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Artist

In The News - Alliance of Black Artistspg 4

Featured Article - The Back of the Buspg 20

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Jeffrey Skoblow - Various Poems pg 73

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In The News

pg 4

Volume 17August 28 2014

ELIGIBILITY ∙ REQUIREMENTS OPEN TO VISUAL ARTISTS No entry fee Any gender race ethnicity Age 18 and up Any US Location Submit brief Artist information where requested below Submit maximum 100-word Issues Statement addressing the artistrsquos interest in exhibiting the Issues to be addressed and the connection with the art Type in space provided below Due 09062014 THE ART Must be in response to the Issues One entry per artist Drawing painting photography mixed media sculpture acceptable any media Drawing painting photography dimensions max ndash 48rdquo x 60rdquo If 3-dimensional 4rdquo max protrusion FramedReady to hang if applicable No installation art except New Media Sculpture max weight 40 lbs 48rdquo height If New Media must supply modes of delivery Contact the Alliance THE ARTIST Retains ownership of and copyright in the Art Must adhere strictly to timedate due requirements Is responsible for all shipping expenses and risk of loss prior to delivery Shall deliver Art to venue as instructed Has no rights to any residual proceeds of any publication at least 60 of which proceeds will benefit local St Louis area artists and art education related to the Issues through Alliance galleries THE ALLIANCE Has sole right to accept or reject Art Shall provide detailed instructions for delivery of completed Art on or before 10052014 Gallery assignments will be provided at this time Has right to retain possession of accepted Art through 03312015 Has option to retain Art beyond 03312015 if needed for Exhibition if Artist agrees Has option to extend possession for Travelling Exhibition purposes if Artist agrees Shall insure Art against risks of damage and loss while in possession of Alliance Has right to photograph and publish Art in bookcatalog of the exhibition and in media

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About the Alliance of Black Art Galleries The Alliance of Black Art Galleries which includes public private and nonprofit art galleries was founded August 20 2013 in St Louis Missouri It received a 2014 St Louis Magazine A-List Award in recognition of its collaboration in the arts community The Alliance galleries are as follows 10th Street Gallery (Patricia Smith Thurman and Solomon Thurman) 14th Street Artist Community Gallery (William Burton Jr and Robert A Ketchens) Bentilrsquos Jahrsquoz Art Private Gallery (Sami Bentil and Annetta Vickers-Bentil) Exodus Gallery (Carlton Mitchell) Gya Community Art Gallery (Dail Chambers) L D Ingrum Gallery amp Studio (Lois D Ingrum) Portfolio Gallery and Educational Center (Robert A Powell) and Salon 53 a private residential art gallery (Freida L Wheaton)

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This Alliance of Black Art Galleries (the ldquoAlliancerdquo) Visual Art Initiative is in connection with the August 9 2014 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson MO The ldquoHands Up Donrsquot Shoot Artists Respondrdquo Initiative will exhibit the visual art of 250 artists responsive to the killing and the aftermath of law enforcement media and public reaction

The killing of Michael Brown has spawned grief outrage protest and civil disobedience It has brought to the forefront for artist interpretation the inhumanity of the Brown killing and subsequent actions by law enforcement and the public The triggering event occurred during the 250th anniversary of the founding of St Louis

Issues for the Response civil rights voting oppression justice issues prosecutorial conduct free speech racial disparities police brutality community empowerment the right to assemble and other issues (ldquothe Issuesrdquo)

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pg 8

The Art and Science of Positive Policing

Parsing the Psychological and Legal Implications for the Ferguson Crisis

by Dr Tracey McCarthy PsyD DCFC JD MA Psychologist Attorney Associate Professor Webster University - Legal Studies Department wwwdrtraceymccarthycom

ldquoPower concedes nothing without a demand It never did and it never will Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows

or both The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppressrdquo- Frederick Douglass

There are alarmingly critical problems with the belief systems attitudes behaviors and leadership of many of

our nationrsquos police and the fatal shooting of St Louis Missouri teen Michael Brown by Ferguson law enforcement officer Darren Wilson brings to the international forefront the depth and breadth of this dire societal crisis The ldquoFerguson Crisisrdquo sets a stage for long overdue dialogue and concrete changes in policing and potentially harmful social prerogatives

While policing problems have the potential to adversely impact an entire population members of certain demographic groups bear the brunt of policing challenges Though one can argue in opposition historically African Americans - and African American males in particular - disparately suffer the consequences of the problems in American policing Police-community challenges are compounded in municipal areas where the citizen populations employing the police are disproportionately African American and female-headed and the police are disproportionately European American and male

Major reforms in American policing are undoubtedly due However such changes must be informed by an understanding of the manifest and latent forces serving to create and sustain the obvious and obscure dimensions of the challenges particularly as such relate to policing of communities with African American constituents

In the wake of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown an African American male teen

by Darren Wilson a European American male police officer the salient issue of basic human rights has served as the galvanizing construct informing the public discourse on policing problems in America The ldquoFerguson Fishbowlrdquo has evolved to reveal that the policing problem is a human rights problem which requires society-wide attention and amelioration

In almost two decades of educating police officers and creating undergraduate curricula in psychology law and forensics specifically aimed at meeting the personal and professional development needs of police officers I have grown to understand the complexity of the policing problem and the requirements of multifactorial prevention and intervention on the road to both policing and community improvement There is no single cause for policing problems and no single uni-dimensional intervention can function as curative There is therefore no solitary cause for the tragedy that ended the young life of Michael Brown and no solitary solution for future prevention

The Multifaceted Nature of Policing Challenges

A major problem in policing involves the unusual multidimensional demands of the policing role The profession of policing requires a multiplicity of knowledge skills dispositions and behaviors not demanded of any other profession For many reasons only the rare individual is actually fully equipped to effectively carry out the often mutually exclusive requirements of the role which involves social service emergency medical intervention crime prevention and

intervention citizensrsquo rights adjudication crisis management and peace keeping

Because policing directly involves every member of the community police problems are community problems and community problems are human ones It is therefore impossible to address the issue of police challenges without looking at the contextual dynamics which undergird policing concerns Additionally since police are human and not immortal superheroes the social emotional and behavioral makeup of each officer requires attention in any plans for policing evolution and problem solving

Police challenges can be divided into cognitive knowledge social emotional behavioral ethical moral management and leadership challenges Each of these challenges is tied to issues with community relations and overall police efficacy When there is a deficit or a conflict in any of the named areas a police officerrsquos overall capacity to function is significantly diminished

The Predicament of Problematic Police Leadership

While patrol officers tend to serve as the public icons of policing deficits and conflicts in policing often have roots in police leadership Police officers are like fruit on the vine and that fruit does not fall far from the leadership tree from which it grows Police leadership determines the mission vision philosophy norms and values of the police force Police leadership is also responsible for police recruitment


selection training development supervision promotion and discipline Police leadership therefore sets the standard and bar for determinations of behavioral acceptability reasonability and accountability What one sees below on the streets is determined largely by what stands above

Communities must hence act with prudence when selecting police leadership at the executive level by creating mechanisms for selection which are not outgrowths of politicking and glad handing Leadership selection should involve direct public facilitation and must include a process whereby sound cognitive physical social emotional and ethical functioning in police leadership is assured This assurance is crucial as the strengths and challenges of police leadership will show up in those below and the community will benefit or suffer correspondingly

The Ferguson Crisis and the Local Police Leadership Fiasco

It is conceivable that current suffering in Ferguson and the St Louis region is a direct outgrowth of community failure to put into place executive branch leadership with a strong sense of loyalty and dedication to the community served One issue that has presented as problematic in the Ferguson Crisis has been that of apparent divided fidelity in the office of the Ferguson police chief While it is commendable that one atop a supervisory chain of command would seek to protect a junior member it is not acceptable for police leadership to exhibit divided loyalties which result in allegiance to individual law enforcement officers at the expense of the public

Concerns related to police leadership integrity and allegiance have been rampant in the Ferguson Crisis and the reliability of the very office of police chief has been questioned This questioning of leadership trustworthiness results from an apparent lack of investigatory candor and transparency Such is also tied to leadership release of police reports of doubtful veracity and a leadership willingness to allow an entire region to fall into utter chaos in service of protecting the image of Officer Wilson while undermining the rights of the victimrsquos family and the public

The challenges in law enforcement leadership in the Ferguson Crisis have extended to the office of the prosecutor who serves as the ultimate law enforcement leadership arm From Washington DC to the Mound City there have been assertions of prosecutorial conflict and concerns have been advanced regarding the extent to which the prosecutor is capable of zealously representing the legal interests of the State of Missouri during the secret grand jury process The lack of public faith revolves around prosecutorial bias and the possible inability of the prosecutor to subordinate his own interests to the statersquos interest

Police leadership has a very specific role in the case of Darren Wilson and that role is no different than it would be in any other criminal matter of potential felonious proportions It is the job of law enforcement leadership to make certain that the many questions surrounding the fatal shooting of Michael Brown are brought to the forefront It is the responsibility of police leadership to determine whether it is possible that inappropriate lethal force may have been used and whether such may have served as an indication of a basic disregard for the human rights of Michael Brown It is not however the role of law enforcement leadership to act as quasi-defense counsel for potential state and federal defendants such as Officer Wilson

The Challenges of Police Preparation Selection and Development

Many of the challenges in policing come down to leadership challenges related to recruitment selection training development and promotion A primary focus of police leadership should be valid and reliable selection processes which best fit the needs of communities served

While protesters have clashed with the police since the beginning of the Ferguson Crisis in a rational society we understand the need for police in fostering community wellbeing and no one with a sound mind would advocate for the eradication of law enforcement or the disempowerment of police Communities however need to require that all law enforcement personnel are as mentally emotionally and physically healthy and mature as possible as instability recklessness unsupervised power and weapons do not exist well together

Principally whether the municipality be Los Angeles Miami Chicago Atlanta or Ferguson in St Louis County the selection process for officers should include objective assessment of officer self- awareness and evaluation of overall psychological (cognitive social and emotional) functioning

It should also be expected that beginning officers have working knowledge in criminal and civil law and procedure juvenile law and delinquency interpersonal communication problem solving decision making mediating family law elder law forensics ethical decision making stress management positive conflict resolution human development human relations management leadership psychopathology social work history politics family systems human rights social justice child welfare and justice cultural competence and community relations The role of law enforcement in todayrsquos world demands enhanced knowledge and skill in these specific areas and it should be the responsibility of local police academies to make certain that these knowledge competences are instilled in recruits as an integral part of pre-service development

