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2020 Black Music Honors toCelebrate Legendary Music Icons

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En Vogue, Deborah Cox, Fred Hammondand the National Museum of African American Music

to receive Awards and Recognition; Rickey Smiley Hosts

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(VILLAGER) - Chi-cago-based televisionproduction companyCentral City Productionspremiered its 2020 BlackMusic Honors on No-vember 21 on BounceTV. The show will air innational broadcast syn-dication starting No-vember 21 thru Decem-ber 13, 2020. Televisionand radio personalityRickey Smiley returnedas host of the star-stud-ded two-hour specialwhich honors artists andmusicians who have in-fluenced and made sig-nificant contributions toAmerican music.

The honorees forthis year’s Black MusicHonors includeGrammy® Award-nomi-nated R&B legends EnVogue, recognized asone of the top five high-est-selling American fe-male music groups inhistory, who will receivethe Urban Music IconAward for their threedecades in the industry.Grammy® Award-win-ner, actress and Broad-way star Deborah Coxreceived the EntertainerIcon Award. MultipleStellar Awards andGrammy® Award-win-ner and producer FredHammond received theGospel Music IconAward. The NationalMuseum of AfricanAmerican Music inNashville was honoredwith the Legacy Award.

When asked whatshe was looking forwardto the most, HonoreeDeborah Cox smiled andsaid, “I’m a big fan ofTweet and I’m excited tosee her. Being honoredon this platform con-firms my legacy, myplace in history. In thepandemic I miss the liveaudience and huggingfans. For now this is thenew normal and wehave to find ways likethis to keep music going.I can’t wait to see theperformances and I’mhonored.”

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The honorees spoke of their path to legendstatus, citing: the need to be authentic to one’s self;the reality that you may have to block people whowant to change you; the requirement to have a goodsupport system around you that holds you account-able; the understanding that you have to fightthrough the hard days; and finally, believing that itis extremely important to have a vision for your-self.

There are many ups and downs in the enter-tainment industry, but to whom much is given muchis required.

Founder and Executive Producer Don Jacksonstated, “I am extremely excited about our 5th An-nual 2020 Black Music Honors television special andour legendary awardees. Even in the midst of theCOVID-19 pandemic, it is important for us to staycommitted to producing The Black Music Honorsas a means of celebrating music icons who are of-

Fred Hammond honored byGospel legend, Bishop Marvin Sapp

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Gospel legend, Bishop Marvin Sapp, perform-ing in honor of Fred Hammond, spoke to the influ-ence of Commission, a group led by Hammond. “Imet Fred when I was 15 years old. I opened for themat my church and I spent six years learning fromFred. When I was 22 years old and after graduatingfrom college, I was asked to sing with them. I’ll neverforget the bridge that brought me over...I’m hereto celebrate people while they’re alive.”

Performers of the evening include MusiqSoulchild, Tweet, MAJOR, June’s Diary, BrianCourtney Wilson, D Smoke, Evvie McKinney,Marvin Sapp, RL, and Sheléa.

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Roughly 9 Out Of 10 Black WomenVoted For Democrats This Election

By Alanna VagianosHUFFPOST

(HUFFPOST) -Women played a criticalrole in President-electJoe Biden and Vice Presi-dent-elect Kamala Harriswinning the WhiteHouse, but one group inparticular stands out.

Approximately ninein 10 Black women whovoted cast ballots forDemocrats, according toa report from the Centerfor American Womenand Politics, a part ofRutgers University’sEagleton Institute ofPolitics. Black women’ssupport for Democrats -in both the presidentialand down-ballot races -was greater than amongany other group ofwomen voters.

Also, consistentwith data from past elec-tions, Black womenwere the most likely vot-ers to turn out for theelection, CAWP found.

“Black women

have been the most reli-able group of voters, atleast if you look at vot-ers by race and gender,over time,” said KellyDittmar, CAWP’s directorof research. “This is notnew to this cycle, in fact,the rates of Blackwomen support havebeen this high or evenhigher in previous presi-dential elections.”

Latinx women alsopowered the vote forBiden and Harris: Be-tween 64% and 73% casttheir ballots for theticket. Both Latinx andBlack women’s supportfor Democrats wasgreater than the backingthe party got from theirrespective male coun-terparts.

CAWP’s report ex-amined data from foursources: Edison Re-search exit polls, thefirm Latino Decisions,Associated Press’sVoteCast and pollingfrom the CooperativeElection Study. All foursources came to roughlythe same conclusion onthe majority of datapoints.

The majority ofwhite women who votedapparently supportedPresident DonaldTrump, although thosenumbers are less clear

because exit polling isongoing. From 46% to55% of white womenvoted for Trump, accord-ing to the four datasources CAWP used.White women gainedspecial attention as avoter group after themajority of them votedfor Trump in 2016, help-ing him defeat HillaryClinton, the first femalepresidential candidate.

In this year’s elec-tion, white women’svotes varied dependingon their education level.The report found thatthe majority of college-educated white womenvoted for Biden (be-tween 54%-65%), whilethe majority of non-col-lege-educated whitewomen voted for Trump(between 54%-63%).Unsurprisingly, Evangeli-cal women skewedheavily toward theTrump/Mike Penceticket, with aroundseven in 10 voting for it.

While many wereshocked by the turnoutof white women forTrump the second timearound, Dittmer was notamong them. Much ofthe academic researchdone after the 2016presidential electionshowed that certaingroups of white women

are more likely to voteby their race instead oftheir gender, she said.

