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Providing ‘News that matters’ for years VVOOLL.. XXCCII NNOO.. 2277 Since 1925 9w1 ww.louisianaweekly.com 50 cents Study: Blacks comprise majority of defendants who are wrongfully convicted By Frederick H. Lowe than other convicted murderers, the report stated. Contributing Writer “A major cause of the high number of Black murder exonerations is the high homicide rate (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — in the Black community—a tragedy that kills African Americans comprise the majority of many African Americans and sends many others defendants wrongfully convicted of murder, sexu - to prison,” the report stated. al assault and drug crimes who are later exonerat - Blacks imprisoned for murder are more likely to ed, according to a study released by the National be innocent if they were convicted of killing white Registry of Wrongful Convictions. victims. Only about 15 percent of murders by The report titled “Race and Wrongful African Americans involve white victims, but 31 Convictions in the United States” reported that percent of innocent African-American murder African Americans constituted 47 percent of the exonerees were convicted of killing white people. 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry The convictions that led to murder exonera - of Exonerations as of October 2016, and a great tions with Black defendants were 22 percent majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent more likely to include misconduct by police defendants who were framed and convicted of than those with white defendants. crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later Police assist in convicting Black murder Task force lays out plan for cleared in “group” exonerations. defendants through witness tampering, which The report examined racial disparities for the occurred in 21 percent of murder exonerations major crime categories of murder, sexual assault with white defendants but occurred in 39 per - prison population reduction and drug crimes, three crimes that produce the cent of trials with Black defendants. largest number of exonerations. “Many of the convictions of African-American By Della Hasselle annual corrections spending, prehensive reforms the state African Americans who were convicted of mur - Contributing Writer officials said in a 76-page could see a 13 percent drop der are about 50 percent more likely to be innocent Continued on Pg. 2 report released last Thursday. in prison population, and Louisiana has long been Annual corrections spend - save $305 million over a known as the world’s prison ing reaches nearly two- decade in the process. capital, incarcerating more of thirds of a billion dollars, the Ultimately, the task force its people than anywhere else. report found, yet the “tough projects a reduction of 4,800 Now, leaders of a task force on crime approach” does lit - prison beds by the year 2027. Hate groups increase for aimed at criminal justice tle to ensure more public Gov. John Bel Edwards is reform have announced they safety. Rather, task force among advocates for criminal have a plan to change that. leaders said, policies that justice reform who has touted second consecutive year as Louisiana’s Justice result in locking up nonvio - the plans put forth by the task Reinvestment Task Force, cre - lent criminals and extended force. He had long pushed for ated to study the state’s crimi - sentences for offenders only prison reform, and in his cam - Trump electrifies radical right nal justice system, found that contribute to the state’s paign for governor had prom - Muslims hit hardest with hate attacks as fear heightened the state’s taxpayers are “not bloated recidivism rates. ised to reduce the prison pop - among African Americans, others getting a good public safety But with a new plan, offi - return on investment” into cials say that through com - Continued on Pg. 13 (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Southern Poverty Law Center) — The number of hate groups in the United States rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to the How to reverse incarceration in Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations. The most dramatic growth was the near-tripling of Louisiana: Thirteen steps to stop anti-Muslim hate groups – from 34 in 2015 to 101 last year. However, fear has grown among many racial and ethnic minority groups. In a post-election SPLC sur - being first in being last vey of 10,000 educators, 90 percent said the climate at By Bill Quigley don’t arrest people for stupid non-violent their schools had been negatively affected by the cam - Contributing Writer crimes in the first place. paign. Eighty percent described heightened anxiety Two . Stop racial profiling. African- and fear among students, particularly immigrants, Louisiana was recently named “Worst State” American people are two to three times as Muslims and African Americans. Numerous teachers in the nation, again. One of the reasons was the likely to be arrested as whites. Even though reported the use of slurs, derogatory language and state’s 50th ranking in crime and corrections. marijuana use is roughly similar in all commu - extremist symbols in their classrooms. Being the incarceration capital of the country is nities, Blacks are much more likely than The growth has been accompanied by a rash of crimes tar - obviously not helping our reputation. whites to be arrested and convicted of marijua - geting Muslims, including an act of arson that destroyed a Here are a dozen plus ways for Louisiana na crimes. Overall, African Americans and mosque in Victoria, Texas, just hours after the Trump to stop jailing many more of its citizens Latinos are incarcerated at rates two to four administration announced an executive order sus pending than Iran or China. The cover of the recently released Spring One . Decriminalize victimless crimes — Continued on Pg. 13 Continued on Pg. 3 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center

La. State Police chief retires amid probes, controversy Just weeks after news stories surfaced LSP superintendent was announced Safety Services and Superintendent of many natural and man-made disasters, about four Louisiana state troopers who Wednesday in a joint statement with State Police. The search will begin Col. Edmonson has been a steady hand misused public funds to pay for unau - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who immediately for a full-time LSP super - and strong leader for the people of thorized stops at Las Vegas and the said last month that there would be a thor - intendent to head the state’s largest law Louisiana. I, and many of the people of Grand Canyon as they drove from ough investigation of the 2016 road trip enforcement agency. Continued on Pg. 13 Baton Rouge, La. to San Diego, Calif. after the story was released by WWL “Today, after careful consideration and to attend a law enforcement conference News and The New Orleans Advocate . many discussions regarding the future of last fall, Louisiana State Police Col. Prior to Edmonson’s retirement after the state police, Col. Edmonson notified Mike Edmonson announced that he will 37 years of service to the Louisiana me of his retirement,” the statement said. step down on March 24. State Police, Gov. Edwards will name “Together, we believe this is the best COL. MIKE EDMONSON Col. Edmonson’s decision to retire as an interim Deputy Secretary of Public approach for the department. Throughout THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM March 20 - March 26, 2017 Still pleading our own cause: The Black Press celebrates 190 years By Stacy M. Brown studied the history of the Black Freedom’s Journal , the Tri- State Contributing Writer Press and used the 190-year mile - Defender and the Chicago stone to reflect on the legacy of Defender paved the way for free - (NNPA Newswire) — The old - Black newspapers. dom, justice and equality. est Black business industry in “[What I discovered] help me Brenda Andrews, the publisher America began 190 years ago understand how the Black Press of The New Journal and Guide , today. played a vital role in fighting for said that after 190 years, the pri - On March 16, 1827, the first human rights, abolishing slavery mary challenge facing the Black edition of the Freedom’s Journal and outlawing lynching,” Rolark Press remains its limited human was published, thrusting Barnes said. “The lesson for us, as and financial resources needed African-Americans into the publishers, is that we must remain to continue to tell news from the bustling publishing business. important in our communities and perspective of being Black in At the time, Blacks in America continue to be the voice for victims America. weren’t even considered citi - and spotlight those who have “It is a mission that, at times, can zens, most were slaves and for - achieved success.” seem like making bricks without bidden to read or write. While mainstream media remain sand; tying shoes without strings; However, John Russwurm and seems distracted by the current pulling yourself up by your boot - Reverend Samuel Cornish rose up political atmosphere, Rolark straps without boots,” Andrews bravely declaring that, “We wish to Barnes said that its vital that the said. “But, for me it’s a personally plead our own cause. Too long Black Press continue to focus on fulfilling mission that has been have others spoken for us.” telling the stories that are relevant guided for the past 35 years by my Dorothy Leavell, publisher of to the Black community and deep spiritual faith.” the historic Chicago Crusader recording Black history. Andrews continued: “To keep newspaper which celebrated its NNPA President and CEO Dr. community with news that is as inspirational today as the move - man has any rights that a white aiming to thrive, rather than occu - 75th anniversary in 2015, said Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., said that vital to them,” said Miles. “We ment they declared on the front man must honor, there came a pying a posture of survival, for me, that when Russwurm and Cornish March 16, 2017 is a sacred histori - still endeavor to bring about pages of Freedom’s Journal ,” flood of Black publications that requires immense faith in the des - established the Black Press by cal day in the long, multidimen - news that will educate and keep Jackson said. “Looking at those advocated for Black rights and tiny of Black America and a pas - publishing the Freedom’s sional freedom struggle of African our communities aware of words today, I am awe-struck at protested the wrongs done to sion to ensure the American story Journal , they wanted to provide a people in America and throughout what’s going on.” the vision of the Black Press fore - Blacks. Newspapers like includes the perspective of its voice for Black people. The the world, because of the courage Further, Miles said, with the fathers and I’m heartened knowing Black citizens.”◊ Black Press became one of the of John Brown Russwurm and term “fake news” emanating that this statement continues to only means of communication Samuel Cornish who dared first to regularly from the White House shine as our collective beacon. between Black people. publish the Freedom’s Journal . and the new administration, it’s Jackson continued: “The voice “Black men and women were Chavis said that the Black Press imperative that the Black Press of the Black Press is as important vilified in the New York press in in America has been on the front - remains vigilant. today as it has ever been. In the 1800s,” said Leavell. “Some lines of social change in the “We must be the glue to hold our today’s political climate, we can - White newspaper publishers United States for 190 years. community together and encour - not afford to miss any opportunity sought to defend the dignity, “Today, more than ever, the age togetherness, in business and to educate, enlighten, and inform honor and character of Black Black Press remains the trusted economically, in this new Donald our community on the issues that people, however, Russwurm and and audacious voice of Black Trump era,” Miles said. our very lives depend on.” Cornish said they, ‘wish to plead America,” said Chavis. “Today, Harry Colbert Jr. recently sum - Journalist, author, activist and our own cause.’” the NNPA continues this irre - marized the importance of the Black Press historian A. Peter Without the Black Press, genuine pressible tradition of publishing Black Press in a column for Bailey said the NNPA has always stories of African-Americans truth to power. Our freedom Insight News , an NNPA member provided a great service to African would go untold, said Robert W. fighting publishers are all united newspaper, where he touted the Americans through the pages of its Bogle, the publisher of the “The as we reaffirm the vital impor - achievements of many that were newspapers. Philadelphia Tribune.” tance and relevance of the Black noted only through the pages of An adjunct professor at the Bogle said that only Black peo - Press now and into the future.” the Black Press. University of District of ple can tell their stories accurately. Jacqueline Miles, publisher of the Margot Lee Shetterly, the Columbia, Bailey said it’s also “We are as relevant today as we half-century-old Pensacola Press in author of Hidden Figures , said if vital that coverage continues to were when the Freedom’s Florida said that it’s important to not for the archives of the Black spotlight Black economics. Journal said they wanted to tell note that the Black Press has Press such as the Norfolk Bailey said that, according to our story in our words,” said become the source of information Journal and Guide and the Black author Lionel Barrow, Bogle. for jobs, weddings, births, deaths Pittsburgh Courier , the inspiring there are four basic functions of Denise Rolark-Barnes, the chair and even entertainment. story of Black women geniuses the Black Press: to act as a of the NNPA and publisher of The “Today, the Black Press still at NASA would not have been watchdog for the Black commu - Washington Informer , said she serves the African-American possible to tell. nity; to answer attacks on the If not for the Florida Sun Black community; to preserve newspaper in Orlando, the story Black culture and to present a of the great training in science different viewpoint. and technology taking place at “I believe the Black Press is Bethune-Cookman University— doing okay on those, but we Majority of wrongfully one of the nation’s historically could do better by working more Black universities—would go closely together and it would untold and unnoticed, Colbert really help if the [NNPA] would convicted defendants said. dedicate a reporter to the United Continued from Page 1 In Harris County, Texas, for Colbert continued: “In Baton Nations, who could send news to example, there have been 133 Rouge, it may have been a citi - its member papers, and a murder exonerees were affected exonerations in ordinary drug zen’s lens that captured the reporter on Wall Street, because by a wide range of types of racial possession cases in the last few senseless killing of Alton economics are the most impor - discrimination, from uncon - years. The defendants pled Sterling at the hands of police, tant thing that the Black Press scious bias and institutional dis - guilty, but routine lab tests but it is ‘The Drum’ that keeps can report on for Black people.” crimination to explicit racism,” showed those arrested were not Sterling’s memory alive and is Editors of the Pasadena Journal the report stated. carrying drugs. Houston is the shining the white-hot spotlight noted that Black-owned and oper - Black exonerees spent three largest city in Harris County. on those responsible for his ated media has been filled with the years longer in prison before The National Registry of homicide.” stories of trailblazers, pioneers and release than white murder Wrongful Convictions is a proj - Hiram Jackson, the publisher forerunners that helped get us to exonerees, and Black exonerees ect of the University of of Real Times Media in where we are today, with 48 Black sentenced to death spent four Michigan Law School, Michigan Michigan said that it’s important elected United States years longer behind bars. State University Law School and to note the significance of Congressmen and women. Black prisoners serving time Newkirk Center for Science & Russwurm and Cornish’s words. In the aftermath of the Plessy v. for sexual assault are three and- Society at the University of “‘We wish to plead our own Ferguson Supreme Court ruling a-half times more likely to be California Irvine.◊ cause.’ Words that continue to be in 1896 that said that no Black innocent than a white assault convict. “The major cause of this huge racial disparity appears to be the high danger of mistaken eyewit - ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS ness identification by white vic - tims in violent crimes with Black assailants,” the report stated. Drug crimes are also those in LOUISIANA LAND TRUST which the majority of blacks are exonerated . DEMOLITION AND SLAB REMOVAL PROGRAM Although Blacks and whites use drugs at an equal rate, African Sealed bids will be received until 10:00 a.m. on March 28, 2017 local time, opened Americans are about five times and publicly read at 10:30 a.m,. in the office of Bryant Hammett and Associates, more likely than whites to go to prison for drug possession. 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this new capacity, as he takes the helm at New Schools for New Recovery School District superintendent resigns Orleans, where I know he will His critics point to the state’s though as privately operated char - “During his tenure as racial and socio-economic diver - continue his great work.” infamously tricky habits of data ter schools with appointed boards, Superintendent for the Recovery sity within the student bodies, With a stated mission to deliver manipulation and ever-changing thus retaining their autonomy and School District, Patrick Dobard but also increase the diversity in excellent public schools for every benchmarks, and a system that leaving the publicly elected board was able to guide our area schools curriculum and program offer - child, New Schools for New has left the most vulnerable chil - with a much diminished role in the with the confidence and tact of a ings among schools. Orleans is responsible for doling dren behind while disenfranchis - city’s public education. seasoned leader,” said OPSB Another priority for Dobard is out tens of millions of dollars in ing communities. There is currently a push to char - Superintendent Dr. Henderson to work with local colleges and grant money to support charter Nearly 12 years after the state ter the city’s remaining handful of Lewis, Jr. in a prepared statement. universities to train more teach - schools and leadership and teacher takeover, the RSD remains at the traditional public schools. “His dedication to our city’s stu - ers and entice them to stay in training. According to tax docu - bottom of the state’s district Dobard’s statewide role will be dents, staff and the community at New Orleans. ments, the non-profit organization rankings, and Louisiana’s educa - assumed by current Assistant large will not be forgotten. We at “I have worked with Patrick received over $75 million in grant tion system remains at the bot - State Superintendent Kunjan OPSB wish him all the best and since I joined the Department of funds between 2010 and 2014. tom in national rankings. Narechania, who will also over - look forward to continuing to work Education six years ago,” Dobard said he is determined to In 2015, the RSD in New see the reunification of New alongside him as he transitions into Narechania wrote in an emailed stay here and “double down on the Orleans’ graduation rate was 61.4 Orleans schools back under the his next role as CEO of New interview. “During that time, he work that’s been started.” percent (last in the state, next to governance of the Orleans Parish Schools for New Orleans.” has provided me support and “I just love my home,” he said. RSD Baton Rouge), while the School Board (OPSB). Dobard said he has several guidance, and proved to be a “I love what I am doing, and I OPSB’s was 92.1 percent. From Dana Peterson, current state areas of improvement on which leader with a strong moral com - want to continue to improve the 2004 to 2014, Louisiana’s average deputy superintendent, will over - he wants to focus in his new role. pass and a dear friend. I admire system in a number of ways, and DOBARD composite ACT score went down, see the district’s “achievement First, he said he wants to him tremendously, and I look continue to contribute to educa - from 19.8 to 19.2, and the state zone” in Baton Rouge. improve diversity – not just forward to working with him in tion in New Orleans.”◊ kept the same ranking of 48th in By Kari Dequine Harden the nation. The RSD New Contributing Writer Orleans’ average ACT score for 2016 was 16.7 (one of the lowest Patrick Dobard, superintendent absolute scores in the state). Proposed White House order would track of the Recovery School District But Dobard is the first to say, (RSD) for the past five years, is “There’s a lot more work to do in leaving his post to take a job as New Orleans.” In terms of creating Chief Executive Officer of New a system in which every child undocumented residents via census Schools for New Orleans. attends an excellent school, “We (Special from India-West and 1B, L-1, and OPT programs. include questions on immigra - large numbers of undocumented Promoted by State are about halfway there,” he said. New America Media) – A draft The proposed order mandates tion status and whether the immigrants, noted the Brennan Superintendent John White in And if other districts are looking executive order currently under that the Census Bureau, in collab - respondent is a U.S. citizen. Center, adding that an under - 2012, Dobard led the RSD as it to New Orleans as a model for cre - consideration by the White oration with the State Department, The Brennan Center for Justice count could result in inadequate handed over all schools under its ating a “portfolio district,” Dobard House would – for the first time Commerce Department, Labor notes that the proposed order has federal resources to those states, jurisdiction in New Orleans to identities the following elements – mandate census workers to ask Department and Homeland “fueled concerns among advo - and disproportionate representa - private charter operators, creat - as critical: Ensuring a third-party respondents about their immigra - Security, publish a report each cates about an undercount if the tion in Congress. ing the country’s first urban all- quality charter authorizer; clear tion status. year illustrating immigration pat - nation’s immigrant communities “By crossing a long understood charter district. rules for strong accountability and The mandate is embedded in a terns, and the size of the foreign- – fearful that the information line about the professional inde - “Under Patrick’s leadership, autonomy; a strong leadership and section of the Jan. 23 proposed born population in the U.S. The may be used against them or fam - pendence and integrity of the RSD schools have made extraordi - teacher pipeline; and a nimble order: “Protecting American Jobs report must also include the fiscal ily members – decide not to par - Bureau, President Trump would nary strides. In his new role, he approach to policy and structure and Workers by Strengthening impact of foreign temporary work - ticipate in the census.” interfere with collection of an will continue his mission to with a flexible mindset. the Integrity of Foreign Worker ers on wages and employment of The impact of an undercount accurate Census count in 2020 and improve New Orleans schools,” Dobard also stressed the need to Visa Programs.” India-West pre - U.S.-born workers. could be especially ominous for impair public trust, local White said in a news release. “seek community input in a very viously reported on the draft The order explicitly states that fast-growing states like Texas economies, and fair redistricting,” Dobard, a New Orleans native deep way,” and admits that was order, which aims to reform H- the census questionnaire must and California, which house noted the Brennan Center.◊ and the first African-American something missing when he RSD superintendent, graduated became superintendent. As he from Southern University in worked to solicit more input from New Orleans and spent 11 years the community several years into as a classroom teacher. his tenure, Dobard said it absolute - 911 dispatcher in Tamir Rice case suspended In his tenure, 49-year-old Dobard ly changed his perspective, and (AP) – A 911 dispatcher who guy” pointing a gun at people also Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, Independence Police has been simultaneously heaped “made me a better leader.” took a call that led to a white said it could be a juvenile and the said in a statement issued Department, where he worked with praise by charter supporters There’s also the issue of push out. police officer’s fatal shooting of gun might be a “fake.” Tuesday by her attorney that for six months, had placed a let - and criticized fiercely by advo - When he took the job in 2012, the a 12-year-old Black boy outside That omission was cited by for - Hollinger’s eight-day suspension ter in his personnel file saying he cates for traditional public neigh - remaining direct-run RSD schools a recreation center has been sus - mer Cuyahoga County prosecutor was “unacceptable.” had an “inability to emotionally borhood schools. had become a “dumping ground” pended for eight days. Timothy J. McGinty as a crucial “Eight days for gross negligence function.’’ Garmback’s discipli - In that time, the RSD has been for the students the charters didn’t Police Chief Calvin Williams mistake that impacted how officers resulting in the death of a 12-year- nary letter accuses him of driv - both exalted as a model for the want. If a child was deemed too found in a disciplinary letter dated Timothy Loehmann and Frank old boy,” Rice’s attorney, Subodh ing too close to Tamir and failing nation and scorned as an abject expensive or too challenging to March 10 that Constance Hollinger Garmback responded. Loehmann Chandra, said in the statement. to report the time of arrival at the failure. educate (or if they weren’t going to violated protocol the day of the shot and killed Tamir less than two “How pathetic is that?” recreation center. Whether history will judge the boost the school’s test scores), they shooting of Tamir Rice, who had seconds after they arrived. Chandra said that if that is the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s New Orleans experiment in pub - were often denied admission on been playing with a pellet gun. McGinty said the shooting might best “that system can offer, then Association president Steve lic education as a success to be the front end or pushed out once Tamir was shot within seconds have been avoided if the informa - the system is broken.” Loomis has said the officers did replicated or a fiasco to avert enrolled, which included many of a police cruiser skidding to a tion from the 911 caller had been Loehmann and Garmback, who nothing wrong the day Tamir was remains to be seen. children with special needs. stop just a few feet away from properly relayed to the officers. weren’t criminally charged, face shot. Investigators said the boy Those who give Dobard acco - Dobard compared the practice him in November 2014 outside Cleveland safety director possible discipline by McGrath was handling a pellet gun that offi - lades point to improved graduation to housing discrimination, and the Cleveland rec center. The Michael McGrath handed down a that could result in them being cers believed was a real firearm. rates and test scores. said creating a centralized enroll - city’s internal disciplinary two-day suspension for police offi - dismissed from the Cleveland Samaria Rice has called for the According to the state, “Student ment system (OneApp) was the charges accused Hollinger of fail - cer William Cunningham, who was police department. two officers to be fired. graduation rates in New Orleans key to addressing the discrimina - ing to tell the dispatcher who sent working off-duty without permis - Loehmann’s disciplinary letter The city agreed last April to pay schools increased from 54 per - tion practices by charters, as well the officers to the rec center that sion at the rec center, in a discipli - cites his failure to disclose in an Tamir’s family $6 million to settle cent in 2004 to 75 percent in as creating a way to better track the man who called 911 about “a nary letter dated March 10. application that the a federal civil rights lawsuit.◊ 2015 [and] the average ACT the movement of students. score in the city grew from 17.0 All New Orleans schools are slat - in 2005 to 18.9 in 2016.” ed to return to the OPSB by 2018, Hate groups increase Continued from Page 1 groups likely understates the real level of organized hatred in travel from some predominantly America as a growing number of Muslim countries. The latest FBI extremists operate mainly online statistics show that hate crimes and are not formally affiliated against Muslims grew by 67 per - with hate groups. cent in 2015, the year in which Aside from its annual census of Trump launched his campaign. extremist groups, the SPLC found The report, contained in the that Trump’s rhetoric reverberat - Spring 2017 issue of the SPLC’s ed across the nation in other Intelligence Report, includes the ways. In the first 10 days after his Hate Map showing the names, election, the SPLC documented types and locations of hate 867 bias-related incidents, groups across the country. including more than 300 that tar - The SPLC found that the number geted immigrants or Muslims. of hate groups operating in 2016 In contrast to the growth of hate rose to 917 – up from 892 in 2015. groups, antigovernment “Patriot” The number is 101 shy of the all- groups saw a 38 percent decline – time record set in 2011, but high plummeting from 998 groups in by historic standards. 2015 to 623 last year. Composed of “2016 was an unprecedented armed militiamen and others who year for hate,” said Mark Potok, see the federal government as their senior fellow and editor of the enemy, the “Patriot” movement Intelligence Report. “The coun - over the past few decades has flour - try saw a resurgence of white ished under Democratic administra - nationalism that imperils the tions but declined dramatically racial progress we’ve made, when President George W. Bush along with the rise of a president occupied the White House. whose policies reflect the values The SPLC also released an in- of white nationalists. In Steve de pth profile of the Alliance Bannon, these extremists think Defending Freedom (ADF), an anti- they finally have an ally who has LGBT hate group. Leaders of the the president’s ear.” legal advocacy organization and its The increase in anti-Muslim hate affiliated lawyers have regularly was fueled by Trump’s incendiary demonized LGBT people, falsely rhetoric, including his campaign linking them to pedophilia, calling pledge to bar Muslims from enter - them “evil” and a threat to children ing the United States, as well as and society, and blaming them for anger over terrorist attacks such as the “persecution of devout the June massacre of 49 people at a Christians.” The group also has sup - gay nightclub in Orlando. ported the criminalization of homo - The overall number of hate sexuality in several countries.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM March 20 - March 26, 2017 Use your vote or lose it By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

