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Beauregard When 26-year-old Alicia Rollins, a biology grad student at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, couldn’t stay on her mom’s health insurance any monument longer, she looked for her own policy. She bought After weeks of skirmishes, spirited debates and a plan under the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare angry exchanges between protesters and Mid- last year, and had abnormal, cervical cells removed City residents, patrons and motorists, the at what she felt was a reasonable cost. “I was diag - Jefferson Davis monument on Jefferson Davis nosed with stage 1 cancer then, and thankfully they Parkway was taken down overnight on Thursday. caught it early,” she said last week. As word of the impending removal of the mon - A Republican-backed bill in Washington worries ument began to spread, about 40 protesters from Rollins. After the House passed the Affordable each side of the argument gathered near the mon - Health Care Act or AHCA on May 4, Louisiana’s ument to witness the removal of the statue of the Democratic Congressman Cedric Richmond, said Confederate president who died in New Orleans. if enacted, it could be life-changing for millions Those tasked with taking down the Davis of Americans—including those with pre-existing monument and hauling it away were again conditions, seniors, veterans and people on masked and wore dark clothing to conceal WWWOOO Medicaid. “The bill makes it easier for insurance their identities after a series of death threats TTT companies to deny basic coverage,” he warned. were received by city officials. In early May, the non-profit Louisiana Budget The monument, erected in 1911, was one of Project in Baton Rouge predicted that under the four Confederate-era monuments the New House bill at least 466,500 of this state’s residents Orleans City Council in Dec. 2015 voted to would lose health coverage over 10 years. The remove from public spaces. The Battle of nation’s Medicaid program would be decimated, Liberty Place monument was taken down on pressuring states to make up for lost federal rev - April 24 and the city plans to also take down OOWWNN enue. “The bill would strip away legal protections the Gen. Beauregard Equestrian Statue and the OWN DD for people who suffer from pre-existing conditions, Robert E. Lee monument at Lee Circle. D Workers take down the Jefferson Davis statue in New Orleans, Thursday, May 11, 2017. such as cancer or diabetes, resulting in premium With a crowd of several hundred Take ‘Em This was the second of four Confederate monuments slated for removal in a contentious (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) hikes that would make coverage unaffordable for process that has sparked protests on both sides. Continued on Pg. 2 those who need it most,” the LBP said. As a student, Alicia Rollins wants affordable cov - erage. A year ago, she moved to Monroe and start - ed grad school. “In August, I began to feel sick,” she said. Her Pap smear at a gynecologist’s office was abnormal. “The doctor said I needed a col - Davis statue removed on anniversary of arrest poscopy, which involves looking through an instru - By Christopher Tidmore to lift away the monument to Davis on the breed animosity amongst the residents of Contributing Writer Mid-City neutral ground on the street our city toward each other.” ment into the cervix,” she said. “When I turned 26 named until recently in his honor. Monument critic Mike Hobbs countered on in September, I shopped for insurance. In the mean - On May 10, 1865, Union forces captured As local historian Ronald Walton noted, May 11 after the statue was removed, noting Confederate President Jefferson Davis. One “He [Landrieu] waited weeks to remove it, that Davis was first discovered by Union Continued on Pg. 10 hundred and fifty-two years later to the day, after toying with those who oppose his troops disguised in women’s clothing, “152 at midnight on the 10th of May 2017, scheme to do it on this day. I must believe Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the cranes that was intentional, and that he intends to Continued on Pg. 2 Challenges of ‘State of Black America’: Washington power shift local immigrants brings ‘dire risk’ to economic, social progress in Trump-era By Hazel Trice Edney and priorities in Washington” last week. from the Great Recession has By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer has brought a “dire risk” to “A little more than three months been slow, but it has been Contributing Writer Black economic and social since President Obama has left real….During the Obama era, the (TriceEdneyWire.com) — progress in multi-faceted ways, office, much of the economic and economy added 15 million new President Donald Trump has certainly not been Now more than 100 days since requiring resolute protection and social progress we saw under his jobs, the Black unemployment shy to speak about his position on immigration. the inauguration of President a “Main Street Marshall Plan.” watch is under imminent threat,” rate dropped and the high school In Trump’s first 100 days in office, both the Donald Trump and a This according to the National says NUL President/CEO Marc nation and the world have been witness to Republican-dominated Urban League’s annual State of Morial in a statement upon the changes and proposed changes to federal immi - Congress, the “shift of power Black America report released release of the report. “Recovery Continued on Pg. 2 gration policy promised during his campaign. In just 100 days, a series of executive orders and Department of Homeland Security-issued memos have limited the migration of refugees and people from select, predominately Muslim countries; broadened the categories of non-citizens that are priorities for removal; requested funding for con - NOPD reportedly getting a handle on excessive force struction of a border wall between the United States Seven years after a scathing U.S. After implementation of the federally reduced the total number of use-of-force inci - and Mexico; and initiated an overview of the H1-B Department of Justice report found that mandated consent decree which began in dents from 126 in 2015 to 102 in 2016.The Visa program for allowing non-citizen skilled work - NOPD officers “routinely use unnecessary August 2013, the federal monitor reported federal monitors said that the latest available and unreasonable force” while carrying out that the NOPD is making “significant numbers give them “greater confidence in the Continued on Pg. 3 their duties, Sheppard, Mullin, Hampton & progress in reducing excessive uses of force integrity” of the NOPD. Richter, the Washington, DC-based firm and in fully investigating potential improp - While the report praised the progress the tapped to serve as federal monitor for the er uses of force.” NOPD has made with regard to reducing its department’s consent decree, said the NOPD According to the federal monitor’s most is making marked improvements in that area. recent report, released May 5, the NOPD has Continued on Pg. 15 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM May 15 - May 21, 2017

cities where policing patterns nation. In the 10 days following the annual “Equality Indexes” income. Toledo, OH also had the State of Black America revealed ingrained racial bias, sys - the 2016 election, the Southern which compare the economic sta - highest Black unemployment Continued from Page 1 underfunded public schools temic civil rights violations and Poverty Law Center recorded a tus between Blacks and whites. In rate, which would at least partly toward our heavily-invested-in the regular use of excessive force. ‘national outbreak of hate’ it a nutshell, even the area with the account for the low income of graduation rate for African Ame- military. The federal budget cur - Citing his concern that the decrees deemed worse than the days after best Black-white income equality Black households. ” ricans soared. Now that progress, rently under consideration would undermine respect for law 9/11. Incendiary language about revealed Black America woefully As a remedy to some of the most and much more, is threatened.” slash the budget of the enforcement, Sessions has ordered immigrants, Muslims, women and trailing and even dropping. dire problems, the SOBA presented Morial continued, “It is impossi - Departments of Health, Education, a review of all federal reform ini - people of color has translated into That area is Riverside-San the Main Street Marshall Plan: ble to discuss the state of Black Housing, and Labor—a blueprint tiatives, signaling a retreat on discriminatory public policy, Bernardino-Ontario, Calif., which From Poverty to Prosperity, America in 2017 without address - for a sick, uneducated, homeless common sense police reform that including an immigration ban that remained at the top of the NUL described as “a sweeping proposal ing the shift of power and priorities and unemployed America. endorses constitutional policing in gives preference to one religion Black-White Income Equality for economic and social revitaliza - in Washington.” Suggested double-digit cuts, or the all our communities. We believe over another; baseless accusations ranking for the third consecutive tion of America’s cities and strug - The report, which has a 20-page outright elimination of funding for he must continue to enforce these of voter fraud that have provided year. According to the 2017 Index, gling neighborhoods.” executive summary and volumi - vital programs and services, would vital consent decrees.” fresh fuel to racially discriminato - the median Black household in Among its key points, The plan nous addendums and essays by devastate already vulnerable citi - • “Furthermore, the social can - ry voter suppression measures in Riverside had 72 cents for every calls for: numerous policy experts, outlines zens and working families.” cer of hate continues to metasta - state legislatures; and efforts to dollar of median white household • National investment of $4 tril - specific issues where NUL studies • “During his confirmation size, thriving in a climate con - dismantle the Affordable Care Act income. This is down from 76 lion over the next 10 years: $2 tril - have found threats of imminent hearing, Attorney General Jeff ducive to hostility towards reli - in parts, or as a whole, that would cents last year. In Riverside, Black lion for physical infrastructure roll backs. Among them: Sessions surprisingly expressed gious and racial minorities, perme - have the inevitable outcome of household income fell 3.2 percent such as roads, bridges and build - • “Recent proposals before his doubt—and disregard—for ating even at the highest levels of disproportionately burdening year-over-year, while Whites saw ings and $2 trillion for human Congress would shift desperately consent decrees secured by the national discourse and threatening communities of color.” an increase of 2.5 percent. development, such as education, needed resources away from Obama Justice Department in to further crack our fractured Also included in the report are On the other hand, the SOBA job training and health insurance. reports that Black and White • A comprehensive infrastruc - incomes were worse – or least ture initiative, with inner cities equal -in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, being the major beneficiary, and Minn. And Bloomington, Wis. which must include a strong Jefferson Davis statue comes down Areas. There, the gap was 41 cents jobs-building component that After the Council voted to take Continued from Page 1 “troubled” that the park’s board that the statues be taken down. on the dollar. In Minneapolis, the guarantees minority business of commissioners has not Although the atmosphere was down the four monuments, the median household income for participation and employment mayor said he would establish a Blacks was $31,672 (up 12.4 per - for workers in high-unemploy - Down Nola activists, residents stepped up to assert its owner - racially charged, it was also panel to determine whether other cent from last year’s Index) com - ment neighborhoods. and monument supporters gath - ship of the statue, which he electric and festive with at least monuments across the city need pared to $76,581 for Whites (up • Other highlights outlined in ered at the corner of Canal Street called “a historic work of art” two New Orleans brass bands to be removed from public 2.7 percent from last year’s Index). the Marshall Plan include universal and Jefferson Davis Parkway to that is “vital” to City Park. accompanying the diverse group spaces. The detailed report states that the pre-k education, a $15 minimum witness the process, the Davis City Park sits on 1,300 acres and of marchers. After two of the monuments highest median household income wage with increases indexed to monument was taken down just was the former site of the Allard A day before the march, police have been taken down and the for both Blacks ($68,054) and inflation, reforms to financial and after 5 a.m. Thursday. Plantation. The land, which hosts announced that the streetcar line furor over the monuments has whites ($112,177) was in educational institutions and pro - “This morning we continue our the world’s largest collection of would be shut down to accommo - reached a feverish pitch, the Washington, DC-Arlington- grams, criminal justice and police march to reconciliation by live oak trees, became city proper - date the protesters and ensure the Landrieu administration appears Alexandria, Va. Areas. The lowest reform and expansion and protec - removing the Jefferson Davis ty in 1850 through the will of safety of everyone involved. to be changing its tune. median Black household income tion of voting rights. Confederate statue from its slaveowner John McDonogh. Four In addition to daily protests at “From the beginning, I’ve only ($23,693) was in Toledo, Ohio. It Morial concludes, “While the pedestal of reverence,” New years later the Fourth District the statues of Beauregard, been talking about these four report notes, “even though Toledo Obama years were no panacea for Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Court pronounced the land a pub - Jefferson Davis and Robert E. particular monuments,” had one of the lowest median America’s long-standing racial said. lic park and in 1891 the City Park Lee and a barrage of emails criti - Landrieu said Thursday, adding white household incomes in the inequities, they were a steady Although the two sides were Improvement Association was cizing the Landrieu administra - that the City of New Orleans has country, the white household climb toward improvement, and separated by barricades, insults, founded and the land was official - tion for trying to move the monu - not made any plans to change income in Toledo was still more we are determined to keep moving racially offensive language and ly established as “City Park.” ments from public spaces, the street names.◊ than double the Black household forward to protect our progress.”◊ profanities were shouted back The Gen. Beauregard Equestrian administration is now being hit and forth by those gathered near Statue was erected at the entrance with a growing number of signs the monument. to City Park in 1915. attacking the mayor for his role in Members of the Monumental On Wednesday, Judge Reese the monument battle, WWL Task Committee accused Landrieu denied a request for an injunction News reported last week. of trying to erase the city’s history. against the City of New Orleans to Despite being criticized by Davis removed on anniversary “Another historic monument prevent the Landrieu administra - monument supporters, the mayor Continued from Page 1 Supreme Court Justice Charles Monument was dedicated was removed under the cover of tion from taking down the has been tight-lipped about when Fenner in the Garden District on February 22, 1911 at the corner of Beauregard statue. the Davis, Lee and Beauregard darkness using amateur, masked years and 1 day ago Jefferson December 6, 1889. Jeff Davis Parkway and Canal WWL reported that Richard monuments would be taken workers in armor, unmarked Davis slithered like a coward from Davis lay in state in the Howard Street. Carved by sculptor Edward Marksbury of the Monumental down. After taking down the vehicles and equipment with a Irwinville, Georgia dressed in drag building, (now the Louisiana Civil Valentine, the statue lasted in that Task Committee had filed suit Battle of Liberty Place monu - heavy police presence,” said with hopes that Union forces War Museum near Lee Circle). location just over 106 years until Monday as a private citizen, con - ment on April 24. he refused to Pierre McGraw, president of the wouldn’t find him. So I have a His funeral was the largest in the its removal last week. tending that the City Park board answer questions about the iden - Monumental Task Committee in question for all of you who support South’s history, and for a brief Last year, Mayor Landrieu pro - and not the city of New Orleans tity of the people who financed a statement. “Landrieu cannot be the theory of honoring Jefferson time Jefferson Davis was posed renaming the street “Dr. owned the statue and the land the statue-removal project and inclusive, tolerant or diverse Davis. Which restroom should he entombed in Metairie Cemetery— Norman C. Francis Parkway,” as it upon which it sits. would only say that the monu - when he is erasing a very specif - be allowed to use?” before his remains were trans - ends near Xavier University, the “I’m disappointed and I’ll be ments would be taken down ic and undeniable part of New Protesters on both sides of the ferred to Hollywood Cemetery in college the prominent African-- talking to people about to decide “sooner rather than later.” Orleans’ history.” issue maintained a vigil until the Richmond, Virginia. American educator built into a whether or not to go to the When asked about the signs “Three weeks ago, we began a statue was taken away in the Jefferson Davis’ citizenship national HBCU powerhouse. Fourth Circuit, because the key criticizing the Landrieu adminis - challenging but long overdue early hours of May 11. Defen- was restored by U.S. President Landrieu said last week that no here probably is to get to the tration last week, Landrieu process of removing four statues ders of the monument noted the Jimmy Carter in 1978, in what other landmark changes will be Supreme Court,” said Marksbury spokesman Tyronne Walker told that honor the ‘Lost Cause of the New Orleans connection to the was called (somewhat prema - contemplated until the remaining after the hearing. He wants to WWL News, “Mayor Landrieu is Confederacy.’ Today we continue former Confederate President. turely), “the last act of reconcili - two monuments to Robert E. Lee question the papers that he says tackling touch issues. Signs the mission,” said Landrieu. Jefferson Davis died during a ation of the Civil War.” and P.G.T. Beauregard are show that City Park and not the aren’t one of them.” On Monday, a day after a mas - visit to a home of Associate La. The local Jefferson Davis removed.◊ sive standoff that pitted those city of New Orleans, owns the Political pollster Ron Faucheux seeking to remove Confederate- Beauregard monument. said the monuments debate, era monuments from public Mayor Mitch Landrieu reacted although late in Landrieu’s sec - spaces and monument supporters to the ruling by saying that it is ond term as mayor, does compli - against one another on the final time to move from the debate in cate his political legacy. day of the 2017 Jazz Fest, a New the courtroom and to removing “From the standpoint that he Orleans judge denied a request the monuments . was elected on a wave of great for a restraining order. “The law is the law, so we’re popularity, promising to bring In an attempt to block the going to move forward with tak - the city together,” Faucheux told removal of the P.G.T. Beauregard ing the monuments down,” WWL. “For this type of divisive monument from its current site at Landrieu said activity to happen in the last year the entrance to City Park, the The judge had denied an earli - of his administration, changes Monumental Task Committee er temporary restraining order that somewhat.” argued in a brief to Civil Court request, but did hold a hearing Landrieu is term-limited and Judge Kern Reese that the City of Wednesday, at which time the cannot run for a third consecutive New Orleans doesn’t have the request for an injunction was term as mayor. authority to take down the monu - denied. “Symbols honoring the leaders ment because it doesn’t own the Reading from an earlier ruling of the bloody campaign to defend land that it sits on. by the Fourth Circuit Court of slavery have served only to Reese rejected that argument and Appeal involving a previous legal divide and demean our nation and refused to issue a temporary challenge filed by Monumental our city for more than a century restraining order that would have Task Committee president Pierre now,” the Urban League of immediately halted efforts by the McGraw, Judge Reese said; Louisiana said in a statement Landrieu administration to take “Although (Beauregard) was paid Thursday. “Effo rts to remove down the Beauregard monument. for by funds raised and donated such symbols from public places A day before Reese’s ruling, by a private association, the mon - of honor in New Orleans date at Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, who ument was donated to the city in least as far back as the early had previously asked President 1907 and publicly dedicated in 1980s when Mayor Dutch Morial Donald Trump to block the 1915.” Reading from a separate sought to move the Liberty removal of the Confederate-era legal document, the hedge added Monument honoring white monuments from their public that the land for the Beauregard supremacists who attacked Black spaces, penned a letter ti City monument was given to the city police and militia members. Park’s board of commissioners “for use of the city of New “Such objects of reverence do “to request that you exercise Orleans as forever.” not honor the history of New your fiduciary responsibility to “That’s about as clear as it Orleans, but are rather part of a preserve assets belonging to” gets,” Reese said. “The demo - revisionist history campaign City Park. cratic process whether we like it known as the Lost Cause of the In the letter, Nungesser, who or not, has gone on long enough. Confederacy.” oversees City Park as commis - “There is no basis to grant a Monument supporters have sioner of Louisiana’s Dept. of preliminary injunction,” Reese accused the mayor of opening up Culture, Recreation and Tourism, continued. “The property a Pandora’s box that will embold - reminded City Park Board of involved is under the ownership en those seeking to take down the Commissioners President Steven of the City of New Orleans.” Confederate-era statues to target Pettus of the commission’s 1997 WWL News reported other historic monuments, but application in which the presi - Wednesday that a bill in the state members of Take ‘Em Down dent asserts that City Park is “the legislature to prevent removal of Nola have said that from the very true and only legal owner of the the monuments is still awaiting a beginning their goal was to General Beauregard Equestrian house debate. remove or do away with more Statue located in the New On Sunday, May 7, about 500 than 100 monuments, street Orleans City Park.” protesters marched from Congo names and school names that cel - Nungesser added that he is Square to Lee Circle demanding ebrate white supremacy. THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - May 15 - May 21, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3 AKA president, lawmakers condemn racist act at American University By Lauren Victoria Burke the face of racism. “Without the appropriate action, it Contributing Writer Reverend Barbara Skinner will not be the last. Sadder still, opened the Capitol Hill press con - American University is not the (NNPA Newswire) – A day after ference about the suspected hate only campus on which white stu - Taylor Dumpson, who is an crime on American University’s dents are expressing their preju - African-American woman, was campus with a prayer. dices against students of color.” elected to be student body presi - “We aren’t in a post-racial soci - Members called for a federal dent at American University, noos - ety,” Dumpson said. “I think the civil rights investigation of the es and bananas (some with the way to move towards a better racism displayed at American words “AKA Free” on them) were society, and a more inclusive University. Students of all back - found hanging in various places on society, is to really focus on and grounds marched in protest of the the American University campus. appreciate the differences among incident on May 3. In a statement Dumpson is a member of the us, because what makes us differ - last week, outgoing American historically Black sorority Alpha ent is very important.” University President Neil Kerwin Kappa Alpha (AKA). On May Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) said, “I regret this happened, apol - 4th, as lawmakers were debating said that the attack has shaken ogize to everyone offended, and a repeal of the Affordable Care the community to its core and state emphatically that this inci - Act and protesters were chanting vowed that, “we’re not going to dent does not reflect what on Capitol Hill nearby, be stopped.” American University truly is.” Dumpson received support from Later, in a written statement, Members of Congress who several sectors. Wilson said that no matter how attended the press conference Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, the high we go—whether it’s being included Reps. Alma Adams (D- International President of Alpha elected the nation’s first Black N.C.), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D- Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority, flew president or AU’s first African- Texas) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D- to Washington, D.C., to stand in American student government Texas), who hosted the event. support of the American president—some people just can’t University student. Other members help themselves from going low. Lauren Victoria Burke is a speaker, of the AKA sorority stood along - “Unfortunately, this is not even writer and political analyst. side members of Congress to sup - the first time in the past year that Connect with Lauren by email at Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, the International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., gives port Dumpson and to display a such a controversy has occurred on [email protected] and on remarks on Capitol Hill during a press conference about the recent suspected hate crime at American sense of strength and solidarity in AU’s campus,” said Wilson. Twitter at @LVBurke .◊ University in Washington, D.C. Photo by Lauren Burke/NNPA U.S. prosecutors told to push for more, harsher punishments (AP) — Attorney General Jeff during the height of the crack Advocates quickly criticized the president of Families Against sentences. Those rules limit a aimed at encouraging shorter Sessions is directing federal prose - cocaine epidemic and who has move as a revival of the worst Mandatory Minimums. “But the judge’s discretion and are typically sentences for nonviolent drug cutors to pursue the most serious promised to make combating vio - aspects of the drug war, which sub - social and human costs will be dictated, for example, by the quan - offenders and preserving Justice charges possible against the vast lence and drugs the Justice jected nonviolent, lower-level much higher.” tity of drugs involved in a crime. Department resources for more majority of suspects, a reversal of Department’s top priority. offenders to unfairly harsh sen - The announcement is an unmis - The memo concedes there will serious and violent criminals. Obama-era policies that is sure to “This policy affirms our respon - tences that disproportionately hurt takable undoing of Obama be cases in which “good judg - In a statement Friday, Holder send more people to prison and for sibility to enforce the law, is minority communities. administration criminal justice ment” will warrant a prosecutor called the reversal “dumb on much longer terms. moral and just, and produces “It looks like we’re going to fill policies that aimed to ease over - veering from that rule. And crime,” saying it would be “finan - The move has long been expect - consistency,” Sessions wrote in a the prisons back up after finally crowding in federal prisons and Sessions said it gives prosecutors cially ruinous,” for the depart - ed from Sessions, a former feder - memo to U.S. attorneys made getting the federal prison popu - contributed to a national rethink - “discretion to avoid sentences ment to focus its spending on al prosecutor who cut his teeth public early Friday. lation down,” said Kevin Ring, ing of how drug criminals were that would result in an injustice.” incarceration rather than prevent - prosecuted and sentenced. But any exceptions will need to ing and investigating crime. Sessions contends a spike in vio - be approved by top supervisors, “It is an ideologically cookie- lence in some big cities and the and the reasons must be docu - cutter approach that has only nation’s opioid epidemic show the mented, allowing the Justice been proven to generate unfairly Immigration challenges need for a return to tougher tactics. Department to track the handling long sentences that are often Continued from Page 1 job now is working to empower Immigrant rights groups are He foreshadowed the plan early in of such cases by its 94 U.S. attor - applied indiscriminately and do them and keep them integrated focusing on educating their clients his tenure, when he signaled his ney’s offices. little to achieve long-term public ers to be employed in the country. into the community,” she said. and connecting them to the larger strong support for the federal gov - And even if they opt not to pur - safety,” Holder said. The Trump Administration’s In 2010, New Orleans police surrounding community, working ernment’s continued use of private sue the most serious charges, pros - The Obama policy shift coin - efforts have been met with arrested immigrants Mario Cacho to prepare for the Trump prisons, reversing another Obama ecutors are still required to provide cided with U.S. Sentencing immediate resistance from the and Antonio Ocampo, where they Administration’s next move. directive to phase out their use. judges with all the details of a case Commission changes that made immigrant community and its respectively spent 164 and 91 days “A lot of this community has been “We know that drugs and crime go when defendants are sentenced, tens of thousands of federal drug allies, as well as the courts. in Orleans Parish Prison, months in New Orleans for years or even hand-in-hand,” Sessions said in a which could lengthen prison terms. prisoners eligible for early The executive order temporarily past the end of their sentences, decades; this is home,” said Lang Friday speech. “Drug trafficking is The directive rescinds guid - release, and a clemency initiative banning citizens of Iraq, Iran, waiting for ICE to pick them up. Le. “We have green card holders an inherently violent business. If ance by Sessions’ Democratic that freed convicts deemed Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Cacho and Ocampo filed a civil who have been here for 25 years, you want to collect a drug debt, you predecessor, Eric Holder, who deserving of a second chance. Yemen from entering the country rights lawsuit and, as part of a and we are encouraging them to can’t file a lawsuit in court. You col - told prosecutors they could in Combined, those changes led to a and pausing the refugee resettle - 2011 settlement, the Orleans apply for citizenship before things lect it by the barrel of a gun.” some cases leave drug quantities steep decline in a federal prison ment program was signed on Parish Sheriff’s Office entered into change. We also have long-term res - The policy memo says prosecu - out of charging documents so as population that now stands at just January 27 and blocked by a a federal consent decree halting idents who often travel to Vietnam, tors should “charge and pursue the not to charge suspects with under 190,000, down from nearly Washington judge on February 3. investigations into immigration or may be sponsoring a recently most serious, readily provable crimes that trigger long sen - 220,000 in 2013. Nearly half of President Trump responded by status unless an individual com - arrived immigrant. All of that is offense” — something more likely tences. Holder’s 2013 initiative, those inmates are in custody for rescinding this executive order and mits a violent crime. more complicated now.”◊ to trigger mandatory minimum known as “Smart on Crime,” was drug crimes, records show.◊ replacing it on March 6. Iraq was This local policy conflicts with removed from the list of banned Trump Administration policy, as countries, as was language that well as with the opinions of many mandated prioritizing claims of state legislators, including religious-based persecution by Attorney General Jeff Landry and applicants who are religious Republican Representative Valarie minorities in their country of Hodges, who introduced a bill to nationality (intended to prioritize penalize cities that do not comply Christian refugees.) with federal immigration policy Judges in Maryland and Hawaii that failed in the House on May 9. immediately enjoined the Trump Similar legislation has become Administration’s modified execu - law in Texas and other southern tive order, which the federal gov - states, while more progressive ernment appealed. Oral arguments state governments have in Maryland began May 8 and are advanced legislation contradict - set to begin in Hawaii May 15. ing federal policy. Meanwhile, the analytics firm “In states like California, we are Tourism Economics estimates that moving forward with a different 4.3 million fewer foreign people agenda because we understand will visit the United States in 2017 Congress and the President’s poli - as opposed to 2016, resulting in a cies to be adversarial to the immi - loss of more than $7 billion. grant community,” said Angelica The Administration’s Executive Salas, executive director of the Order 13768 broadened the cate - Coalition for Humane Immigrant gories considered priorities for Rights. “We want to protect people removal and called for partner - who were victims to or witnesses ships between state and local offi - of crime and we want to provide cials and the federal government to legal services to people who are better enforce federal immigration being detained.” “One of these executive orders policy. This order has led to con - funds enough beds to house flict between the federal govern - 40,000 more detainees every ment and cities and states having night,” Salas said. “We are see - large immigrant populations, as ing these campaign promises some places (including New start to materialize.” Orleans) have policies that limit Arrests of removable non-citizens the ability of local police to ques - in the interior rose 32.6 percent tion or detain individuals based on between January and March, and their immigration status. the arrest of those without a crimi - “I encounter victims of domestic nal record nearly doubled to 5,441. violence and sexual assault afraid “We are seeing a lot more peo ple to report crimes because they don’t being apprehended for removal,” want anyone to be deported,” said said Melissa Lim Chua, Lang Le, program director at Immigration Director with the Vietnamese Initiatives in International Rescue Committee. Economic Training (VIET). “DHS is dealing with all matters of “Working with Vietnamese, immigration in a harsher manner, Hondurans, and refugees from dif - especially when it comes to stays of ferent countries in and around removal or requests for release. The Versailles Village in New Orleans compassion we have been fighting East, I’ve seen a lot of fear, and for, for such a long time, is not what concern for people’s families. Our we are seeing from DHS.” THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM May 15 - May 21, 2017 Gone with the wind By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

