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State Senate CCOMMENCEMENT SSEASON kills two Confederate monument bills Efforts to block the removal of Confederate monuments across the state took a major hit Wednesday in Baton Rouge when a Louisiana Senate commit - tee killed two bills seeking to preserve the Photo courtesy of Dillard University monuments after a racially charged five- DR. SAMUEL DUBOIS COOK hour debate that was filled with impas - sioned pleas and arguments from those on both sides of the issue. In the end, monu - ment supporters were unable to persuade the majority-Democrat committee that Photos by Irving Johnson III\ courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana Dr. Samuel Louisiana needs laws to protect symbols of white supremacy and racial oppression. Four Black Democrats on the six-mem - On May 13, the 2017 Class of Xavier Dubois Cook, ber committee — three from New Orleans University received their diplomas and one from Shreveport —carried the during that University’s 90th Annual decision in a 4-2 vote that killed both bills. Commencement. This year’s class was former Dillard The bills by State Rep. Thomas comprised of 527 graduates which Carmody, R-Shreveport, and State Sen. included 45 Summa Cum Laude University Beth Mizell, R-Franklinton, were heard scholars. And of that number, eight had in a single hearing because Senate and earned a perfect GPA. Louisiana’s Governmental Affairs Committee Second Congressional District president, dies Chairwoman Karen Carter Peterson Congressman and Chairman of the By James Sebastien thought they were similar enough to be Congressional Black Caucus Cedric Contributing Writer lumped together. Richmond delivered the commencement Peterson, who also heads the Louisiana address. Dr. C. Reynold Verret serves as On the 29th of May, 2017, the world lost president of Xavier University. a titan in education, when Dr. Samuel Continued on Pg. 15 DuBois Cook died at the age of 88. Dr. Cook was a key figure in New Orleans; he guided Dillard University for 22 years as the school’s President from 1974 to 1997. In his time walking this earth, Samuel Cook was a man regarded for not only his work as an educator, but also as a writer, Trump budget would devastate Southern communities political scientist and civil rights activist. By Olivia Paschal Southern politicians in both parties, as well as profit. “The budget strikes particularly at tribal Cook was born in Griffin, Georgia on the Contributing Writer advocates for the poor, immigrants, and other and rural communities. Many of these commu - 21st of November in the year of 1928 to the vulnerable populations in the South. nities, in decline for decades, are now awash in Rev. Marcus Emanuel Cook and Mary Cook. (Special from Facing South) — Last month, “Vast proposed cuts to federal housing pro - a national opioid crisis and are far-removed Samuel’s father inculcated in him the impor - the Trump administration released its compre - grams couple with a wholesale ripping of the from Wall Street’s economic recovery.” tance of education, which set him on his path hensive budget proposal, optimistically titled social safety net for the most vulnerable,” Southern communities where poverty rates for greatness at the age of 15, when he was “A New Foundation for American Greatness.” wrote Moises Loza, executive director of the accepted into an early-admissions program at The budget was immediately condemned by Housing Assistance Council, a national non - Continued on Pg. 10 Continued on Pg. 15 P h o

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Dentistry sees patients at prices deter - THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM June 5 - June 11, 2017 Charbonnet enters Mayor’s race : Money vs. Campaign Infrastructure By Christopher Tidmore Mortgages and her subsequent Democratic endorsements, as he from Charbonnet (released just contest, even despite the palat - Contributing Writer decade on the bench, Charbonnet did running citywide in 2013, so as the TV stations were setting able desire in the city’s African- still loses the title of the “experi - strong are his relationships with up at the former Municipal American community to elect a Municipal Court Chief Judge enced steady hand” in this year’s party leaders on both sides—grate - Judge’s announcement party at Black mayor. Contributors did Desiree Charbonnet resigned her race to former Civil District Court ful he took on Landrieu. the Sheraton), Cantrell pro - not wish to commit too soon. post on Friday, May 19, and Chief Judge Michael Bagneris. It was a point that Bagneris did claimed that New Orleans politi - The recent “fake subpoena” announced her candidacy for Her mayoral rival denies her the not hesitate to make on the cal “Godfather” Bob Tucker had scandal has lessened the likeli - Mayor of New Orleans the fol - unique distinction of being the author’s radio program just 34 joined the Councilwoman’s team hood of a Cannizzaro run, but his lowing Monday, May 22. She sole jurist seeking office, and stops hours before Charbonnet’s as Campaign Chairman; veteran flirtation with a bid has exhaust - jumped into the race to succeed Charbonnet from constructing a announcement. At 8 AM Sunday communications specialist and ed the very months which most Mitch Landrieu despite the fact broad bipartisan coalition in the on WRNO 99.5 FM, the day prior, political strategist Bill Rouselle candidates normally use to build that establishment backing and fight to be the “establishment” the Judge said of both of his oppo - had come on board with up campaign warchests for the outsider anger have already candidate. The former CDC Judge nents, “I believe the audience Cantrell’s bid as Chief fall. Not a lot of time remains to begun to coalesce behind her is both better known citywide and knows my experience has pre - Strategist; former Gambit politi - fundraiser. Qualifying comes two opponents—Michael enjoys stronger ties with the lead - pared me for this office more than cal reporter David Winkler- quickly on July 12-14, with the Bagneris and LaToya Cantrell. ership of both parties. anyone who has announced… or Schmit had taken the position of Mayoral primary October 14. Charbonnet, the scion of a storied Recent history proves that fact. plans to announce.” Communications Director, Candidates will have to start air - Creole political dynasty, can best Bagneris managed to construct a Charbonnet’s repeated citywide Loyola’s veteran guru Dr. Silas ing their TV ads by Labor Day at her two more prominent rivals in coalition four years ago ranging runs for Recorder and Judge Lee would serve as Cantrell’s the latest. For that, they need only one area. Nevertheless, it is a from white Republicans to Black failed to impress Bagneris, who CHARBONNET pollster; former “Hillary for hundreds of thousands of dol - category that most observers con - Democrats in his attempt to unseat faced the voters similarly, and America” staffer Jessica lars—which so far remain in the sider the most important: Money. Mitch Landrieu. He has a good knows memories of those type of his Mayoral bid in 2013 provided a Montgomery would become her bank accounts of the city’s polit - Notwithstanding her 10 years in chance of repeating his feat of elections are short. name ID that Charbonnet will find Field Director; and one of the ical financer class. politics as the City’s Recorder of winning both the official GOP and On the contrary, he contended, hard to match. “I wouldn’t say architects of BR Mayor Sharon LaToya Cantrell had garnered that she is unknown, but I don’t Weston Broome’s victory Ryan just $100,000 in her previous know about citywide. She may be West would assume the Finance reporting period, a pittance. known in political circles, but I Directorship for the Currently, Michael Bagneris’ cam - don’t know if she’s know by the Councilwoman’s campaign. paign account is hardly more voters… You can run for office And then she added for the flush. As a Charbonnet, though, NAACP former president is and six months later, no one knows benefit of the media who were Desiree might prove the exception who you are in today’s market.” about to attend Charbonnet’s 230 to this wave of financial drought. Bagneris argued that winning 33 person-strong event at the She already possesses a health saddened but not bitter after percent of the vote against Sheraton, that Cantrell would campaign warchest, and her fami - Landrieu, comprised almost soon meet with even more sup - ly’s political connections mean equally of large portions of both porters — as her “LaToya that there is a cohort of refusal to renew his contract the white and Black electorates, Listens” neighborhood tour Charbonnets who could demon - despite being outspent by $2 mil - commenced in June. “You need strate their appreciation for sup - By Hazel Trice Edney Derrick Johnson, vice-chairman lion, provides him with a political to meet the people where they port of their sister, regardless of Contributing Writer of the NAACP board of directors, base this year. “If I receive just are and that’s in our neighbor - her mayoral victory or defeat. in the statement. the votes that I earned four years hoods,” chided Cantrell. “I’m It is perhaps a sign for her finan - (TriceEdneyWire.com) — “These changing times require us ago, I will make the runoff,” he not interested in a lot of fanfare. cial potential that State Sen. Troy NAACP President Cornell to be vigilant and agile, but we contended. Essentially, the former I want to listen to our people and Carter abandoned his own consid - William Brooks says he is sad - have never been more committed CDC Judge maintained that find out what they need so eration of a bid for the city’s Chief dened and disappointed by the or ready for the challenges ahead. Charbonnet does not have the time everyone in New Orleans can Executive post to endorse the now- board’s decision to not renew his We know that our hundreds of to build the same degree of voter reach their full potential.” former Municipal Court Judge. contract at the end of June, but he thousands of members and sup - ID in the next six months that There is just one problem with His first words at the Sheraton, refuses to be bitter because he porters expect a strong and Bagneris earned over the last four the popular support that both introducing Desiree, noted, how - believes he gave his all to the civil resilient NAACP moving forward, years by becoming the champion Bagneris and Cantrell have each ever, that the Charbonnet clan first rights organization that he loves. as our organization has been in the of the anti-Landrieu electorate. locked up. Money has not fol - arrived in New Orleans in the “I am saddened by the decision, past, and it remains our mission to Nor will Charbonnet be able to lowed. Campaign contributions 1790s. Familial connections disappointed by the decision, but I ensure the advancement of com - easily claim the “outsider” posi - have been astonishingly hard to emphasized to the crowd, Sen. will never be bitter about the deci - munities of color in this country,” tion in this mayoral contest. come by this season. Carter then spoke of Desiree’s sac - sion because I am totally, totally said Russell, the chair. District B Councilwoman When Charbonnet said at her rifice in standing for mayor instead confident in the record of our folks Brooks, a Yale Law School grad - LaToya Cantrell reminded the announcement at the Sheraton, “I of seeking a vacant seat on the over the past three years,” he said uate and AME preacher, says he former Municipal Court Judge of am not asking you to vote for me state 4th Circuit Court of Appeal in an interview with the Trice has no idea where he will go from that fact last Monday just hours because I am a woman, but “because this city needs strong, Edney News Wire last week. “I here. He easily listed his NAACP BROOKS before Charbonnet’s announce - because I am the right woman and effective, honest leadership, she think I gave my heart and soul.” accomplishments of which he is ment at the Sheraton Hotel on the right person, at the right time,” chose to pass on the easier road, The organization announced in a proud. They include: you want the best for it. I want Canal St. To remove any doubts her claim promised to be more and take on the great challenge.” press release on May 19 that it • A membership that has grown the best for the NAACP. My love over the seriousness of than just rhetoric. It’s financial. Perhaps, it is also a sign of her vast would not renew Brook’s contract annually over the past three years for the people of the NAACP Cantrell’s bid for Mayor, the For months, potential contribu - financial potential in the race for when it expires June 30. and is currently up 95 percent over exceeds the disappointment of Councilwoman loudly touted tors have kept their pocketbooks Mayor that Desiree Charbonnet’s “Keeping with its longstanding last year. not being able to continue serv - that seasoned political talent was closed, in a worry that Orleans first mayoral fundraiser on history, and legacy, the NAACP • Online donations up 820 per - ing,” he said. “This is a painful joining her existing neighbor - District Attorney Leon Wednesday, May 31, 2017 occurred Board announced today a trans - cent. moment, but my wife and I have hood activist base, in an effort to Cannizzaro might make a bid for at the same famed 7th Ward restau - formational, system-wide refresh • Direct mail up 20 percent. prayed about it. It says in the undermine perceptions of her Mayor. An opponent of Mitch rant from which Michael Bagneris and strategic re-envisioning. The • Social media followers grow - book of Jeremiah, “For I know “connected” rival. Landrieu’s with strong backing in proudly announced his candidacy objective is to best position the ing 25-30 percent a year. the plans I have for you, plans to In a well-timed press release the middle-class white and Black four weeks ago, at Dooky Chase’s. respected national organization to • A new partnership with Yale give you a future and a hope.”◊ designed to rob media attention communities would dominate a The cost was $5000 per person.◊ confront the realities of today’s Law School to address sentencing volatile political, media and and reapportionment issues. social climates,” the statement • 10 victories against voter said. “Board Chairman Leon W. suppression within a year, Russell and Vice Chair Derrick including unjust North Carolina Johnson, who were elected to and Texas laws. their current positions in • He says his radical strategies February 2017, will manage the served to energize civil rights organization on an interim basis activists and advocates. Brooks until a new leader is named. was arrested twice amidst civil dis - Current CEO and President obedience strategies, namely sit- Cornell Brooks, will remain at ins in the office of then ultra con - the organization until June 30th, servative Sen. Jeff Sessions. He the end of his current term.” walked 800 miles in a “journey for Brooks had received an advance justice” two years ago. letter informing him that the board “When you walk 800 miles, you may not renew his contract prior sleep in a sleeping bag, talk to mil - to a board meeting held in Miami lennials and pre-millennials, May 19. But the second letter with churches and synagogues. When their final decision and then the you have students boo you off the public announcement still came as stage in Ferguson … because a shock to Brooks, who had everybody on stage was old … and become known for bringing 1960s then you turn around and march style protests, such as sit-ins, into with those same students, you the 21st century with the partici - have learned a lot. You learn about pation of millennials. the importance of not just saying The NAACP release made no you’re supporting young people, direct reference to Brooks’ per - but showing up. What I’ve tried to formance. Only that the 108- do over these past three years was year-old organization now faces show up,” Brooks says. “additional barriers” that “have Most recently, the NAACP has been placed in our way in the advocated against conservative forms of voter suppression: nominations by Trump, increased police brutality, over remained outspoken against criminalization of black bodies, police misconduct, involved in income inequality and inade - the Flint water crisis, and voting quate health care as well as anti- rights among other issues. immigrant sentiments.” “We’re in the black, we’re visi - The organization announced ble, we’re vocal,” Brooks said. that it will engage in a “listening Brooks and is wife have two tour” of its members for the first sons, one an undergraduate in col - time in its history before it hires lege and one a high school senior. a new president. Though he is not certain what he “In the coming months, the will do next, he hinted that he NAACP will embark upon a his - plans to remain in civil rights. toric national listening tour to “I don’t like this work. I don’t ensure that we harness the energy have an affection for this work. I and voices of our grassroots love this work. And I’m going to members, to help us achieve do that. Not sure where,” he transformational change, and cre - said. Despite having to leave the ate an internal culture designed to NAACP, he says he will not push the needle forward on civil become bitter. rights and social justice,” said “If you really love an institution, THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - June 5 - June 11, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3 Carver students publish book to document life in New Orleans By Michael Patrick Welch ry of our school, Carver,” there,” says Parrie. “He loves Orleans/ with all the parades, the book’s editorial board. “The Contributing Writer says Parrie. “We’re across teenagers and working with food, and memories left behind./ I board was there to make sure that the street from a landfill, them.” In that way, Laymon’s love and hate New Orleans at the the stories were up to date and Some writers toil their entire which to me is very symbol - presence was important in moti - same time. Many different/ things ready to be put in a book,” says lives without ever seeing their ic; Carver’s creative contri - vating a class that had signed up turn me off about New Orleans, Johnson. “That’s after I read and work appreciated, or even pub - bution to this area was for a history course, not a writing but the major one is police/ bru - categorized all of the stories.” lished. A few rare, fortunate writ - teaching farmers how to use course. “His presence indicated to tality. New Orleans is paying Johnson says this one experience ers have their writing published depleted soil. We too are on them that they were working on $13.3 million to deal with differ - publishing a book has encom - before they even know they are a site of exhausted soil, and something big and meaningful,” ent/ cases of police brutality, pas sed many experiences. “I feel writers. This past May saw the the students are giving it life Parrie says. “Initially, I found which is sad because we trust like this project could get me very publication of the book History with this book. I see this some of the students hesitant to these men in/ blue uniforms to far just by me having the experi - Between These Folds , written by project fitting into that lega - write, they had some trepidations protect us. But hey! Gotta love ence of writing a book and seeing the 11th-graders of George cy of Carver.” at first. But over time, the project New Orleans. how it’s all put together,” says Washington Carver High School. After a winter spent brain - really transformed the students’ “I was originally writing a letter Johnson. “I now feel like I can do Last winter, Big Class, the storming, producing feed - idea of what was possible in their to New Orleans to put out how I any job dealing with writing. If I or ganization behind the popular back and conferencing one- classroom. Expressing what was feel about everything that is want to write another book I “Pizza Poetry” project, put out a call on-one with the students, important to them, for some kids, going on… then it hit me that I could — I mean, I know it will for high school teachers willing to Parrie brought in author it really helped them forge a new wanted to tell the story of my sis - take a lot longer because I’d be help students write and publish a Kiese Laymon, who work - identity as a writer.” ter,” says Johnson, who wrote of doing it by myself. But still I book that would document their shopped with the kids and helped Paris Johnson, a Carver junior her deceased sister, “Since you’re know I could do it. ” school, their city and their young them understand that their give the book shape, in the form whose letter to New Orleans opens gone I want to let you know that I Most valuable of all, however, lives — not unlike the famous moment of U.S. history is right of seven categories: Parade and the book, agrees. “Growing up I know it was painful, living with may be the feeling the project Neighborhood Story Project series now. I saw this project as a way to Funeral (Stories of New Orleans), always made poetry and I wrote people who accepted nothing has given the students, including of books written by kids, New connect the normal work we were David and Goliath (Stories of many pieces,” says Johnson. “I about you or anything you. Did young Paris Johnson. “Being so Orleans Black Indians and other doing in history with events from Overcoming Obstacles), Sanity even went to some open-mic you ever try to talk to them?” young and having a book with important community figures. their own pasts, to show them the and Insanity (Stories of Tragedy), nights with Mr. Parrie before I Johnson also learned some tech - my name in it,” she says, “is Though he is not an English importance of what we remem - My Blood and My Enemies wrote and we did this book. But nical trade tips, while serving on really awesome.”◊ teacher but a history teacher, ber, and how we remember it.” (Stories of Family), Gone and Here this book project really helped Eric Parrie nonetheless accepted Parrie also thought this particular (Stories of Rebirth), Yesterday’s ignite was what already in me.” Big Class’ literary challenge on challenge would be a great way to Tomorrow and Tomorrow’s And what was in Paris Johnson behalf of his students. teach his students the history of the Yesterday (Stories of History), Yin was profound, as evidenced by her “I was working to help them see land on which they live, so that and Yang (Stories of Identity). rumination on City Park: the similarities between the histo - they could in turn teach that histo - Parrie says Laymon provided Many of those trees the families ry we’d been learning and the ry to others through their writing. much more than just structure. sit under were trees where slaves/ writing we’re doing for the “At the beginning of the year I “There’s electricity crackling were hung for “being bad,” but book,” says Parrie. “I tried to help talked to them a lot about the histo - across the classroom when he’s boy oh boy you gotta love New

