1. By Gary Wright, President
Wright Futures Ltd
T
he City of Cincinnati lost
both African American
and White residents and
has experienced changes in the ra-
cial makeup of many city neigh-
borhoods, according to the results
of the 2010 Census that were just
released.
City neighborhoods on the
West Side, especially parts of East
and West Price Hill and West-
wood, have seen substantial White
flight and an increase in the Afri-
can American population over the
past decade, mirroring the process
of racial turnover with continu-
ing segregation that was common
throughout the country in the
1960s. At the same time, African
Americans diffused more widely
across Hamilton County, increas-
ing integration in neighborhoods
that were once almost exclusively
White.
The author believes the big-
gest challenge the City of Cincin-
nati will face in the future will be
continuing population loss in the
first ring of neighborhoods around
downtown. Included in the watch
list for further population loss in
this inner ring of neighborhoods
are Walnut Hills, Evanston, Mt.
Auburn, and East Price Hill. Oth-
er neighborhoods farther from the
city center that also experienced
significant loses include Avondale,
Northside, Fairmont, and Bond
Hill.
Downtown itself and parts of
Over the Rhine are exceptions
to the overall trend of population
loss. Population in the heart of the
city is beginning to grow again be-
hind publicly supported reinvest-
ment programs and a small but
growing urban lifestyle trend af-
ter decades of decline. The in-
crease in the number of residents
in downtown and Over the Rhine
are small, however, compared to
losses in other parts of the city.
Thedeclineinpopulationinthe
first ring city neighborhoods is a re-
sult of many factors, among them
only modest job growth and slow
population growth over the past
decade in the entire Cincinnati-
Middletown Metropolitan Statisti-
cal Area. The impact of these two
regional growth factors on the in-
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2. ner city were exacerbated by the
housing bubble, which subsidized
a rapid expansion in new housing
in suburban counties and the con-
tinuation of the process of sprawl
and suburbanization that began
in the 1950s. This has left the city
with an oversupply of housing that
is obsolete in comparison to new
housing on the periphery.
Without an increase in jobs in
the region and a corresponding
increase in the total demand for
housing in the region to take up
the slack in the regional housing
market, further decline in popula-
tion in these areas seems likely.
The Trends
Both Whites and African Ameri-
cans have left the City since 2000.
The White population dropped
dramatically by 17.8 percent, while
the African American population
dropped by a smaller 6.9 percent.
The drop in the African American
population was the first decade-
to-decade decline in the African
American population in Cincinna-
ti since the first Census in 1810.
Population loss in the city was
widespread and greatest in the old-
er neighborhoods in the first ring
of older neighborhoods surround-
ing the city center, in areas such
as Walnut Hills, Evanston, Mt. Au-
burn, East Price Hill, and North
Fairmont. Population was most
stable in the farthest eastern and
western neighborhoods, and in
parts of Clifton.
Within the city, there were ma-
jor changes in the racial makeup
of some West Side neighborhoods.
The African American popula-
tion increased in many parts of
East and West Price Hill and West-
wood, but not enough to offset a
loss of Whites in the same neigh-
borhoods. Total population de-
clined in most West Side tracts that
experienced this shift in the racial
makeup of the area.
The increase in the African
American population in Price Hill
and Westwood also carried over
into older suburban communities
mostly to the north and northwest
of Cincinnati, especially in North
College Hill and Mt. Healthy.
While the population of African
Americans in the city declined,
the African American population
in the balance of Hamilton Coun-
ty grew by 31.7 percent. In con-
trast, the white population in the
balance of the County declined by
8.8 per cent.
At the same time that North
College Hill and Mt Healthy be-
came increasingly African Amer-
ican while losing Whites (North
College Hill’s White population
dropped by 40.6 percent), there
was also another trend of Afri-
can Americans in smaller num-
bers moving into many areas of the
county that had been almost exclu-
sively White.
The apparent White flight and
racial turnover on the west side of
Cincinnati and in adjoining subur-
ban communities does not neces-
sarily mean that segregation is de-
creasing. On the other hand, the
widespread diffusion of African
Americans into neighborhoods
that were almost all White and
where the African American pop-
ulation is still small does represent
a decrease in segregation. Overall,
the city, Hamilton County, and the
metropolitan area remain highly
segregated.
