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Editor, 1972-1982 all persons are hurt as long as anyone is held back. RACHEL J. REEVES Publisher and Chairman Our ancestors Reopening schools poses risk to students demand that we vote KALYN LEE, 2020 M-DCPS Rookie Teacher of the Year and MAGGIE WALSH, Teach for America Alum and local labor organizer Miami-Dade County has district, this was made chill- become the focus of national ingly clear during the July 1, conversation due to its sky- 2020, Special School Board Black People Vote rocketing COVID-19 cases, meeting. REGINALD J. CLYNE, ESQ. making it a new epicenter of When questioned about po- the deadliest pandemic since tential liability, Dade Schools The history of White Su- the Spanish Flu, not just in attorney Walter J. Harvey premacy in this the United Florida and the United States, went as far as to say, “General- States of America has been but worldwide. ly, those claims are difficult to to keep African Slaves and With the 2020-2021 school make against the school dis- their progeny oppressed and year rapidly approaching, Al- trict because the COVID-19 is powerless. Our forefathers berto Carvalho, superinten- out in the community… I think from Nat Turner, Martin Lu- dent of Miami-Dade County the courts will sort of look at ther King, Jr., John Lewis and Public Schools (MDCPS), that and they will of course Thurgood Marshall fought the county’s largest employer find that liability is probably against this oppression. We and the fourth largest school not on the part of the district. gained the right to vote af- district in the nation, has an- Maybe individuals could have ter the Civil War, and many nounced via multiple nation- Kalyn Lee Maggie Walsh contracted it at the grocery Black people died exercising al outlets that schools will store or some other place.” their right to vote as resur- not physically reopen during munities, as “non-Hispanic School board leaders then gence in White Supremacy Phase 1 of the county’s re- Black persons have a rate ap- unanimously voted to ap- resulted in the death of many opening plan – virtual learn- proximately five times that of prove the proposed models Reginald Clyne former slaves who had the ing is due to start August 31. non-Hispanic white persons, for reopening, putting staff temerity to vote. During the the governorship of Georgia, However, Carvalho has also and Hispanic or Latino per- and students at risk while ab- brief period of the Recon- who lost the election to Brian announced the district’s in- sons have a rate approximate- solving the district of liability, struction Era, we saw our tention to revisit that plan af- ly four times that of non-His- when the only true way to be Kemp, in an election marred A premature reopening first Black Senator, Hiram ter just one month for Phase panic white persons.” This fully protected from blame by voter suppression. Donald of our schools is not Rhodes Revel of Mississip- Trump present call to dis- 2, stating a possible return to disparity does not stop at the – and protect the health and only negligent and pi, who entered the Senate credit mail-in ballots during in-class learning as early as likelihood of infection; it also safety of our children, teach- to much protest in 1870. He a coronavirus pandemic is October 5. That decision is a spreads to healthcare access, wanton behavior, but ers, and community – is by was followed by 15 Black men simply an attempt to stop warning bell in a state where paid sick leave, and overall an unnecessary and closing the physical school who entered Congress and the blatant refusal to prioritize ability to receive a COVID-19 potentially“ devastating doors until there is no ques- people from voting. His idle the Senate over the next de- thought that we should delay human life over capital has left test, posing the question: risk to life. We cannot, tion regarding staff or student cade. White Supremacist re- the November elections is us struggling to stop the surge Is the reopening of schools and should not, take well-being. took the power after the brief simply an unveiled attempt in COVID-19 cases. in Phase 2 worth threaten- that risk." During the 1920s, knowl- period of Reconstruction and to keep us from voting and According to MDCPS’s re- ing the lives of students and edge of radium exposure enacted several Jim Crow retain his power. cent “Reopening of Schools equally the lives of teachers, and its impact on health and to recognize the dangers of ra- As we celebrate the life Survey,” more than 81% of our whose voices have been vir- safety was limited, yielding teachers either agree that the tually muted to those who dium to their workforce, the catastrophic results. In 2020, of John Lewis, it is our con- reopening of schools “can put wield power? company pointed to preexist- though our understanding of tinuing duty and obligation children and others at a high The United States has his- ing health conditions of the COVID-19 and its short-and to fight the White Suprem- risk of getting the virus,” or torically profited off low-in- women, shifting blame from long-term effects for both acist from suppressing our believe that such a reopening come bodies as experimental the company to the workers. adults and children may be vote. One of the last words is a risk “because the virus frontline lab rats. The health Fast-forward one hundred equally narrow, our aware- of John Lewis on his death can be spread without having risks of these individuals are years and Miami-Dade Coun- ness of its potential for dev- bed was a request that we all If you are like me, a symptoms.” These fears are written off as the price of eco- ty teachers and students are astation tells us that we must vote. We must not let apathy person who is high risk well-founded, especially so for nomic power. Kate Moore’s being pushed to become the err on the side of caution or inconvenience or just lazi- students in underserved com- book “The Radium Girls” ex- test in this COVID-19 reopen- and do whatever possible to for COV-19, then defy ness prevent us from voting. munities, and backed by both emplifies this American hor- ing experiment. minimize its destruction. A Donald Trump and mail Our local elections are taking in your ballot. If you are Centers for Disease Control ror. During the 1920s, female Both cases encapsulate the premature reopening of our place as I write this editorial. powerful putting the pow- like “some of my friends and Prevention (CDC) data watch factory employees in schools is not only negligent We have the opportunity to and this country’s history. New Jersey, Connecticut, and erless in the most unsafe of and wanton behavior, but an who do not trust mail in support a Black woman, Mel- The CDC has found that Illinois contracted radiation conditions and shifting the unnecessary and potential- ballots, then get in line ba Pearson, running for our hospitalization or death rates poisoning after being told burden of responsibility onto ly devastating risk to life. We and vote. State Attorney. If we elect due to COVID-19 are highest that radium was safe to use. victims when the experiment cannot, and should not, take Melba Pearson, we are voting in Black and Hispanic com- When executives were forced fails. In the case of our school that risk. for Black Lives. We can stop Laws that effectively blocked 27 years of the lack of prose- Black people from exercis- cution of police officers who ing their God Given Right as beat, rape and kill us with im- LETTER TO THE EDITOR American Citizens to exer- punity. Do not let this histo- cise their right as Americans ry making opportunity pass Send Hardemon to the county commission to vote for the next 90 years. us by. Voters in Overtown are look- years later, that didn't happen. emon had nothing to do with with you about your concerns After much blood and We must all stop Donald ing for someone elected to the We thought that the creation this evil, he understands it. and I hope that I've captured struggle, including Bloody Trump. His statements to County's Districts #3 that will of the Community Redevelop- Elected to the county he will your concerns about the fu- Sunday, President Johnson protect the Confederate Flag continue to improve the qual- ment Agency would help us, be able to continue the work ture. While you are aware that signed the Voting Rights Act and monuments is nothing ity of life in Overtown. The but instead, it was used as a done by the outgoing Commis- voting has started you will on August 6, 1965. I was four short of regaling White Su- powerful Miami Dade County tool against the people. sioner. only make things happen for years old at the time. This premacy, bigotry, racism and used the power of internment Fast forward to this day: the Things are beginning to get you if you vote. Most of you right to vote was fought for the worse atrocities of Amer- domain and took property "CRA" has spent millions on better as public housing will said that you trust Hardemon. and won during the lifetime ica. This Country, in fact, from property owners in Over- homeless shelters, businesses soon be rebuilt, and a large Then if that's your choice you of many of us who are still the World cannot survive town with the promise of re- start ups, and what passes as part of the population will be had better get out and VOTE. alive. White Supremacists another four years of Donald development. We all were told affordable housing. Not any- secure. Hardemon will hit the Written as told to me on the know that their continued Trump. Do not stay home, that we would be brought back thing for the residents. ground full speed. streets of Overtown. ticket to holding power is vote. as developers and owners. 40 While Commissioner Hard- I braced the pandemic to talk —Irby McKnight to suppress our vote, to dis- If you are like me, a person courage us from voting and who is high risk for COV-19, to stop the immigration of then defy Donald Trump and Hispanics and Blacks from mail in your ballot. If you “shit hole countries” like are like some of my friends CARTOONCORNER Haiti, Jamaican, Honduras who do not trust mail in and Mexico to just name a ballots, then get in line and few. vote. Do not let the lack of Some Black people are un- polling places, the weather, der the mistaken belief that long lines, or even hurri- the struggle to vote is over. canes stop you from voting. Did we not have a Black Pres- Let our voices be heard, let ident? For those, who think our votes be heard and let the struggle is over, I point to us continue the fight for de- the plans of current Repub- mocracy, the fight for equal- licans to shorten the voting ity, the fight for justice and period, to bar ex-convicts let all know that Black Lives from voting, to close polling Matter. We can change the places in Black neighbor- course of history by being hoods, to change voting dates engaged and by voting. Do so Souls to Polls is stopped. not disgrace the blood of our Look at the recent loss of ancestors by not exercising Stacey Abrams who sought your right to vote. The Miami Times 3 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 Black voters wary of absentee ballots COREY WILLIAMS have added to the skepticism from Latino and young voters, at a time when making Black are rejected at a higher rate Despite fears that the coro- voices heard has taken on new than those of white voters. navirus pandemic will wors- urgency during a national In Wisconsin’s April pri- en, Victor Gibson said he’s not reckoning over racial injus- mary, thousands of voters in planning to take advantage of tice. Milwaukee said they didn’t re- Michigan’s expanded vote-by- Patricia Harris of Mc- ceive absentee ballots in time mail system when he casts his Donough, Georgia, south of and had to vote in person. ballot in November. Atlanta, voted in person in the Lines stretched several blocks, The retired teacher from primary and said she will do and people waited two hours Detroit just isn’t sure he can the same in November. or more. trust it. Many Black Ameri- “I simply do not trust mail- In Kentucky’s June primary, cans share similar concerns in or absentee ballots,” said more than 8,000 absentee bal- and are planning to vote in Harris, 73, a retired event co- lots were rejected in Jefferson person on Election Day, even ordinator at Albany State Uni- County, which includes Louis- as mail-in voting expands to versity. “After the primary and ville. more states as a safety precau- the results were in, there were Many people in Louisville’s tion during the pandemic. thousands of absentee ballots historically Black West End For many, historical skep- not counted.” neighborhood voted in person ticism of a system that tried In Georgia, roughly 12,500 because they didn’t receive to keep Black people from mail-in ballots were rejected an absentee ballot or simply the polls and worries that a in the state’s June primary, wanted to vote in a way that mailed ballot won’t get count- while California tossed more was familiar to them, said Arii ed outweigh the prospect of than 100,000 absentee ballots Lynton-Smith, an organizer long lines and health dangers during its March primary. with Black Lives Matter Lou- AP Photo/Morry Gash, File from a virus that’s dispropor- Reasons vary, from ballots isville. In this April 7, file photo, a worker hands out disinfectant wipes and pens as voters tionately affected communi- being received after the dead- “That’s particularly why we line up outside Riverside High School for Wisconsin's primary election in Milwaukee. ties of color. Ironically, suspi- line to voters’ signatures not knew we had to have the poll cion of mail-in voting aligns matching the one on file with rides as an option,” she said, Many Black voters are skeptical of voting by mail even as states seek to expand that with the views of President the county clerk. Multiple referring to groups offering option during the coronavirus pandemic. Decades of racism and voter disenfranchise- Donald Trump, whom many studies show mail-in ballots voters free transportation to ment are at the heart of the uneasy choice facing Black voters. Black voters want out of office. from Black voters, like those polling places. “It’s not as easy Trump took it a step further to do an absentee ballot and “For Black folks, voting is Missionary Baptist Church last Tuesday, suggesting a “de- the things that come along almost like a social pride be- in Memphis and a prominent lay” to the Nov. 3 presidential with it than it is to just go in cause of the way they were Black civil rights activist, is election — which would take person.” denied in the past,” said Ben one of the plaintiffs in a state an act of Congress — as he Mistrust by Black voters Barber, a researcher and writ- lawsuit calling for mail-voting made unsubstantiated allega- runs deep and is tightly bound er for the Institute for South- access for everyone. He said tions in a tweet that increased within the nation’s dark past ern Studies in Durham, North he’s not pushing his commu- mail-in voting will result in of slavery and institutional Carolina. nity to vote by mail but wants fraud. racism. Among the places where to ensure it’s an option given “I would never change my Black people endured poll Black voters say they have the health dangers. mind” about voting in person taxes, tossed ballots, even had to overcome institution- To ease doubts, he wants in November, said Gibson, lynchings by whites intent al obstacles is Shelby County, voters to be able to drop off who is Black and hopes Trump on keeping them from vot- Tennessee, which includes their ballot at a polling place loses. “I always feel better slid- ing. Over the decades, that Memphis. In the past, voters so they won’t have to worry ing my ballot in. We’ve heard led to a deep suspicion of have received ballots for the about the post office deliver- so many controversies about simply handing off a ballot to wrong district, and groups ing it on time. missing absentee ballots.” the post office. Black people have sued to challenge the “I would like to see every Decades of disenfranchise- Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File were the demographic least security of electronic vot- righteous and creative meth- ment are at the heart of the Voters wait in a line that stretched around the Metropol- likely to cast votes by mail in ing machines, invalidation of od and measure taken, but we 2018, with only 11% using that voter registration forms and are up against a voter sup- uneasy choice facing Black itan Library in Atlanta. Many Black voters are skeptical of voters, one of the Democratic method, according to the U.S. failure to open polling plac- pression apparatus that often- voting by mail even as states seek to expand that option Party’s most important voting Census Bureau. By compar- es near predominantly Black times is orchestrated by, or groups. Widespread problems during the coronavirus pandemic. Decades of racism and ison, 24% of whites and 27% neighborhoods. at least sustained by, people with mail-in ballots during voter disenfranchisement are at the heart of the uneasy of Latinos reported voting by The Rev. Earle Fisher, se- who are elected or appointed this year’s primary elections choice facing Black voters. mail that year. nior pastor at Abyssinian to office,” Fisher said.

