Westside Gazette back issues from March 2004:
Cleanup of toxic waste sites drops dramatically under Bush Administration
Mar 03, 2004 ... Toxic waste sites in South Florida may not get cleaned up for years because the Bush administration is refusing to renew a "polluter pays" tax on oil and chemical companies that once funded the federal Superfund program, environmental groups stated last week. Cancer-causing chemicals have ...
OIC to honor famed Black artist at Jazz Gala
Mar 03, 2004; ... Charles Mills, the famed Harlem born and raised African American master illustrator, designer and painter, will receive the OIC Jazz Award at the 4th Annual OIC Jazz Gala, Saturday, March 13, 2004 at the Bahia Mar Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale. Charles Mills renowned special collection of ...
NAACP Get Out To Vote (GOTV): Operation Grassroots/March on Tallahassee
Mar 03, 2004 ... The Fort Lauderdale Branch NAACP 2004 GOTV (Get Out To Vote) initiative "Operation Grassroots", will be geared up by having all non-partisan organizations, fraternal, religious and concerned individuals bond together in unity to make this the greatest election turn out in Broward County's ...
A look ahead with Rep. Chris Smith: Challenges for the 2004 Legislature
Mar 03, 2004 ... It takes just 60 days for the Legislature to decide what programs to fund and what bills to pass. Each year Florida faces the same challenge of doing what is best for Floridians. This year's Legislative Session may not officially start until March, but the debate over issues began in January. ...
Alive and kicking at 105
Mar 03, 2004; ... Born Feb. 6, 1899 in Quincy, Florida, Mr. John Henry Jones can still work in his garden, cut grass and play the blues on his guitar. "I remember when I use to work for 50 cent a day, from sun up to sun down and boy it was hard work. Doin' that farm work. Tall new kids couldn't do ...
Justin Timberlake unjustified co-host of Motown Special
Mar 03, 2004; ... News that Justin Timberlake will co-host the ABC-TV special "Motown 45" hit many in the Black community like a ton of bricks and outraged Black civic and civil rights leaders. The "Breastgate" co-conspirator is scheduled to co-host (with singer Lionel Richie) the ABC celebration of the ...
Behind The Headlines; 21st Century Slavery: 'The dark side of free market corporate capitalism'
Mar 03, 2004; ... Part 4 Dr. David Korten, renowned author, economist, and educator tells us that the fourth principle of free market corporate capitalism says: "Privatization, which moves the functions of governments, and assets of governments, from governments themselves to the private sector, increases ...
Time to take a stand
Mar 03, 2004; ... There are people who are considered to be less superior than others It's quite obvious that I am speaking of our Black sisters and brothers We continually get stabbed in our backs and slapped in our face And it's all because we are born into this world as "the darker ...
Miami Film Festival, "The last word has not been spoken" Beah Richards states
Mar 03, 2004; ... The name Beulah Elizabeth Richards may not be familiar to many of this generation. This daughter of a preacher, born in 1920 was a renaissance woman. As a film actress she appeared in "Beloved", "In the Heat of the Night" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". She was nominated for an Academy ...
Legislation will add to Florida's success in preparing students for college
Mar 03, 2004 ... Governor Jeb Bush thanked State Senator Les Miller and State Representative John Quinones for sponsoring a bill that will put Florida's successful College Board Partnership into law. The bill will continue the state's five-year commitment to improve college readiness for all students and will ...
Research Fund accepts applications for Hearst Minority Scholarship
Mar 03, 2004 ... The Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, a grant-making program of the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., annually offers the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship, which is based on academic excellence and need, is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who are ...
Sunland residents urge the City of Fort Lauderdale to finish its renovation of Joseph C. Carter Park
Mar 03, 2004; ... Concerned Sunland residents met with Fort Lauderdale Park and Recreation officials to discuss the completion of Joseph C. Carter Park. Nearly two years ago the park closed and $4 million in renovations began. It was scheduled to be finished in June 2004. Now five months before the scheduled ...
Northwest 23 Avenue renamed for Eula Johnson
Mar 03, 2004; ... In celebration of Black History Month, the City of Fort Lauderdale in partnership with Broward County hosted a ceremony to rename a portion of N.W. 23 Avenue in honor of Fort Lauderdale Civil Rights Pioneer Eula Gandy Johnson. The ceremony took place at Arthur Ashe Middle school located at 1701 ...
