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Ohio’s new coronavirus order to indefinitely extend mass-gathering ban, health rules for businesses. Red alert for Cuyahoga, 6 other counties on DeWine’s new coronavirus watch list. Residents of high alert counties should “consider neces-sary travel only,” said DeWine.

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region whose average has jumped back over $2/gallon. At $1.86, Indiana carries the second most expensive aver-age in the region, while Mis-souri ($1.54) touts the cheap-est. The Energy Informa-tion Administration (EIA) reports that regional gasoline stocks have decreased for six straight weeks, bringing total stock levels down to the low-est measurement of the year at 54 million barrels. How-ever, stocks remain above the year-ago level of 49.5 million barrels and the five-year aver-age of 52.6 million barrels.This week’s average pric-es: Northeast Ohio Average $1.915

The average price for gasoline across Northeast Ohio is six cents higher this week at $1.915 per gallon, ac-cording to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The nation’s largest weekly gas price increases can be found for a second week in the Great Lakes and Central States region. Five states from the region land on the top 10 list for largest jumps, although this week’s increases are less than a dime: Wisconsin (+7 cents), Iowa (+7 cents), Kan-sas (+7 cents), Nebraska (+5 cents) and Minnesota (+5 cents). With increases over the last two weeks, Illinois ($2.13) is the only state in the

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Jude McHale is almost in pre-school. He turns 3 in a few weeks. He likes dinosaurs, dragons and trucks. He can count to 30 and knows the ABC’s, shapes and colors. His favorite TV show is Paw Patrol. Vegetables, noodles and strawberries are his favorite foods. He loves reading Eric Carle books and he is very excited to see his teach-ers again soon. Jude is also very talkative and enjoys chasing his big sister, Emmy, all over the place.McHale

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Street art honors Black Lives Matter Several members of Cleve-land City Council gathered with resi-dents on Sunday afternoon to visit and celebrate the new Black Lives Matter mural on E. 93rd Street. More than a dozen local clergymen attended, as well as famed architect Robert Madison. Live gospel performances entertained the crowd. The mural, which stretches from Heath to Raymond Avenues on E. 93rd Street, was painted by more than 100 local artists in honor of members of the Black community who have died at the hands of law en-forcement over the years. According to Councilman Blaine Griffin, Ward 6, the mural rep-

resents what is going on both lo-cally and nationally. At the urging of con-stituents, Griffin convinced the City of Cleveland and the streets department to close off the street for the foreseeable future to ve-hicle traffic so that many other events can take place in the coming weeks. Council members who attended the event inculded: Matt Zone, Ward 15; Kevin Bishop, Ward 2; Blaine Griffin, Ward 6; and Phyllis Cleveland, Ward 5. The mural has garnered national attention as Cleveland focuses on police reform.

Myra Simmons, Kymevaugh Ghudal Carroll, Marilyn Burns, and Joy Johnson attended the event as part of Elevate The East which is a group that focuses on doing positive things along the E. 93rd corridor from the north of the street to the south of the street.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is encourag-ing voters to take advantage of Vote-by-Mail. To request a Vote-by-Mail ballot application visit: www.443vote.us, or call 216-443-VOTE (8683). When you Vote-by-Mail there is no human contact, eliminating health concerns. “August elections are easy to miss because folks are on vacation and otherwise busy at this time of year,” said Anthony Per-latti, Director of the Board of Elec-tions. “Voting by mail and Early In-Person voting are good options for busy people who are enjoying summer activities and don’t want to miss the Election.” The Board is open for Early In-Person voting on the fol-lowing dates: Weekdays: July 7th to July 24th: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Weekdays: July 27th to

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Marilyn Burns, who re-sides at the Woodhill Home Es-tate, is keeping herself busy this summer with a number of pop-up events at the Estate to involve the children who reside in the complex and to let the children know that they are appreciated. The first event that Burns sponsored along with Austeeria Everson and the group New Era Cleveland which consists of a group of young men, was a pop-up ice cream social that Burns and her associates wanted to give back to the children who live in the es-tate since the community center is closed due to the COVID-19 as well as the splash park. The ice cream social con-sist of a variety of ice cream with different topping. Hot dogs were

also grilled. According to Burns, to cool off the kids, she allowed them to have water balloon fights. New Era Cleveland brought the music for the event and the group partnered with CHMA at other locations. The event was a success with about 50 kids participating along with their parents. The event was an opportunity for Burns and her group to give out PPE supplies and masks. Information was pro-vided on COVID-19 for the youth in the estate to be knowledgeable and safe. Burns is in the process of planning a second event that will consist of arts and crafts at the end of July. Burns goal is to have four events during the summer for the children.

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Council members who attended the event inculded: Matt Zone, Ward 15 next to architect Robert Madison, Councilmen Kevin Bishop, Ward 2; Blaine Griffin, Ward 6; and Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, Ward 5.

Famed architect Robert P. Madison and Cleveland City councilman-Blaine Griffin met with residents on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the new Black Lives Matter mural on E. 93rd Street.

Burns sponsored, along with Austeeria Everson and the group New Era Cleveland which consists of a group of young men, a pop-up ice cream social for the children who reside in Woodhill Home Estate. Besides ice cream and hot dogs, the children were also able to cool off with a water balloon fight. Burns hopes to sponsor four events this summer to keep the children busy as the recreation center has been closed due to COVID-19.

Hotdogs were grilled and ice cream with several toppoing was served last Friday at a summer event for the children who reside in Woodhill Home Estate.This was the first event that Burns sponsored along with Austeeria Ever-son and the group New Era Cleveland which consists of a group of young men, to give back to the children who live in the estate since the community center is closed due to the COVID-19 as well as the splash park.

The mural, which stretches from Heath to Raymond Avenues on E. 93rd Street, was painted by more than 100 local artists in honor of members of the Black community who have died at the hands of law enforcement over the years.

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I only made one mistake last week, which is something of a record for me. I try limiting mistakes to one at a time, but not always in sequential order. I once tried to make my mistakes in a logical order, but it turned out to be a mistake. The one faux pas I made was taking Monday off. I proposed to the Gracious Mistress of the Par-sonage that we take Monday off late Sunday evening, sug-gesting a contest to see who could sleep in the longest. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage readily agreed to my plan. This should have been a tip-off for me. On Monday, we decided to have a “loafing contest” to see who was the best loafer. Up to this point, I assumed superiority in this area. Many things fall into the category of not being able to do by Yours Truly but not this. Therefore, I concluded I had this contest in the bag. Monday turned out to be a terrific day. Unfortu-nately, my wife won the best loafer contest, but it was all in good fun, and we certainly enjoyed our day off. That was Monday. Starting on Tuesday, my week took a decidedly different turn. First, my computer crashed, leaving me stranded. Nothing is quite as frustrat-ing as having your computer out of commission for a long time. I set off to take my computer to the repair shop. On the way, the car radia-tor broke. How these things break, I have no idea. All I know is, the little red light on the dashboard was on, and I knew I was in trouble. I barely got the car to the garage. When the me-chanic lifted the hood and ex-amined my engine, he rubbed his hands with mischievous glee. When he looked at me with a smile smeared all over his puss. I knew I was in trou-ble. “Reverend,” he taunted, “Your radiator is shot to pieces.”

I had no idea what that meant, but knew it in-volved lots of money being transferred from my account to his. I left my car there. What else could I do? My wife picked me up, and we took my computer to the repair shop. When the repair person looked at my computer, she rubbed her hands with mischievous glee and looked at me with a smile splotched all over her kisser. I knew I was in trouble again.“Reverend,” she sneered, “your hard drive is shot to pieces.” I had no idea what that meant, but knew it in-volved lots of money being transferred from my account to hers. I left my computer at the repair shop and we drove to the optometrist to have my eyes checked. When the doctor saw me, he rubbed his hands with mischievous glee and looked at me with a smile glowing all over his face. I knew I was in trouble.“Reverend,” he observed, “your glasses are shot to pieces.” I knew what that meant and perceived it in-volved lots of money being transferred from my account to his. I left my glasses at the eye doctor’s office to be repaired.Now I do not have glasses to see. Fortunately, I don’t have a car to drive, nor do I have my computer to work with. I do have backup glass-es, but they are only good for backing up. Somehow, a theme was developing for my week. Between my car, my computer, and my glasses, the week was drenched with out-of-pocket expenses of which I had run out of pock-ets. To make matters worse, or better depending on your perspective, I had a wedding to perform toward the end of the week. Friday night was the rehearsal and Saturday after-noon at the wedding ceremo-ny. I could possibly do without my car, but all my

wedding information and the ceremony were neatly stored on my computer. If worse came to worse, and it prob-ably will, I can always ad-lib a wedding ceremony. I’ve done so many through the years I prob-ably could do it in my sleep. Whether I can do it awake was another story. Along about Thurs-day, I was feeling somewhat blue about the whole week. Nothing seemed to go right for me, plus I did not know where I was going to get the money to pay for these un-foreseen expenses. The wedding re-hearsal on Friday was set for 6:30, and my computer was ready at 6:15. Now, that’s cutting the wedding cake rather close.Between the car and comput-er repairs, I did not know how I would pay for both. Have you ever noticed when ev-erything seems to go wrong, something unexpected hap-pens? While I was be-moaning my unfortunate week, several things hap-pened. One, I received an unexpected check from a magazine publishing some of my articles. Two, I received an honorarium for the wed-ding—something I wasn’t expecting. These two checks covered my unexpected ex-penses for the week. Third, the hard drive on my computer had a war-ranty, and I did not have to pay for it. Thinking about my week, a wonderful verse of scripture romped through my mind. “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:9). Fainting is always an option, but the person who refuses to allow his week to make him weary will reap God’s blessing. Dr. James L. Sny-der, pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, lives with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage in Ocala, FL. Call 352-687-4240 or e-mail jamessnyder2@att.net.

