Jacksonville High Schools to Get Metal

THE FLORIDA STAR, NORTHEAST FLORIDA’S OLDEST, LARGEST, MOST READ AFRICAN AMERICAN OWNED NEWSPAPER The Florida Star Presorted Standard WE P. O. Box 40629 U.S. Postage Paid WE BETTERBETTER VOTE! VOTE! Jacksonville, FL With this midterm, we must move from inheriting a legacy to leaving a Jacksonville, FL 32203 legacy. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. Howard Thurman, Mary Singleton, Asa Phillip Permit No. 3617 Randolph, Dr. Eartha M. White, and Ernest Hill, Sr. are all gone. descendants and we must carry the torch in this election. We are their dreams; therefore, NO MORE EXCUSES! We are our ancestors’ wildest Jacksonville, FL my mother would often call As my a childbrother growing and I toup comeon the home East maybe EARLY VOTING once or twice. As mischievous kids, we would sometimes ignore her request. Howeverside of, when she said "you boys better” come home", we knew then she was serious. ELECTION SEASON WE BETTER VOTE! SO THIS DUVAL COUNTY, FL GLYNN COUNTY, GA better vote! We want an effective health care system,We wantwe better an increase vote! in our wages, we public education for our Can’t Get to the Store? families, we better vote! children,W we better vote! W We want improved e want safer neighborhoods for our Oct. 22 - Nov. 4 Oct. 15 - Nov. 2 better vote! e want an environment free from pollution and waste, we We must leave a proud and enduring legacy for generations to come. Every Have The Star Delivered! hope and aspiration our forefathers imagined are on the ballot on November 6. Governor, State Attorney General, T States Representative, are all races thatax Collector,will be on Unitedthe ballot. States The Senator, restoration United of rights for ex-felons SPECIAL INSERT INSIDE THIS ISSUE (Amendment 4) is on the ballot. As been demonstrated, elections have consequences. W e cannot afford to “let the chips fall where they may.” T ve here ha been enormous sacrifices to get us in this season. Our grandchildren and great grandchildren will read about this time. W proud and remark that there were great people who gave of themselvese want themso to feel would be better for us. In order to respect Read and honor their The lives, we mustFlorida the course of dead that life end jobs, sub-par public education, and a healthcare re-systemmediate in THE FLORIDA disarray. We Better Vote! In the words of President Abraham Lincoln: “Elections are for everybody; however, if we turnand our backs toGeorgia the fire and burn our behinds, Star we will just have to sit on the blisters.” hurt and I would prefer not to endure thatI don’tNewspapers. know about you, but I think blisters STAR sitting on the sideline or simply sitting out typeduring of an unnecessary election. pain. I say, no more It’s our time now to inherit the legacythefl of our ancestorsoridastar.com who voted in spite of not The only media having numbers in their favor. Our job this election and beyond is to make our voices heard, demand equality for all citizens, and ensure our presence is felt throughout each and Listen to IMPACT to receive the every county in the state of Florida. W Everything our ancestors fought for and in some casese diedmust for vote, is on we the better line invote! this Jacksonville Sheriff’s season of voting. Radio Talk Show. Si Se Puede. Tony Hill The people’s choice Offi ce Eagle Former Florida Senator Award for being “The Most Factual.” OCTOBER 20 - OCTOBER 26, 2018 VOLUME 68, NUMBER 28 $1.00 Oct. 18-21, 2018 Prime Osborn Convention YOUR VOTE WILL All Jacksonville Center, Jacksonvile, Fla. MAKE IT REAL! Stop By And Visit High Schools The Florida Star Booth to Get Metal Bethune-Cookman Detectors uval County Public Schools’ plan to install walk- Homecoming 2018 through metal detectors and hand “wands” in all high schools in Jacksonville to check student for weapons. DThe decision was made Monday and district’s police force director Michael Edwards says it will take 30 to 90 days for the equipment to arrive and additional time for it to be installed. The district is paying $2.5 million for the metal detectors and some security cameras. The Florida Times-Union reports the decision reverses a long-held position by previous leaders of the school district. But Edwards said the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in February and a rash of shootings involving Duval Photos by Frank M. Powell, III his campaigner showed up at the inter- County schools led to the changes. section of Edgewood and Lem Turner in Jacksonville, Fla. on Wednesday, TOctober 17, 2018. The imposter reminded everyone to get out and vote. MAKE IT Georgia Sued for REAL! Placing Thousands of See photos from Bethune-Cookman recent homecoming on page 12. (Photo by Frank M. Powell, III) Jax Prepares for Voter Registrations on Early Voting, Hold Before Election Civil rights groups sued Georgia Secretary of State Brian March Planned Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor who also oversees elections in the state, saying the method his offi ce uses to verify for Edward new voter registrations is discriminatory. The lawsuit, fi led late Thursday in the U.S. District Court Waters College in Atlanta, comes after the revelation that thousands of new applications were placed on hold just weeks before November’s In Pivotal Election, midterm election. Historically Black College The fi ling alleges that Georgia’s “exact match” protocol — which requires information on voter registration applications to Becomes Voting Site precisely match information on fi le with the state’s Department Early voting starts Monday the 22nd and of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration — Jacksonville residents and Edward Waters suppresses minority votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act, College students especially now have more the 14th Amendment and the 1993 Voter Registration Act. United States Congress Passes access to polling places in what many are Kemp, who is locked in a tight race against Democratic calling a historic election. nominee Stacey Abrams, is tasked with carrying out the voting The New Florida Majority and the college’s law in his role as secretary of state, which has led Democrats to El Faro Maritime Safety Act student government association are holding accuse him of attempts to suppress the minority vote to gain an a rally and march to the polls on the fi rst day edge in the election. The United States Congress has of early voting to get the word out to voters On Thursday, Abrams’s campaign called on Kemp to resign as unanimously passed a bill addressing and celebrate the recent addition of the campus secretary of state “so that Georgia voters can have confi dence maritime safety issues, which was voting site. that their Secretary of State competently and impartially oversee raised by the sinking of Jacksonville- A press conference and March to New Early this election,” spokeswoman Abigail Collazo said in a statement based cargo ship El Faro. Voting Site will be held Monday, Oct. 22 11:00 to CNN. Abrams, a former state representative and founder of The Hamm Alert Maritime Safety a.m. at Morris Cones Resident Hall, Corner of a voting rights advocacy group, would become the fi rst female Act of 2018 was passed by the Tyler St. and Kings Road. black governor in the nation’s history if she wins. 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