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http://nnpa.org/black-man-killed-in-a-chokehold-by-nypd-officer-by-herb-boyd/
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http://nnpa.org/water-city-officials-quiet-on-shut-offs-dwsd-dysfunction-victimizes-many/
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CASH IN THE APPLE 7-24-14
“UNSUNG”
RETURNS JULY 30TH – The popular TV One black music documentary
series “Unsung” returns with brand new biographies starting Wednesday, July 30th
at 8 p.m.. The acts the show will showcase include Montell Jordan (who we understand is a minister now), Hi Five, The Emotions, Martha Wash, Troop,
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Wilson Pickett, The Chi-Lites, Peaches and Herb, and Rick
James.
Watching
some of these personal biography shows are fun, entertaining and interesting,
and this summer season’s “Unsung” promises to be no less, so check it out.
CAPTAIN
AFRICAN-AMERICA – The Marvel Comics Group had already stunned me with the
announcement that in t6heoir comic books, they were going to turn Thor, the god of thunder, into a woman.
I still don’t get why, though I understand the need to push female superheroes.
But just make one up, why replace a male superhero?
But then
last week came the announcement that Steve Rogers would no longer be Captain
America in the comics, and that Sam Wilson, alias the Falcon, would take over the red, white and blue shield.
Apparently, in the comics, Rogers had that super serum which gave him his super
strength, sucked out of him, and he immediately became older and weaker. So
Sam, who is Cap’s African-American colleague, takes over.
As best as
I can tell, none of these changes in the comics are scheduled to hit the ever
popular Marvel movies yet. The upcoming film “The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron” in
2015 will still have Thor as a man, and Steve Rogers as Captain America.
Just not
sure how traditional comic book fans will take to all of these changes of their
favorite comic book characters. Just recently, Archie of Archie Comics was shot
dead by an assassin who was targeting his gay friend.
I confess
that I do miss the days when comic books were pure fantasy. That was a relief.
But in those days, all of the major superheroes were white.
Guess
reality had to see through sooner or later.
TWO DESERVING OF NOTE – Earlier
this month, two very important people of note passed on into history. Two
giants who should forever be remembered for their historic contributions to us
all.
Olympic champion Alice Coachman was the first black
woman to win an Olympic gold medal, by capturing the high jump in the 1948
London games. She died at the age of 90 two weeks ago in Albany, Ga..
Coachman’s victory was interesting
because even though she was congratulated by President Harry Truman, given a
party by Count Basie, and was celebrated in a motorcade back home in Georgia,
she was still treated as a second-class citizen when she got back to Albany,
where blacks and white were separated, and the white mayor refused to shake her
hand.
Coachman was also forced to leave
the auditorium through a side door.
Alice Coachman paved the way for
future black female sports champions like Wilma
Rudolph, Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
And then there was Bishop Harold Ivory Williams, the
senior prelate of Mt. Calvary Holy Church of America, and the husband of 31
years to award-winning gospel singer Shirley Caesar, who pastors the
1500-member Mt. Calvary Word of Faith Church in Raleigh.
Bishop Williams was a kind, decent
and godly man, soft-spoken, but strong in the Lord. The very first, and I mean
THE very first video project I ever did, was a wedding video at Mt. Calvary
where Bishop Williams presided.
Thank you for your service in the
Lord, Bishop Williams. You are missed.
Make sure you tune in
every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. for my talk radio show, ''Make It Happen''
on Power 750 WAUG-AM, or online at www.myWAUG.com.
And read more about my thoughts and opinions exclusively at my blog, ‘The Cash
Roc” (http://thecashroc.blogspot.com/2011/01/cash-roc-begins.html).
Cash in the Apple - honored as the Best
Column Writing of 2006 by the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
Columnist Cash Michaels was also honored by the NNPA for Best Feature Story
Journalist of 2009, and was the recipient of the Raleigh-Apex NAACP’s
President’s Award for Media Excellence in Sept. 2011.
Until next week, keep a smile on your face,
GOD in your heart, and The Carolinian in your life. Bye, bye.
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STANDING UNDER HISTORY - First Lady Michelle Obama stands under a vintage "colored" sign, listening to a tour guide, during a recent visit to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Ks. This year various historic civil rights events celebrated their 50th anniversary [White House photo]
KLAN RESURGENCE
ESCALATES
IN NC, ACROSS THE
NATION
By Cash Michaels
Editor
Two weeks
ago there were reports from Broadway, NC of recruitment literature from the
North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan showing up in the
front yards of concerned residents. “Save our land, join the Klan” the
pamphlets, sealed in plastic sandwich bags, said on the cover.
Inside, the
white supremacist sales pitch displayed an American flag, and urged, “America
Wake Up.”
