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The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

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The Friends of Zack Reed will sponsor its 22nd Annual 2018 Toys for Tots Holiday Party & Celebrity Fashion Show with the goal to collect 1,000 toys for the needy children of Northeast Ohio. Beverages will be pro-vided with admission. Celebrities invited include: Alec Blackmon, Andrea Vecchio, Tiffany Tarpley, and Vanessa Whiting, Esq. Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10 at the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 without a toy).

Toys For Tots event to be held ... Cleveland State University was awarded a federal grant of $599,998 by the Economic De-velopment Administration’s Build to Scale Pro-gram. These funds will be used to establish the Entrepreneurial Manufacturer Digitization Support (EMDiS) Center to assist small manufacturers with considering, acquiring, and implementing cost-effe-ctive digital manufacturing technologies.

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The Cleveland I-X Center announced that it is permanently closing due to coronavirus pan-demic. The 2.2 million square foot event center which welcomed 2 million visitors a year to events ranging from Trick-or-treat Street to the Great Big Home and Garden Show is a casualty of the pande-mic. The I-X Center has been in operation for 35 years.

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pacted by Isaias. At the end of Friday’s formal trading session, West Texas Intermediate increased by 35 cents to settle at $40.27 per barrel. Domestic crude prices increased after the EIA’s latest weekly report revealed that inventories decreased by 10.6 million barrels, bringing the current total to 526 mil-lion barrels. The price increase, amid increasing gasoline de-mand, could mean that the domestic crude market is meeting demand and pro-duction is stabilizing as coro-navirus infections continue to increase worldwide. If crude supplies con-tinue to decline alongside ris-ing demand, domestic crude prices could continue to in-crease this week.

Gas prices are trend-ing cheaper despite an in-crease in demand. Up 3% over last week, gasoline demand measured at 8.8 million b/d - the highest reading since the pandemic started. How-ever, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), year-over-year demand is down about 8%. Today’s national aver-age has been largely unaffect-ed by Tropical Storm Isaias. The storm, according to the National Hurricane Center, is likely to regain hurricane strength before reaching the coast between northeastern South Carolina and southern North Carolina later today. Given lower than normal U.S. gasoline demand and healthy stock levels, gas prices nation-ally are not likely to be im-

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Norm Edwards, president of the Black Contractors Group, and two leaders the Cleveland Clergy Coalition, Rev. E. Theoph-ilus Caviness, the group’s chair-man, and Pastor Aaron Phillips, the group’s president, sent a letter to the Sherwin-Williams Company requesting that the construction contracts for its new headquarters and research center be rescinded due to lack of diversity. In the letter, the trio pro-tests the lack of minority inclusion in the key partners Sherwin-Wil-liams announced on Tuesday. The team that will man-

Sherwin Williams Co. to build with black taxes, not black contractors

ville; and Cuyahoga County. The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority agreed to finance the proj-ect. Cleveland’s package alone amounted to about $100 million in grants and tax incentives. In ex-change, Cleveland would retain more than 3,100 jobs with the potential for more. The city has said those jobs

age the construction projects in-cluded no black owned business-es. “We are putting everyone on notice that once again our tax dollars are being used to assist with the financing of the $600 million dollar Sherwin-Williams World Headquarters project and we have no inclusion of black and/or minor-ity partners listed,” according to the senders. Sherman Williams was awarded a broad package of devel-opment incentives from the state and its development arm, JobsO-hio; the city of Cleveland; Brecks-

Johnson running for re-election to Ohio School Board Meryl Johnson is a retired teacher with 40 years of teaching experience in the Cleveland Public Schools and is a candidate for re-election to the Ohio School Board. She is a graduate of Glen-ville High School and she received her bachelor of arts degree from Kent State University and her Master’s degree from Cleveland State Univer-sity. She was elected to the State Board of Education in 2016. During her years of teach-ing, Johnson helped new and strug-gling teachers improve their skills through the Educational Research and Dissemination Program which was developed by the American Fed-eration of Teachers. She also developed and conducted workshops on cultural competency and trauma-informed education to empower teachers to

successfully teach all of their students. Johnson was a member of the North Shore AFL-CIO ex-ecutive board for many years up until she was elected to the State Board.

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Mikkarrie Miller enjoyed her summer playing with her young-er sister, Mikiaraq. Walking through the vegetable and flower garden across the street and waiting for the sound of the ice cream truck were favorite things to do this summer. She likes to eat popsicles.

Neighborhood News owner dies Michael Scott Psenic-ka, owner of the Neighborhood News, died recently. He was 54 years old. Psenicka was the third generation of his family to own the weekly newspaper started by his grandfather in 1923. Psenicka was a gradu-ate of Aurora High School, Cuyahoga Community College and studied business at Kent State University. He married Elena Spit-sak in a beautiful fall ceremony at Mill Creek Falls in Slavic Vil-lage on Sweetest Day, October 16, 2010. He also inherited anoth-er family business, Maws Sauce, when his stepfather died and his mother passed down to Psenicka her now famous Maws recipe. Psenicka and Elena built up the barbecue sauce line to include a number of other sauces and rubs delivered all over northeastern Ohio. He is survived by his wife, mother, Mary Ann West-brook, stepmother Ellen Psenic-

ka, brothers James C. and Brett G. Psenicka. He was preceded in death by his father, James V. Psenicka, and stepfather Rod Westbrook. Funeral services will be private, but a memorial service will be planned for a later date once the pandemic is over. Arrangements were handled by Golubski-Deliberato Funeral Home, and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Streetsboro.

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generate more than $8.7 million annually in income taxes. The letter states that Gov. Mike DeWine, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleve-land City Council, Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish and the County Council should stop providing tax incen-tives for construction projects that do not have diversity and inclusion “from the very start. “If black and minor-ity architects, engineers, attor-neys, owner’s representatives, construction managers, project managers, consultants, eco-nomic development advisors, contractors and construction workers are going to be exclud-ed from the Sherwin-Williams project then don’t build it here.” Sherwin-Williams an-nounced the architectural and construction team it will use to build a new headquarters in Cleveland and a research com-plex in Brecksville, reaffirming

Johnson

Johnson is an avid stu-dent advocate. During her years as a teacher, she helped students develop leadership skills by train-ing them in mediation through the Winning Against Violent Envi-ronments (WAVE) Program. She worked with voter registration and letter writing to newspapers as well as at community forums. She also transported stu-dent council leaders to Columbus to lobby for fair school funding. Since her retirement, Johnson has taught student partici-pants in the Upward Bound pro-gram every summer on the campus of Case Western Reserve Universi-ty. Case’s campus is also where she hosts a weekly radio show called “It’s About Justice.” Read Johnson in her own words on page 7.

its plan to invest more than $600 million into the sites. The team consists of 10 companies, none of which are mi-nority-owned. They are: Pickard Chilton Archi-tects, Inc. – Design architect for the global headquarters. HGA Architects and Engi-neers – Base building architect for the global headquarters and design, base building and interior architect for the research center. Vocon Partners – Interior ar-chitect for the global headquarters. Welty/Gilbane JV, a joint venture involving Welty Buidling Co. and Gilbane Building Co. – Construc-tion manager. Mark G. Anderson Consul-tants, Inc. – Project manager, project controls and owner’s representative. CBRE Inc. – Real estate and economic development advisorVorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP – Legal and economic development counsel. Hanson Bridgett LLP – Le-gal counsel. inSITE Advisory Group – Economic development advisor.

But in its announcement, Sherwin-Williams also stated a com-mitment toward hiring women and minorities for the projects. The com-pany noted it was named by Forbes magazine as one of the top employ-ers for diversity, new graduates and women. “The company is extend-ing this commitment to the construc-tion of these facilities,” it said in a news release. “Sherwin-Williams will work proactively with the cities, com-munity leaders and trade partners to positively impact the local economy by providing workforce opportunities for the community, including award-ing contracts to minority-owned and female-owned businesses, as well as small businesses.” The downtown headquar-ters, to be built at the west end of Public Square, would be a 1 million-square-foot building. In March, the company paid $49.4 million to buy the downtown property. The research and develop-ment complex on 119 acres at Miller Road and Brecksville Road near In-terstate 77 would have about 500,000 square feet of space.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Greater Cleveland Regional Tran-sit Authority (RTA) a $15 million grant which will significantly up-grade the heavy rail fleet, the ag-ing Red Line trains which run from Hopkins airport in the west to the Louis Stokes-Windermere Station in the east. The federal funds are ex-pected to cover the cost of 34 new rail cars and associated infrastruc-ture repairs. The forty aging rail ve-hicles currently in the fleet will be retired. According to the RTA, 34 cars are what’s required to fully op-erate the Red Line. Forty had been in use because extras were required during maintenance of other cars. Members of the Northeast Ohio Congressional delegation, in-cluding Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman and Represen-tatives Marcia Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, praised the grant. They called modern transportation infra-structure “critical” to the people of Northeast Ohio. A statement from Brown’s office said he would con-tinue fighting to secure dollars for

RTA receives $15 million grantthe RTA, which has been bru-talized by the pandemic. The RTA is the only transit authority in the state of Ohio that has a heavy rail fleet, and CEO India Birdsong said she was “elated” that the Dept. of Transportation has provided these funds. In a prepared state-ment, she hinted at the organi-zation’s recent financial peril. “With this federal grant investment, we are one step closer to eliminating the risk of losing this resource [the rail fleet] — a resource that of-fers mobility options to resi-dents as they journey to school, work, health care and a host of other essential destinations each day.” Chris Stocking, chair of the grassroots rider coalition Clevelanders for Public Tran-sit, told Scene that the $15 mil-lion grant was a great start, but that replacing both the heavy and light rail fleets entirely will cost $300 million. About $180 million of the estimated total remains uncommitted, accord-

ing to an RTA presentation last month. “CPT is concerned where the rest of the funds will come from,” Stocking said. “Cleveland riders have already lost 25 percent in service cuts, and fares doubled the last 15 years. We would also look at RTA to evaluate the $14 million annually spent on transit police, money that could go to-

