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premier preacher, Bishop T.D.?,?s, reacted swiftly and sternly toa published report where the Na-tional Newspaper Publishers Asso-ciation (NNPA) censured him fornot advertising with Atlanta Ts BlackPress prior to his hugely successfulMega-Fest 2005, one of the largest7 ge PaBishop T.D. Jakes shares his messwalks of life. The gaPhoto: Potter Ts Houseby Maynard Eaton -Atlanta VoiceATLANTA (NNPA) -The nation Tsie 2 : ae ofering spotlighted suchBishop Jakes was incensed, de-fiant, and defensive and dismayédwith how he had been portrayed. Fol-lowing his speech to the NationalAssociation of Black Journalists ear-lier this month, he pulled this re-_ porter into the Hyatt Regency Ho-tel downtown's kitchen corner " or- _to keep his en-tourage and others at a distance "dered his security|religious conferences ever. oTo be called cheap in that ar-ticle was an insult, ? said Jakes heat-edly to this reporter. oIt also upsetme that rather than come to ine di-for resolution, this matter wased publicly in the press. ?recdiscu: hope and encouragement during Woman,opening night of MegaFest 2005 and on the left MegaFest indicates how Mega Fest draws on people from all?,?. ih gosple singers as Cee Cee Winans and Comedian Steve Harvey. |. nel . " waacg Eastern North Carolina's Minority Commun | ~ BCRE SBE I lc" SN gm ee eatin ee SS aaa ee am ote Oe Seaaaagaaae Ww 0 Oo 5 a Des G er (1Lomplimer | Tea " 5 oy - HeTHe Ae e's ail pie FS ff Z ; ieagen ahiy to ss ME es a fee snd ? a 1) aneee? | Ba wen _, (Retail Value: §0 ce 5oy 6 tek aa. icichetadiahenete = , a. VOL XVIIENO. X Aug.1-31,27 25.een :: 7 rdGSre}nalism. ? .That rebuke brought this retortfrom Atlanta Voice editor StanWashington who witnessed, but wasnot allowed to participate T by Jakes Tsecurity in the interview: oIt Ts onlyyellow T journalism if it is untrue orit is a deliberate attempt to smearsomeone. The story was neither. Itwas the truth. No one is out to slan-ff ésArt Loosed! on theihouand harangued and reprimanded thisreporter with a blistering retort tomy previous story. oEvery time | don't spend moneynow I am a bad guy, ? he asks in-credulously? oYou don't resolve abusiness conflict with yellow T jour-Jackie Robinson Season Champs,Second Place and Runner upsLeague/Head Coach:Jackie RobinsonNORTH CAREBaseball Tournament/ :James Stockton. BACK ROW: Brandon?Regular Season Champs -Phillips, Zack Haywood, Tim Jones, Ricky Johnson, Da Da Parker, LoranzoDainiels and Mike Joyner,Mullins, Jiomni House,Jr. FRONT ROW: Boone Mooring, DiontaJehneil House,Taquan Hardison and Kelvinership Institute, successfully drewder Jakes or his organization. ?In that Atlanta Voice story- "which was subsequently re-printedin dozens of Black-owned papersacross the country " NNPA Presi-dent John Smith, Sr. lamented thatmuch to his chagrin not one singleButterfield and Cornerstone Church HostsBy Susie ClemonsGREENVILLE, NC -Saturday,August 20, 2005,Congressman.G.K Butterfield, in artnershipwith the angression cus Political Education-and Lead-Black Caii-dime was spent with Atlanta's Blackpress by Jakes T Mega Fest extrava-ganza that drew some 150,000people to Atlanta.The snub followed a June speechby Jakes to the NNPA, a federationof more than 200 Black news papers, where he pledged reconcilia-tion between the Black church andthe Black press. ? oThe story was not unfair, ? saysSmith, publisher of the Atlanta In-quirer. oIn my conversation with(Jakes), he said the story was one-sided but we did not know how toget to him. ? oThe same person that theyreached me for when they invitedme (to their convéntion), that weworked out arrangements for, thatscheduled the appointment was(Washington D.C. publicist) OfieldDukes, ? counters the esteemedJakes. oAll they had to do was talkto Ofield and it would have beenfine. I just resented the fact that theway Black people in America dobusiness is done in the press andnot in person. ? oIf I had known Ofield Dukeswas his conduit then I would havedone that, ? replies Smith: oForsomeone to have to jump throughthat many hoops in order to get tohim in order for him to have a say~ whether it is one-sided or not - Ithink that is his fault. But by themere fact that he told me in Chi-House of Representatives Daniel oDan ? Blue; former Majority leaderof the North Carolina House ofRepresentatives Judge Milton oToby ?Fitch; Congressman John Lewis ofGeorgia and venerated North Garo-lina Congressman Mel Watt.Rev. Sidney Locks, Pastor of Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church andhost to the panel discussion on Voters Rights is pictured along with WalterCafo to get in touch with his people,I though that was an insult to me. ?For his part, Bishop Jakes sayshe came to the Black press offeringan olive branch and agreeing to writea weekly column for the NNPANews Service free of charge. oThey invited me to the Blackpress (convention) and we did saythat we were oing to work to-gether, ? he readily admits. oThey didnot say that the cost of admissionwas how much money I spent. Noone said that in the entire meetingAnd, it chat was theabout, I don't have to come speak"for that. They need to send a busi-ness proposal to a marketing direc-tor. And it can't be done in June fora (MegaFest) meeting that occurs inAugust because we bought our adsmonths and months ago, and we doit nationally and not locally. ?The Atlanta Voice Sales andMarketing Director Cheryl Mainoroffers this account. oThe sales de-partment began talking to GherylThomas with Potters House in Janu-ary. In May they committed to run-ning an ad before Mega Fest. «In July, Jacquelyn Jakes calledand said they had exhausted theirlocal advertising budget and wouldwe like to barter for tickets to theirentertainment events,The Atlanta Voice declined andchecked with other Black-owned At-lanta newspapers " none of them hadand to ensure the election of Blackofficials."The Voting Rights. Act of1965 ?, according to CongressmanButterfield, ohas changed the politi-cal landscape of the First District. ?In 1953 Butterfield witnessed his fa-ége theis T historicél election to the Wil-son Board of Aldermen in a districtelection system that