To Be Able to Partner with God in Bringing Life

Volume 11, No. 9 December 27, 2006

In This Issue

A Year-End Truth Editorial Page 2

Updating Kwanzaa Page 3

School Board Shenanigans Page 4

ASSETS Graduation Page 5

Cover Story: Dr. Karen Adams-Ferguson Page 6 The Truth Arts Broadside Press Page 7

Jacob Lawrence Page 8

Phantom of the Opera Page 9

Is Hip Hop Dead? Page 10

Darfur: Color of Genocide Page 11

BlackMarketPlace Page 14

Classifieds Page 15

Alpha Phi Alpha at 100 Dr. Karen Adams-Ferguson Page 16 Ob-Gyn

“To be able to partner with God in bringing life into this world and make sure it comes here with full potential, is the best as it can be.” Page 2 The Sojourner’s Truth December 27, 2006 This Strikes Us … Community Calendar A Sojourner’s Truth Editorial December 26 to January 1 As we close out the year, and pray as always for things to go so much better during the • KWANZAA!! Wayman Palmer YMCA; 5 pm each day; sponsored by the Toledo new one, The Truth would like to take this opportunity to reflect on what went right – and Kwanzaa House Committee; 40th Anniversary wrong – during 2006. Here are a few of the key stories of the year. December 30 The War in Iraq: • Toledo Gospel Rescue Mission: Annual Christmas Dinner; 5 pm: 419-241-6579 Nothing quite sums up what happened during our War in Iraq, other than the death tolls, than a statement of President George Bush last week in which he admitted that we weren’t January 1 winning the war. Just several days before the election, he had said we are “absolutely Happy New Year!! winning” the war. After that last iteration of how things were going, of course, the Republicans lost control January 1-6 of Congress, the Iraq Study Group released its report detailing all of the things that were • Mt Zion Baptist Church: 21 Days of Blaze a Prayer and Fasting Explosion: 1st to 6th – going wrong, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was forced out and more and more week of prayer/sensitivity at 6 pm nightly: 419-246-1850 retired military and civilian leaders were piling on with denouncements of the administration’s conduct of the war. January 5 • Amazon Lodge #4 Fish Fry: 11 am to 5 pm; Deliveries available on orders of 3 or more: Political Scandals: 419-531-7079 Sometimes politicians just have streaks of bad luck. That happened to the Republican January 13 Party this year at the highest national and state levels. Majority Leader Tom DeLay forced • Mt. Zion Baptist Church: NAACP MLK Youth Explosion; 11 am to 1 pm; Open to any to resign, Congressman Mark Foley’s inability to keep his mouth shut around young boys, youth group: 419-246-1850 Tom Noe’s Ohio Coingate debacle. Those were the big ones. Those were enough to spell defeat on a grand scale. January 15 Couple the scandals with the way the War in Iraq was going and we have a recipe for • 24th Annual King “Oratorical” Contest: The “Ghanaian” Foundation Honors Dr. King; an election night disaster for the GOP, Karl Rove’s prognostications notwithstanding. Civic Center Promenade; 9 am to 3 pm; K through 12 grades may compete in their age group: 419-868-8396 Ohio Election Results: The state’s executive branch was virtually cleansed of Republican influence. With the January 18 exception of Mary Taylor’s victory over Democrat Barbara Sykes, the Republicans were • Spirit of Faith Adoptions: Informational meetings for domestic and international shut out. adoptions; 7 pm; 3315 Centennial Rd., Ste A-2: 419-843-5355 But the story in the state’s election results, in our view, lies in the fact that the three African-American candidates fared so poorly. Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell lost January 19 in a landslide, doing much worse than the final polls might have indicated. The Sykes’ loss • Amazon Lodge #4 Fish Fry: 11 am to 5 pm; Deliveries available on orders of 3 or more: to Taylor was a surprise in light of the polls and the fact that, in general, Democratic 419-531-7079 candidates, such as Marc Dann – who many would have thought would lose to Betty Montgomery in the Attorney General contest, were surging in the last moments before Election Day. Indications are that so many voters, once they were in the voting booths, just could not The Sojourner’s Truth pull the trigger for black candidates as they had indicated they would. Toledo’s Truthful African-American Owned and Operated Newspaper Local Election Results: Kevin McQueen Publisher It’s hard to imagine that in this year of war and scandal, the Lucas County Democratic Fletcher Word Publisher and Editor Party could prove to be so ineffective. They started the year by maneuvering to get a Becky McQueen Business Manager Republican elected to the presidency of the Toledo City Council. Alan Abrams Reporter Then, in another savvy move, they placed Taylor Balderas on Toledo City Council and Geneva J. Chapman Reporter lifted not a finger to get her elected in a special election against unknown Mike Craig. Tamir A. Shaw Reporter So, naturally, after Democrat, and “B” teamer, Bob McCloskey was removed from City Artisha Lawson Reporter Council, and lost his freedom, the party, irate over the possibility of having to pick a former Ashlee Austin Reporter Jack Ford ally, Bob Vasquez, to replace McCloskey, selected a Finkbeiner loyalist, Lourdes Jack Ford Political Columnist Carol Chehade Columnist Santiago, and could not get her elected. Another unendorsed candidate, Joe McNamara, Michael J. Hayes Entertainment Critic stole the show. McNamara and Ben Konop, who won the race for Lucas County Commissioner against Jennifer Retholtz Layout Designer/Webmaster Councilman George Sarantou, represented a much-needed youth movement for a city that Aida Maxsam Sales Representative has been plagued for years by a “brain drain” among its young people. Pamela Anderson Sales Representative The stunner, in local election results, was the Anita Lopez victory over entrenched Kathy Sweeny Ad Creation Republican incumbent Auditor Larry Kaczala. Lopez, who will relinquish her County A Certified MBE, 2006 Recorder’s post, won that election handily. The Sojourner’s Truth, 6161/2 Adams Street, Toledo, Ohio 43604 Phone 419-243-0007 • Fax 419-255-7700 Education: [email protected] It’s embarrassing just to think about education in this town, isn’t it? www.thetruthtoledo.com At a time when all indicators pointed to the fact that the Toledo Public School system was on the upswing academically, the school board disintegrated into dissension, the superintendent and virtually his entire staff bailed out for larger, if not greener, pastures and a big gaping hole of a deficit appeared. And in all of the talk about who should make decisions and how they should be made, The Sojourner’s Truth not once did we hear anything about what might benefit the students academically. Worst of all, the achievement gap between the poor and the middle class, between black and white 1/2 has not narrowed noticeably in the wake of “No Child Left Behind.” 616 Adams Street, Toledo, Ohio 43604 Phone 419-243-0007 • Fax 419-255-7700 Sports: Published weekly on Wednesday Whew! Thank goodness for sports, eh? What would we do without the Ohio State Buckeyes when the rest of the year is going to hell in a hand basket. And congrats to the Printed by Webco Graphics Wolverines, as well, for all you UM fans out there. 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The title says it all. 616 1/2 Adams St., Toledo, OH 43604 December 27, 2006 The Sojourner’s Truth Page 3 Kwanzaa in the 21st Century: Katrina, a Word to the Wise By Rahwae Shuman leaders who have warned us of haves and have-nots with still being employed to this You do the math. means coming up with cre- Special to The Truth about the need for the middle class shrinking. day. I call for a new generation ative solutions to problems we As we enter the 40th anni- Kujichagulia, or self-determi- “God Bless The Child Who’s Ujima, or collective work of African-American busi- face. And finally imani, or versary of Kwanzaa and stand nation, from Martin Delaney, Got His Own.” and responsibility, means you nessmen and women It seems faith, without which none of at the dawn of a new millen- the Honorable Marcus Garvey Kwanzaa provides a are your brother’s keeper. We that the word has gone out the other principles are pos- nium and century, it is time for and the Honorable Elijah blueprint for our economic and must help each other along around the world that if you sible. We must maintain and some serious reflection on the Muhammad, to El Haj Malik el cultural salvation if we em- the way. want to get rich set up a store strengthen our faith in God. It part of every African-Ameri- Shabazz (Malcolm X). We can brace and practice the Nguzo Ujamaa, or cooperative in an African-American is the only thing that brought can living in America today. no longer afford the luxury of Saba or Seven Principles. economics, simply put this neighborhood. At last count our ancestors through the Kwanzaa affords us just such ignorance. We are living in Here’s how. means buy black. This prin- we controlled $59,000,000,000 worst treatment one human an opportunity. This article is perilous and rapidly chang- Umoja, we must begin ciple is absolutely key to our in disposable income. Let’s being ever received at the not to summarize or define ing times. And weare our only to practice more unity on all survival and prosperity. We make our money work for us. hands of another. We must Kwanzaa. Most of us are well salvation economically and levels, primarily at the family must seize economic control Nia, or purpose, our first have faith in our parents, teach- past that. However, I would politically. level. African-American men of our community. This alone purpose is self-improvement, ers, and leaders. And very im- strongly suggest that you Kanye West was correct. must take care of their fami- would cut our unemployment then make your home, com- portantly, you must have faith read Maulana Karenga’s origi- The government does not lies. The majority of our social 40 percent at least. For every munity, nation, and the world in yourself. Faith is the invis- nal book on Kwanzaa. care about people who look problems can be traced di- foreign-owned carryout in a better place. Kuumba or cre- ible glue that binds all of man- What will be presented like you and me. If you dis- rectly to the breakup of the your neighborhood count 10 ativity, means using what you kind to each other and to God. here are the insights and analy- agree, may I refer you to the black family. jobs that we do not control. have to get what you need. It Happy Kwanzaa! sis of one who considers him- criminal and inhumane lack of Kujichagulia or self-reli- self a true Kwanzaa pioneer. response to Hurricane Katrina. ance/self-determination, we Kwanzaa is nothing new to Not only are African- must speak for ourselves and our community. Self-determi- American and poor people not let others speak for us. We TOLEDO YOUTH, nation and self-reliance were subjected to acute, and some- must name ourselves. And forced on us, if we did not times fatal neglect, but there is most critically, we must choose Take A Stand For What’s choose them on our own, by a chronic catastrophe loom- our own leaders. Those who institutionalized segregation. ing on the horizon. The fact is do not have our best interest One of the great contributions that America has seen her best at heart understand this bet- Right... A message to Dr. Karenga has made to our days. Her economy will never ter than we do. A very effec- culture is that he codified our recover its world dominance tive strategy employed by the values into a coherent system. of manufacturing. 