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WASHINGTON (NNPA) - An outraged Louisiana couple filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 20 against a local official’s deci-sion to deny them a marriage license because they are of dif-ferent races.

Now married, Hammond, La. residents Beth and Terence McKay, said in their suit that justice of the peace Keith Bardwell’s refusal to marry them was unconstitutional. They are seeking unspeci-fied monetary damages, citing emotional distress and mental anguish.

“The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized that inter-ference with marriage rights solely upon the basis of race is a violation of constitutionally protected rights,” read the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Loui-siana in New Orleans.

Laura Catlett, the Mc-Kays’ attorney, added in an

interview with the AFRO, “Public officials are required to uphold the law…. He should be publicly reprimanded by a court and stopped from per-forming marriages.”

Bardwell said his deci-sion, made in early October, not to marry the couple—a White woman and Black man—was based on concern for the welfare of children the couple may have.

“There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage,” Bardwell told The Associated Press. “I think those children suffer, and I won’t help put them through it.”

A f t e r l e a r n i n g o f Bardwell’s decision, Hum-phrey contacted local and national media.

“We are used to the closet racism, but we’re not going to tolerate that overt racism from an elected official,” she told CNN.

BATON ROUGE - Sup-porters of a $900 million bond proposal put Mayor Kip Holden on television Wednesday night on WAFB. The Committee for the Fu-ture of East Baton Rouge paid $21,100 for the 30-minute special.

The broadcast featured Holden, Sheriff Sid Gau-treaux, Police Chief Jeff LeDuff and others. The bond proposal calls for millions of dollars in infrastructure im-provements, including a new law enforcement complex and drainage repairs.

“I would think mostly it’s preaching to the choir. I would think most people who watch this are already supportive of it. They had their thoughts re-enforced,” said political analyst Jim Engster.

A new prison and traf-fic signal synchronization are also on the table, but the biggest attention-getter is “Alive.” “Alive” will be an interactive nature mu-seum built on the banks of the Mississippi River. Many opponents say that “Alive” that could kill the mayor’s plan.

“I don’t think it [the spe-cial] was over-emotional. I just think it was pretty much a straight-laced look at what he hopes to offer,” said political analyst Clay Young.

The mayor and his team have spent thousands on com-mercials pushing the bond proposal. The Committee for the Future of East Baton Rouge paid $23,895 for a se-ries of commercials on TV.

“I think if you were in the gray area on this, then it probably pushes you to the mayor’s side a little bit be-cause of the way it was put to-gether. If you were staunchly in the no category, I don’t know that this overwhelm-ingly convinced you that your position is the wrong one,” Young said.

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Serena Williams is bring-ing her top-ranked game to Baton Rouge. Williams, who reclaimed the number one world ranking two weeks ago, will play in Advanta WTT Smash Hits, a charity event co-

hosted by Sir Elton John and Billie Jean King, on Dec. 8 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on the Louisiana State University Campus. Event officials also announced the addition of rising U.S. standout Devin Britton, who captured the 2009 NCAA singles title as a freshman at the University of Mississippi.

Williams and Britton join an all-star lineup that in-cludes Andy Roddick, Lindsay Davenport, Anna Kournikova, Tommy Haas, Liezel Huber and local favorite Chanda Rubin of

Lafayette, La. The 17th annual Advanta WTT Smash Hits is a charity tennis event that raises funds for the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) and Baton Rouge area AIDS charities.

Reserved tickets are are available through the LSU Box Office or by calling 800-960-8587. Tickets can be ordered online at http://www.wtt.com/smashhits.

Williams has won eleven career singles Grand Slam singles titles including two

Serena Williams to Play Advanta WTT Smash Hits in Baton rouge2009 NCAA singles champ Devin Britton joins field

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Serena WilliamS Coming to Baton rouge interracial Couple Sues Louisiana Jurist

BATON ROUGE — Multi-talented actress Robin Givens will walk the red carpet at a Baton Rouge theater for the premiere of JK’s House. The sit-com musical, shot on a sound stage at Baton Rouge’s Celtic Media Centre, combines song, dance and lively banter in an upbeat kid-friendly per-formance.

JK’s House chronicles the life of a 7-year-old girl as she learns various manners and acceptable behaviors through social interactions. She and her older sister are raised in a sin-gle-parent home. Their mother, Amber, played by Givens, is a doctor and is actively involved in a book club which meets frequently at her home. Jakayla Lawrence, of Baton Rouge, (who is actually 6-years-old) makes her on-screen debut in the title role of JK.

Producer/Director Aaron Williams says the project is unique and will appeal to people of various ages and backgrounds. “We wanted to shine the spotlight on an ordinary kid in America,” Wil-liams said, “to show what it’s like to walk in her shoes, live in her house, and play in her backyard. It’s really a journey

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NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) - A new survey finds no progress in participation in afterschool pro-grams by Louisiana youth over the last five years, even as the na-tion made progress and demand for afterschool programs in Loui-siana increased dramatically. The rate of participation in afterschool dropped to just 13 percent in 2009, trailing the national average of 15 percent – and a significant per-centage of the state’s children are still unsupervised each afternoon after the school day ends.

The data come from the land-mark America After 3PM study,

conducted for the Afterschool Al-liance and sponsored by the JC-Penney Afterschool Fund. It was released this month in conjunc-tion with Lights On Afterschool, a nationwide rally for afterschool that was held October 22.

“This new study is sobering for Louisiana, which is losing ground in making afterschool programs available to children,” said Afterschool Alliance Execu-tive Director Jodi Grant. “The data tell us that the great majority of Louisiana parents who want their kids in afterschool programs aren’t able to find them, usually because programs aren’t avail-able, they can’t afford the fees, or transportation issues make it

impossible. But this is a solvable problem. These are all barriers we can and should overcome. Quality afterschool programs keep kids safe, inspire them to learn, and help working families. Every Louisiana family that needs an afterschool program should have access to one.”

According to the new study, fully 23 percent of the state’s schoolchildren are on their own in the afternoons, and another 15 percent are in the care of their brothers or sisters. By comparison, 13 percent of Louisiana schoolchil-dren are enrolled in afterschool programs, down from 15 percent in 2004. In addition, the parents of 52 percent of children not already in afterschool say they would en-roll their kids in a program if one were available.

Ninety percent of Louisiana parents say they are satisfied with the afterschool program their child attends.

