Volume 3 Issue 8 February

Centennial Anniversary of Rosa Parks Birth (1913-2013) The February 1 - February 14, 2013

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Under New Ownership 775 Baldwin Road in Pontiac- Next to Sav-Plus See Our Grand Opening Specials On Page 3 Special Edition – Part 1 Centennial U.S. Rep. Gary Peters Proudly Helps Announce Anniversary of 400 New Middle-Class GM Jobs in Pontiac Rosa Parks Birth (1913-2013) Peters worked to secure loans necessary to help to secure a brighter future for our auto industry. our auto manufacturers survive, grow and create jobs Because of everyone’s commitment to the Greater Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute of Self Pontiac, MI - Today U.S. Congressman Gary Detroit region's auto industry, I'm optimistic that Development (www.rosaparks.org) Peters joined officials from GM to proudly announce we'll continue to see positive job growth in 2013.” founded by Rosa Parks and Elaine Eason that General Motors will add 400 new jobs at their When the recession hit and it looked like our auto Global Powertrain Engineering Headquarters in manufacturers might not survive, Congressman Steele will celebrate the centennial anniver- Pontiac. The facility currently employs about 3,500 Peters worked with President Obama and leaders in sary of Rosa Parks birth, February 4, 2013 workers. Congress to ensure that GM received the loans at the Charles H. Wright Museum of the “I want to thank GM for making an investment in needed to survive. Today, because of the sacrifices African American History, 315 E. Warren, the future of Pontiac by adding 400 good paying from both the company and its workers, we are Detroit, MI 48201 by unveiling the middle-class jobs,” said U.S. Rep. Gary Peters. “Four seeing a resurging American auto industry - and with Rosa Parks U.S. Postage Stamp. years ago, when it looked like announcements like it, thousands of jobs have been created across the Gary Peters today’s were a thing of the past, we worked together Greater Detroit region. Continues Page 2 All New Buick Encore is Here GM employee discount now extended to Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews

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The Pontiac News is proud to present this Black History Month Special Edition – Part One. This issue recognizes the contribution of The Rosa Parks the Mother of The Civil Rights Movement. We have also included several articles and documents listing a few of the contribu- Pontiac News tions made by African- Americans and Africa to the World and PUBLISHER & CONTENT EDITOR CIRCULATION MANAGER: America. TPN recognizes the positive contributions made to the City R. Frank Russell Rahim Russell of Pontiac by retiring Pastor Ernest Johnson Sr. during the past 50+ CONTENTS & NEWS EDITOR: OFFICE MANAGER: years. I also personally thank Pastor Johnson his current wife Ruby, Elaine Smith-Wright Mary C. Russell past wife Laura (deceased) and his sons for helping me along my AFRICIAN CORRESPONDENT: DESIGNER & PRINTER: life’s journey. Kofi Annorh Michigan Web Press Black History Month Edition – Part Two will hit the streets on CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: CONTACT INFO: February 15, 2013. This edition will focus on the political, religious, Elaine Smith-Wright, TELEPHONE: 248-758-1411 educational, athletic, artistic, musical contributions made by African- Rev. James Keys, Quincy Stewart III, FAX: 248-758-1412 Randolph Carter, Kevin McCormick, PO Box 431412, Suite #1 American organizations, families and individuals to the city, state, Adam Polk, Brenda Canty-Carter Pontiac, MI 48343 country and the world. You can contribute to this effort by Kenny Anderson, Kathleen O'Quinn purchasing an ad, submitting photos or articles. Please call 248-758- PHOTOGRAPHER: TBD www.thepontiacnews.com 1411 or email [email protected] for more information. [email protected] Publisher R. Frank Russell ADVERTISING MANAGER: TBD Centennial Anniversary of Rosa Parks Birth (1913-2013) Continued from Page 1 the United States. Distinguished as the “mother of the modern civil rights move- Postal officials will be present to sell the ment,” she has been recognized with many historical stamp immediately following the awards including Honorary Doctorate brief 7:30am program. Ms. Mildred Gaddis, Degrees, the NAACP Spingarn Award, the Radio One Talk Show Personality, 1200 AM President’s Medal of Freedom and the and 99.1 FM will Guest Host the program Congressional Gold Medal of Honor to name with her live broadcast from 6-10am. Mr. a few. She was the first woman and the Chuck Stokes, Editorial Director of WXYZ- second African American to lie in honor in TV/Channel 7 since 1987, an ABC affiliate the United States Capitol Rotunda where and moderator and producer of Spotlight on thousands paid tribute. the News is the Master of Ceremonies. This year, Rosa Parks, will become the The celebration is Free and open to the first person commissioned by Congress for a public. full-size statue since the 1870’s, whose like- Rosa Parks’ refusal to give her seat to a ness was authorized by a special act of white male passenger December 1, 1955 and Congress. Her life of pride, dignity and her subsequent arrest was the catalyst that courage will forever permeate the Institute Pastor Ernest Johnson retires from New Era began the 381 day boycott, December 5, she founded and the world. 1955 which changed the course of history in Missionary Baptist Church after 40 years of Service Inside This Issue of Kenneth R. Burch, Sr. P.C. PontiacThe News Editorial – Rosa Parks ...... 2 Attorney At Law Pastor Johnson - Burch Ad Young Gifted and Black Series . . . . .3 PERSONAL INJURY African American Firsts ...... 4 What’s Happening Oakland County . . 5 Auto and Truck Accidents Africa’s Contribution to ...... 6 Wrongful Death Cases Western Civilization Students Attend Rosa Parks Medical Malpractice • Premises Liability Celebration ...... 7 WE HAVE MOVED Obama Inauguration ...... 8 All accident and serious injuries See New Address Below Lafayette Place Lofts & Market . . . . .9 OCEDC ...... Office - 248-338-1242 Lafayette Place ...... 10 Sports ...... 11 Fax - 248-338-1051 Ask Elaine & Mike Reed ...... 12 Email - [email protected] Black Women’s Contributions . . . . .14 Community Events ...... 15 295 West Huron - Pontiac, MI 48341 Golling Ad ...... 16 A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR February 1 - February 14, 2013 The Pontiac News Page 3 African American youth invents surgical technique at age 14 Young, Gifted and Black Series By Taki S. Raton

