Week of February 5 - February 11, 2018

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Louisiana State Senator J.P. Morrell pub - lished a blistering op-ed on February 1 criti - cizing proposed budget cuts to the state’s Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ). “We can’t afford to give up on our kids,” Morrell wrote. “They depend on us, and we can’t let them down.” In a budget proposal outlined by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on January 22, there were $994 million of state cuts. These include what Morrell called “significant” cuts to the OJJ. If these cuts occur, an already taxed system of juvenile justice will offer fewer options to juvenile offenders. “Youth who are included in the juvenile sys - tem are less likely to re-offend because the sys - tem is better suited to meet the unique needs of HURCH adolescents,” Morrell wrote. “OJJ provides rig - HURCH orous programming and rehabilitative services that are simply not available in the adult sys - AA CC tem. If OJJ and its partner agencies like the Department of Health are slashed, they will no longer be able to provide the essential services

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IIVVIIDDEED PD hoto by Amandi Rock Sentencing of DD Ronald Gasser Congregants of merge churches, who came together set for March 15 after Katrina, in dispute over property rights After an eight-day trial and more than seven By C.C. Campbell-Rock Church in Christ (CCUCC). KOLA is suing Jones, a longtime civil rights lawyer. hours of deliberation, a Jefferson Parish jury Contributing Writer Central St. Matthew United Church in Christ Central St. Matthew is a hybrid entity, the on Jan. 26 convicted 56-year-old Ronald (CSM-UCC) to stop the church from selling result of merging two churches, Central Gasser of manslaughter in the Dec. 1, 2016 Amid Black History Month celebrations, a off the remainder of Central’s properties. Congregation United Church in Christ killing of former NFL player Joe McKnight. tale of two churches has emerged in New The group is praying that the Fourth Circuit (Central) founded by African Americans in Sentencing has been set for March 15. Gasser Orleans reminiscent of the same injustices Court of Appeal in March 2018 will deliver the 1872. St. Matthew United Church in Christ faces a sentence of zero to 40 years. African Americans have fought against for property back to members of Central (St. Matthew), located at 1333 South The road-rage incident made national head - centuries in America. From land grabs to Congregational Church, so the church’s proper - Carrollton Avenue, was initially the German lines in part because it was the second deadly redlining and predatory lending, to post- ties can continue to be used for activities that Evangelical Church of Carrollton founded in road-rage incident involving a former NFL play - Katrina property auctions by the city and gen - benefit residents in the Bienville Street corridor 1849 by German immigrants. er in the New Orleans area in 2016 and because trification, Blacks in New Orleans continue to and its historic legacy in the state’s civil rights KOLA is fighting to retain Central’s proper - the victim was Black and the shooter was white. struggle to hold on to their hard-earned land. movement can be memorialized ties so members can continue its mission to The fatal shooting occurred just months after Trying to hold on to their church’s land is “We are asking the Fourth Circuit Court of serve the African-American community and the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton the mission of Keep Our Legacy Alive Appeal to rule that there can be no sale of the less fortunate in Mid-City and keep the civil Rouge and Philando Castille near Minneapolis, (KOLA), a coalition of former members of property, unless the proper consent was given Minnesota led to the killing of three Baton the historic Central Congregational United by all involved,” says KOLA’s attorney Ernest Continued on Pg. 16 Rouge police officers and five Dallas, Texas law enforcement officers. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office came under fire after it didn’t immediately arrest Gasser after the fatal shooting. He was arrested four days after the inci - dent and initially charged with manslaugh - ter. That charge was later upgraded to sec - Federal jury rejects civil rights claims against troopers ond-degree murder. After a four-day trial in New awarded no compensation, the Black males who say they were few years, including the violent During closing arguments, prosecutors and Orleans, a federal jury rejected a verdict vindicated “Dotson’s right racially profiled, targeted and stop of New Orleans trumpeter defense lawyers argued that the day of the shoot - series of civil rights claims not to be seized by a Louisiana attacked by state troopers, con - Shamarr Allen who was stopped in ing was one of a challenge versus a choice. against three members of the state trooper for the purpose of tends that state troopers routinely 2014 by state troopers while driv - “This was a challenge on the bridge. He Louisiana State Police who were taking his picture.” use excessive force against Black ing to his Ninth Ward home after a (Gasser) felt Mr. McKnight challenged him on accused of racially profiling and “We are studying the verdict people in the French Quarter. The late-night gig in the French the bridge,” prosecutor Seth Schute told the unlawfully detaining a Black col - and plan to seek further review,” plaintiffs, represented by the Quarter. The state troopers report - jury. “Gasser said, ‘I’m not going to let it go.’ lege student while he was visit - Craig told The New Orleans MacArthur Justice Center, claimed edly followed and stopped Allen ing the French Quarter in 2015 . Advocate . “The people of New that the Louisiana State Police con - because they were searching for an The jury awarded no compensa - Orleans should be alarmed that done the “unjustified harassment escaped suspect. Also cited was an Continued on Pg. 9 tion to the plaintiff, Lyle Dotson, the State Police are a threat to the of African Americans in New incident involving a Black barber even though it found that one of the constitutional rights of law-abid - Orleans, including the detention who was sitting in his car checking state troopers violated his Fourth ing residents of — and visitors to and arrest of African Americans messages on his phone outside his Amendment rights. — New Orleans.” without probable cause.” shop in the CBD when he was Jim Craig, the plaintiff’s attor - The federal lawsuit, which cites a The lawsuit cited several inci - ney, said that even though the jury number of incidents involving dents that took place over the past Continued on Pg. 9 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018 Gov. Edwards and Louisiana’s GOP deficit deal looming By Christopher Tidmore based supe rvision in the Office taxes, but without the politically the savings in the model results Party Republicans have joined falls, how can we consider rais - Contributing Writer of Juvenile Justice — with toxic fight that might have from an expectation of fewer with Black Caucus members in ing taxes and expanding govern - potential devastating impacts on occurred from members still reel - doctor visits to reimburse, an unusual coalition to decry the ment? The rate of growth by A seeming agreement seems to recidivism rates. ing from the repeal of the unpop - despite the modest amount of the tax hike’s impact on the poor. government should never out - be coming together in the legisla - Gov. Edwards described his ular Stelly Plan. co-pay. Revenue Estimators However, a sales tax seems to pace the private sector. This is ture to fix the $1.1 billion “fiscal own budget as “honest” but Call it Stelly-like, limiting also expected that the Governor’s be the only revenue raising how you fix the budget problem. cliff,” strangely enough due to “ugly,” only hoping that the leg - income tax deductions (as John endorsement of a work-require - measure capable of garnering the Grow the economy. More jobs Trump tax cuts and a controver - islature finds enough extra Bel Edwards himself once pro - ment for Medicaid recipients constitutionally mandated two equals more taxes paid.” sial plan to charge a co-pay for money to make sure it is “dead posed) without having to engage would provide fiscal some sav - thirds majority in the State Nevertheless, Schroder, a for - Medicaid services. on arrival.” Since 2018 is a con - in a legislative fight—thanks to ings as well, through, Edwards’ House. Prior to the extra rev - mer state legislator, and his The coming expiration of the stitutional regular session year the GOP Congress and Donald plan exempts pregnant women, enues outlined above, the Black allies in the House have pro - temporary one penny in state (where tax increases cannot con - Trump. Still, this fiscal mothers with young children, Caucus pledged their opposition posed few concrete measures to sales taxes on June 30 has sidered), any tax changes would serendipity only plugs a fifth of people with disabilities, the eld - to renewing the full penny, plug the budget without taxes. opened a giant potential hole in have to occur in a special session the hole. To produce another erly, and students. Ten other which has propelled the impov - Treasurer’s call for greater budg - the budget, leading Gov. John just after Mardi Gras, in order for $172 million, Rep. Jack states have petitioned the Trump erished Pelican State to levying etary “transparency” saves few Bel Edwards to propose a cut - the legislature to meet their con - McFarland (R-Jonesboro) and Administration for wavers to the highest state sales tax rate in dollars this year. Other than ting $660 million from health stitutionally-required balanced other legislators have proposed a institute work requirements for the nation. Schroder’s endorsement of programs (triggering much budget without massive cuts. Medicaid co-pay. Already imple - Medicaid (with exemptions), Cutting that penny in half, or Medicaid co-pays, the only sub - deeper shortfalls due to lost fed - It appears that almost $200 mil - mented in seventeen states, the with Virginia poised to join them exempting food from it, might go stantive proposal he has put for - eral matching funds), slashing lion of the projected hole might measure would require that an this spring, and the President has a long way to calming nerves ward is to “collect unrecovered $233 million of the current $291 be filled thanks to an unexpected insured individual pay for a part indicated his Administration’s amongst anxious House and state debt, which the Office of million allotment for TOPS, side effect of the Trump Tax of medical costs, typically about likely consent to their requests. Senate progressives. Statewide Accounting Reporting hatching 50 percent from the Go Cuts. Louisiana is just one of six $8 dollars per visit. Matched with a series of pro - Nevertheless, opposition on the and Policy estimates at roughly Grants (which provide need- states which allow federal deduc - Federal law does prevent hospi - posed departmental fee hikes and Right remains, though cuts to the $1.1 billion.” based aid to college students), tions to be utilized on state tax tals and physicians from refusing service charges, roughly half of TOPS program are an anathema Such a plan, though, would slicing five percent across-the- returns. Ironically, thanks to service if the patient refuses to the fiscal cliff would be filled to conservatives. take also years to realize any rev - board from the Department of Congress’ decision to limit state- pay, meaning the final sum could under these proposals. Increased According to the highest-rank - enues, if the majority of the Culture, Recreation and and-local deductions as part of be lower. Moreover, significant tax revenue would still be need - ing Tea Partyer in State money owed could be recovered Tourism, as well as instituting the package last December, as opposition comes from members ed. The fact remains that the Government, Treasurer John M. at all. His other reform, a “pro- significant reductions to public well as other tax changes used to of the Legislative Black Caucus, temporary one penny in sales Schroder, “To this date, the growth tax code that is simple, colleges, hospitals, community help lower overall federal rates, who worry that even the possibil - taxes (along with the removal of majority of the budget conversa - efficient and nationally competi - health centers and the closure of Louisiana’s state income taxes ity of a co-pay could hinder low- the other sales tax exemptions tion has focused on raising rev - tive,” better known as income tax five regional offices and receipts could surge. The effect income recipients from receiving just under two years ago) contin - enue. At a time when our econo - cuts, would likely explode an removal of 114 field office posi - proved similar the legislature necessary medical attention. ues to draw loud opposition on my struggles, and businesses and even larger hole in the budget — tions that handle community- limiting deductions on state They have a point, since part of both the Right and the Left. Tea families are dealing with short - in the short term, at least.◊

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THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3 Retired B.R. judge to oversee Cantrell credit-card probe Freddie Pitcher Jr. a retired oversee the politically charged determining whether Orleans trate judge. and the great work ahead for our Baton Rouge judge and former case involving the financial Parish Judge Laurie White or any Judge Laurie White ruled in city and my incoming administra - Southern University Law Center records of New Orleans Mayor- of the other judges from the December that the case should tion,” Cantrell said in a statement. chancellor, has been tapped by elect LaToya Cantrell. Orleans Parish Criminal Court can remain in her court, prompting Landry has pointed out in the the Louisiana Supreme Court to Pitcher will be tasked with decide whether subpoenas can be Landry to challenge that ruling in past that six criminal court judges served to force Cantrell to turn the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. refused to sign a subpoena to have over her personal financial records. White’s ruling was upheld by the Cantrell turn over records to the State Attorney General Jeff Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal and AG’s Office. Five of those cited a Landry is seeking Cantrell’s finan - the state supreme court decided on conflict of interest. Gulf Coast wreck could cial records in the wake of an Jan. 25 that an ad hoc judge should “We will continue to oppose the anonymous complaint filed during decide whether a recusal is in Attorney General’s efforts to dis - last fall’s New Orleans mayoral order. qualify Judge Laurie White and the be last U.S. slave ship runoff after it was learned that Landry has been fighting to have rest of the Orleans Parish Criminal Cantrell used a city-issued credit all of the Orleans Criminal Court District Court. We are confident (AP) — Researchers say remains fire, and the vessel was constructed card for expenses and later paid the judges recuse themselves as he that an ad hoc judge will agree that JUDGE PITCHER of a wooden ship found embedded using techniques of the mid-1800s, money back using her personal and digs into Cantrell’s use of the cred - Judge White can fairly preside in mud in a river delta in south - when the Clotilda was built. campaign accounts. it card. over this matter,” attorney Billy became the first African American western Alabama may be the President Thomas Jefferson Landry has sought to get the “From what my attorney has Gibbens said in a statement on elected to a parish-wide judgeship Clotilda, the last vessel to bring signed a law in 1807 forbidding the Orleans Parish judges to recuse advised me, this is a procedural behalf of Cantrell. in East Baton Rouge. After serving enslaved Africans to the United importation of enslaved Africans, themselves from the probe because matter that has nothing to do with Public records obtained by FOX on the 19th Judicial District Court States nearly 160 years ago. but slavery remained the linchpin the City of New Orleans deter - the merits of the case. I am sure 8 showed purchases on her city- and First Circuit Court of Appeal, The wreck, which is normally of the Southern farm economy for mines the Criminal Court’s budget that a fair and impartial judge will issued credit card including drinks, he served from 2002 to 2015 as covered by water in the lower decades more. Mobile was a prime and Cantrell’s father-in-law, Harry be appointed ad hoc. Meanwhile, I turkeys and even feminine products. chancellor of the Southern Mobile-Tensaw Delta, was recent - port on the Gulf Coast with river Cantrell, is New Orleans’ magis - remain focused on the transition In 1987 Freddie Pitcher Jr. University Law Center.◊ ly exposed by unusually low tides access to the cotton-growing plan - and located by a reporter for tations upstream. Al.com who covers the environ - The Clotilda, a two-masted ment and conservation on the schooner, set out for Africa on a coast, Ben Raines. bet by an Alabama steamboat cap - Experts told Al.com the ship tain and plantation owner who remains could be the Clotilda, wanted to show he could sneak which was burned after delivering enslaved Africans into the country human cargo to Mobile in 1860, despite federal troops stationed at based upon where Raines found it forts that guarded the mouth of and the way it was built. Mobile Bay. “You can definitely say maybe, The ship delivered 110 captives and maybe even a little bit to Mobile in 1860 in the last stronger, because the location is known instance of a slave ship right, the construction seems to be landing in the United States. The right, from the proper time period, captain took the ship up the delta it appears to be burnt. So I’d say and burned it; the human cargo very compelling, for sure,” said became slaves, and they and their Greg Cook, a University of West descendants lived after the Civil Florida archaeologist who exam - War in an area near Mobile known ined the wreck. as Africatown. John Bratten, who works with Most of the wreck lies in mud, Cook exploring shipwrecks, said and Cook said further study, there was “nothing here to say this including excavation, is needed to isn’t the Clotilda, and several verify the ship is the Clotilda. things that say it might be.” “If it turns out to be the last One key element is the location of slaver, it is going to be a very pow - the wreck: It’s essentially where the erful site for many reasons. The Clotilda’s captain, William Foster, structure of the vessel itself is not wrote that he burned and sank the as important as its history, and the ship in 1860, the year before the impact it is going to have on many, start of the Civil War. The wreck many people,” he said.◊ shows evidence of damage from

MACY’S CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH AS WE PROUDLY HONOR BLACK INNOVATORS & VISIONARIES JOIN THE CELEBRATION AND FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU AT MACYS.COM/EVENTS THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018 When Black history isn’t relegated to a single month Removing misleading stories of white heroism from the history textbooks lifts a veil

By Andre Perry History Month. Guest Columnist Carson, too, could not detach PERRY Last year Vice President Mike Pence the white-centric commemorated the start of Black history he learned S History Month by acknowledging in school from his own brain. Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for No wonder, when he probably also submitting the Thirteenth studied those whitewashed stories of N Amendment, which abolished slavery. Christopher Columbus “discovering” Pence’s snubbing of Black people America (no matter the millions of happened on the same day President Native Americans already living

O Donald Trump talked as if Frederick here), which are buttressed by tales

I Douglass, abolitionist, writer and of how the Pilgrims supposedly sat civil rights leader, were still alive (he down with the Indians for a delight - Selective patriotism died in 1895). Later in the month, ful supper (already part of their har - By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor N U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy vest tradition). When slavery is cov -

I DeVos said historically Black col - ered in history class, the teaching of leges and universities were “pio - Black benign servitude too often goes The Associated Press reported last week that 56 of the 56 Black NFL players the news organization neers” of “school choice” (Colleges along with ideas that the Ku Klux polled at the recent Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida said that they or someone they know has been P were segregated). Klan is a Christian organization racially profiled by police. That’s how far we’ve come as a nation in the 50 years that have passed It was a sign of things to come. exhibiting principles like loving thy since the historic Civil Rights Movement. By Pence’s standard, Trump made neighbor. We have statues of Since former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began to kneel down during the national anthem to protest

O black history in his first year as pres - Confederate heroes, i.e. racist trai - police brutality, social injustice and bigotry in the U,.S. in 2016, an increasing number of athletes of color have ident by waging an assault on voting tors, littered throughout the U.S., been willing to speak out about what they see and experience as people of African descent in America. rights through his now-defunct vot - particularly in the South. And of “You can probably ask any Black man out here and the answer is yes,” Jacksonville Jaguars defensive ing fraud commission, calling white course Abraham Lincoln didn’t have tackle Malik Jackson told The Associated Press . “It’s not like this is just starting today or a new thing. It’s

& supremacists “fine people” after the a racist bone in his body. gone on for a long time. I think African-American men have been (victims) of racial profiling for a long Charlottesville march and, more The misrepresenting of colonization, time, by either the things they wear or just by the color of their skin.” recently, disparaging Haiti, El slavery and racists is behind the racism Like many people of color in the U.S., Black athletes have felt compelled to do something to raise awareness Salvador and African countries as and ignorance of Trump and people like of the murders of unarmed and innocent Black and Brown people since the officer-involved killings of people “shithole countries.” him, not Black History Month.

S like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Freddie Gray and Eric Garner. We should all be appalled at the I’m indebted to the people, places “That was the main thing with the protests, to bring awareness so people know what’s going on,” Jaguars administration’s ignorance around and traditions I’ve been introduced to cornerback Jalen Ramsey told The Associated Press . “That’s the first step to trying to fix the situation.” race but we should be not surprised. in February. I have received numer - Some of the athletes polled by The Associated Press said the issue of racial profiling and police Racism is taught. And when white ous invitations to speak at these L brutality is very personal for them. history is the standard, when history events, and I will continue to high - “It happened to my wife in the past couple of years,” Tampa Bay Buccaneer defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, is told from the point of view of the light black accomplishments in my who was drafted in 2010, said. “She got pulled over. She was driving a Bentley. Nice neighborhood, and they white people, you might well believe, columns during February. Calling for pulled her over. All her stuff was right and they just didn’t have any reason. It just wasn’t right.” as failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy mainstream inclusion isn’t a charge to A “My dad, when I was growing up ... gun to his head and every - Moore does, that slavery was good end Black History Month. In fact, we thing,” Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback A.J. Bouye told The for Black people. can use it to introduce more recent Associated Press . “That’s why it hits close to me. We know that The I The flagrant ignorance and blatant history and fresh faces. there are issues going on, and maybe some people don’t want to racism of the Trump administration For instance, if there is a book by a bring awareness to them, but we’ll find a way.” Louisiana makes clearer what Black celebrities Black author that you must read this Meanwhile, there are still those who vilify these players and such as Morgan Freeman and Stacy month, take in Stamped from the question their patriotism because of their decision to take a Weekly R Dash mean (or so we hope) when they Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi, winner knee during the national anthem. Many of these critics blame say, “I don’t want Black History of the 2016 National Book Award for (USPS 320-680) the NFL for “allowing” football players to exercise their First One of the oldest publications Month.” It’s obvious that Black histo - nonfiction. Kendi’s book provides a Amendment rights and have relentlessly tried to equate taking in the United States ry is needed all year long. But white thorough reading of U.S. history a knee with disrespecting America and its military veterans specifically for the

O history as we know it can no longer be from the perspective of Black people. African-American despite veterans who say they support these athletes’ right to the standard in a multicultural society, He moves forward Woodson’s legacy, community. take a knee and voice their opinion. which is supposed to maximize the along with other notable historians Meanwhile, these so-called patriots say nothing about potential of all of its members. who are still alive, such as James D. Since 1925

T Confederate symbols and flags being waved and worn in the The late, great historian Carter G. Anderson, Robin Kelly, Henry Louis U.S., even though the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of Woodson started Negro History Week Gates, Jr., Blair Kelly and Paula treason and represents a concerted effort to overthrow the RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL

I in 1926 with hopes that Black people Giddings. There are people who con - U.S. government. Go figure. President/Publisher would be proud of their heritage and tinue to write outside of white stan - Anyway, I got some questions for y’all. Here we go: that mainstream America would rec - dards, to our collective benefit. But EDMUND W. LEWIS • While President Donald Trump was quick to “set rapper ognize the contributions of its Black to reap the social fruits of their labor Editor Jay-Z straight” about the president’s alleged success with

