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BOB MIRABITO NAMED CATS CEOThe interim leader of the Baton Rouge bus system for the past five-and-a-half months is expected to be named the permanent CEO next week..See Page 2

COX SUPPORTS BOYS & GIRLS CLUBCox Communications in Baton Rouge is supporting a holiday cam-paign to benefit charities across its southeast region this holiday season...See Page 5

NATIONAL DIABETES MONTHDuring National Diabetes Month-- we join with individuals living with diabetes, their families, advocates, and health care professionals to raise awareness of this devastat-ing disease around the world...See Page 7

Lenard Tillery ran for 114 yards and two touchdowns and Kylum Favorite added 108 yards and three scores as Southwestern Athletic Conference west division champions Southern University knocked off Clark Atlanta, 53-0, on Saturday night at A.W. Mumford Stadium...See Page 8

SOUTHERN OVERWHELMS CLARK ATLANTA 53-0 RELIGION In light of the ongoing bully I believe there’s a big misperception generally that the devil is out to rob people of their “things” (as in material things). These material possessions include their homes, their jobs, and their hobbies ...See Page 6

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BATON ROUGE, LA. —The Rev. T. J. Jemison, a longtime Loui-siana pastor and civil rights leader, has died. He was 95.

Jemison’s son, Ted Jemison, told The Associated Press that his father died Friday evening of natu-ral causes at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.

Ted Jemison said his father was a longtime pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, La., and helped organize the Baton Rouge bus boycott in 1953.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought his advice when orga-nizing the famous bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., two years later, Ted Jemison said.

One thing King wanted to know was how the leaders of the Baton Rouge boycott arranged carpool rides for blacks so they could avoid using the buses, Ted Jemison recalled.

King wrote about T.J. Jemi-son in his book, “Stride Toward Freedom.”

When King became the first president of the Southern Chris-

tian Leadership Conference, T.J. Jemison was the organization’s first secretary, his son said.

“He came up in a time when there was overt racism, but he al-ways preached togetherness. He also believed that everybody de-serves a fair share. I think that’s one of the greatest things about him. He never changed his tune. He be-lieved in a man’s worth, regardless of skin color,” Ted Jemison said Saturday in a telephone interview.

Ted Jemison said his father also was a kind and giving man.

“He made so many people happy by giving up what he had, personally, and he enjoyed doing that,” the son said.

T.J. Jemison also served as president of the National Baptist

Civil Rights Leader Rev. T.J. Jemison Dies at 95

See JEMISON, on page 2

“The world has lost an

icon in the Baptist

ministry and the civil

rights arena,” Sterling

told reporters. “He was a

pioneer in race

relations.”

BATON ROUGE, LA - A number of film makers and at least one major network are closely eying Baton Rouge as a possible location for their future projects after visiting with Mayor-President Melvin L. “Kip” Holden and Baton Rouge Film Commis-sion Director Liza Kelso at the American Film Market last week.

Held each year in Santa Monica, Calif., the American

Film Market is the premier annual conference for the film industry, attracting more than 8,000 film industry leaders from over 70 countries for eight days of deal-making, screenings, seminars, and networking.

“These film trade shows are invaluable to us in selling the industry on Baton Rouge,” said Mayor Holden. “Because of our long track record of host-ing productions, we are able to meet with the decision makers and show them exactly what we can do to help their productions be successful.”

Armed with the fact that Baton Rouge film production has yielded over $104 million year to

date, Mayor Holden and Kelso were well received by executives from NBC Universal Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, ABC Stu-dios, and HBO Studios. Build-ing upon old relationships from productions such as ‘Oblivion’, ‘Battleship’, and ‘Pitch Perfect’, this trip also brought the promise of future television pilots that are looking to shoot in our commu-nity.

Mayor Holden and Kelso were also able to meet with top Fox Studio executives to discuss the progress of a large feature film that is gearing up to start principle photography at Celtic Studios in

Mayor Holden, BR Film Commission Recruit Film Makers At American Film Market

Mayor-President Melvin L. “Kip” Holden

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Major films, network series among possible future Baton Rouge projects

BATON ROUGE, LA – Dar-rin Goss, Sr., president and CEO of Capital Area United Way, has been selected and approved to serve on the National Professional Council (NPC) of United Ways. Goss, who began his term as CEO on July 1st, stepped into this new role as an executive of a local United Way after serving nearly six years as the VP, Community Impact for the United Way of Greenville County.

As a group of committed leaders, NPC focuses on driving network performance, actively working on network wide chal-lenges, and identifying solutions and implementation plans – in-cluding the formation of partner-ing efforts. The membership of NPC will consist of no more than 50 chief executive officers from United Ways in the U.S. in good standing with United Way World-wide. The United Way Worldwide network includes more than 1,200 local United Ways.

The National Professional Council (NPC) has been orga-nized as a strategic, professional leadership body to drive net-work performance by shaping and demonstrating a culture of shared values, common purpose and performance results for the United Way network in the U.S. The work of committees will be tied to strategic issues and op-portunities of importance to the

Local President, CEO Selected For National Professional Council Of United Ways

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BATON ROUGE, LA —The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office will be taking applications be-ginning Monday for the annual Christmas Crusade for Children program.

As in years past, the program is a way for local agencies to donate and deliver holiday gifts to children in need. The program was started in 1988 by Sheriff Elmer Litch-field and has helped thousands of children each year.

Parents can apply by visiting an East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Of-fice substation and filling out an application Monday, November 18th through Friday, November 22nd, or by visiting the Baton

Rouge City Constable’s Office Community Ser-

vices Division located at Cortana Mall in-side Entrance #5 between Sears and Macy’s between the

hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday, Decem-

ber 2nd through Friday, December 9th (Applicants

must apply in person).Applicants are only allowed

to apply with one of the “Christ-mas Crusade for Children” par-ticipating agencies.

Applicants must live within East Baton Rouge Parish, and children must be under 12 years of age to qualify for this program.

EBR Sheriff Taking Applications for Christmas Crusade

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BATON ROUGE, LA — Nearly 70 East Baton Rouge elementary teachers recently completed a new wellness training program established by Mayor-President Melvin L. “Kip” Hold-en’s Fresh Beginnings Program to help combat childhood obesity.

The program was funded with grant money that Fresh Be-

ginnings received from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisi-ana Foundation’s Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana Program, which aims to support healthier communities for children and families across Louisiana.