was soon there-after modified to an at-large elec-tion adopting anti-single shot vot-ing, an act that dismantled concen-trated voters. Alderman Butterfieldwas strategically defeated in the fol-lowing election.It would be nearly two decadesuntil the Wilson Community ofminority voters would again haveRepresentation. Butterfield ac-knowledges, oHad the VotingRights Act been in place in theyear 1957, not only would suchchanges require approval by theDepartment of Justice but minor-ity plaintiffs would have had theProviso to bring lawsuit againstmeeting wad,~received any advertising, either. ?Adds Dallas Weekly Publisher andAtlanta Voice President James Wash-ington, oAfter all you don Tt preach a- sermon and not pass the collectionplate. ? oIam not opposed to market-ing in the Black press, but the ar-ticle makes it sound like I putmoney into other print media andthat I deliberately snubbed the Black opress when, in fact, this is simplnot the truth, ? he later e-mailed, oWith the exception of ads we ranin the papers of our MegaFest me-i@ sponsors and the ad we fan in.the T Atlanta Journal Constitution _thanking the city for their hospital-ity and announcing, as we did lastyear, mext year Ts conference dates,we did not buy ads in any newspa-pet, including the Black press. ?Jakes, who has been dubbed oAmerica Ts Best Preacher ? by TIME oMagazine, calls the NNPA criticismand the story appearing in most ofthe NNPAranted and unfounded attack. oItis an integrity issue "to printit, to write it and to slander me wasnot being fair, ? argues Jakes, ahugely popular TV evangelist who.heads the Dallas-based mega-chutchPotters House. oThe only ing theyaccused me of was not giving them:a piece of money and that is not aSee Jakes Cries Foul - Page 9Panel Discussion on Voting Rights Act of65'porary provisions of the VRA, sec-tion 5 is the most important--sec-tion 5 has been and is crucial tominority political empowerment. ?North Carolina, D- Congress-man Mel Watt was arlier capturedsaying, oWhile thé Voting :Acts Tae bag teat progreseythere is\still mich work to do....loday 40 years later the votingrights of minorities are still in jeop-ardy, so Congress T reauthorizationof the VRA is not an option, it Ts im-perative. The members'of the Con-gressional Black Caucus are com-mitted to renewing and strengthen- .ing the Voting Rights Acts, ?And that progress is tvident to-day in North Carolina with electedAfrican American officials number-ing 263 inclusive of: 3 Clerks ofCourt; 51 County Commissioners,(7 chairmen of their boards), in theIst Congressional District; 8 Dis-trict Court Judges; 73 members ofBoards of Education; 5 General As-sembly members; 18 Mayors; 91Lawrence. LAST ROW Head Coach and Asst. Coaches: Robert Jones, " Fauntroy along with Brad Miller, NC - D and G.K. Butterfield, NC - D. the discriminatory election sys- City Council Members, 3 Register.Sylvestor Tyson and Mike Jones tems- including the use of literary of Deeds; 4 Sheriffs; 6 Superiora gathering of well known politi- They along with a host of other tests as voting requirement. ? Court Judges,cal visionaries T to CornerstonéJackie Robinson League Baseball Toner-up Regular Season - SERTOMCoach Curtis Keyes, Greg Suggs, KennyKarmon MIDDLE ROW (left to right):urnament Champs/2nd Place Run-A HORNETS (Left to Right): Asst.Coward, Head Coach JamesNick Summerall, Julien More,Cam Grice, Montey Hardy and Chiistopher Bridgers. FRONT ROW (leftto right): Deshawn Payton, Jakeel Andrews, Mi¢ Suggs, Justin BrownMarcus Bell, Josh Cox (Not pictured T.S. O TNeil and Josh Ward),dimaMissionary First Baptist Churchin Greenville, for what was just amuch a reunion of great mindsspanning decades of positive so-cial change for African Americans,as it was a panel discussion oneliminating barriers to black po-litical participation to commemo-rate the 40th anniversary of the fed-_ eral Voting Rights Act of 1965.Those in attendance wereformer member of Congress and oneof organizers of the 1963. March onWashington Walter Fauntroy;former speaker of North Carolinatrail blazers and political punditswere present to share historical dataon voter discrimination and otherstrategies enacted to deny AfricanAmericans access to the polls, in aday long event of workshops focus-ing on the progress, hard won suc-cesses and future of voting rights forminorities.Historically, North Carolinahas been a hot bed for political eq-uity for African Americans, manyof whom have and. continue towage a successful battle to ensurethe protection of voting rights forthe African American community oLiterary Tests ?, according toNAACP Counsel Alaina Beverlyadvised during the second work-shop session, omay have againtaised its arm in North Carolinawith the current voting rights liti-ation of whether provisionaryBallots can be counted. ? AlsoBeverly advised, othat while manysections of the Voting Rights Actof 1965 (VRA) are permanent,some are temporary. It is the tem-porary provisions, found in section5, section 203 and sections 6through 9, that are up for reau-thorization in 2007. Of those tem-To that end, CongressmanButterfield reminds all minorityvoters that, oThe bloodthe Edmund Pettis Bridge, inSelma Alabama in 1965 and.throughout the South, forms thefoundation upon which we standand what we commemorate the40th Anniversary of the VotingRights Act of 1965. ?Remember, the message of themovement of 1965 remains largelyunchanged today: if you don'tvote, you don Tt count,Susie: Clemons is a staff writerfor the Minority Voice.North Carolina MutualLaunches Partnership withni AAR htaeohenncwnnArea Clergypany announced the launch o; Parker, Jr. of ac Hill| dang ) with area clergy « fnMissionary Baptist Church, Sharoan overview of the company Ts programsinfouta an unwar-ightsshed onfg (atolina Mutual Charitable nator, presented afack Robinson League Baseball 2nd Plc Runner-up Regular Season | Rey, Haywood T. Gray, B3 tary- Treasurer for the General Baptist State Convention of North CaFUZION: FRONT ROW (left to right): Hunter Wilson, C.T. Blow, Jalen | ¢ | y : BapAtkinson, Ryan Harris, Travis McCormick and Kevi. Jefferson, MIDDLEROW (left co. right): Mike Bowman, Miles Gibbs,Savage and i Clark, BACK ROW (left toFrankie Atkinson, Asst Coach: Leron Gibbs and Asstly,Scott Harris,Akeemright):Head Coachoach: Carl Harris.*aGeneral Baptist State Convention, oCampaign 750, ? and spc