Officers confidently imbued with such competence will be less likely to see a side arm as a primary problem solving tool or as a bolstering extension of a fragile ego Such officers are also likely to be best able to facilitate positive community development and pro-social development in a communityrsquos youth regardless of the racial makeup of the community served or the demographics of the officer serving

pg 10

In developing and teaching undergraduate courses specifically for law enforcement it has become clear that police officers struggle with the contradictions in their roles as community servants crime fighters and peacekeepers It is also obvious that not all individuals who pursue police work are mentally emotionally physically and spiritually appropriate for such a demanding isolating stressful and potentially thankless and danger-ridden calling While police academies provide the basic foundation for law enforcement work the most effective community officers are likely those who are uniquely gifted mature sensitive psychologically stable and culturally competent even without pre-service education and training

Potential Problems of Psychology and Personal Politics in Community Policing

While there are many incredible police officers serving the public as with all professions research shows that there are also individual officers with deep-seated pathologies and inappropriate vocational motivations All of the cognitive competence and academic knowledge in the world will not be able to mitigate the damage that might be done by community policing officers who evince ldquoDark Triadrdquo characteristics of pathological narcissism Machiavellianism and psychopathy along with an extreme Social Dominance Orientation

These traits individually or collectively render any person fundamentally unfit for community policing in African American communities and all others because individuals with such personality constellations are prone to create community spaces of dysfunction suffering and human rights abuses When considering policing problems in African American communities Social Dominance Orientation pathological narcissism and psychopathy have the potential to do the greatest degree of harm

What the Ferguson Crisis has focused on is a long-standing pattern of what appears to be both European American police and civilian targeting of African American males for harassment abuse and homicide The Crisis is therefore grounded in reasonable alarm over potential manifestations of Social Dominance Orientation within all police forces and among the general public Given the hierarchical nature of the police force and the predominance of European Americans in the police ranks this concern is one that requires significant future attention in terms of police selection assignment and promotion

Social Dominance Orientation involves a pattern of destructive political philosophies which are founded upon in groupout group discrimination preferences for social system hierarchies anti- egalitarianism and dominance over groups perceived as having lower human status This latently misanthropic orientation coupled with pathological narcissism or psychopathy will behaviorally and attitudinally manifest in individual and group level false self-creation obsession with power failure to recognize the rights of others exploitation disdain for those perceived as inferior callousness pathological lying unearned entitlement contempt secret feelings of shame and organizational chaos creation

More than any problem or crisis which might be created by a lack of police knowledge or skill police officers in possession of dark triad dynamics or Social Dominance Orientations present some of the greatest psychological challenges and problems in policing Due to the difficulty of teasing out these character traits thorough psychological evaluation on every recruit prior to acceptance into any police academy is crucial for overall public safety and welfare

African American communities are particularly vulnerable to police officers who may be high in Social Dominance Orientations and such communities may be seen as extremely desirable assignments for acting out pathological social dominance without consequence for officers who are so inclined

When serving predominantly African American communities which might be steeped in various social challenges both the individual officers and the police

The Art amp Science cont


departments need to be clear about individual officer motivations for seeking to serve in a particular community regardless of the officerrsquos race or sex This clarity is needed because police officers are human and they accordingly bring that humanity into the workplace with all of the sociopolitical frameworks that make up each police officerrsquos background

Some of that sociopolitical construction may include issues that render an officer less than optimally fit for the complex duty of police officer particularly if in that role the individual is called to serve and protect individuals for whom the officer has strong adverse thoughts attitudes or feelings Such adverse attitudes and feelings include heightened fears of African American males or general antipathy towards this ethnic demographic

In the United States there are many negative cultural ascriptions categorically assigned to African Americans Some police officers although sworn to serve and protect African American communities may personally hold such views and may be prone to both underreacting and overreacting in ways that are consistent with their socially hostile vantage points Since we cannot realistically expect a police officer to check all of his or her sociocultural or emotional baggage at the front door of the police station what we are called to do as citizens is to make certain that those who are selected as first responders are prudently screened and assigned

African American male youth have myriad social challenges including very high infant mortality poverty diminished academic and vocational opportunities heightened fear and a sense of endangerment undiagnosed and unattended depression low self-worth thwarted self-efficacy and an elevated sense of disposability Given these psychosocial facts it is clear that the last thing African American male children and youth need is to be embedded in a community context with a police contingent that has neither the ability nor the desire to serve or protect such youth Such children definitely do not need to be subjected to any police personnel who might seek to arbitrarily and capriciously act out on any personally embraced socially oppressive ascriptions regardless of an officerrsquos race or sex

The Necessity of Finding Rhyme and Reason

Given the sociocultural challenges and history of race relations in America questions will continue to emerge regarding the actions of officer Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown Many of those questions will touch on the pre-shooting mindset of Officer Wilson Whether the officer was fearful reactionary or premeditative the intentional shooting of an unarmed teen resulting in death regardless of race cannot be easily justified and speaks to a need for not only dialogue and transparency but substantial concrete amelioration

Whether the fatal shooting of Michael Brown will be found to be officially justified or criminal it is profoundly disturbing to the general public psyche that the fatal shooting rationalization sounds eerily and substantially similar to the defense advanced by George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed Trayvon Martin

Even with the cognitive and emotional immaturity of most adolescents the idea that any unarmed youth would out of nowhere think it advantageous to wrestle with an armed police officer for his or her secured firearm is challenging to the imagination Therefore anytime a fatal shooting occurs that involves an unarmed individual the defense of grappling over a single gun in the sole and unbroken possession of the shooter should be viewed with extreme circumspection

Community Responsive amp Relevant Policing

It is the responsibility of the citizens in any community to shape its law enforcement in a manner most conducive to the needs of the community If the current police landscape is one which displays a higher-than-average disregard for the lives of African American males it is the province and the duty of the general citizenry to alter that landscape to one which reflects a general regard for the

pg 12

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Ajuma MuhammadAuthor of 101 Proven and Effective Strategies

for Empowering Black Boys

f o r E m p o w e r i n g B l a c k B o y s

Copyright copy 2014 by Ajuma Muhammad

f o r E m p o w e r i n g B l a c k B o y sf o r E m p o w e r i n g B l a c k B o y s10Strategies Strategies

1 Black boys should maintain a healthy relationship with God

2 Black boys should honor and always respect their parents

3 Black boys should embody greatness in everything they do

4 Black boys should take pride in their history and culture

5 Black boys should empower their community through leadership and service

6 Black boys should be role models in their communities

7 Black boys should honor respect and protect the black woman

8 Black boys should work to establish an economic foundation in their communities

9 Black boys should travel internationally to better understand their place in the world

10 Black boys should love themselves

sanctity of all human life

During the pursuit of justice for Michael Brown it has been asserted by many that the recruitment of more African American police officers is needed to prevent future human rights abuses While a random increase in police diversity will likely elevate the general level of comfort in African American communities what is ultimately required beyond race or sex is a police force of substantial pro-social values morality ethics and basic human compassion

What is past due in community policing is simple fairness in recruiting hiring development and promotion for the many African Americans who are well-qualified to serve in policing roles and who have a heart for community and government service To this civil rights end what has long been called for among police and community leaders in the interest of fairness is a cessation of police hiring and selection processes which are laced in veiled racial and sexual nepotism

What is not needed currently or in the future is a police force that embraces an ldquous and themrdquo mentality and spirit The last thing any community African American or otherwise needs during a time of mourning and civil unrest is a community police force equipped with 556-mm rifles with high-powered scopes and extra magazines aimed at civilians The citizens of St Louis have no need of police clad in military camouflage and heavy body armor who are parading around in mine- resistance armored vehicles used by US servicemen against enemy military combatants on foreign battlefield soil

No one expects a police officer or anyone else to imprudently fail to protect himself or herself from lethal harm What is expected however is that police officers exercise wise and mature judgment in engagements that might result in severe bodily harm and use of lethal force What is demanded is that police leadership assume heightened responsibility for making certain police are day-by-day emotionally mentally and spiritually fit for the complex duty of community policing which carries with it multifaceted demands and privileges unlike any other occupational calling



wwwajumaorg
















pg 14

St Louis MO August 20 2014 ndash Opera Theatre of Saint Louis which recently concluded its 39th season announce the hire of three staff members this summer as the company begins to prepare for its 40th anniversary season Erin Williams joins the Opera Theatre marketing and public relations team as the companyrsquos next Public Relations and Publications Manager Hans Fredrickson assumes the position of Technical Director in the Opera Theatre production department overseeing the planning and construction of the companyrsquos award-winning scenic designs In the development department Caron House joins the staff as the companyrsquos next Manager of Institutional Grants Erin Williams joins the Opera Theatre staff after serving as news producer for ldquoArts and Morerdquo on WMUK-FM southwest Michiganrsquos NPR affiliate in Kalamazoo Michigan She brings a breadth of media background from her experience as a print and radio journalist having previously been a staff writer at The Washington Post a producer at St Louis Public Radio and DCrsquos WPFW-FM and a freelance journalist for The Anniston Star Memphis Daily News and the Riverfront Times Ms Williams assumed the position of Public Relations and Publications Manager on August 18 filling the position left by Silja Tobin who joined the publicity department at The Metropolitan Opera in 2013 Prior to joining the Opera Theatre production department as Technical Director Hans Fredrickson was a member of the staff at Image Technologies Corporation where he provided oversight for the construction of corporate and theatrical scenic designs for clients ranging from Anheuser-Busch Stifel Nicholas and Regent Cruise Lines managing a team of as many as 15 at a time A graduate of Webster University Mr Fredrickson first worked with OTSL as an Emerson Production Artist as the 2008 season Lighting and Projections Coordinator He succeeds Dan Giedeman as Technical Director who recently joined the faculty at the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Saint Louis University As Opera Theatrersquos next Manager of Institutional Grants Caron House brings extensive fundraising experience in the St Louis area to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Most recently as the Chief Development Officer at KDHX Community Media Ms House oversaw a $35 million capital campaign to build the Larry J Weir Center for Independent Media in Grand Center (which opened in 2013) and created an institutional giving program She has also previously served in development roles with the IN T

