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Argument over carleads to another critical injury of young Black male

BY ANDREAS BUTLERDAYTONA TIMESbutleramj@yahoo.com

An argument over a stolen ve-hicle left a teenager critically wounded in the Madison Heights subdivision of Daytona Beach on Tuesday afternoon.

While Jiron Dent, 17, lies in

a local hospital bed from a shot-gun wound to his head, his family has issued a plea to young people “to stop the vio-lence.’’

The teen is re-lated to a young

Black man – Rayshard Mitchell – who died from a gunshot wound in December.

Shortly after noon on Tuesday, police responded to a 911 call in reference to gunshots.

At the scene, they found Dent bleeding profusely on the passen-ger side of a Red Ford 500 from a gunshot wound to the head. The teen was unresponsive and un-conscious and taken to Halifax Medical Center. He was listed in grave condition.

The shooting took place on Florida Street at the intersection of Phillips Street near Georgia Street.

Four suspectsReports indicate that the ve-

hicle was being trailed by a gray

Dodge Charger. Both vehicles were reported stolen, according to police reports.

Police say the occupants of the Charger fired upon the Ford. One of the occupants ran out of the vehicle and headed southward on Heineman Street.

Two of the occupants of the ve-hicle were caught shortly by the Daytona Beach Police Depart-ment (DBPD) and a third suspect was found later hiding under a house in the area. A sheriff’s he-licopter and canine dogs aid-ed in the search and capture of

the third suspect. A gun also was found and recovered in the area.

George Green, Jr., Justin Nel-son and Tijuan Isaac were all ar-rested.

Green, 18, was charged with grand theft auto and resisting ar-rest without violence. Green also had warrants for failure to appear in reference to battery, grand theft and burglary.

Nelson 22, was charged with motor vehicle grand theft and vi-olation of probation.

Isaac, 18, was identified as the

Family of teen shot in head: ‘Stop the violence’

Will Blacksget in onSpeedwayconstructionaction?BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Black, Hispanic or female busi-ness owners would like to do work on major construction proj-ects. They just have to figure out how to get in the door.

Daytona International Speed-way President Joie Chitwood an-nounced last month that $250 million will be spent for a com-plete overhaul of the Speedway’s frontstretch grandstands, from creating an iconic entrance to the facility that includes escalators to the stands, football-field-length “neighborhoods’’ that include video screens, bars and themed restaurants.

In addition, the redevelop-ment would see every seat in the Speedway frontstretch replaced with new and more comfortable seating as well as the addition of more restrooms and conces-sion stands within easier access points for all fans.

Will the Speedway identify and work with minority-owned con-tractors, suppliers, etc.?

Too late?Orlando Attorney Veronica

Anderson of Anderson and As-sociates told the Daytona Times this week that she is worried the money the Speedway is planning to spend already has been ear-marked for contractors who are not minorities.

“That’s planning. They de-cide who is going to do contract-ing. They already have budget for construction. They have already made a lot of commitments,” said Anderson whose firm is rec-ognized in Florida as a leader in small, disadvantaged, minority and women business enterprise

Vendors, entertainment planned along MLK and Bethune boulevards

BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Hundreds of thousands of bikers will be invading Daytona Beach March 8-16 and among them will be a number of Black bik-ers, including members of the Steel Stal-

lions of Central Florida Motorcycle club.The club was established in 2007 and to-

day many of its members live in Daytona Beach.

Dee “Lendog” Leonard, who lives in Del-tona, is the vice president of the group.

“We enjoy the sport of motorcycling as well as the desire to serve Central Florida communities,” Leonard told the Daytona Times this week.

CEOs, entrepreneursLeonard said one of the goals of the

group is to discredit the typical stereotype of the urban biker.

“We pride ourselves on not only being a multicultural club but also open to both men and women who ride both sport and classic cruisers,” explained Leonard.

“Our current membership expands the spectrum of law-abiding members who hold titles such as CEOs, entrepreneurs, corporate managers, retired military and civil service. We are strong believers in quality rather than quantity.’’

Community serviceLeonard noted that the group does a

number of projects. The group has fed the homeless at the John H. Dickerson Cen-ter, provided school supplies at Derbyshire Park, and organizes the annual Steel Stal-lions Cancer Motorcycle Ride every Octo-ber.

“These are only a few of our efforts we’re

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Black Bikers ready to roar into the city

BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMESharperjames59@yahoo.com

Two sisters, born and raised in Daytona Beach, are entrepreneurs who are trying to help others be successful in business.

Even though Debra Barrs-Paul and Daphne Latimore now live in differ-ent cities and states, their work involves starting busi-nesses and helping busi-

nesses to be successful.Paul-Barrs moved back

to Daytona Beach in 2005. She recently put together what she called the Day-tona Beach Business Expo and Job Fair last month at the Midtown Cultural and Educational Center.

Business owners and employers showcased their businesses and took job ap-plications from potential employees.

“Our goal was to have

as many African-Ameri-can businesses participat-ing to make sure that they also got the exposure they

needed,” Barrs-Paul said.Barrs-Paul explained

that when she moved back to the area one of the first things she learned was that many in the communi-ty didn’t know what busi-nesses are available for their needs.

Expert on eventsThe expo was an oppor-

tunity for locals to connect with the businesses and give those in attendance

ideas on how to start their own businesses,” Barrs-Paul said.

Barrs-Paul, who con-siders herself an event planner, said she also has been working to bring oth-er businesses to the ar-ea. She is a former execu-tive director of the Volusia Flagler Chamber of Com-merce and one in Duval County.

She has helped orga-nize national conferenc-

es, grand openings, work-shops and parades.

“As an African-Ameri-can woman in business, I find that in some cases I am well accepted with the business that I am offer-ing. Event planning isn’t easy by far but it is fun, and when the plan comes together and your client is extremely happy you can say job well done,” said Barrs-Paul.

Sisters raised in Daytona about the business of helping others

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PHOTO COURTESY OF STEELE STALLIONS MOTORCYCLE CLUB

Members of the Steel Stallions Motorcycle Club of Central Florida participated in a Bike Blessing Ceremony last year dur-ing Bike Week in Daytona Beach led by Apostle Muriel Fuqua of Word and Praise Family church (seated on a motorcycle in the center). Also pictured from left to right are president Hector Rodriguez, Sharonda Cowell, Sabrina Thayer, Anthony Booze, Angela Williams, Ted Wolf, vice president Daelwyne Leonard, Harold Lowe, Jeremy Nelson, Gloria Beamon White, Cynthia Wilson, Johnette Martin and Zachary Edwards.

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involved in the Dayto-na Beach community. We continue to look for opportunities to remain ingrained in the city’s culture,” Leonard said.

The approximately two-dozen members of Steele Stallions will be

participating in many of the Bike Week festivities that will be taking place throughout the city on Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard, Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Boulevard, Beach Street, and Main Street, and along A1A.

Activities at Speedway

A number of activities will be taking place at

the Daytona Beach In-ternational Speedway.

The “World Center of Racing” has several fan activities on tap dur-ing Daytona 200 Week, which runs Saturday, March 9 through Satur-day, March 16.

The activities include free demo rides. Out-side of the Daytona In-ternational Speedway, motorcycle enthusiasts can test-ride the lat-

est motorcycles from top manufacturers with free demo rides March 9-16. Riders must have a Department of Trans-por tat ion-approved helmet and motorcycle endorsement on their driver’s license to par-ticipate.