Louisiana Lossing Ground in Availability of After School Programs, Survey Finds

T H O U G H T FOR THE WEEK: FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH. ARGUS

L i T E R a c y NiGHTs are being held in the various schools around the parish and the area parishes. Lowery Middle in Ascension sponsored their very first “Reading Adventures at Lowery” at the Intermediate-Middle School. Parents and students gathered in the school cafeteria for a brief introduc-tion by Principal Monica Hills. Then the parents proceeded to the three different directions to witness different stations broken up by numbers. The stations included “Pen Pals” which was designed to show parents how to be involved with their kids with writing and reading. The second station was “Book Club” which was designed to show parents how parents need to get involved with their child’s education and how to help children suc-ceed in school. Finally, par-ents gathered at the “Author Talk” station to hear an author describe how she wrote and published a book. The event was enjoyed by parents and participants alike.

MEMbERsHip DRivE FOR THE cOUNciL ON THE aGiNG has begun. Without restrictions membership is open to parish residents who has reached the age of majority. There is no fee for membership, and all who are interested in the problems and concerns of the elderly are invited to mem-bership

T-bONE ORiGiNaLs, the art club that declares the spirit of Louisiana, announces a call for artists, however young. The call is for original work of art submissions from La. artists that show the world how our state has the spirit and lively

personalities of other states. Call Terry at 257-4065.

Ms. RycHELLE MORRis wants you to call her if you are a graduate of St. James High School or knows someone who is. The class of 1989 is celebrating their 20th year anniversary and the date is December

5. Pass the word along. Call Rychelle at 359-2837.

sT. aLOysiUs caTHO-Lic cHURcH continues the Divorce and Separated Recov-ery program for twelve weeks. All participants are asked to read Rebuilding by Dr. Bruce Fisher. The meetings are held on Sunday afternoons and all who are interested as couples should attend. Call 772-5445

cONROE, TExas was the setting for the recent ROTC Cadets Leadership Training. This outdoor leadership camp housed a total of 80 cadets from schools in Texas and Louisi-ana. The purpose of the school was to focus on developing leadership qualities for each individual. The key areas of instruction included physical fitness, room and personal in-spection, orienteering, archery, mark manship, canoeing, sur-vival and shelter building, and low hoops course. The trip was enjoyed by area Cadets Francis, Allen Hamilton, and Kelson.

M a c H i N E p i T c H sTaTE TOURNaMENT was held in Zachary with the winner being declared as Parker Hales. He was named Most Valuable Player at the Cal Ripken 7& 8 year old contest. Parker is the son of Cynthia Hales. Congrat-ulations, Parker.

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through life.” The children’s series has

been compiled into a long-format program for a single-screen view-ing. The premiere will be held from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2009, at Rave Motion Pictures-Mall of Louisiana, 6401 Bluebonnet Blvd. Givens will be on hand for the event, which is free and open to the public with limited seating available. The East Baton Rouge school system has been invited to the premiere, and tickets will be given to area school children.

On Monday, November 2, Givens and Williams will offer a special viewing at McKinley Middle Magnet School at 1:00 p.m. Afterwards, students will be able to ask questions in a roundtable discussion.

“We think it’s important to get children involved in this ground-breaking project, to hear

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BATON ROUGE - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, inc., Mu Zeta Chapter honored its affiliates at a seventy-five Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Fellowship. As the chapter continues reflecting, remembering and rebuilding it saluted the groups it sponsors in its program of service to the com-munity. A power point presen-tation chronicled the chartering dates and decades of activities fro the various groups.

The graduate chapter sponsored two undergraduate chapter, Beta Alpha at Southern University and Rho Epsilon at Louisiana State University.

The Baton Rouge Amicae (friends of Zeta) was charted in 1953.

Mu Zeta sponsors three youths groups Archonettes (1983) girls between the ages of thir-teen and seventeen, Amicettes (1985) girls between the ages o nine to twelve and Pearlettes,

Pictured from left to right the front row are Dr. Barbara W. Carpenter, past international resident. Julia Carnes chapter president, Bernestine B. McGee, chairwoman, Devynn Porter, president of Rho Epsilon, Deon’ Shay Collins of Beta Alpha, Gladys Seals, Amicae president, Constance Carroll immediate past chapter president, and John McGee first president of the Male network. Back row from left to right are Kristian Gordon of the Archonettes and Gabriel Gordon a member of the Gems.

in 2009, the Australian Open and Wimbledon. Last month, she won her 10th Grand Slam doubles championship, captur-ing the 2009 US Open title with her sister Venus Williams. Wil-liams, a two-time Olympic Gold medalist in doubles, recently released a new book “On The Line”.

Britton, a native of Bran-don, Miss., is considered one of the bright young stars on the American tennis scene. Earlier this year at age 18, Britton be-came the first freshman since 1996 and the youngest player ever to win the NCAA men’s singles title. The former Ole Miss star was the first player in school history to win the NCAA men’s singles champi-onship. Britton turned pro in July 2009.

Captained by King and John, the Smash Hits players will form two teams and play the World

TeamTennis format. John will also participate in a ce-lebrity doubles match to open the event. Haas and Roddick are expected to face off in the evening’s men’s singles show-down.

Special VIP ticket pack-ages are also available through the Pennington Family Founda-tion for $1,000. These tickets include exclusive VIP court side seating and admission to the Smash Hits VIP Reception and Auction which will be attended by John, King and all players. Auction items are expected to include a tennis lesson with Roddick, John’s piano bench and King’s personal Centre

Court Wimbledon tickets. For more information on the VIP Reception, contact Paige Sharber at 225-928-8346.

Smash Hits has raised more than $9 million for the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) and various local AIDS charities since 1993. This year’s event, presented by the Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Founda-tion and hosted by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, will benefit EJAF and AIDS chari-ties serving the Greater Baton Rouge area.

For more information on Advanta WTT Smash Hits, visit www.WTT.com/SmashHits.

Please contact Rosie Crews, WTT 817.684.0366 (rcrews@wtt.com) or Chris Constable, EJAF 646.443.2063 (cconstable@lwpco.com).

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girls between the ages of four and eight.

The male groups are Gems (2001) boys between the ages of four and nine and Gents boys between the ages of ten and sev-enteen.

The chapter also sponsors The Male network (2002) a group

of men who play significant roles in the lives of the members.

Each group was represented by present or past members. Ber-nestine B. McGee served as chair-woman of the event. Co-chairs were Laura Laynes and Emily Singleton, and Julia S. Carnes served as chapter President.

Seventy-Five Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of Zeta Phi Beta, Sorority, Inc.

Official Trick-or-Treating hours for East Baton Rouge Par-ish have been moved up an hour from their usual time and will now be from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Saturday night, October 31st. Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden adjusted the time at the recommendation of Chief of Po-lice Jeff LeDuff and the Louisiana Capital Area Safety Council in light of the LSU-Tulane home game that evening.

Chief LeDuff is urging all motorists to be especially mind-ful of pedestrians during these hours, and to stay off of residen-tial streets if at all possible.

