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FEATURES MICHAEL BAISDEN 

ON JUNE 6 

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MCDONALD’S GOSPELFEST BRINGS TALENT 

AND GOSPEL GREATS TO SOLD OUT CROWD 

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A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER 

Good News You Can Use! 

We have lost a legend - Hal 

Jackson. I had the great pleasure to 

work with Hal Jackson when I promoted 

the “Real Men Cook” event 

about six years ago. I was amazed at 

how Hal continued to entertain the 

crowd for hours in the hot sun outside 

during a hot June day at Minisink 

in Harlem, when he was then 

about 92 years old.. For years I have 

looked forward to enjoying the Classics 

on WBLS on Sunday afternoon. 

We will miss you Hal. R.I.P. 

The McDonalds Gospelfest 

was amazing. Steve Harvey of course 

stole the show with his humor. However, 

all the performers were magnificent. 

Curtis Farrow also introduced 

some new artists as young as 5 years 

old. I sat there feeling that I was 

being introduced to the new young 

Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder. 

Since this show was sold out two 

weeks in advance, plan now to buy 

your tickets early next year. 

(see page 10) 

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A R T S & C U L TURE 

JOSE FUENTES: DEEP EMOTIONS EXPRESSED VIA ART 

By Stacey Ann Elis 

Exec. Prod. The Blackwash Televised Art Gallery 

In recalling his work entitled "September 

Angels", a work that was the 

result of his own personal experience 

on 9/11 when the Twin Towers were 

destroyed.It is an abstract work on an 

abstract day; as well as a visual imprint 

of the abstraction of emotions he felt on 

that fateful day. When asked about the 

motivating factors for the work Jose 

describes the experience in his own 

words: 

"I recall the extent of horrific 

fear that welled up inside of me when I 

realized that my eldest son Jose was 

working in that area. I fought the surge 

of panic compelling me to go searching 

for him in Lower Manhattan, forcing 

myself to wait at home for news of him 

until finally, he was able to call and let 

me and his mother know that he was on 

his way home in a car full of strangers 

that had offered him a ride to the Bronx. 

My son finally arrived home just after 

8:30pm that night. The attacks happened 

about 12 hours earlier and for me, 

those 12 hours were an eternity - as they 

were for so many others. 

While in Puerto Rico I had done 

colorful sketches depicting the idyllic 

life there and was working on a painting 

when the attacks occurred. Days later, 

September Angels 

after the shock of 9/11, I attempted to 

return to my painting but found that as 

much as I tried, I couldn't finish it. It 

was as if the attacks on the World Trade 

Center and the worry about my son had 

ripped away my joy and my desire to do 

work in color. 9/11 took precedence in 

my mind and I decided to draw and 

paint my feelings about the experience. 

The colors of that eventful day had been 

imprinted on my mind. The beautiful 

Cerulean Blue of the September sky that 

day, contrasted against the grey smoke 

and ash that turned the New York skyline 

and Lower Manhattan into a dismal 

cloud of shock, horror and sadness. As I 

Maria's Tropical Kitchen 

“Bomba” 

worked on it my tears fell on the paper 

and blended into the charcoal that I was 

using, Today the painting remains 

unfinished, just as the 9/11 attacks 

remain unresolved 11 years later. Since 

that fateful September day, I have only 

worked in black and white through the 

medium of Printmaking." 

Jose Fuentes was born in Puerto 

Rico, raised in the Bronx, New York and 

very aware of his Afro-Latino roots. He 

was a self taught artist, mainly interested 

in painting nostalgic scenes recalled 

from his childhood island home. When 

painting became more than just a hobby 

to him Jose studied Anatomy at the Arts 

Sketch for “Bombero” Print 

Students League of New York. He then 

decided to pursue a Bachelor of Fine 

Arts at Lehman College where he is 

presently enrolled, majoring in Fine Art 

Printmaking. 

Jose Fuentes can be contacted 

at jaf3356@gmail.com. 

You can find out more about 

Stacey Ann Ellis at http://about. 

me/blackwash or e-mail her at ellisarts@aol.com. 


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COMMUNITY 

WELCOME TO HARLEM: YOUR DIGITAL AND 

PHYSICAL GUIDE TO HARLEM AND BEYOND 

By: Peter Cooper 

Pictured above is Carolyn Johnson, 

Welcome to Harlem Founder and 

President, and the “Harlem Travel Guide” 

Welcome To Harlem is a 

resource for tourists and 

community members 

alike. It encompasses a visitor center 

located at (2360 8th Avenue) in 

Harlem, a Guide Book entitled 

“Harlem Travel Guide”, an extensive 

website (www.welcometoharlem.com), 

an application for 

your smart phone, and walking and 

bus tours. 

WelcomeToHarlem.com 

was founded in 2005, “as an informational 

portal for the community 

of Harlem considering we were 

developing so fast as a community,” 

voiced founder and President 

Carolyn Johnson. In 2008, Johnson 

began giving tours of the Harlem 

community and NYC with highly 

customizable itineraries. Soon 

after, she teamed up with her mentor 

Valerie Jo Bradley to create a 

Harlem Travel Guide Book entitled 

“Harlem Travel Guide,” which was 

published almost three years after 

it’s inception in December of 2011. 

This comprehensive look at Central 

Harlem, East Harlem, West 

Harlem, and Washington Heights 

is a gem of information for travelers 

and community members. Soon 

after, the app for the iPhone and 

Driod rolled out which now has 

over 350 entrees and over 2,000 

photos. “Everybody is fascinated 

by this community, and I just 

wanted to be lucky enough to be 

one of the ambassadors to bring it 

out there to the world,” expressed 

Johnson proudly. 

Welcome To Harlem is currently 

formulating a new tour entitled 

“The Amazing Harlem 

Challenge” which will be theme 

based ranging from the Harlem 

Renaissance, to Jazz, to ‘When 

Harlem was Jewish’, and many 

more. Instead of the traditional 

guided walking tour this will be 

riddle based and participants will 

answer clues and find locations. 

This will be introduced by the end 

of June so get your teams ready 

now and be on the look out! Johnson 

also commented that they are 

in the process of adding new businesses 

and writing up landmarks 

for an app update that will roll out 

soon. Another great feature is the 

free community calendar, which is 

open to all local businesses and 

community events. Sign up online 

and it automatically is transferred 

to the smart phone application. 

“I just wanted to put a positive 

spin on a community that was 

so underappreciated and always 

just had a negative image attached 

to it.” 

For more information visit 

Welcome To Harlem at 2360 8th 

Avenue in Harlem, by phone at 

212-662-7779, or online at 

www.welcometoharlem.com. To 

purchase “Harlem Travel Guide” 

visit welcometoharlem.com or find 

on Amazon. 


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OPT ED: 

WHEN WILL OBAMA EVOLVE ON THE DRUG WAR 

By Sheldon Richman 

EDITORIAL 

Much is made of how President 

Obama's position on samesex 

marriage has "evolved" to 

an endorsement of legalization. One 

hopes his position on the atrocity called 

the "war on drugs" is evolving. 

It's not really a war on drugs. 

It's a war on people, most of whom 

have committed no violence or other 

aggression against person or property. 

Those who do commit violence are 

encouraged to do so by the very "war 

on drugs" that Obama and other 

enlightened leaders so enthusiastically 

support. Black markets often feature 

violence - precisely because they are 

illegal. Decriminalize the activity, and 

the violence goes away. 

America had a natural experiment 

in this principle: Prohibition. 

When the manufacture and sale of alcohol 

was made illegal by constitutional 

amendment in 1920, booze didn't disappear 

from society. It simply went 

underground to be dominated by those 

with a comparative advantage in thuggery. 

Ending prohibition brought alcohol 

into the legitimate market (although 

unfortunately regulated and licensed). 

The violence related to the manufacture 

and sale of alcohol went away. 

Thus the violence perpetrated 

by Latin American drug cartels and 

gangs in the United States is not an 

argument against decriminalization. It's 

an argument for it. 

It's well known that an unconscionably 

high percentage of the American 

population is in prison. We can 

thank the government's persecution of 

drug commerce for that shameful fact. 

It is also increasingly understood that 

militarized police drug raids terrorize 

people every day, often killing individuals 

who were not even intended as targets. 

The American people should 

demand that this systematic oppression 

be stopped. The police have become the 

enemy of Americans, mostly but not 

exclusively members of minority communities. 

The raids that end in death at 

least make the headlines and perhaps 

upset people for a short while. But 

another part of the war on drug commerce 

gets less attention. When consenting 

people buy and sell drugs, there 

is no victim to complain. So to make 

arrests, police need to trap people - 

many of them young - in drug transactions 

and then threaten them with long 

jail terms unless they become informants. 

Many take these deals - against 

their deepest beliefs - for fear of having 

their lives destroyed by felony convictions 

and time in the hell holes we call 

prisons. They proceed to set up drug 

deals with friends and family members 

just so they can produce cases for the 

cops and leniency for themselves. 

Can there be a worse indictment 

of the sadistic government crusade 

against drugs What possible good is 

done by police blackmailing the most 

vulnerable, even helpless, people into 

informing on others Cooperation with 

the police under these circumstances, 

despite the duress, is morally wrong - 

but we must first condemn the police - 

and politicians who back them - for 

putting people in this situation. What 

kind of society is this It does not 

deserve to be called humane. 