80 percent government and its allies and minority youth in the urban Kwanzaa has witnessed of all manufactured goods that agencies, in its efforts to exponential growth in the last you purchase today are made thwart the Black Rebellion of 20 years. Now that the in China or elsewhere. the 60’s, was to kill or prevent struggle! grassroots work has been For African-Americans the rise of any black leader By: Bishop Stephen Ward done by many, it is critical that this means that good paying they could not control. And There is so much vio- there is a lack of love and we move from unskilled or semiskilled jobs conversely, they bought or lence going on with our coping skills ... our youth will conceptualization to imple- have left and have left America appointed Negro leaders that youth in Toledo and, un- act out to get attention. It is mentation on a daily basis. never to return. I see this coun- would be gatekeepers on their fortunately, it is primarily a cry for help. A cry for free- We have had many great try moving to a class society own people. This strategy is with our African-American dom. A cry for love! young brothers and sisters. Young people The behavior, I believe, is a please hear me. It is time to direct result of our youth take a stand for what is right. being angry. Stop imitating what you see Memorium Why are our youth an- on TV. There is more to life Bishop Stephen Ward gry? When you grow up than BET and MTV. Don’t not knowing who your fa- you realize many of the rates of suicide and impris- ther is, you become angry. songs you listen to are just onment, police brutality, When your mother is strung poison corrupting your the generation gap, the war out on crack and selling her mind? Many songs that you of the sexes, blacks selling body, you become angry. grind to are nothing but lyr- black self-hatred as enter- When you are continuously ics that degrade you, your tainment, among others – I racially profiled ... and the family and your women. often wonder what life will list goes on and on – you My brothers and sisters, be like for the generation of become angry. too many people have fought African-Americans that Many of our urban to the death, lost their lives ... follows. What will be our youth are faced with cir- so that we can have equal generation’s contribution cumstances beyond their rights. Please don’t let their to the centuries-long Afri- control. Broken homes, efforts be in vain. Under- can-American struggle for families, poverty ... these standing the new crises in liberation, and how do we are all contributing factors African-American culture redefine this struggle for to the madness. People that have come about in my our time? want to feel loved. When generation’s lifetime – high (Continued on Page 12) [[ Girl, you can do this! \\ John W. Glover Sr. April 8, 1934 - December 28, 2004 . . . a school dedicated to pregnant Our lives are filled with “Sweet, Sweet Memories” & parenting teenage girls of how you enriched our lives with love joy and happiness. For enrollment information, call 419-720-4500, extension 1 Your wife Lola, your children and www.pollyfox.com grandchildren Page 4 The Sojourner’s Truth December 27, 2006 Is School Board Discord to Blame for the Low Number of Superintendent Applicants? By Tamir A. Shaw Sojourner’s Truth Reporter When Toledo Public now recognized nationally speculate on the low interest pointing John Foley as in- dicrous,” Sykes said. Fisher says that it is im- Schools last conducted a for its achievements and lead- in the position. terim superintendent of TPS Fisher agrees and said that portant to have good com- search for a superintendent ership which is why he can Among the causes Sykes for a 14-month period was a she had no intentions of keep- munication on the board and in the year 2000, the district not understand why the lists is the poor relationships staffing strategy that was ing other members out of the that she never refused to re- was in what Toledo Public search process has yielded and communication among preparing Foley to take over loop. She believes that more lease the information; it was School board member Larry only eight applicants. the members of the school the position and that the contention arose after a pub- only the timeliness of the re- Sykes describes as dismal “Six years later we are lead- board; a projected budget placement would have a chill- lic information request was quest that lead to a misunder- shape. ing the region. We are na- deficit; declining enrollment, ing effect on the quality and submitted to her by another standing about the list. According to Sykes at that tionally renowned and we are seven upcoming union ne- quantity of applicants re- media organization and a de- Fisher has since been re- time the district was in aca- leading the nation in school gotiations and the percep- ceived. lay in her response was seen moved as the contact person demic emergency – the low- building and we can’t get 10 tion that a successful super- Board President Darlene as a denial of information. for the search and replaced est grade on the State of applicants,” Sykes asked. intendent was terminated Fisher came under fire re- Fisher further explained by board member Steven Ohio’s report card, the over- “There are 18,000 educa- from the district as a result of cently with regard to releas- that she had a personal issue Steele who would not dis- all graduation and attendance tion systems in the U.S. that his poor relationship with ing the names of the appli- which kept her from submit- cuss the details of the search rates were low and there was educate 53 million students. some of the board members. cants, adhering to the agreed ting the request for the list of process but did say that it is not a building program in In Ohio, there are 605 dis- One TPS critic and watch- upon deadline for accepting names to Proact on the day important to have good com- place. tricts and at any given time dog Steven Flagg has applications and keeping the when the information was munication on the board. The result of that search there may be a quarter of stressed the importance of rest of the board informed sought. Fisher said the focus is provided TPS with an effec- those superintendents look- having the community in- about the progress Proact is When Fisher attempted to now on continuing the search tive leader, Eugene Sanders, ing for a job and we get eight volved in the selection pro- making. contact the search firm – process and that is not con- Ph.D, applicants? cess and said that the un- “It’s a problem when the which is located in Milwau- cerned about the number of who helped to move the Those who have applied timely departure of Sanders board doesn’t talk. When you kee, Wisconsin – the next applicants interested in lead- district into continuous im- for the position are a good has caused a rift between have a president saying one day, she said that the office ing the 29,000-student school provement category before indication that a search con- members of the board and thing and other board mem- was closed due to a snow system, and said, “If we have accepting a contract buy-out ducted by the search firm, has also criticized Sykes for bers saying something else it storm. a solid process with the search in May in order to move on Proact, has been conducted being so vocal and publiciz- appears as if the president is Fisher did not attempt to firm then we will get a solid and become superintendent nationwide producing di- ing the district’s problems in not communicating with the reach the consultant, Nancy superintendent.” of the Cleveland Municipal verse candidates from Michi- an attempt to undermine the board,” Sykes said. Noeske, over the weekend to Proact’s Noeske was trav- schools. gan, Kentucky, Texas, Indi- search for a new superinten- “You elect a president to make the request and by eling and could not be Sykes says that the To- ana, Florida and Ohio. dent. communicate and divest the Monday several media out- reached for comment for this ledo Public Schools District Sykes did not say that he Flagg said that he has information to the board. To lets were reporting that Fisher article. has drastically changed was concerned with the qual- consulted with industry ex- not release the names of the had refused to release the Contact Tamir Shaw at since the last search and is ity of the applicants, but did perts and was told that ap- applicants to the board is lu- information to the public. [email protected] December 27, 2006 The Sojourner’s Truth Page 5 ASSETS Toledo’s 21st Graduation Ceremony Sojourner’s Truth Staff ASSETS Toledo, a faith- based, 13-week business training program for budding, or established, entrepreneurs, held its 21st graduation ceremony on Friday, December 8, 2006 at the Family Life Cen- ter of Bethlehem Baptist Church and 34 graduates left the program armed with a better understanding of how to start or manage a business. Fifth Third Bank Employees Not all of the graduates, however, are new to the business world. Mother and Present Savings Bonds to daughter Brenda Kynard- Holsey and Kyna Kynard, for example, have been running Polly Fox Students their beauty salon, Sheer In- Special to The Truth novations, for many years. Members of the Minority Kynard-Holsey opened the Leadership Council gath- children. Polly Fox Academy this program and other finan- salon, at 4212 Airport High- ered at the Polly Fox Acad- is a school sponsored by To- cial literacy programs to way, some 20 years ago and emy on December 20, 2006 to ledo Public Schools and is a churches, non-profit organi- her daughter Kyna was there Brenda Kynard-Holsey received