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Prayers for Protection Manding Offi Cer Emile Hollant Tempora Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis VOLUME 95 NUMBER 13 MIAMI, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 15-21, 2017 50 CENTS The little-known woman Behind Miami's Book Fair By Janiah Adams and publishers laughing at the idea. But, the book Former librarian [email protected] fair is what it is today all because of a salesperson Juanita Johnson mentality and the help of a Black librarian. is one of the founders With over 200,000 attendees per year and more “I think it’s grand. I think it’s just wonderful,” said of the Miami Book Fair. than 250 booksellers on display, the Miami Book Juanita Johnson, a retired librarian. “Not in my Fair has become one of the most anticipated wildest imagination, I never thought it would be She has volunteered literary events of the year. This event had humble what it is today.” for 22 years until beginnings, however, and started out with authors Please turn to BOOK FAIR 4A retiring in 2006. 27 apply to be North Miami’s new police chief A year after controversial shooting of a Black man, residents want change By Nyamekye Daniel tured Aledda as he shot Kinsey [email protected] in the leg while the caretaker was laying on the ground with Two members of the North both arms raised. The incident Miami Police command staff caused an uproar in the Black are among the applicants vying community. Aledda was later for the top spot with that city’s arrested and charged. He is police department. awaiting trial for four felonies. Interim chief Larry Juriga The police department faces and assistant chief Robert Bage three lawsuits from the shoot- are up against 25 other can- ing: one from Soto; a second didates including four others one by Eugene, for wrongful from South Florida law enforce- termination; and the third from ment agencies. Kinsey, against Aledda. The North Miami Police De- Now some residents say partment has been under scru- they’re hoping for a new chief —Miami Times photos/Gregory Reed tiny since the shooting of an who would establish the trust Rev. Dennis Jackson II, pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Liberty City, and dozens of clergy members surround of the community, stabilize the unarmed Black man — behav- Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and activist Rev. Al Sharpton in a fi nal prayer. ioral therapist Charles Kinsey department and focus on better — in July 2016. Fallout from policing. that shooting triggered internal That decision rests with City disputes and fi nger pointing, Manager Larry Spring, who which led to the fi ring of Police is responsible for hiring top Chief Gary Eugene and Com- administrators. The city began Prayers for protection manding Offi cer Emile Hollant. accepting applications on Aug. The issue began on July 7. City offi cials said there is no Sharpton rallies South 18, 2016, when North Miami deadline for applications. police offi cer Jonathan Aledda Outside of the internal ap- received a report of a suicidal plicants, Juriga and Bage, local Florida, criticizes Trump man. He arrived on the scene applicants with law enforce- By Andrea Robinson and longtime civic leader and and found Kinsey with his ment experience are Key Bis- educator. 27-year-old autistic patient cayne Chief of Police Charles [email protected] The way the two women who was playing with a plastic Press, Miami-Dade Police Major Amid new information that “have been treated is a toy, which Aledda said he mis- Gary Jeanniton, Coral Gables Army Sgt. La David Johnson moral disgrace to the United took for a gun, according to the Commander Raul Pedroso and was executed in Africa, Rev. States,” said Sharpton, the police report. Video footage cap- Please turn to CHIEF 6A Al Sharpton led a service keynote speaker for the to pray for military mem- event, which was billed a bers, Johnson’s family and prayer vigil to “cover” Wilson, the woman who is pushing the Johnson family and U.S. for more answers about his veterans. demise, Congresswoman Myeshia Johnson attended Frederica Wilson. the service at the Historic St. Sharpton, an activist and Agnes Episcopal Church in TV commentator, said the Miami along with aunt Cow- White House owed apologies anda Jones-Johnson, and La for the rhetoric and “unfair” David Johnson’s two younger The Rev. Al Sharpton at the prayer service on Sat- verbal attacks on widow brothers. Myeshia Johnson as well as Sharpton spoke at length urday, Nov. 11 at the historic St. Agnes Episcopal Larry Spring Larry Juriga Craig McQueen Wilson, a native Miamian Please turn to PRAYERS 6A Church. Black candidates take on infl uential congressional seat Gables, Miami Beach, Cutler said he’s running because he District 27 seat targeted by Democrats Bay, parts of the City of Miami