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Special Edition Super Bowl 2013 Comes to New Orleans Over 30 Community Events Planned!
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NFL, National And Local Organizations Host More Than 30 Super Bowl Xlvii Community Outreach Events In New Orleans
Super Bowl XLVII brings much more than foot- Super Bowl Xlvii Sports Equipment and Book Donation Project ball to New Orleans . Throughout the weeks pre- Environmental Program Climate Change Initiative ceding the game, more than 30 charitable activities For more information, contact Jack Groh, NFL and community outreach events will enliven and The NFL Environmental Program has devel- Environmental Program Director, at 401-952-0886 enrich the community and provide lasting legacies . oped a series of initiatives to minimize the impact of or NFLenvironment@aol .com . Super Bowl Week activities will also include the Super Bowl activities on the local and global envi- announcement of the annual Walter Payton NFL ronment . Environmental projects are developed in Man of the Year Award, the presentation of the Don partnership with the 2013 New Orleans Super Bowl Nfl Play 60 & Lulac Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award, XLVII Host Committee and local, state and national Health Festival and a celebration of the positive impact of the Super organizations . Bowl with the Super Saturday of Service These initiatives include: On Saturday, Jan . 26 from 10:00 a .m . – 12:00 The following are just some of the ways the NFL Solid Waste Management/Recycling p .m ., the NFL, in partnership with the League of and Super Bowl XLVII will benefit New Orleans: Prepared Food Recovery United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) will host
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a “health fiesta” at St . Martin Epis- each other through pen-pal letters copal School (225 Green Acres Rd ., will meet for the first time at the Metairie, La .) . The NFL and LULAC New Orleans Audubon Zoo (6500 will offer fitness-focused activities Magazine St .) . and information about local health Local schools participating in resources and the the One World event are as follows: NFL PLAY 60 campaign for lo- Lusher Charter School, Hynes cal Latino youth and families . Youth School, Arden Cahill Academy, Es- attendees will participate in a num- peranza Charter School, Alice Harte ber of NFL PLAY 60 skills and drills School, Langston Hughes Academy, led by USA Football coaches . These Mary McLeod Bethune Elemen- activities will help introduce kids to tary, St . Catherine of Siena School . the game of football in a non-intimi- For more information, contact dating, non-contact way . Clare Graff, NFL, at 212-450-2435/ For more information, contact clare .graff@nfl .com or Richard Darlene Capiro, NFL, at darlene . Buchsbaum, Audubon Zoo, at 504- capiro@nfl .com or Paloma Zuleta, 212-5452 . LULAC, at 202-812-4477 . Nfl Play 60 Nfl Prep 100 Series Challenge On Saturday, Jan . 26 and Sunday, Jan . 27, NFL Player Engagement School Visit will kick off the PREP 100 Series in As part of NFL PLAY 60, the New Orleans . The event will host league’s youth health and fitness 100 local student-athletes who will campaign, NFL players including participate in two days of classroom New Orleans native and former instruction stressing player health Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and safety, as well as on-field instruc- KORDELL STEWART will visit Fifth tion focusing on proper techniques Ward Junior High School (81419 and player improvement drills . The Highway 21, Bush, La .) to host a student-athletes will be selected special fitness activity on Tuesday, based upon academic achievement, Jan . 29 from 9:30 – 11:00 a .m . . The athletic experience, leadership ac- NFL PLAY 60 Challenge, developed tivities, and coach and teacher rec- in conjunction with the American ommendations . Heart Association, is the primary Participants will receive on field in-school curriculum for NFL PLAY coaching from former NFL players 60 . More than 150 4th-6th grade stu- including BRENTSON BUCKNER, dents at Fifth Ward Junior High took MO COLLINS, and ETHAN HOR- part in the NFLPLAY 60 Challenge, TON, as well as participate in ses- a Super Bowl program that taught sions with current and former NFL students the importance of getting players . 60 minutes of daily physical activity . To learn more about PREP 100, For more information, contact visit www .nflplayerengagementClare . Graff, NFL, at 212-450-2435/ com or contact Austin Moss at 212- clare .graff@nfl .com or Linzy Rous- 450-2437/Austin .Moss@NFL .com . sel Cotaya, American Heart Associa- tion, at 504-473-6494/Linzy .Cotaya@ heart .org . Super Bowl Xlvii One World The Nfl Experience Super Huddle Driven By Gmc New Orleans area fifth graders will learn about the differences that The NFL Experience Driven make them unique and the simi- by GMC, pro football’s interactive larities that bring them together as theme park, will return to New Or- part of the NFL’s diversity program leans for the first time in a decade “One World: Connecting Commu- from Wednesday, Jan . 30 – Sunday, nities, Cultures, and Classrooms .” Feb . 3 . Located at the Ernest N . Mo- On Monday, Jan . 28 from 10:00 a .m . rial Convention Center (900 Conven- – 1:00 p .m ., eight classes from vary- tion Center Blvd .), the NFL Experi- ing ethnic and racial backgrounds ence puts the ball in the fans’ hands, who have been communicating with allowing them to run, pass, punt and Cover Story, Continued on page 9. Page 4 January 26 - February 1, 2012 Newsmaker www.ladatanews.com