D residents. While millions of students we must remove the standard of lowering the Black unemployment rate in the U.S., why has - DAVID T. BAKER across the country now study the white-centric history. n’t Trump acknowledged or addressed white rapper Associate Editor influences of Black people and cul - Getting to a place where we can make Eminem’s less-than-flattering words about the president and ture in what has evolved into Black history more inclusive is not easy. In his bigoted policies and remarks? SHARON ARMSTRONG E History Month, Trump proves regu - fact, it’s a thoroughly radical endeavor • Will you be able to look at the Muses parade the same way SUSAN BUCHANAN larly that Woodson’s ultimate goal of that first requires society to acknowl - after some of its members had to be told by the organization not FRITZ ESKER integrating Black history into our edge that history is not an impartial nar - to throw any “Forever Lee Circle” beads or any other core curricula fell far short of nation - ration of events as they occurred. It is, DELLA HASSELLE Confederate-themed throws? al acceptance. rather, the story as told by the people MEGHAN HOLMES • What do you think about the persistent rumors about a cer - The danger in relegating Black his - who are telling it. Retelling our history CHARMAINE JACKSON tain mayor and congressman linking efforts behind the scenes to tory to a month is that it becomes hor - requires acknowledging that the FR. JEROME LeDOUX discredit and undermine Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell as she ribly contained to a month. Ask your American identity is rooted in a false BRITTANY ODOM continues to prepare to take office and deal with the ongoing child, colleague or friend to say a few narrative that makes the exhortation to JAMES SEBASTIEN probe of her use of a city-issued credit card? brief words about Carter G. Woodson, Make America Great Again an oxy - • Why is Cantrell the only member of the New Orleans MICKEY STANLEY sing the first few lines of The Black moron (for the people who were City Council whose use of a city-issued credit card is being CHRISTOPHER TIDMORE National Anthem, or identify five brought here as slaves, it was never all so closely scrutinized? MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH African countries during the rest of that great to begin with). • What do you make of speculation that the business commu - NAYITA WILSON the months and there’s a strong possi - Many multicultural education advo - nity and state officials are seeking to “criminalize” and margin - GERALDINE WYCKOFF bility you’ll think you’re talking to a cates have promoted curricula that alize Mayor-elect Cantrell so that she would be easier to control Contributing Writers/Columnists version of Trump. Black contribu - expand the perspectives in American and manipulate once she is sworn in? tions to society are not being recog - history. The pushback to the ethnic CHARLES SILER • What grade would you give the Landrieu administration for nized in the pantheon of American studies and multicultural education Contributing Cartoonist its handling of last year’s flooding and problems at the New history. Worse, this lack of recogni - movements is about protecting white Orleans Sewerate & Water Board this winter? PENNY JONES tion is reflected in national policy, history. University faculty have much Administrative Assistant • Why do all the watchdog groups continue to allow the City racial inequities in compensation, and more leeway as to their text selec - of New Orleans and the Sewerage & Water Board to get away CHRISTOPHER D. HALL the discounting of Black leadership. tion, but people of color are severely Business/Circulation with using an “emergency” tag to avoid giving local minority Unequal pay is a blatant, empirical underrepresented in the full-time contractors access to public contracts? Published every Monday sign of a devaluation of worth. teaching ranks. And core undergradu - • Why wouldn’t the City of New Orleans and the Sewerage by You obviously can’t pin the blame ate curricula are guarded by tradi - & Water Board buy new turbines and other equipment after The Louisiana Weekly Publishing on the devaluation of Black people tions, professional (read: white) stan - Company, Inc. FEMA gave New Orleans hundreds of millions of dollars to do on Black History Month. As a young dards and faculty who were trained in Est. 1925, precisely that, and why haven’t any elected officials said any - person, I remember learning about accordance with them. 2215 Pelopidas Street, Suite A thing about it until last year’s flooding episodes? New Orleans, LA. 70122. renowned surgeon Ben Carson and Removing racist history books will • Does President Donald Trump think mentioning a Black For offices and advertising, how he became the first to success - be harder than shuttling Confederate family with members who were killed by Mexican immigrants call (504) 282-3705 or fully separate twins at the head in a monuments to the backs of museums. FAX (504) 282-3773 would convince Black Americans to abandon efforts to shield Black History Month event. I listened Neither important act is about erasing undocumented immigrants from the oppressive and draconian POSTMASTER: Send change to Carson with admiration and pride history — it’s about making it. tactics and policies of his administration? of address to: at another such event when he narrat - Woodson wanted to see Black history The Louisiana Weekly, • Didn’t Trump’s “Americans are Dreamers too” statement ed, with great aplomb, the exact stops infused in American history because P.O. Box 8628 sound an awful lot like those misguided folks who go around New Orleans, LA 70182-8628 along the neural pathway from a they’re one and the same. But he also shouting “all lives matter” every time they hear the phrase touch of the finger to the brain and wanted the idolatry of whiteness Periodical Postage Paid “Black Lives Matter”? back again. It’s a shtick I would hear removed from America’s site. at New Orleans • Why do so many artists of color still think that they many times, with the same reaction. haven’t accomplished anything until they receive a SUBSCRIPTION RATES But when Carson as U.S. Secretary This article was produced by The Grammy, Oscar or Emmy Award? One Year $30 of Housing and Urban Development Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, inde - • If everything Black people have is so defective and infe - Two Years $52 referred to slaves as “immigrants” pendent news organization focused on Three Years $72 rior, why do so many people around the world hang on our last year during a departmental jun - inequality and innovation in educa - Out-of-state subscribers every word and spend so much time, energy and effort try - add $5 for postage. ket with employees, he proved tio n.◊ ing to emulate us?◊ there’s nothing wrong with Black THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 5 We must resist S hole countries not a priority By Ju*lian*ne M* alveaux There is no ambassador to the African few replacements, break - TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Union, which is perhaps a blessing ing precedent and also because that person may have had to thumbing his nose at the the dangerous Our 45th President has traipsed over to defend 45’s ignorant remark about world? the World Economic Forum in Davos, s***hole countries. But 45 didn’t have to Our NATO allies Switzerland, planning to rub elbows with make such an ignorant statement in order look askance at him GOP agenda world leaders, repair some relationships, for us to know how he felt about people of because of his obnox - MALVEAUX KELLY By Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) and possibly shred even more. African descent. He illustrates his disdain ious and belligerent NNPA Guest Columnist He had hardly landed before he started every time he opens his mouth. He did behavior. He has made threatening to cut off aid to the Palestinians not have to compare Haiti to Norway, all strange remarks about terrorism in the UK, In the Age of Trump, logging onto Twitter can elicit everything unless they participate in peace talks with he had to do was fail to appoint an ambas - taken swipes at France and Germany, and from hysterical laughter to deep concern and fear. From time to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. sador to Brazil, which is home to the generally behaved like an overgrown child time, I’ve even had the urge to teach the Trump Administration basic Palestinian leaders are justifiably angry that largest population of Afrodescendents out - when gathering with other world leaders, math. However, the Wednesday after Democratic candidate Doug 45, without a conversation with them, said side the African continent. pushing the Prime Minister of Montenegro Jones won the special election in Alabama for Attorney General Jeff he would move the U.S. Embassy to There is no U.S. ambassador to Belize, aside so he could get in front of a group pho - Sessions’ vacant U.S. Senate seat, I woke up excited about the elec - Jerusalem, the city that both Palestinian and Bolivia, Burkina Faso or Cape Verde. No to at a NATO summit in May. Incidentally, tion results in Alabama. Israelis consider their capital. ambassador to Cote D’Ivorie or Cuba, Guinea there is no U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro. The first thing that I did that morning was log onto Twitter. When I Since 45 has been President, the world or Ghana, Jamaica or Kenya. Neither Actually, staffing the government is not a looked at the trending hashtags, I saw one that I’d never seen before. has been losing respect for us. According Madagascar nor Mali, Mozambique nor priority of this administration. When he was One that surprised me: #ThankYouBlackWomen. to a November Gallup poll, approval of Nigeria, South Africa nor Tanzania, Togo nor elected, he indicated that he I must’ve rubbed my eyes twice just to confirm what I was seeing. But U.S. leaders among 134 countries has hit a Trinidad have U.S. Ambassadors. Blessedly, thought some agencies

there it was: #ThankYouBlackWomen. new low of 30 percent, down 18 percent 40 percent of 45’s appointees are career for - were “huuuuge,” and there C In the Alabama special election, African Americans represented from the 48 percent approval rate in eign policy experts. Some, like Calista were positions he would slightly less than 30 percent of voters and cast 96 percent of their President Obama’s last year, and even Gingrich’s appointment as Ambassador to the not fill. He has been much ballots for Senator-elect Doug Jones. Quite simply, African-American lower than the previous low of 34 percent Vatican, are clearly political plums. But how slower than his predeces -

voters, especially women, had a dramatic impact on the race, shifting in George W. Bush’s last year. can 45 justify having no ambassadors to two sors in staffing up every O the power dynamics of the Senate. Only Liberia, Macedonia, Israel and of the most important countries on the African agency, but especially the While the disturbing and shocking allegations against Roy Moore Belarus increased their approval rating of the continent, oil-producing Nigeria, and econom - State Department. By the certainly helped increase turnout and steered some voters to Jones, U.S., while Portugal, Norway, Belgium and ically advanced South Africa? I guess he will end of their first calendar people, especially African Americans, voted because they under - Canada saw approval ratings plunge by 40 be forced to pay attention to these s***hole year (2001 for Bush, 2009 M stand that Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking our points or more. 45 has been currying Israel’s countries if there is an oil crisis and we need for Obama), Bush had 139 country to unimaginable lows. favor, so it is no wonder that they are more some Nigerian oil! State Department confirma - Republicans have controlled the White House and both chambers approving of him. But U.S. leadership lags Africa and the Caribbean are not the only tions, with 14 pending. of Congress since President Trump was elected. In that time, the behind support for leadership in both parts of the world that have been ignored by Obama had 119 confirmed president has sought to normalize white supremacy and Congress Germany and China. Only Russia has a low - this administration. Highly desirable and 18 pending. 45 has 61 M has continued to strip away the protections afforded to millions of er approval rating than we do. appointments, like those to Canada, France, confirmed and 28 pending! Americans under the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, 45 is ignoring most of the rest the United Kingdom, and Germany have We who are connected The GOP has passed spending bills that actively take resources away of the world. A year into his Presidency, he been filled. Even as 45 has squabbled with to s***hole countries can from communities of color. They even found the time to give a massive has not appointed ambassadors for fully half North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, he has appoint - rest assured that foreign tax giveaway to a handful of super rich families and major corporations. of the world. The Bureau of African ed no ambassador to South Korea. policy is not this adminis - E Yet, over that same year, they’ve refused to pass legislation to stabilize Affairs, part of the State Department, has no This could have been completely avoided if tration’s strong suit. 45’s and decrease health insurance costs, to reauthorize health insurance for nine leader. There is an “acting” Assistant 45 had allowed Obama appointees to stay in failure to appoint ambas - million kids, to prevent gun violence which kills 10 times more African- Secretary for African Affairs, Donald place until he found people to replace them. sadors to African coun -

American kids than white kids or to protect our hard won right to vote. Yamamoto, a career foreign policy profes - Instead, people had to come home in the middle tries perhaps reflects the N While voters were rejecting Moore, they were also rejecting more; sional who has worked for both Presidents of the school year, hurriedly making arrange - disdain he feels for us. they were rejecting the Republicans’ dangerous and destructive Bush and Obama. Yamamoto has some ments for new schools, new housing (some had But his disdain is yet agenda that’s forgotten who we are as a nation and put millions of responsibility for the Bureau of African rented their homes), and more. Why did 45 another reflection of his

American families at risk. Affairs, but it is not his priority. demand resignations so abruptly when he had ignorance.◊ T Those Americans rejected Republican plans to take away their health - care and stack the deck in favor of corporations over families. They rejected ending environmental regulations that protect kids from asthma. They rejected a party, which believes its okay to suppress and outright A disenfranchise voters just because of their race. When the Alabama voters checked that box, they made their voices— and no one else’s—heard and it shook the nation. BGy BillO FletchPer, J r. will ride with Trump forever provocative. He believes in stirring is a matter of As we prepare for the upcoming 2018 election, all of these issues NNPA Newswire Columnist things up. It is this modus operandi political power. R will be on the ballot again: access to healthcare, tax increases on that inspired his right-wing populist It is not a matter people who work for their paychecks, preventing gun violence, After every Trump outrage, we go base. They were not looking for what of morality and investing in our children’s education, increasing the minimum wage through a similar routine. Trump they believed as more of the same. On good will. If Y and protecting our voting rights. says or does something that most top of that it remains far from clear those who see As Americans, we have a voice in these decisions, a voice that was sane people believe to be over the that Trump would understand how to the Trump paid for in the blood, sweat and tears of Americans who’d come top; he is roundly condemned; some be a respectable politician in either regime as a before us. Our voice belongs to us, because we fought for it and we Republicans shake their heads; case. It seems to run against his nature. threat to human - continue fighting for it. masses of people ask that something Second, who will do anything about ity do not We need to honor their sacrifice by showing up at every election. We be done…and then it all fades into Trump? The Republicans control both engage in mass & need to honor James Chaney—a civil rights worker who was killed by the next news cycle. houses of Congress, the White House political action, FLETCHER members of the KKK in 1964 for registering African Americans to What was different in connection and the U.S. Supreme Court. They including, but vote—by proudly earning that “I Voted” sticker. It’s up to us to keep the with Trump’s recent alleged remarks look at Trump as a blunt force object not limited to, voice of our community strong and we do that by showing up and cast - against Africa, Haiti and Latin that serves the interests of their agen - electoral politics, the situation will O ing our ballots, like so many did in Alabama and across the country. America—the notorious “s—thole da. Many of them may be personally go from bad to worse. By worse, I Our foremothers and forefathers sacrificed life and limb for our remarks”—was that some Republicans uncomfortable with him, but they mean growing authoritarianism. And right to vote. who were in the room at the time of know that if they move to take him here we must all be clear that Simply too much is at stake for us to sit on the sidelines. The issues the alleged remarks first played dumb down, they may provide momentum Trump’s infatuation with authoritari - P that affect our lives and our children’s lives are debated every day at and then claimed that the remarks had for the Democrats. They would rather anism is not a simple rhetorical City Hall, in state General Assemblies and in Congress. We were given a not been verbalized. At that point, that the United States become and device to increase the ratings. It voice in who makes these decisions for us; let’s keep using it. there was laughter in the audience. remain a global laughingstock, than seems to reflect the centerpiece of I

Yet, in talk show after talk show lose the political edge. his worldview: Life is about Trump; N Congresswoman Robin Kelly represents Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District there is a question that keeps getting Third, the so-called moderate Trump is the savior of the U.S.; and serves as a co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Women asked: why isn’t something being Republicans who are deeply uncom - Trump’s ideas are the greatest that and Girls. You can follow Congresswoman Kelly @RepRobinKelly. ◊ done about this situation? Why can’t fortable with the crudeness of Trump humankind has ever experienced. I Trump be brought back to the standard worry that they will be challenged in Those who get in the way of O of a respectable politician? The Republican primaries by the extreme Trump’s truth, therefore, are ene - answer is not very difficult, but has Right should they move against mies who must be removed. several parts. Here goes. Trump. Perhaps they wonder and The challenge is now ours.

First, he is not now nor has he ever hope that there will be deeper reve - N been a “respectable” politician. lations in the Mueller investigation Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, What could Whether as a reality show celebrity or of alleged Trump/Russia ties, but for writer and activist. Follow him on Twitter @BillFletcherJr, Facebook and

candidate for office or now as now they will do nothing. S be worse? President, he has insisted on being Thus, holding Trump accountable at www.billfletcherjr.com .◊ By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist WILLIAMS Political right/Republicans have given nearly Racism as a treacherous every bad excuse possible for their own bad behavior. Truth and objectivity seem to escape their ilk. Since the swearing-in of #45 and his one-year hijacked occupancy of the people’s house, strange stories that oppose the truth emerge at every turn. After hearing one Bdy Reev.n Dr. iSuasanl K . oSmifth the wehichx hais hsisttoreicalnly pcurpeorte d oto f pGortionoatelyd bad excuse, it’s hard to believe that an even worse excuse could Guest Columnist be the true voice of truth and right very small. All materialize, but it can. Here are my nominees, in order of bad to relationship with God. Pastor Robert Africa is black worse, of recent right-wing idiocy: It has been astounding and disturb - Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist or tawny; Asia FOUR: Despite owning a majority in both the Senate and House of ing to observe the silence of Church in Dallas, has actually chiefly tawny SMITH Representatives and occupying the White House, Republicans blame Republican leaders on the dastardly defended the president’s remarks. …why should Democrats for the government shutdown! Blaming Democrats, they statement the president of this nation Racism for many is sanctioned by we, in the Sight of Superior Beings, have ignored their rejection of the overwhelming will of the American made regarding what he called “shit - God, a fact which has kept many darken its people by planting them in people and the legislative votes of several ‘principled’ Republicans who hole” countries. It is especially caught in racist and hate-filled America where we have so fair an joined with Democrats against their own party. astounding as many lawmakers say beliefs, buoyed by a deep belief that opportunity of excluding all Blacks THREE: Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham exposed they are deeply religious, members racism is all right with God. While and Tawneys…(and) of increasing the racist and profane statements made by #45 during a White House of the Religious Right. Their God is some Christians, notably those who lovely White and Red?” meeting related to the shutdown vote. Of the others present, one a god I do not know. are said to be on “the Left,” have Benjamin Franklin was a “godly” Cabinet Officer could only remember #45 using strong language, but Many have been waiting for GOP decried racism, many on “the Right” man, “good people,” as this president didn’t say what that language was. Republican Senators from lead lawmakers Sen. Mitch seem just as confident that God would say, and saw no disconnect Arkansas and Georgia originally feigned failure to hear the com - McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan to approves of their beliefs. between his innate racism and the ments and/or forgetfulness, but, as the fallout of #45’s comments make unequivocal statements The penchant of “godly men” to presence and will of God. became more heated, they remembered that he “absolutely” did not denouncing the president’s support racism and the goal of keeping But the message of “God’s good - make the statements of which he was accused. Never mind that they unabashed racist comments. But America white is not new. Benjamin ness” has, for some, always clashed were meeting to avoid a government shutdown—between not hear - there has been nothing. Franklin, in his Observations against the notion of a God who pla - ing and not remembering, one wonders why they were there. There also has been no outcry Concerning the Increase of Mankind , cates, supports and endorses racism. TWO: After the Democratic Senate Minority Leader, unbelievably, from the evangelical Christian com - wrote, in 1751, “…the number of The late Rabbi Abraham Heschel munity, that wing of Christianity purely white people in America pro - Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 8 Page 6 HEALTH & HEARFeTbruary 5 - February 11, 2018

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New cartilage since 1986, before most Stanford and then see it per - (creating tiny fractures in underly - me to give up on those activities; Orleans-based doctor Deryk people cared,” he says. formed live on a person at ing bone), which is the FDA’s gold I’m a very physical person. I vol - Jones took note and began per - Articular cartilage is the smooth Harvard with the ACI, and you standard everything else compares unteer and teach swimming to forming the procedure almost tissue that protects the ends of normally don’t see something go to,” Jones says. “They had been kids, and I also work in manufac - immediately, using patients’ bones where they come together from the lab to a person that doing MACI for ten years in turing and I’m sometimes on the DNA to regrow cartilage onto a and form joints. quickly. I was the first guy to Europe before this study proved to floor standing for hours at a membrane that doctors later affix “It’s the white glistening struc - perform that surgery in the FDA with enough certainty time,” he said. to damaged parts of the knee. ture on the end of a chicken bone,” Louisiana, and for twenty years I that it works.” Four months ago, Bergin had the The process represents decades Jones says. “It allows two surfaces did those. So, I’ve been holding The MACI improves upon its MACI procedure. The recovery of research on how to best repair to glide past one another without my breath and waiting on the predecessor (the ACI) by short - was difficult — weeks without the knee damage, and allows select irritation. Over time, particularly FDA to approve this new proce - ening both operating and recov - ability to move, but he already patients to resume high-impact with repetitive trauma, or if there dure for a long time.” ery time. Doctors take a sample feels like the surgery was worth it. athletic activities that aren’t an is some sort of defect, the bones Approval for the MACI proce - of the patient’s DNA and inject it JONES “The other day I rode my bike at a option following other knee sur - can lose that protection and the dure in the United States came directly onto the matrix – a colla - really good clip, and my knee felt geries. To date, Jones, Section area becomes painful.” following a significant European gen-based, lattice like structure good, and I was shocked. It made Head of Sports Medicine and Jones began researching articular study known as the Summit Trial, where the patient’s cartilage sample begins to grow. me so happy.” “The cells grow and we place Bergin’s procedure was partic - that scaffolding structure in the ularly invasive – with doctors affected area, where the carti - attaching three separate matrices lage adheres and continues to to different damage sites in the Flu season has officially reached epidemic levels grow. With the previous ACI knee. procedure, we inserted the “Michael’s been the biggest By Glenn Ellis Yamagata) has not become the outbreak. HIV/AIDS is an exam - around, and your poor pooch matrix and later injected cells procedure I’ve done so far, and Contributing Writer dominant strains for many years, ple of one of the most destructive could be its next victim. onto the membrane. We have he’s been a great patient,” Jones resulting in a lack of immune bar - global pandemics in history. Canine influenza has already shortened that process by taking said. “His situation is ideal (TriceEdneyWire.com) — riers to the susceptible population. Each year, a committee of hit Washington, California, the cells and growing them because his end goal is a high The Centers for Disease Control The peak of influenza activity is experts pick which viruses Arizona, Colorado, directly onto the scaffolding level of activity. This should be and Prevention (CDC) believes expected to continue for some time should be included in the flu Pennsylvania, and Canada. And rather than injecting them later,” done on motivated patients, not the nation is at peak flu season, and the level of influenza activity vaccine many months in just like in people, the dog flu is Jones says. people with fairly inactive goals as the disease is now considered will gradually decline. advance, in order to maximize extremely contagious — at least Ideal MACI patients are athlet - like walking at a normal pace.” to be an epidemic, based on its The good news — at least for the vaccine’s effectiveness. among the doggie community. ic, and want to maintain a high Dr. Jones reiterates that MACI medical impact. those who were vaccinated this year However, there always remains level of aerobic activity follow - works best for younger patients The rate of hospitalizations for with the quadrivalent flu vaccine the possibility that the viruses The information included in this ing their knee repair. One of with knee defects, or for highly pneumonia and the flu is contin - (contains H3N2, H1N1, and 2 B will drift during that time. Some column is for educational purpos - Ochsner’s first MACI recipients athletic individuals. uing to climb amid a CDC warn - strains) — is that three of the four critics have commented that this es only. Glenn Ellis, is a Health was Michael Bergin, a longtime “This is a big procedure, but ing of several more weeks of vaccine strains are expected to pro - drift is the most concerning Advocacy Communications athlete with an enduring love for for some people it makes com - significant flu activity. vide relatively decent protection. aspect of the current epidemic. Specialist. He is the author of triathlons and cross-fit that led to plete sense to go through this. I The flu has officially reached When is a disease outbreak a Basic precautions may spare Which Doctor?, and Information significant knee damage. “Over am so excited that we are epidemic levels in the U.S. It is concern? And what is the differ - you and your family from days in is the Best Medicine. For more the last couple of years I started allowed to do this, and to see the widespread in 49 states and 20 ence between an epidemic and a bed. As much as possible, avoid good health information, visit experiencing a lot of pain while positive results that we’ve seen children have died so far this sea - pandemic? people who are sick. Wash your www.glennellis.com. ◊ playing hockey, running, or so far,” Jones said.◊ son. Seniors have been most hard A disease outbreak happens hands frequently and avoid hit by the current flu season, with when a disease occurs in greater touching your mouth, nose and 38.3 hospitalizations per 100,000 numbers than expected in a com - eyes. Masks aren’t particularly population of the over-65s. The munity or region or during a sea - effective in keeping you from majority of hospitalized adults – son. An outbreak may occur in catching the flu, although they 96 percent — had at least one one community or even extend may help keep sick people who reported underlying medical con - to several countries. It can last wear them from spreading their dition, the report says. Most com - from days to years. germs. If you are sick, cover monly, these underlying condi - Sometimes a single case of a your cough and stay home from tions were metabolic disorders, contagious disease is considered work if you can, Bergen said. cardiovascular disease and obesity. an outbreak. This may be true if it Remaining hydrated, eating Influenza is an acute respirato - is an unknown disease, is new to a nutritious foods and exercising ry tract caused by the influenza community, or has been absent can also help strengthen your virus infection, easy to pop in from a population for a long time. immune system. Because elderly the crowd in the spring and win - An epidemic occurs when an people are so vulnerable to the flu, ter. Flu begins abruptly, mostly infectious disease spreads rapid - some nursing homes and assisted- self-limiting, but some due to ly to many people. For example, living facilities may limit visitors complications such as pneumo - in 2003, the severe acute respira - and resident activities, depending nia may appear to develop tory syndrome (SARS) epidemic on the level of illness. severe flu. took the lives of nearly 800 peo - There is no foolproof method for Since winter 2017, the level of ple worldwide. preventing the spread of disease influenza activity increased rap - Although the word “epidemic” during an influenza outbreak, epi - idly and is still on the rise. And sounds alarming, it is not uncom - demic, or pandemic. Although a more hospital emergency depart - mon for a harsh flu season to be vaccine is not likely to be avail - ment, hospitalized, and critically described as such. The CDC con - able at first, today it is easier to ill patients increased pressure sider a flu season to reach epidemic produce specific vaccines more treatment. level when a threshold of deaths quickly than in the past. Expert analysis has determined attributable to pneumonia and Oh, by the way, just when you that this winter’s influenza high is influenza has passed. The surveil - thought the current flu epidemic caused by a combination of fac - lance report confirms that the cur - couldn’t get any worse: tors. They mainly include: Winter rent proportion of deaths is right on Apparently, the nasty illness is the influenza high season. This that threshold, which is 6.8 percent. isn’t just infecting humans. year the dominant strains (b-type A pandemic is a global disease There’s a bout of dog flu going

