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Volume 30 Number 7 October 2016 Blessed, Talented and Skilled Malik Beasley - Denver Nugget First Round 2016 NBA Draft Pick...Page 2 1634_KSURB A liated with Inside Select King Soopers Locations. Get your u shot at your King Soopers Pharmacy or at one of our 20 TLC locations. Visit www.TheLittleClinic.com for locations and additional information. It’s flu shot season. Stop by today to protect your family’s health! 7 days a week. No appointment needed. SAT01 R MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER The New Normal Volume 30 Number 7 October 2016 A previously unfamiliar or atypical situation that has become standard, usual, or expected. PUBLISHER When I wake up each day and turn on CNN, I am bombarded with “new normal” news including another Black man being shot for being just LWB Rosalind J. Harris - Living While Black. Or I hear bickering from the highest officials candidates who are running to be the next POTUS. Or how terrorists are terroizing our country with no regard to humanity. GENERAL MANAGER Lawrence A. James Unfortunately, our children and grandchildren are growing up in a world where the new normal, in reality, is far from normal. Many do not feel safe and many feel frightened. And this is not normal. MANAGING EDITOR This month, several readers agree with Colin Kaepernick and feels his stand not to salute the American flag to protest the many unfair and unjust Laurence C. Washington killings of Black men is, indeed, normal. PUBLISHER ASSISTANT What may not be normal is recognizing those who are doing positive work in the community and making a difference in the lives of others. There Melovy Melvin are many unsung heroes and sheroes in the community. Our cover story features a humble young man who because of his work ethics, humbleness and faith, was a first round draft pick for the Denver COLUMNISTS Nuggets. Read about him and his supportive parents who he considers his personal “hero and shero.” Contributor Charles Emmons talks about Kim Farmer Youth With a Future, an urban leadership development program based in spiritual and Christian values. And Allan Tellis shares what he learned at Earl Ofari Hutchinson the Colorado Black Round Table’s community discussion panel on the findings of Dr. Sharon Bailey’s report about the experience of African American FILM CRITIC educators and students within DPS. BlackFlix.Com So if you are like me and like to see what’s going on in the world by watching the news, do like I “normally” do these days - turn it off. Enjoy this issue and all the unusually normal stories we bring to you each month. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Charles Emmons Donna Garnett Sydney M. Odion-Smith Allan ChristopherTellis Laurence Curtis Washington Rosalind J. Harris ART DIRECTOR Publisher Bee Harris GRAPHIC DESIGNER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Jody Gilbert - Kolor Graphix PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Home of Ancestors Might Be talking – not giving – they whole “speak ancestors (a land we should embrace) by Melovy Melvin with forked tongue” thing. Who spoke the way, using our experiences and tal- An Option with a forked tongue? The serpent that’s ents as fuel to develop Africa, so she can CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Lens of Ansar Editor: who. It is time for African American to take her rightful place in the world. Out Bernard Grant Hilary Clinton is a bigot! Donald look beyond America and seriously con- of the darkness into the marvelous light. Trump’s words. “She won’t do anything sider going home. Home? Yes, the home Are you up to the challenge? You have DISTRIBUTION for African Americans; she won’t do any- of our ancestors. the choice of remaining and having a Glen Barnes Lawrence A. James thing for Hispanics!” Trump failed to Yes, there are major problems on the questionable future on departing and Ed Lynch include Native Americans in the list of African continent. I can’t think of a better having the future that comes with self- those who will not be helped. I defy any- reason for the “chattel” scattered around determination. one to cite an administration that has the globe by the evil known as the slave helped people of color – specifically black trade. Okay, we are victims of the diaspo- Antonius people. History chronicles the actions of ra. Our ancestors were kidnapped and Aurora, CO the ruling class- centuries of global sold, strewn if you will around the world. empire building. Hilary is no different. I believe there is a higher reason for this. 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I’d like to be known as a great player on the court and a better person off the court… and just a very nice person. — Malik Beasley Growing Up With Actors After undergoing minor surgery Moviegoers might recognize Deena to repair a stress fracture in his right from such films as the Hunger Games: leg, Malik Beasley, 19, worked hard Catching Fire (’13), Mystic Rising (’13), Barbershop: The Next Cut (’16), several relentlessly with doctors, strength commercials and short films. experts, skilled trainers and physical “I just finished shooting a movie therapists to recover from his injury. with Ice Cube and Charlie Day called But his most important work out Fist Fight, Deena says. “It should be was with his father. out in a couple of months. My hus- “I went to the gym practically band is shooting in Atlanta right now every day around about 6 p.m. with on “The Originals” TV show – a spin- my Dad working on things I needed off of The Vampire Diaries. He really to improve,” says the former Florida stays busy.” State shooting guard, now a Denver Beasley says the 2016-17 season is Even though Beasley left Florida Deena says Atlanta is the next Nugget. “We made the shooting drills going to be a special year for the State after a stellar freshman season, biggest city for actors. To punctuate real hard. Whenever I missed, he did- Nuggets with several new players he’s still pursuing his educational the fact, the Beasley’s have a film stu- n’t want me to shake my head or coming in and the veterans returning. goals, online with a degree in business dio in their home. “Atlanta has very show any emotion. That was the main “We really want to change the profile and finance. good tax incentives for movies. And focus of that workout. I think that real- of the team,” he says. “I promised my Mom that I would when the writer’s strike occurred in ly helped me a lot.” Getting drafted by the Denver get my degree – regardless of whether LA six years ago, everybody went to Beasley’s father, actor Michael Nuggets was one of the highlights in I stayed in college or left to play bas- Atlanta, and Los Angles lost a lot of its Beasley is no stranger to playing pro Beasley’s basketball career. “That was ketball,” he says. business,” Deena explains.