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has publicly apologized to
the ostolen generations ? of
_ indigenous Australians who
become Catholics, those in
the middle Methodists and
those on the right Church of
England. ? Her and her sister
suffered under policies of | obecame Methodists ?.
-. T oassimilation, ? which
-Sought to dissolve the.Black On February. 13, in Australia Ts
race in Aboriginal children capital, Canberra, PM. Rudd
through forcible children _told the parliament: oIt is time
through foreible removal _ " 0 reconcile. It is time to |
from their families to recognize the injustices of the :
_ institutionalized past. It is time to say, Sorry. T
_ missionaries and industrial. It is a time to move forward,
sels. oTo the stolen generations, EA
_ The new prime minister, say the following: as prime ie . e
Kevin Rudd, gave a moving minister of Australia, lam. \
speech at the commencement sorry, | offer you this |
_ eee §= "of the 42?"? parliament of the _apoiogy without qualification, |
Melvin McLawhorn. commonwealth, which began : We apologize for the hurt, the | _ 1
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woman inher 80swho parliament have enacted. We . The M TVoice Remembers ev, /, Willie Joyner pastor and Moye T s Chapel 4
(Districts 1 & 2 Combined) recalled being snatched out ! _ in Farmville, NC. pictured here in the center surrounded by (1-r) RewBlount, Rev Thomas
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COMMUNITY NEWS. _
Mrs Beatrice Maye i
When Jesus Returns
The ooniing of Jeans will |
be a wakeup call for those "
who feel that class, race, or
gender make a difference to
God. When Jesus comes, -
there will no longer be any. -
separation based on class or _
gender, no issues of race or |
Beatrice Maye
color, and no cultural or "
denominational |
distinctions. Physical.
appearance will not matter.
treated equally (Rev.
19:15). With one voice and
as one community, all will -
shout with joy on the day
Jesus returns to fulfill His
promise to rule the earth, "
Aren Tt we glad God is the
equalizer?
Beatrice Maye
The Editor:
How often we find that
some days produce too
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Expressing gratitude for His -
Blessings and a answers to my T -
consisted of five paildings
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| intense demands. , Extra
3 duties and the trivial
= All too easily crowd out the |
|» More important work that
should be done. When we are
o crowded and pushed and feel
that our blessings are running
| us instead of our running
them, then, that is the time to
get away from it all and be
alone. Also, when we are
overworked and tense, we
become inefficient, inept, and
unproductive; we overtax
ourselves, At such times,
much more will actually be .
~ accomplished through rest,
difficult and impractical as
that may seem, than through
overworking and overdoing "
it. Nature demands that we
_ now and then take time out to |
let our souls.catch up with
our bodies. |
a Adoration " " Praising
- God for His attributes. -
- Confession - Asking
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In 1941, Eddie Robinson
went to Louisiana Negro
_ Normal and Industrial
Institute to interview fora
position as the small school Ts T
athletic coach. When neither
of the other two candidates
showed up, he got the job by
default " and stayed for the
next 57 years. A legendary
- figure at what was later
Grambling State University,
Robinson won 408 football
games " more than any
college coach before him "
and inspired black
achievement on and off the
field.
The son a sharecropper and a
maid, Edward Gay Robinson.
was a Star quarterback at
Leland College in Louisiana.
He could not find a coaching
job after college, however,
and took a day job at aB
Rouge feed mill while "
working nights on,an ice
wagon. Then he heard of the
coach Ts position at Louisiana
~ Negro Normal, which
- Edgar Boyd Fought Black
S - Supplication . Asking
for anything and something
that coming to mind for ~
myself and others.
" Be Persistent in prayer.
Luke 11:5-13
Bible Quiz ,
on Picepers & Nonslepes)
1. Who had surgery
performed on him
while he "eu
(Genesis 2 aus
2. Who has killed a as he
slept in the tent
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_ (Judges 4: 21)
3. Who slept in the "
bottom of a ship as it
rolled in a storm? _
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which became Grambling in
1946, had no weight room, so
he filled coffee cans with
cement to use as dumbbells.
