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East Central Florida’s Black VoiceSEPTEMBER 27 - OCTOBER 3, 2012YEAR 37 NO. 39
HaRRY C. aLFORD: Diversity has replaced Jim Crow around the world page 4
Palm Coast youth present
‘The Melting Pot’ See page 3
SPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office will establish five drop-off points this Saturday as part of a
national effort to help residents dispose of unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs. The five drop-off sites, at Sheriff’s district offices in DeLand, Delto-
na, DeBary, Holly Hill and New Smyrna Beach, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday’s program is part of a national Prescription Drug Take-Back Day being coordi-nated across the country by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin-istration (DEA) to provide a safe method for residents to dispose of unwanted drugs.
It’s in response to studies that
show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, includ-ing the home medicine cabinet. More than 550,000 pounds of un-wanted or expired medications were turned in during the last na-tional take-back event in April when a total of 5,659 take-back sites were established across the country.
Saturday’s event is free and
anonymous. The Sheriff’s Of-fice’s drop-off sites will be at the following locations:
• 1706 S. Woodland Blvd., De-Land
• 1691 Providence Blvd., Del-tona
• 94 S. U.S. Highway 17-92, De-Bary
• 999 Third St., Holly Hill• 101 E. Canal St., New Smyrna
Beach
Sheriff’s Office to host five sites for drug take-back day
University officially opens state-of-the art athletic training center
BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA [email protected]
More than 100 Bethune-Cookman University administrators, staffers, coaches, athletes, students, commu-nity residents, local political leaders witnessed history on Sept. 21 as the school dedicated its Larry R. Hand-field Athletic Training Center.
The new state-of-the-art facility is located on campus at the corner of International Speedway Boulevard and Lincoln Street across from the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center.
“It’s a great day and I am excited. We are marching forward to excel-lence providing world-class athletes who will graduate and go and proceed with the best,” said B-CU Interim Pres-ident Dr. Edison Jackson.
The purpose of the building is to up-grade the school’s athletic facilities.
“This is a historic occasion. We
NAACP leader challenges state
members, residents during talk about attack on voters’ rights
BY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES [email protected]
“Somebody ought to say something” was repeated over and over again by the Rev. Nel-son B. Rivers during a public meeting on Sept. 20 during the state convention of the Florida NAACP.
Rivers was the main speaker at the opening night session for the Florida State Conference of the NAACP held at Allen Cha-pel AME Church in Daytona Beach.
Rivers, pastor of Charity Missionary Baptist Church, in North Charleston, S.C., also serves on the NAACP’s nation-al board as the vice president of Stakeholder Relations.
He was introduced by Leon Russell, vice chair of the na-tional NAACP’s board of direc-tors.
“My task is to introduce my friend. He found the Lord and the NAACP. I don’t know which came first. If you are in the NAACP, you will find the Lord,” Russell said to laughter.
“We are not going to let any-one turn us around,” Russell added.
Promoting presidentRussell was referring to elect-
ed officials who have passed laws in their states the NAACP believes are aimed at sup-pressing the Black vote in the upcoming general election.
Nelson picked right up where Russell left off.
“This is not about voter fraud. They don’t want folks who voted the last time (for President Barack Obama) to vote this time. I’m not going to let you lie about it and say it
was fraud,” Rivers said, direct-ing his comments to anyone listening whom he thought was working to suppress votes.
Rivers said God put some-one who “looks like me’’ in the most powerful job in the world.
“I get mad for him. The an-grier I get, the cooler he gets,” Rivers said, adding that he met has met the president on sev-eral occasions and that his daughter is currently working for him at the White House.
“I heard him (Obama) pray. He does know something. He has a relationship with some-body,” he continued.
Rivers said he really gets ag-itated when he hears Republi-cans talking about taking their country back.
“Take back the country from whom. How do you take some-thing back you stole,” Rivers in-quired, saying Europeans took the land from Native Ameri-cans.
‘Been there. Done this’Rivers argued that Repub-
licans are now trying to take
something from Blacks and Hispanics.
“Stealing the right to vote in broad daylight and bragging while you did it. Somebody ought to say something,” de-clared Rivers.
“We knew it (struggle) would never be easy. Did not know
we would have to dig the same well, fighting for voting rights,” he said.
“Everytime we have been on the verge of great change, somebody’s always trying to push us back. Been there, done this. Justice will prevail. We are
More progress on B-CU campus
Author: Men should follow sisters to the pollsBY JAMES HARPERDAYTONA TIMES [email protected]
Though the room was filled with mostly women, Black men were urged at the Florida State NAACP convention to “follow our women into the voting booth.”
Michael Eric Dyson, the au-thor of “Why I Love Black Women’’ and 17 other books is a Georgetown College professor and MSN-BC pundit.
He spoke to hun-dreds of NAACP members at their state convention Saturday in Dayto-na Beach.
“The key to our community is to treat our women right,” said Dys-on, adding, “Where would we be to-day without them? Real men aren’t scared of real women.”
The room was filled with most-ly women who welcomed his com-ments with applause and were en-ergized not only by his comments, but by the words of encouragement from dozens of speakers during the three-day event at the Hilton Dayto-na Beach Oceanfront Resort.
Remembering state’s dark past
Lizzie Robinson Jenkins, found-er and CEO of The Real Rosewood Foundation, and a member of the NAACP, said she felt an obligation to be at this year’s convention.
“I’m a member to continue the legacy of the civil rights movement, and I’m here so we can go into our communities and continue educat-ing people on the importance of vot-ing,” said Jenkins.
The purpose of Jenkins’ Real Rosewood Foundations is to tell the story of a majority Black community in Levy County. Between January 1 and 8 in 1923, the town of Rosewood was invaded by a White posse and burned to the ground.
Please see NAACP, Page 2 Please see AUTHOR, Page 6
PHOTOS BY JAMES HARPER/DAYTONA TIMES
“Injustice must be dealt with and addressed by the church,” the Rev. Nelson B. Rivers said last week at a Florida NAACP session at Allen Chapel AME Church in Daytona Beach.
At right is Adora Obi Nweze, president of the Florida NAACP. She is seated next to Cynthia Slater, president of the Volusia County-Daytona Beach branch of the NAACP.
‘Somebody ought to say something’
Please see MARCH, Page 2
Michael Eric Dyson
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Bethune-Cookman family members and friends attend the dedication of the Larry R. Handfield Athletic Training Center.
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going to vote like nobody’s business. Can’t stop the Lord’s work no matter how hard you try,” Rivers im-plored.
Stern words for clergy
Rivers had his stron-gest comments for his fel-low clergy and members of their churches.
“There is need for all people to come together. This is such a time.
Can talk and walk in faith. (There are) those who lead, stand in the pul-pit and say not a mumbling word,” he said.
“Our job is to speak. If they don’t hear our voice, whose voice will they hear?” Rivers asked.
Rivers said the elite and powerful are taking advan-tage and making fun of the poor.
“Injustice must be dealt with and addressed by the church,” he said.
Rivers said now is the time for Blacks to make a difference.
He reminded those in attendance that it was 49 years ago this month, Sun-day, Sept. 15, 1963 at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Ala., that four little girls were killed because of a bomb at a Black church.
“Killed them to stop peo-ple from voting. Register to
vote. If the church is afraid, our community is in trou-ble,” Rivers remarked.
State NAACP praised
Rivers praised the Flor-ida NAACP for the work it has done speaking up and continuing to register peo-ple to vote in spite of new laws that are making it more difficult to do so.
“God bless … the Florida NAACP. The NAACP kept registering while others quit,” he noted.
Daytona Beach NAACP President Cynthia Slat-er said it was an honor to serve as host branch.
“We are working to equip our delegates to fight back against attacks on voters’ rights,” said Slater.