By now, you might be scratching or shaking your head after hearing New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu move away from a promise he made months ago to establish a panel to look at other potential “nuisance monuments” and deter - mine whether there were other statues and memorials across the Crescent City that might need to removed from public spaces. After the recent threats of vio - lence and hateful signs and emails from Confederate monument supporters that promise appears to be “Gone With The Wind.” He was very clear late last week when he told reporters that from the begin - ning he was only talking about the Battle of Liberty Place monument, and stat - ues commemorating Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate Generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee.

S That will likely change the minds of some Black folks in New Orleans who had begun to believe that this mayor wasn’t as calculating and self-serving as some of his staunchest critics have said he is. The fog is lifting and people are begin - N ning to see that while it is so nice to have witnessed the removal of the Liberty Place monument and the Jefferson Davis statue, without a commitment to finish the work and address other racially offensive monuments, school names and O

I street names that honor avowed white supremacists and supporters of slavery and Unfortunately, colleges are hotbeds racial oppression, it was all simply a hollow gesture. One has to wonder why the Landrieu administration set out to bring down the N four statues. Was it to breathe new life into his fading political career or mesmer - for inappropriate behavior I ize gullible Black voters ahead of a potential campaign for Orleans Parish Sheriff By Dr. James B. Ewers Jr. or U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond’s congressional seat? Guest Columnist

P Was it to distract voters from some changes being put in place before he It appears that racism has no boundaries. It rears its distasteful head in too many leaves City Hall? places and spaces that we hold dear to us. Was it an effort to silence his critics and prove to himself and others how good Higher education is not immune from this seemingly everyday occurrence. O he has been to the residents of this majority-Black city? Colleges and universities where scholars reside are now arguably training The truth will come out soon enough. All we have to do is “stay woke.” grounds for future racists. In the meantime, the mayor is sadly mistaken if he thinks Take ‘Em Down Nola, Well-intentioned students who enter the academic gates each year yearning for high ideals and lofty goals are now being met with racism and sexism. & community activists and justice advocates are going to stop pushing for the Some would say, “How can this be”? After all, this is college. It can be because EWERS removal of these other racially offensive monuments, school names and street unfortunately, some in the halls of ivy spew out hate. While it may be subtle at times, names just because Landrieu says he is done. the sting and the pain are ever present. It is my opinion that racism, sexism and bad behavior in general are We still have to be slapped in the face with the statue of Justice E.D. White, becoming more visible on college campuses these days. S who made it very clear how he feels about Black people, every time we enter the Recently, American University in Washington DC made national news for all the wrong reasons. Having racist behavior on your college campus places you in an unenviable position. Instead of touting your La. Supreme Court Building. research you are apologizing for inappropriate conduct. We still have to deal with the John McDonogh statue at Lafayette Square American University student, Taylor Dumpson ran for the position of president of the student government L and look at the “iconic” statue of President Andrew Jackson, who owned association. She won. She is African American and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Ms. Dumpson Black slaves and advocated genocide as a weapon to reduce the population received cheers for her victory and jeers from some because she is African American. Bananas were found of Native Americans. dangling from nooses with a sign with the letters AKA on campus on May 1st. Mean spirited and hate-filled are adequate words to describe what happened at American University in Washington DC. A It’s bad enough having to travel along Claiborne Avenue and reflect on the way Taylor Dumpson gave a statement shortly after the banana La. Gov. William C.C. Claiborne used the 1811 slave revolt and the fear and noose incident and quoted Frederick Douglass. Douglass said, The

I anger it inspired in whites to push his own political agenda. It’s even worse to “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” hear some of our white brethren get sentimental and nostalgic about the Cabildo Frederick Douglass was right then and he is right now in 2017. Louisiana in the French Quarter, even though we know that this was the place that captured White privilege, a term coined years ago is the mantra and call - ing card for those who believe and foster this false superiority. Blacks were held captive awaiting “trials” for their role in the 1811 slave revolt Weekly

R In Ms. Dumpson’s statement, she referred to the American and knowing that some of those murdered Blacks’ heads were placed on pikes in University Student Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct (USPS 320-680) the area that is now called Jackson Square after they were killed. has a section in it that talks about identity-motivated bias. One of the oldest publications There is always something there to remind us. Both Ms. Dumpson and members of the AKA chapter there in the United States are victims of identity-motivated bias. Sanctions have been specifically for the O One of the more insulting developments to come out of this whole dust-up African-American put in place so we will see if they are enforced. community. over the Confederate monuments has been an effort by some to try to strong- For them to be enforced, the culprits must be identified. arm the City of New Orleans into keeping these racially offensive monu - Therein lies the problem.

T ments in public places by threatening to organize a boycott of the city. Racism on college campuses has everybody’s attention but Since 1925 Essentially, these folks are saying that the City needs to continue to ignore there is still a long way to go in ending it. Students who have good hearts have evil sitting right next to RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL

I the constitutional rights of its Black residents and whites who are also call - them in their classes. Evil smiles at you and will even shake President/Publisher ing for the removal of these offensive monuments hands with you. The O’Jays would say they’re smiling in your EDMUND W. LEWIS In the minds of some, a steady flow of tourism dollars is a small price to face. Yet these folks are backstabbers. Editor pay for the dignity of the Black people of this city. Never mind that nothing The FBI is helping with the investigation so maybe justice is

D DAVID T. BAKER ever changes for the masses of Black people in this city. They continue to just around the corner. Associate Editor find themselves being undereducated a and miseducated in a severely under - What happened at American University while disturbing is not surprising because racism is on call twenty-four hours a day. It funded and overcrowded public school system and take dead-end jobs in the doesn’t rest and moves around so it is hard to catch it. The plots SUSAN BUCHANAN E tourism or service industry or engage in illegal activities that promise noth - and the threats occur somewhere every day. FRITZ ESKER ing but death or mass incarceration. Some would opine how could a racist act like this happen in KARI HARDEN At least, the powers that be get to continue making money by marketing the an urban area like Washington DC? I lived there for a time and DELLA HASSELLE good old days in the land of cotton where good times are not forgotten. yes, it is a multicultural city. And yes, the campuses are made up CHARMAINE JACKSON of students from all over the world. FR. JEROME LeDOUX Antebellum Disney is real, ladies and gentlemen. Just ask those who are However, the sad truth is that the folks who committed paid very little to change bedsheets, open doors, drive horse-drawn carriages BRITTANY ODOM these crimes were probably racists before they ever came KELLY PARKER or shuck oysters every day. onto the AU campus. CHRISTOPHER TIDMORE I am a parent and a grandparent and what you say around the And now that he has given his public image a major makeover by freeing MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH the slaves in the City That Care Forgot, how does the mayor plan to spend dinner table matters. What you say about your neighbors who don’t look like you matters. NAYITA WILSON the rest of his days at City Hall? When we see images of people of color on television in mar - GERALDINE WYCKOFF Expanding opportunities for contractors of color in the City’s public bidding ginalized positions, we believe that stereotype about the entire Contributing Writers/Columnists process? Ending overtime pay abuse at the Sewerage & Water Board? Highlighting group of people. It is my strong opinion that television, radio, CHARLES SILER the shortcomings of his political enemies? Raising awareness of the pressing need newspapers and the internet have created an unhealthy view of us. Contributing Cartoonist for criminal justice reform? Ending the reign of terror that the Recovery School Our responsibility as good citizens is to offer a counter view. PENNY JONES If we say nothing and do nothing, change will not occur. Dr. Administrative Assistant District has been wreaking on struggling families who can’t afford a private school Martin Luther King Jr. said, “For evil to succeed, all it needs is JIM HALL for good men to do nothing.” Circulation I applaud Ms. Taylor Dumpson for being a pioneer at CHRISTOPHER D. HALL American University in Washington DC. Her name will be writ - Business ten in the history books there. She will be a catalyst for change and for good at AU. Published every Monday Now that this case has come to light, we must become even by The Louisiana Weekly Publishing more vigilant. We cannot let vileness and viciousness take over. Company, Inc. If you are a student for good, you must sound the horn for it. Est. 1925, You must stomp out racism and sexism wherever you see it. 2215 Pelopidas Street, If you are a student at American University report the perpe - New Orleans, LA. 70122. trators of this crime. Turn them into the authorities. 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Trump succeeds in trashing Civil Rights By Jesse Jackson profit prisons, and has moved to abandon overturning Obama-era TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist vital police accountability measures that had regulations, including What rights? bipartisan support. He’s threatening sanctu - the Fair Pay and Safe The reviews of Donald Trump’s first 100 ary cities while gearing up for mass deporta - Workplaces executive “They had for more than a century before been days have generally focused on his failures, tions that would break up families and sepa - order that required fed - regarded as beings of an inferior order and alto - gether unfit to associate with the white race, either flip-flops and follies. We’ve heard a lot rate mothers from children. eral contractors to pay CLINGMAN in social or political relations; and so far inferior about what he’s failed to achieve, but far too Trump issued his Muslim travel ban, an their workers a living that they had ‘no rights which the white man was little about what he is intent on doing. executive order barring citizens of select - wage and to obey bound to respect"; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be Trump’s time in office so far has been a ed Muslim-majority nations from visiting workplace safety regu - reduced to slavery for his benefit. systematic and vicious assault on civil rights. the United States, although federal courts lations. - Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott Case, 1857 The progress that was won with struggle, blocked it as an unconstitutional violation Trump continues to JACKSON sacrifice and legislation is being subverted of religious freedom. Trump’s toxic assert the lie that there By James Clingman by ink and administrative actions and dereg - rhetoric has been followed by an increase was mass voting fraud in 2016, setting the TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist ulation. Trump is intent on rolling back the in hate crimes across the country. stage for more efforts to restrict voting, par - legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, and in his To head the Department of Education, ticularly for people of color and the young. Isn’t this 2017? The above words were spoken 160 years ago. first 100 days the damage has already begun. Trump appointed billionaire Betsy DeVos, This list could go on — and, as Trump Obviously, in light of federal prosecutors not finding any cause to He appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme who for years has devoted herself to under - has said, 100 days is only the beginning. indict the cops who killed Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Justice Court, a judge with a record of rulings mining public schools and who defends deep We have big challenges Taney’s words still ring true. To that end, Black people have no civil undermining the rights of workers, women, cuts in everything from support for schools in in this country. We have to right to life that prevents us from being shot and killed by police offi -

