Week of December 18 - December 24, 2017

92nd year of providing ‘News that matters’ VVOOLL.. XCIIII NO.. 14 Since 1925 www.louisianaweekly.com 50 cents Former LSP chief fleeced for years, audit report alleges Former Supt. agency's Mardi Gras deployment. by the former commander and his family Col. Mike Edmonson, who retired earlier A draft audit report by the Louisiana and friends, the audit found. this year amid a scandal involving state Legislative Auditor obtained by The New The rooms were paid for with public troopers who took side trips to the Grand Orleans Advocate outlines a life of luxury funds earmarked for the NOPD. Canyon and while en route to enjoyed by Col. Edmonson and his friends NOPD Supt. Michael Harrison told a San Diego, conference last and family free of charge during Mardi WWL News that for years the process fall and is accused of destroying evi - Gras over the course of several years. of requesting state troopers has been dence that proves he knew of the side Lavish hotel rooms set aside to accom - the same. trips, took another hit last week when a modate state troopers deployed to New “We send a letter to the colonel asking report by the Louisiana Legislative Orleans during the Carnival season to for a certain number of state troopers. We Auditor alleged that he fleeced the City bolster public safety and assist the under - LILLIE TAYLOR of New Orleans for years during the manned NOPD were in some cases used Continued on Pg. 8 EDMONSON

Happy Birthday greetings are sent to a recent member of the exclusive Centenarian Club. Ms. Lillie Taylor celebrated her 100th birthday on December 17. She was one of 10 chil - By Della Hasselle dren born to the union of the late David Contributing Writer and Lizzie W. Taylor of East Feliciana EPORT Parish. But she has called New Orleans R : home for the past 80 years, 49 of those years as an employee of the Monteleone Hotel. Ms. Taylor is a Light pollution has impact on health, environment member of First Street United Methodist Church. And members of her church, along with family and friends, celebrated her birthday at the Neyows Creole Cafe banquet hall this past Saturday, December 16.

Public calls for greater scrutiny in ouisiana is getting around New Orleans and Baton Louisiana isn’t alone. glare, light clutter, decreased visi - brighter. According to Rouge, illuminating more at night According to the World Atlas of bility at night and energy waste. scientists, that’s not a between 2014 and 2017. Artificial Night Sky Brightness , 80 Light pollution is problematic, selecting IG good thing. The Baton Rouge Astronomical percent of the world’s population scientists say, because it interferes A light pollution map created in Society has been aware of the now lives under such glow. with people’s internal clocks. part by data from the Earth problem for years, and has even The phenomenon is caused by Throughout history, scientists finalists Observation Group and the dedicated a team of star-watchers light pollution, defined by the say, people have evolved to the Before it began interviewing final - L NLational Oceanic and to measure the level of sky glow International Dark Sky rhythms of the natural light-dark ists seeking to fill the post of New Atmospheric Administration and gather evidence to show it’s Association as any adverse effect Orleans Inspector General, the Ethics shows parts of the state, especially growing. of artificial light. That can include Continued on Pg. 7 Review Board gave residents a chance to weigh in on the finalists and the selection process Wednesday, FOX 8 News reported. Responding to public requests, the Ethics Review Board voted to allow the public to play a more significant role in Former cultural ambassador Irvin Mayfield indicted the process by allowing the finalists to partner Ronald Markham. his position running the city’s public make presentations to the public and Charges include wire The 19 federal counts against Mayfield library support charity to funnel money to allow residents to weigh in on the can - fraud, money laundering and Markham include one count of con - the New Orleans Orchestra, to didates at a later date. spiracy, four counts of wire fraud, one another nonprofit bank account he con - The finalists are vying to replace New and obstruction of justice count of mail fraud, one count of money trolled and, in some cases, to directly feed Orleans Inspector General Ed laundering conspiracy, 11 counts of his lavish lifestyle. Quatrevaux, who stepped down in Irvin Mayfield, the Grammy-winning money laundering and one count of WWL News reported that Thursday’s October citing health issues. jazz trumpeter who became a key cultur - obstruction of justice. indictment closely tracks the spending of Quatrevaux’s departure came in the al figure after Hurricane Katrina and The charges against Mayfield and library donations detailed in the earlier midst of turmoil related to a scathing founded the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Markham come more than two years after WWL reports. It alleges that Mayfield report authored by one of the office’s was indicted by a federal grand jury a WWL News investigation that exposed Continued on Pg. 7 deputy generals, who is vying to replace Thursday along with his longtime NOJO how the popular jazz trumpeter had used MAYFIELD his former boss. That assistant IG, Howard Schwartz, is among the four being considered to succeed Quatrevaux. The others are David Harper of New Mexico, Derry Harper of Tennessee and Patrick Sullivan. of Virginia Black women’s vote leads to Democrat win in Ala. By Stacy M. Brown Jones defeated Moore 49.9 percent voters supported Jones, including 93 child abuse and a Democrat who has Schwartz, who has an FBI back - NNPA Newswire to 48.4 percent for Attorney General percent of Black men voters and 98 earned his chops prosecuting the Ku ground, was fired by Quatrevaux earlier Jeff Sessions’ vacated United States percent of Black women voters. Klux Klan. this year but the Ethics Review Board A heavy African-American Senate seat. Blacks accounted for a 29 percent The contest also was viewed, by still allowed Schwartz to serve as inter - turnout in Alabama’s special elec - According to CNN exit polling, share of all voters in the special elec - many, as a test of racial progress in Continued on Pg. 8 tion propelled underdog Democratic 68 percent of white voters, includ - tion in Alabama. the Deep South, and the power of candidate Doug Jones to victory, in a ing 72 percent of white men voters Black voter turnout played a key President Donald Trump’s rhetoric hotly-contested race against the and 63 percent of white women role in getting Jones elected as to sway voters. flawed, yet heavily-favored, voters, supported Moore, an Alabama voters were forced to Trump campaigned hard for Republican candidate Roy Moore. alleged child predator. choose between a Republican who’s The New York Times reported that Meanwhile, 96 percent of Black perceived as a racist and accused of Continued on Pg. 8 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM December 18 - December 24, 2017 State pulls back on coastal-restoration projects due to shortfall in oil and gas royalties By Della Hasselle should have translated to higher road is often inundated by tidal wildlife refuges. In the meantime, U.S. Rep. Steve financial analyst so Louisiana The Lens royalty payments. flooding. It leads to Port The rest goes to the four states Scalise and U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy officials can make their own fore - “My guess is there are career- Fourchon, Louisiana’s southern - along the Gulf. In Louisiana, 80 are working to raise the $500 mil - casts, Kline said. “We’re not just A shortfall in Louisiana’s share level people at the Office of most port and a base for offshore percent of GOMESA funds will go lion annual cap for the four states. sitting on our hands.” of federal offshore oil and gas roy - Management and Budget or the oil and gas companies. to the state coastal authority. The That proposal, inserted last month alties is forcing the state to delay Department of the Interior, or both, Other projects include: other 20 percent will go to coastal into the Senate’s version of the The above article originally critical coastal-restoration projects who don’t like this thing,” Graves • Elevating a separate portion parishes; they too will get about GOP tax plan, would open the door appeared on The Lens website and a program that helps fund said about GOMESA. of state Route 1 from Port half of earlier projections. for more money once offshore pro - (www.thelensnola.org). The infrastructure improvements. “I’ve posed questions to the Fourchon to the Grand Isle Bridge, States were to get money in duction increases. Louisiana Weekly enjoys a part - State coastal authority officials Department of the Interior to help which is vulnerable to sea level stages. So far, Louisiana’s GOME - The state is planning to hire a nership with The Lens .◊ and U.S. Rep. (R- clarify whether or not there’s rise, subsidence and storm surge SA payments have been small. Baton Rouge) want to know why funny business going on,” he said. • Building a bridge to connect Next year, the payments will projections from a royalty-shar - Kline said members of the Monkey Island and Cameron in include new areas of the Gulf, and ing agreement are now half of coastal authority have gone to Cameron Parish the four states will share a maxi - what they had expected. Washington, D.C., to question fed - • Elevating two roads along mum of $500 million annually. The federal Gulf of Mexico eral officials about the projections. Bayou Barataria near Jean Lafitte In 2055 that cap will be lifted. Energy Security Act, or GOME - They’re still waiting on answers. in Jefferson Parish Although the formula for split - SA, is the only source of recur - “We want clarity on the calcula - • Converting a floodgate to a ting up the money has been set, ring federal funds dedicated to tions,” Kline said. lock structure at Boudreaux Canal the dollar amount has always been combating land loss in The U.S. Department of the at Bayou Petite Caillou in subject to change because it’s tied Louisiana. It allocates a portion Interior did not immediately Terrebonne Parish to the health of the industry. In of federal oil and gas royalties to respond to a request for comment. “These are important projects, recent years, the price of oil has states along the Gulf of Mexico, but our focus has always been hur - dropped and energy production in based on a complicated formula. Projects On Hold ricane protection and restoration the Gulf of Mexico has declined. For several years, Louisiana The decreased funding affects projects,” Kline said. Those trends are not new, so officials anticipated an annual the state coastal authority’s budget He said the infrastructure pro - Graves said it shouldn’t be a sur - payout of about $175 million, the for the 2019 fiscal year, which gram will be on hold for at least prise that GOMESA funds are maximum allowed under the starts in July, in two ways: Some five years, or until Louisiana gets lower than once thought. He said agreement. The first big payment coastal protection projects are on more revenue under GOMESA. these factors should have been is expected next spring. hold, and the coastal authority will The state does plan to imple - included in federal projections Of that, $140 million would not help with the cost of several ment 14 coastal restoration proj - for energy-related revenue and have gone to the Louisiana road and bridge projects. ects using GOMESA funds in allocations to states. Coastal Protection and Board members presented the 2018 and 2019. As of May, the state coastal Restoration Authority. Agency authority’s spending plan to the They include canal closures, lev - authority expected to collect $420 officials now expect half of that: public at a meeting last ees and other stabilization projects million through GOMESA over $70 million annually. Wednesday. slated for levee districts in and three years, about 17 percent of the Over five years, that’s $350 Kline said the state will have around Lafourche Parish, Lafitte, $2.5 billion it planned to spend on million in lost revenue for flood to delay construction of levees, Grand Isle and St. Charles Parish. coastal projects in that time. protection and infrastructure floodgates, pump stations and The state also plans to relocate In October, officials with Coastal projects in Louisiana. surge barriers throughout drainage canals, raise levees, Protection and Restoration Chip Kline, deputy director of coastal Louisiana. and conduct studies to determine Authority publicly said they the Governor’s Office for Coastal “We had to take a hard look how to best mitigate flooding in expected to get about half of what Activities, called the shortfall “dis - internally at our coastal restoration Plaquemines, St. Charles, St. they had planned. appointing” and “substantial.” projects,” he said. “There are James, St. Tammany and Kline said last week he’s waiting “It’s a revenue stream we’ve many projects that we would not Vermilion parishes. for more detailed explanations from anticipated since 2005, 2006,” be able to move forward with.” The coastal authority’s 2019 the Department of the Interior, Kline said. “We largely planned Among the protection work on fiscal year plan projects $649.5 including which leases are eligible our efforts around it.” hold is the Morganza to the Gulf million in revenue, which is less and proof of the distance between Among those questioning the of Mexico Project, a 98-mile than the $763.8 million in rev - the leases and the Louisiana border. projections — and the complex levee to protect people, property enue in the current fiscal year. That distance factors into the gov - calculations behind them — is and marsh around Houma from ernment’s calculations. Graves, who served as chairman of hurricane storm surge. Revenue-Sharing Tied To Kline said he and Graves have the Coastal Protection and Several other projects will be Offshore Oil And Gas met with Interior Secretary Ryan Restoration Authority before he delayed in St. Mary, St. Bernard Production Zinke and demanded the federal was elected to Congress. and Plaquemines parishes, as GOMESA was passed to help government provide projections at Graves said the federal govern - well as other parts of the coast, states along the Gulf of Mexico least five years in advance so ment has tried to reduce or elim - Kline said. repair damage related to offshore Louisiana can plan ahead. inate royalty-sharing under Coastal authority staff also plan oil and gas production. GOMESA, pointing to proposals to put on hold the GOMESA Most oil and gas production off presented to Congress in recent Infrastructure Funding Program, the coast of Louisiana has years under President Barack which allocates up to 10 percent occurred in federal waters, which Obama and President Donald of GOMESA royalties to infra - start three miles offshore. Those Trump. Lawmakers rejected structure projects such as roads rigs use pipelines that run those proposals. and bridges in areas directly through the state’s wetlands. Now, Graves said he wonders affected by wetlands loss. Before GOMESA was passed, if one or more federal agencies That means the state’s coastal Gulf Coast states got the same have figured out how to artifi - restoration authority will not share of federal offshore royal - cially reduce GOMESA revenue contribute to seven projects in ties as inland states. POWERING to the state. four parishes, Kline said. It The program now dedicates He said the news Louisiana offi - doesn’t necessarily mean the 37.5 percent of royalties in spe - cials got this year about GOMESA projects won’t go forward. cific areas of the Gulf of Mexico funding isn’t in line with recent Among them are a project to to Louisiana, Mississippi, SMALL BUSINESS projections from the federal gov - shore up a portion of state Route Alabama and Texas, as well as ernment. In the last two or three 300 along Bayou Terre aux Boeufs coastal parishes and counties. years, he said, the White House in St. Bernard Parish and another Of the revenue, 12.5 percent is projected higher production from to elevate a portion of state Route allocated to a federal program new wells, even as tougher regula - 1 between Golden Meadow and that distributes the money to tions were implemented. That Leeville in Lafourche Parish. That other states for public parks and GROWTH Companies cut ties with Tavis Smiley (AP) — Walmart and a book dis - with Mr. Smiley, pending the out - a theatrical production focusing on tributor distanced themselves from come of the PBS investigation.” the last year of Martin Luther King Tavis Smiley last week after PBS Hay House, which distributes the Jr.’s life. “Death of a King: A Live said an investigation found “trou - Smiley Books imprint, said all Theatrical Experience” is based on bling allegations” of sexual mis - Smiley projects were “on hold” Smiley’s 2014 book of the same conduct by the radio and TV host. pending an internal review. Smiley title and was to start Jan. 15, The moves came a day after had planned in September to King’s birthday. PBS said it was suspending release Leading by Listening: “Death of a King” is being pro - Smiley following an independent Connecting through Conversation duced by Mills Entertainment, investigation by a law firm. PBS to Transform Your Relationships which did not respond Thursday said the firm uncovered “multi - and Your Business . to requests for comment. Several ple, credible allegations of con - PBS responded to Smiley’s accu - of the venues slated to host the duct that is inconsistent with the sations by saying it stands by the show did not respond to queries values and standards of PBS.” integrity of the investigation. “The about whether the show would His show’s page at PBS was totality of the investigation, which play as scheduled. One that did, scrubbed on Thursday. included Mr. Smiley, revealed a pat - the New Jersey Performing Arts SMALL & EMERGING BUSINESSES Smiley responded to the allega - tern of multiple relationships with Center, said: “We just learned of ERNEST N. MORIAL NEW ORLEANS EXHIBITION HALL AUTHORITY tions on Facebook, saying PBS subordinates over many years,” a these allegations and at this time “overreacted” and calling it “a PBS spokesperson said. will reserve comment.” rush to judgment.” He said he has Smiley brought rare diversity to Smiley also oversees the pub - never harassed anyone and late-night TV and has drawn the lishing imprint Smiley Books and Take the first step today toward growing your qualified claimed one relationship the net - ire of conservatives and liberals has written more than a dozen work uncovered was consensual. alike for some of his views. He has books, including his memoir small business by learning more about Louisiana’s “If having a consensual relation - worked for six networks over a 30- What I Know for Sure and The ship with a colleague years ago is year career and his radio program Covenant With Black America . Hudson Initiative and opportunities available to you at the stuff that leads to this kind of “The Tavis Smiley Show” was dis - According to Variety , the investi - the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. public humiliation and personal tributed by Public Radio gation found Smiley had engaged destruction, heaven help us,” he International from 2005 to 2013. in sexual relationships with multi - said. “This has gone too far. And, I, He has been with PBS for 14 sea - ple subordinates and created “a Learn how to put Louisiana’s economic engine to work for for one, intend to fight back.” sons and some 3,000 episodes. verbally abusive and threatening Walmart, which had been a Smiley also has a development environment.” you by visiting www.exhallnola.com or calling 504-582-3035. sponsor of Smiley’s talk show deal with Warner Bros. Television Smiley in his Facebook post and an upcoming touring theatri - and was working with J.J. Abrams claims PBS “refused to provide cal show, cut ties with him. “We to turn his new book about me the names of any accusers, take these issues very seriously Michael Jackson’s last days and refused to speak to my current and are troubled by the recent death into a limited TV series. He staff, and refused to provide me allegations,” the retail giant said also has a podcast via PodcastOne. any semblance of due process to in a statement. “As a result, we Smiley next month is expected to defend myself against allegations are suspending our relationship launch a nationwide 40-city tour of from unknown sources.”◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - December 18 - December 24, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 3 State recommends closure of three charter schools in New Orleans By Marta Jewson school year: Mc Donogh 35 Senior of New Orleans’ public schools The CEO of New Orleans administration would support fami - Orleans schools Superintendent The Lens High School. have dropped, spurring discussion College Prep, the charter manage - lies and staff through the school year. Henderson Lewis Jr. released his Sylvanie Williams College Prep, about whether the city’s charter ment group that runs Sylvanie ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy recommendations for eight char - Three underperforming charter ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy schools can continue their gains Williams, referred The Lens to a slipped from a C to a D this year. ter applications. He wants to schools in New Orleans are one and Dwight D. Eisenhower since Hurricane Katrina. letter the group sent parents last ReNEW Schools operates six char - deny three applications and step from closing next spring after Academy of Global Studies, all K- The state board of education like - month, which acknowledged that ter schools. A spokesman said approve five. a Board of Elementary and 8 schools, failed to meet the C let - ly will ratify the committee’s deci - the school’s F letter grade meant it CEO Kevin Guitterrez wasn’t Lewis supports separate charter Secondary Education committee ter grade required by the state for a sion to deny the three charters at its would likely close at the end of the available to comment. applications submitted by princi - voted unanimously Monday second charter contract renewal. meeting Tuesday. (Update, Dec. academic year. Eisenhower received a C in 2015. pals of two district schools, against renewing their charters. Charter schools are publicly 12: The board approved the com - The Orleans Parish school dis - For the past two years, it’s gotten a Benjamin Franklin Elementary, or Meanwhile, the Orleans funded but privately run. They mittee’s decision.) trict has already decided that it will D. Algiers Charter, which oversees “Baby Ben,” and Bethune schools superintendent is ready must meet academic and finan - But it will fall to the Orleans not accept any applications to take the school, did not respond to a Elementary. That recommendation to allow two district-run schools cial benchmarks to keep their Parish School Board to decide over Sylvanie Williams because of request for comment. goes against independent evalua - to convert to charters: Benjamin contracts. whether to close those facilities the condition of the building and The charter network oversees tions of their applications. Franklin Elementary The state raised the threshold or seek new charter groups to because there are too many ele - five schools, including one ele - The schools’ principals were Mathematics and Science School for second renewals from a D take them over. mentary schools in the city. mentary, William J. Fischer part of a failed bid last year to and Mary McLeod Bethune two years ago. Schools still can That’s because all Recovery The charter group “takes full Accelerated Academy, that has convert their schools to charters, Elementary School of Literature get their first charter renewal if School District charters in New responsibility for the letter grade and received an F three years in a along with three other district and Technology. they have a D. Orleans will move under the outcomes at Sylvanie Williams over row. Its charter contract is not up schools. The charter effort, That would leave just one tradi - In the last three years, School oversight of the local school the past few years,” Natalie for renewal this year. which included some administra - tional school in the city next Performance Scores for 65 percent board next summer. Kaharick wrote, adding that the Also Monday of last week, tors who work under Lewis, fell apart after the group received a poor evaluation. Also among Lewis’ recommen - dations for approval are one char - Suspect in Charlottesville attack facing first degree murder charges ter for InspireNOLA and two for By Sarah Rankin having a keen interest in Nazi head slowly in what Young testi - cials at his Union, Kentucky, nificant injuries and are “wheel - FirstLine Schools. AP Writer Germany and Adolf Hitler, drove fied was the direction of the school for “deeply held, radical” chair bound,” Young said. Lewis supports the Center for his speeding car into a group of counterprotesters, who were not convictions on race. Fields would have faced Resilience’s application for a (AP) — The man accused of counterprotesters the day of the in view of the camera. The car During her cross-examination between five to 40 years in school called Querencia. Its driving into a crowd protesting a “Unite the Right” rally that drew reversed before speeding forward of Young, Lunsford asked if prison for a second-degree mur - application was denied in the white nationalist rally in hundreds of white nationalist into the frame again. searches of Fields’ computer, der conviction. First-degree mur - spring because the school district Charlottesville faces a new from around the country. The After that footage, a man in the phone or social media revealed der carries a penalty of 20 years thought it failed to describe its charge of first-degree murder attack came after the rally in this crowd shouted an expletive and any evidence that he was part of to life in prison. recruitment strategy and how its after a court hearing Thursday in Virginia college town had cried out, “Take me out.” He and Vanguard America or any other Charlottesville General District therapeutic program would work which prosecutors presented sur - descended into chaos — with others left the courtroom. white nationalist group. Young Court Judge Robert Downer Jr. within the school. veillance video and other evi - violent brawling between atten - Fields, of Maumee, Ohio, sat qui - said, “No.” also presided over preliminary The state committee also dence against him. dees and counterdemonstrators etly in a striped jumpsuit with his Young also testified that he was hearings Thursday for three other approved six charter renewals in Prosecutors announced at the — and authorities had forced the hands cuffed during the hearing. among the first officers to defendants. Charged in cases relat - Orleans Parish. Akili Academy of start of a preliminary hearing for crowd to disband. His attorney Denise Lunsford respond to the scene where Fields ed to the August rally are Richard New Orleans and KIPP New James Alex Fields that they were Surveillance footage from a did not present evidence or make pulled over. No weapon was Preston, who is accused of firing a Orleans Leadership Academy seeking to upgrade the second- Virginia State Police helicopter, any arguments at the hearing, found in the car, he said. gun, and Jacob Goodwin and Alex both earned C’s this year and a degree murder charge he previ - played by prosecutors in court, although she did cross-examine Lunsford asked the detective Ramos, who are accused in an second renewal. ously faced in the Aug. 12 colli - captured the moment of impact the detective. what Fields said as he was being attack on a man in a parking garage Lawrence D. Crocker College sion in Charlottesville that left by the car and the cursing of the Fields was photographed hours detained. that was captured in photos and Prep, Mildred Osborne Charter 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead startled troopers on board. The before the attack with a shield Fields said he was sorry and video that went viral. School, Paul Habans Charter and dozens injured. The judge video then showed the car as it bearing the emblem of Vanguard asked if people were OK, The judge certified the charges School and ReNEW Schaumburg agreed to that and ruled there is reversed, drove away and eventu - America, one of the hate groups according to Young. When Fields against all three men. All those Elementary, which all have D’s, probable cause for all charges ally pulled over. The helicopter that took part in the rally, was told someone had died, he cases will also head to a grand jury. got their first charter contract against Fields, including nine had been monitoring the vio - although the group denied any appeared shocked and sobbed, Jason Kessler, the main organiz - renewals. lesser felony counts, to proceed. lence, and prosecutors ques - association with him. Young said. er of the Unite the Right rally, was Fields’ case will now be pre - tioned Charlottesville Police A former teacher, Derek Young said authorities had in court to watch the proceedings. The above article originally sented to a grand jury for an Detective Steven Young about Weimer, has said Fields was fas - identified 36 victims of the car When he arrived Thursday, a small appeared on The Lens website indictment. the video as it played. cinated in high school with attack, including Heyer — a crowd of angry protesters outside (www.thelensnola.org). The Authorities say the 20-year-old, Another surveillance video Nazism, idolized Adolf Hitler, number higher than officials have the courthouse chanted, “Blood on Louisiana Weekly enjoys a part - described by a former teacher as from a restaurant showed the car and had been singled out by offi - previously given. Some have sig - your hands.” nership with The Lens .◊