NOPD fighting a losing battle, MCC study finds The New Orleans Police arrests within that category drop - won’t, we have a problem.” as a priority. We are proud of this Department’s efforts to get a ping by 55 pe rcent. Glasser and others are anticipat - focus rather than regressive prac - handing on a sharp rise in violent Those numbers perhaps explain ing that low troop strength will tices like ‘stop and frisk’ that crime is being impeded by its whey there were more fatal drug remain a persistent problem. increase arrests while violating continuing struggle to retain offi - overdoses than homicides commit - Current NOPD recruiting numbers the rights of citizens and further cers in the midst of a severe man - ted in New Orleans in 2016. The support those claims. driving a wedge between the power shortage, according to the NOPD is still implementing a fed - WWL reported that the NOPD set police and community. Metropolitan Crime Commission. erally mandated, 492-point consent a goal of hiring 150 officers for the “The Metropolitan Crime According to the study, the decree aimed at raising the trou - past two years and budgeted accord - Commission fails to tell the full NOPD’s manpower shortage is bled police department to federal ingly. But not only did the depart - story about anything including our directly linked to the rise in violent standards for constitutional polic - ment fall short both years, the num - efforts to bolster the manpower crime as well as a dramatic drop in ing, which began in August 2013. ber of officers leaving the depart - and resources to our police. Since the number of arrests. Despite the NOPD’s ongoing ment almost matched the new hires, 2010, police have received a 15 According to the study, violent woes and challenges, Goyeneche leaving the NOPD stag nant. percent raise, we have had 12 new crime rose by 27 percent between said the department has improved Recruiting prospects for 2017 recruit classes and added 300 2013 and 2015, based on data from its record with regard to arresting don’t appear much better. No recruit graduates. Currently, we the Uniform Crime Reports the violent felons (44 percent) and new academy classes have been have 37 recruits in the academy. NOPD submitted to the FBI. raised the number of cases accept - launched in 2017, and the only “On funding, the NOPD’s budget WWL News reported that during ed by the Orleans Parish District group currently in classroom has increased seven straight years to an overlapping period from 2013 Attorney’s Office from 73 percent training are nine recruits who help make our neighborhoods safer. to 2016, overall arrests dropped by in 2013 to 81 percent in 2015. were hired on Dec. 30. In 2010, the total NOPD budget 44 percent, although arrests for “This problem is not because NOPD officials said a new class was $109M. Today it stands at violent crime during the same peri - police officers are sitting in of about 28 officers is expected to $150M, to include $11M for over - od only dropped by 16 percent. donut shops or not working, it’s start on June 5, but that will do time and to pay for more than 20 Among the factors that have that there’s not enough of them,” little to boost the numbers with - new civilian positions. been attributed to the sharp drop Goyeneche said. out a dramatic hiring surge. “We recognize the work needed in the number of arrests has been This steep decline in felony nar - Donovan Livaccari, spokesman to make our communities safer and the NOPD’s deep cuts to its traf - cotics arrests is directly tied to the for the Fraternal Order of Police, we’re working every day to make fic and narcotics units in individ - NOPD manpower shortage, told WWL that something dramatic that happen. No one can demo that ual districts in response to the Goyeneche said. The department may be needed if the NOPD wants when looking at the facts.”◊ department’s manpower shortage. stands at 1,159 officers, down from to avoid a “crisis.” Along with Until last year, the NOPD had 1,540 officers in 2010. Glasser, he is advocating a pay been losing officers to defec - The decline was initially raise for existing officers, stretched tions, retirement, termination brought on by a hiring freeze out over several years to boost and arrests faster than it could imposed by Mayor Mitch retention as well as recruiting. replace them and the department Landrieu to address a budget cri - “It’s absolutely the core prob - has lost more than 400 officers sis. Even with a recent recruiting lem,” Livaccari said. “The number since New Orleans Mayor Mitch push to boost the numbers, the of officers that we have impacts Landrieu took office in 2010. department has remained deplet - every aspect of the police depart - “Traffic and drug enforcement ed due to attrition and a national ment, from moral to enforcement. have gone off a cliff. There’s virtu - shortage of qualified applicants It’s absolutely true that a police ally none,” said MCC President seeking to join law enforcement. department’s best recruiting tool is Rafael Goyeneche. “When you “The problem comes when the word-of-mouth from existing don’t have proactive policing, you you’re 500 officers short, these are officers and, right now, that’s not don’t have officers engaging with the areas that you start to suffer in, working in our favor.” some of the offenders until they such as proactive policing,” The City of New Orleans commit violent crimes.” NOPD Capt. Michael Glasser, released a response to the report According to the report, felony president of the Police Association late Monday evening: arrests within the NOPD have of New Orleans, told WWL. “As the Metropolitan Crime dropped by 16 percent since “Unless the staffing improves dra - Commission points out, the 2013, with felony narcotics matically, and it hasn’t, and it NOPD is attacking violent crime Settlement over protesters’ arrests gets initial approval (AP) — A federal judge last week it his final approval. announced last July that roughly preliminarily approved a proposed Police arrested nearly 200 peo - 100 arrested protesters wouldn’t be settlement resolving a class action ple at protests in Baton Rouge prosecuted on that charge. that accuses law enforcement after a white police officer shot Besides the cash payments, the agencies in Louisiana’s capital of and killed Alton Sterling, a 37- deal also calls for expunging violating the constitutional rights year-old Black man, during a their criminal records free of of protesters who were arrested struggle outside a convenience charge. Plaintiffs’ attorney Roy after a deadly police shooting. store on July 5, 2016. Rodney Jr. said that is the most Black Lives Matter activist DeRay The Justice Department investi - important component of the deal Mckesson is one of nearly 80 arrest - gated the shooting and announced because it ensures a criminal ed protesters who are eligible for earlier in May that it won’t file record won’t follow the arrested cash payments ranging from $500 to criminal charges against the two protesters, many of whom are $1,000 if the settlement gets the officers who struggled with young adults. court’s final approval. Sterling. Louisiana Attorney “In this case, they weren’t doing U.S. Magistrate Judge Erin General Jeff Landry’s office is anything wrong,” he said Tuesday. Wilder-Doomes said the agree - investigating whether any state The lawsuit, filed last August, ment “appears fair in all charges are warranted. claims police advanced against respects.” U.S. District Judge The settlement’s class is limited peaceful protesters while wear - John W. DeGravelles is sched - to protesters who were arrested ing military gear and gas masks uled to hold a Sept. 21 hearing only on charges of obstructing a and brandishing assault weapons before deciding whether to give highway. The local district attorney alongside armored vehicles.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 4 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM June 5 - June 11, 2017 Black man’s burden By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor

NBA great LeBron James got a reminder last week about what some members of the larger society think about him. The Cleveland Cavaliers standout’s pricey home in the exclusive Brentwood neigh - borhood where Orenthal James Simpson once resided was hit with a little domestic terrorism by someone who spray-painted the ‘N-word’ on the gate of the $20 million home. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department said the inci - dent occurred Wednesday morning. Interestingly, someone painted over the racial slur before police arrived. Talk about a slap in the face. Bron-Bron, as the athlete is affectionately known by fellow athletes, fans S and members of the sports media, seemed to take it all in stride, telling reporters “if this is to shed a light on and continuing to keep the conver -

N sation going on my behalf then I’m okay with it. “My family is safe, they’re safe and that’s the most Important thing,” he added. “But it just goes to show you that racism will always be a part of O the world, a part of America. You know hate in America, especially for I African Americans, is living every day. Even though it’s concealed most of the time, you know people hide their faces and will say things about you

N and when they see you they smile in your face. It’s alive every single day.” Remembering the Life and I James, whose primary residence is in Bath, Ohio, might have been caught off-guard if he had not had humble beginnings in a single-par - Legacy of John F. Kennedy P ent home in Ohio and had not been openly criticized by the Cleveland “One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the Cavaliers’ owner and some of its fans on social media after announc - slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed ing his decision to leave Cleveland to play for the Miami Heat sever - from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic O al years ago. oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.” He didn’t let any of that stop him from excelling on the basketball —— President John F. Kennedy court and in the business sector, earning several NBA championships “Radio and Television Report to The American People on Civil Rights.” June 11, 1963 & and laying the foundation for a multimillion-dollar empire with his for - mer childhood friends. By Marc H. Morial Last week he talked about his plans to discuss what happened at the President/CEO, The National Urban League MORIAL Brentwood home with his sons, who he says are now old enough to S The trajectory and predominate narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in our nation process that information and use it as an invaluable teachable moment. was forever marked by a single day. That is a lesson that all Black folks should pay close attention to as Just after midnight, in the earliest moments of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, a beloved civil rights racial incidents continue to occur across that nation and Black and leader, would be shot to death by a white supremacist in the driveway of his home. On that day, two L African Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, would finally register as students at the University Brown men, women and children are targeted by domestic terrorists, of Alabama under the federal protection of the Alabama National Guard. Earlier that evening, President law enforcement agencies, educational institutions, lawmakers and Kennedy, who had previously—and rightfully—been criticized by civil rights leaders for his tepid, the criminal justice system. ambivalent embrace of the grand ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement, had addressed our nation and A We can’t afford to allow our children and grandchildren to step out - cemented his place in American history as an advocate and partner in the civil rights struggles of African Americans. side of their homes without preparing and providing them with the tools The

I President Kennedy’s national address was not supposed to be they need to navigate through a complex system of laws, policies and delivered. Its broadcast depended on the outcome of the pro - Louisiana practices that make no apologies for operating under the 19th-century tracted battle happening on the campus of the University of Supreme Court ruling that said Black and Brown people have no rights Alabama over the enrollment of Malone and Hood. That morn - Weekly

R ing, both prospective students attempted to enroll in the univer - that whites are bound by law to respect. sity, but were met by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and a (USPS 320-680) Just as we prepare Black and Brown boys for inevitable encounters with phalanx of state troopers blocking the entrance to the universi - One of the oldest publications law enforcement officers and give them a blueprint for avoiding being ty’s campus. That infamous moment, now known as the “stand in the United States specifically for the in the schoolhouse door,” was a futile last stand for Gov. O gunned down, we need to prepare all Black and Brown children by mak - African-American Wallace, who pledged “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, community. ing certain they understand the history of these Disunited States and how segregation forever,” during his inaugural address the very race continues to matter in the 21st century. same year. Gov. Wallace stepped aside, Malone and Hood Since 1925

T Not only does race continue to matter today, it is important to note that enrolled later that day, and despite the favorable outcome from no amount of disposable income, educational achievement, professional this very public showdown in Alabama, the president resolved to address our nation and the “moral issue” of civil rights. RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL I achievement or anything else can shield any of us from racial hatred and To his credit, the president did more than provide lip service on President/Publisher disrespect. Sadly and tragically, it is not even about us. It is about the issues of inequality, discrimination, equal access to services, vot - EDMUND W. LEWIS need for a particular group of people to assert their dominance and supe - ing rights and more. President Kennedy went a step further and Editor proposed comprehensive civil rights legislation, declaring that

D riority over us. The self-esteem of those who oppress us is based upon DAVID T. BAKER “now the time has come for this Nation to fulfill its promise.” Associate Editor their ability to continue to subjugate, exploit and marginalize us. Fear for the passage of the Civil Rights Act led Kennedy initial - As frustrating and as infuriating as it was to learn that someone felt they ly to oppose the March on Washington. In June of 1963, civil SHARON ARMSTRONG

E needed to put LeBron James in “his place” by spray-painting the N-word rights leaders including National Urban League President on the gate of his Brentwood home, we should never forget that the chal - Whitney M. Young, K. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., SUSAN BUCHANAN and John Lewis, met with Kennedy and announced there would be FRITZ ESKER lenges we face go much deeper than some racial slur aimed at the NBA a March. Kennedy feared that any violence at the march would KARI HARDEN star and his family. We can never forget the insightful and powerful line by deter members of Congress from voting for the bill. The civil DELLA HASSELLE Esther Rolle’s character in the John Singleton film Rosewood in which rights leaders would not be deterred, and Kennedy’s enthusiasm MEGHAN HOLMES she observed that “N*gger is just another word for guilty.” for the March grew during the summer. The success of the March CHARMAINE JACKSON paved the way for passage of the Civil Rights Act. We should also understand that the racial slur on the James family FR. JEROME LeDOUX But Kennedy to see his civil rights bill passed. A bullet from BRITTANY ODOM gate pales in comparison to the economic injustice Black and Brown an assassin’s gun would cut his life short less than three months KELLY PARKER after the March. It was his successor, President Lyndon B. people face every day, to the seemingly never-ending list of innocent CHRISTOPHER TIDMORE and unarmed Black and Brown men, women and children being Johnson, who would pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited and outlawed racial discrimination and MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH gunned down like animals by cops as well as the mass incarceration, segregation in public accommodations, employment, public NAYITA WILSON educational apartheid and unconstitutional prosecution people of education and federally assisted programs. In his address to GERALDINE WYCKOFF color face every day in America. Congress, President Johnson declared, “we have talked long Contributing Writers/Columnists One thing that has not changed since the Historic Civil Rights enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for CHARLES SILER one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next Contributing Cartoonist Movement is the fact that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice chapter, and to write it in the books of law.” The act, the most PENNY JONES everywhere. sweeping civil rights legislation in the nation’s history since the Administrative Assistant Reconstruction era, laid the foundation for future progressive CHRISTOPHER D. HALL legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Business/Circulation By President Kennedy’s request, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law was formed. 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This immoral bud - and ensures coverage for 40 percent of our Program (SSI), which terrorism get declares war on America’s children, our children with special health care needs. more than 8 million By Julianne Malveaux most vulnerable group, and the foundation The budget also assumes passage of the children and adults TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist of our nation’s current and future economic, more than $800 billion additional cuts in with the most severe military and leadership security. It cruelly Medicaid included in the American Health disabilities depend on EDELMAN Twenty-two people died and more than 50 were injured when a dismantles and shreds America’s safety net Care Act for a total Medicaid massacre of to keep going. terrorist jihadist released a bomb at the Ariana Grande concert in laboriously woven over the past half centu - more than $1.4 trillion over ten years. Despite the President’s promise not to cut Manchester, England on May 22. The heinous act of terrorism was ry to help and give hope to the 14.5 million • Rips $5.7 billion from CHIP (Children’s Social Security, his budget cuts $48 billion condemned worldwide, as it should have been. Our 45th president children struggling today in a sea of pover - Health Insurance Program), which covers from Social Security Disability Insurance, was full of condemnation, although his very limited vocabulary ty, hunger, sickness, mis-education, home - nearly 9 million children in working families which assists, among others, grandparents only allowed him to call the perpetrators of the deadly attack lessness and disabilities. It slashes trillions ineligible for Medicaid. and other relatives raising children because “losers” (the same thing he called Rosie O’Donnell and Senator of dollars from health care, nutrition and • Snatches food out of the mouths and their parents cannot care Chuck Schumer). House Speaker Paul Ryan also condemned the other critical programs that give poor stomachs of hungry children by slicing for them. bombing in harsh terms and asked for a moment of silence to com - babies and children a decent foundation in $193 billion over ten years from the • Slashes job training memorate the “young and innocent” victims of terrorism. life to assure trillions of dollars in tax cuts Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program programs by $1.1 billion, C Just a few miles away from Capitol Hill, though, an outstanding for millionaires and billionaires and power - (SNAP), which some still call food stamps. or 40 percent, over 10 young Black man was massacred by an intoxicated and crazed racist. ful corporations who do not deserve mas - SNAP feeds nearly 46 million people years for youths, adults and Second Lt. Richard Collins III would have graduated from Bowie sive doses of government support. including nearly 20 million children. This dislocated workers. It den - State University on May 23, 2017. A distinguished part of the The cruel Trump budget invests more in cut is an unprecedented 25 percent reduc - igrates the concept of pub - O ROTC, he had received a commission as second lieutenant in the our military—already the most costly in tion in a core safety net program that in lic service jobs by eliminat - United States Army and planned to work in Army intelligence. I’m the world—but denies vulnerable children 2014 lifted 4.7 million people, including ing the Corporation for not comparing deaths, but I am suggesting that Collins was the vic - and youths the income, health care, food, 2.1 million children, out of poverty. National and Community tim of domestic terrorism. Terrorism, after all, is defined as “the housing and education supports they need • Chops $22 billion over ten years from Service, and with it M unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civil - to become strong future soldiers to defend TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy AmeriCorps, Vista and ians, in the pursuit of political aims.” The man who, unprovoked, our country. Seventy-one percent of our Families Program) including $6 billion that Senior Corps. stabbed Collins in the chest is little more than a domestic terrorist. 17- to 24 year-olds are now ineligible for eliminates the TANF Contingency Fund • Cuts federal education My vocabulary is a little more advanced than 45’s, so I won’t call military service, because of health and which helps support some of our neediest funding $9.2 billion in

the devil (I refuse to call his name) that stabbed Collins a loser. He education deficits. families. Slashes programs to assist families 2018 alone at a time when M is a monster; a disgusting, depraved and soulless piece of human President Trump invests in fighting those with housing and end homelessness by $7.4 a majority of children in all excrement. The death penalty is too good for him. I digress. he sees as outside enemies through billion, a 15 percent cut for 2018 including racial and economic groups The news in Washington, DC, has explored many aspects of the mas - weapons and walls and turns his back on $2.3 billion from Housing Choice Vouchers, cannot read or compute at sacre of Richard Collins III. It is impossible that House Speaker Ryan the internal enemies that threaten the basic which would leave more than 250,000 low grade level. It slashes $143

is unaware of the massacre. Yet Ryan has, to date, been silent about domestic needs of our people—health care, income households without them; $1.8 bil - billion over 10 years from E this terroristic massacre. So has the 45th President. So, for that mat - housing, education and jobs that pay living lion—nearly 29 percent—from public hous - wages. The Congress and the people of the ing already in desperate need of repair and ter, have so many. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Mr. Law and Order, Continued on Page 10 has not deigned to offer condolences to Richard Collins’ family or to United States must reject President expansion; and $133 million—5.6 percent— make any of the broad generalizations that he likes to make when N Black and Brown men are involved in crime. Why has there been no moment of silence on the Congressional floor for Second Lt. Richard Collins III? Why have the Republicans who support the military so strongly that they are prepared to slash social service spending to put T billions in military spending not spoken up for this young Black man? This is why we must engage I am sure some member of Congress will say that they’ve not spoken By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. ing for its students. Gallot’s $20 million a year NNPA Guest Columnist announcement came almost exactly to support more up because this is not a national story, because the killing of one man, no A matter how exceptional, may not merit a moment of silence for the whole one year after Louisiana’s state audi - than $280 million Congress. I disagree! When some Republicans are all-too-eager to As the president and CEO of the tor reported nearly $111 million in in capital financ - embrace racist stereotypes, lifting up a young man who did all the right Thurgood Marshall College Fund deferred maintenance at another ing for our (TMCF), I’m spending a good amount Louisiana public HBCU campus, schools. things, and condemning his killing could be meaningful. In order to do R that, though, Congress would have to implicitly (if not explicitly) of time working to build strategic, gov - Southern University in Baton Rouge. The need to acknowledge the toll that domestic terrorism has taken on African- ernment alliances that extend beyond The people who currently hold the work across the American communities. I suppose they would rather be silent. our traditional Democratic support. If purse strings—both nationally and on a aisle extends

The evil, horrible University of Maryland student who killed Richard you’re wondering why, all you need to state level—are, in most cases, Repu- beyond just elect - Y Collins III was part of an alt-right Facebook group. Why does Facebook do is look at a map of where America’s blicans. Yet, some will still suggest that ed officials. In facilitate the gathering of these racists? The FBI is supposedly “investi - Historically Black Colleges and we not even talk to those elected lead - January, TMCF TAYLOR gating” whether the Collins killing is a hate crime. They know it was! Universities (HBCUs) are located. er s, because of their party affiliation. announced a All they have to do is check the Facebook group and the mess they post - The fact of the matter is that a When the media released photos of $25.6 million gift from the Charles ed, or follow the repugnantly encouraging posts that the vicious killer has majority of TMCF’s 47 member- our meeting at the White House with Koch Foundation and Koch Industries. & received from his high school classmates through social media. schools are clustered in southern and President Trump, some derided it as This generous gift was a direct result of For example, Welby Burgone, who went to high school with the killer midwestern states completely con - just a “photo-op.” Tell that to the proactive outreach I initiated with Mr. devil, now works for the Anne Arundel County (which is in suburban trolled by Republicans. By that, I administrators who were wondering Koch, a man often associated with sup - Maryland) police department as a communications specialist. “You mess mean states where the governor, both how they’d possibly fill the gap in port of conservative and libertarian with crabo, you get a stabo,” Burgonet posted in response to an even U.S. senators, both chambers of the funding should their already strained causes. What I found by having a dia - O more odious post that cheered the stabber on, writing, “That’s what hap - legislature and most of the U.S. House budgets face sudden, drastic cuts. logue with him is that we share a deep pens when a n—try (sic) to get frosty with an OG. Talk s…, get stabbed. members are Republican. We’re simply not able to pick and concern about the impact of over-incar - The next largest group of our mem - choose whom we engage with. We saw ceration and lack of educational oppor - lol.” And the FBI has to “investigate”? Really. P Even the Anne Arundel police have to be questions for their soft ped - ber-schools occupies states that are firsthand a couple months ago how tunities that disproportionately impact dling of this matter. Yes, they suspended Burgone. But they also under at least a majority of GOP con - positive strategic engagement paid off fragile communities. Together in trol. Only a small number of our when I worked with our member- January, we launched a new, HBCU-

described his statement as “extremely insensitive.” It’s a lot more than I that. It is brutal, it is repugnant, and someone with those views has no member-schools—three to be exact— school presidents and chancellors to based research institution, known as the business working in law enforcement in any capacity! are in states and the District of ensure that their federal budget dollars Center for Advancing Opportunity, that N Second Lt. Richard Collins III was massacred on Saturday, May Columbia that are completely con - would not be cut in President Trump’s is studying barriers to opportunity in 20. At this writing, on May 26, there has been no congressional trolled by Democrats. first budget proposal. those communities. moment of silence, no outreach from the 45th President, no state - If those statistics don’t jump out at Working with the White House, In reaching across the aisle, we I

ment of repugnance about this domestic terrorism from anyone other you, maybe these facts will. Many of through open communication and lots should never forsake our historic O than the Presidents of both Bowie State University, where Collins our institutions of higher learning are in of effort, HBCU leaders and I were alliances. But for the sake of the was to graduate, and the University of Maryland at College Park, desperate need of not just operating dol - able to deliver flat funding for HBCUs young people our HBCUs seek to edu - where the killer matriculated. Why are white leaders so silent on lars, but serious capital infusions to the in the upcoming fiscal year budget. cate, we must also realize the need to matters of domestic terrorism and, in particular, the massacre of tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Flat funding is a big win, considering grow new and different alliances. N Richard Collins III? Shame on them and shame on those of us they Earlier this year, for instance, President Trump proposed a 13.9 per - represent for not demanding more! Grambling State University President cent overall funding decrease in feder - Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. is the President