LGBTQ community, and protections of the poor neighborhoods to Pell grants that help the make this economy work C cers who are, in turn, given a paid vacation and allowed to go free. environment and democracy. children of working families afford college. for working people. We Sickening? Frightening? Evil? Uncivilized? All of the above? Before you start throwing out all the excuses for Mr. Sterling’s Gorsuch, selected from a list provided by Trump has given his economic policy have to rescue the democ - demise, I know he had numerous arrests and convictions for other the far-right Federalist Society and Heritage over to former Goldman Sachs bankers, racy from the corruptions crimes, none of which, however, called for the death penalty. I Foundation, is so extreme that he was con - including Treasury Secretary Steven of big money. We have to O know he was a “big man,” and I know he was struggling against firmed only after Republicans overturned the Mnuchin and White House Economic address catastrophic cli - the two officers. I know he was tasered and they said it had little Senate’s long-established rules to get him Council head Gary Cohn, and they have mate change before it is effect on him. I do not know if the gun they pulled from his pock - confirmed with a mere majority. Gorsuch’s rolled out plans to give the very rich deep too late. We have to stop et was put there or if it was his. accession to the court now reconstitutes a tax cuts that they will use to justify slash - fighting endless wars M I do know what I saw and what I heard, and one point jumped out at five-person activist right-wing majority that ing programs vital to working people, abroad and begin rebuild - me—and still does. What happened to Sterling reminded me of a Black will continue to undermine voting rights, including Medicaid, education and even ing at home. We have to man named Nathaniel Jones, another “big man” who was killed by worker rights and civil rights. Meals On Wheels. make it easier, not harder Cincinnati police officers. Yet another more recent memory is Eric

Trump appointed Jefferson Beauregard Trump has stacked his cabinet with for people to register and M Garner, a “big man” also killed by police. Jones and Garner were killed as the cops repeatedly said, “Put your hands behind your back.” Sessions as his attorney general, a man who committed opponents of the missions of vote. In each of these Sterling was killed as the cops were saying “Get on the ground!” derides the Voting Rights Act as “intrusive” the very departments they head: Scott areas and more, Trump is Lawful orders, yes, but they do not rise to the capital punishment and celebrates the Shelby decision that Pruitt at EPA, Ben Carson at Housing and headed the wrong way. level. What gripes me is that the cops yelled “get on the ground” undermined it. Sessions reversed the Justice Urban Development, Rick Perry at Yes, some of his efforts at Sterling when he was already on the ground and they were on Department’s position on Texas’ racially dis - Energy, Alex Acosta at Labor. have failed, but he is E top of him. They shot him three times and then told him to get on criminatory voter ID law. He has reversed Trump has signed 13 resolutions of disap - already doing damage to the ground; then they shot him three more times. Again, he was the commitment to phase out private for- proval under the Congressional Review Act the common good.◊ already on the ground and under their control when he was shot at point blank range. N The U.S. Department of Justice, under Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, says it can find no indication that Sterling’s civil rights were violated. In other words, Alton Sterling had no rights the two white cops were “bound to respect.” They could force him to the Climate change is T ground, put a knee on his neck, and shoot him six times, all with the full support of the DOJ. Of course, they did not know their dastardly act was being videoed, but I am sure they knew it was on audio via A their own communication devices. So they yelled, “Get on the creating climate refugees ground!” for evidence that Sterling was not on the ground yet. By Bill Fletcher, Jr. result of high water and the inability of that island Three questions: What? So what? Now what? The “what” part NNPA Columnist of the people to leave their homes. republic, but she has been disclosed, and the DOJ has said “so what?” Now it’s up My co-anchor—the great sports was clearly R to us to say, “now what?” Have you ever heard of the writer Dave Zirin—and I asked, frightened by FLETCHER Though I have said this for decades, I will repeat myself. The only Marshall Islands? They are 1156 almost at the same time, what did she the possibility way to deal with these kinds of situations is through economic sanc - tions. What made the NCAA and the NBA pull its games out of North islands that constitute a republic in think would happen as sea levels rose? that those Y Carolina in response to a bathroom law that affected transgender peo - the South Pacific. Major battles dur - What would the people do? islands and their history will disappear ple, who felt the law discriminated against them? Why did then ing World War II were contested on In some respects, our question may beneath the ocean waves forever. Governor Mike Pence succumb to corporate leaders that said if a pro - those islands and, following the war, have seemed odd or simplistic. The peo - The debate concerning the envi - posed law that discriminated against gay people was not rescinded they nuclear tests were conducted on there, ple of the Marshall Islands would do ronment and the debates around

would move their businesses out of the State of Indiana? too, from which there was significant what they needed to do to survive. And immigration must be joined together. & Why has no athletic group, Louisiana State University, or any major radioactive fallout. The capital city is one route to survival will inevitably be There is a global necessity to corporation in Baton Rouge threatened to move and/or cancel anything only three feet above sea level. migration unless there is some sort of address the future of islands that in light of Alton Sterling’s death? It’s because Black folks are so cri - I have never been to the Marshall creative infrastructure work that can pre - may become submerged. Many of sis-oriented, for the moment rather than the long haul; we do not seem Islands, but during the People’s serve life in the Marshall Islands. these islands were once—or contin - O to be willing to organize ourselves around practical economic strategies Climate March in Washington, D.C., And it is this matter of climate ue to be—possessions/colonies of that would surely make it clear to everyone that we are just as serious about our rights as other groups are. on April 29, I met and interviewed a migration that is rarely discussed in Europe, Japan and/or the United woman from that republic. She is a mainstream circles. Certainly, the States. In that sense, there is a his - Folks in Baton Rouge should demand corporations threaten to do P what those in Indiana and North Carolina did. LSU should do what the student in the United States. She and I environmental movement is address - toric obligation that is owed to these University of Missouri football team did by refusing to play until jus - spoke on the air (WPFW-FM, part of ing it, but in the 2016 U.S. elections, islanders by the so-called “Global

tice is achieved for Alton Sterling. The NCAA should cancel its tour - the Pacifica Network) about what the for instance, in all of the xenophobic North.” The Global North left many I naments as they did in support of the transgender population. (After

climate crisis means for her people. discussions concerning immigration, of these territories “underdevel - N all, being killed is much more serious than going to the bathroom of Climate change has a direct impact there was no discussion about the oped”—to borrow a phrase from the your choice.) If they refuse, then do not support them. on the future of the Marshall fact that island nations across the late Walter Rodney—and now the There must be a price to pay for mistreatment against Blacks. As the Islands. At three feet above sea lev - planet will be disappearing and that bill has come due. That means that, I saying goes, “Think globally; act locally.”◊ el, the Marshall Islands do not have their populations will need to in addition to assisting in preventive much room to maneuver. With migrate somewhere. measures, and in addition to O extreme environmental changes, par - The woman from the Marshall addressing climate change, immigra - ticularly with damaging storms, the Islands that Dave and I interviewed tion policies must be changed, so islands have faced severe floods. wants to return to her home. She is that space is created for these cli - N She described roads cut off as a trying to be optimistic about the future mate refugees.◊

The concept S of strength By Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith A tiny, petty victory Guest Columnist SMITH By Julianne Malveaux tion. Poor people lose with this legis - analyze the bill There is and has been so much conversation TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist lation, and so do people with pre-exist - and talk about about “strength” as this new administration has taken its place in ing medical conditions. Older people, how much history. The candidate-now-president spoke much about strength After months of “repeal and replace” too, will lose, but people who earn money the bill during the presidential campaign, railing his predecessor and accus - rhetoric, Congress has finally passed a more than $200,000 a year (or couples will cost, and ing his Democratic opponent of being “weak” in the way she dealt pitiful little bill designed to eliminate who earn more than $250,000) see how many peo - MALVEAUX with terrorism. Lawmakers of both parties echoed the sentiment. the Affordable Care Act. To watch their taxes go down by about 3.8 per - ple will lose There was a disdain, it seems, for diplomacy, for hesitancy, and Republicans gather in the Rose Garden cent. The 45th President says this their health what they viewed as uncertainty. The world’s situations demanded to “celebrate” the narrow passage of plan will lower premiums and insurance under the legislation. strong, definitive leadership, which many felt was lacking in the their paltry bill, you would have deductibles, and that those who have Instead, they crowded on the White Obama administration. The way to end the foolishness of terrorism thought that 45 was about to sign pre-existing conditions will not be House lawn as if they had something was just to “bomb the hell out of them.” ground-breaking legislation. Instead, hurt. The legislation says otherwise. to celebrate. Their gathering was akin The disagreement about what constitutes strength is not a new one, changes to the Affordable Care Act Democrats were silly, but not to someone giving a party because and the verbiage being heard now is reminiscent of the fight over the must be ironed out between the House wrong, to serenade Republicans with they took, but did not yet pass, a final issue which took place during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On one side, there was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who of Representatives and the Senate. It “hey, hey, hey goodbye.” House exam. But 45 and his cronies were espoused nonviolence not only as the most formidable weapon against is unlikely that the Senate will be as Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D- clearly so desperate for any kind of injustice, but also as a way of life. Following Gandhian principles of quick to succumb to 45’s pressure in CA) was colorful, but not incorrect, victory that they reveled in their pre - nonviolence, King was adamant about its power, saying, “Nonviolence the same way that the House did. in telling the Republicans who voted liminary celebration. is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and enno - Only 20 Republicans had the decen - for the legislation will “glow in the The legislation that passed on bles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” Participants in cy to oppose the flawed legislation. dark”. As New York Democrat Thursday, May 4 is, by most accounts, “the Movement” were trained exhaustively on how to be nonviolent, in Meanwhile, groups like the American Louise Slaughter said, some com - worse than the legislation that failed their thinking and in their actions. Not everyone made the cut. It was Medical Association and the AARP mitted “political suicide” by voting weeks ago. Then the CBO said that too much to ask, to stand quietly in the face of brute physical violence, have said the legislation is unaccept - for the rancid bill. about 24 million people would lose and they opted out of the Movement. able. It illustrates the odious nature of Republicans were so desperate for a health insurance, and that premiums In opposition to Dr. King was Malcolm X, who thought the concept the 45 Presidency, which is a triumph victory that they didn’t even wait for of predatory capitalism and exploita - the Congressional Budget Office to Continued on Page 10 Continued on Page 19 Page 6 May 15 - May 21, 2017 HEALTH & HEART THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM

Descendants of syphilis study subjects emerging from shadows By Jay Reeves tion continues to this day, with a his visit with Gray led to the law - widely blamed for distrust among AP Writer federal court currently considering suit and the multimillion-dollar U.S. Blacks toward the medical a request that will help determine settlement reached with the gov - community, particularly clinical TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) – the study’s final legacy. ernment on Aug. 28, 1975. In all, trials and other tests. In medical Decades later, it’s still hard to Based in one of Alabama’s Gray said in an interview, govern - and public health circles, it’s grasp what the federal government poorest counties, workers ment documents showed 623 men known as the “Tuskegee effect.” did to hundreds of Black men in engaged in “The Tuskegee Study were involved in the study. The legal fallout from the rural Alabama – even if you’re of Untreated Syphilis in the Among the participants was Tuskegee syphilis study also among their descendants, lighting Negro Male” initially recruited Freddie Lee Tyson. Though he dis - lives on, at the federal court - candles in their memory. 600 Black men, promising free played no symptoms, Tyson also house in Montgomery. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical checks and other benefits was born with congenital syphilis Settlement funds were used for medical workers in the segregated to many Blacks had never even inherited from his mother, said his decades to compensate study par - South withheld treatment for seen a doctor. The men were test - daughter, Lille Tyson Head. ticipants and more than 9,000 of unsuspecting men infected with a ed and sorted into groups – 399 “He was a wise man, very gen - their relatives. Court workers were sexually transmitted disease sim - with syphilis and another 201 tle. He was a disciplined man. unable to locate other descendants, ply so doctors could track the rav - who were not infected. Active in the church, loved his and some never responded to let - ages of the horrid illness and dis - The disease-free men were family and his extended family,” ters from the clerk’s office, which sect their bodies afterward. used as a control group. Health said Head, of Wirtz, Virginia, one disbursed millions before the last Finally exposed in 1972, the workers told syphilitic men they of the Tysons’ eight children. payment was recorded in 2008. study ended and the men sued, had “bad blood.” Tyson quit the study during the Court officials won’t say how resulting in a $9 million settle - None of the men was asked to 1950s after hearing rumblings much money is left, but docu - ment. Twenty years ago this consent to take part in a medical that “something was wrong,” ments indicate the balance is month, President Bill Clinton apol - study. They also weren’t told that Lille Head said. mostly interest earnings from ogized for the U.S. government. It “bad blood” actually was a euphe - Unaffected by the disease, money first paid by the govern - seemed to mark the end of this mism for syphilis. Doctors never Tyson learned the true nature of This 1997 photo pictures Herman Shaw, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study vic - ment decades ago. Gray said he’s ugly episode, once and for all. provided them with penicillin after the program only when the rest of tim, who was in attendance to receive an official apology from the U.S. heard it’s less than $100,000. Except it didn’t. it became the standard treatment the country found out, his daugh - government for its ‘shameful experiment’ conducted on Black men. The Some family members say the Relatives of the men still strug - for syphilis in the mid-1940s. ter said. His wife and children all apology was given by President Bill Clinton in May, 1997. Shaw was 94 money should be used for addition - gle with the stigma of being linked It’s doubtful any of the men knew tested negative for syphilis, but at the time of the official apology. AP Photo al funding for medical screenings to the experiment, commonly what had happened until an Tyson was traumatized and feared for the men’s families, and others known today as the “Tuskegee Associated Press story was pub - the disease would show up some - want a long-discussed memorial at Syphilis Study.” For years they lished nationwide on July 26, 1972. where in his family. Voices of our Fathers Legacy Descendants began gathering a the old hospital where the study was have met privately to share their The next morning, farmer and “He was angry and he was Foundation, a nonprofit organiza - year or two after Clinton hosted run at Tuskegee University. pain and honor the victims. community leader Charlie Pollard upset,” Head said. tion formed in 2014 by the men’s five remaining test survivors in U.S. District Judge Myron And, amazingly, that class-action walked into attorney Fred Gray’s Tyson died in 1988 at age 82 relatives to tell the story of the the White House. The last man Thompson is currently considering lawsuit filed by the men in 1973 office in Tuskegee. Pollard was after an automobile accident. victims of the Tuskegee study. involved in the syphilis study a request Gray filed in August to has outlived them all. The litiga - among the men in the study, and Today, the 72-year-old Head chairs died in 2004 and this year, for the use the remaining money to fund first time, relatives both allowed operation of the Tuskegee Human The Associated Press into their and Civil Rights Multicultural annual gathering and invited the Center, a combination museum public to a ceremony where they and town welcome center that Is soda making your brain age faster? lit candles for the men. includes a display about the (Special from NorthStarNews stroke and dementia when com - rology at Boston University School an investigator at the FHS, and This year’s ceremony included syphilis study. The names of the Today) — New research suggests pared to those who did not. of Medicine and a faculty member lead author of both papers. about 110 descendants, friends, men who were involved in the pro - that excess sugar—especially the Researchers are quick to point at the university’s Alzheimer’s He chose to study sugary drinks community members, a gospel gram are etched in a circle on the fructose in sugary drinks—might out that these findings, which Disease Center. “It looks like there as a way of examining overall choir from Tuskegee University floor as a memorial. damage your brain. appear separately in the journals is not very much of an upside to sugar consumption. “It’s difficult and public officials. There were A judge refused a similar Researchers using data from the Alzheimer’s & Dementia and having sugary drinks, and substitut - to measure overall sugar intake in speeches by Head and attorney request from Gray to provide the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) Stroke , demonstrate correlation ing the sugar with artificial sweeten - the diet,” he says, “so we used Gray and others. The “community leftover money to the museum in found that people who drink sug - but not cause-and-effect. While ers doesn’t seem to help.” sugary beverages as a proxy.” day of healing” was a big step for 2004 after the government insist - ary beverages frequently are more researchers caution against over- “Maybe good old-fashioned the families, Head said. ed it should get the money, Source: Boston University. likely to have poorer memory, consuming either diet soda or water is something we need to get ◊ For decades, the study has been records show.◊ smaller overall brain volume, and sugary drinks, more research is used to,” adds Seshadri, who is a significantly smaller hippocam - needed to determine how—or senior author of both papers. pus—an area of the brain impor - if—these drinks actually damage Excess sugar has long been asso - tant for learning and memory. the brain, and how much damage ciated with cardiovascular and But before you chuck your may be caused by underlying vas - metabolic diseases like obesity, sweet tea and reach for a diet cular disease or diabetes. heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, soda, there’s more: a follow-up “These studies are not the be-all but little is known about its long- study found that people who and end-all, but it’s strong data and term effects on the human brain, drank diet soda daily were almost a very strong suggestion,” says says Matthew Pase, a fellow in the three times as likely to develop Sudha Seshadri, a professor of neu - university’s neurology department,