Reminder to get Flu shots With all the national speculation about the release of a novel coronavirus vaccine, some health experts are encour-aging Ohio parents to do what they can to prevent the spread of other diseases. The latest Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion study found that orders for regular childhood vaccines fell by 2.5 million doses between mid-March and mid-April. While safety concerns

or religious reasons are cited by some parents for not immu-nizing their children, Stephen Roller, the chief clinical offi-cer and chief operations officer for Primary Health Solutions in Butler County, said worries about potential exposure to COVID-19 seem to be behind the recent drop. “I think parents are do-ing the best that they can,” said Roller. “School looks different, church looks different. Life in general looks different right now. But one of the things that needs to be a constant is getting those kids in for routine check-ups and vaccinations.” Roller noted health-care providers are taking precautionary measures to protect patients, including pre-visit screenings, temperature checks, extra sanitizing, and the use of gloves and masks. According to Roller, continuing to get regular im-munizations protects the com-munity from preventable out-breaks of other diseases. Roller encouraged par-ents to reach out to their child’s doctor if they have concerns about medical visits during the pandemic or immunizations.

wards rail replacement, restoring service and lowering fares.” Stocking said he was grateful for the advocacy of Ohio’s congressional represen-tatives and said he hoped they continued pushing for funding of all transit operations, including bus service, which a majority of Cleveland riders rely on for their daily trips.

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Virtual performances put Detriot on world stageBy VINCE ROBINSON

In the face of a pandemic, the Detroit Jazz Festival managed to carry out what many never expected, a virtual celebration of a blend of jazz from multiple genres absent the energetic, ap-preciative spectators that give life to the music and the musicians. The 2020 ver-sion was staged on three different stages in Detroit’s Renaissance Center stacked with De-troit musicians of an international pedigree like James Carter, Dave McMurray and Marion Hayden supporting their brothers and sisters in the music from the Mo-tor City. Also included in the mix was jazz elder Pharoah Sanders who insisted that he perform despite the long trip from California. Sanders head-lined the first night of the four day festival with a performance that was eerily quiet, yet spirited. The seventy-nine year old jazz legend moved slowly but deliberately, wielding his tenor saxo-phone with a dignified tone that filled the some-what empty Renaissance Ballroom. His perfor-mance ended with his vo-cals of a familiar melody, the Creator Has A Master Plan. The hauntingly beautiful melody carried into the night and four days of music magic. The balance of the festival was marked by stellar performances from groups like the Rayse Biggs Collective which featured McMur-ray and a plethora of talent, McMurray’s own

cadre of players, singers like Joan Belgrave (recent widow of the beloved trumpet icon, Marcus Belgrave) and others like Henry Conerway Jr., who was chosen after submit-ting a virtual audition. Artistic Direc-tor Chris Collins orches-trated a collection of local talent to fill the gaps left by many of the musicians who were unable to per-form due to the nation’s health crisis. Many De-troit musicians have seen performance opportuni-ties dwindle, so the festi-val came as a blessing. Bassist Nat Reeves, who played with Sanders on opening night, said he felt the presence of ancestors in the room. Performing without the audience, he said, al-lowed him to focus on the music. For others like Mahindi Masai, it was a much needed break from a busy work schedule and a chance to recon-nect with music kindred spirits he hadn’t played with for some time. Masai performed with Naima Shamborguer and her group Sister Strings: Roots, Voices and Drums. For bassist Mar-ion Hayden, who played that set with Shambo-rguer as well as her own set and two others, it was double duty. She was as-signed the task of docu-menting the pre-perfor-mance on Instagram Live as she was preparing to perform. Afterwards, she looked forward to return-ing home to the barbeque wings and glass of wine waiting for her to enjoy with the balance of the festival on live television. What she may

have missed was the out-standing performance of saxophonist James Carter, who performed a blazing set with organist Gerard Gibbs and drum-mer Alex White. White just finished performing with Cleveland trumpeter Curtis Taylor’s quartet 10 minutes earlier and was seen sprinting to the stage just in time. Carter stretched the limits of 3 saxo-phones, paying tribute to his elder Sonny Rollins and the ancestor Charlie Parker with a lively, soul-ful performance height-ened by the enthusiasm of bandmates White and Gibbs. Viewers online and listening on their ra-dios were treated to an amazing performance by piano prodigy Joey Al-exander. Self-taught and from Bali, Indonesia, his masterful touch and sen-sibilities defy his seven-teen years. They enjoyed the desserts of veteran Detroit bassists Robert Hurst and Rodney Whita-

ker who cultivated young talent around them and brought them along for the ride. Four days came to a crescendo with the performance of another phenom, keyboardist Robert Glasper. Known for his versatility in both jazz and an experimental fusion of Hip Hop and Neo Soul, he blended his keys with drums, bass, two turntables and a computer to provide the fireworks that normally usher the close of the fes-tivities. With the magic of a button on a key-board, he turned up the crowd noise that subbed for the absent soundstage audience. Entertaining himself, he was enter-taining the world. His expression was whimsi-cal at times, with vol-umes of notes, interludes and directions. He didn’t neglect to speak to the current social justice and political unrest. The musical statement he made de-livered an exclamation

point for all. With the assis-tance of Glasper, Alexan-der and Sanders, promi-nent imports for this 4-day telecast, Detroit musicians showed the world why their city is a jazz mecca. Fans around the world tuned in to wit-ness what Detroiters and the throngs who make the yearly trek from near and far experience in per-son. Hopefully next year, the world can come to Detroit.

Crowdfunding launches black owned business Can this work in Cleveland? Organized by Think Like a Boss--A wom-en’s empowerment organiza-tion founded and led solely by women, ‘Seneca Market’ will act as a blueprint for fu-ture Black-owned franchises. Think Like a Boss and its community of close supporters have announced an online crowdfunding campaign aimed towards creating Seneca Market--the first Black-owned grocery store in the tri-state area. The founders be-lieve that the act of people of color supporting and uplift-ing each other is a founda-tional tenet to spearheading real societal change. “We have to adopt the mindset that buying from and supporting black busi-nesses is for progress and not just for protest,” says Founder & CEO Alexandra Bernard Simmons. Supermarkets and grocery stores are a criti-cal aspect of any thriving community, as they often serve as neighborhood hubs that fill the roles of employment centers, lo-cal gathering places, and sources of community pride beyond just a place to shop for food. There are less than 10 super-markets in the U.S. that are Black-owned, which is something Think Like a Boss is actively working to change. “In 2020 we’ve seen our lives completely turned upside down as we’ve been forced to nav-igate two pandemics--A virus that has brought us to a stand still while rac-ism has brought us to our knees. Seneca Market is a new opportunity for Black people to take ownership

in supporting such a cru-cial part of their neigh-borhoods.” Named after NYC’s first fully self-suf-ficient Black Village that was destroyed during the creation of Central Park, Seneca Market’s flagship location is slated to open in New Jersey and will be the first of what will ultimately be many such franchises. The store will be different from con-ventional corporate chains insofar as it will prioritize sustainabil-ity through neighborhood economics by sourcing directly from black farm-ers, suppliers, entrepre-neurs, wholesalers and more. Franchising will allow the organization to recreate the market in different cities around the nation, with New York City and Philadelphia in early consideration for the next store locations. The crowdfund-ing campaign is now live and is scheduled to end on October 19th, 2020. It can be found on the or-ganization’s ifundwomen page. Their goal is to raise $500,000--all of which will go directly towards the funding of Seneca Market. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, Think Like a Boss is a multi-faceted social goods or-ganization focused on improving communities through women empow-erment, entrepreneur-ship, teen programs, and media content. The com-

pany also provides busi-ness consulting services and marketing training

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please contact Simmons via email at thinklike-abossnj@gmail.com.

James Carter performed a blazing set at the De-troit Jazz Festival. ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

Entrepreneur challenge for black women “Take it to the Top Entrepreneurship Challenge is created by the Black Women’s Round Table (BWR), a signature part of the Na-tional Coalition On Black Civic Participation (NCB-CP). Take It to The Top Entrepreneur Chal-lenge gives BWR the op-portunity to provide tools, resources and on demand education that will enable Black women and girls to successfully pursue their entrepreneurial ideas. Participants in the chal-lenge will receive busi-ness support, tools, and resources to help them compete for a chance to win up to $25,000. All of this made possible through the part-nership of The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon and Black Enterprise and by BWR media partners Es-sence and #RolandMar-tinUnfilitered. BWR is looking forward to have each partner work to-ward aiding black women throughout this Challenge and beyond. Black women are the largest and fast-est growing segments of entrepreneurs in the U.S. According to the American Express Wom-en Owned Business Re-port 2019, Black women owned businesses have grown in 2019 at a rate of 12% compared to the an-nual increase rate of 8%

between 2014-2019. Un-fortunately, that growth rate comes with chal-lenges. Black women owned business’ revenue generated an average of $27,700 per firm com-pared to white women owned firms at $143,100 per firm. The cause of this disparity is less ac-cess to capital, lack of educational resources and mentors. Fortunately, this Challenge will work to-ward aiding Black wom-en and girls with tools and resources to help them cultivate their ideas into building a successful and sustainable business. BWR mission is to focus on providing leadership, economic empowerment and well-ness for Black women and girls. It is best said by Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and National Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable, “this Chal-lenge is for those of you out there during COV-ID19 and what we call a shift in our nation when it comes to addressing is-sues of racial disparities in this country and sys-tematic racism. One of those things that impact us the most is economic justice and economic opportu-nity. So, this challenge gives us an opportunity

as an organization and as the Black Women’s Roundtable to be part of the solution, for those who have ideas or who have been thinking about their own business to make their dreams a real-ity”. The BWR Chal-lenge has three (3) cat-egories to register under; Category (1) Girlpreneur (ages 16 to 17); Category (2) collegiate; Category (3) Community. Each registrant will have the opportu-nity get support to launch their business, win the monetary prize but also a chance to be featured on Blackenterprise.com. The eligible states for participation are: Ala-bama, Mississippi, DC/Maryland/Virginia Metro area, Georgia, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina & Ohio. Registration is open now, those interested should go to https://www.blackwomensroundta-ble.org/#our-2020-pro-grams. The Challenge begins October 1, 2020 to11:59pm October 30, 2020. This is an op-portune time for this challenge to be launched with October as National Women’s Small Business Month. The announce-ment of the winners will be on November 28th 2020 Small Business Sat-urday.