Underneath,
amid messages to “join the white revolution” and “restore America to a white
Christian nation,” the KKK pamphlet asked if the reader “Had enough… busing,
integration, race-mixing, black welfare, black crime, black job quotas and
minority tyranny?” “Have you really had it?” the pamphlet finally asks, before
telling the reader how to come to a rally in the town of Welcome in Davidson
County on August 9th.
Reportedly
residents in Sanford and Spring Lake received the same Klan notices, which also
promised a crossburning at their rally next month.
If the KKK
recruitment drive was limited to just a few small towns in North Carolina, it
would get nary a notice. But according to the Southern Poverty Law Center
Intelligence Project, it’s part of a nationwide effort to capitalize on a
severely divided nation with a weak economy, wayward Congress, black president
of the United States, and heightened concerns about illegal immigration.
Over the past several months, Klan fliers have
also shown up in Georgia, southern Illinois, California, Louisiana and even the
Northeast.
In Oconee
County, South Carolina, the same Loyal White Knights fliers wer recently being
distributed in clear sandwich bags with peppermint candy in them, and a phone
number which rings to a recording that says, “ If it ain’t white, it ain’t
right. White power!”
Even though
many of the white people who have gotten the KKK fliers have openly rejected
the Klan and its white separatist message of hate in the media, observers say
they’re seeing a full court press to attract disgruntled whites to the fold.
Even though
the pamphlet message was decidedly anti-black, Klan leaders. Who boast a
membership of at least 8500 nationwide, say their prime objectives now are really
anti-immigration. And the KKK don’t see themselves as a hate group against
people of color.
Instead,
they say they are a civil rights organization for whites, led by the Bible.
“There is a
race war against whites,” wrote National Director of the Knights Pastor Thomas
Robb on national Ku Klux Klan website. “But our people – my white brothers and
sisters – will stay committed to a non-violent resolution. That resolution must
consist of solidarity in white communities around the world.”
‘The hatred
for our children and their future is growing and is being fueled every single
day,” Robb continued. “Stay firm ion your convictions. Keep loving your
heritage and keep witnessing to others that there is a better way than a war
torn, violent , wicked, socialist, new world order.”
“That is
the Christian way – law and order – love of family – love of nation. These are the principles of western Christian
civilization.”
Since the
2008 election of the nation’s first black president, observers like the
Southern Poverty Law Center have tracked a dramatic rise in Klan and right-wing
militia activity, not to mention hate crimes, and even white supremacist assassinations,
like the murders of two people at the Jewish Community Center in Kansas by
well-known North Carolina White Patriots Party leader F. Glenn Miller last
April.
“The radical right grew
explosively in 2011, the third such dramatic expansion in as many years,” wrote
Mark Potok, Senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center in a Spring 2012
report. “The growth was fueled by superheated fears generated by economic
dislocation, a proliferation of demonizing conspiracy theories, the changing
racial makeup of America, and the prospect of four more years under a black
president who many on the far right view as an enemy to their country.”
With racial
and anti-immigration feelings compounding daily, and white supremacist groups
more and more stepping out of the shadows over the past six years to gain both
numbers, and momentum, what does this mean for a nation that is increasingly
becoming nonwhite?
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STATE SUPREME COURT BLOCKS BOND FOR MAN
AWAITING RETRIAL
[RALEIGH]
Darryl Anthony Howard will have to wait to be released on bond pending a
retrial in his 22 year-old murder case, thanks to an order by the NC Supreme Court last week. The High Court
blocked a Durham judge from granting bond to Howard in order to review the
state Attorney General’s Office’s petition to keep him in prison until retrial.
Howard, now 52, was convicted of the 1991 double-murder of a woman and her 13-year-old
daughter in their Durham home. However, the recent discovery of exculpatory
evidence withheld by former Durham D.A. Mike Nifong and an investigator
prompted a petition for a new trial.
GOV.
MCCRORY SIGNS ANTI-COMMON CORE LAW
[RALEIGH]
As promised, Gov. Pat McCrory has signed a bill that rewrites North Carolina’s
Common Core grade school curriculum standards, tailoring them to what
Republican state lawmakers believe they should be. Last week the NC House
approved a compromise bill from the state Senate that will retain some elements
of Common Core for K-12 public schools. The law directs the state Board of
Education to develop new educational standards.
DUKE ENERGY CLEANS DAN RIVER OF COAL ASH
[Duke
Energy says it has completed cleanup of its massive Feb. 2nd coal
ash spill from the Dan River. The utility company says it removed the 2,500
tons of waste that spilled from its Dan river power plant that became the
source of major controversy, and ongoing investigations earlier this year. The US Environmental Protection Agency
monitored the cleanup.
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