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Taken From: The Pu-rification of the Soul: (Chapter1) Sincerity is the free-ing of one’s intentions from all impurities in order to come nearer to Allah (God). It is to ensure that the intentions behind all acts of worship and obedience to Allah (God) are exclusively for His pleasure. It is the perpetual contemplation of the Creator, to the extent that one forgets the creation. Sincerity is a con-dition for Allah (God)’s ac-ceptance of good deeds per-formed in accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet, may Allah (God) bless him and grant him peace. Allah (God) has command this in the Qur’an: “All they have beencommanded to worship only Allah (God), being sincere towards Him in their deen (way of life) and true. (98:5)” Abu Umama has re-lated that a man once came to the Prophet, may Allah (God) bless him and grant him peace, and said, “What of a man who joined us in the fighting, his intention being for fame and booty?” The Prophet said,

“He receives nothing.” The man repeated the question three times and each time the Prophet said, “He receives nothing.” Then he said, “Al-lah (God) only accepts actions that are intended purely for His pleasure.” (Sahih Nisai)Abu Sa’id al-Khudri related that the Prophet (saw) said in his khutba during the farewell pilgrimage, “Allah (God) will bless whoever hears these words and whoever under-stands them, for it may be that those who pass on this knowledge are not those who will understand it the best. There a re th ree things concerning which the heart of a believer should feel no enmity or malice: devoting one’s actions to Allah (God), giving counsel to the Imams of the Muslims, and being loyal to the majority.” (Sahih Ibn Majah). What is meant here is that these three things strengthen the heart, and who-ever distinguishes himself in them will have a heart purified from all manner of deceit, cor-ruption and evil. A servant can only free himself from evil through sincere devotion, for Allah (God) tells us in the Quran

that In the Quran, Allah says: (in regard to the devil’s plea to Allah)” “Except those of Your servants who are sincere. (38:83)” It has been related that a righteous man used to say, “O self, be devout and you will be pure.” When any wordly fortune, in which the self finds comfort and towards which the heart inclines, intrudes upon our worship, then it im-pairs the purity of our efforts and ruins our sincerity. Man is preoccupiedwith his good fortune and immersed in his desires and appetites; rarely are his ac-tions or acts of worship free of temporary objectives and desires of this kind. For this reason it has been said that whoever secures a single moment of pure devotion to Allah (God) in his life will survive, for devotion is rare and precious, and cleansing the heart of its impurities is an exacting undertaking. In fact, devotion is-the purifying of the heart from all impurities, whether few or many, so that the intention of drawing nearer to Allah (God) is freed from all other motives,

except that of seeking His pleasure. This can only comefrom a lover of Allah (God), who is so absorded in con-templation of the next world that there remains in his heart no place for the love of this world. Such a person must be devote and pure in all his actions, even in eating, drink-ing and answering the calls of nature. W i t h r a r e exceptions,anyone who is not like this willfind the door of devotion closedin his face. The everyday ac-tionsof a person who is over-whelmedby his or her love for Allah (God) and the Hereafter are characterized by his love and they are, in fact, pure

devotion. In the same way, anyone whose soul is over-whelmed by love for and preoccupied of this world, or status and wealth, will be so overwhelmed by these things that no act of worship, be it prayer or fasting, will be ac-ceptable, except in very rare cases. The remedy for loveof this world is to break the worldly desires of the self, ending its greed for this world and purifying it in preparation for the next world. This will then be-come the state of the heart and sincere devotion will become easier to attain. There are a great many actions where a human

acts, thinking they are purely intended for Allah (God)’s pleasure, but he is deluded, for he fails to see the defects in them. It has been related that a man was used to praying in the first row in the mosque.One day he was latefor the prayer, so he prayed in the second row. Feeling embarrass-ment when people saw him in the second row, he realized that the pleasure and satistfac-tion of the heart that he used to gain from praying in the first row were due to his seeing people seeing him there and admiring him for it. This is a subtle andintangible condition and ac-tions are rarely safe from it. Apart from those whom Allah (God) has as-sisted, few are aware of such delicate matters. Those who do not re-alize it only come to see their good deeds appearing as bad ones on the Day of Resurrec-

tion; they are the ones referred to in Allah (God)’s words: “All something willcome to them from Allah (God) which they had never anticipated, for the evil of their deeds will become ap-parent to them. (39:47-48)” And also: “Say: Shall We tell you who will lose most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts were astray in the life of this world, while they thought that they were doing good work. (18:103-104)” Some people have said: “To be devout for a short while is to survive for ever, but devotion is rare.

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CAIR to hold a social justice rally The Council on American-Islamic Rela-tions (CAIR), the nation’s largest American Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization will mark the one-month anniversary of George Floyd’s murder on June 25 at 1:00 p.m. by unveiling a Black Lives Matter banner in his honor on the outside of CAIR’s Capitol Hill headquarters in Washington, D.C. The event will be livestreamed on https://w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m /CAIRNational and https://w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m /CAIRtv. CAIR’s banner contains the names of hundreds of victims of racist police violence, in-cluding George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, as well as the names of African-Americans who died in the struggle for civil rights,

such as Emmett Till, Med-gar Evers, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It will also call on members of Congress to support, co-sponsor and adopt the Justice in Polic-ing Act to address con-tinuing police killings of unarmed Black Americans like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The bill is in response to nationwide #BlackLivesMatter protests seeking an end to systemic police racism, violence, mis-conduct, and abuse of author-ity. For information call CAIR Government Affairs Department Director Robert S. McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Ayan Ajeen, aA-jeen@cair.com

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Due to uncertainties created by the COVID-19 outbreak, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) is suspending fall and winter athletics to safeguard student-athletes, coaches and community spectators.

Akron women swimmers honored Tuesday, June 30, 2020- Friday, July 3, 2020

By ANDREW CARTER

North Carolina and Portland kicked off the NWSL tournament last Sat-urday, thus becoming the first American team sport to begin play or resume

Women soccer teams first to resume play

The University of Akron women’s swimming and diving team was named to the College Swimming and Div-ing Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team for the 2020 Spring semester. Sporting a 3.721 team GPA, Akron was one of 461 schools to receive the award for the Spring semester. Teams were selected on the basis of their Spring grade-point-averages and represent 17,982 student-athletes. The team has been recognized by the CSCAA for its academic success every semester under the helm of seventh-year head coach Brian Peresie.

Zip’s golfers named to Women’s Golf Coaches Assoc. For the first time in program history, five women’s golfers were named to the Women’s Golf Coaches Asso-ciation (WGCA) All-American Scholars Team as redshirt sophomore Jacinta Pikunas, sophomore Ivana Shah, fresh-man Jennifer David, freshman Riley Dean and freshman Jessica Hahn earned the 2019-20 honors, the WGCA an-nounced Monday. “Despite our shortened season, these la-dies took great pride in their academics for the entire year even when sudden changes came about,” head coach Jenny King said.