White population returning to
the city is concentrated in just a
few neighborhoods: downtown and
in parts of Over the Rhine (Main
street and adjacent areas), though
small gains occurred in some other
majority-Black areas. The most sta-
ble areas of the city are White ma-
jority areas on the East Side and in
Clifton.
The City of Cincinnati and
Hamilton County are still largely
defined by their Black and White
populations. While Hispanics ac-
count for the most population
growth, nationally and the popula-
tion in the city doubled, the City in
2011 is still less than 3 percent His-
panic. The lone exception in Ham-
ilton County to the still-small local
Hispanic population is in Spring-
dale, where Hispanics are already
17.5 percent of the population.
The absence of a larger Hispan-
ic community is significant. Unless
the region begins attracting more
Hispanics, overall population
growth for the metropolitan area is
likely to remain below the national
average in the coming years.
Potential Causes
The pattern of population
growth and decline, and the
changing racial makeup of city
and county neighborhoods are
caused by many factors. The data
from the Census is not sufficient
to reach conclusions on which
causes are most important, but
some are clearly in play. The lim-
ited ability of the local economy of
the region to attract new residents
and a residual amount of racism
in unknown measure are certainly
among them.
Overlooked as a cause in pop-
ulation decline in the city is the
artificial increase and the subse-
quent collapse of the market for
new housing in the region beyond
the level that could be support-
ed by demand driven by popula-
tion growth. For new houses to be
filled, others had to become emp-
ty. Furthermore, the housing stock
in the city is made up of an unusu-
ally high proportion of rental prop-
erty in comparison to many other
cities.
Thehousingbubbleencouraged
the construction of new housing
on the edges of the area rather than
the rehabilitation of older hous-
ing in the center, and encouraged
ownership over renting. The econ-
omy of the Metropolitan area has
only grown modestly, creating just
enough new jobs to keep the pop-
ulation growing, but not enough to
sustain the demand for older ur-
ban housing. The impact can be
seen in the increase in vacant and
abandoned property in the city’s in-
ner ring neighborhoods.
Data Sources
All data is from the U.S. Census
Bureau.
This analysis compares tract-
level Census data from the 2010
Census that was released in March
2011 with data from the 2000 Cen-
sus to examine how the pattern of
residence by race has changed in
Cincinnati in the past decade.
Tract data for the remainder of
Hamilton County is also includ-
ed. To ensure comparability with
2000, data for tracts has been com-
bined where necessary.
Tables also show population
change by place for Hamilton
County, and by County for the
Cincinnati-Middletown OH-KY-
IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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NEWS
A2 | Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011
G
arnet’s words have
found their way into
the title — and the es-
sence —of the inaugural ex-
hibition of the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African
American History and Culture.
Presented by the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service, “Let Your Motto Be Re-
sistance: African American Por-
traits” is on display at the Na-
tional Underground Railroad
Freedom Center Saturday un-
til June 19. Made from the Na-
tional Portrait Gallery’s collec-
tions, the exhibition consists of
69 modern prints highlighting
150 years of African American
resistance in the U.S.
“Throughout the 19th and
20th centuries, almost all
of black America embraced
Garnet’s plea to ‘let your motto
be resistance,’ based on ‘the
circumstances that surround
you,’” said Lonnie G. Bunch III,
foundingdirectoroftheNational
Museum of African American
History and Culture. “As we
examined the photographs that
comprise this exhibition, it was
clearthattheyrevealed,reflected
and illuminated the variety of
creative and courageous ways
that African Americans resisted,
accommodated, redefined and
struggled in an America that
needed, but rarely embraced
and accepted its black citizens.”
“Powerful in its depiction of
African American resistance,
this exhibition speaks on a
global level,” says Freedom
Center CEO Donald W.
Murphy. “While historic in its
content, the exhibition is not
only witness to the strength of
the fundamental human desire
for freedom and equality of
19th and 20th century African
Americans, but also serves as a
reminder of and an inspiration
to those resisting and seeking
freedom from tyranny around
the world today.”
In the context of the
photographs, resistance took
many forms. Working with
a growing circle of African
American intellectuals and
professionals, photographers
often challenged the prevailing
view of blacks as intellectually
and socially inferior. Dramatic
images of labor leader A. Philip
Randolph (1948) and activist
Malcolm X (1963) spotlight
those who confronted racism
and social injustice head-on.
