The Atlanta Daily World will host its third “World ofPictures” reception on Thursday, March 28, and let guestsbid on and take home the work of some of Atlanta’s mostextraordinary photographers.“We are thrilled to share the talents of these

photographers who have graced the pages of our newspapers for many years,” said ADW Publisher M. Alexis Scott. “This is a chance of a lifetime to get a collector’s item to adorn your walls.”The evening event at the Atlanta University Center

Woodruff Library includes a silent auction of recent andhistoric pictures and a forum featuring the photographersthemselves. Photographers John Glenn, Horace Henry,JiMi!, Sue Ross, Wendell S. Scott, Bud Smith, RashidahSudan, Willie E. Tucker Jr. and Brenda J. Turner will sharestories and answer questions about some of their favorite

shots and thrilling moments."We are happy to partner with the Atlanta Daily World to

present this exhibit of local photographers to complementour show on the work of the Pittsburgh Courier's renownedTeenie Harris here at the Atlanta University CenterWoodruff Library,” said AUC Library CEO Loretta Parham.

The Teenie Harris exhibit of 80 images graces the wallsof the library through May 24. It is also free to the publicand open various hours throughout the week. Visit the library’s website at auctr.edu for specific times. “Our ADW event is just one day,” Scott said, “so you re-

ally don’t want to miss this unique opportunity.”The event begins with a reception at 6 p.m. and the

forum begins at 7 p.m. The silent auction runs until 7:30p.m. Admission is free, but you must make a reservation atadvertising@atlantadailyworld.com or by calling

404-761-1114, ext 20. For a closer look at the photographers, see page 12 of this issue.ADW is powered by Real Times Media, which also

owns the New Pittsburgh Courier, The Chicago Defender,Memphis Tri-State Defender and The (Detroit) MichiganChronicle.

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Watchdog group CommonCause Georgia is calling onthe Atlanta City Council tohold a public referendum and allow the citizens of the City of Atlanta to vote on the public funding of the proposed billion dollar stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.

CCGA was joined byState Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) and others who believe the public should be included in the public funding decision.Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Falcons owner Arthur

Blank announced that they had agreed to financing termsfor a new $1 billion, retractable-roof stadium to replace the20-year-old Georgia Dome and keep the team's homegames in the city's downtown area last Thursday.But CCGA says no way. They are fully opposed to

public funding of the project and have told the Falcons toput the brakes on it and get the public more involved inwhat's going on. Speaking during a news conference on the steps of City

Hall, Fort called for a referendum saying there are “anumber of questions surrounding the cost of infrastructureand other issues that only public debate surrounding a referendum can address.” Common Cause believes that more public input is

needed and claims that everything has been done behindclosed doors.

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Deal Names New Members to theDeKalb School Board

Gov. Nathan Deal has announced the names of the sixnew DeKalb County school board members to replace thosehe ousted two weeks ago in the wake of threats to the dis-trict’s accreditation.

“I tasked the nominating panel with finding excellentboard members who will put the school system back ontrack toward full accreditation, and the panel performed aHerculean task with a quick turnaround so that the boardcould get back to work on behalf of the county’s students assoon as possible,” Deal said.About 400 people applied to fill the vacancies on the

board and more than 60 were interviewed before the list

was narrowed to six finalists.The new members of the DeKalb County school board,

who were sworn in at 1 p.m. Wednesday are as follows:John Coleman, District 1, is a strategic planning manager

at Invesco. Coleman has a master’s in Business Administra-tion from Harvard and a master’s in Public Administrationfrom the Harvard Kennedy School. Michael Erwin, District 3, is a U.S. Navy veteran who is

a member of the faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College. Hegraduated from North Carolina Central University with abachelor’s in Biology and a master’s in Biological Science.

