EASTSIDE NEWSSee Page 5

Daily

READ ON - WRITE ONISSUED FRIDAY

SERVING: LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, MT. PLEASANT, LEE & AVALON, HARVARD - LEE, MILES - UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA,

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL, HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND “COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW”

FREE

VOL. 41 No.20

READ ON - WRITE ON

FREE

SPORTS MENU TIPS

See Page 6

California Avocados Take Center stage In Dishes

Don’t Forget To Turn Your Clock Forward

The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

Toys For Tots event to be held

Welterweight Curtis Cokes Dies

LEEMimosa cake for mom is anytime trea

The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

Toys For Tots event to be held ... EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS will honor

high school seniors in its June 12, 2020 issue. To

be part of this salute to High School Seniors, emails

photo, your name, school graduated from, college to

attend or gap year/ future plans, Email to esdn1@

gmail.com. For information call 216-721-1674.

Salute To 2020 High School Seniors The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

Toys For Tots event to be held The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

Toys For Tots event to be held

Tuesday, June 2, 2020- Friday, June 5, 2020

Kid’s Corner Timothy L. Tramble Sr. is appointed President and CEO of the Foundation after departure of Anne Good-man. Tramble was the Executive Director CEO of Burten Bell Carr Development(BBC). BBC is a non-profit com-munity development corporation named for three civic leaders Lonnie Burten, James Bell, and Charles V. Carr. Burten, Bell, Carr Development, Inc.has been based in the blighted and underserved communities in Cleveland’s Central and Kinsman neighborhoods since 1990.

Tramble to head the Saint Lukes Foundation

This Week Last Week Last Year

AAA Fuel Gauge Gasoline Price SurveyNortheast Ohio Average for Self-Service Gasoline

region whose average has jumped back over $2/gallon. At $1.86, Indiana carries the second most expensive aver-age in the region, while Mis-souri ($1.54) touts the cheap-est. The Energy Informa-tion Administration (EIA) reports that regional gasoline stocks have decreased for six straight weeks, bringing total stock levels down to the low-est measurement of the year at 54 million barrels. How-ever, stocks remain above the year-ago level of 49.5 million barrels and the five-year aver-age of 52.6 million barrels.This week’s average pric-es: Northeast Ohio Average $1.915

The average price for gasoline across Northeast Ohio is six cents higher this week at $1.915 per gallon, ac-cording to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The nation’s largest weekly gas price increases can be found for a second week in the Great Lakes and Central States region. Five states from the region land on the top 10 list for largest jumps, although this week’s increases are less than a dime: Wisconsin (+7 cents), Iowa (+7 cents), Kan-sas (+7 cents), Nebraska (+5 cents) and Minnesota (+5 cents). With increases over the last two weeks, Illinois ($2.13) is the only state in the

Regular$1.91 $1.39$2.48$1.97

Gasoline prices increase before holiday

(06-05-20)(05-29-20) (06-04-19)(06-05-20)National

Peaceful protests, violence, overtake Cleveland Hundreds of peaceful protesters met at the Free Stamp at Lakeside and 6th Street, east of City Hall, to march to the Justice Center following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officers. Shouting ‘No Justice! No Peace!’ the marchers walked slow-ly carrying signs that read ‘Black Lives Matter,’ ‘We R Tired’ and ‘Their Lives Matter’ - sign with pictures of Floyd and Ahmaud Ar-bery, a black man, who was jog-ging in his neighborhood in Geor-gia on February 23 when he was murdered by three white men. Speakers talked about Floyd’s death and the systemic racism in the police department and in every aspect of American life. Floyd’s death at the

hands of police hits home for black Cleveland officers: ‘We deal with the racism in-house as well,’ one officer said. Legendary Civil Rights activist and founder of Black on Black Crime, Inc., Art McKoy lent his voice. Accompanying McCoy on the Black on Black Crime, Inc. bus were the current president, Al Porter, Jr., and vice president, Eliz-abeth Still. who brought a group from East Cleveland so that their voices could be heard. McCoy, Porter, Still, and Judy Martin, CEO of Survivors: Victims of Tragedy have been out-spoken critics of the Cleveland Po-lice, and they were instrumental in the Justice Department implement-ing the consent decree to reform Cleveland’s police department in 2015.

McHale

Emmy loves school and is getting ready to start kindergarten in the fall. Her favorite animal is a dog. She loves to collect stuffed puppies and play with her dolls and little brother, Jude. Pizza and oranges are her favorite things to eat. She also enjoys watching Disney movies and reading books. Emmy has recently started karate lessons and is learning to ride a big girl bike. She will be 5 in July..

COVID-19 Minority

African Americans are dying at an alarming rate in Cleveland. Some of natural causes, but many due to conditions aggravated by COVID-19. Governor Mike DeWine an-nounced that a full-time position at the Ohio Department of Health will be solely devoted to social determinants on health and opportu-nity due to statistics showing racial minorities, especially African American Ohioans, are disproportionately affected by coronavirus. Between May 22 and June 5, 30 African Americans have died. How many deaths are as a result of COVID-19? Because of the lack of testing, the numbers may never be known. Below is a list of African Ameri-cans who have died in Cleveland between May 22 and June 5: May 22 Michael Smith, 34, Black Male, s Black in Emergency Room, University Hospi-tals Cleveland Medical Center Eddy J Jackson, 64, Black Male 11402 McCracken Road

Todd Walker, 51, Black Male, 3094 Albion Ave Charlie Hayes 75, Black Fe-male 1500 East 193rd Street, #446 Shaienne J Peacock, 16, Black Female University Hospitals Medical Center Bryan Gregory Edwards, 31, Black Male, University Hospitals Medi-cal Center May 23 Gloria Cooper, 78, Black Fe-male, 11430 Clifton Blvd. #10 Crosby Pollard, 64, Black Male, k 13214 Melze Ronald Anderson, 68,Black Male University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center Edward Ruth, 62, Black Male, 10600 St. Clair Avenue, Apt. 203 - Mornigstar Apartments May 25 Carl Williams, 49, Black Male, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Photo by Vince Robinson

Curtis E Legg, 31, Black Male, Metro Health May 26 Richard Zachary Evans, 40, Black Male 25200 Rockside Rd., #222 Casondra Murphy, 55, Black Fe-male, 4911 East 108th Street, Down May 28 William J Peeples, 64, Black Male, 4896 E. 8 Tarik Seaberry, 23, Black Male, E RUniversity Hospitals Bedford Medical Cente May 29 Khali Eddings, 25 days, Black Female University Hospitals Medical Cen-ter May 30 Sheila Moore, 66, Black Fe-male, Hillcrest Hospital May 30 Zola Webster, 54, Black Female, 2901 East 104th Street May 31 Lawrence Hoy , 66, Black Male 6315 Meadowbrook Road

Protesters met at the Free Stamp in Cleveland to march following the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Several speakers demanded that all four officers be charged for Floyd’s murder.(ESND Photo By Omar Quadir)

Protesters held signs reading ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘1920 - KKK Police -2020’ as they rallied in downtown Cleveland for social justice and po-lice reform.(ESDN Photo by Omar Quadir) Additional pictures on page 7.

A protesters attempted to engage an officer in dialogue outside of the Justice Center during the protest rally downtown last Saturday that turned violent. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters. Po-lice blamed outsiders on the looting and destruction.(ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson) Additional pictures on page 7.

Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters at the rally downtown last Saturday that turned violent. Police blamed outsiders on the looting and destruction.(ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

COVID-19 crisis: Natural causes,virus count unclear Ladon F Perkins, 41, Black Male, 237 Emerson Av June 1 Michael Allen, 57, Black Male, 22677 Ivan Avenue June 2 John H. Carolina, 66, Black Male 9700 Fuller Avenue Up Frank Lyons, 37, Black Male, University hospital June 3 David J Hamilton, 56, Black Male, t 11417 Fidelity Avenu Oliver Ford, 55, Black Male, 1501 East 191st Street #148 June 4 Rahnoy Ingram, 3 month(s) Black Male, ER, University Hospitals Curtis O’Neal, 62, Black Male, 713 East 160th Street Melvin Brown, 67, Black Male, 14096 Lorain Ave, Apt. B21 June 5 Gayle A. Pratt, 50, Black Fe-male, 1818 Pleasantdale Rd. Apt. 3

The Latino community of Cleveland joined the protesters in down-town Cleveland to honor the memory of George Floyd and to raise their voices against systemic racism. (ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

Alfred Porter, Jr. CEO and President of Black on Black Crime, Inc. has been at the forefront of every rally for social justice for the past 25 years. Behind Porter is Art McKoy, the legendary Civil Rights activist and founder of Black on Black Crime, Inc. McKoy is holding the flag. Porter and McKoy have been outspoken critics of the Cleveland Police, and they were instrumental in the Justice Department implementing the consent decree to reform Cleveland’s police department in 2015. Story and additional pictures on page 7.

The National Guard and Cleveland police officers from the 4th dis-trict were stationed at Shaker Square on Monday night to protect local busi-nesses. They cleared the area by 11:00 p.m. without incident.

As the protesters rallied at the Justice Center, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the protest-ers to disperse the crowd. As night fell, mayhem en-

sued as looters began to destroy property and loot downtown businesses. According to busi-ness leaders, there was millions of dollars in damage done be-

fore the night ended. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson instituted a curfew for the remainder of the week as business-es began to clean up.

On Wednesday, The Min-nesota Attorney General Keith El-lison, announced that all four of-ficers would be charged in Floyd’s murder.

Small Business Directory To Place Your Advertisement, Call: 721-1674

VANTAGE POINTPage 2 EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS

Easy Side Publishing Co., Inc.

EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS11400 Woodland Avenue - Cleveland, Ohio 44104(216) 721-1674 - e-mail: esdn1@yahoo.com

Publisher - Ulysses Glen

Tuesday, June 2, 2020 - Friday, June 5, 2020

Will BuyOld Boxing Magazines

Pay Top DollarCall (216) 721-1674

Raffle TicketsFor

FundraisingEvents

To Place Your OrderCall 216-721-1674

S p e c i a l1000 Full Color - 2 SidedBusiness Cards

$85.00To Place Your Order

Call: 216-721-1674

PRINTINGLetter Heads & EnvelopesFlyers - Program Books

Raffle Tickets - Wedding InvitationsFuneral Programs

1 DAY SERVICE – (216) 721-1674

Serving Greater Cleveland Since July 10, 1980

Reach More Than60,000 ReadersAdvertise Your

BusinessCall: (216) 721-1674

Remember Your Loved OneWith A Professionally

Written Obituary

Call 216-721-1674

Full ColorFuneral Programs

1 Day ServiceTo Place Your Order

Call 216-721-1674

Website:eastsidedailynews.com

FlyersFor

All PurposesColor Or Black And White

Call 216-721-1674

Letterheads And

EnvelopesTo Place Your Order

Call216-721-1674

Program BooksFor

Events And FundraisersTo Place Your Order

216-721-1674

CUSTOM MADEStamps – Desk & Door SignsName Badges & Wall Signs

To Place Your OrderCall

(216) 721-1674

Charles Steele, Jr is standing in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Jo-seph Lowery as he continues the work of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).He is President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Steele, Jr. was born on August 3, 1946, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Steele, Jr. graduated high school from Druid High in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and attended college at Mississippi Valley State Univer-sity and Oakland University. He received his bachelors from The F.T. Boz-eman school of Ministry and Global Evangelical Christian College of Louisiana. He also received his Masters from F. T. Bozeman Global Evangeli-cal Seminary and received an earned Doctorate degree from Mt. Carmel Theological Semi-nary. He also holds an Hon-orary Doctor of Human Letters Degree from the prestigious Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, an Honorary Doctorate of Christian Education from The F.T. Boze-man school of Ministry and Global Evangelical Christian College of Louisiana, Honor-ary Doctorate from Mississippi Valley State University, an Hon-orary Doctorate from Birming-ham Bible College and other numerous Honorary Doctorate Degrees. Throughout Dr. Steele's many travels he has visited 5 continents and count-less countries. Some of his most notable visits include: Jerusa-lem, Israel; Moscow, Russia; Berlin, Germany; Rome, Italy and many countries within the continent of Africa.

