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Ford Takes on Critics Over Confederate Memorial Holiday

Sen. Robert Ford By Senator Robert Ford When workers across the country take off to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday each January, some mean-spirited supervisors force public employees in South Carolina to work on that day. When that happens, several hundred thousand South Carolina public employees miss the opportunity to observe a holiday to honor a man whose life was devoted to advocating equal rights for all people. I introduced the bill to make the third Monday in January a state holiday for Dr. King. At the same time, my bill also created the Confederate Memorial Holiday on May

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10th. Workers who want to remember their confederate heritage don’t encounter a problem when taking that day off. But hateful bosses prevent some workers from honoring Dr. King and when they do, I hear about it. As chairperson of the Civil Rights and Affirmative Action Committee of the the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus, I receive numerous complaints from black public employees statewide when their supervisors don’t let them stay at home on the King Holiday. To remedy that problem, I have introduced a bill that would mandate that all public employees must be allowed to take off on the King Holiday. If their supervisors won’t release them, then they

must be paid double time. The holiday for Dr. King must be observed to the fullest extent as the eleven other paid holidays in this state. This sound piece of legislation has attracted attention from people all over the country and the foreign media as well. I have been interviewed by Tom Joyner and other national commentators who respect me as a black man and as a State Senator, to call and ask me to explain my legislation. Unlike my misguided black detractors in South Carolina they did not jump to conclusions. I am surprised by the widespread media attention my bill is attracting; but what has surprised me the most is that my black detractors, who hate me See pg 2

Land Deal Using Public Funds Questioned By Barney Blakeney The City of Charleston’s recent agreement to purchase 2.4 acres of land on Meeting Street owned by SCE&G for $4.75 million and then lease the property to private owners for the construction of a new private school is a good deal, but some are asking for whom. City council last week approved the purchase and will give the Sherman Financial Group a 50-year lease of the property for $10. The company is to build a $9 million school facility that will accommodate students in grades 1-8. The company last fall opened a facility on King Street that accommodates pre-school children ages 3

and four years old. The schools serves families which can’t afford private school tuition, but has no income guidelines. While advocates for the school say it will offer elite educations to low income, disadvantaged students who ultimately will be prepared to enter some of the nation’s most prestigious higher learning institutions, its critics are concerned the school ultimately will serve a growing white community at the north end of the peninsula. While most of the school’s 45 pre-schoolers are Black, Charleston County Constituent Dist. 20 public schools advocate Edward Jones thinks as it adds 15 students each year at grade levels one through eight it will “Become another Buist Academy.”

Buist academy is the district’s only excellent rated public school as well as it’s only predominantly white public school. Since its inception Buist has been criticized as a public school alternative for white parents who don’t want to pay private school tuition. “My problem is city council is endorsing this new private school but wouldn’t support our existing community schools. The school district is closing Wilmot Fraser Elementary and taking 7th and 8th grades from Charleston Progressive Academy because they don’t have the money and city council did nothing. If the city can put money into this new school, why can’t they put money into public education which should be our first priority?” Jones asked. See pg 2

By Rev. Joseph Darby Senator Ford, Thank you for sharing information on your push to make the King Holiday a mandatory paid holiday for all state, county and municipal employees. Your press release, however, did not mention your equal push to mandate the same for Confederate Memorial Day, as was well reported in the Charleston Post and Courier, the Charleston Chronicle, and the C o l u m b i a State.http://www.thestate.com/local/story/67338 8.html Since I’m a resident of your District and one of your constituents, let me share my thoughts on your

proposal. Your legislation is a logical next step in what you’ve already done to create Confederate - King holidays, but I disagree with the tactic and your explanation. Your proposal typifies the old, political “tit for tat” that prohibits any official honor for AfricanAmericans without giving equal honor to white southerners. Tying honor for Dr. King to honor for the Confederate States of America demeans Dr. King’s memory. I disagree with your assertion that mandating both holidays would prompt black and white South Carolinians to learn

more about each other. From what I’ve seen in media reports on Confederate events, your face is usually one of the very few visible black faces present, and I haven’t seen many identifiable devotees of Confederate history at the King Day observances that I attend. A paid mandatory observance of both days would simply give people another day off. When I was a state employee over twenty years ago, Confederate Memorial Day, Jefferson Davis’ Birthday and Robert E. Lees’ Birthday were mandatory paid state holidays. I celebrated by See pg 2

Elder Johnson Says WTMA ‘Talk Show’ Hosts Promotes Racial Division By Barney Blakeney Syndicated radio talk show hosts Don Imus and Rush Limbaugh often are criticized for remarks many Africans Americans feel are offensive. Several years ago Imus was fired for remarks made in reference to Black women on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.. Some local radio talk show listeners think Citadel Broadcasting jocks RockyD, Richard Todd and Jack Hunter are the local equivalents of Imus and Limbaugh. Recently one listener took them to task. Recently, North Charleston community activist Elder James Johnson met with management of Citadel Broadcasting to complain that afternoon talk show host Rocky-D’s program

was the venue for various remarks referencing President Barack Obama and Black meter maids in Charleston that were derogatory to the Black community. The talk show host in a subsequent e-mail said he doesn’t recall any such remarks being made on his program and invited Johnson to come on the show. But Johnson insists the host consistently demonstrates a propensity to offend the Black community. “We went to the management of C i t a d e l Broadcasting about four years

ago when Rocky-D made similarly derogatory remarks about the Rev. Jesse Jackson,” Johnson said. See pg 2

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Parents to Continue Battle to Keep Fraser Open By Barney Blakeney

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Married 20 Years, Couple Heads 2 Police Departments ORLANDO, FL (AP) -Val Butler was a rookie patrol cop working on the ground floor of the Orlando Police Department. Jerry Demings worked as a detective on the second floor. One day, after hearing through the grapevine that he was unhappy with a patrol report she had written, she walked upstairs to his office and gave him a piece of her mind. "She was a rookie cop. A rookie!" Jerry Demings said with disbelief almost a quarter of a century after the fact. "I thought, 'Who on Earth is this person?"' "I think that's when he fell in love with me," she said. There was a romantic spark, but they waited a bit before going on their first date. Marriage followed

several years after that. Now, Val Demings is Orlando's police chief, and Jerry Demings is set to be

sworn in as sheriff of surrounding Orange County in a rare instance of a mar-

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T h o u g h Charleston County School Board has approved a restructuring plan that will close five schools, not all the communities impacted are rolling over and playing dead. One school each in Constituent Districts 1, 4, 20 and 23, along with the Charleston Academy magnet school are slated for closure. In other Constituent Districts no unified efforts have surfaced to oppose the closures, but factions of parents in Constituent Dist. 20 remain opposed to the administration’s proposals. Present and former constituent school board members are assisting various groups of parents in counteracting the administration’s proposals for closing W i l m o t - F r a s e r Elementary, moving seventh and eighth grade students from Charleston Progressive Academy and changing the district’s attendance zones to accommodate those proposals. LaTonya Memminger, a Fraser Elementary parent

says the Fraser community is opposing the administration’s proposal to close the school at the end of the present school year and move its students to the Archer campus with students from Sanders-Clyde Elementary until a new facility is completed for Sanders/Clyde. Memminger said the community’s opposition to the closure was muffled during the public hearing process and other opponents to proposals for Dist. 20 abandoned Fraser when they learned their own schools would be minimally impacted. “They just kicked us under the bus,” Memminger said of those other opponents, but Fraser parents will continue to oppose the plan for two primary reasons - the Archer facility is inadequate and their children will be unrooted twice. “There are so many questions the administration has been unwilling to answer,” Memminger said. “There’s still a question about asbestos in the Archer building and the building is too small to

accommodate both schools. Also they don’t use the third floor of the building but no one will tell us why they don’t use it.” On moving the students next fall, Memminger says, “We don’t see how moving our children will benefit them. Why can’t they stay in place until the new school is built?” The parents are planning some initiatives to oppose the plan, but Memminger would not say what those initiatives include. Dist. 20 board member Marvin Stewart has been working with parents of Fraser and Charleston Progressive Academy. Parents at both schools have the option to transfer their children to other Dist. 20 schools, but their options are limited to other failing schools, he said. The administration is satisfied to warehouse Fraser and Sanders/Clyde students in the Archer facility, “And they don’t care,” Stewart said. The administration is equally unconcerned that Fraser parents also have the options of sending See pg 2

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2- February 11, 2009 Married 20 Years -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 ried couple leading two law enforcement agencies in neighboring jurisdictions. They have been married for 20 years. "This is something that is unique," said Fred Wilson, director of operations for the National Sheriffs' Association in Alexandria, Va. "It may very well be a first." Not everyone thinks it's a good idea to have the heads of the two largest local law enforcement agencies in the Orlando area married to each other. During the campaign for sheriff last fall, Demings' Republican opponent, John Tegg, warned of the potential for conflict of interest and lack of independence in such an arrangement. Jerry Demings, who will earn $159,000 a year in the job, ran as a Democrat, and his wife was appointed to the $139,000-a year job a year ago by Democratic Mayor Buddy Dyer. Tegg didn't respond to repeated phone calls for comment. Family ties among local law enforcement heads isn't unheard of in the Orlando area. Outgoing Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary is the son of a former police chief of Winter Park, an Orlando suburb, and his brother is the former police chief of Lake Mary, another suburb. But a married couple is a first for this theme park mecca, where the perception of crime is taken as seriously as actual crime given the economy's reliance on tourism. "In an optimal world, you probably would want to have cooperating agencies operate fully at arm's length because they represent different constituencies' interests," said Lew Oliver, chairman of the Orange County Republican Executive Committee in Orlando. "They're both very fine law enforcement officers with good reputations, so I don't think it's a big deal." Dyer saw no potential conflict of interest with his chief of Orlando's 1,000employee police force married to the Orange County sheriff, who oversees 2,400 workers. "Certainly, it's a unique situation," Dyer said in an e-