Quiet as it’s kept, there are a number of important things worth vot - ing for this weekend. That is, if you haven’t completely given up on the election process in the wake of the election of President Donald Trump, haven’t become complacent because of the dismal state of conditions in com - munities of color despite Black and Brown people having the right to vote or simply don’t care.

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O President Donald Trump, we should have learned how very much every vote counts and how important and powerful the vote is. We can’t simply This may constitute one of the hardest electoral decisions Orleans Parish refuse to vote because we are unhappy with the choices before us or voters have had to confront in years. Two evenly matched Orleans Civil Court Judges contend to succeed the retiring Dennis Bagneris. because we are unhappy about the way a certain campaign has taken & Tiffany Chase has personally authored volumes of opinions, through her multi- shape. As bad as things look before an election, we need to constantly year clerkship at the Louisiana Supreme Court. She understands the intricacies remind ourselves that things can always get worse. of judicial review and has a distinguished record on Civil District Court. Local, statewide and national elected officials have already proven What decided this race for Paula Brown, however, is the incredible and

S that they care very little abut the U.S. Constitution, transparency, empathetic discernment that this former Tulane basketball star-turned-promi - accountability. Playing by the rules or representing the interests of nent jurist has consistently demonstrated while serving on the CDC. those who voted for them. Her personality on the Bench radiates the independence-matched-with-

L Imagine how much bolder elected officials would get if they lost all caring that empowers a judge to look beyond the letter of the law, and find fear of being booted out of office by angry constituents. Fear of los - the spirit of its intent. Considering the number of criminal case reviews that ing the political perks, power and status they have grown accustomed the Fourth Circuit must reconsider on a consistent basis, Paula Brown radiates an emotional intelligence which insures that the letter of law will

A to is sometimes the only thing that keeps some of our public servants from going completely off the rails. never inhibit the cause of justice. The

I We’re down right now but not out of the game. We need to use the vote and everything else at our disposal to fight, scratch and claw our Orleans Parish Civil District Court, Division B: Rachael D. Johnson Louisiana way back into a powerful seat at the table. That requires us to choose Rachael Johnson is a seasoned litigator our leaders and political representatives wisely, assess and gather Weekly R with 12 years at the bar, and possesses a our resources, establish clear goals and devise a short- and long- global knowledge of the law particularly on (USPS 320-680) term strategy for accomplishing those goals. One of the oldest publications the property insurance matters that take up in the United States Good habits, like bad ones, are hard to break and we need to get so much of the time of the Civil District Court. specifically for the O into the habit of voting on a regular basis so that no one who is elect - African-American Her experience with the Civil District Court community. ed to office and is supposed to be representing us in the judicial sys - as a law clerk for Nadine Ramsey also tem, in local government, state legislature or on Capitol Hill will start serves her well. With all the recent changes T to believe that there will be no repercussions for not fulfilling his or at the Civil Court, Johnson’s knowledge of Since 1925 her campaign promises . the inside workings of the building will come RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL I We need to make it very clear to elected officials, especially those who in handy for a judge seeking to fill the unex - President/Publisher seem more committed to bolstering their political careers and creating pired term of Regina Bartholomew-Woods .◊ EDMUND W. LEWIS economic opportunities for themselves and their loved ones that we Editor

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Now we need to try to drive home Three Years $72 As those who came before me who wrote for and published The that message to the political establishment of Washington. Out-of-state subscribers Louisiana Weekly used to say, “If you don’t vote, don’t squawk.” add $5 for postage. Enough said.◊ – David Cortright THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - March 20 - March 26, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 5 An attack on education Let’s hear it By Julianne Malveaux The 1965 legislation was passed as civil Eliminating it could TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist rights legislation, providing more opportu - save taxpayers more nities to a broader range of children, than $68 billion for the ladies! The effort to repeal and replace health care including disabled children (with require - enough, perhaps, to “Do you ask what we can do? Unite and build a is generating headlines, and the attempt to ments to make provisions for disabled “build a wall.” Of store of your own. Do you ask where is the mon - investigate our 45th President’s Russia con - children). It requires reporting around course 45 is finding lots ey? We have spent more than enough for non - nections is of high importance. The specious issues like the achievement gap, bullying, of other fund sources CLINGMAN sense.” MALVEAUX - Maria Stewart claim that President Barack Obama wire - and underperforming schools. All of these for the wall, with pro - tapped Trump Tower, too, has generated provisions would be eliminated if HR 610 posed cuts from the “When it comes to success the choice is simple. You can either stand interest, largely because it is unprecedented for were passed. Actually, the entire public Coast Guard and The State Department . up and be counted or lie down and be counted out!" one President to accuse another of a felony, education sector could be eliminated if The good news about this odious proposed - Maggie Lena Walker and because 45 has absolutely no proof that HR 610 is passed. legislation is that it has not passed. It has “Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself, for his President Obama has done any such thing. Not to be bested by legislation that been referred to the House Education and the salvation. Let him continue toward education, and above all, put mon - While President Obama, with a multimillion- would limit the reach of the Department of Workforce Committee, and after vetted by ey in his purse.” - Ida B. Wells dollar book deal tucked into his pocket, is liv - Education, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) the committee, must also be approved by the ing his life like it’s golden, 45 has indulged in has introduce a sentence-long piece of leg - Senate. But these bills need not even come several public tantrums, with episodic islation. HR 899 reads, in total, “The out of committee if opponents are vocal. By James Clingman moments of calm. Too many of us have been Department of Education shall terminate Check out www.edworkforce.house.gov to TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist riveted to the drama, while there is a more on December 31, 2018.” Of course, find out who is on this committee. Call and quiet revolution happening in Congress, with Massie hasn’t put the thought into consid - write them and tell them Over the years many Black women have stood, spoken out, and the approval of the White House. ering how things like Pell grants would be that you support the 1965

fought against mistreatment; they have also advocated for Black There has been an attack on education, with administered, or would he eliminate those, legislation, as most recently C people to use our economic resources to empower ourselves and legislation being introduced as early as too? HBCUs are part of the education amended, and that the propel us on to self-sufficiency. Last week I selected three strong January 23, 2017. That legislation, HR 610 , is budget. What would that mean for us? Department of Education Black men; this week it’s three strong Black women. titled the Choices in Education Act. It would The bill has been cosponsored by several should not be eliminated.

Maria Stewart was an educator, abolitionist, and author; but she repeal the Elementary and Secondary of Massie’s colleagues. It speaks to a This is an opportunity to O was also an advocate for Black self-sufficiency. A contemporary Education Act of 1965, and limits the authori - national antipathy to education, so that unleash our voices and and personal friend of David Walker, (Author of David Walker’s ty of the Department of Education so that it even as we hunger for jobs, and elected 45 resist Trumpism. Appeal ), Maria spoke passionately to our people in attempts to should only award block grants to states. It so that he could “create” them, we are pre - The big headlines are riv - guide us from dependency to independency. “Her dedication to also sets up a voucher system. If states do not pared to limit pathways to job preparation. eting, but we need to look fighting Black oppression through teaching, writing, and speaking comply with the rules of this legislation, they Efforts to eliminate the Department of at the fine print. If you M was relentless.” (PBS.org) It took strength to shoulder and pro - would be ineligible for block grants. Education are, at best, shortsighted. spent an hour reading the mote the issues Maria fielded in the mid-1860’s. She is one of The legislation would also repeal nutri - Even though he nominated the extremely Congressional Record and many in the pantheon of Black women who were not timid when it tional standards for the national school limited Betsy DeVos as Secretary of looking at the devilment came to espousing her beliefs in support of Black people. breakfast and lunch programs, which were Education, 45’s pre-campaign policy book these Republicans are up to Maggie Lena Walker was the first female to charter and successfully set by the No Hungry Kids Act of 2012. advocated the elimination of the Department daily, you would be M preside over a bank, the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, in Richmond, Schools would no longer be required, as of Education. Is the hidden agenda to run repulsed. Let’s turn repul - Virginia. Walker founded the St. Luke Herald newsletter, and she First Lady Michelle Obama advocated, to the department into the ground to the point sion into resistance. opened a department store for Black women in 1905. She ran for increase the availability of fruits, vegeta - that elimination is the only option? One- Superintendent of Public Instruction on the Republican ballot but was bles, and other healthy foods at lunch. Are note Betsy, with her focus on school choice, Julianne Malveaux is an defeated, and was instrumental in keeping her bank open through the we going back to the days when Ronald must be gratified, especially by HR 610 . economist, author, and E great depression by merging it with two other banks in 1929. Reagan declared that ketchup should be The Department of Education is one of the Founder of Economic Cooperative economics? Strategic alliance? Working collectively for considered a vegetable? Seems like it! lowest-spending government agencies. Education .◊ the good of the whole? Sound familiar? Walker’s spirited and deter - mined leadership takes a backseat to no one and should be held up as N an example of what we must do, even today, to help ourselves. Ida B. Wells, after enduring a horrendous childhood, losing both her parents — within 24 hours — and her youngest brother to yellow fever, went on to be one of the most feared journalists and bravest The ammunition we need T women in the history of this country. This gun-toting original “sister souljah” wielded a pen with the aplomb of any expert in the field of

journalism. Long before Sister Rosa Parks did her thing, in 1884 A this diminutive but strong Black woman refused to move from her nBy Ooscarw H. Bla ytomn ore ntalihsts ata thesne new sepapevrs, ine an r allies to combat seat in the “ladies” section of a train to one that was reserved for TriceEdneyWire.com Guest Columnist attempt at “objectivity,” often gave too this plague of Negroes. Wells, who was referred to in the Memphis newspaper as much credence to the misrepresenta - bigotry along - the “Darkey Damsel,” sued the train company and won, only to have In 1960, Blacks in Virginia watched tions of their Southern counterparts. side people of R her victory overturned by the state supreme court. as the state changed the laws against Today, reading the current reporting color, progres - BLYTON These are the kinds of examples we must share with our young trespass to make it a more serious an d editorials of the large, white-domi - sive women, people and hold in high esteem, especially when it comes to being crime, and the penalty was raised from a nated, corporate newspapers, I have a immigrants, the LGBTQ community conscientiously consciousness about what it means to be Black in $100.00 fine to $1,000.00. This action sense of déjà vu. But now it is not just and undocumented aliens. Y America. Too often, as Carter G. Woodson warned, we choose was taken by the then all-white legisla - the newspapers of the Southern segrega - But the one resource we have is the “mis-leaders” instead of authentic leaders. We must do better ture in an attempt to combat the Civil tionists that are spewing lies. The “alt battle tested Black Press, founded because we have men and women of old that showed us the way. Rights Movement and more severely right” haters have gained a prominent March 16, 1827. Black newspapers Our women worked as housekeepers, journalists, teachers, punish the activists that were engaging voice in the national discourse, and they have always been the sword and shield

bankers, and other occupations, but they understood, advocated, in the sit-ins that were taking place in are on their way toward gaining even against injustices aimed at people of & and practiced basic economic empowerment principles. They knew Richmond – the former capital of the greater influence, with Steve Bannon color. This tradition goes back to that unless Black folks established a solid economic foundation, we Confederacy – and across the nation. entrenched in the White House. Fredrick Douglas and beyond, includ - would never have the power we need to become self-reliant. During that time, we read the So now, as much as ever, the voices ing the first Black newspaper, What’s it going to take to get us organized and moving in the

unhinged rantings of segregationists, of the Black newspapers are needed to Freedom’s Journal , founded 190 years O right direction? Will we continue to languish in meaningless rhetor - such as James J. Kilpatrick, who wrote combat the evil we face. ago by John B. Russwurm and the ical gymnastics espoused by talking heads, politicians, organiza - lies, to stoke fear and hatred in the We are witnessing the normalizing Rev. Samuel Cornish. tional leaders, and amongst ourselves? Or, will we cast off the hearts of whites against their Black of the Donald Trump presidency, as The ammunition that we will need mundane, the nonsensical, and the time consuming back-and-forth neighbors by exaggerating the civil the language of appeasement creeps, most in the struggles to come will be the P that continue to keep us at status quo? disruption caused by demonstrators. ever so slightly onto the front pages of accurate reporting of the truth; and it is Maria, Maggie Lena, and Ida B. did not settle, sell out, or give in During the Civil Rights the dominant newspapers. Sports writ - beginning to look like the major corpo -

