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NORTHWEST OHIO’S OLDEST AFRICAN AMERICAN-OWNED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TJ THE TOLEDO JOURNAL www.thetoledojournal.com WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2019 - June 4, 2019 VOL: 43 NO: 14 INSIDE MoneyTalks CFPB Denies Duty Robinetta West hosts national to Enforce Military Lending Act fashion designer Eduard Davis Education/Aparently Local seniors re- ceive scholarships from Ben E. Williams PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL Decca students (front L-R) Anttwon Dondada, Anthony Cosby, and Jaslynn Harris (back (L-R) Kayaira Burroughs and Adriab Michael Jr., check out social media. PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL Decca ll-Fashion Mr. Davis was the perfect guest for the stu- Start High School’s Decca ll-Fashion Marketing Program Marketing Program dents. He talked to them about a career in Adviser Ms. Robinetta West (L) with (R) Fashion Designer adviser and teacher, the fashion industry and how he followed Eduard Davis. invited former stu- his dreams of being a fashion designer un- By Michael Daniels dent and grad, Edu- til one day he made it into a reality. Today Joitnal Staff Reporter ard Davis, to speak to her class on May 8, he has his own successful company called 2019. Continued on page 9. Ms. Robinetta West , Start High School BE SAFE & Student achievements celebrated ENJOY at 36th Annual Junior High Afro Ball THIS viewed as a “Rites of Passage” MEMORIAL DAY Auto/Sports Byron Allen Buys Regional Sports Network PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL Fashion forward young ladies at the 36th annual Jr. High Afro Ball on Saturday, May 18 at the Seagate Convention Center. Submitted turity and personal responsibility. Accord- Nearly 1000 students throughout the To- ing to Elaine Page, Executive Director of ledo Metropolitan Area and representing Grace Community Center. This occasion Toledo Public Schools, Charter, Parochi- is the first time many of these students al and other districts convened for the have attended a formal event designed 36th annual Jr. High Afro Ball on Satur- specifically for them alone. “The Ball cel- day, May 18 at the Seagate Convention ebrates the personal achievement of the Center. students and is a celebratory send-off by EVERYBODY IS Themed, “The Future Belongs to Those their community into bright futures. SOMEBODY IN PHOTO CREDIT / TOLEDO JOURNAL Who Prepare”, the Ball is viewed as a The Ball spearheaded 36 years ago by THE TOLEDO The audience couldn’t get enough of Michael “rites of passage” by the families of these founding Director, Betty Amison has con- Jackson Impersonator, Jackson Price at the 36 JOURNAL 7th & 8th grades into a higher level of ma- Continued on page 10. TJ Annual Jr. High Afro Ball Inside News Page 2 • May 22, 2019 - June 4, 2019 • The Toledo Journal Black Women Dominate Miss USA Pageant all women of color. USA are all black wom- with a panel of judges little weird kid who had a “Glass ceilings can be en. who provided very little unibrow and didn’t have broken wearing either Kaliegh Garris of Con- feedback to her and her any friends. My hair was a skirt or pants,” Kryst necticut was crowned partner. always pulled back. I said. Miss Teen USA 2019, “We stood there for 30 thought, ‘I want to be just Alejandra Gonzalez of while last fall, Nia Frank- minutes after practicing like her,’” she said. New Mexico was the lin of New York, won the for months and all you first-runner up, and Okla- Miss America title. said was wear a skirt Kryst went on to com- homa’s Triana Browne Kryst, who does pro next time?” Kryst said. pete in pageants in high the second-runner up bono work to reduce “It was very frustrating. school. during the competition in sentences for inmates, Don’t tell females to “I can’t say pageants Reno, Nevada. said she didn’t feel ner- wear different clothes make you beautiful. I The winner and finalists, vous as she advanced while you give the men think they make your which also included an- through each round of substantive feedback on more confident in the other woman of color the competition. their legal arguments,” person that you are,” she in the top 5, was also a “I just kept hearing my she said. said. not-so-subtle reminder name get called. All I Kryst, who advances to and rebuke of President could think was, ‘This is the Miss Universe com- “I’m still that same weird COURTESY BIOWIKIS.COM Donald Trump, who once really cool,’” she said. petition, said her interest kid. I still like reading Miss USA, Cheslie Kryst owned the pageant but It was also cool to send in pageants began when books. And at the end By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA pants because judges sold it after he ran for of- a message to the judge she was 10 years old, of