Study: Side effects emerge after approval for many U.S. drugs (AP) — Almost one-third of first in hundreds or even thou - arthritis and some other illnesses; new drugs approved by U.S. reg - sands of people for safety and Abilify, used for depression and ulators over a decade ended up effectiveness. other mental illness; and Pradaxa, years later with warnings about “We know that safety concerns, a blood thinner. The withdrawn unexpected, sometimes life- new ones, are going to be identified drugs and the reason: Bextra, an threatening side effects or com - once a drug is used in a wider popu - anti-inflammatory medicine, plications, a new analysis found. lation. That’s just how it is,” Ross heart problems; Raptiva, a psori - The results covered all 222 pre - said. “The fact that that’s such a asis drug, rare nervous system ill - scription drugs approved by the U.S. high number means the FDA is ness; and Zelnorm, a bowel ill - Food and Drug Administration from working hard to evaluate drugs and ness drug, heart problems. 2001 through 2010. The researchers once concerns are identified, they’re Safety issues were most common looked at potential problems that communicating them.” for psychiatric drugs and biologic cropped up during routine monitor - The researchers analyzed online drugs — made from living cells ing that’s done once a medicine is on FDA data on new drugs and the rather than chemicals — than for the market. The 71 flagged drugs agency’s later safety announce - older drug types. Drugs brought to included top-sellers for treating ments. Problems surfaced on aver - market through “accelerated” depression, arthritis, infections and age about four years after approval were slightly more likely blood clots. Safety issues included approval. Results were published to have later safety issues than risks for serious skin reactions, liver Tuesday in the Journal of the those approved through conven - damage, cancer and even death. American Medical Association . tional channels, a link seen in “The large percentage of prob - The FDA said in a statement that some previous research. lems was a surprise,” and they it performs post-market monitor - In recent years, there has been included side effects not seen dur - ing “to identify new safety infor - increasing pressure on the FDA ing the review process, said Dr. mation that may impact product from consumers and others to Joseph Ross, the study’s lead labeling.” The agency said it speed up its regulatory review author and an associate professor would review the study findings process to get new drugs to the of medicine and public health at but declined to comment further. market sooner, Ross said. Yale University. The study counted black-box Moore, a senior scientist for drug While most safety concerns warnings for dozens of drugs; safety and policy at the Institute for were not serious enough to these involved serious problems Safe Medication Practices, said the prompt recalls, the findings raise including deaths or life-threaten - new results raise concerns about questions about how thoroughly ing conditions linked with the whether new drugs are being exten - drugs are tested before approval, drugs. There were also dozens of sively tested before approval. He said drug safety expert Thomas alerts for less serious potential noted that since 2011, drugs have Moore. But Ross said the results harms and three drug withdrawals increasingly been approved based suggest that the FDA “is kind of because of the potential for death on studies in small numbers of doing a great job” at scrutinizing or other serious harm. patients amid public criticism ques - drugs after approval. Among the drugs with added tioning whether the FDA is keeping New drugs are generally tested warnings: Humira, used for potential cures away from patients.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - May 15 - May 21, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 The Color of Law, a forgotten history of how our government segregated America (Special from NAACP Legal Defense Fund, municipalities, large and small, which residential racial segrega - Fund) NorthStarNews Today) — In Rothstein has spent years docu - liberal and reactionary. tion in our nation is not the result “Racial segregation The Color of Law (published by menting the evidence that govern - As William Julius Wilson has of private decisions by private does not just happen; it Liveright in May 2017), Richard ment not merely ignored discrimi - stated: “ The Color of Law is one individuals, but is the direct prod - is made. Written with a Rothstein argues with exacting natory practices in the residential of those rare books that will be uct of unconstitutional government spatial imagination, this precision and fascinating insight sphere, but promoted them. The discussed and debated for many action. The implications of his exacting and exigent how segregation in America—the impact has been devastating for decades.” analysis are revolutionary.” book traces how public incessant kind that continues to generations of African Americans (Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Sex policies across a wide dog our major cities and has con - who were denied the right to live What readers of The Color of and the Constitution ) spectrum including tributed to so much recent social where they wanted to live, and Law manuscript have written: “A masterful explication of the discrimina―tory zoning, strife—is the byproduct of explicit raise and school their children “Richard Rothstein’s The Color single most vexing problem facing taxation, subsidies, and government policies at the local, where they thought best. of Law is one of those rare books Black America: the concentration explicit state, and federal levels. While the Fair Housing Act of that will be discussed and debated of the poor and middle class into redlining have To scholars and social critics, 1968 provided modest enforce - for many decades. Based on care - segregated neighborhoods. shaped the ra―cial frac - racism in our neighborhoods has ment to prevent future discrimina - ful analyses of multiple historical Rothstein documents the deep his - turing of America. At long been viewed as a manifesta - tion, it did nothing to reverse or documents, Rothstein has present - torical roots and the continuing once analytical and tion of unscrupulous real estate undo a century’s worth of state- ed what I consider to be the most practices in law and social custom passionate, The Color agents, unethical mortgage sanctioned violations of the Bill of forceful argument ever published that maintain a profoundly un- of Law discloses why lenders, and exclusionary Rights, particularly the Thirteenth on how federal, state and local American system holding down segregation has per - covenants working outside the Amendment which banned treating governments gave rise to and rein - the nation’s most disadvantaged sisted, even deepened, law. This is what is commonly former slaves as second-class citi - forced neighborhood segregation.” citizens.” (Thomas B. Edsall, in the post–civil rights known as “de facto segregated,” zens. So the structural conditions (William Julius Wilson, author of author of The Age of Austerity ) era, and thoughtfully Ferguson, Tulsa, Dallas, Staten practices that were the outcome established by 20th-century federal The Truly Disadvantaged ) “Through meticulous research proposes how remedies might be Island, Charleston and through - of private, not legal or public policy endure to this day. “Richard Rothstein’s The Color and powerful human stories, pursued. A must-read.” (Ira out the country. Wi―th its clarity and policy, means. Yet, as Rothstein At every step of the way, of Law offers an original and Richard Rothstein reveals a history Katznelson, author of the Bancroft breadth, the book is literally a breaks down in case after case, Rothstein demonstrates, the gov - insightful explanation of how gov - of racism hiding in plain sight and Fear Itself Prize–winning ) page-turner: once one begins on until the last quarter of the 20th ernment and our courts upheld ernment policy in the United States compels us to confront the conse - “This wonderful, important book this journey with Richard century de facto paled in compar - racist policies to maintain the sep - intentionally promoted and quences of the intentional, could not be more timely. It shows Rothstein, one is not likely to stop ison with de jure (government- aration of whites and Blacks— enforced residential racial segrega - decades-long governmental poli - how federal, state, and local gov - before the conclusion, with a deter - sponsored) segregation. leading to the powder keg that has tion. The central premise of his cies that created a segregated ernment housing policies made the mination that the injustices A former columnist for The New defined Ferguson, Baltimore, argument, which calls for a funda - America. The American landscape United States two societies, sepa - described must be redressed fully York Times and a research associ - Charleston, and Chicago. The mental reexamination of American will never look the same to readers rate and unequal, and used public and immediately.” (Florence ate at the Economic Policy Color of Law is not a tale of Red constitutional law, is that the of this important book.” (Sherrilyn power to impose unfair, profound - Roisman, William F. Harvey Institute, as well as a Fellow at the versus Blue states. It is sadly the Supreme Court has failed for A. Ifill, president of the NAACP ly damaging injuries on African Professor of Law, Indiana Thurgood Marshall Institute of the story of America in all of its decades to understand the extent to Legal Defense & Educational Americans. The book is filled with University). history that’s been deliberately buried even as its tragic conse - This review was published by the quences make headlines in Our little brother made history in 1955 Economic Policy Institute .◊ By Fr. Jerome LeDoux all students regardless of their party in the Student Center. This was my first Contributing Columnist race.” did not bother me because I had time there. This watershed ruling was never gone there. A few years Situated on In a bellwether ruling on May right on time for my younger later, I enrolled in Graduate dozens of 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme brother Nathaniel, aka Nat, who School and graduated in 1966.” acres of Court’s unanimous (9–0) deci - had just graduated from high Sixty-two years later, our Lake campus and sion in Brown v. Board of school and needed a handy, inex - Charles cousin Lawrence Sweet experimental LEDOUX Education of Topeka stated, “sep - pensive university for his colle - emailed us on Saturday, February farm proper - arate educational facilities are giate studies in his native Lake 18, 2017, “Nathaniel, Hilda and ties, McNeese is a growing inherently unequal.” Therefore, Charles, Louisiana. Philip will be in Lake Charles on school with a nearly-complete, de jure racial segregation was Sensing that he and his fellow April 22, 2017 for the Black futuristic tennis arena near the ruled a violation of the Equal African Americans were making Alumni Chapter of McNeese stadium. Protection Clause of the history as pioneers in desegrega - University Honors Ceremony. Though of modest size, the sta - Fourteenth Amendment of the tion, Nat resumed, “Therefore, Nathaniel will be honored as one dium is neat, colorful and United States Constitution. A 35 African Americans entered of first Blacks to attend the col - impressive. In the meeting room major victory of the Civil Rights McNeese State College in 1955. lege.” In her capacity as where 125 folks gathered for the Movement, this ruling opened Among those 35, Debbie President of the Black Alumni Honors Program/banquet, a mas - the door for racial integration. LaSalle, my classmate at Sacred Chapter, Lawrence’s and sive picture window captured the But, since the decision’s four - Heart, and I entered McNeese in Bertha’s daughter Deneen had football field below in full and teen pages did not spell out any that same January of 1955. She contacted Nat, inviting him to close-up view. sort of method for ending racial was very smart. We did well in speak at the celebration. As Nat approached the lectern, segregation in schools, and the our classes that first year. A representative number of our younger sister Mary Agatha Court’s second decision in Brown “Debbie and I went to school cousins flocked together from “Aggie” would have said, v. Board of Education of Topeka summer and winter and thus near and far, including our “That’s my little brother!” Of me II only ordered states to desegre - graduated in three years in June, Austin, Texas cousin, Josephine she said, “That’s my middle- gate “with all deliberate speed,” 1958. Although 35 students “Josie” Shannon Dukes, and her sized brother.” Verlin “Verl” she confusion reigned about meth - entered, Debbie and I were the husband Benjamin “BJ” Dukes. called “my big brother.” ods, ways and time schedules for only two who graduated, and a We relaxed momentarily and got “Veronica is my big sister.” desegregating the schools. year early. In our junior year, in some good visiting and con - Bonded over the decades by Nathaniel LeDoux observed, James Morgan was given an hon - versation at the Sweet home. We blood and love, the five of us “Mrs. Doretha Alma Combre, orable discharge from the army dined at the huge Seafood Palace were together in spirit. President of the Lake Charles and he joined us. He was also on Enterprise Boulevard before Being celebrated with Nat were Chapter of the NAACP, had very smart. going to our respective roosts for 1961-graduate Mrs. Katherine Attorney A.P. Tureaud of New “After we three African Friday night. Helen Jean; Father Whitney Orleans file a lawsuit against the Americans, Debbie, James and I Scooping up our cousin, Rev. Harris, the first black President state, and he won the lawsuit. graduated in three years – we Randy LeDoux, the younger son of the McNeese University stu - So, in New Orleans in January of went year round – we were told of our father’s youngest brother, dent body; Mrs. Luvertha 1955, the United States District to return our caps and gowns to a Maurice, I drove to the Field August; Wilfred Carter; Mrs. Court for the Eastern District of loft in the Administration House in front of the McNeese Wilda Golden; Mrs. Lisa Louisiana ruled that all colleges Building. Later, I learned that the University Cowboys football Walker.◊ in Louisiana must be opened to white graduates were given a stadium. In all my years, this

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was detected at an early stage, she unravels requirements that insurers rise. The AHCA would phase out urges Washington lawmakers to cover certain Obamacare “essential” Medicaid expan sion. GOP-backed health care bill provide universal coverage for health benefits. The legislation gives In the week of May 22, the Continued from Page 1 sample was $381. The hospital rules preventing discrimination Americans. “The United States is states the option to pull out of an Congressional Budget Office plans bill was $7,000, and the whole based on health status. Twenty- a world power and in so many ACA provision that individuals with to release a score for the House bill. time, out of pocket I paid over $200 bill was about $9,500.” seven states decided to administer ways a leader,” she said. “Other pre-existing conditions not be If the Senate passes its version, the for the colposcopy and another $150 “In total for my surgery, I paid a this Pre-Existing Condition developing countries cover their charged more by insurers. If the two bills will have to be reconciled for a biopsy of that sample.” $350 insurance premium and a Insurance Plan for their residents, citizens universally, and we should House bill becomes law, expecta - and voted on by the Senate and After that, the gynecologist $200 copay through the policy I while the federal government be able to do that too.” tions are that older and less healthy House again, before heading to explained to Alicia that CIN or bought under the Affordable Care operated it for 23 states and DC. The House repeal-and-replace bill individuals will see their premiums President Trump’s desk.◊ Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia Act, rather than $9,500 out of Kuykendal said cancer patients 1, 2 and 3 classify how much of pocket,” she said. “I had two fol - and survivors, under the House the cervix is affected by abnormal lowup visits at the gynecological legislation passed in May, might cells. Treatment is typically given surgeon, with a $35 copay each no longer be guaranteed cover - to remove CIN2 or CIN3 abnormal time. And so far, the doctor’s seen age for chemotherapy, prescrip - The concept of strength cells. “I was told I needed a cold nothing more to indicate cancer.” tion drugs, prevention services Continued from Page 5 President Kim Yung-Un, says perpetrator with a desire to build knife cone biopsy or surgery to Rollins said she’s among the and hospitalization. our president, is a “smart cook - community, not more chaos. remove a sample of abnormal tis - legions of individuals who could Unaffordable insurance and of nonviolence was ridiculous ie,” even as he continues his In the book To End All Wars: A sue from the cervix,” Rollins said. be at risk if the Affordable Health inadequate coverage would jeop - and foolish. Although he came to quest to attack the United States; Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, In asking around at hospitals and Care Act approved by the House ardize needed cancer treatments. understand the concept more in the president has gone so far as 1914-1918 , by Adam Hochschild, clinics in Monroe, she couldn’t get becomes effective. Medicaid coverage expanded time, at the beginning of his pub - to say he would be “honored” to there are vivid descriptions of the a firm cost estimate for that proce - Lydia Kuykendal, Louisiana gov - under the ACA. Recipients in lic leadership, he slammed it, meet with Kim Yung-Un if the fascination with war and violence dure. “One staffer on a hospital ernment-relations director at the Louisiana have grown since saying, “It is criminal to teach a circumstances were right. In the held by many in Great Britain, surgery floor said it might be American Cancer Society’s Cancer Governor John Bel Edwards, a man not to defend himself when same vein, the president has even before that country stood on $10,000,” she said. “I knew I was - Action Network in New Orleans, Medicaid supporter, took office he is the constant victim of bru - praised Russian President the brink of World War I. Young n’t eligible for Medicaid so I last week said the AHCA is bad for last year. Louisiana adults newly tal attacks. It is legal and lawful Vladimir Putin and has invited men aspired to go to war; they researched the best policies that I cancer patients. “The various patch - enrolled in Medicaid since mid- to own a shotgun or a rifle. We the president of the Philippines, loved the uniforms and the military could afford on HealthCare.gov . I es being offered by lawmakers, 2016 exceeded 400,000 this past believe in obeying the law.” Rodrigo Duterte, who has been music and the pomp and circum - bought a platinum policy from including high-risk pools and finan - February, exceeding expectations, Ironically, those who today accused of murdering or order - stance associated with war, and Vantage Health Plan under the cial assistance with premiums, don’t according to the state’s defend the right of Americans to ing the murders of Philippines they loved the adulation of the peo - ACA. The premium was about in any way offer the level of protec - Department of Health. Medicaid own guns would criticize who are addicted to drugs — to ple. Hochschild writes that “in the $350 a month.” Vantage Health tion that the current law does,” she expansion has increased access to Malcolm X for his remarks; he the White House. Our president grandest and richest of Britain’s Plan is headquartered in Monroe. said. “This House legislation would regular, cost-effective primary was, in fact, criticized then. called the president of Turkey, colonies many officers spent the Rollins had the cold knife cone allow insurers in states with high- care, Dr. Rebekah Gee, Louisiana’s Defending oneself seems to be a Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to con - defining years of their lives con - surgery in December and was diag - risk pools to charge people with pre- health secretary said in February. right reserved for white people. gratulate him after a referendum vinced that they were carrying out nosed with 1a1 cervical cancer existing conditions more, delay their Fewer residents have turned to But the belief in the need to was passed in his country which a sacred, altruistic mission.” afterwards. “The surgery removed coverage, or even limit their access hospital emergency rooms, saving “defend oneself” is at the heart of will allow him to further intrude Fighting for one’s country was a the cancerous cells from my to high-risk pools—just as they did tax dollars and other resources. the Second Amendment debate upon and erode the human and noble endeavor, and despite the cervix,” she said. before the current law was enacted.” As one who benefited from today, and is at the heart of what democratic rights of the people fact that many historians agree that How much did this cost under Before the ACA, three dozen Obamacare, Alicia Rollins advises is going on on the world stage. of his country. World War I should never have her ACA policy? “The gynecol - states operated high-risk pools. others to take time to find the best, Having “strength” means one None of these leaders would been fought, the romantic attach - ogical surgeon charged $600, the The ACA established a tempo - possible insurance in a sea of absolutely defends oneself, be it ever even consider nonviolence ment to the concept of violence as anesthesiologist charged $973, rary, national high-risk pool pro - dizzying choices. “My research with a gun or worse. To have the as being acceptable. They would strength, and a noble strength at and the hospital charged for blood gram in 2010 to cover uninsured was cumbersome, but it saved me willingness to use force as a sign be much more in agreement, that, has endured. tests, blood typing and other serv - people with pre-existing condi - money and allowed me to address of strength is a measure of one’s probably to their dismay, with None of the current world leaders ices,” Rollins said. “The fee from tions until 2014 —when private my health needs fairly quickly,” manhood. Any man worth his salt Malcolm X than they would be mentioned in this piece, however, the pathologist who tested the policies were available under new she said. Relieved that her cancer will be able and willing to use with Rev. King. These men are have real strength, the strength to try force — and will be willing to infatuated with the power they to forge community and to find sat - have and wield, and they will do isfaction for their egos in doing that. 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Beware: That call from the IRS may not be a scam after all By Anna Challet ‘The IRS won’t call you,’” says debt. Four private debt collectors have ous, even if they’ve paid their taxes not going to ask you for a crazy wire Contributing Writer Kopec. “That was the first line of been selected to do so. already,” says Kopec. transfer or anything with an iTunes card defense to arm consumers to avoid According to the IRS, individuals are These are the most important things for or any of the other kinds of mechanisms (Special from New America Media) IRS scam calls. And now, that’s not supposed to receive two notices in the taxpayers to know, given the new debt that we see come up in scams.” — For taxpayers worried about scams true. You can get called by a legitimate mail – one from the IRS informing collection practices: 3. If a debt collector calls and is involving IRS imposters, the one reli - debt collector on behalf of the IRS.” them that their account has been 1. If it’s a legitimate call from an aggressive, threatens to send someone to able piece of advice to hold onto was The most important thing for con - assigned to one of the four collections authorized IRS debt collector, it will your home, threatens you with arrest, or the old consumer protections adage: sumers to know, says Kopec, is that in agencies, and a second notice from the always be a live agent – the private puts pressure on you to make a payment “The IRS will never call you.” a legitimate collections call on behalf debt collector. After that, the debt col - debt collectors are not authorized to – these are telltale signs of a scam. “The Not anymore. of the IRS, a debt collector will never lectors may communicate with taxpay - engage in robo-calling or use pre- people who make these imposter calls, The Internal Revenue Service is phas - ask you to pay right then, or to pay over ers over the phone. recorded messages. they’re good. They’re usually very ing in the use of private debt collectors the phone. Rather, they will direct you It’s a problem because imposter calls 2. In a legitimate tax debt collec - smooth with their pitch and they put a lot to collect people’s past-due taxes. With to either mail a check to the U.S. from people trying to fraudulently col - tion call, the agent will never demand of pressure on you ,” says Kopec. telephonic scams involving IRS Treasury, made out to the IRS – not to lect payments over the phone – includ - payment over the phone. The IRS has used private debt collec - imposters so common, taxpayers now the private debt collector or to anyone ing calls from people posing as IRS “Anytime someone asks for payment tors before; the last time they did so was have one new thing to worry about. else – or they’ll direct you to the pay - agents – are one of the top categories over the phone, in any form, right then, in 2009. A subsequent study found that Janice Kopec is an attorney with the ment page on the IRS.gov website. of consumer complaints at the FTC that’s a scam,” says Kopec. “They’re the private collections agencies were less Bureau of Consumer Protection at the In 2015, Congress passed a law every month, according to Kopec. not going to ask you for an electronic effective at collecting debt than the IRS Federal Trade Commission. “In the authorizing the IRS to use private debt And anyone can be susceptible to this check, they’re not going to ask you for itself, so it’s unclear why Congress has past, we had always told consumers, collectors to collect on outstanding tax kind of scam. “Taxes make people nerv - your credit or debit card number, they’re reauthorized the practice.◊