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mail. "But nowhere is it written that a married couple cannot hold leadership positions in law enforcement at different agencies in the same geographic area." The Demings dismiss any concerns. Val Demings said their past behavior is the best indicator of how they will operate. Val Demings worked for her husband as a high-ranking captain when he served as Orlando police chief from 1999 to 2002. "No one can point to any instance when there was ever a conflict of interest ... when we abused our authority in the agency," Val Demings said. "If we could exist within the same agency as husband and wife, certainly we can exist in two separate and distinct agencies as heads of those agencies." With a stylish haircut and broad smile, Val Demings cuts a glamorous if no-nonsense figure. The mustached Jerry Demings has a mirthful smile that suggests a politician more

Ford ---------------------cont. from pg 1 so much, don’t respect me enough to ask me directly what this legislation is intended to do. My criticism is aimed squarely at these pseudo black journalists in South Carolina who discovered their blackness just yesterday. I am also taking aim at the heads of some AfricanAmerican organizations who, just a few years ago, noticed the Confederate Flag flying over the State House and decided to wage an effort toget it removed. That flag was placed atop the State House in 1962, but I was the first person to picket in 1967 for its removal. I have the longest record of anyone when it comes to dealing with the old Confederacy and their flag. Anyone else who comes to these issues is a Johnnycome-lately and they do not have the right to question me about my blackness on these topics. All of this led to a planned meeting with some of these so-called black leaders so I could discuss my bill. But before I knew it they publicly criticized me about my bill. At that point, I didn’t see any need to have a meeting. Rep. Wendell Gilliard and I work every day of the week on issues, problems and concerns that affect our community. We work on behalf of people who’ve been left out of the mainstream of life in South Carolina. No one, can question our commitment to correct the wrongs that we see. Given what we have done, these pseudo black journalists and their cronies need to get a life and stop pretending they care about black people because everything they do is self-serving. As a trained community organizer my job is not only to work toward the best interest of people and their communities, but I am also equally equipped to engage in verbal confrontation when necessary. So my detractors shouldn’t assume they can go one-on-one with me.

than a police officer. They have the somewhat comic routine of many longtime couples. They laugh at each other's jokes, suggest that the other one tell a particular story and interrupt each other to set the record straight if they disagree with the way they story is going. To relax, they ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles together. "She has followed me in most of my jobs," Jerry Demings said.

Land Deal --------------cont. from pg 1 Citing the increasing number of whites moving onto the peninsula and failing public schools that have existed for decades, Jones added, “They (the growing white community) want to create their own schools and city council is saying they’ll go along with that and to hell with public schools.” Leroy Connors, a founding member of the Friends of Burke, but who also was a proponent for the development of the predominantly white new Math and Science Charter School at the Rivers campus said he has similar concerns. Connors said he thinks the concept for the Meeting Street Academy is a good one and he’s all for programs that raise the bar for African American students, but the money being spent to develop a new school could have been used to enhance programs at Burke and other underdeveloped Dist. 20 schools. The concern that Meeting Street Academy ultimately will serve a predominantly white student enrollment is valid, he said. “Some folks often do things that seem to benefit the Black community, but as gentrification displaces many of the residents who now live in that community the school could accommodate the new residents. We’ve seen it happen before,” he said. To insure the school’s commitment to African American students, Connors suggests city council find ways to prevent their displacement through the development of more affordable housing in the area. “Most Blacks who own homes in that area don’t have children in school and the only housing that’s available to Black families with children mostly is public housing,” he said. Jon Butzon, director of Charleston Education Network said he thinks the proposed school is a wonderful idea, but he understands the suspicions of the Black community. “Given the long (disparate) history of education in this community, I can see why things that some say are good for the African American community may not really be good. But in this case I think that concern is misplaced,” he said. “Aside from doing good things for children, I hope this initiative provokes the questions about our public school programs.”

While he says it as a joke, the statement isn't off target since the two have trodden the same career paths. Both came from large families of modest means and lots of siblings. One of Jerry Demings' brothers died young from the ravages of heroin addiction, an event that gave the sheriff-elect firsthand knowledge of the impact of drug abuse on families. They both studied at Florida State University in Tallahassee at the same time, although they didn't know each other. Val Demings, 51, majored in criminology, while Jerry Demings, 49, studied finance. Jerry Demings joined the Orlando police force in 1981, while Val Demings worked as a social worker before moving to Orlando to attend the Orlando Police Academy in 1983.

Parents to -------------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 their children to either to James Simons or Mitchell elementaries, both failing schools, he said. Charleston Progressive’s seventh and eighth grade student’s parents have the option of sending their children either to Burke Middle or Sanders/Clyde which also are failing schools. Former constituent board members Pam Kusmider and Henry Copeland also are assisting parents. Copeland said the administration is moving children around like widgits to eliminate as many failing schools as soon as possible. “Their not interested in these kids’ educations only their own report cards,” Copeland said noting that school districts are rated based on the number of failing schools they have. “The administration is trying to get rid of its failing schools, but our children are not commodities.” Numerous programs implemented by the admin-

“I will not --------------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 sleeping late and doing odd jobs around the house. General election day was the only paid day off when most people observed the day by going to the polls, but you eliminated that mandatory day when you pressed for the Confederate - King days. You said in the media coverage of your legislative initiative that “a black person needs to know what a white person goes through in South Carolina and vice versa...we need to know what made southern whites do what they did, secede from the union and fight a bloody, four year war.” I share the reported sentiments of Bill Miller, a member of the Fort Sumter Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans: “It does bother me that we would mandate anything like that. It takes away from the dignity of it.” Those who truly want to appreciate history and heritage cannot be forced to do so, but will choose to do so. I’ve chosen to do so, and that’s why I don’t observe Confederate Memorial Day. The average poor southerner was simply fighting for his country and defending his homeland, as do the foot soldiers in every war. The intent of the elected officials who led secession, however, was well stated by Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens: “Our nation is founded on the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man.” South Carolina’s Articles of Secession make it clear that our state seceded from the union to maintain the right of people to own people. I know the history, but I cannot and will not embrace the heritage as you do. Your press release also referred to and criticized “pseudo black journalists, black detractors, AfricanAmerican organizations who, just a few years ago, noticed the Confederate Flag flying over the State House..., Johnny-come-latelys, and so-called black leaders,” and expressed your outrage that those so labeled “jumped to conclusions, hate (you), don’t respect (you), question (your) blackness,” and “don’t respect me enough to ask me directly what my legislation is intended to do.” Let me respond, in case I fall into any of those categories. I had not publicly spoken about your Confederate - King Day legislation until now. I did question your legislative proposal to deal with sagging pants and hip hop music while our state faces weighty issues like unemployment, health care access, and quality education. The Charleston Branch NAACP was sufficiently concerned about your Confederate - King Day legislation and respectful enough of your position to ask that you meet with Rev. Nelson Rivers, Branch President Dot Scott and myself. You agreed to meet on Monday, February 9, 2009 at 4:00 pm, but called me at 3:10 pm to postpone the meeting until you could bring a “mediator” along. I found that to be a novel request and suggested that you call President Scott, because no black elected official has ever refused to meet with the NAACP in Charleston unless there was a “mediator.” Ms. Scott and I went to the NAACP office in case you still chose to meet, tried to call you from the office numerous times with no response, left voice messages for you, and then left at 4:30 pm. You have chosen not to respond to those calls. I commend your 1967 stance against the Confederate Flag, although the first African-American legislators elected in the early seventies introduced the first legislation to remove the flag. I also commend your work as a community organizer and your community outreach. My concern, however, is with your introduction of the aforementioned legislation. You were elected and sent to Columbia by those of us in your District not to be a community organizer, but as a State Senator who enacts state laws that have a positive impact on those whose quality of life requires the unofficial outreach that you do as a community organizer. I suggest that you objectively survey your constituents to see whether we want mandatory Confederate King holidays. You can then represent your constituents and not craft legislation on sketchy, anecdotal information. I also suggest that you open yourself up to new possibilities. The coming Civil War sesquicentennial in 2011 offers an opportunity for all South Carolinians to reflect on the history of that War in a new air of mutual respect. I know that you’re an old civil rights warrior and think that some things can’t be done without coercion, but people have an amazing capacity to unexpectedly do the right thing in new ways. As one who predicted that Barack Obama would never be elected President of the United States before you grudgingly became one of his “Johnnycome-lately” supporters, I’m sure you can now appreciate new possibilities. Finally, I assure you that the Charleston NAACP is always willing to meet with you in an air of mutual respect, if you come with an equal attitude of mutual respect and a willingness to talk and not, as you said, “engage in verbal confrontation” or “go one-on-one.” I think that can be done if you take the advice that one of my preacher-uncles offered me when I went into ministry: “When you start acting like you’re as great as people say you are, you’ll run into trouble.” Best wishes, Joe Darby

istration over the years all have failed, Copeland said. Kusmider agreed. “I’ve seen the administration implement plan after plan over and over and nothing has improved education in the peninsula’s schools,” she said. “We’re just moving kids around and never properly implementing a program. What’s taking place in the classroom is what needs to be fixed,” she said.

CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY EVERYDAY Elder Johnson -------cont. from pg 1 The management responded to requests for more balanced views by hiring Richard Todd who is considered a moderate talk show host. “But Todd is worse,” Johnson says. The programs promote further racial division in the local community, Johnson said, and while he feels his recent meeting with management was productive, said he will encourage offended listeners to boycott the program’s advertisers. June Connors listens to Rocky-D’s program because of its frequent focus on public education, she said. “Rocky is arrogant, loud and boisterous, but I think he does it to sell the show. I like the program because he has guests on who bring a lot of information. But then Rocky goes off on his loony tunes thing. I just don’t take him seriously,” Connors said. Still offensive remarks made on the programs should be challenge, she added. “I’m not going to lose sleep over the things they say, but they should be held accountable. Their station is owned by a conglomerate that airs Black music. When a shock jock is offensive we should go to their bosses to let them know our community won’t support their other stations if they don’t take ethical responsibility.” The same sentiment was voiced by a retired Senior Navy Chief living in West Ashley. Chief James Powe said radio stations WMGL-Magic 103.7 and WWWZ-Z93, are Citadel Broadcasting’s numbers one and two-rated stations which feature rhythm and blues and hip hop formats respectively, are the conglomerate’s cash cows which pay the salaries of the offending shock jocks. “In essence Black listeners pay to be offended. And the only thing the Black community gets in return is one public affairs program that airs 7 p.m. Sunday evenings when the chances of attracting listeners are limited at best,” he said. “I tune into WTMA to hear local and national news. I listen to Richard Todd in the mornings then Neal Boortz and Rocky-D in the afternoons and find RockyD to be the most offensive. Rocky-D always raises the race issue to attract conservative white listeners who love him. In one show three weeks ago there was an issue about parking attendants and in his vile way described them as ‘rough neck little women’,” Powe said comparing Rocky-D to Imus. In another instance a white subscriber to this newspaper said she was offended when part time announcer Jack Hunter, AKA The Southern Avenger, said anyone supporting Denmark Vesey is the same as a terrorist. At the time there was a discussion concerning the placement of a memorial to Vesey in Marion Square.