“Delegates will leave en-ergized and ready to work and increase minority vot-ers,” she concluded.
Adora Obi Nweze, presi-dent of the Florida NAACP, said she likes coming to Daytona Beach for the state
convention because of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of Bethune-Cookman University, and the opportunity to hear the B-CU Concert Chorale.
“Mary McLeod Bethune belongs to Daytona Beach, the world and NAACP. She was vice president of our board. She left a legacy for us to follow,” said Nweze.
Nweze said one of the main purposes of the con-vention this year was the election in November.
“We got to take another step – getting ready for that last step here in Daytona Beach,” she said.
“We’re going to insure justice is carried out on Nov. 6. Don’t worry about what pundits say. Worry about what we do,” con-cluded Nweze.
The remaining activities, workshops, panel discus-sions took place at the Hil-ton Daytona Beach Ocean-front Resort, culminating with a Freedom Fund Ban-quet and awards program Saturday night.
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Reflecting on NAACP advances
Rosemary Christy, a delegate from Ala-chua County, said she was at the conven-tion because she believed in the cause.
“All my life I have been taught to ad-vocate for our race and ourselves – give back so others can make it. Our true voice is the right to vote. It is the equal-izer,” said Christy.
Delegate Evelyn Foxx said it was im-portant for her to attend the convention so she could take information back to tell others what she learned.
“I realize without the NAACP all the advances we have made as a people wouldn’t have happened without the NAACP,” said Foxx.
NAACP delegate Yvonne Hinson Rawls said she felt “our civil rights and freedom were under attack.’’
Rawl decided to become politically ac-tive. Never having run for office, she won a seat on the Gainesville City Commis-sion this summer.
“I had to reengage myself when I saw what was happening to my own people,” said Rawls, who had relocated from Mi-ami to Gainesville.
Linda Johnson, fifth vice president of the Florida NAACP and a resident of Palm Beach County, said the convention helped to mobilize her and others.
“They want to roll back the times to parallel the struggles of the ‘60s. We will be able to stop them. It will take all of us – preachers, pimps and players – not just NAACP members,” said Johnson.
Hot and angryDyson was asked to be the featured
speaker at the Saturday luncheon mainly to help motivate the crowd.
The author said he could do some-thing President Barack Obama can’t do.
“He’s cool. Some of us have to be hot and angry. That’s where I come. I get hot so he can be cool,” said Dyson as he began a diatribe against those who are against “his president.”
“Don’t be mad he did it the way you said it ought to be done,” said Dyson - most of his comments directed at peo-ple who were not in the grand ballroom at the Hilton.
“We have been hoodwinked and bam-boozled. You’re working to keep some people in and keeping some people out. You are mad that I am who I am. You’re mad a person of color occupies the high-est office in the land. We’re trying to vote and you trying to throw us the okey doke,” said Dyson, who is known for rev-ving up a crowd.
“We understand what you are doing. We know voter fraud is not the real issue. Same ID was good enough to put George Bush back in office but not good enough to put Barack Obama back in office,” he continued. “This ain’t going to stop us.”
Romney criticized for ‘47 percent’ quote
Dyson told the crowd of about 300 that they know Florida has a history of trick-ery and chicanery when it comes to elec-tions.
“They want to point shave down here – shave off a few Black and brown votes. We’ve got to keep on going like our lives depend upon it,” Dyson explained.
Dyson also was upset over com-ments Republican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney made about support-ers of Obama who Romney referred to as the 47 percent who will always vote for Obama because they are dependent on the government.
“Most people on welfare and Medic-aid are not people of color,” said Dyson, who Romney implied were supporters of Obama.
“We came from people who struggled for the right to vote. This ain’t going to stop us,” he concluded.
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give thanks for a facility which will change the lives of youngsters for a time to come,” stated B-CU Di-rector of Athletics Lynn Thompson.
‘Smart building’The new facility is
equipped with many state-of-the art features, includ-ing a weight room; sports medicine treatment, obser-vation and rehabilitation rooms; X-ray capability, team meeting rooms, vid-eo rooms and offices. The new building is equipped with the latest technology.
“This is a state-of-the-art smart building that is sec-ond to none. In each office, coaches have touch-screen technology that gives them instant access to what they need,” emphasized Dr. Lar-ry Handfield, the B-CU trustee and Miami-based attorney whose name is on the building.
Private funds took care of the cost, which has a hefty $4.7million price tag.
“This wasn’t built by state-government mandat-ed funds but by those who had a desire and passion to give,” expressed Thomp-son.
Thanks to fans, boosters
Patrons who contributed funds for the construction of the facility also were rec-
ognized during the dedi-cation. A wall inside the building has the names of every person who contrib-uted any money towards the building’s construc-tion.
The building also is home to the Athletic Hall of Fame and the football program.
“Our football program is the direct beneficiary and steward of this facili-ty. Our head football coach Brian Jenkins is the build-ing’s manager,” comment-ed Thompson.
“I would like to thank everybody who made this possible from the alumni, fans, boosters and admin-istration. When I first took this job, I made a prom-ise that a new day is com-ing. Seeing this facility and being a part of it gives me a reassured sense to that promise and I make that promise again. It’s also a promise that we all must keep,” added Jenkins.
Handfield honored The event also honored Handfield whom the build-ing is named after. He was one of the main contribu-tors of funds and advocates for the facility.
“I had to pinch myself to make sure that I wasn’t at-tending my own funeral. I give honor to all the trust-ees, alumni, faculty, ad-ministration, students and fans. I am without words and as a trial lawyer that is saying something,” Hand-field remarked.
Handfield is the former director of the school’s board of trustees, current
trustee member, a B-CU alumnus and former band member.
“What’s special about this institution is that the professors care. I had one that stopped me from sleeping when I was in his class. It was the first class of the day and I was in the band and was up practic-ing late. This institution has shaped and molded me as well as taught me the responsibilities to give back to others,” comment-ed Handfield.
Community supportThose who attended the
ceremony felt excitement for what the building has to offer.
“I think the facility is great. I think that the stu-dents and the commu-nity will benefit. I believe that it will definitely help the school recruit top ath-letes. Student athletes want to attend schools that in-vest in their future. This is good for an HBCU to be able to compete with oth-er schools across the state and country,” said Kim Brown-Crawford.
Albert Williams, a former assistant football coach in the 1970s, added, “This is a tremendous place and it gives many opportunities to the student athletes. It’s in a great location and it improves this part of Inter-national Speedway Boule-vard. The kids will enjoy it and make good use of it. We would have welcomed this in my day, but we didn’t have anything like this.”
More upgradesB-CU plans to build a
practice football field adja-cent to the facility.
The Daytona Beach Mid-town Redevelopment Area Board approved the con-struction of the field at a recent meeting.
“We appreciate those
who had a willingness to approve our university’s plans so that we can meet our needs. We are very thankful and humble,” Thompson noted.
Currently the team prac-tices on a field next to Bronson Hall men’s dor-mitory. The school also
will renovate the old foot-ball home, located on In-ternational Speedway Bou-levard. Once completed, the building will be home to the bowling, tennis and softball programs. It will consist of meeting rooms, locker rooms, academic support and offices.
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“A New Attitude, Living the Legacy” is the theme of this year’s Bethune-Cook-man University’s Home-coming. Festivities kicked off this week with a Wild-cat Water Park and an An-ti-Hazing Opening Cere-mony.
There also has been a dance/fashion show, a bin-go night and Homecoming Pageant & Gala.
Homecoming activities will culminate with the an-nual parade down Mary McLeod Bethune Boule-vard starting at 9 a.m. on Oct. 6 from the Daytona Mall followed by the foot-ball game against North
Carolina A&T at 4 p.m. at Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium.
