PRESORTED STANDARD .S. POSTAGE PAID WILMINGTON, N.C. PERMIT - NO. 675 50 CENTS Established 1987 - C elebrating 30 Years of E xcellence! VOLUME 30, NO. 5 March 2017 INSIDE 2 Opinions & Editorials 3 6 7 ‘Real Men Charities’ 3 Health & Wellness Combatting First Black Crew Ushers in New 4 Business News & Research Stereotypes: How Member to Join Leadership With New 5 Career & Education to Talk to Your International Executive Director and 6 Events & Announcements Expanded Board of 7 Spirit & Life Children Space Station Directors 8 Classifieds The Black Press Played Trump and the Black Caucus Vital Role in “Hidden Figures” Plan to Meet for the First Time By Lauren Victoria Burke (N NPA) Following a bizarre exchange with American Urban Radio Networks White House Correspondent April Ryan, the Congressional Black Caucus is in talks with President Donald Trump to “Hidden Figures” author Margot Lee Shetterly set up a meeting. Trump asked, Ryan, a (left) poses for a photo with New Journal and veteran Black journalist, if Guide publisher Brenda Andrews. she could set up a meeting Photo by Ernest Lowery/New Journal and Guide with him and the CBC, as if Ryan was an employee of By Stacy M. Brown headline blared. the White House or a special The CBC, which is now at its largest membership in history, traditionally requests a meeting with the new president after the inauguration. Photo of CBC mem- An accompanying pho- assistant to the CBC. Ryan (NNPA) In her book, to revealed 11 immaculate- responded by saying, “I’m a bers taken during a press conference outside of the Department of Justice in “Hidden Figures,” author ly dressed Black women in journalist.” Washington, D.C. in September 2016. Photo by Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA Margot Lee Shetterly pays front of Hampton Institute’s The confusing exchange homage to the African- Bemis Laboratory, grad- was one of several moments American women who uates of Engineering for at an unscheduled press con- and served as a high-rank- Democratic Caucus and rep- fect African Americans.” worked as human comput- Women, a war training class. ference Trump held at the ing executive at Breitbart resents millions of African The CBC, which is now ers in the space program. “‘The Journal and White House on February News, an online publica- Americans — did not hear at its largest membership It’s a book that’s Guide’ and the ‘Pittsburgh 16. tion known for trafficking in from the White House un- in history, traditionally re- spawned an Academy Courier,’ two of the grand- “Since the White House right-wing, alternative news til we introduced ourselves quests a meeting with the Award-nominated movie daddies of the Black Press, has reached out in an appro- that Bannon himself defined on Twitter after the White new president after the in- and has brought to the fore are mentioned prominently priate manner to request a as “the platform for the alt- House press conference to- the accomplishments of inside the hard cover copies meeting with the caucus, I right.” day.” auguration. Ironically, some Katherine Johnson, Dorothy of the book with a picture am now in discussions with The term “alt-right” The statement contin- of the meetings the CBC had Vaughan and Mary Jackson, that dates back to the 1940s,” them about setting one up,” is increasingly used to de- ued: “For whatever reason, with President Obama, spe- the brilliant Black women said Brenda Andrews, pres- Congressional Black Caucus scribe a new and emerging the letter the Congressional cifically on the topics of who worked at NASA serv- ident, publisher and owner Chairman, Rep. Cedric movement of racists and Black Caucus sent to then jobs and the challenges of ing as the brains behind of “The New Journal and Richmond (D-La.) said in White supremacists. President-elect Trump and Historically Black Colleges America’s nascent space pro- Guide.” a statement after the press Chairman Cedric incoming White House offi- and Universities, have had gram starting in the 1950s. The Journal and Guide conference concluded. Richmond (D-La.), said cials on January 19 was not tense moments. Inside the book, published its first issues in During an interview the following in response enough to get their atten- Shetterly also pays homage 1900 and, during the World President Obama did not to where she first got the no- War II, by many accounts, on MSNBC on February to President Trump’s com- tion. As the letter explained, meet with the Congressional 17, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries tion to write such a histori- was the largest Black em- ments regarding a meeting President Trump’s ‘New Black Caucus during his first (D-N.Y.) said that, “Steve with the Black Caucus: Deal for Black America’ is cal masterpiece. ployer