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We remember and honor the heroes, big and small who were a part of the fabric of our lives.

Septima P. Clark

Rev. A.H. Clark

Rev. Ann Donald

Rev. Fred Dawson Louise T. Barnes St. Julian Devine William Earl Douglas

H.T. Daniels

Rev. HB Butler

Benny Brooks Tobias Gadson

Juanita Brown

Bishop David Joiner

Dr. Delma Woods

AJ Clement

Mamie Fields

Laura Mack Simms

Mr. Murrell

Father L. Cunningham

D. Smalls

Rev. James Blake

Isaiah Bennett

Walter Jenkins

James Blair

Mrs. Buksha

A.J. Jenkins

Rev. Jerry Williams

Esau Jenkins

Rev. Omega Newman

Carl Gethers

Roscoe Mitchell

Prof. Eugene Hunt Rev. A.R. Blake

Daniel Jenkins Rev. Willis T. Goodwin

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it. Dr. Martin Luther King

Victoria DeLee

Kent Byas

William Gilliard

Charles Dingle Rev. Msgr. Thomas Duffy T.C Drayton

Rev. Dr. BJ Whipper

Albert Brooks

Mr. Meriweather

Rev. C.L. Campbell

Casear Deas

Rev. Robert Woods

St. Julian Brown

Melvin Brown

Arthur Christopher

Jerome Kinloch

Christopher Lewis

Rev. Sam Price

Bernice Robinson Bernard Broughton

Dr. D. Wilson

George A. Payton Rev. J.D. Dash Rev. Nathaniel Brooks

Louise Hill

Fabian Rivers

C.C. Allen

Ethelyn Parker

Benjamin Flowers

Juanita Jordan

Maranda Holmes

Atty. John Wrighten Navy Chief Jack White

Janie Williams

Richard Ganaway

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neiher persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

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It’s All About Saving The Children! Educating Our Children - If Not Now... When?

Time To Do Right By Our Children!

By Sandi Engelman Much has been said about the so-called budget shortfall at the Charleston County School District (CCSD). But, there is still a big elephant in the room and it needs to be addressed.

Mr. Arthur Peter Lawrence President, Westside Neighborhood Association

When will the children who live downtown and in our rural areas get a quality education? Just a few years ago, the money was rolling in, butthe students still lagged behind according to education standards. The previous superintendent said she needed more money to pay administrators so these kids could get a good education. But for the life of me, I still can't figure out how the administrators played into this "good education" role. Teachers were being ham-strung at every opportunity: Don't recommendstudents for suspensions or expulsions because it affected the district's national and state standing; give them a grade that really doesn't reflect their progress, but one that looks better on state and federal report cards. The few children who are causing the problems know they are in control because they make it back to the classrooms in record speed. A policeman once told me a student who had been arrested at their school made it back to the school before he finished his paperwork. There are probably 10 or 15 students in most schools causing 90% of the behavior issues. But, the question still remains, when will the other children be allowed to get an education? When a student falls behind, they can't make up elementary school shortcomings in high school. $50 million a year flows in to CCSD by way of Title Funding. That funding includes money for remediation and assistance to students. But where does it really go? If $488 million dollars a year won't provide a quality education for 40,000 students, what will? A billion? I remember sitting in the interview for the former superintendent when she was asked how she would fix a broken educational system. Her quick response was, "Don't worry, I can." Well, five years later the students in Districts 4, 9, 20 and 23 are still being robbed of the opportunity for a quality education. We are always saying, "These are our future leaders." And they should be. Some of the children in these districts are exceedingly bright, with hope for a better life. And it is criminal to take that hope away from them. There are not enough Magnet Schools in Charleston County to accept these children, so an immediate solution is imperative to improving the educational system in Charleston County. Just saying, "Excellence is our standard" doesn't make it happen. Only 78 percent of Americans graduate from college. Realizing that, many of our students need an opportunity to attend a vocational school. CCSD has a $500 million dollar capitol improvement plan in place, but we aren't teaching our students masonry, carpentry, plumbing, electricalengineering or drafting. We need these trades and we need them now. Life isn't fair. And life hasn't dealt some of our children a level playing field. It is up to our community leaders to change that situation. If they can't, what purpose do they really serve? Let's stop telling everyone how great our schools are. Clearly, that isn't the case. Let's put an end to this failing school system. Put the money in the classrooms where it will do the most good - not in the pockets of the administrators. (Sandi Engelman is a former member of the Chas. County School Board)

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fell to the ground and was shot several times. He died several hours later at Medical University Hospital. After hearing the verdict Friday afternoon, Simmons said he felt justice was served. He said both families lost in the incident. “Two young black men are no longer in their communities. All for what? Some coins and a few gold chains? This madness has got to stop,” he said.

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Father of Slain Youth Says Killings Must Stop

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Leroy Simmons, Jr. By Bob Small Leroy Simmons Sr. said he can finally find some closure in the death of his son. A jury found 19 year-old Richard Vernon Deas guilty of murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime in the killing of Leroy Simmons Jr. Deas was sentenced to 40 years on the murder charge and five years for possession of a firearm during a violent crime. The sentence will be served concurrently. Leroy Simmons Jr. was killed in October 2007 in the early morning hours after leaving his girlfriends’ house on Line Street. While waiting for a cab Simmons was approached by Deas who allegedly tried to rob him. During the altercation Simmons

Simmons, traveled from the Atlanta, Ga. To Charleston for the weeklong trial. He said he had to listen intently to testimony during the trial. I was trying to find some reasoning as to why these young people would want to kill one another. It just doesn’t make sense,” he said. When he was given the opportunity to address

the court Simmons told Deas that he forgave him for what he did but would never forget what he did. “He took a life from a family,” Simmons appealed to spectators in the courtroom who knew both the victim and the accused to find a way to end the senseless violence. “We have to stop the killing. This black on black crime is devastating our communities and leaving too many empty spacs in our lives.” Simmons said he was satisfied with the sentence because no amount of time can bring back a love one. “We have to move on. He (Deas) is a young man who will be incarcerated until he is 59 years old with no chance of parole. That is a lot of time to think about what he did and ask himself, was it worth it,” he said.

We endured the fight of our lives, with a few casualties: we lost Fraser Elementary, and we lost grades 7 and 8 at Charleston Progressive. Yet, we still have James Simons Elementary and, for the most part, Charleston Progressive. We united, we battled for our schools, and the loss –though stinging- it could have been worse. Please keep in mind: we must not rest. President Barack Obama said that the state of our country might get worse before it gets better: we must remember that. In the next few months, we might get presented with another laundry list of schools the Charleston County School District wants to close as they scramble to get out of the red. Let us remember what we just went through and continue to stay engaged in the political process. Attend the PTA and School Improvement Council meetings. Be a constant fixture at the Constituent School Board and County School Board meetings. We must watch as well as pray, for the sake of our children and our community. We cannot risk falling asleep at the wheel. In the past, this community has allowed itself to be used by the system. It has entrusted its faith in the government and political leaders with the naïve expectation that these leaders will make decisions that would be in our best interest. The result: we have government agencies who, because of a financial shortfall that probably resulted from mismanaged budgets, wasteful spending and lack of accountability, are willing to compromise our children’s ability to go to their neighborhood schools. District 20 schools might again face the chopping block as money woes continue. We face losing schools while the folks of District 2 (East Cooper) are having new schools built. That’s right: as we close Fraser Elementary, and reduce the numbers of classes available at Charleston Progressive, Mt. Pleasant is building a newer, bigger Mamie Whitesides Elementary, Mt. Pleasant Academy, and Moultrie Middle. Therefore, it is clear that we must not assume that government leaders will make decisions that will be in our community’s best interest. We must be proactive. We have to be aware and astute on matters our leaders discuss. Just a few years ago, a group of us told everyone that this day will come; form the moment the Charleston County School District closed Rivers Middle, we told the community to prepare for to lose more schools, unless we stand up and speak out. Yet, hardly anyone took heed. Our schools’ PTA meetings have been nearly empty; few parents had taken the time to get involved with their children’s education. It took this latest school crisis to get everyone’s attention. How long will you keep your attention on this situation? Will you drift away to complacency

Arthur Lawrence until the next round of closures? We must get involved and stay engaged. While we are not guiltless in what has happened, we are only partially to blame. Gentrification has played a part in this, too. The peninsula’s population is changing. Renters are being forced to move to make room for those who are willing to pay more; people are falling prey to subprime loans and high property taxes. A lot of us will be displaced and replaced. As demographics change, District officials might be under pressure to help make room in Dist. 20 schools for the new group of Charlestonians. As our schools close and our population changes, the student body will likely look completely different by the end of the next decade, if not sooner. We must realize that we can, and must, be in charge of what happens to us. We can do this by working harder, making sacrifices, living frugally, and staying engaged in what goes on around usfrom around the corner, to the Board Room at 75 Calhoun, to City Hall. If we don’t step up and speak out, we will continue to have a small group of people make decisions for us. Think about this: our School District pays consulting firms to make decisions. This latest round of school closures was in part the brain child of a consultant from outside of Charleston. There are a group of locals who consult the School District, too. This meeting of the minds consists of people whose passion for our children and our community is questionable, at best. If you do not believe me, then I suggest you go to 75 Calhoun, invoke the Freedom of Information Act and request a copy of the list of CCSD consultants. As a matter of fact, ask of CCSD and all other government leaders any question you want. We each have the right to do that. And when the answer given is an unacceptable one, be prepared to voice your dissent to the powers that be. Our tax dollars are on the line. We must stay engaged and ask questions. And please remember this: when we oppose a plan, we must be ready to do more than speak out in opposition; we must also come with an alternative plan. It is not enough to fight. We must present a written alternative plan that will question the sensibility of the one the government has created. Counter, not cower. Stand up for your rights and for your children’s rights. It is our duty to do right by our children. Do right by them by doing something right: go to the meetings, keep up with what goes on around you, ask questions. And when you oppose a plan, voice dissent, offer suggestions. We have the power to make a difference!