Steele to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

In 1985, Dr. Steele was elected to the Tuscaloosa City Council where he served two terms. His dedication to serving his constituents is evident through his many worthwhile and tangible accomplishments in Tuscaloosa County and West Alabama. During his tenure as City Councilman, he organized the Unity Day Scholarship Fund, the Tuscaloosa Police Athletic League, and secured funds for purchase of Palmore Park and Barrs’ Quarters (Charles Steele Estates). Thiswasthefirst low-income no down payment home ownership program in West Ala-bama. He obtained the funds to build the Bernice Washington Insight Center, a drug treatment center. He organized the Tusca-loosa Drug Task Force and after many years of relenting efforts,the Partners for a Drug free Tus-caloosa County (formerly Tusca-loosa Drug Task Force). During that time the partnership was awarded one million dollars. In 1994, Charles Steele, Jr. was elected to the Ala-bama state senate. As Senator he played a key role in recruiting

Mercedes Benz to Tuscaloosa County. He also recruited sev-eral new plants in his district. He was instrumental in locating Tire and Wheel Assembly (T&WA) in Greene County, H&H (truck beds) in Perry County and Gre-enco Dimensions, Inc. (drum sticks) in Greene County. He also sponsored a nontraditional educational program with Rob-ert Townsend of Hollywood, California for the youth of his district. Additionally, he re-cruited the Rosa Parks movie to Alabama, where he served as a consultant and associate pro-ducer to the production of the $7 million CBS movie project. He was serving his third term before resigning to become the National Vice President of the SCLC, the Atlanta based organization co-founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In October 2000, Charles Steele, Jr. was elected as a Senate Member of the High Chamber (U.S. Parliamen-tary Group) of the International States Parliament for Safety and Peace. The International Par-liament nominated Dr. Steele to the Ministry of American Af-fairs on the 15th of March 2001. In November 2004, he became President and CEO of SCLC. In April 2006, Charles Steele, Jr. was inducted into the Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. Board of Preachers of Morehouse College. On April 20, 2006 he was inducted into the Tuscaloosa Hall of Fame. In October of 2006 under the slogan “New Day…New Way,” Charles Steele, Jr. and SCLC made his-tory by breaking ground for their new and much anticipated $3.3 million international headquar-ters. Dr. Steele vigorously raised money for the new head-

quarters through corporate friends and sponsors. During his five years as SCLC Presi-dent and CEO he raised over 10 million dollars including the 3.3 million dollars he raised for the headquarters. In February of 2009, Dr. Steele resigned as SCLC President and CEO to start his own consulting firm, CharlesSteele & Associates (CSA). In 2011 the board of SCLC unanimously voted Dr. Steele as President Emeritus. On July 2,2012 he was elected ChiefExecutiveOfficer for thesecond time. In August 2013, Dr. Steele made history by becom-ingthefirstSCLCPresidentandCEO to ever hold this position twice. In January of 2018, Dr. Steele was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame. In September of 2019, Dr. Steele was inducted into the National Black Colleges Alumni (HBCU) Hall of Fame.

Other Accomplishments in-clude: Author of the bookEasier to Obtain than to Maintain: The Globalization of Civil Rights He and his wife, Cathelean Annette Steele are the parents of two daughters: LeKeisha and Charla, grandsons Carson and Cruz, granddaughter Harper Grace and son-in-law Cleveland. Dr. Steele is co-owner of Vanhoose and Steele Funeral Home. Dr. Steele is a civil rightsleaderfirst,usinghiscon-stituency as a pulse to direct ac-tion and chapter development of public policies. His vision of a “national playing field”keeps him in touch with cur-rent issues and political fairness.

YOUR HEALTH

Chinese Restaurant(Only One Location)

Phone: 991-2222Carry Out Menu

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK11708 Buckeye Road - Cleveland, Ohio

The Original

FLOWERS

(216) 721-150011520 Buckeye Road

DELIVERED ANYWHERE DAILY

GIFT & FRUITCHEESE & WINE

JOHN H. LAWSONAttorney And Counselor At Law

The Brownhoist Building4403 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland, OH 44103

(216) 881-9675 FAX: (216) 881-3928

Shop for flowers on our website 24/7www.orbansflowers.com

Steele, Jr.

Weekly Wealth For Your Health

By NATHANIEL SILLIN

Use an employer-sponsored flexible spend-ing account (FSA). Some employers offerFSAs as anemployee benefit. You canmake tax-deductible contri-

butions to the account each year and withdraw the money tax-free to pay for qualifiedmedical expenses, including health insurance deductibles and copayments. However, this approach could require planning as you may forfeit

remaining FSA money at the end of each year. Enroll in health in-surance with a health savings account (HSA). An HSA account is similar to an FSA in that you can contribute pre-tax money and withdraw funds to pay for eligible medical expenses tax-free. HSAs don’t have the use-it-or-lose-it requirement, but to qualify for an HSA ac-count, you need to enroll in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) and can’t be eligible for Medicare. Ask your health in-surance company about dis-counts. Even when a health insurance provider doesn’t

Reigning in medical costs with advanced planningcover a procedure, mem-bers may still be able to save money by going through their insurance. .Health insurance requirements can also vary from one state to another, and you should double-check your benefits before assum-ing something isn’t covered. Infertility treatment is one of these gray areas, as some states require health insur-ance plans to provide cover-age while others do not. .Nathaniel Sillin directs Visa’s financial edu-cation programs. To follow Practical Money Skills on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney

Don't let nausea spoil your life (NAPSI)-If you ever get sick to your stomach due to preg-nancy, chemotherapy, surgery, riding in a car, a boat, a plane or an amusement park ride, or even virtual reality gaming, you may be relieved to learn two things: First, you’re not alone. Nausea affectsmillions of people every day. Scientists are not sure why, but accord-ing to a study published in the journal Aviation, Space, and Environ-mental Medicine, there is a significant geneticcontribution that may be responsible for as much as 57 percent of the people who sufferfrom motion sickness. Next, whatever the cause, you can feel better with the help of these four anti-nausea tips: Eat light, plain food, such as dry bread and crackers. Avoid anything too sweet or greasy. Sip certain liq-uids if you can—ginger ale, ginger tea, mint tea and plain water may all help. Get a fast-act-ing, drug-free, nausea relief band that works withoutthesideeffectsof medications such as drowsiness and consti-pation. Featuring a clinically proven tech-nology, it’s a specially designed wristband that uses patented sci-entific knowledge, en-dorsed by health care professionals, and that emits accurately pro-grammed pulses with highly specific wave-forms, frequency and intensity. These pulses

signal the median nerve at the P6 location on the underside of the wrist. This stimulation of the nerves, known as “neuromodulation,” uses the body’s natu-ral neural pathways to send messages to the part of the brain that controls nausea, retch-ing and vomiting. The signals have a rebalancing ef-fect, normalizing nerve messages from the brain to the stomach and quickly reducing symptoms of nausea, retching and vomiting. The unique band is easy to use and comfortable to wear, even over time, and the attractive design rivals the most fashionable wearables. Called Relief-band 2.0, it features

a latex-free band and hypoallergenic surgical steel contacts for ef-ficient transmission ofpulses. The intuitive display has 10 inten-sity settings that can be moved up and down at the touch of a button and a battery that lasts about 18 hours on a full charge and recharges quickly. This adjustable band, designed to con-trol nausea, helps put you back in control so you can live your life in full motion. For further in-formation, go to www.reliefband.com, and to find a community of fellow nausea suffer-ers and learn how they cope, visit www.nation-alstopnauseaday.com.

Page 3 EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS Tuesday, June 1, 2020 - Friday, June 5, 2020

Islam In The Community

Wanted Cleveland Buckeyes Baseball Team

Baseball Collectibles Items From Other Cleveland Teams That Played In The Professional Negro LeagueAutographed Baseballs - Photos - Programs

Bats - Schedules - Yearbooks - Tickets - MoviesGuides - Buttons - Postcards - Baseball Cards

Also Wanted Items On:Satchel Paige - Larry Doby - Luke Easter

Minnie Monoso - Al Smith Dave Pope - Dave Hoskins

Paying Top Dollar Call (330) 856-7047 or (216) 721-1674

SubscribeTo EAST SIDE

DAILY NEWSwww.eastsidedailynews.com

Call (216) 721-1674

Wanted ExperiencedJournalist

Call (216) 721-1674

Newspaper For SaleIdeal For Person

Who Wants To BeInvolved In TotalCleveland Area!

Call (216) 721-1674

Class 1 Pavers & Remodelers

Visit Our Website: Class1Pavers.com

Specializing In Residential Driveways

Need Help? Great Financing!!Call: (216) 397-6349

Roof Repair & Tune-up

1481 Warresnville Ctr. Rd.South Euclid, Ohio 44121

A + Rating By BBB

• Siding• Masonary Work• Rec. Rooms *• Seal Coating• Siding• Roofing• Handicap Shower

And Walk In Tubs

Roof Leaks? We Can Help!

Kitchen and Bathroom30% Savings

• Windows

By JAMES L. SNYDER

I must admit that I do gravel a lot in thinking about my thoughts. It has been a habit of mine down through the years. Think-ing is what really makes life worth living, or so I believe. My father had a saying whenever he saw me staring off into the distance, “A penny for your thoughts, son.” Then he would smile, and I knew he really was not interested in what I was thinking he was just trying to set some kind of trap for me. Fortunately, I never fell into that trap, whatever it was. Of course, at the time I could’ve used an extra penny. One of my favorite writers, when I was young, was a man by the name of James Thurber. He was blind, but he was one of the great writers of his day. He would think his thoughts about the story he was working on all day long, then sit down with his secretary, tell her the sto-ry from memory, and write it down. On one occasion, Thurber and his wife were having dinner with some friends. Mrs. Thurber looked at her husband and saw that stare that was so familiar to her and she said, “James, stop writing and join us here on earth.” I am afraid I can relate to Mr. Thurber along these lines. When working on a project, it is tough for me not to think about that proj-ect all the time. What is most disturbing to me is that I get a brilliant thought for the proj-ect I am working on when I am with a company of peo-ple, maybe having lunch or something. A thought I can-not afford to lose. On several occasions, I excused myself and went to the men’s room to jot down those thoughts.Some thoughts are worth the effort. In thinking about this, I remember a story that Frank W. Boreham (an Aus-tralian pastor and author)

once told. He was referring to one of the elderly women in his church and described her as, “Someone who never had an unexpressed thought in her life.” Meaning, of course, she talked all the time. I have discovered two kinds of people in this world; one who talks all the time and one who listens. Of course, there is that third cat-egory of people who don’t do either. I have tried to bal-ance this throughout my life. I have tried to talk when nec-essary and listen when nec-essary. However, my biggest flaw is that I listen when I should be talking, and I talk when I should be listening. If this isn’t frustrating, I do not know what is. Since I have an MR degree in marriage, I have tried to work on this. The big challenge is to know when to listen and when to talk. As I get older, I find myself talking more than I’m listening. This, in and of itself, gets me into more trou-ble than I can handle. The other day, my wife and I were watching a little television, and she was telling me about an incident that day. She paused and then said, “Are you listening to me?” No matter how long you’ve had that MR degree try never to not listen when your wife is talking. She may have a quiz later on. “Are you listening to me?” She said somewhat sarcastically. Stuttering a little bit, I said, “Why, yes, I’m listen-ing to you.” “Okay,” she said, “what was I talking about?”At that point, I knew I was in trouble because I may have been listening to her, but I did not really hear what she had to say. We have in our so-ciety today something called “Social Distancing,” but in my house, I am infected with “Hearing Distancing.” This has gotten me into more trou-

ble than anything else has.It is not that I do not want to listen to my wife; I some-times forget to pay attention. After all, when you are as broke as I am, paying atten-tion is very difficult. I do try to save pennies on rainy days so that I can occasionally af-ford to pay attention. The other day I got caught in a trap. I should know better, but sometimes I let my guard down, and there it is, I am stuck. We again were watching a little television, and I, for some reason, was staring off into outer space. My wife noticed that, and then she said, “A penny for your thoughts.” Without thinking, and I do this quite a bit, I replied, “You don’t have enough pennies for what I’m thinking.” I don’t know why I said it. Maybe I was trying to make a joke. Regardless of the reason, I was in deep trouble. She stared at me for a few moments, and then both of us broke down in laughter. I will not reveal what she said next, but it was appropriate. In my quiet time this morning, I thought about that incident. I thought about how important thoughts are. Then I thought about what David said, “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!” (Psalm 139:17). However important my thoughts may be, the most important thoughts are the thoughts God has concern-ing me. Searching the Scrip-tures, I begin to see what God thinks about me. Dr. James L. Sny-der, pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, lives with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage in Ocala, FL. Call 352-687-4240 or e-mail jamessnyder2@att.