A complete list of Bike Week activities can be found at www.offi-cialbikeweek.com.

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Sterling Courthosting events Sterling Court, an independent retire-ment community is hosting a number of events, activities and seminars free and open to the public in March at 1001 Alabaster Way, Deltona. The events include: March 8 at 2 p.m.: Let’s Talk Seniors, a session on fraud prevention; March 9 at 3 p.m.: Pot of Gold Bingo. Refreshments afterward; and March 10 at noon: An Irish-themed, chef-prepared meal. RSVP: 386-775-8004. Community swap meet March 15, 16A Community swap meet will be held March 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and March 16 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pyramid Community Café, 868 George W. Engram Blvd., Daytona Beach. Community members are asked to bring something they “no longer need and find something you do.’’ More information: Linda Carson, 386-322-6102, ext. 7, or email Corey Best at coreybest@rocketmail.com, or Maria Long at maria.long@healthystartfv.org County planstourism workshop The Volusia County Council will host a follow-up workshop on March 8 to discuss the preliminary report of the tourism marketing study from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ocean Center, 101 N. Atlantic Ave. Dan Fenton of the Strate-gic Advisory Group will be the facilita-tor. Public participation is welcomed. More information: 386-736-5920.

County Fair & Expoto host eventsThe Volusia County Fair & Expo Center will host a roller derby competition March 9; the Down the Street Bead Show & Sale March 9-10; Bike Week camping March 8-17, and the Deland Chamber of Commerce Business Expo on March 27. Parking is free at the Fairgrounds.

Mt. Calvary celebratesWomen’s DayThe Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of Palm Coast will host its annual Women’s Day service on March 10

at 11 a.m., 75 Pine Lakes Parkway South, Palm Coast. Evangelist Faye Dadzie of Joy River Baptist Church in Elgin, Ill. will be the speaker. More information: 386-447-5719.

Cultural Council to meet The Cultural Council of Volusia County will meet at 9 a.m. March 22 at the Museum of Florida Art, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand. Members will discuss the Cultural Council’s programs and upcoming activities. The public is invited to participate. More information: 386-736-5963, ext. 15872, or mfincher@volusia.org. County Council moves retreat The Volusia County Council’s team-building retreat has been rescheduled for 9 a.m. March 28 in the first-floor training room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand. There will be no public participation. More information: 386-736-5920. Watch ‘Forrest Gump’ under the stars The Daytona Beach Regional Library – City Island and Cinematique will feature “Forrest Gump” during their free book-and-a-movie series titled “Cinematique under the Stars” in March. The movie will begin at dusk March 22, in Riverfront Park on the corner of Beach Street and Magnolia Avenue. Moviegoers should bring lawn chairs or blankets. Hot dogs, popcorn, candy and soft drinks will be available for sale. The book discus-sion will begin at 10 a.m. March 25, in library’s board room. More informa-tion: 386-257-6036, ext. 16264.

Women’s Dayat LyoniaWomen can learn about yoga, nutri-tion, business etiquette and more during a Women’s Day celebration 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 9 at the Lyonia Environmental Center. Registration is required and may be made by calling 386-789-7207, ext. 253.

To list your community event FREE, e-mail us at news@daytonatimes.com. No phone calls or faxes, please. Events are listed on a space-available basis, and in the sole discretion of the Daytona Times staff. Effective immediately, paid events will no longer be listed in the Daytona Times Community Calendar. You can advertise local events for as little as $35 per week. Call 813-319-0961 or email sales@daytonatimes for more information.

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Professional coach, consultant

Her sister, who now lives in Northern Virgin-ia, was the guest speak-er at the recent expo in Daytona.

Latimore is the found-er and chief executive consultant of D.B. Lati-more Professional Ser-vices Group, LLC, a

boutique firm special-izing in management consulting, professional coaching services and workforce seminars.

She has experience coaching and consult-ing senior leaders across diverse lines of business and has been credited for successfully trans-forming and aligning domestic and interna-tional organizations with corporate business needs.

Latimore has a mas-ter’s degree in public ad-

ministration from Troy State University and a Bachelor of Science de-gree in psychology from Bethune-Cookman.

She received an ad-vanced leadership train-ing and development through various cor-porate university pro-grams, including Ox-ford University-Said Business School, Uni-versity of Michigan and the University of New Hampshire.

Barrs-Paul said her sister is passionate

about advancing hu-man resources as a pro-fession and is commit-ted to ensuring that peo-ple are an organization’s greatest resource.

The sisters are plan-ning to make the Day-tona Beach expo an an-nual event and hope to do more projects to do promote businesses in the area.

For more information, contact Barrs-Paul at 386-307-4456 or go to her website at http://www.unique4you.com.

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Expect Votran delays and route changes during Bike WeekSPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES

Bike Week brings heavy traffic and Votran riders should expect some delays, interruptions and pos-sible route deviations. Schedule delays will begin Wednesday, March 13, and will continue to occur through Sunday, March 17.

“Votran will make every effort to notify custom-ers as soon as the detours and route deviations are expected,” said Steve Sherrer, Votran general man-ager. “Buses will be rerouted to secondary roads when traffic becomes congested.”

The latter part of Bike Week tends to affect Votran routes/schedules more than the earlier days, add-ed Sherrer. Detours are subject to change without notice.

Some deviationsVotran route deviations during Bike Week in-

clude the following:• The buses will be unable to use Main Street be-

ginning Friday, March 8. • Route 17A/B will use the International Speed-

way Boulevard Bridge. If traffic on Internation-al Speedway Boulevard becomes too congested, Route 17A/B will detour to the Orange Avenue Bridge.

• There will be service interruptions on Interna-tional Speedway Boulevard. There will be no ser-vice to the Daytona Beach Flea Market.

• Route 18 will detour from North Atlantic Ave-nue (State Road A1A) at University Boulevard and use Halifax Avenue to travel to the Transfer Plaza beginning March 13.

• Night service will operate out of the Transfer Plaza from March 13-16. Sunday service will oper-ate out of the Transfer Plaza on March 17.

• Routes 1, 18, 19 and the trolley will make ser-vice stops on S.R. A1A. Route 8 will make service stops on Halifax Avenue.

• The Beachside Trolley will be split into two routes. The North Trolley will travel west on Sil-ver Beach Avenue, east on International Speed-way Boulevard, and north on Granada Boulevard. The South Trolley will travel west on International Speedway Boulevard, east on Silver Beach Avenue and south to Dunlawton Avenue.

Additional time for trips may be needed due to route detours. Votran riders are encouraged to plan routes in advance and to call for up-to-date route detours at 386-761-7700 in Daytona Beach, 386-424-6800 in New Smyrna Beach or 386-943-7033 in West Volusia. Riders can learn more by visiting Votran on the web at www.votran.org.

consulting.Some of the legal repre-

sentation that the firm pro-vides is as legal counsel to governmental entities with Minority and Women Busi-ness Enterprise (M/WBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and race neutral Small Business En-terprise (SBE) programs.

Largest usually hired

Considering the Daytona Speedway is a private com-pany, Anderson said that unless government funds require that it includes mi-nority businesses, the larg-est companies are hired to get the job done.

When the Speedway was working on its “Daytona Live” project three years ago, Anderson was brought in by one of the contractors

hired by the Speedway. She said it was her job to do com-munity out-reach to prospective m i n o r i t y contractors located in the Great-er Daytona

Beach area.“Apparently there was

a discrimination law-suit filed by an employee (against the International Speedway Corporation). Under the stress of that, the city was asking them (the Speedway) to do outreach. The contractor brought me on,” said Anderson.