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver

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Jim Clyburn and The Excuse Game by Jim French

Nappy Hair & Fat Lips I am not taken to revelations when people not the shade of me and who normally display no sign of being offensive, yet fail to recognize the achievements of Blacks and its impact on the growth and development of America. However, when I recall where Blacks were forced through the portals of Goree Island, raped and killed crossing the Middle Passage and further dehumanized upon landing on Sullivan’s Island, is worthy of celebration. While others perpetuate their ancestry and history with slaveowner John C. Calhoun in Marion Square and another slaveowner George Washington in the garden next to city hall, our patriot Denmark Vesey, is denied his place in history in the same location supported with Black tax dollars! The irony is not lost. Textbooks in the schools and colleges in South Carolina are a repository of white history and a concealer of Black history, but this piece is not so much about remembering, per se, but what of the wasted years, the talent, the spoiled ambitions, the blunted chances, which have thwarted our growth in the denial of equal recognition? At the same time this is a response to a scholarly white reader who signs off as Sarah, accusing The Chronicle and Blacks for taking credit for inventions without proof, and passing on the same lies to our children during Black History Month observations. Listen, Sarah, imagine standing at the corner of King and Wentworth in your new shoes from Bob Ellis, glancing at your watch on your way to Buist Academy to pick up your child and on the way home stop for a lick of ice cream or potato chips from a street vendor, or you and the kid must jump back when a driver brakes at the light too close to you, or trips his right or left turn signal, would you believe all these innovations came from the fertile minds of African Americans? If you’re still disbelieving, its all recorded, patents included, in the Library of Congress or your county library on Calhoun St. If Sarah and I could stand before a magnet school class during this month, I would inform them that it was Jan Matzeliger, a Black man, who invented the machine that automatically attached leather or rubber soles to walking shoes; it was Garrett Morgan who came up with the Stop, Caution & Go lights at street corners, and Richard Spikes with the right-left turn signal and August Jackson of Philadelphia who is known by history buffs as the “Father of Ice Cream,” and it was Benjamin Banneker who invented the first working watch in this country. The potato chip came from the mind of Hyram Thomas, who could do more with a potato than what George Washington Carver did with the peanut! When your tire, Sarah, goes flat on I-26, remember it was a Black man, Arthur Davis of New Orleans, who invented an air compressor to inflate your tire. In the earlier days of Sears & Roebuck, you would be surprised to know that Alvah Curtis Rosebuck, a Black watch repairman who sold out his interest in the company in 1895 for $25,000! Stay with me, Sarah. When you view those sleek subway trains zipping along the roadbed's in New York, London and the Middle East, it was Grantville T. Woods who invented the Third Rail, making it all possible. Without Woods keen mind, Amtrak would never have achieved what it is today, and along with another Black man, Lewis Latimer helped Thomas Edison design electric circuitry and wiring, so much to the point that they both took Edison to court for taking too much of the credit for their work. In all Mr. Woods invented 15 appliances for basic electric railway transportation, including one which premiered at Coney Island in 1892, which could be operated underground because it needed no steam, coal or wood. He also invented a telegraph system that allowed trains to be regulated from a central control system, to avoid hitting each other. Remember, as I do, Sarah, Blacks were not allowed to ride the railroads in the South and couldn’t sleep in overnight cars until the early 1960’s! While serving in the U.S. Navy in 1945 and reassigned to Pensacola, Florida, when I went to board the train in Birmingham, Ala., I was directed to the coach next to the coal-burning engine with raised windows, sorry, no air conditioning! You can imagine how my white navy uniform must have looked upon arrival in Pensacola, but let’ s not get off track, so-to-speak. Of course, Sarah, this may all sound like fairytales, but it was Mr. Lewis Latimer of Chelsea, Massachusetts, not Thomas Edison, who gave the world the carbon filament (1892) making light bulbs possible and giving Edison his start. Remember, Sarah, it was against the law to learn Blacks to read, yet it was Alexander Graham Bell who employed Latimer to make the first patent drawing for the first telephone, conveniently left from the textbooks. Every time you see a tractor-trailer unloading food staples such as meats and perishable goods at your supermarkets, they would have never gotten there in their fresh state, thanks to Frederick M. Jones (1892-1961), who invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks. Jones also developed an air-conditioning unit for military field hospitals, a portable X-ray machine, a self-starting gasoline motor, and in the 1920s, he designed a series of devices for the movie industry by adapting silent mode projectors to accommodate talking films, and box office equipment that delivered tickets and spilled out the change, the ones you may see in fast-food restaurants. In 1895 Joseph Lee (1849-19905) was awarded Patent #540,553 for his bread-crumbling machine, and he also invented the first machine for making bread. To Ms. Sarah and the remaining skeptics, when one views this amazing tapestry of inventive imagination in the context of the 19th century social conditions, it becomes even more remarkable. In 1870 more than 80 percent of the Black population had been denied the opportunity to learn to read and write. In many states before the Civil War, it was illegal for a Black to hold a patent. How many Black inventors forfeited the credit for their inventions will never be known. There is evidence that a Georgia slave helped Eli Whitney develop the cotton gin. Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaping machine, worked with a Black assistant, Jo Anderson, but blacks who helped Whitney and McCormick, were denied the genius of their work based on skin color. On October 14, 1832, Henry Blair, a Black man, received a patent for a corn planting machine. He also invented the anti-aircraft gun. Lewis Temple developed the toggle harpoon that revolutionized New England’s whaling industry. H., like the others, died paupers. Also, Sarah, you and too many whites think that Charlton Heston was Moses, that Elizabeth Taylor was Cleopatra or that Beethoven was white, but when I stood before Beethoven 65-foot statute during a 1984 visit to Hamburg, Germany, in the town’s plaza, there he was, nappy hair and fat lips, looking just like me. Mercy.