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NAACP: The Next 100 Years by Jim French

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) - ”This awful slaughter,” was how Ida B. Wells described lynching, the murderous act of domestic terror which claimed the lives of about 5,000 Black Americans from 1890 to 1960. By 1909, Wells, a civil rights leader, women’s rights leader, sociologist and journalist was the most relentless antilynching advocate in the United States. And that year on Feb. 12, 2009, Wells joined with W.E.B. DuBois, Oswald Garrison Villiard, Mary White Ovington, Henry Moscowitz and William English in New York City to form a group initially known as the National Negro Committee. They would become the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “In 1909, when we were founded in a small apartment in Lower Manhattan by a multi-faith, multi-racial group of dreamers, the purpose was simple - it was to end lynch mob justice - and it was to crush Jim Crow,” said Benjamin Jealous, NAACP president and CEO during a teleconference last week - the week that marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s oldest and most prominent civil rights organization. “While the problems we face today are different, they are too familiar,” Jealous continued. “In Black communities across the country, we still see too many young Black men killed in the prime of their life. It’s no longer men hanging from trees; it’s men in body bags.” And although the group’s centennial celebration falls the same year America and the world witnessed the sea-changing election of Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, Jealous says the need for the organization he leads is still great. “While we do have a Black president and while there are many single individuals who have been able to permeate racial barriers in the society…we still have a battle for the whole group to be treated fairly,” he said. Jealous, who emerged last year from a sometimes contentious and controversial selection process as the group’s 17th president — following the abrupt resignation of Bruce Gordon — is the organization’s youngest leader. He faces problems within the organization that have ebbed and risen throughout the NAACP century: questions of its relevance, financial issues and a board structure some argue is bloated and obsolete. But this week Jealous pointed his organization towards the next 100 years with the release of “An NAACP White Paper” which outlines the group’s priorities - “safe communities, good schools and a fair chance for all Americans.” “This document that we released today is titled, ‘Year One.’ It is a look forward with hope,” Jealous said. “We have high hopes right now with this change of Congress, change of administration. There is a more procivil rights tilt to the federal government these days. But with high hopes come high expectations.” A major swath of the NAACP’s agenda focuses on law enforcement, a struggle that has been ongoing for the group since its beginning and for the Black American community for centuries. “Reforms need to be made across the board nationally in this country,” Jealous said. “The End Racial Profiling Act has to be passed. We have a president who has talked about being racially profiled. He doesn’t have to worry about the problem anymore but we shouldn’t tolerate the fact that his cousins or his formal constituents on the Southside will still be subjected.” In fact, last week a report by the Center for Constitutional Rights says 531,000 New Yorkers were stopped and frisked in 2008 and 80 percent of them were Black and Latino.

Some Black prejudices are: ....Any white person with a southern accent hates Black people.

Still, Jealous is hopeful given the historic appointment of Eric Holder Jr. as the nation’s first Black attorney general. “We’ve experienced a number of victories just in the past month…the nomination and appointment of Attorney General Holder, a very pro-civil rights attorney general, and we are very optimistic,” Jealous said. “So we have laid out an agenda and that agenda includes law enforcement legislation that has languished for a decade.” But, Jealous argues, the boundaries of equality may be put to the most severe test during this historic economic downslide. As the country grapples with an imploding economy, Black America, of course, is impacted disproportionately. “Black unemployment now is approaching 13 percent. The country is outraged because national unemployment is approaching eight percent,” Jealous said. “We should not as a country accept for any group—let alone one that is tens of millions of people—something that we would not accept for the country as a whole.” And Jealous says the ubiquitous $800 billion stimulus bill, which is just days away from being signed into law by President Obama, must stimulate all communities. “Our fight right now over the stimulus is to make sure that it doesn’t just amount to a bailout for Main Street but also a fix for Back Street.” Jealous added, “It would be unconscionable to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money and simply go back to where we were two years ago. We need to do better than that. We need to actually close that gap that can only be explained at the end of the day by the inclusion of race between White and Black unemployment rates.” Ultimately, the country is going through a time of unprecedented tumult and Jealous says the NAACP will rise to the occasion as it has for the last 100 years. “When people look back on the history of the NAACP, they often mistake the obvious—we are the canary in the great American coal mine—our job is to scream when something is wrong, when something is amiss,” Jealous said. “But when we scream, we don’t just scream for the canaries; we scream for everybody. We improve this country for everybody.”

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

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Who Asked Me? by Beverly Gadson-Birch

(Plea to Black Fathers: Resume Your Role) Black History is not all about slavery, lynching and inventions. It is also about extraordinary people, courage, values and unparallel work ethics. Today, we are living in the present; but tomorrow, today becomes history. Will we want to leave behind a history of crime and violence or are we going to do something to influence the course of history? I am sure if we were to conduct a poll today on violence by black youths, at least 95% of those polled would say they are fed up with the violence. Although, the violence seems endless, there is no one answer that would put an end to the senseless cycle of killings in the black community. I still believe that collectively we can turn the crime wave around in our communities. It’s about loving who we are. The question still remains, what is wrong with the black youth? What led to the breakdown in the black family? If we were to research Black history, Massa often kept the fathers and sold the mothers and children breaking up and destroying black families. The black male was strong both physically and mentally so he was kept to work the land. Whenever and wherever possible the black male held his family together in spite of the odds for him to succeed. No doubt, the black male has certainly had his share of ups and downs; however, that’s the sordid past that he relives on a daily basis but it is time to bury the past and move forward. Sure it is difficult to do; but, it is time to move on. We need our black males to regain their respective place as head of the family. Forget about that woman lib stuff. Women are tired of carrying the enormous weight placed upon her by absentee men who find it easier to hide behind the mores of society. It is important that we save our children. Our children have suffered because we took on the image of white America and lost our way. We started walking, talking, and acting like white America. We bought into that Barbie and Ken look. We bought blond hair babies for our children. We wanted the house by the lake on fast food salaries. We forgot who we were. We saw the house on the hill and the big cars and we wanted that. These were standards set by White America. So, we started working two and three jobs in order to move into middle class America. The more we got the more we wanted. There would be no stopping us. White America standards were measured by education and wealth. Black folks standards were measured by religion and family. While Blacks were chasing the “good life”, purportedly so their children could have a better life, they lost their families and some even lost their life. Mothers went to work and fathers left home. About the same time we were imitating White America, drugs and weapons crept into our communities. Alone and without parental guidance, Black children turned to x-rated television, video games, x-rated internet sites, chat rooms, drugs and weapons. You can’t be involved in drugs and not be involved with weapons. It is no secret why the black woman is anchor of the black family. She had to keep her family together in the absence of the black male. Massa knew if he destroyed the black male, if he destroyed our love and our spirit then he would be able to keep us under control. When you destroy the spirit, you take away the fight. The black spirit has been destroyed. If a man is robbed of his manhood and his ability to protect his woman and family, he views himself as a failure. I can’t think of a better contribution to Black History than for fathers to restore their relationships with their children and families. Black fathers have always been very resourceful. They taught the boys how to build and fix things. Many of the boys learned how to repair cars so they could save money. If you received chocolates for Valentine’s Day, consider it a gift of love. You do know that the chocolates were not just for that day but it is for the love and appreciation the other 364 days of the year. Let’s restore love and trust within the black family. What happened to grace at the dinner table and relevant discussions about work ethics, manners, school and church? At the onset of integration, we told our children you don’t have to say “yes maam” and “no maam” to the white teachers because we had had enough of saying “yes sa massa”, “no sir massa”. We taught them that it was enough to answer “yes” and “no”; now, they don’t respect us nor the teachers. And, why have you stopped training the Black male to be courteous and respectful to females? I am floored every time I see a young Black male pull a chair out for his date, or take her coat or open a door. You just don’t see much of that anymore. You get what you demand. Share this article with the males in your life. Tell them, it is time to stop the violence!! If it is time for this country to elect a Black President, fathers, it is time for you to step up to the plate and assume responsibility for your children. If it means working two or three jobs. It is not the county or state’s responsibility to support your child. It’s your responsibility. And, your failure to be there is what is contributing to the violence in our communities. If I don’t get but one father to be a father, it was worth the time that it took to pen this article. Prodigal Sons, put down your weapons and go home.