Anderson said the con-tractor wanted to identify contractors who could do work for the developer on the construction site which was to include construc-tion of retail stores, a mov-ie theater and restaurants on property owned by the Speedway on the northside of International Speedway

Boulevard.

‘Put pressure on’Anderson said she dis-

covered there were a lot of small companies in Day-tona Beach that might not have enough capital to do a big job as well as might have problems getting bonded.

She said her assignment ended because the econ-omy went south and the project was put on hold.

“The community has to put the pressure on. The community has to say you are getting our tax dollars and you need to include us. The community should demand that Black people get jobs and contracts,” An-derson said.

Anderson also said Black subcontractors will hire Black workers. “Not that they don’t hire Whites. When you hire a minor-ity firm, they are willing to hire ex-offenders, give peo-ple a second chance,” she noted.

“Pack a city council (meeting). (Tell them) We want a written commit-ment. If we are not ready, we want assistance in get-ting ready. City commis-sioners can put pressure on them (Speedway). They can become publicly ex-posed and their conscienc-es pricked. They can waive the bond,” Anderson add-ed. “They (businesses) put barriers up that minority businesses cannot get over. Somebody like me has to be on the inside (to tell Speedway), if you make the contract this size you have eliminated all of them.’’

No mention of minorities

Chitwood made the an-nouncement about the overhaul of the frontstretch after he and other Speed-way staff received approv-

al from the city of Daytona Beach and Volusia County government in January to proceed with the project.

He also noted during a press conference last month that the Speed-way is willing to commit at least $250 million if the state Legislature agrees to give the track tax breaks that already apply to the NFL, MLB and other major sports in Florida.

Though Chitwood and others boasted about how many jobs will be created as a result of the project, there was no mention of any guarantee that Blacks and other minorities will receive any contracts to complete the project.

Daytona Beach Dep-uty City Manager Paul McKitrick told the Daytona Times in a recent interview the Speedway approached the city last summer about rezoning the Speedway property south of Interna-tional Speedway Boule-vard and property located on the northside of ISB.

McKitrick said rezoning was done separately for the northside and southside properties.

“Most of the track is owned by Volusia County. The northside is owned by ISC or one of its subsidiar-ies,” he noted.

‘Major milestone’In a statement released

by the Speedway, Chit-wood said “the review and unanimous approval of our Planned Master Devel-opment Application by the City Commission of Day-tona Beach . . . is a major milestone in the pursuit of a potential significant re-development of Daytona International Speedway.”

“Both projects create the potential for a vibrant de-velopment at the gateway to our community with positive economic benefits to the region,” Chitwood continued.

“With this approval, we now can begin the work of developing the project details and evaluating nu-

merous factors that will af-fect our plans,” he said.

Chitwood and the Speed-way are awaiting approval of a bill submitted by Flori-da State Rep. David Santia-go, which asked for a num-ber of tax breaks Chitwood said the project would be contingent on if the project goes forward as planned.

If all goes as the Speed-way wants, they then must go back before the city commissioners for per-mits.

If the Speedway comes before the city requesting permits for construction with something radical-ly different, McKitrick said the Speedway might have to go before the planning board again.

‘No strict requirements’

McKitrick said current-ly there is nothing in writ-ing that would force or en-courage the Speedway to hire minority contractors.

“We’ve done it for city properties but there were no strict requirements. “They (the Speedway will) pay the same fees any contractor will pay - wa-ter, sewer and impact fee,” Mckitrick noted.

In South Florida, which has a heavy Hispanic pop-ulation, McKitrick said it is not uncommon for elected officials to have a “work-force composition” condi-

tion pertaining to public and private construction projects.

McKitrick said he does not know if there is the political will by Dayto-na Beach elected officials to have such a “workforce composition” attached to the Speedway property.

Chitwood was asked about jobs for minori-ties during the press con-ference by the Daytona Times. He sidestepped the question.

‘New front door’He said he hopes to be-

gin renovations “as soon as possible’’ to the 53-year-old structure that an indepen-dent study says provides a $1.6 billion yearly econom-ic impact to the state.

Chitwood said the plan he takes to the Internation-al Speedway Corporation for final approval would have to be adjusted if the tax break isn’t provided.

He added that the ul-timate goal is to create a “new front door’’ for a Day-tona Beach community that he said hosts 8 million tourists a year.

The proposed project is subject to approval by se-nior management of the International Speedway Corporation (ISC), which owns the Daytona Interna-tional Speedway, pending several economic stability factors as well as construc-tion design and costs.

Joie Chitwood III is the president of the Daytona International Speedway.

Veronica Anderson

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We cannot turn away from conflict and reason that it’s too hard to tackle. Conflict isn’t strange and periodically must be dealt with. We must give space and allow others to speak, so they’ll be understood, and we’ll become more caring.

Studies show that most of what we say is really not heard or understood. And so, First Church hosted a free, family-centered sem-inar titled “Communica-tions,” which was the first in a series for a well-planned event on Saturday.

Other topics are sched-uled for presentation: “Money and Finance,” “Parenting” and more. The series is free; seating was limited, and lunch and child care were furnished.

Marketing and promo-tional consideration were provided by Wilmoth Ed-wards, who holds a mas-ter’s in Information Sys-tems, and his wife, Ha-zel Edwards, who earned an MBA from Harvard. The Edwards put together the entire series. They are owners of Randolph Nias and Associates, a manage-ment/consulting firm.

Doctor, nurse share communication tips

Dr. Irving Robinson, M.D., and his wife, Chris-tine Huesner Robinson, R.N., illustrated the most effective ways to commu-nicate. They joined the community in a lively dis-cussion. There were oth-er points impinging upon conflicts and solutions, but

only a few are discussed here.

Dr. Robinson, a retired obstetrician/gynecologist, is an assistant biology pro-fessor at the School of Sci-ence, Engineering, and Math at Bethune-Cook-man University. Christine, a certified midwife, is an instructor for hospital and health care at the School of Nursing at Bethune-Cook-man University.

The Robinsons de-scribed the tools for recog-nizing and managing con-flict:

• Misunderstanding or miscommunication may arise. Lack of cooperation and/or perceived lack of communication could de-velop. Unclear expecta-tions and non-compliance are neither advantageous. Moreover, conflict doesn’t have to result in winners or losers. There are times when one will be a winner, and another time, a loser.

• One must not play the victim.

• Non-verbal communi-cation must be congruent with verbal communica-tion.

• One’s perception is re-ality in that others cannot say that our perception is false.

• Personality differenc-es make us the way we are. However, because individ-uals may be of the same culture does not mean that there’s not going to be con-flict.

• Were you defensive? Nervous? Did you blame the other person? Did you take verbal shots?

The Robinsons provid-

ed skills and knowledge of non-confrontation to allow those attending to think about who they are:

• Avoidance style - This category represents those who deny there is conflict.

• Competitive style - Those representing the category take a stance that they win while the other loses.

• Compromise style - This is the non-confronta-tional style where one gives up something.

