies already paid to produce the tour. Braxton admitted that she was in over her head when it came to the possible $50 million she owed. The hit forced her to file another bankruptcy in 2010. In July, she was able to settle all her debts by agreeing to pay $150,000 for property and concerts. The beleaguered diva will continue to open her life to viewers with the hit WE TV reality show, “Braxton Family Values,” as she continues to tour and thrill her fans.

And count me in among those who were surprised to learn that Evan Ross and actress/singer Ashlee Simpson have been a couple for quite some time. The uber-talented Chris Brown, 24, whose hot temper and bad judgment have gotten him into a lot of trouble over the years, has been talking about backing out of show business after the release of his new album in a few weeks. Well, that’s not likely to happen, as has been proven by others who have said the same thing. But taking a lengthy hiatus might be a good idea. It could be a time for deep introspection. “Being famous is amazing when it’s for music and talent,” said Brown. “But I’m tired of being famous for a mistake I made when I was 19.” Point well taken.

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WASHINGTON MARCH WAS FOR JOBS ANd FREEdOM

dROPPING THE LEAdERSHIP BATON

unFInIsHeD BusInessby Julianne Malveaux

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the famous March on Washington – Aug. 28 – Amer-icans will recall Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “dream.” Many can recite entire passages of his historic address. But it’s worth recalling the full meaning of that dream. The March on Washington was a march for justice. And the Civil Rights Movement transformed the country — gaining equal access to public accommodations, outlawing racial discrimination in employment, and securing and protecting the right to vote with the Voting Rights Act. But the 1963 March was titled “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Economic opportunity was at its center. As a key organizer of the march, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council, put it like this:“We have no future in a society in which 6 million Black and White people are unemployed and millions more live in poverty. Nor is the goal of our civil rights revolution merely the passage of civil rights legislation. Yes, we want all public accommodations open to all citizens, but those accommodations will mean little to those who cannot afford to use them.” But for jobs and economic opportunity, the March on Washington remains unfinished 50 years later. Nearly one-half of all African-Ameri-can children live in neighborhoods of concentrat-ed poverty. Nearly three-fourths attend majority minority schools, often scarred by the “savage inequality” of public funding. African Americans are still two times more likely to be unemployed than Whites. Affordable housing remains beyond reach. Adequate public transport to allow access to jobs has declined, not improved. And in our in-ner cities and barrios, clean water, sound sewage, healthy food and good parks grow rarer. The 50th anniversary must revive the move-ment to address this unfinished agenda. Only now the stakes are even greater. A majority of babies born in the United States are now children of color. In three decades, more than half of our population will be people of color, according to U.S. Census projections. By 2050, Bureau of Labor Statistics projections estimate that 42 percent of our workforce will be African American and Hispanic (today that figure is 27 percent). Diversi-ty is our reality. We cannot afford to write off a majority of the next generation and still prosper as a great nation. We will educate and engage the children of all races, or we will suffer continued decline.

We have made great progress since 1963. American apartheid in the South was outlawed. Overt racial discrimination is against the law. No longer must African Americans move to the back of the bus. But the agenda of economic justice remains unfinished. The demands of the marchers in 1963 resonate today: full employment, afford-able housing, equal and excellent public educa-tion, a minimum wage the equivalent of $13 an hour in today’s terms. We argued in 1963 that removing the shackles from the impoverished African-American minority would lift the nation. Now the challenge is to provide opportunity to all children, including the children of color who are America’s future majority. Dr. Martin Luther King taught us that “Free-dom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” In this time of extreme inequality, equal opportunity will not be bestowed by the privileged; it must be demanded by working and poor people. Working and poor people, across regions and religions and race, must come together to transform our national politics and priorities. The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom provides the opportunity to revive the full breadth of Dr. King’s dream and the full scope of the challenge to reach it. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You can keep up with his work at www.rainbowpush.org.

