Lighting The Road To The Future
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National Newspaper Publishers Association Winter Conference in New Orleans
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National Newspaper Publishers Association Winter Conference in New Orleans
L to R Data News Weekly Publisher Terry Jones, LA Sentinel Publisher, Danny K. Bakewell and Arizona Informant Publisher and NNPA Chairman, Cloves Campbell, Jr. at the 2012 NNPA Mid Winter Workshop in New Orleans. (photo by Kichea S. Burt)
By Edwin Buggage movements in our storied history has always mission to fight the issues of the day which was been the case . From its early beginnings in 1827 the abolition of slavery . The importance of African-American Newspa- when John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish start- It is in this historical backdrop that the con- pers as being the voice of the voiceless or the ed the Freedom’s Journal, the first Black news- tinuation of the tradition of African-American organs that has given the clarion call to social paper owned by African-Americans, with their newspapers that presses on in the 21st Century .
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Cloves Campbell, Cheryl Pearson McNeil, Danny K Bakewell
NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell at the National Press NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell, Jr. Club
The National Newspaper Publishers Associa- also held posts as the organization’s Second who are doing great things in our community tion (NNPA) is a federation of more than 200 and First Vice-President . as well as being the voice and the watchdog community papers across America and has In the 21st Century newspapers are facing for our communities and with the new tools for nearly seven decades served their respec- challenges, as the digital age threatens their available online we can better coordinate our tive communities giving their readers news existence . Many mainstream publications are efforts at the NNPA and reach more people they could use . fighting to stay afloat in this changing digital with our content .” The members of this August body have landscape, but according to Chairman Camp- While many newspapers are seeing de- converged on the City of New Orleans for bell Black Newspapers because of their hy- creases in revenues because of a down econ- their Winter Conference . “We selected New per-local focus are at an advantage to stay rel- omy, Campbell feels because of the smaller Orleans because it is a great destination and evant in both their print and digital editions . size of African-American Newspapers they many of our member’s papers are located in “I feel our biggest issue is how to navigate are at a competitive advantage and can adjust the South, and we wanted to also make sure between the print side as well as incorporat- their business model that can lead to greater we would get a high number of attendees,” ing that with the digital side .” profits, “We have to make sure that all our says Cloves Campbell, NNPA Chairman and Contrasting the mainstream press to com- papers have an online presence that can Publisher of the Arizona Informant . Continu- munity papers and the differences in how draw readers in, that can take readers from ing he remarks, “Our convention is where we they’ve responded to these changes in the in- the print side to the digital side . We have to bring our member publishers together and dustry he says, “In the mainstream they say use social networking tools and other things their staffs to meet and discuss what is go- print is on the way out, but in our communi- that will add value to our respective brands ing on in the industry and offer workshops on ties that is not the case, we still look towards and we will be looking at ways to maximize how to make their papers better serve their these types of publications as a community our years of credibility in our communities to communities . In addition to giving them in- resource, we will survive and thrive, we can increase revenues . Also we have to transfer formation about what is going on with Black have both the print for the streets and a web those eyeballs who desire to get our news newspapers as a whole and Black media . It is presence to reach more readers with our con- both on the print side and the digital side be- a chance for us not only to get together but tent .” Continuing on that note he says, “We cause we have over 19 .5 million readers with to deal directly with issues that effect our re- tell the stories that’s not in the LA Times or our 200 different publications .” spective papers .” USA Today . We not only report news but we The strength of NNPA and its nearly 70 Board Member and Convention Committee also do historical pieces that are relevant to years of existence is evident in its reach as it Chair Terry Jones and Publisher of New Or- our community and we are chronicling our continues to leverage its collective resources leans Data News Weekly is honored that New history and what is important in our com- where all its members publications benefit, Orleans was chosen as the host city, “I feel munity and recording Black history every “This is key to all of us prospering moving good about our conference coming into the week .” ahead” says Terry Jones, “Our strength is in City, especially as we rebuild we are showing The importance of African-American news- our numbers and that’s why we are meeting the value of the Black dollar