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By Delani Weaver
The pre-college process; SATs, ACTs,
choosing schools and the applicaton
process can be very stressful and
overwhelming for the average high
school student. 100 Black Men of
Syracuse Inc. did their part over the
weekend in helping ensure students
dont lose their way in the applicaton
process by providing guidance to local
high school students and their parents.
Junior Fronters of the Mohawk Valley
partnered with the organizaton and
presented a free, two-hour seminar
focused on applying for college at the
South Side Innovaton Center on Salina
St. Saturday afernoon.
Jawwaad Rasheed, educaton
commitee chairman for 100 Black
Men said, We felt its important to get
as many African-American students in
college as possible. We partnered with
Junior Fronters to do that.
The seminar provided a detailed look
at the applicaton process, milestones
seniors need to reach and the
tmetables necessary to maximize a
students opportunites for admission
into the college or university of their
choice.
There was a pre-registraton form
online available for two weeks prior,
Rasheed said. We had 55 students
registered and we closed registraton
at 70 students.
Junior Fronter of the Mohawk Valley
has held the seminar for several years.
Rasheed said the reputaton of 100
Black Men and their large amount of
followers made the event much bigger
this year.
There will one more fall seminar and
another in the spring. Rasheed said
the fall event was an informatonal
seminar that focused on the right
classes to take based on what your
college interests are, internships, and
choosing the right school for you.
We examined some of the myths and
issues surrounding the SAT and ACT
college placement tests, as well as
suggestons and ideas of how to best
utlize the current placement system,
Rasheed said.
The spring seminars will focus on
fnancing. What scholarships to apply
for, available grants, student loans and
the fnancial aid process.
We will review how students and their
families fnd out about fnancial aid,
grants, scholarships and student and
parent loans. Most importantly, well
provide some insight into maximizing
college fnancial awards, he said.
Help, if needed, was available on-site
to walk students through the process
of flling out applicatons during the
seminaor.
In additon, Rasheed said parents
were encouraged to atend with their
students.
Parents have to implement most
of the informaton, thats why its
important that they come with their
child, Rasheed said.
100 Black Men Plans Seminar for Students Applying for College
By Delani Weaver
Due to an overspent budget, the
Onondaga County Legislature said they
will be keeping a close eye on money
spent within the sherifs department
going forward.
According to the Legislature, Sherif
Kevin Walsh is spending too much and
will need approval from legislators
before he spends almost $4 million
of the $83 million budget for 2014.
Legislators said the county has other
bills that need to be paid.
With a vote of 15-1, the 2014 budget
of approximately $1.21 billion was
accepted Tuesday, and overtme costs
at the sherifs ofce seemed to be the
Legislatures biggest area of concern.
According to a report from County
Comptroller Robert Antonacci, $2
million in overtme hours has been
spent on road patrol and billed on
the contract with the deputes union,
showing that jail deputes at the Justce
Center have been getng massive
amounts of unwarranted overtme.
Those fgures are approximately half
of all overtme and the Legislature
said this is something that needs
to change immediately. Accounts
totaling $3.8 million were taken from
Walshs control and placed under
the Legislatures control. Legislators
also cut $500,000 for new cars in the
sherifs department.
Republican Chairman Ryan McMahon
said, The money is being put into
diferent pockets so we can have a
bigger role in the process.
Walsh, on the other hand, said this is
ridiculous and unprecedented.
We dont have control over overtme,
he stated. If there are dead bodies
laying on the highway, you dont tell
(ofcers) its the end of your work day,
go home.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A central New
York judge has dismissed a womans
lawsuit claiming she was sexually
assaulted by of-duty state troopers at
Wyndham Hotel in DeWit in 2005.
The local media reports that a state
Court of Claims judge ruled the state
couldnt be sued because the troopers
were of-duty when the woman says
two of them had sex with her in a hotel
room.
The troopers said the sex was
consensual, but the woman claimed
she was too drunk to consent.
The Syracuse-area womans lawyer
argued that the state had a duty to
protect her because it paid for the
troopers hotel room where troopers
were housed while assigned to the
State Fair outside Syracuse.
A state investgaton critcized the
troopers behavior but didnt fnd
evidence that any crimes were
commited.
Syracuse Resident Stands Up in Midst of Community Unrest
Syracuse residents say they are
wondering what is happening to the
youth of their community, afer an
18-year-old was charged with the
unprovoked and brutal beatng of
70-year-old Syracuse resident Jim
Giford last Wednesday. Giford died of
his injuries.