The 6-hour hands-on It’s Your Life! Training provides teachers with fun and practical ways to meet the new health and wellness guidelines outlined in the 2011 East Baton Rouge Parish School Board’s Wellness Policy through engaging activities and materials that can be easily inte-grated into the classroom.

70 Teachers Complete Wellness TrainingNew program teaches activities aimed at fighting childhood obesity

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The Rev. T. J. Jemison, a longtime Louisiana pastor and civil rights

leader died Friday evening of natu-ral causes at Our Lady of the Lake

Regional Medical Center.

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Convention, the largest black Bap-tists organization in the United States, and met with seven United States presidents during his life-time, Ted Jemison said.

Todd Sterling, a trustee at Mount Zion First Baptist Church, said T.J. Jemison will be remem-bered as “visionary leader.”

“The world has lost an icon in the Baptist ministry and the civil rights arena,” Sterling told the AP. “He was a pioneer in race relations.”

The Advocate reports that Jemison was born in Selma, Ala., to a preacher father and became pastor of Mount Zion First Baptist, in 1949, a position he held for the next 54 years.

The Baton Rouge boycott is not as well-known as the one in Alabama, which Jemison attrib-uted to its much shorter duration. Still, the boycott by black riders — aimed at protesting segregated seating on buses that relegated blacks to the back — got attention.

Seats in the front of Baton

Rouge city buses were for white riders only. Even if those “white” seats were empty, black riders had to stand if seats set aside for them in the back of the bus were full.

In a 2003 newspaper story marking the boycott’s 50th an-niversary, 84-year-old Freddie Green recalled sitting guard duty with a shotgun on Jemison’s front porch. Green remembered crosses burned in the minister’s yard and at the church.

The funeral for Baton Rouge civil rights leader Rev. T.J. Jemi-son is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23.

Jemison will lie in state at the State Capitol Rotunda in Baton Rouge on Friday, Nov. 22, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

His funeral will be held the next day, Saturday, at Mount Zion First Baptist Church, where Jemi-son was pastor for 54 years.

Civil rights leaders including Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton are expected to fly in for the funeral.

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EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH- Some of the most exciting names from past LSU Baseball team will host a clinic for players ages 9 and older at BREC’s Greater Baton Rouge Fairgrounds at Airline Hwy. on Sunday, Dec. 1 from 2-6 p.m.

Former major league base-ball player David Dellucci and his Extra Innings Baseball Acad-emy is offering an instructional clinic which will include notable players such as Mikie Mahtook,

Austin Nola, Micah Gibbs, Fra-zier Hall, Fran Andermann, John Murphy, Tommy Krysan, Jamin Garidel, Fernando Puebla and Jason Williams.

The one-day clinic will provide instruction for children regardless of skill level and will focus on skills such as pitching, hitting, bunting, base running, and individual and team defense.

The cost for the clinic is $75

BREC to Host David Dellucci Baseball Clinic

See CLINIC, on page 3

the spring of 2014 with a budget more than $100 million.

The Baton Rouge Film App, BY BATON ROUGE, was a high-light of discussion in these meet-ings, stressing the importance of connecting production dollars to

the local economy, with most local vendors offering special ‘produc-tion discounts’. This local incen-tive was well received along with the state’s highly successful motion picture tax credit program.

This trip solidifies the success

of the Baton Rouge Film Com-mission, created by Mayor Holden in 2007, which is responsible for bringing over $700 million of film production to the Baton Rouge Community since its inception.

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growth and performance of the United Way network.

Goss will serve a two-year term beginning January 1, 2014 and ending December 31, 2015. For a complete bio on Darrin Goss, Sr., visit http://www.cauw.org/staff-directory/Darrin-Goss-Sr.

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bilizing our community through collaborative efforts to advance the common good Capital Area United Way works to advance the common good and create oppor-tunities for a better life for all. This is done through our focus on education, income, and health. With your support, more than

110 programs that have measur-able results in these three focus areas are currently being funded. These programs touch the lives of thousands in our 10-parish Capital Area and are making a positive impact on a daily basis. To give, advocate, or volunteer please visit CAUW.org

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Billionaire conservative activ-ists Charles and David Koch plan to run advertisements through one of their political groups, Americans for Prosperity, attacking Sen. Mary Landrieu for her support of the Af-fordable Care Act.

The New York Times reports that Landrieu is one of three Demo-cratic U.S. Senators the Kochs are targeting in a $3.5 million advertis-ing campaign on health care reform. Landrieu and the two other Senators -- Mark Begich of Alaska and Kay Hagan of North Carolina -- all hail from states that supported Repub-lican Mitt Romney over President

Barack Obama in 2012. The three Democrats also face tough reelec-tion campaigns in 2014.

This isn’t the first time the Kochs have been interested in Landrieu and Louisiana’s 2014 Sen-ate race. Landrieu’s likely opponent in the race, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, received the largest donation the Kochs’ political action committee made to any 2014 candidate last spring.

The brothers’ business, Koch Industries, have also donated to Landrieu in the past. They gave $5,000 to her Jazz political action committee in 2011. Koch Industries

-- whose annual revenue runs north of $100 billion -- is based in Kan-sas, but has a facility in the Baton Rouge area.

The Kochs are considered some of the most influential political activists in the country today. The brothers and their business have spent $134 million over the last five years to promote conservative ideas and candidates through lobbying, campaign donations and underwrit-ing public policy think tanks as well as educational efforts, according to American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop.

Koch Brothers Target Mary Landrieu on the Affordable Care Act

Billionaire conservative activists David and Charles Koch are running attack advertising against U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., over her support of the Affordable Care Act. The Kochs spent millions of dollars to try and elect Republican Mitt Romney for president in 2012.

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BATON ROUGE, La. — The interim leader of the Baton Rouge bus system for the past five-and-a-half months is expected to be named the permanent CEO next week.

Capital Area Transit Sys-tem board President Marston Fowler tells reporters busi-nessman Bob Mirabito has a tentative agreement to continue with the agency for at least

another year.Fowler said he has negoti-

ated a contract with Mirabito, which will be recommended to a committee on Thursday and then submitted to the full board for approval at its Nov. 19 board meeting.

The contract names Mi-rabito permanent CEO for 13 months beginning Dec. 1 and ending Dec. 31, 2014.

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and registration will be available online at www.extrainningsbase-ball.com. For anyone who does not pre-register, spots will be available the day of the baseball clinic and the cost will increase to $100 per player.

The Extra Innings Baseball Academy strives to improve the physical skills of each player while also teaching the mental

approach needed to excel at all levels of the game. For more information, contact the Extra Innings Baseball Academy at 225-456-1652 or email at eis-baseball@gmail.com.