Bassist Marion Hayden played that set with Shamborguer as well as her own set at the Detroit Jazz Festival.(ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

Jazz elder Pharoah Sanders insisted that he per-form at the Detroit Jazz Festival despite the long trip from California. (ESDN Photo by Vince Robinson)

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To say the least, and I usually do, this summer has been quite a journey for the Gracious Mistress of the Par-sonage and myself. I can’t re-member a summer equal to the one we just went through. The fact that we got through it is amazing. We have been staying at home more often than usual, but I’m not complaining. What better night than the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and me sharing whatever we are doing? One night this past week, I turned off the TV; we were getting ready to go to bed when my wife said, “What is that aggravating noise?” I didn’t know what she was talking about. I asked her to tell me what noise she was referring to. “Listen,” she whis-pered, “don’t you hear that noise?” I must say one of my problems is that although I lis-ten, I most often don’t hear. There is supposed to be a con-nection between listening and hearing, but it doesn’t always work with me. I guess I’m wired differently than my wife. When they say men and women are equal, they obviously have never been married. Both men and wom-en have their eccentricities. Mine is more obvious than my wife’s. A husband soon dis-covers after his marriage that there is a major difference between him and his bride. It takes him a while to unscram-ble it and figure out how to deal with it. As I tried to listen, I couldn’t hear what she was hearing. And then I heard it. Somewhere in our living room, a tree frog invited himself to provide us with one of his con-certs. There’s nothing I like better at night than listening to a tree frog singing its latest song. “That’s not aggravat-ing noise,” I replied, “that’s a tree frog singing a musical

concert for us.” “It is not music,” my wife uttered, “it is aggravating noise, and we need to get rid of it right now.” Now, if anybody knows anything about music, it is my wife. She plays the piano, the organ, the guitar, the flute, and many times she plays me. But that’s a different story. For me, I don’t have a musical background. If you ever heard me singing, you would understand. When I first met my wife, she was singing in a mu-sical group. They did a great job and traveled church to church on weekends. So, she can sing very well. Never once have I even entertained the idea of her and I singing a duet. “Where is that aggra-vating noise coming from?” I learned that when my wife asks a question to be very careful in my response. I’m not saying that she sets before me trick questions, she does, but I’m not saying that. She searched all through the living room to find this singing tree frog for the rest of the evening. Never once did the music stop while she was searching. I just sat back and enjoyed the concert. At one point, she looked at me and said, “Why are you smiling?” Not realizing I was smiling, I just looked at her and said, “I’m enjoying that wonderful music.” “Well, stop it and help me find where that tree frog is.” We never did find that tree frog that night. It sang all night long, and when I got up in the morning, it was just finishing its concert. For the next several nights, that tree frog enter-tained us with its musical con-cert. I enjoyed it while my wife despised it. I guess that’s the dif-ference between people. One person enjoys the music while the other person looks at it as noise. What is the real differ-ence between music and noise?

The only difference is the person listening. Since I do not have any musical cred-ibility, I can listen to a tree frog singing and enjoy it as a beau-tiful musical concert. On the other hand, my wife is very musically ad-ept and can tell what is musical and what is simply noise. A few days later, my wife got up, came into the liv-ing room, and asked, “Where is that noise?” “Oh,” I said rather cheerfully, “you mean the mu-sical concert we enjoyed for the last several nights.” She looked at me with one of her looks. “I think the tree frog has finished its concert and has moved on to its next engage-ment.” For a moment, I was a little sorry because I enjoyed all the music from that tree frog. If up to me, and it isn’t, I would engage that tree frog for a concert every night. Last night as we were sitting in the living room, my wife said, “Isn’t that wonder-ful?” Not knowing what she meant, I asked her, and she said, “that aggravating noise from the tree frog is gone. I re-ally enjoy the quiet.” For a moment, I wanted to reply, “I really en-joyed the tree frog concert.” I knew that would not be the proper thing to say at a time like this. There is a time when you can agree on something. We don’t have to agree on ev-erything, but we need to agree on that which is important. Amos, the Old Testa-ment prophet, said it this way, “Can two walk together, ex-cept they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3). Throughout my life, I have discovered that the im-portant thing is not what you disagree about but rather what you agree on, and that brings you together. Call him at 1-866-552-2543 or e-mail james-snyder2@att.net. Visit www.jamessnyderministries.com.

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One million Chinese Muslims held in ‘camps’ The Trump admin-istration shelved plans for a broad import ban on cotton and tomato products from China’s Xinjiang region while announcing narrower bans on products from five specific entities. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acting Deputy Secretary Kenneth Cuccinelli said the new “Withhold Release Or-ders” (WROs) on cotton, tex-tiles, apparel, hair products and computer parts are aimed at combating China’s use of forced labor by detained Ui-ghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The U.S. actions “violate the rules of inter-national trade, and disrupt global industrial, supply and value chains,” said Wang Wenbin, foreign ministry spokesman, at a daily news conference in Beijing on Tuesday. “The so-called forced labour issue is entirely fabricated by some organisa-tions and people in the U.S. and the West,” he said, add-ing that China will take all necessary measures to pro-tect its companies’ legitimate rights and interests. Cuccinelli told re-porters on a conference call that the administration was conducting more legal analy-sis of the region-wide import

bans. Customs and Bor-der Protection (CBP) officials told Reuters last week that they had prepared the broad-er bans on cotton, cotton tex-tiles and tomatoes, among China’s biggest commodity exports, along with the orders announced on Monday. CBP acting Com-missioner Mark Morgan said on Monday the agency’s in-vestigations into the region-wide orders were continuing. Two people familiar with the Trump administra-tion’s internal deliberations said that concerns about the broad orders and their ef-fect on supply chains were raised by officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Repre-sentative Robert Lighthizer and Agriculture Secretary

Sonny Perdue. China is the world’s top exporter of tomato paste, made with tomatoes mostly grown in Xinjiang. Lead-ing processor Cofco Tunhe Sugar Co Ltd, a subsidiary of China’s state-owned COFCO Group, produced 250,000 tonnes of paste last year at its 13 Xinjiang factories and claims to supply firms includ-ing Heinz and Unilever. China also had agreed to buy increased quan-tities of U.S. cotton under the countries’ Phase 1 trade deal, which could be put at risk by a U.S. ban on imports from China’s dominant cotton-pro-ducing region. But Cuccinelli said it was legal concerns, not trade, that prompted the need for more study of the region-wide import bans.

“We want to make sure that when we do get challenged - and we assume that we will be challenged, legally - that we will prevail and none of the goods we would ultimately would seize under such a WRO would be shaken loose and released into the United States,” he said. The Withhold Re-lease Orders allow U.S. Cus-toms and Border Protection to detain shipments based on suspicion of forced-labor involvement under long-standing U.S. laws to com-bat human trafficking, child labor and other human rights abuses. Shippers can send the products to other countries or seek to prove that they are not produced with forced la-bor. DHS said the block on products from Xinjiang entering the United States applied to all products made with labor from the Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center; hair products from the Lop County Hair Prod-uct Industrial Park; apparel produced by Yili Zhuowan Garment Manufacturing and Baoding LYSZD Trade and Business Co; Cotton produced and processed by Xinjiang Junggar Cotton and Linen Co Ltd; and computer parts made by Hefei Bitland Information Technology Co Ltd. The U.S.-based group Worker Rights Consor-tium said this year that Yili Zhuowan had made gloves for French brand Lacoste that appeared to have been sewn at a factory where ethnic mi-nority people faced forced ideological and behavioral re-education. Lacoste said it had halted shipments from that factory after those alle-gations, media reported. A China-based cot-ton trader said the new orders should “largely be discount-

ed” as they impacted only a few, small suppliers. However, he said any expansion of the ban to make it regional would be bad for business. “It will disrupt sup-ply chains and contribute to a worsening situation between the U.S. and China and less trust,” he said. The Trump’s ad-ministration is ratcheting up pressure on China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, where the United Nations cites credible reports as saying 1 million Muslims held in camps have been put to work. In China’s north-west, the government is stripping the most overt ex-pressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are de-vout Muslims. The authori-ties have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, in-cluding one in a small village near Linxia, a city known as “Little Mecca.” Similar demolitions have been carried out in In-ner Mongolia, Henan and Ningxia, the homeland of China’s largest Muslim eth-nic minority, the Hui. In the southern province of Yunnan, three mosques were closed. From Beijing to Ningxia, of-ficials have banned the public use of Arabic script. This campaign represents the newest front in the Chinese Communist Party’s sweeping rollback of individual religious free-doms, after decades of rela-tive openness that allowed more moderate forms of Is-lam to blossom. The harsh crackdown on Muslims that began with the Uighurs in Xinjiang is spreading to more regions and more groups.It is driven by the party’s fear that adherence to the Muslim faith could turn into religious extremism and open defiance of its rule. Across China, the