There have been several incidents
of crime and violence commited by
the citys youth recently, and its a
problem that has led to the need for
the Get Your Kids rally against street
violence, according to local resident
Mary Nelson. This rally will be held at
the Kirk Park Pavilion Oct.13 and led by
Nelson.
Discipline and respect begin in the
home. I want people to come out and
hear that message and be a part of
the soluton, not part of the problem,
Nelson said.
Worleta Clemons, a Syracuse
resident whose son was a victm of
gun violence back in 2006, said she
coined the phrase Get Your Kids for
the rally when she spoke out, saying
that parents have slacked on their
responsibility of knowing where their
child is and what they are doing.
Get your kids, or the police will,
Clemons said.
According to Clemons, her concern is
that drug dealers and drug addicts are
raising urban children these days.
Clemons son, Jemar Shepherd, was
shot to death in a drug deal gone
badly, according to police.
Ive seen it all. First it was drug deals
and now theyre beatng up on older
people. There is no way to explain
that, said Clemons. I lost my only son
to violence, and Ill never get over it.
Book bags that were given to children
at the annual Mary Nelson Youth Day
Barbeque will also be reflled with
school supplies.
I want this to be big, really big. Our
community needs to hear this message
loud and clear. Worleta Clemons hit
the nail on the head when she said
Get Your Kids, now we need to do it,
Nelson said.
Clemons added, Parents need to
open up their eyes. You know what
your kid is doing. You know if they
are into drugs, you know if they are
disrespectul, and its up to you as the
parent to stop it.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State ofcials say
40,000 New Yorkers have signed up
for health insurance in the frst week
of operaton for the new state-run
marketplace that includes low-cost
plans.
The NY State of Health says its website
has quadrupled capacity since opening
enrollment Oct. 1, resolving the issues
that initally kept many consumers
from advancing past the home page,
and says it is running smoothly.
The related customer service center
operators have responded to more
than 26,000 callers, though ofcials
say most of the 40,000 enrollments
have been online.
The website is open daily with
scheduled maintenance from midnight
to 6 a.m.
The call center is open 8 a.m. to 8
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Saturdays at 1-855-355-5777.
NY reports 40,000 enroll for health insurance
ALBANY (AP) -- An efort to atack so-
called revenge porn is getng strong
support in New Yorks Legislature.
A proposed law would make it a crime
for people to post pornography to
damage somebodys reputaton. The
most common targets are former
girlfriends and ex-spouses.
The New York Daily News reports that
Republican Sen. Phil Boyle of Long
Island and Democratc Assemblyman
Francisco Moya of Queens plan to
push revenge porn bills in the 2014
legislatve session. That gives the
proposal majority backers in both
chambers.
California has a similar bill. It carries a
sentence of up to six months in jail.
Boyles bill calls for penaltes of up to
a year in jail. Moya would make the
crime punishable by up to four years
in prison.
Momentum builds for NY revenge porn bill
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Herman Wallace, who spent
more than 41 years in solitary confnement in a
Louisiana prison, died on Friday, October 4, three
days afer he was released because he was deathly
ill.
About sunrise this morning, Herman Wallace
passed away a free man, unshackled, in a New
Orleans home, surrounded by supporters who loved
him dearly, Jackie Sumell, Wallaces close friend,
wrote on her Facebook page. His dying words were
love yall, Sumell wrote.
Prison ofcials released Wallace, who was sufering
from terminal liver cancer, to Interim Louisiana State
University Hospital in New Orleans. Hospital ofcials
released him to friends and to supporters so he
could die in a home. He was 71 years old.
Wallace was serving a 50 year-prison sentence
for armed robbery at the Louisiana State Prison in
Angola, La., when he and two others were convicted
of the 1972 stabbing death of prison guard Brent
Miller.
Millers widow, Leontne Verret, has said in a video
that she did not believe Wallace, Robert King and
Albert Woodfox were involved in her husbands
murder. All three men denied involvement in the
crime.
There was no DNA evidence linking Wallace to the
crime, said Amnesty Internatonal.
The men, known as the Angola 3, were framed for
the murder because they had founded a prison
chapter of the Black Panther Party, argue supporters.
The three were sentenced to solitary confnement,
which according to the website Solitary Watch,
means inmates are locked in their cells 22 to 24
hours a day.