in the South, accord- Bannon cannot be in the “President Trump has ill-informed and insufficient year in office. Meetings be- “In the first week of May ing to Andrews. room,” when the CBC meets been in office for almost a tween Obama and the CBC 1942, the ‘Norfolk Journal Its circulation topped and he would be wise to tap 100,000 and Andrews with President Trump. “He’s month and the Congressional into the decades of expertise were scarce even though and Guide’ published an ar- most of the members and the ticle that would…be like a said the newspaper joined a stone cold racist.” Black Caucus — which at a held by the Congressional others like the “Chicago President were members of signpost for the road not tak- Bannon is currently the historic 49 members is al- Black Caucus when it comes en,” Shetterly said. Defender,” the “Baltimore president’s chief strategist most a fourth of the House to addressing issues that af- the same party. • She even recalled the Afro-American” and the headline that accompa- “Pittsburgh Courier” in tak- nied the piece in one of ing the lead in writing about Can Trump Resist Behavioral Science’s Dark Side? the nation’s oldest African- Black interests and record- American-owned newspa- ing African-American his- By Jon M Jachimowicz pers. tory. PhD Student in “Paving the Way for Management, Columbia Women Engineers,” the ROLE Continued on page 7 University More than two dozen This Is Why Trump Is Lying governments, including the U.S., now have a team of About Voter Fraud and Crime behavioral scientists tasked By Lauren Victoria Burke with trying to improve bu- At a rally in Cleveland, reaucratic efficiency to Ohio on October 23, 2016, “nudge” their citizens to- (NNPA) There are two presidential candidate ward what they deem to be subjects in particular that Donald Trump said that, higher levels of well-being. the Trump Administration “14 percent of noncitizens A few recent examples lies about the most: crime are registered to vote.” include a push by the so- and voting. President Trump en- cialist French government During a recent inter- tered office lying about vot- to increase the numbers of view on “This Week” with er fraud and threatening an organ donors, a conserva- Behavioral science is a relatively young field, and George Stephanopoulos, investigation. Civil rights tive UK government plan President Trump’s senior leaders have called for an to prevent (costly) missed governments have only recently begun using its advisor Stephen Miller lied investigation of voter sup- doctor appointments, and about voter fraud during the pression during the 2016 efforts by the Obama White insights to inform public policy. 2016 elections. presidential election. More House to boost voter turn- Miller said that, “And recently, the lying crossed out on Election Day. you have 14 percent of non- over into the topic of an in- or more malicious ones. Just choices are influenced by al science to suppress the While the govern- citizens, according to aca- creased “crime wave” that ment’s use of our psycho- as behavioral science can be the environment in which vote of Hillary Clinton sup- demic research, at a mini- doesn’t exist. Now, the logical quirks to affect be- used to increase voter turn- they are made, changing the porters. mum, are registered to vote, lies about a vast American havior rubs some people the out, it can also be used to environment can change de- which is an astonishing sta- crime wave and record-lev- wrong way, most of us can suppress the votes of specif- cision outcomes. What’s in a nudge? tistic.” els of illegal voting seem to agree that the above exam- ic individuals likely to favor This can be positive to The UK was the first That statement is simply be coming together. ples achieve positive ends. the opposing side, as report- the extent that those design- in 2010 when it created its false. Miller couldn’t pro- On January 23, during More organ donors mean edly happened in the recent ing interventions have good Behavioral Insights Team. duce a single shred of evi- a meeting with members more lives saved, few- U.S. presidential election. intentions. But what hap- In subsequent years, dozens dence when Stephanopoulos of Congress and the White er missed doctor appoint- pens when someone uses of governments around the pressed him on the subject. House, President Trump ments mean the government The nudge, in other words, these insights to systemat- world followed, including But Miller was just re- lied about voting again. or health industry is more has a dark side. ically influence others’ be- Canada with its Behavioral peating what his boss said efficient, and increased vot- My research explores havior to favor his or her Insights Unit and the U.S., shortly before the election.