and with our col- papers and their roles in the community is not here in New Orleans to share information to lective resources, we will hopefully draw at- lost on Terry Jones, “I believe we provide an help each other grow and continue to stay rel- tention to African-American events to the City invaluable service to our communities in tell- evant in our communities and that is what is and its economic impact whether it is in New ing our story and giving our readers an unfil- ultimately important to continue to reach our Orleans or any of the cities of all our mem- tered voice,” says Jones, Continuing he says, readers wherever they are .” bers/publishers,” remarks Jones who has “We are about giving recognition to people Page 4 January 21 - January 27, 2012 Newsmaker www.ladatanews.com Government-Mandated Dick Gregory Vows down payments could to Continue Fight block home buyers Against BP
Risk and Access: Underwriting Standards for Qualified Residen- tial Mortgages,” was produced by the UNC Center for Commu- nity Capital and the Center for Responsible Lending . Research- ers look at mortgages originated from 2000 to 2008 and what would have happened if a 20 percent down-payment and other under- writing criteria had been imposed beyond those already mandated by the Dodd-Frank Financial Re- form Law . The study finds Dodd-Frank’s ban on loans with the highest by Kathleen Day could be shut out of the market, risk of default—for example, As federal regulators consider the study shows . For the full those with prepayment penalties setting down-payment standards study, go to www .ccc .unc .edu/ or no income documentation— Activist Dick Gregory on new mortgages, a new study QRMunderwriting or www .re- fixes the bad underwriting that shows such rules could push 60 sponsiblelending .org/mortgage- caused the housing crisis . Adding percent of creditworthy borrow- lending/research-analysis/bal- a down-payment threshold set by On the heels of the Martin cumstances to the court for not ers into high-cost loans or out of ancing-risk-and-access .html . the federal government would do Luther King, Jr . Holiday, Leg- doing so . When they appeared the market altogether . The results are particularly little to reduce defaults relative to endary Civil and Human Rights before the judge, Mr . Gregory’s A proposal by regulators to striking for African-American and the large number of creditworthy Activist, Dick Gregory, went to attorneys requested a dismissal . define a high-quality mortgage Latino home buyers . A manda- home buyers it would push from trial on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 The judge granted the motion and as one with at least a 20 percent tory 20 percent down-payment the market . These findings are after having been arrested last the case was dismissed . down- payment, or possibly 10 requirement would exclude about particularly significant because September while representing Art Rocker said “Our 2012 percent, would hobble a healthy 75 percent of African-American the stalled housing market has claimants from several southern campaign against BP started on segment of the housing market . and 70 percent of Latino borrow- been a key obstacle to economic states who are not being paid by January 13, 2012 with the kick-off While higher down-payments do ers who could be successful ho- recovery . Kenneth Feinberg . Feinberg is of having Dick Gregory speak on result in fewer defaults, the pay- meowners from obtaining fairly the BP CZAR who was appointed the Tom Joyner Morning Show . off is small relative to the number priced mortgages . to pay claimants affected by the We have fought for the claimants of creditworthy households who The working paper, “Balancing Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill from to be paid over 1 ½ years . We are April 2010 . The case was heard at having a petition signed by all of the District of Columbia Superior the Gulf Coast Ministers who sup- Dr. Robert J. Spears, DDS Court before Judge Marissa De- port the movement to carry to meo . http://www .nola .com/poli- the two Presidents; Bob Dudley, General Dentistry tics/index .ssf/2012/01/judge_ who is President of BP and the dismisses_charge_that_di .html President of the United States, The case was dismissed by President Barack Obama, in a few Judge Demeo . Mr . Gregory’s days .” attorneys, Johnny Barnes and E . Mr . Gregory, Mr . Rocker and Faye Williams, were prepared Dr . Williams have vowed to con- for trial and had submitted sev- tinue their effort to get the under- eral motions to the government’s served and the underrepresented attorneys; their witnesses, Art paid for the damages they suf- Rocker—Chairman of Operation fered from the April 2010 Gulf Oil People for Peace-- and Mr . Greg- Spill . The BP office in London, ory were present and prepared England has said that Kenneth to testify; however, the govern- Feinberg in Washington, DC is ment’s attorneys had filed no re- the person responsible for mak- sponses to Mr . Gregory’s motions ing those payments . Extrac�ons Fillings ladatanews.com and presented no extenuating cir- Dentures Crowns Root Canals Cleanings Schedule an appointment today!! 9235 Lake Forest Blvd. SUBSCRIBE New Orleans, LA 70127 TO DATA NEWS WEEKLY (504) 241‐8214 CALL 504-821-7421 TO SUBSCRIBE! www.ladatanews.com State & Local News January 21 - January 27, 2012 Page 5
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Opinion Locked Out of the Grammys Again Grammys denies Black press credentials … AGAIN!