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I used to be very naive. decades of research and struggle. Believe it or not, there was a time when I Mind you, this wasn’t the first time actually believed that you had to have book Washington offered comments about race smarts and a solid academic background to that left a lot of people scratching their heads. be a doctor or the president of the United In an interview with BET several years States. Then I learned of former President ago, Washington was asked whether col - George W. Bush, U.S. Sen./Dr. Bill orism has negatively impacted the careers Cassidy and Dr. Benjamin Carson, the bril - of dark-skinned actors and actresses in liant neurosurgeon who now makes me Hollywood. His answer left many ques - wonder how he could have possibly made tioning everything they thought they knew it through junior high school, not to men - about the popular actor who won two tion college and med school. Oscars and inspired millions. Referring to Years later, after coming to learn that one his co-star Viola Davis’ performance in could be a millionaire, businessman or suc - the acclaimed, August Wilson-penned cessful elected official without being a film, Fences , Washington said, “One of S genius, I could only howl with laughter after the best roles for a woman of any color in hearing former Louisiana Gov. Edwin the last, in a good while or at least any Edwards say that it took former Gov. Dave movie that I’ve been in, a dark-skinned N Treen “three hours to watch ‘60 Minutes.’” woman has in this film.” I also used to think that everyone The actor added that it isn’t skin color, but involved in the struggle had the best acting ability, that hinders darker actors

O interests of Black people at heart. from achieving success. “The easiest thing GOP tax bill robs the poor to feed the rich

I Then I began to listen more closely and to do is to blame someone else, the system,” By Marian Wright Edelman ing to the Tax Policy Center. The lift these chil - pay attention and found out otherwise. Washington told BET. “Yeah, there’s a pos - The Children’s Defense Fund Senate bill ends individual tax dren from Finally, I used to think that you had to sibility, maybe, that you’re not good benefits after 10 years while poverty to

N be kind, compassionate and patient to be enough, but it’s easy to say it’s someone The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act making permanent tax cuts for adulthood. I a schoolteacher. else’s fault. But there’s a possibility that recently passed on a nearly corporations. The House bill We must Or that to be an actor or actress, you had you’re not ready and you can still blame it straight party line Republican continues both individual and tell Congress to have a brilliant mind, a hunger for knowl - on someone else instead of getting ready.” vote in the U.S. Senate is, like corporate tax cuts. to reject this P edge and a boatload of empathy for others. I find it difficult to understand how Mr. the House-passed bill, a moral The Senate’s $1,000 Child Tax morally Needless to say, I no longer think Washington could take on the film roles of abomination. Their enactment Credit increase to benefit families indefensible about actors and actresses the way I did the rebellious slave Trip in the film Glory , would be the death of America’s with children and make up for tax boondog -

O when I was younger. the Black Consciousness Movement dream for tens of millions of elimination of the personal gle and Almost every day, I hear or read something leader Steve Biko in Cry Freedom and children. The House and Senate exemption for dependents pro - instead EDELMAN that makes me wonder what Hollywood Malcolm X in the Spike Lee film and not bills favor the wealthiest vides little or no assistance to poor invest in pro - types are smoking or drinking. have gained more insight, knowledge and Americans and most powerful and middle-income working fami - tecting chil -

& Take Denzel Washington for example. wisdom from the background histories corporations over poor and mod - lies. Yet, both the Senate and dren and maintaining any sem - Washington, a gifted and acclaimed actor, associated with these projects. erate-income children and fami - House bills enable higher-income blance of fairness. ruffled some feathers when he said recently One might think that researching these lies—billionaires over poor families to qualify for the credit Not one new dime in tax breaks that the prison system was not to blame for periods in history and preparing for these babies and powerful corporations for the first time. Neither Senate for millionaires and billionaires as crime and violence in communities of color. roles might give someone a greater under - over poor children. They are evil. nor House bills make the credit long as more than 13.2 million chil - S “It starts in the home,” Washington told standing and appreciation for the plight and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fully refundable to help working dren are poor, and millions of chil - The Grio. “If the father is not in the home, struggle of Black people around the world warned that “America is going to families with the lowest incomes. dren are hungry, uneducated, home - the boy will find a father in the streets. I saw for justice, liberation and self-determination. hell if we can’t use her vast Both bills would end eligibility of less and without health coverage. it in my generation and every generation Clearly that wasn’t the case with Stand up and fight. A nation that L resources to end poverty and children in low-income working before me, and every one since. Denzel, who appears to think that his make it possible for all of God’s immigrant families for the credit does not stand up for its children “If the streets raise you, then the judge opinion is the only one that matters and children to have the basic neces - without Social Security numbers. does not stand for anything and will becomes your mother and prison becomes that if he doesn’t believe something, it sities of life.” With both the U.S. Tax-paying immigrant families not stand tall in the future.◊ your home,” he added. couldn’t possibly be true. A Senate and House of are required currently to have It’s not that Black folks don’t believe that It would be interesting to speak to some Representatives now having only an Individual Taxpayer people of color have to recommit them - of his former teachers about what kind of passed extremely unjust tax bills, Identification Number to qual - The I selves to being their best selves and uplifting student he was and how much he studied I must ask—how can 278 politi - ify for the Child Tax Credit. the community. We get that. Black history as a youth. cal leaders, 51 Senators and 227 The Senate’s permanent cor - Louisiana The Black Press is chock full of One thing that has become painfully obvi - House members, act against the porate tax cuts are partially columns about how Black folks can and ous from social media and reality TV is that best interests of so many in their paid for by repealing the Weekly R must do better. you can’t assume anything about entertain - states and across our nation to Affordable Care Act’s individ - But it is incredibly myopic for anyone ers and celebrities. line the overstuffed pockets of ual mandate and tax penalty. (USPS 320-680) One of the oldest publications to suggest that systemic racism and its Some of them are unmistakably shal - powerful special interests with This will leave 13 million in the United States intricate network of laws, rules, policies low, self-absorbed, superficial, clueless government money? fewer people insured in 10 specifically for the

O and customs don’t have anything to do and woefully misinformed about the What religious texts do these years, raise health insurance African-American with the breakdown of Black families world they live in and issues like social Members of Congress and those premiums for many more and community. and communities of color. injustice, police misconduct, mass incar - who lobby them read? How did destabilize the health insur - The Black family has been under constant ceration and global warming. they miss the clear warnings of ance marketplace. Since 1925 T attack from the powers that be for more than Others, who take the time to nourish the prophets and gospels and The $1.5 trillion 10-year “four score and twenty years ago” to borrow their minds and step outside of their tenets of every great faith to care deficit the House and Senate RENETTE DEJOIE-HALL

I for the poor, the sick, the lame bills create will cause deep from a famous quote. Those attacks didn’t charmed lives to educate themselves President/Publisher end with the signing of the Emancipation about the plight of the masses and how and the orphan? Where did they cuts in Medicaid, the Proclamation or the signing of the Civil their lives are negatively impacted by learn that acting as Robin Hood Supplemental Nutrition EDMUND W. LEWIS Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. white supremacist beliefs, systemic in reverse by denying the poor Assistance Program (SNAP), Editor and powerless child the basic child care, education, Pell D The oppression of Black people in this racism and economic injustice, get it. DAVID T. BAKER nation and around the world continues to But the thing is, some of those who survival needs of food and shel - Grants, housing and other Associate Editor evolve with the great-grandsons of for - don’t get it, think they do, and sometimes ter to give to the wealthy and critical child services. powerful is acceptable? No funds will be left over mer slaveowners creating repressive new find themselves speaking to the media or SHARON ARMSTRONG E laws and policies that would have made posting comments about issues they There are 565 billionaires in for the next decade to end SUSAN BUCHANAN their ancestors proud. clearly know very little about. the United States—the 400 child poverty for the more FRITZ ESKER Denzel needs to stop acting as if he has all Clearly, Denzel Washington doesn’t get richest of whom have a com - than 13.2 million children the answers to the problems that continue to it but doesn’t know that he is ill-pre - bined net worth of $2.7 trillion. struggling to grow up DELLA HASSELLE plague Black America. pared to speak intelligently about the More than 13.2 million chil - healthy and educated. MEGHAN HOLMES H e hasn’t invested the time, research and plight of Black people. dren—1 in 5—live in poverty Imagine spending $1.5 tril - CHARMAINE JACKSON energy needed to even think about leading That’s not a dig at Denzel. He’s a great in America. Their families of lion or even one-tenth of that FR. JEROME LeDOUX and representing Black people. actor who has turned in some acting per - four make less than $24,563 a each year on children’s BRITTANY ODOM He’s an actor and as such should focus formances that will always be remembered year. More than six million needs? Two years ago CDF JAMES SEBASTIEN his energies on acting. for the way they inspired film-goers. children live in deep poverty, at commissioned the Urban MICKEY STANLEY less than half the poverty level. Institute to assess steps to While everyone is entitled to his or her But a statesman he is not. Nor is he a CHRISTOPHER TIDMORE opinion, Denzel and others do an incred - thought or thoughtful-leader or someone A majority of both houses of end child poverty right now. Congress and the Trump We identified modest MICHAEL PATRICK WELCH ible injustice and disservice to the strug - who has been called to spark a revolution in NAYITA WILSON gle when they misuse their celebrity the minds of people of African descent. Administration seek policies to improvements to nine pro - GERALDINE WYCKOFF platform to share views and opinions That’s simply not his calling. reward millionaires and billion - grams we knew helped Contributing Writers/Columnists that are not fully developed or based on He needs to act like he knows that.◊ aires and non-needy corpora - reduce child poverty: tions and add nearly $1.5 tril - increasing the value of CHARLES SILER lion—around $150 billion a SNAP’s food benefits, pro - Contributing Cartoonist year for the next 10 years—to viding housing subsidies for PENNY JONES our national deficit to do so. And poor and near-poor families Administrative Assistant ETTER TO THE DITOR to pay for it, they will deny poor with children, making the L E CHRISTOPHER D. HALL and moderate-income children Child Tax Credit fully Business/Circulation and families healthcare, food, refundable, increasing the A Change In The Air housing, child care and other sur - Earned Income Tax Credit Published every Monday vival assistance or help parents for the lowest-income fami - by Louisianians feel the punishing effects of from that facility; what chemical is being get needed jobs at livable wages lies, creating a subsidized The Louisiana Weekly Publishing chemicals in our air that leave some com - emitted, how much, and for how long; Company, Inc. to support their families. jobs program, increasing the munities seeing cancer risks at over 800 and (2) alert first responders, schools, Est. 1925, Consider some of the facts minimum wage, expanding times the national average for lifetime risk daycares, and local citizens so they can 2215 Pelopidas Street, Suite A about these tax cut bills: the federal child care subsidy New Orleans, LA. 70122. of cancer from air pollution, and brutally respond and stay safe. Many other facili - Both the Senate and House bills program, making the Child For offices and advertising, high asthma rates as well. ties already use this technology. lavishly benefit the wealthiest and Dependent Care Tax call (504) 282-3705 or The EPA ranks LaPlace, Louisiana, as the We need this information. Our industries FAX (504) 282-3773 households and individuals. The Credit fully refundable, and area with the highest risk for its residents to need to know when toxic emissions are Senate bill doubles the estate tax helping more families get POSTMASTER: Send change develop cancer from air toxins in the coming from their facilities, as well as threshold, enabling individuals to child support payments. of address to: nation. The EPA also ranked Louisiana the when they are not; our regulators need to inherit tax free up to $11 million Implementing all these The Louisiana Weekly, fifth most toxic state in the nation for 2016, know which facilities need to reduce toxic P.O. Box 8628 and couples up to $22 million. improvements together and the CDC named it the state with the air emissions; and our communities need to New Orleans, LA 70182-8628 The House bill would eliminate would lift 60 percent of all third-highest rate of new cancers in 2014. be warned when a facility has an event that the estate tax entirely. poor children and 72 percent Periodical Postage Paid at New Orleans These affected people, our neighbors, causes a threat to public health. More than 60 percent of the of poor children of color family members, friends, live in “fence- We are aware of the economic impact Senate bill’s individual tax cuts from poverty for a year, at a SUBSCRIPTION RATES line communities” — neighborhoods nes - of industrial facilities on Louisiana, but in 2027 go to the richest one per - $77.2 billion federal and state One Year $30 tled close to major air pollution-emitting we are also aware that their emissions cent of households making $1 government cost – less than Two Years $52 facilities. The technology exists to access pose health issues. million or more; 48 percent of half of one year of the $1.5 Three Years $72 real-time air quality data from emitting Out-of-state subscribers current tax-paying households trillion deficit increase. A add $5 for postage. facilities that can: (1) accurately tell us if – Julie Rosenzweig would face tax increases accord - $1.5 trillion investment could the chemical emission is actually coming Director, Sierra Club Delta Chapter THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - December 18 - December 24, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 5 Pres. Trump: Jones victory sends message: A poster boy Ignore the Black vote and lose By Earl Ofari Hutchinson resource, resource, Black communities was stituency. In South Guest Columnist their message. But the archaic thinking that Carolina and other Blacks have nowhere to go, will vote Deep South states the for white Democratic Party officials set up a huge Democrat anyway, and therefore no special vote was even more BAILEY HUTCHINSON table outside a voting precinct in Helena in effort need be made to bag their vote need be lopsided among white Shelby County just south of Birmingham. made. This was a horrendously fatal miscalcu - voters against Obama. The only thing that supremacy They didn’t try to hide who they were mak - lation. Many did have somewhere to go and even made Obama’s showing respectable By A. Peter Bailey ing their vote pitch to at the table. They that somewhere wasn’t to the polls. in those states was the record turnout and TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist implored Black voters to think first, second, Unfortunately, the problem was com - percentage of Black votes that he got. and last about Democratic Senatorial candi - pounded when many Democrats drew the That was plainly evident in Alabama as It’s time to get real. Donald J. Trump is not an aberration of most white date Doug Jones. Now Shelby county in times wrong lesson from Trump’s win. The talk well. By making his big pitch to Black vot - males in the United States of America. In fact, he is exactly what most of past has been a rock-solid GOP County. But was now all over the place that Democrats ers, Jones was seen by many whites as the de them are all about. That’s why he’s president of the country today. the voter demographics in the county are had to begin pitching hard to those dis - facto African-American surrogate candidate. And contrary to what is often stated by too many newspapers, radio slowly changing with more Blacks and young gruntled white blue-collar workers with - This was too much to swallow for Moore’s and television commentators, he is not in the White House mainly persons resident there. The Jones camp zeroed out college degrees. Without them so the dogged white Christian, traditionalist, and because of votes from white hillbillies as can be seen by the following: in on them for one reason, and one reason thinking went Democrats could not beat closet racist base. If the • Fifty-three percent of white women voted for him despite hav - only. He didn’t have a prayer of unseating his Trump and the GOP in future elections. stench hadn’t been so over - ing heard and seen him proudly bragging about being able to sexu -