“There is something for every Wildcat from every era,” said Meredith Ro-driquez, B-CU’s public in-formation officer.
“The B-CU 2012 Home-coming this year is cel-ebrating a new spirit on campus, while looking back at the great things Bethune-Cookman has ac-complished since Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the institution in 1904,” Ro-driquez continued.
Olympian and Johnson’s wife to be marshals
The grand marshals for this year’s parade will
be Joel Redhead, a 2012 Olympian and B-CU grad-uate along with Gwendo-lyn Johnson, wife of the late Lloyd “Tank” Johnson, B-CU’s former athletic di-rector who has been cred-ited with co-founding the Florida Classic.
Additionally, the B-CU National Alumni Associa-tion is hosting a Postgame Alumni Victory Celebra-tion immediately following the football game on Oct. 6. The event will be hosted by Star 94.5 FM radio sta-tion and will include team trivia competitions, ta-ble games, dancing, heavy hors d’oeuvres and prizes and more.
The parade will proceed from the rear of the Day-tona Mall, 100 North No-va Road, travel east on Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard, turn right pro-ceed south on to Walnut Street right travel on Oak Street going west across Martin Luther King Boule-
vard to enter the Bethune-Cookman University en-trance way, south of Bron-son Hall.
Homecoming schedule
Thursday, Sept. 27 School Daze, Michael
and Libby Johnson Cen-ter for Civic Engagement, 5 p.m.
B-CU Apollo, Bethune-Cookman Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 28Take A Stand Rally, The
Quad, 9 p.m.Fish Fry, The Quad, Mid-
night
Saturday, Sept. 29 Residential Hall Step
Show, Bethune-Cookman Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 30Gospel Explosion and
Midnight Breakfast
Monday, Oct. 1 Laughing Out Loud
(Comedy Show), Bethune-Cookman Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m. Tickets are required; available at box office.
Tuesday, Oct. 2 Olympics, The Quad, 5
p.m. – 7 p.m. Kicks & Fits Pac Jam, Stu-
dent Center CCE, 8 p.m. - Midnight
Wednesday, Oct. 3Cultural Extravaganza,
The Quad, 6 p.m. - Mid-night
Thursday, Oct. 4 Greek Row (Greek Step
Show), Bethune-Cook-man Performing Arts Cen-ter, 8:30 p.m. Tickets are re-quired; available at box of-fice.
Friday, Oct. 5 BET Black College Tour
and Family Reunion, The Quad, Noon to 4 p.m.
Legacy Live (Pep Ral-ly), Daytona Beach Ocean Center, 6 p.m. Tickets are required; available at the box office.
Saturday, Oct. 6Parade – leaves from
Dahytona MallFootball game, Daytona
Beach Municipal Stadium Tailgate Start Time: 1
p.m.Game kickoff time: 4
p.m.Tickets are required;
available at the box office.Experience (Homecom-
ing Concert), Bethune-Cookman Performing Arts Center
Time: 8 p.m. Tickets are required.
For more information on the postgame victory event, contact Ray Brinson at 904-996-7122. Tickets for all events are available through the B-CU Box Of-fice, 386-481-2465.
B-CU Homecoming 2012: ‘A New Attitude’
JAMES HARPER/DAYTONA TIMES
The Bethune-Cookman Concert Chorale performed during the opening session of the NAACP conference.
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College to sponsor events to raise awareness about disabilities
Daytona State College will host two events on Oct. 17 designed to raise awareness of what it’s like to live with a disability and to help people living with disabilities im-prove the quality of their lives.
The 22nd annual Abilities Awareness Day celebration will bring together both non-disabled people and people with disabili-ties in a day that promises to of-fer fun, information, education and understanding.
The celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the main
courtyard of the Daytona Beach Campus, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. Organized by the college’s Office of Student Dis-abilities Services, the event is free and open to the public.
Through demonstrations and simulations, the event will offer non-disabled participants the opportunity to gain better un-derstanding of the barriers ex-perienced by people living with disabilities. Abilities Awareness Day also will feature information about resources available at Day-tona State College and in the sur-rounding community for people with disabilities.
Breakfast also scheduledPrior to the Abilities Awareness
Day activities, the college will
host a breakfast for participants of Volusia County Disability Men-toring Day, an event sponsored and organized by United Cere-bral Palsy of East Central Florida. The invitation-only breakfast will be from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in the Mori Hosseini Center.
Disability Mentoring Day un-derscores the connection be-tween school and work, and al-lows disabled individuals to link with volunteer local business representatives to evaluate their personal goals, target career skills for improvement, explore possible career paths and devel-op lasting mentor relationships.
Each year Daytona State Col-lege participates in the event to enable students with disabilities to spend part of a day visiting lo-
cal businesses, non-profit agen-cies and government agencies that match their employment and career interests.
For more information about these events, call Lisa Wise, 386-506-3530, [email protected].
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Health and Human Services Summit takes place Friday
The Health and Human Ser-vices Summit is a tradeshow for professionals working in the health and human services field and will be held Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ocean Cen-ter in Daytona Beach.
The summit is open to the pub-
lic. There is no cost to attend the event but attendees should be prepared for parking-related ex-penses in the garage.
This exhibit will share a wealth of information about programs and services, especially to con-nect with agencies directly. Those who should attend include case managers, counselors, so-cial workers, therapists, law en-forcement officers, school guid-ance counselors, human services professionals, faith-based repre-sentatives and parents.
The event is sponsored by One Voice for Volusia.
The confirmed list of event ex-hibitors to date can be found on-line at http://www.ovfv.org/sum-mitexhibitors.htm.
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In “The Melting Pot’’ in Ashe’ VII, Part 1, trials and tribulations made up what’s significant about the different ethnic groups coming to America. It’s a play and script written by dance coach Barbara Sol-omon, who doubles as the Ashe’ chair for the African American Cultural Society.
Solomon’s songs, dance and narratives make way for a roundup of perform-ers from the Flagler County NAACP Youth and College Division. The play was re-cently presented at the Af-rican American Cultural Society as a wrapup for the NAACP’s “Summer Intern-ship Program,” which men-tors and develops young artists.
The eight-week pro-gram entailed workshops in dance, drama, filmmak-ing, poetry, creative writ-ing, photography, cultural enrichment and problem solving, and provided the students with opportuni-ties to explore their talents, challenge their interests, and expose their minds to
new opportunities.
Interactive playBehind the lineup at SIP
are ACT-SO Director Steph-anie Ecklin, Youth and Col-lege Coordinator Leasa McLeish and Flagler Coun-ty Branch President Linda Sharpe Haywood.
“The Melting Pot” in Ashe’ VII, Part I was a fore-runner of Ashe’ VII, Part II, which allowed a recent bi-ennial art show to be held by the African American Cultural Society.
“The Melting Pot” not only involved a storyline of immigrants assimilat-ing into a different culture - and forced against their will as the African-Amer-icans - but having the au-
dience members sign on to ponder questions for an interactive play.
Audience members took notice and displayed “yes” or “no” signs to an-swer the question: Does America have more than one melting pot? Have you ever pushed someone down because of who you thought they were, before you learned who they re-ally are?
Full castThe first query brought
Jamel Brown onstage for a monologue, “What am I?” The song, “Change Gonna Come,” was vocalized by Alexis Williams, and a po-em, “I’m Not Sorry,” was performed by Jaira Jackson.
Anais Mims recited the poem “Still I Rise.’’ Kristen Quire was the cast member presenting questions to the audience.
“The Melting Pot” had a backdrop of sponsors, namely the African Amer-ican Cultural Society, Fla-gler County Sheriff’s Of-fice, Flagler County school district, Our Voices Thrive
Magazine and Grace Com-munity Food Pantry. Taking the extra steps to making the play draw at-tention were guest artists, set designers, gospel min-istries, instructors, as well as other advisors.
