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Erin McCurdy Kuumba (koo-ummm-bah) is a swahilli word that means: to be creative. African Americans in the past and, to a great extent, in the present has had to derive and improvise special recreative ways to strive for the right to exist. Therefore, Kuumba represents the blood, sweat, tears and joy we have shared as we grew to know and love our new found land.The Kuumba Heritage News is published by Phalconstar Communications, LCC and reserves all rights to accept or refuse any articles to be printed in any issue of the newspaper. Views and opinions expressed by writers are not necessarily those of the publisher or our advertisers. The Kuumba Heritage News is published bi-monthly (1st & 15th, each month). Letters to the Editor are welcome. Only signed letters will be accepted. The Kuumba Heritage News assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Any use or reproduction in part or whole is forbidden without the express written consent of the publisher. Used under license agreement IDN 13-6401495.

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I CAN’T DECIDE WHO WILL GET A GIFT! Dear Gwendolyn: I am 38 years old and my money is funny. This is the problem: I have six women friends – all on an intimate scale. I don’t know which one to give a Christmas gift. I am seriously thinking of quitting all of them and rekindle after Christmas. Well, let me correct that. I need to not rekindle until after Valentine’s Day. I hate to give one a gift and not the other five. I know that is not right but I cannot afford to make all of my old ladies happy. I may have to permanently quit two of them because they want to get married. My intention on marriage is not until I am at least 50. I am a player Gwendolyn. Can’t help it. If I quit all of them, they will still love me later. You know…women are silly that way. Bob Dear Bob:

I am speechless. I can’t believe it. Six women? All intimate with you? Oh yeah, you’re right. They are silly. But let me tell you this: Don’t think all women are stupid. I knew you didn’t have quality women when you referred to them as your ‘old ladies.’ Any man who cannot refer to a lady in a more respectable way is not worth having. So, Bob, don’t lose those women because they do come few. Now, as to your intention to marry at 50. I hate to burst your bubble. But think about. That birthday party will never happen. You cannot play with the affection of every woman. Often the ‘player’ gets played. You may think they are silly, but one of them may actually show you silly. If you do not contract a disease that kills you, one of those --- silly women will.

COMMENTARY / Lone Star Project

IS THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT WORTH SAVING? Forty-five years ago, displaying the courage of a true Texan, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act into law. His actions signaled the end of a generation of government sanctioned discrimination and ensured that minority citizens would have legal protection to register, vote, and an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice. Today, however, two Republican Texans – Rick Perry and Gregg Abbott – are working to turn back the clock. They want to destroy the Voting Rights Act and return to a day when governments sanctioned racial discrimination. That’s the real issue at stake in the Texas redistricting battle. When Greg Abbott asked the Supreme Court to block the use of the court-ordered redistricting plans in Texas, he was stepping up as the leader of the darkest most divisive forces in our society who want to erase the US Voting Rights Act. If allowed, Greg Abbott, Rick Perry and the current Texas leadership will tear down every barrier in place that might stop them from destroying the voting strength of Latino and African American citizens, not just in Texas, but everywhere across our nation. What did the Supreme Court do? At the request of Greg Abbott, acting on behalf of Rick Perry and the Texas leadership, the Supreme Court issued an order temporarily blocking the use of the legislative and congressional plans ordered by a Federal District Court in San Antonio for the 2012 elections. However, the Supreme Court did not order that the discriminatory plans passed by the Republican Legislature be used. Instead, the Court will hear arguments from both the Republicans and plaintiff groups opposing them to determine what criteria lower Courts should use when determining the boundaries of the not yet pre-cleared redistricting plans.