He is young, he is gifted and he is Black. At the age of 14, Tony Hansberry II certainly holds grounded status in the league of exceptional youth. “Tony Hansberry II isn’t waiting to finish medical school to contribute to improved medical care. He has already The Best Wings in Town developed a stitching technique that can be Breakfast Special used to reduce surgical complications, as well as the chance of error among less expe- rienced surgeons,” writes Jackie Jones in BlackAmericaWeb.com on June 16, 2009. “The project I did was basically the comparison of novel laparoscopic instru- ments in doing a hysterectomy repair,” 2 eggs, choice of meat, Chicken Wings reveals Hansberry. the age of 16, the January 25, 2011 hashbrowns & toast 5 piece At the time, Hansberry was a high school Jacksonville.com blog reports that freshman at the Darnell-Cookman Hansberry was one of nine youth who were Middle/High School of the Medical Arts in selected to travel to Washington that $ 99 $ 99 Jacksonville, Florida, a special medical February to present the Boy Scouts of magnet school that allows its students to America Report to the Nation to President 2 With Coupon • Expires 2-28-13 With Coupon2 • Expires 2-28-13 take advanced classes in medicine. Barack Obama. Informational documents cite that students District director for the Boy Scouts of at the school are able to master suturing in America Lawrence Norman in the Coney Island Mediterranean Food! eighth grade. Suturing is the surgical Jacksonville report said that when district stitching of a wound. leaders were asked to recommend an exem- The son of a registered nurse and an plary Scout, “Tony’s name kept coming up.” Hot Dog African Methodist Episcopal church pastor, Hansberry was also introduced at the the Darnell-Cookman student said that “I annual meeting of the North Florida Council just want to help people and be respected, of The Boy Scouts at the University of North knowing that I can save lives.” His goal is to Florida on January 25, 2011. Shish Kabob, Rice, become a neurosurgeon. According to Jacksonville writer Justin Jones reports that the idea for his unique Sacharoff, the Boy Scouts of America Stew & Salad procedure was conceived during the summer Report to the Nation features the year’s of 2008 while enrolled as an intern at the achievements including national service, ¢ $ 99 University of Florida ’s Center for conservation, healthy living and community Simulation Education and Safety Research involvement. 99 7 at Shands Hospital in Jacksonville. The Darnell-Cookman Middle/ High With Coupon • Expires 2-28-13 With Coupon • Expires 2-28-13 It was noted that Hansberry responded to School of the Medical Arts is a school a challenge to improve a procedure called within the Duval County Public Schools Mexican Food! Mexican Food! the “endo stitch” used in hysterectomies that system in Jacksonville. It is a National Blue could not be clamped down properly to Ribbon School and also an “A” school in the close the tube where the patient’s uterus had State of Florida school grading system. been. Using a medical dummy, the 14-year- The school had its beginnings nearly 200 old devised a vertical way to apply the endo years ago when Methodist minister stitch, completing the stitching in a third of Reverend S.B. Darnell moved to the time of traditional surgery. Jacksonville to serve as pastor of Ebenezer “It took me a day or two to come up with Methodist- Episcopal Church. In the late the concept,” Hansberry said in the Jones 1800s, he founded the Cookman Institute. It Tacos Menudo interview. was the first school of higher education for He was supervised by urogynecologist African Americans in the state of Florida ¢ $ 99 Dr. Brent Siebel and Bruce Nappi, adminis- specializing in the religious and academic trative director of the Center for Simulation preparation of teachers. 99 7 Education and Safety Research. Hansberry’s Under the leadership of Darnell, the With Coupon • Expires 2-28-13 With Coupon • Expires 2-28-13 accomplishment, it is reported, won second school served thousands of young Black place in the medical category regional men and women until it was destroyed in the science fair in February 2009. Great Jacksonville Fire of 1901. The “Education experts say that youngsters Reverend Alfred Cookman, a close friend of as young as 10 can experience great Reverend Darnell, helped raise the money to achievement at an early age if their thirst for rebuild the school. Today, Darnell-Cookman knowledge is encouraged and they are given School of the Medical Arts has an enroll- opportunities to shadow professionals and ment upwards of 1,100 students in grades 6- get internships,” as quoted by Jones. 12. The first graduating class will receive In April of 2009, Hansberry presented his their diplomas in the spring of 2012. findings at a medical conference at the This “Young, Gifted and Black” series is University of Florida before an audience of proud to present its first writing during this Under New Ownership doctors and board-certified surgeons. 2012 February Black History Month by Medical lead teacher Angela Tenbroeck is sharing the exemplary modeled accomplish- American - Mediteranian – Mexican quoted noting that in many ways, Hansberry ment of Tony Hansberry II. But in reality, is a typical student, but that he is way ahead Hansberry’s achievement historically in our Coney’s – Gyro’s – Shish Kabos of his classmates when it comes to surgical communities is really not unusual or skills. extraordinary for our African American Breakfast at Anytime “I would put him up against a first-year students when they are taught, groomed and med student. He’s an outstanding young culturally inspired in an academically 775 Baldwin Road in Pontiac- Next to Sav-Plus man and I am proud to have him repre- senting us,” she says. As an 11th- grader at See Youth on page 7 248-858-2291 A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR Page 4 The Pontiac News February 1 - February 14, 2013 101 African American Firsts The following list provides the names of the first African Americans • Woman astronaut: Mae Jemison, 1992. • Professional Race Car Driver: Rajo Jack De Soto, 1923 in a variety of areas of achievement in government, law, diplomacy, the • President of the American Medical Association: Lonnie Bristow, • Olympic gold medalist (Summer games; individual): military, science and medicine, sports, literature, and other fields. 1995 DeHart Hubbard, 1924. • Space Shuttle Commander: Frederick D. Gregory, 1998. • Major league baseball player: Jackie Robinson, 1947. African-American Firsts: Government • Woman gold medalist (Summer games; individual): • Officeholder in colonial America: Matthias de Souza, 1641 African-American Firsts: Scholarship Alice Coachman, 1948. • State elected official: Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1836. • College graduate (B.A.): Alexander Lucius Twilight, 1823. • NFL quarterback: Willie Thrower, 1953. •Municipal elected official: John Mercer Langston, 1855. • Graduate of an Ivy League School: Theodore Sedgewick Wright, • Wimbledon tennis champion: Althea Gibson, 1957. • County sheriff: Walter Burton, 1869. 1828 • NHL hockey player: Willie O'Ree, 1958, Boston Bruins. • State Supreme Court Justice: Jonathan Jasper Wright, 1870. • College professor: Charles Lewis Reason, 1849. • NASCAR stock car driver to win a major race: • City mayor: Robert Wood, 1870. • Woman to graduate from a college: Lucy Stanton, 1850. Wendell Oliver Scott, 1963. • U.S. Representative: Joseph Rainey,1870. • College president: Daniel A. Payne, 1856. • Male tennis champion: Arthur Ashe, 1968. • U.S. Senator (appointed): Hiram Revels, 1870. • Non-white public high school: Paul Lawrence Dunbar High, 1870. • Professional Bowlers Association Champion: George Branham III, • Governor (appointed): P.B.S. Pinchback, 1872. • Ph.D.: Edward A. Bouchet, 1876. . 1985 • Person to run for the presidency: George Edwin Taylor, 1904. • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa: George Washington Henderson, 1877. • Olympic medalist (Winter games): Debi Thomas, 1988. • Woman legislator: Crystal Bird Fauset, 1938. • Rhodes scholar: Alain L. Locke, 1907. • Golf champion: Tiger Woods, 1997. • U.S Senator (elected): Edward Brooke, 1966. • Women Ph.D's: Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and • Chess Grandmaster: Maurice Ashley, 1999 • U.S. cabinet member: Robert C. Weaver, 1966. Eva Beatrice Dykes, 1921. • Olympic gold medalist (Winter games): Vonetta Flowers, 2002. • Mayor of major city: Carl Stokes, 1967. •Ivy League University president: Ruth Simmons, 2001. • Olympic gold medalist (Winter games; individual): • Woman U.S. Representative: Shirley Chisholm, 1969. Shani Davis, 2006. • Woman cabinet officer: Patricia Harris, 1977. African-American Firsts: Art and Literature • Governor (elected): L. Douglas Wilder, 1989. • Poet: Lucy Terry: 1746. African-American Firsts: Religion •Woman mayor of a major U.S. city: Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, • Published autobiography: Briton Hammon, 1760. • Baptist Church: David George and the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, 1991. • Poet (published): Phillis Wheatley, 1773. 1773. • Woman U.S. Senator: Carol Mosely Braun, 1992. • Recognized artist: Joshua Johnston, 1790, portraiture. • African Episcopal (AME) Church: Mother Bethel AME Church, • U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, 2001. • Woman's autobiography: Jarena Lee, 1831. 1794. • Woman Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, 2005. • Male Novelist: William Wells Brown, 1853. • Church-Sponsored African American College: • Major party nominee for President: Sen. Barack Obama, 2008. • Woman novelist: Harriett Wilson, 1859. Wilberforce University, 1856. • U.S. President: Barack Obama, 2009. • Recognized photographer: James Conway Farley, 1885 • Episcopal Church Bishop: James Theodore Holly, 1879 • Pulitzer prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950. • Pentecostal Faith Revival: William J. Seymour and the Azusa African-American Firsts: Law • Pulitzer prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970. Street Revival, 1906. • Admitted to the Bar: Macon B. Allen, 1845. • Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976. • National Black Catholic Fraternal Order: Knights of • Woman admitted to the bar: Charlotte Ray, 1872. • Nobel Prize for Literature winner: Toni Morrison, 1993. St. Peter Claver, 1909. • Elected municipal judge: Mifflin W. Gibbs, 1873 •Woman Poet Laureate: Rita Dove, 1993. • Woman Bishop in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church: • Editor, Harvard Law Review: Charles Hamilton Houston, 1919. Barbara Harris, 1989. • Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie, 1946. African-American Firsts: Newspapers and Other Print Media • Woman Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) • Woman federal judge: Constance Baker Motley, 1966. • Newspaper: Freedom's Journal, 1827. Church: Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 2000. • U.S. Supreme Court Justice: Thurgood Marshall, 1967. • Daily newspaper: New Orleans Tribune, 1864. • President of the Southern Baptist Convention: Fred Luter, Jr., 2012 • President of the American Bar Association: Dennis Archer, 2002. • Mass Circulation Magazine: Ebony, 1945 African-American Firsts: Business and Labor African-American Firsts: Diplomacy African-American Firsts: Music and Dance • Landowners: Anthony and Mary Johnson, 1640. • U.S. ambassador: Ebenezer D. Bassett, 1869. • Published musical composition: Francis Johnson, 1817. • Black-owned insurance company: The African Insurance Company, • Nobel Peace Prize winner: Ralph J. Bunche, 1950. • Theatrical company: The African Company, 1821. 1810. • Woman U.S. ambassador: Patricia Harris, 1965. • Nationally recognized dance performer: William Henry Lane • Black Labor Union: American League of Colored Laborers, 1850. • U.S. Representative to the UN: Andrew Young, 1977. (Master Juba), 1845. • Black-owned Bank: True Reformers Bank, 1889. • Member of the New York City Opera: Todd Duncan, 1945. • Black-owned resort: Highland Beach, Maryland, 1893. African-American Firsts: Military • Member of the Metropolitan Opera Company: Marian Anderson, • Millionaire: Robert Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender in • U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its 1955. 1905. troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, 1778. • Male Grammy Award winner: Count Basie, 1958. • Automobile manufacturing company: C.R. Patterson & Sons, • Commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy: Robert Smalls, 1863. • Woman Grammy Award winner: Ella Fitzgerald, 1958. 