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Providing ‘News that matters’ for years VVOOLL.. XXCCII NNOO.. 1188 Since 1925 9w1 ww.louisianaweekly.com 50 cents Punishing poverty through prison costs city millions, study finds By Kari Dequine Harden Justice release a report showing that bail, amounts to imprisoning people for being poor. Contributing Writer fines and fees cost the city significantly The Vera report reveals the burden on tax - more than they bring in. payers to keep people in jail who are awaiting Just two days before the New Orleans City The issue is part of a growing one national - trial and can’t make bail, and the human toll. Council unanimously voted to allow people ly, and there have been numerous lawsuits in The study found that jailing people for not charged with minor municipal offenses to be recent years, including out of New Orleans, released without bail, the Vera Institute of challenging the constitutionality of what Continued on Pg. 8

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957, calls on the government to put more teeth in the Supreme Court’s desegregation decisions. King told the tens of thousands that had gathered that both Democrats

and Republicans have betrayed the caAuP sFeile o Pfh ojutos/Ctihcaerle os nG ocrriy vil rights questions. Dream of a just city still not a reality, some say As the city, state and nation pause to reflect on the legacy of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., some in New Orleans say that the Dream expressed so eloquently by King at the Historic March on Washington is still not close to being a reality. Just days before the annual national holiday, President Barack Obama announced the designation of several monuments that tell the triumphant and defiant history of the Civil Rights Movement. President Barack Obama on stage with first lady Michelle Obama, daughter Malia, Vice President Joe Biden aAnPd P hhoitos/ Pwabilfoe M Jairltiln eBz iMdoennsi vaafis ter his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. “Today, I am designating new national monuments that preserve critical chapters of our country’s history, from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement,” Obama said. “These monuments preserve the vibrant history of the Reconstruction Era and its role in redefin - ing freedom. They tell the important stories of the citi - In final address: President Obama says zens who helped launch the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham and the Freedom Riders whose bravery raised national awareness of segregation and violence. ‘post racial’ America was ‘never realistic’ These stories are part of our shared history. From des - By Hazel Trice Edney for a “more perfect union.” in this country face — not only the refugee, ignating Stonewall National Monument, our country’s Contributing Writer Amidst the pains of racism and discrim - or the immigrant, or the rural poor, or the first national monument honoring the LGBT move - ination for Blacks and other minorities, transgender American, but also the middle- ment, to recognizing the movement for women’s equal - (TriceEdneyWire.com) — In a tearful the president’s departing message was aged white guy who, from the outside, may ity through the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality televised address before a passionate and that among the clearest strategies for seem like he’s got advantages, but has seen National Monument, I have sought to build a more exuberant Chicago audience, President progress is the ability for all people to his world upended by economic and cultur - inclusive National Park System and ensure that our Barack Obama gave his departing speech change their hearts toward each other. al and technological change. We have to national parks, monuments and public lands are fully Tuesday night, imploring African “For Blacks and other minority groups, it pay attention, and listen,” the President said reflective of our nation’s diverse history and culture.” Americans and others of diverse races and means tying our own very real struggles for to applause. “For white Americans, it means Local events marking the national King holiday include backgrounds to empathize with each other justice to the challenges that a lot of people Continued on Pg. 16 a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial at the intersection of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Claiborne Ave., the annual MLK Jr. parade in the Lower 9th Ward on Monday and the City’s MLK march and commemorative program at City Hall. Last week, local leaders and residents talked about the need to continue the work of King and other leaders of Propestors to rally in opposition to Trump the Civil Rights Movement and a renewed effort to By Fritz Esker On January 21, the day after the inaugura - feminist Gloria Steinem and singer/activist Contributing Writer tion, the Women’s March on Washington Harry Belafonte are expected to attend. address systemic racism and a host of other problems and (womensmarch.com ) will convene. Local January 21 is a significant date because it challenges that continue to impede civil and human The inauguration of President-elect organizer Dora Lambert estimates that over falls between Trump’s inauguration on rights progress in New Orleans and beyond. Donald Trump will be met by protests from 200,000 men and women will participate in January 20 and the anniversary of the “Many of the things that Dr. King and others fought for New Orleans women in both Washington, this march, which will begin at 10 a.m. near in the 1950s and 1960s have still not taken root in New D.C. and in the Crescent City. the U.S. Capitol and end at 5 p.m. Noted Orleans,” the Rev. Raymond Brown, a community Continued on Pg. 16 activist and president of National Action Now, told The Louisiana Weekly Wednesday. “The local government continues to tax Black, Brown and poor people without any regard for their constitutional or human rights. “Black, Brown and poor people in this majority-Black St. Aug’s legacy on display at Smithsonian city are more likely to be racially profiled, targeted and When the Smithsonian throughout this nation’s history. Augustine High School during allowed to compete in the segre - assaulted by the police without cause, more likely to ben - Museum of African-American As WWL News reported last the early days of the Historic gated Louisiana High School History and Culture opened last week, the museum features Civil Rights Movement made Athletic Association. Continued on Pg. 8 year, President Barack Obama 36,000 artifacts that tell these its way to the nation’s capitol to While pictures are generally and other Black leaders cele - stories of triumph, courage dig - enjoy the spotlight at the said to be worth 1,000 words, brated the power the institution nity and resilience. Smithsonian and is a snapshot in the photo of St. Aug’s 1965 bas - would have to chronicle the sto - One of those stories that orig - history of Black New Orleans ries of people of African descent inated in the Seventh Ward’s St. before athletes of color were Continued on Pg. 8 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017 Race to Fill La. Treasurer’s Office gets crowded By Christopher Tidmore Treasurer stands as the marketing ceed Henson (who is not running). advocates around the state. Plus, Contributing Writer agent for nearly every piece of Not surprisingly, the term-lim - she enjoys prominent Democratic state debt acquired. He or she ited three-term House member crossover support thanks to her As 1st Assistant Ron Henson is liaisons with Wall Street, chairs echoed Kennedy in his work on Women’s Rights sworn in as La. State Treasurer to the Bond Commission, and in the - announcement with the words, issues—particularly from her replace his former boss, newly ory, stands sentinel over the fiscal “Louisiana has a spending prob - close friend New Orleans elected Senator John Neely reputation of Louisiana. lem, not a revenue problem.” Democratic Rep. Helena Moreno. Kennedy, candidates are already In other words, the job is critical - Schroder’s fiscally conservative State Sen. Neil Riser, R- lining up to succeed him, as the ly important, but does little to solutions, which he aired at his Columbia, also has said he intends field for the October 14, 2017 directly impact the average voter. announcement, have little to do to run, though, his performance in primary takes shape. Nevertheless, the once-political with the actual powers of his pur - his failed campaign in a special Henson takes office for his one- “dead-end” job has launched the sued office, but show how the election for the Fifth Ron Henson is pictured above being sworn in as La. State Treasurer last year interim term knowing that the careers of two U.S Senators, ‘bully pulpit’ of the Treasury can Congressional District to a flawed week. Henson, who was first assistant in the state treasurer’s office, average Louisianian has little idea Kennedy (albeit with two false serve as a powerful mouth - newcomer leads to questions of replaces John Kennedy who successfully ran for the office of U.S. what the State Treasurer does. starts) and his predecessor 17 piece—especially for Schroder, viability in a statewide contest. Senator, replacing David Vitter. Despite the title, the independently years ago, Mary Landrieu. one of the founders of the Former Republican House elected statewide position has little On January 9, Republican state House’s “Fiscal Hawks” caucus. Speaker Chuck Kleckley of Lake to do with the budget or spending Rep. John Schroder became the His most outspoken likely Charles has expressed a serious expand Medicaid would damage him popular across party and priorities. However, he or she first candidate to announce his Republican opponent so far is interest, but his former connec - him with fiscal conservatives. racial lines, so much so that he does possess one of the more pow - candidacy for state treasurer Republican Rep. Julie Stokes. tions to former Gov. Bobby Jindal Another Northshore nearly became Speaker in a erful positions in state govern - Monday, declaring that he pos - The Kenner CPA has become the could hurt his reputation with Republican, state Rep. Paul Republican-controlled House. ment. As arcane as it sounds to sesses more than $500,000 in the favorite of both Jefferson Parish Democratic and Independent Hollis, R-Covington, holds a In his favor, the October 14 pri - the typical voter, the State bank to begin his campaign to suc - politicians, and many LABI swing voters, while his efforts to name well-known to Southshore mary will come as New Orleans voters, as the son of the late- goes to the polls for a new mayor Senator Ken Hollis. Paul Hollis and City Council, a boost in a also has made millions in the crowded Treasurer’s primary, yet Attorney General nominee draws Black critics and supporters rare coin business, and could the natural resistance of North By Frederick H. Lowe a day earlier that he would follow chairman, did not respond to the mourning, while Senator Sessions easily self-finance a bid, an Louisiana to vote for any candi - Contributing Writer the rule of the law, but Booker said comment during the hearing which was jubilant, Lewis said. important element in any date from New Orleans may prove law and order without justice was was interrupted by demonstrators “He called the decision good Treasurer’s contest due to the to hard to overcome. (NorthStarNews Today) — U.S. unobtainable.” Booker testified opposed to Sessions’ nomination. news for the South,” Lewis added. difficulty of fundraising for the Hoping to step into that void is Senator Cory Booker, (D., N.J.), that Sessions won’t expand the After the witnesses completed Sessions had his Black-male office. However, Hollis who has conservative Democratic State Sen. became the first sitting U.S. rule of law to assist Blacks, their testimony, Grassley immedi - supporters. flirted with statewide bids Eric LaFleur of Ville Platte. As Senator in history to testify against women and immigrants. ately adjourned the hearing. Willie Huntley, former assistant before, including an abortive political scientist Jeff Sadow puts it, another sitting U.S. Senator when “America needs an attorney gener - Lewis, a civil rights icon, noted U.S. Attorney for the Southern 2014 Senate run that never made “A more moderate Democrat than on Tuesday he opposed the nomi - al who is resolute and determined to that since Sessions election to District of Alabama, said it to qualifying, may lack the Leger, he has a background in pub - nation of the Sen. Jeff Sessions (D. bend the arc. Sen. Sessions’ record the U.S. Senate he has turned a Sessions prosecuted a police offi - serious political base statewide. lic finance, which would make him Ala.) for U.S. Attorney General, does not speak to that desire, inten - “blind eye to unrelenting efforts cer for use of excessive force. Republican State Sen. Norby more competitive but still a distinct although the two men worked tion or will,” Booker testified. to suppress minority voting Huntley oversaw general criminal Chabert of Houma looks to be the underdog against almost all of the together to secure Congressional Booker was one of six African- rights the 2006 VRA [Voting trial cases for Sessions from 1987 to potential Acadiana candidate, not Republican names [above]. But he Gold Medals for Rosa Parks, U.S. American men who testified either Rights Reauthorization]. 1991. “He [Sessions] was always an insignificant position in a would have to give up his public Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) and oth - for or against Sessions’ nomina - “His carefully crafted speeches available to me,” Huntley said. crowded primary in a state where sector finance clients in his law ers who he called foot soldiers in tion. Each man was allotted five mirrored those of others who William Smith, former chief coun - historically Cajuns vote for practice, much of his business, to the Civil Rights Movement. minutes but that did not stop them declared the Voting Rights Act a sel for the Senate Judiciary Cajuns. He lacks the statewide take the job, meaning he may rather “Some [other Senators] are from sniping at the Judiciary relic of the past,” Lewis said. Committee, called Sessions a strong contacts of his Republican peers, continue to serve as a legis lator.” unhappy with me breaking this tra - Committee and each other. Although Sessions voted to reau - conservative who is fair and honest. and would lack the financial As a term-limited legislator, dition,” Booker said as he testified U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D., thorize VRA in 1996, Lewis said “I know Jeff Sessions,” Smith said. wherewithal without serious self- LaFleur has little to lose, and the before the Senate Judiciary La.) and chair of the he never hear Sessions praise the “I have been to his house. I have financing, not yet evident. personal wealth to make a bid Committee which was in the sec - Congressional Black Caucus, VRA for the changes and protec - eaten dinner at his house. I have On the Democratic side, the lead rather interesting. Moreover, the ond day and final day of hearing angrily told committee members tions against present-day, ongo - written speeches for him. He has potential contender is New October special election means testimony concerning Sessions’ that having a senator [Booker], a ing, discriminatory practices in fought for sentencing reform. He has Orleans State Rep. Walt Leger. that none of these legislators have nomination. Opposition to living civil rights legend [Lewis ] jurisdictions previously covered not shown me a hint of racism.” Term-limited in 2019, the Garden to surrender their seats to run for Sessions’ nomination led mostly by and a House member [Richmond] by the preclearance formula.” Smith who was sitting at the far District to Downtown legislator State Treasurer. It’s called “a free Blacks has grown because of the testify at the end of the hearing After the U.S. Supreme Court end of the table shared by the other represents one of the wealthiest shot.” When this many candidates dismal civil rights records, which was the “equivalent of being made gutted the heart and soul of the panelists scowled at them and said, seats with a penchant for writing crowd a field, any runoff perme - he and his supporters dispute. to go to the back of the bus.” Voting Rights Act, minorities and “Not one of you has spent 30 min - checks for Democrats. His moder - ation is possible from two Booker cited Sessions’ testimony Sen. Charles Grassley, committee civil rights advocates were in utes in the same room with him.”◊ ate, pro-business record makes Republicans to two Democrats.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 16 - January 22, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3 Democrats search for the next Obama By Stacy M. Brown “There’s Kamala Contributing Writer Harris and Senator Corey Booker who (NNPA Newswire) — She’s a has risen to fame lawyer by trade and an accom - because of his youth, plished politician who in fresh ideas and politi - November became just the second cal intellect,” said African-American woman to Jasmine Burney, a become a U.S. Senator. Florida-based politi - He’s considered a favorite to cal consultant and become the next head of the founder of the online Democratic National Committee. BOOKER ELLISON community, “Chicks Senator Kamala Harris of ‘n Politics.” California and Rep. Keith Ellison National Convention in Burney continued: of Minnesota are among the new Philadelphia, Pa., said that Obama “Booker possesses the same movers and shakers of the is a brilliant and unique individual hope that Obama had when he Democratic Party. who came at the right time, but he was first introduced to us during But, are they the next Barack believes there are others who can his first DNC speech, which mir - Obama? ascend to the national stage and rored a speech Booker gave this That’s what many Democrats are become leaders. past summer at the DNC.” wondering. “There are some bright stars in Booker has proven to have the Obama’s meteoric rise was first the Democratic Party such as political stamina needed to take detected in 2004 — four years Senator Napoleon Harris and on a seat in the United States before stunning the world to Congresswoman Robin Kelly,” Congress when there have only become the first Black president. Rogers said. been a total of nine [African- He’d given a powerful keynote at The 6-foot-3 and 250 pound Americans] in that seat in U.S. the Democratic National Harris, a former pro football play - history, she said. Convention and then went on to win er and current Illinois state senator, “Now, there are 10 with the addi - election to the senate later that year. made news recently when he was tion of Senator Kamala Harris who America’s 44th president is now ambushed by four men as he was is only the second African- completing his second and final delivering a pizza for a franchise American woman in United States term in the Oval Office and his that he owns. Harris survived the history to hold that seat,” Burney party is in a state of disarray after attack and helped police track said. “Harris is paving the way for Hillary Clinton’s disappointing loss down his assailants, who were later many minorities to follow as she to Donald Trump in November. linked to a murder. currently employs the only The unexpected and epic loss Kelly succeeded Jesse Jackson Jr. African-American Legislative means that Democrats have four as the Illinois lawmaker in the Director in the Senate. She’s reach - years to come up with the right can - House of Representatives and ing back as she climbs and training didate, someone who might just be she’s been mentioned throughout a team around her for a successful African-American or a woman . the Chicago area for more than a term and possibly a move to the Harris and Ellison are among the decade as a potential star. next level of leadership.” names political watchers have Rogers, a member of the African Much is to be said about rising bandied about along with New American Mayors Association, said stars who aren’t already holding Jersey’s Corey Booker and even there’s a need for someone with new an office, Burney noted, adding CNN contributor and former ideas and leaders with a vision. that Van Jones and Angela Rye White House aide Van Jones. “Not just the same ideas of the both fit that mold. “Barack Obama will be a hard act past,” he said. “The next elected offi - “Both are political commentators to follow,” said Riley H. Rogers, cial who captures that energy can be and they each lead political firms the mayor of Dolton, Illinois, successful, but it won’t be easy.” that focus on an array of issues which is just south of the presi - Several others noted that Corey from technology to environmental dent’s hometown of Chicago. Booker, who was on the short list justice,” she said. “Their depth on “Everything came into alignment for vice president under Clinton the issues make them a real asset as and facilitated Obama’s victory.” before she chose Tim Kaine, has to advisors, cabinet members or even Rogers, who was selected as a be considered as a rising star. high-profile seats in the future.”◊ floor delegate at the Democratic

Harriet Tubman National Historical

P(AaP)r —k Ne wb Yoerk clawomamkers es a reality and federal parks officials are gathering in Washington, D.C. to formally establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in New York. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell presided over an official signing ceremony last week that made the park part of the National Park System. It encompasses the site of Tubman’s old home on the outskirts of Auburn, about 25 miles west of Syracuse, and a near - by church where she worshipped. The New York park will focus on Tubman’s work later on in her life when she was an active pro - ponent of women’s suffrage and other causes. It will be a sister park to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Harriet Tubman’s home Historical Park in Maryland.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017 The MLK legacy, 49 years later By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

Nearly a half-century ago, an assassin’s bullet extinguished the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The deadly bullet that claimed the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s life on April 4, 1968 could not kill the movement for justice and equity King led. Nor could it kill the dream of a more dem -

S ocratic nation and world, one where workers from all nations were treat - ed fairly by the world’s wealthiest governments and corporations and the people of the world could live free of economic injustice, unconstitutional N policing, unequal protection under the law, environmental racism, educa - tional apartheid, mass incarceration, unconstitutional jailing, taxation with -

O out representation and a host of other societal ills and injustices.

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I Education and the Voting and Civil Rights Acts, it is clear that the dream so eloquently described by King and others at the Historic March on Assessing President Obama’s Washington is still far from reality and moving further beyond the reach of P the masses of the people of this nation and the world rather than closer. While there are still things that we do not know about the death of Dr. King, impact and legacy “That faith that I placed all those years ago, not far from here, in the O we do know that the powers that be were not happy about the idea of King power of ordinary Americans to bring about change, that faith has been launching a Poor People’s Campaign in Memphis, Tennessee or the fact that rewarded in ways I could not have possibly imagined.” King had become an outspoken critic of the nation’s foreign policy, most —President Barack Obama, Farewell Address, January 10, 2017

& notably its involvement in the Vietnam War and the Middle East conflict . To march for the right to vote and to integrate public facilities was one By Marc H. Morial thing — it was quite another thing to challenge the core of global white President/CEO, The National Urban League MORIAL supremacy and to begin to connect and network with other oppressed

S Throughout our history, the National Urban League has taken seriously our responsi - peoples around the world in the name of economic empowerment, social bility to hold the President of the United States accountable to the needs of urban America and communities justice and self-determination. of color. During the Great Depression, Executive Secretary Eugene Kinkle Jones served on President Franklin It is interesting to consider that the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO Delano Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet.” Lester Granger, who headed the League during World War II, is among L (Counterintelligence Program) initiative, which targeted all efforts by those credited with persuading President Harry Truman to desegregate the Armed Forces. Whitney M. Young groups in the U.S. that dared to stand up against white supremacy and advised presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and was instrumental in the passage of the landmark the systematic oppression of melaninated people, viewed and treated Civil Rights Act. Urban League Presidents Vernon Jordan, John Jacob and Hugh Price continued our engage - ment with the Presidents with whom they served to further the A both Dr. King and Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X as a threat to the work of civil rights and secure support for Urban League programs. system and as enemies of the State. The first African-American Presidency quite naturally has held The I As these two brilliant Black leaders began to look beyond the U.S. bor - special significance for the National Urban League. In recognition der for allies in the global struggle for justice, freedom and equity, it of Barack Obama’s unique place in American history, we set out to Louisiana became clear to the powers that be in the United States that they had to create a comprehensive analysis of his two terms, which we Weekly

R be stopped by any means necessary. released last week to great national interest. As we continue to struggle today for many of the same things Martin Any evaluation of the Obama administration must first recognize (USPS 320-680) that he inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression, One of the oldest publications and Malcolm fought, bled and died for, let us be mindful of the fact in the United States and was faced with Congressional opposition unprecedented in its that the same racist and imperialist forces that made the world unsafe specifically for the

O intensity and sinister nature. Both his accomplishments and his fail - African-American for democracy back then are still at work . ures must be evaluated against those conditions. community. Although it has been often used as a bumper sticker slogan, it is In creating our scorecard, the National Urban League harkened imperative that we think globally and act locally. And that we remem - back to the famous question Ronald Reagan asked the nation dur - T Since 1925 ber, as King and Nelson Mandela reminded us, that injustice any - ing his sole debate against President Jimmy Carter: “Are you bet - where is a threat to justice everywhere. ter off than you were four years ago?” In this instance, the question RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL I There was a time during the Historic Civil Rights Movement when Black is, “Is the nation better off than it was eight years ago?” And, “Is President/Publisher Black America better off than it was eight years ago?” The answer EDMUND W. LEWIS leaders were able to use the media to show the nation and the world just to both questions is, unequivocally, yes. Editor how brutal and reprehensible life was in the Jim Crow Deep South. Those President Obama is leaving office with an approval rating D DAVID T. BAKER powerful images of local cops, state troopers and white mobs attacking even higher than Reagan’s, exceeded only by Presidents Associate Editor unarmed men, women and children of all races shocked the nation’s con - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton. science and fueled the growing call for desegregating public facilities, During Obama’s presidency, the economy has added 15 million SUSAN BUCHANAN E extending voting rights to people of color and protecting the civil rights of new jobs, and the jobless rate has dropped from 7.6 percent to FRITZ ESKER all people who live in the United States. 4.7 percent — and from 12.7 percent to 7.8 percent for African KARI HARDEN Americans. The high school graduation rate for African DELLA HASSELLE That is a strategy that would be less effective today in a nation where white Americans has increased from 66.1 percent to 75 percent. There anger has propelled a movement to undermine the voting and civil rights of CHARMAINE JACKSON are 614,000 fewer long-term unemployed. Wages are up 3.4 FR. JEROME LeDOUX Black and Brown people, undermine public education and weaken the govern - percent. More than 16 million Americans who were uninsured BRITTANY ODOM ment’s ability to provide services to those who need the most help. now have health care coverage, with the uninsured rate for KELLY PARKER You cannot appeal to the nation’s conscience when so many segments African Americans cut by more than half. CHRISTOPHER TIDMORE of the population have supported the election of unconscionable local, Barack Obama’s passion and steady hand made a huge differ - MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH state and federal lawmakers whose sole priority is to win at any cost. ence in charting a progressive course and positively impacted the NAYITA WILSON lives of ordinary Americans. Black Americans felt both the pride We find ourselves in the midst of a post-millennial fight for our lives GERALDINE WYCKOFF of his accomplishments and the pain when it was clear his oppo - Contributing Writers/Columnists where some of those who aid and abet our oppressors look like us nents sought to diminish a great American. I am confident the CHARLES SILER and have no qualms about selling out communities of color to line long arc of history will judge him favorably. Contributing Cartoonist their pockets and elevate their careers. While we scored many of the administration’s achievements with PENNY JONES We need a small army of dedicated, tireless leaders who espouse our highest rating, “Superior,” President Obama’s tenure as a whole Administrative Assistant the principles and hard-fought wisdom and insight of past leaders like had shortcomings due to some notable missed opportunities and JIM HALL outright failures, such as the economic development of urban cen - Circulation ters, gun violence and the foreclosure rate and bank closure rate in CHRISTOPHER D. HALL communities of color and low-income neighborhoods. On these Business and other issues, we rated the Obama administration “Fair” or Published every Monday “Poor.” Our evaluation springs from a consideration of his accom - by plishments balanced against the conditions under which he served. The Louisiana Weekly Publishing The National Urban League has given the Obama Administration Company, Inc. 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And of color were involved.” who in 1913 elbowed productive ain’t I a woman! I could work as much and Now, there are four co-chairs of the their way into the BAILEY eat as much as a man – when I could get it – Women’s March on Washington, including Women’s Suffrage and bear the lash as well. And ain’t I a African-American leader Tamika Mallory, March when their By A. Peter Bailey 2017 woman? I’ve bourne thirteen children and Latina activist and part of Harry Belafonte’s involvement was TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist seen most all sold off and when I cried out Gathering for Justice, Carmen Perez, a white unwelcome. They with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard woman entrepreneur whose t-shirts have reminded the Women’s MALVEAUX I wish most Black folks would join the One Million Conscious Black me! And ain’t I a woman.” been galvanizing, Bob Bland, and Suffrage Association The similarities and differences between Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour. I applaud that Black women were also women, and we Voters and Contributors Movement as advocated by Prof. James Black and white women are captured in the diversity in leadership, but wonder how would not be excluded. Clingman. Prof. Clingman, whose column “Blackonomic$” is a must- Sojourner Truth’s famous December 1851 many women of color will turn out on Now, white women are at it again, but read for anyone who has a serious commitment to our people, says the speech. She movingly talks about the men January 21. Tens of thousands of women strong, brave, Black women, the descendants movement “is for conscientiously conscious Black people who are not who say women should be “helped into car - from all over the country are expected, with of Ida B. Wells, aren’t willing to sit on the only aware but are willing to work on and contribute their skills, riages, and moved over ditches, and have the more than 100,000 saying they plan to be sidelines. The march is to knowledge and treasure to solving our problems and bringing solutions best place everywhere”, while “nobody ever there. But many African-American women remind all watching that to fruition.” Its website is www.iamoneofthemillion.com . helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, have looked askance, perhaps with distaste “women’s rights are human