By KARL BRYANT

The Cleveland Indians began to report to their designated 2020 Spring Training 2.0 sites this week after they all are tested for COVID-19. The results will be back before the end of the week so that workouts can begin on Friday, July 3. Play-ers will have three weeks to get back into shape as the MLB 60-game season will begin with a couple of games played on July 23 and the rest being played on July 24. Because of the pandemic, the Minor League baseball season has been cancelled, so each MLB club is allowed to keep an expanded ros-ter of up to 60 as a “player pool.” The Tribe has sub-mitted a 55-man roster, with 40 players working out at Progressive Field

Cleveland Indians players report for duty

and 15 players work-ing out at Classic Park in Eastlake, the Home of the Tribe’s A Affiliate Lake County Captains. The plan initially is to train in shifts, so that there are limited numbers of play-ers on the field at the same time. Tribe President Chris Antonetti, in a tele-conference call, said that the club plans to add five more players to reach the 60-player limit, but “we’ll

take a little time to sort those through.” Trades and adding players chosen in the recent MLB Draft are likely scenarios for them to reach the limit. Antonetti also spoke of the importance of follow-ing safety protocols, say-ing, “The vast majority of the guidelines are to slow down the spread of the vi-rus within our facilities. There are portions of the protocols that talk about the behavior away from

the ballpark, but that’s a small percentage of the protocols once they get to the ballpark.” According to MLB, when the season begins, teams may keep 30 players on the Active Roster. The plan for the Tribe is to start with 15 position players and 15 pitchers. The number will decrease to 28 players af-ter the first two weeks. The number will then decrease to 26 (a 27th is allowed for a double-header) two weeks after that and will remain there for the rest of the year. The remainder of

Indians in the player pool, mainly prospects, will be kept on a “Taxi Squad” and train on an ongoing basis in Eastlake. Teams must play intra-squad games to get into shape, since at this time, only three pre-season games will be al-lowed and will occur just before the beginning of the regular season. On a teleconference call, Tribe Manager Terry Francona remarked, “I’ve never been a big fan of intra-squad games, but we’re going to have to become fans of intra-squad games

because we’re going to need to play.” The last time they played an intra-squad game, it was during an extended layoff prior to the 2018 ALDS vs. the Astros. Francona fur-ther spoke about current unique challenges, say-ing, “There’s so much to balance right now. It’s not just baseball. It’s the safe-ty of the players. It’s the cleanliness of the club-house. It’s giving guys time to clean it in between the groups. There are a lot of things to think about right now.”

By KARL BRYANT

All-Star center Andre Drummond, who the Cavs picked up a couple of weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the NBA and all other organized sports, announced that he will be with CLE when the 2020-21 season begins. Speaking with Internet sports shows, he stated, “I definitely will be in Cleveland,” when asked about his plans for next season. He plans to exercise his Player Option, for which he will receive $28.75M. Drummond re-marked, “I enjoy being in Cleveland. I think the people there are outstand-ing. The fan base is super dope. The gym is dope. I love playing there. The coaching staff is good. The team is young, so it’s good to work with.” Drummond, who was a two-time All-Star

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with the Pistons, aver-aged 17.5 PPG and 11.1 rebounds per contest with the Cavs during the eight games he was with the team before the 2019-20 season came to a screech-ing halt. The Cavs were 4-4 in that span. Combined with his time in the Mo-tor City - he averaged 14.5 PPG and 15.2 rebounds last season. The Cavs, by virtue of their last place standing in the Eastern Conference, are one of the eight teams who will not participate in the NBA re-

start, so his season is over. In his eight-year NBA career, as a feared Man in the Middle, Drummond averaged 14.5 PPG and 13.8 rebounds. He also has improved his foul shoot-ing, as he was laughably bad early in his career – sometimes making under 40% of his free throws. He averaged a combined 57.2% from the Charity Stripe last season. Some pundits thought Drummond was acquired by the Cavs for little more than the pro-verbial bag of beans since

play after the COVID-19 pandemic halted organized sports in the USA. North Carolina beat Portland, 2-1, but the match had further ramifications, The women all took a knee during the National Anthem and wore “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts over their jerseys to show their support of those seeking racial justice in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The clubs jointly released a statement that said: “We took a knee today to protest racial injustice, police brutality, and sys-temic racism against Black people and people of color in America. We love our country and we have taken this opportunity to hold it to a higher standard. It is our duty to demand that the liberties and freedoms this Nation was founded upon are extended to everyone.”

Many players that partici-pated in matches the follow-ing day also took a knee. The NWSL said it will continue to play the National Anthem before matches, but that it “stands behind the decision of “ev-ery player, official, or staff members” to kneel or stand during its playing. They also have the choice of staying in the locker room instead of coming out to midfield. A league statement noted, “The NWSL is a league that was built on diversity and courage and those prin-ciples will continue to drive us forward.” The Men’s North American-based league, the MLS, said that when its clubs return to play on July 8, since there will be no fans in the stands anyway, it will not play the American or Canadian National Anthem before games.

Middleton

Boxing NostalgiaBy JIM AMATO

What would you say about a fighter who met the likes of Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Jimmy Ellis, Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonevena and Joe Bugner? All boxers who either held or fought for the world’s heavyweight cham-pionship. Yet this fighter never came close to a world title shot. You could call him “Hard Luck”. I would call him Larry Middleton.

Larry began his career in 1965 and didn’t exactly set the world on fire. He drew with Jimmy Haynes in his pro debut and two fights later was stopped by Jerry O’Neal. He won three fights in a row in 1966 but was inactive in 1967. He won two fights in 1968 to bring his total of bouts to eight over a four-year period.

Larry Middleton was a formidable contender

Larry began to pick up the pace in 1969 winning a decision over dangerous Roy “Tiger” Wil-liams. He followed with three more victories. He then added four more wins in 1970. In 1971 Larry scored two quick knock-

outs and then traveled to Eng-land to meet highly regarded Joe Bugner. At this time Middleton owned a 16-1-1 record and had won fifteen in a row. Still no one really gave him a chance against Bugner. In a huge upset Larry won a convincing decision and gained a world rating.

In 1972, Larry solidified his rank-ing with wins over Tony Doyle, Dan McAlinden and Bob Stall-ings. Back in England Larry was matched with highly rated Jerry Quarry. Although Jerry won the ten round verdict Larry gave him all he could handle. In Middle-ton’s next fight he was crushed in three rounds by an up and com-ing Ron Lyle. Ten months later on October 31, 1973 Larry met Lyle again. He went the distance but dropped a ten round verdict.

Larry closed the year by halting Jack O’Halloran.

Middleton was still ranked in 1974 and on March 4th he drew with former World Boxing As-sociation champion Jimmy Ellis. Two months later Larry dropped a twelve round duke to long time contender Oscar Bonevena. 1975 started Larry on his way from contender to trial horse. A five round knockout loss to Howard “Kayo” Smith did severe dam-age to his career. In 1976 Larry dropped decisions to Duane Bo-bick and Scott Ledoux. In what would be his last chance in the limelight Larry met Ken Norton on July 10th. In a game effort Nor-ton halted Larry in the tenth round thus ending Middleton’s run as a formidable contender.

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North Carolina, 2019 champions, started the new season with a 2-1 win over Portland.

CLE traded little-used re-serves G Brandon Knight and F John Henson, along with a 2023 2nd Round Draft pick for the All-Star. The Pistons were ponder-ing a different style of play other than utilizing a traditional center, while looking at Drummond’s huge future payday or the chance he would walk at the end of the season. The Cavs also signed F Dean Wade and F Jordan Bell to multi-year contracts on Tuesday in or-der to bolster their Bench.

Drummond Wade Bell

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Going back to the movies: Atlas Shaker Square is open Atlas Cinemas, which has locations in Euclid, Mayfield Heights, Shaker Square, Elyria and Mentor, is open for busi-ness. “We will have some new releases, some features that had recently had come out at closure, lots of kid and family pic-tures like ‘Trolls World Tour,’ ‘Onward,’ ‘Juman-ji: The Next Level,’ and some retro oldies like the ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Juras-sic World’ series, and also some alternative content such as ‘Capone’ (with Tom Hardy),” said Atlas Cinemas Vice President Gabriel Saluan. The company, the

largest independent theater chain in the region, hopes to entice moviegoers to return with $5 admission through-out June. 2 Fast 2 Furios; Bloodshot; The Fast And The Furious;The Greatest Show-man; The Invisible Man; Irrestistible; Marvel's The Avengers; Tyler Perry's Ma-dea Witness Protection Pro-gram; and Zootopia arre now playing. Cleveland Cinemas, the owner of the Cedar Lee, Capitol Theatre, Tower City Cinemas and Chagrin Cin-emas, said it’s still finalizing plans so it “can meet and ex-ceed” safety guidelines put forth by the state. “As soon as we have our official reopening date

we will let you all know,” Cleveland Cinemas Director of Marketing Dave Huffman said in a statement. “We can’t wait to see you and we know you are excited to get back to the movies!” The Cleveland Cinematheque hasn’t an-nounced when it will re-open. Silverspot Cinema at Pinecrest is planning to reopen in early July for such highly anticipated summer films as “Unhinged” with Russell Crowe on July 1, Christopher Nolan’s “Te-net” on July 17 and Disney’s live-action remake of “Mu-lan” on July 24. Movie theaters have been closed since March 16.

When they come back, moviegoers will find the same safety measures they’ve already become accustomed to in stores, restaurants and at drive-in movie theaters. Employees must undergo health screenings before reporting to work and wear masks and gloves. Theaters are required to undergo more frequent and thorough cleanings, make hand sanitizer readily available to customers and implement measures to en-force social distancing. So, expect movie houses to reduce capacity by staggering showtimes and blocking off seats, leav-ing at least two seats be-tween parties just as many

theaters were already doing prior to the shutdown. Theater chains are also likely to lean more on cashless systems and mo-bile ordering for tickets and concessions to reduce con-tact between employees and customers. But besides the three July releases men-tioned, don’t expect to see many of the big-name blockbusters like “Black Widow,” “A Quiet Place Part II,” “Top Gun: Maver-ick” or “Ghostbusters: After-life” on the silver screen any-time soon, as each of those films have been pushed back to at least the fall. “Wonder Woman 1984,” however, re-mains on track for an August 14 premiere.

