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Washington Predicts Significant Changes in Local Politics By Barney Blakeney While the November 4 general elections have produced a new national administration local political races produced few

Maurice Washington changes as many incumbents retained their offices. Maurice Washington, who has served two terms as a Charleston city councilman and ran unsuccessfully for both the South Carolina House of Representatives and the South Carolina Senate, said though changes in local representation are few, they are significant. In most elections at South Carolina’s federal, state and county levels incumbents were re-elected to

office. U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham as well as Congressmen James Clyburn and Henry Brown all retained their seats by significant margins despite a contentious challenge to Brown’s U.S. House First District seat by Linda Ketner. But while incumbents held their ground, several Democratic candidates encroached on Republican strongholds especially at the county level, Washington said. Pointing to Curtis Bostic’s loss to Democratic challenger Vic Rawl in Charleston County council Dist. 6, Democrat Elliott Summey’s take-over of the seat vacated by Republican Tim Scott in Dist. 3 and Democrat Colleen Condon’s retention of her Dist. 7 seat Washington said the Democrats are poised to usurp majority control. “For the first time in a long time county council may elect a Democratic chairman who very well could be an African America,” he said. Democratic upsets at the state level bodes well for local Democrats with the election of Anne Peterson Hutto over Wallace

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President-elect Barack Obama walks on stage at his victory celebration in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha.

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Ford, Saunders See No Change in National, State Politics By Barney Blakeney President-elect Barack Obama’s landslide victory November 4 was built on a political platform of change, But in South Carolina where Obama lost the vote by a margin of about 10 percent to Republican nominee John McCain that change may not come and certainly

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won’t come unless initiatives at the grassroots level aren’t undertaken. That’s how several local politicians see things. Charleston’s State Sen. Robert Ford offered a scathing perspective on the prospect of Obama’s election impact on South Carolina’s Black political

agenda. Obama’s platform of change was merely political rhetoric, a buzzword used to appeal to Black constituents offering a radical change in the race of the nation’s political leader from traditional white males, Ford said. “It meant nothing in terms of the political structure in Washington,” Ford said. While the head of the administration has changed the Congress and Senate in place the past several years remains intact, Ford said. “The failure of the financial structure in this country can’t be blamed on the Republicans because the Democrats were in power. It’s the Democrats fault and because of that I don’t see any change coming.” Obama’s election likely won’t serve as a catalyst to energize the state’s Black political agenda either, Ford said citing voting statistics placing Black voter turnout in the state at about 73 percent compared to 94 percent nationally.

U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), his wife Michelle, and their daughters Malia and Sasha, wave from the steps of the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, February 10, 2008. Senator Obama announced his intention to run for the President of the United States as the nominee of the Democratic party.

Barack Obama Debates Hillary Clinton in Texas - U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) debated on February 21, 2008 in a race that was very heated.

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FarrakhanPost-Election ‘State of The Black World’ Conference Nov. 19-23 By. Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief W A S H I N G T O N (NNPA) – Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has now been confirmed as part of the line up of speakers to address the first major gathering of Black leaders after this week’s

Barack Obama Accepts the Democratic Nomination for President- In a historic evening, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) accepted the nomination of the Democratic party for President of the United States. He became the first African-American to achieve this political milestone and the third Illinoisan to do so. He accepted the nomination on August 28, 2008, which was also the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Michelle Obama, his wife, attend a rally in Chicago on the evening of Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008. The evening ended up a bit of a split. Obama won more states. Hillary Clinton won more delegates.

election, according to the organizer, Dr. Ron Daniels. “The State of the Black World Conference will be the first great gathering of Black people from the U.S. and the Black World after the election to develop a priority policy agenda to present to the new admin-

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istration,” says Daniels, a veteran political and social activist. “As the visionary architect of the historic Million Man March, it is only fitting that the H o n o r a b l e Minister Louis Farrakhan give the climatic address at this milestone gathering of Black people.'' The conference, to be held at New Orleans’ Ernest Morial Convention Ceter and Astor See pg 2

Barack Obama Wins the South Carolina PrimaryU.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife, Michelle Obama, celebrate after his win in the South Carolina primary during his bid for the presidency of the United States. The date was January 26, 2008.

Barack Obama Names Joe Biden as his Running MateOn August 22, 2008, U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) announced in Springfield, IL that U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) would be his running mate. The announcement was made at the Old State Capitol Building, the same place where Obama announced his run in February 2007. Featured here are Barack and Michelle Obama (l) and Joe and Jill Biden (r).

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Race Relations Are High For Hopes (BlackDoctor.org) -According to a USATODAY/Gallup Poll that was taken the day after Barack Obama won, the election inspired optimistic views of the future race relations in the U.S. Confidence that the nation

at George Mason University in suburban Virginia. "And I think that there are lots and lots of people who say, 'Damn, we're not as racist as we thought we were,' so they're pleased."

will resolve its racial problems rose to a historic level. Twothirds of Americans predict that relations between blacks and whites "will eventually be worked out" in the United States, by far the highest number since Gallup first asked the question in the midst of the civil rights struggle in 1963.

Two-thirds of Americans — significantly more than the 53% who voted for the Democratic candidate on Tuesday — say they feel "proud" and "optimistic" after his victory. Six in 10 are "excited."

Washington Predicts ----------------------------------cont. from pg 1 Scarborough in S.C. House Dist. 115 and Leon Stavrinakis’ retention of his S.C. House Dist. 119 seat, Washington added. The county’s consolidated school board is another area where the political atmosphere often is tense. Though officially non-partisan Charleston County’s Consolidated School Board often becomes a venue where the terms conservative and progressive serve as substitutes for republican and democrat respectively. Public schools advocate Arthur Lawrence says however, the ideology of the board’s members or the terms used to describe them are of little consequence since they all represent an educational agenda set by the local business community. Four new members - two each in the North Area and West Ashley - were elected to the board November 4 as incumbent Toya Hampton Green retained her downtown Charleston seat. Lawrence said the new members who are considered progressives will join Green and West Ashley representative Ruth Jordan to continue a majority seen as more progressive than conservative. But local developers and business people really control the school board, “The board members are just figureheads,” Lawrence maintains. “Very little is going to change but the challenge to the new board will be improving failing schools.” That challenge could be addressed by the number of charter schools approved by the new board, he said. The board’s new members were installed Nov. 10. Toya Hampton-Green was elected chairwoman at that meeting.

Ford, Saunders -----------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 Ford’s perspective was mirrored by former Public Service Commissioner William ‘Bill’ Saunders who said in states like South Carolina and Georgia where Black community leaders with personal agendas supported staunch conservatives such as U.S., Sen. Lindsay Graham and U.S. Congressman Henry Brown hope that Black politics will change is far fetched. “Obama ran a good campaign, a hell of a campaign, that will change things in a lot of places for other people, but in South Carolina our Black leadership has its own agenda. We won’t see political change in this state until we change our leadership,” Saunders said. Charleston State Rep. David Mack said the

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Republican Party, the controlling political party in the state, remains dominant. To displace it coalitions built by Obama’s statewide campaign have to stay in place and be mobilized. “The opportunity exists,” he said. “This is just the beginning. A lot of people came out and had the discipline to stand in line. Now we need to encourage them to stay in line participating in things like public education and attending city council meetings. They’re in line, they just have to stay there.”

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Those who describe themselves as proud include 50% of conservatives, 38% of Republicans and 32% of those who voted for Republican John McCain. There were negative reactions to Obama's election as well. Three in 10 describe themselves as "pessimistic," and 27% say they are "afraid." The poll of 1,036 adults, taken Wednesday, has a margin of error of +/—3 percentage points.

Optimism jumped most among blacks. Five months ago, half of African Americans predicted the nation eventually would solve its racial problems. Now, two-thirds do.

"Barack didn't elect himself; we Americans elected him," says Roger Wilkins, a civil rights leader and professor of history and American culture

Those surveyed see Obama's election as a seminal moment in African-American history. One in three calls it the most important advance for blacks in the past 100 years. Another 38% describe it as one of the two or three most important advances. Just one in 10 says it's "not that important."

As a result of his election, 28% say race relations in the country will get a lot better; 42% say they will get a little better. Obama on Thursday received his first top-level security briefing — the same daily briefing President Bush gets — as he moved to organize the new administration. He named Chicago congressman Rahm Emanuel, a former aide to President Clinton, as his chief of staff. The president-elect will meet with Bush on Monday in the Oval Office for their first substantive talks about the financial crisis, the war in Iraq and the transition. First lady Laura Bush will give Michelle Obama a tour of the White House quarters. "We face economic challenges that will not pause to let a new president settle in," Bush told hundreds of White House employees. He promised a seamless transfer of authority, urging his staff to help ensure the Obama team "hits the ground running." To leave a comment, click here. By Syleena Johnson, BDO Staff Writer

The Black Vote in 2008 By. Ron Walters NNPA Columnist Pardon me if I begin this with a little crowing, since I attracted considerable heat, months ago, by declaring that Barack Obama would win this election in a landslide and that the Black vote would reach unprecedented levels. Both of these materialized. So, I will go on to describe briefly the performance of the Black vote in this election, knowing that it is always dangerous to talk statistics this soon after the election is over, with votes still being counted. But, I will try to give some estimates nevertheless. First, the impression that the Black community turned out to vote in big numbers was confirmed by the fact that it reached 25 percent of the total Democratic vote, given that the total vote was more than about 125 million and Barack Obama won by more than 52 percent. This was also based on the estimate that the black vote turned at a rate of 95 percent of those registered and 60 percent of those eligible. Nevertheless, we are not able to claim, as before, that the Black vote was the decisive difference in the election, because the increase in voting was elevated by all groups.

Farrakhan Post ------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 Crown Plaza Hotel Nov. 19-23, will come on the heels of a historic election that not only registered millions of new Black voters, but inspired thousands to activism. Daniels is hoping that excitement not cease after the election, but rather galvanize into action to hold the new president accountable. “Participants will leave armed with a priority policy agenda on Black concerns to constructively engage and influence the next administration no matter who wins the White House,'' Daniels says. Farrakhan is slated to give the final keynote address on Sunday - “The Call to Faith and Struggle,” says Daniels. “We are absolutely elated that Minister Farrkahan has agreed to return to New Orleans for this extraordinary gathering. His address will be a fitting climax to the SOBWC given his strong support for the process of building the Institute of the Black World over the years.” Other confirmed speakers to appear at the conference include Bev Smith, syndicated Talk Show Host on the American Urban Radio Networks; Rev. Al Sharpton, president, National Action Network; Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College; Marc Morial, president/CEO, National Urban League; Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, president, National Rainbow/Push Coalition; Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus and chair of the House Judiciary Committee; Dr. Elsie Scott, President/CEO, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation; Dr. Maulana Karenga, Creator of Kwanzaa and professor of Africana Studies and Chairman of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach; Dr. Ronald Walters, professor of Government and politics, University of Maryland; Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law Professor; and Danny Glover, actor and humanitarian. For further information contact 917.686.0854; toll free information line: 888.774.2921; Email: [email protected]; Web Site www.stateoftheblackworld.org.

When one looks back in this history of Black turnout, the highest level was in 1964, at 58.6 percent, a year before the Voting Rights Act was passed. This was because of the tremendous enthusiasm toward Lyndon Johnson who had provided the leadership to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So, a turnout of 60% of all eligible voters would be historic. In any case, this performance means that no one group can claim to have been the decisive vote in this landslide because Obama won nearly all of the demographic groups, those under 18-35 and 35-65, those under $50,000 and those over, and both genders. But about 52 percent of whites and about the same number of the elderly voted for John McCain. Therefore,, one must add to the 48 percent of Whites who voted for Barack Obama, the Black vote and the fact that 65 percent of Hispanics, 77 percent of Jews and 55 percent of Asians put him over the top. The performance of these groups was magnified by the fact that so many of the white voters in the conservative rural areas were not motivated to vote. Where the high turnout of the Black vote obviously made a difference was in North Carolina and Virginia. Both of these states were firmly in the Republican “red state” column traditionally, but the high turnout of Black voters, together with a coalition of Whites and the youth vote, surprisingly pushed them into Obama’s

camp. One could say the same thing about three Northern states of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Black churches all over the country were once again, hotbeds of activism, as their buses rolled both for registration drives and for get-out-the-vote activities on election day. The day before the election however, Barack Obama had a conference call with Black leaders, many of whom were ministers, to stimulate them to participate strongly in turnout activities. Near the end of the call, they heard Rev. Joseph Lowery’s moving call for them to saddle up, once again, and help to fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream. In the spirit of this call, after the election, in North Carolina Grammy winning Pastor, Shirley CaesarWilliams said that, “God has vindicated the Black folks.” About 40 percent of the new voters were Black and it was amazing that so many Blacks who had never voted before came literally out of the woodwork to vote for Obama, spurred on by the fact that now, perhaps a Black person had arrived who, could truly win the White House if they supported him. About one-third of all early voters were Black and this group, together with those who exercise the absentee ballots were wise, because they cut down the long wait in lines at polling stations and as such, cut down the voter disfranchisement tactics that were prepared for them by Republican operatives.

For example, if you voted early, or by absentee, for example, it was often impossible for someone to check your ID at the polling station, as is allowed in many states. So this practice should be continued. Could Obama have won without the Black vote? Not really. More than the voting was in this. Dr. Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar, Director of the African American Leadership Center and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. His latest book is: The Price of Racial Reconciliation, (Rowman and Littlefield).