The inference here is that only defines Los Angeles but also denied cre- they are not necessarily equipped Black folks can entertain defines the music industry . d e n t i a l s to adequately describe the cultur- (sing and dance) but they And yet, this, the standard “because al nuances of the Grammy show “Credential Request Decline Let- of limited like that of the local newspaper are not allowed to report ter”: space,” it that is dedicated to, and more ca- “The Recording Academy re- defies in- pable of, examining how events, By Brandon I. Brooks grets that we are unable to accom- credulity broader issues and trends affect Assistant Managing Editor modate your media request to cov- that our the lives of African-Americans . Special to the NNPA from the er the 54th Annual GRAMMY(R) publica- Events like the annual Gram- Los Angeles Sentinel Awards on Sunday, Feb . 12, 2012, tion would my Awards deserve coverage by in Los Angeles . be among a representative sampling of all For the last 53 years, the Gram- “Due to extremely limited those . media–including one from a de- mys have been the premier awards space within the Media Center Why? cidedly African-American point- show celebrating the outstanding and Arrivals, we were only able to T h e r e of-view . achievements and performances credential a small fraction of the are many No doubt the Los Angeles of people in the music industry hundreds of media outlets that ap- r e a s o n s Times and Billboard will be there . in Los Angeles, where entertain- plied…” we say that; here are just two: Achievement Award honorees: But so should the Los Angeles ment is the #1 industry . ”Your understanding is very 1 . In virtually every major Diana Ross and Gil Scott-Heron . Sentinel . For most of those years, Af- much appreciated … “? Grammy nomination category, Thus, given the sheer number Finally, by press time, the Sen- rican-Americans have figured That made it official: For now, there is at least one, and many of African-Americans who are tinel had spoken to a representa- prominently in both the nomina- the second year in a row (yes, we times, two African-American nom- nominated, who perform at the tive of the Recording Academy by tions and in the win column . were rejected last year too), the inees . Grammys, who work at the Gram- phone, and after a brief conversa- So when Los Angeles’ largest, Recording Academy and Rogers 2 . Traditionally, a great num- my Awards Show and/or who tion, she answered the question most revered African-American- & Cowan has denied the request ber of Grammy-nominated artists cheers for the Grammy nominees as to whether or not the Sentinel, owned and -operated newspaper– of The Los Angeles Sentinel to have significant ties to the local during their arrival on the red the number one Black Newspaper a weekly publication that shines a cover the music industry’s main African- American community, be- carpet, African-Americans in Los on the West Coast, will be able to spotlight on issues of interest to event (and even the pre-awards cause they live here, they record Angeles have a vested interest in report the 2012 Grammy Awards its 150,000 primarily Black Read- ceremony) – the 54th Grammys here, they have close family rela- coverage from their community directly to its readers . ership–received the invitation to – the awards presentation to be tives who live here – and/or they newspaper . The Recording Academy’s an- apply for Grammy credentials this held on Sun ., Feb . 12th . read our paper . That is not to say that other swer was a resounding “NO .” year, it should have been a shoo- While we understand that hun- That would include two of media outlets cannot adequately in to cover the industry that not dreds of media outlets must be the five of this year’s Lifetime cover the events . But it does mean Page 6 January 21 - January 27, 2012 Data Zone www.ladatanews.com
City Leads MLK Day March Citizens and City Officials gathered to commemorate The Martin Luther King Holiday at Armstrong Park and Data was there .