“That’s not new toU.S. history,” Dittmersaid. “But I think theDonald Trump casebrought it to light in amore explicit way formany people becausethere was an assump-tion that if somebodywas blatantly misogynis-tic that women wouldreject him. But we knowthat’s not the calcula-tion, and women havedifferent definitions andcriteria for what theydeem to be misogynis-tic.”

The high turnout ofBlack women voters forDemocrats is especiallynotable because ithelped elect Harris, thefirst Black and first SouthAsian American womanto serve in the WhiteHouse. Biden and Harrisemphasized outreach toBlack communitiesthroughout their cam-paign, especially in criti-cal swing states. Supportfrom Black voters ofboth genders proved es-pecially pivotal to theticket carrying thebattleground states ofGeorgia, Wisconsin,Michigan and Pennsylva-nia - all of which Trumpwon in 2016.

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Trump’s legalteam cried vote

fraud, but courtsfound none

By MARYCLAIRE DALE | Associated PressPHILADELPHIA (AP) — As they frantically searched for ways to salvage

President Donald Trump’s failed reelection bid, his campaign pursued a dizzy-ing game of legal hopscotch across six states that centered on the biggest prizeof all: Pennsylvania.

The strategy may have played well in front of television cameras and ontalk radio. But it has proved a disaster in court, where judges uniformly re-jected their claims of vote fraud and found the campaign’s legal work ama-teurish.

In a ruling late Saturday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann — a Republi-can and Federalist Society member in central Pennsylvania — compared thecampaign’s legal arguments to “Frankenstein’s Monster,” concluding thatTrump’s team offered only “speculative accusations,” not proof of rampantcorruption.

Now, as the legal doors close on Trump’s attempts to have courts do whatvoters would not do on Election Day and deliver him a second term, his effortsin Pennsylvania show how far he is willing to push baseless theories of wide-spread voter fraud.

It was led by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, who descended onthe state the Saturday after the Nov. 3 election as the count dragged on andthe president played golf. Summoning reporters to a scruffy, far-flung cornerof Philadelphia on Nov. 7, he held forth at a site that would soon becomelegendary: Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

The 11:30 am. news conference was doomed from the start.At 11:26 a.m., news outlets had started calling the presidential contest

for Democrat Joe Biden. The race was over.Just heating up was Trump’s plan to subvert the election through litiga-

tion and howls of fraud — the same tactic he had used to stave off losses inthe business world. And it would soon spread far beyond Pennsylvania.

“Some of the ballots looked suspicious,” Giuliani, 76, said of the vote countin Philadelphia as he stood behind a chain link fence, next to a sex shop. Hemaligned the city as being run by a “decrepit Democratic machine.”

“Those mail-in ballots could have been written the day before, by theDemocratic Party hacks that were all over the convention center,” Giuliani said.He promised to file a new round of lawsuits. He rambled.

“This is a very, very strong case,” he asserted.Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School professor who specializes in election

law, called the Trump lawsuits dangerous.“It is a sideshow, but it’s a harmful sideshow,” Levitt said. “It’s a toxic

sideshow. The continuing baseless, evidence-free claims of alternative factsare actually having an effect on a substantial number of Americans. They arecreating the conditions for elections not to work in the future.”

Trump vowsto appeal

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(THE HILL) - President Trump in a late-night tweet lashed out a federaljudge in Pennsylvania who dismissed a lawsuit brought by his campaign ask-ing that the vote certification process in the key battleground state be halted.

"It’s all a continuation of the never ending Witch Hunt," Trump tweeted."Judge Brann, who would not even allow us to present our case or evidence, isa product of Senator Pat 'No Tariffs' Toomey of Pennsylvania, no friend of mine,& Obama - No wonder."

"WILL APPEAL!" the president added in a subsequent tweet.....WILL APPEAL!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2020Judge Matthew Brann ruled on Saturday the Trump campaign's case al-

leging mail-in ballots in the Keystone State were treated differently from thosecast in person was "without merit" and dismissed it.

"In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchise-ment of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state.Our people, laws, and institutions demand more," Brann wrote.

On Election Day, early returns showed Trump with a sizable lead amongin-person voters, a tally that was slowly cut into and eventually surpassed byPresident-elect Joe Biden once mail-in ballots arrived and were counted.

In the weeks following the presidential election, the Trump campaignhas mounted legal challenges in Pennsylvania and other battleground statesBiden flipped from red to blue with limited success. In Pennsylvania, Biden isleading Trump, who has not conceded the election, by more than 80,000 votes.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) congratulated Biden on his victory after news ofBrann's ruling broke, a move separating him from his Republican colleagueswho have either cast doubt on the integrity of the presidential election orneglected to acknowledge Biden as the winner.

“With today’s decision by Judge Matthew Brann, a longtime conserva-tive Republican whom I know to be a fair and unbiased jurist, to dismiss theTrump campaign’s lawsuit, President Trump has exhausted all plausible legaloptions to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania,” thesenator said in a statement.

Trump's lawyers indicated that they are planning to take the Pennsylva-nia case to the 3rd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Reuters reported.

"Witch Hunt" is a phrase Trump has used to describe former special coun-sel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elec-tion and the impeachment proceedings brought against him by Democratslate last year.