He also taped ankles, stitched
uniforms, and even mowed
and lined the fields. Robinson
drove his players hard,
ringing cowbells at 6:30 am,
to get them out of bed. He
knew how to reward them,
too. oIf we win this game, ?
he would say, owe're going to
eat fried chicken, sweet
potatoes, and cornbread. If
we lose, we're gonna have hot
dogs and soda pop. ?
Robinson Ts greatest
achievement may have been
his quiet fight against racism.
in the Jim.Crow South, Once,
when the team bus broke
down and the white-owned
service station nearby refused
to fix it, he did the job
himself. Because the Tigers "
couldn Tt eat at segregated
restaurants, he and his wife
stayed up the night before
road trips and made
sandwiches.
- Robinson, " in later years,
commented, oAll I want is for .
my story to be an American
Story. Not black, and not
"White, Just American. I want
to belong to everybody. ?
Extracted from the Associated
Press |
~ There also were series that
4. Who suggested to
Jezebel Ts priests that
Baal was sleeping
duty?
(1 Kings 18:27).
5. Who slept at Bethel
and dreamed about
angels?
(Genesis 28:11-15)
6. Who had troublesome
dreams that kept him
from sleeping?
(Daniel 2:1)
7. Who visited by an
~~ angel of the Lord
while sleeping?
(Matthew 2:13)
8. Who slept while Jesus
prayed in
Gethsemane?
(Luke 22:45).
9. Who spoke to Abram Reins.
__ while he was in a deep
sleep? | |
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packed in a box, which
pictured two black baby
pickannies, But Edgar Boyd,
a former Pepsi.ad man who
broke color barriers with one
of the first corporate
marketing campaigns to
portray blacks ina positive
light has died recently at age
92,
He was working at the.
National Urban League in
New York City in 1947 when
Pepsi hired him, and a team of
educated black salesmen to
help the company drive sales
among blacks. He created a
marketing campaign that
showed blacks as respectable,..,
middle-class consumers, One ates
store display, for example,
pictured a smiling mother
holding a six-pack of Pepsi
Cola as her handsome, young,
son reached for a bottle.
profiled 20 black achievers
and featured top students at
black universities drinking
Pepsi. We've been.
caricatured and stereotyped as
mammies and pickannies in
many ads, ? » The Pepsi ads
Boyd a and his team visited
black colleges, churches, and _
~~ Markets throughout the
country to promote Pepsi,
ending the daly injustices.of
racism along the way. The
group rode on gated ys
A wad teftoed service of
trains and
at white-owned hotels, and
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Today, the CEO of PepsiCo.,
isa woman from India and
Boyd remarked, . oe
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odds were against us, I never advantage.
would have thoughta woman
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African-American artists in the
State. a
This exhibit will open
Thursday, March 13, 2008, with
a reception from 6-9 pm, at the
museum. It will be featured at
the museum through April 26,
2008. |
oThese are some the most
talented artists in the state, and
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_ Australia apologizes... .
apologize for the indignity,
the degradation and the
humiliation these laws
embodied.
He continued, oWe offer this
apology to the mothers, the
fathers, the brothers, the
sisters, the families and the
communities whose lives
were ripped apart by the
actions of successive
governments under
successive parliaments. ?
According to The Australian
newspaper, the prime:
minister_has appointed a
bipartisan owar cabinet ? that .
will be in charge of
ofollowing the apology with
practical measures ? that will
address the life expectancy,
education, economic and
health issues of the
indigenous Australians |
compared to non-indigenous
Australians, °°
Many indigenous Australians
reportedly responded that an.
apology will not pay the rent
or put food on the table. At
the Australian Embassy in
Washington, DC., the press
secretary told the AmNews
that there should be an
understanding not to confuse '
the Australian government Ts
apology with a monetary
compensation. She said,
- oThe apology was a first step
in the process, but will not be
followed by monetary "
compensation, although
individual claims can be
received, ?
Tom Joyner. .