•••As always, remember
our prayers for the sick, af-flicted and bereaved.
‘The Melting Pot’ stirs up questions about different cultures
By Jeroline D. Mccarthy | Daytona Times
Palm Coast Community news
Rehanna Caldwell, Sept. 29; Dr. Madalin Price, Sept. 30; Willie T. Mitchell, Rose Luckett Williams, Oct. 1; Micah Booker, Oct. 2; George Weaver and Bloneva Scott, Oct. 3.
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The Summer Internship Program (SIP) dancers are from the Flagler County NAACP Youth and College Division.
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Self-defenseclass for womenThe Daytona Beach Police Department is offering a two-hour self-defense workshop for women of all ages and fitness levels who are residents of Daytona Beach Oct. 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at police head-quarters, 129 Valor Blvd. Women will learn how to escape an attack. Free. More information and regis-tration: 386-295-2043.
‘Ride for Sight’ Poker RunThe Conklin Center for the Blind is hosting the 10th Anniversary Ride for Sight
on Sept. 30. Sign up is 10:30 a.m. at the center, 405 White St. Stops are the Smokehouse Lounge, Dirty Harry’s, First Turn Steak-house, Cabbage Patch and the Iron Horse Saloon. For $15 attendees will get one hand, an event T-shirt, refreshments at the center, door prizes, a free meal at the Iron Horse Saloon. More information: Denise Harlow at 386-258-3441. County plansFall Fun Day Children can expand their knowledge about local agriculture during Fall Fun Day at the Volusia County
Agricultural Center, 3100 E. New York Ave., DeLand from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 19.The hands-on workshop will feature activities to include applesauce making, roast-ing pumpkin seeds, a scav-enger hunt, small animal exhibit, and fall gardening. The children also will learn about the benefits of bats. The program is limited to 20 children in kindergarten through second grade and 15 children in grades three through five. Registration is required by Oct. 16 and is $20 per child, including lunch. More information: 386-822-5778.
New Smyrna centerplans workshopsA first-time homebuyers workshop will be held at the Babe James Com-munity Center, 201 North Myrtle Ave. in New Smyrna Beach Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. A how to start your busi-ness workshop also will be held on Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. A
Medicare open enrollment workshop will be held Oct. 11 at 4 p.m. More informa-tion: Donna M. Gray-Banks, Community Coordinator, 386-314-4849 or by e-mail to babejamescommunity-
White Cane Walk and Sensory TrailThe Florida Lions Conklin Center for the Blind will hold the White Cane Walk with Sensory Trail and Visi-tation Day on Oct. 6 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 405 White St. Attendees will walk with students to raise awareness of what it is like to live with little or no vision. Along the Sensory Trail, walkers can find out how to do everyday activities while wearing a blindfold or glasses that simulate common eye disorders. Visit the web site at www.conklincenter.org to
download a walk registra-tion form. More information: Denise Harlow, 386-258-3441. Father & Daughter DanceA Father and Daughter Dance is a being sponsored by the Port Orange Family YMCA featuring an evening of dancing, refreshments, souvenir photos, princess keepsakes and an appear-ance by the Royal Princes. The dance will be held Sept. 29 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 4701 City Center Parkway. Advance tickets: $20 per couple, day of: $25 per couple. More information: 386-760-9622.
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DOMINIQUEBethune-Cookman’s Homecoming Comedy Show will feature Dominique and Sean Larkins. The show begins at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1 at B-CU’s Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center.
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The response in the Muslim World to the display of the an-ti-Muslim video mocking the Prophet Muhammad stunned many people in the United States of America.
The brutal murders of Am-bassador Chris Stevens and his staff in Libya, blamed on the an-ger over the display of the video, now appear to have been a pre-meditated murder by terrorists. That said, the antipathy toward America, illustrated by wide-spread demonstrations after the release of the video, for its long-standing treatment and demon-ization of the Muslim world should not be downplayed.
In addressing both the video and the response, representa-tives of the Obama administra-tion, as well as other members of the political establishment, con-demned the violence but also distanced themselves from the video. At the same time, they of-fered the view that as abhorrent as is the video, in America, there is the First Amendment that guarantees freedom of speech. The message, and one that the Republican Party screamed as loud as they could, was that in America, one can say whatever one wants and that this is guar-anteed by the Constitution. Ex-cept when it comes to the mat-ter of Israel.
Criticizing IsraelA recent resolution of the Cal-
ifornia State Assembly, intro-duced on August 6, that covered anti-Semitism (specifically in post-secondary educational in-stitutions in California), has sent chills up the spines of many peo-ple who actually believe in free-dom of speech. Claiming to be encouraging a clamping down on anti-Semitic activities, this very strange resolution expands the definition of anti-Semitism to virtually any criticism of Isra-el. It includes in the list of crit-icisms that should be silenced, suggestions that Israel is a racist and apartheid state.
Let us be clear: This is a tre-mendous expansion of any le-gitimate definition of anti-Sem-itism. This would be the equiv-alent of suggesting that a criti-cism of the government of the People’s Republic of China is automatically anti-Chinese. Or that a criticism of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is au-tomatically anti-Black.
Anti-Semitism has a long, ig-nominious history, particularly
in Europe. It has been associated with the persecution and mur-der of millions of Jews over time. It has been associated with iden-tifying Jews, as a people, with the execution of Jesus Christ. It has been associated with the myth that all Jews are wealthy. It has been associated with the notion that there is some sort of global Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. That is anti-Semitism. That is the sort of irrational, rac-ist thinking and behavior that must be fought.
Anti-Semitism definedBut to link the struggle against
anti-Semitism with the ques-tion of Israel is nothing short of duplicity. It completely ignores the manner in which Israel was formed (over the objections of the people who were living there); Israel’s constant viola-tions of United Nations resolu-tions; the establishment of the apartheid wall that destroys en-tire Palestinian communities; as well as Israel’s pre-1994 collabo-ration with apartheid South Af-rica in the creation of weapons of mass destruction. As such, speaking out on Israel is politi-cal criticism and should not be confused with anti-Semitism.
America needs to have one standard. If it is going to claim that a hideous mocking of the Prophet Muhammad is protect-ed by freedom of speech it can-not, at nearly the same moment, suggest that those who criticize the racist and expansionist pol-icies of Israel are anti-Semitic and not subject to the protec-tions contained in the U.S. Con-stitution. Doing so is not only duplicity, but it also helps to ex-plain why the motives of Amer-ica are so often questioned around the world.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum, and the author of two books on labor unions. He can be reached at [email protected]. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.
Carlos Amador emigrated with his family from Mexico in 1999 at age 14. He lived in the United States as an undocumented im-migrant for almost 13 years until he recently received conditional permanent residency.
Higher education for someone like him seemed like an impossi-ble dream when Carlos finished high school. But he was deter-mined to make it happen. As he pursued his undergraduate de-gree, he would go straight from working alongside his parents cleaning houses in upscale South-ern California neighborhoods to his classes, never giving up.
Carlos now holds his master’s degree in social welfare from the University of California-Los Ange-les. All along the way he has been a leader in the undocumented im-migrant youth movement and one of its most outspoken voices for change. Today, Carlos is both the project coordinator of the Dream Resource Center at UCLA and one of the co-chairs of the board of the United We Dream Network, the largest national network of immi-grant youths.
Risking deportationThe courageous self-declared
“Undocumented and Unafraid” students in the United We Dream Network risk deportation as they organize and speak out tirelessly so they and others can have the right to a college education and to live and work with dignity in the country that is their home.