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NEW

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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Welcomes the Addition of Three New Staff Members in Public Relations Production and Development

Contemporary Art Museum St Louis The Sheldon Arts Foundation and Da Camera of Houston Her experience working with Opera Theatre began in 2004 when she served as OTSLrsquos Development Intern after completing her Masterrsquos degree in Arts Administration at Indiana University Since that time she has remained active as a member of OTSLrsquos Young Friends program and as a member of the annual Wine amp Beer Tasting host committee Returning to OTSL in this role Ms House replaces Anne Grady who devoted nearly the last twenty years of her career as the companyrsquos first Manager of Institutional Grants About Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is one of the leading American opera companies known for a spring festival of inventive new productions sung in English featuring the finest American singers and accompanied by members of the St Louis Symphony As of 2014 Opera Theatre has presented 24 world premieres and 23 American premieres ndash which may be one of the highest percentages of new work in the repertory of any US company Described by The Sunday Times of London as ldquoone of the few American companies worth the transatlantic farerdquo Opera Theatre of Saint Louis annually welcomes visitors from nearly every state and close to a dozen foreign countries Although the size of the theater typically limits box office income to less than a quarter of the budget the company has consistently produced work of the highest quality while never accumulating a deficit Opera Theatre also has a long tradition of discovering and promoting the careers of the finest operatic artists of the current generation Among the artists who had important early opportunities at Opera Theatre are Christine Brewer Susan Graham Nathan Gunn Patricia Racette Thomas Hampson Jerry Hadley Dawn Upshaw Sylvia McNair Erie Mills Dwayne Croft Kelly Kaduce Lawrence Brownlee Jamie Barton Corinne Winters Anthony Dean Griffey and Christine Goerke Opera Theatre has always been known for distinguished leadership founding general director Richard Gaddes was succeeded in 1985 by general director Charles MacKay with famed British stage director Colin Graham as artistic director and Stephen Lord (1992 ndash present) as music director Timothy OrsquoLeary was named general director in October 2008 with acclaimed stage director James Robinson succeeding Colin Graham For more information visit ExperienceOperaorg Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges 2014 season presenting sponsor Wells Fargo Advisors Opera Theatre is a sustaining member of the Arts and Education Council of Greater Saint Louis and receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts the Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contact Joe Gfaller Director of Marketing and Public Relations (314) 963-4293 jgfalleropera-stlorg Erin Williams Public Relations and Publications Manager (314) 963-4236 ewilliamsopera-stlorg OTSL website wwwExperienceOperaorgOTSL Box Office (314) 961-0644

Erin Hans Caron

WELCOMEWELCOME

pg 16

By 1917 classic ragtime had faded as new musical influences of jazz and the blues emerged and traveled along the Mississippi Converging with waning ragtime rhythms the blues became a popular genre Blues compositions were filled with emotion and engaged their audiences Song lyrics resonated with the real-life experiences of the listeners Perhaps the best-known piece of transition was composed by W C Handy He wrote and published his lament the St Louis Blues in Memphis in 1914 The inspiration for the piece came from his hard times in St Louis more than two decades earlier and from the pain of a dejected love-lost woman he had seen in the river city

In his autobiography Father of the Blues Handy recounts how he sequestered himself in a rented room on Memphisrsquo Beale Street to create his signature work He developed the melody and wrote the lyrics of his blues masterpiece overnight ndash completing the musical score at a local cigar stand the following day His band played the brand new St Louis Blues that evening With the lyrics based on his St Louis experience the melody reflected Handyrsquos musical past Southern spiritual influences ragtime syncopation and tango rhythms (recalled from a trip to Havana) merged in the emotions of the blues

Little could Handy realize that his tale of woe arising from his days as an itinerant would lead to such fame and fortune The St Louis Blues has been recorded by iconic songsters including Bessie Smith with Lois Armstrong Bing Crosby and the Duke Ellington Orchestra Billie Holiday Count Basie and scores of others The classic forever connected to its St Louis roots can be considered the most auspicious work in the American blues songbook With over 1800 versions Handyrsquos signature piece about the river city is regarded as the most recorded blues song in history

Reprinted with permission from Famous Firsts of St Louis A Celebration of Facts Figures Food amp Fun by Diane Rademacher Copies available at more than 30 locations throughout St Louis To find a location near you visit the Famous First Facebook page at httpswwwfacebookcomfamousfirstsofstlouis You can also order by emailing firststlaolcom

ldquonew musical influences of jazz and the blues emerged and traveled along the Mississippirdquo

Rockinrsquo on the River

The History of the Blues in St Louis




pg 18

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ART COLLECTIONS EXHIBITS EVENTS

pg 20

ldquoSitting at the Back of the Busrdquo

Cityrsquos Reallocation process leaves Black workers

2013 the Personnel Director approved 1926 reallocations involving the following departments Department of Personnel City Counselorrsquos Office Airport Streets Department Building Division Corrections Division Police Department and the Human Services Department The Personnel Director has so far refused to provide a breakdown by race and gender the reallocations he has approved during his tenure Itrsquos important to note that when you get reallocated you automatically get a bump in pay based on the new salary range or in the alternative at-least a 5 salary increase Over 90 of the employees reallocated within the personnel department have been white and the reallocation process has been the primary means for promotion throughout their tenure within that department One example would be the former deputy director for the department in 1974 she was reallocated from a typist to Account Clerk I three-years later to Personnel Analysis I a year later to Analysis II two-years later to Personnel Manager a year later to Personnel Service Manager three-years later to Personnel Staff Manager a year later to Employee Relations Manager a year later to Personnel Manager II three-years later to Human Resources Administrator and finally to Deputy Director of Personnel All were via reallocation not bad for someone with a high school diploma The Deputy Director retired in December 2013 and was rehired as a consultant by the Personnel Director at $14000 an hour The Civil Service Rules require that competitive examinations be held to determine which employees shall be promoted and implicitly demand that the competitive examination process be the preferred method of promoting employees The competitive examination process assures compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Enforcement Act of 1964 and the Cityrsquos Charter Abuse of the Reallocation process would be an unlawful employment practice for the City of St Louis due to the fact that the process leaves Black workers ldquositting in the back of the busrdquo

Everyone loves a promotion and a raise in pay but what if you could get both working for the City of St Louis without competing against your co-workers What if you could get hired with a high school diploma or GED and work your way up to Deputy Director of your department without having to compete under the Cityrsquos Civil Service rules along the way Well you can if you work in the City of St Louisrsquos Personnel Department and itrsquos probably going on in other departments of the City but the Personnel Director wonrsquot tell and no one else in City government seems to care The Personnel Director of the City of St Louis has the sole authority to approve promotions known as lsquoReallocationrsquo without using the competitive process under the Civil Service guidelines established in Article XVIII of the City Charter In essence if you work for the City of St Louis and a vacancy in a higher position occurs the personnel director has the sole authority to approve promotingreallocating you to the vacant position without considering any other persons whom maybe interested in applying for the position The personnel director with the stroke of his pen can reallocate you to the position over everybody else thus waiving the Personnel Administrative Regulation No110 that requires a competitive examination process for promoting employees In order for the reallocation (promotion) without a competitive examination process to occur the following conditions must be met the reallocation to the position is based upon the accretion of new duties and responsibilities and the incumbent was continuously employed in the position during such accretion of duties and responsibilities In addition the added duties and responsibilities were related to and supplemented the original functions of the positions and there is evidence that such additional duties were assigned to the position solely to increase the efficiency of the City of St Louis In order to ascertain if these conditions have been met a Position Description Questionnaire (PDQ) is completed and the Department of Personnel conducts a Job Study For fiscal years July 1 2010 through June 30

Adolphus M Pruitt II1st Vice President Missouri NAACP ampPresident St Louis NAACP


pg 22

Ferguson Future Shock

and the return of THE REALBy Reynaldo Anderson

ldquoHistorically black life in

America has always been

cheaprdquo

Ferguson Future Shock and the return of The Real

By

Reynaldo Anderson

All worldly figures

Playing on niggers

Oh seeing them passing

See how theyrsquore dancing

To the Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

The candid lyrics uttered by Curtis Mayfield in the song Future Shock in his 1973 album Back to The World nudged into my memory on my way to the site of the Ferguson rebellion last week The song Future Shock was a sensitive artistic response to the emerging conditions of postindustrial and postmodern American society that Black Vietnam veterans were returning to and coldly described by the writer Alvin Toffler in a 1970 book about the future with the same name and socio-politically illustrated in Saint Louis with the destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in 1972 The song was appropriate in my mind as we drove down Lucas and Hunt avenue and noticed the paradox between the corporate types and wannabe one per centers playing golf behind the country club manicured hedges of greenery to our left and the massive police presence at the intersection controlling entry and exit into Ferguson like an American postmodern version of the Gaza strip Passing by the corporate types I could not help but think the protestors were missing the target The phrase No problem can be solved at the level of consciousness that created it attributed to the scientist Albert Einstein seems most appropriate in relation to the Ferguson rebellion Problem So why is Black life so cheap in America I pondered this question as I walked and marched and hunkered down into the night on West Florissant After spending some time either walking marching or in conversation with other protesters and driving around the municipality of Ferguson I tentatively came to the conclusion the rebellion was struggling against the legacy of the Power Elite and institutional racism the fight for control of the Black imagination and the symbolic attempt by an ineffective and marginalized African American leadership class to re-assert moral authority thru a politics of respectability

Historically black life in America has always been cheap However there was a time a couple generations ago when there was a possibility the equity and disparity gap in America would be closed There were roughly three choices facing America following the rebellions of the 1960s First maintain the status quo and it would eventually lead to re-segregation and a




cheaprdquo

heavily policed society to reinforce that political choice Second adopt a policy of racial geographic enrichment and abandon the goal of integration or three combine elements of the first two with policies that encouraged cross cultural engagement The concern was the nation was moving towards two separate societies however America has always been separate and unequal and in the following decades the American Power Elite increasingly more global in consumption and cultural outlook largely embraced an approach of benign neglect that would maintain institutional racism at the expense of the most Americans The empirical data is in and the nation is moving in the direction of the first choice and creating a permanent black and brown underclass that will be watched and governed by a prison industrial complex organized on the basis of institutional white supremacy with a patina or finishing coat of colored people to defend its policies to the American popular imagination Moreover the rebellion will have to swiftly recognize the relationship between the interests of the Power Elite and how American foreign policy is intimately linked to its domestic policy It is no accident the citizens of parts of Ferguson were controlled by a militarized presence bombed and tear gassed in much the same fashion that Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza strip who also are treated with collective punishment According to local AME Zion Pastor Reverend Ken McKoy the situation for black youth can be characterized as ldquoThey are literally fighting for the right to breathrdquo Therefore to the surprise of many Americans the militarized repression of the rebellion impacted the popular imagination and brought to the surface the tension and struggle over autonomy and corporate control over the Black Radical Imagination