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AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on the House East Front Steps on Capitol Hill in Washington ahead of the House vote on the George Floyd Jus- tice in Policing Act of 2020. Democratic VP contender Bass defends stance on Cuba BRIAN SLODYSKO da and realized that that was Bass said she does not con- something that just shouldn’t sider herself to be a “Castro WASHINGTON (AP) — have been said.” sympathizer.” She said her Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, Bass is considered one of the views of Cuba are in line with one of the top contenders to leading candidates to become policy under former President be Joe Biden’s running mate, Biden’s vice presidential pick. Barack Obama, who sought to q * q * on Sunday defended her past But recently her decades-long thaw U.S. relations with the $ $ 99 travel to Cuba and the sym- ties to Cuba have drawn scru- country. 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As a member of Con- of the Obama administration. q ______Exp______referred to Castro as “Co- gress, she has taken numerous As a matter of fact, I was hon- mandante en jefe,” a term that trips to the island country to ored to go to Cuba with Pres- q ______Exp______roughly translates as com- participate in cultural ex- ident Obama. I went to Cuba mander in chief but is reviled changes and study the Cuban with Secretary Kerry when we by some Cuban exiles in Flor- medical system. raised the flag. So there really Authorized Signature ______ida. Bass, who represents Cal- “The Cubans also have two isn’t anything different.” ifornia in Congress, said she medicines, one for diabetes, of She also said recent crit- Name ______was unaware of the phrase’s which my mother died from, icism of her by Republican Address ______political significance in Flor- lung cancer, which my father Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was ida when she issued the 2016 died from, and I would like politically motivated. 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The Miami Times 4 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 Florida prison boss, top aid test positive for COVID-19 ANA CEBALLOS Inch said in a statement Friday News Service Of Florida night. Inch is the highest-ranking TALLAHASSEE — As state official known to have COVID-19 spreads through- tested positive for the virus out the state’s prison system, since the first COVID-19 case Florida Department of Correc- was reported in Florida on tions Secretary Mark Inch and March 1. The secretary and one of his top lieutenants have department officials have vis- tested positive for the virus, ited numerous correctional the state agency announced facilities and probation offices late Friday night. “to provide support” over the Inch began experiencing course of the pandemic, ac- Columbia Correctional Institution, a North Florida pris- mild symptoms shortly after cording to Friday’s update. on has 1,300 inmates and 72 corrections workers that visiting Columbia Correction- Department officials said have tested positive for the virus. al Institution, a North Florida Inch began experiencing prison where 1,300 inmates symptoms 24 hours after he ers have tested positive for corrections workers and their and 72 corrections workers returned from a statewide con- COVID-19, the deadly respira- families. Criminal-justice re- have tested positive for the ference and a visit to Colum- tory illness caused by the nov- form advocates also are plead- virus, according to a press re- bia Correctional Institution in el coronavirus. ing with Republican Gov. Ron Scott Keeler Tampa Bay Times lease issued by corrections Lake City. As of mid-Friday, 8,126 pris- DeSantis to do more to ad- Mark. S, Inch, Secretary of the Florida Department of officials Friday. Deputy Secre- The department did not dis- oners and 1,675 corrections dress the spread of the virus tary Ricky Dixon has also test- close the name or location of Corrections, at the State Capitol, May, 1, 2019. workers — including correc- behind bars. ed positive for COVID-19, but the statewide conference, or als who were in close contact continuity of operations plan tions officers, probation -of “The people are the loved is currently asymptomatic, the whether Inch came into close with Secretary Inch and Dep- and will see no degradation ficers, nurses, food service ones of your constituents who release said. contact with inmates or work- uty Secretary Dixon in recent in security, public safety or in- workers and administrative are relying on you to protect “Just like the numerous cor- ers who had tested positive for days have been informed of mate welfare as a result of any personnel — have tested pos- them. They want leadership rectional and probation offi- COVID-19 during his visit to their positive status. These member of leadership‘s neces- itive for the highly contagious and are looking to you to pro- cers and staff who we’ve asked the Lake City prison. Agency individuals have been encour- sary self-isolation following a virus. Fifty inmates have died vide it. I am begging for your to stay home and recuperate officials said Saturday morning aged to take proper precau- positive test.” of complications related to the help,” Denise Rock, executive after a positive test, Depu- they were not releasing more tions and undergo testing,” The diagnoses of the agen- disease as of Friday. director of the nonprofit in- ty Secretary Dixon and I are information about the issue. Friday’s release said. cy’s leader and one of his chief The surge of cases in Flori- mate-advocacy group Florida self-isolating as a result of our “Trace back measures have Corrections officials added aides comes as thousands of da’s prison system has sparked Cares, wrote to the governor recent COVID-19 test results,” been conducted and individu- that the agency “has a robust inmates and corrections work- calls for help from inmates, on July 22.

fresh fruits and vegetables, immune compromised, so account her SNAP benefits. personal protective equip- for us, finding a fresh mar- Scrolling online for fresh FOOD ment (PPE) and cleaning ket that worked with online food markets, she found CONTINUED FROM 1A supplies through its Project deliveries is amazing,” said Urban Oasis and has stuck Maracuya. Micheleen Clancy. with it. SNAP recipients are able to “I’m particularly proud of She, like Mullen and oth- “That Urban Oasis is able double their benefit monies that,” said Friedrich. er Urban Oasis customers, to offer this kind of pro- when shopping for fresh In addition to adjusting to applied for SNAP benefits gram tells me other orga- produce with the organiza- the reality of COVID-19, the for the first time during the nizations can do it as well,” tion’s Florida Access Bucks organization has stepped pandemic. said Mullen. program, an incentive for up its food distribution ef- “We were originally Visit Urban Oasis at ur- folks to purchase healthy, forts through its virtual drawn to the organization banoasisproject.org to find organic foods. farmers market, an online because it promoted the out how you can access The nonprofit has also delivery service. doubling of SNAP bene- fresh fruits and vegetables lent a hand to more than “I have a son who is auto- fits,” said Clancy. in your community, as well 100 low-income families Mullen has found that the as take advantage of pro- during the pandemic by program encourages her grams like Florida Access providing free, biweek- The Urban Oasis Project offers to look for healthier food Bucks and Project Ma- ly boxes filled with local free home delivery. choices while taking into racuya. The Miami Times 5 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 The Miami Times 6 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020

Rose cites the ideology thest one away from their of Harvard professor Mary cultural values. They are BLACKS C. Waters, author of “Black coming up in a system that CONTINUED FROM 1A Identities,” who says that targets and marks out peo- when immigrants first ar- ple of color. Something be- THE RISE OF THE rive, they have strong social gins to atrophy,” said Rose. BLACK IMMIGRANT and cultural capital and a “You also have to have really “Haitians were always seen positive outlook on Ameri- thick skin to overcome a lot as aliens here in Miami. We can race relations that facil- of the racism and extra hur- couldn’t speak the language,” itate their integration into dles. It’s a wonderful story to said Marie Woodson, candi- the American economic tell about how your parents date for Florida State House structure. worked so hard but these District 101. “I remember Yet, over time, the realities children then begin to won- once I was asked why I had of American race relations der, why do people of color a master’s degree since I begin to swamp their posi- have to work doubly or triply was Black and Haitian. Lat- Congresswoman Gordon Eric Knowles, tive cultural values. as hard?” er on, the tables were turned Frederica Wilson, (D) Marlon Hill is running president of the “When they get to their Tiffani Knowles is the and that same person who Florida Congressional for Miami-Dade County Miami-Dade Chamber of third kid or their kid’s kid, co-author of “HOLA Ameri- scorned me had to sit in front District 24 Commission, District 9 Commerce there is a shift in the prog- ca: Guts, Grit, Grind and Fur- of me and ask me for a job.” ress. The child spends a lot ther Traits in the Successful Haitians, like many Carib- – looked up to several West Rose believes it is easier on creating an equitable situ- more time in America and American Immigrant” and bean nationals, have built Indians in his community; he just to see windows when ation for all of Miami’s many the parents are a little older. the online course series by the a name for themselves in believed them to be the more you are migrating from a ma- ethnic groups. That child may be the fur- same name. South Florida. successful Blacks in South jority Black nation-state. Gordon Eric Knowles, the Florida. “I went to Ghana when I president of the Miami-Dade “Bahamians, Grenadians, was in college and, one day, Chamber of Commerce, said Jamaicans. Jamaicans, es- our van was required to pull he admires Haitians because pecially, always had pride. to the side of the road for the they have built a community They were cool. When I was presidential convoy to pass,” around surviving. growing up, they were living said Rose. “I remember feel- “They actually had to stick in Miramar,” said Rose. ing: Wow. The guy who is in together due to the lan- Miramar has the fifth high- that car is Black. Not only guage,” said Knowles, who est percentage of Jamaican that, most of the doctors is of Bahamian heritage. residents in the U.S today and lawyers there are Black. “These immigrants come and the twelfth highest per- When Black people speak from a Black community in centage of residents from there, people listen to them.” their country where they Trinidad and Tobago. It also worked together. When you has an annual median house- THE BATTLE FOR come over as a group and hold income of more than UPWARD MOBILITY you stick together because of $67,000 and a homeowner- Aidoo and other cultur- your ethnicity and common- ship rate of 74%. al theorists maintain that ality, you begin to survive to- Kobina Aidoo, the direc- Black immigrants’ desire for gether.” tor of the 2009 documen- upward mobility will always But it is that same ethnic tary film “The Neo-African trump their desire for unifi- group commonality that Americans,” is originally cation and that may indeed serves to deeply divide Mi- from Ghana and lived in Mi- be the secret to their suc- ami across ethnic and racial ami for 8 years. cess. lines, said Marlon Hill, who is After conducting count- Congresswoman Fred- running for the Miami-Dade less interviews with Blacks erica Wilson, of Bahamian commissioner District 9 seat. across the U.S., he doesn’t heritage, has seen how Black “We have to share more fault one group for wanting boys are offered fewer op- common experiences among to find greener pastures or portunities their white and us all. What are the family the other group for remain- Latino counterparts here in experiences we all have in ing in its community of ori- South Florida. It’s why she’s common… things we cook, gin, hoping that things will fought to improve prospects how we dance, the music we get better. for African American boys listen to. That’s one way to “Black Americans and for decades with her mento- bring greater understanding Black immigrants just have ring program, the 5000 Role among people of different two different projects,” said Models of Excellence Proj- experiences,” he said. Aidoo. “To really understand ect. Hill migrated to South Mi- the relationship between “If they only had the same ami Heights from the island Black immigrants and Af- resources, opportunities, of Jamaica when he was 14. rican Americans, you have and exposure, it would make He studied Spanish at Uni- to think that historically all a dramatic difference in this versidad de Costa Rica and Black people in America have community, the state, and later married a woman from faced a wall to the American the nation,” she said. “Even Trinidad. His cross-cultural dream by virtue of their skin at home their lack of oppor- interests serve him well as color. Over the centuries Af- tunity is compounded by the a partner at the law firm of rican Americans, through words ‘Spanish-preferred’ on Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel, their blood and sweat, have job applications.” more so now while running broken windows in that wall Hill echoes the fact that for the commission seat in that are big enough to jump language and national her- his home district. through. Their instinct, itage adds to the tension of District 9 in Southwest though, is to break the whole race differences in South Miami-Dade is the largest wall down and then walk Florida. geographic district of the through. That is the African “People are rebuffed be- county’s thirteen districts American project — one of cause when they are trying yet comprises some predom- transformation.” to do business in their com- inantly Black communities Conversely, says Aidoo, munity, the person offer- like West Perrine and Rich- when Black immigrants mi- ing customer service can- mond Heights. grate from countries that are not speak English,” he said. so economically depressed “They don’t interact with GROWING UP AFRICAN and politically disadvan- each other as neighbors be- AMERICAN IN MIAMI taged, they don’t see a wall cause they can’t communi- “Our neighborhoods are to the American dream at all. cate with each other.” nothing to be proud of,” said “They see windows and Hill, like many of the immi- Dr. Justin Rose, professor of they just jump through, be- grants on the ballot this year, political science at Hobart cause the Black immigrant is taking on a project that and William Smith Colleges project is one of exploita- centers less on the advance- in Geneva, NY. tion,” he said. ment of one ethnic group but Rose grew up on the oth- er side of the county in unincorporated North Mi- ami-Dade near Opa-Locka. His neighborhood was one of constant contradictions. While he would play football in the street, a neighborhood drug dealer lived next door. It was here he learned street smarts from his big brothers and mentors, but it was also here that a shootout with the police and his house getting robbed resulted in his moth- er installing bars on their windows. He attended Miami North- western High School in the heart of Liberty City and recalls how students would wear shirts embossed with the letters “PBC.” It stood for Pork and Beans Clique. “‘Pork and Beans’ are the housing projects located near Northwestern. It’s al- most like these kids had to find something to take pride in. They couldn’t rock their national colors like the Ja- maicans. Where else could they draw their pride from? ‘I’m from the City,’ they’d say. But all of these people are poor people,” said Rose.

