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92nd year of providing ‘News that matters’ VVOOLL.. XXCCIIII NNOO.. 2200 Since 1925 www.louisianaweekly.com 50 cents Edmonson hires former federal prosecutor Johnny Jackson, amid accusations of misuse of public funds former legislator and Former Louisiana State Police audit released in December by the addresses a fraction of the allega - Supt. Col. Mike Edmonson, who Louisiana Legislative Auditor that tions against Edmonson. announced his retirement last year accused Edmonson of living a lav - Rosenberg’s letter to the auditor councilman, dies in the wake of a scandal involving ish lifestyle on the taxpayer dime. defends Edmonson’s use of the By Allen Johnson several state troopers who made WWL News reported that the Residential Conference Center, a Contributing Writer unauthorized stops in Las Vegas state auditor re-released the audit house on state police grounds, as and the Grand Canyon as they trav - report Wednesday because his personal residence, saying the Johnny Jackson Jr., 74, the former New eled to a San Diego law enforce - Edmonson’s attorney, former Chief of Staff under former Gov. Orleans city councilman, state legislator, ment conference, has reportedly U.S. Attorney Harry Rosenberg, Bobby Jindal, Timmy Teepell, and Ninth Ward leader who died last week, hired a former federal prosecutor as filed a new, page-and-a-half is being remembered as a champion for the EDMONSON Continued on Pg. 8 counsel to respond to a scathing response to the report that only poor, the oppressed and equal rights for all. “Johnny was a person who never met a stranger – bottom line,” says Lena Stewart, his former chief of staff on the New Orleans JACKSON City Council (1986-1994). “Everywhere he went, he would light up the room. He loved people.” In an age of political, racial and digital-polarization, Jackson and his personable approach to deep social divides is eulogized, among others, by the former House Speaker of a white conservative district in North Louisiana, a local pio - neer of gay rights in New Orleans, and an attorney who rep - resented the militant Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, during confrontations with NOPD nearly 50 years ago. Former House Speaker E.L. “Bubba” Henry, D-Jonesboro, La., 82, chaired the vaunted 132-member Constitutional Convention of 1973. https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/- viewcontent.cgi?article=5910&context=lalrev. Henry appointed then-State Rep. Johnny Jackson of New Orleans (1972-1986) to serve as one of only 11 Black delegates who helped reform the state charter – which became a model

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Amid cries of ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘Islamophobia,’ the New Orleans City Council on Thursday voted 7-0 to rescind a human rights to unseat HEAL resolution it had unanimously passed two weeks earlier. The Jan. 11 resolution, which calls for a review of contracts and investments to make sure city money doesn’t go to support human rights violations but mentions no specific groups or violators, was quickly hailed as a victory for an international movement to boycott Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Councilmembers said that is not director continues what they intended when they passed the resolution, which was authored by then Dist. B. Councilwoman Latoya Cantrell. SomeA mP Pehm oto- By C.C. Campbell-Rock bers of the community questioned whether it is anti-Semitic to criticize Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Contributing Writer

For more than a year, a group of state elected officials have been running a concerted campaign to kick Jacob Johnson, MPH, CLED, out of his job as Executive Director of the Health Education Authority of New Orleans, (HEAL) abolish Brother of local artist Big Freedia slain the New Orleans-based agency, sell its properties, and put the New Orleans police officers found Ross this situation sinks in, I am canceling agency’s functions under a Baton Rouge-based state agency. Adam Ross, the 35-year-old brother of unresponsive and lying on a sidewalk with any shows this weekend (Jan 26-28). HEAL functions as a quasi-governmental agency that assists New Orleans bounce recording artist a gunshot wound to the head. Thank you for understanding this very state and local government agencies, nonprofit/501©3 organi - Big Freedia, was slain in Central City A motive or suspect in the shooting has difficult time for me and my family. We zations or other groups working in health care, health educa - Wednesday night. not been determined as of press time are truly heartbroken.” tion, or the biological sciences in obtaining tax-free bonds to WWL News reported that Big Freedia The family’s attorney released a state - Big Freedia shared photos of her construct, renovate, or enhance facilities. confirmed that her brother was killed ment to The New Orleans Advocate brother on her verified Instagram No sooner was the ink dry on ACT 577, authored by Senator last week. Thursday morning that reads as follows: account early Thursday morning. Karen Carter Peterson (SB230) in 2016, which expanded The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office also “My younger brother, Adam Ross, was “My heart is so heavy right now! They HEAL statewide; several elected officials and one state confirmed that Adam Ross was shot and fatally shot last night in a senseless act took my baby brother from me I can’t not agency, the Office of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, sprang killed in the 2600 block of Martin Luther of violence in New Orleans,” Big into action to take HEAL out of New Orleans, terminate its King Jr. Blvd. around 10 p.m. Wednesday. Freedia wrote. “As the magnitude of Continued on Pg. 8 African-American director, Johnson, and house it under the state’s Division of Administration. State Senator Fred H. Mills, Jr. (R-New Iberia), State House Speaker Taylor F. Barras (R-New Iberia) New Iberian Attorney David Groner, then newly appointed chair - person of HEAL, Louisiana Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera, and State Senator Karen Carter Peterson (D-New Cong. Danny Davis introduces bail reform bill Orleans) were all a part of the effort to kill HEAL. By Lauren Victoria Burke On January 18, Davis introduced the lent Cook County Corrections inmates Purpera published a draft of an audit of HEAL in December Contributing Writer Bail Fairness Act of 2018 to alleviate who were too poor to bail themselves out. 2016, a scathing report that Johnson says “criminalized” him. some of the burdens associated with the Davis’ legislation would require states to The LLA recommended greater oversight of the agency. (NNPA Newswire) — During a recent cash bail system. release individuals charged with a non- Johnson is currently suing the LLA over the report. press conference on Capitol Hill, Rep. The Chicago congressman was joined on violent misdemeanor on non-monetary Meanwhile, Senator Carter-Peterson filed SB224, which Danny Davis (D-Ill.) said that at any Capitol Hill by Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee conditions prior to their court date. abolished HEAL. Peterson’s bill would have placed HEAL’s given time there are roughly 500,000 (D-Texas) and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.) and Civil rights groups and lawmakers are work and authority under Governor John Bel Edwards’ people sitting in local jails waiting for Chicago businessman and philanthropist increasingly putting pressure on busi - their day in court. Dr. Willie Wilson. The four of them were nesses operating in the cash bail system Continued on Pg. 3 “These are people who have been flanked by two large posters; one poster and becoming more vocal about prob - charged with a crime, but are not convict - read: “Taxpayers Spend $17 billion on lems in the industry. ed,” said Davis. “Many of the people Pre-trial Detentions”; the other poster sim - As more cities begin to do away with the waiting in jail are forced to wait simply, ply said, “Bail Fail” in large letters. Wilson because they cannot afford to post bail.” said that he has paid the bails of non-vio - Continued on Pg. 3 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 29 - February 4, 2018

that could not be mistaken for ing for a sinecure, Jackson Blacks and whites alike, especially Johnny Jackson dies parades or “photo ops.” proved them wrong. Black churches, Jackson led the Continued from Page 1 but you always knew what side he for fomenting violent revolution. The protests of the day posed far “We came to the council in May political fight that laid the founda - was on – the poor and oppressed The police and Panthers clashed greater risks as Jackson and other 1986,” Lena Stewart, his chief of tion for passage of the gay civil and the people in Desire, most of twice – more than a dozen people New Orleans Blacks embarked on staff recalls. “The first big thing he rights bill in New Orleans, Bagneris for seven other states. whom were Black.” were arrested. Jackson was among civil rights forays into the more got into (on the council) was sup - said. He also championed the cre - “Johnny contributed a lot In 1970, Johnny Jackson Jr. - the many detained. Although not a hostile parishes of St. Helena, St. porting gay rights. He was for civil ation of the city Human Rights because he was a very bright five years out of college – was revolutionary, Jackson’s personal James, St. John and Livingston – a rights for everybody.” Commission, pressing for better young man. He was not militant. director of the Desire Community encounters with police led him to notorious Klan stronghold. Larry Bagneris, veteran activist police training, and other efforts He could be militant if he felt he Center. Jackson and fellow com - sympathize with the Panthers, After the 1970 standoff of what is today called the Gay- that have improved relations had to be. He was smart. He was munity activist Sidney Duplessis “If we needed to get something, between police and the Panthers, Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender- between the NOPD and the fearless. He was hard-working. If organized Sons of Desire to raise someone into the Desire communi - Jackson became more involved Queer (GLBTQ) community in GLBTQ community since then. you wanted to know what he political awareness — but not to ty or something out of the Desire with organizations such as the New Orleans, told The Louisiana “We are light years away from thought – he would tell you the the revolutionary levels of community, we could count on Ad Hoc Community for Weekly . “Johnny Jackson Jr. where we were,” Bagneris says. unvarnished truth. Panther politics, according to his - him,” Jones recalls, without elabo - Accountable Police, the SCLC stood with my community when “Johnny Jackson led the way.” “He was concerned about crimi - torian Leonard N. Moore’s book ration. “He was strong in Desire. and the NAACP. it wasn’t popular.” Funeral arrangements were nal justice for juveniles. He didn’t on NOPD and Black activism, He would let nobody mess over In 1972, he became SOUL’s can - Despite strong opposition from incomplete at press time. ◊ believe we did enough for correct - “Black Rage in New Orleans,” that community. He learned from didate for state representative. He ing and helping the young people (LSU Press, 2010). his father, Johnny Jackson Sr., who won. He garnered a reputation as who got off the straight and narrow At the same time, Jackson gave also was a community leader.” an effective legislator and co- path. He wanted us to be more voice to community frustration Born in 1943 to Josephine Brown founder of the Black Legislative compassionate than we were. He with what was then widely- Jackson and Johnny Jackson Sr., Caucus, who could bridge deep was just a wonderful human being viewed as the “heavy-handed” young Johnny was educated in racial-political-and geographical New SUNO social work and one of my favorite people.” tactics of the NOPD: “I am not a segregated New Orleans public divides between New Orleans and Local attorney Ernest Jones, one revolutionary and don’t claim to schools, graduating from George the rest of the state. of the few Blacks admitted to the be but I do consider myself con - Washington Carver Senior High in After 14 years, he was a sea - building honors founder cerned about my people and the 1961. He graduated from Southern practice of law in Louisiana in soned and respected lawmaker. (AP) — Southern University at of Social Work in 1983. She was injustices that have existed.” University at New Orleans in 1965 1969, represented the Black He was ready to come home and New Orleans recently dedicated the social work dean when she By the summer of 1970, Black with a bachelor’s degree in Panther Party for Self-Defense, run for the City Council to the a new building on campus that is retired in 2006. The university says Panthers – seem by some as an Sociology and Economics. during the militant group’s heated disappointment of some of his named for the founder of the that when she retired, the social armed counterweight to the Klan Like other college students in the clashes with New Orleans police supporters and political university’s school of social work faculty and staff had peaked and police harassment of young early 1960s, he participated in in 1970 – nearly 50 years ago. observers in New Orleans. work. at more than 30 employees. Blacks – had arrived in the Desire black voter registration drives and “Johnny was one of the Asked why, Jackson laughed, A university news release says The Jan. 14 dedication of the area of New Orleans. The other civil rights actions. strongest soldiers I knew,” Jones telling this reporter: “In Baton Millie M. Charles was hired at 40,000 square-foot Millie M. Panthers’ celebrated breakfast pro - He joined marches led by civil said. “In the end, you always Rouge, I’m one of only 144 (leg - SUNO in 1965. Back then, she Charles School of Social Work grams and tutoring classes were rights icons such as the Rev. Avery knew whose side he was on. islators). On the City Council, I was a one-person social work Building comes a little more established – viewed with alarm Alexander, Oretha Castle Haley, Tactically, he would do some can be one of seven!” department. than two years after the ground - by the NOPD and the FBI who saw Arthur Chapital, Earl Amedee and things different. Strategically, he To skeptics anticipating the She founded the SUNO School breaking in late 2015.◊ would do some things different, such efforts as propaganda tools Ernest Wright – demonstrations return of another politician look - THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 29 - February 4, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3 Musician and Anti-Apartheid activist Hugh Masekela dies By Geraldine Wyckoff “I was marinated in jazz and I out a particularly exuberant Los Angeles. New Orleans is far Contributing Writer was seasoned in music from crowd. from America – not geographi - home,” Masekela was quoted as As a youngster, Masekela began cally – but it’s a far place in Hugh Masekela was an impor - saying in an interview with The playing piano though he became America to get to. It’s a wonder - tant and influential man. Born in New York Times . Those combined enthralled with the trumpet after ful place that has great character. South Africa on April 4, 1939, flavors rang through his music seeing the movie Young Man with It’s not just another town.” the trumpeter, flugelhornist, making it accessible to a broad a Horn , a film based loosely on Masekela showed his love for singer and composer pioneered range of listeners. His 1968 hit, the life of American jazz artist this city and its people by per - jazz in his homeland and spread “Grazing in the Grass,” became Bix Beiderbecke. At age 14, the forming at a much lower-key his anti-apartheid message via his trademark and lives on in jazz future star got his first trumpet event than Jazz Fest. He blew his his music, words and actions clubs and even as played by New which was sent from Louis horn on a stage set up on the throughout the world. Masekela, Orleans brass bands at the second Armstrong to equal rights advo - small grassy field next to St. who for three decades found line parades. With its memorable cate Father Trevor Huddleson Augustine Catholic Church in the exile and freedom in the United melody and swaying rhythm, who in turn presented it to heart of the Tremé. The neighbor - States, died in Johannesburg, many bands on the street turn to Masekela. He and his music-lov - hood gathering was a modest South Africa on Tuesday, January the song when it seems time for ing schoolmates were members affair with Masekela’s name on 23, 2018. He was 78. them to chill and perhaps smooth of the Huddleson Jazz Band, the the schedule included among the local artists. The audience and the musicians were thrilled and amazed at their good fortune to hear the superstar in their “back -

Photo by Demian Roberts yard.” This show might have had Politics surrounding HEAL director something to do with “Grazing in HUGH MASEKELA Continued from Page 1 HEAL and its administration, population of 80,000.” Bayou the Grass” still being vital on this without talking to the people.” Acquisitions has started con - city’s streets. Division of Administration, However, the conspiracy to shut - struction of new clinics, in antic - “Oh, yes,” he said on suddenly while dissolving the agency, its ter HEAL and terminate Johnson is ipation of receiving state bonds. first youth orchestra in South first heard jazz artists including recalling and visualizing the staff, and Board of Trustees. “I continuing. Attorney Charles T. Matthew Vallier, CEO of Africa. Another important first in Louis Armstrong via 78 rpm scene. “The thing that I remem - am the author of a bill to repeal Cravins, CAO of the St. Landry CareSouth, says his company is Masekela’s storied career was records. Like many musicians ber about it is that it felt like a an authority I believe is ineffec - Parish District Attorney Office, acquiring assets in anticipation of when he and several other jazz around the globe that were South African township to a cer - tive. Some of the numbers can’t was appointed chairman of the receiving $11 million in bonds artists including renowned pianist touched by our musical pioneers, tain extent. It was nice because be disputed,” Peterson had said HEAL Board by Governor through HEAL. “The bond Abdullah Ibrahim (then know as he felt an affinity for the city as we don’t get to play that often in at an April 26, 2017 meeting of Edwards in December 2017. financing from HEAL is essential Dollar Brand) formed the Jazz the birthplace of jazz. neighborhoods like that when we the Senate Health & Welfare Cravins’ first order of business to our expansion plans. Failure to Epistles that is famed for being the Fortunately, Masekela was a come to the States. It was memo - Committee meeting, chaired by was to send an email to Johnson, fund this project will also create first jazz band in the country to fairly frequent visitor to New rable because of that.” Senator Fred Mills of New on December 29, 2017, inform - undue hardships for underserved record an album. (Masekela and Orleans, usually as a performer at In 1987 Masekela released the Iberia. After meeting with a del - ing him that his contract would citizens in South Louisiana.” Ibrahim were to be united and the the Jazz Fest. He was co-billed song he wrote and recorded, egation of constituents, Carter- not be renewed. No such letter “We asked that Mr. Charles Jazz Epistles resurrected at the with Santana at the Municipal “Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Peterson tabled her bill. was sent to HEAL’s legal repre - Cravins’ position as chairman and 2017 Jazz Fest though sadly, the Auditorium and with the Neville Mandela)” that became an Similarly, Senator Mills tacked sentatives, whose contract also member of the HEAL Board of trumpeter had to cancel due to ill Brothers and his one-time wife, anthem for the anti-apartheid on a Senate Amendment to Barras’ expired in December 2017 . Trustees be reconsidered, in light health.) vocalist Miriam Makeba, at the movement. After Mandela’s HB 26, which authorized the trans - Johnson says Cravins’ action is of past allegations of sexual Following a ban on gatherings University of New Orleans release from prison, the trum - fer of certain property near Spanish illegal and that he cannot make a harassment and aligned with your of 10 people or more, Masekela Lakefront Arena. peter was, in a sense, freed from Lake in Iberia Parish. Mills’ unilateral decision without a zero-tolerance policy on sexual soon left the country, initially “New Orleans has a great sig - his exile. He returned to his amendment also abolished HEAL, vote of HEAL’s Executive harassment. Please read the depo - heading to Great Britain. With nificance for me because of homeland and died in and transferred all of HEAL’s Board. Cravins’ move to not sition of a victimized the help of actor/singer Harry Louis Armstrong and Buddy Johannesburg, South Africa. properties to the state. The jewel in renew his contract is a “breach of woman/employee about his con - Belefonte, he received a scholar - Bolden, Kid Ory and King Among his many achievements, HEAL’s holdings is its garage, a Act 577, public laws, and HEAL duct as an assistant district attor - ship to New York’s Manhattan Oliver,” he declared in a 2004 Masekela recorded some 40 business capable of generating bylaws,” adds Johnson. ney in St. Landry Parish,” Bryant School of Music. It’s said that interview. “If it wasn’t for those albums, performed as a part of millions. The garage is attached to The executive also takes issue wrote in a letter to Governor John trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and people the world would still be Paul Simon’s Graceland 25th HEAL’s LaSalle Street office with items left off of the HEAL Bel Edwards. Louis Armstrong encouraged square. I don’t come to New Anniversary Tour, collaborated building, behind Duncan Plaza and Agenda for its January 18, meet - Karen Robinson, an 11-year Masekela to remember his Orleans like a tourist. I always with fellow African musician and across from City Hall. ing in Baton Rouge. Absent is employee of the St. Landry District African roots while delving into said when I lived in America that singer Fela Kuti and established Members of Justice & Beyond, a any mention of Johnson’s con - Attorney’s Office, sued Cravins in the art form of American jazz. if New Orleans was not so far the Botswana International civil rights forum, NAACP, and tract, the $26 million in projects 2011 for sexual harassment and The result was the early begin - from America I would have lived School of Music.◊ grassroots organizations rode to that Johnson secured in the past unequal pay. Robinson, who left nings of Afro-jazz. Masekela there instead of New York and Baton Rouge and asked legislators year, a public comment period, the job, lost the case. not to pass Barras’ bill. That bill was and an outstanding debt report. Bryant also asked Governor tabled. Failing to abolish HEAL in “The $26 million worth of proj - Edwards to ensure that Johnson the state Legislature, the effort to ects is historic, in that this is the gets an opportunity to address takeover HEAL moved to Governor first time bonds will be issued the full Board. John Bel Edwards’ office. statewide through HEAL,” says “Cravins is being played as a In 2017, according to Johnson, Johnson who maintains the proj - pawn, Karen Carter Peterson is HEAL’s Board members were asked ects are not on the agenda being played; as well as the gover - by the governor’s office, to resign because his detractors don’t want nor, by developers. We have experi - from the Board. The action resulted him to get credit for bringing the enced, sadly, Black politicians who in an agency without a Board. But proposed medical and dental don’t want to know what the inter - Johnson kept the doors open, programs to HEAL for bonding. ests of the community are. They are according to the agency’s bylaws. HEAL recently received letters supposed to be working for us. Johnson then lobbied Governor from CareSouth and Bayou We’ve got to make these people Edwards to reconstitute the HEAL Acquisitions, in which the exec - accountable, “ Bryant concludes. :>,,;$57 6   Board. Today, six of nine utives stress the important of Johnson has since amended his Executive Board members have working with HEAL to continue lawsuit against the LLA to include 6$785'$<)(%58$5< been appointed. their bond application processes defamation of character, racial dis - “The governor can do better,” through the agency. Dr. Joseph crimination, and loss of earning says Pat Bryant, co-coordinator of Braud, Jr., a New Orleans-based capacity. Johnson holds a master’s $QHYHQLQJRILQWHUDFWLYHFRQWHPSRUDU\DUW Justice & Beyond. “We are looking orthodontist, wants to expand his degree in public health and is a cer - H[SHULHQFHVDQGSRSXSSHUIRUPDQFHVEHQHILWLQJWKH&$& at many situations under his watch dental practice to serve people in tified public health administrator. ZLWKFXLVLQHDQGFRFNWDLOVIURPORFDOUHVWDXUDQWV that he could have done something Calcasieu, Iberia, East Baton While the political attacks on HEAL DFRQWHPSRUDU\DUWDXFWLRQDQGPRUH about that would benefit the com - Rouge and Orleans Parishes. The has damaged his reputation, as it munity. This is about developers $15 million in bonds would now stands, Johnson is still working trying to make money. It’s about allow for new dental clinics that on behalf of HEAL, albeit without a people who want to take old will produce 100 new jobs. “It is contract. Not one to quit, Johnson Charity (Hospital), the parking our desire to engage HEAL for says, ‘I will keep moving on.” garage, Duncan Plaza, and creating healthcare funding,” Braud Calls to Karen Carter Peterson something, without giving the pub - wrote. “In Orleans Parish, there and Charles T. Cravins for com - lic a buy-in. They want to destroy are only six dentists to serve a ment were not returned.◊