Exhibition highlights include
Frederick Douglass (1856);
James U. Stead’s photograph
of abolitionist Henry Highland
Garnet (c. 1881); Addison N.
Scurlock’s portrait of author
and activist W.E.B. Du Bois
(c. 1911); Underwood &
Underwood’s photograph of
boxing legend Joe Louis (c.
1935); Josef Breitenbach’s image
of singer Sarah Vaughan (1950);
Dan Weiner’s photograph of
Martin Luther King Jr. (1956);
and Irving Penn’s image of opera
icon Jessye Norman (1983).
“Let Your Motto Be
Resistance” was organized
by the National Museum of
African American History and
Culture in collaboration with
the National Portrait Gallery
and the International Center
of Photography in New York
and the Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Service.
The exhibition, national tour
and catalog were made possible
by a generous grant from lead
sponsor MetLife Foundation.
Additional support was provided
by the Council of the National
Museum of African American
History and Culture.
“Let Your Motto Be
Resistance” is based on the
exhibition of the same name
that featured 100 original
photographs, and was presented
at the International Center of
Photography (May 11-Sept. 9,
2007) and the National Portrait
Gallery (Oct. 19, 2007-Mar. 2,
2008).
“Let your
motto be
resistance!
Resistance!
RESISTANCE!
No oppressed peo-
ple have ever se-
cured their liberty
without resistance.”
—Henry Highland Garnet–
Abolitionist 1843
‘Let Your Motto Be Resistance’
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3. By James “Jimmy the Vet’’ Mimms
Herald Contributor
Public service jobs are peo-
ple working for the people, the
governing bodies of elected offi-
cials and political leaders. They
are responsible for the services
that they provide for its citizens.
They hire people from within
the people to do the jobs that
the service provides. Education,
recreation, sanitation transpor-
tation, police and fire, are just a
few of the services that the gov-
ernment of the people offers for
the people, by putting the peo-
ple to work, for the people such
as public service jobs.
Federal, State, County, and
City workers, people working
for the people pay “taxes” too.
The taxes these people pay com-
prise the revenue that pays for
the services the people use and
as for the pay checks of these
public workers, that money of
the workers paycheck, it goes
and buys the products and ser-
vices the people they work for
sell, service or manufacture.
Federal State, County, City
and local public workers have
families too that they love, care
for and feed. It is the misunder-
standing as well as the misinfor-
mation that is given out by those
who know that this is true. The
leaders of these and other strong
political groups and parties who
are saying that for the govern-
ment to hire to put people to
work in public service jobs is
just another tax burden on the
American tax payer. Know that
this is as far from the truth as the
East is from the West.
All across America, there are
hundreds to thousands of Feder-
al, State, City and local public
service workers and these work-
ers pay taxes too. The politicians
who are keeping this up -- bud-
get busting, cutting back servic-
es for the people (the ones that
put them there to help them)
– are now seeing the people
turn against them. Public ser-
vice workers pay their fair share,
working, buying, products and
using services the private sector
jobs sell or manufacture.
The Herald
NEWS/COMMENTARY
Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011 | A3
COLUMBUS -
Ohio’s Transportation Re-
view Advisory Council
voted Tuesday to re-allocate
$51.8 million initially slated
for the Cincinnati Streetcar
Project. Last year, the same
committee ranked the Cincin-
nati Streetcar as the top project
in the State of Ohio.
“While this may be a set back
in the long-term goal, it is im-
portant to get involved now,’’
said Rob Richardson, local at-
torney, who was in Columbus
Tuesday as a representative of
Cincinnatians for Progress, a
Cincinnati group that supports
the street car project.
“Our fight is continuing
in full force, and we are still
building rail in Cincinnati.
Our vision has not changed.
It is unfortunate the State has
injected politics into the pro-
cess. Their vision is opposite of
what the people of Cincinnati
want. We have a vision for pro-
viding transportation choices
and it’s a shame Governor Ka-
sich doesn’t share that same
vision.’’
Richardson says there are
ways to get involved this week.