I wish we as a people would act on the words of wisdom from or gives me any best place”. Both Black and from the cultural appropriation of the initial rights”. Black women’s C Brother Malcolm X in which he said, “U.S. politics is ruled by spe - white women cry a mother’s grief for the loss organizing descriptive, “Million Women’s rights will be considered in cial interest blocs and lobbies. What group has a more urgent special of a child, and both endure labor pains. Black March”, perhaps because we recoil from the this gathering because some interest than the black man?... Twenty-two million Black people women’s lives, while similar, are different strong support white women gave the black women dared place should tomorrow give a dollar a piece to build a skyscraper lobby and often disadvantaged because they lack President-elect, choosing race loyalty over themselves in an uncom - O building in Washington, DC. Every morning every legislator should the privilege that white women so easily take gender, class, or personal interest. fortable space (working receive a communication about what the Black man in America for granted and often fail to notice or remedy. I applaud Tamika Mallory. She told me “I with privileged white expects, wants and needs. The demanding voice of the Black lobby Thus it did not surprise me that a white was not willing to let this convening come women is never easy) in woman in Hawaii called for a “Million together without having Black women order to make a difference. should be in the ears of every legislator who votes on any issue.” M I wish our people would cease honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Women’s March” on Washington on the day involved.” In other words, white women can - Information on the women’s as some kind of other-worldly dreamer and act on his stated belief, after the Presidential inauguration. And it not speak for all women. If white women march is available from did not surprise me when white women took had their way, the March and rally would https://www.wom - “A second important step that the Negro must take is to work pas - up the call. Too bad these same white probably focus only on equal pay and repro - ensmarch.com /. sionately for group identity. This does not mean group isolation or women did not advocate more forcefully ductive rights. Thanks to Tamika and her group exclusivity. There must always be healthy debate…this form against the man who won the Electoral colleagues a statement of principles, to be Julianne Malveaux is an M of group unity can do infinitely more to liberate the Negro than any College vote for the Presidency. issued next week, will also address racial jus - author and economist. Her action of individuals. We have been oppressed as a group and we My first inclination was to ignore this tice, police brutality, criminal justice reform latest book “Are We Better must overcome that oppression as a group.” women’s march. The organizers have repeat - and mass incarceration. Off? Race, Obama and I wish we would listen to and act on a statement made by Dr. edly struck me as tone-deaf and indifferent to Absent the involvement of young Black Public Policy” is available Mary McLeod Bethune in her last will and testament in which she the diverse needs of women. But when I women like Tamika, it would be extremely via www.amazon.com for E wrote, “I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one talked to Tamika Mallory, the dynamic young easy for me to ignore this March. But booking, wholesale inquiries another. This kind of confidence will aid the economic rise of the woman activist who was once Executive because some women have drawn a line in or for more info, visit

race by bringing together the pennies and dollars of our people and Director of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National the sand and insisted on space for Black www.juliannemalveaux.com .◊ N ploughing them into useful channels.” I wish we, as a people, would do something which I first advocated in a 1992 column in the Richmond Free Press. That was to pull togeth - er a conference in that would focus on our group and individual T strengths. I noted that contrary to popular propaganda and beliefs, we have many such strengths. Only a strong group of people could have Civil Rights at risk under Sessions

survived the physical and psychological attacks that we have had to By Jesse Jackson the laws that he clearly disdained. That women. He A deal with in the United States of America. We need to identify, analyze TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist was then. Now Donald Trump and Sen. refused to con - and document our cultural, economic, political and educational Charles “Chuck” Grassley, R-Iowa, are demn Trump’s strengths and build on them. Such a conference would truly be educa - Confirmation hearings for Alabama intent on putting Sessions in charge of remarks about

tional, productive and history-making. It’s time for us as a people not Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald enforcing those very laws. grabbing a R to watch what’s happening or wonder what’s happening but to make Trump to be attorney general of the The attorney general of the United woman by the things happen for current and future generations.◊ United States, will begin on Jan. 10, States is a powerful position. The per - genitals, saying before Trump is even inaugurated. The son who holds this office has immense he wasn’t certain

rush and insistence on only two days of discretion in how the law is enforced that constituted Y hearings reflect Republican efforts to — which cases the office chooses to sexual assault. cram the nomination through before prosecute and which it does not. The (For the record, it Americans understand what is at stake. attorney general heads several agencies, is, without ques - JACKSON Sessions will, no doubt, present him - including the FBI, the Drug tion, assault). He self as a humble, genial and reasonable Enforcement Administration and the voted against reauthorization of the Why some people & public servant. In reality, Sessions is an immigration courts. Given his views Violence Against Women Act, voted to outlier, an unimaginable nominee as and that power, there is no question block increased protections for females attorney general, an implacable oppo - that Sessions would put fundamental in the military from sexual assaults and will always believe nent of the very rights and liberties that rights at risk as attorney general. has consistently voted against access to

the attorney general is supposed to • Voting rights: Since the gang of reproductive health services, even O defend. As more than 200 civil rights, five right-wing justices on the Supreme opposing funding to combat violence ‘fake news’ human rights and women’s groups not - Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, against clinics, which is on the rise. He By Bill Fletcher, Jr. ed in a unified statement: “Sen. states across the country have passed voted against equal pay for women, P NNPA Newswire Columnist Sessions has a 30-year record of racial various impediments to voting, with against paycheck fairness and against insensitivity, bias against immigrants, disproportionate effect on people of raising the minimum wage, which ben - I have been thinking about the controversy sur - disregard for the rule of law and hostil - color, the poor and the young. Under efits women the most. I rounding so-called fake news, much of which has ity to the protection of civil rights that President Barack Obama, the Justice • LGBT rights: Sessions has consis - been discussed in connection with the November makes him unfit to serve as the attor - Department has consistently defended tently voted against equal rights for N 2016 elections. It is important to understand that ney general of the United States.” the right to vote. Sessions has stated gays and lesbians. He opposed amend - “fake news” is a form of propaganda called Three decades ago, a Republican-led that he believes these voting changes, ing the Hate Crimes Prevention Act to

“black propaganda.” Black propaganda refers to Senate Judiciary Committee rejected primarily in the South, were not include violence based on bias against I Ronald Reagan’s nomination of intended to hurt minorities, despite gender, sexual orientation and disabili -

information that is manufactured to appear as if it O is coming from one source when it is, in reality, Sessions to a federal judgeship. It numerous court decisions knocking ty. He voted for the constitutional FLETCHER coming from somewhere else. deemed him unfit for the bench due to down the laws for that very reason. In amendment to define marriage as In the early 1970s, during the height of the his repeated racially biased remarks, his this vital area, he embraces the Jim between one man and one woman.

Black Panther Party, a children’s coloring book intemperate dismissal of the ACLU and Crow doctrine of “states rights,” and • Immigrant rights: Sessions has N surfaced that was ins pired by the Black Panther Party. It was targeted at the NAACP as “un-American,” and his he will no doubt weaken federal been an implacable opponent of any children and was available in offices of the Black Panther Party. I remem - open opposition to the Voting Rights enforcement of voting rights. immigration reforms, supports mass Act, which he scorned as “intrusive.” • Women’s rights: Sessions has con - ber looking at it once and noticing that one of the “stories” in it had chil - S Republicans agreed that no person with sistently opposed every measure dren shooting police. I thought that was a bit intense, but it was only Continued on Page 10 years later that I discovered that the coloring book had not been created by such extreme views should adjudicate designed to enforce equal rights for the Panthers at all. It was a creature of the COINTELPRO operation of the FBI, which utilized such techniques in order to discredit and destroy the Panthers. This was an example of “Black propaganda.” In 2016, it became clear that there have been Internet sites that have circulated an immense amount of false information. These are not from official news agencies. A dramatic example of this was the Thank you, President Obama By David Muhammad fact that he was a strong, smart, com - lost. During the false allegation that the Clinton campaign had a pedophile ring in New America Media Columnist petent leader … who was Black. The Bush Presidency, Washington, D.C. Someone who believed this story went so far as to image of a Black man as President, the total number show up with a rifle to “investigate” the allegation. The night, eight years ago, that an intelligent, articulate spokesper - of jobs gained Fake news is not new. What we should have learned over the Barack Obama was elected the 44th son for the world’s greatest country was near an all- years is that the best defense against so-called fake news is to ques - President of the United States was was enough for me. My son, then time low of tion what you read. The fact that something appears on the euphoric. At an election watch party in three years old, would grow up for 160,000 annually. Internet, even from what appear to be reliable sources, does not downtown Washington, DC – when the the next eight years only knowing a Comparatively, mean that it is true or accurate. Further, even very sincere people screens locked into CNN announcing Black man as the President. Obama has added can fall prey to a hoax, as I am sure most of us will admit. Obama as the projected President-elect Still, even from the beginning I nearly ten times I was doing a training recently and the matter of accurate informa - – the huge, nearly all-Black crowd had low expectations that Obama that amount, with tion came up. The basic question facing the class was how can one erupted in jubilant excitement. could bring genuine transformation more than 1.3 MUHAMMAD know what is true? That is not a new question but the answer remains Last night that man said goodbye, to America’s benighted political sys - million jobs the same. In the face of any information you must identify and vali - urging Americans as he brushed away tem. So as he prepares to leave the gained each year. During the height of date the source; one should check to see whether there is independent tears to continue to push for the change Oval Office, it is worth taking this the Great Recession, the U.S. unem - corroboration; and then determine whether you believe that it is con - his presidency had promised. moment to consider just how much ployment rate was at a staggering 10 sistent with other information that you know to be accurate. Eight years earlier tears streamed he accomplished. percent. The unemployment rate is now In all cases, there will be debates around how to interpret any informa - down my face and the faces of those President Obama inherited a crum - under five percent – with more than 14 tion or data. But interpretation is completely different from agreeing on around me. We had not imagined in our bling economy on the brink of a million total new jobs added under the the facts themselves. The suggestion, for example, that there were masses lifetimes that our nation, built on the depression. The housing and banking Obama Administration. of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the 9/11 terrorist attacks was backed slave labor of Black people, would crisis had nearly destroyed the country. The day of Obama’s inauguration, up by NO facts. Nevertheless, it was spread around the Internet, because elect a Black man as its President. Obama immediately pushed through an the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the of the person who claimed to have seen it. Fake news, indeed. While I was attracted to Obama’s unpopular stimulus package that has standard stock index, was just under campaign pledge to save the econo - now proven to be incredibly successful. 7,950. The Dow has nearly tripled in Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer and activist. Follow him on my and end America’s wars, my In the month before Obama took Twitter @BillFletcherJr, Facebook and at www.billfletcherjr.com .◊ enthusiasm had more to do with the office, more than 660,000 jobs were Continued on Page 15 Page 6 January 16 - January 22, 2017 HEALTH & HEART THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM COLOR ME BAD ? Negative stereotypes a ‘threat’ to Black health By Chandra Thomas one in two Black gay and bisexual cent or 498,400 persons in 2013) healthcare providers—can be inter - Marymount University, If symptoms are undetected until Contributing Writer men will be diagnosed with HIV of all people living with HIV. nalized by members of marginal - Cleopatra Abdou, PhD, was the they “reach the point that they can during their lifetimes, according to While the disease that emerged in ized groups. Such groups may first researcher to lead an exper - no longer be ignored,” Abdou con - (Special from NBCBLK/New Centers for Disease Control and the late 80s as a “white gay male include people of color, women imental study about how stereo - tinued, “this may make treatment America Media) — The face of Prevention (CDC) projections. disease” has clearly reached epi - who seek to have children later in types—specifically “healthcare much more complex and also may the HIV and AIDS crisis is unde - CDC estimates show that demic levels in Black and Brown life and older, the poor and LGBTQ stereotype threat”—are directly result in others contracting the dis - niably Black. African Americans account for communities, one University of people—and it may literally be linked to health outcomes among ease. It is highly unlikely that it is If current diagnosis rates contin - almost half (44 percent in 2010) Southern California scientist insists making them sicker. marginalized groups, including just a coincidence that the same ue, approximately one in 20 Black of all new infections and repre - that stereotypes—ones consciously With collaborator Adam Black people. people who are most susceptible to men, one in 48 Black women and sent more than one-third (40 per - and unconsciously perpetuated by Fingherhut, PhD, of Loyola the experience of healthcare ‘Healthcare Stereotype Threats’ stereotype threat are also at great - “A healthcare stereotype threat,” est risk for HIV and AIDS.” according to Abdou, “is when indi - viduals with stigmatized identi - Re-Framing the Message Young Blacks benefit from HPV vaccine ties—be it about race, socioeco - Noting that public health cam - By Stacy M. Brown “It’s a safe and effective form for girls and boys between 11 • In all races and ethnicities, nomic status, gender, age, sexual paigns often reinforce negative Contributing Writer of cancer prevention,” said Daley and 26 years old. men had higher rates of HPV-asso - orientation and even weight or stereotypes, Abdou stated that of the National Association of “Acquisition of the HPV virus ciated oropharyngeal cancer than maternal age—worry about being high-risk groups can be educated (The Washington Informer) — Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, an happens pretty quickly after the women while Black and Latino judged by, or about confirming, a without stereotyping. “It is Higher rates of cancers associated organization with is headquarters initiation of sexual activity. So, men and women had lower rates of widely believed stereotype in absolutely possible. There are def - with the human papillomavirus in New York. that’s why it’s important to vac - HPV-associated oropharyngeal healthcare settings. That can cause initely real health concerns in spe - (HPV) occur in African Americans HPV is the most common sexu - cinate early to prevent the virus cancers than white and non-Latino even greater anxiety than is com - cific communities that need to be compared to Whites, according to ally transmitted disease in the before anyone’s exposed to it,” men and women. monly experienced in medical set - addressed, but how we communi - a nationally renowned physician United States, Daley and other she said. In order to boost HPV vaccina - tings, affecting their experiences cate those concerns is key; it’s all Dr. Alison Moriarty Daley. health experts said. The link between HPV and tion, doctors should be more with healthcare providers.” about re-framing the messages, While some Black parents have Of the estimated 79 million cervical cancer is irrefutable, assertive when bringing up the Common stereotypes, Abdou moving away from fear and shame concerns about vaccines for HPV Americans, currently infected Daley noted. topic with parents, Noel Brewer, a explained, may include beliefs that and, instead, focusing on uplifting, including that their children are too with HPV, half of those newly “We know that HPV is the cause health and behavior scientist at the a particular group tends to engage positive messages that focus on the young to even consider sex, health infected with HPV are between of cervical cancer,” she said. “And University of North Carolina, told in unhealthy lifestyle choices or potential that is created when we experts say that the vaccine – partic - 15 to 24 years of age, according even just last year, there were NPR this year. has inferior intelligence, she said. take care of our health.” ularly Gardasil 9 – does more than to the Centers for Disease 12,900 new cases of cervical can - Brewer knew from earlier Or there may be negative stereo - For example, she went on, help prevent the sexually transmit - Control and Prevention. cer and 4,100 deaths attributed to research that doctors contribute to types about sexuality and repro - “Instead of a poster showing an ted human papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccine is recommended cervical cancer.” that low vaccination rate because duction being perpetuated, often older woman with a positive preg - Reportedly, HPV is also linked “doctors should be more assertive unintentionally, by healthcare pro - nancy test listing all of the alarm - to certain cancers of the mouth, when bringing up the topic with fessionals, by an unwelcoming ing statistics about the risks of throat and genitals in both men parents,” especially when children medical setting, or even by public having children later in life, show and women. are 11 or 12 when its recommend - health campaigns. the same image with a message Increased health risks The original recommendation ed the vaccine be given. “On the patient side,” Abdou that promotes awareness in a posi - of three doses of the HPV vac - Also, because the vaccine is said, “I theorize that, with repeat - tive way, such as, ‘Knowledge is cine was amended in October to more effective at ages 11 and 12, ed experiences of healthcare power: Learn about your fertility for isolated elders just two doses for children the CDC now recommends only stereotype threat, stigmatized so that you can have the family By Michael Patrick Welch complex The Terraces on Tulane. younger than age 15. Older teens two doses instead of three. individuals, such as Black peo - and the life of your dreams.’” Contributing Writer It was then that she realized how and young adults still require However, if children don’t get ple, lose trust in physicians or Abdou concluded, “I want people alone she had truly been. three doses. vaccinated until age 15, they’ll delay seeking healthcare as a way to know that next time they’re in Part II “I had owned my house but then The rate of those contracting still need the full three doses. to avoid healthcare stereotype the doctor’s office waiting room Recent studies show that pro - after I got older… my daughters HPV-associated cancers varies by “The HPV vaccine is an amazing threat.” That can have long-term and experiencing anxiety that it’s longed isolation from society rep - both died,” says Robinson. “I race and ethnicity, African tool to protect our younger gener - implications for a patient’s not necessarily a feeling that is resents the same health risks as don’t have any people here. My Americans are hit hardest — men ation against many types of can - health, she stressed, adding, “It is unique to them. Change starts with smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and relatives are all dead and I don’t and women — according to offi - cer,” said Dr. Margaret Stager, a also possible that healthcare education. My goal is to transform that deep loneliness can greatly have any in New Orleans,” she cials at the Centers for Disease pediatrician with Metro Health stereotypes become internalized, the way that healthcare is deliv - increase the risk of death, accord - explains, “That’s another reason I Control and Prevention (CDC). Medical Center in Cleveland and a which is also harmful for health.” ered and the way that patients and ing to the AARP Foundation. live here at the Terrace.” • Black and Latino women had spokesperson for the American Abdou also emphasized, “The providers interact with each other Isolation can be triggered by poor Robinson says she is lucky to higher rates of HPV-associated Academy of Pediatrics. HIV and AIDS epidemic is likely a in healthcare settings. This is cul - physical and mental health, trans - have been moved to her current, cervical cancer than white and Strains of HPV are responsible critically important application of tural competency redefined.” portation issues, ageism and other more social situation before she non-Latino women. Black women for the vast majority of HPV-relat - healthcare stereotype threat. Early Working with Anthem Blue societal barriers, or a sudden major was ever truly cut off from society. had higher rates of HPV-associat - ed cancers, she said. It can also detection of HIV is hugely impor - Cross/Blue Shield, Abdou devel - life event such as loss of spouse or “Here we’re all basically in the ed vaginal cancer than white cause cancer in the back of the tant for treatment purposes and also oped an online guide to reducing retirement from the work force. same situation, though most of the women while African-American throat, so it’s an important vaccine for protecting against the spread of the stereotype threat in patients. Edna LeBoyd, who is 60, uses people here have family,” she says. and Latino women had lower rates for both girls and boys, Stager HIV and AIDS. However, if people dance as a means of mitigating “I don’t really interact with anyone of HPV-associated vulvar cancer said. Preventing cancer should be avoid seeking health care because Chandra Thomas Whitfield devel - isolation not only for herself but unless it’s with the residents here. than white and non-Hispanic the critical take-home message for they are mistrustful of physicians or oped this story for the NBC News also for her 82-year-old mother And they have activities here that I women, according to the CDC. parents, she added. of the medical community, or sim - NBCBLK website for the Black Mary Pierce, for whom LeBoyd can do, like play cards. Then for • Rates of anal and rectal HPV- “HPV prevalence has already ply because they want to spare community with the support of a is now caretaker. Christmas they had a party, and associated cancers were also high - decreased as much as 65 percent themselves the anxiety they feel journalism fellowship from New “Many of my mother’s friends are then they have a New Year’s er in Black men when compared among vaccinated youth, dramati - every time they visit a doctor, then America Media, the with white men, but lower in cally lowering the odds they will no longer here, they’re deceased,” breakfast and different things that HIV and AIDS may not be detected Gerontological Society of America Black women when compared face a life-threatening form of can - says LeBoyd, “and she likes to be we’re able to do.” in a timely manner,” and the Commonwealth Fund .◊ around people close to her age.” Similar to Robinson, 63-year- with white women. cer in adulthood,” Stager said.◊ LeBoyd is a Senior Dance old James Woolridge had to Fitness Program participant with move in order to connect. the New Orleans Ballet Following a spate of homeless - Association (NOBA). “I am pretty ness, which he says was precipi - active,” she says. tated by geographic isolation, Twice a week, LeBoyd’s moth - Woolridge moved into the New er Mary attends dance classes at Orleans Mission. NOBA in order to keep her “When I found a house, I was far active and engaged. out, and the people I knew wasn’t “My mother and her friends are coming that way. I was in my apart - in the NOBA program twice a ment by myself… It got kinda bor - week on Mondays and ing cause I am used to being around Wednesdays. We do a lot of people and functioning with stretching, and it’s at an easy pace. them…and I started doing drugs Then the instructor does cardio again and fell back off,” recalls and puts on all types of music, and Woolridge, who is a retired carpen - it’s fun because we’re dancing.” ter, electrician, plumber and truck But just as important for seniors driver. “I was cut off from my fam - as staying physically fit is the ily because I was using drugs and socialization aspect of NOBA. “I not living like I was sup posed to.” have friends who are retired and He stresses how important it was NOBA really helps with social - for him to escape isolation in order ization for them,” LeBoyd attests. to regain his life: “I have a differ - She also says NOBA’s fitness ent outlook on life [now] that I am program for folks aged 55 and doing something, not having idle older provides similar comforts time,” he says. to a church group. “I have COPD (chronic obstruc - “When we first arrived, everyone tive pulmonary disease), asthma, introduced themselves and high blood pressure and all that but exchanged numbers,” LeBoyd it makes me feel good to still play recalls. “There are people that come and be with my brothers—I would there who are no longer working, not have that if I had not come to don’t have a lot of family around live in the Mission,” he admits. them, they’re not connecting with Since moving into the Mission, others. They come to NOBA to Woolridge has gotten clean and exercise but then realize: ‘Oh we’re started preaching Christianity to friends, and we’re celebrating the anyone who will listen. holidays together! We’re always “At this place I see all kinds of celebrating other members’ birth - people coming and going every day days and baby showers.’ ” and that helps me stay motivated to For some who don’t have family help someone else,” he says. and friends, however, measures to For more information on elderly mitigate the isolation took more isolation, including ways to identi - than dance classes. fy and avoid it, the AARP In 2010, a handicap forced 79- Foundation has created the year-old Juanita Robinson to move Connect2Effect website at into the senior citizen apartment http://connect2affect.org .◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 16 - January 22, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 Type 2 Charters such as NOCCA and ISL ruled ‘not public schools’ By Christopher Tidmore pus and decided to close its charters, but the plaintiffs appealed. except students from across a the legislature, given the budget - families whose children attend Contributing Writer doors. Parents were reassured Last Week, the 1st Circuit seven parish region. ary situation, securing a new ISL’s Bunche Campus at 8101 that their children could go into Court of Appeals opted for the The charters have vowed to supplemental appropriation Simon St., Metairie. That facili - In a 3-2 split decision, the the French and Spanish immer - plaintiffs. The court’s majority appeal the case to the state would be a difficult task, no mat - ty will be repurposed into a stan - Louisiana First Circuit Court of sion learning programs provided opinion stated since these charter Supreme Court. In the mean - ter how much state superintend - dard K-8 next year, and parish Appeals ruled that Type 2 Charter on the Orleans campus. The schools do not fall under the time, the First Circuit Court ent John White has assured par - school officials told ISL that they Schools cannot be classified as pub - appeals court ruling would make jurisdiction of a local school remanded the case back to the ents that “we’ll just find another had no other facilities available lic schools and therefore are ineligi - that option impossible, even the board, they do not constitute pub - trial court for an injunction hear - way to fund them.” for the highly ranked “B” School, ble to receive state Minimum Orleans Parish School Board lic schools constitutionally eligi - ing aimed at halting MFP fund - Of course, the New Orleans or its 430 multi-lingual students Foundation Formula (MFP) funds. were to charter schools instead. ble for MFP funds. The dissent - ing. The defendants will argue based schools could apply to Bereft of classroom options, The ruling threatens the very For that is the essence of the case; ing opinion argued that nowhere for a stay of action, pending a become Type 1 charter schools ISL’s board of trustees voted not to existence of themed multi-parish the contention that only parish in the state’s constitution or decision from the state Supreme under the Orleans Parish School renew its charter for next year. state-chartered Schools such as school boards can create “public statutes does it say only schools Court, because withholding MFP Board. After all, NOCCA started ISL’s chief executive officer said New Orleans Center for the schools”. In 2015, the Iberville authorized by local school dis - money would cause these off as an OPSB campus, yet the she didn’t feel the administration Creative Arts (NOCCA), New School Board and the Louisiana tricts are public schools. schools irreparable harm. strength of Type 2s has come was as helpful as it could have Orleans Military and Maritime Association of Educators (LAE) Along with the aforementioned Allies of the plaintiffs argue through their regional diversity, been to find the French and Academy, International High sued the state Board of Elementary campuses, Noble Minds Institute that if the Supreme Court enrolling eager students regard - Spanish language-immersion School, International School of and Secondary Education (BESE) (opening 2017), Belle Chasse decides that these schools cannot less of residency. An OPSB Type school a new home. The implica - Louisiana, and Lysee Francais. and the state, contending that there Academy, Jefferson Chamber get MFP monies, they could be 1 Charter would only enroll stu - tion was that school administrators Curiously the decision came in was no constitutional standing to Foundation Academy and Athlos funded out of the state general dents from Orleans Parish. are not ready to lend aid to even the same week that the include Type 2 charters—authorized Academies (opening in 2017) fund, like the voucher program. This would be a particularly successful charters, viewing them International High School of by BESE—inside the MFP. The could also be impacted, it’s all of While these Charter schools dire option for hundreds of as unnecessary competi tion, no Jefferson lost its suburban cam - District Court found in favor of the the above fall under Bessie and have strong political patrons in Jefferson Parish and suburban matter how well they educate.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 8 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017