Motorists heading to the LSU-Tulane football game are asked to be extremely cautious and observant while driving through residential areas. Parents are also advised to avoid walking along major thoroughfares along the LSU football traffic routes if possible.

Police officers are being di-rected to concentrate heavily on local neighborhoods throughout the city to insure the safety of

children and adults alike. The department also strongly encour-ages parents to take advantage of the many organized, supervised Halloween events that are taking place in all areas of the city.

Additionally, the Baton Rouge Police Department is of-fering the following safety tips to parents whose youngsters will be out trick?or?treating:

• Never allow children to trick-or-treat without adult su-pervision.

• Always stay in groups.• Use sidewalks and stay

out of the street whenever pos-sible.

• Wear reflective clothing or bright costumes.

• Trick-or-treat only in fa-miliar neighborhoods.

• Do not allow children to eat any candy or treats until thor-oughly checked by an adult.

• Call police if any suspi-cious activity occurs, or if candy is suspected to be tainted.

• Residents are urged to hand out only manufactured, sealed candy.

Trick-or-Treating Hours Adjusted for Oct. 31

their voices” Williams said. “With all the new developments in the film industry in Louisiana, it’s a great time to share that momen-

tum with young people.” For more information, please

contact Publicist Valentina Wilson at (225) 253-2438.

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Birthday to Mrs. Ada Dixon, Rosa M. Tompkins, and Porshia Dixon.

With Love & Sym-pathy to the Horton fam-ily of Pointe Coupee parish and the Goodman family of Avoyelles parish.

thankS to the SU planners of Homecoming ‘09. The weather was great, too!

CongratS to LSU for three wins in a row!

Have a super, blessed weekend. My kind of weather is upon us-cool & crisp, beauty all around!!!

Love,

Marge

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The yearly matchup between Louisiana rivals Grambling and Southern in November is much more than just a football game -- it is an event that draws thousands of college students and other fans to New Orleans to hang out, party and show their school spirit.

Over the last several years, this black college football game has been a compelling offensive juggernaut, with both teams trad-ing touchdowns like demented stockbrokers unloading bonds. However, this is a game in which the records of the teams coming in are pretty much irrelevant, as the rivalry is so strong that crazy upsets often happen.

The Bayou Classic has ar-guably the best halftime show in football; both schools feature outstanding bands that march, strut and play in a ridiculously funky fashion. Many folks con-sider the halftime band matchup the highlight of the game.

In addition to Saturday’s game, a Friday night Battle of the Bands is the time for the bands to shine, and the accompany-ing Greek show features skits and singing from traditionally black Greek organizations across

Louisiana.Also on Friday, a Super Job

Fair at the French Market Exhibi-tion Hall in the Hyatt Regency is what it claims to be, a job fair filled with a variety of employ-ers seeking to connect with the student bodies of Grambling and Southern. Participants are encouraged to bring several up-to-date resumes and to be sure to dress for success.

Unquestionably the most colorful manifestation in the an-nals of Black College Football, the

annual gridiron clash between Louisiana rivals Southern and Grambling State, affectionately known to the world as the State Farm Bayou Classic, has become one of the most anticipated events in the nation.

This event is an exhibition of the high standards of academic achievement deeply embedded in the traditions of the two insti-tutions. The State Farm Bayou Classic is more than just a football game. It is a unique family fellow-ship that exists within a football

game, which has become in its colorful and glorified history, the greatest, most distinguishable sporting event in all of Black America.

The gridiron match-up be-tween Grambling State Univer-sity and Southern University, two great Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) rivals, rep-resents the best that collegiate sports have to offer: teamwork, tradition, passion and fierce com-petition.

The first ever Bayou Clas-

sic was played in New Orleans’ Tulane Stadium in 1974. There were 76,753 fans in attendance to witness the birth of a unique and treasured pastime. Grambling defeated SU in that contest, 21-0. Southern leads the series 18-17, and Southern University posted an eight-game winning streak that ended in 2001 (the longest in the Bayou Classic Series).

With the game’s expansion over the years from Tulane Sta-dium to the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, LA, the State Farm Bayou Classic, including over 200,000 fans who descend upon the city to take part in the festivities, pumps more than $30 million into the New Or-leans economy, annually. From the excitement of a sensational football competition, crowd fa-vorite Battle of the Bands, to the gospel brunch, the event seeks to serve each and every one of its patrons, while assisting future

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By Ron WalteRs

From all that I can tell, Ba-rack Obama isn’t running in the fall and that fact is likely to have a decisive impact on the elections for governor in both Virginia and New Jersey and the House of Representatives.

Blacks are 15 percent of the population in New Jersey and 20 percent in Virginia, so their vote could make a difference in these close races. Nevertheless, the Obama factor is critical because the 95 percent level at which Blacks voted for him last year is the highest in American history brought the turnout numbers close to their representation in the population. Yet, the emo-tional drama, laden with hope and the possibility of real change with which most blacks went to the polls was an historical event that is unlikely to be replicated in the next general election, not to speak of the off-year elections coming up. Generally, the Black vote can be 30-50 percent in an off-year election of what it was in the presidential election and that is the danger.

The posture of the black vote is es-pecially critical in Virginia where Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate has not run a particularly effec-tively election and is not as charismatic as his conservative chal-lenger, Republican Robert McDonnell. President Obama has campaigned in Virginia for Deeds, but the White House was recently peeved because Deeds has not labeled himself an “Obama Democrat” in a state where Obama won an historic victory last year. With Deeds lagging, at this writing, by an average of 12 percent in recent polls, he badly needs a strong black turnout.

Deeds, however, describes himself as a “Creigh Deeds Democrat” and has failed to lock up at least two prominent black heavy-weights in the State, former Governor Doug Wilder and Sheila Johnson, wealthy wife of Bob Johnson of BET fame.

Sheila Johnson has made

television ads for Re-publican McDonnell, attempting to split the black vote. Even if Deeds were to win Wilder over, it un-likely that his influence would have much ef-fect with the election so close.

In the most recent Public Policy poll, al-though blacks say they

support Creigh Deeds (68-20) when asked whether they are “excited” about the race, the percent of blacks responding shows: “Very excited” -- 41 per-cent, “Somewhat” – 31 percent and “Not very” – 26 percent. So, Creigh Deeds has not lit a fire in the Black community which would be necessary for a big turnout with most Blacks not very excited by or about his campaign.

A somewhat similar picture presents itself in New Jersey with the incumbent Governor John Corzine running for re-election. Corzine is running neck-and-neck with Republican challenger Chris Christie, just behind her in

a recent poll by 2 percent, after running behind by double-digits most of this year. Obama has campaigned strongly for Corzine and if he pulls ahead, it could be said that the Obama factor made a difference. But contrary to Deeds, Corzine is also work-ing the black community hard as Rev. Reginald Jackson leader of the Black Minister’s Council of New Jersey has recently en-dorsed him.

