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We Value Education. We Value History. St. Petersburg • Clearwater • Largo • Tarpon Springs • Dunedin VOLUME 43 NUMBER 23 FEBRUARY 3 - FEBRUARY 9, 2011 ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA The Universoul Circus The Weekly Challenger Opens With Shyann Roberts Celebrates E-Digitized Newspaper During Black History Month Shyann Roberts BY LEILA WISON record labels and begin negoti- SPECIAL TO THE ating for a viable recording Dianne Speights, Publisher and General Manager of CHALLENGER contract. When asked about The Weekly Challenger her hobbies, she cited dancing, ST. PETERSBURG - singing, interacting with her Shyann Roberts’ smoldering friends, and shopping as her ST. PETERSBURG - vocals are unmistakable and favorite things to do in her During February The Weekly her vibrato alone can stop spare time. As a freshman in Challenger has launched a traffic. This R&B/pop singer- high school with so much month long celebration to song writer and actress has notoriety, Shyann remains introduce its new electronic been singing since age two. At very humble and friendly with edition of the weekly publi- 14-years-old, she is quickly her peers. Although her family cation. becoming a local teen calls her “Shy” (short for The new electronic version celebrity performing and Shyann), she is anything but of The Weekly Challenger is paper as general manager in serving the Tampa Bay printing and production of the opening to sold-out shows for that. When this talented, gifted available on-line each Saturday. 2006. Our mission statement Community. Through the years, newspaper. The newspaper was the likes of Boys II Men, Mary young lady graces the stage “Our mission is to continually states that you are the focus of despite market fluctuations, revamped sectionalizing news Mary, L.L. Cool J., and most and turns on her mic, by the strive to offer a complete our daily work. This is our latest The Weekly Challenger has stories, making them more recently, the Universoul end of her performance there package of journalism excel- initiative to make The Weekly prevailed. Many of its readers reader friendly. Several features Circus. In 2011, Shyann’s are lines of children and adults lence and market advertising Challenger more accessible to and affiliates have been with the were added to enhance the main focus is to release her scrambling to get her while providing the very highest busy professionals who are paper for all 43 years. importance of our publication in most anticipated new singles autograph and an opportunity quality of, news and informa- getting more of their news from In 2005 the paper partnered the community. More emphasis entitled, “Fearless” and “I to take photos with her. tion to the African-American the web.” with the University of South was placed on aesthetics, as the Love You.” With the success communities of Tampa Bay,” “The Weekly Challenger Florida School of Journalism of these projects, she hopes to ROBERTS says Publisher Dianne Speights newspaper has been a thriving making improvements and HISTORY who took leadership of the business for nearly 44 years, adjustment in layout and design, gain the attention of major continued on pg. 6 continued on pg. 6 New Leadership Tapped For St. Petersburg AKA Chapter Opinion ...........................2 ST. PETERSBURG - As South Atlantic Regional Cluster 2011 gets off to a rolling start, the Two Coordinator, South Atlantic Zeta Upsilon Omega Chapter of Regional Conference Publicity Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Chair, and she has participated on Incorporated kicked off its year the National Convention’s Media Community News .......3-7 with new leadership at the helm in Team since 2008. the form of Crystal Lilly-Pruitt. Pruitt says she hopes to take Pruitt, a communications manager the chapter to the next level; her by day was ushered in as the chapter members are eager to Sports...............................8 chapter’s new president in its end support her. The recent elections of the year elections. also included the following new Pruitt, a seven-year member, or continuing officers: vice but by no means inexperienced, president, Cassandra Williams; State/Natl. News.............9 brings with her sunny and warm corresponding secretary, Faya disposition a wealth of excitement Forde; recording secretary, and fresh ideas. “I am so excited Shauna McCallister; asst. and blessed to not only be a part of recording secretary, Loretta Church Directory....10, 11 this great sisterhood, but I am Gilstrap; treasurer, Debora deeply humbled by this opportu- Dandridge; asst. treasurer, nity.” Pruitt has already proven Deborah Figgs-Sanders; financial Crystal Lilly-Pruitt herself on many levels within the secretary - Latonya Alexander; AKA hierarchy – locally, region- asst. financial secretary, Joyce (of courtesies), Mary Stephens; sergeant at arms, Denise Smith. Church News ................11 ally and nationally. Her past Bell; historian, Myrtle Williams; asst. hostess, Yolanda Fintak; For more information, contact appointments have included: Ivy curator, Inez Ford; Ivy Leaf chaplain, Geraldine Gray; parlia- Terri P. Murph at (727) 424-8904. Leaf Reporter, 1st Vice-President, reporter, Terri P. Murph; hostess mentarian, Betty Jo Gaston; How To Reach Us: News: [email protected] • Advertising: [email protected] • Phone: (727) 896-2922 • Fax: (727) 823-2568 2 THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 The Weekly Challenger Newspaper The Weekly Challenger We Value Diversity. We Value Education. We Value History. • A knowledge of history brings a feeling of fellowship that runs through the ages — be it a territory, a village, a district, or a nation. • To live without history is likened to living without a form of memory. • To be without history is to live without roots or a past, with the present having no real foundation, and very little meaning for the future. The Weekly Challenger Office: • To know the events of our past (can help us) to know what future events can be. 2500 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street South • The Weekly Challenger is committed to featuring articles of all ethnic cultures for the reading enjoyment of both the young and old generations. St. Petersburg, FL 33705 (727) 896-2922 Fax (727) 823-2568 OPINION Email: [email protected] www.theweeklychallenger.com In This Black History Month: Readership: 100,000 monthly THE BLACK PRESS believes that America can best Remember The Prices Of Hate Speech lead the world from racial antagonism when it accords to every man, regardless of race, creed or color, his human BY REV. JESSE Civil rights leaders warned that with hate and murderous rhetoric. traitor, a communist, a fascist, a job and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing no man... the JACKSON Wallace’s rhetoric was like fuel In Arizona, the kindling was killer. The congresswoman was dis- Black Press strives to help every man in the firm belief TRICE EDNEY poured upon the kindling of anger there. The economy has been hit hard tressed when Sarah Palin’s PAC that all men are hurt as long as anyone is held back. WIRE.COM a nd fear caused by blacks by the financial collapse, with targeted her district by putting it in demanding their rights. Three employment opportunities for young the crosshairs of a gun site on Palin’s Let us continue to pray for the months after he stood in the door at people particularly limited. With web page. In next-door Nevada, grieving families in Tucson and for the University of Alabama, a families losing jobs or homes, fear Republican Senate candidate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, targeted for bomb planted by Klansmen at and depression are inevitable. Add to Sharron Angle suggested that frus- assassination by a clearly unbal- Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist this a venomous, racially charged trated voters might have to take up anced young man. Rep. Giffords was Church killed four children. One day debate on immigration and health “Second Amendment remedies.” shot as she made herself available to later, King stated the simple truth: care reform, as well as some of the Extreme statements are, as citizens exercising the most basic of “The governor said things and did worst gun-control laws in the many have stated, as protected under rights: “to peaceably assemble” and things which caused these people to country. the First Amendment as any speech. petition their representative. feel that they were aided and abetted Arizona’s conservative governor And vitriolic rhetoric in American The heinous act has generated a by the highest officer in the state. The and legislature made it legal for politics can be traced back to the good and ongoing debate about the murders of yesterday stand as blood anyone over 21 to carry a concealed earliest days of the republic. But that The Weekly Challenger connection between the rhetoric of on the hands of Gov. Wallace.” weapon without a permit. After an doesn’t mean there are no conse- violence and violence itself.