'Hamilton' to be livestreamed on Disney Plus It will be a long time until area theatergoers can be in the room where live performances happen. And for fans of blockbuster Broadway shows, the show won’t go on at Playhouse Square until 2021. “Hamilton” was scheduled to play on Sep-

tember 22 before everything was canceled. Fans of the Broadway musical will have a chance to see 'Hamilton' on July 3 livestreaming. Hamilton, is a mu-sical with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It tells the story of

American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Inspired

by the 2004 biography Alex-ander Hamilton by Ron Cher-now, the show's music draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and tradi-tional-style show tunes; the show also casts non-white actors as the Founding Fa-thers and other historical fig-ures. Through this use of modern storytelling methods, Hamilton has been described as being about "America then, as told by America now." At the 2016 Tony Awards, Ham-ilton received a record-set-ting 16 nominations, even-tually winning 11 awards, including Best Musical. It received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A second U.S. tour.

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'Having Our Say:The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years' Rev. Delany became the first elected Negro Bishop in the Episcopal Church. Also, as amazing as the accomplish-ments were for Mr. and Mrs. Delany, it was even more so when all ten (count ‘em---ten!!!) of their children became college graduates and profes-sional people! While Amy (Madi-gan) was interviewing the sis-ters, Sadie (Carroll) was 103 years old and Bessie (Dee) was 101. The two female siblings were personality opposites as Sadie was mild-mannered and pleasant-tempered while Bes-sie was feisty and rebellious. During the year long interview, the viewers see the women’s lives from little kids to elderly matrons, in flash-back. Their lives served as a backdrop for the powerful his-tory of social and racial politics that played out during their growth and maturation. As young girls in 1896, they remembered when Jim Crow laws for blacks were first implemented, forcing their family to sit in the back of a trolley car and to drink from a separate ‘Colored Only’ water fountain. In 1941 North Caro-lina, Sadie (now Lisa Arrindell Anderson) and Bessie (now Audra McDonald) are shown from their early 20’s to ‘40’s. Sadie brings Mr.Booker T. Washington (founder of the Tuskegee Institute) to dinner with her family at the Delany’s. But, when Bessie goes away to college, while waiting at a depot to change trains, she is verbally accosted by a racist white traveler. Bes-sie’s brave and fearless tem-perament lets her stand her ground to repel the bigot. Bes-sie encounters prejudice again when she is at Columbia Uni-versity in New York. A racist professor purposively gives her a failing grade in dental school until his unfair practice is ex-posed. So, Bessie graduates regardless---with honors. Later, Dr. Bessie and one of her younger brothers establish a dental office in Har-lem in 1925. That same year, Sadie becomes the first ‘Col-ored’ Domestic Science teach-er at Roosevelt High School in New York. Meanwhile, Bessie

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organizes a protest rally with her friends to picket the re-release of white director D. W. Griffith’s silent racist motion-picture ‘masterpiece’ Birth of a Nation. Also, she has the legendary black leaders of the civil rights movement meet at her home (such as W.E.B. Du-Bois, Frasier Johnson, Walter White and Bessie Beardon). Sadie and Bessie had romantic relationships: Sadie with Frank (Bumper Robin-son) and Bessie with Frasier Johnson (Clifton Powell). But, when they didn’t work out, the sisters decided to stick with each other as life-partners and to summarily become ‘maiden ladies’. When their father Bishop Henry dies in 1928, they decide to celebrate his passing every year by mak-ing his favorite meal rather than mourn or grieve. But, after their mother Nannie dies in 1947, the now middle-aged siblings make a move to the Bronx. Eventually, the flash-backs end and viewers are re-turned to Mt. Vernon in 1992. When the sisters first met re-porter/ author Amy, Sadie was quite conciliatory while Bessie was outraged, intolerant and suspicious of her. Bessie tells the flus-tered journalist flat out that if it was not for their white ma-ternal grandfather (Mr. Milum) and Miss Mosley (a white teacher they had at St. Aug’s), she would have hated all white people. But, by the end of the film, Amy has earned Bessie’s trust enough that she is kind and appreciative of her interest in them. In 1995, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, went to Broadway and had a successful run in the theatre. Just as Madigan’s character Hearth believed, there were many people who wanted to hear what the sisters ‘had to say’. So, the feeling the TV viewer has after watching this movie is the same as one gets when you visit your favor-ite grandmother.It is a warm comforting embrace that emits unconditional love and accep-tance.

Chris' Cinema Trivia &Movie Match UpBy CHRIS APPLING

TRIVIA - (Biographies)

MOVIE MATCH-UP - (Diahann Caroll)

1. In the 1972 ro-mance/ biograpy "Lady Singsthe Blues," Diana Ross por-trayed the great jazz icon Billie Holiday and actor BillyDee Williams was her love interest, but who is the com-ic/comedian legend who was Holiday's friend "Piano Man"in the film? 2. In what movie did black, romantic leading man Denzel Washington play a Southern African-American rug cleaner who falls in love with the daughter of a motel managing East Indian couplewho were forced to leave their home in Uganda af-ter tyrant Idi Amin rose to power? 3. Who is the de-ceased rapper that starred opposite pop superstar Janet Jackson in John Singleton's "Poetic Justice" (1993) in

which Janet is a disillusioned hairdresser who grieves overthe violent death of her boy-friend by writing poetry? 4. What film focused on the "May-December" romance that starred Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Af-rican-American woman who takes a trip to Jamaica and falls in love with a blackman who is 20 years youngerthan her? 5. Who is the actorand actress that were fea-tured in the film "Love and Basketball" (2000) as child-hood friends who grow up together playing basketball, but then must learn to balance their emotions when romance blooms between them? A N S W E R S : 1 . Richard Pryor 2. 'Mississippi Masala' 3. Tupac Shakur 4. 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' 5. Omar Epps and Sa-naa Lathan

FILMS: 1. 'Carmen Jones' (1954)2. 'Eve's Bayou' (1997)3. 'Having Our Say: TheDelaney Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)4. 'The Courage to Love' (2000)5. 'Sally Hemings: An American Scandal' (2000)ROLES:a) Mulatto mother of ThirdPresident's true love

b) Creole mulatto mother ofquadroon turned nunc) Made debut as Dorothy Dan-dridge's friendd) 1960's New Orleans voo-dooiennee) Elderly, educated "Colored" siblingANSWERS: 1, c; 2, d; 3, b;4, e; 5, a

By C.M. APPLING 'Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years' It’s common knowl-edge that TV and Film veteran Bill Cosby has always been an advocate and proponent of encouraging higher education for blacks throughout his cre-ative endeavors. On his sitcom The Cosby Show, the Huxtable family consisted of three gen-erations of university gradu-ates. Also, on its spin-off A Different World, the show took place on the black college cam-pus of the Huxtables’ alma ma-ter, fictional Hillman College. So, when Cosby’s long-time spouse Camille O. Cosby decided to executive produce a TV movie based on the remarkable lives of cente-narian sisters Sadie and Bessie Delany, viewers knew that the strong belief in obtaining high-er education was going to be a central theme in the storyline. 'Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, was released in 1999 and was a best-selling book before it became a successful Broadway play. It began in 1991 in Mt. Vernon, New York, when white New York Times writer Amy Hill Hearth (actress Amy Ma-digan) contacted Sadie (actress Diahann Carroll) and Bessie (actress Ruby Dee) to write an article on the African-Amer-ican sisters about the black middle-class. However, after meet-ing the special siblings, Amy decided that an article was not enough. So, she spent an entire year interviewing them to com-pose a book about their lives that spanned almost the entire 20th century. As young girls in 1896 Raleigh, North Carolina, Sadie and Bessie were two of the older siblings in a family of ten children. Their father, Rev. Henry Delany (Mykelti Williamson) was an ex-slave from Georgia whose former masters had taught him to read and write. Henry attended St. Augustine’s College: a ‘Negro’ university where he met and married Nannie James Logan (Lonette McKee). Nannie became class valedictorian and Henry fin-ished second after her.