opponent Judge Roy Moore without a stam - That’s simply more prescription for polit - whelming around Moore’s C ally grope and harass women. pede to the polls by Black voters in bigger ical disaster. The one Democrat who did candidacy, there’s little • An overwhelming number of white veterans voted for him despite numbers than usual to beat back Moore. crunch the numbers and sentiment, and doubt that he, not Jones, his having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War; despite his But then again this shouldn’t have been understood no Black vote en masse, no win would have been winging brazen ridiculing of Sen. John McCain for having been a prisoner of

political rocket science stuff. There have was Obama. If Black voters had not turned his way to Washington in O war for five years in the same conflict; and despite Trump’s strong sup - been dire warnings all along to the the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries January. He would have port of serious efforts to privatize the Veteran’s Hospital system. Democrats, put simply, ignore the Black into a virtual holy crusade for Obama, and won in a landslide with • Millions of low-income, working-class and middle-income vote and you lose. And by ignore that if Obama had not stoked the Black vote, he white votes as every GOP white males and females voted for him despite his resolute refusal means assuming that because Black voters could easily have been just another failed candidate for statewide to provide his tax returns, as did his predecessors. are mostly Democrats, and that the GOP is Democratic presidential candidate. Through office in Alabama has done M • Those same millions voted for him despite his defiant refusal the party that panders to the basest of its voter education, awareness and mobi - for the past two decades. to give up control of his family businesses. Thus his businesses are racists, Moore being the latest in the long lization campaigns, the NAACP played a This didn’t happen this generating millions, if not billions, of dollars for Trump and his train, that Black voters will bum rush the huge role in galvanizing and boosting the time because Jones did the family while he is in the White House. polls on Election Day to deliver victories numbers of black voters, nearly all votes smart, and political-savvy • A sizable number of Black folks and Latinos voted for him to Democrats. It doesn’t work that way. for Obama. It was part race, part pride, and thing and that’s appeal loud M despite his attitude toward people of color, especially those of That was heartbreakingly evident in the all sense of history in the making, as well and long to Black voters. African descent. That attitude is patronizing at best and white 2016 presidential race. Trump slithered into as being a part of Obama’s epic win. The They were his ace card. supremacist at worst. He’s the kind of white person who passionately the Oval Office with less than 100,000 dis - mass rush by blacks to the polls was the This can be the case for believes we should be eternally “grateful” that our ancestors were gruntled white blue-collar votes in single biggest reason that Obama carried Democrats in 2018 and enslaved because it rescued them and us from “savage” Africa. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. the traditional must-win states of 2020 again if they have E All of the above voted for Trump despite his election victory With a concentrated, full court, boots on Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and broke the sense enough to realize it. having been assisted by operatives connected to Russian president, the ground effort, armed with pledges to GOP presidential grip on North Carolina Vladimir Putin. It’s obvious that Donald Trump considers Putin a Earl Ofari Hutchinson is fight hard for massive expansion in educa - and Virginia. Obama and the Democrats N solid ally in the effort to keep people who look like them as the tion, jobs, health care services, and crimi - needed every one of those Black votes for an author and political dominant force in world affairs. nal justice reform, the Clinton camp could another reason his immense popularity analyst. His latest book The bottom line is that Donald J. Trump, during both the have easily offset Trump’s blue-collar edge among Blacks, Hispanics and youth voters is, The Trump Challenge Republican primary and the campaign for presidency, made it to Black America (Middle with a big turnout among Black voters in didn’t cross over in the South and the T absolutely clear as to who and what he is. Not a single person who urban communities in those states. Heartland among whites. Passage Press). He is a voted for him can honestly say that he lied or misled them. They got Black activists, civil rights leaders, and The final presidential tally in 2008 and weekly co-host of the Al what they voted for, a poster boy for white supremacy. elected officials screamed at the Democrats to 2012 gave ample warning of the potency Sharpton Show on Radio do just that. Spend, spend, spend, resource, of the GOP’s conservative white con - One. ◊ A A. Peter Bailey, whose latest book is Witnessing Brother Malcolm X, the Master Teacher, can be reached at [email protected] t.◊ Racism in the workplace and R Strong apprenticeship the whitewashing of the Y programs key #MeToo movement & By Julianne Malveaux Parks was an NAACP investigator in the Workplace to addressing the NNPA Newswire Columnist this case, as chronicled by Danielle Constitute a McGuire in her book, At the Dark End Hostile Work

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) was of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Environment? If O wage gap the first member of the Congressional Resistance—A New History of the Civil Not, How By Odie Donald II Black Caucus to leave his job after the Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to Many?” One iso - TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist “MeToo” hashtag galvanized women the Rise of Black Power . The first case lated incident is to speak up about sexual misconduct, in which the Supreme Court ruled that not enough, the MALVEAUX P Over the last decades, many American inner harassment and more. Too bad that sexual harassment was a violation of article opines. cities have seen an economic resurgence. impetus did not float up to the top, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act was What about one unwanted kiss or one Buoyed by millennials and people’s desire to where an avowed grabber of women’s brought by Michelle Vinson, an African- abusive grope? Why do nooses get I

shorten their daily work commute, neighbor - genitals occupies the White House. It’s American woman, in the case Meritor to be seen as “jokes,” while unwant - N hoods and communities that were all but pro - also unfortunate that members of Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986). The ed kissing is seen as an occurrence of nounced dead two decades ago now find them - Congress have paid sexual assault high-profile, White women who are zero tolerance? accusers out of a taxpayer-funded slush talking about workplace sexual harass - I’m not ever, ever, ever going to

selves flush with new businesses and residents. I This is no more evident than here in the fund have not been unmasked. We ment and assault really need to excuse sexual perfidy (and more) in O DONALD District of Columbia, where the economic know some of the names. Texas acknowledge the many ways that the workplace, but I do wonder why recovery of the city has been nothing short of Congressman Blake Farenthold (R- African-American women have been we can wink, nod, and grin about breathtaking. However, as many have noted, Texas) arranged to have his former com - systematically abused, and systematical - racial workplace misbehavior while we this growth has not been equally beneficial to all residents. munications director paid $84,000 (a ly ignored (and sometimes conspired stand our ground about gender. I won - N While policymakers and advocates search for answers and solu - fraction of the $27,000 Conyers is said against) by their white “sisters.” der why so many say accept the “just tions to this problem, there is one time-tested and proven tool that to have paid). Farenthold has not Perhaps I quibble, but this over - kidding” or “I didn’t know” excuse should be a key part of any workforce development strategy- resigned, nor have Congressional whelming stand against sexual mis - when people are racially insensitive, S apprenticeships. Republicans called for his resignation, conduct and beyond (getting nude in but are now willing to hold press con - Introduced in the 14th century, apprenticeships combine on-the- including Speaker of the House Paul front of your staff, forcible kissing, ferences and speak out against sexism job training with classroom instruction, teaching workers the practi - Ryan (R-Wis.). Farenthold said he will grabbing women by the you-know- in the workplace. If you look at the cal and theoretical aspects of highly-skilled occupations. pay the money back. Yeah, right. what, etc.) makes me wonder when U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Apprenticeship programs can be sponsored by employers, labor As a woman, I am cheered by the there will be a similar groundswell Representatives, the paucity of people groups, or employer associations. #MeToo movement, although I am also against racism and racial harassment of color as senior staffers is amazing, Traditional apprenticeship programs have been primarily relegated to annoyed by the myopia about women of in the workplace. Numerous cases of as documented by the Joint Center for labor fields, such as carpentry or pipefitting, but there are a growing color and sexual harassment, assault and nooses being displayed in workplaces Political and Economic Studies. number of companies offering them in high-skill/high-wage fields, rape. In 1944, Recy Taylor was vicious - have been reported in the last decade, Surely, there is no shortage of highly such as IT and engineering. ly raped by seven white men, who never so many that a law journal published While we understand that the wage and employment gaps cannot be paid a price. Civil rights icon Rosa an article titled, “Does One Noose in Continued on Page 12 completely closed until the educational and systematic inequalities in this country are addressed, strong apprenticeship programs can help bridge the gap between the shortcoming of our education system and job readiness for high wage sectors. Urban policymakers should make a strong investment in funding apprenticeship programs that help those from their most underserved Slipping into darkness communities enter into career fields with strong earnings and growth. By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. when I speak in Oklahoma, I say dif - humanity. He’s By providing strong hands on training in high-wage/high-growth fields, TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist ferent things from what I say in the used the fears of such as tech or entrepreneurship, policymakers can help residents who halls of Congress...Propaganda his followers to may not have received adequate educational preparation build key job “To attract people, to win over people should be popular, not intellectually cultivate suspi - skills and find stable employment. to that which I have realized as being pleasing. It is not the task of propa - cion, distrust Furthermore, in a political environment where big initiatives can true, that is called propaganda...Pro- ganda to discover intellectual truths. and division often be hard to implement, apprenticeship programs have long had paganda is not a matter for average Those are found in other circum - among the pop - WILLIAMS bipartisan support. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that over minds, but rather a matter for practi - stances, I find them when thinking at ulace. One can 91 percent of all apprentices retain employment upon completion tioners. It is not supposed to be love - my desk, but not in the meeting hall.” only wonder of their apprenticeship. ly or theoretically correct. I do not From what many of us have been how permanent will be the damage he Here in the District of Columbia, we have committed to increas - care if I give wonderful, aesthetically able to discern from experiences of the inflicts upon the world. ing the number of registered apprenticeships through our elegant speeches, or speak so that past 10 months, it’s not hard to believe Every week since January, we’ve Apprenticeship DC initiative. In September of this year, we award - women cry. The point of a political that rather lengthy quotation as coming been inundated with a series of lies ed approximately $400,000 in grants to local businesses and com - speech is to persuade people of what from the playbook of #45. Without from #45, or his press secretary. For munity-based organizations that target the IT, construction, and we think right. I speak differently in apology, he has used communication to the country than I do in cities, and Continued on Page 12 appeal to the basest instincts of Continued on Page 13 Page 6 HEALTH & HEARDecemTber 18 - December 24, 2017

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Orleans Parish School Board to study long bus rides, early pickups By Marta Jewson other side of town. The longest superintendent to hire a consult - can attend a school even if it’s not Academy of Global Studies in buses should have air conditioning, The Lens rides can last more than two hours. ant to recommend changes to dis - near their house,” Ellis wrote. Algiers would be gone for 12 and time spent on the bus should Children gather at bus stops trict and school policies on trans - “So we all need to come together hours a day. be reduced or restricted. The Orleans Parish School within walking distance of one portation and enrollment. to make sure that the system is The bus picks up in eastern New But charter school representa - Board plans to hire a consultant school, waiting for a bus to take The study could lead to changes fair, affordable, and results in all Orleans at 4:52 a.m. and arrives tives raised questions at the com - to study transportation and them to another. In some cases, in how children get to and from the kids being able to access the at Eisenhower at 7:15 a.m. That’s mittee meeting. enrollment at the city’s schools buses arrive at school before the city’s loose confederation of pub - transportation they need to attend when breakfast begins; classes The revised resolution dropped in response to parents’ com - buildings are open, so students licly-funded, independent charter their school of choice, even if it is start a half-hour later. the recommendations, instead plaints about long bus rides, wait on board. schools, which are generally free on the other side of town.” In the afternoon, that bus describing several issues that pickup and dropoff times and the “Consistently, transportation has to run their own affairs in Step Up Louisiana, an advoca - leaves school at 2:55 and returns should be studied, such as “par - lack of air conditioning. been a top issue of concern for exchange for meeting academic cy group focused on economic to the East at 4:55. ents’ desire to minimize travel Most public schools in New community members,” school dis - and other standards. Similar and educational issues, wants The original school board resolu - time on school buses.” Orleans are charters, open to any - trict spokeswoman Dominique changes have been made in recent buses to pick up no earlier than 7 tion, introduced Tuesday at a com - Step Up also wants each bus to one regardless of where they live. Ellis wrote in a statement. years to address complaints about a.m. and no later than 5 p.m. mittee meeting, said students have air conditioning and an adult That means some youngsters catch A resolution, to be considered at enrollment and expulsion. One bus schedule, for example, should be able to attend schools supervising students while the a bus before dawn to trek across the board’s meeting Thursday, “One of the great parts of our shows a student in eastern New within walking distance of their driver watches the road. Some of the Mississippi River or to the authorizes the Orleans schools system of schools is that children Orleans who attends Eisenhower homes and with their siblings, those goals brush up against char - ter schools’ autonomy, Patrick Dobard, the former superintend - ent of the Recovery School District and current head of New Schools for New Orleans, said he Watch out for those holiday health hazards supports studying transportation By Glenn Ellis more often. One or two and enrollment issues. He said the Contributing Writer high blood glucose read - draft resolution was not “repre - ings shouldn’t affect long- sentative of a majority of families term diabetes control, but (TriceEdneyWire.com) — using the systems.” aim to avoid persistently Yes, it may be the most wonder - Most schools in the city are high readings. Staying ful time of the year but the required to provide transporta - active will help you man - Holiday Season is also at the top tion. Charter networks and age your blood glucose of the list for health hazards, too. schools contract individually with levels so take a walk after No wonder hospital admissions companies to provide busing, the meal with a family shoot up between December 19 which is often a school’s second- member or friend and and the New Year! highest expense after payroll. catch up on old times. So, keep safe and follow a few Some schools save money by tips for a happy, healthy Also make sure you offering drop-off points in each area. Christmas and Holiday Season: don’t go for too long with - out eating; don’t drink Others share bus service, picking up students in one area who attend a 1. Accidents at home alcohol on an empty stom - couple of elementary schools. Holiday accidents range from ach; keep your medication One charter school is challenging cuts opening presents to people with you; and making sure the requirement to provide busing. electrocuting themselves hang - that people know what to Einstein Charter Schools does not ing up lights and falls putting up do in an emergency. provide yellow buses for students, decorations. Use round-tipped scissors rather than knives to This information is the saying it meets requirements by open presents, assembling toys opinion of this writer, and is offering vouchers for public transit. with proper tools, using a sturdy not intended to replace the The Orleans Parish School stepladder to put up decorations, proper medical advice from Board disagrees and has sued the keeping halls and stairs clear and a medical doctor or other charter group. moving decorations well away health professional. Glenn from toddlers who could cut Ellis is a Health Advocacy The above article originally themselves or choke on them. Communications appeared on The Lens website Specialist. For more good (www.thelensnola.org). The 2. House fires trees are a danger as they can 7. Food poisoning you check your blood glucose at health information, visit Louisiana Weekly enjoys a partner - It just wouldn’t be the holidays harbor mold spores that trigger Food poisoning risk rises over home, you may want to do it www.glennellis.com. ◊ ship with The Lens .◊ without lights or festive candles; reactions in some people. Christmas because people cook but both are fire hazards. You can reduce your risk by food that they don’t usually cook Candles alone spark thousands taking your preventer medicine — and for larger numbers. Always of house fires each holiday sea - as prescribed. Research suggests put raw meat at the bottom of the son. Be careful not to overload that, on average, half of people fridge so the juices, which may sockets and never leave candles with asthma don’t do this. contain food-poisoning bacteria, or cooking unattended. And can’t drip down, contaminating don’t forget to test your smoke 5. Running out of medications cooked food. Don’t overfill your alarms. You’re at least four times It’s easy to overlook this in fridge and make sure leftovers more likely to die in a house fire pre-Christmas panic but with have cooled before putting them if there’s no working smoke many pharmacies closed over back to avoid raising the tempera - alarm. the holiday period, it could be a ture, which encourages bacteria. disaster. Check that your first- Most importantly, wash your 3. Full-blown flu virus aid kit is stocked up and that any hands and dry them thoroughly Besides ruining Christmas for tablets or medicines are within before preparing any food and anyone, flu can lead to life- their expiration date. If you take after handling raw meat. Also, threatening complications for prescription medicine, make make sure to throw away left - people with underlying condi - sure you have enough to last overs after two days unless tions. Anyone over 65 or with a over the festive period. they’ve been frozen. chronic condition such as asth - ma, diabetes or heart disease 6. Dropping daily temperature 8. Horrible hangovers should think about getting a flu A fall in the average daily temper - During the holidays, most of us shot. Although it takes 10 to 14 ature of just a few degrees at any like a few drinks — which can days for your immune system to time of year is associated with 200 often mean a few too many. respond fully to the flu shot, if extra heart attacks over the follow - Avoid “topping” drinks off: you you act quickly, you’ll still get a ing 28 days. When you become may lose count of how many you degree of protection by cold, your blood vessels constrict, have had. Try to drink water in Christmas and by New Year, forcing water to leave your circula - between, or alongside, alcoholic once the vaccine’s full effective - tion. As a result, your blood drinks and if you drink mixed ness will have kicked in. becomes thicker and more likely to drinks, dilute them with juice clot, increasing your heart attack rather than fizzy drinks, which 4. Asthma attacks risk. People who suffer from lung increase the rate at which alcohol Statistics show that someone diseases such as emphysema or is absorbed into your blood. will have an asthma attack every chronic bronchitis, are also particu - 10 seconds on Christmas Day larly sensitive to changes in the 9. Diabetes control and 200 of them will end up in temperature. Try to keep the tem - Over the Holidays, eating rou - the hospital. December is full of perature throughout your home tines change, along with the type potential asthma triggers, includ - constant; especially if anyone eld - of food we eat, which can pose ing cold weather, stress, smoke erly is staying with you or people particular risks for people with from open fires and strong fra - with heart or lung disease. If this diabetes. Keeping control of grances from perfume and scent - applies to you, wear layers so you your diabetes during the festive ed candles. Even real Christmas can adjust your temperature. period can be a struggle, so if