March On Tallahassee organizers issue challenge to change in South Florida; "Make your voices heard, first at the march, then at the polls!"
Mar 03, 2004 ... After a rousing show of support from members of the State Legislature, the Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches, People For The America Way, labor leaders, students and others in Tallahassee earlier this week, a major Call to Action is now being trumpeted in South Florida. Supporters of ...
U.S. appealing Virginia cross burning sentence
Mar 03, 2004 ... Federal prosecutors are appealing a sentence that spared a cross-burner prison time, saying the judge improperly considered a Black man's obscene gesture as provocation. Robert Nelson May was sentenced to probation and five months house arrest for burning a cross near the home of an ...
Rapper Keith Murray on the prison system of America
Mar 03, 2004; ... A person gets locked up; he has to pay money to his lawyers, while the lawyers break bread, so to speak, with the system. Jails have contracts with food companies, making those companies serious money. Prisoners' work while incarcerated for below minimum wage as low as seven cents per hour and ...
Willie Gary donates $100,000 to the Overtown Youth Center
Mar 03, 2004; ... More than 400 turned out to pledge their support for the Overtown Youth Center, OYC, in its first fundraising events, "It's All Overtown." Foundation by former NBA basketball star Alonzo Mourning, the 18,000 square foot Center includes a computer lab, gymnasium, dance studio, and community room ...
Life after prison
Mar 03, 2004; ... "Once kids 'hit' that system, believe me they're in it! And let me tell you, they want you back! Like Motel 6 - they leave the light on for you!" Part three of an exclusive interview with Dr. Henry Lyons In the third part of an exclusive interview with Dr. Henry Lyons, ...
Read to lead's historic Fathers' Scholarship Tour
Mar 03, 2004 ... Fathers from Miami-Dade County's District 1 Schools were treated to the Dr. Bob Ingram's Read to Lead Scholarship Tour, a scholarship program District 1 School children receive after reading the required amount of books and becoming 'Reading Leaders'. The Read-To-Lead Scholarship Tour is ...
Stephanie Mills to perform for Edward Waters College benefit
Mar 03, 2004; ... Legendary Grammy and American Music Award-winning recording artist Stephanie Mills be the special celebrity guest at the Fifth Annual Fine Arts Scholarship Benefit Concert to benefit Jacksonville's Edward Waters College. The concert will be held Saturday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m., in the Jim ...
Local attorney donates $10,000, secures match of $10,000, for student scholarships
Mar 03, 2004 ... Community leaders Sheila and Eugene K. Pettis recently established the Pettis Family Endowed Scholarship with a $10,000 donation to the Broward Community College Foundation. The donation was formally announced at the BCC District Board of Trustees meeting on, January 28. Eugene Pettis, ...
The Robertson Treatment (America's Premiere Lifestyle Column) Volume 7, Issue 3: Ice Cube: Calling All Shots
Mar 03, 2004 ... For me that grew up listening to his music, tucked away in the back room of Mom's house with the volume on 3, ears pinned to the speakers, it's hard to imagine a conversation with Ice Cube that doesn't revolve around music. However, assuming that same young adult has watched his meteoric rise in ...
Haiti capital braces for attack
Mar 03, 2004 ... Rebels reportedly faced little resistance in Haiti's second city Government supporters in Haiti have set up roadblocks at key points in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and erected barricades at the presidential palace. Police are said to be abandoning their posts as rebels seeking to overthrow ...
Controversial gay/lesbian book makes a stormy Black History Month debut
Mar 03, 2004 ... Black History Month 2004 is serving as the backdrop of the much anticipated and highly controversial new book release, "Black, Gay & Christian" by Atlanta author, Herndon L. Davis. This 16 chapter, gay/lesbian affirming, and biblically based spiritual empowerment tool is being touted as the ...
Studies find birth trauma can lead to child abuse
Mar 03, 2004 ... Birth is a life-changing experience. Each birth brings with it a new and different set of experiences and feelings, but birth trauma can have serious and long-lasting effects. A Swedish study showed that those who have a traumatic and painful birth are more likely to end their life with ...
