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TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM the Triangle Rev WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM The Triangle Rev. Jesse Jackson is managing Parkinson’s with dailyBy Sophia therapy Tareen RIBUNE ASSOCIATED PRESS TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he’s relying on daily physical therapy, medication and prayer to manage Parkinson’s disease, but he showed few signs of slowing down Monday as he carried on a decades-old VOLUME 19 NO. 38 WEEK OF DECEMBER 31, 2017 $1.00 Christmas tradition with a sermon to inmates at one of the nation’s largest jails. Jackson, 76, publicly disclosed a 2015 diagnosis last month, saying he would make lifestyle changes to slow progression of the chronic neurolog- Mid-term grade time ical disorder that causes movement difficulties. for Triangle HBCU The civil rights leader told The Associated Press during the services that he’s scaled back his travels a bit, though he still described a busy itinerary teams. of stops in the coming months. “My time is used more strategically,” he said. “I’m traveling a little less and focusing more.” Jackson appeared lively during the services, which featured gospel music and opportunities for eligible Cook County Jail inmates to register to vote. U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Bobby Rush, both Chicago Democrats, also ad- dressed inmates. Jackson said the disease is a “physical challenge,” but he is following a Please seeJESSE/2A Follow NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR Prison black deaths women to can’t be victory in explainedBy Emery P. Dalesio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH — North Carolina 2018By Melanie L. Campbell corrections officials may SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE never fully explain the prison "It's a good night to be an lapses that led to the beating African-American woman," death of a guard nearly eight said CNN political commenta- months ago and a later, dead- tor Symone Sanders. This was lier attack in October, the her response to the historic state agency’s top leader said. Doug Jones victory over Roy Department of Public Safety Moore in the special Alabama Secretary Erik Hooks said his senatorial election. But De- agency’s Office of Special In- mocrats and Republicans vestigations has completed a alike should take heed. review into the April killing at Political pundits can parse FILE Bertie Correctional Institution words, slice and dice the Latarndra Strong (yellow coat) and supporters celebrate after Orange County Schools school of Sgt. Meggan Callahan. A numbers and call Roy Moore board members banned the confederate flag and other racist symbols. similar internal investigation a "terrible choice" as the Re- of the failed escape attempt at publican candidate; but make Pasquotank Correctional Insti- no mistake about it, the tution in October that left four African-American vote was employees dead is underway, the critical difference between he said in an interview. a win and a loss in that elec- Hooks said he will decide tion. later how much of what inves- In his initial remarks to his Orange County parent tigators uncovered about why followers and the media, and how the workers were Jones unabashedly thanked killed will become public and African- Americans, in partic- how much to keep secret. ular, for their support. And leads effort to banish “At the appropriate time - if why not? Exit polls indicated it’s appropriate - to make a that 98 percent of black public disclosure about some women voted for him. In con- of the details of what hap- trast, only 32 percent of white pened, then that may occur,” women in Alabama voted in racistBy Maria Magher symbolsting in the car line to pickat up schools2016, though Strong didn’t Hooks said. her daughter from school one know it then. She saw that con- his favor. CORRESPONDENT Withholding some or all of day that the wheels started federate flag and talked to the the findings might be justified The same political pundits HILLSBOROUGH – Maya An- turning that put her in the pub- principal, who talked to the to protect security, conform tried to report that the gelou said, “I think a hero is lic spotlight. The day that she driver about removing the flag. to privacy laws protecting in- women's vote is what brought any person really intent on saw a confederate flag on the But she still noticed the em- mates and preserve evidence Democrats historic victories making this a better place for back of a pickup truck in front blem in other places around that could be presented at fu- in the 2017 election on Nov. 7 all people.” of her set off a chain of events school, such as on shirts or ture murder trials for five in- in Virginia and New Jersey. Through that definition and