But drugs are dangerous, people 

say. It's about time this empty slogan 

was thrown on the trash heap. Illegal 

drugs are not illegal because they are 

dangerous. Other substances that can be 

used in harmful ways - most obviously 

alcohol - are legal. Many legal activities 

that people love to engage in are 

highly dangerous. Certain drugs have 

been singled out for prohibition historically 

not because they are especially 

dangerous but because they were associated 

with minority communities. The 

story of the "drug war" is not of a 

humane effort to create a healthy, safe 

society. It's a story of persecution and 

control - and of tax-funded largess for 

law enforcement and the "drug-rehabilitation" 

industry. 

Politicians in Latin America are 

beginning to understand that the drug 

wars tearing their countries apart would 

end overnight if the drug industry were 

decriminalized. No one would be more 

opposed to decriminalization than the 

drug lords, because they'd lose their de 

facto monoplies. 

No drug could do even a tiny 

fraction of the damage that the drug 

war does. Mr. Obama, when will your 

position evolve 

Sheldon Richman is senior fellow 

at The Future of Freedom Foundation 

(www.fff.org) and editor of The 

Freeman magazine. 

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RAPID REALTY: 

A SUCCESS STORY IN THE MAKING 

By William A. Rogers 

REAL ESTATE 

In 1998 Anthony Lolli, CEO and 

Founder of Rapid Realty, created 

a real estate firm that specialized 

in rentals at a time when most 

real estate firms focused on sales. In 

2009 the struggling sales market 

was forcing many real estate companies 

to scale back. However 

Rapid's strength in rentals allowed 

them to start a real estate franchising 

business opportunity that 

launched a massive wave of expansion 

that is still growing. 

In just a few years, Rapid 

Realty grew from a single office in 

Brooklyn to more than fifty, with 

locations in all five boroughs, Long 

Island and New Jersey with office 

development plans in Boston, 

Philadelphia and Atlanta. Lolli's 

vision is to make the Rapid Realty 

brand a household name across the 

country. "When you visit a new city 

and need to rent a car you call 

Hertz, Enterprise, or Avis. When 

you move to a new city and need to 

rent an apartment you'll call Rapid 

Realty" states Lolli. 

The company's Harlem Franchise 

office opened in January of 

2010 at 172 West 130th Street 

which became the first Rapid Realty 

office to open in Manhattan. The 

company currently has seven other 

Manhattan locations. Unlike other 

franchise companies, in Rapid's system 

anyone can work from any 

franchise, regardless of which franchise 

they are assigned to. The business 

model allows agents to show 

the inventory of every office in the 

network. A customer can search for 

rentals throughout the city without 

changing agents at locations close to 

home or work. 

Jennifer Jones and Clark 

LeMelle are the co-owners of the 

Harlem franchise, both have extensive 

management and business 

experience. Clark, who is the Broker 

for the Harlem office, was the 

co-owner of three bars in his native 

Queens. 

Jennifer is a remarkable 

woman, who lost her husband at an 

early age and is a single mom and a 

cancer survivor. Jennifer worked 

twelve years in the hospitality 

industry with Interstate Hotels & 

Resorts, the largest independent 

Jennifer Jones co-owner Harlem RR 

franchise, Anthony Lolli CEO/Founder 

Rapid Reality Real Estate Company, 

Clark E. LeMelle co-owner Harlem 

RR franchise. 

hotel management company in the 

nation. She also worked for the 

National Association of Home 

Builders. 

Every franchise location is 

also a career development recruitment 

center that can provide individuals 

the opportunity to become 

real estate agents. The company has 

relationships with real estate 

schools throughout the city and they 

cover the cost of tuition for aspiring 

agents who may be unable to afford 

the classes required to obtain a 

license. Anthony Lolli, credits the 

company's rapid growth in such a 

short time to its ability to create 

hundreds of jobs at a time when 

opportunities are scarce. Rapid's 

unique business model includes taking 

an assembly line-style approach 

to real estate, makes it easy and 

affordable to start an office and has 

attracted people in other industries 

interested in developing their own 

real estate franchise business. 

For more information on 

Rapid Realty visit 

www.rapidnyc.com or AnthonyLolli.com, 

or simply call Jennifer Jones 

or Clark LeMelle co-owners of the 

Harlem office at 631-621-1722 you 

can also email them at 

jjones@rapidnyc.com for Jennifer 

and clemelle@rapidnyc.com for 

Clark. You will be hearing a great 

deal more about Rapid Realty it is 

truly a success story in the making. 


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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 

Through June 30 

Honoring the Living History and Artistic 

Vibrancy of East Harlem. A unique 

multimedia public art exhibit, celebrates 

East Harlem's cultural and historical 

importance by honoring seven 

remarkable local heroes. For any further 

information call The Dwyer Cultural 

Center by telephone at 212- 

222-3060 or by email at info@dwyercc.org 

Through July 2nd for YMCA Summer 

Membership Special. Join for only 

$200 Adults/ $275 Families Join the 

YMCA all summer long (until September 

3rd) for one low price. No Joiners 

Fees! Pool, Sauna, Steam Room, 

Cardio Center, Free Weight Room, 

Basketball Court, Free Fitness Classes, 

Free Child Watch, Free 12 week Y Fit 

Program. Located180 West 135th 

Street between Lenox and 7th 

avenue. For more information: Bill 

Kanas (212) 912-2112, 

wkanas@ymcanyc.org or 

ymcanyc.org/Harlem 

May 26 at 2 & 7:30pm, May 27 & 28 at 

3pm. The 35th anniversary of 

DanceAfrica -under the artistic direction 

of Baba Chuck Davis features the 

largest gathering of dance companies 

in its history, with 15 companies in 

attendance including Ghana's 

Ammamere Mma Dance Theatre in its 

DanceAfrica debut, the return of 

many favorite performers, and 

reunions of companies from the earliest 

DanceAfrica festivals. Tickets start 

at $20, half price for ages 16 and 

under. BAM Howard Gilman Opera 

House (30 Lafayette Ave) 

May 25 from 10am - 4:30 pm 

Senior Game Day is a fun filled event 

in which multiple Senior Citizen Centers 

come together to compete in various 

games (Wii Bowling, Chess, Billiards, Bid 

Whist, Spades and Dominos). The 

opportunity to win 1st place trophies 

and other prizes. Certificates of Participation 

will also be issued to all participating 

centers. Admission is Free. Hot 

lunch is $1.50 per senior citizen. Located 

at Central Harlem Senior Citizens' 

Centers, Inc., 120 West 140th Street. For 

info visit Jonathan Carrington, Program 

Coordinator/ Site Manager at 

212-926-4465 

June 2nd, 2012 from 10am – 4pm 

Assemblymen Keith L. T. Wright and 

the Frederick E. Samuel Community 

Democratic Club 4th Annual Health 

Fair on at P.S. 175 at 135th Street btw 

Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, and Lenox 

Avenue, School Yard 

June 3 from 1:30 - 4:30 P.M. 

National Cancer Survivors Day Celebration. 

25th annual, worldwide 'Celebration 

of Life' - cancer survivors, 

caregivers, health professionals, local 

elected officials, and community will 

unite in this symbolic event to show 

that having an active, productive life 

after a cancer diagnosis can be a 

reality. Health Screening, Children 

Bounce Ride and Activities, Refreshment 

will be sold, Health Vendors and 

much more. Located at the Women 

Conquering Cancer, 1174 Bedford 

Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11216. Event is 

'Free' Event for the Family. For more 

info contact: (347) 789-3064/(718) 783- 

0238/ksha1949@yahoo or visit 

www.womenconqueringcancerbk.org 

Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26 & Friday's, 

June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 at 3:30 pm - 4:15 

pm 

New York Historical Society presents 

Little New-Yorkers. Each class will 

include story readings, time with historic 

toys, free exploration, a special 

Little New-Yorkers hello song, and time 

in DCHM OR a craft project. The time 

in DCHM/craft project will alternate 

each wee. Free with Museum Admission, 

for ages 3 - 5. Admission, Adults - 

$15, Teachers and Seniors - $12, Students 

- $10, Children (7-13) - $5, Children 

(under 7) - free.Located at 

Dimenna Children's History Museum, 

170 Central Park West, New York, NY. 

For more info call (212) 873-3400 or visit 

www.nyhistory.org 

June 9th at 8pm, Cocktails & Conversations 

at 6pm 

One Day Concert "Ancestral Chant - 

The Celebration Continues." The annual 

concert, which kicks off Caribbean 

Heritage month and a major performing 

season for the company, honors 

the late cultural icons Cheryl Byron, Dr. 

Pearl Primus and Nina Simone. Support 

Something Positive! alongside The 

Mighty Sparrow, Senator Kevin Parker, 

and Justin A. Davis. Located at The 

Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts 

(Long Island University Brooklyn Campus 

– Flatbush Avenue between 

DeKalb Avenue and Willoughby 

Street). To purchase tickets to Ancestral 

Chant, contact the Kumble Theater 

Box Office at 718-488-1624 or 

online at www.kumbletheater.org. 

June 17 at 12:00 pm 


Father's Day Scavenger Hunt 

Kids and dads practice their history 

detective skills with a tour and scavenger 

hunt designed with dads in 

mind! HOOPS TO HALO: CENTURIES OF 

GAMES KIDS PLAY Free with Museum 

Admission. Admission, Adults - $15, 

Teachers and Seniors - $12, Students - 

$10, Children (7-13) - $5, Children 

(under 7) - free. Located at Dimenna 

Children's History Museum, 170 Central 

Park West, New York, NY. For more info 

call (212) 873-3400 or visit www.nyhistory.org 

June 17, 2012 3:00 - 4:30 pm 


Celebrate Father's Day with a special 

family workshop all about games - 

parents and kids learn about historical 

games and build their own video 

game prototypes. A New-York Historical 

Society educator will lead families 

with children between ages 7-12 

through galleries and behind-thescenes 

to view different toys and 

games in the collection. Please make 

a reservation at dchm@nyhistory.org. 