By. James Clingman NNPA Columnist

Blackonomics “Every child has lost every excuse.” Those were the words of James Clyburn of South Carolina, Majority Whip in the House of Representatives. He spoke those words on BET of all places, in response to Barack Obama being elected President of the United States. As soon as I read his statement, I thought, “Uh Oh, here we go.” Now that we have a Black President all bets are off, and all is right with the world; we have reached our highest pinnacle. “Every child,” as Clyburn said, which obviously includes every Black child, can no longer be excused for not achieving. Let’s delve into Clyburn’s “no excuse” world of an Obama Presidency. While we are at it, let’s find some adults, maybe even some U.S. Representatives, who no longer have excuses for their behavior. The most recent heinous act against a Black man was committed in plain sight of several witnesses and captured on camera. Young Oscar Grant, lying on his stomach, hands held behind his back, and with one cop’s knee on his neck, was summarily shot and killed by a cop who had little regard for the life of a young Black man. But since we have a Black President, I don’t want to hear young men in Oakland come up with excuses for not wanting to go along with the system, despite the possibility of being on their way to school and getting shot by an overzealous police officer. Black children no longer have the excuse of being “steered” to low level education programs because they come from a “poor” neighborhood; they cannot offer the excuse of being targeted as low performers or “hyperactive,” thus, requiring them to be put on drugs to keep them calm. Black children can no longer rely on the excuse of not having enough to eat in the morning, or having to sleep in a cold house because the heat was turned off, or not having the adult examples they need in their immediate lives, not from a distance, to guide them along their way. They now have Obama, so no more excuses. No more excuses for the disparities that exist in our criminal justice system, our social service system, our educational system, and our political system. No more excuses for any child who sees corporate executives and slimy politicians fatten their pockets from the public coffers, and feast at banquet tables fit for kings and queens. No more excuses for the child who cries at night or cowers in fear of being the next Oscar Grant. Yeah right, no more excuses. How about the so-called responsible adults who run this country? Are they now out of excuses? Do they now have to take more ownership for their lives and the lives of those for whom they work? Can they still make excuses for not standing up and speaking against injustice, against disparity, and against the crimes we see everyday in the public and private sectors? Has every adult run out of excuses for allowing millions of children, who no longer have excuses, to go without adequate health care? Now that we have a Black President will every adult be held accountable for his or her actions? Will part of the “change” we raved about be adults acting like adults rather than like self-indulgent children who have no regard for anyone but themselves? Like Representative Clyburn, I also went through a few things in the fifties and sixties as a result of prejudice and racism. I saw the same things he saw, and I also wondered if we would ever have a Black President. Now that we have one, my attention is not so much on the children as it is on the adults. How can we say they no longer have any excuse, especially when many of their excuses can be traced to our neglect of their needs – regardless of who resided in the White House? Why didn’t we tell them that Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois could have been President were it not for this country’s racism? Why not share with them the fact that Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm could have run this country? Why didn’t we eliminate their excuses when Reginald Lewis bought Beatrice Foods for $1 billion dollars? Or, when Oprah became a billionaire? Why didn’t we tell them “no more excuses” when Ken Chenault assumed the highest level at American Express Corporation? It is sad that some Black people, especially those in my age group, place so much emphasis on politics rather than on economics. Yes, we have a Black President, but that fact will not eliminate all excuses among our children until it eliminates all excuses among our adults. When our children see more responsible adults, they will be more responsible. The status of the Obama family alone does not, will not, and cannot eliminate all excuses for every child. If that were the case their excuses would have been eliminated long ago by the likes of Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. Or by other Black “presidents” like Maggie Lena Walker and Madame C.J. Walker, Ed Gardner and John Johnson, S.B. Fuller and Joe Dudley, Ann Fudge and Suzanne DePasse, Barry Gordy and Robert Holland, Jackie Mayfield and Dr. Walter P. Lomax. It is only now that we have a Black “U.S.” President, a political leader rather than an economic leader that we say to our children, “No more excuses.” When Black politicians, who have “good jobs, great health care, and benefits of public office, speak about the intrinsic value of a Black man rising to the top of our political hierarchy, I wonder what it says about their own value to their constituents. I wonder if that also eliminates their excuses for acquiescing to sub-standard economic and social conditions among Black people in this country.

Who Asked Me? by Beverly Gadson-Birch

(OCTUPLETS ARE REAL BABIES NOT TOY DOLLS) When I was growing up, we used to play with doll baby in a bottle. We used an empty soft drink bottle, rope for the hair and just that quick we had a doll baby. When we got tired of playing with the toy doll, we just threw it away. We can’t throw real babies away. Someone will have to take care of them. I am deeply troubled by the mother who recently gave birth to Octuplets. With six other children ranging from two to seven years old, you would think she would run the other way at the sight of even one more baby. It was one of the most heart wrenching incidents that I have heard of in a long time. Every time I think that things can’t get any worse, they do. Here you have a single mother with six children living at home with her mother and engaging in such a wanton act. So, who will pay for these babies? In this sluggish economy, the taxpayers will. Apparently Lady X has made a mockery out of the fertility clinics that are designed to help women who cannot conceive through traditional methods. Will someone please tell me why would a single mother want more than six children? It defies all logic. I tell you if I had six children I would be out of my mind. I know of many mothers who did and kept their sanity but that was then. Today, we must think of the long range implications in having children. It was reported that some mothers just love large multiple births. That’s all well and good if the mother is financially, mentally and physically capable of taking care of her children. I just don’t get it. If Lady X loves children that much, why didn’t she just get a darn job at a nursery school? That’s like me saying I love apple pie but I sure am not going to buy eight pies and eat all of them at once. Even Lady X’s mother is ready to jump ship from early reports that she was bubbling over with joy. The fact is when the media hype is over, these children are going to require around the clock care. These babies will need constant medical care for an extended period since they were born premature and because multiple births can present health problems. I am still trying to understand how a fertility doctor could in all fairness help a single parent with six children have more. If Lady X is so independent and would have no problem taking care of her children, will someone please tell me why in ham sandwich is she still living with her parents? Where is the father of these babies? I bet he doesn’t surface until he finds out whether the state will take care of the babies. I tell you I would not want to be court ordered to take care of eight babies. And who knows, some of the other six if not all could be his as well. Although, I am sympathetic toward the babies because they have a long uncertain road ahead of them, I am hopeful that this doesn’t turn into one of those cases where the mother just loses it and harms her babies. It is so easy for the mother to become so overwhelmed with the amount of work involved in raising the children that she takes it out on the children. However, this story turns out, it is certain that this mother will never know the true meaning of a “good night’s sleep” ever again. I am also outraged that the unidentified fertility doctor would even consider implanting any women who have six children. It was irresponsible. Don’t tell me it’s a woman’s right to have as many children as she likes. Where did all of the money come from for the treatments? And who will pay the whopping hospital bill for the delivery and post delivery hospital stay for the babies. Child rearing is an awesome responsibility. When we think of bringing children into the world we must think long range. We have a responsibility to protect and educate our children. We can’t work or play too hard and forget about protecting our babies. We work two and three jobs and have abdicated the responsibility of raising our children to others. With fourteen children, this is not even a remote possibility for Lady X. I certainly wish the best for the octuplets. I can’t think of anything more important than ensuring the safety and health of our children. The ultimate responsibility for a child lies with the parents. Parents are not putting enough thought into things that may be potentially harmful to their children. Some of us are so emotional that we are unable to provide the emotional stability our children need. We have become so sexual that we are more consumed with having a man than having a man participate in the life of his children. You must ask the real questions: Am I really a fit parent? Can I provide for my children? Will I be able to educate, discipline, protect, instruct, feed, clothe and provide shelter? If the answer to anyone of these questions is no, you must refrain from having babies. Babies are not toys that you play with; they are real human beings. I thought you knew.

Founder’s Day at Canaan Bible College

Canaan Bible College celebrated Founder's Day on Friday, January 30 at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church. The Theme was "Give Instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a just manand he will increase in learning." Proverbs 9:9. Ms. Beverly Gadson-Birch, Chronicle Columnist, was the speaker.Also, the Doctor of Humane Letters was conferred upon her and Rev. Timothy Simmons,Pastor of Christian Baptist Church and Chairperon of Canaan Bible College Board of Trustees. Shown above are Rev. Dr. George Ferguson, Professor; Rev. Dr. Alfred Williams, Pastor Canaan Missionary Baptist Church, Beverly Gadson-Birch, D.H.L., and Dr. Barbara Heyward, Professor. The school offers a Bachelor's and Master's Degree Program Now accepting appications for the Spring Semester.For more information about the college, contact Dr. Emmanuel Williams, Director of Admissions 843-7954186.

