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Reading's new mayor, Vaughn Spencer, will do his best to improve the city, he told the

crowd packed into Trinity Lutheran Church for his inauguration Monday, Jan. 2.

He'll try to find more revenue and make it easier to access services at City Hall.

But, he said, there's only so much he can do without the help of city residents themselves.

Without their assistance, Reading will continue to suffer, said Spencer, Reading's first Afri-

can American mayor.

"Citizens can't continue not to be responsible for the condition of our city," he said.

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who delivered the keynote address, said Spencer will succeed because he connects with oth-

ers.

"He understands the city's natural resource — and that's the people," Sestak said. "He understands character."

During his inaugural address, Spencer said he will establish strong relationships with City Hall department heads and City

Council to put the city on a path to better fiscal management.

Reading will make the necessary changes to thrive once again, even in light of a structural budget deficit, scrutiny over the

city's Act 47 status, and a negative public image, he said.

"We have a job to do," Spencer said. "I have a job to do, but I need your help."

Much of the 2½-hour ceremony centered on changes needed to quash poverty and bring in business and jobs.

First and foremost, Spencer said, the city needs a facelift.

Spencer said he doesn't want to hear about how dirty the streets are or how people open their car doors and dump trash

on the roads.

It's the grown-ups that set an example for youth, he said.

"Adults of the city need to become role models for children," Spencer said.

Besides, he said, no one wants to start a new business in an unappealing area.

The aesthetics will change if residents reach out to one another, he said.

"When you start talking to you neighbors, you start talking about what's wrong," Spencer said.

City auditor David Cituk and City Council members Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz, Dennis Sterner and Jeffrey Waltman, all

incumbents, were also sworn into office for another term.

After the ceremony, city resident David Edwards said he is hopeful Spencer will turn the city around, especially because the

new mayor believes so strongly in the value of education.

"He's worried about the students," Edwards said. "He understands that if kids don't do well, the city won't."

Che Murray, 17, a student at Berks Catholic High School, said he believes Spencer will improve the city by strengthening

programs for youths.

"I think he will make the city a lot better than what it is," Che said.

Sharon Holtz, of Shillington, likes that Spencer has remained committed to one set of priorities, including improving infra-

structure and making the city a more safe and attractive place to live.

"He has the same vision as during his campaign," Holtz said.

Che's mother, Donna Murray, said she is hopeful but not unrealistic about the challenges the city faces.

"I think there is going to be a big change but it's not going to happen fast," Murray said. "But I think he's heard what all the

people are saying."

Reading's new mayor Spencer Sworn in: I can't do it by myself…..Bctv.org By Madelyn Pennino

http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/government/vaughn-spencer-will-be-reading-s-new-mayor/article_bc96d112-0a8b-11e1-bb4b-001cc4c03286.html

http://www.bctv.org/act_47/

http://www.spencerforreading.com/vaughns-vision/

http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/government/reading-s-new-mayor-i-can-t-do-it-by/article_879502ae-3588-11e1-a9eb-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=image&photo=0


How To Maintain Your

Hair During Exercise

From Hello Beautiful:

Fashionistas take pride in

their looks, from head to toe.

Women are realizing that the

sacrifice of their bodies to

have hype hair is not cute, or

that starving themselves to

keep a flat tummy is not good

either. Here are five ways you

can spend time at the gym

and step out with your hair

still in place and looking great!

Look Pretty In Your Po-nytail

Ponytails can be sexy, flirty, simple, and chic. If your locks

are long, you cannot really go wrong with this style.

Take a flat brush, spray a high shine, holding spritz on it,

and brush your hair into a ponytail. International creative

consultant for John Frieda, Harry Josh, suggests that the

ponytails should be at eye level and to pull out some

strands of hair in the front to hang naturally, "A wispy,

piecy look is sexy," says Josh. It also holds well while you're

aerobicizing or working with weights.

By Yannique Benitez

Is Your Weave Holding You Back From

Your Man? The construal of the model

black woman garners the abil-

ity to encompass an immeas-

urable range of unparalleled

love. With a repertoire like

that, some would believe that

the black woman is a force to

be reckoned with. And they'd

be correct. Yet, even with the

innate ability to rule a country

like Queen Amina and the ef-

fortless poise to "run the

world" á la Beyoncé, there

remains two subject matters

that have perplexed and frus-

trated the black woman for

years: From Cluchmag.com

http://hellobeautiful.com/style-beauty/teneijanarcisse/how-to-maintain-your-hair-during-exercise/

http://www.bvhairtalk.com/bloggers/yannique-benitez/

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The Drug War: Jim Crow in the Age of Obama

The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.

The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution

demanding an end to the War on Drugs. The res-

olution comes as young Black male unemployment

hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's be-

come a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old

"War on Drugs" public enemy number one for

the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well

here's why: it's not extraneous - it's central: the

war on drugs is the engine of 21st century dis-

crimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow

into the age of Barack Obama.

Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -

- and the stories -- of 21st Century Jim Crow in

her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The

New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of

Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full inter-

view in two parts. "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste

system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here "In major urban areas, the majority of African

American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once

branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status." It's not just about people having a

hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar? Like the

Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was

a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you

pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.

White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into

debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment. Contrary to the con-

ventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems story - it's a policing and power story

that reminds us that racism's not a figment -- and it just might contain a hint or two, too, about what a high-

unemployment America could come to look like -- for all of us.

By Laura Flanders and Michelle Alexander

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20084203-503544.html#

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/26/eveningnews/main20083787.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595581030/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=lauraflanders-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1595581030&adid=1K2JBN5MYM1R5S7WETCV



http://grittv.org/?p=16432

http://pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-to-record-highs-between-whites-blacks-hispanics/

http://www.alternet.org/authors/922/

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