As U.S. birthrates drop, Kimberly-Clark feels the pinch (AP) — Americans are having under 30 are having fewer children the job cuts would take place. fewer babies, and diaper makers and aren’t in the market for dia - Makers of consumer products are are feeling the pinch. pers, tissue and other products that also getting squeezed between Kimberly-Clark said last month new parents buy in bulk. higher commodity prices and it will cut as many as 5,500 jobs, or “You can’t encourage moms to lower retail prices as shoppers 13 percent of its workforce, in an use more diapers in developed scour the internet for the best attempt to lower costs. markets when the babies aren’t deals. While competitor Procter & The job cuts come as the maker being born in those markets,” Gamble also reported earnings that of Huggies and Kleenex — like Kimberly-Clark CEO Tom Falk met expectations, analysts showed other consumer-products compa - said in a conference call. some concern about the first quar - nies — is seeing a decline in The Dallas-based company also terly price decline since 2011, as demand for some core products as said that it plans to close or sell well poor diaper sales. U.S. birthrates fall. about 10 manufacturing plants Kimberly-Clark Corp. antici - According to the National Center while expanding production pates pre-tax savings of $500 mil - for Health Statistics, the general elsewhere. It’s also looking to lion to $550 million by the end of fertility rate fell 11 percent exit or sell some low-margin 2021 from the cost-cutting between 2007 and 2016. Only pro - businesses that make up about moves. It foresees total pre-tax visional data is available for 2017, one percent of company sales. restructuring charges in a range but it tells the same story: Women The company did not say where of $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 Book launch and forum to focus on young Black males Three Xavier University of medical students struggled with both the great and small,” Dr. Louisiana graduates — Dr. Pierre the demands of the university’s Madhere claims. “Having gone Johnson, Dr. Maxime Madhere and rigorous curriculum, but formed a through the process of writing this Dr. Joseph Semien — are debuting bond that allowed them to succeed, book with my brothers, I am hope - their new book, The Pulse of despite the challenges and setbacks ful that our stories might speak to a Perseverance , with a Q&A forum, each faced. Pulse of Perseverance young reader and offer him or her book signing and reception event relates a story familiar to many some degree of support or direc - at Xavier University of Louisiana urban youth, and provides a tion; who knows what sharing our on Thursday, February 15, from 6 roadmap for how they can over - stories might lead to? Perhaps p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Qatar come. “Fear of failure haunts us someday, one of our readers will Pharmacy Pavilion Lobby and all, but it’s not failure itself that go on to change the world.” Atrium. This event, hosted by counts, it’s how we respond to fail - “Xavier has held true to the belief Xavier University President Dr. ure that makes the difference,” Dr. that every student can succeed,” Reynold Verret, is free and open to Semien says. “No one’s journey in stated Dr. Norman C. Francis, life is perfect; my own life is a tes - President Emeritus of Xavier. the public. Drs. Madhere, Semien and Johnson Award-winning New York Times tament to that.” “Each student is given the support investigative journalist Nikole By sharing their personal strug - they need from the Xavier commu - inspired founding vision to guide pre-college readiness. At Xavier, we investment of academic institu - Hannah-Jones will moderate the gles and ultimate triumphs, the nity to achieve greatness. I am the path into an ambitious future,” embrace each one with an expecta - tions like Xavier University of discussion about the book, which authors aim to empower and inspire proud to have served as President of Xavier University President Dr. tion of greatness, and they leave us Louisiana in students of color. details the three men’s struggles to Black youth to work towards their this institution for half a century Reynold Verret said. “We continue ready to serve and to lead.” The book is available for pur - overcome the obstacles of poverty, goals. But more than that, they hope and I look forward to watching it to sustain the unique educational The Pulse of Perseverance is an chase on Amazon.com. You can inadequate K-12 educations and this book will help redefine the por - continue to grow and succeed as we experience that has yielded so much inspirational story of success; one learn more about Pulse of family dysfunction as they pursued trayal of the Black male. move into the future.” success. We know that students that demonstrates the importance Perseverance and its authors at their dreams of becoming doctors. “I find inspiration and hope in “T oday, we are building on our come to us with different levels of of a strong support system and the www.thepulseofp3.com .◊ The forum will also highlight the role that Xavier University of Louisiana, which sends more Black undergraduates on to become doc - tors than any other college in the Does your body need vitamin supplements? country, played in their success. “Xavier University itself was By Fr. Jerome LeDoux longed, severe vitamin D deficien - increased risk of death from car - vitamins because of lack of situations. It my saving grace. It would’ve Contributing Columnist cy during childhood, known as diovascular disease, cognitive appetite, trouble chewing, fixed boosts the been very easy for me to slip rickets, can delay growth and lead impairment in older adults, severe budgets, trouble finding healthy immune sys - through the cracks during the aca - When I was on the mend from to visible deformities in our skele - asthma in children, and cancer. foods, and because their aging tem, reduces demic valleys of my freshman two cracked ribs, etc., the doctor ton. Vitamin D deficiency is very Symptoms of vitamin D deficien - bodies no longer process vitamins inflammation, year, but Xavier actively worked prescribed, among other pills, a common. It is estimated that about cy may be fatigue not caused by so well as they used to. We must stimulates exertion, general aches, bone also admit that achieving good weight loss, to identify and support students once- a-week-50,000-unit pill for 1 billion people worldwide have LEDOUX like me,” says Dr. Johnson. vitamin D. That set me to won - low levels of the vitamin in their and/or back pains from no trace - nutrition is more than a notion. lowers the risk Rising from backgrounds marked dering about the implications or blood. Among the 41.6 percent of able cause, getting sick or infected Researchers have found that of rheumatoid by violence, drug use and personal even the necessity of vitamin D. the vitamin-D-deficient Americans often, depression, impaired wound increasing levels of vitamin D3 arthritis, promotes strong bones, struggle, Doctors Pierre Johnson, An online check showed that (69.2 percent in Hispanics and healing, bone loss, hair loss, a among the general population makes you happier, keeps you Maxime Madhere and Joseph vitamin D is vitally necessary to 82.1 percent in African sweaty head, trouble with one’s gut could prevent chronic diseases that mentally alert, promotes emotion - Semien show that their trialsa and our health and well-being. It Americans), the potential health or digestive system. claim nearly one million lives al stability, fends off cancer, heart tribulations were stepping stones facilitates the absorption and consequences of this epidemic are Since vitamin D is made from globally each year. Also, incidence disease and diabetes. rather than roadblocks. metabolism of phosphorous and serious, for the deficiency is linked cholesterol by our bodies when our of several types of cancer could be Therefore, how much, if any, At Xavier University of calcium, thus enabling the devel - to osteoporosis, diabetes, autoim - skin is exposed to sunlight, dark- slashed in half. Good levels of D3 supplemental vitamins should we Louisiana, these three Black pre - opment of strong bones. mune diseases, high blood pres - skinned people can have a vitamin reduce the risk of flu, the risk of be taking? In its most extreme form, pro - sure, poor pregnancy outcomes, an D deficiency caused by sun block - diabetes, and develops healthy My thoughts automatically ran age by their skin’s melanin. If you infants and healthy pregnancies. to a one-a-day pill to cover all are exposed to enough sunshine, as Sufficient vitamin D3 reduces vitamins, needs and eventuali - people are who live near the equa - the dangers of radiation. Although ties. Centrum I had heard so tor, you should not need a vitamin we may be entirely unaware of it, much about. Could this be the Zenaura Melynia Smith to be laid D supplement. Unless you com - we are exposed to low levels of panacea, even though its vitamin pensate by exposure to the sun or radiation – besides the sun – in our D component lasts only several products like soy milk, you may everyday lives on a regular basis, hours? For most doctors, it to rest Feb. 5 in Texarkana, Tx need a vitamin D supplement if such as getting x-rays. However, apparently is. With the one you are a total vegan. Vitamin D is consuming Vitamin D can protect caveat that one can take too “A beautiful spirit, an artist Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe and also found in certain foods such as our body, too. In its active form, much vitamin D, persons at low- who grew flowers, vegetables other mystery writers. She said, “So fatty fish and fortified dairy prod - Vitamin D3 will help fight prob - vitamin risk should choose a and the first purple bell pepper I many books; so little time. ” ucts, although it is very difficult to lems caused by radiation-induced good one-a-day vitamin.◊ ever ate,” Valentine Pierce says She collected dolls of all kinds get enough from diet alone. The of her daughter, Zenaura Melynia and about 60 at last count. recommended daily intake is usu - Smith, whose life was tragically She liked thrift-store shopping ally around 400-800 IU, but many cut short on July 31, 2016. “She with her mother, Valentine Pierce, experts say you should get even baked cakes filled with nuts, clowning around with her brother, more than that. chocolates and other delights. Lester Jeshua Smith, sleepovers Common risk factors for vitamin “One day after school she took with her friends, Cary Figueroa D deficiency: having dark skin, old her new dress, a favorite doll, a and Sarah Moore, camping with age, obesity, not consuming raincoat and asked, ‘Mommy, my Mom #2, Lynne Schroth, decorat - enough fish, fish oil or flax oil, classmate’s house burned down. ing with her late grandmother, eggs or milk, living too far from Can I give her this?’ She drew Carlota Houlemard. the equator, always using sun - hands pushing up balloons with She knew what she wanted, what screen when outdoors, staying such energy the hands and balloons she liked and never let anyone or indoors too much. seemed to be moving.” anything push her off course. She In its online information, Zenaura wrote her own fantas - ZENAURA SMITH had a sweet disposition, a gentle - WebMD observes that, regardless tical stories. Spent 20 minutes December 4, 1982 – July 31, 2016 ness, a caring attitude but it was of age, most people should not talking about the importance of wise not to push her button. She need supplemental vitamins. the rainforest; she wasn’t even had her grandmother’s fighting Rather, the best way to get vita - glass bottles with them; they 10 years old. spirit and a wit that would leave mins, minerals and other nutrients shouldn’t have had them at the Friends regularly requested her you weak. She loved New Orleans we need is through the things we parade; people could get hurt. handmade calendars. She loved and it loved her. eat and drink. Thus, we must Lord of Strolled through the French “Bonanza,” “Hitchcock,” Internment: Tuesday, February, maintain a good, balanced food the Rings Anima Nightmare Quarter, down Magazine Street. She , , 5, 2018, 2:30 p.m., Chapelwoods regimen loaded with fruits and Before Christmas Riddick created short films, designed books, , and Memorial Gardens, 1001 N. Kings vegetables, nuts, low-fat dairy or Coraline used a floor lamp as a body form to . Highway, Texarkana, TX 75501 plant-based milk, abundant fluids, hand-sew her Halloween costume. Muses and Nix were her favorite with a Memorial, Tribute repast at healthy oils, good proteins and In sixth grade she would come parades; she had no qualms about The Silvermoon on Broad, 217 W whole grains. However, there are home with three-inch books by Ray telling college kids to take their Broad St, Texarkana, TX 75501.◊ people who need supplemental

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that we may have come to a fork Racism as a treacherous denial of the existence of God in the road, to a place where we Continued from Page 5 look at man as if he were a horse.” recalcitrant aspect of the evil of reason,” then we are living in an for racists; the God of the Right must decide which “side” we’re (Abraham Heschel; Essential man. “Racism,” says Niebuhr, era of high threat. The negative is fairly lenient. The Religious on – the side of a compassionate said “racism is worse than idola - Writings, p. 66) “is a “treacherous denial of the energy which is racism is swirling, Right is quick to condemn peo - God who loves all, or on the side try. Racism is Satanism,unmitigat - In that work, Heschel quotes existence of God.” working itself into a Tsunami ple for actions they consider of a god who is sexist, racist and ed evil.” He said, as has the Rev. the late Reinhold Niebuhr, who If, as Heschel says, racism is which will damage more people “sin,” most notably abortion and who sanctions and allows hatred C.T. Vivian has said, “You cannot said, “Race prejudice, a univer - “man’s greatest threat to man, the than we might care to think about. homosexuality. Members of the and the dehumanization of peo - worship God and at the same time sal human ailment, is the most maximum hatred for a minimum of In listening to some “conserva - Religious Right are quick to ple supposedly created by God. tive” religious voices support the ascribe natural disasters to a God People who, like the president president’s racism, it is hard to rec - angry about sin. spew their hatred with little fear oncile their words with a perception Racism never makes the list. It of divine retribution. They prac - What could be worse? of God as being entirely different. apparently is not punishable. tice a religion which is an insult This divide between the “God of the But if, as Heschel says, “racism to the concept of a good God. It Continued from Page 5 sides can live—even when that Meehan denied that he sexually compromise is objectionable or harassed her. He did, however, Left” and the “God of the Right,” is worse than idolatry,” if it is is no wonder that many people agreed to give #45 money he’d disappointing to supporters. offer an excuse for his workplace which is really an artificial division “Satanism,” then what’s up with have turned away from religion; requested to build his “Mexican ONE: Finally, the week’s worst behavior that flows straight from created by culture, causes consterna - the inaction of God? Heschel says as a cultural phenomenon, it is Border Wall,” #45 reneged on that rears its ugly head! Pennsylvania the rightwing Republican play - tion in those who are seeking to that “in dishonoring the Negro’s abusive and oppressive, blind to agreement which led to the shut - Republican Congressman Pat book. His excuse was that he make sense out of a situation which name, people “profane” God’s the pain its beliefs, language and down vote. Although claiming he Meehan is the “hands down” win - blamed President Obama!!! He makes no sense at all. The divide name. These white people who live practices cause so many. wanted to resolve the DACA crisis, ner of my “What Could Be Worse” said that he worked so hard to shows that we practice a “cultural in racist thought continue to #45 disappeared from public view, award. Meehan is accused of sexu - repeal the Affordable Care Act Christianity,” as opposed to a plough over the hearts, minds, The Rev. Susan K Smith is an but published photographs show - ally harassing a female staffer he (Obamacare), that his efforts “Biblical Christianity.” spirits and rights of people of ordained minister who lives in ing him at his empty Oval Office obsessively labeled his “soulmate.” stressed him out, and that he was God, it seems, lets the privi - color, and the God of the Right Columbus, Ohio. She can be desk hoping to make us believe he His infractions include creating a so stressed that any bad behavior leged have their way. There is no never says a word. reached by emailing was actively working for resolu - hostile work environment after he with which he was charged had to divine punishment for racism or With this president, it seems [email protected] .◊ tion. When Democrats reached learned of the staffer’s involvement be blamed on that Obama person! agreement with Republicans to re- with a male (outside of work) other We never heard from Republicans open the government, #45, and than himself and the probability calling for his resignation or African-American art, artifacts focus of auction many of his fellow Republicans, that she would be leaving his repayment of taxpayer dollars AP — An auction in Boston is the collection represents a “mon - Other artifacts relate to the slave rewarded them with disparaging office. Disappointed and angry, used to pay hush money to the selling off a trove of African- ument to the totality of African- trade, including small shackles that tweets and comments accusing Meehan engaged in practices that young woman involved. On his American works of art and his - American life'' in America. once restrained enslaved children them of “caving” to Republican caused his staffer to charge him own terms, he announced he torical artifacts. Among the works are photo - and a framed broadside offering a pressure. Seemingly, Republicans with sexual harassment. won’t run for re-election. “Please Remember” features graphs of Civil Rights marchers, a $100 reward for a runaway slave. have conveniently forgotten that While admitting that, after learn - These truths are stranger than items from the personal collec - signed Louis Armstrong photo - The auction is timed with democratic legislation is a process ing of her serious relationship fiction. I really worry about what tion of Eugene and Avis graph and concert program and a Black History Month. Eugene of give-and-take in order to with another, he sent the young could be worse and when that Robinson. Skinner, the auction publicity photograph of a Negro Robinson is a Washington Post achieve a plan with which both woman an emotional letter. shoe will drop!◊ house coordinating the sale, says League baseball team. columnist and author.◊

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT Notice is hereby given to all paid for funeral expenses. issuance of the order or judg - NOTICE IS GIVEN that inches 6 lines, with a width in TION OF GROUND, together Surveyor, dated July 27, 1965, FOR THE PARISH OF those it may concern, to show 2. Reimbursement for sums ment authorizing, approving and GERALDINE SEVICK, the rear of 42 feet 9 inches and with all the buildings and copy of which is annexed to an ORLEANS cause within seven (7) days, paid to Brad P. Scott – homologating such application Administratrix of the Succession which commences 168 feet 5 improvements thereon, and all act before Joseph A. STATE OF LOUISIANA including Sundays and holidays, Succession Attorney Fees and and that such order or judgment of RAYNETTE NADENE BACA, inches 2 lines from S. the rights, ways, privileges, Fiasconaro, Jr., Notary Public, NO: 09-12405 DIV: “B” from the date whereon the last Costs. may be issued after the expira - is applying for authority to sell at Robertson Street. servitudes, appurtenances and dated July 28, 1965, and SECTION: 15 publication appears, why the 3. Reimbursements for sums tion of ten (10) days, from the auction or estate sale through And further in accordance advantages, thereunto belong - according to which plan, said SUCCESSION OF said authority should not be paid for Homeowners Insurance date of the publication of such competitive bidding, on terms of with survey of J. J. Krebs & ing or anywise appertaining, sit - lots are designated by the NOS THELMA CARMOUCHE granted. 4. Attorney Fees and Costs notice, all in accordance with cash to be determined at the Sons, Inc., Surveyors, dated uated in the Parish of Orleans, 2 and 3 and measure each HANEY JONES DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk The petition can be homolo - law. sale, the items of movable prop - December 23, 1975, a print of State of Louisiana, in the Fifth THIRTY (30’) FEET FRONT on Whereas Rosetta LaVerne Atty: Joe DiMaria gated after the expiration of DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk erty owned by the Succession which is annexed to an act of District of the City of New MARENGO STREET, same Carmouche Hampton, the Publication: La. Weekly seven (7) days from the date of Atty: Neil Levith of RAYNETTE NADENE BACA, Malcolm E. Ziegler, N.P., dated Orleans, in SOUTHLAWN SUB - width in the rear by a depth of 1/15/18, 2/5/18 Publication: La. Weekly Administratrix of the above ______the publication of this notice. 2/5/18 described below. January 8, 1976, said property DIVISION, in SQUARE 2, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY estate has made application to CIVIL DISTRICT COURT Any opposition to the petition ______A .Miscellaneous Art work has the same location and des - bounded by Southlawn (120’) FEET between equal and the Court for the sale, at private FOR THE PARISH OF must be filed prior to its homolo - CIVIL DISTRICT COURT consisting of approximately 21 ignation as hereinabove set Boulevard, General Meyer parallel lines. Said LOT NO. 2 sale, the immovable property ORLEANS gation. FOR THE PARISH OF framed pieces that were located forth and measures 42 feet 9 Avenue, The Todd-Johnson being nearer to and com - described as follows: STATE OF LOUISIANA DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk ORLEANS in Decedent’s residence; inches front on General Taylor Property and Diana Street, des - mences at a distance of THIR - Decedent’s undivided ¼ Atty: Ashley U. Schmidt B. Miscellaneous Jewelry Street, same width in the rear, ignated as LOT NO. 5, all in TY-ONE FEET, SIX INCHES NO: 09-12404 DIV: “B” Publication: La. Weekly STATE OF LOUISIANA interest in and to: SECTION: 15 2/5/18 NO: 2015-6736 DIV: “J” consisting of small costume and by a depth of 76 feet, actual (75 accordance with the survey of F. (31’6”) from the corner of A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR - SUCCESSION OF ______C/W 16-10227 (F) decorative pieces that were feet 10 inches 6 lines, title) on G. Stewart, Surveyor, dated Marengo and S. Saratoga TION OF GROUND, together LEON HANEY CIVIL DISTRICT COURT SECTION “5” located in Decedent’s resi - the side line nearest S. February 21, 1949, revised Streets. with all the buildings and Whereas Rosetta LaVerne FOR THE PARISH OF IN RE: THE RUDOLPH dence. Robertson Street, and a depth June 15, 1950, re-certified cor - The improvements thereon improvements thereon, etc., sit - Carmouche Hampton, the ORLEANS GARRISON, SR. An order authorizing her to do of 76 feet 3 inches 3 lines, actu - rect April 21,, 1959, a copy of bear the Municipal Nos. 2110- uated in the FIRST DISTRICT of Administratrix of the above STATE OF LOUISIANA AND CLAUDETTE SURTAIN so may be issued after seven al (76 feet 2 inches 2 lines, title) which is annexed to an Act 12 MARENGO STREET. the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, estate has made application to NO: 18-770 DIV: “M-13 GARRISON days from the date of publica - on the opposite side line near - before Leon A. Pradel, N.P., All in accordance with a sur - PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE the Court for the sale, at private SUCCESSIONS OF JOINT LIVING TRUST AND tion of this notice. An opposition est Freret Street. dated November 27, 1959; and vey made by Gilbert, Kelly and OF LOUISIANA, in SQUARE sale, the immovable property MARY BRAUD, GLORIA THE SUCCESSION OF to the application may be filed at And further, in accordance which said lot measures Forty- Couturie, Surveyors, dated NO. 92, bounded by ST. described as follows: ANDERSON, MERCEDES RUDOLPH GARRISON, SR. any time prior to the issuance of with a survey by Walker and Seven (47’) feet front on March 27, 1974, a copy of which THOMAS, ST. JAMES, Decedent’s undivided ¼ HOLMES-SCHEXNAYDER, NOTICE OF FILING OF such an order. Avery, Inc., dated August 19, Southlawn Boulevard, the same is annexed to an act of the CHIPPEWA AND MARKET interest in and to: AND JOHN P. HOLMES FINAL ACCOUNT OF DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk 1988, said lot commences a dis - in width in the rear, by a depth of undersigned Notary of even STREETS, designated by the Atty: Ashley Schmidt tance of 91.2.1 feet from the one hundred six (106’) feet date herewith, and which shows A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR - Whereas the Administrator ADMINISTRATRIX FOR Publication: La. Weekly LETTER A-1; said lot forms the TION OF GROUND, together of the above Estate, has made PERIOD November 17, 2016 2/5/18 corner of Freret Street and between equal and parallel the hereinabove described corner of St. James and St. with all the buildings and application to the Court for the THROUGH January 24, 2018 ______General Taylor Street and lines. property as having the same sit - Thomas Streets, and runs front improvements thereon, etc., sit - sale, at private sale, of the Ms. Adria Buchanan through CIVIL DISTRICT COURT measures thence 42.9.0 feet Improvements thereon bear uation, location, boundaries, on St. Thomas Street toward uated in the FIRST DISTRICT of immovable property hereinafter her attorney, FOR THE PARISH OF front on General Taylor Street, the Municipal No. 1240 designations and measure - Market Street a distance of 29 the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, described, to-wit: Ms. Hester Hillard ORLEANS same width in the rear by a Southlawn Boulevard, New ments as hereinabove set forth. feet, 4 inches, same width in the PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE A CERTAIN LOT OF Rivertown Historic District STATE OF LOUISIANA depth of 76.2.6 feet, actual Orleans, Louisiana. Any creditors of the deceas - rear, with a depth and front on OF LOUISIANA, in SQUARE GROUND, together with all of 2100 Rev. Richard Wilson NO: 17-416 DIV: “F” (76.2.2 feet, title) along the side - Being the same property es who oppose the sale must do St. James Street of 61 feet, 10 NO. 92, bounded by ST. the buildings and improvements Drive, Suite 8 SUCCESSION OF line nearest to Freret Street and acquired by Alphretta Machana, so within seven (7) days of the inches between equal and par - THOMAS, ST. JAMES, thereon, and all of the rights, Kenner, Louisiana 70062 MARY LUKACH KELLY a depth of 75.10.7 feet, actual wife of/and Floyd W. Diket from last date of publication issued. allel lines. CHIPPEWA AND MARKET ways, privileges, servitudes, Ms. Rachel Garrison NOTICE IS GIVEN that the (75.10.6, title) on the opposite Louise Miller, wife of/and John After seven (7) days from the The improvements thereon STREETS, designated by the appurtenances and advantages 2127 Timur Way Administratrix of the captioned sideline. L. Hansen, by act passed last publication the Court may bear the Municipal No. 1683- LETTER A-1; said lot forms the thereunto belonging or in any - Houston, TX 77047 succession has petitioned this The improvements thereon before Frederick Stephen issue an order authorizing the 1685 St. Thomas Street. corner of St. James and St. wise appertaining, situated in Ms. Elondia Bryant court for authority to compro - bear the Municipal Nos. 2511 Bowes, Notary Public, dated sale of the property for the price Notice is hereby given to all Thomas Streets, and runs front the SECOND DISTRICT of the 16702 Jelly Park Stone mise and settle claims on the and 2513 General Taylor Street. December 10, 1962, registered and sum of Two Hundred Sixty- those it may concern, to show on St. Thomas Street toward City of New Orleans, Parish of Cypress, TX 77428 terms and conditions of the UPON THE FOLLOWING in COB ____, folio ___, Parish Five Thousand and No/100 cause within seven (7) days, Market Street a distance of 29 Orleans, State of Louisiana, Mr. Rudolph Garrison, Jr, Release and Settlement TERMS AND CONDITIONS, of Orleans, Louisiana. ($265,000.00) all cash to seller, including Sundays and holidays, feet, 4 inches, same width in the designated as LOT B, of 1201 Grove Boulevard, Agreement attached to the peti - TO-WIT: The proposed sale shall be at private sale. from the date whereon the last rear, with a depth and front on SQUARE No. 311, bounded by Unit 1901 tion. Sale to be for the sum of subject to the price, terms and DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk publication appears, why the $57,000.00 CASH. Notice is conditions as set forth in the Atty: Ryan S. McBride St. James Street of 61 feet, 10 St. Ann, Tonti, Orleans and Austin, TX 78741 Any heir or creditor or other Publication: La. Weekly said authority should not be inches between equal and par - Rocheblave Street, as shown NOTICE IS GIVEN that interested party who is in oppo - hereby given to all parties to purchase agreement, a copy of 2/5/18, 2/19/18 granted. allel lines. on a blue print of a sketch and CLAUDETTE SURTAIN GAR - sition thereto must file his oppo - whom it may concern, including which is filed in these proceed - ______DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk The improvements thereon certificate of survey dated RISON SMITH, the sition within seven (7) days from the creditors of the decedent ings. Any heir or creditor who CIVIL DISTRICT COURT Atty: Joe DiMaria herein, and of their estates be opposes the proposed sale Publication: La. Weekly bear the Municipal No. 1683- October 6, 1927, signed by G. Administratrix of the SUCCES - the date of last publication of FOR THE PARISH OF 1/15/18, 2/5/18 1685 St. Thomas Street. A. Robert, C.E., annexed to an SION OF RUDOLPH GARRI - this notice. ordered to make any opposition must file his or her opposition ORLEANS ______Notice is hereby given to all act of sale and mortgage before SON, SR., has filed her Final DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk which they have or may have to within seven (7) days from the STATE OF LOUISIANA CIVIL DISTRICT COURT those it may concern, to show Theodore A. beck, late Notary Account as Administratrix for Atty: Patrick Miller such application, at any time, date on which the last publica - NO: 2004-16439 DIV: “D” Publication: La. Weekly prior to the issuance of the order tion of this notice appears. FOR THE PARISH OF cause within seven (7) days, Public in this city, under date of the period of November 17, 2/5/18 SECTION: 16 ORLEANS including Sundays and holidays, January 21, 1930. According to 2016 through January 24, 2018, ______or judgment authorizing, DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk SUCCESSION OF Atty: George Pivach, II STATE OF LOUISIANA from the date whereon the last which said survey, said lot com - and that the Account may be CIVIL DISTRICT COURT approving and homologating OPHELIA RILEY SIMMONS such applications and that such Publication: La. Weekly NO: 09-12402 DIV: “E” publication appears, why the mences at a distance of eighty- homologated after the expira - FOR THE PARISH OF 2/5/18, 2/26/18 NOTICE OF APPLICATION SECTION: 7 said authority should not be eight feet, eleven inches and tion of ten (10) days from the ORLEANS order or judgment may be used ______FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL SUCCESSION OF granted. two lines (88’11”2’”) from the date of publication of this STATE OF LOUISIANA after the expiration of seven (7) CIVIL DISTRICT COURT IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT HILDA BEATRICE DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk corner of St. Ann and Tonti Notice. Any opposition to the NO: 2008-11578 DIV: “G” days, from the date of the last FOR THE PARISH OF PRIVATE SALE CARMOUCHE JOHNSON, Atty: Joe DiMaria Streets and measures thence Account must be filed prior to publication of such notice, all in ORLEANS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Publication: La. Weekly SUCCESSION OF wife of/and thirty Feet (30’) front on St. Ann homologation. BARBARA BENJAMIN accordance with law. STATE OF LOUISIANA that the Executrix of the 1/15/18, 2/5/18 DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk EDDIE JOHNSON ______Street, the same width in the DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk JAMES NO: 2016-6912 DIV: “I” Succession of Ophelia Riley Whereas Rosetta LaVerne rear by a depth on the side line Atty: Carol A. Newman Atty: Joseph C. Coates, III SUCCESSION OF Simmons has petitioned the CIVIL DISTRICT COURT Publication: La. Weekly NOTICE OF APPLICATION Publication: La. Weekly Carmouche Hampton, the FOR THE PARISH OF towards Tonti Street of eighty- 2/5/18 TO SELL IMMOVABLE 2/5/18, 2/26/18 ETHEL L. PRICE HARPER Court for authority to sell all of Administratrix of the above ORLEANS one feet, four inches and six ______PROPERTY ______AND this succession’s right, title, and estate has made application to STATE OF LOUISIANA lines (81’4”6’”), a depth on the CIVIL DISTRICT COURT NOTICE IS HEREBY given CIVIL DISTRICT COURT LESTER JAMES interest in and to the following the Court for the sale, at private NO: 16-4110 DIV: “C” other side line towards FOR THE PARISH OF that JENNIFER HAMES WHIT - FOR THE PARISH OF HARPER, JR. described property at private sale, the immovable property SECTION “10” Rocheblave Street of eighty-one ORLEANS TINGTON, Testamentary ORLEANS NOTICE BY PUBLICATION sale for the price of $2.15 per described as follows: SUCCESSION OF feet, five inches and five lines STATE OF LOUISIANA Executrix of this succession, STATE OF LOUISIANA OF APPLICATION FOR square foot, cash, payable at Decedent’s undivided ½ FRANKIE MCKINNEY DODY (81’5”5’”). NO: 2016-12778 DIV: H-12 has petitioned the Court for NO: 16-10330 DIV: “E-16” AUTHORITY TO SELL act of sale, as set forth in the interest in and to: NOTICE OF FILING OF The above described proper - SUCCESSION OF authority to sell at private sale to SUCCESSION OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY Petition; any opposition to the A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR - TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION ty is shown on plan of J. J. JOHN WILLIS MAULDIN 3F Properties of Louisiana, LLC ALPHRETTA JUNE Notice is hereby given that proposed sale must be filed TION OF GROUND, together NOTICE IS GIVEN that Krebs & Sons, Surveyors, dated Notice is hereby given to all its successors and/or assigns MARGARET MACHANA Angela Williams Martin duly within seven (7) days from the with all the buildings and ROMAN G. DODY, October 4, 1951, according to creditors of this estate and all the following described property DIKET qualified Administratrix of the date of the last publication of improvements thereon, etc., sit - Administrator of the Succession which the above described other interested persons to in accordance with all terms and NOTICE OF APPLICATION Succession of ETHEL L. PRICE this Notice: uated in the FIRST DISTRICT of of FRANKIE MCKINNEY property has the same location show cause within seven (7) conditions contained in the FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL HARPER has made application An undivided one-quarter the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, DODY, is apply for authority to and measurements as herein - days fro the publication of this Petition filed in this matter. IMMOVABLE PROPERTY to the Court for authority to sell interest in: PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE pay estate debts of the succes - above given, all as well appear notice, if they have or can show A 100% interest in the follow - Notice is hereby given that an undivided one-half (½) inter - A CERTAIN LOT OR PAR - OF LOUISIANA, in SQUARE sion in accordance with a from a print of said survey. cause why the Tableau of ing described property, to wit: the Administratrix of the est in and to the following CEL OF GROUND, together NO. 92, bounded by ST. Tableau of Distribution, as fol - UPON THE FOLLOWING Distribution filed in the proceed - A CERTAIN LOT OF Succession of Alphretta June immovable property at private with all improvements thereon, THOMAS, ST. JAMES, lows: TERMS AND CONDITIONS, ings by Roddie Montgomery, GROUND, together with all the Margaret Machana Diket, has sale, to-wit: situated in that subdivision of CHIPPEWA AND MARKET Charges and Debts proposed TO-WIT: should not be approved and buildings and improvements petitioned this Honorable Court TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF the Parish of East Baton Rouge, STREETS, designated by the to be paid: A quitclaim deed for the back homologated and the funds dis - thereon, situated in the Sixth for authority to sell all of the suc - GROUND, together with all State of Louisiana, known as LETTER A-1; said lot forms the Name of Creditor and previous taxes, the contin - tributed in accordance there - District of New Orleans, Square cession’s right, title and interest buildings and improvements STARING PLANTATION, and corner of St. James and St. 1. ROMAN G. DODY ued maintenance and improve - with. 598 bounded by General Taylor, in and to the following described thereon, and all the rights, being designated on the official Thomas Streets, and runs front 2. ROMAN G. DODY ments to the property, the cost DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk S. Robertson, Peniston and immovable property in accor - ways, privileges, servitudes, subdivision map on file and of on St. Thomas Street toward 3. ROMAN G. DODY of this transaction, and other Atty: L. Gerome Smith Freret Streets, being Lot “L” per dance with the provisions of appurtenances and advantages record in the Office of the Clerk Market Street a distance of 29 valuable consideration. Publication: La. Weekly Code of Civil Procedure: thereunto belonging or in any - and Recorder for the Parish of 4. BRA D P. SCOTT 2/5/18 plan of J. W. T. Stephens, feet, 4 inches, same width in the Amount Due Notice is hereby given to all ______Surveyor, dated April 15, 1919, All of the succession’s right, wise appertaining, situated in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rear, with a depth and front on 1. $13,138.00 parties whom it may concern, CIVIL DISTRICT COURT which lot measures 42 feet 9 title and interest in and to the the SIXTH DISTRICT of the City as LOT 43 of said subdivision. St. James Street of 61 feet, 10 2. $8,031.02 including the heirs and creditors FOR THE PARISH OF inches front on General Taylor following described property, to of New Orleans, in SQUARE Said lot subject to the servi - inches between equal and par - 3. $3,308.68 of the decedent herein, and of ORLEANS Street, by a depth of 76 feet 2 wit: NO. 518, bounded by MAREN - tudes and easements of record. allel lines. 4. $4,296.38 this estate, be ordered to make inches 2 lines on the side An undivided one-half inter - GO, S. SARATOGA and MILAN DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk STATE OF LOUISIANA Atty: Barrington R. Neil The improvements thereon TOTAL $28,774.38 any opposition which they have NO: 17-5271 DIV: “I-14” towards Freret Street, by a est in and to the following STREETS and LOYOLA bear the Municipal No. 1683- or may have to such application, described property, to-wit: AVENUE and according to a Publication: La. Weekly Nature SUCCESSION OF depth on the line towards S. 2/5/18, 2/26/18 1685 St. Thomas Street. 1. Reimbursement for sums at any time, prior to the RAYNETTE NADENE BACA Robertson Street of 75 feet 10 A CERTAIN PIECE OF POR - plan of survey by F. G. Stewart, ______THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 9