The Black vote could also be a factor in House whether the House holds on to its Dem-ocratic majority in States like Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Ohio. More than in the South however, Ohio could be a bell-weather of Obama’s ability to hold keep his Northern and Mid-western states in the fall elections. In this economically challenged stated, Obama has climbed back up over 50 percent in his favorable rating according to recent polls – something the major media has kept secret.

With the Youth turnout

By GeoRGe e. CuRRyNNPA Columnist

This is a defining week for Democrats who must decide whether to press for the public option in health care and risk losing the support of a lonely Republican senator or press for the measure to avoid offending an increasingly vocal segment of its base.

The Senate is expected to come up with a bill this week, after much wrangling, and send it to the Congressional Budget Office for an official pricing. After being declared dead in the Sen-ate, the public option – a gov-ernment plan to compete with insurance companies to lower prices – saw a strong revival on the heels of public opinion polls showing more than half of all Americans favor such a plan. In order to win over some reluctant Democrats, states will be allowed to opt-out of the program.

“My guess is that the public option level playing field with the state opt-out will be in the bill,” Senator Charles Schumer of New York said on “Meet the Press.”

The progressive wing of the Democratic Party has grown in-creasingly irritated by the mixed signals emanating from the White House. On the campaign trail, Barack Obama advocated health reform that includes the public option, saying that’s the only way to drive down escalating insurance premiums.

After assum-ing office, President Obama has alternately expressed support for the public option and dismissing it as a “sliver” of the overall plan to reform the $2.5 trillion annual health care system.

S a v a g e d b y misleading TV com-mercials sponsored by conserva-tive groups, progressives finally started fighting back, proving that so-called death panels were never proposed and pointing out that the United States is the only country in the industrialized world without a national health plan. The U.S. spends more per capita on health care than any other nation, but ranks 37th in overall health, according to the World Health Organization.

The best way to make health care insurance more affordable is to offer a program similar to Medicare that would compete directly with health insurance companies.

But the Republican lead-ership in Congress, members who regularly extol the virtues of market-driven competition, do not want to see the kind of competition offered by a public option. Evidently, they are in a minority.

“The American people are for some alternative that will create some competition for the abuses of the insurance in-dustry,” Senator Russ Feingold

(D-Wis.) said on “Face the Nation.”

Public opinion polls support Feingold’s view. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found in October that 57 per-cent of Americans favor creation of a “govern-ment-administered public health insurance option.”

A poll by the Washington Post and ABC News produced similar findings. Respondents were asked: “Would you support or oppose having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans?”

Overall, 57 percent pre-ferred the government action. As expected, the support was higher among Democrats – 77 percent – and lower among Republicans at 26 percent. A majority of independents – 57 percent – expressed support for the government option.

With clear public support behind the public option, why are Democrats acting like such wimps?

In Obama’s case, he still holds out hope that he can garner bipartisan support for health care and other programs. In fact, he has placed an inordinate amount of attention on winning the vote of Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, the only Republican who seems willing to consider supporting the administration’s health care bill.

Snowe objects to the public option, preferring to establish a triggering mechanism that will go into effect if the insurance companies fail to meet certain targets. With Snowe’s vote, Democrats will have the 60 votes needed in the senate to overcome an expected GOP filibuster.

But Obama should not be willing to throw his core sup-porters overboard just to win Snowe’s vote and falsely claim that he has obtained some kind of bipartisan victory. The reality is that bipartisan, by definition, requires the cooperation of the other side. But Republican lead-ers have made a political calcula-tion that the best way to regain power is to obstruct everything the administration proposes.

The GOP has become the “party of no.” No to legislation stabilizing Wall Street. No to a stimulus plan. No to true health care reform. No, no, no.

There are signs that Repub-licans are paying a price for stri-dent opposition.

A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found that only 19 percent of those questioned expressed confidence in Repub-licans’ ability to make the right decisions for America’s future; 79 percent lacked such confidence. The poll contained additional bad news for the GOP. Only 20 percent of voters consider them-selves Republicans, the lowest figure since the Washington

It’s Time to Press Forward on the Public Option

Black Turnout Looking Mild for November Elections

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CommentaryThursday, October 29, 2009 • The Weekly Press • Page 6

By William Jones

There are those people that will com-plain just for the sake of complaining. There is nothing truer than the unfounded de-bate pertaining to the Noble Peace Awarded to the utmost honorable President of the United States, Barack Obama. If this man has not pro-jected a solidified effort to bring about peace in the world, then there is no means ever for peace.

Even the senator that ran against him for President con-gratuded him for such an honor. Now, for this guy, slow lumber head, that is spewing poison all

over America, I just cannot see or understand his ob-jection.

Then yes I do. I know exactly

where he is coming from, I was surprised to read comments from people right here and around Baton Rouge that had negative things to say about the award. I am just warn-ing you. I am not a bit surprised.

Look there is the one per-son that responded by saying that his traveling around the world in an effort to bring about peace through positive communication is projecting weakness on the part of the United States.

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The Way I See IT

By maRian WRiGht edelman

(NNPA) - In 1931, Grace Ab-bott, the Chief of the U.S. Chil-dren’s Bureau, gave a speech about her long and frustrating workdays in our nation’s capital trying to advocate for children’s needs. She said she felt all alone standing with her baby carriage on the sidewalk watching a great traffic jam moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits.

She saw all kinds of vehicles including the tanks and trucks the Army put into the street; “the handsome limousines in which the Department of Com-merce rides…the barouches in which the Department of State rides with such dignity…[and] the noisy patrols in which the Department of Justice officials sometimes appear.” And so she stood on the sidewalk watching, “because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.”

And so must we parents and grandparents and child care providers and educators grab the handles of our baby strollers and the hand of our children and walk into the traffic headed for Congress. We must make them hear and respond to the urgent, but still too ignored, needs of our 8.1 million uninsured children. We must break through the po-litical den of powerful special interests like the insurance and drug companies with their fleet of well paid lobbyists.

On Wednesday, November 4th, the Children’s Defense Fund is organizing a Champions for Children’s Health Stroller Bri-gade in the nation’s Capitol to send an urgent and clear message to our political leaders that real health reform for children must be enacted this year. Children’s unmet health needs have been lost in the debate’s “big” issues. Unless we act now, millions of children could be worse, rather than better off, as a result of pend-ing health reform legislation.

D.C.’s stroller brigade will extend to Congressional districts across the country on Novem-ber 6th through 8th where con-cerned parents, grandparents, faith, and community leaders will tell members of Congress back home to stand up and in-vest in an affordable, accessible, and comprehensive child health system. So far, stroller brigades are being planned for Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mon-tana, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, and Texas.