party is now imposing new restrictions on Islamic cus-toms and practices, in line with a confidential party di-rective., parts of which have been se The measures re-flect the hard-line policies of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has sought to reassert the primacy of the Commu-nist Party and its ideology in all walks of life. The campaign has prompted concerns that the repression of Uighur Mus-lims in the western region of Xinjiang has begun to bleed into other parts of China, targeting Hui and other Mus-lims who have been better integrated than Uighurs into Chinese society. Last year, a top party official from Ningxia praised Xinjiang’s govern-ment during a visit there and pledged to increase coopera-tion between the two regions on security matters. Haiyun Ma, a Hui Muslim professor at Frost-burg State University in Maryland, said the crack-down was continuing a long history of animosity toward Islam in China that has alien-

ated believers. “The People’s Re-public of China has become the world’s foremost pur-veyor of anti-Islamic ideol-ogy and hate,” he wrote in a recent essay for the Hudson Institute. “This, in turn, has translated into broad public support for the Beijing gov-ernment’s intensifying op-pression of Muslims in the Xinjiang region and else-where in the country.” None of the new measures, so far, have ap-proached the brutality of Xinjiang’s mass detentions and invasive surveillance of Uighurs. But they have al-ready stirred anxiety among the Hui, who number more than 10 million.

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NCAA school has canceled its football program. Other schools may follow. The risk of spreading COVID-19 during team activities is simply too great. It would be chal-lenging — if not impossible.

Webber talks social justice Tuesday, September 15, 2020- Friday, September 18, 2020

Chris Webber’s emotional comments in support of NBA play-ers, who boycotted the playoffs after the shooting of Jacob Blake, generated millions of views because they came from the heart and addressed sensi-tive topics.But for Webber and other Black commentators who discussed this week’s call to action throughout the sports world, it wasn’t unusual to discuss such subjects. The only difference is that this time he spoke in front of a live TV audience. “These are conversations I have had with my mom since I’ve been 5 years old. This is nothing I haven’t said a thousand times before, but no one heard it,” Webber said by phone from the NBA bubble at Walt Disney World in Florida. “These are the same conversations and hopefully something gets done.”

Akron Zips honor local teacher In an effort to support and uplift teachers during the entire fall season, the Akron Zips in conjunction with the College Football Foundation’s Extra Yard for Teachers Program and the Mid-American Conference, honored Dr. Perkins Pringle, a teacher at NIHF (National Inventor’s Hall of Fame) Stem Middle School for his continuing efforts to go the “Extra Yard” for his students. As part of the Extra Yard for Teachers Week, Sept. 12-19, Pringle was present-ed a $1,000 gift card by the College Football Foundation through DonorsChoose.org.

Reeling Tribe hopes for Detroit reboundBy KARL BRYANT

At press time, the Tribe has lost seven straight, as last week’s bad news has only got-ten worse. They play one more game against the Cubs in the Windy City and then visit the Motor City in what is looking more and more like a do-or-die series. As of this writing, the Tigers are just four games behind the reeling Tribe, who are hanging on to the last Post-Season spot just 10 days after they were challenging for a top playoff seed in the A.L. If they blow the four-game set against Detroit, it could be a collapse of epic proportions, as after the Tigers series, CLE has the 1st Place White Sox waiting to drop them in the garbage dump. The Tribe’s last hope would be the Pirates – the worst team in baseball – against whom they finish the season at Progressive Field. Sandy Alomar – still acting skipper in the absence of ailing Manager Terry Francona – has to be happy about that. When the schedule for MLB’s 60-game wind sprint was announced, we had noted that the season-ending Pirate series could be the Tribe’s ticket to the Post-Season. Of

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course, then, no one could pre-dict that the Tribe would do as well as they did in August and be where they then were in the standings. So, a Pirates series win looked to be superfluous. Yet, entering the season’s last month, no one could foresee the Tribe’s current collapse, given their pitchers’ potency. Now, that final series vs. Pitts-burgh may be their only way in. Last week’s three straight losses to lowly K.C. were un-expected. The following three straight losses to Minnesota were pretty much expected, other than the 3-1 defeat where Cy Young Award candidate Shane Bieber absorbed his first “L” of the year. The Tribe used to have the best pitching stats in baseball. They’ve slipped out of the top spot, but are still doing pretty well thanks to the staff’s success in August. Their batting continues to perform badly, so their offensive pro-duction has remained ranked in the lowest 15% in MLB. The Tribe was outscored, 46 to 22, in the seven straight losses. Only the last laughable loss against the N.L. Central-leading Cubs was close, 6-5, as Chicago’s winning run liter-

ally walked across the plate and off the field in the 9th as, with the bases loaded, every runner moved up after Tribe reliever Nick Wittgren bizarrely hit his second straight batter. In that nauseating defeat, the Tribe took a 3-1 lead against very tough N.L. Cy Young Award candidate Yu Darvish. Regrettably, Carlos Carrasco could not hold onto the lead and even had to leave with a sore calf after six innings. Spot-ty Tribe defense subsequently contributed to them going into a 5-3 hole. Then, when Fran-cisco Lindor hit a 2-Run HR in the top of the 9th, it was pointed out that the Tribe would have a chance to win a game after be-ing behind entering the 9th In-ning for just the FIRST TIME this season. Good grief! Of course, that possible scenario went out the window when reliever Oliver Perez put a couple aboard in the bottom of the 9th and Wittgren came on to plunk two straight bat-ters: the first to load the bases and the second – immediately after a visit from pitching coach Carl Willis, no less – to send the Indians to their 7th straight defeat. Perez (1-1) got the loss and the Cubs’ Jeremy Jeffress (4-1), who gave up his first long

ball of the season in the tying HR to Lindor – who had 4 RBI on the night - backed into the win as pitcher of record. A tale of teams going in op-posite directions was evident

By KARL BRYANT

The Big Ten changed its collective mind. It previously decided not to play football in the Fall because of the dan-gers of COVID-19. Three ma-jor conferences decided not to stop their seasons. Many high schools began playing. The NFL started playing. (Even the Browns will try to learn to play football after a disastrous Week 1 attempt to do so.) OSU QB Justin Fields famously started a petition that was signed by not only players, but a couple of hundred thousand people who wanted their schools to play football in the Fall. B1G Commissioner Kevin Warrens was besieged by many in an attempt to get him to reconsider the league’s de-cision to forgo a Fall football season. Ohio State, Nebraska, and Iowa, among others were trying to reinstate the football season. A reconsideration vote was called for the B1G mem-ber schools to vote on new recommendations. A majority of conference member insti-tutions had to listen to all the arguments and then decide to set aside the old agreement and enact a new plan for a Fall season. Representatives from

universities did meet and were able to come up with a way to play football this Fall. The Big Ten will play an eight-game conference games-only 2020 season, beginning the weekend of Oct. 23-24. The schedule will be released later this week. The teams that finish first in the East and West Division will play off for the B1G title on Dec. 19. The 2nd Place teams in each division will also meet that weekend; 3rd Place teams in each will meet; and so on, so that each team will play nine games, if everyone stays healthy. An intensive testing proto-col will be implemented to as-sure that student-athletes and staff are in a safe environment at practices and at games. All who test positive will also un-dergo cardiac evaluation to in-sure that they do not have car-diac issues, which have been reported in a number of CO-VID-19 positive people. Each school will designate a Chief Infection Officer who will re-port all findings and date to the Big Ten. The B1G will weigh all the data collected from each officer to decide whether that school may participate in practice or in competition. Based upon re-

spective positivity rates, there will be Green, Orange, and Red scenarios put in place that teams must follow. B1G Commissioner Warren stated, “Our focus with the task force over the last six weeks was to ensure the health and safety of our student-athletes. Our goal has always been to return to competition so all student-athletes can realize their dream of competing in the sports they love. We are incredibly grateful for the col-laborative work that our Return to Competition Task Force has accomplished to ensure the health, safety and wellness of student-athletes, coaches and administrators.”

Browns DB Denzel Ward in practice last week before the Browns Opening Game loss to the Ravens..(ESDN Photo by Bill Moore, Minority Publishers Assn.)

in post-game starting pitcher comments to the Media. The Tribe’s Carrasco exasperat-ingly stated, “You know what, we have to keep playing hard. We played hard today. At some

point the winning is going to come.” The Cubs’ Darvish could impishly remark, “I was terrible. I had absolutely noth-ing. I can’t believe I threw sev-en innings and we won.”

