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Online gun Problems at sales are slow S&WB in a Trump- continue to flood the city related slump By Susan Buchanan agency Contributing Writer By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer More people are shopping online, and they can buy guns there. In Louisiana, How does a public utility in a major someone purchasing a gun on a computer American city let its customers – especial - through an unlicensed vendor can avoid a ly the city’s citizens and small businesses – background check. Other states are more know that the utility’s administration hears stringent, however. Giffords Law Center their problems? to Prevent Gun Violence has rated This April 21, 2010 file photo shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning after an explo - How does the department even begin to Louisiana poorly for its firearms laws. sion in the Gulf of Mexico, off the southeast tip of Louisiana. assure citizens that after months of inefficien - Nationally, several, high-profile cy, waste, shoddy work, apathy and even crimes have involved guns bought on ineptitude, the ship is at long last being right - the net. But that doesn’t mean online ed, that the years of administrative and tech - sales have surged. U.S. sales of firearms nological chaos are finally coming to a close. have declined overall since Donald BP spill victims still demand justice In the case of the New Orleans Sewerage Trump was elected. His administration Settlement ignored clean-up workers, first responders and residents & Water Board, the challenge strikes to the is perceived as soft on guns, and the very heart of how a city and its people By Christopher Tidmore nation’s firearms sales are strongest As their petition noted, in the eight years function and survive: Trust. Contributing Writer when users fear that more restrictions since the largest oil spill in America’s history “When people feeling that the process isn’t are coming. was caused by the explosion of the being transparent and the system isn’t set up In a study early last year in the Annals At a press conference on Friday, August 31, Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico— to be fair to them, there is a lot of trust that of Internal Medicine by researchers at 10:30 a.m., just before the dawn of the Labor of the more than 37,000 qualified medical needs to be regained,” said the Rev. Gregory Northeastern and Harvard universities, Day weekend, Lt. General Russel Honore (Ret.), benefit claims submitted by cleanup workers, Manning, pastor of Broadmoor Community the Internet accounted for only 2.4 per - Lafitte Mayor Timothy Kerner and a group of first responders, and coastal residents—only Church, said of the S&WB’s public image. cent of all guns purchased nationally in health victims from those who cleaned up or approximately 40 have been paid. “Credibility and trust has been lost. The peo - the two previous years. Physical stores, fought the BP Oil Disaster delivered over As Jonathan Henderson, Organizer for ple need to hear (city officials) say, ‘We hear BPhealthjustice.com The Louisiana followed by friends and acquaintances, 70,000 petition signatures to the steps of the , noted to you, and we take full responsibility.’” were the main suppliers. Law Offices of Herman, Herman and Katz in As both a pastor and a moderator for the It isn’t hard to find a gun online. Downtown New Orleans demanding restitution. Continued on Pg. 2 community organization Justice and Beyond, Buyers can go to the site armslist.com , Manning has seen the often devastating effect check a box for “private party” vendors, of the S&WB’s inadequacies on the lives of and order a gun from an unlicensed sell - local residents. The most recent flashpoint of er who might be a collector or hobbyist. public frustration with the board, and the one Two United States Air Force Academy Terrytown school rethinks its hair policy most cited by Manning’s congregants, has Christ the King Elementary School La. school, FOX 8 News reported. grads, Jon Gibbon and Brian Mancini, been the proliferation of what can perhaps announced last week that it would scrap its Video of Faith Fennidy dejectedly walking founded armslist.com in 2007 after best be described as glitches, both technolog - hair policy that forbids students from wear - out of school two weeks ago drew accusations Craigslist stopped selling guns. ical and human, in the board’s billing process. ing hair extensions. that the rule targeted Black students. A state In Louisiana, a gun purchased from one Some residents, for example, went months However, it is unclear whether a sixth-grader judge blocked enforcement of the rule after the of armslist’s private parties can be deliv - without receiving any S&WB bills at all; oth - photographed leaving the school in tears after families of Faith and another girl, Tyrielle ered to a buyer without a background ers have been shocked by individual bills that being singled out by teachers for her braided check. Under a loophole in the federal hair extensions would return to the Terrytown, Continued on Pg. 8 requirement for checks, unlicensed ven - Continued on Pg. 13 dors don’t have to do background checks in the Pelican State and certain other states. But vendors do have to ask buyers their ages under state laws to make sure they aren’t too young. Nineteen states require unlicensed sell - Prison strike sheds light on harsh inmate treatment ers to do background checks on some or By Barrington M. Salmon Prison reform advocates say the and affect them. Workers Organizing Committee all gun buyers, according to the Contributing Writer 19-day strike is the biggest of its The strike began on August 21 and (IWOC), the Fire Inside California-based Giffords Law Center to type in history. Among the protes - is slated to end on Sept 9. Collective, Millions for Prisoners (TriceEdneyWire.com) — In an tors’ 10 demands are that they be The 19 days of peaceful protest and the Free Alabama Movement. Continued on Pg. 8 extraordinary display of defiance, treated like human beings, that the was organized largely by prison - JLS activists began preparing the inmates from penal institutions in 17 arbitrary use of force and punitive ers themselves, said a spokesman action in April after prison officials states and Canada have gone on measures by guards be scaled back for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak in South Carolina put rival gangs in strike to protest treatment by prison and that prison officials put in place (JLS), steered by an abolitionist the same dormitory which ignited an guards and rejection of a system measures that will give them a coalition that includes Jailhouse they condemn as brutal and abusive. greater say in affairs that concern Lawyers Speak, the Incarcerated Continued on Pg. 2 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM September 3 - September 9, 2018

Check with Voter Registrar – Are you still on the rolls? No matter which of the candi - By Mark Hedin natorial candidate Kris Kobach Swedlund, Palast found that local board of elections well in Democrat Danny O’Connor at dates is awarded Ohio’s vacant Contributing Writer expanded Crosscheck to 15 states among states using Crosscheck, advance of Nov. 6 to be sure that press time. 12th District Congressional seat by 2012 and 29 by 2014 and in one in six Hispanics, one in seven they’ll be allowed to vote. Ohio has removed almost based on the August election, vot - (Special from Ethnic Media 2017 was appointed to a leading Asian Americans and one in nine In 2018’s highly charged politi cal 200,000 voters from the rolls ers will get another chance to Services) — U.S. citizens across role in the White House’s short- African Americans landed on its environment, individual votes may because they appeared on the decide between Balderson and the country soon will vote on all lived Presidential Advisory list of suspect voters. count more than ever. Take, for Crosscheck lists. O’Connor in November. 435 seats in the House of Commission on Election Integrity. “The outcome is discriminatory example, the recent special election The margin of victory in the That’s why voters who want to Representatives, for 35 U.S. sena - In 2017, of 98 million voting against minorities,” Swedlund says. for the vacant seat representing state’s 12th District race may have their voices heard Nov. 6, in tors and three dozen governor - records Crosscheck analyzed, it The chief explanation for the Ohio’s 12th congressional district. ultimately be found among the Ohio and elsewhere, should call ships. The House of deemed 7.2 million potential racial inequity is that ethnic com - In that still undecided Aug. 7 5,048 absentee ballots not yet local officials ahead of time to see Representatives and possibly the duplicates, although Crosscheck munities are more likely to share a race, 1,200 votes separate tallied and the still uncounted if any problems have come up Senate are up for grabs. has yet to produce its first voter surname, such as Washington, Lee, Republican Troy Balderson and 3,435 provisional ballots. with their registration.◊ Given the high stakes, voters fraud conviction. Eight states that Patel or Kim, Palast told Ethnic would do well to check at least a originally signed on have since Media Services. month ahead of time with their local dropped out, citing unreliable data. Swedlund and Palast found that board of elections to see if they’re Nonetheless, it’s still in use in the Crosscheck system seems sat - still registered to vote. This is espe - dozens more. Eight of those state isfied that if two people share a BP spill victims still demanding justice cially true for people of color. have Senate seats up for a vote this common first and last name, Continued from Page 1 injured and made sick with a vari - them to come together because we The reason is that millions could year in contests that are expected they’re suspect. Differences in ety of chronic conditions because are still getting sick and dying. You find their right to vote challenged or to be close: Arizona, Nevada, their birthdate, middle initial, Weekly , “Many people who are neither BP or the federal govern - need to know what you can do to taken away under suspicion that Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Social Security numbers or suffix - sick with chronic conditions are ment, despite objections by be proactive about your health.” they’re trying to vote more than Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan. es such as “Jr.” and “Sr.” don’t being forced to file an individual Occupation Safety Health Former clean-up worker Luke once, largely due to 26 states using And 19 Crosscheck-using states keep registered voters off lawsuit against BP and pay a $400 Administration (OSHA) required Boudreaux recollected, “I stepped the Interstate Voter Crosscheck sys - are voting on their governor for the Crosscheck’s lists. filing fee to do so. Eight years after cleanup workers to be provided up to the plate as a citizen of tem, which compares lists of voters next four years. Not all seven million people the spill, none of these claimants with safety equipment, such as res - Louisiana to help clean up the oil in different states and challenges the In a 2015 study named “The whose names appear on have been able to present their evi - pirators, gloves, boots, Tyvek suits spill only to become critically ill registration of those whose names Health of State Democracies,” the Crosscheck’s lists will be denied a dence to a jury. Those who opted and similar protective gear. because of the toxic chemicals. I come up more than once. Center for American Progress, a vote, though. For one thing, only out of the settlement have fared no Moreover, many cleanup workers spent 3 weeks in the hospital and For the 1,166,000 people in the nonprofit funded in part by the 36.4 percent of the people who were better, because Judge Carl Barbier and zone residents have developed even fell into a coma. I lost every - country who share the surname Gates Foundation, Wal-Mart, Ford registered to vote even showed up at has allowed these cases to be cancer, blood diseases, and neuro - thing, and almost lost my life. It’s Garcia, this could be a problem. Foundation and many others, con - the polls in 2014. In one survey of stayed indefinitely.” logic problems related to the toxic disgusting to find out the lawyers, Likewise for the Rodriguezes cluded that the voters Crosscheck elections between 1960 and 1995, “Worse,” Henderson continued, oil/correxit mixture and other toxic including Stephen Herman, made (1,094,924), Jacksons (708,099), tagged for review are dispropor - the United States ranks dead last in “The attorneys on the Plaintiffs exposures from the BP spill and over $650 million while I have Washingtons (177,386), Kims tionately non-white. the democracies of the world, with Steering Committee walked away cleanup, but compensation for the received zero.” (262,352), Patels (229,973), Lees “States participating in the an average turnout of 48 percent. with more than $700 million and the aforementioned chronic conditions Sheree Stuart, widow of Frank (693,023) and Parks (106,696). Interstate Crosscheck system risk Would-be voters whose names politically-appointed Claims has been effectively eliminated. Stuart, the engineer that helped Crosscheck, developed in 2005 purging legally registered voters are missing from the lists of regis - Administrator walked away with Under the Medical Benefits set - manage response operations, by Kansas Secretary of State Ron with a significant oversampling tered voters will be given what’s $155 million. However, of the tens tlement process, to help those now charged, “To reduce their first Thornburgh as a free service for from communities of color,” it said, called a “provisional ballot,” to be of thousands of clean-up workers suffering with, or having died from round settlement, BP lawyers lim - participating states, promised to citing the work of journalist Greg tallied if the voter is ultimately and others suffering with health- chronic conditions like leukemia, ited settlements for illness before detect voter fraud by comparing Palast, who’s been studying the found to have been wrongly left related problems who submitted a cancers or respiratory issues, only diagnosed April 2012. Their argu - people’s names, social security U.S. voting system since 2000, for off the lists. Palast, however, skep - claim in the outlined process, only 40 claims—out of more than ment was they would set aside set - numbers and birthdates. Kansas, the BBC, al-Jazeera America, tical that many provisional ballots 20 percent were given even the min - 37,000 which qualified for com - tlement money for the cancers that Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri first Rolling Stone magazine and others are ever counted, refers to them as imum compensation – $1,300.” pensation—were paid for their would come years later. I call that implemented it in 2006. and produced a film about it, “The “placebo ballots.” Russel Honore specifically target - serious chronic condition cases. premeditated murder. They had During his tenure as Kansas’ sec - Best Democracy Money Can Buy.” Voters eager to cast genuine bal - ed for responsibility the Partners of Therefore, they concluded, the the opportunity to notify workers retary of state, current GOP guber - Working with data analyst Mark lots, then, might want to call their the Law Firm before which the Claims Administrator, in charge of of symptoms to watch for, and press conference occurred. As the processing and paying up to setup screening, monitoring, and a retired Lt. General emphasized, $60,000 to qualified victims in the medical protocol to follow so “BP bombed our clean-up workers first round of claims to injured workers could avoid extensive with chemicals while failing to pro - people who helped in the cleanup health issues and death that hit our vide the necessary protective gear. or lived in the designated disaster family like a baseball bat upside Prison strike sheds light on treatment A handful of lawyers including Mr. zones, suddenly changed the rules our heads. They notified no one.” Continued from Page 1 and international activist, said enterprise, many inmates literally Herman made off with hundreds of and saved BP over a billion dollars Henderson announced that a there has been a slow erosion of work for pennies and others labor millions of dollars. I speak up this in pay-outs since 2010. forthcoming documentary on the outbreak of violence leaving seven prisoner rights since the 1970s for free, said Dr. Kim Wilson. Labor Day weekend for those clean Mayor Timothy Kerner of plight of the cleanup workers will inmates dead. and the emergence of the belief “Exploitation of prison labor is at up workers and coastal residents Lafitte, Louisiana warned, “The soon make an appearance in local Representatives of the largely that rehabilitation is a waste of the heart of this strike,” said Dr. that continue to suffer this great shrimpers and fishermen in our forums, and that more information Black population of striking pris - time and unfair to those who Wilson, a prison abolitionist and injustice.” community need to take the BP on the fight for restitution can be oners said inmates are refusing to aren’t in prison. co-host of the podcast, ‘Beyond Henderson and the General con - health risk very seriously even found at http://www.bphealthjus - work in prison buildings, kitchens, In an August 22 press confer - Prisons.’ I don’t want people to get tended that cleanup workers were eight years after the spill. I urge tice.com/ .◊ laundries and on prison grounds. ence, media representatives of the the idea that this is an at-will job. It Palestinian inmates have striking inmates said information isn’t a system where people have a expressed solidarity and about 300 about the scope of the strike would choice to work. Some people are prisoners in Nova Scotia, Canada trickle in slowly. making zero and nearer to the also joined the strike. “We want to note that although release date, you are expected and Nicole Porter, director of there aren’t widespread reports of required to work.” Advocacy for The Sentencing actions coming out of prisons, Courtney Stewart, a prison Project, called the strike unprece - people need to understand that reform advocate released from dented, saying that it’s a cry by the tactics being used in this prison in 1985 and chair of the inmates to be seen and heard. strike are not always visible,” National Reentry Network for “We’ve had strikes and prison said Jared Ware a freelance jour - Returning Citizens in Washington, actions in the past, but the scale of nalist who was asked to be part of DC, said the prisoners who went this strike is new. We’ve seen inci - team that coordinated with the on strike had no choice. dents of in-prison activism and press. “Prisoners are boycotting “The thing is that these people, organized acts of resistance but commissaries, they are engaging the corporations who make up the we’re in new territory for this,” she in hunger strikes which can take Prison-Industrial Complex, have said. “This strike is important to days for the state to acknowledge, been getting away with murder for look at because it is a response to and they will be engaging in sit- a long time,” Stewart said. clashes in a South Carolina prison ins and work strikes which are “They’ve been able to sustain the and severely inhumane conditions not always reported to the out - Prison-Industrial Complex and there and elsewhere. We need to side. As we saw in 2016, they have ruined generations and recognize that people don’t lose Departments of Corrections are generations of the Black commu - humanity when they’re behind not reliable sources of informa - nity. It’s been so devastating and bars. Resistance is a part of US tion for these actions and will we still haven’t recovered.” history. They carry history and the deny them and seek to repress “Using the school-to-prison history of activism. It’s important those who are engaged in them.” pipeline and the War on Drugs, for officials to listen to these Ware said, “We have spoken with these people are criminalizing and activists and seriously consider family members who have sug - have imprisoned Black men, some of their recommendations.” gested that cell phone lines may be women and children. It’s profit A JLS statement released before jammed at multiple prisons in over people and power and money the strike, said, “Fundamentally, South Carolina. And New Mexico in this capitalist, white-privileged it’s a human rights issue… had a statewide lockdown yester - society we live in. They don’t see Prisoners understand they are day. The departments of correc - any value in the black family or being treated as animals. Prisons in tions in this country are working Black people. They always throw America are a warzone. Every day overtime to try and prevent strike pennies when it comes to fixing prisoners are harmed due to condi - action and to try and prevent word the African-American communi - tions of confinement. For some of from getting out about actions that ty. We have to address this with us, it’s as if we are already dead, so are taking place.” force and radicalism. There has to what do we have to lose?” Although the United States rep - be a radical revolution in how to Bill Fletcher, Jr., a veteran labor resents one-fifth of the world’s address this.” union organizer, said the strike population, 2.3 million people are Dr. Wilson agreed. highlights the problem of wide - incarcerated, the highest in the “I’m a prison abolitionist. I see spread abuses in the prison system world. Estimates are that about 60 prisons as part and parcel of that generally go unnoticed by the percent of that population is problem,” said Dr. Wilson, who larger society, which he believes African-American or Latino. has two of her sons serving life harbors a deep-seated bias against Those numbers could ratchet up sentences at Vaughn Correctional people behind bars. with Attorney General Jeff Facility in Delaware. “I don’t “I think this is really quite phe - Sessions, at the behest of President know how they (prison guards) nomenal,” he said of the strike Donald Trump, relaunching the sleep at night. But those individ - action. “The problem is that it has failed War on Drugs and giving ual people are part of a larger sys - gotten so little attention but the state attorneys and law enforce - tem. I’m more concerned with the attention it has gotten is signifi - ment the green light to crack down system as a whole.” cant. The larger problem is that we on criminal suspects even for non- “We want an end to the physi - are a society that believes in violent crimes, critics believe. cal places we call prisons and vengeance, not justice. People’s The Prison-Industrial Complex is conditions that make it possible general position is, ‘Don’t do the a sprawling entity that relies heav - in our society. But we can’t do crime if you can’t do the time.’” ily on inmates’ labor to produce that without addressing the Fletcher adds, “A related issue goods and services for an assort - underlying issues of racism, is that the prisoners, because they ment of companies, including anti-blackness, capitalism, gen - are for the most part people of major businesses and corporations der violence, ableism and other color, they are denied their such as Whole Foods, Starbucks, issues deeply implicated in the human rights and humanity.” McDonalds, Wal Mart, Victoria’s broader prison system. We must Fletcher, a talk-show host, Secret and AT&T. take seriously the things the pris - author and racial justice, labor While it is a more than $2 billion oners are saying.”◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - September 3 - September 9, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3