The impact even small dollar whose sentences in municipal jailing people for failing to pay Punishing poverty through prison costs amounts can have on individuals court included fines and fees money they don’t have. Continued from Page 1 “Anecdotal accounts of the their detention pretrial, and and families in a city with high were issued arrest warrants for The report also asks the ques - impact of the justice system’s excluded cases irrelevant to that poverty rates like New Orleans failure to pay, compared to 29 tion: “Does money bail make us cannot be overstated. percent of white residents who safer?” It discusses the use of being able to afford bail, fines reliance on bail, fines and fees on question. In 2015, the report found 3,947 owed money to the courts. In risk assessment, which has been and fees ultimately costs the city individuals, families, and com - The Vera study includes people spent time in jail because 2015, Black residents paid 84 utilized more in New Orleans almost $2 million more than rev - munities point to a growing crim - Criminal District Court. In they couldn’t pay bail, at least percent of bond premiums and courts over the past five years. enue brought in through those inalization of poverty,” the Vera municipal court, it found, money not quickly. associated fees – totaling $5.4 However, “judges still rely far practices. report states. But their study bail was a requirement to be Anecdotal testimonies in the million. too much on money bail,” In 2015, defendants and their proves a “first-in-kind quantifi - released pretrial for 63 percent of report reveal people who must The money collected funds 18 according to the study. “Thirty- families paid $4.5 million in bail, cation of this form of cost-shar - booked defendants. It was a choose between utility bills and percent of the budget for munic - two percent of felony defendants fines and fees to government ing to defendants and their fami - requirement for 87 percent in dis - bailing out a relative, or between ipal court, 32 percent of district assessed in the lowest two risk agencies, according to the study. lies and all taxpayers in New trict court. paying fines and paying rent. court, and 99 percent of traffic categories in 2015 were held in Jailing people for not being able Orleans.” In district court, nearly one The debt and imprisonment can court. jail for a week or more, while 25 to afford those payments cost the Last Thursday, bail reform third of felony defendants were push people further into a cycle A prosecutor interviewed in the percent of the people in the high - city of New Orleans $6.4 million. advocates praised the Council’s held for the duration of their of poverty, creating further report observed the following: est risk category posted bail and All that money paid by the decision to remove bail on most cases because they could not obstacles to finding housing, “We have developed a perverse were freed. Money bail isn’t “users” of the criminal justice minor municipal court offenses, afford bail, according to the providing for their families and system of incentives to fund the making the city any safer.” system funds just four percent of with changes due to go into effect report, and one-fifth of people in finding gainful employment. criminal justice system where the Jon Wool, director of Vera’s the system. in April. municipal court. Consequences can be long-last - discrete public sector actors in New Orleans office, stated in Residents also paid an addition - The Vera report, “Past Due: There’s also the jailing of peo - ing and far-reaching into the our system of justice are funded conclusion: “For too long in New al $4.7 million to commercial Examining the Costs and ple for their inability to pay fines lives of individuals, their fami - by criminal defendants who Orleans and many other cities bail bond agents. Consequences of Charging for after their cases have been lies and the prosperity of the unwillingly participate in the nationwide, the use of bail, fines And the impacts can be devas - Justice in New Orleans” took an resolved. As of August 2016, entire community . process. Should the discrete and fees has extracted money tating to individuals – who risk in-depth look at court, police, when the study’s data collection In New Orleans, the burden of actors in the system act in their from people in poor, historically losing jobs, housing, or their and jail data for tens of thousands ended, 269 people had been paying bail, fines and fees dis - own pecuniary best interest, they disadvantaged communities and children. of individual cases in 2015. It jailed based solely on warrants proportionately affects people often would be acting against put it in the pockets of govern - “On any given day in 2015, focused specifically on the policy issued for unpaid fines and fees. who are already struggling eco - their professed duty to see justice ment and commercial companies. three out of 10 jail beds were question of whether a person’s The vast majority (234) had been nomically, and disproportionate - done . . . This process of revenue- Through this report, we now occupied by people who couldn’t inability to pay money bail was sentenced in municipal court for ly affects Black residents. generating is certainly corrosive understand the full extent of both afford bail,” the report found. the determining factor leading to minor offenses. Black New Orleanians are both and may corrupt our system of the injustice and inefficiency of disproportionately likely to be justice.” our system. We hope that the arrested and incarcerated, and Nationwide and in New findings will serve as final proof disproportionately likely to bear Orleans, municipalities and that charging for justice—and Dream of just city still not a reality the brunt of enforcement. courts are being sued because the jailing people who can’t afford According to the Vera study, 43 U.S. Constitution prohibits pun - the price—comes at too high a who chairs the Criminal Justice much as it does the sisters and Continued from Page 1 percent of Black New Orleanians ishing people for poverty, and cost for all of us.”◊ Committee, told Nola.com that brothers and mothers and fathers the bail system is “inherently of our city.” efit less from city services than flawed.” She added that the bail Ramessu Merriamen Aha, a other groups, more likely to be system does nothing to improve New Orleans businessman and exploited economically, more like - public safety and likened it to a former congressional candidate, ly to be undereducated and mis- debtors’ prison. said Thursday that people of educated by the local public school St. Aug. legacy on display “One can pay, they don’t go to color and the poor need to take a when he saw the photo. every day he can see the history system and more likely to become Continued from Page 1 jail,” Guidry told Nola.com . “The stand against the systemic racism Solomon was a senior at St. of the people who walked the victims of mass incarceration and other can’t pay, they go to jail. and widespread discrimination Aug when the LHSAA was inte - halls before him, and knows he prosecutorial misconduct by the ketball team speaks volumes That’s all there is to it. that happens every day in the grated. must leave a lasting impression criminal justice system.” about the dignity and pride of “And the people who can’t Crescent City. “We were just thinking about, for the students in his charge. He added that the entire city people of color in the Jim Crow afford to pay bail are the people “We need justice and we need as far as black and white were “To see our story, our history, and Greater New Orleans area South and is part of an exhibit who are probably underem - it now — not tomorrow, not next concerned, we wanted to repre - our founding teacher, students need a “justice overhaul.” that highlights 100 moments in ployed. Their job as a dishwasher month or next year,” Aha said. sent,” he explained to WWL . “I giving their just due for what One of the areas in the criminal Black history, culture and in a restaurant isn’t going to be “It is up to us to identify and was 16, 17, a kid.” they did, it’s very humbling to justice system that has been tar - achievement. held for them. What if that’s a elect politicians to City Hall, the Now, Solomon serves as an me as an alum, as an employee, geted by harsh criticism recently While the photo captures an person taking care of an elderly State Legislature and Capitol assistant football coach at Florida and now the leader of this is the city’s cash bail system. It important era in Black history, it parent or a child or their rent is Hill that will fully represent our A&M University. He said when school,” he said. is widely considered both evi - does not fully tell the story of the due and they get evicted? It cre - interests 24/7. We can’t afford to he comes back to New Orleans to Another subject of the photo is dence of economic injustice in historically Black all-boys school ates a cycle of more and more make excuses for elected offi - recruit, the fact he was on the Coach Nick Connor, who was the New Orleans and one of the where students were expected to negative things happening in a cials of color who, for whatever first Black team in the Catholic school’s first basketball and foot - basic components of the mass excel academically, socially and person’s life.” reason, fail to get the job done. ” league is still talked about. ball coach, and one of the first incarceration that has given New athletically as part of a wider With a nod to the fact that so Aha added that even as we hold Before the 1966 federal suit layperson hired by the Josephites Orleans a bad name and earned effort by the Black community to much of what needs to be over - Black elected officials account - was won, the St. Augustine to work at the school. Louisiana the title of “prison rise above the daily insults and hauled in New Orleans is eco - able for the decisions they make Purple Knights dominated com - “He taught me science,” said capital od the world.” indignities that were a reality of nomically based, longtime that impact our lives daily, that petition against the all-Black St. Charles. “I can’t speak for the Some of the other issues that life in the Deep South. activist Carl Galmon told WBOK does not excuse us from taking public schools, gaining the student players, but my recollec - underscore the need for major “That photo predates us even radio Thursday that it’s time for on the system that continues to school regional recognition tion, Coach Conner had a very reforms and a major movement having a gymnasium for us to play Black New Orleanians to think destabilize and exploit commu - which has continued through the calming attitude and disposition. for justice, democracy and equity in and practice in,” Dr. Kenneth St. outside of the box and establish nities of color and exploit, years. Now, being recognized in The Josephites that hired him, include chronic poverty, low Charles, President and CEO of the trade ties with African nations oppress, exclude, criminalize a Smithsonian museum brings they needed a lay cadre of people wages, a lack of mental health school, told WWL News “So not like Ghana, Sierra Leone and and exterminate people of color. another facet for the school to be and going back to the inception care services, a lack of affordable only were these young men, these South Africa. He said that the “The City of New Orleans has viewed nationally. of the school, they brought in housing, ongoing unconstitutional students, not only were they capa - economic power that grows from a long, sordid history of ignoring “I was really excited that the very dedicated and committed policing as the city’s police ble and ready to play against what - trade with African nations could and refusing to honor the U.S. school had this kind of expo - people. So his spirit not only department continues to imple - ever school, they didn’t have the be used to finance the campaigns Constitution, Voting Rights Act, sure,” said Solomon. “It’s a pret - guided that team but also the ment a federally mandated con - same resources.” of principled Black leaders who Civil Rights Act and the land - ty well-known school around the young man, students and athletes sent decree, a lack of opportuni - The St. Aug alum told WWL that are unafraid and unapologetic mark Brown v. The Board of country, but now just the every - for years and years to come.” ties for minority contractors seek - knowing the back story of the about representing the interests Education Supreme Court deci - day person that visits (the muse - Taylor, who spearheaded the ing public contracts, environmen - photo gives it greater meaning. of Blacks in New Orleans. sion,” Aha told The Louisiana um) sees us.” application process to the muse - tal racism and an underfunded, “The basketball team practiced “We need to invest in independ - Weekly . “Much of the progress um, said it was something inside overcrowded public school sys - on dirt, with basketball goals ent Black candidates, not those made during the Historic Civil ‘A good friend of mine reached of him that pushes to give back tem that has been privatized but installed when I was a student,” who are controlled by ‘political Rights Movement has been erod - out to me randomly…’ to his school. has still not been able to adequate - St. Charles said. “The yard was investors,’” Galmon said. ed and undermined by efforts to Getting the photo into the “No matter how often you try to ly raise students’ test scores. just basketball goals. So the aver - Galmon said that it’s time for ‘turn back the clock’ by Right- museum was a four-year process. understand what this spirit is that Residents are also still age person wouldn’t know that, Blacks in New Orleans to wake leaning Justices on the Supreme “A good friend of mine, who I looms these halls, it’s just some - embroiled in an ongoing struggle but us, we know. I think there’s a up and become actively involved Court, a movement to end feder - went to college with reached out thing that we know,” he said. to relocate several racially offen - story behind that photo, I’m glad in efforts to empower them - al involvement in state and local to me randomly on Facebook,” All three men mentioned their sive Confederate monuments and they picked that photo.” selves. civil rights matters and a explained Taylor. “She sent me a need to give back to the place have accused Louisiana state “I had an opportunity to speak “Since the death of Dr. King, renewed effort on the part of note saying there was ‘a museum that instilled so much in them. troopers of racially profiling, tar - to one of the men that is in the Black people in New Orleans those who fled from America’s going to be opening in D.C. I “Guys have always helped guys geting, harassing and abusing photo, Richard ‘Deanie’ have been sleeping through a major cities after segregation know you have a real passion for that have come out of the pro - residents and visitors of color, Solomon,” Aulston Taylor, devel - revolution,” he said. “We need to was outlawed to regain control your high school, you guys seem gram, and for a number of differ - dating back to a 2014 incident opment committee member of St. wake up.” of land, decision-making power as though you have significant ent reasons, people who’ve left during which two Black teenage Augustine High School, told “New Orleans exemplifies the and resources in cities like New contributions to the world, you have become successful,” said males were assaulted by state WWL “At the time they were not greatness and the disappoint - Orleans, Chicago and Los should definitely look into being Solomon of the school. “It was troopers as they waited in the allowed to play against any other ments of Dr. King’s legacy and Angeles.” in here.’” always a strong community, with French Quarter after a Carnival Catholic schools, but what he that of the Civil Rights With the rise of President-elect Taylor said he got that note an academically strong back - parade for one of the boys’ moth - noted was the unison. He stated to Movement,” civil rights attorney Donald Trump and his nomina - November 2012. After sending ground. That helps you once you er, an NOPD officer, to bring me how whatever they did, they and Loyola University law pro - tion of a number of people with details about the school, he had a get out. I recognize it even more them a meal. did it in the exact same manner and fessor Bill Quigley told The questionable records on civil hand in going through the so now, because I was fortunate There have also been a growing order. So, if you look at the photo Louisiana Weekly last week. “We rights to fill his Cabinet, Aha Josephites’ archive in Baltimore. to have some success when I went number of complaints about the you’ll see that the guys are all have many more great African- said that he sees some serious The Josephites started the high in as a young guy, looking up to City of New Orleans taking the dressed alike, their bags are the American elected officials and challenges for people of color on school in 1951, and it was one of juniors and seniors, that I could homes of elderly and low- exact same, and they’re one.” community and business leaders the horizon. the only Catholic school options carry on their tradition, which is income Blacks for minor code than before. Most of our public “There is no ‘quit’ in us but open for Black students. always important.” violations as a strategy for ‘We were the first Black team in institutions are fully integrated. there is definitely some chal - About 25 original photos were A tradition that continues today, reducing Black homeownership the Catholic league.’ There are opportunities that lenges that lie ahead,” he said. chosen to submit to the museum. and can now be remembered by and promoting gentrification. A year after the photo was would never have been possible “We need to recommit ourselves “Two years later, in 2014, an dozens of visitors to the museum. Nola.com reported last week that taken, Father Robert Grant, then before Dr. King and the Civil to the principles and goals acceptance letter came to me Inclusion in the Smithsonian the U.S. Department of Justice has principal of the school, filed a Rights Movement. espoused by Dr. King and others stating that the museum was Museum of African-American and said that the bail system upon suit challenging the segregated “On the other hand, the three and accept the fact that we are in indeed going to keep it,” said Culture was not the first time St. which the Orleans Parish Criminal Louisiana High School Athletic giant evils Dr. King challenged for a very bumpy ride.” Taylor. “Fast forward to Aug’s 1965 boys basketball team Court and District Attorney’s Association and won. — racism, materialism and mili - Aha did offer a sliver of hope in September 2016, the museum received national attention. Office so heavily rely for revenue, “I didn’t remember the picture tarism — remain strong,” his analysis of the state of Black opened up, and we were there. ” “Passing Glory,” a made-for-tele - is unconstitutional and unfairly per se, I just remember the guys,” Quigley continued. “Poverty, a New Orleans and Black America: vision movie, chronicled the role penalizes poor people. said Richard “Deanie” Solomon, legacy of historic and ongoing “None of the challenges we will Giving back to continue the the basketball team and the 7th Nola.com also reported that a one of the photo’s subjects. “I racism, continues to plague our face over the next four years and legacy Ward school played in integrating 2015 federal civil rights lawsuit didn’t know it was being taken.” community. Economic inequali - beyond are insurmountable.” “A lot of people always want to high school sports in Louisiana. filed against the City of New When the Smithsonian museum ty in New Orleans is higher than “We have to celebrate Dr. King know, ‘What’s the secret?’” said Actor Harold Sylvester, one of Orleans showed that Orleans opened in September, Solomon any major city in the U.S. and and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. St. Charles, when referring to the members of that team who Parish Criminal Court judges col - said he started receiving calls the materialism of the top does Quigley told The Louisiana the school pride anyone who went on to play basketball for the lect more than $1 million in a year that a photo with him in it was not seem to be at all translating Weekly . “They were courageous comes in contact with alumni Tulane University Green Wave, in bond fees, with those funds featured . into economic justice for all. and dedicated. But we have to from St. Augustine can feel. played the role of a parent of one being used for court payrolls. “I just kind of reminisce, think And the violence that destroys continue to fight for the justice “Why are you guys so close to of the key players in the New Orleans City about the old days about life in so many families would, I am that is still absolutely missing in each other? What’s the bond?” acclaimed small-screen film.◊ Councilwoman Susan Guidry, high school,” Solomon said sure, break Dr. King’s heart as our community.”◊ St. Charles explained that THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 16 - January 22, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 9 President Obama praised for helping the wrongfully convicted (Special from North- President Barack Obama, his tisan Congress for policies sup - Maddy deLone, executive that President Obama and others the President’s Task Force on StarNews Today) — The executive staff, leaders through - porting the innocent and the director of the Innocence Project, have done to help the wrongfully 21th Century Policing, which Innocence Project has praised out federal agencies and a bipar - wrongfully convicted. touched on a number of things convicted rebuild their lives. encouraged the police to adopt They include strengthening scientifically supported eyewit - forensic science by establishing ness identification procedures. It the National Commission on also urges law enforcement to Forensic Science, reauthoriza - acknowledge their role in injus - The mind-numbing ordeal of a valiant soul tion of the Justice for All Act, tices and discrimination. By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Louisiana African American in an abundance of light. Brevelle is which improves access to post- “While these are major accom - Contributing Columnist Heritage Trail. Mildly put, it is It is noteworthy that the church comprised of conviction DNA in federal cases plishments during an especially of mixed ethnicity. has so many useful rooms built the area of It was halfway déjà vu as I It was comforting to the Pichon into the south side of the church, land between and reauthorizes federal funding challenging political climate, drove north on I-49 beyond family and all of us to be part of the with ample space for storage, the Cane River for programs that help reveal and there is still much work to be Alexandria, Louisiana and turned overflow congregation in the his - sacristy, the confessional, and a and Bayou remediate wrongful convictions. done,” deLone said. off at exit 119. But on the previ - toric 300-seat church. Ernest “Uncle room for counseling or meetings. Brevelle, In addition, the Obama The Innocence Project, which ous occasion, the day after Ernie” Pichon, at whose homegoing Unusual compared to the garden- encompass - Administration pushed passage is based in New York, exonerates Rickey Norman’s homegoing at Mass I was concelebrating, was a variety, run-of-the-mill church, ing approxi - of the Wrongful Conviction Tax the wrongfully convicted Saint Charles Borromeo Church native of Slidell, Louisiana where I its sound system functions very mately 18,000 LEDOUX Relief Act of 2015, barring fed - through DNA evidence. There in Grand Coteau, Louisiana on became acquainted with his family well and pleasantly. acres of land, eral taxation of compensation have been 347 DNA exonera - Friday, December 12, 2014, with in 1961 when I was sent from Saint The celebration of Ernest’s 16,000 acres of which are still awarded to individuals who have tions, according to the Innocence Our Mother of Mercy Church Augustine Seminary in Bay Saint homegoing was at once a sacred owned by descendants of the been wrongfully convicted. Project. It is not known what member Floyd Ware as chauffeur, Louis, Mississippi to celebrate function and a living lesson on an original Creole families.◊ President Obama also convened period this covers.◊ we had turned right when 119 weekend Masses at Saint Linus historical venue and people. I formed a T at Highway 1, heading Church (merged with Saint could not believe that, at long last, for the black Creole enclave of Genevieve in the early 1970s). In a I was in fabled Cane River in the Cloutierville, Louisiana with its treasured extended family relation - midst of its people celebrating in bewildering mix of light-skinned ship to this day, the Pichons and I Saint Augustine Church. It was the black Creoles with some darker bonded from the very beginning. fulfillment of a dream fired by Creoles and whites thrown in for Only 22 back then, Ernest had years of imagination and wonder. good measure. Cloutierville now gone home to God on his Abutting the rear of Saint native, Matiel Boyd, a member of birthday at the age of 77. Eyeing Augustine Church is its cemetery Our Mother of Mercy Church in the loud-white interior of venera - with historic names of Cane River Fort Worth, had motored there ble Saint Augustine Church in Isle Creoles such as Metoyer, Balthazar, with her daughter Patsy Lewis to Brevelle from stem to stern, I Dubreuil and Rachal. With their bury her 90-year-old, sole- noticed that the presently renovat - cozy, exotic history, Cane River remaining brother, Ernest ed church is all wood with five Creoles have been seared into my Bayonne, on December 13, 2014. arches on each side of the nave memory. Our SVD confrere of This time, driving to the funeral formed attractively by small, blessed memory, Brother James Mass of my longtime friend Ernest rounded 1-inch boards soldiered Balthazar, was from Cane River. Pichon on December 17, 2016, I tightly together side by side. As a If you are wondering whence turned left on Highway 1 toward result of the loud-white walls, the Isle Brevelle got its name, as I Isle Brevelle, the home of another whole church is constantly bathed wondered for years, note that Isle branch of Cane River black Creoles. After a mile or so, a right on 493 carried me to 484 at the foot of the Cane River bridge. Making another right on Highway 484, the venerable Saint Augustine Church loomed some 300 feet ahead. My heart quickened, for I had been reading about that church for over 20 years as a benign rival to Saint Augustine Church in Faubourg Tremé of New Orleans. On land donated by free man of color patriarch Augustin Metoyer, the original smallish Saint Augustine Church was designed and built by his brother Louis in 1803 primarily for their family’s use, but outsiders were welcome. Rebuilt in 1829, it was decreed to be a parish by Bishop Augustus Martin in 1856 – 14 years after Saint Augustine Church/Parish in New Orleans. Still actively calling the faithful to worship, the bell in the church tower is the only rem - nant of the first church. Picturesque and then some, the church stands just off Highway 484 and some 220 feet from the Cane River. Onetime active main navigable bed of the powerful Red River between the 1760s and 1830s, Cane River is a 36- mile-long oxbow lake and a 30- mile-long river. Cradled among a bevy of wild pecan trees and a couple of live oaks, Saint Augustine Church with its ceme - tery in back stands proud in the Cane River National Heritage area, is on the National Registry of Historic Places, and is on the