Browns embarrass themselves in OpenerBy KARL BRYNT

The headline, “Browns Em-barrass Themselves in Opener,” can be used almost every year since their rebirth in 1999. The most recent iteration of “more of the same” came last Sunday, when the Browns were annihi-lated by the Ravens, 38-6. By the end of the Half, it already was becoming a run-away for the Ravens. The Browns are 1-20-1 in openers since 1999. Two years ago, the Browns opened the year by tying the Steelers, 21-21. Their only win was a 20-3 victory over the Ra-vens, of all teams, in 2004. All the others were losses. There’s not too much to re-hash since the Browns were horrible on Offense, Defense, and Special Teams. The only real controversy was why Bal-timore Coach John Harbaugh left in QB Lamar Jackson dur-ing the 4th Quarter with a 30+ point lead, risking injury. NFL 2019 MVP Jackson threw for 275 yards, while completing 20 of 25 passes for three TDs. He also led the Ravens with 45 yards rushing. J.K. Dobbins from Ohio State, ran for just 22 yards, but had two scores. Mark Ingram had just 29 of the Ravens 107 yds. rushing. Baker Mayfield threw for 189 yards, while completing 21 of 39 passes for a TD to David Njoku, with an inter-ception. Like Jackson, he was sacked twice. Kareem Hunt ran for 72, and Nick Chubb, 60, of the Browns 132 yds. on the ground, as they split rushing duty. Punter Jamie Gillan lost a couple of yards and the ball on an ill-conceived fake punt. K Austin Seibert missed an extra point and a FG, so was cut the next day. CLE signed Cody Parkey, who was on the Browns back in 2016, when he memorably missed a kick at the

end of regulation in a game in Miami, which the Browns lost in OT, 30-24. The day after the slaughter, DB Denzel Ward spoke to the Media about the loss and how the team might recover. He also spoke about the upcoming match-up against his former Buckeye teammate, QB Joe Burrow, and the Bengals on Thursday Night Football. When asked about what went wrong with the Browns Defense and what can be im-proved, he stated, “It is about us. We just have to get together, watch the film and see exactly where we went wrong. That could have been mental issues. I do not think it is physical. We are all physically capable and able to get our jobs done. We just have to look at the film and see what we have to do to get better and change things.” When asked if the problems had to do with missing players in the secondary – Grant Delpit and Greedy Williams - he gave no excuses and noted, “Guys have to step up and we have to be able to do our jobs when

guys go down. That is the NFL. It is the next man up.” He spoke about playing Defense against Burrow, who ran the Scout Team for Ohio State before transferring to LSU and leading them to a National Championship, while winning the Heisman Trophy. Ward remarked, “Joe is a great player, a great QB, makes great throws, and has great deci-sion-making.” He added, “He definitely tested us. He was a starting quarterback even back then.” Ward also thought that the Browns would do better in recovering this year from an opening game embarrassment than they did last year, when they were blown out by the Titans, and seemed stunned for most of the year. He com-mented, “I think that we have a good staff and we have the right players in. We are going to go in and do what we have to do to get the job done next time.” We’ll see how things go when the Browns play the Bengals.

Boxing NostalgiaBy JIM AMATO

Rafael Herrera was born of humble beginnings on January 7, 1945 in Jalisco, Mex-ico. He would become a profes-sional boxer at the age of 18. For years he fought fellow novices, losing some but winning more. He was making a name for him-self though. In 1966, he climbed up the ladder with a win against rugged Memin Vega. Two fights later he drew with Geraldo Luna. From the Luna bout Herrera ’s career took off. He reeled off 16 straight wins. Her-rera was then matched with fu-ture world champion Jesus ” Chucho ” Castillo. Herrera was overwhelmed by Castillo and lost in three rounds. Herrera was no quit-ter. He drew with Canada’s Billy McGrandle but two fights later he lost to the highly regarded Raul Cruz. As 1970 rolled around, Herrera was considered a top notch boxer but not champion-ship material. That all changed when he decided that he was good enough to make it to the top. This time, again, Her-

Rafael Herrera was one of the best fighters

rera won a decision over Octavio Gomez. This led to a shot against undefeated Rodolfo Martinez for North American Boxing Federa-tion bantamweight title. In a very close and exciting fight, Herrera got the verdict and the title. That was the spring board for Herrera ’s career. Next he would halt the highly regarded Cesar Deciga. Two fights later he avenged an earlier loss by outscoring the talented “Chucho” Castillo. In March of 1972 Herrera challenged the legendary Ruben Olivares for the world’s championship. The proud champion fought his heart out but Herrera was not to be de-

nied and he won in round eight capturing the World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council bantamweight titles. Four months later Her-rera traveled to Panama to take on smooth boxing native Enrique Pinder who outpointed Herrera to take the title. The WBC then stripped Pinder of the title for re-fusing to defend against Rodolfo Martinez. In the meantime Her-rera and Olivares hooked up in a rematch with Herrera winning a majority ten round decision. In January of 1973, Pinder was halted by hard punching Romeo Anaya to lose the WBA title. In April of 1973 Herrera and Martinez met for the vacant WBC title. In a wild af-fair Herrera stopped Martinez in round 12 to annex the crown. In August, Anaya would again KO Pinder to retain the WBA title. Herrera would fin-ish 1973 with a close decision win against Thailand’s Venice Borkhorsor. The Thai southpaw had once held the flyweight title. He gave Herrera fits early on as Herrera suffered cuts and swell-ing around both eyes. Herrera

gamely battled his way back and after 15 brutal rounds, Herrera was awarded a controversial de-cision. In November of 1973, South African Arnold Taylor came from behind to bomb out Anaya to capture the WBA ‘s title recognition. In May of 1974, Her-rera defended against ex-champ Anaya and stopped him in round six. Next up was a third fight with Rodolfo Martinez. This time Martinez turned the ta-bles halting Herrera in the fourth round. Now without a title Herrera dropped verdicts to Oc-tavio Gomez and Jose Luis Soto. Next came a draw with Jose Cer-vantes and Herrera retired. Her-rera came back ten years later to win a four rounder against Alfre-do Meneses. He then promptly retired for good. In 61 fights Herrera posted a record of 49-9-3. He scored 19 knockouts and was stopped on only two occasions. He was a solid champion who bridged the reigns of Ruben Oli-vares and Carlos Zarate.

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Tower City Cinemas closing due to pandemic The last remain-ing movie theatre in down-town, Tower City Cinemas, has closed permanently. The theater has been shut down since the start of the COVID-19 pan-demic nearly six months ago. Cleveland Cinemas, which has operated the theater since 1998, said it would not reopen it.

In a press release Cleveland Cinemas presi-dent Jon Forman wrote that “While Tower City Cinemas has been closed since March due to the on-going health crisis, with the lease expiring, a decision was made to not reopen the theater, our man-agement team and staff have done an incredible job during the 20+ years we’ve operated

this theater. We remain com-mitted to movie-goers in Cleveland and we look for-ward to serving our Tower City patrons at our other cin-emas.” Cleveland Cinemas recently reopened two of its locations: the Cedar Lee in Cleveland Heights and Chagrin Cinemas in Chagrin Falls.

The Capitol The-atre, located about two miles west of Tower City and the closest movie house to downtown, remains tem-porarily closed. When Tower City Cimemas opened in 1990, four movies played that weekend: “Teenage Mu-tant Ninja Turtles,” “Pretty Woman,” “My Left Foot”

Chris' Cinema Trivia &Movie Match Up

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TRIVIA - (Biographies)

1. In the HBO cable film The Josephine Baker Story (1991), actress Lynn Whitfield portrayed the great, American expatriate dancer who fled to Paris, France and became an international sensation and the richest black woman in the '20's and '30's; but who is the veteran, black actor that portrayed a U.S.serviceman that inspires her to return to performing after she experiences great pain and loss? 2. In what musical mini-series do actor Lawrence Hilton Jacobs and actress Angela Bassett portray a '60's, lower-class, black couple from Gary, Indiana who take their five sons(Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael) to audition for Mo-town Record's President Berry Gordy to become the most fa-mous, musical family in history? 3. Who is the light-skinned, green-eyed actress/singer in The Courage To Love (2000) that portrayed the story of Henriette Delille: a quadroon inpre-Civil War New Orleans who

rejects the female, Creole tradi-tion of being kept by a wealthy, white man to instead become a Catholic nun and teach slave children to read and write? 4. In Livin' For Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2001), actress Teresa Randle portrays the young-adult Natalie while Diahann Carroll portrays Cole's mother, but who is the African-American actor who portrayed the singer's legendary father, Nat King Cole? 5. In what film does African-American director Julie Dash have actress Angela Bassett portray the special bus rider who made history by sparking the '60's Civil Rights Movementwhen she was arrested for re-fusing to give up her Jim Crow seat for a white passenger?