Former Mayor Ray Nagin Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges
NEW ORLEANS – Former The charges stem from a City and his family in Hawaii and was New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin Hall corruption investigation that flown first-class to Jamaica by a has been indicted by a grand jury already has resulted in guilty city contractor . Accepted a free on 21 federal corruption charges pleas by two former city officials private jet trip to Chicago and Las stemming from alleged wrong- and businessmen Frank Fadella Vegas from another contractor doing while occupying the city’s and Rodney Williams who are co- and steered business towards his highest elected office . operating witnesses in this case New Orleans-based family granite Specifically, the indictment re- against former Mayor Nagin . supply company through dealings leased alleges Nagin awarded lu- The indictment alleges that, be- with the city . crative city contracts to tween 2005 and 2008, Nagin: He’s due in federal court Feb . contractors in exchange for Accepted more than $70,000 20 to be arraigned by a federal more than $200,000 in kickbacks in bribes from a consultant who magistrate . and first-class trips to Hawaii, Ja- later won more than a dozen Data News Weekly will update maica and Las Vegas . If convicted public works contracts with the this story as it progresses . on all charges, he could receive city . Received paid lodging and Edited by Data News Weekly more than 15 years in prison . Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin vacation expenses for himself from published reports ladatanews.com
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Jeffrey May 21st Century Activist
by: Edwin Buggage
Jeffrey May has dedi- workshops to empower ternity, he has worked need . Since its inception, cated his life to commu- people in various com- mentoring young men; they have worked to sup- nity service and help- munities about consumer in addition, to working port homeless veterans ing those in need . He protection and leads a with the homeless and in New Orleans, donated is a person whose life is team that investigates other community ser- monies to 2010 CNN draped in the spirit of his banks looking for pat- vice projects . “Giving is Hero, Derrick Tabb and passionate conviction in terns of discrimination in the most important thing his New Orleans music the fight for fairness and their lending practices . we can do, I feel we gain preservation program justice . “I had a great “As a student of his- when we give, so it not and other worthy causes . example in my mother, tory I realize that we still only enhances the life of “Wherever I am I will who worked serving have a long way to go in the person who is receiv- always be connected to others and always told our journey to full justice ing it also enhances me New Orleans, it is my my brother and I that and equality, but we must as well .” home and whatever I can when you are blessed recognize that while we As Hurricane Katrina do to help I will,” says you bless others,” he still have a long way to scattered people from May . Continuing he says, says of the beginning of go since the battles of the New Orleans all over the “It is what’s shaped who a life that is fueled by his 1960’s for access we have country a Diaspora has and what I am today, a unbreakable commit- fought and won . Howev- emerged . Where in many person who truly cares ment to service . er, activism and civic en- cities across America about and loves people Jeffrey May is a man gagement today it is not people get together to and I can say that there who lives to give, and just about us marching stay connected to New are no other people like is a twenty-first century in the streets, it is about of the New Orleans Boy potential but felt their life Orleans and Louisiana . us when it comes to ex- activist . He his someone realizing how to protect Scouts of America; where chances were limited, so For we are a people with tending our arms to help who is a voice for justice and empower ourselves they provided mentoring, my goal is to continue to a rich and unique culture others .” fighting the battles that against other forms broadening the experi- expand the lens of our throughout the City and Jeffrey May has taken sometimes is not focused of discrimination that ences and emphasizing young people and give state; and in our Nation’s up the mantle of leader- on in the media or politi- keeps us from access- the importance of con- them more options for Capital, Jeffrey sits on the ship of the challenges cal pundits . His work as ing the American Dream tinuation of education success .” board of the Washington of the Twenty-First Cen- the Former Director of of home ownership and for urban youths of New As a member of Alpha DC based organization tury . He is a caring, com- The New Orleans Fair most importantly con- Orleans . Phi Alpha, who can count Louisiana Network . It passionate person who Housing Action Center sumer protection . I think “There are a lot of tal- among its many greats was created to preserve is committed to serving and his present post as these are some of the ented young people in Dr . Martin Luther King and promote Louisiana others, and for his great the Assistant Director issues we are facing in our communities who Jr . throughout its rich culture among its mem- work, Data News Weekly of National Neighbors, a the twenty-first century,” often times do not get history dedicated itself to bers . It also does fund has named him