Baby’s heart placed back inside her chest in rare surgeries (AP) — British officials say a November with her heart grow - go but so far at least she now has baby born with an extremely rare ing on the outside of her body. a chance at a future.” condition has survived three sur - The unusual condition is called Most babies born with this con - geries to place her heart inside ectopia cordis. dition do not survive although her chest. Dr. Nick Moore said the baby is there have been some cases in Glenfield Hospital in Leicester in the hospital’s pediatric inten - which surgery has been success - said last week that baby sive care unit. ful. Infection poses a severe risk Vanellope Hope was born in late He says “she has a long way to to babies with this condition.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - December 18 - December 24, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 7 Cop sentenced to prison for killing an unarmed Black man By Frederick H. Lowe ing they feared for their lives. Scott is seen running away from state murder charges in the first ing on his cell phone camera, Contributing Writer U.S. District Judge David Slager who aims and fires his pis - trial and Circuit Court Judge which told the world a very differ - Norton sentenced Michael tol at Scott whose body jerks and Clifton Newman declared a mistri - ent story. (Special from NorthStarNews Slager, a former North stops running before crumpling al. It’s rare that a jury convicts a Police officers are rarely, if ever, Today) – A white police officer, Charleston, S.C, police officer, to to the ground. cop in a deadly shooting. convicted following a deadly who killed an unarmed Black man prison for violating motorist Slager lied about the circum - Slager stopped Scott because his shooting and are rarely sent to by shooting him five times in the Walter Scott’s civil rights and stances surrounding the shooting brake light wasn’t working. prison. Most juries and judges back as he ran away, was sen - obstructing justice following the until the cell phone video surfaced Initially, Slager lied to law believe the police officers’ stories tenced to 20 years in prison earlier deadly shooting that occurred showing what really happened. He enforcement officials, saying he and find them not guilty. this month in what might signal a after a routine traffic stop. pled guilty to federal charges of fired his gun at Scott because he The city of North Charleston watershed moment in the punish - Scott’s shooting was captured violating Scott’s civil rights. was running towards him in a men - paid Scott’s family $6.5 million in ment of police officers who kill on a cell phone video by a He entered his plea after a state acing manner. damages.◊ unarmed Black men while claim - bystander on August 4, 2015. jury couldn’t reach a verdict on A bystander recorded the shoot - SLAGER

and jewel-encrusted trumpet for company. room, a half-dozen limo rides, Irvin Mayfield indicted by Feds presidents and foreign dignitaries, From 2011 to 2014, the Library meals at the hotel restaurant appeared in “We’re Jazzed You’re Foundation tapped into donations including a $1,400 charge for a allegedly paid for NOJO’s oper - others altered the minutes of Continued from Page 1 Here” advertisements for the city meant for the city’s libraries and single breakfast and in-room ating expenses, depleting the Library Foundation meetings in and served on many nonprofit gave NOJO more than $1.1 mil - alcohol charges, but Mayfield and Markham began a conspiracy library foundation’s limited 2013 to try to influence an FBI boards. The special trumpet was lion in grants to help it build a used the library money to pay for in August 2011 by transmitting funds for supporting public investigation launched based on a stored under armed guard and new community center, music it all. money from the New Orleans libraries to bolster a NOJO bot - tip from the Metropolitan Crime named the Elysian Trumpet after venue and bar in Central City Only then did Mayfield give Public Library Foundation to tom-line that had been losing Commission and New Orleans Mayfield’s father was found called the New Orleans Jazz his first public comment on the accounts they controlled at the money steadily. Inspector General’s Office. drowned on Elysian Fields Avenue Market. matter after 14 months of steady New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, When former Mayor Ray Nagin The court appointed Mayfield a in the flood. Mayfield justified the grants, reports by WWL, most of which including to help pay their appointed Mayfield to lead the public defender, Claude Kelly, “As the public knows, Irvin which exceeded the Library were published nationally by the salaries, Mayfield’s production city’s Library Board and then to who questioned the timing of the Mayfield is a devoted New Foundation’s payments to the affiliated USAToday Network . company and travel expenses, the Library Foundation, the mayor indictments. Orleanian,” Kelly told WWL. entire city library system, by “I do not believe that I have including swanky hotel stays in was also using city-controlled “I was very disappointed in the “He lost his father in Katrina and claiming the Jazz Market would violated any law,” Mayfield said New York. Wisner Trust funds to give grants government for their timing,” he has devoted himself, the city serve as a specialized music in a written statement on July 5, As WWL-TV first reported to NOJO. After Nagin, who is serv - Kelly told WWL. “To purposefully called on him to in effect be the library branch. 2016. “If I played a role in creat - last year, $15,000 in library ing a 10-year federal prison term and intentionally bring this 10 days ambassador for the city to really One of the five Library ing a distraction from NOJO’s donations paid for a gold-plated for corruption in office, the Wisner before Christmas, for a devoted help... he’s been the face of the Foundation board members that mission, I sincerely apologize. I trumpet for Mayfield, and the grants stopped going to NOJO, and New Orleanian, father of three drive for the rebirth of New voted to give Mayfield total con - respect all those who may not indictment lists that as one of the the indictment alleges that’s when young kids, and Ronald Markham, Orleans and he’s been a tireless trol over those financial decisions agree with my past direction or acts of the alleged conspiracy. It Mayfield and Markham “began a who has two young kids — it was advocate for that.” was Mayfield’s business partner personal judgment, as I recognize also alleges another $66,000 was search for new sources of fund - kind of mean-spirited. We asked Mayfield rose to prominence and childhood friend, Ronald their passion as well. We did not transferred to pay Mayfield, of ing.” them to hold off until after the on the local music scene in the Markham, who, like Mayfield, also anticipate the misunderstandings which $23,000 was allegedly The indictment alleges Christmas holidays but whatever late 1990s, was appointed as the commanded a six-figure salary and resulting opposition that has spent at Saks Fifth Avenue and Mayfield and Markham gave their motivations I can’t fathom, city’s cultural ambassador and from the New Orleans Jazz been wrought upon ourselves and $2,000 at Harrah’s Casino, and false or misleading statements to under than meanness, they decided chairman of the public library Orchestra. Another was Dan those who have supported us.” $25,000 Mayfield allegedly used Library Foundation board mem - to proceed today.” board by former Mayor Ray Forman, who signed a document At that point, NOJO stopped per - to pay a fee to perform at bers and others to cover up the Kelly highlighted Mayfield’s Nagin and took over as president changing the foundation’s articles forming entirely. Mayfield and Carnegie Hall in New York. conspiracy. An obstruction of public service after Hurricane of the library’s nonprofit support of incorporation in 2014. Forman Markham, a keyboardist, stayed Tens of thousands more justice charge alleges they and Katrina. Mayfield played a gold- foundation in 2008. At the time, is the son of Audubon Institute mostly out of public view, record - the New Orleans Public Library CEO Ron Forman, who was serv - ing a new studio , before Foundation existed solely to ing at the time as the chairman of returning to the Jazz Fest stage in receive donations and dole out the NOJO board that received the 2017 to play a new kind of experi - financial support for the city’s money. mental music. Light pollution has impact historically underfunded public Library Foundation documents The federal investigation, which Continued from Page 1 association. individual homeowners can con - Nor does it look like light pol - serve energy and reducing light libraries, but Mayfield quickly show that only one of the five began in 2013 with a tip from the cycle of day and night. But now, lution will decrease any time pollution. made moves to change that. foundation board members ever Metropolitan Crime Commission, the spread of artificial lighting soon, according to a recent study Mainly, the organization rec - By 2012, Mayfield had con - questioned the payments to NOJO. intensified in 2017. Key members means most people can’t experi - published in the November issue ommends installing “quality” vinced the organization’s five-mem - In 2016, WWL-TV obtained an of the Library Foundation and ence truly dark nights. of Science Advances . outdoor lighting. Those include ber board to expand the nonprofit’s internal report by the new NOJO boards were interviewed or Research suggests that this In the article, “Artificially lit LEDs and compact fluorescents mission to provide more general Library Foundation’s attorneys subpoenaed, agents from the FBI adjustment at night can negative - surface of Earth at night increas - with warm-white bulbs. The community support and to give him - showing that Mayfield had also and the New Orleans Inspector ly affect human health by ing in radiance and extent,” the organization also recommends self “sole and uncontrolled discre - sent $150,000 in library dona - General’s Office asked questions at increasing risks for obesity, authors said their use of the first- the use of dimmers, motion sen - tion” over its finances. tions to an “Irvin Account” at library branches and the state depression, sleep disorders, dia - ever calibrated satellite radiome - sors and timers to reduce illumi - Even before the board took another nonprofit called the Legislative Auditor began a sepa - betes, breast cancer and more. ter designed for night lights nation levels. official action to expand the Youth Rescue Initiative. rate probe. According to Ken Wright, an shows an upward trend in artifi - Doing so could cut energy use library foundation’s mission, the WWL-TV obtained documents As the feds closed in, Mayfield associate professor of integrated cially lit outdoor areas. by 60 to 70 percent, researchers charity started sending large showing Mayfield spent another tried to sell the large physiology at the University of Specifically, from 2012 to 2016, note. amounts of money to the New $18,713 in Library Foundation Fontainebleau neighborhood Colorado in Boulder, the internal Earth’s artificially lit outdoor area The organization also suggests Orleans Jazz Orchestra, another money on a single week-long home where he often held extrav - clock is measured by a hormone grew by 2.2 percent per year, with shielding outdoor lighting and nonprofit established and direct - stay at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on agant parties for the Uptown elite. called melatonin. a total radiance growth of 1.8 per - directing light down where it is ed by Mayfield. NOJO also paid New York’s Central Park. The It initially listed for more than Melatonin levels are low dur - cent per year, the study showed. needed, rather than into the sky. Mayfield a six-figure salary and Ritz billed NOJO for Mayfield’s $700,000. He finally sold it Oct. ing the day time, and they tend to “In the near term, it appears that Fully shielded fixtures can tens of thousands more each year $1,100-per-night hotel room, his 31 for $553,333, barely more than rise about two hours before sleep artificial light emission into the also save energy and cost, as can to Mayfield’s private production NOJO assistant’s $800-a-night he paid for it in 2012.◊ at night. environment will continue to turning of unnecessary indoor It helps people because it has increase, further eroding Earth’s lighting, particularly empty antioxidant properties, induces remaining land area that experi - office buildings at night, the sleep, boosts the immune system, ences natural day-night light organization says. lowers cholesterol and helps the cycles,” the study reads. “This is For residents in Louisiana, functioning of the thyroid, pan - concerning, because artificial light participating in a local energy creas, ovaries, testes and adrenal is an environmental pollutant.” savings program “is the best way glands. In addition to affecting human to gain energy savings and “The internal clock is important, health, the authors say the out - reduce kWh use and cost,” as it coordinates much of our phys - door light will also threaten the according to Jamie Wine, execu - iology and behavior,” Wright said, 30 percent of vertebrates and tive director of Energy Wise “including the time of day when more than 60 percent of inverte - Alliance – a local non-profit that we eat, when we perform at our brates that are nocturnal, as well works to deliver cost-conscious best, as well as when we sleep.” as plants and microorganisms. energy efficiency solutions to Nighttime exposure to artificial The study showed that most of Louisianians to help them save light suppresses melatonin pro - the growth in light pollution money and maintain the environ - duction. came from developing nations, ment. Studies show that most light rather than in countries like Wine says that additional, pollution in the United States America. Previous research had behavioral elements such as comes from poorly executed shown trends relating light pollu - “reducing AC and heating use lighting systems that are put up tion to growth in a country’s when not at home, closing drapes outside of homes or offices. Gross Domestic Product. on sunny days and setting the In general, 13 percent of resi - However, the authors argue water heater at 120 degrees are dential electricity use throughout that the situation might not be all free ways to save energy and the United States is for outdoor permanent, as people will even - money.” lighting, according to the tually crave darkness again. The Energy Smart program, International Dark-Sky “In the longer term, perhaps the and other programs like it, works Association. demand for dark skies and unlit to help residents find solutions to In the average house, outdoor bedrooms will begin to outweigh home energy overuse. Residents lighting wastes 0.5 kilowatt-hours the demand for light in wealthy can set up appointments for free of energy per house, per night, or countries, leading to an “environ - home energy assessments during enough energy to power a 50-inch mental Kuznets curve” for outdoor which they receive advice and plasma television for one hour, light,” the authors wrote. recommendations about how to according to the association. At least 18 states, the District make their homes more energy Researchers found that causes of Columbia and Puerto Rico efficient. Rebates are also avail - roughly 15 million tons of carbon have recognized the dangers of able for Energy Smart appliances monoxide to be emitted each light pollution and have put in and LEDs that consumers can year, which is the same emission place laws to reduce it. Those take advantage of at local retail - rate as three million passenger states have enacted so-called ers, says Wine. cars being driven on the road. “dark skies” legislation to pro - Energy Smart is the efficiency Ultimately, it amounts to mote energy conservation, public program available to residents in 40,000 tons of CO2 being put safety, aesthetic interests and Orleans Parish; Entergy into the atmosphere every day. allow for better astronomical Solutions and Cleco Home About 600 million trees would research. Solutions are available to resi - have to be planted to offset that Louisiana is not one of them. dents of other parishes. kind of emission rate. In the meantime, however, the To learn more about Energy That’s equal to about $3 billion International Dark-Sky Smart in Orleans Parish, call per year worth of energy lost to Association has recommenda - 504)-229-6868 or visit the skyglow, according to the tions for how municipalities and www.energyla.org .◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 8 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM December 18 - December 24, 2017

