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“In the shadow of the JeffersonMemorial, the Lincoln Memorial,the King Memorial, and the frontyard of the Washington Monument,like a phoenix, our museum willrise…Believe me, if we can build amuseum…there’s nothing that youcan’t do. There’s nothing you can’treach. There’s nothing you can’tteach, but it begins with the vision,and it begins with a vision thatmaybe nobody else can see.”

– Dr. Rex M. Ellis, AssociateDirector for Curatorial Affairs,National Museum of AfricanAmerican History and Culture

The Sept. 24 opening of the Na-tional Museum of African AmericanHistory and Culture was the realiza-tion of a dream that’s been a verylong time coming, beginning a cen-tury ago when Black leaders firstproposed a memorial to Black CivilWar veterans. Dr. Rex M. Ellis, themuseum’s Associate Director forCuratorial Affairs, speaking toyoung teachers during the Chil-dren’s Defense Fund’s 2016 Free-dom Schools® training program,shared his hopes that the museum

will help light the way for the nextgeneration of Americans and thatthe museum’s vision will “changethe master narrative of our nation”:

“When people come to the Smith-sonian now, they’re not just going tohear about American art or Ameri-can history ... We have a 76-tontrain, a segregated train car that wasbuilt and adorned as a segregatedcar in the 1940s. We brought thattrain all the way from Berea, Ken-tucky, down 14th Street. It took two16-wheelers to bring that 76-ton

train down, and then two cranes . . .that lowered it into the museum, andas it was lowering into the museum,I said to the director, ‘We are bring-ing a part of our history that will [behere] forever’ – because we had toput the train in, and then build theroof over the top of it. So the train isgoing to be there. Segregation isgoing to be there. Segregation andlynching and slavery and everythingthat we have gone through as a peo-

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Earlier this year theNorth Dallas Gazette's ar-ticle discussed the needfor more transparency inthe grand jury process,particularly in cases in-volving police shootings.For nearly two years ,across the country, repeat-edly videos have emergedshowing police killing un-armed black men, yetuntil recently none facedcharges. This led to con-tinued frustration result-

ing in protests across thecountry. Many in theAfrican American com-munity felt the grand jurysystem clearly favored thepolice, otherwise howcould officers not even becharged for a crime incases where videos wouldappear to clearly indicatethe need for a trial to dis-cuss the facts.

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(NNPA) William Garth,Sr., Chief Executive Officerof the Chicago Citizen News-paper Group Inc. (CCNG)a n d C h a i r m a n o f t h eChatham Business Associa-tion (CBA) died on Friday,Sept. 23, 2016. He was 79.

A pillar in the commu-nity, Garth led the Citizenwith a steady hand andworked hard to make thenews operation the largestBlack-owned ABC-auditednewspaper in the Midwest.Starting out as an advertis-ing salesman for the Citi-

zen, Garth lived the Ameri-can Dream. After gainingrecognition as a mastersalesman at the Citizen, heended up owning the news-paper chain in 1980 whenhe purchased the business

from Gus Savage, a six-term Democratic congress-man who representedChicago's South Side. Thesale to Garth included theChatham Citizen, SouthendCitizen and the ChicagoWeekend Newspapers .Under Garth's leadership,the Citizen flourished. Be-tween 1984-87, Garth grewthe newspaper chain whenhe added the South Subur-ban and Hyde Park CitizenNewspapers.

The Citizen was a busi-ness Garth nurtured andloved. He once said, "I'vebeen good to the Citizen,because the Citizen hasbeen good to me." He was

right. With a current circu-lation of 112,000 newspa-pers and a following of400,000 readers weekly, theCitizen established itself asan important source forcommunity news focusedon the African-Americanmarket.

During the early yearswhile the Citizen prospered,Garth remained close to hisroots. For years, the Citizenoperated from a storefronton 87th Street near KingDrive, but as the businessexpanded, Garth moved on,but not too far away. Insteadof opting for a lofty down-town office outside of theBlack community, Garth

stayed on Chicago's SouthSide where he purchased a12,000 square foot buildingon 806 East 78th Street.

From the Citizen's newhome, Garth established anot-for-profit foundation inmemory of his late son,Quentis B. Garth, where heserved as chairman. Throughthe QBG Foundation, the or-ganization helped over 49students and disbursed over$1 million in scholarshipawards to disenfranchised,inner city youth in theChicagoland area.

During his lifetime, Garthinstinctively understood theimportance of passing onthe torch to the next genera-

tion of leaders. In essence,this was the purpose of thefoundation. It's no wonderthat one of the numerousawards Garth received wasthe opportunity to carry thetorch in Chicago during the2002 Olympic Torch Relay.It was one of many localand national awards andhonors he received duringhis lifetime.

Ga r th ' s son , Da r r e l lGarth, president and pub-lisher of CCNG, was thank-ful for the support he andhis family received frommembers of the community."The family would like to

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Dr. Carla Hayden, a formerpresident of the AmericanLibrary Association (ALA)and Chief Executive Officerof the Enoch Pratt Free Li-brary in Baltimore, Mary-land, was sworn in as the14th Librarian of Congresson Wednesday, Sept. 14. Thehis tor ic ceremony wasbroadcast live on the Libraryof Congress YouTube chan-nel. Dr. Hayden is the firstfemale and the first AfricanAmerican to lead the Libraryof Congress. The nation’s Li-brary has been led by a li-brary professional threetimes before in its history.

ALA President Julie To-daro released the followingstatement:

“Dr. Hayden personifiesthe modern librarian: in-formed, articulate and com-mitted. She will provide theleadership that the Library’shighly qualified staff needsto manage their world-classcollection, which she hasrightly called a ‘nationaltreasure.’

“Throughout her career,Dr. Hayden has been a

champion for informationequality, privacy and free-dom of thought and speech.Like all librarians, she iscommitted to the bedrockprinciple that all Americanseverywhere deserve equi-table access to the informa-tion that they need to succeedand lead productive lives inthe digital age.

“We know that with Dr.Hayden at the helm, the Li-brary of Congress wil lstrengthen its ties with thenation’s libraries and othergroups that influence howpeople access knowledgeand information in the digi-tal age. The Library is an ex-traordinary national andglobal resource and can andwill greatly expand its reachin the digital age."

Dr. Hayden was nomi-nated by President Obama to

be a member of the NationalMuseum and Library Serv-ices Board in January 2010and was confirmed by theSenate in June 2010. In 2013she served on the steeringcommittee that led to thelaunch of the National Digi-tal Public Library. Prior tojoining the Pratt Library, Dr.Hayden was Deputy Com-missioner and Chief Librar-ian of the Chicago Public Li-brary from 1991 to 1993.She was an Assistant Profes-sor for Library and Informa-tion Science at the Universityof Pittsburgh from 1987 to1991. Dr. Hayden was Presi-dent of the American LibraryAssociation from 2003 to2004. She received a B.A.from Roosevelt Universityand an M.A. and Ph.D. fromthe Graduate Library Schoolof the University of Chicago.

George C. Fraser, Chair-man & CEO of FraserNet,Inc. and considered to be oneof the foremost authorities onnetworking and building ef-fective relationships, will beone of the guest panelists inan upcoming Dallas monthlyfilm screening event.

Fraser is the author of twobooks: Success Runs In OurRace (a critically acclaimedbestseller) and Race ForSuccess; The Ten Best Busi-ness Opportuni t ies forBlacks In America (selectedas one of ten best businessbooks of the year by Book-list).

Fraser is also the publisherof the award-winning Suc-cessGuide Worldwide andthe founder of the annualPowerNetworking Confer-ence, billed as the largestgathering of African-Ameri-

can professionals, businessowners and community lead-ers in the nation

I Am For A Reason chari-table organization is hostingtheir 2nd monthly filmscreening event on FridaySept. 30 at Skyline Ranch lo-cated at 1801 Wheatland Rd.in Dallas. Doors open at 6p.m., the event is scheduledfor 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Black America notably isthe 15th largest economy inthe world is a country in andof itself. The Starring DallasC.E.O. event has three lay-ers.

Layer one consists of play-ing film clips of cast mem-bers in their movie which ismoderated in a Q&A style

panel discussion.Layer two models ABC’s

Shark Tank, where attendeesare able to pitch their projectspublicly following the dis-cussion.