to the social pressures they faced in the 19th century. This is the Movement, Virginia was not the ers are chiding Black athletes for rate news media is prepared to compro - I 21st century; we have tremendously more resources than they did, only state where fierce battles for refusing to go to the White House and mise on that. So, we must continue to N yet we are still allowing ourselves to go through much the same as equal justice were fought – battles provide Trump with a photo-op, so battle to bring accurate facts to light. they did. They already paid the bill for what we should be enjoy - where so many people suffered, and that he can pretend not to be a bigot. And we will be opposed by those pow - ing today. All we have to do is take our appropriate place in this many lost their lives. But much of Journalists writing for many major erful people who want to hide the truth society, despite any and all resistance, carve out a niche and con - the truth of this struggle was hidden outlets are reporting the terrorizing of in the shadows by controlling the outlets I trol it, and not get caught in the snares of jealousy and selfishness. by the dominant news sources of the undocumented aliens as “routine” law that feed lies to the public in order to O After 45 years of watching the selfishness of his brothers and sis - day; and battles had to be fought to enforcement activity. And stories keep us passive, and apathetic. ters, W.E.B. DuBois said, “I assumed that with knowledge, sacrifice even bring the truth to light. about the lawsuits against Trump and Maintaining Black newspapers as a would automatically follow. There were especially sharp young per - That was a time when the only reli - the allegations of sexual assault, loud and honest voice that will fight sons [at Fisk University] with the distinct and single-minded idea of able news about the Civil Rights including rape, are evaporating from for the rights of people of color is our N seeing what they could get… for themselves, and nobody else.”◊ Movement could be found in Black the pages of the corporate press like best and brightest hope in these terri - newspapers. Even the storied New small puddles in a drought. ble times to come. York Times and The Washington Post Too few Americans are alarmed by S wrote about the Civil Rights these recent developments because Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Movement from the perspective of they are not in the crosshairs of the Corps combat pilot and human rights spectators, a safe distance from the bigotry that drives the current adminis - activists who practices law in Fakeness, dishonesty fray. Having nothing to lose, the jour - tration. There will be precious few Virginia. ◊ and the race card By Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith Guest Columnist We played Donald Trump cheap; The race card is being played these days, even as we try to ignore that fact. As we all watch what is going on in the now the joke’s on us “In several Southern states men long As Reagan, then Governor of bring it on, White House, many are remarking that had regarded as political clowns had former President Barack Obama done or said become governors or only narrowly California, sought to reassure social Donald. Keep even a millionth of what the current president missed election, their magic achieved conservatives (aka racists) by launch - going.” has said and done, he would have been shut with a ‘witches’ brew of bigotry, preju - ing his presidential bid in Philadelphia, America down by now. He might be facing imminent dice, half-truths and whole lies.” Mississippi, Trump has fanned the could not get - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967 SMITH impeachment. Had he openly lied, as it flames of xenophobia and ill-founded enough of appears the current president had done, he fears of terrorism. Trump’s bom - would have been in hearings already, headed toward impeachment. By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III His tweets and illogical rants were bast, buffoon - LEON The silence and, by that silence, the complicity of the Congress in all TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist and continue to be a “witches’” brew ery and total of this has been maddening and troubling. High school civics classes of bigotry, ignorance, prejudice, half- disregard for truth and fact. teach us about the three levels of government, and how the very struc - On Friday, January 20, America inau - truths and whole lies. We played him Mainstream media was so entertained ture of America’s democracy was put in place to make sure no one gurated a narcissistic misogynist million - cheap and now the joke’s on us. by the novelty of Trump that it branch was able to realize too much power. But our Congress has, at aire who marketed to what Dr. King Early on in the 2016 presidential ignored his inability to articulate sub - least up to this point, let the new president do and say pretty much any - called the “white backlash” by playing campaign businessman Donald Trump stantive policy and lack of experience. thing he has wanted. While to many of us the swirling stories about to racist sentiments, bigotry and hatred. was the media darling. CBS Chairman According to a report from Harvard’s Russia and its interference with our election is scary, our Congress has Just as he stole the line “Make America Les Moonves said at a Morgan Stanley Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center let it fly for the most part, with most senators and representatives Great Again” from Reagan’s campaign, conference, “It may not be good for on Media Politics and Public Policy, Trump also stole the racist page from America, but it’s damn good for Continued on Page 12 Reagan’s play book. CBS… It’s a terrible thing to say. But, Continued on Page 12 Page 6 March 20 - March 26, 2017 HEALTH & HEART THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Financial exploitation: When taking money amounts to elder abuse By Michael O. Schroeder family member in the year prior. “psychologically devas - Mary, for one, said she is firmly Contributing Writer Although definitions vary, elder tating,” Quinn said. back in control of her finances – if financial abuse is generally con - After Mary’s condition still struggling mightily to pay for First article in a series. sidered to be financial exploita - stabilized, she was trans - damage done by her daughter. (Special from U.S. News & tion, such as stealing money or ferred to an assisted living “She doesn’t have the durable World Report/New America taking over assets without permis - facility. “I really wanted to power of attorney, so she can’t Media) — When her husband sion, of an older adult — 60 or 65 come home, but my commit any financial obligation to died suddenly and unexpectedly and older – by a family member, daughter said I couldn’t,” me without my permission,” Mary from a massive heart attack, caregiver or another trusted per - she said. Instead, she lan - said, while acknowledging that “Mary” — who asked that her son, like a financial advisor. guished for six months at some patterns continue. real name not be used due to the By one estimate from the San the facility, paying $2,000 “She’s told me that she’s sorry, sensitive nature of her story — Francisco-based financial services a month to be there, before and she’s going to get a job, but was devastated and began spiral - firm True Link Financial, seniors finally coming home. she isn’t looking for a job. So I’m ing downward. lose nearly $36.5 billion to finan - Eventually, Mary noted looking for a job – a part-time or a He was only in his late 60s and in cial abuse annually. A previous that her psychiatrist full-time job to help pay the prop - relatively good health, she recalls. widely cited estimate from called Adult Protective erty taxes,” she said. Mary fell into a severe depression MetLife put the figure at less than Services, who reported As for not putting distance after his passing. “I withdrew. I one-tenth of that — still a high the issue to local law between herself and her daughter, isolated myself,” said Mary, now loss, at $2.9 billion; but many enforcement. Mary also she sees no choice in the matter. 70, who lives in Playa del Rey, experts say that’s most certainly a enlisted Bet Tzedek “She’s my daughter, and I do have Calif. In addition to her despair, gross underestimate, given how Legal Services in Los ing Adult Protective Services and law ing the issue to local law unconditional love for her. She has she believes the antidepressants very few financial exploitation Angeles — which provides legal enforcement to put pressure on the enforcement. Experts say vic - nowhere to go. She has no income- she was taking contributed to sui - cases ever see the light of day. assistance and advice in elder perpetrator to cease the abuse. tims — particularly older parents — she would be homeless,” Mary cidal thoughts. She attempted sui - The MetLife estimate was abuse cases, including financial Though it can be difficult in many — are often unwilling to take said. In that case, she continued, her cide — overdosing on powerful “based on only cases that got abuse — to revoke her daughter’s cases to recoup money lost — since action against family members. daughter wouldn’t be able to take painkillers she had for treating media coverage, which must be power-of-attorney and regain con - frequently it’s spent and perpetrators Similarly torn, Mary still care of her 10-year-old son. “So I arthritis, she said, and was hospi - some tiny fraction of 1 percent of trol of her finances. commonly have limited monies of allows her daughter to live with wouldn’t do that.” talized in 2015 and admitted to an all elder abuse cases,” said That’s proved an involved affair, their own — experts still often advise her. Sanz-David advised Mary to Even though Mary has opted not to inpatient rehab facility. Kathleen Quinn, a senior advisor as her daughter had been withhold - filing a civil lawsuit as well. get her daughter out the home, take legal action against her daugh - and past director of National Adult ing her driver’s license, medical Mary says Sanz-David has been and told her she could get a ter, she echoed elder abuse experts in Exploited by Her Daughter Protective Services Association. insurance cards, credit and debit instrumental in helping her regain restraining order because of the emphasizing that outside interven - Previously, Mary had appoint - cards and other money, said control of her finances, while huge financial abuse. She also advised tion is absolutely critical to combat ed her daughter as trustee under More Than Money Dominique Sanz-David, a staff hurdles remain. Mary has worked her to take civil action, but Mary financial exploitation — even if it’s a family trust and agent under Money lost is only part of the attorney at Bet Tzedek. Instead, with a debt consolidation has declined to do so. perpetrated by next of kin. powers of attorney to manage profound price paid by seniors Mary’s daughter generally used [http://tinyurl.com/gq8yvaj] attor - “Mothers and grandmothers do “If you don’t, it just becomes a her finances if she was ever who are financially exploited. her mother’s money for her own ney to begin paying down a lower not want to hurt their children and quagmire. It’s like one of the sink - unable to do so herself. It was Quinn said some people lose benefit, Sanz-David said. negotiated amount on the credit grandchildren even at their own holes in Los Angeles,” Mary during this time that — due to their homes, and noted — based Not having access to her own card debt. She’s looking to return to expense,” Sanz-David said, so she stressed. “It just appears out of Mary’s psychiatric issues — her on research in Utah — an esti - financial means or identification the workforce – a difficult prospect, advised Mary to contact her if she nowhere, and suddenly you’re in the daughter’s authority under a mated nine percent, or nearly did more than rob Mary of money. given her age, she said. Mary added changes her mind. sink hole, and you feel hopeless – power-of-attorney document and one in 10, of those who are “I was basically a faceless person,” that she plans to sell her house you feel like there’s no way out. trust became effective. financially exploited go on she says. “She had me totally iso - when she’s able and relocate, possi - Shame and Embarrassment Mary had been financially sup - Medicaid as a direct result. lated.” Mary notes that she could - bly out of state so her property tax A reluctance to take action — as Michael O. Schroeder, a health edi - porting her daughter, who was liv - Because the perpetrator is typi - n’t even talk to her doctor without burden is lower. It’s all together a well as shame and embarrassment tor at U.S. News & World Report, ing in Mary’s home along with her cally a family member or caregiv - her daughter’s permission. The monumental undertaking. [http://tinyurl.com/jls5azo] of wrote this article, the first in a daughter’s son. But instead of act - er, experts say being financially ordeal has not only taxed her It remains unclear what reper - having been exploited — is fre - series, with the support of a journal - ing in her mother’s best interests, exploited can deeply undermine a financially, but it’s taken a toll on cussions — including any crimi - quently used against victims of ism fellowship from New America “she ran up $120,000 in credit card person’s ability to trust others, her mentally. “I was depressed,” nal charges — her daughter will financial abuse by those perpetrat - Media, the Gerontological Society debt, which I only recently found leading them to withdraw and Mary said. “I was hopeless.” ultimately face as a result of ing the abuse, experts said, to not of America and the John A. out about,” Mary said — money become isolated. That can make a Adult Protective Services report - only conceal it, but to re-victimize. Hartford Foundation .◊ spent on everything from online person more vulnerable to re-vic - Outside Help shopping to food delivery. timization. Studies show finan - Experts say the scenario Mary Her daughter purchased a new cial abuse can increase hopeless - found herself in is a familiar one, car in her mother’s name, a new ness and risk for depression, even where an adult family member refrigerator and three new com - raising suicide risk. exploits a supportive relationship, puters, all with Mary’s money “This is obviously about more such as when the perpetrator is and without permission; she than just money,” said Sarah already living in the home. Often rented out her mother’s bedroom Barnard, a social worker who man - those who are financially abused to bring in more income for her - ages an elder abuse prevention pro - have recently lost a spouse and self; and she failed to pay prop - gram at WISE & Healthy Aging, a may otherwise be alone. erty taxes on Mary’s home. nonprofit social services organiza - That makes it incredibly important According to research funded by tion in Santa Monica, Calif. Going — while also often being exceeding - the U.S. Justice Department, from a place of stable financial foot - ly difficult — for the individual expe - about one in 20 older adults report ing to no longer having money riencing the financial abuse to seek being financially abused by a needed for daily expenses can be outside help. That includes contact - Black cancer survivors study is underway in Detroit By Frederick H. Lowe factors affecting cancer progres - diagnosis affects the mental and Contributing Writer sion, recurrence, mortality and physical health of caregivers. quality of life among African- The ROCS will focus on lung, (Special from NorthStarNews American cancer survivors breast, prostate and colorectal can - Today) — The largest study so far The study is being conducted to cers, the four most-common forms of African-American cancer sur - answer questions about the high of the often deadly disease. vivors is now underway in Detroit. rate of cancer among African Cancer is a group of diseases char - The Detroit Research on Cancer Americans, which has remained a acterized by uncontrolled growth and Survivors (ROCS) study has mystery because there haven’t spread of abnormal cells. If the launched a $9 million project that been enough Blacks who agreed to spread is not controlled, it can result will investigate the lives of 5,560 participate in a single study. in death. Cancer is caused by exter - black cancer survivors over the “Investigating the complex fac - nal factors, such as tobacco use, next five years. tors that lead to disparities in can - infectious organisms, and an The study, which is led by the cer among underserved popula - unhealthy diet, as well as internal National Cancer Institute, will col - tions should lead to a greater factors, such as inherited genetic lect data from participants who understanding of the social and mutations, hormones, and immune live in three counties surrounding biological causes of such differ - conditions, according to Cancer Detroit. The counties account for ences,” said Robert Coyle, Ph.D., Facts & Figures for African 70 percent of Michigan’s African- director of the National Cancer Americans: 2016-2018. American population and approxi - Institute’s Division of Cancer Cancer is the second-leading mately 21,000 people in those Control and Population Sciences. cause of death behind heart disease areas are diagnosed with cancer The ROCS study will investigate among black adults. It is the third every year. Detroit is the county factors that affect cancer survival, leading cause of death among chil - seat of Wayne County. including type of treatment, coex - dren one to 14 years old following Blacks continue to suffer from isting diseases, genetics, social accidents and homicide. disproportionately higher cancer structure, support, neighborhood In 2016, the American Cancer rates in the United States com - context, poverty, stress, racial dis - Society predicted that about 93,900 pared to other ethnic and racial crimination, literacy, quality of life men would be diagnosed with cancer groups. African Americans are and behavioral factors such as compared with 95,929 women. also likely to be diagnosed with a smoking, alcohol use, diet and Breast cancer is the most com - more advanced stage of the disease physical activity. monly diagnosed cancer among and die from cancer at much high - In addition, ROCS officials will Black women and prostate cancer er rates than other groups. regularly interview 2,780 family is the type of cancer most often The research will look at major members to learn how a cancer diagnosed among black men.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - March 20 - March 26, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 Orleans Parish school district broke state rules by extending charter application deadline without permission By Marta Jewson the statewide deadline for charter It took the Orleans school district The Lens applications this year. two days to make that application On Feb. 15, Lewis announced the available to the public. That was a day The Orleans Parish School Board district would extend its deadline to after it posted the application of a broke state rules when it extended its March 6. He said the district wanted to charter group formed by school dis - deadline for charter school applica - “ensure that all prospective applicants trict staffers and the principals of its tions without permission, according to are afforded the opportunity to submit five direct-run schools. a letter from the state Department of proposals, particularly in light of the Thursday, Ellis told NOLA.com/The Education to the local district. Mardi Gras holiday.” Times-Picayune that Better Choice “In future years, should you desire to District offices were closed from Feb. Foundation had withdrawn its application. use a timeline that is different than the 24, Lundi Gras, through March 2. Also that day, the principal of common timeline approved by BESE A school district spokeswoman Harriet Tubman Charter School posted [the Board of Elementary and acknowledged that local officials had spo - a comparison of her organization’s Secondary Education], I ask that you ken with the state about breaking the rules. 2011 charter application and Better request a waiver … prior to the start “OPSB has discussed the extension Choice’s application for the three of the application process.” assistant with the Department of Education and schools. She highlighted entire sec - state superintendent Kunjan no corrective measures need to be tions that practically matched Narechania wrote to Orleans schools taken,” spokeswoman Dominique Tubman’s word-for-word. Superinten-dent Henderson Lewis Jr. Ellis said. Sydni Dunn, a spokeswoman for the Better Choice Foundation submitted This article was originally published state education department, said the an application to take over the three by The Lens (thelensnola.org), an inde - SUNO’s Track Team runs away from the field of competitors at the recent NAIA Indoor Orleans Parish School Board won’t be direct-run elementary schools. The pendent, non-profit newsroom serving Track and Field National Championships held recently in Johnson City, Tennessee. Among the standouts were, pictured, seated: Jahnoy Thompson, who won first place in the 200 punished. organization hadn’t submitted a letter New Orleans, The Louisiana Weekly meters and 400 meters and was named the Most Valuable Player; Alex Saunders, named an The state board of education set Feb. of intent in January, the first step in the enjoys a partnership with The Lens. ◊ All-American in the Men’s 800 meters; standing, Academe Campbell, All American in the 24, the Friday before Mardi Gras, as charter application process. Men’s 400 meters; Kimona Smilke, All American in Women’s 400 meters; and Danielle Richards, All American in Men’s 400 meters. Overall, the Lady Knights placed 5th out of a field of 68 schools, and members of their 4x400 relay team won top honors. What a way to go, Effie! By Jerome LeDoux to a higher level, I pulled an adja - I pray the Lord my soul to keep; the create ulti - Contributing Columnist cent chair closer and sat at that angels keep awatching over me. All mate drama lower angle, hoping to help her see night, all day, the angels keep in her Born last and lucky number 13 me a bit more easily. Sister identi - awatching over me, my Lord. sojourn’s end of her siblings on Easter Sunday, fied me by name and told Effie that All night, all day, the angels keep as a strong April 22, 1916, Effie Lalonde we had come to pray for her. awatching over me.” Christian sol - Morris would have been 101 “Thank you, Lord, for our sister Significantly, the Spirit pulled dier. years old next month had her Effie,” I began. “Continue to me back from adding the second The blessed guardian angel not come calling bless her, Lord God, as she com - and last stanzas of the song: “One event became LEDOUX on the morning of March 12, very pletes her journey. Jesus, stay of these days, and it won’t be an instant sen - soon after the 9:00 o’clock Mass close to your little sister Effie. long, the angels keep awatching sation down the halls and at nurs - at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Let her know that you, her big over me, my Lord; you’ll look for es’ stations of the nursing home. Nursing Home in Opelousas. Brother and Savior, are here and me and I’ll be gone; the angels “What a way to go!” was heard Before Mass, Marianite Sister will always be here for her, to keep awatching over me.” Last several times. “Now that’s the Stephania D’Souza, MSC stepped keep her strong in her faith, to stanza: “If you get there before I way I want to go home!” was into the sacristy and asked that I assure her of your love, compas - do, the angels keep awatching echoed by Effie’s family mem - accompany her to bless a patient. sion and grace, to forgive and over me, my Lord; tell all my bers whom we were privileged to “She has been anointed twice and absolve her where necessary, and friends I’m coming too, the angels visit as they kept watch over their now just needs prayers for her to give her ultimate healing.” keep awatching over me. All sainted mother’s body. journey,” Sister assured me. At that moment, I was strongly night, all day, the angels keep Sister Stephania and I kept rever - Events proved beyond all doubt moved to join Sister Stephania in awatching over me………” encing Effie as her children intro - that the Holy Spirit had moved singing the Guardian Angels It immediately became obvious duced themselves: Madeline Sister to make her request. song. Again, often not because why the second and third stanzas Lazaro, Betty Watts, Charles After I had greeted and blessed of our holy aspirations, but in were unnecessary when a young Morris, son Mark Morris. They paid the attendees as they left the spite of our human foibles, the nurse rushed in, checked and saw homage to their deceased siblings: chapel, Sister Stephania asked Spirit moves in us in unmistak - that Effie had gone home to God. Eddie Morris, and two brothers, would I keep my vestments on or able power and compassion. Somewhere in the midst of the Gary and Jack, who suffocated in a divest before our visit. Upon “All night, all day,” we started, song of the angels, as we were cardboard box as very young boys. assenting to the latter, I did so “the angels keep awatching over winding down, the angels came Madeline showed us a very large and we were quickly on our way me, my Lord. All night, all day, the and took flight with Effie’s soul photo of Effie and her twelve sib - to room 4 where Effie Morris lay angels keep awatching over me.” to her home with God. lings. What a stunner she was! heavily tubed, disoriented and Effie’s eyes, blinking and unfo - “It’s amazing!” exclaimed Judging by the smiles and live - completely helpless. cused when we entered, became Sister Stephania with a big smile. ly chatter among the nurses and “She has trouble understanding focused and piercing as we began “We got here just in time! And we workers at the nursing home, an anything,” Sister advised me as to sing. There was some kind of took our time with a leisurely cel - outsider would not guess that she bent over and arranged Effie so movement that I could not interpret ebration of the Transfiguration.” someone had just left this world. that she might see who had come as we continued to sing, “When I It almost seemed that little delays But yes, there had been a home - to pray for her. Noticing that Effie lay me down to sleep, the angels along the way to Effie’s room going, with Effie and her angels had great difficulty lifting her eyes keep awatching over me, my Lord. were allowed by God in order to as the superstars.◊