LSP chief fleeced N.O. for years years at the highest levels of the from February 2008 to March 2017 changes to improve state police Continued from Page 1 While the NOPD may foot the nights at the Hotel Mazarin. state police. — was not included as a fringe ben - and to restore its integrity,” said bill, the state police assigns WWL reported that that bill also “What is disturbing is that it took efit on his W-2 forms, The Advocate Richard Carbo, the governor’s then work to negotiate how many troopers and supervisors to the has Edmonson’s name and what this long for the truth to be known reported. It is unclear whether spokesman, in a written statement. troopers we need versus how many different hotels. appears to be his signature on it. and I think the reason for that is Edmonson paid federal taxes on the U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., he could really supply,” Harrison But the draft audit report found “If those rooms were being used that people, while disgusted, were benefit, but auditors clearly believe who demanded that Edmonson said in an interview. that not all of those state police for, by friends of Col. Edmonson afraid to formally confirm for the he should have. resign after the story of the state Because most of those troopers rooms were used by state troopers. and they weren’t troopers and they record what their superior was The governor’s office declined to troopers’ side trips to the Grand come in from out of town, lodg - According to the report, Col. weren't doing state police work doing because he was viewed as comment on the audit report, since Canyon and Las Vegas first broke, ing is needed and factored into Edmonson, “[a]llowed his friends there, that could be a criminal invincible and he was in a position the document has not been final - told The Advocate last week that it the cost of their deployment to and family to stay in those extra problem for Col. Edmonson,” of power,” Goyeneche said. ized yet, but said the agency is was “clear” those benefits “consti - New Orleans. hotel rooms free of charge." Goyeneche told WWL. WWL reported that Edmonson moving in a better direction under tuted taxable income” and that Placing them in downtown hotels Metropolitan Crime Commission Auditors said Edmonson told did not respond to requests for the new leadership of Col. Kevin Edmonson “should have calculated makes it easier for them to work President Rafael Goyeneche told them that he booked the rooms at comment and the legislative audi - Reeves, who Edwards appointed their fair market value and report - 12-hour shifts, with troopers closer WWL News that he is not sur - the Hotel Mazarin to hold meet - tor gave him until Dec. 12 to for - to replace Edmonson last spring. ed them as taxable income.” to the city’s center in case some - prised to hear the allegations ings there, but troopers told inves - mally respond. “Col. Edmonson has been gone “Col. Edmonson is not above the thing goes wrong. Edmonson misused hotel rooms. tigators all their meetings were In a text message earlier this from that position since March. law,” Kennedy wrote in a letter to The Greater New Orleans Hotel “I’ve been hearing about it for held a few blocks away at the state month, Edmonson said he had only The agency has been moving in a Kimberly Robinson, secretary of and Lodging Association seeks out years,” Goyeneche told WWL. police office in the Cabildo. received a draft copy of the audi - new direction under new leader - the Louisiana Department of discounts from the city’s hoteliers “Everything I’ve heard is a result of Auditors also found the NOPD tors report two days earlier and ship since that time. Yesterday’s Revenue. “In fact, he took on an to help house the troopers. troopers and former troopers and paid for a room at the Windsor hadn’t had a chance to fully review report highlighted some serious added responsibility as a public While the average reveler may people in the hotel/motel industry Court that was used by it yet. He said he was preparing a issues, but Col. Kevin Reeves had servant to conduct himself with spend hundreds of dollars a night providing that information. So, it Edmonson's friends in 2015. detailed response to the report for made significant changes within honor and honesty.” to stay in the heart of Carnival, the was a well-known secret." The unnamed couple spent five Legislative Auditor Daryl Pupera state police and continues to make NOPD would pay as little as $60. Auditors found multiple rooms in nights at the hotel and paid for and would answer questions about “We figured out how many Edmonson’s name from 2013 to $919 in incidental charges and the allegations contained in it once rooms were needed and then we 2016. One year, the report says two parking on their credit card, but the the final audit was released. figured out the funding for that and rooms at the swanky Windsor NOPD paid for the room that was “After the information was Public calls for scrutiny then the NOPD out of our budget Court hotel in the Warehouse in an unidentified trooper’s name. released today, I called Darryl Continued from Page 1 against a co-worker that provides the funding for that,” District were assigned to an Then, in 2016, the draft report Pupera and asked him if he had Quatrevaux did not deem credible. Harrison told WWL News. unnamed state trooper. says Edmonson let his step-daugh - released the report. He assured me im IG until a replacement for “There’s the I.G.’s response to Even with the discounts, NOPD That state trooper reportedly told ter and her friend stay in a state that he had not and would not have Quatrevaux could be found. Mr. Schwartz’s report. None of records show the City of New auditors he did not stay at the police room at the Loews Hotel for because it is still a draft report. He The Ethics Review Board said these things can be overlooked and Orleans spends more than $23,000 Windsor Court that year. several nights. When they left, said it would have been inappro - that a fifth candidate, Richard they create, they maintain the a year to house troopers during that And according to the draft audit, troopers moved in. priate for anyone to have released Holmgren of Texas, withdrew his cloud over the I.G.’s office. We 11-day stretch. Edmonson's emails showed that “I would imagine that there is the report as it was not final,” name from consideration the sec - have excellent candidates who can In 2017, the cost climbed to the LSP superintendent checked going to be an investigation into Edmonson said in a text message. ond weekend of December. come in and start fresh,” said City $38,905. into one of the unnamed trooper’s that,” Harrison told WWL News. While that response will be “This is a critical office in city Councilwoman Susan Guidry. “We asked for more than we rooms using his reward number. “The colonel and I always met. included when the final audit is government that is supposed to be The Ethics Board said the candi - would usually ask for Mardi Gras In 2014, when the city’s need for We were always in close contact released by Legislative Auditor the rock-star, but right now the dates favored a closed-door vet - because we had a week of NBA security help was critical, the audit about what he needed and what Daryl Pupera, and the LSP would - public is asking who’s watching ting. None appeared to be at the festivities right in the in the middle says a $310 bill with Mike he could provide. So, I took them n’t go into specifics, spokesman the watchdog. The next leader public meeting. of Mardi Gras,” Harrison told Edmonson’s name on it for a five- at their word that it would be used Maj. Doug Cain said, “We have needs to re-instill confidence in But Sherman said transparency WWL News. night stay from Feb. 28 to March 5 for the troopers for the purpose of already made changes based on this entity,” said FOX 8 Political is key, especially for an office like Last year, the NBA All-Star at the Roosevelt Hotel was paid by Mardi Gras.” things that have come to light.” Analyst Mike Sherman. the inspector general which is Game brought even more people to the City of New Orleans. Harrison said the Mardi Gras Edmonson. the longest-tenured There were calls for the finalists tasked with rooting out corruption the city and the undermanned But according to the draft audit, deployment of state troopers oper - LSP superintendent, faces a grow - to be brought to an open session and wasteful spending. NOPD was forced to lean more Edmonson was also reimbursed by ated on an honor system, one that ing litany of accusations that date for questioning by some audience “We’ve live-streamed a lot of heavily on the state police. the LSP for some of those same may have been dishonored for back almost a decade. members. things that weren’t available years The auditors determined that “And I think it would serve our ago, if government wants to contin - Edmonson moved his family into community and serve good gov - ue increasing confidence, trans - the Department of Public Safety ernment in New Orleans if there parency is the way to do it,” said compound “without legal authori - were an opportunity for those can - Sherman. Black wome n’ s vote elect s “DThanek ymou Aloabacma,r” Jaontes ty,” and that he had the state pick didates to appear and be ques - Before heading to the executive Continued from Page 1 “One of our attorneys is a Jew,” she said. “Fake news tweeted the night of the election. up his utility bills, including cable tioned by members of the public,” session the board voted unani - would tell you that we don’t care In a statement about the television and electricity. The com - said Michael Avery. mously to allow public scrutiny of Moore, recording a robocall for the for Jews. And I tell you all this, Alabama Senate race, the Rev. pound, known formally as the A few former NOPD officers the candidates who make the cut former judge, and convincing the because I’ve seen it and I just Jesse Jackson, Sr., the founder of Residential Conference Center, who had worked with Schwartz after the closed-door vetting. Republican National Committee want to set the record straight, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, said was built in 2002 and originally previously rose at last week’s “I envision it being a public state - (RNC) to back the man who was while they’re here,” she said, that a coalition of Black and white was intended to house the gover - meeting to publicly support him ment by the candidate and then possibly banned from the local gesturing to mainstream media voters spared Alabama from inter - nor and State Police superintend - for the job. questions, and/or comments by the mall in Gadsen for badgering outlets that were in the room. national shame and disgrace by ent during emergency situations. “There is no wishy-wash with public after that,” said Board young women, according to The “One of our attorneys is a Jew. electing Jones to be the state’s next The Advocate reported that at Howard. It’s what’s right is right Chairman Allen Miller. New Yorker . We have very close friends that United States Senator. some point, the Edmonsons had and what’s wrong is wrong,” for - “It would be wise to have a meet - On the day of the special elec - are Jewish, and rabbis, and we “The coalition that pushed Jones the residence modified to construct mer NOPD Commander Louis ing in public for the public to vet tion, #RoyMoore trended all day also fellowship with them.” over the finish line can win and a shoe closet for Edmonson’s wife. Dabdoub said. these candidates,” said Sherman. on Twitter with some straight-for - Moore has never been one to redeem the whole South,” said He is also accused of taking advan - “I cannot imagine any other can - The Ethics Board meets again ward and emotional posts. stay above controversy. Jackson. “It is a stinging repudia - tage of free meals in the state police didates applying for this job to be Dec. 20, and the finalists could be “That White Supremacist Even before the allegations that tion of the divisive politics of cafeteria, using the governor's dry- more qualified than Howard subjected to public questions then. #RoyMoore rode in on a horse to he pursued sexual relationships Moore, President Donald Trump cleaning service for his uniforms Schwartz,” said Charles Watkins, Until recently, the Office of the vote. Kudos to him,” tweeted Greg with teens, Moore was the most and strategist Steven Bannon and while still being reimbursed for out - who also worked for the police Independent Police Monitor was part Carr, chair of Howard University’s controversial major-party U.S. bodes well for Democrats look - side dry-cleaning services and using department. of the New Orleans Office of the Department of Afro-American Senate nominee in recent memory, ing at House and Senate congres - dog-walking services provided by No one in the sparse audience Inspector General. Susan Hutson, studies and frequent guest on according to CNN. sional races in 2018.” state prisoners. rose to speak for any of the other the Independent Police Monitor, “NewsOne Now” on TV One. “As He was booted off the Alabama The auditors noted that candidates for the job. sought to become a separate public White Supremacy dies, this is what Supreme Court bench when he Freddie Allen contributed report - Edmonson’s use of the residence — Quatrevaux said he fired agency, citing concerns about auton - it looks like. It won’t go without a served as chief justice for refusing ing for this story. ◊ at an estimated value of $434,720 Schwartz over a report written omy and budgeting issues.◊ fight. Bannon. Trump. Moore. All to remove a two-ton statue of the of their comrades and enablers. Ten Commandments that he’d They’re daring humanity to ordered placed on state property. respond.” He was elected back to the job, but One of Wisconsin Represent- ousted again in 2016 for refusing ative Gwen Moore’s posts was to abide by the U.S. Supreme retweeted more than 30,000 times: Court’s decision legalizing same- “Another #RoyMoore support - sex marriage. er just called my office posing as Moore said that homosexual an @AP reporter. Once their cover activity should be illegal and was blown they started screaming argued against removing segrega - and called me and my staff the n- tionist language from the state con - word and other racial slurs. I won’t stitution. be intimidated. I won’t stop speak - One of Moore’s accusers said he ing out. You will not shut me molested her when she was 14; down. Believe it.” another said that he tried to rape Already facing numerous accu - her and she fought him off. Still, sations of sexual misconduct with Trump and the RNC threw their children, Moore, in recent weeks, support behind him. further aligned himself with the old Fifty percent of voters said the South with his racially insensitive allegations against Moore were comments. definitely or probably true, while When asked by a reporter to 44 percent saw them as definitely explain the last time America was or probably false, according to pre - great, Moore didn’t hesitate to liminary exit poll results reported respond with stunning clarity with by ABC News. an answer that seemed to out- A majority of voters (54 percent) Trump the president’s comments said the allegations were a minor when he was on the campaign trail. factor or not a factor at all. “I think it was great at the time Chris Cillizza wrote that, when families were united—even “Jones’ victory means that for now though we had slavery. They cared Democrats are only two seats away for one another,” Moore said. from the majority—Vice President “People were strong in the fami - Mike Pence casts the tie-breaking lies. Our families were strong. Our vote when it is 50-50. While a country had a direction.” Democratic move into the majority Later, he added: “The greatness still looks like a long shot, it’s now I see was in our culture, not in all not out of the question.” our policies. There were problems. Jones, an attorney and prosecu - We had slavery; we’ve overcome tor, served as U.S. Attorney for the slavery. We’ve had prejudice; we Northern District of Alabama, and still have prejudice, but we’ve won acclaim for prosecuting the turned the tide on civil rights. remaining Klansmen responsible We’ve done a lot of things to bring for the 16th Street Baptist Church this country around, and I think we bombing that killed four African can still make it better.” American girls in 1963. Moore’s wife, Kayla, even got Shortly after mainstream news into the controversial fray. outlets predicted that Jones had One day before the election, won the special election, he took to Kayla Moore argued that her hus - Twitter to celebrate the victory. band isn’t a bigot. THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - December 18 - December 24, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 9

sales tax hike, creating an impasse al revenue means a choice making $47,024 per year pays an less from TOPS than with the State House GOP caucus’ between TOPS and completely estimated $1,202 in state income Caucasians—reform the college refusal of any income tax increas - closing hospitals—neither a taxes. Put another way, the typi - scholarship program. ABy Chrmistophierl Tlidmaorge e foHor use RTepuOblicansP, bowSing ? to a es. These Republicans were first politically feasible choice to bal - cal working middle-class family TOPS Tech pays for two years of Contributing Writer threat to the TOPS program, might elected in 2007 due to middle- ance the 2018 budget. in New Orleans, who owns their community college for Louisiana concede to a temporary sales tax class outrage over Stelly Plan However, last week’s U.S. own home, tends to pay less than high school students who earn at With just 88 days remaining extension—insiders tell The income tax hikes. Effectively re- Congressional Conference $4,000 in state income and parish least a 17 on their ACT. That until the Regular Legislative Louisiana Weekly . However, led abolishing itemized deductions Committee report might offer a property taxes combined — well score ranks as three points lower Session, Gov. by Appropriations Chairman would have the pro-business con - pathway to compromise. Under below the $10,000 threshold— than the 20 needed to gain the met with Senate President John Cameron Henry, the GOP Caucus stituencies calling for GOP mem - the joint GOP tax reform propos - while still paying the highest scholarship for a four-year degree, Alario (R-Westwego) and House completely rejects Edwards’ bers proverbial heads. al, which will come before a vote sales taxes in the nation. but it gives marginal high school Speaker Taylor Barras, (R-New notion of some form of income tax Still, these Republicans will do in the U.S. House and Senate this Louisianians historically have graduates a chance for advanced Iberia) on Thursday to figure out increase—likely limiting itemized just about anything else to avoid coming week, the State and Local been allergic to millage increas - educational opportunities. how to plug a more than $1 billion deductions (restored post-Stelly) defunding the Taylor Opportunity Tax Deduction (SALT) will be es, and (the conventional wisdom The Governor’s commission deficit—and whether a special — in order to save the TOPS pro - Program for Students (TOPS), Gov. limited to $10,000. The compro - suggests) would never contem - examining reforms of the TOPS session is needed to raise taxes. gram, as well as avert devastating Edwards’ go-to threat if the sales mise does allow both income and plate them on a state level. program has proposed that any - The Governor has repeatedly cuts in health care spending. taxes expire without a replacement. property taxes to be able to be Regardless, the 1974 State one who receives an associates reiterated his desire not to renew Leaders of both parties agree Some GOP members are still deducted on a federal return, up Constitution allows the legisla - degree from a community col - the expiring one penny in sales that some fiscal cuts are likely explaining the single-semester to that threshold, improving the ture to enact up to 10 mills of lege should get two more years taxes enacted more than a year necessary, but La. Democrats massive cut to middle-class parents SALT deduction from the origi - property taxes outside the home - of TOPS eligibility in order to go ago—calling it a “levy on the reject the idea that the entire bil - who endured thousands in unex - nal GOP House and Senate ver - stead exemption. That equates to on to earn a bachelor’s degree at poor.” Speaker Barras, facing lion-dollar hole can filled in that pected tuition payments . sions of tax reform. That proves roughly an average of $200 per a state university. House conservatives who have fashion. The Governor justified As La. state universities have a boon to Louisianians who tend homeowner statewide per year. Take this idea even further. proposed massive spending cuts the need for some form of tax hike effectively become self-funding to pay far more in income taxes When business property tax is Very few students at Louisiana’s when 1-cent sales tax increase noting to WWL radio last week, entities, returning as much than property taxes. added, the sum total amounts to HBCUs are eligible for TOPS expires June 30 (and some tem - “It’s a huge amount of money.” money to the state as they are Nevertheless, the typical home - approximately the $1.3 billion scholarships, less than 10 per - porarily-halted sales tax exemp - Edwards’ allies in the appropriated, and most of the owner’s property tax in the that the 2016 sales tax increases cent of the student body by some tions return), has refused to con - Legislative Black Caucus are just rest of the budget remain consti - Pelican State averages $1,297 in rendered for the La. Treasury. estimates. Were the ACT quali - sider an income tax increase. as anxious to end the regressive tutionally protected, no addition - Orleans Parish, $920 in Imagine a scenario where State fying score lowered to 17 to Jefferson, $1,587 in St. House Republicans stop a guber - enjoy a scholarship at Tammany, $1,062 in St. Charles, natorial-backed income tax hike, Louisiana’s Historically Black and less than $600 in most of the and the Black Caucus and the Colleges and Universities, most rest of the parishes in Louisiana. handful of white progressives of the student body could begin Last of WWII Black paratrooper In other words, Louisiana’s refuse to vote for a continuation of their studies with a scholarship. effective property tax rate is the the one-cent temporary sales tax. Such a move would make up third-lowest in the country, while Neither side can get to a state for some of the devastating fund - pioneers dies at 96 its progressive income tax rates – constitutionally mandated two- ing cuts that HBCUs have dis - (AP) — The last living member born Beavers joined the segre - Parachute Infantry Battalion, – two percent, four percent and thirds majority. Facing angry proportionately endured in the of a pioneering unit that paved gated U.S. Army in 1941 and known as the Triple Nickels. six percent – are only slightly parents with college-aged kids fiscal environment of the last the way for the U.S. military’s rose to the rank of sergeant. In Beavers, who lived in Hunting- higher than the national average. about to lose their scholarships, decade. Given the more progres - first Black paratroopers has died. 1944, he and 19 other Black sol - ton Station on Long Island, was In contrast, the La. sales tax rate a bipartisan group might consid - sive nature of property taxes ver - Clarence Beavers was 96. diers became part of a test pla - the last of the origi nal 17. (including local and state) ranks er the impossible, a 10 mills sus sales taxes, such a scholar - The A.L. Jacobsen Funeral Home toon for airborne training. The 555th spent the last year of as third highest in the country, state property tax. ship reform might be enough to in Huntington Station, New York, Beavers and 16 others passed, the war fighting forest fires set in with the 10-cent tax in Orleans To make the idea more enticing encourage Democratic legisla - says Beavers died Dec. 4. setting the foundation for what the Pacific Northwest by Japanese topping the national stats. to African-American legisla - tors to “touch the Third Rail of Newsday reports the Harlem- became the all-Black 555th balloon-transported bombs.◊ The average Louisiana family tors—whose constituents benefit Louisiana politics.”◊

Willy Nilly, a therapy crew becomes family By Fr. Jerome LeDoux client an interim activity. facilities. A very open and candid contagious Contributing Columnist COTA (Certified Occupational soul, Brooke is not afraid to apply smile and Therapy Asst) Namit Chaturvedi the dynamics of her faith as a vital pleasant Many assorted and fascinating joins the therapy crew when he part of holistic healing. demeanor in families accrue to one over the is not occupied elsewhere. One Physical Therapy Assistant the therapy span of a lifetime. It is not surpris - might call Namit Mr. Basic who Joanne Lecompte, laughs a lot, is rooms help to ing in a profession like mine that believes strictly in maintaining engaging, warm, loquacious, lighten the every parish/church/faith commu - the correctness and integrity of smiling and amazingly blunt. burdens and nity becomes a close-knit family. our diaphragm. He often strikes Her voice can be heard over all lift the spirits But there are unexpected and a pose, showing good posture to the others as she barks out of everyone, unsuspecting stealth relationships clients, exaggerating the straight orders, makes one of her blunt especially of LEDOUX that virtually steal into our lives. correctness while styling deep quips or breaks instructions the aged, ail - One such stealth relationship has breathing to go with it. He might down to clients. “I’m hungry, but ing, weakened and injured. stolen its way into my life over the amaze you with his grasp of his - I forgot my lunch. So what am I Speech Therapist/Rehabilitation past couple of months. tory as well as culinary skills going to do?” she sighed recent - Director Jamie Norton creates all Alphabetically, the guilty par - that he hones once, sometimes ly. She keeps the whole opera - records of screening, accepting ties are Teresa Aucoin, an excep - twice daily. tion light and bearable for every - and releasing rehab clients. She tionally active Occupational Physical Therapist Jamie one. As all her fellow therapists, likewise does the scheduling of Therapist who moves constantly Fontenot parades by many names: she is part of the cheer team that the rehab clinic’s employees, plus from the larger section of the Floor Manager to keep all activity keeps hope alive in the clients. takes care of any bookwork rela - facility to the other in a motherly flowing in unison, the Boss, Mama Physical Therapy Assistant tive to the clinic. manner, asking clients by name J, the Terrorist by those who think Stephen Mattox picks up the mus - Physical Therapist Jeanne how they are doing and reassur - she’s tough, Isis by those who cular, balancing aspects of healing. Saucier is a Friday-only worker ing them that they are quite capa - think she’s tougher. Jamie F. calls The Man of Steel, as Brittany calls whose enthusiasm, charm and peo - ble of executing their exercise. all but the ultimate shots at the him, still keeps himself in top con - ple skills make up for her lack of Teresa has a soft, warm smile, but clinic. After constant observation dition that he can employ in tend - time working with clients. she often prefers to give a and careful appraisal, she also sug - ing to the weakened physical Tall, lean, athletic and gifted with bystander or bysitter a big wink. gests whether a client has made points in clients. His constant, the healing touch so needed in her OT Mary Beth Broussard has a enough progress that going home seemingly gruff but soothing chat - calling, COTA Lisa Terry is talent - subtle way of tending to patients, is a viable option. But her call ter is very calming to the clients. ed and dedicated to the art of heal - typifying what all the therapists must pass muster by Director Brittany Mayon, a Therapy ing. Her lighthearted, engaging readily display: a doctor’s great Jamie Norton and a few others. Technologist, is a free-ranging manner and conversation do much bedside manners and a very calm - Occupational Therapist Brooke worker. Anyone who is the least bit to uplift and heal her clients. ing demeanor. With a snazzy Lafleur graces the Prompt Succor tardy for a physical therapy ses - It is quite curious how many photo of a bird’s nest and egg in a Physical Therapy facility on very sion or who happens to be visible positive family traits the members North Carolina Xmas tree that haphazard occasions when she is as Brittany prowls the corridors of this therapy crew have. Yes, she bought, she watches her not treating patients in their rooms will get a smiling but firm this is a family all right. No doubt clients, yet notices a lull in anoth - at work, as she travels with her job reminder that physical therapy about it. And I love all of them er’s client’s assignments. In (Occupational Therapist) to their eagerly awaits anyone and every - and thank God for them. God which case, she may give the homes or to other physical therapy one. The youngest worker, her bless them all and their families.◊