Rick Gallot announced that his school al education dollars this year. and CEO of Thurgood Marshall S Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author, and Founder of Economic will need to abandon the campus But that’s not the end of it. With so College Fund (TMCF), the largest Education. Her podcast, “It’s Personal with Dr. J” is available on library — an unprecedented decision many capital needs, we must ensure organization exclusively representing iTunes. Her latest book “Are We Better Off: Race, Obama and public for a university seeking to expand its Washington doesn’t cut the vital capital the Black college community. Follow policy is available via amazon.com .◊ national imprint in research and train - financing program that provides about him on Twitter at @JohnnyCTaylorJr. ◊

tremendously— broken relation - The topic of mental health cannot be tabled ships with fami - By Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson transparency and awareness. support from those who share their tal health services and White females ly and friends, Guest Columnist According to the U.S. Department of experiences and those who don’t. use 21.5 percent of mental health ser - loss of financial Health and Human Services, mental The National Alliance on Mental vices while Black males use 6.6 per - stability, or feel - During the month of May, we rec - health includes our emotional, psy - Illness (NAMI) also provides several cent and Black females use 10.3 per - ing they have no ognize Mental Health Month, and chological, and social well-being. It forums for individuals with mental cent. This may be due to a culturally purpose in life. raise awareness for the millions of affects how we think, feel and act. health issues or substance use disor - insensitive healthcare system, less Serious or Americans living with a mental This year, Instagram launched a ders to speak freely and without judg - health insurance coverage, racism in severe mental JOHNSON health condition. Since one in five #HereForYou campaign, which ment. I believe it is vital for individu - health treatment settings, or general illnesses, which adults, or approximately 43.8 mil - encourages users of the social media als with mental health issues to be mistrust of healthcare providers. are schizophrenia or schizoaffective lion people, will experience mental platform to open up about their men - able to talk openly and without facing Unfortunately, there are serious disorder, major depression, or bipolar illness during their lifetime, it is safe tal health. Since the launch, teens and unnecessary stigma. However, com - consequences for a lack of treatment. disorder, cost America about $193.2 to say that everyone is affected by young adults have been taking to munities of color do face higher lev - Untreated mental illness can cause billion in lost earnings per year. this issue. Approximately 20.2 mil - social media to share their stories of els of stigma, receive less access to further emotional, behavioral, or Individuals living with serious mental lion adults in the United States expe - overcoming the obstacles of mental treatment, and are less likely to physical health problems. We have illness die 25 years, on average, earli - rience a substance use disorder each health and leaning on each other in a receive treatment. In fact, even seen the impacts of mental illness er than others. Not to mention, suicide year and 50 percent of them have a safe space by offering friendship, sup - though the prevalence of mental ill - gone untreated in our veteran and is the tenth leading cause of death in co-occurring mental illness. port and collaboration. As a result of ness by race is similar between White homeless populations. Far too often, the U.S., and the second-leading Quite often people are alarmed this campaign, Instagram has become adults and Black adults, the use of our veterans and the homeless are cause of death for individuals aged 15 when you begin discussing mental a social media platform where users mental health services among these ignored and do not receive proper to 24. In Texas, one person commits health, but there is only one way to can post about feelings and mental adults differs. According to NAMI, treatment. When they go without overcome that fear and that is through health as a coping mechanism and get white males use 11.3 percent of men - treatment their livelihood is affected Continued on Page 10 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 6 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM June 5 - June 11, 2017 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - June 5 - June 11, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 Page 8 June 5 - June 11, 2017 HEALTH & HEART THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM

ROFILE IN LD GE Family, friends and purpose fend off isolation BPy Lois M. Collins sorOted out, but A : in the winter or question their purpose. They want Contributing Writer the graying of offer meals. For to contribute. They fear becoming the planet, or at one thing, there invisible. Newbold’s like that. She First of two parts least part of it, are simply fewer worries about being “unneeded and (Special from Deseret will require helpers: Women unwanted. Sometimes, it seems News/New America Media) – shifts in thinking used to play a big - there’s nothing more for me to do.” Old age made its move on Betty for families, ger volunteer role, The Rev. William B. Randolph Newbold while she was busy communities and but more work. of The United Methodist Church, being a good daughter and wife. nations. About Longer life based in Nashville, Tennessee, First, she cared for her frail, eld - 38 percent of expectancy mean would like to see churches help erly parents, gone now almost a older Ameri- more old people. people prepare to grow old by decade. Then she took care of cans’ incomes Plus, some faith teaching practical things like Gene, the man she married 58 comes from gov - communities have retirement finances. Churches years ago and with whom she ernment pro - shrunk. should help with grief processing raised three children. gram — entitle - and minister more to older peo - It wasn’t until Gene, 87, died of ments that seem Changes in ple’s spiritual needs. cancer last October that she had perpetually Congregations “People spend the last quarter of time to sit still in one of two under threat, The Rev. Scott their life on a quest to understand comfy chairs by the little table raising fears this Dalgarno sees a their own purpose and meaning in where they always watched TV in safety net may change in how life and prepare for their death their Midvale rambler and consid - fail. clergy and con - and the death of loved ones,” he er her losses: Newbold, 78, can’t gregants interact says. “A good intergenerational drive at night because she doesn’t Beyond Family compared to ministry attempts to use the gifts see well. Her joints ache from Betty Newbold bygone years. and graces of all ages to con - knee, shoulder and back surger - aged the way Pastor of Wasatch tribute to the whole. It’s especial - ies, artifacts of the sports she most of us will: It Presbyterian ly good when you can put older loved well into middle age. sneaked up on child, Clark, became seriously ill. often to church, though her ward’s Church in Salt adults with children.” When Newbold is by herself her. She thought about retirement He’d suffered for years with new early start-time sometimes Lake City, he says in over 35 years He describes a church where she’s apt to while away an hour mostly in terms of more leisure ankylosing spondylitis, a form of throws her. She’s slow to get mov - ministering he’s seen congrega - older men helped teens get their or two at a time — sometimes time, too busy with her full life — arthritis that primarily attacks the ing in the mornings, she says. tions where pastoral visits have first cars and fix them up. The several times a day — with the raising kids, playing softball and spine. In his late 40s, he needed Besides family, other visitors are diminished. That’s partly because kids learned skills and pledged colored pens and coloring caring for frail relatives — to con - his mom’s care and moved home. typically from her LDS ward, espe - many old people prefer to go to the not to drink and drive. The older books that cover her kitchen sider building a community for her He died in 2010 at age 49. cially her bishop and a couple of church office instead of hosting the men found a new purpose. table. She sits alone facing a old age. Newbold’s son, Greg, 57, lives women, who stop by sometimes. pastor at home. He thinks some “If we don’t give older adults wall bedecked with pictures of Newbold is shy. She stands just in West Jordan with his wife and That’s one way churches check might be embarrassed because opportunities to serve, aren’t we people she loves and a sign that 5-foot-1, her pewter-colored hair three kids. Daughter Jalene, 54, up on older members. A visitor can they’ve fallen behind on house - robbing them of the opportunity says “Forever and Always and is cropped short, and her eyes are of West Valley City, spends time spot a problem and alert the troops, work. Many old people seem reluc - to be happy?” Rev. Randolph No Matter What.” a calm blue of a pool. She’s like with her mom at least once a who in congregations nationwide tant to ask for any help. asks. “One thing that makes for Betty spent most of her life sur - that — outwardly calm and quiet week on her day off, often with rally to provide meals or sit with Still, those who minister witness really good aging is having joy rounded by people who needed in a way that masks how much her husband or son Vinnie, 23, to someone after surgery or a loss. struggles. They see victories. in life.” her, but is now often alone as she worries about others and how do odd jobs. She calls Newbold Lucky older folks might find will - They get a sense of what helps she confronts the questions fac - chaotic her life has sometimes every day. But Newbold’s kids ing hands to clean the house or fix and hurts. Dalgarno says that Lois M. Collins reported this story ing more than 46 million been. It hides her loneliness, too. have their own families, jobs and the yard. But most church help is while c hurches try to help, he for The Deseret News as part of a Americans age 65 and older. She grew up in Vernal, Utah, an other responsibilities. And most crisis help, brief and sporadic. believes old people need more. 2016 Journalists in Aging They boil down to “What will only child who would always of the friends she had when she While churchgoers are often Interactions are crucial, especially Fellowship supported by New my old age be like?” shoulder many responsibilities. settled here, the neighbors who service-oriented, if there are lots in the quest of finding meaning, America Media, the Geronto-logi - When she was 18, she moved to raised their broods alongside of old people in a congregation, which can intensify in old age, he cal Society of America and the Senior Safety Net Fragile Salt Lake City, where she met hers, are dead, in nursing homes it’s hard to reliably shovel walks says. As lives slow, seniors often Silver Century Foundation .◊ America is aging fast at a time Gene, then 27, on a blind date. He or living with their own kids when church- and community- wooed her for close to three years somewhere else. based safety nets are becoming before they married on May 1, Outside of family and church, more fragile, programs for eld - 1958, in the Salt Lake Latter-day Weaver is Newbold’s community ers are being scaled down or Saints’ (Mormon) Temple and — a community of one who’s a eliminated, volunteers are often started a family. hedge against loneliness and overwhelmed, and families are A car had hit Gene when he was despair. Newbold says she’s bat - more scattered. four; he never completely recov - tled depression most of her life Policy implications for these ered. Still, he worked in steel fab - and isn’t sure if it’s gotten more trends will be immense. rication for years at Eimco before severe or if she just feels it more According to Pew Research going to Jordan School District in keenly now that she doesn’t have Center, the percentage of people the mid-1960s as a custodian and responsibilities to distract her. 65 or older will rise dramatically handyman, retiring at 65. Betty Says Newbold of Weaver, by 2050. Thanks to increases in produced bank statements for “She’s kept me alive.” global life expectancy, those First Security Bank in a pre-com - Despite meaningful connec - trends will be seen worldwide: puter age when they first married. tions, Betty spends the bulk of her For example, one in four people Later, she worked in the libraries time alone and, she admits, lone - in Europe will be older than 65. at Union Middle School and ly. In a week that has about 112 In Utah, says Peter Hebertson, Hillcrest High. They had three hours of awake time, she spends outreach director for Salt Lake kids in four years — “I kind of 10 or 12 with family and a varied County Aging Services, “A lot of grew up with my children,” number with Weaver. That leaves older people have a faith-based Newbold says. a lot of other hours to fill. She community that can help. The Kids’ school activities and says she didn’t really prepare to neighborhood can help. And then church callings and sports kept grow old. “I don’t think I’m doing a public sector or government Betty busy. At least weekly she it very well,” she adds softly. sector community can help. made the 175-mile drive to Most older people probably Sadly, none of us do a really good Vernal to care for her folks, until aren’t. She is certainly better off job of talking to each other.” their needs were so great she than the average AARP survey Many old people never need pub - brought them to live with her respondent who lacks even a single lic programs like Meals on Wheels. when she was in her early 60s. confidant. She can tell Weaver any - Good thing too, Hebertson says, Not long after moving her par - thing. But recently her friend was because programs struggle to meet ents in, her dad, by then blind hospitalized with her own health the needs of elders who are frail, and deaf, went into a nursing challenges. She doesn’t know what disabled, alone and poor. home. He died a year later, in she’d do if something happened to Most programs haven’t 2003. Later, her mom had Weaver. “I might go lay down expanded in years, and some dementia and needed nursing beside her,” she says. One gets the have shrunk. The Trump admin - home care. She died in 2005. feeling she’s not kidding. istration budget proposal includes cuts for programs, too: Her Hedge Against Loneliness Her Community In Utah, that includes winteriz - Unexpectedly, it was at Sandy Newbold, so physically active ing homes and help with utility Regional Care Center, where when she was young that she bills. Some states may lose meal her mother lived, that Newbold wore out joints, is now more or transportation funding. found her dearest friend. sedentary. But she never devel - Before the proposed cuts, Jolynne Weaver, now 67, was oped a love of reading and she’s Hebertson said, county programs the daughter of her mom’s given up cross-stitch because of were swamped with requests. roommate. Even after her eyes. So she colors, careful - Many old people must do with - Newbold’s mother died, she’d ly compiling the collected pic - out, so help from family, church, drop off vegetables from Gene’s tures into scrapbooks. friends, service groups and even garden and chat with Weaver in After family, church is New- strangers has tremendous impact. the nursing home. Sometimes, bold’s most reliable community Offering a ride can keep an old they went to lunch at Denny’s. tie, its importance visible in the person from being homebound. As Newbold was nurturing that praying-hands figurines and reli - What that means for the young, friendship, her husband was gious pictures on shelves and old and in between is yet to be becoming frail. And her middle walls. When she ventures out, it’s THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - June 5 - June 11, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 9 House votes to limit powers of first Black Librarian of Congress By Lauren Victoria Burke The bill makes the head of the is the first African American to hold authored H.R. 1695, were not attention of the power of the enter - President Trump.” Contributing Writer Copyright Office, the Register of the position, as well as the first answered. tainment lobby moving forward Chambers said that means that Copyrights, a presidential appoint - woman to be the Librarian of “This bill serves no purpose now that senators will play a role in President Donald Trump would, in (NNPA Newswire) – In a vote of ment that would have to be con - Congress, in the agency’s history. other than to take power away confirmation. essence, run the Copyright Office. 378 to 48, the House passed legis - firmed by the Senate, rather than On March 23, legislation was intro - from the Librarian of Congress and The bill to limit Hayden’s power There were only 13 Congress- lation to take power away from the an appointment by the Librarian of duced to block Hayden from give it to powerful lobbyists, who arrives six months after she removed ional Black Caucus members out current Librarian of Congress, Dr. Congress, as it has been since appointing the next Register of will have a major say in who runs Maria Pallante from the position of of 46 voting in the House, who Carla Hayden. 1870. The bill also limits the posi - Copyrights. That legislation passed the Copyright Office,” wrote Register of Copyrights in October voted to maintain the powers of the The legislation, H.R. 1696, was tion of Librarian of Congress to a the House on April 26. Michael Masnick on TechDirt.com 2016. Many in the entertainment Librarian of Congress. CBC authored by House Judiciary ten-year term. Supporters of the bill argued that on April 26. “It’s a bad bill, and it’s industry were said to be unhappy Chairman Cedric Richmond was Chairman Bob Goodlatte (D-Va.) The previous Librarian of the legislation would help to mod - a gift to Hollywood.” with Pallante’s removal. one of the 13. and ranking member John Conyers Congress, James Billington, ernize the Copyright Office and The entertainment industry “The Library of Congress, All the other voting CBC mem - (D-Mich.), would limit the powers served in the position for 28 years. make it more accountable to pushed hard for the passage of through the Registrar of Copyrights, bers favored modifying the posi - of the librarian. It is expected to President Barack Obama appoint - Congress. Attempts to contact the H.R. 1695. It’s likely that the plays a referee or umpire role in this tion to take power away from the pass the Senate and be signed into ed Hayden the 14th Librarian of office of Rep. John Conyers (D- selection of the Librarian of complex new game; librarians, Librarian of Congress. law by President Trump. Congress on February 24, 2016. She Mich.) for details on why he Congress will be the focus of because they curate and compile In a statement after the legislation content, have traditionally been pro - passed yesterday, House Judiciary tectors of copyright and works of Committee Bob Goodlatte wrote, authors and artists and balanced “the Register of Copyrights public and cultural interests in the Selection and Accountability Act is Our New Orleans matriarch is with God free flow and use of that content,” one product of the House Judiciary By Fr. Jerome LeDoux “Mama’s wake of Hurricane Katrina. May 20, the Christopher Chambers, a professor Committee’s multi-year comprehen - Contributing Columnist eyes have Hemmed in by some eight feet of day after of media studies at Georgetown sive review of our copyright laws.” opened,” floodwaters at her two-story Byron called University told NBC BLK. “Big The statement continued: “While “I hate to be the bearer Byron report - home on North Dorgenois Street me, I called money is at stake and the industry this legislation represents an of bad news, but my moth - ed. “She is a block off St. Bernard Avenue, Byron as soon wants someone, who will see its important first step in the er has been put into hos - looking all Mama D kept aiding the helpless as I could side, rather than the public interest in Committee’s efforts to update our pice and the doctor says around the with food, water, clothes and after what the Constitution says is the nation’s copyright laws, we remain that she may not have room to find sometimes shelter. Since they Ricardo’s ‘promotion of useful Arts.’” committed to working with all much time. She has been the source of wanted everyone to evacuate in funeral. This Chambers continued: “It is no members and stakeholders to take praying, ‘ Jesus, have your voice. She order to avoid contagion by the would be my mercy on me! Father, I knows who you polluted waters, the police wanted chance to visit LEDOUX secret that the industry lobbies and additional steps to ensure the U.S. can’t stand the pain! Help DYAN ‘MAMA D’ are.” Mama D to leave as well. Mama D. donates hard, regarding Democrats Copyright Office is modernized so me, heavenly Father!’” FRENCH COLE “Thank However, they knew their case was Byron cut the call short with the and Republicans alike. And many that it functions efficiently and Unsure of the voice, I God,” I con - lost when they saw visitors like heavy words, “Mama left us this of them are African-American law - effectively for all Americans.” asked, “Who is this?” tinued. “I love you, Peanut, and I CNN come by boat to interview morning at 2:45.” All I could do makers, like Rep. Conyers. This Hayden was CEO of Enoch Pratt “I’m Byron, father, the son of always will. Jesus, your big, Mama D. They did not want to cre - was repair to Opelousas, await basically surrenders congressional Free Library in Baltimore, Md. and Dyan French Cole.” powerful, compassionate and ate a scene for international TV. arrangements and return for power over intellectual property also President of the American Sighing heavily, I drew a long, merciful Brother is taking care Post-Katrina closures of six Mama D’s rites. right there in the Constitution, to Library Association from 2003 to deep breath. “Byron, I’m hurting of you now. He will not leave churches included historic Saint Led by Pastor Robert Jackson the Executive Branch, hence 2004.◊ a lot; so I can only imagine how you alone in your pain to wonder Augustine Church in Faubourg on May 26, 2017, a crowded much you are hurting. Where is how to reach your heavenly Tremé of New Orleans. The Historic Second Baptist Church the hospice located?” Father. You have helped so many ensuing epic struggle between celebrated the homegoing of “It is the Sanctuary at Passages confused children and others the parishioners and Archbishop Mama D. As expected, people Hospice, located at 617 Dublin whom nobody wanted to help. Alfred Hughes brought out from all walks of life were there Street, just off the intersection of Now Jesus is here with you and Mama D the warrior who hon - to give witness to Mama D’s South Carrollton Avenue and St. he is taking care of you in your ored me in the City Council extraordinary life. Charles Avenue. I am at her bed - moment of need.” chamber by claiming me as spir - The last to testify, I concluded, side right now. Hold on. I’m Byron bade me goodnight itual director. On her knees, she “I love you, Peanut, and I thank going to put you on speaker with when a relative dropped by to begged Father Michael Jacques God for you. I miss you, Peanut, her. I am putting the phone to her visit. From the moment of his at his abortive March 26, 2006 but we will meet again one day ear. Mama, it’s Father LeDoux. opening words until now, I can takeover Mass at Saint Augustine soon at the great, joyful ren - Go on and talk, Father.” see his mama’s face suspended Church, “Why are you doing this dezvous in our Father’s kingdom “Byron, let me preface this by before me, sporting that happy to us, Father Jacques?” where there will be no more sep - revealing to you the only name I “Peanut” smile that she dis - In town for the homegoing aration, no more pain, death, have called your mama for years. played practically the entire time Mass of Resurrection for 41-year- mourning or weeping. Au From about the mid-1960s, near - we visited and conversed with old Ricardo Wilson on Saturday, revoir!”◊ ly every Sunday afternoon each other. That was her very Wilbert White and Mae Carole human side. For all her militant, Gourrier would pick up your warrior persona so familiar to mother and together they toured everyone, Peanut was a gentle, the Gulf Coast. It was strictly a pleasant soul. fun thing for them. Wilbert hung To drug dealers and gun run - the nickname ‘Peanut’ on your ners, including some of the hole- mama. After she told me the in-the-wall stores that trafficked story, Peanut is all I ever called in whatever brought in money, your mama. With this in mind, I Mama D was a hell-raiser, an will now pray with and for your inescapable force to be dealt mama. with on her own terms. Feared “Peanut, I’m sorry to hear that by many, respected by all, espe - you are suffering so much! I love cially by the street youth who you, Peanut, and I’m praying gave her the name Mama D, she with you and for you. Heavenly accompanied numerous young - Father, help your child, my sters who had to appear in court. friend Peanut. Jesus, show your Because of her advocacy, they little sister that you are her big knew that they would receive a Brother, so strong, yet so com - fair shake from the police, passionate, merciful and forgiv - judges and attorneys. ing. Jesus, show Peanut that you Never was Mama D’s political are the healer of her soul and her clout more evident than in the mind. Stay by her side, Jesus. August 29, 2005 collapse of the Never leave her.” 17th Street Canal levee in the