BKy Bilaly Cvorriaher naugh’s role in championing a segregationist judge one of the judicial nominees that Democrats’ evolving white. And it is happening while Contributing Writer I was primarily handling.” support for civil Trump faces allegations of crimi - However, the new emails show rights. nal activity and possible impeach - (Special from Facing South) – that on Jan. 28, 2003, he had a At Pickering’s con - ment. Even though he worked for When U.S. Supreme Court nomi - list of six “to-do” items related to firmation hearing, Kenneth Starr’s investigation of nee Brett Kavanaugh worked as the Pickering confirmation. senators also asked President Bill Clinton, Kavanaugh an attorney for President George Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. him about his con - changed his mind about investi - W. Bush, he helped to get Charles Dianne Feinstein of California tacts with gating the president after Clinton Pickering of Mississippi on the said that Kavanaugh “led on key Mississippi’s notori - left office and he went to work for 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals parts of the Charles Pickering ous Sovereignty President George W. Bush. He has — despite questions about nomination, which he denied.” Commission, a tax - since said that the law authorizing whether the attorney and former Feinstein and other Democrats payer-funded, segre - special prosecutors like Starr is prosecutor left the Democratic are protesting that only a fraction gationist agency that unconstitutional and that a sitting Party because it embraced civil of Kavanaugh’s papers will be targeted civil rights president cannot face criminal rights in the 1960s. Kavanaugh available by the time of his activists and sympa - charges. downplayed his role in the Supreme Court confirmation thizers. Pickering Despite the many concerns about Pickering nomination at his first hearing on Sept. 4. So far claimed he contacted Kavanaugh’s record, Republican confirmation hearing in 2006, but Republican leaders have refused the commission leaders in the Senate are moving at recently released emails raise to slow the process. because the Ku Klux KAVANAUGH PICKERING a brisk clip, with the goal of con - questions about whether in doing Klan had infiltrated a firming Kavanaugh before the so Kavanaugh misled the Senate. Segregation’s ghosts local labor union, but November election. During his 2002 confirmation When Pickering was nominated the commission’s records showed Civil rights advocates and other Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing, Pickering refused to in 2002, Mississippi was that he had actually contacted it progressive groups are protesting nomination comes amid a record This article originally appeared in answer a senator’s questions wrestling with the political about a civil rights group infiltrat - the nominee, who has the least number of confirmations of Facing South, the online magazine about his decision to leave the ghosts of its segregationist past. ing the union. public support of any Supreme President Trump’s judicial nomi - of the Institute for Southern Studies, party after the 1964 Democratic That year, for example, Senate National civil rights groups came Court nominee in decades. When nees, 90 percent of whom are www.southernstudies.org. ◊ convention. Pickering told a local Majority Leader Trent Lott of out hard against Pickering. Julian he was nominated to his current paper at the time that Mississippi was forced to resign Bond, at the time the NAACP’s position on the U.S. Court of Mississippians were “heaped with after praising Sen. Strom national chair, told senators that “a Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in humiliation and embarrassment” Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist vote for Pickering is a vote against 2003, he was not confirmed until after Black delegates, whom the presidential campaign. During a civil rights.” three years later amid concerns Cleo Fields seeks return state Democratic Party refused to celebration of Thurmond’s 100th However, some Mississippi about his record. seat, formed the Mississippi birthday, Lott said Mississippi civil rights leaders initially sup - Critics worry that Kavanaugh Freedom Democratic Party and was proud to have supported the ported the nominee. The newly would vote reliably with the to state legislature demanded to be included. campaign. released emails show Kavanaugh other conservatives to reject The Democratic-controlled “And if the rest of the country sent his colleagues news items challenges to voter suppression Baton Rouge attorney and Also running to replace Senate rejected Pickering’s initial had followed our lead,” he added, featuring local Black leaders laws. In 2012, for instance, Southern University alum Cleo Colomb is state Rep. Patricia nomination, but Bush renominat - “we wouldn’t have had all these backing Pickering. Charles Kavanaugh wrote an opinion Fields, once a rising star in the Smith, who is also term-limited ed him after Republicans took problems over all these years, Evers, the brother of slain civil rejecting a challenge to South U.S. House of Representatives, and has served in the Legislature control in 2002. New evidence either.” Lott was Pickering’s rights leader Medgar Evers, Carolina’s voter ID law. The U.S. is launching a bid to return to his since 2008. Smith told The New then emerged that countered strongest supporter in the Senate, praised Pickering’s role in the Department of Justice had Senate seat in the State Orleans Advocate that she is Pickering’s claim that he had and media accounts speculated prosecution of several members blocked the law under the Voting Legislature. aware of Fields’ interest in the worked to improve race relations. that the nomination was doomed of the Ku Klux Klan. Said Evers: Rights Act because it would have He served as a state Senator for Senate seat, which had been Records unearthed by a reporter after Lott stepped down. Judge Pickering was a locally disproportionately impacted 14 years. rumored for months. at Salon showed that Pickering Pickering was an eyewitness to elected prosecutor who took the black voters, marking the first Fields, who was videotaped “It’s a matter of letting the peo - had actually “worked to support history as part of the pro-segre - stand that year and testified in the time since 1994 that the accepting $20,000 from former ple decide who is the best person segregation, attack civil rights gation Mississippi Democratic criminal trial against the Imperial Department blocked a voter ID Louisiana Governor Edwin for the job,” Smith said. “I’ve advocates who sought to end Jim Party’s all-white delegation to Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, who law. South Carolina appealed to Edwards in 1997, was reported to passed a lot of bills that impact Crow, and back those who the 1964 Democratic convention. was accused of firebombing a the D.C. Circuit, which allowed be the beneficiary of a fundraiser people’s lives. I’ve been there for opposed national civil rights leg - Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activist. Judge the law to go into effect. held Wednesday, Aug. 29, in the people — not myself.” islation.” black civil rights activists formed Pickering later lost his bid for Kavanaugh’s opinion said the New Orleans. Fields, who has been popular Once in the Bush White House, the Mississippi Freedom reelection because he dared to law was not discriminatory and The New Orleans Advocate among Black voters for decades, Kavanaugh worked diligently Democratic Party (MFDP) as a defy the Klan. noted that in recent years “many reported last week that Rico served in Congress as a U.S. repre - behind the scenes to push rebuke to segregationists and Pickering’s supporters also states … have enacted stronger Avendia, one of 10 hosts for the sentative from 1988 to 2008. Pickering’s confirmation. He cir - demanded to be seated. After the cited the fact that he sent his chil - voter ID laws.” fundraiser, confirmed the event Although Fields was captured in culated information on the nomi - MFDP delegates were given for - dren to integrated public schools A recent report from the and the fact that Fields is run - the FBI video that ultimately led nee to senators, and he worked on mal at-large status, Pickering and at a time when many wealthy Lawyers’ Committee for Civil ning for his former Senate to Gov. Edwards’ 2000 bribery a lengthy op-ed by the attorney his fellow white delegates white Mississippians did not. and Human Rights raises con - District 14 seat in Baton Rouge. conviction, Fields was never general supporting Pickering. walked out. That’s when he told a Evers continued to defend cerns that Kavanaugh adheres to Those attending the fundraiser charged and has never publicly But the Senate ultimately refused reporter that the MFDP had Pickering even after his law part - the idea of a “color-blind were asked to pay $500. explained the transaction. to confirm his nomination, lead - embarrassed Mississippi. ner’s papers and the Sovereignty Constitution” that, for example, If elected, Fields will serve a Fields, now 55, was first elect - ing President Bush to put him on After Pickering’s renomination, Commission’s records surfaced. does not conform to Supreme four-year term that begins in 2020. ed to the state Senate seat at the the appeals court via a temporary records from his longtime law Court precedents allowing uni - He is seeking to replace state age of 26. He ran for Congress recess appointment. partner, the staunch segregation - Unprecedented opposition versities to use affirmative action Sen. Yvonne Dorsey Colomb, D- successfully in 1993, but the dis - A few years later at his own ist Carroll Gartin, showed that Kavanaugh is expected to face policies to achieve diversity. The Baton Rouge, who is term-limit - trict was invalidated by the U.S. confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh Pickering had switched to the questions at his Supreme Court progressive think tank Demos ed and cannot seek re-election to Supreme Court four years later. testified that Pickering was “not Republican Party due to the confirmation hearing about agreed and explained that the the Senate seat. She replaced He launched an unsuccessful whether he previously misled sen - “color-blind” approach “is a way Fields in 2008 in Senate District bid in the 1995 gubernatorial ators about his role in the Pickering of pretending that discrimination 14, which is two-thirds Black and race, besting Mary Landrieu in nomination and other controversial does not exist, or that it would runs from north Baton Rouge the primary before losing to Bush administration actions such disappear if we would just not through downtown and into south Republican Mike Foster in the Orleans Parish D.A. as the torture of terror suspects. focus on it.” Baton Rouge. general election.◊ frustrated over bond settings Police arrested 44-year-old arrests and risks themselves and Lawrence Howard on May 18 the D.A. who want to keep peo - and booked him with home inva - ple in jail so he can prosecute sion and violating a protective them,” FOX 8 analyst Joe order, according to FOX 8 News. Raspanti said last week. According to the arrest war - Police arrested 31-year-old rant, police say after Howard Kerwin Duncan back on June 5 was released from jail on a previ - and booked him with simple bur - ous domestic abuse battery glary of an inhabited dwelling. charge, he entered his ex-girl - According to the arrest warrant, friend’s home stating, ‘Oh, you police say Duncan burglarized an got a new boyfriend. I’ll show Airbnb rental. The owner of the you.’ The victim told police rental property told police that Howard used a brick to smash he observed a man in the rear the window before leaving. yard of his Airbnb rental. The day after being released, On the same day as his arrest, Howard made his first appear - Duncan made his first appear - ance in Commissioner Robert ance in Commissioner Albert Black-burn’s court. Thibodeaux’s court. Commissioner Black-burn issued “Under the rules, it says a Howard a $500 cash bond. judge is supposed to consider a Howard bonded out of jail. threat to society, to other or “The factors that should be yourself or your risk of flight, a considered should be the serious - component of that is how many ness of the charge for which prior convictions you have,” someone is arrested. You should Raspanti explained. certainly consider a person’s his - FOX 8 News reported that tory and the violence that he may Duncan has a lengthy criminal have been involved in,” Orleans history that includes, one felony Parish D.A. Leon Cannizzaro conviction and 14 misdemeanor told FOX 8 News. convictions. Cannizzaro did not comment According to his pre-trial serv - specifically about this case, but has ices report, Duncan has previ - expressed frustration in the past ously failed to show up in court, about what he believes are unac - 15 times. ceptable bonds given to suspects. Commissioner Thibodeaux “I think judges who have the gave Duncan a $50 bond. ultimate discretion are being The D.A. refused the charge nudged one way by the state leg - against Duncan. The other sus - islature who wants to cut down pect, Lawrence Howard, has on prison rolls versus the police refused to show up in court since department who made a lot of he bonded out of jail. ◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM September 3 - September 9, 2018 Celebrating Black beauty and strength By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

Blacks folks ain’t nothin’ nice. There’s of nearly four centuries. nothing we can’t do when we put our Those who feel the brother and what minds together. Just look at how far he was trying to convey would agree we’ve already come. that such a sobering reality is incentive We’ve survived countless assaults on enough for Black folks to keep on keep - the Motherland by Arabs, Greeks, ing on and continue to fight for our dig - Romans and other european invaders nity, humanity and freedom. and “conquerors.” We’ve resisted Perhaps one of the reasons we are so numerous attempts to decimate our cul - despised, feared and envied by our

S ture and history by insisting upon teach - oppressors is our indomitable resilience, ing and learning our story from our per - spirit and beauty. We simply refuse to spective, as opposed to “his-story” die or go away. We ain’t havin’ it. We N through Western eyes. We survived come from a long line of strong, proud being packed like sardines in slave people who understood that the purpose fortresses along the coast of West Africa of all life is to pay homage to the

O as our captors stored us until they were Creator through our words and deeds. I ready to rip and drag us from our ances - We know instinctively that the Creator tral homeland into the Western is the source and aim of all life. Hemisphere. We survived the Middle We must also understand that the eTTeR TO THe dITOR

N L e Passage although we were shoved into Architect of the Universe stands with I the bellies of slave-trading vessels and us in our struggle to walk on the Illegal/Nuisance Yellow School Bus placed in spoon-like fashion alongside righteous path as we strive for truth,

P one another and left to lie in our own justice and liberation. Parking in New Orleans blood, urine, bile, feces and tears for Still, sometimes we underestimate three months or more. our strength and power as a people. We Why yet another school year is stupid. I’ve heard visitors to front of your door every has begun in New Orleans, and this city question this perplexing evening, and all weekend? O We survived the indignity of standing be bad. Unfortunately, amid distrac - on the Auction Block and the Great tions like racism, classism, material - still the rampant, nuisance practice...they say this could Would you just ignore it? I enslavement that ensued, knowing that ism and a “schism of otherisms,” we parking of school buses in our never occur in their city because don’t think so. Well, that’s how somehow, someday, we would once again sometimes forget that. communities, when not in use, they have laws...they have stan - the community feels. We can’t continues. This is like home - dards. It’s embarrassing to have & be free. (While we are still working All we need to do when we want to ignore it...it’s right there in lessness in this town...glaring to explain something so absurd. plain sight. How come you toward that day, no one can argue that we remember is look at all the things we’ve straight at us, right in front of Guess what...we have don’t see it? It’s time to stop have not made considerable progress for accomplished in spite of the obstacles our eyes every day, but we act laws...what we don’t have is ignoring the community you so a people stripped of everything centuries we’ve faced. I thought about that after both like we don’t see it. This enforcement in majority Black repetitively chant that you are S ago and forced to toil for others.) the Million Man March and the Million seems to be a nasty, nagging, areas of the city, where these serving. Oh, and by the way, We sang and prayed in the hush har - Woman March. If, with our limited unexpected consequence of the buses are dumped. If these same Illegal/nuisance school bus bors and cotton fields of the south, resources (compared with those in power) so-called ed reform debacle in buses were parked on Canal parking is not due to the knowing that things would get better by we can do so much, just imagine what we this town, that either you can’t Street, Poydras Street, “uniqueness” of New Orleans’ L and by, and preparing to make things might accomplish if we truly came togeth - figure out, can’t get up enough Carrollton Ave., and Audubon education scene...it’s because better sooner rather than later. er with unity of purpose and determination courage to admit to and fix, or Blvd. they would be ticketed you are not doing your job. We laughed and danced and did the to end once and for all our oppression. probably the real reason—it’s immediately. It’s hard to look at going to cost some money that this whole issue in a positive – David M. Terrie

A cakewalk when we heard the good news We’ve shown we have the organizational ed-reform folk don’t want to way, when clearly this is that President Abraham Lincoln had skills we need to be free. We’ve just got to spend. It’s amazing how the not even fair to the com - finally decided to sign the emancipation be relentless and unswerving in our efforts The I local media ignores something munities from which the Proclamation and legally end slavery. to liberate ourselves. We also have a moth - so obviously out of whack. students are being plucked, Louisiana even though we were understandably erlode of brainpower and expertise. Why is that? and hauled many miles scared to death, had no money, no educa - Africans in the Motherland and across the Not more than a year and a away to attend school, to Weekly

R tion and no idea how we were going to diaspora look to Africans in America for half ago, New Orleans Public then later have the bus survive in America, we managed to carve inspiration and guidance. We’ve got to do Schools Superintendent dr. drivers haphazardly dump (USPS 320-680) out a life for ourselves. No group of peo - more to live up to our responsibilities as Henderson Lewis assured me these same buses in the One of the oldest publications in the United States ple has ever done so much with so little. one of the most educated groups of and the community, that he was kids’ neighborhoods. specifically for the

O Little did we know that the struggle Africans living on the planet. commencing a “study” on What’s ironic is that a lot African-American was far from over. Soon after slavery Africans in America have proven that school bus transportation that of the people that are asso - community. was abolished, the terrorism campaigns we know how to make money. And would include a solution to the ciated with these schools against us began. Groups like the Ku although our ideas and creativity often issue of illegal school bus park - in whatever manner, don’t Since 1925 T ing. I can only assume that by even live in the neighbor - Klux Klan and the White Citizens end up making more money for others now, that study has been com - hoods from which the kids Council were formed to remind Black than for us, we still are better off finan - pleted—am I also to assume that travel...so they either don’t RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL I freedmen of “our place” in American cially than Africans in many places. the decision was to disregard the have to deal with the President/Publisher society. But even in the face of the mob Still, we’ve got to learn how to use the citizens’ concerns, disregard trashy sight of nuisance EDMUND W. LEWIS violence and virulent hatred that charac - power, influence and wealth we have laws, and to let the assault on bus parking, or, because of Editor terized the Post-Reconstruction era, the amassed to further the goals of all our quality of life continue? their job, they choose to D DAVID T. BAKER indignities and suffering that Jim Crow Africans. Money means nothing if we I keep using the word illegal, as say nothing. Associate Editor brought to us and the bloodshed and do not use it break the shackles that con - I have been assured by city park - Well, somebody is say - ing control and the NOPd, that ing something....we have sacrifices we were forced to make dur - tinue to bind us and prevent us from SHARON ARMSTRONG E ing the historic Civil Rights Movement, becoming all we can be. the parking of school buses on been saying something for neighborhood streets when not years...and we are all fed SUSAN BUCHANAN we managed to hold our heads up high African people living in the United FRITZ ESKER and walk through the eye of the storm States remind me a great deal of the engaged in picking up/dropping up with the foolishness. It off of students is indeed...illegal. has gotten to the point that DELLA HASSELLE with made-up minds and rested souls. image of Africa and her people as a It is my understanding, that, in residents are jumping in MEGHAN HOLMES We promised ourselves that we weren’t sleeping giant. So much beauty, power the recent past, community com - front of buses when they CHARMAINE JACKSON going to let nobody turn us around. And and potential that has largely gone plaints have resulted in the tick - are speeding over the 25 FR. JEROME LeDOUX for the most part we haven’t. untapped. As long as we continue to eting of violators. Crazy thing mph speed limit, and chal - BRITTANY ODOM Several centuries after we were first sleepwalk, people are going to have is...the bus ticketing seems to lenging the bus drivers JAMES SEBASTIEN enslaved in the United States, we are their way with us. But when we decide have only occurred when a citi - when they park illegally. MICKEY STANLEY still fighting the good fight and trying to wake up and handle our business, zen called in to complain. And What has to happen CHRISTOPHER TIDMORE still today, in some areas, as before this wrong is right - to finish the race our ancestors have we’ll truly become a force to be reck - MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH much as 20 big, yellow school ed? We are demanding to literally been running for thousands of oned with. No government or system RYAN WHIRTY years. And you know what? We may will be able to hold us back once we buses can be found within a one- know what your plan of or two-block radius of one action is to immediately NAYITA WILSON be tired, we may become discouraged decide that we’ve had enough of this GERALDINE WYCKOFF from time to time, but we ain’t even second- and third-class status and are another, PARKed ON CITY end the onslaught of nui - STReeTS, CLeARLY NOT sance parking of school Contributing Writers/Columnists thinking about quitting. prepared to do whatever it takes —for eNGAGed IN THe ACT OF buses all over the city of CHARLES SILER Our oppressors have seen fit to attack however long it takes — to be free. PICKING UP/dROPPING OFF New Orleans. Contributing Cartoonist us in waves with one of the most recent Frederick douglass once said that STUdeNTS. I’m not Remember, if everyday PENNY JONES waves characterized by Black houses of “power concedes nothing without a kidding...look for yourself. (and all weekend) you Administrative Assistant worship being set aflame, Black men, demand. It never did and it never will.” Additionally, the buses can be opened the door to your CHRISTOPHER D. HALL women and children being assaulted We can’t expect anyone to show us how found 10 at-a-time parked in lots home and saw a big, yel - Business/Circulation and murdered by the police, attacks on to be free; that’s something we have to not zoned for bus parking, at low school bus parked affirmative action and a number of other do for ourselves. Never in the history of prominent intersections such as right in front of your Published every Monday elysian Fields/Filmore Ave, on home, what would you by attempts to turn back the proverbial the world has any group willingly hand - The Louisiana Weekly Publishing clock. When the late John Henrik ed over its power to those it has subju - empty lots in neighborhoods, on do? What if you discov - Company, Inc. Clarke visited New Orleans in the gated to the lower rungs of society, so narrow driveways between hous - ered that the bus driver Est. 1925, 1990s, he said that Africans in America the ball’s in our court. es, in strip-mall parking lots, doesn’t even live in your 2215 Pelopidas Street, Suite A under elevated freeways, etc... neighborhood, yet he New Orleans, LA. 70122. must be realistic and honest with our - We would do well to remember that This is utterly ridiculous. This parks his bus right in For offices and advertising, selves about who and where we are as a UNIA founder Marcus Garvey believed call (504) 282-3705 or people. While times have changed and in us enough to devote his life to the lib - FAX (504) 282-3773 some things have gotten better for eration struggle of Africans in America POSTMASTER: Send change Africans in America, Clarke contended and across the world. “Up, you mighty we’ve gotten together on many occasions to talk about it. of address to: The Louisiana Weekly, that the position of Africans in America race,” he once said, “you can accom - We’ve had the March on Washington. We’ve had the P.O. Box 8628 in relation to the position of our oppres - plish what you will!” Garvey also told Million Man March and the Million Woman March (Two New Orleans, LA 70182-8628 sors has not really changed a great deal Africans that “without confidence, you Million Woman March by some accounts). We’ve had the Periodical Postage Paid since 1619, the year 20 Black inden - are twice defeated in the race of life. Million Family March and the Millions for Reparations at New Orleans tured servants arrived in the “New With confidence, you have won even Rally. Now it’s way past time for us to get down to the busi - SUBSCRIPTION RATES ness of doing whatever it takes to free our minds, bodies and World.” He was essentially saying that before you began.” One Year $30 the power relationship between Having struggled for centuries, spirits. Nobody else can or should do that for us. Two Years $52 europeans and Africans in America has Africans have learned many lessons If not us, who? If not now, when? Three Years $72 Out-of-state subscribers not shifted significantly over the course about what it takes to be free. And In the spirit of the Ancestors, harambee.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - September 3 - September 9, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 5 Is Trump Use of the ‘N-word’ is far from looking out for the only measure of racism By Jesse Jackson the White House. On the stump, he quite ship made of diverse TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist purposefully stokes up his audiences with planks. If Blacks are workers? racial slurs, providing powerful permission abandoned, the ship By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Last week, amid the continuing clamor of for his followers to echo his hatreds. will sink. If women are JACKSON FLETCHER NNPA Columnist Trump’s chaos presidency, the question of And throughout his administration, discouraged, the ship whether Trump had used the n-word racial bias is expressed in the systematic will sink. If Latinos are stripped off, the ship This may seem strange, but there are apparently became a media sensation. rollback of programs to enforce equal will sink. If women, people of color and the unions that feel that President Donald Trump’s policies on trade are in Omarosa Manigault Newman, the presi - rights and justice under the law. young are weakened, working people are the interests of workers in the United States. I am a bit perplexed. dent’s former aide, claims there is a tape of Trump has encouraged the police to get weakened. We float or sink together. If you leave aside for a moment the horrendous assaults that him using the vile racial slur. White House “rough” with suspects, and his Justice Democrats have no choice but to stand Trump and his Republican allies have been conducting against press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Department has essentially gutted strong against the rollback of civil rights and American workers and their unions, it is still difficult to see how said she “can’t guarantee” that a tape does - Obama’s initiative to redress systematic the stoking of racial fears that have become Trump’s views on trade are helping American workers. n’t exist. Trump tweeted, “I don’t have that bias in America’s urban police forces. His the signature of Trump’s presidency. Let’s look at the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAF - word in my vocabulary.” The press pursued judicial appointees are slowly rolling back Some argue that Trump’s racism is long - TA) for a moment. Trump has repeatedly suggested that the U.S.— the question as if this would establish for affirmative action, furthering the perverse standing, evident early in as a nation—has been the principal victim of NAFTA; that turns one and for all whether Trump is a racist. argument that affirmative efforts to over - his career as a developer. out to be less than true. Workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico Say what? Using the n-word has become come racial bias are somehow a violation Others suggest that the