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President Barack Obama By. Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist To Be Equal After the longest and hardest fought presidential campaign in American history, the votes are now in and Barack Obama has been elected the 44th President of the United States. The National Urban League and its affiliates congratulate Presidentelect Obama, VicePresident-elect Joe Biden, and their families for turning what began as an improbable journey into an historic victory for their party and our country. We welcome the new vision they bring to Washington and pledge to work with them to tackle the nation's deepening domestic challenges, including the epidemic of home foreclosures, the crisis in public education as well as rising unemployment and poverty that have hit middle class and urban Americans especially hard in recent years. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the American people for voting hope over fear, overcoming the persistent barrier of race and electing the first African American president in our nation's history. This is a watershed moment that renews the nation's founding promise of freedom, equality and

Barack Obama opportunity for all. This election has shattered what was once considered an unbreakable glass ceiling that has kept so many generations of minorities and women from dreaming big dreams and reaching their full-potential. Never again will any young boy or girl of color in America be shackled with the awful certainty of ''not in my lifetime.'' But, while November 4, 2008 will go down as a turning point in our nation's history, we should not be lulled into thinking that our work is done. On January 21, the day after the Obama inauguration, there will still be big problems in our communities and deep divisions in our country that require not only the attention of Washington , but of all of us. We must seize this moment to become even more engaged as citizens in the work of building an

ever more perfect union. The National Urban League and its affiliates stand ready on day-one to work with the new Administration, especially in helping to craft a comprehensive urban agenda that expands opportunity and unleashes the tremendous untapped potential in our cities. During the campaign, candidate Obama endorsed the National Urban League's Opportunity Compact, our blueprint for economic equality. We look forward to working with President Obama to ensure that every person in America has an equal opportunity to thrive, earn, own and prosper. We have been assured that the National Urban League and the interests of Black America will have a seat at the table in the Obama White House. Finally. let me say to the young people across this land, this election was largely for, of and about you. Together we have laid the foundation for a new era in American politics and governance that will require and expect more from you. More as students. More as leaders in your families and communities. More as the hope of the future. You have shown by your involvement, passion and votes in this election that you are up to the task. That too is worth celebrating.

He Can't Do it Alone By. Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Child Watch A cartoon published in the early 1960s depicted a Black boy saying to a White boy: ''I'll sell you my chance to be President of the United States for a nickel.'' At the time the cartoon appeared, Barack Obama was a toddler. There were only five Black Members of Congress and about 300 Black elected officials nationwide. The Voting Rights Act hadn't been passed and the overwhelming majority of Black Southerners were disenfranchised. It is with great pride that I, along with Americans of all races, religions and ethnic backgrounds across our vast nation congratulate President-Elect Obama on his historic election. His road to the White House has led Americans from all walks of life to embrace a new hope for national unity, and this transformational election offers the promise of moving the country in a new direction. Nov. 4's election is a reminder that the United States is still a place of bold ideas and a beacon of hope. It says to every child of color and every poor boy and girl that you belong too, and you do have a future. Throughout America's history, race has been a noose choking our capacity to

soar. At a time when we face a great litany of problems, it is moving to see the American people's common sense and faith trump fear. It is truly a triumph that yesterday Americans voted for competence and a new vision, regardless of race. But President-Elect Obama cannot do the job alone. Leaders are only as good as citizens demand them to be, and we must create a citizens' movement that will fight to provide every child in America with health coverage, that will work to end child poverty, and that will stop funneling children down a prison pipeline that threatens to re-segregate our nation. Now the real hard work begins. As President-Elect Obama charts his course during this transition period, I urge him to place our nation's children at the center of his administration's priorities.

Marian Wright Edelman We must fight to create a level playing field for every child in every corner of America and invest in our human capital, which will determine the vibrancy of America`s leadership in the new century. It is a new day in America, and it is a time for all of us to step forward together for children since they own the future.

Jackson and Sharpton Say Their Activist Roles Will Not Change By. Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief W A S H I N G T O N (NNPA) – The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, viewed as perhaps the highest profiled civil rights leaders in the nation, both say their roles will not change as America beholds its first Black president. “The issues haven’t gone away,” says Sharpton. “Barack Obama said this is the beginning of change. This is not change itself. It’s almost insulting to act like Blacks should now shut up just because we have a Black president.” In an interview, Sharpton was responding to widely held perceptions and debates by pundits and TV personalities that President-Elect Barack Obama will now become America’s new Black Leader. Both Jackson and Sharpton, having been presidential candidates themselves, said in interviews that while they are celebrating the historic election, it is ridiculous to think that a sitting president could single-handedly eliminate the voluminous problems in the Black community. Illustrating, Jackson compared the anticipation of the Obama to another big day in Black history. “It's the biggest day since Dec. 31, 1862,” when slaves awaited the signing of the E m a n c i p a t i o n Proclamation. “After 246 years of slavery, we hoped for an E m a n c i p a t i o n Proclamation. Lincoln signed the order the next day, but still they had to wait until the 13th amendment in 1865 to get free.” Jackson explains, “This is the beginning of a struggle. What we want now is we want the playing field even. We want civil rights laws enforced and funded for all Americans. Just to even the playing field would be a massive step toward a more perfect union.” Still pride in and affinity for the nation’s first Black president and the magnanimous stride that he represents will cause traditional rights leaders to reserve judgment and not act hastily toward him. “Sure we will be patient with and sensitive to President Barack because he is our candidate and we are utterly fascinated with him,” Jackson said. “There’s no question about that. But, we must continue our quest to address the

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issues of pain and crisis.” Jackson says Obama will make their jobs much easier. “When you have a good president who is positive, you tend to get remedy,” he says. “When you have a guy like Bush, who is hostile, you tend to get rejection.” Widely seen on national television with tears streaking his face at the Chicago victory celebration, Jackson told what he was thinking at that moment: “I looked at Barack standing there in all of the majesty…I saw children in Kenya and Haiti and Europe all riding on his every word. It was a joy. But, then the journey to get us there was what really broke me down,” he said. He reflected on civil rights leaders and activists who were killed, beaten and bitten by dogs. “After all these struggles,

here was this guy standing there in all of his majesty giving leadership to the world,” he said. “It was overwhelming to me and I just wished Medgar Evers or Dr. King could have been there just for a minute to see the results of their work. They were redeemed that night. The marchers and the martyrs and the murdered - they were redeemed that night.'' Among those who were there among the civil rightsprotestors of the 60s was the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Dr. King. An avid Obama supporter throughout the entire campaign, Lowery said after the election that civil rights leaders must now stay the course: “We must continue to speak truth to power no matter what color power is.”

Can Saving Our Environment Save Our Economy? (NewsUSA) - The new president and Congress face a set of challenges that rival any of the modern era: a troubled economy, insecure energy supplies and the threat of climate change. These issues are closely intertwined, and none is easily solved on its own. But with the right approach, America can be on a path toward economic growth and a cleaner, more secure future. Many experts say that the best way to solve the energy crisis is through a carbon cap, or a limit on greenhouse gas pollution. A cap solved America's acid rain problem in the 1990s, and it can be used today to cure our dependence on foreign oil. A cap obligates companies to pay for the carbon they emit -; the less they emit, the less they pay -; so it is in their best economic interests to invest in alternative fuels and technologies. These profitable investments will spur entrepreneurs to focus on finding alternative sources of energy that will help grow a booming, green economy. A carbon cap will produce millions of jobs in sectors across the economy, from steel manufacturing to clean energy product development. For example, wind energy turbines have more than 8,000 parts: A small wind project uses at least 4,466 tons of steel, 609 tons of composite fiberglass, 610 tons of steel rebar and 12,470 tons of concrete. With the new jobs created by carbon cap legislation, America would have a clear edge over European and Chinese competitors, similar to our lead in the space race and the Internet revolution. While a carbon cap may boost our economy, failing to enact climate-change legislation would threaten America's future growth. Climate change results in droughts, more powerful storms and rising sea levels -; all of which can cause significant economic harm. Among the hardest hit businesses will be insurance, banking, real estate, farming and tourism, all affecting the American heartland. As the new Congress settles in after the New Year, ask your Senators and Representatives to support climate-change legislation. For more information, contact the Environmental Defense Action Fund at www.edf.org.

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Veterans Day REFLECTIONS OF THE MEKONG

VUNG TAU, South Vietnam -- Although the dateline for this piece is a fiction, the remembrance of Vietnam came back with a rush as if the Fall winds were holding back the approaching chill. The memory of Vietnam came to claim me as if it had moved time from point zero to now, crossed the monsoon rains to Bear Cat and Cam Rahn Bay, passed through Saigon and found a frightened sailor waiting for a flight out of hell. I don’t need television to remind me of the grieving voices, to recollect how it was and how it is now. After a while, the people vanish and their angular faces become vague and what they did to control the anxiety of death is gone. Even fear is as difficult to recall as pain once the suffering stops. It is then that a man appreciates my gladness of living. We all must carry our personal burdens and there are no porters anywhere to assist Vietnam veterans who are persecuted by private anguish. Even at this late date there is so much you take from a war that the memories evade you but, abruptly, it is clear as it ever was. In my time I have worked all the news beats. I know the backrooms of police stations in the big towns and horrified villages ashamed of obscene atrocities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. There have been worst human disasters than Mai Lai and other villages in that far off land that I rather forget, but can’t. There is the memory of a Viet Cong snapper squad soldier sighing as the last act of life happened in the lungs of a man already dead. I have seen the stomachs of young Americans, Black and white, holding their guts in their hands and a puzzled look in their eyes and asking why? It is then that man appreciates the calmness of Colonial Lake, a late evening stroll down King Street or rapping with a tourist on a corner free of artillery fire. I know there is corruption in many places and many who are abused when seeking equality of life, but I have seen too many dead men in city streets and the rice flats of Vietnam not to welcome the reprieve of living. We were in Dong Tam, Vietnam. It was a Charleston kind of day in another year gone by and the waterways, jutting like sprouts in a sugarcane field, was just as mean and dangerous as I-26 on a rainslick day. I had just grabbed a ride aboard a helicopter and caught up with a 9th Infantry Division platoon that was heading downriver at one a.m. and deep into Viet Cong territory over a watery highway dubbed “Route 66.” It was recoilless rifle fire and rockets that hit our navy armored troop carrier and to this day I always say a small prayer of thanks when I stooped to pick up my camera and tape recorder and a rocket destroyed the steel railing where I stood. I also wonder about how the parents of Seaman Albert Watson of Chicago feel this week as television replay the drama of that conflict, knowing that their only son was killed in a war never declared. How many of you will remember that we have a new Burke High School, but what we didn’t remember was there would be few Black children living on the peninsular to attend, thus becoming a countywide school, to the extent that we were blindsided while we were holding Crab Cracks and minding the store of nonsense. It was before the mortars came in. I was part of the press team and we lay in dusty barracks after chow and complained about the heat and the food. It was slop and garbage and they should have court-martialed the cook. The mess sergeant must have been working for the Vietcong, giving us stuff like that. “I thought it was beautiful food,” the kid from Kingstree said. He was a young man and enlisted as soon as they would take him. He was the only one in the outfit who thought the food was fine. Even C-rations tasted better, and I detest those portions. Do you remember how the old-timers bored you on Ashley and Line when they talked about World War II? They won, didn’t they? My brother, Tom, sloushed across Europe. Old men were seized by reverie and dreamed about the senoritas of Naples. Wars were over, live it up, baby, you may be looking for a meal at The Crisis Ministry tomorrow. We were in Da Nang and came out of the sandbagged tents after the mortars stopped. One of the soldiers talked to another and began to weep. He dropped his rifle and his helmet fell off as he shrieked with hysteria. “His brother got It in the last barrage,” a writer from Newsweek magazine said. There was silence. No words could feel the void we all felt. On this Veterans Day remembrance do you think rap music is polluting the kid’s growing up? Why is there so much dope and so many juvenile delinquents? Who prepares for the next day in class when youngsters are popping a round ball through hoops past midnight? Kids don’t want to respect their parents anymore. Our way of life is taking their desire away from them. We've got all the modern conveniences, including a trip to the moon and beyond, don’t we? You want them to be decent and law-abiding, too? It came again in Nha Be (Naw Bay). We didn’t have enough warm beer to go around the first day. There weren’t enough of anything. I went downriver that night aboard a armored hospital boat captained by a Black Navy boatswain’s mate first-class named Al Buster from Norfolk, Va. He laughed and joked and we spent the night on the portable flight deck rigged up to take helos with their dead and injured. It was a well-spread rumor that the Viet Cong would never attack a Navy boat If they saw a Black man in sight. You don’t sleep in the dark and musty darkness of the delta and we spent the jittery hours discussing family, sex and more sex. We pulled out the next morning about 5 a.m. and a gunboat crew, all-white, replaced us as we returned to our new position. The call came over the radio 40 minutes later to return to our former position to aid and pick up casualties. The crew has been nearly wiped out. You must be lucky to last. Being Black didn’t hurt. So I sit here, safe in the community of Charleston, street lights frolicking in lucid reflections, and rejoice in a small way, because I still remember the river boats snaking up the Long Tau where I first heard the whining of a B-40 rocket. My notes are gone, but where is the chaplain who brought in the old Vietnamese farmer from his mortar-torn rice paddy? He was numb with fear and dumb with it and he shook and wept but this eyes were tearless as if he had used up all the sorrow left in the world. All this I know and after Hussein it was supposed to be finished. But there are still Hussein’s on earth and kids must die and hurt because of their insane visions. Will President Bush’s visit to another military base solve or heal the pain? It was never over. When will it end? The statesmen argue in their elegant ways, following a protocol of nonsense. And then the young men die, one at a time, the world ending for the dead, who are forever beyond the help of science and