$30! * THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 10 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM December 18 - December 24, 2017 Trump attends opening of Civil Rights Museum despite his own racial insensitivities By Hazel Trice Edney among others actu - might live in freedom. women of all races, backgrounds, example,” there are those who still Lewis and Thompson. “He has cre - Contributing Writer ally boycotted the Among those we honor and walks of life who have served recognize that his actions and the ated a commission to reinforce official opening are the Christian pas - and sacrificed for our country.” actions of his administration are voter suppression, refused to (TriceEdneyWire.com) — ceremony in order tors who started the Despite President Trump’s claim opposite from his words. denounce white supremacists, and President Donald Trump was the to call attention to Civil Rights that Americans should “strive to be “President Trump’s statements has generally created a racially hos - lead person spreading the lie that Trump’s wrongs. Movement in their worthy” of the sacrifices of the and policies regarding the protec - tile climate in this nation. His atten - President Barack Obama, Lewis and own churches preach - civil rights heroes and that “we tion and enforcement of civil rights dance is an affront to the veterans America’s first Black president, Thompson said ing, like Reverend pray for inspiration from their have been abysmal,” says Reps. of the Civil Rights Movement.”◊ was not born in the U. S. they skipped the Martin Luther King, Jr. President Trump also equated Ku event after “careful — a man that we have Klux Klan members and Neo- consideration and studied and watched, Nazis to people protesting the evils conversations with and admired for my Section 1407 Advertisement of racism during the deadly white church leaders, entire life — that we’re supremacist marches in elected officials, MEDGAR EVERS all made in the image of Notice is hereby given that H.B. “Buster” Hughes, Inc., (the “Company”), a Louisiana Charlottesville, Va. last August. civil rights our Lord.” corporation, has filed Articles of Dissolution with the Louisiana Secretary of State, pursuant Repeatedly, in front of the nation, activists,” and the citizens in their Trump acknowledged NAACP to authorization by its shareholders, duly given. All persons or legal entities having any claim he has flagrantly displayed racial congressional districts. former chair Myrlie Evers- or claims, of any nature whatsoever, against the Company must submit the claim in writing insensitivities; even with his most “President Trump’s attendance Williams and Charles Evers in to Vicki Kihneman, 5801 Citrus Blvd., Harahan, La. 70123, providing a brief description and recent support of Senate candidate and his hurtful policies are an the audience as he especially basis of the claim, the amount claimed to be owed and an address and telephone number Roy Moore in Alabama, not only insult to the people portrayed in focused on Medgar Evers, a civil for the contact person responsible for the claim. Any claim against the Company will be an accused pedophile, but a man this civil rights museum,” Lewis rights worker and NAACP field extinguished by preemption unless proceedings to enforce a claim against the Company who has said America was last and Thompson said in a joint state - secretary who was assassinated are commenced within three years from the date of the publication of this notice. great during slavery. ment. “The struggles represented in his Jackson, Mississippi drive - Since his inauguration, Trump in this museum exemplify the truth way on June 12, 1963. La. Weekly: December 18, 2017 and his appointee Attorney of what really happened in “Martyrs like Sergeant Medgar General Jeff Sessions have careful Mississippi. President Trump’s dis - Wiley Evers whose brother I just demolished important policies put paraging comments about women, met at the plane,” he said, encour - in place during the Obama admin - the disabled, immigrants, and aging Charles Evers to stand. Section 1407 Advertisement istration for the purpose of pre - National Football League players “Medgar joined the U.S. Army in venting police brutality and other disrespect the efforts of Fannie 1943, when he was 17 years old. He Notice is hereby given that HOTI, Inc., (the “Corporation”), a Louisiana corporation, has filed issues of racial inequality in the Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, Medgar fought in Normandy in the Second Articles of Dissolution with the Louisiana Secretary of State, pursuant to authorization by its criminal justice system. Evers, Robert Clark, James World War. And when he came shareholders, duly given. All persons or legal entities having any claim or claims, of any In addition, President Trump Chaney, Andrew Goodman, back home to Mississippi, he kept nature whatsoever, against the Corporation must submit the claim in writing to Vicki has claimed massive voter fraud Michael Schwerner, and countless fighting for the same rights and Kihneman, 5801 Citrus Blvd., Harahan, La. 70123, providing a brief description and basis in America, a claim that experts others who have given their all for freedom that he had defended in the say is patently false. Mississippi to be a better place. war. Mr. Evers became a civil of the claim, the amount claimed to be owed and an address and telephone number for the These are just a handful of the After President Trump departs, we rights leader in his community. He contact person responsible for the claim. Any claim against the Corporation will be reasons that civil rights leaders encourage all Mississippians and helped fellow African Americans extinguished by preemption unless proceedings to enforce a claim against the Corporation opposed the president’s attendance Americans to visit this historic register to vote, organize boycotts, are commenced within three years from the date of the publication of this notice. at the Dec. 10 opening of the civil rights museum.” and investigated grave injustices Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Still, Trump, at the invitation of against very innocent people. La. Weekly: December 18, 2017 They argue that the museum is like ’s Republican Gov. Trump continued, “For his hallowed ground that celebrates Nathan Deal, attended the open - courageous leadership in the those who risked their lives to ing. 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December 18 - December 24, 2017 Page 11 BUSINESS SCOPE THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Western Union to pay $586 million to cheated customers By Frederick H. Lowe stolen money before February money after filing. scams—you sent money to Contributing Writer 12, 2018 to the federal agency. Five different fraudulent activ - someone who created a fake pro - To file a claim, log onto the web - ities have operated on Western file on a dating or social net - (Special from NorthStar News site Western Union Remission Union. working website . Today) — The Federal Trade and follow the step-by-step • Online and Internet scams — The FTC and the DOJ reached an Commission and the U.S. Justice instructions, which are in you did not receive the funds you agreement in January, settling a Department have reached an English and Spanish tried to secure online; lawsuit filed in the U.S. District agreement with Western Union, Repayment applies to consumers • Lottery or prize promotion Court for the Middle District of the world’s largest money-transfer who sent money to fraudsters scams—you were told you won a Pennsylvania in Scranton. The company, to repay $586 million to through Western Union between lottery or sweepstakes, but never FTC filed the lawsuit under the customers bilked out of their January 1, 2004 and January 19, got the prize; Federal Trade Commission Act money by fraudsters using Western 2017. The con artists told con - • Emergency or grandparent and the Telemarketing and Union and unscrupulous company sumers to send money through scams—you sent money to some - Consumer Fraud Prevention Act employees who assisted the crooks Western Union to receive cash, one pretending to be a relative or Individuals can file a claim for in making the deceptions work. prizes or services, but the crooks friend in urgent need of money; a family member, friend or client During a nationwide teleconfer - laughed all the way to the bank • Advance-fee loan scams— if he or she represents an estate, ence on Thursday, FTC officials because no one received anything. you paid upfront fees, but did not has power of attorney or an urged victims of the scams to The FTC said it will take a year get the promised loans; attorney who has signed docu - submit a claim to recover the for consumers to receive their • Online dating or romance ments that says the lawyer repre -

Union Savings and Loan to acquire Hibernia Bancorp (AP) — Union Savings and Loan ment represents an all-cash trans - action’s closing, which is expect - tions will provide all current and Association is acquiring Hibernia action valued at $32 per share. The ed to be completed in 2018’s sec - future customers with greatly Bancorp Inc. and its wholly owned merger plans to result in a commu - ond quarter. enhanced banking opportunities. subsidiary, Hibernia Bank, in a nity bank with five offices and Union Savings President and Hibernia Chairman, President deal valued at $28.2 million. more than $200 million in assets. CEO Stephen H. Schonberg, in a and CEO A. Peyton Bush, III, says New Orleans CityBusiness Union plans to change its name news release, said the combination the transaction will “benefit our reported that the recent announce - to “Hibernia Bank” at the trans - of their local community institu - stockholders and customers.”◊

Customers are told to apply for the money they are owed by Western Union before February 12, 2018.

$191M Powerball prize claimed by unnamed La. family sents the claimant. included conspiracy to commit (AP) — A $191 million as the largest single prize ever Breaux Jr. arrived at the lot - family who didn’t publicly A person also can submit a claim mail fraud, wire fraud and/or Powerball jackpot has been won in its 26-year history. tery’s headquarters Tuesday to release their names. although he or she no longer has money laundering. Most of the claimed in Louisiana, with the The Louisiana Lottery Corp. claim the Oct. 25 prize on The winners released a state - the paperwork. If a person has sent agents have already pled guilty or state lottery describing the award says Lafayette attorney Jean behalf of three members of a ment through the lottery that money a few times to a scam, he or have been convicted of the charges, says: “We are a quiet family and she also can submit a claim. according to lawsuit. Western prefer not to be treated as celebri - The crimes were both inside Union has more than 50,000 of its ties.” Breaux says his clients reg - and outside jobs, according to a 515,000 worldwide agent locations ularly played the lottery. 65-page civil lawsuit filed by the in the United States. Mammoth diamond brings Kono The family chose a lump-sum FTC against Western Union on As part of its settlement, Western prize payment of $119 million. January 19. Union agreed to implement an anti- After state and federal taxes were Under a headline in capital let - fraud program and enhanced com - miners a share in $6.5M auction sale withheld, the payment will be ters, the lawsuit said: “Many pliance obligations in agreements (TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) nearly $84 million. Western Union Agents Have been with federal author ities. — When a Sierra Leonean pastor The winning ticket was sold in Active in the Underlying Scams.” Western Union is based in looked at the shiny stony that Eunice.◊ Charges against 39 agents have Englewood, Colorado.◊ came from the ground, it didn’t look like much of a rock. It was orange with red speckles and the diggers at the Kono mining dis - trict almost tossed it aside. But the lumpy stone was unusu - al enough to bring to a local dia - PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE mond dealer who recognized a thing of great value. “The look on his face when he saw the rock made me believe we had discov - ered something extraordinary,” the ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, LLC pastor Emmanuel Momoh recalled regarding in an interview with the NY Times. but requires them to turn over larg - was too low. Some estimates put The hockey puck-shaped sparkly er stones to the government to sell, the value at $50 million. thing turned out to be a 709-carat with the proceeds, in theory, going The stone sold at a New York diamond — one of the world’s to the ones who found them, minus auction for a lower-than-expected DG ROOFTOP SOLAR PROJECT largest diamonds and the largest an unspecified government tax. price of $6.5 million. The buyer NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ENTERGY NEW ORLEANS, LLC. (“ENO”) WILL HOST A one ever found in Sierra Leone. Often, diamonds — both large was reportedly British billionaire PUBLIC MEETING TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND ANSWER QUESTIONS After much thought and debate, and small — are sold on the black and jeweler, Laurence Graff. Pastor Momoh turned the gem market, depriving the government According to the Rapaport auc - SURROUNDING ENO’S APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO CONSTRUCT DISTRIBUTED over to the government, instead of of sorely needed revenue. tion house that handled the bid - GENERATION (“DG”) SCALE SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (“PV”) SYSTEMS, FILED WITH THE selling it to middlemen and pock - President Ernest Bai Koroma ding, half the sale proceeds are COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS ON OCTOBER 6, 2017. ENO’S APPLICATION eting the cash. The community thanked the cleric for not smug - to be used to fund clean water, PROPOSES TO CONSTRUCT MULTIPLE DG-SCALE SOLAR PV SYSTEMS, WITH A TOTAL stands to lose, he said, if middle - gling the diamond out of the electricity, school, medical facil - men were involved. country and allowing the govern - ities, bridges and roads, none of COMBINED CAPACITY OF APPROXIMATELY 5 MWAC, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NEW “We lack a lot of things,” Momoh ment to sell the historic stone in a which are currently available in ORLEANS. THE PROJECT IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND FOR ENO AND REPRESENTS A MAJOR told the BBC. “We don’t have a set bidding process. the village of Koryardu where MILESTONE IN ENO’S COMMITMENT TO INVEST IN RENEWABLE GENERATION good road network, we don’t have An early sealed bid offer the diamond was found. RESOURCES. IN THIS PUBLIC MEETING, ENO WILL ADDRESS VARIOUS TOPICS RELATED better schools or drinking water.” involving five buyers for the The auction house is reported Sierra Leone allows miners to stone produced a bid of $7.7 mil - not to be charging its usual fees TO THE PROPOSED PROJECT, INCLUDING: sell diamonds up to a certain size, lion which the government said for the sale.◊ HOW DO SOLAR PV SYSTEMS WORK? WHAT IS A DG-SCALE SYSTEM? IS THERE A MINIMUM SIZE FOR EACH SYSTEM? Court keeps ban on new mining WHERE WILL THE SYSTEMS BE LOCATED IN THE CITY? WHAT KIND OF BENEFITS WILL THE PROJECT BRING TO NEW ORLEANS? claims around Grand Canyon WILL LOCAL LABOR BE USED TO CONSTRUCT THE PROJECT? (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has 2012. It didn’t affect the roughly The 9th Circuit said the deci - kept in place an Obama-era ban on 3,000 mining claims that existed sion to implement the ban care - WHEN WILL CONSTRUCTION BEGIN? new mining claims around the before it went into effect, which fully balanced the potential eco - WHY IS THE PROJECT SUITABLE FOR NEW ORLEANS’ NEEDS? Grand Canyon, but a review under federal officials say could result in nomic benefits of mining against the Trump administration is put - less than a dozen mines. possible risks to environmental HOW CAN CITIZENS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT? ting it in jeopardy. The area is rich in high-grade and cultural resources and did HOW CAN CITIZENS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT? The decision last week by the uranium ore, and the mining indus - not violate federal laws. 9th U.S. Circuit Court of try, Republicans in Congress and The National Mining Appeals comes as a U.S. House some counties in Arizona and Utah Association, among those chal - MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE MEETING AND TO SUBMIT committee heard testimony on said cutting off access eliminates lenging the ban, said it was disap - QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE VIA ENO’S WEBSITE. access to minerals on public hundreds of jobs in a remote area pointed with the ruling and is www.entergyneworleans.com/powertogrow/rooftopsolar. lands and dependence on foreign and puts the nation’s security at exploring its options. It can ask for imports. The U.S. Forest Service risk. Uranium was discovered a new hearing in the 9th Circuit or THE PUBLIC MEETING WILL BE HELD TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2018, AT THE FOLLOWING under President Donald Trump there in the late 1940s and is used appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. LOCATION FROM 5:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.: has proposed reviewing the 20- in nuclear power plants. Roger Clark of the Flagstaff- year ban on new mining north The Federal Land Policy and based Grand Canyon Trust said SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS and south of the Grand Canyon. Management Act gives the head he’s relieved the Interior secre - UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE CENTER Former President Barack of the Interior Department tary’s authority to set aside land 6400 PRESS DRIVE Obama’s Interior secretary made authority to withdraw 5,000 or has been upheld but is uneasy more than one million acres out - more acres from mining but not about the possibility of the Trump NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70126

side Grand Canyon National Park for longer than 20 years without administration overturning it with - The Louisiana Weekly: December 11, December 18 and December 25, 2017 off limits to new mining claims in congressional approval. out much hope of an appeal.◊ THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 12 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM December 18 - December 24, 2017 Racism in the workplace and the whitewashing of the #MeToo movement Continued from Page 5 men out on their misbehavior, There should never be another about zero tolerance around Julianne Malveaux is an econo - Obama and Public Policy” is with women demanding resigna - blackface performance, any - workplace sexism to accept any mist, author, and Founder of available via amazon.com. qualified African Americans and tions of (some) misbehaving where. And there should never whisper of workplace racism. Economic Education. Her latest Follow Dr. Malveaux on Twitter Latinos who could work on Capitol men. However, too few White be another person who talks book “Are We Better Off: Race, @drjlastword. ◊ Hill. Why aren’t members of women and men have been will - Congress calling each other on ing to apply the same “zero toler - their racial myopia? ance” to employment matters Perhaps racism and racial regarding race. harassment are a little more com - There should never be another Strong apprenticeship programs key plicated than sexism and sexual noose laid on a Black employee’s Continued from Page 5 munity advocates to build upon ing that all District residents are grams and embrace this model harassment. Half of the popula - desk or displayed in a workplace. this effort and target resources to able to participate in District’s as a strong workforce develop - tion, after all, is female, and There should never be another infrastructure industries. maximize the number of appren - growing economy. ment tool. while women make the slow intimidating Confederate flag Apprenticeship DC promotes ticeships available for our com - As officials and policymakers climb up the hierarchy in corpo - flying in a Black person’s face. both pre-apprenticeship and reg - munities. in other urban areas deal with Odie Donald II is director of the rate America, politics, the media, There should never be another istered apprenticeship work- Through this initiative and the their own economic gaps, I hope DC Department of Employment and entertainment, the pace has opportunity for an employee (or based learning models. Over the D.C. Infrastructure Academy, we that they will take a look at what Services. ◊ been steady enough that power - fellow student, or faculty mem - next year, we will work with hope to prove to Washingtonians we have done here in the District ful women are now able to call ber) to talk about picking cotton. local business owners and com - that we are committed to ensur - with our apprenticeship pro -