have all been victimized by NAFTA. For instance, NAFTA unacceptable in civilized society, but its use of the Constitution. racial bias is instrumen - C destroyed Mexican agriculture, and forced a massive migration of is hardly the measure of racism. From the Department of Education to tal, reflecting his politi - Mexican farmers into the cities of Mexico and later to the U.S. In a brilliant article in The New York the Labor Department and the cal judgment that he Many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed and gone to border Times , Steven W. Thrasher puts this diver - Environmental Protection Agency and prospers by dividing the areas of northern Mexico where the workers are underpaid. sion to rest by arraying the many ways across the government, civil rights divi - country. The motivation O Canadian companies have left Ontario and moved to the U.S. in Trump has consistently and openly dis - sions have been weakened, their authority doesn’t matter. search of cheaper labor. played his racial bias. His list included and budgets cut. Conservative justices What matters is how we What does Trump say about this? Nothing, as a matter of fact. calling majority black nations “s—hole gutted the Voting Rights Act, and now respond. My own firm

Instead he acts as if the people of these other countries are out to countries,” slandering immigrants as more Trump’s Justice Department has weakened belief is that Trump is M carve up the U.S. the way that you carve a turkey at Thanksgiving. likely to commit crimes, slurring Mexicans efforts to block voting reforms that dis - wrong. Americans are bet - This leads to another question. If Trump is squeezing U.S. work - as rapists, and claiming that the white criminate against African Americans, ter than he assumes. We ers through his judicial appointments, destruction of worker and supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., includ - Latinos and the poor. have overcome slavery and environmental regulations, and siding with the corporate “Right” ed “some very fine people. Republicans who increasingly are becom - segregation and are build - against workers, why would anyone assume that in dealing with Thrasher also details Trump’s penchant ing the party of Trumpery overwhelmingly ing a diverse society that is M NAFTA negotiations or negotiations with China that he would be for insulting the intelligence of African- express approval of Trump’s “handling” of our strength. We care about particularly concerned about the interests of U.S. workers? Americans — calling CNN host Don race. Weakening enforcement of civil rights equal justice and equal I suppose that I look at it this way. If the neighborhood bully reg - Lemon and basketball star LeBron James is immoral. It is also pernicious. When the rights. We don’t want to be ularly assaults me and then one day comes to me and says that dumb, calling U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters a rights of African-Americans are weakened, torn apart by those who “we” should join together against some people on another block, “low IQ person,” denigrating Manigault the rights of Latinos, of women, of the hate or to be driven by our E why would I believe them? In fact, why would I believe that my Newman as a “dog.” young and the disabled are also undermined. fears rather than our hopes. interests and those of the bully are at all aligned? We can’t allow Trump to dumb down Just as the movement for civil rights led to Whether he used the N- racism, limiting the standard to whether one dramatic advances for women, for the young, word or not, Trump is

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer and activist. Follow him on utters the n-word or not. There is more than for the disabled, the abandonment of civil spreading poison. N Twitter @BillFletcherJr, Facebook and at www.billfletcherjr.com .◊ enough repeated evidence of Trump’s bias rights enforcement will be widely felt. The only question now that whether he used the word or not won’t This puts a particular burden on Democrats is whether citizens of con - change the self-evident conclusion. and so-called independent voters. Unlike the science will come together

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Dr. King’s A dream on the How long? By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. embarrassing the nation on the evening staunchest sup - R TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist news as though that is the normal thing porter of what to do. From 2008 to 2016, we enjoyed Trump and his ballot The world has waited much too long the respect and admiration of most peo - Administration

SAUNDERS By Lee Saunders to find out when Americans are going ple in the world. Now, we look back — with empha - Y TriceEdneyWire.com Guest Columnist to rescue our nation from the havoc on those years as the good old days. sis being on we’ve witnessed just about daily since How long will it take us to get back to 1600 WILLIAMS Fifty-five years ago this week, Dr. Martin Luther King stepped to the #45 and his folks have been in charge days like the Obama years? How long? Pennsylvania podium at the Lincoln Memorial and delivered one of the most famous of “Making America Great Again.” We pray that the answer is “Not long.” Avenue, NW— speeches in American history: “I Have A Dream.” We’ve agonized through 2017 and now Even those who grumbled during the are doing to destroy our country. & The March on Washington was about more than desegregation, we’re almost at the end of 2018 wait - Obama years are now wishing President Omarosa had the foresight to know voting rights and equal access to public accommodations. It was also ing for the end of the agony called the Obama could be President again. We that one day the tapes would be useful a demonstration specifically for economic empowerment and oppor - Trump Administration. It just seems to have gone from the brilliance and shin - in returning this nation to one that is tunity. Organized by two labor leaders, Bayard Rustin and A. Philip get worse by the day. ing light of the Obama years where we at least trying to perfect itself. Now Randolph, its full name was the “March on Washington for Jobs and As much as Rachel Maddow has had great hope for an even better world that Michael Cohen has confessed his O Freedom.” And Dr. King’s dream, in addition that we be judged by tried to keep us updated on folks to the deep pit of ignorance, more sins and implicated Trump, maybe it’s the content of our character, was that African-Americans would no who’ve been pushed out of this racism, more misogyny, more crime not too long before we’ll begin to see longer live “on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast Administration that promised to drain from so-called leaders, more hopeless - the light of day and begin to return to P ocean of material prosperity” (one of the speech’s first lines). the swamp, I’ve lost track and it ness and the list goes on and on. some semblance of sanity. I use the Throughout his life, Dr. King made the connection between economic seems that Rachel’s board has long I dread thinking about what our chil - words “some semblance of sanity” justice and racial justice a centerpiece of his doctrine, especially toward ago run out of space! dren must be thinking about the world because I fear that it will take years to I the end of his life when he began to organize the Poor People’s During the past week, we seem to be in which they are now growing up. The repair the damage we are now wit - N Campaign. He was also a strong ally of the union movement, which is inching closer toward a place where Presidency was once something to nessing. The Republican leadership what brought him to Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. even the Republican leaders should be appreciate, something so awesome that seems to have no intention of putting Thirteen hundred sanitation workers – members of my union: the about ready to throw in the towel and only the few could aspire to become. a stop to Trump’s madness. Mitch American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees confess that the swamp they brought to Now I wonder how many young people McConnell’s and Paul Ryan’s silence I

(AFSCME) – had gone on strike to protest plantation-like working condi - Washington, DC in January of 2017 is look at the current President and wonder are plainly giving their consent to O tions. For African-American workers up against a pro-segregation mayor, far worse than what they call the swamp who’d want to be like him! The person what’s going on as the Republican walking off the job was an unimaginably courageous statement of collec - they imagined we already had here! holding the title of President now is a Party is dragged deeper into the pits tive action. But that’s exactly what they did, after the gruesome death of President Barack Obama presided disgrace to humanity. by their leader. How long? Prayerfully two men in an accident caused by a malfunctioning, rundown truck. They over one of the best Administrations of No matter what one might think of not long before this is over. N marched under a proud and defiant slogan, a simple but powerful declara - my life. We didn’t have to witness a Omarosa, I pray that she will move a tion of their humanity in just four words: I AM A MAN. new scandal every time we turned on bit faster on releasing the tapes she Dr. E. Faye Williams is President of the

Dr. King came to Memphis to lend his support. Despite crippling the news. We didn’t see the President’s has of Donald Trump’s madness so National Congress of Black Women, S fatigue and overwhelming demands on his time, he came to Memphis lawyers and staff pleading guilty or that it will be clear for even the Inc. (202) 678-6788. ◊ because he saw in the sanitation workers’ struggle everything that the next phase of the civil rights movement had to be about – fighting poverty and asserting the dignity of working people. Memphis, tragically, would be Dr. King’s last campaign. He was gunned down by an assassin at the Lorraine Motel on the evening of April 4. A few weeks later, the strike was settled, with the city acceding to most of the sanitation workers’ demands. Mourning Kofi Annan, To mark the 50th anniversary of these events, AFSCME launched an initiative called I AM 2018, which brought thousands to Memphis this past April to march and demonstrate, to honor the sacrifice of Dr. King and the sanitation strikers. remembering Ron Walters But I AM 2018 isn’t just a history lesson. It is about both reflection and By Julianne Malveaux United Nations are twofold, in my world, and he renewal. It is more than a commemoration; it’s a call to action. Because, TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist opinion. First, he was committed to focused on the while there has been substantial progress since 1968, America is still peace, and to the UN’s peacekeeping ways that preda - plagued by racial discrimination, vast income inequality and a rigged Kofi Annan made his transition in role. He saw human rights as more tory global capi - MALVEAUX economy that stifles the freedom of all working people. The goal is to August. The seventh Secretary- important than “state sovereignty” and talism shaped the draw courage and inspiration from the Memphis heroes, so we can contin - General of the United Nations, he felt that the UN had a role in maintain - ways many in the developing world ue the fight for civil rights, workers’ rights and human rights. worked up from the lower ranks (start - ing citizen rights in the face of state lived. Annan, the consummate diplo - So, I AM 2018 didn’t begin and end with a few events in Memphis ing at age 24) of the international brutality. To be sure, he failed to rec - mat, would not use the same[ words this spring. This is a sustained campaign involving the training and organization, to serve as head of ognize the threat to human rights in that I have. But he was passionate in mobilizing of thousands of activists to make change in their commu - peacekeeping operations, and four Rwanda (as did the Clinton adminis - advancing the vision of global politics nities. I AM 2018 is about political engagement. Over the next sever - years into his term as UN Secretary- tration and the rest of the world). that was both peaceful and expansive. al weeks we will connect the Memphis story to today’s challenges, General, earning the Nobel Peace Still, he expanded the role of the In these moments after his transi - asking people to answer the call to action: by organizing not just in Prize. Annan, born in the kente-weav - United Nations by asserting the impor - tion, African Americans must celebrate the streets but also on-line, by voting in the upcoming elections, and ing province of Kumasi, Ghana, was tance of human rights. the legacy of Kofi Annan. We must by holding elected officials accountable after that. the first African to lead the United Kofi Annan’s second significant commemorate an African man with a Through I AM 2018, we must put Dr. King’s dream on the ballot in Nations. After leading the UN for a contribution was his expanded defini - global vision by widening our lens to November and on the nation’s agenda in the months and years to follow. decade, he continued to serve the tion of human rights, which included acknowledge our global view of, in world in a peacekeeping role through the fight against global poverty, global the words of the late Dr. Ron Walters Lee Saunders is the national President of the American Federation of his foundation and in a leadership role warming and AIDS. In other words, (the dean of African-American politi - State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). You can follow the in the Elders, a peacekeeping group. he felt that human rights included the I AM 2018 campaign on Instagram (@IAM2018) .◊ Kofi Annan’s contributions to the right for us all to live in a better Continued on Page 13 Page 6 September 3 - September 9, 2018 HEALTH & HEART H THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - & H YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM EEEAAARRRWWWAAAXXX , of all things, poses