$30! * THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 10 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017 Conservatives plot their course on the rising ‘sea of red’ in state capitals By Robert Faturechi ALEC, founded in 1973, acts as do with these new legislatures?’ presidential campaign was “a lit - tor, said the organization’s opti - policies across the country. He ProPublica a clearinghouse for business- Inez Feltscher, director of tle light on policy details” but mism is based not on expanded expects most of the changes to per - friendly model bills. Among its ALEC’s education task force, out - said he was optimistic the Trump Republican control, but rather colate out of formerly split states Shortly after the November major donors are the billionaires lined plans to advocate for legisla - administration would follow the voter discontent with the status where the GOP has now taken total election, with the nation’s politi - Charles and David Koch. tion giving money to parents who states’ lead. “The stars have quo, regardless of party. control — like Kentucky — rather cal attention focused on the Members include corporations take their children out of public aligned,” Williams said. DeCesare, the Kentucky lawmak - than in states with longstanding Trump transition, an influential and their lobbyists, along with schools — stipends they could use Bowman, who is ALEC’s vice er, responded with an email stat - Republican majorities. advocacy group met outside hundreds of legislators who work for private schooling or other edu - president of policy, said the change ing he didn’t attend the meeting. “Those are the states where Washington to discuss how to together to craft free-market leg - cational expenses. Critics of these in Washington might benefit Varner, however, confirmed that there’s just a lot of pent-up leverage the extraordinary shift islation offered in many states at “education savings accounts” say ALEC’s fight to preserve DeCesare had called into the demand, a lot of unhappiness of power to Republicans in the once. The group has successfully they’re a drain on public-school anonymity for donors to politically meeting on the conference line . with the status quo,” he said. rest of the country. advanced bills imposing voter ID funding, while proponents argue active nonprofit groups at the state Some of the promises “The people who have been wait - The American Legislative rules and loosening labor and they give parents a chance to pick level. With Trump in office, DeCesare made during the ALEC ing to make those changes can Exchange Council — a nonprofit environmental regulations. the best situation for their kids. Democrats might now start to see meeting have begun to material - now implement them.” better known as ALEC — briefed Because the group generally Feltscher acknowledged another the value of this privacy. ize, with a Kentucky House com - Voss said that shifts in political its members and allied groups on allies with Republicans, motivation: “To break the monop - “Democrats who are afraid of the mittee approving a “right to control after years of stability the bright future for its agenda November’s results provide the oly on one of the most important Republican administration are work” bill and another to roll often produce a period of dra - now that Republicans will effec - best chance yet to turn its ideas institutions in America.” beginning to say ‘Maybe we need back the prevailing wage rule. matic policy innovation. tively control 68 of the nation’s into law. In Iowa, for example, the Conservatives have long been at to embrace some First Amendment Stephen Voss, a University of “And what we know about pub - 99 state legislative bodies, as well party regained dominance in the odds with teachers unions over the rights,’” Bowman said. Kentucky political scientist, said lic policy is it spreads,” Voss said. as 33 governor’s mansions. state Senate, winning a trifecta of structure and curriculum of public Contacted for comment, Varner, the Republican resurgence will “Other states will pick up their Among other things, group mem - both chambers and the governor - schools. “We’ve let the left take the ALEC communications direc - have a major impact on important innovations, good or bad.”◊ bers said they would push bills to ship for the first time in almost two over almost all of the cultural insti - reduce corporate taxes, weaken decades. Republicans expanded tutions of this country,” she said. unions, privatize schooling and their lead in the Pennsylvania Another ALEC target, Feltscher influence the ideological debate Senate to a two-thirds majority, said, would be the state of “free ORLEANS PARISH on college campuses. large enough to threaten to over - debate on American universities,” “We can pretty much do whatev - ride vetoes by Gov. Tom Wolf, a which conservatives say are large - Clerk of Court Clerk of Court er we want to right now,” said Rep. Democrat. Even in North Carolina, ly dominated by left-leaning facul - Succession Notices Jim DeCesare, a Republican state where Democrat Roy Cooper eked ty, courses and speakers. For Succession Notices legislator in Kentucky, where the out a win for governor, example, she said, lawmakers “To browse a searchable database of public notices published by the newspapers of Louisiana to inform you, party gained the state House for the Republicans retained their veto- could use a range of tactics to press the citizens of Louisiana, please visit www.louisianaweekly.com. This database is provided as a free public first time in nearly a century. proof majorities in the legislature, administrators to include multiple service to the citizens of Louisiana by The Louisiana Weekly and the Louisiana Press Association. DeCesare, who had been minori - where lawmakers have pushed ideologies during on-campus pub - CIVIL DISTRICT COURT DRIVES, designated by the Any heir, legatee or credi - and measures as follows: FOR THE PARISH OF No.84-A on survey made by tor who opposes the pro - Said Lot “D” commences ty whip, described plans for “a through a series of controversial lic policy talks, such as demanding ORLEANS Adloe Orr, Jr., C.E., on June posed sale must file his 50 feet from the corner of pretty intense agenda” including a laws, including one that rolled an annual count of campus events STATE OF LOUISIANA 30, 1960, and according to opposition within seven (7) Soniat and Clara Streets and so-called right-to-work law allow - back protections for transgender that included more than one per - NO: 83-11198 DIV: “B” which said piece or portion of days from the day on which measures thence 30 feet DOCKET NO. 1 ground forms the corner of the last publication of this front on Soniat Street, the ing employees who are covered by people using public bathrooms. spective. Simply requiring meas - SUCCESSION OF Patterson and Huntlee Drive notice appears. same width in the rear, by a collective bargaining agreements The number of states where urement and public reporting N. U. CONRAD and is more particularly DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk depth of 125 feet between to opt out of joining labor unions. Republicans control both the legis - would apply pressure, she said, but Notice is given that the described as follows: Atty: John J. Weiler equal and parallel lines. Testamentary Executor of Commencing at a point Publication: La. Weekly Improvements thereon Another, he said, would be repeal - lature and the governor’s office legislators could also take it to “the 12/26/16, 1/16/17 this Succession has peti - marked C on the corner of ______bear the Municipal ing rules that require government will rise from 23 to 25. The total nuclear level” and threaten to pull tioned this Court for authority Huntlee and Patterson CIVIL DISTRICT COURT Addresses 2528-2531 Soniat contractors to pay employees more number of Republican legislators funding from schools that are per - to sell immovable property of Drives, Lot 84-A measures a FOR THE PARISH OF Street, New Orleans, LA. than the minimum wage. nationwide also has grown. ceived to be limiting discourse. the community of acquets first distance of 14.29 feet ORLEANS On the following terms and and gains belonging to the front on Huntlee Drive to a STATE OF LOUISIANA conditions, to-wit: under the Neighboring states competing for The post-election lunch meet - “There’s going to be a lot more decedent and her surviving point marked D, thence fur - NO: 2017-7 DIV: “A-15” terms and conditions provid - new businesses, he said, had ing, held Nov. 17 at the organiza - aggression on this,” Feltscher said. spouse at private sale in ther frontage on Huntlee SUCCESSION OF ed in the agreement to pur - already gutted such regulations. tion’s Arlington, Virginia, head - ALEC executives also forecast - accordance with the provi - Drive a distance of 129 feet JUANITA D. RAINEY AND chase filed in these proceed - sions of Article 3281 of the to a point marked E, a depth OCTAVE J. RAINEY ings. “We’ve got some catching up quarters, included members of ed tax cuts and other conserva - Code of Civil Procedure for on the interior line, a distance NOTICE TO SELL MOV - Notice is now given to all to do, but we plan to make up a ALEC and other conservative tive fiscal reforms in New Two Hundred Thousand of 101 feet to a point marked ABLE OR IMMOVABLE parties to whom it may con - lot of ground in a very short groups, with some calling into a pri - Hampshire, Missouri, Alabama, Dollars ($200,000.00) cash, F, first depth in the rear, on a PROPERTY AT PRIVATE cern, including the heirs and under the terms as set forth perpendicular line, a distance SALE creditors of decedent, and of time,” DeCesare said. “This is vate conference line. Ashley Varner, Mississippi, South Carolina and in the petition and attach - of 44.25 feet to a point The Administrator of the this estate, that they be our time to shine.” a strategic communications director West Virginia. Jonathan ments thereto. The immov - marked G, thence another above estate has made appli - ordered to make any opposi - Another ALEC official, Michael at ALEC, opened the session by Williams, vice president of able property proposed to be depth on an oblique line a cation to the court for the tion which they may have to sold at private sale is distance of 22.58 feet to a such application, at any time, Bowman, told the group that out - pointing out that with the power ALEC’s Center for State Fiscal sale, at private sale, of the described as follows: point marked B, thence a immovable property prior to the issuance of the side advocates, not lawmakers, shift in Washington, opportunities Reform, reminded the group that THAT PORTION OF front on Patterson Drive a described, as follows: order or judgment authoriz - held the key to success. at the state level were flying under one of the only Republican GROUND, together with all distance of 134.06 feet to the A CERTAIN LOT OF ing, approving and homolo - the buildings and improve - point marked C, the point of gating that application and “Legislators are not the trailblaz - the radar. “There’s a sea of red,” majorities lost in November GROUND, together with all ments thereon and all of the beginning. Said piece of the buildings and improve - that such order or judgment ers of developing policies,” Varner said, adding that hundreds of came in Nevada, where taxes had rights, ways, privileges, servi - ground is made up of a ments thereon, and all the may be issued after the expi - Bowman said. “They’re actually incumbents from both parties had been raised. tudes, appurtenances and greater portion of original Lot rights, ways, privileges, servi - ration of seven days, from the advantages thereunto 84 of Square 3, Section A, date of the last publication of the retail consumers.” been ousted. “What are we going to Williams acknowledged the tudes and advantages there - belonging or in anywise HUNTLEE VILLAGE SUBDI - unto belonging or in anywise such notice, all in accordance appertaining, situated in the VISION, and a very small tri - appertaining, situated in the with law. FIFTH DISTRICT of the City angular portion of original Lot Sixth District of the City of DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk of New Orleans, in the area 16 of Square B, Roselyn Park Atty: Scott T. Winstead New Orleans, in Square 645, Publication: La. Weekly now bounded by ROSELYN Subdivision. bounded by Soniat, Clara, 1/16/17, 2/6/17 White Texas police officer suspended PARK PLACE, GENERAL The improvements there - Robert and Magnolia Streets, ______MEYER AVENUE, PATTER - on bear the Municipal No. which said lot is designated after arrest of mother and daughter SON AND HUNTLEE 110 Huntlee Drive. as LOT “D” and is located (EURweb.com) — The white Texas police officer The police officer, who authorities identified as who was seen on video arresting a Black mother Officer William Martin, had been put on “restricted and daughter over an argument about a child litter - status duty” until last Monday when officials con - ing has been suspended for 10 days without pay, cluded their probe. authorities announced January 9. “Officer Martin was contrite. 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Pay gap between college grads and everyone else at a record level By Christopher S. Rugaber and enjoyed pay gains. Non-col - that they will own a home and their ful,” says Harry Holzer, an econo - less likely to own homes. Sixty- Participation in 401(k)-style plans AP Economics Writer lege grads, by contrast, have faced geographic mobility. mist at Georgetown University. four percent are current homeown - requires decisions — whether and dwindling job opportunities and an Yet few experts think the solution Helping lift high school graduates’ ers, down from 70 percent in 2000. how much to contribute and how to (AP) — Americans with no more overall three percent decline in is simply to send more students to skill levels is critical, given the By contrast, three-quarters of invest — that can become barriers than a high school diploma have income, EPI’s data shows. four-year colleges. Many young many ways they are lagging behind bachelor’s degree holders are for the less educated. fallen so far behind college gradu - “The post-Great Recession econo - people either don’t want to spend their college-educated peers: homeowners, down slightly from All of this contributed to a ates in their economic lives that the my has divided the country along a more years in school or aren’t pre - • They’re less likely to have a 77 percent in 2000, according to sharp political split in the presi - earnings gap between college fault line demarcated by college pared to do so. Already, four in job. Just two-thirds of high real estate data firm Zillow. dential election. College gradu - grads and everyone else has education,” Anthony Carnevale, every 10 college students drop out school-only grads ages 25 • College grads are more likely ates favored Hillary Clinton by reached its widest point on record. director of Georgetown University’s before graduating - often with debt through 64 were employed in than high school-only graduates to nine percentage points. Non-col - College graduates, on average, Center on Education and the loads they will struggle to repay 2015, down sharply from 73 per - contribute to a 401(k)-style retire - lege grads chose Donald Trump earned 56 percent more than high Workforce, said in a report last year. without a degree. cent in 2007. For college gradu - ment plan, according to research by eight points, according to exit school grads in 2015, according College grads have long enjoyed Rather, labor economists say, ates in the same age group, by Christopher Tamborini of the polls. That was the largest dis - to data compiled by the economic advantages over many high school grads would employment dipped only slightly Social Security Administration parity between the two groups on Economic Policy Institute. That Americans with less education. But benefit from a more comprehen - from 84 percent to 83 percent. and Changhwan Kim, a sociology record since 1980, according to was up from 51 percent in 1999 as the disparity widens, it is doing sive approach to obtaining skills, • They are less likely to be mar - professor at the University of the Pew Research Center. and is the largest such gap in so in ways that go beyond income, especially involving technology, ried. In 2008, marriage rates for Kansas. College grads contributed Some of these trends might EPI’s figures dating to 1973. from homeownership to marriage that are increasingly in demand. college-educated 30-year olds sur - 26 percent more even when mem - eventually reverse themselves if Since the Great Recession ended to retirement. Education has “If the only path you offer them passed those of high-school-only bers of both groups had similar more high school grads acquire in 2009, college-educated workers become a dividing line that affects is a traditional college path, grads for the first time. incomes and access to such plans, the skills needed for higher-pay - have captured most of the new jobs how Americans vote, the likelihood they’re not going to be success - • High school-only grads are their research found. ing work. Though many middle- income jobs don’t require college, nearly all require some post-high school education or training. What Holzer calls the “new middle” includes such health Comcast accepting proposals for two new care jobs as X-ray technicians and phlebotomists, as well as computer-controlled manufac - turing and some office occupa - African American-owned independent networks tions, like paralegals. (TriceEdneyWire.com) — operated networks as part of a series Four of those networks were Rey). Additionally, two substan - works,” said Justin Smith, Senior And these “new middle” posi - Comcast Cable has announced it is of public interest commitments launched as a result of a public tially Hispanic American owned Vice President of Content tions are typically the same jobs now accepting proposals for two made by Comcast in connection request for channels that satisfied networks, Kids Central and Acquisition for Comcast Cable. for which employers have com - substantially African American- with the NBCUniversal transaction the criteria established in several Primo TV, will launch on Criteria for selecting the next two plained that they can’t find owned, independent networks that completed in 2011. Since the agreements between Comcast and Comcast Cable systems begin - substantially African American- enough qualified people to fill. it will launch in select Comcast NBCUniversal transaction, leading diversity organizations: ning in January 2017. owned networks that Comcast will Labor experts say the U.S. educa - markets by January 2019. Comcast has successfully launched two African American-majority “We are looking forward to launch include: the content of the tional system is failing to help According to a Comcast state - over 20 independent networks, dou - owned networks (ASPiRE and receiving another round of great network; whether the network is young people acquire such skills. ment, the announcement is part of bling the number of independent REVOLT) and two Hispanic proposals as we begin the process fully financed; whether the net - Still, some are making progress. the company’s commitment to networks launches that it committed American-operated networks to launch two more African work’s ownership and/or manage - Asia Howard, 26, of Jacksonville, launch independently owned and to as part of the transaction. (Baby First Americas and El American majority-owned net - ment group(s) are well established, Florida, was stuck in mostly retail have relevant experience, and are and fast-food jobs after graduating substantially owned by African high school, unable to get a job in Americans; whether the network banking, a profession she prized is already launched and has exist - for its steady hours. A friend told Google Fiber’s war on African-American communities ing or potential multichannel her about a nonprofit called Year By Khalil Abdullah while lower-income, primarily had identifying minorities who video programming distributor Up, which teaches such career Maybe the algorithm of how skills as resumé writing, interview Contributing Writer African-American neighborhoods have the specialized education redlining undermines American (MVPD) distribution; price; and were not. Compounding the prob - needed to compete in the high-tech whether the network and its techniques and time management. communities is too sophisticated Year Up participants also typi - (TriceEdneyWire.com) — lem was that prospective customers industry. Even if true, it is beyond for Google to grasp, but it should potential carriage provide value Google has long been seen as a need a credit card to sign up for plausibility to suggest that Google to Comcast and its customers. cally receive internships, which halt this discriminatory practice Howard spent at Everbank. Early visionary company, one that has service, something that many resi - does not have the resources to cul - nonetheless. Google could certain - Comcast will accept proposals for ushered in a host of innovations dents in poor communities lacked. tivate American-grown talent — every major genre, including gen - last year, she began a job in ly refuse. But, as a colleague said, mortgage lending at PNC that have transformed the way In Nashville, African-American whatever the ethnicity or income before we ask Washington to step eral entertainment, movies, people live and, in the process, religious leaders have questioned status — by augmenting STEM music, kids, news, and sports. Financial that pays nearly twice in to fix this, why don’t we demand what she earned in previous jobs. turned the company itself into a Google’s commitment to their programs and local, county, and this of Google ourselves? Applicants may visit http://cor - celebrated and iconic brand. Its neighborhoods. Google Fiber has state education systems. porate.comcast.com/diversepro - She saw many people lose homes during the financial crisis. national expansion into broadband installed service in mainly a few But Google’s troubling hiring Khalil Abdullah is a writer, editor gramming to submit a proposal Now, she helps people buy them. is a venture known as Google downtown buildings and residen - practices have extended beyond its and business consultant. A former and learn about the terms and “It gives me a chance to see Fiber, but as the corporate giant cies. Pastor Frank Stevenson of St. high-skilled workers and have national editor and reporter for conditions. Proposals are due by what that side of life is like,” seeks to enter the business of run - Luke’s Primitive Baptist Church been reflected in its hiring of non- New America Media, and a former March 15, 2017, and the two net - Howard said. And unlike in her ning high-speed Internet networks has led a group of more than 20 tech employees as well. At a mini - managing editor for the works will be selected in the previous jobs, “I can see a lot of in cities around the country, clergy to raise awareness about mum, this suggests that Google’s Washington Afro-American. ◊ coming months.◊ Google’s visionary reputation potential digital redlining. “In this leaders operate in an insular world room to grow.”◊ masks potentially troubling prac - land of fast-moving access, to not of high-tech wizardry. They tices that recall some of our have access puts us at a disadvan - remain either largely blind to or nation’s darkest days around the tage,” Stevenson lamented. “We willfully ignorant of the larger issues of race and economic class. want to make sure that Google will societal issues around them. Instead of providing Internet, or be responsible in how they provide The emerging conflicts broadband, service to all residents services in this city.” between Google and the commu - in the communities it plans to In Atlanta, Google Fiber is ini - nities within cites targeted for serve, Google appears to be tially offering service in Old Google Fiber is somewhat ironic engaged in the abhorrent practice Fourth Ward, Virginia-Highland, — if not hypocritical — given of redlining: depriving these serv - and Morningside/Lenox Park. that the Google has long posi - ices to certain neighborhoods These are some of the more tioned itself as the champion of a based on income, ethnicity and affluent and popular neighbor - principle it likes to tout: race. Should this pattern hold true, hoods in the city. As for poorer “Democracy on the web works.” the inevitable result will be the neighborhoods, they will have to Indeed, for all the talk of ushering undermining of communities that wait until Google gets to them – in a revolutionary era, Google are in most need of broadband and who knows for sure when Fiber’s rollout bears many of the access, thereby deepening the that will be. None of this should trappings of the practices of banks, digital divide. Already too many be altogether surprising for any - mortgage lenders, telephone compa - Americans are without online one who has followed Google, a nies, and other corporate actors that access at a time when such bastion of wealthy European- have redlined low-income and access is no longer a luxury but a American males, not unlike minority communities in the past. necessity in every household for Silicon Valley itself. And let’s be candid: some still do. everything from paying bills, News reports have tracked the Devotion to higher profits at the searching for jobs, pursuing dismal record that Google and expense of greater societal good advanced educational degrees other high-tech companies in should not be excused by the thin and accessing health records . Silicon Valley have in employing veneer of Google returning share - In Kansas City, as the deadline African Americans, Hispanics and holders’ value. Redlining results in approached for neighborhoods to women. Many apologists for the wholesale disenfranchisement of sign up for Google Fiber, higher- Google have argued that Google’s communities and, ultimately, despite income, European-American neigh - hiring record is a result of the dif - short-term profits, a weaker econom - borhoods were hooked-up first, ficulties the company says it has ic foundation for America’s future. Sears to sell Craftsman tool brand (AP) — After controlling the tinue to sell Craftsman, including vide it with cash as it sells assets. Craftsman name for 90 years, at its Kmart and Sears Hometown Stanley will pay Sears about troubled department store opera - stores. The Hoffman Estates, $900 million for Craftsman, which tor Sears said it will sell the Illinois-based company first took includes $525 million when the famous tool brand to Stanley control of Craftsman in 1927 when deal closes this year, $250 million Black & Decker Inc. it bought the trademark for $500. after three years and a percentage Stanley, which makes and sells Sears has struggled, losing of sales for 15 years. After 15 tools under the DeWalt and Black money for years as its revenue fell. years, Sears will start paying & Decker names, wants to grow The company also announced Stanley three percent of the the Craftsman brand by selling its plans Thursday to close 150 stores, Craftsman sales it makes. products in more stores outside of about 10 percent of its total 1,500 Stanley said it plans to hire more Sears. Today, only 10 percent of locations. And last week, the com - workers and open a new U.S. plant Craftsman products are sold in pany said it received a credit facil - to make more Craftsman products, other stores. Sears said it will con - ity for up to $500 million to pro - but didn’t provide details.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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purchaser at the moment LOTS 26 AND 27, City on January 19, OF FIERI FACIAS to me MATTER EnTITLED: Parish of Orleans THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE bY ATTy: ETHAN HUNT of adjudication to make a SQUARE 170 2017, at 12:00 o’clock directed by the "bAnK OF AMERICA, (318) 388-1440 TRICT ORLEAnS SHERIFF NNB 22 deposit of ten percent of FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - noon, the following Honorable The Civil n.A. vS ROD R. RObIn LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 LAkE FOREST SUBDI - JUDICIAL the purchase price, and TRICT, described property to District Court of A/K/A ROD RObIn AnD ______VISION NO. 8 (WAR - ADvERTISEMEnT the balance within thirty MUNICIPAL NO: 3675 wit: Orleans, in the above nARRIS bROWn SALE bY WICk EAST) days thereafter. (NOTE: PAUL STREET, LOT A, SQUARE 469 entitled cause, I will RObIn A/K/A nARRIS MUNICIPAL NO. 10200 THAT PORTIOn The payment must be ACQ MIN: 544829 SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - b. RObIn A/K/A nAR - ORLEAnS SHERIFF FLOSSMOOR DRIVE OF GROUnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, WRIT AMOUnT: TRICT lic auction, on the RIS RObIn A/K/A nAR - JUDICIAL ACQUIRED MIN 895332 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Certified Check or Money $10,702.89 MUNICIPAL NO. 1918- ground floor of the Civil RIS bROWn" ADvERTISEMEnT WRIT AMOUnT: nO. 4420 SAn MARCO Order. No personal Seized in the above 20 FOUCHER STREET District Court building, Civil District Court for $108,471.80 ROAD, THIS CITY, In checks.) suit, TERMS CASH. The ACQ. MIN 757724 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above THE MATTER EnTI - MARLIn n. GUSMAn purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the no. 2012-10978 OF GROUnD suit, TERMS CASH. The TLED: WELLS FARGO Sheriff of adjudication to make a $87,922.89 City on January 19, by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL purchaser at the moment Parish of Orleans bAnK, n.A. SUCCES - ATTy: JASON SMITH deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above 2017, at 12:00 o’clock OF SEIZURE AnD SALE nO. 7846 nORTH of adjudication to make a SOR bY MERGER TO (318) 388-1440 the purchase price, and suit, TERMS CASH. The noon, the following to me directed by the COROnET COURT, deposit of ten percent of TW 28 WACHOvIA MORT - LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment described property to Honorable The Civil THIS CITY, In THE MAT - the purchase price, and GAGE FSb vERSUS ______days thereafter. (NOTE: of adjudication to make a wit: District Court of TER EnTITLED: U.S. the balance within thirty MELAnIE MAYFIELD SALE bY The payment must be deposit of ten percent of LOT 11, SQUARE 454, Orleans, in the above bAnK nATIOnAL days thereafter. (NOTE: COnCEPCIOn AnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, the purchase price, and SECOND MUNICIPAL entitled cause, I will ASSOCIATIOn AS The payment must be RObERTO JOSE COn - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty DISTRICT, proceed to sell by pub - InDEnTURE TRUSTEE Cash, Cashier’s Check, CEPCIOn JUDICIAL Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO: 3424- lic auction, on the FOR SPRInGLEAF Certified Check or Money Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT checks.) The payment must be 26 BIENVILLE STREET, ground floor of the Civil MORTGAGE LOAn Order. No personal the Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQ MIN: 704397 District Court building, TRUST 2013-3, MORT - checks.) no. 2010-2251 THAT PORTIOn Sheriff Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in GAGE-bACKED Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD ATTy: RADER JACkSON Order. No personal $110,651.88 the First District of the nOTES, SERIES 2013-3 Parish of Orleans (504) 581-9444 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) Seized in the above City on January 19, vERSUS KEITH CAvA - ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER NNB 5 (504) 831-7726 to me directed by the nO. LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 suit, TERMS CASH. The 2017, at 12:00 o’clock LIER, SR. (A/K/A KEITH MARLIn n. GUSMAn JD 24 ______Sheriff Honorable The Civil 4516 MARK TWAIn DR, purchaser at the moment noon, the following CAvALIER) AnD LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 Parish of Orleans THIS CITY, In THE MAT - ______District Court of SALE bY ATTy: FRED DAIGLE of adjudication to make a described property to MICHELLE GEnTRY Orleans, in the above TER EnTITLED (504) 522-8256 deposit of ten percent of wit: STEWART A/K/A ORLEAnS SHERIFF LM 9 SALE bY entitled cause, I will REvERSE MORTGAGE LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 the purchase price, and LOT 27, SQUARE A MICHELLE GEnTRY proceed to sell by pub - SOLUTIOnS, InC. vS JUDICIAL ______the balance within thirty THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - PERKInS) ORLEAnS SHERIFF lic auction, on the CLInTOn J. SCOTT, ADvERTISEMEnT SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: TRICT Civil District Court for JUDICIAL ground floor of the Civil JR., InDIvIDUALLY The payment must be LAkE FOREST SUBDI - the Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT District Court building, AnD AS SURvIvInG THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, VISION NO. 6 no. 2016-7631 421 Loyola Avenue, in SPOUSE In COMMUnI - OF GROUnD JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money WARWICk by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn the First District of the TY WITH REGInA bEARInG MUnICIPAL ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 9700 W. OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF GROUnD WHITE SCOTT nO. 7110 WAYSIDE bEARInG MUnICIPAL City on January 19, THAT PORTIOn checks.) ROCkTON CIRCLE to me directed by the 2017, at 12:00 o’clock Civil District Court for DRIvE, THIS CITY, In MARLIn n. GUSMAn ACQUIRED MIN 930064 Honorable The Civil nO. 3140 nEW noon, the following the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - OF GROUnD Sheriff WRIT AMOUnT: District Court of ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Parish of Orleans described property to no. 2016-7927 TLED WELLS FARGO bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: BENJAMIN DEAN $124,950.49 Orleans, in the above MATTER EnTITLED: wit: by virtue of a WRIT bAnK, nA vS AnDRE nO. 2621 PAUGER (318) 388-1440 Seized in the above entitled cause, I will "ADMInISTRATOR, U.S. BB 13 LOT NO. 3, SQUARE OF SEIZURE AnD SALE SHEPPARD STREET, CITY OF nEW LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 suit, TERMS CASH. The proceed to sell by pub - SMALL bUSInESS NO. 4 to me directed by the Civil District Court for ORLEAnS, In THE ______purchaser at the moment lic auction, on the ADMInISTRATIOn, An THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans CASE EnTITLED: U.S. SALE bY of adjudication to make a ground floor of the Civil AGEnCY OF THE UnIT - TRICT District Court of no. 2016-10235 bAnK nATIOnAL deposit of ten percent of District Court building, ED STATES OF AMERI - VENETIAN ISLES SUB - Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT ASSOCIATIOn, AS ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and 421 Loyola Avenue, in CA vS DARRYL KEnY - DIVISION entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TRUSTEE FOR THE JUDICIAL the balance within thirty the First District of the ATTA TAYLOR AKA NEW ORLEANS EAST, proceed to sell by pub - to me directed by the SPECIALTY UnDER - ADvERTISEMEnT days thereafter. (NOTE: City on January 19, DARRYL K. TAYLOR SECTION 1 lic auction, on the Honorable The Civil WRITnG AnD RESI - The payment must be 2017, at 12:00 o’clock AKA DARRYL TAYLOR MUNICIPAL NO. 4420 ground floor of the Civil District Court of DEnTIAL FInAnCE THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, noon, the following In HIS InDIvIDUAL SAN MARCO ROAD District Court building, Orleans, in the above TRUST MORTGAGE OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money described property to CAPACITY AnD DAR - ACQ. MIN 926891 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will LOAn ASSET-bACKED bEARInG MUnICIPAL Order. No personal wit: RYL KEnYATTA TAY - WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - CERTICATES SERIES nO. 5646 DURHAM checks.) LOT 24, SQUAER 3 LOR, In HIS CAPACITY $204,460.38 City on January 19, lic auction, on the 2007-bC1 vS REGI - DRIvE, nEW MARLIn n. GUSMAn THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - AS InDEPEnDEnT Seized in the above 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ground floor of the Civil nALD JOHn GREEn ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Sheriff TRICT EXECUTOR OF THE Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The noon, the following District Court building, Civil District Court for MATTER EnTITLED: ATTy: COREy GIROIR PARC BRITTANy SUB - SUCCESSIOn OF WIL - purchaser at the moment described property to 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans "THE bAnK OF nEW (225) 756-0373 DIVISION LEnE PULLIAM TAY - JD 21 of adjudication to make a wit: the First District of the no. 2009-5970 YORK MELLOn vS LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 MUNICIPAL NO. 7846 LOR AKA WILLEnE P. deposit of ten percent of LOT "E" SQUARE NO. City on January 19, by virtue of a WRIT ROnALD O. LAnAUX ______NORTH CORONET TAYLOR AKA WILLEnE the purchase price, and 11 2017, at 12:00 o’clock OF SEIZURE AnD SALE A/K/A ROnALD SALE bY COURT TAYLOR" the balance within thirty THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - noon, the following to me directed by the LAnAUX AnD vERnA ACQ. MIN 966409 Civil District Court for days thereafter. (NOTE: TRICT described property to Honorable The Civil bARnETT" ORLEAnS SHERIFF WRIT AMOUnT: the Parish of Orleans The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO. 4516 wit: District Court of Civil District Court for JUDICIAL $30,895.21 no. 2016-8068 Cash, Cashier’s Check, MARk TWAIN DR LOT NO. 4 SQUARE Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT Seized in the above by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money SUBDIVISION: GENTIL - NO.8 entitled cause, I will no. 2016-9358 suit, TERMS CASH. The OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Order. No personal Ly WOODS THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn purchaser at the moment to me directed by the checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: TRICT lic auction, on the OF SEIZURE AnD SALE OF GROUnD of adjudication to make a Honorable The Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn $94,484.91 MUNICIPAL NO. 7110 ground floor of the Civil to me directed by the bEARInG MUnICIPAL deposit of ten percent of District Court of Sheriff Seized in the above WAySIDE DRIVE District Court building, Honorable The Civil nO. 1451-53 n. ROMAn the purchase price, and Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans ATTy: JOHN MORRIS suit, TERMS CASH. The SUBDIVISION: LAkE 421 Loyola Avenue, in District Court of STREET, THIS CITY, In the balance within thirty entitled cause, I will (318) 388-1440 purchaser at the moment CARMEL the First District of the Orleans, in the above THE MATTER EnTI - days thereafter. (NOTE: proceed to sell by pub - NNB 15 LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 of adjudication to make a ACQ MIN: 913772 City on January 19, entitled cause, I will TLED: FEDERAL The payment must be lic auction, on the ______deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: 2017, at 12:00 o’clock proceed to sell by pub - nATIOnAL MORTGAGE Cash, Cashier’s Check, ground floor of the Civil SALE bY the purchase price, and $192,853.33 noon, the following lic auction, on the ASSOCIATIOn vERSUS Certified Check or Money District Court building, the balance within thirty Seized in the above described property to ground floor of the Civil GLEnn MICHAEL Order. No personal 421 Loyola Avenue, in ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The wit: District Court building, DAvIS, SR. A/K/A checks.) the First District of the JUDICIAL The payment must be purchaser at the moment LOT 16-A, SQUARE 911, 421 Loyola Avenue, in GLEnn MICHAEL MARLIn n. GUSMAn City on January 19, Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the DAvIS A/K/A GLEnn M. Sheriff 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of TRICT, City on January 19, DAvIS A/K/A GLEnn ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER noon, the following THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 2621 2017, at 12:00 o’clock DAvIS, SR. A/K/A (504) 831-7726 described property to NNB 23 OF GROUnD checks.) the balance within thirty PAUGER STREET noon, the following GLEnn DAvIS LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 wit: bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 870373 described property to Civil District Court for ______LOT M, SQUARE 1964 nO. 7133 CROWDER Sheriff The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: wit: the Parish of Orleans THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Parish of Orleans SALE bY bLvD, THIS CITY, In ATTy: RADER JACkSON Cash, Cashier’s Check, $138,001.07 LOT 6, SQUARE 58 no. 2012-3549 TRICT THE MATTER EnTI - (504) 581-9444 Certified Check or Money Seized in the above FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS SHERIFF MUNICIPAL NO. 3140 TW 3 TLED REvERSE MORT - LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT OF SEIZURE AnD SALE JUDICIAL NEW ORLEANS GAGE SOLUTIOnS, ______checks.) purchaser at the moment AURORA GARDENS to me directed by the ADvERTISEMEnT STREET InC. vS LAWREnCE SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a EXTENSION NO. 9 SUB - Honorable The Civil ACQUIRED MIN 931855 DUPREE, A/K/A Sheriff deposit of ten percent of DIVISION District Court of THAT PORTIOn WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans LAWREnCE DUPREE, ATTy: HERSCHEL ADCOCk the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 5646 Orleans, in the above OF GROUnD $98,978.66 SR. JUDICIAL (225) 756-0373 the balance within thirty DURHAM DRIVE entitled cause, I will bEARInG MUnICIPAL Seized in the above TW 7 Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 832502 proceed to sell by pub - nO. 10200 FLOSS - suit, TERMS CASH. The ______the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: lic auction, on the MOOR DRIvE, nEW purchaser at the moment no. 2016-2221 SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, $349,177.47 ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS, LA, In THE of adjudication to make a by virtue of a WRIT OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money Seized in the above District Court building, MATTER EnTITLED: deposit of ten percent of OF SEIZURE AnD SALE bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The 421 Loyola Avenue, in "bAnK OF AMERICA , the purchase price, and to me directed by the PAL nO. 3675 PAUL JUDICIAL checks.) purchaser at the moment the First District of the n.A. vS MARQUESA the balance within thirty Honorable The Civil STREET, THIS CITY, In ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn of adjudication to make a City on January 19, MURRAY, (AKA MAR - days thereafter. (NOTE: District Court of THE MATTER EnTI - Sheriff deposit of ten percent of 2017, at 12:00 o’clock QUESA K. bEAn, MAR - The payment must be THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans Orleans, in the above TLED: U.S. bAnK, ATTy: CANDACE COURTEAU the purchase price, and noon, the following QUESA K. MURRAY, Cash, Cashier’s Check, entitled cause, I will n.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR OF GROUnD (318) 388-1440 the balance within thirty described property to MARQUESA L. MUR - Certified Check or Money LM 11 proceed to sell by pub - MID-STATE TRUST Iv bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: wit: RAY, MARQUESA Order. No personal lic auction, on the vERSUS ALAnA R. nO. 1918-20 FOUCHER ______The payment must be LOT B1, SQUARE 896 L.bEAn)" checks.) ground floor of the Civil JOHnSOn STREET, THIS CITY, In SALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Civil District Court for MARLIn n. GUSMAn District Court building, Civil District Court for THE MATTER EnTI - Certified Check or Money TRICT the Parish of Orleans Sheriff ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans TLED: FEDERAL Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 1451- no. 2016-8773 ATTy: RAy WOOD the First District of the no. 2016-6676 nATIOnAL MORTGAGE JUDICIAL checks.) 53 N. ROMAN STREET by virtue of a WRIT (225) 372-8877 by virtue of a WRIT ASSOCIATIOn vERSUS JD 25 City on January 19, ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn ACQ. MIN 926538 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 2017, at 12:00 o’clock OF SEIZURE AnD SALE HALUK DOGRU Sheriff WRIT AMOUnT: to me directed by the ______to me directed by the Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans noon, the following ATTy: COREy GIROIR $102,923.36 Honorable The Civil SALE bY described property to Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD (225) 756-0373 Seized in the above District Court of JD 19 ORLEAnS SHERIFF wit: District Court of no. 2015-9162 bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 suit, TERMS CASH. The Orleans, in the above LOT 26, SQUARE 4. Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT nO. 3424-26 bIEnvILLE ______purchaser at the moment entitled cause, I will JUDICIAL THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD SALE STREET, THIS CITY, In SALE bY of adjudication to make a proceed to sell by pub - ADvERTISEMEnT TRICT, proceed to sell by pub - to me directed by the THE MATTER EnTI - deposit of ten percent of lic auction, on the LAkE FOREST SUBDI - lic auction, on the Honorable The Civil TLED FEDERAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and ground floor of the Civil THAT PORTIOn VISION NO 3. HUNT - ground floor of the Civil District Court of nATIOnAL MORTGAGE JUDICIAL the balance within thirty District Court building, OF GROUnD INGTON PARk; District Court building, Orleans, in the above ASSOCIATIOn vS ADvERTISEMEnT days thereafter. (NOTE: 421 Loyola Avenue, in bEARInG MUnICIPAL MUNICIPAL NO. 7133 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will CHRISTOPHER I LUnD The payment must be the First District of the nO. 14638 EMORY CROWDER BLVD; the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - A/K/A CHRISTOPHER THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, City on January 19, ROAD, THIS CITY, In ACQ MIN 1115625. City on January 19, lic auction, on the IvAn LUnD OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money 2017, at 12:00 o’clock THE MATTER EnTI - WRIT AMOUnT: 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for bEARInG MUnICIPAL Order. No personal noon, the following TLED CITY OF nEW $114,319.42 noon, the following District Court building, the Parish of Orleans nO. 9700 W. ROCKTOn checks.) described property to ORLEAnS vS JOSE A. Seized in the above described property to 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2010-8435 CIRCLE, nEW MARLIn n. GUSMAn wit: suit, TERMS CASH. The wit: the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Sheriff LOT 6, SQUARE 3 Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 16 - January 22, 2017 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 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Order. No personal thence in a southeasterly tages thereunto belong - wit: June 4, 1923, and R.L.S., of Gilbert, kelly & nO. checks.) direction, along the ing or in any appertain - A CERTAIN PIECE OR according to which said Couturie, Inc., dated MARTInEZ AnD nIDIA 6318 bRIGHTOn MARLIn n. GUSMAn northerly line of Sandra ing, situated in the Fifth PORTION OF GROUND, lot commences at a dis - June 14, 2002. MARTInEZ MARTInEZ PLACE, THIS CITY, In Sheriff Street; a distance of District of the City of New together with all of the tance of 90 feet from the WRIT AMOUnT: Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for THE MATTER EnTI - ATTy: DONECIA BANkS-MILEy 372.37 feet to point of Orleans, State of buildings and improve - corner of Iberville and $1,987,857.77 the Parish of Orleans TLED FREEDOM (318) 388-1440 curve; thence following Louisiana, forming part of ments thereon, and all of White Streets and meas - Seized in the above TW 37 no. 2015-9516 MORTGAGE CORPO - LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 said curve in the norther - original arpent Lots 9 and the rights, way, privi - ures thence 30 feet front suit, TERMS CASH. The by virtue of a WRIT RATIOn ET AL vS LOR - ______ly line of Sandra Street, 10 of the Prosper leges, servitudes advan - on Iberville Street, by a purchaser at the moment OF FIERI FACIAS to me RAInE T. WILLIAMS ET SALE bY being a curve to the right Marigny Plantation, des - tages thereunto belong - depth between equal and of adjudication to make a directed by the AL having a radius of 114 ignated as Parcel “C” on ing or in anywise apper - parallel lines of 102 feet. deposit of ten percent of Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for ORLEAnS SHERIFF feet and a delta angle of the Community Unit Plan taining, situated in the WRIT AMOUnT: the purchase price, and District Court of the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL 67 degrees, 10 minutes, of Victory Drive Plaza FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - $154,784.52 the balance within thirty Orleans, in the above no. 2015-12562 ADvERTISEMEnT 36 seconds, a distance of made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & TRICT OF THE CITy OF Seized in the above days thereafter. (NOTE: entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT 133.66 feet to a point of Associates, dated NEW ORLEANS, STATE suit, TERMS CASH. The The payment must be proceed to sell by pub - OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THAT PORTIOn tangent in east line of September 25, 1959, OF LOUISIANA, desig - purchaser at the moment Cash, Cashier’s Check, lic auction, on the to me directed by the OF GROUnD Sandra Street, in a according to which, said nated as LOT 13-A. of adjudication to make a Certified Check or Money ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL southerly direction, a dis - Parcel “C” is bounded by SQUARE 6. Bounded by deposit of ten percent of Order. No personal District Court building, District Court of nO. 3010 SAnDRA tance of 492.77 feet to Vespasian, Murl and Flanders, Diana, Horace the purchase price, and checks.) 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above DRIvE, nEW intersect the northerly Sandra Street and the and DeArmas Streets, the balance within thirty MARLIn n. GUSMAn the First District of the entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS, LA, In THE line of General DeGaulle west line is the line and commences 100 feet days thereafter. (NOTE: Sheriff Parish of Orleans City on January 19, proceed to sell by pub - MATTER EnTITLED: Drive; thence turn left between the east half front he corner of The payment must be ATTy: STEPHEN POLITE 2017, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the “CITY OF nEW and run in a southeaster - and the west half of orig - Flanders and Diana Cash, Cashier’s Check, NNB 6 noon, the following ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS vS CRES - ly direction along the inal arpent Lot 90 of the Streets and measures Certified Check or Money LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 described property to District Court building, CEnT CITY GATES northerly line of General Prosper Marigny thence 50 feet front on Order. No personal ______wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in FUnD, LIMITED PART - DeGaulle Drive, a dis - Plantation. Flanders Street, same in checks.) SALE bY LOT 69, SQUARE E, the First District of the nERSHIP.” tance of 4.34 feet to the Said Parcel “C” the rear, by a depth of MARLIn n. GUSMAn THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on January 19, Civil District Court for beginning. commences at the inter - 100 feet between equal Sheriff ORLEAnS SHERIFF Parish of Orleans TRICT, 2017, at 12:00 o’clock the Parish of Orleans LESS AND section of the north line and parallel lines, per ATTy: COREy GIROIR JUDICIAL EASTSHORE VILLAGE noon, the following no. 2015-11285 EXCEPT the following of Sandra Street with the survey of Gilbert, kelly & (225) 756-0370 NNB 17 ADvERTISEMEnT PART C, described property to by virtue of a WRIT described property sold west line of the L.P. Couturie, Inc. dated 1- LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 MUNICIPAL NO: 14638 wit: OF FIERI FACIAS to me to the State of Louisiana Smith Tract, said point 23-80. Improvements ______THAT PORTIOn EMORy ROAD, LOT NO. 10 directed by the through the State being 494 feet in a bear Municipal Nos.1115- SALE bY OF GROUnD ACQ MIN: 1181832 SQUARE NO. 5 Honorable The Civil Department of Hospitals northerly direction from 17 Flanders Street, New bEARInG MUnICIPAL WRIT AMOUnT: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of per Special Warranty the intersection of the Orleans, LA 70114. ORLEAnS SHERIFF nO. 4 OLYMPIC $5,655.00 TRICT Orleans, in the above Deed dated September northerly line of Gen WRIT AMOUnT: JUDICIAL COURT, CITY OF nEW Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 6318 entitled cause, I will 22, 1971, registered in DeGaulle (formerly $92,972.02 ADvERTISEMEnT ORLEAnS, In THE suit, TERMS CASH. The BRIGHTON PLACE proceed to sell by pub - COB 708-B, folio 15. Victory) Drive with the Seized in the above CASE EnTITLED: FED - purchaser at the moment ACQ MIN: 967213 lic auction, on the A PORTION OF west line of the L.P. suit, TERMS CASH. The THAT PORTIOn ERAL nATIOnAL of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil GROUND, together with Smith Tract; thence in an purchaser at the moment COnDOMInIUM MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - deposit of ten percent of $181,194.86 District Court building, all the buildings and easterly direction along of adjudication to make a UnIT nO. 110 MAGA - TIOn vS JOHnnY L. the purchase price, and Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in improvements thereon, the north line of Sandra deposit of ten percent of ZInE PLACE COnDO - RObInSOn AnD the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the situated in the Fifth Street 186 feet to a point the purchase price, and MInIUMS, 760 MAGA - LYnnE DUPLESSIE days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment City on January 19, District of the City of New of curve into Murl Street; the balance within thirty ZInE STREET, THIS RObInSOn. The payment must be of adjudication to make a 2017, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, State of thence along the curve of days thereafter. (NOTE: CITY, In THE MATTER Civil District Court for Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of noon, the following Louisiana, forming a part Sandra into Murl Streets, The payment must be EnTITLED: JEFF the Parish of Orleans Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and described property to of original Lot 6 of the along a curve to the left Cash, Cashier’s Check, DAvIS bAnK & TRUST no. 2014-670 Order. No personal the balance within thirty wit: Prosper Marigny or northeast having a Certified Check or Money COMPAnY A/K/A JD by virtue of a WRIT checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: PARCEL B Plantation, and described radius of 100 feet and a Order. No personal bAnK vERSUS WITT OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MARLIn n. GUSMAn The payment must be as follows: delta angle of 90 checks.) LIQUOR & bEvRAGE, to me directed by the Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, THAT POR - Commencing at degrees, a distance of InC. AnD O.D.W. Honorable The Civil Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS Certified Check or Money TION OF GROUND, the northeast corner of 157.08 feet to the point of Sheriff EnTERPRISES, InC., District Court of Parish of Orleans (504) 658-4391 Order. No personal together with all the Sandra Street and tangent in the westerly OTIS D. WITT AnD Orleans, in the above BB 31 ATTy: WAyNE MAIORANA LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 checks.) buildings and improve - DeGaulle Drive, N 2 line of Murl Street; (504) 837-9040 CAROL H. WITT. entitled cause, I will ______ments thereon, and all of LM 12 Civil District Court for proceed to sell by pub - MARLIn n. GUSMAn degrees 26 feet 4 inches thence in a northerly LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 SALE bY Sheriff the rights, ways, privi - E, 298.23 feet along east direction, along the west - ______the Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the Parish of Orleans leges, servitudes, appur - no. (11) 15-0378 ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS SHERIFF ATTy: JASON SMITH right of way of Sandra erly line of Murl Street, a SALE bY (318) 388-1440 tenances and advan - Street; thence S 87 distance of 514.44 feet to by virtue of a WRIT District Court building, TW 27 ORLEAnS SHERIFF JUDICIAL LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 tages thereunto belong - degrees 33 feet 56 inch - intersect the southerly OF SEIZURE AnD SALE 421 Loyola Avenue, in ADvERTISEMEnT ______ing or in anywise apper - es E, 4 feet, thence S 2 line of Vespasian Street, JUDICIAL to me directed by the the First District of the THAT PORTIOn SALE bY taining, situated in the 26 04 W, 299.91 feet thence in a westerly ADvERTISEMEnT Honorable The Civil City on February 16, Fifth District of the City of along east line of original direction, along the District Court of 2017, at 12:00 o’clock OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF New Orleans, Orleans arpent 6, to north right of southerly direction, along THAT PORTIOn Orleans, in the above noon, the following bEARInG MUnICIPAL JUDICIAL Parish, State of way of DeGaulle Drive; the west line of the L. P. OF GROUnD entitled cause, I will described property to nO.6720 FOCH RD., ADvERTISEMEnT Louisiana, forming part of thence N 64 44 32 W, Smith Tract, a distance of bEARInG MUnICIPAL proceed to sell by pub - wit: nEW ORLEAnS, LA In Original Lots 6, 7, and 8 4.34 feet along north 614..44 feet to the point nO. 2749-51 IbERvILLE lic auction, on the A CERTAIN PIECE OR THE MATTEn EnTI - THAT PORTIOn of the PROSPER right of way of DeGaulle of beginning. Said por - STREET, THIS CITY, In ground floor of the Civil PORTION OF TLED: FIRST nbC OF GROUnD MARIGNy PLANTA - Drive to the point of tion of ground forms part THE MATTER EnTI - District Court building, GROUND, together with bAnK vERSUS LIT - bEARInG MUnICIPAL TION, designated as beginning. of what was known as TLED: DEUTSCHE 421 Loyola Avenue, in all the buildings and SEETA COLE nO. 7320 SHAW AvE, PARSEL “B” on FURTHER the Leonard Tract. bAnK nATIOnAL the First District of the improvements thereon, Civil District Court for THIS CITY, In THE MAT - Community Unit Plan of LESS AND EXCEPT the WRIT AMOUnT: TRUST COMPAnY, AS City on January 19, and all the rights, ways, the Parish of Orleans TER EnTITLED: nAvY Victor Drive Plaza made following described prop - $201,735.00 TRUSTEE FOR MOR - 2017, at 12:00 o’clock privileges, servitudes, no. 2016-8012 FEDERAL CREDIT Adloe Orr, Jr. & erty sold to West Seized in the above GAn STAnLEY AbS noon, the following advantages and appur - by virtue of a WRIT UnIOn vS CHRISTO - Associated, dated Jefferson Properties, suit, TERMS CASH. The CAPITAL 1 InC. TRUST described property to tenances thereunto OF SEIZURE AnD SALE PHER K. EvAnS September 24,1955, Ltd., A Partnership in purchaser at the moment 2005-HE3 MOTGAGE wit: belonging or in anywise to me directed by the Civil District Court for according to which Commendam, per of adjudication to make a PASS-THROUGH CER - Condominiums (the appertaining, situated in Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans Parcel “B” is bounded by Quitclaim Deed dated deposit of ten percent of TIFICATES, SERIES “Condominium”), created the Parish of Orleans, District Court of no. 2016-10068 General DeGaulle (for - November 26, 1993, filed the purchase price, and 2005-HE3 vERSUS pursuant to the “Act of STATE OF LOUISIANA, Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT merly Victory) Drive. In December 3, 1993, the balance within thirty RODnEY JOHnSOn Declaration Creating and in Section 3 of Park entitled cause, I will OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the same line of original under N.A. No 93-51696, days thereafter. (NOTE: AnD CAROL LYnn Establishing The Timbers Subdivision, proceed to sell by pub - to me directed by the Lot 6 of the Prosper in Conveyance The payment must be JOnES A/K/ CAROL L. Condominiums, before described as Lot No. 310 lic auction, on the Honorable The Civil Marigny Plantation, Instrument No. 79123. Cash, Cashier’s Check, JOnES A/K/A CAROL Randy Opotowsky, in Square “H”, bounded ground floor of the Civil District Court of Vespasian, Murl and THAT POR - Certified Check or Money JOnES. Notary Public, dated by Olympic Court, kings District Court building, Orleans, in the above Sandra Streets, and is TION OF GROUND, Order. No personal Civil District Court for July11, 2001, filed as Canyon Drive, Glacier 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will described as follows: together with all the checks.) the Parish of Orleans N.A. Instrument No. Court and yellowstone the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - Parcel “B” com - buildings and improve - MARLIn n. GUSMAn no. 2015-11079 2002-36516, C.O. Drive, and measuring 68 City on January 19, lic auction, on the mences at the point of ments thereon, situated Sheriff by virtue of a WRIT Instrument No. 240743, feet front on Olympic 2017, at 12:00 o’clock Parish of Orleans ground floor of the Civil intersection of the east in the Fifth District of the ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS OF SEIZURE AnD SALE records of Orleans Court, with a width in the noon, the following District Court building, line of Original Arpent Lot City of New Orleans, (504) 658-4391 to me directed by the Parish, Louisiana (the rear of 59.39 feet, by a described property to JD 32 421 Loyola Avenue, in 6 with the northerly line of Parish of Orleans, State LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 Honorable The Civil “Declaration”); together depth on each sideline wit: the First District of the General DeGaulle Drive, of Louisiana, in VICORy ______District Court of with the undivided 1.33% of 110 feet, which lot LOT 24 SQUARE 9 City on January 19, which point is 4.34 feet DRIVE PLAZA, bounded SALE bY Orleans, in the above interest in and to commences at a dis - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 2017, at 12:00 o’clock distance in an easterly by Sandra Drive, General entitled cause, I will Common Elements of the tance of 75 feet from the TRICT noon, the following direction from the north - DeGaulle Drive, Cypress ORLEAnS SHERIFF proceed to sell by pub - Condominium allocated corner of yellowstone PINES VILLAGE SUBDI - described property to east intersection of Acres Drive, and JUDICIAL lic auction, on the to Unit No. 110, as set Drive and Olympic VISION wit: General DeGaulle Drive Vespasian Street, and ADvERTISEMEnT ground floor of the Civil forth in the Declaration. Court. All as per survey MUNICIPAL NUMBER A PARCEL OF LAND sit - and Sandra Street; according to a survey District Court building, Magazine Place of Mandle Surveying, 6720 FOCH RD. uated in the State of thence, in a northerly made by John E. Walker, THAT PORTIOn 421 Loyola Avenue, in Condominiums bears Inc., dated October 7, ACQUIRE CIN 568803 Louisiana, Parish of direction, along the east Civil Engineer, dated OF GROUnD the First District of the Municipal No. 760 1977, a copy of which is WRIT AMOUnT: Orleans, with a street line of original Arpent Lot November 8, 1993, bear - bEARInG MUnICIPAL City on January 19, Magazine Street, is situ - attached to act CIN $112,188.23 location address of 7320 6, a distance of 1469.95 ing No. L410-24, said nO. 1115-17 FLAn - 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ated upon, and the 147959; subject to Seized in the above Shaw Ave; New Orleans, feet to intersect the portion of ground is a DERS STREET, CITY noon, the following Declaration relates to the restrictions, servitudes, suit, TERMS CASH. The LA 70127-13=739 cur - southerly line of PORTION OF PARCEL OF nEW ORLEAnS, In described property to following described prop - right-of-way and out - purchaser at the moment rently owned by Vespasian Street; thence B, commence at a dis - CASE EnTITLED: wit: erty: standing mineral rights of adjudication to make a Christopher k. Evans turn left at 90 degrees tance of 298.23 feet from FIRST bAnK AnD A CERTAIN PIECE OR THOSE CER - of record affecting the deposit of ten percent of and further described as and run in a westerly the corner of Sandra TRUST vS MOnICA E. PORTION OF GROUND, TAIN LOTS OF property. the purchase price, and Villa Sites Sq 35, Lot E direction, along the Drive and General SLAYTOn CLARKE. together with all the GROUND, together with Being the same the balance within thirty Shaw 60x100 Masonry/v southerly line of DeGaulle Drive, meas - Civil District Court for buildings and improve - all of the buildings and property acquired by days thereafter. (NOTE: and W/FR SGLE 7/RM Vespasian Street, 508.80 ures 125.50 feet front on the Parish of Orleans ments thereon, and all improvements thereon Lynne Duplessie The payment must be C/R; subject to restric - feet to intersect the east Sandra Drive, same in no. 2016-10337 the rights, way, privi - and all of the servitudes, Robinson wife of/and Cash, Cashier’s Check, tions, servitudes, rights- line of Murl Street; width in the rear, by a by virtue of a WRIT leges, servitudes and rights and appurtenances Johnny L. Robinson Certified Check or Money of-way and outstanding thence turn left at 90 depth of 4 feet between OF SEIZURE AnD SALE appurtenances thereunto thereunto belonging, sit - from The Dixon Order. No personal mineral right of record degrees and run in a equal and parallel lines, to me directed by the belonging or in anywise uated in the State of Mortgage Group, Inc. by checks.) affecting the property. southerly direction, along and is contiguous to the Honorable The Civil appertaining, situated in Louisiana, Parish of act before illegible MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: the easterly line of Murl Sandra Drive right of way District Court of the Second District of the Orleans, in the First Notary Public, dated Sheriff $82,812.42 Street, a distance of Orleans, in the above City of New Orleans, in Municipal District of the March 8, 1999, regis - Parish of Orleans line and to Parcel A-3. ATTy: JEFFREy CLEMENT JR Seized in the above 587.59 feet to a point of entitled cause, I will Square NO. 363, bound - City of New Orleans, in tered in Instr. #175053 (504) 262-2284 suit, TERMS CASH. The curve into Sandra Street; proceed to sell by pub - ed by Iberville, White, Square No. 124 thereof, the official record of the LM 38 PARCEL C LA. WEEkLy 12/19/2016, 1/16/2017 purchaser at the moment thence along said curve lic auction, on the Bienville and Broad which square is bounded Parish of Orleans, State ______of adjudication to make a o the left of southeast, THAT POR - ground floor of the Civil Streets, designated by by Magazine, Julia, of Louisiana. SALE bY deposit of ten percent of having a radius of 150 TION OF GROUND, District Court building, the Number 29 on a sur - Tchoupitoulas, and Notre WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and feet and a delta angle of together with all the 421 Loyola Avenue, in vey made by Charles A. Dame Street, designated $288,790.35 the balance within thirty 67 degrees, 10 minutes, buildings and improve - the First District of the Hardie, C.E., dated May as Lots “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, Seized in the above JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: 36 seconds, a distance of ments thereon, and all of City on January 19, 29, 1923, a copy of which “E”, “F”, “M”, “N”, and a suit, TERMS CASH. The ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be 175.87 feet to a point of the right, ways, privi - 2017, at 12:00 o’clock is annexed to an act portion of Lot “G”, as purchaser at the moment THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, tangent in the northerly leges, servitudes, appur - noon, the following passed before Francis D. delineated on a survey of adjudication to make a Certified Check or Money line of Sandra Street; tenances and advan - described property to Charbonnet, N.P., on by James H. Couturie, OF GROUnD 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 January 16 - January 22, 2017 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 MARLIn n. GUSMAn District Court building, District Court of directed by the DOInG bUSInESS AS Order. No personal 2017, at 12:00 o’clock Sheriff 421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above Honorable The Civil CHRISTIAnA TRUST, checks.) noon, the following deposit of ten percent of Parish of Orleans ATTy: RUSSELL STEGEMAN the First District of the entitled cause, I will District Court of nOT In ITS InDIvIDUAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn described property to the purchase price, and (504) 368-0123 City on February 16, proceed to sell by pub - Orleans, in the above CAPACITY bUT SOLE - Sheriff wit: JD 8 Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/17 2017, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the entitled cause, I will LY AS TRUSTEE FOR ATTy: COREy GIROIR LOTS NOS. 23 AND 24, days thereafter. (NOTE: noon, the following ground floor of the Civil proceed to sell by pub - bCAT 2014-4TT vS (225) 756-0373 SQUARE 232 ______NNB 21 The payment must be described property to District Court building, lic auction, on the RHOnDA C. JASE LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Cash, Cashier’s Check, SALE bY wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for ______TRICT Certified Check or Money ORLEAnS SHERIFF LOT 1-A, SQUARE 38 the First District of the District Court building, the Parish of Orleans SALE bY MUNICIPAL NO. 4708- Order. No personal THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on February 16, 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2012-5747 10 BURGUNDy STREET checks.) JUDICIAL TRICT 2017, at 12:00 o’clock the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS SHERIFF ACQUIRED MIN 374523 MARLIn n. GUSMAn ADvERTISEMEnT EDGEWOOD PARk noon, the following City on February 16, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE JUDICIAL WRIT AMOUnT: Sheriff MUNICIPAL NO. 2478 described property to 2017, at 12:00 o’clock to me directed by the $22,960.60 Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn ADvERTISEMEnT ATTy: RACHEL WILLIAMS WISTERIA STREET wit: noon, the following Honorable The Civil Seized in the above (318) 388-1440 OF GROUnD ACQ. MIN 649815 LOT 36, SQUARE 604, described property to District Court of THAT PORTIOn suit, TERMS CASH. The LM 29 bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/17 WRIT AMOUnT: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - wit: Orleans, in the above OF GROUnD purchaser at the moment nO. 2318 MEXICO ______$177,478.13 TRICT, LOT 180-J, SQUARE J entitled cause, I will bEARInG MUnICIPAL of adjudication to make a STREET, CITY OF nEW Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO: 1405- THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - nO. 3000 HYMAn deposit of ten percent of SALE bY ORLEAnS, In THE suit, TERMS CASH. The 07 CLOUET STREET, TRICT lic auction, on the PLACE, nEW the purchase price, and ORLEAnS SHERIFF CASE EnTITLED: purchaser at the moment ACQ MIN: 1204860 EDGEWATER SUBDIVI - ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS, LA, In THE the balance within thirty GULF COAST bAnK JUDICIAL of adjudication to make a WRIT AMOUnT: SION District Court building, MATTER EnTITLED: days thereafter. (NOTE: AnD TRUST vS JIMMY deposit of ten percent of $19,235.00 MUNICIPAL NO. 5553 421 Loyola Avenue, in "WELLS FARGO bAnK, The payment must be ADvERTISEMEnT GIAnG, LLC the purchase price, and Seized in the above CAMERON BOULE - the First District of the n.A. vS RODnEY J. Cash, Cashier’s Check, THAT PORTIOn Civil District Court for the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The VARD City on February 16, GLOvER A/K/A ROD - Certified Check or Money the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD days thereafter. (NOTE: purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN 2017, at 12:00 o’clock nEY GLOvER AnD Order. No personal no. 2016-9326 bEARInG MUnICIPAL The payment must be of adjudication to make a 1199015 noon, the following JOYCE DESIREE checks.) by virtue of a WRIT nO. 3344 DESAIX Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: described property to FULLER GLOvER OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MARLIn n. GUSMAn bOULEvARD, nEW Certified Check or Money the purchase price, and $10,435.00 wit: A/K/A JOYCE DESIREE Sheriff to me directed by the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Order. No personal the balance within thirty Seized in the above LOT 109A, SQUARE D, FULLER A/K/A JOYCE Honorable The Civil ATTy: ETHAN HUNT MATTER EnTITLED: checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - D. FULLER A/K/A (318) 388-1440 District Court of JD 23 “SAnDRA vICKS The payment must be purchaser at the moment TRICT, JOYCE FULLER A/K/A Orleans, in the above MARLIn n. GUSMAn LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 CLInES vS HILTOn Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a kINGSWOOD SUBDIVI - JOYCE DESIREE ______entitled cause, I will Parish of Orleans RAY CLInES, JR.” Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of SION, PHASE I, GLOvER A/K/A JOYCE proceed to sell by pub - ATTy: HERSCHEL ADCOCk SALE bY Civil District Court for (225) 756-0373 Order. No personal the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 7040 D. GLOvER A/K/A lic auction, on the NNB 36 the Parish of Orleans checks.) the balance within thirty WHITMORE PLACE JOYCE GLOvER A/K/A ORLEAnS SHERIFF ground floor of the Civil LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 no. 1992-14635 ______days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 980240 JOYCE FULLER JUDICIAL District Court building, MARLIn n. GUSMAn by virtue of a WRIT Sheriff The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: GLOvER A/K/A JOYCE 421 Loyola Avenue, in SALE bY Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT OF FIERI FACIAS to me Cash, Cashier’s Check, $85,775.87 F. GLOvER" the First District of the ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM directed by the ORLEAnS SHERIFF (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money Seized in the above Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn City on February 16, BB 34 Honorable The Civil JUDICIAL Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD 2017, at 12:00 o’clock LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 District Court of ______checks.) purchaser at the moment no. 2016-3172 bEARInG MUnICIPAL noon, the following ADvERTISEMEnT Orleans, in the above of adjudication to make a by virtue of a WRIT nO. 1309 TERRY described property to SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn entitled cause, I will THAT PORTIOn Sheriff deposit of ten percent of OF SEIZURE AnD SALE STREET, CITY OF nEW wit: Parish of Orleans proceed to sell by pub - OF GROUnD ORLEAnS SHERIFF the purchase price, and to me directed by the ORLEAnS, In THE LOT 15, SQUARE 5040, ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS lic auction, on the bEARInG MUnICIPAL JUDICIAL (504) 658-4391 the balance within thirty Honorable The Civil CASE EnTITLED: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - JD 32 ground floor of the Civil nO. 2822 FIRST days thereafter. (NOTE: District Court of DEUTSCHE bAnK TRICT, ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 District Court building, STREET, THIS CITY, In ______The payment must be Orleans, in the above nATIOnAL TRUST MUNICIPAL NO. 2318 421 Loyola Avenue, in THE MATTER EnTI - THAT PORTIOn Cash, Cashier’s Check, entitled cause, I will COMPAnY, AS MEXICO STREET SALE bY the First District of the TLED: CITY OF nEW OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money proceed to sell by pub - TRUSTEE FOR GSAA ACQUIRED MIN 855999 City on February 16, ORLEAnS vERSUS bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF Order. No personal lic auction, on the HOME EQUITY TRUST WRIT AMOUnT: 2017, at 12:00 o’clock PATRICIA Ann WISE nO. 4942 CITRUS JUDICIAL checks.) ground floor of the Civil 2006-2, ASSET- $67,722.52 noon, the following Civil District Court for DRIvE, THIS CITY, In ADvERTISEMEnT MARLIn n. GUSMAn District Court building, bACKED described property to Seized in the above the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - Sheriff 421 Loyola Avenue, in CERTIFICATES vS wit: suit, TERMS CASH. The no. 2016-1742 TLED: CITY OF nEW THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans the First District of the LAZOnO T. bLACK purchaser at the moment ATTy: JOHN MORRIS THAT CERTAIN PIECE by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS vERSUS OF GROUnD (318) 388-1440 City on February 16, AKA LAZOnO bLACK OR PORTION OF of adjudication to make a LM 20 OF FIERI FACIAS to me JOHn ZIMMER bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 2017, at 12:00 o’clock AnD KIMbERLY RILEY GROUND, together with deposit of ten percent of directed by the Civil District Court for nO. 2022-24 bIEnvILLE ______noon, the following bLACK AKA KIMbERLY the purchase price, and all the buildings and Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans STREET, CITY OF nEW SALE bY described property to R. bLACK AKA KIM - improvements thereon the balance within thirty District Court of no. 2016-4302 ORLEAnS, In THE wit: bERLY bLACK and all the rights, ways, days thereafter. (NOTE: Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT CASE EnTITLED: ORLEAnS SHERIFF LOT 15, SQUARE 5040, Civil District Court for privileges, servitudes, The payment must be entitled cause, I will OF FIERI FACIAS to me OCWEn LOAn SERvIC - JUDICIAL THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - the Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, appurtenances and proceed to sell by pub - directed by the InG, LLC vS MICHAEL ADvERTISEMEnT TRICT, no. 2016-9479 advantages thereunto Certified Check or Money lic auction, on the Honorable The Civil ROY PARKER, JR., MUNICIPAL NO. 2318 by virtue of a WRIT belonging or in anywise Order. No personal ground floor of the Civil District Court of ETAL THAT PORTIOn MEXICO STREET OF SEIZURE AnD SALE appertaining, situated in checks.) District Court building, Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for OF GROUnD ACQUIRED MIN 855999 to me directed by the the Parish of Orleans, MARLIn n. GUSMAn 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL WRIT AMOUnT: Honorable The Civil Sheriff State of Louisiana in the Parish of Orleans the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - no. 2013-9636 nO. 7171 EAST REn - $67,722.52 District Court of THIRD DISTRICT of the ATTy: WAyNE MAIORANA City on February 16, lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT AISSAnCE COURT, Seized in the above Orleans, in the above (504) 837-9040 City of New Orleans in LM 18 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ground floor of the Civil OF SEIZURE AnD SALE THIS CITY, In THE MAT - suit, TERMS CASH. The entitled cause, I will that part thereof known LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 noon, the following District Court building, to me directed by the TER EnTITLED: U.S. purchaser at the moment proceed to sell by pub - ______as DE SAIX PLACE, as described property to 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil bAnK nATIOnAL of adjudication to make a lic auction, on the shown on certain blue SALE bY wit: the First District of the District Court of ASSOCIATIOn, AS deposit of ten percent of ground floor of the Civil print of sketch of survey ORLEAnS SHERIFF LOT 7 AND PART OF City on February 16, Orleans, in the above TRUSTEE FOR C-bASS the purchase price, and District Court building, made by Guy J. Seghers, LOT 6, SQUARE 390 2017, at 12:00 o’clock entitled cause, I will MORTGAGE LOAn the balance within thirty 421 Loyola Avenue, in Engineer and Surveyor JUDICIAL FOURTH MUNICIPAL noon, the following proceed to sell by pub - ASSET-bACKED CER - days thereafter. (NOTE: the First District of the dated April 30, 1942, and ADvERTISEMEnT DISTRICT described property to lic auction, on the TIFICATES, SERIES The payment must be City on February 16, according to which said THAT PORTIOn MUNICIPAL NO. 2822 wit: ground floor of the Civil 2007-Cb4 vERSUS Cash, Cashier’s Check, 2017, at 12:00 o’clock lot is designated by the FIRST STREET LOT 234, SQUARE 10 District Court building, PIERRE LOUIS TAYLOR Certified Check or Money noon, the following Nos. 37, located in OF GROUnD ACQ. MIN 1176193 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in (A/K/A PIERRE L. TAY - Order. No personal described property to bEARInG MUnICIPAL BLOCk “A”, which said WRIT AMOUnT: TRICT the First District of the LOR, PIERRE TAYLOR) checks.) wit: nO. 2478 WISTERIA lot is bounded by $18,155.00 DONA VILLA SUBDIVI - City on February 16, AnD TEISHA CHE - LOT 26, SQUARE 1, STREET, THIS CITY, In MARLIn n. GUSMAn DESAIX BLVD., GENTIL - Seized in the above SION 2017, at 12:00 o’clock nIERE MERCADEL, Sheriff FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - THE MATTER EnTI - Parish of Orleans Ly BLVD., TRAFALGAR suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 4942 noon, the following (A/K/A TEISHA C. MER - TRICT, TLED: WELLS FARGO ATTy: WAyNE MAIORANA ST., MOSS STREET (for - purchaser at the moment CITRUS DRIVE described property to CADEL, TEISHA MER - (504) 837-9040 RIVERVIEW PARk SUB - bAnK, n.A., SUCCES - LM 18 merly Lot 25) as shown of adjudication to make a ACQ. MIN 1206681 wit: CADEL) DIVISION SOR bY MERGER TO LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 on survey of Sterling deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: LOT C, SQUARE 247, Civil District Court for ______MUNICIPAL NO. 1309 WELLS FARGO bAnK Mandle, Land Surveyor the purchase price, and $18,835.00 SECOND MUNICIPAL the Parish of Orleans TERRy STREET MInnESOTA, n.A., AS SALE bY dated August 18, 1976 the balance within thirty Seized in the above DISTRICT, no. 2012-2635 ACQUIRED MIN 826791 TRUSTEE F/K/A nOR - according to which said days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The MUNICIPAL NO. 2022- by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAnS SHERIFF WRIT AMOUnT: WEST bAnK MInnESO - lot commences at a dis - The payment must be purchaser at the moment 24 BIENVILLE STREET OF FIERI FACIAS to me JUDICIAL $85,520.10 TA, n.A., AS TRUSTEE tance of 1805.43 feet Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a ACQUIRED MIN 920028 directed by the Seized in the above FOR THE bEnEFIT OF ADvERTISEMEnT from the corner of Moss Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: Honorable The Civil suit, TERMS CASH. The THE REGISTERED Street and DeSaix Blvd. Order. No personal the purchase price, and $97,511.11 District Court of THAT PORTIOn purchaser at the moment HOLDERS OF THE (630 feet from corner of checks.) the balance within thirty Seized in the above Orleans, in the above OF GROUnD of adjudication to make a STRUCTURED ASSET Trafalgar, formerly Lot days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The entitled cause, I will bEARInG MUnICIPAL deposit of ten percent of SECURITIES CORPO - MARLIn n. GUSMAn 24, Street and DeSaix Sheriff The payment must be purchaser at the moment proceed to sell by pub - nO. 4708-10 bUR - the purchase price, and RATIOn AMORTIZInG Parish of Orleans Blvd.) measures thence Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a lic auction, on the GUnDY STREET, nEW the balance within thirty RESIDEnTIAL COLLAT - ATTy: STEPHANIE DOVALINA 50 feet front on DeSaix (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of ground floor of the Civil ORLEAnS, LA, In THE days thereafter. (NOTE: ERAL TRUST, MORT - NNB 35 Blvd. same width in the Order. No personal the purchase price, and District Court building, MATTER EnTITLED: The payment must be GAGE PASS-THROUGH LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 rear by a depth of 120 ______checks.) the balance within thirty 421 Loyola Avenue, in "bAnK OF AMERICA, Cash, Cashier’s Check, CERTIFICATES, feet between equal and days thereafter. (NOTE: the First District of the n.A., SUCCESSOR bY Certified Check or Money SERIES 2002-bC6 vER - SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn parallel lines. Sheriff The payment must be City on February 16, MERGER TO bAC Order. No personal SUS THE OPEnED Parish of Orleans Improvements bear ORLEAnS SHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, 2017, at 12:00 o’clock HOME LOAnS SERvIC - checks.) SUCCESSIOn OF ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM the Municipal No. 3344 JUDICIAL (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money noon, the following InG, LP FKA COUn - NNB 33 MARLIn n. GUSMAn DIAnnE MARIE Sheriff DeSaix Blvd. LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 Order. No personal described property to TRYWIDE HOME WILLIAMS AnD THE ADvERTISEMEnT Parish of Orleans Being the same prop - ______checks.) wit: LOAnS SERvICInG LP OPEnED SUCCESSIOn ATTy: COREy GIROIR erty acquired in an act THAT PORTIOn LOT 21 - SQUARE 7 vS SARAH MARIE (225) 756-0373 SALE bY MARLIn n. GUSMAn LM 24 OF RICHARD Sheriff dated August 25, 1976 OF GROUnD THRID MUNICIPAL DIS - ALLEn A/K/A SARAH LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 WILLIAMS, JR. (A/K/A Parish of Orleans registered in COB 739 bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF TRICT M. ALLEn A/K/A ______RICHARD WILLIAMS) ATTy: MARk GARRISON folio 51 Parish of nO. 1405-07 CLOUET JUDICIAL (225) 924-1600 LAkE CARMEL SUBDI - SARAH ALLEn" AnD JAnICE b. LM 19 SALE bY Orleans, State of STREET, THIS CITY, In VISION NO. 1 Civil District Court for WILLIAMS (A/K/A JAn - ADvERTISEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 Louisiana. THE MATTER EnTI - ______MUNICIPAL NO. 7171 E. the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF ICE bROOKS, JAnICE WRIT AMOUnT: TLED CITY OF nEW THAT PORTIOn RENAISSANCE COURT no. 2012-7922 JUDICIAL WILLIAMS) SALE bY $96,692.57 ORLEAnS vS EDDIE OF GROUnD ACQ. MIN 882904 by virtue of a WRIT Civil District Court for ADvERTISEMEnT Seized in the above bOOKER, JR., JEAn bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAnS SHERIFF WRIT AMOUnT: OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The MARIE HOWARD nO. 5553 CAMEROn JUDICIAL $123,856.91 to me directed by the THAT PORTIOn no. 2013-3921 purchaser at the moment bOOKER, TILLERY bOULEvARD, nEW Seized in the above Honorable The Civil OF GROUnD by virtue of a WRIT ADvERTISEMEnT of adjudication to make a REAL ESTATE, LLC, ORLEAnS, LA, In THE suit, TERMS CASH. The District Court of bEARInG MUnICIPAL OF SEIZURE AnD SALE deposit of ten percent of AnD FLAG bOY PROP - MATTER EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn purchaser at the moment Orleans, in the above nO. 3720 RUE nIC - to me directed by the the purchase price, and ERTIES, LLC "CITY OF nEW OF GROUnD of adjudication to make a entitled cause, I will HOLE, CITY OF nEW Honorable The Civil the balance within thirty Civil District Court for ORLEAnS vS JUAnITA bEARInG MUnICIPAL deposit of ten percent of proceed to sell by pub - ORLEAnS, In THE District Court of days thereafter. (NOTE: the Parish of Orleans CHARLES" nO. 7040 WHITMORE the purchase price, and lic auction, on the CASE EnTITLED: Orleans, in the above The payment must be no. 2016-5736 Civil District Court for PLACE, CITY OF nEW the balance within thirty ground floor of the Civil nATIOnSTAR MORT - entitled cause, I will Cash, Cashier’s Check, by virtue of a WRIT the Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS, In THE days thereafter. (NOTE: District Court building, GAGE LLC vS proceed to sell by pub - Certified Check or Money OF FIERI FACIAS to me no. 2016-10693 CASE EnTITLED: The payment must be 421 Loyola Avenue, in AnDREW W. WILD, lic auction, on the Order. No personal directed by the by virtue of a WRIT WILMInGTOn SAvInGS Cash, Cashier’s Check, the First District of the ground floor of the Civil checks.) Honorable The Civil OF FIERI FACIAS to me FUnD SOCIETY, FSb, Certified Check or Money City on February 16, Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 16 - January 22, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 15