diploma from Holden present seven students who school for pregnant and zations and schools through- virtually from the start work- see if there was something I opment Associates (MEDA), had completed the group’s parenting teens. out the communities Fifth ing a variety of jobs such as needed to do to help it. And an association of Christian Credit Smart program, a fi- The seven students – Third serves. The group also receptionist and shampoo girl. there was so much knowledge businesses and professional nancial management class, Briana Jelks, Deondra Louis, offers home ownership and a Why, after all these years [in ASSETS]. I could not be- people. The executive direc- with $50 savings bonds. Chrishonda McGlown, Stacey variety of investment pro- of running her own business lieve it. ASSETS opened up a tor of ASSETS Toledo is Olivia Credit Smart is a Freddie Oswald, Adidasa Scott, Timea grams. did Kynard-Holsey feel as if whole new world for me.” Holden. Mac program. The program’s Whitaker and Jasmin Wilson The mission of the Minor- she needed to take a busi- ASSETS (A Service for Self- The keynote speaker for curriculum is designed to pro- – also received certificates of ity Leadership Council is to ness-training course? Employment Training) Toledo the recent graduation cer- vide life-long money and per- completion. enhance the awareness of “Because, I knew how to was introduced to the area in emony was Suzette Cowell, sonal credit management Fifth Third employees have minority employees’ profes- do hair,” she says. “But not the winter of 2000. The pro- CEO/treasurer of The Toledo skills. The students attended been facilitating the class at sional and developmental seeing the business grow as I gram was developed by the Urban Federal Credit Union classes for eight weeks dur- Polly Fox for two years. needs within Fifth Third had hoped, I felt I needed to Mennonite Economic Devel- which was chartered in 1996. ing which they learned to set Reginald Temple, financial bank’s work environment. goals, to understand the dif- center officer at the bank’s The Council collaborates ference between needs and Swayne Field location and with other groups, such as the CaptainCaptain D’sD’s SeafoodSeafood wants, to save for the future, Terri Ellis, financial center of- Greater Toledo Urban to develop budgeting skills ficer of the Lagrange office are League’s Young Profession- and to learn the importance of team captains for the program. als and The University of RestaurantRestaurant managing personal credit ac- The Minority Leadership Toledo, on a variety of projects counts. 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It Ferguson. can-American chiropractor in office was on Sunforest has taken us down a horrible We are seated in her office Toledo and a former presi- Court. She later moved to an path. When you have to pro- at A Woman’s Answer on dent of the Toledo School office near Executive Park- pose giving vaccines to nine- Monroe Street with a view Board. Her father was Paul L. way and has been in her year-old girls ostensibly to overlooking the throngs of Adams, and her distin- current medical suite for 12 prevent cervical cancer but holiday shoppers at guished siblings include To- years. as a preventive before they Westfield. ledo Public Schools adminis- “I am blessed by my staff. become sexually active, there She walks her visitor to an trators Cecilia Adams, Ph.D We have 11 women – count- is a major problem. adjacent office corridor where and Denise Adams Onyia. ing myself – working to- “Our society is facing dis- the walls are filled with 10 Indeed, Adams-Ferguson gether here and we have a integration from within,” says oversize picture frames – and one of her brothers are blast. We all laugh and talk Adams-Ferguson. She be- each one loaded with photo- the only siblings not to have real loud and act rowdy. I lieves part of the problem is graphs of babies Adams- pursued a career in educa- think the most blessed thing caused by “people who have Ferguson has delivered dur- tion. is to have a baby, something bullied into not speaking out. ing her career as an OB-GYN. “I was blessed by the fam- that should be really en- If they say anything is wrong, “It is truly a blessing to be ily I was born into, a family joyed. I enjoy our patients, they may offend some small delivering babies. You never that valued education and is and they enjoy us. We laugh group. But you have to make know what potential they may still so deeply involved in it,” am working on my masters in there, I will follow.” and we giggle. We have a lot a stand,” she says. have. I could be delivering says Adams-Ferguson. divinity degree,” she ex- She has been married for 22 of fun in this office, and we “I also feel that our soci- the next Einstein. Or deliver- Born in Toledo, Adams- plains. years to Nathaniel Ferguson, share it,” says Adams- ety has turned our back on ing the next president. Or Ferguson graduated from Does this mean there is a Jr. They have three children, Ferguson. our children. How else can delivering another obstetri- DeVilbiss High School and career change in Adams- Joseph, 21, is a junior at UT But there is another more you explain why it is so hard cian, God forbid, that’s just went on to The University of Ferguson’s future? where he is studying nursing; serious side to Adams- to pass a levy for Toledo what the world needs,” she Toledo and The Ohio State “Christianity is not about Daniel, 18, is a freshman at Ferguson. One of the issues Public Schools? This is our laughs. University, where she gradu- a career,” she replies. “It is OSU with a double major in that most concerns her to- future. The only time people “To be able to partner with ated from medical school. She about a way of life. Every- linguistics and theater, and day is the increase in out of will support the levy is if you God in bringing life into this did her residency at the then- thing I do should reflect what Cecilia, 16, who is a junior at wedlock births, particularly threaten to take sports away world and make sure it comes Medical College of Ohio. I believe. Even if I never have Springfield High School. in Lucas County. “I have from the schools. We need to here with full potential, is the After all these years, a pulpit, everything I do “Many people do not know seen the stats. It is not a better prepare our children, best as it can be,” she adds. Adams-Ferguson is back in should be a sermon and point it, but my mother’s name is racial issue. It is not a socio- to educate them so that they Adams-Ferguson is a school, and as a student. “I the way to the Lord. actually Cecilia Samantha economic issue. It is cross- can have a better life,” says member of Toledo’s re- am in my third year at the “I’m already a ministry,” Adams,” says her daughter. ing across all socio-eco- Adams-Ferguson. nowned Adams family. And Winebrenner Theological says Adams-Ferguson, add- She also has four stepchil- nomic demographics. It is a not by coincidence, that is Seminary in Findlay where I ing “should He lead me off dren: Nathaniel Ferguson, Jr., moral issue. Church’s Opens Lima Kwanzaa Celebration & Operation with a Bang Sojourner’s Truth Staff Open House Church’s Chicken ar- rived in Lima last week in a huge way. Paul Hubbard, who also has a Church’s franchise in Toledo and is a partner in a Toledo Captain D’s Seafood Restaurant, opened his newest restau- Date: December 27, 2006 rant on Lima’s Main Street The Padua Center Advisory on Sunday, December 17. During the first full day Myron Ball (c.) helps with Lima Church's opening Time: 4:00-7:00 of operations, Hubbard re- Council and Staff invite you to ported that revenues were Candle Lighting: 6:00 three times the franchise a celebration of Umoja (Unity) average for an opening. Cars wound around the block while customers and to enjoy the Christmas Location: waited patiently for their first taste of Church’s season. chicken in Lima. The Padua Center For the first several weeks of operation, a number of Hubbard’s Toledo (former St. Anthony rectory) team have come down to assist in the Lima opening 1416 Nebraska Ave. including Mo Rahman and James Adams, Mo Rahman and Jessie Ranson James Adams. Lima native Brenda Copeland is the Toledo, Ohio 43607 general manager of the Lima store. She will oversee 35 employees. Refreshments, Also on hand to help with the opening was fun and Myron Ball, senior director Franchise Operations, children’s activities East. 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Black Poon, The Toledo Museum of for nearly all of her years Art opens the exhibition Jacob has been involved in a vari- Lawrence Prints: A Compre- ety of artistic endeavors. hensive Survey, 1963-2000 This fall her art has been on January 26, 2007. on display at RRT Images The exhibition consists of Gallery of Art at 6423 Mon- more than 80 works of art that roe Street in Sylvania. tell visual stories drawn from Lawrence’s interest in Afri- can and African-American history and heritage. Jacob Lawrence (1917- 2000) is recognized as one of the art world’s most gifted storytelling artists. starting with the Revolution. Friday, February 2, 6:30 Lawrence’s art reveals a dis- The people in general have & 8 P.M. tinctive, personal style of bold always gone through this. Of Saturday, February 3, 2 colors and overlapping shapes course black people have con- P.M. influenced by modern art and tinued this struggle also. Sunday, February 4, 2 & 3 jazz. Much of Lawrence’s I would like to think of this P.M. work looks at life in Harlem, symbol [of struggle in my Friday, April 13, 6:30 and celebrating its people, music, work] as being not just a black 8 P.M. and buildings. He also symbol, but a symbol of our- Saturday, April 14, 2 P.M. chronicled historic events like man’s-capacity to endure and the life of Harriet Tubman to triumph.” Schedule is subject and the Great Migration of Lawrence often described to change. For additional African-Americans from the his work as a continuation, dates, please visit South to the cities of the constantly growing and build- www.toledomuseum.org. North. Lawrence was quoted ing on itself; many of his prints as saying: rework themes and composi- This exhibition is orga- “I am dealing with struggle tions from his paintings. From nized by the DC Moore Gal- throughout my [work]. Some- his first published lithograph lery, New York. times that struggle is appar- in 1963 until the end ent, sometimes it is not appar- of his life in 2000, ent. I think struggle is a beau- Lawrence produced tiful thing. I think it is what a dynamic body of made our country what it is, prints exploring universal issues of equality, unity, and hope.