Admission, Adults - $15, Teachers and 

Seniors - $12, Students - $10, Children 

(7-13) - $5, Children (under 7) - free. 

Located at Dimenna Children's History 

Museum, 170 Central Park West, New 

York, NY. For more info call (212) 873- 

3400 or visit www.nyhistory.org 

June 21 - Sunday, June 24 

UPTOWN FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS 

The festival is a celebration of the People's 

Theatre Project's 2011-12. Resident 

Professional Playwrights' Unit. 

These talented playwrights work 

together over the course of 8 months 

to develop new works with a focus on 

social consciousness, inspired by the 

Washington Heights community. The 

festival provides an opportunity for the 

playwrights to share their works-inprogress 

with community members 

who may witness aspects of their own 

reality reflected and see creative 

approaches to understanding the 

meaning of their struggles. Admission 

to the festival is pay-what-you-can 

and each performance will be followed 

by a discussion with the playwright, 

director and actors. Located at 

Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace, 

NY, NY, 212-923-8008. 

Thursday, June 21st at 7:30pm. Festival 

Opening Cocktail Hour from 6:30- 

7:30pm 

AN ALIEN IN INWOOD When an old 

stargazer from Inwood believes he has 

found mankind's salvation in a homeless 

traveler, the stranger turns out to 

be a different sort of "alien." 

June 24th at 2pm. A closing Garden 

Party follows the performance from 

4:30-6:30pm 

THE JUXTAPOSITION OF GLADYS RICART 

A bride marches to find her wedding, 

her best friend tries to put the pieces 

of the puzzle together, her fiancé is lost 

and her ex-boyfriend wants to hold 

tight. Based on Gladys Ricart's tragic 

story that inspired the March of the 

Brides, this play explores the things we 

don't see in domestic violence.Located 

at Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel 

Terrace, NY, NY, 212-923-8008. 

Saturday, June 23, 11am - 4pm 

FAMILY DAY 

Come enjoy Roger Morris Park along 

with your family. Play colonial games, 

make a historic craft project and 

enjoy the beginning of summer in our 

colonial garden! The day will also 

include docent led tours for adults and 

families. FREE no advanced registration 

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ENTERTAINMENT 

DOCUMENTARY FILM “THE SAVOY KING, THE 

MUSIC THAT CHANGED AMERICA” 

FEATURED AT HARLEM JAZZ SHRINES FESTIVAL 

Standing (L/R) Jeff Kaufman, “Savoy King” Producer/director/writer; 

Joe Wilder, Trumpeter, NEA Jazz Master; 

Voza Rivers, “Savoy King,” Co-Executive Producer; 

Jamal Joseph, “Savoy King,” Co-Executive Producer. 

Seated Gertrude Jeannette, H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players 

Picture Credit - Seitu Oronde 

Hundreds attended a private 

Harlem screening presented 

by Columbia University of 

“The Savoy King, the Music that 

Changed America,” as part of the 

successful Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival 

on Friday, May 11th. “The 

Savoy King,” written and produced 

by Jeff Kaufman and co-executive 

produced by Professor Jamal Joseph 

(co-founder and executive artistic 

director of New Heritage Films) and 

Voza Rivers (co-founder and executive 

producer of New Heritage Films) 

will have its premiere this June at the 

Seattle Film Festival. 

“The Savoy King,” a documentary 

about the life of Chick Webb 

and the world famous Savoy Ballroom 

in Harlem, was shown 75 years 

to the date when the Benny Goodman 

Band challenged Chick Webb to the 

famous Battle of the Bands at the 

Savoy. Chick Webb, the in-house 

band for the Savoy Ballroom was 

declared the winner. 

The documentary features 

interviews with local Harlemites, Ms. 

Gertrude Jeannette, actress and original 

member of the American Negro 

Theater (est, 1940), Harlem practitioner 

Dr. Muriel Petioni, John 

Isaacs, part of the legendary 1939 

world basketball championship the 

Harlem Rens, and dancers Norma 

Miller (The Queen of Swing and a 

member of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, 

a professional team of Lindy dancers 

who called the Savoy home), and the 

legendary Frankie Manning, choreographer, 

famous for the dance move 

he created at the Savoy Ballroom 

called the “Air Step,” as well as 

interviews with NEA Jazz master Joe 

Wilder and others. 

Voza Rivers Executive Producer 

declared, “We are pleased to 

bring this film to Harlem during this 

special weekend of activities celebrating 

Harlem’s historic music 

emporiums from the Harlem renaissance.” 

“The Savoy King” features 

the voices of an all-star cast including 

Bill Cosby as Chick Webb, John Legend 

as Duke Ellington, Billy Crystal 

as Mezz Mezzrow, Tyne Daly as 

Helen Oakley Dance, Andy Garcia as 

Mario Bauza, Janet Jackson as Ella 

Fitzgerald, Ron Perlman as Gene 

Krupa, Eugene Robinson as Teddy 

McRae, Danny Glover as Count 

Basie, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as 

Dizzy Gillespie, Keith David as 

Charles Buchanan, Charlie Watts as 

Stanley Dance, Bruce “Sunpie” 

Barnes as Barney Bigard, Voza 

Rivers as Sandy Williams and narrated 

by Rocky Carroll. 


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THE 29TH ANNUAL MCDONALD’S GOSPELFEST A HUGE SUCCESS WITH GOSPEL GREATS 

HIGHLIGHT 


Over 18,000 people packed into the SOLD out 

GospelFest at the Prudential Center on May 12th 

(photo by Peter Cooper) 

Steve Harvey 

(Photo by 

Michelle James) 

(L/R) A. Curtis Farrow 

with Cissy Houston 

(Photo by 


Vickie Winans 

(Photo by 


Mayor of New Jersey, Corey A. Booker on far right 

with hosts 

(Photo by Michelle James) 

Jah ‘Kev - Winner in Praise Dance 

Group 

(Photo by Irving Street) 

Isaac Zellner - Winner Praise 

Dance Solo (Photo by 

Irving Street) 

Denise Perez - Winner in 

Spanish Language Solo 


The 29th Annual McDonald’s Gospelfest 

took place on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 

the Prudential Center (165 Mulberry 

Street, Newark, NJ). The Gospel Extravaganza 

brought out a packed house with over 18,000 

people. The Event housed a healthy dose of religious 

competition in genres from Gospel Rap to 

Dance to Solo to Choir and more. With the 

headliners being among the biggest names in 

Gospel and Entertainment today including 

Shirley Caesar, Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, 

Fred Hammond, Vickie Winans, Cissy Houston 

and a special comedy set by Steve Harvey. 

It is amazing to note that thousandspeople 

auditioned from all over the world and 

1,000 competitors made it to the McDonald’s 

Gospel Fest. The 2012 McDonald’s Gospel Fest 

winners are as follows – In the Gospel Rap category 

-“Che Che da Supastar” from East Orange, 

NJ. In the Praise Dance Solo Category – Trio 

Isaac Zellner from Freeport, NY. In the Step category 

– ‘Steppers With Class’ from Poughkeepsie, 

NY. In the Praise Dance Group Category - 

Jah ‘Kev Prod. Performance Ensemble from 

Winston-Salem, NC. In the Adult Choir Category 

- Greater Central Jersey Community Choir 

from Plainfield, NJ. In the Group Category - 

Evangelist Barbara Daniels and God’s Gift from 

Steppers With Class - Winner in Steps Category 

(Photo by Irving Street) 

Greater Center Jersey Community Choir - 

Winner in Adult Choir Category 


Passaic, NJ. In the Spanish Language Solo Category 

- Denise Perez from the Bronx, NY. In the 

Adult Solo Category - Jose Figueroa, Jr. from 

the Bronx, NY. In the Teen Solo Category - 

Chaude Cymone Taylor from Central 

Islip, NY. In the Youth Choir Category - Joy 

Unlimited Youth Choir from Philadelphia, PA. 

The evening was packed full with talent 

and the Spirit of God was definitely in the 

building. The night hit a solemn note during the 

tribute to Whitney Houston which featured New 

Hope Mass Choir. 

Gospelfest is produced and directed by 

Emmy Award winning Producer, A. Curtis Farrow. 

The McDonald’s Gospelfest is made 

possible by the McDonald’s Tri-State 

Owner/Operator Association which has awarded 

millions of dollars in scholarship money. The 

McDonald’s Gospelfest competition aids as a 

fundraising event, which supports education 

opportunities within local communities. There 

are more than 600 McDonald's restaurants, 

owned by 100 franchisees, located throughout 

the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tristate 

area. 

For more information, please visit 

www.mcdonaldsnytristate.com. 

www.harlemnewsgroup.com 

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EVENTS 

"WELCOME TO BOOKEXPO AMERICA" RECEPTION AND BOOKSIGNING EVENT FOR MICHAEL BAISDEN! 

