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Thursday, July 30, 2015

RenamingRobert E.Lee SchoolBy Dianne AndersonStaff Writer

Now that the confederate flag is coming down inparts of the South, the next fight is renamingpublic schools that honor historic white suprema-cist slave owners -- schools coincidentally most-ly located in low income communities of color.

Local educator, Dr. O. Leon Wood, said thatit's hard to understand how the 80 or so schoolsnamed after General Robert E. Lee in America,and over 100 others named after confederate sol-diers representing the attempted overthrow of theUnited States to preserve slavery stood unchal-lenged for so long.

It is a strange double standard.As for Lee, he said probably the most impor-

tant aspect to remember is that while he is held upas a Southern gentleman, he took no prisoners.

“He never took Black prisoners, he killedthem,” he said. “You couldn't find a Black prison-er of war in the Confederate Army.”

Initially, many schools honoring Confederatesoldiers were named and occupied by low incomewhites. These days, the schools are mostly occu-pied by Black and Brown students.

Dr. Wood, who runs a local Freedom School,said there is a long, admirable list of true AfricanAmerican heroes that should be considered in therenaming of schools. They have impacted consti-tutional and civil rights to benefit many diversegroups across the nation.

He also feels that keeping Confederates asheroes on school fronts convey more than a sub-liminal message, even as so few are named afterprominent Black resistance or abolitionist leaderslike Harriet Tubman.

“The message is it that it's okay to be a rebel,as long as they're white,” he said.

“They never really associated the rebels withterrorism or with being traitors. They associatedthem with being heroes,” he said.

Under pressure from a petition backed by EarlOfari Hutchinson with the Los Angeles UrbanPolicy Roundtable, the Long Beach UnifiedSchool District Board moved to open public com-ment on renaming the school. The district plans tomove forward with a committee to help with vet-ting recommendations for renaming Robert E. Leeelementary school.

Board President, Felton Williams, said that at(Cont. on Page 5)

President Barack Obama and Members of Congress view "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fos-silized bones of a human ancestor, at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 27.Zeresenay Alemseged, an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist, explains the fossil. OfficialWhite House Photo by Pete Souza

Anaheim LaunchesNew Democratic Club

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By Dianne AndersonStaff Writer

In recent years, Dr. JeanetteBurns, who has lived inAnaheim for three decades,looks around her potential vot-ing community and asks thepopular question: Where are allthe Black people?

“It's a good question, yourguess is as good as mine,” shesaid.

Wherever they are, she ishoping they will return to an oldlandmark.

She wants to at least glean aportion of the 1-2% AfricanAmerican residents to attendmeetings around a cause that hergeneration fought so hard to win-- voting rights.

She recently formed theAnaheim Democratic Club,which meets the first Saturday

of every month, the next to beheld on August 1. Meetings runfrom noon to 1:30 p.m., locatedat Workers United Local 50 527S Harbor Blvd. in Anaheim.

At the last meeting, thegroup pulled members to hearfrom Anaheim Councilman andDemocrat Congressional candi-date Jordan Brandman on one ofthe more important issues facingthe city today.

Community input is neededto impact City Council votingdistrict boundaries on maps thatare now being drawn up.Representatives from the cityclerk's office also talked aboutthe process.

From now until October, sheis asking everyone to participateto make sure that the maps aresliced up to fit the mandate of anew measure, following theACLU lawsuit that helped

change the city from at-largevoting to single member dis-tricts.

Because the AfricanAmerican community is gettingsmaller, she said participation isimportant. The local DemocraticClub will continue to keep themaps as priority until theprocess is completed.

“If they throw everyone inthe same district, it would bedifficult for candidates to run.We know that Blacks inAnaheim are 1% or in someplaces 2%, but we are the lowestnumbers,” she said.

Discussions are on the newvoting format that will start nextyear, and the community's rolein determining the compositionof the maps. Under the change,the city’s at-large system of four

(Cont. on Page 2)

City of LongBeach Launches

‘My Brother’sKeeper’ Task

ForceThe City of Long Beach has

launched a My Brother’s Keeper(MBK) Task Force to establish andimplement new ideas to achieve posi-tive life outcomes for youth. The groupconvened on Wednesday, July 22, forthe first time to discuss the next steps indeveloping a Local Action Plan toensure that all young people have theopportunity to succeed.

“Our City’s commitment toPresident Obama’s My Brother’sKeeper initiative brings together everycorner of our City to support our youngpeople,” said Mayor Robert Garcia.“The task force is collaborative effortthat builds on the City’s commitment tokeeping our youth safe, healthy, and ontrack for success in their education andtheir careers.”

The City Council adopted a resolu-tion supporting President Obama’sMBK Community Challenge in January2015, based on an agenda item broughtforth by Councilmembers RexRichardson, Lena Gonzalez, RobertoUranga and Al Austin. The initiativecalls upon City leaders to work collec-tively to help close opportunity gapsfacing youth and ensure that all youngpeople have the resources and toolsneeded to achieve their full potential.

“This significant endeavor offers aCitywide 'cradle to career' approach toaddressing the needs and priorities ofour boys and young men of color,” saidCouncilmember Richardson. “The MyBrother’s Keeper Long Beach TaskForce will meet President Obama's chal-lenge, providing new avenues forexpanding opportunities and optimismfor all young people in our community.”

The Task Force consists of City offi-cials; representatives from the LongBeach Unified School District; LongBeach City College; California StateUniversity, Long Beach; local hospitalexecutives; community-based organiza-tions; faith leaders; and members of thecommunity. They convened at the MainLibrary to discuss the early stages ofdeveloping a Local Action Plan, whichwill include objectives, next steps, and atimeframe for evaluating progress.

They focused on the six goal areas ofMBK as recommended by the ObamaAdministration: Enter School Ready toLearn; Read at Grade Level by ThirdGrade; Graduate from High SchoolReady for College and Career;Complete Post-secondary Education orTraining; Successfully Enter theWorkforce; and Safe from Violence andProvided Second Chances

The MBK Long Beach Task Force isan ad hoc committee of Safe LongBeach, the City’s Violence PreventionPlan. Adopted by the City Council inMay 2014, Safe Long Beach addressesa broad safety agenda aimed at reducingall forms of violence, including domes-tic abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, hatecrimes, bullying, gang violence, andviolent crime. The plan draws upon theCity's many existing assets to target vio-lence at its root and attain the goal ofbuilding a safer Long Beach by 2020.

As part of achieving the goals of theMBK Community Challenge, the LongBeach Task Force will review existingpolicies and expand on ideas discussedwith community members at the MBKLocal Action Summit held earlier thisyear.

In February 2014, President Obamaissued a nationwide Challenge to citiesacross the country as a call to action toencourage communities to implementstrategies for improving the life out-comes of all young people, regardless ofwho they are, where they come from, orthe circumstances to which they areborn.

For more information on Safe LongBeach, go to www.lbvpp.com.

On 50th Anniversary, Medicareand Medicaid Still Vital

By Jazelle HuntWashington Correspondent

Washington (NNPA) — AsMedicare and Medicaid turn 50 thisweek, the nation takes a look at theimpact of two of the most significantgovernment programs ever launched.

Medicare serves roughly 52 mil-lion Americans as of 2013, about 10percent of whom are Black. The pro-gram is part of the Social SecurityAct and was created to providehealth insurance for seniors regard-less of income or health status.Today, Medicare covers seniors, per-manently disabled people of all ages,and people with Lou Gehrig’s dis-ease (ALS) or end-stage kidney dis-ease.

“Medicare in the AfricanAmerican community [has] been alifesaver,” said Karyne Jones, presi-dent and CEO of the NationalCaucus and Center on Black Aging.“Without it, a very large majority ofBlack seniors wouldn’t have anyhealth care. As a result of … all ofthose institutional things thatoccurred, we didn’t have jobs in the

‘40s and ‘50s and even ‘60s that pro-vided [retirement] health care pro-grams or insurance programs. So it’sa blessing.”

The wealth gap is one of the pri-mary reasons Medicare is so instru-mental for Black seniors. While most

beneficiaries are White, and mosthave modest fixed incomes, Blackbeneficiaries often have little to noretirement funds compared to Whitepeople. According to the KaiserFamily Foundation, 95 percent ofWhite beneficiaries had retirement

savings, close to $90,000 on average.Meanwhile, the average amountsaved by the 81 percent of Blackbeneficiaries who had personalretirement funds was more than$10,000.

Further, pensions have weakenedover the last decade through statedeficits and penny-pinching corpo-rate policies.

“There was a time when, if youworked for a place for a long, longtime, after you retired you could stillhave some insurance with that com-pany. Those days are gone,” Jonessaid. “You can imagine what it’s liketo work all your life without cover-age – as you get older, those chronicdiseases start kicking in. And ifyou’ve not caught them early or beenable to maintain them, they’re worseas you get older. And just think, youhave no medical coverage, you haveno health care? So your lifeexpectancy and the dignity of yourlife is zero. This is a program that iscrucial.”

While policy analysts and politi-(Cont. on Page 3)

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

RenamingRobert E.Lee SchoolBy Dianne AndersonStaff Writer

Now that the confederate flag is coming down inparts of the South, the next fight is renamingpublic schools that honor historic white suprema-cist slave owners -- schools coincidentally most-ly located in low income communities of color.

Local educator, Dr. O. Leon Wood, said thatit's hard to understand how the 80 or so schoolsnamed after General Robert E. Lee in America,and over 100 others named after confederate sol-diers representing the attempted overthrow of theUnited States to preserve slavery stood unchal-lenged for so long.

It is a strange double standard.As for Lee, he said probably the most impor-

tant aspect to remember is that while he is held upas a Southern gentleman, he took no prisoners.

“He never took Black prisoners, he killedthem,” he said. “You couldn't find a Black prison-er of war in the Confederate Army.”