What will Abbott and his allies argue? Texas Republicans and their extremist national allies will argue for the virtual elimination of Section 5 of the US Voting Rights Act. They will claim that maps passed by state legislatures – even those like Texas that have a long history of racial discrimination – should be implemented even if they have not yet been reviewed to ensure they do not discriminate against minority voters. (Sources: State of Texas’ Stay Request to the Supreme Court, SOT’s Reply Brief, Robert Miller’s SCOTUS Blog) What will Plaintiffs supported by the Lone Star Project argue? Lone Star Project-supported plaintiffs and our allies will argue for the preservation of the standard of law that has stood for a generation. Simply stated, any redistricting plan passed by a state covered under the Voting Rights Act must be pre-cleared to ensure against racial discrimination. If a State like Texas intentionally delays pre-clearance or seeks to avoid it altogether, a Federal District Court must step in to draw new lines and, in doing so, use the existing lines as the baseline and not the likely discriminatory lines approved by the State. (Reponses to Stay Request: MALC, Texas NAACP, LULAC, and Perez (Dutton) plaintiffs, Wendy Davis/LULAC state senate response) What is at stake? The Voting Rights Act itself hangs in the balance on the Texas redistricting decision. Plaintiffs opposing Texas Republicans must have the legal resources to make the strongest argument possible before the Supreme Court and before Courts with jurisdiction to save the Voting Rights Act. What will you do? Greg Abbott is already using your money to kill the Voting Rights Act. He is spending taxpayer funds on an outside legal counsel charging over $500 dollars

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GARLAND - Valder Beebe has been named news direc-tor of KKVI in Greater Garland as announced this week by Bill Wright, Pres-ident and General Manger of KKVI. With a decade of excellence in broadcast-ing, Beebe is recognized as one the industry’s success-ful businesswomen, hosting her namesake show, The Valder Beebe Show and her newest brand, That Celeb-rity Interview. She will

work directly with KKVI’s president and general man-ager and will assume her new post January 2, 2012. As news director, Beebe will oversee all facets of KKVI news radio broad-casts and streaming tele-vision news production, including overseeing news staff work. Beebe will be the voice of KKVI news and weather. "Valder has a media background hosting and producing her own show and she is catching on fast to news broadcasting,” said Wright. “I am thrilled to bring the vision for KKVI news to life. They have already assembled an amaz-ing creative team to brand KKVI across broadcasting and streaming Internet tele-vision platforms to give consumers a dedicated environment to experience media at its best,” she said. A seasoned technology media host, Beebe has hosted the Valder Beebe Show on radio for seven years. In 2009 her brand expanded to include sat-

ellite video interviews of today’s biggest celebrities. Recent interviews include Tyler Perry, Margaret Cho, Rapper T-Pain, Tito Jack-son, The Jackson Brothers, Chef Emeril Lagasse, Chef Wolfgang Puck and Chef Art Smith, along with Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winners. This has garnered the show multiple awards.

Beebe’s brand continues to expand and cross all media platforms. Beebe Omnime-dia Co., LLC, also broad-cast on her Internet TV Network BBNetwork on ValderBeebeShow.com, her brand’s hub, showcasing That Celebrity Interview and Beebe’s Smart Living

“I’M GONNA TELL IT”Patricia R. McCurdy

Remember when you were a child and you saw your siblings or playmates doing something that they should not have been doing. If you weren’t involved in the mischief, your first reaction was probably - “I’m gonna tell it”. If something new or exciting happened to you at school you were probably eager to tell that too. Have you ever wondered why you are so compelled to tell something? If a situation in life was threatening or dangerous, you were probably trained to tell. However, in some situations the information was just too wonder-ful to keep to yourself. Whatever your reasons, you did a great job of passing on information to those who needed to know. In today’s world we are bombarded with information everywhere we turn. With numerous forms of media, someone feels the need to tell us about something. Some information is valuable and newsworthy and should be passed on. However much of the media today is filled with non- essential information that adds no value to our lives. Sometimes we find ourselves caught up in gossip or discussions concerning recent episodes of TV/radio or reality shows, mindless informa-tion that benefits no one. We spend numerous hours on the phone, talking, texting, e-mailing, tweeting, twit-tering or updating facebook. Somehow we find the time to tell others the things we want them to know. It appears that we were born to tell it! God’s Divine Plan provides that we as born- again Christians are born to tell it. We are born to tell the Good News of Jesus. Since we are good at passing on information and have discovered new and ingenious ways to do so, we should be busy telling those who don’t believe or know about Jesus. Scripture states in Romans 10:14-15 “But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him?” “And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him?” “And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?” “And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?” “That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” So, let us be like children by saying “I’m Gonna Tell it” about Jesus. Let us be eager to tell others about the Good News of Salvation, for it is news worthy of telling.