The Trump campaign maintains it has evidence of widespread voter fraudin several states but has had multiple challenges rejected in court.

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(TXT) - Almost mid-way through the schoolyear, it has become in-creasingly clear that vir-tual learning is failing asizable number of Texaspublic school studentswhose parents decidedto keep them home asCOVID-19 grips thestate.

The disturbingnumber of studentsposting failing gradeswhile trying to learn infront of computerscreens has also broughtinto sharper focus thefailure of state educationand political leaders toprepare for an academicyear they knew wouldbe like no other.

Over the lastmonth, The Texas Tri-bune has interviewedmore than 30 educators,students, parents andexperts across the stateabout their experienceswith remote learning.Parents and studentsdescribe a system inwhich kids are failing,not necessarily becausethey don’t understandthe material, but be-cause the process ofteaching them is so bro-ken that it’s difficult tosucceed.

Teachers say theyare scrambling to retooleducation, creating newvideos and online les-sons from scratch andstruggling with new de-

mands and limited time.They blame state leadersfor squandering valuablemonths over the sum-mer by delaying key de-cisions, frequently re-versing course and send-ing conflicting messagesto educators on theground.

Instead of immedi-ately giving local schoolofficials the guidelinesand tools needed to pre-pare, state leaderswaffled on policies thatschool communitiesneeded to make theirdecisions. They chal-lenged local health offi-cials over who had theauthority to keep class-rooms closed in areaswith high coronavirusinfection rates, feedinguncertainty about whenand where studentswould return to class-rooms.

By the time the fogcleared, school officialshad mere weeks to rollout plans for the fall se-mester, including train-ing teachers, studentsand parents on newtechnology; designingways to keep track ofstudents falling throughthe cracks; and uphold-ing some semblance ofacademic rigor.

The Texas Educa-tion Agency indicated ithas done the best itcould in limited time,working throughout the

pandemic to continueproviding resources fordistricts thinking aboutremote, hybrid and in-person instruction.

Students are nowpaying the price, and thehighest is being exactedfrom students Texas al-ready struggled to edu-cate. According to aTexas Tribune analysis,school districts withmostly Black, Hispanicand low-income stu-dents have higher sharesof students learningfrom home. And statedata showed those stu-dents were less likely tobe engaged in onlinelearning in the spring,when all schools wereonline.

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“There’s just a levelof fatigue with this that,given the way that thedistance curriculum isbeing structured, is justwearing on kids andfamilies in a way that’sreally untenable, espe-cially in those communi-ties that were alreadydisadvantaged beforethis,” said BenjaminCottingham, who hasstudied the quality ofremote learning in Cali-fornia and put out rec-ommendations on howdistricts can improve.

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COMMENTARY: Biden-Harris Administration Taskedwith Dismantling America’s History of Hate

Written by Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent | @StacyBrownMedia

Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris (Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images) President-Elect Joe Biden (AP)

(NNPA) - A lot of past cruelties can underscoreAmerica’s history of hate.

Today, one could capture that hate through thelens of at least some of the more than 74 millionpeople casting a vote for President Donald Trump.

Often described as a racist, chauvinist, and onewhose policies separated immigrant children fromtheir parents and put them in cages along the South-ern U.S. border, Trump supposedly embodies thevery qualities that much of America — includingmany of its major corporations and our next-doorneighbors — protested against when they stoodwith Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

Yet, he received the second-highest vote countof any presidential candidate in history.

Even now, Trump and his campaign have spe-cifically sought to have officials toss out many ofthe votes that were legitimately cast in heavily Afri-can American-populated cities like Atlanta, Detroit,and Milwaukee. Ironically, their actions would in-clude disenfranchising thousands of Republicanswhose votes were also submitted by other meansthan in person at a polling place.

In the specific instance of the effect on theBlack vote, seeking ways to deny African Americanvoters our Constitutional right to make our voiceknown at the ballet box is a tactic used since, dur-ing, and after Reconstruction.

African Americans have not been alone on thereceiving end of our nation’s history of hate-drivenactions.

“The history of the United States over the past200 years has been largely a struggle to define whomight enjoy the rights and privileges of full citizen-ship,” offered Sarah Silkey, a professor of History atLycoming College in Williamsport, Penn.

“Each successive gain made in broadening thedefinition of American citizenship was quickly fol-lowed by a backlash. Jim Crow segregation, the con-vict lease system, redlining, the war on drugs, andother systems created to maintain white supremacydenied access to full citizenship for generations ofAmericans,” Silkey wrote in an email.

“By defining personal success solely as a prod-uct of individual initiative and effort, the popularmyth of the American Dream served to reinforcewhite privilege, perpetuate damaging racial stereo-types, and absolve white politicians from responsi-bility for dismantling entrenched systems of in-equality,” she added.

“The crises of 2020 exposed vast inequities ofhealth, wealth, safety, and political access to abroader cross-section of the American public. Thatgrowing public awareness of systemic inequalitieshas created an opportunity for the next adminis-tration to enact meaningful change,” Silkey con-cluded.

As American families prepare for anotherThanksgiving, many are left to ponder just what theyshould celebrate.

“The US was built on powerful myths of equalopportunity in the pursuit of happiness and the cityon a shining hill. The reality was less uplifting,” ob-served Nora V. Demleitner, a Roy L. Steinheimer Jr.Professor of Law at Washington and Lee Universityin Lexington City, Va.