Bonus layer three is thefree screening of an Eco-nomic Powerhouse docu-mentary which takes adeeper look into why theAfrican-American commu-nity has no choice, to take amuch consorted effort tohandle their wealth and fi-nancial literacy more aggres-sively. African-Americanscollectively spend over 1 tril-lion dollars annually, mainlyoutside of their own commu-nities.

C.E.O. monthly events ad-

dress how to leverage BlackWealth in America with a so-cioeconomic approach ofopen dialogue and financialliteracy forums.

ALL-STAR PANELQ&A - Fraser will join

world-renown moguls Dr.Michael V. Roberts andDouglas Eze CEO of LargoFinancial; along with severalDal las -Based LeadersDameon Madison, Sr. Pastorof The Life Church, DavidWren, Precious Metals Ex-pert – will share economicsolutions for the audience.

This community eventwill be Moderated by CoryL. Hughes, CEO of Tax Na-tion and James Thomas,Owner of Southern Dallas

Magazine. C.E.O. Commu-nity Partners such as TheBlack Owned Business Por-tal, TerryAllenPR, TexasBlack Pages, The DockBook Shop, Sankofa Global,I Messenger News, and oth-ers will also be in atten-dance.

T h e Q & A b e g i n spromptly at 7:30 p.m. imme-diately following this 60minute panel, 30 Businesses,start-ups, and organizationswill have a unique opportu-nity to give their elevatorpitch (up to 1 minute) to thepanel and audience mem-bers.

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laws from around the coun-try to consider as a modelfor reform in Texas. Cali-fornia in 2014 became thefirst state to pass grand juryreform law and earlier thisyear Georgia also revisedtheir state laws related togrand juries and police in-volved shootings.

Last year California be-came the first state to re-move the veil of grand jurysecrecy in cases involving

police shootings. Propo-nents of the keeping therecords sealed on thesecases suggest witnesseswould not be willing to tes-tify if their involvement wasmade public. However, op-ponents contend this has re-sulted in benefiting no onebut the police officer facingcharges.

Under the new law inCalifornia, the prosecutorwill decide if the police of-

ficer will face criminalcharges.

In Georgia HB 941, spon-sored by four Republicansand one Democrat, earlierthis year modified the lawsrelated to juries in cases in-volving the police. Previ-ously Georgia police offi-cers facing possible indict-ment are allowed to sit int h e g r a n d j u r y r o o mthroughout the presentationof al l evidence againstthem. They were a l so

al lowed to make a closingstatement with no questionsfrom the grand jury or pros-ecutors. Many felt this con-tributed to the fact morethan 184 fatal police shoot-ings since 2010 led to notone police officer beingcharged.

Concerned Texans arehopeful in 2017, the state’sgrand jury process will beopened for more trans-parency through legislativereform.

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Love him or hate him, DonaldTrump has transformed U.S. politicsBy Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist

As my readers know, Idon’t pay much attention topolls. I think they are a totalwaste of time and haveproven to be extremely in-accurate over the past fewyears. According to polls,Mitt Romney should havebeen president after the2012 elections.

Just as the polls have beenegregiously wrong in pre-dicting election results, sohave most of the pundits indiscussing the “Trump Phe-nomenon.”

Republican pundits attrib-ute Trump’s rise to his outsized personality, but if theyreally faced facts, theywould find the roots of hissuccess in the mirror. TheRepublican establishment isso out of step with the baseof the party and they alsoseem to suffer from cogni-tive dissonance—the inabil-ity to see what they don’tbelieve.

The base of the partydoesn’t want amnesty forthose in the country ille-gally, they don’t want allthese trade deals that hurtAmerican workers, and theydon’t want us involved inwars all over the world.

Trump comes along advo-cating a simple platform: noamnesty for illegal immi-grants and a wall on theU.S.-Mexico border; tradedeals that put Americansfirst; let other countries pro-tect themselves, unless thereis a clear overriding Ameri-can security interest at state.

These seem like very rea-sonable positions to me,notwithstanding Trump’ssometimes bombastic rheto-ric in expressing his visionfor America.

Democratic pundits at-tribute Trump’s rise to his“racist appeal to low-edu-cated White voters.” In theimmortal words of leg-endary singer Michael Mc-Donald of the DoobieBrothers, “what a fool be-

lieves he sees, no wise manhas the power to reasonaway; what seems to be isalways better than nothingat all.”

These Democrats have noc h o i c e , b u t t o b l a m eTrump’s rise on “racism.”They are terrified of the lackof enthusiasm Blacks areshowing for Hillary Clin-ton’s presidential campaign.According to every eco-nomic indicator, Blackshave regressed dur ingObama’s two terms in theWhite House and Democ-rats refuse to blame it ontheir failed liberal policies;so they fall back on theirtried and true—the racecard!

I have warned the Repub-lican Party incessantly ofthis quadrennial exercise bythe Democratic Party, but,as usual, Republicans areyet again unprepared.

There are many areas oflegitimate criticism onecould place at Trump’s feet,but I am amazed that no one

is willing to give him creditfor a tectonic shift in thebody politic that is unheardof for a Republican presi-dential candidate.

Trump has been roundlycriticized for his cynical ap-proach of outreach to theBlack community. I, too,have been one of his criticsin this regard. Trump is justanother example of a Re-publican trying to do theright thing, but doing it thewrong way.

Trump has single-hand-edly laid out in stark detailthe devastating impact thatliberalism has had on theBlack community more thanany Republ ican s inceRichard Nixon. He has men-tioned the Black communitymore than the sum total ofall of our presidential candi-dates combined over thepast generation.

He has been roundlyridiculed by the D.C. pundi-tocracy for this, but I chal-lenge anyone to name an-

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I am willing to die rightnow to help be a part of thesolution to stop this rash ofkillings/murders of Blackand Brown men in thiscountry by cops , the ma-jority of which are Whitecops. No one person or onegroup of persons have allthe answers as to how westop this. There is one thingthat I do know ,though. Theultimate answer is found ina realistic, public and pro-

found response to theracism in America that is inour Police /Cops that hasbeen recently unleashed allacross America.

It makes me ask thisquestion. In the time beforethere was instant video andover the years , how manyBlack and Brown Ameri-c a n m e n h a v e b e e nkilled/murdered by mostlyWhite cops without anyoneknowing? I say mostly

White cops because nowa-days you got some Blackand Brown cops who areworse in the treatment ofBlack and Brown men thanthe White cops and some ofthem have killed/murderedBlack and Brown men.

We all can elaborate onthe problem and how wegot here. To me, it is timefor all people of good willand good faith to draw aline in the sand and say NO

MORE! I believe there hasto be massive and massdemonstrations in everycity and community inAmerica to send a messageto cops and police depart-ments all across America tosay," We Are No LongerGoing To Sit Idly AndAllow Cops To Kill OurBlack And Brown Men!

Anthony Bond,Irving

Letter: ‘No More, No Mas, These Murders by Cops Have To Stop’

Dear EarthTalk: I re-cently moved into a newrental house and the waterfrom the tap tastes kindafunny. Can you suggestsome easy and inexpensiveways to test the water forc o n t a m i n a n t s ?— Wanda Belinski, Bridge-port, CT

Chances are your tapwater is fine—a recent sur-vey of public data by thenon-profi t Natural Re-sources Defense Council(NRDC) found that 95 per-cent of the U.S. populationlives in areas without anypast or present water con-tamination issues — but ofcourse it can’t hurt to check.According to the U.S. Envi-r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o nAgency (EPA), most of usget our water from a com-munity/public water systemthat provides its customerswith an annual water qual-ity report, also known as aConsumer Confidence Re-port.

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If your water provider’sreport doesn’t bring yousolace, or if you are suspi-cious about the water pipesinto your house, you canorder a home water test kitand analyze for common

contaminants yourself. Na-tional Testing Laboratories(NTL) is one of many com-panies that will mail you acomplete test kit which youcan use to test for variouscontaminants.

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If you are one of the 15percent of the U.S. popula-tion deriving their waterfrom a private supply, suchas from a wel l on yourproperty or a commonsource shared by a smallneighborhood, it behoovesyou to test your supply onan annual basis (or morefrequently if you have anew well or recently re-placed or repaired pipes,pumps or well casings) towatch out for coliform bac-teria, nitrates, total dis-solved solids and unhealthypH levels. Your local health

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Clarice Tinsely will beMistress of Ceremony of

Arthritis Foundation11th annual Bone Bash

Masquerade BallThe Arthritis Founda-

tion, North Texas will hostits 11th Annual BoneBash Masquerade Ball onSaturday, Oct. 29 at theOmni Dallas from 6:30p.m. to 11 p.m. with aHaunted Dance Party tofollow from 11 p.m. to 2a.m. The Dallas BoneBash Masquerade Ballfundraiser is a commu-nity-driven event that isbeing chaired by Dr.Wayne “Buz” Burkheadof the Carrell Clinic.