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February 18, 2009-5

As I See It

Hakim Abdul-Ali

My Parents’ Advice During Hard Times

I am going to be very straightforward with you. It’s been quite a hectic last few weeks for me, and I’ve been thinking about some pressing issues in my worlds of existences. Like all “colored” folk everywhere, the financial pressures of living in the seemingly current dishonest cosmic age of greed, glitz, graft and materialism has unfortunately caught up with some innocent citizens in our nation through no fault of their own. Maybe you can relate. “As I Se It,” it’s a mind-blower for many hurting and suffering citizens where the bald eagle is now hiding somewhere in political and economic disguises. I believe that you understand what I meant and mean by using that not-so-frank reference in describing some of those political and business crooks who’ve hoodwinked the economy blind causing untold pain and losses galore. I don’t know about you, but all this mess has certainly placed me included and a lot of other folks in a bind. Some of those discontented folks are cussing like hell, and many others are silently enraged, too angry to say anything for fear of losing their self-control. Count me somewhere in the middle because I’m just trying to deal with one pressing issue after the other. I’m a realist, and nothing in this life surprises me about certain people, including the lying fiscal politicians and “banksters” who allowed this mess to take place right under their watch. Call it what you want, but it’s still busy as usual in the 21st Century. That’s what it all boils down to in the fast lane world of imaginary ups and realistic downs. Some of these same “colored” people who I spoke of earlier are being taken to the proverbial “cleaners” as I write, and they done even know that they’ve been truly “cleaned and pressed” by a system that was crooked from the very start. Just look at “all” the so-called beautiful and rich people who’ve been taken to the cleaners for everything that they had and more. I don’t know where you fit into that equation, but if you’re on the down side of the economic chain like most “colored” folk , you’re already suffering and struggling to try to make ends meet. I’m there too and I’m not I’m complaining, but life’s changes are something else. That goes for me, you and everyone else in “huemanity” as we hear of another financial scam being unveiled before the “colored” nation’s bewildering eyes. Whew! It seems as though all of the ethnic Americas are being hit with one monumental monetary blow after the other. Some “colored” folk are now saying that it’s a recession, and others are saying it’s too close to call, but something’s not sweet smelling in the nation’s economic air. No one knows the future but the Creator Alone. With that being another absolute given, it’s time to buckle up and face the onslaught of life’s changes that are upon us and will surely be there in the near future. I’m trying to be honest with you because this is no time for comical assertions. It’s about being real and upfront with our inner selves as you and I wonder how the next bill is going to be paid. It’s that deep! I’m sure that you know the feeling as another day of indebtedness targets your already screaming and fragile bank accounts, if you still have any. Today’s business life is what it is, especially after and when you put your trusts in deceptive real estate agents, illegitimate brokers, lying politicians and phony bank officials. I’m telling it like is. We all may be taken to “the cleaners” when this stuff is over, but during this agonizing mental and spiritual process we should take a step back to see that all this could be showing us something “real” special. Let me explain what I mean from my own, real point-of-view. Sometimes, I felt like I wanted to give up as unbelievable financial debts, bills and unexpected personal tests hit and besieged my aura of normalcy with one thing after the other. At times, the whole arena can be challenging and depressing, if I let it get to me, so, I work hard to remember that it (ain’t) nothing but a good old test from God Alone, and I intend to hang in there no matter what. I recall that my mother and father, during their hard times, use to say “that you can squeeze money out of donut if you don’t have it, but by praying and having faith in God, He Alone will provide (for them) when all else fails.” That’s some potent stuff they said and believed in during their moments of testing, because I sure do. As I type this column, I’m sending that reminder out to you to give to you a little thought to the words of my mom and dad’s unbeatable union and belief in the power of the Creator Alone to handle all their affairs. It’s a no joke belief system so don’t play prayer and yourself short, no matter what ethnicity you may claim as your heritage. My deceased parents were humble, loving and proud AfroAmericans who wished for the other “colored” peoples of “huemanity” what they wished for themselves. They knew that being in the living process called life meant that they were going to be tested constantly. They understood the wisdom of prayer. Sometimes, I ponder whether we know that we will be tested also. I’m learning the hard way that life is about being tested in more difficult ways than one. My parents obviously understood this. Do You? These are some crazy times for some “colored” folk as the world of modernity makes another shift in testing us on a daily cycle of have and have-nots. “It is what it is,” and the family that prays together in hard times will most definitely stay together in them too.” That’s what my parents most certainly did, and if they were alive today they would tell you and me to do the same. That’s some sound advice that you should remember if you didn’t already know it. Don’t lose faith in God Alone to handle His world and give worry an account in your name. Please remember that “worry is faith that has not said it’s prayers.” Say a prayer for during these hard times for me, our community and nation, and I’ll say one for you. For today, and prayerfully always, that’s, “As I See It.”

Senator Lieberman Takes Swift Action on DC Voting Rights Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer WASHINGTON (NNPA) - The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, held a markup on the DC House Voting Rights Act (S.160) on Wed. Feb. 11. The Committee approved the measure in an 11-1 vote during its first business meeting of the 111th Congress. ''We are greatly encouraged by Senator Lieberman's swift action on the DC Voting Rights Act. We asked the Senate to act before February 12 and Senator Lieberman delivered. Our focus now is on getting this bill to the Senate and House floor for a vote,'' said Ilir Zherka, DC Vote Executive Director. ''We believe we have the votes and hope that Congress will continue to move quickly to pass this bill. Unlike the more complex issues facing Congress today, passing the DC Voting Rights Act is an easy win for the Democratic majority and a monumental victory for the more than half a million Americans living in DC.'' D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton released a statement regarding the passage of the voting rights act. ''Every resident is surely encouraged that, notwithstanding the serious business before the house and Senate, a Senate committe voted today, moving the D.C. House Voting Rights bill to the floor. We are deeply indebted to Sen. Joe Lieberman and his staff who have managed this bill with enormous energy and dedication. With the President long on board and the House and Senate geared up to provide him with a bill to sign, we see a light at the end of a very long tunnel for voting rights for D.C. Residents.

Blackonomics by By James Clingman NNPA Columnist

Stimulate Your Own Economy “The principal affliction of poor communities in the United States is not the absence of money, but its systematic exit.” Michael Shuman, Going Local. Of all the ways being recommended to stimulate the economy, very few are directed toward the fact that, like politics, economics is local. The tried and true method for stimulating our local economies is by mutually buying and selling to one another. You have heard it all before, what has become an aphorism in the so-called Black community: “The Black dollar doesn’t circulate even one time among Black people before it leaves the Black community.” Whose fault is that, y’all? If we would somehow turn that cliché into a myth, by acting upon its truth alone, we could stimulate our own economies all across this country; and we would not be sitting around waiting for the politicians, who have already proven how inept and greedy they are, to pass a stimulus package that won’t do diddly-squat for the collective empowerment of Black people. How can we keep more of our money among ourselves? Glad you asked. Support and grow our own businesses instead of everyone else’s. Teach our young people how to create jobs through entrepreneurship rather than merely how to “get a job” that belongs to someone who couldn’t care less about their future security. “But we need something we can do right now, Jim.” Here is something, and it is quite timely. Who is preparing your tax return? If there is a Compro Tax Service in your town, or another Black owned tax preparation company where you live, then PLEASE go to them and get your taxes done. For God’s sake! What could be easier? What makes more sense than this simple but empowering way to contribute to our own stimulus package? Like death, taxes are inevitable, but some of us would rather run to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to use their services instead of using our own Black firms. How sad! Compro Tax, the largest Black owned tax return Corporation in the country, should be overwhelmed with business right now, and not just from Black people, but from all other groups as well. They are professionals and, more importantly, they have proven time and again that they are conscious when it comes to financially supporting our communities. The corporate office in Beaumont, Texas, recently completed construction and opened a convention center: The Compro Event Center. Designed and built by Black architects and builders, wired by a Black owned computer and technology company, staffed and managed by Black folks, catering provided by Black owned companies, and supported by other Black entrepreneurs who rent the retail spaces that are attached to the convention center, the Compro Event Center is the model for other Black businesses to follow. Because of the foresight and consciousness of its owners, Compro Tax has demonstrated yet again that it is willing to invest in the community by putting its money here its mouth is. How about an event center in every town that has a Compro tax office? During its grand opening in December 2008, esteemed Professor and Psychologist, Dr. Na’im Akbar and the talented young “Master Teacher” from Atlanta, Chike Akua, followed by the “Networking Guru,” George Fraser, were the featured speakers at the weekend “Christening” event. Another way we can “keep our dollars circulating among ourselves” for a while longer, is by using conscious speakers who also have demonstrated a willingness to “give back.” So, find a Compro Tax office and let them do your taxes; and don’t fall for the heart-rending commercials with Black spokespersons that are currently running on television. Where are these companies when the tax season ends? What are they building in your neighborhood that will provide a job or a contract for your people? Leave them alone and support your own. Create your own economic stimulus. Here’s another way. Support the education of your children by doing what Oprah did for the school in Atlanta. Her check for $365,000 was a drop in the bucket for Oprah, but many drops into the buckets of our local AfricanCentered schools, put there by Black people who want our children to be properly and consciously educated, can go far to improve our lot. Determine what your particular “drop in the bucket” is and send a donation; the future result will surely be a self-supported economic stimulus for our children. Right now, there is a capital campaign being headed by Roger Madison (www.izania.com) and Keidi Awadu (www.libradio.com), who reside in Ohio and California, respectively, in support of the Joseph Littles School in West Palm Beach Florida. How’s that for “stepping up”? You want to do something to help stimulate our own economy? Invest a drop or two into the Joseph Littles bucket. I get so tired of hearing us complain about not being able to do things for ourselves. Surely there is something you can do to stimulate your local Black economy, or even that of a city in which you do not reside. Just look around, make the commitment and follow through on it by supporting your own businesses and educational institutions. You may not be an Oprah, but I believe that we have a lot of little Oprah’s who can, if only we would, combine our individual dollars and provide an economic stimulus for Black people, locally and nationally. Try it; it may become a great habit.