Two generations ago a year after Curtis Mayfieldrsquos call of Future Shock the Black experimental Jazz musician Sun Ra responded with Space is the Place a creative musical and media project that recognized people of African descent in an emerging technologically sophisticated society would have to solve the problem of global white supremacy on a different level than it was created More specifically to create intellectual space that provided the basis for reimagining alternative possibilities Now that black youth have once again seized the cultural political microphone during the Ferguson rebellion federal and local agents provocateurs organizations and corporations have flooded the (S)pace of West Florissant seeking to influence the direction of the rebellion Strolling down the avenue it was interesting to see the juxtaposition of CNN across the street from MSNBC and the different crowds they would attract as some participants would dutifully wait during a commercial break before breaking into chants after a word from a sponsor There is a clear distinction between the radicalized youth and their allies who want justice for Michael Brown and the larger goal of fighting white supremacy and are prepared to agitate for as long as it takes and those individuals either through family political nepotism or the lure of fame who seek the microphone to amplify their own marginal voices or archaic organizations at the expense of the interests of the black grassroots

Finally the fact remains the angry black grassroots have wakened from their slumber and caught off guard an aging decrepit and marginalized local African American leadership class that has suddenly stirred and called for new leadership However this brings to mind an

pg 24

important essay Martin Luther King Jr developed before his assassination where he warned against the manufacturing of black leadership For the last two generations a revisionist history of the civil rights movement and the black power movement has been promoted locally and nationally in the interest of obtaining privilege and access for many lack bourgeoisie elites Dr Robert Smith in his book We Have no Leaders pointed out the dilemma twenty years ago with the observation of how African Americans with promising ability were incorporated into institutionally racist organizations that protected white privilege at the expense of the community or broader society For example the current president is symbolic of this phenomenon although he is in office he is not in power as he must bend to the dictates of the elite 1 against the interest of most Americans

Yet for the first time in a long time the old social contract of accommodating local institutional white supremacy is openly being challenged and is spreading beyond Ferguson to other urban spaces like Dallas with the formation of the Huey P Newton Gun Club or protests surrounding the police killing of black youth in New York and Los Angeles and the youth and their allies are mobilizing Therefore despite the initial gummy bear soft rhetoric of the president the youth have resisted craven requests for understanding and peace until justice has been satisfied However it bears watching how colored tokens of the establishment are being used to re-establish legitimacy for institutions For example the Mayor of Berkley MO Ted Hoskins was correct in his recent analysis along with another MSNBC contributor that the lone black highway trooper Ron Johnson and a black brigadier general were trotted out in front of the media as symbolic tools used to defuse and betray elements of the rebellion with other minority promotions to come despite police abuse This tactic was used in the sixties in states like Mississippi when activists would be fingered by officers and civil rights workers or perceived radicals would be arrested and or reported to the State Sovereignty Commission for registering blacks to vote or identified as trouble makers Furthermore the whining about outside agitators by some of the local and state African American leadership class sounds similar to former southern governors who complained of activists stirring up their niggrarsquos In conclusion it remains to be seen what the radicalized black youth of this generation born after the Cold War and having never known defeat or the humiliation of their grandparents will do in the face of what on the surface may seem stiff odds to establish and promote a more autonomous leadership yet like another generation of African American youth before them they may be preparing to seize the time and make their own mark in history forgoing the 30 pieces of silver of accommodating reactionary colored leadership or worshiping at the golden calf of white supremacy

Reynaldo Anderson is a college Professor and you can follow him on Twitter Hardcore888

Feguson Future Shock cont


pg 26

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Phaedra Parks Visited St Louis to promote her new book ldquoSecrets of a Southern Belle How to Be Nice Work Hard Look PrettyHave Fun and Never Have an Off Momentrdquo While there she held book signings at Sweetie Piersquos and Left Bank Books During these signings she personalized messages shared advice and exchanged tips with those who came out

She also made other appearances which led to an extension on her stay here in St Louis One of these appearances was to provide comfort and to personally give her condolences to Michael Brownrsquos mother and other family members on the passing of her son Michael Brown was gunned down on August 9th by a Ferguson Police Officer

Phaedra Parks breakout star of Bravorsquos massively popular The Real Housewives of Atlanta is known for her law career happy home life redonkulous caboose and for being the ultimate Southern Belle

Phaedra ParksShares her secrets with St Louis


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St Louisrsquo Award Winning Intergenerational Approach to HIVAIDS Prevention Program for

African American Females

Orientation amp Health Fair August 2nd from 1030am - 3pm

Workshop Dates August 6 7 13 14 20 21 27 28 September 3 4 10 11 17 18 24 25

Workshop Times 530 - 830pm (all sessions) Location

New Northside Conference Center 5939 Goodfellow Blvd

St Louis MO 63147 To determine the effectiveness of the program participants will be asked to complete one survey before

the program starts one on the last day and one 3-months after the program has ended Sponsored by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health through funds from the Department of Health and Human Services

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Girls Holla Back Registration Mailing Form August-September 2014

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In an effort to reduce new cases of HIVAIDS and drug use among African American females in St

Louis the Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) developed a FREE series of prevention workshops

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one of their adult female family members

Date____________________


For more information about Club or area cultural-literary activities call SIUE English at 618 650-3991 or write EBR Writers PO Box 6165 East St Louis Illinois 62201 Email eredmonsiueedu (To order the 700-page commemorative issue of ampquotDrumvoices Revueampquot send a $2000 check or MO to the above address)Example attached (Definition 49 words containing seven lines of seven words each with-no word having more than seven letters Exceptions to seven-letter rule proper nouns quotations foreign terms neologisms)

August 2014

TO All Media All PeopleFROM EBR WritersSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville English DeptBlack River Writers Press (618 650-3991 eredmonsiueedu)

EBR Writers Club Resumes Meetings Sept 2nd 28th Year of Workshops Literary amp Cultural ProgramsResuming its 28th year of twice-monthly meetings on Tuesday Sept 2nd members of the Eugene B Redmond Writers Club will gather from 600 to 800 pm in Room 2083 Bldg B of the SIUEEast St Louis (IL) Higher Education Center 601 J R Thompson Dr

The Club continues to mourn the loss of two of its beloved trustees Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) and Maya Angelou (1928-2014) Both poets were also Senior Consulting Editors of ldquoDrumvoices Revuerdquo the literary-cultural journal co-published by the Club and SIUE In 2012 a 700-page commemorative issue highlighted the Clubrsquos 25th birthday the 20th anniversary of ldquoDRrdquo East St Louisrsquo Sesqui-centennial and the 85th birthday of native son Miles Davis

Sponsored by the Club and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville meetings are held on the first and third Tuesday--September through May All writers including beginners intermediate and professional are welcome

Chartered by ESL authors Sherman L Fowler Redmond (the grouprsquos namesake) and Darlene Roy (president) the Club was found-ed in 1986 with Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) and Angelou as its first trustees Current trustees include Avery Brooks Haki R Madhubuti Walter Mosley Quincy Troupe Jerry Ward Jr and Lena Weathers Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Raymond R Patterson (1929-2001) and ESL native Barbara Ann Teer (1937-2008) also served as trustees Henry L Dumas (1934-1968) is the Clubrsquos patron saint

Known for having invented a poetic form called the kwansaba and hosting renown artistswriters from across the globemdashincluding late poets Jayne Cortez (1934-2012) and Wanda Coleman (1946-2013)--the Club collaborates with various institutionsorganizations in the promotion of literacy and literature

The group is also known for its diverse programming including ldquoBreak Word with the Worldrdquo an annual event aimed at raising social and cultural ldquoconch-us-nestrdquo Toward such ends members will discuss the intersection of artistic expression and injustice at its first meeting Sept 2--with a focus on recent events in Ferguson MO

pg 30

Bernie Hayes - Will Justice Prevail August 2014

Will Justice Prevail

Ferguson Missouri has been in turmoil recently making international news because of the killing of Michael Brown an unarmed 18 year African American male gunned down and shot six times by a white Ferguson police officer Some eye witnesses called it an execution I suppose it was natural to expect a public outcry but nothing like the eruption from community activists residents and clergy I assume most people and local law enforcement agencies thought it would be business as usual when a white cop kills a black man or child but what a surprise

I too was surprised because I remember 1968 when Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis Hundreds of Black communities across the nation essentially went to war but not St Louis

White police abuses usually demands a response and the number of people who happened to witness this police abuse determined the level of reaction needed to set off an uprising

In the case of Michael Brown the community decided the historical experience is not one of staying in the present and looking back Rather it is one of going back into the past and returning to the present with a wider and more intense consciousness of the restrictions of our former outlook and that meant taking action




The Bernie Hayes Show

PUT SOMETHING CLEAN ON YOUR TV

Talk and interviews about affairs of the day with a St Louis slant

The Bernie Hayes Show can be seen

Fridayrsquos at 9 AM Saturdayrsquos at 1000 PM Sundayrsquos at 530 PM

The people who have been demonstrating in Ferguson Downtown St Louis and in Clayton said they donrsquot want to spill our blood unnecessarily but as in the past as the result of provocation blood has been spilled and that provocation has not come from the people all the blame rests at the door of the Ferguson Police Department A department that shielded the killer of Michael Brown and later attempted to slander the victimrsquos name

They say it is not a race issue but we must remain vigilant and we must be inclusive by affirming of cultural differences especially with respect to color class sexual orientation faith age and ethnicity and recognize when a crime is in fact a hate crime I contend the murder of Michael Brown was hate crimehellipa murder

Community organization and mobilization helps neighbors rid their communities of problems with gangs guns drugs and violence with the help of law enforcement and other agencies but when the law enforcement agency is your worst enemy and oppressor what do you do