Clarice Tinsley, FOX 4News will serve as theMaster of Ceremony. Sis-ters Stella and CambriaYanda and Mrs. SharonStufflebeme will sharetheir personal stories, tri-umphs and what being aChampion of Yes means

to them. The band Doctor-Doctor will provide mainstage entertainment, andDJ Mr. Goodtime willhost the Haunted DanceParty.

The focus of Bone Bashis to raise awareness aboutthe prevalence and seri-ousness of arthritis andraise funds to support mis-sion driven programs.Funds raised support re-search to find a cure,camps for children withjuvenile arthritis, providepublic health and educa-tional programs and con-tinue our advocacy effortsin the community.

Tickets are available forp u r c h a s e o n l i n e a twww.arthritis.org/BoneBashDallas.

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The City of Garland hasapproved an exciting newproject that will result in theimminent construction of494,000 square feet of addi-tional industrial space onLeon Drive.

This massive new facil-ity, named the Garland Lo-gistics Center, will be builton a 29-acre greenfield sitelocated in southwest Gar-land near I-635 and GarlandRoad. This $20+ millionproject brings additionalClass A industrial space tothis premier industrial areaof the D/FW Metroplex andcontinues the community'sproactive efforts to signifi-cantly enhance its larger in-dustrial/commercial spaceinventory.

The developer of theproject, IDI Gazeley, LLC,is supervised by BrookfieldProperty Partners, a $144billion global real estateowner, operator and in-vestor. To date, IDI Gazeleyhas delivered over 250 mil-lion square feet of space tothe global marketplace.

Further, since IDI Gaze-ley's Dallas Office openedin 1994, they have con-structed over 18 millionsquare feet of industrial andoffice space in North Texas,

Houston, El Paso and theTexas/Mexico Border mar-ket.

I D I G a z e l e y i s n ostranger to developing andoperating in Garland. In-stead, they just completedthe 472,244 square-footJupiter Trade Center locatedat 3300 Wood Drive. This$20+ million facility is cur-rently fully leased to fourmajor tenants.

Established tenants in-clude: 1) Andersen Win-dows, one of the most rec-ognized brands in the win-dow and patio door indus-try; 2) Liquidity Services, aleader in assisting retailersto manage the reverse sup-ply chain for overstockedand returned inventories; 3)American Logistics Serv-ices, providing inventory

management, warehousing,re-packaging and trans-portation services to numer-ous nationally recognizedcustomers; and 4) GreatWestern Malting Company,which supports the rapidlyexpanding market of brew-ers, distillers and foodprocessors in our region.

With the announcementof this newest exciting proj-ect, additional major tenantsare soon to call Garlandhome.

"We are pleased to havethe opportunity to workagain with the City of Gar-land on another new facilityin their fine city. Our mostrecent development, theJupiter Trade Center, was agreat success and is 100%leased. Our promise to de-liver world-class service

and quality on every projectgives our customers confi-dence in us as a trusted part-ner," said Doug Johnson,Senior Vice President andRegional Director -Texas,IDI Gazeley.

The Garland LogisticsCenter site is one of the lastsizable undeveloped parcelsavailable for industrial de-velopment in Garland. TheD/FW industrial marketcontinues to be extremelycompetitive, and Garlandleads in its comprehensivespectrum of industrial spaceofferings. Further, numer-ous industrial reinvestment

and redevelopment oppor-tunities are currently beingexplored with seasoned de-velopment partners.

"This is yet another greatopportunity to secure addi-tional Class A space in oneof the largest and most dy-namic industrial districts inthe region. IDI Gazeley hasa proven track record of de-veloping quality projectsand solid facilities, and welook forward to workingwith them yet again on thisnewest industrial project,"said David Gwin, Directorof Economic Developmentfor the City of Garland.

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agency can refer you to test-ing labs in your area thatcan provide sample contain-ers or even come out toyour property to take theirown samples, or firms likeNational Testing Laborato-ries can mail well water testkits your way.

If your water supply iscontaminated, contact yourcity, town or county healthagency to find out what you

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The Dal las CountyDemocrat ic Party re-cently petitioned the Dal-las County Commission-ers and gained three keyvictories in helping tomake it easier for DallasCounty voters to partici-pate in the Novemberelection. Their approvedrequests were:

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Major new industrial project announced in Garland

express our deepest grati-tude and thanks for yourprayers, cards, flowers, kindgestures, sympathy andshow of support as wemourn the loss of my father.The overwhelming responsefrom members of the com-munity who expressed love,care and concern during thisdifficult time is greatly ap-preciated."

Garth was just as passion-ate about Black entrepre-neurship as he was abouthelping young people.Through the Chatham Busi-ness Association (CBA), abusiness resource center of-fering an array of cus-tomized services and pro-grams designed to assistbusinesses, he worked tire-lessly to lead and guide thedevelopments of the CBA.A dedicated activist in the

community, it was importantto him that Blacks had a seatat the table and were repre-sented on all levels in busi-ness.

Garth deeply understoodthe power of the Black pressand was an active member inthe National NewspaperPublishers Association(NNPA), an organizationwhose mission he vigor-ously supported. As the for-mer President of MidwestRegion III of the NNPA, hewas also Region III Adver-tising Representative withthe association. In additionto the NNPA, Garth was ac-tive throughout the publish-ing industry. He became thefirst Black person to beelected president of the Illi-nois Press Association (IPA).The IPA is the state's largestnewspaper association and is

the office trade organizationfor Illinois weekly and dailynewspapers.

By holding this title at theIPA, Garth became the sec-ond Black person in the na-tion elected president of astatewide press association.He also sat on the Board ofthe Government AffairsCommittee, of the IllinoisPress Association and servedas a board member for morethan 15 years. In addition, hewas elected a stockholder inthe Cook County South Sub-urban Publishers Associa-tion and in 2009, was electedChairman of the CookCounty Publishers Associa-tion for 2010. His businessacumen and knowledge inthe publishing industry al-lowed him to also serve as aboard member of the Mid-west Black Publishers Asso-ciation.

Garth left a lasting im-

pression on the people hemet.

"Bill Garth was my hero,my friend and my businesspartner," commented Al Mc-Farlane, Founder of InsightNews and Chairman of theNational Newspaper Pub-lishers Association, Founda-tion. "He was part of thePantheon of legendarynewspaper owners and civicleaders," he said. "Garthwas a master salesman, con-summate strategist, and vi-sionary philanthropist. Hetraveled the world...chal-lenged and afforded Ameri-can business leaders the op-portunity to renegotiate themarketing relationship be-tween product producers andour consumer marketplace.He highlighted the burgeon-ing purchasing power ofBlack consumers and unwa-veringly marched into oftenbare knuckle negotiations

demanding and achievingmovement toward equityand parity. Fearless, he com-manded the attention and re-spect of presidents and headsof state, governors and con-gressional leaders, captainsof industry and the everydaycitizen as well.

"William Garth was afriend, a listener, a do-er, acolleague always seeking tomake life better for his fam-i ly, h is neighbors , h isfriends. ‘Bill,’ as we affec-tionately called him, was abrother to me. In my role aspublisher of the MilwaukeeCommunity Journal, havingfounded it in 1976, Bill wasa mentor, a respected peer, aprofessional associate, afriend. He is sorely missedand shall be forever remem-bered." May God bless hissoul and comfort his mag-nanimous family. Peace bewith you!"

In December 1998, Garthreceived the honor of beingappointed to Governor-electGeorge Ryan's TransitionTeam and was later ap-pointed to the Board of Di-rectors for the Illinois Inau-guration 1998, Inc. He alsomaintained membershipsand positions with severalbusiness organizations,served as a member of thetransition team for the IDOTDan Ryan Project, was aboard member of the Rain-bow/PUSH Coalition, a life-time member of the NAACPa n d a m e m b e r o f t h eChatham Lions Club.

In 2010, an honorarystreet was named after theCitizen Publisher. Duringthe ceremony, fami ly,friends, members of thebusiness community as wellas numerous dignitaries andother officials shared in thecelebration with Garth.