African-American men should be very worried about self-driving vehicles By Dr. Algernon Austin the end of car driving and truck they do in non-driving occupations. Although Black men are likely lenges that may be created by Contributing Writer driving as occupations. Driving occupations are one of the to be hardest hit by the rise of autonomous vehicles. Since Dr. Algernon Austin conducts By race, no group relies more on few in which a Black man without a autonomous vehicles, all other Black men will likely be the most economic policy research for the (Special from NorthStarNews driving occupations for work than college degree can obtain a job that groups will be affected to varying negatively affected, it would be Demos think tank, which has Today) — There is a great deal African Americans. Blacks are pays fairly well. If these jobs go degrees. There is tremendous important for them to get organ - offices in New York, Washington, of excitement about self-driving overrepresented in the bus driver, away, it will be difficult for Black opportunity for building a broad ized, get active, and get to work and Boston. This article was or autonomous vehicles and how truck driver (i.e., delivery truck men to find jobs that pay as well. coalition to address the chal - building these activist coalitions. first published by Demos .◊ they will make travel safer and and heavy truck), and taxi driver Black men also have the highest more efficient. What isn’t being (and chauffeur) occupational cate - unemployment rate by race and gen - discussed nearly as much is the gories. They are the most overrep - der. Even if new jobs are created as impact of this technology on resented group among bus drivers a result of autonomous vehicles, it is people who drive for a living. and truck drivers. Asian Americans fair to wonder whether the discrimi - Billionaire Robert L. Johnson’s Many people should be worried are only slightly more overrepre - nation against Black men in our about whether their jobs are sented than African Americans as labor market will prevent Black men about to be rendered obsolete. taxi drivers and chauffeurs. from obtaining them. Company announces $7B merger No group should be more wor - Driving occupations are for the Autonomous vehicles could By Frederick H. Lowe based in Bethesda, Md., when the Steven R. Goldman, FelCor’s ried than African-American men. most part dominated by men. The begin eliminating driving jobs in Contributing Writer deal closes later this year. A REIT, CEO, said the merger creates a In the report I co-authored, “Stick African-American overrepresenta - as soon as two or three years. or Real Estate Investment Trust, is lodging REIT that is positioned Shift: Autonomous Vehicles, tion in driving occupations is Now is the time for advocates to (Special from NorthStarNews a company that owns or finances for significant growth. Driving Jobs, and the Future of mainly due to a strong overrepre - begin to push for policies that would Today) — RLJ Lodging Trust, income-producing real estate. Under the terms of the agree - Work,” published by the Center for sentation of Black men. Black enable drivers to smoothly transition whose executive chairman and The combined company will ment, FelCor common stock will Global Policy Solutions, we esti - women have a strong presence as from driving jobs to good non-driv - founder is billionaire Robert L. have ownership interests in 160 be converted into 0.362 shares of mated that there are about four mil - bus drivers however, and they too ing jobs. We need to strengthen and Johnson, on Monday announced a hotels, including premium-brand - newly issued common shares of lion Americans who drive for a liv - are overrepresented in driving modernize our unemployment merger agreement with FelCor ed hotels primarily located in RLJ common stock. ing. A lot of the autonomous-vehi - occupations relative to women. insurance system; we need better Lodging Trust Inc., creating the urban and coastal markets. RLJ’s shareholders are expected cle discussions have focused only Black men should be especially and more affordable education and nation’s third-largest pure play “As chairman of RLJ Lodging to own approximately 71 percent on cars, but most people who drive worried about the rise of retraining systems for adults; and lodging real estate investment trust Trust, I would like to say that we of the combined company’s fully for a living drive heavy trucks autonomous vehicles because not we need all levels of government to (REIT) by enterprise value. are very excited about this com - diluted equity and FelCor’s share - The combined company will bination with FelCor. I am confi - holders are expected to own the (e.g., 18-wheelers), delivery only are they overrepresented in aggressively pursue full-employ - have a market capitalization of dent that under the management remaining 29 percent. trucks, and buses. Autonomous- these occupations, they tend to earn ment polices so that there are good approximately $4.2 billion and a of our seasoned team of execu - After the merger RLJ Lodging vehicle technology could lead to more in driving occupations than jobs available for all Americans. total enterprise value of $7 billion. tives, this portfolio will yield Trust will retain its name. The FelCor, which is based in Irving, significant benefits to the share - company will be traded on the Texas, will become a wholly holders of both companies,” New York Stock Exchange under A robot that picks apples? owned subsidiary of RLJ, which is Johnson said in a statement. the ticker symbol of “RLJ.◊ Replacing humans worries some By Nicholas K. Geranios native harvest methods. grown in new trellis systems that AP Writer Advocates for farmworkers allow robots to see and harvest say robot pickers will have a the fruit, she said. (AP) — Harvesting Washington negative effect. “We are evolving the tree state’s vast fruit orchards each While financial details are not architecture and apple placement year requires thousands of farm - available, the builders say the to be compatible with robotics,” workers, and many of them work robotic pickers should pay for Lewis said, a process called illegally in the United States. themselves in two years. That “robot-ready.” That system eventually could puts the likely cost of the Large farming operations likely change dramatically as at least two machines in the hundreds of will be first to adopt the machines, companies are rushing to get robot - thousands of dollars each. but it might be decades before ic fruit-picking machines to market. FFRobotics is developing a their use is widespread. The robotic pickers don’t get machine that has three-fingered “I think for the next 10 to 20 tired and can work 24 hours a day. grips to grab fruit and twist or years, they will be used by some “Human pickers are getting clip it from a branch. The growers to supplement regular scarce,” said Gad Kober, a co- machine would have between picking crews and to serve as a founder of Israel-based four and 12 robotic arms, and backstop for picker shortages,” FFRobotics. “Young people do not can pick up to 10,000 apples an said Mike Gempler of the want to work in farms, and elderly hour, Kober said. Washington Growers League in pickers are slowly retir ing.” One machine would be able to Yakima. Reliability and cost will FFRobotics and Abundant harvest a variety of crops, taking determine if their use expands. Robotics, of Hayward, 85 to 90 percent of the crop off Republican U.S. Rep. Dan California, are racing to get their the trees, Kober said. Humans Newhouse, whose family owns a mechanical pickers to market could pick the rest. large farming operation in within the next couple of years. Abundant Robotics is working Washington’s Yakima Valley, said Harvest has long been mecha - on a picker that uses suction to the industry is deeply interested in nized for large portions of the vacuum apples off trees. alternatives to human labor. agriculture industry, such as Plans for the robotic harvesters “We are absolutely looking at wheat, corn, green beans, toma - - including a goal of getting them ways we can increase our effi - toes and many other crops. But to market before 2019 — were ciency,” said Newhouse, adding for more fragile commodities like discussed in February at an inter - his family’s farm each year apples, berries, table grapes and national convention of fruit employs some 120 farmworkers, lettuce - where the crop’s appear - growers in Wenatchee. many of them picking cherries ance is especially important - har - The two robot makers are like - and nec tarines. vest is still done by hand. ly to hit their production goals, The industry has no choice but Members of the $7.5 billion said Karen Lewis, a Washington to embrace mechanization, said annual Washington agriculture State University cooperative Mark Powers, president of the industry have long grappled with extension agent who has studied Northwest Horticultural labor shortages, and depend on the issue. Council, a trade group for farm - workers coming up from Mexico “Both of them will be in the ers in Yakima. each year to harvest many crops. field with prototypes this fall,” “We don’t see some miraculous President Donald Trump’s hard Lewis said, calling the robotic new source of labor appearing on line against immigrants in the harvesters a “game changer.” the horizon,” Powers said. “We U.S. illegally has many farmers But for the machines to work, think labor will continue to be a in the country looking for alter - apples and other crops must be scarce resource.”◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM May 15 - May 21, 2017 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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SALE bY Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment the following described Orleans, in the above OCWEn LOAn SERvIC - THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal of adjudication to make a property to wit: entitled cause, I will InG, LLC vS MICHAEL ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) deposit of ten percent of LOT Y, ALSO proceed to sell by pub - ROY PARKER, JR., OF GROUnD JUDICIAL bEARInG MUnICIPAL JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn the purchase price, and REFERRED TO AS lic auction, on the ETAL ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff the balance within thirty PART OF LOT B ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for nO. 1422 EGAnIA ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans STREET, THIS CITY In THAT PORTIOn ATTY: J. DONALD MORGAN days thereafter. (NOTE: SQUARE 1970 District Court building, the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn (225) 761-0001 The payment must be THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2013-9636 THE MATTER EnTI - OF GROUnD TW 6 TLED: SUCCESSIOn bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF GROUnD LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ______Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 3118 City on May 18, 2017, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF LEROY MACEO nO. 2422 CLOvER nO. 741-743 SALE bY Order. No personal FRENCHMEN STREET at 12:00 o’clock noon, directed to me by the LEWIS STREET, THIS CITY, In bARTHOLOMEW ST, checks.) ACQ. MIN 976197 the following described Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for THE MATTER EnTI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans TLED MIDFIRST bAnK THIS CITY In THE MAT - MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: District Court of TER EnTITLED: bnO JUDICIAL Sheriff $86,941.45 COMPOSED OF THE Orleans, in the above no. 2016-1365 vS HAROLD WALLACE Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT MARCHAnD, JR. AnD FInAnCIAL CORPORA - ADvERTISEMEnT ATTY: COREY GIROIR Seized in the above FRONT AND LARGER entitled cause, I will TIOn vERSUS PERCY (225) 756-0373 suit, TERMS CASH. The PORTIONS OF ORIGI - proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CHERYL ROLLAnD THAT PORTIOn TW 23 directed to me by the MARCHAnD JAMES GOODWIn LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 purchaser at the moment NAL LOTS ONE AND lic auction, on the Civil District Court for OF GROUnD ______of adjudication to make a TWO, SQUARE 652 ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL SALE bY deposit of ten percent of SEVENTH MUNICIPAL District Court building, District Court of the Parish of Orleans no. 2016-5558 nO. the purchase price, and DISTRICT 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above no. 2016-12410 by virtue of a WRIT 1865-67 MURL ST, ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO. 4139 the First District of the entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT OF COURT ORDER to THIS CITY, In THE MAT - JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: HAMILTON STREET City on May 18, 2017, proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE me directed by the TER EnTITLED ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be ACQUIRED MIN at 12:00 o’clock noon, lic auction, on the directed to me by the Honorable The Civil STAnDARD MORT - Cash, Cashier’s Check, 1167567 the following described ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil District Court of GAGE CORPORATIOn THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: District Court building, District Court of Orleans, in the above vS SPEnSER GLYnn OF GROUnD Order. No personal $2,155.00 LOT C, SQUARE 247, 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will RObInSOn bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) Seized in the above SECOND MUNICIPAL the First District of the entitled cause, I will City on May 18, 2017, proceed to sell by pub - proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for nO. 1257 HARRISOn MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The DISTRICT, lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans AvE, THIS CITY, In THE Sheriff purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 2022- at 12:00 o’clock noon, lic auction, on the Parish of Orleans the following described ground floor of the Civil ground floor of the Civil no. 2016-9890 MATTER EnTITLED ATTY: LINDSAY FAULKNER of adjudication to make a 24 BIENVILLE STREET District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT ADMInISTRATOR, U.S. (504) 831-7726 deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN 920028 property to wit: District Court building, JD 24 LOT NO. 6 - SQURE 580 421 Loyola Avenue, in 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD SALE SMALL bUSInESS LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the directed to me by the ADMInISTRATIOn, An ______the balance within thirty $97,511.11 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the City on May 18, 2017, Honorable The Civil AGEnCY OF THE UnIT - SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above TRICT City on May 18, 2017, at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of ED STATES OF AMERI - The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 1422 at 12:00 o’clock noon, the following described Orleans, in the above CA vS KEnnETH ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment EGANIA STREET the following described property to wit: entitled cause, I will CASTELL AnD JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a ACQ. COB 729/335; CIN property to wit: LOT "R" - SQUARE 180 proceed to sell by pub - SHIRLEY WILLIAMS ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of 433935 LOT 30, SQUARE 15, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - lic auction, on the CASTELL A/K/A checks.) the purchase price, and NOTARY PUBLIC, HALI - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - THAT PORTIOn MA NARCISSE SMITH, TRICT, TICT ground floor of the Civil SHIRLEY W. CASTELL MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO. 741- District Court building, A/K/A SHIRLEY OF GROUnD Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: TO MAKE THE PARTI - EDGEWOOD PARK Parish of Orleans TION OF THE SALE. SUBDIVISION, 743 BARTHOLOMEW 421 Loyola Avenue, in CASTELL bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM The payment must be ST the First District of the Civil District Court for nO. 9531 STROELITZ (504) 658-4346 Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: MUNICIPAL NO: 2422 JD 35 Seized in the above CLOVER STREET, ACQ. MTG 212442, City on May 18, 2017, the Parish of Orleans STREET, THIS CITY, In LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 Certified Check or Money CONV 70707, CO at 12:00 o’clock noon, no. 2017-1574 THE MATTER EnTI - ______Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQ MIN: 425254 589353 the following described by virtue of a WRIT TLED CITY OF nEW checks.) purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: SALE bY of adjudication to make a $68,724.57 MInIMUM OPEnInG property to wit: OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ORLEAnS vS JOSEPH MARLIn n. GUSMAn bID IS $24, 193.41 LOT NO. 61 SQUARE directed to me by the TRUMbATURI OR HIS ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sheriff deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above Parish of Orleans the purchase price, and suit, TERMS CASH. The NOTARY PUBLIC, H-2 Honorable The Civil SUCCESSORS, HEIRS JUDICIAL ATTY: MARK GARRISON TOSHINITA SUMMERS, FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of AnD ASSIGnS, EDITH (225) 924-1600 the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment ADvERTISEMEnT LM 37 days thereafter. (NOTE: of adjudication to make a TO MAKE THIS PARTI - TRICT Orleans, in the above CHAPELL TRUMbAT - LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 TION IN ACCORDANCE MUNICIPAL NO. 1865- entitled cause, I will URI OF HIS SUCCES - THAT PORTIOn ______The payment must be deposit of ten percent of WITH LAW THE CLOS - 67 MURL ST proceed to sell by pub - SORS, HEIRS AnD OF GROUnD SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, the purchase price, and ING TO OCCUR WITHIN ACQ MIN: 983009 lic auction, on the ASSIGnS, CASSAn - bEARInG MUnICIPAL Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty 30 DAYS FROM THE WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil DRA CLARK AnD nO. 5329 CHARTRES ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: DATE OF THE SALE. $124,975.53 District Court building, CATHY T. O'bRIEn STREET, nEW JUDICIAL checks.) The payment must be TERMS CASH . 100% Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, LA, In THE MARLIn n. GUSMAn Cash, Cashier’s Check, ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff Certified Check or Money CASH AT THE MOMENT suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the the Parish of Orleans MATTER EnTITLED: Parish of Orleans OF ADJUDICATION purchaser at the moment City on May 18, 2017, no. 2015-10440 "nATIOnSTAR MORT - THAT PORTIOn ATTY: CLINTON SMITH Order. No personal (504) 382-3760 checks.) (NOTE: The payment of adjudication to make a at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT GAGE LLC D/b/A OF GROUnD BTD 8 must be Cash, Cashier’s deposit of ten percent of the following described OF FIERI FACIAS CHAMPIOn MORT - bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 MARLIn n. GUSMAn ______Sheriff Check, Certified Check the purchase price, and property to wit: directed to me by the GAGE COMPAnY vS nO. 1620 AGRICUL - Parish of Orleans or Money Order. No per - the balance within thirty LOT NO. 2 SQUARE Honorable The Civil YOLAnDA FORD TURE STREET, CITY OF SALE bY ATTY: J. DONALD MORGAN days thereafter. (NOTE: NO. 3056 District Court of bURKE, TERRIn A. nEW ORLEAnS, In THE (225) 761-0001 sonal checks.) ORLEAnS SHERIFF BB 7 The payment must be THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Orleans, in the above FORD, JOHn H. FORD CASE EnTITLED: LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 MARLIn n. GUSMAn ______Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT entitled cause, I will AnD KEITH J. FORD" REvERSE MORTGAGE JUDICIAL Parish of Orleans ATTY: JOHN MENSzER Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 1257 proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for SOLUTIOnS, InC vS ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY (504) 362-3692 Order. No personal HARRISON AVE lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans THE SUCCESSIOn OF THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF BTD 9 checks.) ACQ MIN:871060 ground floor of the Civil no. 2016-6985 GAIL Ann REIMOnEnQ LA. WEEKLY 4/10/2017 , 5/8/2017 OF GROUnD JUDICIAL ______MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT A/K/A GAIL Ann REI - Sheriff $25,796.89 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MOnEnQ A/K/A GAIL A. bEARInG MUnICIPAL ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY Parish of Orleans nO. 7451 CAMbERLEY ATTY: FRED DAIGLE Seized in the above the First District of the directed to me by the REIMOnEnQ A/K/A THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF (504) 522-8256 suit, TERMS CASH. The City on May 18, 2017, Honorable The Civil GAIL REIMOnEnQ DRIvE, nEW TW 11 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE OF GROUnD JUDICIAL LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 purchaser at the moment at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of Civil District Court for MATTER EnTITLED: bEARInG MUnICIPAL ADvERTISEMEnT ______of adjudication to make a the following described Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans SALE bY deposit of ten percent of property to wit: entitled cause, I will no. 2016-6014 "WHITnEY bAnK vS nO. 4700 PERELLI THAT PORTIOn the purchase price, and LOT 11, SQUARE 603, proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT PATRICK L. GURLEY" DRIvE, CITY OF nEW OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty SEVENTH MUNICIPAL lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, In THE bEARInG MUnICIPAL JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: DISTRICT, ground floor of the Civil directed to me by the the Parish of Orleans CASE EnTITLED: 4700 nO. 3648 TIMbER ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO: 9531 District Court building, Honorable The Civil no. 2016-7161 PERELLI DRIvE bLUFF DR,THIS CITY, Cash, Cashier’s Check, STROELITz STREET, 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of by virtue of a WRIT Civil District Court for In THE MATTER EnTI - THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money ACQ MIN: 1175683 the First District of the Orleans, in the above OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the Parish of Orleans TLED MIDFIRST bAnK OF GROUnD Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: City on May 18, 2017, entitled cause, I will directed to me by the no. 2017-2028 vS KRISTIAn R. bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) $12,485.00 at 12:00 o’clock noon, proceed to sell by pub - Honorable The Civil by virtue of a WRIT District Court of OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CRAIGE, SR. AnD nO. 303 CALHOUn ST, MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above the following described lic auction, on the PATRICE TARDIEFF THIS CITY, In THE MAT - Sheriff suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: ground floor of the Civil Orleans, in the above directed to me by the Parish of Orleans entitled cause, I will Honorable The Civil CRAIGE TER EnTITLED ATTY: RAY WOOD purchaser at the moment LOT z, SQUARE 116 District Court building, Civil District Court for WELLS FARGO bAnK, (225) 372-8877 of adjudication to make a THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in proceed to sell by pub - District Court of TW 26 lic auction, on the Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans n.A. vS MICHAEL D. LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 deposit of ten percent of TRICT the First District of the no. 2014-11890 MIDDLETOn A/K/A ______the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 5329 City on May 18, 2017, ground floor of the Civil entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT MICHAEL MIDDLETOn SALE bY the balance within thirty CHARTRES STREET at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court building, proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE AnD LYnn POWERS days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN the following described 421 Loyola Avenue, in lic auction, on the directed to me by the MIDDLETOn A/K/A ORLEAnS SHERIFF The payment must be 1046533 property to wit: the First District of the ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil LYnn P. MIDDLETOn JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: LOT X, SQUARE 1726, City on May 18, 2017, District Court building, District Court of A/K/A LYnn MIDDLE - ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money $81,970.01 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - at 12:00 o’clock noon, 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above TOn Order. No personal Seized in the above TRICT, the following described the First District of the entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn checks.) suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 1620 property to wit: City on May 18, 2017, LOT 3, SQUARE A at 12:00 o’clock noon, proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment AGRICULTURE lic auction, on the no. 2017-1587 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff of adjudication to make a STREET THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the following described Parish of Orleans TRICT property to wit: ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT nO. 3118 FREnCHMEn ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE STREET, THIS CITY, In (504) 658-4346 the purchase price, and 1104674 LAKE BARRINGTON LOT 28, SQUARE B, BB 34 SUBDIVISION THIRD MINICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in directed to me by the THE MATTER EnTI - LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the Honorable The Civil TLED: FEDERAL ______days thereafter. (NOTE: $121,010.00 MUNICIPAL NO. 7451 TRICT City on May 18, 2017, District Court of nATIOnAL MORTGAGE SALE bY The payment must be Seized in the above CAMBERLEY DRIVE WINSTON PLACE at 12:00 o’clock noon, Orleans, in the above ASSOCIATIOn vERSUS Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQUIRED MIN 985501 MUNICIPAL NO. 4700 the following described entitled cause, I will SAMEnTHIA M. ORLEAnS SHERIFF Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: PERELLI DRIVE property to wit: proceed to sell by pub - SYLvESTER (A/K/A JUDICIAL Order. No personal of adjudication to make a $178,865.33 ACQUIRED MIN LOT 18 SQUARE 7 lic auction, on the SAMETHIA M. checks.) deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above 1104004 ADvERTISEMEnT suit, TERMS CASH. The WRIT AMOUnT: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil CAMEROn) MARLIn n. GUSMAn the purchase price, and TRICT District Court building, Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn Sheriff the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment $100,495.11 Parish of Orleans of adjudication to make a Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 3648 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD ATTY: NICHOLAS GREST days thereafter. (NOTE: TIMBER BLUFF DR the First District of the no. 2015-11058 bEARInG MUnICIPAL (318) 388-1440 The payment must be deposit of ten percent of suit, TERMS CASH. The JD 36 the purchase price, and purchaser at the moment SUBDIVISION: TALL City on May 18, 2017, by virtue of a WRIT nO. 4139 HAMILTOn LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 Cash, Cashier’s Check, TIMBERS at 12:00 o’clock noon, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE STREET, nEW ______Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty of adjudication to make a ACQ MIN: 735449 the following described directed to me by the ORLEAnLS, LA, In THE SALE bY Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: Honorable The Civil MATTER EnTITLED: checks.) The payment must be the purchase price, and ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, the balance within thirty $65,795.39 LOT 1-A SQUARE District Court of "CITY OF nEW MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above NO. 11 Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS vS PAUL JUDICIAL Sheriff Certified Check or Money days thereafter. (NOTE: SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will QUARTARARO" Parish of Orleans Order. No personal The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The ADvERTISEMEnT ATTY: COREY GIROIR purchaser at the moment TRICT proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for (225) 756-0373 checks.) Cash, Cashier’s Check, THAT PORTIOn LM 21 Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a MUNICIPAL NO. 303 lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff ______Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of CALHOUN ST ground floor of the Civil no. 2015-12011 OF GROUnD Parish of Orleans the purchase price, and ACQ MIN: 962539 District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTY: CLAY LEGROS checks.) SALE bY (504) 837-9040 the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF FIERI FACIAS nO. 2022-24 bIEnvILLE JD 1 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff ORLEAnS SHERIFF LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: $273,326.13 the First District of the directed to me by the STREET, CITY OF nEW Parish of Orleans ______The payment must be Seized in the above City on May 18, 2017, Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS, In THE JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of CASE EnTITLED: ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - May 15 - May 21, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 13 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices

Continued from previous page suit, TERMS CASH. The Public; dated April 21, lic auction, on the STREET, nWE Check, Certified Check $79,647.63 Orleans, in the above purchaser at the moment 1971. All also in accor - ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS, LA, In THE or Money Order. No per - NOTARY PUBLIC, entitled cause, I will ATTY: LOUIS ARCENEAUX of adjudication to make a dance with a survey by District Court building, MATTER EnTITLED: sonal checks.) TOSHINITA SUMMERS, proceed to sell by pub - (504) 522-8256 deposit of ten percent of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, 421 Loyola Avenue, in "U.S. bAnK TRUST, TO MAKE THIS PARTI - lic auction, on the LM 12 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 the purchase price, and dated September 11, the First District of the n.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR TION IN ACCORDANCE ground floor of the Civil Parish of Orleans ______the balance within thirty 1987, a copy of which is City on June 15, 2017, LSF9 MASTER PARTIC - ATTY: MARK LANDRY WITH LAW THE CLOS - District Court building, days thereafter. (NOTE: attached hereto and at 12:00 o’clock noon, IPATIOn TRUST vS (504) 837-9040 ING TO OCCUR WITHIN 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE bY BB 8 The payment must be made a part hereof. the following described WILLARD A. LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 30 DAYS FROM THE the First District of the ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, Improvements property to wit: CHEATHAM, JR. AnD ______DATE OF THE SALE. City on June 15, 2017, JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money thereon bear Municipal LOT 3, SQUARE 4258, THERESA WALKER SALE bY TERMS CASH . 100% at 12:00 o’clock noon, ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal No. 3328 Republic THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - CHEATHAM" ORLEAnS SHERIFF CASH AT THE MOMENT the following described THAT PORTIOn checks.) Street. TRICT, Civil District Court for OF ADJUDICATION property to wit: MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: MUINICIPAL NO. 2316 the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL (NOTE: The payment LOT 36-A, SQUARE OF GROUnD Sheriff $24,096.01 MENDEz STREET no. 2017-2840 must be Cash, Cashier’s NO. 506 Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTY: PENNY DAIGREPONT Seized in the above ACQUIRED MIN by virtue of a WRIT Check, Certified Check FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - nO. 2233 TUPELO (504) 831-7726 suit, TERMS CASH. The 1121611 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THAT PORTIOn or Money Order. No per - TRICT JD 19 STREET, CITY OF nEW LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: to me directed by the OF GROUnD sonal checks.) 1318 S. SALCEDO ORLEAnS, In THE ______of adjudication to make a $48,138.27 Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn STREET CASE EnTITLED: deposit of ten percent of NOTARY PUBLIC, District Court of nO. 2530 MUSIC Sheriff ACQ. MIN 1147496 SALE bY Parish of Orleans nATIOnSTAR REO SUb the purchase price, and TOSHINITA SUMMERS, Orleans, in the above STREET, CITY OF nEW ATTY: COREY GIROIR WRIT AMOUnT: 1b LLC vS THE ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty TO MAKE THIS PARTI - entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS, In THE (225) 756-0373 $313,459.37 JD 12 UnOPEnDED SUCCES - JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: TION IN ACCORDANCE proceed to sell by pub - CASE EnTITLED: LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 NOTARY PUBLIC, SIOn OF bERnICE R. ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be WITH LAW THE CLOS - lic auction, on the GREEn TREE SERvIC - ______TOSHINITA SUMMERS, PELLEbOn, (A/K/A Cash, Cashier’s Check, ING TO OCCUR WITHIN ground floor of the Civil InG LLC vS JEWE - SALE bY TO MAKE THIS PARTI - bERnICE REDDICKS, THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money 30 DAYS FROM THE District Court building, LEAn S. WELLS AnD TION IN ACCORDANCE bERnICE REDDICK, OF GROUnD Order. No personal DATE OF THE SALE. 421 Loyola Avenue, in ALbERT E. WELLS ORLEAnS SHERIFF WITH LAW THE CLOS - bERnICE PELLEbOn) bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) TERMS CASH . 100% the First District of the Civil District Court for JUDICIAL ING TO OCCUR WITHIN Civil District Court for nO. 3328 REPUbLIC MARLIn n. GUSMAn CASH AT THE MOMENT City on June 15, 2017, the Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT 30 DAYS FROM THE the Parish of Orleans STREET, nEW Sheriff OF ADJUDICATION at 12:00 o’clock noon, no. 2015-334 DATE OF THE SALE. Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn no. 2016-7081 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ATTY: WAYNE MAIORANA (NOTE: The payment the following described by virtue of a WRIT TERMS CASH . 100% by virtue of a WRIT MATTER EnTITLED: (504) 837-9040 must be Cash, Cashier’s property to wit: OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF GROUnD CASH AT THE MOMENT JD 15 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE “LIbERTY bAnK AnD LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 Check, Certified Check LOT 40A, SQUARE 159 to me directed by the bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF ADJUDICATION directed to me by the TRUST COMPAnY vS Honorable The Civil nO. 7040 WHITMORE ______or Money Order. No per - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - (NOTE: The payment Honorable The Civil ESTATE OF LEOnA sonal checks.) TRICT District Court of PLACE, CITY OF nEW must be Cash, Cashier’s District Court of HEARY, CAROL SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn EDGELAKE SUBDIVI - Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS, In THE Check, Certified Check Orleans, in the above DESALLE, GERALD Sheriff SION entitled cause, I will CASE EnTITLED: or Money Order. No per - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans entitled cause, I will DESALLE, LAnnY ATTY: RADER JACKSON MUNICIPAL NO. 7655 proceed to sell by pub - WILMInGTOn SAvInGS sonal checks.) proceed to sell by pub - DESALLE, MICHAEL JUDICIAL (504) 581-9444 MARQUIS STREET lic auction, on the FUnD SOCIETY, FSb, LM 3 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff lic auction, on the DESALLE, RICK ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 ACQUIRED MIN 919569 ground floor of the Civil DOInG bUSInESS AS Parish of Orleans ground floor of the Civil DESALLE AnD JEF - ______District Court building, CHRISTIAnA TRUST, THAT PORTIOn WRIT AMOUnT: ATTY: COREY GIROIR District Court building, FERY DESALLE.” $121,476.02 421 Loyola Avenue, in nOT In ITS InDIvIDUAL (225) 756-0373 SALE bY NNB 19 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for OF GROUnD NOTARY PUBLIC, the First District of the CAPACITY bUT SOLE - bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 the First District of the the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF TOSHINITA SUMMERS, City on June 15, 2017, LY AS TRUSTEE FOR ______nO. 4834 CERnAY City on May 18, 2017, no. 2016-5577 JUDICIAL TO MAKE THIS PARTI - at 12:00 o’clock noon, bCAT 2014-4TT vS STREET, nEW SALE bY at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT TION IN ACCORDANCE the following described RHOnDA C. JASE ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ADvERTISEMEnT the following described OF FIERI FACIAS WITH LAW THE CLOS - property to wit: Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF MATTER EnTITLED: property to wit: directed to me by the THAT PORTIOn ING TO OCCUR WITHIN LOT F-2, SQUARE 1382, the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL "JPMORGAn CHASE LOT 9, SQUARE 1121, Honorable The Civil OF GROUnD 30 DAYS FROM THE THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - no. 2012-5747 bAnK, nATIOnAL ADvERTISEMEnT THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of bEARInG MUnICIPAL DATE OF THE SALE. TRICT, by virtue of a WRIT ASSOCIATIOn vS HIEn TRICT, Orleans, in the above nO. 1115 WILTZ LAnE, TERMS CASH . 100% MUNICIPAL NO. 2530 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THAT PORTIOn vAn PHAM" FLORIDA SUBDIVI - entitled cause, I will nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In CASH AT THE MOMENT MUSIC STREET to me directed by the OF GROUnD Civil District Court for SION, proceed to sell by pub - THE MATTER EnTI - OF ADJUDICATION ACQUIRED MIN 803903 Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL the Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NO. 2233 lic auction, on the TLED: "HSbC bAnK (NOTE: The payment WRIT AMOUnT: District Court of nO. 1 OLYMPIC COURT, no. 2017-1923 TUPELO STREET ground floor of the Civil USA, nATIOnAL ASSO - must be Cash, Cashier’s $66,561.33 Orleans, in the above nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In by virtue of a WRIT ACQUIRED MIN District Court building, CIATIOn, AS TRUSTEE, Check, Certified Check NOTARY PUBLIC, entitled cause, I will THE MATTER EnTI - OF SEIZURE AnD 1085878 421 Loyola Avenue, in In TRUST FOR THE or Money Order. No per - TOSHINITA SUMMERS, proceed to sell by pub - TLED: "GMFS LLC vS SALE to me directed by WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the REGISTERED HOLD - sonal checks.) TO MAKE THIS PARTI - lic auction, on the CARMIn GARRETT the Honorable The Civil $114,026.24 City on May 18, 2017, ERS OF ACE SECURI - MARLIn n. GUSMAn TION IN ACCORDANCE ground floor of the Civil AnD DEbbIE EvAnS Seized in the above at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of TIES CORP., HOME Sheriff WITH LAW THE CLOS - District Court building, GARRETT" Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The the following described EQUITY LOAn TRUST, ATTY: RADER JACKSON ING TO OCCUR WITHIN 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for purchaser at the moment property to wit: entitled cause, I will SERIES 2005-HE4, (504) 581-9444 30 DAYS FROM THE the First District of the the Parish of Orleans proceed to sell by pub - JD 5 of adjudication to make a A CERTAIN LOT OF ASSET bACKED PASS- LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 DATE OF THE SALE. City on June 15, 2017, no. 2015-6018 deposit of ten percent of GROUND, together with lic auction, on the THROUGH CERTIFI - ______TERMS CASH . 100% at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT ground floor of the Civil the purchase price, and all the buildings and CATES vS ARTHUR SALE bY CASH AT THE MOMENT the following described OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the balance within thirty improvements thereon; District Court building, DEvORE, JR." OF ADJUDICATION property to wit: to me directed by the days thereafter. (NOTE: and all the rights, ways, 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF (NOTE: The payment LOT 109A, SQUARE D, Honorable The Civil The payment must be privileges, servitudes, the First District of the the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL must be Cash, Cashier’s THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of City on June 15, 2017, Cash, Cashier’s Check, appurtenances and no. 2014-12350 ADvERTISEMEnT Check, Certified Check TRICT, Orleans, in the above Certified Check or Money advantages thereunto at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT or Money Order. No per - KINGSWOOD SUBDIVI - entitled cause, I will Order. No personal belonging or in anywise the following described OF COURT ORDER to THAT PORTIOn sonal checks.) SION, PHASE I, proceed to sell by pub - property to wit: checks.) appertaining, situated in me directed by the OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 7040 lic auction, on the the Third District of the LOT 242, SQUARE 28 Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff WHITMORE PLACE ground floor of the Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn Parish of Orleans Sheriff THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City of New Orleans, District Court of nO. 5155 PAULInE ATTY: RICHARD ROzANSKI ACQUIRED MIN 980240 District Court building, Parish of Orleans TRICT (318) 445-5600 ATTY: PENNY DAIGREPONT State of Louisiana, desig - Orleans, in the above DRIvE, THIS CITY, In WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in LM 10 (504) 831-7726 MUNICIPAL NO. 4834 nated as Lot 5-A, Square entitled cause, I will THE MATTER EnTI - LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 $85,775.87 the First District of the LM 18 CERNAY STREET ______LA. WEEKLY 4/17/2017, 5/15/2017 No. 2133, bounded by proceed to sell by pub - TLED FIRST AMERI - NOTARY PUBLIC, City on June 15, 2017, ______Republic, Humanity, ACQUIRED MIN 993933 lic auction, on the CAn bAnK AnD TRUST SALE bY TOSHINITA SUMMERS, at 12:00 o’clock noon, SALE bY Pleasure and Bruxelles WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil vS ROnALD RICHARD - TO MAKE THIS PARTI - the following described Streets, as shown on a $66,273.77 District Court building, SOn AS ADMInISTRA - ORLEAnS SHERIFF TION IN ACCORDANCE property to wit: ORLEAnS SHERIFF private sketch paraphed NOTARY PUBLIC, 421 Loyola Avenue, in TOR OF THE SUCCES - JUDICIAL WITH LAW THE CLOS - LOT 276, SQUARE G JUDICIAL “Ne Varietur” by A. D. TOSHINITA SUMMERS, the First District of the SIOn OF JULIA ADvERTISEMEnT ING TO OCCUR WITHIN FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ADvERTISEMEnT Danzinger, N.P., for iden - TO MAKE THIS PARTI - City on June 15, 2017, bEAUCHAMP 30 DAYS FROM THE TRICT tity with an act passed TION IN ACCORDANCE at 12:00 o’clock noon, RICHARDSOn AKA THAT PORTIOn DATE OF THE SALE. SECTION 3 - PARK TIM - THAT PORTIOn before him on December WITH LAW THE CLOS - the following described JULIA b. RICHARDSOn OF GROUnD TERMS CASH . 100% BERS SUBDIVISION OF GROUnD 8, 1915, and according to ING TO OCCUR WITHIN property to wit: Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICIPAL CASH AT THE MOMENT MUNICIPAL NO. 1 bEARInG MUnICIPAL which said sketch said lot 30 DAYS FROM THE LOT 21, SQUARE 6 the Parish of Orleans nO. 4835 ARTHUR OF ADJUDICATION OLYMPIC COURT nO. 4809 ST. AnTHOnY of ground begins at a dis - DATE OF THE SALE. FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - no. 2016-12638 DRIvE, nEW (NOTE: The payment ACQUIRED MIN AvEnUE, THIS CITY, In tance of ninety-one feet, TERMS CASH . 100% TRICT by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS, LA, In THE must be Cash, Cashier’s 1151955 THE MATTER EnTI - ten inches, six lines CASH AT THE MOMENT RIVERVIEW PARK SUB - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MATTER EnTITLED: Check, Certified Check WRIT AMOUnT: TLED nATIOnSTAR (91’10”6’”) from the cor - OF ADJUDICATION DIVISION to me directed by the "WILMInGTOn SAv - or Money Order. No per - $196,931.01 MORTGAGE, LLC vS ner of Pleasure and (NOTE: The payment MUNICIPAL NO. 1115 Honorable The Civil InGS FUnD SOCIETY, sonal checks.) NOTARY PUBLIC, must be Cash, Cashier’s KEnnETH DUnKLEY, Republic Streets, and WILTz LANE District Court of FSb, D/b/A CHRIS - MARLIn n. GUSMAn TOSHINITA SUMMERS, SR., (A/K/A KEnnETH measures thence twenty- Check, Certified Check ACQUIRED MIN 810942 Orleans, in the above TIAnA TRUST, nOT Sheriff TO MAKE THIS PARTI - or Money Order. No per - Parish of Orleans DUnKLEY) AnD PATRI - eight feet, five inches, WRIT AMOUnT: entitled cause, I will InDIvIDUALLY bUT AS ATTY: JOHN MORRIS TION IN ACCORDANCE CIA JOnES DUnKLEY, five lines (28’5”5’”) front sonal checks.) $60,062.10 proceed to sell by pub - TRUSTEE FOR CARLS - (318) 388-1440 WITH LAW THE CLOS - LM 17 (A/K/A PATRICIA on Republic Street, same MARLIn n. GUSMAn NOTARY PUBLIC, lic auction, on the bAD FUnDInG MORT - LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 ING TO OCCUR WITHIN Sheriff ______JOnES, PATRICIA width in the rear, by a Parish of Orleans TOSHINITA SUMMERS, ground floor of the Civil GAGE TRUST vS 30 DAYS FROM THE DUnKLEY) depth between parallel ATTY: DANIEL REED TO MAKE THIS PARTI - District Court building, JACKIE WILSOn AnD DATE OF THE SALE. (225) 924-1600 SALE bY Civil District Court for lines of one hundred JD 2 TION IN ACCORDANCE 421 Loyola Avenue, in ERIC JOHnSOn" TERMS CASH . 100% the Parish of Orleans twenty feet (120’) being LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 WITH LAW THE CLOS - the First District of the Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF CASH AT THE MOMENT ______no. 2013-8969 the residue of the original ING TO OCCUR WITHIN City on June 15, 2017, the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL OF ADJUDICATION by virtue of a WRIT lot designated by the No. SALE bY 30 DAYS FROM THE at 12:00 o’clock noon, no. 2013-4502 ADvERTISEMEnT (NOTE: The payment OF SEIZURE AnD SALE 6 on a sketch made by S. ORLEAnS SHERIFF DATE OF THE SALE. the following described by virtue of a WRIT must be Cash, Cashier’s directed to me by the E. Seghers & Sons, TERMS CASH . 100% property to wit: OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THAT PORTIOn Check, Certified Check Honorable The Civil Surveyors, dated JUDICIAL CASH AT THE MOMENT LOT N, SQUARE 35, to me directed by the OF GROUnD or Money Order. No per - District Court of December 7, 1908, a ADvERTISEMEnT OF ADJUDICATION THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL sonal checks.) Orleans, in the above copy of which is annexed THAT PORTIOn (NOTE: The payment TRICT, District Court of nO. 1318 S. SALCEDO MARLIn n. GUSMAn entitled cause, I will to Act 1409 of 1909, must be Cash, Cashier’s GENTILLY WOODS Orleans, in the above STREET, THIS CITY, In Sheriff Parish of Orleans proceed to sell by pub - passed before Felix J. OF GROUnD Check, Certified Check SUBDIVISION, entitled cause, I will THE MATTER EnTI - bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTY: RACHEL WILLIAMS lic auction, on the Dreyfous, Notary Public, or Money Order. No per - MUNICIPAL NO: 5155 proceed to sell by pub - TLED: STOnEGATE (318) 388-1440 nO. 2316 MEnDEZ JD 21 ground floor of the Civil certified correct by sur - sonal checks.) PAULINE DRIVE, lic auction, on the MORTGAGE CORPO - STREET, CITY OF nEW LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 District Court building, vey made by Gilbert, ACQ MIN: 961001 ground floor of the Civil RATIOn vERSUS W. ______ORLEAnS, In THE MARLIn n. GUSMAn 421 Loyola Avenue, in Kelly & Couturie, dated Sheriff WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, RHODES AnD ASSOCI - CASE EnTITLED: LIb - Parish of Orleans SALE bY the First District of the January 23, 1971, $71,510.30 421 Loyola Avenue, in ATES, LLC, WAYnE G. ERTY bAnK AnD ATTY: RADER JACKSON City on May 18, 2017, annexed to an act (504) 581-9444 NOTARY PUBLIC, the First District of the RHODES A/K/A WAYnE ORLEAnS SHERIFF TRUST COMPAnY vS JD 4 at 12:00 o’clock noon, passed before John B. TOSHINITA SUMMERS, City on June 15, 2017, RHODES AnD KATH - JUDICIAL KEnDAL K. COULOn LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 the following described Hattire, Notary Public, ______TO MAKE THIS PARTI - at 12:00 o’clock noon, LEEn A. RHODES Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT property to wit: dated February 26, 1971, TION IN ACCORDANCE the following described A/K/A KATHLEEn the Parish of Orleans SALE bY LOT C, SQUARE 3620, and act as more fully WITH LAW THE CLOS - property to wit: RHODES THAT PORTIOn no. 2017-2284 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - shown on a plat of survey ORLEAnS SHERIFF ING TO OCCUR WITHIN LOT 13, SQUARE 13 Civil District Court for OF GROUnD by virtue of a WRIT TRICT, by Adloe Orr, Jr. & JUDICIAL 30 DAYS FROM THE THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF SEIZURE AnD MUNICIPAL NO: 4809 Associates, Consulting DATE OF THE SALE. TRICT no. 2016-6344 nO. 2201-03 FOUCHER SALE to me directed by ADvERTISEMEnT ST. ANTHONY AVENUE, Engineers, dated March TERMS CASH . 100% CASTLE MANOR by virtue of a WRIT STREET, THIS CITY, In the Honorable The Civil ACQ MIN: 1007981 23, 1971, a certified copy THAT PORTIOn CASH AT THE MOMENT MUNICIPAL NO. 4835 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THE MATTER EnTI - District Court of WRIT AMOUnT: of which is annexed to an OF GROUnD OF ADJUDICATION ARTHUR DRIVE to me directed by the TLED FEDERAL Orleans, in the above $124,108.18 act passed before Robert bEARInG MUnICIPAL (NOTE: The payment ACQUIRED MIN 932874 Honorable The Civil entitled cause, I will Seized in the above E. Jeffers, Jr., Notary nO. 7655 MARQUIS must be Cash, Cashier’s WRIT AMOUnT: District Court of Continued on next page proceed to sell by pub - Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM May 15 - May 21, 2017 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Continued from previous page must be Cash, Cashier’s TOSHINITA SUMMERS, at 12:00 o’clock noon, Orleans, in the above bREAUX" line of Original Arpent Lot of Louisiana, in VICTO - Check, Certified Check TO MAKE THIS PARTI - the following described entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for 6 with the northerly line of RY DRIVE PLAzA, nATIOnAL MORTGAGE or Money Order. No per - TION IN ACCORDANCE property to wit: proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans General DeGaulle Drive, bounded by Sandra ASSOCIATIOn vS sonal checks.) WITH LAW THE CLOS - LOT A, SQUARE 507, lic auction, on the no. 2016-12494 which point is 4.34 feet Drive, General DeGaulle GARY C. PETERS AKA MARLIn n. GUSMAn ING TO OCCUR WITHIN FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT distant in an easterly Drive, Cypress Acres GARY C. PETERS SR. , Sheriff 30 DAYS FROM THE TRICT District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE direction from the north - Drive and Vespasian Parish of Orleans DARLEEnE DAREnS - ATTY: WAYNE MAIORANA DATE OF THE SALE. MUNICIPAL NO. 307- 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the east intersection of Street, and according to bOURG PETERS AKA (504) 837-9040 TERMS CASH . 100% 4307 1/2 - 4309-4309 1/2 the First District of the Honorable The Civil General DeGaulle Drive a survey made by John JD 13 DARLEEnE DAREnS - LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 CASH AT THE MOMENT WAHSINGTON AVENUE City on June 15, 2017, District Court of and Sandra Street; E. Walker, Civil bOURG-PETERS AKA ______OF ADJUDICATION ACQUIRED MIN 120893 at 12:00 o’clock noon, Orleans, in the above thence, in a northerly Engineer, dated DARLEEn DAREnS - SALE bY (NOTE: The payment WRIT AMOUnT: the following described entitled cause, I will direction, along the east November 8, 1993, bOURG PETERS AnD must be Cash, Cashier’s $16,735.00 property to wit: proceed to sell by pub - line of original Arpent Lot bearing No. L410-24, LILY M. DAREnS - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Check, Certified Check NOTARY PUBLIC, LOT 5, SQUARE 12, lic auction, on the 6, a distance of 1469.85 said portion of ground is bOURG JUDICIAL or Money Order. No per - TOSHINITA SUMMERS, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil feet to intersect the a PORTION OF PAR - Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT sonal checks.) TO MAKE THIS PARTI - TRICT, District Court building, southerly line of CEL B, commence at a the Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn TION IN ACCORDANCE ST. CLAUDE SUBDIVI - 421 Loyola Avenue, in Vespasian Street; thence distance of 298.23 feet no. 2016-8028 THAT PORTIOn Sheriff WITH LAW THE CLOS - SION the First District of the run left at 90 degrees and from the corner of Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD ATTY: JASON SMITH ING TO OCCUR WITHIN MUNICIPAL NO. 1509 City on June 15, 2017, run in a westerly direction Sandra Drive and OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bEARInG MUnICIPAL (318) 388-1440 30 DAYS FROM THE DELERY STREET at 12:00 o’clock noon, along the southerly line General DeGaulle Drive, JD 23 to me directed by the nO. 7141 RIDGEFIELD LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 DATE OF THE SALE. ACQUIRED MIN the following described of Vespasian Street, measures 129.50 feet Honorable The Civil DRIvE, CITY OF nEW ______TERMS CASH . 