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generous donations including the accepting donations via their see us have impact, we’re going to Walton Family Foundation, W.K. website, www.be2t.org . need them to invest individually Local group raises funds to Kellogg Foundation and Entergy “We did this initially with a and with their advocacy and with New Orleans. The group is also string, but now if people want to their relationships,” Jones stated.◊

eBy Cmharmpaineo Jacwkson er bDlJa Racj Smkoo,ve , amnd a adimllye lit tHeearda to cdivehrsifye clarsssrooms and Contributing Writer grand room with a spread of improve overall experiences. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, entrée-style food. For co-founder, Larry Irvin, NO. 2:13-cv-04801 On March 9, local non-profit, The keynote speaker, Dr. Lisa there is a need for an overhaul of RONDA CRUTCHFIELD, ET AL Brothers Empowered To Teach Green-Derry, gave a brief motiva - the profession. (BE2T), hosted its third annual tional speech, and then the four “We’re not only looking to VERSUS To Ed With Love fundraiser and professionals chosen as honorees recruit young Black men, but SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS, ET AL awards program. for the evening were introduced. we’re looking to re-brand and re- NOTICE OF DENIAL OF CLASS CERTIFICATION This year’s theme, “BE2T On Lee Green, head of school at market the educational profession Our Children: A Night Royale,” Andrew H. Wilson Charter as a whole because it’s lost some of In the above referenced action, it was proposed that a class consisting of “all property owners and residents paid homage to the children of Elementary; Ashley Heard, direc - its reverence over the years,” Irvin who owned immovable property or resided within 1,000 feet to the north or the south of Dwyer Road from New Orleans. tor of Strategy and Innovations, stated. “We use this platform, To Jourdan Road to Tulip Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70126, during the time period of September 9, 2008 “The narrative too often about our New Schools for Baton Rouge; Ed With Love, to reciprocate the to the present” be certified as a class action to pursue recovery of alleged damages resulting from the kids in New Orleans is that they Norris Henderson, executive love the community has given to construction of the Dwyer Road Intake Canal phase of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Drainage (SELA) are behind, can’t or won’t director at Voice of the us, in regards to opportunity to Project. Notice is hereby given that on June 25, 2015, the United States District Court for the Eastern District achieve. Bet on our Children is all Experienced (VOTE); and a rep - push this work forward,” he added. of Louisiana denied class certification to persons living within the vicinity of the Dwyer Road Intake Canal about betting big on organizations resentative stood in for honoree BE2T is impacting the commu - along Dwyer Road in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. The denial of certification was upheld by the United States like us who are putting in the Michael Cunningham, Ph.D, pro - nity and its schools by providing Fifth District Court of Appeals on July 13, 2016. Because class certification has been denied by both the trial ground work for a pipeline of adults fessor at Tulane University . top-notch Black male educators, and appellate courts, the timeframe within which to bring a lawsuit is no longer suspended. Any person who may reflect the experience, Growth and expansion are goals who love their profession. wishing to assert a claim for damages arising out of the above-referenced construction project must do so culture and connection to go in realized for BE2T. Keith James, a graduate of within the time periods allowed by law. classrooms supporting and demand - Unlike the past two years, this Tulane University, teaches English La. Weekly: March 13 and March 20, 2017 ing the greatest. We need to believe year’s event was held at Felicity at Bricolage Academy and Dwight in them, so let’s bet on them,” Kelly Church, a bigger venue to accom - B. Eisenhower Elementary. “I like Harris, site director stated. modate the growing organization. being a positive influence, impact - After check-in, guests followed BE2T has grown from a staff of ing the child’s life and showing the red carpet into the first-floor two to six people, which now him that he can be more than an Legal Notices Legal Notices activities, which consisted of two includes site directors, an assis - entertainer or an athlete; that he CIVIL DISTRICT COURT CENTER-NORTHSHORE, NEUROLOGICAL accident shall assert their tables of casino-style games tant, and a program coordinator. can actually aspire to be a teacher, FOR THE PARISH OF L.L.C., OCHSNER CLINIC, SURGERY, P.M.C., L.L.C. claims within ten (10) days of including craps and roulette and a The number of fellows – 38 and an astronaut, the next president,” ORLEANS STATE OF A PROFESSIONAL By virtue of and in obe - publication of this notice or silent auction. There was a selec - counting. There are plans to add a James stated. LOUISIANA NO: (2014- CORPORATION, ADADIAN dience of Louisiana Code of forever be precluded from 4874 DIV. “L-6” AMBULANCE SERVICE, Civil Procedure Article 461, a asserting their claims in tion of hors d’oeuvres and a few class of 20 fellows in New “I really fell in love with their mis - MIGUEL A. ELIAS AND INC., VAN METER Concursus Proceeding has accordance with Louisiana black linen-adorned high top Orleans. Additionally, recruiting sion and their program because MIGUEL A. ELIAS, APLC EMERGENCY been filed with the Civil Code of Civil Procedure tables spaced about the floor. The for fellows will cross the state line when they broke it down, I couldn’t VS. PHYSICIANS, A District Court for the Parish Article 4657. LAKEVIEW MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL of Orleans in reference to Parties shall contact the smooth jazz melodies filled the to cities such as Little Rock, St. really count the number of male CENTER, L.L.C., d/b/a CORPORATION, charges incurred by Jean attorney fro the Plaintiffs, background, which spilled into Louis and Memphis. According to teachers I had,” said Alex Halstead, LAKEVIEW REGIONAL NORTHLAKE Carlos Zepeda stemming Miguel A. Elias and Miguel A. the adjacent courtyard where co-founder, Kristyna Jones, one of a teacher at Foundation Prep. 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March 20 - March 26, 2017 Page 9 BUSINESS SCOPE THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM For-profit colleges gain beachhead in Trump Administration By Annie Waldman announced this month for colleges cleaner administration.” college chain. He is currently pres - to implement the rule. The group firmation hearing in January if ProPublica to submit appeals and publish dis - During his campaign, Trump ident and CEO of Strada Education lost an appeal in March 2016. she would uphold the gainful closures about high debt loads promised he would “drain the Network, formerly known as USA Repealing the rule would be dif - employment rule, DeVos would Until June 2016, Taylor Hansen under the gainful employment rule swamp” and suggested that he Funds, which at one point was the ficult. It would require either a not make a commitment. lobbied for the largest trade group “signifies a recognition within the was open to banning lobbyists largest student loan guarantor in court decision, or a new and “We will certainly review that of for-profit colleges. At the fore - department that there are real from working in his administra - the country. William Hansen lengthy round of rule-making. rule and see that it is actually front of its agenda: eliminating a problems with the regulations as tion. Shortly after his inaugura - declined to comment. “The open question is will [the achieving what the intentions rule known as “gainful employ - they’ve been designed and imple - tion, however, Trump signed an Between 1990 and 2010, the for- department] find some way to are,” DeVos told Warren. ment,” which can take away feder - mented,” Gunderson added. ethics order that weakened the profit college sector roared. invalidate the spirit of the rule “Swindlers and crooks are out al funding from for-profit colleges Both Trump and his education rules put in place during the pre - Hundreds of thousands of students, while keeping the text on the there doing backflips when they if their graduates fail to earn secretary are familiar with for- vious administration. many of them older and looking books,” said Ben Miller, senior hear an answer like this,” Warren enough to repay student loans. profit colleges. Trump owned a The order allows lobbyists to work for part-time learning opportuni - director for postsecondary educa - responded. Earlier this month, that goal for-profit education company, and at any agency, as long as they do not ties, enrolled at for-profit colleges. tion at the Center for American Spotted at DeVos’ side after the started to become a reality. The paid $25 million last November to become involved in any “particular The industry earned billions of Progress and a former senior poli - hearing was Lauren Maddox. She’s U.S. Department of Education settle Trump University students’ matter” that they lobbied on in the dollars from tuition payments, cy advisor at the department. a former registered lobbyist for delayed the deadline for colleges allegations of high-pressure sales past two years. For Hansen, that much of it coming from the spigot When Sen. Elizabeth Warren, CECU and the for-profit college to comply with certain provisions tactics and unqualified instructors. would mean he’s barred from of federal student aid. About 13 D-Mass., asked DeVos at her con - company Career Education Corp.◊ of gainful employment, saying it His education secretary, Betsy implementing or reshaping the gain - percent of college students in the plans to review the rule. DeVos, has been a champion of ful employment rule. U.S. attend a for-profit institution, By then, Hansen was watching privately run schools and has Hansen’s “beachhead” position but they account for a quarter of all from the inside, benefiting from invested in at least one company at the Education Department lasts recipients of student loans and a Nation adds jobs the Trump administration’s ethics with for-profit college holdings. up to four months, he said, and third of all defaults. policies that allow former lobby - Marcella Goodridge-Keiller, an could lead to a permanent role. To boost revenue, some col - ists to work for agencies they assistant general counsel at the His appointment is by no means leges used predatory and fraudu - elsewhere, but Blacks have recently tried to influence. Office of the General an exception. As ProPublica has lent practices to recruit and He told ProPublica that, about a Counsel/Ethics at the Department of previously reported, dozens of the retain students, leading to month ago, the Trump adminis - Education, said that all department administration’s new hires have numerous federal investigations are left standing in the tration hired him to join the hires are required to participate in an formerly worked as lobbyists and and lawsuits. Amid the increased Education Department’s “beach - ethics briefing. The Education industry consultants, some of scrutiny, the industry deflated. head” team. It’s a group of tem - Department did not respond to them within the past year. But since Trump’s election, for- unemployment line porary employees, often with requests for comment on Hansen’s “The beachhead teams get to profit college stocks have again By Frederick H. Lowe from 7.3 percent in January. political connections, who do not appointment and on its relationship operate in obscurity and carry out begun to climb: DeVry shares are Contributing Writer This compares to a February require U.S. Senate approval for with for-profit colleges. the cabinet secretaries’ wishes,” up over 43 percent and Grand unemployment rate for white their appointments. From December 2013 to July said Jeff Hauser, executive director Canyon and Strayer are both up (Special from NorthStarNews men of 3.8 percent, down from Hansen said that he isn’t working 2016, Hansen worked as the direc - of the Revolving Door Project, more than 37 percent. Today) — The nation’s business - 4.0 percent in January. The on gainful employment regula - tor of legislative and regulatory which scrutinizes potential politi - Part of the rally may stem from the tions. Still, his hiring shows how affairs for CECU, formerly known cal conflicts of interest. “There is es added 235,000 jobs in February jobless rate among anticipated demise of the gainful February but the companies Hispanic men 20 years old and closely the Trump administration as the Association of Private Sector no accountability.” employment rule. The rule, which is in sync with the for-profit educa - Colleges and Universities. For the Hansen declined comment on obviously didn’t hire in the older was 4.6 percent, down was finalized in 2014, sets debt-to- Black community where the from 4.8 percent in January. tion industry, which has long been first half of last year, he was regis - whether his former lobbying role earnings benchmarks for graduates criticized for loading students with tered as one of its lobby ists. could raise a potential conflict. unemployment rate went up The Bureau of Labor Statistics of vocational college programs, compared to other racial and eth - does not provide equivalent statis - debt that they struggle to pay off. CECU has spent about $3.5 mil - Michael Dakduk, executive vice many of which are for-profit. nic groups where it went down. tics for Asian men 20 and older. The sector’s market value and lion over the past five years on lob - president and director of govern - For example, the rule requires The black jobless rate in Black women 20 years old and enrollment plunged under the bying on behalf of its more than ment relations for CECU, told programs to keep annual loan pay - February was 8.1 percent com - older also saw an increase in Obama administration, which 600 member institutions, which ProPublica that the trade group ments of their graduates under 12 pared to 7.7 percent in January, their jobless rate. In February, instituted the gainful employment include a handful of nonprofit hasn’t “met with Taylor Hansen or percent of their yearly earnings and the U.S. Bureau of Labor their unemployment rate was 7.1 rule, and chains such as Corinthian career colleges. Gunderson said engaged with him in terms of the 30 percent of their income after Statistics reported Friday. percent, up from 6.7 percent in Colleges and ITT Educational that lobbying was not one of Department of Education.” taxes. The Education Department The jobless rate in the black com - January. Services shut down. Now, it antic - Hansen’s primary responsibilities. Taylor Hansen’s father, announced in January that more munity went up in February. In comparison, February’s ipates a resurgence under “Looking at his timesheets, we William, also worked at the than 800 college programs had The high unemployment rate unemployment rate for white President Donald Trump. probably never should have regis - department, as deputy secretary failed to reach that standard. among African Americans, com - women 20 years old and older “It’s guaranteed that they will tered him, but we err on the side of of education from 2001 to 2003. The Obama administration pared to 4.1 percent in February was 3.7 percent, down from 3.9 be more friendly,” said Steve being careful,” he said, adding that During his tenure, he participat - fought for years to enact the gain - among whites, was down from percent in January. Hispanics Gunderson, president and CEO of Hansen mainly worked with the ed in weakening regulations on ful employment rule, in the face of 4.3 percent in January. Among saw big drop in their unemploy - Career Education Colleges and trade group’s member schools. for-profit colleges. William intense opposition from the for- Hispanics, the jobless rate was ment in February. The Bureau of Universities, or CECU, the for- After leaving CECU, Hansen Hansen’s former chief of staff at profit sector. In 2011, CECU filed 5.6 percent in February, down Labor Statistics reported the job - profit college trade group where briefly joined the Center for the department, James Manning, a lawsuit against the department from 5.9 percent in January. less rate for Hispanic women in Hansen used to work. “We have Education Reform, an advocacy led the Education Department’s that led a federal court to strike The jobless rate among Asians February was 5.6 percent, down an administration that is happy to group that promotes charter landing team during the transi - down parts of the rule. in February was 3.4 percent, from 6.3 percent in January. talk with us and respond to our schools and voucher programs. tion, and has reportedly stayed After the department updated down from 3.7 percent in The Bureau of Labor Statistics questions and comments. ” Under Obama administration on at the department after the the rule in 2014, the trade group January, BLS reported. does not provide equivalent statis - In contrast to its distant relation - policies, which banned lobbyists inauguration. (Landing teams sued again. The case was dis - Black men 20 years old and tics for Asian women 20 and older . ship with Obama’s education lead - from joining any agency they had were responsible for facilitating missed in 2015, with the court older continue to suffer the high - The nation’s overall unemploy - ership, CECU has already been in recently lobbied, Hansen would the changeover from the Obama upholding the department’s right est unemployment rate. In ment rate was 4.7 percent in close contact with the Trump have been ineligible to work for the administration, while beachhead February, it was 7.8 percent, up February.◊ administration, including face-to- Education Department. Robert teams are supposed to provide face encounters, phone calls and Shireman, a senior fellow at the leadership until key appointees emails, Gunderson said. Century Foundation and a former are chosen and confirmed.) The CECU “started talking to the deputy undersecretary of education department did not respond to transition [team] shortly after the under Obama, said that the rules questions about Manning’s cur - November election,” he said. “In helped prevent conflicts of interest. rent role there. defense of the Trump adminis - “I remember people complaining From 2006 to 2009, after leaving tration, the people we have met that the rules went too far and kept the department, William Hansen with thus far are all very careful experts out of the administration,” worked as a lobbyist for Apollo of ethics protocols.” he said. “It was more important to Group Inc., the parent company of The three-month delay err on that side and end up with a University of Phoenix, a for-profit