wants his country back — a could be critical for Black politics and parts of Homestead, and reference to a phrased used is 60 percent Hispanic. The by GOP presidential candidate By Janiah Adams a vice president of a non- incumbent, Ros-Lehtinen is a Donald Trump in the 2016 [email protected] profi t are both seeking the Cuban immigrant and Repub- presidential election. Dunn Democratic Party nomination lican who was fi rst elected in has been highly critical of Two Black men have added in Florida’s Congressional 1989. Trump’s behavior and policies their names to a growing District 27. If either were to Ros-Lehtinen announced since winning that race. list of hopefuls who want to ultimately win the seat, which her retirement from political “I didn’t spend six years in replace U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros- political insiders say would be offi ce in April, creating a rare the Navy as an offi cer for this Lehtinen in Washington. unprecedented, it could turn open seat and a high level of America we got now,” Dunn Marvin Dunn, a historian things around for Democrats interest from politicians on said. “I don’t recognize my and retired university profes- and Black politics. both sides. own country. I want to protect sor, and Michael Hepburn, The district includes Coral Dunn, a political novice, Michael Hepburn Marvin Dunn Please turn to SEAT 6A 8 90158 00100 0 2A THE MIAMI TIMES, NOVEMBER 15-21, 2017 Opinion Blacks Must Control Their Own Destiny Member of National Newspaper Publisher Association Editorial Member of the Newspaper Association of America E Subscription Rates: One Year $45.00 – Six Months $30.00 — Foreign $60.00 (ISSN 0739-0319) 7 percent sales tax for Florida residents Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, Periodicals Postage Paid at Miami, Florida A chance for Miami, Florida 33127-1818 Post Offi ce Box 270200 Postmaster: Send address changes to The Miami Times, P.O. Box 270200 Buena Vista Station, Miami, Florida 33127 Buena Vista Station, Miami, FL 33127-0200 • 305-694-6210 Phone 305-694-6210 affordable housing CREDO OF THE BLACK PRESS H.E. SIGISMUND REEVES, Founder, 1923-1968 The Black Press believes that America can best lead the iami voters approved the $400 million gener- GARTH C. REEVES, JR., Editor, 1972-1982 world from racial and national antagonism when it accords to al obligation bond, giving the city breathing every person, regardless of race, creed or color, his or her GARTH C. REEVES, SR., Publisher Emeritus human and legal rights. Hating no person, fearing no person, Newspaper room with a dedicated source of revenue for RACHEL J. REEVES, Publisher and Chairman the Black Press strives to help every person in the fi rm belief Association M of America affordable housing, infrastructure, economic develop- that all persons are hurt as long as anyone is held back. ment and enhanced public safety. Kudos to Tomas Regalado, Miami’s outgoing mayor, Newspaper Association for showing leadership and forward thinking on issues BY EUGENE ROBINSON, The Washington Post of America that will affect us, but also our children and grandchil- dren. Thanks as well to Miami Commission Chairman Keon Hardemon for getting $200 million in the bond for Hallelujah for an old-fashioned butt-kicking affordable housing. What happened at the polls of Delegates, with recounts paign, though, was straight out Democrats won the Virginia Although those funds will be distributed through- Tuesday was a good old-fash- pending that could still put Re- of the sewer. governorship with a candidate out the city, sizable amounts will go to help residents ioned butt-kicking that exposed publicans in the minority. His television ads were among who is not, shall we say, overbur- in Overtown, West Grove, Little Haiti and Model City. the cynical fraud called Trump- I hope the message to the Re- the most appalling I’ve ever dened with charisma. They did ism. Hallelujah, people, and publican Party is clear: If you seen. it without a vivid and unforget- Those neighborhoods are caught in the bullseye of gen- let’s do it again next year. embrace Trump’s angry, nativ- Another pro-Gillespie ad took table bumper-sticker message. trifi cation. It will be up to the incoming administration Perhaps Republicans forgot ist, white-nationalist politics of aim at NFL players who kneel And they swept the state without — and with major support of new Mayor Francis Su- that Hillary Clinton — rightly or division, you will pay a price. in protest during the national forsaking progressive principles. arez, to ensure these areas build housing for people wrongly, a candidate distrusted Democrats did well from anthem — a cohort that hap- Perhaps the most stunning result by much of the nation — won came in Prince William County, a with lower incomes.
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