“Racism, racial exclusion of immigrants, andthe vilification of ethnic and religious groups havelong been an integral part of US history,” Demleitnerposited.

“There has been substantial progress in thecreation and enforcement of civil rights for all es-pecially during the civil rights era, yet it has beenuneven, and rising economic inequality and theimpact of climate change threaten to underminesome of that progress.”

The playbooks of racial and ethnic vilificationwere never entirely discarded.

They are coming back as seen in the demandfor “law and order,” widespread suppression of mi-

nority voters, and unwillingness to invest in infra-structure and education to support all, Demleitneroffered further.

Tim Powell, a University of Chicago journalismmaster’s student, discards the myth of an Americathat welcomes labeling as a melting pot.

“Consider that the colonists left England torebel against religion, and when they arrived here,we had a colony of rebels to some degree,” Powellrelayed.

“The administrations can only do so much tocounter the inherent unacceptance of races by awhite, male American. It will be up to the next gen-erations that will determine the acceptance of dif-ferences.”

“The best administrations will be those thatdo not stoke division.

“Look at McCarthyism as an example of thepeople demanding we rid America of ‘communists.’It was not McCarthy himself, but the people de-manding it. Without a market, a leader of a cam-paign – like Trump’s immorality – the leader has nofollowers.”

The 14th Amendment was meant to give slaves– only slaves – equal protection of the law, Powelladded.

However, in nearly all relevant court cases since1860 – Plessy, San Mateo v. Southern Pacific, Citi-zens United, Hobby Lobby – it has rarely givenAmendment protections to Blacks but to corpora-tions and other entities deemed as ‘persons.’”

Photographer Michael Freeby expressed that,“It’s not just the kids in cages, as if that weren’t badenough.”

“Let us not forget ICE abducts perfectly law-abiding citizens in the middle of the night, performscruel unethical unasked for surgeries on them, andthat a disproportionate number of coronavirusdeaths have been taking place in ICE captivity.”

“As a Mexican who lives close to ICE’s head-quarters at the USA/Mexico border, it especiallysends chills down my spine,” Freeby objected.

“Once people are placed in ICE captivity, theylose all rights. We are the United States of America,a country whose entire premise was based onpeople fleeing from elsewhere to start fresh andpursue their dreams. Picking and choosing basedon skin color is not right. We are not animals – weare people.”

Terrell L. Strayhorn, Provost and Senior VicePresident for Academic Affairs at Virginia UnionUniversity, where he also serves as Professor of Edu-cation and Director of the Center for the Study ofHBCUs, noted that African Americans are the onlygroup denied access to education by law.

“No matter how uncomfortable or unpopularto admit, it was once legal to punish or kill an Afri-can American, but you could not educate them,”Strayhorn submitted.

“Teaching Blacks to read and write was pro-

hibited by law. In the year 2020, there are over 4,300colleges and universities in the United States, col-lectively enrolling over 20 million college students.Virtually 2 million are African Americans, with thevast majority (two-thirds) being Black women.

“And when African Americans enroll in college,approximately half do not graduate, accrue highamounts of educational debt, or report experienc-ing hostile, unwelcoming environments at predomi-nantly white institutions.”

Strayhorn asked that the incoming Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration do all it could to re-duce, or remove, those challenges.

“A new administration, comprised of individu-als who reflect the diversity of their constituents,can champion culturally-relevant initiatives, createequity, and foster racial healing,” Strayhorn pro-posed.

As a Black and Indian American, a plan of Ka-mala Harris should include equality for Black womenin the workplace, opined Dr. Carey Yazeed, the edi-tor of the anthology, “Shut ’em Down: BlackWomen, Racism and Corporate America.”

“Malcolm X stated it best, ‘The most disre-spected person in America is the Black Woman. Themost unprotected person in America is the BlackWoman.’ This country has done little to help upliftBlack women, yet we are the ones who continu-ously come to its rescue,” Dr. Yazeed remarked.

“Although Black women are often the lowestpaid in Corporate America, we often outwork andoutperform our peers in the workplace,” she con-tinued.

“When corporations talk about diversity andinclusion, Black women are usually excluded fromthose conversations, which is reflected in our sala-ries and how we are treated. Black women oftenwalk away from Corporate America traumatized bythe racial injustices that they endure and are left tocarry that pain around for years.”

Actress and mental health advocate SamantinaZenon concluded that many white people remaindisconnected, still seeing African Americans asmaids or even slaves.

“History continues to rewrite itself. In everyavenue, Black people consistently get mistreated,”Zenon said.

“In order for real changes to happen, the newadministration needs to give more Black people aplatform to be seen and heard, not just Black ce-lebrities or politicians.

“Real people who face daily challenges forbeing Black in America. Part of the narrative on theircampaigns was Donald Trump divided the countryand has given white supremacists a platform to beracist, and they want to bring us back together.While that is true, the new administration needs tobe held accountable for making those changes be-cause Black people showed up for them at the polls,make racism wrong again.”

Chris Christie:Trump's legalteam has been

'a nationalembarrassment'

By Allan Smith | NBC News

(NBC) - FormerNew Jersey Gov. ChrisChristie, a longtime allyof President DonaldTrump, said Sunday thatthe president's legalbattle over the electionresults has reached thepoint of "national em-barrassment" and that

it's time for the presi-dent to move on.