The City of Cincinnati will
conduct two public hearings
for the Environmental Assess-
ment of the Streetcar on April
13 and 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. at
Cincinnati City Hall Council
Chambers. Cincinnati Vice
Mayor Roxanne Qualls and
Councilwoman Laure Quin-
livan offered testimony in sup-
port of the Cincinnati streetcar
at Tuesday’s TRAC meeting.
“The streetcar is, was and
continues to be about jobs,
jobs, jobs – linking our region’s
largest employment centers
and driving investment in Cin-
cinnati’s urban core,” Qualls
said.
The current streetcar route
would connect the 70,000
workers and 15,000 residents
of Downtown and Over-the-
Rhine with the 60,000 work-
ers and 50,000 residents of
Uptown.
“The streetcar’s economic
impact has been fully vetted by
nationally-renowned experts,”
Qualls said, citing a new study
released last week that showed
the streetcar would increase ac-
cess to more than 100,000 jobs
in the region. “Once again, the
facts come down in support of
the streetcar. “
The streetcar feasibility study
done for the city by HDR De-
cision Economics projects a
$1.4 billion economic impact
from the project.
“We have a plan to keep
young people in our city and
it’s called the streetcar,” Quin-
livan said. “Some things are
worth fighting for, and our fu-
ture is one of them.”
Streetcar opponent and
Cincinnati NAACP President
Christopher Smitherman said,
“Governor Kasich made the
right decision on not awarding
Cincinnati City Council and
the mayor $52 million to build
a streetcar. The majority of citi-
zens in Cincinnati understand
the streetcar is something the
city cannot afford. If you do
not have the money to put wa-
ter in 28 swimming pools, you
do not have money to operate
a streetcar.’’
Smitherman adds that
the Cincinnati City Coun-
cil should focus on balanc-
ing the budget, as city officials
will soon announce a massive
2011/2012 deficit. “This deficit
will begin a broad discussion
about layoffs of police officers,
fire fighters, and sanitation
workers, yet the City Council
and the mayor are moving for-
ward on building the streetcar.
Bankruptcy is not progress,’’ he
said.
See a related article titled
“Ohio’s Transportation Re-
views Ohio’s anti-urban poli-
cies with anti-streetcar vote’’
in the Commentary Section
at www.thecincinnatiherald.
com.
State kills
funding for
Cincinnati
streetcar
project
What ‘Public Service’ Jobs?
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A4 | Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011 The Herald
C
hristopher Eanes, Ar-
tistic Director of the
Cincinnati Boychoir,
and Monna Beckford, Resource
Coordinator for the Hoffman-
Parham Elementary School
in Evanston, are pleased to an-
nounce a pilot program to intro-
duce choral music to third- and
fourth-grade boys in conjunction
with the after-school program.
The classes will be free of
charge to students and run for six
weeks, beginning in April. The
program, an extension of the
Boychoir’s Cincinnati Sings! out-
reach initiative, has been funded
by an anonymous donor.
The Cincinnati Boychoir was
originally founded as the All City
Boychoir under the auspices of
Cincinnati Public Schools in
1965. Currently, boys from the
Greater Cincinnati area attend
weekly rehearsals and perform
35-40 concerts per year. The mis-
sion of the Cincinnati Sings! out-
reach program is to make music
available to boys throughout the
city, particularly those who do
not have access to an extensive
music curriculum.
William Houston, an alum-
nus of the Cincinnati Boychoir,
currently serves as the music spe-
cialist at the Hoffman-Parham
School. Houston sees 800 hun-
dred students every other week,
and has been instrumental in
setting up the program with the
Boychoir.
The program will continue
into May, and be re-run in the
fall at additional locations.
For more information contact
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it www.cincinnatiboychoir.org,
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n April 5, hundreds of
urban, rural and sub-
urban Ohioans from
all corners of the State descend-
ed on the Statehouse to rally for
protecting social service pro-
grams, schools and libraries in
Ohio’s State Budget. Union ac-
tivists joined with us to call for
protecting Ohio’s low income
and middle class.
The People’s Empowerment
Coalition of Ohio and Contact
Center joined with One Ohio
Now and Advocates for Budget
Legislation Equality to send a
clear message to the Ohio Gen-
eral Assembly that they will be
watching and will do all they
can to save programs that are
in the direct path of the govern-
ment’s budget cutting ax, said
Lynn Williams, Statewide Orga-
nizer for The People’s Empow-
erment Coalition of Ohio.