our Trail- Division of National Com- says May . the opportunity to reach service and excellence . raisers to give money to blazer of the Month for munity Reinvestment While today his work their full potential be- Through his Greek Fra- charities or help those in January 2013 . Coalition (NCRC) that takes him across the cause there is no one deals with discrimination country fighting for jus- there to help guide their in the housing market, tice, he takes the time to journey and give them a bank lending practices serve on several boards guide and a path to suc- and other businesses that and do other work in his cess,” says May . Continu- is what every day he is on community . Over the ing he says, “I know this the frontlines fighting to years, he was appointed from just looking at some prevent . In his work, he District Chairperson of of the people I grew up travels the country doing the Urban West Region with who had so much JMJ Joseph M. Jones Continuing Education Fund Jared Romance “My new year’s resolution for 2013 is go- ing to be just keep doing what I’m doing; just do it better and achieve my goals .” www.ladatanews.com Data Zone January 26 - February 1, 2012 Page 7
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King’s Greatest Legacy Seeing Polarization as Progress
forts to devise sensible gun-reg- cial divide” and the “partisan grid- opposition to the Movement was with the country’s racist laws and ulation proposals . lock” that are roiling American so fierce precisely because overt, customs . Their actions compelled Those events tell me I’m right society, Dr . Martin Luther King, legalized racism was about to fall . the nation, and the world, to jux- in thinking too many King cer- Jr . would have been pleased . The polarization was one of the tapose America’s soaring ideals emonies indulge too much in the Not pleased as in “happy” or “rainbow signs” that a change was and rhetorical commitment to simplistic, feel-good rhetoric of “delighted,” but because he’d going to come far more quickly freedom for all with its tawdry “Can we all just get along?” and understand that the polarization than most White Americans ex- reality . The ensuing polarization ponder too little why he was so itself is a sign that the nation’s pected . led straight to the landmark Civil widely criticized in the last years “outsider groups” are making Indeed, the Civil Rights Move- Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting By Lee A . Daniels of his life – not just by the overt progress in gaining a full measure ment underscored that there are Rights Act of 1965 . NNPA Columnist racists but by White liberals and of their American citizenship . two different kinds of polariza- Today’s political chatter is satu- more than a few Black politicians For example, recall the furious tion . One results from the op- rated with gloomy descriptions of I’ve always disliked the way and colleagues in the civil rights response to and the ratcheting pression that confines its targets and predictions about the fierce Martin Luther King, Jr .’s birthday leadership as well . up of polarization over the Mas- to second-class status . Before the polarization in the political arena . is often celebrated . The reason is that King refused sachusetts Supreme Court’s 2003 mid-1960s Black Americans (and Yes, it’s evident that in the The reasons why became to temper his increasingly sharp ruling legalizing gay marriage . other Americans of color) had wake of Obama’s re-election, even clearer to me these past criticism of America’s flaws . In- Who would have predicted that been locked in that physical and conservatives have re-committed few days, as the importance of stead, he became more provoca- by 2013, albeit still-heated oppo- psychological ghetto for, literally, themselves to flooding the state considering King’s life and work tive in identifying those flaws ex- sition from conservatives, public centuries . The other kind of po- legislatures with reactionary was juxtaposed against three istence in the North and West as acceptance of gay marriage would larization, however, comes into measures and fomenting chaos other developments: the 150th well as the South . Those were the have come so far so fast? being when the targets of oppres- in the Congress . Yes, it’s criti- anniversary of the Emancipation years that the Apostle of Nonvio- So it was for the 13 brief years sion start challenging the status cally important to not lose sight Proclamation; the celebration of lence fully took on the mantle of, Martin Luther King, Jr . flashed quo in significant ways . of the magnitude of the challenge: Barack Obama’s second inau- as Rev . Hosea Williams, one of his across the American landscape . King and the Movement’s the callous proposals to restrict gural as president of the United trusted aides, described him, “the Even a cursory reading of media other leaders and rank-and-file women’s right to determine what States; and the splenetic, knee- militant of the century .” headlines from the mid-1950s to activists understood that securing reproductive choices are best jerk resistance of the National So, I’m sure that, while many the late 1960s illuminates how equal rights for Blacks required for them that conservatives are Rifle Association and other con- in pulpits and auditoriums these widespread the racial polariza- relentlessly, nonviolently upset- yet again trying to push through servatives to the president’s ef- past few days bemoaned the “ra- tion was . Yet, it’s now clear the ting the White majority’s comfort Daniel/Continued on page 11.