eeGREENVILLE, NC - For a cen-tury, it was standard practice at many» American in-surance com- panies thatwhen it cameto burial insur-ance, blacksWere charged© more thani whites for the| Same coverage.he policiesWere small, pay-ing out justenough for amodest funeral, but millions of themwere sold, many to poor black fami-lies in the South. Now the industryis being called to account. Insuranceregulators in many states have filedcomplaints. Lawyers representingblack families have brought class-action lawsuits. Companies withpolicies sold by scores of insurers,unwilling to defend what is nowviewed by society as indefensibleracial discrimination, are settling outof court. .~ Between 2000 and 2004, 16major cases were settled. Those casescovered 14.8 million policies sold by90 insurance companies between1900 and the 1980s. Together, thesettlements require the companies topay more than $556 million most ofIt Is restitution to policyholders ortheir survivors.The two biggest settlements:American General Life and AccidentSuejette Joneshat Ts inBy David SylvesterI recently completed a chari-table bicycle trip in Africa,a riding over7000 miles yom Cairo,ypt toff Cope Town,Mm South Af-_ tica. The|. trip mademe the firstafd only Af.-aI have plenty of great andfascinating stories. Many arefunny, others bittersweet, someare poignant, but all are enter-taining. Surprisingly one storyhas stood out and if it was notfor the fact that I have a pictureof it, many would never believeit. It is for that reason that I amsharing it with you.I have traveled all over theworld and have never seen astore by the name of oJew Dev-ils, ? oSpic Bastards, ? oMuffDivin T Dykes ? or anything likethat - only the store called oNiggers. ? While in Lilongwe,Malawi, I came across a store bythe name of oNiggers. ? That'sWhat Blacks can doThe problem with AfricanAmericans is their heavy reliance onpolitics. An example is the remark-ably ill-informed, polemical cam-paign against Sudan. In Sudan, boththe American left and right haveptacticed subtle forms of self-sery-ing, symbolic politics that hinder thedevelopment of a positive Ameri-can consensus on assistance. Afri-can Americans have bought into po-litical policies that prolonged a dev.astating war and curbed any discus-sions of means to sustain Sudan'seconomic capacity.America T interest in Sudanmushroomed largely due to cam-paigns led by missionary groupssod, African-American churches,resulting in an unusual alliance.of right-wing politicians identi-fied with the Republican Partyand members of the Democratic_ Congressional Black Caucus,While they've been goading Af-rican-American activists to pro-test. and march against Sudan,fight-wing politicians and theirid projects have been generat.ing money in and about Sudan.~ When Black Americanscease being a part of the prob-lems of Sudan, they will realizethat spawning solutions can be-come became a worthwhile en-terprise. A U.N, survey ranksSudan as the sixth-richest coun-try on the planet in terms of te-Torces. It. is Aftica Ts largestcountry. It has vast water reesources and possesses the lateirrigated farm in the world,Gezra Project. It's the world Tsgest producer of gum arabic,ch & world consumes bil-lions of times a day in fizzyevant edCo. of New York agreed in} greed in 2002 topay $157 million for 1.9 millionpmilicies. Other companies whichsurance Co. of Decatur, Alabama,Liberty Life Insurance Co.,ofGreenville, §.C, and ic CoastLife Insurance Co. of South Carolina.One spokesman for the Ameéri-can Council of Life Insurers, a tradegroup, said the insurance industrysettlements are best understood ointhe context of America Ts complexhistory of race relations, ? *Burial insurance,also known asindustrial, was originally developedin Britain for sale to factory work-ers. Introduced in the United Statesin 1875, it spread nationwide, takingespecially strong hold in black neigh-borhoods Tin the Southeast. There,insurance agents peddled the poli-cies door to door. Typically agentsstopped by weekly to collect the pre-miums "often a dollar or less.Through these regular visits, theagents could see when families weregrowing and pressed to insute eachnew member. Instead of consolidat-ing multiple policies into a single oneata Deter rate, black customers wereencouraged to uying individualones for their woe families poli-cyholders say. .By 1955, the high-water markfor burial insurance, American in-surance companies held more than$40 billion worth in 155 milliona Name? Hiright oNiggers! ? The other riders,who were all White, could not waitto inform me of this to see my reac-tion. Initially, |ned...Lawauite 1policies. Some industry giants, in- his son says, oThar was kind of 1i-_luding Metropolitan Life, built~- their business largely on profits fromburial insurance in the late 19th andearly 20th centuries, according toat racial bias was built into thesepolicies was long an open secret inthe insurance industry, Insuranceforms asked the applicant Ts race, andblacks were routinely charged morethan whites for the same coverage,the insurance industry now publiclyacknowledge.For decades, the insurance in-dustry defended the disctiminatorypractice, arguing that blacks on av-erage didnt live as long as whites,making them a worse insurance risk.However, attorneys for blackpolicyholdeps say, many insurerscontinued the practice long after itbecame known that it was poverty,poor medical care, and risky jonot race "that contributed to shorterlife span. That meant blacks contin-ued to pay more than whites whofaced similar risks.In many cases, industry criticssay, premiums paid over the years |greatly exceeded the payment valueof the policies. One couple spent$585 in premiums for a policy thatcypaid a benefit of $60 according toone lawsuit. Another paid $728 inremiums over 20 years for a $520Penefi, One black railway workerand truck driver paid premiumsregularly for more.than 50 years, Yetthe insurer eventually told him thatsome family policies, including theone on his