A Look At My WorldMy thoughts are worth more than a penny

"ISLAM IN THE COMMUNITY"

For questions or more information on ISLAM contact:Imam Mutawaf Shaheed

216-938-8059email: masjidalmumin@yahoo.com

In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful

Masjid Al-Mumin/ Islamic Revivalist Movement2690 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44104

Driveway(Concrete and Asphalt)

Junie’s Affordable TransportationCash, Money Orders, NO Checks Please!Make Money Orders Payable To: Robert Williams Jr.Pick Up Location: 10210 Woodland Avenue (Rear)Cleveland, Ohio 44104Every MondayGrafton Correction........... $40.00Morning Visit Time 8:00 a.m. To 11:00 a.m.Afternoon Visit Time 12:00 p.m. To 3:00 p.m. NO Refunds Money Must Be In A Week In Advance NO Exceptions Every WednesdayRichland Correction..........$50.00Visit Time 7:30 a.m. To 3:00 p.m.Richland Correction Goes by Odd Number Day Visit Or Even NumberDay Visit You Could Contact Richland Correction For ThatInformation Or You Could Also Contact:Junie’s Affordable TransportationEvery FridayMansfield Correction..........$50.00Visit Time 8:00 a.m. To 2:00 p.m.Saturday Reservations OnlyMarion Correction..........$60.00Visit Time 8:00 a.m. To 3:00 p.m.

Children Under 12 Years Of Age Ride Half PriceProof Of Childs Age Is Required

For Information Contact: Junie: (216) 795-1705 Or (216) 269-6636

For All Your Printing - Call: (216) 721-1674Business Cards - Flyers

Pamphlets - BrochuresWedding Invitations

Calendars - ObituariesReligious Literature

We Design And Typeset Your Material Professionally

REPUBLIC A-1AUTO PARTS

Quality In Used Car Parts

Complete Line of Foreign And Domestic Parts

Used & RebuiltAuto Parts For Sale

3210 East 65th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44127

(216) 271-3000(216) 271-4200

Letters To The EditorSubmit to:

esdn1@yahoo.com

Lessons from Malcolm X on Islam and his visit to Mecca Malcolm X left the United States on a per-sonal and spiritual journey through the Middle East and West Africa on April 13, 1964.By the time he re-turned on May 21, he’d vis-ited Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, and Algeria. In Saudi Arabia, he’d experienced what amounted to his second life-changing epiphany as he accomplished the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, and discovered Islam of univer-sal respect and brotherhood. The experience changed Malcolm’s world-view. Gone was the belief in whites as exclusively evil. Gone was the call for black separatism. His voyage to Mecca helped him discover the atoning power of Islam as a means to unity as well as self-respect: “In my thir-ty-nine years on this earth,” he would write in his auto-biography, “the Holy City of Mecca had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of All and felt like a complete human be-ing.” It had been a long journey in a brief life.

Malcolm’s first epiphany occurred 12 years earlier when he converted to Islam becoming a member of Elijah Muhammad’s Na-tion of Islam while serving an eight-to-10-year prison sentence for robbery. Islam according to Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam espoused separat-ism. Malcolm X saw the systemic racism in America and the need to fight for his people and rapidly rose in the ranks of the organiza-tion. Malcolm’s charisma and eventual celebrity built the Nation of Islam into the mass movement and po-litical force it became in the early 1960s. The Nation of Is-

lam’s Elijah Muhammad turned out to be much less than the upstanding moral paragon he pretended to be. He was a serial woman-izer who fathered numer-ous children out of wedlock with his secretaries. Malcolm X came to feel that Elijah Muham-mad had hijacked Islam in name only. “Imagine, being a Muslim minister, a leader in Elijah Muhammad’s Na-tion of Islam,” Malcolm wrote, “and not knowing the prayer ritual.” Malcolm’s disillu-sionment with Muhammad and the Nation led him to break away from the orga-nization and set out on his own. Malcolm witnessed what he claimed he never saw in the United States: men of all color and nation-alities treating each other equally after visiting Cai-roand then in Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. “Throngs of peo-ple, obviously Muslims from everywhere, bound for the pilgrimage were hugging and embracing. They were of all complex-ions, the whole atmosphere

was of warmth and friend-liness. The feeling hit me that there really wasn’t any color problem here. The ef-fect was as though I had just stepped out of a prison.” To enter the state of ihram required of all pil-grims heading for Mecca, Malcolm abandoned his trademark black suit and dark tie for the two-piece white garment pilgrims must drape over their upper and lower bodies. “Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jedda, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peas-ant and no one would know. That, of course, is the point of ihram,” Malcolm wrote. In Saudi Arabia, Malcolm’s journey was held up a few days until authori-ties could be sure his pa-pers, and his religion, were in order (no non-Muslim is allowed to enter the Grand Mosque in Mecca) As he waited, he learned various Muslim rituals and spoke to men of vastly different back-grounds, most of whom were as star struck with Malcolm as Americans were back home. They knew Mal-colm X as the “Muslim from America.” They plied him with questions; he obliged them with sermons for answers. In everything he said to them, “they were aware,” in Malcolm’s words, “of the yardstick that I was using to measure everything—that to me the earth’s most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God’s creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.” Finally, the actual pilgrimage: “My vocabu-

lary cannot describe the new mosque [in Mecca] that was being built around the Ka’aba,” he wrote, de-scribing the sacred site as “a huge black stone house in the middle of the Grand Mosque. It was being cir-cumambulated by thousands upon thousands of praying pilgrims, both sexes, and every size, shape, color, and race in the world. My feeling here in the House of God was numbness. My mutawwif (religious guide) led me in the crowd of praying, chanting pilgrims, moving seven times around the Ka’aba. Some were bent and wizened with age; it was a sight that stamped it-self on the brain.” It was that sight that inspired his famous “Letters from Abroad”—three letters, one from Sau-di Arabia, one from Nigeria and one from Ghana—that began redefining Malcolm X’s philosophy. “America,” he wrote from Saudi Arabia on April 20, 1964, “needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases the race problem from its society.” He would later concede that “the white man is not inherently evil, but America’s racist society influences him to act evil-ly.” Malcolm returned to the United States as fi-ery as ever. His philosophy was taking a new direction. But his critique of liberal-ism went on unabated. He was willing to take the help of “sincere whites,” but he was under no illusion that the solution for black Amer-icans would not begin with whites. It would begin and end with blacks. In that re-

gard, whites were better off busying themselves with confronting their own path-ological racism. “Let sincere whites go and teach non-violence to white people,” he said. Malcolm never had the chance to evolve his new philosophy fully. “I never have felt that I would live to be an old man,” he told Alex Hal-ey, his biographer. On Feb. 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, he was shot by three men as he was preparing to speak to an audience of sev-eral hundred. The world remem-bers the prominent civil rights leader Malcolm X as a controversial counterpart to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the fight for equality. Malcolm X’s be-liefs about race continue to speak to a new generation. He lived during a transformative time in America. The 1950s and ‘60s were a time of great change (and great danger) for African-Americans, with the

nation at a crossroads in its discussions on race. As we all know, it’s still a turbulent time to-day. Headlines dominate the news, and remind us there is a long way to go. .before we can finally in the country. Malcolm believed black lives mattered. He believed we are all brother and protested in-justice - injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Alex Haley, pub-lish The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley a few months after his assassination. This book is still considered and remains in-fluential to this day.

Malcolm X

SPORTSEAST SIDE DAILY NEWS

Cleveland Area Golden Gloves Boxing Tourna-ment at Brookpark Rec. Cente, 17400 Holland Road has been cancelled. For information call Earl Jewell at 2160224-3912.

Zips athletes awarded Medal of Excellent Tuesday, June 2, 2020- Friday, June 5, 2020 University ofAkron track and field standouts Macken-zieAndrew (Toowoomba,Australia) andMatt Ludwig (Chardon,Ohio)havebeennamed2020Mid-AmericanConferenceMedalofExcellenceAwardwinners, theMAC.TheMedalofExcellenceisanawardpresentedannually toonemaleandonefemalestudent-athletefromthegraduatingclassofeachofthe12Conferencemem-berinstitutions.TobehonoredwiththeMedalofExcellenceAward,student-athleteshadtoparticipateonthevarsity level inaconfer-encesponsoredsportandshownevidenceofacademicsuccesswithaminimum3.50accumulativegrade-pointaverage,exhibitedathlet-icsexcellence,leadershipandservice.

Welterweight champ Curtis Cokes dies Welterweight champion Curtis Cokes died onMay29.Hewas 82.CurtisCokeswas a boxer fromDal-las,Texas.Cokeswas theWorldWelterweightChampion,andhewasfamousforhistrainingregimen,whichhealsoimposedonotherboxerstrainingwithhim.Cokestookthewelterweighttitlein1966withawinoverManuelGonzalezand successfully defended his title five times before fall-ingtoJoséNápolesin1969.HewasthefirstboxingworldchampioninDallashistoryandwasinductedintotheInter-nationalBoxingHallofFamein2003.

ByKARLBRYANT

The NBA Boardof Governors is expectedtovoteonThursday, afterPress Time, to approve a plan to restart the NBAseason in one location –WaltDisneyWorld inOr-lando. Unfortunately, theCavaliers and the otherseven teams, who madeupthebottomrungsintheleaguestandingswhentheseasonwassuspendedduetotheCOVID-19pandem-ic, are expected to be omit-tedfromtherestart. C ommi s s i o n e rAdam Silver is expectedto propose that one idea- taken from the variousrestart scenarios thatwerediscussed last week in aconference call – be ac-cepted.Itwouldbetheoneinwhichthe22topteamswouldholdanabbreviatedregular season of severalgamestogetintoshape.A

“play-in” tournament thenwould be held among theclubsat thebottomof thestandingsofthose22com-peting teams to come upwith final-seeded qualifi-ers,sothata16-teamplay-off–which is usually thecase–wouldproceed. The owner ofthe OKC Thunder, ClayBennett, at last weeksmeeting, remarked thatomitted teams would beshortchanged, since theyhaven’t played basketballsince March and, withoutreturning,wouldbemonthsbehind the teams that doreturn, when the 2020-21NBAseasonwouldbegin.He wanted the league tomullover“thecompetitiveand the financial plight”of smaller-market teams(i.e.,theCavs),andtheim-pactonlya22-teamrestartwouldhaveonthoseclubsthatwereleftout. C o n s e q u e n t l y,

Cavs are omitted from NBA restartthere has been an ideabandied about that theeight non-returning teamswouldholdSummertrain-ing camps and perhapsparticipate in some sort ofAutumnleague tokeepin shape. In recent years,the Las Vegas SummerLeague has been held,usually with NBA team’sfirstandsecondyearplay-ers,alongwithotherswhousuallymakeupasquad’sG-Leagueaffiliates. At leastthisproposalwouldaffordplayers an opportunity toplay competitive basket-ball.But,woulditbegoodenough?