The Office of Diversityand Community Engage-ment honored four femalefaculty, staff and studentleaders for their work to pro-mote diversity and inclusionon campus at a recent cere-mony.

Honorees at the WomenLeading in Diversity break-fast ceremony, held in theMcDermott Suite, were:

• Dr. Rashaunda Hender-son, associate professor ofengineering in the Erik Jons-son School of Engineeringand Computer Science.

• Dr. Julia Chan, professorof chemistry in the School ofNatural Sciences & Mathe-matics.

• Cristen Casey, assistantvice president for interna-tional programs, who headsthe UT Dallas InternationalCenter.

• Lavanya Desai, psychol-ogy senior in the School ofEconomic, Political and Pol-icy Sciences and chairperson

of the Student Diversity Ad-visory Council.

• Dr. Christine Stanley,vice president and associateprovost for diversity and pro-fessor of higher educationadministration at TexasA&M University, spoke atthe event and also was rec-ognized for her contribu-tions. Stanley spent two dayson campus leading diversity

workshops for the UT DallasCenter for Teaching andLearning.

“The women we’re honor-ing here today don’t spendmuch time in the spotlight,”Dr. George Fair, vice presi-dent of diversity and com-munity engagement, told theaudience. “But each of theminspire countless women andmen on campus every day.

We’re delighted to honoreach of these exceptionalleaders.”

Henderson, who serves aschair of UT Dallas’ Commit-tee for the Support of Diver-sity and Equity, spoke aboutthe importance of introduc-ing young people to new ca-reer possibilities. Hendersonsaid she initially planned tobecome a math teacher until

one of her high school teach-ers suggested a differentpath.

“Someone encouraged meto consider engineering and Idid that,” Henderson said.

Diversity leads to betterscience, Chan told the audi-ence after accepting heraward.

“I espouse and care a lotabout diversity. It’s not onlythe right thing to do, but pub-lished research shows thatdiversity in STEM producesmore innovative results,” shesaid. “The research environ-ment is certainly richer witha multitude of opinions andbackgrounds.”

Desai told the audiencethat she was thankful for theopportunity to serve in herrole on the diversity council.

“I love this school somuch. It has given me somuch and so I’m very hon-ored to be able to give backto this community,” she said.

Casey was unable to at-

tend the event. JosephineVitta, director of the Interna-tional Student Services Of-fice, accepted the award onher behalf.

In her speech, Stanley em-phasized the need for opendialogues and accountabilityto increase diversity on col-lege campuses.

“It’s everyone’s responsi-bility,” Stanley said. “Whenwe engage in dialogues witheach other and truly engagein dialogues with each other,even if it’s not comfortable,that’s how we change theplaces and spaces we’re in.”

In 2015, the Universitywas ranked among the top 25most ethnically diverse un-dergraduate student popula-tions in the country by U.S.News & World Report. TheOffice of Diversity andCommunity Engagement of-fers a variety of programs in-cluding workshops, lectures,scholarships to promote di-versity on campus.


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From left: Dr. George Fair, vice president of diversity and community engagement, with Women Leading inDiversity honorees Dr. Julia Chan, professor of chemistry; Dr. Christine Stanley, from Texas A&M Univer-sity; Lavanya Desai, of the UT Dallas Student Diversity Advisory Council; Josephine Vitta, director of the

International Student Services Office, who accepted the award for Cristen Casey; and Dr. Rashaunda Hen-derson, associate professor of engineering. (Photo: UT Dallas)

Event celebrates women championing diversity at UT Dallas

Nationwide SAT participation increases for test-takers in 2016NEW YORK -- Over 6.7

million test-takers completedthe SAT or a PSAT-relatedassessment during the 2015-16 school year, according tothe 2016 SAT Suite of As-sessments results releasedtoday. The SAT Suite of As-

sessments, which launchedin 2015, includes the newSAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT10, and PSAT 8/9, and helpsmillions of students and ed-ucators set an earlier trajec-tory for college and careerreadiness. This is because it

focuses on areas that re-search and evidence showmatter most and reflectswhat students are alreadylearning in class.

More test-takers com-pleted the new SAT fromMarch through June of this

year than took the old SATduring the same period in2015, which is a substantialshow of support for the test’sredesign. Nearly 1.36 milliontest-takers took the new SATin 2016, compared to 1.18million who took the old

SAT in 2015. This is a jumpof approximately 180,000SAT takers.

”We have transformed allof our tests to deliver greateropportunities and to clear apath for students to succeedin college and careers,} said

College Board President andCEO David Coleman. ”Noother assessments providestudents access to hundredsof millions of dollars inscholarships and free, per-

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sonalized practice.”In addition to providing

more information about stu-dents’ college readiness,College Board assessmentsconnect students to opportu-nities such as test and collegeapplication fee waivers, chal-lenging course work, schol-arships, and free, personal-ized practice.

Since the College Board’sOfficial SAT Practice onKhan Academy launched inJune 2015, more than 1.7

million unique users havesigned up to practice for theSAT free of charge. In nearlyhalf of all U.S. high schools,students are logging on to thesite for productive practice.

”Now, preparing for col-lege is the same as practicingfor the SAT,” said Schmeiser.“For the first time, there isequal access to world-classSAT preparation. And it’sfree. Our data show morestudents across all ethnicitiesand income brackets prepare

for the SAT with Khan Acad-emy than with all commer-cial test-prep courses com-bined.”

According to Khan’s sur-veys of SAT takers, nearly 60percent who took the newSAT this spring and prac-ticed for the test reportedusing Official SAT Practiceto prepare, compared to 19percent who used commer-cial test prep, and there wasa 10 percent drop in the num-ber of students who paid forSAT prep resources.

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Irving ISD is committedto providing parents andfamilies with updated evi-dence and awareness on al-cohol and drug trends. “Al-cohol and Drug AwarenessSummit 2016: FamiliesUniting for Success” will beheld Thursday, Oct. 27,from 5 to 8 p.m. at Irving

High School. This event will include

information on how parentscan begin alcohol and drugawareness talks with theirchildren, drug trends in theDFW area, an agency fair ofcommunity resources forparents and families, and apanel of experts to answer

questions that are difficult toask regarding alcohol anddrugs.

R e f r e s h m e n t s a n dp r i z e s w i l l a l s o b ep a r t o f t h i s e v e n t .C h i l d c a r e w i l l b eavai lable . Regis ter a twww.irvingisd.net/dru-galcoholawareness.

Alcohol and Drug Awareness summitIn recognition of Domes-

tic Violence AwarenessMonth, the City of Irvingwill host Illuminate Irving,a free, family-friendly eventfor the entire community5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 18. Illu-minate Irving will honordomestic violence victims,as well as friends and fami-lies of those touched by thispervasive crime. The goalfor the event is dual-pur-pose: awareness and educa-tion for the community, and

support and healing for vic-tims.

“Many of us know some-one who has experienced aform of domestic violence,”said Irving Mayor Beth VanDuyne. “We need to look

past the stigma and startta lking about how andwhere to get help.”

The evening of remem-brance and hope will takeplace from 5:30 to 7 p.m.Oct. 18 at 200 E. Las Coli-nas Blvd., along Irving’sMandalay Canal, where vic-tims and their families willlaunch lanterns on thecanal’s waters, each bearingthe name of a person whoselife has been affected by do-mestic violence.

Irving to shine light on domestic violence

CARROLLTONPumpkins,

Ghostbusters anddogs on the square

The City of Carrolltonwill host a double featureon the Square in Down-town Carrollton withscreenings of It’s theGreat Pumpkin, CharlieBrown followed byGhostbusters(PG). Plusyou can bring Fido too!

The Saturday, Oct. 22event promises fun forthe whole family as therewill be a free mini-pumpkin giveaway andpainting as well as per-formances by the R.L.Turner High School Li-onnettes dance team.Stick around to take pic-tures with the DFWGhostbusters fan group,a replica of the Ecto-1,and the inflatable 8-footStay Puft MarshmallowMan.

In conjunction withCarro l l ton FarmersBranch-ISD, the City re-minds attendees to bringlawn chairs and blanketsto enjoy the evening.Coolers are permittedand bug spray is encour-a g e d . D o n ’ t f o rg e tspending money for afew snack items fromshops around the Square.

Friendly canine com-panions and service dogsare welcome to join theirpeople at the Downtownmovies as long as theyare on a leash and arecleaned up after.