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And when it goes unrecog - and debris — is normally pro - Academy of Otolaryngology-Head growing number of businesses nized, it can pose serious prob - duced by the body as a way to and Neck Surgery Foundation. devoted to cleaning hearing aids lems, especially for the 2.2 million clean and protect the ears. In most In 2016, federal Medicare recip - and checking the ears of elderly people I see have some degree of Hearing-aid users should have people who live in U.S. nursing people, the self-cleaning process ients logged nearly 1.7 million ear - people living in residential care impaction and most are com - regular ear checks every three to homes and assisted living centers. works fine. wax removal services at a cost of settings. pletely impacted.” six months, the guidelines suggest. “The excessive amount [of ear - But in others — including about more than $51 million, according “It’s epidemic,” said York, Julie Brown, assistant director of People with dementia should also wax] can cause hearing loss or 10 percent of young children, 20 to payment records analyzed by whose clients now include 10 nursing in the memory support have earwax removed regularly. ringing in your ears. Some people percent of adults and more than 30 Kaiser Health News. local centers. “About three in five unit at SilverRidge Assisted It can take a professional with an Living in Gretna, Neb., said otoscope — a device that can look impacted earwax can be a particu - deep inside the ear — to tell if lar problem for patients with cerumen is blocking the ear canal. dementia. It exacerbates hearing Usually, earwax can be safely loss, which can impede communi - removed by softening it with cation and worsen aggression and water, saline or commercial ear other difficult behaviors. drops and then through gentle Microwaving food in plastic “As soon as the earwax is cleared syringing or manual extraction up, even their behavior has calmed with a device called a curette. down,” Brown said. The effects in the elderly can Excessive earwax sends about 12 be immediate. A small 2014 million people to see health work - study by Japanese researchers Bcy Golenn nEllis taineramsou nts— of plast icsD into faood. ngluge, heave rbeeon assuociats ed ?with one thing is certain: Glass and ers every year, including about found significant improvements Contributing Writer Heating food in plastic seems to health issues such as autism and ceramic are always a safe option. eight million who require wax in hearing and cognitive per - increase the amount that’s trans - obesity, as well as limited muscle But if you want to get into the nitty- removal, according to the oto - formance in elderly patients with (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Do ferred to food. This migration also mass and bone strength. gritty, here’s what you need to laryngology association. memory disorders when impact - you regularly heat up leftovers in increases when plastic touches So what to do? To reduce unnec - know. If the chemicals are getting That’s not counting the people ed cerumen was removed. plastic food-storage containers? fatty, salty or acidic foods. essary risk, experts advise every - into food, we need to understand who try DIY treatments to get rid Too often, though, earwax in the Do you put plastic reusable water Several chemicals in pliable plas - one to microwave food in glass or what that means for our health. of earwax, nearly all of which are elderly goes unnoticed. bottles in the dishwasher when tic can leach into your food when ceramic and replace plastic house - frowned on by the professionals. “I’m seeing 15 people here, but they need a deep clean? you heat it, and even if you’re dili - wares labeled “micro-wave-safe” The information included in this “People put everything in their what about the other hundred?” The American Academy of gent enough to transfer the food to if they have been scratched or if column is for educational purpos - ears: Q-tips, bobby pins, pencils, York said. “Nobody’s looking. I Pediatrics (AAP) is telling parents a bowl or plate labeled the color has changed. “That es only. Glenn Ellis, is a Health fingernails,” Schwartz said. don’t know why it’s been neglect - not to microwave food in plastic “microwave-safe,” you still may means a certain area designed not Advocacy Communications Usually, the best way to control ed for so long.” containers, in part of a new report not be protected. By and large, that to come in contact with food is Specialist. He is the author of earwax is to leave it alone, on the dangers of chemicals in food. label only means they won’t melt coming in contact with food and Which Doctor?, and Information Schwartz said. But that advice can KHN’s coverage of these topics is This warning is particularly aimed or break when heated – but it does - potentially more chemicals pres - is the Best Medicine. For more backfire when families or care - supported by Gordon and Betty at parents, because the danger is n’t mean they’re safe. ent in that container will find its good health information visit: givers neglect to check the ears of Moore Foundation and John A. greater for children; they’re a little There’s no single substance way into food. www.glennellis.com .◊ elderly people in residential care. Hartford Foundation. ◊ more sensitive to these toxins than called “plastic.” That term covers If food must be covered, then use we might otherwise be as adults. many materials made from an paper towel, not plastic wrap. When kids are exposed to toxins array of organic and inorganic Condensation underneath the plas - during development, they have compounds. Substances are often tic wrap, which could contain longer, deeper impacts, and the added to plastic to help shape or phthalates, could cause fluid to chemicals interfere with hor - stabilize it. Two of these plasti - drip down into the food. mones, which affect everything cizers are bisphenol-A (BPA), If microwaving food in plastics is during development. added to make clear, hard plastic, unavoidable, then pay attention to The study advises people against and phthalates, added to make the recycling codes at the bottom microwaving food in plastic con - plastic soft and flexible. of the container. Those codes say tainers or placing plastic containers BPA and phthalates are believed to something about the type of plastic in the dishwasher, as these habits be “endocrine disrupters.” These are used – avoid any that have the can cause the plastic material to substances that mimic human hor - code 3 or 7. The USDA Food release harmful chemicals. BPA mones, and not for the good. Safety and Inspection Service serves as a hardening ingredient in Experts are most concerned advises Americans not to reuse plastic, and it has been associated about these endocrine disruptors margarine tubs, take-out contain - with adverse health effects, includ - because of their ability to affect ers, whipped topping bowls, and ing heart disease and type 2 dia - estrogen and testosterone levels in other one-time use containers, betes. BPA exposure or ingestion humans. They also appear to have which are more likely to melt and can also cause harm to fertility, the the potential to impact the devel - cause chemicals to leach into food. immune system, and even body fat opment of the brain and reproduc - Contrary to popular belief, some percentage, according to the AAP. tive organs in developing fetuses. Styrofoam and other polystyrene Tests done on hundreds of plastic The AAP report goes on to containers can safely be used in products put through “real world” remind people that many food the microwave. Just follow the scenarios, including getting warmed additives, such as food colorings same rule you follow for using in the microwave, showed that and preservatives, which are “gen - other plastic containers in the estrogenic chemicals seeped out of erally recognized as safe” may microwave: Check the label. 95 percent of the plastic products. actually be anything but. The con - While the risks of putting plastics, Almost any plastic container can sumption of ingredients containing BPA-free or otherwise, in the be expected to leach trace indirect additives, such as dyes and microwave are still up for debate, Veterans affairs secretary vows not to privatize agency (AP) — The new secretary of told the group’s 100th annual con - tary of defense under President veterans affairs pledged to the vention, which was held in George W. Bush and former American Legion on last Minneapolis. “My prime directive undersecretary for current Defense Wednesday that he won’t priva - is customer service. When a veter - Secretary Jim Mattis, replaced tize his agency’s health care an comes to VA it is not up to him David Shulkin, who was fired services even as it increases to employ a cauldron of layers to amid ethics charges and internal options for veterans to seek care get VA to say yes. It is up to VA to rebellion over the role of private in the private sector. say yes to them.” care for veterans. He’s tasked with Robert Wilkie, who was sworn in Wilkie said it’s “absolutely delivering on Trump’s campaign last month, also pledged better essential” to have caregivers promises to fire ineffective VA customer service as a result of the who specialize in veterans’ spe - employees and steer more patients VA overhaul bill that President cial needs. to the private sector. Donald Trump signed recently in “This is not an option that the The agency is the government’s response to the long waits for private sector can provide,” he second-largest department, serving appointments and short-staffing said. “The private sector cannot nine million veterans, and its strug - that have plagued VA hospitals replicate VA’s expertise in things gles prompted some in the adminis - across the country. like spinal cord injury, traumatic tration to advocate for the privatiza - “It is our job to serve you well brain injury, rehabilitative servic - tion of some of its services. Major and honorably, showing you the es, prosthetics, audiology, services veterans groups have opposed that, same kind of dignity and devotion for the blind, suicide prevention.” saying the solution is full funding that you gave to America,” Wilkie Wilkie, a former assistant secre - for core VA medical centers.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - September 3 - September 9, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 ‘Hidden Figures’ Katherine Johnson turns 100 By Stacy M. Brown writer Grace Randolph. being among the 25 Women who loved to count.” “We were really concerned but Contributing Writer “I stand on your shoulders,” Changing the World, Johnson “I counted everything. I counted the astronaut had to do it just as we said Dr. Camille Alleyne. “You enjoyed a brilliant 33-year career the steps to the road, the steps up to laid it out. I was looking at the tel - (NNPA Newswire) — Katherine blazed the trail which I and so at NASA and her life story final - church, the number of dishes and evision and hoping that were Johnson, who hand-crunched the many have had the privilege to ly was told on the big screen in silverware I washed … anything right,” she said. numbers for America’s first manned walk on … Katherine, you are Hidden Figures , the award-win - that could be counted, I did,” Born in 1918 in West Virginia, space flight – a feat that finally got my hero. I love, honor and salute ning movie that starred Taraji P. Johnson said. Johnson was a research mathe - its Big Screen acknowledgement you,” Alleyne said. Henson, Octavia Spencer and “I entered college, I was 15. I matician, who by her own admis - just two years ago, turned 100 on Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Janelle Monáe. was going to be a math teacher sion, was simply fascinated by Sunday, August 26, 2018. president and CEO of the In an earlier interview, she told because that was it. You could be a numbers, according to her biogra - “[On Sunday], we celebrate National Newspaper Publishers NNPA Newswire that she missed math teacher or a nurse but I was phy posted by NASA. Alpha Kappa Alpha’s own, Association (NNPA), also paid working. told I would make a good research By the age of 10, Johnson was a Katherine Johnson. She’s credited homage to Johnson. “I’d go back now,” she said. mathematician and they had me high school freshman – an amaz - with crunching the numbers by “Katherine Johnson’s historic After leaving her teaching job in take all of the courses in the cata - ing feat in an era when school for hand that allowed NASA to launch contributions to the evolution of 1953, Johnson began working for logue,” she said. African-Americans normally the first U.S. astronauts into applied mathematics and aero - NASA and was able to calculate When Astronaut John Glenn stopped at eighth grade. space,” leaders of the Alpha Kappa space science epitomizes her the trajectory for numerous space went to the moon, Johnson said Her father was determined that Alpha said in a statement. genius to overcome the scientific missions, including for the space her Hidden Figures crew acted Johnson would have a chance to “We are women of many first. challenges of her generation,” flight of Alan Shephard, the first as the computer for the mission. meet her potential. “He drove the First and finest.” Chavis said. American in space and the trajec - She said calculating everything family 120 miles to Institute, West Many others paid tribute via “Today, African-American tory for the famed 1968 Apollo 11 involved in the flight became Virginia, where I could continue statements and social media. women in particular should be flight to the Moon. like a geometry problem. my education through high “If you haven’t seen the movie inspired by the example of “I’d do them over if I had to. I’d “I felt most proud of the success school,” she said. about what she and other brilliant Katherine Johnson in STEM career do anything for anyone,” she said. of the Apollo mission. We had to An achiever at the highest level, Former NASA mathematician Black women at NASA accom - fields,” Chavis said. At an early age, Johnson devel - determine so much. Where you Johnson graduated from high Katherine Johnson after receiv - plished, be sure to watch the fab - The recipient of the 2015 oped enviable math skills so much were, where the moon would be school at 14 and from college at ing the Presidential Medal of ulous movie, Hidden Figures , in National Medal of Freedom, and a so that even NASA officials wrote and how fast the astronauts were 18. By 1953, the growing demands Freedom from President Barack her honor,” said comic book 2016 People Magazine honoree as a story about her titled, “The girl going,” Johnson said. of early space research meant there Obama in 2015 were openings for African- (Photo courtesy NASA/Bill Ingalls, Wikimedia Commons) American computer scientists at Langley Research Center’s Guidance and Navigation gram, as they did to those first Department – and Johnson found steps on the country’s journey New center at Xavier to study inequities, diversity the perfect place to put her extraor - into space, according to NASA . (AP) – Xavier University in Equity, Justice and the Human Catholic university says the mis - The center will organize con - dinary mathematical skills to work. Still, Johnson said the book, the New Orleans has announced a Spirit. It will be directed by David sion of the center will be to pro - ferences, seminars, lectures, and Glenn requested that she per - Academy Award nominated new endeavor to promote studies Robinson Morris, who holds a doc - mote research, education and com - community assemblies bringing sonally recheck the calculations movie and her celebrated work of racial inequities and inter- torate in Educational Leadership munity engagement. University featuring area experts, faculty, made by the new electronic com - with NASA aren’t her greatest relations among different groups and Research from LSU. President Reynold Verret says the undergraduate and graduate stu - puters before his flight aboard accomplishments. in society. A news release this past week aim is “to help create a more just dents representing diverse inter - Friendship 7 – the mission on “Just staying alive is the greatest Xavier is forming the Center for from the historically Black and humane society.” ests.◊ which he became the first accomplishment,” she said. American to orbit the Earth. In a statement, NASA also She continued to work at praised Johnson. NASA until 1986. “Today, retired NASA Langley Her calculations proved as crit - mathematician Katherine ical to the success of the Apollo Johnson makes her 100th trip A topic even more toxic than politics Moon landing program and the around the sun as she celebrates By Fr. Jerome LeDoux The Catholic Church, especial - Church’s survival does not leave psychiatrists start of the Space Shuttle pro - her birthday.”◊ Contributing Columnist ly in the Middle Ages, has sur - any of us off the hook of account - who claimed vived scandals arguably worse ability in our own sphere of life. that As much as I despise dialogue than the current pedophile out - The Guardian reported that pedophiles about politics, so much more do rage. In online accounts, notably, Pope Benedict XVI defrocked can be cured. I detest the third-rail topic on five rascal popes were assassinat - nearly 400 priests in just two This igno - which I wrote four consecutive ed in office, or deposed and then years for molesting children, rance led to LEDOUX articles in 2010, incurring the ire murdered. John VIII, the first according to a document coverups and of some readers whose protests pope to be assassinated, was poi - obtained by the Associated Press. the geographic cure of “musical RyaAnt toCrn. eHy aat mLawil ton moved one editor to yank my soned by his entourage. When the The statistics for 2011 and 2012 chairs” ending in abject failure column temporarily. poison did not act quickly show a dramatic increase over and further grief and horror for I may be a glutton for punish - enough, his skull was crushed by the 171 priests removed in 2008 other pedophile victims who ment, but I will summarize. blows from a hammer. and 2009, when the Vatican first likewise were severely trauma - Ryan C. Hamilton is an attorney in the Heretofore, it is the worst real- Both Stephen VII and Leo V provided details on the number of tized for life in all their relations New Orleans area. He is a New Orleans life horror movie whose script were deposed, imprisoned and priests who have been defrocked. with everyone else. native and a St. Augustine grad. He goes where no imagination dares strangled. John X was deposed, Vatican spokesman Federico The U.S. bishops also put into opened his law practice in 2010. His go. Some things have been imprisoned and suffocated by Lombardi confirmed that the fig - place a zero-tolerance policy practice largely consists of Traffic, DWI described as a parent’s worst being smothered with a pillow. ures were accurate. toward abusers and required and Personal Injury. He is dedicated to nightmare. Perhaps this has out - Stephen IX was imprisoned, As reported by Matt Zuvela immediate reporting of criminal helping people of his community receive stripped the worst. Many ask, horribly mutilated by having his (Reuters, dpa, AFP), Editor: activity to civic authorities. Zero the proper legal consultation and helping “Why would parents entrust eyes, nose, lips, tongue and Andreas Illmer, new measures tolerance is the only answer, them find a resolution to any legal their children to the care of hands removed before dying of update a set of rules implemented since pedophilia is an incurable problems that come their way. priests anyway?” Well, in the his injuries. Two other rogue by the Vatican in 2010. The illness. Rigorous screening of not-too-distant past, priests and popes died in compromising cir - Church’s statute of limitations seminarians must preclude the nuns were put on a pedestal and cumstances. regarding sexual abuse cases has ordination of pedophiles. Zero considered prime persons trust - Plagued by other shameless, been extended from 10 to 20 tolerance has even produced stri - TRAFFIC TICKETS DWI/DUI PERSONAL INJURY ed for the safety and wellbeing immoral intrigues and politics, the years. Abuse of a mentally hand - dent calls for Pope Francis to of small children. That has medieval Catholic Church was liv - icapped adult is now treated the resign after former Papal Nuncio Traffic tickets are Driving under the Personal injury distributed for influence (DUI) or claims can be made changed radically since 1983 ing proof of “indefectibility,” or same way as abuse of a child, and to the United States, Archbishop moving violations. driving while for a wide variety with the widely publicized indefinite survival attributed to it, both can lead to immediate dis - Carlo Viganò, released a letter Neglecting to pay intoxicated (DWI) of reasons, but they pedophilia of Father Gilbert J. not because of the virtue of its missal from the Church by on August 22 detailing how Pope existing traffic applies to alcohol all center on the Gauthe, Jr. of the Diocese of members, but by the power of the decree – without an ecclesiastical Francis returned then-Cardinal tickets can result in or recreational injured party Lafayette, Louisiana. Holy Spirit. Yet, None of that trial. Moreover, child pornogra - McCarrick to a prominent role in the suspension of drugs but also suffering some your driver’s driving when your kind of loss due to Since the recent mind-numbing medieval insanity attenuates any phy is now officially listed as a the Church after Pope Benedict license. For more prescription drugs the negligence or 900-page August 14 breakout of present-day insanity, although it serious offense in the Church, had him sidelined. information, impair your recklessness of hellacious news about clerical does show that the Church will and those caught possessing or At two percent across the board in contact our office. abilities. others. abuse of children in six dioceses in always manage to hobble along distributing child porn will be the single, married and ordained, Pennsylvania, much ink has been despite outrages, horrible abuse subject to the same disciplinary pedophiles find a hiding place spilled. 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significant only if there is a plan Marines move to tackle racial extremists in the Corps to both root out and prevent folks By Rahima Nasa participation in white supremacist ing part in last year’s deadly white Corps’ commitment to maintaining tighten accountability when rules from taking part in extremist ProPublica and other groups is prohibited and supremacist rally in a culture of dignity, respect and of conduct are violated. The updat - activity.” encouraging service members to Charlottesville, Virginia, and two trust in which all members of the ed policy encourages service mem - The amended order isn’t part of The United States Marine Corps report fellow Marines involved others were arrested after hanging organization are afforded equal bers who see their peers engaging the Uniform Code of Military has taken steps to combat racial with such groups. a racist banner off a building in opportunity to achieve their full in prohibited behavior to report Justice, the federal law that defines extremists in its ranks, issuing an The actions come after an active- North Carolina. potential based solely upon indi - them through various channels. criminal offenses under the U.S. updated order emphasizing that duty Marine was documented tak - “The order reaffirms the Marine vidual merit, fitness, intellect and Pete Simi, co-author of the military’s legal system. ability,” Maj. Brian Block, a book American Swastika and an “As an order, violation of the Marine spokesman, said. associate professor at Chapman prohibited activities and conduct is A ProPublica and Frontline University in California who has punishable under the UCMJ, but investigation this year revealed studied extremist groups for the this is not in and of itself a change On-line gun sales are slow that Vasillios G. Pistolis, a Marine last 20 years, said, “The order is to the UCMJ,” Block said.◊ Continued from Page 1 ins. “Someone robs a house in pistols and rifles, or 3D gun blue - based at Camp Lejeune, North Metairie, steals a gun, and a few prints, according to information Carolina, had engaged in a series Prevent Gun Violence. days later it’s involved in a crime in from Amazon representative of assaults during the In the hodgepodge of laws, eight New Orleans,” he said. Saige Kolpack. Depending on Charlottesville rally. Pistolis, who states—California, Colorado, Scharf also said young, local thugs local laws, it does sell airsoft had been a member of the white Connecticut, Delaware, New York, buy guns mainly because their peers guns, BB guns, pellet guns, paint - extremist group known as LANDIS CONSTRUCTION Oregon, Rhode Island and have them. “In a dispute without ball guns, and air rifles that are Atomwaffen Division, was subse - Washington—along with DC, guns, someone gets a bloody nose,” marketed as air or spring driven. quently subjected to a court-mar - SEEKING SUB BIDS require licensed and unlicensed ven - he said. “In a similar dispute with a At Arkansas-based Walmart, “we tialand forced from the Corps. dors to do background checks at gun, someone’s killed and whole do not now and have never sold Pistolis told ProPublica and Landis Construction is seeking bids from Locally- point of sale. Nevada’s background families are affected for years.” guns online,” company spokesman Frontline that he had left the racist Owned and DBE Subcontractors & Material check law, enacted by voters in At brick-and-mortar vendors Ravi Jariwala said. Walmart sells group and that he had not been Suppliers, including certified Disadvantaged 2016, hasn’t been implemented yet. that also sell online, customers hunting and sporting firearms and present in Charlottesville. Business Enterprises, Minority Business Maryland and Pennsylvania require pick up purchases made on their ammunition in stores, but only at However, there are photographs, point-of-sale background checks for computer at a company store. its locations that are licensed for video and text messages that make Enterprises, and Women's Business Enterprises, for all handguns. In Hawaii, Illinois, Guns bought from licensed deal - such sales in compliance with fed - clear he was indeed there. the renovation of Massachusetts and New Jersey, all ers online aren’t mailed to homes. eral and state laws. Last year, the Marine Corps gun buyers must obtain a permit, And whether a purchase is made Meanwhile, people are making Times reported that Staff Sgt. OWARD VENUE issued after a background check, to in a store or online from a their own guns, using 3D printers. Joseph Manning and Sgt. Michael 818 H A , buy a firearm. Iowa, Michigan, licensed vendor, the buyer has to A federal judge in Washington Chesny pleaded guilty to trespass - NEW ORLEANS , LA 70112 Nebraska and North Carolina have a provide personal data on a 4473 state last week extended a court ing charges for hanging a banner Bids are due: Monday, September 10, 2018 at permit and background check form to the Bureau of Alcohol, order blocking Defense with a white power slogan from a 2:00 PM. Landis Construction's Estimating requirement for handgun purchases. Tobacco, Firearms and Distributed, a Texas company, building in Graham, North Department will be available at our office by email, States that require background Explosives. The store makes a from posting designs for 3D- Carolina, in May 2017. The two checks on all firearms sales have phone call to the FBI’s National printed guns on the Internet. Marines have since been “adminis - phone or by appointment. lower gun deaths than those that Instant Criminal Background Since these plastic guns don’t tratively separated” from the don’t. In a February scorecard corre - Check System or NICS . have serial numbers, the authori - organization, Block confirmed. Contact Info: lating state laws and gun violence, “If you buy a gun from a licensed ties have trouble tracing them. 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S., now on “sound foot - housing market in 2018 is on Housing report. “But a number today, and in many respects the situ - ation has wors - ened for both the aspect of the conference will be 2018, growing slightly by .6 per - lowest-income a mixture of education and inspi - cent from the first quarter. Americans and ration with a goal of establishing However, a closer look at the those higher up the a synergy for partnerships,” Census Bureau breakdown of the income ladder.” Griffin says. homeownership rate by race shows This dearth in “We will all come together to communities of color still lagging homeownership – learn from each other, and gain far behind white homeowners, largely affecting ideas to increase mortgage despite historic efforts to close the African Americans – approvals and reduce denials gap, including the Fair Housing Act is the reason that an among people of color,” Griffin of 1968. According to the Census upcoming annual continues. “It is going to take part - Bureau, the following are the cur - conference is crucial ners working together to give rent stats broken down by race: says Marcia Griffin, homebuyers the kind of guidance • Non-Hispanic white house - founder and presi - they need to sustain homeowner - holders was highest at 72.9 per - dent of HomeFree- ship and weather the financial cent. USA a leader in challenges that arise in life.” • Asian, Native Hawaiian and home mortgage The conference is designed to: Pacific Islander householders was counseling. The • Increase homeownership and second at 58.0 percent. 14th Annual financial success among low-to- • Hispanic householders was at HomeFree-USA moderate income people 46.2. Reaching Millions • Elevate the stature and • Black householders was low - conference is set for Sept. 17-19 increase the impact of govern - est at 41.6 percent. in Washington, D.C. ment, nonprofit and for-profit “Although the changes in Trump cancels pay raise federal The inspirational, educational and housing and homeownership homeownership by race and eth - leadership development conference providers nicity were seen as mostly posi - will feature nationally renowned • Create and strengthen pub - tive, Black households are the speakers. They include lic/private partnerships Reaching one group that has made no workers were due in January author/speaker Stedman Graham, Millions is for professionals and appreciable progress,” says the the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant; leaders whose focus is on: Harvard Joint Center study. By Darlene Superville rewarding “high-performing 1.9 percent pay raise. Gospel artist Bishop Marvin Sapp; • Affordable lending This conference contributes to AP Writer Federal employees and those “President Trump’s plan to freeze and the Rev. Dr. DeForest Blake • Increasing homeownership in the efforts to turn these deplorable with critical skill sets.” wages for these patriotic workers “Buster” Soaries, Jr., all aiming to low-to-moderate income commu - statistics around. Conference (AP) — President Donald Trump His announcement came as the next year ignores the fact that they teach and inspire financial inde - nities attendees will leave with a informed Congress on Thursday country heads into the Labor Day are worse off today financially pendence and debt free lifestyles. • Personal and professional roadmap, partnerships and that he is canceling pay raises due holiday weekend. than they were at the start of the “This conference is a very leadership development resources to capture the homebuy - in January for most civilian feder - The Democratic Party immedi - decade,” said J. David Cox Sr., important gathering of leaders – • Developing new public and ers that we are leaving behind. al employees, citing budget con - ately criticized the announcement, president of the American nonprofit, faith-based, govern - private partnerships to further their Working together, the mortgage straints. But the workers still could citing the tax cuts Trump signed Federation of Government ment, mortgage and banking mission and expand affordable industry, nonprofits and govern - see a slightly smaller boost in their into law last December. The law Employees, which represents some leaders,” says Griffin. “It’s cru - housing ment leaders will be able to deliv - pay under a proposal lawmakers provided steep tax cuts for corpo - 700,000 federal workers. cial in order to elevate the issue • Ways to reach more qualified er the tools families need to are considering. rations and the wealthiest “They have already endured of homeownership in general homebuyers become successful homeowners. Trump said he was axing a 2.1 Americans, and more modest years of little to no increases and but also the financial stature of According to the latest stats percent across-the-board raise for reductions for middle- and low- their paychecks cannot stretch people of color specifically. from the U.S. Census Bureau, More information about the confer - most workers as well as locality income individuals and families. any further as education, health This conference delivers new general homeownership rates in ence can be found at pay increases averaging 25.7 per - “Trump has delivered yet another care costs, gas and other goods ideas to capture the millions of the second quarter of 2018 www.HomeFreeUSA.org/rm2018. cent and costing $25 billion. slap in the face to American work - continue to get more expensive,” potential homebuyers who want revealed significant room for Contact [email protected] “We must maintain efforts to put ers,” said Democratic National added Tim Reardon, national to buy but need guidance and growth. Overall, the rate is 64.3 for information on a limited number our Nation on a fiscally sustain - Committee Chairman Tom Perez. president of the National encouragement. The unique percent in the second quarter of of discounted registrations .◊ able course, and Federal agency Under the law, the 2.1 percent Treasury Employees Union. budgets cannot sustain such raise takes effect automatically Cox said federal worker pay and increases,” said Trump. The presi - unless the president and Congress benefits have been cut by more dent last year signed a package of act to change it. Congress is cur - than $200 billion since 2011, and tax cuts that is forecast to expand rently debating a proposal for a workers are currently earning five the deficit by about $1.5 trillion slightly lower, 1.9 percent across- percent less than they did at the over 10 years. the-board raise to be included in a start of the decade. Trump cited the “significant” government funding bill that In July, the Trump administra - cost of employing federal work - would require Trump’s signature tion sharply revised upward its ers as justification for denying to keep most government func - deficit estimates compared to the the pay increases, and called for tions operating past September. estimates in the budget proposal federal worker pay to be based Unions representing the two it sent Congress in February. The on performance and structured million-member federal work - worsening deficit reflects the toward recruiting, retaining and force urged Congress to pass the impact of the $1.5 trillion, 10- year tax cut, as well as increased spending for the military and domestic programs that Congress approved earlier this year. Kenyan leader signs U. S. The administration’s July budget update projected a deficit of $890 million for the fiscal year that ends trade deal to finance Sept. 30, up from the February estimate of $873 billion. The $890 billion deficit projection represents wind power plant a 34 percent increase from the (TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) U.S. Power Africa Initiative to $666 billion deficit the govern - — Kenya has signed agreements double the number of people in ment recorded in 2017. with a U.S. wind energy compa - Sub-Saharan Africa with access For 2019, the administration is ny, providing a major boost for to electricity. projecting the deficit will once wind power and food security. The second agreement was a $5 again top $1 trillion and stay at that Mr. Kenyatta said the ‘Big million letter of commitment to level for the next three years. Four agenda’ projects – boosting expand the distribution network The only other period when the manufacturing industry, promot - of Twiga Foods and improve federal government ran deficits ing food security, providing food security and agricultural above $1 trillion was the four affordable housing and universal wages in Kenya. years from 2009 through 2012, healthcare coverage – present It was signed between Twiga when the government used tax major opportunities for local and Foods and Opic in the presence cuts and increased spending to foreign investors. of President Kenyatta during his combat the 2008 fiscal crisis and The Overseas Private Invest- meeting with executives of lead - the worst economic downturn ment Corporation (Opic) and ing U.S. companies under the since the 1930s. Kipeto Wind Energy Company umbrella body Business Council Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., signed documents to close a $232 for International Understanding who represents many federal million deal in financing the con - (BCIU). workers, blamed what he said struction and operation of a 100- The second agreement was a was Trump’s mismanagement of megawatt grid-connected wind $5 million letter of commitment federal government. power plant south of Nairobi. to expand the distribution net - “His tax bill exploded the deficit, The plant will provide a more work of Twiga Foods and and now he is trying to balance the reliable source of energy to the improve food security and agri - budget on the backs of federal national grid and support the cultural wages in Kenya.◊ workers,” Connolly said.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 10 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM September 3 - September 9, 2018 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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SALE bY SOn bROWn. District Court of wit: 1978, according to which vS LISA M. PIACEnTI - purchaser at the moment LOT D, SQUARE 5 Civil District Court for Orleans, in the above A CERTAIN said lot is designated as nO A/K/A LISA MARIE of adjudication to make a VILLA SITES (SOUTH ORLEAnS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans entitled cause, I will LOT OF GROUND, LOT 10, commencing at CASAREZ PIACEnTInO deposit of ten percent of SHORES #1) JUDICIAL no. 2017-5730 proceed to sell by pub - together with all the a distance of 454.91 feet Civil District Court for the purchase price, and THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ADvERTISEMEnT by virtue of a WRIT lic auction, on the buildings and improve - from the intersection of the Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty TRICT OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ground floor of the Civil ments thereon, and all of Gannon Road and no. 2016-2714 days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 7920 THAT PORTIOn to me directed by the District Court building, the rights, ways, privi - Christopher Court, and by virtue of a WRIT The payment must be BREVARD AVENUE OF GROUnD Honorable The Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in leges, servitudes, appur - measures thence 50 feet OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQ. MIN 307161 bEARInG MUnICIPAL District Court of the First District of the tenances and advan - front on Christopher to me directed by the Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: nO. 3229 PLYMOUTH Orleans, in the above City on September 6, tages thereunto belong - Court, same width in the Honorable The Civil Order. No personal $11,135.96 PLACE, CITY OF nEW entitled cause, I will 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ing or in anywise apper - rear, by a depth on the District Court of checks.) Seized in the above ORLEAnS, In THE proceed to sell by pub - noon, the following taining, situated in the side line nearer Lot 9 of Orleans, in the above MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The CASE EnTITLED: lic auction, on the described property to SEVENTH DISTRICT of 100.46 feet, and a depth entitled cause, I will Sheriff purchaser at the moment Parish of Orleans WELLS FARGO bAnK, ground floor of the Civil wit: the CITy OF NEW on the side line nearer proceed to sell by pub - ATTy: COREy GIROIR of adjudication to make a n.A. vS DEZRIA R. District Court building, A CERTAIN ORLEANS, PARISH OF Lot 11 of 100.35 feet. Lot lic auction, on the (225) 756-0373 deposit of ten percent of LM 12 MUMFORD. 421 Loyola Avenue, in LOT OF GROUND, with ORLEANS, STATE OF 10 is situated in square ground floor of the Civil LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 the purchase price, and Civil District Court for the First District of the all the building and LOUISIANA, in SQUARE bounded by Christopher District Court building, ______the balance within thirty the Parish of Orleans City on September 6, improvements thereon, NUMBER 156, which Court, Gannon Road , 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: no. 2016-12699 2018, at 12:00 o’clock and all of the rights, square is bounded by Curran Road and Vincent the First District of the The payment must be by virtue of a WRIT noon, the following ways, privileges, servi - Adams Street, Hillary Road (Briarwood Drive). City on September 6, ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, OF FIERI FACIAS to me described property to tudes, appurtenances Street, Oak Street and The improve - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money directed by the wit: and advantages thereun - Plum Street, composed ments thereon bear the noon, the following ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal Honorable The Civil THAT CERTAIN to belonging or in any - of parts of Lots 4 and 5 Municipal No. 10 described property to THAT PORTIOn checks.) District Court of PIECE OR PORTION OF wise appertaining, situat - on a plat of survey by F. Christopher Court, New wit: MARLIn n. GUSMAn Orleans, in the above GROUND, together with ed in the Third District, in C. Gandolfo, Jr., Orleans, Louisiana. LOT NO.18 SQUARE 90 OF GROUnD Sheriff Parish of Orleans entitled cause, I will all the buildings and the square designated by Surveyor, dated March WRIT AMOUnT: SECOND MUNICIPAL bEARInG MUnICI - ATTy: kRISTy MASSEy proceed to sell by pub - improvements thereon, the Municipal No. 913, 17, 1937, and according $82,007.09 DISTRICT PAL nO. 5230 WICK - (318) 388-1440 NNB 8 lic auction, on the and all of the rights, bounded by Frenchmen, to which survey,, said lot Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 518- FIELD DRIvE, nEW LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 ground floor of the Civil ways, privileges, servi - Prieur and Johnson commences at a distance suit, TERMS CASH. The 520 BURGUNDy ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ______District Court building, tudes, appurtenances Street and Elysian Fields of 47 feet, 6 inches from purchaser at the moment STREET MATTER EnTITLED: SALE bY 421 Loyola Avenue, in and advantages thereun - Avenue, the said lot is Adams Street and meas - of adjudication to make a ACQ MIN: 899631 "nATIOnSTAR MORT - the First District of the to belonging or in any - designated by the No. ures thence 45 feet front deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: GAGE LLC D/b/A ORLEAnS SHERIFF City on September 6, wise appertaining, situat - Twenty-one, on a sketch on Plum Street, same the purchase price, and $386,806.52 CHAMPIOn MORT - JUDICIAL 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ed in the Third District of of survey drawn by E. L. width in the rear, by a the balance within thirty Seized in the above GAGE COMPAnY vS ADvERTISEMEnT noon, the following the City of New Orleans, Eustis, Deputy City depth of 120 feet days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The THE UnOPEnED SUC - described property to designated as Lot No. Surveyor, dated October between equal and paral - The payment must be purchaser at the moment CESSIOn OF CHARLES THAT PORTIOn wit: 65, in Block A of the 14, 1940, and annexed to lel lines. All as more fully Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a S. EMAnUELE" OF GROUnD THAT CERTAIN Boulevard Heights act before Robert Legier, shown on survey of Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICI - TRACT OF GROUND, Subdivision, bounded by Notary Public, dated Gilbert, kelly & Couturie, Order. No personal the purchase price, and the Parish of Orleans PAL nO. 1989 LAW together with all the Wisteria Avenue, Iris October 25, 1920, and Inc., S&E, dated July 24, checks.) the balance within thirty no. 2018-3092 STREET, CITY OF nEW buildings and improve - Street, Clematis Avenue according to which 1981; subject to restric - MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS, In THE ments thereon, and all and Gentilly Boulevard, sketch the said Lot No. tions, servitudes, rights- Sheriff The payment must be OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CASE EnTITLED: CITY Parish of Orleans the rights, privileges, on a blue print of a sketch 21 beings at a distance of of-way and outstanding ATTy: CANDACE BOWEN Cash, Cashier’s Check, to me directed by the OF nEW ORLEAnS vS servitudes, appurte - made by John C. thirty one feet, eleven mineral rights of record (318) 388-1440 Certified Check or Money Honorable The Civil AnnA bERTRAnD TW 9 nances and advantages Dearmeas, Jr., C.E., inches and seven lines affecting the property. LA. WEEkLy: 8/6/18, 9/3/18 Order. No personal District Court of Civil District Court for thereunto belonging or in dated October 4, 1919, from the corner of WRIT AMOUnT: ______checks.) Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans anywise appertaining sit - annexed to Act 80 of Frenchman and Prieur $308,363.47 SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn entitled cause, I will no. 2017-5032 uated in the FIFTH DIS - 1920. Which said lot Streets and measures Seized in the above Sheriff proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans TRICT of the City of New measures, according thirty-one feet, eleven suit, TERMS CASH. The ATTy: ETHAN HUNT lic auction, on the OF FIERI FACIAS to Orleans, in the Parish of thereto, 40 feet front on inches and seven lines purchaser at the moment JUDICIAL (318) 388-1440 ground floor of the Civil me directed by the TW 17 District Court building, Honorable The Civil Orleans, State of Wisteria Avenue, by the front on Frenchmen of adjudication to make a ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 ______421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of Louisiana, in that part following depths, VIZ: Street by one hundred deposit of ten percent of THAT PORTIOn thereof known as AURO - 136.30 feet on the line and twenty-three feet in the purchase price, and SALE bY the First District of the Orleans, in the above RA GARDENS (as dividing Lot 65 from Lot depth between parallel the balance within thirty OF GROUnD City on September 6, entitled cause, I will extended west); accord - 64, 129.04 feet on the lines; subject to restric - days thereafter. (NOTE: bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF 2018, at 12:00 o’clock proceed to sell by pub - ing to a plan of resurvey line dividing Lot 65 from tions, servitudes, rights- The payment must be PAL nO. 6219 SPAIn JUDICIAL noon, the following lic auction, on the made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Lot 66. According to a of-way and outstanding Cash, Cashier’s Check, STREET, CITY OF nEW ADvERTISEMEnT described property to ground floor of the Civil Associates Consulting blue print of a sketch mineral rights of record Certified Check or Money ORLEAnS, In THE wit: District Court building, Engineers, dated August made by Wm. E. affecting the property. Order. No personal CASE EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn LOTS 11 AND 12, 421 Loyola Avenue, in 24, 1955, revised Wakefield, Registered WRIT AMOUnT: checks.) PACIFIC UnIOn FInAn - OF GROUnD SQUARE 7 the First District of the January 28, 1956, Surveyor, dated July 8, $136,155.99 MARLIn n. GUSMAn CIAL, LLC vS bEARInG MUnICI - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on September 6, revised June 6, 1956, 1924, annexed to Act No. Seized in the above Sheriff PASQUALE TUM - PAL nO. 5915 WAR - TRICT 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Parish of Orleans said lot is bounded by 703 of 1924. The said lot suit, TERMS CASH. The ATTy: kELLy MASSEy MInELLO WICK COURT, CITY OF MIRABEAU GARDENS noon, the following Plymouth Place, Berkley is designated by the purchaser at the moment (318) 388-1440 Civil District Court for nEW ORLEAnS, In THE MUNICIPAL NO. 5230 described property to LM 19 Drive, and Somerset same number and meas - of adjudication to make a LA. WEEkLy: 8/6/18, 9/3/18 the Parish of Orleans CASE EnTITLED: U.S. WICkFIELD DRIVE wit: Drive, and commences ures forty feet front on deposit of ten percent of ______no. 2018-1900 bAnK nATIOnAL ACQUIRED MIN LOT 4, SQUARE 1504, 964.13 feet from the cor - Wisteria Avenue, Forty the purchase price, and SALE bY by virtue of a WRIT ASSOCIATIOn, AS 1061478 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ner of Berkley Drive and 65/100 feet in width by the balance within thirty OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TRUSTEE, SUCCES - WRIT AMOUnT: TRICT, Plymouth Place, meas - the same depth meas - days thereafter. (NOTE: ORLEAnS SHERIFF to me directed by the SOR In InTEREST TO $132,481.66 MUNICIPAL NO. 1989 ures thence front on urements as above The payment must be JUDICIAL Honorable The Civil bAnK OF AMERICA, Seized in the above LAW STREET Plymouth Place a dis - shown; subject to restric - Cash, Cashier’s Check, ADvERTISEMEnT District Court of nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQUIRED MIN tance of 59 feet, by a tions, servitudes, rights- Certified Check or Money Orleans, in the above TIOn, AS TRUSTEE, purchaser at the moment 1176387 depth between equal and of-way and outstanding Order. No personal THAT PORTIOn entitled cause, I will SUCCESSOR bY of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: parallel lines of 110 feet; mineral rights of record checks.) OF GROUnD proceed to sell by pub - MERGER TO LASALLE deposit of ten percent of $670.50 said lot is designated as affecting the property. MARLIn n. GUSMAn bEARInG MUnICIPAL lic auction, on the nATIOnAL bAnK, the purchase price, and Seized in the above LOT 8 of SQUARE 13, WRIT AMOUnT: Sheriff nO. 10 CHRISTOPHER ground floor of the Civil nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The Parish of Orleans and said portion of $12,596.11 ATTy: kELLy MASSEy CT, THIS CITY, In THE District Court building, TIOn AS TRUSTEE FOR days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment ground has the same Seized in the above (318) 388-1440 MATTER EnTITLED: 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALOMOn bROTHERS The payment must be of adjudication to make a JD 20 designation on a certifi - suit, TERMS CASH. The LA. WEEkLy: 8/6/18, 9/3/18 WELLS FARGO bAnK, the First District of the MORTGAGE SECURI - Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of cate of survey by Adloe purchaser at the moment ______n.A. vS. ROnALD C. City on September 6, TIES vII, InC. MORT - Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and Orr, Jr. & Associates of adjudication to make a SALE bY bOLTOn AnD AvA 2018, at 12:00 o’clock GAGE PASS THROUGH Order. No personal the balance within thirty bOLTOn AKA AvA noon, the following CERTIFICATES SERIES checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: dated October 1, 1958; deposit of ten percent of ORLEAnS SHERIFF subject to restrictions, the purchase price, and SCOTT PRICE described property to 1997-HUD1 vS WAYnE MARLIn n. GUSMAn The payment must be servitudes, rights-of-way the balance within thirty JUDICIAL bOLTOn. wit: JOHnSOn AnD THE Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, Parish of Orleans and outstanding mineral days thereafter. (NOTE: ADvERTISEMEnT Civil District Court for LOT 2, SQUARE 5039, UnOPEnED SUCCES - ATTy: PENNy DAIGREPONT Certified Check or Money rights of record affecting The payment must be the Parish of Orleans THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SIOn OF DEbRA (504) 831-7726 Order. No personal THAT PORTIOn JD 11 the property. Cash, Cashier’s Check, no. 2017-5965 TRICT, bRYAnT JOHnSOn LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: Certified Check or Money OF GROUnD by virtue of a WRIT MUNICIPAL NO. 6219 A/K/A DEbRA bRYAnT ______MARLIn n. GUSMAn $75,154.41 Order. No personal bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF SEIZURE AnD SALE SPAIN STREET JOHnSOn A/K/A Sheriff SALE bY Parish of Orleans Seized in the above checks.) nO. 7640 PLUM to me directed by the ACQUIRED MIN DEbRA b. JOHnSOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM suit, TERMS CASH. The STREET, CITY OF nEW Honorable The Civil 1109371 A/K/A DEbRA JOHn - (504) 658-4346 MARLIn n. GUSMAn LM 18 purchaser at the moment Sheriff ORLEAnS, In THE District Court of WRIT AMOUnT: SOn JUDICIAL LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 Parish of Orleans CASE EnTITLED: Orleans, in the above $105,476.49 Civil District Court for ______of adjudication to make a ATTy: CANDACE BOWEN ADvERTISEMEnT deposit of ten percent of (318) 388-1440 DEUTSCHE bAnK entitled cause, I will Seized in the above the Parish of Orleans LM 21 THAT PORTIOn SALE bY the purchase price, and LA. WEEkLy: 8/6/18, 9/3/18 nATIOnAL TRUST proceed to sell by pub - suit, TERMS CASH. The no. 2017-9701 the balance within thirty ______COMPAnY AS lic auction, on the purchaser at the moment by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: SALE bY TRUSTEE FOR MERRIL ground floor of the Civil of adjudication to make a OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bEARInG MUnICI - JUDICIAL PAL nO. 7920 bRE - The payment must be LYnCH MORTGAGE District Court building, deposit of ten percent of to me directed by the ADvERTISEMEnT Cash, Cashier’s Check, ORLEAnS SHERIFF InvESTORS TRUST, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the purchase price, and Honorable The Civil vARD AvEnUE, THIS Certified Check or Money JUDICIAL MORTGAGE LOAn the First District of the the balance within thirty District Court of CITY, In THE MATTER THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal ADvERTISEMEnT ASSET-bACKED CER - City on September 6, days thereafter. (NOTE: Orleans, in the above EnTITLED: CITIMORT - OF GROUnD TIFICATES, SERIES 2018, at 12:00 o’clock The payment must be entitled cause, I will GAGE, InC. vERSUS checks.) THAT PORTIOn bEARInG MUnICI - MARLIn n. GUSMAn 2007-MLn1 vS ROnAL - noon, the following Cash, Cashier’s Check, proceed to sell by pub - ZAvIER SCORZA PAL nO. 10923 SOUTH Sheriff OF GROUnD DO DUGARS AKA described property to Certified Check or Money lic auction, on the MILLS AnD KEnnETH HARDY STREET, CITY Parish of Orleans L. MILLS, SR. ATTy: JASON SMITH bEARInG MUnICIPAL ROnALDO DUGARS, wit: Order. No personal ground floor of the Civil OF nEW ORLEAnS, In (318) 388-1440 nO. 1905 FREnCHMEn SR. A CERTAIN checks.) District Court building, Civil District Court for THE CASE EnTITLED: LM 16 the Parish of Orleans LA. WEEkLy: 8/6/18, 9/3/18 STREET, nEW Civil District Court for LOT OF GROUND, MARLIn n. GUSMAn 421 Loyola Avenue, in WESTSTAR MORT - ______ORLEAnS, LA, In THE the Parish of Orleans together with all the Sheriff the First District of the no. 2012-1476 GAGE CORPORATIOn Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT SALE bY MATTER EnTITLED: no. 2017-7842 buildings and improve - ATTy: JASON SMITH City on September 6, vS KIRKIKIS JOnES “AMERICAn ADvI - by virtue of a WRIT ments thereon, and all (318) 388-1440 2018, at 12:00 o’clock OF SEIZURE AnD SALE JACKSOn WIFE ORLEAnS SHERIFF LM 15 SORS GROUP vS OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the rights, ways, privi - LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 noon, the following to me directed by the OF/AnD DAvID P, JUDICIAL SHERYL CAMbRIDGE to me directed by the leges, servitudes, appur - ______described property to Honorable The Civil JACKSOn, SR. ADvERTISEMEnT ALLEn, InDEPEnDEnT Honorable The Civil tenances and advan - SALE bY wit: District Court of Civil District Court for ADMInISTRATOR OF District Court of tages thereunto belong - LOT 291-A, SQUARE Orleans, in the above THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans THE SUCCESSIOn OF Orleans, in the above ing or in anywise apper - 131, entitled cause, I will no. 2017-10207 OF GROUnD DOROTHY CAM - entitled cause, I will taining, situated in the JUDICIAL FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL bRIDGE A/K/A proceed to sell by pub - THIRD DISTRICT of the ADvERTISEMEnT TRICT, lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ground floor of the Civil nO. 2339 WISTERIA DOROTHY FERnAn - lic auction, on the City of New Orleans, in THAT PORTIOn AURORA GARDENS to me directed by the STREET, CITY OF nEW DEZ CAMbRIDGE”. ground floor of the Civil CHRISTOPHER COURT SUBDIVISION District Court building, Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS, In THE Civil District Court for District Court building, SUBDIVISION, being a OF GROUnD MUNICIPAL NO. 5915 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of CASE EnTITLED: the Parish of Orleans 421 Loyola Avenue, in resubdivision of Lot 1-A bEARInG MUnICI - WARWICk COURT the First District of the Orleans, in the above WELLS FARGO bAnK, no. 2018-3580 the First District of the of Section 3 of the PAL nO. 518-520 bUR - ACQUIRED MIN 114055 City on September 6, entitled cause, I will n.A. vS WILLIAM G. by virtue of a WRIT City on September 6, Lakratt Tract, in accor - GUnDY STREET, THIS WRIT AMOUnT: 2018, at 12:00 o’clock proceed to sell by pub - bROWn AnD EDnA OF SEIZURE AnD SALE 2018, at 12:00 o’clock dance with plan of CITY, In THE MATTER $23,552.28 noon, the following lic auction, on the bRAUD bROWn AKA to me directed by the noon, the following Universal Engineers, EnTITLED. nATIOn - Seized in the above described property to EDnA bRAUD JOHn - Honorable The Civil described property to Inc., dated December 14, STAR MORTGAGE LLC suit, TERMS CASH. 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Continued from previous page ADvERTISEMEnT purchaser at the moment 2018, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the WILLIAM PERRY ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) of adjudication to make a noon, the following ground floor of the Civil MATTHEWS, JR. MARLIn n. GUSMAn THAT PORTIOn deposit of ten percent of described property to District Court building, STACEY MATTHEWS, JUDICIAL Sheriff ground floor of the Civil Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD the purchase price, and wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in MESHUTTA ADvERTISEMEnT ATTy: DENNIS CARRIERE District Court building, bEARInG MUnICI - the balance within thirty LOT 176-A SQUARE the First District of the MATTHEWS AnD DIOn (504) 457-3773 421 Loyola Avenue, in THAT PORTIOn JD 3 PAL nO. 1624-26 GEn - days thereafter. (NOTE: NO. 142 City on October 4, MATTHEWS JAMES, LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 the First District of the TILLY bLvD, CITY OF The payment must be FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock HEIRS OF WILLIE OF GROUnD ______City on September 6, nEW ORLEAnS, In THE Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT noon, the following MATTHEWS, SR." bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY 2018, at 12:00 o’clock CASE EnTITLED: Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 3701 described property to Civil District Court for PAL nO. 5707 LAFAYE noon, the following DEUTSCHE bAnK Order. No personal BLAIR ST wit: the Parish of Orleans STREET, nEW ORLEAnS SHERIFF described property to nATIOnAL TRUST checks.) ACQ MIN: 1066966 LOT 52, SQUARE 788 no. 2016-5449 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE JUDICIAL MATTER EnTITLED: wit: COMPAnY FKA MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - by virtue of a WRIT ADvERTISEMEnT LOT 13, SQURE E, bAnKERS TRUST Sheriff $74,058.21 TRICT OF SEIZURE AnD SALE "COMMUnITY ASSOCI - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Parish of Orleans ATES, InC. vS JAnICE THAT PORTIOn COMPAnY OF CALI - ATTy: JASON SMITH Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 3117-19 to me directed by the TRICT, FORnIA, n.A., AS (318) 388-1440 suit, TERMS CASH. The N. DERBIGNy STREET Honorable The Civil SHAnKLIn bASTIAn OF GROUnD MARk SUBDIVISION LM 20 AnD TYROnnE M. TRUSTEE FOR THE LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN District Court of bEARInG MUnICI - MUNICIPAL NO. 10923 HOLDERS OF THE ______of adjudication to make a 1222995 Orleans, in the above bASTIAn" PAL nO. 5420 LACOUR SOUTH HARDy vEnDEE MORTGAGE SALE bY deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for MOnIQUE ST., CITY OF STREET TRUST 1999-2 vS DR. the purchase price, and $6,655.00 proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans nEW ORLEAnS, In THE ACQUIRED MIN WILLIAM H. WILSOn, ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty Seized in the above lic auction, on the no. 2017-8414 CASE EnTITLED: nEW 1223878 JR JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT PEnn FInAnCIAL LLC WRIT AMOUnT: Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be purchaser at the moment District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE A/b/A SHELLPOInT $213,759.72 the Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the MORTGAGE SERvIC - Seized in the above no. 2009-11382 THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of the First District of the Honorable The Civil InG vS MICHAEL T. suit, TERMS CASH. The by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD Order. No personal the purchase price, and City on October 4, District Court of WInDSAY AnD YOLAn - purchaser at the moment OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bEARInG MUnICI - checks.) the balance within thirty 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, in the above DA RObInSOn WInD - entitled cause, I will of adjudication to make a to me directed by the PAL nO. 2608 CHIPPE - MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: noon, the following SAY deposit of ten percent of Honorable The Civil WA STREET, nEW Sheriff The payment must be described property to proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for the purchase price, and Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the District Court of ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ATTy: kELLy MASSEy Cash, Cashier’s Check, wit: the Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty Orleans, in the above MATTER EnTITLED: (318) 388-1440 Certified Check or Money LOT A, SQUARE 258 ground floor of the Civil no. 2011-6386 days thereafter. (NOTE: TW 31 District Court building, entitled cause, I will "FInAnCE OF AMERI - LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 Order. No personal FOURTH MUNICIPAL by virtue of a WRIT The payment must be proceed to sell by pub - CA STRUCTURED ______checks.) DISTRICT 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the First District of the Cash, Cashier’s Check, lic auction, on the SECURITIES ACQUISI - SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 1812- to me directed by the Certified Check or Money ground floor of the Civil TIOn TRUST 2017-Hb1, Sheriff 14 WASHINGTON City on October 4, Honorable The Civil Order. No personal ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans 2018, at 12:00 o’clock District Court building, WILMInGTOn SAvInGS ATTy: JOHN HAGAN AVENUE District Court of checks.) 421 Loyola Avenue, in FUnD SOCIETY, FSb, JUDICIAL (504) 658-4346 ACQUIRED MIN 831593 noon, the following Orleans, in the above JD 12 described property to MARLIn n. GUSMAn the First District of the nOT InDIvIDUALLY, LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 WRIT AMOUnT: entitled cause, I will Sheriff ADvERTISEMEnT ______wit: Parish of Orleans City on September 6, bUT SOLELY AS $35,266.24 proceed to sell by pub - ATTy: FRED DAIGLE 2018, at 12:00 o’clock TRUSTEE vS WIL - THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above LOT 26, SQUARE 4468 lic auction, on the (504) 522-82565 SALE bY THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - LM 5 noon, the following HELMInA K. bROWn OF GROUnD suit, TERMS CASH. The ground floor of the Civil LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 described property to A/K/A WILHELMInA bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF purchaser at the moment TRICT District Court building, ______wit: bROWn" PAL nO. 3035 bAnKS JUDICIAL of adjudication to make a MUNICIPAL NO. 5707 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE bY LOT 1, SQUARE 1568, Civil District Court for STREET, THIS CITY, In deposit of ten percent of LAFAyE STREET the First District of the ADvERTISEMEnT ACQUIRED MIN ORLEAnS SHERIFF THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - the purchase price, and City on October 4, TRICT, no. 2018-2875 TLED JP MORGAn THAT PORTIOn the balance within thirty 1239280 2018, at 12:00 o’clock JUDICIAL MUNICIPAL NO. 1624- by virtue of a WRIT CHASE bAnK, nATIOn - OF GROUnD days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: noon, the following ADvERTISEMEnT 26 GENTILLy BLVD OF SEIZURE AnD SALE AL ASSOCIATIOn vS bEARInG MUnICI - The payment must be $21,011.49 described property to Seized in the above THAT PORTIOn ACQUIRED MIN 504578 to me directed by the LEOnARD T. LEWIS, III PAL nO. 1831 nEWTOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, wit: WRIT AMOUnT: Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for STREET, CITY OF nEW Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT 189, SQUARE 61, OF GROUnD $50,968.01 District Court of the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE Order. No personal purchaser at the moment FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - bEARInG MUnICI - Seized in the above Orleans, in the above no. 2018-1362 CASE EnTITLED: CITY checks.) of adjudication to make a TRICT, PAL nO. 1839 LOUISA suit, TERMS CASH. The entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT OF nEW ORLEAnS vS deposit of ten percent of BOCAGE SUBDIVISION STREET, CITY OF nEW MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE WILLIAM WEbER, Sheriff the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 5420 Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE of adjudication to make a lic auction, on the to me directed by the SHIRLEY vInSOn the balance within thirty LACOUR MONIQUE ST. CASE EnTITLED: ATTy: FRED DAIGLE deposit of ten percent of ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil WEbER, AnD (504) 522-8256 days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 894882 JD 9 WELLS FARGO bAnK, the purchase price, and District Court building, District Court of ORLEAnS DISTRICT The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 the balance within thirty 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above REDEvELOPMEnT ______Cash, Cashier’s Check, $211,441.31 TIOn, AS TRUSTEE days thereafter. (NOTE: the First District of the entitled cause, I will CORPORATIOn SALE bY Certified Check or Money Seized in the above UnDER POOLInG AnD The payment must be City on October 4, proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The SERvICInG AGREE - Cash, Cashier’s Check, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) purchaser at the moment MEnT DATED AS OF Certified Check or Money noon, the following ground floor of the Civil no. 2018-5860 JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a Sheriff nOvEMbER 1, 2004 Order. No personal described property to District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT deposit of ten percent of ASSET-bACKED PASS- ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans checks.) wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF FIERI FACIAS to me ATTy: MARk LANDRy the purchase price, and THROUGH CERTIFI - LOT 18, SQUARE 60 the First District of the directed by the THAT PORTIOn (504) 837-9040 the balance within thirty CATES SERIES, 2004- MARLIn n. GUSMAn JD 5 Sheriff FOURTH MUNICIPAL City on October 4, Honorable The Civil OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: WHQ2 vS THE Parish of Orleans DISTRICT 2018, at 12:00 o’clock District Court of bEARInG MUnICI - ______The payment must be UnOPEnED SUCCES - ATTy: JASON SMITH (318) 388-1440 MUNICIPAL NO. 2608 noon, the following Orleans, in the above PAL nO. 4867 RED - SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, SIOn OF LUCIEn vAIL, NNB 2 CHIPPEWA STREET described property to entitled cause, I will WOOD STREET, nEW Certified Check or Money LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 ORLEAnS SHERIFF SR. (A/K/A LUCIEn ______ACQUIRED MIN wit: proceed to sell by pub - ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Order. No personal vAIL) AnD AUDREY JUDICIAL SALE bY 1071587 LOT NO. 9 SQUARE lic auction, on the MATTER EnTITLED: checks.) HOLLAnD vAIL, (A/K/A WRIT AMOUnT: NO. 634 ground floor of the Civil "STAnDARD MORT - ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn AUDREY HOLLAnD, ORLEAnS SHERIFF $248,660.58 FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, GAGE CORPORATIOn Sheriff AUDREY H. vAIL, THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL Seized in the above TRICT 421 Loyola Avenue, in vS ELISHA L. COLLInS ATTy: DANIEL REED AUDREY vAIL) suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 3035 the First District of the A/K/A ELISHA LYnELL OF GROUnD (225) 924-1600 Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT bEARInG MUnICI - JD 1 purchaser at the moment BANkS STREET City on October 4, COLLInS" LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn of adjudication to make a ACQ MIN:933106 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court for PAL nO. 2559 nORTH ______no. 2011-5426 OF GROUnD deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: noon, the following the Parish of Orleans JOHnSOn STREET, SALE bY by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICI - the purchase price, and $144,155.54 described property to no. 2018-6951 nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In OF SEIZURE AnD SALE PAL nO. 7741-43 MILL the balance within thirty Seized in the above wit: by virtue of a WRIT THE MATTER EnTI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF to me directed by the STREET, CITY OF nEW days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT 11, SQUARE 170, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TLED: "nEW ORLEAnS JUDICIAL Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS, In THE The payment must be purchaser at the moment FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - to me directed by the AREA HAbITAT FOR ADvERTISEMEnT District Court of CASE EnTITLED: U.S. Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a TRICT, Honorable The Civil HUMAnITY, InC. vS Orleans, in the above bAnK TRUST nATIOn - Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 1831 District Court of KEvIn bRIGHT" THAT PORTIOn entitled cause, I will AL ASSOCIATIOn, AS Order. No personal the purchase price, and NEWTON STREET Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for OF GROUnD proceed to sell by pub - TRUSTEE OF bUnGA - checks.) the balance within thirty ACQUIRED MIN entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICI - no. 2014-10326 lic auction, on the LOW SERIES F TRUST MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: 1201347 proceed to sell by pub - PAL nO. 3140 CAS - ground floor of the Civil vS CHARLES F. Sheriff The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT TIGLIOnE STREET, District Court building, Parish of Orleans OF SEIZURE AnD SALE LAFRAnCE AnD TROY ATTy: COREy GIROIR Cash, Cashier’s Check, $1,755.00 ground floor of the Civil CITY OF nEW 421 Loyola Avenue, in Ann HAMPTOn (225) 756-0373 Certified Check or Money Seized in the above District Court building, to me directed by the ORLEAnS, In THE the First District of the JD 16 Honorable The Civil LAFRAnCE AKA TROY - LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in CASE EnTITLED: City on September 6, Ann HAMPTOn ______checks.) purchaser at the moment the First District of the District Court of ALEXAnDER ACKEL Orleans, in the above 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court for SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a City on October 4, vS nOLA REnEWAL noon, the following the Parish of Orleans Sheriff deposit of ten percent of 2018, at 12:00 o’clock entitled cause, I will GROUP, LLC described property to ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans proceed to sell by pub - no. 2016-6583 ATTy: ALLISON BEASLEy the purchase price, and noon, the following Civil District Court for wit: by virtue of a WRIT JUDICIAL (225) 924-1600 the balance within thirty described property to lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans LOT NO. 1-A, SQUARE TW 13 ground floor of the Civil no. 2018-6524 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: wit: 866 to me directed by the ______The payment must be LOT 36, SQUARE 13 District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn 421 Loyola Avenue, in THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TRICT District Court of OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money TRICT the First District of the to me directed by the MUNICIPAL NO. 1839 Orleans, in the above bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal LAkELAND ACRES City on October 4, Honorable The Civil LOUISA STREET entitled cause, I will PAL nO. 3701 bLAIR JUDICIAL checks.) ADDITIONAL 2018, at 12:00 o’clock District Court of noon, the following ACQ. MIN. 784107 proceed to sell by pub - ST, THIS CITY, In THE ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 4867 Orleans, in the above WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the MATTER EnTITLED Sheriff REDWOOD STREET described property to entitled cause, I will $68,311.18 THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans wit: ground floor of the Civil bAnK OF AMERICA, ATTy: CHARMAINE MARCHAND ACQUIRED MIN 951826 proceed to sell by pub - Seized in the above District Court building, n.A. vS AUGUST OF GROUnD (504) 658-4346 WRIT AMOUnT: LOT 12 (FORMERLy lic auction, on the suit, TERMS CASH. The LM 11 LOT 9), SQUARE 1017 421 Loyola Avenue, in AnDREW bUTLER AnD bEARInG MUnICI - LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 $113,971.56 ground floor of the Civil purchaser at the moment the First District of the TRACY WILLIAMS bUT - PAL nO. 3117-19 n. ______Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, of adjudication to make a City on October 4, LER AKA TRACEY DERbIGnY STREET, SALE bY suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT 421 Loyola Avenue, in deposit of ten percent of 2018, at 12:00 o’clock WILLIAMS bUTLER nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 2559 the First District of the the purchase price, and noon, the following Civil District Court for THE MATTER EnTI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF of adjudication to make a NORTH JOHNSON City on October 4, the balance within thirty described property to the Parish of Orleans TLED: "CITY OF nEW JUDICIAL deposit of ten percent of STREET 2018, at 12:00 o’clock days thereafter. (NOTE: wit: no. 2018-3340 ORLEAnS vS RUbY ADvERTISEMEnT the purchase price, and ACQUIRED MIN 998724 noon, the following The payment must be LOT 5-A, SQUARE 8, by virtue of a WRIT CARTER AnD HEn - the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: described property to Cash, Cashier’s Check, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE DERSOn CARTER AnD THAT PORTIOn days thereafter. (NOTE: $85,361.70 wit: Certified Check or Money TRICT, to me directed by the CARL CLAUDE" OF GROUnD The payment must be Seized in the above LOTS 8 AND 11, Order. No personal SECTION 12, kENIL - Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICI - Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The SQUARE 4, checks.) WORTH IN LAkRATT District Court of the Parish of Orleans PAL nO. 1812-14 Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - MARLIn n. GUSMAn CORPORATION SUBDI - Orleans, in the above no. 2017-9496 WASHInGTOn Order. No personal of adjudication to make a TRICT, Sheriff deposit of ten percent of Parish of Orleans VISION, entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT AvEnUE, nEW checks.) MUNICIPAL NO. 3140 ATTy: HERSCHEL ADCOCk MUNICIPAL NO. 7741- proceed to sell by pub - OF FIERI FACIAS to me ORLEAnS, LA, In THE the purchase price, and CASTIGLIONE STREET (225) 756-0373 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff the balance within thirty NNB 3 43 MILL STREET lic auction, on the directed by the MATTER EnTITLED: ACQUIRED MIN Parish of Orleans LA. WEEkLy 8/6/2018, 9/3/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 696619 ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil "US bAnK TRUST n.A., ATTy: FRED DAIGLE 1245905 ______WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, District Court of AS TRUSTEE OF bUn - (504) 522-8256 The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: JD 8 Cash, Cashier’s Check, SALE bY $58,559.87 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above GALOW SERIES F LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 $100,000.00 Certified Check or Money ORLEAnS SHERIFF Seized in the above the First District of the entitled cause, I will TRUST vS WILLIE ______suit, TERMS CASH. The City on October 4, proceed to sell by pub - MATTHEWS, JR. AKA Order. No personal JUDICIAL SALE bY 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 September 3 - September 9, 2018