"Quite frankly, theconduct of thepresident's legal teamhas been a national em-barrassment," Christiesaid during an interviewon ABC's "This Week."He pointed to Trumplawyer Sidney Powell'svarious claims aboutvoter fraud for which shehas been "unwilling togo on TV and defend andlay out the evidence thatshe supposedly has."

"This is outrageousconduct by any lawyer,"

he said, adding thatTrump's team often dis-cusses election fraud"outside the courtroom,but when they go insidethe courtroom theydon't plead fraud andthey don't argue fraud."

Noting that hevoted for Trump, Christiesaid "elections have con-

sequences, and we can-not continue to act as ifsomething happenedhere that didn't hap-pen."

"You have an obli-gation to present theevidence," he said. "Theevidence has not beenpresented. And youmust conclude — as [FoxNews host] TuckerCarlson even concludedthe other night — that ifyou're unwilling to comeforward and present theevidence, it must meanthe evidence doesn't ex-ist."

Christie

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Michelle ObamaSpeech Inspires

13-Year OldDirector andProducer of

Animated Film

Kalia Love Jones

(Los Angeles, CA) — Kalia Love Jones is anambitious 13-year-old animated filmmaker whowants to empower others. Her first animated shortfilm, “The Power Of Hope,” inspired by a MichelleObama speech, tells the inspirational story of ayoung woman with big dreams. An aspiring archi-tect feels helpless when her mother falls ill, butmoved by the words of Michelle Obama, she findsthe will to persevere and bring her dreams to life.

The film has premiere at the Urbanworld FilmFestival, LA Shorts International Film Festival, andHollyShorts which all have received exceptionalpraises. Additionally, Kalia is a shortlist candidatefor Time magazine’s Kid of the Year. This teenageris breaking barriers in film and animation. She hasbeen featured in Essence magazine, CBS and ABCnews outlet throughout the United States.

No stranger to hard work and commitment,Kalia divides her time between school, filmmaking,piano lessons, gymnastics, and district honor’s bandfirst chair flute. Kalia is an 8-year gymnast whotrained with former U.S. Olympian Chris Whaler athis gym in Los Angeles County. Devoted to her pas-sion as a filmmaker, she is making a positive differ-ence in the world by inspiring young women to pur-sue their filmmaking dreams.

Kalia lives in Los Angeles and has always lovedthe film industry. She looks up to influential femalefigures like Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, AvaDuVernay, and Rebecca Sugar and spends hoursevery day drawing, crafting, and studying films tocreate unique animations. With her motivation andstrong support from her family, Kalia launched herfirst captivating production, “The Power of Hope.”She even co-wrote the film’s song and funded mostof the project on her own by recycling and workingodd jobs for her family and friends.

Kalia is not afraid to take risks with her films todeliver powerful messages that prove anyone canpush through obstacles in life and reach their goals,as eloquently stated by Former First Lady MichelleObama in her speech. This may be the beginning ofKalia’s career, but she is undoubtedly already show-ing young women that they can achieve greatnessthrough hope and believing in themselves.#BlackGirlMagic.

OP-ED: The Power of Trust and TruthBy Gary H. Gibbons,

M.D., DirectorNational Heart, Lung,

Blood Institute andEliseo J. Pérez-Stable,

M.D., DirectorNational Institute onMinority Health and

Health Disparities

(Op-Ed) - COVID-19has killed more than230,000 people in theU.S., and the death tollcontinues to rise at arate of about 1,000 perday. We know, however,that families and com-munities don’t counttheir losses in thousandsor hundreds; they countthem one-by-one – a fa-ther, a teacher, a sister,a friend, a nurse, a son,a Tribal elder, a churchmember. And theselosses hurt.

But some commu-nities feel the impact ofCOVID-19 more thanothers. Latinos, alongwith African Americansand American Indians,account for more thanhalf of all COVID-relatedcases, even though theyrepresent just a third ofthe population. Accord-ing to the Centers forDisease Control and Pre-vention (CDC), thesegroups require hospital-ization at a rate aboutfive times higher thanwhites, due to the sever-ity of their illnesses orlack of early access tohealth care. And themortality outcomes re-flect this as well: Latinosand American Indiansdie at 1.5 times the rateof whites, and AfricanAmericans, at 2.4 timesthe rate.

As scientists andNIH colleagues withmore than 60 years of

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., Director National Heart, Lung,Blood Institute and Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D.,

Director National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

combined research ex-perience in health dis-parities, we are not sur-prised by these discour-aging statistics. Butthese awful numbersalso feel deeply per-sonal: they representour friends, our family,our loved ones, too, asour roots are in thesevery communities—Philadelphia’s AfricanAmerican neighbor-hoods, Miami’s Cubanimmigrant diaspora.

COVID-19, the dis-ease caused by the novelcoronavirus SARS-CoV-2,has simply shone a spotlighton health disparities thathave long affectedunderrepresented commu-nities like ours. We know,for example, that obe-sity, diabetes, and heartdisease are more preva-lent among people ofcolor. If you have any ofthese conditions andcontract COVID-19 yourun a much higher riskfor severe complicationsand death.

But biology and be-havior are just part ofthe picture. Where wework, whether we haveaccess to quality health

care, what we eat, andother socio-economicconditions also drivehealth disparities.

As we grapple withthe effects of thesehealth inequities on ourdaily lives, we can takesimple public healthmeasures to help pre-vent the immediatespread of this disease,starting with wearing amask, washing ourhands, and maintainingsix feet of distance fromothers. But that won’tbe enough to end thepandemic in communi-ties of color.

