sfltimes.com “Elevating the Dialogue” SERVING, MIAMI-DADE, BROWARD, PALM BEACH AND MONROE COUNTIES JULY 31 — AUGUST 6, 2014 | 50¢ IN THIS ISSUE SFLTIMES.COM | SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES | JULY 31 — AUGUST 6, 2014 | 1B Around South Florida 2B Obituaries 3B Prayerful Living 4B EVITUCEXE :ROTIDE DEMAHOM NIDULAMAH | MOC.SEMITLFS@NIDULAMAHM | 0639.653.459 MIAMI-DADE PALM BEACH T. Leroy Jefferson Society holds free health fair Staff Report Local political leaders will lend their support to a free community event this weekend when they welcome guests to the T. Leroy Jefferson Medical Society Health Fair, Saturday, Aug. 2, at 9 a.m. at FoundCare Health Center, 2330 S. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach. Palm Beach County Mayor Priscilla Taylor, West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio, West Palm Beach City Commissioner Keith James and Village of Palm Springs Vice Mayor Sergio Escalada will be on hand to welcome and talk with constituents who seek basic health care for both children and adults, PHOTOS COURTESY OF XIOMARA MEZA which the Jefferson Medical ENGAGED: Guests at a “Thou Art Woman” event observe the art on display at 1310 Gallery in Fort Lauderdale July 24. Be- low, co-curator Alana DaCosta performs at the event. Society provides through its legions of volunteer physicians and nurses at the annual event. Services on Saturday Artists’ community exhibit will include free checkups, Priscilla Taylor back-to-school physicals and immunizations; dental screenings; vision testing; pap smears; breast exams; diabetic testing; blood glucose and cholesterolsfltimes.com level addresses your ‘elephant’ checks; HIV testing; and breathing capacity checks. The back-to-school physicals and immunizations are for instance, revealed she Woman,” the event was with her poem, Bisexual By DAVID I. MUIR 2-month-old infants up to 18-year-old children. Parents was sexually abused as co-hosted by lawyers, Like Me. Special to South Florida Times must bring immunization records for their children. a child. She created a Ghenete Wright Muir, DaCosta sang about a The free health fair focuses on offering health care FORT LAUDERDALE sculpture called Home Phillipa “PJ” Hitchins and young girl reclaiming“Elevating her the Dialogue” and education to underserved, uninsured and at-risk — It's been a month Grown that reflects her Shenika “Nik” Harris. freedom. Miss Finesse, community members. of confessions and childhood moles-tation The event was a a transsexual woman, “Despite advances with the Affordable Care Act, the revelations at the 1310 “It's about acknowledging combination of visual and performed a poem and Gallery, an artspace it, owning it, so that it performing arts. ADVERTISING PROOF PLEASE TURN TO GALLERY/2B located within the doesn't define you,” Lopez Performers PLEASE TURN TO HEALTH/2B Sailboat Bend Artists' said. touched, engaged Lofts, a community Last week, another and entertained the created for resident topic that is some-times audience with poems artists. hidden from the public and songs that shared Each month, the artists view was on full display experiences regarding who live in Sailboat at the L'éléphant dans la being bisexual, lesbian Bend host an exhibition, Salle exhibition. or transgendered. Other for July, visual artist On July 24 the curators performers participated Niki Lopez and singer/ welcomed local LGBT to show their support of poet Alana DaCosta women to join the exhibit. the LGBT community. co-curated L'éléphant The women wanted Poet Iva McDaniels dans la Salle (the a place to meet, while kicked off the show elephant in the room) supporting the arts with The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Art Exhibition. L'éléphant an aim to dans la Salle is an idiom raise funds School Health Initiative is led by the for an obvious truth that is to benefit Department of Family Medicine and Community either being ignored, or the LGBT Health at UHealth – University of Miami Health otherwise unaddressed. community System and the Leonard M. Miller School of The exhibit also at large. Medicine. 