Initially, many schools honoring Confederatesoldiers were named and occupied by low incomewhites. These days, the schools are mostly occu-pied by Black and Brown students.

Dr. Wood, who runs a local Freedom School,said there is a long, admirable list of true AfricanAmerican heroes that should be considered in therenaming of schools. They have impacted consti-tutional and civil rights to benefit many diversegroups across the nation.

He also feels that keeping Confederates asheroes on school fronts convey more than a sub-liminal message, even as so few are named afterprominent Black resistance or abolitionist leaderslike Harriet Tubman.

“The message is it that it's okay to be a rebel,as long as they're white,” he said.

“They never really associated the rebels withterrorism or with being traitors. They associatedthem with being heroes,” he said.

Under pressure from a petition backed by EarlOfari Hutchinson with the Los Angeles UrbanPolicy Roundtable, the Long Beach UnifiedSchool District Board moved to open public com-ment on renaming the school. The district plans tomove forward with a committee to help with vet-ting recommendations for renaming Robert E. Leeelementary school.

Board President, Felton Williams, said that at(Cont. on Page 5)

President Barack Obama and Members of Congress view "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fos-silized bones of a human ancestor, at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 27.Zeresenay Alemseged, an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist, explains the fossil. OfficialWhite House Photo by Pete Souza

Anaheim LaunchesNew Democratic Club

(See Page 4)

By Dianne AndersonStaff Writer

In recent years, Dr. JeanetteBurns, who has lived inAnaheim for three decades,looks around her potential vot-ing community and asks thepopular question: Where are allthe Black people?

“It's a good question, yourguess is as good as mine,” shesaid.

Wherever they are, she ishoping they will return to an oldlandmark.

She wants to at least glean aportion of the 1-2% AfricanAmerican residents to attendmeetings around a cause that hergeneration fought so hard to win-- voting rights.

She recently formed theAnaheim Democratic Club,which meets the first Saturday

of every month, the next to beheld on August 1. Meetings runfrom noon to 1:30 p.m., locatedat Workers United Local 50 527S Harbor Blvd. in Anaheim.

At the last meeting, thegroup pulled members to hearfrom Anaheim Councilman andDemocrat Congressional candi-date Jordan Brandman on one ofthe more important issues facingthe city today.

Community input is neededto impact City Council votingdistrict boundaries on maps thatare now being drawn up.Representatives from the cityclerk's office also talked aboutthe process.

From now until October, sheis asking everyone to participateto make sure that the maps aresliced up to fit the mandate of anew measure, following theACLU lawsuit that helped

change the city from at-largevoting to single member dis-tricts.

Because the AfricanAmerican community is gettingsmaller, she said participation isimportant. The local DemocraticClub will continue to keep themaps as priority until theprocess is completed.

“If they throw everyone inthe same district, it would bedifficult for candidates to run.We know that Blacks inAnaheim are 1% or in someplaces 2%, but we are the lowestnumbers,” she said.

Discussions are on the newvoting format that will start nextyear, and the community's rolein determining the compositionof the maps. Under the change,the city’s at-large system of four

(Cont. on Page 2)

City of LongBeach Launches

‘My Brother’sKeeper’ Task

ForceThe City of Long Beach has

launched a My Brother’s Keeper(MBK) Task Force to establish andimplement new ideas to achieve posi-tive life outcomes for youth. The groupconvened on Wednesday, July 22, forthe first time to discuss the next steps indeveloping a Local Action Plan toensure that all young people have theopportunity to succeed.

“Our City’s commitment toPresident Obama’s My Brother’sKeeper initiative brings together everycorner of our City to support our youngpeople,” said Mayor Robert Garcia.“The task force is collaborative effortthat builds on the City’s commitment tokeeping our youth safe, healthy, and ontrack for success in their education andtheir careers.”

The City Council adopted a resolu-tion supporting President Obama’sMBK Community Challenge in January2015, based on an agenda item broughtforth by Councilmembers RexRichardson, Lena Gonzalez, RobertoUranga and Al Austin. The initiativecalls upon City leaders to work collec-tively to help close opportunity gapsfacing youth and ensure that all youngpeople have the resources and toolsneeded to achieve their full potential.

“This significant endeavor offers aCitywide 'cradle to career' approach toaddressing the needs and priorities ofour boys and young men of color,” saidCouncilmember Richardson. “The MyBrother’s Keeper Long Beach TaskForce will meet President Obama's chal-lenge, providing new avenues forexpanding opportunities and optimismfor all young people in our community.”

The Task Force consists of City offi-cials; representatives from the LongBeach Unified School District; LongBeach City College; California StateUniversity, Long Beach; local hospitalexecutives; community-based organiza-tions; faith leaders; and members of thecommunity. They convened at the MainLibrary to discuss the early stages ofdeveloping a Local Action Plan, whichwill include objectives, next steps, and atimeframe for evaluating progress.

They focused on the six goal areas ofMBK as recommended by the ObamaAdministration: Enter School Ready toLearn; Read at Grade Level by ThirdGrade; Graduate from High SchoolReady for College and Career;Complete Post-secondary Education orTraining; Successfully Enter theWorkforce; and Safe from Violence andProvided Second Chances

The MBK Long Beach Task Force isan ad hoc committee of Safe LongBeach, the City’s Violence PreventionPlan. Adopted by the City Council inMay 2014, Safe Long Beach addressesa broad safety agenda aimed at reducingall forms of violence, including domes-tic abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, hatecrimes, bullying, gang violence, andviolent crime. The plan draws upon theCity's many existing assets to target vio-lence at its root and attain the goal ofbuilding a safer Long Beach by 2020.

As part of achieving the goals of theMBK Community Challenge, the LongBeach Task Force will review existingpolicies and expand on ideas discussedwith community members at the MBKLocal Action Summit held earlier thisyear.

In February 2014, President Obamaissued a nationwide Challenge to citiesacross the country as a call to action toencourage communities to implementstrategies for improving the life out-comes of all young people, regardless ofwho they are, where they come from, orthe circumstances to which they areborn.

For more information on Safe LongBeach, go to www.lbvpp.com.

On 50th Anniversary, Medicareand Medicaid Still Vital

By Jazelle HuntWashington Correspondent

Washington (NNPA) — AsMedicare and Medicaid turn 50 thisweek, the nation takes a look at theimpact of two of the most significantgovernment programs ever launched.

Medicare serves roughly 52 mil-lion Americans as of 2013, about 10percent of whom are Black. The pro-gram is part of the Social SecurityAct and was created to providehealth insurance for seniors regard-less of income or health status.Today, Medicare covers seniors, per-manently disabled people of all ages,and people with Lou Gehrig’s dis-ease (ALS) or end-stage kidney dis-ease.

“Medicare in the AfricanAmerican community [has] been alifesaver,” said Karyne Jones, presi-dent and CEO of the NationalCaucus and Center on Black Aging.“Without it, a very large majority ofBlack seniors wouldn’t have anyhealth care. As a result of … all ofthose institutional things thatoccurred, we didn’t have jobs in the

‘40s and ‘50s and even ‘60s that pro-vided [retirement] health care pro-grams or insurance programs. So it’sa blessing.”

The wealth gap is one of the pri-mary reasons Medicare is so instru-mental for Black seniors. While most

beneficiaries are White, and mosthave modest fixed incomes, Blackbeneficiaries often have little to noretirement funds compared to Whitepeople. According to the KaiserFamily Foundation, 95 percent ofWhite beneficiaries had retirement

savings, close to $90,000 on average.Meanwhile, the average amountsaved by the 81 percent of Blackbeneficiaries who had personalretirement funds was more than$10,000.

Further, pensions have weakenedover the last decade through statedeficits and penny-pinching corpo-rate policies.

“There was a time when, if youworked for a place for a long, longtime, after you retired you could stillhave some insurance with that com-pany. Those days are gone,” Jonessaid. “You can imagine what it’s liketo work all your life without cover-age – as you get older, those chronicdiseases start kicking in. And ifyou’ve not caught them early or beenable to maintain them, they’re worseas you get older. And just think, youhave no medical coverage, you haveno health care? So your lifeexpectancy and the dignity of yourlife is zero. This is a program that iscrucial.”

While policy analysts and politi-(Cont. on Page 3)

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Alex Young, who will be asenior at UC Irvine this season,has been selected to play forGreat Britain’s Senior Team thatwill face New Zealand Saturdaynight.

The Anteater point guard isone of seven new members onthe team’s roster for Saturday’sgame at Copper Box Arena inLondon.

Young, who averaged 9.4points and 3.6 assists last season,ranks third in the UCI recordbook with 414 career assists andeighth with 104 steals.

He was an All-Big West hon-orable mention selection lastseason when the ‘Eaters won theconference tournament for thefirst time and made the pro-gram’s initial appearance in theNCAA Division I Tournament.

Young played for GreatBritain in last summer’s

European U20 Championship,along with UCI teammate LukeNelson.

Men’s TennisThe 2015 ITA All-Academic

Teams and Scholar-Athleteswere released by theIntercollegiate TennisAssociation complete with threeAnteaters named: Andrew Gong,Jonathan Hammel, and NicoMertens.

It's the first accolade foreach, most notably Gong whowas impactful in singles pickingup a pair of dual wins in singlesand another in doubles.

Hammel has already takenhome the ITA / Arthur Ashe, Jr.Sportsmanship & LeadershipAward for the Southwest Regionand an All-Big West Second-Teamer in doubles following a12-win doubles campaign in

addition to his 18 singles wins.Fellow junior Mertens

claimed All-Big West First Teamhonors after 17 singles dual winson top of a 10-6 doubles record.

It's the most the Anteatershave produced in one year sincethe foursome of AndrewBertolina, Victor Lamm, RyanMayer, and Douglas Taylor in2008. UCI has also had recentITA Scholar-Athletes in 2009,2011, and 2012.