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By NANCY ANN LEE

Charles "Cootie" Wil-liams, a self-taught trumpeter and a master of the swing style, gained notice for his growl-and-plunger technique in Duke El-lington's Orchestra from 1929-1940. Williams was born inMobile, Alabama in 1911. By age 14, he was touring with the Young Family band (which included Lester Young). He went to New Yorkin 1928 where he made his first recordings with James P. Johnson and played briefly in the bands of Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson. He joined Ellington at age 17. After leaving Elling-tonin 1940, Williams performed briefly with Benny Goodman, in small groups, and led his big band which performed at New York's Savoy Ballroom and fea-tured early be-boppers Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. In 1948, Williams was forced to reduce the size of his band; eventually it broke up. During the 1950s, he was an active R&B musician and led a small jazz group that made some important jazz re-cordings. Will iam's playing inspired Ellington to compose one of his greatest masterpieces, "Concerto For Cootie." When Williams re-turned to the Ellington band in 1962, the leader wrote "New Concerto for Cootie."

Cootie Williams

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Honey healthy with combs of honey (NAPSI)—If you are looking for a sweet way to enhance your health and impress your family and friends with your culinary skills, think honey. Home cooks like honey for its versatility and array of culinary benefits. Because of its unique flavor profile, honey complements and enriches a variety of foods. From baked goods to marinades, honey provides balance to any dish and also adds a hint of natural sweet-ness. There are more than 300 varietals of honey found in the United States (www.honeylocator.com), making the culinary oppor-tunities truly endless. For a delicious holiday meal, try Honey Lavender Pork Loin with Caramelized Bananas. The pork is coated with hon-ey, succulently tender after a juicy roast in the oven. Due to the humectant nature of honey, the meat’s moisture is locked into the loin, creat-ing a tender and moist bite with each forkful. Honey’s emulsifi-cation properties naturally make it a great binder and thickener for sauces. The honey, matched with a hint of lav-ender, creates a delicate and sweet sauce to top the pork. The Honey-Lavender Sauce will be sure to wow your holiday guests. More than just a drizzle, let honey dazzle your holiday celebrations this year. For more informa-tion about using honey as a versatile culinary ingre-dient, and for more honey recipes and how-to culinary videos, visit www.honey.com. Use this recipe to brighten up the holidays with your family and loved ones: Honey Lavender Pork Loin with Caramelized Bananas4 servings Cook Time: 40 min (roast) Pork1 tablespoon grape seed oil

1¼ lbs. pork loin2 tablespoons salt¾ cup low-sodium chicken broth2 tablespoons honey1 tablespoon lavender leaves, mashedHoney-Lavender Sauce3 tablespoons honey1 tablespoon lavender leaves, diced½ teaspoon saltCaramelized Bananas½ tablespoon butter or coconut oil (optional)3 large bananas, sliced Pork: Preheat oven to 375°F. In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, add 1 tablespoon grape seed oil. Sea-son pork loin with salt on all surfaces. Sear pork loin on all sides, about 2 to 3 minutes per side (8 to 12 minutes total). Remove loin and place into foil-lined baking pan. Add chicken stock to skillet and deglaze by scraping brown bits from bottom of pan. Add 2 tablespoons honey and 1 tablespoon lavender and stir. Pour over pork loin and bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes, or until internal temperature is 145°F. Remove from oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Proceed with sauce and caramelized bananas. H o n e y - L a v e n d e r Sauce: Combine 3 tablespoons honey, 1 tablespoon lavender and salt. Add roasting pan juices. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer for 5 minutes or until thickened. Caramelized Banan-as: While sauce simmers, add butter and/or coconut oil to medium skillet over medium heat (if using nonstick skil-let, can skip oil). Add banana slices and cook, stirring occa-sionally, for 5 to 10 minutes, or until slices soften and turn golden brown. Finish: Slice pork loin into ½-inch slices. Spoon banana slices on plate and ar-range pork medallions over banana. Drizzle sauce over all. Garnish with additional laven-der leaves and serve immedi-ately. Recipe courtesy of Jessie Erwin, RD, for the Na-tional Honey Board.

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Bill to decriminalize drug use The Ohio Sen-ate passed Senate Bill 3, sending to the House a bill that will provide more opportunities for Ohioans get treatment for sub-stance abuse rather than sending them to prison. The ACLU of Ohio, Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Ohio Jus-tice and Policy Center, and Policy Matters Ohio issued a joint statement thanking the Senate Ju-diciary Committee mem-bers and the full Senate for their efforts to pass this bill. Senate Bill 3, introduced in February 2019, reclassifies some low-level drug possession crimes from felonies to misdemeanors to ensure that people struggling with addiction receive treatment rather than in-carceration.“ Senate Bill 3 is long-awaited recognition

that locking people up because they have drug problems does not work and never has. We’ve seen the disastrous effects of the War on Drugs, it’s past time for our law-makers to legislative with compassion and not crim-inalization. The time for criminal justice reform is now. I applaud members of the Senate seizing this opportunity to advance the bill, and urge every member of the House to do the same when they return in the fall,” added Gary Daniels, Chief Lob-byist for the ACLU of Ohio. Maurice Mar-bury, a community leader from Cleveland that has been working with the Ohio Organizing Col-laborative said, “All of us want to live in safe environments. Too many people are going to pris-on right now instead of

getting treatment for ad-diction. In prison, you face harder situations that compound the traumas that led you to use drugs in the first place. What we need is what Senate Bill 3 starts to do, place alter-natives in communities so that more people can go somewhere right now and say ‘this is my prob-lem, can I get help?’ and actually get the help they need. “ “Through treat-ment not incarceration, Senate Bill 3 will help Ohioans get the second chance they deserve, no matter what they look like or where they live,” said Jasmine Ayres, Pol-icy Liaison for Policy Matters Ohio. “People in big cities and small towns across our state are demanding justice, and this bill will make a dif-ference.”

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Stem Education Center to promote science A Stem Kids Educational Center, 11019 Kinsman Road, hopes to excite students about science. The center will provide before and after school transportation. With COV-ID-19 worries, the cen-ter has taken the neces-sary percautions to keep every child safe. The center re-cently held a BBQ din-ner as a fundraiser. The menu consisted of beff ribs, chicken, green beans,

spagetti, potato salad, and coleslaw. STEM educa-tion focuses on the in-troductory level STEM courses, as well as awareness of the STEM fields and occupations. This initial step pro-vides standards-based structured inquiry-based and real world problem-based learning, connect-ing all four of the STEM subjects. STEM educa-tion helps to bridge the ethnic and gender gaps sometimes found in

math and science fields. Initiatives have been established to increase the roles of women and minorities in STEM-related fields. STEM education breaks the traditional gender roles. STEM, in full science, technology, engineering, and math-ematics, field and cur-riculum centred on edu-cation in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math-ematics. STEM-fo-cused curriculum has been extended to many countries beyond the United States, with programs developed in places such as Australia, China, France, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. At the Stem Education Center, stu-dents will have the op-portunity to explore science with hands-on activites. For informa-tion, call Kenyetta Helms at 216-804-3132.

A BBQ fundraiser was held for the Stem Kids Educational Center.. Volunteer Nena Muhammad helps serve the food.(ESDN Photo by Omar Quadir)

Kenyetta Muhammad,left, Nena Muhammad, and Justine Parker helped to organize the BBQ fundraiser for the Stem Kids Educational Center.(ESDN Photo by Omar Quadir)

Accessible, affordable internet added to House Bill Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D–Minneso-ta) and eight Democratic co-sponsors introduced a Senate companion to the Accessible, Afford-able Internet for All Act, which Rep. Jim Clyburn (D–South Carolina) in-troduced in the House of Representatives last week. The House bill is set for a vote as soon as this afternoon as part of the comprehensive infra-structure package in the Moving Forward Act. The bill calls for $100 billion to fund a mix of innovative broadband-deployment projects and other important pro-grams, including broad-band benefits and afford-ability provisions similar to those in the HEROES Act that passed the House in May. It also includes pricing-transparency re-quirements that would allow lawmakers and researchers to analyze

competition in the broad-band marketplace. Such analysis would help them better understand the challenges so many internet users face when confronted with the high price of internet service. In addition, the legislation offers key provisions for getting students online, preserv-ing the Federal Commu-nications Commission’s Lifeline program and promoting community-broadband choice. R e p u b l i c a n leaders in both the House and the Senate have pledged to at least be-gin work on a legislative framework establish-ing programs for people experiencing economic hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to reports, these efforts would seek to expand broadband ac-cess and digital opportu-nity in communities of color.