by Toby Smith From Henning, Tennessee, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Wow… In considering the magnitude of the historic election of President-elect Barak Obama, many thoughts have been swirling around in my head…Okay, nothing sensible swirled on November 5th because, well, weren’t we all a bit sleep deprived, or in a daze…a wonderfully happy and ecstatic daze? By Thursday, November 6th, I had begun to wax nostalgic about another epic event, “Roots.” Go back with me for just a moment, or pull out the DVDs… Remember when Kunta Kinte’s family finally left the plantation and moved to Henning, Tennessee? Fiddler, (Kunta’s grandson) immortalized by one of the greatest actors of our time, Lou Gossett, Jr., had saved lots of money -- no doubt from cock fighting -- and purchased land for the family to do their own thing, to farm, to sell their produce and to keep the cash. As the families in the battered, covered-wagon caravans descended to the grounds of their new home, they didn’t remain standing long; instead, they dropped to their knees to give thanks, to God first, and then to the memory of their ancestor, Kunta Kinte, who, 7 generations earlier, while fighting his slave captors along the shores of West Africa, cemented the seed of freedom in his heart. Author Alex Haley’s family became our family and his quest to finish their story became ours -- as his family expanded and conquered their individual corners of destiny, ours did likewise. African-American families today have artists, bankers, lawyers, doctors, dancers, dentists, clergymen, accountants, actors and athletes. We have grown and done well – no question – but on November 4th at 10:00 pm., we moved again, to a place we have never been before…to a place we have driven by and wondered what it’s like inside… to a place that we have seen many people come and go, but we had to keep walking. We could visit, but not stay. That changed on election night. This symbolic journey, a representational move, from Henning, Tennessee, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the final chapter of our collective stories - we have made it to place of believing that we can, should, will and have every reason to keep trying! Just as Fiddler and company dropped to their knees upon their arrival so did we on election night, and according to some estimates, as many as 300 million people – from all walks of life and political disciplines -- marveled at the moment, and that was in this country alone. Does anybody really know how many people on the planet witnessed that watershed moment? What we do know is this: For the Haley ancestors, the move to Henning, Tennessee, represented a deep shift, a cataclysmic move, a defining break from the past, and that break opened the door to new ideas, traditions, ways of operating and prospering, and most resoundingly a new perspective about potential. Going one step further, the move to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – real for a few, symbolic to the rest – can be likened to the rumbling of the earth’s tectonic plates. No one really knows what happened exactly, but you felt it and looked for the impact on the surface. On November 4th we watched old surface realities shed their skin, like a snake on a rock. Left behind were tired and equally played out mantras: “It’s not possible;” “It will never happen;” “They won’t let it come to pass;” “My vote doesn’t count;” “I can’t win;” “They say there’s no point;” and “It doesn’t matter what we do, nothing will ever change.” Embraced in their place was potential personified. Potential, not fear or the unwillingness to believe, is now on display and the door to the greatness within is open and can’t be closed. That’s why we cried, clapped and cheered so hard – because we always knew we could if given a chance – and then we cried, clapped, celebrated, danced and cheered all the more because the good Lord blessed us to see it come to pass, to see a seed mature and blossom. On January 20, 2009, Barak Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States and he, along with his family, will take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and the tears will flow again because of the moment’s significance, certainly, but on another level, a deeper level, we’ll weep because of the realization that the seeds of greatness were always there, waiting to be recognized, waiting to take their place, waiting to bloom. Kunta Kinte knew what he should be – a free man. Circumstances, even the most horrific, didn’t change what we he wanted – freedom – and because of his dogged determination to reach his goal – to live and enjoy life as a free man – a nation had to change the way it did business to make room for his vision, which was passed on to each successive generation. On November 4th, while the world watched, this nation made a collective decision to change the way it does business to make room for the vision of the man who, with a keen sense of who he is, and an equal portion of confidence in his abilities, will assume the reins of leadership. \ I guess it’s not wise to loose ourselves in sheer joy: Do you remember the trials Fiddler and his family faced in Henning, Tennessee? Well, it’s a given that Presidentelect Obama will face a multitude of storms on Pennsylvania Avenue – in fact, some are jockeying for position even now. Not to worry though, we know a little sumpin’ sumpin’ about storms – they pass. One final news flash: As more seeds of greatness awaken to recognition, more shifts and moves are imminent….

treaty. I was never in Iraq but death is death anywhere, and were you ever in an aid station when the morphine ran out. I hope you are spared that. We were caught in a river Inlet of the narrow expanse of Route 66. The foot soldiers were tensed for the battle sure to come. The silence was broken with machine gun fire and hand grenades tossed from the jungle-like shore. “Lay down,” a soldier said to me. “I’ll lay on top of you.” He didn’t know me, he knew I was scared. I was a stranger who had tagged along carrying a camera and tape recorder. No one has ever offered to do more for me. I lost my notes In the battle. I don’t know his name. I’ve never seen him again. I tried, I think about him often and I wonder what that white soldier felt about protecting a Black sailor he had never seen before. To him it didn’t matter. Who is concerned about the dead in the soil of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and what about Pakistan? Who cares about what’s happening in this village while lilies cover the graves of fighting men in a foreign land? Blessed are the foot soldiers and Navymen of Vietnam. They are dead. You are living. Is there a difference as we maintain a spectator’s existence? Mercy.

Who Asked Me? by Beverly Gadson-Birch

WAKE ME, SHAKE ME; AM I DREAMING OR WHAT? It was Tuesday evening, November 4, 2008, I along with millions of Americans waited anxiously for the news that would transform our lives forever. I was way too tired from the day’s activities to head over to the Longshoreman’s Hall to watch the results with friends; so, I settled in at home to watch the results. History was about to be made. I prayed and prayed and prayed. I thought about those who died for this moment. It was no time to sleep. I thought about the horrific deaths of three freedom fighters from the north, Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, who had volunteered to go south in 1964 to help with Project Freedom Summer. It was a youth movement and many were college students. Schwerner and Goodman were two Jews from New York. Chaney was an African American who hailed from Mississippi and returned to help with the voter registration project. Project Freedom Summer registered thousands of disenfranchised Mississippians who were unhappy with the Democratic Party and left to form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party out of protest. In between the tears and the states piling up in favor of Obama, I thought about the 1963 bombing of four little girls while attending Sunday School at the Sixteen Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and wondered why 39% of the votes went to Obama and 61% to McCain. In my beloved state of South Carolina, Obama received 45% percent of the votes and McCain 54%. I was disappointed but not surprised at the outcome. I was hoping we could get beyond the Confederate Flag and Dixie and move into a new era of change. I thought about the Black man whose body was dragged apart behind a truck in Texas and about the Black slave lady who was raffled off in Chicago. I thought about the slaves who never made it across the ocean on slave ships due to illness or death and were tossed overboard. I thought about Brown vs. the Board of Education and Plessy vs. Ferguson decisions. And I thought about Dr. Martin L. King dream that his four children be “judged by the content of their character and not their skin”. I thought about Frederick Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Harriett Tubman, Esau Jenkins, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Septima Clark, Victoria DeLee, Gene Ham, and “Castro”. As I watched the results roll in, tears rolled down my cheeks. Victory was destined from the outset. And for the first time in the history of this country, an African American would actually become President. The possibility was rapidly evolving into reality. Three key states that generally decide an election, Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, turned blue for Obama. The announcement came. It was official. Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States of America. Thousands of voters exuberantly awaited election results in Grant Park in Chicago, Time Square in New York and every corner of the world. Then the moment came and folks just went crazy. Even crazy folks got crazier as they wrapped their arms around strangers and sobbed. As exhilarating as the moment may have been, the crowds never lost control. It was time to reflect and savor the victory. The victory is not a black or white, Republican or Democrat, but it is for all of those soothsayer, naysayer, and dey sayer. Dey sayer said “the time is not right”, “he ain’t ready”, “he is a Muslim”, “he needs some more experience”, “he doesn’t say the Pledge of Allegience”, “he doesn’t wear the American flag on his lapel”, “his wife is too black”. Well, y’all tell “dey sayers” that I say, it was out of their hands from the very beginning. We cannot continue to blame other folks for our shortcomings because they have atoned through their vote. Obama’s victory is the people’s victory. What does the Obama victory mean to us as a people and how do we move forward? It means that we must change the way we view ourselves. It means that young men need to pull their pants up on their butts, tuck their shirts in their pants and understand that they, too, can be President or anything else if they stay in school and prepare their minds. It means young ladies should demand respect from their significant other and stop allowing men to use and abuse them. It means shedding those video games for books and library cards. It means accepting yourself as is. Stars are made, not born. Athletes are made, not born. You don’t need to be a blond, red hair or blue haired to be beautiful. Beauty comes from within and radiate to the outside. Be the person that you were meant to be. President-Elect Obama and his wife have been checked out thoroughly and found to be squeaky clean. Folks tried to dig up everything they could but they couldn’t find anything so they started making up stuff. Clean up your life; get back in the game. President-Elect Obama respects his wife and puts his children first. You can do the same. Put down your weapons. Stop selling drugs. Get off the street corners and find a job. Stop disowning your children. Find out where they are and be involved in their lives. Help your children with their homework and they will want to work hard to get good grades. Take the time to talk to your children. Listen to what they have to say. Take them on trips that will enhance their learning and social development. We were dealt a losing hand but we stayed in the game long enough to win. I have been singing an oldie by the Four Tops since Tuesday night. Y’all baby boomers remember “Shake Me, Wake Me”. It goes something like this: “shake me, wake me when it’s over, somebody tell me that I am dreaming’ And wake me when it is over.” The song is really about a lady leaving her lover for another man. Analogous, I can’t believe that I am finally ridding myself of Bush for another man—Barack Obama. And I say to you my Black Brothers and Sisters, Wake up. You are not dreaming. It’s real. We have work to do. Our time has come. Obama can’t do the awesome work that is before him without you working to help him bring about change. After all, that's why we voted for Obama. It was time for a change.

The Chronicle

November 12, 2008-5

As I See It

Hakim Abdul-Ali

Lonely Nights of Facing Realities There are times in life when some folks in “hue-manity” recognize that sometimes they’ve been “used” by another individual, or individuals, in this living process. Sometimes, it can be a hurting feeling in the most painful and hurting sense of the experience called “being tested.” You can rest assured that the games of lies, dishonesty and deceit which “hue-mans” perform on one another is as old as time itself. I guess that’s why it never surprises me how shock and awe are the only terms that most folks use when they find out that they’ve been “had” by someone they thought close to them. Modernity in its political correctness today simply refers to this experience as betrayal. Some of the deceased “colored” folk in Black (“our-storical”) America used to call it being “had,” and that is the most appropriate term to use. I like it. The old “colored” folk of Black America past, especially the wise sisters of the culture, could tell a joker of betrayal from another useless card in the deck of life in a heartbeat of an instant. One of these ladies, who was my mother, would utter the term “Lonely Nights in Facing Realities” whenever she’d discover that someone was or had been playing a mental game of deceit with her. Before I continue on, I must offer that by profession my mom was a dedicated schoolteacher, wife, mother and I was an only child. This made me always in full ear shout of much valuable on-hands insight into some life’s most pressing mental head games that were being in her world of existences. Being from the South, and a personal student of her own mother’s teaching, my mother would expertly mix advice with the practical realties and the spiritual happenings and, sometimes, the academically complex with the unexpected occurrences in solving the riddles of “hue-man” habits and patterns. My mother was profound at this. And by being my mother’s student ( many times when I had no choice in the matter), she’d say things to me that at that time had no relevance to my full comprehension of life’s scheme of operation. But somehow, and from somewhere, she’d lay down the foundation for me to evaluate people and life’s difficulties like no one else has or could for me in my way of sensing the “realties” of life. In describing these hard times to come, my mother would call them lonely spaces in a person’s heart, mind and soul. That’s deep now as I write, so you only image how penetrating it must have been to me back then when I couldn’t sense, nor estimate, what the pain of what a lonely realty was or is. I remember on one occasion in particular when my mother would say that “smiling faces sometimes tell lies,” and she went on to explain to me about what this meant and what it could lead to. It was a long time ago when I heard the explanation, but I can recall it like it was yesterday’s main topic of conversation. She said, “My dear son, beware of some folks who’ll always grin and smile in and to your face, and the (very) next moment that they leave your sight, they’ll stab you right in your back.” The impact of that expression alone would take me a lifetime of painful experiences for me to remember, learn and know about some “colored” folk in my worlds of existences. Then my mother said that when these smiling faces of deceit do what they do, they leave you isolated and bewildered by their, seemingly, uncaring natures as they move on to their next victim in life. When this happens, she said also that it was like experiencing “Lonely Nights in Facing Realities.” My mother, a very strong, proud and educated African-American woman, told me to always watch out for the “real” qualities in a “hue-man” being. She also taught me to watch out for the smiling faced sneaky ones in life who only set you up for the kill as they stab you in the back telling lies about you, me and whoever else they can think of. “Life is a brutal force field to live in, my son, if you don’t recognize the games that some people employ,” was one of Mom’s favorite come backs to complete a definitive teaching lesson that she’d educate me about, her chief student at home. I’ve heard her say a hundred times or more in my sense of recalls that “Lonely Nights in Facing Realities” also meant that it’s time to access where your head’s at, after you’ve been “had,” played or used. From one dynamic vantage teaching point to another, Mom would always have a spiritual solution to any troubling complexity of the pressing moment or time. She’d tell me that life’s realities are sometimes lonely to the soul that has little belief, but to one who has much faith, it ain’t (sic) nothing but a little something, and God can take care of that and any other difficulty anytime He wants to. That “reality” from one of the many of the lessons that my mother taught me about being around two-faced people earlier on in my beginning life’s experiences has made me become aware of the dangerous mind games that some people weave trying to destroy me, you and who knows else. It can only be described for all of us aware souls as “Lonely Nights in facing Realities.” She believed that life is what it is, and there aren’t too many opportunities in life that a fool gets to redeem himself or herself in the world of broken hearts and shattered realities. It’s, again, for me another voyage to Atlantis of despair if you don’t keep your head, soul and spirit up. That’s where the value of true faith, family and friends play such a vital role in aiding any person who has been deceived in the deceitful games of being “had,” played or used by someone who you thought was on your team or side. It’s a hurtful lonely walk through the days and nights of uncertainties of all of the trials that we have to face in the realties of life’s many unexpected uncertainties. There’s no need to face life with a sense of dread or despair, because faith, like my mother said, is the stuff that will get you through the lonely nights and pressing times. When I look back at what my mom, grandmother and other folk of the African Diaspora had to go through in “Facing Their Lonely Nights of Realities,” I feel blessed to be of and from the seed of “our” ancestors who knew what keeping the faith was all about in overcoming the obstacles of racism and bigotry. They held their heads high with unified faith and dignified courage while enduring the many “Lonely Nights of Facing Realities.” From their generation to ours, Black unity, strength and wisdom has always been evident in processing the lonely nights of struggle in order to survive and achieve what we have earned as a respectful ethnic group in this potentially great nation that we all call America. And while on that point, I know my mom would have something meaningful and good to say to President-elect Barack Obama in his monumental hour. She’s dead now, but I can only image that she’d tell him with certainty to always pray and to keep the faith, especially during his many “Lonely Nights of Facing Realities.” That sounds like grand advice to me and, hopefully, to you also as we endure our own “Lonely Nights of Facing Realities.” For today, maintain the faith and be strong in the face of life’s test, and that’s, “As I See It.”