entific curiosity,” said Kubi, a ris - ing second-year student at Johns In the city that claims him, Ben Carson falls from grace Hopkins School of Medicine and By Juliet Linderman tration has added a complicated after being confirmed, Carson said really disappointing.” president of the school’s chapter AP Writer epilogue, leaving many who poverty “is a state of mind.” “He gave funding to inner city of the largest association for admired him feeling betrayed, Now, Williams said, “people schools with big African-American minority medical students. (AP) — The portrait used to hang unable to separate him from the feel betrayed.” populations, and opened reading Kubi calls Carson’s policy propos - in the hallway, welcoming chil - politics of a president widely “He can’t come back from this,” rooms with the message that als “shocking.” dren and parents to the Archbishop rejected by African Americans he said. through education we can fight “It feels like he’s neglecting the Borders School in Baltimore: a here. In the last presidential elec - The seeds of Carson’s approach to poverty and discrimination, and he communities he came from, the smiling Dr. Ben Carson in surgical tion, nearly 85 percent of city vot - policy are scattered throughout his was looked up to because he people who grew up admiring scrubs, rubbing together the care - ers cast ballots for Hillary Clinton. memoir. He has long promoted self- escaped his circumstances,” said him, who might not have all the ful, steady hands that helped him “The Trump virus is weakening sufficiency and enthusiastically Verma, who recently graduated money in the world,” he said. “I become the nation’s most famous Ben Carson’s image,” said embraced the bootstrap ideology from Johns Hopkins University and no longer speak of wanting to be Black doctor. Bishop Frank Reid, a former pas - popular with conservatives. now lives in New York. the next Ben Carson.” “The person who has the most to do tor at Baltimore’s Bethel AME “Success is determined not by At 15, Verma founded MDJunior, Carson has come back to with your success is you,” it reads. Church who met Carson at Yale, whether or not you face obsta - a nonprofit that aims to improve Baltimore in an official capacity That was before Carson’s presiden - where both received their bache - cles, but by your reaction to health care accessibility to under - only three times since becoming tial bid, before he withdrew from the lor’s degrees. Carson is still them,” Carson wrote. served communities. As a Carson HUD secretary. Last month the race and endorsed Donald Trump, respected, Reid said. “But he is But those messages, now com - scholar he attended board meetings department gave $144 million in and before he was tapped to run the no longer the hero he once was.” ing from a politician, are being and banquets, and got to know revitalization grants to five cities, including Baltimore. But for the Department of Housing and Urban Carson declined to be inter - SECTY. BEN CARSON received differently. Carson personally. Carson’s poli - Development. It was before the pres - viewed for this story. Instead, he “There’s a certain consistency to cies, Verma said, have “tainted his announcement Carson sent a repre - ident failed to condemn white sent a written statement. Emmanuel Williams, 33, grew up his message, it’s just the language is long career and commendable serv - sentative to the Perkins Homes supremacists who marched in “I understand what it means to be in Northwest Baltimore. He learned now different,” said Kurt Schmoke, ice. It’s hard to associate all this with housing complex 40 miles from Charlottesville, Virginia. And before poor because I grew up poor,” the about Carson in elementary school, a Baltimore’s first elected African- a person I looked up to for years.” HUD headquarters, opting instead Carson pushed policies critics say statement said. “I was fortunate to few years after Carson grabbed head - American mayor. Carson and Some Maryland conservatives to go to Flint, Michigan. walk back civil rights protections for have my mother who was my com - lines for successfully separating con - Schmoke, now the president of the embrace Carson’s transition to Carson doesn’t send groups to the those living in subsidized housing. pass - always steering me on course, joined twins attached at the skull. University of Baltimore, have been politician. Antonio Campbell, a pro - wax museum anymore, said co- “I took it down,” said Principal helping me to see beyond our cir - “He was taught during Black friends for decades. fessor of political science at Towson founder Joanne Martin. But his fig - Alicia Freeman of the portrait cumstances. That’s what I hope to History Month,” Williams said. “It’s more political, more partisan, University and state chairman for ure still gets plenty of attention. she’s since moved from the do for the millions of low-income “And everyone was so proud and in my view, it’s harsher,” he said. Carson’s 2016 presidential cam - Martin has heard her share of com - school’s second floor hallway to a families HUD serves.” because it was happening here in Schmoke said Carson’s achieve - paign, said he “remains impressed.” plaints about the figures in her muse - less visible spot inside a reading Carson was born in Detroit, but Baltimore. It was mythic.” ments and philanthropic work Those disappointed with his per - um: Martin Luther King Jr. is too room bearing Carson’s name. The Baltimore is the city that claims “Sometimes I think the country haven’t been entirely eclipsed by formance as HUD secretary likely short. Frederick Douglass is too doctor’s inspirational message him. He rose to fame for his looks down on us,” he said. “So to his association with the Trump feel that way because of fundamen - light-skinned. But no figure has been now feels hostile, she said. groundbreaking surgeries at Johns have such a brilliant person who’s administration. But Carson’s tally divergent values, he said. nearly as controversial as Carson’s. “He was starting to become Hopkins Hospital, and launched his making history and making these political turn has changed the way “The question is, what is the role of “There have been objections to offensive.” scholarship program here. Carson great medical advancements in many people see him. government?” said Campbell, a him being in the museum,” she said. Carson’s story of climbing out of would sometimes arrange for high Baltimore? He was our crown jewel, “You can’t take away the fact that Republican who is running for U.S. “People have posted on our website poverty to become a world- school students to visit the National and he was here.” he’s done outstanding things for Senate against Sen. Ben Cardin, D- demanding that we remove him.” renowned surgeon was once ubiqui - Great Blacks in Wax Museum on Since taking the reins at HUD, people throughout his life, that can’t Md. When assistance is scaled back, Martin refuses. He’s earned his tous in Baltimore, where Carson the city’s east side, where a figure Carson has proposed sweeping rent be erased,” Schmoke said. “But I do those accustomed to the status quo place in history as a doctor, Martin made his name. In some schools his in his likeness stands glossy and increases for the poorest subsidized think there’s clearly more people are bound to be disappointed, he said, said, and she’s committed to honor - memoir was required reading, an smiling in a white lab coat and housing tenants, and has begun dis - who view him through a political adding that Carson “is learning” how ing his contributions to medicine. illustration of the power of persever - stethoscope, in the middle of the mantling key Obama-era regula - lens and that affects how he’s to sell his policies to skeptics. But she says she feels uneasy ance. For a working-class, majority Famous Marylanders display. tions designed to address racial seg - viewed in this community.” As a child, growing up in a low- about Carson’s next chapter, and African-American city wracked by “This young African American regation. Carson has considered Shaun Verma, a Ben Carson income, predominantly black neigh - made a deliberate decision not to racial division and neglect — where who grew up in poverty and could stripping anti-discrimination lan - Scholarship recipient from borhood in a Maryland suburb, update his placard to include any a baby born in a wealthy white neigh - have been put in jail or suspended guage from the department’s mis - Georgia, says Carson’s use of his Boateng Kubi saw Carson as the information about his political life. borhood is expected to live two from school made something great sion statement, and voiced strong story of hard work and determina - embodiment of possibility. “We include figures of people who decades longer than one in a poor of himself. It was the American support for implementing work tion to justify scaling back the “He’s one of the first people who fought for civil rights and appreciat - Black area — Ben Carson was hope. Dream,” Reid said. “We believed requirements for housing aid recipi - safety net for the same communi - truly indicated that Black boys, ed that struggle,” she said. “That’s But his role in the Trump adminis - he could walk on water.” ents. In a radio interview shortly ties that raised and revered him “is black children, have the right to sci - not the person he is today.”◊