Sheriff Ken Jenne Reports; BSO's Fire Rescue Dispatchers rated best
Mar 03, 2004 ... If you call 911 because of a medical emergency - whether someone is having a heart attack or having a baby - you need a trained professional on the line to dispense life-saving advice until paramedics arrive. That help is available here today. The Broward Sheriff's Office has long held ...
Coming apart at the seams: Haiti's slide into anarchy
Mar 03, 2004 ... "What we are asking the international community for is not to reserve 50,000 beds in Guantanamo for refugees. Just one bed would be sufficient" - Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, former Aristide backer With the fall of Gonaives and the port of Cap-Haitien, second largest city in Haiti, it now ...
Strands of Black History echo at M Ensemble
Mar 03, 2004 ... Eric Wilson's Strands won an American College Theatre Festival award in 1992. It's neither a play nor a musical it unfolds like an engaging hip-hop oratorio in a rare production by the M Ensemble Company for Black History. Savion Glover might have known of Strands before his Bring in Da ...
Minister Win Thompkins recently completed an CD album entitled With People Mind
Mar 03, 2004 ... Win Thompkins was born and raised in South Florida. The third oldest in a family of ten children, in a happy home filled with laughter, music and song. Raised in a Christian home, it was natural for Win and his siblings to sing in the church choir. As the young men grew into talented ...
Laser treatment means quicker recovery from enlarged prostate
Mar 03, 2004 ... Many older men can commiserate on this one: frequent nighttime bathroom trips usually occur because of an enlarged prostate. A condition that becomes increasingly common as men age, an enlarged prostate can constrict the urethra and make it harder for urine to pass through. Medication ...
New director appointed for Office of Professional Standards
Mar 03, 2004 ... As director, Poag will oversee reviews and investigations in support of the County's Whistleblower Program. The office conducts investigations in support of Broward County ethics policies and also assists County agencies in increasing efficiency of their operations. "Mr. Poag's ...
Smiley and guest lay groundwork for strengthening the Black family
Mar 10, 2004; ... Since the days when the Black Community was self-sufficient, and people were proud to work because it was a means to feed, cloth and care for their families, there has been a dismantling of the pride in a job well done. Now, today when children are more influenced by video games, rap and ...
Black History in the making: Blending toughness with compassion: Delsa Bush becomes first Black female chief of West Palm Beach Police Department
Mar 10, 2004; ... Not only is Delsa Bush, 42, West Palm Beach's first Black female police chief, she was also the city's first Black female police officer, starting on the force in 1983. The list of firsts does not end there, however, because Bush was also the city's first Black sergeant, lieutenant, ...
Authors book debut - 'Unconditionally Your's
Mar 10, 2004; ... Author and poet Donald Anderson may not have published his first book, for now, if it hadn't been for his younger brother keeping his work for 15 years. "He showed up at may house one day and gave me the laminated copies of work I did when I was in 10th grade." Anderson's book signing at ...
Local teen to meet with national leaders in Washington, D.C.
Mar 10, 2004 ... Mr. Pearce Grinnell of Lauderhill has been selected to participate in the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) in Washington, D.C. from March 2 to March 7, 2004. NYLC is a unique leadership development program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and ...
The role of parents in rearing children
Mar 10, 2004; ... Parents knowledge is power. No one can take this away from you. Learn everything that you can to be able to pass this knowledge on to your children, because if your children can read, write, and compute with clarity and understanding and can articulate the issues, they will be successful in ...
Kidnapping charges leveled against US by Aristide; Bush administration adamantly denies accusations; Former president says he'd rather die first than leave country
Mar 10, 2004; ... As Haiti's capital city of Port-au-Prince braced for a massive outpouring of jubilation following President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's abrupt Sunday departure, a new controversy was just beginning to brew over allegations made by Aristide during a series of urgent phone calls, that he was abducted ...
New bill will outlaw driving or flying while Black, brown, or religious; a Black Press exclusive
Mar 10, 2004; ... A West African immigrant reaches for his wallet and is shot 41 times. A U.S. Customs agent violates an African American woman in an embarrassing search. An innocent Arab man is detained in an airport and questioned for hours. In February 2001, President George W. Bush stood before a ...
First Broward OIC began in 1970
Mar 10, 2004; ... With a board of directors headed by Roy Mizell, the Broward County Opportunities Industrialization Centers, (OIC) program came into being in 1970 to prepare African Americans, and others in need, for the world of work and to provide job placement for them. Almost a year before the OIC ...