Rose – classified as a gifted student in elementary school The Miami Times 7 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 Nomination of Francis to state supreme court backed TALLAHASSEE — A panel Court of Appeals. petition, which named DeSan- The Florida Constitution re- that nominates potential mem- Couriel has joined the Su- tis and Nordby as defendants, quires justices to “be an elec- bers of the Florida Supreme preme Court, but Francis is in- alleged. tor of the state,” “reside in the Court on Monday defended its eligible to serve as a justice un- But Nordby argued that territorial jurisdiction of the choice to include Renatha Fran- til Sept. 24, when she will mark Thompson’s lawsuit “does not court,” be less than 75 years old, cis, one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ her 10th year as a member of demonstrate that any emergen- and “be, and have been for the latest picks to serve as a justice, The Florida Bar. cy exists to warrant this court’s preceding 10 years, a member on a list of nine nominees sent In a response to Thompson’s immediate determination in an of the bar of Florida.” to the governor in January. lawsuit filed Monday, Daniel original proceeding.” Thompson’s “underlying State Rep. Geraldine Thomp- Nordby, the former chairman He also disputed Thomp- premise that an applicant for son, D-Windermere, filed a of the Judicial Nominating son’s contention that the “con- judicial office must satisfy the lawsuit last month alleging that Commission, wrote that the tinued existence of a vacancy” constitutional eligibility crite- Francis, a Palm Beach County court ruled in 2001 that a judge on the court “adversely affects ria ‘at the time of nomination circuit judge, is unqualified to must satisfy the Florida Con- the function of government” or appointment to office” finds serve on the Supreme Court. stitution’s eligibility require- and requires “an immediate no support in the text of the Thompson’s lawsuit alleged ments ‘”on the date of assuming determination” on the issues in Florida Constitution or this the Florida Supreme Court Ju- office.” Renatha Francis State Rep. Geraldine the petition. court’s precedent,” he argued. dicial Nominating Commission Nordby, a Tallahassee attor- Thompson “does not identi- Couriel, who already joined “exceeded the limits of its au- ney with the Shutts & Bowen “The Florida Legislature it- Thompson fy a single specific function of the court, recused himself from thority” by including Francis LLP law firm, also argued that self has no constitutional role Supreme Court’s rules do not government impeded by the Thompson’s case a day after on the list of nominees because the Supreme Court should dis- in the judicial nomination and allow the nominating commis- vacancy,” Nordby wrote. her lawyers requested that he Francis had not met a legal re- miss Thompson’s legal chal- appointment process,” Nordby, sion to recommend appointees “The court has maintained be disqualified. quirement of being a member lenge because the lawmaker who was Scott’s chief adviser to the governor “unless the a quorum and has continued Francis, who was born in Ja- of The Florida Bar for 10 years. lacks standing to sue. on judicial appointments, ar- commission finds that the nom- to accept briefs, hold oral ar- maica, is slated to become the DeSantis in May announced While Thompson filed the gued. “This court should dis- inee meets all constitutional guments, and release opinions first non-Cuban person of Ca- that he was appointing Fran- lawsuit as “a citizen and tax- miss the petition for lack of and statutory requirements” to since the departures of Justices ribbean heritage to serve on the cis and Miami attorney John payer,” she “does not identify jurisdiction due to the absence serve as a justice. Lagoa and Luck,” he argued. Supreme Court, DeSantis said Couriel to replace former jus- any aspect of the judicial nom- of a justiciable controversy “The plain and unambigu- “Even in the midst of a global when he announced the ap- tices Barbara Lagoa and Rob- ination process that affects her between the petitioner and ous language of the Florida pandemic, this court has pro- pointments on May 26. She also ert Luck, who left the Supreme in her capacity as a legislator,” the JNC (Judicial Nominating Constitution requires that an vided steady leadership for the would be the first Black justice Court after being named by wrote Nordby, who served as a Commission) chair.” individual satisfy that require- judicial branch and has contin- since Peggy Quince retired ear- President Donald Trump to the general counsel for former Gov. In the lawsuit filed July 13, ment prior to being eligible for ued to carry out its constitu- ly last year and would be the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Rick Scott. Thompson’s attorneys said the appointment,” the emergency tional functions.” only woman on the court. Clyburn: Black woman on Supreme Court bigger priority ic Party alone would be “fool- proval by the federal govern- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Rep. Jim Clyburn said a Black woman hardy.” ment. Garcetti, co-chair of Joe Biden’s judge will preserve the democracy “Picking a Black woman as “This Supreme Court has vice president selection com- his running mate would be a neutered the Voting Rights mittee, told MSNBC Tuesday Miami Times Staff Report “That’s where we determine “plus” not a “must,” saying Act of 1965,” Clyburn told PBS. Biden plans on spending the how our democracy will be it was a bit “foolhardy” to be “And so I am very concerned next several days interviewing House Majority Whip and preserved.” focusing solely on the Demo- about the composition of the his the finalists to be his run- South Carolina Rep. Jim Cly- In March, Clyburn encour- cratic Party’s choice for vice United States Supreme Court.” ning mate. burn said Friday that putting a aged Democratic presidential president. Other things, like a Many are waiting on Biden “We have amazing women Black woman on the Supreme nominee Joe Biden to pick a Supreme Court nominee, are to officially announce his nom- that have been a part of this Court is a bigger priority than Black woman as his vice pres- equally — if not more — im- inee for vice president. Biden’s process,” Garcetti told MSN- naming one as vice president. ident. However, he has ap- portant, Clyburn told PBS. shortlist includes Democratic BC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday. “The V.P. is good on style, peared to have changed his Clyburn referenced the 5-4 Senators Elizabeth Warren (D- “We’re keeping them all, we but, on substance, give me an tune saying Biden picking a decision by the highest court, MA) and Kamala Harris (D- vetted them heavily. All of African American woman on Black woman as his running considering the Voting Rights CA) Black Caucus Chair Karen them have passed a vet, and the Supreme Court,” House mate would be a positive thing, Act of 1965, which gave states Bass of California and former now in this next week, week Majority Whip James Cly- but not a guarantee and adding U.S. Congressman the freedom to change election White House national security and a half, Mr. Biden can spend burn said on PBS News Hour. that focusing on the Democrat- Jim Clyburn laws without needing prior ap- adviser Susan Rice. some time with them.” The Miami Times 8 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020

James E. Ferguson—name- cided to let the prisoner off. named in honor of Henry Lee III, sake of the notoriously vio- “They should not have prisons the patriarch of a slave-owning RACIST lent Ferguson Unit, also near named after them,” Berryhill family and the father of Robert CONTINUED FROM 1A Huntsville—was a governor in said. He called it “a stain” on E. Lee. A little further northeast, the 1910s who was also an an- the Texas prison system’s repu- Lee County in South Caroli- While the killing of George ti-Semite and at one point told tation. na—home to violence-plagued Floyd has galvanized support for the Texas Rangers he would In Alabama, the Draper Cor- Lee Correctional Institution—is tearing down statues, renaming use his pardoning power if any rectional Center is named after named after the Confederate sports teams and otherwise of them were ever charged with Hamp Draper, a state prison general himself. removing markers of a (more) murder for their bloody cam- director who also served as an In Arkansas, the namesake racist past, the renewed push paigns against Mexicans, ac- interim leader—or “imperial of Forrest City—home to two for change hasn’t really touched cording to Monica Muñoz Marti- representative”—in the Ku Klux eponymous federal prisons—is the nation’s prison system. But nez, historian and author of “The Klan, as former University of Ala- Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Grand some say it should. Across the Injustice Never Leaves You.” bama professor Glenn Feldman Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan who country, dozens of prisons take Ferguson got forced out of of- noted in his 1999 book on the also controlled leased convicts their names from racists, Con- fice early when he was indicted state’s Klan history. The prison in the entire state of Mississippi federates, plantations, segrega- Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis, Via Getty and then impeached. Afterward, closed for a time in 2018 then at one point. tionists, and owners of slaves. Prisoners from Caledonia Prison harvest crops on a he was replaced by William P. reopened earlier this year as a To many experts, the idea of “Symbols of hate encourage Hobby, a staunch segregationist quarantine site for new intakes. changing prison names feels a hate, so it is time to remove prison farm outside of Tillery, North Carolina, in 1996. who opposed labor rights and In New York City, the scan- bit like putting lipstick on a pig: the celebration of figures whose once defended the beating of an dal-prone Rikers Island jail is no matter what you call it, a pris- fame is predicated on the pain Two of the most infamous and thought of himself as a kind of NAACP official visiting the state one of a few that’s actually gen- on is still a prison. It still holds and torture of Black people,” brutal plantations-turned-pris- benevolent master, he doesn’t to discuss anti-lynching legisla- erated calls for a name change, people who are not free. They said DeRay McKesson, a civil ons are Angola in Louisiana and age well at all.” tion. based on the namesake family’s are still disproportionately Black rights activist and podcast host. Parchman in Mississippi—but In his book “Texas Tough,” Hobby, too, has a prison ties to slavery. One member of and brown. Some candidates for new those are their colloquial names; Perkinson describes some of named after him. the Dutch immigrant clan, Rich- “If you are talking about the names might be prisons on for- neither prison formally bears the the horrors of the convict leas- “In public he tried to condemn ard Riker, served as a criminal inhumanity, the daily violence mer plantations. In Arkansas, name of the plantation that pre- ing practices of Goree’s era. lynchings, but then when you court judge in the early 1800s these prisons perform, then who the Cummins Unit — now home ceded it. Officially, they’re called Because the plantation owners look at his role in suppressing and was known as part of the these prisons are named after to the state’s death chamber Louisiana State Penitentiary and and corporations that rented anti-lynching organizing he was “Kidnapping Club” because he is useful in understanding that,” — was once known as the Cum- the Mississippi State Penitentia- prisoners did not own them, they trying to suppress those ef- so often abused the Fugitive Martinez said. “But what would mins Plantation (though it’s not r y. had no incentive to keep them forts,” Martinez said of Hobby. Slave Act to send free Blacks it do to name it after somebody clear if the namesake owned In some parts of the South, alive. If you killed an enslaved “It’s horrific to name a prison af- into slavery. inspiring? It’s still a symbol of slaves). In North Carolina, Cale- many prisons are former planta- person, it was a financial loss; ter a person like him. It’s an act To be sure, most prisons are oppression.” donia Correctional Institution is tions. Unlike Darrington or Cum- if you killed a leased convict, the of intimidation and it’s a remind- not named for plantations, slave But to Anthony Graves, a Tex- on the site of Caledonia Planta- mins, the vast majority at least state would just replace him. er that the state is proud of that owners or other sundry racists as man who spent 12 years on tion, so named as a nostalgic bothered to change the name— For decades, Texas prison labor- racist tradition.” and bigots—at least not directly. death row after he was wrong- homage to the Roman word for but that isn’t always much of an ers were routinely whipped and Northwest of Abilene, the Most states name their prisons fully convicted of capital murder, Scotland. Over the years, the improvement. beaten, and the leasing system Daniel Unit takes its name from geographically, using cardinal di- the racist names are a “slap in land changed hands and even- In Texas, for example, most of in Goree’s day sparked several Price Daniel, a mid-20th-century rections or nearby cities. the face of the justice system tually the state bought that and the state’s lockups are named scandals, including one involving governor who opposed integra- But some of those geograph- itself.” New names could be a other nearby parcels. after ex-prison officials and erst- torture so terrible it was known tion, like most Texas politicians ic names can be problematic. powerful signal of new priorities. “But the state opted to ac- while state politicians, a group as the “Mineola Horror.” Goree of the era. As attorney general In Florida, Jackson Correctional “At the end of the day the tually keep that name in what I that predictably includes prob- defended the system: “There he fought desegregating the Uni- Institution shares a name with mentality in these prisons is would say is a kind of intentional lematic figures. Arguably one of are, of course, many men in the versity of Texas Law School, and its home county. But Jackson still, ‘This is my plantation and choice,” said Elijah Gaddis, an the worst is Thomas J. Goree, penitentiary who will not be man- later he signed the Southern County is named after the na- you are my slaves,’” he said. assistant professor of history at the former slave owner and Con- aged by kindness.” Plus, he ex- Manifesto condemning the Su- tion’s seventh president, An- “To change that we have to start Auburn University. “It’s so damn- federate captain who became plained, prisoners in the South preme Court’s decision in Brown drew Jackson, who was a slave somewhere and maybe if we ing.” one of the first superintendents needed to be treated differently v. Board of Education. owner obsessed with removing change the name we can start Among several state prison of the state’s penitentiaries in because they were different from The namesakes of the Billy Native people to make room for to change the culture.” systems contacted by The Mar- the 1870s, when prison meant those in the North: “There, the Moore Unit and the frequently more plantations. Less than an Keri Blakinger is a staff writer shall Project, only North Caro- torture in stocks and dark cells. majority of men are white.” sued Wallace Pack Unit were a hour to the south, Calhoun Cor- at the Marshall Project whose lina’s said it’s in the early stag- “Goree was a central figure The present-day Goree Unit pair of prison officials—a ma- rectional Institution also bears work has focused on prisons and es of historical research to see in the convict leasing system is in Huntsville, an hour’s drive jor and a warden—who died in the name of its county, which prosecutors. She previously cov- what name changes might be ap- that killed thousands of people north of Houston, but his fami- 1981 while trying to murder a is in turn named after John C. ered criminal justice for Houston propriate. Spokesman John Bull and he presided over the formal ly’s former plantation in Love- Black prisoner. According to Mi- Calhoun—Jackson’s rabidly Chronicle, and her work has ap- said the department is “sensi- segregation of the prison sys- lady—about 20 miles further chael Berryhill, a Texas Southern pro-slavery vice president. The peared in the Washington Post tive to the cultural legacy issues tem,” said Robert Perkinson, a north—has been turned into an- University journalism professor same is true of Georgia’s Cal- Magazine, VICE, the New York sweeping the country,” but its University of Hawaii associate other prison: the Eastham Unit, who wrote a book on the case, it houn State Prison. Daily News and NBC News. She priority now is responding to the professor who studies crime and named for the later landowners was such a clear case of self-de- Also in Georgia, Lee State is the organization's first formerly COVID pandemic. punishment. “Even though he who used it for convict leasing. fense that three Texas juries de- Prison is in Lee County, which is incarcerated reporter. Finance

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Former McDonald’s execs strike back in explosive race discrimination lawsuit

Special to The Miami Times a place where African Americans could grow, find mentors, promotions, and economic opportunity. For more than 50 years the McDonald’s Corpo- However, that image was shattered this year in an ration took pride in branding itself as a socially explosive lawsuit brought by two African American conscious corporation particularly interested in do- female executives who claim that under new lead- ing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black ership the company not only deliberately divested Vicki Guster-Hines communities while embracing racial diversity as a from the Black community and businesses, but critical component of its corporate ethos. hurled racist, sexists insults at them including It is a philosophy that helped create a popular referring to the employees as “niggers” and “angry narrative and also focus on story that the Chica- Black women.” go-based company was a progressive business and SEE RACISM 10B

“ . . . hurled racist, sexists insults at them including referring to the employees as “niggers” and “angry Black women.”