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February 4, 2009-5

As I See It

Hakim Abdul-Ali

Africa On My Mind As the political critics of negativity awaken from their abyss of futility, Black History Month invades the calendar month of February in the continental divides of the United States of America.I don’t know about you but I was already prepared for this occasion during the last 364 days. I thank God Alone, as a surviving brother of soul, to bear witness that I’m very and humbly proud to be who I am as a “hue-man” being, and a descendant of African blood. So many, many things have occurred in my worlds of existences until how could I not think of my African ancestors and what they “his-storically” went through. I guess you could say, rightfully so, that at present I have “Africa On My Mind.” That really says a lot in no uncertain terms of disrespect. In fact, to the contrary, it says much more than I can totally evaluate and put in to written words. It’s that meaningful and personal to me as the slave ships of yesteryear run invisibly through my current illuminated thought processes. “Africa’s On My Mind.” Yes, I’m always thinking about the those voyages to what obviously was to hell (The Middle Passage) and back (insanity), and to live in this land where the bald eagle patrols its domain with only eye open to safeguard the patriots, the privileged and the parrots of democracy. This makes me have “Africans On My Mind” with a discerning and inquiring purpose to what they went though. As I do this, the thought of those valiant and enslaved “hue-mans’” sufferings ring clearly in my mind’s ears as I try to imaged what the stigma of Black denegation through bigotry and racism was all about. For me I have to look deeper at this thing the Europeans invaders and Arab raiders, along with the African participants, call slavery. For some “colored folk, it’s too long a process to describe for such a short amount of written space, but I feel secure by saying that it must have been an incredulous experience that you’d never, ever wish or desire to experience. Is that to brief a description of that horrible episode of “hue-man” bondage for the common man, or the American people, to identify with on this day, in this month, that Dr. Carter G. Woodson gave birth to this noble observance here in the United States? He was the brilliant catalyst behind the need and the recognition of giving consciousness to the fact the Black people throughout the globe have and had a “story” that’s never been told with truth, dignity and forthrightness. As I think of the genius of Dr. Woodson’s academic prowess, I have “Africa On My Mind.” It all fits to me, “As I See It,” and comes together like the concepts of soul and respect, because Africa is the origin of everyone’s birth. It is the Motherland of all of “hue-manity’s” earthly existence. It’s where peace and love existed before evil thoughts over rode the natural tendency of goodness to want for your brother and sister of “hue-manity” what you wanted for yourself. In it’s natural state of following what the Creator wants best for us the descendants of the soulful believers in God Alone’s Oneness have surely been tested from Senegal to Seattle and from Liberia to Louisiana. And from the cotton fields of Mississippi to the slave castles of Ghana the descendants of Africa’s challenged masses must recognize that “Africans Must Unite” to overcome the greater destruction of their vulnerable cultural mindsets by modern day bandits of mind-slavery. It’s called education, and not indoctrination. Do you know that there is a difference? . While you ponder that thought let it be known, without hesitation, that all “hue-mankind” and its society began on the Motherland’s turf. From the Pyramids of the Nile to the sands of Darfur “Africa (is) On My Mind” as I see the world go through one chaotic change after another affecting people of color. I ask myself, as I now also ask you, “Are you really understanding why Black ‘Our-Story’ is really a celebration of continued study of awareness, uplift and insight that should be observed everyday of the year, no matter who you are or where you live? Do you teach, or know, anything about the legendary scholars who taught, wrote and lived, for example, in Timbuktu? Did you know that soul and rhythm of expression came from the original composers of the Motherland as her musicians and dancers invented sound and movements for the rest of the world to imitate? Well, if you didn’t, I do, and I’m always aware of Africa’s contribution, in so many other untold and unrecorded formats, that have been carefully omitted from the books of European and American deceptions. The truth must be told continually about this crime of mis-education, even if some “his-storical” deniers want to remain deaf, dumb and blind to institutional racism’s adamant game of mind control and sly indoctrination. As I think of what this so-called Black History Month is supposed to be for this year, or maybe for the next ones in the future, I have to look at the states of minds of some of the young folks of today that I see. I utter those sentiments because many of the Black youth of today know nothing of their noble heritage or resilient past. With the emphasis on crass materialism and ignorant commercialism that exists in the mind-sets of many of America’s and the rest of the world’s “colored” young people the tone of Black intelligence suffers somewhat due to educational neglect and societal “tricknology.” That’s not a blanketed indictment because some of these youths are aware of their and “our-story,” and they are striving like other Afro-minded folks in the past to achieve great heights in the various fields of social dominance. When I see that it makes me think fondly of why “Africa’s On ‘Our’ Mind” should be a family theme. I’m proud of the African family just as I’m sure that you are, but Black “Our-Story” must be fully understand and taught by as many of “our” adults and children as possible because there are far too many brothas and sistas in the streets, jails and prisons of America who are salvable. They have value and merit even if they no longer appear to have value in the bald eagle’s domestic territories. From the forgotten (to some) walls of Africa’s Zimbabwe to the cries of the Reggae motivator and activist Bob Marley in Jamaica I can’t stop thinking that no matter where an African descendant soul is he or she is up against some sort of sinister prejudice or bureaucratic injustice. That’s just the way that it is in the worlds of realities that I’ve experienced, know about and see exist elsewhere everyday, and “Africa’s (still) On My Mind.” That’s why there’s something inside me that makes me feel very good to be who I am in recognizing that the Creator Alone created me to a servant of Him and not man, including the Arab, American, European or any other “hue-man.” I harbor no hatred to anyone because of his or her ethnicity or tribal affiliation. They should be proud of who they are. That’s a good feeling, but if we don’t remember that we have one common origin and One common Creator Alone, then we revert back to square one in stupidity and mis-education, because Africa is where we are ashamed to be from. Let’s hope that we can keep God Alone in “our’ mind-sets as we celebrate or observe through increased reading and study during this month knowing that Africa is where the Creator Alone began his marvelous entity called “huemankind.” That’s where I’m at now because “Africa’s On My Mind.” Wishing you a Happy Black “Our-Storical” Day, and as usual, that’s, “As I See It.”

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Republican Obstructionist Defeat Bi-Partisanship By. Ron Walters NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring America together and specifically attempt to work across party lines with Republicans in the governing process was laudable, but I always wondered if it would work. The principle reason is that the key to Republican power has been their remarkable clarity of ideology and the party discipline behind it. This was patently evident when Newt Gingrich took over in 1994 after the “Republican Revolution” netted 54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, giving Republicans control of the Congress for the first time in 40 years. They promptly proceeded to rearrange the administration of the Congress in their own image and the ruthlessness of it caught Democrats by surprise, as they became virtually shut out of the governing process – not given legislative documents, not told where vital meetings were being held, and defeated time and again by party vote. In the first 100 days, Gingrich enacted every bill in the tenpoint “Contract With America,” except for the proposed Constitution al Amendment mandating term limits for members of Congress. Despite the fall of that era, the pattern of disciplined, ideological behavior that made them dominant remains. For example, Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk-show host and Republican powerhouse, forthrightly rejected Obama’s overture of bi-partisanship, saying that he wanted him “to fail.” Whining that Obama would bring in a new season of Liberalism, he was fearful that the return of liberalism would bring back Affirmative Action. It seems that is what is really under the covers of the rejection of bi-partisanship. To his credit, Obama shot back in a meeting with Republicans, saying that they could not afford to participate in bi-partisan governance and listen to Rush Limbaugh at the same time, because he represented the narrow partisan politics of the past that he was trying to get beyond. It doesn’t seem, however, that they were listening to him. John Boehner, leader of the Republicans in the House, after the meeting with the President was over, promptly railed against the size of the Stimulus package and continued his opposition on Meet the Press (January 25), saying that there was a lot of “wasteful spendingE2 in the package and little to spur job growth. John McCain picked up the criticism of Obama whose first act was to sign a series of Executive Orders, one of which limited the influence of lobbyist access to his administration. And even though had honored McCain with a dinner and asked for his help in passing his plan, but McCain called the new lobbying rules “disingenuous” and refused to support the Stimulus in its “current form.” Then, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn used his extraordinary power as Senator and held up confirmation proceedings for Eric Holder, Attorney General-designate, attempting to get assurances from him that he will not pursue legal actions against the presumptive illegalities of George Bush’s administration. For example, the investigation into the use of intelligence by the Bush White House and Dick Chaney are still live issues, such as whether a crime was committed in “outing” a secret agent contrary to federal law. And although one notices that Bush did not pardon Scooter Libby, there are also issues of torture by the administration, the illicit use of federal funds in contracting related to the Iraq war and others that could serve as a basis for indictment. I recently watched the proceedings of the Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Ways and Means in the House as they processed the Stimulus package amendments. The pattern of Republican opposition to the measure was strong and their intent to have their way just as apparent; I could see little evidence that the word to exercise bi-partisanship had come down from on high. Given the intransigence of the Republicans – they once called the Democrats “obstructionists” for not going along – I wonder whether President Obama and his colleagues will have the guts to exercise the same degree of discipline and get the Stimulus package through if their attempt at bi-partisan fails. It always seems that Democrats are the givers and Republicans are the takers. That has got to end if Obama is to “turn the page” on the conservative dominance in American politics. 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. His latest book is: The Price of Racial Reconciliation (Univ. of Michigan Press)

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George H. Curry, NNPA Columnist