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 wit: described property to 421 Loyola Avenue, in proceed to sell by pub - (318) 388-1440 the purchase price, and On FEbRUARY JD 23 LOT 18, SQUARE 19, wit: the First District of the lic auction, on the LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 the balance within thirty FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - LOT 20, SQUARE 1 City on October 4, ground floor of the Civil 15, 2018: ______days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above TRICT OAk ISLAND SUBDIVI - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock District Court building, THAT PORTIOn SALE bY The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 318 SION, PHASE 1, SEC - noon, the following 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment DELARONDE STREET TION C described property to the First District of the Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a bEARInG MUnICI - JUDICIAL ACQUIRED MIN 218050 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - wit: City on October 4, PAL nO. 8739 APPLE Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: TRICT LOT G, SQUARE U 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ADvERTISEMEnT checks.) the purchase price, and STREET, nEW $29,669.22 MUNICIPAL NO. 13811 FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - noon, the following ORLEAnS, LA, In THE THAT PORTIOn MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty Seized in the above PIERRES COURT TRICT described property to Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: MATTER EnTITLED: OF GROUnD Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQUIRED MIN 908226 AURORA GARDENS wit: "FInAnCE OF AMERI - ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER The payment must be purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: SUBDIVISION COMPOSED OF ORIGI - bEARInG MUnICI - (504) 831-7726 Cash, Cashier’s Check, CA REvERSE LLC vS PAL nO. 1013 THIRD TW 18 of adjudication to make a $95,972.44 MUNICIPAL NO. 5936 NAL LOTS 8 & 9, vERREnA WALLACE LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 Certified Check or Money STREET, THIS CITY, In ______deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above OXFORD PLACE SQUARE 1029 A/K/A vERREnA Order. No personal the purchase price, and suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQUIRED MIN THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - THE MATTER EnTILED checks.) ALLEn WALLACE" THE bAnK OF nEW SALE bY the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment 1089672 TRICT Civil District Court for MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: MUNICIPAL NO. 2027 YORK MELLOn, FKA ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sheriff the Parish of Orleans THE bAnK OF nEW Parish of Orleans The payment must be deposit of ten percent of $794,854.52 ANNETTE STREET no. 2017-10952 JUDICIAL ATTy: kAyLA ACkEL Cash, Cashier’s Check, the purchase price, and Seized in the above ACQUIRED MIN YORK AS TRUSTEE (504) 333-6033 by virtue of a WRIT FOR RIGISTERED ADvERTISEMEnT LM 35 Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The 1178720 OF SEIZURE AnD LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: HOLDERS OF CWAbS, THAT PORTIOn ______SALE to me directed InC. , ASSET-bACKED checks.) The payment must be of adjudication to make a $1,255.00 by the Honorable The OF GROUnD CERTIFICATES, bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above Civil District Court of Sheriff SERIES 2004-5 vS PAL nO. 207 WAR - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and suit, TERMS CASH. The Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans RACHEL MARInOvICH, RInGTOn DRIvE, CITY ATTy: FOERSTNER MEyER Order. No personal the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment entitled cause, I will JUDICIAL (504) 522-8256 (AKA RACHEL C. MARI - OF nEW ORLEAnS, In checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: of adjudication to make a proceed to sell by pub - LM 34 nOvICH, RACHEL C. THE CASE EnTITLED: ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 MARLIn n. GUSMAn The payment must be deposit of ten percent of lic auction, on the ______Sheriff GUIDRY) THE bAnK OF nEW THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, the purchase price, and ground floor of the Civil Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for YORK MELLOn TRUST SALE bY ATTy: EMILy HOLLEy Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty District Court building, OF GROUnD (504) 831-7726 the Parish of Orleans COMPAnY, nATIOnAL Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: 421 Loyola Avenue, in bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF JD 33 no. 2018-5312 ASSOCIATIOn FKA LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 checks.) The payment must be the First District of the PAL nO. 318 ______by virtue of a WRIT THE bAnK OF nEW JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn Cash, Cashier’s Check, City on October 4, DELAROnDE STREET, Sheriff OF SEIZURE AnD YORK TRUST COMPA - ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY Certified Check or Money 2018, at 12:00 o’clock CITY OF nEW Parish of Orleans SALE to me directed nY, n.A. AS SUCCES - ATTy: BRANDON kEAy Order. No personal noon, the following ORLEAnS, In THE THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF (504) 299-2100 by the Honorable The SOR TO JPMORGAn checks.) described property to CASE EnTITLED: FED - JD 28 Civil District Court of CHASE bAnK, n.A. , OF GROUnD JUDICIAL LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 MARLIn n. GUSMAn wit: ERAL nATIOnAL bEARInG MUnICI - ______Sheriff Orleans, in the above AS TRUSTEE FOR ADvERTISEMEnT LOT NO. 15-A, SQUARE MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - PAL nO. 13811 PIER - Parish of Orleans entitled cause, I will RESIDEnTIAL ASSET SALE bY ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM 374 TIOn vS STEPHAnIE RES COURT, nEW THAT PORTIOn (504) 658-4346 proceed to sell by pub - MORTGAGE PROD - SEVENTH MUNICIPAL SAYLOR bEnSOn ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ORLEAnS SHERIFF JD 26 lic auction, on the UCTS, InC., MORT - OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 DISTRICT WIFE OF/ AnD MATTER EnTITLED: bEARInG MUnICI - ______ground floor of the Civil GAGE ASSET-bACKED JUDICIAL MUNICIPAL NO. 8739 WILLIAM WAYDE bEn - "bAnK OF AMERICA, PAL nO. 5936 OXFORD District Court building, PASS-THROUGH CER - ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY APPLE STREET SOn n.A. vS KEEnAn J. PLACE, nEW 421 Loyola Avenue, in TIFICATES SERIES ACQUIRED MIN Civil District Court for JOHnSOn" ORLEAnS, LA, In THE THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF the First District of the 2005-RS6 vS JOHn 1127732 the Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for MATTER EnTITLED: City on October 4, vICARI OF GROUnD JUDICIAL WRIT AMOUnT: no. 2018-2767 the Parish of Orleans "Sbn v FnbC LLC vS bEARInG MUnICI - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT $69,486.16 by virtue of a WRIT no. 2017-11474 ROY CURTIS bAHAM PAL nO. 2027 noon, the following the Parish of Orleans Seized in the above OF SEIZURE AnD by virtue of a WRIT AnD LESLIE Ann AnnETTE STREET, THIS SALE IS described property to no. 2018-6810 suit, TERMS CASH. The SALE to me directed OF SEIZURE AnD bAHAM" nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In wit: by virtue of a WRIT MADE UnDER purchaser at the moment by the Honorable The SALE to me directed Civil District Court for THE MATTER EnTI - LOT "D" SQUARE OF SEIZURE AnD R.S. 13:4360 AT of adjudication to make a Civil District Court of by the Honorable The the Parish of Orleans TLED: "CITY OF nEW NO. 131 SALE to me directed deposit of ten percent of Orleans, in the above Civil District Court of no. 2016-8013 ORLEAnS vS STEvE THE RISK AnD FOURTH MUNICIPAL by the Honorable The the purchase price, and entitled cause, I will Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT CASTOn" DISTRICT Civil District Court of PERIL AnD FOR the balance within thirty proceed to sell by pub - entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD Civil District Court for MUNICIPAL NO. 1013 Orleans, in the above THE ACCOUnT days thereafter. (NOTE: lic auction, on the proceed to sell by pub - SALE to me directed the Parish of Orleans THIRD STREET entitled cause, I will The payment must be ground floor of the Civil lic auction, on the by the Honorable The no. 2017-11700 OF YERGALEM ACQ MIN:763849 proceed to sell by pub - Cash, Cashier’s Check, District Court building, ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court of by virtue of a WRIT WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the H. bERAKI, WHO Certified Check or Money 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court building, Orleans, in the above OF FIERI FACIAS to me $171,044.30 ground floor of the Civil FAILED TO COM - Order. No personal the First District of the 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will directed by the Seized in the above District Court building, checks.) City on October 4, the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - Honorable The Civil PLY WITH THE suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in 2018, at 12:00 o’clock City on October 4, lic auction, on the District Court of ADJUDICATIOn MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment the First District of the noon, the following Sheriff 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ground floor of the Civil Orleans, in the above MADE TO HER Parish of Orleans of adjudication to make a described property to noon, the following District Court building, entitled cause, I will ATTy: JASON SMITH deposit of ten percent of Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - September 3 - September 9, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 13