Domineca Neal The Miami Times 10 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 Jackson Health seeks ‘fair share’ of funding CHRISTINE SEXTON procedures to ensure that they governmental agencies such News Service of Florida would have space and equip- as his facility. ment to treat patients with The $50 million in federal TALLAHASSEE — Con- COVID-19, the respiratory money he said, would near- gress, in response to the coro- disease caused by the corona- ly cover a hole in operating navirus pandemic, set aside virus. Such types of so-called funds that has been mostly $13 billion to help safety-net elective surgeries and proce- caused by the shutdown of hospitals that treat a majority dures often are profitable for elective services in March. of poor, elderly and disabled hospitals, so stopping them Jimenez said he has pleaded patients. hurt the facilities’ finances. his case to the federal bureau- But some of Florida’s larg- Many of the procedures cracy, but to no avail. est safety-net hospitals -- in- resumed in May, though hos- “I will tell you in true hon- cluding Jackson Memorial in pitals have again had to deal esty, there are a lot of sympa- Miami -- didn’t qualify for the with a surge in coronavirus thetic people, but the adminis- funding included in a feder- cases in June and July. trative types in D.C. don't have al-stimulus bill known as the Knight said that between a way to solve my problem,” CARES Act, while seeing their March and June, Jackson Me- Jimenez said. “I need some- finances deteriorate as they morial’s net patient service body at the highest adminis- shifted from providing “elec- revenue was “down” $85 mil- trative channel or the Legisla- tive” surgeries and procedures lion. He is expecting another ture to help it out.” to dealing with coronavirus $35 million reduction in pa- As of Thursday, UF Health cases. companying worksheets that how the county gets us our Payments for safety-net hos- tient service revenue for July. Shands had 86 patients with The reason for not qualify- bedeviled Florida safety-net funding to pay for that capi- pitals that were eligible ranged UF Health Shands Hospital coronavirus infections at its ing? A requirement that safe- hospitals. tal. So it is artificially inflating from $5 million to $50 million. in Gainesville also missed out Gainesville facility. ty-net hospitals had no more Mark Knight, chief financial our bottom line or net income Knight said Jackson would on about $50 million in federal Jimenez said the hospi- than 3 percent profit margins officer of Jackson Health Sys- line.” have been below the 3 percent money for safety-net facilities tal hasn’t stopped offering in 2018, a figure that hospital tem, said $105 million in bond Knight said including the cap and eligible for a full $50 because it had a 3.2 percent scheduled inpatient surger- officials say was gleaned from revenue the facility received $105 million in revenue pushed million if the bond revenue profit margin, CEO Ed Jimenez ies to state residents, but it Medicare cost reports and un- from Miami-Dade County in Jackson’s profitability to 3.7 had not been included. said. What tripped the facility has stopped accepting refer- audited worksheets that ac- 2018 for capital improvements percent. While it didn’t qualify for up was an inability to write off rals for patients from outside company those reports. was included in the calcula- “Because of the tax funds, the safety-net funding, Jack- $68 million to the University the state, a move to conserve All hospitals are required tions. Taxpayers agreed to the we are excluded (from the fed- son has received about $100 of Florida. staff while still fulfilling the to file the cost reports, which improvements. eral funding),” he said. “Not million in other CARES Act Jimenez said the hospital’s facility’s mission to taxpayers. helped the Trump adminis- “It has nothing to do with because we really exceed 3 funding for hospitals. profit margin for 2018 was He estimated that revenue tration distribute the funds how many patients we see or percent of profitability, but an After the coronavirus pan- actually 1.7 percent when cal- for July is stable but that per- quickly. It was the use of how well manage our expens- accounting treatment is dis- demic began, hospitals halted culated using accounting stan- sonal protective equipment unaudited data from the ac- es,” Knight said. “But that’s torting our results.” many types of surgeries and dards that are widely used by SEE POT 11B

vealed he was involved in an affair McDonald’s or anywhere else. She with a colleague in violation of com- said there was no response to her RACISM pany policy, also named in the suit complaint from the corporation and CONTINUED FROM 9B are the current CEO, Chris Kemp- Ranft was eventually promoted to czinski, and Charles Strong, the Vice President of Development for Adding further injury to the gro- chief field officer. the entire U.S. tesque insults, the women also At its bare essence, the women The suit also alleges in 2017 claimed when they spoke up about allege in the suit the world’s largest Strong, who supervised Neal and such treatment they were demoted fast-food restaurant chain has “de- Guster-Hines and at the time re- and the perpetrators were promoted. clared war against the African Ameri- sponsible for 50% of the U.S. busi- The shocking accusations have can community.” ness and about 14,000 restaurants, rocked the fast-food industry espe- She noted her observation is instructed Neal not to consult with cially since McDonald’s has long pro- based on its new business plan and or take the advice of two African jected itself as a leader in diversity corporate leadership’s attitudes to- American women, Bridgette Hernan- initiatives and as an aggressive re- ward African American employees dez and Barbara Calloway who had cruiter and developer of African Amer- and owner-operators who had the been promoted over Strong’s oppo- ican talent and entrepreneurs. majority of restaurants in African sition. She alleged he stated, “We But Domineca Neal and Vicki American consumer markets and don’t need any of that Black wom- Guster-Hines, former vice presidents would be impacted, more so than an’s attitude. They are too angry and of the fast-food chain, allege the dis- others. “And that action coincided aggressive.” crimination and harassment started with a significant reduction in the The next year in March 2018, and progressive programs came to a number of African American own- Strong allegedly told Guster-Hines screeching halt following a change in er-operators.” that five African American women, corporate leadership at McDonald’s When Neal and other executives Chioke Elmore, Regina Johnson, in 2015. In their suit they said the brought these concerns to the at- Hernandez, Calloway and Neal, were new regime engaged in systemic rac- tention of leadership, they began to “angry Black women” that “always ist and discriminatory behavior and retaliate against them. They defund- seemed to be mad about something.” civil rights abuses against them and ed the company’s African American He then allegedly asked Guster-Hines other Black executives. Diversity Council and it subsequent- to explain the source of their anger. Among the allegations were that ly became dormant. The Council The five women constituted 40% of one top white male executive re- provided career development and a female African American vice presi- peatedly referred to them as “angry talent pipeline for African American dents as of March 2018. And were Black women” and another who ear- employees. And soon the demotions three out of five vice presidents re- lier had referred to Black employees started with African Americans be- porting to Strong when he allegedly as “niggers” shockingly being pro- ing targeted for elimination such as made these statements. moted rather than disciplined follow- herself and Guster-Hines, leaving no “So that was shocking that he was ing a complaint filed against him for African Americans at Kempczinski’s so openly discussing that with vari- such racially abusive language. leadership table during his tenure ous stakeholders that we were angry In an exclusive interview with the as president of McDonald’s USA to Black women,” Neal said. Michigan Chronicle, Neal, a native advocate on behalf of Black employ- But what she, Guster-Hines, and Detroiter, said the harassment be- ees, franchise operators, or custom- others found even more jarring and gan shortly after the new CEO, Brit- ers. The suit claims the number of demoralizing was after they shared ish-born Steve Easterbrook, came African American executives in the Strong’s racist, sexist, and demean- on board in 2015 and initiated a top ranks of McDonald’s operations ing remarks to his superiors, he, too, corporate restructuring plan that fell to seven in 2019 from 42 in was promoted and they were demot- de-emphasized racial diversity and 2014, the year before the new re- ed. input from Black executives and gime came on board. “In shocking ways difficult to franchisees. She and Guster-Hines The suit also alleges: overstate, McDonald’s under East- were then demoted from vice-presi- Before Easterbrook and Kemp- erbrook and Kempczinski declared dent to senior director positions in czinski’s arrival, African American a war against the African American July 2018. consumers generated 20% of all rev- community,” the lawsuit alleges. They are seeking compensation enue for McDonald’s US stores. Neither the McDonald’s Corpora- following those demotions, claiming Easterbrook and Kempczinski tion Media Relations Department or that they occurred as a result of dis- caused a decrease in advertising to the lawyer representing them, Nigel crimination. attract African American patronage. F. Telman of Chicago, returned calls “When they assumed leadership, The constant cutting in the fund- from the Chronicle by publication it became very clear that African ing of programs for building African deadline. Americans stakeholders were no American leadership resulted in the However, in a statement to the longer a strategic priority and the system-wide purchases by African media in January, issued at the fil- environment became toxic,” she Americans to decline by 6%. ing of the suit, McDonald’s said it said. “An example would be, you Nearly one out of three African disagreed with the characterization know, cutting advertising spending American franchisees left the Mc- of the company’s behavior. It said with African American agencies that Donald’s system since Easterbrook 45% of its corporate officers and all impacted, of course, African Ameri- arrived which was disproportionate of its field vice-presidents are people can customers and local communi- to the loss of non-African American of color. ty organizations, and it didn’t make franchisees. “At McDonald’s, our actions are economic sense, it didn’t make good But among Neal’s and Guster- rooted in our belief that a diverse, vi- business sense.” Hines’ most shocking claims was brant, inclusive, and respectful com- McDonald’s commitment to diver- the racist, sexist taunts they had to pany makes us stronger,” the com- sity was so widely known and pro- endure from the McDonald’s execu- pany said. “While we disagree with moted that it was regularly named tives. The suit alleges that in 2005 characterizations in the complaint, we among the Fortune 500 top corpora- Marty Ranft, a white vice president are currently reviewing it and will re- tions for diversity and inclusion and and general manager of the McDon- spond to the complaint accordingly.” other companies would benchmark ald’s Ohio Region told Guster-Hines Carmen D. Caruso and Linda C. against them. “You are a nigger like all the rest-– Chatman, the Chicago-based trial law- That reputation, however, is now you just believe you are better cause yers representing Neal and Guster- threatened by the lawsuit scheduled you are a smart one.” Hines said the behavior by McDon- to be heard in the Northern District She further alleges she reported ald’s executives constituted some Court of Illinois next month or early Ranft to her supervisors and em- of the most egregious acts of racial August. 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SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years MARCIA DUNN

CAPE CANAVER- AL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA astronauts re- turned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splash- down, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprec- edented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated space- craft to carry people A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley to and from orbit. The return clears Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Sta- are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour space- the way for another tion with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, craft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly SpaceX crew launch May 30, 2020. after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of as early as next Pensacola, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. month and possible tourist flights next year. hot, at least on the on a partially frozen Test pilots Doug outside. lake amid a blizzard Hurley and Bob The spacecraft following an aborted Behnken arrived went from a scream- mission; the harrow- back on Earth in their ing orbital speed of ing recovery took SpaceX Dragon cap- 17,500 mph (28,000 hours. sule named Endeav- kph) to 350 mph (560 “We are entering our, less than a day kph) during atmo- a new era of human after departing the spheric reentry, and spaceflight where International Space finally to 15 mph (24 NASA is no longer Station and two kph) at splashdown. the purchaser, owner months after blasting Peak heating during and operator of all off from Florida. The descent was 3,500 the hardware. We’re capsule parachuted degrees Fahrenheit going to be a cus- into the calm gulf wa- (1,900 degrees Cel- tomer, one customer ters about 40 miles sius). The anticipat- of many,” Bridens- off the coast of Pen- ed top G forces felt tine said from John- sacola, hundreds of by the crew: four to son Space Center in miles from Tropical five times the force of Houston. “I would Storm Isaias pound- Earth’s gravity. love to see a fleet of ing Florida’s Atlantic The last time NASA crew Dragons ser- coast. astronauts returned vicing not just the “Welcome back from space to water International Space to planet Earth and was on July 24, 1975, in Station but also com- thanks for flying the Pacific, the scene mercial space sta- SpaceX,” said Mis- of most splashdowns, tions.” sion Control from to end a joint U.S.-So- SpaceX President SpaceX headquarters. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is lifted onto the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship viet mission known Gwynne Shotwell “It’s a little bit shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard in the Gulf as Apollo-Soyuz. The called the mission a overwhelming to see of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. The Demo-2 test flight for NASA's Mercury and Gemini springboard to “doing everybody here con- crews in the early to even harder things,” sidering the things Commercial Crew Program was the first to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station and mid-1960s parachut- like collaborating on that have gone on the return them safely to Earth onboard a commercially built and operated spacecraft. Behnken and Hurley ed into the Atlantic, astronaut flights to last few months since returned after spending 64 days in space. while most of the the moon and then we’ve been off plan- ning where they were including Musk. ters in Hawthorne, relieved — while ad- for this one,” he said. later Apollo capsules Mars. et,” Hurley said after greeted by a small Musk had rushed California, to wel- dressing the group. The astronauts’ hit the Pacific. The arriving back home in masked-gathering of to Houston from come them. He was “I’m not very re- ride back to Earth lone Russian “splash- Houston Sunday eve- family and officials, SpaceX headquar- clearly moved — and ligious, but I prayed was fast, bumpy and down” was in 1976

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In this image provided by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), United States wrestler Lee Kemp, top, competes in the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics crushed Kemp's dreams, along with all the predictions that he would win a gold medal.