1915. • Commissioned officer above the rank of Captain in the U.S. • Principal dancer in a major dance company: Arthur Mitchell, • Record Company: Black Swan Records, 1921. Army: Major Martin R. Delany, 1865. 1959, New York City Ballet. • Black-owned Youth Camp: Camp Atwater, 1921. • West Point graduate: Henry O. Flipper, 1877. • Black-owned metropolitian newspaper: Robert Maynard and the • Graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy: Wesley A. Brown, 1949. African-American Firsts: Film and Theater Oakland Tribune, 1983 • Congressional Medal of Honor winner: Sgt. William H. Carney, • First African American film company: Lincoln Motion Picture • Billionaire: Robert Johnson, 2001, owner of Black Entertainment 1900. Company, 1916. Television. • Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard, 1917. • Film director: Oscar Micheaux, 1919. • General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1940. • First Oscar winner: Hattie McDaniel, 1940. Other African-American Firsts: • Woman general: Hazel W. Johnson, 1979. • First Honorary Oscar: James Baskett, 1948. • Explorer, North Pole: Matthew Henson, 1909. • Woman to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy: • Tony Award Winner: Juanita Hall, 1950. • Licensed Pilot: Bessie Coleman, 1921. Janie L. Mines, 1980. • Oscar, Best Actor: Sidney Poitier 1963. • Explorer, South Pole: George Gibbs, 1939–1941. • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Colin Powell, 1989–1993. • Director for a major Hollywood studio: Gordon Parks, 1969. • Captain of an American Merchant Marine ship: • Woman Rear Admiral in the United States Navy: • Woman director for a major Hollywood Studio: Julie Dash, 1991. Hugh Mulzac, 1942. Lillian Fishburne, 1998. • Oscar, Best Actress: Halle Berry, 2001. • Pilot for commercial airline: Perry Young, Jr., 1957. • Flight Attendant: Ruth Carol Taylor, 1958. African-American Firsts: Science and Medicine African-American Firsts: Radio and Television • President of Girl Scouts, USA: Gloria Dean Randall Scott, 1975 • Patent holder: Thomas L. Jennings, 1821. • Black-owned radio station: WERD, purchased by • Woman commercial airline pilot: Jill Elaine Brown, 1978. • Hospital dedicated to black patient care: The Georgia Infirmary, Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., 1949. • Miss America: Vanessa Williams, 1984. 1832. • Network television show host: Nat King Cole, 1956. • Sail solo around the world: William Pinkney, 1990-1992 • M.D. degree: James McCune Smith, 1837. • Star of a network television show: Bill Cosby, 1965. • Miss USA: Carole Ann-Marie Gist, 1990. • M.D. degree from a U.S. Medical School: David Jones Peck, 1847. • Black-owned television station: WGPR-TV, 1975 • President of the National League of Women Voters: • Woman to receive an M.D. degree: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, 1864. • First Evening New Anchor: Max Robinson, 1978. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, 1994. • Woman patent holder: Judy Reed, 1884. • Woman television show host: Oprah Winfrey, 1986. • President of the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA): • Black-owned hospital: Provident Hospital founded by Lois Jean White, 1995 Daniel Hale Williams, 1891. African-American Firsts: Sports • Flight around the world: Barrington Irving, 2007. • Heart surgery pioneer: Daniel Hale Williams, 1893. • Jockey to win the Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis, 1875. • Developer of the blood bank: Dr. Charles Drew, 1940. • Professional golfer: John Matthew Shippen, Jr., 1896 Sources: • Member of the National Academy of Sciences: • World cycling champion: Marshall W. "Major" Taylor, 1899. Jessie Carney Smith, Black Firsts: 4,000 ground-Breaking and David Harold Blackwell, 1965. • Olympic medalist (Summer games): George Poage, 1904. Pioneering Historical Events (Detroit, Visible Ink Press, 2003); Charles • Astronaut: Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., 1967. • Olympic gold medalist (Summer games): John Baxter "Doc" M. Christian, Black Saga: The African American Experience, A • Implantation of heart defibrillator: Levi Watkins, Jr., 1980. Taylor, 1908. Chronology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995); • Astronaut to travel in space: Guion Bluford, 1983. • World Heavyweight boxing champion: Jack Johnson, 1908. Factmonster.com, http://www.factmonster.com/spot/bhmfirsts.html • Head of the National Science Foundation: Walter E. Massey, 1990. • NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, 1922–1937. A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR February 1 - February 14, 2013 The Pontiac News Page 5 What’s Happening In Oakland County Patterson Reacts to GM Oakland County Sponsors Free Workshop for Homeowners Powertrain Investment Delinquent on their Mortgage or Property Taxes Public Oakland County Executive L. A workshop to help homeowners delinquent on their Patterson said. "Whether at this workshop or the Brooks Patterson released the mortgage or property taxes takes place Feb. 13 from 6 p.m. Community & Home Improvement office, we want to do following statement in response to to 8 p.m. at Oakland County's Executive Office Building everything we can to help families keep their homes." General Motors' announcement Conference Center, 2100 Pontiac Lake Road, building 41W Information on the options available to homeowners that it is investing $200 million to in Waterford. delinquent on their mortgages or property taxes and how to expand its Global Powertrain Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson initi- apply for support under the Step Forward Michigan Engineering Headquarters in ated free seminars to help families protect their most valu- program will be given by housing counselors certified by Pontiac, adding about 300 jobs: able asset, their home. Preventing foreclosure and its nega- the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development "Thank you, GM. It's a tive impact on Oakland County families and communities and the Michigan State Housing Department Authority. welcome announcement. And is a priority for county and community leaders. The work- This event is sponsored by Patterson and the Pontiac, I'm sure, appreciates the shop is free and open to all Oakland County homeowners. Community & Home Improvement Division. infusion of good, high-paying "Losing a home due to foreclosure not only displaces a Registration is recommended. For more information, jobs." family, causing extreme distress, but it has a detrimental call Community & Home Improvement at 248-858-1891 or impact on a family's finances, including the loss of earned visit www.AdvantageOakland.com/CPHA. L. Brooks Patterson equity, damaged credit, and other monetary losses," February 2013 Business Workshops offered by Oakland County Business owners and entrepreneurs who Research shows you ways to find your ideal including purchasing and rehabbing houses for schedule tweets in advance. Prerequisite is need assistance are encouraged to attend semi- customers, your competitors, perform competi- sale, this type of financing is not discussed at Twitter for Business (Beginner). Fee: $40 nars offered by the Oakland County Business tive analysis and more. Presented by Oakland the roundtables. This workshop is free, but pre- Center. Unless otherwise noted, all programs County Market Research and an Oakland registration is required. Women's Business take place at the Oakland County Executive County Public Library business reference Certification Orientation Office Building Conference Center, 2100 librarian. This workshop is free, but pre-regis- Twitter for Business (Beginner) Feb. 27, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pontiac Lake Road, west of Telegraph in tration is required. Feb. 14, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Learn the benefits and process of becoming Waterford. For pre-registration and location Introduction to Social Media Marketing a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE). map, visit www.AdvantageOakland.com/ CEED Microloan Orientation and using Twitter for Business. Millions of Benefits include certification to private sector expand or call 248-858-0783. Feb. 13, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. people are using Twitter and social media for WBE's and access to procurement opportuni- Discover the requirements and process fun, but it is also a powerful business tool that ties with major national companies. For addi- Marketing Your Business necessary to apply and obtain a microloan. can connect you with your customers, potential tional information on what it means to be certi- Feb. 6, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Many small businesses face obstacles when customers and the world. You will learn how to fied as a Women's Business Enterprise visit This course presents practical applications trying to obtain a business loan. The recogni- sign yourself and/or your business up for www.miceed.org. Fee: $25 of marketing concepts designed to grow small tion of the serious need for working capital for Twitter, how to navigate Twitter, Twitter lingo, businesses. It covers basic marketing tools existing businesses, start-up or expansion, how to find the right people and businesses to Writing a Business Plan including market analysis and research, target equipment purchases, and job creation is not follow, and more. Fee: $40 Feb. 27, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. marketing, assessing competitors and key the priority it once was. If you have a need for A business plan is a document that serves marketing implementation tools. A strategic, alternative financing consider the Microloan Starting a Business your needs and the needs of others (investors, well-planned approach to marketing is demon- Program. This workshop is free, but pre-regis- Feb. 20, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. bankers, etc.) that may require information strated with several examples of effective tration is required. This course is designed for individuals who from you about your business. Workshop hands-on marketing techniques. Focus is on are considering self-employment or are at the participants will learn what elements are the business’ customers – creating and keeping Team SBA Financing Roundtable beginning stages of starting their business. commonly found in effective plans and will them. Feb. 14, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Delivered in a workshop format, this introduc- work on developing each of these for their Fee: $40 Before you apply for a business loan, attend tory session helps aspiring entrepreneurs assess business. Assistance in the process as well as the Small Business Association Forum on their abilities to lead and manage a company, information on resources will be provided. Fee: Venture Plan Small Business Lending. This is a free loan and evaluate market and sales potential for $40 Feb. 5 - April 9, a 10-week series on orientation conducted by a business banker, a their products/services. 