FREE DOCENT- LED TOURS Jacob Lawrence is free to the public and is on view in TMA’s Works on Paper Gal- leries. Free public tours of the exhibition are scheduled as follows: December 27, 2006 The Sojourner’s Truth Page 9 Arts Section • Arts Section • Arts Section • Arts Section • Arts Section • Arts Section • Arts Section • Arts Section The Phantom of the Opera Arriving in Toledo By Fletcher Word Sojourner’s Truth Editor “Before I took the role, I his own don’t think he was consid- musical, County Commissioner Tina Skeldon ered to be that nice,” says and danc- Michael Ashford and Steve Steel, Ph.D. Wozniak and Attorney Jon Richardson actor John Whitney about his ing, skills character, Piangi, in Phan- in order to tom of the Opera. Whitney, maximize who has been performing his oppor- with Phantom for the past tunities to two and a half years, was find work speaking with The Truth in the field. from his hotel room in Phila- It has paid delphia where the Andrew off hand- Lloyd Webber musical will somely. run through New Year’s Eve. Over the “People come up to me on last 15 the street and tell me, ‘you years, Karen Shanahan and County Keith Wilkowski, Councilman Frank are the nicest Piangi, we’ve Whitney Commissioner Ben Konop Szollosi and Karen Shanahan ever seen,’” says the featured has actor with a chuckle, admit- worked ting that he must have in- steadily, fused the part with a bit of his and while John Whitney as Piangi own personality. he has not Based on the classic novel found the celluloid stardom he another laugh. Whitney has by Gaston Leroux, The Phan- might have hoped for, he cer- performed in Jesus Christ Su- tom of the Opera – set in the tainly recognizes that earning perstar, Evita and Cats. And 19th Century – tells the story a living at his craft is a rare the actor/singer made his of a deformed, demented, enough achievement in the the- Carnegie Hall debut in masked figure, Erik, who ater business. Webber’s Requiem. haunts the Paris Opera The Lloyd production of “He writes wonderful School Board Members Larry Sykes and House. He falls in love with The Phantom of the Opera melodies,” White replied Steve Steel (far r.) and Councilmen the young soprano and man- premiered in October 1986 when asked why he was so Ruth and Michael Ashford Michael Ashford and Wilma Brown ages to enhance her talents in London winning every attracted to Webber’s art. through his coaching. He major British theater award. “He’ll have a beautiful eventually kidnaps the girl The New York production melody and weave it and, well … the play will be debuted in January 1988 and throughout the show. He arriving in Toledo on Janu- went on to sweep the 1988 takes a musical journey with ary 3 at the Stranahan The- Tony Awards, winning a melody.” ater and will run through seven, including Best Musi- Whitney plans to stay with January 28. cal. The play also won seven the tour for another three Whitney, a New Jersey Drama Desk Awards and years. He just purchased his native who was educated in three Outer Critics Circle first house in Yonkers, NY, Philadelphia, found his call- Awards. The musical has so a steady income to man- ing for the theater at an early been on tour for the last 15 age a mortgage is more than age. He eventually entered years and there are currently a plus. After that, he would New York University to pur- 11 productions in various cit- like to make a stab at the sue his education and hone ies around the globe. concert world and, perhaps, his Thespian skills. For Whitney, this is not the try his luck with television. “I learned that most of the first time he has been involved Phantom lovers can catch theater work was in musical in a Lloyd work. “I wouldn’t Whitney as Piangi at the theater,” he recalls. So he be- have a career without Andrew Stranahan Theatre starting gan an earnest attempt to hone Lloyd Webber,” he says with Wednesday January 5.