We Still Have More Work to Do By A. Peter Lawrence Election Day revealed that many Americans embrace Barack Obama’s platform of change and chose him as our country’s first African American President. This victory is an indication that our nation is making strides in terms of race and ethnicity. Many conservative states that were claimed by George W. Bush in the 2004 Election, this time were won by Sen. Obama. Among them were Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia. Registered voters turned out in droves in this historic win. President-Elect Obama’s win should be considered an indicator that many Americans are looking beyond race and creed in choosing a candidate and had no problem electing a Black person to lead our nation. On Election night, I watched the news anchor announce that Barack Obama has become our nation’s 44th President. But while my eyes were welling with tears of joy and pride, they couldn’t help but capture the divide that still exists in the United States. When the news program displayed the map of the United States to show how America voted, you will notice that the clear majority of southern states could not be swayed by the candidate of hope and change. While swing states like

“That All Men are Created Equal” By Rev. Charles H. Brown The “self evidence” that these words are truth and that no matter what your background, your race, your economic status, the color of your skin, we are all equal, in the sight of God, our Maker and Redeemer. Having been taught in segregated schools, being brought up in a community in which, the color of your skin was a limiting factor, even in your own race, in a state which kept you out of the major institutions of higher learning because you were a second class, citizen, we have come “full circle”. The God we serve has proven to us again that if we wait on Him, all of the truths of His Word will come to pass. The evidence is before us today and will live in infamy. Now it will be easy and truthful, and meaningful to stand before a classroom full of students of all races and declare, “All men are created equal”, declare that the opportunities afforded to one are available to all. No matter what the color of your skin, the social or economic background of your family, whether foreign or domestic, you can achieve, you can be successful, you can rise to the fullest of your potential in this, the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is also time for all of us to put away our negative attitudes and ways of doing things, and adopt positive actions towards how we raise and nurture children. It is time to take the responsibility of raising a family as seriously as life itself. It is time for families and churches, and government, and organizations, at all levels to take back our streets, our corners, and our neighborhoods and live in harmony, one with the other. The achievement of President-elect Barrack O’Bama should be a rallying call to greater things to come. Not for one race or ethnic group but for God’s people all over the world, no matter their color, their educational or economic background, nor the part of the world from which they have come.

to this Presidential election, too many of our southern folks cannot bring themselves to vote a Black man to the Oval Office. It appears that a lot of people still cannot look past race rather than the actual issues that affect our country.

Artthur Lawrence Ohio and Pennsylvania elected Obama, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia and yes, South Carolina voted against Obama by a clear majority. Just like in 1861, when southern states seceded from the Union in the wake of the Civil War, they chose a similar detour on November 4th. Political scientists say that when a country in is in turmoil economically (as we are currently), registered voters always vote out the current political party running the country and give the opposing party a chance to lead. This happened in November, 2006, when voters replaced their Republican congressmen with Democrats, giving the Democratic Party a majority in the US House and Senate. But when it came

As Election Day approached, I was confident yet cautious in my anticipation of Obama’s victory, I was confident because clearly Barack Obama was the most qualified of the two candidates. My caution was tempered by an interview I watched on television two weeks before the election. A southern white man who appeared to be in his forties told a news reporter that he could not see himself voting for “a colored man.” This young man was using an old, offensive term to describe a US Congressman who was a Harvard Law Graduate, and who just happened to be African-American. Many of you are probably saying that the bottom line is that Obama won the election, and that his loss of those southern states is insignificant now. Obama’s win is indeed a victory in the struggle of racism that has permeated our country since its inception. While we celebrate that, we must remember all that happened in the US that led to this moment in history: the countless number of people who per-

ished in the fight for Civil and Voting Rights, the humility and pain of the fire hoses and police dogs, the tears we shed in the struggle for equal rights for every American. We must never forget these transgressions. And we must teach our children and ourselves to not take for granted the Civil Rights we African Americans have possessed for only forty three years in this country. Things taken for granted can slip away from us. This historic win is a mandate for us all to raise the bar on how we think, speak, act and lead. We must work together to do away with the bickering and hate that eats at the core of our community. We must loudly protest the senseless killings of our young people, letting our youth know that differences CAN settled without fists and guns. Our children must know that their dreams should be without limits, and that with Faith and education, they can be whatever they want to be when they grow up. President-Elect Barack Obama’s win shall serve as a spring board of the leaps and bounds we can and must make as a community and as a nation. Let’s live as an example for those who still have the mindset of the past and bring every American to embrace a modern civilization of unity, hope, and change. Our future depends on it.

We Have Pled Our Own Cause By. Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief On Election Day, I was riding in a cab on Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C. when I saw, at a red light, about a dozen African-American kindergartners crossing in front of the car. There was one adult leading the way and another instructing from behind. It was the woman watching carefully over the children from behind who called out to them a momentous remark. She said, “Hey president, vice president, secretary of state, national security advisor! I know you’re all in there. Get on across that road!” At that time, many had not even voted, the polls were not nearly closed. Yet, there was already an atmospheric hope and a belief that defied history. It seems just about everybody I talked to in the few days leading up to the election of Sen. Barack Obama as America’s first Black president – like the kindergarten teacher - had an unexplained certainty about what was about to happen. It’s called faith - the “substance of those things hoped for.” That faith has for years been reflected in the editorials and on the front pages of Black newspapers across the nation, which – like the kindergarten teacher – have for nearly two centuries called “those things that be not as though they were.” In 1827 when John B. Russwurm and Samuel Cornish founded “Freedom’s Journal”, they declared, “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” They dared to believe and; in fact, they dared to know that someday by their pushing and prodding and commanding justice – even when perceptually behind – Black people would some day rise. In recent weeks, I have noticed that same historic defiance in those modern day newspapers that make up the Black Press of America. From the Chicago Crusader’s “In just a few days we can make history and change the nation” to the Los Angeles Sentinel’s “The vote of our lifetime” to the hundreds of other Black newspapers, editors and publishers across America, you have led by the spirit of faith – not just hope – daring to rally the troops, articulating the vision of

greatness like that kindergarten teacher. This is why Barack Obama was elected president. It was because the Black Press of America, Black civil rights organizations, Black churches and Black colleges and universities refused to doubt that Americans – Black and White - would someday heed the united voice of the believers. Given this noble history of leadership, it is crucial now that these same institutions and America as a whole recognize that it’s not over. The rise of President-elect Obama is indeed a significant tide that has lifted the tiny boats of even the kindergartners crossing Georgia Avenue and we are indeed beholding fruit of our long and painful labor.

But the struggle has never been left up to one person – even the president of the United States. So, now is where a new challenge begins. That challenge – even as we see Black unemployment stats in double digits and twice that of Whites - is to celebrate, but not rest. It is to pray, support, admonish and encourage our new president, but it is also to act as we did on Tuesday and as we have for the past 181 years because ''faith without works is dead.'' And so, let us now celebrate this moment even as we continue to plead the cause. We shall not cease until we see the fruition of that noble American ideal: “One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.''

Unemployment Rate at 14 Year High Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American (NNPA) - The nation's unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut. The latest release of information by the Labor Department shows the crucial jobs market deteriorating at an alarmingly rapid pace. Economists are calling theses numbers proof that the economy is almost certainly in a recession. The jobless rate zoomed to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent in September, matching the rate in March 1994. Employers have cut jobs each month this year. Unemployment has now surpassed the high seen after the last recession in 2001. The jobless rate peaked at 6.3 percent in June 2003. The unemployment rates for adult men, women and Whites rose. For men, it was 6.3 percent; for women, 5.3 percent; and Whites, 5.9 percent. It also rose for Hispanics, 8.8 percent. The jobless rates for teenagers, at 20.6, percent and Blacks, 11.1 percent, remained about the same.The rate for AfricanAmericans is consistantly in double digits and nearly twice that of Whites. Employers got rid of 240,000 jobs in October, marking the 10th straight month of payroll reductions. Job losses in August and September turned out to be much deeper. Employers cut 127,000 positions in August, compared with 73,000 previously reported. A whopping 284,000 jobs were axed last month, compared with the 159,000 jobs first reported. So far this year, a staggering 1.2 million jobs have disappeared. The employment market is much weaker than economists expected. They were forecasting the unemployment rate to climb to 6.3 percent in October and for payrolls to fall by around 200,000. Job losses were widespread. Factories cut 90,000 jobs, construction companies got rid of 49,000 jobs, retailers cut payrolls by 38,000, professional and business services reduced employment by 45,000, financial activities cut 24,000 jobs, and leisure and hospitality axed 16,000 positions. President-elect Barack Obama will huddle with economic advisers later on Friday. His team has been in close contact with the Bush administration to pave the way for a smooth hand-off of power. The problems in the economy (which include a housing collapse, mounting foreclosures, hard-to-get credit and financial market upheaval) will be waiting for Obama when he assumes office early next year. It is being said that the employment woes are likely to get worse. Many expect the jobless rate to climb to 8 percent, possibly higher, next year. In the 1980-1982 recession, the unemployment rate rose as high as 10.8 percent before inching down. In an effort to provide relief, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democratsare pushing to enact another round of economic stimulus of around $100 billion. Information from the Associated Press contributed to this eport.

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Obesity Can Equal Diabetes For African American Teens (BlackDoctor.org) -Obesity amongst the youth is a growing epidemic in the United States. In only two decades the number of overweight children and teenagers has nearly tripled. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one-third of U.S. teens are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. It is estimated that one-third of the students that are overweight will develop serious health problems over time. What does that mean to you as an African American teenager? When most teenagers think of obesity or being overweight they think of appearance. That may be a popular concern, but that is not the most detrimental of them all. Diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory problems, and liver disease are all possible results of obesity. High blood pressure and diabetes are both diseases that African Americans are already at high risk for, and obesity heightens the chances even further for developing them. While genetics and hormone imbalances can cause obesity in teenagers, the most common reasons for obesity in teens are excessive eating and little to no exercise. Fast food consumption has risen 500% since 1970. Most teenagers like fast

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food because it’s easy to get and it tastes good. The average teenager consumes about three hamburgers and four fries a week. A Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a medium order of French Fries and a medium Coca-Cola combined are 1,100 calories. It is suggested that the average person consume only 2,000 calories a day to maintain a healthy lifestyle. As technology continues to develop, the estimated amount of exercise the average teenager gets is steadily decreasing. Researchers site the availability of video games, the internet, and television as prime factors for the lack of physical activity among teenagers. The average teenager plays three hours of video games, watches four hours of television, and surfs the internet for approximately two hours a day. That means that nine hours of their average day, aside from the eight hours spent in school, are consumed by non-physical activities. It’s a miracle the average teenager has time enough to do homework with this kind of schedule, let alone exercise. How do you know if you’re overweight? Well, doctors usually calculate your body mass index (BMI), which is a number based on your height and weight. You can calculate your BMI by using

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Now that you know whether you’re overweight or not, what’s next? If you are overweight the next step is gaining control of your health. Notice, I said gaining control of your health, not your weight. In order to gain control of your weight you most first gain control of your health. The first step is to develop good eating habits. First think about why you eat. Do you eat because you are hungry or because food is readily available? Try to eat only when you are hungry and in small multiple portions. Don’t feel pressured to eat everything that’s on your plate at dinner. Eat until you are full. Don’t continue to eat after you reach the point of satisfaction. As a teen, your parents probably do most of the grocery shopping and cooking. This can make it difficult to eat in a proper manner. Encourage your family to eat healthier with you. Doing this will make it easier to achieve your goals. The moral support from your family will be a great motivator. Five small meals a day is the suggested amount to be consumed on a daily basis. There is nothing wrong with picking up a quick snack to satisfy your hungry. The problem arises based on what you choose to consume. As I stated earlier, people tend to eat foods based on their availability. If unhealthy foods are not available then you are less likely to eat them. Encourage your parents to choose fruits and vegetables over convenience foods, when grocery shopping, and to always keep healthy snacks available. Ask them to limit sweetened beverages in the house including those containing fruit juice. They provide little nutritional value in exchange for their high calories. Instead of drinking sweetened beverages try to drink water. The suggested amount is eight 8oz glasses per day. The next step is increasing your physical activity. I know this may seem difficult, but try to limit the amount of time you surf the internet and the television stations. Allot yourself time to engage in physical activities. Some people just don’t like to exercise traditionally. It may seem like a chore depending on your outlook of it. If you are one of those folks that look at it that way, try and incorporate fun activities into your exercise regime. If you like swimming, do a few laps a couple a times a week. If you like being outside, try hiking. If you love music dance around your room to your favorite CDs or try walking your schools track while listening to your most upbeat MP3s. What you do isn’t what’s important, it’s important that you do something to increase your physical activity.

100-Year-Old Tells How Far We Have Come By. Melanie Holmes Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) - At 100 years old, Raymond Bowman’s memory has not failed him in the least. To this day, he vividly remembers the bulging welts whipped into his great-grandfather’s back, each painful protrusion an unsightly symbol of slavery’s sting throughout the Black community. But on Tuesday, Nov. 4, Bowman witnessed the ultimate reparations in the form of 50 states and a White House when America elected Sen. Barack Obama as its first AfricanAmerican president.