We need a review of innovative approaches in community policing that have opened lines of communication between law enforcement and communities and develop strategies that will alert us of allegations of excessive force and illegal search and seizure and police abuse and

oppression

On April 4 1968 when Dr King was killed over 22000 federal troops and 34000 National Guard were sent to aid local police the largest ever called to deal with domestic civil disturbance In many cities the devastation was so great that it left permanent scars that are still evident decades later

In Boston where there had been unrest on April 4 after Dr King was assassinated officials worried about the fallout of a James Brown concert scheduled for April 5 at a downtown arena If you remember James comforted the masses and now there is a documentary film titled The Night James Brown Saved Boston

Perhaps with President Obama speaking out and Attorney General Eric Holder involving the Department of Justice possibly the murder of Michael Brown will be the facilitator to save Ferguson Dellwood and other parts of the St Louis metropolitan area We must remember that individual community identity must be fostered to promote a sense of place and improve the regionrsquos urban and rural quality of life

Please watch the Bernie Hayes TV program Saturday Night at 10pm and Friday Morning at 9 am and Sunday Evenings at 530 pm on KNLC-TV Ch 24 and follow me on Twitter berhay and view my Blog httpberniehayesunderstandsblogspotcom

I can be reached by fax at (314) 837-3369 or e-mail at berhayswbellnetBe Ever WonderfulHotep

pg 32

AuthorFeatured

Submission

LaVelleWilkins-Chinn


Author

Wilkins-Chinn

A Call to ConsciencePO Box 78156

Saint Louis MO 63102-2609

httpwwwacalltoconscienceorg

LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn is a native of St Louis with thirty-plus years of performing arts experience She has worked with several St Louis theatre companies but is most often associated with the St Louis Black Repertory Company and Pamoja Theatre Workshop Presently she is the script coordinator for the readers theatre ensemble C2C (A Call to Conscience) founded by Linda Jo Smith She has been a participant of the Hurston-Wright writing workshop Eugene B Redmond Writers Club Indigo Ink Loosley Identified and has served as a board member for the St Louis Poetry Center She is scribbling out a novel in process of which an excerpt was published in The Hoot and Holler of the Owls a Hurston-Wright anthology 2003 A short story Foolsrsquo Luck is forthcoming in the anthology St Louis Noir edited by St Louis writer Scott Phillips and published by Akashic Books

c2c

KWANSABAS for Langston Hughes

1 Joplin

Were you lying in a fieldmdashopenwhen it all began I see yourdusty bottom bony knees poking out denimslender blades crushedmdashrubbed in rough playyour curly head relaxed on skinny armsriffled daisies crimp in brown tender fingersthe wayward mirror in your horizon eyes

2 Lincoln Illinois and Cleveland Ohio

Then the sky fell into your minddown the quilt smell of your Grannya jonquil blossom scent of sweet homecomfort by night you cringe in daythe cold presses you into cobweb-cornersmdashwhere lonely awkward prisms hack parts awaymdashaching screams capture blood-drip ink-notes

3 Mexico

Tropics a crackle sun means to intrudewarm peach fuzz twining from the navelup over the sinewy curve of mouthmdashparched so your tongue tip lap licksto soothe dapple at fawnbuck mistraging to laugh at the father-towerwho wants to fog high light beams

4 New York Africa Paris

Singed by macho hearts the sea beckonsmdashafter a learned track measure timid pacesyou bow your limbs into the hullthen finding water is black and truewhen you need it to be yoursjazzy waves thunder up a fresco sketcha rolling current below an eacutelan vessel

pg 34

5 Washington DC to Lincoln University

Noetic passage blackmdashwhite whitemdashblack bluea queer trip with stone-packed luggagemaximum wailing hardly stagger the drudge weightmdashmuscled in the bulging veins of povertyadroit deviate-damned to creaky soulrsquos pocketmdashyou tread by oak hallsrsquo infamy stagemdashblue-black black-blue blue blacked you

6 Harlemrsquos Gambit SweetSour

Even if Duke wasnrsquot harmonyfriendloverHeaven couldnrsquot match a more perfect unionYou in gimmick cityrsquos village wilesmdashOooooh What a coup Rhythmrsquos doctorsrsquo remedyrallymdashredress Zorarsquos pranks and rude retortsmdashMood Indigo travels thru Slap Happy phaseprizes coming forth no end in sight

7 Home Again

Plowing fields of wonder the earth shakesyoumdashspears your panthermanrsquos lovely montageone-way defer riversrsquo bed keeness streamsmdashand you become the keeper the oneevery other one wants to be aroundpolitic with or just be brown withmdashso grateful to chime in your winds

copy 2014

LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn

KWANSABAS for Langston Hughescont


pg 36

Nate K JohnsonABRCRSGRIBrokerOwnerReal Estate Solutionsnatelivingstlcomwwwlivingstlcom

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I hope that you are doing well

You may have noticed that the Summer weather has arrived just in time for Fall in St Louis Yes we will miss August but the promise of Sweaters in Septem-ber may not be far off Hopefully you can join me in getting out to enjoy some great events in St Louis over the next couple of weeks

continued pg 36

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pg 38

If you are looking for something to do this weekend you can head over to The St Louis Zoo for Jungle Boogie this will be the last of the Zoorsquos free concert series for the year Or you can join me down on Lacledersquos Landing at the Big Muddy Blues Festival Entry is free for Fridayrsquos show and the party goes on all weekend On Saturday afternoon you might want to enjoy a peaceful afternoon at the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens The Art Fair in Queeny Park is also taking place all Labor Day weekend I havenrsquot had a chance to see the Facets of Three Jewels Tibetan Buddhist Art at The St Louis Art Museum Perhaps this will be a great weekend to check it out Let me know if you want to join me

On the 2nd of September Twilight Tuesdays at the Missouri History Museum is back Join me all month long for the free concerts every Tuesday in September On the 4th you may consider the Great American Trailer Park Musical which promises to provide plenty of laughs Also on the 4th you can kick off three nights of original dance works at Washington Universityrsquos Dance Close Up Alternatively you might consider Art Outside a three day juried alternative art fair featuring over 50 artists and live music at Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood On the 5th you can check out at least three different art gallery exhibit openings The LIV

E W

OR

K P

LAY

Contemporary Art Museum launches the opening of itrsquos fall exhibitions including Mel Chin Rematch and Mark Flood Another Painting The SOHA Studio+Gallery has itrsquos opening night reception for Peter Manionrsquos All the Art on the Floor The 10th Street Gallery is hosting an opening reception for Kevin Cole Living Off the Wall a collection of mixed media three dimensional structures Also on Friday you can check out a free concert at Boogie on The Boulevard across the street from The Galleria Of course we canrsquot forget to check out the St Louis Art Fair in Clayton all weekend long If you are looking for more live music Loufest will have plenty all day on Saturday starting at noon with one of my favoritersquos Big Brother Thunder and the Masterblasters and wrapping up with the Arctic Monkeys at 8pm On Sunday Ume kicks off the music and noon and Outkast hits the main stage at 8pm Also on Saturday you can join me for some great food music and art the Brasil Day St Louis street festival in Benton Park

On Tuesday the 9th join me for a free concert by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra in Forest Park Enjoy the offerings of the food trucks or bring your own picnic Speaking of food trucks Food Truck Friday will be upon us on the 12th in Tower Grove Park On Saturday the 13th and Sunday you can join me in Forest Park to celebrate dance food and music from all over the world at the first annual St


Louis Worldrsquos Fare Yoursquoll find me at this party all weekend long For a family fun event Wonders Of Wildlife (WOW) St Louis offers the chance to camp out in Forest Park and discover many outdoor skills Saturday and Sunday Sept 13-14

Later in the month be on the lookout for The Great Forest Park Balloon Race on the 19th the Greater St Louis Hispanic Festival on the 26th-28th and St Louis Fashion Week September 26 ndash October 18 -Nate

pg 40

Our well nurtured naiveteacute began to disintegrate like a moth-feasted upon old cloak worn during an infinite atmosphere of dangerous seasons Sienna Roland and Imdashpinned

down were unraveling We were coming back from further south back from visiting family that viciously hot summer of 1964 with no air conditioning in the car all the windows down the brisk harsh wind blowing our faces into Silly Putty and draining our spirit of vacation fun into vexation Our parents seemed oblivious and were drunk with gratification steeped satisfyingly so in blood-kindred weekend bonding in between sips of corn liquor

Our crowded 1959 Ford Fairlane Country Sedan station wagon rolled fifty miles per hour down old Highway 3 burdened so low to the ground as we rollover road bumps the carrsquos shocks whine and squeak in agony My brother Roland and I sat on the flip-up seat at the very back with our cousin Sienna torturing each other with pinches punches toe stomping each otherrsquos feetmdashanything to break-up our stupor Roland recently had reached five years-old Sienna is six and half and Irsquom the oldest at seven Exasperated from watching the perpetual yellow-dash dividing line of the two-lane highway out the back window occasionally passing a solitary cow horse or pig among the continual blur of small farms wersquore fiercely impatient from sitting for stretches of three to four-hours

Daddy was driving and Uncle Brother sat up front with him passing a fifth of Wild Turkey between them then carefully over the back seat to Uncle Nate The homebrew corn liquor was secure in a special box in the storage area along with luggage a huge watermelon fresh string-beans snap peas and medium sized green tomatoes picked from Aunt Lularsquos garden Compact in the big aluminum Coleman ice chest cold bottles of beer and soda were sitting on top of ice and string-bundled perch fishes caught in Uncle Jerryrsquos scummy frog pond Uncle Brotherrsquos wife Irma and Lovie Uncle Natersquos girlfriend sat close to him in the middle seat with Mama sitting directly behind Daddy gossiping and laughing about the goings-on the past two days interrupted every fifteen minutes or so by Mama or Aunt Irma turning around to bop Roland Sienna or me on the head and telling us to behave Frequent trips down old Highway 3 passing small towns shabby gas stations dinky trucker diners stopping at only a couple of places on the 350 mile trip was as morose to my brother cousin and me as listening to country music on the radio The only highlight for us was stopping at the What-a-Burger in Cairo