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Columbia records did Of course, that year also Nas Hip Hop Is Dead about as much promotion of had Wu Tang and The No- Nas as Nas does self-pro- torious B.I.G. and all that (parental advisory) motion of himself … very helped to swing the momen- little. tum back to the East Coast By Michael Hayes At a time when no one, … but even more impor- Minister of Culture when even Ice Cube was tantly people were happy For you to understand you’ve also got to understand rap from California eventu- ing this violent thug rap im- talking about “Bop Gun,” that hip-hop had some nu- what Nas is to hip-hop, you Rakim. ally eclipsed the entire in- age to the masses by repress- and lyricism was at an all trition for the soul again. first have to understand what Eric B. and Rakim to be dustry, hip-hop lost its vari- ing any artist that wanted to time low, here was an MC hip-hop was intended to be exact. See, the DJ was really ety. uplift the people or even who made you think. Now let’s fast forward to the people. I think it was the man. The MC was sec- Hip-hop lost that intellec- make listeners think. Here was an MC who two years later and Nas’ Chuck D who called rap ondary which is why a lot of tual appeal. Just like hip-hop’s cur- made you rewind that tape sophomore release, It Was music “The Black People’s groups back then had the Hip-hop traded its origi- rent state, New York was in to hear what he had said Written, only furthered CNN” and that only meant DJ’s name first (even ya boys nality for even greater expo- one hell of a drought and because the wordplay was claims that he may actually that our true story has never DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh sure to the masses. everybody was holding their so layered and the subjects be the best emcee on Plant been told by the media so Prince). Sure, there were Even if it wasn’t inten- breath to see when it would so profound that you were Earth. Period. hip-hop was our way of hav- many talented rhyme spitters tional shock value, it was end. Everybody was ready gonna miss something even Trust me, even with all ing information in our own before Rakim, but the origi- quite a sight for America to for hip-hop music to matter if you were paying the clos- that happened to his status hands to spread amongst each nal god MC forever changed see young black men dip- again. Everybody was miss- est attention. and in the industry as a other. the way the world and hip- ping in low riders, throwing ing Rakim like hell and The delivery … you can’t whole after It Was Written, “The Message” by Grand- hop looked at rappers. up gang signs and clutching growing more and more imagine what it was like to there are still legions upon master Flash and The Furi- Among all the Cest Coast an arsenal of automatic fire- frustrated with the lack of hear someone spit like he legions of people who will ous Five told an entire planet gang bangin’, the East Coast arms on posters and maga- substance in our music. spits back in 1994. All my insist that Nas is the dopest what life was like in the party records, the Miami zine/album covers. heads out there, ya’ll feel rhyme writer dead or alive. ghetto and it didn’t even glo- booty music … Rakim It was all good for the Then came Nas. me. At the time his second rify it. It was strictly infor- emerged as a figure known West Coast. Nas was heralded as the The way rock music fans album was passing the two- mative. Hell, it was damn for potent delivery and heavy It was even all good for second coming of Rakim. go wild over a crazy guitar million sold mark, his first near an outcry. Just like ev- wordplay in a time when rap Hollywood because hip- In hip-hop circles far and solo or whatever, that’s what album was still hovering erything else in pop culture, lyrics were still very elemen- hop’s new direction pro- wide (even on the West a rap verse is to us. around the 200,000 sold our genre of music has ex- tary in rhyme and content. vided some ill visuals. Crazy Coast underground scene), We dissect it. We absorb mark – but the critical ac- posed a generation gap even Rakim was like the enough that entire motion Nas’ debut album Illmatic it. We memorize it. claim achieved by his inser- though hip-hop’s formal age people’s voice, he was an pictures were based around is considered one of the best Nas’ rhymes represented tion into the game was so is only about 35 years old. If MC’s MC who still had street California’s rap world. hip-hop releases of all time! for black men in the urban powerful that no one could that. cred and mainstream appeal I remember it so vividly trying to find a way to cope undo it. That’s barely two 15-year without losing his identity. because I was 10-12 years Why? with the world around them. No one, except Nas him- generations, but if you asked Actually, most folks prob- old and finally old enough Because just like Rakim, Musically this debut album self. enough rap fans about the ably didn’t understand the to go and buy some tapes or he was a breath of fresh air by hip-hop’s newest poeti- (Continued on Page 13) current state of their favorite Queens references and the whatever (ahhh – tapes! music you’re likely to get Five Percent Nation wisdom LOL!) and because the Kid answers that demonstrate embedded in his rhymes back N Plays and the De La Souls four or five distinctly differ- then but his artistry and in- were being replaced by the THERE’S NO ent viewpoints. Nas ad- tellect were unsurpassed at MC Eights and the Spice dresses this entire phenom- that point in the industry. Ones… my moms was start- enon on Hip Hop Is Dead. The Industry. That’s right, ing to get concerned about And when you have a year by this time our founding what I was listening to. 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With over 500 eth- of the interrogating and ster- act death tolls hard, but re- map of Sudan, this province nic groups in this cradle of ile eyes of international gov- cently the United Nations existed as a successful self- civilization, Sudan is too ge- ernments. Although the si- projected that around governing Sultanate State netically rich to narrow people lent screams of pain are im- 350,000 people have died of Kayra. With the increas- down into a basic Western measurable, our racial pref- with and additional two mil- ing migration of Arabs into racial paradigm. In Sudan, erence as to whose screams lion people displaced, thus Darfur, tensions between “Arab” refers less to the ap- we select to hear can cer- creating the world’s largest the African pastoralists and pearance of which we usually tainly be measured by our refugee problem. Couple that the Arab nomads started affix stereotypical Arab physi- which aimed to apply sharia cannot account for any of reaction to the genocide in with disease, lack of medical showing itself in various cal identity, and more to what law to all of Sudan including these horrendous acts, geno- Sudan’s province of Darfur. care and famine and these degrees. Because nomadic James Baldwin described upon non-Muslims of the cide does. The word “geno- The United States is in the numbers will surely increase. lifestyle is often unstable when referring to whiteness South who are predominately cide” comes from two an- midst of fighting a war that is Darfur, meaning “land of and hostile, nomads are al- which is a “state of mind.” black Africans. If the U.S. cient cultures: the Greek supposed to bring freedom Furs,” is the namesake after ways fighting their way For there are many Arabized decides to intervene through geno, which means race, to Iraqis. If the U.S. truly the land’s original inhabit- through harsh elements and populations within Sudan who military might by backing type, and tribe and cide which believed in freedom, then it ants, the Furs, who when foreign territories in the ef- may or may not look Arab but Turabi, they will be funding is Latin for murder. The U.N. would not have allowed the joined along with several fort to carve out niches. are completely Arab in loyal- yet another rebel who will defines genocide, “as an act situation in Darfur to get this other black ethnic groups, Unfortunately some of these ties. Although observable ra- turn on them in the same way committed with intent to de- far. Clearly, our world gov- such as the Massaleit and places where these niches cial traits play a role in Darfur, as did Osama Bin Laden. stroy, in whole or part, a na- ernments are more interested Zaghawa, make up the large are carved displace the if the non-Arab population In response to the rebels tional, ethnical, or religious in freeing oil than they are in majority of the non-Arab people who lived there be- submitted to complete in Darfur, Khartoum admits group.” The phrase “in whole freeing civilians from the Sudanese. Before the indif- fore them. Arabization they would have to mobilizing militias to or part” has the international The subtle tensions more of a chance to be ac- counteract insurgencies but community debating how amongst the various ethnic cepted than African-Ameri- have denied any relationship much is too much, as if we groups have been exploited cans have in the United States. to the most notorious of these are waiting for the whole to by corrupt powers that have Unlike the conflict be- militias, the Janjaweed. be fulfilled with no regard to little interest in the people. tween the North and South Janjaweed derives from the the part that has already been Despite the tensions, Arabs Sudan, the Darfurian conflict Arabic word jinjaweit which achieved. Compared to the and Africans have long co- has nothing to do with reli- means “horse and gun.” The South Sudan, Darfur hasn’t existed and intermarried gion, for the executed and the convoy of cloaked men on lost as many civilians. Are creating the racial compos- executioners are all Muslims. horses, carrying guns loaded we waiting for Darfur to ite we see in Darfur today. Part of the problem is that the with the bullets of racial big- catch up? The killing in The blurring of physical executed are not Arabized otry evokes images of the Ku Darfur is fulfilling the mean- identity between Arabs and Muslims. Many indigenous Klux Klan (KKK). ing behind genocide which Africans has challenged Darfurians maintain their core Like the KKK, the is to destroy cultures and/or outsiders who usually de- cultural ties with their respec- Janjaweed are powerless re-induct the survivors into tive ethnic groups. Despite alone but their bigotry is ex- the image of the conqueror years of Darfurian support of ploited by the GOS who through language, education, Northern policy against the makes sure these otherwise and customs. South, many non-Arabs poor Arabs are equipped with If we factor in genocide started seeing that Islam’s ra- expensive arms. The sem- with the construction of an cial tolerance was not always blance of power allows the 850-mile oil pipeline, which applied by the Arabs. As a Janjaweed the authority to begins in the Melut Basin in result, feelings of betrayal deem