100-year-old Raymond Bowman tells the meaning of Obama's election Credit: Abdul Sulayman

“I was jubilant,” Bowman said. “It felt very good to see a Black man become elected president of the United States. I didn’t think I’d ever see that in my life. It’s hard to believe because there have been so many things against us.” Bowman was born in Middletown on Sept. 16, 1908. When his mother found a job as a head waitress at the Roadside Hotel, they moved to South Philadelphia when he was around 12 years old. A serious student, Bowman studied hard and was accepted to Central High School in 1923. Nonetheless, his education did not make him equal in the eyes of the segregated city. “We would leave Central and go to the movies but we would have the [light-skinned] girls buy the tickets because they could pass [for white],” he said. “That way, we

could sit downstairs; we didn’t have to sit in the balcony.” Bowman still recalls Philadelphia’s Black-owned businesses and entertainment organizations before integration. “That’s more than we have now,” he said. “We weren’t allowed in the different hotels and restaurants but we did the best we could.” After seeing 19 presidents in his lifetime, for Bowman, having a Black man as president is proof that progress has been made for African Americans. In great health for having lived slightly over a century, Bowman voted absentee to avoid the trouble of taking his walker or wheelchair to the polls. “White folks voted for him, too,” he said. “We didn’t put him in ourselves.” Bowman voted for Obama for the same reason he thought many people would not. “Because he’s Black,” Bowman said. “The fact that I thought he would be qualified, that’s not the thing — he’s Black, he’s like me. I would have voted for Jesse Jackson because he was Black.” Confident that Obama will do the best job he can, Bowman looks forward to seeing the president-elect prove that he can help the United States as well as the rest of the world. At the same time, he admits to being a little nervous. “There are so many people in doubt about a Black man,” he said. “I hope he’s successful, but I fear for him. They will try to kill him just to say ‘we killed a n----r.’” Bowman worked on the Great Lakes for four years and was a steward for the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clemington, N.J., for 31 years. Additionally, he had a catering business where he “cooked all the fine things” and was known to students as Mr. ''Bulldog'' Bowman during his time as a non-teaching assistant (NTA) in the School District of Philadelphia. “I was tough, but the kids respected me,” he said with a

youthful smile. Two marriages, three kids and four grandchildren later, Bowman has slowed down but has managed to keep moving. With the love of his pet poodle Happi and support of his family, Bowman said he is glad to be alive. “I live for them,” he said. “I don’t realize I’m 100. It came so fast. I’ve lived my life, a good life. I want to see success for my kids.” Daughter Alice BowmanCropper, 64, said she called her father the moment Obama was announced the winner of the presidential election. “He picked up the phone yelling, ‘We won! We won!’” she said. “There are so many people who experienced being second class citizens right here in the United States and the City of Brotherly Love. Now, we have a Black man [elected president] and that’s why people are so emotional about it.”

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........HEALTH FOR YOU Janet Jackson Battles Migraines rologic abnormality in the functioning of the back of your brain. How are vestibular migraines treated? Currently, there is no drug that specifically treats vestibular migraines, but there are drugs that can treat vertigo and migraine separately How common are vestibular migraines? Vestibular migraines are rare. It is estimated that only one or two in a thousand migraine patients have vestibular migraines.

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(BlackDoctor.org) -According to her publicists, Janet Jackson has a "rare form of migraine called vestibular migraine or migraine-associated vertigo." Her diagnosis prompted the unforeseen cancellation of several of her recent concert dates, but since then, she's gotten medical treated for her migraines and is ready to once again embark on her elaborate tour.

Most people are diagnosed in their late teens or early 20s, but it can happen later on in life. No information is available on whether Jackson's vestibular migraines are new or a flare-up of an existing condition.

"She's feeling much better and is ready to hit the road again to finish the tour," Janet's manager, Kenneth Crear, says in a news release. She's getting her "Rock Witchu" tour back on track. What is a vestibular migraine? It's an episode of vertigo before and during migraine. "Vestibular" refers to the part of the inner ear that controls balance, and that vertigo is dizziness where there is a hallucination of movement. Vertigo is the feeling that you or your environment is moving when no movement occurs. Imprecisely called dizziness, the term vertigo is the specific term used to describe an illusion of movement and can happen before the migraine starts. But a vestibular migraine isn't just about feeling dizzy and having a migraine. Almost anyone with migraine may get dizzy, and that doesn't mean you have vestibular migraine. The symptoms of vestibular migraine also include other symptoms, such as nausea, fainting, abnormal eye movements, hearing loss, and weakness in the arms and legs. How would a vestibular migraine affect Jackson's performance? Jackson wanted to resume her tour earlier, "but she continued to suffer from vertigo and could not perform," Crear says. "She's a world-class entertainer and needs to be at the top of her game to give her fans the show they expect." What causes migraine?

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If this suddenly occurs out of the blue and you're over 40, you need to be seen by your doctor and they need to make sure that there's nothing else going on. By Candace Hall, BDO Staff Write

More Defections Seen Among Senior Member of the ANC Special to the NNPA from GIN (GIN) – More senior members of the Africa National Congress (ANC) are quitting the party over differences with its direction. Last week, senior ANC member Phillip Dexter and former ANC Women's caucus parliamentary chairperson Sindiswa Patricia Kiki Rwexana said they were leaving with sadness but complained that the party had undergone profound changes since about 2004. ''Today the ANC is very cold...It depends on which side you are supporting,” said Rwexana. .. ''The ANC we used to know is no more. The ANC that taught democracy in South Africa is no more...that taught respect to each, respect to the elderly, is no more. ''Dishonesty has really become the order of the day,” Dexter charged. “Most alarming has been the lies by current ANC leaders to justify the election or removal of people to and from political office.'' The two senior leaders have reportedly signed on to the Shikota movement, a new party convened by former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota and former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa . The party’s policies will cast a net beyond the rhetoric of revolution to address the needs of modern-day voters, organisers

Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases By MIKE STOBBE ATLANTA (AP) - The nation's obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday. The highest rates were in the South, according to the first state-by-state review of new diagnoses. The worst was in West Virginia, where about 13 in 1,000 adults were diagnosed with the disease in 2005-07. The lowest was in Minnesota, where the rate was 5 in 1,000. Nationally, the rate of new cases climbed from about 5 per 1,000 in the mid-1990s to 9 per 1,000 in the middle of this decade. Roughly 90 percent of cases are Type 2 diabetes, the form linked to obesity. The findings dovetail with trends seen in obesity and lack of exercise - two health measures where Southern states also rank at the bottom. "It isn't surprising the problem is heaviest in the South - no pun intended," agreed Matt Petersen, who oversees data and statistics for the American Diabetes Association. The study, led by Karen Kirtland of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides an up-todate picture of where the disease is exploding. The infor-

mation should be a big help as the government and health insurance companies decide where to focus prevention campaigns, Petersen said. Diabetes was the nation's seventh-leading cause of death in 2006, according to the CDC. More than 23 million Americans have diabetes, and the number is rapidly growing. About 1.6 million new cases were diagnosed among adults last year. In Type 2 diabetes, cells do not properly use insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar into energy, and the pancreas gradually loses its ability to produce it. The illness can cause sugar to build up in the body, leading to complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and poor circulation that leads to foot amputations. The study involved a randomdigit-dialed survey of more than 260,000 adults. Participants were asked if they had ever been told by a doctor that they have diabetes, and when the diagnosis was made. The comparisons between 1995-97 and 2005-07 covered only the 33 states for which the CDC had complete data for both time periods. The researchers had data for 40 states for the years 2005-07. West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia,

Texas and Tennessee had the highest rates, all at 11 cases per 1,000 or higher. Puerto Rico was about as high as West Virginia. Minnesota, Hawaii and Wyoming had the lowest rates. It is not entirely clear why some states were worse than others. Older people, blacks and Hispanics tend to have higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, and the South has large concentrations of all three groups. However, West Virginia is overwhelmingly

white. The report asked about diagnosed diabetes only. Because an estimated one in four diabetics have not been diagnosed, the findings probably underestimate the problem, said Angela Liese, a diabetes researcher at the University of South Carolina. The underestimates may be particularly bad in the rural South and other areas where patients have trouble getting health care, she noted.

Patients Look Beyond Medicine Cabinets (NewsUSA) - Many people are turning to herbal remedies to treat everything from the common cold to serious disease. It is estimated that nearly half of all Americans use some sort of herbal medicine or herbal supplement. According to University of Maryland researchers, many conventional doctors are beginning to integrate alternative medicine into their practices. Pharmacists stock their shelves with herb-based pills, and Americans frequently demand that insurance plans cover more alternative treatments. Of course, everyone should consult a doctor before choosing any herbal remedy, especially if they take conventional medicine. But here are some herbs that studies suggest are effective in treating ailments: - Horny Goat Weed. Long used in ancient Chinese medicine, Horny Goat Weed may treat erectile dysfunction as effectively as the drug Viagra. Researchers in Italy tested several natural aphrodisiacs and found Horny Goat Weed to be the most potent. - Wolfberry. Also known as goji berries, wolfberries possess high levels of antioxidants, substances thought to absorb free radicals and prevent cellular damage. - American ginseng. An herb used in medical practice around the world, American ginseng has long been stocked in health food stores and vitamin shops. Now, the

University of Chicago Medical Center plans to study the herb's possible anti-tumor effects. Luckily, patients don't need to travel cross-continent to find these herbs. One American company, Magic Power Coffee (magicpowercoffee.com), uses the herbs in its tasty signature beverage. - St. John's Wort. One study

published in the Cochrane Review, a journal that analyzes medical and scientific studies, found that St. John's Wort is effective in treating depression. Scientists analyzed 29 studies and compared the St. John's Wort, placebos and standard treatments. St. John's Wort not only treated depression, but gave patients fewer side effects. Scientists believe that the herb works in the same way as anti-depres-

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Working Toward More Equitable Treatment In The Justice System (NAPSM)-A new campaign hopes to reverse a disturbing trend, a trend that predicts that one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime. According to the Campaign for Youth Justice, historic discrepancies within the justice system's treatment of AfricanAmerican and white youth need to be addressed.

"Critical Condition: AfricanAmerican Youth in the Justice System" explains how AfricanAmerican youth are continually faced with unfair criminal justice policies that result in a high rate of incarceration in juvenile and adult correctional facilities. Although there is no national system that collects data on youth transferred to the adult system, researchers estimate that as many as 200,000 youth are prosecuted as adults each year. Evidence suggests that African-American youth are disproportionately affected by these laws. "It is well documented that African-American youth are treated more harshly by the justice system than white youth for the same offenses, at all stages in the justice system," said NAACP Washington Bureau director Hilary O. Shelton. Key findings include:

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to receive an adult prison sentence. • Black children were seven and a half times more likely than white children to have a parent in prison. • Recent estimates are that 20 percent of all black children have a father with an incarceration history. The results of questionnaires about crime and drug use answered anonymously by a large cross section of the youth community are chilling with respect to the racial disparities in the justice system. Overall, African-American youth do not engage in more delinquent behavior than white youth. While white youth are significantly more likely to use and sell drugs, black youth make up 60 percent of the young people detained for drug trafficking. Many black youth end up in adult court for drug offenses; 87 percent of those charged with drug offenses in adult court are AfricanAmerican. While white youth are more likely to use and sell drugs, black youth are more likely to be detained for trafficking.

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‘Alive & Free’ Steers Youth Away from Violence By. Alan King Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers WASHINGTON (NNPA) Fourteen years ago, Kemba Smith was serving a 24-and-ahalf-year sentence on charges of conspiracy, money laundering and lying to authorities to protect her boyfriend at the time – Peter Hall, leader of a violent drug ring that moved as much as $4 million in cocaine and crack cocaine between New York and Virginia; it was a four-year operation that began in 1989. Although she was not a major player in the drug-trafficking scheme, Smith – who was a student at Hampton University when she met Hall – was found guilty by association. “I could remember feeling this sense of hopelessness, being scared to death; it was the first time I had ever been in trouble before,” she told more than 40 elected officials, parents and young people Nov. 7 at the 2nd Annual Alive & Free Conference held at the historic Lake Clifton Campus – home of both Doris M. Johnson and Heritage High Schools. The two-day conference included three workshop topics: Anger, Fear and Pain; Commandments of Violence; and Rules for Living and Risk Factors. “It really should be stuff like that everyday,” said Brian Tibbs, 17, a junior at Heritage High School. “If you had stuff like this in your life, you won’t have to turn to stupid stuff; most of the stuff is common sense.” Based on the premise that violence is a social disease, the Alive & Free Movement was created as a cure to identify and combat the risk factors and what is called “symptomatic thinking” that put young people at risk of violence. “Our children have been neglected by us and we need, as a community, to turn around and let our children know that we care about them; that the needless deaths that are going on need to stop; and we need to give them a structure for how society is supposed to function,” said Nzinga Oneferua, co-founder of Safe Healing Foundation (SHF) – a nonprofit that brings vocational, entrepreneurial and violence prevention training, plus modeling, poetry and other activities to its after-school program that services the Lake Clifton campus. Since 2006, Alive & Free has focused on recruiting, teaching and developing street soldiers – people committed to eliminating violence in their own lives and in their commu-

nities. “I’ve assembled this army, literally, around the world; there’s power in this army,” said Dr. Joseph Marshall, founder and president of the Street Soldiers National Consortium and the Alive & Free Movement, which has been employed by more than 60 anti-violence programs nationwide. It is utilized in detention facilities, schools, communitybased organizations, afterschool programs and in treatment facilities. Street soldiers learn how to frame violence at the community and individual level as treatable and avoidable; identify specific precursors of violence as avoidable; identify young people – especially perpetrators of violence – as victims of the disease of violence rather than as “bad people,”

while at the same time placing responsibility to reduce the risk of violence on the individuals themselves; and they provide specific methods and techniques for individuals and organizations to prevent violence in themselves and in their communities. Smith, now 37, had served sixand-a-half years of her prison sentence when President Bill Clinton granted her clemency in 2000 – four years after her story first appeared in Emerge magazine. Since then, she’s been a street soldier sharing her story with young people across the country. “There was a period of time between high school and college where it was a particular lifestyle that seemed interesting to me, despite my mother and father and the morals and values that they had instilled in me,” Smith said in her keynote

address at the Alive & Free conference. “I was attracted to the thug and, basically, looking for love in all the wrong places and not fully understanding what love was; or what a healthy relationship was; or understanding that I should have kept Hampton and my education a priority while I was there.” Smith’s message resonated with Jearl Ward, who attended the conference with his 14- and 16-year-old daughters. “That was one of the most powerful points of the entire conference,” said Ward, a sponsor of the event. It showed “how violence and negativity can come to anyone’s door.”