Amnesty Internatonal said during his more than 40
years in solitary confnement, Wallace was allowed
out of his six-foot-by-nine-foot cell only seven hours
each week to shower and to engage in solitary
recreaton.
Under internatonal law, these conditons amount
to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, said
Steven Hawkins, executve director of Amnesty
Internatonal USA, which is based in New York.
In 2011, Amnesty Internatonal published USA: 100
Years In Solitary: The Angola 3 And Their Fight For
Justce.
King was exonerated of Millers murder and released
from prison in 2001 afer 29 years in solitary
confnement. Woodfox stll remains in solitary
confnement.
On Oct. 1, in the case of Herman Miller versus
Howard Prince, warden of Angola prison, Judge
Brian A. Jackson, chief judge of the United States
District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana,
overturned Wallaces murder convicton because
women were prohibited from serving on the Grand
Jury that indicted Wallace. The ruling, however, was
moot because Wallaces life was quickly coming to
an end.
Afer learning of his death, Hawkins issued this
statement: Today is a very sad day for the family
and friends of Herman Wallace and for those who
spent so many years working toward his freedom.
We at Amnesty Internatonal ofer our condolences
to his loved ones.
Man Who Spent 41 Years in Solitary
Confinement Dies Surrounded by Friends
Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace
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WASHINGTON (AP) - For the second
straight year, millions of Social Security
recipients, disabled veterans and
federal retrees can expect historically
small increases in their benefts come
January.
Preliminary fgures suggest a beneft
increase of roughly 1.5 percent, which
would be among the smallest since
automatc increases were adopted in
1975, according to an analysis by The
Associated Press.
Next years raise will be small because
consumer prices, as measured by the
government, havent gone up much in
the past year.
The exact size of the cost-of-living
adjustment, or COLA, wont be known
untl the Labor Department releases
the infaton report for September. That
was supposed to happen Wednesday,
but the report was delayed indefnitely
because of the partal government
shutdown.
The COLA is usually announced in
October to give Social Security and
other beneft programs tme to adjust
January payments. The Social Security
Administraton has given no indicaton
that raises would be delayed because
of the shutdown, but advocates for
seniors said the uncertainty was
unwelcome.
Social Security benefts have contnued
during the shutdown.
More than one-ffh of the country is
waitng for the news.
Nearly 58 million retrees, disabled
workers, spouses and children get
Social Security benefts. The average
monthly payment is $1,162. A 1.5
percent raise would increase the
typical monthly payment by about
$17.
The COLA also afects benefts for
more than 3 million disabled veterans,
about 2.5 million federal retrees and
their survivors, and more than 8 million
people who get Supplemental Security
Income, the disability program for the
poor.
Automatc COLAs were adopted so that
benefts for people on fxed incomes
would keep up with rising prices. Many
seniors, however, complain that the
COLA sometmes falls short, leaving
them litle wiggle room.
David Waugh of Bethesda, Md., said
he can handle one small COLA but
several in a row make it hard to plan
for unexpected expenses.
Im not one of those folks thats going
to fall into poverty, but it is going to
make a diference in my standard of
living as tme goes by, said Waugh, 83,
who retred from the United Natons.
I live in a small apartment and I have
an old car, and its going to break
down. And no doubt when it does, Ill
have to fx it or get a new one.
Since 1975, annual Social Security
raises have averaged 4.1 percent. Only
six tmes have they been less than
2 percent, including this year, when
the increase was 1.7 percent. There
was no COLA in 2010 or 2011 because
infaton was too low.
By law, the cost-of-living adjustment
is based on the Consumer Price Index
for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical
Workers, or CPI-W, a broad measure
of consumer prices generated by
the Bureau of Labor Statstcs. It
measures price changes for food,
housing, clothing, transportaton,
energy, medical care, recreaton and
educaton.
The COLA is calculated by comparing
consumer prices in July, August and
September each year to prices in the
same three months from the previous
year. If prices go up over the course of
the year, benefts go up, startng with
payments delivered in January.
This year, average prices for July and
August were 1.4 percent higher than
they were a year ago, according to the
CPI-W.
Once the September report, the fnal
piece of the puzzle, is released, the
COLA can be announced ofcially. If
prices contnued to slowly inch up in
September, that would put the COLA
at roughly 1.5 percent.
Several economists said there were no
dramatc price swings in September
to signifcantly increase or decrease
the projected COLA. That means the
projecton shouldnt change by more
than a few tenths of a percentage
point, if at all.