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New Orleans Data size revised - 1/6/12 6.37” x 10” 11RB-0032-FS RUNS: 1/19/2012
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“Civil” Rights Gone Wrong
evident in the Crescent City . In Celebration excluded the NAACP is sharply divided in the areas of unknowingly he to some is disre- the 2006 MLK Day Celebration from its opening ceremony, a first race and class . And in doing so he specting the legacy of A .P . Ture- then Mayor Ray Nagin made since the its inception over a quar- excluded an organization that for aud, Lead Counsel of the fight for his “Chocolate City” comments . ter century ago . Ironically, this over a century have been fighting equal rights and Ernest “Dutch” Something that gave the City a year’s theme is “United in times against injustice . Morial who was President of the black eye in the court of public of Challenge .” In my view I respectfully say local chapter of NAACP from opinion creating a firestorm and The City as well as the NAACP Mayor Landrieu made a grave er- 1962-65 and eventually became perhaps widened the gulf that is has told their versions of the story ror in judgment . Placing himself the first African-American Mayor the racial divide in New Orleans; and it has made national news, it at the stake to receive a firestorm of the City of New Orleans and Edwin Buggage fast forward to 2012 the City again has become an issue of Black and of criticism and by his actions many others who put their lives Editor-in-Chief is faced with one of these mo- White both literally and figurative- seemingly dishonored the legacy on the line in the struggle for free- ments . ly . But let’s look beneath the sur- of the great freedom fighters of dom, justice and equality . In recent months Mayor Mitch face of the issue because usually our City that fought alongside While both men are involved in Landrieu and his administra- in the gray areas are where we Dr . Martin Luther King Jr ., Thur- this melee that is dividing a com- As we recently observed the tion has been embroiled in what find truth . As clear as the eye can good Marshall and many others munity I feel this day could have MLK Day, a time where people seems to be a feud with certain see yes we are facing challeng- who fought for Civil Rights . It is been used to begin a moment of across the country pay homage to segments of the African-American ing times and more than ever we unfortunate that by him having a healing . Hypothetically speak- a man whose mission in life was activist community . This includes should try to be united . But the stage managed event it has placed ing could the mayor have added to break down social barriers and what has become a slugfest with larger question is that unity does him squarely in the crosshairs of NAACP to the opening ceremony bring people together . In recent the local chapter of the NAACP not mean uniformity or total con- his critics that feel these staged and showed although they dis- years since Hurricane Katrina in and its President, Attorney Da- formity . I believe that the Mayor’s events have become a cornerstone agree on some things they could New Orleans this day has at times natus King . This issue came to a office was short sighted in trying of his administration . In exclud- Civil Rights, Continued shown just the opposite . Of how head making national headlines to keep the peace and create a fa- ing the NAACP from the opening the racial and class divide is still when the City’s official MLK Day çade of togetherness in a city that ceremony whether knowing or on page 11.
What is the State of the Dream?