100% 1191840 property to wit: 508.80 feet to intersec - front on Sandra Drive, District Court of ORLEAnS, In THE SALE bY CASH AT THE MOMENT WRIT AMOUnT: LOT 21, SQUARE 1213 tion the east line of Muri same in the rear, by a Orleans, in the above CASE EnTITLED: OF ADJUDICATION $14,210.00 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Street; thence turn left a depth of 4 feet between entitled cause, I will WELLS FARGO bAnK, ORLEAnS SHERIFF (NOTE: The payment NOTARY PUBLIC, TRICT 90 degrees and run in a equal and parallel lines, proceed to sell by pub - n.A. vS ALISHA JUDICIAL must be Cash, Cashier’s TOSHINITA SUMMERS, MUNICIPAL NO. 2319 southerly direction along and is contiguous to the lic auction, on the REnELLE SMITH A/K/A ADvERTISEMEnT Check, Certified Check TO MAKE THIS PARTI - SPAIN STREET the easterly line of Muri Sandra Drive right of ground floor of the Civil ALISHA R. SMITH or Money Order. No per - TION IN ACCORDANCE ACQUIRED MIN 804828 Street, a distance of way line and to Parcel A- District Court building, Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn sonal checks.) WITH LAW THE CLOS - WRIT AMOUnT: 587.59 feet to point of 3. 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn ING TO OCCUR WITHIN $53,858.97 curve into Sandra Street; PARCEL C: the First District of the no. 2014-8231 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff 30 DAYS FROM THE NOTARY PUBLIC, thence along said curve THAT PORTION OF Parish of Orleans City on June 15, 2017, by virtue of a WRIT nO. 8835 nELSOn ATTY: LATEEFAH HARRIS DATE OF THE SALE. TOSHINITA SUMMERS, to the left or southeast, GROUND, together with at 12:00 o’clock noon, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE STREET AnD 8825 (504) 658-4391 TERMS CASH . 100% TO MAKE THIS PARTI - having a radius of 150 all the buildings and LM 26 the following described to me directed by the nELSOn STREET, CITY LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 CASH AT THE MOMENT TION IN ACCORDANCE feet and a delta angle of improvements thereon, property to wit: Honorable The Civil OF nEW ORLEAnS, In ______OF ADJUDICATION WITH LAW THE CLOS - 67 degrees, 10 minutes, and all of the rights, LOT 1-A SQUARE NO. District Court of THE CASE EnTITLED: SALE bY (NOTE: The payment ING TO OCCUR WITHIN 36 seconds, a distance of ways, privileges, servi - 552 Orleans, in the above CITY OF nEW must be Cash, Cashier’s 30 DAYS FROM THE 175.87 feet to a point of tudes, appurtenances SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS vS JOEL S. ORLEAnS SHERIFF Check, Certified Check DATE OF THE SALE. tangent in the northerly and advantages there - TRICT proceed to sell by pub - IROnS JUDICIAL or Money Order. No per - TERMS CASH . 100% line of Sandra Street; unto belonging or any - MUNICIPAL NO. 2201- lic auction, on the Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT sonal checks.) CASH AT THE MOMENT thence in a southeasterly wise appertaining, situ - 03 FOUCHER STREET ground floor of the Civil the Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn OF ADJUDICATION direction, along the ated in the Fifth District ACQ MIN: 1109316 District Court building, no. 2016-12673 THAT PORTIOn Sheriff (NOTE: The payment northerly line of Sandra of the City of New Parish of Orleans WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM must be Cash, Cashier’s Street; a distance of Orleans, State of $43,054.93 the First District of the OF FIERI FACIAS to me bEARInG MUnICIPAL (504) 658-4346 Check, Certified Check 372.37 feet to point of Louisiana, forming part LM 31 NOTARY PUBLIC, City on June 15, 2017, directed by the nO. 2005 MARIGnY LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 or Money Order. No per - curve; thence following of original arpent Lots 9 TOSHINITA SUMMERS, at 12:00 o’clock noon, Honorable The Civil STREET, THIS CITY, In ______sonal checks.) said curve in the norther - and 10 of the Prosper TO MAKE THIS PARTI - the following described District Court of THE MATTER EnTI - SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn ly line of Sandra Street, Marigny Plantation, des - TION IN ACCORDANCE property to wit: Orleans, in the above TLED: CITY OF nEW Sheriff being a curve to the right ignated as Parcel “C” on ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans WITH LAW THE CLOS - LOT 7, SQUSARE L, entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS vERSUS ATTY: KELLY MASSEY having a radius of 114 the Community Unit Plan ING TO OCCUR WITHIN THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - SEDRICK TASSIn AnD JUDICIAL (318) 388-1440 feet and a delta angle of of Victory Drive Plaza TRICT, lic auction, on the JOYCE LOFTOn JD 38 30 DAYS FROM THE ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 67 degrees, 10 minutes, made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & KINGSWOOD SUBDIVI - ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for ______DATE OF THE SALE. THAT PORTIOn 36 seconds, a distance of Associates, dated TERMS CASH . 100% SION District Court building, the Parish of Orleans SALE bY 135.66 feet to point of September 25, 1959, CASH AT THE MOMENT MUNICIPAL NO. 7141 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2016-10030 OF GROUnD tangent in east line of according to which, said OF ADJUDICATION RIDGEFIELD DRIVE the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sandra Street, in a Parcel “C: is bounded by (NOTE: The payment ACQUIRED MIN 987644 City on June 15, 2017, OF FIERI FACIAS to me nO. 1621 FRAnCE JUDICIAL southerly direction, a dis - Vespasian, Muri and must be Cash, Cashier’s WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, directed by the STREET, CITY OF nEW ADvERTISEMEnT tance of 492.77 feet to Sandra Streets and the Check, Certified Check $171,133.00 the following described Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS, In THE intersect the northerly west line between the or Money Order. No per - NOTARY PUBLIC, property to wit: District Court of CASE EnTITLED: CITY THAT PORTIOn line of General DeGaulle east half and the west sonal checks.) TOSHINITA SUMMERS, LOTS 8, 9, AND 10, Orleans, in the above OF nEW ORLEAnS vS OF GROUnD Drive; thence turn left half of original arpent Lot MARLIn n. GUSMAn TO MAKE THIS PARTI - SQUARE 362, entitled cause, I will SYDOnIA TRICHE bEARInG MUnICIPAL and run in a southeaster - 90 of the Prosper Sheriff TION IN ACCORDANCE SEVENTH MUNICIPAL proceed to sell by pub - SELLERS nO. 3010 SAnDRA ly direction, along the Marigny Plantation. Parish of Orleans ATTY: DONECIA BANKS-MILEY WITH LAW THE CLOS - DISTRICT, lic auction, on the Civil District Court for DRIvE, nEW northerly line of General Said Parcel “C” (318) 388-1440 ING TO OCCUR WITHIN MUNICIPAL NO. 8835 ground floor of the Civil the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, LA, In THE DeGaulle Drive, a dis - commences at the inter - TW 37 LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 30 DAYS FROM THE NELSON STREET AND District Court building, no. 2017-1001 MATTER EnTITLED: tance of 4.34 feet to the section of the north line ______DATE OF THE SALE. 8825 NELSON STREET 421 Loyola Avenue, in by virtue of a WRIT “CITY OF nEW beginning. of Sandra Street with the SALE bY TERMS CASH . 100% ACQUIRED MIN the First District of the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ORLEAnS vS CRES - LESS AND west line of the L.P. CASH AT THE MOMENT 1236862 City on June 15, 2017, to me directed by the CEnT CITY GATES EXCEPT the following Smith Tract, said point ORLEAnS SHERIFF OF ADJUDICATION WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, Honorable The Civil FUnD, LIMITED PART - described property sold being 494 feet in a JUDICIAL (NOTE: The payment $23,235.00 the following described District Court of nERSHIP”. to the State of Louisiana northerly direction from ADvERTISEMEnT must be Cash, Cashier’s NOTARY PUBLIC, property to wit: Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for through the State the intersection of the Check, Certified Check TOSHINITA SUMMERS, LOT 2, SQUARE 1023 entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans Department of Hospitals northerly line of Gen. THAT PORTIOn or Money Order. No per - TO MAKE THIS PARTI - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - no. 2015-11285 per Special Warranty DeGaulle (formerly OF GROUnD sonal checks.) TION IN ACCORDANCE TRICT lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT Deed dated September Victory) Drive with the bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn WITH LAW THE CLOS - MUNICIPAL NO. 2005 ground floor of the Civil OF FIERI FACIAS to 22, 1971, registered in west line of the L.P. nO. 6872 CAnAL Sheriff ING TO OCCUR WITHIN MARIGNY STREET District Court building, me directed by the COB 708-B, folio 15; Smith Tract; thence in a Parish of Orleans bOULEvARD, nEW ATTY: DAYNA EDWARDS 30 DAYS FROM THE ACQ. MIN 1198030 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil A PORTION OF easterly direction along ORLEAnS, LA, In THE (318) 388-1440 DATE OF THE SALE. WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the District Court of THE GORUND, together the north line of Sandra LM 22 MATTER EnTITLED: LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 TERMS CASH . 100% $3,505.00 City on June 15, 2017, Orleans, in the above with all the buildings and Street 186 feet to a point "GULF COAST bAnK ______CASH AT THE MOMENT NOTARY PUBLIC, at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will improvements thereon, of curve into Muri Street; AnD TRUST vS CRES - SALE bY OF ADJUDICATION TOSHINITA SUMMERS, the following described proceed to sell by pub - situated in the Fifth thence along the curve CEnT CROWn COn - ORLEAnS SHERIFF (NOTE: The payment TO MAKE THIS PARTI - property to wit: lic auction, on the District of the City of New of Sandra into Muri STRUCTIOn, LLC AnD must be Cash, Cashier’s TION IN ACCORDANCE LOT 6, SQUARE 722, ground floor of the Civil Orleans, State of Streets, along a curve to CLASSIC DEvELOP - JUDICIAL Check, Certified Check WITH LAW THE CLOS - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, Louisiana, forming a part the left or northeast hav - MEnTS bY JMG, LLC" ADvERTISEMEnT or Money Order. No per - ING TO OCCUR WITHIN TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in of original Lot 6 of the ing a radius of 100 feet Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn sonal checks.) 30 DAYS FROM THE MUNICIPAL NO. 1621 the First District of the Prosper Marigny and a delta angle of 90 the Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn DATE OF THE SALE. FRANCE STREET City on June 15, 2017, Plantation, and described degrees, a distance of no. 2017-291 OF GROUnD Sheriff TERMS CASH . 100% ACQUIRED MIN at 12:00 o’clock noon, as follows: 157.08 feet to the point Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTY: LATEEFAH HARRIS CASH AT THE MOMENT 1167246 the following described Commencing at of tangent in the wester - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE nO. 4342 SYbIL (504) 658-4391 OF ADJUDICATION WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: the northeast corner of ly line of Muri Street; LM 27 to me directed by the STREET, nEW LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 (NOTE: The payment $4,755.00 PARCEL B Sandra Street and thence in a northerly Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ______must be Cash, Cashier’s NOTARY PUBLIC, THAT PORTION OF DeGaulle Drive, N 2 direction, along the District Court of MATTER EnTITLED: SALE bY Check, Certified Check TOSHINITA SUMMERS, GROUND, together with degrees 26 feet 4 inches westerly direction, along "CITIMORGAGE, InC Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS SHERIFF or Money Order. No per - TO MAKE THIS PARTI - all the buildings and E, 298.23 feet along east the southerly line of entitled cause, I will vS SEAn A. JOHnSOn sonal checks.) TION IN ACCORDANCE improvements thereon, right of way of Sandra Vespasian Street, a dis - proceed to sell by pub - AnD KIRK W. JOHn - JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn WITH LAW THE CLOS - and all of the rights, Street; thence S 87 tance of 286 feet to inter - lic auction, on the SOn" ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff ING TO OCCUR WITHIN ways, privileges, servi - degrees 33 feet 56 inch - sect the west line of the Civil District Court for Parish of Orleans ground floor of the Civil THAT PORTIOn ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM 30 DAYS FROM THE tudes, appurtenances es E, 4 feet, thence S 2 L. P. Smith Tract; thence District Court building, the Parish of Orleans (504) 658-4346 DATE OF THE SALE. and advantages thereun - 26 04 W, 299.91 feet in a southerly direction, NNB 29 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2016-8935 OF GROUnD LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 TERMS CASH . 100% to belonging or in any - along east line of original along the west line of the the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ______CASH AT THE MOMENT wise appertaining, situat - arpent 6, to north right of L. P. Smith Tract, a dis - City on June 15, 2017, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE nO. 4307-07 1/2 - 4309- SALE bY OF ADJUDICATION ed in the Fifth District of way of DeGaulle Drive; tance of 614.44 feet to to me directed by the 4309 1/2 WAHSInGTOn at 12:00 o’clock noon, ORLEAnS SHERIFF (NOTE: The payment the City of New Orleans, thence N 64 44 32 W, the point of beginning. the following described Honorable The Civil AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW must be Cash, Cashier’s Orleans Parish, State of 4.34 feet along north Said portion of ground property to wit: District Court of ORLEAnS, In THE JUDICIAL Check, Certified Check Louisiana, forming part of right of way of DeGaulle forms part of what was LOTS 45 AND 46, Orleans, in the above CASE EnTITLED: CITY ADvERTISEMEnT or Money Order. No per - Original Lots 6, 7 and 8 of Drive to the point of known as the Leonard entitled cause, I will OF nEW ORLEAnS vS SQUARE 105 THAT PORTIOn sonal checks.) the PROSPER beginning. Tract. SECOND MUNICIPAL proceed to sell by pub - HAROLD L. MARLIn n. GUSMAn MARIGNY PLANTA - FURTHER WRIT AMOUnT: DISTRICT lic auction, on the FOnTEnETTE OR HIS OF GROUnD Sheriff TION, designated as LESS AND EXCEPT the $201,735.00 Parish of Orleans LAKEVIEW ground floor of the Civil SUCCESSORS, HEIRS, bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM PARCEL “B” on following described prop - Seized in the above suit. MUNICIPAL NO. 6872 District Court building, AnD ASSIGnS nO. 1509 DELERY (504) 658-4346 Community Unit Plan of erty sold to West TERMS-CASH. The pur - LM 33 CANAL BOULEVARD 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for STREET, CITY OF nEW LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 Victor Drive Plaza made Jefferson Properties, chaser at the moment of ACQUIRED MIN the First District of the the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE ______Adloe Orr, Jr. & Ltd., A Partnership in adjudication to make a 1173501 City on June 15, 2017, no. 2017-266 CASE EnTITLED: CITY SALE bY Associated, dated Commendam, per deposit of ten percent at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT OF nEW ORLEAnS vS WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS SHERIFF September 24, 1959, Quitclaim Deed dated of the purchase price, $371,774.58 the following described OF FIERI FACIAS to me WEnDELL C. SMITH, according to which, November 26, 1993, filed and the balance within NOTARY PUBLIC, property to wit: directed by the REnALDO D. SMITH, JUDICIAL Parcel “B” is bounded by December 3, 1993, under thirty days thereafter. TOSHINITA SUMMERS, LOT 37A, SQUARE 5A Honorable The Civil JAnELLE A. SMITH, ADvERTISEMEnT General DeGaulle N.A. No. 53-51696, in Note; The payment must THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of LYLE A. SMITH AnD TO MAKE THIS PARTI - THAT PORTIOn (Formerly Victory) Drive, Conveyance Instrument be Cash, Cashier’s TION IN ACCORDANCE TRICT Orleans, in the above JAnICE J. SMITH in the cast line of original No. 79123: Check, Certified Check WITH LAW THE CLOS - PARIS OAKS SUBDIVI - entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for OF GROUnD Lot 6 of the Prosper THAT POR - or Money Order. No ING TO OCCUR WITHIN SION proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL Marigny Plantation, TION OF GROUND, Personal Checks. 30 DAYS FROM THE MUNICIPAL NO. 4342 lic auction, on the no. 2016-11990 nO. 2319 SPAIn Vespasian, Muri and together with all the MARLIn n. GUSMAn DATE OF THE SALE. SYBIL STREET ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT STREET, nEW Sandra Streets, and is buildings and improve - Sheriff ACQUIRED MIN 602380 District Court building, OF FIERI FACIAS to me ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Parish of Orleans TERMS CASH . 100% described as follows: ments thereon, situated ATTY: LATEEFAH HARRIS CASH AT THE MOMENT WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in directed by the MATTER EnTITLED: Parcel “B” com - in the Fifth District of the (504) 658-4391 $49,597.44 the First District of the Honorable The Civil "M&T bAnK vS LYn - JD 28 OF ADJUDICATION mences at the point of City of New Orleans, LA. WEEKLY 5/15/2017 , 6/12/2017 (NOTE: The payment NOTARY PUBLIC, City on June 15, 2017, District Court of nOn COnnERLY- intersection of the east Parish of Orleans, State ______Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - May 15 - May 21, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 15 A look back to Jazz Fest’s finale and forward to Bayou Boogaloo By Geraldine Wyckoff a rousing start on Sunday. Contributing Writer Both are stylistically and visu - ally old-school with an accent Weekend Two of the 2017 edi - on harmonizing and testifying. tion of the New Orleans Jazz & The Seekers add a bit of coun - Heritage Festival boasted a bit of try western flair particularly everything. Fest-goers were bun - coming from the fine guitar of dled up on a cool and windy leade r James Williams Sr. For Thursday while they enjoyed light the last several years, the crowds. More folks took advan - group includes not only one tage of Friday’s warmer tempera - but two extraordinary vocalist tures and just forget Saturday – singing falsetto. Wow. the Fair Grounds was packed. “I’m five feet two and I’m That, of course, was expected not afraid,” sang Little with headliners like the legendary Charles Taylor, the chief of Stevie Wonde r and superstar the White Cloud Hunters . The Photo by Demian Roberts Snoop Dogg closing out the McDONOGH 35 HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR Acura and Congo Square stages, friendly. People are even discour - respectively. Sunday was easier aged from standing up at their despite the fact that the ever pop - seats to get their moves on. The ular Maze featuring Frankie artists need feedback from the Beverly and Trombone Shorty audience too. It felt so odd when & Orleans Avenue played the the powerhouse duo of the Cedric last notes of the event. 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Getting a handle on excessive force Continued from Page 1 ated a Use of Force Review The monitor also highlighted Board, began using body-worn areas where the NOPD still use-of-force incidents, the federal cameras and worked to reduce its needs to improve. The report monitor pointed out that key response times to civilian calls said some officers continue to details of the NOPD’s 2016 use- for assistance. provide very few details in their of-force reports were missing and The NOPD’s efforts to turn use-of-force reports and that 60 that poor tactics used by officers things around have been ham - percent of the use-of-force in several incidents made it neces - pered by the fact that until this reports failed to indicate sary for the officers to use exces - past year, the department has whether the person arrested was sive force. been losing officers to defec - injured. The 492-point, federally man - tions, retirement, prosecution While that figure is unacceptable, dated NOPD consent decree fol - and termination faster than it it is an improvement from the 72 lowed an investigation by the U.S. could replace them. percent of use-of-force reports that Department of Justice that found With a rash of armed robberies failed in this regard in 2015. that the police department was rife and a sharp rise in gun violence Despite the areas where the with corruption and abuse. and homicides in 2017, the NOPD still needs to make The DOJ investigation was set NOPD recently unveiled a $40 improvements, the federal moni - in motion by several high-profile, million crime initiative that will tor acknowledged the progress officer-involved killings that increase overtime pay, bring that has been made. included the fatal shooting of more lighting and cameras to the “While the monitoring team Henry Glover, the Danziger French Quarter and increase believes in holding the NOPD Bridge Massacre and the fatal camera surveillance in trouble and its officers to a very high beating of Raymond Robair. spot areas across the city. standard, we do not believe any In December 2016, the City of The federal monitor reported police department should be held New Orleans reached a $13.3 that in 30 use-of-force incidents in to impossibly high standards of million settlement with relatives 2016, more than 98 percent of the perfection,” the report said. and survivors of the Danziger officers involved submitted a “Police officers are human and Bridge Massacre and the killings statement as required compared to are bound to make mistakes. of Henry Glover and Raymond 93.2 percent in 2015. The monitor What we all should expect, how - Robair. also reported that in 93.3 percent ever, is that when mistakes are Since implementation of the of those cases, the officers’ use of made, they are openly identified, NOPD consent decree began in excessive force was recorded on honestly evaluated and meaning - August 2013, the NOPD has cre - body cameras. fully remedied.”◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 16 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM May 15 - May 21 2017