on immigration, providing protec - practices and no longer seek to presidency and mourn his depar - tion to Dreamers, young children send non-violent drug offenders to ture, I also recognize that there is Thank you, President Obama who were brought to America by prison for long sentences. much more I wished he had Continued from Page 5 states across the country respond - no less significant. President their parents hoping for a better life. The President used his authority accomplished. Closure of the ed. More than 50 states and cities Obama brought Osama bin And for the subject nearest and to take the reforms even further. Guantanamo prison, comprehen - the past eight years, reaching an have raised their minimum wages, Laden to justice. As promised, he dearest to my heart, criminal jus - The first sitting President to ever sive immigration reform, and unprecedented high of 19,000. including three West Coast cities did so while also bringing the tice reform, the President has been visit a federal prison, including more far reaching criminal jus - Stock prices don’t just help the that have voted to raise their mini - number of American troops in a champion. Obama’s appointment meeting with a group of inmates, tice transformation was possible wealthy; a vast majority of the mum wage to $15 per hour. Afghanistan and Iraq down from of Eric Holder as Attorney General Obama has already commuted the but didn’t happen. middle class depends on stocks to President Obama’s crowning 175,000 to 15,000. was monumental. sentences of nearly 1,200 inmates, President Obama has been a support their retirement accounts. achievement was a feat that seven With a recalcitrant Congress, Speaking at the American Bar more than any other President in measured, thoughtful, exemplar. I The working class also enjoyed a other presidents tried and failed to President Obama had to resort to the Association, Holder declared, history and more than the past 11 will miss him, our graceful First boon. Although a Republican accomplish. The Affordable Care power of his pen to make other com - “Too many Americans go to too presidents combined. Recognizing Lady Michele, and their beautiful Congress failed to act on Obama’s Act has not been without controver - mon sense reforms. Through many prisons for far too long, and that solitary confinement of chil - children. Mr. President, thank you proposal to raise the minimum sy, but as Obama leaves office, more Executive Orders, Obama imple - for no truly good law enforcement dren equates to torture, the for your leadership. Thank you for wage nationally and to pass a jobs than 20 million Americans now mented gun-safety regulations after reason.” Holder backed up his President also ended the practice what you have done for our coun - bill, after a passionate Obama State have health care thanks to the ACA. numerous mass shootings rocked words by ordering his federal pros - for juveniles in federal facilities. try. And thank you for the great of the Union address, cities and There other victories that are the country. He also made progress ecutors to change their charging While I celebrate Obama’s image you have given my son.◊

