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'Beloved' Toni Morrison Dies at 88 Volume 96 Number 51 | AUGUST 7-13, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents The Black homeownership decline in 13 neighborhoods affects wealth building. Miami Times Illustration/Mitzi Williams-Ogburn. Stock photos While Black homeownership slides, MDEAT’s money given to others PHILIPPE H. BUTEAU Miami Times Contributor John E. Dixon Jr., executive director of the iami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust’s Homeownership Assistance Pro- Miami-Dade Economic gram helps 7,900 families since it started in 1995. Only 40 percent of Advocacy Trust, at the that number were Black people. And MDEAT’s hands are tied, the agency’s top staff member said. agency's Economic M Development The Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust orig- Miami’s housing affordability crisis is worse inated in 1983 after the county acknowledged for Black and Hispanic households, researchers Breakfast series an economic disparity among Blacks and other for Florida International University, published in which takes races. MDEAT is supposed to work at leveling 2019. the economic playing field. In 1995, it added Specifically, homeownership rates decreased place on the first the Homeownership Assistance Program, which in almost all areas predominantly populated by Friday of provides some downpayment money to qualified Black people. county residents. That’s according to MDEAT’s Annual Report each month. The program can’t choose who applies for Card and Scorecard for 2018. MDEAT studies 17 assistance because of county laws. SEE MDEAT 6A ‘Beloved’ Toni Morrison dies at 88 English in 1953 and a Master or seen before. nated the white gaze without Locals share how the Nobel laureate's of Arts from Cornell Univer- At first, she was private “codes or notes explaining work impacted their professional lives sity in 1955. about her own writing and things to white people,” as After completing her stud- would do so as a pastime very she decided to put the entire TIFFANI KNOWLES her father, George, worked ies, she returned to Wash- early in the morning before plot on the first page. Miami Times Contributor primarily as a welder but ington, D.C. as a college her boys would wake. “Quiet as it’s kept, there held several jobs at once professor, married Jamaican “I remember reading the were no marigolds in the Toni Morrison, a major con- to support the family. architect Harold Morrison ‘Bluest Eye’ and thought it fall of 1941. We thought, at tributor to the African-Amer- Her mother, Ramah, then gave birth to two sons, was wonderful,” said Robert the time, that it was because ican literary canon and the was a domestic Harold Ford and Slade. Gottlieb, a Random House Pecola was having her father’s subject of the newly released worker. It was 1965, after splitting colleague and the chief editor baby that the marigolds did documentary “The Pieces I Morrison, a vo- from Harold, when she be- of the Alfred Knopf sub-divi- not grow.” Am,” died Monday at the age racious reader, gan her career as an editor sion. It was 1970 and “The Bluest 88. got her first job Feb. 18, 1931 - Aug. 5, 2019 at Random House where she When Random House got Eye” boasted a story inspired Her family and publisher as a library atten- was instrumental in publish- wind of the fact that she was by a conversation Morrison Knopf confirmed Tuesday dant and worked ing American writers and lu- publishing, they wanted to had had with an elementary that the author died at Monte- there until she minaries such as Angela keep her work in house and schoolmate in Lorain many fiore Medical Center in New went off to col- Davis, Henry Dumas so, with the exception of one years before. York on Monday night after a lege. and Muhammad Ali. book, Gottlieb got to edit all Her friend told her she had short illness. She went to Yet, she knew there of her books while they were been asking God to give her Morrison was born Chloe Howard Univer- was a story that still published through Knopf. blue eyes and he never did. Wofford in the steel mill town sity and received needed to be told, Her first book, as Morrison “How painful … can you of Lorain, Ohio in 1931 where her bachelor’s in one she hadn’t read claimed, intentionally elimi- SEE TONI 4A AMERICAN BUSINESS ................................................. 8B YOU & YOURS ............................................ 7D Today TENNIS 89° CLASSIFIED ............................................. 11B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 8D ASSOCIATION: IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 1C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 9D 102 YEARS OF LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 5C OBITUARIES ............................................. 12D FULFILLING DREAMS 8 90158 00100 0 INSIDE 12B Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | AUGUST 7-13, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage Credo Of The Black Press Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida Immigrants are (ISSN 0739-0319) The Black Press believes that America MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, can best lead the world from racial and Association of America Send address changes to Miami, Florida 33127-1818 national antagonism when it accords Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, scapegoats for Post Office Box 270200 to every person, regardless of race, $65.00 – Two Year $120.00 P.O. 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The mass shooting is being investigated as domestic terrorism and the FBI is evaluat- Dems debate: Time to narrow the field ing to see if the horrific incident was a hate crime. EUGENE ROBINSON, columnist, The Washington Post Immigration has always been an explosive issue in America. Black people 400 years ago were forcibly brought to the U.S. After the second two-night der the most revered figure in scripted applause lines sound How times have changed. These days, people from all over the Democratic candidates’ “de- the party, Barack Obama, who spontaneous. world are knocking on Homeland Security’s door, seeking entry. bate,” Joe Biden remains a vul- is viewed favorably by 97 per- She needed all those skills The immigration debate seem to come in cycles. nerable front-runner. And it’s cent of Democrats. and more, as she and Sen. One year, it was the attack on Dreamers, country-insecure definitely time to start win- Biden indeed wrapped him- Bernie Sanders came under children brought to and raised in America by parents who ille- nowing the field. self in the Obama mantle sev- withering attack from moder- Sen. Kirsten gally stayed. In South Florida, it was the unfairness of Wet Foot I put the word “debate” in eral times, but he seemed aw- ates such as former congress- Dry Foot, a law that allowed Cubans to emigrate to America just quotes because this week’s fully slow to do so. Gillibrand’s attempt to man John Delaney and Rep. by arriving onshore, while Haitians who came by sea – dubbed encounter, hosted by CNN, The contender who met- use a nearly 40-year- Tim Ryan for, in their view, Boat People – were sent home. Other crises include deporta- was structured to maximize aphorically knifed Biden in old op-ed to paint dragging the party disastrous- tions en masse; Sanctuary Cities de-funding; and the unleashing conflict and minimize clar- the June debate, Sen. Kamala Biden as some kind ly far to the left. Some com- of ICE on communities. ity. I accept that there’s no D. Harris, was less effective of“ Neanderthal who mentators had predicted that The focus today, however, has been on a crisis at the Southern way to have a truly satisfy- this time around. She flubbed believes a woman’s Sanders and Warren would border; and the detention of children separately from their care- ing exchange of views with a couple of her lines, and her fight each other for leader- givers who are arrested for illegal entry. Not being discussed is so many candidates onstage. attempt to go after Biden for place is in the home ship of the party’s progressive the strenuous qualifications and long wait time for those who But orchestrating a series of flip-flopping on the Hyde was, frankly, pathetic." wing. Instead, they joined try to immigrate legally. gladiatorial battles was a poor Amendment — which bans forces to defend their shared These crises show a critical need for immigration reform. choice. the use of federal funds to tempt to use a nearly 40-year- vision of a Medicare-for-all Administration after administration has written piecemeal laws That said, the big question pay for abortions — was little old op-ed to paint Biden as health system. Folks: Wheth- to address problems that need widespread overhaul. The U.S. was whether Biden — still far more than a glancing blow. some kind of Neanderthal er to achieve fully universal Congress is failing Americans and failing immigrants.
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