• Accommodative style - These persons are willing to lose in order that some-

one can win.• Collaborative style -

This is an empowering cat-egory, allowing the con-tenders to reach mutual problem-solving. More-over, the right time and place must be chosen to discuss the conflict, mak-ing eye contact, maintain-ing good posture, and lis-tening responsively. Dis-cuss what you have agreed on first. Clarify the prob-lem. Avoid paraphrasing. Ask what you need. Elimi-nate emotion and defen-sive behavior. But, be ob-jectively willing to discuss

ideas. Urge the other to be open. Create a plan of ac-tion to follow and hear the other’s thoughts/wants/in-terests, and then you are able to “begin the dance of negotiation” in a spirit of fruit and love.

AACS to host luncheon

The African American Cultural Society (AACS) is proud to host the “An-nual Awards Luncheon” on March 16, 1 p.m., at the AACS, 4422 U.S. 1 North, Palm Coast.

The organizers are Awards Chairman Wal-ter Boone and Ways and Means Chairman/First Vice President Sybil Dod-son Lucas.

The “Meritorious Awards” will go to Lynda Baten, Viv-ian Richardson, and Di-ana McKie-Robinson. The

“Distinguished Long-Term Awards” will go to Robert A. Brooks and Dorothy G. Robinson. All honorees are AACS members.

The ticket price is $25.Contact Stephanie Rob-

inson for tickets at 386-439-7174, the AACS office, 386-447-7030; or email: AACS-PalmCoast@aol.com.

•••As always, remember

our prayers for the sick, af-flicted and bereaved.

Errol Hooke, March 10; Loretta Pete, Lorraine Trapp, March 13. Happy anniversary to John Lucas and Sybil Dodson Lucas, March 10.

Birthday wishes to:

Happy Birthday to You!

Church seminar teaches

participants how to communicate

All part of a well-planned event were Dr. Irving Robinson, Christine Robinson, the Rev. Gillard S. Glover, Wilmoth Edwards and Hazel Edwards.

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VISUAL VIEWPOINT: VOTING RIGHTS ACT

BOB ENGLEHART, THE HARTFORD COURANT

Black Americans’ never-ending challenge

Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans con-tinuing challenge in this land.

In one, Emory University Pres-ident James W. Wagner seemed to suggest that the bargaining among the delegates at the Con-stitutional Convention that pro-duced the infamous three-fifths clause of the Constitution was a model of the value of compro-mise.

In the second, the Feb. 21 Bloomberg Businessweek maga-zine cover had a drawing, above the title, “The Great American Housing Rebound,” consisting of caricatures of grinning Black and Hispanic Americans cavort-ing in a house stuffed with dol-lar bills – suggesting that minor-ity homeowners were gaming the mortgage system.

Five years ago, conservatives made similar charges in trying to pin most of the blame for the collapse of the nation’s housing bubble on Black and Hispanic borrowers.

The third controversy in-volved Dov Hikind, a prominent politician in Brooklyn, N.Y. who “corked up” in Blackface, sun-glasses and a wild Afro wig, as “a Black basketball player,” to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim. Before the volume of re-bukes forced him to make an in-sincere apology, Hikind claimed that any criticism of his behavior was “political correctness to the absurd.”

Finally, and most important-ly, on Feb. 27 the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to the most impor-tant provision of the 1965 Vot-ing Rights Act, the foundation of Blacks’ political advancement since the 1960s. The case was brought by officials of Shelby County, Alabama.

Just four years ago, the Su-preme Court turned back a chal-lenge to the Act in a case from Texas.

But in that case the justices sidestepped ruling whether the Act’s key provision – its Sec-tion 5 clause – was constitu-tional. That clause requires ju-risdictions covered by the Act to get permission from the Justice Department or a special feder-al court before changing voting procedures.

Now, many analysts think the court’s conservative majority will strike it down.

“Racial entitlement”Certainly, Justice Antonin

Scalia made it clear that is his in-

tent. During the oral arguments, he called the Act a “racial enti-tlement” program.

It’s a point of view that a cen-tury and a half ago formed the foundation of the racist attack to destroy Reconstruction.

There’s another bitter irony to the Shelby case. The debate in the court comes amid a continu-ing blizzard of laws and regula-tions in at least 38 states since President Obama’s 2008 elec-tion to try to suppress the vote of Blacks and other Democratic-leaning voting blocs.

Those efforts, widely publi-cized and attacked by civil rights and other groups, had just the opposite effect on Election Day 2012. They produced record-breaking turnouts of Black, His-panic and Asian-American vot-ers that signaled a deeper mat-uration of these groups’ elector-al power – and the growing peril shadowing the Republican Par-ty’s ability to contest future pres-idential elections.

Unalienable rightsThat’s the broader framework

encompassing the Shelby Coun-ty case. It continues the histori-cal pattern of America’s strug-gle over race and the meaning of democracy.

Every “proof” Black Amer-icans forge that shows they, too, can claim the “unalienable rights” the Constitution declared belong to all human beings has always provoked a fierce reac-tion from those Whites who’ve staked their status and identity on excluding them.

Yes, the United States is a long way from the evil bargain James W. Wagner foolishly cited as an example of a “good” compro-mise. But we’re also a long way from the racial Promised Land some people foolishly think is just around the corner.

Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His most recent book is “Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.’’ Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

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Ending violence against womenMarch is the official month to

“discuss” women and it could not arrive too soon.

What is sad about both Black History Month (February) and International Women’s Month (March) is that too many of us think that those are the only legit-imate times of the year to discuss the issues affecting these respec-tive groups.

In either case, attention to the plight of women, in March or any other month, is warranted.

Last year seemed to be the year to attack women. The language of many on the political Right during election season was so phenom-enally backward that in a differ-ent context you would have won-dered whether it was all an act.

Burden on womenSuggesting that there are ac-

ceptable and unacceptable forms of rape, for instance, once again puts the burden on women for the violence that they experience.

Stories over the past year about assaults on women in Egypt have made any sane person’s skin crawl. But we should recognize

that such assaults — rape and molestation of politically active women — are not new.

There is a long history of rape and other forms of violence being used — domestically and interna-tionally — as a means to subju-gate politically active women, and those women who dare to speak out on social, economic and po-litical issues, and not necessarily just on women-related issues.

Billion Rising ProtestThis year’s Billion Rising pro-

tests were aimed at bringing in-ternational attention to the mat-ter of violence against wom-en. The consciousness and con-cerns raised by this and other such efforts needs to be sustained throughout the rest of the year.

Real attention needs to be fo-cused on young men so that they

understand that violence against women is totally unacceptable. A different sort of attention needs to be focused on women such that those who experience violence do not internalize this experience, blaming themselves.

But the attention must also go to other women who, because of the male supremacist societies in which we live, will on occasion close their eyes and ears to the pain of victimized women, in the worst case joining in the chorus of putting the blame on women.

March 2013 is just the right mo-ment to raise popular attention to violence against women. We have to shift the impulses, particularly of men, such that violence against women is not met with silence, nor met with excuses, but is met with support to women and con-demnation of all perpetrators of violence.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. Follow him at www.billfletcherjr.com. Click on this story at www.daytona-times.com to write your own re-sponse.

Bush officials still denying trillion dollar lie

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will even-tually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its pow-ers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

– Joseph Goebbels

Watching the TV special that reviewed information contained in the book, “Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War,’’ by Mi-chael Isikoff and David Corn, brought back memories of arti-cles and radio shows I had done during the run-up to “shock and awe” in March 2003. It reminded me of how callous and shameless those high level politicians were and how low they would go to get this country into an unnecessary war.