Polina Vlasenko, a research fellow at
the American Insttute for Economic
Research, projects the COLA will be
between 1.4 percent and 1.6 percent.
Her projecton is similar to those
done by others, including AARP, which
estmates the COLA will be between
1.5 percent and 1.7 percent. The
Senior Citzens League estmates it will
be about 1.5 percent.
Lower prices for gasoline are helping
to fuel low infaton, Vlasenko said.
In years with high COLAs, a lot of that
had to do with fuel prices and in some
cases food prices. Neither of those
increased much this year, Vlasenko
said. So that kept the lid on the overall
increase in prices.
Gasoline prices are down 2.4 percent
from a year ago while food prices are
up slightly, according to the August
infaton report. Housing costs went
up 2.3 percent and utlites increased
by 3.2 percent.
Advocates for seniors say the
governments measure of infaton
doesnt accurately refect price
increases older Americans face
because they tend to spend more
of their income on health care.
Medical costs went up less than in
previous years but stll outpaced other
consumer prices, rising 2.5 percent.
This (COLA) is not enough to keep up
with infaton, as it afects seniors,
said Max Richtman, who heads the
Natonal Commitee to Preserve Social
Security and Medicare. There are
some things that become cheaper but
they are not things that seniors buy.
Laptop computers have gone down
dramatcally but how many people at
70 are buying laptop computers?
The cost of personal computers
dropped by 10.6 percent over the past
year, according the CPI-W.
Thats a small consolaton to Alberta
Gaskins of the District of Columbia,
who said she is concerned about
keeping up with her household bills.
It is very important to get the COLA
because everything else you have in
your life is on an upward swing, and
if youre on a downward swing, that
means your quality of life is going
down, said Gaskins, who retred from
the Postal Service in 1989.
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By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Amidst
a contnuing standof between
Congressional Republicans and
Democrats this week, President
Obama has reached out to his base,
asking them to start signing up for
Afordable Health Care coverage and
to even embrace the Republican-
invented word, Obamacare.
I know there are groups that are
working to make Obamacare fail,
including a group of House Republicans
that voted more than 40 tmes to
derail the law, Obama said in a video
emailed to millions of people who he
described as the best grassroots team
ever.
Reminding viewers of the basic
reasons for the law - so there would
be no more discriminaton based on
pre-existng conditons and so that
single mothers can aford both health
care and college for their children,
among other reasons - the President,
encouraged supporters to join Team
Obamacare.
There are groups working against this
law that are spending a lot of money
to try to confuse people about health
reform. Thats why its so important
that all of us make sure that people
have the facts, he says in the video.
You know Im on Team Obamacare.
Today Im asking you to be a part of
it too. Im asking you to talk to your
family and friends, neighbors and co-
workers and tell them to check out
healthcare.gov for themselves, to see
what plan works best for them and
their families.
What was billed as a personal message
for OFA supporters, appeared to be
a direct message from Obama to his
large African-American base. OFA,
Organizing for Acton, is the same
email target used to undergird his
strategic campaign move in November,
surprising Republicans with millions of
votes that they least expected.
The President appears to be
strategically embracing the term,
Obamacare, and encouraging
supporters to do so even as some
news agencies are debatng whether
or not to even use it.
The Associated Press and NPR
have decided to cut back on use of
the term Obamacare, with NPR
describing the word as seeming to
be straddling somewhere between
being a politcally-charged term and
an accepted part of the vernacular,
reports Richard Prince in his Journal-
isms column Oct. 3. Separately, the AP
went further and said the name of the
health-care law, the Afordable Care
Act, was also prejudicial in that its
very name is promotonal; opponents
believe it will not be afordable for
individuals or the country, Prince
wrote.
The shut-down of non-essental
services of the U. S. Government,
causing hundreds of thousands of
layofs, remain in efect this week.
Republicans contnue to hold
out on a vote untl the President
makes concession on the ACA or on
enttlements, says Republican House
Speaker John Boehner.
The President has refused to negotate
on the issue, his email appearing to
making sure his base knows why.
I couldnt be more proud to have the
support of the best grassroots team
ever. Together, were going to fnish
what we started.
Obama Signals: Join Team Obamacare
President Barack Obama, with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, listen as enrollees in the
Afordable Care Act tell their stories in the Oval Ofce, Oct. 1. The enrollees later joined the
President for a statement in the Rose Garden. PHOTO: Pete Souza/The White House
By Delani Weaver
While business will contnue as usual
and paychecks will stll be given to
all 533 members of Congress, the
economy and the American people
will sufer the brunt of the frst
government shutdown in 17 years.