Bush Administration criticized for distorting scientific findings to suit policy goals, objectives
Mar 10, 2004; ... In a scathing statement issued February 18, 2004 by 60 renown scientists including nearly two dozen Nobel laureates, the Bush administration was soundly criticized for distorting scientific findings to suit policy directives pertaining to the environment, biomedical research, nuclear weapons and ...
The Gantt Report
Mar 10, 2004; ... In my opinion, you can get more from marching into Zion than from marching around Tallahassee! The great March that Miami preachers and so-called civil rights leaders predicted would take place in Tallahassee turned out to be a slow crawl. Maybe 1500 persons attended the event and even ...
Frankly Speaking; Bin Laden already caught
Mar 10, 2004; ... Frankly Speaking has predicted many events that the present administration would do in the name of politics. Again it is making an important prediction. Frankly Speaking is predicating that Bin Laden will be presented as caught before October, 2004. In fact it is highly probable that ...
Former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek received the First Inaugural Outstanding Education Leadership Achievement Award
Mar 10, 2004 ... Former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek received the First Inaugural Outstanding Education Leadership Achievement Award for her commitment to education for African Americans at the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center at Nova Southeastern University in Davie., Feb 19. "My name is Meek, ...
UNCF names new president
Mar 10, 2004 ... The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has named Dr. Michael L. Lomax as successor to William H. Gray, III as president & CEO of UNCF after a 13-year tenure. Dr. Lomax, who currently serves as president of Dillard University in New Orleans, will officially join UNCF on June 1, ...
Home Box office seeks entries for seventh HBO short film award competition; Five finalists will be chosen to vie for $20,000 grand prize
Mar 10, 2004 ... Home Box Office announced recently that it is - eking entries for its Seventh Annual HBO Short Film Award, to be presented at Film Life's Eight Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in Miami, Fla., July 14-18. The HBO Short Film Award was created in 1998 to celebrate the writing and ...
Cheap Trick, Ray Conniff, Mahalia Jackson, Kris Kristofferson and Earl Scruggs in stores on Columbia/Legacy and Epic/Legacy
Mar 10, 2004 ... Distinguished by attention to chronology, detailed overviews of artists' recording careers, scholarly liner note essays, packages that include rare or unpublished photography, and (wherever possible) repertoire whose selection has been personally supervised or endorsed by the artist or their ...
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Mar 10, 2004 ... March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer, which includes cancers of the colon, rectum and anus, is the second deadliest cancer in the United States, after lung cancer. Although the death rate from colorectal cancer has been decreasing for the past 15 years, the American ...
New print of Black inventors, scientists available for purchase
Mar 10, 2004 ... A new, vibrantly colored print displaying African American inventors and scientists and some of their creations is planned for permanent exhibition at the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron. While the primary focus of this work by Spectrum Research and Development, Inc., a Black owned and ...
New book shows how to travel to Africa free and trace your roots to specific tribal groups
Mar 10, 2004; ... New Book called Roots Recovered! The How To Guide for Tracing African-American and West Indian Roots Back to Africa and Going There For Free Or On A Shoestring Budget. Roots Recovered is a travel guide unlike any other. Not only does it tell you how to fly to Africa for free or very cheaply, ...
Dixon's punishment dwarfs crime
Mar 10, 2004 ... The application of the aggravated child molestation and its mandatory 10-year sentence gave no discretion to the judge or jury. The prosecutor in the case has distorted the intent of a particular law and taken the attitude of "lock him up, put him under the jail and throw away the key, ...
It's ladie's night for Avant as platinum R&B star launches new tour and hot new single/video 'Don't Take Your Love Away'
Mar 10, 2004; ... Caught red-handed, new millennium style: that's the plot line of Avant's new video "Don't Take Your Love Away." The clip shows how devastating video cell phones can be, with Avant starring as a man cheating on his lady while her best friend records the affair with her camera cell phone. Spying ...
Oh yeah bitter b!$ch got something to say
Mar 10, 2004 ... The Supreme Court said would decide whether me Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under the age of 18 when they committed their crimes. This is the latest in the Court's effort to re-examine of capital punishment. The Court could ban the practice, as 4 justices have ...