It gave me pause as I thought of the nearly 5,000 American lives that were lost, the tens of thou-sands of soldiers who came home incapacitated, minus arms and legs, and the 100,000 Iraqi men, women, and children killed in a war that was supposed to “lib-erate” them. This war was made even more tragic in that it cost more American lives than were lost in the World Trade Center on 9/11.

The Big LieThe authors of “Hubris,’’ as well

as interviews of key individuals involved in the Big Lie, point out the sheer and utter disregard for truth, integrity, and human life.

From the neo-con gang, i.e. Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle, to Rums-feld, Rice, Cheney, and President George W. Bush, one thing was crystal clear: They were going to war with Iraq regardless. They ob-viously didn’t care about weap-ons of mass destruction simply used the threat of WMD to scare everyone else into believing the biggest charade in history. I could hardly believe it when high level officials admitted on television, before the American public, that they were shocked at the lies that were being told by the Bush ad-ministration.

When Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld are asked if they now believe they made a grave error by going into Iraq, they all say, “No, I think it was the right thing to do.” What hubris! It seems they have

no consciences and no fear of the fact that they will someday have to account to a higher court for their actions, irrespective of what they “think.”

Even now, after all the lies have come out and after most reason-able people know the Iraq war was not based on the premise put forth by Colin Powell at the Unit-ed Nations, they still say they did the right thing. I don’t know how they sleep with the blood of thou-sands on their hands.

Unmitigated truthNow we have the long await-

ed unmitigated truth about what happened and how some of us were made to believe the lie. The lie cost $1 trillion and many lives, and it was recited and recanted, in spite of the fact that many in-siders knew it was a lie.

But, the public, the electorate, the “people” believed the lie and were scared into thinking our sol-diers were headed to Iraq to pro-tect our shores and cities from a nuclear weapon Saddam did not have that would be fired at a place it could not reach.

To use those ominous words of George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, as lies go, they don’t get any bigger than a “mushroom cloud.”

We the people are being treat-ed like mushrooms; they keep us in the dark and feed us cow ma-nure.

Jim Clingman is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his website, blacko-nomics.com. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

When Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld are asked if they now believe they made a grave error by going into Iraq, they all say, “No, I think it was the right thing to do.” What hubris!

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JAMES CLINGMAN

An apology to Jesse Jackson Sr.It’s time to man up – I was wrong

about Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.First, some background. I wrote

a column in 2008 under the title, “Winners and Losers from Elec-tion ’08” in which I listed Jesse Jackson, Sr. as one of the biggest losers of that year.

Here is what I said: “His past contributions to America are un-deniable, but his future place is uncertain. Every time he opened his mouth in the past year, he said something negative about Obama. First, Jackson criticized Obama for ‘acting White’ because he was not as forceful as Jesse wanted regarding the Jena 6 case in Louisiana. Then there was the infamous Fox News open mic in-cident where Jackson is heard saying, ‘See, Barack has been talk-ing down to Black people…telling niggers how to behave…I wanna cut his nuts out.’

Jackson evisceratedAs much as I hate to admit it,

Jackson got it right when he ac-cused Obama of “talking down to Black people.” Everyone, in-cluding myself, eviscerated him for making the comment and ac-cused him of being jealous of Obama.

How can we forget when

Obama spoke at the Congressio-nal Black Caucus dinner a couple years ago and told Blacks to “stop complaining?” Obviously, Jack-son saw something in Obama ear-ly that the rest of us missed. Now, we are paying the price for it, es-pecially Blacks.

The Blacks in America – along with a good number of Whites – wanted so badly to show the world that in 2008 our country could be held up as the model for true de-mocracy and equality.

America wanted to prove that anyone, regardless of background, who played by the rules and had a vision, could finally be president of the United States.

Blinded by ObamaTo his credit, Jesse Jackson saw

beyond the rhetoric and some-how had the ability to see deep in-side of Obama’s soul and tried to warn us, however clumsy, of what we were getting. So, Rev. Jackson, again I was wrong and you were

right. You saw a level of arrogance and detachment from the Black community that most of us were blinded to – or didn’t want to see.

You knew he would not pay at-tention to the high unemploy-ment rate in the Black communi-ty. You knew he would not spend much political capital on the high murder rate in Chicago. You knew he would continue to talk down to Black people.

You were rightly ostracized for the way you expressed yourself back in 2008. But on the issue of Obama’s disdain for Blacks; you must be embraced and brought back into the fold.

We wanted Obama to win on many levels. But Jesse Jackson, you have taught us that we should never allow emotions to cloud our judgment. I’m not always right, but I am rarely wrong – and this time, I was definitely wrong.

Raynard Jackson is presi-dent and CEO of Raynard Jack-son & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-based public relations/govern-ment affairs firm. Reach him at www.raynardjackson.com, on Twitter at raynard1223. Click on this story at www.daytona-times.com to write your own re-sponse.

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RAYNARD JACKSON

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M A Y O RDECEMBER 14 - 20, 2006 7LIFESTYLEMARCH 7 – MARCH 13, 2013 5

BY LYNDA V. MAPESTHE SEATTLE TIMES/MCT

SEATTLE — Hit the gym, or the couch? Save for re-tirement, or spend the

whole paycheck? Choose the chips, or the rice cakes in the vending machine?

Most people are going for the chips, finds David Laibson, a Harvard econo-

mist who presented some of his work on how people make choices at the annu-al meeting of the Ameri-can Association for the Ad-vancement of Science in

Boston last week.Laibson’s research con-

sistently finds that people have a terrible time turn-ing their good intentions into action.

And conventional inter-ventions, such as providing education and even finan-cial incentives, don’t nec-essarily help. For example, Laibson counted only a 0.1 percent increase in em-ployees saving in a 401(k) plan even when study sub-jects were paid to listen to presentations about the benefits. “So financial in-centives and education don’t do it,” Laibson said.

In another study, he gave subjects the choice between eating a piece of fruit and chocolate. He learned if the subjects were promised the food in a week, they would choose the fruit. But if it was a re-ward to be delivered the same day, they invariably chose the chocolate.

“The problem is the dif-ference between good in-tentions for the future, and the reward today. If you get the reward today, you give it full weight. A reward in the future gets half the weight.”

Small steps helpIn the domain of ex-

ercise, this translates in-to people eagerly paying money for memberships they will rarely use. “If you ask me how many times I will exercise in the coming year I will say 364 times. Just not today.

“The story with our di-et, our savings, our exer-cise is we have terrible fol-low-through. So what do we do?”

The good news is that his experiments also showed

taking even small concrete steps toward a goal signifi-cantly increased the chanc-es of meeting it. Even better was to start out in the right place, and have to undo it in order to fail.

Consider the 401(k) sav-ings plan choice again. Lai-bson found that by putting the study subjects in a re-tirement plan on an opt-out basis, such that the employees had to sign a form to drop out, sudden-ly participation rates of those not already enrolled zoomed above 90 per-cent — and stayed there. Even two years later, rates were above 88 percent. “It makes all the difference if you start out in the right place,” Laibson said.

Nudges neededIn another experiment,

study subjects were mailed letters encouraging them to have colonoscopy screen-ings. Just 33 percent of those who received the let-ter made an appointment. But the researchers found that if they included a sticky note with blanks for a date and time to be filled in by the subject, screening appointments increased to 37 percent.

“Not a huge difference, but all we did was add a few drops of ink to the mailer and it drove participation up by about 10 percent.

“Using nudges, we can transform good intentions into taking actions.”