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Continued from previous page Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The CHRISTMAS days thereafter. (NOTE: EQUITY TRUST COM - Orleans, in the above ATTy: J. DONALD MORGAN proceed to sell by pub - purchaser at the moment Civil District Court for The payment must be PAnY In ITS CAPACITY entitled cause, I will (225) 761-0001 lic auction, on the (AKA AnDREW WAR - of adjudication to make a the Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, AS CUSTODIAn OF proceed to sell by pub - LM 9 ground floor of the Civil REn WILD) LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 deposit of ten percent of no. 2016-11172 Certified Check or Money THE InDIvIDUAL lic auction, on the ______District Court building, Civil District Court for the purchase price, and by virtue of a WRIT Order. No personal RETIREMEnT ground floor of the Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans SALE bY the balance within thirty OF SEIZURE AnD SALE checks.) ACCOUnT OF RObERT District Court building, the First District of the no. 2016-11037 days thereafter. (NOTE: to me directed by the W. DUGAS vS MURPHY 421 Loyola Avenue, in ORLEAnS SHERIFF City on February 16, by virtue of a WRIT MARLIn n. GUSMAn The payment must be Honorable The Civil Sheriff EnTERPRISE GROUP, the First District of the JUDICIAL 2017, at 12:00 o’clock OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, District Court of LLC AnD WILLIAM D. City on February 16, noon, the following to me directed by the ATTy: RADER JACkSON ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money Orleans, in the above (504) 581-9444 MURPHY A/K/A bILLY 2017, at 12:00 o’clock described property to Honorable The Civil LM 3 Order. No personal entitled cause, I will MURPHY noon, the following THAT PORTIOn wit: District Court of LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 checks.) proceed to sell by pub - ______Civil District Court for described property to LOT 21, SQUARE E, Orleans, in the above OF GROUnD lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans wit: bEARInG MUnICIPAL THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - entitled cause, I will MARLIn n. GUSMAn SALE bY Sheriff ground floor of the Civil no. 2016-1431 LOT 38, SQUARE 21, nO. 6155 bELLAIRE TRICT, proceed to sell by pub - Parish of Orleans District Court building, ORLEAnS SHERIFF by virtue of a WRIT THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - DRIvE, nEW BRIARWOOD SUBDIVI - lic auction, on the ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER (504) 831-7726 421 Loyola Avenue, in JUDICIAL OF FIERI FACIAS to me TRICT, ORLEAnS, LA, In THE SION, PHASE III, ground floor of the Civil JD 28 the First District of the directed by the PINE VILLAGE MATTER EnTITLED: MUNICIPAL NO: 7501 District Court building, LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 ADvERTISEMEnT ______City on February 16, Honorable The Civil MUNICIPAL NO. 6726 "FEDERAL nATIOnAL TRICIA COURT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in 2017, at 12:00 o’clock THAT PORTIOn District Court of LAMB ROAD MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - ACQ MIN: 495254 the First District of the SALE bY noon, the following OF GROUnD Orleans, in the above ACQUIRED MIN TIOn vS MARIAn WRIT AMOUnT: City on February 16, ORLEAnS SHERIFF described property to bEARInG MUnICIPAL entitled cause, I will 1096995 LORIA WHITE, WIDOW $220,753.17 2017, at 12:00 o’clock JUDICIAL wit: nO. 4826 LOnGFEL - proceed to sell by pub - WRIT AMOUnT: OF/AnD GILbERT T. Seized in the above noon, the following LOT 12, SQUARE 26, LOW DRIvE, nEW lic auction, on the $74,900.00 WHITE, DECEASED" suit, TERMS CASH. The described property to ADvERTISEMEnT FOURTH MUNICIPAL ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ground floor of the Civil Seized in the above Civil District Court for purchaser at the moment wit: THAT PORTIOn DISTRICT, MATTER EnTITLED: District Court building, suit, TERMS CASH. The the Parish of Orleans of adjudication to make a LOT 22, SQUARE 136, OF GROUnD MUNICIPAL NO. 430-32 "US bAnK nATIOnAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in purchaser at the moment no. 2016-8871 deposit of ten percent of FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - bEARInG MUnICIPAL FIRST STREET ASSOCIATIOn AS the First District of the of adjudication to make a by virtue of a WRIT the purchase price, and TRICT, nO. 2416 TUPELO ACQUIRED MIN 956016 TRUSTEE FOR CMALT City on February 16, deposit of ten percent of OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the balance within thirty BOCAGE SUBDIVI - STREET, THIS CITY, In WRIT AMOUnT: REMIC SERIES 2007-A2 2017, at 12:00 o’clock the purchase price, and to me directed by the days thereafter. (NOTE: SION, SECTION A THE MATTER EnTI - $160,166.05 - REMIC PASS- noon, the following the balance within thirty Honorable The Civil The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO. 3720 TLED CITY OF nEW Seized in the above THROUGH CERTIFI - described property to days thereafter. (NOTE: District Court of Cash, Cashier’s Check, RUE NICHOLE ORLEAnS vS ALvIn suit, TERMS CASH. The CATES SERIES 2007- wit: The payment must be Orleans, in the above Certified Check or Money ACQUIRED MIN DIGGS AnD MAIRIOn purchaser at the moment A2 vS bRUCE R. HALL TO BE SOLD IN GLOBO: Cash, Cashier’s Check, entitled cause, I will Order. No personal 1005768 vAn bUREn DIGGS OR of adjudication to make a AnD TRInA ALLEn LOT 4 SQUARE 142 Certified Check or Money proceed to sell by pub - checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: HER SUCCESSORS, deposit of ten percent of HALL" FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Order. No personal lic auction, on the $133,179.21 MARLIn n. GUSMAn HEIRS, AnD ASSIGnS the purchase price, and Civil District Court for TRICT checks.) ground floor of the Civil Sheriff Seized in the above Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for the balance within thirty the Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NUMBER District Court building, suit, TERMS CASH. The MARLIn n. GUSMAn ATTy: FRED DAIGLE the Parish of Orleans days thereafter. (NOTE: no. 2016-2816 812-14 THAyER ST. Sheriff 421 Loyola Avenue, in (504) 522-8256 purchaser at the moment Parish of Orleans BB 13 no. 2016-7246 The payment must be by virtue of a WRIT ACQUIRED CIN 538670 the First District of the of adjudication to make a ATTy: ROBERT MATHIS LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 by virtue of a WRIT Cash, Cashier’s Check, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE ---AND--- (504) 837-9040 City on February 16, ______deposit of ten percent of LM 6 OF FIERI FACIAS to me Certified Check or Money to me directed by the LOT 23 SQUARE 206 2017, at 12:00 o’clock the purchase price, and LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 SALE bY directed by the Order. No personal Honorable The Civil FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ______noon, the following the balance within thirty Honorable The Civil checks.) District Court of TRICT described property to ORLEAnS SHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: SALE bY District Court of Orleans, in the above MUNICIPAL NUMBER wit: JUDICIAL The payment must be MARLIn n. GUSMAn Orleans, in the above Sheriff entitled cause, I will 1226-26 1/2 THAyER ST. ORLEAnS SHERIFF LOT B-1, SQUARE 38 Cash, Cashier’s Check, Parish of Orleans ADvERTISEMEnT entitled cause, I will proceed to sell by pub - ACQUIRED CIN 538670 JUDICIAL SEVENTH MUNICIPAL Certified Check or Money ATTy: RADER JACkSON proceed to sell by pub - (504) 581-9444 lic auction, on the --AND-- DISTRICT THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal LM 2 ADvERTISEMEnT lic auction, on the ground floor of the Civil LOT 12 SQUARE 205 METAIRIE PARk SUBDI - OF GROUnD checks.) LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 ground floor of the Civil ______District Court building, FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - THAT PORTIOn VISION bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUSMAn District Court building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in TRICT MUNICIPAL NO. 6155 nO. 1623-25 MARIGnY Sheriff SALE bY OF GROUnD Parish of Orleans 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the MUNICIPAL NUMBER bEARInG MUnICIPAL BELLAIRE DRIVE STREET, nEW ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER the First District of the ORLEAnS SHERIFF City on February 16, nO. 6219 SPAIn ORLEAnS, LA, In THE (504) 831-7726 1244-46 LEBOEUF ST. ACQUIRED MIN 708159 LM 27 City on February 16, JUDICIAL 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ACQUIRED CIN 538670 STREET, CITY OF nEW WRIT AMOUnT: MATTER EnTITLED: LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 2017, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the following WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS, In THE $95,990.03 "CITY OF nEW ______ADvERTISEMEnT noon, the following described property to $366,370.12 CASE EnTITLED: Seized in the above ORLEAnS vS vJW SALE bY described property to THAT PORTIOn wit: Seized in the above PACIFIC UnIOn FInAn - suit, TERMS CASH. The PROPERTIES, LLC" ORLEAnS SHERIFF wit: OF GROUnD LOT 289, SQUARE 13 suit, TERMS CASH. The CIAL, LLC vS PAS- purchaser at the moment Civil District Court for JUDICIAL LOTS 13 AND 20, bEARInG MUnICIPAL THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - purchaser at the moment QUALE TUMMInELLO of adjudication to make a the Parish of Orleans SQUARE 1276, nO. 8439 WILLOW TRICT of adjudication to make a Civil District Court for deposit of ten percent of no. 2016-10768 ADvERTISEMEnT THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - STREET, CITY OF nEW EVANGELINE OAkS deposit of ten percent of the Parish of Orleans the purchase price, and by virtue of a WRIT THAT PORTIOn TRICT, ORLEAnS, In THE MUNICIPAL NO. 4826 the purchase price, and no. 2016-10065 the balance within thirty OF FIERI FACIAS to me OF GROUnD FLORIDA SUBDIVI - CASE EnTITLED: LONGFELLOW DRIVE the balance within thirty by virtue of a WRIT days thereafter. (NOTE: directed by the SION, REvERSE MORTGAGE ACQUIRED MIN 885506 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Honorable The Civil bEARInG MUnICIPAL days thereafter. (NOTE: The payment must be MUNICIPAL NO: 2416 SOLUTIOnS, InC. vS WRIT AMOUnT: to me directed by the District Court of nO. 5357 CHESTnUT The payment must be Cash, Cashier’s Check, TUPELO STREET, DOROTHY bURnS $88,654.06 Honorable The Civil Orleans, in the above STREET, nEW Cash, Cashier’s Check, Certified Check or Money ACQ MIN: 1191857 LACOUR Seized in the above District Court of entitled cause, I will ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Certified Check or Money Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: Civil District Court for suit, TERMS CASH. The Orleans, in the above proceed to sell by pub - MATTER EnTITLED: Order. No personal checks.) $12,735.00 the Parish of Orleans purchaser at the moment entitled cause, I will lic auction, on the "FEDERAL nATIOnAL checks.) MARLIn n. GUSMAn Seized in the above no. 2016-11120 of adjudication to make a proceed to sell by pub - Sheriff ground floor of the Civil MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - MARLIn n. GUSMAn Parish of Orleans Sheriff suit, TERMS CASH. The by virtue of a WRIT deposit of ten percent of lic auction, on the ATTy: FRED DAIGLE District Court building, TIOn vS ROSS A. Parish of Orleans (504) 522-8256 purchaser at the moment OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the purchase price, and ATTy: MARk LANDRy ground floor of the Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in GALLO" JD 12 (504) 837-9040 of adjudication to make a to me directed by the the balance within thirty District Court building, LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 the First District of the Civil District Court for LM 5 deposit of ten percent of Honorable The Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: 421 Loyola Avenue, in ______City on February 16, the Parish of Orleans LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 the purchase price, and District Court of The payment must be ______the First District of the 2017, at 12:00 o’clock no. 2016-6436 SALE bY the balance within thirty Orleans, in the above Cash, Cashier’s Check, City on February 16, noon, the following by virtue of a WRIT SALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: entitled cause, I will Certified Check or Money 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ORLEAnS SHERIFF described property to OF SEIZURE AnD SALE The payment must be proceed to sell by pub - Order. No personal ORLEAnS SHERIFF noon, the following wit: to me directed by the JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, lic auction, on the checks.) described property to LOT 20, SQUARE 746 Honorable The Civil JUDICIAL ADvERTISEMEnT Certified Check or Money ground floor of the Civil wit: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of MARLIn n. GUSMAn ADvERTISEMEnT Order. No personal District Court building, Sheriff LOT 2, SQUARE 5039, THAT PORTIOn TRICT Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans checks.) 421 Loyola Avenue, in THAT PORTIOn THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - MUNICIPAL NO. 1623- entitled cause, I will ATTy: RADER JACkSON OF GROUnD the First District of the (504) 581-9444 OF GROUnD TRICT, bEARInG MUnICIPAL 25 MARIGNy STREET proceed to sell by pub - MARLIn n. GUSMAn JD 4 Sheriff City on February 16, LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 bEARInG MUnICI - MUNICIPAL NO. 6219 nO. 7501 TRICIA ACQUIRED MIN lic auction, on the Parish of Orleans 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ______PAL nO. 6726 LAMb SPAIN STREET COURT, THIS CITY, In 1197316 ground floor of the Civil ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS (504) 658-4391 noon, the following ROAD, CITY OF nEW ACQUIRED MIN THE MATTER EnTI - WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, BB 31 SALE bY described property to ORLEAnS, In THE 1109371 TLED bAnK OF AMERI - $10,906.61 421 Loyola Avenue, in LA. WEEkLy 1/16/2017, 2/13/2017 ______wit: ORLEAnS SHERIFF CASE EnTITLED: WRIT AMOUnT: CA, n.A. vS PEARLA Seized in the above the First District of the LOT A-1, SQUARE 178, JUDICIAL COMMUnITY DEvEL - $122,133.93 WILLIAMS STEWART, suit, TERMS CASH. The City on February 16, SALE bY SEVENTH MUNICIPAL OPMEnT CAPITAL vS Seized in the above DIvORCED WIFE bY purchaser at the moment 2017, at 12:00 o’clock ADvERTISEMEnT ORLEAnS SHERIFF DISTRICT, HOUSInG CORPORA - suit, TERMS CASH. The FIRST MARRIAGE OF of adjudication to make a noon, the following JUDICIAL MUNICIPAL NO. 8439 3 PROPERTIES TIOn OF AMERICA, purchaser at the moment GEORGE EPPS, nOW deposit of ten percent of described property to WILLOW STREET TO bE SOLD In GREGORY SWAF - of adjudication to make a WIFE OF/AnD AROL J. the purchase price, and wit: ADvERTISEMEnT ACQUIRED MIN FORD, AnD vAnESSA deposit of ten percent of STEWART, SR. the balance within thirty LOT C, SQUARE 302 GLObO: THOSE THAT PORTIOn 1018383 MARIE CALISTE SWAF - the purchase price, and Civil District Court for days thereafter. (NOTE: SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - OF GROUnD WRIT AMOUnT: PORTIOnS OF FORD the balance within thirty the Parish of Orleans The payment must be TRICT bEARInG MUnICIPAL $109,741.38 GROUnD Civil District Court for days thereafter. (NOTE: no. 2016-7079 Cash, Cashier’s Check, RICkERVILLE nO. 430-32 FIRST Seized in the above bEARInG MUnICIPAL the Parish of Orleans The payment must be by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 5357 STREET, CITY OF nEW suit, TERMS CASH. The nOS. 812-14 THAYER no. 2016-10044 Cash, Cashier’s Check, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Order. No personal CHESTNUT STREET ORLEAnS, In THE purchaser at the moment ST., 1226-26 1/2 THAY - by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money to me directed by the checks.) ACQUIRED MIN 965957 CASE EnTITLED: of adjudication to make a ER ST., 1244-46 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Order. No personal Honorable The Civil WRIT AMOUnT: MARLIn n. GUSMAn REvERSE MORTGAGE deposit of ten percent of LEbOEUF ST., CITY OF to me directed by the checks.) District Court of Sheriff $436,773.67 Parish of Orleans SOLUTIOnS, InC vS the purchase price, and nEW ORLEAnS In THE Honorable The Civil Orleans, in the above Seized in the above MARLIn n. GUSMAn ATTy: CHARMAINE MARCHAND DOROTHY SEWELL the balance within thirty MATTER EnTITLED: District Court of Sheriff entitled cause, I will (504) 837-9040 Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - ‘ Page 16 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017