JUNE 6, 2012, JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, 1 - 5 PM 

Amber Communications Group Inc's 2012 

African American Pavilion Booth at Book- 

Expo America booth will be hosting a special 

"Welcome to BookExpo America Michael 

Baisden" Reception and Booksigning for the internationally 

renowned author, radio and television 

talk show personality, and a Celebration and Booksigning 

of New York Times and Essence Magazine 

Best-Selling Author Zane and the Strebor Books 

Legacy, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, New 

York City, Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 1:00pm - 

5:00pm in the ACGI African American Pavilion 

Booth. 

Michael Baisden is undeniably one of the 

most influential and engaging personalities in 

broadcast history. His meteoric rise to #1 is 

redefining radio with the numbers to back it up. 

The show is syndicated by Cumulus Media and is 

heard in over 78 markets nationwide with over 8 

million loyal listeners daily. 

Since his radio show debuted nationally 

in 2005, Mr. Baisden has captured the hearts and 

minds of millions of Americans with his provocative 

mix of relationship talk, hot topics, politics and 

the best of old school with today's R&B. His high 

energy and love for interacting with his listeners is 

just one reason for the popularity and success of 

The Michael Baisden Show. 

Michael Baisden was recently voted as 

one of the most influential men in radio and since 

2007, when he partnered with TV One to host and 

co-executive produce "Baisden After Dark", featuring 

comedian George Willborn and band leader 

Morris Day, the show has been a smash hit, breaking 

records for viewers on the TV One Network. 

The show currently airs weekdays. 

According to Simon & Schuster, Michael 

Baisden is “probably the most successful self-published 

African American male author out there 

today.” With nearly 2 million books in print both 

hard and soft cover, his books blend the perfect 

combination of entertainment, humor, provocation 

and sexuality. Michael’s vibrant personality on and 

off the air has made him a people magnet. 

He began attracting attention with primarily 

female followers as author and publisher of the 

highly successful best selling books: "Never Satisfied: 

How and Why Men Cheat", "Men Cry in the 

Dark", "The Maintenance Man", "God's Gift to 

Women" and most recently a hot new book “Never 

Satisfied: Do Men Know What They Want.” Baisden 

is currently writing his 6th book to be released 

in 2012. Two of his titles ultimately were adapted 

into stage plays playing to sold out crowds across 

the US. 

New York Times Best-Selling Author, 

Zane, is undeniably the largest selling author of her 

genre in the world. Her books on sex and erotica 

have sold in the millions. Her company Strebor 

Books is dedicated to publishing a wide diversity of 

both fiction and non-fiction books. Strebor Books 

is committed to finding and developing the careers 

of cutting-edge authors who take risks with their 

stories. 

A personal vision of Zane's, Strebor 

Books International examines every aspect and 

characteristic of the human spirit. From contemporary 

romance to science fiction, from mystery to 

erotica, from paranormal to historical, from political 

to religious, no genre is overlooked amongst the 

continuously expanding catalog of titles. 

Zane has the power of discernment when 

it comes to ascertaining "the next big thing" as 

proven with her own success; going from a grassroots 

publisher to running an imprint of Simon and 

Schuster in less than five years. 

Zane is the Creator, Scriptwriter and 

Executive Producer of "Zane's Sex Chronicles," the 

highly rated Cinemax series based loosely on her 

real life, and the upcoming "Zane's The Jump Off," 

premiering on Cinemax Spring 2013. She is currently 

writing two feature film screenplays, a broadway 

musical, and her novel "Addicted" is scheduled to 

be filmed this summer by Lionsgate. 

She is a huge advocate against domestic 

violence. Her book "Breaking the Cycle," dealing 

with the effects of domestic violence on children, 

was the 2006 NAACP Image Award winner for 

Outstanding Literature. She was featured in the 

HBO documentary "The Black List," which examined 

the lives of African-American overachievers 

like Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, Russell Simmons, 

Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Chris Rock. 

Swiss Public Television has also produced 

a documentary on Zane entitled "Zane: 

Queen of Erotica," that was translated into several 

languages and broadcast throughout the world. 

Amber Comminications Group Inc's 

African American Pavilion at BEA is no stranger to 

influential men and women alike, particularly those 

in the literary world. Since ACGI's Publisher/CEO 

Tony Rose founded the African American Pavilion 

at BEA in 2004, the event has featured special guest 

appearances by Magic Johnson, Haki Madhubuti, 

Wesley Snipes, Tavis Smiley, Tom Joyner, 

Zane, Kassahun Checole, W. Paul Coates, Dr. 

Cornell West, George Fraser, Omarosa, Sybil 

Wilkes, Flava Flav, Coach Tony Dungee, Prodigy 

of Mobb Deep, Terrie Williams, Dr. Steve Perry 

(CNN & Random House), Max Rodriguez (The 

Harlem Book Fair) and Annette Thomas (NAACP 

Image Awards Literary Coordinator), to name a 

few. 

BookExpo America, one of the largest 

book trade exhibits in the world, provides independent 

African American book publishers, self publishers, 

authors, Black Interest Imprints at major 

publishing houses, distributors, literary agents, publicists, 

librarians and bookstore owners exposure to 

20,561 book buyers and booksellers from across the 

globe. The event takes place at the Jacob Javits 

Convention Center, New York City June 5th - 7th 

2012. 

Now in its Ninth Year, Amber Communication 

Group, Inc.'s African American Pavilion 

Booth at BEA, exhibit space, will showcase 

African American books, authors, products and 

publishers. There will be great opportunities to 

learn, share, educate, sell and network. 

Join Book Industry Professionals and 

Authors for the "6th Annual Black Pack Party", 

Wednesday June 6th, 6-9pm at Londel's Supper 

Club, 2620 Frederick Douglas Blvd (at 140th St) 

Harlem, NYC. Hosted by AALBC.com, Mosaic- 

Books.com, Linda A. Duggins, Written Magazine 

and The Book Look. Party mix and mingle uptown 

in Harlem as we celebrate Book Industry Professionals, 

Authors and Friends. 

For more information visit 

www.africanamericanpavilion.com 


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EVENTS 

OVER $700,000 RAISED AT STEVE & MARJORIE HARVEY FOUNDATION GALA TO EMPOWER AND UPLIFT YOUTH 


Steve and Marjorie Harvey 


Soledad O'Brien, Gala MC and 

CNN Anchor, and 

Dr. Steve Perry, Founder & Principal 

Capital Preparatory Magnet 

School and Helping Hand 

Award Honoree 


The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation Gala 

took place on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 

Cipriani Wall Street. The Steve & Marjorie 

Harvey Foundation's Helping Hand Award Honorees 

included BET Networks' Chairman and CEO Debra 

L. Lee, director/producer Spike Lee and best-selling 

author/activist Tonya Lee, Capital Preparatory Magnet 

School founder and CNN contributor Dr. Steve 

Perry, and Victory Junction founders/NASCAR 

icons Richard Petty and Kyle Petty. The night 

included special performances by Bill Cosby and 

Rachelle Ferrell. 

Hosted by Steve Harvey and Soledad 

O'Brien, the evening was a powerful remembrance 

and example of helping, empowering, and uplifting 

young men and women. Over $700,000 was raised 

throughout the evening to benefit The Steve Harvey 

Mentoring Weekend for Young Men and the Girls 

Who Rule the World Mentoring Weekend. These 

two programs empower 13 to 18 year olds with tools 

and hands-on experiences dedicated to realizing their 

dreams and building their futures as successful, 

responsible adults. For more information visit 

www.smharveyfoundation.org. 

Richard Petty and 

Kyle Petty, Helping 

Hand Award 

Honorees 

(photo by W&W PR) 

"There were only two people I wanted to 

be, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby," expressed Steve 

Harvey as he introduced Cosby onto the stage with a 

standing ovation from the audience. Of course 

moments later Cosby had the audience close to tears 

in laughter. The second set of the evening entertainment 

included the incomparable Rachelle Ferrell. 

Her voice floated through the air as if the sound 

waves were wings of angels, flowing a piece of 

Heaven into my ears and bringing me face to face 

with the Creator for a brief instant. 

"How do I explain the powerful life 

changing moments at the Ranch in Texas where for 

the first time I had the opportunity to get to know 

others similar to myself who shared the same struggles 

and ordeals," voiced Nick Young, Steve Harvey 

Mentoring Weekend for Young Men Dallas 2011 

Participant, "will the audience understand how a 

teenage boy who has never had a positive male influence 

in his life somehow learn in one weekend to 

become a man" 

India Hester, Girls Who Rule the World 

Mentoring Weekend 2011 passionately voiced, 

"Girls who Rule The World has played a significant 

role in preparing me to take giant steps, steps that I 

(L/R) Steve Harvey; Tonya Lewis Lee, 

Helping Hand Award Honoree; 

Marjorie Harvey; Spike Lee, 

Helping Hand Award Honoree 


Debra Lee, Chairman 

and CEO BET 

Networks and Helping 

Hand Award 

Honoree (photo by 

Peter Cooper) 

hope will eventually lead to achieving success in my 

future endeavors." 

"We only talk about manhood and dreams, 

cause that's really when you shake it all loose. You 

have to understand that if you don’t have a dream 

then, what are you going to be" asked Steve Harvey 

on the subject of his Mentoring Weekend for Young 

Men, "And if you need to understand that real men 

go to church, real men respect the law, real men 

honor women, real men open doors, real men take 

care of their children, real men go to work everyday, 

real men support their community, real men give 

back." On a roll and straight from the heart Harvey 

passionately continued, "All a boy needs is for one 

man to come along and say, ‘You look a little bit 

like I did when I was fifteen, man what you want to 

be I bet you are going to be something big'…all of 

us have that moment when somebody said something 

to us that made all the difference." However 

the steps to action are expensive and Harvey 

announced that they will break ground in 2013 for a 

permanent Mentoring Space on his Ranch in Texas, 

Harvey voiced, "we need your help, we can't do this 

by ourselves." 