The Call from the White House By. Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief It was around noon on Tuesday, Feb. 10, that I checked my cell phone messages after participating in an intense executive seminar all morning. One of the messages was from Corey Ealons, director of African-American media during President Obama’s transition, who works in a similar role at the White House. Corey was asking me to call him immediately. The urgency in his voice befuddled me. After all, this was the White House calling. When I reached him, I immediately knew the conversation would be intense. He was asking why I had said the Black Press was treated as “window dressing” at President Obama’s first press conference the night before. I knew I had made the remark in a private conversation with three of my Black Press colleagues, but I couldn’t figure out how Corey knew it. Finally, he said, “Hazel, you don’t know?” “Know what, Corey?!” I paced the sidewalk outside the Marvin Center at George Washington University where my seminar had taken place. He continued, “You don’t know about this article in the Washington Times this morning quoting you as saying the Black Press was treated as ‘nothing more than window dressing’ at last night’s press conference?” Then, I remembered, a Washington Times reporter had approached me and asked me my name as I sat down on the front row in front of the podium where President Obama was about to speak. Thinking little of it, I gave him my name; then waited for the President’s first press conference to begin. The East Room of the White House was a familiar setting to me. I’d been there many times over the past eight years, covering events of the Bush Administration. Unfortunately, by the end of the press conference, still sitting on the front row with my unasked and unanswered question on my reporter’s pad, that was something else that was all too familiar. Not one member of the Black Press was called upon for a question. I had stood to leave when I suddenly found myself in the company of three other Black Press reporters - NNPA columnist George Curry, Washington Informer Publisher Denise Rolark Barnes and American Urban Radio White House Correspondent April Ryan. The frank and honest private conversation that ensued led me to speak truth as I saw it. “We were window dressing,” I said. “We were nothing more than window dressing.” Unbeknownst to me, the same Washington Times reporter – Joe Curl - who had asked my name before the press conference, was listening to our conversation. And there I was the next morning quoted in an article headlined “Obama Snubs Black Press.” Isn’t that a twist? The press is caught off the record! Notwithstanding the rogue article that intentionally or unintentionally gave the false appearance that I had been interviewed by the paper, I quickly made it clear to Corey Ealons that I had in fact made the “window dressing” comment. And this is the reason why: Since 1827, the Black Press of America – now more than 200 Black-owned newspapers, 15 million readers across the nation – has fought with the pen for this moment in history. From the anti-slavery editorials of the North Star’s Frederick Douglass to the anti-lynching campaigns of the Memphis Free Speech’s Ida B. Wells to legendary Chicago Defender White House Correspondent Ethyl Payne to those modern day Black Press journalists who toil daily, we have long been the conscience of America. Currently demanding answers on such issues as the survival of historically Black colleges, the racially disparate disease and homicide death rates, the skyrocketing Black unemployment rate and the disparate rate of police killings and profiling in Black communities, Black Press reporters have pursued journalistic excellence by raising questions from the heart of America, questions that illuminate America’s creed that “all men are created equal.” We have sacrificed the salaries of the New York Times and the Washington Posts in order to serve a loyal and specific audience that have long depended on us for the truth and to hold America accountable – even demanding the fair election of America's first Black president and then celebrating it in an inaugural gala. I worked for the Black Press of America for 11 years before being awarded entry to Harvard University - the President’s Alma Mater - because of my impactful reporting for the Black Press. In the words of heroic suffragist Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I” a reporter? Must we in the Black Press sit forever silent on the back rows - or the front rows - of the White House as if we are waiters at the head of our own table? The answer is no, we will not be treated as three-fifths of a journalist by any White House. On Oct. 15, 2001, the NNPA News Service published an article headlined, “White House Holds Whites-Only Press Conference”. It described the scene in which reporters of color from various cultures were relegated to the left side of the East Room and were not allowed to ask questions while Bush called on 10 White reporters sitting before us. To the contrary, President Obama and his White House press staff have shown themselves to have quite the opposite mindset. Thanks to the ingenuity and integrity of Corey Ealons and then President-elect Obama, I conducted an exclusive interview with the President-elect during his historic Whistle Stop train tour. Since that candid conversation, America has been observing that its first Black president is beleaguered, but strong as he shoulders the weight of the crisis that was left behind by the Bush Administration. Editorial pages of our papers are supporting him and rooting him on as Black people approach unemployment rates in the teens. Although we anticipate reporting – step by step – how he maneuvers the political mine fields ahead, we refuse to let him shoulder this crisis alone. In fact, if the voices of Black newspapers – which were founded amidst crisis - are not louder than ever, we will leave him as the first Black president to single-handedly shoulder the burdens of equal justice. In this regard, we are sure that he recognizes the importance of our questions, the integrity of our journalist pens and that his heart is to deal with us with fairness…We are sure. As for that rogue article in the conservative Washington Times, well it’s like “water under the bridge” as they say, although its editors Chris Dolan and John Solomon failed to exercise the common decency or professional courtesy of returning my phone calls. I had to know how this happened. Therefore, I called the reporter himself, Joe Curl, a seasoned White House correspondent, who I quite frankly enjoyed talking with. He explained to me that he had been assigned to what he described as “political theatre - what happens in that room and try to capture all the things that went on there.” I explained to him that this, for me, is a new kind of reporting in which anything is fair game for a good quote – even the private conversation of unsuspecting colleagues. “We were all kind of mashed together in a group of people moving out,” he recalled. “So, it may not have seemed like we were talking directly to each other but I was talking with April and I don’t know if I said anything directly to you or not.” Well, let the record show that he didn’t say anything directly to me after the press conference. He simply blended in with the crowd. But, the Black Press will never blend in with the crowd. We didn't when we for decades raised our voices for the election of Black politicians across this country. And in the recent words of the Rev. Joseph Lowery, we will continue to “speak truth to power no matter what color power is.” From city halls to state houses to the White House, we will do so with unbridled vigor and honesty without exception. But, we will also do so - through our questions - with fairness and equity. We insist on nothing less than the same.

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New York, NY (BlackNews.com) - Nearly one month ago, AdC Publishing released a reference guide for women of color, which has proven to be a monumental hit with women of the AfricanAmerican and Latina communities--a #1 Bestseller no doubt! Aurora della Croix's The Gullible Girl's Guide to Gagging the Down-Low Brother! is indeed a mouth full; however, coupled with this alliterated mammoth title, comes an eye and ear full of valuable information for women. Engaging...brilliantly written...an impressive and easy read, this raw...witty...sexy...and sometimes erotic tour de force is the first volume of a double volume set, and has been coined the Holy Grail for women of color who desire to increase their knowledge about the down-low brother (DLB). Della Croix embraces the reader on an one-on-one level, and leads her/him on a lyrical journey through time and back. Along the way, della Croix tackles labels, as the book candidly dispels some of the myths about men...straight, gay and down-low. Combining various ingredients such as self-help mantras, psychological and historical facts; anecdotes, fantasy, and profiles; sprinkled with an abundance of humor, this recipe ensures the reader is well-seasoned and empowered for entry into the sweltering, and abysmal black-hole known as the DLB psyche! A successful journey through this first volume arms the reader with the necessary basic tools and knowledge to defend herself against the chicanery of her current or future DLB partner. Sales of this Holy Grail for women of color have not diminished since the announcement of its

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"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice." -- Carter Woodson (1875-1950)

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---NAACP Timeline-Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers

and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.

NAACP Timeline:

1965 Voting Rights Act is passed and signed into law by Johnson.

1909 On Feb. 12, the NAACP was founded by a multiracial group of activists. They were initially called the National Negro Committee. 1910 Began fighting legal battles with the Pink Franklin case, which involved a Black farmhand who killed a policeman in self-defense when the officer broke into his home at 3 a.m. to arrest him on a civil charge. NAACP officials, Joel and Arthur Spingarn, began the practice of fighting such battles. Later, the organization’s most prestigious award was named after the Spingarns. 1913 President Woodrow Wilson introduces segregation in the federal government to the chagrin of the NAACP. 1915 Organizes protest of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. 1917 Wins first major Supreme Court case, Buchanan vs. Warley and lobbies for Black officers in the military for World War I. 1918 President Wilson issues statement condemning lynching. 1922 NAACP places ads in large newspapers about lynching. 1930 Begins work with labor unions to defeat the nomination of Judge John Parker to the Supreme Court. 1935 Wins legal battle to admit a Black student to the University of Maryland School of Law. 1939 Supported Marian Anderson’s performance at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughter of the American Revolution barred her from Constitution Hall. 1941 Pressured President Franklin Roosevelt to issue a non-discrimination executive order in war-related industries and federal employment. 1946 Wins the Morgan vs. Virginia case, where the Supreme Court bans states from having laws that sanction segregated facilities in interstate travel by bus and train.

1948 Pressured President Harry Truman to sign executive order banning discrimination in federal government. 1954 Won the Brown vs. Board of Education case that outlawed racially-segregated public schools. 1955 Montgomery, Ala., NAACP secretary Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a White man on the bus. Roy Wilkins becomes the first executive director of the NAACP. 1960 In Greensboro, N.C., members of the NAACP Youth Council launched a series of non-violent sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. These protests eventually lead to more than 60 stores officially desegregating their counters. 1963 Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers is shot outside his home. 1964 Civil Rights Act is passed

1968 Fair Housing Act is passed and signed into law by Johnson. 1977 Dr. Benjamin Hooks becomes second executive director of the NAACP. 1978 In a setback, the Supreme Court outlaws racial quotas in higher education. 1982 President Ronald Reagan signs extension of the Voting Rights Act with the

backing of the NAACP. Starts economic development program called Fair Share, which urges companies to do business with Black firms. 1987 Led fight to deny Judge Robert Bork a seat on the Supreme Court. 1992 Fair Share programs net billions of dollars for Black businesses. 1995 Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers, is elected chairwoman of the board and Rep. Kweisi Mfume is selected as the organization’s first president and chief executive officer. 1998

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad St., 3rd Floor, Charleston, SC 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of:

FRANK HOLMES 2008-ES-10-1205 DOD: 02/25/99 Pers. Rep: BERNETHA ODOM 2219 FILLMORE ST., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 Atty: THAD J. DOUGHTY, ESQ. 2175-G ASHLEY PHOSPHATE RD., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406 ************************************************************************** Estate of: WILLIAM WEATHERS 2009-ES-10-0084 DOD: 11/30/08 Pers. Rep: ROBERTA C. WEATHERS 6 MOOREMONT AVE., GREENVILLE, SC 29605 Pers. Rep: LOUIS N. WEATHERS 7613 IRELAND AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29420 Atty: JONATHAN ALTMAN, ESQ. PO BOX 600, CHARLESTON, SC 29402 ************************************************************************** Estate of: NEOMIE ANTHONY 2009-ES-10-0132 DOD: 04/01/08 Pers. Rep: NANCY PIERCE 1310 VARDEL ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************************************************************************** Estate of: LOTTIE H. JENKINS 2009-ES-10-0143 DOD: 09/23/08 Pers. Rep: SANDRA R. HOLMES 8184 WINDSOR HILL BLVD., 300G, NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420 ************************************************************************** Estate of: EDITH FULTON BARR 2009-ES-10-0168 DOD: 01/19/09 Pers. Rep: CHARLES E. BARR 9532 LAWNSBERY TERRACE, SILVER SPRING, MD 20901 **************************************************************************