The trio was three of sevenplayers to be recognized as UCIScholar-Athletes, and Hammelclaimed Big West All-Academicas well alongside JustinAgbayani, Rafael Davidian, andJonathan Poon. All of this com-ing on the heels of the programranking in the top-10 percent ofmen's tennis programs inAcademic Progress Rate (APR).

UCI’s Alex Young to Debut WithGreat Britain Team

By Eliz DowdyStaff Writer

Susan G. Komen Foundationformed a collaborative called theCircle of Promise in 2014. Thepurpose of the collaborative is tostem the deaths of AfricanAmerican women who die need-lessly due to the ravages ofbreast cancer. Although the inci-dence of white women withbreast cancer is greater thanBlack women, the death rate forBlack women exceed that ofwhite women from 40-70%.They are less likely to be diag-nosed with breast cancer, and ata later stage in the cancer’sgrowth according to ProjectManager of the Circle ofPromise Rhonda Smith. This isan exceedingly appalling situa-tion that must change Smithnoted.

The collaborative enablescancer advocates in sevenCalifornia cities to expand theyear - long effort of keepingAfrican American alive longer.The campaign looks at reversingstereotypes associated withbreast cancer, both in the targetcommunities and in the medicalcommunities. They are usingoutreach and education, commu-nication, providing access toscreening and offering supportservices that help patients navi-gate the system.

The collaborative is enteringthe second year, and gearing upto increase the awareness pro-gram with bold, innovative cam-paigning through social media,

public relations and branding.The theme used for the cam-paigns is: “Speak Up, TalkAbout It, Make the Promise toGet Screened.” It was developedby the Carol Williams AdAgency in Oakland.

The campaign will also usethe support of Circle of PromiseCalifornia InitiativeAmbassadors Carmelita Jeter,three time Olympic medalist,along with CBS 2 Los Angeleson air personality Pat Harvey.

Orange County Circle ofPromise Moving Forward

CSULB to Induct StanfordBrewer into Hall of Fame

Stanford Brewer was anearly era star of both Footballand Track & Field, and is thenext member of the 2015 induc-tion class for the Long BeachState Athletics Hall of Fame.

Beach Athletics is proud toannounce the honorees chosenfor induction into the LongBeach State Athletics Hall ofFame for the class of 2015. Overthe next three weeks, CSULBwill be announcing the Class of2015 in advance of the ceremonyto be held on Thursday,November 12 at the Long BeachRenaissance Hotel.

Brewer spent two years at theBeach, playing wide receiver infootball for the 49ers. Playing inall 22 games over those twoyears, Brewer finished with 32receptions and 16 carries whilecompeting over the 1974 and1975 seasons.

Brewer piled up 706 totalreceiving yards over those twoseasons, and scored seven touch-downs as a 49er. A member ofone of Long Beach State's mostsuccessful teams, Brewer's 49erswent 9-2 in 1975, tying theschool's record for wins in a sea-son.

It can be argued that Brewerwas even more successful on thetrack. A sprinter that also com-peted in the long jump, Brewerran both the 100 meters and 200meters, and qualified for the1976 NCAA Championships aspart of the 4x100 meter relayteam.

That team finished seventh,earning points on the way to an11th place finish overall for theteam at the national champi-onship.

Women’s GolfLong Beach State senior

Janelle Sua captured the 23rdAnnual L.A. County Women'sGolf Championship on recently.

The two-day, 36-hole tourna-

ment was contested at the par-74, 5,903-yard LakewoodCountry Club in Lakewood.

Sua posted a 36-hole score oftwo-under par 146, holding offfellow 49er teammate redshirtsophomore Savannah Knox bytwo shots. Knox turned in aneven-148 score after shootingrounds of 73 and 75.

In Thursday’s openinground, Sua carded an even-74with three birdies, 12 pars andthree bogeys. The Torrancenative came back in Friday'sfinal round firing a two-under 72as her scorecard was highlightedby an eagle, two birdies, 12 parsand two bogeys.

Incoming freshman BreannFox finished three strokesbehind with a one-over 149 (76-73) and sophomore FeliciaTaverrite finished with an eight-over 156 (81-75).

The 49ers open the 2015-16campaign on September 14 inColorado at the Colonel BillWollenberg Ptarmigan RamClassic hosted by ColoradoState.

Women’s BasketballLong Beach State head

women's basketball coach JodyWynn has announced the 49ers'schedule for the upcoming 2015-16 season. LBSU will play six ofits 14 non-conference gamesinside the friendly confines ofthe Walter Pyramid.

“Our schedule will give us agreat opportunity to be testedagainst very competitive teams,”Wynn said. “We have a strongmix of opponents from all overthe country and we are excited tohave the chance to competeagainst them. There will be someterrific road game environmentsand also some fantastic pro-grams coming to the Pyramid forour Beach supporters to enjoy.We will be challenged early onand are looking forward to

preparing our team for a verycompetitive Big WestConference season.”

The Beach will be searchingfor its fifth-straight home-open-ing victory when it kicks off thecampaign against San DiegoState on Friday, Nov. 13. LongBeach State is also set to enter-tain Portland State on Sunday,Nov. 15.

LBSU then begins a five-game road swing at Houston(Nov. 19) and SEC member LSU(Nov. 21). LSU has advanced tothe NCAA Tournament in eachof the last four seasons. The49ers defeated the Lady Tigers,59-44, at the Walter Pyramid lastyear.

Long Beach State will alsotravel to Las Cruces, N.M., forthe New Mexico StateTournament (Nov. 27-28),before making a quick trip toStockton, Calif., to face Pacificon Dec. 2. Pacific, which madethe move from the Big West tothe West Coast Conference priorto the 2013-14 season, has madefour-straight WNIT appearances.

The Beach returns home tohost Pac-12 member Colorado(Dec. 6) and 2015 WNIT partic-ipant San Francisco (Dec. 8),prior to a road contest at USC onDec. 13. The 49ers will then hostthe annual Beach Classic, Dec.19-20.

Following a one-week lay-off, LBSU will hit the road toclose out its non-conferenceschedule at Denver (Dec. 28)and Seattle (Dec. 31).

Long Beach State beginsconference play at home againstdefending Big West regular sea-son champion Hawai'i on Jan. 7.The 2016 Big West Tournamentis slated for March 8-12. Thefirst two rounds will be held atUC Irvine's Bren Events Center,while the semifinals and finalswill take place at the HondaCenter in Anaheim.

They will take active roles in thead campaigns urging AfricanAmerican women to increasebreast health awareness, andpromote the importance of earlydetection. Since its launch inApril 2014 the Circle of Promisehas reached 11,000 AfricanAmerican women through smallgroup engagement, one-on-oneoutreach, community events,and education presentations,Smith stated. She is a product ofthe message she is exporting, sheis a seven year survivor of breastcancer.

Since its inception the Circleof Promise has shared breasthealth information with 66,000women; 1, 369 AfricanAmerican women have sched-uled a mammogram screeningappointment; and 1, 154 AfricanAmerican women have complet-ed a mammogram screening..During the launch of the secondyear, the goal is getting at least2,000 African American womenscreened.

The collaborative has formedpartnerships with stakeholdersand community-based organiza-tions statewide including theCalifornia Black Women’sHealth Project; the CaliforniaLegislative Black Caucus; theNetwork of Ethnic PhysicianOrganizations (NEPO); theCalifornia Health Collaborative;the California Office of HealthEquity; and the WNBA’s LosAngeles Sparks.

Circle of Promise OrangeCounty will hold its inauguralevent, Saturday, August 1, thatwill include a survivor awardsluncheon from 11 am to 2 pm.The location is the Oasis SeniorCenter in Corona Del Mar. Atnoon, community members willbe encouraged to pledge theircommitment to the eradicationof the barriers to breast health

services for women of color...And move forward into the arenawhere all women, regardless ofethnicity of socioeconomic sta-tus will be granted the sameaccess that allows them to livelonger. August 1 has beendeclared Circle of Promise Dayby the California LegislativeBlack Caucus to commemoratethe birthday of Henrietta Lacks,an African American womenwhose HeLa cells changed thedirection of research that has ledto prevention of cancer and otherdiseases. Lacks cells have goneplaces that were denied her inher lifetime.

There will be four honoreesrecognized at the event includingDr. DeVera Heard, who is active-ly involved in the local fight forbreast health awareness. Sheregularly makes sure three of theorganizations she is involvedwith receive timely informationabout breast health. They are:Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.National Council of NegroWomen, and the Orange CountyHeritage Council. Dr. Heard is aprincipal at a local school in theSanta Ana Unified SchoolDistrict.

Other recipients to be hon-ored are: Siblings Alison andJames Kaprielian, who lost theirmother to breast cancer after afourteen year battle. They wereboth children when she wasdiagnosed.

Roxanne Rodriquez has beendiagnosed with stage four breastcancer for the third time, she hasnever lost hope through the rigors of the battle and recently opened a store atBreastlink, Pink Ribbons andBlessings.

For tickets and information,contact: Ambrocia Lopez at:714-957-9157, ext. 41; oralopez@komenoc.orgDr. DeVera Heard

council seats is set to expandtwo additional seats. All council members are nowrequired to live within the dis-trict where they are voted intooffice.

“I've been telling everyoneto come out. We have specificmeetings to teach people whatthey doing,” she said. “A lot ofplaces are not teaching peoplehow you check to see if you arein a correct district.”

As map boundaries arecarved out in the coming weeks,she hopes for more public inputso the community isn't shiftedinto wrong voting districts.

“They’re asking workinggroups to draw maps on how thedistrict should overlap. Part ofthe lower end of Anaheim Hillsdoesn’t have too many peoplethat live there. You wouldn'thave one council person for justthat one area,” she said.