Bill Cosby and 

Steve Harvey 


Nick Young, Steve 

Harvey Mentoring 

Weekend for Young Men 

Dallas 2011 and 

India Hester, Girls Who 

Rule the World Mentoring 

Weekend 2011 


"I have never accomplished anything, the 

people around me have made me everything I am," 

commented Richard Petty during his Award acceptance. 

"Life is but a string of moments… You don't 

know when that moment is going to come," 

expressed Dr. Steve Perry. "America is only as good 

as all of her Citizens, not just a select few," passionately 

voiced Tonya Lewis Lee 

Over 400 people attended this year’s Gala 

including celebrities, friends, family members and 

supporters including Gayle King (CBS This Morning 

anchor), Terrence J (host of BET's 106 & Park), 

actor Romany Malco, actress/model Selita Ebanks, 

and Hollywood producer Will Packer ("Think Like 

A Man"). The Gala was sponsored by Screen Gems 

(title sponsor), Essence Magazine (print sponsor) 

with additional sponsorship support from The Coca- 

Cola Company, Neiman Marcus, Black Entertainment 

Television (BET) and Ford Motor Company. 

To sponsor a child for The Steve Harvey 

Mentoring Weekend for Young Men and the Girls 

Who Rule the World Mentoring Weekend and to aid 

in the future endeavors and growth of the Steve & 

Marjorie Harvey Foundation visit www.smharveyfoundation.org 

today. 


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‘TRIPOFFTHEMAP’ - INTRO AND CADIZ, ESPANA 

By: Peter Cooper (FROM THE PAGES OF MY TRAVEL BLOG) 

TRAVEL 

During the Fall of 2010 I completed a program 

known as Semester at Sea. This program 

is an international Study Abroad 

opportunity that infuses education, travel, and real 

world theory. 

The world was and is my classroom, 

always learning, always evolving. My voyage 

included 109 days, 15 ports, 12 countries, 4 continents, 

and 3 oceans (phew, time for a breath). 

Beginning on August 26th, 2010 we journeyed 

from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Cadiz, 

Spain; Casablanca, Morocco; Takoradi, Ghana; 

Cape Town, South Africa; Port Louis, Mauritius; 

Chennai, India; Singapore; Ho Chi Minh City, Viet 

Nam; Hong Kong / Shanghai, China; Yokohama / 

Kobe, Japan; Honolulu / Hilo, Hawaii; and concluded 

in San Diego, California, USA on December 

13th, 2010. For more information on Semester 

at Sea visit www.semester atsea.org 

For the following few weeks I will share 

some of my travel pieces from my blog entitled, 

“Trip Off The Map” 

Written on Monday, August 16th of 2010 

in response to my forthcoming departure. -- 

"Your arrival has been scheduled for 

months, oh my dear friend departure how I humbly 

accept your hand once again. Rock me to sleep 

with that of which I have no knowledge of, sway 

me back and forth while singing lullabies in 

tongues that I can't imagine even as you whisper 

them in my ear. Take me down that dirt road that 

ceases to become a road and ceases to become dirt. 

Oh my dear friend departure, I am ready for your 

separation and unification equally. Guess we all 

feel some type of way about goodbyes, but the 

funny thing about goodbye is that you get to say 

hello to someone and something new. You have a 

funny thing about you departure, because you make 

it such a good day that it's not departure at all 

but…. Oh hello arrival." 

Written on September 6th, 2010 while in Cadiz, 

Spain. -- 

Spain holds onto its history by blessing 

those who port in Cadiz. The port is located in the 

Old Town, with the New Town built around it. Sitting 

in the center of the Old Town on the steps of 

Catedral de Santa Cruz de Cádiz; footsteps of children 

running, plates clinking together, church bells 

ringing announcing the midnight hour, and the 

overall soft murmur of people’s voices melt together 

and spill into my ears. 

Architecture results in unity and beauty, 

quite different from that of which I am used to. 

Buildings literally seem to melt together into one 

for they twist and turn smoothly down winding 

streets, reminding me of pleasant streams. Streams 

that beg me to throw away the map and dive in; 

dreams dream of this aesthetic. Every approaching 

corner feels like Christmas Eve, waiting in anticipation. 

The colors are beautifully lit yet distinct, 

creating a romantic feeling throughout the Old 

Town. 

Language barrier is hard. Find myself 

prying deep inside to pull out Spanish words and 

phrases, and praying that I will digest the beautifully 

spoken sentences and break them down into 

comprehension. Conversations force me to actively 

listen, for the words are so deeply searched for, so 

rough yet diligently crafted. The Catedral is our 

background. 

Towers stand behind me with great 

height, beauty, and detail like that of a sunset. Dog 

walks before me with bowed head searching for 

[insert word]. People have dispersed and around 

twenty remain. Wind sways tops of trees and pushes 

me lightly on my right side- as if the ocean sent 

it through the winding streets to remind me of its 

presence. The ocean, in which I now return to let it 

sway me ever so slightly and listen to the lullabies 

that it will sing ever so softly. 

Goodnight Cadiz, mi amore, Mañana. 

photo credit in order of above photos 

Amanda Kievit ..... Kelly Rivers 

Mandy Glimpse ..... Elyssa Scheck 

Mandy Glimpse ..... Christopher Waters-Toscano 


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THERIGHTCONTACT.COM OFFICIAL PUBLIC LAUNCH PARTY – MAY 3, 2012 


EVENTS 

Elliot Ilyabayev, Gladiator Promotions with 

Jason E. Compton, OD, President/CEO of 

The Right Contact, Inc. 

The Official Launch Party of 

www.TheRightContact.com 

took place on May 3rd, 

2012 at Rebel NYC, 251 W 30th 

St., 

Manhattan. 

TheRightContact.com, a revolutionary 

resource for contact lens 

professionals, has been brewing in 

production for the last 5 years and 

made it’s grand public debut in 

April 2012. With Founder and 

CEO, Jason E. Compton, OD, and 

Promoter extraordinaire Gladiator 

Promotions, the event housed professionals, 

media, and party-goers 

alike in an atmosphere infused 

with elegance, music, and celebration. 

Founded in 2007, 

TheRightContact.com is a revolutionary 

online resource for contact 

lens professionals with the goal to 

become ‘the’ contact lens resource 

on the web. What makes TheRight- 

Contact.com so vital is that it compiles 

extensive information about 

contact lenses, such as color, 

shape, size, etc. into a state of the 

art website and mobile application 

in which professionals can then 

search and compare products in 

order to meet the specific needs of 

the patients. TheRightContact.com 

currently houses over 2,000 products 

from over 150 manufacturers 

and, “compiles ALL the individual 

parameters of every contact lens 

ever made,” explained Compton. 

This is in contrast to the current 

print manual, which is released 

four times a year and lacks the 

constant changes in the industry. 

Efficient, Current, and an overall 

end goal of getting the very best 

for the patient. 

Currently, TheRightContact. 

com offers a free 20 day trial so 

there really is nothing to loose and 

everything to gain. Once satisfied, 

payment increments are available 

in 3, 6, and 12 months. 

Jason E. Compton is the 

Doctor of Optometry at Cohen 

Optical on 125th Street on Saturdays. 

For more information about 

this product and its services feel 

free to visit www.theright 

contact.com. 

212-996-3303 


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HERBS ARE NATURE’S MEDICINE 

F 

By: Zakiyyah 

or over two years now, we have been talking about 

herbs and imbalances in our systems that have 

manifested as disease. We have discussed – at 

length – how to identify imbalance in our liver, stomach, 

lungs, kidneys, etc., as well as a variety of herbal therapies 

from herbal teas, capsules, tinctures, moxibusttion, 

poultices and suppositories, to hot herbal compresses and 

foot- and whole-body herb baths to rid ourselves of disease. 

Today we will talk about a greater vehicle for personal 

health empowerment . . . . 

HOW TO PREVENT DISEASE. We can 

employ three simple tools to avoid getting sick. One, our 

food choices, two, simple adjustments in our lifestyles, 

and three, exercising better control of our emotional 

responses to life (we often cannot handle our life circumstances, 

but we can change how we handle/respond to 

them). AND THEN THERE’S WATER. 

In one of my previous articles I stated that 

almost all our health imbalances/diseases are the result of 

what we put in our mouths. KNOW THAT YOU CAN 

CHANGE THE COURSE OF YOUR DISEASE(S) BY 

CHANGING THE FOODS YOU CHOOSE TO EAT. 

One of the major problems in this culture is our foods are 

too acidic. Our choice of beverages are too acidic. And 

our lifestyles are too acidic, meaning that we don’t make 

choices that are healthy and balancing and healing to our 

bodies. As a result we are actually willfully creating an 

internal environment that not only welcomes disease, but 

that fosters it. Our bodies were created with a mechanism 

to control this acid/alkaline balance, but our mis-use of 

“free will” has totally annihilated that power by our ill 

choices in foods, strained lifestyles and emotional imbalance 

(in all our relationships, at home, on the job and 

with our lovers). We have simply “chosen” to make ourselves 

sick. 