Pumpkin giveawayand painting will begin at

5 p.m. The 20-minuteepisode of Char l ieBrown will be immedi-ately followed by the1984 comedy classicstarring Bill Murray, DanAykroyd, Harold Ramis,Sigourney Weaver, andErnie Hudson.

In case of rain, allmovies will be cancelled.Please call the SpecialEvent hotline at 972-466-9135 and press 9 forcurrent weather cancella-tion updates.

GARLANDBean mosaic at the

libraryChildren age 6 to 12

are invited to create mo-saic art at Art Explorers,a month ly programhosted by Garland li-braries. The event willbegin at 2:30 p.m. Satur-day, Oct. 1, at the WalnutCreek Branch Library,3319 Edgewood Drive.Participants will drawtheir own designs onpaper, then brush on liq-uid glue and add driedbeans to make their ownpieces of mosaic art!

Space is limited, andregistration is required

by phone or in person.All supplies are providedby the library.

For more information,call 972-205-2585.

District 4 TownHall Meeting

Distr ict 4 CouncilMember B.J. Williamswill host a Town Hallmeeting from 6:30 to8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct.20, at the South GarlandBranch Library, 4845Broadway Blvd. Topicswill include street andalley funding and im-provement projects, in-formation about Gar-land's Neighborhood Vi-tality Program and a pub-lic safety update.

For more information,call 972-205-2406 oremail [email protected].

HURSTCirque Italia

Come experience themagical world of CirqueItalia – a show like noother. It is the first trav-eling WATER circus inthe US! The stage holds35,000 gallons of waterand features a dynamic

lid which lifts 35 feetinto the air, allowingwater to fall like rainfrom above as fountainsdazzle below. This in-credible show takesplace under a majesticwhite and blue big toptent which came all theway from Italy.

The show is set forNov. 3-13 at North EastMall at 1101 MelbourneRd., Hurst between Dil-lard’s and Best Buy inthe parking lot. The boxoffice will open on-sitethe week of the showfrom 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.on non-show days, onshow days they are openuntil 9 p.m.

For more informa-t i on , check ou t t heCirque Italia website:www.cirqueitalia.com.

IRVINGIrving ISD

Band FestivalSave the date for the

34th Annual Irving ISDBand Festival on Tues-day, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. atIrving Schools Stadium.Students, parents, staffand community friendsare invited to join us for anight of music performedby marching bands fromIrving, MacArthur, andNimitz High Schools,along with a specialgrand finale featuring alleight middle schoolbands.

A $2 donation will becollected at the door insupport of the fine artsdepartment.


Community Briefs


The upcoming Nov. 8election is set to be oneof the most contentiousin recent history. Just asimportant to remember,the deadline to registerand be eligible vote inthis election is Oct. 11,which is coming up veryquickly.

To register, one musteither appear in personor submit a registrationby mail. If mailed, theregistration must be

postmarked by the Oct.11 deadline date. Voterregistration applicationsmay be obained fromthe voter registrar's of-

fice, libraries, most posto f f i c e s , a n d h i g hschools. A voter regis-tration application isalso available online or

request a postage-paidappl ica t ion can bemailed.

Early registration fforthe Nov. 8 election willrun from 7 a.m. to 7p.m. from Monday, Oct.24 through Saturday,Oct. 29. Early voting onSunday, Oct. 30 will beavailable from 1-6 p.m.The polls will resumethe 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Deadline approaches to register for Nov. 8 election

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State Fair of Texas will honor first responders on Oct. 14As a special tribute to their

public service and dedication,the Fair will host a specialday recognizing the variousorganizations of first respon-ders and their contribution tothe community. The StateFair of Texas would like tohonor all active and retiredpublic law enforcement, fire-fighters, paramedics and

other emergency servicesagencies on First RespondersDay – Friday, Oct. 14. FirstResponders Day includesfree admission to the 2016State Fair of Texas for all firstresponders when they presenta valid badge or ID card fromtheir department or organiza-tion, plus up to three admis-sion tickets for their family

members. Valid documenta-tion must be presented at thegate. Offer and ticket validonly Friday, Oct. 14.

“First responders put theirown lives on the line everysingle day to ensure oursafety,” says State Fair Presi-dent Mitchell Glieber. “Hon-oring these brave men andwomen with a special day at

the State Fair of Texas is theleast we can do to say thankyou for the sacrifices theymake for our communities.”

Big Tex is honoring ourfirst responders, too –throughout the run of theFair, the cowboy will be don-ning a ribbon in memory ofthe DART and Dallas Policeofficers who lost their lives in

the line of duty on July 7,2016.

Ticket prices for the2016 Fair remain the sameas last year. Priced at $18,general admission to theFair includes hundreds ofdaily shows, concerts, ac-tivities and exhibits, all atno extra cost. The Fair of-fers $14 admission for chil-

dren up to 48 inches inheight and seniors age 60and older, with free admis-sion for children age twoand under. Visitors can pur-chase Season Passes at thegate through the last day ofthe Fair, Oct. 23.

For a full list of 2016State Fair discounts, visitBigTex.com/discounts.

Eisemann Center presents ‘Sister’s Back to School Catechism’Eisemann Center Pres-

ents the Theatre Series pro-duction of Sister’s Back toSchool Catechism: TheHoly Ghost and Other Ter-rifying Tales for five per-formances running Oct. 27-30, 2016 at the EisemannCenter, 2351 PerformanceDrive in Richardson.

It is that time of year

again and Sister is preparingher classroom for anotherlong year of Catechism.You are in store for anotherhysterical lesson with Backto School Catechism: TheHoly Ghost and Other Ter-rifying Tales. In this sessionwe find out the Church'stake on all the familiar Hal-loween tales of ghosts and

goblins. Full of Sister's sig-nature class participation,you may get hands-on expe-rience in how to build aCatholic-appropriate Hal-loween costume.

Late Nite Catechism writ-ten by Vicki Quade andMaripat Donovan made itsdebut May 28, 1993 at theL i v e B a i t T h e a t r e i n

Chicago, Illinois and hasgrossed over $100 millionin box office receipts. It hasbeen presented in over 410cities around the world, hasplayed 6 countries withmore than 3.5 million peo-ple in attendance. The showhas raised over $4 million ingood faith donations for re-tired Sisters and Catholic

organizations. There havebeen over 100 “Sisters” pre-senting the eight shows inthe series.

Performances of Back toSchool Catechism are Oct.27-29, 2016 at 8 p.m. withmatinees on Oct. 29-30 at 2

p.m. in the Bank of AmericaTheatre.

Tickets are $37-$42 andare available at www.eise-manncenter.com or by call-ing the Eisemann CenterTicket Office at 972-744-4650.

A ‘Burtonesque’ screen adaptation on the book about ‘Peculiar Children’By David WilfongNDG Special Contributor

Hollywood has made amint from chunking Britishkids through magical por-tals into alternate universesas of late.

In the Harry Potter se-ries, young magicians findtheir way to Hogwartsthrough a train station wall.In The Chronicles of Nar-nia, the pathway to magicland is through an old stand-up closet.

This time it’s an Ameri-can kid that gets to make thetrip, but in order to do so hehas to go hang out withsome British kids. And thistime it is being conjured up

by the spooky genius ofTim Burton. Miss Peregrine’s Home-

ifor Peculiar Children is thescreen adaptation of a popu-lar novel of the same nameby Ransom Riggs.

The storyline plays on theidea of an alternate, super-

natural universe that existsalmost right in front of us.Through the use of “loops,”time can be literally broughtto a standstill, much thesame way as Bill Murrayexperienced in GroundhogDay.

In this case, a tragic fam-

ily event which authoritiesplay off as “natural occur-rences” leads Jake (AsaButterfield) on a quest tocarry out cryptic instruc-tions left by his late grand-father. In the process hefinds himself in a world hecannot explain and mustadapt quickly. He alsolearns that he is not quite asnormal himself as he origi-nally thought he was.

The film is visually stun-ning, and the hand of TimBurton in the making is un-mistakeable. The story isimaginative with a touch ofcampy, and the lead actorsgive a good enough per-formance to make this filmworth the ticket price.

Tim Burton’s latest creation features a cast of youngsters with bizarretraits that make them unable to live among mere humans. It is based

on a popular novel (Photo: 20th Century Fox)

David E. Talbert (at right) gives instructions on set to Gabrielle Union(left) during recent filming. (Photo: Done Communications)

Hollywood director hosts workshop at TBAALBy Ruth FergusonNDG Editor

David E. Talbert may nothave done it all, but he isgetting pretty close.