ANSWERS: 1. Louis Gos-sett, Jr. 2. 'The Jacksons: An American Dream' (1997) 3. Vanessa L. Williams 4. James McDaniel 5. 'The Rosa Parks Story' (2002)

MOVIE MATCH-UP - (The Jacksons: An American Dream)

ACTORS/ACTRESSES:1.Angela Bassett2. Lawrence Hilton Jacobs3. Holly Robinson-Peete4. Billy Dee Williams5. Vanessa L. Williams

ROLES:a) dad, Joe Jacksonb)assistant Suzanne De-Passec) producer Berry Gordyd) mom, Katherine Jackson

'The Bodyguard' was transitional role for Houston(Cobbs). When Rachel and Frank first meet, they clash and lock horns immediate-ly. Once again, Devaney intervenes, so he introduces the new bodyguard to her entourage and family: Sy, (Kemp) her manager; Tony Scavelli (Mike Starr) her huge Italian-American cur-rent bodyguard; and Nicki (Michele La-mar Richards), Rachel’s older sister and personal assistant. Later, Frank also meets Fletcher (Devaughn Nixon), Rachel’s ten year old son. After Bill and Sy show Frank the death threats they received from the stalker, Frank automati-cally updates the security around the estate. Rachel rationalizes with Frank that since she cannot go out on a date without Frank follow-ing her that they should go out together. He agrees so they pursue a relationship. U n f o r t u n a t e l y, after they sleep together, Frank tells Rachel they can-not continue this way be-cause it will interfere with him protecting her. She is insulted and does not understand, so they go back to their origi-nal dysfunctional relation-ship with him being stoic and calculating and her be-ing emotional and reactive. Meanwhile, movie viewers are shown what the stalker looks like: a somewhat feminine-look-ing platinum-blond young white man. Rachel and Frank continue their bickering as he gets angry at her for ig-noring and disobeying his safety protocols. At a charity con-cert in Miami, she tries to make him jealous at a party by flirting with a bodyguard associate of Frank’s named Portman (Tomas Arana). But, when the blond stalker manages to call Rachel on her private phone line, she is shaken and begs Frank to help her. She promises to do whatever he wants, so he packs up the spoiled sing-er, Nicki and Fletcher and they go visit Frank’s father

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(Ralph Waite) at his isolated cabin in the snowy moun-tain wilderness. At the cabin, Ra-chel and Frank grow closer even though Nicki makes a pass at Frank. But, after the skilled protector saves Fletcher from being blown up by a rigged motor boat, Nicki makes a guilt-ridden confession to Frank that night. She tells him she hired the assassin tokill Rachel because of her overwhelming jealousy. Later, the killer accidently murders Nicki thinking it was the other sister. Ironi-cally, the F.B.I. had already caught the blond stalker, so Frank knows that Nicki’s assassin is still out there. A solemn and grieving Rachel decides to throw caution to the wind and attend the Academy Awards ceremony since she is nominated for Best Ac-tress in the movie I Have Nothing. Determined to use any means necessary to in-sure her safety on Oscar night, Frank manages to figure out that Portman is Nicki’s hired gun. At just the right moment, Frank lunges in front of Rachel on stage and takes a bullet meant for her. He shoots Portman and the entire or-deal is finally over. At the airport, in a scene much like the conclu-sion of Casablanca (1942), Frank and Rachel part ways as he prepares to take on a new assignment. But, not before they share one last passionate kiss with the main soundtrack theme ‘I Will Always Love You’ playing in the background. The movie and soundtrack for The Body-guard were massively suc-cessful with the main single release spending weeks at the top of the music charts. The film served as a starting point for Houston’s movie career as it gave her the necessary hit she needed to do so. Eventually, her film career somewhat pe-tered out but she managed to maintain minimal popu-larity with later music re-cordings.

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Before her untime-ly death in 2012, Whitney Houston was one of the living legends of the music industry. After the debut of her self-titled album in 1985, she went on to be-come a singing super-star who won various Gram-my and Soul Train music awards. As a former model, her beauty was impres-sive. But, her voice was remarkable and stood peer-less with many wanna-bes trying to reach her profes-sional level but none ever achieving it. Some of her film credits include Waiting To Exhale (1995), The Preach-er’s Wife (1996) and the Sparkle remake (2012) that was her last movie before her demise. However, her premiere into the film world did not just make a ‘splash.’ It made a tidal wave. The Bodyguard(1992) provided a smooth transition between Houston’s two entertain-ment mediums by hav-ing her star as an African-American pop singer and actress who is being stalked by a psychotic fan. Hired to co-star opposite Houston is Cau-casian actor Kevin Costner. Having appeared in movies like the Native-American classic Dances With Wolves (1990) and the futuristic sci-fi flick Waterworld (1995), Costner became a major Hollywood leading man in the 1990’s. Together, Houston and Costner would make history in the interra-cial romantic thriller. Directed by Mick Jackson, the story-line re-volves around tempestuous celebrity Rachel Marron (Houston). After someone de-livers an exploding ‘Rachel’ doll to her dressing room, her management team made up of black elderly Bill Devaney (Bill Cobbs) and Englishman Sy Spec-tor (Gary Kemp) decide to hire extra special security to protect her. Along comes Frank Farmer (Costner): a former Secret Service agent who takes the new assign-ment as a favor for Devany

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Flavorful stir-fry cooking Here’s delicious news: You can enjoy great meals that are high in flavor yet low in calories when you turn to the stirring tastes of stir-fry cooking. This kind of cuisine originated in China many years ago with the wok and has become a major part of many American lifestyles. The trend is growing as more and more people realize that this type of cooking can be a healthy part of the family diet—whether you use a skil-let, wok or pan. The key is in the preparation. As with any method of cooking, it is still possible to make a dish that is high in fat and calories with stir-fry cooking if you’re not care-ful. By working with a small amount of cooking oil and sticking to lean meats and lots of vegetables, however, you can do stir-fry cooking that’s a quick and easy way to prepare healthy and flavorful meals. “Asian-inspired cui-sine is one of the major food trends today because of the fresh ingredients and excit-ing flavor combinations avail-able,” explained one expert on food, Jason Abelkop of Buf-fets, Inc. Popular restaurants that are owned by Buffets, such as Ryan’s® as well as HomeTown® Buffet and Old Country Buffet®, are helping to lead the trend with made-to-order Mongolian Stir Fry, now available for lunch and dinner at most locations. Guests choose from chicken, beef or shrimp to create the combination that’s just right

for them. To kick-start stir-fry cooking in your kitchen, check out this recipe from the restau-rants’ chefs:Garlic Ginger Mongolian Chicken Yield: 2 servings2 4-oz. chicken breasts1 tsp. vegetable oil1 tsp. chopped ginger1 tsp. chopped garlic1 cup peapods1 cup cabbage, shredded½ cup ¼” julienned onions½ cup matchstick carrots1 cup broccoli florets1 Tbsp vegetable oil¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce¼ cup teriyaki sauce2 sprigs cilantro 2 servings unconvert-ed rice (cooked according to recipe) Cut chicken into ½” strips. Mix vegetable oil, ginger and garlic together. Rub mix-ture on the chicken breast strips, place in refrigerator for a mini-mum of two hours. Mix vegeta-bles together in bowl. Place oil in sauté pan over medium heat. Add chicken strips and sauté for five minutes. Toss frequently to evenly brown. Turn up heat to “high” and add fresh vegetables. Toss frequently. Cook for one minute. Vegetables should be crisp in texture. Add soy sauce, teriyaki sauce and the cilantro sprigs to taste. Quickly toss to coat, then remove from heat. Top rice with hot fresh stir-fry and enjoy. For locations and other information on Buffets restau-rants, visit www.Ryans.com as well as www.HomeTownBuffet.com and www.OldCountryBuf-fet.com.

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C o r n e t i s t a n d bandleader (Joe) King Oliver was born in 1885 in New Orleans His career began in hometown brass bands, dance bands, and other small groups in Crescent City cabarets and bars. Claimed to be the spiri-tual father of syncopated ("hot") jazz, he moved to Chicago in 1918 and formed King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (June 1922) with cornetists Louis Armstrong, clarinetist Johnny Dodds, trom-bonist Honore Dutrex, pianist Lil Hardin, drummer Baby Dodds, and bassist-banjo player Bill Johnson.Oliver began recording in 1923 what are now considered historic masterpieces. After Armstrong de-parted in 1924, Oliver completely reorganized his band to include saxophones. He went to New York, had a successful but brief club engagement before his group disbanded.He toured widely in the Midwest and upper South from 1920-1936, but made no further recordings after 1931. Considered to be an important New Orleans-style musician, his recordings have been reissued.His tune "Dipper Mouth Blues," later known as "Sugar Foot Stomp," became a classic.Although he was an excellent bandleader, Oliver'splaying style was superseded by Louis Armstrong's and by 1937 he was forgotten and in failing health. He died in Savannah in 1938.

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'Death Proof' first single released from 'Burgundy' album Elyria rapper and producer Will Lampley 'Will Cherry' has just re-leased "Death Proof," a single from his upcoming debut album, Burgundy. The accompany-ing music video features several Lorain County and Elyria landmarks, and the song marks the first collab-oration between Cleveland Heights-based Mathaius Young(producer for Don Toliver, Rockie Fresh and UnoTheActivist) and Tae

Miles (collaborator of Lorine Chia, Ezri) in five years. Last month, Cherry

released his debut single “PSA," a quarantine creation about his “outlook on being a black man in America.” “’PSA’ is my debut single, and it's specifically about my perspective and experience as a black man in America, especially during trying times like these,” ex-plains Cherry. “Thematically, I'm talking about the bias and double standards my people face, along with the black rage and fear of a historically racist police force in America,juxtaposed against the idol-ization of black creatives and my ambitions to be successful over relaxed, yet command-ing, production.” “'Death Proof' is an

homage to Quentin Tarantino, one of his favorite filmmak-ers, and it’s also an homage to post-recession Midwest America. “Death Proof” is the first taste of “Burgundy” -- which is Lampley’s favorite color, but with a meaning that goes beyond the surface tone. “The first germina-tion of the idea is the color of blood after it’s dried. Not that striking red, but a bur-gundy color,” Lampley said. “Hip-hop’s done an amazing job of telling these stories of loss and grief, but sometimes immediately after a person is gone. I wanted to come to it from the perspective of dealing with it after it’s been a while… I wanted to talk about the lasting effects of losing people, especially coming from a time where it’s normal to lose people at a young age.” Lampley hasn’t been a stranger to loss. His father died when he was 11 years old, and in recent years, he lost a mentor and one of his childhood friends, he said. Lampley found an outlet for grief through music

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and visual arts. Lampley’s work in Northeast Ohio’s music scene stretches back even further. For years, he has produced tracks for local musicians un-der the name “Will C.” and has written for hip-hop music blog imfromcleveland.com. Like “Death Proof,” all the tracks on “Burgundy” will be accompanied by mu-sic videos, as a way to tap into Lampley’s love of film and multimedia.

and “Driving Miss Daisy.” Tickets ranged from $3.75-$6. The theatre served as the home of the Cleve-land International Film Fes-tival from 1991-2019. The festival, held online this year due to the coronavirus shutdown, is moving to Playhouse Square in 2021.