It is the BREC mission to provide parks and recreational opportunities for all citizens of East Baton Rouge Parish.

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Parents must have child’s social security number in order to apply. Limit one toy per child.

Persons wanting to donate new, unwrapped, Christmas toys may do so at Cumulus Media Inc. at 631 Main Street. (225) 926-1106, City Constable’s Office Headquar-ters in the City Court Building, City Constable’s Office Community Services Center inside the Mall at Cortana, East Baton Rouge Sher-iff’s Office Substations across the parish.

Toys will be delivered prior to Christmas by the participating agencies.

The Mall at Cortana, Cumulus Media Inc., and Holiday Helpers are community partners of the “Christ-mas Crusade for Children 2013.”

EBRSO Substations are as follows:

Burbank9313 Burbank Dr. Baton

Rouge, LA 70820 Phone: (225) 389-5511 Fax: (225) 389-8279

Central13016 Gurney Road Baton

Rouge, LA 70818 Phone: (225) 389-5177 Fax: (225) 389-8980

Kleinpeter14431 Airline Highway Baton

Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: (225) 389-5114 Fax: (225) 389-7823

Scotlandville1270 Rosenwald Baton Rouge,

LA 70807 Phone: (225) 389-5105 Fax: (225) 389-7829

Zachary-Plains23060 Brian Road Zachary,

La 70791 Phone: (225) 389-5037 Fax: (225) 389-8700

Pride-Chaneyville12828 Jackson Road, Zachary,

La 70791 Phone: (225) 289-8985 Fax: (225) 389-8988

Teachers completed the sec-ond phase of training this month in sessions took place at the East Baton Rouge Parish School Sys-tem Professional Development Center on Nov. 2 and Nov. 9.

It’s Your Life! Is one of five exciting Fresh Beginnings projects aimed at increasing food access and encouraging health and fitness education in North and Old South Baton Rouge. The curriculum is designed to integrate fitness, nutri-tion, self-esteem, anti-smoking, and anti-bullying across disciplines and grade levels throughout four elementary schools in North Baton Rouge – Baton Rouge Foreign Language Academic Immersion Magnet (BRFLAIM), Buchanan Elementary, Ryan Elementary, and

Winbourne Elementary. It’s Your Life! Was devel-

oped by Evlyn J. Daniel Foun-dation Executive Director Mar-gie Montgomery, BRFLAIM P.E. teacher Bonnie Richardson who was recently recognized as the 2013 Outstanding Dance Teacher of the Year by the Loui-siana Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Association, and Westdale Heights Academic Magnet Science Specialist Dr. Mary Legoria, who was recently recognized as the 2013 Outstand-ing Science Teacher of the Year by the Louisiana Science Teachers Association.

The It’s Your Life! Cur-riculum further enhances the new fitness program installed

by Project Fit America, another Fresh Beginnings project, which aims to help students and teachers meet the district-wide Wellness Policy guidelines of 150 min-utes of guided physical activity per week.

Our Lady of the Lake Re-gional Medical Center and the Louisiana State Police also led anti-bullying assemblies this fall at all four schools.

The Evlyn J. Daniel Foun-dation has implemented annual teacher science education pro-grams since 1981 and will be offer-ing ongoing support and technical assistance to participating teachers.

For more information, please contact Fresh Beginnings Grant Coordinator Lyndsi Lambert at lyndsi.freshbeginnings@gmail.com or (225) 205-4124. You can also visit www.HealthyBR.com.

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CrUsade from page 1 Baton Rouge residents can

buy a discounted backyard com-post bin or rain barrel, plus pick up some free mulch on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Memorial Stadium, located at 1702 Foss Street. Residents should enter the stadium from Scenic Highway.

Compost bins that retail for $100 will be on sale for $30 and rain barrels that retail for $150 will be available for $45. Nature’s Best Organics will offer free mulch, one scoop per pick-up truck or load-your-own container, while supplies last.

Over one thousand compost bins and rain barrels will be avail-able while supplies last in this city-subsidized program. The “Earth Machine” compost bin is made

of black recycled plastic, has a 10.5-cubic foot capacity, a 10-year warranty, and fits easily into an average sized sedan. The “Systern” Rain Barrel has a 55-gallon capac-ity, is made of recycled plastic, and comes partially assembled. Residents who wish to purchase both a compost bin and rain barrel should bring a four-door sedan, pickup truck, SUV or hatchback.

City-Parish Recycling Di-rector Susan Hamilton said that a family can produce up to 1,000 pounds of yard waste annually.

“Keeping yard waste off the curb through composting, grass cycling, and mulching saves land-fill space, valuable resources, and money,” Hamilton said. “In as little as 10 minutes a week, resi-dents can convert leaves and grass

into an abundant supply of organic matter for use in gardens, as well as reduce their curbside trash output by 30 percent and their gardening water bills by up to 30 percent.”

According to Hamilton, the “Systern” rain barrel also reduces household water bills and is an ex-cellent, chemical-free water source for lawns, plants and gardens.

During the December 7th event, the LSU Cooperative Ex-tension Master Gardeners and the East Baton Rouge Parish Recy-cling Office will offer an Educa-tion Expo to teach residents how to use the compost bins, as well as how to practice grass cycling and mulching.

Please visit the Recycling Of-fice website at www.brgov.com/recycle for more information.

Compost Bin and Rain Barrel Sale Slated for Dec. 7

By Lee A. DAnieLs

NNPA ColumNist

Just as the holiday season begins, when the thoughts and actions of some focus on compas-sion for others, we could be about to witness the government’s forc-ing the poor to go hungry – the product of political horse-trading in Washington that has erased a critical portion of the already-meager subsidy the federal food stamp program provides the more than 47 million Americans who receive it.

And it’s a virtual certainty more draconian cuts in the pro-gram will be made – cuts that increase the threat millions of men, women and children will in years to come endure not only hunger but also a host of health and health-related problems that the combination of hunger and poverty will produce or intensify.

This is the quagmire a nation with a huge surplus of food must find its way out of.

As usual when it comes to federal aid to poor and working-poor Americans, the issue isn’t really the actual availability of funds for aid. The issue is politics – and the deepening showdown in the nation between compassion and callousness.

But it’s also a matter of the House Republicans majority’s refusal to recognize that the food stamp program is a bulwark against the social and economic catastrophe widespread hunger in America would produce.