Dallas gets their turn toshowcase the talented mi-nority actors and actresseswho are looking for their bigbreak. Talbert has hostedMulti-City Actor’s Work-shop & Talent Search in2014 and 2015 but this

weekend will be the firsttime it is landing in Dallas.The workshop is scheduledfor 3 p.m. – 9 p.m. at TheBlack Academy of Arts &Letters, Inc. located at 1309Canton Street.

Talbert believes the talentpool in Hollywood is amaz-ing, “But, I feel from touringplays for 25 years there areall sorts of talent that cannotget to Hollywood,” Talbertshared. This belief inspired

him to launch the David E.Talbert’s Actor’s Workshop& Talent Search.

He also wants to con-tribute to the growing diver-sity in general shows andfilms featuring minorities.All too often it can seem likewe see the same faces overand over again. However,after the backlash from thelack of diversity reflected inthis year’s Academy Awardnominations and with the

expansion of TV shows fea-turing African-Americans,Asians, and Hispanics, thetide is beginning to turn. Thequestion is are the minorityperformers ready to step up.

Talbert pointed out withmovies such as Queen ofKatwe, Birth of a Nation,Hidden Figures, and his ownAlmost Christmas openingthis Fall he said, “There is

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The Art Centre Theatreannounced not one but twomusical adaptations of TheHunchback of Notre Damethat promise to bring thisclassical story new life.

On one hand they arepromising a beautifully fun,

modern day take entitled" T h e B e l l e s o f N o t r eDame" written by their veryown Gloria "Gigi" Gonza-lez.

On the flip side the adultcast is performing an in-tense drama written by the

award winning playwrightPaul Boyd entitled "Hunch-back The Musical." Whilethis performance is any-thing but family friendly, itis a ridiculously funny andaction packed show. Theteam has worked hard to

bring this period piece tolife with a vivacious castand thrilling musical num-bers.

"The Bel les of NotreDame" features shows at 6p.m. on Fridays and Satur-days as well as Sunday

matinees at 1 p.m. until Oct.9. "Hunchback The Musi-cal" runs until Oct. 2, withevening shows on Fridaysand Saturdays at 8:30 p.m.and a single special Sundaymatinee Oct. 2 at 3:30 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased

online at www.artcentrethe-atre.com or at the door. Fora complete schedule andfull details visit artcen-tretheatre.com. The ArtCentre Theatre is located at5220 Village Creek Drive inPlano.

The Belles of Notre Dame & Hunchback The Musical

DCT offers chilling production of DRACULA: The Vampire PlayDRACULA: THE VAM-

PIRE PLAY, presented byDallas Children’s Theater’sTeen Scene Players will sat-isfy all cravings for thrill andterror.

Directed by Artie Olaisen,this version utilizes the orig-inal script from the play’sdebut in the 1920s. Audiencemembers will be forced backin time to be a part of thelegendary battle of good ver-sus evil. The play runs Octo-ber 14 through October 29,2016 and arrives just in timefor Halloween.

Bram Stoker’s classic,

Gothic-era novel Dracula isthe basis of the script whichwas adapted by HamiltonDeane in Dublin at the turnof the 20th Century. Stoker

previously tried to adapt thestory for the stage himself,but was unsuccessful.

Deane later took it uponhimself to write the play,

doing so in a four-week pe-riod while he suffered with asevere cold. He brought theplay to America in 1927, andthe role of Dracula wastaken on by the then-un-known Hungarian actor BelaLugosi, who went on to be-come one of the most iconicactors to take on the role.

John L. Balderston laterrewrote the play for itsAmerican debut, and theshow went on to run onBroadway.

“With this production, weintroduce our audiences tothe original stage adaptationwhich chilled and startledaudiences in the 1920’s,”

said Artie Olaisen, directorof DRACULA: THE VAM-PIRE PLAY and DCT’s As-sociate Artistic Director.

Tickets to DRACULA:THE VAMPIRE PLAY areon sale now. The play runsuntil Oct. 29, just in time togive audiences thrills andchills before Halloween.

Courtesy photo DCT by Karen Almond

definitely a movement. Asmore opportunities come,we will need a talent pool.”He wants to make sure mi-nority actors and actressesare prepared to walk in theopen doors.

The workshop will pro-vide invaluable opportuni-ties for those seeking to honetheir craft. Workshop ses-sions will include: Acting forStage and Screen, AuditionTechniques and Monologueand Scene Study.

“We will talk about every-thing from my philosophy ofwhat is acting to how do youreally break into the biz. Andwhat are directors like melooking for,” Talbert said.He promises the attendeesan opportunity to workthrough scenes, and he willcritique them on the spot.

Like so many of the mosttalented and skilled enter-tainment professionals, Tal-bert began his career in thetheater, first making a namefor himself as a renownplaywright and director.

While perhaps he is not ahousehold name like TylerPerry, Talbert has receiveda n u n p r e c e d e n t e d 2 4NAACP Image nominationsincluding a win for BestPlaywright of the Year forThe Fabric of a Man.

Moving to the big screen,Talbert’s accomplishmentsinclude films such as thecomedy Baggage Claimwhich was one of the firsttimes an author adapted anddirected his novel. But per-haps the best is yet to comewith this year’s release ofAlmost Christmas by Uni-versal Feature Film on Nov.11. The holiday comedy willfeature Danny Glover,Mo’Nique, Gabrielle Union,Omar Epps and many morefamiliar faces.

“Almost Christmas startedwith my great-grandmother.She made sweet potato pie,and it was a favorite in thefamily,” Talbert shared.When she passed away hismother stepped up to makeit for the holidays, “We were

all excited until we tasted it.It was good, but it wasn’t hersweet potato pie.”

In the movie, Walterplayed by Danny Glover isfacing his first Christmaswithout his wife of 40 years,and Walter is determined tomake the sweet potato pie.While dealing with his dys-functional family Walter,“learns the secret ingredienthe has been missing.”

Talbert admits, “I love theholiday classics!” And hisgoal is for Almost Christmasto join the list of must seemovies each holiday seasonfor families.

Talbert chooses cities forhis workshops from thosewhich he often brings hisplays – in 2017 he is touringwith Can A Woman Raise AMan. But there is anotherreason he chose Dallas.

“I am excited to put some-one from Dallas on the map.I have been a Dallas Cow-boy fan since the DallasCowboys beat the DenverBroncos in the Super Bowlduring Tony Dorsett’s firstseason,” Talbert admits witha laugh.

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By Charlene CrowellNNPA Columnist

When it comes to con-sumer complaints on creditand lending, debt collectiongenerates more criticismthan any other industry.This $13 billion industrymakes profits by pursuingat least 77 million con-sumers each year. Many ofthe aggressive tactics usedare for debts that are notowed, others that are too oldto collect, or entirely owedby another consumer.

An earlier column thissummer shared how theConsumer Financial Protec-tion Bureau (CFPB) re-leased its proposed outline,an early step in the rule-making process, intended torein in abusive debt collec-tion practices such as ha-rassing phone calls made toconsumers either at home orwork. Now, before the first-ever debt collection regula-tion is adopted, a broad baseof 59 civil rights, consumerand legal service advocatesworking at both the nationaland state levels are pushingto ensure that debt collec-

tion rules become all thatconsumers expect and needfrom their consumer cop-on-the-beat.

In a September 15 letterto CFPB Director RichardCordray, the advocatesurged the Bureau to includeadditional provisions in itsproposed outline. In theiralternative and collectiveview, it is important to re-quire more robust docu-mentation standards to bet-ter ensure that debt collec-tors can prove a given debtis actually owed.

The coalition which in-cludes the NAACP, Na-tional Consumer Law Cen-ter, The Leadership Confer-ence on Civil and HumanRights, National Council ofLaRaza and the Center forResponsible Lending, high-lighted key areas where theBureau can more fully ad-dress common abusivepractices including:

1. Requiring debt collec-tors to have and revieworiginal account informa-tion at the start of collectionattempts;

2. Providing those sameand additional documents to

the courts when filing col-lection lawsuits or obtainingjudgments in those cases;and

3. Limiting the number ofcalls made to consumers,particularly for medical orstudent loan debt.

While each of these ef-forts are needed, one in par-ticular has the potential tomake a huge number ofmultiple bad practices goaway. Across the country,local courts have been inun-dated with undocumentedclaims of default. More-over, millions of affectedconsumers have only be-come aware of lawsuitsuntil after court judgmentshave been ordered and fre-quently based on inaccurateinformation. Unfortunately,communities of color areamong those hardest hit bydebt collection and debt col-lection lawsuits.