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like ambulances and long-term care facilities, and ending federal Trump budget would devastate Southern communities grants to state rural health offices. Continued from Page 1 financed by taxpayers.” The budg - geted at the working poor, would • The Appalachian Regional uninsured individuals skyrocket. • Legal Service Corporation, et uses this language to justify require a Social Security number Commission and the Delta • Rural Economic Development which provides legal assistance and food insecurity are high and drastic increases in funding for to qualify. This is an explicit Regional Authority are vital eco - Program Loans, which provide to low-income individuals, employment opportunities are immigrant detention and deporta - effort by the Trump administra - nomic development agencies for zero-interest loans to local rural including a program focused on scarce would feel the cuts particu - tion. It also proposes cuts to sever - tion to keep undocumented immi - some of the poorest parts of sever - utility organizations to facilitate rural communities, would entire - larly hard. The proposal slashes al other programs that will impact grants and immigrants who are al states, including 11 in the South. projects and job creation in rural ly lose federal funding. In 12 of SNAP, the federal food stamp pro - immigrant communities as well as not qualified to work in the The ARC has invested over $175.7 areas, would be eliminated. the 13 Southern states, 20 per - gram in which over 16 million other vulnerable populations: United States from benefiting million in regional projects over • Single-Family Housing cent or more of the population is Southerners are currently enrolled, • WIC, the food assistance pro - from these programs. In addition the last year and a half, while the Direct Home Loans, which pro - eligible for legal aid services. by $190 billion — nearly half of gram specifically for women, to these eligibility restrictions, the DRA has leveraged $3.3 billion in vide payment assistance to low- The release of the administra - the program’s funding. It redirects infants, and children, would be cut budget also reduces funding for investments in the Delta region income applicants to aid them in tion’s proposed budget is just the over $4.5 billion in funding to by over $1 billion under the budget both the EITC and the CTC. since its founding in 2000. The purchasing homes in rural areas, first step in the budget-making immigration enforcement, includ - proposal. This is the only federal elimination of these agencies as would be eliminated. process. Over the coming ing increases in detentions and supplemental nutrition program for Pain for the rural South proposed in Trump’s budget • Mutual Self-Help Housing months, both houses of Congress deportations. At the same time, it which “not-qualified” immigrants The South has the highest con - would be economically devastat - Grants, which support organiza - will vote on their own budget adds $469 billion to the defense — those who are not lawful perma - centration of rural poverty in the ing for rural communities in tions that help low-income indi - resolutions and negotiate appro - budget over the next 10 years. nent residents, refugees, victims of country, with 25 percent of peo - Appalachia and the Delta. viduals and rural families con - priations before voting on a final abuse or trafficking, or Cuban or ple in families in rural areas liv - • Medicaid benefits would be struct their own homes in rural version. The new fiscal year Implications for immigrants Haitian — are able to qualify. ing in poverty. It also has a high cut by $610 billion over 10 years in areas, including on tribal lands, begins on October 1. The South is home to over 12 • Emergency Medicaid, the concentration of hunger, with 89 the proposed budget. If the would be eliminated. million immigrants who live in only Medicaid service available percent of counties with the Affordable Care Act stays intact, • Farm Labor Housing Loan Olivia Paschal is currently an cities and rural areas across the to “not-qualified” immigrants, highest rate of food insecurity in these cuts would hit Arkansas, Program, which provides financing intern for Facing South, the region. Although undocumented would lose huge portions of its the nation located in the South. Kentucky, Louisiana, and West to develop housing that will have online magazine of the Institute and even some documented immi - funding under the proposed $600 Trump’s proposed budget Virginia — Southern states that affordable rents for year-round, for Southern Studies, www.south - grants do not qualify for the most billion cuts to Medicaid over the would eliminate or significantly have accepted the Medicaid expan - migrant, and seasonal farm labor - ernstudies.org, where this article common American safety net pro - next 10 years. decrease federal funding for a sion — particularly hard. If the ers, would be eliminated. originally appeared. She is a grams, the Trump budget specifi - • The Earned Income Tax number of programs that are cru - Senate passes the American Health • Rural Health Grants across the director's fellow at the Institution cally singles out immigrants for Credit and Child Tax Credit, cial for rural communities Care Act, which could lead to $800 board would lose funding. This for Social and Policy Studies and “rely[ing] on Government benefits refundable tax credits that are tar - throughout the region: billion in additional cuts, rural includes decreases in funding for previously served as a managing communities (which already have the Rural Hospital Outreach Grant editor for The Politic, Yale extremely high rates of the unin - Program, which aids small rural University’s undergraduate jour - Trump’s cruel war on children sured) could see the number of hospitals in accessing resources nal of politics and culture. ◊ Continued from Page 5 At the same time, President Trump’s 2018 Budget includes an estimated $5 trillion tax package for student loans by eliminating the loan program that the wealthiest individuals and corporations who encourages graduates to take public service jobs neither need nor deserve massive government sup - Classifieds and restricts other programs that subsidize college port and dramatically increases spending on Classifieds education for first-generation college students and defense and border security. 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SALE BY Honorable The Civil Seized in the above THAT PORTION OF SEIZURE AND SALE WRIT AMOUNT: JUDICIAL OF SEIZURE AND SALE District Court of suit, TERMS CASH. The to me directed by the $37,806.30 to me directed by the ORLEANS SHERIFF Orleans, in the above purchaser at the moment OF GROUND Honorable The Civil Seized in the above ADVERTISEMENT Honorable The Civil JUDICIAL entitled cause, I will of adjudication to make a BEARING MUNICIPAL District Court of suit, TERMS CASH. The THAT PORTION District Court of proceed to sell by pub - deposit of ten percent of NO. 817-819 BEHRMAN Orleans, in the above purchaser at the moment Orleans, in the above ADVERTISEMENT AVENUE, CITY OF NEW OF GROUND lic auction, on the the purchase price, and entitled cause, I will of adjudication to make a BEARING MUNICIPAL entitled cause, I will THAT PORTION ground floor of the Civil the balance within thirty ORLEANS, IN THE proceed to sell by pub - deposit of ten percent of proceed to sell by pub - CASE ENTITLED: U.S. NO. 2303 LOUISIANA OF GROUND District Court Building, days thereafter. (NOTE: lic auction, on the the purchase price, and AVENUE, NEW lic auction, on the BEARING MUNICIPAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in The payment must be BANK TRUST NATION - ground floor of the Civil the balance within thirty ground floor of the Civil AL ASSOCIATION, AS ORLEANS, LA, IN THE NO. 4965 SPAIN the First District of the Cash, Cashier’s Check, District Court Building, days thereafter. (NOTE: MATTER ENTITLED: District Court Building, STREET, THIS CITY, IN City on June 8, 2017, at Certified Check or Money TRUSTEE OF THE PRE - 421 Loyola Avenue, in The payment must be 421 Loyola Avenue, in STON RIDGE PART - "FEDERAL NATIONAL THE MATTER ENTI - 12:00 o’clock noon, the Order. No personal the First District of the Cash, Cashier’s Check, MORTGAGE ASSOCIA - the First District of the TLED: PNC BANK, following described checks.) NERS INVESTMENTS II City on June 8, 2017, at Certified Check or Money City on June 8, 2017, at TRUST VS IZISH EPPS, TION ("FANNIE MAE"), NATIONAL ASSOCIA - property to wit: MARLIN N. GUSMAN 12:00 o’clock noon, the Order. No personal A CORPORATION 12:00 o’clock noon, the TION VERSUS ANDRE LOTS 29 & 30, Sheriff SR. AND ELDON D. following described checks.) following described Parish of Orleans ANDERSON, AS THE ORGANIZED AND A. WARREN AND SQUARE 56 ATTY: RADER JACkSON property to wit: MARLIN N. GUSMAN EXISTING UNDER THE property to wit: CARAMITTER CARTER THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - (504) 581-9444 ADMINISTRATOR OF LOTS 4, 5, 6, & 7, Sheriff LOT 1, SQUARE 555 BB 4 THE SUCCESSION OF Parish of Orleans LAWS OF THE UNITED WARREN TRICT LA. WEEkLY 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 SQUARE 4, ATTY: J. DONALD MORGAN STATES OF AMERICA SIXTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Civil District Court for GENTILLY GARDENS ______OF GWENDOLYN FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - (225) 761-0001 TRICT ANDERSON EPPS LM 5 VS ROSLYN HOLMES" the Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NO. 4965 SALE BY TRICT, LA. WEEkLY 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 Civil District Court for PLAISANCE No. 2016-6606 SPAIN STREET Civil District Court for NAUTICAL TERRACE ______MUNICIPAL NO. 2303 ORLEANS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans By virtue of a WRIT ACQ. MIN 573103 MUNICIPAL NO. 817- SALE BY No. 2014-10146 OF SEIZURE AND SALE WRIT AMOUNT: JUDICIAL No. 2017-185 819 BEHRMAN AVENUE By virtue of a WRIT ORLEANS SHERIFF By virtue of a WRIT to me directed by the $206,340.89 ADVERTISEMENT ACQUIRED MIN 461220 Continued on Page 10 June 5 - June 11, 2017 Page 11 BUSINESS SCOPE THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM

Job prospects were mixed for Black workers in the month of April By Freddie Allen jobs in April, found them, for the women,” from 1979 to 2015, “Economic policy has unques - Scott said that he hoped that the solutions to continue to build on Contributing Writer most part. The labor force partici - according to the Economic Policy tionably failed single working current president and the historic economic growth that pation rate for white men was flat Institute (EPI), a think tank mothers, who tend to work fewer Congressional Republicans would the nation experienced under (NNPA Newswire) — Even at 71.9 percent, but the employ - focused on the needs of low- and hours in lower-wage jobs and instead work with Democrats on President Obama.◊ though Black women lost ground ment-population ratio for that middle-income workers. often lack necessary family work in the labor market last month, the group increased from 69.2 percent In a recent post on EPI’s web - supports like paid leave, health unemployment rate for Black in March to 69.4 percent in April. site, Valerie Rawlston Wilson, care and retirement benefits, workers dipped below eight per - The unemployment rate for White the director of the Program on affordable high-quality child cent for the first time since January men improved from 3.6 percent in Race, Ethnicity, and the care and more predictable work QCS Logistics names 2017, according to the latest jobs March to 3.4 percent in April. Economy (PREE) for the think scheduling.” report from the Labor Department. White working women over 20 tank, noted that working moms In a statement about the April new president Not only did the unemploy - years-old, took losses in two out were “significant contributors to jobs report, Rep. Bobby Scott (D- QCS Logistics, a Also promoted was ment (UE) rate for Black work - of the three key market indica - this trend.” More than half of all Va.) said that even though locally Black-owned, Warmoth Guillaume ers improve, the labor force par - tors last month and their unem - Black female workers are moms President Trump inherited a grow - 33-year-old courier who was vice presi - ticipation rate (LFPR), which is ployment rate was flat (3.5 per - compared to roughly 44 percent ing economy from President and logistics business, dent and general the share of people in the labor cent), likely due to white women of white female workers. Obama, his plans to significantly recently announced a manager and is now market who have jobs or who are exiting the labor market . “African-American working cut programs that support long- change in leadership. the Chief Operating looking for work, also moved in April’s jobs report was a tough moms are uniquely central to the term economic prosperity would Effective May 17, Officer. David a positive direction. The labor one for Black women over 20 economic well-being of their only jeopardize those gains. Jason G. Burns is its Domingue has force participation rate for Black years-old. For the third month in a families,” wrote Wilson. “To Scott also said that, “Republican new president. The become General workers increased from 62.3 per - row, the labor force rate for Black begin with, more than two-thirds efforts to repeal the Affordable former Vice President Manager. cent in March to 62.5 percent in working women was flat at (62.7 of all African-American working Care Act and replace it with a plan of Business QCS Logistics has April. The employment-popula - percent). The E-POP took a few mothers are single moms, mak - that will cause 24 million Development suc - JASON BURNS a staff of 19 and tion ratio (E-POP), or the share steps back from the 58.6 percent ing them the primary, if not sole, Americans to lose their health ceeds the company’s more than 75 driv - of the population with jobs, mark set in March to 58.4 percent economic providers for their insurance will only exacerbate the founder, Ronald V. ers, manages two climbed a few notches from 57.3 in April. The unemployment rate families. By comparison, 29.6 economic harm that will be inflict - Burns Sr. who has been named warehouses, and completes more percent to 57.6 percent in April. for Black women increased from percent of white working moth - ed on working families.” CEO and Chairman of the Board. than 1,000 deliveries a day.◊ The jobless rate for white work - 6.6 percent to 6.9 percent in April. ers and 47.9 percent of Hispanic ers decreased from 3.9 percent in Economists say that the meas - working mothers are single.” March to 3.8 percent in April, ures of labor market indicators Black married women with chil - and so did the labor force partic - for minority subgroups are more dren also worked more hours per ipation rate. The E-POP for prone to wild swings, because the year and earned less money per White workers was flat. survey sample sizes are smaller hour than white married women April was a good month for for minority workers compared to with children, according to EPI. Black men over 20 years-old; the the sample size for White work - “What’s behind this greater three main indicators (UE, LFPR ers. Economists also say that the attachment to the labor force? and E-POP) all moved in posi - public shouldn’t make much out For African-American women, it tive directions. The unemploy - of a single job report and should may have to do with higher rates ment rate for that group instead watch for trends. of Black unemployment and PUBLIC NOTICE improved from 8.2 percent in One of those trends, was an racial pay and wealth disparities The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) is inviting its residents and March to 7.3 percent last month. increase in “annual work hours for motivating the greater intensity community stakeholders to attend a public hearing on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 to Meanwhile, white, working men all workers, especially low-wage of work relative to other review and provide comments on the following draft plans and policy revisions: over 20 years-old, who looked for African-American workers and groups,” wrote Wilson. • The Public Housing Agency (PHA) Annual Plan for HANO’s Fiscal Year Beginning October 1, 2017 • The Capital Fund Program (CFP) Five-Year Action Plan Ebony is moving to Los Angeles for Federal Fiscal Years 2017 – 2021 By Erick Johnson in the Black community scratch - sary this year. Johnson Rice is the Public Housing Admissions and Continued Occupancy Contributing Writer ing their heads. CEO of the CVG Group’s Ebony • It’s the latest chapter for two, Media Group, which runs Ebony . Policy (April 2017 Revised Draft) (Chicago Crusader) — Los storied publications that, for While Ebony will relocate to Los Angeles has lured another Black years, have struggled to find Angeles, Johnson Rice will main - • Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan icon away from the Windy City. their way in the ever-evolving tain an office in Chicago and (April 2017 Revised Draft) The company that now owns world of news media. remain CEO of Ebony . Since sell - Ebony and Jet magazines, recent - The founder of the Johnson ing their headquarters in 2010, HANO’s draft plans and policy revisions are posted on the Agency’s website at ly announced that the editorial Publishing Company, John H. Johnson Publishing has operated www.hano.org and are available for review and comment from April 21, 2017 teams for both publications will Johnson, died in 2005. His wife, out of the Borg-Warner building at through June 6, 2017 during weekday hours of 8:00 am − 5:00 pm at the following relocate to Tinsel Town. Eunice, died in 2010. Their 200 S. Michigan Avenue. locations: The move marks another loss for daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, Over the years, to save Ebony , Chicago, which was once a magnet sold Ebony and Jet in 2016 to Johnson Rice sold its landmark • HANO Central Offices: 4100 Touro St. & 2051 Senate St., for Black-owned media. CVG Group, a Houston private headquarters, shuttered the print New Orleans, LA 70122 The Chicago Tribune reported equity firm. Jet ended its print- edition of Jet magazine and then that Oprah Winfrey shutdown pro - run in June 2014 and is now only sold E bony and Jet to the CVG • Housing Communities : duction at her Harpo Studios, for available in digital form. Group, a small private firm with o Bienville Basin – 215 Treme St. & 1201 Bienville St., good, in December 2015. What many had hoped to be a little or no experience in media or New Orleans, LA 70112 “Production is migrating to the new chapter for Ebony and Jet is magazine publishing. All along, o Columbia Parc – 1400 Milton St. & 1401 Caton St., West Coast, four years behind now fading. The latest disappoint - Johnson Publishing trumpeted New Orleans, LA 70122 Winfrey, who left town to start her ment came May 5, when the CVG these moves as a step forward, but o Faubourg Lafitte – 2200 Lafitte St. & 700 N. Galvez St., own cable network, OWN, in Group announced that Ebony is to many professionals and former New Orleans, LA 70119 2011,” The Tribune reported. laying off about 10 of 35 employ - Ebony employees, they were all o Fischer – 1915 L. B. Landry St., New Orleans, LA 70114 Television personality Steve ees, including Editor-In-Chief mistakes and disturbing signs of an o New Florida – 2521 Independence St., New Orleans, LA 70117 Harvey announced last year that Kyra Kyles. Tracey Ferguson, the empire in decline. he was leaving Chicago to start a digital editor of Jet , will be respon - Now, there are concerns that o Guste – 1301 Simon Bolivar Ave., New Orleans, LA 70113 new show in Los Angeles. sible for both magazines. Ebony the latest move to relocate Ebony o Harmony Oaks – 3320 Clara St., New Orleans, LA 70115 Motown, the iconic, record has 1.2 million subscribers. some 2,000 miles away from its o Marrero Commons – 1100 S. Tonti St., New Orleans, LA 70125 label that was once a staple of Johnson Rice will now be CEO birthplace will deliver the final o River Garden – 913 Felicity St. & 530 St. Andrew St., Detroit’s music scene, bolted for and chairman of Johnson blow to the publication that, for Ste. D, New Orleans, LA 70130 the West Coast decades ago. Publishing Company, which owns decades, was one of the few o The Estates – 3450 Desire Pkwy., New Orleans, LA 70126 Now, Ebony and Jet join that the Fashion Fair cosmetics line magazines that told the story of western migration, leaving many that is celebrating its 45th anniver - Black life and culture.◊ THE PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 Virus hitting La. crawfish ponds 6:00 P.M. By Chevel Johnson said he’s been producing crawfish Davis, Acadia and St. Landry HELEN W. LANG MEMORIAL BOARD ROOM AP Writer in the state for more than 30 years. parishes and possibly others. 4100 TOURO STREET (Please Use Entrance on 2051 “I was having a great harvest until Shirley assures the virus is not (AP) — Louisiana crawfish my catch suddenly dropped 70 a health issue for consumers Senate Street Side) producers: beware. percent in mid-March,” he said. because it only affects crus - A deadly virus is threatening “Then I noticed dead crawfish taceans. But he said producers NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122 the industry, state aquaculture floating in the water.” should be concerned. COMMENTS MAY BE SENT ELECTRONICALLY TO E-MAIL ADDRESS [email protected] specialists said. He brought a sample to the AG “If we can find some research OR SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO: Mark Shirley, of the LSU center, which confirmed the virus dollars we might be able to do a Housing Authority of New Orleans Agriculture Center, said the had hit his ponds. broad range of testing to determine virus _ known as white spot syn - “My catch went down by 70 how prevalent the virus is and find c/o Strategic Planning Department drome – primarily affects shrimp percent overnight and it hasn’t ways to control it,” he said. 4100 Touro Street and was first discovered in come back,” said Garbarino, of He said not much is known New Orleans, LA 70122 Thailand and other parts of Jennings. This thing wipes you about the virus in crawfish, since southeast Asia. Somehow, he out. Now we’re trying to figure it was mainly an issue with the The HANO Central Office facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities says, it has made its way to out what to do.” shrimp industry in Asia. crawfish ponds in South Garbarino met with Shirley and “It’s just we don’t have enough and the Agency will provide services or assistive devices that enable Louisiana and is having a signif - others AG center specialists earlier info on how it affects, we do know disabled persons to participate in its programs, meetings, and activities. If icant impact. this week to discuss the issue but it kills them but we don’t know you have a reasonable accommodation request relative to attending the Shirley said a symptom of the no one really has a handle on how how to manage it to keep it out of public hearing, please notify our Client Services Department at (504) 670- virus shows up as white spots, to prevent the virus, which was crawfish ponds,” he said. 3300 at least 48 hours prior to the hearing. about the size of a pencil eraser, first detected in 2007 in Louisiana Shirley said Louisiana has on shrimp shells. But on craw - ponds in about 13 parishes as well 250,000 acres of crawfish farms fish, there won’t be any spots, as in the Atchafalaya Basin. The producing and estimated $175 mil - but producers will notice a drop next year, there were just a few lion worth of crawfish annually. in production and dead crawfish cases. Shirley said that was the “It’s a very valuable crop and in the waters, he said. norm until this year when it involves a lot of producers The Louisiana Weekly: April 24, May 22 & June 5, 2017 Crawfish farmer Ian Garbarino showed up in Vermillion, Jeff across the state,” he said.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM June 5 - June 11, 2017 ORLEANS PARISH ORLEANS PARISH