Our bodies were created well-equipped to 

regenerate, and rejuvenate and rebound on its own. It can 

restore itself from illness and disease. It can revitalize 

it’s energy when depleted. BUT WE SMOTHER AND 

SUPPRESS OUR BODIES ABILITY TO SURVIVE by 

our bad food choices, our refusal to stimulate our blood 

circulation which feeds and revitalizes our organs, and by 

not taking more charge over our emotional responses to 

life situations. DISEASE CANNOT EXIST IN AN 

ALKALINE BODY. You can completely change the 

internal environment of your body by consuming only 

alkaline water., drinking more alkaline beverages, and 

eating more alkaline foods. Eating natural dark-colored 

grains, not bleached, enriched products. You can immediately 

have bowel regularity by drinking a glass of (alkaline) 

water immediately when you wake every day (adults 

AND children) and a second glass before you leave for 

work/school. You can immediately raise your energy 

level by not eating blood-clogging white flour products 

(white bread, toast, rolls, bagels, pancakes), dead energy 

breakfast meats, and taking in sugar and acidic beverages 

BEFORE 10am (adults AND children). Between 4am 

and 12noon your body, in alignment with the Universe, is 

in an “elimination mode”, meaning your body is detoxifying 

yesterdays toxic intake from your food, emotions and 

environment (your liver is trying to purify you overnight 

for a strong, re-energized new day). Drink another glass 

of alkaline water mid-morning (before lunch) and again 

mid-afternoon. Drink a glass of water as soon as you 

reach home (to flush the day’s toxicity from your system) 

and a final glass late evening. If we stop eating dead energy 

(canned or overcooked vegetables), no-life-force animal 

carcasses we will give our bodies a chance to live 

well with the foods we do choose, and not overburden it 

with death-ladened foods that foster disease and rob our 

bodies of its life-force. We will continue this discuss 

next week. 

Regain the health that is your birthright. Join 

our summer workshops to learn how to prevent disease 

manifestations. Send me an email to request further 

information on alkaline foods and schedule of our workshops 

This information is shared to help you balance 

your natural healing energies and is not intended as 

diagnosis, treatment or cure for disease, nor as a substitute 

for medical supervision. Inquire about our Intermediate 

and Advanced Herb Courses at various Harlem 

locations, and new summer workshop schedule. NOTE: 

Our website was recently hijacked, please be patient as 

we work feverishly to rebuild it from scratch. Sacred 

Healing 7 Herb Center carries a full line of herbal products, 

gemstone jewelry, chakra crystals and other healing 

accessories, and offers Private Consultations. You can 

call: 347-407-4312, NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: 

zakiyyah1750@yahoo.com. 

HEALTH & WELLNESS 


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WILL YOU BE CANCER FREE 

By: Denise Soares, RN Executive Director Harlem Hospital 

HEALTH & WELLNESS 

There are no guarantees, 

but there are some simple 

steps you can take to fight 

the second most deadly cancer 

for women of color – breast cancer. 

Fortunately, the first step is 

one of the easiest; schedule a 

mammogram, especially if 

you’re 40 years of age or older or 

have a family history of breast 

cancer. 

Because of the publicity 

around breast cancer programs, 

many of us are aware of this disease. 

But what you might not 

know is that there has been 

encouraging progress over the 

past decade. As more women 

find out about their breast cancer 

early, more of them are surviving. 

And that’s great news. 

Unfortunately, research 

from the Centers for Disease 

Control shows that African 

Americans and Latinas are less 

PREVENTING BURNOUT: FIVE WAYS FOR CAREGIVERS 

TO FIND SUPPORT AND EASE STRESS 

By: Chandra Wilson 

Self-reliance and independence are 

part of the American DNA. We’re 

encouraged from childhood to do 

things for ourselves, and although being a 

team player is valued in sports and business, 

admitting you need help is viewed as 

a sign of weakness or ineptitude. But, for 

the more than 65 million Americans, more 

than 29% of the U.S. population, who provide 

care for chronically ill, disabled or 

aged family member or friend during any 

given year, it’s time to ask for help. 

For African American caregivers, 

that need for help is particularly strong. 

More than half find themselves "sandwiched" 

between caring for an older person, 

a younger person under age 18, and 

caring for more than one older person. 

African-American caregivers are also 

more likely to live with the care recipient 

and spend an average of 20.6 hours-perweek 

providing care. In addition, 66 percent 

are employed full or part-time. 

African-American caregivers 

(41%), are also more likely than Caucasians 

(28%) or Asian-Americans (23%), 

to provide help with more than three of 

activities of daily living activities such as 

helping a loved one get in and out of bed, 

dressed, fed and managing incontinence or 

getting to and from a toilet. 

“For caregivers, finding outside 

help is critical for mental and physical 

likely than other women to 

schedule a mammogram starting 

at the age of 40. And the longer it 

takes to detect breast cancer, the 

harder it is to overcome. So the 

answer is clear: get a mammogram 

as soon as you’re 40 years 

old, and again every 1 – 2 years 

after that. 

If you’re not sure what a 

mammogram is, it’s important to 

know that this special kind of x- 

ray is used by doctors to examine 

the breast for signs that could 

potentially indicate the presence 

of cancer. These x-rays are especially 

useful because in many 

cases you will not be able to 

notice cancer-related changes in 

the breast on your own. 

Over 200,000 women are 

diagnosed with breast cancer in 

the United States each year, and 

nearly 41,000 women die of the 

disease. Harlem Hospital Center 

well-being,” says Registered Nurse Elizabeth 

Almanzar-Wright, a nurse care manager 

with VNSNY CHOICE Health Plans. 

VNSNY CHOICE, a special plan from the 

not-for-profit Visiting Nurse Service of 

New York, was created especially for New 

York seniors who are eligible for Medicaid 

and/or Medicare and want to live independently 

in their own homes as they face 

the challenges of getting older, instead of 

moving to a nursing home. 

“Many of the caregivers I work 

with face a mix of emotions and often 

don’t seek help for reasons that range from 

practical – their loved one might get frustrated 

when others don’t understand or 

can’t determine his or her needs – to emotional 

– they feel the responsibility is 

theirs to bear, and they’d feel guilty if they 

“neglected” their loved one by doing 

something for themselves,” says Almanzar-Wright. 

A study of caregivers from the 

American Psychological Association 

showed that enlisting support can make a 

substantial difference for a caregiver. In 

that study, caregivers who felt adequately 

supported had significantly lower levels of 

stress than those who did not. 

Here are some ways to find that 

support: 

Silence Negative Thoughts 

When you’re ready to ask for 

performed almost 6,000 mammograms 

in 2011. This exam is 

the best way to find out who may 

have cancer at the earliest stage, 

when treatments have the best 

chance of being successful. 

Throughout May, HHC is 

asking women in New York to 

dedicate their mammograms to 

someone special in their lives. 

By sharing this dedication on 

Twitter and Facebook, you can 

spread the word about this 

important message and inspire 

friends, colleagues, neighbors 

and loved ones to get a mammogram. 

Visit our website for 

details on how you can help: 

nyc.gov/HHC 

Of course, you can also 

fight cancer by remaining active, 

eating healthy and managing 

your weight. You should also ask 

your doctor whether your family 

history of breast cancer could 

assistance, try to silence any negative 

thoughts about imposing. Keep in mind 

that people like to help others, especially 

those they care about. When you don’t let 

friends or family know you need help, or 

you decline their offers, you both lose out: 

You don’t get the help you need and they 

don’t get the chance to do something for 

someone they care about. 

Consider Upcoming Events 

If your loved one will be undergoing 

treatment, this might not be the time to 

“train” a family member so you can go to 

a movie—but that family member might 

be able to arrange for neighbors to bring 

over a few meals. Maybe you haven’t been 

able to go to church or temple for a while 

and you’re missing the fellowship. Is there 

a friend who could take your loved one to 

breakfast so you can attend soon 

Say “Yes” 

Daily caregiving can be overwhelming 

and isolating. If someone 

offers help, take it. Accepting help doesn’t 

mean you’ve failed or aren’t showing 

enough love and many will find that if 

they ask for help, family and friends are 

more than happy to assist family caregivers 

in coordinating help with daily 

activities such as meals, rides, and errands. 

Join a Caregiver Support 

Group 

Connecting with others in your 

impact your risk of developing 

the disease. Women should have 

mammograms every 1-2 years 

beginning at age 40. In the meantime, 

talk to your doctor or nurse 

if you notice any symptoms or 

changes in your breast, to determine 

if you need to get screened. 

Mammogram screening is 

available at all HHC public hospitals 

at little or no cost. If you 

don’t have insurance or can’t 

afford medical care, you may 

qualify for HHC Options. Visit 

our website, nyc.gov/HHC to 

find an HHC hospital near you. 

We also invite you to visit one of 

the education and screening 

events we’re holding at Harlem 

Hospital throughout the month of 

May: 

* Thursday, May 24, 2012 

from 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. 

situation can be the best way to manage 

your own emotions that come with seeking 

outside help like feelings of guilt when 

you leave a loved one in the care of another 

to do something for yourself. If you are 

unable to leave your family member at 

home when the group meets, you might 

consider joining a telephone support 

group, like the weekly group VNSNY 

offers. Your church or synagogue may 

have helpful support groups, and there are 

many online support groups that are really 

quite helpful. 

Consider a Respite Program 

In addition to help from family 

and friends, a respite program would allow 

you to safely leave your family member 

with someone else for an overnight, a full 

day, or even just a few hours—enough 

time to get your hair done, or go to a 

movie or the gym. Your doctor may be 

able to order skilled help that will enable 

you to take a break. 