life, had somehow lapsed,Bowser, who died on 9/11.Here I am, a Black man tidingacross the world on his bicycle inthought that itwas a very badjoke but when theother riders wereadamant aboutthe existence ofthe store, I had tosee it for myself.What I found was a store+, Selling what the owner called hipspop: style-clothing. Ie wasiamanned by two gentlemen - oneof them asleep! (Talk about iv-ing up to or in this case down toa stereotype). I asked the guyswhat was up with the store name.After hearing my obvious non -Malawian accent and figuring outthat I was from America, theman thumped his chest proud]and said oP-Diddy New YorkCity! We are the niggers! ?My first reaction was tolaugh because many things whenisolated can be very funny, butit quickly dawned on me that thiswas so not funny at all. It waspathetic. I did these bicycle tripsacross the USA and through the Mother -Land T in honor of oneof my good friends, mentors andfellow African Americans, Kevindrinks and chocolate bars. Sudanhas oil reserves rivaling those inhonor of an-:other Black ola Malawian] man thumped man, tidinhis chest roudly and said oP- | home T, anDiddy New York City! We are | what do see?the niggers! ? Some Afri-cans callingthemselvesNiggers. They were even so proudof it they put it on their store frontto.sell stuf. When I relay the storyto folks back home in Philadelphia,moge, of them laugh too and ratio-nalize it by saying well, we can sait to each other T or there is a dif-ference T or even they just spelledit wrong. It should have been niggas T or niggah Ts T. Gee, like thatwould make a difference.The issue is not the spelling.I was wrong. We are wrong.There is no justification for aninfraction of this magnitude. Theword and the sentiment behindit are flat out wrong. We havedenigrated and degraded our-selves to the point that our back-wards mindset has spread like acancer and infected our source,our brothers, our sisters, ourMother Land.I have traveled all over theworld and have never seen ato helpgovernment of the north.Like Garang, Blacks need tofelt hvernment and corporate accounts. :Bifsetryous, you paying premiums allyour life, but you don't have any cov- erage? What were you buying? ? He»: As tecent as January 2005, theAssociated Press reported that theBank of America and Bank One arehappens to B!t bias policies!discussing T possible settlements of |class action: lawsuits filed by blackconsumers who say they werecharged more for auto loans thanwhites pay, That didn Tt necessarilybreak the law, said. one lawyer forthe policyholders. Bur he added, oIt Tspart and parcel of what we considerA he + wie:a scheme to take advantage of Afri-can-Americans, 9Note: This article caught myattention | I, myself filed aclass-action sist with MetropolitanLife Insurance Company. In June2004, I received a settlement check on behalf of my late father who diedin 1945. . . .Respectfully: submittedSITE oF THEUNION, oTwo Years itfo THE ROR WARoe,GREAT AVERION WAYor Lite, FEST ASSURED.Fae.Ming4store by the name of oJew Dev-ils, ? oSpic Bastards, ? oMuffDivin T Dykes ? or anything likethat- only the store oNiggers. ?I am to blame-for this. Ey-ery time I said the word, I con-doned it. By not correcting oth-ers or by rationalizing it, | gaveit respectability. By looking theother way when others said heynigga what Ts up T, and when I pur-chased CDs, DVDs, T-shirts andAfrica andpreached Marxism, Garang be-came the darling of America Tsen oWhile White Americans take advantage of economic ventures inhave little knowledge of opportunities in their own homeland.The money is in Africa. I don't care how humanitacomes to economic opportunity and economic potential, we have done ourselves and Africa a disservice by talkingmuch about the problems and not about the opportunities, ?- former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. And:Urban League's 65 Annual ConferenceSaudi Arabia, but politicianspreach odisinvestment ? over in-vestment there.The untimely death of JohnGarang has thrown the Compre-hensive Peace Act (CPA) thatformed Sudan's new unity gov-ernment into question, forcingAfrican Americans to choosebetween politics of protest orprograms for peaceful progressin Sudan. |The CPA brought hope to war-ravaged regions of ? Sudan and en-sured wealth and power would beshared. Mr. Garang was to be presi-dent of the newly established South.ern Sudan government and vice-president of the new United Gov-ernment of Sudan. After six years,the south will vote on whether toremain part of Sudan.The conflicts, which Ameri-can politics had a hand in pro-mulgating, wrought vast devas-tation in Sudan. Ten millionpeople were dislocated fromtheir homes and lands during theworld Ts longest war. Two millionple died in 21 years of fight.le in the south of Sudan be-tween. the Christian-endorsedSudan People Ts Liberation Move-ment and the majority-Muslimtake advantage of the opportu-nity at hand. Though he oncerew Young, town hall meeting on- _Africa that benefit them, African AmericansWhite people arerian they are; I don't careedy to go where the money is,w religious they are. When it Africa and Diaspora, ? NationalReligious Right. Through thatalliance, Sudan Ts profile becamep-Hop Ts African Influenceother stuff, I enriched it. I nowsee the error in my ways and |am so sorry Black men andwomen,The flame that we called en-tertainment, that was only towarm and entertain us, now en-gulfs us and scorches our ownself esteem. If a child only knowsto refer to men and women asniggers, bitches, pimps andhoes, then what is he/she to growemselvesnegative in America. Evangelicalhristian groups fastened on tothe cause of Garang Ts Southernrebels, saying they were oa be-leaguere Christian minority ?and victims of othe Arab gov-ernment. ?Mobilizing around chargesof slavery, genocide and terror-ism, Washington activists gaveSudan a pariah status.If Black Americans concen-trate on peacemaking in Sudan,thy can turn an Affican disas-up thinking of themselves?The bottom line is this: I rodeover 12,000 miles on two conti-nents through 15 states and 13countries and broke two bikes inthe process to get to a store inAfrica called Niggers. I am will-ing to step