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Continued from Page 10 Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the the Parish of Orleans sT. LUKE bAPTIsT JOnEs, PATRICIA ATTy: ROBERT MATHIS TRICT 421 Loyola Avenue, in ground floor of the Civil no. 2014-4581 CHURCH JOnEs bREnT, (504) 837-9040 MUNICIPAL NO. 1522- the First District of the jD 33 LOUISIANA AVENUE District Court building, by virtue of a WRIT Civil District Court for HOWARD JOnEs, LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 24 BARONNE STREET City on June 8, 2017, at ACQUIRED MIN 596391 421 Loyola Avenue, in OF sEIZURE AnD sALE the Parish of Orleans ROnALD JOnEs, ______ACQUIRED MIN 12:00 o’clock noon, the WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the to me directed by the no. 2015-11114 DELORIs JOnEs sALE bY 1169843 following described $42,688.67 City on June 8, 2017, at Honorable The Civil by virtue of a WRIT RAnKIn, JACKIE WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: Seized in the above 12:00 o’clock noon, the District Court of OF FIERI FACIAs to me JOnEs, JALIsA ORLEAns sHERIFF $18,535.00 A CERTAIN PIECE OF suit, TERMS CASH. The following described Orleans, in the above directed by the sAMUELs, IZYMn AKA JUDICIAL Seized in the above GROUND, together with purchaser at the moment property to wit: entitled cause, I will Honorable The Civil AZIM sAMUELs AnD ADvERTIsEMEnT suit, TERMS CASH. The all the buildings and of adjudication to make a LOT NO. 13 SQUARE proceed to sell by pub - District Court of CALEMOs TROUTT, III purchaser at the moment improvements thereon, deposit of ten percent of NO. 4 lic auction, on the Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn of adjudication to make a and all the rights, ways, the purchase price, and THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ground floor of the Civil entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD deposit of ten percent of privileges, servitudes, the balance within thirty TRICT District Court building, proceed to sell by pub - no. 2016-6448 bEARInG MUnICIPAL the purchase price, and appurtenances and days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 8059 421 Loyola Avenue, in lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT nO. 3140 nEW the balance within thirty advantages thereunto The payment must be CURRAN ROAD the First District of the ground floor of the Civil OF FIERI FACIAs to me ORLEAns sTREET, In days thereafter. (NOTE: belonging or in anywise Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQ MIN:937836 City on June 8, 2017, at District Court building, directed by the THE MATTER EnTI - The payment must be appertaining, situated in Certified Check or Money WRIT AMOUnT: 12:00 o’clock noon, the 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil TLED: "ADMInIsTRA - Cash, Cashier’s Check, the FIFTH DISTRICT of Order. No personal $56,042.81 following described the First District of the District Court of TOR, U.s. sMALL bUsI - Certified Check or Money the City of New Orleans, checks.) Seized in the above property to wit: City on June 8, 2017, at Orleans, in the above nEss ADMInIsTRA - Order. No personal Parish of Orleans, State MARLIn n. GUsMAn suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT 13, SQUARE 521 12:00 o’clock noon, the entitled cause, I will TIOn, An AGEnCY OF checks.) of Louisiana, in square Sheriff purchaser at the moment SEVENTH MUNICIPAL following described proceed to sell by pub - THE UnITED sTATEs comprised in Cut Off Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff ATTy: ETHAN HUNT of adjudication to make a DISTRICT property to wit: lic auction, on the OF AMERICA vs DAR - Road addition to the Parish of Orleans (318) 388-1440 deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 3424 LOT O, SQUARE 496, ground floor of the Civil RYL KEnYATTA TAY - ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM Puisson Subdivision, jD 8 (504) 658-4346 LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 the purchase price, and CAMPHOR STREET FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, LOR AKA DARRYL K. BBB Cut Off Road, jD 26 ______the balance within thirty ACQUIRED MIN 687734 TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in TAYLOR AKA DARRYL LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 Common Street, and sALE bY days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: MUNICIPAL NO. 4126 the First District of the TAYLOR In HIs InDI - ______open lane and balance The payment must be $68,639.50 THALIA STREET, City on June 8, 2017, at vIDUAL CAPACITY sALE bY property, which Lot is ORLEAns sHERIFF Cash, Cashier’s Check, Seized in the above ACQ MIN: 1186527 12:00 o’clock noon, the AnD DARRYL KEnYAT - designated as No. 136, JUDICIAL Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The WRIT AMOUnT: following described TA TAYLOR, In HIs ORLEAns sHERIFF and measures 40 feet ADvERTIsEMEnT Order. No personal purchaser at the moment $3,735.00 property to wit: CAPACITY As InDE - JUDICIAL front on Common Street, checks.) of adjudication to make a Seized in the above LOTS 14 AND 15, PEnDEnT EXECUTOR same width in rear by a THAT PORTIOn ADvERTIsEMEnT MARLIn n. GUsMAn deposit of ten percent of suit, TERMS CASH. The SQUARE 590 OF THE sUCCEssIOn depth of 120 feet OF GROUnD Sheriff the purchase price, and purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - OF WILLEnE PULLIAM THAT PORTIOn between equal and paral - Parish of Orleans bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: WAyNE MAIORANA the balance within thirty of adjudication to make a TRICT TAYLOR AKA WILLEnE OF GROUnD lel lines. nO. 1636-38-40-42 504-837-9040 days thereafter. (NOTE: deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 4524- P. TAYLOR AKA WIL - bEARInG MUnICIPAL The improve - TW 11 TERPsICHORE LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 The payment must be the purchase price, and 4526 N. ROBERTSON LEnE TAYLOR" nO. 920 TURQUOIsE ments thereon bear the sTREET AnD 1600 ______Cash, Cashier’s Check, the balance within thirty STREET Civil District Court for sTREET, nEW Municipal No. 3507 Boyd CAROnDELET sALE bY Certified Check or Money days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQ. MIN 1188736 the Parish of Orleans ORLEAns, LA, In THE Street, New Orleans, sTREET, nOW KnOWn Order. No personal The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: no. 2016-8068 MATTER EnTITLED: Louisiana. As RObERT C. ORLEAns sHERIFF checks.) Cash, Cashier’s Check, $22,235.00 by virtue of a WRIT "FLORIDA PARIsHEs WRIT AMOUnT: bLAKEs sR. DRIvE, JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUsMAn Certified Check or Money Seized in the above OF sEIZURE AnD sALE bAnK vs CJ's ELEC - $19,735.00 CITY OF nEW Sheriff Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The to me directed by the TRIC, L.L.C. AnD Seized in the above ADvERTIsEMEnT Parish of Orleans ORLEAns, In THE ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER checks.) purchaser at the moment Honorable The Civil CHARLEs J. LAbOR - suit, TERMS CASH. The CAsE EnTITLED: CITY THAT PORTIOn (504) 831-7726 of adjudication to make a District Court of DE, JR AnD THE UnIT - purchaser at the moment jD 20 MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff OF nEW ORLEAns vs OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 deposit of ten percent of Orleans, in the above ED sTATEs OF AMERI - of adjudication to make a Parish of Orleans ______TIGER HO, LLC bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: STEPHANIE DOVALINA the purchase price, and entitled cause, I will CA, InTERnAL REv - deposit of ten percent of Civil District Court for nO. 4758 CITRUs DR, (504) 658-4346 the balance within thirty proceed to sell by pub - EnUE sERvICE" the purchase price, and sALE bY BB 28 the Parish of Orleans THIs CITY, In THE MAT - LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: lic auction, on the Civil District Court for the balance within thirty no. 2017-264 TER EnTITLED ORLEAns sHERIFF ______The payment must be ground floor of the Civil the Parish of Orleans days thereafter. (NOTE: by virtue of a WRIT EMbRACE HOME JUDICIAL sALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, District Court building, no. 2017-2682 The payment must be OF FIERI FACIAs to me LOAns, InC. vs GAIL ADvERTIsEMEnT Certified Check or Money 421 Loyola Avenue, in by virtue of a WRIT Cash, Cashier’s Check, directed by the bICKHAM ORLEAns sHERIFF Order. No personal the First District of the OF sEIZURE AnD sALE Certified Check or Money Honorable The Civil Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn JUDICIAL checks.) City on June 8, 2017, at to me directed by the Order. No personal District Court of the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD ADvERTIsEMEnT MARLIn n. GUsMAn 12:00 o’clock noon, the Honorable The Civil checks.) Orleans, in the above no. 2016-12671 bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff following described District Court of Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUsMAn THAT PORTIOn Sheriff entitled cause, I will by virtue of a WRIT nO. 2036 ATTy: STEPHANIE DOVALINA property to wit: Orleans, in the above Parish of Orleans (504) 658-4346 proceed to sell by pub - OF sEIZURE AnD sALE ALMOnAsTER OF GROUnD LOT M, SQUARE 1964 entitled cause, I will ATTy: STEPHANIE DOVALINA NNB 31 (504) 658-4346 lic auction, on the to me directed by the AvEnUE, THIs CITY, In bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - BB 30 ______ground floor of the Civil Honorable The Civil THE MATTER EnTI - nO. 8515 JEAnnETTE TRICT lic auction, on the LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 District Court building, District Court of TLED CITY OF nEW sTREET, THIs CITY, In sALE bY MUNICIPAL NO. 3140 ground floor of the Civil ______421 Loyola Avenue, in Orleans, in the above ORLEAns vs LEROY THE MATTER EnTI - NEW ORLEANS District Court building, sALE bY the First District of the entitled cause, I will b. WYLIE, OR HIs sUC - TLED: CITY OF nEW ORLEAns sHERIFF STREET 421 Loyola Avenue, in City on June 8, 2017, at proceed to sell by pub - CEssORs, HEIRs & ORLEAns vERsUs JUDICIAL ACQUIRED MIN 931855 the First District of the ORLEAns sHERIFF 12:00 o’clock noon, the lic auction, on the AssIGns PALAZCOE, LLC ADvERTIsEMEnT WRIT AMOUnT: City on June 8, 2017, at JUDICIAL following described ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for Civil District Court for $98,978.66 12:00 o’clock noon, the ADvERTIsEMEnT property to wit: District Court building, the Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above following described LOT 4, SQUARE 209, 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2016-3127 no. 2015-11643 OF GROUnD suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: THAT PORTIOn FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT by virtue of a WRIT bEARInG MUnICIPAL purchaser at the moment LOT 14, SQUARE 20 OF GROUnD TRICT, City on June 8, 2017, at OF FIERI FACIAs to me OF FIERI FACIAs to me nO. 5608 sT. bERnARD of adjudication to make a SECOND MUNICIPAL bEARInG MUnICIPAL MUNICIPAL NO. 1636- 12:00 o’clock noon, the directed by the directed by the AvEnUE, nEW deposit of ten percent of DISTRICT nO. 7405 sUssEX 38-40-42 TERPSI - following described Honorable The Civil Honorable The Civil ORLEAns, LA, In THE the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 920 PLACE, nEW CHORE STREET AND property to wit: District Court of District Court of MATTER EnTITLED: the balance within thirty TURQUOISE STREET ORLEAns, LA, In THE 1600 CARONDELET LOT NO. 215 SQUARE Orleans, in the above Orleans, in the above "COMMUnITY DEvEL - days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQUIRED MIN 882869 MATTER EnTITLED: STREET, NOW kNOWN NO. 11 entitled cause, I will entitled cause, I will OPMEnT CAPITAL vs The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: “U.s. bAnK nATIOnAL AS ROBERT C. BLAkES THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - proceed to sell by pub - HOUsInG CORPORA - Cash, Cashier’s Check, $588,609.64 AssOCIATIOn vs SR. DRIVE TRICT lic auction, on the lic auction, on the TIOn OF AMERICA, Certified Check or Money Seized in the above DAREnCE E. CARRA - ACQUIRED MIN MUNICIPAL NO. 4758 ground floor of the Civil ground floor of the Civil REnAIssAnCE PROP - Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The DInE A/K/A DAREnCE 1230525 CITRUS DR District Court building, District Court building, ERTY HOLDInG COR - checks.) purchaser at the moment CARRADInE.” WRIT AMOUnT: SUBDIVISION: DONA 421 Loyola Avenue, in 421 Loyola Avenue, in PORATIOn, GREGORY MARLIn n. GUsMAn of adjudication to make a Civil District Court for $23,235.00 VILLA the First District of the the First District of the sWAFFORD, AnD Sheriff deposit of ten percent of the Parish of Orleans Parish of Orleans Seized in the above ACQ MIN:1018669 City on June 8, 2017, at City on June 8, 2017, at vAnEssA MARIE CAL - ATTy: RAy WOOD the purchase price, and no. 2016-9870 suit, TERMS CASH. The WRIT AMOUnT: 12:00 o’clock noon, the 12:00 o’clock noon, the IsTE sWAFFORD" (225) 372-8877 the balance within thirty by virtue of a WRIT jS 34 purchaser at the moment $69,448.11 following described following described Civil District Court for LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: OF sEIZURE AnD sALE of adjudication to make a Seized in the above property to wit: property to wit: the Parish of Orleans ______The payment must be to me directed by the deposit of ten percent of suit, TERMS CASH. The LOT A, SQUARE 1016, LOT 4, SQUARE 198 no. 2016-11784 sALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, Honorable The Civil the purchase price, and purchaser at the moment THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SEVENTH MUNICIPAL by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money District Court of the balance within thirty of adjudication to make a TRICT, DISTRICT OF sEIZURE AnD sALE ORLEAns sHERIFF Order. No personal Orleans, in the above days thereafter. (NOTE: deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO: 2036 MUNICIPAL NO. 8515 to me directed by the JUDICIAL checks.) entitled cause, I will The payment must be the purchase price, and ALMONASTER jEANNETTE STREET Honorable The Civil ADvERTIsEMEnT MARLIn n. GUsMAn proceed to sell by pub - Cash, Cashier’s Check, the balance within thirty AVENUE, ACQ. MIN 1191873 District Court of Sheriff lic auction, on the THAT PORTIOn Parish of Orleans Certified Check or Money days thereafter. (NOTE: ACQ MIN: 1187074 WRIT AMOUnT: Orleans, in the above ATTy: ANDRE COUDRAIN ground floor of the Civil Order. No personal The payment must be WRIT AMOUnT: $21,235.00 entitled cause, I will OF GROUnD (985) 542-6848 District Court building, jD 2 checks.) Cash, Cashier’s Check, $17,735.00 Seized in the above proceed to sell by pub - bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 421 Loyola Avenue, in MARLIn n. GUsMAn Certified Check or Money Seized in the above suit, TERMS CASH. The lic auction, on the nO. 1522-24 bAROnnE ______the First District of the Sheriff Order. No personal suit, TERMS CASH. The purchaser at the moment ground floor of the Civil sTREET, nEW City on June 8, 2017, at Parish of Orleans sALE bY ATTy: CHARMAINE MARCHAND checks.) purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a District Court building, ORLEAns, LA, In THE 12:00 o’clock noon, the (504) 658-4346 of adjudication to make a deposit of ten percent of 421 Loyola Avenue, in MATTER EnTITLED: ORLEAns sHERIFF following described LM 9 MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 deposit of ten percent of the purchase price, and the First District of the "CITY OF nEW JUDICIAL property to wit: Parish of Orleans ______ATTy: COREy GIROIR the purchase price, and the balance within thirty City on June 8, 2017, at ORLEAns vs sUCCEs - ADvERTIsEMEnT THAT CERTAIN PIECE (225) 756-0373 the balance within thirty days thereafter. (NOTE: 12:00 o’clock noon, the sIOns OF ARnETTE OR PORTION OF sALE bY TW 16 THAT PORTIOn LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 days thereafter. (NOTE: The payment must be following described CALHOUn sPELLs, GROUND, together with ORLEAns sHERIFF ______The payment must be Cash, Cashier’s Check, property to wit: sR. AnD ARnETTE OF GROUnD all of the buildings and JUDICIAL sALE bY Cash, Cashier’s Check, Certified Check or Money LOT A, SQUARE 35 CALHOUn sPELLs, bEARInG MUnICIPAL improvements thereon, ADvERTIsEMEnT Certified Check or Money Order. No personal THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - JR." nO. 3507 bOYD and all of the rights, ORLEAns sHERIFF Order. No personal checks.) TRICT Civil District Court for sTREET, THIs CITY, In ways, privileges, servi - THAT PORTIOn JUDICIAL checks.) MARLIn n. GUsMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 5608 the Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - tudes, appurtenances OF GROUnD Sheriff ST. BERNARD AVENUE no. 2016-3221 TLED: CITY OF nEW and advantages there - ADvERTIsEMEnT MARLIn n. GUsMAn Parish of Orleans Sheriff bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: STEPHANIE DOVALINA ACQUIRED MIN by virtue of a WRIT ORLEAns vs CHRIs - unto belonging or in any - Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn (504) 658-4346 nO 8059 CURRAn ATTy: STEPHANIE DOVALINA 1096994 OF FIERI FACIAs to me TInE R. RICHARDsOn wise appertaining, situat - NNB 29 (504) 658-4346 ROAD, THIs CITY, In OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 WRIT AMOUnT: directed by the OR HER sUCCEs - ed in the THIRD DIS - BB 27 ______THE MATTER EnTI - bEARInG MUnICIPAL LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 $84,500.00 Honorable The Civil sORs, HEIRs OR TRICT of the City of New TLED GULF COAsT nO. 3424 CAMPHOR ______sALE bY Seized in the above District Court of AssIGns. Orleans, Parish of bAnK In TRUsT COM - sTREET, nEW sALE bY suit, TERMS CASH. The Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for Orleans, State of PAnY vs MEL ORLEAns, LA, In THE ORLEAns sHERIFF purchaser at the moment entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans Louisiana, in that part MITCHELL, III MATTER EnTITLED: ORLEAns sHERIFF JUDICIAL of adjudication to make a proceed to sell by pub - no. 2016-726 thereof known as Civil District Court for "LPP MORTGAGE LTD JUDICIAL ADvERTIsEMEnT deposit of ten percent of lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT TEGENCy PARk TOWN the Parish of Orleans vs THE OPEnED sUC - ADvERTIsEMEnT the purchase price, and ground floor of the Civil OF FIERI FACIAs to me HOUSES, Regency Park no. 2017-1922 CEssIOn OF WARREn THAT PORTIOn the balance within thirty District Court building, directed by the Subdivision Phase I, as by virtue of a WRIT WICKs AnD ROsITA THAT PORTIOn OF GROUnD days thereafter. (NOTE: 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil shown on plan of OF sEIZURE AnD sALE bRADFORD WICKs, OF GROUnD bEARInG MUnICIPAL The payment must be the First District of the District Court of Benjamin L. Carter, to me directed by the (A/K/A ROsITA b. bEARInG MUnICIPAL nO. 4524-4526 n. Cash, Cashier’s Check, City on June 8, 2017, at Orleans, in the above dated March 29, 1967, Honorable The Civil WICKs) AnD LYnn nO. 4126 THALIA RObERTsOn sTREET, Certified Check or Money 12:00 o’clock noon, the entitled cause, I will recorded in COB 684 District Court of bRADFORD AnD sTREET, THIs CITY, In THIs CITY, In THE MAT - Order. No personal following described proceed to sell by pub - folio 114, and also as Orleans, in the above LACITA WICKs AnD THE MATTER EnTI - TER EnTITLED: CITY checks.) property to wit: lic auction, on the shown on a plan of entitled cause, I will LAZZETTA WICKs" TLED CITY OF nEW OF nEW ORLEAns MARLIn n. GUsMAn LOT B, SQUARE 242 ground floor of the Civil proceed to sell by pub - Civil District Court for ORLEAns vs FIRsT vERsUs JERRY D. Sheriff FIRST MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - June 5 - June 11, 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 773B, folio 486, Entry Honorable The Civil suit, TERMS CASH. The 2727 jACkSON LOT 9, SQUARE G, City on July 6, 2017, at sOUTHERn" No. 389703, together District Court of purchaser at the moment AVENUE, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 12:00 o’clock noon, the Civil District Court for Gandolfo, kuhn & with the survey, plat and Orleans, in the above of adjudication to make a ACQ MIN: 1194607 TRICT, following described the Parish of Orleans Associates, certified cor - other instruments and entitled cause, I will deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: WIMBLEDON SUBDIVI - property to wit: no. 2017-3695 rect May 24, 1979, a documents annexed proceed to sell by pub - the purchase price, and $21,335.00 SION, LOT 9, SQUARE 6 by virtue of a WRIT copy of which is attached thereto and incorporation lic auction, on the the balance within thirty Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 5501 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - OF sEIZURE AnD sALE to an Act of Restatement by reference therein, ground floor of the Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The EDENBORO ROAD TRICT to me directed by the and Revision of which establishes the District Court building, The payment must be purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN LAkE FOREST SUBDI - Honorable The Civil Servitudes, Restrictions Heritage Lane 421 Loyola Avenue, in Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a 1199769 VISION, NO. 2, PART B District Court of and Privileges passed Condominium and which the First District of the Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: (NOW kNOWN AS LAkE Orleans, in the above before Louis B. Graham, includes among the com - City on June 8, 2017, at Order. No personal the purchase price, and $11,235.00 WILLOW SUBDIVISION) entitled cause, I will Notary Public, dated May mon elements thereof. 12:00 o’clock noon, the checks.) the balance within thirty Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 7149 proceed to sell by pub - 29, 1979, and registered WRIT AMOUnT: following described MARLIn n. GUsMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The WESTHAVEN ROAD lic auction, on the in COB 763C, folio 233- $73,407.35 property to wit: Sheriff The payment must be purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN ground floor of the Civil Parish of Orleans 74, and according to Seized in the above A CERTAIN LOT OF ATTy: COREy GIROIR Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a 1187254 District Court building, which said lot is desig - suit, TERMS CASH. The GROUND, together with (225) 756-0373 Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: 421 Loyola Avenue, in NNB 35 nated as Lot 29, Block 1, purchaser at the moment all the buildings and LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Order. No personal the purchase price, and $169,870.93 the First District of the of the subdivision known of adjudication to make a improvements thereon, ______checks.) the balance within thirty Seized in the above City on July 6, 2017, at as Regency Park Town deposit of ten percent of and all the rights, ways, sALE bY MARLIn n. GUsMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The 12:00 o’clock noon, the Houses. the purchase price, and privileges, servitudes, Sheriff The payment must be purchaser at the moment following described ORLEAns sHERIFF Parish of Orleans WRIT AMOUnT: the balance within thirty appurtenances and ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a property to wit: $60,050.63 days thereafter. (NOTE: advantages thereunto JUDICIAL (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of LOT 2, SQUARE 155 Seized in the above BB 29 The payment must be belonging or in anywise ADvERTIsEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Order. No personal the purchase price, and THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - suit, TERMS CASH. The ______Cash, Cashier’s Check, appertaining, situated in THAT PORTIOn checks.) the balance within thirty TRICT purchaser at the moment Certified Check or Money the Sixth District of the sALE bY MARLIn n. GUsMAn days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NOS. 608- of adjudication to make a Order. No personal City of New Orleans, OF GROUnD Sheriff The payment must be 10 kERLEREC STREET ORLEAns sHERIFF Parish of Orleans deposit of ten percent of checks.) Parish of Orleans, State bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM Cash, Cashier’s Check, ACQUIRED MIN the purchase price, and of Louisiana, in Square nO. 2017 MUsIC JUDICIAL (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money 1133742 MARLIn n. GUsMAn LM 31 Sheriff the balance within thirty 742, bounded by sTREET, THIs CITY, In LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Order. No personal WRIT AMOUnT: Parish of Orleans ADvERTIsEMEnT ______days thereafter. (NOTE: ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER jefferson Avenue, South THE MATTER EnTI - checks.) $105,702.13 The payment must be (504) 831-7726 Miro Street (formerly TLED: CITY OF nEW THAT PORTIOn Seized in the above jS 21 sALE bY MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff Cash, Cashier’s Check, LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 Burthe), Robert Street ORLEAns vERsUs OF GROUnD suit, TERMS CASH. The Parish of Orleans ______ORLEAns sHERIFF Certified Check or Money and South Galvez Street LAWREnCE J. bARRE bEARInG MUnICIPAL ATTy: kELLy MASSEy purchaser at the moment Order. No personal sALE bY (formerly Hodge), desig - OR HIs sUCCEssORs, nO. 2345-47 FILMORE JUDICIAL (318) 388-1440 of adjudication to make a checks.) HEIRs, AnD AssIGns, AvEnUE, CITY OF nEW jD 33 ORLEAns sHERIFF nated as Lot “B” which ADvERTIsEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 deposit of ten percent of MARLIn n. GUsMAn said lot forms the corner MALCOLM L. GIbsOn, ORLEAns, In THE ______the purchase price, and Sheriff JUDICIAL of jefferson Avenue and AnD sUCCEssIOn OF CAsE EnTITLED: CITY THAT PORTIOn the balance within thirty Parish of Orleans sALE bY ATTy: COREy GIROIR ADvERTIsEMEnT South Miro Street, and vIvIAn TORREGAnO OF nEW ORLEAns vs OF GROUnD days thereafter. (NOTE: (225) 756-0373 measures thence 76 feet bARRE bOGUILLE MARY L. FICK OR HER bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAns sHERIFF The payment must be jD 14 THAT PORTIOn LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 3 inches 4 lines front on Civil District Court for sUCCEssORs, HEIRs nO. 1433 TRICOU JUDICIAL Cash, Cashier’s Check, ______OF GROUnD jefferson Avenue, a the Parish of Orleans AnD AssIGns sTREET , CITY OF nEW ADvERTIsEMEnT Certified Check or Money bEARInG MUnICIPAL no. 2015-11288 Civil District Court for ORLEAns, In THE sALE bY width in the rear of 75 THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal ORLEAns sHERIFF nO. 1112 LAURADALE feet, by a depth of 51 feet by virtue of a WRIT the Parish of Orleans CAsE EnTITLED: checks.) DR, THIs CITY, In THE 1 inch 2 lines on the OF FIERI FACIAs to me no. 2016-9569 AMERICAn ADvIsORs OF GROUnD MARLIn n. GUsMAn JUDICIAL MATTER EnTITLED South Miro Street side - directed by the by virtue of a WRIT GROUP vs EDGAR bEARInG MUnICIPAL Sheriff WELLs FARGO bAnK, Honorable The Civil OF sEIZURE AnD sALE CRAWFORD nO. 2927 COnTI Parish of Orleans ADvERTIsEMEnT line and a depth of 65 ATTy: WAyNE MAIORANA n.A. sUCCEssOR bY feet 0 inches 5 lines on District Court of to me directed by the Civil District Court for sTREET, nEW (504) 837-9040 A COnDO jD 15 MERGER TO WELLs the opposite sideline. All Orleans, in the above Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans ORLEAns, LA, In THE LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 THAT PORTIOn FARGO bAnK MIn - in accordance with a plan entitled cause, I will District Court of no. 2017-3115 MATTER EnTITLED: ______OF GROUnD nEsOTA, n.A. As of survey by Mandle proceed to sell by pub - Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT "HOME bAnK, n.A. vs sALE bY TRUsTEE FOR REPER - lic auction, on the entitled cause, I will OF sEIZURE AnD sALE PELICAn PARTnERs, bEARInG MUnICIPAL Surveying, Inc., dated ORLEAns sHERIFF nO. 26 HERITAGE FORMInG LOAn October 29, 1993, a copy ground floor of the Civil proceed to sell by pub - to me directed by the LLC, DEbORAH b. LAnE, UnIT 26 OF THE REMIC TRUsT 2002-2 of which is annexed to District Court building, lic auction, on the Honorable The Civil DAHAn, AnD DEbO - JUDICIAL HERITAGE LAnE COn - vs CAROLYn RUTH CIN #78594. 