Economic Populist, an Anti-War African- American population and international competitors are in- are no signs that say White or Col- Activist, as well as a classically 2 percent of the Latino population vesting in education, we are sim- ored on executive employment, trained Theologian . Too many put will be in prison if current incar- ply divesting . It is almost as if we but you can count the African- emphasis on the latter, without ac- ceration trends continue . The re- have made a decision to devolve American CEOs in Fortune Five knowledging the former . port’s set of policy recommenda- into a developing country . Hundred companies on one, or That’s why each year, I am ex- tions includes a recommendation What would Dr . King say about on a good day, maybe two hands . cited to receive the State of the to end the war on drugs . Indeed, all this? I think he’d be outside The signs don’t say segregation, Dream report from United for a more than half of those currently with the folks from Occupy Wall but too many still experience it, Fair Economy . This organization incarcerated are casualties of the Street, and I think he’d be direct- and while few in polite company does great work in talking about drug war, some with very minor ing them to a 21st Century version use racist expletives to describe Julianne Malveaux the wealth gap, and their annual offenses, and others with condi- of the Poor People’s Campaign . people of African descent in this NNPA Columnist foray into exploring the dream tions that warrant drug treatment, I think he’d be standing outside country, when a talk show host has looked at joblessness, home- not incarceration . some of the banks, asking why and a Congressman have the ut- lessness, and austerity . Last year “Economic inequality between they deserve the bailouts that or- ter temerity to describe the First I always feel inspired and their report shared facts on the Whites and people of color will dinary people can’t get . Just as he Lady’s body in disparaging terms, elated, but also challenged and relative pay that people of color persist unless bold and intentional occupied a housing project in Chi- it takes me back two centuries, to chagrined, at some of the celebra- earn in the public and the private steps are taken to make meaning- cago, I bet he’d camp out with a echoes of the Hottentot Venus, tions of Dr . Martin Luther King, sector and concluded that auster- ful progress towards racial equity, family experiencing foreclosure . I Sarah Bartjee . Jr ’s. birthday . There are those, ity programs that cut government to sever the connection between know he’d be challenging us all . The dream is certainly a work too many folks, who want to sani- jobs disproportionately affect race and poverty, and ultimately There have been significant in progress, but the dream won’t tize Dr . King and turn him into a people of color . to eliminate the racial economic changes since Dr . King was as- work unless we do . We cannot af- dreamer . Too many only quote This year’s report focuses on divide altogether,” the report says sassinated in 1968, and the signs ford to be smug, glib, or compla- the part of his “I have a dream” the Emerging Majority, and con- in its Executive Summary . But don’t say White or Colored any cent . The UFE report suggests speech that talks about character cludes that unless policy shifts are such bold words are belied by more . The signs don’t have to say that if we don’t act now, it will get content and skin color . Too few re- made, the wealth gap will grow the growing gap, increasing pov- it – in some instances outcomes worse later . member that in the same speech even wider than it is today . Addi- erty, the unemployment rate dif- do . In other words, there are no he said, “We have come to the na- tionally, they project that by 2042, ferential, and continuing barriers signs on dollars that say White tion’s capital to cash a check, and just 30 years from now when peo- to educational access in commu- or Colored, but African-American Julianne Malveaux is President the check has been marked insuf- ple of color are a majority in our nities of color and among those people have pennies to the dollars of Bennett College for Women in ficient funds ”. Dr . King was an society, nearly 5 percent of the who are low income . While our of wealth that Whites hold . There Greensboro, North Carolina. attendMEDICAID AND LaCHIP RECIPIENTS don’t miss this important meeting.
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Inaccurate Inscription U.S Unemployment Rate on MLK Memorial Reaches 3-Year Low to be Corrected
Special to the NNPA from the a survey by Factset . They also jobs in the same amount of time St . Louis American had predicted that the unemploy- by late 1993 . The U .S . job market strength- ment rate ticked up to 8 7%. from President Obama still could ened in the second half of 2011 November’s 8 6%,. which was the face voters in November with the and added 200,000 jobs in Decem- lowest rate since March 2009 . highest unemployment rate of a ber while the unemployment rate The better-than-expected sitting President seeking election fell to 8 .5% from a revised 8 .7% a monthly gain of 212,000 private- since World War II . Unemploy- month earlier . sector jobs means American ment was 7 .8% when Obama took December’s biggest growth businesses have replaced more office in January 2009 . came in transportation, especially than 3 million of the 4 2. million But he could benefit if the un- courier services that staffed up private-sector jobs lost the past employment rate continues to dip . for the holidays, and in health 13 months . The private-sector History suggests that Presidents’ care and manufacturing, accord- jobs gained since employment re-election prospects depend less ing to the U S. . Bureau of Labor bottomed in February 2010, in on the unemployment rate itself Statistics . percentage terms, is the stron- than on the rate’s direction in the Economists had forecast that gest recovery since the rebound months preceding Election Day . employers added a net 150,000 after the 1990-92 recession, when Information from USA Today jobs last month, according to U S. . businesses added 4 2. million contributed to this report .