Bail reform bill Continued from Page 1 control is that millions of people are with this original intent…people no longer free: people stuck in jail with money can almost always cash bail practice, some federal and families stuck in debt to create buy their way to freedom, regard - legislators are taking notice. profit for these corporations,” the less of the charges against them,” Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) report read. The study also pointed wrote ACLU Deputy National and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have out that , “the national median for Political Director Udi Ofer on voiced similar concerns regarding bail for a felony arrest is now December 11, 2017. the problems of money bail in the $10,000, while the Federal Rep. Davis has continued to Senate. In September 2017, Harris Reserve has found that nearly focus on justice reform issues joined with Republican Senator half of Americans would be during his 20 years in Congress. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on the Pretrial unable to pay for an unexpected Davis’ “Second Chance Act” was Integrity and Safety Act. The bill expense of $400.” signed into law by President would overhaul America’s bail The United States remains num - George W. Bush in 2007. The leg - system just as Rep. Davis’ legisla - ber one in the world in the rate of islation assisted formerly incar - 7LFNHWVDWFDFQRRUJ tion hopes to do. incarceration, with over two mil - cerated individuals to successful - A May 2017 report by Color of lion people behind bars, in large ly re-enter society. Change and the ACLU entitled, part, because poor people are In November 2016, after his “Selling Off Our Freedom: How unable to pay their way out of 15-year-old grandson was mur - Insurance Corporations Have Taken incarceration. The money bail sys - dered in Chicago, Rep. Davis Over Our Bail System,” outlined the tem disproportionately impacts the pushed for more funding for $UFDGLD0DULQH//& for-profit incentives behind the bail poor. There are currently over 43 neighborhoods struggling with system in America. million Americans living under the poverty. His focus was on the The report revealed that there are poverty line; nearly 30 percent of “10-20-30” policy proposed by fewer than 10 companies involved African Americans live in poverty. South Carolina Rep. Jim in the administration of over $14 “The original purpose of bail Clyburn. The “10-20-30” plan billion in bonds posted by for-prof - was to serve as an incentive to would focus cash on 10 percent it bail each year. The bail industry return to court when a person is of all government funding to be collects approximately $2 billion arrested, released, and their case allocated to areas where 20 per - in profit, annually. proceeds. However, the current cent of the residents have lived “The result of bail corporations’ money bail system has little to do in poverty for over 30 years.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 29 - February 4, 2018 Black power, resilience and unity matter

By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

Black folks ain’t nothin’ nice. There’s Africans in America must be realistic and nothing we can’t do when we put our honest with ourselves about who and minds together. Just look at how far where we are as a people. While times we’ve already come. have changed and some things have got - We’ve survived countless assaults on the ten better for Africans in America, Motherland by Arabs, Greeks, Romans Clarke contended that the position of and other European invaders and “con - Africans in America in relation to the querors.” We’ve resisted numerous position of our oppressors has not really attempts to decimate our culture and his - changed a great deal since 1619, the year tory by insisting upon teaching and 20 Black indentured servants arrived in S learning our story from our perspective, the “New World.” He was essentially as opposed to “his-story” through saying that the power relationship Western eyes. We survived being packed between Europeans and Africans in N like sardines in slave fortresses along the America has not shifted significantly coast of West Africa as our captors over the course of nearly four centuries. stored us until they were ready to rip and Those who feel the brother and what he

O drag us from our ancestral homeland into was trying to convey would agree that

I the Western Hemisphere. We survived such a sobering reality is incentive the Middle Passage although we were enough for Black folks to keep on keep - shoved into the bellies of slave-trading ing on and continue to fight for our dig -

N vessels and placed in spoon-like fashion nity, humanity and freedom. Will Congress keep its

I alongside one another and left to lie in Perhaps one of the reasons we are so our own blood, urine, bile, feces and despised, feared and envied by our tears for three months or more. oppressors is our indomitable resilience, promise to the Dreamers? P We survived the indignity of standing on spirit and beauty. We simply refuse to “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for me was a way of the Auction Block and the Great die or go away. We aren’t having it. We coming up for air after having been underwater all my life in a sea of Enslavement that ensued, knowing that come from a long line of strong, proud uncertainty. I was able to catch my breath, but I was not yet on a boat

O somehow, someday, we would once again people who understood that the purpose back to land. DACA allowed me to work legally, have a Social Security be free. (While we are still working toward of all life is to pay homage to the Creator number, open a bank account, and have something as simple as a state that day, no one can argue that we have not through our words and deeds. We know ID. Most importantly, DACA provided me with a license to dream.” made considerable progress for a people instinctively that the Creator is the –Ms. Guzman, MORIAL Dreamer writing semi-anonymously & stripped of everything centuries ago and source and aim of all life. forced to toil for others.) We must also understand that the Fortune Magazine We sang and prayed in the hush har - Architect of the Universe stands with us By Marc H. Morial bors and cotton fields of the south, in our struggle to walk on the righteous President/CEO, The National Urban League knowing that things would get better by path as we strive for truth, justice and S and by, and preparing to make things liberation. While the debate rages daily on op-ed pages and on cable news, the nation won’t know until next better sooner rather than later. Still, sometimes we underestimate our month whether a Congressional deal to protect Dreamers will be successful. What we know right We laughed and danced and did the cake - strength and power as a people. We be now is that protecting Dreamers is the right thing to do. walk when we heard the good news that bad. Unfortunately, amid distractions The Senate deal to keep the government funded through February 8 includes a commitment to vote L President Abraham Lincoln had finally like racism, classism, materialism and a on a solution that would address the status of young people brought to the United States by their par - decided to sign the Emancipation “schism of otherisms,” we sometimes ents when they were children. The Trump Administration in September announced an end to Deferred Proclamation and legally end slavery. forget that. Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program that protected them from deportation and Even though we were understandably All we need to do when we want to allowed them to attend school and work. A scared to death, had no money, no educa - remember is look at all the things we’ve About 90 percent of Americans believe that those covered tion and no idea how we were going to sur - accomplished in spite of the obstacles under DACA – commonly known as “Dreamers” – should The

I vive in America, we managed to carve out we’ve faced. I thought about that after be permitted to remain in the United States — the country a life for ourselves. No group of people both the Million Man March and the that is their home, the only they’ve ever known. Of those Louisiana has ever done so much with so little. Million Woman March. If, with our lim - who are committed to legal status for Dreamers, many have Little did we know that the struggle was ited resources (compared with those in criticized the Senate deal because they do not believe Weekly R far from over. Soon after slavery was power) we can do so much, just imagine Senate leadership can be trusted to maintain commitment to abolished, the terrorism campaigns against what we might accomplish if we truly a vote. On the other side are those who believe the bargain (USPS 320-680) One of the oldest publications us began. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan came together with unity of purpose and – which also included a six-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), ultimately will end with in the United States and the White Citizens Council were determination to end once and for all our specifically for the the result all players have declared they want: legal status – O formed to remind Black freedmen of “our oppression. We’ve shown we have the African-American place” in American society. But even in organizational skills we need to be free. and eventual citizenship – for Dreamers. community. the face of the mob violence and virulent We’ve just got to be relentless and President Trump reiterated his support for Dreamers this week, saying he wants them to be able to become citizens. hatred that characterized the Post- unswerving in our efforts to liberate our - Since 1925 T Reconstruction Era, the indignities and selves. We also have a motherlode of House Speaker Paul Ryan made a highly-publicized promise to suffering that Jim Crow brought to us and brainpower and expertise. Africans in a young Dreamer at a nationally-televised town hall that he did not want to see her deported and wanted to help her “get right RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL

I the bloodshed and sacrifices we were the Motherland and across the diaspora President/Publisher forced to make during the historic Civil look to Africans in America for inspira - with the law.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also Rights Movement, we managed to hold tion and guidance. We’ve got to do more has said he has sympathy for the Dreamers. EDMUND W. LEWIS our heads up high and walk through the to live up to our responsibilities as one To the extent the general hostility of some Americans Editor toward immigrants is based on wildly inaccurate stereotypes,

D eye of the storm with made-up minds and of the most educated groups of Africans DAVID T. BAKER no group could go further in exploding those false impres - rested souls. We promised ourselves that living on the planet. Associate Editor we weren’t going to let nobody turn us Africans in America have proven that we sions than the Dreamers. Their employment rate exceeds that around. And for the most part we haven’t. know how to make money. And although of the native-born population, with more than 90 percent of them working. About 65,000 graduate from high school each SHARON ARMSTRONG E Several centuries after we were first our ideas and creativity often end up mak - SUSAN BUCHANAN enslaved in the United States, we are still ing more money for others than for us, we year, and 10,000 graduate from college. They pay $2 billion FRITZ ESKER fighting the good fight and trying to finish still are better off financially than Africans in state and local taxes, and are ineligible for safety net pro - the race our ancestors have literally been in many places. Still, we’ve got to learn gram benefits and most government subsidies. About 900 are DELLA HASSELLE running for thousands of years. And you how to use the power, influence and currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. MEGHAN HOLMES know what? We may be tired, we may wealth we have amassed to further the If the Dreamers are deported, the United States will lose more CHARMAINE JACKSON become discouraged from time to time, but goals of all Africans. than $280 billion in economic contribution. Plus, the deporta - FR. JEROME LeDOUX we aren’t even thinking about quitting. Money means nothing if we do not use tions would cost more than $60 billion additional tax dollars. BRITTANY ODOM Our oppressors have seen fit to attack us it to break the shackles that continue to The United States is at a crossroads. Deportation of Dreamers JAMES SEBASTIEN would be a shameful stain on our history, diminishing our in waves with one of the most recent bind us and prevent us from becoming MICKEY STANLEY standing in the international community. Allowing them to waves characterized by Black houses of all we can be. 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In the spirit of the Ancestors, harambee.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 29 - February 4, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 5 What we’ve Behind the Black unemployment rate By Julianne Malveaux 69 percent of white men are employed, just 63 African-American TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist percent of Black men are employed (the num - household has just bers for women are closer, with African- $17,000 in wealth, lost during When the unemployment rate dropped and American women actually working MORE compared to $171,000 economic conditions improved under the than white women, with an employment-popu - for whites. leadership of President Barack Obama, 45 lation ratio of 59 percent for Black women When 45 crows about Trump’s first derided the gains as “fake news.” and 55 percent for white women). a 6.8 percent unem - MAGEE He suggested that the monthly The employment-population ratio and labor ployment rate for Employment Situation ( www.bls.gov ) reports force participation rates show racial disparities African-Americans, he of the Bureau of Labor Statistics were inac - among men that are alarming. Differences in normalizes the fact that By Rep. Karen Bass (Dy-Caelif.a) r curate and “made up.” These are the month - the employment-population ratio suggest that African Americans MALVEAUX NNPA Guest Columnist ly reports that detail employment statistics, some African Americans have stopped looking should have a higher including unemployment rates. Now that 45 for work because they don’t think they can find unemployment rate The year leading up to his inauguration in 2017, as the Republican is in charge, he can’t crow often enough it. When the Black unemployment rate is than whites. And when he talks unemploy - presidential nominee, Donald Trump espoused senseless, baseless about the statistics that he described as “pho - adjusted to reflect these realities, it is closer to ment out of context and ignores income and and ultimately empty assertions about the state of Black Americans ny” just 18 months ago. 10 percent than to the 6.8 percent 45 and his wealth disparities, he is suggesting that the and our communities. For the last week, we have heard 45 and team are crowing out. current conditions of African Americans are “What the hell do you have to lose?” he screamed in front of a his surrogates crowing that “the Black Furthermore, the 45th President inherited something to celebrate. predominantly white crowd in a small, predominantly White suburb unemployment rate is lower than it has an economy that was improving. Falling If this President were really interested in of Lansing, Michigan. ever been.” And, with a Black unemploy - unemployment rates are a result of the the economic status of After Trump was inaugurated, the Congressional Black Caucus ment rate of 6.8 percent, they are right Obama expansion. Let’s say it again, the African Americans he (CBC) found it prudent to answer his question. In March, the CBC that the rate is at its lowest since the Obama expansion. An economic expansion would have produced a C Executive Committee, led by our Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D- Bureau of Labor Statistics started disag - will naturally move unemployment rates different tax bill, ceased La.), presented Trump with a 130-page policy document entitled, gregating data to report unemployment by downward, no matter who is the President. his attacks on health care, “We Have A Lot To Lose: Solutions to Advance Black Families in race. Is this something worth crowing While 45 can only legitimately claim stock and directed his secretary the 21st Century.” about? Does 45 deserve to get credit for market gains for the last two months, as his of education to stop O The document, which was compiled by the entire 49-member it? The answer to both questions, from regressive tax bill has handsomely rewarded attacking public education Caucus, outlined policy solutions down to the bill text for issues fac - my perspective, is a resounding “no.” corporate interests, stock market gains in the and HBCUs. But 45 isn’t ing our communities. Voting rights, criminal justice reform, econom - First of all, the 6.8 percent unemploy - first month of this year might also be consid - interested in the economic ic justice, education, health care, immigration – these were just some ment rate African Americans experienced ered a result of the Obama expansion. status of African- M of the topics we presented to continue our progress. was exactly TWICE the white unemploy - Will 45 take credit for the stagnant wages Americans. He is inter - Unfortunately, these are the issues that Trump and his administra - ment rate of 3.4 percent. Suppose that that plague all workers, but especially ested in bragging about tion have chosen to ignore. The President, who has not commented white men had an unemployment rate of African-American workers? While unem - data he once dismissed as on the document since we presented it to him, obviously has had oth - 6.8 percent? Would 45 and his minions be ployment rates have dropped, wages have “phony.” er ideas, almost as if he wanted to answer his own question in his celebrating if whites had the same employ - not risen by very much (less than 2 percent M first year, to show us what we can lose. ment situation as African Americans? I last year). Sure, some workers got tax bill- Julianne Malveaux is an The truth is that in this first year, we’ve lost a lot. think not. So, celebrating the 6.8 percent related bonuses, and Walmart will raise their author and economist. Almost immediately after being elected, Trump established the rate without speaking of the inequality it is wages for some workers to $11 an hour. Her latest book “Are We Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity and based on is like celebrating the inequality. Most workers are stuck making the same Better Off? Race, Obama appointed a known vote suppressor to lead it. The commission was Secondly, the unemployment rate is an amount of money they made three years ago. and Public Policy” is E designed to intimidate voters and Trump—because of political and imperfect measure of the employment situa - Does 45 take credit for income and wealth available via www.ama - legal pressure—recently decided to dissolve it into the Department tion. The employment-population ratio is a far differences between African Americans and zon.com for booking, of Homeland Security. more accurate way of measuring how fully whites? The average white family has a wholesale inquiries or for Throughout the past year, Trump has stacked the federal courts

employed a population is. It measures the per - $65,000 income, compared to just $39,000 more info visitwww.julian - N with judges with nothing short of scandalous records when it comes centage of people who are employed. While for African Americans. And the average nemalveaux.com. ◊ to voting rights. Among his nominee group was Thomas Farr, who helped lawmakers draft and defend a 2013 law that the Fourth Circuit Court of North Carolina ruled targeted African-American voters T “with almost surgical precision.” On the criminal justice front, Trump has used the Department of Justice to embrace mass incarceration and shy away from transparent policing. One example of this is an FBI report published last August Shutdown allowed Trump to A entitled, “Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers.” One problem with the report is that the term “Black Identity Extremists” is an invented group that does not exist.

play poisonous political game R There are no Black people organized to kill law enforcement officers. By Jesse Jackson claimed he was ready to support a Association When I asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist bipartisan agreement. block any General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray about Democrat Dick Durbin and reform of our the origins of this report, none of them could tell me what the report Donald Trump had the government Republican Lindsay Graham, repre - ridiculous gun was even based on or how the term was created. shutdown that he wanted. No one senting a bipartisan group, brought laws, responsi - Y Economically, Trump has gone after our consumer protections. should be confused about this. The him that agreement. That’s when ble for all of Congress is working to repeal Dodd-Frank, a landmark piece of leg - shutdown allowed Trump and Trump purposefully blew up the those murders? islation designed to protect consumers from the wreck of the 2009 Republicans to ply their poisonous process, scorning immigrants from That’s the log - recession. Trump’s favoring of big banks will ultimately leave con - politics of division. “s—hole countries.” ic of the Trump

sumers in the same spot they were during the recession, or worse. And the shutdown provided occasion Even when Democratic Senate leader campaign ad & The education of our children is also under attack. In 2014, for the for a shakedown of Democrats, with Chuck Schumer agreed with Trump’s slurring first time ever, the majority of public school students in the United Trump willing to shut the government demand for billions for the wall, there Democrats on JACKSON States were non-white. Secretary DeVos has been less than helpful to down until he got billions for the wall was still no deal. He “couldn’t take yes immigration.