It is morally and economi-cally indefensible for millions of American children to be denied critically needed health reform in the richest nation on earth claim-ing it lacks the money to protect its children.

We need to end the bureaucratic barriers that k e e p t w o out of three of the more than eight million un-insured chil-dren who are already eligible for either CHIP

or Medicaid from actually get-ting the care they need. A simple, seamless enrollment process like older Americans have for Medi-care would ensure our children are cared for and covered. We need to guarantee every child access to the full range of pre-ventive and other health care services they need and that we now provide to all children in Medicaid but not to all children in CHIP or in the proposed Exchange. A child covered by CHIP has the same value as a child covered by Medicaid and all deserve comprehensive care regardless of the program they are in. And we need to provide an affordable national health safety net for children whose families make up to 300 percent of the Federal Poverty Level ($66,000 for a family of four) and eliminate the unjust lottery of geography. Whether a child’s family can af-ford coverage should not depend on where they live. New York covers children up to 400 per-cent; North Dakota only to 160 percent; and Massachusetts and twenty-one other states, plus the District of Columbia are already at 300 percent. A child in North Dakota is no less valuable than a child in New York or Massa-chusetts.

The lives and health of millions of children depend on health reform this year. They will not get what they need unless you speak up and demand it. Children have no other voice but yours. Lift it high and loud. Grab your strollers, your scooter, or your walking shoes, and join our children’s brigades on November 4th in Washington, D.C. and in other states across the country November 6-8th. In America, every child should have the health care they need – now. They have only one childhood. Together we can make it happen. To learn how to join a stroller brigade, create your own, or take action in other ways with simple steps, visit www.childrensde-fense.org/strollerbrigade.

Marian Wright Edelman is

President of the Children’s De-fense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

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Can Children Get Congress to Protect Their Health?

Marian WrightEdelman

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Rev. Robert B. Holden, As-sociate Minister of the Mt. Pil-grim Baptist Church funeral arrangements are incomplete at the time of publication.

Robert L. Johnson who passed on Monday October 26, 2009 and his funeral arrange-ment are incomplete at the time of publication.

Rev. Frank Green, Pastor of True Vine Baptist Church past recently and funeral were held at his church.

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Press and New Birth Ministries wish to send conciliates out to the Green Family, Johnson Fam-ily, and the Holden Family.

Community Mourn the Loss of Three its Members

The Lighthouse Gospel Singers began singing as the Wright Brothers in the year of 1948. In 1950, they were reor-ganized and adopted the name of the Lighthouse Seniors.

They have covered many cities and states in such a glorify-ing way, singing praises through song, both near and far.

Through the years, the Lighthouse Seniors have song with many of the most well known artists as well as benefit programs, anniversaries, ban-quets, appreciations, festivals and wherever the word of God is needed.

Three members of the group are now preaching God’s word: Rev. Perry Wrights and Rev. Sterling Wrights and one asst. pastor Rev. Dwight Cos-ton.

Former members are: Helen Wright Dantzler, John Jackson, Earl Wright and John Johnson. Members that have gone home to be with the Lord

are: William Jackson, Rev. Samuel Spears, Jerry Jackson, Willie Jackson Willie Miles, John Robertson and most recently Mr. Earl Johnson who had sung with the group for 44 consistent years.

Current members are: Rev. Perry Wrights, Rev. Ster-ling Wrights, Levie Wrights, Roosevelt Hafford, Donald Ray Johnson, Linwood Wrights, David Wrights, Lamar Cole-man, Frank Wright, Leonard Hafford, Sam Milligan, Rev. Dwight Coston and honorary member Richard Kirk.

After a monumental 60 years of singing God’s praises, The Lighthouse Singers show no signs of slowing down by the mercy of God. They have been and remain pioneers in a gos-pel music as they are one of the few groups that have never dis-solved since their origin. Their signature song, “I’ll Rise Again” remains to be requested at ever appearance.

The History of the Lighthouse Gospel Singers

By DonalD lee

Michelle Dawson, minister of music at Adriel Christian Ministries in Baton Rouge, La., recently shared these nuggets regarding relationships and liv-ing a life centered on holiness.

Here’s a little something Dawson shared that everyone should be able to glean from:

What the Holy Spirit has taught me is that carnality is a big problem in the Christian Church today. It is one of the biggest motives for sin today and definitely a significant tool used to destroy marriages.

Carnality is self-serving – a spirit of satan.. satan be-came carnal and full of self pride when he decided that he no lon-ger wanted to serve God, but wanted to use the talents, gifts and other abilities that God had given him for his own purpose and for his own power (Isaiah 14:12-15). He inflicted that same spirit upon mankind when he caused Adam and Eve to sin in the Garden of Eden..

The Bible says that after satan tempted Eve, she saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise (power) – she ate the fruit and gave to her husband (Genesis 3:6). And hence was

born the lust of the flesh. If you think about every k i n d o f sin - pride, s e l f - c e n -t e re d n e s s or anything self-serving is the basis of it.

When a person remains unsaved and carnal, he is of his father – the devil – and the works of his fa-ther he will do, as the Scripture says (John 8:44). But, we who are saved are to walk in the (Holy) Spirit, after our Father, so that we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Galatians 5:16).

Carnality, a spirit of satan, has been brought into the Church and is a big problem for many Christians. There is a desire to serve God, but according to our own will and way. We want to satisfy our flesh, and not only through fornication or adultery, but through any motive that is self-serving. Then we ask God to bless it.

When we do this, we have not submitted fully to God, but are actually still serving satan. And no man can have two mas-ters (Matthew 6:24). This is not how God created us to be. We

were distorted by satan and Jesus has given His life for us and works diligently now by His Holy Spirit to make us back the way we were in the beginning before sin.

In the beginning, we were content to obey God and do His work. If you think about it, there was no desire to pursue our own wills. Even when God blessed Adam and Eve and told them to be fruitful and multiply, starting a family was designed for their enjoyment and fellowship, but for His glory – not self-centered or self-serving. And that is what fornication and adultery is.

So, when a Christian brings a carnal mind into a marriage it will definitely affect the marriage negatively in countless ways in addition to fornication or adul-tery. Once this snare is removed, there will be stronger relation-ships and a stronger, more pow-erful and more effective body of believers all around.

Romans 12:2 says, And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renew-ing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Dawson also shared nug-gets regarding the mind renewal process as it relates to newly converted Christians:

Regeneration, or rebirth, is the first step of the salvation process and the awakening ac-tually occurs within this step. After the awakening happens, the Holy Spirit can detect within our hearts whether we are seri-ous about our desire for Him in our lives.