On November 1, Congress allowed to expire without re-placement a temporary boost in the food-stamp program budget provided by funds from the 2009 economic stimulus package. The expiration reduced the monthly allotment food stamp recipients get by $11 for a one-person household to $36 monthly for a family of four. The increase had been the government’s response to the need of the program – its formal name is the Supplemen-tal Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP) – to cope with the sharp rise in the numbers of Americans needing aid to buy food. That increase was driven overwhelm-

ingly by the Great Recession’s erasing more than 8 million jobs from the nation’s workplace. As joblessness grew, so did the numbers of people seeking food stamps.

As a result, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the program’s budget ballooned from $35 billion in 2007 to $80 billion now as its enrollment swelled from 26 million to its current level of one out of every seven Americans.

Earlier this year, a majority of Republicans in the GOP-dom-inated House of Representatives, chanting their mantra of fiscal responsibility, approved as part of the farm bill Congress is con-sidering a provision that would cut $40 billion from SNAP over 10 years. The SNAP provision in the Democratic-controlled Senate version of the bill differs signifi-cantly. It proposes a $4 billion reduction.

The House proposal would deny benefits to 3.8 million people next year and an aver-age of 3 million each succeeding year, according to the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, a nonpartisan think tank, and usher in a situation of social catastrophe akin to that of some Third-World countries.

But the Senate version looks better only by comparison with its extreme counterpart. The harshness of the regime it would produce can be glimpsed by ex-amining the affect the mandated November 1 cut is already having on food stamp recipients – people who by the program’s very eli-gibility requirements have very low incomes and no financial re-sources to withstand even minor emergencies.

For example, the monthly reductions in allotments that took place this month loom larger given that eligibility for food stamps is limited to those at or below the poverty line: a gross income of $15,030 for a two-person household, to $23,050 for a family of four. The CBPP report calculated that the November 1 cut reduces the average amount recipients have to spend on each

By Ron DAnieLs

NNPA Guest Columnist

The Christmas season pro-vides an excellent opportunity for Africans in America to engage in a season of resistance. The corporate retail establishment in this country is heavily dependent upon this season for consumers to participate in a frenzy of buying to buttress their bottom line. The unofficial kick-off of the “shop until you drop” season is the Fri-day after Thanksgiving, which called Black Friday. This is the day corporate retail giants begin an all out effort to induce, seduce, bribe and otherwise “persuade” consumers to buy enough goods to enable companies to “break into the black” – achieve profit-ability for the year.

Unfortunately, the sons and daughters of formerly en-slaved Africans in America, who complain about the oppressive conditions of stop-and-frisk, joblessness, the War on Drugs, crime, violence, fratricide and the murder of unarmed Black men such as Trayvon Martin and Black women such as Renisha McBride are not immune to the seductive appeal of the Christmas season.

On Black Friday – actually, Thanksgiving afternoon – Black consumers will lineup with liber-ated White folks in the reckless race to give our hard earned/pre-cious dollars to the oppressor. We are addicted. We must educate and organize to kick the habit.

Collectively, Black people continue to be neglected, disre-spected, disregarded and abused because we have become too tame, tolerant and even accepting of our oppression. This is not to say that there is no fight-back or resistance. The problem is that we lack a “critical mass,” a much larger number of Black people, who are sufficiently enraged and outraged, to act decisively to promote and protect/defend our interests and aspirations. This is the challenge we must overcome.

Black Friday should mark a critical point of resistance for Black people, a time when Black consumers utilize the billions of dollars in our hands as a weapon to advance the Black freedom struggle. I have often said if Black people would commit to “keeping Christ in Christmas,” focus on the spiritual and family aspects of the season and con-sciously refuse to participate in

the senseless buying frenzy, the White Corporate establishment would come running, asking what concessions they should make to end the economic sanctions.

Black people have more than 1 trillion dollars of consumer buying power in our hands. The question is whether we have the consciousness, commitment and discipline to use it to promote and defend Black interests.

There is no better time to renew a spirit of resistance than the present. Black people all across the nation should resolve to buy Black on Black Friday. At a minimum, Black people should seek out Black businesses and purchase as many gifts as pos-sible from them to bolster the Black economy.

Veteran activists, including Bob Law, have long advocated Support Black Business Days to encourage Black consumers to shop at Black stores. He is ad-vocating a similar campaign this year. In addition, Black commu-nities can organize Black Expos on Black Friday where scores of Black vendors and businesses can be assembled under one roof to display their wares for sale.

For example, in New York,

under the visionary leadership of Rev. Dennis Dillon, the Emanci-pation 2013 Freedom Coalition is organizing a two day Black Friday Expo November 29 and 30h at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. This kind of Expo could become a model for Black communities nationwide. The Support Black Business Days and Black Expo events exemplify the first principle of the utilization of Black consumer power – Black dollars should be used to support Black businesses and entrepre-neurs as a means of building a strong economic infrastructure to employ Black people.

The second principle of the utilization of Black consumer power is that companies/corpora-tions that depend on Black dollars must be compelled to reinvest in Black communities. Black dol-lars should be used as leverage with businesses and corporations that depend on Black consumer dollars. It is reasonable to expect and demand that businesses and corporations that we patronize reinvest dollars back into the Black community in the form of jobs, advertisement in Black

By George E. CurryNNPA Columnist

Republicans have no shame. After House Republicans voted more than 40 times to block im-plementation of what they deri-sively call Obamacare, they have the temerity to complain that the Obama administration flubbed the Oct. 1 rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Fred Upton (R-Mich,), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee who voted against the Affordable Care Act, held a hearing on “the failures and issues surrounding the implemen-tation of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) health insurance exchanges.”

Do Republicans who were willing to shut down the federal government because they couldn’t repeal the ACA want us to believe they honestly care about why the health care program had problems during its initial rollout?

Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) isn’t buying it.

He said, “For the last few years my Republican friends have called the Affordable Care Act a ‘job killer,’ a ‘threat to liberty,’ and that it would ‘pull the plug on Grandma.’ They have said things like ‘We have to do everything in our power to prevent Obamacare,’ and ‘Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period.’

“All of the sudden, our friends on the other side of the aisle have forgotten this, and are now focused on the successful

implementation of the law and the problems it faces. This is encouraging, and I hope this is a sign that we can work together on this critical issue.”

Don’t hold your breath.While acknowledging that

his administration “fumbled” the ball when it came to the Oct. 1 rollout, President Obama has be-come a serial apologist. He has personally accepted the blame when, in fact, few are asking where was Chief of Staff Denis McDonough during all of this. His primary job is to protect the president and he, along with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, failed miserably.