these institutions, ignoring grave disparities in how students of color that he had preposterously promised for an answer,” Schumer concluded. Now a deal has been reached to reopen O are disciplined compared to White students, and supporting a budget the Mexicans would pay for. Why would Trump and Republicans the government, at least until Feb. 8. that would further attack services that public schools provide. The record here is quite clear. Long force the shutdown? In theory, Democrats will gain relief Trump has also gone after our healthcare by actively sabotaging before the deadline, Trump tweeted The Trump campaign made that for the Dreamers that is favored by

the Affordable Care Act, continually issuing statements citing death that a “good shutdown” might be nec - clear, rolling out a vicious television some 85 percent of Americans. P spirals and other doomsday prophesies in addition to cutting funding essary to “fix mess!” His White House ad calling Democrats “complicit” for Trump will probably shake out bil - for advertisements and allowing health insurance companies to sell and the Republican Congress have slayings committed by undocumented lions to waste on his wall. Government

short-term plans with inadequate coverage. Trump and other utter scorn for federal employees, so immigrants. The White House and will reopen, with the same distorted I

Republican leaders have already openly discussed cuts to the social treating these public servants shabbily Republican legislators repeated end - priorities. Whether the government N safety net, meaning Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, as justi - is, to them, a feature, not a bug. lessly scurrilous talking points that will finally get a real budget for the fication for their deficit-exploding tax plan. When Americans find public ser - they knew were a lie: Democrats favor remainder of this fiscal year (which Trump has spent a considerable amount of time attacking Black vices less available, Social Security protecting illegal immigrants over ends on the last day of September) immigrants and their countries with both his racist words and poli - claims delayed, water systems funding our soldiers, supporting our remains to be seen. I cies. In addition to referring to Haiti and African countries as “shit - fouled, that’s a benefit too — veterans and providing services for Will Trump finally take yes for an O holes,” he’s attacked recipients of the Diversity Visa Program, because it just provides fuel for Americans. This is ugly, race-based answer? Trump and his campaign rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) pro - Trump’s attack on government. The politics at its worst. aides clearly see the political gain gram and scheduled the elimination of Temporary Protective Status blowup was utterly unnecessary. Republicans reveled in it, claiming from parading as tough on immigra - N for many countries like Haiti and El Salvador. Trump postured publicly as a sup - they had the upper hand. It’s worth tion over and over again. He said in The entire reason we have this program is to help protect immi - porter of the Dreamers, the hun - remembering that many recent mass the public meeting he held that he’d grants from ills in their home country, which can range from famine dreds of thousands of innocents, murders in America — in Newtown, be willing to “take the heat” of a to civil war. To deport hundreds of thousands after opening our bor - brought here as infants, who now — Orlando, Las Vegas, Charleston and bipartisan immigration deal . S ders to them is unconscionable. When we look at the issue holistical - because of Trump’s executive order Sutherland Springs — involved U.S.- But he has preferred constantly to — face deportation to countries that born assailants. Are Republicans, who Continued on Page 13 they have never known. Trump in league with the National Rifle Continued on Page 13

When someone tells you who they are, believe them! “Why are we having all these people the same Tweet, “Sadly, the over - ual predator. Again, the well-publi - shocked but few are surprised. Most Americans from sh*thole countries come here?” whelming amount of violent crime in cized foray into misogyny, “You of us are just disgusted. It is interest - were not being Trump said, according to these people, our major cities is committed by know, I’m automatically attracted to ing to watch those hacks at FOX interned like referring to African countries and blacks and Hispanics...” We can never beautiful — I just start kissing News attempt to spin this into a Japanese Haiti. He then suggested that the forget one of Trump’s most infamous them…I don’t even wait. And when them vs. us or partisan creation Americans, he United States should instead bring forays into bigotry, “When Mexico you’re a star, they let you do it. You “…to distract Americans from replied, “I more people from countries like sends it people, they’re not sending can do anything…Grab ’em by the Trump’s accomplishments.” don’t care Norway, whose prime minister he met their best…They’re bringing p@%%y. You can do anything.” America, the international global about the LEON Wednesday.” Washington Post drugs…They’re rapists.” When someone tells you who they hegemon, the waning empire — finds - January 11, 2018 The late Dr. Francis Cress Welsing are you should believe them. itself dealing with the reality that its Italians…They are a lot of opera defined racism/white supremacy as, President Donald Trump is a liar. president has once again inferred that singers…” The Japanese Americans “The local and global power system According to The New York Times , he sees Europeans as superior and were “other,” Italian Americans being By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III structured and maintained by persons after admitting that the voice on the people of color as inferior, “…the of European decent were like him. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist who classify themselves as infamous “Access Hollywood” tape United States should instead bring Even though Italian and German white…This system consists of pat - was his and making a feeble attempt more people from countries like Americans did suffer indignities, they When someone tells you who they terns of perception…thought, speech, to apologize for it, “Mr. Trump told Norway.” He sees people of color as were never interned and mistreated are you should believe them. action and emotional response…” a Republican senator that he wanted “other.” It is an “us vs. them” binary like Japanese Americans. President Donald Trump has once Trump’s historic patters of thought to investigate the recording that had world. Racist rhetoric is the language As I have listened to the debate again made it very clear; he is a expressed through his words, actions him boasting about grabbing of racists. When someone tells you about Trump’s latest comments, many racist. Before he decided to insult and policies fit this definition to a “t.” women’s genitals. “We don’t think who they are, believe them. pundits and analysts are outraged Haitians and immigrants from African When someone tells you who they that was my voice…” This “Trumpian” mindset is not about his “shithole country” refer - countries he efficiently targeted are you should believe them. This recent demonstration of new. During WWII President Mexican’s and African Americans in President Donald Trump is also a sex - Trump’s racism has many people Roosevelt was asked why Italian Continued on Page 13 Page 6 HEALTH & HEARJaTnuary 29 - February 4, 2018 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM

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rate in the United States has socioeconomic status, access to This is not a state-by-state solu - Stud y confirms flu increases risk more than doubled since 1987. health care, education, insurance tion to solving the problem of dis - According to the Center for coverage, housing, levels of parities. This is a national prob - Disease Control and Prevention stress and community health lem, and we all know it. It’s of heart attack in elderly (CDC), about 700 women in the among black and white women, always the elephant in the room in United States die each year as a including even implicit bias and the United States that things are By Mike Stobbe having the flu really did. heart attack within a week of get - result of complications related to variations in the ways in which different for Black women. AP Medical Writer “It’s a much more rigorous ting the flu. Six died. pregnancy or childbirth. But health care is delivered to Black In an ideal world, a woman study that allows us to make a “The increased risk was only in buried in state and national data versus White women. would have the opportunity to (AP) — As if the flu wasn’t bad much more specific link between that first week,” said lead author related to maternal mortality Another factor for consideration have a visit with a physician enough already: Researchers flu infection and heart issues,” Dr. Jeffrey Kwong of the rates is an even more worrisome is tied to unplanned pregnancies. before she becomes pregnant to have confirmed that flu sharply said Richard Webby, a prominent Institute for Clinical Evaluative trend: Black women bear the Black women are three times as identify any potential risk factors increases the risk of heart attack flu researcher at St. Jude Sciences in Toronto. greatest risk of maternal death. likely as white women to experi - before she gets pregnant. Then a for older people. Children’s Research Hospital in How does flu — a respiratory The tragedy of maternal death ence an unintended pregnancy woman would enter prenatal in her Doctors have long known that Memphis. He was not involved ailment with a fever, cough and affects Black women dispropor - The Center for Disease Control first trimester. Unfortunately, flu can trigger heart problems. It’s in the research. aches — trigger a heart attack? tionately in the United States as points to the fact that 50 percent of African-American women are the one of the reasons flu shots are rec - Results were published Flu can cause swelling or they are nearly four times more pregnancies are unplanned. These least likely to have that first New England ommended for nearly everyone. Wednesday in the inflammation in the coronary likely to die from pregnancy- pregnancies are associated with trimester of prenatal care. A new Canadian study found Journal of Medicine . arteries, which can shake loose related causes than white increased mortality for the mother The U.S. spends more per capi - that risk was six times higher in The researchers reviewed more plaque and cause blockages, cut - women. and infant. Lifestyle factors (e.g., ta on health care than any other the first week after flu is diag - than five years of hospital and lab ting off blood flow. But why is there such a big smoking, drinking alcohol, unsafe developed nation—has one of nosed, compared to the year records in Ontario. They found 332 “That’s the main culprit,” said racial disparity in the first place? sex practices, and poor nutrition) the most sophisticated, techno - before and after the bug hits. mostly elderly people who had a Dr. Mohammad Madjid, a cardi - Why are Black women more and inadequate intake of foods logically advanced health care Unlike previous studies, the positive flu test and had suffered a ologist and flu researcher at likely to die from pregnancy- containing folic acid pose serious systems in the world, but we still researchers used lab tests to heart attack within a year. There Houston’s University of Texas related causes than any other health hazards to the mother and have inequities. Black women make sure people suspected of was one strong pattern: 20 had a Health Science Center. Adding to that is the strain that racial group? Like many health- fetus and are more common are still suffering from preventa - flu and other viral infections related issues, the answer isn’t among women with unintended ble maternal deaths. A human place on already-weakened simple and there’s no one single pregnancies. The CDC estimates rights framework provides a hearts. Lung infections make it contributing factor at fault. that half of the women that experi - road map to solutions. Tiny implant opens way to harder for people to breathe, so Some experts argue that higher ence an unintended pregnancy do Just being a Black woman in the heart has to pump harder to rates of obesity, women having not seek prenatal care during the America comes with its own level get oxygenated blood out to children at older ages, and other first trimester. of stress. deliver drugs into the brain every part of the body. social changes and trends in Historically, Black women in By Lauran Neergaard feedback, monitoring how the Flu wasn’t the only viral infec - public health could drive an low-income communities haven’t The information included in this AP Medical Writer electrical activity of targeted tion that fell into the same week apparent increase. had the same access to quality care column is for educational purpos - neurons change as the medication pattern, the study found. The According to research from the as White women in high-income es only. Glenn Ellis, is a Health (AP) — Scientists have created is delivered. researchers found the risk of heart CDC, the most common causes communities. Advocacy Communications a hair-thin implant that can drip The needle is hooked to two attack was about 3.5 times higher of maternal death in all women Those same factors shed light Specialist. He is the author of medications deep into the brain small, programmable pumps that with respiratory syncytial virus, or are cardiac events, drug overdos - on disparities not only in mater - Which Doctor?, and Information by remote control and with pin - hold the medications. The plan: RSV, and nearly three times higher es, hypertension, eclampsia, and nal mortality but in obesity, is the Best Medicine. For more point precision. 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The pumps side effects by targeting only the can be refilled with an injection, hard-to-reach circuits that need and if more than two drugs are care. needed, additional reservoirs “You could deliver things right could be added like in a printer to where you want, no matter the ink cartridge, Langer said. disease,” said Robert Langer, a Lab rats gave MiNDS its first test. professor at the Massachusetts Researchers implanted the nee - Institute of Technology whose dle into a movement-related biomedical engineering team brain region that Parkinson’s dis - reported the research Wednesday. ease damages. To mimic that dis - Stronger and safer treatments ease, the implant dripped out a are needed for brain disorders chemical that made the rats move ranging from depression to abnormally, including repeatedly Parkinson’s. Simply getting turning clockwise. Next, the medications inside the brain, researchers turned off that chem - past what’s called the blood- ical and infused saline through brain barrier, is a hurdle. It’s the system’s second channel, even harder to reach its deepest ending the Parkinson’s-like structures. behavior, MIT lead author Canan Pills and IV drugs that make it Dagdeviren reported in the jour - inside trigger side effects as they nal Science Translational wash over entire regions of the Medicine. brain. So doctors have tried Another experiment in a mon - inserting tubes into the brain to key showed delivering that same pump drugs closer to their tar - chemical into a different region gets, but that risks infection and altered how the targeted brain still isn’t accurate enough. The cells fire. most targeted success to date is a “There’s a lot of therapeutic cancer treatment, a wafer placed potential for this,” said Tracy on the site of a surgically Cui, a bioengineering professor removed brain tumor that oozes at the University of Pittsburgh. out chemotherapy. She wasn’t involved with the The MIT team’s next-genera - MIT study but also is developing tion approach: a customizable this kind of technology. deep-brain implant that can Numerous groups are working deliver varying doses of more on implants to deliver neurologic than one drug on demand. drugs in different ways, Cui The researchers constructed noted. While additional testing is two ultra-thin medication tubes needed before such a system and slid them into a stainless could be tried in people, she said steel needle that’s about the these kinds of tools are important diameter of a human hair. That for research thanks to the feed - needle, built as long as needed to back showing how neurons react reach the right spot, gets inserted to different compounds. through a hole in the skull into The study was funded by the the desired brain circuitry. National Institutes of Health; An electrode on the tip provides MIT has applied for a patent.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 29 - February 4, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 Dillard University inducts athletes into new Sports Hall of Fame By Ryan Whirty mostly Europe – entertaining progress of the university’s athletic several seasons, but he was able to for Billy Ray. I joined the game average (22.3); she earned third- Contributing Writer thousands of fans smitten by the renaissance. This year’s gala was offer comments from Spain. He through my best friend.” team All-America honors in 1983 Clown Princes of Basketball’s coupled with the inaugural induc - said he was blown away by the In addition to the alumni and pro - and 1984; and, after leaving Ariel Mitchell arrived on the routines and skills. tion class into the new Dillard news of his induction. ponent honorees, three current stu - Dillard, played professionally in Dillard campus as a freshman in But even with her collegiate University Sports Hall of Fame. “I was speechless when they dent-athletes – junior basketball the former Women’s Basketball fall 2008, three years after accolades and years with the Mitchell and nine other Bleu told me about it,” Ott said during player Adrianna Jackson, junior Association. Hurricane Katrina decimated the Globetrotters, arguably Devil sports icons – including, of a phone interview. “I’m happy track team member Daniel Reid Ronald Henderson, a member campus and virtually wiped out the Mitchell’s proudest achievement course, Hobley, himself a Dillard that the school recognized me and senior volleyball player of ●the Dillard track team from university’s athletic programs. was resuscitating her alma legendary and Harlem like this, because it’s an honor to Shelby Stewart – received Billy 1959-63 who won four Gulf Coast Mitchell, along with dozens of mater’s storied athletic traditions Globetrotter superstar – were be involved.” Ray Hobley Scholarships from a Athletic Conference crowns and other ambitious, energetic men and – and how that challenge helped ushered into the new institution Ott, like Mitchell, added that his fund that, like both the gala and the placed third in the 440-yard dash in women, joined the first class of her blossom as a person. as scores of Dillard alumni, staff, student-athlete experience at Bleu Devil athletic department, is the NAIA championships to earn student-athletes to attempt to res - “When I came [to Dillard], we faculty and supporters looked on. Dillard had a profound impact on about to enter its second decade of All-America status. urrect Dillard’s long, proud history were building the program back up Joining Mitchell in the Hall was his post-collegiate life and career. post-Katrina success. Charles Hightower, who of athletic excellence coupled with from Katrina,” Mitchell said. “I basketball star Alfredo Ott, a “Dillard helped shape me,” he The evening was part of a fes - sta●rred for the Dillard men’s bas - academic achievement. came in as a young teenager, and I four-year starter at Dillard who said. “While I was attending tive weekend that also included ketball team for four years – As a member of the school’s bas - became a smart, strong woman currently holds multiple school [Dillard], a lot of the players who the 10th annual Bleu Devil including establishing numerous ketball team, Mitchell – who who could make tough decisions records and garnered three came before me helped me grow as Classic basketball tournament, school season and career records earned the nickname “Mighty” and carry myself with pride. GCAC All-Conference honors a player. Dillard gave me the plat - which culminated on January 20 and garnering NAIA first-team during her playing career – com - “Dillard is the biggest family,” she and a third-team NAIA All- form to play the game I love and to with the Dillard men’s and All-America accolades before pleted her tenure at Dillard with added. “We’re close-knit and car - American nod in 2004. grow every day as a player.” women’s teams sweeping their being drafted by the NBA’s 1,568 points and three all-Gulf ing of each other.” Ott was unable to attend last As part of the annual gala, for - crosstown rival Xavier. Atlanta Hawks in 1980. Coast Athletic Conference selec - Almost a decade later, Mitchell week’s festivities because of his mer Bleu Devil basketball star Much of the credit for the grow - Pamela Jiles, who competed tions on her resume. returned to Dillard on January 19 current gig – playing professional - Lewis Anderson and Mattie ing success of both the celebrato - fo●r the New Orleans Super She then went on to become one for the 10th anniversary Billy Ray ly for Club Amics Castello in Hobley, Billy Ray’s widow and ry weekend event and the revival Dames track squad while at of only 11 women to play for the Hobley Scholarship Gala, celebrat - Spain. With 11 years of profession - staunch Dillard advocate and of the Bleu Devil athletic depart - Dillard, eventually winning a legendary Harlem Globetrotters, ing not only the memory of hoops al ball in his career, Ott has been builder, received the prestigious ment was accorded to Athletic gold medal in the 100 meters at which took her across the world – great Hobley, but also marks the competing in Europe for the last Legacy Award for their dedication Director Dr. Kiki Baker Barnes, the 1975 Pan American Games to and support of the university. who a decade ago spearheaded and winning a silver medal at the The night culminated when the phoenix-like comeback of 1976 Olympics in Montreal as Billy Ray Hobley’s Globetrotter Dillard sports, leading to the most member of the U.S. women’s 4 X teammate and close friend, surprising moment of the gala 400-meter relay team. Every column, sermon, “Sweet’ Lou Dunbar, was pre - when University Vice President George Johnson, a towering sented with the prized Bleu for Institutional Advancement cen●ter and four-year letterman for Flame of Excellence Award. Marc Barnes stepped in front of the Bleu Devils men’s basketball Dunbar, who also served as a the podium to present the athletic team – he still holds the school sea - task is a meditation Trotter coach later in his career – director (and his wife) with a son and career marks for rebounds By Fr. Jerome LeDoux There are, of course, techniques No one in fact, he helmed the team on 2018 Legacy Award. per game – before being drafted by Contributing Columnist for composing, writing, speaking comes to us, which Mitchell starred – in addi - In addition to Mitchell, Ott and the Chicago Bulls in 1970 and formally or informally, making eye panting to tion to picking up NCAA All- Billy Ray Hobley, the other mem - enjoying a 14-year NBA career that Though the following thoughts contact with each person in a small watch us LEDOUX American accolades at the bers of the 2018 Dillard Sports including winning a league cham pi - seem only clerical in nature, they group or large crowd, convincing impersonate or University of Houston, was draft - Hall of Fame included: onship with Golden State in 1975. pertain to every human being. each person that you are address - imitate some great speaker, a scin - ed by the Philadelphia 76ers in Melanie Davis, who played Malbert Pradd, a three-time When taken into ourselves and ing her or him alone, storytelling in tillating performer, a wise coun - ● the 1975 NBA draft. for the Bleu Devils’ women’s bas - NA ●IA All-American for the absorbed as part of us, a column, a spellbinding way, and interacting selor or engaging, livewire friend. Dunbar said he was thrilled to be ketball team from 1978-80 and in Dillard hoops team, including the sermon, task and all human with audiences of many varieties Had people wanted that, they recognized by an event that memo - 2002 became the first woman to university’s first-ever All- endeavors take on a life to them - and origins. All those things are would have gone to check the great rialized the memory of his late, ever officiate a men’s NCAA America nod; in addition to lead - selves, becoming as much a part of wrapped up into one when they ones out. But no! What they come beloved teammate. Division I tournament game. ing the NAIA in scoring in 1966 us as the air we breathe and the have become completely part of to see and hear are the low-level, “It’s an honor just to be here,” Jackie Franklin McKinney, with a 39.1 points-per-game nourishment we ingest. While oth - us. This is not a grandiose view of everyday people that we are, in ● Dunbar said before the ceremony. who played for the Bleu Devils in average, Pradd established a ers must speak from their own ourselves and our capabilities. It whose presence they have no fears “The award is extra special the early 1980s and amassed 11 whopping 22 school records, unique experience, I personally merely states that we are at our or anxieties, they can drop all their [because of the ceremony’s name - school records, including most most notably the single-game find that I am not doing a thing best and most convincing when we defenses, they can let themselves sake]. It’s just an honor to be here career points (2,059) and scoring scoring mark of 55 points.◊ right until I become totally give what is uniquely ourselves. go, they can laugh themselves immersed in the task at hand, so Are these the mere ramblings of silly, they can cry their hearts out, that it becomes an extension of me. a weathered curmudgeon, or, we they can play the fool and be their That ipso facto elevates it to the would hope, of a seasoned seeker little old selves without fear of crit - wonderful nosebleed realm of hoping to become a savant with icism or rebuke. meditation, creative imaginings many treasure troves? Another variant of all this is and expectations. The latter is indeed what we hope expressed by Paul as he goes a step So how about that? Whatever for ourselves and for everyone further in 1 Corinthians 10:31, we do can become a special med - else. Far from being mere ram - “Whether you eat or drink, or what - itation, firing our juices of imagi - blings, we would like to have all ever you do, do everything for the nation, creativity and outreach to the reflections, meditations, imag - glory of God.” This involves a our sisters and brothers. Take a inings and creations of each person favorite theme of ours, the good column, for example. Little grow out from the very Gospel of intention, that turns all that we do seems to click or flow until some - God that Romans 1:16 tells us “is into spiritual gold, silver and pre - thing locks into my thoughts and the power of God unto salvation.” cious stones. Even as we are feelings. Almost as if a switch This is a paradigm for the laity, involved in turning a column, ser - were turned on, the things that I for religious and clergy alike, for mon or any kind of task or chore have been reading, the things that we all have very similar reactions into a meditation, an intimate part of people have been saying and to words, actions and challenges. our very selves, we can crystallize doing blend together. Nevertheless, Saint Thomas all of it into a glorious offering to Like the ingredients of a deli - Aquinas observes how individual God by dedicating it to God in the cious meal or the components of we are, “Quidquid recipitur, ad morning and throughout the day. an exquisite symphony, medita - modum recipientis recipitur.” I certainly hope this does not tion combines everything into a “Whatever is received, is received sound like complicated, convo - fine creation and rendition. One according to the disposition of the luted ramblings. The last thing in knows whether a given column or recipient.” Who we are, what we the world that we need is more talk will resonate with others by are, how we are, is a composite complications in our lives. asking oneself, “Does it speak to that determines how we react to Honestly, I believe that all these me, resonate with me, move me and interact with everyone and thoughts are easy to remember to good and higher things? Does everything. We are all so very dif - and understand because they are it ring a bell for me? That is what ferent and, notwithstanding, so closely related and interlock with a preacher/speaker/writer wants very similar to each other. We are each other. Perhaps we can to know at the zero hour. If it wonders, laughing at ourselves as remember them most easily by does, bells will be ringing for the we strive to be the top of the tip saying, “In whatever you think, audience at some level as well. and the tip of the top. say or do, be all you can be.”◊