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Cleveland Council-man Basheer Jones told the au-dience during the virtual City Club Forum that he is willing to fight for his community. "I didn't come here to play games. I didn't come here to be here long. I came here to make a change, and I want the history books to say that while I was here, I was a fighter, that I stood up for all people ... This Mayor's race is going to be in-teresting." Jones has been the voice for justice and equity on city council. He has stood against the silent majority in council on issues ranging from including his support for allowing public comment at council meetings, for Indigenous Peoples Day and for inmates at the Cuyahoga County Jail.

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During the meeting Jones said that he wanted to see a Cleveland where young people felt empowered, where the atroci-ties of police were reckoned with, and where investments in people were pursued as aggressively as

investments in buildings. He sponsored a reso-lution declaring racism a public health crisis requiring formal government attention. The resolution was first proposed back in March, just as the coronavirus pandemic was beginning to claim black lives at a disproportionate rate. Momentum surrounding the measure gained even more steam during the past week, following the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis police offi-cer who has since been fired and charged with murder. Support for the resolu-tion has continued to grow, and shortly after its passage both the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals lauded the vote. Both pledged to continue to help in the fight against racism both in

Northeast Ohio and around the country. "Cleveland Clinic is committed to ending long-standing structural racism that results in health disparities," Clinic President and CEO Tom Mihaljevic said in a statement. "Paying attention to racism and taking action as clinicians will guide our pursuit of true equal-ity, justice and care for our pa-tients and community." According to UH CEO Thomas F. Zenty III "In supporting the Council resolu-tion, UH welcomes broader recognition of the impacts of racism on the health of our community. We pledge to con-tinue and expand our efforts to provide quality health care, im-prove access to care and provide education as ways to eliminate health care disparities."

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Finding help with expensive medications If you or someone you love is one of the mil-lions of Americans with a chronic disease or a life-threatening condition, pharmaceutical manufac-turers and their partners offer you a gift of hope this holiday season. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are criti-cized as Scrooge or the Grinch in our country’s health care system. Elect-ed officials and advocacy organizations want to blame somebody for ris-ing Rx costs, and the most obvious target is the Big Pharma. But in this blame game, very little attention is given to the help the pharmaceutical industry and its partners quietly provide to patients in need through a variety of pro-grams. Such programs are often based on the pa-tient’s household income, but not always. Patients with no health insurance coverage are often the first group considered eligible. Likewise, those with one or more chronic or life-threatening conditions are a high priority. If you fall into one of these categories, check out the Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) found on individual pharmaceu-tical company websites or through Partnership for Prescription Assis-tance (www.pparx.org), the website created by PhRMA, the trade asso-ciation representing phar-maceutical manufacturers, linking patients to more than 475 different assis-tance programs. On most of these websites, you can be con-nected with a customer support team member who can help determine if you are eligible and get you enrolled. You will be asked to verify that you are insured or uninsured and, in some cases, pro-vide proof of income. You may need your physician to validate your condition. But once approved, access

to medication is almost immediate. (Note: Patients enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid may not be eli-gible.) Pharmaceutical manufacturers also of-fer co-pay assistance, in which the patient is of-fered help with the cost of medication co-payments. Some co-pay assistance programs do not limit who is eligible. And, it is impor-tant to know that some co-pay assistance programs will not help people on Medicare. Each program sets its own rules. People search-ing for an online provider should check out www.RxAssist.org. This site was developed by Astra-Zeneca, a pharmaceuti-cal manufacturer, with the sole purpose of help-ing people access needed medications. It is one of

the best sites available. The California Chronic Care Coalition (CCCC) launched the website www.mypatien-trights.com in California and is taking it nationwide to help people who have been denied treatment or medicines, experienced delays or are dissatisfied with the decisions made by their health plan. To-day, this program is oper-ating in 17 states. It helps patients get the care or treatment they need if de-nied, or if their plans don’t cover their meds and force them to pay full price. The program is available in 17 states—check the website to see if your state has a program. This holiday sea-son, if you need help with your medications, you are not alone. Go to the web-sites cited throughout this article. They can help con-nect you with low-cost and free alternatives.

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Whether it’s a mat-ter of comfort, appearance or safety, there are many medi-cal procedures that you may want or need, but your health insurance won’t cover. Laser eye surgery may fall into the want cat-egory for most people and it can be a hefty investment with each eye costing several thousand dollars. For those wanting to start a family, infertility treatments, which can cost over $10,000, may be closer to a need. Yet most states don’t require health in-surance to cover treatments. Considering the lasting impact that these and other procedures can have on your life, you may not want to seek out the least expen-sive option. However, that doesn’t mean you should forgo attempts to save alto-gether. From tax-advantaged accounts to comparison shopping doctors, there are many approaches to safely cutting costs.

See if you could get a tax break. Although tax breaks don’t lower a medical procedure’s price, tax deduc-tions can decrease your tax-able income and by using a tax-advantaged account you may be able to pay for some medical procedures with in-come-tax-free money. Take a medical ex-pense tax deduction. If you itemize your tax deductions, you can get a deduction for your qualified medical ex-penses that exceed 10 percent of your adjusted gross in-come. Laser eye surgery and some fertility enhancement treatments may qualify. However, cosmetic surgery doesn’t unless it’s related to a congenital abnor-mality, disfiguring disease or an injury resulting from trau-ma or an accident.Use an employer-sponsored flexible spending account (FSA). Some employers offer FSAs as an employee benefit. You can make tax-deductible contributions to the account each year and withdraw the money tax-free to pay for

qualified medical expenses, including health insurance deductibles and copayments. However, this approach could require planning as you may forfeit remaining FSA money at the end of each year.Enroll in health insurance with a health savings account (HSA). An HSA account is similar to an FSA in that you can contribute pre-tax money and withdraw funds to pay for eligible medical expenses tax-free. HSAs don’t have the use-it-or-lose-it requirement, but to qualify for an HSA ac-count, you need to enroll in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) and can’t be eligible for Medicare.Ask your health insurance company about discounts. Even when a health insurance provider doesn’t cover a pro-cedure, members may still be able to save money by going through their insurance. For example, health insurance generally won’t cover the cost of Laser eye surgery, but your provider may offer a 5 to 15 per-cent discount if you get the surgery at partner eye care centers.Health insurance re-quirements can also vary from one state to another, and you should double-check your benefits before assum-ing something isn’t covered. Infertility treatment is one of these gray areas, as some states require health insur-ance plans to provide cover-age while others do not. Compare costs from

Cut the cost of elective medical expensesdifferent providers. Varying medical costs sometimes make headlines when pa-tients find out that a $3,000 medical procedure at a hos-pital could cost several hun-dred at a nearby clinic. If it’s not an emergency, there are websites that you can use to comparison shop nearby medical centers and get esti-mated prices. Some people also look for savings in other countries. Medical tourism is a growing industry, and millions of people travel outside their home countries seeking lower costs, higher-quality services, treatments that aren’t available at home, a relaxing environment to recover in or a combination of several of these factors. While the U.S. is a destina-tion for some medical tour-ists, Canada, Southeast Asia, Latin America and parts of Europe are also popular. Although you may not be able to convince your health insurance company to cover what it considers an elective procedure; you can turn to other methods to save money. As with other large expenses, you can take a dual big- and little-picture approach by looking for tax breaks that lower your ef-fective cost and savings op-portunities that can reduce a procedure’s price. Nathaniel Sillin directs Visa’s financial education programs. To follow Practi-cal Money Skills on Twitter: www.twitter.com./Practical-Money.

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Meryl Johnson: educator and activst in her own words Meryl Johnson is a candidate for State Board of Education/Ohio District 11. Prior to her work on the State Board of Education, Johnson was interviewed for the Women’s History Project by Roslyn Talerico. Here is her sto-ry: “When I was a child, my mom, who was a school teacher, would come home and tell de-lightful stories about the ‘rascals’ in her classroom as we sat around the din-ner table. Her love for teaching was evident in every word she spoke. She is my biggest inspi-ration. I always loved English, and I enjoyed helping her grade papers. It made me feel so im-portant. So, I just natu-rally flowed into the area of teaching. And I’m so glad I did. There wasn’t much talk about unions in my household; my stepdad was a Cleveland sanitation worker, so he would sometimes men-tion his union. I didn’t really become involved with unions until I be-came a teacher; my mom told me to get involved with my union immedi-ately. Then I really began to blossom politically.