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By Edmund Zar-Zar Bargblor others like it, however, were "introduced" traded with its people. Before the Roman that moment, faith was exchanged go infi- Atlanta, Georgia by Pythagorus. They represent the under- Empire left North Africa in the 4th century delity; there was nothing forbidden by God standing of man and the order of nature. AD, Ghana was already a powerful nation. which was not openly done … because of This article is a contribution to the According to the Pythagorean brotherhood, Various countries in Europe were dependent these abominations, the almighty in his continuing debate between Western and the study of the Number Theory which is on imports of gold before the discovery of vengeance drew upon the Songhai the victo- African scholars regarding the role Africans the foundation of creation -- is an aid to America. The "civilization" of Ghana was rious army of the Moors." played in the development of modern civi- achieving harmony between the soul and advanced to such a level that a system of CONCLUSION lization. According to Dr. George G. M. that which one meditates. In his book, THE taxation was imposed on every load of From the history of four of Africa's great James, author of the book, Stolen Legacy," UNIVERSE OF NUMBERS, Ralph M. goods entering or leaving the empire. empires, it can be clearly seen that Africa the authors of Greek philosophy were not Lewis states, "The influence of the Trading, therefore, was a highly organized and Africans have contributed to what we the Greeks but the people of North Africa, Pythagorean brotherhood extended over a system which the wealth and importance of now consider Western Civilization). All commonly called the Egyptians; and the long period of time. The followers of Ghana was based. along the West African coast, Africans had praise and honor falsely given to the Greeks Pythagorus influenced Greek philosophers According to El-farzari, an Arab writer developed various systems of government, for centuries belong to the people of North such as Plato and Aristotle. Thinkers such as of that period, the people of Ghana were from the extended family to regional Africa, and therefore to the African conti- Fluid, Vaughn, and Hoyden based their also successful in overpowering their empires and the Village State. Many of nent." philosophy, to some extend, on Pythagorean advanced methods of warfare and their them consisting of those attributes of a Apparently, the impression given by ideas, including scientists such as weapons, which were swords and lances. modern state (i.e., armies, courts, etc.). some Western scholars that the African Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton." According to Melville J. Herskovits, a continent made little or no contributions to Chikn Anta Diop, a Senegalese historian has MALI known anthropologist, "of the areas inhab- civilization, and that its people are naturally argued that Pythagorean theory, the concept The Empire of Mali emerged when ited by non-literate people, Africa exhibits primitive has, unfortunately, become the of Pi, Geometric formulas and the screw Ghana's powers declined. In the 13th the great incidence of complex govern- basis of racial prejudice and negative and level are only some of the patrimonies century, the Mandingo speaking people mental structures. Not even the kingdom of perception directed against all people of of ancient Egypt and not of Greece as began to extend their kingdom and pushed Peru and Mexico could mobilize resources African origin. conventional wisdom holds. towards the South and southeast regions of and concentrate power more effectively This article, therefore, is an overview of In the September 23, 1991, edition of West Africa. Ghana's military forces were than could some of these African monar- Africa's contributions to Western Newsweek, page 49, Bernal, the author of eventually defeated. When Sundaiata Kita chies, which are more to be compared with Civilization. As such, it will briefly trace the the 575 page book, BLACK ATHENA, became ruler of Mali, it became the most Europe of the middle ages then referred to history of Africa beginning with the empire published in 1987, explores the reason why powerful of all the kingdoms of the Sudan. the common conception of the 'primitive' of ancient Egypt and continues on to other in the beginning of the 18th century The gold trades continue to flourish under state." African empires that developed thereafter. It European scholars intentionally omitted the his reign. After Sundiata, his grandson, From the mystery schools of Egypt to will also review some aspect of African names of Egypt and Canaan from the family Mansa Musa, became ruler. During his the University of Sankore and other intel- Civilization and the impact it had on the tree of Western Civilization. Bernal's reign, Mali became known throughout the lectual centers in Timbuktu and Jenne, development of Western Civilization. conclusion was that the classicists were Mediterranean world and in Europe. scholars throughout the Western world racists and anti-Semites. They could not came to Africa in search of knowledge and ANCIENT EGYPTIAN EMPIRES stand the idea that their beloved Greece had SONGHAI wisdom. Leo Africanus, a Christianized The contributions made by Egyptians been made "impure" by African and Semitic During the decline of Mali, the Songhai moor, informed us that at the time, "In toward the development of what we influences. Therefore, they dismissed as Empire emerged. In about 1464, Soni Ali Timbuktu there are numerous judges, consider modern civilization cannot be mere coincidence, how Egyptian and became king of Songhai. He was an ambi- doctors, clerics, all receiving good salaries overemphasized. Between the periods of Canaanite technologies, philosophies and tious young man who led his army to from the king. He pays great respect to men 3000 B. C and 1100 B. C, a long line of political theories shaped Algean capture Timbuktu, a city known for its of learning. There is a big import from kings known as pharaohs governed Egypt. Civilization. Additionally, Bernal is learning centers and trade routes, in 1468. Barbary. More profit is made from the book Under the pharaohs were the ruling of the convinced that many pharaohs were black. Thereafter, he also captured Jenne, another trade than from any other line of business." royal court, governors of the provinces in Among them was Menthotpe who reunited famous city like Timbuktu. After Soni Ali's The learning centers in Timbuktu had large which the kingdom was divided, and Egypt around 21 B. C after 300 years of death, one of his generals removed his son and valuable collections of manuscripts in commanders of the army, etc. Priests and chaos. from the throne and took control of the several languages, including Greek and priestesses officiated at religious cere- Egyptians also initiated the concept of empire by force. He, thereafter, named Latin. monies and attended to the needs of their monotheism-the belief in one God. himself Mohammed. Mohammed was very Africans are also a deeply religious and gods, but also served under the pharaohs. Akhennaten, king of Egypt and God of the organized and instituted a system of disci- artistic people. To most Africans, religion The Greeks brought Egyptian education sun was the pharaoh who introduced pline government. He created a number of and art are the foundations of life. Religion and influences to the Western world. One of monotheism to his people. He was also a central offices, similar to our contemporary and art are a collective expression in which the Greeks who enunciated the cultural, reli- poet, artistic, an innovator, visionary, insti- government departments to oversee justice, all the people participate. gious, and philosophical teachings of the gator of monotheism and forerunner of finance, agriculture and other matters of As I mentioned earlier, Africa's contribu- Egyptians was Pythagorus. He was one of Christ. He ruled Egypt during the 14th importance in the affairs of the state. Under tion to Western Civilization cannot be the men who introduced the teachings of the century BC. The personality of Akhennaten his rule, trade in gold from Sudan region overemphasized. As early as in 1907, the Egyptians to the Europeans. As such, the continues to fascinate students of continued to flow northward into Europe. great European artist, Picasso, changed the knowledge he passed on to his followers Egyptology. He was the husband of Askia Mohammed imported manufac- faces of his Canvas, LES DEMOISELLES were those he attained from the Egyptians. Nefertiti, a goddess of her time. Historians tured goods, clothes, and salt from Spain D 'AVIGNON, to look like African masks. The teachings of Pythagorus came to us perceived Akhennaten as a good ruler who and Germany. It was also during his reign This marked a turning point in western art. from three main sources. First, from the loved mankind. Some of his religious prac- that Timbuktu became a greater center of I hope that information contained in this writings of one of his followers by the name tices and ideas have influenced fraternities learning. Its university, one the first in article will inspire others to explore the rich of Nicomachus. In the introduction his in the Western world. Africa, was so famous that scholars came to study of African history; especially African book, “Introduction To Arithmetic,” it from all over the Muslim world, Europe and African American youths that may want Pythagorus’ theory was illustrated in a form KINGDOMS OF AFRICA SOUTH OF and Asia. As a Muslim himself, Asking to know more about their heritage. Wise closest to the original teachings by the THE SAHARA DESERT allowed Islamic influence to spread men throughout the ages have told us that, Pythagorean brotherhood. Second, The empires of Ghana, Mali, and throughout the Sudan. ''To understand and appreciate our history is Pythagorean ideas can be found in the Songhai were powerful medieval states in Why did these African empires collapse? to understand ourselves. In understanding works of the great thinkers like Plato who West Africa. Each empire was advanced in Some scholars cited the difficulties of ourselves, we gradually open the window to was influence by followers of Pythagorus. matters regarding the administration of defending the empire in the open West our ingenuity and inner creativeness.'' Finally, some understanding of Pythagorus' government and economic prosperity. African region, in addition to the corruption Happy Black History Month To All! theory may be attained form other famous During each era of their respective histories, influence of the slave trade. While W. E. B. writers like Aristotle. they were powerful nations, which had vital Du Bois stated that Sudanese civilization About the Author: Mr. Edmund Zar-Zar The Egyptians developed the concept of trading links with the commercial world of fell before the triphammer blows of two of Bargblor is an Instructor of Mathematics the right angle, which is the basis of the North Africa and Europe. the world's great religions, Islam and within the Providence School Department, Pythagorean theorem. This concept is one Christianity. Another reason also advanced Providence, and Rhode Island. He is a of the fundamental teachings of the GHANA by Es-Sadi, a Timbuktu intellectual who graduate of Cuttington University College, Egyptian mystery school. It is reflected in Ghana was the first of the three empires wrote a history of the Sudan, TARKH AL- Liberia; Howard University, Washington, the designs of the ancient Egyptian pyra- to rise as a regional power in West Africa. SUDAN, for the fall of the Songhai Empire D.C, and Israel Institute of Technology, mids, which were initiated centuries before The history of Ghana is based largely on the was that the people had grown fat and soft Haifa, Israel. the birth of Pythagorus. This concept and writings of Arab travelers who visited and on luxury and good living. He said that, "At A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR February 1 - February 14, 2013 The Pontiac News Page 7 Pontiac Students To Attend Rosa Parks Celebration The Pontiac School District will be sending two February 4, 2013, marks the 100th Anniversary kicks off a month long celebration of events to groups of students to attend Rosa Parks’s birthday of the birth of Rosa Parks. In recognition of this education our community about the contributions celebrations. The ninth grade students of Pontiac occasion, I am immensely proud to be joined by 58 of African American. Mrs. Elaine Steele, Co- High School will be attending the celebration at the bipartisan cosponsors of S. Res. 618, which was founder of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. The just adopted unanimously by the Senate, observing and chairman of the Detroit festivities plan to have International Technical Academy will start off its the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks and commemo- several of our children interviewed on the Mildred day with a visit to the Charles H. Wright Museum rating her legacy. I am especially pleased to have Gaddis Show. It is important that our children in Detroit and will meet up with the ninth grade had the input of Senators Stabenow, Sessions, and understand the rich legacy from which they came. students. This is an excellent opportunity for the Alexander in the crafting of this resolution, which The first Rosa Parks Forever stamps will be sold students in our district to learn firsthand about the is befitting one who so significantly contributed to at the Wright museum, with a dedication ceremony contributions of our leaders. Both of these celebra- the breaking down the barriers of legal discrimina- starting at 7:30 a.m. The Henry Ford Museum, tions are the results of legislation passed on Capitol tion against African Americans, and equality for us where the Rosa Parks bus is on permanent display, Hill. all. will host the First-Day-of-Issue stamp event at Brenda Carter Last December, Michigan Senator Carl Levin Pontiac School District is committed to 10:45 a.m., as part of a daylong celebration dubbed Secretary School presented legislation to Congress. In this legisla- ensuring that all of its students know the history the National Day of Courage (Detroit Free Press). District City of tion Senator Leven wrote: and diversity of our school district. This event Pontiac