Memo to Republicans: You Lost I don’t know who is the most ridiculous: Rush Limbaugh, who said he hopes President Obama fails, or Republican Congressional leaders, who are not saying that, but trying to make Limbaugh’s wish come true. Both forget that we had an election on Nov. 4 and their side lost. Handidly. Limbaugh, the subject of a book titled, “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot,” picked his words carefully when he said he wants Obama to fail. “My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, ‘Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance.’ Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.” Limbaugh said his staff had warned against wishing the worst for Obama. But he ignored them, declaring, “I am last the last man standing.” In predicting an uproar over his remarks, Limbaugh said, “I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: ‘Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.’ Somebody’s gotta say it.” Obviously, he was that honored. The next day he tried to soften his attack, saying he was supportive of the new president but not his polices, as if one can separate the two. “I support our president, like I have supported all presidents. I just don’t support Obama’s policies,” Limbaugh said. “I don’t support the nationalization of banks, which has happened. I don’t support the nationalization of the auto companies. I don’t support the nationalization of the mortgage business. I don’t like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd running things. And I don’t want that to continue.” Who care whether Limbaugh likes Democrats Barney Frank or Chris Dodd? The voters like them and in a democracy, that’s all that matters. Get over it, Rush. You lost. A big fat idiot should be able to see that. Limbaugh isn’t the only Republican acting as though the GOP won the election in November. Trickle-down Republican policies were clearly repudiated as evidenced not only by the election of President Obama but by sizeable House and Senate victories as well. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell that to House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said Republicans are opposing the Obama-backed stimulus plan because it is seen as “a lot of wasteful Washington spending, padding the bureaucracy and doing nothing to help create jobs and preserve jobs.” Don’t you love it when people who spend all of their time and money getting to Washington complain about ‘Washington spending?” Of course it’s Washington spending; this is where our federal government is headquartered. Even John McCain is acting as though he won. Yes, that one. I read a story just last week about how “the Mc is back,” how McCain had returned to his maverick ways. He wasn’t a maverick before and he’s not one now. Instead, we are being serenaded with a remix of his campaign rhetoric, the same talk that saw him go down in defeat. The rejected Republic nominee for president was on Fox TV Sunday, blabbing about how he would not have announced the closing of Guantanamo Bay without first deciding what to do with current detainees and his objections to the proposed stimulus plan. I am beginning to wonder if Obama isn’t too nice to the wrong people. He campaigned for Joseph Lieberman and was rewarded by the Connecticut senator’s decision to campaign against him in the general election and speak at the Republican convention in support of McCain. What did Obama do? He gently nudged his Democratic colleagues to let “Joe the Traitor” keep his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship. A similar pattern occurred with John McCain, one of the first people Obama reached out to while he was still president-elect. Obama has sought McCain’s opinion on cabinet appointments and honored him with a candlelight dinner of the eve of inauguration. Again, Obama was rewarded with a round of criticism from McCain. Earlier, in one of his saner moments, McCain said the public had spoken in November and voters made it clear that they want Congress to get to work and to work together across political lines. Instead, we’re seeing the same old posturing by Republicans, even after Brack Obama has met them more than halfway. The president was right when he reminded Republicans the he won the election. Now, he needs to act like it. Conservative columnist William Kristol got it right when he wrote in the New York Times, “All good things must come to an end. Jan. 30, 2009 marked the end of a conservative era.” George E. 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Undetectable Levels of HIV Found in Semen; Study Dispels Myth of Risk-free Sex Between HIV Positive and Negative Partners By Glenn Townes Special to the Chronicle Early last year, Swiss researchers issued a report that HIV positive people on meds with undetectable viral loads for six or more months and with no other sexually transmitted infections were noninfectious. The research suggested that sex without a condom was possible and safe between positive and negative partners and sparked discussion and

controversy nationally among various HIV/AIDS experts and groups. But a new study by French researchers further substantiates the widely held notion that some men may have HIV in their semen even when it is undetectable in standard blood tests - thus dispelling the findings of the Swiss study that condomless sex between serodiscordant couples is safe.

(Serodiscordant people are couples and/or sex partners with one HIV negative individual.) Published in the August 20008 issue of the magazine AIDS, the French study showed that out of 145 HIV positive men, about 5 percent had detectable levels of HIV in their semen, despite having a blood test that showed an undetectable level of the virus. The new findings

Prolonging Life Through Leaves of Healing House Calls By Gerald W. Deas, M.D. I believe, that the most beautiful and spiritual visual experience that I have had is observing the changes of the color of leaves in the fall. After a summer of building food for the tree so that it can endure the cold months, the leaves seem to say, "I am going to show you my best by producing unimaginable colors." To say the least, the colors are awesome and yet, they are dying, only to be gathered up and buried. Yet, the tree remains to give birth to new leaves in the spring and, as one of my friends would say, "what a joy."

that are healing for the body. Greens such as spinach, collards, kale, beet greens, swiss chard and dandelion contain substances such as beta carotene, iron, lutein and riboflavin which ensure healthy cells from turning cancerous. These greens should be eaten to ensure a balanced diet. The leaf that I will introduce to you today is a healing leaf that was introduced to me in a short story entitled, "The Leaf" by William Sidney Porter, affectionately known as O'Henry, who was born in Greensboro, N.C., Sept. 11,1862 and died rather young in New York, June 5, 1910. He is one of my favorite short story writers.

Other leaves that bring healing to the body are leafy, green greens. These leaves are not only beautiful but produce substances

The leaf in this story has to do with the healing of the body when all odds are against it and how the physician might not always have the last word.

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that she would not survive through the winter into spring by the physician who made a house call. The bed that she laid in faced a wall where a vine grew with many leaves. She related to her sister that she was going to die when the last leaf had fallen. The elderly artist often engaged in conversation with her and knew of the decision concerning her fate. When there was only one leaf left on the vine, a winter storm arose and the ill patient knew that the leaf would be gone by morning. When she awoke and saw the leaf, she began to rally and her condition improved. The story continues to relate that the elderly artist was found dead two days later due to the pneumonia he had contracted while painting a leaf on the wall. He had managed to prolong the life of one he admired. I often tell my medical students that no matter how much a patient is failing, that they must always be ready to paint a leaf of hope in the mind of the patient and their family. Remember Proverbs 16:24: "Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones. "Also proverbs 17:22: "A merry heart doeth good, like medicine."

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quickly halt the idea that unsafe sex between serodiscordant partners is not risk-free. “I’ve been HIV positive for several years and would never drream of having unsafe sex with my partner, who is negative,” said Ricky, a 50year-old African-American man in Washington D.C. “The risk of infecting my partner is too great, even though my viral load is undetectable.” And John, a 55-year-old white male who is an educator in New Jersey, who has dated HIV positive men, said sex with a condom is a given in today’s sexually rampant society. “There are so many sexually transmitted diseases out there,” he said. “Sex without a condom is much too risky.”

The Charleston Health Center of Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc (PPHS) has begun providing a full array of preventive reproductive heath care services at its newly renovated health center on Rutledge Avenue. The medical staff, led by Center Manager Janet Stevens, began serving patients in December. The Planned Parenthood center is one of 13 PPHS health centers providing professional, affordable reproductive medical services and educational programming to women, men and teens. PPHS operates a second health and education center in Columbia.

Ultimately, or at least for now, the vast majority of HIV/AIDS researchers and AIDS organizations, including the World Health Organization and UNAIDS, all discourage sex without a condom between serodiscordant homosexual and heterosexual couples. Experts said artificial insemination remains the safest and perhaps most effective method for heterosexual couples trying to have children.

“Our top priority is to reduce unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, particularly among high-risk populations in Charleston,” says Janet Stevens, Health Center Manager. South Carolina ranks 5th in the nation in births to unmarried mothers, 4th in nation in prevalence of Chlamydia and 4th in gonorrhea as reported by the Centers for Disease Control. PPHS also operates a health center in Columbia.

“We have two criteria for successfully opening new health centers: local need for reproductive healthcare and strong community support. We have found both in Charleston,” said Walter Klausmeier, President & CEO of PPHS, a regional Planned Parenthood affiliate with centers in North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Local donations from hundreds of contributors enabled the purchase, renovations and up-fitting of the center that will serve as a hub for the organization’s medical, education and public policy efforts. “Our new center is a partnership between Planned Parenthood and the local community. We are now able to complement and contribute to the existing prevention efforts already underway in Charleston.”

The medical services now available at the Planned Parenthood in Charleston include: Birth Control including Emergency Contraception and IUD Insertion Annual Gynecological Exams (including screening for Cervical and Breast Cancer) Pregnancy Testing and Counseling Sexually Transmitted Infection Diagnosis and Treatment Male Medical Examinations Immunizations including Gardasil to prevent HPV and protect against cancers Preventive Education Programming

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“To the ordinary American or Englishman, the race question at bottom is simply a matter of ownership of women; white men want the right to use all women, colored and white, and they resent the intrusion of colored men in this domain.” -W.E.B. DuBois

By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com For the Obama girls, moving from the fish pond that was the Windy City into the fishbowl of the White House won’t be easy. But I’m not worried. Why? Because Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, already have enough anchors to keep them moored in waters that are bound to be stirred up by the glare of publicity or the growing pains of childhood and adolescence. It’s also probably a safe bet that their mother, Michelle, and their father, President-elect Barack Obama, have probably talked to them about what it means to be the nation’s first black First Daughters. They probably know that like their father, they’ll be role models for millions of children. Their parents probably know they’ll also be targets for tasteless, Don Imus-types who’ll be salivating for them to validate stereotypes rather than defy them. Michelle and Barack have probably prepared their girls for all this. So I’m not too worried about Malia and Sasha. They’ll be fine .I do, however, continue to worry about the scores of black children in America today who aren’t as lucky as the Obama girls. These are the children who don’t have to survive being in the media spotlight, but have to struggle with the social isolation that hobbles their progress early in life. Social isolation is what happens to children who live in concentrated poverty. It’s the thing that causes black children to do things like fight over one cookie instead of asking the teacher for more; because that’s the way they’ve learned to assert themselves in a world where survival is about aggression, not compromise. Social isolation afflicts many poor, black teenagers as well. These are the kids who don’t have anyone around them who has ever held a real job. Therefore, many don’t see a problem with walking into a restaurant to apply for work wearing low-slung pants and having a mouthful of gold or silver grills – and then wondering why they didn’t get to work at the front counter. That is, if they got a job at all. They are the ones who don’t understand why people like me cringe when they walk down the street or in malls cursing loudly or using the N-word. When they do that, I want to crawl under a bench. Most of all, such isolation creates a situation so that children don’t have any adults around them to disappoint by behaving badly – or, for that matter, no adult who they respect enough or care enough about to not disappoint. So when people like me look at them and are embarrassed for them, it does no good. They haven’t learned enough to be embarrassed for themselves. tion.