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STEVE JAMES FILM

Violence interrupter Cobe Williams and Lil’ Mikey.Photo by Aaron Wickenden/Courtesy of Kartemquin Films

Chastity StokesPHALCONSTAR NEWS The Interrupters, a gut riveting film that documents urban violence, is a must see film this season. It opened last week end at the Ange-lika Dallas. It is big story - that after casually listening to a 90 second sound about it goes to the back of our mind. The truth is that violence in our communities has spun out of control. Death tolls are on the rise. It has become such a world-wide epidemic spectacle that we forget that it permeates our very own community. Chicago is the setting for the film. “[But] Interrupters gives it viewers not only a glimpse into the violence epidemic that plagues our American streets; but allows them to see the humanity in the people directly and indi-rectly affected by it” said movie goer Latifah Scott. “I

find that the success of the film is addressing the heart of the problem, which is the people,” she says. It is indeed a highly successful film. It won the Best Documentary Award in both Miami and Minneapo-lis among others. And, in The Interrupters it is the people who are the heroes. The director is Steve James, famous for Hoop Dreams in 1994 and the pro-ducer is Alex Kotlowitz who wrote There Are No Chil-dren Here. Shot over the course of a year, the filmed captured the period of Chicago when it became a national symbol for violence in our cities. “For me, making The Interrupters feels like a homecoming,” says director Steve James. “Since com-pleting Hoop Dreams in 1994 this film gave me a chance to return to some of the same neighborhoods where Hoop Dreams was

made.” Making The Interrupters was a gift said producer Alex Kotlowitz. “I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to under-stand people and their com-munities other than the ones I have lived in. Your own personal lives and day-to-day worries recede and pale in comparison as you bear witness to the lives and often profound struggles of others,” Kotlowitz said. The chief characters in the film are three members of CeaseFire, a group of former lawbreakers now dedicated to keeping Chicago youths from duplicating their own mistakes. All three emerge as poignant studies in redemption. The youths they seek to protect, as well as their troubled families, come into sharp, heartfelt focus in this unforgettable film. “It is true that violence

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encourage any and everyone to see this film.” Every city needs its heroes.

Valder Beebe KKVI From Page 3

in The Powers Pages news paper. In 2012 her brand expands to OPNTVNetwork (opntvnetwork.com). OPN TV NETWORKTM will get a boost from hundreds of satellite videos that are pro-duced by BeeBe Omnime-dia, the production company of the Valder Beebe Show. The videos feature today’s hot topic celebrities, television cooking celebri-ties, best-selling authors and tomorrow’s “It” personali-ties. The Valder Beebe Show is in its seventh season and continues to expand its broadcast on FM Radio, Internet Radio, Internet TV, Satellite Broadcasts, news-paper and magazine print

brands. In 2011 over 33 million listeners, viewers, site visitors and readers connected with the Valder Beebe Show.“As a media producer, our brand, The Valder Beebe Show adores being a part of the next big thing,” states Beebe. Now, OPNTVNETWORK.com is paving the way for Social Media TV, which is the next generation of television.” OPN TV NETWORK is a mix of syndicated program-ming and homemade video shorts known as “ITvChan-nels”. OPN estimates as many as 500 user-generated shorts can run on air per day. Valder, a graduate of Coleman Business College,

majoring in Office Automa-tion has been featured in Essence Magazine, Epitome Magazine, Equanimity Mag-azine, Hip Hop National, Y.C.L.A. and Gospel Con-nection and continues to write a monthly That Celeb-rity Interview column for Hip Hop Nation magazine. Valder is New Orleans native, has been married to the “man of her dreams,” James Beebe, since Valen-tine’s Day 1985. Valder Beebe is the author of 2010 CD God’s Message of Hope, and 2011's Abun-dance CD package, pub-lished by MyWakeUpCall.