Youth from page 3 supportive instructional environment unique to how we learn, grow, and develop mentally, socially, emotionally, and even psychologically as Black youth in today’s challenging diverse society. And added to this point in his words, our young neurosurgeon to be says that, “It’s not really hard if you have a passion for it.”

My Dear Young One: By Snugasaglove

I write to you today To let you know that You are not isolated and alone For, with EVERY poet's heart You are connected and jointed And that, through your words~~ ~my SOUL was anointed

So, please, never doubt nor question The reason for your existence Please accept this as my heartfelt insistence That you are an essential part of a GRAND design You are the acolyte The blank page, the shrine

For God assigned to you a charge of prophecy To speak your joy and tears thru the very blood of your ink To instruct others, causing them to pause and think And to shed light where darkness lurks So, no, your texted "vision" hangs not as a woeful curse Upon your head But a beautiful gift of lyrical Psalms Written, directed, and solo-led By your divinely blessed and ordered pen So that others may be enriched by reading Where your heart yearns to go and where its been

So, please never cease to plumb your mind's depth Please never corral, restrict or restrain it as boundary-ranged For, because of YOU, This world and realm is positively affected and FOREVER changed

Indeed, every thought you mention Exemplifies a cerebral ascension And serves as a benevolent offering~~CELESTIALLY Through YOU~~AESTHETICALLY.