People living in neigh-borhoods with a highershare of Black or Latinoresidents are more likely tohave debts in collection and

also a greater amount ofdebt in collections. MajorityBlack neighborhoods expe-rience debt collection law-suits and judgments at a ratetwice that of White neigh-borhoods.

Last year, debt collectiongenerated more complaintsthan any other industry.With both the Federal TradeCommission (FTC) andCFPB. Additionally, lastyear CFPB returned $360mil l ion to consumerswronged by unlawful debtcollection practices andlevied $79 million in finesagainst violators. The FTCbanned 30 companies andindividuals from working inthe industry again.

Although the Fair DebtCollections Practices Act(FDCPA) was enacted in1977, the Dodd-Frank WallStreet Reform Act gave thefirst-ever regulatory author-ity for the debt collectionindustry to CFPB.

“Every consumer shouldbe free from abusive and

harassing debt collection,”said Lisa Stifler, deputy di-rector of the Center for Re-sponsible Lending’s statepolicy. “When people arebeing wrongly pursued fordebts they do not owe, it istime for action and re-

forms.”Charlene Crowell is the

communications deputydirector for the Center forResponsible Lending. Shecan be reached at [email protected].

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Breaking the Cycle: Young mother ofseven turns life around at McDonald’sBy Stacy M. BrownNNPA Contributor

Ten years ago, CameoFaust, a single mother ofseven, was working at anAtlanta-area McDonald’s,struggling to make endsmeet and highly motivatedto make a better life for her-self and her family.

Now, she’s the generalmanager, who is responsiblefor the operation of therestaurant and in charge ofhelping to build a team ofemployees to help the busi-ness flourish.

Faust gave birth to herfirst child when she was 14.Faust’s mother, ShirleyRandolph, had given birthto her first child at the ageof 12.

“By the time I was 15, Ihad twins, plus the baby. At17, I had four kids, and thenI had five by the time I was18 and, finally, by 26, I hadseven,” she said, unapolo-getically, naming them inrange from the oldest to they o u n g e s t – J a s m i n e ,Markiesha, Marcus, De-Marcus, Sparticus, Sparkleand Joshua.

Now, Faust, at 36 years-old, realizes that with eachpregnancy, she was desper-ately trying to fill a voidcreated by the loveless, tu-multuous relationship thatshe had wi th her ownmother.

“My mother would al-ways be fussing at metelling me not to wear ahead rag or not to do this orto do that…[she was] al-ways so mean and I didn’twant to listen to her. I’mhaving these kids to havesomeone to love becausenobody ever loved me,”Faust said.

Although she continuedin a relationship with the fa-ther of her children, Faustknew that a life of strugglewasn’t ideal. At the time,Faust didn’t even have ahigh school diploma.

The proverbial light bulbin her head switched on

when the town’s water com-pany turned off her water,Faust said.

“I was dating my chil-dren’s father and one daythe water got cut off and Iasked him what were wegoing to do,” she said. “Helooked at me, told me thathe didn’t know what I wasgoing to do, but that he wasleaving.”

Stunned, the unemployedFaust showed him the door.

“I just got tired,” she said.“I told him that he couldgo.”

Now, with five children,no money, no job, no highschool diploma, and a paltry$367-a-month welfarecheck, Faust began pound-ing the pavement.

“I kept walking up anddown the street for aboutthree days. There were a lotof fast food restaurants and Iwould walk up and downevery day asking for a job,”she said.

“I stopped in at McDon-ald’s near Riverdale Roadand asked if I could applyfor a job. [The supervisor]told me to come back thenext day,” Faust said. “I ex-plained that it took me anhour to walk here, but hesaid, ‘I should come back.’I kept coming back and he’dtell me to come back againand again. I was tired, butfinally I was hired as a crewperson.”

At f i rs t , the job onlyadded to Faust’s problems.

She had five children at

home with the oldest just 10years-old.

“I had my oldest watchthe other children eventhough I also had an infantand a toddler in the house,”Faust said. “I know it wasdangerous, but I couldn’tallow my kids’ father tocome back. I’d walk backand check on them when Icould and I made sure thatthey had three meals everyday.”

She said, adding that aneighbor did, from time totime, peak in on the childrento ensure that all was well.

“It was all about perse-verance and I didn’t want tobe on welfare anymore, so Idid what I had to do,” Faustsaid.

Faust worked hard andbegan to earn promotions atthe restaurant.

Ironically, she said thatshe was inspired by Ran-dolph who had given hersuch a difficult time.

“My mother pushed meto be better than her, that’swhy she was so hard onme,” said Faust. “She lovedme. She’s really my rolemodel.”

Faust is now enrolled inschool and she’s takingcourses at McDonald’sfamed Hamburger Univer-si ty, recognized by theAmerican Council on Edu-cation as the only academi-cally accredited restaurantin the country.

Through a company pro-gram, employees can trans-

fer as many as 46 hours to-ward a bachelor’s degree,certificate program, or asso-ciate’s degree.

Hamburger Universityfirst opened in 1961 andmore than 330,000 studentshave taken courses there in-cluding franchise generalmanagers like Faust whosecourses include shift man-agement, introduction tomanagement and guestservices.

In a statement about theuniversity, Rob Lauber, Mc-Donald’s chief learning of-ficer, said that an educatedworkforce has huge valuefor the business.

“We estimate between 20and 30 percent of our restau-rant managers haven’t fin-ished high school and Ham-burger University focusesmore on leadership develop-ment, business growth, andoperations procedures, with aspecial emphasis on service,quality, and cleanliness tohelp prepare students formanagerial positions in therestaurant industry,” saidLauber.

John Hurt, the McDonald’sfranchise owner who em-ploys Faust, said that she hasdone a great job.

“This is one area of beingan owner that really gives you

satisfaction,” said Hurt.“Knowing you’re helpingothers and this one particular

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other Republican in recentmemory that has devotedthis much time in theirspeeches to the Black com-munity.

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Trump has shifted theconversation from the Re-publican Party ignoring theBlack vote to arguing abouthow much of the Black voteTrump is going to get.

This is where the tectonicshift in the political land-scape has taken place andno one is even talking aboutit.

In marketing, this is con-sidered the “proof of con-cept stage”; where one hasmoved beyond whether youhave a viable product tohow viable the product is.No one is arguing whetheranyone will buy an electriccar; the question is nowhow many will be sold.

Trump’s actions regard-ing the Black vote havenow shifted the conversa-tion from not whether, buthow much of the Black votehe will get. This is trulytransformational.

I f Trump had “rea l”Black operatives aroundhim who were Republican,he could truly gain a decentamount of support from theBlack community; but he,unfor tunate ly has sur-rounded h imsel f wi thBlacks who are not up to

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"I want to know Christand the power of His resur-rection ..." Philippians 3:10

If I asked you the purposefor which God made you,what might you say? Youmight give a lot of answersthat required some actionon your part.

However, the simplestanswer to that question re-lates to one primary thing:fellowship. The most im-portant thing God desiresfrom us today is to have adeep and intimate fellow-ship with each of us.

The apostle Paul said hewanted to know Christ, andby knowing Christ he couldexperience the power of Hisresurrection.

I find this to be the hard-est thing for many of usChristian believers to do.So often it is much easier to

be busy with the urgent (oreven Christian) activity thanspending quiet moments be-fore the Lord.

Before we realize it, dayshave passed since our lastquiet time with Jesus.

Jesus understood howimportant quiet momentswere with the Father.

"After He had dismissedthem, He went up on amountainside by Himself topray. When evening came,He was there alone."Matthew 14:23

The more mature I be-come in my relationshipwith the Lord, the more pre-cious this time becomes tome.

It is a time I look forwardto almost daily. It offers mea time to reflect, to sharemy concerns with my Lord,and to hear Him speak.

I have come to under-stand that Jesus views us asHis friend and He wants tospend time with us.

We are depriving Him ofHis time when we put Himaside for the urgent. An in-teresting thing happenswhen we make prayer a pri-

ority: Urgent things seemto wane as we focus onHim. He makes all theseother things fall into place.

Today look up and re-member how God createdall things and that He ownsthe cattle upon the hills, thewater that springs from the

earth, the skies that span ourview, and everything good.