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421 Loyola Avenue, in ATTy: jASON SMITH MELvA J. PEPP, MELvA City on January 18, Civil District Court for WRIT AMOUnT: SALE bY (318) 388-1440 MARLIn n. GUSMAn the First District of the LM 4 J. WHITE) AnD 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Sheriff the Parish of Orleans $39,525.78 ORLEAnS SHERIFF LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 Parish of Orleans City on January 18, ______TERYKO PEPP, (TRYKO noon, the following ATTy: LINDSAy FAULKNER no. 2015-10363 Seized in the above JUDICIAL 2018, at 12:00 o’clock PEPP) described property to (504) 831-7726 by virtue of a WRIT suit, TERMS CASH. The SALE bY jD 21 ADvERTISEMEnT noon, the following Civil District Court for wit: LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 OF FIERI FACIAS to me purchaser at the moment described property to ORLEAnS SHERIFF the Parish of Orleans LOT NO. 14 SQUARE ______directed by the of adjudication to make a THAT PORTIOn wit: JUDICIAL no. 2017-4748 NO. 555 SALE bY Honorable The Civil deposit of ten percent of OF GROUnD LOT H-2, SQUARE 306- by virtue of a WRIT THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - District Court of the purchase price, and bEARInG MUnICI - 325 ADvERTISEMEnT OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TRICT ORLEAnS SHERIFF Orleans, in the above the balance within thirty PAL nO. 9030 LAKE SEVENTH MUNICIPAL THAT PORTIOn to me directed by the MUNICIPAL NO. 1330 JUDICIAL entitled cause, I will days thereafter. (NOTE: FOREST bOULEvARD, DISTRICT OF GROUnD Honorable The Civil ALABO ST ADvERTISEMEnT proceed to sell by pub - The payment must be nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In MUNICIPAL NO. 2319 bEARInG MUnICI - District Court of ACQ MIN: 621240 THAT PORTIOn lic auction, on the Cash, Cashier’s Check, THE MATTER EnTI - LEONIDAS STREET PAL nO. 2159 vALEn - Orleans, in the above WRIT AMOUnT: ground floor of the Civil Certified Check or Money TLED: "DLJ MORT - ACQUIRED MIN 565408 TInE COURT, nEW entitled cause, I will $34,076.90 OF GROUnD District Court building, Order. No personal bEARInG MUnICI - GAGE CAPITAL, InC WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS, LA, In THE proceed to sell by pub - Seized in the above 421 Loyola Avenue, in checks.) PAL nO. 211 FInLAnD vS WAnDA RUDOLPH $22,661.23 MATTER EnTITLED: lic auction, on the suit, TERMS CASH. The the First District of the MARLIn n. GUSMAn PLACE, nEW Sheriff LEOn" Seized in the above "bAnK OF AMERICA, ground floor of the Civil purchaser at the moment City on January 18, ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Parish of Orleans Civil District Court for suit, TERMS CASH. The n.A. vS ALTHEA JACK - District Court building, of adjudication to make a 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ATTy: jASON SMITH MATTER EnTITLED: (318) 388-1440 the Parish of Orleans purchaser at the moment SOn nEDD A/K/A 421 Loyola Avenue, in deposit of ten percent of noon, the following "THE bAnK OF nEW TW 24 no. 2014-370 of adjudication to make a ALTHEA J. nEDD A/K/A the First District of the the purchase price, and described property to LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 YORK MELLOn FKA ______by virtue of a WRIT deposit of ten percent of ALTHEA nEDD AnD City on January 18, the balance within thirty wit: THE bAnK OF nEW OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the purchase price, and AnASTASIA nEDD 2018, at 12:00 o’clock days thereafter. (NOTE: LOT G, SQUARE 39 SALE bY YORK, AS TRUSTEE to me directed by the the balance within thirty DARDEn A/K/A AnAS - noon, the following The payment must be SEVENTH MUNICIPAL FOR THE CERTIFI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF Honorable The Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: TASIA n. DARDEn described property to Cash, Cashier’s Check, DISTRICT CATEHOLDERS OF District Court of The payment must be A/K/A AnASTASIA wit: Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 7612 JUDICIAL THE CWAbS, InC., Orleans, in the above Cash, Cashier’s Check, DARDEn" LOT 131-B, SQUARE E, Order. No personal BENjAMIN STREET ADvERTISEMEnT ASSET-bACKED CER - entitled cause, I will Certified Check or Money Civil District Court for THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - checks.) ACQUIRED MIN 971023 TIFICATES, SERIES THAT PORTIOn proceed to sell by pub - Order. No personal the Parish of Orleans TRICT, MARLIn n. GUSMAn WRIT AMOUnT: Sheriff 2007-8 vS CHRISTO - lic auction, on the checks.) no. 2016-4740 KINGSWOOD SUBDIVI - $176,125.32 OF GROUnD Parish of Orleans PHER CHARLES KEITH bEARInG MUnICI - ground floor of the Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn by virtue of a WRIT SION, PHASEI ATTy: COREy GIROIR Seized in the above Sheriff (225) 756-0373 AnD KIM HOnORE PAL nO. District Court building, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE MUNICIPAL NO. 6985 suit, TERMS CASH. The Parish of Orleans TW 17 KEITH" 8714 SPRUCE ST, THIS 421 Loyola Avenue, in ATTy: FRED DAIGLE to me directed by the WHITMORE PLACE LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 purchaser at the moment (504) 522-8256 ______Civil District Court for CITY, In THE MATTER the First District of the Honorable The Civil ACQUIRED MIN 967253 of adjudication to make a jD 9 the Parish of Orleans EnTITLED City on January 18, LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 District Court of WRIT AMOUnT: SALE bY deposit of ten percent of ______no. 2015-5769 U.S. bAnK nATIOnAL 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Orleans, in the above $223,311.62 the purchase price, and ORLEAnS SHERIFF by virtue of a WRIT ASSOCIATIOn vS noon, the following SALE bY entitled cause, I will Seized in the above the balance within thirty OF SEIZURE AnD SALE RICHARD D. DYAS AnD described property to proceed to sell by pub - suit, TERMS CASH. The JUDICIAL days thereafter. (NOTE: ORLEAnS SHERIFF to me directed by the CYnTHIA DAvIS DYAS wit: lic auction, on the purchaser at the moment ADvERTISEMEnT The payment must be Honorable The Civil AKA CYnTHIA DAvIS LOT 4, SQUARE C, JUDICIAL ground floor of the Civil of adjudication to make a Cash, Cashier’s Check, THAT PORTIOn District Court of WEbER DYAS" THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - ADvERTISEMEnT District Court building, deposit of ten percent of Certified Check or Money Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for TRICT, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the purchase price, and OF GROUnD Order. No personal THAT PORTIOn bEARInG MUnICI - entitled cause, I will the Parish of Orleans WIMBLEDON SUBDIVI - the First District of the the balance within thirty checks.) PAL nO. 3424 CAM - proceed to sell by pub - no. 2017-6242 SION, OF GROUnD City on January 18, days thereafter. (NOTE: MARLIn n. GUSMAn bEARInG MUnICI - PHOR STREET, nEW lic auction, on the Sheriff by virtue of a WRIT MUNICIPAL NO: 9030 2018, at 12:00 o’clock The payment must be PAL nO. 4926 TOULOn ORLEAnS, LA, In THE ground floor of the Civil Parish of Orleans OF SEIZURE AnD SALE LAKE FOREST BLVD., noon, the following Cash, Cashier’s Check, ATTy: RACHEL WILLIAMS STREET, CITY OF nEW MATTER EnTITLED: District Court building, (318) 388-1440 to me directed by the ACQ MIN: 468991 described property to Certified Check or Money ORLEAnS, In THE "LPP MORTGAGE LTD 421 Loyola Avenue, in jD 23 Honorable The Civil WRIT AMOUnT: wit: Order. No personal LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 CASE EnTITLED: M & vS THE OPEnED SUC - the First District of the ______District Court of $106,150.21 LOT 578, SQUARE 4 checks.) T bAnK vS AnTHOnY CESSIOn OF WARREn City on January 18, Orleans, in the above Seized in the above FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - MARLIn n. GUSMAn SALE bY M. REIMOnEnQ AnD Sheriff WICKS AnD ROSITA 2018, at 12:00 o’clock entitled cause, I will suit, TERMS CASH. The TRICT bEULAH MAE RAY - Parish of Orleans bRADFORD WICKS, noon, the following ORLEAnS SHERIFF proceed to sell by pub - purchaser at the moment SUBDIVISION 5-B OF ATTy: LINDSAy FAULKNER FORD REIMOnEnQ (504) 831-7726 (A/K/A ROSITA b. described property to lic auction, on the of adjudication to make a HOLIDAy PARK JUDICIAL Civil District Court for LM 20 WICKS) AnD LYnn wit: ground floor of the Civil deposit of ten percent of MUNICIPAL NO. 2159 LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 ADvERTISEMEnT the Parish of Orleans ______bRADFORD AnD LOT y, SQUARE P District Court building, the purchase price, and VALENTINE COURT no. 2012-9236 LACITA WICKS AnD FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - THAT PORTIOn 421 Loyola Avenue, in the balance within thirty ACQUIRED MIN 831131 SALE bY by virtue of a WRIT LAZZETTA WICKS" TRICT the First District of the days thereafter. (NOTE: WRIT AMOUnT: OF GROUnD OF FIERI FACIAS to me ORLEAnS SHERIFF Civil District Court for AURORA GARDENS bEARInG MUnICI - City on January 18, The payment must be $158,665.43 directed by the the Parish of Orleans MUNICIPAL NO. 211 PAL nO. 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Cash, Cashier’s Check, Seized in the above JUDICIAL Honorable The Civil no. 2014-4581 FINLAND PLACE 1800 nEWTOn STREET, noon, the following Certified Check or Money suit, TERMS CASH. The ADvERTISEMEnT District Court of by virtue of a WRIT ACQUIRED MIN 893819 THIS CITY, In THE MAT - described property to Order. No personal purchaser at the moment Orleans, in the above THAT PORTIOn OF SEIZURE AnD SALE WRIT AMOUnT: TER EnTITLED wit: checks.) of adjudication to make a entitled cause, I will to me directed by the $183,405.24 SPRInGLEAF HOME LOT "X" SQUARE MARLIn n. GUSMAn deposit of ten percent of OF GROUnD Sheriff proceed to sell by pub - bEARInG MUnICI - Honorable The Civil Seized in the above EQUITY, InC. NO. 262 the purchase price, and Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the PAL nO. District Court of suit, TERMS CASH. The vS LOYCE v. CRAIGE SEVENTH MUNICIPAL ATTy: MARK GARRISON the balance within thirty (225) 924-1600 ground floor of the Civil 1330 ALAbO ST, THIS Orleans, in the above purchaser at the moment AKA LOYCE vInCEnT DISTRICT days thereafter. (NOTE: jD 12 District Court building, CITY, In THE MATTER entitled cause, I will of adjudication to make a CRAIGE , InDIvIDUAL - MUNICIPAL NO. 8714 LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 The payment must be ______421 Loyola Avenue, in EnTITLED proceed to sell by pub - deposit of ten percent of LY AnD AD ADMInIS - SPRUCE ST Cash, Cashier’s Check, the First District of the DEUTSCHE bAnK lic auction, on the the purchase price, and TRATIX OF THE SUC - ACQ MIN:1193939 SALE bY Certified Check or Money City on January 18, TRUST COMPAnY ground floor of the Civil the balance within thirty CESSIOn OF THOMAD WRIT AMOUnT: Order. No personal ORLEAnS SHERIFF 2018, at 12:00 o’clock AMERICAS FKA District Court building, days thereafter. (NOTE: CRAIGE $52,222.71 checks.) JUDICIAL noon, the following bAnKERS TRUST 421 Loyola Avenue, in The payment must be Civil District Court for Seized in the above described property to MARLIn n. GUSMAn COMPAnY, AS the First District of the Cash, Cashier’s Check, the Parish of Orleans suit, TERMS CASH. The ADvERTISEMEnT Sheriff wit: Parish of Orleans TRUSTEE FOR SAXOn City on January 18, Certified Check or Money no. 2017-901 purchaser at the moment THAT PORTIOn ATTy: COREy GIROIR LOT 4, SQUARE 1, (225) 756-0373 ASSET SECURITIES 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Order. No personal by virtue of a WRIT of adjudication to make a OF GROUnD THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - jD 16 TRUST 2001-3, MORT - noon, the following checks.) OF SEIZURE AnD SALE deposit of ten percent of LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 bEARInG MUnICI - TRICT, ______GAGE LOAn ASSET described property to MARLIn n. GUSMAn to me directed by the the purchase price, and PAL nO. 2319 VILLAGE DE L'EST bACKED CERTIFI - wit: Sheriff Honorable The Civil the balance within thirty SALE bY Parish of Orleans LEOnIDAS STREET, SUBDIVISION CATES, SERIES 2001-3 LOT 13, SQUARE 521 ATTy: RACHEL WILLIAMS District Court of days thereafter. (NOTE: nEW ORLEAnS, LA, In MUNICIPAL NO. 4926 ORLEAnS SHERIFF vS THE SUCCESSIOn SEVENTH MUNICIPAL (318) 388-1440 Orleans, in the above The payment must be jD 22 THE MATTER EnTI - TOULON STREET JUDICIAL OF ROOSEvELT HOUS - DISTRICT LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 entitled cause, I will Cash, Cashier’s Check, TLED: "JPMORGAn ACQUIRED MIN 376845 TOn AKA ROOSEvELT MUNICIPAL NO. 3424 ______proceed to sell by pub - Certified Check or Money ADvERTISEMEnT CHASE bAnK, nATIOn - WRIT AMOUnT: HOUSTOn CAMPHOR STREET SALE bY lic auction, on the Order. No personal AL ASSOCIATIOn vS $63,899.34 THAT PORTIOn Civil District Court for ACQUIRED MIN 687734 ORLEAnS SHERIFF ground floor of the Civil checks.) FLOYD J. AAROn, III" Seized in the above OF GROUnD the Parish of Orleans WRIT AMOUnT: District Court building, MARLIn n. GUSMAn Civil District Court for suit, TERMS CASH. The no. 2017-6349 $68,639.50 JUDICIAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in Sheriff bEARInG MUnICI - Parish of Orleans the Parish of Orleans purchaser at the moment PAL nO. 6985 WHIT - by virtue of a WRIT Seized in the above ADvERTISEMEnT the First District of the ATTy: jASON SMITH no. 2017-9626 of adjudication to make a OF SEIZURE AnD SALE suit, TERMS CASH. The City on January 18, (318) 388-1440 MORE PLACE, CITY OF THAT PORTIOn TW 25 by virtue of a WRIT deposit of ten percent of nEW ORLEAnS, In THE to me directed by the purchaser at the moment 2018, at 12:00 o’clock LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 ______OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the purchase price, and CASE EnTITLED: Honorable The Civil of adjudication to make a OF GROUnD noon, the following bEARInG MUnICI - to me directed by the the balance within thirty WILMInGTOn SAvInGS District Court of deposit of ten percent of described property to SALE bY PAL nO. 7612 bEn - Honorable The Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: FUnD SOCIETY, FSb, Orleans, in the above the purchase price, and wit: JAMIn STREET, nEW ORLEAnS SHERIFF District Court of The payment must be DOInG bUSInESS AS entitled cause, I will the balance within thirty LOT NOS. 7 AND 8 ORLEAnS, LA, In THE Orleans, in the above Cash, Cashier’s Check, CHRISTIAnA TRUST, proceed to sell by pub - days thereafter. (NOTE: SQUARE NO.167 JUDICIAL MATTER EnTITLED: entitled cause, I will Certified Check or Money nOT In ITS InDIvIDUAL lic auction, on the The payment must be FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - ADvERTISEMEnT "REvERSE MORT - proceed to sell by pub - Order. No personal CAPACITY, bUT SOLE - ground floor of the Civil Cash, Cashier’s Check, TRICT GAGE FUnDInG LLC THAT PORTIOn lic auction, on the checks.) LY AS TRUSTEE FOR District Court building, Certified Check or Money MUNICIPAL NO. 1800 vS LOUELLA A. PAT - ground floor of the Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn bCAT 2014-4TT vS 421 Loyola Avenue, in Order. No personal NEWTON STREET District Court building, Sheriff the First District of the checks.) TERSOn" ACQ MIN:561324 Parish of Orleans MELvA PEPP (AKA Continued on next page Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - December 18 - December 24, 2017 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM Page 13