In organizing the AnaheimDemocratic Club, there hasbeen good attendance from theLatino community, but she isstill waiting for more AfricanAmericans in the process.

“It’s important because youwant to know where do I actual-ly vote, even though you knowyour numbers are extremelysmall, but you still need avoice,” she said.

For more information onhow to get involved with theclub, email jeanetteejb@aol.com

NewDemocratic

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degree-granting institutions plusthe strong increase in the enroll-ment of Hispanics has helpedpush the Hispanic rate above theBlack rate for the first time sincethe early part of the 1970s.”

Still, economists and educa-tion advocates agree that a col-lege education continues to be asound investment, despite thecost.

“Not only do you have theability to improve your earningpotential over your life, you alsoare employed over a longer peri-od of time and you’re more like-ly to keep your job during arecession,” said EugenioAlemán, a senior economist withWells Fargo.

The 2014 report citedresearch that showed that indi-viduals that obtained a bache-lor’s degree earned a medianincome of $50,360, compared topeople who finished high schoolthat earned $29,423.

“An associate’s degree leadsto a median income of $38,607,more than $9,000 higher than ahigh school diploma. Those witha graduate degree have a medianincome of $68,064, 35.2 percentmore than those with a bache-lor’s degree,’” the 2014 reportsaid.

Even though Blacks 18-24years old ranked last in enroll-ment at degree-seeking institu-tions in 2012 (36.4 percent vs.42.1 percent of Whites and 37.5percent of Hispanics), Blacks18-26 years-old who earnedbachelor’s degrees or more,were unemployed just 4.6 per-cent of weeks from 1998-2011.Blacks (18-26 years-old) whoonly earned a high school diplo-ma were unemployed nearlythree times as long (12.6 percentof weeks) during that time

period.Whites 18-26 years old, who

entered the labor market withbachelor’s degree or higher,were unemployed 2.8 percent ofweeks between 1998 and 2011,compared to White high schoolgraduates with no college expe-rience who were unemployed6.8 percent of weeks.

Rasmussen fears that all ofthe noise in the mainstreammedia questioning the value ofcollege will have a negativeeffect on the Black community.

“We need to be really carefulon our messaging around thecosts, so that kids and familiesdon’t give up hope,” he said. “Ittakes work and effort and if peo-ple view that it’s not worth theeffort, then we will have thisunintended consequence ofunderrepresentation of kids ofcolor going to school.

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., thepresident and CEO of theThurgood Marshall CollegeFund, agreed.

“If the message in highschools is consistently ‘Don’t goto college, because it’s tooexpensive and you’re going totake on all of this debt and youshould just go and get a job,’America is going to have a realchallenge as it browns and graysat once,” said Taylor. “Twentyyears from now, when you lookaround and say, ‘There are noAfrican Americans in leadershiproles within industry, withingovernment, within any job thatrequires a bachelor’s degree,’” itwill be because people who crit-icized the high costs of collegetalked the Black community outof going to college.”

Taylor continued: “The reali-ty is that college is still a greatinvestment.”

By Freddie AllenSenior WashingtonCorrespondent

Washington (NNPA) –Recognizing that a collegedegree is one of the surest pathsto a job and economic security,Black families are taking onmore student loan debt thanWhite and Hispanic families,according to a new report byWells Fargo.

According to the report, stu-dent loan debt increased byroughly 97 percent between the1995-1996 school year and 2015and Black undergraduates thatstarted school during the 2011-2012 school year can expect toborrow $28,400 for a four-yearbachelor’s degree compared toHispanics who will borrow$27,600.

The total price of attendancefor Black full-time studentsincreased 115.4 percent duringthe 2011-2012 school year com-pared to the 1995-1996 schoolyear and White students experi-ence 113.6 percent jump over thesame time period.

The report stated, “The aver-age out-of-pocket net price(which is the price after aid plusstudent loans) increased 88.7percent for Blacks, 80.8 percentfor Asians and 74.7 percent forWhites between the 2011 and2012 school year compared to the 1995 and 1996 schoolyear.”

In addition, the report foundthat more than 60 percent ofBlack undergraduate studentsqualify “for some type of aidfrom the federal government”compared to 50 percent ofHispanics and 34 percent ofWhites and Asians.

John Rasmussen, the presi-dent of personal lending and thehead Education FinancialServices at Wells Fargo said thattwo primary realities often framethe conversation about higher

education: student loan debt andthe growing costs associatedwith earning a degree.

“The outstanding amount ofstudent loan debt has nowexceeded $1.2 trillion,” saidRasmussen. “That is larger thancredit card debt and automobiledebt.”

He also noted that the cost ofcollege over the past 20 or 25years has increased at a pace thatis significantly faster than infla-tion.

“Families are trying to bereally practical,” saidRasmussen. “Trying to keepcosts down now, staying in statemore, exploring community col-lege options, and asking toughquestions like, ‘Are my kids

ready to go to college?’”Rasmussen added that stu-

dents and families want federalloan programs that are easier tonavigate, better informationabout the true costs of federalloans and what families canexpect for outcomes like gradua-tion rates, job placement ratesand salary and earnings and therepayment performance of stu-dents.

Even though Blacks are tak-ing on more student loan debt, inrecent years that increased bur-den has delivered mixed resultson enrollment rates.

A 2014 report by the WellsFargo Securities, LLCEconomics Group, that linkededucational attainment to eco-

nomic success, found that Blackenrollment in degree-grantinginstitutions has increased con-siderably since the GreatRecession, but that enrollmentrate “slowed down noticeably in2011 and 2012.”

The report said, “This slow-down in Black enrollment in

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cians agree that Medicare hasbeen one of the nation’s mosteffective public programs, thelogistics of the program are veryconfusing for both beneficiariesand health care providers.

There’s also the prevalentbelief that the program is slowlyspiraling out of control.

The Kaiser FamilyFoundation reports that the pro-gram’s $505 billion allotmentwas 14 percent of the last year’sfederal budget. The program reg-ularly overspends its limit, andwill only get more expensive;the cost of health care rises eachyear, millions of Baby Boomersare retiring, and the smallernumber of younger workers andpayroll taxes from dwindlingwages will not be enough to sup-port the Boomers.

Medicaid – Medicare’sequivalent program for low-income Americans – is evenmore contested in its 50th year.

According to SamanthaArtiga, policy analyst for theKaiser Family Foundation, theracial disparities that makeBlack seniors reliant onMedicare are the same ones thatmake Medicaid so vital forBlack families and individuals.She points out that Medicaidcovers more than half of allBlack children and Latino chil-dren, and that Black families aremuch less likely than Whites tohave high wages or insurancethrough their employer.

“Medicaid has really playeda pivotal role in helping to fillthis gap in coverage,” Artigasaid. “And then also, whenwe’ve done focus groups orinterviews with families, wereally hear over and over aboutthe raw impact Medicaid has ontheir lives, in terms of providing

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a sense of financial security,feeling protected from high med-ical costs…and ability to focuson other areas of life.”

Originally intended for chil-dren, pregnant women, parentson public assistance, the dis-abled, and impoverished seniors,the Affordable Care Act (ACA)has further expanded the pro-gram to cover low-income peo-ple regardless of whether theyhave children.

The ACA tried to require allstates to cover these citizens andoffered to fully fund the expan-sion with federal dollars, asstates continued to administerthe program. Instead, theSupreme Court ruled the expan-sion mandate unconstitutional,and made it optional for states.As it stands, 19 states haverejected the idea, includingalmost the entire South (exceptArkansas, Kentucky, and WestVirginia) the region with thehighest concentration of BlackAmericans in the nation. Morethan half of all non-elderly Blackpeople still without insurance asof March are Medicaid eligibleunder the new guidelines, butmany live in non-expansionstates and will likely remainuninsured because of it.

“There still remains somesignificant gaps in coverage forlow-income adults and these dis-proportionately impacted BlackAmericans,” Artiga said. “We’reseeing now, with recent data,declines in uninsured rates sinceimplementation of the ACA, andthose declines have been largerfor Blacks and Hispanics relativeto Whites, suggesting already abeginning of some narrowing ofthese coverage gaps. But theystill remain more likely to beuninsured than Whites.”

Lawmakers and expertsassert that Medicaid andMedicare are becoming tooinclusive and expensive to sus-tain. Fraud, abuse, and wastehave also become a real prob-lem. These widespread scamscharge for services that aren’tactually provided and pocket thefederal funds; authorize unnec-essary services, or bill necessaryones incorrectly; or administerservices to someone other thanthe beneficiary – sometimeseven after the person isdeceased. The misuse consumesadditional billions in taxpayermoney each year.

There are also concernsabout insufficient access to spe-cialty care through the program,and the already-strained avail-ability of care providers particu-larly in rural areas.

Both sides of the politicalaisle believe the systems need tochange – progressives favortighter security accountability onthe current systems, while con-servatives advocate a completeoverhaul.

Although the programs haveboth done a great deal to addresshealth care access gaps, Artigasaid that government-sponsoredhealth coverage is not a cure-allfor ending disparities. Still, theprograms have achieved measur-able positive outcomes over thepast 50 years.

“You don’t want to live in acountry where you continue tosee an increase of poor,unhealthy people. That drags onthe entire system,” Jones said. “Ican’t believe that this countrystill believes that your healthshould be only as much as youcan afford. Medicare andMedicaid stand at the beginningof us at least acknowledging ourown humanity. I’m hoping thatnot only do they expand the ben-efits, but that they recognize thata healthy America is a prosper-ous America.”

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By Julianne Malveaux

It ought to be unnecessary for an activist movement to hinge onthe principle of the equivalency of life. In the worlds of Democraticpresidential candidates (don’t get me started on the Republicans),there is a compelling need to point out that Black Lives Matter andWhite lives matter. The problem with stating the obvious is thatWhite lives have always mattered, and institutional racism hasstructured a lesser value for Black lives.