Free Press Ac-tion Vice President of Policy and General Coun-sel Matt Wood made the following statement: “Free Press Ac-tion welcomes the intro-duction of this tremen-dous, comprehensive broadband package from Senator Klobuchar and her colleagues. It links up with the legislation that Representative Clyburn and the House’s Demo-cratic majority intro-duced last week and that they plan to pass as part of the Moving Forward Act. “It’s understand-able that the deployment and financing strategies the Senate legislation contains will draw atten-tion in an infrastructure bill. But its digital equity, affordability and pricing-transparency provisions are just as essential for getting everyone online. “ L a w m a k e r s must recognize, as this

bill does, that the vast majority of people who are disconnected today are offline because of the high price of internet ser-vices that are physically available to them but out of reach financially. This dilemma disproportion-ately impacts Black and Brown people, poorer communities and other groups hit hardest by the pandemic. Lacking an in-ternet connection during this health crisis exacer-bates existing economic inequities and deepens digital divides. “The bill con-tains truly progressive broadband-adoption sup-ports and investments, mirrored in the HEROES Act and elsewhere. These provisions would offer people who cannot eas-ily afford a connection up to $50 a month for the broadband service of their choosing. The bill also requires collection of

broadband-pricing data so that we can finally as-sess what people are pay-ing for high-speed inter-net and better understand when and where they’re priced out of this essen-tial service. It includes a host of important initia-tives to invest in digital equity and inclusion, free up communities and lo-cal municipalities to con-sider building their own broadband networks, and end many of the Trump FCC’s relentless attacks on the Lifeline program. “With the House passing so many good broadband bills in recent weeks, the ball is now in Senate Republi-cans’ court. Thanks to ef-forts like this, they have a number of options to show whether they’re se-rious about tackling the affordability issues keep-ing tens of millions of people offline.”

As part of the #StopHateforProfit coali-tion calling on advertisers to pause all ad spending on Facebook, People For the American Way Presi-dent Ben Jealous released the following statement:

“People For the American Way stands in solidarity with and endorses the #StopHate-forProfit campaign. Let’s be clear: For far too long Facebook’s platforms have done very little to

stop the spread of hate and racism. They have been silent on the trafficking of dangerous conspiracy theories and misinfor-mation aimed at voter suppression. Facebook

Advertisers threaten to pull Facebook ads as part of the StopHateForProfit# campaignis allowing the spread of hateful messages that attack the heart of our democracy, while gener-ating billions of dollars in profits. No company should be okay with pro-moting hate, bigotry, rac-ism, antisemitism and violence. We fully expect Facebook to meet the #StopHateForProfit co-alition’s demands by pre-venting lies in political ads, closing down groups associated with violence, and allowing victims of severe harassment to im-mediately reach a live Facebook representa-tive for help. Facebook must stop promoting the spread of racism, racial hatred and violence.” Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to van-ish from Facebook on Wednesday, after the fail-ure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site. U.S. civil rights groups have enlisted the multinationals to help pressure the social media giant into taking concrete steps to block hate speech in the wake of the death of George Floyd and amid a national reckon-

ing over racism.. Facebook exec-utives including Carolyn Everson, vice president of global business solu-tions, and Neil Potts, public policy director, held at least two meet-ings with advertisers on Tuesday, the eve of the planned one-month boy-cott, three sources who participated in the calls told Reuters. But the execu-tives offered no new de-tails on how they would tackle hate speech, the sources said. Instead, they pointed back to recent press releases, frustrating advertisers on the calls who believe those plans do not go far enough. “It’s simply not moving,” said one executive at a major ad agency of the conversations. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zucker-berg has agreed to meet with the organizers of the boycott, a spokeswoman said late Tuesday. Related Coverage P&G says it will not announce advertising decisions as Facebook ad boycott grows Toymaker Lego joins ad boycott cam-

paign U.S. civil rights groups including the An-ti-Defamation League, NAACP and Color of Change started the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign after the death of Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a white police officer last month. The groups out-lined 10 demands for Facebook including al-lowing people who expe-rience severe harassment to speak with a Facebook employee and giving re-funds to brands whose ads show up next to of-fensive content that is later removed. Facebook said earlier this week it would submit to an audit of its hate speech controls, adding to plans to label newsworthy content that would otherwise violate its policies, following similar practices at other social media platforms such as Twitter Inc. One digital ad agency representative who participated in a call on Tuesday said Face-book executives referred repeatedly to the audit, without offering addi-tional concessions. Advertisement Facebook ex-ecutives have reached out to chief executives, board members and chief mar-keting officers of major advertisers to talk them out of the boycott, two people briefed on the discussions told Reuters. All the sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. The boycott will

be a test for advertisers on how to reach billions of consumers without relying on the largest so-cial media platform in the world, an executive at a major ad agency said. Companies that run ads in order to pro-mote their brand image

rather than to make direct sales are less beholden to Facebook. Many of these, including the mul-tinational advertisers who have joined up with the boycott will begin to plot how they can achieve the same goals without Face-book, the executive said.

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Last weekend on the American Tobacco Trail in southern Durham, some-body or a group of people painstakingly pushed the Black Lives Matter move-ment a little further -- rec-ognizing lives lost with a personal touch. One jogger was so overcome with emotion at reading the names that she was in tears, There are 329 names covering nearly a mile of pavement. All unarmed Af-rican Americans killed by police dating to 1990. This iteration includes ages of the victims and for some a brief description, quote or important note. For anyone trav-eling this path, it’s impos-sible not to notice and rec-ognize the magnitude of the problem that has outraged most of America. Sources are spelled out to provide credibility. The effect is so powerful it brought walker to a stop. One person post-ed on the American Tobac-co Trail Facebook page: “To whoever did this. Thanks.” In Cleveland on E.93rd a mural was painted to honor the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests urupted in Cleveland on May 30 after the death of George Floyd, 46, on May 25, 2020 when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck while he begged for his life until he could not breathe and died. Following the protest and rioting, down-town was left in shambles. Cuyahoga Coun-ty will provide at least $100,000 in grants to help downtown Cleveland busi-nesses damaged in rioting that followed a Black Lives Matter protest. The adminis-tration of County Execu-tive Armond Budish ini-tially planned to provide $400,000 to businesses, but County Council representa-tives on the Board of Con-trol on Monday lowered the amount until they see how the program works and get a better understanding of the damages. The money comes from the county’s economic development fund and will be provided to Downtown Cleveland Alliance as one portion of the total funds available to downtown small business owners re-covering from the unrest. The city of Cleve-land could provide up to $1 million, the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the region’s chamber of commerce, will contrib-ute between $40,000 and $100,000, Downtown Cleveland Alliance will

contribute up to $50,000 (and help from their staff), and the Cleveland Founda-tion will consider a grant request of unknown value, county staff told the Board of Control. Dozens of down-town businesses and build-ings were vandalized or looted during a May 30 riot in downtown Cleveland fol-lowing peaceful protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American, at the hands of Minneapolis po-lice. Initial estimates put the damages between $1.5 and $3.5 million, but better estimates will be available once businesses apply for the grants and receive cost estimates from construction companies and equipment suppliers, ac-cording to Board of Control records. The city of Cleveland’s contribution is capped at $25,000 per small business, or up to 25% of the total costs of damages. A limit on the county’s as-sistance has not yet been determined, though it will likely be necessary, records state. A committee of representatives from the city, county and other orga-nizations contributing to the fund will determine which businesses receive money, and how much. Small busi-nesses, and minority- and woman-owned businesses will receive priority, Down-town Cleveland Alliance President and CEO Joe Marinucci told the board. The grants could go to both building owners and business owners. The grants are intended to pay for expenses not covered by insurance. As of Monday morning, 38 businesses had applied for the money, Marinucci said. And of the 25 businesses that had ap-plied by the end of last week, damage requests to-taled about $300,000, Mari-nucci said.

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D o w n t o w n Cleveland Allliance does not anticipate providing money to national chains, such as banks or Starbucks, or large businesses, such as Jack Cleveland Casino, Marinucci said. Money from the economic develaopment fund will be used for busi-nesses -but none to econom-ically develop businesses in the black communities -just the downtown area. Cleve-land has not learned from the riots in Cincinati 20 years ago. Protests were held in Cincinnati after the death of Timothy Thomas, 19 was killed by Cincinnati police officers in 2001. He was the 15th African American male killed by Cincinnati police from 1995-2001. No whites were killed by police during this timeframe. The total damage sustained from the period of protest and unrest amounted to $3.6 million. In all, the city said 120 businesses experienced damage due to the civil unrest. It cost the city another $1.5 million to $2 million for emergency responders and equipment damage. T h e four days of protest and unrest are considered the largest urban disturbance in the United States since the 1992 Los Angeles period of unrest. (After Rodney King was brutally beaten by the LAPD in 1991 and the of-ficers aquitted). There has been extensive discussion within the local community about the effects of suburbaniza-tion and urban decay in the city,as well as the redevel-opment of Over-the-Rhine, a historic neighborhood. The incidents again strained the relation-ship between the police and residents of the city’s mi-nority communities. In 2002, the city signed an agreement for initiatives to improve police service to minority commu-nities, revise use-of-force guidelines and form a com-

mittee for community polic-ing initiatives. CPD officers began an unofficial work slowdown, which coincided with a rise in violent crime in the downtown area. In 2001 and 2002, violent crime and property crime rates rose in the city, with property crime rates peaking in 2003 before de-clining through 2010. Initiatives were subsequently begun by community groups to re-duce violence. Roach was tried for negligent homicide in September 2001. Cincinnati police attempted to waive the trial in favor of a bench ruling. Roach, who left the force to join a suburban po-lice department, was later acquitted of the charges. Several isolated incidents of civil unrest oc-curred after his verdict was announced. An internal

police investigation found Roach had lied in his in-cident report, had not fol-lowed department firearm procedures, and had not giv-en Thomas sufficient time to respond to his order. Angered by po-lice reaction, particularly the April 14 incident, sev-eral community groups or-ganized a boycott of down-town businesses. Several prominent African-Ameri-can entertainers scheduled