mother, to bring them a meal. job that are “totally legal.” troopers — McCartney, Calvin Federal jury rejects civil rights claims Hunt and Newman were sur - The New Orleans Advocate Anderson and Tagie Journee. Continued from Page 1 Louisiana State Police Supt. Mike Orleans in larger numbers in the rounded by the state troopers and reported that McCartney blamed The troopers said Dotson fit the Edmonson failed to properly train wake of a high-profile shooting on reportedly tackled to the ground. the federal consent decree for the description of another Black who approached and detained by state the law enforcement officers under Bourbon Street in 2014. The state The state troopers backed off after killing of NOPD Officer Marcus was reportedly “shadowing” an troopers, who reportedly were his command and turned a blind troopers have been utilized by the Officer Hunt arrived on the scene McNeil, who used a stun gun on a undercover drug transaction that responding to a report of several eye toward their aggressive tactics. City of New Orleans to bolster and confronted them. suspect before being fatally shot. State Police were conducting in Black males in a car firing shots in U.S. District Judge Susie public safety and lend support to The families of both teens filed “It seems like the NOPD offi - the French Quarter. the CBD. The barber said he was Morgan presidents over the feder - the undermanned NOPD, which a federal complaint against the cers were afraid of getting in The state troopers reportedly questioned and roughed up by the ally mandated NOPD consent has lost more than 400 officers state troopers. trouble based on the consent grabbed Dotson’s iPhone out of state troopers and required medical decree which aims to bring the since New Orleans Mayor Mitch The Landrieu administration decree,” McCartney said. his hand, questioned him and, treatment for injuries sustained city’s troubled police department Landrieu took office in 2010. sought to distance itself from the “There’s going to be part of me according to Dotson, refused to during the violent encounter. up to federal standards for consti - The arrangement hasn’t always incident by suggesting that it that’s always going to wonder if give him their names or badge Before the federal jury’s Jan. 29 tutional policing. The NOPD and worked out for Black males, involved state troopers and not that man would have been alive if numbers. According to the law - ruling, the plaintiffs’ case was the City of New Orleans began including teenagers Sidney New Orleans police, but video sur - it weren’t for the consent decree.” suit, the troopers then pushed weakened by a ruling by U.S. implementing the 492-point con - Newman and Ferdinand Hunt who veillance later showed a white Jim Craig, Dotson’s attorney, Dotson against a wall, hand - District Judge Susie Morgan, who sent decree in August 2013. were attacked by plainclothes state female NOPD officer directing the called upon the New Orleans City cuffed him and searched him in ruled that the plaintiffs failed to The Dotson lawsuit underscores troopers in 2014 while standing plainclothes state troopers to con - Council and the new administra - an effort to identify him. demonstrate a pattern of civil the blurred lines between the around in the French Quarter after a front the teenagers. tion to reconsider the deployment The encounter then escalated rights violations and dismissed NOPD and the Louisiana State Carnival parade waiting for NOPD The NOPD consent decree for - of state troopers in New Orleans. when McCartney attempted to take Dotson’s claims that former Police, who were deployed to New Officer Betty Hunt, Ferdinand’s bids racial profiling and allows “The people of New Orleans a picture of Dotson while the teen officers to make investigatory should be alarmed that the state was lying on the ground and Dotson stops only when they have “rea - troopers patrolling the streets of told him that he did not have permis - sonable suspicion that a person has New Orleans refuse to acknowl - sion to photograph him. been, is or is about to be engaged edge or abide by the basic pro - McCartney claims Dotson kicked DNA evidence proves manJeff erisonn Pnarisoh Dcistreict Anttot rney’s in the commission of a crime.” tections outlined in the NOPD him twice while the teen said he Continued from Page 1 cross-examine the state’s witnesses about the identification and pre - Office to vacate Alexander’s con - “We were never told not to do consent decree,” Craig said. only “raised his knee” to block the array that was shown to the victim sented a closing argument that was viction and dismiss the indictment our job,” Edmonson is quoted as Lyle Dotson, an 18-year-old col - camera’s view of his face. more than four months after she was a mere four pages of the 87-page in court Tuesday. saying in a recent deposition. He lege student, and several of his The federal jury rejected attacked at gunpoint by a complete transcript, according to the report. “We are grateful to Jefferson added that City of New Orleans classmates from Ball State Dotson’s claims that he was stranger, according to the report. The report said Alexander Parish District Attorney Paul officials “clearly knew what we University in Indiana were visiting detained without “reasonable The report goes on to say that the received a life sentence for the Connick for working with the brought to the table” when they the city to study New Orleans archi - suspicion” and that he was assailant was behind the victim for guilty verdict. Although the attor - Innocence Project and for the requested assistance patrolling tecture when the incident occurred. arrested without probable cause. the entirety of the crime, and her ney promised to file an appeal of cooperation of the Jefferson Parish the French Quarter. Dotson got separated from the Although it did not award any opportunity to view him was the verdict, he never did. Sheriff’s Office in correcting this Sgt. Huey McCartney, one of group while on Bourbon Street damages, the jury found that extremely limited. According to The Innocence Project first took grave injustice,” said Barry the three state troopers named in and was on the phone with his McCartney violated Dotson’s police reports, the victim “tenta - up Alexander’s case in 1996 but Scheck, co-director of the the Dotson lawsuit, said in a dep - father, a Ball State University Fourth Amendment rights “by tively” selected Alexander’s photo. quickly learned that the rape kit Innocence Project. osition that his NOPD counter - professor who accompanied the continuing to detain (him) after A review of the trial by the and a semen-stained towel had Alexander, 58, sat quietly and parts seem to be afraid to per - students on the trip, when he was any reasonable suspicion for the Innocence Project revealed that been destroyed only four years smiled broadly as friends and form basic components of their approached by the three state stop had dissipated. ”◊ Alexander’s attorney failed to make after his conviction. relatives applauded and cried court appearances and to file impor - In 2013, hair evidence recovered after state District Judge June tant pleadings, including a motion from the location where the rape Darensburg ordered his release. challenging the identification. took place was found at the Roughly two hours later, he A review of the one-day trial Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office walked out of the Jefferson Office of Juvenile Justice transcript reveals that the attorney, Crime Lab. According to the Parish jail in the New Orleans Continued from Page 1 Morrell said. “They already have “LSU projects that raising the who was subsequently disbarred, report, three crime scene hairs had suburb of Gretna. a tremendous amount of turnover age will save us $20 million annu - failed to make an opening state - the same DNA profile that did not Alexander was reunited with that at-risk children need to get from burnout.” ally in reduced recidivism costs,” ment, did not call any witnesses for match to Alexander or the victim. his family in Gretna Tuesday back on track.” This would be a serious loss to the Morrell wrote. “At that rate, the the defense, failed to adequately This new evidence led the afternoon. Rachel Gassert, policy director city and state because, as Morrell $11 million proposed cut to OJJ “I thank y’all from the bottom of for the Louisiana Center for put it, “A good probation officer now would cost us $100 million in my heart,” Alexander’s sobbing Children’s Rights, said this will helps people stay out of jail.” savings in just five years.” mother, Maudra Alexander, 82 and eliminate probation programs for Children who avoid the adult Speaking to The Louisiana in a wheelchair, told a group of juveniles entirely in some parts of system are also able to avoid the Weekly , Morrell detailed some of Gasser sentencing Innocence Project lawyers and oth - the state. Judges dealing with juve - physical and sexual abuse the basic components of juvenile being when the offender has a Continued from Page 1 ers as court recessed. nile offenders will be left with the endemic in adult prisons. In justice that could be affected by the specific intent to kill or inflict “I’ve been praying my whole life choice of issuing a verbal warning January, a 17-year-old prisoner budget cuts. Teenagers in jail are If either of them had let it go, we great bodily harm. for this,” Alexander’s son, in court or incarcerating the child. in East Baton Rouge Parish filed supposed to have a status hearing wouldn’t be here today.” Manslaughter is a homicide Malcolm Stewart, said. He and Gassert said the money the state a federal lawsuit claiming sher - with a judge every six to nine Matt Goetz, Gasser’s attorney, which would ordinarily be second- other members were separated will save from the proposed cuts is iff’s staff left him vulnerable to months to make sure they aren’t told the jury that McKnight chose degree murder, except it was com - from Alexander — still-shackled a mirage because it costs more rape by an inmate with HIV. being abused. But the OJJ has to to pursue his client. mitted in sudden passion or heat of and clad in prison orange — by a money to imprison these children. Morrell’s editorial also discussed transport these prisoners from the “(Mr. McKnight) chose to drive blood, immediately caused by courtroom railing but were able to “It may seem like a cut now, but the “Raise the Age Act,” which was facility to the courthouse. This like a maniac. He chose to almost provocation sufficient to deprive talk to him, and gather information it’s actually an increase in expendi - overwhelmingly passed by the costs money. Programs educating run Ronnie off an embankment,” an average person of his self-con - such as shoe and clothing sizes tures in reality,” Gassert said. House of Representatives and police officers and D.A.s about the Goetz said. “Joe McKnight makes trol or cool reflection. ahead of his release. Morrell warned that the cuts to changed the minimum age to charge state’s focus on charging juveniles the fatal choice to scream obscen - Negligent homicide is the killing Jefferson Parish D.A. Paul probation programs might require someone as an adult from 17 to 18. as juveniles could also be cut. ities, scream threats, then get in of a human without any intent to Connick later released a statement already overworked probation offi - Louisiana had been one of only a “We cannot cut vital services for my client’s car.” kill but occurs when a person acts saying he agreed that Alexander cers to do even more. 2012 statis - few states that required all 17-year- kids to save money now because Gasser said he shot McKnight in a negligent manner. should be freed. “After an exten - tics by the Louisiana Probation and olds to be tried as adults. we will pay tenfold for it in after the former football player Louisiana requires only 10 of sive investigation during the past Parole Office in New Orleans said Morrell also echoed Gassert’s decades to come,” Morrell wrote. “lunged” in his blue Infiniti 12 jurors to come to the same two and a half years, I agreed with the average caseload in the city sentiments that investing in juve - “Unemployment, incarceration, when the men stopped at the conclusion about a defendant’s Mr. Alexander’s post-conviction (149 cases per officer) was more nile programs and the Raise the and a woefully unskilled work - Terrytown intersection. guilt, unless the case involves attorneys that the defense attorney than twice the national average Age Act will ultimately save the force are what we will reap Physical evidence at the crime the death penalty. during the daylong trial 37 years (70), with the state’s average case - state money. But if the juvenile through the seeds of our inaction.” scene indicated that Gasser shot Some legal experts have said that ago provided ineffective represen - load (134) being just under twice programs are gutted by budget Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office McKnight three times from his the defense has a good shot at tation in violation of his constitu - the national average. cuts, they won’t be able to proper - did not return The Louisiana driver’s seat as McKnight rested being granted an appeal, given the tional rights,” Connick said in a “We have a tremendous prob - ly serve the influx of young Weekly’s request for comment as his left hand on Gasser’s passen - fact that Gasser did not take the news release.◊ lem hiring probation officers,” offenders being tried as juveniles. of press time.◊ ger-side window. stand during the trial and the judge Prosecutor Shannon Swaim told allowed the prosecution to intro - the jury, “Someone is dead, and duce evidence of the earlier road- they’re not coming back, and that’s rage incident to the jury. a big, big deal He’s dead because “I thought this was a very close of the choices Mr. Gasser made.” case,” Dane Ciolino, a Loyola Shortly before that, Goetz said University law professor, told his client had no choice but to WWL News. react the way he did. He added that there were a cou - “What do you think he ple of keys in the case. The first (McKnight) was going to do when was that the defense did not call he went to that window?” he asked a single witness. the jury. “Invite him to tea?” “I was very surprised that Mr. The defense presented no wit - Gasser didn’t take the stand. It’s nesses during the trial, despite the very, very difficult for a defendant prosecution telling the jury of a to win a self-defense case without similar road-rage incident involv - taking the stand, looking them in ing Gasser 10 years earlier at the the eye, subjecting to cross exami - same intersection where the deadly nation,” Ciolino said. shooting took place. He said it was a long trial and the After McKnight allegedly cut off jury did see more than seven hours Gasser on the Crescent City of police questioning Gasser. Connection, a five-mile chase However, he said the whole ensued which ended at the inter - process is not over yet as the section of Behrman Highway and defense said it will appeal. Holmes Boulevard in Terrytown. “I think that Mr. Gasser’s case The Jefferson Parish jury, which presents substantial issues on began its deliberations after 90 appeal, which is usual in crimi - minutes of closing arguments on nal cases. This one has meat to it, Jan. 26, returned a 10-2 and will be another difficult manslaughter verdict nearly seven decision,” he said. and a half hours later. Jefferson Parish Judge Ellen The jury — which was com - Kovach decided to allow the jury prised of six white females, four to hear about Ronald Gasser’s white men, one Hispanic female road-rage incident at the very same and one Black female – had the intersection 10 years ago. option of convicting Gasser of “When jurors hear about miscon - second-degree murder or acquit duct in the past, they do tend to him of the charge. give it a lot of weight,” Ciolino Jurors also were allowed to told WWL News. consider lesser charges, includ - He said that most judges keep ing manslaughter or negligent that “character evidence” out of homicide. the courtroom, however this time The jury was instructed on the it was admitted. legal bar, or what prosecutors “That evidence really did taint this needed to prove for each charge. trial from start to finish,” he said. Second-degree murder, which As a result, Ciolino said he carries a mandatory life sen - believes that Gasser’s team has a tence, is the killing of a human real shot at an appeal.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 10 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018 Louisiana’s government and corporate drone usage grows By Susan Buchanan detection and ranging—is a remote our projects,” CPRA spokesman Contributing Writer sensing technology. “These small Chuck Perrodin said last week. drones can fly for 30 minutes to an Jim LaCour, veterinarian with the Drones or Unmanned Aerial hour before we need to replace the state’s Department of Wildlife and Systems are used in Louisiana battery on them,” he said. “They Fisheries, said his agency began for coastal mapping and restora - fly slowly and close to the ground, using drones in the fall of 2016 and tion, flood monitoring, wildlife providing very high-resolution owns two of them. “So far we’ve surveys, crop management, law images that can’t be acquired by used them for wildlife surveys and enforcement and oil-and-gas manned aircraft.” Woolpert has bird egg counts and to assess feral activities. Nationally, small geo-spatial mapping contracts with hog damage,” LaCour said. drones registered with the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Meanwhile, at the state’s Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Emergency Department of Transportation and exceeded one million last month, Management Agency. Development, “we have three the U.S. Department of At the Army Corps, the New drones, which we use for aviation Transportation said. While most Orleans District began using inspections at airports and to sur - of those operators were recre - unmanned craft in 2015. The vey and assess road projects,” ational, 122,000 of them were District flies them over the DOTD spokesman Rodney Mallett commercial, public and other Mississippi River to collect high- said. The state doesn’t keep a reg - The Army Corps uses a drone to monitor the Bonnet Carre Spillway in the 2016 flood. types, DOT said. resolution images, topographic istry of drone owners. Courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District “Drones have been around for a data and flood elevations. Big contractors for CPRA long time, and while they aren’t Combining UAS technology with explained how they use drones. exactly mainstream, their usage land surveying has given the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., drones depends on investment units will expand, he said. Abdullah said. In World War I, has grown since the release of new agency’s engineers better data, LLC started using them 10 years decisions and the inspections that As for how drones developed, Hewitt-Sperry’s automatic planes rules by the FAA, known as Part Corps spokesman Matt Roe said. ago and has three licensed drone they do, he said. defense interests were a stimulus. flew without pilots, carrying 107,” Dr. Qassim Abdullah, chief In its Beneficial Use Dredge pilots. “We were among the first to Dr. Abdullah at Woolpert predicts In the Civil War, Union and explosives to targets. “During scientist at Woolpert, Inc., said last Materials program, the Corps work for CPRA, and the six proj - that U.S. drone usage will surge in Confederate forces launched bal - World War II, development of week. 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February 5 - February 11, 2018 Page 11 BUSINESS SCOPE THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM The business and history behind HBCU ‘Classics’ Bayou Classic ranked No. 1 for HBCU attendance By Ryan Whirty that stretches back nearly 90 years good time. People still go to be the first contest to Contributing Writer and has formally existed as Bayou these classics, with many travel - informally receive the Classic since 1974 – claimed the ing great distances for the tag of “classic,” while Every time the Grambling and top spot among the 35 most- biggest ones. These games are 1927 saw the first Southern football teams descend attended Football Championship like our Negro Leagues.” encounters to formally on New Orleans over Subdivision games last year. Like the Bayou Classic, over the earn the “classic” Thanksgiving weekend for the The rankings reveal the signif - years, many Black college football moniker (the Louisiana Bayou Classic, the plethora of icant financial and institutional rivalries cultivate and depend on State Fair Classic in pageantry not only includes the improvement exhibited by the regional support, awareness and Shreveport, and the then- rivalry game, but also a week- Bayou Classic; since the man - popularity and the resulting com - dubbed Turkey Day Classic they long, immersive happening, and agement firm NOCCI took over munity involvement. between Johnson C. Smith drew a festive social and cultural cele - the organizational and outreach Take Georgia, for example, and Livingstone College). 75,000 bration. aspects in 2017, attendance has where in 1994 a wire service article Since then, dozens of HBCU people this However, underneath the merri - shown a marked increase of in The Augusta Chronicle analyzed football “classics” have come and year. I want to ment and revelry is economics. By more than 63 percent. the impact of that city’s CSRA gone, moved location and allow Philadelphia to attracting fans, students, journal - What that means for the two Classic (now called the Augusta changed format. Some games Birmingham,” “Miss Montgo- host a different and unique ists and other enthusiasts to New schools’ ability to raise money City Classic and held at Lucy C. involve the same two rivals each mery” and “Miss Mobile.” event because Philadelphia is dif - Orleans by the thousands, the for both scholarships and the fis - Laney Memorial High School year (such as the Bayou Classic), By the end of the 20th century and ferent and unique.” Bayou Classic raises tens of thou - cal health of their athletic Stadium), which was working to while others feature a single par - with the Bayou Classic at the fore - The fact that Hawkins’ pipe sands of dollars for scholarships. departments cannot be understat - post a five-figure attendance. The ticular host school welcoming a front, many classics had evolved dream crashed and burned – The game also provides each ed, said NOCCI President and paper and game organizers came to rotation of opponents (like, for into juggernauts, garnering national despite drawing inspiration from school’s athletic department with CEO Dottie Belletto. a familiar conclusion. example, the now-defunct but TV deals, corporate sponsorships the Bayou Classic – reflects the a significant shot of crucial fund - “It’s economics,” said Belletto. “Classics are an integral part of long-running Orange Blossom and heightened ticket sales. In 1997, fickle nature and tenuous exis - ing that’s used to balance the “It’s all about raising the money the football landscape at historical - Classic hosted by Florida A&M). for example, the eighth annual tence of many HBCU classics. In books for the sports programs. that can be brought in for this great ly black colleges and universities,” Still other classics — such as the Southern Heritage Classic in an often-unforgiving climate root - “It’s critical for us to have these classic football game. It’s about reported writer Noell Barnidge. current Celebration Bowl Memphis pitting Tennessee State ed in economic urgency and frus - rivalry games,” said Grambling having enough funding to support “Some classics attract more fans between the SWAC and MEAC against Jackson State drew more tratingly fluctuating popularity, it Athletic Director Paul Bryant. “It’s these legendary HBCUs.” than a school’s homecoming game, titleists — serve as a “champi - than 50,000 attendees and reported - takes dedication, savvy, boundless all to generate revenue by putting a On a broader scale, Black foot - so it is no surprise that some onship” game of sorts. ly pumped more than $6 million into energy – and, of course, some spotlight on our kids.” ball classic games occur through - schools willingly pass up a poten - All along, the various contests the local economy. luck – to achieve the success the Fortunately, the annual event out the fall and all over the coun - tial home game to play in one.” have ebbed and flowed, sometimes But as the 21st century dawned, Bayou Classic has since its near- has been on the upswing since try, with turnouts easily reaching HBCU classics also attract even serving as social and cultural many HBCU football classics – demise a decade ago. experiencing dire straits for sev - into the tens of thousands, and national attention. In 2006, landmarks. The 0-0 scrum between both newer ones and long- estab - Those involved with the Bayou eral years, especially during and most, if not all, providing a critical Diverse Education magazine Langston and Wiley in the inaugu - lished rivalries – ran into trouble. Classic proudly point to that suc - after Hurricane Katrina. The shot in the financial arm for those asserted that classics can form the ral State Fair Classic in 1925, for In 2007, the 15-year-old Gateway cess as proof that Black college Classic’s rebirth was highlighted involved. That’s on top of the clas - financial lifeblood of an HBCU example, served as the first HBCU Football Classic in St. Louis – football games can not only sur - by a recent annual survey that sics’ place in the historical and football program. A well-organ - game held during the Texas State crippled by stagnant ticket sales vive, but thrive – and, in so doing, ranked it as the most-attended social tapestry of Black America. ized and presented classic can help Fair at Fair Park Stadium. And, and dwindled corporate sponsor - bringing financial windfalls to HBCU classic of 2017, with “They bring in students, as well an athletic department out of the stated The Chicago Defender , ships that threatened the game’s communities, colleges and uni - 66,550 fervent followers filling as fans and their relatives,” said red and into the black by produc - “Those who were fortunate to wit - scholarship funding – got creative versities, and their students. the Superdome to witness a 30-21 writer, commentator and North ing a huge payday from ticket ness the clash will remember it for to boost revenue, putting forward “Because of the amount of Grambling victory. The Bayou Carolina A&T adjunct professor sales, sponsorships, television some time to come ...” possible solutions like involving attention brought [by] classics to Classic edged out such similarly David Squires. “I don’t think broadcast rights and public- and By the 1940s, HBCU classics had the NBA and local high-school not only football but, more significant clashes like the Magic there’s any other event that guar - community-relations bonanzas. blossomed into multi-faceted basketball, and working with importantly, academics,” stated City Classic, the State Fair antees this type of spectacle. The tradition of football clas - extravaganzas. Defender columnist other non-profits to hold a picnic Grambling’s Bryant, “it’s not just Classic and the Florida Classic. “It’s like the days when we had sics began roughly a century ago; Fay Young reported in 1945 that the banquet downtown. a game. It’s an educational expe - In addition, the Southern- Negro League baseball – it’s our in 1919, Howard and Lincoln 22nd Turkey Day Classic (a differ - In Philadelphia, local entrepre - rience. It’s so important for our Grambling showdown – a rivalry time to dress up, eat and have a (Pa.) met in what is believed to ent event than the aforementioned neur La-Van Hawkins attempted culture. For us, it’s [about] recon - 1927 game) between Tuskegee and to get an HBCU classic – dubbed necting...Students can be recog - Alabama State in Montgomery’s the Philadelphia Black College nized by 65,000 on national TV.” Cramton Bowl included a “[m]ost Football – off the ground in that And, said NOCCI’s Belletto, colorful ... gala program put on dur - city in 1994. Hawkins patterned there’s hopefully more to come. ing intermission.” his vision after established show - “We’re celebrating 45 years in The Tuskegee band and cadet downs like the Atlanta Football New Orleans,” she said, “and most corps “put on an impressive drill,” Classic and the cream-of-the-crop importantly, turning it into scholar - while the Alabama State band, as Bayou Classic. ships for our young people. We “twice its prewar size, also paraded “The idea is to have it just like want to go up to 70,000 [in atten - between the halves.” In addition, the Bayou Classic,” Hawkins told dance] in the Superdome and to local alumni selected a “Miss The Philadelphia Inquirer , “where hold our position as No. 1.”◊