Lance Armstrong was Following an American Tradition
them out of their land . Later, the Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla- down in the moments before Sep- I’m not at all condoning Lance United States Army continued homa, and the 1898 destruction of tember 11? Armstrong’s doping, and I fully that cheating by slaughtering property (and life) in Wilmington, Let’s not even talk about the agree with the decisions to pull Native people, kicking them off N .C . Some historians estimate theft implicit in the banking bail- his titles and banish him from their land, and consigning them that there were more 200 of these out . These banks were lent mon- biking . Yet there is much irony in to reservations . As a result of this kinds of incidents . ey to aid in economic recovery the way people are handling this . thievery and chicanery Native We cheated Mexico by appro- by lending money, but instead The Today Show had cheater American people have the short- priating half their land in a murky of lending, they’ve tightened up Pete Rose commenting on Lance est life expectancy of any ethnic- “trade” through the Louisiana credit requirements, making it Armstrong’s cheating . That’s like Julianne Malveaux ity in these United States . Purchase . Now we have the nerve more difficult for some people to asking the fox to comment when NNPA Columnist Enslaved people were cheated to talk about “illegal immigration” borrow . And figuring out ways to his brother breaks into the hen- with the fruit of their labor, not because people are returning to cheat on one’s taxes may be one house, or like asking George W . to mention their lives and liberty, land that was once stolen from of the great American pastimes . Bush to comment on an election . Who is surprised that Lance by our nation’s “peculiar insti- them . And daily, employers cheat There are more ways to cheat And not to play the “race” game, Armstrong was doping? Who tution .” After slavery was abol- undocumented people because that putting your sticky fingers on but don’t you think all hell would thinks he was the only one? Who ished, the cheating continued . without legal documents, they things that don’t belong to you . break loose if this were an African is surprised that he used the The sharecropper system was have no bargaining power against African American men are cheat- American athlete? Oprah Winfrey show as his plat- nothing but an official method of unscrupulous employers . ed of their dignity and freedom of We send young people mixed form to “come clean”? We are a cheating . Land owned by African Cheating? George W . Bush and mobility, whenever empty taxis messages when we both say nation of cheaters and Armstrong Americans was stolen . Those Af- his minions cheated Al Gore of speed by them . African American “play fair” and “winning isn’t ev- is one in a long line of our nation’s rican Americans who managed to the presidency in 2000, and the women are cheated of the ability erything, it’s the only thing .” We cheaters . amass wealth had to pretend they Supreme Court aided and abetted to see themselves reflected in the live in a win at any cost, winner Indeed the very foundation of had less because economic envy him in this cheating . Imagine the public space when advertisers take all, society . Lance Armstrong our country is the result of cheat- sparked the wholesale appropria- course of history had we a kinder, treat us as stereotypes . And rac- wanted to win so he doped up, and ing . The Pilgrims cheated the Na- tion of land and communities . Ex- gentler president who might not ism cheats us of the ability to have Malveaux/Continued tive Americans that befriended amples include the destruction of read a children’s book upside equality of opportunity . on page 10. www.ladatanews.com Pipeline January 26 - February 1, 2012 Page 9
Pipeline to the People By Corey Anderson Question: How do you feel about the Super Bowl coming to New Orleans?
Justin Charles Rosalyn Kent D. J. Onauguluchi “Saints ain’t playing . “I think that the Super “I think it’s very beneficial, I’m done .” Bowl will be good for especially after both Hurricanes the City of New Orleans Katrina and Issac . It will boost since people still think the economy with the tourists its recovering after Ka- coming in and this is a very tra- trina . Not saying that it ditional City; it’s New Orleans doesn’t need it, but it will and it has deep roots .” give it a needed boost .”