United StatesMexican States, Canada Agreement to begin in July The Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Can-ada[1] (USMCA), is a free trade agreement be-tween Canada, Mexico, and the United States that has been ratified by each country. Rather than a wholly new agreement, it has been characterized as “NAFTA 2.0. On July 1, 2020, the USMCA entered into force, replacing NAFTA. The Agreement is the re-sult of a 2017–2018 re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by its member states, which informally agreed to the terms on September 30, 2018, and formally on October 1. The USMCA was proposed by United States President Donald

Trump and was signed by Trump, Mexican Pres-ident Enrique Peña Ni-eto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 30, 2018, as a side event of the 2018 G20 Summit in Buenos Aires. A revised ver-sion was signed on De-cember 10, 2019, and was ratified by all three countries, with the final ratification (Canada) on March 13, 2020. N e g o t i a t i o n s “focused largely on auto exports, steel and alu-minum tariffs, and the dairy, egg, and poultry markets.” One provision “prevents any party from passing laws that restrict the cross-border flow of data”. Compared to NAFTA, USMCA in-creases environmental and working regulations,

and incentivizes more domestic production of cars and trucks. The agreement also provides updated intellectual property pro-tections, gives the United States more access to Canada’s dairy market, imposes a quota for Ca-nadian and Mexican au-tomotive production, and increases the duty-free limit for Canadians who buy U.S. goods online from $20 to $150. The full list of differences between USMCA and NAFTA is listed on the USTR’s website. USMCA is not just a modernized update to NAFTA but it borrows heavily from the TPP and CPTPP trade agree-ments; it also contains new elements regarding stringent, enforceable and binding labor and

environmental elements in the core of the agree-ment, macroeconomic policy, standard and reg-ulations harmonization and digital trade. On April 3, 2020, Mexico announced it was ready to implement the agreement, joining Canada.The agreement is scheduled to come into effect on July 1, 2020. During the 2016 election campaign and during his president term Trump has been highly critical of NAFTA, of-tentimes describing it as “perhaps the worst trade deal ever made.” Trump extols the USMCA by compari-son, claiming it “is a ter-rific deal for all of us.” Trade experts have differed in opinion on whether the shift in trade terms is significant enough to warrant this

shift in perspective from the White House. Former US Trade Representative to former US president Bill Clinton, Mickey Kantor, who oversaw the signing of NAFTA, said, “It’s really the original NAFTA.” R e p r e s e n t a -tives from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) have criticized the labor standards in the USMCA as unenforce-able and toothless. Senator Eliza-beth Warren of Massa-chusetts said “the new rules will make it harder to bring down drug pric-es for seniors and anyone else who needs access to life−saving medicine” reflecting on the measure that expands the pat-ent length for biological substances to 10 years,

limiting access for new generic drugs to enter the market. The United States Trade Representa-tive publishes fact sheets which highlight the ac-complishments of this negotiated form of the USMCA, providing the counter-argument to the above-mentioned critics, citing new digital trade measures, the strength-ening of protection for trade secrets, supporting manufacturing through its automobile rules-of-origin adjustments, as some of the benefits of the trade agreement. Jim Balsillie, former Chair of once-dominant handheld tele-phone firm Research In Motion, remarked in an op-ed published in Janu-ary 2018 that the “colo-nial supplicant attitude” of Canadian politicians

was a wrong-headed ap-proach to the data and IP provisions of the USMCA. A report pub-lished in summer 2018 was that the National Research Council of Canada feared that do-mestic firms run the risk of becoming “data cows” of foreign big data un-der the provisions of the USMCA. On April 28, 2019, Republican Sena-tor Chuck Grassley of Iowa, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, stating that “Congress won’t approve USMCA while constituents pay the price for Mexican and Canadian retaliation”, re-ferring to Mexico’s and Canada’s retaliatory tar-iffs In the summer

of 2019, Trump’s top economic advisor and Director of the United States National Eco-nomic Council, Larry Kudlow, twice asserted that the USMCA would increase GDP by half a percentage point and job creation by 180,000 per year after ratification. The Interna-tional Trade Commission analysis Kudlow was ref-erencing found the agree-ment would increase GDP by 0.35 points and jobs by 176,000 after six years following ratifica-tion. The analysis cited by another study from the Congressional Research Service found the agreement would not have a measurable effect on jobs, wages, or overall economic growth.

Supreme Court justice seeks plea deal reform In an article being published by the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, state Su-preme Court Justice Mi-chael P. Donnelly calls for reforms in the crimi-nal plea negotiation pro-cess. The reforms in-clude: A b o l i s h i n g plea deals made behind closed doors Providing uni-form guidance to trial court judges when de-termining whether to accept or reject a plea agreement Justice Don-nelly also wants to eliminate “sentencing by ambush,” where a defendant enters a plea believing he or she has negotiated some benefit but is “completely un-aware” about what the state intends to advocate for, at the later sentenc-

ing hearing. “The state then advocates and ob-tains a severe sentence so the benefit turns out to be illusory,” he said.Justice Donnelly is a crit-ic of “fictional” pleas, in which defendants plead guilty to crimes they did not commit, and do so with the knowledge of the prosecutor, defense attorney and judge. He said he came to reject these schemes during his first term as a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge, when he re-alized they are unfair to the two main participants in a case: the accused and the victim. “It was the big-gest epiphany of my legal career,” Justice Donnelly said. “No stakeholder in the plea negotiation pro-cess, including the judge, should ever say anything in chambers and off the record that he or she

would not repeat verba-tim in open court while on the record.”From that day forward, Justice Donnelly never looked back. “When parties are placed on the record, it naturally forces the adversaries to focus on the strengths and weak-nesses of the case. No one wants to be caught lying or embellishing the facts on the record,” he wrote. But when these discussions take place in open court and on the record, “the parties focus on their positions and the known facts of the case, and everyone in the pro-cess, including the judge, is held accountable for what they say.” T r a n s p a r e n t proceedings will elimi-nate pleas based on legal fictions and provide de-fendants with an under-standing of the benefit

they are re ceiving in ex-change for the admission they are providing, Jus-tice Donnelly wrote. The article is entitled “Truth or Con-sequences: Making the Case for Transparency and Reform in the Plea Negotiation Process.” The journal is published by the Ohio State Uni-versity Moritz College of Law.Justice Donnelly advo-cates for creating a cen-tralized database that tracks every criminal sentence issued in Ohio that will be available to prosecutors, defense counsel, and judges.The database will allow meaningful comparisons and analyses and provide guidance to trial courts so they can “achieve both consistency and propor-tionality in criminal sen-tencing,” he wrote. Ohio State law

Professor Ric Simmons said he appreciated Jus-tice Donnelly’s expertise on the subject. “The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law always seeks to provide thought-provoking ar-ticles that are relevant to today’s legal profession,” Professor Simmons said. “When we heard that Justice Don-nelly was one of the na-tional experts on fictional plea bargains, we knew this was the kind of topic that we would want to discuss in the journal.” “We were very pleased when he accept-ed our invitation to write the article for us. We usu-ally publish articles by law professors and other academics, and it is a rare privilege to have the opportunity to publish a piece from a sitting state Supreme Court Justice,” Simmons said.

to perform in the city, in-cluding Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg, and Smokey Robinson cancelled their performances there. After a year, the community boy-cott was estimated to have caused a $10 million nega-tive economic impact on the city. Significant gen-trification of the Over the Rhine community began just before and continued after the period of civil un-

When 19 year old Timothy Thomas (bottom, right) was killed by Cincinnati

police officers in 2001, the citizens of Cincinnati rioted. Thomas was the 15th black

man killed by white officers since 1995. No whites were killed by officers during that

Above are some of the known African Americans killed by police in recent times. The Clevelanders that we mourn are: Tanisha Anderson (bottom row, third from left), who was in a mental health crisis and needed to go to the hospital. She died in police custody when Patrol Officer Scott Aldridge slammed her to the ground and delayed medical treatment. An arbitrator reduced Aldridge’s discipline from a 10 day suspension to a three days suspension. Tamir Rice, third row from bottom, sixth from left), was a 12-year boy, who was killed by a 26-year-old white police officer Timothy Loehmann under the supervision of his training officer, Frank Garmback. Tamir was playing on a playground when he was shot. Neither of the officers faced charges. Two Clevelanders, Malissa Wil-liams and Timothy Russell who were unarmed and shot 137 times by Cleveland police offers were not in the picture. One officer, Michael Brelo, was tried and acquitted of all charges.

rest, as developers found property values low enough to allow acquisition and re-development. A number of tech companies and night-life spots have opened in the neighborhood. By 2007, several new community events had been organized. Several large Cincinnati companies, in-cluding Fifth Third Bank, Procter & Gamble and Kroger, announced support for reforms in the city, such

as investment in schools and minority-hiring programs. Police behavior and protocols were inves-tigated, and changes were made to improve training and interaction with the community. On the ten-year anniversary of the protests and civil unrest, Cincinnati Enquirer reported that “[t]he riots neither initiated the racial tension nor the police reforms, but accelerated both.”