Photos: Walter Meives/USOPC via AP BOYCOTT GAMES: WRESTLER FINDS PEACE DESPITE ROAD NOT TAKEN Lee Kemp had a chance to make history in 1980

The Associated Press to downplay any American who won in 1984. But you COLORADO SPRINGS, look at the typical Olym- Colo. — Long before the pics, and we might have had days when most facts were one or two gold medalists in a click away on the internet, wrestling. In 1984, we had Lee Kemp kept the details seven.” of his wrestling success to Kemp focused on get- himself. ting his MBA and making “I was embarrassed,” he a steady climb in the busi- said. “If you tell someone ness world. Some things you were pretty good, the worked out; others didn’t. first thing they’d ask you is He had a fractured mar- ‘Did you do it in the Olym- riage and spent time in jail pics?’ If you said ‘No,’ they in the 2000s for violating a were like, ”Oh, OK.” restraining order obtained Fact is, Kemp was very by his ex-wife with whom good. A two-time reign- he waged a bitter custody ing world champion who battle. was among the Americans Those days have passed, as viewed as a star in the mak- well. And these days, Kemp ing as the 1980 Olympics ap- keeps his hand in the game, proached. coaching MMA athletes and The U.S. boycott of the working with high school Moscow Games crushed wrestlers. In 2008, Kemp fi- all those predictions, along nally did make it to a Games with Kemp’s hopes. He was as part of the U.S. Olympic one of the handful of Ameri- team; he helped coach gold can medal hopefuls who not medalist Henry Cejudo. only didn’t cash in at the ’80 Forty years later, anyone Games, but would never get who knows wrestling is well another chance. In all, 227 aware of how the path Kemp members of the 1980 team traveled was impacted by a would never compete at any of storytelling during this, “Lee thought when he got Retirement from wres- He didn’t qualify for the decision he had nothing to Olympics. the 40th anniversary of the into wrestling, it was just tling, a few endorsement team, and though he’s re- do with. “It felt like a death in the boycott and a summer in him and the other person contracts and a good job — luctant to make excuses, the “His legacy as one of the family, where that person which the 2020 Olympics on the mat, and that race who wouldn’t want to hire fact that the Soviet Union greatest wrestlers of all time is gone and never com- have been postponed by the and politics wouldn’t mat- an Olympic gold medalist? had made its intentions and certainly one of greatest ing back,” Kemp said of his coronavirus pandemic that ter,” said Riley Hanlon, who — felt like realistic out- clear — it would boycott the in the U.S. doesn’t exist be- emotions when he heard the has turned the year’s sports produced the documentary comes for a wrestler leaving 1984 Games in Los Angeles cause he was denied that op- news the U.S. would boycott calendar upside down. and also a video that Kemp the Olympics with a gold in retaliation for what the portunity to win an Olympic the Games in protest of the The 1980 boycott was sim- narrated in which he de- medal around his neck. In- U.S. had done — certainly gold medal,” said Jim Scherr, Soviet Union’s invasion of ilar to the 2020 postpone- scribes his journey. “I think stead, Kemp stayed on the played a part in Kemp’s less- the 1988 Olympic wrestler Afghanistan. ment in at least two ways: the biggest takeaway about mat, and won another world than-ideal encore. who said he worshipped Kemp’s saga, poignant- It was totally out of the ath- Lee is that he was able to championship in 1982, with “It helps your training Kemp growing up. “But ev- ly told in a documentary letes’ control, and the op- persevere through so many his sights set on realizing when you know you’re go- eryone who knows the sport “Wrestled Away: The Lee portunities lost might never different changing plans” his Olympic dream in Los ing to be going against he knows that barring injury, he Kemp Story” is a timely bit be fully accounted for. throughout his life. Angeles in 1984. very best,” Kemp said. “Not would’ve won the Games." Lifestyles Entertainment MAKINGIN THE GRADE Culture Food Arts Music

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The New City Players' Miami native Rita Cole production of "A Raisin in won a 2020 Carbonell the Sun" received three Award for her role as Ruth Carbonell nominations. Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun" at New City Players in Fort Lauderdale.

EMILY CARDENAS Out of the 32 plays and musicals nominated a soulful score, tells the story of a white disc [email protected] for multiple awards, three had majority Black jockey who makes it his mission to bring blues casts. They were “Memphis” (six nominations), and soul music to a white southern audience hile theaters remain shuttered across the coun- staged at Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle The- in the 1950s. Believing that music and love try and Broadway is still dark, South Florida held atre in Coral Gables; “Fences” (five nomina- can transcend race, his relationship with a its 44th annual Carbonell Awards on Monday in tions), presented by Palm Beach Dramaworks; Black singer during segregation addresses celebration of regional theater. Known as our local and “A Raisin in the Sun” (three nominations), social barriers and prejudice. version of the Tony Awards, this year’s Carbonell produced by New City Players in Fort Lauder- August Wilson's “Fences” tells the tale of programW took place virtually in keeping with social distancing, instead dale. Troy Maxson, a Black garbage collector and of the usual theatrical venue. “Memphis,” a crowd-pleasing musical with SEE AWARDS 6C

The Actors' Playhouse production of "Memphis" The Palm Beach Dra- at the Miracle Theatre in maworks production of Coral Gables received six "Fences" received five Carbonel nominations. Carbonel nominations. The Miami Times 2 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020

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Superstar's new film takes you on a journey of Black art, music, history and fashion

eyoncé’s new film transports you to Africa to tell the story of a young man in search of his crown, matched to epic songs she created while inspired by “The Lion King.” The voyage feels even more special during the current state of the world, as the Black experience has been looked at closely in the wake of the many deaths of Black people, and the Black Lives Matter movement that continues to protest racism and inequality. And for those of us who have been stuck in place for monthsB because of the coronavirus pandemic, the voyage and escapism are welcomed.

In “Black Is King,” which debuted newer passages that truly resonate. sity and sisterhood. Beyoncé singing Friday on Disney+, Beyoncé contin- “When it’s all said and done, I don’t “because you’re beautiful,” face-to- ues to dig deep into her roots and even know my own native tongue. face with Rowland, could induce share her discovery with the world, And if I can’t speak myself, I can’t tears. like she did on the sweet masterpiece think myself. And if I can’t think my- “Black Is King” also highlights mu- “Lemonade.” Black pride is the center self, I can’t be myself. And if I can’t be sic’s royal family: The Carters. Jay-Z of the film, with African artists strongly myself, I will never know me,” a man makes a stunning appearance on represented, as Beyoncé shares her says. “So Uncle Sam, tell me this, if I “Mood 4 Eva,” while 8-year-old Blue stage with Tiwa Savage, Wizkid, Mr will never know me, how can you?” Ivy steals the spotlight every time she Eazi, Busiswa, Salatiel, Yemi Alade, Powerful. appears on screen. Tina Knowles as Moonchild Sanelly and more. Later in the film, Beyoncé says: “We well as Sir and Rumi Carter — who They add a great deal of energy have always been wonderful. I see us the film is dedicated to — are also and beauty to the film — through lyr- reflected in the world’s most heavenly present. ical delivery, eye-popping and sharp things. Black is king. We were beauty It’s a family affair, with musical choreography, and bright and elegant before they knew what beauty was.” cousins — both familiar and on the costumes — bringing the songs from That leads into “Brown Skin Girl,” verge — part of the safari ride. “The Lion King: The Gift” to life. as Naomi Campbell, Lupita Nyong’o “Black Parade” plays as the credits That album was inspired by the and Kelly Rowland — queens that scroll at the end of “Black Is King,” time Beyoncé spent voicing the Beyoncé name-drops on the song — and the song title could be the best character of Nala in the latest version make appearances alongside other way to describe the film: a procession of “The Lion King.” Audio from the Black and brown women and girls in into Beyoncé’s Black liberation. animated film are included, but it’s the a deep celebration of melanin, diver- OK, now let’s get in formation.

Parkwood Entertainment/Disney + via AP. This image released by Disney Plus shows Beyoncé in scenes from her visual album "Black is King," premiering Friday on Disney Plus. The Miami Times 4 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020

What is the next step as America confronts its racism? A broadcast spectacle, our critic writes, that could look like court, a telethon, therapy, an Oprah show — and more.

THE RECONCILIATION SHOULD BE TELEVISED A public reckoning with the country’s long history of racial injustice will only have mass impact through live testimony

NOHA ABOUELDAHAB The Foreign Policy

s the United States contends with the historic Black Lives Matter movement, several U.S. politicians have renewed their calls for truth commissions—public inquiries into past grievances and human rights violations. Members of Congress, including Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. John Larson, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Cory Booker, and Sen. Kamala Harris, have emphasized the importance of such hearings in achievingA a society-level understanding of the root causes of violence, inequality, and racism, and also in beginning the processes of accountability, healing, and reconciliation.

But to have a mass impact, especially Through these hearings, which should be because racism in the United States is so televised and streamed online, victims would deep-rooted, these truth commissions must share testimony of injustices suffered, and also be broadcast live. perpetrators would share stories about the in- With government support, such commissions justices they committed. How far back into the could be established at the national level. past these commissions should go is an issue If headed by elected commissioners with a that depends on how far back living survivors reputable record of truth-seeking efforts, a are able to provide firsthand testimony. These Philip Littleton/Afp Via Getty Images nationwide truth commission would galvanize stories would be both personal and historical, A hotel cleaner listens during a live telecast of the start of the Truth and Rec- a national dialogue to complement the work of providing context that other justice mecha- onciliation Commission, which opened in East London, South Africa, on April 15, city and state-level commissions. nisms, such as prosecutions, do not capture. 1996.

A live recounting of painful stories would It would be difficult, then, to turn away from grant agency to survivors in a way that top- a public reckoning with a long history of police down policies, such as reparations, would not. brutality and institutional racism broadcast live. It would also force citizens across U.S. society As with Floyd’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” to make a conscious decision: Either they these painful testimonies cannot be unseen or watch or switch off. If several channels air the unheard when televised and streamed online, testimonies, they would be difficult to ignore. especially as they would reach a wider au- Whether in support or in resistance, all Amer- dience, including Americans of varied back- icans would participate in a sobering exercise grounds. Such a collective experience would be of public reckoning. hard to erase. It is easy for those who have not suffered Historically, truth commissions have taken racism and violence to dismiss protests as place in the aftermath of mass violence, such crowds of angry individuals who will eventually as after the overthrow of the dictatorial regime tire of taking to the streets. But the power of in Tunisia in 2011 or the end of apartheid in video footage is undeniable. The Black Lives South Africa in 1994. Matter movement, particularly following George Between 2014 and 2019, Tunisia’s Truth and Floyd’s death and its public broadcasting, Dignity Commission investigated and docu- represents a notable shift in the U.S. nation- mented crimes committed over a six-decade al consciousness. According to a Monmouth period spanning the last year of French colonial Photo: AFP University poll, 76 percent of Americans—in- rule and two post-independence authoritarian Nelson Mandela (left) receives five volumes of the Truth and Reconciliation cluding 71 percent of white Americans—now regimes. In 2019, it released a damning 2,000- Commission final report from Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Pretoria on October 29 say that racial and ethnic discrimination is a page report outlining torture, sexual crimes, 1998. The report reveals human rights abuse by various political parties during “big problem” in the United States, up from 51 corruption, and other violations. the Nationalist Party rule. percent in 2015. SEE IMPACT 6C The Miami Times 5 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 Steve McQueen sets 3 premieres at New York Film Festival Three original films by Os- “It’s especially meaningful for ty and systemic racism.” car-winner Steve McQueen me at this particular time to The five films will premiere will debut at the New York share these stories as a Black later this year on Amazon Film Festival this year, orga- man of West Indian heritage.” Prime Video in the U.S. and nizers said Monday. The “12 The other two films pre- on BBC One. Years a Slave” director will miering are “Mangrove,” with Dates haven’t been set for get the opening night slot for “Black Panther” actor Letitia the 58th edition of the New the 1980s-set music romance Wright, which tells the true York Film Festival because of “Lovers Rock” in addition to story of a group of Black ac- the ongoing coronavirus pan- two other premieres for films tivists called the Mangrove demic but organizers say that in his anthology series. 9 who clashed with police specifics will be announced McQueen’s “Small Axe” an- in the 1970s and “Red, White in the coming weeks. The thology is comprised of five and Blue,” another true story Acclaimed British festival is planning to pro- films telling stories about about a man, Leroy Logan, director and artist ceed with outdoor and virtual London’s West Indian com- who joins the police to try to Steve McQueen screenings, and, where possi- munity from the 1960s to the inspire change from within. ble with safety protocols, in- mid-1980s. John Boyega stars. Lim, the festival’s program- door screenings too. “It’s an incredible hon- “Steve McQueen is one of ming director. “These are Director Chloe Zhao’s “ New York Film Festival via AP or and also very humbling the essential artists of our works of historical drama that Nomadland,” with Frances to show three of my films at time, and he reaches a new speak powerfully and urgent- This image released by the New York Film Festival McDormand, was previously the New York Film Festival,” level of mastery with the ly to our present moment of shows a scene from Steve McQueen’s "Lovers Rock" announced as a centerpiece McQueen said in a statement. Small Axe films,” said Dennis reckoning over police brutali- which will premiere at the 58th New York Film Festival. screening. Winfrey honors Breonna Taylor with September cover Historic move marks first time the magazine will not feature Oprah A portrait of Breonna Taylor, while executing a search war- the 26-year-old Black emer- rant. In the months since her gency medical technician shot death, protests across the dead by police in her own home country have called for the of- earlier this year, will appear on ficers’ arrest. the cover of the latest issue of “We can’t be silent. We have O, The Oprah Magazine. to use whatever megaphone It is the first time in the we have to cry for justice. And magazine’s 20-year history that is why Breonna Taylor is that the cover will not fea- on the cover of O Magazine,” ture the magazine’s namesake: the television and digital me- Oprah Winfrey. dia mogul wrote of her deci- sion on Twitter and Instagram The cover for the Septem- Oprah Winfrey ber issue was unveiled on on Thursday. Thursday, and will hit news- The cover, created by self- What I Know For Sure column. businesses and anti-racism stands on 11 August. trained 24-year-old digital art- “And I feel a personal connec- organizations as well as tips “If you turn a blind eye to ist Alexis Franklin, features a tion. Because I am these wom- and resources for white peo- racism, you become an ac- picture of Taylor that she had en. These women are me.” ple who want to be anti-racist complice to it,” Winfrey said taken of herself. It had also September’s issue tackles allies. in a quote that also appears on been featured in news reports institutional and systemic The news of the September the cover. surrounding protests demand- Photograph: Alexis Franklin/O, The Oprah Magazine racism, educating white read- cover comes after a spokes- Taylor, who lived in Lou- ing justice for Taylor’s family. Breonna Taylor on the September issue of O. ‘If you ers on how “to dismantle the person for the publication isville, Kentucky, was fatally “She was just like me. She status quo” in a section called confirmed to People earlier turn a blind eye to racism, you become an accomplice shot by police in March after was just like you,” Oprah said Hard White Truths. Each page this week it plans to evolve to officers stormed her home in a statement as part of her to it,’ Winfrey said. will highlight Black-owned become “digitally-centric."