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Amazon Go means many cashier jobs held by Blacks will be gone By Frederick H. Lowe the economy,” Cornerstone Capital Whole Foods Market, the high-end Contributing Writer recently reported. grocery store chain and there is The Joint Center published its speculation Amazon will install the (Special from NorthStarNews report, titled “Race and Jobs at technology in Whole Foods stores. Today) — The Joint Center for High Risk of Automation” in This or similar technology is Political and Economic Studies, a December, one month before expected to change the supermar - Washington D.C.,-based think tank Amazon.com Inc. opened Amazon ket industry because of the retail concerned with work and work Go, an 1,800 square-foot grocery industry’s move to e-commerce. trends, recently published a report store in Seattle that does not In addition, automation helps listing jobs held by Blacks that are employ any cashiers, sounding the companies resist wage hikes that at high risk of automation. drumbeat for cashiers. affect profitability. The list is two pages long, and Shoppers download the Amazon Walmart, Amazon’s competitor, one of the jobs at very high risk app on their mobile phone and con - recently announced that it was underscored by recent events are nect it to a credit or debit card. expanding to 100 more stores its jobs held by store cashiers. The store relies on cameras and Scan & Go technology, which is The vocation employs 580,000 sensors to track what shoppers similar to Amazon Go. Black workers out of a national remove from the shelves and what Shoppers download an app on cashier workforce of 3.3 million, they put back, according to their mobile phones, which according to the Joint Center. Amazon. Cash registers and check - allows them scan and bag items, Cornerstone Capital Inc., a New out lines are a thing of the past. including produce, while they York-based investment advisory The purchases are charged to a shop. They pay for purchases firm, reported that cashiers are the customer’s registered credit or directly with their phones. second-largest group of retail debit card before he or she leaves Cornerstone Capital said the workers. Some 73 percent of the store. entire retail industry, which cashiers are women. So far there is only one Amazon employs 10 percent of the U.S. “Cashiers are considered one of Go store, but Amazon, the online labor force, is at high risk of the most easily automatable jobs in behemoth, last year purchased automation.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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SALE bY Order. No personal the purchase price, and PARIS OAKS SUBDIVI - Orleans, in the above ADAM GARvIS MORIn THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above checks.) the balance within thirty SION entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for suit, TERMS CASH. The ORLEAnS SHERIFF OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 1516 proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans purchaser at the moment JUDICIAL Sheriff The payment must be MANDOLIN STREET lic auction, on the no. 2016-2516 bEARInG MUnICI - of adjudication to make a Parish of Orleans PAL nO. 3530 bAC - ADvERTISEMEnT ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQUIRED MIN 467979 ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT deposit of ten percent of (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CHUS DRIvE, nEW the purchase price, and THAT PORTIOn jD 30 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Order. No personal $39,731.09 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the the balance within thirty OF GROUnD ______checks.) Seized in the above the First District of the Honorable The Civil MATTER EnTITLED: days thereafter. (NOTE: "WELLSFARGO bAnK, bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The City on February 8, District Court of The payment must be PAL nO. 4119 WALMS - Sheriff purchaser at the moment 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, in the above n.A. Cash, Cashier’s Check, ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans vS THE UnOPEnED LEY AvEnUE, CITY OF ATTY: KELLY MASSEY of adjudication to make a noon, the following entitled cause, I will Certified Check or Money nEW ORLEAnS, In THE JUDICIAL (318) 388-1440 deposit of ten percent of described property to proceed to sell by pub - SUCCESSIOn OF Order. No personal jD 33 ALbERT SMITH, JR. CASE EnTITLED: LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 the purchase price, and wit: lic auction, on the checks.) ADvERTISEMEnT AnD ORA MAE LEE WELLS FARGO bAnK, ______the balance within thirty LOT 7, SQUARE 12, ground floor of the Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn nA vS WAYnE J. LEE THAT PORTIOn days thereafter. (NOTE: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, SMITH A/K/A ORA MAE Sheriff SALE bY LEE A/K/A ORA M. LEE Parish of Orleans JR. AnD JULIE R. LEE OF GROUnD The payment must be TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in ATTY: jASON SMITH Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, LAURADALE ADDITION the First District of the A/K/A ORA LEE A/K/A (318) 388-1440 ORA MAE SMITH A/K/A jD 25 the Parish of Orleans PAL nO. 10710 GUIL - JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money SUBDIVISION City on February 8, LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 no. 2016-11456 FORD ROAD, CITY OF ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 2410 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ORA M. SMITH A/K/A ______by virtue of a WRIT nEW ORLEAnS, In THE checks.) LAURADALE DRIVE noon, the following ORA SMITH A/K/A ORA THAT PORTIOn LEE SMITH A/K/A ORA SALE bY OF SEIZURE AnD SALE CASE EnTITLED: CITY MARLIn n. GUSMAn ACQUIRED MIN 344465 described property to to me directed by the OF nEW ORLEAnS vS OF GROUnD Sheriff WRIT AMOUnT: wit: L. SMITH" ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for Honorable The Civil MICHAEL A. STALbERT bEARInG MUnICI - ATTY: FRED DAIGLE $43,192.07 LOT A, SQUARE 8, JUDICIAL District Court of Civil District Court for PAL nO. (504) 522-8256 Seized in the above FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - the Parish of Orleans LM 16 no. 2017-571 ADvERTISEMEnT Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans 3 HERITAGE LAnE, LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT, entitled cause, I will no. 2017-10659 THIS CITY, In THE MAT - ______purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO: 2801 by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT TER EnTITLED SALE bY of adjudication to make a HYMAN PLACE, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF GROUnD lic auction, on the OF FIERI FACIAS to me JPMORGAn CHASE deposit of ten percent of ACQ MIN: 881315 to me directed by the bEARInG MUnICI - ground floor of the Civil directed by the bAnK, nATIOnAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: Honorable The Civil PAL nO. 2200-02 SEC - District Court building, Honorable The Civil ASSOCIATIOn vS bAR - JUDICIAL the balance within thirty $168,785.55 District Court of OnD STREET, nEW 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of bARA Ann WAITERS ADvERTISEMEnT days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS, LA, In THE the First District of the Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The entitled cause, I will MATTER EnTITLED: City on February 8, entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment proceed to sell by pub - "CITY OF nEW 2018, at 12:00 o’clock proceed to sell by pub - no. 2017-1821 OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a lic auction, on the ORLEAnS vS ESTHER noon, the following lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICI - Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of ground floor of the Civil MAE DOMInIQUE described property to ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD SALE PAL nO. 4138 THALIA checks.) the purchase price, and District Court building, CAGE, PAMELA CAGE 421 Loyola Avenue, in wit: District Court building, to me directed by the STREET, nEW MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty nELSOn, KATHY LOT 25 AND A PORTION 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: the First District of the MARIE CAGE WHITE, Parish of Orleans City on February 8, OF LOT 24, SQUARE the First District of the District Court of MATTER EnTITLED: ATTY: LOUIS ARCENEAUX The payment must be LAWREnCE CAGE, JR., 175, City on February 8, Orleans, in the above "STAnDARD MORT - (504) 522-8256 Cash, Cashier’s Check, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock AAROn CAGE AnD" LM 18 noon, the following SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock entitled cause, I will GAGE CORPORATIOn LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Certified Check or Money Civil District Court for TRICT, noon, the following proceed to sell by pub - vS bETTY STEvEnSOn ______Order. No personal described property to the Parish of Orleans MC CARTYVILLE SUB - described property to lic auction, on the DAbnEY DIvORCED checks.) wit: no. 2016-7630 SALE bY LOT 12, SQUARE 3 DIVISION wit: ground floor of the Civil WIFE bY FIRST MAR - MARLIn n. GUSMAn by virtue of a WRIT MUNICIPAL NO. 4119 LOT 17, SQUARE D, District Court building, RIAGE OF RObERT ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sheriff FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - OF FIERI FACIAS to me Parish of Orleans TRICT WALMSLEY AVENUE THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in TREnCH nOW WIFE JUDICIAL ATTY: ALLISON BEASLEY directed by the ACQUIRED MIN TRICT, the First District of the OF/ AnD GLEnn M. (225) 924-1600 MUNICIPAL NO. 3530 Honorable The Civil ADvERTISEMEnT BB 21 BACCHUS DRIVE 1147871 BARRINGTON SUBDIVI - City on February 8, DAbnEY" LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 District Court of WRIT AMOUnT: SION 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn ______FONTAINBLEAU PLACE Orleans, in the above $178,622.24 MUNICIPAL NO. 10710 noon, the following the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD SALE bY SUBDIVISION entitled cause, I will Seized in the above GUILFORD ROAD described property to no. 2017-10386 bEARInG MUnICI - ACQUIRED MIN 372898 proceed to sell by pub - suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQUIRED MIN wit: by virtue of a WRIT PAL nO. 5700 vICKS - ORLEAnS SHERIFF WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the purchaser at the moment 1225685 LOT 4-A-1 SQUARE OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bURG STREET, nEW JUDICIAL $19,085.50 ground floor of the Civil of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: "A" to me directed by the ORLEAnS, LA In THE ADvERTISEMEnT Seized in the above District Court building, deposit of ten percent of $17,365.00 FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil MATTER EnTITLED: suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in the purchase price, and Seized in the above TRICT District Court of "CITY OF nEW THAT PORTIOn purchaser at the moment the First District of the the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 3 HER - Orleans, in the above ORLEAnS vS THE OF GROUnD of adjudication to make a City on February 8, days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment ITAGE LANE entitled cause, I will SUCCESSIOn OF LEOn bEARInG MUnICI - deposit of ten percent of 2018, at 12:00 o’clock The payment must be of adjudication to make a SUBDIVISION: GARDEN proceed to sell by pub - SALvADOR MUSAC - PAL nO. the purchase price, and noon, the following Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of OAKS lic auction, on the CHIA AnD FRAnCES 5458 TULLIS DRIvE, the balance within thirty described property to Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and ACQ MIN:788845 ground floor of the Civil Ann MUSACCHIA" THIS CITY, In THE MAT - days thereafter. (NOTE: wit: Order. No personal the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, Civil District Court for TER EnTITLED The payment must be LOT B, SQUARE 315 checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: $62,195.54 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans DEUTSCHE bAnK Cash, Cashier’s Check, FOURTH MUNICIPAL Certified Check or Money MARLIn n. GUSMAn The payment must be Seized in the above the First District of the no. 2017-2770 nATIOnAL TRUST DISTRICT Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The City on February 8, by virtue of a WRIT COMPAnY, AS Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 2200- Parish of Orleans checks.) ATTY: DONECIA BANKS-MILEY Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment 2018, at 12:00 o’clock OF FIERI FACIAS to me TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP 02 SECOND STREET (318) 388-1440 Order. No personal of adjudication to make a noon, the following directed by the TRUST 2005-SD1 , MARLIn n. GUSMAn ACQUIRED MIN LM 32 Sheriff LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 checks.) deposit of ten percent of described property to Honorable The Civil MORTGAGE PASS- Parish of Orleans 1204884 ______MARLIn n. GUSMAn the purchase price, and wit: District Court of THROUGH CERTIFI - ATTY: COREY GIROIR WRIT AMOUnT: Sheriff the balance within thirty LOT L, SQUARE 496 Orleans, in the above CATES, SERIES 2005- (225) 756-0373 $13,735.00 SALE bY Parish of Orleans jD 24 ATTY: LATEEFAH HARRIS days thereafter. (NOTE: FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will SD1 vS WILLIAM LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Seized in the above ORLEAnS SHERIFF (504) 658-4391 The payment must be TRICT proceed to sell by pub - TURnER ______suit, TERMS CASH. The LM 28 JUDICIAL LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Cash, Cashier’s Check, MUNICIPAL NO. 4138 lic auction, on the Civil District Court for SALE bY purchaser at the moment ADvERTISEMEnT ______Certified Check or Money THALIA STREET ground floor of the Civil the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF of adjudication to make a Order. No personal ACQUIRED MIN 941861 District Court building, no. 2017-6547 deposit of ten percent of THAT PORTIOn SALE bY JUDICIAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in by virtue of a WRIT the purchase price, and OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUSMAn $115,379.47 the First District of the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ADvERTISEMEnT the balance within thirty bEARInG MUnICI - JUDICIAL Sheriff Seized in the above City on February 8, to me directed by the days thereafter. (NOTE: Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn PAL nO. 2316 n. ADvERTISEMEnT ATTY: STACY WHEAT suit, TERMS CASH. The 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Honorable The Civil The payment must be ROMAn STREET, nEW (504) 522-8256 purchaser at the moment noon, the following District Court of OF GROUnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, THAT PORTIOn TW 14 bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS, LA, In THE LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 of adjudication to make a described property to Orleans, in the above Certified Check or Money MATTER EnTITLED: OF GROUnD ______deposit of ten percent of wit: entitled cause, I will PAL nO. 13401-03 n. Order. No personal "CITY OF nEW bEARInG MUnICI - the purchase price, and LOTS 20, 21 AND 22, proceed to sell by pub - nEMOURS STREET, checks.) SALE bY nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In ORLEAnS vS PF PAL nO. 2932-34 the balance within thirty SQUARE 396 lic auction, on the MARLIn n. GUSMAn DEvELOPERS, LLC" ORLEAnS AvEnUE, ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: SECOND MUNICIPAL ground floor of the Civil THE MATTER EnTI - Sheriff TLED: "LAKEvIEW Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In JUDICIAL The payment must be DISTRICT District Court building, ATTY: LATEEFAH HARRIS the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - Cash, Cashier’s Check, MUNICIPAL NO. 5700 421 Loyola Avenue, in LOAn SERvICInG, LLC (504) 658-4391 ADvERTISEMEnT vS LAQUITA jD 26 no. 2017-10385 TLED: "nAvY FEDER - Certified Check or Money VICKSBURG STREET the First District of the LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 by virtue of a WRIT AL CU vS ALEX THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal ACQUIRED MIN City on February 8, GRAnGER, ADMInIS - ______OF FIERI FACIAS to me bOSTOn AKA ALEXAn - OF GROUnD checks.) 1229531 2018, at 12:00 o’clock TRATIX OF THE SUC - __ CESSIOn OF SALE bY directed by the DER M. bOSTOn" bEARInG MUnICI - MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: noon, the following Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for PAL nO. 1516 MAn - Sheriff $14,000.00 described property to JOnATHAn JAMAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans GRAnGER" District Court of the Parish of Orleans DOLIn STREET, CITY ATTY: FRED DAIGLE Seized in the above wit: JUDICIAL Orleans, in the above no. 2017-7840 OF nEW ORLEAnS, In (504) 522-8256 suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT NO. 98 SQUARE Civil District Court for jD 17 the Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT THE CASE EnTITLED: LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 purchaser at the moment NO. 202 proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE FEDERAL nATIOnAL ______of adjudication to make a FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - no. 2017-8205 THAT PORTIOn lic auction, on the to me directed by the MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - SALE bY deposit of ten percent of TRICT by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil TIOn vS FRAnCES the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 5458 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bEARInG MUnICI - District Court building, District Court of MOORE LEOnARD ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty TULLIS DRIVE to me directed by the PAL nO. 8636 OLEAn - 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above AKA FRAnCES CLARK JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQ MIN: 764952 Honorable The Civil DER STREET, nEW the First District of the entitled cause, I will AnD AnTHOnEY ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: District Court of ORLEAnS, LA, In THE City on February 8, proceed to sell by pub - CLARK Cash, Cashier’s Check, $59,309.50 Orleans, in the above MATTER EnTITLED: 2018, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money Seized in the above entitled cause, I will "JPMORGAn CHASE noon, the following ground floor of the Civil the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The proceed to sell by pub - bAnK, nATIOnAL described property to District Court building, no. 2017-10349 bEARInG MUnICI - checks.) purchaser at the moment lic auction, on the ASSOCIATIOn vS ground floor of the Civil wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in by virtue of a WRIT PAL nO. 2410 LAU - MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a MARY WInTERS HAR - LOT 10, SQUARE 776 the First District of the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE RADALE DRIvE, CITY Sheriff deposit of ten percent of District Court building, RIS" Parish of Orleans 421 Loyola Avenue, in THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on February 8, to me directed by the OF nEW ORLEAnS, In ATTY: jOHN HAGAN the purchase price, and Civil District Court for TRICT 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Honorable The Civil THE CASE EnTITLED: (504) 658-4346 the balance within thirty the First District of the the Parish of Orleans jD 20 City on February 8, MUNICIPAL NO. 2316 N. noon, the following District Court of STAnDARD MORT - LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: no. 2017-969 ROMAN STREET described property to Orleans, in the above GAGE CORPORATIOn ______The payment must be 2018, at 12:00 o’clock by virtue of a WRIT ACQUIRED MIN wit: entitled cause, I will vS KIM FULTOn DAvIS, SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, noon, the following OF SEIZURE AnD SALE 1249581 LOT F, SQUARE 391 proceed to sell by pub - AKA KIM FULTOn Certified Check or Money described property to to me directed by the WRIT AMOUnT: SECOND MUNICIPAL lic auction, on the MAGEE, DIvORCED ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal wit: Honorable The Civil $11,260.00 DISTRICT ground floor of the Civil WIFE bY FIRST MAR - JUDICIAL checks.) LOT 457, SQUARE 37 District Court of THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 2932- District Court building, RIAGE OF AAROn ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn Orleans, in the above suit, TERMS CASH. The 34 ORLEANS AVENUE 421 Loyola Avenue, in HEGGER, nOW WIFE Sheriff TRICT entitled cause, I will THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans VILLAGE DE L'EST purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN the First District of the OF TERRY DAvIS ATTY: COREY GIROIR proceed to sell by pub - of adjudication to make a 1214064 City on February 8, Civil District Court for OF GROUnD (225) 756-0373 SUBDIVISION lic auction, on the TW 23 MUNICIPAL NO. 13401- deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: 2018, at 12:00 o’clock the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICI - LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 ground floor of the Civil the purchase price, and $294,901.74 noon, the following no. 2016-10963 PAL nO. 2801 HYMAn ______03 N. NEMOURS District Court building, the balance within thirty Seized in the above described property to by virtue of a WRIT PLACE, THIS CITY, In SALE bY STREET 421 Loyola Avenue, in days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The wit: OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THE MATTER EnTI - ACQUIRED MIN the First District of the The payment must be purchaser at the moment LOT 25-A, SQUARE 6, to me directed by the TLED FEDERAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF 1121226 City on February 8, Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil nATIOnAL MORTGAGE JUDICIAL WRIT AMOUnT: Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of TRICT, District Court of ASSOCIATIOn vS ADvERTISEMEnT $84,827.02 Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 13 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices Sale Notices

