Happy New Year! Kid’s Corner Black Cleveland Who’s Who issues 3rd edition SPORTS MENU TIPS The unveiling of the third edition of Who’s Who in Jailen Harrell, who is five Black Cleveland will be held on Tuesday, January 16, at 6 p.m. at Celebrate years old is in the kindergarten at a networking reception at the InterContinental Hotel and Confer- Cavs Start New Year Cooking Up Greater Achievement School. Jailen’s ence Center. The official book unveiling program is at 7:30 p.m. On Right Track Family Fun Martin Luther King, Jr. favorite toy is the Pocket Rocket and he This year’s Who’s Who forward is written by Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and it has a special tribute to Rev. Otis is the son of Quina Jones and Reginald Holiday and Edwina Moss. Leon Bibb of WEWS News Chanel 5 will be Harrell. He is the youngest of his sis- the master of ceremonies for the event. The entertainment will See Page 4 See Page 5 Monday, January 15, 2007 ters, Quanique and Dejanal, and brother be provided by Cleveland Councilman Kevin Conwell and the Quinton. Harrell Footprints. For tickets, call (614) 481-7300. EVOL.ASTSID 28 No. 1 Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - Friday, January 12, 2007E NEWDaily S ISSUED FRIDAY FREE FREE SERVING: LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, MT. PLEASANT, LEE & AVALON, HARVARD - LEE, MILES - UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA, READ ON - WRITE ON WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL, HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND READ ON - WRITE ON “COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW” The Real Meaning of The Rev. Dr. King Holiday By LERONE BENNETT but also of the maids, the sharecrop- meaning. pers, the students and the Rosa Parks, For it is not enough to Three hundred and eighty- who made him what he was. celebrate King, it is necessary also six years after 20 blacks landed at Martin Luther King, Jr. was to vindicate him by letting his light Jamestown, 141 years after the sign- born on January 15, 1926 and he died shine in our own lives. ing of the Emancipation Proclama- on April 4, 1968. It was King’s genius to tion, and 52 years after the Supreme This is the tradition and the suggest that every man, woman and Court banned segregation, the United hope that the Martin Luther King, Jr. child is responsible for his/her own States of America North and South, holiday brings to America. And that freedom. “A man who will not die black brown and white -- will stop for tradition speaks in and through the for something,” he said, “is not fit to 24 hours to honor the memory and the King holiday, telling us that a people live.” And the only question before The Woodland Avenue Bridge between E. 89th St. and E. 86th St. and life of a black American for the 21th who could produce a King has no need us in this holiday season is what are Woodland Avenue recently reopened for pedestrian and vehicle traffic. The year. for fears or apologies or doubts. As the we doing and what are we prepared bridge closed on January 16, 2006 and reopened on December 24, 2006. Because he lived and first black American honored, Martin to do to ensure that King did not dreamed and died, many factories, of- Luther King, Jr. joins the most exclu- dream and die in vain. fices, schools and all federal and many sive of all American clubs. Beyond all that, we are Woodland Bridge re - opens for use state agencies will be closed. Ironically, and significantly, challenged in this month to remem- By GEORGE GOLDMAN replace the bridge’s structure Al over America, men, the only other American honored by ber one of his greatest legacies: During the repairs to the women and little children will link a national holiday is George Washing- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hope. For he never ceased to be- hands and hopes in an unprecedented lieve that the dream and the dream- After being closed for al- bridge, the Eastbound motorists ton. There is irony -- and truth - in this. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968 national holiday for Martin Luther For King and his nonviolence army ers would prevail. most a year for repairs, the Wood- were detoured south onto Buckeye King, Jr., the grandson of a former fave America a new freedom. They tinuing the struggle for the fulfillment of And if he could speak to land Avenue Bridge recently re Road to E. 89th St. North back to slave, who rose to spiritual heights banished the Jim Crow signs, browned us this month from his grave, he King’s dream. - opened for pedestrian and vehicle Woodland Avenue. attained by few mortals and thereby American politics, and transformed the The crucial point here and els- would tell us that nothing can stop fulfilled the Biblical adage which says student movement, the women’s move- where is that this is not a holiday for rest us here if we keep the faith of our traffic. The Westbound traffic “he who is last shall be first.” ment and the church. and frivolity and play. fathers and mothers, walk together According to the Ohio was detoured at E. 89th Street to The first astonished recogni- And all Americans are in- This is a day for study, struggle and dream together. Department of Transportation, Buckeye Road. tion of black initiative and leadership debted to King and the nonviolent lib- and preparation for the victory to come. It is with this understand- who was responsible for the re- Another bridge at E. 105th would have been inconceivable a few erators who broke into American his- It is a day set aside for measuring our- ing, and this hope, that we dedicate pairs, the cost of the bridge is years ago, and it marks a great divide tory like beneficient burglars, bringing selves and America against the terrible this holiday to the memory of an Street and Quincy Avenue was also in the relationship between black and with them the gifts of visions, passion yardstick of King’s hope. And if we ever American giant who will be remem- $4,308,164.00. re - opened after being closed for white Americans. and truth. loved him, we will use this time to mobi- bered. To appropriate the words of The bridge is over the nearly a year. The cost to repair the For on King’s Day, Janu- It can be argued, in fact, that lize against the evils he identified in his poet Robert E. Hayden, “not with Norfolk and Southern railroad bridge was $2,713,519.00. A RTA ary 15, Americans of all races, back- King freed more white people than statues, rhetoric, not with legends last article -- the evils of racism, milita- tracks between E. 89th Street and Rapid Station was relocated at the grounds and political persuasions, seg- black people. This, then, is a national rism, unemployment and violence. and poems, but with the lives grown regationists as well as integrationists, holiday with national implications. It is on this deep level, and in out of his life, the lives fleshing E. 86th Street and Woodland Av- bridge. will be forced to take official notice, And we are called, in and through the the context of personal responsibilities, his dream of the beautiful, needful enue. The bride’s structure was not only of Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, to the national task of con- that the King holiday assumes its true things.” The repair project was to replaced. Jibbs, Sammy visit Nicole Campbell By GEORGE GOLDMAN smile and joy to Campbell. other kids and employees as well a spokesperson for the hospital, Campbell’s mother, as signed autographed photos. said that the entertainers visit put While in Cleveland for the Demetria, was just as excited According to Erinne Dyer, smiles on the patients faces. Scream Tour, National Hip - Hop re- about the entertainers visiting cording artists Jibbs and Sammy re- her daughter as she was. Two men killed on Harvard Avenue cently visited Nicole Campbell at the Aside from Jibbs and The B-5 Lounge at E. 142nd will be done today on Willie DeLoch, Cleveland Clinic Hospital. Sammy visiting with Nicole, and Harvard Avenue became the scene 27 years old, of Cleveland. who is 13 years old, they also When Jibbs and Sammy of two men shot and killed yesterday According to witnesses, two found out that campbell wanted to visited with other children in the morning. male attackers feld in a two door gray attend the concert but could not due hospital. The men shot were Andrew Oldsmobile Trofeo that police are try- to being confined at the hospital, the Jibbs and Sammy’s Parker, 26 of Maple Heights, who died ing to locate. Four of the numbers in artists decided to visit her at the hos- visit to the hospital was coordi- of gunshot wounds to the abdomen, ac- the license plate include “4448.” pital. nated by Terece Jeanene in con- cording to Cuyahoga County Deputy For information pertaining During their visit with junction with the Strictly Sports Cororner Joseph Felo. to this incident, call the police at (216) Felo said that and autopsy 623-5723. National recording artists Jibbs and Sammy recently visited Nicole Campbell, Jibbs and Sammy played Youth Foundation. Campbell at the Cleveland Clinic prior to their concert performance at the games with her and talked about their While Jibbs and Sam- Wolstein Center. Due to Campbell being confined to the hospital, she was not tour and from all the excitement and my where visiting at the hos- Mother Nature helps reduce gas prices able to attend the Scream Tour Concert.