that led her to form the Hate belt buckles, and her daughter mates accused in the two The Nov. 7 exit polls reported others, Latarndra Strong is a Free Schools Coalition, to get- reported seeing the flag also. bloody incidents, Hooks said. that black women voted 91 hero – though she probably ting the confederate flag and Strong then wrote a letter to But details about how the at- percent for the Democratic wouldn’t think of herself that other racist symbols banned the principal, the school board, tacks unfolded and why are gubernatorial candidate, way. from Orange County Schools, and others about banning the less likely, he said. Ralph Northam, who was “She’ll do anything for you. and to becoming The Triangle flag and other racist symbols “Whereas I will use that in- elected Virginia governor. She will break her neck to help Tribune’s 2017 Newsmaker of from the schools. formation to inform me – and White women voted 51 per- someone. She will sacrifice to the Year. She said the letter “went have been doing so as we cent for Republican candidate the ‘nth’ degree to do for oth- “I was just a mom who wrote viral” with people sharing it work to make positive change Ed Gillespie. In New Jersey, ers,” said her longtime friend, a letter,” Strong said of how with others, and she started within our correctional facili- black women voted 94 per- Ali Braswell. her journey got started. She getting calls from people who ties – those are not a matter of cent for Democratic candidate Strong has been a foster par- said that she had actually been wanted to get involved or who public record that I anticipate Phil Murphy, who is governor- ent to 17 teenagers over the so afraid of public speaking just wanted to chat about the releasing,” he said. elect for New Jersey. Latino past decade. She has helped that she joined Toastmasters, issue. Strong said that during That plan bothers a state women voted 88 percent for people in her church, including so “I was the most unlikely one of those meetings, she did- lawmaker who represents Murphy and white women inviting a single mother and person to do this. I didn’t even n’t feel safe because the per- Elizabeth City, where voted 44 percent for Murphy. her children to live with her anticipate that we would still son clearly didn’t agree with Pasquotank Correctional is lo- To be clear, black women while she got back on her feet. be an organization today, but I her and gave her a bad feeling. cated and who says he’s have been the most loyal vot- Braswell says Strong helps oth- feel like our community is call- After that, her friends told her talked to scores of prison ers for progressive candidates ers “often to the detriment of ing for it.” that she shouldn’t be using her workers since the deadliest for decades. In 2016, they herself.” The HSFC started that day in attacks by inmates in state women voted 94 percent for It wasn’t until Strong was sit- Hillary Clinton; white women the pickup line in December Please see ORANGE/2A history. voted 53 percent for Donald Republican Rep. Bob Stein- Trump. In 2013, black women burg said he’s heard fre- were the decisive vote for cur- quently that prison rent Virginia Governor Terry employees regularly rewrite McAuliffe, voting at 91 per- reports to cast operations in a cent. White women voted for favorable light. “This is the anti-choice Republican candi- largest tragedy, biggest date Ken Cuccinelli at 54 per- V Foundation keeps former ESPN tragedy” in the history of the cent. state prison system, he said. In both 2008 and 2012, “They need to be accountable. black women led the way in And just saying that this is star Stuart Scott’s legacy alive going to threaten security is, electing President Barack Obama the first black presi- to me, weak.” GrantsBy Maria developed Magher to closeto the bottom disparities of why African-Amer- in healthScott fund care has awarded $6 million dent of the United States. icans and other minorities are diag- through 19 grants since 2015. In ad- Reversing a staffing short- CORRESPONDENT Black women’s vote, in fact, nosed with cancer at such dition, the V Foundation provides age that makes prisons more accounts for the gender gap Former ESPN sportscaster Stuart significantly higher rates and why funding to minority researchers dangerous for everyone won’t in support of the Democratic Scott once famously said, “When they are more likely to die from the through its V Scholar grants. be possible unless potential Party as the majority of white you die, it does not disease. The fund also supports re- According to the most recent data employees understand fail- women supported Republican mean you lose to can- search that identifies new treat- from the Centers for Disease Con- ings have been identified and candidates in both elections.
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