Out of all the issues going on within
the naton, its disturbing to think that
feasible and proper healthcare would
cause a standof between Democrats
and Republicans in Congress. But
thats exactly whats happening.
Democrats and Republicans have been
batling over a spending plan for the
governments fscal year, which began
Tuesday. The Obamacare health plan
opton, which opened for enrollment
today, is at the center of the argument.
Republicans want a spending plan
that will eventually disintegrate
Obamacare, while Democrats want a
spending plan that doesnt.
This is the frst shutdown since
1995 when, during the Clinton
administraton, the standstll lasted
21 days and cost approximately $2
billion. Research is showing that if this
shutdown lasts three to four weeks it
could cost the economy approximately
$55 billion.
This shutdown has afected average
individuals and families as well.
Military paychecks will be delayed,
employees will be furloughed,
natonal parks and visitor centers are
closed, new disability applicatons will
be delayed and programs such as WIC
and head start could be shut down.
Congress, however, will not be
afected even though millions of
citzens say this is their fault. Congress
will contnue to receive their salary as
mandated by the 27th Amendment of
the U.S. Consttuton.
Several congressmen have said they
will donate their salary to charites or
will refuse to accept their salary untl
the shutdown ends.
U.S. Federal Government Shuts
Down, First Time in Over 17 Years
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necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - While
some members
of Congress are
foregoing pay
as long as other
g o v e r n me n t
workers are
shut out of
their ofces,
R e p u b l i c a n
Cong r es s man
Lee Terry
(R-Neb.) says
he wont be giving his up. He told his
hometown paper that he had to pay
for his nice house and that he also
had a kid in college. I guess he needs
his pay more than the others who also
have nice homes and college tuitons
to pay for.
The gall of these do-nothing
Republicans is amazing. If I had my
way - NONE of them, no Democrat,
no Republican, no President, no
Supreme Court Justce would be able
to collect a penny. Lest they forget,
they are government workers just
like the clerical worker or statstcian
that earns a government check.
While Republicans bear primary
responsibility for the stalemate, if the
collectve had to sufer, there might be
a way to get Congress moving.
Congress did the right thing in saying
that federal workers will get retroactve
pay when a budget or contnuing
resoluton is passed, but that wont
help the folks who live from paycheck
to paycheck when nothing is coming
in. Perhaps if Congressman Terry were
paid retroactvely and only afer this
mess were setled, perhaps if he had
to miss a payment on his nice house,
and seek a Parent Plus loan for his
childs college tuiton, then he might
take a less fippant view toward those
whose survival he holds in his hands.
With House Speaker John Boehner
typing debt ceiling talks to budget
talks, there is litle incentve to fx this
mess before October 17, the debt-
ceiling deadline.
Even if an agreement comes before
October 17, people wont get paid
untl government gets back up and
running. Some paychecks may be
delayed as long as a week, but I dont
think that a credit card payment, rent,
or a mortgage bill can be delayed. AS
this Congress contnues ego-tripping,
too many people are being tripped
up by their economic circumstances,
which have not been helped by
mandatory furloughs that some have
already taken this year.
It is interestng, though, to ponder the
Congressional meaning of essental
services. Almost half of the 800,000
government workers who have been
locked out of their workplaces work for
the Department of Defense. Because
they support the military, they will be
allowed to come back to work because
the military is essental. I dont think
it takes 350,000 people to support
the military. I think this is a ploy to
show the importance of the military
as opposed to the rest of government
service. The starve the beast
crowd who would eliminate most of
government is undoubtedly delighted
at the illustraton that the world will
not come falling down if government
stops working.
Why is feeding people less essental
than protectng them? Im not
suggestng that the military is
expendable (though, frankly, at least
part of it should be). Im simply
suggestng that it is as essental to
protect people from hunger, as it is to
protect them from other threats, real
or perceived. And bringing 350,000
Defense Department workers back
suggests that they are more important
than their colleagues, the other federal
employees who are stll locked out.
Our Congress simply doesnt know
(and hasnt tried to know) how the
other 99 percent live. California
Republican Darrell Issa is worth $355
million. I guess he would not know
what it feels like to miss a mortgage
payment. Neither would Texas
Republican Michael McCaul, who
is worth at least $100 million, not
including his wifes worth.