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To Revel in Black History By: Julianne Malveaux, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com If you love black history, as I do, these are exciting times. Just two weeks ago, we both celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and, on the next day, the inauguration of President Barack Obama. For the United States, a country that defined African-American people as fractional persons in its Constitution, to elect a black man as its leader is phenomenal history. That’s why more than a million people thronged outside in freezing weather to see the history that many of us thought we would never witness. And now an African-American family lives in a White House that slave labor built. Talk about the arc of history and a movement full circle! There were lessons and blessings during the inauguration. Rev. Joseph Lowery was an answer to my prayers. Let me make it plain. While I prayed that some band would strike the tune of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and that some choir would sing it, I knew that I was simply being delusional. Even though Barack Obama is a black man, too much Negritude in the inauguration would likely turn off the Rainbow Coalition of supporters he has amassed. So when Rev. Lowery recited the words of the third verse of the Negro National Anthem, I was in seventh heaven. "Lift Every Voice" was in the house! Rev. Lowery ended his benediction by paraphrasing Big Bill Broonzy's 1937 song, “Black Brown and White,” that contains the lyrics, “If you are white, you’re all right; if you’re brown, stick around; if you are black, oh brother, get back." To be more inclusive, Lowery included the red man and the mellow yellow, but within hours of his wonderful benediction, some hateful white people were describing his prayer as “racist." I say it was a signal to AfricanAmericans that we are part of the Obama coalition. More importantly, the fuss seemed to be a fuss about white folks neither knowing nor understanding black history. Our history is not only a history of slavery. It is a history of resistance, a history of African-American people purchasing themselves, of slaves who cut deals with masters and managed to participate in a racist and capitalist economy because they had no choice. Men who were craftsmen hired themselves out on Sundays and slowly and painstakingly managed to save a dollar or two a week until they bought their freedom. Women hired themselves out as laundresses to white families who did not have slaves and managed to buy themselves. Whenever I write those words - buy themselves - I am struck by the contradictions, but also humbled and inspired by the focus our foremothers and forefathers managed. Implicit in these words is recognition of the immense unfairness of a system that many who fail don’t know about. When we consider AfricanAmerican economic history, we must consider those slaves who were full participants in our economy. These folk also lived in a murky zone, with a pigment associated with enslavement and a status that was free. In many counties, free black people had to pay a bond simply to maintain their freedom. Even then, some were “captured” and sold as slaves. To be African and American was to live in danger at all times. And yet we prevailed. Our historically black colleges are evidence of our prevailing. Bennett College for Women was founded in the unpaved basement of a United Methodist church by former slaves who had a

thirst and a desire for knowledge. We were coeducational in 1873, and the United Methodist Church’s women’s division organized us as a women’s college. We have been at the forefront of the civil rightsmovement, protesting segregation at the Carolina Theatre in the 1930’s, providing a place for Dr. King to speak in 1957, when others in Greensboro were afraid to give him a platform, and supporting the Woolworth sit-ins in the 1960s. Indeed, there are those who credit Bennett women with the success of the sitin movement for many reasons. First, though North Carolina A&T students wanted to begin the sit-in movement in November of 1959, Dr. Willa Player, the first female president of Bennett college, suggested a postponement, fearing that momentum would be slowed when students went home for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. Secondly, Bennett women were arrested as picketers and protesters, with the full support of the college’s administration. Dr. Player took student homework to the jails and, at a time when many black college presidents merely tolerated protesters, she made it clear that she embraced her student’s activism. The tradition has continued. In 2007, 50 Bennett students traveled to Jena, Louisiana to support the Jena Six. Fifty might not sound like many until you understand that there are just 678 students at Bennett. Those 50 represent more than 7 percent of our student body. What other college represented at that level? (In the name of Black History Month, you ought to send Bennett a monetary shout out. You can donate at Bennett.edu.) To revel in black history is to simply smile at the richness of which our history reminds us. It is to call the roll of those who provided the foundation on which we stand – Denmark Vessey, Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander, John Lewis, Diane Nash, Kathleen Cleaver, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Paul Robeson and so many others. As we call the roll, we are reminded of the sacrifices and of the work that must continue. We know that there is still much work to do. In the same month that an African-American man was sworn in as president of the United States, another African-American man, Oscar Grant, was coldly shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer. Oscar Grant was the father of a four-year old girl, and

he was a brother who was known as a peacemaker. Dozens of people captured his shooting on their cellphones and video cameras. To watch this videotape is to be chillingly reminded of our history of police misconduct and to inspire us to continue to work for justice. Also, 2009 is the centennial celebration of the NAACP’s founding. Imagine the challenges that our brothers and sisters faced attempting to start this organization that was, from its inception, interracial. Those who built the NAACP were faced with enormous challenges, but they maintained a phenomenal commitment to social and economic justice. The organization was banned in sever-

Southeast Tennis and Learning Center in Washington, D.C., young people will portray elders in a “Blacks and Wax” exhibit on February 26. Get there if you can!

al southern states during desegregation, but it managed to maintain. Now, it is led by a courageous young man, Benjamin Jealous, who stands on the shoulders of leaders like Benjamin Hooks, Julian Bond, Kweisi Mfume and so many others. All of America should be

celebrating this Black History Month. At Bennett, we are blessed to kick off with a talk from our revered trustee, Dr. Maya Angelou. Before the month is out, we’ll hear from Marianne Spraggins, Dr. Juliet Walker (the great- great granddaugher of Free Frank McWhorter) and others. At the

Oh, there is so much to celebrate this Black History Month, and so much to revel in! The arc of history is captured,always, in the rich words of our Negro National Anthem: "Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died, yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place, oh, where our fathers died." The road may be less stony, the rod just a bit less chastening, but there is still much work to do. And much to smile about.

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Ernest Everett Just

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Ernest was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1883 to parents Charles Frazier Just Jr. and Mary Matthews Just. His father and grandfather Charles Sr. were dock builders. When Ernest was four years old, both his father and grandfather died. Just’s mother became the sole supporter of him, his younger brother, and his younger sister. Mary Matthews Just taught at an AfricanAmerican school in Charleston to support her family. During the summer, she worked in the phosphate mines on James Island. Noticing that there was much vacant land near the island, Mary persuaded several black families to move there to farm. The town they founded, now incorporated in the West Ashley area of Charleston, was eventually named Maryville in her honor.

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875--May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Hoping Just would become a teacher, his mother sent him to an all-black boarding school in Orangeburg, South Carolina at the age of thirteen. Because the schools for blacks in the south were inferior, Just and his mother thought it better for him to go north. At age sixteen, Just enrolled at a Meriden, New Hampshire college-preparatory high school, Kimball Union Academy. Despite being the only black student at Kimball Union Academy, Just Ernest Just completed the four-year program in only three years and graduated in 1903 with the highest grades in his class. His mother had died during his second year at Kimball Union Academy, when he was only seventeen. After graduating Kimball Union Academy, Just went on to attend Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1907, the only student to graduate magna cum laude.[citation needed] Ernest won special honors in botany, history, and sociology and was designated as a Rufus Choate scholar for two years. On November 17, 1911, Just assisted three Howard students (Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman), in establishing the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Upon graduation from Dartmouth, Just faced the same problems as all black college graduates of his time: no matter how brilliant they were or how high were their grades, it was almost impossible for blacks to become faculty members of white colleges or universities. Just then took what seemed to be the best choices available to him and was appointed to a teaching position at historically-black Howard University in Washington, D.C.. In 1910, he was put in charge of the newly-formed biology department by Wilbur P. Thirkield. In 1912, he became head of the Department of Zoology, a position he held until his death in 1941. Just was soon introduced to Dr. Frank R. Lillie, head of the biology department at the University of Chicago. Lillie, who was also chief of the Marine Biology Lab at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, invited Just to spend the summer of 1909 as his research assistant at Woods Hole. For the next twenty years, Just spent every summer but one at Woods Hole. On 12 June 1912 Ernest married Ethel Highwarden, who taught German at Howard University. They had three children: Margaret, Highwarden, and Maribel. In 1915, Just took a leave of absence from Howard to enroll in an advanced academic program at the University of Chicago. That same year, Just, who was gaining a national reputation as an outstanding young scientist, was the first recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal on 12 February 1915. In June 1916, Just received his Ph.D. in experimental embryology, with a thesis on the mechanics of fertilization, from the University of Chicago, becoming one of the handful of blacks who had gained this degree from a major university. During the next several years, Just became an internationally respected biologist. At Woods Hole, he conducted thousands of experiments studying the fertilization of the marine mammal cell. His work on small water creatures was highly respected by biologists in Europe. In 1922, Just successfully refuted Jacque Loeb’s theory of artificial parthenogenesis. His first book, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals, was based on his Woods Hole research. Just eventually published more than 50 scientific papers over 20 years based on his research at Woods Hole.