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Monthly Diversity Education Forum “The Business Case for Linking Diversity and Inclusion to the Bottom-Line” Thursday February 21, 2013, 1 to 3 p.m. Where: Today's global economy requires companies to ABOUT THE MONTHLY DIVERSITY Oakland County recognize the power of diversity to effectively EDUCATION FORUM ompete in it. Companies of all shapes and sizes are Conference Center Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of each month, the series adapting their products and services to appeal to 2100 Pontiac Lake Rd. is designed to assist human resources professionals, customers throughout the world in an increasingly Waterford, MI 48328 diversity managers, and all levels of leaders and diverse market. Come and learn how leading supervisors to develop and implement organizational organizations, who desire to separate themselves solutions to move toward full productivity throughout from their competition, better define who they are, the workforce. and increase their market share in this global economy are addressing diversity in the marketplace. Join us as we explore creative approach- NOT A MEMBER YET, NO PROBLEM ITS FREE es that support your organization's goals Just visit our website: www.ocedc.net to compete in this new world. Laura Robb, Oakland County Employment Diversity Council [email protected] Get more information Register Now! 248 691-8437 ext 2974 www.ocedc.net A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR Page 10 The Pontiac News February 1 - February 14, 2013 Grand Opening of Landmark $20 Million Lafayette Place Development Spurs Revitalization of Downtown Pontiac, Local Neighborhoods Renovation of historic Sears building and Construction Services, a Pontiac-based upscale 10 West Lofts, opening of Lafayette developer specializing in historical preserva- Market, Anytime Fitness and 18 new Unity tion and architectural excellence, is the city’s Park homes culminates Pontiac’s successful newest success story. The grand opening 2-year economic transformation with marks the end of Michigan Land Bank’s MSHDA, Land Bank $13.7 million Neighborhood Stabilization The Michigan State Housing Program 2 (NSP2) initiative in Pontiac, but Development Authority (MSHDA) today state and local officials say the collaboration joined state legislators and leaders repre- has laid the groundwork for future economic senting the city of Pontiac, Oakland County, investment and partnerships. builders, Realtors, lenders and the Michigan “An exciting transformation is under way Land Bank Fast Track Authority to celebrate in Pontiac,” said MSHDA Executive the grand opening of the Lafayette Place Director Scott Woosley. “This unprecedented development, a nearly $20 million renova- effort has created permanent private sector tion and restoration of downtown Pontiac’s jobs, extended the dream of homeownership historic Sears, Roebuck & Company to proud first-time buyers, removed blight Department Store building. and improved public safety, generated new The project’s completion by West investment in Pontiac’s Downtown Business