Williams said the Contact
Center and the People’s Em-
powerment Coalition of Ohio
are especially concerned about
the following budget cuts con-
tained in HB 153 (State Budget
Proposal for 2012-2013):
—Proposed $0 funding of
Federally Qualified Health
Clinics. Community health care
clinics are a health care safety
net for thousands of uninsured
people across Ohio, and right
here in Cincinnati, who other-
wise could end up in far more
expensive emergency rooms.
Contact Center frequently refers
uninsured people to get help for
dental pain, high blood pressure
and even diabetes at the neigh-
borhood health care clinics,
thus avoiding trips to the hospi-
tal emergency rooms.
—Complete elimination of
the Kinship Permanency In-
centive Program that provides
help to kinship caregivers across
Ohio. Kinship caregivers (rel-
atives who take in related chil-
dren) save the State of Ohio
thousands of dollars by not plac-
ing the children in far more ex-
pensive foster care.
—Reduction in child care
voucher eligibility to 125 per-
cent of Federal Poverty Level.
Child care is essential for par-
ents to work, yet can be extreme-
ly expensive to provide out of
pocket. In addition to the cost
factor, quality child care centers
are a tremendous investment in
helping the adults of tomorrow
reach their full potential. Quali-
ty child care programs help low-
income children catch up with
middle-class children when they
reach school years.
However, some items con-
tained in the Governor’s Budget
Proposal are very helpful and
as hearings approach, Contact
Center and the People’s Em-
powerment Coalition of Ohio
will be testifying in support of
them, she said. Those items
include:
—Helping seniors and dis-
abled persons receive more help
to stay in their own homes in-
stead of ending up in nursing
homes. “We have been advocat-
ing for this for a long time and
we are thrilled the Governor is
listening,” stated Marty Zinn of
Athens and a member of the
People’s Empowerment Coali-
tion of Ohio. Zinn advocates for
people with disabilities in South-
east Ohio.
—Early release on parole and
lighter sentencing of non-vio-
lent offenders
—More help for prenatal care
with Help Me Grow
—Protecting the Medicaid
Program that helps low-income,
disabled, seniors and children in
Ohio.
The afternoon included Leg-
islative visits with Ohio House
and Senate members and their
aides. Contact Center members
were met by Senator Eric Kear-
ney of Cincinnati, who has con-
sistently expressed strong support
for kinship care. “The highlight
of the whole day was speaking
with my Senator,” commented a
Contact Center member on the
bus trip back to Cincinnati.
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THE MONEY LADY|
Do you need a safe deposit box?
By Michelle Graves
The Original Money Lady
Y
our home, in all probabili-
ty, is not a safe place for all
of your valuables. Securi-
ties, precious metals, rare coins,
important papers, any number
of collectibles or other expensive
items could be destroyed by fire
or carried off by a thief, or simply
misplaced.
For many people, a safe depos-
it box can allay such fears. But
finding one should not be a lot-
tery-type decision. Smart con-
sumers will shop around. In
recent years, the choices have
broadened greatly. The most log-
ical place to start your search for
a safe haven is the place where
you do your banking.
However, many banks have
raised the price on safe deposit
boxes, compared to several years
ago. The prices at some institu-
tions are 20 to 100 percent high-
er. Annually, the smallest 2” x 5”
x 24” box might run from $16 to
$18.50. A larger 10” x 10” x 24”
box could vary in price from $75
to $125. Check your local rates.
Most banks also require that you
are a current bank customer to
rent a safety deposit box.
Partially due to the popularity
inpreciousmetalsownershipand
the rise in precious metal values,
there is sometimes a shortage of
large safe deposit banks in major
metropolitan banks.
While bank safe deposit box-
es provide security unobtain-
able at home and generally offer
the convenience of doing your
safekeeping where you do your
banking, there are drawbacks:
storage capacity is limited by box
size, and access is tied to bank-
er’s hours. Herein lies the back-
bone of the private security vault
business, which disappeared in
the early 1900’s and re-emerged
in 1970. There are now 108 pri-
vate vaults open, covering nearly
every state.