up and admit my partin the havoc that we have wroughton our mindset but I think that-we all are to blame.I will finish with 4 things: if- you don Tt like being called aNigger, Bitch, Faggot, Dyke,Spic, Jew Do » Wop, Towel Heador anythin of that ilk, then think.Think before you speak those- words, write those lyrics, supportthat rhetoric: And most of all think* before you purchase! Purchasingis akin to compliance. | may likethe beats and rhythms of somesongs but J can not support it anymore. You rappers are intelligent.Find another word to describeyourselves,A picture is worth a thou-sand words. For larger view_ click onto hetp:// playahata.com/images/gallery/hiphopafricaninfluence.jpg.David Sylvester is a personaltrainer, who teaches health toadults in Philadelphia. He e-mailed this story initially to 35friends. They forwarded. the e-mails, and Sylvester has receivedmore than 300 responses, includ-ing responses from Japan sincethe initial e-mail on July 20.erter into the continent Ts richestcountry. They can become realplayers there, while makingGarang Ts peace agreement a last.ing accomplishment. If Blacksbreak away from the fractiousforces, they'll sideline warmon-gers who favor sanctions againstudan and move Darfurianrebels with the Justice and Equal- |ity Movement and the SudaneseLiberation Army to actually ne-potiare in Abuja, Nigeria, andring othe world Ts worst humani-tarian crisis ? to an end. Suchsteps will enhance business in-terests we all should have for,and in, Sudan,aie 2 ee.Coopers CommentaryMz.Bs scoéA The global impact of high& prices on the BlackBascommunityconsumer needs to beted abour the implicationsf Is prices and steps topromote fuel efficiency and sav-ings, Though some believeneal ng can be done to deal ef.vely with the issue, there arei?,? strategies that, if imple-nted, would | stationnk twice about priceuse common sense. Ifigher than that of gas station oJt8 customer vohtime baseTod wn Sam's Club's gashpdpump prices, we need to be1 : Pome the impicicualt ve A sells gas that ispblocks down the road, -t gas si ti nA cialhen it loses too much "ecents per aIn terms of savings, this will payfor itself within a very short pe-tiod of time, Dae a ishopConsumers need to 4my for lig As of now, arel of cru oil is $66. Experts,like AAA and oil industs nalysts,stantially in the near future.Since: crude oil costs.slitics, vis-d-vis the T AiddleEast, wea scence aroundof. agitto educate consur| TheMinority VoiceNewspaperis Published byThe mnortty Voice, Inc.Jim RousePublisher/FounderGaius O, Sims, Sr,Operations Manager/Graphics and Story EditorHome OfficeEvans St.Owned & OperatedJim Rouse Communications,_ also dbaWOOW Radio Greenville NC.Wm. Clark: Gen, Mgr. andWTOW Radio, Washington, NC.Our Subscription RatesAre Are S20 te vent or

so Parse ona pe anonyeaaii, , 5ManBy Mark MemmortSPARTANBURGS - Police inSpartanburg, S.C., said Fridaythey've arrested a man for themurder of Tamika Huston, the24-year-old African-Americanwho became a symbol for criticsof the national media's apparentlack of interest in missing adultsunless they're young, attractive,white women.Huston Ts disappearance be-came a rallying point for criticswho decried media attention toother cases. -Under arrest: ChristopherHampton, 25, an acquaintanceof Huston Ts who was releasedfrom federal prison Friday. Head been in prison for an unre-lated crime. aeated whn Huston disappearedin May 2004. At that time,Police: Remains of LaToyia Figueret teetaa roof vest ury-erasey artially wooded lot in Chester,3 mi s from Philadelphia. A fewdozen members of the Figueroa fam-ily and supporters arrived at the sceneshortly after daybreak; clustering closetothe police tape and embracing eachother, oNow she can rest in peace, ? saidthe woman's father, Melvin Figueroa. oAll I want is justice with that peace. ?The woman's uncle, Jose| _ . See of cay ibe as the dis5 " covery of th was, it puts an endLaToyia Figueroa to the weeks of fear and not knowingPHILADELPHIA - Police discovered about LaToyia, who was five monthsthe remains of a missing Pregnant pregnant at the time of the disappear-woman and qui | ance. oWeEx-boyfriend taken into custodyarrested the father can actuallyofher unborn child | J ame try to goin case of missing pregnantwomanSaturday, ending an back to aexhaustive, normal life, ?monthlong search. he said.Lynas A Abshen T sid Sagi tives and friends have papered the cayney Lynne M. Abr saic en " tives i : the ciPoaches would be with two with flyers and hel large-scalePeto harap bes et enses searches for any sign of Fi neroa, re-or the deaths of 24-year. LaToyia cently marking one month since herFigueroa and her fetus, = _ disappearance. A reward fund for in-Authorities did not ptovide a formation had reached $100,000, in-motive or say what led them to sus- cludi donations from the restaurant- Hampton was not incarcer-Spartanburg Director of PublicSafety Tony Fisher said Friday,Hampton was living in an apart-~ ment where a significant amount ocause of the femains were found. The newspa-arge per said au-amount of 7 thoritiesblood dis- 30% of the missing per- hope 0i cases are positivelyrie ° P sore serie are men... identify thement. Fisher remains,said oforen- which may.of Huston Ts blood was later\found.Huston is presumed dead be-Sing young women finallarge with Murder in the Tamika Huston Case' The arrest may also have led- to the discovery of Huston Ts bodFriday. The Spartanburg Herald-Journal reported Saturday that atsome point in the day Friday po-lice were led by Hampton to somewoods in the area where humansic evidence ? has given his de-artment what it needs to chargeFampton with murder, but hewould not comment further dur- ing a news conference inSpartanburg.roa foundwhere she worked.The case attracted a brief flurryof television attention after severalPhiladelphia-area Dloggers waged acampaign urging networks to give thesame attention to Fugueroa, who isblack and Hispanic, as they did toNatalee Holloway, a white womanwho disappeared in AruPooks lawyer, Michael Coard,has repeatedly spoken to journalistsof his client, including na-tional television appearances in whichhe noted that Poaches has spoken toinvestigators voluntarily and that hehas consented to have his home andhis vehicle searched.Police Commissioner SylvesterM. 