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Hotel Mazarin to hold meetings Goyeneche said. U.S. Sen. John Kennedy wrote a Former LSP chief hires former prosecutor there, but troopers told investiga - Th e Krewe of Endymion would letter to the secretary of the La. Continued from Page 1 to multiple conferences in San to stay while in New Orleans. tors all their meetings were held a also annually give Edmonson at Department of Revenue asking her Diego in October 2016, with Placing them in downtown hotels few blocks away at the state police least two tickets to the Captain’s to force Edmonson to pay state granted him permission to live $12,000 of that the result of not makes it easier for them to work office in the Cabildo. table at the Extravaganza, worth income taxes on the fringe benefits. there with his family. using the most cost-effective 12-hour shifts, with troopers closer “I would imagine that there is nearly $300 each. In his letter, Rosenberg praised “Governor John Bel Edwards means of travel. to the city’s center in case some - going to be an investigation into And troopers told the auditors Edmonson’s performance in recently stated publicly that he Those figures do not include thing goes wrong. that. The colonel and I always met. they were frequently instructed to office over his 36 years with the expected Colonel Edmonson to Edmonson’s travel expenses. The Greater New Orleans Hotel We were always in close contact shuttle Edmonson’s wife and fam - Louisiana State Police and nine be living in that residence and The report says he told auditors and Lodging Association seeks out about what he needed and what he ily around during Mardi Gras and years as the law enforcement available at all times,” the International Association of discounts from the city’s hoteliers could provide. So, I took them at to other events around the state, agency’s superintendent. Rosenberg wrote. Chiefs of Police paid for his trip, to help house the troopers. their word that it would be used for including trips from Baton Rouge “Crisscrossing the state, he has But because Teepell granted the host organization for one of When the average reveler may the troopers for the purpose of to the New Orleans airport. been the consistent calming pres - Edmonson permission to live in the conferences that was giving spend hundreds of dollars a night Mardi Gras,” Harrison said. The Edmonsons lived free-of- ence through numerous unfortu - the home before Jindal had been Edmonson an award. to stay in the heart of Carnival, the It was an honor system, Harrison charge at a state-owned house on nate crises that our state has expe - sworn in, the auditor claims, Four troopers traveled by road NOPD would pay as little as $60. said, one that may have been dis - the state police grounds in Baton rienced,” Rosenberg wrote. Teepell had no authority to sign in a state-owned SUV, choosing “We figured out how many honored for years at the highest Rouge, a fringe benefit the audi - “During his four-decade career off on the arrangement. Auditors a scenic detour on their way that rooms were needed and then we levels of the state police. tors estimate was worth with the State Police, he worked said they found no state law included stops at the Grand figured out the funding for that “What is disturbing is that it $434,720, one the audit says the tirelessly with the respective local requiring Edmonson to live at Canyon, the Hoover Dam and in and then the NOPD out of our took this long for the truth to be Edmonsons never paid state or law enforcement agencies, as state police headquarters, a fact Las Vegas. budget provides the funding for known and I think the reason for federal income taxes on. Louisiana residents frequently Rosenberg admits in his letter. Auditors confirmed that some that,” Harrison said. that is that people, while disgust - The report said the couple expressed and observed firsthand.” WWL News reported that of the troopers who went on the Even with the discounts, NOPD ed, were afraid to formally con - received free work on their chil - WWL News reported last week Edmonson, the longest-serving San Diego trip billed the state for records show the city spends more firm for the record what their dren’s cars, free help cleaning their that the FBI is looking into the state police superintendent in overtime that they did not work, than $23,000 a year to house state superior was doing because he state-funded home in the form of a allegations made in the Louisiana history, lived in the a finding first reported by WWL- troopers during that 11-day stretch. was viewed as invincible and he state prisoner, free meals in the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s house at no charge for nine years, TV and The New Orleans In 2017, the cost climbed to was in a position of power,” state police cafeteria and more. report on Edmonson.◊ and according to auditors, did not Advocate . $38,905. pay state or federal taxes on the In a 17-page response, one of “We asked for more than we fringe benefit. those troopers, Rodney Hyatt, would usually ask for Mardi Gras In his letter, Rosenberg details who was demoted over the trip, because we had a week of NBA Edmonson’s years of service to the argued that Edmonson told him festivities right in the in the middle state, saying he never asked for or to take his wife to the conference of Mardi Gras,” Harrison Classifieds Classifieds received overtime for the many and “have a good time.” explained to WWL News. 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January 29 - February 4, 2018 Page 9 BUSINESS SCOPE THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Skin color, not credit risk, tied to auto finance, says report By Charlene Crowell they were to secure them independ - Under this law, consumers have Contributing Writer ently of the dealership. the right to: Yo-yo scams in auto financing • Know whether your applica - (TriceEdneyWire.com) — occur when a consumer drives a tion was accepted or rejected Nationwide, auto loans represent car off the dealer lot without within 30 days of filing a com - the third-highest category of con - finalizing its finance. plete application. sumer debt. And according to new Technically, if the loan paper - • Know why your application research, the color of your skin work has not been signed but the was rejected. The creditor must has a lot to do with how much consumer has the use of the vehi - tell you the specific reason for debt is incurred. cle – especially overnight or the rejection or that you are enti - Discrimination in Auto Lending, longer—the consumer unwitting - tled to learn the reason if you ask authored and published by the ly has taken delivery on the car. within 60 days. An acceptable National Fair Housing Alliance By the time the consumer reason might be: “your income (NFHA), found that despite feder - returns, the dealership hikes the was too low” or “you haven’t al laws banning credit discrimina - price of the vehicle and interest – been employed long enough.” An tion by race or ethnicity, race the “yo-yo.” At that point, the unacceptable reason might be remains a key factor in the cost of consumer has next to no opportu - “you didn’t meet our minimum financing auto loans. nity to negotiate price or finance standards.” That information According to the report, “This rates. If a trade-in of an older car isn’t specific enough. lenges to securing information testers who experienced discrim - crimination, are similarly robust discrimination has undoubtedly is involved, dealerships often tell • Learn the specific reason you needed to secure the best auto ination would have paid an aver - and regularly enforced.” played a part in creating the these kinds of customers that it were offered less favorable terms loan available. However, the age of $2,662.56 more over the Earlier research by the Center racial and ethnic wealth gaps has already been re-sold. than you applied for, but only if non-white testers noted being life of the loan than less-quali - for Responsible Lending (CRL) and credit access disparities that Commenting on the new NFHA you reject these terms. For exam - treated disrespectfully and fied white testers. reached similar conclusions. A exist in the U.S. today, and it findings, Delvin Davis, a senior ple, if the lender offers you a receiving a pricier quote for “Such high rates of discrimina - lack of transparency, dealer will ensure that they persist if CRL researcher said, “Racial smaller loan or a higher interest finance than the white testers. tory treatment are alarming and mark-ups on interest financing, allowed to continue unchecked.” discrimination should not be tol - rate, and you don’t accept the offer, Numerically, the sum of experi - extremely rare in similar audit- and practices known as “loan Like secret shoppers, NFHA sent erated with any financial product you have the right to know why ences found: style investigations conducted in packing” and “yo-yo” scams eight teams of testers to dealer - – which makes regulation espe - those terms were offered. • 75 percent of the time, white the mortgage lending industry,” have all been cited by CRL. ships to inquire about purchasing cially important when the prod - A second federal law, Unfair, testers were offered more financ - states the report. “Although it Loan packing is a term used to the same vehicle. Each team was uct is one of the most expensive deceptive, or abusive acts and ing options than non-white testers; has its bad actors, the mortgage describe how dealerships steer con - told to ask the same questions and investments a family will make.” practices (UDAAP) went into • 62.5 percent of the time, lending industry has been regu - sumers into bundling several serv - then report on their experiences. In recent years, the Consumer effect with the Dodd-Frank Wall non-white testers who were more lated and monitored for civil ices and/or products that effective - Seven of the teams were non- Financial Protection Bureau Street Reform Act. Under qualified than their white coun - rights violations for decades. It ly boost purchase and finance White and had both higher (CFPB) found racial discrimina - UDAAP financial product and terparts received more costly is imperative that auto lending costs. Often, many consumers do incomes and credit scores that of tion in interest rate markups, then service providers are not allowed pricing options; and regulations, particularly those not know is that these products can the eighth and White tester. sued and settled these issues with to coerce or deceive consumers • On average, non-white that are designed to fight dis - often be purchased far cheaper if All testers encountered chal - banks and financing arms of major into making unwanted purchas - auto manufacturers. For example, es. They are also not allowed to Ally Financial and Ally Bank set - mislead consumers through spe - tled its lawsuit in 2013 for $98 mil - cific statements or through a lack lion. In 2015, Honda’s settlement of clear and full disclosure. Authentically handmade? was $24 million and Toyota’s in “NFHA’s investigation is timely 2016 was $21.9 million. and underscores the need to main - NFHA also likened auto dis - tain strong anti-discriminatory pro - How to know amid mass production crimination to yet another more tections and enforcement, includ - By Alexandra Olson clothing and rugs. But safety and Ethiopian knitters and hand-dyers list of reputable vendors at form of bias that burdens Blacks ing the Consumer Bureau’s indi - AP Writer labor standards used for those in the Japanese village of Narumi. Accompany ‘s website or among and other consumers of color. rect auto lending guidance that items might be irrelevant for an West Elm invites shoppers to the members of the Artisan “Too often the people in this sit - addresses discriminatory pricing in (AP) — Guatemalan women individual basket weaver in a watch videos about Filipino sea - Alliance , an initiative of the uation are people of color whose the auto financing market, “said skilled in traditional Mayan bead - rural village. grass basket weavers and Peruvian Aspen Institute to support artisan neighborhoods have been starved Mike Calhoun, President of the work technique have made chic More commonly, some retailers carvers that craft mirrors using enterprise. of investment and whose ability to Center for Responsible Lending. pillows and pouches for West Elm. will label a handcrafted product as colonial-era techniques. Look for sales and deals on move to neighborhoods that better “We commend NFHA for their Hand-dyers in India, using petals fair trade because it is sourced At boutiques, ask what is known shipping around the holidays. connect them to opportunity has incredible work and urge lawmak - collected from discarded Hindu from a member of an organization about the maker of a product sold Some sites offer free shipping on been constrained by discriminatory ers at the state and federal level to temple floral offerings, help craft such as the Fair Trade as handcrafted. orders above a certain price. policies and practices. And too use their power to fight against this scarves for Eileen Fisher and Federation.Macy’s partners with “There is no substitute for asking Novica has an extensive loyal - often, when they seek a loan to type of unlawful discrimination Anthropologie. Baskets hand- Global Goods Partners , a Fair the person you are buying from ty program that includes finance an auto purchase, they face and financial abuse.” woven in Rwanda are part of the Trade Federation member that sells questions: How much does the rewards, lower shipping costs for discrimination again.” home decor collection at Macy’s. crafts online and to retailers artist get, where does this come frequent buyers and regular The Equal Credit Opportunity Charlene Crowell is the Center Craftspeople in some of the poor - nationwide. Target last spring from? Have you visited the place?” updates on special sales. Act (ECOA) makes it illegal for for Responsible Lending’s com - est places on Earth are making offered specially designed crafts said Keith Recker, a member of the Customers can also put a favorite creditors to discriminate against munications deputy director. She unexpected inroads into the U.S. from India, Kenya, Ecuador and board of directors of the artisan on a “watchlist” to stay credit applicants based on race, can be reached at retail market, expanding their Guatemala through a partnership International Folk Art Alliance, updated on new offers and deals color, religion, national origin, sex, Charlene.crowell@responsible - clientele beyond museum shops with Accompany, an online ven - whose flagship annual market in on particular items.◊ marital status, or age. lending. ◊ and craft markets. A trend that ture does not belong to any fair Santa Fe, New Mexico, lures top started decades ago with the rise of trade organization but works with designers from brands including fair trade-minded entrepreneurs many enterprises that are. Donna Karan to explore crafts has accelerated as growing interna - A growing number of trade from more than 50 countries. tional tourism creates demand for organizations are dedicated to cultural products. Exports of artis - maximizing profits for artisans, Be Prepared For A tic crafts from developing coun - though tactics vary. Seek details on Complicated Tale tries surged from $9 billion in 2002 how artisans are compensated and Stories behind handmade crafts to $23 billion in 2011, according to how an organization monitors the don’t always involve just one the most recent UNESCO report labor and safety practices of their maker, or even just one country, on the global creative economy. artisan partners. in an age when artisans are striv - The digital age has given rise to Novica, a company partnered ing to adapt to contemporary a growing number of ventures with National Geographic, allows tastes and expectations for pro - designed to create online markets artisans to set their own prices and duction and delivery. for global crafts. More recently, maximizes profits for them with an Among West Elm’s core products exotic craftwork has piqued the integrated logistics system that are silk hand-loomed pillows from interest of major fashion and home cuts out intermediaries. India. The process begins with decor retailers striving to compete Ten Thousand Villages, a non - rural women in the region of Bihar in the age of Amazon. Many are profit retailer and wholesaler spinning silk cocoons into yarn betting craftsmanship rooted in founded in 1946, pays 50 percent and ends with the cutting and ancient traditions, combined with to artisans upfront and the rest sewing at a production facility in stories of social impact on artisan upon shipment, taking much of the New Delhi. Spreading out the pro - communities, will lure shoppers risk away from the maker. Many duction chain allows for faster increasingly concerned about newer online ventures have repli - work that helped turn the pillows where and how products are made. cated that model. into one of West Elm’s core prod - “We believe it is one of the ele - How do you know if something ucts, Guiley said. ments that sets us apart and does is truly handmade? Similarly, Global Goods well, and there is a demand for it,” Some retailers label products Partners found a solution for said Doug Guiley, West Elm’s sen - handcrafted based on UNESCO’s women in Afghanistan’s ior vice president of global sourc - definition, which states that the Kandahar region who are skilled ing at West Elm, where 20 percent “manual contribution of the arti - at embroidery but where fabric is of products are handmade. san” must be “the most substantial scarce, said Joan Shifrin, compa - For shoppers, it is not always component of the finished prod - ny’s co-founder. The women easy to know if something is uct.” If there is no label, look for make small embroidered pieces truly handcrafted, or how much the story of the artisan who made that are shipped to Colombia, of their money is getting back to the product. Online shopping has where artisans attach it to gold- artisans across the globe. In an made this easier than ever. plated cuffs internally designed era of mass production and Novica prides itself on its in- by Global Goods Partners. online shopping, here is some depth personal stories from a sin - guidance for buying handmade. gle mother in Ghana who makes Modern Deal Seeking For jewelry to a Balinese artisan who Handmade Know How ‘Fair Trade’ Relates went from selling door-to-door Handicrafts might come at a pre - To Handicrafts to owning a workshop that mium in the U.S. because of ship - There is no “fair trade” certifica - employs 28 people. ping costs but with more retailers ti on process for handicrafts as a Some major brands have made getting in the game it is possible to category because the production storytelling a central part of their shop around, compare prices and processes vary widely. marketing effort, trying to stand look for deals. Organizations like Fair Trade out in the increasingly crowded Exploring online selections is a U.S.A. certify some products that universe of online shopping. good way to get an idea of the may be handcrafted, such as Eileen Fisher offers stories about value of traditional crafts. Find a THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 10 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 29 - February 4, 2018 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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SALE bY The payment must be District Court building, Civil District Court for nO. 5707 LAFAYE ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The Cash, Cashier’s Check, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans STREET, nEW The payment must be purchaser at the moment ORLEAnS SHERIFF Certified Check or Money the First District of the no. 2017-2747 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a JUDICIAL Order. No personal City on February 1, by virtue of a WRIT MATTER EnTITLED: ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of ADvERTISEMEnT checks.) 