[give executive raises] was really including a recently filed class- agency. But even the best employ - Problems at S&WB continue tone-deaf to the needs of the peo - action lawsuit on behalf numerous ees need supportive leadership and Continued from Page 1 other citizens panicking over their City Council President Jason ple of New Orleans,” Rev. property owners who are pressing to know what’s expected of them bills – that process broke down ear - Williams echoed Manning’s Manning said. “It’s an absolutely the city for damages as a result of and how they are being evaluated.” total way into the thousands of lier this summer. thoughts, saying he’s also become hypocritical thing to do. With the the flooding. In addition, a finan - The council took a key step for - dollars. But even beyond the numerous fed up and frustrated by the board’s mismanagement of the agency, it’s cial advisory firm, citing the utili - ward recently when it unanimously As this has happened, the city practical issues, Manning said that failings and broken trust. just a slap in the face to people.” ty’s shaky fiscal condition, earlier passed a resolution directing the threatened to shut off water serv - for many of the S&WB’s travails, “The problems with the The pay raises triggered Brown this summer told the S&WB’s S&WB to suspend all water serv - ice to delinquent account own - the public – much of it struggling Sewerage & Water Board continue Russell’s removal as interim direc - finance committee that the firm is ice disconnects until Korban ers, including some of those citi - with poverty and subpar living to disappoint and disturb me,” tor by Mayor LaToya Cantrell last putting the brakes on more than arrives and a comprehensive plan zens who say they’ve been conditions – often feels like it Williams said last week. month. Cantrell brought on board $110 million in bonding for capital for moving forward is created, among the victims of the afore - bears the brunt of responsibility for A major debilitation experienced Coast Guard Rear Adm. David projects. The proposed upgrades hopefully within 30 days. mentioned glitches. those problems. Whether it be cor - by the S&WB has been its seeming Callahan, who formerly served as would include repairs to some of Cantrell’s office wasn’t able to The threats of service discontinua - recting administrative billing propensity for shooting itself in the USCG human resources chief and the drainage pump stations whose comment for this article before tion for overdue bills were accom - errors or unclogging catch basins collective foot. In July, while thou - as a Coast director of Personnel failures helped cause the flooding. deadline, but mayoral spokesper - panied by an offer to engage in manually or paying tax money for sands of citizens were flummoxed Command for the Coast Guard, to Callahan will be the S&WB’s son Michael “Beau” Tidwell struck mediation and arbitration for citi - proposed upgrade projects that by irregular billing and internal guide the S&WB temporarily until fourth interim director since last a conciliatory tone in a recent zens who wanted to challenge their never come to fruition, the failures financial reports stated that the utili - new permanent executive director year’s flood events, and Korban statement to The Times-Picayune . bills. (Roughly two dozen accounts of the department, say many, are ty had enough cash reserves for just Ghassan Korban could take the will become the sixth director “In terms of the overall criticism did end up getting turned off.) But being thrust on the very people that 92 days of operation, S&WB inter - reins. Currently, Korban is an overall in just over a year. of the institution and the missteps with several thousand account hold - department is supposed to serve. im director Jade Brown Russell executive with the city of City Council members, already that have been made there, absolute - ers finding their challenges back - “Don’t put the burden on the ordered hefty pay raises for the Milwaukee. rankled by the aforementioned ly, she’s hearing people,” Tidwell logged – and coming to city offices people to try to fix things,” board’s three deputy directors. “The Mayor and the Board troubles, became further peeved told The Times-Picayune . “We don’t to find overflow, anxious crowds of Manning said. “In the midst of the crisis, to reached the only logical and when S&WB officials failed to want, the administration doesn’t responsible conclusion regarding attend key public meetings, includ - want, and I don’t think the council the management issue,” Korban ing the council’s Sewerage & wants either, for there to be this said in a prepared statement on Water Board Task Force. adversarial, us-versus-them situa - August 22. With all of the turnover and tion...We’re all in this together, Kofi Annan and Ron Walters “Resolving the billing disputes recalcitrance at the top, City we’re all pulling for the same thing, Continued from Page 5 sor at Howard University (and the Nobel Prize committee was later at the University of “an excellent representative of the and making immediate improve - Council members have been which is to make sure services are cal science) “foreign policy jus - Maryland), and a prolific writer United Nations and probably the ments to the infrastructure are my struggling to get ahold of the sit - developed fairly and effectively.” tice”. Walters decried inconsis - and speaker. He embraced the most effective secretary-general in top priorities, and I’m eager to get uation and establish an open, pro - Rev. Manning of Broadmoor tencies in US foreign policy, in legacy of Kofi Annan and the its history.” At the same time, started,” he added. ductive line of communication Community Church has been the many ways that some nations vision of Afroglobalism. When we when I celebrate Annan’s legacy, I But the S&WB’s executive leader - with the utility. Councilman encouraged by recent develop - were favored and others were embrace Annan, we also recognize remember the legacy of Dr. Ron ship has been shaky for a year since Joseph Giarrusso, the chair of the ments at the S&WB. not, with Israel often having too the many ways that Dr. Ron Walters, the civil rights activist last summer, when heavy rains council’s Public Works, “Mayor Cantrell has said there preferred a status compared to Walters was pivotal in lifting (leading sit-ins in his hometown of exposed the decrepit, crumbling sta - Sanitation and Environment needs to be credibility and trust built Palestinian nations , as well as awareness of African-American Wichita, Kansas), iconic political tus of the city’s drainage system and Committee, said he sees potential back between the community and the uneven ways our country people around global issues. science professor, and pioneering caused massive flooding across for a turnaround at the S&WB. the Sewerage & Water Board,” he chose to intervene in country Both Annan and Walters were political activist and advisor to New Orleans. After a rain-induced “It is hard to have confidence in said. “But,” he added, “it’s one thing conflicts. Through the lens of born in 1938, both would have leaders, and submit that his legacy deluge on August 5 of last year, the the organization with the revolving to say it. It’s another thing to do it.” Walters, too little conversation turned 80 this year (Walters made should motivate African former S&WB executive director door of interim executive direc - Manning said his church is advo - about foreign policy justice took his transition in 2010). Both pro - Americans to be more fully com - was pushed out of the position, as tors,” Giarrusso told The Louisiana cating for the mayor and other city place, and African Americans vided a foundation of critical mitted to foreign policy justice. were several other high-ranking Weekly . “However, it is too early to officials to hold public forums were too often missing when thinking around foreign policy Two men, Secretary-General Kofi officials with the utility. say we have no confidence until regarding the S&WB’s challenges, these conversations took place. issues and foreign policy justice. Annan and Professor Ron Walters, Accompanying Grant’s ouster the new permanent director comes and he stressed the need for a coun - Walters was among those who Thanks to Walters, African embraced the vision of a safe, were reports of hundreds of millions in next month and has a chance to cil presence within the S&WB. felt that African-American people Americans embraced foreign pol - peaceful, equitable world and must of wasted grant funding, lack of implement some solutions to the “We want to be seen as a 21st-cen - needed to be more fully involved icy issues more closely and criti - be celebrated for it. Their legacy is trained and dedicated employees, challenges the S&WB faces. tury metropolis,” he added, “so let’s in the development of US foreign cally. Thanks to Kofi Annan, the in contrast to U.S. leadership shoddy maintenance and adminis - “There are a lot of good people set the bar and become the model policy, not only around Africa but United Nations began to look at where our 45th President sows dis - trative confusion, all of which led to working at the S&WB that come in for how to deal with these things. in general. He was a trusted advi - human rights more globally. sent and disparages the countries last summer’s flooding. every day and do their level best,” Now is the time to develop a para - sor to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a I do not hesitate to celebrate the Annan and Walters so loved as The inundations have also led to he said. “Many have delayed retire - digm and a model for the future. We longtime political science profes - legacy of Kofi Annan, a legacy that “shithole” countries.◊ other consequences for the utility, ment because they believe in the can be a model for other cities.”◊