Their efforts led to a major vic-tory with the Obama administra-tion’s June announcement that it would stop deporting young un-documented immigrants age 30 or younger without criminal records who came to the United States be-fore age 16, have lived here for at least five years, and are students, high school graduates, or military veterans in good standing.
When Carlos shared his story at the Children’s Defense Fund’s re-cent national conference which he and over 80 other Dream Act youth activists attended, he stressed that a key to the students’ success wasn’t support from pow-erful allies but their willingness to believe in their own power: “It didn’t come from
multi-million-dollar cam-paigns — I was part of that cam-paign since the beginning, and we didn’t get [any] funding, because no one believed in it. But we made it happen.”
Catherine Eusebio, who spoke
alongside Carlos, repeated that determination. She came to the United States from the Philip-pines with her family when she was 4 years old. Today, Catherine is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley with a degree in political science.
Culture of fear“[I was] thinking that I did all
the right things, that I was one of the ‘good’ immigrants, and that
because of that, I would be re-spected and valued as American – but it still made me realize that we all exist in this culture of fear. And that’s not something that should be happening in America,” Euse-bio said.
Catherine then made the same decision Carlos and the thou-sands of undocumented student activists like them who refused to abandon their dreams and hide in the shadows did: “I realized that it takes the people that are affected by an issue not to be the victims, but to be the agents of change.”
Carlos and Catherine and their youth network participants in-spired us all. They and the stu-dents they work with are a testi-mony to the difference one person can make, no matter how young or old. The members of the Unit-ed We Dream Network have never had the right to vote.
Agents of changeHowever many political people
who are afraid of the enormous potential power of young people of all backgrounds who do have the right to vote have made young people one of their targets in voter suppression efforts that threaten voting rights and democratic pro-cesses across our country.
Young people and all of us need to speak out loudly against voter suppression in every form. Young people also can help with voter registration, get out the vote cam-paigns, poll watching, and oth-er parts of the electoral process. They and all of us must be com-mitted to using the power we have and never let hurdles and nega-tive policies passively shape our lives.
Like Carlos and Catherine and all their courageous Dream part-ners, we too can and must be agents of change.
Marian Wright Edelman is president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund (www.childrensdefense.org). Click on this story at www.daytona-times.com to write your own re-sponse.
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THE CREDO OF THE BLACK PRESSThe Black Press believes that Americans can best lead the world away from racism and na-
tional antagonism when it accords to every person, regardless of race, color or creed, full human and legal rights. Hating no person, fearing no person. The Black Press strives to help every person in the firm belief...that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back.
Diversity has replaced Jim Crow around the world
We have come a long way in di-versity management. This is real-ly a fancy name for affirmative ac-tion, which was introduced by my mentor, Arthur A. Fletcher, under the Nixon administration.
Legislated discriminationJim Crow, which was legislat-
ed discrimination, seems so long ago. Actually, it has been only two generations since the very bad days. Let’s take a look at this suc-cessful venture.
Jim Crow laws and practices were implemented soon after the end of the Civil War. Blacks were considered second-class citizens and in many places so were His-panics. Our Jim Crow system was so bad that when South Africa cre-ated their apartheid system they used American Jim Crow as the model.
Restaurants, hotels, jobs, parks, state fairs, movie theaters and many public facilities were ra-cially segregated. In the southern states, Wednesday was the des-ignated “Colored Day” at some public facilities. Blacks were for-bidden to attend on the other six days.
My father-in-law, Charles De-Bow Jr., was one of the first Tuskeg-ee Airmen. He flew a P-38 dive bomber. He participated in North Africa, Italy, France and Germa-ny, flying an outrageous number of missions. When he returned back to Indianapolis wearing his captain bars and golden wings, he was denied entry into the bus sta-tion and had to stand out in the rain as he waited for his parents to pick him up. Later, he would re-ceive the same treatment trying to check into hotels.
Evolution of BlacksAmerica was ugly, but things
would soon change. Veterans were eligible for the GI Bill of Rights as World War II ended. All
veterans, regardless of race, were entitled to college assistance, a home mortgage and other bene-fits. My father-in-law went to In-diana University. They could not deny him entry but he could not stay in a campus dorm. He and other Black veterans stayed off campus in trailers.
Soon a rising class of Black col-lege graduates and homeowners would evolve. This was the first step to economic empowerment for Blacks but still Jim Crow was formally in place.
One day in Montgomery, Ala., Rosa Parks decided she wasn’t go-ing to take Jim Crow any longer. This defiance ignited mass strikes and demonstrations. A young preacher new to Montgomery by the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. decided it was time to change it forever.
This gave birth to the modern civil rights movement. The move-ment was successful. It culmi-nated into the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This brought Blacks and others into the Consti-tution of the United States in a real sense.
Death of Jim CrowShortly thereafter, the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 was passed. This gave Blacks political clout and served notice on elected of-ficials that things must change or their political careers would be shortened. These two laws would kill and bury Jim Crow once and for all.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act was the beginning of enforce-ment. This dealt with hiring, train-
ing and promotion. No business could discriminate in these areas and the U.S. Department of Labor would police this through the Of-fice of Federal Contract Compli-ance Programs. Black faces start-ed to grow within work places at a rapid rate. The perfect model would come from the military.
I owe my college education and professional career to the civil rights movement and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Title VI states that if you are do-ing business with the federal gov-ernment or benefiting from a fed-eral program you cannot discrim-inate in your business practices. Entrepreneurship in the Black community is the fastest growing segment of American small busi-ness, thanks to this law.
Diversity managementWe have had two generations
under these laws and it has been truly a success in a collective sense. It has become the envy of many nations. Thus, our major corpo-rations that do business globally have brought the above practices to these nations and these nations have greeted them warmly. A di-versity management officer usu-ally holds the rank of vice-presi-dent or senior vice president and reports directly to the President/CEO of the corporation. This offi-cer is constantly looking for good minority and female talent and makes sure there is representa-tion from top to bottom, including the board of directors.
Yes, we are off to a great start but remember it is still a “work in progress.”
Harry Alford is the co-found-er, president/CEO of the Na-tional Black Chamber of Com-merce®. Website: www.nation-albcc.org. Email: [email protected]. Click on this sto-ry at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.
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young people and all of us need to speak out loudly against voter suppression in every form. young people also can help with voter registration, get out the vote campaigns, poll watching, and other parts of the electoral process. They and all of us must be committed to using the power we have and never let hurdles and negative policies passively shape our lives.
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CHANHASSEN, Minn. – Prince is rolling his eyes.
“The hardest thing with musicians,” he explains to a visitor to his Paisley Park recording studio, “is get-ting them not to play.”
The quintuple-threat singer-songwriter-produc-er-performer-multi-in-strumentalist is running a nine-piece band through a vigorous rehearsal in prep-aration for a residency at Chicago’s United Center, and right now the arrange-ments are getting too busy for his liking.
He’s like a drill sergeant in a brown, button-up, Asian-style long coat with a hypnotist’s lulling voice.
“John, what’s the thing you’re doing?” he asks John Blackwell, as if he were ask-ing his drummer to pass a bag of potato chips. “Your time changed again and it got boomy and ugly.”
To a guitarist he calmly advises, “You should throw that pedal away ... it’s just taking up too much space frequency-wise.” To his bassist: “I wouldn’t thumb this, either. Mute it. Mute it.”
Pursuing perfectionNo big deal. The musi-
cians comply and recali-brate. A little accent on the cymbal here, an up-stroke on the guitar strings there, and everything moves a little closer to the sound Prince imagines.
The singer wants to hear different combinations of instruments — guitars with drums, then with key-boards and bass; voices a cappella, then with tam-bourines and drums — and he is constantly tweaking, adjusting voicings (“give that last chord more val-ue”), humming individual parts and then seeing how they gel.