Born in Mayesville, South Carolina to parents who had been slaves, she took an early interest in her own education. With the help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. When that did not materialize, she started a school for black girls in Daytona Beach. From six students it grew and merged with an institute for black boys and eventually became the Bethune-Cookman School. Its quality far surpassed the standards of education for black students, and rivaled those of white schools. Bethune worked tirelessly to ensure funding for the school, and used it as a showcase for tourists and donors, to exhibit what educated black people could do. She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942 and 1946 to 1947, one of the few women in the world who served as a college president at that time.

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Bethune was also active in women's clubs, and her leadership in them allowed her to become nationally prominent. She worked for the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and became a member of Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, sharing the concerns of black people with the Roosevelt administration while spreading Roosevelt's message to blacks, who had been traditionally Republican voters. Upon her death, columnist Louis E. Martin said, "She gave out faith and hope as if they were pills and she some sort of doctor." Her home in Daytona Beach is a National Historic Landmark, her house in Washington, D.C. in Logan Circle is preserved by the National Park Service as a National Historic Site, and a sculpture of her is located in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.

National Park Service invites the public to celebrate Gullah heritage with free Saturday programs CelebrateGullah Heritage! The National Park Service, in partnership with the Town of Mount Pleasant, is sponsoring a series of free cultural programs at Charles Pinckney National Historic site every Saturday at 2:00 pm during February and March, 2009. Charles Pinckney, a principal author and signer of the

U.S. Constitution, owned seven plantations. Enslaved Africans and African-Americans on Lowcountry plantations developed a unique culture known collectively today as “Gullah.” Gullah people made significant contributions not only to the Lowcountry plantation system but also to American culture in general. A remnant of his Lowcountry

plantation, Snee Farm, is preserved today as Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. These Gullah programs range from craft demonstrations such as quilting, cast-net making, ironwork and sweetgrass basket sewing to cooking, African drumming and storytelling, folk-tales, spirituals and other musical performances. Feb 7 Carolyn “Jabulile” White, Sea Island storyteller Vera Manigault, sweetgrass baskets Feb 14 Anita SingletonPrather, “Aunt Pearlie Sue” Gullah Tales Vera Manigault, sweetgrass basket demonstration Feb 21 Sharon & Frank Murray, rice production Paul & Loretta Hromoga, indigo dyeing Feb 28 Ann Caldwell & the Magnolia Singers, spirituals Jeannette Lee, sweetgrass basket demonstration Mar 7 Veronica Gerald & Jesse Gant, Gullah cooking demonstration Alada “Muima” ShinaultSmall, African tales NIA Productions, African drumming & dance Mar 14 The Brotherhood Singers, spirituals & gospel Dorothy Montgomery, quilting Elijah Ford, sweetgrass baskets Mar 21 Vermelle & Andrew Rodrigues, quilting & toys Vera Manigault, sweetgrass baskets Charles C Williams, castnet making & woodwork Mar 28 Ann Caldwell & the Magnolia Singers, spirituals William Rouse, sweetgrass basket demonstration

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL Solicitation Number: 09-P001B The City of Charleston is accepting Request for Proposals for the Janitorial Services. The City will receive proposals until February 25, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 Meeting Street, Suite 310 Charleston, SC 29401.

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STEEL ARCH Buildings: 2008 Repos and cancelled orders! Many sizes. Will sell for balance owed. Call for huge savings! 866-3520716 STEEL BUILDING Year’s End CLEARANCE: Save up to 31% on 24x30, 30x40, 50x80. All sizes available. Free delivery/installation most counties. New 130MPH wind load. 888513-7737. VACATION RENTAL NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC- Oceanfront! Up to 20% off your next vacation week. Private homes/condos. Spring/Summer Get-AWays! Free brochure. Call 1-866-276-6156, or www.northmyrtlebeachtravel.com ; VACATION/TRAVEL NEED RENTERS? ADVERTISE your vacation home to more than 2.9 million South Carolina newspaper readers. Your 25word classified ad will appear in 107 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Call Jimmie Haynes at the South Carolina Newspaper Network at 1-888-7277377.

The solicitation will be available upon request and may be obtained by submitting a written request to: Robin D. Barrett, CPPB by fax (843-720-3872) or mailing to the above address. You may also obtain a copy of the solicitation by going to our website: www.charlestoncity.info and then enter the Bidline page.

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

Invitation to Bid

Estate of:

Reroofing at Meeting Street Manor Job# 3090301 The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston will receive sealed bids on a General Contract for Reroofing at Meeting Street Manor until 2:00 p.m. local time, on March 3, 2009 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 Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at the CHA Capital Funds Office, 545 Meeting Street. Charleston, SC 29403. Contact Ed Donnelly at (843) 720-3983. A voluntary pre-bid conference will be held at 545 Meeting Street on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 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- President and Chief Executive Officer

Full -time/Regul ar: Paramedic Administrative Services Coordinator I Program Administrator County Services Rep III Firefighter/Engineer

For details and to apply online visit: Part-time/Tempor ary: www .charlestoncount y.org School Crossing Guard or call

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

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

~Maya Angelou

The Chronicle

February 4 2009- 5b

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NAACP’s Nelson Rivers III to Keynote Trident Technical College Black History Month Celebration Trident Technical College kicks off its Black History Month celebration Wednesday, Feb. 4 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Complex for Economic Development/College Center (Bldg. 920) on the Main Campus in North Charleston. Reverend Nelson B. Rivers III, chief operating officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and pastor of New Charity Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston, will speak.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

TO: BRIAN L. LYONS AND REBECCA L. LYONS – POST OFFICE BOX 683 ISLE OF PALMS, SOUTH CAROLINA 29451 The undersigned as Trustee for the Non-Judicial Lien Foreclosure of timeshare estates in Sea Cabin on the Ocean, III and the Counsel of Time Sharing Interest Owners of apartments of Sea Cabin on the Ocean, III, have previously filed a Notice of Lien for unpaid assessments on use period 13, Apartment 234, of Sea Cabin on the Ocean, III. This lien was dated February 15, 2008, and recorded in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office in Book L-653 at Page 658. You are currently in default of the provisions of the original timeshare instrument and all amendments thereto, by failing to pay the assessments due on your timeshare interest. The amount needed to cure your default is $330.00 plus all interest, attorney fees and costs incurred by the Regime. South Carolina Code of Laws §27-32-325, as amended. “If you fail to cure the default or take other appropriate action with regard to this matter within thirty calendar days after the date of this notice, you will risk losing your interest in this timeshare estate through a non-judicial foreclosure procedure. However, under the non-judicial procedure, you will not be subject to a deficiency judgment or personal liability for the lien being foreclosed even if the sale of your timeshare estate resulting from the nonjudicial foreclosure is insufficient to satisfy the amount of the lien being foreclosed. You may object to the sale of your timeshare estate through the non-judicial foreclosure procedure and require foreclosure of your timeshare interest to proceed through the judicial process. An objection must be made in writing and received by the trustee before the end of the thirty-day time period. You must state the reason for your objection and include your address on the written objection. In a judicial foreclosure proceeding that results from your objection, you may be subject to a deficiency judgment and personal liability for the lien being foreclosed if the sale of your timeshare state resulting from the judicial foreclosure is insufficient to satisfy the amount of the lien being foreclosed. Furthermore, you also may be subject to a personal money judgment for the costs and attorney’s fees incurred by the lien holder in the judicial foreclosure proceeding if the court finds that there is a complete absence of a justifiable issue of either law or fact raised by your objections or defenses. You have the right to cure your default at any time before the sale of your timeshare estate by payment of all past due loan payments or assessments, accrued interest, late fees, taxes, and all fees and costs incurred by the lien holder and trustee, including attorney’s fees and costs, in connection with the default”. CHRIS J. LOUDEN as Trustee for Sea Cabin on the Ocean, III, A Horizontal Property Regime October 8, 2008 Moncks Corner, South Carolina

will host a spotlight event 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20. The Berkeley Campus in Moncks Corner will host its spotlight event 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. These events are free and open to the public.

