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Presorted Standard The Florida Star U.S. Postage Paid P. O. Box 40629 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville, FL 32203 Permit No. 3617 Read The Florida An Award and Georgia Star Winning Newspapers. thefl oridastar.com Publication Listen to IMPACT serving you since 1951. Radio Talk Show. The people’s choice Rated “A+” by the Better Business Bureau DECEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 28, 2018 VOLUME 68, NUMBER 37 $1.00 Judge In Trump’s Former N.Y. Annual Christmas Tree Natl Security Advisor Case Is Howard Law Alum Nancy Wilson, Legendary Jazz Singer Provided photo Dead at 81 Michael Flynn and Donald Trump By Jim Farber The New York Times Emmet G. Sullivan Supporters of the Nancy Wilson, whose skilled U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan is a decorate and fl exible approach to singing Current Administration provided a key bridge between the juris appointed by three U.S. Presidents. sophisticated jazz-pop vocalists of the 1950s and the powerhouse pop- By Opio Sokoni Howard Law School graduate Emmet Need to Get Prepared soul singers of the 1960s and ’70s, Sullivan. During almost two dramatic died on Thursday at her home in his week all political eyes hours in the courtroom, the judge took Pioneertown, Calif. She was 81. were on Trump’s former issue with Flynn while discussing his For the Worse Her death was confi rmed by her national security adviser crimes. He ask if what Flynn did was manager, Devra Hall Levy, who said Michael Flynn’s court treason. As Sullivan angrily addressed By Dr. James B. Ewers Jr. aware. The media brings us Ms. Wilson had been ill for some case.T Michael Flynn pleaded guilty last Flynn’s actions he warned him that he breaking news almost daily. This time; she gave no other details. December to lying to the FBI about couldn’t guarantee that Flynn wouldn’t All of us live in weather- breaking news could be at the In a long and celebrated career, his contacts with Russian Ambassador get jail time. Flynn’s attorney then challenged states and are familiar local, state or national level. World Ms. Wilson performed American Sergey Kislyak. He began cooperating asked to postpone Flynn’s sentencing with the terms warning and watch. breaking news is also infl uencing standards, jazz ballads, Broadway in the probe of coordination between for several months so he can have more It doesn’t matter where you live as the way we live in this country. Just show tunes, R&B torch songs and the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of an opportunity to cooperate in federal these weather events happen albeit look at the stock market these days middle-of-the-road pop pieces, all to infl uence the 2016 election. Flynn investigations. at different times of the year. as it is going through an uncertain delivered with a heightened sense of was forced out of the White House in When you hear the word, period now. There are more lows a song’s narrative. February when angry Trump offi cials So, who is Judge warning attached to the weather than highs. “I have a gift for telling stories, said he had misled the administration Emmet G. Sullivan? then it’s coming your way. The The political terrain has breaking making them seem larger than life,” - Vice President Pence included. Black Judge, Emmet Sullivan, was word watch is less severe and thus news in it at unprecedented levels. she told The Los Angeles Times in However, close contacts and court born in Washington, D.C. and attended it may not come. Just be on the It is my opinion that we are in 1993. “I love the vignette, the plays records indicated he was acting in public schools there. In 1968, he received lookout. A phrase I am familiar a period of political warning. within the song.” consultation with Trump’s son-in-law a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political with is to be “weather aware” as Appointees and associates of the Some of Ms. Wilson’s best-known Jared Kushner and other senior Trump Science from Howard University and, I watch the weather reports every current administration are falling recordings told tales of heartbreak, transition offi cials when dealing with in 1971, a Juris Doctor Degree from day. like dominoes. Paul Manafort and with attitude. A forerunner of the the diplomat Kislyak. the great Howard University School Now living in a world with Michael Flynn have already fallen modern female empowerment Michael Flynn was expected to be changing political dynamics each singer, with the brassy infl ections sentenced Tuesday by federal judge and Please see JUDGE, page 6 day, we must become politically Please see WORSE, page 6 and biting infl ections to fuel it, Ms. Wilson could infuse even the saddest song with a sense of strength. In her canny signature piece from 1960, “Guess Who I Saw Today” 20 PIECES OF PEPPERMINT CANDY (written by Murray Grand and Elisse By Marsha Dean Phelts lived just down the delivery drops at a number of nearby to everybody’s surprise, that is exactly Boyd), a woman baits her husband street from Uncle houses. Our last stop was at the corner what I got. While the candy is all long- by dryly telling him a story in which Twenty Pieces of Peppermint Candy Willie’s wood store on 5th and Mt. Herman Streets. long gone now, I still have my Uncle he turns out to be the central villain. is a story that I have been telling and yard near 8th and To us being in the corner store was like Willie’s business card from back in the In her 1968 hit, “Face It Girl, It’s living for 70 Years. I experienced this Johnson Street. being inside the Gingerbread House. days when we didn’t have zip codes Over” (by Francis Stanton and Andy powerful story at four years-old. The On this day Uncle When Uncle Willie told us to name any and our telephone numbers were fi ve Badale), Ms. Wilson fi rst seems to end results have been a mantra that Willie came by one thing in the store that we wanted, it digits. throw cold water in the face of a has guided me through my life long Big Mamma’s and seemed as though a genie had entered Thanks for help and guidance from deluded woman who fails to notice journey, “Know what you want or you asked if we wanted the room. local author and publisher of Prindle that her lover has lost interest in her. might get what you don’t want.” to ride around the neighborhood as he My brother and cousins each asked House Publishing Company, Twyla Only later does she reveal that she is This true story occurred on a sunny delivered fi rewood. Riding on Uncle for a pickle. When my turn fi nally Prindle, Twenty Pieces of Peppermint the benighted woman scorned. wintry day when my big brother Willie’s truck or on his horse and came, I didn’t copy the boys because Candy is now out just in time for “Face It Girl,” an epic soul blowout, Charles, cousins, Lil’ Joe and Pee Wee wagon was the equivalent of going on I didn’t want a pickle. I knew what I Christmas and will empower readers at became one of Ms. Wilson’s biggest and I were playing in the yard at our a fun fi lled fi eld trip. We all jumped wanted too. I wanted 20 pieces of fruit an early age to aim high all along their Big Mamma’s house. Big Mamma on the back of the truck and made fl avored peppermint candy sticks and life’ journey. Please see Wilson, page 6 Editorial...............................1 Wish to give us a News Story? 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