Much of this band has been with him for several years as he’s traveled the world during his extended “Welcome 2” tour, usually playing long runs in ma-jor cities where he can vary the set lists nightly, explore every contour of his song-book and cover artists and songs both legendary (Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music”) and sur-prising (Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Crimson and Clover”).
He wants more musical options ready for Chicago, and that’s why he’s pushing so hard at this rehearsal.
Bible studentHe walks out into a hall-
way and into one of the offices in his cavernous, 70,000-square-foot proper-ty in the rolling hills south-
west of Minneapolis.“Remember the scene
in (the movie) ‘Amadeus,’ where he’s dying, and he’s hearing the music in his head?” Prince asks. “It be-comes impossible to ex-plain. He doesn’t have the vocabulary. Now, I’m short — literally and also when I speak — and it’s easy to get all, ‘Can’t you hear this? Can’t you hear what I’m hearing?’ And so I use hu-mor when I feel my blood pressure going up.”
He also leans on his Bi-ble lessons. A devout Jeho-vah’s Witness for two de-cades, Prince says his Bi-ble teacher was none other than soul-music great Lar-ry Graham, the bassist in Sly and the Family Stone.
“He told me, ‘Keep studying. There are things they don’t explain at Bible school, so it’s up to you to keep learning.’”
So too for music.“I nearly had a nervous
breakdown on ‘The Pur-ple Rain’ tour (in 1984) be-cause it was the same every night,” he says. “It’s work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows. To me, it’s not work to learn lots of different songs so that the experience is fresh to us each night.”
A band with heartPrince had made albums
entirely on his own, playing all the instruments, singing all the vocals, writing and arranging all the songs. But now he savors the re-lationship he has with mu-sicians such as Blackwell and keyboardist Cassandra O’Neal.
“My favorite instru-ment?” he says. “It’s the band.”
Though his musicians are highly skilled, he says technical ability is not the primary attribute he looks for when auditioning po-tential band members.
“They need heart, the willingness to try some-thing different,” he says. “When something’s funky, everyone gravitates toward it. I love to see the joy when they can feel it happening.”
Few new releasesLike Count Basie, Duke
Ellington, James Brown, Sly Stone and George Clin-ton before him, Prince is taking the notion of what live performance can be to another level by combin-ing composition and im-provisation, precision and spontaneity.
When he last performed in Chicago in 2004, he had built his band up through theater tours until it was ready to perform at a high level on a huge scale. His arena tour that year was
a major commercial and critical success, pulling in more than $87 million in revenue and reviving Prince’s career.
Now the music industry is in such a chaotic state of transition that he doesn’t see much point in releas-ing the music he records “all the time” at Paisley Park.
Once upon a time, new Prince albums flowed like water, particularly once he dropped out of the major-label system in the mid-1990s. In both 2003 and 2004, he released three al-bums each year through various channels. But he hasn’t released any new al-bums since 2010.
No websiteThe artist who pioneered
using the Internet as a way to communicate with his fans and distribute music in the 1990s, declared the Internet “over” in 2010. His experiences with selling music through his websites were poorly managed and alienated many fans, so now he has no website. He says digital services such as iTunes and Spotify don’t impress him.
“Remember Betamax?” Prince says with a grin, referring to the outmod-ed videocassette format. “That’s the system we’ve got now in the music busi-ness. We’re in a singles market again. It’s crazy for me to walk into that with a new album.
“Young people have de-cided they like to listen
to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that’s fine with me as long as it doesn’t bother them that they’re not hearing 90 percent of the music that way. But I don’t have to re-cord to eat or to get out of debt or to pay my taxes. I looked forward to the day I could do this. Freedom is an interesting thing. You have to work really hard to get free.”
Rising starsAt one point, he turns to
ask, “So what do you think the future of all this is going to be?”
There are no sure an-swers. Nobody knows. And that’s both a daunting and thrilling prospect. What ex-cites him most, he says, is helping new artists.
The 21-year-old drum-mer Hanna Ford is on his list of future band mem-bers. He’s already jammed with rising jazz star Espe-ranza Spalding. He flips on video of a solo perfor-mance by the young Brit-ish folk-soul singer Lianne La Havas.
“She is Joni Mitchell to me, the way she tells a sto-ry, the way she puts those interesting guitar chords underneath it.”
The next minute he’s taking a call from his prote-ge, Andy Allo, who will per-form with him in Chicago. He moves to another room upstairs where he has two large computer screens set up, and he toggles between a video-in-progress of Al-lo and a video of a recent “Welcome 2” tour date in Australia. Then he dials up a YouTube video of the ’70s singer Betty Davis, a gritty track called “If I’m in Luck, I Might Get Picked Up.”
“I don’t want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can’t sing or dance, that’s genius,” he says with a laugh. “More power to you. But I play Betty Davis for Andy Allo and say, ‘This is what we aim for.’”
New singlePrince has said repeat-
edly that he’s not a great businessman, and he’s tak-en his share of wrong turns in trying to fashion him-self into a one-man music industry. But he is great at building bands, making music and inspiring peo-ple to dance.
Though he’s 54, he looks and moves like a much younger man. In part, he says, that’s because the stress that dominated his life for much of the 1980s and 1990s is gone.
A new single, “RNR Af-fair,” provides a small window into his life. It’s a horn-spackled, guitar-chugging ode to “two peo-ple in love, with nothin’ but the road ahead.” A relaxed, sing-speak vocal rides the groove, then ascends to fal-setto.
“It’s a driving song,” Prince says. “The world
is so jagged, I like smooth waves. It’s the way I live now. When Larry (Gra-ham) first came around here (in the ’90s) we had a lot of crazy people in here. Now, no one argues, no one swears, no one smokes, no one talks harsh. We all en-joy each other.
“You don’t know what that’s like till you start liv-ing like that, because for a long time I didn’t. It was af-fecting me up here (points to his head), which in turn affected me here (points to throat). I changed the way I operate. A lot of my con-temporaries didn’t. That’s the reason I’m still here, and a lot of them aren’t.”
Mavis Staples’ letters
It troubled him when people started to write him off in the 1990s, when the hits dried up and he began playing smaller venues, partially by design.
“I had a former band member tell the media, ‘He’ll never play arenas again,’” Prince says. “Now why would someone want to go and say a thing like that?”
The singer gets defiant.“That’s like telling Mi-
chael Jordan he can’t play anymore. Like telling Ali he’s washed up.”
Despite the bravado, he circles back to the topic lat-er in the conversation. He’d like to suggest that the crit-icism bounces off him, that he’s tougher than that. But he doesn’t forget. The hurt lingers.
He describes letters that Mavis Staples wrote him in the 1980s when they began working together on a cou-ple of her solo albums:
“They were so full of en-couragement. You don’t get much of that in this business.”
Back to Kingdom Hall
And his eyes glisten when he recalls a few words spo-ken to him at the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall just a few hundred yards down the road from Paisley Park, where he regularly attends Bible study.
“I had missed a bunch of meetings because I was on tour, and you know how people like to gossip and talk behind your back? Well, there was none of that,” he says.
“When I came back, there was one older person there who came up to me. He didn’t lay a guilt trip on me. He just spoke with love and compassion, and I’ll never forget what he said. ‘We just miss you.’”
Rehearsal is about to re-sume, and he relishes the work ahead even though he’s tired.
“You know what I look at when I’m stage? I look for the smile on people’s faces. That’s what I want, where I put all my energy.”
During his “Welcome 2” tour, Prince usually played long runs in major cities where he could vary the set lists nightly and explore every contour of his song-book.
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A peek into the musical mind of Prince
Wyclef Jean dishes about love-child drama with Lauryn Hill in new bookNNPA NEWS SERVICE
Married Fugees found-er Wyclef Jean says it was Lauryn Hill’s lies about the paternity of her child that doomed the 1990s hip-hop trio.