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David Campbell, District 5, is a senior manager withGeorgia Power with a degree in Business Administrationfrom Albany State University. He is a former chair of Lead-ership DeKalb, a member of the DeKalb 100 Black Menand an active member of St. Phillips AME. He formerlyserved on the Stephenson High School Council.Joyce Morley, District 7, is the CEO of Morley and As-

sociates and is a nationally known public speaker andtrainer. She has a doctorate in Counseling, Family andWorklife from the University of Rochester. A Stone Moun-tain resident, Morley has lived in DeKalb County for morethan 22 years. Karen Carter, District 8, serves on the faculty of Georgia

Perimeter College, where she is chair of the Business andSocial Science department. She received a bachelor’s de-gree in Speech Communications from Denison Universityand a law degree from Ohio State University. Carter hasserved as a classroom teacher and has held several senioradministrative roles in the field of education. Thaddeus Mayfield, District 9, is a senior partner with

FOCOM Inc., a Georgia-based business development firm.He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration fromMercer University. He co-chaired the successful Friends ofDeKalb Education SPLOST IV Campaign and is an activemember of several business and civic organizations in themetropolitan area.

All but one of the appointees are African American, re-flecting the make-up of their districts. The new board willhave three White members and six Black. Earlier this week, a closed-door meeting between Deal

and leaders of several civil rights organizations, includinglocal NAACP chapters, took a fiery turn after the governorreportedly encouraged the groups to try to find some “goodBlack people” to run for the school board.The remarks came in response to whether Deal should

be specifically seeking Black candidates to replace DeKalbCounty's ousted school board members. The groups saidDeal was implying that finding qualified Black candidateswould be difficult.The AJC reports that Deal's spokesman, Brian Robinson,

didn't dispute the remarks, but said they were part of abroader discussion over replacing the six suspended mem-

bers, five of whom are Black."The governor said to please get involved and make sure

these Black candidates are good Black candidates so we canhave a functioning board," Robinson told the AJC. "Gov.Deal wants to make sure every student graduates in schoolsthat have kept their accreditation."DeKalb is one of the nation's wealthiest majority-Black

counties, but acrimony surrounding the racial split betweenthe predominantly White northern suburbs and the rest ofthe county has long been an issue and has been brought tolight more forcefully in recent weeks. Some north DeKalbresidents are looking into creating a separate school districtfor their communities.Last week DeKalb's NAACP President John Evans

called the move "just another attempt by these people to getaway from Black and poor folks."

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"You're left very clearly with the negotiating parties excluding the public while including the public's money,"Common Cause board member Wyc Orr has said in earlierstatements.Reed said the city would provide $200 million of

construction costs through bonds backed by the city's hotel-motel tax. The Falcons franchise, owned by HomeDepot co-founder Arthur Blank, would provide $800 million and be responsible for construction cost overruns.The Falcons would pay for up to $50 million in

infrastructure costs not included in the construction budgetand help retire the last few years of debt on the GeorgiaDome, which was publicly financed entirely using thehotel-motel tax.Also, Blank's private foundation and the city each

would spend $15 million on surrounding neighborhood development.Blank -- who has built his football franchise into a

perennial playoff contender -- still must negotiate a detailedlease and operating agreement with the Georgia World Congress Center. That's the state agency that owns the

existing dome and would own the replacement. Reed alsomust get the blessing of the Atlanta City Council, thoughseveral members attended the announcement in the mayor'soffice, as did Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal.Officials said the deal presumes the stadium would be

built immediately south of the existing Georgia Dome,though that is contingent on securing adjacent property thatis not yet publicly owned. A secondary site is availableseveral blocks north of the current stadium.The Georgia Dome would be demolished after the new

stadium opens.Last week’s announcement, which took on a celebratory

tone at City Hall, comes after months of privatenegotiations -- and several years of planning and studies --involving the governor's office, the World Congress CenterAuthority and the mayor's office, among others.Reed called the arrangement ``a great public-private partnership'' that will benefit the city and the state.City Council President Ceasar C. Mitchell said he was

encouraged by the mayor's announcement, and he promisedpublic hearings in the near future.