As the leaders oftwo public health re-search agencies, weknow we can’t just de-vise solutions fromWashington, D.C. Wemust also work withthose who are mosttrusted, respected, andclosest to these hard-hitcommunities. Throughjoint local efforts, webelieve we can ensurethat the best, most ac-curate informationreaches these commu-nities, and that they areinformed about, andincluded in, diverse re-

search studies essentialfor developing safe, ef-fective treatments, andvaccines for all. That iswhy the National Insti-tutes of Health (NIH)has issued a $12 millionaward to supportteams in 11 states toestablish the Commu-nity Engagement Alli-ance (CEAL) AgainstCOVID-19 Disparities.

This Alliance hasalready brought to-gether community- andfaith-based organiza-tions, doctors, patients,researchers, commu-nity advocates and mi-nority-serving educa-tional institutions. Forweeks, from Sacra-mento, California toJackson, Mississippi,we have been listeningcarefully—to concerns,fears, very practicalquestions, and ideas.Our sincere hope isthat, working together,we will find ways toovercome COVID-19 ina manner that takesinto account the his-tory, cultural differ-ences, and unique in-put and needs of thepeople it affects most.

Biden Announces Key Staff AppointmentsBy Stacy M. Brown,

NNPA NewswireSenior NationalCorrespondentPresident-elect Joe

Biden has announcedmembers of his WhiteHouse senior staff, in-cluding naming formerCongressional BlackCaucus Chair and Louisi-ana Rep. Cedric Rich-mond as senior advisorto the President and Di-rector of the WhiteHouse Office of PublicEngagement.

Richmond deftlyled the Biden campaignto victory, signing onwith the former vicepresident when theDemocratic field of con-tenders remained wide.

Richmond was aleader in helping to en-act landmark criminaljustice reform and en-suring that the people ofLouisiana’s 2nd Districtwere prepared for emer-gencies and natural di-sasters through his over-sight of the FederalEmergency Manage-ment Agency on theHouse Committee onHomeland Security.

Born and raised inNew Orleans, Richmondis a graduate of

Morehouse College andTulane University Schoolof Law, where he earnedinduction into the Hall ofFame.

Biden also an-nounced Julie Rodriguezas his Director of theWhite House Office ofIntergovernmental Af-fairs. Rodriguez servedas a Deputy CampaignManager on the Biden-Harris Campaign. Beforethat, she was the Na-tional Political Directorand traveling Chief ofStaff for then-SenatorKamala Harris’ presiden-tial campaign. Rodriguezalso served as a specialassistant to the Presi-dent under BarackObama.

The campaignnoted further that eachhas deep governmentexpertise and will beready to help the presi-dent-elect deliver resultsfor working families onday one.

“I am proud to an-nounce additional mem-bers of my senior teamwho will help us buildback better than before,”The President-Electstated.

Incoming WhiteHouse Chief of Staff RonKlain noted that ambitionin which the team madethe selections.

“President-electBiden and Vice President-elect Harris have an am-bitious and urgent agenda

for action. The team wehave already started toassemble will enable us tomeet the challenges fac-ing our country on dayone,” Klain offered.

Among the otherappointees announcedon Tuesday, November17: Anthony Bernal, Se-nior Advisor to Dr. JillBiden; Mike Donilon,Senior Advisor to thePresident; Jen O’MalleyDillon, Deputy Chief ofStaff; Dana Remus,Counsel to the Presi-dent; Julissa ReynosoPantaleon, Chief of Staffto Dr. Jill Biden; SteveRicchetti, Counselor tothe President; and AnnieTomasini, Director ofOval Office Operations.

“I am proud to announce additional members of my senior team whowill help us build back better than before,” The President-Elect stated.

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PGA Tour Pro Champ Assists Prairie View Golf

by John Harris Jr.VILLAGER Sports

Columnist

Cameron Champ poses with the trophy after winning the final round of the Safeway Open at the SilveradoResort on September 29, 2019 in Napa, California. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

(VILLAGER) - Welldone, Cameron Champ!

Golf needs more ofwhat Champ is selling.On a very short list ofPGA pros who have usedtheir public platform toto speak publicly aboutsocial justice issues,Champ is putting hismoney where his mouthis.

Soon after tying for19th at the recent Mas-ters Tournament,Champ announced thathis Cameron ChampFoundation and Chevronwill establish two schol-arship funds for themen's and women's golfprograms at Prairie ViewA&M with a $40,000 do-

nation.Champ, 25, is one

of four players on thePGA Tour of Black heri-tage. His father is Blackand his mother is white.A California native whonow lives in Houston,Champ, who starred atTexas A&M and turnedpro in 2017, attributeshis golf success to his

grandfather, Mack"Pops" Champ, whotaught Cameron how toplay the sport.

Prairie View A&M'sgolf scholarships will benamed after Mark'sgrandfather.

"My grandfatherhad such an incredibleinfluence on my life andalways inspired me in

many ways," Champ saidof his grandfather, whopassed away in 2019."I'm so grateful to"Pops" introducing meto the game of golf, butalso for teaching me thatthere's so much more tolife than golf."

Champ said his de-cision to create the Prai-rie View A&M golf schol-

arships was hatchedwhen Augusta NationalGolf Club chairman FredRidley spoke at the Mas-ters Tournament aboutthe lack of access andopportunities for minor-ity golfers and the needfor more to be done.