ByKARLBRYANT

Several Brownsplayers have been address-ing racial injustice in thewake of George Floyd’sdeath incustodyofMinne-apolispoliceandthesubse-quent international protestsandcivicunrest.GuardJoelBitonio,DEMylesGarrett,andcenterJ.C.Tretter,headof the NFL Players Assn.,all have made high profilestatementsinrecentdays. Bitonio, in a tele-conference with Media,spoke about a virtual teammeeting that the Brownsheld onMonday,where, inlightofrecentevents,play-ers agreed they could usetheir platform as athletesto try to effect change. Henoted, “The conclusion we

Browns players address racismcametoisobviouslythere’sinjustice in thisworld rightnow, and people are hurt-ing. People need help, andwe’re going to try and useourpowerandourpositiontohelpthem” Bitonio stated thatBrownsWR Jarvis Landrygaveanimpassionedspeechduringthemeeting.Hesaid,“Jarvis came up and hespoketotheteamformaybe10 minutes yesterday andjust tried to tellushowwecanuseourplatformalittlebit better becauseIthinkthevastmajorityofpeoplewanttohelpandwanttoimprovethe situation.”He also saidthat Coach Kevin Stefan-skiadvisedtheplayersastowhat theycoulddo in theirrespective communities toofferassistance.

Bitonio remarked,“There’s a real hurt and areal cry for help, and theywant people to listen tothemandunderstandwherethey’recomingfrom.That’sthe biggest thing is theydon’twanttostartanargu-ment and they don’t wantto start a crazy discussionabout it.Theywant you tolisten and they want youto truly accept what’s go-ing on, and then kind ofseewherewe can go fromthere.” Bitonio stated hishopefor the future, saying,“People listen. Kids listen.You start with the youngergeneration, and you teachthem to love each otherand have compassion andempathy for other people,andthat’swhereitgrowsinthiscountry.Ihopeplayers,

ownership, and theNFLasawholeusetheplatformtoreallypromotethatlove.” Garrett has offeredto help the family of Lou-isville, Kentucky barbecueownerDavidMcAtee,whowas killed by police undercontroversial circumstanc-es during a George Floydprotest onMonday.Garretttweeted, “I’ll take care ofanythingtheyneed.” Tretter, in his roleasthePresidentoftheNFLPlayers Assn., issued thefollowingstatement: “Atthistimeeverymonth, I release a columnaround topics related totheNFLPAand itsplayers.However, there are issuesathand thatneed tobead-dressedthatarebiggerthanthegameoffootball. “Like many ofyou processing the news

of George Floyd’s murder,I’vefeltarangeofemotionsfromdisbelieftoanger.Un-fortunately, this is not justaboutGeorgeFloyd’ssense-less and avoidable death.The issue of changing sys-temicracismandindividualprejudice in our country islongoverdue. “Asawhiteman,Iwill never fully understandthe daily experiences andfears that people of colorin this country live with.Sportshaveprovidedmeanopportunity to form friend-shipswithpeoplefromdif-ferent backgrounds, races,religions,andbeliefs.Thesefriendships have helpedbroaden and shape my un-derstanding of others’ per-spectivesandstruggles. “Some may feelhesitanttospeakoutasthey

don’t knowwhat to say orhowtosayit.Yourindivid-ualfearofsayingthewrongthing is insignificant com-pared to the actual issuesthat need addressing. Rac-ismissomethingthatweallmust take responsibility toend.As human beings, weneed to identify and chal-lengeprejudice, rather thandeny it. Silence in the faceof injustice only works toprotect and perpetuate thatinjustice “People of colorhave long tried to commu-nicatewhatracisminAmer-ica feels like for them.Wecan all be better listeners,validators,andfriends.Ourworkwillneverbefinisheduntil every American feelssafe, free and accepted in ourcountry.”

Boxing NostalgiaByJIMAMATO

It is usually a giv-en that all boxers shouldbe respected just for theirmere courage to step intoa boxing ring.To do battleon presumably equal termswith another human being.Yet as all doctors and law-yers are respected for theirknowledge.Somearemorereveredthenothers. The same holdstrue for boxers.Admira-tion For the talents of sayMuhammad Ali or SugarRay Robinson comes eas-ily.Thesemenwereblessedwiththeextraordinaryabil-ity to humble other menin the ring.So to is it easyto have a less then healthyrespect for the lower ech-elonfighters.Theone’swhoserve as mere opponents to inflate another boxers re-cord. “Tomato cans” is thetermusedinthebusinesstodescribetheselessthenfor-tunateoffisticuffs. Each one of ushas the indisputable rightto determine the critiqueof our ownheroes. I admittohavechosenmine in the

Boxing heroes who were indisputable

landbetweentheseeminglyindustructable championsand the lowly tomato cans.A preference that leans to-ward the near championsand the fringe contenders.The hearty battlers whocamesoclosebutyetsofarfromattaining theirgoalofbecomingachampion.Theywere leftwithmemoriesofcrushing defeats etched ontheir scar tissued faces andthoughtsofwhatcouldhavebeen. In boxing youwillseethenamesofthosewhowerepastchampionsintherecord books. What aboutthe boxers who fought theones we hold in such high

esteem ? Pugilistswho ap-pear in therecordbooksasjustanopponenttotheelite.It isveryconcieveable thatmore then a few of thesepast pursuers of glorymayhave attained the moni-ker of “champion” if theywouldbecompetingtoday. Iwould like to re-flect back to the names ofboxerswhofelljustshortoftheirquest.Menwhosesoulandcouragewerebaredforall to see on blood stainedcanvas.Theyrosefromtheashes of defeat time andtime again to resurect theircareers only in the end tofallandremainintheashesforever.

Hopefullythismaybe a comeback of sorts for the boxers I am about tomention. Onemore chanceforthemtocomeoutswing-inginourmemories. So here is to JerryQuarryandGeorgeChuva-lo. ToYaqui Lopez,BennieBriscoe andArmandoMu-niz too.ToEarnieShavers,Tex Cobb,Ron Lyle,ErnieLopezandClydeGray. These ten boxersandseveralotherslikethemendeared me to sport even morethenthepastchampi-ons.Theyaretrulychampi-ons in my mind.

Chuvalo ShaversBriscoe

ByANDREWCARTER

The NFL has man-datedthatallteamsmustholdtheir 2020 SummerTrainingCampsattheirownfacilitiesthat they use for the regularseason. Thatmeans that theSteelers must utilize theirown South Side Pittsburghfacilities, instead of theirusualSt.VincentCollegelo-cation - 40miles away - forTrainingCamp. TheSteelersusedmanycol-leges for trainingbefore set-tling on St. Vincent Collegein 1966. They’ve remainedthere since then in Latrobe,PA – home of RollingRockBeer and the late ArnoldPalmer.

Sincethequestionofwhenever in-person crowdswillbeallowedinstandsforgamesinthefutureisstillupintheair,therecertainlywillbenoneedtomakeallowanc-esforfansatTrainingCamp. Therefore,theuseoftheirregularin-seasonfacili-tieswillmake itharderonlyonthelargenumberofSteel-ersplayers–thoseonthecur-rent roster, draftees, and in-vitedFreeAgents-whowillbe a bit more crammed-in duringCamp. The idea of holdingTrainingCampawayfromthehustleandbustleofcitylifehadtodowithprovid-ing a less-distracting siteforlearningfootball,espe-ciallyfornewplayers.

Steelers must use own facilities The Internet, vid-eo games, and other di-versions didn’t exist backthen.TheBrownsheldtheirfirst Training Camps atBowling Green, then fordecades at Hiram Col-lege, then had shortertermmoves toKent StateandLakelandCommunityCollege, before movingin 1992 into their presentsite in Berea, where theypracticeyear-round. Inter-estingly, the driving timebetweentheoldHiramsiteand Cleveland is exactlythe same as the drivingtimebetweenLatrobeandPittsburgh.

On The TownMOVIES * MUSIC * THEATER * DANCE * RESTAURANTS * NIGHT LIFE

EAST SIDE NEWSDaily

Tuesday, June 2, 2020- Friday, June 5, 2020

Shows to watch streamed from the celebrities homes Most of the nation is doing all it can to slow the spread of the corona-virus, formally known as COVID-19, by staying home and that includes some of your favorite ce-lebrities. Concert tours have been postponed in-definitely, film and tele-vision productions have shut down and as a result, celebrities are homebound with a lot of time on their hands. Often equipped with little more than an iPhone and some chutz-pah, celebrities are creat-ing shows to livestream on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Ahmir "Quest-love" Thompson posts his DJ schedule on Twitter, and records usually start spinning sometime be-tween 7 and 9 p.m. PT.

Questlove, of the Roots and the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has been hosting intimate DJ sets on Instagram Live nightly from his apartment in Man-hattan. The sets last any-where from a few hours to all nighters on April 1, Quest-love hosted a nostalgic set featuring Marvin Gaye that lasted well into the early morning.

The Roots drum-mer, DJ, author and entre-preneur is still performing on The Tonight Show Star-ring Jimmy Fallon, DJ'ing live on Instagram, and he and his Roots' bandmate Tariq "Black Thought" Trot-ter recently signed a produc-tion deal with NBC. He's hosted Quest-love's Potluck, a virtual din-ner party on the Food Net-work.

Even though Quest-love is a cookbook author who, pre-pandemic, fre-quently hosted in-person potluck dinners and "Food Salons" with chefs, he says he wasn't sure hosting a TV special was a good idea. "I first thought 'Questlove's Potluck?' Like, who wants to talk about a hoity-toity dinner party in these times, especially when you can't do those things," he says. But then he noticed that with everyone at home all the time, people have "ramped up" their "creativity" around food. "There's a bunch of my friends from work who have these creative challeng-es with food." But he says, these days, they'll tell him "'Today I'm going to tackle this recipe,' and that sort of thing." Plus, Questlove want-ed to raise money for a good cause, America's Food Fund. "So it was almost kind of like a no-brainer."

Farmer wins the 2020 Zora Neale Crossover Award The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s 2020 Cross-over Award goes to Melanie Farmer, a writer and educa-tor, based in Central Flori-da. Farmer wins a $2,000 cash prize and free tuition to attend a Hurston/Wright Writing Workshop, both sponsored by ESPN’s The Undefeated. Farmer wins the literary nonfiction prize for her work titled, “Rolling: A Ladies’ Guide to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.”

