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Psychologist President Barack Hate Groups Reveals the Obama Shares are on the Real Motivation This is How You Rise - Guess Behind Female Know You’ve Who We Rivalries Found ‘The One’ Have to Thank Page 7 Page 9 Page 4 How Recent PRST STD 75c U.S. Postage PAID College Jacksonville, FL Permit No. 662 Discrimination RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Cases Are Affecting Black Students Page 3 75 Cents Woman Sentenced to 5 Years for Volume 31 No. 34 Jacksonville, Florida July 12 - 18, 2018 Accidentally Voting Loses Retrial Bid Supreme Court Nominee Comes With Tarrant County, TX — Crystal Mason, a woman who unintentionally Gov. Scott Appoints Two to voted while on probation, was sentenced to a five-year imprisonment… a Warning Label for and now she has been turned down for a new trial. Early this year, an online petition to drop all charges against Mason was started by a group Vacant Council Districts by Frederick Lowe on the line,” the NAACP Legal of supporters. If U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Defense and Educational Fund Council. Freeman will Last March 28, state district court Judge Ruben Gonzalez convicted M. Kavanaugh’s nomination is con- wrote in a statement. serve during the sus- Mason of illegal voting and sentenced her to five years in prison. She firmed by the Senate for the U.S. During a nationally televised pension of City Council had been free on bond pending appeal. Supreme Court, as many expect it broadcast this week, President Member Reginald Mason, who was imprisoned for 5 years for tax fraud and was freed in will, it would threaten black lives Donald Trump nominated Brown and Pittman will early 2016, said she wasn’t aware — and she wasn’t told — that her and the lives of all working people Kavanaugh who sits on the D.C. serve during the sus- felony status won’t allow her to vote for that year’s presidential elec- by pushing the court further to the Circuit Court of Appeals, to suc- pension of City Council tions. Her name wasn’t on the rolls so she cast a provisional ballot at her right on key issues, several groups ceed Associate U.S. Supreme Court Member Katrina local church, which wasn’t counted. warned. Justice Anthony Kennedy who will Brown, both beginning Voting rights for felons vary in different states and it has always been “The stakes could not be higher. retire on July 31. July 10, 2018 while the a controversial issue. Over 6 million Americans were deprived of their Our voting rights are on the line. Kavanaugh, 53, has served on the council members face right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement laws, according to the Fair housing and affirmative action court 12 years. During his tenure he trial for a number of Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization that aims to reform crimi- Freeman Pittman are on the line. The right to choose authored 300 opinions. He worked charges. nal justice. and access healthcare are on the for President George W. Bush who Governor Rick Scott Freeman, 43, of Jacksonville, is Mason’s online petition page includes a photo of Terri Lynn Rote, a line. And our most highly valued nominated Kavanaugh to the D.C. announced the appointments of the regional director at Ygrene white woman who illegally tried to vote for President Trump twice and democratic principles, such as Circuit in 2003, though his nomina- Terrance Freeman and Ju’Coby Energy Fund. Continued on page 3 was charged with voter fraud but was only sentenced to two years’ pro- Pittman to the Jacksonville City equal justice and opportunity, are tion stalled - Continued on page 3 bation and $750 fine. So far, the petition has over 38,000 signatures. LIVING WHILE BLACK Raines’ Students Gain Perspectives, Awareness in Costa Rica 12 Year Old Racially Profiled Seeing Costa Rican school chil- LeShonte’ Ethridge agreed, not- dren thrust their arms out of win- ing the contrast between the Costa Delivering Newspapers dows to excitedly wave hello was Rican children and their American The cycle of people calling the cops on African an eye-opening experience for counterparts. “They were hanging Americans seems never-ending. A 12-year-old boy Raines High School students Dana out of the windows,” echoed was targeted while delivering newspapers on his Adams, Le’Shonte’a Ethridge, and Ethridge, a senior at Raines. “They first day covering a route in Arlington, Ohio. recent graduate Joshua McAfee. were more excited than we were.” The boy’s mother, Brandie Sharp, expressed how The three were among 17 Duval The school children’s thirst for truly sad and disheartening it is that her young son County Public School (DCPS) stu- knowledge was just one of the high- couldn’t even work outdoors without someone sum- dents who