Jean claims Hill tricked him into believing her first-born son was his, when, in fact, the father was Bob Marley’s son Rohan.
“In that moment some-thing died between us. I was married and Lauryn and I were having an affair, but she led me to believe that the baby was mine, and I couldn’t forgive that,” Jean writes in his mem-oir “Purpose,” which hit shelves this month.
‘Love spell’ brokenJean says the betrayal by
Hill led to the band’s 1997 breakup.
“She could no longer be
my muse,” he wrote. “Our love spell was broken.”
He came to his own de-fense after celeb news sites and blogs bashed him for writing about the alleged drama.
“It’s important because at the end of the day, I’m not coming at (attacking) L (Lauryn),” Jean told MTV. “This is a period of my life, and that’s how I felt. If any-thing, I just brought closure to a chapter – because at the end of the day, I didn’t
do (an album like) ‘Mised-ucation,’ so there was no closure in my chapter.
“I don’t think that I should’ve left it (affair with Hill) as a myth. If she was reading my book, I don’t think she would want me to be any other way than hon-est with my book – because she’s straight-up honest.’’
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Wyclef Jean Lauryn Hill
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BY CORILYN SHROPSHIRECHICAGO TRIBUNE (MCT)
September had bare-ly started, but that didn’t stop retailers from talking Christmas: Wal-Mart said it would kick off its holi-day layaway promotion just two weeks after Labor Day – a full month early. A few days later, Toys R Us and Kmart said they’d do away with layaway fees al-together.
One might say they were late to the holiday par-ty. A Neiman Marcus in Oak Brook, Ill., debuted a decked-out display of Christmas trees, collect-ibles and holiday decor in August.
Fretting that an upcom-ing presidential election, rising energy and food costs as well as ongoing job fears could cause skittish consumers to tighten their purse strings, retailers are drumming up ways to con-vince them to shop early and often.
They’ll spend the next few months vying for shop-pers’ attention and dollars, aiming to drive all-impor-tant holiday sales, which make up roughly 25 per-cent of their yearly profits, according to the Interna-tional Council of Shopping Centers.
Brighter forecastBy kicking off promo-
tions while it’s still hot out-side, retailers are making a calculated move to stay in front of consumers and lock in their loyalty early, say retail experts. Early es-timates from ShopperTrak predict a 3.3 percent gain this year from last. Foot traffic in stores, which was down last year, is expected
to pick up 2.8 percent.That’s a brighter fore-
cast than the 3 percent gain predicted for the last year’s holiday shopping season, which ended up as a mixed bag for retail-ers. Many scratched out sales gains of 3.4 percent year-over-year, according to Thomson Reuters, but that was bolstered by deep discounts. By comparison, in 2010, retailers realized same-store sales gains of 4 percent.
“Consumers only have so many dollars they are go-ing to spend at this point,” said Megan Donadio, retail strategist at Kurt Salmon in New York. “By getting out there and letting people know about layaway plans, they (retailers) are making sure they are in the front of consumers’ minds.”
Plus, if consumers start spending earlier, they’re more likely to spend more and buy more if they aren’t
rushed by a holiday dead-line, added Edward Fox, associate professor of mar-keting at Southern Method-ist University’s Cox School of Business in Dallas.
The big question, of course, is whether shop-pers will cooperate.
Bumpy sales yearWilletta Bell certainly
plans to. A frequent par-ticipant in Kmart’s layaway program — she is current-ly paying on a 50-inch tele-vision, a gas grill and some jewelry — the Chicago res-ident said the retailer’s of-fer to waive its $5 or $10 nonrefundable enrollment fee through Nov. 17 would help her get an early jump on holiday shopping for her nieces and nephews.
“That’s exciting because … layaway helps me out. It helps me budget and get the things I need due to the economy,” she said.
Overall, retail sales this
year have been bumpy. Consumer confidence has been low and employ-ment gains uneven. Robust back-to-school sales, how-ever, gave a number of re-tailers a boost, with a near-ly 6 percent gain in August, according to research firm Retail Metrics.
Shoppers ‘shrooming’
Working in retailers’ fa-vor is that they’ll have more time this year to complete sales. This year, the calen-dar dictates that the holi-day shopping season will last five weeks, instead of the typical four — kicking off officially on Black Fri-day, the day after Thanks-giving.
That should give retail-ers an extra boost since shoppers aren’t likely to get started until after the elec-tion, according to Chris Angell, ShopperTrak’s di-
rector of global marketing.Analysts also are bet-
ting on an uptick in online shopping this year, name-ly in electronics and ap-pliances, as shoppers con-tinue “showrooming” — browsing retailers’ brick-and-mortar stores for items and then searching online for the best deal.
ShopperTrak, for exam-ple, predicts that foot traf-fic for electronics and ap-pliances will drop 8 per-cent this year — but actual sales of electronics and ap-pliances will climb 1.5 per-cent, indicating that many of those transactions will happen online.
Ship-to-store program
Retailers expected to do well this season will com-bine the best of their on-line strategies with their in-store business, persuad-ing shoppers that they’ll
find the best deals no mat-ter how they like to shop or pay.
On this too, retailers are plotting early. Toys R Us announced its big service play last week by prom-ising a reservation list for this year’s hot toys. It also unveiled a ship-to-store program, allowing custom-ers to order items in-store, from mobile devices or at home and pick-them-up at their local stores.
Kmart’s free layaway will be available online and in stores through Nov. 17, said Jai Holtz, vice presi-dent of financial services at Sears. After that, the retail-er will evaluate whether to extend the program.
“Through the recession, we’ve seen layaway grow. … We’re rolling it out for the holiday now. If this is a value (shoppers) continue to want, we’ll continue.”
Anna Alnaser and her children Jer-emiah Rodri-guez, 11, left, and Hinniah Alnaser, 4, right, watch the wall of bicycles on Sept. 9 in Chicago. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Toys R Us already have announced their holi-day layaway plans.
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New Smyrna Beach remained unbeaten by ripping Pine Ridge 54-7 in the district 9-6A open-er for both teams. Marcus John-son threw for 224 yards with four scores to lead New Smyrna. Frankie Viera scored Pine Ridge’s lone touchdown.
James Clark had three catches for 65 yards with a touchdown, Diamonte Mitchell made two re-ceptions for 90 yards with a score and Dwayne Wood had a 58-yard touchdown catch for the Barra-cudas.
JoJo Kemp ran for 81 yards with two scores while Tristen Pa-tel kicked three field goals to lead DeLand to a 37-0 win over Spruce Creek in the district 1-8A opener for both teams. Mike Dixon add-ed 103 rushing yards with a score for the Bulldogs. Mike Colubi-ale had a 49-yard reception for Spruce Creek.
Charles Nelson had two rush-ing touchdowns and returned a
punt for a score to help Seabreeze route Deltona 54-0 in the district 9-6A opener. Tre Rodriguez ran for 87 yards with a touchdown and had a receiving score while Connor Blair threw for 85 yards with three touchdowns for the Sandcrabs.
Atlantic, University suffer first loss
Atlantic suffered its first de-feat of the season at the hands of Orlando Bishop Moore 35-0 in the district 7-5A opener for both teams. Atlantic came into the contest ranked ninth in Class 5A. The Hornets outgained the Sharks 302-147 in offensive yard-age, including 198-98 in the first half. Alex Bell threw for 114 yards to lead Atlantic. Jak Ramsberg-er led Bishop Moore with two touchdown runs and a 55-yard touchdown reception.