Cover Story/ Continued from page 3. kick like the pros while enjoying and online are subject to a Ticket- Marshall Faulk’s One JA-KEL’S LOUNGE the electrifying atmosphere of Su- master service charge . Night Only . Thurs, Jan . 31 at Matured atmosphere for a matured crowd per Bowl XLVII . Proceeds from NFL Experi- 7 p .m . Africa for the Future We party every day Covering more than 850,000 ence ticket sales will support phil- presents its inaugural benefit, square feet, the NFL Experience anthropic initiatives for youth in hosted by NFL Hall of Famer Free home cooked meals daily Except for Steak Night - Wednesday - $10.00 Pa rty will provide visitors of all ages New Orleans in conjunction with Marshall Faulk and featuring S w Free seafood on Thursday and Friday up ith er u with an opportunity to test their the Super Bowl . silent and live auctions, an open Opened daily from 8:00 a.m.- until we B s ek ow B e l i nd football skills in a variety of fun bar, passed hors d’oeuvres, and th rth — wi F d k & 2613 Jasmine Street r ay ea ato id P St ot ay a interactive attractions . musical performances by Jona- d p New Orleans, LA 70122 Sa & rt ke en tu y ba ard rd The 30,000 square-foot NFL 2013 NFL than Batiste and Les Nubians, as h g (504) 945-4588 ay fres d SHOP at Super Bowl presented Experience well as students from the New sala by Visa offers fans a unique shop- Orleans Center for Creative ping experience complete with Schedule of Arts . The event at the Columns largest offering of official NFL Events Hotel features confirmed celeb- limited edition Super Bowl XL- (subject to change): rity guests: NFL Hall of Fam- VII merchandise and the latest ers Faulk, Michael Irvin and in authentic NFL products . NFL Eric Dickerson; actors Dwight THE PRIME EXAMPLE SHOP at Super Bowl presented Wednesday, Jan. 30: Henry and Wendell Pierce; and by Visa will be open early for local 3 p.m. – 10 p.m. NFL Super Bowl champ (and JAZZ BAR & RESTAURANT residents starting Friday, Jan . 25 Thursday, Jan. 31: former New Orleans Saint) Dar- Welcomes – Sunday, Jan . 27 and reopening 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ren Sharper . Admission: $250 with the launch of the NFL Expe- per person . Super Bowl XLVII rience Wednesday, Jan . 30 – Friday, Feb. 1: Super Bash New Orleans . Happy Hour 4 pm until 7 pm 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Fri, Feb . 1 at 10 p .m . The Louisi- Two for one drinks - Monday - Friday Sunday, Feb. 3. Saturday, Feb. 2: ana Black Chamber of Commerce /RFDWHGDW 1RUWK%URDG6WUHHW Tickets to the NFL Experience 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. and 100 Black Men of America &DOO are $25 for adults and $20 for chil- Sunday, Feb. 3: host a benefit at New Orleans dren 12 and under, and permit en- 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Museum of Art with live enter- try for a particular day and time . tainment by DJ Spinderella . Ad- Tickets can be purchased over More complete information mission: $150 general admission, the phone by calling (866) TIX- on NFL Experience’s schedule of $250 VIP . 4NFL (849-4635), online at www . events, attractions, player appear- Taste of the NFL . Sat . Feb . 2 Welcomes Super Bowl XLVII SuperBowl .com or at Mercedes ances and more can be found at at 7 p .m . Food and wine tasting teams, fans, friends and visitors Benz Superdome box office at www .SuperBowl .com . featuring a top chef from each of Gate A . Beginning Jan . 30, open- Super Bowl Gospel Celebra- the 32 NFL team markets paired ing day of NFL Experience driven tion . Fri, Feb . 1 at 7:30 p .m . NFL- with a current or former NFL by GMC, fans can purchase tick- sanctioned Gospel concert at player from each team . The ex- LeRoux’s Soul Food Restaurant ets at the Ernest N . Morial Con- UNO Lakefront Arena will feature travaganza at Morial Convention 1700 Louisiana Ave. (1 block off St. Charles Ave.) vention Center box office . Tickets Grammy Award-winning musical Center also features live enter- Open - Monday through Wednesday 10:00 am ‘til 3:00 pm sold at the Ernest N . Morial Con- artists, active and retired NFL tainment, silent and live auctions . Saturday and Sunday - 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm vention Center box office will go players (including Hall of Fam- Admission: Individuals, $600; VIP on sale one hour before opening ers) and celebrity guests . Admis- tables of 10, $7,000 . Call 504-897-5445 — wifi available daily . Tickets purchased by phone sion: $48 .95-$110 .75 . Page 10 January 26 - February 1, 2012 Special Section www.ladatanews.com
Super Bowl Xlvii’s Star-Studded Verizon Super Bowl Boulevard Music Line-Up
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