weapons as more de- the South and ends at the have been expressed by many serving of admittance into Red Sea, then the agenda to Afro-Darfurians. Darfur than food, water and reach peace has become even With Khartoum granting medicine. The Janjaweed are more complicated. Sudan is preferential treatment to Ar- the third arm of the GOS. quickly replacing Nigeria’s abs coupled with years of ig- Like anyone born with a title of possessing the largest noring the overall need of this third arm, the Janjaweed are amount of untapped oil re- remote region, rebels within viewed as a freakish out- serves in all of Africa. With Darfur subsequently orga- growth that extends itself out untapped oil reserves, the nized. Two of the largest rebel of a government body that is negotiations over Darfur are groups are the Sudan Libera- trying to hide its less desir- manipulated by oil compa- tion Movement (SLM) and able parts. It is equivalent to nies vying for contracts to the Justice and Equality the U.S. government deny- drill and pump oil into the Movement (JEM). Khartoum ing culpability in places like international markets. As a claims that through the Afri- Abu Ghraib where the naked result, corporate conglomer- can Union, the SLA and JEM humiliation of Iraqis prison- ates are fighting a war inside are being armed with U.S. ers by Americans is excused a war because they are all backing. as isolated incidents that in reaching the final peak of oil Ending “the world’s larg- no way reflect the regime. production. est humanitarian crisis” can- Throughout history, the so- My brothers and sisters in not be accomplished through called renegades who repre- my Middle-Eastern and the training and arming rebel sent the power are used as North African motherland groups such as the SLA and tools who eventually take the are not doing a much better JEM, especially when the lat- fall. Just as would most cor- job with their weak reaction ter is controlled by Hassan al- rupt governments, the GOS to Darfur than my new broth- Turabi. In the past, Turabi has denied ties with this ren- ers and sisters are in America. used to be one of the most egade group citing the vio- After all, the Darfurians are powerful men behind lence is random. Random as pious as the Muslims in Khartoum’s military regime violence does not propagate Mecca. Incidentally, those of Sudan’s President Omar a scorched earth policy that inhabitants of the Middle Hassan al-Bashir. Since his burns specific people from East and North Africa who falling out with the Govern- their land so that they are are Christian and Jewish also ment of Sudan (GOS), Turabi open to systematic rape, sla- have bloody hands when it has used Darfur as his head- very and murder. Random comes to their exploitation quarters in order to reclaim violence does not grind cus- of Africa. Like Muslims Ar- power in Khartoum. toms, social structure into abs, they have yet to mobi- It is important to note that extinction. Random violence lize a powerful united front Turabi was the Speaker of does not have pogroms that to help Darfur. Despite all of Parliament in GOS and led destroy the indigenous Afri- the differences between the the Khartoum-supported Na- cans of Darfur. Arab World and the Western tional Islamic Front (NIF) While random violence (Continued on Page 12) Page 12 The Sojourner’s Truth December 27, 2006 Darfur: The Color of Genocide Owens Community (Continued from Page 11) World they have one thing in Outside intervention in vors on all sides. Sudan will common: both sides have Sudan must not further alien- not be able to broker peace in College to Host Weapons enriched themselves from ate Darfur and Khartoum buildings built with the skel- Africa by exploiting every from one another. Eventu- etal remains of civilians. At imaginable resource, most ally, when the peacekeeping the most base level, the blood of Mass Destruction notably slaves. Where they forces and military interven- must stop flowing so that civil didn’t exploit and enslave; tions come and go, the negotiation from all sides can Seminars, Jan. 4 and 9 they colonized. Where they Sudanese will still have to come to the table to bring did not colonize; they set up contend with one another. about peace, not only in Northwest Ohio first re- training,” said Julee Cope, protection measures, to segregated communities Although only the people of theory, but also in practice. sponders and campus law Owens Chief of Safety and properly and safely con- where they exploited the Sudan can solve their na- Brokering peace in the midst enforcement and public Security. “This seminar is a tain and secure the scene, mercantile aspect of econom- tional problems, the destruc- of genocide is like trying to safety officials interested great opportunity to initiate and maintain ics. Afterwards, they never tion of humanity is no longer see the humanity of a rapist in acquiring information to provide vital informa- appropriate control mea- bothered to close the gates of an internal problem but a as he is in the process of about weapons of mass tion concerning public safety sures, and to assist with hell they opened. Since then, universal one. brutalizing his victim. destruction are invited to that will inevitably better mitigation, preparedness, the devil himself has come Every nation that contin- The quick response to attend free one-day semi- prepare first responders, such response or recovery op- out of those gates and found ues to do nothing to stop the genocide should not be de- a new home amongst inter- genocide is as responsible as termined by the color of one’s nars presented by the In- as police officers, firefighters erations. national political criminals. the GOS. We can implicate race, but rather by the color ternational Association of and emergency medical per- Funding for such train- Given what the world has the much of the international of blood spilled for a de- Campus Law Enforcement sonnel, and campus law en- ing initiatives is through a done to Sudan, Khartoum community, including the mented definition of human- Administrators (IACLEA) forcement officials for po- grant awarded to the doesn’t want U.S. interfer- European Union, the Chi- ity. We have every type of at Owens Community Col- tential crisis situations in- IACLEA by the U.S. De- ence and cites the fact that nese, the Indians and the Pa- communication devices, lege. The seminars will volving weapons of mass partment of Homeland the U.S. is not in a position to kistanis, all of whom have broadcasts and articles just occur on Jan. 4 and 9. destruction.” Security’s Office for Do- talk about human rights and more interest in excavating like this one reporting on The weapons of mass Topics discussed will in- mestic Preparedness. especially in the area of race. oil, even if it includes exca- Darfur, yet ironically we are destruction seminars will clude a general understand- The IACLEA is fo- Given that the U.S. has built vating the people who stand as paralyzed as we were be- be held from 8 a.m. * 5 ing and recognition of ter- cused on advancing pub- refugee camps called pris- in the way of that oil. We can fore the so-called informa- ons that house a large num- implicate the Arab League tion age. Virtually every na- p.m. at the College’s Fire rorist weapons of mass de- lic safety for educational ber of African-Americans, which has been unusually tion on the face of the earth Science and Law Enforce- struction involving chemical, institutions by providing Khartoum may be right. passive while watching has condemned the genocide ment Center Rooms 145- biological, radiological, educational resources, ad- Seemingly the superpower Sudanese Arabs dishonor in Darfur, but condemning 147. nuclear and explosives, and vocacy and professional of the world is slower to act Arab identity with misguided atrocities against civilians “Owens Community the defensive considerations development to law en- when the victims resemble agendas of Arabization and should hardly be something College is proud to part- and control issues associated forcement and security the faces of the very popula- Islamization. We can impli- for which we deserve a peace ner with the IACLEA and with these types of incidents. officers. The organization tion it enslaved for hundreds cate the U.S. which with all prize. We need to scream host an event focused on Participants will be provides a forum for mem- of years. Meanwhile, the of its power and resources with as much desperation as furthering first responder trained to implement self- (Continued on Page 14) Arab world seems to act on can bring an end to the geno- those Darfurians are scream- genocide only when the op- cide. ing to be heard. Perhaps then pressed resemble Palestin- In a nation that has waged we can finally hear each other ians and Iraqis. Yet, this isn’t war for longer than the coun- to the point where stopping about whose racial record is try has been independent, their pain is equivalent to worse. It is about stopping politicians and leaders have stopping our own pain. genocide. been promiscuous with fa- TOLEDO YOUTH, Take A Stand For What’s Right... A message to minority youth in the urban struggle! (Continued from Page 3) Our youth can be our sisters it is time to call an tion of leaders. Old heads fate or our future. If young urban truce. It is time to stop in power are threatened people embrace black cul- the bloodshed. It is time to by the power of hip-hop. ture, ground themselves in take ownership and respon- Given the ways we con- it, and feel compelled to sibility for actions, stand up trol the marketplace and continue the legacy, then and speak up for ourselves, dominate pop culture, they are our future. But if our families and our com- they realize that if we ever they turn their backs on munities. It is time to stand turn that energy on to their blackness, their his- up for what is right. Let’s community and political tory; if they have contempt stop the violence, and chan- activism, then it’s all over for their fathers and moth- nel the anger into construc- for them. ers, if they do nothing but tive efforts that will better Prisons are being built engage in self-congratula- ourselves. We can no longer all across America for an- tory narratives and music look for handouts. Wake up, gry youth. I urge you, I about themselves and imag- get up and do something posi- plead with you ... don’t do ine that they are actually tive with your life. it! It is not worth your free- any threat to this society or All of you have talents dom ... stop the violence that they have any future in and skills and can be valu- and channel your energy it simply by talking nega- able leaders to our commu- and time into making our tive, then they are not our nity. It’s not in the older community, your commu- future, they are our fate. generation’s best interest to nity, your home a better My young brothers and cultivate a hip-hop genera- place. December 27, 2006 The Sojourner’s Truth Page 13 Album Review Nas Hip Hop Is Dead (parental advisory) (Continued from Page 10)