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper drum major for justice . Say that I was a drum major for peace . I was An inaccurate inscription a drum major for righteousness . etched into the Martin Luther And all of the other shallow things USPS to Introduce Changes in King Memorial in Washington will not matter .” D C. . will be changed to provide The altered quote has drawn the correct context of a quote by criticism since the memorial’s Next Day Delivery Mid-Spring the Civil Rights Leader . opening in October, including The Washington Post first re- from poet Maya Angelou, who ported Jan . 13th that Secretary according to the AP said the of the Interior Ken Salazar had inscribed version makes King ordered the quote changed . sound like “an arrogant twit .” According to the Associated Salazar said he has ordered the By Alexis Taylor Press, the side of the granite National Park Service to consult processing equipment, vehicles while still relevant . Special to the NNPA from the memorial currently bears the in- the memorial’s organizing foun- and employee workforce and will, Customers of newspapers Afro-American Newspaper scription “I was a drum major for dation and the King family, and when fully implemented, gener- and periodicals such as the Afro- justice, peace and righteousness,” report back within 30 days with a The United States Postal Ser- ate projected net annual savings American Newspaper have al- taken from a February 1968 ser- plan to correct the memorial . vice is an American institution of approximately $2 billion .” ready seen major changes in their mon known as the “Drum Major “This is important because that has simply always been there . Processing on average 563 mil- service, with subscribers who Instinct,” made just two months Dr . King and his presence on the However, after weathering a bitter lion pieces of mail a day, in 2010 usually receive their papers the before King’s assassination . Mall is a forever presence for the recession, competition from pri- alone the USPS had to cut back next day after printing now wait- However, King’s original words United States of America, and we vate mail companies and deeper 75 million work hours, which is ing two weeks . made him seem more modest: have to make sure that we get it cuts to an already stretched bud- roughly the equivalent of 42,800 Slow to sign up for Internet “Yes, if you want to say that I was right,” Salazar told the Post . get, the age old organization is full-time employees . Jan . 22, subscriptions, the elderly and the a drum major, say that I was a struggling to survive . This year Americans will see a one cent in- disenfranchised with limited com- will see the introduction of record crease on first-class stamps to 45 puter access will suffer the most breaking reductions in service as cents, and a three cent increase from the proposed cuts . well as price increases for basic on postcards to 32 cents . Highlighting a need for “a line USPS materials such as stamps . “Mail from Baltimore to Chicago of posts be appointed under the Fighting to keep their heads takes 2 days today and would take direction of the Postmaster Gen- above water, continue to employ 2 days if the proposed changes eral, from Falmouth in New Eng- its 574,000 career employees, and occur, but mail from Baltimore to land to Savannah in Georgia, with provide adequate health benefits Baltimore that is overnight today as many cross posts as he shall to its workers, the USPS has tak- would take 2 days if the proposed think fit, ” the Second Continental en major hits in the few years . changes occur,” said Sue Brennan Congress of this Country estab- “The U S. . Postal Service must of the USPS Mail Processing and lished the United States Postal reduce its operating costs by $20 Mail Delivery Divisions . Service (USPS) in 1775 . billion by 2015 in order to return These changes, which are set Since then, mail has been to profitability,” said David Wil- to take place in Spring 2012, have moved by pony, steamboat, rail, liams, Vice President of Network already caused a national uproar, truck, airplane, and other effec- Operations in a press release . as readers who have not ridden tive modes of transportation to get “The proposed changes to ser- the wave of new technology are checks, gifts, news, and unwanted vice standards will allow for sig- now facing major dilemmas on bills where they need to go in a nificant consolidation of the post- how to receive their news prompt- timely fashion . al network in terms of facilities, ly, or at least www.ladatanews.com Sports January 21 - January 27, 2012 Page 11
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