Harvard researcher tells how to turn good intentions into action

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A close-up view of some of the healthful vending-machine options that are offered in city-run neighborhood recreation centers in Seattle.

BY NANCY CHURNINDALLAS MORNING NEWS/MCT

Want to make your brain smarter?

Slow down and dig deeper, advises Dr. San-dra Bond Chapman, a neu-roscientist who has spent nearly 30 years studying this question.

It’s not an easy prescrip-tion in a multitasking age where the pinging of mes-sages distracts your train of thought and schools re-ward rote memory, she concedes.

But her research shows that the brain’s true growth occurs only when we fo-cus, analyze and get those trains back on track. Chap-man, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth of the Uni-

versity of Texas at Dallas, discusses her findings in her new book, “Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain’s Creativity, Energy and Focus” (Free Press, $26), written with Shelly Kirkland.

Expert: Technology can be bad for brains

We talked to her recent-ly. Here’s what she said:

Q: Why do the frontal lobes play such a key role in your research?

A: Our frontal lobes pull together all the informa-tion from all the sources we have and help us figure out what to do with it. The frontal lobes have the most complex and vast connec-tions across brain regions and are the last part of the

brain to fully develop, usu-ally in our 20s, but they are also the first to decline be-cause in our 40s we tend to go on automatic pilot in our thinking.

Q: Is technology good or bad for our brains?

A: Yes, it is. (She laughs.) There is some good to staying connected. The problem is that we’re let-ting technology manage us more than we manage it. The more we keep our-selves in shallow, busy lev-els, the more our thinking gets fragmented, the more we are building a distract-ed brain that can’t focus; we’re building an ADD (at-tention-deficit disorder) brain. The frontal lobes re-quire deeper-level think-ing.

Q: What are the first

steps we can take right now to build a smarter brain?

A: Do one thing at a time and hyperfocus, instead of multitask. Try to think of two important things you do that have been on au-tomatic pilot and repeat-ed in the same way far too long and brainstorm ways to shake them up. Be cre-ative. When you go to a movie, ask yourself what the messages are and how can you apply them to yourself. Every time you do something new or under-stand something new, that stretches and builds com-plex frontal-lobe connec-tions. All of these are ex-ercises for above the neck that help you think smart-er, not harder.

Focus, analyze, and take time to grow your brainpower, expert advises

Factors include aging, loss of stigma andfinancial concerns

BY LESLIE MANNCHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCT

CHICAGO — One day in 2011, Virginia Koerber, Lake Villa, Ill., recalled, she “woke up with a new life.” At 65, she got divorced.

“At an age when I had thought we’d travel and be retired, I was on my own,” she said.

People may marry with “forever” intentions, Ko-erber said, noting that her parents were married for 56 years, but “it doesn’t al-ways turn out that way.”

Now, Koerber is part of a growing club: people who divorce after age 50. The divorce rate for this group doubled between 1990 and 2010, according to a study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Re-search at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

“This surprised us, be-cause the rate for young-er people has leveled off,” said lead researcher Susan Brown, a sociology profes-sor. “In 1990, only 1 in 10 divorces were people 50

and older. Now it’s 1 in 4.”

Ignoring the ‘rules’Brown attributes the in-

crease to more seniors (“that huge segment of ba-by boomers”), more wom-en with careers (“they don’t have to stay in empty-shell marriages for the money”) and more people ignoring their churches’ no-divorce rules.

Ironically, Brown said, some of the same factors that invigorate longtime marriages, such as chil-dren leaving home, cause others to end.

“The kids are gone, the marriage has been over for a while and one spouse de-cides she can’t take it any-more,” said James Pritikin, a Chicago-based lawyer and a fellow of the Ameri-can Academy of Matrimo-nial Lawyers.

The over-50 divorce rate is even higher among those who remarried.

“They have a lot of com-plications because of step-children and financial and health care decisions,” Brown said. “But they al-so know they can divorce, that life goes on.”

Different needsDemographics affect

late-in-life divorces, the study found. Blacks have

the highest rates, followed by Hispanics, then Whites and Asians. The more ed-ucation, the lower the rate. The unemployed divorce more than workers do; re-tirees have the lowest rate.

Looking ahead, the study predicted that even if the over-50 divorce rate remains steady, the num-bers of divorces will climb because of the aging popu-lation.

Society will be affected by the “graying of divorce,” Brown said. “We need to look at these people the way we’ve looked at wid-

owhood. Many need help financially. They had fewer kids, and the kids aren’t al-ways nearby, so they more often have to look outside the family for caregiving.”

The needs of divorcing clients past 50 are different from those of younger cli-ents, Pritikin said.

“We have to make sure the ex has health insur-ance, which may mean getting COBRA (temporary health insurance) through her ex’s plan until she is eligible for Medicare,” he said.

“The spouse who doesn’t

have job skills may need (alimony). The most trou-bling part is the bulk of the marital estate is often tied up in home equity, but the home is worth less now or they’re underwater with their mortgage.”

‘Stigma is gone’Even among seniors,

said Pritikin, age makes a difference in attitude.

“People in their 50s and 60s are ready to get on with their lives,” he said. “But the 80-year-old is angry. She’s going to be alone at a point when she didn’t ex-

pect this.”The good news, Pritikin

said, is society’s changing view of divorce.

“Used to be, you and your kids were tainted. Not now. The stigma is gone.”

Overall, Koerber consid-ers herself lucky.

“My kids have their own lives, but they’re here for me if I need them,” she said. “My income is low, but at least I have a job and a house. I’m healthy. You know who my biggest sup-port system is? Divorced girlfriends. We look out for each other.”

Post-50 divorce rate has doubled in past 20 years

Virginia Koerber poses at her home last month in Lake Villa, Ill. She became part of a growing trend for older Americans when she got divorced at age 65.

TIPS FOR BRAIN HEALTH

Advice from Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman:Practice the “brainpower of none” and quiet

your mind. Your brain solves complex problems when you step away to reflect on ideas rather than pushing nonstop, so schedule periods of brain downtime to see “aha” moments.

Practice the “brainpower of two.” When writing your to-do list, focus on the two items that are the most pivotal to your success, will have the most impact, and will require the most attention and strategic thinking.

Expand your passion. Your brain is energized when motivational juices are flowing.

Get a good night’s sleep — a regular seven-eight hours. Your brain connects knowledge and experiences in new ways when at rest. Even a quick nap invites mind renewal and innovation.

Don’t check your email before bedtime. Give your brain a break.

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shooter, according to police reports. He was charged with aggravated battery on a person with use of a deadly weapon. Isaac also was charged with trespass-ing, possession of cocaine and possession of cannabis under 20 grams.

Police arrested a fourth suspect, Enrique Chap-man, on Tuesday after-noon.

Arguing about carPolice reports indicate

that Chapman was the original driver of the gray Dodge but got out short-ly after the shooting to get another vehicle.

“We have taken Mr. Chapman into custody on Wednesday afternoon. We now have all four suspects in custody,” confirmed Flynt.

According to reports, the occupants of the Dodge

(Isaac, Green, Nelson, Chapman) were arguing with the occupants of the Red Ford 500 (Dent and John Headon) over owner-ship of the Ford.

Reports say that the Ford then pulled off but was fol-lowed by the Dodge. The driver of the Dodge pulled next to the Ford and began to fire shots at it.