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South Florida stages, most re- cently in GableStage’s “Skel- AWARDS eton Crew” and the Miracle CONTINUED FROM 1C Theatre’s “Doubt: A Parable.” This is her first Carbonell win. ex-convict who once had a “Producing ‘A Raisin in the promising future in base- Sun’ can only be described as ball. He eventually settles an honor,” said Tim Davis, pro- down and starts a family, ducing artistic director of New but bitterness resulting from City Players in Fort Lauder- his experiences with racism dale. “I’ve never seen a group nearly destroys his marriage of artists take a process so and leads him to stand in the seriously and intentionally. It way of his son’s athletic ambi- was an inspiration to watch it tions, resulting in irreparable come together. The real payoff damage between the two. was the audiences’ response. “A Raisin in the Sun,” writ- Several patrons have come up ten by Lorraine Hansberry, is to me after a show and said, the story of a poor Black fam- ‘I’m speechless.’ Connecting ily living on the South Side of our community to such a clas- Chicago during the 1950s. sic, relevant, and beautiful Seeking to move into a white story is what it’s all about.” middle-class neighborhood, Zoetic Stage, which has a the family is met with chal- residency at the Adrienne Ar- lenges and racial prejudice. It sht Center for the Performing is considered by many to be Arts of Miami-Dade County in one of the greatest plays of the Carnival Studio Theater, the 20th century. swept the awards program Out of the combined 14 with 12 wins. nominations for these pro- Look for more arts and ductions, just one landed a culture coverage in The Mi- Carbonell – Rita Cole was rec- ami Times and an upcoming ognized with a best support- feature on the impact of the ing actress win for her role coronavirus on local theater, as Ruth Younger in “A Raisin and specifically on the lives of In the Sun.” The Miami-born Black actors, playwrights, and actress is frequently seen on theater companies. The Palm Beach Dramaworks production of "Fences" received five Carbonel nominations.

These local-level commis- such injustices are enforced er swath of South Africans than But without live video hearings, temic racism — something that sions are important, but they persistently and with impunity. the commission’s final report wider U.S. society will miss the can also retraumatize victims IMPACT failed to galvanize American Tunisia and South Africa did. Experts point to how the opportunity to participate in a and polarize societies. Many CONTINUED FROM 4C society at large, as their man- again offer important prece- audio and video recordings meaningful public reckoning of these risks could be mitigat- dates to address structural dents. In Tunisia, five perpe- powerfully humanized individual that unsettles the past and ed through government-funded But the most striking mo- racism were limited to a specif- trators came forward to testify stories of suffering, preventing attempts to dismantle system- psychosocial support and care- ments of the Tunisian commis- ic event or policy. On their own, at the Truth and Dignity Com- desensitization. Moreover, the ic racism and socioeconomic fully crafted protocols to pro- sion were the hours of public these commissions are not mission. While some used the visual impact of video hearings inequality—today and in the tect victims and witnesses. hearings aired on prime-time enough to trigger national-lev- platform as a way to defend supersedes that of a multivol- future. If a national broadcaster television and streamed online el change with regards to the their actions and deflect re- ume written report — the same Such public hearings are not aired truth commission testi- in 2016 and 2017. Victims entrenched injustice of racism. sponsibility, they nevertheless can be said about existing and without risks. Victims, their monies in the United States, it and their relatives recounted The persistence of structural enhanced the exercise by pro- future such reports in the Unit- families, and their communities would shake the American psy- the gruesome details of tor- racism, police brutality, and viding details that might not ed States. could be retraumatized as they che into consciousness. This ture, sexual crimes, and other police impunity in the United have otherwise come to light. The recent surge in calls for relive the horrors of the past is a necessary first step for the injustices perpetrated by the States requires a national pub- One of the perpetrators in par- transitional justice in the Unit- through live testimonies. Some process of public healing and Tunisian state security appa- lic reckoning. ticular broke with the official ed States is overwhelmingly perpetrators would exploit such reconciliation. It is a painful ratus. A series of live video hear- narratives of the past. Mo- focused on reparations and public hearings to put forth a but essential exercise if mean- South Africa’s Truth and Rec- ings would expose, address, hamed Imed Trabelsi, a neph- the establishment of truth and narrative that denies the exis- ingful change is to become a onciliation Commission offers and acknowledge America’s ew of the former first lady and reconciliation commissions. tence of police brutality or sys- reality. similar lessons. Established in long history of inequality and a wealthy businessman, de- 1995, the commission aimed racism. Most importantly, the livered prerecorded testimony to expose and record individual toll of this history would be from his prison cell; he is serv- and systemic suffering under etched into the public mem- ing sentences amounting to four decades of apartheid rule, ory. Victims would have the 108 years for corruption. Aired as well as to facilitate repara- opportunity to tell the full sto- in May 2017, his testimony — tions and national reconcilia- ry of their grievances. Contex- though it appeared to lack re- tion. As in Tunisia, the com- tualized stories recounted by morse — described a web of mission made its mark when the victims themselves would corruption. it broadcast live and recorded contribute to a larger narrative, “Neither the analysis of ex- television and radio testimo- illustrating the full picture of perts nor that of politicians nies between 1996 and 1997. structural and systemic rac- is as powerful as the words For many South Africans, “[T] ism. of victims who recount the hese public hearings were the Truth commissions are un- gut-wrenching details of what commission,” argues Cather- like a typical trial in a court of happened to them,” said Si- ine Cole, a professor at the law, where victims must have hem Bensedrine, the president University of Washington. Only an open legal case in order to of the Truth and Dignity Com-

There has been no adequate reckoning with the mass violence gen- erated by slavery that manifests today in the form of discrimination and police brutality. Past truth commissions in the United States have taken place mostly at the city level, such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to establish the truth about the 1979 Greensboro massacre, or the 2011 Detroit truth commission on the role of race-based housing policies in perpetuating inequality.

10 percent of victims, around share their story. Victims don’t mission. “Nothing matches the 2,000 South Africans, provid- need to endure an adversarial emotional intensity that emerg- ed public testimonies, but the cross-examination. Instead, es from the screen and touch- footage amounted to more truth commissions typically es the core of the viewer.” than 14,000 hours of video afford victims and their fam- In a survey conducted by Tu- and over 10,000 hours of au- ilies the opportunity to paint nisia’s Truth and Dignity Com- dio. a fuller picture. In the United mission, around 84 percent There are uncomfortable States, a truth commission of those polled said that their parallels between the United would capture the complexi- perception of the former dicta- States in 2020 and South Af- ties of structural and historical torships had changed for the rica in the dying days of white racism. These stories often re- worse following the public hear- rule. main behind closed doors, or ings. Approximately 4 million While the United States is in thousands of pages of truth Tunisians — about one-third of not grappling with the imme- commission reports. They can the population — tuned in to diate aftermath of mass vio- also become tainted by a po- the hearings live, either on tele- lence, the tools of transitional larized media in a fractious po- vision or on the internet. Gilbert justice can nevertheless be litical climate. But hearing the Naccache, a Tunisian writer put to good use. There has stories firsthand from perpetra- and leftist intellectual who was been no adequate reckoning tors, victims, and their families jailed and tortured for his polit- with the mass violence gener- would compel viewers to make ical activism in the 1960s and ated by slavery that manifests their own decisions on the sig- 1970s, ended his testimony by today in the form of discrim- nificance of the injustices de- highlighting the importance of ination and police brutality. scribed. the public hearings: “The truth, Past truth commissions in the Televised hearings have a no matter what we do, is revo- United States have taken place profound impact on public lutionary.” mostly at the city level, such memory because they are Transitional justice advo- as the Greensboro Truth and more accessible than a multi- cates often cite South Africa’s Reconciliation Commission set volume report for viewers from Truth and Reconciliation Com- up to establish the truth about diverse backgrounds. They gal- mission as a model for the the 1979 Greensboro massa- vanize the public discourse, United States because of its cre, or the 2011 Detroit truth challenging narratives about significant reach across South commission on the role of the past and its impact on the African society. But less exam- race-based housing policies in present. The participation of ined is the impact that the live perpetuating inequality. perpetrators can expose how hearings had on a much broad- Education Health Church News Parenting

THE MIAMI TIMES | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 | MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM faith & family SECTION D Trump’s faith outreach aims to cast Democrats as the enemy

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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is courting religious voters in part by seeking to portray Democrats as a threat to religious freedom — a pitch amplified by disputes over the issue during the coronavirus pandemic. During an event last week outside Atlanta host- ed by the campaign’s evangelical outreach effort, Christian surrogates touted the president’s record on advancing devout conservatives’ priorities while casting Democrats as captive to an anti-re- ligious agenda. Two speakers singled out restric- tions on singing in church imposed by California’s Democratic governor to help stem the spread of the virus, limits that prompted lawsuits from some pastors. White House faith adviser Paula White-Cain appealed to Christians to trust the president over “a very deceptive media.” White-Cain, a fixture in Trump’s circle of religious conservative advisers, asserted that Democratic presidential hopeful and lifelong Roman Catholic Joe Biden was helping liberals to silence people of faith. Biden is “a Trojan horse for a very radical left

AP Photo/John Amis, File In this July 23, 2020, file photo, from right, Faith & Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed, Dr. Alveda King, Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain, and White House faith adviser Paula White-Cain, and others pray on stage during an Evangelicals for Trump campaign event titled "Praise, Prayer and Patriotism" in Alpharetta, Ga.