If the White House staff had studied the rollout of Romney-care in Massachusetts, they would have discovered that it, too, had a shaky start, getting only 123 signups in the first month; 2,289 after two months and 36,167 after 11 months. Yet, Mitt Romney, America’s Biggest Looser, has the gall to criticize the federal health law that was patterned after the one he proudly signed and later tried to disavow.

Friendly fire has come from Bill Clinton, the man who tempo-rarily lost his Arkansas bar license for lying about having sex with a White House intern. He’s in no position lecture President Obama and anyone else about keeping their word to Americans.

Furthermore, Obama did what Clinton attempted and failed – he got health care reform legisla-

tion passed by Congress.It was certainly needed.According to a report by

the Commonwealth Fund, “As previous studies have shown, health care spending in the U.S. dwarfs that found in any other industrialized country. In 2009, U.S. spending reached nearly $8,000 per capita. The other study countries spent between one-third (Japan and New Zea-land) and two-thirds (Switzerland and Norway) as much.”

A press release accompany-ing the study noted, “There were 2.4 physicians per 1,000 popula-tion in the U.S. in 2009, fewer than in all the countries in the study except Japan. The U.S. also had the fewest doctor consultations (3.9 per capita) of any country except Sweden. Relative to the other countries in the study, the U.S also had few hospital beds, short lengths of stay for acute care, and few hospital discharges per 1,000 population. On the other hand, U.S. hospital stays were far more expensive than those in other countries – more than $18,000 per discharge. By com-parison, the cost per discharge in Canada was about $13,000, while in Sweden, Australia, New Zea-land, France, and Germany it was less than $10,000.”

It added, “Prices for the 30 most commonly used prescrip-tion drugs were a third higher in the U.S. compared to Canada and Germany, and more than double the amount paid for the same drugs in Australia, France, the

Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.”

The new law will give Blacks more access to health care.

A report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, titled, “Health Cov-erage for the Black Population Today and Under the Affordable Care Act,” found: “Nationwide, just over one in five (21%) of Blacks do not have health insur-ance. However, the likelihood of being uninsured varies widely across states, ranging from 9 percent of Blacks in Delaware to 30 percent in Louisiana. Uninsured rates for nonelderly Blacks are particularly high in the South. The largest uninsured nonelderly Black populations re-side in Florida (718,800), Texas (613,100), and Georgia (594,600). In addition, Blacks comprise a large share of the uninsured popu-lation in the District of Columbia (52%), Mississippi (48%), and Louisiana (42%).”

As much as Obama, in his words, fumbled the ball, there is no reason to forfeit the game, especially in the first quarter.

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By RAynARD JAcksonNNPA Columnist

Richie Incognito and Jona-than Martin, both of the Miami Dolphins, have dominated the news in the sports world for the past two weeks, but for all the wrong reasons Supposedly, Martin was “bullied” by Incognito to the point that Mar-tin left the team indefinitely. Each plays on the offensive line, stands more than 6 feet, and weighs more than 300 pounds.

Incognito has a checkered past dating back to his college days at the University of Nebraska. He has been suspended or disciplined from every team he has played on for various forms of conduct det-rimental to the team. After recent voicemails of Incognito using the N-word and threatening Martin’s family became public, the Dolphins suspended him indefinitely.

Many have voiced their opin-ions on the Dolphin’s situation, but none of them deal with the real facts of this case. If you have never been in a professional locker room or on the sidelines during a game, this may be alien to you. In Prov-erbs 4:7, the Bible states, “Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.”

There are things that are done and spoken in the context of profes-sional sports that those outside of that circle will never relate to or understand. Language and behavior that would never be accepted in other settings is the norm in profes-sional sports. A visit to the locker rooms or sidelines are not for the faint of heart.

Still, I put this whole debacle with the Miami Dolphins at the feet of the Black players on the team as well as the Black community

in general.Several players on the Dol-

phins have said that Incognito was an “honorary Black” – whatever that means.

Most people gain “honor-ary” status into a group by doing something positive to advance that group’s cause or mission. So, be-cause Incognito learned how to use the N-word, they made him a member our community? Re-ally? Remember, we are the same group that claimed Bill Clinton was the first Black president because he played the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall’s TV show and had extramarital affairs.

The N-word is generously used on NFL sidelines, during the game, and in the locker rooms. Everyone in the NFL is not only aware, but has heard this type of crude language incessantly when around players. The same can be said of the NBA.

Los Angeles Clippers for-ward Matt Barnes was recently fined $25,000 by the NBA after he was ejected from a game his team won 111-103. He tweeted, “I love my teammates like fam-ily, but I’m DONE standing up for these n——.”

The fine prompted former Phoenix Sun star Charles Barkley to comment on TNT: “I’m a black man. I use the N-word. I’m going to continue to use the N-word with my black friends, with my white friends, they are my friends…Hey Ernie, in a locker room and with my friends, we use racial slurs. I understand he should not have made it public.”

Barkley has the IQ of room temperature, so his comments are not nearly as surprising Michael

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Putting the ‘Black’ in Black Friday

Incognito, Barkeley and Wilbon Use the N-Word

Republicans’ Crocodile Tears over Health Care

Forcing Poor People to Go Hungry

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Wilbon, a former columnist for the Washington Post and co-host of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” saying essentially the same thing.

Accord ing to Richard Prince’s Journal-isms column, Wilbon said he uses the N-word “all day, every day of my life” and that others have no right to tell Black people how to use it.

We, as Blacks, can’t con-tinue to say it’s Okay for Blacks to use the N-word, but it’s not Okay for others to use it. The word should not be used under any circumstance by anyone. Ever.

In all my years working with professional athletes, I have never heard a Hispanic player use de-rogatory terms about his own people in front of mixed com-pany. Nor have I ever seen them empower an outsider to call them a derogatory word, pretending it is a term of endearment.

This behavior is unique to Blacks and it’s our fault. We must stop blaming others when they use offensive language and words that we use among ourselves. I am embarrassed that we actually debate who can use the N-word and under what circumstances.

Incognito was wrong only to the extent that he is an adult and controls what comes out of his mouth. But don’t blame him for being comfortable using this type of language because we gave him the permission to use it.

So, if Incognito is a racist for using the N-word, what does that make Charles Barkeley, Michael Wilbon and other Blacks who use it? Let’s stop castigating people

such as Incognito when we have seen the enemy and the enemy is us.

Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a Washington, D.C.-based pub-lic relations/government af-fairs firm. He can be reached through his Web site, www.raynardjackson.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at raynard1223.

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NEW ORLEANS - The Or-leans Public Education Network (OPEN) will host the first an-nual Orleans Public Education Awards on Saturday, November 16 at Generations Hall, 310 An-drew Higgins Drive. This first-of-its-kind event will honor those who have worked to improve New Orleans’ public schools, excel in engaging students, and inspire the community. The awards will serve as a way to acknowledge what works in pub-lic education, and to highlight the successes of the best and brightest dedicated to serving the youth of New Orleans.

The distinguished honor-ees at the first annual OPEAs are Liberty Bank President and

CEO Alden McDonald, and L.B. Landry - O.P. Walker High School Principal Mary Laurie,

Liberty Bank’s President Alden McDonald To Receive Education Award

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BATON ROUGE, LA– Cox Communications in Baton Rouge is supporting a holiday campaign to benefit charities across its southeast region this holiday season. The 2nd Annual “Days of Giving” makes it simple for Cox customers to donate toys to local children.

Customers can stop into any local Cox retail store to donate a new, unwrapped toy. Toys will be donated to our local Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge. Each customer who donates receives a coupon good for one free OnDe-mand movie. The campaign began November 18 and will run through December 13. Toys will be deliv-ered to the local Boys & Girls Club on Wednesday, December 18 for distribution to Club members.

“At Cox, giving back to the community is more than just a commitment. It’s a way of life for our employees and our busi-ness,” said Jacqui Vines, senior vice president and general manager of Cox Southeast Region. “This particular campaign makes it easy for our customers to be involved

in helping Cox assist a worthy or-ganization and kids at our local Boys & Girls Clubs.”

Last year, the Cox South-east Region collected more than 1,400 toys from Cox employees and customers during its inaugural Days of Giving toy drive.

“Cox Communication continues to be a wonderful part-

ner of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge,” said Pat R. Van Burkleo, Boys & Girls Club President. “Last year’s Days of Giving campaign was a great way to help many of the youth in our community to better enjoy the holiday season. We look forward to partnering with Cox again this year and we ask that everyone please

support this effort by donating a toy,” he continued.

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Cox Supports Boys & Girls Club of Greater Baton Rouge with 2nd Annual “Days of Giving” toy Drive

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THE CHURCH LADY REPORT

Pastor Rev. Dr. Roosevelt Florida, Jr.Co-Pastor Rose J. Florida

Hey babies it is a wonder-ful day to be alive. I hope that all of you are doing well and are still saved and yet holding on. As I tell you all the time God is good all the time and all the time God is good. Just to be here is a blessing darlings.

Well the city is sad right about now because we have lost one of our great leaders. Dr. Theodore Jetson Jemison Sr. Activist & Civil rights leader, Pastor and preacher left here on last week to go and be with Jesus. Dr. Jemison will be sorely missed. Do ya’ll know that this man was the one who helped to organize the bus boy-cott here is Baton Rouge, and he was so successful at it that the late great dr. martin Luther King Jr. came down here to get his input on how to do it else-where? Babies that Jemison was a trailblazer.

He came from a good Christian family. His daddy was a preacher and they were all Baptist to the bone. That is why he led the National Baptist Convention for 12 years.

Now they tell me that they are going to have his funeral on Saturday November 23, 2013 down there at the church where he pastored those 54 years. Fifty-four years…how in the world did any one man put up with you church folk for 54 years? I will never understand how that happens.

Anyway, do you know that Jemison will lie in state at the State Capitol Rotunda in Baton Rouge on Friday,

Nov. 22, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Yeah Chile, now isn’t that something. I tell you this is his-tory making again.

Babies we can see the hand of God. Please pray for this family and all of us who mourn the loss of this great man. Well-done pastor Jemi-son! Well done!

Well, there is not a lot more going on in the city and if it is I don’t know anything about it because you people just won’t send me the news. I need you to send me that church news people so I can get the word out. Now by now ya’ll ought to know I won’t tell all of your business; just what the people need to know. So send me some news please, and don’t send it the day before the event because you all sometimes wait until the last minute for everything. I’m not fussing I’m just saying that’s all.

Anyway, I’m glad that you all are still here sweeties so just stay saved, be safe and go to give God some praise. I’m about to get out of here so ya’ll be good and I’ll see you in church.

By DonALD Lee

I believe there’s a big misper-ception generally that the devil is out to rob people of their “things” (as in material things). These ma-terial possessions include their homes, their jobs, and their hob-bies — things that they hold dearly to their hearts.

And when they lose these things, they also lose their “joy,” their peace, their sense of accom-plishment. As a result, they become filled with depression, malice, hatred, hardened hearts, and they begin to wallow in self-pity and envy toward others.

Some people resort to enter-taining thoughts of suicide. Some have committed suicide, literally, while others have done so emo-tionally or metaphorically. This is because they haven’t learned or understood that it is not the “things” that people have that the devil is after. Oh, sure, they are means to an end. Don’t get me wrong.

But the devil knows that if he can deceive or dupe people out of their joy — if he can rob you out of your joy — he can render you harmless to his kingdom (of dark-ness), he can protect his interests, which include keeping people in defeat, his attempt to throw a jab at God.

Romans 12:12 (NIV) says, Be joyful in hope, patient in af-fliction, faithful in prayer. James 1:2-4 adds, Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you

face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

In other words, the Lord is reminding us that when the devil attacks us; the Lord has already installed in us a mechanism to continue functioning at an optimal level. That mechanism is the joy of the Lord, which the Holy Spirit in every believer possesses. The Spirit of the true and living God reminds us that trials and setbacks are nothing more than mere tests to

promote us to the next dimension in God’s blessings for our lives. In them, we grow — we mature.

Philippians 4:4 tells us, Re-joice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! If that’s not reas-suring, I don’t know what is. Put another way, whenever the devil hits you with his best shot, know that the joy God gave you — when utilized — smacks the devil right back — hard!!! And rather than you getting frustrated and forfeiting the control God gave you, the devil gets frustrated. If anybody is to get frustrated and become a nervous wreck, let it be the devil, not you.

So, when the devil attacks you, remember to remind him that he’s barking up the wrong tree. Don’t let him steal your joy.

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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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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.

• More than 40 percent of African Americans have high blood pres-sure (hBP) and are at risk for stroke, which can lead to greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s or other vascular cognitive dementias.

• every year, more than 100,000 African Americans have a stroke.

• having high cholesterol increases the risk for stroke and may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s.