One resident at the scene who wished not to be iden-tified told the Daytona Times, “The two vehicles were trailing each other and one opened fire on the other. I believe that I heard seven or eight shots. One of the guys ran out of the sec-ond vehicle. This neigh-borhood isn’t really violent but every now and then we have riffraff that comes here and does something.”

‘Ordinary kid’Community activist Nor-

ma Bland is serving as a spokesperson for the fam-ily of the shooting victim.

“He is someone’s child. He is an ordinary kid like everyone else. He is just a

victim of a tragic incident,” said Bland.

Dent is the cousin of Ray-shard Mitchell, a 23-year-old who was found dead from a gunshot wound on Verdell Street back in De-cember.

“We do not think that this shooting is related to that earlier shooting,” stat-ed DBPD spokesman Jim-my Flynt.

Added Bland, “The fam-ily is calling for anyone with information in re-gards to this shooting as well Rayshard’s murder to please come forward with information to the Daytona Beach Police Department. The family does not know if the incidents are con-nected.

“The family is just dev-astated and saddened by these events. The family is also asking for young peo-ple to please stop the vio-lence.’’

Dent’s family plans to hold a press conference soon to discuss the shoot-ing, Bland said.

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B e t h u n e - C o o k m a n opened Mid-Eastern Ath-letic Conference (MEAC) play by sweeping a three game series from archrival Florida A&M.

“It’s always good to start off well in the conference and get things rolling the right way. We are in a good position. We want to get better each game and im-prove as the season goes along to get where we want to be,” said Jason Bever-lin, B-CU’s head baseball coach.

Spruce Creek High al-um Scott Garner pitched a complete game shutout for the Wildcats in a 7-0 victo-ry in game two of a double header on March 2.

“It was good to throw strikes and go long to help our team. We need-ed a good outing form our pitching staff,” responded Garner.

“Scott threw the ball ex-cellent. He rebounded from his last outing. He was tough and kept con-trol,” added Beverlin.

Wildcats strike earlyB-CU (6-6, 3-0) struck

early with a four run fourth inning to lead 4-0. In the in-ning, Anthony Stokes had a two-run double and Matt Noble an RBI single.

Stokes finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs scored while Noble was 2-for-4 with two RBIs.

Kelvin Singletary, Hunt-er Barfield, Kendal Weeks and Marlon Gibbs each had a hit for FAMU.

The Wildcats won the first game 8-6 despite hav-ing only three hits while the Rattlers hurt them-selves with six errors.

B-CU led 5-0 after six in-nings as pitcher Ali Simp-son was shutting down FA-MU.

“We were fortunate to win that first game. We def-initely played our best, but we were fortunate to win it. Ali was cruising, but he got in trouble later due to lo-cation,’’ commented Bev-erlin.

Rally by RattlersFlorida A&M (0-11, 0-3)

rallied to take a 6-5 lead after Marlon Gibbs dou-ble and scored on an error and Kendal Weeks ground-ed out to second to drive in a run in the top of the sev-enth inning.

Shaun McCarthy reached first on an error to score Matt Noble to give B-CU a 7-6 lead in the bottom of the eight inning.

Jordan Dailey pitched one and two-thirds innings in relief to get the win, Josh Johnson had a hit and two RBIs, Noble and Chris Bio-cic each had a hit and RBI apiece and Stokes an RBI for the Wildcats.

Josh Garrett went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, Gibbs went 2-for-4 and Jared Walker had a hit with an RBI and two runs scored for the Rattlers.

B-CU took down FAMU 3-2 in the series finale the next day.

Noble went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, Eros Modena

2-for-4, Stokes 1-for-2 with an RBI and freshman Byron Ferguson got his first career win on the mound pitching two scoreless innings in re-lief for the Wildcats.

Weeks was 2-for-4 while Reginald Grant and Ryan Debi each had a hit an RBI for FAMU.

The Wildcats hosted Central Michigan on March 5-6 and will travel to North Carolina Central on March 9-10.

Basketball: Wildcats fall on the road

The road wasn’t kind to either of Bethune-Cook-man’s basketball programs this past week.

The men’s team suf-fered a heartbreaking 62-61 defeat to Norfolk State who remains unbeaten in MEAC play on March 1 and fell to Hampton 75-66 on Monday.

Adrien Coleman had 15 points and 12 rebounds, Ja-voris Bryant 12 points with 10 rebounds and Allen Dempster a career-high 14 points for B-CU against Hampton.

Against Norfolk State, Paul Scotland led the way with 16 points while Cole-man and Kevin Dukes each had 12 and Alex Smith nine points with eight boards for the Wildcats.

The Lady Wildcats on-ly scored 68 points in two games falling to Norfolk State 67-40 and Hampton 74-28.

Chastity Taylor tallied 19

points and Shaekyia Coly-er 11 for B-CU against Nor-folk. Sharnese Neal scored 12 points to pace the Wild-cats against Hampton.

Both teams play at Cop-pin State on March 7 to end the regular season. Both programs will compete in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in Norfolk, Va., from March 11-16.

Softball: Ladies split home opener

Bethune-Cookman (3-13) split a double head-er with Niagara (2-7) in a home opener on March 3.

The Lady Wildcats ex-ploded for a seven run fourth inning to win the first game 10-2.

Calesha Shelly went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored while So-phia Ortega was 2-for2 with two runs scored for B-CU.

Shanel Tolbert got the win on the mound while Auriela Gamch and Mi-chelle Banuelos-Smith each had a hit and RBI for the Lady Wildcats.

In the second game, Gamch, Simone Ceasar, Kelsi Rodney, Melissa Ber-outy and Breanna Chavez each had a hit for B-CU in a 5-2 loss.

The Ladies hosted Prov-idence and Boston Col-lege on March 6 and 7 re-spectively. They hit the road from March 10-13 be-fore returning home to face Cornell and Monmouth on March 18-19.

Wildcats sweep Rattlers on the diamond

B-CU ROUNDUP

PHOTOS BY DUANE FERNANDEZ/HARDNOTTS PHOTOGRAPHY

Bethune-Cookman’s Anthony Stokes (33 in yellow) holds on Florida A&M’s Kendal Weeks (14 in black) at first base during a game at Jackie Robinson Ballpark. The Wildcats swept the Rattlers in the three-game series to open MEAC play.

The Wildcats defense gets ready while the pitcher Shanel Tolbert throws a pitch during the game against Niagara University.

B-CU’s Sophia Ortega tags out a Niagara University (New York) base runner at first base during a recent game while teammate Aureila Gamch (2) backs up the play from second base and Breanna Chavez (32) looks on from third base.

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Former Warner Christian Academy star and junior col-lege All-American Breon Allen will play football at East Carolina University next season.

Allen played the last two sea-sons at Snow Col-lege in Ephraim, Utah.

In 2012, he ran for 1,632 yards with a school re-cord 20 rushing touchdowns. Al-len was named Western States

Football League Player of the Year and National Junior College

Athletic Association First Team All-American.

Allen is now Snow’s all-time career leading rusher with 2,404 rushing yards. He is also War-ner’s all-time leading rusher.

Price to coach at Spruce Creek

Andy Price, former head foot-ball coach at Warner Christian Academy, is coming back to Volusia County.

Price resigned from his head coach position at Titusville High on Monday to take the same

position at Spruce Creek High School. In one season, Price led a young Terriers squad to a 4-6 re-cord.