The competition was judged by Pulitzer Prize win-

LaVar Burton is on Twitter where he broadcasts stories for adults on Fri-days at 6 p.m. PT, stories for young adults on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. PT, and stories for children on Mondays at 9 a.m. PT.Burton of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reading Rainbow fame will be reading a variety of sto-ries for fans of all ages live on Twitter. In every episode, host Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow, Star Trek) invites you to take a break from your daily life, and dive into a great story. Burton’s narration blends with gorgeous sound-scapes to bring stories by Neil Gaiman, Haruki Mu-rakami, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury and more to life. So, if you’re ready, let’s take a deep breath... In his debut episode on April 3, before reading Neil Gaiman’s short story, We Can Get Them For You Wholesale, Burton told viewers, “I had wanted to of-fer my services to fill in some of the time while we’re all shut in here at home — it’s been a really crazy couple of weeks for me, as I’m sure it has been for you.”

ning novelist Colson White-head, author of The Nickel Boys, The Underground Rail-road, and The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death. In selecting Farm-er’s piece Whitehead said, “‘Rolling: A Ladies’ Guide to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu’ is a wise and wry take on identity formation, parental expecta-tions, and proper martial arts attire. Following a young woman’s journey from stu-dent to teacher, this thought-ful essay’s nimble voice pro-

vides a lively exploration of family bonds and the search for self-mastery.” The Crossover Award, which debuted this year in partnership with ESPN’s the Undefeated, is the Hurston/Wright Founda-tion’s newest award. The award honors probing, pro-vocative, and original new voices in literary nonfiction whose writing exemplifies The Undefeated’s “Not Con-ventional, Never Boring” mantra. Almost 30 adult writers from over 20 states submitted their work for the 2020 competition. The com-petition is judged blindly and the judge has sole discretion in making the selection. This is the first year that the award has been sponsored by ES-PN’s The Undefeated. Kevin Merida, ESPN senior vice president and editor-in- chief of The Undefeated, said: “We are proud to partner with the Hurston/Wright Foundation to shine a light on original new voices in literary non-fiction. Congrats to Melanie Farmer for winning our in-augural Crossover Award. Keep rising, shake up the world.”

Questlove

'White Men Can't Jump' proves the oppositewho is a bad winner. As Sid-ney and the other participants ‘play the dozens’ by insulting each other with whimsical expletives, Sidney sees Billy watching. When Sidney asks Billy to play as a partner to his opponent, he believes that the corny-looking, goofy ‘white boy’ has no skills playing ball. But, when Sidney loses a free-throw contest bet to Billy, he realizes that he has been hus-tled. Afterward, Billy re-turns to his motel room to his feisty, honey-colored, Latina girl-friend Gloria Clemente (Rosie Perez). He gives Glo-ria his winnings to add to the money they are saving to re-pay the gangster loan-sharks known as the Stuki Brothers. She has been studying the World Almanac to memorize factual trivia since she wants to be a contestant on the intel-lectual game show Jeopardy! Suddenly, Sidney appears on their doorstep. The quick-witted Dean devises a partner-ship with Hoyle to use Billy’s ‘chump’ appearance to trick court athletes in playing games for money. After winning their initial games as partners, they make a quick getaway before a disgruntled loser returns with a gun. Billy and Gloria take Sid-ney to his Crenshaw apartment in the Vista View complex. Then, they go home to make passionate love-making. The next morning, Billy and Gloria race from the motel to escape being captured by the Stuki gangsters. After looking at a house for sale, Sidney and his dark-skinned wife Rhonda (Tyra Ferrell) discuss their finances for their dream of home-ownership. In Watts, Sidney and Billy play a local named Robert (Cylk Co-zart) and his partner. But, this time, the hustle fails and they lose $1,700 dollars. The duo is devastated and Billy slinks home to Gloria. Still study-ing in preparation to appear on Jeopardy!, Gloria is disap-pointed but figures out that Sidney hustled Billy. Determined to get the money back, Gloria makes Bil-ly take the bus with her to get to Sidney’s apartment. While

Da 'Round Da Way Rewind Review

Billy confronts Sidney, Robert and their friends, Gloria and Rhonda make them promise to team up once again to play in a two-on-two tournament to win $5,000. As they play, Billy mouths off excessively at their opponents to intentionally make Sidney mad. However, pair by pair, the squabbling team mates manage to defeat their competition and win the tournament. But, driv-ing home that evening, Billy loses his half of the money to Sidney after losing a bet that he can make a slam-dunk. He proves Sidney’s philosophy that ‘white men can’t jump.’ Billy presents Gloria with an expensive, black dress, but when he tells her that the money is gone, she angrily walks out on him. The Stu-kis track Billy down and give him only one week more to get their money. Billy approaches Sidney for help. Sidney has Robert, a security guard, let Gloria on the TV lot of Jeopardy! When Gloria is introduced as ‘a for-mer disco queen,’ she neverthe-less steamrolls over an English teacher and a rocket scientist to win the show. When Billy ro-mances Gloria to win her back, Sidney and Rhonda’s apart-ment is ransacked and robbed. Sidney begs Billy to use his part of Gloria’s winnings so they can enter a tournament against court legends ‘The King’ and ‘The Duck.’ Gloria is dumbstruck at Billy’s answer to help Sid-ney and tells him that if he uses that money for the basketball game then it is over between them. Billy enters with Sidney regardless and they win with Billy making a slam-dunk, disproving Sidney’s phi-losophy. But, unfortunately, Gloria has left Billy for good. Billy pays off the Stukis and cements his friendship with Sidney. Harrelson began his career on the TV sitcom Cheers, then starred in Natural Born Killers (1994) and Zom-bieland (2009). Snipes starred in New Jack City (1991), Jun-gle Fever (1991) and the sci-fi/horror Blade trilogy.

Chris' Cinema Trivia &Movie Match UpBy CHRIS APPLING

MOVIE MATCH-UP - (Carmen Jones)

ACTORS/ACTRESSES:1. Pearl Bailey2. Harry Belafonte3. Diahann Carroll4. Dorothy Dandridge5. Brock PetersROLES:a) lead characterb) character's boisterous

friendc) character's Army boy- friendd) boyfriend's Army ser- geante) character's meek friend

ANSWERS: 1, b; 2, c; 3, e; 4, a; 5, d

TRIVIA - (Musicals)

through the streets of the country's cities but who was Quinones' younger, black partner who 'popped and locked' to fame with him? 4. In what movie did Julius J. Carry III play an evil martial-arts master who used his talents to terrorize others until he had to face good-guy Taimak in battle? 5. In Disney's live-action, T.V. remake of Cin-derella (1998), it featured an ethnically-integrated, multicultural cast to play the parts of The King and Queen, The Prince, the evil Stepmother and the two, evil Stepsisters, but who is the African-American singer/actress who played the title role in the movie and later starred in her own sitcom, Moesha?

ANSWERS: 1. Richard Pryor 2. 'Fame' (1980) 3. Michael (Booga-loo Shrimp) Chambers 4. 'The Last Dragon' (1985) 5. Brandy

1. Who is the leg-endary, ground-breaking comedian who starred as 'Piano Man' opposite Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams in Lady Sing The Blues (1972) and later played the title role of The Wiz (1978) with such celebrities as Diana Ross, Michael Jack-son, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King and Lena Horne? 2. Debbie Allen is an accomplished dancer/choreographer/actress/di-rector and has starred in roles in Roots: The Next Generation (1978), Ragtime (1981), and Stompin' At The Savoy (1994), but in what film did she star as dance teacher 'Lydia Grant' at the New York City Performing Arts High School and later reprised the role in a T.V. series version of the movie? 3. In the film Brea-kin' (1984), Latino break-dancer Adolfo (Shabba-Doo) Quinones' smooth moves reflected the dance craze that was 'moonwalkin'

By C.M.APPLING In the past 50 years, there have been several, suc-cessful, interracial friend pair-ings in Hollywood. On TV, there was Robert Culp (white) and Bill Cosby (black) in I Spy, Don Johnson (white) and Phil-lip Michael Thomas (black) in Miami Vice, and Malik Yoba (black) and Michael de Lo-renzo (Hispanic) in New York Undercover. On film, there was Gene Wilder (white) and Richard Pryor (black) in Sil-ver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980) and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). There was also Eddie Murphy (black) and Nick Nolte (white) in 48 Hrs. (1982) and Another 48 Hrs. (1990). And, there was Chris Tucker (black) and Jackie Chan (Asian) in the Rush Hour trilogy. Along with all those aforementioned, interracial duos, there was another of merit and worth mentioning. Wesley Snipes (black) and Woody Harrelson (white) are divergent types of celebrity ac-tors who were paired together in three, Hollywood motion-pictures. They both made their feature film debuts as youthful football players in the Goldie Hawn comedy about a white, female coach in Wildcats (1986). And, they appeared as foster brothers who plan to rob a subway car in Money Train (1995). But, in between Wildcats and Money Train, Snipes and Harrelson starred in a film with Rosie Perez (Do The Right Thing; It Could Happen To You) that would define the ebony/ivory, buddy-type movie for the 90’s gen-eration. It was a sports-genre comedy centered on basket-ball called "White Men Can’t Jump" (1992). In Venice Beach, California, blond, blue-eyed, Caucasian Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) arrives from Loui-siana to the basketball court and camps out until the black locals begin some games. Later, he watches some of the players and notices Sidney Dean (Wesley Snipes): a dark-skinned, arrogant braggart

MENU TIPS JustJazz

By NANCY ANN LEE

The Mills Brothers vocal quartet comprised three brothers born in Piqua, Ohio; Herbert Mills (born 1912, d. 1989), Harry Mills (born 1913, d. 1982), and Donald Mills (born 1915). A fourth brother, Jone (born 1911), played gui-tar and sang bass in the group until his death in 1935 when his father, John Sr. (d. 1967) replaced him. The quartet sang for vaudeville and tent shows and gained wider exposure when they were featured on Cincin-nati radio station WLW in the late 1920s. By 1930, the Mills brothers were in New York performing and recording, making hit singles such as "Paper Doll" (1943), their big-gest success that sold around six million copies. The quartet was among the earliest black ensembles to attract a national following. While they began with only guitar accompa-niment, in later years their smooth, mellow three-or four-part harmony was backed by big bands and orchestras. The Mills brothers recorded with the orchestras of Don Redman, Duke Ellington, and Benny Carter. They contributed to jazz with their occasional scat singing during the 1940s. Their discography can be found in the book, The Billboard Book of American Singing Groups (A History 1949-1990) by Jay Warner.

Mills Brothers

If you would like to be a Beauty of The Week, send photo, phone number and information to EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS or call (216) 721-1674.