I attended Kent State as an undergradu-ate. I wasn’t really politi-cally active there. But I began to reevaluate my life and my need to be more tuned in to causes when four students were killed and eleven stu-dents were wounded on campus on May 4, 1970. The weekend of the tragedy I was in Washington D.C. on a field trip with myclass. I remember seeing the front page of a D.C. newspaper. It had a huge picture of our ROTC building in Kent on fire. It said, ‘Kent State Stu-

dents Burn ROTC Build-ing.’ When we re-turned to Kent on Sun-day afternoon, the town, which is usually bus-tling, was shut down. On any other day, all the fast food places would be open and everybody would be hanging out. I’ll never forget. It was like riding into a ghost town. All the stores were closed. I saw a Jeep with some National Guard soldiers sitting on the corner. I went back to my dorm and found out about the protests

that were going on at the Commons. But I didn’t go out there. I just went to my dorm. The next day, about 11 o’clock, while sitting on the side of my bed, I heard on the radio that shots had been fired on the Commons. A little later, I went to my boyfriend’s dorm. I’ll always re-member the uncomfort-able feeling I got when I saw National Guardsmen standing in line, watch-ing me as I walked across campus. Around 1 or 2 pm, it was announced over the PA that all stu-dents must be off campus by 6 o’clock. It didn’t matter where you were from. Everybody had to be out of there by 6 pm. After scuffling around trying to find a ride, a friend of my boyfriend said he’d take us back to Cleveland. It was the strangest thing, because nobody could call into the campus. All the par-ents with children on campus were left won-dering if it was one of their children who had been shot. All the phone lines were down. There were no cell phones, so com-munication was out. As we left Kent, cars were

backed up for miles and miles with families try-ing to get on campus. When we arrived in Cleveland, my mom and dad were so happy to see me. My father gave the young man who drove me home $20 to show his gratitude. Later that day, I went downstairs to look for my bag and I found my dad crying. That was the only time I ever saw him cry. Years later, when I told this story to my students, I was the one crying.” The lessons that she learned from her par-ents made Johnson the person that she is today. After 40 years of successful teaching in the Cleveland Public Schools, many years of community engagement, and three years of retire-ment, Meryl Johnson ran and was elected to a seat on the State Board of Ed-ucation in District 11. No elected minorities were on the board. A large segment of Ohio’s families were not having their stories told, and therefore were not being represented. Johnson began fighting for the students who were being margin-

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alized due to poverty and fought for greater access to resources and technol-ogy. Johnson took the opportunity to ad-vocate for strengthening public schools and pre-serving them for future generations. She fought for all of Ohio’s children

to have the right to attend public schools that do not drown them in unneces-sary tests and for schools to be places where teach-ers have the time to enjoy teaching and to develop meaningful relationships with their students. If re-elected, Johnson promises to con-

tinue her work. She will push for more account-ability and transparency for charter schools. Johnson be-lieves teachers’ and stu-dents’ voices must be an integral part of edu-cational decisions that are made by state board members.

The Groveland case, 1949, and the Devon-ta Hill case, Cuyahoga County, 2012: A reflection on Justice delayed is jus-tice denied: The Groveland Case haunted Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and he talked about the case until the day he died. He never for-got what happened to four young black men who were wrongfully accused of rape in Groveland, Florida in 1949. One of the young men was killed by a police led mob. (Lake County Sheriff Wil-lis McCall appointed a posse of more than 1000 armed men. They found and killed Ernest Thomas following a lengthy chase through the swamps. He was shot by the posse at least 400 times and died of his wounds; officers reported that Thomas was armed and allegedly reached for a weapon. Ac-cording to the coroner’s inquest, Lake County Sheriff McCall was at the scene when Thomas was shot. The coroner’s jury determined that Thomas had been lawfully killed.

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Thomas was a newlywed having married in July 1949, and he was living and working near Groveland) A second young man was fatally shot while in police custody.(Sheriff McCall shot Walter Ir-vin and Samuel Shepherd while they were in his custody and handcuffed together, killing Shepherd and seriously wounding Irvin. He alleged they had tried to escape while he was transporting them from Raiford State Prison back to the county for the new trial. Shepherd died

on the spot. The Shepherd family moved to Grove-land where his father achieved ownership of his own farm by clearing and developing former swamp land. Shepherd had regis-tered for the draft in 1945. He serve his country and was honorably discharged after his service in WWII. Both Irwin and Shepherd were veterans.) A third youth, Irwin, was also shot, but survived. (Thurgood Mar-shall, special counsel of the NAACP Legal De-fense Fund represented Irwin during his second trial. Marshall took the

case at great personal risk. In 1949, Harry T. Moore, the executive director of the Florida NAACP, orga-nized a campaign against the wrongful conviction of the three African Ameri-cans. After the murder of Shepherd and the wound-ing of Irwin, Moore called for the governor to sus-pend McCall. On Christmas night 1951, a bomb went off below Moore’s house, fatally wounding both him and his wife; he died that night and his wife fol-lowed nine days later. The trial proceeded with Mar-shall at the helm. Irvin was convicted again by an all-white jury and sen-tenced to death. In 1955,

his sentence was com-muted to life by recently elected governor LeRoy Collins. In 1968 he was paroled, but died the next year.) Charles Green-lee, who was 16 years old at the time, was sentenced to life in prison.He was paroled in 1962 and lived with his family until he died in 2012. Last year, the Florida Board of Execu-tive Clemency, with newly seated Republican Gover-nor Ron DeSantis at the helm, agreed unanimously to pardon the Groveland Four. “Seventy years is a long time,” DeSantis said before taking office. “And that’s the amount of time four young men have been wrongly written into Florida history for crimes they did not commit and punishments they did not deserve.” In the Devonta Hill case, off-duty Cleve-land police officer Roger Jones fatally shot Kenneth Smith, 19, at point blank range to the left temple -execution-style after smashing out the passen-ger side window with his boot and pulling Smith from the car. Jones was off duty and had been drink-ing at a nearby strip club. The police had stopped the car Hill was driving at East 9th Street and Prospect Avenue on March 10, 2012. Jones came run-ning from the bar pull-ing his weapon from his Cleveland Indians jacket. Hill heard his classmate and friend die a few feet away, and could not help him because he was handcuffed and afraid. After Jones mur-dered Smith, Jones’ blood-alcohol level was never checked. Cuyahoga Coun-ty Prosecutor Tim Mc-Ginty called Jones’ actions ’heroic.’ P r o s e c u t o r s charged Hill with the mur-der, released him with time served, and then charged him with a rape he did not commit. Hill is awaiting a review of his case. His family and friends cannot wait 70 years for justice.

Hill The Groveland Four (Charles Greenlee, Walter Irwin and Sam-uel Shepherd, (Ernest Thomas, not pictured, was murdered by a police mob)) were unanimously posthumously pardoned in 2019.

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The Blue state solution is rooted in self-reflection By JEFF MIXON, Pres-ident BLACK LIVES MATTER, Cuyahoga County

For progres-sives wondering how to turn Ohio back into a blue state, the answer can be found in brutally hon-

est self-reflection. Which actions will I take and what changes will I make to help turn Ohio back into a blue state? Why is it important to me that Ohio returns to blue state status? What are my core values? What are my spiritual prin-

ciples? These are ques-tions that progressive Ohioans should ask themselves as America approaches a critical fork in the road. Spiritual progress and blessings such as unity lie on one side of the fork. Radi-cal fascism and the pos-

sibility of violent tribal tensions lie on the other side. Progressives can stand boldly in favor of complete equality and equal justice; or, out of tribal pride, we can drift subconsciously towards fascism. Beware of hedging bets. The way a tree leans is the way it falls. It’s difficult to admit to and give up unfair advantages; espe-cially when they’ve been justified by media lies and government cheat-ing. But, the spiritual law of karma dictates that enablers of injustice against others reap their own injustice. Women, minori-ties and workers form the backbone of Democratic coalitions. But, due to the influence of the American caste system, the groups do not sup-port the party of progress equally. Therefore, a

significantly higher voter turn-out among minor-ity groups is one of the keys to turning Ohio blue again. But, how do Democrats increase voter turn-out among voters they’ve neglected and taken for granted for de-cades? The answer, of course, lies in the ques-tion. The only successful “organizing strategy” left is to earn minority votes by fighting to rewrite laws and policies that devastate our communi-

ties. In order to be-come a blue state again, Ohioans must commit to traveling the more difficult path of becom-ing better, as opposed to more privileged, human beings. I recommend the practice and promo-tion of anti-racism and anti-sexism as means of becoming better human beings. Unlike with passive racism and pas-sive sexism, anti-sexists and anti-racists actively fight to change laws and customs that oppress oth-er demographic groups. Anti-sexists and anti-racists are committed to fixing what society has broken. Although I was

eventually hired as the Cleveland Field Organiz-er for Warren for Presi-dent, I made monthly do-nations and volunteered for Sen. Warren months before the campaign hired me. These are ex-amples of the spirit of anti-sexism and anti-racism: time, financial sacrifice, helping the un-derdog. The core prob-lem of American leader-ship stems from voters more obedient to their egos than to God’s will. I remain convinced today that Sen. Elizabeth War-ren was the candidate most qualified to navi-gate Americans through a rare opportunity to shift our collective obedience from ego to God – the

new consciousness. Rather than fighting to maintain an unequal status quo, the best leaders strive to create social and educa-tional environments that maximize equality in the name of spiritual growth. In hindsight, those sys-tematic advantages turn out to have been unwor-thy of the enormous spir-itual cost. “When the ego weeps for what it has lost,” Eckhart Tolle agrees, “the spirit rejoic-es for what it has found.” The endeavor to shift away from an ego based society to one con-forming to God’s perfect will is, to me, the essence of a blue state in Ameri-ca.

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New Bishop installed The Diocese of Cleveland installed new Bishop Edward Malesic on Monday. Malesic, who was chosen by Pope Francis on July 16 to become the new bishop, will be installed during a special Mass at St. John the Evangelist Ca-thedral. Malesic, pre-viously the bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylva-nia, replaces Nelson J. Perez, who was chosen by Pope Francis to be archbishop of the Arch-

diocese of Philadelphia in January. Malesic be-came a priest in May 1987 at St. Patrick Ca-thedral in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he has had different pas-toral stints with the Diocese of Harrisburg. Pope Francis named him Greensburg’s bish-op in 2015. The Diocese of Cleveland has a 173-year history and serves more than 675,000 Catholics over eight counties.