Hearts must change. It won’t change overnight. Social attitudes oftentimes take Pres. Obama’s farewell address generations to change. But if our democracy is to work in this increasingly diverse nation, Continued from Page 1 of war, Muslims, Hispanics and and protect our homeland. In then each one of us need to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction others fanned fumes that hate other words, it will determine our - Atticus Finch - who said “You never really understand a person until you consider things acknowledging that the effects of experts, including the Southern future.” from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. slavery and Jim Crow didn’t sud - Poverty Law Center, now credit First Lady Michelle Obama denly vanish in the ‘60s — that for more than a 1,000 race hate looked on from the audience with – President Barack H. Obama, 2017 when minority groups voice dis - incidents since his election. their older daughter, Malia, beside content, they’re not just engag - But, Trump appeared to change her. Sasha, the younger daughter, it has you as a role model. So you work for America’s democracy. remaining days. But for now, ing in reverse racism or practic - his tune after his election and his was home studying for a test, the have made me proud. And you Meanwhile he appealed to all whether you are young or ing political correctness. When first meeting with Obama. He White House reported. ‘ have made the country proud,” he Americans to look within. whether you’re young at heart, I they wage peaceful protest, publicly called President Obama Obama’s most emotional said to fervent applause. “Hearts must change. It won’t do have one final ask of you as they’re not demanding special a “great man” and said he would moment appeared to be when he “Malia and Sasha, under the change overnight. Social atti - your President — the same thing treatment but the equal treatment seek his counsel after a victory looked out into the audience and strangest of circumstances, you tudes oftentimes take generations I asked when you took a chance that our Founders promised.” speech in which Trump called for spoke of his family. It was a have become two amazing young to change. But if our democracy on me eight years ago. I’m ask - With thousands in the audience the country to unite. Likewise, moment punctuated by applause women. You are smart and you is to work in this increasingly ing you to believe. Not in my at the McCormick Place conven - Obama, taking the high road after just about every other sentence. are beautiful, but more impor - diverse nation, then each one of ability to bring about change — tion center in his adopted home campaigning vigorously for his “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, tantly, you are kind and you are us need to try to heed the advice but in yours. I am asking you to town of Chicago and millions former Secretary of State Hillary girl of the South Side for the past thoughtful and you are full of of a great character in American hold fast to that faith written into more watching by TV, President Clinton, has repeatedly said his 25 years, you have not only been passion. You wore the burden of fiction — Atticus Finch — who our founding documents; that Obama came full circle, discount - greatest desire now is a “peaceful my wife and mother of my chil - years in the spotlight so easily. said “You never really understand idea whispered by slaves and ing any notion of the so-called transfer of power” — a tenet of dren, you have been my best Of all that I’ve done in my life, I a person until you consider things abolitionists; that spirit sung by “post-racial” America that was American democracy. friend. You took on a role you am most proud to be your dad.” from his point of view…until you immigrants and homesteaders discussed when he was first elect - Eroding race relations was one of didn’t ask for and you made it First Lady Michelle has said she climb into his skin and walk and those who marched for jus - ed eight years ago. They have three :threats to democracy” that your own, with grace and with will continue to work to improve around in it,” he said. tice; that creed reaffirmed by been years marked by some of the President Obama focused on in his grit and with style and good the education of girls around the He concluded, “My fellow those who planted flags from worst racial strife since the Civil final speech to the nation. Though humor. You made the White world as well as continue her nutri - Americans, it has been the honor foreign battlefields to the surface Rights Movement of the 1960s, some pundits expected him to House a place that belongs to tion and health projects. The of my life to serve you. I won’t of the moon; a creed at the core largely due to the rise in hate and boast on his record of accomplish - everybody. And the new genera - President has not been specific, but stop. In fact, I will be right there of every American whose story is white supremacy groups in ments, he mainly dealt with those tion sets its sights higher because promised that he will continue to with you, as a citizen, for all my not yet written: Yes, we can.”◊ response to his election and to the issues that represent those threats increase in videotaped police and outlined ways to progress. shootings of Black people. The other two threats he out - “After my election, there was talk lined were the mixtures of terror - of a post-racial America. And such ism and economic deprivation, Protestors to rally in opposition of Trump a vision, however well-intended, such as during the season of Sept. Continued from Page 1 ous Republican president, March New Orleans is partnering We need our political leadership to was never realistic. Race remains 11, 2001 and the separation of George W. Bush, did not . with the Millennials March and see that we are large, we are loud, a potent and often divisive force in ideas without compromise. “So many people have dis - March for Revolution (millennials - and we cannot be ignored.” Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade our society. Now, I’ve lived long “Understand, democracy does not missed the anguish and fury that march.com). The march will pro - Lane also added that social protest decision on January 22. New enough to know that race relations require uniformity. Our founders has followed this election as ceed down Decatur and end at City is an important part of American Orleans resident Emma Pegues are better than they were 10, or 20, argued. They quarreled. Eventually Democrats crying over Hillary Hall. The goal is to provide an out - history, dating all the way back to will be participating alongside or 30 years ago, no matter what they compromised. They expected Clinton. That’s an ignorant let for those who wish to protest, the birth of the country. her mother and two sisters. some folks say,” he said. “But us to do the same. But they knew stance,” Pegues said. “Apart but either can’t afford or can’t “Every major progressive “What appealed to me personal - we’re not where we need to be. that democracy does require a basic from a complete lack of political make the trip to Washington, D.C. movement in U.S. history has ly about this march is the nature of And all of us have more work to sense of solidarity — the idea that experience, Donald Trump is a Women’s March New Orleans made advances due to protesting inclusivity — the Women’s March do,” he said to applause. for all our outward differences, proponent of sexual assault – a organizer Marcia Lane said and the freedom of assembly – on Washington is open to any and The incoming Republican we’re all in this together; that we crime one in five women will protesting is in her blood. Her par - women’s suffrage, civil rights, all who feel the rights of women President-elect Donald Trump is rise or fall as one,” he said. experience in her lifetime. He ents met at a meeting to organize the anti-war movements, and have been endangered by this elec - among those who exacerbated He described Sept. 11, 2001: “A stands on hate, doesn’t feign an anti-Vietnam War rally in San LBGTQ rights,” said Lane. tion,” said Pegues. “It’s not whin - racial tensions during the Obama shrinking world, growing inequal - decency, mocks those in need, Francisco. She firmly believes that None of the organizers believe ing or complaining, it’s standing years. During his candidacy, ity; demographic change and the and vilifies empathy…I may not in-person, on-the-ground protests people should view these events up for what you know is right – it’s which was endorsed by the Ku specter of terrorism — these have agreed with Bush’s policies are vital to American society. as a flash in the pan or one-and- a positive force that lends strength Klux Klan, Trump never apolo - forces haven’t just tested our on education or health care, but “It’s easy to think that an online done efforts. to those in need.” gized for his long-held contention security and our prosperity, but he never boasted that he could presence/online activism will do. “This is a call to action,” Lane Even though Trump is not the that Obama was born in Kenya, are testing our democracy, as well. grab my genitals.” However, it’s just not enough,” said. “People need to show up at first Republican president of the though he did finally acknowl - And how we meet these chal - Protests will not be limited to Lane said. “Mobilizing is hard, their local City Council meetings, 21st century, his statements and edge his birthplace of Hawaii. lenges to our democracy will Washington, D.C. showing up takes work, getting school board meetings, call and actions have angered and alienat - Trump’s public mockery of the determine our ability to educate On January 21 at 1 p.m. in out shows how important this write your members of Congress. ed women in ways that the previ - handicapped, women, prisoners our kids, and create good jobs, Washington Square Park, Women’s cause is to you. We need visibility. This is just the beginning.”◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - January 16 - January 22, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 17