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Continued from previous page the First District of the jD 28 entitled cause, I will approved by the City court costs; and that Parish of Orleans LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 ATTy: ROBERT MATHIS SALE bY City on January 18, ______proceed to sell by pub - Planning and Zoning MTGLQ’s deficiency 504-837-9040 2018, at 12:00 o’clock lic auction, on the Commission as of date of judgment rights be pre - LM 5 ORLEAnS SHERIFF OF GROUnD SALE bY LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 noon, the following ground floor of the Civil February 11, 1956, which served and recognized ______JUDICIAL bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF PAL nO. 13140 WALES described property to District Court building, said subdivision is part of and enforced against the SALE bY ADvERTISEMEnT wit: JUDICIAL 421 Loyola Avenue, in original Lot 26 of the Defendants, David j. STREET, nEW ORLEAnS SHERIFF THAT PORTIOn ORLEAnS, LA, In THE LOT 1, SQUARE 1693- ADvERTISEMEnT the First District of the CAZELAR TRACT, and Bindewald, jr. and Amy 1816, City on January 18, which lot or portion of F. Bindewald personally JUDICIAL OF GROUnD MATTER EnTITLED: THAT PORTIOn "LAKEvIEW LOAn THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ground has the designa - for all amounts owed; ADvERTISEMEnT bEARInG MUnICIPAL TRICT, OF GROUnD noon, the following tion, location and meas - and that out of proceeds nO. 1860-62 FAR - SERvICInG, LLC vS THAT PORTIOn CORvETTA C. CRAW - MUNICIPAL NO. 2801 bEARInG MUnICI - described property to urements as follows: of said sale, Petitioner be RAGUT STREET, CITY FORD A/K/A CORvET - LOUISA STREET PAL nO. 1459 CASA wit: LOT A in paid the amount of this OF GROUnD OF nEW ORLEAnS, In TA C. CRAWFORD ACQUIRED MIN 120822 CALvO, nEW LOT X-2, SQUARE E SQUARE 1, bounded by claim, by preference and bEARInG MUnICIPAL THE CASE EnTITLED: JOHnSOn" WRIT AMOUnT: ORLEAnS, LA, In THE THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - River Oaks Drive, priority over all personal nO. 2528-30 FRERET GMFS LLC vS Civil District Court for $1,604.00 MATTER EnTITLED: TRICT General Meyer Avenue, whomsoever. STREET, THIS CITY, In LOURISE L. CHOPIn. the Parish of Orleans Seized in the above "MIDFIRST bAnK vS NORTH KENILWORTH Patterson Drive, and the WRIT AMOUnT: THE MATTER EnTI - Civil District Court for no. 2017-7271 suit, TERMS CASH. The TAHLEQUAH DELA - SUBDIVISION western line of Dianne $100,649.48 TLED: U.S. bAnK the Parish of Orleans by virtue of a WRIT purchaser at the moment HOUSSAYE A/K/A MUNICIPAL NO. 8440 Park, said lot com - Seized in the above nATIOnAL ASSOCIA - no. 2017-7500 OF SEIZURE AnD SALE of adjudication to make a TAHLEQUAH DE LA CURRAN ROAD mences at a distance of suit, TERMS CASH. The TIOn, AS TRUSTEE by virtue of a WRIT to me directed by the deposit of ten percent of HOUSSAYE A/K/A ACQUIRED MIN 241.56 feet from the purchaser at the moment FOR STRUCTURED OF SEIZURE AnD SALE Honorable The Civil the purchase price, and TAHLEQUAH DELA - 1172073 intersection of General of adjudication to make a ASSET InvESTMEnT to me directed by the District Court of the balance within thirty HOUSSAYE bROWn" WRIT AMOUnT: Meyer Avenue and River deposit of ten percent of LOAn TRUST, MORT - Honorable The Civil Orleans, in the above days thereafter. (NOTE: Civil District Court for $79,780.99 Oaks Drive and meas - the purchase price, and GAGE PASS-THROUGH District Court of entitled cause, I will The payment must be the Parish of Orleans Seized in the above ures 70 feet front on the balance within thirty CERTIFICATES, Orleans, in the above proceed to sell by pub - Cash, Cashier’s Check, no. 2017-7427 suit, TERMS CASH. The River Oaks Drive, same days thereafter. (NOTE: SERIES 2003-bC6 vER - entitled cause, I will lic auction, on the Certified Check or Money by virtue of a WRIT purchaser at the moment width in the rearm, by a The payment must be SUS YOLAnDA proceed to sell by pub - ground floor of the Civil Order. No personal OF SEIZURE AnD SALE of adjudication to make a depth of 72.91 feet Cash, Cashier’s Check, DUPATY ZEIGLER. lic auction, on the District Court building, checks.) to me directed by the deposit of ten percent of between equal and paral - Certified Check or Money Civil District Court for ground floor of the Civil 421 Loyola Avenue, in MARLIn n. GUSMAn Honorable The Civil the purchase price, and lel lines, all in accor - Order. No personal the Parish of Orleans District Court building, Sheriff District Court of the balance within thirty dance with a particular checks.) no. 2011-11633 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the Parish of Orleans City on January 18, ATTy: LATEEFAH HARRIS Orleans, in the above days thereafter. (NOTE: plan of survey made by MARLIn n. GUSMAn by virtue of a WRIT the First District of the (504) 658-4391 entitled cause, I will The payment must be Adloe Orr, jr. & Sheriff OF FIERI FACIAS to City on January 18, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock LM 27 Parish of Orleans noon, the following LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 proceed to sell by pub - Cash, Cashier’s Check, Associates, Consulting ATTy: RICHARD ROZANSKI me directed by the 2018, at 12:00 o’clock ______lic auction, on the Certified Check or Money Engineers, dated (318) 445-56001 Honorable The Civil noon, the following described property to LM 7 wit: SALE bY ground floor of the Civil Order. No personal October 3, 1957. All as LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 District Court of described property to ______LOTS NOS. 19 AND 20, ORLEAnS SHERIFF District Court building, checks.) fully shown on survey by Orleans, in the above wit: SQUARE 89-B 421 Loyola Avenue, in MARLIn n. GUSMAn Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, SALE bY entitled cause, I will A CERTAIN JUDICIAL the First District of the Sheriff Inc., dated july 19, 1985. proceed to sell by pub - LOT OF GROUND, THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - Parish of Orleans ORLEAnS SHERIFF TRICT ADvERTISEMEnT City on January 18, ATTy: DONECIA BANKS-MILEy Improvements lic auction, on the together with all the 2018, at 12:00 o’clock (318) 388-1440 thereon bear Municipal JUDICIAL ground floor of the Civil buildings and improve - LITTLE WOODS SUBDI - THAT PORTIOn jD 30 VISION, SECTION 2 noon, the following LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 No. 1901 RIVER OAKS ADvERTISEMEnT District Court building, ments thereon, and all of ______MUNICIPAL NO. 13140 OF GROUnD described property to DRIVE, NEW ORLEANS, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the rights, ways, privi - bEARInG MUnICI - THAT PORTIOn WALES STREET wit: SALE bY LOUISIANA. Being the the First District of the leges, servitudes, appur - PAL nO. 4744 WARREn ACQUIRED MIN LOTS 18, 19 AND 20, same property acquired OF GROUnD City on January 18, tenances and advan - DRIvE, nEW ORLEAnS SHERIFF bEARInG MUnICIPAL 1210779 SQUARE 9 by joanna Baker, wife 2018, at 12:00 o’clock tages thereunto belong - ORLEAnS, LA, In THE nO. 1400 ATHIS WRIT AMOUnT: FIFTH MUNICIPAL DIS - JUDICIAL of/and Wallace W. Wright noon, the following ing or in anywise apper - MATTER EnTITLED: STREET, CITY OF nEW $116,008.42 TRICT ADvERTISEMEnT from Susan johnson, described property to taining, lying and being "CITY OF nEW ORLEAnS, In THE Seized in the above SOUTH NEW ORLEANS wife/of and Gary Michael wit: situated in the FIFTH ORLEAnS vS THAT PORTIOn CASE EnTITLED: suit, TERMS CASH. The SUBDIVISION Harrison in and act ALL THAT CERTAIN DISTRICT OF THE DELORES MORTOn IbERIA bAnK vS purchaser at the moment MUNICIPAL NO. 1459 OF GROUnD before joseph j. Rouse, PIECE OR PARCEL OF PARISH OF ORLEASN, SORInA" bEARInG MUnICIPAL ZACHARY L. STURM of adjudication to make a CASA CALVO Notary Public, dated LAND, together with all CITy OF NEW Civil District Court for nO1901 RIvER OAKS Civil District Court for deposit of ten percent of ACQUIRED MIN 127477 December 15, 1995 and the buildings and ORLEANS, STATE OF the Parish of Orleans DRIvE, CITY OF nEW the Parish of Orleans the purchase price, and WRIT AMOUnT: filed for registry at CIN improvements thereon, LOUISIANA, in that part no. 2017-5120 ORLEAnS, In THE no. 2017-6707 the balance within thirty $18,012.18 115597. and all of the rights, thereof known as by virtue of a WRIT CASE EnTITLED: by virtue of a WRIT days thereafter. (NOTE: Seized in the above Being the same ways, privileges, servi - SOUTH NEW ORLEANS OF FIERI FACIAS to me MTGLQ InvESTORS, OF FIERI FACIAS to me The payment must be suit, TERMS CASH. The property acquired by tudes, appurtenances SUBDIVISION designat - directed by the L.P. vS DAvID J. directed by the Cash, Cashier’s Check, purchaser at the moment mortgages herein per act and advantages thereun - ed as Lot 21-A, Block 13, Honorable The Civil bInDEWALD, JR. AnD Honorable The Civil Certified Check or Money of adjudication to make a dated May 29, 2003 and to belonging or in any - which said portion of District Court of AMY F. bInDEWALD. District Court of Order. No personal deposit of ten percent of passed before Harry L. wise appertaining, situat - ground is bounded by Orleans, in the above Civil District Court for Orleans, in the above checks.) the purchase price, and Cahill, III, Notary Public. ed in the Fourth District in Farragut Street, (side) entitled cause, I will the balance within thirty the Parish of Orleans THIS ACT IS entitled cause, I will Square No. 343, bound - Kraft Subdivision (side) MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff proceed to sell by pub - days thereafter. (NOTE: no. 2017-6904 MADE EXECUTED AND proceed to sell by pub - ed by Second, Third and and Copernicus Street, Parish of Orleans lic auction, on the The payment must be by virtue of a WRIT ACCEPTED SUBjECT lic auction, on the Freret Streets and Simon said lot commences at a ATTy: jASON SMITH (318) 388-1440 ground floor of the Civil Cash, Cashier’s Check, OF SEIZURE AnD SALE TO THE FOLLOWING: ground floor of the Civil Bolivar Drive (formerly distance of 220 feet from jD 26 District Court building, Certified Check or Money to me directed by the Restrictive District Court building, Howard Street). Said lot the intersection of LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 ______421 Loyola Avenue, in Order. No personal Honorable The Civil covenants created in and 421 Loyola Avenue, in begins at a distance of 26 Farragut Street and the First District of the checks.) District Court of act executed by S. j. the First District of the feet from the corner of Copernicus Street, and SALE bY City on January 18, MARLIn n. GUSMAn Orleans, in the above Parlongue, Notary City on January 18, Freret and Third and measures thence 55 feet ORLEAnS SHERIFF 2018, at 12:00 o’clock Sheriff entitled cause, I will Public, dated April 9, 2018, at 12:00 o’clock measures 28 feet front front on Farragut Street, noon, the following Parish of Orleans proceed to sell by pub - noon, the following JUDICIAL ATTy: KELLy MASSEy 1956 and filed for registry on Freret Street, same same in width in the rear described property to (318) 388-1440 lic auction, on the at COB 612, folio 54, described property to width in the rear, by a by a depth of 118 feet, ADvERTISEMEnT jD 29 wit: LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 ground floor of the Civil except any covenant wit: depth of 66 feet between between equal and paral - THAT PORTIOn LOT 2, SQUARE 7 ______District Court building, which seeks to limit own - LOT 28, SQUARE S, equal and parallel lines. lel lines; subject to OF GROUnD THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - SALE bY 421 Loyola Avenue, in ership of property on the Improvements restrictions, servitudes, TRICT the First District of the THIRD MUNICIPAL DIS - bEARInG MUnICI - ORLEAnS SHERIFF basis of race, religion, thereon bear the rights-of-way and out - PAL nO. 2801 LOUISA LAKELAND ACRES City on January 18, ethic and/or national ori - TRICT, Municipal No. 2528-30 standing mineral rights of STREET, CITY OF nEW MUNICIPAL NO. 4744 JUDICIAL 2018, at 12:00 o’clock gin is no longer valid. LEGION OAKS EXTEN - Freret Street. record affecting the prop - ORLEAnS, In THE WARREN DRIVE ADvERTISEMEnT noon, the following Five foot servi - SION WRIT AMOUnT: erty. ACQUIRED MIN described property to MUNICIPAL NO. 1400 CASE EnTITLED: CITY THAT PORTIOn tude for utilities and $66,301.64 WRIT AMOUnT: OF nEW ORLEAnS vS 1209107 wit: drainage across the rear ATHIS STREET Seized in the above $119,707.00 WILLIE J. MCLOUD WRIT AMOUnT: OF GROUnD THAT CERTAIN LOT width of the property as ACQUIRED MIN suit, TERMS CASH. The Seized in the above AnD OLIvE DOnALD $7,510.00 bEARInG MUnICI - OF GROUND, together reserved on the plan of 1184466 purchaser at the moment suit, TERMS CASH. The MCLOUD Seized in the above PAL nO. 8440 CURRAn with all the buildings and subdivision, according to WRIT AMOUnT: of adjudication to make a purchaser at the moment Civil District Court for suit, TERMS CASH. The ROAD, nEW ORLEAnS, improvements thereon, law, with appraisement, 20,889.05 deposit of ten percent of of adjudication to make a the Parish of Orleans purchaser at the moment LA, In THE MATTER all rights, ways, servi - and without notice of Seized in the above the purchase price, and deposit of ten percent of no. 2017-3968 of adjudication to make a EnTITLED: "HOPE tudes and privileges demand, to pay and sat - suit, TERMS CASH. The the balance within thirty the purchase price, and by virtue of a WRIT deposit of ten percent of FEDERAL CREDIT thereunto belonging lying isfy the claim of purchaser at the moment days thereafter. (NOTE: the balance within thirty OF SEIZURE AnD SALE the purchase price, and UnIOn vS JAnnA S. and situated in the FIFTH Petitioner that is the sum of adjudication to make a The payment must be days thereafter. (NOTE: to me directed by the the balance within thirty MERRITT A/K/A JAnnA DISTRICT of the City of of ONE HUNDRED deposit of ten percent of Cash, Cashier’s Check, The payment must be Honorable The Civil days thereafter. (NOTE: MERRIT" New Orleans, State of THOUSAND SIX HUN - the purchase price, and Certified Check or Money Cash, Cashier’s Check, District Court of The payment must be Civil District Court for Louisiana, Parish of DRED FORTy NINE the balance within thirty Order. No personal Certified Check or Money Orleans, in the above Cash, Cashier’s Check, the Parish of Orleans Orleans in the Section AND 48/100 days thereafter. (NOTE: checks.) Order. No personal entitled cause, I will Certified Check or Money no. 2016-10555 known as DIANNE ($100,649.48) DOL - The payment must be MARLIn n. GUSMAn checks.) Order. No personal by virtue of a WRIT PARK, a subdivision laid LARS, as of june 16, Cash, Cashier’s Check, Sheriff proceed to sell by pub - Parish of Orleans MARLIn n. GUSMAn Sheriff checks.) OF SEIZURE AnD SALE out in accordance with 2017 plus per diem inter - Certified Check or Money ATTy: DANIEL REED lic auction, on the Parish of Orleans (225) 924-1600 to me directed by the plans of Adloe Orr, jr., est at a rate of $12.48 Order. No personal ATTy: EKELLy MASSEy ground floor of the Civil MARLIn n. GUSMAn NNB 3 Sheriff (318) 388-1440 Honorable The Civil Consulting Engineers, daily from june 16, 2017, checks.) LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 District Court building, Parish of Orleans LM 32 District Court of dated February 26, 1955, ______421 Loyola Avenue, in ATTy: MICHAEL KARAM together with reasonable MARLIn n. GUSMAn LA. WEEKLy 12/18/2017, 1/15/2018 (504) 658-4346 Orleans, in the above and june 16, 1955, attorneys’ fees, and all Sheriff ______Read the Orleans Parish Sheriff Real Estate Sale Notices online at www.louisianaweekly.com THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 14 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM December 18 - December 24, 2017 Music – A gift that keeps on giving this holiday season By Geraldine Wyckoff on this obviously joyful task by lerin’ that’s designed to get a to at once hold on to the tradi - his skills as a composer and Contributing Writer bringing together acoustic instru - crowd goin’. In its selection of tions while also moving the arranger. He often blends his ments, electronic samplings, a covers, the Hot 8 wisely went music forward with gusto. native Cuban roots with the The gift of music is a very per - string section and elements of to Stevie Wonder’s hit “That Alexey Marti, Travesia music of his adoptive home of sonal one as the sounds continue to spoken word in a stylistic mix Girl,” That’s how the Hot 8 (Independent). On Travesia , lis - New Orleans. Pianist Oscar be a reminder of a time and the that allows the music to stand rolls... with solid arrange - teners not only get to hear per - Rossignoli shines throughout on person who might have picked it side-by-side so one can realize ments executed with an ear to cussionist Marti leading his own this album of many soft breezes out especially for you. “Oh yeah, their roots and resemblances. tonal qualities. band but also further discover and powerful gales .◊ my parents, sister, brother, friend (fill in the blank) gave this album to me for Christmas, my birthday, Believers my graduation. Knowing some - Jon Cleary, Live at one’s musical tastes helps consid - Chickie Wah Wah (FHQ erably in making choices of what Records). This album repre - sents the Grammy-winning to buy though it’s worth the off with a goodie, “Here Come the pianist and vocalist’s first solo effort to select something that Girls” that was first recorded by release and it’s a beaut. says, this is from me to you. Gift Ernie K-Doe. The highlight of the Performed on a 100-year-old cards are, of course, handy for, disc is David Torkanowsky’s mov - piano, the material includes hit say, that nephew whose musical ing rendition of the title cut, “With original hits like preferences are either unknown, You in Mind.” keep changing or are beyond “Unnecessarily Mercenary,” as Ellis Marsalis Quintet, The your own expertise. well-known authentically per - Ellis Marsalis Quintet Plays the Troy “” formed New Orleans classics. While there’s a whole, wide Music of Ellis Marsalis (ELM). Andrews, Parking Lot Symphony PJ Morton, Gumbo (Morton world of fine, and otherwise, Under the direction of the album’s Records). Keyboardist/voca- music out there, this column rep - (Blue Note). Here, the trombonist, producer, Marsalis’ son, Jason list/composer PJ Morton is up for a resents strictly local — New trumpeter and vocalist is also the Marsalis, a fine selection of tunes Grammy for this solid album in the Orleans, Louisiana — guy manning keyboards – B-3 from Ellis’ impression composi - Best R&B Album category as well that were released in 2017. organ, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer tions are refreshingly revisited for the tune, “First Began,” in the Purchasing music created by our electric — and he’s even playing here by a next-generation of talent - songwriting division. Whatever the own great artists and that is often some drums, a vibraphone and a ed New Orleans artists. released on local or independent glockenspiel. Particularly striking genre, Morton brings some of his Irvin Mayfield + The New labels, keeps the money circulat - is the refinement and sense of con - upbringing in the church to his Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Live at sound. He’s universal. ing within the community. fidence heard in Shorty’s vocals. Newpor t (Basin Street Records). This list is assembled, with some It’s just plain good fun. Recorded at the 2015 edition of wiggle room, with a focus on par - Christian Scott aTunde the highly-prestigious Newport ticular instruments and styles. For Adjuah, Centennial Trilogy. Jazz Festival, NOJO offers a var - instance, a selection from the first Trumpeter/composer/producer ied program with an emphasis on group of CDs might work for the Christian Scott aTunde its hometown. It demonstrates the trumpet or trombone lover/player Adjuah’s released a remark - breadth of talent and diversity that on your list. Another grouping able three albums this year — thrives in this city. Diaspora Rebel Ruler might appeal to a jazz or R&B fan , and Roderick Paulin, Slow But Emancipation Procrastination in your family of friends. Plus, Steady (Independent). On this there’s always the wonderfully — in celebration of the 100th two-disc release, saxophonist stray miscellaneous, music-loving anniversary of the first jazz Roderick Paulin displays the full group. Here goes: recording. Talk about prolific depth of his vast musical experi - and brilliant. ence from his early years playin’ Kermit Ruffins & Irvin in his father’s brass band, to Mayfield, A Beautiful World Modern Jazz Movers honkin’ on some rhythm and blues Stanton Moore, With You in (Basin Street Records). to more sophisticated sounds. Mind — The Songs of Allen Naturally, these two trumpet Extended (Independent) Here’s a Toussaint (Cool Green players and mock adversaries trio that you might not yet be hip to. Recordings). The aim for drummer start swinging on the opener It includes Honduran born pianist Stanton Moore, pianist David “Well, Alright.” There’s a ton Oscar Rossignoli, bassist Matt Booth Torkanowsky and bassist James more with some 60 well-known and drummer Brad Webb. These Singleton was to pay tribute to New Orleans musicians on the guys, based in New Orleans, collec - Toussaint by revisiting and reinter - discs that boasts 26 cuts. A high - tively and individually present some preting his compositions. It kicks light is Ruffins’, Mayfield’s and startling fresh material and directions Cyril Neville’s cleverly writ - on the group’s self-titled debut that ten “,” one of exemplifies its verve for creativity. Brassy Horns Lovers’ Delights the best tributes ever to Nicholas Payton, Afro- Toussaint’s legacy. Cultural Mash-Up — Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone Hot 8 Brass Band, On the Everything Goes Division Records). This impressive album Spot (TruThoughts). Many of Dwayne Dopsie, Top of the offers a centuries-long musical the tunes here sound like they Mountain (Crew Records/Angel journey through the African dias - could be or already are Dove Music). As we know and pora and much of the full spec - anthems on the street includ - applaud, accordionist/voca- trum of Black music from the ing the opening number, list/composer Dwayne Dopsie has beginning to the continuity of “Kickin’ It Live,” that been nominated for a Grammy for forever, trumpeter Payton takes includes whoopin’ and hol - this high-energy album. Fans of zydeco will dig how he manages TV One cancels Roland Martin’s ‘NewsOne Now’ By Stacy M. Brown “Maybe if the viewers make Contributing Writer enough noise, TV One will recon - sider canceling Roland Martin’s (The Washington Informer) — NewsOne Now,” said journalist The only Black daily newscast on Jawn Murray. “The only news television is no more. show geared toward African TV One is canceling Roland Americans—and ditch the dozen Martin’s morning show “NewsOne or so Black crime shows they air.” Now” due to budget cuts. Author and media personality “After four years of award-wi n- Tariq Nasheed tweeted: ning programming and distin - “Damn…TV One just canceled guished service to our viewers as the Roland Martin’s NewsOne show.” only Black daily newscast on televi - Gregory H. Lee, Jr., the edito - sion, the network has made the diffi - rial director at NBA.com and the cult decision to suspend the produc - past president of the National tion of “NewsOne Now” as a daily Association of Black Journalists morning news show. The last live called the cancelation of show is scheduled Thursday, NewsOne Now “crazy.” December 21, 2017,” TV One’s Reading from the memo that Interim General Manager Michelle was sent out to employees of the Rice wrote in a memo. Urban One company, Roland The news shocked staffers— Martin said, “We are committed including Martin—as the network to providing quality news con - had just expanded the morning tent to our viewers, but now real - show to two hours in September, ize a daily news program is not according to Page Six. sustainable in this current finan - “There were lots of tears…The cial climate,” Martin read from staff was completely caught off the memo. “Our plan is to take a guard,” Page Six reported a moment to regroup and restruc - source as saying. ture NewsOne Now in 2018 According to Page Six, the memo under a new format that will added: “While we will continue serve the needs of our diverse our long-standing partnership with audience and the business.” Roland Martin to ensure his impor - Martin noted that, during the tant voice can be heard across all show’s run, there were a number of Urban One platforms examining stories that were covered on issues of importance to the Black NewsOne Now that weren’t cov - community, we regret this decision ered anywhere else. adversely affects several of our “For me, my voice will not be valued colleagues whose positions silenced,” said Martin. “You will be eliminated with the suspen - have numerous platforms, sion of the show.” numerous opportunities the abil - The news caught viewers off ity to be able to communicate guard and many, including high- with folks through social media profile journalists, took to social as well, that voice will always be media. there, speaking to our issues.” ◊