Beauty of the Week: is il-lustrious looking Monique Gonzaque. Monique, who is a world-wide recog-nized model, was featured in the Bronze Beauty Cal-ender. (ESDN Photo by Howard Moorehead)

Farmer

Burton

California avocados take center stage in dishes (NAPSI)—Spring-time in California brings with it the season’s bounty of fresh, lo-cal produce that inspires home and professional chefs alike. From salads to sandwiches, pastas to soups, it’s pretty much a given that when a dish has “California” in its name, it’s likely a dish made even better with delicious avocados. With premium Cali-fornia avocados at their peak, now is the perfect time to incor-porate this delicious and nour-ishing fruit into any cuisine to give it that classic taste of the Golden State. To kick off Califor-nia avocado season, which runs spring through fall, two-star Michelin chef Josiah Citrin, of Los Angeles’ lauded Melisse and Charcoal Venice, elevated a simple pasta pesto dish with the use of the creamy fruit in his Linguine with California Avocado Pesto and Cherry To-matoes. “California avoca-dos are one of the most versa-tile ingredients you can work with,” says Citrin. “Here, I have blended it seamlessly into a pasta sauce to add a velvety texture. Regardless of its shape or form, the California avocado brings vivacity to all the ingre-dients that surround it.” California avocado lovers everywhere can get these seasonal recipes and more at www.CaliforniaAvocado.com. Linguine with Cali-fornia Avocado Pesto and Cherry Tomatoes Serves: 4 Prep time: 25 min-utes, Cook time: 10 minutes; Total time: 35 minutes Ingredients:1 lb. lin-guine, cooked al dente, reserv-ing 1 cup of pasta water 2 ripe, Fresh Cali-fornia Avocados, seeded and

peeled 1 cup baby arugula leaves 1 cup baby spinach leaves 1 cup fresh basil leaves, packed ¼ cup toasted pumpkin seeds ¼ cup toasted cashews 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed 3 Tbsp. lemon juice 3 Tbsp. extra virgin ol-ive oil 1 tsp. sea salt 2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 cup halved cherry to-matoes 2 Tbsp. julienned basil leaves, for serving Instructions: 1. Place cooked lin-guine and reserved pasta water to the side. 2. Add the halved avo-cados, baby arugula, baby spin-ach, basil leaves, pumpkin seeds, cashews, garlic, lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and pepper to a blender or food processor and then blend until smooth. 3. Once the pesto is smooth, add the grated Parmesan and pulse a few more times to combine. 4. Place the pasta in a large serving bowl and top with the California Avocado Pesto. 5. Toss the pasta togeth-er with the pesto until coated. 6. Add the halved cher-ry tomatoes. 7. A small amount of reserved pasta water can be added to the pasta, as needed, to create a loose, silky pesto that coats the linguine evenly. 8. Sprinkle pasta with the julienned basil leaves and serve.

EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS

Put 54 Years of Experience To Work For You

We Clean: Windows * Skylights * Walls * GuttersWe Power Wash: Home Exteriors * PatiosWe Clean And Seal Decks * Professional

www.nationalwindowcleaning.com (216) 251-3980 National Window Cleaning, Inc.

Free Estimates Schedule Now AndSave $10.00

With This Ad

Having The Cleanest HomeIn The Neighborhood

DR. G. WOJAIThe World’s Greatest Numerologist

YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS

LUCKY FIVE

LUCKY SIX

1234 5432 2255 1334 9856 2098

55 12 75 20 16

34 76 22 10 23 88

82 44 97 30 77 44

EAST SIDE DAILY NEWS11400 Woodland Ave. - Cleveland, OH 44104

To Place Your Advertisement Call (216) 721-1674 -www.eastsidedailynews.com

Tuesday, June 2, 2020- Friday, June 5, 2020Page 6

2020

Woodland Automotive9300 Woodland Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44104

(216) 229-1957

Hours: Mon. - Sat. - 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

We Sell Used Tires

(Amateur and Professional)From The Old Cleveland Arena

Old Boxing:Posters - Programs - Photographs

Press Kits - Autographs Gloves - Tickets - Equipment - Etc.

Cleveland Arena Boxing Collectibles WantedWant To Buy All Boxing Collectibles

Call (216) 721-1674 - Paying Top Dollar

Take a ride through history in a

CAIR sends condolence to Floyd family; stands with protesters Following the death of George Floyd, CAIR National Execu-tive Director Nihad Awa-dreleased the following statement in solidarity with their African-Amer-ican Brothers and Sisters: “On behalf of the entire CAIR family, I write to express strong support for, solidarity with and commitment to our African-American brothers and sisters, es-pecially to families who have lost loved ones to police violence. At CAIR, we are heartbroken over the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Steven Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Yassin Mo-hamed. They are simply

the latest in a long line of Black men and women struck down by police of-ficers who were sworn to serve and protect them. As a Muslim civil rights organization dedicated to harnessing our values in service to our society, CAIR rec-ognizes that justice for all people in America cannot come to fruition without achieving justice for Black Americans. To that end, CAIR condemns all forms of anti-Black vio-lence, whether the cul-prits are police officers like Derek Chauvin in Minnesota or civilians like Gregory and Travis McMichael in Georgia. We also unequivocally

condemn all other mani-festations of anti-Black racism, whether seen in our government, our so-ciety, or even our own families and communi-ties. However, we must do more than con-demn. We must take con-crete action. That’s why we at CAIR are establish-ing a special task force to help support, advance and amplify the policy reforms sought by Black American leaders and or-ganizations. As for what you and the broader com-munity can do to help, we first urge mosques and Muslim organiza-tions to learn more about

anti-racism initiatives by partnering and training with organizations like the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative. We also urge everyone to join and watch the Muslim Alli-ance of North America’s (MANA) online event “Finding the Prophetic Voice in Times of Crisis,” which is scheduled for tonight (Tuesday June 2, 2020) at 9:30 p.m. ET. We further up-lift the following de-mands that we have heard from our Black Muslim leaders: Muslim or-ganizations, mosques and community centers should consider publish-ing letters of solidarity

with the Black members of their community and in particular with Black families whose loved ones have been taken and impacted by police vio-lence. Muslim indi-viduals and organizations should support or partici-pate in safe and peaceful local events condemning anti-Black racism and police brutality. C o m m u n i t y Education and Empow-erment: Muslim or-ganizations, mosques and community centers should commit to learn-

ing about and addressing anti-Black racism in our society, and even within our own communities.For example, we can: arrange events featuring Black elders and youth inside and outside the Muslim community, in-cluding Black scholars and imams, Black civil rights leaders, and Black activists engage in more courageous conversa-tions across lines of race and culture that move us towards deepened part-nerships, and ensure that the leadership of our or-ganizations reflects the

racial and ethnic diversi-ty of the American Mus-lim community. We know that our faith is incompatible with systems of racial hierarchy and we should all do more to put this knowledge into action. We should re-double our efforts to do

what our Prophet Mu-hammad (may peace, prayers and blessings be upon him) taught us to do: recognize, expose and reject racism, par-ticularly the scourge of anti-Blackness.” For information call 1-833-4-ASK-ODH.

A-1 BATTERY SHOPFree Battery Installation

Free System Testing

Complete Line Of New BatteriesALL BATTERIES GUARANTEED

Factory Seconds$50.00 and Up

Reconditioned$35.00

2935 Detroit Road(Just Across Detroit - Superior Bridge)

(216) 861-6001

We Pay Cash For Scrap BatteriesVisit Website: a1batteryshop.com

U.S. Navy Operations Specialist Seaman Ap-prentice Geovanni Cruz, from Cleveland, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), searches for surface contacts June 3, 2020. Following an extended visit to Guam in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Theodore Roosevelt completed carrier qualifications June 2 and is in Guam for resupply during a deployment to the Indo-Pacific. (ESDN Photo by 3rd Class Conner D. Blake)

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a news conference call with U.S. Rep-resentative Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and Civil Rights Leader Bishop Bobby Hilton from Cincinnati as they speak out in support of Ohio-ans fighting for racial justice in the wake of the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many other Black Americans. “The protests around our state and throughout our country are an expression of fear, and grief, and frustration, and an-ger,” said Brown. “Black commu-nities led the nation in mourning the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor over the last week – and they are now leading calls for justice and long-term changes to dismantle racist systems that hold them back. We need to listen to their voices, demand justice for all Black lives lost to police bru-tality, stand with the people who built this country, and work with them to find long-term solutions.” “The history and trauma of racism, beginning with slavery and subsequent practices to terrorize and marginalize Black people since, is not a memory of

the past but a reality still today,” said Beatty. “This dark history is exacerbated by the fact that Black Americans are disproportionately the targets of injustices, rang-ing from loss of jobs, economic inequality and the ever-widened racial wealth gap, to mass in-carceration and excessive police force, as well as the War on Drugs and COVID-19. The recent kill-ings of unarmed George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor reinforce these facts and harken back to the painful memo-ries of Emmett Till. That is why we must stand up together during this historic moment to demand change in protocol, processes,

Ohio leaders offer stand with Ohioans fighting for racial justice

and policies to ensure justice for all people. It’s time for truth and reconciliation in our nation.” “We just witnessed the murder of another unarmed black man saying I CAN’T BREATHE and calling for his mama. There is a Table of Un-derstanding we ALL must sit down at. Until then, nothing will change,” said Bishop Hilton. In the coming days, Brown is set to introduce a Sen-ate resolution declaring racism a public health crisis, which has been recognized by communities throughout Ohio. Brown’s resolu-tion will acknowledge that health care disparities have existed in

America for more than 400 years, recognize how those disparities are being magnified and exacer-bated today during the Corona-virus pandemic and acknowledge systemic barriers that people of color, especially African Ameri-cans, continue to face when seek-ing care, including implicit biases and overall access to the social determinants of health. Brown has also co-sponsored legislation, the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act, to better enforce equal pro-tection laws and work to end ra-cial profiling in the criminal jus-tice system. Brown’s bill would:

Increase training on

racial profiling issues as part of

Federal law enforcement training

and collect data on all routine or

spontaneous investigatory activi-

ties,

Ensure the receipt

of federal law enforcement and

other funds that go to state and

local governments is conditioned

on their adoption of effective poli-

cies that prohibit racial profiling,

Authorize the Justice

Department to provide grants for

the development and implemen-

tation of best policing practices,

such as early warning systems,

technology integration, and other

management protocols that dis-

courage profiling, and

Require the Attorney

General to provide periodic re-

ports to assess the nature of any

ongoing discriminatory profiling

practices.

Brown will join Rep.

Beatty and Bishop Hilton to con-

tinue fighting for racial justice

for Ohioans, including working

for a fair criminal justice system,

honoring the Dignity of Work

by championing equal economic

opportunity and equal access to

housing, increasing access to

voting and addressing racial dis-

parities in healthcare and basic

services, especially in the midst

of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brown Beatty Hilton

HBCU dealing with financial woes due to COVID-19 “HBCUs provide immense value-add to so-ciety and contribute more to the overall [black] com-munity than most colleges and universities because they offer an opportunity for students to learn in a culturally-enriched environ-ment and in today’s world, provide a safe and nurturing space,” said Bridget Ch-isholm, Building Wealth & Communities (BWC) Con-sulting, LLC founder and managing partner. “We know how difficult it is for HBCUs to compete with histori-

cally white institutions on a level playing field in terms of availability and access to funding and fun-damental educational re-sources like technology. The COVID-19 pandemic presents HBCUs with an opportunityand the motivation to re-vamp, and where it makes sense, replace antiquated business models with new business strategies designed to meet the needs of students better in an emerg-ing 21st century higher edu-cation system. Unlike predomi-

nantly white institutions (PWIs), HBCUs have his-torically struggled to address issues that have plagued these institutions of higher learning for decades. Disparities that exist between HBCUs and PWIs include inadequate state and federal funding, smaller endowments, access to financial capital and re-sources that best serve their unique circumstances - not just funding for major cam-pus infrastructure improve-ments - and a lack of re-sources to support students from underserved commu-

nities. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a high beam in the face of acade-micinequality, the lack of economic resiliency for communities of color and ineffective crisis manage-ment and contingency plan-ning for the education sys-tem. Despite these discrepancies, HBCUs con-tinue their mission to pro-mote black excellence and nurture the growth, vitality, and upliftment of the black community.