the music. Raeburn was thus stands as yet another of New at his alma mater on Friday, Best of the Beat – Honoring Our Own honored with the Lifetime Orleans Center for the Creative January 20, 2017 . He’ll lead Achievement in Music Arts’ (NOCCA) talented gradu - the Sullivan Fortner Trio with By Geraldine Wykcoff Achievement Award in Business. Education. ates who have gone on to take two other New Orleans natives, Contributing Writer In a twist, Schneidau will be play - Further information on the Best his place on the national and bassist Jasen Weaver and ing guitar with the Fortifiers band of the Beat awards party can be international jazz scene. Fortner, drummer Miles Labat . In 2015, The Best of the Beat Awards at the Best of the Beat party. found at www.offbeat.com. Word who presently works with trum - Fortner made his recording presented by OffBeat magazine Talking with Dr. Bruce Boyd to the wise: It starts at 6 pm and pet ace Roy Hargrove and has debut as leader releasing his celebrants its 22nd anniversary Raeburn of Tulane’s Hogan the food is free so get there early. performed with class acts like fine album, Aria , on the high- on Thursday, January 19, Jazz Archives is always a learn - vibraphonist Stefon Harris and respected Impulse! label. 2017 . Held at Generations Hall, ing experience. Call or go there Sullivan Fortner – NOCCA our own trumpeter Christian Showtime at NOCCA is 8 p.m.◊ 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, the and he’ll have or find the Homecoming Scott, returns the favor to play party offers free food and lots of answers to your questions about Pianist Sullivan Fortner music. The four-room venue makes a perfect setting for chat - ting with the many musicians, music industry people, journal - ists and avid fans of New Orleans music in attendance plus dancing and checking out the bands including old favorites and up-and-comers. The highlight of the evening is always the tribute to the artist SULLIVAN FORTNER who has earned the Lifetime Achievement Award . As has The two honorees – been previously announced, this guitarist/banjoist Detroit Brooks year that honor goes to the very and Darryl “Dancing Man deserving drummer Johnny 504” Young – are familiar faces Vidacovich. Since his teenage to anyone who enjoys the New years, the New Orleans native Orleans music scene. Beyond has been enriching not only this playing great music, Brooks is city’s jazz scene but its music also the producer of the Danny scene overall with his intuitive Barker Guitar & Banjo Festival playing and musical approach to that in January celebrated its the drum set. Vidacovich, 67, third year. It’s a labor of love for remains best known as a mem - Brooks to ensure that Barker’s ber of the all-star group Astral significant contributions to New Project, the recently formed Orleans as a musician and men - NOLAtet as well as for his tor of youths are remembered. Thursday night residency at the Outside in front the Orpheum, Maple Leaf. He played behind Dancing Man, who created the strippers at Bourbon Street bars youth-oriented program when he was just 16, performed Heal2Toe program and with masters like pianist Mose BrassXcise regimen to “get peo - Allison, funked it up with ple moving,” declared his award bassist George Porter and laid was for “everybody.” Always down the rhythms for strutting and smiling, he planned pianists/vocalists James Booker to head down to Frenchmen and Professor Longhair. Street to share the award with “If you just make rock ‘n roll the New Breed Brass Band that a little sloppier, it’s funk,” was honored by OffBeat last Vidacovich has declared. “There year as the Best Emerging Band. ain’t no difference. It’s syncopat - Others who were recognized ed rock ‘n roll, that’s all it is.” that night included Sonny Just a great tidbit from Schneidau who kept the music Johnny... As a kid, he’d sit on real as talent booker for the floor surrounded by pots, Tipitina’s and then the House of pans and lids – his make-shift Blues. Applause rang out as he drums and cymbals. was given the Lifetime Ingeniously, his grandmother cut off the tip of a flyswatter to provide him with his first “brush.” “They would wiggle a little bit,” he remembered. The Vidacovich tribute band at the Best of the Beat party is a killer and made up of both the drummer’s contemporaries and his former, very successful stu - dents. Stanton Moore , who studied with Vidacovich and these days hits the drums with the jam/funk blasters Galactic and swings some jazz with the Stanton Moore Trio, put the group together. It includes saxo - phonist Tony Dagradi and bassist James Singleton of Astral Project, master pianist David Torkanowky , a former member of Astral Project who’s at the keyboards at some of this city’s best gigs, and, as a very special treat, drummer Brian Blade . In 1998, Blade, 46, specifical - ly came down from his home - town of Shreveport to study with Vidacovich at Loyola University. “Hearing him for the first time was a revelation,” Blade has remembered. “I want - ed to be around these inventors, these sound makers and Johnny was at the heart of that.” Blade’s career soon exploded. He’s been a member of the leg - endary saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s quartet since 2000 and leads his own highly-regarded ensemble, the Fellowship Band. The drummer will also be back in town next month to perform with guitarist Davy Mooney’s band. Also in February, Blade and his Fellowship will also team with the Loyola University Symphony Orchestra. The winners of the majority of the awards like those for the artist and album of the year, best emerging artist, best blues, jazz, zydeco performers and the like, which are determined by votes from the public, will be announced at Thursday night’s bash. However, the music busi - ness and special awards were given out last week at a function held at the beautiful Orpheum Theater. They included two Heart Beat awards that this year where presented by the Positive Vibrations organization in collab - oration with OffBeat magazine. THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 18 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM January 16 - January 22, 2017 N.O. Alumnae Chapter of Deltas host 52nd Cotillion “Delta Goes to Mardi Gras” was the theme of the annual pageantry of the local Delta Sigma Theta Chapter held on December 10 of last year. The evening, as expressed by the New Orleans Alumna Chapter president Cheyra Head Jenkins perfectly combined “one of this chapter’s signature programs” with one of the Crescent City’s “signature celebrations.” Reining as queen of the 52nd Annual Debutante Cotillion was Miss Kiara McClue, daughter of Dr. Michelle T. Brumfield and the late Mr. Earvin McClue, Sr. Alicia Hoey Jordyn Cosey Taylor Crayton The 2016 Princesses Royale were Misses Alicia Hoey, daughter of Reverend and Mrs. David L. Hoey; Jordyn Cosey, daughter of Mr. Freddie Deane Cosey Sr. and Dr. Arnel Cosey; Taylor Crayton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lerone Crayton and Courtney Andry, the daughter of Mr. Channing Appleberry and great niece of Elaine Appleberry. Princesses were Misses Annecia Gibson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Lora Gibson, Sr. and Deja Hansell, daughter of Mr. Arid C. Hansell and Ms. Churita H. Hansell. Also making their debut that evening were Misses Kira Bickham, daugh - ter of Mrs. Joyce Bickham; Alyssa Brown, daughter of Mr. Maurice and Dr. Carmen Brown; Dominique Cage, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Montreal Cage Sr., Taylor Conaler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delius Conaler Sr.; Arielle Dixon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darren Dixon; Mayah Hughes, daughter of Mr. Marlon Linsey Hughes and granddaughter of Sandra White Hughes; Tori Luster, daughter of Mr. Brian Luster and Ms. Yvette Luster; Jasmine Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rockey G. Pratt Sr.; Amari Russell, daugh - Courtney Andry Annecia Gibson Deja Hansell ter of Mr. Bennie Kevin Russell and Dr. Candance Adams Russell and Kiara McClue Alexis Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al W. Eden. Messrs. Daryl Anderson,Wesley Ben, Jr., Morris Cannon III, Kenny Carradine, Rishard Davis, Jalil Dukes, Rasheed LaCour ,Ted Melson, Jr., Rodney Peete, Jr, Gary Peters, Jr., Tyron Perry, Ruli Ray, Jyair Roy, Kyle Steib, Jr., Tyrin Walker, Lucius Watts IV, and Master Kelly-Alexander Woodfork were the evening’s escorts. Delta Bridgette Frick served as Chairperson of the annual event with Deltas Mary Green-Keys and Tracey L. Rollins, as vice chairpersons.◊

African-American woman set to make history on Kira Bickham Alyssa Brown Dominique Cage Taylor Conaler Arielle Dixon future NASA mission (AP) – Jeanette Epps is set to Kazakhstan in May 2018. make history when she becomes the A native of Syracuse, New York first African-American woman to has been working toward traveling live on the International Space to space since she became one of Station as a crew member. just nine people chosen for NASA’s While other African-American 20th astronaut class from a pool of women have made visits to the 3,500 applicants in 2009. She Space station, Epps will take up received her bachelor’s and master’s residence when she serves as a degrees from LeMoyne College and flight engineer for a mission that’s a doctorate in aerospace engineering scheduled to launch from from the University of Maryland.◊ Mayah Hughes Tori Luster Jasmine Pratt Amari Russell Alexis Williams