Illinois Everybody liked the big greasy hamburgers served at the window

An hour after gorging on huge burgers fries and milkshakes and getting irritably sleepy we kids swerve around curves and yawn passing acres and acres of a bounteous corn field when out of the blue Mama says with a peculiar exuberance to no one in particular that she wants to pick ears of corn an epiphenomenon to memdashshersquos tipsy She rarely participates in gregarious libations with cousins uncles and aunts at home the exception is on these little weekend visitations out of town After just a couple of swallows of any mild intoxicant she becomes ridiculously swishy

When Mama intones her frivolous desire Sienna Roland and I tense and turn facing the middle seat in a panic Holding our breath we exude streams of sweat We desperately want to get home and out of that hot stifling car and I really hoped my Daddy would say he wasnrsquot going to stop but he was in a good 115-proof mood and pulls the car over to the gravelly side of the road the front end of the car pointed down towards a ditch

ldquoJust a lilrsquo maaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzze Yeeeeeessssssss sirrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeerdquo Mama trills and climbs over the laps of Aunt Irma Uncle Nate and Lovie She butts the creaky-rusted passenger door until it groans budges open and rolls out of the car

ldquoCorn corn corn Beeeee-uuu-tiiii-fuuulll ears of cornrdquo We all stare out the window as she leaps over the ditch in jubilant arced exaltation Her floppy ponytail pulled up thickly into a barrette at the very top of her head bobs and flings as she dances like a fairy in her light blue seersucker sundress billowing out as she twirls around bushes giddy and sprints towards the field disappearing into the maize We three kids now completely astonished turn back pleading (Roland and Sienna) judgmental (me) damning (me) focus toward the five remaining adults To our profound disappointment they also exit the car casually strolling down the ditch to a clump of bushes trees and eventually over to the field Daddy walks to the back of the car and pulls down the hatch-door

ldquoYou might as well get out stretch your legs and get some air This may take a lilrsquo whilerdquo he says It is the first time I recall I ever considered striking an adult Any adult I hop out of the car

Ripping the Silks

Short story by LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn

Ripping the Silks


and stomp down the ditch determined to find and bring back to her sober logical senses this slippery soused woman who is my Mama for Godrsquos sake

The stalks stood ten feet tall a golden-green prism above my head Intricately patterned Monarch butterflies flutter over stalk stems in harmony with ladybugs bees and hummingbirds that thrive in the tips of florets threading the bushes and trees surrounding the cornfield Squatting then down on all fours I squint and crawl in the dirt rows and around the densely populated plants lined so exacting searching for Mamarsquos bobbing reddish-brown ponytail It was what I imagined going on safari in a tropical jungle is like solely based on Saturday morning Tarzan movies

ldquoMA-MA MA-MArdquo I yell over and over After duck-walking like Chuck Berry until my legs ache swatting at mosquitoes and swarms of gnats I spot khaki shorts covering Rolandrsquos narrow butt scooting down a row next to me

ldquoRoland Roe-roe Sssssssssssss ppppppffffffffsssssssssssssttttttt Help me find Mamardquo I command seizing a piece of khaki cloth ldquoNo Get away from merdquo He escapes my grasp

Pressing down a tunnel mold of stalks as he scurries and rolls away I flush in that direction on my hands and knees Siennarsquos blue US Keds step out on my hand

ldquoHey stupid Watch where yoursquore goingrdquo I slap her spindly legs and stand up She runs down another row and I chase after her switching to another row where ever I glimpse her yellow T-shirt

ldquoSienna and Martine Sienna Martine Get Roland and go wait out by the car You hear me Martinerdquo Aunt Almarsquos wind-chime voice drifts out I couldnrsquot see her and turn around in circles

ldquoYes Marsquoamrdquo I answer and wait for the tinkly high musical notes of hers but she doesnrsquot respond

ldquoAunt Ir-maaa Is Mama over thererdquo I ask in childish sing-song She doesnrsquot reply I kneel down peeking through the stalks I can see blue US Keds scuttle down another row ldquoYou canrsquot catch merdquo Sienna dares

After strenuous hunting and dive-dashing flushing right left trying to cut Siennarsquos path Irsquom thoroughly covered in itchy silt-dust various squashed insects are smeared into my favorite pink T-shirt and I donrsquot hear anyone the grown-ups nor Sienna and Roland The intermittent spurts of Uncle Natersquos bubbly belly laughs deep rumble of Uncle Brotherrsquos growls Aunt Irmarsquos wind chimes and Loviersquos chirp-like giggles have been replaced with the constant buzz-hum of cicadas

ldquoSiiiii-eeeeeeeeeeennnnnnn-naaaaaaaa Siiiiiiii-eeeennnnn-naaaa ROOO-LAND I know you hear me Roland Sienna Roe-roerdquo I call over what I estimate is a long period and no one answers Now anguished and queasy I wander around avoiding the inevitability that Irsquom lost I reach up and grab an ear of corn from the closest stalk sitting down in the cool soil It was the biggest ear of corn Irsquod ever seen more than twelve inches I grasp the top of the husk stripping the leafy green down Pulling at the multitude of silks woven in between the tight compressed kernels I breathe in deeply and blow out long breaths of hot air Blooming despair resolve into silent tears then weepingmdashthen sobbing My sinusrsquo clog and snotty slobber and tears mix together and streak down my grimy face The tearing ripping of the silks release taunt

knots in my chest and my throat erupts in pitiful bleating I scrape my dirty fingernails over the tender pale yellow kernels and pop them into my mouth They were surprisingly sweet mixed with my big salty teardrops

I open my eyes in the dark disoriented lying on my stomach Rolling over on my back moonlight beams beyond the stalks The stars glitter in a navy-blue velvet sky I yawn stretch and wipe the crust from my eyes A few seconds of gazing at the fantastical view is slowly eclipsed by a gargantuan hairy head This is just a bad dream I think Irsquom use to nightmares I know if I donrsquot make a sound the monster will think I am dead and go away and Irsquoll wake-up I press shut my eyes pretending Irsquom dead until the monster says ldquoGit-up gal Yahrsquo people been lookinrsquo fer yahrsquo fer ovah a lsquoourrdquo I sat up sharply concentrating and widening my eyes as the monster lumbers farther out in moonlight creating a surreal silhouette It was a white man A grizzly beer-bellied white man with long stringy white hair wearing grungy knee-shredded overalls I blink certain color drained from my face

ldquoHeah Shersquos ovah heahrdquo the man hollers as he shuffles down the row Timid I stand as he turns towards me ldquoCome onrdquo he says ldquoIrsquoll take yahrsquo to yer cahrdquo I didnrsquot move Stark images from our black and white television of black people little kids skinny teenagers men and women catapulted and sprawled down streets by canon-forced water hoses or mean-looking white boys and girls spitting and cursing burly policemen with bullhorns and fierce German shepherd dogs sicced on and biting flush and pierce imprints in my mind He was kind of short and with his big belly weighing him down I believed I could out run him

ldquoCome on now What yahrsquo standinrsquo tharrsquo ferrdquo He reaches out to yank my arm pulling me as I yell ldquoNOOOOOOOOO MAMA MAMA DADDY DAD-DYYYrdquo Screeching to the top of my lungs I kick him hard in the shins and run the opposite direction down the row Waves of thrashing from the stalks ahead startle me to an abrupt pause and they part like curtains Another white man over six feet in height a spit-and-polished police officer with a barrel chest and a giant elongated gait blocks the row I squeal and back-pedal my lungs squeezed to nearly burst

ldquoStop that screamingrdquo the police officer demands pulling me by my t-shirt towards him I bite his hand kick and scratch at any exposed skin ldquoLittle girl Irsquom not gonnarsquo hurt you Now you stop that fightinrsquo right now this very minute DO YOU UNDERSTANDrdquo Vigorously shaking me the giant grabs me around the waist picks me up and throws me over his shoulder like a sack of cotton I lay limp crying and jostling on his shoulder as he bounces down the row The hairy monster now gimpy trails behind us

When the police officer sits me down by the ditch where Roland and Sienna are facing the side of the car Irsquom so relieved a few seconds pass before I notice that Daddy Uncle Brother and Uncle Nate are standing in front of the car in handcuffs Aunt Irma and Lovie stand nearby A police cruiser faces our car with the headlights on and the big top siren light flashes red and blue across our faces Another police officer apparently more brass because he had on a white shirt with a gold badge was talking to Daddy Mama was standing next to Daddy trying to explain something but the officer completely ignored her The hairy monster moves up beside the man in charge along with cont pg 41

pg 42

Essayist and Pop-Culture guru

Roxane Gay debuts new collection of essays

Left Bank Books presents author Roxane Gay who will sign and discuss her essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial August 2014) on Friday August 29 7pm at Left Bank Books (399 N Euclid)

In these funny and insightful essays Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion Chris Brown) The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society but also one of our culture Bad Feminist is a sharp funny and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better

A starred review from Publishers Weekly calls Bad Feminist a ldquotrenchant collectionWhatever her topic Gayrsquos provocative es-says stand out for their bravery wit and emotional honestyrdquo Book Riot says ldquoPre-order it put it on the library hold list whatever Just get ready to read it and quote it and share it and be challenged by itrdquo while Library Journal claims ldquoSmart readers cannot afford to miss these essaysrdquo

Roxane Gayrsquos writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014 Best American Short Stories 2012 Best Sex Writing 2012 A Public Space McSweeneyrsquos Tin House Oxford American The New York Times Book Review Time The Nation The Rumpus Salon and many others She is the co-editor of PANK She is also the author of the books Ayiti An Untamed State and Hunger forthcoming from Harper in 2016

Roxane Gay will read from Bad Feminist answer questions and sign books This event is free and open to the public Books for signing are available from Left Bank Books in advance or at the event For more information call 3143676731 or visit left-bankcom

Left Bank Books399 North EuclidSt Louis MO 63108


the tall officer Minutes later all the white men turn and walk further away toward an old truck parked down the roadldquoWhat are they doing Whyrsquos Daddy and Uncle Brother and Uncle Nate in handcuffsrdquo I whisper in a rush to Sienna She shrugs ldquoI donrsquot know I think that farmer called the po-lice on themrdquo she mumbles

ldquoWHAT Are they taking us to JAIL We canrsquot go to jailhelliphellipnoooo Man I wannaaa goooooo hoommmerdquo Roland whines I stand and go over to the side of the car where Aunt Irma and Lovie are waiting Loviersquos so jittery she trembles and the cigarettes shersquos smoking repeatedly drops to the ground

ldquoAunt Ir-ma are we going to jailrdquo I ask incredulously ldquoNo nordquo she says quickly ldquoYou Sienna and Roland get in the car Sienna Roland come get in the car Right nowrdquo I could tell shersquos really nervous too Her voice stretched as tight as violin strings