Continued from previous page Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for rear of 61.50 feet by a of adjudication to make a ACQ MIN:1069489 property to wit: lic auction, on the District Court of the Parish of Orleans depth of 170.20 feet on deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: LOT 31-A, SQUARE ground floor of the Civil Orleans, in the above no. 2017-6261 the Lot 117 side and a the purchase price, and $83,973.82 1334, District Court building, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT depth of 173.04 feet on the balance within thirty Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in noon, the following proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the Lot 115 side. days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT, the First District of the described property to lic auction, on the to me directed by the Improvements The payment must be purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO, 1992 City on March 8, 2018, wit: ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil thereon bear the Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a NORTH DORGENOIS at 12:00 o’clock noon, LOTS M AND N, District Court building, District Court of Municipal No. 12 Forest Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of STREET the following described SQUARE 471 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above Oaks. Order. No personal the purchase price, and ACQUIRED MIN 878651 property to wit: SEVENTH MUNICIPAL the First District of the entitled cause, I will THIS ACT checks.) the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: LOT 5, SQUARE 432 DISTRICT City on February 8, proceed to sell by pub - MADE, EXECUTED AND days thereafter. (NOTE: $198,599.63 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - MUNICIPAL NO. 8636 MARLIn n. GUSMAn 2018, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the ACCEPTED SUBjECT Sheriff The payment must be Seized in the above TRICT OLEANDER STREET Parish of Orleans noon, the following ground floor of the Civil TO THE FOLLOWING: Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 5817 ACQUIRED MIN 269206 ATTY: ALLISON BEASLEY described property to District Court building, Any and all (225) 924-1600 Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment ST. CLAUDE AVENUE WRIT AMOUnT: LM 22 wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in restrictions, conditions, Order. No personal of adjudication to make a ACQUIRED MIN 674306 $18,490.73 LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 LOT 33-A, SQUARE 867 the First District of the servitudes and encroach - ______checks.) deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on February 8, ments that may be con - the purchase price, and $9,302.62 suit, TERMS CASH. The SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn TRICT 2018, at 12:00 o’clock tained in the chain of title Sheriff the balance within thirty Seized in the above purchaser at the moment Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NO. 3111 noon, the following and/or plan of subdivi - ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The of adjudication to make a ATTY: DANIEL REED NORTH ROMAN described property to sion. JUDICIAL (225) 924-1600 The payment must be purchaser at the moment deposit of ten percent of BB 4 STREET wit: Building and Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a the purchase price, and ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 ACQUIRED MIN LOT 10, SQUARE 1 use Restrictions and ______Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of the balance within thirty 1069959 FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Covenants contained in THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal the purchase price, and days thereafter. (NOTE: SALE bY WRIT AMOUnT: TRICT acts registered in COB OF GROUnD checks.) the balance within thirty The payment must be $106,954.53 AURORA OAKS LSUB - 823-A, folio 101, amend - bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: Cash, Cashier’s Check, MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above DIVISION ed in CIN 35682; CIN PAL nO. 3504 MEAD - JUDICIAL Sheriff The payment must be Certified Check or Money Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 454 49926L; CIN 66389; CIN OW PARK LAnE, nEW Cash, Cashier’s Check, Order. No personal ADvERTISEMEnT ATTY: RADER jACKSON purchaser at the moment AURORA OAKS DRIVE 79158; CIN 81068; CIN ORLEAnS, LA, In THE (504) 581-9444 Certified Check or Money checks.) THAT PORTIOn LM 6 of adjudication to make a ACQUIRED MIN 709317 8535E; CIN 109788; CIN MATTER EnTITLED: LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 Order. No personal MARLIn n. GUSMAn "WHITnEY bAnK vS ______Sheriff deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: 109930; CIN 110966; OF GROUnD checks.) Parish of Orleans the purchase price, and $68,992.20 CIN 114995; CIN HOWARD IRvInG, III bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn ATTY: DANIEL REED the balance within thirty Seized in the above 128970; CIN 132589; AnD EvA M. IRvInG" PAL nO. 3544 TIMbER Sheriff (225) 924-1600 ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans jD 2 days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The CIN 135876; 137670; Civil District Court for WOLF LAnE, CITY OF ATTY: j. DONALD MORGAN LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 the Parish of Orleans nEW ORLEAnS, In THE (225) 761-0001 ______The payment must be purchaser at the moment CIN 141115; and as JUDICIAL no. 2017-11500 CASE EnTITLED: CITI - jD 8 Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a amended to include ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 SALE bY by virtue of a WRIT MORTGAGE, InC. vS ______Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of Phase 3, Section 2 in THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal the purchase price, and CIN 152297, dated OF SEIZURE AnD SALE KEnDRICK LEE SALE bY checks.) the balance within thirty December 18, 1997. to me directed by the MARSH AnD KELLY P. OF GROUnD JUDICIAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: Sale of Honorable The Civil MARSH bEARInG MUnICI - ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff The payment must be Common areas by District Court of Civil District Court for PAL nO. JUDICIAL Parish of Orleans Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans 2527 ARTS STREET, THAT PORTIOn ATTY: DENNIS CARRIERE Cash, Cashier’s Check, English Turn Limited ADvERTISEMEnT (504) 457-3773 Certified Check or Money Partnership to English entitled cause, I will no. 2017-38 THIS CITY, In THE MAT - OF GROUnD jD 5 proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT TER EnTITLED THAT PORTIOn bEARInG MUnICI - LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Order. No personal Turn Property Owners ______lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE REvERSE MORTGAGE PAL nO. 1509 GEnER - checks.) Association, Inc, as reg - OF GROUnD ground floor of the Civil to me directed by the SOLUTIOnS, InC. vS bEARInG MUnICI - AL COLLInS AvEnUE, SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn istered in CIN 132593. Sheriff District Court building, Honorable The Civil JAMES E. TAYLOR PAL nO. 4737 vEnUS nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In Servitude for natural gas ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of REvERSE MORTGAGE STREET, nEW THE MATTER EnTI - ATTY: j. DONALD MORGAN service, registered in (225) 761-0001 the First District of the Orleans, in the above SOLUTIOnS, InC. vS ORLEAnS, LA, In THE TLED: "JPMORGAn JUDICIAL COB 820, folio 481. jD 10 City on March 8, 2018, entitled cause, I will JAMES E. TAYLOR MATTER EnTITLED: CHASE bAnK, nATIOn - ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Servitude in favor of ______at 12:00 o’clock noon, proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for "MTGLQ InvESTORS, AL ASSOCIATIOn vS NOPSI, registered in THAT PORTIOn the following described lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans L.P. vS JOEL C. AbbIE L. HEAD AnD SALE bY COB 823, folio 171. 10- property to wit: ground floor of the Civil no. 2017-11247 GROSHOnG" PAULA KAYE CRAIn" OF GROUnD foot servitude over the bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF LOT 4, SQUARE 8 District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT Civil District Court for Civil District Court for front of the property in PAL nO. 7800-02 FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL favor of Entergy MEAnS STREET, nEW TRICT the First District of the to me directed by the no. 2010-10245 no. 2016-835 ADvERTISEMEnT Louisiana, Inc., con - ORLEAnS, LA, In THE TALL TIMBERS EXTEN - City on March 8, 2018, Honorable The Civil by virtue of a WRIT by virtue of a WRIT tained in an act dated MATTER EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn SION, AURORA PLAN - at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF SEIZURE AnD SALE October 30, 1997 and "COMMUnITY ASSOCI - TATION the following described Orleans, in the above to me directed by the to me directed by the OF GROUnD registered in CIN ATES, InC. vS MInnIE bEARInG MUnICIPAL MUNICIPAL NO. 3504 property to wit: entitled cause, I will Honorable The Civil Honorable The Civil 149075. Servitude in ALFRED MAnnInG nO. 12 FOREST OAKS MEADOW PARK LANE LOT 8, SQUARE 6, proceed to sell by pub - District Court of District Court of favor of the Sewerage Civil District Court for DRIvE, CITY OF nEW ACQUIRED MIN FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - lic auction, on the Orleans, in the above Orleans, in the above and Water Board, regis - the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE 1168915 TRICT, ground floor of the Civil entitled cause, I will entitled cause, I will tered in COB 813H, folio no. 2016-1116 CASE EnTITLED: WRIT AMOUnT: TALL TIMBERS EXTEN - District Court building, proceed to sell by pub - proceed to sell by pub - 666. 7.5-foot servitude by virtue of a WRIT SAbR MORTGAGE $33,841.46 SION NO. 2 421 Loyola Avenue, in lic auction, on the lic auction, on the along the boundary divid - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE LOAn 2008-1 REQ Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 3544 the First District of the ground floor of the Civil ground floor of the Civil ing Lot 116 from Lot 115 to me directed by the SUbSIDIARY, LLC vS suit, TERMS CASH. The TIMBER WOLF LANE City on March 8, 2018, District Court building, District Court building, for drainage purposes as Honorable The Civil THERESA PETERS purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN 95503 at 12:00 o’clock noon, 421 Loyola Avenue, in 421 Loyola Avenue, in shown on the plan of District Court of FISHER AnD ERIC of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: the following described the First District of the the First District of the subdivision registered in Orleans, in the above PATRICK FISHER. deposit of ten percent of $80,743.65 property to wit: City on March 8, 2018, City on February 8, CIN 151067. Mineral entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for the purchase price, and Seized in the above LOT NO. 8 SQUARE at 12:00 o’clock noon, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock reservation registered in proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The NO. 1384 the following described noon, the following COB 808G, FOLIO 230. lic auction, on the no. 2017-6026 days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - property to wit: described property to Each LOT ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT The payment must be of adjudication to make a TRICT LOT 37 & 38, SQUARE wit: OWNER is required to be District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 2527 40 LOT 9, SQUARE 5 a member of the ENG - 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and ARTS STREET THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - LISH TURN HOMEOWN - the First District of the Honorable The Civil Order. No personal the balance within thirty ACQ MIN: 991816 TRICT TRICT ERS ASSOCIATION, City on February 8, District Court of checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: GENTILY TERRACE ST. CLAIR GARDENS which has the power and 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, in the above The payment must be $73,356.80 MUNICIPAL NO. 4737 SUBDIVISION authority to create yearly MARLIn n. GUSMAn noon, the following entitled cause, I will assessments for mainte - Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, Seized in the above VENUS STREET MUNICIPAL NO. 1509 Parish of Orleans described property to proceed to sell by pub - Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQ. MIN 905499 GENERAL COLLINS nance of the common ATTY: CLAY LEGROS wit: lic auction, on the facilities, necessary (504) 837-9040 Order. No personal purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: AVENUE jD 2 LOT 31 AND PART LOT ground floor of the Civil checks.) of adjudication to make a $147,759.55 ACQUIRED MIN 955095 repairs and other LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 33, SQUARE 2 District Court building, ______deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above WRIT AMOUnT: charges subordinate to MARLIn n. GUSMAn THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in any first mortgage on the Sheriff the purchase price, and suit, TERMS CASH. The $98,932.42 SALE bY Parish of Orleans TRICT the First District of the the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment Seized in the above property. ORLEAnS SHERIFF ATTY: RADER jACKSON VILLA SITES City on February 8, With reference (504) 581-9444 days thereafter. (NOTE: of adjudication to make a suit, TERMS CASH. The LM 5 MUNICIPAL NO. 7800- 2018, at 12:00 o’clock JUDICIAL The payment must be deposit of ten percent of purchaser at the moment to the general zoning and LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 02 MEANS STREET noon, the following ______Cash, Cashier’s Check, the purchase price, and of adjudication to make a governmental authority, ADvERTISEMEnT ACQUIRED MIN described property to Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty deposit of ten percent of exception is taken to any SALE bY 1072112 wit: THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: the purchase price, and matters arising from the WRIT AMOUnT: A CERTAIN LOT OF OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF checks.) The payment must be the balance within thirty fact that this property is $22,146.64 GROUND, together with bEARInG MUnICI - JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, days thereafter. (NOTE: within the boundaries of MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above all the rights, ways, privi - a Planned Unit PAL nO. Sheriff Certified Check or Money The payment must be ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The leges, servitudes, appur - 3418 bLAIR Order. No personal Cash, Cashier’s Check, Development (PUD), as THAT PORTIOn ATTY: RADER jACKSON purchaser at the moment tenances and advan - proposed and in accor - STREET,THIS CITY, In (504) 581-9444 checks.) Certified Check or Money TW 7 of adjudication to make a tages thereunto belong - THE MATTER EnTI - OF GROUnD Order. No personal dance with the accept - LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 MARLIn n. GUSMAn deposit of ten percent of ing or in anywise apper - ance thereof by TLED: bEARInG MUnICI - ______Sheriff checks.) Parish of Orleans "bAnK OF AMERICA, PAL nO. 1992 nORTH the purchase price, and taining, situated in the Ordinance Introduced, SALE bY ATTY: STACY WHEAT MARLIn n. GUSMAn the balance within thirty Fifth District of the City of seconded and passed by n.A. vS TYbRA GOR - DORGEnOIS STREET, (504) 522-8256 Sheriff ORLEAnS SHERIFF jD 9 Parish of Orleans days thereafter. (NOTE: New Orleans, Parish of the governing authority of DOn" CITY OF nEW LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 ATTY: DANIEL REED Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, In THE ______(225) 924-1600 The payment must be Orleans, State of Orleans Parish, State of JUDICIAL jD 3 Cash, Cashier’s Check, Louisiana, in that part Louisiana and the plats the Parish of Orleans CASE EnTITLED: ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Certified Check or Money thereof known as ENG - no. 2016-4759 REvERSE MORTGAGE ______and maps thereof, as THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal LISH TURN SUBDIVI - revised. by virtue of a WRIT SOLUTIOnS, InC. vS SALE bY checks.) SION, PHASE 3, SEC - Exception is OF SEIZURE AnD SALE RUbY MARGUERITE OF GROUnD JUDICIAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF MARLIn n. GUSMAn TION 2, according to the take to the fact that all to me directed by the GARCIA FRILOT AnD bEARInG MUnICI - ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff Plan of Subdivision pre - rights, of access are by Honorable The Civil RITA GARCIA HEISSER PAL nO. 5817 ST. JUDICIAL Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn ATTY: MARK LANDRY pared by Krebs, LaSalle, private streets which are District Court of Civil District Court for CLAUDE AvEnUE, ADvERTISEMEnT (504) 837-9040 LeMious, Consultants, not dedicated and will not Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In OF GROUnD jD 7 THAT PORTIOn LA. WEEKLY 1/8/2018, 2/5/2018 Inc., dated April 9, 1997, be maintained by any entitled cause, I will no. 2016-8207 THE MATTER EnTI - bEARInG MUnICI - OF GROUnD ______revised May 26, 1997, governmental body. proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT TLED: "MIDFIRST PAL nO. 8825-27 PEAR lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bAnK vS nATHAnIEL STREET, CITY OF nEW bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY which plan of registered These rights of access ground floor of the Civil to me directed by the J. HARTFORD AnD ORLEAnS, In THE PAL nO. 3111 nORTH in CIN 151067, said lot is are limited to those rights ORLEAnS SHERIFF District Court building, Honorable The Civil CLARETHA ALLEn CASE EnTITLED: CITY ROMAn STREET, nEW designated as LOT 116 as set forth in COB 823- 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of HARTFORD" OF nEW ORLEAnS vS ORLEAnS, LA, In THE JUDICIAL and is bounded by Forest A, folio 101, amended in the First District of the Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for ELvIn D. CAnTY MATTER EnTITLED: ADvERTISEMEnT Oaks, Lot 115, Lot REC- CIN 79158 and CIN City on March 8, 2018, entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for "nEW ORLEAnS AREA 2 and Lot 117 and meas - 85358. Declaration of THAT PORTIOn at 12:00 o’clock noon, proceed to sell by pub - no. 2017-6264 the Parish of Orleans HAbITAT FOR HUMAnI - ures as follows: Title Change by the following described lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT no. 2017-7800 TY, InC. vS LORI ELISE OF GROUnD Lot 116 meas - Subdivision as duly bEARInG MUnICI - property to wit: ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD SALE by virtue of a WRIT DIXOn" ures a first front 149.65 recorded on December PAL nO. 454 AURORA LOT NO. 116 SQUARE District Court building, to me directed by the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Civil District Court for feet on Forest Oaks and 11, 1997 at CIN 151067. OAKS DRIvE, nEW NO. 8 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil to me directed by the the Parish of Orleans a second front of 23.86 WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS, LA, In THE FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the District Court of Honorable The Civil no. 2017-9286 feet on Forest Oaks $749,282.40 MATTER EnTITLED: TRICT City on March 8, 2018, Orleans, in the above District Court of by virtue of a WRIT along the arc of a curve Seized in the above "MIDFIRST bAnK vS MUNICIPAL NO. 3418 at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD SALE having a radius of 319.88 suit, TERMS CASH. The JOSEPH LAGUERRE" BLAIR STREET the following described proceed to sell by pub - to me directed by the feet with a width in the purchaser at the moment Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018