This is not class envy just an
observaton. Many members of
Congress are independently wealthy
and they earn at least $174,000 for their
service to the naton, along with a
series of perks worth thousands more.
The average household has an income
of about $51,000. Congressional
representatves like Lee Terry say they
have earned their salaries and wont
give them back because they have nice
homes and children in college. That
speaks volumes about their contempt
for fellow government workers who
have obligatons they cant meet
thanks to our do-nothing Congress.
Nice House, Kid in College
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - Last week,
I atended yet
another funeral
of an important
civil rights fgure.
Generally, when
we say that, were
talking about a
man. This tme,
I am talking
about a woman
who was the
spouse of a very
important civil
rights fgure, but this fgure is a woman
who was referred to in the celebraton
as Generalwhich means she, too,
was in charge of something important.
No mater what we read or hear at
events where civil rights fgures are
remembered, rarely is the story of a
woman of the Civil Rights Movement
is lifed up.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2013, things
were diferent. Hundreds of people
turned out at the Martn Luther King,
Jr. Internatonal Chapel at Morehouse
College for the Celebraton of Life of
Evelyn Gibson Lowery. While she was
the spouse of Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, she
was a woman worthy of honor not only
for what she endured as the spouse of
a civil rights icon, but also for what she
did to make ours a beter world.
Among the many well-know fgures
turning out to honor Mrs. Lowery
were Dr. John Wilson, Jr.President
of Morehouse College; Atlanta Mayor
Kasim Reed; Martn Luther King, III;
Dick Gregory; Xernona Clayton,
Founder and CEO of the Trumpet
Awards Foundaton; Bernice King;
Dr. Christne King FarrisAssociate
Professor of Educaton at Spelman
College; Ambassador Thandi Luthuli
Gcabashe of South Africa; Dr. Carlton
BrownPresident of Clark Atlanta
University; Rev. Al Sharpton and
numerous members of the Natonal
Congress of Black Women, Inc.
There were wonderful messages of
remembrance from President Barack
and First Lady Michelle Obama, from
Atorney General Eric Holder and
more.
The Cascade United Methodist Church
Mass Choir, Jennifer Holliday and
Cassandra Davis provided great music,
but I was especially moved by the
tribute in song paid Mrs. Lowery by
her three daughtersYvonne Lowery
Kennedy, Karen Gale Lowery and
Cheryl Jo Lowery as their voices rang
out with Total Praisewhich was
followed by Bishop Woodie Whites
masterful sermon.
Mrs. Lowery worked in the Civil Rights
Movement by her husbands side,
but she did more. She highlighted
the contributons of women in
the Movement who ofen went
unnotced. When her husband was
elected to head the Southern Christan
Leadership Conference (SCLC), she
began concentratng on the ofen
unnotced contributons of women
in the Movement. Being passionate
about the issues greatly impactng
women and children, in 1979, Mrs.
Lowery brought together a group
of women and gave birth to SCLC/
W.O.M.E.N. (Womens Organizatonal
Movement for Equality Now). She
remained its Natonal Convener from
its incepton untl the tme of her
death. She started the frst natonal
conference on The Survival of the
Black Family. In 1980, she added
a natonal conference for youth. In
1981, she added a golf tournament
and both events served as fundraisers
for the programs of SCLC/W.O.M.E.N,
Inc. Mrs. Lowery believed in the
recogniton of others and thus created
the Drum Major for Justce Awards
Banquet. She was so concerned
about recogniton of others that she
led in erectng at least 13 monuments
along the civil rights trailand was
in the process of developing the 14th
monument in Montgomery, Alabama
to honor Dr. Martn Luther King, Jr.
She addressed issues of AIDS/HIV
educaton, GED and computer training,
mentoring girls, and Christmas partes
for children and seniors. Because she
personally invited me to work with
her on some of her programs, Im
very much aware of the work she did
on voter educaton, registraton and
get-out- the- vote eforts. Just as she
arranged for young people to learn
their history on civil rights tours, so we
must contnue to preserve our history
by highlightng women like Evelyn G.
Lowery.
(Dr. E. Faye Williams is Natonal Chair of
the Natonal Congress of Black Women,
Inc. www.natonalcongressbw.org.
202/678-6788)
Women of the Civil Rights Movement
JULiANNE MALvEAUx
dr. e. faye
WiLLiaMs, esq.
POSITIVE! POWERFuL! CONVINCING!