And that’s what makes bums the legacy was tar- ally understandable. his promise. says that he refuses to ever Nas’ story interesting. nished in a big way. But when you come out Street’s Disciple (Nas’ back to the hood just for How do you handle I personally think he fell like that, especially after join- only double album and most street cred. your career after you re- off with Nastradamus … ing the label headed by your recent release until now) had “Streets keep trying to wish that they would col- establish an entire coast like, he was teeter tottering former foe turned friend … a song called “The Un-au- say, come back around this laborate far more often. with just one album? on the edge with some of the you’ve got to come with thorized biography of way .. I’ve already gone that It’s probably not as How do you live up to things he did but that one some material that’s sure to Rakim” and it was one of way, I won’t go back again” mind blowing as the minds the hype of being labeled right there was it for me. please. my most favorite hip-hop – says the chorus of hip-hop fanatics have as the next coming of Ya’ll already know the You’ve got to validate that songs of the last 10 years – (with wifey on the hook dreamt it up to be, but is a Rakim? whole Nas/Jay Z beef from claim by making an album no doubt. sounding better than ever!) true joining of two of the How do you maintain start to finish so I won’t even guaranteed to resuscitate this And at the end he says This song is so ill he even best rappers of any and all the artistic integrity and go there. culture’s core elements as that his next album will have talks about how embarrassed time. deep thinking approach But even though he’s been they lay dying on the floor. an unauthorized biography he is when he thinks back on Hip Hop Is Dead is you’ve become known for through battles, even though This is more than just dope of K.R.S. One. You gotta his materialism. more than just a hot al- while trying to stay afloat he’s labeled as a walking beats and dope rhymes. really see why that’s so leg- One of the most interest- bum… it’s an important in the materialistic 90’s contradiction (which he This has to be what Jay Z endary and I’ve been waiting rap songs I’ve ever heard album. rap game? speaks to in his recent article called an “event album.” ing for it but here is his next in my entire life is “Who I won’t even go into fur- By the turn of the cen- with XXL – a must read!), One thing I can say about album and it’s nowhere to be Killed It?” ther detail. tury, Nas was still a gifted and even though he has to Nas and Jay Z’s albums this found. It’s crazy… Nas goes into You need to learn if you MC with more platinum fight to be heard in an indus- year is that they are better Street’s Disciple actually thespian mode and spends don’t know. plaques than 90 percent of try inundated with pure gar- than anything out in 2006 had more moving material an entire song adopting the You need to listen if all the rappers you could bage that the 106 & Park even though they don’t sound than Hip Hop Is Dead even dialect of a 1950’s detective you already know. find. But he was not a crowd willfully remains ad- like what you’d typically though this album seems to from some ‘who done it’ type End the year on a high mogul with his hand in dicted to …. even with all expect from them. But that’s be based on a more personal of mystery movie as he pieces note and help save this multiple business affairs, that, you’ve got to take it a good thing. platform. together evidence to find hip- music we love by support- at that time he wasn’t dat- pretty damn serious when Why would you expect However, this is Nas. hop’s killer. ing a true artist who has ing a female celebrity and someone of Nas’ stature 10 + year veterans to keep And this is a remarkable On one hand, it borders something to say. even after a starring role names his album Hip Hop Is sounding the same way they album with classic material. on ridiculous but, then again, in Belly he still wasn’t a Dead. did when they rose to the top “Not Going Back” is the it’s actually a perfect way to The true grade for Nas’ red-carpet type of rap fig- That’s deep. of the game? first entire song I’ve heard get his message across. Hip Hop Is Dead is A-. ure. That’s serious. One thing I’m not happy where one of the kings of “Black Republican” with After all of those al- That’s… hell, it’s actu- about is that he didn’t keep the rap game just blatantly Jay Z is enough to make you [email protected]