Deal praised the agreement, as well. At one time, thegovernor was the focal point of negotiations, when Blanksought $300 million in state debt to $700 million from him.Deal never publicly endorsed or rejected that split, but it became clear that the General Assembly was unwilling toraise the state's debt limit to accommodate the bond sale.So now the city is left to sell the bonds using the tourism

tax -- a move authorized by the legislature -- to pay back investors.

A photograph of KarenJordan was misidentifiedin the Features section ofthe ADW March 7 issue.Pictured here is Ms Jordan, who attendedWellesley College andStanford University.

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Rep. David Scott Honors Student Artists

Congressman David Scott will host an awards ceremony to honor all participating students in his 11th Annual Congressional High School Art Competition. The reception will be held Saturday, March 16 at 10 a.m.

at the Arts Clayton Gallery, located at 136 South MainStreet, Jonesboro, GA 30236. The public is invited to sup-port area students and view the extraordinary exhibit of 80student entries.To date, Scott has awarded more than $300,000 in

scholarships to local student artists. This year’s top fivewinners will receive the following awards:• First Place - $10,000 or $3,000 per year scholarship and artwork will hang in the U.S. Capitol for one year;

• Second Place - $5,000 scholarship and artwork will hang in Congressman Scott’s Washington office for one year;

• Third Place - $2,500 scholarship and artwork will hang in a prominent public gallery;

• Fourth Place - $500 scholarship and artwork will hang in Scott’s Jonesboro office for one year; and

• Fifth Place – artwork will hang in Scott’s Smyrna office for one year.

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Congressman David Scott stands with 2012’s first place student artist winner, Emmanuel Rivas.

Noted Surgeon Asa G.Yancey Sr. Dies at 96By ADW StaffSurgeon, professor, medical director, and contributor to

community service, Asa G. Yancey Sr., M.D. passed away on Sunday, March 10 at age 96.Born in Atlanta, Yancey received his B.S. degree from

Morehouse College in 1937 and his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1941.Yancey’s career reached the heights of service as medical director

at Grady Hospital and professor of surgery at Emory UniversitySchool of Medicine, where he established the first accredited general surgery training program for Black surgeons. Yancey has contributed numerous articles to the academic

surgical community, and he has been recognized with manyawards.His articles explored issues of medical care, health care, and

poverty including "Medical Education in Atlanta and Health Careof Black Minority and Low Income People," and "The Challengeof Providing Health Care for the Poor: Public Hospital Perspective."His book Portrayal of a Lifespan describes life as it was for him inthe 21st Century. The wake will be held Friday, March 15, from 7:30 p.m. to

9 p.m. at Murray Brothers Funeral Home, 1199 Utoy Springs Rd,S.W., in Atlanta. The telephone number is 404-349-3000. Thefuneral will be held Saturday, March 16, at 1 p.m. at FriendshipBaptist Church, located at 437 Mitchell Street, SW., in Atlanta.

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ATL is in Fortune Magazine’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ IssueAtlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says he wakes up every

morning thinking, “How do I make sure that the city of Atlanta is the most important city in the Southeast.” Well, his efforts are being rewarded.Atlanta will be featured prominently in a special

section of Fortune magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” issue, which hits newsstands this week. The section details why Atlanta is a great place to do business for both Fortune 500 companies and innovative start-ups. The Atlanta section focuses on companies and organizations

with operations in metropolitan Atlanta, and includes interviews with business leaders such as Muhtar Kent, CEO ofCoca-Cola; Michael D. Casey, CEO of Carter’s; and CarolTome, Chief Financial Officer of The Home Depot, as well asMayor Reed and Brian McGowan, CEO of Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development agency. These corporate and civic leaders discuss how the

business climate and talent pool in Atlanta have helped themprosper and enhanced the quality of life in the city. The 22-page

section includes more than 13 pages of copy about Atlanta, including that the city is:• Ranked No. 3 in number of Fortune 500 companies• Considered among the best in the nation for the

lowest cost of doing business• Among the nation’s top three distribution cities, with 40 percent of North American manufacturing and distribution centers within 500 miles of the city

• Home to 57 colleges and universities, which enroll more than 250,000 students annually, and seven technical colleges, which enroll 60,000 students each year

• Home to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, No. 1 in the world for passenger volume with 95 million passengers in 2012.