Asserting that Black Lives Matter is to rebut the inherent sup-position that Black lives do not matter. Black lives have been deval-ued since the development of our Constitution when it countedenslaved people as three-fifths of a person. To proclaim that BlackLives Matter is to rebut this constitutional flaw. We still live with

the legacy of enslavement,when Black folks were otherpeople’s property. Black folksaren’t property now (unlessthey are the much-exploitedconvict laborers), but unequaltreatment is not just historical– it still happens. That’s whythe Black Lives Matter move-ment is so important.

The Black Lives MatterMovement was a constructiveoutgrowth of the TrayvonMartin murder, furthered bythe protests that happened inthe wake of a Missouri grandjury’s failure to bring chargesagainst Darren Wilson, the

murderer of 18-year-old Michael Brown. As multiracial crowdsproclaimed, “Black Lives Matter,” it seemed that, across the board,people were acknowledging the existence of institutional racism.Too bad Democratic presidential contenders can’t do the same.

Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders, the two candidates whoseentries into the race may have pushed Hilary Clinton to the left,faced protestors at the progressive Netroots Nation conference ear-lier this month. Instead of acknowledging the legitimacy of theBlack Lives Matter movement, both candidates were prickly.Sanders threatened to leave the stage because the protester’s chantsdrowned him out. Candidate Hilary Clinton was not present, andsome objected to that, but she either missed the opportunity toengage, or was spared embarrassment if she emulated O’Malleyand Sanders stance.

Both O’Malley and Sanders have scrambled to clean up theiracts, backtracking and owning the “mistakes” they’ve made in deal-ing with the young activists that have taken the lead in protesting

police brutality and asserting the importance of Black lives. Toclean up their acts, all of the candidates need to listen to leaders ofthe Black Lives Matter Movement instead of talking at people theway politicians are most likely to do.

If they listen they might hear the frustration that young folksfeel when the police stop them for simply walking while Black.They might hear the despair some will share when, even while fullyprepared, they find few opportunities for employment, and toomany doors slammed in their faces. They might understand thatBlacks have a different reality than Whites do, and it shows up interms of economic, educational, and social indicators.

In the wake of Michael Brown’s massacre, Ferguson electedtwo new Black members for the city council. Now, AndreAnderson, an African American man from Glendale, Arizona, hasbeen appointed interim police chief. Ferguson is under pressure todo better. What about the rest of our country?

If Michael Brown’s killing was the impetus for Ferguson votersto go to the polls, that’s a good thing, though it shouldn’t take that.If the Black Lives Matter Movement does the same thing national-ly, the Democratic nominee has a better chance of winning inNovember 2016. If the Black Lives Matter movement is not treatedrespectfully, it is likely that many voters will stay home. Young vot-ers rushed to the polls in 2008, riveted by candidate Obama’s opti-mistic “Yes we can” mantra. Will they come out for WhiteDemocrats, no matter how progressive, who don’t respect theirmovements and their ideas?

The video showing the brutality involved in the vicious arrest ofSandra Bland, the Prairie View A&M University alumnae who diedin jail earlier this month, makes it clear that the Black Lives Mattermovement is much needed. Their pressure to stop police brutalityhas pushed police departments to use video cameras, and made itpossible for us to see the repugnant behavior of State Trooper BrianT. Encinia, who roughed up Sandra Bland because she would notput out her cigarette after being pulled over or failure to signal alane change.

Don’t tell me that White lives matter. That’s not new informa-tion. Whose faces are on our money? Whose statues grace legisla-tive buildings? Who leads the overwhelming majority of Fortune500 companies? Who dominates our legislative bodies? OurAfrican American president, supposedly the most powerful personin the world, is ill treated by Congress, often for racial reasons. Welive in a racist and patriarchal society where the value of Black lifeis too-often diminished. That’s why, Martin O’Malley, there is aspecial need to assert that Black Lives Matter. Those who would bepresident ought to embrace that concept, instead of denying it.

Julianne Malveaux is author and economist based inWashington, DC. She can be reached at www.juliannemalveaux.com

By George E. Curry

Someone identifying himself as Jimmy Oliver sent me an emailobjecting to a column I wrote under the headline, “ConfederateTraitors Don’t Deserve to be Honored.” I presume he wrote to geta reply, so here it is, with Oliver’s words in italics.

I do not appreciate you calling my ancestors traitors,Benedict Arnold or traitors.

Well, I do not appreciate your ancestors enslaving my ancestors.I do not appreciate your White ancestors thinking they were superi-or to my ancestors solely because God created us a different color.I do not appreciate your ancestors forcing my ancestors to worklong hours for free. I do not appreciate your ancestors treating minelike property, buying and selling them at will. I do not appreciateyour ancestors breaking up African families whenever they wantedto and I do not appreciate your male ancestors raping my powerless

female ancestors.And, yes, your ancestors

were traitors. In fact, their pho-tographs should be placed nextto the word “traitor” in the dic-tionary. The definition of trai-tor is clearly spelled out inArticle 3, Section 3 of U.S.Constitution: “Treason againstthe United States, shall consistonly in levying war againstthem, or in adhering to theirenemies, giving them aid andcomfort. No person shall beconvicted of treason unless onthe testimony of two witnessesto the same overt act, or onconfession in open court.”

In case you missed it, the Confederacy leveled war against theUnited States from 1861-1865.

The Civil War was fought, not because of slavery, but forsouthern states rights.

Yes, it was fought because southern states wanted “states rights”– the right to maintain slavery.

Slavery was not the most compelling issue of the Civil War.That’s pure nonsense. The states’ orders of secession prove

otherwise. For example, “A Declaration of the Immediate Causeswhich Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippifrom the Federal Union” began: ”In the momentous step which ourState has taken of dissolving its connection with the government ofwhich we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declarethe prominent reasons which have induced our course.

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of

slavery – the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor sup-plies the product which constitutes by far the largest and mostimportant portions of commerce of the earth. These products arepeculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by animperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposureto the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of theworld, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at thepoint of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us butsubmission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of theUnion, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.”

Virginia cited, “the oppression of the Southern SlaveholdingStates.” And South Carolina, the first state to leave the Union,asserted, “…The right of property in slaves was recognized by giv-ing to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the rightto represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifthsof their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twentyyears; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor.”

The Cornerstone Speech by Alexander Stephens is one man’sopinion.

Stephens was not merely one man – he was vice president of theConfederate States of America. In the speech, he was very clearwhen he said, “the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery– subordination to the superior race – is his natural and normal con-dition.”

Other Confederate leaders expressed similar sentiments.Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, said, “My ownconvictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abus-es…We recognize the negro as God and God’s Book and God’sLaws, in nature, tell us to recognize him – our inferior, fittedexpressly for servitude…You cannot transform the negro into any-thing one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables themto be.”

You say remove the monuments and tributes of the Civil Warto whom my ancestors served and I consider to be a part of mySouthern Heritage.

Yes, that’s exactly what I am saying. Alabama Gov. Robert J.Bentley’s decision to remove four Confederate flags from theCapitol grounds in Montgomery and Senate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell’s recommendation that a statue of Kentucky-bornJefferson Davis be removed from the state Capitol are steps in theright correction. As the headline on my initial column stated,“Confederate Traitors Don’t Deserve to be Honored.”

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, iseditor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers AssociationNews Service (NNPA) andBlackPressUSA.com. He is a keynotespeaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reachedthrough his Web site, www.georgecurry.com.

Africa andObama ‘Onthe Move’

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

Some people are now saying what was really obvious to mebefore President Barack H. Obama was re-elected to continue lead-ing the United States of America. He is a Black man. He is anAfrican man. As the first African American to be the president, theunprecedented hostility and threats against the president have beenin too many instances racially motivated as well as based on parti-san politics.

Yet, President Obama continues to be strategic about how herepresents his race, genealogy and his commitment to promote andsustain African freedom and empowerment. Yes, he is the presidentof all the people in the U.S. That is not the issue. We are not debat-ing or taking exception to the fact that President Obama representsall the people of the U.S.

I believe that his historic trip to Kenya and to Ethiopia is indica-tive of Obama’s distinctive characteristic of taking strategic movesthat go far beyond the traditional limitations of American politicsand global outreach. This was the fourth trip of the president toAfrica. As the first sitting American president to visit Kenya and

Ethiopia, his timing could nothave come at a better time.

I guess Donald Trump andother so-called Birthers willonce again raise politically-divisive questions aboutwhether President Obama is areal citizen of the UnitedStates. But like the other divi-sive issues that Trump and oth-ers are now raising about the“browning of America,” thosestiff-neck far right leaders real-ly miss the point.

Like China, the UnitedStates should see that its placein the global market place willbe increasingly and inextrica-

bly linked to having a productive relationship with Africa. Yes, itwas good for President Obama to first reunite with his close rela-tives in Kenya. The pictures of President Obama hugging hisKenyan sister, Auma Obama, and other relatives in the capital cityof Nairobi were very inspiring and affirming of strong family val-ues in Africa and in America.

In truth, however, President Obama’s major objective to achievein Africa was about trade, economic development, investments,innovation, geopolitical politics, security and the fundamental pro-motion of African unity and socioeconomic progress. He rendereda keynote speech to the Global Entrepreneur Summit in Nairobi. Infact, going forward there are economic development opportunitiesfor African American-owned businesses in the U.S. to develop jointventures with African entrepreneurs.

President Obama strongly affirmed at the summit that, “Africais on the move.” Referring to entrepreneurial projects that were nowbeing owned and led by women in Kenya and in other nations inAfrica, Obama took note and was supportive. He said, “It’s thespark of prosperity. It helps people stand up for their rights and pushback against corruption….. means ownership and self-determina-tion, an opportunity to not simply be dependent on somebody elsefor your livelihood.”