Colon cancer screening low among African Americans
Mar 10, 2004 ... African Americans on Medicare - and therefore with apparently equal access to healthcare - are less likely than Caucasians to undergo colorectal cancer screening, a study show. African American is diagnosed more frequently with colorectal cancer at later stages than are Caucasians, the ...
Rep. Smith calls on community to lend a helping hand to former gridiron standout
Mar 17, 2004; ... On Saturday, March 13 from 9 to 11 a.m., at the African American Research Library, Rep Smith is hosting a breakfast in an effort to raise the necessary funds to assist English in paying the taxes on his home. I am sure we all remember the name Kendrick English. Most of us watched him, ...
Biography Robert Carter; 50 years later: A tribute to NAACP Brown attorneys
Mar 17, 2004 ... The Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP Presents "50 Years Later" a lecture with the Honorable Robert Carter, former NAACP National General Counsel, who along with Attorneys Constance Baker Motley and Thurgood Marshall argued and successfully won the historic Brown v. Board of Education. The ...
Putting profits over safety; Grand jury issues scathing report regarding girls maximum-security prison in West Palm Beach
Mar 17, 2004; ... A scathing report released after a 16-week grand jury probe found that Premier Behavioral Solutions Inc., the Coral Gables-based firm contracted to operate the Florida Institute for Girls in suburban West Palm Beach failed to protect the inmates while allowing dangerous circumstances to fester ...
If there was no slave trade
Mar 17, 2004; ... One of the most unimaginable thoughts one could possibly think of is what the world would be like had there been no Trans Atlantic slave trade, or any form of slavery. The most obvious thing is that racism/white supremacy would not have existed. They were created out of slavery. Of course, ...
More than meets the eye
Mar 17, 2004; ... As the movie Barbershop II receives rave reviews and increases in popularity, there is realism in the movie that is being lived by the owner of Fresh Cuts Barbershop at 780 Foster Road in Hallandale, Florida. John Hardwick is the sole proprietor for Fresh Cuts Barbershop that has been keeping ...
Bush Administration's lack of concern for Haiti shameful
Mar 17, 2004; ... At present the U.S. led by the Bush administration appears fully engrossed in overrunning the Middle East in a shameless attempt to portray itself to the rest of the world as a liberator of the down trodden. The Bush Administration classes itself as a perpetuator of human rights, dignity, ...
Positivist reigns supreme in New Birth
Mar 17, 2004; ... With so much negativity shown in the African American community it is wonderful to know some positivist does still exists. On Saturday, February 28th, 2004 new Birth Baptist Church in North Miami played host to Tavis Smiley's "Strengthening the Black Family" Symposium. The conference started ...
Broward County Government mourns loss of Property Appraiser William Markham
Mar 17, 2004 ... Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman, on behalf of the Board of Commissioners, extends, deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Broward County Property Appraiser William Markham. Markham unexpectedly passed away Monday morning, March 8. In his memory Mayor Lieberman has asked the ...
Rose Darden, well-known community activist passes at age 66
Mar 17, 2004; ... Rose Merry Darden, well-known community activist from Riviera Beach died Feb. 20, 2004 at the age of 66. Darden, the widow of former Riviera Beach Police Chief William "Boone" Darden, the first Black to serve as the chief of police for a large Florida city, is credited with starting St ....
Local salon owner is looking for students of former cosmetology instructor Eric Mitchell
Mar 17, 2004; ... Did you study cosmetology under the direction of Eric Mitchell? If so, Faye Bailey, owner and operator of All Dolled Up Hair Salons and School of Cosmetology needs your help in organizing and participating in a gala to honor Mitchell who spent years teaching the "art" of cosmetology. "I ...
'Ain't misbehavin'. Myth that suburban youth better behaved than inner city youth dispelled
Mar 17, 2004; ... A newly released study entitled, The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, put out by the conservative think tank, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is sure to stir up more controversy over juvenile justice with its far-reaching conclusions. Specifically, the study ...
The Jasper Williams Jr. teaching, preaching and pastoring in the 21st century: A call! A command! A challenge!
Mar 17, 2004 ... The Jasper Williams, Jr. Preaching Ministries will host a conference like no other - "Teaching, Preaching & Pastoring in the 21st Century: A Call! A Command! A Challenge!" April 12-16, 2004 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. About The Conference: The ...