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speaks volumes about our community.” H i g h l i g h t s of grants approved in the first six months of 2020 by the founda-tion’s board of direc-tors include: Youth, Health & Human Services Mt. Sinai Health Care Founda-tion ($1,000,000) – Funding to the fiscal agent for the Lead Safe Cleveland Home Fund for a first-of-its kind, public-private partner-ship that will provide families and property owners the resources they need to make homes lead safe. This, along with investments from the City of Cleve-land, State of Ohio, and philanthropic part-ners, brings the total pool of funds to more than $19 million. Famicos Foun-dation ($2,946,000) – Funding to the fiscal agent for My Commit-ment to My Commu-nity (MyCom) for full-time staffing to meet the increased needs of the Say Yes Cleve-

land partnership, in addition to MyCom’s regular out-of-school-time programming and employment as-sistance for more than 8,000 youth across Cuyahoga County. C l e v e l a n d Rape Crisis Center ($200,000) – To sup-port an expanded ser-vice footprint – new offices in Shaker Square and Clark-Ful-ton – as well as ongo-ing outreach efforts supporting the African American and Latinx communities in order to become more acces-sible, both geographi-cally and to individu-als from underserved populations. K i n n e c t ($105,250) – To con-tinue to provide in-dividual and group counseling to LGBTQ youth in the child welfare system via the Chosen Affirm-ing Family Program, which also engages adult caregivers, pro-viding outreach, edu-cation and counseling regarding LGBTQ is-

sues. Arts & Culture S P A C E S ($50,000) – To expand the emergency relief grant program so that working artists in all disciplines may ap-ply for a grant of up to $1,000 to replace income lost due to the COVID-19 crisis. Rainey Insti-tute ($300,000) – To continue to provide El Sistema (“The Sys-tem”) youth classical music education train-ing to 240 students at four different sites, with the goal to ex-pand to more than 320 students by 2022. Twelve Liter-ary Arts ($175,000) – To expand the organi-zation’s programmatic reach in the literary community through its various offerings, including in-school writer-in-residence programs at 12 part-ner schools, the after school youth poetry fellowship and poetry slam competitions. Neighborhood Revitalization

M i d T o w n Cleveland, Inc. ($600,000) – Two-year funding to help accel-erate growth focused on equity and inclu-sion via a new master plan that will include catalyzing innovation, cultivating a mixed-in-come residential com-munity, placemaking projects and strength-ening AsiaTown. N e i g h b o r -hood Connections ($3,792,000) – Three-year funding to contin-ue to invest in the peo-ple and neighborhoods of Cleveland and East Cleveland via its small grants program and community building work.Fairfax Renaissance D e v e l o p -ment Corporation ($1,183,737) – Two-year funding for the continued implementa-

tion of the Greater Cir-cle Living initiative, which provides assis-tance to the employees of participating Great-er University Circle non-profits and anchor institutions who wish to buy, rent, and/or re-habilitate housing in the surrounding neigh-borhoods. D o w n t o w n Cleveland Alliance ($500,000) – To sup-port the Downtown Cleveland Recovery Fund, which was es-tablished to provide grants and business support services to small independent businesses in danger of closing following the property damages suffered after peaceful protests turned violent on May 30, with a fo-cus on vulnerable and minority owned small businesses.

Group Plan Commis-sion ($200,000) – To provide funding for the Group Plan Com-mission to continue to adapt and retool its op-erations, programming and maintenance in response to COVID-19 in Public Square and on downtown Malls A, B & C, including staff training, visitor educa-tion and awareness, in-stallation of handwash-ing stations and virtual programming. Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) ($100,000) – To support the organiza-tion as it expands into Ohio, with the goal of educating young peo-ple on the science, im-pacts, and solutions of climate change, while also creating a cohort of Action Fellows from area high schools.

Report released on COVID-19 and food system A coalition of statewide food and farm organizations has re-leased a new 18 page report, Opportunity in a Time of Crisis: Recom-mendations for Building a More Resilient Ohio Food System. The report by the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Asso-ciation (OEFFA), Ohio Farmers Market Network (OFMN), Ohio Food Policy Network (OFPN), and Produce Perks Mid-west (PPM) captures how local and regional food systems and nutrition as-sistance were impacted by COVID-19. It offers eight policy recommen-dations Ohio’s decision-makers can implement to invest in the capacity of Ohio’s farmers and farm-ers markets and build food security for vulner-able families.

“ C O V I D - 1 9 paralyzed our country and broke many links in the centralized global food supply chain. Gro-cery store shelves went bare, animals were eutha-nized, milk was dumped, and families went hun-gry,” said Amalie Lip-streu, OEFFA Policy Director. “At the same time, our diverse local and regional food system rose to the challenge and helped meet the unprec-edented demand from Ohioans wanting safe and secure food, and it has done so with little to no support from the state or federal government. While this response has been remarkable, it is ultimately unsustainable without leadership and investment.” Local and re-gional farmers and farm-ers markets have adapted

quickly, adopting online ordering, drive-thru mar-kets, and other methods, while taking on addition-al supply and labor costs and losing regular sourc-es of income, like event fees and sponsorships. “Without a doubt, 2020 is a different type of year,” said Eliza-beth Stites of Hyde Park Farmers Market in Ham-ilton County. “We have had to reinvent our mar-ket almost weekly, going from a prepaid, drive-thru market in March to a walk-in COVID-19 farmers’ market today. None of these structures existed 12 months ago, and I am not yet con-vinced these are viable models for farmers mar-kets into the future. The amount of strain that our COVID-19 world has brought on the market management team and

the farmers themselves is unimaginable.” “While the pan-demic has dramatically exposed the systemic weaknesses in our food system, most of the prob-lems facing local farmers and farmers markets are nothing new,” said Jaime Hadji, OFMN Chair. “It’s important to look beyond short-term solutions to the cur-rent crisis and instead address the underlying problems facing Ohio agriculture, including lack of funding and in-frastructure for farmers markets.” In addition to farmers markets, the re-port also describes the need to invest in food preservation and pro-cessing facilities, fed-eral aid for underserved farmers selling into local markets, tax credits to as-sist landowners in trans-ferring land to beginning farmers, and revisions to state contract bidding for food purchases as neces-sary to support a robust regional food system that will create jobs and build community wealth. The pandemic has also strained nutri-tion assistance programs, as the number of Ohioans struggling to afford food has grown, and sales have shifted online. Record unem-ployment and the closure of schools has increased the demand for Supple-mental Nutrition Assis-tance Program (SNAP), and with the expanded unemployment assistance scheduled to end on July 31, many Ohioans may be left with limited resources for purchasing food, po-tentially driving more people to the emergency food system. “Local food sys-tems have the potential to address many of the needs of food insecure Ohioans while at the same time generating real eco-nomic benefit to farmers and local communities,” said Tevis Foreman, PPM Executive Director. “We must invest in online in-frastructure development for SNAP nutrition in-centive programming and

address barriers to ensure that those purchases can be made from farmers, farmers markets, and local retailers, not just big box retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.” The groups as-sert that Ohio’s leaders have a unique opportunity to turn a short-term disas-ter response into a long-term platform for food system transformation. The report offers eight state and federal policy recommendations: · Establishment of an interagency food work group to identify strategies to fund and build farmers market capacity including technical assistance and infrastructure develop-ment for online purchasing platforms for farmers mar-kets, direct-to-consumer producers, and local retail-ers; · Establishment of an interagency food work group to identify areas where creation of food preservation, processing, and distribution facilities are needed and how they can be financed; · Passage of the HE-ROES Act with aid for underserved farmers and those selling into local food systems; · Passage of the Fami-ly Farm ReGeneration Act (HB 183/SB 159); · Changes to state con-tract bidding requirements for local food purchasing; · Online infrastructure development for SNAP nutrition incentive pro-gramming, like Produce Perks; · Support of the SNAP Online Expansion and De-livery Act; and · Passage of Senate Bill 121, which supports nutrition education. “This crisis il-luminates the importance of our local and regional food system to Ohioans, but we must stop taking it for granted. It’s time to in-vest in strategies that will, over the long-term, build a more resilient local and regional food system that provides increased market opportunity for farmers, creates more jobs, increas-es healthy food access, and is better able to respond to future market disrup-tions,” said Lipstreu.