No sitting American president has ever attended or addressedthe African Union (AU) while it was in official session in the capi-tal city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. Ethiopia has the second-largestpopulation in Africa, behind only Nigeria. The economy in Ethiopiais growing and the African nation owns and operates one of thelargest airline services on the continent. President Obama’s speechto the AU was well received by the African heads of state whoattended the meeting. The theme of African unity and mutual eco-nomic cooperation was a priority issue at the AU.

Lastly, I detected a renewed sense of African pride that wasexemplified by the statements and actions of President Obama’s lat-est trip to Africa. I think that African Americans, in particular,should also strive to establish more effective unity and cooperativebusiness development in our communities throughout the U.S.

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The Music Lives On:PAJAM/PMG Gospelannounced plans to release “WeWill Worship,” the new singleby Minister DeVaughn Murphywho passed away this month.The song will be released onAugust 11. Murphy was anestablished songwriter, havingwritten such memorable songsas “Chasing After You,” “MakeMe Righteous”, and “Let Us SeeJesus”. A portion of the pro-ceeds from the single will bene-fit Murphy’s wife Khia Murphyand the Vaughn MurphyFoundation. “We were honoredto know a person with such ahuge heart and love for God asVaughn; his ministry will live onforever. We are deeply hurt, butwe know God has a plan,” saysPaul “PDA” Allen ofPAJAM/PMG Gospel.

Going Live: Bishop J.Drew Sheard will present theGreater Emmanuel InstitutionalMass Choir in a live recordingon August 17. This is not thechurch’s first recording. GreaterEmmanuel’s 1994 CD The SunWill Shine Again peaked atnumber 30 on the Billboard TopGospel Albums charts and pro-duced the radio hit Get theGlory. Greater Emmanuel is thechurch home of Karen ClarkSheard, who is married to

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leading his ensemble, TheRickey Grundy Chorale. Thegroup’s 1988 debut, Spirit ComeDown, was followed by a self-titled album in 1990, both ofwhich charted on the Billboardgospel chart.

Finally: Deitrick Haddonhas dropped a new single,“Restore Me Again.” Haddon,who stars in Oxygen’s Preachersof LA, recently inked a deal witheOne. No word yet on when thefull album will be released.

This week’s scripture: Ipress toward the goal for theprize of the upward call of Godin Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14

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the last meeting, the Boardrequested to update policies, par-ticularly with renaming schools,to reflect more communityinvolvement.

He requested any naming orrenaming be held off until theycan get the criteria in place tomake the proper assessments.

“Let's look at all of theschools under a common criteriato see if they might be candi-dates for renaming,” he said.

Under the current guidelines,he said the composition of thecommittees entail different

Renaming Robert E. Lee(Cont. from Page 1)

Owning our own businesses inAmerica in the past was a sourceof pride and self-empowerment.

When Obama was intro-duced at the summit in Kenya,he stated, “Obviously, this isvery personal for me. There’s areason why my name’s BarackHussein Obama.” He is proud ofhis name and his Kenyan ances-try. Auma Obama also said thather father, Barack HusseinObama Sr., would be verymoved to witness his son returnto Kenya as the president of the

United States. She stated, “He’dbe extremely proud and say,‘Well done.”

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processes. One process for nam-ing welcomes communityinvolvement, and there is anoth-er process for renaming schoolsthat includes almost no commu-nity involvement.

The bottom line is that thereare policies in place, which is astarting point in the discussion,he said.

“The policy addresses howwe deal with naming and renam-ing schools. We asked theSuperintendent to update to poli-cies to reflect the current compo-sition of Long Beach,” he said.

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By Eliz DowdyStaff Writer

The Los AngelesStentorians, the AfricanAmerican segment of firefight-ers in Los Angeles County hasremained engaged in helping theHaitians recover from the devas-tating earthquake of 2012. Thegroup first donated an ambu-lance to the InternationalFirefighters Association, com-posed of Black firefightersnationwide. The ambulancewent to Croix-Des-Bouquets,Haiti, a township located on theoutskirts of Port-Au-Prince.They have also returned to Haitiwith supplies and training. Nowthey are taking another piece offirefighting equipment to Haiti.This trip they will take a fireengine to Carrefour, also locatedclose to Port-Au-Prince. Theengine came from Compton FireCompany. It was refurbished bystudents from L.A. Trade Tech.The engine is working, andother needed accessories weredonated by businesses in thearea. The Precinct Reporterspoke with Jonathon Bowers,Executive Vice President of the

project. The Stentorians willremain in Haiti to train theirHaitian counterparts in the prop-er care and maintenance of theengine. Bowers stated that hepersonally did work on thedonated fire engine.

When the earthquake devas-tated the Capital and other sur-rounding areas, the delicateinfrastructure was not capable ofmeeting the needs created by adisaster of those proportions.Aid poured in, there are moreNGO’s in the country of Haitithan any other country, howeverred tape and inadequate commu-nication delayed some suppliesfrom reaching their destination.The Stentorians arrived at theport and are waiting with all thelegal documents required to re-possess their equipment and getit to the destination. The fireengine needs to be declaredduty-free when it enters thecountry, and they have spokenwith the Haitian Consul Generalto speed the process. Theyexpect to leave before the end ofthe year.

The Stentorians are recog-nized as a charitable organiza-tion by the United States gov-

Firefighters Stay Engagedin Haitian Recovery

By Charlene Crowell

In everyday life, birthdaysand anniversaries of many sortsare observed and celebrated.When it comes to consumerfinance, there are two moreanniversaries worth celebrating.

Congress enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act onJuly 21, 2010 in response to thelargest national economic chal-lenge since the Great Depression,A key goal was and remains pro-tecting the nation and its taxpay-ers from ever again bearing the

financial burdens of risky dealsby Wall Street and other privatefinancial players. The followingyear, the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau (CFPB)opened its doors to serve the needs of America’s con-sumers.

After Returning $10.1BCFPB Still Under Attack

Photo by Jonathon Bowers

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ernment which will let the gov-ernment ship the fire engine forthe group. They are the hostorganization, but acknowledgedmany partners working withthem for a successful outcome.A company in northernCalifornia gave fifty breathingapparati, the City of Compton isgiving compressors, all compo-nents that make for a successfuloperation.

The Stentorians are follow-ing the adage “….Teach a manto fish and he can supply foodfor his family….” As they pro-vide the equipment and train theHaitians in the proper usagethey are giving them a hand up.Other fire departments nation-wide have also assisted in theequipment bestowal process.

The Stentorians was foundedin 1954. They took their namefrom the Greek word Stentor, acharacter in the poem “TheIliad” having the voice of fiftymen, loud and powerful! Thatbecame the battle cry of thefledgling group as they soughtto let their voice be heard in themidst of racial suppression ofthe day. Now they can clearlybe heard and seen from a greatdistance through their charitablegiving and also work in theirown communities.

Before the CFPB, no singlefederal agency had consumers asits sole priority and focus. Todate, the Bureau has benefited 17million consumers through atotal of $10.1 billion in financialrelief. Over 650,000 consumershave chosen to use its flexiblecomplaint system that includesthe options of online, written andtelephone complaints in multiplelanguages.

On the enforcement side,CFPB’s actions have addressedmultiple violations in differentlending areas:

In 2013 Chase Bank USA,N.A. and JPMorgan ChaseBank, N.A. was ordered torefund an estimated $309million to more than 2.1 mil-lion customers for illegalcredit card practices.The following year, FlagstarBank was fined $37.5 millionfor violating the CFPB’smortgage servicing rules byillegally blocking 6,500 bor-rowers’ attempts to save theirhomes.That same year, ColfaxCapital Corporation andCulver Capital, LLC, alsocollectively known as “RomeFinance,” was ordered to pay$92 million in debt relief to17,000 service members andother consumers for maskinghigh-cost financing chargeson artificially-inflated costsfor goods and services.ACE Cash Express, operat-ing over 1,500 storefront pay-day locations in 36 states,was ordered in 2014 to pay$10 million in restitution andpenalties for its threats ofcriminal prosecution andintimidating phone calls that“create a sense of urgency”when contacting delinquentborrowers.Earlier this year, $480 millionin debt relief to student loanborrowers who werewronged by the now-defunctCorinthian Colleges.In recent days, the CFPB

announced two additionalenforcement actions involvingillegal and deceptive credit cardviolations, and another for illegalprivate student loan servicingpractices. As a result, Citigroupwas ordered to refund $700 mil-lion to 8.8 million consumers andadditionally pay separate finestotaling $35 million. DiscoverBank and its affiliates will refund$16 million to consumers, pay a

$2.5 million penalty and improveits billing, student loan interestreporting and collection prac-tices.

Additionally, 30 million con-sumers plagued by debt collec-tors now have the chance to betreated fairly due to CFPB’s first-time ever supervision of debt col-lection companies. The 12 mil-lion consumers who borrow pay-day loans will soon have moreprotection by a CFPB rule thataddresses the myriad abuseswrought by triple-digit interestrates.

This and other abundant datasuggest that America’s con-sumers are well-served by itsfour-year old consumer cop-on-the-beat.

Despite CFPB’s productivity,its critics have remained stead-fastly opposed. Dozens of billshave been introduced to under-mine its independence, its rulesto protect against unfair decep-tive and discriminatory practices,and its authority to oversee finan-cial services such as paydaylenders and auto finance compa-nies.

When the Bureau took actionagainst auto lenders who partici-pated in pricing schemes thatcharged Black and Latino bor-rowers more for their loans, con-gressional critics organizedthreatening letters questioningtheir rationale and motives. Andwhen the Bureau adopted newrules to rein in abuses in mort-gage lending, those same criticsrushed to file bills to weaken therules and return to the very prac-tices that lead up to the foreclo-sure crisis.