Calling all String Instrument Players Burke High School Centennial Celebration If you attended Burke High School, C. A. Brown High, The High School of Charleston, Rivers High, Rhett Middle, Immaculate Conception School, or Avery Institute and you play violin, viola, cello or string bass, please contact [email protected] to express your interest in participating in a string ensemble that will be a part of the

Burke High School Centennial Celebration in 2010 Come join us for a great program. We are starting now to have ample time for preparation. Out-of-towners are invited to participate. Please provide you name, contact information by phone, cell, and e-mail and indicate the instrument and skill level. Thanks!!!

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WALLINGFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Invites You To COME, SHARE and FELLOWSHIP with The Seniors Activities Bible Study, Physical Fitness, Arts & Craft Projects, Health Education, Enrichment Programs, Speakers, Community Resources, Trips, Recreation, Nutritional Lunch and lots more fun . . .When: Every Thursday, Where: 705 King Street, Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Cost: NO CHARGE~~FREE, (843) 723-9929

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SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 141st Anniversary -Salem Missionary Baptist Church (city of Charleston) extends an invitation to you to come and worship with us as we celebrate our church’s 141st anniversary Friday, November 14, 2008 and Sunday, November 16th, 2008. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Thanks Be to God for Another Years Journey!” Friday service will begin at 7:30 PM with a short devotional service followed by skits and monologues entitled “The REAL History of Salem”, and musical selections by Salem’s Men’s, Youth and Combined Choirs. The culminating service will be held on Sunday, November 16th, 2008 at 4:00 PM with the Reverend William J. Capers, Jr., Associate Pastor of Salem Missionary Baptist Church bringing the anniversary message. Please join us as we celebrate this great occasion. Thanking you in advance for your prayers, attendance and support.

NEW TABERNACLE SECOND MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 2204 Fillmore St., N. Charleston, SC 29405, along with their pastor, Rev. Herman J. Smalls, the officers and members, cordially invite all friends and family to join us on Sunday, November 16, 2008 and help celebrate our 65th Church Anniversary, starting at 4 P.M. Our Guest messenger will be Rev. Charles Green, Pastor of Holy Rock Missionary Baptist Church and his congregation. Come help us lift the name of Jesus higher and higher.

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Churches across America reflect on Obama election By ALLEN G. BREED RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Jubilation, pride and relief permeated pews and pulpits at predominantly black churches across the country on the first Sunday after Barack Obama's election, with congregrants blowing horns, waving

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At Hungary Road Baptist Church in a working-class suburb of Richmond, Va., the service was part celebration, part history lesson, led by a pastor who had felt the sting of the Jim Crow South. The Rev. J. Rayfield Vines Jr., pastor of the predominantly African-American congregation, paused briefly as he recalled the indignities he endured but did not bow to while growing up Suffolk, in southeastern Virginia. "I was there when you had ride in the back of the bus," Vines said under a simple cross illuminated by eight light bulbs. "I was there when you went to the department store and you couldn't try on the clothes. I was there when they had a colored toilet and a white toilet." The pastor said he shared his humiliations Sunday to help give those "who had not tasted the bitterness of segregation ... an idea why we all shouted." Inside Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, member Sheila Chestnut, 61, proudly wore a rhinestone Obama pin on her suit lapel. Rev. Shirley Caesar-Williams "I am so happy," she said. "I cried so much. I never Washington, D.C., we got a thought that in this lifetime I new family coming in. We got would live to see an Africana new family coming in. And American become president of you know what? They look these United States." like us. Amen, amen. They When the Rev. Calvin Butts look like us." invited the congregation to In the historically black New stand up "and give God praise York City neighborhood of for the election," several hunHarlem, Obama buttons and dred churchgoers rose as one, T-shirts were as prevalent in lifted their hands and gave a the pews as colorful plumed sustained cheer, then chanted, hats, while in a church in the "Yes we can! Yes we can!" former capital of the At Apostolic Church of God Confederacy, a young girl hanon Chicago's South Side, less dled a newspaper with a photo than two miles from Obama's of Obama and the headline, home, jubilant Sunday servic"Mr. President." es were peppered with referAt Los Angeles' oldest black ences to the election and calls church, ushers circulated to be grateful for his victory. through the aisles with boxes "We thank the Lord for this of tissues as men and women, second Sunday (in November) young and old, wept openly after the first Tuesday," Dr. and unabashedly at the fall of Byron Brazier said to resoundthe nation's last great racial ing applause and cheers from barrier. the mostly black congregation. And on the day that the Rev. "This is a wonderful time to be Martin Luther King Jr. alive." famously called "the most segObama spoke at Apostolic on regated day of the week," black Father's Day in his first and white Christian clergy address to a congregation after members asked God to give leaving his longtime church, Obama the wisdom and Trinity United Church of strength to lead the country Christ, following inflammatoout of what many consider a ry remarks there by his former wilderness of despair and longtime pastor and others. gloom. In Los Angeles, tears flowed freely at the First AME Church during the raucous two-hour service of housebusting music and prayer. There were some white and yellow faces among the congregants, and the Rev. John J. Hunter felt the need to let them know they were not being left out. "The smiles on our faces are not gloating looks of victory," he said. "The smiles on our faces are not the sign or any symbol that it is now our time and our chance to get even. REV. CHARLES GREEN Rather, the smiles on our faces are expressions of thanksgivHOLY ROCK ing."

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The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

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Inauguration Tickets, the Hottest in Town By. Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers W A S H I N G T O N (NNPA) - Washington, D.C., will be bursting at the seams come January. With President-elect Barack Obama poised to become the first AfricanAmerican president of the United States, and with continuing interest in the charismatic man and his family whose vision birthed a movement, people from around the world are clamoring for access to the never-to-be-seen-again inauguration on Jan. 20. For updates about the 2009 presidential inauguration events, visit the official site at http://inaugural.senate.gov. No tickets are available yet. “All of us who voted have earned a right to see this take place so make sure that you have your analog cable and all the media you can find because one way or the other, in the front seat of the White House or the back seat of the airplane or bus, we will find a way to see and make history,” wrote “Trisha” on a Nov. 8 blog about the swearing-in on www.aolblackvoices.com. Only a few days after Obama trounced erstwhile rival Sen. John McCain, RAriz., to win the 2008 presidential contest, demand for tickets have already exceeded supply. Though free, inauguration tickets are limited in number— 240,000—and distributed through members of Congress about a week before the event.

President Elect Barack Obama The day after the election, District Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said she set up a special telephone line and e-mail address to take requests, but her office was inundated with so many calls that it stymied other urgent noninauguration related calls and she had to stop taking names. Norton said she is worried this foreshadows even worse conditions to come. “I share the excitement and enthusiasm of my constituents, but I am concerned that even the few who obtain tickets will not be able to get through the crowds at the Mall,” Norton said in a statement. “The only people sure to get a view of the parade and the swearing-in are the people who watch it on television in the comfort of their homes.” Officials say with people determined to participate—whether they have tickets or not—they expect the crowds to surpass the 1.2 million that attended President Lyndon

Johnson’s swearing-in in 1965. Norton, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said she plans to meet next week with security officials to discuss the ramifications. “An entirely new game plan will be needed to cope with an inauguration like none the country has ever seen,” Norton said. Already, officials have had to deal with fraudulent Web sites and others exploiting people’s desperation by selling them “free” tickets. “Any Web site or ticket broker claiming that they have inaugural tickets is simply not telling the truth,” said Howard Gantman, staff director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. “We urge the public to view any offers of tickets for sale with great skepticism...An entirely new game plan will be needed to cope with an inauguration like none the country has ever seen.” Most remain hopeful— even adamant—about participating in the days-long celebration. People have already booked airline and bus tickets, even before inauguration tickets became available. And hotel rooms are filling up quickly. William Hanbury, president of Destination DC, the District's convention and tourism arm, told The Washington Post, the area's 95,000 hotel rooms are filling up faster than for previous inaugurations. ''There are still a lot of rooms available, but people need to be doing transactions now if they are serious about coming,''

Hanbury said, adding that people may soon have to resort to ''innovative accommodations.'' ''The church group from Atlanta, the high school from Chicago -- they're all trying to find places to stay. You're going to have people sleeping in church basements and high school cafeterias,'' Hanbury predicted. Already, people are hitting up long lost relatives and friends living in the District-Northern Virginia-Maryland metro area. And they are also appealing to strangers. Sites like Craigslist are clogged with lodging commerce. “Housing swap: you ski in Utah, we do

Inauguration,” read one ad, mirroring others offering home exchanges in Malibu, Sausalito and Manhattan. Others bargained their home for higher-rated commodities. “I will provide 3 days/2 nights in my home for free to anyone who can provide two tickets to the official inaugural ball and two tickets to the swearing in ceremony,” read another from someone living in Maryland. The unprecedented interest in the 56th inauguration is a testament to the man and his message but also the historic overtones. Celebrated under the theme, ''A New Birth of Freedom,'' Obama's inauguration commemorates

Preparing for the Big Switch Over: Black Church Group Distributes 3.5 Million Digital TV Converter Box Applications NNPA

nated literature containing information about the upcoming transition and an application form for the government’s converter box coupon. The $40 coupon allows residents to purchase a converter box, a low-cost option for consumers to continue receiving television signals if they are not connected to cable. NBCI has also conducted more than 20,000 educational sessions in faith-based communities all across the country. NBCI, led by the Reverend Anthony Evans, is a partner in NAB’s national multiplatform campaign to educate the transition’s most disproportionately affected populations, includ-

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 16,000 African-American and Latino member churches, has announced the distribution of about 3.5 million applications for the federal government’s converter box coupon program to African-American congregants nationwide. The government is offering coupons to all U.S. households to offset the cost of preparing for the transition to digital television (DTV) on February 17, 2009. In partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters, NBCI dissemi-

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(NAPSI)-Companies with environmentally friendly business practices aren't just green; they could be seen as evergreen, thriving even when the economy isn't. In today's tough economy, scores of skilled and educated individuals are finding themselves without jobs. In many cases, these newly laid-off individuals have been in the workforce long enough to have a solid skill set and enough money saved up--or a strong enough credit history--to go into business for themselves. Many will choose franchising. The franchising sector continues to prove its place in the U.S. economy. According to the International Franchise Association, the franchise sector grew by more than 18 percent from 2001 to 2005. During that time, franchising brought more than 140,000 new businesses and 1.2 million new jobs to the U.S. economy. Particularly attractive in a slower economy is the likelihood for success franchising offers. The U.S. Department of Commerce assessed the failure rate for franchises as a miniscule 5 percent or less per year, with 86 percent still operating after five years. Estimates of failure for independent businesses indicate that 68 percent do not survive the first five years. Green franchises are proving to be even more downturn resilient. According to Green Economy, a firm that promotes an environmentally healthy workforce, green businesses have been growing at a rate of about 5 percent annually during the last three years. One green company currently franchising, ShredStation Express, a paper and electronic media destruction and recycling company, has been experiencing dramatic increases in its franchise growth--despite a lessthan-stellar economy.

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Invitation to Bid Kiawah Homes Modernization II Job #081101 The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston will receive sealed bids on a General al Contract for Kiawah Homes Modernization Phase II until 2:00 p.m. local time, on November 13, 2008 at 550 Meeting, Street Room 114, Charleston, South Carolina. Bids will be publicly opened. Copies of the Bidding documents may be obtained after 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at the CHA Modernization Office, 545 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29503. Contact Marymims Goldman at (843) 720-3982. A voluntary pre-bid conference will be held at 545 Meeting Street on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. The Housing Authority encourages minority owned business to participate in its on-going purchasing of goods and services. CHA reserves the right to waive irregularities and to reject any and all bids. Donald J. Cameron Chief Executive Officer

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR SURVEYING SERVICES AT THE FOLLY BEACH COUNTY PARK, RFP#08-10 CHARLESTON COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION 861 RIVERLAND DRIVE CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 29412 October 2008 Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (PRC) is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide Surveying Services at the Folly Beach County Park. To receive a copy of the Request for Proposal, contact Ms. Penny Westerfelhaus, Administrative Assistant, Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission, at 843-7628098. Proposals should be submitted no later than Thursday, November 13, 2008 to the attention of Ms. Lynda Abram, Contract Coordinator, Charleston County Park and Recreation, 861 Riverland Drive, Charleston, SC 29412.