ACLU sues Trump over use of tear gas Protesters who were attacked with tear gas and other weap-ons by federal troops in front of the White House Monday evening as they were demon-strating against police brutality sued President Donald Trump, Attor-ney General William Barr, and numerous other federal officials today for violating their constitutional rights and unlawfully conspiring to violate those rights. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Black Lives Matters D.C. and individual protesters today by the American Civil Lib-erties Union of the District of Columbia, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Af-fairs, Lawyers’ Com-mittee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the law firm of Arnold & Porter. “What hap-

pened to our members Monday evening, here in the nation’s capital, was an affront to all our rights,” said April Gog-gans, core organizer of Black Lives Matter D.C., the lead plaintiff in the case. “The death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers has reignited the rage, pain, and deep sadness our community has suf-fered for generations. We won’t be silenced by tear gas and rubber bul-lets. Now is our time to be heard.” Hundreds of protesters were gathered Monday evening in La-fayette Square, the park in front of the White House, to protest police brutality. Immediately preceding the presi-dent’s appearance in the Rose Garden at approxi-mately 6:30 p.m., U.S. Park Police conducted a coordinated and unpro-

voked charge into the crowd of demonstrators and deployed several rounds of chemical ir-ritants, rubber bullets, and sound cannons to disperse the crowds away from the park. Following his brief statement, President Trump and administra-tion officials walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church across the street from the White House to pose for pictures in front of the church hold-ing a Bible. “The presi-dent’s shameless, un-constitutional, unpro-voked, and frankly criminal attack on pro-testers because he dis-agreed with their views shakes the foundation of our nation’s consti-tutional order,” said Scott Michelman, legal director, ACLU of the District of Columbia. “And when the nation’s top law enforcement of-

ficer becomes complicit in the tactics of an auto-crat, it chills protected speech for all of us.” Attacks by law enforcement against lawful demonstrators have escalated in re-cent days nationwide. Police drove vans into groups of protesters; pepper-sprayed them; fired rubber bullets at them; beaten them; and dragged them across streets. Police have also arrested thousands of protesters. “Across the country, law enforce-ment armed with mili-tary weaponry are re-sponding with violence to people who are pro-testing police brutal-ity,” said Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. “The First Amendment right to protest is under attack, and we will not let this go unanswered.

This is the first of many lawsuits the ACLU in-tends to file across the country in response to police brutality against protesters.” The ACLU is similarly filing lawsuits across the country in re-sponse to police attacks against journalists. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. Dis-trict Court for the Dis-trict of Columbia and seeks an order declaring President Trump, Attor-ney General Barr, and other administration of-ficials violated the pro-testers’ First and Fourth Amendment rights, as well as engaged in a conspiracy to deny those rights. The law-suit seeks an order bar-ring the officials from repeating the unlawful activities, and damages for the injuries plaintiffs sustained.

EAST SIDE DAILY NEWSPage 7 Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - Friday, May 29, 2020

The Black on Black Crime, Inc. bus brought pro-testers from East Cleveland to Cleveland on Saturday to rally for justice after another murder of an unarmed black citizen – George Floyd – at the hands of a police officer.

Muslim Advocates demand officers arrest in Minneapolis Minnesota At-torney General Keith El-lison was named as the lead prosecutor in the murder of George Floyd. Muslim Advocates has a long-standing relation-ship with Ellison, hav-ing worked with him as a member of Congress and as Minnesota’s attorney general. Muslim Advo-cates is launching an ac-tion asking Americans to contact Attorney General Ellison and ask him to arrest and charge all offi-cers involved in the mur-der of George Floyd. The following is a statement from Muslim Advocates Executive Director Far-hana Khera: “By now, it is clear that local prosecu-tors have failed to fully pursue justice for the murder of George Floyd. It is unacceptable that so far, only one of the offi-cers involved in Floyd’s murder has been arrested and charged. Meanwhile, more than 4,000 people have been arrested na-tionwide for protesting

police brutality. Police violence against Black Americans is a systemic problem that goes back to the founding of our nation. We will not see mean-ingful progress or an end to this injustice until our justice system punishes officers for violating the human rights and dignity

Organizations promise to deal with inequities A group of local organizations from the Cleveland Clinic and The Cleve-land Foundation to the YMCA of Greater Cleveland and YWCA of Greater Cleveland

released a statement following the death of George Floyd and the protests that filled the streets of Cleveland. The organi-zations discussed the “long-smoldering in-

justice and inequity in our black and brown communities, the evi-dence of which is un-deniable yet frequently overlooked: The rate of COVID-19 infections and infant mortality,

disproportionate unem-ployment and another murder of an unarmed black citizen – George Floyd – at the hands of a police officer.” They pledged to work for justice .

Foodbanks advocate for food justice and social change During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio’s foodbanks have been on the front lines feeding all Ohioans in need. Below is a state-ment Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks: “For the past 20 years, I’ve worked as the executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks. Our primary mission is to provide food to people in need. Sounds straightforward, right? We get food to the people who need it. Food – the most basic human right. “But it’s not straightforward at all. There are longstand-ing systemic issues that prevent equal access to food. There are whole communities without grocery stores. There are countless hoops to jump

through, paperwork to fill out, steps you must take to prove you are poor enough to get help with food. “COVID-19 has shown us even more the fragility and insufficien-cy of our food system. By the end of April, more than one in five house-holds in America were food insecure. All of this is heartbreaking and un-acceptable, and our food-banks are working every day to try to fill the gaps. “But the leg-islators and leaders in Ohio, and my peers at foodbanks across the country, know I don’t stop at food access. I’ve long understood and em-braced that food insecu-rity stems from economic insecurity, and economic insecurity stems from inequity and injustice. They’re tied together as self-fulfilling prophe-

cies. Children who don’t get adequate nutrition can’t learn and grow at the same rate as their peers. Parents can’t be productive workers when they’re skipping meals to put something on the ta-ble for their kids. Cheap, less healthy foods con-tribute to poorer health outcomes, but so does the toxic stress of scrambling every month to make rent and buy diapers and sur-vive. “And that’s why I’m releasing this statement. Because, as it turns out, food is not the most basic human right. Surviving is. And too many people of color are worried to the point of exhaustion every day just about surviving. Not just figuring out for one more day how to come up with enough food to feed themselves and their family (although people

of color in America ex-perience wider dispari-ties in food security); not just surviving a pan-demic which is killing black Americans dispro-portionately; but surviv-ing every day in a world where police violence and racism is raging un-checked and without jus-tice. “Our senior management team at the association has never just ‘stuck to hunger is-sues’ before, and we’re not going to start now. I’m reaffirming that we’re here to join our fellow advocates in speaking out against ra-cial injustice and speak-ing up for reforms and accountability. These are big problems that take ev-eryone lending their voice. We can’t correct the food injustices in this country while racial injustice re-mains.”

Thoughts on a Cleveland protests turn violentBy KARIM RAGAB

I knew something was going to happen, I could sense it. I rode my bike down Euclid, and, downtown, I joined a parade, which led me to the Justice Center. Things were already happening. I showed up around 4 pm, which is when the violence started. The police tear gassed the protesters for getting too loud, for getting too close. P r o t e s t e r s threw water bottles. Po-lice formed battle lines,

in their gear, and began to fire flash grenades, rubber bullets, and tear gas. Protesters threw water bottles, and didn’t do much more. I was kneeling, pray-ing, when they shot me. It felt like a war zone, like what I’d seen of war zones in movies. The police were just following orders. Many of them looked uncomfortable to be there, but they had their jobs; they had to follow orders. In real-ity, the police are cow-ards. If they were brave, they’d lay down their

weapons, and talk to us like human beings. But we live in a police state, so… Violence begets vio-lence. Love is the only answer. We must never cease fighting for jus-tice; it may come to a point where we must sacrifice even our lives. But that’s ok. Because the oppression has to end. God, let it end. I’m in love with ev-eryone fighting for their lives, for their children’s lives, now. It’s about time to end oppression, blindness, racism, sex-ism: all of which are an

absence of love. Christ told us only to love, to love God, and to love one an-other as ourselves. The police are failing to live up to God’s command. The President, Trump, is blind, and scared, and stupid. I don’t know how this will end, but I’ll continue to pray for the best, and do the work that is necessary. Love to everyone reading this. Maybe someday, long after the war of love, we can en-joy love in peace.

Clevelanders protested following the death of George Floyd for social justice

of our fellow Americans. Unfortunately, we know that the wheels of jus-tice turn painfully slowly when a police officer has committed a crime—and many times not at all. We know that at least four officers were involved in the arrest and murder of George Floyd and at least three have

been caught on video kneeling on him against the policies of the Min-neapolis Police Depart-ment. We call on At-torney General Ellison to ensure that all officers involved in this heinous murder are held account-able and face charges that fit their actions.”

Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League issued the fol-lowing statement in re-gards to the developing situation in Minneapolis and across the country, following the killing of George Floyd by police: “We stand in solidarity with the Black community as they yet again are subject to pain and suffering at the hands of a racist and un-just system. While it is a necessary first step in the pathway towards justice that former Officer Der-ek Chauvin was taken into custody yesterday,

it is simply not enough. Based on the horrifying cell phone footage that has rightfully outraged A m e r i c a n s across the country, it is clear that the three other former officers who par-ticipated in Mr. Floyd’s death need to be held responsible for their ac-tions to the fullest extent of our legal system. The Hennepin County Dis-trict Attorney and local investigators must do everything in their power to ensure the wheels of justice turn swiftly. As an organization commit-ted to fighting all forms of hate, we know that

Anti-Defamation League stands with protestersthis brutal death follows an explosion of racist murders and hate crimes across the U.S. As an agency that has stood for justice and fair treatment to all since our founding in 1913, we know that this has occurred at a time when communities of color have been reeling from the disproportion-ate health impacts and economic consequences of the coronavirus pan-demic. In short, sys-temic injustice and in-equality calls for system-ic change. Now.”

Protesters held signs and marched to the Justice Center demanding justice for George Floyd.(ESDN Photo by Omar Quadir)

A protester holds her sign at the rally ‘Their Lives Matter’ - with pictures of Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, a black man, who was jogging in his neighborhood in Georgia on February 23 when he was murdered by three white men. Protesters marched on Saturday from the Free Stamp to the Justice Center. (ESDN Photo by Omar Qua-dir)

Cleveland police officers from the 4th district along with the National Guard were stationed at Shaker Square on Monday night to protect local businesses. They cleared the area by 11:00 p.m. without incident.

Protesters stood next to a defaced column at the Justice Center downtown. Graffiti BLM stands for ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ACAB stands for ‘All Cops Are Bas-tards.’ (ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

Angela Davis, Cleveland Black Lives Matter, participated in the march in East Cleveland to seek justice for George Floyd. Police join residents in demanding all 4 officers be convicted at #GeorgeFloydProtest.

Ernest L Smith EC President City Council and Police EC come together demanding all 4 police be con-victed for George Floyd’s death.

East Cleveland holds peaceful protest for justice for Floyd Angela Davis, Cleveland Black Lives Matter, participated in the march in East Cleve-land to seek justice for George Floyd. Police

join residents in demand-ing all 4 officers be con-victed at #GeorgeFloyd-Protest. Ernest L Smith EC President City Coun-

cil and Police EC come together demanding all 4 police be convicted for George Floyd’s death. Black on Black Crime, Inc. members, community activists, and the police stood in front

of East Cleveland City Hall, arms locked togeth-er in unity, and prayed for justice and they sent their condolences to Floyd’s family. Art McK-oy coined the phrase “No Justice! No Peace!”

Protesters, with their hands up and holding signs denouncing white supremacy, hold the line in front of the mounted police outside the Justice Cen-ter in Cleveland. Protesters marched seeking justice for George Floyd who was murdered by four Minneapolis police officers. Police dispersed the protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets.(ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

One of the proteters who rode the bus from East Cleveland took pictures with his cell phone. Legendary Civil Rights activist and founder of Black on Black Crime, Inc., Art McKoy lent his voice. Accompanying McCoy on the Black on Black Crime, Inc. bus were the current presi-dent, Al Porter, Jr., and vice president, Elizabeth Still. who brought a group from East Cleveland so that their voices could be heard.

Al Porter, Jr., and vice president, Eliz-abeth Still. brought a group from East Cleveland so that their voices could be heard at the protest in downtown Cleveland last Saturday.