When we invite Him in, it is at this point that He comes into our hearts and we become regenerated or born again. Once we are regenerated – washed by the blood of Jesus - and re-ceive the gift of the Holy Spirit, we become a new creature and the repentance process begins, which is the shedding of the old man.

The Holy Spirit convicts us by showing us our wrong hab-its and actions (sin) and by His power and our submission and yielding to Him, we turn away from them.. We turn away from that lifestyle and begin walking in a new direction.

All of us Christians, whether single or married, should take something from this week’s column that will help us to walk in victory over the spirit of carnality.

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The Boeing Company made a donation of $35,000 to South-ern University on Wednesday to be used by several academic programs on the Baton Rouge campus.

Darrell Warner, of Boeing, presented the donation, a series of three checks, to SU Chancel-lor Dr. Kofi Lomotey in a short ceremony.

“The Boeing Company is proud of its tradition of giving in support of Southern University…In an era of financial challenges and declining budget Boeing has maintained its funding to Southern University which I believe demonstrates Boeing’s commitment to Southern and its mission,” Warner said, who is also a Southern graduate.

“We are grateful for the donation from the Boeing Com-pany and for their support of Southern University,” Lomotey said. “We hope to continue to build our relationship with this great company.”

By Toni Jackson

BATON ROUGE - What a success! The 7th Annual College of Business Gala on the Bluff Schol-arship Fundraiser has received rave reviews. On Friday, October 16, 2009 - Homecoming Friday - Southern University support-ers packed the Sheraton Atrium and came ready to party for a purpose!

On behalf of the Southern University College of Business family, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank to you for the commitment of our sponsors and supporters for making this event so successful. It was the vision of our Host committee to inform, entertain, and provide a network-ing forum for our supporters to engage in and share in our #1 commitment-our students, said Dr. Donald Andrews.

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The Arthritis Association of Louisiana (AAOLA) will hold its 11th Annual Tribute to Excellence Gala on Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge business-man and admired philanthro-pist Bobby Yarborough, CEO of Manda Fine Meats, will be presented with the organiza-tion’s annual Tribute to Excel-lence Award for his longtime support for local charitable causes. Yarborough, who was named the 2009 Businessperson of the Year by the Baton Rouge Business Report, is credited for building his company’s reputation for corporate giv-ing. Personally, he has served as chair of the Greater Baton Rouge Boys and

Girls Club and the Aca-demic Distinction Fund and is a member of the Capital Area YMCA and Family Road.

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The only exception to this tradition over the years was the 2006 Tribute to Excellence Award, which was presented to “Katrina hero” Patrick Pear-man, a Kenner man who sent his family to safety ahead of Hurricane Katrina’s arrival and stayed behind to help rescue, feed and shelter hurricane vic-tims at his own expense.

Other past honorees include Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden; busi-nessman and philanthropist Price LeBlanc and his family; J.H. “Jay” Campbell Jr., CEO of Associated Grocers; Richard Lipsey of Lipsey’s, Inc.; Gary Sligar, CEO of Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Gary Mockler, Chairman of Mock-ler Beverage Co.; LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman; and Gerry Lane of Gerry Lane Enterprises.

This year, the AAOLA also will present WRKF medical reporter Susan Hidalgo-Smith with the 2009 Laurie Smith An-derson Award for Excellence

in Healthcare Reporting for her commitment to accuracy, awareness and relevance in healthcare reporting. The award was renamed in 2007 in memory of its first recipient, Baton Rouge Advocate health reporter Anderson, who died of cancer in May of that year.

In addition to the awards, the Tribute to Excellence Gala will feature a brief program on the impact of arthritis in Loui-siana and a live and silent auc-tion to help raise funds for the AAOLA.

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Bardwell, a justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish’s 8th Ward for the past 34 years, is scheduled to hold the office until 2014. He denied the charges of bigotry.

“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell continued. “I have piles and piles of Black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom, I treat them just like everyone else.”

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Bardwell’s practices and comments were deeply disturb-ing.

“Not only does his decision directly contradict Supreme Court rulings, it is an example of the ugly bigotry that divided our country for too long,” Landrieu said.

According to The New York Times, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jin-dal has joined civil rights groups and others in calling for Bardwell’s resignation.

Tangipahoa Parish President Gordon Burgess said in a state-ment that Bardwell’s views were not consistent with his or those of the local government. But as an elected official, Bardwell was not under the supervision of the parish government, reported the AP.

“However, I am certainly very disappointed that anyone representing the people of Tan-gipahoa Parish, particularly an elected official, would take such a divisive stand,” Burgess said in an e-mail. “I would hope that Mr. Bardwell would consider offering his resignation if he is unable to serve all of the people of his dis-trict and our parish.” Although the couple is distraught by Bardwell’s decision, they said they realize that his views are not shared by most of the community.

“He’s not representing all the people that he is supposed to be

representing,” Humphrey told CNN. “He’s only representing the people with his same opin-ions.”

Humphrey and McKay were later married by another justice of the peace in the same parish. Humphrey said she believes the incident occurred for a reason.

“I just think that God puts you in the right positions at the right time in order to stand up to people who choose to live their lives with hate,” she said.

According to CNN, Bardwell told a local Louisiana newspa-per that in his experience, most interracial marriages don’t last. He said he always asks if a couple is interracial and, if they are, re-fers them to another justice of the peace. Bardwell said no one had complained in the past.

But the McKays could not take this lying down, Catlett said. “Knowing them as I do now, they find that this is very wrong and they want it to be brought to light so it doesn’t happen to other couples,” she said.

The number of interracial marriages has skyrocketed na-tionwide, nearly quadrupling between 1970 and 2005, the most recent year for which there is U.S. Census data. As of 2005, nearly 8.5 million Americans are living in “mixed marriages,” according to CNN.

According to the AP, a spokeswoman for the Louisi-ana Judiciary Commission said investigations of the incident are confidential for now. However, if the commission recommends action to the Louisiana Supreme Court, that information would become public.

Catlett said she expects a number of stalling tactics but believes justice will be served to the unjust official.

“Chances are very good he will be found to have discrimi-nated against [the McKays].”

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This week is a major test for the Obama administration. If Obama and Congressional Demo-crats can pass health care legisla-tion containing the public option that will indeed be change we can believe in. On the other hand, if Democrats fail, they will be, in the words of James Brown, talking

loud and saying nothing.

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also expected to drop in the fall elections, the Democratic Party’s dependence upon black turnout is greater than usual. But here is the rub: blacks are suffering from the fall-out of the economy at a disproportionate rate than the rest of the nation and need for the impact of the economic programs that have been put place to work for them. If that doesn’t happen, black voter turnout could be even less than projected.