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She saidFriday the family feels some. relief_ networks and major newspapers,e aafter Hampton's arrest but feels oasif we're only halfway there. At thetime of Hampton's T arrests,Howard said, owe still don Tt knowwhere Tamika is and we know itwill be a lengthy process beforehe Ts ever convicted. ?The last confirmed sighting ofHuston was May 27, 2004 inSpartanburg. Family and friendsbecame concerned several dayslater when they realized she hadn'tbeen to her apartment for sometime. Huston Ts dog, Macy, hadgiven birth to puppies in the apment and it was clear no one hadbeen there for the births or to carefor the animals.Immediately after reportingHuston Ts disappearance toSpartanburg police, her family be-gan trying to call attention to hercase. Howard, who is a public re-lations professional in Miami,alerted newspapers and TV sta-tions in South Carolina. The fam-ily handed out fliers and heldcandlelight vigils. A reward fundwas created. The efforts paid off:Local media did stories aboutHuston Ts disappearance. By mid-June 2004, her case was atop thelocal media's agenda.Then Howard contacted na-tional media. They had given heavycoverage to the disappearance ofPeterson, from Modesto, Calif., in2002-2003. Peterson Ts husbandScott was convicted of her mur-der earlier this year and was sen-tenced to death. Laci Peterson was27.Howard talked to all four TV& StainlessGreta Van. Susteren briefly notedounincluding, USA TODAY. Fox NewsChannel's On T the Record withHuston Ts disappearance last Au-gust. But no other national mediaoutlets were interested. .At the same time, however,most national news media were de-voting airtime and newsprint to theJuly 19, 2004, disappearance of:Hacking, 27, of Salt Lake City.Her husband later pled guilty toher murder and was sentenced tobetween six years and life inprison. a merHuston Ts full story wasn Tt toldnationally until March this year,on the Fox network Ts America TsMost Wanted. Then in May andJune, National Public Radio.andUSA TODAY did reports aboutHuston and the lack of media in-terest in her disappearance com-ared to the intense coverage ofrunaway bride ? Jennifer Wilbanksand missing Alabama teenHolloway. Ske disappeared inAruba on May 30.Howard, Huston Ts aunt, isconvinced that national media at-tention can make a big differenceto solving a missing person Ts case. oI have a huge amount of re-spect for the Spartanburg Publicafety Department and they de-voted an enormous amount oftime to Tamika Ts case, ? she said. oBut I know the national mediaattention we finally got onlyhelped. 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It meansstretching every dollar, dependingon a patchwork of family, charityand state programs to pay for whatSocial Security doesn Tt cover - andsometimes doing without. Thoseliving on nothing but Social Secu-rity are often single women andminorities. AARP. the senior ad-vocacy group, says 25% of retired the babywomen, including 46% of unmar-tied Hispanic women, have noincome beyond Social Security.AARP also says 33% of retiredAfrican-Amerticans live on SocialSecurity aloné.Those numbers could grow asboom generation entersretirement. Currently, 53% ofpeople in the workforce have nopension, and 32% have no savingsset aside for retirement. The num-ber of traditional pension plans -the kind that guarantee a setamount of money for life and thathave propped up many of the pre-oomer generation - has fallen to29,651 in 2004 from 112,208 in1985.The average Social SecurityAugust 1 - 31, 2005Security AlonePayout is $955 a month, $11,460annually. The benefit can be moreor less, depending on how manyyears you worked, how much youearned and the age you started tak-ing payments. ifthan $579, you can get Supplemen-tal Security Income. But that justtings your monthly income up to79.President Bush has proposedoverhauling Social Security y al-lowing private investment accountsand indexing benefit increases tochanges in consumer prices,rather than wages. But proponentsand opponents disagree on howthose changes would affect peoplewho are totally dependent on So-cial Security.your check is lessPrivate accounts would giveworkers the potential to earn moreon their savings than they wouldget from Social Security, propo-nents argue. And while tying in-creases to consumer prices wouldslow the growth of payouts overtime, the bottom third of incomecarners would be exempt from thatProvision, says Michael Tanner ofthe Cato Institute, a conservativethink tank.Opponents argue that T peoplewould have to get a return of morethan 3 percentage points above theinflation rate to benefit from pri-vate accounts. oThe president TsProposal would reduce benefits forpeople living on Social Securityand subject what was left to sub-The Minority Voice NewspaperPage 5stantially greater risk, ? says JasonFurman, senior fellow at the Cen-ter on Budget and Policy Priori-ties.Getting thereHow do you wind up withnothing but Social Security? CindyHulsey, a case worker for the AreaAgency on Aging of Northwest Ar-kansas, says about half of her 65clients live on nothing but SocialSecurity. oThey tended to havelower-paying jobs in their work-ing careers, the ladies were home-makers or the husband was afarmer, ? she says. oI've been a jailer, a deputysheriff, owned a taxi and drove it,too, ? says Faye Hickman, 79, ofHarrison, Ark., one of Hulsey Tsclients. She also worked 30 yearsfor Tyson Foods, the giant meat-packing company. oYou could p°into the pension or the stock, ? shesays. oI went into the stock. ? Tysonstock fell to $7.28 in Match 2003from nearly $25 in 1997, Hermoney soon evaporated. Today, |she lives on $888 a month, $146of which goes to her mortgage, Shegets an additional $20 in foodstamps. oIt is tight, ? Hickmansays.Rathbun had retirement sav-ings. She got a lump-sum payoutfrom the hospital where sheworked. oI went through that whenI first got sick, ? she says. oIt didn TtKenny Fewell, 63, ofLeesburg, Va., was just hitting hisstride as a heavy-equipment opera-tor when he fell into a diabeticcoma at age 49. That ended hiscareer driving dump trucks andother big equipment: For safetyreasons, the state took away hislicense. oWe never did have mich sav-ings, ? he says. Being laid off tookcare of the savings he did have,and diabetes took care of the restof his working career. Now, heand his wife, Nancy Ann, 56, alsoa diabetic, get by on his $998 So-cial Security check. The pay $188a month for their subsidized hous-ing.