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 OPEnED SUCCESSIOn PARK, CITY OF nEW November 21, 1975, Registrar of Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of and advantages thereun - OF THOMAS R. ORLEAnS, In THE being further described Conveyances, Orleans checks.) the purchase price, and to belonging or in any - City on October 4, CRAIGE" CASE EnTITLED: to-wit: Lot 15 U of Parish, Louisiana, in MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty wise appeataining, situ - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court for DEUTSCHE bAnK Square A, which said COB 0000, folio 195, Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: ated in the Fifth District of Parish of Orleans noon, the following the Parish of Orleans nATIOnAL TRUST square is bounded by and further in accor - ATTy: COREy GIROIR The payment must be New Orleans, Louisiana, described property to no. 2018-3856 COMPAnY, AS Roselyn Park Place, dance with survey by (225) 756-0373 Cash, Cashier’s Check, lying in Aurora Gardens LM 17 wit: by virtue of a WRIT TRUSTEE FOR General Meyer Avenue, same surveyor, January LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 Certified Check or Money Subdivision, designated LOT 4, SQUARE B, OF SEIZURE AnD ARGEnT SECURITIES, Patterson Drive and 4, 1954, said lot is desig - ______Order. No personal on survey made by D. C. THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE to me directed InC., ASSET-bACKED Ellen Park Place and nated as Lot 15-y of SALE bY checks.) W. Rickerts C.E., dated TRICT, by the Honorable The PASS-THROUGH CER - measures thence 34 Square “A”, according to MARLIn n. GUSMAn March 30, 1940, revised GENTILLy PARk Civil District Court of TIFICATES SERIES feet front on Roselyn resubdivision of said Lot ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sheriff April 18, 1941 and Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NO. 207 Orleans, in the above 2005-W3 vS nAJAH Park Place, a width in 15-y, Square “A”, by JUDICIAL ATTy: EDWARD ABELL September 10, 1942, as WARRINGTON DRIVE entitled cause, I will SHAKIR. the rear of 81.2 feet by a Gerald B. Dunn, Land JD 2 Lot 1 of Plot B being ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 ACQUIRED MIN 812365 proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for depth and front on Surveyor, dated ______boundary by Patterson WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans General Meyer Avenue November 21, 1975, THAT PORTIOn Drive, Larchmont Place, $53,061.20 ground floor of the Civil no. 2013-333 of 110’7”3’” by a dept on approved by the City OF GROUnD SALE bY Newton Highway and Seized in the above District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT the side line adjoining Planning Commission on bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Aurora Drive & Lot 1 suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD Lot 15-V of 101 feet, January 23, 1976, the PAL nO. 7730 bRIAR - JUDICIAL measuring 98.50 feet purchaser at the moment the First District of the SALE to me directed said measurements are said Lot 15-y was resub - WOOD DRIvE, nEW front on Aurora Drive and of adjudication to make a City on October 4, by the Honorable The more fully shown on a divided into Lots 15-U ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ADvERTISEMEnT 164.71 feet depth said deposit of ten percent of 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court of plan of survey by Gilbert, and 15-V and according MATTER EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn from on Newton Highway the purchase price, and noon, the following Orleans, in the above kelly & Couturie, Inc., to which the property is “PHOEnIX COMPACT OF GROUnD 150.00 feet on the oppo - the balance within thirty described property to entitled cause, I will dated August 18, 1994, further designated and vALvES, InC. vS vER - bEARInG MUnICI - site sideline and 166.54 days thereafter. (NOTE: wit: proceed to sell by pub - said square is shown to described as follows: nOn L. GREEn.” PAL nO: 107 AURORA feet with in the rear (the The payment must be LOT 9, SQUARE 16 lic auction, on the have the dimensions of Lot 15-V, Square A, Civil District Court for DRIvE, nEW said property was require Cash, Cashier’s Check, FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil 36 feet front on Roselyn which said square is the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, LA, In THE as having measurements Certified Check or Money TRICT District Court building, Park Place, 81’2”3’” bounded by General no. 2016-9394 MATTER EnTITLED: above recited but was Order. No personal PACE PARk ADDITION - 421 Loyola Avenue, in across the rear, and Meyer Avenue, Ellen by virtue of a WRIT “FEDERAL HOME described as lying in Plot checks.) AL SUBDIVISION the First District of the 110’7”3’” on the sideline Park Place (side), OF FIERI FACIAS to LOAn MORTGAGE 3, having the above MARLIn n. GUSMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 1755 City on October 4, nearer to General Meyer Patterson Drive (side) me directed by the CORPORATIOn vS boundaries given said Sheriff PACE BOULEVARD 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Avenue and 101 feet and Roselyn Park Place, Honorable The Civil SUCCESSIOn OF square or plot having Parish of Orleans District Court of ATTy: HAROLD CRADIC ACQUIRED MIN 734579 noon, the following along the opposite side - and the said lot com - LInDA DIAnE JOnES, been so designated as (225) 756-0373 WRIT AMOUnT: described property to line and has the same mences at a distance of Orleans, in the above THROUGH ITS InDE - Plot 3 on survey by D. G. LM 36 entitled cause, I will LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 $72,132.57 wit: location and designation 36 feet from the corner of PEnDEnT ADMInIS - W. Ricketts aforesaid, ______Seized in the above ALL THAT CERTAIN as mentioned herein - General Meyer Avenue proceed to sell by pub - TRATOR, MICHAEL dated September 7, SALE bY suit, TERMS CASH. The PIECE OR PARCEL OF above. and Roselyn Park Place lic auction, on the DURAnD JOnES 1938) all as further in purchaser at the moment GROUND, together with AND and measures 64 feet ground floor of the Civil accordance with plan of ORLEAnS SHERIFF COZART, SR.” of adjudication to make a all the buildings and ONE CERTAIN LOT front on Roselyn Park District Court building, Civil District Court for survey by J. L. krechs JUDICIAL deposit of ten percent of improvements thereon, OF GROUND, together Place, same width in the 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans and Sons, Inc., C.E., ADvERTISEMEnT the purchase price, and and all of the rights, with all the buildings and rear, by a depth of 101 the First District of the no. 2017-7174 dated August 26, 1965, the balance within thirty ways, privileges, servi - improvements thereon, feet between equal and City on October 4, resurveyed August 29, THAT PORTIOn by virtue of a WRIT days thereafter. (NOTE: tudes, prescriptions, and all of the rights, parallel lines. All in 2018, at 12:00 o’clock OF SEIZURE AnD 1968. OF GROUnD The payment must be appurtenances and ways, privileges, servi - accordance with survey noon, the following SALE to me directed WRIT AMOUnT: bEARInG MUnICIPAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, advantages thereunto tudes, appurtenances of Gilbert, kelly & described property to by the Honorable The $74,169.27 nO. 1755 PACE Certified Check or Money belonging or in anywise and advantages thereun - Couturie, Inc., dated wit: Civil District Court of Seized in the above bOULEvARD, nEW Order. No personal appertaining, being situ - to belonging or in any - August 1994, said THAT CERTAIN TRACT Orleans, in the above suit, TERMS CASH. The ORLEAnS, LA, In THE checks.) ated in the Fifth District wise appertaining, situat - square has the same OR PARCEL OF LAND, entitled cause, I will purchaser at the moment MATTER EnTITLED: MARLIn n. GUSMAn of the City of New ed in the Fifth District of designation, dimension Third Municipal District, proceed to sell by pub - of adjudication to make a "U.S. bAnK nATIOnAL Sheriff Orleans, State of the City of New Orleans, and location as men - together with all improve - deposit of ten percent of Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the ASSOCIATIOn, nOT In ATTy: EMILy HOLLEy Louisiana, in that part State of Louisiana, in tioned hereinabove ments thereon, located at ground floor of the Civil the purchase price, and ITS InDIvIDUAL 504-831-7726 thereof known as that part thereof known WRIT AMOUnT: 7730 Briarwood Drive, the balance within thirty JD 23 District Court building, CAPACITY bUT SOLE - LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 Roselyn Park as Roselyn Park $141,598.45 New Orleans, LA 70128, 421 Loyola Avenue, in days thereafter. (NOTE: LY AS TRUSTEE FOR ______Subdivision. Being a Subdivision, being a Seized in the above and being further the First District of the The payment must be THE CIM TRUST 2017-8 SALE bY resubdivision of former resubdivision of portion suit, TERMS CASH. The described as being in City on October 4, Cash, Cashier’s Check, MORTGAGE-bACKED Square 2 of Briarwood ORLEAnS SHERIFF Lot 15-y of Square “A” of Arpent Lot 31, as des - purchaser at the moment 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Certified Check or Money nOTES, SERIES 2017-8 as per title change ignated on a print by of adjudication to make a Subdivision, Section 1, noon, the following Order. No personal vS THE UnOPEnED JUDICIAL approved by the City Commny, late Deputy deposit of ten percent of Lot 19 Briarwood. described property to checks.) SUCCESSIOn OF ADvERTISEMEnT Planning Commission Surveyor, January 29, the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: wit: MARLIn n. GUSMAn LOYCE M. vInCEnT on January 23, 1976, 1937, and subdivided the balance within thirty $552,870.93 A CERTAIN LOT OR Sheriff THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans CRAIGE, (AKA LOYCE registered in COB 735, into Square “A” by Adloe days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above PORTION OF GROUND, ATTy: kELLy MASSEy M. CRAIGE, LOYCE OF GROUnD folio 137, as per plan by Orr, Jr & Associates, The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The (318) 388-1440 and all the rights, ways, JD 4 CRAIGE, LOYCE M. bEARInG MUnICI - Gerald B. Dunn, Land C.E., dated April 6, 1953, Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment privileges, servitudes LA. WEEkLy 9/3/2018, 10/1/2018 vInCEnT) AnD THE PAL nO. 266 ROSELYn Surveyor, dated on file in the office of the Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a ______

Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM September 3 - September 9, 2018 Jay Z, Beyoncé awarding $1M in scholarships to high school students By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer

(NNPA Newswire) — Popular music’s most powerful couple contin - ue to make power moves. Hip-hop superstar Jay Z and his wife, Beyoncé, have announced a new scholarship program that will award 10 scholarships worth $100,000 each to “exceptional” high school seniors who demon - strate financial needs. The award will serve as a dedicated university-based fund for each selected student throughout the duration of the student’s enrollment, according to a news release. “This back to school season, students in the On The Run II Tour mar - kets, who are preparing for college, will be chosen by Boys and Girls Club of America,” according to a joint press release from Beyoncé’s “BeyGOOD Initiative” and Jay Z’s “The Shawn Carter Foundation.” “Qualified students must demonstrate academic excellence and show financial needs that would make it hard for them to enter college or uni - versity for the academic year 2018-2019,” the release noted. The markets will include Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Arlington, Texas; New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Seattle. The power couple have had a long history of helping students with The Shawn Carter Foundation spearheading college tours to historically black colleges and universities and providing scholarships to college bound students throughout the country. Through her BeyGOOD initiative, Beyoncé created the Formation Scholars Award, a merit program to help female students start or fur - ther their college education, and this year they announced the Homecoming Scholars Award, a second merit program, opened to qualified students, regardless of gender, to enter or continue their studies at one of eight HBCUs. who was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from In May, Jordan Davis decided to apply for the BeyGood scholar - 1993-1998 before being appointed as surgeon general by Clinton, is an ship but said doubted he would receive the award. About a month “inspiring” figure to look up to, Davis said. later though, he got the news. The Plano native was one of the eight Davis, 20, is a senior healthcare administration major at Texas finalists who had won the inaugural scholarship sponsored by Southern. Beyoncé and Google. He said the scholarship will make it possible for him to pursue a “I was so ecstatic,” Davis told the Houston Chronicle. “It was a dream career in healthcare administration. One day, he hopes to work for a come true. It almost felt like Beyoncé had chosen me.” home health agency, clinic or hospital as an administrator who helps Homecoming Scholars was inspired by Beyoncé’s performance at the underserved communities. 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Beyoncé, the first black “I always cared about helping the community and contributing,” he woman in the festival’s 19-year history to be its headline performer, ref - said. “I like to work with people.” erenced HBCUs throughout her performance that incorporated a 100- In addition to maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher, he volunteers for piece all-black marching band and song selection. Habitat for Humanity and is a member of TSU Honors College “The show, with its homage to excellence in education, was a celebra - Enrichment, the Urban Gardening program, Intervarsity Christian tion of the homecoming weekend experience, the highest display of col - Fellowship, and is also a counselor for Young Life Christian Fellowship. lege pride,” according to a news release. Davis said he is grateful because the scholarship relieved him of a “The energy-filled production put the spotlight on art and culture, mix - heavy financial burden, especially because he plans to pursue a master’s ing the ancient and the modern, which resonated masterfully through the degree in organizational leadership and development. marching band, performance art, choir, and dance. It was the impetus to “This scholarship took off the pressure to get loans or additional mark her second scholarship program.” funds,” Davis said. As a part of the scholarship application, students were required to sub - “A master’s degree is not cheap and this makes the gap smaller.” mit a 1,000-word essay about “one African or African-American thought Jay Z and Beyoncé’s OTRII Tour reportedly has grossed more than leader in their field who has inspired them to achieve their goals.” $150 million. Davis wrote about David Satcher who served as U.S. Surgeon General “And, they’re giving back in a large way,” superfan Nolan in both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Satcher, Crenshaw said.◊

Kindred Spirits of the Streets – Leon Anderson Jr. and Norman Dixon Jr. By Geraldine Wyckoff felt the need to parade in celebra - says Dixon who also gives high Contributing Writer tion of the day. creds to the influence of the late With one band followed by mem - Nathaniel “Nat” Gray, who held When folk artist and second line bers dressed in the YMO’s tradi - the position of grand marshal for follower Ashton Ramsey was once tional outfits, it rolls for just two the YMO and was a founding asked, “Which is your favorite hours, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. “It’s member of the VOSM. social aid and pleasure club anniver - really just one organization,” Naturally both Dixon and sary parade?” he quickly answered: declares Dixon explaining that the Anderson have been highly influ - “All of them, because they happen.” unity of its membership is repre - enced by their respective fathers That’s just how the club members sented in the anniversary parade. with whom they had the opportunity and second line regulars feel when The procession on September to share the experience of being a the parade season revs up. As has 23, which Dixon simply call’s the part of these close-knit, community become tradition, the Valley of YMO’s “annual parade,” is organizations and also have a good Silent Men , the name of which was always a spectacular affair boast - time together dancing in the streets. derived from the quote, “Out of the ing six colorful divisions and six “My father taught me so much – valley come those that are chosen,” brass bands that fill the uptown getting everybody together, looking kicked off the season, which runs streets for a full four hours. It out for one another and budget- through mid-June, on Sunday, starts at 1 p.m. at the Young Men wise,” Leon Jr. says. “We try to keep August 26, 2018. Olympian Clubhouse, 2101 S. our dues pretty low because stuff “We’re about brotherhood,” pro - Liberty, makes a “circle route” gets expensive but we’re not like claims Leon Anderson Jr. the and returns to the clubhouse. that. We try to keep things (like Valley of Silent Men’ s president. It’s not surprising that these attire) in our budget because our “It’s fun and I like to bring every - two, next generation devotees of members are friends and family.” body together,” adds Anderson, the social and pleasure club When it comes to being on the who, like his father, the late Leon parading tradition – Leon streets with the YMO, Dixon lives Anderson Sr., is also a member of Anderson Jr. and Norman Dixon by one important lesson that was the Young Men Olympian Jr. Jr. – express themselves similarly ingrained into him by his notably Benevolent Association (YMO). when talking about their love of strong father. He remembers sec - The YMO annually presents two the second lines. ond lining as a little boy and the parades in September on the sec - “My favorite part is the gather - challenges that went down ond and fourth Sundays of the ing of people – of different races between groups and individuals to month. The first is the Young and backgrounds – enjoying see who could dance the best. “Me Men Olympian’s anniversary themselves,” says Dixon, 51, and a couple of us got upset parade, which is often referred to who joined the Young Men because we wanted to be declared as its “mini” or memorial second Olympian when he was just the winner,” Dixon Jr. recalls. line, which will take place on seven years old. “I just love peo - “He took me aside and said, ‘Let September 9, 2018. According to ple personally so it gives me the me tell you. Second lining is for the YMO’s president Norman environment that I like to be in.” you. You dance for you, no matter Dixon Jr. , who is also the CEO of Leon Anderson Sr., who helped what people say around you. First the Norman Dixon Sr. co-found the Valley of Silent Men, of all you’re dancing because you Foundation that is named for and boasted membership in two organ - enjoy what you’re doing.’” From dedicated to his late father, this izations, the VOSM and the YMO that time until today, Dixon has procession is a rather recent addi - as does his son, Leon Jr. On the nixed competitions even when his tion to traditions of the 134-year- other hand, Norman Dixon Jr., like YMO division, the Untouchables, old organization. Dixon explains his father, has devoted himself might be lured by the association’s that to commemorate the YMO’s solely to the Young Men Olympian high-spirited unit, the Furious anniversary, the members of the Jr. Benevolent Association. “My Five. “We just never entertained it. association continue, as they dad said it was unnecessary (to be We put on our show, they put on always have, to attend a church with another club),” Dixon remem - their show,” Dixon says. “Good for service held in remembrance of bers. “So I just followed his lead. them and good for us.” those who died the previous year. He and Mr. Bucket (YMO parade From Norman Dixon Jr.’s point However in the past, the members chairman, the late Alfred “Bucket” of view, the moral of his father’s would then have dinner with the Carter) refused to parade with any - story is: “The right way to second families. That changed in 1989 body else besides the YMO. They line is whatever way you make it. when those in the organization kind of brought me up like that,” That’s the most important thing.”◊