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PRESORTED STANDARD .S. POSTAGE PAID WILMINGTON, N.C. PERMIT - NO. 675 SPECIAL EDITION: GET FIT! 50 CENTS Established 1987 VOLUME 34, NO. 6 | 2021 Theme: Divine Increase Week of June 24 - June 30, 2021 NATIONWIDE VOTER MOBILIZATION IS OUR PRIORITY INSIDE THIS 2 Georgia GOP 4 High School 6 Jemet Grear EDITION Promises to Align Graduates Can Have Martinez Garden 2..................Editorials & Politics 3...................Health & Wellness with Trump and Tuition Covered Oaks Montessori 4.................Career & Education Defeat Stacey at CFCC through Magnet School's 5... Business News & Resources 6......... Events & Annoucements Abrams at Party NC Longleaf Middle School 7..............................Spirit & Life Convention Commitment Grant Teacher of the Year 8...............................Classifieds Ty Hamer-Yelverton, Fayetteville State University (FSU): Looking Through THE EXERCISE PILL: the Eyes of Faith to Become a Arash Javanbakht How exercise keeps neurons, or brain cells. A variety Associate Professor of of aerobic and high-intensity JUSTICE WARRIOR Psychiatry, Wayne State your brain healthy interval training exercises in the New Black Student University significantly increase BDNF and protects it against levels. There is evidence from Movement (NBSM) As with many other animal research that these physicians, recommending depression and anxiety changes are at epigenetic physical activity to patients level, which means these behaviors affect how genes are was just a doctor chore for me – expressed, leading to changes Series, Part 1 until a few years ago. That in the neuronal connections and Afi G. Osakwe was because I myself was not function. GDN Contributing Writer very active. Over the years, as I Moderate exercise picked up boxing and became also seems to have anti- Ty Hamer-Yelverton’s more active, I got firsthand inflammatory effects, grandmother and grandfather experience of positive impacts regulating the immune system met at FSU in 1949-1950. His on my mind. I also started and excessive inflammation. grandmother graduated from researching the effects of dance This is important, given the FSU when she was around 19 and movement therapies on new insight neuroscience is years old. So, he’s part of a trauma and anxiety in refugee gaining into the potential role legacy that establishes how proud he is to be an FSU children, and I learned a lot of inflammation in anxiety and the Royal Court first, then Bronco. more about the neurobiology of depression. becoming a Senator with Originally from exercise. Finally, there is evidence for the SGA, and now being the I am a psychiatrist and the positive effects of exercise on Goldsboro, North Carolina, Ty developed his passion for outgoing President of the neuroscientist researching the the neurotransmitters – brain student chapter of NAACP. neurobiology of anxiety and chemicals that send signals leadership, mentoring, and discipleship, and getting When asked, about his how our interventions change between neurons – dopamine objectives as he leaves the the brain. I have begun to and endorphins. Both of these involved in the community from middle school, starting presidency to take on another think of prescribing exercise are involved in positive mood and motivation. with the Student Government role within the organization, as telling patients to take their Association (SGA), he says, “We have three actual “exercise pills.” Now knowing Exercise Improves Clinical throughout high school with strategic goals for 2021–2026 the importance of exercising, the Goldsboro Mayor’s Youth to primarily focus on: 1) almost all my patients commit Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Council, and where he was Political/voter empowerment to some level of exercise, and I Brain Biology and Growth formed every day, but also new able to get an understanding and awareness, to improve have seen how it benefits several Working out regularly really cells are generated in important Researchers also have examined the effects of exercise of Robert’s Rules of Order. As and grow in our student areas of their life and livelihood. does change the brain biology, areas of the brain. One key on measurable brain function a high schooler, Ty used that engagement via social media and it is not just “go walk and area is the hippocampus, We all have heard and symptoms of depression skill set at one of the Youth and have more of a campus details on how exercise you will just feel better.” Regular which is involved in learning and anxiety. Exercise improves Legislative Assemblies held presence; 2) Using this improves musculoskeletal, exercise, especially cardio, does and memory and regulating memory function, cognitive in Raleigh during one of his time during the pandemic cardiovascular, metabolic and change the brain. Contrary to negative emotions. performance and academic high school