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Black Colleges Struggle in Economic Downturn By. Sean Yoes Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers (NNPA) - Part of the mission of the nation's historically Black institutions (HBI) is to provide a college education for a disproportionate number of students who can't afford to go to most traditionally White institutions (TWI). Now, many of those Black schools that have provided sanctuary for low-income students are stumbling under the weight of the country's economic crisis. Enrollments at Black schools are down while endowments are in decline and fundraising sources have dried up. The fact is resources are scarce at most U.S. col-

leges and universities, but students at HBI's often need more financial aid to stay in school. ''What's most difficult for our institutions is that they are tuition-driven,'' said Michael Lomax, president of the United Negro College Fund to the Associated Press. ''They don't have the large endowments and even the ones who do, have seen a large reduction in the value of those endowments.'' Most U.S. colleges are reeling from economic woes. A recent survey of 791 American public and private colleges indicates endowments fell 3 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30. A smaller group of schools reported a 23 percent drop in the first five months of fiscal year 2009, which began in July.

Only three Black colleges—Howard University in Washington, D.C., Spelman College in Atlanta and Hampton University in Virginia— had endowments in the top 300 included in the survey. But, even venerable Spelman announced it will cut 35 positions due to the faltering U.S. economy. Recently the all women's institution said it will reduce next year's budget by $4.8 million. Enrollment at the school is also down 3 percent this year. Spelman will cut 12 vacant positions and 23 existing positions. One of Spelman's Atlanta neighbors, Clark Atlanta University cut about 100 workers last week because of plummeting enrollment.

In a formal and tradition-clad ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel, President Robert Franklin Michael Jr. '75 was inaugurated 10th president of Morehouse College on February 15. "I come to this moment in my life with a profound humility matched by my determination to see our great school rise to new heights of accomplishment, " Franklin said. Credit: Morehouse.edu

Southern University Marching Band Temporarily Disbanded Special to the NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly BATON ROUGE (NNPA) - The Southern University marching band, one of the nation's premier college marching bands, has been temporarily disbanded as the East Baton Rouge district attorney investigates a hazing incident that led to several band members being hospitalized over the Bayou Classic weekend and arrests of seven band members in alleged hazing violations last fall. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore told The (Baton Rouge) Advocate last week that he is moving forward with prosecution of seven Southern University band members arrested for hazing late last year. Moore said the process is taking longer than expected because the two primary

victims do not live in Louisiana. Southern University Chancellor Kofi Lomotey said last week that the marching band has been temporarily ''disbanded'' for the semester. With the exception of an occasional parade, the SU Human Jukebox performs less often during the spring semester because football season has ended. ''The band has been disbanded and students are having to reapply, in a sense,'' Lomotey said. Such actions are important to ''increase expectations'' and highlight the seriousness of the matter, he said. ''That kind of behavior is not to be accepted,'' Lomotey said of hazing concerns. The prosecution of the seven band members stems from a recent alleged hazing incident that was part of a Nov. 25 initiation into

“Tom Joyner Presents How to Prepare for College" N a t i o n a l (BlackNews.com) Quality Press, a division of Amber Communications Group, Inc. (ACGI) the nation's largest African American Book Publisher of Self-help Books and Music Biographies has recently signed an agreement with the Tom Joyner Foundation, Inc. (TJF) to produce and manufacture the organization's upcoming title: Tom Joyner Presents How To Prepare For College. ACGI's imprint Amber Books will co-publish the title, with Independent Publishers Group (IPG) handling the distribution. The book will be available to Individuals, High Schools, Libraries, NonProfits, Organizations, Businesses and your local Community Bookstore, beginning February 16, 2009, in honor of Black History Month. Order now through www.amberbooks.com and www.ipgbook.com. Chain stores (Barnes and Noble, Borders, Walmart, Sams, etc.), can make special orders through Independent Publishers Group until September 2009, when the title will be officially released (published) nationwide. Written by Thomas LaVeist and Wil LaVeist the title Tom Joyner Presents How To Prepare For College has a foreword by Tom Joyner that states, "What I like about this book is that it shows you the steps you need to take to get into college and it applies to everyone. Everything from raising a

college-bound student to life after college is covered. Whether you're a child in elementary school or an adult in the work force considering enrolling in a college or university, this book has something you can use." Tom Joyner is a nationally syndicated radio and television personality, philanthropist and entrepreneur whose morning show is heard in more than 115 markets by nearly eight million listeners each week. Known as the "hardest working man in radio," Joyner is a 1999 Radio Hall of Fame inductee, an NAACP President's Award winner and was bestowed with the prestigious Marconi Award for Network/ Syndicated Personality of the Year. His website www.BlackAmericaWeb.c om has more than 1.5 million registered users and features news with special reports by award winning journalists and exclusive political coverage as well as interactive elements with on demand audio.

the marching band's unofficial French horn fraternity - ''Mellow Phi Fellow'' prior to the 2008 State Farm Bayou Classic football game, according to arrest records. The hazing occurred at a home north of Baton Rouge. According to police reports, the three victims were allegedly beaten with a 2-by-4-inch wooden board. Two of the three victims were hospitalized with injuries that could have led to possible organ failure, authorities said. Since being released from the hospital, the two band members have returned to their homes in Mississippi and Georgia, Moore said, as did five of the alleged perpetrators. East Baton Rouge authorities and university officials have refused to release the names of the victims.

Alabama Could Elect First Black Governor By The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, an early supporter of Barack Obama with uncanny similarities to the new president, announced his Democratic candidacy for governor Friday in a bid to become the first black to win Alabama's top office. Davis, a Harvard-educated lawyer in his 40s like Obama, ended months of speculation with his announcement, attended by a crowd of at least 100 people, made up largely of whites. That voting bloc will be crucial for Davis to win in 2010. "I will not promise you this path will be easy," said Davis, 41, who chaired Obama's campaign in Alabama. "Yes, this will be hard, but if find our way, we can build a state like we have never known, not at some distant point called one day, but right now, in our season," he said. Davis has more than $1.1 million in his congressional campaign account that he can use for his gubernatorial bid. He will face a Democratic field that's likely to include Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr., who served a partial term as governor during the early 1990s, and possibly Ron Sparks, Alabama's agriculture commissioner. Both are white. Like the new president, Davis overcame long odds to make it in politics. He was raised in Montgomery by a single mother and grandmother yet went on to graduate from Harvard

Rep. Artur Davis University's law school, where he met Obama. A skilled orator, Davis upset a black incumbent to win Alabama's 7th Congressional District. He has either won easily or had no opposition in reelections to the mostly black district, which extends from Birmingham to rural west Alabama. He has styled himself as a moderate pragmatist who looks out for the needy in his district, but also has business interests in mind. Davis can't win unless he attracts large numbers of white supporters in a state where, in a 2000 referendum, 40 percent of voters opposed ending a constitutional ban on mixed-race marriage. Exit polls in November showed Obama got fewer than 20 percent of the white vote. Republican John McCain easily won the state. Voter registration among blacks than whites grew before the Nov. 4 election, but whites still make up almost three-quarters of registered voters in Alabama, which is about 70 percent white.

In last year's Democratic presidential primary, about half of those voting were black. If he wins the party nomination, he would still need nearly all the black vote and about 40 percent of the white vote in the general election. "That has been very difficult for even white Democratic candidates in recent election cycles," said Jess Brown, a political scientist at Athens State University in northern

Alabama. Blacks hold scores of local offices and make up about 25 percent of each chamber in the Alabama Legislature, but no other minority candidate has previously had a real chance to win the governor's office. Republican Gov. Bob Riley is barred from seeking a third term. The GOP race to succeed Riley is expected to more crowded than the Democratic contest.

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Jakes' stepfather is a Dallas megachurch pastor who gave a sermon at the prayer service for Barack Obama on the morning he was sworn in as president.

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children would amount to $2,379. The octuplets' medical costs have not been disclosed, but in 2006, the average cost for a premature baby's hospital stay in California was $164,273, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The average cost for just one cesarean birth in 2006 was $22,762 in California. For a single mother, the cost of raising 14 children through age 17 ranges from $1.3 million to $2.7 million, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Suleman received disability payments for an on-thejob back injury during a riot at a state mental hospital, collecting more than $165,000 over nearly a decade before the benefits were discontinued last year. Some of the disability money was spent on in vitro fertilizations, which was used for all 14 of her children, Suleman said. She also said she worked double shifts at the mental hospital and saved up for the treatments. She estimated that all her treatments cost $100,000. Fourteen states, including California, require insurance companies to offer or provide coverage for infertility treatment, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But California has a law specifically excluding in vitro coverage. It's not clear what type of coverage Suleman has. A Nadya Suleman Family Web Site has been set up to collect donations for the children. It features pictures of the mother and each octuplet and has instructions for making donations by check or credit card.

Christian Poetry Contest Charleston - A $1,000 grand prize is being offered in a special poetry contest sponsored by Christian Poets Guild, free to everyone. There are 50 prizes in all totaling $5,000.00. To enter, send one poem of 21 lines or less to Free Poetry Contest, 7308 Heritage Dr., Mt. Vernon, IN 47620. Or entre online at www.freecontest.com. The deadline for entering is February 28, 2009. Poems may be written on any subject, using any style. “A typical poem,” says Contest Director Dr. James Hunter, “might be a love poem, or nature poem, one that inspires the reader.” Be sure your name and address appears on the page with your poem. If you wish a winner’s list please enclose a stamped return envelope.