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Continued from previous page ASSOCIATIOn, AS Seized in the above City on March 8, 2018, Honorable The Civil MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - OF GROUnD SALE bY TRUSTEE, SUCCES - suit, TERMS CASH. The at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of TIOn ("FAnnIE MAE") bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF SOR In InTEREST TO purchaser at the moment the following described Orleans, in the above vS SAnDRA JEnKInS PAL nO. 3305-07 FIRST Orleans, in the above bAnK OF AMERICA, of adjudication to make a property to wit: entitled cause, I will LOTT JUDICIAL entitled cause, I will STREET, CITY OF nEW nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - deposit of ten percent of LOT E-4, SQUARE 5294 proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, In THE ADvERTISEMEnT proceed to sell by pub - TIOn AS TRUSTEE the purchase price, and THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the CASE EnTITLED: CITY THAT PORTIOn SUCCESSOR bY the balance within thirty TRICT ground floor of the Civil no. 2017-6039 OF nEW ORLEAnS vS ground floor of the Civil MERGERTO LASALLE days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 2623 District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD District Court building, TERRELL A. LOnG bAnK nATIOnAL The payment must be FRANKFORT STREET 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICI - 421 Loyola Avenue, in ASSOCIATIOn, AS Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQUIRED MIN 953418 the First District of the to me directed by the PAL nO. 733 LAnG the First District of the the Parish of Orleans TRUSTEE FOR CER - Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: City on March 8, 2018, Honorable The Civil no. 2016-12681 STREET, CITY OF nEW City on March 8, 2018, TIFICATEHOLDERS OF Order. No personal $57,513.35 at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of ORLEAnS, In THE at 12:00 o’clock noon, by virtue of a WRIT bEAR STEARnS checks.) Seized in the above the following described Orleans, in the above OF FIERI FACIAS to me CASE EnTITLED: FED - the following described ASSET bACKED SECU - suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: entitled cause, I will ERAL nATIOnAL property to wit: MARLIn n. GUSMAn directed by the RITIES, InC. ASSET Sheriff purchaser at the moment LOT NO. 235 proceed to sell by pub - MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - Parish of Orleans Honorable The Civil LOT 22B, SQUARE 657, bACKED CERTIFI - of adjudication to make a SQUARE NO. 9 lic auction, on the TIOn ("FAnnIE MAE") SEVENTH MUNICIPAL ATTY: COREY GIROIR District Court of CATES SERIES 2004-1 (225) 756-0373 deposit of ten percent of THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil vS RAnDY RAMOn jD 20 Orleans, in the above DISTRICT, vS AREEn MOORE the purchase price, and TRICT District Court building, SMITH MUNICIPAL NO. 8825- LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 entitled cause, I will AnD TRAnEY MOn - ______the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO. 4683 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for 27 PEAR STREET proceed to sell by pub - CELL MOORE SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: GABRIEL DR the First District of the lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans ACQUIRED MIN Civil District Court for The payment must be ACQ MIN: 437176 City on March 8, 2018, no. 2017-9446 1161791 ORLEAnS SHERIFF ground floor of the Civil the Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT WRIT AMOUnT: no. 2013-4464 JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money $33,662.43 the following described OF SEIZURE AnD SALE $3,155.00 421 Loyola Avenue, in by virtue of a WRIT ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal Seized in the above property to wit: the First District of the to me directed by the Seized in the above OF SEIZURE AnD SALE checks.) suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT NO. 3 SQUARE Honorable The Civil suit, TERMS CASH. The THAT PORTIOn City on March 8, 2018, to me directed by the MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment NO. 13 at 12:00 o’clock noon, District Court of purchaser at the moment Sheriff Honorable The Civil OF GROUnD of adjudication to make a FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - the following described Orleans, in the above of adjudication to make a bEARInG MUnICI - Parish of Orleans District Court of ATTY: COREY GIROIR deposit of ten percent of TRICT property to wit: entitled cause, I will deposit of ten percent of PAL nO. 8638 PLUM (225) 756-0373 Orleans, in the above the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 2346- LOT B, SQUARE 434, proceed to sell by pub - the purchase price, and STREET, CITY OF nEW jD 21 entitled cause, I will LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 the balance within thirty 2348 KRAFT PL FOURTH MUNICIPAL lic auction, on the the balance within thirty ORLEAnS, In THE ______proceed to sell by pub - days thereafter. (NOTE: SUBDIVISION: CRAFT DISTRICT, ground floor of the Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: CASE EnTITLED: lic auction, on the SALE bY The payment must be PLACE MUNICIPAL NO. 3305- District Court building, The payment must be DEUTSCHE bAnK ground floor of the Civil Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQ MIN:1244724 07 FIRST STREET 421 Loyola Avenue, in Cash, Cashier’s Check, nATIOnAL TRUST ORLEAnS SHERIFF District Court building, Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: ACQUIRED MIN the First District of the Certified Check or Money COMPAnY, AS 421 Loyola Avenue, in JUDICIAL Order. No personal $24,772.62 1200837 City on March 8, 2018, Order. No personal TRUSTEE FOR SOUnD - the First District of the ADvERTISEMEnT checks.) Seized in the above WRIT AMOUnT: at 12:00 o’clock noon, checks.) vIEW HOME LOAn City on March 8, 2018, MARLIn n. GUSMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The $11,710.00 the following described MARLIn n. GUSMAn TRUST 2005-OPT2, THAT PORTIOn Sheriff at 12:00 o’clock noon, purchaser at the moment Seized in the above property to wit: Sheriff ASSET-bACKED CER - Parish of Orleans Parish of Orleans the following described OF GROUnD ATTY: LINDSAY FAULKNER of adjudication to make a suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT 375, SQUARE 21, ATTY: MARSHALL GRIES TIFICATES, SERIES bEARInG MUnICI - (504) 831-7726 property to wit: deposit of ten percent of purchaser at the moment FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - (504) 658-4346 2005-OPT2 vS THE PAL nO. 7930 TROUT TW 25 LM 11 LOT 4, SQUARE 8, LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 the purchase price, and of adjudication to make a TRICT, LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 SUCCESSIOn OF ROAD, nEW ORLEAnS, ______FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - the balance within thirty deposit of ten percent of HUNTLEE VILLAGE, ______THOMASA HAYES AKA LA, In THE MATTER TRICT, SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: the purchase price, and SECTION C, THOMASA HAYES AnD EnTITLED: "THE bAnK SALE bY MUNICIPAL NO. 2827 The payment must be the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO. 733 GERALDMIAH T. OF nEW YORK MEL - ORLEAnS SHERIFF ORLEAnS SHERIFF BRISTOL PLACE Cash, Cashier’s Check, days thereafter. (NOTE: LANG STREET GREEn AKA GERALD - LOn FKA THE bAnK ACQUIRED MIN 452426 JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money The payment must be ACQUIRED MIN 831265 JUDICIAL MIAH GREEn OF nEW YORK, AS WRIT AMOUnT: ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: Civil District Court for TRUSTEE (CWALT ADvERTISEMEnT $100,745.62 checks.) Certified Check or Money $130,002.17 the Parish of Orleans 2005-14) vS MICHELLE THAT PORTIOn THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above MARLIn n. GUSMAn Order. No personal Seized in the above suit, TERMS CASH. The no. 2017-7686 AnGELIQUE TIMbER - OF GROUnD Sheriff suit, TERMS CASH. The OF GROUnD Parish of Orleans checks.) purchaser at the moment by virtue of a WRIT LAKE A/K/A MICHELLE bEARInG MUnICI - ATTY: jASON SMITH purchaser at the moment bEARInG MUnICI - (318) 388-1440 MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a OF SEIZURE AnD SALE A. TIMbERLAKE A/K/A PAL nO. 11235 WAvER - Sheriff of adjudication to make a TW 28 PAL nO. 4975 bACCICH Parish of Orleans deposit of ten percent of to me directed by the MICHELLE TIMbER - LY DRIvE, CITY OF LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 deposit of ten percent of STREET, CITY OF nEW ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM the purchase price, and Honorable The Civil LAKE" nEW ORLEAnS, In THE ______the purchase price, and ORLEAnS, In THE (504) 658-4346 the balance within thirty District Court of Civil District Court for CASE EnTITLED: FED - LM 33 the balance within thirty CASE EnTITLED: CITY SALE bY LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans ERAL HOME LOAn days thereafter. (NOTE: OF nEW ORLEAnS vS ______The payment must be entitled cause, I will no. 2017-5946 MORTGAGE CORPO - ORLEAnS SHERIFF The payment must be EARL L. WICKER, Cash, Cashier’s Check, proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT RATIOn vS bEvERLY JUDICIAL SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, ADRIEnnE MARKHAM, Certified Check or Money lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Ann bREAUX, (AKA ORLEAnS SHERIFF Certified Check or Money ASHAnTI MARKHAM, ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal ground floor of the Civil to me directed by the bEvERLY Ann TURn - Order. No personal AnD EARL LEE JUDICIAL checks.) District Court building, Honorable The Civil ER, bEvERLY Ann THAT PORTIOn checks.) MARKHAM 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of MCbRIDE) OF GROUnD ADvERTISEMEnT Civil District Court for MARLIn n. GUSMAn MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff the First District of the Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICI - THAT PORTIOn Sheriff the Parish of Orleans Parish of Orleans City on March 8, 2018, entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans PAL nO. 7206 CHATE - Parish of Orleans no. 2017-7381 ATTY: FRED DAIGLE OF GROUnD ATTY: KELLY MASSEY (504) 522-8256 at 12:00 o’clock noon, proceed to sell by pub - no. 2016-12306 LAIn DR, THIS CITY, In bEARInG MUnICI - (318) 388-1440 by virtue of a WRIT jD 14 the following described lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT THE MATTER EnTI - LM 39 OF FIERI FACIAS to me LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 PAL nO. 2501-2511 LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 ______property to wit: ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TLED ______directed by the DAnnEEL STREET, SALE bY LOT A, SQUARE 146, District Court building, to me directed by the M & T bAnK vS TER - CITY OF nEW SALE bY Honorable The Civil SEVENTH MUNICIPAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil RAnCE JOHnSOn AnD District Court of ORLEAnS SHERIFF ORLEAnS, In THE ORLEAnS SHERIFF DISTRICT, the First District of the District Court of vEnECIA K. FOUCHER CASE EnTITLED: CITY Orleans, in the above JUDICIAL MUNICIPAL NO. 8638 City on March 8, 2018, Orleans, in the above JOHnSOn JUDICIAL entitled cause, I will OF nEW ORLEAnS vS ADvERTISEMEnT PLUM STREET at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will Civil District Court for nOLA PROPERTY ADvERTISEMEnT proceed to sell by pub - ACQUIRED MIN 825750 the following described proceed to sell by pub - the Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the THAT PORTIOn InvESTMEnT GROUP, THAT PORTIOn WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: lic auction, on the no. 2017-1867 InC. AnD SUCCESSIOn ground floor of the Civil OF GROUnD $86,457.85 LOTS 9 AND 10, ground floor of the Civil by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD District Court building, OF FLOYD JOSEPH bEARInG MUnICI - Seized in the above SQUARE E District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MORRIS, SR. bEARInG MUnICI - 421 Loyola Avenue, in PAL nO. 2425 ST. suit, TERMS CASH. The THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in to me directed by the PAL nO. 3410 bRUX - the First District of the Civil District Court for AnTHOnY STREET, purchaser at the moment TRICT the First District of the Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans ELLES STREET, THIS City on March 8, 2018, nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In of adjudication to make a LAKEFRONT SUBDIVI - City on March 8, 2018, District Court of CITY, In THE MATTER at 12:00 o’clock noon, no. 2017-12145 THE MATTER EnTI - deposit of ten percent of SION at 12:00 o’clock noon, Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT EnTITLED: WELLS the following described TLED: "bAYvIEW the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 7930 the following described entitled cause, I will FARGO bAnK, nA vER - property to wit: OF FIERI FACIAS to me LOAn SERvICInG, the balance within thirty TROUT ROAD property to wit: proceed to sell by pub - directed by the SUS THE UnOPEnED LOTS 27 & 28, SQUARE LLC, A DELAWARE days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 807921 LOT 14, SQUARE F, lic auction, on the SUCCESSIOn OF 47, Honorable The Civil LIMITED LIAbILITY The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil District Court of THOMAS n. CLARK THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - COMPAnY vS JOYCE Cash, Cashier’s Check, $67,350.71 TRICT, District Court building, Civil District Court for TRICT, Orleans, in the above Ann JOnES bROWn Certified Check or Money Seized in the above LAKE BULLARD SUBDI - 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans GENTILLY GARDENS A/K/A JOYCE Ann Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The VISION, PHASE 3, the First District of the no. 2016-2100 MUNICIPAL NO. 4975 proceed to sell by pub - JOnES A/K/A JOYCE A checks.) purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 11235 City on March 8, 2018, lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT BACCICH STREET JOnES A/K/A JOYCE of adjudication to make a WAVERLY DRIVE at 12:00 o’clock noon, OF COURT ORDER to ACQUIRED MIN MARLIn n. GUSMAn ground floor of the Civil JOnES A/K/A JOYCE Sheriff deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN the following described me directed by the Parish of Orleans District Court building, 1206089 Ann bROWn A/K/A the purchase price, and 1161327 property to wit: Honorable The Civil WRIT AMOUnT: ATTY: COREY GIROIR 421 Loyola Avenue, in JOYCE A. bROWn (225) 756-0373 the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: LOT NO. 54 SQUARE District Court of $14,252.14 LM 19 the First District of the A/K/A JOYCE bROWn LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 days thereafter. (NOTE: $218,129.64 NO.14 City on March 8, 2018, Orleans, in the above Seized in the above ______A/K/A JOYCE JOnES The payment must be Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - at 12:00 o’clock noon, entitled cause, I will suit, TERMS CASH. The bROWn A/K/A JOYCE Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT proceed to sell by pub - purchaser at the moment SALE bY the following described J. bROWn" Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 7206 property to wit: lic auction, on the of adjudication to make a Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal of adjudication to make a CHATELAIN DR ground floor of the Civil deposit of ten percent of LOT A, SQUARE 286, the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL checks.) deposit of ten percent of ACQ MIN:1057079 FOURTH MUNICIPAL District Court building, the purchase price, and no. 2017-10823 the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in the balance within thirty ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn DISTRICT, by virtue of a WRIT Sheriff the balance within thirty $164,376.23 the First District of the days thereafter. (NOTE: THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NO. 2501- OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ATTY: COREY GIROIR days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above 2511 DANNEEL City on March 8, 2018, The payment must be (225) 756-0373 to me directed by the OF GROUnD The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The STREET at 12:00 o’clock noon, Cash, Cashier’s Check, bEARInG MUnICI - jD 23 Honorable The Civil LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN the following described Certified Check or Money PAL nO. 2623 FRAnK - ______District Court of Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a 1257662 property to wit: Order. No personal FORT STREET, nEW Orleans, in the above SALE bY Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: LOT 3 - SQUARE 2294 checks.) ORLEAnS, LA, In THE entitled cause, I will checks.) the purchase price, and $19,310.00 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - MARLIn n. GUSMAn proceed to sell by pub - MATTER EnTITLED: ORLEAnS SHERIFF the balance within thirty TRICT Sheriff MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the "WELLS FARGO bAnK, JUDICIAL Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 3410 Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The ATTY: MARSHALL GRIES ground floor of the Civil n.A. vS DERRICK DOO - The payment must be BRUSELLES STREET (504) 658-4346 ADvERTISEMEnT ATTY: LINDSAY FAULKNER purchaser at the moment LM 12 District Court building, LEY, SR." (504) 831-7726 Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQ. CIN 128053, CIN LM 27 of adjudication to make a LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn Certified Check or Money 589996, NA 2017-22891 ______LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 deposit of ten percent of the Parish of Orleans ______the First District of the OF GROUnD Order. No personal the purchase price, and BONNIE WATSON, no. 2017-8181 bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY City on March 8, 2018, SALE bY checks.) the balance within thirty NOTARY PUBLIC, IS by virtue of a WRIT PAL nO. ORLEAnS SHERIFF at 12:00 o’clock noon, MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: APPOINTED TO MAKE OF SEIZURE AnD SALE 4683 GAbRIEL DR, ORLEAnS SHERIFF Sheriff the following described The payment must be THIS PARTITION IN JUDICIAL to me directed by the THIS CITY, In THE MAT - Parish of Orleans property to wit: JUDICIAL ATTY: jASON SMITH Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACCRDANCE WITH LA. Honorable The Civil TER EnTITLED (318) 388-1440 ADvERTISEMEnT LOT NO. 7, SQUARE ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money CCP ART. 4605 District Court of TRUSTMARK nATIOn - TW 29 THAT PORTIOn 1331 LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 Order. No personal TERMS CASH. The Orleans, in the above AL bAnK vS ELERIA M. THAT PORTIOn ______THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - checks.) purchaser at the moment OF GROUnD TRICT entitled cause, I will WEATHERSbY OF GROUnD of adjudication to make a bEARInG MUnICI - SALE bY MUNICIPAL NO. 2425 proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICI - MARLIn n. GUSMAn deposit of ten percent of PAL nO. 2827 bRISTOL Sheriff ST. ANTHONY STREET lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans PAL nO. ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans the purchase price, and PLACE, CITY OF nEW ATTY: MICHAEL KARAM ACQUIRED MIN 918150 ground floor of the Civil no. 2017-6763 2346-2348 KRAFT PL, JUDICIAL the balance within thirty ORLEAnS, In THE (504) 658-4346 WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT THIS CITY, In THE MAT - LM 34 days thereafter. (NOTE: CASE EnTITLED: U.S. ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 $16,428.21 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TER EnTITLED ______bAnK nATIOnAL the First District of the to me directed by the FEDERAL nATIOnAL THAT PORTIOn Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 15

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Nick Cannon and Joey New York Police Brutality in Dallas the Golden State Warriors would CNN reported that Kaepernick CNN reported that as a finale to Badass: $40,000 to Communities • $25,000 to Coalition for the • $25,000 to I Will Not Die not visit the White House during reached that goal Wednesday, his year of giving, Kaepernick United by Police Reform in New Homeless in New York City Young Campaign in Milwaukee, their visit to Washington, DC to thanks in large part to the teamed up with influential ath - York City • $25,000 to United We Wisconsin celebrate their recent NBA groundswell of support he has letes and artists to spotlight 7. Jhene Aiko and Chris Brown: Dream, a organization helping Kaepernick made international championship. received from friends, fellow organizations close to them. He School on Wheels in Los Angeles immigrant youth headlines when he decided to kneel In October 2017, Kaepernick athletes celebrities and others called the project #10for10, and 6. T.I.: $20k to Angel by Nature • $33,000 to Lower East Side during the national anthem as a filed a grievance against the NFL, who share his concern for the asked participants to donate in Houston Girls Club in New York City quarterback for the San Francisco accusing the league of collusion. dismal state of conditions in low- $10,000 to a cause of their 5. Serena Williams: $20k to • $33,000 to 100 Suits for 100 49ers during the fall of 2016. In November, he was named income communities. choice, which he then matched Imagine LA in Los Angeles Men in Jamaica, New York When asked by a reporter why GQ’s Citizen of the Year, and in The pledge he made in with another $10,000. 4. Snoop Dogg: $20k to • $25,000 to American Friends he refused to stand for the December, he accepted the 2017 September 2016 has raised $1 His final $10,000 went to Mothers Against Police Brutality Service Committee, which pro - national anthem, Kaepernick said Sports Illustrated Muhammad million that will be used to match a donation from R&B in Dallas vides behavioral health treatment he was kneeling in protest of big - Ali Legacy Award. address a host of societal ills and singer Usher. 3. Steph Curry: $20k to United and other services to incarcerated otry and police brutality. His “With or without the NFL’s plat - issues including homelessness, “This is a collaborative effort, Playaz in San Francisco individuals, in Phoenix, Arizona actions inspired several of his form, I will continue to work for the at-risk families, education, com - and as a result of us helping each 2. Jesse Williams: $20k to • $50,000 to Life After Hate, teammates and fellow NFL ath - people,” Kaepernick said during his munity-police relations, prison other we all become stronger,” Advancement Project in an educational and rehabilitative letes across the country to make acceptance speech. “Because my reform, inmates’ rights, repro - Usher said in a joint video mes - Washington, D.C. organization started by former similar gestures in support of platform is the people.” social justice. Others were also In December, Kaepernick was inspired and followed suit, also honored by the ACLU of including high school and col - Southern California, which present - lege football players, college ed him with the Eason Monroe cheerleaders and soccer players Courageous Advocate Award. Man gets jail time for threatening flight attendant around the world “We all have an obligation no (AP) — A Florida man agrees people had to restrain him in prison plus two years' proba - drug and drank bourbon on the In March 2017 he became a matter the risk, and regardless of that he threatened to blow up a plastic handcuffs for the rest of tion. U.S. District Court Judge July 18 Spirit Airlines flight free agent and has not played in reward, to stand up for our fel - plane, hurled racial slurs, his flight. Beth Bloom ordered him to from New York to Fort the NFL since. low men and women who are threatened to kill a flight atten - Thirty-six-year-old Michael prison on Feb. 23, after he com - Lauderdale before he called an The NFL’s blackballing of being oppressed with the under - dant, pushed a passenger, Minko of White Springs plead - pletes addiction treatment. African-American crew mem - Kaepernick and President standing that human rights can - punched a seat and a window, ed guilty to interfering with the The Miami Herald reports that ber a “slave,” among more Donald Trump’s sharp criticism not be compromised,” and acted so badly that four crew and got two months in Minko took an anti-anxiety crude language. ◊ of professional athletes who Kaepernick said afterwards.◊

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Continued from previous page designated as LOT NO. nEY bAnK vERSUS YERbY) ROnALDO DUGARS purchaser at the moment of New Orleans, State of District Court building, 270-F on a plan of survey SCHARMAInE M. LAW - Civil District Court for AKA ROnALDO of adjudication to make a Louisiana, designated by 421 Loyola Avenue, in The payment must be made by j. j. Krebs & SOn the Parish of Orleans DUGARS, SR. deposit of ten percent of the Letter D in Square the First District of the Cash, Cashier’s Check, Sons, Civil Engineers Civil District Court for no. 2014-11925 Civil District Court for the purchase price, and No. 623, bounded by City on March 8, 2018, Certified Check or Money and Surveyors, dated the Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT the Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty Villere (late Girod). at 12:00 o’clock noon, Order. No personal june 3, 1958, a copy of no. 2017-9679 OF SEIZURE AnD no. 2017-7842 days thereafter. (NOTE: Annette and Robertson the following described checks.) which is annexed to an by virtue of a WRIT SALE to me directed by virtue of a WRIT The payment must be Streets and St. Bernard property to wit: MARLIn n. GUSMAn Act before jerome OF SEIZURE AnD by the Honorable The OF SEIZURE AnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, Avenue, on the sketch THAT CERTAIN PIECE Sheriff Meunier, Notary Public, SALE to me directed Civil District Court of SALE to me directed Certified Check or Money and certificate of survey OR PORTION OF Parish of Orleans dated june 12, 1956, and by the Honorable The Orleans, in the above by the Honorable The Order. No personal signed by D. E. Seghers GROUND, together with ATTY: DEVON MCKNIGHT (225) 924-1600 according to which said Civil District Court of entitled cause, I will Civil District Court of checks.) and Sons, dated january all the buildings and BTD 35 LOT NO. 270-F com - Orleans, in the above proceed to sell by pub - Orleans, in the above 17, 1905. According to improvements thereon, LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 MARLIn n. GUSMAn ______mences at a distance of entitled cause, I will lic auction, on the entitled cause, I will Sheriff said sketch, said lot lies and all of the rights, Parish of Orleans SALE bY TWO HUNDRED SIX - proceed to sell by pub - ground floor of the Civil proceed to sell by pub - ATTY: KELLY MASSEY at a distance of ninety ways, privileges, servi - TEEN FEET, ONE INCH, lic auction, on the District Court building, lic auction, on the (318) 388-1440 feet ten inches and six tudes, appurtenances LM 40 ORLEAnS SHERIFF ONE LINE (216’1”1’”) ground floor of the Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in ground floor of the Civil LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 lines from Annette Street, and advantages thereun - JUDICIAL from intersection of VER - District Court building, the First District of the District Court building, ______and measures thirty to belonging or in any - ADvERTISEMEnT MILLION BOULEVARD 421 Loyola Avenue, in City on March 8, 2018, 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE bY seven feet front on Villere wise appertaining, situat - and PRENTISS the First District of the at 12:00 o’clock noon, the First District of the Street, by sixty four feet, ed in the Third District of THAT PORTIOn AVENUE, and measures City on March 8, 2018, the following described City on March 8, 2018, ORLEAnS SHERIFF one inch in depth the City of New Orleans, OF GROUnD thence in the direction of at 12:00 o’clock noon, property to wit: at 12:00 o’clock noon, JUDICIAL between equal and paral - State of Louisiana, in bEARInG MUnICIPAL BURBANK DRIVE, the following described LOT 29-A, SQUARE 23 the following described ADvERTISEMEnT lel lines. Square No.601, bounded nO. 5718 vERMILLIOn FORTY-SEVEN (47’) property to wit: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - property to wit: THAT PORTIOn WRIT AMOUnT: by North Robertson, bLvD, CITY OF nEW FEET front on VERMIL - LOT A-1, SQUARE TRICT A CERTAIN LOT OF $92,650.00 Gallier, N. Villere and ORLEAnS, In THE LION BOULEVARD, the 520-521 PLANTATION ESTATES GROUND, together with OF GROUnD Seized in the above Desire Streets, designat - CASE EnTITLED: same in width in the rear SECOND MUNICIPAL SUBDIVISION the buildings and bEARInG MUnICIPAL suit, TERMS CASH. The ed as Lot No. 31, com - TRUSTMARK nATIOn - by a depth of ONE HUN - DISTRICT MUNICIPAL NO. 2683 improvements thereon, nO. 1649 n. vILLERE purchaser at the moment mences 55 feet from the AL bAnK vS SHAnnA DRED TWENTY (120’) IDA PLACE CUPID STREET and all of the rights, STREET, THIS CITY, In of adjudication to make a corner of N. Robertson MARIE SCHEXnAY - FEET between equal and MUNICIPAL NO. 848- ACQ. MIN 716693 ways, privileges, servi - THE MATTER EnTI - deposit of ten percent of and Gallier Streets and DER. parallel lines, and is com - 850 N. CARROLLTON WRIT AMOUnT: tudes, appurtenances TLED: FEDERAL the purchase price, and measures thence 55 feet Civil District Court for posed of twelve feet of AVENUE $107,230.28 and advantages thereun - nATIOnAL MORTGAGE the balance within thirty front on Gallier Street, the Parish of Orleans Original Lot 60, the ACQ. MIN 1142513 Seized in the above to belonging or in any - ASSOCIATIOn (FAnnIE days thereafter. (NOTE: same width in the rear, no. 2017-8461 whole Original Lot 61, WRIT AMOUnT: suit, TERMS CASH. The wise appertaining, situat - MAE”), A CORPORA - The payment must be by a depth of 120 feet, 7 by virtue of a WRIT and Ten (10’) Feet of $470,454.09 purchaser at the moment ed in the SEVENTH DIS - TIOn ORGAnIZED AnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, inches between equal OF SEIZURE AnD Original Lot 62. Seized in the above of adjudication to make a TRICT of the CITY OF EXISTInG UnDER THE Certified Check or Money and parallel lines, all in SALE to me directed Which has the address suit, TERMS CASH. The deposit of ten percent of NEW ORLEANS, LAWS OF THE UnITED Order. No personal accordance with a blue by the Honorable The of 5718 Vermillion purchaser at the moment the purchase price, and PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATES OF AMERICA checks.) print of survey made by Civil District Court of Boulevard, New Orleans, of adjudication to make a the balance within thirty STATE OF LOUISIANA, vERSUS JEFFREY G. MARLIn n. GUSMAn Gilbert and Kelly, Orleans, in the above LA 70122. deposit of ten percent of days thereafter. (NOTE: in SQUARE NUMBER TRAUTH A/K/A JEF - Sheriff Surveyors, dated june Parish of Orleans entitled cause, I will WRIT AMOUnT: the purchase price, and The payment must be 156, which square is FREY TRAUTH AnD ATTY: RACHEL WILLIAMS 11, 1946, a copy of which proceed to sell by pub - $79,713.51 the balance within thirty Cash, Cashier’s Check, bounded by Adams TRAUTH DESIGn MAn - (318) 388-1440 is annexed to an act NNB 15 lic auction, on the Seized in the above days thereafter. (NOTE: Certified Check or Money Street, Hillary Street, AGEMEnT, L.L.C. LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 before james E. Courtin, ground floor of the Civil suit, TERMS CASH. The The payment must be Order. No personal Oak Street and Plum Civil District Court for ______N. P., on june 21, 1946. District Court building, purchaser at the moment Cash, Cashier’s Check, checks.) Street, composed of the Parish of Orleans SALE bY Reference to survey no. 2014-10148 421 Loyola Avenue, in of adjudication to make a Certified Check or Money MARLIn n. GUSMAn parts of Lots 4 and 5 on a ORLEAnS SHERIFF made by Mandle the First District of the deposit of ten percent of Order. No personal Sheriff plat of survey by F. C. by virtue of a WRIT Surveying, Inc., dated Parish of Orleans City on March 8, 2018, the purchase price, and checks.) ATTY: LINDSAY FAULKNER Gandolfo, jr., Surveyor, OF SEIZURE AnD JUDICIAL September 3, 1982. at 12:00 o’clock noon, the balance within thirty 504-831-7726 dated March 17, 1937, SALE to me directed Which has the MARLIn n. GUSMAn NNB 26 ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff the following described days thereafter. (NOTE: LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 and according to which by the Honorable The address of 1436 Gallier Parish of Orleans ______THAT PORTIOn property to wit: The payment must be ATTY: CLAY LEGROS survey, said lot com - Civil District Court of Street, New Orleans, LA ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT Cash, Cashier’s Check, 504-837-9040 SALE bY mences at a distance of Orleans, in the above OF GROUnD 70117. NNB 1 entitled cause, I will bEARInG MUnICIPAL OR PARCEL OF Certified Check or Money LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 ORLEAnS SHERIFF 47 feet, 6 inches from WRIT AMOUnT: GROUND, together with Order. No personal ______Adams Street and meas - proceed to sell by pub - nO. 1436 GALLIER $91,907.65 the buildings and checks.) SALE bY JUDICIAL ures thence 45 feet front lic auction, on the STREET, THIS CITY, In Seized in the above ground floor of the Civil THE MATTER EnTI - improvements thereon, MARLIn n. GUSMAn ORLEAnS SHERIFF ADvERTISEMEnT on Plum Street, same suit, TERMS CASH. The and all the rights, ways, Sheriff width in the rear, by a District Court building, TLED: FEDERAL purchaser at the moment Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn privileges, servitudes, ATTY: EMILY HOLLEY JUDICIAL depth of 120 feet 421 Loyola Avenue, in nATIOnAL MORTGAGE of adjudication to make a appurtenances and (504) 831-7726 ADvERTISEMEnT OF GROUnD between equal and paral - the First District of the ASSOCIATIOn vER - deposit of ten percent of LM 42 bEARInG MUnICIPAL City on March 8, 2018, SUS AnTOnIO bRIAn advantages thereunto LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 THAT PORTIOn lel lines. All as more fully the purchase price, and belonging or in anywise ______nO. 7640 PLUM shown on survey of at 12:00 o’clock noon, COnDLEY. the balance within thirty appertaining, situated in SALE bY OF GROUnD STREET, CITY OF nEW Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, the following described Civil District Court for days thereafter. (NOTE: bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS, In THE property to wit: the Parish of Orleans the THIRD MUNICIPAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF Inc., S. & E. dated july The payment must be DISTRICT of the City of nO. 2683 CUPID CASE EnTITLED: 24, 1981; subject to A CERTAIN PORTION no. 2017-10356 Cash, Cashier’s Check, New Orleans, State of JUDICIAL STREET, THIS CITY, In DEUTSCHE bAnK restrictions, servitudes, OF GROUND, with the by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money Louisiana, in EDGEWA - ADvERTISEMEnT THE MATTER EnTI - nATIOnAL TRUST rights-of-way and out - buildings and improve - OF SEIZURE AnD Order. No personal TLED: REGIOnS bAnK COMPAnY AS ments thereon, and all of SALE to me directed TER GARDENS, in THAT PORTIOn standing mineral rights of checks.) BLOCK “F”, bounded by D/b/A REGIOnS MORT - TRUSTEE FOR MER - record affecting the prop - the rights, ways, privi - by the Honorable The MARLIn n. GUSMAn VERMILLION BOULE - OF GROUnD GAGE vERSUS JOHn RILL LYnCH MORT - erty. leges, servitudes, appur - Civil District Court of Sheriff Parish of Orleans VARD, BURBANK bEARInG MUnICIPAL SAMUEL YERbY AnD GAGE InvESTORS WRIT AMOUnT: tenances and advan - Orleans, in the above ATTY: EMILY HOLLEY DRIVE, PASTEUR nO. 848-850 n. CAR - SHEREE WILSOn TRUST, MORTAGE $308,363.47 tages thereunto belong - entitled cause, I will (504) 831-7726 NNB 41 BOULEVARD and ROLLTOn AvEnUE, YERbY (A/K/A SHEREE LOAn ASSET-bACKED Seized in the above ing or in anywise apper - proceed to sell by pub - LA. WEEKLY 2/5/2018, 3/5/2018 PRENTISS AVENUE, THIS CITY, In THE MAT - WILSOn, SHEREE CERTIFICATES, suit, TERMS CASH. The taining, situated in the lic auction, on the ______TER EnTITLED: WHIT - SHRIEvES, SHEREE SERIES 2007-MLn1 vS Third District of the City ground floor of the Civil Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 16 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018