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Lopez and DaCosta set up Primary and Preventive Health Services the exhibit to provide a safe • Physical examinations • Evaluations and management place to discuss, • Vision screenings and care of chronic conditions such as promote or • Hearing screenings asthma and diabetes reveal issues and • Follow-up medical care • Mental health services topics that are normally hidden • Treatment of minor illnesses • Immunizations from public and infections • Nutritional counseling view. • Preventive dental care, including • Adolescent health services Lopez, for dental screenings, fluoride • Referrals to specialty services varnishes, and sealants as needed • Restorative dental care • Laboratory services MIAMI-DADE • Telehealth services • Community resources and referral • Assistance with Medicaid enrollment assistance Judges under scrutinity by lawyers • Home visits by Community Health Workers Staff Report While judges do not write laws in the same way legislators do, to the extent that they interpret and apply the law, a judge’s role is equally important – especially to the people directly affected by their decisions. That is one of the reasons why the Gwen S. Cherry Black Women Lawyers Association is hosting the 2014 Judicial Candidates Forum 6:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 4, at New Birth Baptist Church Cathedral of Faith, 2300 NW 135 St., Miami. It’s an opportunity to get to know the judicial candidates seeking office in August elections in Miami-Dade. The lawyers have teamed up with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Dade County Alumnae Chapter and the Miami-Dade Chapter of National Action Network to invite the judicial candidates who will be on the Aug. 26 2014 Primary Election ballot to come out and talk with the community. The candidates will be available for a meet and greet. During the primary election, there will six Please contact the listed schools for more information about our services. circuit judge seats and two county court seats up for election. 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The group is nonpartisan and is seeking to improve the voters’knowledge about judges and how they are elected. “We urge voters to come out to learn about the judges and candidates who seek this privilege and responsibility,” said President Cynthia Henry Duval in a prepared statement. Refreshments will be provided at this free event, which is open to the public event. BREAKING NEWS LIKE US ON FOLLOW US ON ON SFLTIMES.COM FACEBOOK3 cols x 10.5”TWITTER @ SFLTIMES METRO/1BO: 954.356.9360 • F: 954.356.9395 • 3020 NE 32nd Ave., Suite 200 • Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 • www.SFLTimes.com Inside A Section PHOTOS COURTESY OF CELTIC LIFE.COM/NFL.COM CONTROVERSIAL: Composite photo shows Stephen A. Smith, left, and Ray Rice, who are caught in a domestic abuse scandal. SOFLO LIVE/4C Singer Nas ESPN suspends Smith for 1 week fi nds his roots Staff Report a diversion program, which, upon completion, offered his take on the issue, saying, among other could lead to the charges being expunged. things, that while men “have no business putting ESPN’s maverick commentator Stephen A. Despite the court’s decision not to impose your hands on a woman … let’s make sure we Smith is under fire for comments he made blam- criminal punishment, NFL Commissioner Roger don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions, be- ing women for putting themselves in harm’s way Godell “determined, as he advised Rice, that the cause … if we come after somebody [who] has when they are abused. conduct was incompatible with NFL policies and put their hands on you, it doesn’t negate the fact Smith has apologized and the network has warranted disciplinary action,” an NFL statement that they already put their hands on you. So let’s suspended him for a week. said. try to make sure that we can do our part in mak- His remarks came during a discussion on The NFL suspended Rice on July 24 without ing sure that that doesn’t happen.” ESPN2’s First Take on Friday about the NFL’s two- pay. He will miss the season opener against He added that “domestic violence or whatev- game suspension of Baltimore Ravens running AFC North champion Cincinnati on Sept. 7 and er the case may be, with men putting their hands back Ray Rice following charges he assaulted his the Sept. 11 game on Thursday night against the on women, is obviously a very real, real issue in now wife. The remarks attracted widespread at- Pittsburgh Steelers. our society. And I think that just talking about tention, including a stinging rebuke online from Godell also fined the six-year veteran an ad- what guys shouldn’t do, we got to also make sure TRIBUTE/2A a fellow ESPN personality.