° oPeople say ou can work withdiabetes, ? Fewell says. oSome canand some can't. I Tve got a real badcase. ? Fewell has neuropathy thataffects his hands, causing numb-ness, pain and weakness.For a while after he was laidoff, he reconditioned lawn mow-ers, getting $30 to $35 apiece. Buthe can Tt do that anymore. Hetake long. ?, Maainly stays in bed,-trying toavoid getting diabetic sores. oIt gets boring sitting at home,staring at four walls, ? Fewell says.Nancy Ann Fewell worked fora doctor, doing filing and domes-tic work. She paid her own SocialSecurity, but until she Ts declareddisabled, she won't get any pay-ments. oHer feet swell up, and shehas tendonitis, ? he says.Marnie McDonough, an At-lanta social worker, says many ofher clients are single, African-American women who had menialjobs - as maids and housecleaners,for example. oThe families theyworked for didn Tt pay into SocialSecurity for them, ? she says. oAndthe women didn Tt earn much asdomestics and were more con-cerned about putting food on thetable. ?It Ts not easy__ Getting by on nothing but So-cial Security isn Tt easy. oUnlessyou'e living with relatives, it wouldbe very difficult, ? says AlexandraArmstrong, a Washington, D.C.,financial planner.Start with food. Rathbun saysshe Ts had to pinch pennies mostof her life, so she Ts used to it. oIwas raised during the dirty °30s,when you tarned ta manage, ? shesays. oI cook from scratch anddon Tt use a lot of prepared food, ?She grows vegetables in her smallbackyard oSits and. watches forsales. oNo frivolities, ? Rathbunsays.The Fewells get a box of gro-ceries once a month from RestonInterfaith, a local charity, althoughsome of the food isn Tt suitable fordiabetics. Eating at charity dinnersisnt much of an option. Fewell Tsneuropathy makes his handsshake, and he says it Ts embarrass-ing to eat in public. oWe went to apotluck dinner, and my shirtlooked like I was a pig, ? he says. oWe don't go out much ?Beyond food, medicine loomsas the biggest problem for manyof those trying to get by on SocialSecurity,Hickman is fortunate becauseshe beat cancer. oWhatever can becut off has been cut off, ? she says.But the 79-year-old also has heartproblems and asthma. Hulsey ar-ranges for her to get her heartdrugs free from the manufacturer,although Hickman frets that theprogram might end this year.Fewell, too, gets some of hisdrugs from the manufacturer; al.though he says it can take twoMonths of more to get thein, Butbecause he needs as much as 75units of insulin twice a day, he putsSee Social Security - Page 8

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Certain restrictions1-888-FC DIRECTn after_- and us in your thoughts and». payers as she mnoves towarda speedy and complete recov-» oeiy} teflect on King.- Janta in praying for Mrs. King Ts| full anda ing evein women, in particular throughthe Red Dress national awarenesscampaign, have definitely paidoff, ? Sherry Marts, Ph.D., theSociety's vice president of scien-tific affairs, said.The survey shows that diseaseswomen most fear do not match uwith the ones most likely to killthem. Heart disease was respon-sible for 28.6 percent of all deaths - in U.S. women in 2002, the lastyear for which complete data isbers have made no public statementson King Ts general health or prospectsfor recovery. In a statement issuedlate Tuesday night, Martin Luther|. King III said oexpressions of love».,and concern ? have been uring infor his mother-and the fam oMy family-and I are over- °~ Whelmed by the outand support that areen Bf |amily,uring of careing sent fromirc the world, ? Martin Luther~ King III said in a statement. oPlease continue to keep herery. ?_ Early Wednesday morn-ing, Atlanta Mayor Shitley Franklin took a moment to oT certainly join all At-1 complete recovery, ?Franklin said. oOur prayersare with her even when she Tsnot sick. We are very confi- dent that the doctors are do-thing they can. ?The 78-year-old widow of theRev. Martin Luther King Jr. has twosons and two daughters.She has cohtinued heris husband's work oe and civilfights, founding the King Center fol-_ Towing his 1968 assassination. Shewas hospitalized in April with atrialfibrillation and, following doctors T ad-vice to avoid stress, she cut back onpublic ap es over the summer.People close to Coretta ScottKing said she suffered a stroke early Tuesday and was taken to, PiedmontHospital that same morning. Howquickly King received medical atten-tion following her stroke is one ofheart attackavailable from the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention.All cancers combined, however,represented only 21.6 percent ofwomen Ts deaths that year. Breastcancer was tesponsible for lessthan four percent of all deaths. oIt Ts al perception, ? Remetzsaid. oHeart disease is viewed asmore of a chronic process thatpeople can live with. They may befearful of heart attacks, bus manyview chronic illness as somethingand strokemany factors affecting her recovery,medical experts say.A breakthrough drug, tissueplasminogen activator (t-PA), whichdissolves Blood clots, can help strokevictims, but they must receive itwithin three: hours of the onset ofsymptoms. Studies have shown thatpatients receiving the drug withinthat time frame are at least 30 per-cent more likely to recover with littleor no disability after three months.Atrial fibrillation causes theheart to quiver instead of beat reou-larly, It also increases the likelihoodof a stroke fivefold, according to theAmerican Medical Association. .About 2:2 million Americanssuffer atrial fibrillation. Coumadin,an anti-coagulant, and aspirin arecommon drugs prescribed for pa-tients with the condition in orderto decrease the likelihood of bloodclots. ?"?