the day, I like to sit by Newswire Correspondent prefer skirts. fice in 2015 and after he who tried to demean her watching her mother ride myself in my house and @StacyBrownMedia The 27-year-old black famously disparaged im- years earlier. a horse-drawn carriage just watch movies. But migrants and individuals lawyer, who earned a According to NBC News, in a parade when she I think pageants taught The recently crowned law degree and an MBA of color. Kryst told reporters af- was named Mrs. North me all that, and my mom Miss USA, Cheslie Kryst at Wake Forest Univer- Kryst’s victory made terward she’ll never for- Carolina in 2002. was really the one who said she’ll never forget sity, had a message for history also because it get being in law school “It was a time in my life the time a judge at a law that judge after she won ensures that for the first at Wake Forest partic- when I didn’t know who introduced me to that conference told her to the competition where time Miss USA, Miss ipating in a moot court I was and wasn’t confi- and drew me to pageant- wear a skirt instead of the three finalists were America and Miss Teen competition in Louisiana dent in myself. I was that ry,” Kryst said. Canada’s Viola Desmond banknote wins awards while U.S. Harriet Tubman banknote proposal stagnates By Rosemary Eng Tubman, the former slave 1820 to 1913. She escaped count of the Trump White it with Jackson’s eyes, nose lems. So far he has sold BlackmansStreet.Today and abolitionist who helped to freedom in 1849. House” was released that and mouth on the $20 bill about 500 Tubman stamps Canada can give the U.S. a hundreds of fugitive slaves As America waited for im- President Donald Trump so Tubman could overlay on Etsy for people to trans- lesson or two or three about escape to Canada along minent news on a new said, “You want me to put Jackson on the front of the form their own Jackson how to use national curren- the Underground Railroad Tubman bill the New York that face (Tubman’s) on the $20 bill. bills. cy to honor a civil rights her- lay in the doldrums. Times reported last June twenty dollar bill?” He claims it’s legal as long The news about stalling on oine. A U.S.. bank note honoring that “Images of Tubman, Trump was reported to say as the security features and Tubman “made my blood Nearly three years ago Harriet Tubman still has not which were featured prom- that maybe Tubman could denomination of the bill are boil,” he said. Keeping up the Canadian government materalized inently on the Treasury possibly be on the little used not obscured and does not awareness of the promised asked Canadians to sug- President Barack Obama Department’s website at $2 bill. make the bill unfit for reis- Tubman bill “seemed like gest a person to feature on in 2016 said Tubman would the end the Obama ad- That was the last straw for sue. He says he’s used $20 the right thing to do.” a new $10 banknote and replace America’s 7th Pres- ministration, were removed Dano Wall and co-workers Tubman bills with no prob- 26,300 suggestions were ident, Andrew Jackson on when Mr. Trump’s Treasury at a small New York design received. In short order the the US$20 bill. Jackson’s Department overhauled its company which works with choice became Viola Des- personal wealth is acknowl- website….” a laser cutter and 3D print- mond, a civil rights pioneer edged to have been based It was reported last year er. from Nova Scotia. In 1946 on slave labor on his Ten- when former White House Viola Desmond she was arrested for refus- nessee cotton plantation. adviser Omarosa Man- Dano, 33, created a rubber ing to leave a whites-on- Jackson lived from 1767 igault Newman’s book, stamp with the image of a ly seat in a movie theatre to 1845, and Tubman from “Unhinged: An Insider’s Ac- young Tubman and aligned while waiting for her car to be repaired. Last year the Desmond bill was released, and at the same time bumped up Canadian awareness of the obscure incident when Desmond, then 32, was jailed merely for sitting in the wrong theater seat. Last month, the $10 Des- mond bill won the Inter- national Bank Note of the Year design award for 2018 among a field of internation- al competitors. All this happened while the SUBMITTED SUBMITTED idea of honoring Harriet Viola Desmond ‘s image is on Canada’s 10 dollar banknote Harriet Tubman The Toledo Journal • May 22, 2019 - June 4, 2019 • Page 3 Coming Events/News Drop Off Refuse and Recycling Event May 22nd May 25th on Saturdays Toledo for CEDAW City of Toledo and Lucas County Acceptable items include electronic waste, but no televi- Convention on the Elimination of all 2019 Memorial Day Parade sions, CRT monitors, or appliances; 10 tires, on or off the Forms of Discrimination Against Women The annual parade will kick-off at 10 a.m.

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