For more information about 

VNSNY CHOICE Health Plans from the 

Visiting Nurse Service of New York, please 

call 1-855-AT-CHOICE (1-855-282-4642) 

or visit www.VNSNYCHOICE.org. For a 

library of caregiver resources, including 

helpful videos, please visit 

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THE ALPHABETS OF LIFE: ‘C’ 

CHARACTER STILL COUNTS 

By: La-Verna Fountain 

Booker T. Washington told us 

that in the end character not 

circumstances define us. 

Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed of 

the day we would be judged on the 

content of our character and not the 

color of our skin. Malcolm X called 

on all of us to not be so blind that we 

ignore wrong. Mahatma Gandhi 

asked us to be the change we want to 

see. 

Character still counts. 

When all is said and done 

how we carry ourselves in the midst 

of difficulty says more about who we 

are than the difficulties themselves. 

Have you noticed how politics seem 

to bring out the negativity in us It is 

not enough to talk about the positive 

that has been done. We somehow 

seem to always gravitate to the negative 

-- what hasn’t been done, what 

still needs to be done and what was 

done poorly. I am guilty of this. 

When I was raising my two boys, if 

they brought home all A’s and one B, 

I gave faint praise on the A’s and 

focused on the one B. The outcome 

of my focus demonstrated to one of 

my son’s that he could receive more 

attention from me when he performed 

poorly than when he did 

something good. Since he wanted 

my attention, he did what was necessary 

to get it. He learned the lesson 

that I taught him and it took years for 

both of us to unlearn poor behavior. 

I have always had a strong 

sense of right and wrong; just and 

unjust. Raised in the church, I also 

have a robust guilt complex. Lying, 

stealing, or using foul language 

aligns in the wrong column for me. 

Not helping my neighbor or ignoring 

someone’s pain – wrong. 

My word remains my bond. 

The only thing of value my family 

had was our name, and the only people 

who cared about our name was 

us. It remains important that if I give 

you my word, you can depend on it. 

I will not purposely dishonor the 

name my parents gave me. 

I am an old-fashioned person 

who wants our young men and 

women to cover their butts so I don’t 

see their underwear. Sagging pants 

speak to your character. It says 

you’d rather go along with a fashion 

trend that originated in the prison 

system than to set a fashion trend. 

Foul language where every 

other word is f… and b…. makes me 

wonder if you lack education. 

Though frankly I hear extremely educated 

people use the same language 

and I wonder if they’ve forgotten 

their training. Is it possible to make 

your point by using proper language, 

or have things devolved to the point 

where we don’t know the difference 

anymore 

The need for strong, good 

character goes far beyond the individual. 

The same principles apply to 

communities, cities, states and 

nations. When you have a community 

in decline, the challenge lies in 

that community’s character. Perhaps 

Marian Wright Edelman said it best, 

“We do not have a money problem in 

EXPRESSIONS 

America. We have a values and priorities 

problem.” 

Our character sets the parameters 

of every meeting, decision 

and action we take. The Declaration 

of Independence provided a moral 

foundation for our nation declaring 

the equality of humanity. The Constitution 

was created to help form a 

“more perfect Union.” And, the children 

who will inherit the world we 

leave them may one day wonder 

what kind of character we possessed 

that we passively stood by and 

allowed our society to decline. 

Character still counts. 

La-Verna Fountain is the 

President and Founder of the Defiant 

Hope Consulting and Training Company, 

author of The Alphabets of 

Life: A Simple Guide to Simply Living 

and an Instructor at Columbia 

University in the City of New York. 

She can be reached at www.defianthope.com 

STATEPOINT CROSSWORD 

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BOOK REVIEW 

“TWICE AS GOOD” 

LITERARY CORNER 

BY RICHARD MICHELSON, ILLUSTRATED BY ERIC VELASQUEZ 

Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer, Harlem News contributor 

What do you do when someone 

tells you that you can’t do 

something you want to do 

Maybe you beg by saying, 

“Pleeeeeeeeease” Or maybe you ask 

again and again and again until your parents 

get mad. Or you might pout a little 

and wait to see if the answer is different 

later on. 

But when young Willie Powell 

was told that he couldn’t do something he 

wanted to do, it just made him work 

harder to reach his goal. In the new book 

“Twice as Good” by Richard Michelson, 

illustrated by Eric Velasquez, you’ll see 

how Willie made his dream come true. 

Even though he was just in third 

grade, Willie Powell was a very fast runner. 

He had to be fast. The Edgewater 

Golf Course was seven miles away 

and it was one of the most beautiful 

places Willie had ever seen. Each day 

after school, he ran to Edgewater, then he 

ran back home by nightfall. 

Willie wanted to learn to play 

golf on the smooth lawns at Edgewater, 

but the golfers told him that “his kind” 

wasn’t welcome there. He was used to 

that, though. He was often the only 

Negro boy wherever he went and that 

didn’t stop Willie. He went to Edgewater 

anyhow, every chance he got. 

Eventually, one of the golfers let 

Willie be a caddy, which meant carrying 

a heavy bag filled with golf clubs. That 

didn’t stop Willie, either; in fact, he 

worked twice as hard because being 

“good” at his job wasn’t good enough. 

Soon, he was earning money at being a 

caddy. 

Then one day, someone asked 

Willie to play a round of golf and Willie 

loved it! From then on, every chance he 

got, he practiced. By time he entered high 

school, he was one of the best golfers 

around. He even entered competitions. 

Still, lots of white golfers didn’t 

want Willie playing on their course. They 

wouldn’t let him join the club or share 

their clubhouse. But Willie had dreams, 

not only for himself but for his baby 

daughter, too. 

He knew that someday, there’d 

be a place where she could learn to play 

golf, too, and nobody would turn her 

away. Willie was sure there’d be 

a course like that, even if he had 

to build it himself… 

Got a kid who wants to 

be the next Tiger on the links 

Show him (or her!) that someone 

helped groom the course by 

reading “Twice as Good.” 

Author Richard 

Michelson took the true story of 

a boy who refuses to take “no” 

for an answer to his dreams, and 

makes it into a kid-friendly 

story of perseverance in the face 

of racism. I liked that Michelson 

gives his young hero a graceful 

determination with no room for 

discouragement (which is very 

inspirational), and Eric Velasquez’s illustrations 

fit Michelson’s story to a tee. 

I think that if your 3-to-6-yearold 

loves a good read-aloud, this is one to 

put on the roster. For you, “Twice as 

Good” is a book that’s hard to say “no” 

to. 

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Michelson, illustrated by Eric Velasquez 

c.2012, Sleeping Bear Press 

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CHURCH NEWS: 

BEYOND THE MICROPHONE 

By Bro. Bill, Host of 3G Experience, WHCR-90.3 FM Gospel Radio 

CHURCH 

The home going services for Mother 

Mable Sands and Sis. April Dixon 

demonstrated the importance of family. 

When all else fails your family will always be 

there. Fitting tributes to two wonderful 

women. 

Rev. Emanuel Coleman was the 

guest preacher last Sunday at the Tabernacle 

of Deliverance, 2890 Frederick Douglass 

Blvd., in Harlem. Rev. Coleman has been 

doing a wonderful job as organist for Tabernacle. 

His other gifts were also appreciated. 

Tabernacle was the guest of Pastor 

Frank Blackshear and Greater Zion Hill Baptist 

Church also on last Sunday. 

The youth of Tabernacle will present 

their Fourth Friday Service on May 26th, 

beginning at 8:00pm. Deacon Donald Green 

will wed Sister Marrcia Scott on Saturday, 

May 26th at 3:00pm. The following day, 

Sunday, Sister Liverette Carswell will present 

a Pre-Mother’s Day service. Rev. Marshall 

Morton is the guest preacher. The service 

will begin at 4:00pm.Rev. Joseph T. Bright, 

Jr., is the Pastor. 

Busses will be departing from 

Shiloh Baptist Church headed to New 

Rochelle, New York on May 23rd, at 7:30pm. 

You might ask where these busses are going. 

The busses are going to Shiloh Baptist 

Church in New Rochelle, where Pastor Calvin 

G. Sampson was the Pastor, for a one night 

revival. The revival service will be at Shiloh 

Baptist Church, 185 Lincoln Avenue; Rev. 

DeQuincy M. Hentz is the current Pastor. 

We should all plan to attend a Two- 

Night Spring Revival on Thursday, May 24th 

and Friday, May 25, at the Shiloh Baptist 

Church, 2226 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 

Blvd., Harlem, New York. The Thursday 

night service will bring Rev. James Hassell, 

Pastor of Kingdom Baptist Church, Yonkers, 

New York. His choirs and congregation will 

be attending with him. The Friday night service 

will bring our Harlem neighbor, Rev. 

Edward J. Norman and the Salem United 

Methodist Church, his choir and congregation. 

Services will begin nightly at 7:00pm. 

Brightlight Entertainment will present 

a Pre-Memorial Day Concert at the Morris 

Family Life Center at 551 East 169th 

Street, the Bronx. The concert will begin at 

6:00pm. Featured artists will be The Anointed 

Voices of Praise, from Huger, South Carolina, 

The Echoes of Harmony and the 

Gospel Specials from from South Carolina. 

Sis. Catherine Miller and Johnny Stowers will 

be featured soloists. Special guest appearance 

will be made by Noel Gordon, Jr., and M.I.C- 

NYC, Jose Altidore-Israel, with New Breed 

and AWE. Sister Virginia Cotton, of WHCR 

90.3FM will be the Master of Ceremonies. 