2018, at 12:00 o’clock OF FIERI FACIAS to me "COMMUnITY ASSOCI - THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal the purchase price, and MARLIn n. GUSMAn noon, the following directed by the ATES, InC. vS JAnICE checks.) the balance within thirty THAT PORTIOn Sheriff described property to Honorable The Civil SHAnKLIn bASTIAn OF GROUnD days thereafter. (NOTE: Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff OF GROUnD ATTy: PENNy DAIGREPONT wit: District Court of AnD TYROnnE M. The payment must be Parish of Orleans (504) 831-7726 nO. 3125 n. DERbIGnY bEARInG MUnICIPAL LOT 1-A, SQUARE NO. Orleans, in the above bASTIAn" ATTy: FRED DAIGLE Cash, Cashier’s Check, TW 20 STREET, CITY OF nEW (504) 522-8256 nO. 1773-75 PLEAS - LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 182 entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for Certified Check or Money JD 13 ______ORLEAnS, In THE URE STREET, THIS THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Order. No personal CITY, In THE MATTER TRICT lic auction, on the no. 2017-8414 CASE EnTITLED: ITY ______checks.) SALE bY OF nEW ORLEAnS vS EnTITLED JPMORGAn EDGELAkE SUbDIVI - ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn CHASE bAnK, nATIOn - ORLEAnS SHERIFF SION District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE LAWREnCE L. MUR - Sheriff RAY OR HIS HEIRS, ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans AL ASSOCIATIOn vS JUDICIAL MUNICIPAL NO. 11301 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the ATTy: STACy bUTLER DOnALD GARnETT, MORRISON ROAD the First District of the Honorable The Civil SUCCESSORS, & JUDICIAL (225) 761-0001 ADvERTISEMEnT ASSIGnS, LM 9 SR. ACQ. MIN. 747527 City on February 1, District Court of ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn WRIT AMOUnT: 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, in the above bERnADETTE ______COLLInS MURRAY OR THAT PORTIOn the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD $79,445.16 noon, the following entitled cause, I will SALE bY no. 2014-8327 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Seized in the above described property to proceed to sell by pub - HER HEIRS, SUCCES - OF GROUnD by virtue of a WRIT nO. 1624 FLAnDERS suit, TERMS CASH. The wit: lic auction, on the SORS, & ASSIGnS, bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF OF SEIZURE AnD SALE STREET, THIS CITY, In purchaser at the moment LOT F, SQUARE 1165, ground floor of the Civil AnD DES CAPITAL, nO. 7907-09 WILLOW JUDICIAL to me directed by the THE MATTER EnTI - of adjudication to make a THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, LLC STREET, nEW ADvERTISEMEnT Honorable The Civil TLED: U.S. bAnK deposit of ten percent of TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, LA, In THE District Court of TRUST nATIOnAL the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 2222- the First District of the the Parish of Orleans MATTER EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn Orleans, in the above ASSOCIATIOn, nOT In the balance within thirty 2226 FRANkLIN City on February 1, no. 2017-6384 "vERICREST FInAn - OF GROUnD entitled cause, I will ITS InDIvIDUAL days thereafter. (NOTE: AVENUE 2018, at 12:00 o’clock by virtue of a WRIT CIAL, InC. vS DAvID P. bEARInG MUnICIPAL proceed to sell by pub - CAPACITY bUT SOLE - The payment must be ACQUIRED MIN noon, the following OF FIERI FACIAS to me DILLARD" nO. 823 DELACHAISE lic auction, on the LY AS DELAWARE Cash, Cashier’s Check, 1192182 described property to directed by the Civil District Court for STREET, CITY OF nEW ground floor of the Civil TRUSTEE AnD U.S. Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: wit: Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE District Court building, bAnK nATIOnAL Order. No personal $18,735.00 LOT 26, SQUARE 4468 District Court of no. 2010-10052 CASE EnTITLED: nEW 421 Loyola Avenue, in ASSOCIATIOn, nOT In checks.) Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT PEnn FInAnCIAL, LLC entitled cause, I will the First District of the ITS InDIvIDUAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT OF SEIZURE AnD SALE DbA SHELLPOInT City on February 1, CAPACITY bUT SOLE - Sheriff purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 5707 proceed to sell by pub - to me directed by the MORTGAGE SERvIC - Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the 2018, at 12:00 o’clock LY AS CO-TRUSTEE ATTy: ANNE RAyMOND of adjudication to make a LAFAyE STREET Honorable The Civil InG vS JOYCELYn noon, the following FOR GOvERnMEnT (504) 581-9444 deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN ground floor of the Civil District Court of nORTH AKA JOYCE - JD 16 District Court building, described property to LOAn SECURITIZA - LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 the purchase price, and 1239280 Orleans, in the above LYn nORTH STOKES wit: TIOn TRUST 2011-Fv1 ______the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for LOT C, SQUARE 2291 vERSUS JOSEPH SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: $21,011.49 the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans (OLD SQUARE NO.7), bALDWIn AnD GWEn - The payment must be Seized in the above City on February 1, lic auction, on the no. 2017-5964 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - DOLYn FAYE ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT TRICT, STRInGER SHOOK JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment noon, the following District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MUNICIPAL NO: 1773- Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal of adjudication to make a described property to 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the 75 PLEASURE STREET, the Parish of Orleans checks.) deposit of ten percent of wit: the First District of the Honorable The Civil THAT PORTIOn LOT D, SQUARE 788, ACQ MIN: 1109453 no. 2016-3196 MARLIn n. GUSMAn the purchase price, and City on February 1, District Court of WRIT AMOUnT: by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD Sheriff the balance within thirty THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans TRICT, $43,181.79 OF FIERI FACIAS to me bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS days thereafter. (NOTE: noon, the following entitled cause, I will Seized in the above directed by the nO. 5019 S. CLAI - (504) 658-4391 The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO. 3125 N. described property to proceed to sell by pub - LM 37 DERbIGNy STREET suit, TERMS CASH. The Honorable The Civil bORnE AvEnUE, nEW LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Cash, Cashier’s Check, wit: lic auction, on the purchaser at the moment District Court of ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ______Certified Check or Money ACQUIRED MIN THE GREATER FRONT ground floor of the Civil of adjudication to make a Orleans, in the above MATTER EnTITLED: SALE bY Order. No personal 1213145 PORTION OF LOT 19 District Court building, deposit of ten percent of entitled cause, I will "FEDERAL HOME checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: AND ONE-HALF OF LOT 421 Loyola Avenue, in ORLEAnS SHERIFF $19,110.00 the purchase price, and proceed to sell by pub - LOAn MORTGAGE MARLIn n. GUSMAn 21, SQUARE 183 the First District of the the balance within thirty lic auction, on the CORPORATIOn vS JUDICIAL Sheriff Seized in the above SEVENTH MUNICIPAL City on February 1, ground floor of the Civil DAnIELLE JOURDAIn Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The DISTRICT 2018, at 12:00 o’clock days thereafter. (NOTE: ADvERTISEMEnT ATTy: MARk LANDRy The payment must be District Court building, RObInETTE A/K/A (504) 837-9040 purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 7907- noon, the following THAT PORTIOn JD 4 of adjudication to make a Cash, Cashier’s Check, 421 Loyola Avenue, in DAnIELLE J. RObI - LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 09 WILLOW STREET described property to Certified Check or Money the First District of the nETTE A/K/A OF GROUnD ______deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN 933802 wit: Order. No personal City on February 1, DAnIELLE RObInETTE bEARInG MUnICIPAL SALE bY the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: LOT 32, SQUARE 158, checks.) 2018, at 12:00 o’clock AnD ERIC GRIGGS" nO. 5219 MAnDEvILLE the balance within thirty $356,316.69 SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: MARLIn n. GUSMAn noon, the following Civil District Court for STREET, nEW Seized in the above TRICT, Sheriff described property to the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, LA, In THE JUDICIAL The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 823 Parish of Orleans wit: no. 2017-9959 MATTER EnTITLED: Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment DELACHAISE STREET ATTy: MARk GARRISON ADvERTISEMEnT (225) -924-1600 LOT 13, SQUARE A by virtue of a WRIT "AMERICAn FInAn - Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a ACQUIRED MIN 871621 bb 22 THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CIAL RESOURCES, deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: ______TRICT to me directed by the InC. vS CHERRY OF GROUnD checks.) the purchase price, and $88,281.72 CAZELA PLANTATION Honorable The Civil WHITE" bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty Seized in the above SALE bY Sheriff MUNICIPAL NO. 1624 District Court of Civil District Court for nO. 7558 MERCIER Parish of Orleans days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The ORLEAnS SHERIFF FLANDERS STREET Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans STREET, CITY OF nEW ATTy: MARSHALL GRIES The payment must be purchaser at the moment (504) 658-4346 JUDICIAL ACQ. MIN 243035 entitled cause, I will no. 2017-9003 ORLEAnS, In THE LM 11 Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a ADvERTISEMEnT WRIT AMOUnT: proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT CASE EnTITLED: MID - LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of $29,766.81 lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE FIRST bAnK vS ______Order. No personal the purchase price, and THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above ground floor of the Civil to me directed by the DARvELL R. HALL SALE bY checks.) the balance within thirty OF GROUnD suit, TERMS CASH. The District Court building, Honorable The Civil AKA DARvELL R. ORLEAnS SHERIFF MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: bEARInG MUnICIPAL purchaser at the moment 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of HALL, SR. Sheriff The payment must be JUDICIAL Parish of Orleans nO. of adjudication to make a the First District of the Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for ATTy: ANNE RAyMOND Cash, Cashier’s Check, 1632 SOUTH JEFFER - deposit of ten percent of City on February 1, entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT (504) 581-9444 Certified Check or Money JD 15 SOn DAvIS PARKWAY, the purchase price, and 2018, at 12:00 o’clock proceed to sell by pub - no. 2017-10192 THAT PORTIOn LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Order. No personal THIS CITY, In THE MAT - the balance within thirty noon, the following lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT ______checks.) OF GROUnD TER EnTITLED days thereafter. (NOTE: described property to ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD SALE SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn nATIOnSTAR MORT - The payment must be wit: District Court building, to me directed by the bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff nO. 119 RInGOLD ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans GAGE LLC DbA CHAM - Cash, Cashier’s Check, LOTS 4 AND 5, SQUARE 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil ATTy: kELLy MASSEy PIOn MORTGAGE Certified Check or Money 689 (OLD NO. 111) the First District of the District Court of STREET, nEW JUDICIAL (318) 388-1440 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE LM 41 COMPAnY vS vIvIAn Order. No personal SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - City on February 1, Orleans, in the above ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 DICKERSOn, (AKA checks.) TRICT 2018, at 12:00 o’clock entitled cause, I will MATTER EnTITLED: ______"JPMORGAn CHASE THAT PORTIOn vIvIAn JACKSOn, MARLIn n. GUSMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 5019 S. noon, the following proceed to sell by pub - SALE bY vIvIAn WILLIAMS) Sheriff CLAIbORNE AVENUE described property to lic auction, on the bAnK, nATIOnAL OF GROUnD Parish of Orleans ASSOCIATIOn vS RUS - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Civil District Court for ATTy: NOT LISTED NOT LISTED ACQUIRED MIN wit: ground floor of the Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL the Parish of Orleans NNb 17 1014708 LOT NOS. 33 AND 34, District Court building, SELL A. CIvELLO" nO. 1708-10 FRAnCE JUDICIAL LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Civil District Court for STREET, CITY OF nEW no. 2016-10481 ______WRIT AMOUnT: SQUARE 87 421 Loyola Avenue, in ADvERTISEMEnT by virtue of a WRIT $200,720.73 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE OF SEIZURE AnD SALE SALE bY Seized in the above TRICT City on February 1, no. 2015-11894 CASE EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn to me directed by the ORLEAnS SHERIFF suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 5219 2018, at 12:00 o’clock by virtue of a WRIT FREEDOM MORTGAGE OF GROUnD Honorable The Civil JUDICIAL purchaser at the moment MANDEVILLE STREET noon, the following OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CORPORATIOn vS bEARInG MUnICIPAL District Court of of adjudication to make a ACQUIRED MIN described property to to me directed by the KAYCE SAnDERS nO. 44 MARYWOOD Orleans, in the above ADvERTISEMEnT deposit of ten percent of 1104809 wit: Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for COURT, THIS CITY In entitled cause, I will THAT PORTIOn the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: LOTS 18 & 19, SQUARE District Court of the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - proceed to sell by pub - the balance within thirty $132,482.74 182, Orleans, in the above no. 2017-8063 TLED: AP DIRECT LLC OF GROUnD entitled cause, I will lic auction, on the bEARInG MUnICIPAL days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - by virtue of a WRIT vERSUS RObERT E. proceed to sell by pub - ground floor of the Civil nO. 11301 MORRISOn The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE JOHnSOn, CATHLEEn lic auction, on the District Court building, ROAD, CITY OF nEW Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 7558 to me directed by the POLK JOHnSOn AnD ground floor of the Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in ORLEAnS, In THE Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a MERCIER STREET Honorable The Civil STATE OF LOUISIAnA. District Court building, the First District of the CASE EnTITLED: Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN 947908 District Court of Civil District Court for 421 Loyola Avenue, in City on February 1, bAnK OF AMERICA, checks.) the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans the First District of the 2018, at 12:00 o’clock n.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR the balance within thirty $90,260.17 entitled cause, I will no. 2016-9847 MARLIn n. GUSMAn City on February 1, noon, the following STRUCTURED ASSET Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT Parish of Orleans 2018, at 12:00 o’clock described property to InvESTMEnT LOAn ATTy: COREy GIROIR The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The lic auction, on the OF COURT ORDER to noon, the following wit: TRUST, MORTGAGE (225) 756-0373 Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment ground floor of the Civil me directed by the JD 28 described property to LOT NO. 2 SQUARE PASS-THROUGH CER - LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a District Court building, Honorable The Civil wit: NO. 165 TIFICATES, SERIES ______Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of LOT A, SQUARE 278 SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - 2004-4 vS LOUIS v. checks.) the purchase price, and the First District of the Orleans, in the above SALE bY SECOND MUNICIPAL TRICT COnERLY AnD vIOLA the balance within thirty City on February 1, entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS SHERIFF MARLIn n. GUSMAn DISTRICT MUNICIPAL NO.1632 JOnES COnERLY Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: 2018, at 12:00 o’clock proceed to sell by pub - Parish of Orleans LAkEVIEW SOUTH JEFFERSON Civil District Court for JUDICIAL ATTy: RADER JACkSON The payment must be noon, the following lic auction, on the MUNICIPAL NO. 119 DAVIS PARkWAy the Parish of Orleans (504) 581-9444 Cash, Cashier’s Check, described property to ground floor of the Civil ADvERTISEMEnT JD 3 RINGOLD STREET ACQ MIN:1107985 no. 2011-6313 LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Certified Check or Money wit: District Court building, THAT PORTIOn ACQUIRED MIN 801034 WRIT AMOUnT: by virtue of a WRIT ______Order. No personal LOT 20, SQUARE 798, 421 Loyola Avenue, in WRIT AMOUnT: $213,274.11 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF GROUnD checks.) THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the SALE bY $57,768.08 Seized in the above to me directed by the bEARInG MUnICIPAL TRICT, City on February 1, ORLEAnS SHERIFF MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above suit, TERMS CASH. The Honorable The Civil nO. 2222-2226 Sheriff MUNICIPAL NO. 1708- 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The purchaser at the moment District Court of FRAnKLIn AvEnUE, JUDICIAL ATTy: J. DONALD MORGAN 10 FRANCE STREET noon, the following purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a Orleans, in the above CITY OF nEW (225) 761-0001 ACQUIRED MIN described property to ADvERTISEMEnT LM 7 of adjudication to make a deposit of ten percent of entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS, In THE LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 1191115 wit: THAT PORTIOn deposit of ten percent of the purchase price, and proceed to sell by pub - CASE EnTITLED: CITY ______WRIT AMOUnT: THAT PORTION OF the purchase price, and the balance within thirty lic auction, on the OF nEW ORLEAnS vS OF GROUnD $116,207.76 SALE bY the balance within thirty days thereafter. (NOTE: ground floor of the Civil THOMAS E. LAbEAU bEARInG MUnICIPAL Seized in the above Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 29 - February 4, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 11 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices

Continued from previous page me directed by the District Court of described property to wit: which plan of Robert E. Ebbtide Drive. MARLIn n. GUSMAn Honorable The Civil Orleans, in the above wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS Oswald, the said portion being the same proper - Sheriff Parish of Orleans District Court of entitled cause, I will ONE CERTAIN OF GROUND, together of ground is designated ty acquired by Trudy GROUND, together with ATTy: PENNy DAIGREPONT Orleans, in the above proceed to sell by pub - LOT OF GROUND, with all the buildings and as follows, to wit: Modica Turner from (504) 831-7726 all the buildings and JD 19 entitled cause, I will lic auction, on the together with all the improvements thereon, Lot 10 com - Connie Z. Scott by an act improvements thereon, LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 proceed to sell by pub - ground floor of the Civil buildings and improve - and all of the rights, mences at a distance of recorded as Conveyance ______and all the rights, ways, lic auction, on the District Court building, ments thereon, and all ways, privileges, servi - 225 feet from the corner Instrument Number privileges, servitudes, SALE bY ground floor of the Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in the rights, ways, privi - tudes, appurtenances of Curran Road and 2680, Parish of Orleans appurtenances and District Court building, the First District of the leges, servitudes, appur - and advantages thereun - Honeysuckle Lane, and on March 17, 1989. ORLEAnS SHERIFF advantages thereunto 421 Loyola Avenue, in City on February 1, tenances and advan - to belonging or in any - measures 25 feet front TERMS-CASH. 100% JUDICIAL belonging or in anywise the First District of the 2018, at 12:00 o’clock tages thereunto belong - wise appertaining situat - on Honeysuckle Lane, CASH AT THE MOMEnT appertaining situated in ADvERTISEMEnT City on February 1, noon, the following ing or in anywise apper - ed in the THIRD DIS - same width in the rear by OF ADJUDICATIOn the THIRD DISTRICT of 2018, at 12:00 o’clock described property to taining, situated in the TRICT OF THE CITy OF a depth of 100 feet Note: The payment must THAT PORTIOn the City of New Orleans, noon, the following wit: Third District of the City NEW ORLEANS, in that between equal and paral - be Cash, Cashier’s OF GROUnD State of Louisiana, in the described property to THAT CERTAIN PIECE of New Orleans, Parish part thereof known as lel lines, as shown on the Check, Certified Check bEARInG MUnICIPAL subdivision of Universal wit: OR PORTION OF of Orleans, in Square C, EDGEWOOD PARk survey of Robert E. or Money Order. No nO. 2020 PTOLEMY Engineers, Inc., G.E., ONE CERTAIN LOT OR GROUND, together with in that part thereof known SUbDIVISION, designat - Oswald, Registered Land Personal Checks. STREET, CITY OF nEW dated March 11, 1977 PARCEL OF GROUND, all the buildings and as bel’ Air East ed as Lots No. 5 and 6 of Surveyor, dated August ORLEAnS, In THE and registered as a MARLIn n. GUSMAn together with all the improvements thereon, Subdivision, which Square No. 14, bounded 30, 1983, redated March Sheriff CASE EnTILITED: Declaration of Title Parish of Orleans buildings and improve - and all the rights, ways, square is bounded by by FRANkLIN AVENUE, 12, 1984, copy of which bAnK OF AMERICA, Change in COb 744, folio ATTy: WESLEy PLAISANCE ments thereon and all of privileges, servitudes Francisco Verrett Drive, CLOVER, LOTUS and is annexed to act before (504) 584-5471 n.A. vS OTELIA 411, on August 18, 1977, bTD 26 the rights, ways, privi - and appurtenances Grant Street, Viola Street HAWTHORNE (NOW Camille bourgeois, SAvEDGE HAnDY registered as a LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 leges, servitudes, appur - thereunto belonging or in (side) and Leeds Street ACADIA) STREETS, on Notary Public, on April ______Civil District Court for Declaration of Title tenances and advan - anywise appertaining, (side) and according to a a plan of survey by E. L. 30, 1985, for reference the Parish of Orleans Change in COb 747, folio SALE bY tages thereunto belong - situated in the Fifth plan of re-subdivision by Eustis, C.E., a copy of attached to NA 588973. no. 2017-6447 465 on August 22, 1977, ing or in anywise apper - District of the City of new Lucien C. Gassen, L.S., which is annexed to an WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS SHERIFF by virtue of a WRIT said subdivision being taining situated in the Orleans, State of dated April 19, 1984 act passed before $70,134.14 JUDICIAL OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bounded by Morrison THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Louisiana, in that part approved by the City Charles Schneidau, N.P., Seized in the above to me directed by the Road, berg Road, Curran ADvERTISEMEnT TRICT of the City of New thereof known as English Planning Commission on dated April 15, 1924, and suit, TERMS CASH. The Honorable The Civil Road and the Eastern Orleans, State of Turn Subdivision, Phase July 2, 1985, reapproved according to which said purchaser at the moment THAT PORTIOn District Court of boundary of the subdivi - Louisiana, in that part 4, Section 6, all in accor - July 30, 1985 as lots measure each 30 of adjudication to make a OF GROUnD Orleans, in the above sion; said subdivision thereof known as bAR - dance with a plan of sub - Subdivision Docket No. feet front on Franklin deposit of ten percent of bEARInG MUnICIPAL entitled cause, I will being a portion of that RINGTON PARk EAST division prepared by 72/84 and registered in Avenue by a depth of 120 the purchase price, and nO. 7351 bREvARD proceed to sell by pub - property originally desig - SUbDIVISION, being a krebs, LaSalle, LeMieux COb 800, folio 364 and feet between equal and the balance within thirty AvEnUE, nEW lic auction, on the nated as Groves 20A, resubdivision of a portion Consultants, Inc., dated COb 901, folio 252 of the parallel lines; subject to days thereafter. (NOTE: ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ground floor of the Civil 21A, 23A and Lot 1 and of Lot 2-AR, Section 26 July 28, 1998, revised Conveyance Records of restrictions, servitudes, The payment must be MATTER EnTITLED: District Court building, Tract b of Groves 22A of the Lakratt Tract (for - November 30, 1998, and Orleans Parish, rights-of-way and out - Cash, Cashier’s Check, “FEDERAL nATIOnAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in per plan of subdivision of mer New Orleans lastly revised January 4, Louisiana, and lot is des - standing mineral rights of Certified Check or Money MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - the First District of the Gandolfo, kuhn and Lakeshore Land 1999, registered in CIN ignated as Lot 11 and record affecting the prop - Order. No personal TIOn vS THE OPEnED City on March 1, 2018, Associates, C.E and S., Company Subdivision) 171762, Orleans Parish, measures as follows: erty. checks.) SUCCESSIOn OF at 12:00 o’clock noon, dated March 6, 1972, and according to a plan LA and according to said Lot 11 in Square WRIT AMOUnT: CHARLES EDWARDS, the following described registered in COb 708, MARLIn n. GUSMAn of said subdivision by b. plan, the said lot is desig - C commences at a dis - $85,811.66 Sheriff JR. (A/K/A CHARLES property to wit: folio 616, commencing at Parish of Orleans L. Carter, C.E., dated nated and described as tance of 50 feet from the Seized in the above EDWARDS)”. LOTS 11 AND 12, the northerly intersection ATTy: PENNy DAIGREPONT July 15, 1972, approved follows: corner of Francisco suit, TERMS CASH. The (504) 831-7726 Civil District Court for SQUARE 16, of Morrison Road and JD 21 by the New Orleans City Lot #9 bounded Verrett Drive and Grant purchaser at the moment the Parish of Orleans FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - berg Road proceed LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Planning Commission on by Island Club Drive, Street and measures of adjudication to make a ______no. 2012-2806 TRICT, along the northerly right- September 25, 1972, Clubhouse Drive, Lake b thence, 50 feet front on deposit of ten percent of by virtue of a WRIT NAUTICAL TERRACE of-way of Morrison Road SALE bY under Docket No. 25/72, and Lot C-1-A. Francisco Verrett Drive, the purchase price, and OF SEIZURE AnD SALE (OLIVER SUbDIVISION) on a bearing of 53 registered in COb 710, The above is same width in rear, by the balance within thirty ORLEAnS SHERIFF to me directed by the MUNICIPAL NO. 2020 degrees, 9 minutes, 10 folio 435, Orleans Parish, also in accordance with depth of 91.34 feet days thereafter. (NOTE: JUDICIAL Honorable The Civil PTOLEMy STREET seconds East a distance La., said lot or parcel of survey by Gilbert, kelly & between equal and paral - The payment must be District Court of ACQUIRED MIN 756617 of 455.57 feet to a point ADvERTISEMEnT ground is designated as Couturie, Inc., Surveying lel lines. Cash, Cashier’s Check, Orleans, in the above WRIT AMOUnT: which is an intersection Lot 41, Square b. Said & Engineering, dated The improve - Certified Check or Money THAT PORTIOn entitled cause, I will $83,333.48 of Morrison Road and lot is a portion of former September 17, 2007, on ments thereon bear the Order. No personal OF GROUnD proceed to sell by pub - Seized in the above Maywood Court, being Groves 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, which said Lot #9 meas - Municipal Number 4608 checks.) bEARInG MUnICIPAL lic auction, on the suit, TERMS CASH. The the point of reference. Section 26 of Lakratt ures 124.11 feet front on Francisco Verrett Drive. nO. 7809 EbbTIDE ground floor of the Civil purchaser at the moment Lot 23 of MARLIn n. GUSMAn Tract. And according to a English Turn Drive, with a All as more fully Sheriff DRIvE, THIS CITY In District Court building, of adjudication to make a Square 1 commence at a Parish of Orleans survey by Don A. width in the rear of 99.01 shown on survey by THE MATTER EnTI - 421 Loyola Avenue, in deposit of ten percent of point on the westerly side ATTy: RACHEL WILLIAMS Garland, C.E., dated feet, and a depth on the Mandle Surveying, Inc., (318) 388-1440 TLED: AP DIRECT LLC the First District of the the purchase price, and of Marywood Court a dis - LM 31 March 29, 1976, resur - sideline closest to Island dated January 24, 1989, vERSUS TRUDY MODI - City on February 1, the balance within thirty tance of 1,047.22 feet LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 veyed October 26, 1976 Club Drive (side) of a copy of which is ______CA TURnER AnD 2018, at 12:00 o’clock days thereafter. (NOTE: from the side point of ref - Square b is bounded by 168.37 feet and a depth annexed hereto and STATE OF LOUISIAnA. noon, the following The payment must be erence of Morrison Road SALE bY Strathmore Drive, on the opposite sideline made a part hereof. Civil District Court for described property to Cash, Cashier’s Check, and Marywood Court, briarheath Drive, of 169.37 feet. being the same ORLEAnS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans wit: Certified Check or Money being the Point of briarheath Drive (Side) The improve - property acquired by JUDICIAL no. 2017-1299 TWO (2) CERTAIN LOTS Order. No personal beginning; said lot as a and barrington Drive ments thereon bear Ronald billizon by by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUND, situated in checks.) front along the right-of- ADvERTISEMEnT East; said Lot No. 41 of Municipal Number 283 Consent Judgment of OF COURT ORDER to the State of Louisiana, way of Marywood Court MARLIn n. GUSMAn Square “b” begins at a English Turn Drive, New Partition of Community THAT PORTIOn me directed by the Parish of Orleans, in the Sheriff of 50 feet, same width in Parish of Orleans distance of 300 feet from Orleans, Louisiana Property recorded as OF GROUnD Honorable The Civil Third Municipal District of ATTy: DANIEL REED the rear, by a depth on the corner of Strathmore 70131. Conveyance Instrument bEARInG MUnICIPAL District Court of the City of New Orleans, (225) 924-1600 the side line adjoining Lot LM 2 Drive, same width in the WRIT AMOUnT: Number 317317, Parish nO. 10 HOnEYSUCKLE Orleans, in the above in that part thereof known LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 22 of 106 feet and a rear, by a depth of 104.46 $1,031,147.24 of Orleans, on January LAnE, nEW ORLEAnS, entitled cause, I will as Villa Sites (formerly ______depth along the side line feet on the sideline near - Seized in the above 18, 2006. LA, In THE MATTER proceed to sell by pub - New Orleans Lakratt adjoining Lot 24 of SALE bY est briarheath Drive, and suit, TERMS CASH. The TERMS-CASH. 100% EnTITLED: “CARRInG - lic auction, on the Land Company) as delin - 106.48 feet. All is more ORLEAnS SHERIFF a depth of 103.95 feet on purchaser at the moment CASH AT THE MOMEnT TOn MORTGAGE ground floor of the Civil eated on a survey by fully shown on a survey the opposite sideline. of adjudication to make a OF ADJUDICATIOn SERvICES, LLC vS District Court building, Mandel Surveying, Inc., JUDICIAL prepared by Scandaliato, The improvements there - deposit of ten percent of Note: The payment must MACK A. SCOTT.” 421 Loyola Avenue, in R.L.S., dated April 12, Cenac & Associates ADvERTISEMEnT on bear Municipal No. the purchase price, and be Cash, Cashier’s Civil District Court for the First District of the 1995, redated June 19, dated March 9, 1990, a THAT PORTIOn 7429 Strathmore Drive. the balance within thirty Check, Certified Check the Parish of Orleans City on February 1, 1995, according to copy of which is annexed being the same days thereafter. (NOTE: or Money Order. No no. 2017-6689 2018, at 12:00 o’clock which, said lots are des - OF GROUnD hereto and made a part property acquired by The payment must be Personal Checks . by virtue of a WRIT noon, the following ignated and described as bEARInG MUnICIPAL hereof. Pearl Weathersby wife Cash, Cashier’s Check, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE described property to follows: nO. 2500 MYRTLE being the same MARLIn n. GUSMAn of/and Charles Webb Certified Check or Money Sheriff to me directed by the wit: Lots Nos. 6 and STREET, CITY OF nEW property acquired by Parish of Orleans from Apollo Construction, Order. No personal Honorable The Civil THAT CERTAIN PIECE 8 of block 33, bounded ORLEAnS, In THE Robert E. Johnson, by ATTy: WESLEy PLAISANCE Inc., by an act recorded checks.) (504) 584-5471 District Court of OR PORTION OF by brevard Avenue, CASE EnTITLED: Credit Sale of Property bTD 24 as COb 740, folio 307, Orleans, in the above GROUND, together with Morrison, Trapier Avenue JPMORGAn CHASE recorded as CIN 17977, MARLIn n. GUSMAn LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 Parish of Orleans on Sheriff ______entitled cause, I will all the buildings and and Adele Street. Said bAnK, nATIOnAL Parish of Orleans on Parish of Orleans December 9, 1976 proceed to sell by pub - improvements thereon, Lots Nos. 6 and 8 adjoin ASSOCIATIOn vS March 19, 1990. ATTy: WAyNE MAIORANA SALE bY TERMS-CASH. 100% (504) 837-9040 lic auction, on the and all the rights, ways, each other and measure KEITH A. CARTER, ET TERMS-CASH. 100% NNb 18 CASH AT THE MOMEnT ORLEAnS SHERIFF ground floor of the Civil privileges, servitudes, each 40 feet front on AL CASH AT THE MOMENT LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 OF ADJUDICATIOn ______JUDICIAL District Court building, appurtenances and brevard Avenue, same Civil District Court for OF ADJUDICATION Note: The payment must 421 Loyola Avenue, in advantages thereunto width in the rear, by a the Parish of Orleans Note: The payment must SALE bY ADvERTISEMEnT be Cash, Cashier’s the First District of the belonging, or in anywise depth of 100 feet, no. 2017-5927 be Cash, Cashier’s Check, Certified Check ORLEAnS SHERIFF THAT PORTIOn City on February 1, appertaining, situated in between equal and paral - by virtue of a WRIT Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No JUDICIAL OF GROUnD 2018, at 12:00 o’clock the Third District of the lel lines. Lot No. 6 lies OF SEIZURE AnD SALE or Money Order. No Personal Checks. bEARInG MUnICIPAL noon, the following City of New Orleans, in nearer to and com - to me directed by the Personal Checks. ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn nO. 3651 FRAnKLIn described property to Square No. 3, in that part mences at a distance of Honorable The Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff THAT PORTIOn AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW wit: thereof known as 80 feet front on the cor - District Court of Sheriff Parish of Orleans Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans ATTy: WESLEy PLAISANCE OF GROUnD ORLEAnS, In THE THAT CERTAIN Edgelake Court ner of brevard Avenue ATTy: WESLEy PLAISANCE (504) 584-5471 bEARInG MUnICIPAL CASE EnTITLED: THE PIECE OR PORTION OF Extension, which square and Adele Street. entitled cause, I will (504) 584-5471 bTD 25 proceed to sell by pub - bTD 23 LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 nO. 4608 FRAMCOSCP bAnK OF nEW YORK GROUND with all the is bounded by Ebbtide Together with all LA. WEEkLy 1/1/2018, 1/29/2018 ______vERRETT DRIvE, THIS MELLOn FKA bAnK OF buildings and appurte - Drive, Driftwood Drive, the rights, ways, privi - lic auction, on the ______SALE bY CITY In THE MATTER nEW YORK AS nances thereunto beach Drive, and Wales leges, servitudes, appur - ground floor of the Civil SALE bY EnTITLED: AP DIRECT TRUSTEE (CWAbS belonging or in anywise Street, and according to tenances and advan - District Court building, ORLEAnS SHERIFF ORLEAnS SHERIFF LLC vERSUS ROnALD 2006-SD3) vS RODnEY appertaining, situated in a survey by James H. tages thereunto belong - 421 Loyola Avenue, in JUDICIAL JUDICIAL bILLIZOn AnD STATE JOSEPH WOODS. the Third District of the Couturie, L.S., dated ing or in anywise apper - the First District of the ADvERTISEMEnT OF LOUISIAnA. Civil District Court for City of New Orleans, 5/20/81, last revised and taining situated thereon. City on March 1, 2018, ADvERTISEMEnT Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans Parish of Orleans, State recertified 2/1/88, said lot Which has the at 12:00 o’clock noon, THAT PORTIOn THAT PORTIOn the Parish of Orleans no. 2014-7173 of Louisiana, in that part is designated as Lot No. address of 7351 brevard the following described OF GROUnD OF GROUnD no. 2017-1479 by virtue of a WRIT thereof known as Section 5 and commences 53 Avenue, New Orleans, property to wit: bEARInG MUnICIPAL by virtue of a WRIT OF FIERI FACIAS to me 5 of Lakratt Tract and feet from the corner of LA 70127. LOT V, SQUARE 9, bEARInG MUnICIPAL nO. 283 EnGLISH OF COURT ORDER to directed by the presently designated as Ebbtide Drive and WRIT AMOUnT: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - nO. 7429 STRATH - TURn DRIvE, THIS me directed by the Honorable The Civil part of Lot “A” on a plan Driftwood Drive, and $123,944.34 TRICT, MORE DRIvE, THIS CITY, In THE MATTER Honorable The Civil District Court of or resubdivision tenta - measures thence 53 feet Seized in the above EDGEWOOD PARk CITY, In THE MATTER EnTITLED: GULF District Court of Orleans, in the above tively approved by the front from the corner of suit, TERMS CASH. The SUbDIVISION EnTITLED: AP DIRECT COAST bAnK AnD Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will City Planning and Zoning Ebbtide Drive and purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 2500 LLC vERSUS TRUST vERSUS JOn D. entitled cause, I will proceed to sell by pub - Commission on February Driftwood Drive, and of adjudication to make a MyRTLE STREET CHARLES F. WEbb, CELInO AnD KAMI proceed to sell by pub - lic auction, on the 18, 1983, and which ten - measures thence 53 feet deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN 922461 SR, PEARLEY WEATH - MARTIn CELInO. lic auction, on the ground floor of the Civil tative, resubdivision is front on Ebbtide Drive, the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: ERSbY WEbb, REPUb - Civil District Court for ground floor of the Civil District Court building, designated as the same width in the the balance within thirty $173,652.23 LIC FInAnCE, LLC AnD the Parish of Orleans District Court building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honeysuckle Lane rear, by a depth of 95 feet days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above STATE OF LOUISIAnA. no. 2017-8631 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the Subdivision, bounded by between equal and paral - The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The Civil District Court for by virtue of a WRIT the First District of the City on February 1, Curran Road, bullard lel lines. Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment the Parish of Orleans OF SEIZURE AnD SALE City on February 1, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Avenue, Hayne The improvements Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a no. 2016-9760 to me directed by the 2018, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the following boulevard and Jahncke thereon bear the Order. No personal by virtue of a WRIT Honorable The Civil noon, the following described property to Canal, and according to Municipal Number 7809 checks.) OF COURT ORDER to Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 29 - February 4, 2018