Private Vault. Private vaults
are appealing because they are
larger, often room size storage
areas and have sophisticated se-
curity and non-banker’s hours,
seven days a week. Most are gen-
erally accessible round-the-clock
by appointment. Some are dec-
orated luxuriously and provide
high-security conference rooms
for coin or art transactions.
What to store. As a general
rule, nestle away everything you
can not afford to lose in a safe de-
positbox.Storeimportantpapers,
such as marriage certificates,
army discharges, citizenship pa-
pers, mortgages, leases, business
agreements and passports, along
with keepsakes and family heir-
looms. Jewelry and collectibles,
such as coins, precious metals
and stamps, are the best candi-
dates for safekeeping. If you find
your collectibles are a tight fit for
bank boxes, most private vaults
have boxes large enough, for ex-
ample, to hold firearms collec-
tions, and have temperature and
humidity controls for the muse-
um safe storage or stamp collec-
tions and artwork. Also harbored
in private vaults are microfilm
and computer data tapes.
Some valuables are better
off outside a safe deposit box .
Heading that list is cash. It can
be easily construed as an evasion
of taxes if found during an estate
inventory. Besides, that cash is
better off invested. Just as im-
portant, a safe deposit box is not
the right place for a will. A copy,
yes. But the original should be
immediately accessible upon
death. Otherwise, when a box
is individually owned, a court or-
der may be required to retrieve
the will from the box. Instead,
keep a will with your lawyer or
your bank if the bank is named
executor. Likewise, because of
potential time delays, keep cem-
etery deeds, burial instructions
and insurance papers at home.
I strongly recommend you pre-
pare a “Personal Instructions to
the Family” and store a copy with
your attorney or banker.
Your agent can easily replace
insurance papers in case of fire.
However, it is a good idea to have
a list of all insurance policies. In-
cluded should be the name of the
company, the type of insurance,
the policy number and name of
agent. Your financial planner
will be happy to compile this list-
ing for you, and a copy should be
kept in your safe deposit box.
Bonds and securities are on
the “maybe” list. It is safer to
store them at a vault than at
home. But, from a security and
convenience standpoint, they
might be better off in a custodi-
al account at a bank or held by a
brokerage firm.
Think twice about storing
property belonging to someone
else in your box. When a box
is opened in a probate case, the
real owner must prove to the
court that the property is his, not
the estate’s. To avoid this snag,
the property of other persons (in-
cluding your children or grand-
children) should clearly estab-
lish ownership on the article
itself or on an inventory list and
include the date gifted.
Not Foolproof. While secu-
rity consultants agree that a safe
deposit box is the best place for
valuables, boxes are not 100 pe-
recent foolproof. Safe depos-
it box robberies continue to be
rare, but a number of spectacu-
lar break-ins in recent years have
raised security questions.
The FDIC does not insure
loss from safe deposit boxes and
in the event of a break-in, box
holders must prove a facility neg-
ligent in order to recoup losses.
This task is not easy. Neverthe-
less, a safe deposit box has prov-
en to be a safe, reliable venue for
protecting your valuables against
loss -- much safer than storing
items in between the mattress,
hiding them in a freezer or bury-
ing a metal box underneath a fa-
vorite tree.
Michelle Y. Graves
Michelle Y. Graves, “The Money
Lady”, has been a frequent
contributor on financial issues to
the Cincinnati Herald.
She is a member of the Ohio
Women’s Hall of Fame and can
be reached on her website
www.michellegravesonline.com
—What to store—
As a general rule, nestle away everything you
can not afford to lose in a safe deposit box.
Michelle Y. Graves
Contact Center rallies
for economic safety
net at Statehouse
Cincinnati Boychoir to provide
free after-school music
instruction at Cincinnati Public
Schools
T
he Cincinnati Board of Ed-
ucation passed a resolution
at its April 11 public meet-
ing to create a task force to lead the
district’s African-American Male
Initiative, designed to improve out-
comes for African-American and
other at-risk males in Cincinnati
Public Schools.
The initiative and its task Force
will research, develop and imple-
ment a series of programs result-
ing in measurable improvements
in academic achievement, pro-
motion rates, graduation rates,
and college and career readiness.