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Farrakhan says Obama draws a 'oneness of spirit' By SOPHIA TAREEN CHICAGO (AP) - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said in an address Sunday celebrating Barack Obama that the new president-elect has a God-given capacity to handle any burdens he'll face as the nation's leader. Farrakhan added that Obama will be able to make positive changes only with help from "God and people of goodwill," and he urged followers of the Chicago-based black nationalist movement to do their part. "President-elect Obama has energized all segments of the depressed, downtrodden, rejected and despised," he said in a 90-minute speech at Mosque Maryam on the city's South Side. "Now it is up to us to take the new energy that he has given us ... and channel that energy into making ourselves better." Dressed in intricately decorated red and gold robes and a matching fez, the once-ailing 75-year-old leader spoke to more than 1,000 followers in an address called "America's New Beginning: Presidentelect Barack Obama." Farrakhan, who said Obama draws a "oneness of spirit" from all people, admitted he stayed quiet about his support for Obama during the past few months out of fear his words would harm the Illinois senator's bid for the White House. In February, Farrakhan praised Obama, calling him "the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better" at a Saviours' Day event in Chicago. But Obama quickly distanced himself from Farrakhan, denouncing the minister's sup-

port during a presidential debate with then-Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama said he objected to Farrakhan's past statements about Judaism, which many have considered anti-Semitic. Nation of Islam officials have said Farrakhan's comments are often taken out of context. On Sunday, Farrakhan said Obama faced unfair scrutiny for his associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor, who was shown making fiery statements about the U.S. government in widely circulated video clips. Obama was also criticized because of the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Chicago priest who mocked Clinton at Wright and Obama's former church, Trinity United Church of Christ. "For nine months, I kept quiet because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man at our Saviours' Day convention and the way they were misused," Farrakhan said of Obama. "I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than

be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others." Farrakhan then added with a smile, "I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart."

Belief that country heading in right direction is at all-time low By Paul Steinhauser CNN Deputy Political Director WASHINGTON (CNN) On the day that Presidentelect Barack Obama visited the White House, a new national poll illustrates the daunting challenges he faces when it becomes his home next year. Only 16 percent of those questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday say things are going well in the country today. That's an all-time low. Eightythree percent say things are going badly, which is an alltime high. "The challenge Obama faces has never been greater. No president has ever come to office during a time when the public's mood has been this low. In the 34 years that this question has been asked, the number who say things are going well has never fallen below 20 percent," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. The 83 percent saying things are going badly is "more than in 1992, when the first President Bush was ousted because of the economy, stupid. That's more than in 1980, when President Carter got fired after the malaise crisis. That's more than in 1975, after Watergate and the Nixon pardon," said Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst.

Charleston County 2009-2010 URBAN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS Request for Application Announcement Charleston County’s Community Development Division is the administering agency for the County of Charleston Entitlement Grants for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program and the American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) Program. Each of these grant programs are funded by an allocation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Funding estimates for the 2009 Program Year (7/1/09-6/30/10) have not yet been provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; however, it is anticipated that Charleston County may receive approximately the same as last year’s allocation in the amount of $3,052,879 to fund housing and community development activities across Charleston County and its nine participating jurisdictions. APPLICATION RELEASE DATE: On November 14, 2008, Charleston County will issue a Request for Applications (RFA) for the anticipated 2009-2010 Urban Entitlement Program Funding Cycle. The RFA will seek eligible projects that improve and develop housing, economic opportunities, infrastructure, community facilities and provide other community revitalization activities. Special attention will be given to applicants that successfully align with strategies to address unmet goals and objectives as outlined in the Community Development Five Year Consolidated Plan of 2006-2011. RFA packets, along with the Community Development Five Year Consolidated Plan of goals and objectives, can be obtained starting November 14, 2008 from the Charleston County Procurement Department, may be downloaded from the Charleston County website at HYPERLINK "http://www.charlestoncounty.org" www.charlestoncounty.org and will be available at the Pre-Application Training. PRE-APPLICATION TRAINING A Pre-Application Training will be held on December 3, 2008 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. in the Charleston County Council Chambers located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, 2nd floor of the Lonnie Hamilton III Public Services Building, North Charleston. The training will provide an overview of the RFA packet, the 5 year plan, successfully aligning with strategies to meet the unmet goals and objectives and an introduction to outcomes. Although not mandatory, the Pre-Application Training IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED as there have been some changes to the application.

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He thanked black leaders including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, for laying the foundation for Obama's victory, which he called Divine. The Nation of Islam has espoused black nationalism and self-reliance since it was founded in the 1930s, but has reached out more lately to other groups, including immigrants. Farrakhan has haltingly tried to move the Nation toward traditional Islam, which considers the American movement heretical. He has also downplayed some of the group's more controversial beliefs. The Nation of Islam has taught that whites are descended from the devil and that blacks are the chosen people of Allah

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So far, Obama seems to be meeting the public's high expectations. Two-thirds of all Americans have a positive view of what he has done since he was elected president, and three-quarters think he will do a good job as president. "Obama has the support of virtually every AfricanAmerican in the poll, but he also gets high marks from a solid majority of whites," Holland said. But that optimism doesn't hide what appears to be concern about the economy. Six in 10 say that they don't have a clear idea of what Obama would do to improve the economy. The all-time low on the public's mood may have something to do with the poll's finding that President Bush is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in the poll disapprove of how he is handling his job. That's an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II. "No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," Holland said. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating." Before Bush, the record holder for presidential disapproval was Harry Truman, with a 67 percent disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full year in office. As Obama visits the White House to start the transition from the Bush administration to an Obama administration, 57 percent of those questioned think the transfer of power will be relatively easy and free from tension, with 39 percent saying the transition will be difficult. "A majority say that the transition from Bush to Obama will go smoothly, although nearly one in four predict a lot of tension between Bush aides and Obama aides in the next few weeks. That sentiment is highest among Democrats, but even among them, a majority believes that the transition will be relatively easy," Holland said.

I am aware that there are many who wince at a distinction between property and persons--who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

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South Africa (AP) - She died just how she wanted to singing on stage for a good cause. And her recorded songs wafted out of taxis and radios, as fellow Africans struggled with their grief at her passing. Miriam Makeba, the "Mama Africa" whose sultry voice gave South Africans hope when the country was gripped by

Makeba collapsed after singing one of her most famous hits "Pata Pata," her family said. Her grandson, Nelson Lumumba Lee, was with her as well as her longtime friend, Italian promoter Roberto Meglioli. "Whilst this great lady was alive she would say: 'I will sing until the last day of my life'," the family statement said. Makeba died at the Pineta Grande clinic in Castel

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Miriam Makeba apartheid, died Monday of a heart attack after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76. In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world - jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela. Her distinctive style, which combined jazz, folk and South African township rhythms, managed to get her banned from South Africa for over 30 years. "Her haunting melodies gave voice to the pain of exile and dislocation which she felt for 31 long years. At the same time, her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us," Mandela said in a statement. He said it was "fitting" that her last moments were spent on stage.

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Volturno, near the southern city of Naples, after singing at a concert in solidarity with six immigrants from Ghana who were shot to death in September in the town. Investigators have blamed the attack on organized crime. The death of "Mama Africa" sent shock waves through South Africa, where callers flooded local radio stations with their recollections of her. In Guinea, where Makeba lived most of her decades in exile, radio and television stations played mournful music and tributes to their adopted icon. The first African to win a Grammy award, Makeba started singing in Sophiatown, a cosmopolitan neighborhood of Johannesburg that was a cultural hotspot in the 1950s before its black residents were forcibly removed by the

THADDAUES S. JONES, SR. 2008-ES-10-1462 DOD: 10/31/01 Pers. Rep: SARAH M. JONES 2716 LEOLA ST., NORTH CHARLESTON SC 29405 Atty: DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQ. 61 MORRIS ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29403 *********************************************************************** Estate of: BENJAMIN M. CRAWFORD 2008-ES-10-1490DOD: 09/10/08 Pers. Rep: ADDIE D. CRAWFORD 1204 MAIN RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 Pers. Rep: BERNARD CRAWFORD, JR. 4004 PROSPERITY RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 Atty: DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQ. 61 MORRIS ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29403 ************************************************************************** Estate of: ANNIE VIOLA AMAKER 2008-ES-10-1497 DOD: 09/03/08 Pers. Rep: JULIUS F. AMAKER, MD 307 SOUTH FRANKLIN DR., FLORENCE, SC 29501 Atty: GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQ. PO BOX 80399, CHARLESTON, SC 29416 ************************************************************************** Estate of: RUTH ANN R. PAYNE 2008-ES-10-1498 DOD: 02/15/08 Pers. Rep: BEVERLY A. SMALLS 1544 SEACROFT RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************************************************************************** Estate of: JAMES STEPHEN MELVIN, JR. 2008-ES-10-0643 DOD: 02/04/08 Pers. Rep: JERALDINE MELVIN HEYWARD 5820 N. MURRAY DR., HANAHAN, SC 29410 Atty: BEN F. MACK, ESQ. 110 N. MAIN ST., SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483 **************************************************************************

apartheid government. She then teamed up with South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela - later her first husband - and her rise to international prominence started in 1959 when she starred in the anti-apartheid documentary "Come Back, Africa." When she tried to fly home for her mother's funeral the following year, she discovered her passport had been revoked. In 1963, Makeba appeared before the U.N. Special Committee on Apartheid to call for an international boycott of South Africa. The white-led South African government responded by banning her records, including hits like "Pata Pata," "The Click Song" ("Qongqothwane" in Xhosa), and "Malaika." Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording in 1966 together with Belafonte for "An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba." The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid. Thanks to her close relationship with Belafonte, she received star status in the United States and performed for President Kennedy at his birthday party in 1962. But she fell briefly out of favor when she married black power activist Stokely Carmichael later known as Kwame Ture and moved to Guinea in the late 1960s. Besides working with Simone and Gillespie, she also appeared with Paul Simon at his "Graceland" concert in Zimbabwe in 1987. After three decades abroad, Makeba was invited back to South Africa by Mandela shortly after his release from prison in 1990 as white racist rule crumbled. "It was like a revival," she said about going home. "My music having been banned for so long, that people still felt the same way about me was too much for me. I just went home and I cried." Tributes flooded in Monday from across Africa. Congo's minister of culture, Esdras Kambale, called Makeba a role model for all Africans. "We are very saddened," Kambale said. "Fortunately, she left a large body of music that will be immortal." Percussionist Papa Kouyate who played in Makeba's band for 20 years and is the widower of her daughter Bongi remembered Makeba as a giving person. "I married her daughter Bongi and she adopted me as her own child," he said.

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Minimum Requirements: High School Diploma or equivalent required. Prior CADD training or experience, preferably Microstation. Must be a Charleston County resident.

Public Notice Effective December 1, 2008, Charleston Water System’s service fees will change according to the table below. For more information, please visit charlestonwater.com or call (843) 727-6800. Fee

Old

New Effective 12/1

Non-Payment Fee For disconnection of water service due to nonpayment.

$40

$50

Revisit/Service Call Fee Charged for requests to re-read a meter or other return visit requests.

$40

$30

After Hours Visit Fee Surcharge for any service rendered outside of normal business hours.

$40

Water Account Origination Fee One-time nonrefundable and nontransferable fee for establishing a water account.

$25

$30

Sewer Account Origination Fee One-time nonrefundable and nontransferable fee for establishing a sewer account.

$15 / $25

$30

Meter Replacement & Test Fee Charge for testing and replacing a water meter at a customer’s request. If meter is deemed defective, the fee is waived.

$15

$50

Flow Search Investigation Fee Customers experiencing unexplained high water usage can request a flow detection device, which records all water flowing through a meter to help identify the source of a leak.

N/A

Grease Trap Inspection Fee Semi-annual fee charged to food establishments for required grease trap inspections.

$25

Property Manager Fee Allows landlords of rental property to maintain water service in between tenants for up to 28 days and 3 Ccf (2,200 gallons) of water usage.

The CADD Technician will support roadway design work for our Charleston, SC office. Duties include drafting assignments from red-line markups, assistance w/ plan preparation, and/or as directed by supervisor. Position will require the ability to spend 1 week in Columbia to learn CADD and other design procedures.

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PROPOSED I-526 (MARK CLARK EXPRESSWAY) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT $50

Charleston County

$10 for 15 days $15 for 28 days (5 Ccf usage)

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$50

$30 for 28 days (3 Ccf usage)

Sewer Connection Investigation Fee Inspection of a customer’s connection to the sewer system by dye testing, smoke testing, etc.

$50

$100

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$10

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1) Thursday, November 13, 2008 at Fort Johnson Middle School, located at 1825 Camp Road, Charleston, SC 29412 2) Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at West Ashley High School, located at 4060 Wildcat Boulevard, Charleston, SC 29414 3) Thursday, November 20, 2008 at St. Johns High School, located at 1518 Main Road, Charleston, SC 29455 A formal presentation will not be given during these meetings. However, in the future official public hearings will be held and formal presentations will be given during the hearings. Attendees will have the opportunity to make public verbal comments at that time. Purpose: The purpose of the meetings is to gain input on the draft purpose and need and a range of preliminary alternatives for the proposed Mark Clark Expressway Environmental Impact Statement(EIS). Individuals will have an opportunity to discuss the proposed I-526 (Mark Clark Expressway) EIS with representatives of Charleston County, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT). The EIS will address the transportation improvements, which would increase mobility in the area by serving future traffic growth. The project team is seeking input as a part of this process to assist in identifying issues relative to the proposed project. Process: Team members will present the draft purpose and need and preliminary range of alternatives. There will be the opportunity for attendees to view display boards and graphics, have one-on-one discussions with project staff, and provide written comments, questions, and concerns regarding the project on comments forms that will be available. Review: This project is being funded by the South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank through an application made by Charleston County. Additional information concerning the project may be obtained by contacting SCDOT Project Manager David Kinard at (803) 737-1963 in Columbia. Persons with disabilities who may require special accommodations should contact Ms. Karen Davis at 803-737-1549. * South Carolina Department of Transportation Oct. 30, 2008

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November 12, 2008 -7b

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IN THE DISTRICT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

Plaintiff,

CASE NO.: 2008-DR-10-3533

vs. RANDAL W. SIMMONS, VALERIE A. SIMMONS, KIRK S. SIMMONS, HEIRS-AT-LAW OF MARGUERITE SIMMONS, DECEASED, WACHOVIA MORTGAGE CORPORATION, F/K/A FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA, T.D. SHRUM, HARLESTON-BOAGS FUNERAL HOME AND FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY,

LAURA ANN JOHNSON & WHITFIELD JOHNSON Plaintiffs, v. CONSUELLA GILLIARD, Defendant.

Defendant(s).

IN THE INTEREST OF: DEVONTRY MARQUIS GILLIARD, a minor child under the age of Eleven (11).