“When you look at what Atlanta is doing in terms of business attraction, I think we’re maintaining our position as theleading city in the Southeast,” said Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.“This special section in Fortune tells Atlanta’s business storywell, and I appreciate the business leaders who continue to

support and invest in our city, its neighborhoods and its residents.”

By ADW Staff

Top Leaders: Financial SectorNeeds More DiversityBoth the financial services

industry and the agencies that regulate it could benefit from greater diversity, agreed leadersfrom the business and regulatoryworlds who recently attended anOpportunity Summit in Washington, D.C. The half-day event at the

National Press Club was organized by The Greenlining Institute andfeatured Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who authored the language in the Dodd-Frankfinancial reform law that created Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion in all of the federal financial regulatory agencies.In addition to extensive discussion of how to

bring diverse leadership into the staffs and executive suites of financial institutions and theagencies that regulate them, speakers also focused on contracting practices and how bothbanks and communities can benefit when minority-owned small businesses have a fairchance to compete for contracts with financialcorporations.“Diversity isn’t just a feel-good policy for

communities of color, it’s necessary for ahealthy economy,” said Greenlining InstituteExecutive Director Orson Aguilar. “During thehousing bubble and subsequent crash, we sawwhat happens when regulators lose touch withwhat’s happening in diverse communities.“Right now,” he continued, “for every

dollar of wealth a White family owns, the median Asian family has 63 cents, the median

Latino has seven cents, and the median African-American family has less than a nickel.In a nation where ‘minorities’ will soon be themajority, that level of inequality is an invitationto disaster. And the financial sector is one of thekeys to avoiding that disaster.”Prof. Cheryl Nichols, who teaches

business law at the Howard University School of Law, framed the issue succinctly, saying, “The economic empowerment of communities of color is one of the most important civil rightsissues of our time.”Several federal officials spoke of the need

to ensure that their agency staffs represent a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences,a process that is being facilitated by the newly-created Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI)."We're building a new agency from the

ground up,” said Stuart Ishimaru, OMWI Director at the Consumer Financial ProtectionBureau, which was also created by the Dodd-Frank law. “Because our job is to servea diverse public, we need to build in diversity and inclusion from the ground up as well."

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)By ADW Staff

Twenty-five years after its thrilling and historic opening, theNational Black Arts Festival (NBAF) is in a dark place, with itsboard members forced to consider closing it down for good.

In 1988 the Festival launched with more than 108 events inmusic, dance, visual arts, performance arts, film, theater and liter-ary arts strewn across the city like jewels. Harry Belafonte andCicely Tyson were spokespersons who touted the event from NewYork to Los Angeles. Arts aficionados came in from all over theU.S., filling airplanes and local hotels with excited fans.

That was then. Today the Festival is without a leader – the oneyear contract of its executive director, Dr. Michael Simanga, wasnot renewed. It is more than $500,000 in debt. And the public isquestioning the Festival’s relevancy and structure.

“When the board gathered recently,” NBAF board chairmanEvern Cooper Epps, former head of the UPS Foundation, told theAtlanta Daily World, “we asked ourselves, ‘Do we shut it down?Or do we usher it in to a new era?’ Thank goodness the decisionwas overwhelming for the latter.“Then, we all breathed a sigh of relief and began the difficult

process of trying to determine how to proceed,” she continued.The board realized that for the NBAF to continue, they would

have to “break it down to build it up,” said Cooper Epps. “Thatmeant reducing the budget and staffing right away.”

Not renewing Simanga’s contract was a painful step one.“While Michael had the passion and extraordinary creativity, hecould not help us turn the corner on a new business model thatwould sustain the Festival,” she said. “Artistic leadership cannotouttalk money.”