4b-February 18, 2009 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON SAMUEL LANCE, JR. and DWAYNE LANCE Plaintiffs , vs. RUFUS PETERSON, EDWARD PETERSON, and LEVI PETERSON CATHERINE LODGE, WILLIAM SEABROOK, ROSE BLAKE, MARGARET EDDINGS FINLEY, REBECCA BROWN, ISIAH PETERSON, JR., GEORGE PETERSON, LILLIE BELLE GIBBS, VIRGINIA FORD, JOSEPH PETERSON, EUGENE PETERSON, JAMES PETERSON, JAMES PETERSON, JR., SAMUEL PETERSON, MARY BROWN, ELLEN PETERSON, FRANCENA PETERSON, HAROLD PETERSON, PAUL PETERSON, RICHARD PETERSON, ROBERT PETERSON, MAYBELLE FORD, PETER PETERSON, JOHN PETERSON, CURLINE JENKINS, ROSA BELLE ROPER, MAGGIE WHITE, ROSA MING, WILLIE HARRISON, CHARLES HARRISON, BENJAMIN GRANT, VIOLA WASHINGTON, ULYSESSES RIVERS, EDWARD RIVERS, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons and incompetents, being fictitious names desig nating a class of unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, leg atee, widow, widower, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, succssor, issue and alienee of PETER EDDINGS, ROSE EDDINGS PETERSON, CUFFIE EDDINGS, ISIAIH PETERSON, JR., WILLIE PETERSON, DAVID PETERSON, JAMES PETERSON, DAVID PETERSON, JULIA PETERSON, ELLA HARRISON, JESSE HARRISON, MARY HARRISON EDWARDS, CHRISTINA HARRISON, MOSLEY HARRISON, SUSAN WHITE, MARTHA SEABROOK, JAMES PETERSON, WILLIE EDDINGS, GEORGE EDDINGS, SARAH EDDINGS, ALMA COLLINS, ARTHUR EDDINGS, RUTHIE MAE EDDINGS, JACOB GRANT, WILLIAM GRANT, ANNIE GRANT, EVELINA

The Chronicle GRANT RIVERS, FRANKLIN RIVERS, and SAMUEL GRANT, deceased, and any and all persons or legal entities, known or unknown, claiming any right, title, interest,estate in or lien upon any of the three (3) parcels of land described in the Complaint herein, Defendants. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NUMER: 2008-CP-10SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the subscriber at their offices, Martin Law Firm, 113 Wappoo Creek Drive, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, withibn thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer or otherwise plead within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff herein will apply to the Court for the relief demaned in the Complaint. MARTIN LAW FIRM Brian G. Burke 113 Wappoo Creek Drive Charleston, SC 29412 (843) 762-2121 , 2008 Charleston, South Carolina COMPLAINT Come now the above named Plaintiffs complaining of the herein named Defendants and all other persons known or unknown who may claim any right, title, lien, estate or interest in the real property described herein that we adverse to Plaintiff’s title, and for their causes of action alleg e: Facts 1. That the real property which is the subject of this action is situated o n Wadmalaw Island in the County of Charleston and the parties hereto and the matters and things alleg ed herein, are within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court. 2. That the real property which is the subject of this action is identified by TMS #200-00-00-033. The real property consists of 3.57 acres of high grounds. 3. That the Plaintifs are informed and believe that Peter Eddings,

late of Charleston County, acquired title to the parcel of real estate in a warranty deed from William C. Bailey dated March 27, 1880 and recorded March 31, 1880 in Book P-17, at Page 285 in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County. 4. That the property was divided into four (4) lots, hereinafter refered to as Lot No.’s 1,2,3, and 4. This court, through agreement of the parties, deeded Lot No. 1 to Defendant Rufus Peterson, Lot No. 2 to Defendant Edward Peterson, and Lot No. 3 to Defendants Levi Peterson. 5. That Lot No. 4 is divded into three(3) parcels, hereinafter referred to as 4A, 4B, and 4C. The Plaintiffs file this action against the titles of parcels 4A, ad 4B. 6. That the Defendant, Peter Eddings, died intestate as a widower and while being seized and possessed in fee simple of the parcel of real estate and leaving as his heirs and distributes at law, two(2) surviving children, the Defendants, Rosa Eddings Peterson and Cuffie Eddings. a. That Rosa Eddings Peterson, a surviving daughter of Peter Eddings, died intestate during her widowhood while being seized and possessed of an undivided one-half (1/2) interest in the real property above-mentioned and leaving her as her heirs and disributes as law, eight(8) children, namely, the Defendants Isiaih Peterson, Willie Peterson, James Pet erson, David Peterson, Ella Harrison, Mosley Harrison, Susan White, and Mary Seabrook, b. That as the Plaintiff are informed and believe the Defendants, Mosley Harrison and Susan White, surving children of the Defendant, Rosa Eddings Peterson, died intestate, unmarried and without issue at a date and time unknown to the Plaintiffs and leaving as their heirs and distributees at law the surviving brothers and sisters of the Defendants, namely Isiaih Peterson, Willie Peterson, James Peterson, David Peterson, Ella Harrison, and Martha Seabrook. c. That the Defendant, Willie Peterson, a surviving son of the Defendant, Rosa Eddings Peterson, died while being a widower, and leaving as his sole heirs and distributees at law, his three(3) surviving children, the Defendants, Robert Peterson, and Maybelle Ford as his heirs and distributees at law, and thereafter, the Defendant Dan Peterson, a surviving son of the Defendant Willie Peterson, died intestate, unmarried and without issue as his sole heirs and distributees at law, the

Defendants, Robert Perterson and Maybelle Ford. d. That the Defendant, James Peterson, a surviving son of Rosa Eddings Peterson, died intestate while being a widower and leaving as his heirs and dist ributees at law, his seven(7) surviving children, namely, James Peterson, Jr., Peter Peterson, John Peterson, Curline Peterson Jenkins, Rosa Bell Roper, Maggie White, and Virginia Jenkins. e. That the Defendant, David Peterson, died intestate while being a widower and leaving as his heirs and distributees at law, his two(2) children, the Defendants, Rosa Ming and Julia Peterson, and thereafter the Defendant Julia Peterson died intestate, unmarried and without issue and leaving as her sole heirs and distributees at law, her surviving sister, the Defendant, Rosa Ming. f. That the Defendant, Ella Harrison, a surving daughter of the Defendant, Rosa Eddings Peterson, died intestatate while being a widower and leaving as her heirs and distributees at law, five(5) children, namely, the Defendant, Willie Harrison, Jesse Harrison, Charles Harrison, Mary Harrison Edwards and Christina Harrison, and thereafter the Defendant Mary Harrison Edwards and Christina Harrison, surviving children of the Defendant, Ella Harrison , died intestate, unmarried and without issue and leaving as their heirs and distributees at law, their surving brothers, the Defendants, Willie Harrison, Jesse Harrison, and Charles Harrison. Thereafter, the Defendant, Jesse Harrison, a surviving son of the Defendant, Ella Harrison, died intestate and without issue and a widower leaving as his heirs and distributes at law, Willie Harrison and Charles Harrison. g. That the Defendant Willie Harrison, surviving son of Ella Harrison, died intestate leaving as his heirs and distributees as law, his wife Rosa Harrison and his two(2) children, Defendants Mary Ella Harrison and Rebecca Harrison, Thereafter Rosa Harrison died intestate while being a widow and leaving as her heirs and dist rubutees at law, Mary Ella Harrison and Rebecca Harrison. Mary Ella Harrison died intestate leaving as her heirs and distributees at law, her husband Samuel Lance, Sr. and her t wo children, the Plaintiffs Samuel Lance, Jr. and Dwayne Lance. h. That the Defendant, Martha Seabrook, a surviving daughter of the Defendant, Rosa Eddings Peterso, died intestate while being a widow and leaving as her heirs and distributees at law, her

three(3) children, joined as Defendant herein, Catherine Lodes, William Seabrook, and Rose Blake. i. That the Defendant, Isiaih Peterson, a surviving son of the Defendant, Rosa Eddings Peterson, died intestate while being a widower and leaving as his heirs and distributees at law ten(10) children, namely, the Defendant, James Peterson the Defendants, Rufus Peterson, Isiaih Peterson, Jr., Rebecca Brown, Lillie Belle Gibbs, George Peterson, Virginia Ford, Levi Peterson, Joseph Peterson, and Edward Peterson, and thereafter, the Defendant, James Peterson, a surviving son of the Defendant, Isiaih Petereson, died intestate and leaving as his heirs and distributees at law, his surviving wife, the Defendant, Almette Peterson, and his ten(10) children, the Defendants, Eugene Peterson, James Peterson Jr., Samuel Peterson, Joseph Peterson, Mary Brown, Ellen Peterson, Francena Peterson, Harold Peterson, Paul Peterson, and Richard Peterson. j. That Cuffie Eddings, a surviving daughter of the Defendant, Peter Eddings, died intestate and unmarried while being seized and possessed of an undivided one-half(1/2) interest in the parcel of land described herein and leaving as her heirs and distributees at law, three(3) children, the Defendants, Willie Eddings, George Eddings, and Sarah Eddings and thereafter the Defendants, Willie Eddings and George Eddings, died intestate, unmarried and without issue and leaving as their heirs and distibutees at law, their surviving sister, the Defendant, Sarah Eddings. k. That the Defendants, Sarah Eddings, died intestate while being a widow and leaving as her heirs and distributees at law, four(4) children, the Defendants, Alma Collins, Arthur Eddings, and Margaret Eddings Finley. l. That the Defendants, Alma Collins, Arthur Eddings, and Ruthie Mae Eddings all died intestate, without issue and leaving as their and distributees at law, their surviving sister, the Defendant, Margaret Eddings Finley. For a First Cause of Action Declaratory Judgment (§15-53-10 et seq.) 7. That the Plaintiffs reallege each allegation contained in Paragrapha 16 as if restated herein verbatim. 8. The Plaintiffs seek declaratory relief pursuant to § 15-53-10 et. seq. of the S. C. Code Annotated.