years. Those to focus on the structural other aspects of health. What what some may think, the brain A molecule called brain- activities helped his talents forms of the chapter so for you may not know is how this is a very plastic organ. Not only derived neurotrophic factor EXERCISE PILL grow. Starting at FSU in happens within the brain. are new neuronal connections helps the brain produce Continued on page 3 2017, he became involved HAMER-YELVERTON in student leadership with Continued on page 4 BLACK CHURCHES CAN LEAD THE WAY ON VOTING RIGHTS By Rev. Susan K. Smith, are pushing new measures to and Rev. Levon C. Manzie suppress the vote in many more. OtherWords.org This is a bitter pill for those of us who came of age during We suspected it for years, and after the civil rights and now we know it: Jim Crow movement of the 1960s — was never dead. You might even when we fought alongside our Under Georgia's draconian new law, say he was too mean to die. parents and grandparents, and it's illegal to give food to voters -- some We know this because in so many even laid down their of whom have had to wait in 10 or 11 too many places, the forces lives, for voting rights. hour lines. (Photo: Shutterstock) of racism are raging as laws We know these new laws aimed squarely at suppressing have the same immoral aim to the votes of Black and brown break the spirits and silence the Black community: the Black IN MEMORIAM: Americans pass in state after voices our creator gave us. And church. state. New voting restrictions that is why these times cry out Over the Sabbath weekend This is the civil Iconic Actor became law in 14 states this for the moral leadership of an of June 12-13, our two churches year, and far-right lawmakers institution at the heart of the joined many Black churches rights issue of our Clarence Williams, III nationwide in calling on time, and it’s a congregations to take action Dead at 81 gainst this “Jim Crow 2.0.” fight we can By Stacy M. Brown, person drama, “Slow Dance.” Churches from Philadelphia NNPA Newswire Senior Comedian Bill Cosby to Tuskegee, Alabama and from and must win. National Correspondent recommended Williams BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE Detroit to Smyrna, Georgia @StacyBrownMedia to producer big-wig Aaron The White-ness asked worshipers to sign a stop it. That is very welcome. Spelling, who immediately petition in favor of S1, the But it is not enough. Actor Clarence Williams took to the actor. of Wealth By federal For the People Act to We need federal legislation III, who starred as Lincoln Williams returned to Dorothy A. Brown protect voting rights. We asked — most urgently the For the Hayes on the countercultural Broadway in 1979’s “Night them to contact the White People Act, which would ABC drama, “The Mod and Day.” House to make their case. And invalidate states’ current voter- Squad” and as superstar His co-starring role as Linc A groundbreaking exposé on “The Mod Squad” in the we asked them to pray for justice suppression efforts. The John Prince’s father in “Purple of racism in the American 1970s, catapulted Williams to prevail. Lewis Voting Rights Act, which taxation system from a law Rain,” has died. He was 81. into the mainstream. professor and expert on tax We are calling on would prevent many such laws Williams’ management Washington to act because However, some of his best policy “Important reading in the future, is also vitally team said the celebrated actor work came on the big screen, for those who want to through the decades, when important. died of colon cancer. states have tried to deny rights particularly as Prince’s father understand how inequality There are Congress William’s career started in the 1984 hit, “Purple is built into the bedrock of to people of color, the federal members of goodwill and on the Broadway stage where American society, and what government has had to assert conscience who are fighting for he earned a Tony nomination WILLIAMS a more equitable future its constitutional authority and these laws to pass. But there for his acting in the three- Continued on page 6 might look like.”—Ibram X. away from race. As a young moral obligation to protect are others who are rooting for those rights. Kendi, #1 New York Times black girl growing up in the the old racist order to win. And This month we saw there are others who are giving bestselling author of How to South Bronx, she’d seen Be an Antiracist. the Justice Department lip service to the moral cause of Dorothy A. Brown WEALTH acknowledge the voting rights became a tax lawyer to get Continued on page 6 emergency in our country and VOTING RIGHTS announce a major campaign to Continued on page 6 Page 2 Week of June 24 - June 30, 2021 GreaterDiversity.com The views and opinions expressed in each edition of GDN are not those of our Editorials & Politics staff, websites or affiliates.

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