Programs also will focus on social
skills development, good citizen-
ship, improved health and well-
ness, and financial literacy.
As an initial strategy, the ini-
tiative will launch Young Men’s
Clubs in 10 Cincinnati Public
Schools -- five high schools and
five elementary schools. The strat-
egy will support African American
and other at-risk males and ulti-
mately serve as a national model
for improving outcomes for at-risk
young men.
Across the nation, African
American males are underper-
forming academically at such trou-
bling levels that the situation has
been labeled a “national catastro-
phe” by the Council of the Great
City Schools. In Cincinnati Pub-
lic Schools – despite overall district
progress in raising academic results
and graduation rates – African-
American males mirror the nation-
al trend. And they are not alone.
Male students, as a whole, are un-
derperforming in Cincinnati Pub-
lic Schools: CPS Graduation Rate
in 2009 was 82.9 percent; CPS Af-
rican-American Male Graduation
Rate in 2009 was 74 percent; CPS
White Male Graduation Rate in
2009 was 80.4 percent.
The Cincinnati Board of Edu-
cation has named the following
to its African American Male Ini-
tiative Task Force: Leonard Dean,
Parents for Public Schools; John
Garner, Director of Young Father’s
Program for Cincinnati Commu-
nity Action Agency; Don Luckie,
Cincinnati Federation of Teach-
ers; Brian Neal, program director
for SEED Foundation; Nate Fos-
ter, associate director of End Zone
Club; Charles Hassel, parent; Paul
McMillan, outreach coordinator
for Woodward Career Technical
High School; Brian Neal, Program
Director, SEED Foundation; Stan
Ross,
community representative; Eric
Thomas, director of CPS Office
of Innovation; Chris Nelms, Cin-
cinnati Board of Education; Jamin
Penick; coordinator of Young Fa-
ther’s Program for CAA; and Aud-
ley Smith, counselor at Shroder
High School.
CPS launches initiative
targeting at-risk males
Will Wallace and Phillip Jacobs participated in the Statehouse rally. Photo provided
W.E. Neighbors United
Against Violence will be hosting
a “sit out” on Saturday, April 16,
from 3-6 p.m. at the corner of
Liberty and Linn St. at Stanley
Rowe Towers. Bring your lawn
chair. For more information,
contact Doris Rockingham at
513.381-2103 or Cassandra Rob-
inson at 513.559.5586
WE Neighbors United Against
Violence Sit-out on April 16

5. The Herald
NEWS
Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011 | A5
COLUMBUS –
Ohio House Democratic Mem-
bers from the Ohio Legislative
Black Caucus and House Demo-
cratic Women’s Caucus were re-
cently joined by Policy Matters
Ohio at a Statehouse press confer-
ence to express their concerns over
data which shows that Senate Bill
5, the anti-working family legisla-
tion, will disproportionally impact
women and minorities. A study
completed by Policy Matters Ohio,
a non-partisan policy research insti-
tute with assistance from the Eco-
nomic Policy Institute, shows that
taking away the rights of workers
to bargain will not only hurt wom-
en and minorities. It will also hurt
Ohio’s economy.
Speaking on behalf of the
OLBC, State Representative San-
dra Williams (D-Cleveland) said,
“Senate Bill 5 will harm all pub-
lic sector workers and in particular
the 18.5 percent African American
public sector employees who are
struggling to provide for their fam-
ilies in the wake of the economic
recession and rising food and gas
prices.”
State Representative Alicia Re-
ece (D-Cincinnati) says a statewide
petition drive to overturn SB5 will
soon be underway, with 231,000
valid signatures necessary to get the
issue on the November ballot.
“Any local official who supports
SB5 is not ready to be our represen-
tative,’’ Reece said.
Just last week, Reece discussed
recent state legislation and present-
ed specific information about the
impact of Governor John Kasich’s
proposed budget cuts to a local au-
dience at a Cincinnati NAACP fo-
rum at Unity Baptist Church in the
Cincinnati neighborhood of Evan-
ston. The state budget is expected
to be passed in June.