Research shows that this generation of young people, no matter of their race, are likely to do less well than their parents did. Shackled by a trillion dollars worth of student loans and a flat labor market, the New York-based Demos organization says the student loan burden prevents young people from buying homes and amassing wealth. While there are some racial gaps, many young people enter the labor market already behind the space their parents occupied. As I spend time with young people, especially young African Americans, I understand their frustration. They want to know what the civil rights generation has done to pass the baton of activism and improvement to them. They want to know how they should move forward. While they are willing to participate in marches and civic action, they want to know what’s next. And they want to know why their voices are not heard in Black leadership. Those who are seasoned offer their history of activism as proof that they should lead. They forged the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and didn’t ask their elders for permission. They pushed elders to move to a more active position and when elders would not meet them, they pushed themselves. There was no shame in their game. Whether militant or moderate, they embraced parts of the Black Panther Party political program, which begins with these words, “We want freedom, we want the power to determine our destiny.” Too many of us, African Americans, young people, progressives, do not determine our destiny now. We flow with the wind. Too many have dropped the baton, but con-tinue to act as if they are clasping it. Too many mouth their interest in young leaders, but fail to bring them to the table. Too many who are 40 and 50 describe themselves as young, but if you tell the truth and shame the devil, these folks are solidly middle aged. So where are their protégées -- those who will take, not snatch, the torch from them. As I move around the country to speak, organize, motivate, I am stunned by events that focus on youth, but have only a few (and often no) young people present. Imagine if young people had the opportunity to have meaningful exchanges with their elders. Too often young peo-ple are segregated into a “youth” program when interaction with adults would be both motivating and stimulating to them. If we kick young people to the curb, we drop the baton that was handed to us. We baby boomers have a responsibility to both Generation X and Generation Y.

We have shirked that responsibility. I do not know how to describe Rev. Cecelia Bryant. I could call her a mentor, role model, or friend. Or I could say that she is a great inspira-tion and, in a simple sentence, she has encapsulat-ed the work that we must all to do move our com-munity forward. You have to replicate yourself seven times, she said, and you have to ask those you replicated to replicate themselves seven times. In other words, there has to be an embrace, and a responsibility to embrace the next generation not only politically but also personally. Who are the people who will come behind you? Who will incorporate your work into their own? Who will understand that you put your hand on them because somebody put their hand on you, and who will feel obligated to put their hand on others? The civil rights generation made massive progress, but in many ways they dropped the ball. While they made it clear that there was work to be done, too many of them did not choose those who would do it. Too much energy and focus has been placed on one or two people, and we need cohorts of the next generation to work together. My Baby Boom generation has dropped the ball as well. We have been beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Movement, but we have not passed our largess or our lessons on. The Baby Boom generation has been, in many ways, one of the most economically privileged generations of African-American progress. So why do so many of us, who enjoy the legacy of this progress, fail to recognize the people and organizations that have brought us to this place. Rev. Willie Barrow says that we are not as much divided as disconnected. When the baton has been dropped, what can we expect but a gen-erational disconnection?

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

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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS OF PUBLICATION. Take notice that a PLEADING seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS filed by the Pender County Department of Social Services. You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than the 27th day of August, 2013. Said date being forty days from the first publication of this Notice; and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought. You are entitled to attend the hearing affecting your parental rights. You are entitled to have an attorney appointed by the Court if you cannot afford one, pro-vided that you request an attorney at or before the time of the hearing. You may contact the Clerk of Juvenile Court for Burgaw, North Carolina to request counsel. This is notice to the above named respondent that FAILURE TO APPEAR may result in a decision adverse to your parental rights and adverse to any custodial or visitation rights.

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as the meal itself. There are deals throughout the store. Bring in your coupons and

save even more. With all the ways Publix helps you stretch your grocery dollars, you

can plan on leftovers of the green kind regularly. And we don’t mean lettuce.

Add a side of Savingsto every meal.

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around town

Bernice King is greeted by Jane Smith, executive director of the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement at Spelman College and former King Center executive.

Bernice King, CEO of The King Center and daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, enjoys a moment with Doug Ship-man, CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, and C.T. Vivian, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer-ence and 2013 Presidential Medal honoree at Aug. 11 event.

Carter G. Woodson Elementary School Principal Susan Crim-Mc-Lendon (daughter of former APS Supt. Alonzo Crim) is flanked by APS teacher Jeff and Ann Cramer, chair of the Atlanta Partners for Education.

Misha Helvey, vice president of Real Times Media, congratulates An-thony Lathan, a junior at Lithonia High School, at a recent reception at Atlanta Technical College for his successful completion of the At-lanta Business League student shadow program at the Atlanta Daily World. (Special Photo)

Former Atlanta Hawk Dikembe Mutombo enjoys the reception at The Carter Center with Alicia Smith (from left), director of his founda-tion, his wife Rose and Lisa Borders, chair of The Coca-Cola Foun-dation. The event was part of the series of America’s Sunday Supper, sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation.

Clark Atlanta University President Carlton Brown (second from right) and his wife LaVerne (second from left) stand with Brian McKissick (left), CEO of BackStory Entertainment and Mariama Jenkins (right), director of community outreach for Atlanta Public Schools.