11 www.cnyvision.com | october 17 - 23| 2013
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - My 20 years
as a columnist for
the Black Press
would not be
complete without
an artcle about
fve persons
whom I hold in
high esteem, fve
persons from
whom I have
learned about
sacrifce, commitment, dedicaton,
honor, and character; and fve persons
who hold a special place in most if not
all of our hearts and minds. They are
Marcus, Medgar, Malcolm, Martn, and
Maynard. No last names necessary,
right?
Although I have many lesser known
brothers and sisters that I deeply
admire and respect, I chose these
fve for two reasons: Virtually all of
my readers know about them and
their accomplishments; and these
partcular men, collectvely, represent
the basic characteristcs and ideals
I have writen about for years. Not
to slight the sisters, I could have also
chosen Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet
Tubman, or Barbara Jordan.
I will go with The Five Ms, however,
and do my best to give them the
acclaim and respect they deserve,
while at the same tme try to give you
something upon which to refect and a
model to emulate.
Marcus Garvey, whose
accomplishments of rallying over
6 million people, raising some
$10 million, and startng business
enterprises along the way, was a Black
man who strongly believed in and
practced economic empowerment for
Africans in America. While I leave the
task of educatng our people on Garvey
to scholars like Dr. Umar Johnson,
Amefka Geuka, and Shaka Barak, I
have always shared Garveys words of
wisdom and used his life and tmes as
teaching tools for our progress.
Garvey personifed strength,
commitment, fearlessness, and most
of all, love for Black people Listen to
his passionate words on Blackonomics.
com Videos). He was highly
intelligent and always undeterred by
his detractors. Oh to think what could
have been, if Booker T. had not died
when Garvey was making his way to
meet him in 1915. Working together,
I believe those two giants would have
shocked the world. Garvey died at
53.
Medgar Evers, an unrelentng fghter
for civil rights in Mississippi, exuded
bravery. Despite the daily threats to
his life, he contnued to stand up for
his people untl that fateful night in
1963 when he was shot down in front
of his home with his precious children
and loving wife, Myrlie, nearby. What
strength! What resolve! What love!
Knowing his life and that of his family
were always in jeopardy, he did what
was right in the face of constant
danger.
Evers displayed grace under fre like no
other. Assassinated at the young age
of 38, he will always hold a place in our
history for his work, his example, and
his love for his people.
Malcolm, a pit bull, was bold and
tenacious. His name connotes strong
will and purpose. Ossie Davis said,
Malcolm kept snatching our lies
away. He kept shoutng the painful
truth we Whites and Blacks did not
want to hear from all the housetops.
And he wouldnt stop for love or
money. Those words aptly describe
the character and persona of Malcolm.
Unafraid, open-minded, highly
intelligent, resolute, and much more,
Malcolm dedicated precious years of
his life, of course to his family, but also
to educatng and demonstratng to the
world, and Black people in partcular,
that we should move beyond mere
rhetoric, that Black folks should get
real and do what must be done to
secure an economic future. He was
right, of course. Also assassinated, he
was 39.
Martn. The Energizer Bunny. My
words pale in comparison to what has
been said about his life, his oratorical
wizardry, his willingness to call out
politcians even Presidents, and the
spiritual motvaton that drove him
to go into the lions den, to face hate-
flled adversaries, to respond to fellow
ministers who felt he was getng out
of his place, to defy the odds of racist
and prejudiced southern towns.
King, even knowing his life would be
taken at some point, kept going, kept
doing, kept showing up and showing
out. He was a mans man and, in my
opinion, a gif from God for this naton,
just as Moses was in his tme. But this
naton refused to heed his words, and
Black people refused to let Pharaoh
go. Also at 39 years of age, he too was
felled by an assassins bullet.
Maynard Jackson, consummate
politcian. He was a Black Mayor
who had the courage to stand up to
the status quo, and win. I came up
with my own saying to describe him:
If we dont get ours, you dont get
yours! His stance on the constructon
of the Hartsfeld Airport set the
tone for economic inclusion in this
country. Maynard was also a friend of
mine. He was in Law School at North
Carolina College and I was a freshman.
We became friends as a result of
our singing in the college choir. His
deep baritone/bass was something
to behold. But we had another
connecton; we loved to eat. While on
a singing tour in 1964 in Washington,
D.C., we were enjoying a meal at a
restaurant and missed our tour bus. I
am proud to have known him.
The Five Ms
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