Manage Your Risks• Watch the numbers. remember

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.

• healthy lifestyle choices include staying mentally and physically ac-tive, staying socially involved, reduc-ing your intake of fat and cholesterol and not smoking.

Visit www.alz.org/heartbrain or call the American Stroke Associa-tion, a division of the American heart Association, at (888) 478-7653 or the Alzheimer’s Association at (800) 272-3900 and you’ll receive a bro-chure with heart and brain health information and a free pedometer, while supplies last.

What’s Good For Your Heart Is Good For Your Brain

Research shows a link between heart and brain health, which means impaired heart function could lead to impaired brain function.

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.

the Diabetes risk test is avail-

able in english and Spanish by call-ing the ADA at 1-800-DiABeteS (1-800-342-2383) or online at www.diabetes.org/alert.

though the Alert is a one-day call to action, awareness about type 2 diabetes is important anytime of the year, so free Diabetes risk tests are available online and by calling ADA all year long.

A free Diabetes risk test is avail-able all year long to determine the risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

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meal by 10 cents – from $1.50 per meal to $1.40 per meal. For a family of four the cut amounts to the loss of 21 or 22 meals a month.

Contrary to the conven-tional wisdom, most SNAP re-cipients work, but at low-wage jobs that after paying for their rent and such other necessities as transportation, leave them out of enough money to buy enough food to eat. In 2007, half of all food stamp users lived in the suburbs, accord-ing to an analysis of census data by the Brookings Insti-tution, a Washington think tank. Now, it’s 55 percent. More than 900,000 of those enrolled are veterans. The 21 million children in households

that get food stamps consti-tute a quarter of all American children.

In other words, they’re or-dinary Americans who deserve our compassion and govern-ment aid because they have contributed, are contributing, or, regarding the children, have the potential to contribute to the larger society. In that re-gard, the ounce of prevention of funding the nation’s food stamp program at a level that properly responds to the need is the far wiser course to follow.

Lee A. Daniels is a long-time journalist based in New York City. His latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America

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media, sponsorships and contri-butions to worthy causes. And, we should not accept peanuts or chump change in exchange for the massive dollars we spend, enriching businesses and cor-porations owned by interests external to the Black community.

Our inner-city neighbor-hoods are dying for lack of jobs and investment. Therefore, we cannot permit businesses to grow fat off our dollars without de-manding reinvestment in our communities. Those who refuse

to do so must face the wrath of economic sanctions – and there is no better time to target offend-ing businesses/corporations than the Christmas season when their profitability depends on Black dollars.

As the corporate retail estab-lishment prepares to launch the Christmas season, let us trans-form it into a season of resistance — Remember Trayvon Martin: Boycott Florida….Buy Black on “Black Friday.”

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both products of the Orleans pub-lic education system who have worked to serve New Orleans students and schools throughout their illustrious careers.

McDonald is nationally recognized as an advocate and catalyst in the movement of minority businesses into the mainstream economy. He has gained a national reputation as a creative, insightful and practical problem solver in the areas of affordable housing and provid-ing services for the financially underserved populations of America’s cities. Liberty Bank and Trust Company is one of the top three African-American owned financial institutions in the U.S.

Laurie began her career as an educator as a preschool teacher at Kingsley House. Later, Laurie served as the Director of

the Home Instruction Program for Parents of Pre-School Young-sters (HIPPY), after which she became Principal of William Guste Elementary School. Prior to her appointment at Landry-Walker, she served as principal at O. Perry Walker Charter High School until the school was uni-fied with L. B. Landry High School. Under her leadership O. Perry Walker achieved local, state, and national recognition for its rigorous academic pro-gram and significant gains in student achievement.

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During National Diabetes

Month-- we join with individuals living with diabetes, their families, advocates, and health care profes-sionals to raise awareness of this devastating disease around the world.

Combating diabetes is a seri-ous public health issue. More than 340 million people worldwide have diabetes. Recognizing the urgency of this public health problem glob-ally, this May the World Health As-sembly adopted a global target to stop the rise in diabetes by 2025.

As the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, dia-betes affects nearly 26 million Americans of all ages. Another 79 million adults are estimated to have prediabetes, a condition that places them at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

While we have made progress in research leading to improved treatment of diabetes, the burden of this complex disease continues to rise. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, lower-limb amputa-tions not caused by injury, and new cases of blindness among adults in the United States. Diabetes also is

a major cause of heart disease and stroke.

Preventing type 2 diabetes and its complications can improve the quality of life for millions of people and save billions of dollars. The di-rect and indirect costs of diabetes in 2007 were as much as $174 billion.

Yet, while type 2 diabetes is often preventable, more and more people – including young people -- are at risk for type 2 diabetes due partly to the obesity epidemic and aging of the U.S. population.

Currently there is no way to prevent type 1 diabetes, which is most commonly diagnosed in chil-dren and young adults. However, researchers continue their work to identify risk factors and explore preventive measures.

It is important to keep in mind the theme of HHS’s National Diabe-tes Education Program for National Diabetes Month this year: Diabetes is a family affair. Diabetes strikes individuals, but families, communi-ties, and our Nation.

Encouraging research shows that taking small steps, such as adding vegetables and fruits to your diet and getting 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical ac-tivity five days a week, can help manage type 2 diabetes and improve health. These lifestyle changes can

support weight loss, which can go

a long way in helping a person at high risk for type 2 diabetes delay or prevent its onset.

Involve your entire family.

Cook a balanced meal. Share a brisk walk, talk with your family about your health and your family’s

diabetes risk. Schools, work sites,

and places of worship can also be part of the diabetes prevention and management solution.

Preventive care is critical to

improving health and identifying early signs of disease or risk-factors. That is why the Affordable Care Act ensures that, in non-grandfathered health plans, Americans at higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes can receive diabetes screening, diet counseling and obesity screening with no out-of-pocket cost. Addi-tionally, screening for gestational diabetes is available at no additional charge for pregnant women. In 2014, Americans cannot be denied health coverage because they have diabetes or any other pre-existing condition.

Initiatives such as First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Diabetes Prevention Pro-gram and the National Diabetes Education Program (a partnership of the National Institutes of Health and CDC) are helping Americans of all ages take action to improve their health and that of the nation.

To learn more about what you can do to prevent or control diabetes, please see www.YourDiabetesInfo.org or www.cdc.gov/diabetes.

For information on the Na-tional Diabetes Prevention Program, please visit www.cdc.gov/diabetes/prevention.