9. The Plaintif’s herein are requesting the court to determine the true and lawful heirs of Peter Eddings and the extent of each heir’s interest in the property identified by TMS #200-00-00-033. For a Second Cause of Action Partition and Sale (§15-61-10 et seq. ) 10. Thew Plaintiffs reallege each allegation contained in Paragraphs 1-9 as if restated herein verbatim. 11. The Plaintiffs herein are reqesting the court, once title is granted or each heir’s interest is determined, partition the property which is the subject of this action. 12. Specifically, the Plaintiffs Samuel Lance, Jr. and Dwaybe Lance, the s on of Mary Ella Harrison and the great, great, great grandsons of Peter Eddings, request that Lot No.’s 4A and 4B be partitioned for the benefit of the heirs of Peter Eddings. 13. The Plaintiffs herein also ar e requesting the court reward attorney fees as may be equitable and assess such fees against any or all the parties in interest as the court deems equitable pursuant to § 1561-110 S.C. Code of Laws. Wherefore, Plaintiffs’ request Judgment as follows: 1. Order the property which is the subject of this action be partitioned pursuant to the parties respective interests. 2. The Plaintiffs be awarded, pursuant yo § 15-61-110, attorneys fees and costs from all or any parties the court deems equitable. 3. The court awards such other and further relief if deems just and proper. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED Martin Law Firm Brian G. Burke 113 Wappoo Creek, Charleston, SC 29412 762-2121 761-2333 fax

INVITATION FOR BID Solicitation Number: 09-B04CS The City of Charleston is accepting Invitation for Bid for 2009 Piccolo Spoleto Program Guides. The City will receive bids until March 12, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 Meeting Street, Suite 310 Charleston, SC. The solicitation will be available upon request and may be obtained by submitting a written request to: Chenette Singleton, Buyer by fax (843720-3872) or mailing to the above address. You may also obtain a copy of the solicitation by going to our website: www.charlestoncity.info and then click on the Bidline link.

Abduction Shakes Up Women Reporters Covering FGM Special to the NNPA from GIN (GIN) - Two reporters were briefly held hostage in Freetown, Sierra Leone, accused of insulting the practice of female circumcision after a series of interviews they conducted on the controversial practice. Manjia Balama-Samba, a reporter for the United Nations radio, was reportedly stripped by “soweis” and upbraided by the local women who follow the practice. Henrietta Youn Kpaka of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service in Kenema, was also detained by the group on Feb. 7, according to local news accounts. The journalists had conducted several interviews to mark the 5th anniversary of the International Day on Zero Tolerance to the practice known as FGM (female genital mutilation), in collaboration with the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices. According to UN figures, some 94 percent of women and girls aged 15 to 49 years in Sierra Leone have undergone circumcision (removal of the clitoris), traditionally believed to control female sexuality and make girls more ''marriageable''. Sierra Leone's government has taken no action yet on a year-old pledge to ban the practice. Some church groups, however, are speaking out about it. Remarked Rugiatu Turay, head of the anti-FGM group AIM, “Two imams have said publically that their daughters would never be initiated and other imams and pastors have started preaching about this in their prayer meetings.”

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CASE NUMBER: 08-CP-10FLOSSIE BROWN, Plaintiff, -versusNOTICE NISI ALEXANDER JENKINS, deceased, JOSEPH J. JENKINS, deceased, I S A A C WILLIAMS ROBERTS, deceased, ANNIE ROBERTS, deceased, ROSA LEE TAYLOR, deceased, LENNIN TAYLOR, a/k/a LINEN TAYLOR, JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate the unknown heirs at law, devisees, legatees, distributees, successors or assignees of the deceased Defendants, and any and all persons claiming by,through or under them, or having or claiming to have any right, title, interest in, estate or lien upon the premises described in the Complaint and RICHARD ROE and SUSAN DOE, fictitious names used to designate the unknown infants, heirs, devisees, legatees, distributees, assignees, alienees, wife, wives, successors or persons who are minors, insane, incompetent or under any and all other disabilities known and unknown, Defendants.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that there has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina, an Order appointing for you as Guardian Ad Litem, CHARLIE L. WHIRL, whose business address is 2112 Commander Road, Charleston, South Carolina, 29405, which appointment shall become absolute upon the expiration of thirty (30) days after the last day of publication of a copy of the Summons and Lis Pendens herein unless you or someone on your behalf, on or before the last mentioned date, shall produce someone to be appointed as Guardian Ad Litem to represent you in this action. DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff 61 Morris Street Charleston, S.C. 29403 (843) 723-1686 CHARLESTON, CAROLINA

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ANDREW GATES CREAMER 2009-ES-10-0003 DOD: 11/08/08 Pers. Rep: JAMES A. GRIMSLEY, III PO BOX 2055, BEAUFORT, SC 29901-2055 ************************************************************************** Estate of: ALFRED H. WILLIAMS 2009-ES-10-0014 DOD: 05/02/07 Pers. Rep: GLORIA W. HAUGHTON 1582 WESTWOOD DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************************************************************************** Estate of: ETHEL MAE DEBERRY 2009-ES-10-0072 DOD: 09/24/07 Pers. Rep. CAROLYN B. DENT PO BOX 98, ADAMS RUN, SC 29426 Atty: ROBERT D. FOGEL, ESQ. 720 ST. ANDREWS BLVD. CHARLESTON, SC 29407 **************************************************************************

apply to the Court for relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment by default shall be rendered against you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons and Complaint, the Plaintiffs will move for a general Order of Reference in this case to the Masterin-Equity or Special Referee for this County; which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Masterin-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a Final Judgment in this case. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Lis Pendens, Summons and Complaint in this action were filed on April _______, 2008, at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina, this _____________ day of , 2008. DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQUIRE 61 MORRIS STREET CHARLESTON, S.C. 29413-1830 (843) 723-1686 ATTORNEY PLAINTIFF

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Charleston, South Carolina April ________, 2008 LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY given that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 53, Title 15, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, commonly known as the “Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act”, Chapter 67, and of Article 1 and 3, Chapter 67, Title 15, and Chapter 61, Title 15, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, for the purpose of obtaining a determination of this Court that the Plaintiff is the owner of the below described parcel of real estate; to determine adverse claims thereto, if any, and to quiet title thereto in the name of the Plaintiff as the owner thereof and with fee simple title thereto. THE BELOW DESCRIBED parcel of real estate was at the time of the filing of this Lis Pendens, and at the time of the commencement of this action, situated, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more particularly described as follows: ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being on John’s Island, County of Charleston, State aforesaid, containing 1.2 acres, being the Northeastern part of that portion of Lot No. 17, Hopkinson Plantation Tract, and more particularly shown on a Plat of “1.2 acres of Land being the North East part of that portion of Lot No. 17 Hopkinson Plantation Tract owned by Joe Jenkins and about to be conveyed

REGULAR BOARD MEETING Notice is, hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the Housing Authority of the City of Charleston will hold their REGULAR BOARD MEEETING on Tuesday, February 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room located at 550 Meeting Street, Second Floor, Charleston, SC. The purpose of such meeting is to transact any business that legally comes before the Authority. Donald J. Cameron Secretary

toIsaac William and Annie Roberts,” surveyed April 1956 by A.L. Glen, Reg. P.E. and L.S., which said Plat is made a part and parcel of this deed and about to be recorded herewith. MEASURING AND CONTAINING and having such metes and bounds as reference unto said Plat will more fully appear. BEING the same property conveyed to Isaac William Roberts and Annie Roberts by deed of Alexander Jenkins and Joseph J. Jenkins dated May 12, 1956, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in J-62, at page 202. T.M.S. No.: 203-00-00-018 RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQ. 61 MORRIS STREET POST OFFICE BOX 21830 CHARLESTON, SC 294031830 (843) 723-1686 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF Charleston, South Carolina 2008

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MASTER-IN-EQUIT COURT COUNTY OF CHARLESTON CIVIL ACTION 2008-CP-10-2438 EDNA TOLBERT, Plaintiff, vs. NOTICE OF PARTITION HEARING AND OF RIGHTS PURSUANT TO CARL WASHINGTON, MARY LOUISE CODE ANN § 15-61-25(A) WASHINGTON, and JOHN DOE ANDSARAH ROE, fictitious names which represent any infants, incompetents, persons in the military, and those under any other legal disability and JANEDOE AND RICHARD ROE, fictitious Names which represent heirs, Devisees, distributes, Personal Representatives of the Estate of EDWARD R. WASHINGTON,SR., CHARLES WASHINGTON, or EDWARD R. WASHINGTON, JR., Deceased, and any other person or Entity, known or unknown, having any claim, right, title, estate, o r lien upon the parcels of real estate described in this action; Defendants. TO: DEFENDANTS CARL WASHINGTON, MARY LOUISE WASHINGTON, AND JOHN DOE AND SARAH ROE AND JANE DOE AND RICHARD ROE, fictitious names which represent heirs, devisees, distributes, or personal representatives of the estates of Edward R. Washington, Sr., Charles Washington, Edward R. Washington, Jr., or Nathan Washington, deceased, and any other person or entity, known or unknown, having any claim, right, title, estate, or lien upon the parcels of real estate described in this action: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing regarding partition of the real property commonly known as 8 and 10 Desportes Court, Charleston, South Carolina will be held in the office of the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County at 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, Courtroom 2-A at 10:00 A.M. on March 23, 2009. PLEASE ALSO TAKE NOTICE that 1976 S.C. Code of Laws § 15-61-25(A) sets forth rights which you may have in the said property as follows: “The Court shall provide for the nonpetitioning joint tenants or tenants in common who are interested in purchasing the property to notify the Court of that interest no later than ten (10) days prior to the date set for the trial of the case. The non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be allowed to purchase the interests in the property as provided in this section whether default has been entered against them or not.” JOHN HUGHES COOPER, P.C. Post Office Box 395 Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 843-883-9099; Fax 843883-9335 [email protected] ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF, EDNA TOLBERT

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