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Celebrating BOB (Black-Owned Businesses) | Carmela Bolding Scripture of the Month Download a copy of this newsletter at www.msbcdc.org FEBRUARY 2021 | VOLUME 90 Celebrating B.O.B. (Black-Owned Businesses) | Carmela Bolding uring these last four years, there has been an Dunprecedented focus on the Black community. While the media reports, both truthfully and falsely, and the public watches, listens to, laments and protests the violent assaults hurled at men and women of color, opportunities are peeking through clouds of despair, desperation, and anger. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage and Black and Hispanic people, the elderly and the very poor disproportionately die from the disease, there are businesses, owned and operated by Black people that are either struggling, have closed, or are earning just enough profit to stay afloat and make payroll. The time to support Black-Owned Businesses is NOW. It’s time for Black people to come together to build wealth within our parents are health tested and live in our home or our own communities, in order to create a more financially stable Guardian Homes as family pets. Your puppy will be raised as if it economy for present and future generations. It’s also time were going to be a part of our family, until it goes home to be a part for businesses within heavily populated Black communities of your family. I’ve found that the Australian Labradoodle is a dog to support more brands and services that are specific to that for everyone, young couples, empty-nesters, seniors, families, and market. singles. The Australian labradoodle finds a way to make themselves a part of your family. Your life will be changed for the better forever! Beginning in February and continuing indefinitely, we will celebrate B.O.B. (Black-Owned Businesses). It is our hope and prayer that with a little promotion and a good story well told, that B.O.B. will begin to grow and flourish during these Soul Kitchen volatile and uncertain times. By supporting B.O.B. it may help 1803 Rhode Island Ave NE, Washington, DC 20018 to improve our nation’s economy, which desperately needs a www.soulkitchenhealthyfood.com/about-us lift. We are all in this together and together we will survive. Happy Tails; Linda North; Phone: 301.741.2746; Website: happytailslabs.com We here at Happy Tails take pride in breeding puppies with the best temperaments that will grow into wonderful, smart, loving doodles. We are a small home-based breeder of Australian Labradoodles in Raleigh, NC. Our puppies are delivered to families all over the country. We make sure that our Labradoodles and puppies get all the love, attention and exposure to as many things as possible from the day they are born. All of our Labradoodle Scripture of the Month: Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 (NKJV) Celebrating the Black Woman in Politics: A Force that Speaks and is Not Silent | Carmela Bolding With a newly elected Vice President of the United States, whose nomination. Ms. Chisholm retired from Congress in 1983. ancestry is of Jamaican and East Asian descent, Kamala Harris, In 2005, she passed away at the age of 80. In November 2015, a Black woman, has stepped onto America’s stage to much fan- former President of the United States, Barack Obama, posthu- fare, praise, support, and a reasonable share of criticism. mously awarded Ms. Chisholm with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her voice is now one of the many Black female voices that booms with possibility and encourages excellence. Her speech Charlotta Bass and tone inspires and validates the intrinsic worth, intellect, Charlotta Bass, born in Sumter, South strength, resourcefulness, and beauty of the Black woman. She Carolina in 1874, was the first Black has helped to make history in politics and we are privileged to woman to campaign for Vice President witness this process and participate in it. of the United States. Her bid for the position in 1952 was on the ticket of This history is not solely Black women’s history. It’s America’s the left-wing Progressive Party, along- history that must not be forgotten. It is a dream, once deferred, side presidential candidate and lawyer that has now come to pass. The opportunities that will spring Vincent Hallinan. forth may, for some, be like a paycheck cashed with funds avail- able for deposit the same day. After her nomination as vice president for the Progressive Party, Bass said, ‘I stand before you with As we celebrate Ms. Harris’ victory, and a new era of women in great pride. This is a historic moment in American political politics, we must acknowledge past and present Black female life. Historic for myself, for my people, (and) for all women. pioneers, who have climbed the U.S. political ranks, while For the first time in the