We climb in the car sitting in the middle seat when Mama comes back to the car leaning into the window ldquoBe still and donrsquot get out of this car or make any noiserdquo she hisses I look at her face Shersquos a pretty wreck Her ponytail is askew her irises are as wide as egg yolks but she doesnrsquot seem tipsy anymore I look out the front window at Daddyrsquos back his shirt sweated thoroughly down his spine his head is down as the brass officer aggressively walks back to the car barking at him My stomach quivers and I feel my chest knotting up Television images of black people beat down with clubs blood gushing like geysers from their heads and bodies assault me and I want to throw up I turn to Mama ldquoIs Daddy going to jailrdquo She stares at me with uncertainty for few seconds before shaking her head ldquonordquo going back to the front of the car

The tall police officer walks up to Daddy with a bunch of papers asking lots of questions I canrsquot hear what theyrsquore saying but Daddy nods again and again The hairy monster stands by listening his ruddy face in a smirk The tall police officer hands him the papers and the monster signs The tall police officer removes the handcuffs from Daddy Uncle Brother and Uncle Nate Mama says something to the big brass but he just glares in her direction after he signs the papers and walks away

On the way home nobody talks Days go by and my replies to Mamarsquos instructions are monosyllabic For a week she tolerates my muteness Then on a day Irsquom sitting in the backyard swing set she asks ldquoWhatrsquos wrong with you Why are you acting like a duncerdquo I stare at my bare toes I hadnrsquot looked her in the eye since the incident

ldquordquoLOOK AT MErdquo She demands ldquoWhat is your problem Martinerdquo I donrsquot say anything looking towards a spot just beyond her shoulder ldquoIrsquom warning you You better snap out of it You hear merdquo

ldquoYeahrdquoldquoYeah whatrdquoldquoYes marsquoamrdquoldquoYes marsquoam WHATrdquoldquoNothingrdquo

It was a magical slap so finely executed I never saw her hand move My cheek stinging I look up into Mamarsquos smoldering eyes

Pointedly I say ldquoYou almost got us KILLEDrdquo Shock rips the yellow like silk Seconds pass then she slaps me again really hard spinning me out of the swing set I refused to cry

ldquoGo to your room NOWrdquo she hollers

I stumble then gain footing walk away briefly looking back over my shoulder

copy June 2014

Ripping The Silks cont

pg 44

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Art

of

He

ali

ng

As a child I was always taught that every human being is endowed with a special gift from the creator that can be used to touch the lives of those who are suffering and in pain Itrsquos up to each individual to discover their own gift by reaching deep inside of their human make-up and finding the favored gift they have been given by the creator Many of our missions in life have been discovered from the pains of this life At times itrsquos through our pains that we discover our mission purpose passion and the gifts needed for us to move forward with our lives in a positive and productive mannerI recognized through my promise and covenant that I made to God and through my pains of fighting prostate cancer that I was given a gift that became my true mission and passion in life It helped me to move forward by helping and serving mankindIt has become my healing and now my gift is to reach out and touch the lives of those victimized by prostate cancer with a message of hope and love This brings tomind a song by one of my favorite singers Diana Ross ldquoThe Best Years of My Liferdquo

The song is a profound statement about the power of loveLove is a special gift that cannot be purchased but it can help heal the human spirit When someone receives a cancer diagnosis or is confronted with lifersquos problems an ounce of help and love is better than a pound of preaching Giving back and sharing is the greatest feeling in the world as a servant and helper to the human familyYes I understand the power of healing through love Yes love can hurt at times but love can also heal the body mind and spirit As we look over our lives only love cancalm the storms of life and with love we will ride those storms to the end Only strong love can bring this type of healing in the lives of those fighting a cancer illness or lifersquos problemsMy seven years of serving my fellow man as a prostate cancer advocate has helped me to understand that I am living the best years of my life It has given me life

abundantly I am sharing my gift from God with those who live in doubt hopelessness and despair It will help those victimized by this disease and their families to understand that they can be winners over cancer

100 Black Men12th Annual

Prostate Cancer RUNWALK


Photos by Serwa Tumpe

Health Awareness Day

TEN Prostate Cancer Survivor for August

Leonard Holloway center was honored August 9 as The Empow-erment Networkrsquos (TEN) Survivor

of the Month for August during the 100 Black Men 12th annual Prostate Cancer RunWalk Awareness Day at

Harris Stowe State University Hol-loway is flanked by from left TENrsquos Isadore Wayne and Mellve Shahid

Sr (Photo by John Tyler)

pg 48


pg 50

A Kwansaba of Remembrance for Jon Eckels (1929-2014)

by Eugene B Redmond

For your pyramid of poems ldquothe freeand will berdquo thankh you o savantof cloth amp sword Wholly divine amp

holy worldly you ldquostreetrdquo-themed academe ntuconch-us-nest On your soulo flight

ldquohome where the soul isrdquo rite bardicsermons for Amiri Maya amp the village

Winner of an American Book Award and one of the most original poetsthinkers ofthe Black Arts Movement amp beyond Eckels was bornraisedrdquoschooledrdquo inIndianapolis Ind Moving to Northern California in the early 60rsquos hecompleted graduate degrees in Divinity (Pacific School of Religion) and EnglishLiterature (Stanford) was a teacher-activist at Mills and Merritt colleges inOakland (where he contributed to the development of the ldquonewrdquo curriculum)pastored United Methodist Churches in California and New York and publishedmore than a dozen books including ldquoFire Signrdquo and ldquoOur Business in theStreetsrdquo The phrase ldquoWestern Syphilizationrdquo appeared in ldquoHome Is Where theSoul Isrdquo (Broadside Press 69)

The KwansabaInvented in a writers workshop (in East Saint Louis Illinois in 1995) thekwansaba is a poetic form containing multiples of 7 7 lines of 7 words eachwith no word possessing more than 7 letters Exceptions to the 7-letter ruleproper nouns quotations foreign words neologisms Hundreds of examples ofthe kwansaba by poets like Shirley LeFlore K Curtis Lyle Jerry Ward MarieCelestin-Young Lenard D Moore Michael Castro Mary Weems Sherman L FowlerDarlene Roy Tony Medina Jeffrey Skoblow Mali Newman L Teresa Church andVan G Garrett appear in past issues of Drumvoices Rev

Featured

SubmissionPoetry


Poetry

Mr Eckels has written 14 volumes of poetry His most recent Sing When the Spirit Says Sing Selected amp New Poems 1960-1990 (1999) won an American Book Award in 2000 from the Before Columbus Foundation and his Home Is Where the Soul Is (1969) published by the influential Broadside Press is considered one of the seminal works of the Black Arts Movement

After completing his MDiv in 1966 at the Pacific School of Religion Eckels earned a mas-terrsquos degree in literature from Stanford University He served as an instructor of English American literature poetry and creative writing at Mills College and Merritt College in Oakland CA (where he contributed to the development of the ldquonewrdquo curriculum) pastored United Methodist Churches in California and New York and published more than a dozen books including Fire Sign and Our Business in the Streets The phrase ldquoWestern Syph-ilizationrdquo appeared in ldquoHome Is Where the Soul Isrdquo (Broadside Press 69)

An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church (UMC) Eckels pastored UMC church-es in California and New York Eckels has been a human rights activist since the 1960s and has spoken and read around the nation and the world

Renowned Poet Essayist Activist and Teacher

Jon Echols (1929-2014)

th

For tickets and for more information visit wwwtheblackreporg

pg 52

ArtistFeatured

Submission


Artist

By John JenningsAssociate Professor

Visual StudiesSUNY Buffalo

tumblr httpjijennin70tumblrcom

One of the biggest stories in comics and pop culture over the summer was from Marvel Comics showing their efforts in creating diverse characters Much to a lot of fans dismay they made Thor a woman and Captain America a black man Sam Wilson aka The Falcon is now officially Captain America While working today through my anger at the Ferguson MO story which is still unfoldinghellipI wondered what Sam would do if he were a real person So I did this image to deal with the madness No one is safe

John Jennings

pg 54

REL

IA f

ocu

s


John Jennings centers his life on provocative questions How can we show the work of underrepresented artists especially those who do comics How can we go beyond the racial ste-reotypes of traditional comic art to show the rich expression of black artists past and present And how can we help UB stu-dents see that creating art is a possibility for them to recog-nize that ldquoart is everywhererdquo and acquire what Jennings calls ldquovisual literacyrdquo - Read More

And morePopMatters Interview

Raymond Morales youtube interview Connect With John on Tumblr

pg 56

FeaturedPhotographerSubmission

Creative Thinking PhotographyldquoCreatively CapturingThinkable Momentsrdquo

CreativethinkingphotographycomPhone 314-499-0941

Email CreativeThinkingPmgmailcomIG Creative_Thinking_PhotographyFB Creative Thinking Photography

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pg 60

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PO

RTU

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pg 62

The gift of and

By Mellve Shahid Sr PresidentFounder

The Empowerment Network

love serviceAs a child I was always taught that every human being is endowed with a special gift from the creator that can be used to touch the lives of those who are suffering and in pain Itrsquos up to each individual to discover their own gift by reaching deep inside of their human make-up and finding the favored gift they have been given by the creator Many of our missions in life have been discovered from the pains of this life At times itrsquos through our pains that we discover our mission purpose passion and the gifts needed for us to move forward with our lives in a positive and productive manner

I recognized through my promise and covenant that I made to God and through my pains of fighting prostate cancer that I was given a gift that became my true mission and passion in life It helped me to move forward by helping and serving mankind

It has become my healing and now my gift is to reach out and touch the lives of those victimized by prostate cancer with a message of hope and love This brings to mind a song by one of my favorite singers Diana Ross ldquoThe Best Years of My Liferdquo The song is a profound statement about the power of love