agenda that is behind him that wants to take down our churches,” White-Cain, often described as Trump’s personal pastor, said during an event that tied religion to love of country with the title “Praise, Prayer, and Patriotism.” A second of those events is set for Thursday in Las Vegas. FOR 65 YEARS White-Cain’s appearance last week was her third in four days on behalf of Trump, after an online meeting with evangelical backers and a food Miami couple is claimed by COVID-19 distribution visit with presidential daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump as part of an administration pandemic aid program. The pastor’s presence ELISA CHEMAYNE AGOSTINHO battled alcoholism for decades. They comes as the campaign steps up its already-active Miami Times Contributor both found strength in God and were faith outreach with a stark message: Support the active members of the Mount Carmel president or lose ground on religious freedom. Margaret and Jimmy Shaw died as they Missionary Baptist Church, where she Richard Lee, founding pastor at First Redeemer had lived – together. worked with battered women and he, Church in Atlanta, told attendees at the Trump event that governors and mayors are “bossing Weeks before celebrating what would Be kind, help others a church deacon, counseled those who have been their 63rd wedding anni- were addicted to drugs and alcohol. the churches around … to see what you will do in versary, the longtime Miami residents and family comes first. They played vital roles in the commu- case (Biden) gets in office and they can come after succumbed to complications related to nity as well. you.” COVID-19. These are the things my “My mom and dad, they was always Biden’s campaign has built a religious outreach They passed away just hours apart, helping people out,” said Connie. “No effort of its own that’s seen as more robust than lying in separate hospital rooms alone parents taught us.” matter who it was they’d say, “Now that of 2016’s Democratic presidential nominee, and with no family beside them to offer “ listen, you just come on over here and Hillary Clinton. It is even hoping that his long his- comfort or prayer. It was the final cruelty we’ll get you whatever it is you need.” tory of personal faith will help him persuade some of a pandemic that has claimed the lives Margaret eventually developed Christian conservative voters to abandon Trump. of more than 155,000 people in the Unit- COPD and her health deteriorated over But White-Cain blasted the former vice pres- ed States and more than 690,000 people moving in with one of Jimmy’s sisters the last decade. Caring for her alone ident for shifting leftward on abortion, an issue worldwide. [Numbers as of 8/3/20] until they could afford a home of their became difficult for Jimmy, who had to that promises to hurt Biden with some religious The couple’s deaths were not the own. Margaret cleaned houses and later be vigilant about monitoring his diabe- voters. homecoming anyone would have imag- got a job as a cashier at the Food Fair. tes. Connie and her son, Jahlani, moved “The Democratic Party today has been taken ined for them. That they left this earth at Jimmy worked as a hospital orderly in to help out. Now, the house that was over by the spirit of the anti-Christ. It’s an evil the same time, however, was a surprise before discovering a passion and talent so often filled with family, laughing party,” Lee told Trump supporters, adding that to no one. for baking, and ultimately mastered children and home-baked treats feels Democrats are not evil but “wonderful people” “Those two had been married for so his craft at iconic local favorites like hollow and far too quiet. But the legacy who have “been deceived.” long and were so close,” said Connie Pumpernik’s. of the two extraordinary people who Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Shaw, one of the couple’s three daugh- “Let me tell you, his apricot rugelach lived there is shining clear and bright. Illinois University, said Trump has made a “not ters. “We knew one would not stay was to die for. It would just melt in “Be kind, help others and family so subtle” attempt to sour Christian voters on without the other.” your mouth,” said Connie. comes first. These are the things my Democrats. Margaret Wallace and Jimmy Shaw Aside from their daughters the Shaws parents taught us,” said Connie. “They “Trump wants to tap into that very base feeling met 65 years ago at a tiny corner store were blessed with nine grandchildren struggled and had their ups and downs of ‘white Christianity is under attack,’” Burge said. in a small town in Georgia, a stone’s and 11 great-grandchildren. Their mar- like any other marriage, but they never “It’s all posturing to set up this God gap, where if throw away from the Alabama state line. riage was a good one, but there were took anything for granted. They were you’re a Christian — especially a white Christian They were 15 years old. Two years later trials and trauma to overcome. Mar- always grateful for everything they — the Republican Party is going to protect you.” they married and relocated to Miami, garet fought cancer in the ’70s; Jimmy had.” The tactic is “not based in any sort of reality,” Burge noted, “because Democrats have not elected SEE FAITH 8D The Miami Times 8 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci discusses school safety STACY M. BROWN best as we possibly can to Health Organization (WHO). remarked. “It’s easy to get a co-morbidities that make it NNPA Newswire Correspondent get children back to school However, Dr. Fauci told cloth mask now.” more likely you’ll get a severe because we know the psy- BlackPressUSA that he still Dr. Fauci explained further outcome from the infection,” During a 30-minute inter- chological aspect of that and maintains a close relationship that, “when there are droplets Dr. Fauci noted. view with BlackPressUSA the unintended consequences with the organization. when someone sneezes or “Those co-morbidities are that was streamed live over for mothers and fathers who “I still work closely with coughs, you [are protected]. like diabetes, hypertension, Facebook, YouTube, and may need to stop working, so the World Health Organiza- You can take it and wash it heart disease, chronic kidney BlackPressUSA.com, Dr. An- we should try to get back to tion,” said Dr. Fauci. “I’m on a with soap and water or stick disease, and lung disease. It’s thony Fauci, director of the school,” Dr. Fauci said when weekly phone call with them, it in the washing machine.” very clear that African Amer- National Institute of Aller- asked about the impact of the and I signed a memorandum Addressing the dispari- icans have a higher incidence, gy and Infectious Diseases, pandemic on the upcoming of understanding. We’re all in ties surrounding COVID-19 and the reality is that you suf- spoke of the importance of school year. with the WHO.” and other illnesses, Dr. Fau- fer more.” convincing African Ameri- “However, paramount Dr. Anthony Fauci During the interview, which ci pointed to many African The hospitalization rates cans to participate in clinical needs to be the safety, health, included National Newspaper Americans, Latinx, and Na- per 100,000 people are stun- trials. He also said that school and welfare of children, to endanger their health.” Publishers Association Presi- tive Americans occupying ning when comparing African re-openings should depend teachers, and families,” Dr. A member of the White dent and CEO, Dr. Benjamin essential jobs that provide Americans and Caucasians, mainly upon the location and Fauci added. House Coronavirus Task F. Chavis, Jr., Dr. Fauci also employees with little — or no Dr. Fauci proclaimed. the infection rate in a given “We live in a big country. Force, Fauci has at times demonstrated the proper way — protection. “In many respects, it’s un- area. Some places have low inci- found himself at odds with to wear a facemask. “On the one hand, there’s acceptable that it should be Fauci also said a viable dents and can open schools President Donald Trump. For “Early on, there was a a greater opportunity and that way,” he said, noting that coronavirus vaccine is likely while some are high. Some example, earlier this year, the shortage of masks because risk of getting infected, but the hospitalization rate per only a few months away. areas rate of infection is so president announced that he we didn’t want to take masks even as important is that once 100,000 African Americans “The fundamental princi- high where it’s not prudent to would withdraw U.S. funding away from health providers you get infected, you have stands at 247, compared to 53 ple is that we should try as open schools. You don’t want and support for the World who needed them,” Dr. Fauci prevalence and incidence of per 100,000 whites. Literature, faith, and pandemics, what can we learn Both the structure and the eventually kill him. alypse as the Conqueror on Death in “Pale Horse, Pale Rid- A pandemic can affect the faith of many representatives of the Catho- Since Tadzio, the object of a white horse, War on a red er.” While personal faith is in AGNES MUELLER the Black Death on the out- lic Church as well as the possi- Aschenbach’s forbidden love, horse, Famine on a black horse this story under consideration The Conversation skirts of medieval Florence. bility for individual, personal is always an object of adora- and Death on a pale horse. as a source of solace and relief, Interestingly, “The Decamer- faith are rejected in Boccac- tion and never a subject, it is There are almost no literary it is ultimately rejected. A recent Pew Research on” is the earliest and most cio’s collection. easy to regard him as a person- works dealing with the 1918 in- poll found that religious faith significant text that shows a ification of art. Aschenbach’s fluenza pandemic, except for RETHINKING RELIGION? had deepened for a quarter rejection of Christianity at a RELIGION IN THE admiration of Tadzio is almost Porter’s short story. A narrator Other literary works that of Americans because of the time when most of Europe was TIME OF CHOLERA religious: Tadzio is depicted tells the story of Miranda, a engage with pandemics show coronavirus pandemic. still under the powerful influ- In German writer Thomas as an “angel” when he is seen newspaper woman, and Adam, a similar course, both in high- Some might indeed take so- ence of the Catholic Church Mann’s well-known novella to follow “the Summoner,” the a soldier, and the suffering brow and more popular genres. lace in religion at a time of un- and its teachings. of 1912, “Death in Venice,” an angel of death, embodied by that both endure because of Albert Camus’ “The Plague” of certainty, such as a pandemic, In Boccaccio’s massive col- outbreak of cholera affects Tadzio: “It seemed to him the their influenza illnesses. Adam 1947 was celebrated as an ex- but the literary texts that I lection of novellas, monks the protagonist Gustav von pale and lovely Summoner out eventually succumbs, but Mi- istentialist classic, where faith teach in my university course, and other dignitaries of the Aschenbach, a learned man. there smiled at him and beck- randa only learns of his death and religion have no place and “Pandemics in Literature,” Church are ridiculed, dispar- On the face of it, Mann’s oned; (…) And, as so often be- later. individual effort is impossible. suggest that this is not always aged and shown in their hu- novella does not seem to en- fore, he rose to follow.” Before Adam’s death, Mi- In Stephen King’s 1978 tome the case: Faith may deepen for man fallibility. For example, gage with religion or faith. In the face of cholera, re- randa and Adam recall prayers “The Stand,” all characters some, while others may reject in the fourth story on the first Yet, Aschenbach’s character ligion, in “Death in Venice,” and songs from their child- surviving the apocalyptic and or abandon it altogether. day, an abbot and a monk con- is deeply rooted in the reli- gets replaced with art as a hood faith. They both say that fictitious “super-influenza” spire to bring a willing young gious principles and values of spiritual experience; earthly now “[i]t doesn’t sound right, appear apathetic, beyond re- CHRISTIANITY AND THE girl into a monastery – an act a Protestant work ethic. For love becomes a substitute for somehow,” meaning their ligion. And Fermina Daza, the BLACK DEATH that is celebrated by the nar- Mann, Aschenbach’s service personal faith. childhood songs and prayers lover of the main protagonist In one of the most well rators as brave and laudable, to art and literature is like reli- are no longer valuable, and in Gabriel García Márquez’s known works of pandemic lit- even though this went against gion because of his dedication 1918 FLU AND their attempt to take comfort “Love in the Time of Cholera” erature, Giovanni Boccaccio’s every religious and moral doc- – he writes stoically every day, PERSONAL FAITH in the bluegrass song “Pale grows to despise her religion. “The Decameron” – sales of trine of the time. even when it’s difficult. The title of Pulitzer Horse Pale Rider” in the face We do not yet fully know which have reportedly risen This and other stories show When Aschenbach decides Prize-winning American writ- of Adam’s impending death how the coronavirus will affect during the coronavirus – faith that personal faith or the to travel to cholera-stricken er Katherine Anne Porter’s fails, too. societies in either deepening and religion are mocked and church and priests are never Venice, he is seduced by the short story “Pale Horse, Pale There is little scholarship on ties to faith or disillusionment satirized. able to help humans in their Polish boy Tadzio, who not Rider” of 1936 is clearly a ref- Porter’s interesting story, but from religious institutions. But “The Decameron” is a set of vulnerability. Instead, it is only unleashes Aschenbach’s erence to the Bible. English professor Jane Fisher it will be interesting to see one hundred stories told by earthly love or passion that sudden homoerotic desire but The story borrows its title aptly notes how Porter invokes what today’s authors will write seven young women and three become the driving forces of also leads him to feast on chol- from Revelation 6:1-8, with the new literary techniques and about how humanity survived young men quarantined from human behavior. era-infested strawberries that four horsemen of the Apoc- lessons learned from the Black the pandemic of 2020.

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Alan Brazil runs along the Chicago Lakefront Trail.

The groups help people get fit, but also grew as a source of support amid coronavirus and after Ahmaud Arbery’s killing

JEN MURPHY Wall Street Journal

Alan Brazil refers to himself as a social runner rather than a speedy runner. The 51-year-old Chicago CPA and CFO of the Illinois Department of Human Rights is a member of three running clubs: Men Run Deez Streets, Black Chicago Runners and Chicago Runners. When coronavirus stay-at-home orders prevented the groups from gathering, Brazil missed more than the running chitchat and post-run barbecues. “When I was forced to start running alone, I realized how much safer I felt running in a group,” he says. He typically ran along the Chicago Lakefront Trail, a wide-open path that attracts joggers and cyclists even before sunrise. When the trail was closed from late March through late June, he took to running the empty streets of South Side neighborhoods including Hyde Park, Kenwood, Bronzeville, Washington Park and Jackson Park, as well as trails in neighboring suburbs. Running solo in unfamiliar territory was particu- larly unnerving after 25-year-old African-American Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging in Georgia. “I normally run to free my mind,” says Bra- zil, a husband and father of two girls ages 17 and 20. “I never worried that I might not come home.” Brazil says he started taking extra precautions, like running in the afternoon, instead of at dawn, when his work schedule allowed. Terrance Lyles, founder of Black Chicago Run- ners and Men Run Deez Streets, says the Arbery incident motivated members to push forward and share their runs on social media for visibil- ity and inspiration. “It’s a shame our skin color makes us a target for violence,” he says. “But we can pay tribute by continuing to run and inspiring others to run.” Lyles describes razil as a Men Run Deez Streets success story. “The goal of that group was to get Afri- can-American men, who are typically at higher risk for heart disease, to start moving,” he says. Since joining in 2013, Brazil has lost 45 pounds and has completed six Chicago Marathons, most in the six- hour range. Last year he stopped to take a selfie SEE RUN 11D

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Back-to-school tax holiday TALLAHASSEE — Retail- students will begin classes. Shalley said jobs are also Grundman said in a statement. and home delivery. keeping their families safe or ers reeling from the econom- Many children are expected at stake as the retail industry With the pandemic, wealth- "Lower-income households, going into a crowded store ic impact of the coronavirus to start the school year tak- has been hit hard by the eco- ier taxpayers are also more on the other hand, may lack during peak hours to take pandemic hope Floridians ing classes online because of nomic fallout from COVID-19, likely to be able to shop online, these conveniences and be advantage of the discount,” will indulge in a chance to concerns about the spread of the deadly respiratory disease setting up orders for curbside forced to choose between Grundman wrote. save some money this week- the virus, likely spurring some caused by the coronavirus. end as students prepare for families to look for computer “Unfortunately, some of the the new school year, whether equipment. enthusiasm has been drained it be in traditional classrooms Best Buy and Walmart have out as a result of COVID,” Shalley said. “But kids are getting ready, and the holiday provides a nice break when most Floridians could use a break right now.” The back-to-school holi- day and similar tax breaks of- fered around the June 1 start of hurricane season for disas- ter-preparation items were part of a scaled-back tax pack- age that lawmakers passed during this year’s legislative session. Initially, lawmakers pro- posed more than $100 million in tax cuts, discounts and oth- er changes, including cuts to a commercial lease tax and the communications services tax on cell phones and cable tele- vision. The back-to-school tax hol- iday is expected to account for about $41.8 million of the savings included in the $47.7 million tax-reduction package. The holiday is forecast to cut state revenue by $32.3 million and local government revenue by $9.5 million. Not everyone, however, is so The state will hold a sales-tax “holiday” from enthusiastic about the holiday. Friday through Sunday, allowing back-to- The Institute on Taxation school shoppers to avoid paying sales taxes and Economic Policy, a Wash- ington, D.C.-based think tank, on clothes costing $60 or less and school considers sales tax holidays supplies costing $15 or less. “outdated gimmicks” that “provide dubious and poorly targeted benefits.” Dylan Grundman, the in- or online. taken notice, running online stitute’s senior state policy The state will hold a sales- ads that banner the state’s analyst, said holidays reduce tax “holiday” from Friday tax-holiday period above com- revenue for state and local pri- through Sunday, allowing puter discounts. State lawmak- orities like schools and health back-to-school shoppers to ers included the tax break for care and typically are more of avoid paying sales taxes on computer equipment in a bill a benefit to more affluent indi- clothes costing $60 or less and passed in March that also in- viduals. school supplies costing $15 or cluded the breaks for clothes "Wealthier taxpayers are less. and school supplies. often best positioned to ben- A third part of the holiday “I don’t think the Legisla- efit from the holidays since — no sales taxes on the first ture knew at the time that it they have more flexibility to $1,000 of the cost of personal was going to be as big of a deal shift the timing of their pur- computers and some related as it is, but it’s definitely going chases to take advantage of accessories — has been draw- to help a lot of families,” Flori- the tax break, an option that ing attention as school dis- da Retail Federation President isn’t available for families liv- tricts debate when and how Scott Shalley said. ing paycheck to paycheck,” The Miami Times 11 MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM | AUGUST 5-11, 2020 IN MEMORIAM • DEATH NOTICE

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In loving memory of, In loving memory of,