Fortunately, none of theattacks have made it into law.

At a July 8 Brookings forumthat focused on the Wall Streetreform law, Treasury SecretaryJack Lew was asked by a reporterabout the effort to abolish CFPB.

“I will say, for all of the con-cerns that a lot of people hadearly in its history, as they’vetaken action there’s been broad,overwhelming support for thefact that they’ve done things in acareful and sensible way, listen-ing to all sides,” said SecretaryLew. “So I think if you kind ofstep away from the debate thattook place before the CFPB wascreated and look at the trackrecord, it should put to rest a lotof that controversy.”

Others who agree withTreasury Secretary have spoken

up in its defense.“The Consumer Financial

Protection Bureau has built anunprecedented record of successprotecting our nation’s con-sumers and service memberswho have been victimized byunscrupulous corporations andfinancial institutions, notedCongresswoman Maxine Waters,the Ranking Member on theHouse Financial ServicesCommittee and a member of the Congressional BlackCaucus.

“The CFPB has been, andcontinues to be, party to a widearray of enforcement actionsrelated to practices that dispro-portionately affect communitiesof color, including deceptivemarketing, unlawful debt collec-tion, discrimination, unlawfulfees and fraudulent mortgagerelief schemes,” continuedWaters.

A recent consumer survey bythe Center for ResponsibleLending and Americans forFinancial Reform found thatalthough anger at banks andother financial services compa-nies has moderated over theirrole in the housing crisis, broadand bipartisan support for CFPBremains. When consumers self-identified as likely 2016 voterswere askedto choose betweenmore and less regulation offinancial companies 71 percentside with more, and 20 percentwith less. Additionally, 64 per-cent of these voters saw a needfor an agency charged with pro-tecting consumers against dan-gerous financial products.

So it seems that public senti-ment sides with CFPB continu-ing its important work to protectconsumer credit and finances.

“I’m truly proud of theCFPB’s outstanding success onbehalf of our nation’s active-dutymilitary, restoring tens of mil-lions to service members. And Iapplaud the Bureau for the workit's doing to rein in paydaylenders that have turned a busi-ness intended to help hard work-ing consumers stay out of finan-cial trouble into one that oftencreates trouble instead,” addedCongresswoman Waters.

“I am hopeful that soon, theCFPB will eventually yield astrong and simple rule that pro-tects our low-income and minor-ity communities from unafford-able rates and unfair terms,” sheconcluded.

Student Asha Kamali May NamedBest Actress in Star Project

Asha Kamali May, a veteranstage and screen performer cur-rently attending California StateUniversity, Long Beach(CSULB) as a master of fine artsacting student, was recentlynamed Best Actress by NBCUniversal’s Star Project. Thecompetition was held in con-junction with the AmericanBlack Film Festival (ABFF), thelargest and longest running filmfestival for African Americanfilmmakers.

May was one of more than2,000 performers who competedfor the opportunity to be seen bycasting directors, producers andexecutives as a finalist in NewYork City during the ABFF. Shewas one of six selected, and wasflown to New York in Junewhere she was chosen as theBest Female Actress.

“I am so excited to have beengiven this award. It was anamazing experience for them tofly me to New York for the festi-val, and to audition at NBC's 30Rock building was amazing,”said May. “NBC and theAmerican Black Film Festivalhas a long history of helping todevelop diverse talent, and I'mhonored to be in this legacy.”

This year ABFF partneredwith NBC Universal, amongother entertainment powerhous-es, to create showcases and com-petitions for up and comingactors, comedians, filmmakersand television hosts. These plat-forms provide exposure fortomorrow’s rising stars and lead-

By Antracia Moorings

Jackson Patriarch Falls Ill:Michael Jackson’s father, JoeJackson, suffered a stroke inBrazil. The Albert Einstein hos-pital in Sao Paulo tells us in astatement that Jackson fam-ily patriarch entered thehospital July 26 with anirregular heartbeat. Heremains in the intensive careunit under the care ofDr.Alexandre Pieri and Dr.Marcos Knobel. Jacksonwas in Brazil to celebratehis 87th birthday, whichwas also July 26. Accordingto reports, he missed hisown party because he hadalready checked into thehospital. This is hardly Joe’sfirst experience withstrokes, as he has sufferedfrom three others before thispast weekend’s medicalemergency. He last experi-enced one in Las Vegasback in 2012, but it wasdeemed not life threatening.

Baby on Board: After14 years of marriage, rapperIce-T and wife Nicole“Coco” Austin are havingtheir first child. The realitystars confirmed the news onTwitter while promotingtheir upcoming Fox talkshow. “Oh [expletive]! The newsis out. YES. We”re having ababy. We announced it on theIce&Coco Talk Show tapingFriday.. That show will airAugust 3rd,” the 57-year-oldrapper tweeted on Monday fol-

lowing Sunday reports aboutthe pregnancy. “We want to sayThankYou to everyone for theoverwhelming LOVE you aresending us! We appreciate you,”he later added. This will be thethe “Law & Order: SpecialVictims Unit” actor’s third child.Ice T, real name TracyLauren Marrow, has twoadult children from previousrelationships. It will be thefirst child for Austin, 36, aglamour model and author,who had a couple moreplugs to add in her pregnan-cy announcement. The cou-ple wed in 2001 and cele-brated their 10-yearanniversary in 2011 with alavish vow renewal. Theduo chronicled their road topregnancy on their E! reali-ty show “Ice & Coco” asthey persevered againstAustin’s health and highblood pressure.

History on Film: Jay Zand Will Smith are teamingup for a miniseries on slainteen Emmett Till. Deadlinereports that the rapper andhis partner Jay Brown ofRoc Nation, Smith andJames Lassiter ofOverbrook Entertainmentand Aaron Kaplan ofKapital Entertainment willserve as executive produc-ers for the untitled project,which will air on HBO. Thesite goes on to reveal thatthe miniseries, which is cur-rently in active develop-ment, is being described as

an immersive and in depthexploration of the Emmett Tillstory. Till was 14 when he visit-ed relatives in Money,Mississippi in August 1955.During his visit, he spoke andpossibly flirted with Carolyn

Bryant, the 21-year-old Whiteco-owner of a local grocerystore, and reportedly asking heron a date. Deadline notes thatBryant’s husband Roy and hishalf-brother J. W. Milam went toTill’s great-uncle’s house severalnights later and forcefully tookthe teen and tortured him beforeshooting him in the head. Themen ultimately threw Till’s bodyin the Tallahatchie River.Although Brown and Milamwere acquitted of Till’s kidnap-ping and murder in September1955, they later used the protec-tion of the double jeopardy pro-vision when admitting to killingTill.

Briefly: Congratulations toReal Housewives of Atlanta castmembers Kandi Burruss andTodd Tucker who are expectinga baby due in January. No wordon the sex yet but Burruss saidshe’d like a boy...Singer KellyPrice has confirmed that her 23-year marriage to her teenagesweetheart and former manager,Jeffrey Rolle, is over. Price saidthe split was amicable andblamed growing apart as the cul-prit.

Finally: Mariah Carey willreceive a star on the HollywoodWalk of Fame next week. TheHollywood Chamber ofCommerce announced thatCarey will get the 2,556th staron Aug. 5.

behind the scenes. We work withour partners to help advance tal-ented newcomers with theircareers,” said ABFF Founderand CEO Jeff Friday.

May has starred in nationalcommercials, television, inde-pendent films and theater andhas been an on-camera personal-ity, hosting red carpets forSoultrain.com and BET.com. Asa dancer and choreographer, shehas worked with several artiststo develop their career. Her mostrecent choreography work waswith Keke Palmer, choreograph-ing music videos and nationaltours. Currently, she is the co-creator, writer, producer andactress of a digital series, Milkand Honey.

“I was referred to HughO'Gorman, chair of the CSULB'stheatre department by a televi-sion director who was also myteacher at the time. She wasadamant that Hugh was someoneI should continue my studieswith. I initially wanted to furthermy craft, and get a deeper under-standing of acting and the teach-ing of acting. But in my first yearI have received so much more,”said May. “The MFA programhas challenged me and expandedmy understanding of acting as Ihave gotten to perform, teachand be a student all at the sametime. Like a student of any field,the goal of obtaining my MFA isto reach the highest levels ofstudy in my craft and continue towork as a professional in thefield.”

Jay Z

Will Smith

Mariah Carey

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ers in television and film.“The opportunities for

minorities in Hollywood are stillmarginalized, and it’s as neces-

sary as ever to push to promotediversity throughout the indus-try, from the images projected onscreen, to the creative forces

Pulitzer Prize finalist and UC Riverside creative writing professor Laila Lalami has won anAmerican Book Award for her latest novel, “The Moor’s Account.” The book is the imaginedmemoirs of the first black explorer of America — a Moroccan slave whose testimony was leftout of the official record of the 1527 expedition of Spanish conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez.There were only four survivors. “The Moor’s Account” has been named a New York TimesNotable Book and one of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year, one of NPR’sGreat Reads of 2014, and is on the list of Kirkus Best Fiction Books of the Year.

‘Beats of the Antonov’ Reveals Powerof Music to Bring People Together

Sudan has been in an almostconstant state of civil war sinceit achieved independence in1956, and it split into a pair ofsovereign states in 2011. On theborder between the two,Russian-made Antonov planesindiscriminately drop bombs onsettlements in the NubaMountains below. Yet, incredi-bly, the people of the Blue Nilerespond to adversity with music,singing and dancing to celebratetheir survival. Beats of theAntonov explores how musicbinds a community together,offering hope and a commonidentity for refugees engaged ina fierce battle to protect culturaltraditions and heritage from

those trying to obliterate them.The film won the GrolschPeople’s Choice DocumentaryAward at the 2014 TorontoInternational Film Festival.