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Medical Assistant Assistant Director Single Family Home Alumni Relations Seeking dedicated professional to provide medi- The University of Toledo 3 Beds, 1 bath, full basement. cal assistant and front desk services at our hospital- affiliated outpatient office, Children’s Safe Har- Job # 996720: This full-time position has re- bor. Duties include greeting clients, answering 1535 Buckingham, 43607 sponsibility for developing and maintaining alumni phones, scheduling appointments, and taking blood Reduced to $22K affiliates (primarily on the Health Science Campus) pressure and other vitals. Requires current medical and some chapters, including planning, organiza- assistant certificate plus two years recent office phone 248-250-0179 tion, record keeping, and on-going support and experience. Must be proficient and accurate in data liaison services. 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(ABLE), a non-profit law firm that classified in sources Department, Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390; provides free legal assistance to low-income people, seeks a full-time executive The Fax (419) 530-1490; or email [email protected], assistant for its Toledo office. The executive assistant will provide administrative which is preferred. Use only one method of applica- support to the Executive Director, including office support, scheduling, record Sojourner’s tion. Resumes must be received by Friday, January keeping, communications, meeting planning, travel planning, support for Board 5, 2007. of Trustees, and other related work. Truth Candidates must have a four or two year degree or equivalent experience. A Call Aida at The University of Toledo is an Equal Access, minimum of five years of experience as an administrative professional or in a role Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer and supporting a senior executive or leadership team is desired. Excellent leader- 419-243-0007 Educator. ship communication, interpersonal, analytical, and time management skills. Demonstrated ability to work independently and with a team of professionals, determine appropriate priorities, and complete projects accurately, efficiently, and timely. Excellent writing skills required; must be able to prepare reports and Director, Grants Development internal and external communications. A high level of proficiency in office software systems; ability to work well with low-income clients. Salary depends The University of Toledo on experience. Excellent fringe benefits. Send resume as soon as possible to Attention: ABLE Executive Assistant, electronically preferred in Microsoft Word Job # 996754: The Director of Grants Development, reporting to the Vice format, to: President for Research Development, is responsible for organizing and preparing multi-investigator and primarily interdisciplinary grant proposals of high [email protected] or institutional priority. It is expected that most proposals will request in excess of ABLE Executive Assistant Position $1 million. These will include proposals to bring funding into the institution (as c/o ABLE Recruitment Coordinator opposed to single investigator proposals) and major proposals from the faculty 520 Madison Ave. Ste. 740 that require dedicated assistance from the University (such as proposals for Toledo, OH 43604 Wright Centers of Innovation that are $20-$25 million proposals). The Director of Grants Development is responsible for supervising the University Research Equal access to ABLE offices is available. Those applicants requiring Awards and Fellowship Program and for managing the Research Council accommodation in the interview/application process should contact the Recruit- review process that results in the distribution of funds to faculty at the main ment Coordinator, at the address listed above. EOE campus to support research and scholarship. The Director of Grants Develop- ment will work with the Vice President for Research Development in organizing and preparing annual congressional research projects as well as the prepara- Public Notice tion of the Annual Congressional Briefing Book. The Director of Grants Development will also be available to review and comment on proposals from In accordance with Sections 329.06 (B)(3)and 5101.46 (D) of the Ohio Revised Code; faculty to increase their probability of funding. The Director of Grants and Section 5101:2-25-03 (D) of The Ohio Administrative Code, the Lucas County Development will work with the Vice President for Research Development and Department of Job and Family Services will hold a Public Hearing prior to the other key administrators to identify opportunities that must be a high institutional submission of the County’s Final Social Service Profile to the Ohio Department of Job priority and develop a plan to organize work teams to prepare proposals for such and Family Services for incorporation in the Comprehensive Social Services Plan for the opportunities. The person in the position will organize and supervise meetings State of Ohio. of appropriate faculty and staff to respond to funding opportunities and serve as the central point of contact for the preparation of proposals. This will include PURPOSE: To highlight pertinent information regarding social services needs in the community bringing various sections drafted by other individuals into a coherent document, through public testimony for the County’s two year Social Service Plan. checking budget information against project plans and timelines, and pulling all information together in the approved format for Office of Research approval and DATE: January 9, 2007 submission. TIME: 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm LOCATION: Lucas County Department of Job & Family Services The successful applicant must posses a Master’s Degree with a doctoral 3210 Monroe Street, Toledo, Ohio degree preferred. The individual must have at least three years experience in th 4 Floor, Toledo Room an organization with success in grant proposal writing and submission. 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Page 16 The Sojourner’s Truth December 27, 2006 Oldest African-American Fraternity Commemorates 100th Anniversary Special to The Truth On December 4, 1906, the first intercollegiate Greek- letter fraternity for African- Joe and Jettie Sansbury Americans, Alpha Phi Al- pha Fraternity, Inc., was founded at Cornell Univer- sity in Ithaca, NY by seven college men who recognized the need for a bond of broth- erhood among African de- scendants in this country. The “Jewels” of the fraternity – Henry Arthur Martine Harmon, vice president of Alpha Xi Lambda Callis, Charles Henry Chapter; Emmanuel Brown, assistant Midwest Regional Chapman, Eugene Kinckle VP; Daryl Peal, Midwest Regional VP and Joe Conley, Jones, George Biddle president, Alpha Xi Lambda Chapter Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Tandy – began a tradition that would serve for decades drew Young, William Gray, Douglass Community Center. 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DuBois, Adam Lambda Chapter of the Alpha nity involvement on Satur- son, Ph.D., Dr. Fred Guy, Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward Phui Alpha Fraternity in To- day. The evening brought a DDS and Eric Stockard of Clockwise bottom left: AKA President Julia Holt, Delta Brooke, Martin Luther King, ledo. That chartering took Black and Gold Centennial Central Catholic High Sigma Theta President Bettina Shuford, Ph.D., Regina Jr., Thurgood Marshall, An- place at the Frederick Ball – a black tie affair. School. Peal, Ph.D., and Lisa Dubose