District and revitalized one of our state’s Downtown Business District. All 18 homes largest municipalities.” have buyers who have executed purchase “The accomplishments we have achieved agreements, and nine mortgage loans have by working together in Pontiac represent a closed to date, with the remaining expected model success story that is helping to move to close before March 31. The new homes Michigan’s economy forward,” said have seen a 20 percent increase in appraised Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority values from construction start to loan clos- Executive Director Kim Homan. ings. Highlights of the two-year NSP2 initia- • The $14.7 million in direct NSP2 tive coordinated by MSHDA in partnership project investments have leveraged nearly with the state Land Bank as well as Pontiac $11 million in private project investments. and Oakland County leaders include: • The Land Bank’s acquisition of nearly • Today’s announcement by West 60 properties in Pontiac that could be used Construction Services President and CEO by future developers or as side lots for local Kyle Westberg that Lafayette Place Lofts’ 46 homeowners. The Land Bank anticipates the residential apartments will become fully acquisition will stimulate an additional $6 occupied with tenants by March 1. Rents for million in Pontiac housing investments by the one- and two-bedroom lofts range from 2016. $675 to $1,295 per month. The $19.8 million Lafayette Place project • West Construction Services’ renovation was funded by Michigan’s NSP2 initiative, a of the 80,000-square-foot structure, located federal New Markets and Historic Tax Credit in the city’s Commercial Historic District, is partnership with U.S. Bank, the Michigan the largest construction investment in down- Magnet Fund (MMF), Great Lakes Capital town Pontiac in approximately 30 years. Fund LLC, State Historic Tax Credits, • GJ & JA Investments LLC’s renovation Brownfield Tax Credits, KeyBank and other of a 24,000-square-foot historic building into private lending institutions. 10 West Lofts, a multiuse facility featuring “Lafayette Place is an incredible develop- 14 loft apartment units and nearly 9,000 ment, and we were excited to utilize and square feet of retail space. The project’s renew the existing, historic structure of the funding was supported by $2.4 million of Sears, Roebuck & Company Department direct NSP2 residential investment, which Store,” Westberg said. “The building stood will leverage nearly $700,000 in private as a symbol of strength during the Great investment for the redevelopment of 8,900 Depression, and I believe it stands as that square feet of retail space. today. We have seen an influx of businesses • Lafayette Market, a full-line fresh food coming to Pontiac since we broke ground on market, delicatessen, caterer and cafe on the the development, and we hope that Lafayette ground floor of Lafayette Place, is the first Place continues to serve as a catalyst for fresh foods market to open within the city in further commercial growth in downtown four decades. Pontiac.” • The creation of more than 300 construc- Among the dignitaries who served as tion jobs through Pontiac NSP2 investments, keynote speakers during today’s media event as well as an estimated 75 permanent posi- were Pontiac Mayor Leon Jukowski; Pontiac tions generated by 10 West Loft apartments City Council President Lee A. Jones; state and the Lafayette Place development’s Sen. Jim Marleau (R-Lake Orion); House opening of Lafayette Market and the Democratic Minority Leader and state Rep. Anytime Fitness center and juice bar. Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills); Oakland • The demolition of 47 vacant and County Treasurer Andy Meisner; Michigan blighted dangerous buildings in the Unity Association of Realtors (MAR) Senior Vice Park neighborhood and in NSP2-eligible President Kathie Feldpausch and MAR neighborhoods surrounding Pontiac’s Director Allan Daniels of Dr. Daniels & Son Downtown Business District. Elimination of Realty in Bloomfield Hills; Building blight has helped increase property values Industry Association of Southeastern and improved the perception of public safety Michigan Chief Executive Officer Mike within the community. Stoskopf; and representatives of local devel- • The construction of 18 new single- opers, including Home Renewal Systems, family homes in the Unity Park neighbor- Venture Inc., Community Housing Network hood, located just southeast of the and 10 West Loft Apartments. Insert Photo A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR February 1 - February 14, 2013 The Pontiac News Page 11 Sports Black History Month: The Best African American Tennis Players By Mark McCormick(Contributor) basketball. Venus Williams: Venus is also very Move Over Serena! 19-Year-Old She was a star player for the Philadelphia successful like Serena, winning 11 doubles Sloane Stephens Beats Williams With Black history month just beginning, Tribunes and Germantown Hornets women's Slam's and two Olympic medals with her Don’t know the name Sloane Stephens? these African Americans that have made basketball teams. By the time she retired from sister, two mixed doubles and seven Grand You’ll remember her name now that she, on tennis much more interesting deserve some play, she was undefeated in tennis for 12 years Slam singles titles, and one Olympic gold Wednesday, defeated women’s tennis great and mentions. Here they are: and earned 201 trophies in her basketball and medal. African American trailblazer Serena Williams Arthur Ashe: Arthur Ashe, I believe, is tennis career. Since being so successful in She is still active, and even though she is a at the Australian Open. Stephens, 19, who is the best African American male tennis player both of these sports, she clearly gets a spot as little older than Serena, she could still pull of also black, introduced herself to a global audi- of all time. He played a lot of sports in high one of the best athletes in the 20th century. some Grand Slams. Hey, maybe 2013 ence by beating 31-year-old Williams, 3-6, 7-5, school like basketball, football, and tennis. He Zina Garrison: Zina Garrison was born Wimbledon? You never know. We'll see 6-4. The up-and-comer is the youngest in the led his tennis team to the state championship right near the end of Althea Gibson's tennis what's in store for us in 2013. Women’s Tennis Association’s Top 40 athletes. and his football team to another championship career. Zina Garrison had not played tennis also. He went to UCLA with a full ride in until she was 10, though. She started her 1963 for tennis. He was also the first African junior tennis career very well at 12 and won a American to be put on the Davis Cup Team. national title when she was just 14. Pontiac High Wrestling In 1965, he won the NCAA singles title, When Zina was just 19-years-old, she had which is one of his biggest achievements. In begun her professional tennis career. She 1968, he won the US Open and led his Davis skipped her high school graduation to play in Cup team to victory. Obviously, everyone had the French Open, which was her debut to said when he accomplished these things early professional tennis. She played well in Grand in his career that he was the best African Slam singles tournaments, reaching the final American tennis player of all time. of Wimbledon in 1990 and winning the Arthur Ashe is by far the best, adding on bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics. two more Grand Slams, the 1970 Australia Zina Garrison was a much better doubles Open, and the 1975 Wimbledon. He had also player, though, making the Australia Open reached two other finals in the 1971 Australia doubles final twice in 1987 and 1992 and Open and the 1972 Us Open. He was inducted winning the gold in the 1988 Olympics. In her into the Tennis Hall Of Fame in 1983. An mixed doubles career, she was much better, honor to Arthur Ashe is the Arthur Ashe winning three Grand Slam mixed doubles stadium that is used during the US Open every titles and being runner up in three. Zina had year. won two Wimbledons in 1988 and 1990 and James Blake: James Blake started to play the Australia Open in 1987 and also reaching On Saturday January 26, Pontiac High Wrestling Team wins first place for the third straight tennis when he was little with his brother three other finals but fell short in all of them. year at Flint Beecher AL MINERT Invitational. Sebastian William heavy weight wins tour- Thomas Blake. He played tennis all Serena Williams: Serena Williams is all nament for Pontiac with his pin in the final match of the tournament against opponent from throughout high school at Fairfield, full of success. Serena and her sister Venus Flint Northwestern. Also, Davion Logan won MVP of the tournament by defeating an unde- Connecticut. At a tennis clinic in Harlem, won 11 Grand Slam doubles titles and two feated opponent from Flint Beecher 15-6. James Blake had heard Arthur Ashe speak, Olympic gold medals. Serena won two mixed and those words he said had inspired Blake to doubles also: the 1998 Wimbledon and 1998 Team Standings be more passionate about tennis and to go Us Open. In Serena's Grand Slam singles 1. Pontiac 119 2. Davison B Team 117, Bentley 90 professional. career, she has already won 12 titles. Serena Individual Placers After high school, Blake went to Harvard still has many more Grand Slams in doubles 112 Clarence Farmer- 3rd until his sophomore year, where he went to and singles awaiting her as she has much 119 Damon Davis- Champion start his career in tennis. James Blake didn't more time in her career left. 130 Tryron Logan- 3rd win a Slam title, but is still in the making of it. Serena won the women's athlete of the 135 Davion Logan- Champion (MVP) He reached a high rank of fourth in the ATP decade, being the second African American 145 Deshawn Cole- 3rd rankings in November '06. James Blake’s best woman to win this next to Althea Gibson. 152 Dazon Cole- 3rd results in a Slam was reaching three Serena could easily come down as one of the 160 Jamell Humphrey- Champion Quarterfinals, one in Australia in 2008 and best women's tennis players of all time. We 171 Nicholas Reid- Runner-up two at the Us Open in 2005 and 2006. hope that the future has in store for us some 215 Xavier Hershovitz-3rd James Blake is currently 33 years of age, more solid Slams that Serena can win. Hwt Sebastian Williams- 3rd dropping the rankings last year and fighting to stay in it.

Women Althea Gibson: A very long time ago, in the early 1900s, Althea Gibson was the women's popular tennis player. She was the very first African American to ever win a Grand Slam tournament. Althea had won the career slam, also winning the French Open in 1956, Australia in 1957, two Wimbledon's in 1956 and 1957, and two US Opens in 1956 and 1957. Althea Gibson was also a tremendous doubles player, where she won the career doubles Slam with five different doubles part- ners. After Gibson retired from tennis, she started to play golf in 1970, where she was the first African American women's golfer to turn pro. Her success in these sports shows that she is one of the best athletes of all time. She had many honors too, but her main one was being the first African American to be selected player of the year by the Associated Press. She was inducted into the tennis hall of fame in 1971 also. Ora Washington: Before Althea Gibson was born, Ora Washington was showing American how good she can be in sports. Ora had played both basketball and tennis in her life and professionally in tennis and college A POSITIVE NEWS SOURCE WITH A LOCAL FLAVOR Page 12 The Pontiac News February 1 - February 14, 2013 Black Future Ask Elaine.com By Michael Reed create a better life for their children. We honor and thank you for your sacrifice on By Elaine Smith-Wright The United States of America has become behalf of generations yet to come. As we Mrs. Smith-Wright started out as a Mass Communications the home for people of every nationality, race struggled through slavery, emancipation, major at Oakland University and now holds a B.A. degree in and culture. Unlike the Native Americans reconstruction, Jim Crowe, civil rights, black Nursing Home Administration and the Certificate of and Eskimos who have lived in this country power and now the re-election of Barack Gerontology and Sociology of the Aging from Wiley College longer than any other race of people, most Obama, our community has shown incred- along with a MBA Degree from East Texas Baptist University foreigners came for may different reasons. ible spirit and resolve that has produced a in Management. She also holds a Certificate in Filmmaking, Some people came seeking the American nation of heroes. Screenwriting and Directing from the Motion Picture dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of Therefore as the nation celebrates Black Institute of Michigan. happiness. Others came seeking refuge and History Month, let the heroics of the afore- safety from wars, famine, calamities and mentioned and the individuals listed below Dear Ask Elaine: persecution in their native countries. Black serve as the inspiration to our youth to I have a best friend “Evie”, who has been my best friend since we went to grade school people were not seeking refuge or the continue to overcome the obstacles and chal- together. We went through junior high and high school and both of our parents were always American dream. We were forced here lenges of life to create and even GREATER hard working people who graduated from college and have made a nice living for them- against our will, stolen from our homeland BLACK FUTURE! selves. Our parents always wanted us to go to college too and that way we could have great and forced to be slaves. Black Americans Elizabeth Freeman (1742-1829) In 1781 paying jobs and be very successful like they have been. The situation is that I took my were the engine of free labor. Hundreds of Ms. Freeman petitioned the Massachusetts parents up on their offer to pay for my college education and I graduated with a MBA by the years of slavery created the greatest court that as a result of the American time I was done. Evie on the other hand decided that after high school she had had enough economic power the world has ever known. Revolution slavery was illegal. The jury education and didn’t want to be bothered with any more school. She took a job at a pet store Despite these wretched conditions, Black agreed and she was granted her freedom. and has been there ever since. She doesn’t want to move up in the company or become Americans persevered with dignity. From Elijah McCoy (1843-1929) started a manager or anything. She is quite content doing what she does. The problem is that we still slavery to freedom, Black Americans have manufacturing company in Detroit, MI and hang out together and go shopping or hang out at a club but Evie has become jealous of played a pivotal role in defining and devel- developed a device to lubricate machinery everything that I do. If I go on a trip or vacation and she can’t go because she cannot afford oping American history and culture. while it was still in operation. it, she talks about me like I have stolen something. When we go shopping, she never buys Throughout the history of this country Black Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) from anything and if I make a lot of purchases even though they may not be extravagant, she Americans have explored, created, invented anti-lynching crusades, women’s’ rights makes a comment that it must be nice to be able to buy something so frivolous. Last week and excelled in every aspect of life. All of us advocate and educator, Mary Terrell we were out looking for a gift for one of our friends who was getting married. She bought know of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, remained active all her life against injustice. two towels and two washcloths. I bought a very nice crystal bowl from her registry. Evie Martin Luther King and so many other John William Coltrane (1926-1967) whined and talked about how I was just showing off my wealth and trying to make her look outstanding Black Americans that have and Coltrane was a musician who is probably bad and cheap. She stopped talking to me for two weeks! I couldn’t reach her by phone, continue to make extraordinary contributions known best by most observers for his 1960 text or email and every time I went by her house to try and talk to her, she never answered to this nation. However, the individuals Jazz interpretation of “My Favorite Things”. the door. I love Evie but I shouldn’t have to apologize for my new lifestyle. I went to profiled in this article were selected because He once stated in an interview “I want to be a college and I work hard to get the things that I have. Evie has even mentioned that her of their lack of popularity and notoriety. Still force for real good. In other words, I know parents are still willing to help put her through college or even a trade school but she still there are others whom history will never tell that there are bad forces, forces that bring does not want to take them up on their offer. It hurts to see her so upset and depressed when their story. These unnamed persons created a suffering to others and misery to the world, we go out and she can’t afford things. If I offer to pay for everything she really gets offen- legacy much like our mothers and fathers. but I want to be the opposite force. I want to sive. What can I do? Community heroes who had the courage and be the force which is truly for good.” Signed discipline to face adversity, determined to I Don’t Want To Apologize Any More