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BEHOLD YOUR KING John 19:14 “And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and said he unto the Jews, Behold your King”. Final Rejection of Jesus by the Jews: We must have the stamp of our blessed Lord, who was marred more than any man. Final Rejection of Jesus by the Jews: Notice in the chapter how Pilate tried to stand up for Jesus. John 19:15-16”But they cried out, Away with him. Pilate said unto them, shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered. We have no King but Caesar. Then they delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away”. John 15:20 “If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” You will never find anything about the easy time. All the glories came out of hard time. And if you are really reconstructed it will be in a hard time. It will be at a time when all hope is gone. You will feel like you cannot continue this way anymore. Your wells are dry and your springs of hope have stopped flowing. And Behold God makes the man and woman, it is when tried by fire that God can purge you. Only melted gold is minted. Only moistened clay receives the mold. Only soft wax receives the seal. Only broken, contrite hearts receive the mark as the potter turns us on his wheel, shaped and burnt to take and keep the heavenly mould, the stamp of God’s pure gold. When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming to him he said “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world.”John 1:29 Proclaiming Him the One of Whom Abraham prophesied when he said to his son Isaac, “The Lord will provide Himself a Lamb” Genesis 22:8 -the Lamb of God and God the Lamb. Isaiah 40:9 “Behold your God” It was foretold of John by the Prophet Isaiah, that he would be the voice crying in the wilderness. He was to lift up his voice with strength, and cry to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!” John was so filled with the Spirit of God that the cry raised moved all Israel. This shows that when God gets hold of a man or woman and fills them with the Spirit, he can have a message, a proclamation of the Gospel that will move people. The man who does have the Spirit of the Lord may cry for many years and nobody takes notice of him. The man who is filled with the Spirit of God needs to cry out but once and people will feel the effect of it.Be Blessed.

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The NAACP Greenville Branch is inviting all churches, GISD, civic and community group leaders to join them in the 2012

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2012 with a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Observance hosted by the Greenville Inter- denom-inational Ministerial Alli-ance (GIMA). The memorial observance will be held

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Ricky Sommers, Sr. pastor of Greenville’s Church of the Living god will be the main speaker. The commu-nity youth choir will also perform. Youth interested in being a part of the youth choir can call Carolyn “Polly” Blaylock at (903) 461-6190 or Melody Dukes at (903) 461-6441. Rehearsals for the youth choir will began on Thur., Jan. 5, 2012 at 5pm. They will be held at St. John Missionary Baptist Church and van transportation is available by calling either of the two women. On Sat., Jan. 16 the celebration kicks off again with a downtown parade and march. Participants in the parade will meet at the downtown Farmers Market for staging according to Dan Perkins president of the CCDC. The first partici-pants who pre-register will receive free t-shirts. To pre-register your group contact the CCDC. The parade will begin at the Farmers Market and proceed west through down-town to King St. It will then turn back east and end at the

Greenville Municipal Build-ing. It will stage at 9am and begin at 10am. Grand marshals for the parade and march will be Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Fritzpatrick. The theme of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday celebration is “Walk with Me” according to NAACP Greenville Branch president Phillip Dukes. “We anticipate sev-eral hundred coming out this year and we are inviting all our friends in the region to come out and celebrate with us, even spend the night and a make it a fun event for the family,” he said. Follow the parade, a youth extravaganza will be hosted by the NAACP Greenville Branch in the Greenville Municipal Audi-torium at 10:45 am. The auditorium is located at 2821 Washington St. This year’s program will feature a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Knowledge Bee for youth, the MLK Community Cel-ebration choir. Step Teams from area colleges and schools will also be per-forming. Guest speaker for the hour long program will be State Senator Bob Deuell.

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