history of this nation, a political party breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations of has chosen a Negro woman for the second highest office in the women. land. It is a great honor to be chosen as a pioneer. And a great responsibility. …’ You may read Ms. Bass’ speech in its entirety The following profiles were cited from the “Independent: 7 black at https://portside.org/2020-08-11/charlotta-basss-acceptance- women who broke barriers in US Politics and Paved the Way for speech-vice-presidential-candidate-progressive-party-1952. Kamala Harris” by Sabrina Barr (https://www.independent. co.uk/life-style/women/kamala-harris-black-woman-us- Barbara Jordan politics-vice-president-joe-biden-dnc-a9678586.html). Other Barbara Jordan was sources cited include “The Story of Black Women in Politics: born in Houston, How We Got to Kamala Harris’ Ascent” by Janell Ross (https:// Texas in 1936. She www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/story-black-women-politics- was an American how-we-got-kamala-harris-ascent-n1236528) and Wikipedia. lawyer, educator, poli- org. tician, and a leader in the Civil Rights Shirley Chisholm Movement. Shirley Chisholm, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924, was an American After two unsuccessful campaigns to the Texas House of educator, author, and politician. She Representatives in 1962 and 1964, Ms. Jordan won a seat in the was a second-generation immigrant, Texas Senate in 1966. She was the first Black state senator since whose father was from Guyana and 1883 and the first Black woman to serve in that body. She was her mother from Barbados. re-elected to a full term in the Texas Senate in 1968, and served until 1972. In 1972, Ms. Jordan was elected to the U.S. House Ms. Chisholm became involved in of Representatives and was the first woman elected to represent politics in the 1950s. After overcom- Texas in the House. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was ing some resistance because she was instrumental in helping Ms. Jordan secure a position on the a woman, Ms. Chisholm was elected House Judiciary Committee. In 1974, Ms. Jordan made an in- to the New York State Assembly in 1964. She became the first fluential televised speech before the House Judiciary Commit- Black woman elected to the United States Congress, represent- tee, supporting the impeachment of former President Richard ing New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms Nixon. In 1975, Carl Albert, former Speaker of the U.S. House from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, during the United States presiden- of Representatives, appointed Ms. Jordan to the Democratic tial election, Ms. Chisholm became the first Black candidate for Steering and Policy Committee. In 1976, Ms. Jordan was the a major party’s nomination for President of the United States, Continued on page 3 and she was the first woman to campaign for the presidential Black Women in Politics Brotherly Love | Rev. Victor Wade Guest Correspondent (Continued) first woman and first Black person to deliver a keynote speech Editor’s Note: February is known as the love month as we at the Democratic National Convention. She was also named as celebrate Valentine’s Day. We often think about the romantic a potential running mate to Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Although version, but as we witness the current climate of social and she was not a candidate, Ms. Jordan received one delegate vote political injustice, and the rise in hate group activity, the for president at the Convention. N@TM team thought it appropriate to focus on brotherly love. Thanks to Rev. Wade for outlining the importance of Stacey Abrams brotherly love. In the late 1990’s, Stacey Abrams was working on her master’s degree (Read 1 John 3:10-24) in public policy at the University Jesus declared: “…all will know that you are My disciples, if of Texas-Austin, gleaning all that you have love for one another.” John wrote: “Whoever does she could learn from Rep. Barbara not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does Jordan. She was among the last not love his brother.” Brotherly love is the distinguishing students whom Jordan taught before characteristic of the Christian life. Jordan’s death in 1996. The opposite of brotherly love is revealed in the example of Born in 1973, Abrams became an Cain and Abel. Abel’s sacrifice to God was accepted. Cain’s American politician, lawyer, voting was rejected. Cain, then, resented and hated his brother and rights activist, and author, who served in the Georgia House of murdered him. John says Cain did so “because his works were Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as a minority leader evil and his brother’s were righteous.” Brotherly love reveals from 2011 to 2017.
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