Beats of the Antonov has itsnational broadcast premiere onMonday, Aug. 3, at 10 p.m.American television’s longest-running independent documen-tary series, POV is the recipientof a 2013 MacArthurFoundation Award for Creativeand Effective Institutions.

Since October 2012,Sudanese director hajooj kukahas been filming farmers,herders and rebels in theirmountain hideouts and refugeecamps, always on the lookout

for air raids waged by the gov-ernment of Sudan. His initialidea was to focus on the atroci-ties taking place against his peo-ple. But instead of the down-trodden victims he expected tofind—and whose images are soprevalent in the media—he dis-covered a resilient communityjoining together to celebratetheir culture.

In the film, kuka capturesthe everyday life of his fellowSudanese, who, although theyhave lost kin, homes and farms,improvise ways to continue har-vesting their crops and raisingcattle. He weaves together thevoices of militants, social work-ers, intellectuals and everyday

people to tell the story ofrefugees reclaiming theirhumanity in the midst of a com-plex conflict. “I named the filmafter the Antonov, a Russian air-plane bombing the NubaMountains and Blue Nile,” hesays. “?Beats’ refers to thesound of the bombing—peopleare running and they are scared—but ‘beats’ alsorefers to the music that healspeople.”

In Beats of the Antonov, adiverse assortment of peopleexpress their opinions, hopesand fears, sharing their struggleto keep the fragile thread oftheir identity from unraveling.Musician Jodah Bujud plays therababa, a stringed instrumentmade from found objects.“When you play the rababa,” hesays, “people forget their hard-ships for a moment. They entera state of happiness.” Sudanese-American singer-songwriterAlsarah is fascinated by whatshe found when in Sudan, par-ticularly “Girls’ Music,” whichshe encountered everywhereamong young people."Everyone is allowed to sing,"she says. "Anyone has the rightto drum. You can use a bucket todrum. In the end everyone singstogether.”

Many of the people in thefilm say that the war is about thesoul of Sudan. “If we don’tanswer the question of Sudaneseidentity the war will continue,”Seif Alislam says. Meanwhile,the people of the Blue Nile andNuba Mountains continuesinging and dancing, the beatsin their music expressing theirheritage both as Africans and asSudanese.

“Watch this film with anopen heart,” says kuka.“Despite years of adversity, theSudanese people haveretained—and even developedfurther—a signature strengthand resilience and even joy.That is who we are, and that’sthe main message of my film.”

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FAMILY FEATURES

From classic recipes passed down through generations to new creations you wouldn’t expect tofind on grandma’s table, there’s no shortage of ways to pack peanut butter into deliciouslydiverse dishes. Celebrate your enduring love for this sticky staple with these winning entries

from Southern Peanut Growers’ annual “PB My Way” recipe contest showcasing PB lovers’ all-time favorite peanut butter dishes.

Find more inspiration for cooking with peanut butter at www.peanutbutterlovers.com.

New mash-ups and recipesyour family will love

1 tablespoon Sriracha sauce1/4 cup orange marmalade

2 tablespoons soy sauce1 tablespoon rice vinegar1 tablespoon grated ginger8 ounces shrimp, peeled, de-veined

1/4 cup onion, diced 1/4 cup red pepper, diced

2 tablespoons peanut oil2 cloves minced garlic

1/4 cup coconut milk, plus extra1/4 cup creamy peanut butter1/4 cup island teriyaki sauce

2 teaspoons crystalized ginger1 teaspoon hot pepper flakes (or to taste)2 tablespoons brown sugar2 (12-ounce) packages ramen noodles,

cooked according to package directions

1 cup coleslaw mixPeanuts and scallions, for garnish

In medium bowl, combine Sriracha, marmalade,soy sauce, vinegar and grated ginger. Stir to com -bine and add shrimp. Refrigerate 20 minutes.

In large skillet over medium heat, saute onion and pepper in peanut oil until tender. Add garlic and cook an additional minute.Reduce heat and add coconut milk, peanutbutter, teriyaki sauce, crystalized ginger, hotpepper flakes and brown sugar. Simmer sauce 2 to 3 minutes, adding additional coconut milkas needed. Pour off 1/4 cup of sauce and addramen noodles to remaining sauce.

In large skillet over medium heat, cookshrimp 2 to 3 minutes on each side until tender. Move shrimp to outer edge of pan andcook coleslaw mix in center just until it starts to wilt. Add wilted slaw mix to ramen saucemixture.

Divide ramen among four plates and top with 4 or 5 shrimp. Garnish with reservedsauce, peanuts and scallions, if desired.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Peanut Butter Noodle Nests with Spicy Orange ShrimpDarlene Buerger, Peoria, Arizona

1/2 cup butter3/4 cup creamy peanut butter

1 cup granulated sugar1 sleeve (4 ounces) regular saltine crackers2 cups milk chocolate chips

1/2 cup peanut butter chips1/2 cup roughly chopped, dry-roasted,

salted peanuts

Heat oven to 400°F. Line 10-by-15-by-1-inch panwith aluminum foil. Spray foil with butter-flavorednonstick cooking spray; set aside.

Put butter, peanut butter and sugar in heavy-duty,1-quart saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantlyuntil butter and sugar are melted; bring ingredients justto a boil. Boil mixture 3 minutes, stirring frequently.

While mixture cooks, lay saltines in single layer on prepared pan.

Pour cooked mixture evenly over saltines. Place in oven and cook 5 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over top. Let cool for 3 minutes, then spread chocolate completely over top of saltines.

Sprinkle peanut butter chips evenly over top ofchocolate. Return pan to oven for 1 minute to softenchips. Pulling tines of a fork through softened chips,partially cover chocolate. Sprinkle peanuts over topand gently press peanuts down.

Let cool on rack for about 15 minutes, then placein freezer for 3 minutes. Remove from freezer andbreak into pieces. Store in airtight container.

Festive Holidays WINNER

Peanut Butter Saltine BrittleHelen Fields, Paradise, Texas

1 (20-ounce) can pineapple chunks in juice, divided

1 1/2 pound salmon fillet, skin removed2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 1/2 cups packaged broccoli slaw mix2 cups hot cooked rice

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter2 tablespoons Asian chili sauce (such as

Sriracha)Juice and grated zest of 1 fresh lime

1/4 cup chopped salted peanutsFresh lime slices, cilantro leaves and

chopped peanuts, for garnish

Drain pineapple chunks, reserving juice. Cut salmon into 1-inch cubes. Place 1/4 cup pineapple juice into bowl with soy

sauce; add salmon, tossing to coat. Let stand about15 minutes.

Gently stir 1/4 cup pineapple juice and broccolislaw into hot rice, blending well. Season to taste with salt and black pepper, then cover and keep warm.

Whisk peanut butter with remaining pineapplejuice, chili sauce and lime juice, and zest, blendingwell. Set aside.

Heat oven broiler; place oven rack 6 inches frombroiler element. Line broiler pan with foil and spraywith nonstick spray. Thread salmon cubes andpineapple chunks onto 8 metal (or soaked bamboo)skewers, dividing equally. Place on broiler pan. Cook 2 minutes, then brush with peanut buttermixture. Repeat brushing and broiling until salmon is flaky, turning as needed to brown evenly, about 8 minutes total.

Divide warm rice mixture evenly among fourserving plates; top with skewers. Sprinkle skewerslightly with chopped peanuts and serve while warm.May be garnished with additional lime slices andcilantro leaves, if desired.

Family Favorite WINNER

Spicy Peanut Butter Glazed Salmon Skewers with Warm Rice SlawJanice Elder, Charlotte, North Carolina

Breakfast or Brunch? WINNER

Nutty Monkey GranolaChristine Yang, Garnerville, New York

2 cups old-fashioned oats 1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup coconut flakes 1/3 cup chopped peanuts 1/4 cup sunflower seeds 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds

3 tablespoons ground flax 2 tablespoons chia seeds 1 banana 1 egg white

1/4 cup peanut butter 1/3 cup dried cranberries 1/4 cup chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375°F and line large baking sheet withparchment paper.

Combine first 8 ingredients in large mixing bowl.Use blender to combine banana, egg white and peanut

butter until smooth. Pour peanut butter mixture over oatmixture and stir until incorporated. Pour mixture in evenlayer on baking pan.

Bake until crisp (about 20–30 minutes), removing fromoven and stirring every 10 minutes to allow granola tobrown evenly and break up into smaller pieces. Whengranola is golden and crisp, remove from oven and stir incranberries and chocolate chips (chocolate chips shouldmelt a little).

Allow to cool completely before storing in air-tightcontainer.

Dreamy Desserts WINNER

Orange-Kissed Peanut Butter BundtSally Sibthrope, Shelby Township,Michigan

6 tablespoons butter, melted 1 cup creamy peanut butter

1/2 cup orange juice1 tablespoon orange zest 2 cups brown sugar, packed2 eggs1 teaspoon vanilla extract2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda1 teaspoon salt1 cup buttermilk

Frosting:1/3 cup creamy peanut butter

3 tablespoons orange juice1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar1/2 cup whipped cream

Chopped peanuts, for garnish

Heat oven to 350°F. Generouslygrease and flour Bundt pan. Set aside.

In large bowl mix together butter, peanut butter, orange juiceand orange zest until well combinedand creamy. Beat in sugar, eggs and vanilla.

Combine flour, baking soda andsalt, then stir half into peanut buttermixture. Stir in half of buttermilk.Add remaining flour and buttermilk,mixing until just blended. (Don’tovermix or cake will be tough.) Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 45–50 minutes or untiltoothpick inserted in center comesout clean. Let cool in pan for about5–10 minutes, then remove cakefrom pan and let cool completely.

For frosting, beat all ingredientstogether to pourable consistency.Pour over cake, and sprinkle withchopped peanuts.