421 Loyola Avenue, in ground floor of the Civil District Court of RAH b. DAHAn, AnD ADvERTIsEMEnT MAYO the First District of the District Court building, Orleans, in the above ROTEM DAHAn, DOMInIUM, THIs CITY, Which has the ALL THAT PAR - In THE MATTER EnTI - Civil District Court for address of 3331 and City on July 6, 2017, at 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will EXECUTORs OF THE TLED: “THE bAnK OF the Parish of Orleans 3333 jefferson Avenue, 12:00 o’clock noon, the the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - sUCCEssIOn OF HAIM CEL OF LAnD nEW YORK MELLOn no. 2016-11916 New Orleans, LA 70125. following described City on July 6, 2017, at lic auction, on the DAHAn" bEARInG MUnICIPAL FKA THE bAnK OF by virtue of a WRIT WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: 12:00 o’clock noon, the ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for nO. nEW YORK, As OF sEIZURE AnD sALE $295,780.88 LOT y, SQUARE 1019 following described District Court building, the Parish of Orleans 1031 bARRACKs sT, TRUsTEE FOR THE to me directed by the Seized in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - property to wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2016-5487 UnIT 3 OF THE bAR - CERTIFICATEHOLD - Honorable The Civil suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT LOT F, SQUARE 4059, the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT RACKs sTREET COn - ERs OF CWAbs InC., District Court of purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 2017 THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - City on July 6, 2017, at OF sEIZURE AnD sALE DOMInIUM, THIs CITY, AssET-bACKED CER - Orleans, in the above of adjudication to make a MUSIC STREET TRICT, 12:00 o’clock noon, the to me directed by the In THE MATTER EnTI - TIFICATEs, sERIEs entitled cause, I will deposit of ten percent of ACQ. MIN 1187469 MUNICIPAL NO. 2345- following described Honorable The Civil TLED FEDERAL 2006-26 vs TERREnCE proceed to sell by pub - the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: 47 FILMORE AVENUE property to wit: District Court of nATIOnAL MORTGAGE bRADsHAW MICKEY”. lic auction, on the the balance within thirty $855.00 ACQUIRED MIN LOT NOS. 8 & 9 , Orleans, in the above AssOCIATIOn vs Civil District Court for ground floor of the Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above 1205489 SQUARE NO. 568 entitled cause, I will RObERT bRIAn the Parish of Orleans District Court building, The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The WRIT AMOUnT: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - proceed to sell by pub - sEGAL AKA RObERT no. 2016-2403 421 Loyola Avenue, in Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment $6,410.00 TRICT lic auction, on the b. sEGAL AKA by virtue of a WRIT the First District of the Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a Seized in the above MUNICIPAL NO. 1433 ground floor of the Civil RObERT sEGAL OF sEIZURE AnD sALE City on June 8, 2017, at Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICOU STREET District Court building, Civil District Court for to me directed by the 12:00 o’clock noon, the checks.) the purchase price, and purchaser at the moment ACQUIRED MIN 421 Loyola Avenue, in the Parish of Orleans Honorable The Civil following described MARLIn n. GUsMAn the balance within thirty of adjudication to make a 1202163 the First District of the no. 2017-924 District Court of property to wit: Sheriff days thereafter. (NOTE: deposit of ten percent of WRIT AMOUnT: City on July 6, 2017, at by virtue of a WRIT Parish of Orleans Orleans, in the above LOT NO. 9 SQUARE ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER The payment must be the purchase price, and $68,419.26 12:00 o’clock noon, the OF sEIZURE AnD sALE entitled cause, I will NO. 2 (504) 831-7726 Cash, Cashier’s Check, the balance within thirty Seized in the above following described to me directed by the LM 19 proceed to sell by pub - FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 Certified Check or Money days thereafter. (NOTE: suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: Honorable The Civil lic auction, on the TRICT ______Order. No personal The payment must be purchaser at the moment COMPOSED OF THE District Court of ground floor of the Civil SUBDIVISION: LAU - sALE bY checks.) Cash, Cashier’s Check, of adjudication to make a WHOLE OF ORIGINAL Orleans, in the above District Court building, RADALE MARLIn n. GUsMAn Certified Check or Money deposit of ten percent of LOTS NOS. 11,12,13,14 entitled cause, I will MUNICIPAL NO. 1112 ORLEAns sHERIFF Sheriff Order. No personal the purchase price, and AND 15 AND THE REAR proceed to sell by pub - 421 Loyola Avenue, in Parish of Orleans the First District of the LAURADALE DR JUDICIAL ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM checks.) the balance within thirty PORTION OF LOTS lic auction, on the ACQ MIN: 509727 (504) 658-4346 days thereafter. (NOTE: 6,7,8,9 AND 10, ground floor of the Civil City on June 8, 2017, at ADvERTIsEMEnT NNB 28 MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff WRIT AMOUnT: LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 The payment must be SQUARE 394 District Court building, 12:00 o’clock noon, the Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn ______following described $48,421.68 ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM Cash, Cashier’s Check, SECOND MUNICIPAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in Seized in the above OF GROUnD (504) 658-4346 Certified Check or Money DISTRICT the First District of the property to wit: sALE bY LM 30 A CERTAIN PIECE OR suit, TERMS CASH. The bEARInG MUnICIPAL ORLEAns sHERIFF LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 2927 City on July 6, 2017, at PORTION OF GROUND, purchaser at the moment nO. 3920 s. InWOOD ______checks.) CONTI STREET 12:00 o’clock noon, the together with all the of adjudication to make a AvEnUE, THIs CITY, In JUDICIAL sALE bY MARLIn n. GUsMAn ACQUIRED MIN 816759 following described buildings and improve - deposit of ten percent of THE MATTER EnTI - Sheriff WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: ADvERTIsEMEnT ORLEAns sHERIFF Parish of Orleans ments thereon and all the the purchase price, and TLED: FEDERAL ATTy: kELLy MASSEy $164,314.80 LOT NO. 12, SQAURE the balance within thirty nATIOnAL MORTGAGE THAT PORTIOn JUDICIAL (318) 388-1440 Seized in the above NO. 108 rights, ways, privileges, TW 32 servitudes, advantages days thereafter. (NOTE: AssOCIATIOn vERsUs OF GROUnD ADvERTIsEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 suit, TERMS CASH. The SECOND MUNICIPAL bEARInG MUnICIPAL ______and appurtenances The payment must be MERvIn LEWIs THAT PORTIOn purchaser at the moment DISTRICT thereunto belonging or in Cash, Cashier’s Check, Civil District Court for nO. 2725-2727 JACK - sALE bY of adjudication to make a MUNICIPAL NO. 1031 Certified Check or Money the Parish of Orleans sOn AvEnUE, THIs OF GROUnD deposit of ten percent of BARRACkS ST. anywise appertaining, ORLEAns sHERIFF situated in the FIFTH Order. No personal no. 2016-233 CITY, In THE MATTER bEARInG MUnICIPAL the purchase price, and ACQ MIN:1230116 DISTRICT of the City of checks.) by virtue of a WRIT EnTITLED CITY OF nO. 5501 EDEnbORO JUDICIAL the balance within thirty WRIT AMOUnT: New Orleans, State of MARLIn n. GUsMAn OF sEIZURE AnD sALE nEW ORLEAns vs ROAD, CITY OF nEW ADvERTIsEMEnT days thereafter. (NOTE: $209,483.20 Louisiana, in GARDEN Sheriff to me directed by the sHIRLEY JORDAn ORLEAns, In THE The payment must be Seized in the above Parish of Orleans THAT PORTIOn OAkS SUBDIVISION, in ATTy: DANIEL REED Honorable The Civil COLEMAn CAsE EnTITLED: CITY Cash, Cashier’s Check, suit, TERMS CASH. The 225-924-1600 District Court of Civil District Court for OF nEW ORLEAns vs OF GROUnD Certified Check or Money purchaser at the moment SQUARE A, which TW 1 square is bounded by LA. WEEkLy 5/8/2017 , 6/5/2017 Orleans, in the above the Parish of Orleans JEssE L. TURnER AnD bEARInG MUnICIPAL Order. No personal of adjudication to make a General DeGaulle Drive, ______entitled cause, I will no. 2016-7417 KAREn D. TURnER nO. 7149 WEsTHAvEn checks.) deposit of ten percent of Garden Oaks Drive, sALE bY proceed to sell by pub - by virtue of a WRIT AKA KAREn GET - ROAD, nEW ORLEAns, MARLIn n. GUsMAn the purchase price, and Seine Drive and the lic auction, on the OF FIERI FACIAs to me TRIDGE LA, In THE MATTER Sheriff the balance within thirty ORLEAns sHERIFF Parish of Orleans western boundary of the ground floor of the Civil directed by the Civil District Court for EnTITLED: "PEnnY - ATTy: STEVEN MCkNEELy days thereafter. (NOTE: subdivision, designated JUDICIAL District Court building, Honorable The Civil the Parish of Orleans MAC LOAn sERvICEs, 1-985-542-8500 The payment must be District Court of no. 2016-5063 LLC vs RObERT jD 14 as UNIT or HOME 26. ADvERTIsEMEnT 421 Loyola Avenue, in LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Cash, Cashier’s Check, Orleans, in the above by virtue of a WRIT WInEbURG" ______The HERITAGE LANE THAT PORTIOn the First District of the Certified Check or Money CONDOMINIUM, includ - City on July 6, 2017, at entitled cause, I will OF FIERI FACIAs to me Civil District Court for sALE bY Order. No personal OF GROUnD 12:00 o’clock noon, the proceed to sell by pub - directed by the the Parish of Orleans checks.) ing and undivided 4.166 ORLEAns sHERIFF percent ownership bEARInG MUnICIPAL following described lic auction, on the Honorable The Civil no. 2017-3758 MARLIn n. GUsMAn entered in the common nO. 3331-33 JEFFER - property to wit: ground floor of the Civil District Court of by virtue of a WRIT JUDICIAL Sheriff sOn AvEnUE, CITY OF District Court building, Orleans, in the above OF sEIZURE AnD sALE Parish of Orleans elements and limited LOT 41, SQUARE 102 ADvERTIsEMEnT ATTy: COREy GIROIR common elements are nEW ORLEAns, In THE FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - 421 Loyola Avenue, in entitled cause, I will to me directed by the (225) 756-0373 THAT PORTIOn jD 19 more fully set forth in the CAsE EnTITLED: TRICT the First District of the proceed to sell by pub - Honorable The Civil LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 certain Declaration of TRUsTMARK nATIOn - TALL TIMBERS, SEC - City on July 6, 2017, at lic auction, on the District Court of OF GROUnD ______Condominium Ownership AL bAnK vs JOsEPH TION 2 12:00 o’clock noon, the ground floor of the Civil Orleans, in the above bEARInG MUnICIPAL sALE bY CORTE CAnIZARO. following described District Court building, entitled cause, I will nO. 608-10 KERLEREC of the Heritage Lane MUNICIPAL NO. 3920 S. ORLEAns sHERIFF Condominium by act Civil District Court for INWOOD AVENUE property to wit: 421 Loyola Avenue, in proceed to sell by pub - sTREET, nEW before Camille A. the Parish of Orleans ACQ. MIN 919935 LOT 6 OR C, SQUARE the First District of the lic auction, on the ORLEAns, LA, In THE JUDICIAL Cutrone, Notary Public, no. 2016-9628 WRIT AMOUnT: 393, City on July 6, 2017, at ground floor of the Civil MATTER EnTITLED: ADvERTIsEMEnT dated September 29, by virtue of a WRIT $236,768.03 FOURTH MUNICIPAL 12:00 o’clock noon, the District Court building, "GULF COAsT bAnK OF sEIZURE AnD sALE DISTRICT, following described 421 Loyola Avenue, in AnD TRUsT vs MARK 1980, registered in COB Seized in the above Continued on next page to me directed by the MUNICIPAL NO: 2725- property to wit: the First District of the b. DUPUY AnD LIsA M. Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM June 5 - June 11, 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 LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 deposit of ten percent of Seized in the above 12:00 o’clock noon, the TRUsTEE FOR sTRUC - ______suit, TERMS CASH. The property to wit: the purchase price, and suit, TERMS CASH. The following described TURED AssET sECU - purchaser at the moment LOT "R" - SQUARE 180 THAT PORTIOn the balance within thirty purchaser at the moment property to wit: RITIEs CORPORATIOn sALE bY of adjudication to make a THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - OF GROUnD days thereafter. (NOTE: of adjudication to make a LOT NO. 353 MORTGAGE PAss- ORLEAns sHERIFF deposit of ten percent of TICT bEARInG MUnICIPAL The payment must be deposit of ten percent of SQUARE "j" THROUGH CERTIFI - JUDICIAL the purchase price, and MUNICIPAL NO. 741- nO. 3200 bLAIR Cash, Cashier’s Check, the purchase price, and FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - CATEs, sERIEs 2005- the balance within thirty 743 BARTHOLOMEW sTREET, nEW Certified Check or Money the balance within thirty TRICT WF1 vs ERnEsT HOP - ADvERTIsEMEnT days thereafter. (NOTE: ST ORLEAns, LA, In THE Order. No personal days thereafter. (NOTE: MUNICIPAL NO. 8 GLA - PER, JR. AnD MELbA THAT PORTIOn The payment must be ACQ. MTG 212442, MATTER EnTITLED: checks.) The payment must be CIER CT ROsE WILLIAMs" OF GROUnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, CONV 70707, CO "U.s. bAnK, n.A. As MARLIn n. GUsMAn Cash, Cashier’s Check, SUBDIVISION: PARk A/K/A MELbA ROsE bEARInG MUnICIPAL Certified Check or Money 589353 TRUsTEE FOR MAnU - Sheriff Certified Check or Money TIMBERS PECK WILLIAMs HOP - Order. No personal MInIMUM OPEnInG Parish of Orleans nO. 1706 KILLDEER FACTURED HOUsInG ATTy: GARRETT CONDON Order. No personal ACQ MIN:1148748 PER" sTREET, CITY OF nEW checks.) bID Is $24, 193.41 COnTRACT sEnIOR/ (225) 376-5560 checks.) WRIT AMOUnT: Civil District Court for NOTARy PUBLIC, TW 23 ORLEAns, In THE MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff sUbORDInATE PAss LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 $301,197.60 the Parish of Orleans TOSHINITA SUMMERS, MARLIn n. GUsMAn CAsE EnTITLED: Parish of Orleans ______Sheriff THROUGH CERTIFI - Seized in the above no. 2016-3317 ATTy: MARk LANDRy TO MAkE THIS PARTI - Parish of Orleans UnIOn sAvInGs AnD (504) 837-9040 CATE TRUsT 1996-4 vs ATTy: MICHAEL kARAM suit, TERMS CASH. The by virtue of a WRIT TION IN ACCORDANCE sALE bY LOAn AssOCIATIOn jD 6 (504) 658-4346 THE UnOPEnED sUC - purchaser at the moment OF sEIZURE AnD sALE LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 WITH LAW THE CLOS - LM 27 vs JULIE sTAnn ORLEAns sHERIFF ______CEssIOn OF EDDIE LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 of adjudication to make a to me directed by the KLEIn AnD HEnRY L. ING TO OCCUR WITHIN ______RICE, JR., (AKA EDDIE JUDICIAL deposit of ten percent of Honorable The Civil KLEIn, ROsEMARY sALE bY 30 DAyS FROM THE RICE) AnD THE ADvERTIsEMEnT sALE bY the purchase price, and District Court of bOURGEOIs ORLEAns sHERIFF DATE OF THE SALE. OPEnED sUCCEssIOn THAT PORTIOn ORLEAns sHERIFF the balance within thirty Orleans, in the above sCHROEDER, InDIvID - Seized in the above OF LUCULLE RICE, days thereafter. (NOTE: entitled cause, I will UALLY AnD As THE JUDICIAL suit, TERMS CASH. (AKA LUCILLE WALK - OF GROUnD JUDICIAL The payment must be proceed to sell by pub - DULY QUALIFIED ADvERTIsEMEnT 100% CASH AT THE bEARInG MUnICIPAL ER)" ADvERTIsEMEnT Cash, Cashier’s Check, lic auction, on the InDEPEnDAnT MOMENT OF ADjUDI - nO. 2461 nORTH CLAI - THAT PORTIOn Civil District Court for Certified Check or Money ground floor of the Civil TEsTAMEnTARY CATION. (NOTE: The bORnE AvEnUE, CITY THAT PORTIOn the Parish of Orleans Order. No personal District Court building, EXECUTRIX OF THE OF GROUnD payment must be Cash, OF nEW ORLEAns, In bEARInG MUnICIPAL no. 2016-10667 OF GROUnD checks.) 421 Loyola Avenue, in sUCCEssIOn OF GER - Cashier’s Check, THE CAsE EnTITLED: bEARInG MUnICIPAL nO. 635 HEnDEE by virtue of a WRIT MARLIn n. GUsMAn the First District of the ALD L. sCHROEDER Certified Check or Money FInAnCE OF AMERICA nO. 2482 JAsMInE Sheriff sTREET, CITY OF nEW OF sEIZURE AnD sALE City on July 6, 2017, at Civil District Court for Order. No personal REvERsE LLC vs sTREET, THIs CITY, In Parish of Orleans ORLEAns, In THE to me directed by the ATTy: RICHARD ROzANSkI 12:00 o’clock noon, the the Parish of Orleans checks.) Honorable The Civil MOnsERRATE MOORE T HE MATTER EnTI - (318) 445-5600 following described CAsE EnTITLED: TW 12 no. 2016-10262 MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff District Court of Civil District Court for TLED: FEDERAL LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 property to wit: EvERHOME MORT - by virtue of a WRIT Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans nATIOnAL MORTGAGE ______GAGE COMPAnY vs Orleans, in the above LOT NO. 6 SQUARE OF sEIZURE AnD sALE ATTy: jOHN MENSzER no. 2015-11273 AssOCIATIOn vERsUs OLIvER R. CELEsTIn, 504-362-3692 entitled cause, I will sALE bY NO. 4810 (OLD to me directed by the by virtue of a WRIT LEsLIE JAnE CARTER sR. (A/K/A OLIvER BTD 36 proceed to sell by pub - SQUARE 108) Honorable The Civil LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 OF FIERI FACIAs to me AnD ALFOnsO C. LAn - ORLEAns sHERIFF RUssELL CELEsTIn, ______lic auction, on the THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of directed by the CAsTER (A/K/A sR.) AnD sHEILA ground floor of the Civil JUDICIAL TRICT Orleans, in the above sALE bY Honorable The Civil ALFOnsO C. DOWELL CELEsTIn District Court building, ADvERTIsEMEnT MUNICIPAL NO. 6011 entitled cause, I will District Court of LAnKAsTER) (A/K/A sHEILA D. ORLEAns sHERIFF 421 Loyola Avenue, in PAINTERS STREET proceed to sell by pub - Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for THAT PORTIOn CELEsTIn, A/K/A the First District of the ACQ MIN: 784558 lic auction, on the JUDICIAL entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans sHEILA CELEsTIn, City on July 6, 2017, at OF GROUnD WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil ADvERTIsEMEnT proceed to sell by pub - no. 2013-5013 bEARInG MUnICIPAL A/K/A sHELIA DOWELL 12:00 o’clock noon, the $102,322.71 District Court building, lic auction, on the by virtue of a WRIT nO. 1530 TITA sTREET, CELEsTInE, sHELIA D. THAT PORTIOn following described Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in ground floor of the Civil OF sEIZURE AnD sALE nEW ORLEAns, LA, In CELEsTIn, A/K/A sHE - property to wit: suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the OF GROUnD District Court building, to me directed by the THE MATTER EnTI - LIA CELEsTIn) bEARInG MUnICIPAL LOT 103, SQUARE 8 purchaser at the moment City on July 6, 2017, at 421 Loyola Avenue, in Honorable The Civil TLED: "U.s. bAnK Civil District Court for nO. 2528-30 FRERET FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - of adjudication to make a 12:00 o’clock noon, the the First District of the District Court of nATIOnAL AssOCIA - the Parish of Orleans sTREET, THIs CITY, In TRICT deposit of ten percent of following described City on July 6, 2017, at Orleans, in the above TIOn, As TRUsTEE no. 2004-2329 THE MATTER EnTI - RIVER PARk SUBDIVI - the purchase price, and property to wit: 12:00 o’clock noon, the entitled cause, I will FOR REsIDEnTIAL by virtue of a WRIT TLED: U.s. bAnK SION, SECTION C the balance within thirty LOT 7, SQUARE 28, following described proceed to sell by pub - FUnDInG MORTGAGE OF FIERI FACIAs to me nATIOnAL AssOCIA - MUNICIPAL NO. 3200 days thereafter. (NOTE: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - property to wit: lic auction, on the sECURITIEs I, InC., directed by the TIOn, As TRUsTEE FOR BLAIR STREET The payment must be TRICT, LOT 12, SQUARE 742, ground floor of the Civil MORTGAGE PAss- Honorable The Civil sTRUCTURED AssET ACQUIRED MIN 351421 Cash, Cashier’s Check, LAkE TERRACE SUBDI - THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court building, THROUGH CERTIFI - District Court of InvEsTMEnT LOAn WRIT AMOUnT: Certified Check or Money VISION TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in CATEs, sERIEs 2004- Orleans, in the above TRUsT, MORTGAGE $12,239.44 Order. No personal MUNICIPAL NO. 1706 MUNICIPAL NO. 2461 the First District of the s8 vs UnOPEnED entitled cause, I will PAss-THROUGH CER - Seized in the above checks.) kILLDEER STREET NORTH CLAIBORNE City on July 6, 2017, at sUCCEssIOn OF proceed to sell by pub - TIFICATEs sERIEs suit, TERMS CASH. The MARLIn n. GUsMAn ACQUIRED MIN AVENUE 12:00 o’clock noon, the EMMA sMITH bROWn, Sheriff lic auction, on the 2003-bC6 vERsUs purchaser at the moment 1126555 ACQUIRED CIN 547827 following described ET AL" Parish of Orleans ground floor of the Civil YOLAnDA DUPATY ZEI - of adjudication to make a ATTy: GEORGE DEAN WRIT AMOUnT: WRIT AMOUnT: property to wit: Civil District Court for (318) 388-1440 District Court building, GLER. deposit of ten percent of $518,241.35 $154,194.96 LOT NO. 1, SQUARE the Parish of Orleans jD 2 421 Loyola Avenue, in Civil District Court for the purchase price, and LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Seized in the above Seized in the above NO. 31 no. 2014-11819 ______the First District of the the Parish of Orleans the balance within thirty suit, TERMS CASH. The suit, TERMS CASH. The THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - by virtue of a WRIT City on July 6, 2017, at no. 2011-11633 days thereafter. (NOTE: sALE bY purchaser at the moment purchaser at the moment TRICT OF sEIZURE AnD sALE 12:00 o’clock noon, the by virtue of a WRIT The payment must be of adjudication to make a of adjudication to make a EDGEWOOD PARk to me directed by the ORLEAns sHERIFF following described OF FIERI FACIAs to me Cash, Cashier’s Check, deposit of ten percent of deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 2482 Honorable The Civil property to wit: directed by the Certified Check or Money JUDICIAL the purchase price, and the purchase price, and jASMINE STREET District Court of LOT 12, SQUARE 108, Honorable The Civil Order. No personal ADvERTIsEMEnT the balance within thirty the balance within thirty ACQ. MIN 889318 Orleans, in the above FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of Orleans, checks.) days thereafter. (NOTE: days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: entitled cause, I will THAT PORTIOn TRICT, in the above entitled MARLIn n. GUsMAn The payment must be The payment must be $153,483.62 proceed to sell by pub - MUNICIPAL NO. 635 cause, I will proceed to Sheriff OF GROUnD Cash, Cashier’s Check, Parish of Orleans Cash, Cashier’s Check, Seized in the above lic auction, on the bEARInG MUnICIPAL HENDEE STREET sell by public auction, ATTy: LINDSAy FAULkNER Certified Check or Money Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The ground floor of the Civil nO. 5710 nEW EnG - ACQUIRED MIN 567241 on the ground floor of (504) 831-7726 Order. No personal jD 20 Order. No personal purchaser at the moment District Court building, LAnD DRIvE, CITY OF WRIT AMOUnT: the Civil District Court LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 checks.) ______checks.) of adjudication to make a 421 Loyola Avenue, in nEW ORLEAns, In THE $78,678.79 building, 421 Loyola deposit of ten percent of the First District of the CAsE EnTITLED: sEC - MARLIn n. GUsMAn Seized in the above Avenue, in the First sALE bY MARLIn n. GUsMAn Sheriff Sheriff the purchase price, and City on July 6, 2017, at RETARY OF vETER - Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The District of the City on ORLEAns sHERIFF Parish of Orleans ATTy: HARRy kUHNER ATTy: ETHAN HUNT the balance within thirty 12:00 o’clock noon, the Ans AFFAIRs vs (504) 525-7249 purchaser at the moment July 6, 2017, at 12:00 (318) 388-1440 days thereafter. (NOTE: following described JOHnnY WILLIAMs LM 5 of adjudication to make a o’clock noon, the follow - JUDICIAL LM 24 The payment must be property to wit: AnD DEnIsE HOsEn - LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 deposit of ten percent of ing described property ADvERTIsEMEnT LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 ______Cash, Cashier’s Check, LOT 5, SQUARE k bACKEZ WILLIAMs the purchase price, and to wit: THAT PORTIOn sALE bY Certified Check or Money FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - Civil District Court for sALE bY the balance within thirty ALL THAT CERTAIN OF GROUnD ORLEAns sHERIFF Order. No personal TRICT the Parish of Orleans ORLEAns sHERIFF days thereafter. (NOTE: PIECE OR PARCEL OF bEARInG MUnICIPAL checks.) VICTORy PARk no. 2017-2943 JUDICIAL The payment must be LAND, together with all the nO. 1812 n. TOnTI JUDICIAL MARLIn n. GUsMAn MUNICIPAL NO. 1530 by virtue of a WRIT Cash, Cashier’s Check, buildings and improve - sTREET, THIs CITY, In Sheriff TITA STREET OF sEIZURE AnD sALE ADvERTIsEMEnT Certified Check or Money ments thereon, and all of ADvERTIsEMEnT Parish of Orleans THE MATTER EnTI - THAT PORTIOn ATTy: STACy WHEAT ACQUIRED MIN 777934 to me directed by the THAT PORTIOn Order. No personal the rights, ways, privileges, TLED ADMInIsTRA - (504) 522-8256 WRIT AMOUnT: Honorable The Civil checks.) servitudes, appurtenances NNB 10 OF GROUnD TOR, U.s. sMALL bUsI - OF GROUnD LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 $47,186.42 District Court of bEARInG MUnICIPAL MARLIn n. GUsMAn and advantages thereunto bEARInG MUnICIPAL ______Sheriff nEss ADMInIsTRA - Seized in the above Orleans, in the above nO. 7800-02 MEAns belonging or in anywise nO. 8731 PEAR Parish of Orleans TIOn, An AGEnCY OF sALE bY suit, TERMS CASH. The entitled cause, I will sTREET, nEW ATTy: PENNy DAIGREPONT appertaining, situated in sTREET, CITY OF nEW (504) 831-7726 THE GOvERnMEnT OF purchaser at the moment proceed to sell by pub - ORLEAns, LA, In THE the Fourth District in ORLEAns, In THE ORLEAns sHERIFF LM 7 THE UnITED sTATEs of adjudication to make a lic auction, on the MATTER EnTITLED: LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 Square No. 343, bounded CAsE EnTITLED: CITY ______OF AMERICA vs DIAnn JUDICIAL deposit of ten percent of ground floor of the Civil "COMMUnITY AssOCI - by Second, Third and OF nEW ORLEAns vs M. ROGERs AKA ADvERTIsEMEnT the purchase price, and District Court building, ATEs, InC. vs MInnIE sALE bY Freret Streets and Simon LLOYD s. GREEnIDGE, DIAnn ROGERs the balance within thirty 421 Loyola Avenue, in ALFRED MAnnInG" Bolivar Drive (formerly OLIvER C. GREEnIDGE THAT PORTIOn ORLEAns sHERIFF Civil District Court for days thereafter. (NOTE: the First District of the Civil District Court for Howard Street). Said lot AnD nICOLE A. the Parish of Orleans OF GROUnD The payment must be City on July 6, 2017, at the Parish of Orleans JUDICIAL begins at a distance of 26 GREEnIDGE AnD bEARInG MUnICIPAL no. 2017-2084 Cash, Cashier’s Check, 12:00 o’clock noon, the no. 2016-1116 ADvERTIsEMEnT feet from the corner of RYAn K. GATCHELL nO. by virtue of a WRIT Certified Check or Money following described by virtue of a WRIT Freret and Third and Civil District Court for 8 GLACIER CT,THIs THAT PORTIOn OF sEIZURE AnD sALE Order. No personal property to wit: OF sEIZURE AnD sALE measures 28 feet front on the Parish of Orleans CITY, In THE MATTER to me directed by the checks.) LOT 31, SQUARE 2, to me directed by the OF GROUnD Freret Street, same width no. 2015-3866 EnTITLED bEARInG MUnICIPAL Honorable The Civil MARLIn n. GUsMAn THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Honorable The Civil in the rear, by a depth of 66 by virtue of a WRIT FEDERAL nATIOnAL Sheriff nO. 741-743 District Court of TRICT, District Court of feet between equal and OF FIERI FACIAs to me MORTGAGE AssOCIA - Parish of Orleans bARTHOLOMEW sT, Orleans, in the above ATTy: LAWRENCE ANDERSON MAPLE RIDGE SUBDI - Orleans, in the above parallel lines. directed by the TIOn vs GWIEnA (225) 924-1600 THIs CITY In THE MAT - entitled cause, I will VISION, entitled cause, I will Improvements thereon Honorable The Civil MAGEE PATIn AKA jD 1 TER EnTITLED: bnO proceed to sell by pub - LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 MUNICIPAL NO. 5710 proceed to sell by pub - bear the Municipal No. District Court of GWAnA MAGEE PATIn ______FInAnCIAL CORPORA - lic auction, on the NEW ENGLAND DRIVE lic auction, on the 2528-30 Freret Street. Orleans, in the above As InDEPEnDEnT TIOn vERsUs PERCY ground floor of the Civil sALE bY ACQUIRED MIN 235335 ground floor of the Civil WRIT AMOUnT: entitled cause, I will ADMInIsTRATOR OF JAMEs GOODWIn District Court building, WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, $66,301.64 proceed to sell by pub - THE sUCCEssIOn OF ORLEAns sHERIFF Civil District Court for 421 Loyola Avenue, in $29,559.56 421 Loyola Avenue, in Seized in the above lic auction, on the YADA T. MAGEE the Parish of Orleans the First District of the JUDICIAL Seized in the above the First District of the suit, TERMS CASH. The ground floor of the Civil Civil District Court for no. 2016-5558 City on July 6, 2017, at ADvERTIsEMEnT suit, TERMS CASH. The City on July 6, 2017, at purchaser at the moment District Court building, the Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT 12:00 o’clock noon, the purchaser at the moment 12:00 o’clock noon, the of adjudication to make a 421 Loyola Avenue, in no. 2016-11105 THAT PORTIOn OF COURT ORDER to following described of adjudication to make a following described deposit of ten percent of the First District of the by virtue of a WRIT me directed by the property to wit: OF GROUnD deposit of ten percent of property to wit: the purchase price, and City on July 6, 2017, at OF sEIZURE AnD sALE bEARInG MUnICIPAL Honorable The Civil LOT NO. 15 SQUARE the purchase price, and LOT 31 AND PART LOT the balance within thirty 12:00 o’clock noon, the to me directed by the nO. 6011 PAInTERs District Court of NO. 1181 the balance within thirty 33, SQUARE 2 days thereafter. (NOTE: following described Honorable The Civil sTREET, THIs CITY, In Orleans, in the above THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - days thereafter. (NOTE: THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - The payment must be property to wit: District Court of THE MATTER EnTI - entitled cause, I will TRICT The payment must be TRICT Cash, Cashier’s Check, LOT 14, SQUARE 658, Orleans, in the above TLED: "U.s. bAnK proceed to sell by pub - MUNICIPAL NO. 1812 N. Cash, Cashier’s Check, VILLA SITES Certified Check or Money SEVENTH MUNICIPAL entitled cause, I will nATIOnAL AssOCIA - lic auction, on the TONTI STREET Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 7800- Order. No personal DISTRICT, proceed to sell by pub - TIOn, As TRUsTEE, ground floor of the Civil ACQ MIN:898605 Order. No personal 02 MEANS STREET checks.) MUNICIPAL NO. 8731 lic auction, on the sUCCEssOR-In- District Court building, WRIT AMOUnT: checks.) ACQUIRED MIN MARLIn n. GUsMAn $94,298.33 PEAR STREET ground floor of the Civil InTEREsT TO bAnK 421 Loyola Avenue, in Sheriff MARLIn n. GUsMAn 1072112 Parish of Orleans Sheriff Seized in the above ACQUIRED MIN District Court building, OF AMERICA, n.A., As the First District of the ATTy: MARk GARRISON Parish of Orleans WRIT AMOUnT: (225) 924-1600 suit, TERMS CASH. The 1165686 421 Loyola Avenue, in TRUsTEE, sUCCEs - ATTy: RADER jACkSON City on July 6, 2017, at $22,146.64 NNB 9 (504) 581-9444 purchaser at the moment WRIT AMOUnT: the First District of the sOR TO LAsALLE 12:00 o’clock noon, the LA. WEEkLy 6/5/2017 , 7/3/2017 LM 3 Seized in the above of adjudication to make a $11,235.00 City on July 6, 2017, at bAnK, n.A., As following described ______Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - June 5 - June 11, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 15