Simanga feels that he was in the same place that Obama waswhen the U.S. president was inaugurated. “I came in with a hugefinancial deficit not of my making and was asked to turn it aroundin one year,” he said.

“We need to re-establish credibility, adapt to new economicrealities, and create a new generation of art-loving audiences,” hesaid. “That can’t be done in a year.”

He believed that the answer to the Festival’s challenges lay indeveloping partnerships with educational institutions and serviceorganizations to expose young people to the arts. He also felt thatthere was a need for the Festival to demonstrate a relationship be-tween the arts and humanities.

He noted, for example, that he created a “Millennial TaskForce” made up of new generation young people who could haveinput into planning the Festival.

“Ultimately,” he said, “you have to have a product thatis saleable to a mosaic of audiences.”

Kathy Keeley of The Keeley Group agrees. Recentlyhired by the Festival board to help with restructuring, herorganization has years of experience helping non-profitsdeal with the fallout of what she called “lingering economicchallenges.”

“You have to remobilize, reinvent, restructure and pay attention to relevancy and – most important – to money,”she said.

The Festival is at a crossroads, Keeley noted, andneeds to find a way to be financially viable. The steps aresimilar for most non-profit organizations struggling for sur-

vival, she said:• Set up a strong internal structure and process• Get your finances in order• Engage the community leaders• Get into a learning mode• Pilot test new products“We must ask: ‘What is the fabric of Atlanta? Is the community

support for the Festival there? What should the Festival beoffering 25 years later? What will the public spend money on?’”Keeley said. “And in the meantime, we need to put in the fiscalcontrols that are needed to sustain the existing structure.”“After 25 years, we believe the Festival still stands as one of the

city’s cornerstones of artistic excellence and creativity,” saidCooper Epps. “It can transform and adapt to continue in this newage and we are prepared to do what needs to be done.”

National Black Arts Festival at a Crossroads

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The world’s tallest professional basketball player, Paul “Tiny” Sturgess, will add 7-feet 8-inches to the Atlanta skyline when he leads the Harlem Globetrotters for two games on Saturday, March 16. The famous team willplay at Philips Arena (1 p.m.) and The Arena at Gwinnett Center (7:30 p.m.).Here are some facts and figures about Sturgess:• He was officially recognized on Nov. 17, 2011, by Guinness

World Records as the World's Tallest Professional Basketball Player• Born and raised in Loughborough, England• Wears a size 20 shoe• Grew a foot between the ages of 16 & 17• Father is 6-9 and mother is only 5-5• Excellent soccer player (or football as he would

call it)• Loves to play golf with his custom-made clubs

and crushes 360-yard drives• Played college basketball at Mountain State

University in West Virginia (class of 2011)• Helped Mountain State to two regional

championships• Made the dean’s list in college three times• Wants to be a physiotherapist after his

basketball careerSturgess will team up with Jonte “Too Tall”

Hall, the shortest Globetrotter ever at 5-2. Otherstars scheduled to play in Atlanta include Flight TimeLang, Special K Daley, and female star T-TimeBrawner. Sponsored by Howard Johnson Hotels, Wonderful

Pistachios, Greyhound Lines, Spalding, and RussellAthletic, the Original Harlem Globetrotters are celebrating their 87th consecutive year, continuing aworld famous tradition of ball handling wizardry, basketball artistry, and family entertainment. Proud inductees of the Naismith Memorial

Basketball Hall of Fame, the Globetrotters have entertained hundreds of millions of fans—among thempopes, kings, queens, and presidents—over more thaneight decades. Tickets are on sale now at www.harlemglobetrotters.com, www.ticketmaster.com, each

arena box office, or by phone at 800-745-3000. Information on group and scout tickets canbe found by calling Philips Arena group sales at 866-715-1500, option 4 or The Arena atGwinnett Center group sales at 770-813-7533.