For a fraud alert for people with diabetes, see http://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2012/alert20120309.asp.

National Diabetes Month and 2013 World Diabetes Day

Starting this week, parish health units around the state began offering flu vaccinations to all Loui-siana residents of age to be vac-cinated; the Department of Health and Hospitals announced Monday. In addition to protecting against the seasonal flu, new studies suggest the vaccine may also protect against heart attacks and stroke.

Until now, flu shots at Loui-siana’s parish health units were re-served only for high-risk groups, in order to ensure that those who most needed the vaccine could get a shot. Based on the level of demand from the “high risk” population and the abundance of flu shots being offered at local clinics and pharmacies, DHH is now opening its vaccine to the general public. Those who would like to receive the seasonal flu vaccination at a parish health unit should bring proof of insur-ance, Medicaid or Medicare. Those without insurance will be charged $10. Supplies at parish health units are limited, so call first or make an appointment. To find your local parish health unit, click here.

DHH is urging Louisianians to protect themselves and their fami-lies by getting this year’s seasonal flu vaccination. In the United States, flu season begins in October and runs through April. Though flu activity is currently low, flu sea-son in Louisiana typically peaks in February. It is not too early to get protected for the peak of flu season.

Every year, millions of indi-viduals contract the flu, with more than 36,000 people in the U.S. dying from this virus and more than 200,000 going to the hospital. Influenza also has a tremendous impact on school attendance and on the families of school children. Twenty-eight percent of school-aged-children get influenza each year. For every 100 school children, influenza accounts for 63 missed school days a year. Of every 100 children who get the flu, 25 family members will come down with the flu within three days.

“Right now, flu activity is low in Louisiana, but that will not always be the case and it’s no reason to let your guard down,” said DHH Secretary Kathy Kliebert. “Getting a flu vaccination now will help pro-tect you throughout this year’s flu season. I want to speak specifically to parents today in urging people to take responsibility in protect-ing themselves and their families against the flu. Children who miss school because of this illness can’t learn, and parents fully understand the struggles of caring for a sick child. This is such a simple step every parent can take. I challenge Louisiana moms and dads to beat the national trends and raise our rates of children’s flu vaccinations starting today.”

The flu vaccine, which the

federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends for anyone older than six months, is the best protection against getting the flu. Healthy people between the ages of 2 and 49 - those who are not pregnant and do not have chronic illnesses - also have the option to get the live, attenuated vaccine through nasal spray. People should consult their health profes-sionals about whether the shot or the nasal spray is better for them.

“Vaccines are the best pre-ventive measure we have to help fight the spread of this illness, and we encourage everyone to get their seasonal flu shot to help protect not only themselves, but their families and friends as well,” said Assistant Secretary for Public Health J.T. Lane. “Every one of us is respon-sible for our own health. Simple decisions we make every day go a long way to building healthier outcomes. There is no simpler, safe and effective decision we can make to stay healthy this flu season than getting the flu vaccine.”

The flu is caused by the influ-enza virus, which is an infection of the respiratory system that causes fever, cough, sore throat, runny/stuffy nose, chills, fatigue and body aches. Most people who get the flu can treat their symptoms at home with rest and medication. But, for some people, the flu is a bigger threat and can cause more serious illnesses, such as pneumonia, or death.

Other people for whom vac-cination is especially important are:

• People who live in nursing

homes and other long-term care facilities, and;

• People who live with or care for those at high risk for complica-tions from flu, including:

• Health care workers;• Household contacts of per-

sons at high risk for complications from the flu, and;

• Household contacts and caregivers of children younger than 5 years of age with particular emphasis on vaccinating contacts of children younger than 6 months of age (children younger than 6 months are at highest risk of flu-related complications but are too young to get vaccinated)

It’s Time to Fight the Flu, Louisiana!

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BATON ROUGE, LA — Lenard Tillery ran for 114 yards and two touchdowns and Kylum Favorite added 108 yards and three scores as Southwestern Athletic Conference west division champi-ons Southern University knocked off Clark Atlanta, 53-0, on Saturday night at A.W. Mumford Stadium.

Johnathan Mack intercepted a pass and returned it 24 yards for a touchdown early in the first quarter and SU (7-4) never looked back.

The Jaguars rolled up 318 yards rushing. Dray Joseph only attempted 12 passes, completing nine, including a 44-yard touch-down pass to Lee Doss. Joseph finished with 105 yards and the Jaguars amassed 423 yards total of-fense. Doss hauled in three catches for 61 yards.

Darrius Coleman scored the fifth of the six rushing touchdowns on the night for SU and chipped in 75 yards on the ground.

On defense, Antonio Garrett finished with seven tackles and Anthony Balancier collected two sacks.

CAU (3-7) only managed 91

yards offense, including eight on their only pass completion. They only had two first downs. Montavi-ous Taylor finished with 49 yards rushing on 17 attempts.

Joshua Tate, Bre’na Williams, and Stevon McGill led the Panthers on defense. Tate and Williams each recorded 12 tackles and McGill added 10.

Southern Overwhelms Clark Atlanta 53-0The Bayou Classic is only

a couple of weeks away! Be sure to purchase your tickets in advance, and take advantage of our Family & Friends Special! Buy two Loge tickets and get one game ticket for free. Join us for the 40th Annual Bayou Classic on Saturday, November 30th, as the Southern Univer-sity Jaguars take on the Gram-bling State University Tigers. Kick-off is at 1:30pm.

Whether you will be visit-ing friends, or bringing your entire family, there is some-thing for everyone! Ancillary events surrounding the game include the Thanksgiving Day Parade, Bayou Classic Golf Tournament, Battle of the Bands & Greek Show, the

Empowerment Exchange, and Fan Fest. Visit mybayouclas-sic.com for the complete sched-ule of events.

Tickets are available at the following locations: Ticketmas-ter, the New Orleans Arena Box Office, the Southern Univer-sity Box Office, the Grambling State University Box Office, and the Bayou Classic website (www.mybayouclassic.com).

The 40th Annual Bayou Classic at the Mercedes Benz Superdome

BATON ROUGE, LA- South-ern University has announced an opening of its new, multimillion-dollar intramural and recreational sports complex.

The Horace Wesley Moody facility, located near student housing, is equipped with a fully stocked weight room and grand gymnasium.

The university will offer Zumba, kickboxing and some classes catered to senior citizens.

University administrators said the goal is to engage com-munity participation from Southern University staff, alumni and their families.

The grand opening was held November 16, 2013.

Horace Moody Intramural Sports Complex