Raphael Bostic tapped to head Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank (AP) — Raphael W. Bostic, a Fed Up, a coali - Development. former Obama administration tion of community His research housing official, has been select - groups and labor focused in the ed as the new president of unions that has areas of home Federal Reserve Bank of been pushing for ownership, hous - Atlanta, becoming the first more diversity ing finance and African American to head one of among Fed policy - neighborhood the Fed’s 12 regional banks. makers, hailed the change. The Atlanta Fed announced the selection of Bostic. As president of selection Monday. It said that “He is an excep - the Atlanta Fed, Bostic, 50, currently a professor tionally well-quali - Bostic will par - of public policy at the fied economist and ticipate in inter - University of Southern public servant who est-rate decisions California, will take over in has dedicated his made by the June. He succeeds Dennis career to studying BOSTIC Federal Open Lockhart, who retired last and combating Market month. racial, economic Committee, com - During the Obama administra - and social inequality,” Shawn posed of the Fed’s 12 regional tion, Bostic served from 2009 to Sebastian, co-director of the Fed presidents, who vote on a rotat - 2012 as an assistant secretary for Up coalition, said in a statement. ing basis, and the seven members policy at the Department of Bostic, who received a doctor - of the Fed’s board in Washington. Housing and Urban ate in economics from Stanford, While no African American Development. The Atlanta Fed worked for the Federal Reserve had served as a regional Fed covers Georgia, Alabama, board in Washington from 1995 bank president, three African Florida and portions of to 2001 before leaving to Americans have served on the Louisiana, Mississippi and become a professor at USC’s Fed’s seven-member board in Tennessee. School of Policy, Planning and the Fed’s 103-year history.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 10 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM March 20 - March 26, 2017 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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SALE bY Certified Check or Money ACQUIRED MIN 607773 lic auction, on the TATE A/K/A SYnTHIA OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money Seized in the above Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil MARKEY A/K/A SYn - Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The ORLEAnS SHERIFF bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) $49,698.19 District Court building, THIA MARKEY nO. 3500-02 PARIS checks.) purchaser at the moment JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in SHELMIRE TATE AnD AvE. AnD 1565-1579 MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a Sheriff suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the CALvIn TATE, JR. Sheriff deposit of ten percent of ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans LAFREnIERE STREET, Parish of Orleans ATTy: STACy WHEAT purchaser at the moment City on March 23, 2017, Civil District Court for THIS CITY In THE MAT - ATTy: COREy GIROIR the purchase price, and THAT PORTIOn (504) 522-8256 of adjudication to make a at 12:00 o’clock noon, the Parish of Orleans (225) 756-0373 the balance within thirty TW 9 TER EnTITLED: CITY jD 21 OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 deposit of ten percent of the following described no. 2016-7803 OF nEW ORLEAnS LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: ______bEARInG MUnICIPAL the purchase price, and property to wit: by virtue of a WRIT vERSUS THE LISA b. ______The payment must be nO. 1920-22 ST. SALE bY the balance within thirty LOT 19, SQUARE 220 OF SEIZURE AnD CRAWFORD TRUST SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, CLAUDE AvE, THIS ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE to me directed by FOR THE bEnEFIT OF Certified Check or Money CITY, In THE MATTER The payment must be TRICT the Honorable The Civil ROJE' AnTOnIO ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal EnTITLED: SUCCES - JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, MUNICIPAL NO. 5737 District Court of MOREnO JUDICIAL checks.) SIOn OF CELIA HATCH ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money DAUPHINE STREET Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for MARLIn n. GUSMAn WHITICAR nERO Order. No personal ACQUIRED MIN entitled cause, I will ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff THAT PORTIOn the Parish of Orleans Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for checks.) 1119982 proceed to sell by pub - no. 2016-8582 THAT PORTIOn ATTy: MARSHALL GRIES the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the (504) 658-4346 MARLIn n. GUSMAn by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD BB 11 Sheriff no. 1995-14771 bEARInG MUnICIPAL $128,322.04 ground floor of the Civil LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 Parish of Orleans OF FIERI FACIAS to me bEARInG MUnICIPAL nO. 1483 MIRAbEAU ______by virtue of a WRIT ATTy: COREy GIROIR Seized in the above District Court building, directed by the nO. 4700-02 bOnITA AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW (225) 756-0373 OF COURT ORDER to suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil DRIvE, CITY OF nEW SALE bY ORLEAnS, In THE jD 26 me directed by the LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 purchaser at the moment the First District of the District Court of ORLEAnS, In THE CASE EnTITLED: ______ORLEAnS SHERIFF Honorable The Civil of adjudication to make a City on March 23, 2017, Orleans, in the above CASE EnTITLED: FED - REGIOnS bAnK vS District Court of SALE bY deposit of ten percent of at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will ERAL nATIOnAL JUDICIAL ALMA P bROWn A/K/A Orleans, in the above the purchase price, and the following described proceed to sell by pub - MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - ADvERTISEMEnT ALMA AnITA POOSER ORLEAnS SHERIFF entitled cause, I will the balance within thirty property to wit: lic auction, on the TIOn vS JEnnIFER WIFE OF/AnD THAT PORTIOn proceed to sell by pub - JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: LOT 16, SQUARE A, ground floor of the Civil HOWARD PORTER, nATHAnIEL L. bROWn lic auction, on the ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, DIvORCED WIFE OF GROUnD A/K/A nATHAnIEL bEARInG MUnICIPAL ground floor of the Civil Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF/AnD TROY LUTHER bROWn A COnDOMInIUM: nO. 2711 PRAnCER District Court building, Certified Check or Money SECTION TWO OF the First District of the PORTER Civil District Court for STREET, THIS CITY, In 421 Loyola Avenue, in OnE CERTAIn Order. No personal PARk TIMBERS SUBDI - City on March 23, 2017, Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - the First District of the COnDOMInIUM checks.) VISION, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the Parish of Orleans no. 2014-7573 TLED: JPMORGAn City on March 23, 2017, MARLIn n. GUSMAn MUNICIPAL NO: 33 the following described no. 2009-4163 at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT UnIT Sheriff PARk TIMBERS DRIVE, CHASE bAnK, bEARInG MUnICIPAL Parish of Orleans property to wit: by virtue of a WRIT the following described OF FIERI FACIAS to me ACQ MIN: TBA nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - nO. 4500 PALMYRA ATTy: DAVID HUGENBRUCH LOT NO. 1, SQUARE OF SEIZURE AnD property to wit: directed by the (318) 388-1440 WRIT AMOUnT: TIOn vERSUS TYROnE STREET, UnIT H OF jD 34 NO. 2318 SALE to me directed by LOT 8 or D - SQUARE Honorable The Civil $192,567.41 J. JOHnSOn, SR. THE CEnTREvILLE LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the Honorable The Civil 376 District Court of ______Seized in the above Civil District Court for COnDOMInIUM, nEW TRICT District Court of THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Orleans, in the above suit, TERMS CASH. The the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, LA, In THE SALE bY MUNICIPAL NO. 3500- Orleans, in the above TRICT entitled cause, I will purchaser at the moment no. 2014-10731 MATTER EnTITLED: 02 PARIS AVENUE AND entitled cause, I will MUNICIPAL NO. 1920- proceed to sell by pub - ORLEAnS SHERIFF of adjudication to make a by virtue of a WRIT "REGIOnS bAnK D/b/A 1565-1579 LAFRE - proceed to sell by pub - 22 ST. CLAUDE AVE lic auction, on the JUDICIAL deposit of ten percent of OF SEIZURE AnD REGIOnS MORTGAGE NIERE STREET lic auction, on the ACQ. COB 756, FOLIO ground floor of the Civil the purchase price, and SALE directed to me vS JOnATHAn M. ADvERTISEMEnT ACQ. MIN 1197303 ground floor of the Civil 557 District Court building, the balance within thirty by the Honorable The WARREn, (AKA JOHn WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in THAT PORTIOn days thereafter. (NOTE: Civil District Court of WARREn)" $5,630.00 421 Loyola Avenue, in Seized in the above the First District of the OF GROUnD The payment must be Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for Seized in the above the First District of the suit, TERMS CASH. The City on March 23, 2017, bEARInG MUnICIPAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The City on March 23, 2017, purchaser at the moment at 12:00 o’clock noon, nO. 1411 bARTHOLE - Certified Check or Money proceed to sell by pub - no. 2016-11952 purchaser at the moment at 12:00 o’clock noon, of adjudication to make a the following described MEW STREET, CITY OF Order. No personal lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT of adjudication to make a the following described deposit of ten percent of property to wit: nEW ORLEAnS, In THE checks.) ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD deposit of ten percent of property to wit: the purchase price, and LOT F, SQUARE A, CASE EnTITLED: THE District Court building, SALE to me directed by MARLIn n. GUSMAn the purchase price, and LOT 1, SQUARE 9, the balance within thirty THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - bAnK OF nEW YORK Sheriff 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Honorable The Civil Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - days thereafter. (NOTE: TRICT, MELLOn F/K/A THE the First District of the District Court of ATTy: DONECIA BANkS-MILEy days thereafter. (NOTE: TRICT The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO. 1483 bAnK OF nEW YORK, (318) 388-1440 City on April 20, 2017, Orleans, in the above BB 37 The payment must be BONITA PARk, SEC - Cash, Cashier’s Check, MIRABEAU AVENUE AS SUCCESSOR In at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 Cash, Cashier’s Check, TION "A" SUBDIVISION Certified Check or Money ACQUIRED MIN 965911 InTEREST TO JPMOR - ______the following described proceed to sell by pub - Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 4700- Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: GAn CHASE bAnK, AS property to wit: lic auction, on the SALE bY Order. No personal 02 BONITA DRIVE checks.) $106,839.35 TRUSTEE FOR CEn - LOT NO. 141, ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) ACQUIRED CIN 326740 MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above TEX HOME EQUITY WRIT AMOUnT: SQUARE 20 Sheriff District Court building, MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The LOAn TRUST 2004-C JUDICIAL Sheriff FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Parish of Orleans $153,421.37 421 Loyola Avenue, in Parish of Orleans ATTy: BELHIA MARTIN purchaser at the moment vS GLORIA WHEELER TRICT ADvERTISEMEnT ATTy: jOHN HAGAN Seized in the above (504) 799-2205 the First District of the of adjudication to make a POLK A/K/A GLORIA (504) 658-4346 PLANTATION ESTATES BTD 3 suit, TERMS CASH. The City on March 23, 2017, THAT PORTIOn NNB 17 LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 deposit of ten percent of HOLMES WHEELER SUBDIVISION, PARCEL LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 purchaser at the moment ______at 12:00 o’clock noon, the purchase price, and POLK AnD SAMUEL OF GROUnD ______of adjudication to make a 4 the balance within thirty the following described POLK bEARInG MUnICIPAL MUNICIPAL NO. 2711 SALE bY property to wit: SALE bY deposit of ten percent of days thereafter. (NOTE: Civil District Court for nO. 214 nEIL AvEnUE, the purchase price, and PRANCER STREET ORLEAnS SHERIFF The payment must be LOT A-4 AND A-5, the Parish of Orleans THIS CITY, In THE MAT - ORLEAnS SHERIFF ACQ. MIN 935951 SQUARE 816 the balance within thirty JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, no. 2016-9502 TER EnTITLED FEDER - JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: Certified Check or Money FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - by virtue of a WRIT AL nATIOnAL MORT - $141,553.39 ADvERTISEMEnT TRICT ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be Order. No personal OF SEIZURE AnD GAGE ASSOCIATIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, Seized in the above THAT PORTIOn checks.) MUNICIPAL NO. 4500 SALE to me directed by vS TAURHIS F. COLEY THAT PORTIOn suit, TERMS CASH. The PALMyRA STREET, Certified Check or Money OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn the Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for OF GROUnD Order. No personal purchaser at the moment bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff UNIT H OF THE CEN - District Court of the Parish of Orleans of adjudication to make a Parish of Orleans TREVILLE CONDOMINI - bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) nO. ATTy: FRED DAIGLE Orleans, in the above no. 2014-2095 nO. 2341 bECK deposit of ten percent of (504) 522-8256 UM MARLIn n. GUSMAn 2400 SOUTH SARATO - entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT Sheriff the purchase price, and LM 38 STREET, nEW ACQUIRED MIN Parish of Orleans GA ST., THIS CITY, In LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD the balance within thirty ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ATTy: LOUIS ARCENEAUx ______1105366 THE MATTER EnTI - lic auction, on the SALE to me directed by MATTER EnTITLED: (504) 522-8256 days thereafter. (NOTE: TLED FEDERAL WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil the Honorable The Civil LM 7 The payment must be SALE bY $139,332.75 "nATIOnSTAR MORT - LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 nATIOnAL MORTGAGE District Court building, District Court of GAGE LLC vS JEAnnE ______Cash, Cashier’s Check, ASSOCIATIOn vS ORLEAnS SHERIFF Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The JOnES CObLE A/K/A SALE bY OLIvIA ISAAC SMITH JUDICIAL the First District of the entitled cause, I will JEAnnE J. CObLE Order. No personal WIDOW OF EDDIE purchaser at the moment City on March 23, 2017, proceed to sell by pub - ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) ADvERTISEMEnT of adjudication to make a A/K/A JEAnnE CObLE ROSS at 12:00 o’clock noon, lic auction, on the AnD MARK E. CObLE JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn deposit of ten percent of the following described ground floor of the Civil Sheriff the purchase price, and A/K/A MARK CObLE" ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD property to wit: District Court building, Civil District Court for ATTy: STACy WHEAT bEARInG MUnICIPAL the balance within thirty (504) 522-8256 no. 2016-2703 LOT H, SQUARE 595, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn nO. 2061 LAURADALE days thereafter. (NOTE: NNB 9 by virtue of a WRIT THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the no. 2014-2506 OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 DRIvE, nEW The payment must be ______OF SEIZURE AnD TRICT, City on March 23, 2017, by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Cash, Cashier’s Check, SALE to me directed by MUNICIPAL NO. 1411 at 12:00 o’clock noon, OF SEIZURE AnD nO. 2639 ST. PHILIP SALE bY MATTER EnTITLED: Certified Check or Money the Honorable The Civil BARTHOLEMEW the following described SALE to me directed by STREET, THIS CITY, In "THE bAnK OF nEW Order. No personal ORLEAnS SHERIFF District Court of STREET property to wit: the Honorable The Civil THE MATTER EnTI - YORK MELLOn F/K/A checks.) Orleans, in the above ACQUIRED MIN 753823 LOT 8, SQUARE k, District Court of TLED CITY OF nEW JUDICIAL THE bAnK OF nEW entitled cause, I will MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS vS WILLIAM ADvERTISEMEnT YORK AS TRUSTEE Sheriff proceed to sell by pub - Parish of Orleans $36,447.42 TRICT, entitled cause, I will MAGnARD, III, TERRI - FOR CWAbS, InC. ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER THAT PORTIOn lic auction, on the Seized in the above AURORA GARDENS proceed to sell by pub - TA MAGnARD, SHEILA ASSET-bACKED CER - (504) 831-7726 ground floor of the Civil jD 30 suit, TERMS CASH. The SUBDIVISION, lic auction, on the AUGUST, AnDREA OF GROUnD TIFICATES, SERIES LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 bEARInG MUnICIPAL District Court building, purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO: 214 ground floor of the Civil PARKER DIXOn, AnD 2001-bC3 vS ______nO. 3140 nEW 421 Loyola Avenue, in of adjudication to make a NEIL AVENUE, District Court building, MALCOM M. PARKER, nATHAnIEL MC GIn - ORLEAnS, LA, In THE the First District of the SALE bY deposit of ten percent of ACQ MIN: 904605 421 Loyola Avenue, in JR. nIS" MATTER EnTITLED: City on March 23, 2017, ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the Civil District Court for Civil District Court for "ADMInISTRATOR, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the balance within thirty $169,762.45 City on March 23, 2017, the Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL U.S. SMALL bUSInESS the following described days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above at 12:00 o’clock noon, no. 2015-5387 no. 2016-7109 ADMInISTRATIOn, An property to wit: ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The the following described by virtue of a WRIT by virtue of a WRIT AGEnCY OF THE UnIT - LOT V SQUARE 287 THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment property to wit: OF FIERI FACIAS to me OF SEIZURE AnD ED STATES OF AMERI - FOURTH MUNICIPAL Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a LOT 202, SQUARE 15 directed by the SALE to me directed by OF GROUnD CA vS DARRYL KEnY - DISTRICT Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil the Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTA TAYLOR AKA MUNICIPAL DISTRICT checks.) the purchase price, and TRICT District Court of District Court of nO. 5737 DAUPHInE DARRYL K. TAYLOR 2400 S. SARATOGA ST. MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty PLANTATION ESTATES, Orleans, in the above Orleans, in the above STREET, nEW Sheriff AKA DARRYL TAYLOR ACQUIRED CIN 134292 days thereafter. (NOTE: PARCEL FOUR entitled cause, I will entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Parish of Orleans In HIS InDIvIDUAL LOT V. SQUARE 287 ATTy: jASON SMITH The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO. 2341 proceed to sell by pub - proceed to sell by pub - MATTER EnTITLED: (318) 388-1440 CAPACITY AnD DAR - FOURTH MUNICIPAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, BECk STREET lic auction, on the lic auction, on the "FRAnKLIn AMERICAn LM 35 RYL KEnYATTA TAY - DISTRICT, LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 Certified Check or Money ACQUIRED ORIGINAL ground floor of the Civil ground floor of the Civil MORTGAGE COMPAnY ______LOR, In HIS CAPACITY MUNICIPAL NO. 2400 Order. No personal MORTGAGE MIN District Court building, District Court building, vS IRWIn JOHnSOn AS InDEPEnDEnT SOUTH SARATOGA SALE bY checks.) 841453 & ASSIGNMENT 421 Loyola Avenue, in 421 Loyola Avenue, in A/K/A IRWIn DEnnARD EXECUTOR OF THE ACQ MIN: 401391 MARLIn n. GUSMAn MIN 1146643 the First District of the the First District of the JOHnSOn" ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sheriff SUCCESSIOn OF WIL - WRIT AMOUnT: WRIT AMOUnT: City on March 23, 2017, City on March 23, 2017, Civil District Court for Parish of Orleans LEnE PULLIAM TAY - $24,992.08 JUDICIAL ATTy: ANNE RAyMOND $146,714.14 at 12:00 o’clock noon, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the Parish of Orleans (504) 581-9444 LOR AKA WILLEnE P. Seized in the above ADvERTISEMEnT Seized in the above the following described the following described no. 2014-5349 BB 15 TAYLOR AKA WILLEnE suit, TERMS CASH. The LA. WEEkLy 2/20/2017, 3/20/2017 suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: property to wit: by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn ______TAYLOR" purchaser at the moment purchaser at the moment LOT 34, SQUARE 342, LOT 7, SQUARE 10 OF SEIZURE AnD Civil District Court for of adjudication to make a OF GROUnD SALE bY of adjudication to make a SECOND MUNICIPAL FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE to me directed by bEARInG MUnICIPAL the Parish of Orleans deposit of ten percent of deposit of ten percent of DISTRICT, TRICT the Honorable The Civil nO. 33 PARK TIMbERS ORLEAnS SHERIFF no. 2016-8068 the purchase price, and the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO: 2639 LAURADALE ADDITION District Court of DRIvE, THIS CITY, In by virtue of a WRIT the balance within thirty JUDICIAL the balance within thirty ST. PHILIP STREET, SUBDIVISION Orleans, in the above THE MATTER EnTI - OF SEIZURE AnD days thereafter. (NOTE: ADvERTISEMEnT days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQ MIN: 1167179 MUNICIPAL NO. 2061 entitled cause, I will TLED GMFS LLC vS The payment must be The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: LAURADALE DRIVE proceed to sell by pub - SYnTHIA MARKEY THAT PORTIOn Continued on next page Cash, Cashier’s Check, Cash, Cashier’s Check, $6,655.00 Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - March 20 - March 26, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 11 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices

Continued from previous page OR HER SUCCES - SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: City on April 20, 2017, the First District of the District Court building, SORS, HEIRS, OR The payment must be $41,613.02 at 12:00 o’clock noon, City on April 20, 2017, 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE directed to me ASSIGnS, CLInTOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, Seized in the above the following described at 12:00 o’clock noon, the First District of the by the Honorable The JOnES, JOE ELDER, JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: the following described City on April 20, 2017, Civil District Court of AnD D. AnDRE ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal purchaser at the moment LOT C, SQUARE 789, property to wit: at 12:00 o’clock noon, Orleans, in the above DEMERY AKA DARWIn checks.) of adjudication to make a FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - LOT 12, SQUARE 742, the following described THAT PORTIOn entitled cause, I will AnDRE DEMERY" MARLIn n. GUSMAn deposit of ten percent of TRICT, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - property to wit: proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for OF GROUnD Sheriff the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL DISTRICT TRICT, LOT A, SQUARE 8, Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: CHARMAINE MARCHAND the balance within thirty NO. 605-07 S. MUNICIPAL NO. 2461 FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil no. 2016-8633 nO. jD 12 days thereafter. (NOTE: SOLOMON STREET NORTH CLAIBORNE TRICT, LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT 2560 vALEnTInE CT, ______The payment must be ACQUIRED MIN 871184 AVENUE MUNICIPAL NO: 2801 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF FIERI FACIAS THIS CITY, In THE MAT - Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: ACQUIRED CIN 547827 HyMAN PLACE, the First District of the directed to me by the TER EnTITLED SALE bY Certified Check or Money $156,697.03 WRIT AMOUnT: ACQ MIN: 881315 City on April 20, 2017, Honorable The Civil LA CAPITOL FEDERAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal Seized in the above $154,194.96 WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of CREDIT UnIOn vS JUDICIAL checks.) suit, TERMS CASH. The Seized in the above $168,785.55 the following described Orleans, in the above UnOPEn SUCCESSIOn MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment suit, TERMS CASH. The Seized in the above property to wit: entitled cause, I will OF bEvERLY Ann ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff of adjudication to make a purchaser at the moment suit, TERMS CASH. The Parish of Orleans LOT M, SQUARE 1964 proceed to sell by pub - AnDERSOn AKA bEv - THAT PORTIOn ATTy: HARRy kUHNER deposit of ten percent of of adjudication to make a purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - lic auction, on the ERLY A. AnDERSOn - (504) 525-7249 the purchase price, and deposit of ten percent of of adjudication to make a OF GROUnD LM 5 TRICT ground floor of the Civil TLED: JPMORGAn bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 the balance within thirty the purchase price, and deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 3140 District Court building, CHASE bAnK, nO. 6000 FRAnKLIn ______days thereafter. (NOTE: the balance within thirty the purchase price, and NEW ORLEANS 421 Loyola Avenue, in nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW SALE bY The payment must be days thereafter. (NOTE: the balance within thirty STREET the First District of the TIOn vERSUS TYROnE ORLEAnS, In THE ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, The payment must be days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 931855 City on April 20, 2017, J. JOHnSOn, SR. CASE EnTITLED: CITY Certified Check or Money Cash, Cashier’s Check, The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, Civil District Court for OF nEW ORLEAnS vS JUDICIAL Order. No personal Certified Check or Money Cash, Cashier’s Check, $98,978.66 the following described the Parish of Orleans LELIA DOROTHY ADvERTISEMEnT checks.) Order. No personal Certified Check or Money Seized in the above property to wit: no. 2016-9912 SMITH, vICTORIA MARLIn n. GUSMAn checks.) Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT 4-A, SQUARE 423 by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn Sheriff checks.) PEARSOn HAUSMAnn Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff purchaser at the moment (OLD NO. 64) OF SEIZURE AnD OF GROUnD ATTy: ETHAN HUNT SMITH, RHODA EDWE - Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn (318) 388-1440 Sheriff of adjudication to make a FOURTH MUNICIPAL SALE directed to me bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: ETHAN HUNT nA SMITH THOMPSOn, LM 21 Parish of Orleans (318) 388-1440 deposit of ten percent of DISTRICT by the Honorable The nO. 2420-22 A.P. LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 ATTy: ALLISON BEASLEy bREnDA vICTORIA LM 22 ______(225) 924-1600 the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 3214- Civil District Court of TUREAUD AvEnUE, LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 SMITH WILLIAMS AnD BB 14 the balance within thirty THIS CITY, In THE MAT - ______16 WASHINGTON Orleans, in the above GILbERT HERbERT SALE bY LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: TER EnTITLED: ______AVENUE entitled cause, I will SMITH ORLEAnS SHERIFF SALE bY The payment must be ACQUIRED MIN proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for WELLS FARGO bAnK, SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, 1187479 lic auction, on the nA vERSUS DIOnnE JUDICIAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil no. 2016-11118 CECILE MYLES A/K/A ADvERTISEMEnT JUDICIAL Order. No personal $17,435.00 District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT DIOnnE C. MYLES ADvERTISEMEnT JUDICIAL checks.) A/K/A DIOnnE MYLES THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF FIERI FACIAS THAT PORTIOn ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the directed to me by the Civil District Court for OF GROUnD Sheriff purchaser at the moment City on April 20, 2017, the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF GROUnD THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans Honorable The Civil ATTy: RAy WOOD of adjudication to make a at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of no. 2013-569 nO. 7612 bEnJAMIn bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF GROUnD (225) 372-8877 deposit of ten percent of the following described by virtue of a WRIT STREET, nEW nO. 7130 EDGEFIELD bEARInG MUnICIPAL jD 19 Orleans, in the above LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 the purchase price, and property to wit: entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD ORLEAnS, LA, In THE DRIvE, THIS CITY, In nO. 514 WARRInGTOn ______the balance within thirty LOT NO. 544 proceed to sell by pub - SALE directed to me MATTER EnTITLED: THE MATTER EnTI - DR, THIS CITY, In THE SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: SQUARE NO. 26 lic auction, on the by the Honorable The "REvERSE MORT - TLED: HOPE FEDERAL MATTER EnTITLED ORLEAnS SHERIFF The payment must be FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court of GAGE FUnDInG LLC CREDIT UnIOn vER - FInAnCE OF AMERICA Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT District Court building, Orleans, in the above vS LOUELLA A. PAT - SUS LYnn MARIE REvERSE LLC vS JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO: 2560 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will TERSOn" RObERTS ALvIn b. JOHnSOn ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal VALENTINE CT the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for Civil District Court for Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn checks.) ACQ MIN: 950093 City on April 20, 2017, lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, ground floor of the Civil no. 2015-10363 no. 2015-11685 no. 2016-3772 OF GROUnD Sheriff $134,093.43 the following described District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT by virtue of a WRIT by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL Parish of Orleans ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS Seized in the above property to wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF FIERI FACIAS OF SEIZURE AnD OF SEIZURE AnD nO. 716 RIvER OAKS (504) 658-4391 suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT 11, SQUARE 4810, the First District of the directed to me by the SALE directed to me SALE directed to me DR,THIS CITY, In THE jD 23 LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on April 20, 2017, Honorable The Civil by the Honorable The by the Honorable The MATTER EnTITLED ______of adjudication to make a TRICT at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of Civil District Court of Civil District Court of GMFS LLC vS WILTO - SALE bY deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 6000 the following described Orleans, in the above Orleans, in the above Orleans, in the above RIA EARLSHEKA the purchase price, and FRANkLIN AVENUE property to wit: entitled cause, I will entitled cause, I will entitled cause, I will JOnES ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty ACQUIRED MIN LOT NO. 6, SQUARE proceed to sell by pub - proceed to sell by pub - proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: 1195336 1336 lic auction, on the lic auction, on the lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil ground floor of the Civil ground floor of the Civil no. 2016-5683 Cash, Cashier’s Check, $21,510.00 TRICT District Court building, District Court building, District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 2420- 421 Loyola Avenue, in 421 Loyola Avenue, in 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD OF GROUnD Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The 22 A.P. TUREAUD the First District of the the First District of the the First District of the SALE directed to me bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) purchaser at the moment AVENUE City on April 20, 2017, City on April 20, 2017, City on April 20, 2017, by the Honorable The nO. 1026 MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a ACQ. MIN 904177 at 12:00 o’clock noon, at 12:00 o’clock noon, at 12:00 o’clock noon, Civil District Court of Sheriff bARTHOLOMEW deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: the following described the following described the following described Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans STREET, nEW ATTy: RICHARD CRAWFORD the purchase price, and $127,525.23 property to wit: property to wit: property to wit: entitled cause, I will (225) 343-3456 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE the balance within thirty Seized in the above LOT G, SQUARE 39 LOT 38A, SQUARE A LOT NO. 8 SQUARE proceed to sell by pub - TW 2 MATTER EnTITLED: LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The SEVENTH MUNICIPAL THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - NO. 1 lic auction, on the ______"MTGLQ InvESTORS, The payment must be purchaser at the moment DISTRICT TRICT THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil LP vS bETTIE JEAn SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a MUNICIPAL NO. 7612 kINGSWOOD SUBDIVI - TRICT District Court building, PORTER PERRIER Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of BENjAMIN STREET SION MUNICIPAL NO. 514 421 Loyola Avenue, in ORLEAnS SHERIFF A/K/A bETTIE JEAn Order. No personal the purchase price, and ACQUIRED MIN 971023 MUNICIPAL NO. 7130 WARRINGTON DR the First District of the bROWn PORTER AnD JUDICIAL checks.) the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: EDGEFIELD DRIVE SUBDIVISION: GENTIL - City on April 20, 2017, CHARLES T. PERRIER" days thereafter. (NOTE: $176,125.32 ACQ. MIN 1116145 Ly PARk ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn at 12:00 o’clock noon, Civil District Court for Sheriff The payment must be Seized in the above WRIT AMOUnT: ACQ MIN: 1073066 the following described the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The $68,355.27 WRIT AMOUnT: ATTy: CHARMAINE MARCHAND property to wit: no. 2016-9125 OF GROUnD (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment Seized in the above $88,744.65 LOT NO. 62 SQUARE by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL LM 11 Order. No personal of adjudication to make a suit, TERMS CASH. The Seized in the above LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 NO. 210 OF SEIZURE AnD nO. 2236-38 SECOnD ______checks.) deposit of ten percent of purchaser at the moment suit, TERMS CASH. The FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE directed to me STREET, THIS CITY, In MARLIn n. GUSMAn the purchase price, and of adjudication to make a purchaser at the moment TRICT by the Honorable The THE MATTER EnTI - SALE bY Sheriff the balance within thirty deposit of ten percent of of adjudication to make a Parish of Orleans SUBDIVISION: RIVER Civil District Court of TLED: CITY OF nEW ORLEAnS SHERIFF ATTy: COREy GIROIR days thereafter. (NOTE: the purchase price, and deposit of ten percent of OAkS Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS vERSUS (225) 756-0373 The payment must be the balance within thirty the purchase price, and JUDICIAL jD 15 MUNICIPAL NO. 716 entitled cause, I will ADESInE A. OYEFO - LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 Cash, Cashier’s Check, days thereafter. (NOTE: the balance within thirty RIVER OAkS DR proceed to sell by pub - DUn AnD LUIS X. ADvERTISEMEnT ______Certified Check or Money The payment must be days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQ MIN: 1126627 lic auction, on the WASHInGTOn, OR HIS THAT PORTIOn SALE bY Order. No personal Cash, Cashier’s Check, The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil SUCCESSIOn HEIRS OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) Certified Check or Money Cash, Cashier’s Check, $78,312.45 District Court building, ASSIGnS bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn Order. No personal Certified Check or Money Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for nO. 2738 PEnISTOn JUDICIAL Sheriff checks.) Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The Parish of Orleans the First District of the the Parish of Orleans STREET, CITY OF nEW ADvERTISEMEnT ATTy: RACHEL WILLIAMS MARLIn n. GUSMAn checks.) purchaser at the moment City on April 20, 2017, no. 2016-9972 (318) 388-1440 Sheriff ORLEAnS, In THE jD 18 Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn THAT PORTIOn Sheriff of adjudication to make a at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 ATTy: jASON SMITH CASE EnTITLED: Parish of Orleans ______(318) 388-1440 deposit of ten percent of the following described OF FIERI FACIAS OF GROUnD ATTy: DONECIA BANkS-MILEy UnIOn SAvInGS AnD NNB 20 (318) 388-1440 the purchase price, and property to wit: directed to me by the bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 LOAn ASSOCIATIOn SALE bY TW 28 the balance within thirty nO. 605-07 S. ______LOTS C AND PORTION Honorable The Civil vS THADDEUS bAX - ORLEAnS SHERIFF LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: OF ORIGINAL LOT NO. District Court of TER SOLOMOn STREET, SALE bY ______The payment must be 2, SQUARE 354 Orleans, in the above CITY OF nEW JUDICIAL Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money TRICT proceed to sell by pub - CASE EnTITLED: THE JUDICIAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF no. 2016-11781 THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 1026 lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT bAnK OF nEW YORK, ADvERTISEMEnT JUDICIAL checks.) BARTHOLOMEW ground floor of the Civil MELLOn, AS TRUSTEE OF GROUnD OF SEIZURE AnD THAT PORTIOn ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn STREET District Court building, SALE directed to me FOR FIRST HORIZOn bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff ACQUIRED MIN 809121 421 Loyola Avenue, in ALTERnATIvE MORT - nO. 2461 nORTH CLAI - OF GROUnD THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans by the Honorable The ATTy: NICHOLAS GREST WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the Civil District Court of GAGE SECURITIES bORnE AvEnUE, CITY bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF GROUnD (318) 388-1440 $72,543.86 City on April 20, 2017, TRUST 2006-FA8 vS OF nEW ORLEAnS, In nO. 2801 HYMAn bEARInG MUnICIPAL TW 26 Orleans, in the above LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 Seized in the above at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will TROY CHRISTOPHER THE CASE EnTITLED: PLACE, THIS CITY, In nO. 6011 WRIGHT ______suit, TERMS CASH. The the following described proceed to sell by pub - JOHnSOn AnD LIvIA FInAnCE OF AMERICA THE MATTER EnTI - ROAD, CITY OF nEW SALE bY purchaser at the moment property to wit: lic auction, on the KAY MUSE JOHnSOn REvERSE LLC vS TLED FEDERAL ORLEAnS, In THE ORLEAnS SHERIFF of adjudication to make a LOT A, SQUARE 315 ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for MOnSERRATE MOORE nATIOnAL MORTGAGE CASE EnTITLED: CITY deposit of ten percent of FOURTH MUNICIPAL District Court building, the Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for ASSOCIATIOn vS OF nEW ORLEAnS vS JUDICIAL the purchase price, and DISTRICT 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2015-7294 the Parish of Orleans ADAM GARvIS MORIn KIAT vARnISHUnG OR ADvERTISEMEnT the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO. 2236- the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT no. 2015-11273 Civil District Court for HIS SUCCESSORS, THAT PORTIOn days thereafter. (NOTE: 38 SECOND STREET City on April 20, 2017, OF SEIZURE AnD by virtue of a WRIT the Parish of Orleans HEIRS, AnD ASSIGnS The payment must be ACQ. MIN 1211619 at 12:00 o’clock noon, SALE directed to me OF FIERI FACIAS no. 2016-2516 AnD SIRInART OF GROUnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: the following described by the Honorable The directed to me by the by virtue of a WRIT SILACHAIYA vAR - bEARInG MUnICIPAL Certified Check or Money $8,835.00 property to wit: Civil District Court of Honorable The Civil OF SEIZURE AnD nISHUnG AKA SIRI - nO. 3214-16 WASHInG - Order. No personal Seized in the above LOT 1, SQUARE 635, Orleans, in the above District Court of SALE directed to me nART MEnAKARn TOn AvEnUE, nEW checks.) suit, TERMS CASH. The SIxTH MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will Orleans, in the above by the Honorable The Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, LA, In THE MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment TRICT, proceed to sell by pub - entitled cause, I will Civil District Court of the Parish of Orleans MATTER EnTITLED: Sheriff of adjudication to make a MUNICIPAL NO. 2738 lic auction, on the proceed to sell by pub - Orleans, in the above no. 2016-4172 "CITY OF nEW Parish of Orleans ATTy: DONECIA BANkS-MILEy deposit of ten percent of PENISTON STREET ground floor of the Civil lic auction, on the entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS vS ST PAUL (318) 388-1440 the purchase price, and ACQUIRED MIN District Court building, ground floor of the Civil proceed to sell by pub - bAPTIST CHURCH, jD 27 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court building, lic auction, on the LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 the balance within thirty 1088318 Continued on next page InC., bEATRICE JOnES ______the First District of the 421 Loyola Avenue, in ground floor of the Civil Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM March 20 - March 26, 2017

now the jokes on us.