EAST SIDE DAILY NEWSPage 8 Tuesday, June 2, 2020- Friday, June 5, 2020

16802 Chagrin BoulevardCleveland, Ohio 44120

Lifts and leather shoe repair is our specialty including bags, purses, luggage, sport and designer shoes & more!

Visit Gomez Shoe Repair & Luggage Shop Today

*Shoe & Boot Repairs - *Luggage And Hand Bag Repair*All Leather, Suede Cleaning & Repair - *Accessories, Polishes & Strings

* We Sell All Lines Of Purses* We Clean Timberland Boots

Looking For Quality Shoe Repair And Maintenance? Look No Further...Great Service At A Great Location

Hours: Monday-Saturday - 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

(216) 417-0904

Shoerepairsonline.com

Visit Us Dine With US

Or Join Us

Edwins Restaurant13101 Shaker Square

Cleveland, Ohio 44120216-921-3333

Edwins Butcher Shop13024 Buckeye Road

Cleveland, Ohio 44120216-417 1100

Tuesday-Friday 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.Saturday 10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m.

Edwins Institute To Enroll: Call 216-921-3333

6 MonthsTrainingCulinary Arts

And Hospitality Business

Attorney James A. Gay

(216) 429-9493

Sellars

Police departments seeking ways to reduce racial disparities

“Some things have not changed. When the police advise you that everything

you’ve said will be used against you, they have already made a decision

respecting your immediate future.”

Call me - I can help

ACLU files lawsuit to make voting safer The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Minnesota, and Faegre Drinker LLP are suing Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon seek-ing to make voting safer in Minnesota in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the NAACP and individual voters, is asking that ab-sentee ballots be sent to all registered voters, and that a requirement that forces voters to get a witness to sign their ballot envelope be suspended due to the risk of exposure to CO-VID-19.The witness requirement and lack of universal ab-sentee ballots could dis-enfranchise thousands of eligible voters who can-not risk contact with other individuals to obtain a

witness signature on their absentee ballot or to vote in person. “Removing the witness requirement and providing absentee ballots to registered voters during COVID-19 will protect Minnesotans’ health and their right to vote. These are sensible solutions,” said Theresa Lee, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project.The lawsuit notes that as “elected officials make decisions of extraordinary impact to the lives and welfare of the state’s resi-dents, the pandemic has only magnified the critical importance of the right to participate in our elec-tions. Despite widespread public support for voting by mail, the Legislature has nonetheless refused to

make any accommodation to ensure that the right to vote is not unnecessarily or unreasonably burdened by the profound risks to individual health, public health, and access to the ballot box caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.”“Racial justice depends in part on voting access,” said ACLU of Minnesota staff attorney David McKin-ney. “Because COVID-19 poses a unique and lethal threat to every Minneso-tan, especially people of color, the elderly, people who live alone, and people with certain underlying health conditions, we are seeking greater ballot ac-cess in this year’s election. No Minnesotan should have to choose between the right to vote and their health.”

“Do you believe police are implicitly bi-ased against black peo-ple?” When NBC news-man Lester Holt asked Hillary Clinton this ques-tion in the first presidential debate, it was a sure sign the science of implicit bias had jumped from the psy-chology journals into the public consciousness—and that racial bias in law enforcement has entered the national dialogue. There’s evi-dence of racial dispari-ties at many levels of law enforcement, from traffic stops to drug-related ar-rests to use of force. But

the roots of those dispari-ties aren’t always clear. Experts point to systemic problems as well as the implicit (largely uncon-scious) biases mentioned in the debate. To be sure, those biases aren’t unique to police. But in matters of criminal justice, implicit bias can have life-altering implications. Social media has turned a spotlight on cases of racial discrimina-tion. As the list of black citizens killed by nonblack officers grows, tensions between black communi-ties and police are running high. “It’s a nuanced prob-

lem but people continue to take a polarized view,” says Jack Glaser, PhD, a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s not produc-tive to demonize police.” Glaser says police departments are eager for solutions that will reduce racial dispari-ties. “Police chiefs know what the stakes are,” he says. Policymakers, too, are keen to take action. In October, for instance, the New Jersey attorney general issued a direc-tive requiring mandatory classes in racial bias for police officers in the state.

Psychologists, meanwhile, have the skills to under-stand discrimination and point to evidence-based solutions. “This is an area that’s worth a lot of invest-ment in research, and im-portant for psychologists to think about,” Glaser says. With more than 15,000 law enforcement agencies across the coun-try operating at the fed-eral, state and local levels, there is no “typical” police department. Still, evidence for racial disparities is growing. Most of those data focus on the treatment of black civilians by white

officers. In an analysis of national police- shootings data from 2011–14, for example, Cody T. Ross, a doctoral student in an-thropology at the Univer-sity of California, Davis, concluded there is “evi-dence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Ameri-cans.” The probability of being black, unarmed and shot by police is about 3.5 times the probability of being white, unarmed and shot by police, he found (PLOS One, 2015). Other studies

conflict with that finding. Harvard University econo-mist Roland G. Fryer Jr., PhD, examined more than 1,000 shootings in 10 ma-jor police departments and found no racial differences in officer-involved shoot-ings. Fryer did, however, find that black civilians are more likely to experi-ence other types of force, including being hand-cuffed without arrest, pepper-sprayed or pushed to the ground by an officer (National Bureau of Eco-nomic Research, 2016). Those disparities don’t seem to arise from the fact that black Ameri-cans are more likely to commit crimes. Support-ing this point is research by Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD, a social psycholo-

gist at the University of California, Los Angeles, co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity. Goff, Glaser and colleagues reviewed data from 12 police departments and found that black residents were more often subjected to police force than white residents, even after ad-justing for whether the person had been arrested for violent crimes (Center for Policing Equity, 2016). Other data show that black people are also more likely to be stopped by police. Stanford Uni-versity social psycholo-gist Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD, and colleagues ana-lyzed data from the police department in Oakland, California, and found that while black residents

make up 28 percent of the Oakland population, they accounted for 60 percent of police stops. What’s more, black men were four times more likely than white men to be searched during a traffic stop, even though officers were no more likely to recover con-traband when searching black suspects (Stanford SPARQ, 2016). And in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, where cafeteria worker Philando Castile was fatally shot by a nonblack officer in July after being pulled over for a broken taillight, statistics released by the local St. Anthony Police Depart-ment showed that about 7 percent of residents in the area are black, but they ac-count for 47 percent of ar-rests.

CTU released a statement about George Floyd’s death With the Cleve-land schools closed due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Cleveland Teachers Union Executive Board released the following statement on the murder of George Floyd “Enough! As the Cleveland Teachers Union Executive Board, we represent members who teach and support a diverse population of vulnerable children, and we cannot---we must not---be silent. This is the moment for change. We were hor-rified---again---to see the killing of another unarmed Black Ameri-can, George Floyd, at the hands of those sworn to serve and protect him. Mr. Floyd’s name has been added to a too-long list of victims whose lives

were brutally ended: Ah-maud Arbery, Cleveland student Tamir Rice, Tim-othy Russell, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Malissa Williams, and shamefully the list goes on and on. Every person in this country has the right to live, a right to breathe, a right to be part of their community with-out fear of violence and senseless attack simply for the color of their skin. We share the feelings of grief, rage, frustration, hurt, and fear that led to protests and demonstrations across the country. We do not condone rioting or vio-lence, but we understand the desperate need to be heard and the angry calls for change. A combina-tion of factors, including the current COVD-19

pandemic, has converged to create an intolerable situation, unacceptable for Americans of all races. America’s shame-ful legacy of racism and injustice endured by peo-ple of color every day is a nationwide, systemic problem. It demands a nationwide, systemic fix. It demands action from each and every one of us. Since its beginning, the Cleveland Teachers Union has been a voice not only for its members - but also for the children we teach, for their fami-lies, and for our com-munity. But we must be more than a voice; we need to act to make this a turning point for our city and for our nation. We cannot wait for oth-ers to lead this effort. There is no leadership in

the current White House to work for a solution. Instead, we get incendi-ary tweets and divisive statements, not empa-thy or compassion. The President propagates re-sentment and grievance politics that wound and divide rather than heal and unite. Our families deserve to raise chil-dren in a world where they do not have to face overt, or subtle, institu-tional racism in access to healthcare, the work-force, community safety, educational opportuni-ties, or any other aspect of our society. We also cannot expect them to bear the burden alone in confronting the wrongs and changing the course of history. We the Execu-

tive Board of the Cleve-land Teachers Union are committed to working with our partners at the district, with students and families, with our Sisters and Brothers in the Ohio Federation of Teachers and American Federation of Teachers, and with other labor and community partners in this crucial fight for ra-cial and economic jus-tice. We stand with our colleagues, our students, our families of color to demand change now. We support and applaud the actions of the Cleveland City Council to declare racism a public health emergency. We stand ready to work together with all of those who know that this is the time to change history.

Training police to overcome racial biasBy C. MUNSEY Police offi-cers trained in “shoot, don’t shoot” scenarios can overcome inher-ent racial biases and avoid the unnecessary use of deadly force, a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychol-ogy (Vol. 92, No. 6) reveals. The results show that racial bias effects the cognitive processing time as of-ficers decided to shoot

or not shoot in a po-tentially deadly situa-tion, but that training helped them overcome that bias and make the correct decision, as compared to a con-trol group of local residents, says Joshua Correll, PhD, a profes-sor of psychology at the University of Chi-cago. “ T r a i n i n g doesn’t reduce bias in reaction times, but it eliminates bias in the errors,” Correll says. The question

of whether police are quicker to use deadly force when dealing with minorities is an important one for so-cial psychology, given how shootings such as that of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant shot and killed by plainclothes New York City police in 1999, cause tensions between police depart-ments and minority communities, he says. In previous research, Correll and his fellow researchers

showed that non-po-lice participants would “shoot” an armed black man more quick-ly than an armed white man, and were much more likely to mistak-enly shoot an unarmed black man. Correll pos-its that even if people believe they are not biased, they are more likely to associate ra-cial minorities with danger as a result of our cultures movies, television shows and media coverage. In the recent research, Correll tested how bias would af-fect police officers re-sponse, compared to a community sample. Working with patrol officers from the Den-ver Police Depart-ment and local people renewing drivers li-censes, Correll devised a scenario in which participants were ran-domly shown images of armed or unarmed white or black men and were given two options: push a button labeled “shoot” or a second labeled “don’t shoot.” Researchers took photographs of 50 men, of whom half were white and half were black, in poses holding handguns or a non-threatening ob-ject like a cell phone, then “Photoshopped” the images into 20 otherwise unpopulated background scenes, such as a city park or the facade of an apart-ment building. Par t ic ipants were told to shoot armed subjects as quickly as possible, and hit the “don’t

shoot” button as quickly as possible if the subjects were un-armed. The research-ers then measured how long it took for partici-pants to decide and the number of errors they made. Compared to the civilian control group, police officers were less likely to make a biased deci-sion, and more likely to decide correctly, he says. Police were also less likely to shoot in general. Police trainees put through simulated building searchesin which actors some-times pose as assail-ants who attack the trainees with weapons loaded with non-lethal ammunitionwere es-pecially conservative about pulling the trig-ger, regardless of the race of the target. In future re-search, Correll says he wants to study what type of training is most effective at helping police officers choose to use deadly force correctly, and he is particularly interested in training situations that replicate the real-life conditions of fear, noise and confusion faced by police. P re l imina ry evidence shows that officers placed in training scenarios that simulate the situations they might encounter while on patrol are less willing to open fire, he says. “Police with that kind of training showed a less trigger-happy orientation, with no difference in accu-racy,” he says.