all. People said this was going to whether the mayor supported the happen, and it happened,” said push to remove other symbols of Senate kills two Confederate monument bills Marksbury. “The Mayor in his white supremacy across the city Continued from Page 1 later said the monuments Before last Wednesday’s Senate Lee Circle into Dorothy Mae wonderful speech is totally incon - but he did tell FOX 8 that those revealed “a deep-rooted belief in committee vote, Louisiana Taylor Circle. Dorothy Mae sistent, because Jackson represents concerned about other offensive Democratic Committee, and white supremacy.” Legislative Black Caucus Taylor was one of the most the same thing the monuments he statues should go through the pub - State Sen. J.P. Morrell chal - While it took place in a racially Chairman Rep. Joseph Bouie, D- courageous Black leaders in this took down with regard to small lic process to address the issue and lenged the wisdom of Rep. charged chamber, the House vote New Orleans, told WWL last city. She led the effort to deseg - children and how they look up at that it’s up to residents and the City Carmody’s bill which would did not come down strictly along week that he hoped the Senate regate Mardi Gras.” these monuments and what they Council to take further action. have required a vote by the peo - racial or party lines. Three would expose Carmody’s bill as Richard Marksbury with the represent. So unfortunately, “The mayor is pretty clear that ple to remove a Confederate Republican state representatives “offensive and divisive on one Monumental Task Committee Jackson is the albatross around his these four monuments were put up monument from a public space. voted against HB 71. level and interfering in local con - told FOX 8 that he’s not sur - neck because it is the poster boy by those who wanted to celebrate Carter Peterson said that local Prior to the House vote, trol on another level.” prised by the move. for the ordinance, in terms of the the cult of the Lost Cause, individ - authorities should be entrusted Louisiana Gov. John Bel “It’s a terrible bill,” Bouie said. “If you go back 18 months, I nuisance ordinance removal, just uals who put them up to revere the with the same respect and confi - Edwards had said on his monthly But Carmody recently defended wrote about what Mitch Landrieu the poster boy Jackson is. Yet, he’s Confederacy. He thought that did - dence of state legislators, who radio show in April that the fate his bill at one of the public meet - had done, opened the Pandora’s out there defending one and con - n’t represent who we were as a city are elected to public office to of the four monuments that were ings in Shreveport. box, and you can’t close it back demning the others and this is or what our future should be,” said represent the interests of the con - removed from public spaces “It’s hard to unravel a thread once it’s opened. And also the slip - what you get.” mayor’s office Communications stituents they serv. should be decided by local gov - out of the tapestry that is the pery slope. So I’m not surprised at A city spokesman wouldn’t say Director Tyronne Walker.◊ State Sen. Wesley Bishop, D- ernment officials and New story of America,” he said. New Orleans, agreed, saying, Orleans residents, not the state. “Some of it is not pretty — some “Some people are going to be The mayor was featured in a of it is shameful, as a matter of upset, some won’t. I’m OK with recorded interview that aired fact — but it is our story.” that. What we do here today is recently on “Meet the Press” In the wake of the removal of Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook dies based upon the idea that we’ve during which he said he does not the removal of the Robert E. Lee been sent here from all over the plan to remove any additional monument. Take ‘Em Down Continued from Page 1 later he accepted a position at New Orleans in 1974 as the state to speak for individuals monuments during the remainder Nola continues to push to bring Atlanta University. fourth president of Dillard who sent us here.” of his second term. down other offensive monu - Morehouse College. While at Atlanta University, University. In the course of his Committee members Mike While the debate over Confederate ments across the city, including Among the other students, was Cook served as chair of its Political tenure at Dillard, Cook is credited Walsworth, R-West Monroe, and monuments began in New Orleans, the statue of former President friend and future American icon, Science Department, where he for many initiatives, such as Neil Riser, R-Columbia, voted in it has since spilled over into other Andrew Jackson in the French Martin Luther King, Jr. The two continued to remain active in the establishing a Japanese language favor of the two bills. cities and parishes around the state, Quarter, FOX 8 News reported. were already acquainted having Civil Rights Movement. Cook rou - studies program and a Center for “These Confederate monuments including Caddo Parish. The group recently held a press met at an earlier time in tinely held forums featuring Black-Jewish Relations. were built during the Jim Crow In Shreveport, four public meet - conference during which it chal - Connecticut, where they worked activists like King, whom he con - Not one to ever rest on his lau - era to announce the return of ings were held to discuss the fate lenged the Landrieu administra - on a tobacco field to earn money. sidered to be ‘‘one of the major rels, Dr. Cook made history once white racial rule in the South,” of a monument at the Caddo Parish tion to complete the work it During his time at Morehouse prophets and noblest spirits of con - again becoming the first African- Sarah Omojola, a policy counsel Courthouse that features a started when it removed the four College, the young Samuel temporary culture.” American president of the at the Southern Poverty Law Confederate soldier and Confederate-era monuments. Cook, excelled greatly. He was Cook met his wife Sylvia Southern Political Science Center, told the committee. Confederate Generals Robert E. “We’re issuing an invitation to elected student body president, Fields in 1957. Sylvia, a Association. Additionally, he “While some people see Lee. P.G.T. Beauregard, Stonewall the mayor to finish the job. He and founded the campus Chapter Republican, was wearing a but - served the American Political Confederate symbols as emblems Jackson and Henry Watkins Allen. has already begun the job, and of the NAACP. After graduating ton for the Grand Old Party, Science Association as its vice- of southern pride, the question In Lafayette, calls for the we want him to finish the job,” in 1948, Cook attended Ohio when Samuel came up to her, president from 1978 to 1979. must be asked: Whose heritage?” removal of a statue of Take ‘Em Down Nola co-founder State University achieving his and asked “Young lady, why do Among his degrees from State Sen. J.P. Morrell responded Confederate Gen. Alfred Mouton Malcolm Suber told reporters. master’s degree and doctorate in you have on that Republican but - Morehouse College and Ohio to remarks by a female monument continue more than a year after At the May 25 press conference political science (PhD in 1955). ton?” She then expressed that State University, Dr. Cook also supporter who brought the issue of the Lafayette City-Parish Council at the former site of the Jefferson To show his encouragement of she did not believe the received honorary degrees from the slave trade into her argument. decided against taking action to Davis monument, amid jeers and the Montgomery bus boycott (Dec Democratic Party was an ally of Dillard University, Illinois After telling the woman that he remove the state from its site in noise from monument support - 5, 1955 — Dec 20, 1956), Cook the African-American communi - College, Duke University, the was “really struggling to follow downtown Lafayette in front of ers, Take ‘Em Down Nola mem - wrote to his friend Martin,‘‘You ty. However, after hearing University of New Orleans and your train of thought,” Morrell the Le Centre International build - bers said they want all symbols have achieved that rare combina - Samuel speak at a forum, she Chicago Theological Seminary. added, “Regardless of how slaves ing at the intersection of Jefferson of white supremacy removed tion of social action and love.” A walked up to him and apologized He is survived by his wife, got to America, Americans took and Lee streets. from public spaces in New decade later (Jan. 27, 1965), Dr. for her words. The two married Sylvia; children, Samuel DuBois people and sold those people for In Alexandria, Rapides Parish Orleans and want the public to Cook attended a banquet honoring on the 18th of March,1960. Cook Jr. and Karen J. Cook; grand - profit. You chose to open this can. officials have refused to take have a say in what replaces them. Dr. King for receiving the Nobel In 1966, Cook broke through a children, Alexandra Renee Cook You chose at that table to say, action to remove the Confederate “What we would like to see in Peace Prize, and said, “It was a wall, once believed unbreakable and Samuel DuBois Cook III; ‘Let’s talk about slavery.’ We did - veteran memorial from its site in their place is people who stood great and delicate moment.” when he became the first African daughter-in-law, Nicole Cook. n’t bring up slavery — you did. front of the parish courthouse for people and liberation. For After serving a brief stint in the American to become a regular The funeral for Dr. Samuel You wanted to discuss the slave despite the demands of the Louis instance, we think since Harriet United States Army during the professor at Duke University. Dubois Cook will be held on the trade. Now we’re discussing the A. Martinet Legal Society. Tubman is going to replace Korean War, Dr. Cook’s career as Following his time at Duke, Cook 6th of June, 11 a.m. at the Ray slave trade.” Meanwhile, in northeastern Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill,” an educator begin at Southern answered a new calling, bringing Charles Performing Arts Center of Two weeks ago members of the Louisiana, officials have made Suber said, “we don’t understand University, Baton Rouge. A year his wisdom and leadership to Morehouse College.◊ Louisiana Legislative Black no plans to take down a monu - why we can’t turn Jackson Caucus walked out of the House ment in Tallulah that features a Square into Harriet Tubman chamber after Carmody’s House young Confederate soldier stand - Square. At Lee Circle, we don’t ORLEANS PARISH Bill 71 was approved there and ing above a Confederate flag. understand why we can’t turn Clerk of Court Clerk of Court Succession Notices Succession Notices La. dental services fall short “To browse a searchable database of public notices published by the newspapers of Louisiana to inform you, the citizens of Louisiana, please visit www.louisianaweekly.com. This database is provided as a free public Continued from Page 1 state and federal program for low- profit, health-care system, devot - income individuals regardless of ed to low-income patients. service to the citizens of Louisiana by The Louisiana Weekly and the Louisiana Press Association. repeat customers. age, pays for some dental services. Homeless individuals, with lim - to make any opposition which seven days from the date of private sale of 3F Properties of CIVIL DISTRICT COURT Late last September, a two-day In 2016-17, Louisiana’s adult ited access to running water, need they have or may have to such second publication of this Louisiana, LLC, the following dental program under Medicaid is their teeth fixed. A clinic run by FOR THE PARISH OF application, at any time, prior notice. An opposition to the described property in accor - Louisiana Mission of Mercy den - ORLEANS to the issuance of the order or application may be filed at any dance with all terms and condi - slated to cost $11.46 million, the City of New Orleans-Health STATE OF LOUISIANA judgment authorizing, approv - time prior to the issuance of tions contained in the Petition tal clinic kicked off at the Alario NO: 2017-01065 DIV: “F” Department of Health spokesman Care for the Homeless is located ing and homologating such such an order. filed in this matter. Center in Westwego, staffed SUCCESSION OF application and that such order DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk A one-fourth (1/4) interest in Robert Johannessen said last in the Edna Pilsbury building on ALFREDA PORTER a/k/a partly by faculty and student vol - or judgment may be issued Atty: Ashley U. Schmidt and to: ALFREDA LEE week. Louisiana residents enrolled Simon Bolivar in Central City. “It after the expiration of seven Publication: La. Weekly THE FOLLOWING CER - unteers from LSU Health. NOTICE TO SELL 5/15/17, 6/5/17 in Medicaid have swelled to offers support to children and (7) days, from the date of the TAIN LOT OF GROUND, Turnout was high, and nearly IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT ______last publication of such notice, together with all buildings and 420,000 since Governor John Bel adults, uninsured and insured,” PRIVATE SALE CIVIL DISTRICT COURT $1.07 million of free care was all in accordance with law. improvements thereon, and Whereas Ayanna H. Barnes, FOR THE PARISH OF Edwards took office last year and Erin Burns, spokeswoman for DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk rights, ways, privileges, servi - given to over 1,500 patients. the duly appointed ORLEANS embraced the program. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, said last Atty: Lindsey S. Olsen STATE OF LOUISIANA tudes and appurtenances Another free, two-day clinic Administrator of the above Publication: La. Weekly NO: 2004-5227 thereunto belonging, or in any - Under Louisiana’s Medicaid den - week. “Every effort is made there entitled successions, has 5/15/17, 6/5/17 will be held this year, but the date C/W 2007-6201 wise appertaining, situated in made application to the Court ______tal plan—run by Florida-based, to schedule appointments for SUCCESSION OF the Third District of the City of isn’t set, and the event won’t nec - for an Order granting her the CIVIL DISTRICT COURT benefits administrator MCNA medical patients who have fallen NORMAN ALLEN New Orleans, Parish of essarily be in Greater New authority to sell the decedent’s FOR THE PARISH OF NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Orleans, State of Louisiana, Dental—certain adults are eligible out of dental care.” Needs are one-half interest in immovable ORLEANS Orleans since needs are acute that an application to Square 1364, bounded by property for the hereinafter STATE OF LOUISIANA for dentures. MCNA Dental also high since the city’s un-housed NO: 16-10487 DIV: “M-13” exchange immovable proper - Rousselin, Aubry, North Broad around the state, Gremillion said. described, to-wit: administers Medicaid benefits for population exceeds 1,700. HCH SUCCESSION OF ties has been filed in the cap - and O’Reilly Streets and des - He grew up in Avoyelles Parish, A CERTAIN LOT OF MILDRED SAULTER tioned successions. As ignated more specifically to children in Louisiana. offers sliding fees, based on GROUND, together with all the where he practiced dentistry. BRUMFIELD described in that Joint Petition wit: buildings and improvements Dental care for children is one income and family size. “The NOTICE IS GIVEN that to Exchange Succession Lot 8, said Square 1364, as Louisiana’s dental profile com - thereon and all of the rights, of the “ten essential benefits” goal is to deliver quality, compas - EDNA E. SANSOM and LEE Properties filed in this matter, per blue print of survey made pares poorly with other parts of the ways, privileges, servitudes, ROY SAULTER, Co- the following properties: 1220 by C. A. Robert, Civil Engineer, included in health plans under the sionate, courteous care to appurtenances and advan - nation, particularly the Midwest. Administrators of the Leonidas St., New Orleans, and surveyor, dated August tages thereunto belonging or Affordable Care Act or patients, regardless of ability to Succession of MILDRED La., 4303 S. Roman St., New 25, 1938, according thereto, The Pelican State ranked 44th for in anywise appertaining situat - Obamacare. The ACA offers less pay,” Burns said. SAULTER BRUMFIELD, are Orleans, La., 4030 Eden St., said lot measures 31 feet front the number of elderly people with ed in the Second District of this applying for authority to sell at New Orleans, La., 4006-08-10 on Rousselin Street, same dental insurance for adults, how - Another city-sponsored site, City, designated by the No. 3, no natural teeth in a survey of 50 private sale the following piece Eden St., New Orleans, La., width in rear, by depth in Square No. 390, bounded ever. In the Health Insurance the Tulane Drop-In Adolescent of immovable property for 4018-20 Eden St. New between equal and parallel states and the District of Columbia, by St. Ann, Dupre, Orleans Marketplace, adults have been Clinic, offers medical services to which the Succession of MIL - Orleans, La, 3822-24 lines of 109 feet, 4 inches and released by WalletHub in early and Gayoso Streets, as per DRED SAULTER BRUM - Delachaise St. New Orleans, 4 lines. Said blue print above able to buy dental coverage as homeless adolescents in the sketch or Edgar Pilie, February. Researchers at FIELD has an one hundred La., 1117-19 S. Genois St. referred to is annexed to an act Surveyor, under date of May part of a health plan, or through a Tremé area, and has time slots percent (100%) interest, New Orleans, La., 1212 S. of sale registered in COB 503, WalletHub, a personal-finance 24, 1907. Said lot of ground separate, stand-alone policy if for dental services. described as follows: Genois St., New Orleans, La. folio 112 of the official records website in Washington, DC, used measures 31 feet, 6 inches THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR will be exchanged for that of Orleans Parish, State of they’re also signing up for a As for dental costs, they surged front on St. Ann Street, the data from the feds and dental PORTION OF GROUND, property located at 121 Allen Louisiana. same width in the rear, by a health plan. The future of these nationally in the last decade as together with all the buildings Dr., Ama, La. 1773 Rousselin Street, New organizations for their study. depth of 88 feet, 10 inches and insurance policies is unclear, equipment, drugs and the expense and improvements thereon This Notice of Application Orleans, LA 70119. Louisiana’s overall rank in the 7 lines on the side line nearest and all of the rights, ways, priv - will be published on May 15, UPON THE FOLLOWING however, since the U.S. Senate is of dental school grew. In 2016, to Gayoso Street and 88 feet, dental-services survey was 46, fol - ileges, servitudes, appurte - 2017 and June 5, 2017. Any TERMS AND CONDITIONS, 9 inches and 6 lines on the working on a health care bill now, the average dental grad in the nances and advantages there - opposition to the proposed TO-WIT: Sale to be for the lowed by Mississippi at 47. States other side line dividing it from after the House in May passed its United States had racked up debts unto belonging or in anywise exchanged must be filed within sum of Eighty Thousand and with the healthiest teeth were Lot No. 4. Lot 3 commences appertaining, situated in the seven (7) days of the date of no/100 ($80,000.00) Dollars. version to replace Obamacare. of $261,000, Gremillion said. at a distance of 67 feet, 2 lines Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. THIRD DISTRICT of the City the last publication of this Notice is hereby given to all from the corner of Gayoso For low-cost dental care, New “That makes it tough to start a of New Orleans, Parish of notice. parties to whom it may con - Louisiana has fewer dentists Street. All more fully shown on Orleans has options beyond practice, where you have to pay Orleans, SQUARE 479, DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk cern, including the heirs and per capita than elsewhere, rank - a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & bounded by Desire, Piety, Atty: Danatus N. King creditors of the absentee here - LSU’s dentistry school. Daughters for high-tech equipment and lease Couturie, Inc., dated October 2475 Canal Street, Ste. 308 ing 50th in that category. And Marais and Urquhart Streets, in, and of his estate, that they 21, 1987, a copy of which is New Orleans, LA 70119 of Charity Services operates den - an office,” he said. “As a result, designated by the No. 7, (504)821-3221 be ordered to make any oppo - Louisiana was 49th in the per - annexed hereto, showing Lot tal offices in its Bywater, more dentists are working in cor - Seven, on a sketch annexed to Publication: La. Weekly sition which they have or may cent of adults with “low life sat - No. 3, being bounded by St. an act passed before Antoine 5/15/17, 6/5/17 have to such application, at Carrollton and Gentilly health porate practices now.” Ann Street, N. Dupre Street, ______isfaction” because of poor oral Doricourt, late Notary Public, any time, prior to the issuance Orleans Avenue and N. CIVIL DISTRICT COURT centers. Qualifying, self-pay Gremillion noted that the debt dated December 2, 1869, of the order or judgment health, WalletHub found. Gayoso Street and said Lot FOR THE PARISH OF patients are charged small fees for load for 2016 grads at LSU’s according to said sketch, said authorizing, approving and As for seniors, “their health his - No. 3 commence at a distance ORLEANS lot measures more or less, 26 homologating such application first visits that include an exam, x- School of Dentistry was a com - of 63 feet, 2 lines Actual (67 STATE OF LOUISIANA tories are more complicated than feet 4½ inches on Desire and that such order or judg - feet, 2 lines Title) from the cor - NO: 2015-7686 DIV: “C” rays and a treatment plan. After parative bargain at $155,000. Street, by 120 feet in depth. ment may be used after the younger people, and those over 60 ner of St. Ann Street and N. IN RE: CURATORSHIP OF that, fees for those who are eligi - LSU runs Louisiana’s only den - The improvements thereon expiration of seven (7) days, are a fast growing segment of the Gayoso Street. JONATHAN GARY GLASPY bear the Municipal No. 1222 from the date of the last publi - ble are discounted for extractions, tal school. The total sale price of the NOTICE OF APPLICATION population,” Gremillion said. Desire Street, New Orleans, cation of such notice, all in property is $130,000.00, cash TO SELL IMMOVABLE fillings, crowns, dentures, fluo - To learn more about affordable Louisiana. accordance with law. Seniors on fixed incomes often payable at an act of sale. PROPERTY ride treatments and cleanings. dental care in New Orleans, visit the For the sum of EIGHTY DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk have serious dental-care needs. But Notice is hereby given to all NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Daughters of Charity is a member web at http:// www.ladental.org/pub - NINE THOUSAND that Rhoda Glaspy Jones, Atty: Rhonda Marisa Glaspy Jones Medicare, for those 65 and over, parties whom it may concern, ($89,000.00) DOLLARS cash 1622 Hancock Drive Curator of absentee, Jonathan Mesquite, TX 75149 of St. Louis-based Ascension lic-resources/community- including the heirs and credi - for said property. doesn’t cover dental work, except tors of the decedent herein, Gary Glaspy, has petitioned Phone: (504) 400-4519 clinics#neworleans An order authorizing them to Publication: La. Weekly Health, the nation’s biggest non- .◊ and of this estate, be ordered the Court for authority to sell at in very specific cases. Medicaid, a do so may be issued after 5/15/17, 6/5/17 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 16 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM June 5 - June 11, 2017 AKA’s Alpha Beta Omega Chapter to host 29th Annual Beautillion For the past 29 years, the Alpha reigning over the gala will be Junior Beaus are Young Beta Omega Chapter of the Rodney G. Perkins Jr., son of Mr. Masters Andren W. Scott and Ian Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has and Mrs. Rodney G. Perkins Sr. W. Scott, sons of Mr. and Mrs. sponsored a scholarship program Members of the Royal Court Ronald Scott; and Christopher for high school males where they are Messrs. Christian M. Bynum, Briscoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. are afforded seminars and work - son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Everette Briscoe. shops on careers, money man - Bynum Jr. and Ms. Nikita F. Ms. Michael Myrick Moore serves agement, college readiness and Goss; and Corey R. Dupart, son as chairperson along with Mrs. etiquette training. Upon comple - of Mr. Robert Dupart and Mrs. Brenda G. Francis as co-chair. tion, these young men are cele - Gina Maldonado Dupart. Mrs. Stephenie J. Marshall is the brated during what has been Also being presented are president of the GNO-ABO dubbed a Beautillion. Messrs. Joshua C. Metoyer, son Foundation which awards two This year’s Beautillion is tak - of Mr. Rene A. Metoyer Sr. and $1,908 scholarships each year. ing place on Sunday, June 11, at Dr. Jennifer Lapeyrolerie Mrs. Robyn S. McCormick CHRISTIAN M. COREY R. JOSHUA C. the Landmark Hotel/Copeland Metoyer; Jamal K. Walters, son of serves as president of the Alpha BYNUM DUPART METOYER Tower in Metairie, with the Mr. Brand and Mrs. Rosalind Beta Omega Chapter of Alpha theme, “Launching New Walters; August Walker IV, son of Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Dimensions of the Refined Ms. Lisa R. Diggs and Mr. August Chartered in 1927, this year Gentleman-Character Matters.” Walker III; and Derrick Dean, son marks the chapter’s 90th year of Chosen as Mr. Beau of 2017 and of Dr. and Mrs. Derrick Dean. service to the Crescent City.◊