These elections could be a window into the 2010 re-election race for Barack Obama, for if by then blacks have not benefitted from Obama’ programs, their turnout could fall back to at least the normal level of 85 percent – which means a 10% drop from 2008. That could cost Obama in a close election. So there is much here to learn from in these elec-tions that don’t look like they matter very much.

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WASHINGTON – After months of struggle, House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation Thursday to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run in-surance. A vote is likely next week on the plan patterned closely on President Barack Obama’s own.

Speaking on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress was “on the cusp of delivering on the promise of making afford-able, quality health insurance available to every American — and laying the foundation for a brighter future for generations to come.”

Officials said the measure, once fully phased in over several years, would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans. Its principal mechanism is creation of a new government-regulated insurance “exchange” where private companies could sell policies in competition with the government. Federal subsidies would be available to millions of lower-income individuals and families to help them af-ford the policies.

The ceremony marked a pivotal moment in Democrats’ yearlong attempt to answer Obama’s call for legislation to remake the nation’s health care system by extending insur-ance, ending industry practices such as denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medi-cal conditions, and slowing the growth of medical spending nationwide.

Democrats issued a state-ment saying their measure “lowers costs for every patient”

and would not add to federal deficits. They put the cost of coverage at under $900 billion over 10 years, a total that evi-dently didn’t include additional spending.

Pelosi was flanked by rank-and-file Democrats as she made her remarks.

Across the Capitol, Senate Democrats, too, are hoping to pass legislation by year’s end. Legislation outlined by Major-ity Leader Harry Reid earlier this week would include an op-tion for a government-run plan, although states could drop out if they wished, a provision not in the House measure.

With Republicans ex-pected to oppose the measure unanimously, Pelosi and her lieutenants worked for weeks to resolve differences within the Democratic rank and file.

The toughest of them cov-ered the terms under which the government insurance op-tion would function. Liberals generally wanted the govern-ment to dictate the rates to be paid to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, with the fee levels linked to Medicare.

Moderates, fearing the im-pact on their local hospitals, held out for negotiated rates between the government and private insurers — and won.

Not all liberals were ready to sign on. Rep. Lynn Wool-sey, D-Calif., a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, was noncommittal about whether progressives would accept the negotiated rates. “This is not walkaway time and it is not acceptance time,” she said.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., waves as he leaves the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, following a ceremony where former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke received the Congressional Gold Medal.

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Space is not available to cover concerns of so many people

concerned with the conditions at Jetson. it is happening there. What i do know is that most of these youth can be changed, from contrition in a prepatory school for Angola to rehabilitation for a positive life that may lead to a life of meritorious glory. That is the Way I See It!

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all funny or remotely appropri-ate about the use of a lynching reference about Michelle obama,’’ he said. ‘’it’s - i’m speechless.’’

As President Bush pointed out so eloquently during the Black history Month event, the noose represents ‘’more than a tool of murder but a tool of intimidation’’ to generations of African-Ameri-cans. Nooses not only robbed some of their lives but many of their peace of mind.

‘’As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive. they are wrong. And they have no place in America today,’’ he said.

Neither o’reilly nor ingraham has been reprimanded by their re-spective employers even though the Fox News personality did offer a half-hearted apology.

At least ingraham didn’t drop the l-word but her suggestion that Sharpton, a former presidential candidate and respected member of the African-American community and beyond, is a petty thief reeks of race-baiting and negative ste-reotyping of African-Americans and black men in particular.

But it’s hardly the first time ei-ther has ventured into questionable and offensive territory. how can

we forget o’reilly’s less-than-informed comments regarding a dinner he shared last year with Sharpton at Sylvia’s in harlem? o’reilly expressed surprise over how similarSylvia’s was to other restaurants in New York restau-rants.

‘’there wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, i want more iced tea,’’’ he said.

As the Washington Post’s rob-inson sadly observed on MSNBC in February, ‘’All you can go by is his words and his actions. And he keeps saying these things that sound pretty darn racist to me.’’

has talk radio learned anything from imus’ decline and fall? of course not, because it didn’t take imus too terribly long to get a new gig.

our nation’s media outlets should not provide a platform for racialhostility and hateful speech now or in the future. What kind of messageare we sending to our chil-dren, our nation and our world?

in such an historic election year, we cannot stand aside and allow individuals to use the airwaves as an outlet for insensitive and misguidedcommentary. if you hear something that offends you, speak up.

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ering all children.the CDF Action Council, build-

ing on the best practices in states and lessons learned about children falling through the bureaucratic cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, strongly urged Congress to enact the All healthy Children Act, S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced by representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) in the house and Senator Bernie Sanders (i-Vt) in the Sen-ate. the measure would provide comprehensive benefits including dental and mental health, simpli-fied bureaucracy, and a national eligibility plan for families up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. We thank the 62 house co-sponsors for their support. how-ever, we regret that neither a single house republican nor any other Senator joined them to push for coverage for all children.

the CDF Action Council strongly supports long overdue health cov-erage for everyone in America as soon as possible—because children cannot wait. As SChiP comes up again for reauthorization in early 2009, we hope every Member of Congress will insist on covering every child and pregnant mother now by enacting and adequately funding the provisions of the All healthy Children Act.

Specious claims that we could not find the money—$70 billion over five years—to cover all children is belied by that amount spent in eleven months for tax cuts for the top one percent of richest Americans and in seven months for the iraq War. We do not have a money problem in America: We have a priorities and political will deficit. it is time for all adults to protect the health of our children.

the citizens of the nation must demand that our leaders free our children from the false ideological and political tugs of war among those who put excess profits ahead of children’s lives.

how well did Congress protect children in 2007? Not well enough: 276 Members of Congress had good CDF Action Council Con-gressional Scorecard scores of 80 percent or higher, and 198 of those had stellar scores of 100 percent. But 231 members scored 60 percent or lower—a failing grade from our school days.

Whether Members of Congress are liberal, conservative or mod-erate; Democrat, republican or independent, children need all of them to vote, lobby, speak for and protect them. Adults need to listen carefully to what candidates say they will do for children and fami-lies and, once they are in office, we need to hold them accountable. Please thank your Members of Con-gress with scores of 80 percent or above and let those with scores of 60 percent or below know you are dissatisfied with their performance. And please convey that same mes-sage to each presidential candidate. We must demand that our leaders commit to children as a condition of our vote.

Marian Wright Edelman is Presi-dent of the Children’s Defense Fund and its Action Council whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

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(NAPSM)-A survey commissioned by two leading health organizations found that although two out of three African Americans (61 percent) ex-pressed concern about developing heart disease and two out of five (40 percent) expressed concern about developing Alzheimer’s, only about one in 20 are aware that heart health is linked to brain health.

the Alzheimer’s Association is joining forces with the American heart Association to educate African Americans that by managing their cardiovascular risk, they may also strengthen their cognitive health.