RONNIE DONALDSON SISTER NORMA J. CLARK “Sweetman” 03/14/1950 - 08/01/2016 12/27/1962 - 08/03/2016 As long as we live, you I am writing a in memoriam will live in our hearts. As letter to my brother. This the long as we remain here on hardest letter that I have this terrestrial ball, you’ll be had to write. We all miss remembered. you. Your wife, Nancy; Lovingly submitted, Pastor five children, Kendrick, Franklin Clark; three sons; Photos: Joshua Lott/Wall Street Journal Latasha, Ashley, Dexter and three grand children; sister, Terrance Lyles, center, leads Alan Brazil, far right, and other members of Men Run Deez Streets and Black Chicago Runners in Chandra; brothers, sisters, Cecelia Hunter and a host of a pre-run warm-up. nieces, nephews, cousins relatives and friends. and friends. Your childhood On Thursday mornings friend, Donna Jones and HOW TO AVOID POST-RUN ACHES before the pandemic he especially me, Donnie, your would attend a strength Death Notice RUN Iris twin, because we are 13 CONTINUED FROM 9B Many crunched-for-time runners stop their watch, unlace workout at the home of months apart. But,I feel we their sneakers and move on with their day only to feel achy fellow runner and person- are real twins. nearly every mile of the later on. al trainer Valerie Tyler. He Everybody is proud of you, race, but this year he A cool down can help alleviate lactic acid, post-workout now joins her class twice especially the Lord. For a hoped to set a personal waste that builds up and prevents muscle recovery, says a week via Zoom. Work- lot of years you were in and record and run under five Levi Webb, an endurance coach with Pinnacle Running in San outs include squats, plank out of trouble with the law. hours. With the 2020 Chi- Francisco. and push-up variations and God turned you around and cago Marathon, originally “There’s no perfect way to cool down, but ideally it should glute bridges. “I realize a touch your soul. You started scheduled for Oct. 11, can- be something low impact like swimming, yoga or biking that strong body, not just strong going to church, praying and celed, he has another year gets your blood flowing after a workout,” he says. Because legs, keep me going when turned your life around. to train. running is a repetitive motion that uses a small range of I’m feeling fatigued at mile Now I know the true mean- “With the support of my movement, runners often have tight hips, he says. “Tight hips 22,” he says. ing of brotherly love. Now running family I feel like I can lead to knee and back pain,” says Mr. Webb. Brazil used to swim laps say hello to momma and the can overcome anything,” Post-run, he suggests working the hips in different direc- in the pool at L.A. Fitness rest of the saints from Mor- he says. “You will find tions to promote mobility. He has his runners perform yoga after his weekday runs. He ven and Barney, Georgia. members on the sidelines exercises such as pigeon pose and warrior one and warrior also attended yoga classes Now I’m ending this letter of races cheering loudly two poses. there twice a week. With because the tears are run- DOROTHY MAE PITTS, and handing out refresh- “Calves are also notoriously tight on runners,” he says. “A the gym closed, he’s no- ning down my face. 77, radio talk show host, ments, but you also find simple calf stretch or massaging the calves with a foam roller ticed more aches and pains. Rest in peace my brother. died July 29. Survivors them at weddings, gradu- can help alleviate tightness.” “The swimming was really Amen ations and funerals. They therapeutic,” he says. include her daughter, are family. We help sus- Stephanie Pitts-Wallace (Earl, Jr.); sons, Eric T. and tain each other through In Memoriam life’s trials and celebrate Mark L.; grandchildren, Eriana, Marvin III, Asiah each other in a way that is In loving memory of, a shining example for our and Chase; and a host of whole community.” sorrowing nieces, nephews, The Workout other relatives and friends. The Chicago Lakefront Viewing 3-7 p.m., Friday. Trail reopened on June Service 11 a.m., Saturday in 22. Lyles has postponed the Range Chapel. official group runs, which typically attract up to 50 Happy Birthday members on weekends, until 2021. Brazil has con- In loving memory of, tinued to partake in un- official group runs on Saturdays. Members stay socially distanced on runs ranging from 6 to 20 miles and wear masks around their necks, which they pull up if they pass other MRS. DESSIE BUTTS runners. 05/30/1931-08/05/2017 On Mondays and Fri- days he runs 3 to 5 miles No Matter what age…I will on the lakefront at 5:15 always need you Mama. a.m., normally with four to Your Loving Daughter five women from his run- ning groups. Brazil loathes speedwork, but every VIEW YOUR Wednesday he does three 800-meter sprints, four OBITUARIES ETTA MAE ANDERSON 400-meter sprints and four ONLINE AT 08/07/1922 - 02/22/1993 200-meter sprints at a lo- cal track. “When I’m with WWW.MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM All your boys are with you the ladies, I can’t get away now. I will always love you, with dogging it,” he says. Mama. Joann CHURCH DIRECTORY

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Saturday at the mother, Shanlauie Drayton; Church, 13740 Baptist Church. p.m., Friday. church. brothers, Demetrius Rice, NW 19 Ave. Graveside Service Service 10 a.m., Saturday at Demetriel Rice, Anthony 11 a.m., Saturday at Caballero TIEKERIA LIVINGSTON, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. , KELVIN GORVIN WOODS Jenkins, Ijae Washington, Rivero Dade Memorial Park. In 20, teacher, Eric L. Wilson 58, construction Malcom Harvey; twin, Aaden lieu of flowers please donate died July 26. QUEEN M. JONES, 84, FRANKLIN D. MONROE, worker, died July Washington, Johnny Harris- to BTI Miami or Cash App BTI Service 10 retired chef SR., 74, retired 24 at Jackson Johnasia Harris; sisters, Miami. a.m., Saturday for McCrory’s, sanitation North Hospital. Cynthia Bloom, Darshella at 93rd Street died July 26. worker, died Service 12 p.m., Streeter, Shatevia Rice, Jaylah RENEE GLADYS Community Survivors include July 27. Viewing Saturday at New Washington. Service 10 a.m., ROUNDTREE, Baptist Church. her daughters, 5-7 p.m., 79th Street Word Saturday at Peaceful Zion 72, Tracey Thursday in the Church. Baptist Church. environmental JOHNATHAN WILLIAMS, Ferguson- chapel, 4631 service worker, SR., 58, Nichols and Annie Marie W. Hallandale Beach Blvd., WILLIE FORD, 72, kitchen JAMES SINGLETON, died July 23. entrepreneur, Haynes; sons, Levon Jones Hollywood, FL 33023. manager, died July 30 at 82, Ron-Lee Service 11 a.m., died July 25. (Elizabeth) and Carl Jones; Advent Health Daytona Beach. Incorporation, Saturday. Service 10 a.m., granddaughter, Keyondra; and a Services were held. Mitchell died July 28 at Saturday at host of sorrowing grandchildren, Broward Health DANIEL JEANNOT, 58, Bethel Apostolic nieces, nephews, other relatives REV. ROBERT CURTIS , MICKEL JUNIOR ST. FORT, Medical Center. server, died July 30. Service Temple. and friends. Viewing 3-7 p.m., SMITH 29, disabled, died July 19 at 73, retired Survivors: 10 a.m., Friday at First Friday. Service 1 p.m., Saturday Aventura Hospital. Services correctional children, International Church. VERNON PITTMAN, 93, at Bethel Apostolic Temple. were held. counselor, died Katheryn retired security July 16. Service Stafford, Carolette Eady, James OSVALDO ALDAMA, 94, officer, died July DOROTHY MAE PITTS, 77, 11 a.m., today Hadley Davis - MLK Singleton, Jeff Singleton, Eric AC mechanic, died July 25. 26. Service 11 radio talk show at Northwest Singleton, Monalisa Thomas, Services were held. a.m., Saturday host, died July ALLENE PACE, 66, in the chapel. 29. Service 11 Baptist Church. manager, died Juliet Singleton Gaines. ALEXIS GAYLE FIELDS a.m., Saturday July 27. Private Viewing 12-6 p.m., Thursday in the chapel. SIMMS, 66 clerk, died July 23. in the chapel. Gregory B. Levett GA service. Services were held. DAISY ROLLE, 95, died July , 74, ERNESTO SERRANO, III, SUSIE MAE ROBINSON 28 in Snellville, cook, died July IRIS M. MENDEZ, ,73, 15, student, died GA. Services 31 at North Shore security guard, died July 21. July 23. Service JOHN JOHNSON, 85, retired were held. Medical Center. Services were held. 1 p.m., Saturday charge nurse for Survivors: son, at 93rd Street South Florida ELISBETHA SMALL, 46, JOHN C. KEE, 48, parks Community State Hospital, died July 29 Christoper director, died July 28. Service Baptist Church. died July 31. at Jackson Robinson; brothers, 11 a.m., Saturday in the Harris Survivors Memorial. Chapel. include his Service 11 a.m., Eddie Thrower, LESLIE GLENN, 51, wife, Dorothy; Stevens McGhee-GA Friday in the Jr., Perry, Joseph, James, homemaker, daughter, chapel. Matthew, Jim; sisters, Annie ELLIS HATCHER, 55, died Bell Sutton, Viola Thrower, Hall Ferguson Hewitt died July 25. Barbara McElveen (Leroy); July 28 at Archbold Hospital in Bernice Jones, Ruth Foster, JIMMY ROBINSON, Service 2:30 son, Michael Andrew, Sr.; seven Thomasville, GA. Final rites in Martha Thrower. Service 11 55, transit p.m., Saturday grandchildren; and a host of ANTAVIS HOWELL, 46, Quitman, GA. supervisor, at Jordan Grove sorrowing nieces, nephews, supervisor, a.m., Monday, August 10 in the died July 25 Missionary other relatives and friends. died July 30 chapel. at Memorial Baptist Church. Viewing 3-6 p.m., Monday, at Jackson In Memoriam Miramar. August 10. Service 11 a.m., Memorial LAURENCE COBB, 74, Services were ALFRED MONTGOMERY, Tuesday, August 12 at Holy Hospital. carpenter for In loving memory of, held. 47, correction Redeemer Catholic Church. Service 11 a.m., Broward School officer, died July Tuesday, August Board, died July , 25. ALVA J. MCLEOD, 90, 11 at Church 31 at North Shore CAREY J. HENDERSON 64, truck driver, retired nurse for Episcopal Church Miami. Medical Center. Survivors: died July 26 the U.S. Army, daughters, at Kendall died July 31. ISAIAH YOUNG, JR., 76, Regional. Survivors include painter, died Angelina Cobb, Mary Phillip, Graveside her nieces, July 28 at Catuan Nelson. Service 11 a.m., Saturday in the chapel. service 11 a.m., Trinity Theresa Neal, home. Survived Cheryl Fox and Friday a Dade ESSIE MAE WASHINGTON, by his brother, Gilda Knowles; CAROLYN LAWTON Memorial. 89, died July Elijah, and a nephews, Gilbert Knowles and ROBERTS, 75, 31. Service 11 host of nieces, Craig Isaac; and a host of other nephews, great homemaker, GERALD HAMILTON a.m., Saturday , sorrowing relatives and friends. nieces, great died August aka BUTCH at Greater Holy died July 31 Viewing 3-6 p.m., Tuesday, nephews, one Aunt and too 2. Survivors: Cross. at Kindrick August 11. Service 10 a.m., many cousins to mention. daughter, Hospital. He Wednesday, August 12 at Holy Services are pending. Isabella; sisters, Chinie Lilly, Mary is survived by Redeemer Catholic Church. HORACE M. JACKSON III Dunn; brothers, one sister, two CRAIG RILES, 58, mechanic, CATHERINE HUNT, 98, BYRON J. DAVIS, 56, 10/21/1993 - 08/08/2017 Frank Lawton, Isaac Lawton, nephews, and died July 31. died August construction worker, died July Jr.; grands: Tiquana Roberts, one niece. Private services. Service 12 p.m., 1 at North 29. Survivors This is the third anniversa- Lashannda Woods Roberts, Saturday at Shore Hospital. include his ry. The ascension of our son Danvie Roberts, Anthony Jordan Grove Service 12 p.m., Eric S. George daughter, has left us with great Memo- Hightower, Jr., Antonise Missionary Saturday in the Priscilla Davis; ries. We miss you so much. chapel. Hightower, Charles Linder. BARBARA JEAN THOMAS, Baptist Church. Service 1 p.m., Saturday at Mt. died July 23. son, Byron J. We feel your spirit with us. Calvary Baptist Church. Service 10 a.m., King (Della); We will Live Life to the full- sisters, Robin est, like we know you did. JACKIE WALSER, JR., 61, today in the Range-Coconut Grove ELLA MAE WALKER, 82, Coats, Lorie We love you, Horace III. died July 23 at Jackson South chapel. RUTH VIRGINIA WALKES, Died August 1. James, Barbara Davis, The Family and Friends Medical Center. Services were 103, retired Viewing 4-8 p.m., Deborah Scott and Marion held. teacher, died Friday at Antioch Faison; brothers, Leroy, Jr., July 26 at of Brownsville Victor and Michael; and a host GEORGE HINDS, 85, Mercy Hospital. Missionary of sorrowing grandchildren, assistant pathologist, died July JOE BRICKELY, died July Service 10 a.m., VIEW YOUR Baptist Church. nieces, nephews, other 12. Services were held. 26. Graveside Saturday at Service 11 a.m., relatives and friends. Viewing Christ Episcopal 3-6 p.m., Tuesday, August OBITUARIES McCloud and Siders Roy Mizell & Kurtz Saturday at Church. Dania Memorial 11. Graveside service 1 p.m., VERNA VIVIAN ALLEYNE, BATASHA LOWERY, 50, Park. Happy Birthday Wednesday, August 12 at ONLINE AT 45, died July Miami Jackson Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Central. 24. Service 11 valedictorian In loving memory of, WWW.MIAMITIMESONLINE.COM a.m., Saturday Class of at Tabernacle 1988, Miami JOHN MCCRAY, SR., died KEONDRICK JONES, 29, Church of Living Dade School July 31. Service 9 a.m., today laborer died July God. employee, in the chapel. 14. Viewing 2-5 and former p.m., Monday, postal service BABY GIRL JIREH GRACE August 10 in the LOUISE FORD, 91, domestic, employee, died July 19 at MIRACLE OLIVER, died July chapel. died July 29. Memorial West Hospital. She 25. Services were held. Service 11 a.m., leaves cherished memories Monday, August with her husband, Eric Lowery. 10 at Peace Service 11 a.m., Saturday, Nakia Ingraham Baptist Church. August 8 at Forrest Lawn Memorial Gardens Central, 499 IRENE DAVIS, 77, NW 27 Ave, Ft. Lauderdale, FL housekeeper, died July 30. 33311. Graveside Service 10 a.m., RODRICK ALTIDOR, 19, Friday. student, died July 30. Service 3 p.m., Saturday in the chapel. The Family RUTH CRAMER, 77, home DANNY REDDING, 63, health aide, died July 13. CLEORA MARTINEZ LUCILLE MCMANN, 71, maintenance Service 11 a.m., Saturday in 08/03/33 - 05/13/03 domestic, died August 1. worker, died the chapel. Arrangements are incomplete. July 31. Service Happy Birthday, Mom. 1 p.m., Saturday JIMMY LOTTS, SR., 72, We love and miss you, EDWARD MILLS, 66, laborer, in the chapel, tractor trailer driver, died July very much. died August 2. Arrangements 10115 NW 27 15. Service 2 p.m., Sunday in Sincerely, are incomplete. Ave., Miami. the chapel. The Family