Love is a special gift that cannot be purchased but it can help heal the human spirit When someone receives a cancer diagnosis or is confronted with lifersquos problems an ounce of help and love is better than a pound of preaching Giving back and sharing is the greatest feeling in the world as a servant and helper to the human family

Yes I understand the power of healing through love Yes love can hurt at times but love can also heal the body mind and spirit As we look over our lives only love can calm the storms of life and with love we will ride those storms to the end Only strong love can bring this type of healing in the lives of those fighting a cancer illness or lifersquos problems

My seven years of serving my fellow man as a prostate cancer advocate has helped me to understand that I am living the best years of my life It has given me life abundantly I am sharing my gift from God with those who live in doubt hopelessness and despair It will help those victimized by this disease and their families to understand that they can be winners over cancer


I read a quote once that said

ldquoWhen God has selected you it doesnrsquot matter who else has rejected or neglected yourdquoCancer survivors your best years are ahead of you so continue to fight back When was the last time you showed appreciation and said ldquoThank you Godrdquo for the best years of your life and for the gift of life even as you fight cancer

Our prostate cancer support group is helping to remove the shame fear and stigma that comes with a cancer diagnosis I often remind newly diagnosed cancer survivors that the best years of our lives are now ahead of us with no looking back to the pains caused by cancer

Survivors share your stories about the gifts that you have been given and help someone with a new cancer diagnosis understand that this is not the end of life but a new beginning Share your gift with men in the community and encourage them to get a PSA test It could save their lives

Mellve Shahid Sr is founder amp CEO of The Empowerment Network He hosts ldquoThe Empowerment Network Health Radio Showrdquo 5-6 pm Sundays on WGNU 920 AM and wwwwgnu920amcom

pg 64

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Back

Holla

HEA

LTH

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IND

B

OD

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SPIR

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This program will train young urban males ages 18-25 in basic carpentry and other construction related skills as well as the skill sets necessary to start their own business Professionals from the construction trades and employment industry will conduct the 10 weeks of training

Applications for the program are being accepted

August 13 ndash September 30 2014

Urban MaleEmployment amp

Entrepreneur Program

This program is funded by a grant from the United Way of Greater St Louis

pg 66

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Infinite Scholars Program Award Reception

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Location Brookes Bible College 10257 St Charles Rock Road St Ann MO 63074

Time 700pm to 1000pm

Attire After Five

Cost $25 dollars

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WATCHTickets can be purchase at Brookes Bible College and Infinite Scholars Program Office 3144996997


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pg 68


pg 70

10TH Street Gallery announces the opening of

Kevin Cole ldquoLiving Off the Wallrdquo

ldquoLIVING OFF THE WALLrdquo Exhibition Opening Reception 10th Street Gallery 6pm Friday September 5 2014 10th Street Gallery presents international ArtistEducator Kevin Cole ldquoLiving Off the Wallrdquo a collection of mixed media three dimensional structures ldquoThe necktie has chronicled the rise in status and stature of people all around the world their struggles for basic human rights and their triumph against long oddsrdquo Artist Cole stated ldquoMy grandfather told me that African-Americans were lynched by their neckties on their way to vote That left a profound impression on merdquo

ldquoArt of Collectingrdquo Lecture Saint Louis Art Museum 1030 am Saturday September 6 2014 Join us on Saturday September 6 at 1030 am at the Saint Louis Art Museum for ldquoArt of Col-lectingrdquo with Darrell Walker and featured guest artist Kevin Cole Selections from the collection of Mr and Mrs Darrell Walker are featured in the book African American Voices the cover of which features the work of international artist and edu-cator Kevin Cole September 6 1030 am at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Art Collector NBA Coach DARRELL WALKER Artist Educator KEVIN COLE

10th Street Gallery presents international ArtistEducator Kevin Cole ldquoLiving Off the Wallrdquo a collection of mixed media three dimensional structures ldquoThe necktie has chronicled the rise in status and stature of people all around the world their struggles for basic human rights and their triumph against long oddsrdquo Artist Cole stated ldquoMy grandfather told me that African-Americans were lynched by their neckties on their way to vote That left a profound impression on merdquo

10th Street Gallery | 419 N 10th Street | 3144361806 | St Louis MO 63101

Friday September 5 2014

6pm - 9pm



w w w s l a m o r g

What does Basketball and Art have in common




Art Collector NBA Coach Darrell Walker

Join us for ldquoArt of Collecting Passing the Passionrdquo

Saturday September 6 20141000 AM

Saint Louis Art Museum Education Space

FREE

NBA players from Bill Russell to Grant Hill to Darrell Walker have been in the forefront of collecting art by African American artists Join us September 6 to see and hear more about NBA playersrsquo passion for collecting art and specifically about the phenomenal collection of Darrell Walker Selections of Mr and Mrs Walkerrsquos collection are featured in the book African American Voices the cover of which features the work of international artist and educator Kevin Cole

pg 72

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The POETRY of


Jeffrey Skoblow The POETRY of

The Rest We Never KnowGo Outside

Para Neruda For NerudaObra The Work

Nuestro diacutea Our Dayfond totem

simple storyEating an Apple Reading a Book

Bonsai Farmer

pg 74

The Rest We Never Know

Inky brotherCalamarfluke and tube and beakI follow you underthe rock of nightand take you inmy handsholding you tothe windIrsquod be sorryif I thoughtyou didnrsquot understandBut whenI slept I sawour greatest grandfathersweathering uncountablestorms and stonelips speaking curling as waveswrapped in salt describing the windAnd whenI woke I feltmy foot slipin the mudI heard you thenand came toyou

Para Neruda

La gata pequentildea caminapor mi cara en la nochesin sonido como un suentildeode otra vida en la pielDuermo en la cama en el cuerpocon el movimiento extrantildeode mi propio corazoacuten

For Neruda

The small cat walks across my face at night silently like a dream of some other life in my skin Irsquom asleep in bed in my body with the strange movement of my own heart

Go Outside

Bad moons fallenand slungutility-wiseand one screamingblast from a holesome poor itchingbodyrsquos albatrossin the nightmdashthatrsquos allI can see from herea fantastic arrangementbut not mine

Up abovethe moonof the earth is full tonightby invisible sunlightimpossibly whitebright measure of its freakishworldmdasha sky lavenderwith flesh tones

In every directionthe shadows of the hour dieconfused on edgeand planemdashI wouldbury them praisingthem outsideeven memory

Obra

Piensas que estrofas son comopedazos pequentildeos de caacutescaraque sobreviven la carne y dicenel cuento de la vida que vivioacute

Pero quiero que sean mis estrofascomo piedras que cultivan el peloy untildeas tambieacutenmdashlentamenteduras y vivas ellas mismas

escondidas en alguna parte del campo de tu propia vidamdashesperandoojos dedos y pulmonesmdashtuyos

The Work

You think that poems are like little pieces of shell that survive the flesh and tell the tale of the life that it lived

But I want my poems to be like rocks that grow hair and nails toomdashslowly hard and alive themselves

hidden somewhere in the field of your own lifemdashwaiting for eyes fingers lungs mdashyours


Nuestro diacutea

El mundo donde vivimosestaba mojado Fuimospara encontrarnos con algunos amigospara hablar la lengua que queremosaprender afuera entre las cosas verdesmdashpero no vinieron Entoncescaminaacutebamos solosnosotros dosy los paacutejarosnoshablaban

Our Day

The world where we live was wet We went to meet up with some friends to speak the language that we love learning out there among the green thingsmdash but they didnrsquot show up So we walked around alone us two and the birds spoke to us

simple story

earlier in the garden thrashingquietly on the topsoil onewasp subduing two moths one perhapsalready dead motionless stuckto its abdomen the otherflurries of flapping too rapid forprecise sight in the wasprsquosfrontal grip all I supposefor its nesting babies

I didnrsquot see howit all came out

they had more timethan I did

fond totem

in the dream there is an elephantat the funky far endof a dock too short andnarrow for any boat upon a pond or smallish lakein the distance nearlyfringed with stands of trees

and Irsquom there also inthe dream on the dockprone in the middle ina posture of desperationwithout the appearanceof desperation hanging on

as the creature big and greyin normalcy jumps againsomehow rising from theboards and in silencecoming down againand again looking alwaysover her left shoulderin warm recognition at me

rising each time she fallson the undulating ribbon thewooden structure is jerked into becoming and this is a happy dreamof enormous comfort thoughnot ease

Eating an Apple Reading a Book

Mommy go She went to do the mulchWhy Well because it was timeWhy The bucket was fullWhy Why was the bucket full Because wersquove been eating lots of fruit and vegetablesWhy Because itrsquos springtime and summertimeWhy Why because the earth spins on a tilt as it spins around the sunWhy Why I guess it all goes back to the Big BangWhy Thatrsquos how matter formedWhy It has something to do with strange forces I thinkWhy Why does it have something to do with strange forces Irsquom not sureWhy I just donrsquot know about thatMommy go She went out to do the mulchOh

Bonsai Farmer

Takeone withmore than an eye

Notto crippleit but to the

Contrary

Thishas nothingto do with failure

It has to dowith somethingelse

Bendit andbind it and

cut it and leave italone

withoutboundaries nothing

Goahead nowwait now go ahead

Notsimply small

Formpotted sunearth watered root leaf trunkhands

Not simplysmall

Thereis notquite nothing to it

pg 76


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pg 78

St Louis

Wonders of Wildlife

WOWWOW


WOW St Louis is designed to teach participants how to enjoy a wide range of outdoor recreational activities while practicing personal safety and outdoor responsibility Classes are open to anyone age six and up The second portion is the overnight campout WOW participants will have the opportunity to spend the night in Forest Park Saturday night

The cost to attend the outdoors skills classes Saturday is only $10 per person making it an affordable day of family fun The Saturday Night Campout is an additional $5 per person Registration includes equipment for all activities and lunch on Saturday and a hotdog cookout for Saturday night campers along with breakfast snacks on Sunday

Financial assistance to cover to the cost of the event is also available

For more information or to request a registration packet log onto the WOW website at wondersofwildlifeorgPageConservation-Education-Wow-School-stlaspx You can also request registration information and forms by calling the Missouri Department of Natural Resources at (314) 340-5794 or toll free at

1-800-334-6946 (voice) or 1-800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf)

pg 8

September 13 2014

ldquoScleroderma Stepping Out For A Cure WalkRunrdquo

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