“What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” says Jennifer Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Associa-tion spokesperson. “every healthy heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of your blood to your brain to carry on the daily processes of thinking, prob-lem solving and remembering.”

“By the year 2030, the number of African Americans age 65 or older is expected to more than double to 6.9 million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., American heart Association spokes-person. “Although Alzheimer’s is not part of normal aging, age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. So it is important that Af-rican Americans take steps now to decrease their risk of heart disease, which research has shown could also decrease the risk of cognitive decline.”

Did You Know?• Compared to the general public,

African Americans have a higher risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and vascular dementia.

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that desirable blood pressure is less than 120/80 mmhg. Keep your body weight in the recommended range and make sure that the total choles-terol is less than 200mg/dL.

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apart. You must continue to hold on to your faith and stay before the Lord. But, it may be that the time has come when you may need to take some quality time for yourself and spend some of that time with God.

Get on your knees before God and tell him of how you are feel-ing inside. And maybe the words wont come out exactly as you wish but you can have a good weeping, wailing crying falling, out tantrum and give all those problems to him.

While you are praying, you might forget some of the things that vexed you but God knows what you are going through. he can read the pain, which flows through your tears. even though he knows what’s troubling you, he still wants to tell him about it and bring your problems and burdens to him.

therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hands of God, that he may exalt you in due time, “casting all your cares upon him, for he cares for you,”(1st Peter 5:6-7).

After you finished having your tantrum. You may have a stopped up nose and swollen eyes and mucus running down your lip and dried tears on your face, but you’ll feel better after emptying yourself of those things which had been heavy on your heart.

Sometimes we go for weeks or months trying to take matters into our hands and try to solve our own problems. We are not super humans; we can’t handle every-thing alone. We need God’s help. We have to let go of those situ-ations and let God handle them. there are some things we can’t humanly do anything about.

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(NAPSi)-here’s an alert worth paying attention to: According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), learning your risk for type 2 diabetes could save your life.

Diabetes is a serious disease that strikes nearly 21 million children and adults in the U.S. it is named the “silent killer” because one-third of those with the disease--more than 6 million--do not know they have it.

For many, diagnosis may come seven to 10 years after the onset of type 2 diabetes. early diagnosis is critical for successful treatment and can delay or prevent some of the complications such as heart diseases, blindness, kidney disease, stroke and amputation.

that’s one reason the ADA holds the American Diabetes Alert® Day, a one-day wake-up call to inform the American public about the serious-

ness of diabetes, particularly when it is left undiagnosed and untreated. the day is held on the fourth tuesday of every March.

on that day, people are encour-aged to take the Diabetes risk test, either with paper and pencil or online. the risk test requires users to answer seven simple questions about age, weight, lifestyle and family history--all potential risk factors for diabetes. People scoring 10 points or more are at a high risk for type 2 diabetes and are encouraged to talk with a health care professional.

An estimated 54 million Ameri-cans have pre-diabetes. those with pre-diabetes have blood glucose lev-els higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

early intervention via lifestyle changes such as weight loss and

increased physical activity can help delay or prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes.

Among the primary risk factors for type 2 diabetes are being over-weight, sedentary, over the age of 45 and having a family history of diabetes. African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians and Pacific islanders are at an increased risk, as are women who have babies weighing more than 9 pounds at birth.

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BATON ROUGE - Dr. Cheryl Taylor, director of the Office of Nursing Research at Southern University Baton Rouge campus’s School of Nursing has been selected to receive the prestigious Daniel J. Pesut Spirit of Renewal Award for Nursing Excellence by the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Honor Society of Nurs-ing.

Taylor will receive the award during the STTI Bien-nial Convention in Indianapolis in November. Only one nurse leader is bestowed the presti-gious Spirit of Renewal Award by Sigma Theta Tau bienni-ally. The award recognizes a nurse leader who exemplifies purposeful reflection in prac-tice, mindful understanding of human interrelationships, and displays an appreciative, futuristic vision for the practice of nursing.

“Dr. Taylor is an inspira-tion and reminds us through her actions that we must take care of ourselves as well as each other so that we can provide the best care for our patients and the communities we serve,” wrote Dr. Carol J. Huston, STTI President.

“It is humbling to be ac-knowledged by the world of nurses for my creativity and leadership in service, science, and spiritual renewal,” said Taylor. “To God be the glory for my strength, honor and cour-age. Thanks to my colleagues and future nurses for being the jewels in the crown of quality health care for all.”

Taylor is a former Ameri-can Nurses Association Ethnic Minority Fellow. She has spent the past four decades mentor-ing nursing students, leading community health initiatives, and creating partnerships across the nation.

As a member of the gradu-ate faculty in Southern’s School of Nursing, Taylor teaches re-search, philosophy of science and health policy.

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ATLANTA, GA — The Campaign for Spelman College is a $150 million fundraising effort that aims to actualize the ambitious goals identified in the institution’s strategic plan for 2015. This is the largest such venture the college has embarked upon in its 128-year history.

“If you want to invest in the future of this country, indeed the world, you have to invest in the human capital,” Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D., Spelman College president, said. “Young women who are choosing to be at Spelman are ready and willing to put the determination, and commit-

ment into their education, so they can solve the problems that wait for them when they graduate. Yet they have to be able to graduate.”

Among the primary goals of the campaign are to graduate 5,000 incredibly talented young women—many first-generation and economically challenged—over the next decade. To date, the campaign has raised more than $80 million in leadership gifts during the silent phase, putting Spelman that much closer to achieving this fun-damental goal.

“Spelman College pro-vides a unique educational op-portunity for African-American

women and has a tradition of producing some of the bright-est, best-educated graduates in the country,” said Frank Blake, chairman and CEO, The Home Depot. “Ensuring this outstanding institution has the resources, now and into the future, to prepare these young women for the demands of the global community and the ever-changing economy is critically important.”

The overarching goal of the campaign is to acquire the necessary resources to provide students with a transformational experience based on academic rigor and career development that leads to a life-changing commitment to community involvement and positive so-

cial impact. The primary goals of the campaign are to ensure that each student receives: the financial support she needs to complete her education; more global engagement opportuni-ties; enhanced research expe-riences and career-related in-ternships; increased access to alumnae connections; individu-alized leadership development experiences; and expanded ser-vice learning and community engagement activities.

“The value of a Spelman education is witnessed through people such as Children’s De-fense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman and marketing powerhouse Jerri DeVard,” said J. Veronica Biggins, Spelman alumna/campaign co-chair

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