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Hawks HoldCasino Night

The Atlanta Hawks Foundation held its annual“Casino Night” fundraiser recently at the Operanightclub. All proceeds benefited the Hawks Foun-dation for community programming and grant giv-ing throughout the state of Georgia. Platinum Sponsors for the event included Philips, TheHome Depot, Jim Ellis Audi and A LegendaryEvent. Pictured here is Hawks forward DeShawnStevenson (right) trying his luck at the crapstable, while guard John Jenkins looks on. Visitwww.hawks.com for more photos and a recap ofthe evening.

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Auto Show Rolls Into Atlanta this Weekend

Black Consumers Most Likely to Shop on Mobile Devices It appears that the digital divide

disappears when it comes to mobileshopping according to recent studies. In fact, research shows thatAfrican Americans aged 18 andolder are more likely than the general market to reach for theirsmart phones or tablets to shop andlook at online content.According to Prosper Insights

& Analytics, Black consumers havea mobile aptitude score of 127.3,indicating that they have a highermobile capacity (+27 percent) thanall adults 18 or older. In addition tomobile ownership, usage, influenceto purchase, and frequency of mobile Internet access, this newly

updated study includes various mobile shopping behaviors to provide marketers with a better

understanding of shoppers and theirpropensity towards mobile media.Blacks are more likely to use the"mobile mall" at their fingertipsto get a discount, request a pricematch, comparative shop and getmore information on a product. Additionally, they are morelikely to treat a brick-and-mortarstore as a "showroom" to evalu-ate products and then go buy on-line.

The study also noted thatBlacks are more likely than thegeneral population to view TV,sports and news on their mobile devices.

By ADW Staff

More Than150 StudentsTake Part inBlacks At Microsoft Day

Sara Buchana (from left), president of Your Talent Bridge; Zulna Heriscar, Microsoft regional territory man-ager; Shawn Wilson, president of Usher’s New Look Foundation; Elle Duncan, reporter for 11Alive; andJames Harris, Atlanta program director for Usher’s New Look Foundation, engaged with nearly 150 highschool and college students from the Atlanta area who visited Microsoft’s Atlanta campus for a full day ofcreative games and projects, information sessions and product demonstrations from Microsoft at the com-pany’s 22nd Annual Blacks at Microsoft (BAM) Minority Student Day earlier this month. The program is de-signed to spark interest in underrepresented minority students and propel them towards a career in thescience, technology, engineer and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Car shoppers and people who just lovecars can see the newest and the best at TheAtlanta Auto Show at the Georgia WorldCongress Center this weekend.More than 400 new cars, trucks, SUVs

and vans will be on display inside the "C"building.

Those in the market for a new vehiclecan browse and compare hundreds of models in one place. There is no selling atthe auto show, so it also offers a no-pressureenvironment to investigate the latest in automotive technology.

For those not currently in the marketfor a new vehicle, it offers a chance tocheck out the latest in the automotiveindustry, several special features and evensee some vintage vehicles. The Atlanta Auto

Show includes 2014 models, a JusticeLeague of America Kia, ride and driveevents and several special guest appearances.Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for

children ages 6 to 12. Kids ages 5 and underget in free.The Metro Atlanta Automobile Dealer's

Association is the organization behind theAuto Show.

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DATABASE DEVELOPER (Atlanta, GA) Create and maintain of PL/SQL packages, functions, &stored procedures. Creation & maintenance of scripts (SQLPlus/Bash/Perl) used in data-base change management, MySQL to Oracle migrations, & initialschema setup. Creation & maintenance of database schema dia-grams. Protection of co intellectual property from accidental loss, ma-licious damage, or theft. Interpreting written application requirements& applying sound practices to developing database services for largevolume online services. Participating as a team member in a formaldevelopment lifecycle & release control process. Lead a team whenrequired, while still performing database development duties. Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Information Systems re-quired. Must be proficient in Oracle PL/SQL, scripting(SQLPlus/Bash/Perl), writing efficient SQL queries, SQL query tuning,& database schema design. Mail resume to: Cedar Document Technologies, Inc., Attn: HR, 1Ravinia Drive, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30346.