Minister Helena Tyson, of Faith 

Memorial Baptist Church, the Bronx, was the 

Women’s Day preacher at Mt. Bethel Baptist 

Church, 1854 Amsterdam Avenue, where 

Rev. Gloria Bradshaw is the Pastor. 

Faith Memorial Baptist Church, 

1435 Prospect Avenue, the Bronx, will celebrate 

Men and Women’s Day on Sunday, 

May 27th. Rev. Bernice Pugh will be the 

morning speaker and Rev. Gloria Bradshaw, 

pastor of Mt. Bethel Baptist Church, choir 

and congregation, will be featured for the 

afternoon service. Rev. Raymond L. Mickens 

is the Pastor of Faith Memorial Baptist 

Church. 

St. Paul Baptist Church, 249 West 

132nd Street, Harlem, celebrated their 

Usher’s Ministry 94th Annual Sermon last 

week. The preacher was Rev. V. DuWayne 

Battle pastor to St. Paul’s Baptist Church. 

Rev. DeForrest L. Raphael, pastor 

of the Willis Avenue United Methodist 

Church, the Bronx, was the preacher for the 

Joint Usher Board Anniversary at Willis 

Avenue United Methodist Church. 

New Covenant Temple’s Usher 

Ministry will celebrate their 80th Annual Sermon 

on Sunday, May 27th, beginning at 

3:30pm. Elder Donnel Harper is the pastor 

and the preacher for the afternoon service. 

Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, worshipping 

at St. Paul Baptist Church, 249 West 

132nd Street, Harlem, will celebrate their 

92nd Annual Sermon. The service will be 

held at St. Paul Baptist Church; Rev. V. 

DuWayne Battle is the pastor of St. Paul’s 

and the preacher for the afternoon service. 

If you need more churchin after 

Sunday – check this out! The Bronx Evening 

Ministers conference is still on Tuesday night 

at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, in the Bronx, 

Wednesday is Bible Study at Shiloh Baptist 

Church and Mt. Neboh Baptist Church at 

7:00pm[a1] The schedule of services continue 

beginning on Tuesday at 12 noon, at 

1295 Clay Avenue, the Bronx. Wednesday 12 

noon at Nazareth Baptist Church, 490 East 

165th Street. Thursday at 12 noon at First 

Grace Baptist Church, 149th Street and Frederick 

Douglas Blvd. Monday there is the 

Baptist minister’s Conference of Greater New 

York and Vicinity at Convent Avenue Baptist 

Church at 3:00pm. The Monday Night Conference, 

of the Baptist Minister’s Conference 

of Greater New York and Vicinity, has 

returned to Day Spring Baptist Church, 1788 

Amsterdam Avenue. Rev. Louis C. Williams, 

Sr. is the President. The Tuesday night Bronx 

Minister’s Conference at 8:00pm at Mt. 

Lebanon Baptist Church, 165th Street and 

Clay Avenue. Friday night worship services 

at 6pm Bethlehem Moriah Baptist Church, 

168 West 133rd Street. Rev. Dr. William L. 

Watkins is the preacher. That covers the 

entire week! To God is the glory! On 

Wednesdays and Saturdays Rev. Kenton 

Rogers will be conducting church at his 

church located at 112 West 131st Street in 

Harlem. Thursday at 12 noon Rev. Harvey 

Kendricks conducts an Hour of Power service 

on West 149th Street and Frederick Douglass 

Blvd., First Grace Baptist Church. 


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ACROSS 

1. Balanced ride 

6. Mythical giant bird 

9. Iranian monarch 

13. Her face "launched a 

thousand ships" 

14. Lawyer group 

15. Abu ____, United Arab 

Emirates 

16. It describes the siege of 

Troy 

17. *"Thank you ___, may I 

have another." 

18. Churns 

19. *"I'm ready for my 

_______." 

21. Whitman's craft 

23. ___-been 

24. Italian money 

25. An NBA game can never 

end with this 

28. Bumpkin 

30. Bald Eagle to Americans, 

e.g. 

35. Party request 

37. Crucifix 

39. Outburst of firearms 

40. One who employs something 

41. "Revolutionary Road" 

novelist 

43. In the near future 

44. Mortise and _____ joint 

46. Corpulent President 

47. Youngster 

48. The Terminator, e.g. 

50. Whiskey grain, pl. 

ARIES 

Rev up your engines. This 

is a fine week for making 

progress with projects that 

you’ve got in the works. Your energy is 

high and your mind is clear. Use every 

advantage this week to finish up your 

works. Look for love in the right places. 

Know the difference between love and 

lust. 

Soul Affirmation: I forgive and set myself 

free. 

Lucky Numbers: 19, 26, 39 

TAURUS 

Educate those around 

you in the area of personal 

growth. Their 

improvement will bring benefits to 

you. Humor in communication is the 

key. Humor in introspection is a 

must. 

Soul Affirmation: Success that has 

been following me is trying to catch 

up. 


GEMINI 

This week romance is 

begins to percolate. 

Enjoy your feelings and 

let your brain relax. Suspend all 

judgments of others. Being stern 

won’t work for you this week. 

Soul Affirmation: I go along to get 

along. 


52. Laurie Partridge actress 

53. ____ Piper 

55. Tote 

57. Team spirit 

60. *"What we've got here is 

_______ to communicate." 

64. Shariah-approved meat 

65. What Salinger's catcher 

was in 

67. Weighed 

68. One of three hipbones 

69. Charged particle 

70. Bornean ape 

71. It preceded the violin 

72. Defensive ___ in football 

73. 4 x 4 race, e.g. 

DOWN 

1. Elegant and stylish 

2. Holler 

3. Greek muse of history 

4. Fido's restraint 

5. Make lovable 

6. Wood file 

7. *"Help me ___-Wan Kenobi" 

8. Plural of "carpus" 

9. Heard round the world 

10. *"Give me down to there 

___. Shoulder length or 

longer" 

11. Competently 

12. ___ and her towels 

15. *"The stuff that ______ 

are made of." 

20. Shylock's line of work 

22. Metal-bearing mineral 

24. Olga Korbut's outfit 

25. *"You can't handle the 

_____!" 

26. Nisei's parent 

27. Movie premiere, e.g. 

29. *"You're gonna need a 

bigger ____." 

31. Cat-headed Egyptian 

goddess 

32. Silent film comedian 

Harold _____ 

33. Call forth 

34. *"Show me the _____!" 

36. High school ball 

38. Confront 

42. Ancient stone slab with 

markings 

45. *"I love the smell of 

______ in the morning." 

49. Zip 

51. Bachelor on "The Bachelorette," 

e.g. 

54. Suggestive of the supernatural 

56. Sunlight distraction 

57. a.k.a. French Sudan 

58. Medley 

59. Ralph in Spanish 

60. Manage without help 

61. Eurasian mountain range 

62. Actress Sofer 

63. Trend-setting 

64. Human immunodeficiency 

virus 

66. Old-fashioned "far" 

Horoscopes: May 24 - May 30 

CANCER 

Romance will find you 

this week. Don’t be looking 

the other way. Your 

“rap” is especially strong. Make as 

many of those important phone calls 

as possible. People will respond. 

They are waiting to be receptive, 

Soul Affirmation: Friendships are 

shock absorbers on the bumpy roads 

of life. 


LEO 

This week should bring 

an opportunity to further 

your education, don’t 

pass it up. Pay special attention to 

details at work. A friend needs 

your support. Find joy in giving it. 

Soul Affirmation: All things work 

together for good. 


VIRGO 

You and your mate 

should increase your 

saving for the future this 

week. Future plans should be spotlighted. 

A relationship is likely to take 

a serious turn. Be open to making an 

unusual purchase. 

Soul Affirmation: I can see clearly 

now the rain is gone. There are no 

obstacles in my way. 


STATEPOINT CROSSWORD: MOVIE QUOTES 

LIBRA 

Don’t take any big gambles 

this week, the time 

is not right for a flight into 

the unknown. A newfound harmony is 

in store for you and your mate. Your 

mate will understand your fears. 

Soul Affirmation: New insights create 

new directions and a new cast of 

characters. 


SCORPIO 

The air can be cleared 

easily. Admit your need 

for help. Seek understanding. 

You’ll help another by 

seeking help from them. Communication 

problems will smooth themselves 

out. 

Soul Affirmation: Moving slowly 

might be the fastest way. 


SAGITTARIUS 

You and your partner 

are on the same wavelength. 

If you are presented 

with a contract this week, it’s 

an ideal week to reach an agreement. 

Make the important phone 

call to set things up. 

Soul Affirmation: What I’ve been 

waiting for has been here all along. 


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CAPRICORN 

Beware of financial pitfalls 

that you’ve set for 

yourself. Strengthen all 

your relationships by understanding 

motivations of others. Spend time at 

home. Enjoy what you already have. 

Soul Affirmation: Often it’s not what I 

say but the way I say it that gets the 

message across. 


AQUARIUS 

Don’t expect to win 

every battle, especially 

with your lover. This 

week winning is losing. Backing 

down is winning. Shyness produces 

a bold result. It’s easy to collect that 

long-standing debt. 

Soul Affirmation: I keep money on 

my mind this week. 


PISCES 

Possibilities of hearing 

good news about home 

are greatly expanded. 

Savor the news rather than thinking 

about other annoyances. Travel is 

on the horizon. Plan the trip this 

week. 

Soul Affirmation: Jewelry reflects the 

beauty of my feelings about myself. 

Lucky Numbers: 26, 44, 52



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