"That reallysparked this idea," saidChamp, a two-time PGA

Tour winner who's alsolaunching the inauguralMack Champ Invita-tional in Houston provid-ing junior golfers fromdiverse backgrounds achance to play in a pre-mier tournament. "Ithought what better wayto honor PaPa Champthan to take up the chal-lenge to do more rightnow."

Under the leader-ship of Kevin Jennings,the two-time SWAC golfcoach of the year, Prai-rie View A&M won itsfirst league champion-ship in 2018 in nearlyfour decades and hasguided the Panthers toback-to-back leaguetitles. He also led thewomen's program toback-to-back third-placefinishes in the SWACTournament over thatsame time frame. In2018, the Panthersqualified for the NCAADivision I men'sregionals for only thesecond time in schoolhistory.

A BrightLight In

2020 Marvin and Morene

will celebrate their 75thWedding Anniversary onDecember 3, 2020.

Strong love, friend-ship, hopes and dreamsmade life enjoyable andoh, so “special”. Theymoved through many dif-

ficult, challenging, andunexpected events withstrength, confidence andendurance.

Their individual ac-complishments weremany. The close bondthey formed through theyears however, producedcountless other successesthat benefits others in thecommunity (i.e., Hutson-Tillotson University, Aus-tin Housing Authority,Austin Fire Department,YWCA, Golf Associations,

Lions and Bridge Clubs,etc.)

Hard work, supportfor each other and givingspirit was commonplacefor them. Their strongfamily bonds and truefriendships also helpedthem to stay centeredand focused through theyears.

May this “SpecialAnniversary” magnifyhow being loved and ap-preciated brings muchJOY. Marvin and Morene Douglas

G-20 leaders pledge access to COVID-19 vaccine worldwideBY JOHN BOWDEN

THE HILL(THE HILL) - Lead-

ers of the Group of 20(G-20) nations pledgedSunday that they wouldwork to ensure that "allpeople" had access to aneventual vaccine forCOVID-19 amid con-cerns that a vaccinecould become inacces-sible to the world's poor-est people.

In Sunday, theworld leaders who as-sembled for the virtualsummit pledged to"spare no effort to en-sure their affordable andequitable access for allpeople, consistent withmembers' commitmentsto incentivize innova-tion." Ensuring that asmany people as possiblereceived a vaccine in atimely fashion was a rec-ognized shared goal, ac-cording to the state-ment.

"We commit to ad-dressing the remainingglobal inancing needs,welcome the effortsmade by the multilateraldevelopment banks tostrengthen the inancialsupport for countries'access to COVID-19tools, in line with exist-ing multilateral efforts,and encourage them to

do more," it stated. "Werecognize the role of ex-

tensive immunization asa global public good."

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What Trump faceson Jan. 20, 2021

By Tom Winter | NBC NEWS

(NBC NEWS) - On Jan. 20, 2021, around noon,Joe Biden will take the oath of office as presidentand Donald Trump will lose both his job and one ofits most important perks.

Trump has faced investigations involving hiscampaign, his business and his personal behaviorsince he took the oath of office himself four yearsago. As soon as he becomes a private citizen, how-ever, he will be stripped of the legal armor that hasprotected him from a host of pending court casesboth civil and criminal.

He will no longer be able to argue in court thathis position as the nation's chief executive makeshim immune to prosecution or protects him fromturning over documents and other evidence. He willalso lose the help of the Justice Department in mak-ing those arguments.

While it's possible he could go to jail as a re-sult of some of the investigations of his businessaffairs, the soon-to-be-former president is morelikely to face financial punishment in the form ofcivil fines, law enforcement observers believe. Hemay also be embarrassed by financial and othersecrets that will be exposed in court. Nearly all hislegal troubles are in his hometown, New York, wherehe once basked in the tabloid limelight as a youngmogul and where he rode a golden escalator intoan unlikely political career.

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleadedguilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations forpaying adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep silentabout an affair she alleges she had with Trump. Theindictment alleged that Cohen had paid Daniels$130,000 before the 2016 election for the benefitof "Individual-1," an unindicted co-conspirator de-scribed as an "ultimately successful candidate forpresident." But federal prosecutors in the South-ern District of New York didn't seek charges againstTrump, who would have been immune from pros-ecution regardless while he was president.

Two prosecutors in New York seem to havepicked up where federal prosecutors left off in ex-amining Trump's finances.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is look-ing into a variety of allegations of financial impro-prieties. Court documents show that Vance is in-vestigating "possibly extensive and protracted crimi-nal conduct at the Trump Organization," Trump'sfamily business, which could include falsifying busi-

ness records, insurance fraud and tax fraud.While the campaign finance violation of Indi-

vidual-1 isn't a federal case, New York state law saysfalsifying business records in furtherance of an ille-gal act is a felony. Cohen has also alleged that Trumpeffectively uses two sets of numbers in his business,one with higher values to secure loans and a sec-ond with lower values to minimize taxes, accordingto his congressional testimony and published inter-views. While Trump has declined to release his taxreturns, saying he is under audit, The New YorkTimes obtained many years of his tax records anddetermined that he had paid no federal income taxfor 10 of the years and $750 in each of two otheryears.