Joyner Ts
BlackAmericWeb.com (http://
blackamericaweb,com ) will °
feature a special Moving
America T section that will
exclusively be devoted to
covering the presidential race
as well as other Critical issues
affecting African-Americans.
TSince the start of this new
partnership in late November,
2007, over 10,000 listeners
have already responded, ?
according to Greg Moore,
Executive Director of the
NAACP National Voter Fund.
oOur overall goal is to
register 100,000 new voters
who will play a decisive role
in the 2008 primary and
general elections. ?
REACH Media Inc., founded _
by radio and television
personality, philanthropist and.
entrepreneur Tom Joyner, isa
multimedia company formed
in January 2003. As the
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BlackAmericaWeb.com, The
Tom Joyner Foundation and
Tom Joyner signature events,
REACH Media targets
African Americans through
radio, television, signature
events and the internet,
The Tom Joyner Morning
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than 8 million listeners every
week.
BlackAmericaWeb:com,
which has more than 1,3
million registered members,
is a virtual town square for
visitors to get daily news,
learn about issues affecting
the Black community and
Many people are reportedly in
the process of making
individual and civil claims,
according to the Herald Sun,
an Australian daily
_ Newspaper,
For the past 11 years, the
previous prime minister, John
Howard, refused to give a
national apology because he "
feared the backlash of
monetary claims from the
indigenous population.
Drawing the connection
between the Black Power
movement in the 1960s in
America and the end of the
oassimilation policies ? in the
1970s, in Australia, Dr,
Manning Marable, the author
or numerous books, founding
~~ director of the Institute for
Research in African- "
American Studies, and
professor of history, political
science; public affairs and ~~
African-American studies at
Columbia University, told the
- AmNews, oMalcolm X and
Martin Luther King, Jr. had
impacted the rest of the
world, o and in effect, the
Australians, .
Marable said the apology in
Australia is about how:
indigenous people were.
treated and exploited by
colonizers from Europe.
oIt takes courage to do what
"the Australian government
"did, o said Mr, Mack, a
political activist from the
1960s. oTruth, compensation
listen to the Morning Show
online. The NAACP National
established by the NAACP as
a free-standing 501C (4)
corporation in June 2000 to
engage in civic participation
and community-based
mobilization efforts through
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Pastors James 8
and reconciliation ? are the
_ three points that have to be in
the equation for a tangible ~
-outcome, he said. The first
step is an acknowledgement
that a wrong has been done.
Then some type of
- compensation and
reconciliation must follow,
The Australian government Ts
apology has defiantly shone
- some light on the Pandora Ts
box of the African-American
experience in America. In
fact, Dr. Marable says that in
2001 at the World Conference
against racism in Africa,
President Bush refused to
acknowledge the need for an
apology for crimes against
Black people and went so far |
as to walk out on the meeting
with over 1,000 African-
Americans I attendance, one
of whom was Dr. Marable.
A strong advocate for
reparations, not just for
slavery but for the treatment
from the Jim Crow system as
well, Dr. Marable, mentioned
that in one of his books,
_ oGreat Wells of Democracy;
The meaning of Race in
American life, ? he spends an
entire chapter on reparations.
- oWhat happened in Australia
has major significance for
Black Americans because
now the US has another
model of what can be done, ?
said Marable.
oOnce a government gives a
national apology, it means
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_ Elementary and Primary in Pantego: She graduated from T
- School diploma she began attaining other upper level de- ?"?
that they waiver their gives a national apology, it can Tt sue the government. ?
souvereign immunity "a means that they waiver their Now that there is no statue of
legal term which means you "_souvereign immunity "a limitation othis is very, very
can Tt sue the government legal term which means you _ significant, ? he said.
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Joy R. Brown
Can We Talk?
Part I
Good men gone bad!? Is this
a Statement or a question, one
may.ask? Good men, what is
a good man? Mr. David
Payton wrote a play several
years ago with the challenging
title, oA Good Man is Hard to
Find. ? As I examined the title
of the play, I realized what Mr.