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:07-563-PMD

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

NOTICE OF SALE Under authority and direction of the DECREE OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE in the above action filed on April 10, 2008, I will offer for sale at public auction before the Courthouse door of the Charleston County Courthouse, Charleston, South Carolina, Eleven O’Clock A.M., Wednesday, November 19, 2008, the following described property: All that lot, piece, parcel or tract of land, with buildings and improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina containing approximately one (1) acre, more or less, and designated as Parcel Two (2) on a plat prepared by W.L. Gaillard, RLS dated July 12,1978, entitled “Plat of Parcel 1 owned by Marguerite Simmons and Parcel 2 owned by Paul Bradley and about to be conveyed to Marguerite Simmons, Christ Church Parish”, which said plat is recorded in Plat Book AM at page 24. The said parcel of land having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear. Being the same property conveyed to Marguerite Simmons by deed of Louis E. Condon, Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, dated September 21, 1979 and recorded September 25, 1979 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina in Deed Book L120, at page 139. Thereafter, said property was conveyed to First Union National Bank of South Carolina by deed of J. Al Cannon, Jr., Sheriff of Charleston County, dated November 5, 1997 and recorded February 18, 1998 in the Office of the ROD for Charleston County, South Carolina in Deed Book L297 at page 723. Marguerite Simmons died on January 26, 1993 leaving as her heirs-at-law Randal W. Simmons, Valerie A. Simmons and Kirk S. Simmons as evidenced by information on file in the Office of the Probate Court for Charleston County, South Carolina under Case No. 93ES1000245. The above property will be sold subject to ad valorem taxes, the purchaser of said real estate to pay extra for deed and revenue stamps. Plaintiff not having affirmatively sought a deficiency judgement, the bidding will not stay open for the customary thirty (30) days following the sale. Sale shall require the highest bidder, other than the plaintiff, to make a deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid as earnest money and as evidence of good faith. Said deposit shall be made by cashier’s check or money order. If the plaintiff is the successful bidder at the sale, the amount due on its mortgage may be used as the equivalent of cash. Should the person making the highest bid at the sale fail to comply with the terms of the bid by depositing the said five percent (5%), then the premises shall be resold at such bidder’s risk on the same sales date, or some subsequent date, as the selling officer may find convenient and advantageous. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of the bid within ten (10) days of the final acceptance of the bid, the entire deposit shall be forfeited, and the selling officer shall readvertise and resell the property on the same terms and at the bidder’s risk on a subsequent sales day. Under 28 U.S.C.§ 566, it is the duty of the United States Marshal to enforce the decree of the United States District Court and uder 564, the Marshal is authorized to exercise the same powers of the Sheriff in conducting the sale. It is in the interest of justice that the sale be conducted to yield the best price through free, fair, and competitive bidding. Any act that appears to prevent a free, fair, and open sale or to suppress the bidding or otherwise adversely affect the sale, will not be allowed. If such an act occurs, then the sale will be halted. Further, the individual or individuals who perform any act which appears to contribute to the sale being halted or otherwise adversely affected, may be charged with contempt of court, to be sanctioned accordingly, including but not limited to paying for the costs and expenses of the scheduled sale. JOHNNY MACK BROWN, UNITED STATES MARSHAL

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your

In The District Court of The United States For The District of South Carolina Charleston Division United States of America Plaintiff, Vs. SEPEQUA DRAYTON AND SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSING TRUST FUND, Defendant(s.) CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:o7-26759DCN NOTICE Of SOUTH Under authority and direction of the AMENDED DECREE OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE in the above action filed on July 29, 2008, I will offer for sale at public auction before the Courthouse door of the Charleston County Courthouse, Charleston, South Carolina, Eleven O’CLOCK A.M., Wednesday November 19, 2008, the following described property: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, together with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Awendaw, Charleston County, S.C. and being more particularly described as 0.713 Acres on a “Plat Showing 0.713 Acres Subdivided Out of the Margaret Brown Property to be Conveyed to SEPEQUE E. Drayton Located in Awendaw, Charleston County, SC.” prepared by Keith K. Ruddy, RLS No. 9479, dated July 18, 1998 and duly recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, SC on November 6, 1998 in Plat Book EC at page 853. Being the identical property conveyed to SEPEQUE E. Drayton by deed of LEAMON Drayton, Leon Drayton, Bertha Cochran, Charles McDonald, Patricia Palmer, Valerie McDonald, Ferrell McNeil, Elizabeth Brown Goodman, formerly Elizabeth Brown Dennis, Mary Brown Mitchell, formerly Mary Brown Williams Lucille Brown Love and Azalie Brown Clement formerly Azalie Brown Lee dated February 24, 1999, and recorded February 25, 1999, in the Office of the Clerk of Court RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Deed Book Z320 at Page01. TMS No: 711-00-00-134 The above property will be sold subject to ad valorem taxes, the purchaser of said real estate to pay extra for deed and revenue stamps. Plaintiff not having affirmatively sought a deficiency judgment, the bidding will not stay open for the customary thirty(30)days following the sale. Sale shall require the highest biddre, other than the plaintiff, to make a cash deposit of five percent(5%) of the bid as earnest money and as evidence of good faith. If the plaintiff is the successful bidder at the sale, the amount due on its mortgage may be used as the equivalent of cash. Should the person making the highest bid at the sale fail to comply with the terms of the bid by depositing the said five percent (5%) in cash, then the premises shall be resold at such bidder’s risk on the same sales date, or some subsequent date, as the selling officer may find convenient and advantageous. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of the bid within ten(10) days of the final acceptance of the bid, The Entire Deposit Shall be forfeited. and the selling officer readvertise and resell the property on the same terms and at the bidder’s risk on a subsequent sales day. Under 28 U.S.C.§ 566,it is the duty of the United States Marshal to enforce the decree of the United States District Court and under 564, the Marshal is authorized to exercise the same powers of the Sheriff in conducting the sale. It is in the interest of justice that the sale be conducted to yield the best price through free, fair, and competitive bidding. Any act that appears to prevent a free, fair, and open sale or to suppress the bidding or otherwise adversely affects the sale, will not be allowed. If such an act occurs, then the sale will be halted. Further, the individual or individuals who perform any act which appears to contribute to the sale being halted or otherwise adversely affected, may be charged with contempt of court, to be sanctioned accordingly, including but not limited to paying for the costs and expenses of the scheduled sale JOHNNY MACK BROWN, UNITED STATES MARSHAL

Answer thereto on the subscriber, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at his office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you. YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and filed to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you or the relief demanded in the Complaint. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Summons and Complaint in the above-entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Charleston County Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina on September 26, 2008. The Final Hearing date for the Adoption is scheduled for December 19, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. on the second floor, 100 Broad Street, Charleston County Judicial Center, Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina. CHARLIE L. WHIRL 2112 Commander Rd. Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705-Office Attorney for Plaintiffs

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF CHARLESTON CASE NO.: 2008-DR-10-3534 CYNTHIA LLOYD,

DENISE

Plaintiff, v. RANEISHA MITCHELL, Defendant. IN THE INTEREST OF: XAVIAR DAVEON LLOYD, a minor child under the age of Eleven (11). TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto on the subscriber, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at his office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you. YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and filed to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you or the relief demanded in the Complaint. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Summons and Complaint in the above-entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court, Charleston County Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina on September 26, 2008. The Final Hearing date for the Adoption is scheduled for December 19, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. on the second floor, 100 Broad Street, Charleston County Judicial Center, Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina. CHARLIE L. WHIRL 2112 Commander Rd. Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705-Office Attorney for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE CIRCUIT COURT THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF CHARLESTON C/A No. 2007-CP-10-2424 Regis “Ronnie” Chisholm Booze Plaintiff, v. CarolynChisholm Daniel, Joanne Chisholm Byrd, GloriaPoinsette Harrison, Archie C. Moore,Michael C. Moore,Robert Poinsette, Jr., Robin Poinsette, Yvonne Poinsette W i l s o n , C h r y s l e r FinancialCompany, LLC,Domino Properties, LLC, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, South Carolina Department of Revenue, and JohnDoe, a fictitious name used herein to designate the unknown heirs at law, distributees,and/or devisees of Helen Balaam,Mary Streety Balaam, Robert Balaam, Robert Balaam, Jr., Alice Cecilia Smalls Chisholm, Cecilia Chisholm, Diana Chisholm, Evalese Chisholm,Jennie Chisholm, Jeremiah Chisholm, John C. Chisholm aka JohnChisholm,John Chisholm, Jr., Louise C h i s h o l m , S a r a h Chisholm,Alice Chisholm Dusenbury,Archie Moore, Sr., Geraldine ChisholmMoore, Armenia Chisholm Poinsette, Robert E. Poinsette, Sr., John Streety, Julia Rebecca Chisholm Streety, Martha Streety, Viola Streety, James Wright, James Wright, Jr., Lucille Streety Wright, all being deceased persons; and Mary Roe, a fictitious name designating all other persons ) and legal entities unknown who may have or claim an interest in or lien upon the real estate described herein, including any such as may be infants, incompetents, or under any other disability, including the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act,

served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned subscriber at James E. Reeves, P.A., 400 North Cedar Street, Summerville, SC 29483, within thirty (30) days; thirty-five (35) days if service is by certified mail, after the service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; except the United States of America shall have sixty (60) days; and if you fail to file an Answer or appear to defend the Amended Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs will apply to the Court for a judgment by default to be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that the Plaintiffs will move for an Order of Reference or that the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to the Master-in-Equity, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, on all issues to come before the Court with direct appeal to the South Carolina Court of Appeals or South Carolina Supreme Court. TO MINORS OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINORS UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Amended Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s). YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. §15-61-25 (1976), as amended, if you are a joint tenant or tenant in common, you are hereby notified of your right to purchase the property, which is the subject matter of this action, and the need to notify the Court of your intention. LIS PENDENS

Defendants. AMENDED SUMMONS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED TO ANSWER the Amended Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above named Plaintiff has commenced or intend to commence an action affecting the title to the real estate described below. The Amended Complaint to be filed simultaneous herewith or within twenty days hereof, prays for a suit to quiet title for property and for partition in

Charleston County 2009-2010 URBAN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS Request for Application Announcement Charleston County’s Community Development Division is the administering agency for the County of Charleston Entitlement Grants for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program and the American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) Program. Each of these grant programs are funded by an allocation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Funding estimates for the 2009 Program Year (7/1/096/30/10) have not yet been provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; however, it is anticipated that Charleston County may receive approximately the same as last year’s allocation in the amount of $3,052,879 to fund housing and community development activities across Charleston County and its nine participating jurisdictions. APPLICATION RELEASE DATE: On November 14, 2008, Charleston County will issue a Request for Applications (RFA) for the anticipated 20092010 Urban Entitlement Program Funding Cycle. The RFA will seek eligible projects that improve and develop housing, economic opportunities, infrastructure, community facilities and provide other community revitalization activities. Special attention will be given to applicants that successfully align with strategies to address unmet goals and objectives as outlined in the Community Development Five Year Consolidated Plan of 2006-2011. RFA packets, along with the Community Development Five Year Consolidated Plan of goals and objectives, can be obtained starting November 14, 2008 from the Charleston County Procurement Department, may be downloaded from the Charleston County website at HYPERLINK " h t t p : / / w w w. c h a r l e s t o n c o u n t y. o r g " www.charlestoncounty.org and will be available at the PreApplication Training. PRE-APPLICATION TRAINING A Pre-Application Training will be held on December 3, 2008 from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. in the Charleston County Council Chambers located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, 2nd floor of the Lonnie Hamilton III Public Services Building, North Charleston. The training will provide an overview of the RFA packet, the 5 year plan, successfully aligning with strategies to meet the unmet goals and objectives and an introduction to outcomes. Although not mandatory, the PreApplication Training IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED as there have been some changes to the application. DEADLINE: Applications will be accepted December 15, 2008 thru January 15, 2009 and can be mailed or hand delivered to: Anita Jenkins, Buyer Charleston County Procurement Department, Suite B250 Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Service Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405-7464

Charleston County, South Carolina. The real estate is described as follows: All that piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina and known and designated as containing 27.064 acres, as shown on that certain plat entitled "A BOUNDARY SURVEY OF TMS 312-00-00-049 BEING 27.064 ACRES ON BROWNSWOOD ROAD OWNED BY THE ESTATE OF JOHN CHISOLM LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA" prepared by Southeastern Surveying of Charleston, Inc. dated June 1, 2006 and recorded July 11, 2008 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book EL, page 632; said tract of land having such actual size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as shown on said plat, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. TMS#: 312-00-00-049 NOTICE OF FILING AMENDED SUMMONS, AMENDED COMPLAINT, LIS PENDENS, AND PETITION AND ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Amended Summons, which included a Notice of Intention to Refer Action to the Master-in-Equity for Final Determination and a Notice of Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem Nisi; the Amended Complaint; and Lis Pendens; were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County Court of Common Pleas on August 29, 2008. Further, a Petition and Order Appointing S. Thomas Worley, Jr., Esquire, whose address and phone number are 942 McCants Drive, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, (843) 884-5474, as guardian ad litem nisi, for the Defendants designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, have also been filed on October 14, 2008, which said appointment becomes absolute thirty (30) days after the service of this Notice unless you or someone on your behalf procure another to be appointed as guardian ad litem to represent their interests in this action. The purpose of this suit is to determine the interests of the parties to the property, which is the subject matter of this suit, and to ask the Court for an Order from the Master-inEquity for Charleston County approving the sale of the property to the Defendant, Domino Properties, LLC. JAMES E. REEVES, P.A. By:___________________ James E. Reeves, Esquire 400 North Cedar Street Summerville, SC 29483 (843) 832-7337 STe ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

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APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 3:00 P.M. ON JANUARY 15, 2009 TO BE CONSIDERED. For More information, call Jenise Jefferson at (843) 2026960 or via e-mail at [email protected]

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