It is God who can providefor and bless the earth andthe inhabitants thereof.Pray for the many peoplewho are in difficult circum-stances right now and needa touch to help them with

their basic needs. Pray for those who need

financial income to paytheir living expenses, thosewho need jobs to bring inthat income, who need goodhealth to be able to do thosejobs; and for those whosejobs do not provide suffi-c ient income for thei rneeds.

Pray also for those whohave the income, but do notknow how to properly man-age it for the best outcome.

Pray for those who havemuch and can give much.Ask God to connect theright people with jobs, andthe right people with the

right people, to do whatneeds to be done.

Pray that God will meetevery need; that He willbless the lives of those whofollow His guidance andthose who are thankful forwhat God provide. AskGod to hear the cries of theneedy.

Ask God to bless thosewho give from the abun-dance that He allows themto have, for sharing andministering in ways thatothers cannot.

Thank God for hearingand answering prayers inJesus' name pray.


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Mrs. Janet Ross and Mrs. Alene Perry among others at BethelBible Fellowship were getting gift bags ready for residents of

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ple is now a part of a masternarrative.”

Dr. Ellis shared how spe-cial the opening of this mu-seum is to him: “For muse-ums around the world, thequestion is are we going tocontribute to the solution tothe problems and chal-lenges of our nation and ourworld, or are we going to sitback like Nero and watchRome burn to the ground?Our plan is to use our mu-seum as a way to makeAmerica better.”

The new museum opensat a critical inflection pointin our nation’s history. Bycapturing America’s strug-gle to overcome our birthdefect of slavery and ourongoing struggle to closethe gap between America’screed and deed, for the firsttime our children will beable to accurately learn thetoo often hidden or mis-stated history of America.With this museum, I hopenew generations of childrenwill grow up not only learn-ing the truth about who we

are and where we camefrom but also what they cando to create a more equaland just America.

The struggle to build themuseum often seemed tomirror the story it was try-ing to tell. One that requiredgrit, determination, and per-sistence — a struggle Dr.Ellis feels was well worthhaving:

“When we began back in2005, we had nothing. Wehad no building. We had nocollections. We had no landto put a building on andvery little money. We had avery small staff of aboutthree people. Now, just11years later, we have a staffof over 180 people, nearly37,000 objects, five acres ofland that shares our neigh-borhood with the Washing-ton Monument and theWhite House and theUnited States Capitol andthe National Park Serviceand 18 Smithsonian muse-ums.”

Dr. El l i s cont inued:“Many said it could not be

done. ‘How are you goingto raise over $540 millionand a building that you saywill have over 300,000square feet and seven sto-ries? It’s too much,’ theysaid. ‘It can’t be done,’ theysaid. ‘It will certainly takemore time to build, andwhat about collections?How are you going to find aworld-class collection?Most of the stuff worth hav-ing museums have alreadycollected. You’re not goingto get the good stuff. Betyou don’t have anythingfrom Michael Jackson.’

Yep, we got a vest he woreduring his Victory Tour andone of his signature gloves— but that’s not all. We’vegot Chuck Berry’s Cadillac,but that’s not all. We’ve gotMaybelline, his guitar. Butthat’s not all. We got hip-hop artist Chuck D’s jacket.The original funkmasterGeorge Clinton, we gothis Mothership. We gotPrince’s tambourine.”

Dr. Ellis went on as theaudience cheered: “We gotNat Turner’s Bible. We gotHarriet Tubman’s shawl.We got Radio Raheem’s

boombox from Do theRight Thing. We got a train-i n g p l a n e f l o w n b yTuskegee Airmen. We gotthe Olympic torch thatMuhammad Ali signed inthe 1999 games in Atlanta,his headgear, his trainingrobe, and on and on andon…we never stopped be-lieving that we could do it.We could build this mu-seum. We could make ithappen. We didn’t give up,didn’t turn back, didn’t lis-ten to those who said thatwe would fail, and the morepeople saw and experienced

our belief, they caught thefever too.”

The African Americanexperience has always beenan integral and essentialpart of the larger Americanexperience. Now, with thisbeautiful and powerful newmuseum finally open in theheart of the nation’s capital,many of those connectionsthat help complete the trueand full American narrativeare on full display. Ac-knowledging our sharedAmerican past and all of theways it echoes in the pres-ent is the only way to keepmoving forward together.Only the truth can make usfree.Marian Wright Edelman

is President of the Chil-dren’s Defense Fund whoseLeave No Child Behind®mission is to ensure everychild a Healthy Start, aHead Start, a Fair Start, aSafe Start and a Moral Startin life and successful pas-sage to adulthood with thehelp of caring families andcommunities. For more in-formation go to www.chil-drensdefense.org.


NDG Book Review www.NorthDallasGazette.com


By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Your business is doingwell. It could do better.

Just like every other busi-ness in America , you havegood weeks and bad. Salesgo up and they flatten. Youhave financial feast-or-famine and you’d like moreof the former than the latter.Author Lauren Leader-Chivée says she knows howyou can achieve that and in“Crossing the ThinnestLine,” she explains.

Open the door to your of-fice and look around. Whatdoes your staff look like?Many managers, as Leader-Chivée learned at a confer-ence, tend to surroundthemselves with people

who look like them. Thatmight feel most comfort-able, she indicates, but to doso is to miss out.

While some may find itawkward to actively, pur-posefully seek diversity,Leader-Chivée says it’s im-portant to remember that

most of us have ancestorswho were outsiders once.It’s also rare in today’sworld for anyone to live in abubble: you probably al-ready know, are related to,or come in regular contactwith someone who is differ-ent than you, and you thinknothing of it - which is tosay that while humans gen-erally resist change, youmay already have “acquireddiversity.”

Many folks find acquireddiversity through family re-lationships and personaldiscoveries. Others simplyjump in and get to knowpeople who don’t look likethem.

Insisting on diversity inthe workplace not only

“sparks creativity,” but it’salso forward-thinking:within the next 25-to-30years, the U.S. will “be-come a majority-minority.”Diversity makes it easier totap into new markets withimpressive buying power, itallows your company togain a foothold on othercontinents, and it will helpto avoid the embarrassmentof miscommunication. Byutilizing new experiencesfrom divergent people, youand your employees willbenefit from a fresh point-of-view, taking “full advan-tage of… talents, insights,and creative energies” and amuch larger scope ofknowledge.

Without diversity, says

Leader-Chivée, “we’ll suf-fer as a nation…”

“It’s a mistake we can’tafford to make.”

I cannot deny that what’si n s i d e “ C r o s s i n g t h eThinnest Line” could behelpful. It’s filled with sta-tistics, surprising solutions,and illustrative stories thatshow what world leadersand Big Business are doing.But that richness of info canalso be a downfall: there’sjust too much to take inhere.

I really found myselfwishing that author LaurenLeader-Chivée had madethis into two books, or eventhree; that might have easedthe overwhelmed feeling.As it is, the needs for large

corporations are coveredwell, but not so much thoseof small-business owners orMom-and-Pops who aremiles from the Fortune 500.Leaders looking to hiremore women will need totrek through information ondiversity in race, sexuality,and religion. Non-business-minded readers get a littleof everything, and may loseinterest long before findingwhat they really need.

This isn’t a bad book –it’s just too much of a bookand reading it for its fullbenefit will take consider-able time. If you’ve got thattime, though, dive into“Crossing the ThinnestLine.” It may do your busi-ness well.

NDG Book Review: Crossing the Thinnest Line

person, who was looking for away out and knowing that wecould provide that opportu-nity is special. I am reallythrilled to have Cameo withme.”

Hurt said that Faust man-ages about 55 employees,managers report to her, andthat he’s pleased with theprogress that she’s made overthe years.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., thepresident and CEO of the Na-tional Newspaper PublishersAssociation, said that theNNPA salutes McDonald’sfor offering career advance-ment opportunities for theiremployees.

“The success story ofCameo Faust in Georgiaserves as an inspiring nationalexample that millions ofyoung single mothers shouldview as proof that social chal-lenges can be overcome,”said Chavis. “Cameo’s career

journey personifies self-em-powerment with grace and el-egance.”

Faust said that she aspiresto become an entrepreneurand a motivational speaker.

Three of Faust childrenhave graduated high school

and one of her daughters at-tends Clark University, a his-torically Black college in At-lanta.

“I love McDonald’s and allthat they’ve done for me,”said Faust. “I still want to letGod take me higher.”

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The nation’s museum to the African American experience has been long-awaited, with large amunts ofpublic attention being paid to every step of its construction.

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