Payton was expressing. There T
is an innumerable amount of
good men walking upon the
face of the earth undiscovered
because of how they may
appear outwardly. However,
there is.an underlying factor
that has caused the good men
to revert to the obad boy ?
syndrome. Do I have the
answer? No, of course Ido not
have a valid answer. DoT have
"the insight to why some of the
ogood ? men have turned
obad? ? I believe I do.
As you continue to read, please
"have an open mind and spirit
to realize I am entitled to voice
My OWN opinion, no matter
how absurd and far fetch
someone may think it is,
. Recently, I was engaged in.a
conversation with a newly
divorced young man. As he
gathered the reflections of a
malicious divorce, I could hear
the heart of this brother. He
acknowledged that his vows
were sacred. He stated, oJoy,
reminisced on
, when I recited
my vows; |
a life time
commitment not
pleasure. ? As I
listened to his
heart, he
explained that
his wife never
communicated
with him, only
argued. and
elaborated on
the things he did
not do while
, avoiding the
things he did.
Communication was the
highlight of this brother Ts
conversation. As I
the
conversation we had, I
summed it up with one
word.
Fatience.
Yes, men have their faults,
but we as women have ours
as well. Women, we make
attempts. to educate and =
school our brothers by
exemplifying the omother ?
figure. Most. men will
quickly tell you they did not
marry their mothers. We as
women, have a tendency to
talk at a man instead of
communicating with him.
If you speak, he will listen.
If you yell, he will shut
down. Common courtesy is
the essence of what men
want. Yes, if we examine
each relationship we Tve
been involved, we can
always find the negative.
However, when we magnify
the negative we minimize
the positive.
You may say, oJoy, you are
single, how can you tell me
how to handle my
relationship? ? Believe me,
in this case, I wish
experience was not the best
teacher, however it was. I
was in T a healthy
relationship, a man with no
major baggage. However,
I allowed my ogirlfriends ?
to influence the course or
recited them for
for temporary
That word is.
direction of my relationship.
This brother would open doors,
buy me flowers, hold my hand,
tell me how beautiful I was,
treat me like a queen and more.
He was every woman Ts dream
man, someone to call just to say
' oT love you ? or someone who
managed love by spontaneity,
I remembered once having a
disagreement with this young
man. Before, I continue,
women, we have to learn how
to handle our minor
discomforts within the
~-parameters of our relationships.
Simply put, keep your
relationship private and not
display it publicly. It was just
that, a disagreement.
Throughout the years, I Tve
learned that disagreements are
good. It Ts healthy and part of a
well balanced relationship. The
young man I was involved with
was always the level headed
one and yes, I was the one that
would ofly off the handle. ?
_ This disagreement could have
been settled if I had not
involved my girlfriends who
made statements such as oIf I
were you, I would not take that
from him ? or oGirl, you are
crazy if you trust him. ? If I had
probably be together today.
The Word of God states in
Proverbs 21:9, oIt is better to
dwell in a corner of the
housetop than with a brawling. T
woman in a wide house. ?
Women, men get tired of
watch the atmosphere in your
relationship. shift.
*] receive comments via phone,
email and face to face how
-communicated with him ;
instead of arguing, we would .
hearing us fuss 24/7. Surprise a
him one day. Give him "
he least expect from you, »
communication. Yes, I know .
men have their flaws as well.
But, let Ts work on our
communication skills and
watch peace rule and reign in
your. house. Will
communication solve
everything? No, but it Ts a start.
I pray this oSow A Seed ? will
allow us to examine how we
communicate with our spouses
and significant others (not
related to . homosexual
relationships). Sow a seed of
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Nationwide Insurance sponsors a popular TV commercial that features individuals merrily going about their daily lives and then suddenly being involved in a serious accident. The announcer
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Every day in America, lives are changed by onormal ? catastrophes such as: fire, flood, theft, accidents, illness, injury, and even death: Each brings with it the potential for a second tragedy "a .
| financial catastrophe. A good insurance program can help soften the impact of some of the catastrophic events that we all will face at sometime during our lives.
The basic concept of insurance is the transfer of risk from an individual to a larger group of people. In short, the personal disaster of one contributing individual is paid for by the contributions
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