spent two weeks in June lights for the Viking contingent. In moning police to the scene. in Costa Rica teaching English to addition to teaching English, the “And he was like, what are you doing here…are local school children as part of the students also had the opportunity to you soliciting? I said, no sir I’m not soliciting, I’m D.U.T.Y. (Duval Urban Traveling work on a coffee farm, dig wells, delivering papers. He said, what papers? I showed him the paper. He Youth) program. and learn meringue and salsa danc- said, Oh really, and sat there for a minute and then pulled off.” This initiative was created by ing. The group also visited both the The unidentified person who called police reported that someone had three-time Raines High School Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and walked up on a porch empty-handed and left with an item in their hand. Teacher of the Year, Michael took a trek through the rainforest. Some bags of newspapers and ads had been delivered to the wrong Bostic-Jones. The young Raines “It's all part of the three C”s,” houses, and Sharp and her boys were going back to retrieve them. students were amazed by the Costa said Bostic-Jones, who created the Police disputed Sharp’s statements that race played a part in the inci- Rican student’s focus and determi- program in 2015 as a way to help dent. Police had found that no wrongdoing had been done in this inci- nation. “The way they valued edu- urban youth broaden their minds dent, but other encounters between cops and people of color have ended cation was impressive…they were and develop social consciousness. Raines’ students Torren Manning, Zuri Ngozi West, Asianae Mathis in brutality and fatal shootings. The incident serves as an example of so excited,” said McAfee. “You The three C’s are “Conservation and Caleb Fort are shown teaching English to Costa Rican children how damaging and painful racial profiling can be for African could see it in their faces that they Work,” (students worked on a cof- (teaching English to the local he has seen 180-degree transforma- Americans. really wanted to learn.” fee farm), “Community Service,” school children) and “Cultural tions in student’s behavior, leader- Immersion” (staying and fellow- ship aspirations, career goals, and ‘Stop-And-Frisk’ Deemed Gamma Rho Omega AKAs Honored shipping with local host families). outlook on life. “It’s been life- In the five years since the pro- changing,” he added. Unconstitutional, Reforms Sought for Milestone Memberships at Boule gram began, Bostic-Jones says that Continued on page 3 A judge has been challenged to order wide-reaching reforms for the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Stop and Frisk program by a watchdog group that filed a brief in federal court on Monday. The filing came after the racist practice was deemed unconstitutional and yielded previous lawsuits. Questions have arisen as to whether NYPD officers have followed legal rules in stopping and questioning people on the street. Numbers reached an all-time high with 684,000 people being subjected to inter- rogations in 2011. The number of stops-and-frisks had since decreased to less than 10,000 last year. Reforms could force officers to be completely transparent in inform- ing individuals subjected to non-stop-and-frisk stops that they were free to walk away. The NYPD may also be mandated to tell the public about the discipline of officers who engage in abusive or unconstitutional stops, The Associated Press reported. $1.1 Million in Grants Allocated to Preserve Historic Black Sites A collection of grants totaling $1 million will go towards the preser- Shown at the family vendor hall are Jacksonville, FL vation of historic African American sites throughout the country. The residents Geri Duhart, Tiffany Duhart and Jason Duhart grants are a part of an initiative dubbed the African American Cultural Essence Makes Billion Dollar Impact Heritage Action Fund which is being spearheaded by the National Trust Attendees from around the country joined thousands in New Orleans, for Historic Preservation. LA last weekend for the annual Essence Festival. #EssenceFest took Through the fund, the organization aims to restore and preserve places Shown wearing their membership milestone crows are Gamma Rho over social media due to thought-provoking events with Reverend Al that are embedded in the fabric of Black history. Amongst the places Omega members Johnetta Moore, Chapter Basileus Willetta Richie, Sharpton, Trayvon Martin‘s mother Sybrina Fulton, Angela Rye and that will benefit from the grants include the houses of writer August Beverly Fenderson and Patricia Moore. Maxine Waters. Plus, there were performances from the likes of Brandy, Wilson and jazz legend John Coltrane, churches in Birmingham that Mary J.