RODNEY G. PERKINS JR. Mr. Beau

JAMAL K. AUGUST DERRICK WALTERS WALKER IV DEAN

Junior Beaus of the 29th Annual Beautillion of the Alpha Beta Omega Chapter of AKA are, from left: Andren W. Scott, Ian W. Scott and Christopher Briscoe.

Photo by Melissa Fargo performance. The band has also 8 was selected to be included second line or jumpin’ at the Hot HOT 8 BRASS BAND toured with the renowned on the compilation album New 8 Brass Band’s hometown gigs vocalists Erykah Badu and Orleans Brass Bands – Through might not be aware of all of the Lauryn Hill. “We went from the Streets of the City on the group’s accomplishments. They being Lauryn’s opening act to prestigious Smithsonian do know that the Hot 8 Brass becoming her horn section,” Folkways label. Band is family and that it plays is On the Spot Pete declares. Notably, the Hot Those local folks rollin’ on a from the heart and On the Spot. ◊ By Geraldine Wyckoff remembers. “So we kinda HContriboutintg W r8iter Brass Band stopped but the bottle and cow bell beaters kept going. “It’s the street that inspired us The band members usually so one of our main goals is to disperse to get a beverage or capture that feeling,” says the whatever but the crowd did - Hot 8 Brass Band tuba player n’t open up and they kind of and leader Bennie Pete of the kept us in the street and we group’s latest album, On the Spot kept working that song out.” (TruThoughts). A studio record - It’s been suggestions ing that definitely jumps with a from folk on the “lines” live, second line feel, it stands as that have helped round out the follow-up to the band’s 20th the Hot 8’s play list with anniversary album, 2015’s and bang it out until we’re satis - popular songs. “Someone Vicennial: 20 Years of the Hot 8 fied,” he explains. might come up and say some - Brass Band and on the heels of It’s important to note that the thing like I’ve been listening to its Grammy nominated record - seemingly, free-wheelin’ Hot 8 this tune by Marvin Gaye or ing, 2013’s The Life and Times Brass Band, which was formed Luther Vandross and I think it of the Hot 8 Brass Band. The in 1995 with Pete and bass would sound nice if you would ensemble will be celebrating the drummer Harry Cook the only play it. The next week we’d be new album at the House of Blues two original members, not only on the street doing it. ” On the on Saturday, June 10, and offer - practices regularly but the guys Spot includes several, originally ing a preview of what’s to come miss the sessions when, because arranged covers including Stevie with an appearance on June 9 on the group is frequently traveling, Wonder’s “That Girl” which WWL-TV’s “Eyewitness they can’t rehearse. features some modern blowing Morning News.” The Hot 8, “We practice about twice a by saxophonist Drew Calhoun . whose home base is Sundays at week when we’re home but only “The saxophone is essential,” the Howlin’ Wolf, has previously get to sneak a little rehearsal in Pete offers. “It gives the music that performed at the House of Blues at sound checks when we’re on soft feminine touch. It takes the though this show marks its debut the road,” Pete says. “That’s the edge off that bold barbaric brass. headlining at the Decatur Street one thing we love about being We’re brass-heavy, that’s why our club. DJ Soul Siste r will spin home is that we rehearse — we theme is, ‘We brass hard.’” some old-school vinyl to open keep our chops up. It gives us A pure trumpet emotionally and Keedy Black will add a lit - extra confidence. Bottom line is opens the slow dirge tempo of tle bounce to the house. that we want our shows to be the album’s only traditional On the Spot gets going with natural and (by rehearsing) we number, “St. James Infirmary.” full-on exuberance on “Kickin’ It can definitely free up.” Clarinetist Dr. Michael White , a Live” an attitude that has been a Strong hooks, as on the instru - keeper of the classic jazz flame, signature of the band. As Pete mental “Bottom of the Bucket,” steps in to offer a new tonality explains in the album’s informa - are go-tos for the Hot 8. “That’s and flavor. White and the band tive liner notes, this is the tune Harry hollerin’ out,” says Pete of got tight following Hurricane that often opens its shows. That’s the tune that includes the congas Katrina when the Hot 8 had a a smart move as the group imme - of guest Alfred “Uganda” residency at the Sound Café. diately identifies itself singing, Roberts . The band also knows “We got to know each other “We’re the H-O-T, too hot, too the allure of songs that include and we reached out to him and hot...” Like a rollin’ second line, it call and response segments — he had open arms for helping us drives ever forward with Pete’s both vocally and instrumentally out with the traditions,” says tuba prominently holding down — that abound on the album, Pete, explaining that they the bottom supplying the essential fuel second lines and lift audi - enjoyed long conversations not base with, well, big bass notes. ences. “It’s kind of like us just about the songs but about While this tune and others like checking in on the crowd and the knowledge and understand - “Get It How You Live,” revel in making sure they’re with us,” ing of the music and the whole the openness of the genre and Pete explains. “It lights the fire culture and the struggles the good-timing party atmosphere, and gives that extra boost.” musicians went through. the horn arrangements tell a dif - The second line regulars, that The struggles, of course, con - ferent story — one of hard work supported the Hot 8 from its tinue. Like so many musicians, and musical integrity. beginnings have not only inspired Pete has found that the Hot 8 is “Raymond Williams has a lot the Hot 8 but influenced its style more appreciated overseas or on to say about that,” offers Pete of and repertoire. The title cut, “On the road than it is in its home - the talented trumpeter and the Spot,” was born at a Sunday town. For instance, two months arranger who’s been with the band afternoon second line. ago it headlined a show at since 2001. Often, Pete adds, the “We were at a parade and we London’s Roundhouse Theater, members of the band all have a were at the break and nobody a 3,000-seat venue that was sold hand in arranging. “We sit down wanted us to stop playing,” Pete out two months previous to the