University was handed its first loss of the season falling to San-
ford Seminole 33-18 in the dis-trict 2-8A opener for both teams. Randy Cianciotto had 130 total yards and threw for a score while Steven Chojnoski ran for 39 yards with two scores for University. Tonnie Moore ran for 131 yards with three touchdowns for Sem-inole. Horonadis Tillman added 125 yards passing and ran for 49 more with a score for the Semi-noles. Deon Anderson added 54 yards rushing for the Titans.
Pierson Taylor wins; Halifax, Lopez lose
Dexter Rodriguez ran for 105 yards and a touchdown to lead Pierson Taylor to a 46-0 win over Jacksonville Temple Christian. Mikey Kopka ran for 61 yards with two scores while Nick Mc-Clelland ran for a touchdown and had a interception return score for the Wildcats.
Father Lopez lost a shootout to Melbourne Florida Air Acad-emy 62-42 in district 3-2A ac-tion. Joe Boden ran for 160 yards with four touchdowns and threw for 150 more with a score for Lo-pez. Alex Bouie ran for 206 yards
with three scores and Josh Den-ton ran for 126 yards for Florida Air. Bryant added 134 total yards and Boogie Mills a rushing score for the Green Wave.
Lashan Wilder ran for 167 yards with three touchdowns while Tim Jackson threw for 81 yards for Halifax in a 41-18 loss to Jacksonville Old Plank Christian Academy.
Other scoresCocoa-28, Warner-0; Fla-
gler Palm Coast-20, Jacksonville Mandarin-3; St. Augustine Men-dez-27; Matanzas-23.
This week’s top games Orlando Dr. Phillips (4-0) at
DeLand (2-2): The Bulldogs will have their hands full as they host Dr. Phillips High School. This could be a good one.
Mainland (2-1) at Sanford Seminole (2-2): The Buccaneers are rested, coming off a bye week. They will need their offense to play well again to beat the Sem-inoles.
Titusville (1-2) at Seabreeze (2-2): Titusville is coached by Andy
Price, who led Warner to three straight title games. Seabreeze has plenty of firepower to win but must play well upfront on both sides to win.
Deltona (0-4) at Spruce Creek (1-3): Both teams badly need a win and one will get it. Spruce Creek has the numbers and more talent.
Warner (3-1) at Pine Ridge (0-4): Warner will play the big boys again. Pine Ridge has struggled but has size and numbers. War-ner has plenty of firepower to win and is the favorite.
Prep Sports Seven Football 1. New Smyrna (4-0), 2. Flagler Palm Coast (3-1), 3. Mainland (2-1), 4. Warner (3-1), 5. Atlantic (3-1), 6.University (3-1), tie 7. Trin-ity (2-1), Taylor (3-1). Others: De-Land (2-2), Seabreeze (2-2)
Note: Can’t move anybody as top two teams won; four through six lost and three and seven were idle. It will eventually work itself out.
Previous ranking: 1. New Smyr-na, 2. Flagler Palm Coast, 3.Main-land, 4. Warner, 5. Atlantic, 6. University, 7. Trinity.
VOLUSIA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
REVIEW
Blowouts highlight district play in fifth week of prep football
BY ANDREAS BUTLERDAYToNA TIMES [email protected]
The two top teams in Black col-lege football squared with Ten-nessee State walking away with a 21-14 win over Bethune-Cook-man.
The Wildcats were ranked No. 1 in all the HBCU polls while Ten-nessee State was ranked second in three and tied for third in an-other.
Tennessee State (4-0) led 14-0 after a pair of Travis Ward touch-down runs in the first and second quarter.
“We dug ourselves into a hole and it came back to bite us in the butt in the end. I am very frus-trated. I hate losing and hate is a strong word. Hats off to Tennes-see State – it is a very good foot-ball team. We just made too many mistakes and did a poor job exe-cuting,” said Brian Jenkins, head football coach.
No big comebackBethune-Cookman looked
liked they would get a boost when D.J. Howard intercepted a Michael German pass.
“They were hurting us with un-derneath passes early on. They only had one long pass the en-tire game. It wasn’t anything we couldn’t fix. On the interception, we were in cover three and as the underneath safety I cover the flats. The ball was thrown right at me,” responded Howard.
On the ensuing drive, Sven Hurd’s 33-yard field goal attempt
was blocked by Antonio Harper and Daniel Fitzpatrick scooped up the ball and went 40 yards for a score giving Tennessee a 21-0 lead.
B-CU had rallied from deficits of 21 points to Alabama State and 14 to South Carolina State to win games earlier this season but couldn’t against Tennessee State.
Louisiana Tech transfer Brod-erick Waters got his first start at quarterback but failed to pro-duce a scoring drive. He had 53 total yards (41 rushing) and was replaced by Quentin Williams.
Missed opportunitiesThe Wildcats scored twice
within a 37 second span late in the second quarter to get within 21-14.
Williams entered the game and found Presley Cleckley, who went up to grab a touchdown pass and LaBrandon Richardson returned a fumble for a score.
Both teams had several oppor-tunities in the second half but failed to score.
“Right now this entire team is a question mark. We have to eval-uate everything. I will start with myself and not put it all on the players,” said Jenkins.
Ward ran for 154 yards with two touchdowns including 118 yards in the first half for while German threw for 157 yards for the Tigers.
Williams finished 116 total
yards (75 passing, 41 rushing) for B-CU.
“I think I played OK but left a lot of plays on the field. I have to learn and grow with the rest of my teammates,” added Williams.
Isidore Jackson added 82 total yards (65 rushing) and Rodney Scott ran for 53 yards for B-CU.
Hampton nextA.C. Leonard added three
catches for 101 yards and Travis James four for 45 yards for TSU.
New Smyrna Beach alumnus Telvin Hooks also ran for 67 yards for the Tigers.
The Wildcats were led defen-sively by Jarkevis Fields who tal-lied 14 total tackles, Richardson who had nine tackles with two fumble recoveries and Nesley Marcellon nine tackles for B-CU.
The Tigers outgained the Wild-cats 357-287 in total offensive yardage. Both teams combined for 17 penalties for 177 yards.
The Wildcats return to MEAC action as they hit the road to face Hampton (0-3, 0-1) on Sept. 29.
They return home for home-coming against MEAC opponent North Carolina A&T (2-1, 0-0) on Oct. 6.
Game notesEddie Poole extended his
streak of consecutive games with at least one catch to 27.
Waters got his first start at quarterback for the Wildcats.
Williams’ touchdown pass to Cleckley was the first for both players. Cleckley had his first ca-reer touchdown reception and
Williams threw his first career touchdown pass.
Jackie Wilson, who started the first three games at quarterback, was available but didn’t play.
Analysis of gameBethune-Cookman lost the
game for several reasons. First, the Wildcats were beat upfront on both sides of the football. They didn’t register a sack and allowed four sacks.
Secondly, they failed to capi-talize on opportunities. After a Tennessee fumble, the Wildcats missed a field goal and after TSU threw an interception, B-CU had a field goal attempt blocked and returned for a touchdown.
B-CU scored only seven points off three TSU turnovers and was 0-for-3 on fourth downs. The Wildcats also couldn’t throw the ball with both Williams and Waters combining on 13-for-26 passes for 87 yards.
Against Tennessee Tigers, Wildcats couldn’t claw their way back
Bethune-Cook-
man’s La-Brandon Richard-son (50)
returns a fumble for
a touch-down dur-ing a game
against Tennes-
see State. Richard-
son was one of the
heroes for B-CU, register-ing nine
tackles and recov-
ering two fumbles with his
defensive score.
PHoToS BY B-cU SPoRTS INFoRMATIoN
B-CU’s highly touted quarterback Quentin Williams (14) avoids Tennesse State University’s Antonio Harper (14) to throw a pass.
B-CU ROUNDUP
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