We played Donald Trump cheap, now the joke is on us Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III, is the pro - ducer/ host of the nationally broad - Continued from Page 5 dreams and opportunity… There they lost Ryan,’ Trump continued.” that he would make no decision weights. He worked his magic were other immigrants who came According to PBS, President whether to do things like this, (and Republican thievery) and cast call-in talk radio program “Only 11 percent of coverage here in the bottom of slave ships, Obama did not authorize the and instead that Trump should was elected by employing a “Inside the Issues with Wilmer focused on candidates’ policy posi - worked even longer, even harder raid. It was suggested in early run his own process.” “witches’” brew of bigotry, preju - Leon,” on SiriusXM Satellite radio tions, leadership abilities or per - for less.” Carson tried to “clari - January that the decision be Donald Trump is a man long dice, half-truths and whole lies. channel 126. Go to www.wilmer - sonal and professional histories.” fy” his statement by saying that “deferred to the Trump adminis - regarded as a political clown. We A tactic he continues to employ. leon.com or email: It’s imperative that we clearly anybody who’s come from a for - tration, so they could run their mocked him, scoffed at him and You get what you vote for in [email protected]. understand that this white back - eign place is an immigrant. own careful process. And dismissed him as we dismissed America (or don’t show up to www.twitter.com/drwleon and Dr. lash as Dr. King called it, or pol - Ignoring the fact that Webster President Obama agreed on that, Sarah Palin; the lightest of light - vote for). We played him cheap; Leon’s Prescription at itics of resentment as Dr. Ronald defines “immigrant” as “a person Facebook.com. ◊ Walters called it, is not new. who comes to a country to take up What is the backlash in response permanent residence.” A person to? What is this resentment “comes” to a country based upon directed toward? their free will. Enslaved Africans The answer to the question is did not come to America to take Fakeness, dishonesty and the race card the election of Barack Obama as up permanent residence in pursuit Continued from Page 5 the suggestion that they might them be a part of the Empire. 1860, South Carolina Senator the first African-American of opportunity; they were brought be. Many whites and blacks During the time of the Roman John C. Calhoun who once President of the United States. As to America against their will and re maining silent. reject the term and the charge of Empire, the quest was to take in called slavery “a great good,” Dr. Walters wrote in White worked to death. This, although Russian racism, saying that it is lifted too the “outsiders” without tarnish - argued fiercely against funding Nationalism Black Interests – Trump’s Secretary of Education President Vladimir Putin is no often as an issue. An African ing the quality of the Empire. for public education of people of Conservative Public Policy and Betsy DeVos recently praised friend of the United States, and American in power is just as apt Race and/or ethnic mixing, African descent. He said at that the Black Community , “Within HBCUs as “pioneers” of the Russia has been one of our most to reject the charge of racism as inevitable in a growing world time that “America was built by American society, which includes school choice movement. DeVos formidable enemies. is a white person; Larry power, were inevitable, but not white people for white people.” contending social groups, there ignores the historical reality that There has been little insistence Thompson, an African American wanted; Howard-Brook writes The framers of our Constitution exists a balance of power that in Mississippi, South Carolina, from the Congress for the presi - who served in the Bush White that ethnic mixing led to degen - were never more than a breath conforms to that society’s racial Louisiana and other states it was dent to show his tax returns, or House and who has been as eration and deterioration of the away from considering what to composition.” This balance must illegal to teach and/or allow to investigate why it is this pres - friend of U.S. Attorney General empire.” (p. 17) The targets of do with America’s Black people, conform to the normal distribu - Africans in America — slave or ident seems to have such a love Jeff Sessions for over 30 years, ethnic disdain during that period who were necessary for the tion of power if society is to free — to read. In Virginia, any affair with a country whose said that Sessions “doesn’t have (and for many centuries prior) building of the American econo - remain in equilibrium. President slave or free person of color leader wants to re-establish a racist bone in his body,” in were Jewish people. Howard- my but who could absolutely not Russia as a major world power spite of Sessions’ voting record Brook writes that what we call be considered equal. President Obama, in the minds of a many found at any school for teaching, as it was during the days of which has consistently worked “Christianity” today developed Abraham Lincoln, who freed people became an indicator that reading or writing by day or Presidents Eisenhower and against the interests of African in response against the Jewish slaves in order to have more sol - the normal distribution of power night could be whipped, at the Kennedy. Putin is a man on a Americans. presence. diers to fight for the Union, did was askew and in jeopardy. discretion of a judge, “no more mission and seems to be using And Sheriff Jim Clarke of Christianity became the reli - not consider Blacks to be equal Now this normal distribution of than twenty lashes.” Mississippi the American president as his Milwaukee, has said he is “tired gion of Empire. to whites. Never. power has shifted so far to the state law required a white person main tool to realize and accom - of this race card thing… the Left I am sharing this to suggest So, America needs to stop right that it has placed America to serve up to a year in prison as plish that mission. is out of legitimate excuses for that racism is not a “card;” it is a resisting its history. Americans in jeopardy. President Trump “penalty for teaching a slave to Chief strategist to the presi - wanting some kind of dialogue.. part of the very way we think need to stop talking about allu - recently tweeted, “Terrible! Just read.” The creation of HBCUs dent, Steve Bannon, who many It’s an automatic response to call and breathe. It has been passed sions to race being nonsensical found out that Obama had my had nothing to do with choice believe are manipulating the someone a racist.” down for centuries. It is not and dramatic. Nearly everything “wires tapped” in Trump Tower and everything to do with the president, says that he is an But the fact is that race and its going to go away. America has done, from gerry - just before the victory. Nothing response to slave codes, Jim “economic nationalist.” He is attendant race card is a reality of To ignore its presence and how mandering to making policies found. This is McCarthyism!” Crow laws and state sanctioned careful to emphasize the adjec - American and of European life, it is used is dishonest. As politi - about education and employ - To date Trump has provided no segregation. tive “economic” in his self- and it has been a part of the way cians use dog whistle language, ment and even where people can evidence to substantiate this out - During his first address to the description as a nationalist, as white people think since before such as “affirmative action” or and cannot live, has been based landish claim. But the man who joint session of Congress, Trump opposed to a “white nationalist.” the time of Jesus Christ. “entitlements,” everyone, black on racist beliefs. ran on eliminating “waste, fraud acknowledged the sacrifice of It was his father’s loss of AT&T According to Wes-Hoard Brook, and white, knows what they are Racism is a part of America’s and abuse” is now asking Navy Special Operator Senior stock in 2008 that apparently author of Come Back My People , talking about. Much of what is political and spiritual genetic Congress to open an investigation. Chief William “Ryan” Owens, but solidified Bannon’s worldview, and Empire Baptized , the ideas going on now with the proposed core. Our nation was born in The investigation should begin failed to take responsibility for making him despise and distrust of racial and class superiority of travel ban is in fact an attempt racism, and continues to live in with Congress asking Trump to authorizing the raid in Yemen the “deep state,” and globaliza - those who were a part of the not to protect America from ter - it. We have never been “one present to the public the informa - where he died. In fact, he tried to tion, immigration and the main - Empire are found in the writings rorism, but to shield white nation, under God, with liberty stream media. of Plato, Aristotle, Pliny, and America from the effective and justice for all.” We were tion he used to make his claim. If blame the Obama administration Asked if he was or is a “white other writers. In their day, it “browning” of America as these never meant to be. not, how much tax payer money for authorizing the raid and leaving nationalist,” Bannon, not sur - wasn’t people of African darker-skinned people come into will be wasted researching another it for him to clean up. According prisingly, rejected the notion. descent, but anyone who did not this country. The prediction that The Rev. Susan K Smith is an unsubstantiated claim by Trump? to The Washington Post , In an It is mind-boggling that assimilate into Greek or Roman by 2043 America will no longer ordained minister who lives in The larger problem is it’s not interview with Fox News that aired Bannon, or in fact, many white culture, or the cultures of the be majority-white has shaken Columbus, Ohio. She can be just Trump, it’s also those around Tuesday morning, Trump said the politicians who clearly seem to ruling classes before the Greeks some white nationalists to their reach her by emailing him. Here’s what Trump’s HUD mission “was started before I got be racist by many people of and Romans, were considered bones. [email protected] .◊ Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson, said here.” He went on to say, “This color, so quickly reject the “outsiders.” People needed to White nationalism is part of about enslaved Africans: “That’s was something that was, you know, charge of being racist or even act and live in ways that helped the very fabric of America. In what America is about, a land of just — they wanted to do… ‘And

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Continued from previous page (504) 658-4391 LM 24 certain leasehold build - February 5, 1998, and ances, signs, decora - THE MATTER dated May 29, 1924, COURT. Said lot is des - LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 ings and improvements by assignment of said tions and wall to wall EnTITELD: SUCCES - and according to said ignated by the No. 64 on ______situated in the Seventh lease by Rick & Linda carpeting affixed or SIOn OF MARIE C. plan measures as fol - a plan of Frank H. OF FIERI FACIAS District of the City of Mason Hahn to Glenn A. hereafter affixed to JACOb bREAUX. lows, to-wit: Waddill, Civil Engineer, directed to me by the SALE bY New Orleans, Parish of jacques, dated April 16, floors. Civil District Court for LOT NO. 65 dated May 29, 1924, Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS SHERIFF Orleans, State of 1998, a copy of said Which has the the Parish of Orleans measures thirty feet, annexed to an act District Court of JUDICIAL Louisiana, described as lease, motion and address of 129 N. no. 2009-11910 four inches, three lines passed before E. L. Weil, Orleans, in the above Boathouse No. 127, as assignment being Roadway, New Orleans, by virtue of a WRIT (30’4”3’”) on Notary, on February 1, entitled cause, I will ADvERTISEMEnT shown on a plan of annexed to an Act of LA 70124. OF COURT ORDER Bloomingdale Court, 1927, and measures proceed to sell by pub - THAT PORTIOn Herbert O’Donnell, Civil Deposit by act before WRIT AMOUnT: directed to me by the with a width in the rear according thereto thirty lic auction, on the OF GROUnD Engineer, dated August Conrad A. Buchler, $272,906.17 Honorable The Civil of thirty feet, no inches feet, four inches, three ground floor of the Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL 16, 1960, said leased Notary Public, dated Seized in the above District Court of one line (30’4”1’”), and a lines (30’4”3”’) front on District Court building, nO. 129 n. ROADWAY, site being a part of the February 9, 2000, suit, TERMS CASH. The Orleans, in the above depth on a line dividing Bloomingdale Court, thir - 421 Loyola Avenue, in bOATHOUSE nO. 127, property under the juris - recorded under Notarial purchaser at the moment entitled cause, I will it from Lot No. 64 of sev - ty feet, no inches, one the First District of the CITY OF nEW diction of the City of New Archives and under of adjudication to make a proceed to sell by pub - enty-four feet, four inch - line (30’0”1’”) in width on City on April 20, 2017, ORLEAnS, In THE Orleans and under the Conveyance Office deposit of ten percent of lic auction, on the es, three lines (74’4”3’’) the rear line, by a depth at 12:00 o’clock noon, CASE EnTITLED: bAC control and management Records,, and which the purchase price, and ground floor of the Civil and a depth on a line of seventy-four feet, four the following described HOME LOAnS SERvIC - of the Municipal yacht said leasehold by Glenn the balance within thirty District Court building, dividing it from Lot No. inches, three lines property to wit: InG, LP F/K/A COUn - Harbor Manager, A. jacques to Stacey days thereafter. (NOTE: 421 Loyola Avenue, in 66 of seventy-eight feet, (74’4”3’”) on the dividing LOT 8, SQUARE C, TRYWIDE HOME Department of Property Ring Howat and Dean The payment must be the First District of the two inches, two lines line of Lot 65 and a depth THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - LOAnS SERvICInG, LP Management, based Howat, dated February Cash, Cashier’s Check, City on April 20, 2017, (78’2”2’”). Said lot of seventy feet, six inch - TRICT, vS RICHARD A. GOLD - upon the original Lease 18, 2000, recorded Certified Check or Money at 12:00 o’clock noon, bears the MUNICIPAL es, three lines (70’6”3’”) LAkE FOREST EnbERG. Agreement by and under Notarial Archives Order. No personal the following described NOS. 3424-26 BLOOM - on the dividing line of Lot ESTATES NO. 2 Civil District Court for between the City of New and under Conveyance checks.) property to wit: INGDALE COURT. 63. Said Lot 65 bears MUNICIPAL NO. 6011 the Parish of Orleans Orleans Municipal yacht Office Records. SELL SEPARATELy: -AND- the MUNICIPAL NO. WRIGHT ROAD MARLIn n. GUSMAn no. 2010-7299 Harbor and Rick D. Together with Sheriff A CERTAIN LOT OF A CERTAIN LOT OF 3430 BLOOMINGDALE ACQUIRED MIN Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT Hahn, dated February all buildings and GROUND, together with GROUND, together with COURT. 1187472 ATTy: COREy GIROIR OF SEIZURE AnD SALE 27, 1996, which said improvements, appurte - (225) 756-0373 all the buildings and all the buildings and WRIT AMOUnT: LM 7 directed to me by the lease has an original nances and attach - improvements thereon, improvements thereon, TERMS-CASH . The pur - $21,835.00 LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 Honorable The Civil term of 10 years, com - ments, rents and profits, ______and all the rights, ways, and all the rights, ways, chaser at the moment of Seized in the above District Court of mencing on january 1, rights, ways, privileges, privileges, servitudes, privileges, servitudes, adjudication to make a suit, TERMS CASH. The SALE bY Orleans, in the above 1995, and ending on servitudes, advantages, advantages and pre - advantages and pre - deposit of ten percent purchaser at the moment entitled cause, I will December 31, 2004, for batture and batture ORLEAnS SHERIFF scriptions (both libera - scriptions (both libera - of the purchase price, of adjudication to make a proceed to sell by pub - an annual rental of rights, thereunto belong - JUDICIAL tive and acquisitive) tive and acquisitive) and the balance within deposit of ten percent of lic auction, on the $2,142.40, payable ing or in anywise apper - thereunto belonging or thereunto belonging or thirty days thereafter. the purchase price, and ADvERTISEMEnT ground floor of the Civil annually or in quarterly taining, including all in anywise appertaining, in anywise appertaining, Note; The payment must the balance within thirty District Court building, installments payable in movables now or here - TO bE SOLD situated in the SIxTH situated in the SIxTH be Cash, Cashier’s days thereafter. (NOTE: 421 Loyola Avenue, in advance on january 1st, after forming integral or SEPARATELY DISTRICT of this City, in DISTRICT of this City, in Check, Certified Check The payment must be the First District of the April 1st and October 1st component parts of the BLOOMINGDALE BLOOMINGDALE or Money Order. No Cash, Cashier’s Check, THAT PORTIOn City on April 20, 2017, of each year of the lease attached to or connect - COURT, in the COURT, bounded by the Personal Checks Certified Check or Money at 12:00 o’clock noon, term, which transferred ed with said property or OF GROUnD Subdivision thereof yAZOO & MISSISSIPPI Order. No personal bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn the following described by Rick D. Hahn to used in connection known as BLOOMING - RAILROAD LINE, the Sheriff checks.) nO. 3424-26 bLOOM - Parish of Orleans property to wit: Glenn A. jacques by therewith, including but DALE COURT, said lot ILLINOIS CENTRAL InGDALE COURT AnD ATTy: BELHIA MARTIN MARLIn n. GUSMAn ALL OF THE UNDIVID - virtue of Motion M-98- not limited to, drapes, is designated by the No. RAILROAD LINE, DTD 1 Sheriff ED RIGHTS, title and 3430 bLOOMInGDALE LA. WEEkLy 3/20/2017, 4/17/2017 Parish of Orleans 68, approved by the New blinds, window cover - 65 on a plan of Frank H. AUDUBON COURT, and ______ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS COURT, THIS CITY In interest in and to those Orleans City Council on ings, fixtures, appli - Waddill, Civil Engineer, BLOOMINGDALE Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - March 20 - March 26, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 13