Nelson Rivers III This event is free and open to the public. TTC will host several other Black History Month events. In the Student Center (Bldg. 410) on TTC’s Main Campus, events include an African-American Vendor’s Day 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11 and an African-American Movie Marathon 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18. The College’s Palmer Campus in downtown Charleston

Trident’s Got Talent, a talent show for students, faculty and staff, will be held 6-9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in the Complex for E c o n o m i c Development/College Center (Bldg. 920). TTC’s Black History Committee requests a donation of one canned good for admission to this event. Canned goods will be donated to the Crisis Ministries and Lowcountry Food Bank.

INVITATION FOR BID Solicitation Number: 09-B03CS Federal Ammunition For The City of Charleston Police Department

The City of Charleston is accepting Invitation for Bids for Federal Ammunition For The City of Charleston Police Department. The City will receive bids until February 19, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 Meeting Street, Suite 310 Charleston, SC. The solicitation will be available upon request and may be obtained by submitting a written request to: Chenette L. Singleton by fax (843-720-3872), by phone (843-724-7312) or mailing to the above address. You may also obtain a copy of the solicitation by going to our website: www.charlestoncity.info and then click on the Bidline link.

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

For more information on these events, call 843-5746012.

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

KING DAVID GRAHAM 2008-ES-10-1456 DOD: 08/30/08 Pers. Rep: EDNA K. GRAHAM 2144 MIDLAND PARK RD., NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29406 Atty: EDUARDO K. CURRY, ESQ. PO BOX 42270, NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29423 ************************************************************************** Estate of: MARY LEE SMALLS 2008-ES-10-1806 DOD: 11/14/08 Pers. Rep: MAE FRANCES MIDDLETON 2946 LIMESTONE BLVD., CHARLESTON, SC 29414 Atty: GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQ. 27 GAMECOCK AVE., STE. 200, CHARLESTON, SC 29407

CELIA FORD GADSDEN 2008-ES-10-1731 07/13/08 DOD: Pers. Rep. RUEBEN M. GADSDEN, JR. 759 BEAR SWAMP RD., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455 Atty: THOMAS P. MORRISON, ESQ. PO BOX 1056, CHARLESTON, SC 29402 **************************************************************************

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

ANDREW GATES CREAMER 2009-ES-10-0003 DOD: 11/08/08 Pers. Rep: JAMES A. GRIMSLEY, III PO BOX 2055, BEAUFORT, SC 29901-2055 ************************************************************************** Estate of: ALFRED H. WILLIAMS 2009-ES-10-0014 DOD: 05/02/07 Pers. Rep: GLORIA W. HAUGHTON 1582 WESTWOOD DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29412 **************************************************************************

ADVERTISEMENT CHARLESTON COUNTY GRANTS ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION STATEMENT OF FINDING AND PUBLIC EXPLANATION Evidence of Compliance with Executive Orders 11988 and 11990 Floodplain Management and Wetland Protection 8-Step Process

On or about February 2, 2009, plans and specifications for the construction of the “Phase 1 – Containment Structure, Charleston Naval Base Container Terminal (CNBCT), North Charleston, South Carolina”, will be available to qualified contractors by the South Carolina State Ports Authority. A pre-bid conference will be held on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 10:00 a.m., in the CNBCT Construction Office, 2025 Bainbridge Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina.

Charleston County Grants Administration Department has analyzed the project identified below as required by Presidential Directive EO 11988 and determined that assistance should be granted therein:

Bids will be received at the CNBCT Construction Office, 2025 Bainbridge Avenue, North Charleston, South Carolina, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, March 5, 2009, at which time there will be a public opening of Bids at the CNBCT Construction Office.

PROPOSED PROJECT Construction of freestanding Bathroom Facility

The project work includes: minor clearing and grubbing, minor demolition work and excavation, stormdrain system installation, minor waterline and fence relocation , minor asphalt paving, dredging of approximately 880,000 cubic yards of existing mud and marl material for the construction of the containment wall structure, dredging (contractor’s option) from the navigation channel to the Project site to allow access for floating construction equipment; construction of approximately 5000 feet of a steel pipe (36 inches diameter) and sheet pile wall containment structure; delivery and placement of approximately 290,000 cubic yards of rock (including armor stone) for the rock berm; and surface and slope stabilization including silt fencing, seeding, and mulching. All dredged material is to be placed in the west containment cell on Daniel Island. A portion of the possible dredging area for construction access may require special procedures around possible unexploded ordnance.

PROPOSED LOCATION Ravenel Railroad Depot Museum Corner Highway 165 and Martin Street, Ravenel, SC 29470 TMS# 187-00-00-100 Since a portion of Ravenel Railroad Depot Museum is located in wetlands as established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the County of Charleston is required by EO 11988 to deny assistance to this project unless there are no practicable alternatives. An analysis by Charleston County Grants Administration Community Development Division revealed that there are no practical alternatives. The basis for this determination is as follows: It is not possible to carry out the objectives of the CDBG and HOME Investment Partnership Act Programs to develop affordable housings and participate in the growth plan of the community without participating in projects in the base Floodplain; The projects meet local planning and zoning requirements; The proposed construction will not displace or redirect waters to seriously affect other areas; Construction will meet the Wetland Resource Management Plan prepared by the community as a condition of their participation in the National Flood Insurance Program; Any comments received as a result of the Early Public Notice for this project on December 12, 2008 were considered in the analysis which can be reviewed at the Charleston County Community Development Office, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405. Public comments on this statement will be received and considered for a period of 15 days from today’s publication of January 21, 2009. Comments will be received at the address above. The proposed projects will not be implemented without considering public comments.

The wall containment structure will be approximately 3000 feet long across the front, which will include pipe piles and intermediate sheet piles. The front wall will be parallel to the Federal channel in the Cooper River located approximately 850 feet from the existing shoreline into the river. The north and south side walls will include sheet piles and will extend from the front wall to the existing shoreline. Interested parties may download, at no cost, the Plans and Specifications from the South Carolina State Ports Authority's Legal Notices website (www.scspa-notices.com). Hardcopies of the Plans and Specifications will not be provided by the Authority. Bids must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond for twenty percent (20%) of the Total Base Bid. One hundred percent (100%) labor and material bond will be required. The bidder shall have a current contractor's license for the State of South Carolina. The South Carolina State Ports Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, or to accept any Bid if considered best for its interest. S. C. STATE PORTS AUTHORITY Post Office Box 22287 Charleston, South Carolina 29413-2287 (843) 856-7048 [email protected]

Will D.C. Finally Be Granted Voting Rights? It’s About Time By: Deborah Mathis, BlackAmericaWeb.com If Barack Obama’s election signifies anything, it is that wishful thinking can come true. His ascendancy – to be finalized next week amid much excitement, fanfare and unprecedented security – has inspired all manner of resolve, from policy makers to schoolchildren. In that spirit of possibility, the determined gentlewoman from the District of Columbia, the indefatigable Eleanor Holmes Norton, has once again introduced legislation that would give D.C. residents a voting representative in Congress. Norton, whose official title is “delegate,” has tried this repeatedly, coming close last year, when the measure passed the House, but no cigar. Senate Republicans killed the bill. It could happen this time – in part, because the new bill introduced last week would also give Utah a fourth seat in the House. That, supposedly, will assuage Republicans who are wary of handing the Democrats another surething, as the District of Columbia would be. Make no mistake; it is also because Obama Fever and the general sense of what might be called About Time-ism. About time we got out of the greed-isgood mindset. About time we extricated ourselves from the misbegotten war. About time the presidency opened up to someone other than white men. And about time the 600,000 men, women and children who live in the District of Columbia – most of them black people – had a say in what the federal government does, especially when that government has no compunction about taxing them and spending those funds as it chooses. When I moved to this area, I immediately ruled out living in D.C. for the very fact that it is a monument to the same taxation without representation that forced the colonies to rebel and demand independence. Considering black Americans’ experience with voting rights, I could not accept it. But, again, I’m a transplant. For thousands of people, D.C. has always, and only, been home. “D.C. born, D.C. bred, and when I die, I’ll be D.C. dead,” they will often say. Frustrated but faithful, they have been waiting to exhale all of their lives. No matter what the original design was, time has done its usual work and changed things substantially. In these latter days, there is simply no justifiable reason to deny representation to fellow Americans who have not had a vote in Congress for more than 200 years. Whether the predominance of black residents is behind the historical mulishness on Capitol Hill is moot, although it is curious that the improved prospects for passage of the D.C. house Voting Rights Act come at a time when the city is being – and I hate this word – “re-gentrified,” which is to say, upscale whites are moving back in. Whatever the reason, and despite the tit-for-tat deal with Utah, may this be the year that fairness comes to the good people of D.C. Obama co-sponsored the last bill to make it happen. Now, he may get to sign the new one into law.