Vance's office has subpoenaed eight years ofthe president's tax documents from his tax preparer,Mazars USA LLC, a subpoena the president foughtall the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled inOctober 2019 that Trump wasn't immune from hav-ing to provide the documents while president andcould fight the subpoena only on the same groundsany other person could, on the merits.

Since the ruling, Trump's legal team has foughtthe subpoena on its merits, but it has lost in thedistrict and appeals courts. The Supreme Court mustnow decide whether to accept Trump's emergencyrequest for a stay of the lower courts' rulings and

possibly hear the case again or deny the stay. It'sunknown when the Supreme Court could announcea decision, which would be made by a high courtthat now includes three Trump appointees.

If the stay request is denied, Vance gets thedocuments as soon as Mazars can transfer the files.This is the only known criminal investigation involv-ing Trump, and if he is convicted, the penalties couldbe solely or largely financial.

NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said heexpects Vance to pick the "lowest hanging fruit" ofcrimes to charge, which would likely be tax evasionor falsifying business records.

The penalty for falsifying business records canbe up to a year in prison with fines or probationwith fines.

Cevallos said a person can be found guilty offalsifying business records in the second degree inNew York "when he has the specific intent to de-fraud."

"That means that he intends to cheat or de-prive another person of property or a thing ofvalue," Cevallos said.

He said a lower-level employee could claimthat he or she didn't personally benefit from thecrime or merely executed orders on someone else'sbehalf. That affirmative defense likely wouldn't ap-ply to Trump.

President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign eventat in Charlotte, N.C., on Feb. 7. (Leah Millis / Reuters)

LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical companyAstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trialsshowed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90% ef-fective, giving public health officials hope they maysoon have access to a vaccine that is cheaper andeasier to distribute than some of its rivals.

The results are based on interim analysis oftrials in the U.K. and Brazil of a vaccine developedby Oxford University and manufactured byAstraZeneca. No hospitalizations or severe cases ofCOVID-19 were reported in those receiving the vac-cine.

AstraZeneca is the third major drug companyto report late-stage results for a potential COVID-19 vaccine as the world anxiously waits for scien-tific breakthroughs that will bring an end to a pan-demic that has wrought economic devastation andresulted in nearly 1.4 million confirmed deaths.

Pfizer and Moderna last week reported pre-liminary results from late-stage trials showing theirvaccines were almost 95% effective. But, unlike itsrivals, the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn’t have to be

stored at ultra-cold temperatures, making it easierto distribute, especially in developing countries.

“I think these are really exciting results,” Dr.Andrew Pollard, chief investigator for the trial, saidduring a news conference. “Because the vaccine canbe stored at fridge temperatures, it can be distrib-uted around the world using the normal immuniza-tion distribution system. And so our goal … to makesure that we have a vaccine that was accessibleeverywhere, I think we’ve actually managed to dothat.”

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is alsocheaper. AstraZeneca, which has pledged it won’tmake a profit on the vaccine during the pandemic,has reached agreements with governments and in-ternational health organizations that put its cost atabout $2.50 a dose. Pfizer’s vaccine costs about $20a dose, while Moderna’s is $15 to $25, based onagreements the companies have struck to supplytheir vaccines to the U.S. government.

All three vaccines must be approved by regu-lators before they can be widely distributed.

3rd major COVID-19vaccine shown to be

effective and cheaperBy DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS | AP

(University of Oxford/John Cairns via AP)

New Jersey LawmakerPushes To Disbar RudyGiuliani For Deceitful,

'Absurd' Election Cases(HUFFPOST) - New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill

Pascrell has filed a complaint with New York’s at-torney disciplinary officials, calling for the disbar-ment of Rudy Giuliani for “fraud” and “deceit” inhis actions attempting to overturn the presidentialelection without any justification.

“Mr. Giuliani has participated in the filing of aseries of absurd lawsuits seeking to overturn thewill of the voters ... and has caused irreversible dam-age to the public trust in the fair administration ofour elections,” Pascrell wrote Friday to the Griev-ance Committee for three New York Judicial Dis-tricts.

He accused Giuliani, who is leading DonaldTrump’s attack on the results of the presidentialelection, of “clearly” violating the state’s Rules of

by MARY PAPENFUSS | HUFFPOST

Professional Misconduct that prohibit “dishonesty,fraud, deceit” and “misrepresentations.”

He “should face the severest sanction yourbody can mete out: revocation of his law license,”Pascrell added.

New York also prohibits attorneys from filingfrivolous lawsuits.

Pascrell filed similar complaints in New Yorkand other states against 22 other lawyers involvedin the Trump assault on the vote.

“The pattern of behavior by these individualsto effectuate Mr. Trump’s sinister arson is a dangernot just to our legal system but is also unprec-edented in our national life,” he wrote in those com-plaints.

Though the president and Giuliani have criedfraud, they have yet to reveal any evidence and haverepeatedly failed in court in bids to throw out votes.

A federal judge Saturday jettisoned the latestcase in Pennsylvania with a brutal takedown of itsmultiple flaws. The court was “presented withstrained legal arguments without merit and specu-lative accusations” that weren’t tied to the com-plaint nor supported by evidence, U.S. District CourtJudge Matthew W. Brann wrote.

“In the United States of America, this cannotjustify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, letalone all the voters of its sixth-most-populated state.Our people, laws and institutions demand more,”Brann ruled.

Giuliani did not immediately respond to a re-quest from HuffPost to comment.

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