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What educator was the fourth African 2. Lena Horne (1917 - 2010) 2. Who was an advocate for civil rights, a choreographer, dancer, and teacher who American woman to earn a doctoral degree 3. Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960) fund raiser for NAACP, and the first black formed the first black dance troupe in the (from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 4. Wilma Glodean Rudolph (1940 – person to sign a long-term Hollywood 1940’s? 1924)? 1994) contract in 1942? 15. Who founded the Children's Defense 30. Who was first African-American 5. Marian Anderson (1897 – 1993) 3. Who was member of Harlem Fund in 1973, a group focusing on helping woman to earn a BA degree in United States 6. Maya Angelou (1928) Renaissance, an anthropologist, and author millions of children living in poverty? – from Oberlin College in 1862? 7. Josephine Baker (1906-1975) of many books, including "Their Eyes Were 16. Who was first black woman to win a 31. Who was the first black president of 8. Alice Ball (1892- 1916) Watching God"? tennis championship at Wimbledon and at an Ivy League University and the first female 9. Daisy Lee May Bates (1914 - 1999) 4. Who was the first American woman to the U.S. Open? president of Brown University? 10. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (1875 - win three gold medals in track and field - in 17. Who was the first black woman to 32. What abstract painter was the first 1955) the 1960 Olympics for the 100 and 200 write a Broadway play (1959) which was fine arts student to graduate from Howard 11. Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823 - 1893) meters and the 400 meter relay? made into a movie (1961), “A Raisin in the University, and the first woman to have a 12. Bessie Coleman (1892 - 1926) 5. Who was denied permission to sing in Sun”? solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum of Art in 13. Shirley Chisholm 1924 - 2005) the Daughters of the American Revolution 18. Who was the first black concert New York City? 14. Katherine Dunham (1909 - 2006) (DAR) auditorium because of her race in pianist to play with a European orchestra in 33. What female athlete is considered 15. Marian Wright Edelman (1939) 1939, but later became the first black person 1904? “the fastest woman of all time” and set the 16. Althea Gibson ( 1927 - 2003) to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in 19. Who was first woman of color to go record for the 100 and 200 meters in 1988? 17. Lorraine Hansberry (1930 - 1965) 1955? into space on the shuttle Endeavor in 1992? 34. Who was a conductor on the 18. Hazel Harrison (1883 - 1969) 6. Who is the dancer, singer, actor, fund 20. Who was the first African-American Underground Railroad and secured the 19. Dr. Mae Jemison (1956) raiser, author, and poet who read a specially- woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet - as freedom of at least 300 enslaved people, 20. Patricia Roberts Harris (1924 - 1985) composed poem at President Bill Clinton's Secretary of Housing and Urban making 19 trips into the South over 10 years, 21. Maggie Lena Walker (1867- 1934) inauguration in 1993? Development under President Carter in and served as a spy and scout for the Union 22. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883) 7. Who was a nightclub and cabaret idol 1977, and then served as Secretary of Health Army? 23. Maria Stewart (1803 - 1879) of Paris in the 1920's and a freedom fighter and Human Services in 1979? 35. Who helped black artists and disad- 24. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander during World War II? 21. Who was the first woman bank presi- vantaged children while winning 13 (1915 - 1998) 8. What black woman chemist developed dent in America? Grammys and being honored as the "First 25. Nannie Burroughs (1879 - 1961) an extract from the Awa Root which relieved 22. What slave named Isabella became a Lady of Song"? 26. Maria Louise Baldwin (1856 – 1922) leprosy symptoms when injected and which fiery orator supporting anit-slavery and 36. What anthropology professor became 27. Charlotte Ray (1850 - 1911) was widely used until sulfa drugs were woman suffrage after gaining her freedom? the first African-American woman president 28. Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner Kersee invented in the 1940's? 23. Who is considered the first black of Spelman College in 1987? (1962) 9. Who was a civil rights activist and woman journalist who advocated for 37. What actress appeared in "Gone With 29. Anna Cooper (1858 or 59 - 1964) President of the Arkansas NAACP who women’s rights and the abolition of slavery? the Wind," received a bachelor's degree in 30. Mary Jane Patterson (1840 - 1894) advised the nine high school students who 24. Who was an award-winning poet who political science in 1975, and won an Emmy 31. Ruth Jean Simmons (1945) integrated the Little Rock public schools in penned "For My People" in 1942, and a for her role on television in 1979? 32. Alma Thomas (1891 - 1978) 1957? novelist who wrote "Jubilee" in 1966? 38. Who became a self-made millionaire 33. Delorez Florence “Flo-Jo” Griffith 10. Who founded the college that became 25. Who was the black educator who philanthropist after creating a hair product Joyner (1959 - 1998) the Bethune-Cookman University in Florida founded the National Training School for sold house-to-house, and later held what may 34. Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, and founded the National Council of Negro Girls about 1909 in Washington, D.C. which be the first national meeting of business- c.1822 - 1913) Women in 1935? was re-named in her honor after her death? women in the U.S. in 1917? 35. Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996) 11. Who was the first black female news- 26. What woman was the first African- 39. Who was the first African-American 36. Johnnetta Cole (1936) paper publisher and editor in North America American in New England to serve as Master woman to become an ordained minister, a 37. The lma "Butterfly" McQueen (1911 - (in Ontario, Canada), and the first black of a public high school which position she lawyer who helped found the first legal peri- 1995) woman to enroll in law school ( Howard held for 40 years? odical about women’s rights, and co-founded 38. Madam C.J. Walker (1867 - 1919) University)? 27. Who was the first black woman the National Organization of Women? 39. Pauli Murray (1910 – 1985) 12. Who was the first black woman in the lawyer in the U.S. and the first woman 40. What African-American woman was 40. 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