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Seek one with min. Bachelor of Information System, ComputerScience, or related, PLUS 5 year exp. in Information System andTechnology or related. Duties include coordinating Web-basedPortal Systems such as OM, TMS; maintaining SAP, GVM man-agement systems; and providing technology support and trainingin the ERP, etc. Mail resume to LG Hausys America, Inc. at 900

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• Prepares financial statements by gathering and analyzinginformation from the general ledger system and from departments.• Maintains and balances the Peachtree system by in-

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UNFINISHED BUSINESSBY JULIANNE MALVEAUX

Black UnemploymentHas Not Improved

‘We Have a Civil RightsLegacy to embrace’

MY PART OF THE WORLDBY M.ALEXIS SCOTT

Just so you know, I’m a child of the segregated South. I grew up in Atlanta in the 1950s and 1960s.Jim Crow was old and set in his ugly ways. I had to sit in the back of the bus. I had to sit in the “crow’snest” above the balcony at the Fox Theatre to see a movie (by way of the side steps outside). And, if Iwanted a drink of water in a public place, I was relegated to the “colored” water fountain, which wasusually nasty.That’s why it was so moving on Monday to hear Doug Shipman talk about the plans and progress at

the National Center for Civil and Human Rights at the Rotary Club of Atlanta. Doug, CEO of the Center, noted to the mostly White businessmen in the audience that it’s been nearly

50 years since the historic 1963 March on Washington, which was made famous by the turnout of thecrowd and by Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. And with that passage of time, Dougsaid, we can move from memorializing a historic moment like this to looking at “what it means today.”And that’s his goal for the new Center. In his talk titled: Atlanta's Destiny as the Cradle of Human andCivil Rights for the 21st Century,” praised the business community in Atlanta for “always being on theright side of history.“You’re not afraid to rebuild and embrace the future,” he told the business leaders. And now he sees

the Center as the place that connects the history of the Civil Rights Movement to human rights movements around the world today and in the future.He took his listeners through the features and exhibits that will be in the space when it opens

downtown next to the World of Coke and the Georgia Aquarium on Pemberton Place in May 2014.Among interactive technology, it will include exhibits of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, owned by Morehouse College, which will be rotated every three months.It will have interactive displays that will be “engaging and dazzling,” he said.He said the Center will be a catalyst and partner for others to discuss vital issues confronting

communities around the world. “We have a legacy that we have not yet fully embraced,” he added.I like what he said about the two other important centers in Atlanta that also have a civil and human

rights focus. The (Jimmy) Carter (Presidential Library and) Center is a wholesaler, speaking directly topractitioners on the world stage, and the (Martin Luther) King Center has a focus on training, and “weare the retailer,” with a focus on tourists and community outreach. And while the Center may focus on issues that some may think controversial, Doug said he’s not

worried about it being “ground zero” for protests and demonstrations. “We want to be a place for civildiscourse with a variety of viewpoints,” he said. “Our one legacy is nonviolence. And that we willmaintain.”Doug also reported that the Center will be self-sustaining once opened. It won’t have to raise

operating funds each year. He also announced several new contributions that have enabled them tobegin construction in earnest. The Arthur Blank family foundation has donated an additional $1.5 million on top of the $1 million they had pledged before. The Coca-Cola Company has donated$500,000 in cash to go with the land it donated on which the Center will stand.And, he told the Rotary group that PNC Bank and Invest Atlanta (the city’s development authority)

closed on $24 million in federal New Market Tax Credits at the end of February, which provides a keyfinancial instrument critical to getting the project out of the ground.So I am really looking forward to be among the crowd when it opens next year. I’ll be proud to see

the story of the role that the Atlanta Daily World played, along with many others, to bring about the vibrant city of diversity that we see today. And I am so gratified that we continued to look to the futurefor what we can do next to make the world a better place for everyone. For more information about theCenter, check out its website at www.civilandhumanrights.org.