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Continued from previous page MUNICIPAL NO. 3658 SQUARE 54, District Court of nO. 5496 PATIO WAY, of adjudication to make a VISION at 12:00 o’clock noon, PIN OAk AVENUE FOURTH MUNICIPAL Orleans, in the above THIS CITY, In THE MAT - deposit of ten percent of TIMbERGROVE CON - the following described ACQUIRED MIN 775289 DISTRICT, entitled cause, I will TER EnTITLED: the purchase price, and DOMINIUM property to wit: deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: MUNICIPAL NO. 3137 proceed to sell by pub - LASALLE bAnK the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO. 87 LOT 19, SQUARE 544 the purchase price, and $122,712.22 SAINT THOMAS ST. lic auction, on the nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - days thereafter. (NOTE: CyPRESS GROVE (OLD SQUARE 15) the balance within thirty Seized in the above ACQUIRED MIN 954472 ground floor of the Civil TIOn, AS TRUSTEE The payment must be COURT, UNIT 37 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, FOR THE CERTIFI - Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQUIRED MIN TRICT The payment must be purchaser at the moment $411,660.25 421 Loyola Avenue, in CATEHOLDERS OF Certified Check or Money 1013208 MUNICIPAL NO. 1304 Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a Seized in the above the First District of the THE MORTGAGE Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: AND 1306 DESLONDE Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of suit, TERMS CASH. The City on March 1, 2018, PASS-THROUGH CER - checks.) $84,201.96 STREET Order. No personal the purchase price, and purchaser at the moment at 12:00 o’clock noon, TIFICATES 1998-R1 Seized in the above ACQ. MIN 1192291 checks.) MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty of adjudication to make a the following described vERSUS JACQUELInE Sheriff suit, TERMS CASH. The WRIT AMOUnT: Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: deposit of ten percent of property to wit: GILDS WISHEM (A/K/A purchaser at the moment $49,652.48 Sheriff ATTy: MARk GARRISON Parish of Orleans The payment must be the purchase price, and LOT 29, SQUARE 37 JACQUELInE G. (225) 924-1600 of adjudication to make a Seized in the above LM 18 ATTy: DANIEL REED Cash, Cashier’s Check, the balance within thirty FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - WISHEM, A/K/A deposit of ten percent of suit, TERMS CASH. The (225) 924-1600 LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 LM 3 Certified Check or Money days thereafter. (NOTE: TRICT JACQUELInE WISHEM) ______the purchase price, and purchaser at the moment LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 Order. No personal The payment must be AURORA GARDENS Civil District Court for the balance within thirty of adjudication to make a ______SALE bY checks.) Cash, Cashier’s Check, SUbDIVISION the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: deposit of ten percent of SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn Certified Check or Money EXTENSIONS 13A, 13b no. 2008-12171 The payment must be the purchase price, and Sheriff Order. No personal AND 13C by virtue of a WRIT JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, the balance within thirty ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans ATTy: RADAR JACkSON checks.) MUNICIPAL NO. 5800 OF SEIZURE AnD ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money days thereafter. (NOTE: JUDICIAL (504) 581-9444 OXFORD PLACE SALE to me directed by Order. No personal The payment must be LM 6 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff THAT PORTIOn ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 ACQ. MIN 1242040 the Honorable The Civil checks.) Cash, Cashier’s Check, Parish of Orleans ______THAT PORTIOn ATTy: kELLy MASSEy WRIT AMOUnT: District Court of OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn Certified Check or Money (318) 388-1440 $15,035.00 Orleans, in the above bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff Order. No personal SALE bY LM 13 Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD Seized in the above entitled cause, I will nO. 2019-21 PACE checks.) bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 ATTy: COREy GIROIR ORLEAnS SHERIFF ______suit, TERMS CASH. The proceed to sell by pub - bLvD, CITY OF nEW (225) 756-0373 LM 21 MARLIn n. GUSMAn nO. Sheriff JUDICIAL purchaser at the moment lic auction, on the ORLEAnS, In THE LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 1235 ST AnTHOnY ST, SALE bY Parish of Orleans of adjudication to make a ground floor of the Civil CASE EnTITLED: FED - ______THIS CITY, In THE MAT - ADvERTISEMEnT ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER ORLEAnS SHERIFF deposit of ten percent of District Court building, ERAL nATIOnAL (504) 831-7726 TER EnTITLED SALE bY NNb 25 THAT PORTIOn JUDICIAL the purchase price, and 421 Loyola Avenue, in MORTGAGE vS nEW ORLEAnS AREA LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 OF GROUnD the balance within thirty the First District of the CHARLES E. LEE, JR. ORLEAnS SHERIFF ______HAbITAT FOR HUMAnI - ADvERTISEMEnT bEARInG MUnICIPAL days thereafter. (NOTE: City on March 1, 2018, Civil District Court for JUDICIAL TY, InC vS CHERYL SALE bY nO. 7808 HICKMAn THAT PORTIOn The payment must be at 12:00 o’clock noon, the Parish of Orleans RObERTSOn ADvERTISEMEnT STREET, CITY OF nEW OF GROUnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, the following described no. 2012-4099 ORLEAnS SHERIFF Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, In THE bEARInG MUnICIPAL Certified Check or Money property to wit: by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn JUDICIAL the Parish of Orleans CASE EnTITLED: nOS. 4000-02 IRO - Order. No personal LOT 23, SQUARE 2 OF SEIZURE AnD OF GROUnD no. 2017-10158 ADvERTISEMEnT STAnDARD MORT - QUOIS STREET, CITY checks.) THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE to me directed by bEARInG MUnICIPAL by virtue of a WRIT GAGE CORPORATIOn OF nEW ORLEAnS, In TRICT the Honorable The Civil nO. 2515 AnnETTE THAT PORTIOn OF SEIZURE AnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn vS JULIUS SCOTT JR THE MATTER EnTI - Sheriff WILLOWbROOk SUb - District Court of STREET, CITY OF nEW OF GROUnD SALE to me directed by Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for TLED: bAnK OF DIVISION, PHASE III Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS, In THE bEARInG MUnICIPAL the Honorable The Civil ATTy: JOHN HAGAN the Parish of Orleans AMERICA, n.A. vS (504) 658-4346 MUNICIPAL NO. 5496 entitled cause, I will CASE EnTITLED: nO. District Court of NNb 15 no. 2016-4851 ERIK T. STEWART; PATIO WAy proceed to sell by pub - DITECH FInAnCIAL 2846 AnD 2848 Orleans, in the above LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 by virtue of a WRIT ERAInA HEnO STEW - ______ACQ. MIN 1044416 lic auction, on the LLC vS LAURA TYSOn AnnUnCIATIOn entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD ART A/K/A ERAInA WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for ST,THIS CITY, In THE proceed to sell by pub - SALE bY SALE to me directed by HEnO A/K/A ERIAnA $40,849.79 District Court building, the Parish of Orleans MATTER EnTITLED lic auction, on the the Honorable The Civil ERIK STEWART A/K/A ORLEAnS SHERIFF Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2017-8777 U.S. bAnK nATIOnAL ground floor of the Civil District Court of ERAInA ERIK STEW - JUDICIAL suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT ASSOCIATIOn, AS District Court building, Orleans, in the above ART A/K/A ERIAnA L. purchaser at the moment City on March 1, 2018, OF SEIZURE AnD TRUSTEE FOR 421 Loyola Avenue, in ADvERTISEMEnT entitled cause, I will STEWART of adjudication to make a at 12:00 o’clock noon, SALE to me directed by LEHMAn MORTGAGE the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn deposit of ten percent of the following described the Honorable The Civil TRUST MORTGAGE City on March 1, 2018, lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD the purchase price, and property to wit: District Court of PASS THROUGH CER - at 12:00 o’clock noon, ground floor of the Civil no. 2005-1151 bEARInG MUnICIPAL the balance within thirty LOT 16, SQUARE 27, Orleans, in the above TIFICATES SERIES the following described District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT nO. 3837 vIRGIL bLvD, days thereafter. (NOTE: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will 2007-10 vS DEbORAH property to wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD CITY OF nEW The payment must be TRICT, proceed to sell by pub - THOMAS RObEY, (AKA LOT NO. 1-A FORMER the First District of the SALE to me directed by ORLEAnS, In THE Cash, Cashier’s Check, MUNICIPAL NO. 2019- lic auction, on the DEbORAH THOMAS, LOTS 1 AND 2 City on March 1, 2018, the Honorable The Civil CASE EnTITLED: Certified Check or Money 21 PACE bLVD ground floor of the Civil DEbORAH RObEY, SQUARE NO. 386 at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of nATIOnSTAR MORT - Order. No personal ACQUIRED MIN 884714 District Court building, DEbORAH M. RObEY) THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the following described Orleans, in the above GAGE LLC D/b/A checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in AnD KELvIn RObEY TRICT property to wit: entitled cause, I will CHAMPIOn MORT - $171,647.08 the First District of the Civil District Court for MUNICIPAL NO. 1235 MARLIn n. GUSMAn LOT 11-E, SQUARE 11, proceed to sell by pub - GAGE COMPAnY vS Sheriff Seized in the above City on March 1, 2018, the Parish of Orleans ST ANTHONy ST THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - lic auction, on the THE UnOPEnED SUC - Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The at 12:00 o’clock noon, no. 2017-323 ACQ MIN: 496385 ATTy: COREy GIROIR TRICT ground floor of the Civil CESSIOn OF MELbA (225) 756-0373 purchaser at the moment the following described by virtue of a WRIT WRIT AMOUnT: VILLA SITES SUbDIVI - District Court building, DOMInICK DOMInGUE, NNb 17 of adjudication to make a property to wit: OF SEIZURE AnD $100,673.58 LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 SION 421 Loyola Avenue, in (A/K/A MELbA ______deposit of ten percent of LOT 4, SQUARE 1205, SALE to me directed by Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 7808 the First District of the DOMInICK, MELbA SALE bY the purchase price, and THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the Honorable The Civil suit, TERMS CASH. The HICkMAN STREET City on March 1, 2018, DOMInGUE) the balance within thirty TRICT, District Court of purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN 938953 at 12:00 o’clock noon, Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 2515 Orleans, in the above of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: the following described the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL The payment must be ANNETTE STREET entitled cause, I will deposit of ten percent of $122,362.26 property to wit: no. 2017-8250 ADvERTISEMEnT Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQUIRED MIN proceed to sell by pub - the purchase price, and Seized in the above LOT NOS. 7 AND 8, by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money 1009454 lic auction, on the the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The SQUARE NO. 6 OF SEIZURE AnD THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE to me directed by OF GROUnD checks.) $100,583.26 District Court building, The payment must be of adjudication to make a TRICT the Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in Cash, Cashier’s Check, MARLIn n. GUSMAn deposit of ten percent of FOREST PARk District Court of nO. 4801 nOTTInG - Sheriff suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the Parish of Orleans Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 4000- Orleans, in the above HAM DRIvE, CITY OF purchaser at the moment City on March 1, 2018, Order. No personal ATTy: JOHN MORRIS the balance within thirty 02 IROQUOIS STREET entitled cause, I will nEW ORLEAnS, In THE (318) 388-1440 of adjudication to make a at 12:00 o’clock noon, checks.) LM 19 days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 359195 proceed to sell by pub - CASE EnTITLED: THE LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 deposit of ten percent of the following described MARLIn n. GUSMAn The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the bAnK OF nEW YORK ______the purchase price, and property to wit: Sheriff Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, $56,708.45 ground floor of the Civil MELLOn, AS SUCCES - SALE bY the balance within thirty LOT NO. 20 SQUARE ATTy: DENNIS CARRIERE Certified Check or Money Seized in the above District Court building, SOR TRUSTEE TO days thereafter. (NOTE: NO. 81 (504) 457-3773 ORLEAnS SHERIFF TW 4 Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in JPMORGAn CHASE The payment must be FOURTH MUNICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 checks.) purchaser at the moment the First District of the bAnK, AS TRUSTEE JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, DISTRICT ______MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a City on March 1, 2018, FOR nOvASTAR ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 2846 SALE bY Sheriff deposit of ten percent of at 12:00 o’clock noon, MORTGAGE FUnDInG Order. No personal AND 2848 ANNUNCIA - Parish of Orleans THAT CERTAIn ORLEAnS SHERIFF ATTy: LOUIS ARCENEAUX the purchase price, and the following described TRUST, SERIES 2004-3, checks.) TION ST (504) 522-8256 the balance within thirty property to wit: nOvASTAR HOME COnDOMInIUM ACQ MIN:905013 LM 10 MARLIn n. GUSMAn JUDICIAL Sheriff LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: LOT 47, SQUARE b, EQUITY LOAn ASSET- WRIT AMOUnT: UnIT 37, OF THE Parish of Orleans ______ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - bACKED CERTIFI - ATTy: COREy GIROIR $206,184.67 Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT, CATES, SEERIES 2004- TIMbERGROvE (225) 756-0373 Seized in the above THAT PORTIOn SALE bY LM 22 Certified Check or Money VIRGIL bOULEVARD 3 vS MURIEL SHOLES COnDOMInInUM LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 suit, TERMS CASH. The OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal SUbDIVISION, ALUGAS bEARInG MUnICIPAL ______purchaser at the moment bEARInG MUnICIPAL JUDICIAL checks.) MUNICIPAL NO. 3837 Civil District Court for nO. 87 CYPRESS of adjudication to make a nO. 3658 PIn OAK SALE bY VIRGIL bLVD the Parish of Orleans GROvE COURT, UnIT deposit of ten percent of AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff ACQUIRED MIN no. 2014-10734 37, CITY OF nEW ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and ORLEAnS, In THE Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn 1076112 by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS, In THE JUDICIAL the balance within thirty CASE EnTITLED: CAL - ATTy: JASON SMITH OF GROUnD (318) 388-1440 WRIT AMOUnT: OF SEIZURE AnD CASE EnTITLED: days thereafter. (NOTE: IbER HOME LOAnS, NNb 14 ADvERTISEMEnT bEARInG MUnICIPAL $120,265.48 SALE to me directed by WELLS FARGO bAnK, The payment must be InC. vS RObIn P. ROTH LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 nO. 3137 SAInT ______Seized in the above the Honorable The Civil n.A. vS LISA M. HALL THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, AnD GLEnDA CAnnOn THOMAS ST., CITY OF suit, TERMS CASH. The District Court of AKA LISA HALL OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money ROTH SALE bY nEW ORLEAnS, In THE purchaser at the moment Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICIPAL Order. No personal Civil District Court for CASE EnTITLED: CITI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF of adjudication to make a entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans nO. 1304 AnD 1306 checks.) the Parish of Orleans MORTGAGE, InC vS JUDICIAL deposit of ten percent of proceed to sell by pub - no. 2017-5782 DESLOnDE STREET, no. 2017-4530 MARLIn n. GUSMAn CORnELIOUS CELES - the purchase price, and lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT THIS CITY, In THE MAT - Sheriff by virtue of a WRIT ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans TInE, JR.. the balance within thirty ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD TER EnTITLED: OF SEIZURE AnD ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn days thereafter. (NOTE: District Court building, SALE to me directed by HIbOnITE REO 2015-1 (504) 831-7726 SALE to me directed by TW 26 the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD The payment must be 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Honorable The Civil LLC (3) vERSUS the Honorable The Civil LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 no. 2010-6180 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, the First District of the District Court of LUCAS ROnALD JEF - ______District Court of by virtue of a WRIT nO. 5800 OXFORD Certified Check or Money City on March 1, 2018, Orleans, in the above FERSOn Orleans, in the above SALE bY OF SEIZURE AnD PLACE, THIS CITY, In Order. No personal at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for entitled cause, I will SALE to me directed by THE MATTER EnTI - checks.) the following described proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF proceed to sell by pub - the Honorable The Civil TLED: CITY OF nEW property to wit: lic auction, on the no. 2016-8478 JUDICIAL lic auction, on the MARLIn n. GUSMAn District Court of ORLEAnS vERSUS Sheriff LOT 8, SQUARE J, ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT ground floor of the Civil Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT Orleans, in the above THE CHARLES THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD District Court building, ATTy: PENNy DAIGREPONT entitled cause, I will MORELL CARGILLE (504) 831-7726 TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE to me directed by THAT PORTIOn 421 Loyola Avenue, in LM 16 proceed to sell by pub - AnD/OR FRAnCES SHERWOOD FOREST the First District of the the Honorable The Civil OF GROUnD the First District of the LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 lic auction, on the JOHnSOn CARGILLE ______SUbDIVISION City on March 1, 2018, District Court of bEARInG MUnICIPAL City on March 1, 2018, ground floor of the Civil REvOCAbLE LIvInG MUNICIPAL NO. 4801 at 12:00 o’clock noon, Orleans, in the above nO. 7141 RIDGEFIELD at 12:00 o’clock noon, SALE bY District Court building, TRUST NOTTINGHAM DRIVE the following described entitled cause, I will DRIvE, CITY OF nEW the following described 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF AQUIRED MIN 781677 property to wit: proceed to sell by pub - ORLEAnS, In THE property to wit: the First District of the the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL WRIT AMOUnT: LOTS 2,4, 5, 6, 3-A, AND lic auction, on the CASE EnTITLED: LOT 238, SQUARE 117, City on March 1, 2018, no. 2017-3102 $81,490.68 18-A, SQUARES 2 AND ground floor of the Civil WILMInGTOn SAvInGS FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ADvERTISEMEnT at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT Seized in the above L, District Court building, FUnD SOCIETY, FSb, TRICT, the following described OF FIERI FACIAS to me THAT PORTIOn suit, TERMS CASH. The FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in ACTInG nOT In ITS TALL TIMbERS SUbDI - property to wit: directed by the OF GROUnD purchaser at the moment TRICT, the First District of the VISION, SECTION 5, LOTS 1 AND 2, Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL TIMbERGROVE SUbDI - City on March 1, 2018, Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 29 - February 4, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 13 Five Black innovators inducted into the Nat’l Inventors Hall of Fame For centuries, American history Since the founding of the Garrett Morgan, Internet with his invention of books have often ignored or failed National Inventors Hall of Gas Mask & Three- signal processing in telecommu - to acknowledge the ingenuity and Fame® (NIHF), more than 500 way Traffic Signal nications. His invention has contributions of Black inventors visionary men and women, who Garrett Morgan stimulated the growth of the and innovators in the U.S. like conceived, patented and was a self-educated global Internet and advanced Lewis Latimer, who invented the advanced the greatest technolog - Black man who data encoding, modem technolo - cargon filament necessary for ical achievements of our nation, produced a series gy, silicon ship design, ATM Thomas Edison’s light bulb to have been inducted into the Hall of successful switching and protocols, DSL become a successful invention, and of Fame. Historical innovators inventions in the and digital video. As a key play - Benjamin Banneker, who played a like Thomas Jennings and beginning of the er in Internet technology, critical role in the surveying of the Garrett Morgan paved the way 2oth century. His Lawrence advocates bringing land and the re-creation of the beyond science and technology first well-known Internet access to the world’s blueprints for Washington, DC. by becoming advocates for invention was the poorest countries. He spearhead - The contributions of Black inven - African Americans. safety hood – a ed efforts to lay high-capacity tors span several centuries dating all “Each year, we induct a new forerunner of the fiber-optic cable along the west the way back to the 18th century and class of industry pioneers into the gas mask. In 1923, coast of Africa. JENNINGS MORGAN VICTOR continue to this very day. National Inventors Hall of Fame he patented one of The National Inventors Hall of At least one entity based in who have conceived and patented his best-known Fame (NIHF) is the premier non - Alexandria, Va. is doing its part innovations to further our nation, vided solutions to life’s common American to be granted a U.S. inventions, the three-way traffic profit organization in America to ensure that the contributions of and this year’s class is no excep - problems and as a result, they’ve patent in 1821. His dry-scouring signal. Morgan went on to sell dedicated to recognizing inven - these Black inventors is included tion,” said National Inventors enhanced our lives.” process was a predecessor to his patent to General Electric, tors and invention, promoting in the celebration of America’s Hall of Fame CEO, Mike Oister. Today, pioneers like Victor B. today’s dry-cleaning methods. which developed the electric ver - creativity, and advancing the ingenuity and innovation. “This year’s Inductees have pro - Lawrence continue to advance His success as a businessman and sion of the product. Morgan spirit of innovation and entrepre - technologies and racial and eco - patent holder helped him become became an advocate for racial neurship. nomic inequalities. a leader for civil rights in New equality, establishing the first On May 3, an Illumination Below are descriptions of several York City. When Jennings died, Black fraternities in the country Ceremony will be held at the of this year’s inductees’ inventions: Frederick Douglass wrote about at Cleveland’s Western Reserve National Inventors Hall of Fame Thomas Jennings, Dry his death. He noted the impor - University. Museum at the USPTO Poisonous political game Scouring (First African- tance of the patent Jennings Victor B. Lawrence, Signal Headquarters in Alexandria, Va., Continued from Page 5 he wants a deal, there is one avail - American U.S. Patent) received and that the patent rec - Processing in where the 2017 Inductees will able. The question remains is he Thomas Jennings invented a ognized him as a “citizen of the Telecommunications. place illuminated hexagons bear - sow division rather than solve prepared to make a deal. Now, process he called “dry scouring,” United States,” a designation at Victor Lawrence improved ing their names in the Gallery of problems. The second obstacle is he’ll have until Feb. 8 to make up becoming the first Afri can the time that shocked many. transmission for the modern Icons™.◊ the House leadership and caucus. his mind. The sad product of all There’s a majority in the House this is that America’s politics will for good immigration reform, but grow uglier and more divisive. the Republican leadership refus - The White House and es to take up a measure that Republicans see themselves as When someone tells you who they are, believe them! would pass unless a majority of having profited by appealing to Republicans alone support it. our fears, by playing race-bait Continued from Page 5 is the outrage from Republican job skills” he’s is speaking to good will come to the polls in That makes the leadership politics, by peddling hate. They leadership? When engaged in White people about white people. record numbers to reject Trump’s hostage to the most right-wing will surely keep doing what they analysis, historical context is very Therefore, even though many politics of racism and hate in an faction in the party. And a large think works. Trump will contin - ence. However, few are asking the important. Trump and his base did Americans are appalled by effort to truly Make America number of them don’t want any ue to drive Americans apart — more fundamental question, “what not develop in a vacuum. Sen.’s Trump latest raciest display, the Great Again instead of making deal, period. until we come together to call made these countries “shitholes” McConnell and Graham, et al’s White House is defending it. America white again? Trump’s aides say he is the great him and the Republicans who (and not to say that they really failure to condemn Trump’s “shit - According to CNN, “The People have been apologizing for dealmaker. There’s no question if echo him to account. ◊ are)?” The answer, American for - hole” comment is consistent. They President’s ‘shithole’ remark is Trump since he announced his can - eign policy and European settler were conspicuously silent in 2010 being received much differently didacy, saying, “he’s not a politi - colonialism. Haiti struggles to this when Tea Party members spat on inside of the White House than it cian” and “it will just take time for day simply because after the Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, called Rep. is outside of it. Though this him to grow into being presiden - Trump’s first year Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) it John Lewis a “nigger” and Rep. might enrage Washington, tial.” This is the same guy who Continued from Page 5 rest of the world, is that even in was the first Black republic in the Barney Frank a “faggot.” Their staffers predict the comment will was sued by the DOJ in 1973 for the face of opposition, our world to overthrow a European inability to condemn Trump is not resonate with his base, much like housing discrimination. He had his activism will continue and will power. America and France never necessarily because they agree his attacks on NFL players who employees secretly mark the appli - ly and see that tens of thousands prevail. We must be organized want Haiti to be the shining exam - with him (even though in my opin - kneel during the National cations of minorities with codes, of DACA enrollees are Black and we will be organized. This ple of successful liberation and ion they probably do) it’s because Anthem did not alienate it.” such as “No. 9” and “C” for “col - and that the plurality of diversity year, Trump has answered his freedom that it should be. People they are afraid. They fear what Dr. As we move closer to the 2018 ored,” according to government visa recipients are also Black, it own question about what Black should be asking the Clinton King called “the white backlash” mid-term elections the ideologi - accounts filed in federal court. contextualizes the president’s Americans have to lose. But it’s Foundation what happened to the and what Dr. Walters called “the cal lines are becoming clearer and I have always known, when assault on these programs. an answer we don’t plan to $13B in aid that went to Haiti after politics of resentment.” They fear clearer. Just when the good peo - someone tells you who they are, Unfortunately, these assaults accept. the earthquake. the well-financed echo chamber ple of Alabama dispatched the believe them. The key is to act on on our criminal justice system, Mineral- and resource-rich called The Tea Party and the alleged pedophile Roy Moore, what they tell you. our consumer protections, our Congresswoman Karen Bass rep - African countries such as Freedom Caucus. Arizonians will now be faced education and our health, will resents California’s 37th Zimbabwe and Congo will never The ethnic demographics of with the anti-immigrant, racial Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ continue through 2018. Congressional District. She is the be allowed to organically devel - America are changing. This profiler and birther Joe Arpaio Host of the nationally broadcast What Trump’s first year 2nd Vice Chair of the op. They will always be change is striking fear in the and his bid for the U.S. Senate. call-in talk radio program “Inside showed is that hard-earned Congressional Black Caucus oppressed by America and hearts of many white Americans. These mid-terms will be a true lit - the Issues with Leon,” on progress will never be safe so (CBC) and she co-chairs the European forces because these Looking back at the rhetoric it is mus test. Will the bigotry and SiriusXM Satellite radio channel long as his bigotry, hatred and CBC’s Africa Taskforce. She is also colonists and neo-colonialists even easier to see that when hatred of Trump’s base continue 126. Go to www.wilmerleon.com racism hold power. But what we Ranking Member on the House will never allow the strategic Trump discusses “protecting the to carry the day, wreak havoc on or email: [email protected]. showed this year in Alabama and Subcommittee on Africa. Follow minerals held in these countries American worker” and bringing our system of justice and control www.twitter.com/drwleon and Dr. Virginia, to not just our commu - her on Twitter at to be controlled by Africans. in highly educated wealthier the Republican Party? Or, will Leon’s Prescription at nity, but to our country and the @RepKarenBass. ◊ Another question to ask is where “English speakers” with “higher people of good conscience and Facebook.com. ◊

ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices

Continued from previous page WRIT AMOUnT: SUCCESSORS, HEIRS purchaser at the moment Civil District Court for the balance within thirty Honorable The Civil ing thereto said Lot No. $171,133.00 & ASSIGnS AnD MARY of adjudication to make a the Parish of Orleans days thereafter. (NOTE: District Court of 130 begins at distance of InDIvIDUAL CAPACITY Seized in the above AGnES HUTCHERSOn deposit of ten percent of no. 2017-2674 The payment must be Orleans, in the above 496 feet, 8 inches from bUT SOLELY AS suit, TERMS CASH. The DEROUEn OR HER the purchase price, and by virtue of a WRIT Cash, Cashier’s Check, entitled cause, I will the corner of Clematis TRUSTEE OF SOUTH - purchaser at the moment SUCCESSORS, HEIRS the balance within thirty OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Certified Check or Money proceed to sell by pub - Avenue and Gentilly SIDE nSP TRUST 2016- of adjudication to make a & ASSIGnS days thereafter. (NOTE: to me directed by the Order. No personal lic auction, on the boulevard, and measures I vS ALISHA REnELLE deposit of ten percent of Civil District Court for The payment must be Honorable The Civil checks.) ground floor of the Civil thence 43 feet, 4 inches SMITH A/K/A ALISHA R. the purchase price, and the Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, District Court of MARLIn n. GUSMAn District Court building, front on Clematis Avenue, the balance within thirty no. 2017-8362 Certified Check or Money Orleans, in the above Sheriff 421 Loyola Avenue, in same width in the rear, by SMITH Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for days thereafter. (NOTE: by virtue of a WRIT Order. No personal entitled cause, I will ATTy: kELLy MASSEy the First District of the a depth between equal The payment must be OF FIERI FACIAS to me checks.) proceed to sell by pub - (318) 388-1440 City on March 1, 2018, and parallel lines of 130 the Parish of Orleans LM 33 no. 2014-8231 Cash, Cashier’s Check, directed by the MARLIn n. GUSMAn lic auction, on the LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 at 12:00 o’clock noon, feet. This lot is composed Certified Check or Money Honorable The Civil Sheriff ground floor of the Civil ______the following described of the whole of former Lot by virtue of a WRIT Parish of Orleans OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Order. No personal District Court of ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS District Court building, SALE bY property to wit: No. 106 and 13 feet 4 to me directed by the checks.) Orleans, in the above (504) 658-4391 421 Loyola Avenue, in A CERTAIN PORTION inches adjoining thereto of NNb 31 ORLEAnS SHERIFF Honorable The Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn entitled cause, I will LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 the First District of the OF GROUND, together former Lot No. 107. Sheriff proceed to sell by pub - ______City on March 1, 2018, JUDICIAL with all the buildings and WRIT AMOUnT: District Court of Parish of Orleans Orleans, in the above ATTy: DAyNA EDWARDS lic auction, on the SALE bY at 12:00 o’clock noon, ADvERTISEMEnT improvements thereon, $139,702.55 entitled cause, I will (318) 88-1440 ground floor of the Civil the following described and all the rights, ways, Seized in the above LM 27 ORLEAnS SHERIFF THAT PORTIOn proceed to sell by pub - LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 District Court building, property to wit: privileges, servitudes, suit, TERMS CASH. The lic auction, on the ______421 Loyola Avenue, in JUDICIAL LOT 37, SQUARE 3, OF GROUnD appurtenances and purchaser at the moment ground floor of the Civil SALE bY the First District of the ADvERTISEMEnT FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - bEARInG MUnICIPAL advantages thereunto of adjudication to make a nO. 4070 CLEMATIS District Court building, ORLEAnS SHERIFF City on March 1, 2018, THAT PORTIOn TRICT, belonging or in anywise deposit of ten percent of 421 Loyola Avenue, in at 12:00 o’clock noon, SOUTHLAWN SUbDIVI - AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW appertaining, situated in the purchase price, and the First District of the JUDICIAL the following described OF GROUnD SION ORLEAnS, In THE the THIRD DISTRICT of the balance within thirty City on March 1, 2018, ADvERTISEMEnT property to wit: bEARInG MUnICIPAL MUNICIPAL NO. 1145 CASE EnTITLED: the CITy OF NEW days thereafter. (NOTE: nO. 1145 SOUTHLAWn bAnK OF AMERICA n A at 12:00 o’clock noon, THAT PORTIOn LOT 19, SQUARE 334 SOUTHLAWN bLVD ORLEANS, WEST SIDE, The payment must be the following described THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - bLvD, CITY OF nEW ACQUIRED MIN vS UnOPEnED SUC - EDGEWOOD PARk, in Cash, Cashier’s Check, property to wit: OF GROUnD TRICT ORLEAnS, In THE 1162641 CESSIOn OF ELbERT the square bounded by Certified Check or Money LOT 7, SQUARE L, bEARInG MUnICIPAL MUNICIPAL NO. 5619- CASE EnTITLED: WRIT AMOUnT: C WATKInS AnD LILLY CLEMATIS AVENUE, Order. No personal THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - nO. 5619-5621 n. RAM - 5621 N. RAMPART WELLS FARGO bAnK, $68,037.99 bAKER WATKInS. GENTILLy bOULEVARD, checks.) TRICT, PART STREET, THIS STREET n.A. vS CLIFFORD Seized in the above Civil District Court for PIEDMONT DRIVE AND MARLIn n. GUSMAn CITY, In THE MATTER ACQ. MIN 1237604 WAYnE WHITE AnD suit, TERMS CASH. The the Parish of Orleans ST. VINCENT STREET, Sheriff kINGSWOOD SUbDIVI - Parish of Orleans SION EnTITLED: CITY OF WRIT AMOUnT: SAnDRA CEnnETT purchaser at the moment no. 2014-7984 which lot is designated by ATTy: ALLISON bEASLEy nEW ORLEAnS vER - $16,765.00 WHITE AKA SAnDRA of adjudication to make a by virtue of a WRIT the No. 130, on a survey (225) 924-1600 MUNICIPAL NO. 7141 LM 1 RIDGEFIELD DRIVE SUS RAnDALL DAvID Seized in the above CEnnETT JEnKInS deposit of ten percent of OF FIERI FACIAS to me made by Adloe Orr, C.E LA. WEEkLy 1/29/2018, 2/26/2018 ACQUIRED MIN 987644 HUTCHERSOn OR HIS suit, TERMS CASH. The WHITE the purchase price, and directed by the on June 1, 1940. Accord- ______

Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 29 - February 4, 2018 Krewe du Kanaval – Celebrating the New Orleans and Haiti connection By Geraldine Wyckoff guitar and today’s styles. Profits bolic and physical form of our Contributing Writer from the show and krewe mem - appreciation and love.” bership fees will benefit the “What we want to express Preservation Hall Foundation Jazz Fest Announces 2018 through this event is the impor - and KANPE, an organization Artists tant connection between New founded by Chassagne, whose You know it’s New Orleans Orleans and Haiti,” explains parents immigrated from Haiti. when all the talk is about both Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe of The money will be directed to Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. Last the Krewe du Kanaval ’s multi- under-served people in Haiti and Tuesday, the New Orleans faceted, sure to be colorful, New Orleans. Jazz & Heritage Festival debut taking place on Tuesday, While visiting Radio Gondo announced the artists who will February 6, 2018 . “It is one of Kreyol, the first Haitian radio be performing at its 49th the many important historical station in Louisiana, Jaffe found anniversary event, Friday, April and cultural pieces of our city much enthusiasm for the forma - 27-Sunday, April 29 and that is not always understood or tion of the Krewe of Kanaval Thursday, May 3-Sunday, May celebrated but is a part of our and that it celebrates Haiti and 6, 2018. life. It is a part of the food we its customs. Coincidentally, the A is for Aretha Franklin , eat, it is a part of the music we new event takes place at a time “The Queen of Soul” who will play, it’s part of many people’s when Haiti and its populace be closing out the big Acura spiritual being, it’s part of reli - have been undeservedly dispar - Stage on the fest’s first Saturday, gion in New Orleans. The histo - aged by #45. April 27. It’s been reported that ry between New Orleans and “The people of New Orleans’ Franklin, who was forced to can - Haiti and New Orleans and large Haitian community (pri - cel two previous Jazz Fest dates, Cuba and Cuba and Haiti is pro - marily based on the West Bank) will be backed by a full orches - found. Their history is as much are so excited to have such a tra. This will be one of those our history as our history is positive shine on their Carnival “don’t miss the legends” shows. their history.” Incidentally, traditions,” Jaffe exclaims. “It’s Jazz Fest has introduced a new kanaval is the Haitian kreyol Photo by Demian Roberts going to a very beautiful sym - policy this year by offering word for car nival. BOUKMAN EKSPERYANS Louisiana residents discounted Presented by the Preservation tickets for Thursday, May 3. Hall Foundation and Arcade very well be dancing in the very Congo Square and head to St. Thursdays have often been Fire’s Regine Cassagne and same spot where their ancestors Augustine Catholic Church for a referred to as “locals day,” and Win Butler, the celebration’s once congregated. ceremony at the Tomb of the now the nickname has teeth as full day of activities starts at 2 Congo Square stands at the Unknown Slave, a shrine erected tickets at the gate – not in p.m. at Preservation Hall, 726 center of the celebration and the in memory of the many “name - advance – for those carrying St. Peter Street with a proces - festivities include performances less, faceless” Africans who proper identification will be $50. sion – a parade rather than a by the always top-notch faced the cruelty of slavery and The regular ticket prices are $65 second line – that will include Preservation Hall Band, mem - died in the Tremé neighborhood. in advance and $80 at the gate. traditionally dressed Haitian bers of Arcade Fire (we don’t Located on the Gov. Nicholls’ In no way does the schedule dancers, the Hall Band, a rara know how many) and RAM , an side of the church, its main com - on “locals day” reflect any cut - rara ensemble and more. The ensemble from Haiti that blends ponent is a cross made of thick backs in talent. Actually it’s way destination of the parade will be its homeland’s traditions with chains on which shackles hang. hot with vocalist Lionel Richie , Congo Square , an historic modern sounds that The assemblage will then reggae masters Toots & the locale where free and enslaved founder/vocalist Richard A. return to Congo Square before Maytals , jazz legend, saxophon - people of color, including many Morse describes as “vodou rock heading back into the French ist Archie Shepp , the always Haitians of African descent, ‘n’ roll.” Several deejays will Quarter to arrive at One Eyed moving Blind Boys of Alabama once danced, played their also be spinnin’ with one com - Jacks, 615 Toulouse Street, for and many, many more. drums, traded goods and min - ing in from the Congo and a the krewe’s ticketed, nighttime Throughout the fest, tributes will gled. It has been written that French-African deejay arriving gala ball. Music will include abound for the late great Fats many of the approximately from Montreal. There will also Haiti’s, Grammy-winning, inter - Domino including one featuring 10,000 Haitians who had first be food vendors set up at the nationally renowned, politically pianist Jerry Lee Lewis backed fled to Cuba immigrated to New historic Square where admit - and socially conscious group by a band that will have some of Orleans between 1809 and 1810. tance will be free. Boukman Eksperyans that joins those musicians who played with Half of them were slaves. Some A procession led by Bruce its traditional Haitian roots and Photo by Demian Roberts Fats. “Blueberry Hill” meets of their blood relations could “Sunpie” Barnes will leave instrumentation with electric ARETHA FRANKLIN “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.”◊