~Strokes, sometimes called obrain attacks, ? are caused when ablocked or ruptured blood vessel in--terrupts the flow of blood, oxygenthat wilately. ? |The word cancer usuallyevokes fear in miost people and .advocacy groups have mademarked efforts to increase publicconsciousness. . oBreast cancer organizationshave been very successful. in. rais-ing awareness, ? Marts explained. oIt is the most common cancer di-agnosis among women. 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Page 8 The Minority Voice NewspaperSee SocialSecurity - Page 5.up with the wait and keeps his$600-a-year Medicare drug allow-ance for emergencies.Because it Ts so difficult to live ,on Social Security, a primary chal-lenge for many is findin peopleto help them untangle the mazeof government and private pro-grams available.For some of the elderly, justadmitti 8 they need the help istough. oThey are proud people, ?says Hulsey. oThey want to live in-dependently for as long as possible. ?any times, they never call. oWe find them: bécause otherpeople call, ? says Ken Johnson,director of sehior fespite servicesin Columbia County, Ore,One reason they hold on:They don Tt want to have to dependon Medicaid, the government'shealth program for the poor. Ifthey get Medicaid, they can Tt havemuch else. Johnson Says that inOregon, if you go on Medicaid,the state can get reimbursed byyour estate when you die, leavingyour heirs with little. oPeople wantto leave an estate when t ey passon, ? Johnson says, oThey hold onto the desperate. last. ?For some, it Ts a lifeline. Recipi-ents of Supplemental Social Secu-rity Income must have less than$2,000 in assets to qualify for Med-icaid. But Medicaid will ay forsome of their » and that canmake a huge difference in theirstandard of living. oSometimesthose people are Reeces off thanthose who are just above the guide-lines for Medicaid, ? Hulsey says.Many of those living on So-cial Security alone are lookingforward to the new prescription-drug benefit from Medicare,which kicks in next year. oIt Ts sowonderful to be able to tell themthat they will get a free drug pre-mium, ? says cDonough, theAtlanta social worker. oOnce theyhear that, they Tte thrilled, ?A good social worker - oftenfound through a state's programsfor the elderly - can be a godsend. oMy case manager. is wonderful, ?Hickman says of Hulsey, HulseyNOTICEDUVCRCWill be holding Support Groups atMt. 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Breast cancer can involvemutilating surgery but with heartdisease, doctors can use medica-tions, angiography and stents toprevent further disease. People feelthat they can beat it. ?Lung cancer ranked seventhamong women Ts greatest healthfears, even though it claims morefemale lives when compared withbreast cancer. In 2002, over67,000 U.S. women died of lungcancer, while 41,500 died of breastcancer. Lung cancer is the leadingcause of death from cancer forboth.men and women in theUnited States. Although the num-ber of cases seems to be decreas-ing among men, it continues torise among women, according tothe American Lung Association.Women need to be aware oftheir risk for different diseases, oWe need continued public edu-cation, as well as improved under-standing among health care pro-viders, about how diseases such asheart disease and lung cancer af-fect women, ? Marts cautioned. oWomen and men are affected dif-ferently by a wide range of condi-tions. It is important to pay atten-tion to your individual risk factorsand be aware of which diseases aréon the: rise, Knowing their symp-toms and the available tools oeprevention and treatment are keyto maintaining good health.This article was providedcourtesy of the Society forWomen Ts Health Research.helps Hickman and others take ad-vantage of local Programs for se-niors. One, called Share and Care,provides free groceries once amonth. The homebound aged canget meals defivered via Meals oncal senior activity center,Families help sometimes.Rathbun relies on her day hter,Lucille Masterson, to drive er toa clinic for medical treatment. oIthelps to have a driver, ? she says. oI used to do it myself, but I'd bepretty darn tired by the timehadLies(HEheels, a charity; or through a |o- :I gor,August 1- 31, 2005home. ?But not everyone has familyavailable to help. And when theyare available, dealing with a finan-cially strapped and often ailing eld-erly relative can be hard on a fam-ily, McDonough says.In some cases, a son or daugh-ter will quit work to help the par-ent - which means both are livingon the parent's Social Security, orsome combination of Social Secy-rity and government assistance.The task of caring for an eld-erly family member is exhausting,WASHING T+Mage GATHERINGE PATURORY. OcToRER 15,,,MO@bilizing, },REMI pup&¢ presJohnson says. oA lot.of times we'ave wives taking care of husbands,Sons and daughters taking care ofmoms and dads, and we try to findtelief for the primary caregiver. ?Skeptical of private accountsMany seniors are. split onBush's proposal for letting work-?,?rs invest a portion of their SocialSecurity taxes in private invest-ment accounts in the hopes ofearning more. Because of herlosses in Tyson Ts stock, Hickmanis skeptical of that plan. oThat'sCrazy, she says.omMILLIRE MovinWaa ling) heCharles Goss, 75,Leesburg, Va., isn Tt enthusiasticabout the idea, either. He and hiswife, Annie, Jive-on an $840monthly Social Security check. He Mays he wouldn't want to risk get-ting any less. oIt pretty well takeswhat I get to live, ? he says.Rathbun thinks future genera-tions will need some help. oIfthey're planning on Social Secu-rity, they will need an investmentaccount of some sort to helpthem, ? she says.Those who are getting by onMaga GATHERINGSATurRDAy Ocroee iStwVEMENT.. . -Nop TE Ravgrgs ys The Power of Orne ?of .Social Security have some advicefor those who haven't retired yet:Save. oTry and save all the moneyyou can, ? says Kenny Fewell. oWhen you're on Social Securityand disability it Ts hard to get any-thing else. ?Be cautious in your spending. oYou've got to manage close, ?Hickman says. oYou're going tohave to an pennies, ?Add don Tt kid yourself. oIt Tsrough living on nothing but SocialSecurity, ? Fewell says.John Waggoner writes for USA Today