was incorporated in 2010. A native of rural Ohio, Brockett came to Congregants of merge churches in dispute over property rights CSM from a church in Meriden, Continued from Page 1 After Central St. Matthew was (CSM) to finance the development CT. However, Boveland said born, many Central members were of the property.” Pastor Brockett arrived to take the rights legacy of Central alive. shocked to learn that Central’s Cramer disputes Boveland’s ver - helm at Central St. Matthew at the Central Congregational Church properties would be sold. “Some sion of events. “We were trying to end of 2014. And while Brockett holds a unique place in New members of Central and St. settle the property title issue. The may want to be the Pontius Pilate Orleans’ African-American histo - Matthew voted to merge but developers were going to put up of the merger affair, KOLA mem - ry. The church’s roots date back to Central members never dreamed the money to develop a senior citi - bers think differently. “Brockett 1846 and several churches run by Central’s properties would be zen center, affordable housing, and created the committee that voted to African Americans. St. James sold,” says Cheryl Cramer, a life - a community center but they want - sell,” says Cramer. AME Church became St. James long congregant of Central. and ed to know that we owned the title, Karen and Andrea parents, Congregational Church. KOLA member. first. CSM could have retained the Wilfred and Whilemina Lodrig Congregants from St. James and “Ten years ago, this would have developed properties, which would were deeply devoted Central mem - Morris Brown AME founded the been a beautiful thing; people generate revenues and Central’s bers. Their father served as presi - University Church at Straight working together on the same legacy would have remained dent of the congregation. “That’s University, before the business col - mission,” says Richard Timpton, intact. KOLA never had the money my church home. I will not return lege combined with New Orleans III. Timpton’s family had wor - to buy Central’s property,” Cramer to CMS. Pastor (Brockett) may University to become Dillard shiped at Central for generations. explains. step aside now, but he started that. University. In 1872, the congre - “The same thing happened to us NANO, a white, female-owned He can’t say it’s not him. He gants of the blended churches that happened historically, every - architectural firm has agreed to destroyed our church home. incorporated Central body got civil rights but us.” buy Central’s properties. Central’s Honestly, he’s trying to steal our Congregational Church. In 1945, Timpton and his wife, Paulette, land is listed with Corporate black heritage, says Lodrig. Central moved to its current loca - raised their children at Central. In the interest of full disclosure, tion at 2401 Bienville Street. Timpton served a year as board the owners of The Louisiana Central Congregational Church president at Central St. Matthew Weekly’s grandfather C.C. Dejoie, bec ame a pivotal place for social but stepped down when the issue the newspaper’s founder and great- and political activism during of selling Central’s properties grandfather, Aristide Dejoie, a Reconstruction. Some of its original arose. “I was in the position pharmacist, attended Central congregants were Civil War leaders, Wilson (Boveland) is in now. I Congregational Church. C.C. including Captain James H. tried to make sure our voices were Dejoie was a member of Central’s Ingraham, who led the effort to heard but they (CSM) had a plan of Board of Trustees. “It’s my under - establish Central, Colonel James action that confused and misdirect - standing that my grandfather put Lewis, brothers Captain Robert H. ed us,” he explains. up money to acquire church prop - Isabelle and Thomas Isabelle, and “Central was critical to the devel - erty,” says Renette Dejoie Hall, the Cesar and Felix Antoine among oth - opment of African-American leader of the family-owned news - ers. Lewis, Cesar Antoine and the rights and progress,” he says, not - paper. Cousin Michael Dejoie Isabelle brothers were among the ing that the move to sell Central’s joined KOLA in opposing the sale first African Americans to serve in properties was a reversal of the of Central’s properties. the Louisiana Legislature. They successes made in the fight for Aside from the sanctuary, the fought for the right to vote and for civil and equal rights in New heartbeat of Central is the Hume integration of public schools. Orleans. “I didn’t want to associate Center, which was the first early A waystation for post- with that. They used me as a fig - learning center for African- Reconstruction civil rights leaders, urehead and I wasn’t quite feeling American children in New in 1915, the Central Congregational that. The thing that breaks my Orleans. Opened under the guid - hosted a citywide banquet for heart is my mother is 95 and she is ance of Rev. Henderson H. Dunn Booker T. Washington. In the 1960s, not happy. She says she is not a Top photo, the inscription on the Bell Statue of Central Congregational Church before its merger with St. in 1911, the center is named for it housed Freedom Riders, and hypocrite and she can’t go to wor - Matthew Congregational Church. Above, the front facade of Hume Child Care Development Center. educator and Central Associate Photos by Amandi Rock members were in the vanguard of ship where we’re not respected.” Pastor Isabella Hume. political and educational advance - Paulette Timpton sees the CSM “At one point, Hume Center ment in the Black community. move to sell Bienville as a “clas - for Mayor Moon Landrieu and from Hurricane Katrina, so CSM taught the Who’s Who in Black Several members of Central sic gentrification technique, “and Governor Edwin Edwards. got a $100,000 grant from the Realty for $1.5 million in cash. New Orleans,” says Kim Ford, a Congregational Church have been that the goals of the two churches After living in Atlanta, post- National United Church in Christ KOLA’s dream of halting the former congregant who married “honored for their dedicated serv - are different. “We were more Katrina, the Shorters returned to organization. “The Hope Shall sale of Central’s properties last husband, Mark, 33 years ago. at ice to the community and to Negro about the service and they’re more New Orleans and found Central Bloom” grant was allocated to fix month was dashed by the New Central. education.” The Orleans Parish about the look of “unity.” She members worshiping at St. up Central but one of the stipula - Orleans City Council, which voted Today, the Hume Center for School Board named schools for says losing Central’s properties Matthew. “A merger discussion tions of the grant was that the 4-3 to allow for zoning changes to Child Development is still serving Mrs. Florence J. Chester, Miss has been “physically, emotionally had emerged,” says Joseph Shorter. money could not be used to bring turn the residential neighborhood the Mid-City community. Mary D. Coghill, the Reverend and spiritually tough.” “The instigators were members of Central back as a church. “The into a commercial zone, which has However, the building that houses Dunn and Dr. Lord Beaconsfield “Central should have had a say St. Matthew Church.” church could be fixed up but only paved the way for the sale of the the prestigious learning center is Landry, Lawrence D. Crocker, in what happens to the property. Shorter said he rose to object to for a multifunctional use,” says property to NANO. on the auction block, too. Alfred Lawless, James Lewis and The pillars came from Straight the discussion of merging assets. Boveland. The funds were used to “The City Planning Commission Lifelong Central member Robert Fannie C. Williams. Dillard College; and they wanted to sell “We were supposed to be one gut the church, repair the roof, and voted against the zoning request, N. Perry, III, the Hume Child University named a women’s dor - the pipes from the pipe organ,” church in two locations.” Shorter board up the church. but the City Council overrode Development Center Board Chair, mitory for Miss Fannie C. Paulette says of the loss of his - was told that his motion was out of KOLA members say Central them, now you’re looking at a case is the grandson of Reverend Williams and the new Health and toric items from the church. She order. When he brought a copy of congregants never got a full of gentrification on a massive Henderson H. Dunn. He has joined Physical Science Hall for its for - thinks CSM will use the money Robert’s Rules of Order to a subse - accounting of what was done scale. It’s going on all over the KOLA’s effort to reclaim Central’s mer president, Dr. Albert W. Dent from the sale of Central’s proper - quent meeting, one St. Matthew with the grant money . city,” says Joseph Shorter, a retired properties. Perry initially support - and Samuel DuBois Cook. ty to fix up St. Matthew. member questioned the authentici - “We did agree to pool our government executive. ed the sale of Central’s properties. “I played in church every “We haven’t given up yet. We ty of his copy. An apology was resources,” says Lodrig, a former Last week, Faye Davis The Louisiana Weekly obtained a Sunday at Central Congregational still have a mission. We want to issued later but “by that time the member of CSM’s Board of Kaufman, a former Central con - letter via Brockett to Boveland, in Church. [in New Orleans]. As a know whether the merge church blended congregation had agreed Trustees. “We’d have all of these gregant and KOLA member, which Perry agreed to sell. matter of fact, Andrew Young was owns the property. We maintain to merge assets.” properties and fix them up. The wrote a letter to the City Council “Some CSM officers promised to a member of the church, and there they do not,” Paulette concludes. “What we are dealing with are bottom line is we couldn’t get the about the zoning change. “Thank use funds from those obtained were a lot of other local dignitaries “Not every member of Central people who lack intellectual money from the bank to renovate. you for supporting the opposition from the sale to rebuild and sup - who were part of that church. It is had the same feelings about sell - integrity and who had a plan that In the last covenant we said put to the zoning change requested by port Hume Child Development an amazing church. My father ing,” Cramer adds, while acknowl - they kept secret from Central,” properties together. The initial Central St. Matthew building Center and enhance other local used to tell me all the time, he edging some African-American Shorter explains. “What we’re agreement was that the sanctuary (CSM) where property formerly community services. Since then says, ‘I don’t care what time you members were in favor of selling dealing with is a case of deception was supposed to be for ministries owned by blacks ends up in white they have reneged on every prom - get in from your gig, you’ve got to the Church, the HUME Child and outright thievery.” and Carrollton would be for hands to be sold for white profit. ise,” Perry explains. get up and go to church and play Development Center, an apartment To save the properties, Karen church services. “When the Take “We have witnessed this scenario “I vehemently oppose any sale on Sunday morning.’ And so that complex, a large parking lot and Lodrig brought the Atlanta-based Action Committee voted to sell too often: Black farmers, the of those properties for a variety of was a big part of my upbringing,” rental properties. Perkins & James architectural the Bienville properties and fix Gullah people, inner-city elderly, reasons. One must remember that says world-renowned jazz trum - Several of Central’s properties firm, accompanied by Walter up the Carrollton property,” aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, CSM’s debt was not from Hume peter Terrance Blanchard. have been sold, and three are on Young to present a plan for rede - KOLA was formed. etc. It was a sad commentary on Child Development Center and In the beginning, the merger the auction block, including the velopment of Central’s properties “Central St. Matthew didn’t one council member’s rationaliza - the money from the sale of other seemed divinely inspired. Both Church, its office, and the HUME into affordable housing units. like our developers’ plan. It was tion, who voted to allow the zoning Central Congregational Church’s churches were struggling because of Child Development Center, Young and his brother, The Rev. a beautiful plan but CSM reject - change when she concluded that properties were not reinvested in dwindling congregations in post- Corporate Realty is selling Andrew Young Jr., a close adviser ed it. I don’t think it’s right to “as of today CSM owns the proper - its repair. To put it mildly, they Katrina New Orleans. Both church - Central’s remaining 39,000 sq. to Martin Luther King Jr., former ask us to pay CMS for our own ty” but refused to acknowledge have lied, and their intent has es worshipped under the same footage for $1.5 million in cash. Atlanta mayor, and U.N. property,” says Lodrig. that also as of today the current been revealed. So, I have every denomination, so a merger could “Once those people, the white Ambassador were brought up in Boveland admits that Central St. Master Plan does not allow the right to oppose the sale of the prove to be the saving grace for ones in that church (St. Matthew) Central Congregational Church. Matthew has a $90,000 deficit zoning change that is requested! remaining Central Congregational both. Moreover, the merger would saw we had property they could use, Andrew was ordained there. “because of a lack of membership Inconsistency rules! Church property.” bridge the racial divide between a they saw an opportunity to use that The Board of Central St. and a growing list of expenses.” “NANO, the buyer/developer of Perry is exasperated about what Black congregation and a white con - property to fix their church up. Matthew rejected the offer, even CSM has been running on money the Bienville properties, wanted he said is an unjust, unfair in rent. gregation; one downtown, the other When they merged the churches, we though the developers agreed to reserves, “We had to look at the the zoning change to seal the deal CMS had doubled the Center’s rent uptown, both of which worship didn’t know they merged the prop - put up their own money to do the reality of the situation. When we for their purposes. CSM wants from $850 monthly to $1700. In a under the same United Church in erties, too. CSM virtually stole it development. “What Central St. run out of money that’s the end of money, PERIOD. The white attor - letter to CMS, he wrote, “The Christ denomination. from us, sold some of the properties Matthew wanted was for KOLA to St. Matthew and Central ney/member of CSM who assisted ‘rent’ that Hume has been paying Shortly after Katrina, Central for virtually nothing,” says Margie buy back Central’s properties,” Congregational,” he adds. in creating the “so-called merger” to Central Saint Matthew is essen - Congregational was invited to use Shorter, a KOLA member and life - KOLA members say. “In 2014, the congregation got document had the audacity to say tially a gift to that church since St. Matthew’s chapel in which to long Central con gregant. “The Blacks on the board, when together and decided to sell the during a congregational meeting Hume Child Development Center hold services, for a rental fee. For “St. Matthew is land locked and the first covenant was done, property. They considered three that CSM desired the highest pos - is a mission of Central two to three years, the churches only has its church and a vacant thought it was in the best interest options, sell both churches, sell St. sible price for the property; even if Congregational Church and has worshipped and functioned sepa - school, and no place to park,” of the church to get resources to Matthew or sell Central. A commit - the buyer wanted to convert the been a mission since the Center rately. “At one point, St. Shorter adds. “At one time, Central renovate Central Church and they tee recommended to sell Bienville church to a strip club! I don’t recall was founded so long ago. In fact, Matthew invited us to worship in owned all the downtown side of wanted the legacy to continue on to raise additional funds because hearing any negative responses there was no rent or occupancy the main chapel with them,” Bienville Street, including the Bienville,” says Cramer. Instead, “There was no money available to voiced by the congregation after paid to Central Church before explains Attorney William HUME Center, an apartment com - she says, the board of CSM wanted fix up Central and the Carrollton that stunning comment, not even CSM came on the scene.” Boveland, a former member of plex, the Landis Davis House and to “sell Central’s properties to bal - property was fixed up already and from the pastor (who began serv - Perry says the Hume Board of Central and the current board the Church sanctuary.” ance the books.” we couldn’t afford to buy another ing CSM after the “so-called merg - Directors has decided to continue president of Central St. Matthew. “In fact, my wife and I were “People saw us doing things in church.” Boveland said CMS tried er”),” Kaufman wrote. to pay $650 per month and will The churches later entered two married at Central 44 years ago the neighborhood,” says Lodrig. to borrow the estimated $1.5 mil - Whether Pastor Philip Brockett hold the balance in escrow until the covenants, one to worship together on June 16,” Joseph Shorter “We distributed commodities, cub lion to fix up the properties but a had a hand in the merger of property ownership issue is settled. as one and the other to develop into affirms. The couple’s sons were scout and boy scout troops met SBA loan was denied. assets is in dispute. When asked Boveland says the rent is used to one organization. “We decided to baptized and confirmed at Central there, we had bike races. Central “The KOLA group offered to buy for an interview, for this article, cut the grass, make repairs and for formally merge the two churches as was Margie Shorter. has great potential for community the properties for thousands less Pastor Brockett politely insurance. “Future buyers of the together in 2014,” Boveland con - “This is one of the most egre - use. People are moving in who than a local architectural firm declined. “I’m relatively new Hume building are amenable to tinues. The two churches were dis - gious assaults on property rights, need services and a church home. offered. We had decided to go with and I wasn’t here for all that allowing Hume to stay at the loca - solved and the new entity, Central I’ve ever seen. It’s the members of They (CSM) wanted to stay on KOLA…but KOLA was never went on,” he said, referring all tion. If Hume leaves, the new St. Matthew (CSM) became the KOLA versus folks that come from Carrollton. That’s ok but they able to prove they had the funds questions to Wilson Boveland. owner will find another daycare owner of both churches’ assets, uptown, says Joseph Shorter, a shouldn’t take our properties.” available to make their plan a real - Brockett was indeed not in New operator to open in that site,” including property and programs. retired policy planner, who worked Central sustained wind damages ity. They (developers) wanted us Orleans when Central St. Matthew Boveland concludes.◊

THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - February 5 - February 11, 2018 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 17 Zulu members who stand tall as brass band leaders liven up Lundi Gras... and Mardi Gras By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer

Phil Frazier , the much loved tuba player and co-leader of the Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band has been a member of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club for some 10 years. In 2017 he ran for the position of Governor and won the election. So at this year’s Zulu Lundi Gras Festival , held at Woldenberg Park on Monday, February 12, Frazier will pull double duty. At 11 a.m., the affa - ble musician will don his Zulu Governor’s attire, traverse the riverside park accompanied by The Original Pin Stripe Brass Band and give out coconuts to Photo by Demian Roberts fortunate recipients. “At 4 PHIL FRAZIER o’clock I’ll be on the King’s Stage with the Rebirth – it’s Photo by Demian Roberts this? What is Lundi Gras?’” the band are Zulu members and totally different,” Frazier says. PIN STRIPE BRASS BAND Before the official Zulu Lundi yeah, we can reach the people to “I’ll walk around in my Gras Festival was established 25 hand out coconuts.” Governor’s outfit and I’ll just the members of Zulu are able to stop, sleepless weekend before going. By the time you get off the years ago, McCarver remembers To accommodate marching change my clothes. I know that keep going after presenting an all- Mardi Gras Day. “It really starts float you’re about ripped out. My that members of the club would with all of the Zulu characters, may sound crazy but I’ll play, no day festival on Lundi Gras and Friday night with the Zulu Ball wife says I’m standin’ up sleep - often gather the day before there will actually be two, six- matter what. I love a horn and I then hitting the streets at 8 a.m. on and it’s all back-to-back. I’ve ing. I live for this time of year,” Mardi Gras. He recalls playing man divisions of The Original gotta get paid – that’s my job.” Carnival Day at South Claiborne been doin’ it so long it comes “Lundi Gras is a close-up with the Pin Stripe behind Roy Pin Stripe Brass Band at the As Governor, Frazier, a man and Jackson avenues. naturally,” McCarver says. He’s thing with people from different Glapion’s house where there Lundi Gras Festival. “We play of few words but many great “It’s in their blood,” declares been a member of the Zulu parts of the world,” McCarver would be red beans and rice, a all the tunes to make things notes, will address the crowd. Frazier, who plans to load up his Social Aid & Pleasure Club for continues. “It’s different than deejay and drinks. Like the festi - rock,” McCarver says reassur - “I’ll say, how are you doin’ and float with the three sacks of the 30 years and, since the inception doing a second line on the val, it served as a sort of warm- ingly. One thing can be sure, the have a good time. That’s it, cherished, decorated Zulu of the Zulu Lundi Gras Festival, streets. They (the visitors) never up to the big day. Pin Stripe will do its signature keep it simple.” coconuts the night before the he has headed the Pin Stripe as saw it before so they’re more As a 30-year member of the song, Dave “Fat Man” Williams’ Frazier, who as a child regularly parade. “I’m a veteran. I look for - it accompanies the many color - enthused and like to get in the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure “I Ate Up the Apple Tree.” watched Zulu parade and later, ward to just enjoying the ride – ful Zulu “characters” – the line and do the second line. Club, McCarver and his band “That is me, McCarver with Rebirth, blew his horn in the enjoying my term as Governor. Witch Doctor, Big Shot, Mr. Big People from out-of-town are have enjoyed a special position declares. “No matter where I go Carnival Day favorite, always As a member, I would be up top Stuff – in second lines around enjoying themselves and getting in its Mardi Gras parade. He and people ask for that tune. They enjoyed the Governor’s krewe. of the float so you don’t hand out the festival throughout the day. some beads and maybe even get the Pin Stripe play aboard a float like it, I love it.” “They like having a lot of fun,” coconuts. Since I’m Governor, I’ll “When we leave Lundi Gras, lucky and get a coconut. It’s a called the Bandwagon. The “Pin Stripe and Rebirth – he says of choosing to run for be closer to the ground now. Zulu believe it or not, we’ll probably fun thing to do on the river. group puts aside its “black and we’re comrades no matter what,” Governor. “I was unopposed but I is 108 years old and I’m part of go to the Zulu club and have a There are more out-of-towners white” uniforms for the day and Phil Frazier proclaims with a like campaigning because I don’t 108. This is it though,” Frazier couple of drinks. I’ll go to my there than people from in town. wears Zulu garb and make-up – sense of unity that prevails with - want to take things for granted. adds. “I’m satisfied with one year house and get what I need and It’s a free concert for everyone grass skirts, wigs and painted in the Black cultural, musical So I was in a limo van and my as Governor.” load the float up. I’ll get maybe so people staying in the Hilton faces. “King Charles Hamilton and street community of New krewe was walking on the ground Herbert McCarver , the an hour or an hour and a half of or Westin (hotels)are walking created the Bandwagon,” Orleans. Friends, neighbors and at the (Zulu’s annual anniversary) leader and snare drummer of sleep. At 5 o’clock in the morn - through and asking, ‘What is McCarver offers. “Five guys in fun is what it is all about.◊ parade before the elections.” The Original Pin Stripe Brass ing, we’re on our way to get on It’s always been a wonder how Band foresees a similar, non- the float. The party just keeps

“Black Panther,” starring Chadwick Boseman as the eponymous superhero, opens on February 16 Black Panther movie causing excitement (AP) — There’s a Black Panther party going on all around the country. Superhero fans, movie fans and especially connoisseurs of black culture – American and African – are eagerly awaiting the debut of Marvel’s Black Panther movie starring comic books’ first Black superhero with an enthusiasm not often seen in American cinema. Black Panther viewing parties are being scheduled around the country for its February release. Black Panther , starring Chad- wick Boseman as the eponymous superhero, opens on February 16, picking up the adventures of the newly crowned African king and superhero who debuted in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War . Advance ticket sales to Marvel’s Black Panther are out - pacing all superhero movies on Fandango. The online ticket service said last week that Black Panther is currently outselling its previous record-holder for presale, 2016’s Batman v Superman . Following gushing early reaction from the premiere on January 29, Ryan Coogler’s film is the top daily ticket-seller on Fandango.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 18 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM February 5 - February 11, 2018