most respectful thing we can do Louisiana should be smarter about for a victim. We don’t have a how it spends money on incarcera - Task force’s plan for prison population reduction time machine — we can’t go tion, and that he wanted to work tice reform given “the current were over the age of 45. budget pressures” that motivated back and undo a crime, but we with members of the task force, the Continued from Page 1 budget climate.” At the time that The LSU study found that over - them to pull for reform. can reduce the likelihood that a state had to be careful about not he wrote the letter, the state’s all, recidivism rates among those “We are committed to using data new crime would occur.” being too lenient on offenders. ulation by nearly 5,500 inmates. budget was $313 million in the red. offenders were 11.2 percent for a and scientific evidence to help The plan also received praise He said that already the state had On last Thursday, Edwards dou - “We must be strategic about our three-year period and 19.8 percent identify ways to improve the func - from the Louisiana Center for done “pretty well” on taking meas - bled down on his mission, calling public safety investments,” the for a five-year period. In other tioning of Louisiana’s sentencing Children’s Rights for its stance ures to reduce the number of nonvi - the state’s incarceration rates “a officials wrote. “While no reform words, just over one-tenth of all and corrections system,” they said. on allowing parole eligibility for olent offenders, and was concerned stain” on the state’s reputation, and package that is developed from this offenders, regardless of the crime Barras further added that since those sentenced to juvenile life that the new proposals would also a “drain” on its communities. work can fix every problem, we or crimes they were accused of, much of low-level drug and prop - without parole. be soft on violent criminals. He said “It’s not a reflection of who we believe the consequences of doing returned to prison within three erty crime is driven by addiction, “In recommending that the state the new plan shouldn’t offer them are and what we stand for,” nothing are too high.” years of release, while nearly one- the state can save millions and also no longer sentence children to die lenient parole eligibility. Edwards said. “We now have a Ultimately, the plan will result in fifth of them returned with five have less crime by focusing prison in prison, the Task Force has rec - “Now we’re suddenly talking roadmap that will allow us to keep a 16 percent drop in community years. beds on “those who pose a more ognized that children are uniquely about going far beyond nonviolent our streets safe while shrinking our supervision population, and result As part of the changes, the task serious public safety threat.” capable of positive change and offenders who are unnecessarily bloated prisons.” in $154 million reinvested into force recommends reducing sen - He also advocated for making should have an opportunity for incarcerated,” Adams said. “We’re The task force, which was ini - research-based programs and serv - tencing for nonviolent offenders. “smart investments” in probation redemption,” Aaron Clark-Rizzio, going to draw the line at violent tially established in 2015, spent a ices that support victims. Instead, the task force said, stake - and drug treatment for those the executive director, said. crime. Going to have to oppose the year meeting and coming up with In the final blueprint, the task holders should focus on alterna - accused of nonviolent crimes. He did add, however, that he proposed release of parole eligibil - recommendations for statutory force cited sobering statistics. In tives to prison, including more pro - The task force has gotten an hopes the legislature will allow ity for violent offenders.” and budgetary changes that 2015, the state had 776 people in bation programming for those con - outpouring of praise and support children to make their first case “We have to make it so there would affect sentencing and cor - prison for every 100,000 resi - victed of more minor crimes. from local and national criminal before a parole board after serving are not bad unintended conse - rections practices. dents, according to the federal The task force also recommended justice reformers. 20, rather than 30, years in prison. quences,” he added. The force had three specific Bureau of Justice Statistics. revising drug penalties to target Craig Deroch, who serves as sen - Other skeptics have been wary of District Attorney Ricky Babin goals, according to the report Nationally, the average rate is higher-level offenses, streamlining ior vice president for advocacy and the comprehensive plan. Some point agreed that the state should, to a released on last Thursday. In 458 prisoners for every 100,000. parole release for those compliant public policy at Prison Fellowship, out that alternatives to incarceration, degree, remain tough on crime. addition to reducing the correc - And most of those inmates had - with the rules and implementing a the nation’s largest outreach to just like incarceration itself, costs “You tell me, when’s enough tions population and associated n’t even been accused of com - felony class system to reduce uncer - prisoners, praised members for money — something that could be enough?” he asked, concerning spending, the task force also mitting violent crimes. In 2015, tainty in sentencing and release. “thinking outside the bars.” hard to scrounge up in Louisiana, leniency for things like property aimed to expand supervision and 81 percent of the state’s prison The plan also calls for clearing “What we’re really trying to do where news of repeated budget short - crimes. “What about a second sentencing practices and reinvest population was made up of non - barriers to successful re-entry, most - here is not just become smarter falls have dominated news cycles . offense? What about a third? What savings to reduce recidivism and violent offenders. ly by easing financial loads for those but become smarter on crime but Pete Adams, the executive direc - about someone who’s committed improve reentry outcomes. In looking to other states, mem - who have entered the criminal jus - we’re trying to increase public tor of Louisiana District Attorneys’ 27, 28 burglaries? Do we put those To come up with the plan, an bers of the task force found that in tice system, and strengthening com - safety,” Deroch said. “That’s the Association, also said that while in prison? That’s nonviolent.”◊ inter-branch, bipartisan panel of 2014, Louisiana sent nearly three munity supervision by reducing experts looked to other states, like times as many nonviolent offend - maximum probation terms. Texas, Georgia and Alabama, all ers to prison as Florida did, despite Many of the recommendations of which have adopted data-driv - the fact that the two states had are expected to be introduced en policy changes. comparable crime rates. into this legislative session. How to reverse incarceration in La. than half the amount given to prose - programs save money, reduce the Task force participants includ - Experts have said recidivism According to the task force, sav - Continued from Page 1 cutors. When people get constitu - number of people returning to jail ed members of legislature as rates, too, are disturbingly high. ings in 2018 alone would exceed times higher than their population. tional defense they usually are less and help people become self-suffi - well as Public Defender James In 2014, the Crime and Policy $9 million, if the comprehensive Black prisoners make up 91 percent likely to be convicted and if convict - cient members of society. Dixon, of the Louisiana Public Evaluation Research Group with - plans were followed. of the people sentenced to life with - ed receive less harsh sentences. Twelv e. Make it easier to Defender Board, and Department in Louisiana State University’s Acknowledging lengthy sen - out parole for non-violent offenses Seven .Like the other 48 states, expunge criminal convictions so of Corrections Secretary James Department of Sociology exam - tences and high recidivism rates, and are 23 times more likely than require Louisiana juries to come to people who made mistakes can LeBlanc. ined recidivism rates among a Senate President John Alario, whites to be sentenced to life with - unanimous decisions. Non-unani - start rebuilding their lives. In a joint letter to other members specific group of offenders who Speaker of the House Taylor out parole for a non-violent crime. mous juries allow many more peo - Thirteen . Return the max - of the task force, Edwards and had received a sentence of 30 Barras, and Chief Justice Three . Let people out ple to be convicted and they arise imum prison sentence in LeBlanc said that the timing was years or more, had served at least Bernette Johnson stressed in a of jail while they are waiting for from a serious racist history. Louisiana to 10 years and six particularly ripe for criminal jus - 20 years of that sentence and joint letter that it wasn’t “just trial unless they are a danger to Eight .Reform sentencing laws. months if the prisoner maintains society or a flight risk and don’t The Louisiana Pelican Institute for a good conduct record. put people in jail if they are too Public Policy called for eliminat - Louisiana has 4,860 offenders poor to pay a fine. As the Civil ing mandatory minimums for non- incarcerated for life, the highest LSP chief retires amid controversy Rights Corps has documented, violent offenses as other states rate in the nation. Louisiana also Continued from Page 1 Black residents and civil rights visiting New Orleans to study the people held in jail awaiting trial, have already done. This could has the highest number of pris - advocates argued that Louisiana city’s architecture. or sent to jail if they are too poor save the state $100 million. oners serving life without parole state troopers were not a good fit New Orleans Mayor Mitch to pay court fines and fees lose Louisiana, have sought Col. Prohibit the use of habitual offend - for non-violent offenses. for New Orleans, whose police Landrieu and NOPD Supt. Michael their jobs, kids, apartments and Edmonson’s counsel on numerous er laws against non-violent offend - Why don’t legislators take department is under a federally Harrison issued a statement their ability to support themselves. occasions, and he has provided ers as suggested by the Louisiana these steps? Many say they fear mandated consent decree aimed Wednesday that said, “Under his Four . Expand pre-trial diver - leadership and support when Legislative Auditor. voters might think they are soft at ensuring that the troubled leadership, the Louisiana State sion for non-violent offenders and we’ve needed it most. Nine . Offer rehabilitation pro - on crime. As international politi - NOPD become compliant with Police and the New Orleans Police keep them out of the criminal “Since taking office, I have relied grams inside every jail and allow cian Jean-Claude Juncker said federal standards for constitu - Department have benefited from legal system as the American Bar on the men and women of the every prisoner to participate. wisely, “We all know what to do, tional policing. an effective, healthy partnership. Association suggests. Louisiana State Police more than I Ten . Let older prisoners out of we just don’t know how to get That point was driven home dur - We wish him all the best in his Five . Prohibit local sheriffs would have liked, but I am proud jail — they are much less likely to re-elected after we’ve done it.” ing the 2014 Carnival season when future endeavors.” from holding arrested or convict - to say that they have some of the commit crimes. The Louisiana But if Louisiana would take two 17-year-olds, Ferdinand Hunt Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell ed prisoners from outside their most skilled and dedicated individ - Department of Public Safety and even half of these steps, maybe and Sidney Newman, were physi - Normand praised Edmonson for parish, thus removing the cash uals serving in their ranks. Much Corrections reported there are we wouldn’t always be first in cally assaulted by plainclothes being a steady, reliable leader in incentives for keeping high num - of their success is due to Col. 7,492 prisoners in Louisiana who being last. state troopers as they stood in the law enforcement for sheriff’s bers of people in jail. Edmonson’s innovative thinking are already over the age of 50. French Quarter after a parade wait - offices and police departments Six .Give equal resources to and concern for our state.” Eleven . Invest in re-entry Bill Quigley teaches at Loyola ing on one of the teens’ mother, across the state since becoming public defenders and prosecutors. Edmonson, 58, was tapped to lead release support programs for every University New Orleans College NOPD Officer Betty Hunt, to bring LSP chief in 2008. Nationwide, public defense gets less the Louisiana State Police by former person released from prison. These of Law. ◊ them a meal. The entire incident Louisiana Gov. John Bel Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. He was caught on video surveillance Edwards allowed Edmonson to holds the distinction of being the and the state troopers left the scene remain in his post as LSP chief longest-serving LSP superintendent after Officer Hunt approached after the private Louisiana State in state history after a nine-year stint them and identified herself as Troopers Association, comprised as the state’s top cop. Ferdinand Hunt’s mother. of many of Edmonson’s employ - “I have decided that it is in the While New Orleans Mayor ees, endorsed Edwards in the 2015 best interests of the state that I Mitch Landrieu said it was an LSP gubernatorial race. retire from my position as deputy issue and not an NOPD incident, After learning that the LSTA had secretary of public safety and video footage clearly showed a inappropriately contributed to the superintendent of State Police,” white female NOPD officer direct - political campaigns of Edwards Edmonson said in a statement ing the plainclothes state troopers and other candidates in 2014 and Wednesday. “The governor has to confront the teens. 2015, the state Ethics Board fined never asked that I step down. Ultimately, the two teens’ fami - the association $5,000. “I recognize that the Louisiana lies filed formal complaints with Individual state troopers are not State Police is bigger than any one the U.S. Department of Justice. allowed to make political contribu - person,” he added. “It is certainly After the incident, the mayor was tions. Nola.com reported that when bigger than Mike Edmonson.” invited by civil rights and grass - Edwards discovered that he had The retirement announcement roots organizations to discuss the been the recipient of inappropriate comes as a surprise to some since problem of racial profiling in New campaign contributions, he Edmonson told Nola.com/The Orleans. Instead, the mayor held returned the association’s money Times-Picayune in a March 11 his own meeting at an uptown New The Advocate reported that feder - interview that he had “not offered Orleans church to promote his al investigators have presented a to resign or retire, nor have not NOLA for Life initiative on the series of grand jury subpoenas to been asked to do so.” same date and at the same time. the LTSA’s board of directors relat - Edmonson, who often boasted Racial profiling continued to be ed to its campaign contributions. about running a tight ship, was the an issue in New Orleans after The New Orleans Advocate target of harsh criticism in 2014 trumpeter Shamarr Allen was reported that two days before when the Louisiana Legislature stopped on his way from a late- Edmonson announced his retire - increased the retirement benefits night gig by state troopers looking ment, a state lawmaker asked the of Edmonson and another LSP for an escaped prisoner in the legislative auditor to probe nine employee by a combined Lower Ninth Ward. Allen said he years’ worth of Louisiana State $300,000. Despite a budgetary was roughed up by the troopers Police financial records to deter - crisis, the legislature approved the and thrown to the ground. mine whether there were any bill, which contained a secretive At least two federal lawsuits were spending improprieties or misallo - amendment hiking the benefits, in filed against the Louisiana State cations of public funds. the final hours before the session Police last year. One involved a Rafael Goyeneche, executive came to an end. barber who says he was detained, director of the Metropolitan Crime As pressure mounted, Edmonson questioned and assaulted by state Commission, told Nola.com that ultimately backed away and reject - troopers as he sat outside his bar - Col. Edmonson’s decision to retire ed the increased benefits package. bershop in the CBD. The troopers is “about a variety of things, some As head of the LSP, Edmonson said they were responding to a of which have been made public, was often seen assuring local resi - report that there were four males some of which are not public yet.” dents that law and order would pre - driving around in the area waving “There is nothing that I’m afraid vail during major tourist events in guns out of a car window. of coming out,” Edmonson told New Orleans with elected officials The second incident involved a reporters Wednesday. “The truth is using LSP officers to shore up the 17-year-old college student who the truth, and those things will hap - undermanned New Orleans Police was stopped, detained and ques - pen regardless. I’m very confident Department during annual events tioned by police as he stood in the in my tenure as superintendent. like the Bayou Classic, Mardi Gras French Quarter talking with his “This organization will survive and New Year’s festivities. father on his cellphone. The teen, anything, even the things yet to However, some of the city’s his father and other students were come.” ◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM March 20 - March 26, 2017 Music festivals on the horizons… By Geraldine Wyckoff “To Ray, With Love.” The per - events, takes place at the same ning at 4 pm. Sunday’s perform - Contributing Writer formance in Washington Square locale on Tuesday, April 4. It will ance will be the series’ final Park, a peaceful, grassy area feature a tribute by jazz vocalist show until next fall when it con - Happy Musical Days of the located in the bustling Frenchmen Chris Walker to the legendary tinues its celebration of New Week Street music district, will naturally vocalist Al Jarreau, who passed Orleans traditional jazz. This “Ray Charles is the total be somewhat smaller in scope (a away on February 17, 2017. The spring, the kid-friendly, Nickel- embodiment of everything that big, but not a 17-piece band, no NOLA Big Band will also be on A-Dance has presented some African music is and of what it tuxedos or white table cloths). It hand for this show as well. Acts excellent ensembles so catch it means to be a true American will, however, boast the heart of earlier that afternoon include the while you can. Mondays will artist,” declares Davell Crawford . what made the Tip’s show so Glen Hall Band, Hot 8 Brass always remain special for its The pianist and vocalist will pay memorable — Davell’s approach Band and DJ Captain Charles. tradition of red beans and rice tribute to the legendary musician to Charles’ classics like “I’m Tuesday might seem like an odd and music as heard by trum - peter/vocalist James Andrews at the Ooh Poo Pah Doo bar. As Kermit Ruffins sang, “Happy Monday, happy Tuesday, happy Wednesday… We have to live life good and swing those happy weekday blues.” JONI SLEDGE David L. Harris Blues I Felt (DLEE Productions) Trombonist and vocalist David L. Harris jumps off aggressively We Are Family singer to open his debut album as leader on Blues I Fel t. The tune, “Pisces’ Dream,” one of seven Joni Sledge died of originals, certainly demands atten - tion with his excellent bandmates, pianist Shea Pierre , bassist Jasen Weaver and drummer Miles natural causes Labat complimenting Harris’ By Stacy M. Brown and of Bethune-Cookman enthusiasm by adding their very Contributing Writer College, where she was a person - individual accents. Pierre, brilliant al protégé of founder Mary throughout the disc, makes a (The Washington Informer) – McCloud Bethune. Photo by Demian Roberts strong statement with a light and Joni Sledge, the second-eldest An accomplished lyric-opera DAVELL CRAWFORD fleeting touch. Weaver’s bass is at sister in the hit pop group Sister soprano in her own right, once rhythmic and lyrical with Sledge, died of a preexisting Williams provided unique vocal on Tuesday, March 21, at the new, Busted” and an emotionally deliv - day of the week for a music festi - Labat offering perfect support. medical condition, according to training to the siblings early on, free Washington Square Park ered “Georgia,” complimented by val but maybe it was just lonely. This is just plain solid TMZ. Sledge passed away at arranging for her granddaughters Music Festival backed by the fine arrangements by Crawford After all, Wednesday has The quartet does a good job on home in Phoenix, Ariz., on to perform at church events and NOLA Big Band , a cream-of-the- and Paulin. Wednesdays at the Square series classics like James Moody’s and Friday, March 10. She was 60 community functions. crop, New Orleans all-star ensem - Crawford and company close presented by the Young Eddie Henderson’s swinging years old. The quartet, introduced to the ble. The group includes drummer out the evening taking the stage at Leadership Council at Lafayette “Moody’s Mood for Love,” on On March 14, the gossip website world as “Mrs. Williams’ Herlin Riley , bassist Chris 5:30 p.m. and performing until 7 Square. This week the free show which Harris gets in the groove reported that her doctor “signed of Granddaughters,” before long, Severin, saxophonists Roderick p.m. The music begins at 3 p.m. kicks off at 5 p.m. with Daria & on vocals, improvising with on ‘natural causes’” and no autop - formed a band and, with Debbie Paulin, Roger Lewis and Khari with the Old Man River Band the Hip Drop s, a unique group rhythm and humor. It’s on sy would be performed. serving as vocal arranger, Joni as Lee Allen , trombonist Terrance featuring Sherman Bernard fol - led by steel pan player, vocalist Harris’ originals, however, that A statement issued by the fam - artistic director, and Mom, Taplin , trumpeter Glen Hall and lowed by the Treme Brass Band and composer the energetic Daria the trombonist and the band real - ily asked for prayer for “the loss Florez as manager, Sister Sledge more plus vocalists. Few of those (4 p.m.), Slick Lee (4:50 p.m.) Dzurik . A student of the steel ly shines. “DJ’s Induction” takes of our sister, mother, aunt, niece was born. in attendance will ever forget and NOLA Big Band featuring pans in both high school and at off flying in unison with Harris and cousin Joni Sledge.” The Grammy-nominated “We when Davell, a musical kindred the Sleeping Giant (5:15 p.m.). Florida State University, Daria leading the soaring formation. The statement continued: “We Are Family,” released in 1979, spirit of Charles in passion, range The second edition of the brings both the Pierre, again, astonishes with his thank you for privacy as we hurt for peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100; and style, honored Charles at Washington Square Park Music Trinidadian/Caribbean rhythmic piano wizardry that is driven by her presence, but also for embracing the song also topped the R&B Tipitina’s when, in 2002, he pre - Festival, which organizers hope groove to her sets as well as a the top-notch rhythm section. her radiance and the sincerity with and disco charts and was a rally - sented a particularly classy show, to make a regular series of modern take on the music. In Harris demonstrates his ability to which she loved life.” ing cry for the 1979 Pittsburgh other words, she’s good and fun. express a ballad’s inner workings Sister Sledge formed in 1971 and Pirates Major League Baseball Fiddler and vocalist Amanda – its moodiness, lightheartedness went on to record such hits as “We team that won the World Series. Shaw closes out the free event. and lyrical qualities – on “The Are Family,” “He’s the Greatest The album of the same name Thursday evenings will soon Point to See.” Dancer,” “Frankie” and more. reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200. be when folks head to The title cut, “Blues I Felt,” The sisters, Debbie, Joni, and “Recording the track ‘We Are An Opera in Jazz: Armstrong Park for Jazz in the lives up to its name in style and Kim (sister Kathy stepped away Family’ was like a one-take party Park while weekends in New spirit presented by a band that from the ensemble in 1989), are – we were just dancing and play - Orleans, well anything goes. seemingly takes nothing for daughters of entrepreneur and ing around and hanging out in That includes, of course, the granted – no same old, same actress Florez Sledge and the studio when we did it,” Terence Blanchard’s Sunday afternoon social aid and old. It’s a fitting way to finish acclaimed Broadway performer Sledge once recalled in an inter - pleasure club parades and the off a fine album by players who Edwin Sledge. view with The Guardian . Nickel-A-Dance series at the should and can be experienced Their grandmother, Viola Joni is survived by her son, Champion Mason. This week it features now and will certainly be heard Beatrix Hairston Williams, was Thaddeus, and sisters Debbie, By K.P. Williams drummer Frank Oxley begin - from in the future.◊ an alumna of the Juilliard School Kim and Kathy.◊ Contributing Writer

Pop, Rock, Jazz, and Classical. These are all separate genres of music. But what happens when you put two of them together? You get “opera in jazz” rather than “jazz opera,” according to jazz musician and opera composer Terence Blanchard, who is the for - mer Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Artistic Director. Blanchard is also a jazz trumpeter TERENCE BLANCHARD from New Orleans who has over others throughout different walks 20 albums to his credit, won three of life could bring a compelling Grammy’s and written music for concern and light on an issue that many of Spike Lee’s films. many other people still struggle Blanchard just premiered his first with today,” said Blanchard. opera, (the opera’s second produc - Telling this ambitious story of tion run), “Champion,” the story of humanity, tragedy and redemp - former Welterweight Boxing tion, through voice and music was Champion Emile Griffith and his new for Blanchard. Even though life-defining fight with reigning he’s been a jazz musician for over Welterweight Champion Benny thirty-six years, working with “The Kid” Paret. vocals is a new undertaking. In March 1962, Griffith and Paret Blanchard said he doesn’t feel like went toe to toe in a fight that ended he’s made the transition from jazz with Paret in a coma for ten days, musician to opera composer yet, then dying from injuries he sus - but he’s been learning a lot from tained during the fight. In talented and experienced people in “Champion,” we get inside the that world. However, Blanchard mind of a tortured man reliving the said the most rewarding part in fight that forever changed his getting to compose this “opera in career, along with his public battle jazz” was going from the opera in of being a bisexual man of color his mind for two years, to “actual - in the 60’s. Being a big fan of ly watching it come to life with the boxing and hearing about the actors and the cast.” nature of Griffith and his story, Blanchard said that he wants compelled Blanchard to choose audiences to understand Griffith “Champion” as his first opera. was a human being just like any The line, “I kill a man and most other human being and we have forgive me, I love a man and the same issues then as we do now. many say this makes me an evil Blanchard is already working on person,” famously said by Griffith his next opera based off the mem - in the book, A Man’s World: The oirs of New York Times writer, Double Life of Emile Griffith by Charles M. Blow, entitled, Fire Donald McRae, is one of the lines Shut Up in My Bones . Blanchard is that drew Blanchard to his story. sure to weather the waters of opera “Having a boxer or an athlete just like he has jazz.◊ who has the same struggle as many