M. Alexis Scott is publisher of Atlanta Daily World.

When unemployment numbers were released recently, commentators reacted joyfully.Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisors, described thecreation of 247,000 jobs as a victory, because the predictions were that the economy wouldonly generate 170,000 jobs. Unemployment rates went down to 7.7 percent, while predictions were that they would drop to 7.8 percent. Some might call this good news, butmany might wonder who is affected by this good news.A deeper examination of the unemployment data shows the disappointing reality that

African-American unemployment rates remained level, at 13.8 percent. Meanwhile, Whiteunemployment rates fell to 6.8 percent and the rate for White men dropped to 6.3 percent.The racial disparities in unemployment rates are not new, but it is hypocritical to celebratea drop in White unemployment rates, without noticing or mentioning the stagnation inBlack unemployment rates.Whose employment situation has improved?The number of long-term unemployed remained level at 4.8 million people who have

been unemployed for 37 weeks or more. To be sure, this is a drop from the 39 weeks of ayear or so ago. Still, the situation for some of the unemployed has simply not improved.One of the reasons that the unemployment rate dropped is because 130,000 people droppedout of the labor force because they could not find jobs.Eight million people work part-time for economic reasons. They would take full-time

work if only they could find it. The number of “marginally attached” workers stands at 2.4million. If underutilized workers are included, the unemployment rate is 14.3 percent foreveryone. If the relationship between underutilization and reported unemployment is thesame for African Americans as for Whites, then the real unemployment rate is 25.5 percent,or almost a fourth, for African Americans. That’s alarming, yet as I watch televised reportson Black unemployment rates, this is unmentioned.Black unemployment rates are at more than Depression levels, which ought to be

completely unacceptable. It is not. Yet few are paying attention to the plight of the unemployed, underemployed, or out of the labor force Black worker. The White House andothers love to talk about all of us being in the same boat. Yet some are hanging onto theboat by their fingernails, and others are drowning. And some are struggling to row. Othersare riding relatively smoothly through this recession, watching their situation improve.Too many African-American leaders are asleep at the wheel when it comes to the

employment situation. Unemployment rates become a line in their speeches, not a lode fortheir leadership. High unemployment rates explain why so many African Americans, at theeconomic margins, don’t support civil rights organizations. They are asking what’s in it forme.What if huge numbers of unemployed people were mobilized? What if, in their

economic misery, some rose up and demanded that Congress and others pay attention totheir situation? To watch the situation of Whites improve, while Black unemployment ratesremain the same, suggests that the vision of a post-racial society is extremely unrealistic.African-American people are bearing a disproportionate amount of pain in the currentemployment situation. Black people are starving, and it seems that no one, not even civilrights advocates, will act on their behalf.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is presidentemerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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John Glenn has a back-ground in location andstudio photography,newsroom management,editorial leadership andonline production. Hiscareer spans 25 years.

JiMi! has been photo-graphing under themoniker JiMiFLiX! Pho-tography for 11 years.

M. Alexis Scott is pub-lisher of ADW and takesphotos “around town” andin her travels to sharewith ADW readers.

Bud Smith has workedin Atlanta for more than40 years. He has beenthe official photographerfor the King Family andother city elites.

Willie E. Tucker Jr. isdocumenting year-longevents leading to the50th anniversary of the"March on Washington.”

Meet in person:Photographersat ADW eventon March 28 Horace Henry has been

a photojournalist since1969 while a student atClark Atlanta University.

Susan J. “Sue” Ross isa “photo-griot” who docu-ments the comings andgoings of the community.

Wendell S. Scott hasbeen taking pictures forADW for some 40 years,specializing in sports andentertainment.

Rashidah Sudan is cur-rently pursuing a diplomain Digital Image Manage-ment at The Art Instituteof Atlanta.

Brenda J. Turner is aphotojournalist whohasbeen shooting news, en-tertainment and sports for15 years.

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