Price led Warner’s program for 13 seasons where he went 113-45 during that span. Under Price, the Eagles had 12 playoff appear-ances, including 10 straight from 2001-2010 and three straight Class 1B state title games from 2008-2010.

Spruce Creek went 12-28 over the past four seasons under Bob Goebel, including a 2-8 mark in 2012.

Attempts to reach Price before the Daytona Times’ deadline on Wednesday were unsuccessful.

Middle school basketball returns

Once again, middle school

basketball is here. The Volusia County school district’s middle school basketball season is set to run from March 19 through May 16.

The Campbell Spartans are the boys defending champions while the Port Orange Creekside Cougars are the girls defending champions.

Middle school basketball be-gan back in 2005. The sport re-turned in 2010 following a two year absence (2008-2009).

The East Side division consists of Ormond, Holly Hill, Campbell, Hinson, Silver Sands, Creekside and New Smyrna while the West Side division includes DeLand, Deltona, Southwest, Galaxy, Her-itage and Riverside.

The two division champions will meet in the championship

game on May 21, which will be played at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach.

The sport has become quite popular over the years and show-cases much of the future high school talent.

Check with schools and the Volusia County school district for schedules.

Prep Sports Seven Baseball

1. New Smyrna (7-0), 2. Spruce Creek (7-2), 3. Trinity (5-3-1), 4. Flagler Palm Coast (4-2), 5. Uni-versity (6-3), 6. Seabreeze (4-4), 7. Mainland (6-2), Taylor (8-2). Others: DeLand (5-5) Father Lo-pez (4-1) Deltona (3-3-1).

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BY FREDDIE ALLENNNPA WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON – Af-ter years of being on the rise, the number of Black men locked behind bars in state and federal prisons decreased 9.8 percent be-tween 2000 and 2009 while the incarceration rate for Black women fell 30.7 per-cent over the same period, according to a new study.

The report, “The Chang-ing Racial Dynamics of Women’s Incarceration,” was issued by the Sentenc-ing Project, a non-prof-it group that advocates for criminal justice reform.

As the incarceration dropped for African-Amer-icans, the imprisonment rates for White women jumped more than 47 per-cent from 2000 to 2009 as

the number of White men in prison increased by 8.5 percent.

Some experts say that the uptick in metham-phetamine abuse among Whites is one of several factors contributing to in-crease in that race’s incar-ceration rates.

“If we look at the num-bers, it seems like the most significant part of the de-cline for Black women comes through fewer drug offenders,” said Marc Mau-er, the executive director of The Sentencing Project.

‘War on Drugs’The report found that

women were more dis-proportionately affected by the ratcheting up of the “War on Drugs” 30 years ago. The adoption of man-datory sentencing policies

for drug offenses also ush-ered in a new wave of non-violent criminals: the girl-friends of drug dealers.

“Since the only means of avoiding a mandatory pen-alty is generally to cooper-ate with the prosecution by providing information on higher-ups in the drug trade, women who have a partner who is a drug seller may be aiding that seller, but have relatively little information to trade in exchange for a more lenient sentence,” ac-cording to the report.

On the other hand, the boyfriend drug dealers usu-ally had more information to trade and were thus able to negotiate softer sentenc-es than their female part-ners. Researchers reported that 25.7 percent of women in prison were drug offend-ers compared to 17.2 per-cent for men.

‘Girlfriend problem’One of the most notori-

ous cases that illustrated the “girlfriend problem” involved Kemba Smith, a young college student that never sold drugs, but was found guilty by her associ-ation to an abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend.

Smith, a first-time of-fender, was sentenced to 24.5 years in 1995 for con-spiracy, money launder-ing and making false state-ments. Following a cam-paign by Emerge maga-zine, legal assistance by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a public outcry, President Bill Clinton granted her clemency in 2000.

Now, with increased ac-cess to drug treatment through community groups and changes in drug poli-cies, the groups that suf-fered most are now reaping the benefits. In 2000, the report stated, Black wom-en were incarcerated at a rate six times that of White women.

By 2009 that disparity be-tween Black women and White women decreased to just less than three to one. The incarceration gap be-tween Black men and White men also narrowed falling 16.9 percent from 7.7 times – 6.4 times the rate of White men over decade.

Sentencing Project report

During the first decade of this century, arrest rates for Blacks also declined in three major groups: vio-lent crime (down 22.2 per-cent), property crime (11.5 percent) and drug offenses (11.8 percent). Whites saw increases in arrest for prop-erty crime (up 16.6 percent) and drug offenses (2.2 per-cent). The rate of Whites ar-rested for violent crime fell 11.1 percent.

Because of the study pe-riod, it’s unlikely that recent changes to the notorious Rockefeller drug laws and the implementation of the Fair Sentencing Act (that

reduced the disparity be-tween the amount of crack cocaine and powder co-caine needed to trigger cer-tain United States federal criminal penalties) had any impact on the changing dy-namic of the racial makeup in our nation’s prisons.

The Sentencing Project report suggested that in-creased support for sub-stance abusers and pro-grams geared towards helping ex-offenders return to their communities were likely contributing factors to changes in the incarcer-ation rates.

“These include initiatives such as treatment diversion programs, sentence reduc-tion incentives for partici-pation in prison program-ming, enhancing reentry support, and reduced tech-nical violations of parole,” stated the report.

Other issuesStates also have turned

to closing prisons in an ef-fort to save money.

According to the report: “During 2011 and 2012, 17 states either closed or con-sidered closing prison fa-cilities, with a total capac-ity reduction of more than 28,000 beds.”

Nadirah Aasim, commu-nity advocate and former drug offender from Wash-ington, D.C., said focus needs to remain on keep-ing women ex-offenders with drug problems from returning to prison.

“[The authorities] need to see that women come with more issues than men come with,” said Aasim. “We have to deal with the children, we have to find housing. It hurts us more when we can’t reconnect with our children.”

Aasim said that family is-sues for women ex-offend-ers are compounded by unemployment, readily ac-cessible drug markets, and less than supportive proba-tion officers.

By the numbersA 2007 report by the De-

partment of Justice found that Black women stood a 34 percent chance of re-turning to prison following release compared to 26.4 percent of White women ex-offenders.

“In 1980, about 13,000 women were incarcerated in federal and state prisons combined representing 4% of the total prison popula-tion,” the Sentencing Proj-ect report found.

“Since that time, the rate of growth of women in pris-on has exceeded the rate of increase for men, rising 646% from 1980 to 2010, compared to a 419% in-crease for men. As a result, in 2010 there were 112,000 women in state and feder-al prison and 205,000 wom-en overall in prison or jail; women now constitute 7% of the prison population.”

Aasim said that more programs that focus on helping women drug of-fenders are needed inside and outside of prison.

RecommendationsThe report outlined a

number of recommenda-tions designed to help law-makers tackle the racial disparities that exist in sen-tencing policies, including the establishment of state commissions to help iden-tify racial disparities in the criminal justice system and to study the impact of cur-rent and future sentenc-ing policies on the race and gender makeup of prison populations.

Mauer said that he’s cau-tiously optimistic about the recent changes in the incar-ceration rates for Blacks.

“For a lot of people, I think the attitude is that, ‘this is a sad situation and there’s nothing that we can do about that,’” said Mauer. “The [recent trends] show progress and we have an obligation to continue that progress and learn from it, too. So, I hope that policy-makers would come away from this with that message as well.”

Black women see dramatic fall in incarceration rates

Kemba Smith’s case highlighted problem of Black women in prison.