A summary of Reece’s presenta-
tion follows:
- K-12 EDUCATION: Ka-
sich’s budget would cut funding
to schools by $3.1 billion. These
cuts would result in fewer teach-
ers, larger classes for our children
or more school levies and higher
property taxes. According to Inno-
vation Ohio, these cuts could im-
pact 7,149 teachers and would like-
ly result in significant layoffs. The
budget would significantly increase
the number of charter schools and
vouchers. Itwould also allow un-
derperforming schools to be taken
over by parents with majority vote
of the parents.
-LOCAL LIBRARIES: The bud-
get would cut funding for local li-
braries by $168 million.
-HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES: Cuts would be made
to county departments of job and
family services programs and the
child care program. ODJFS esti-
mates that each would be cut by
approximately $80 million annu-
ally. The budget would make cuts
to the state Medicaid program in-
cluding cuts to Disability Cash As-
sistance, Adoption Services, Prena-
tal Care, and Early Child Care.
- PUBLIC TRANSPORTA-
TION: The budget would provide
$20 million to public transit agen-
cies statewide.
-AFRICAN AMERICAN COM-
MISSION: The budget would
eliminate funding for the Commis-
sion on African-American Males,
an organization created to address
social, economic, and education-
al problems that affect the Afri-
can-American male population in
Ohio.
Reece says there is more to come
asRepublicansinColumbusbegan
working on cutting state funding to
local governments last week. “If lo-
cal governments think the state
government cares about you, they
will soon discover the state govern-
ment is going to use you,’’ she said.
Other proposals include priva-
tizing state owned and operated as-
sets such prisons and colleges, and
even the Brent Spence Bridge con-
necting Cincinnati to the airport,
she said.
Reece said other issues involve
establishing a uniform method
of counting provisional ballots in
Ohio. She introduced legislation
to do this as a result of the dispute
over 849 provision ballots that were
thrown out in the Hamilton Coun-
ty Juvenile Court race. The bill
was introduced on Feb. 1 and is fi-
nally being heard this week by the
State Government and Elections
Committee.
Also, the newly proposed House
Bill 159 that would require voters
to present a photo ID when voting
would make it harder for people to
exercise their right to vote by requir-
ing them to present a government-
issued photo ID, such as a valid
driver’s license, when voting in per-
son, Reece said. The bill was voted
out of the Ohio House on March
23.
Many Ohioans do not current-
ly have a government-issued pho-
to ID that would meet the bill’s
requirements, and they would be
disenfranchised. Consider the fol-
lowing: 887,000 of Ohio’s 8 mil-
lion registered voters may lack a
government-issued photo ID and
25 percent of voting-age African
Americans do not have a govern-
ment-issued ID. Racial minorities,
the working poor, students, the el-
derly and people with disabilities
are twice as likely to lack a non-ex-
pired government-issued ID.
The impact of Senate Bill 5,
which eliminates collective bar-
gaining rights of public employees,
would hit minorities and women
the hardest, say Reece and others in
the Legislature.
According to research from Pol-
icy Matters Ohio, women and Af-
rican Americans are more likely to
be employed in public sector jobs
in Ohio. While more than 15.4
percent of all Ohio workers are em-
ployed in the public sector, the re-
search concludes that women and
African Americans are more likely
to be employed in these public po-
sitions. Out of 709,731 public sec-
tor workers in 2008-2010, 407,681
or 57 percent are women. The study
also breaks down the demographics
of public sector workers and shows
that women and African Americans
are employed at higher percentag-
es than typical in the Ohio labor
force. Approximately 18.5 percent
of working African Americans were
employed in the public sector. For
working African American women,
nearly 20 percent were employed
in public sector jobs.
Also, Innovation Ohio, a pro-
gressive think tank headquartered
in Columbus, released an analy-
sis last week which finds that pass-
ing the Kasich Administration’s pro-
posed two-year budget could mean
a direct loss of 51,052 existing Ohio
jobs. Job losses of that magnitude
- which are more than double the
22,000 jobs that have been creat-
ed since Gov. Kasich took office -
could easily stall the state’s still-frag-
ile economic recovery.
Reece’s father, Cincinnati busi-
nessman and activist Dr. Steve Re-
ece, who also spoke at Unity Bap-
tist, said Republican efforts to
destroy the state’s middle class pop-
ulation is aimed at defeating Presi-
dent Obama in Ohio in his re-elec-
tion bid in November. “It's time for
the community to shift into survival
mode,” he said.
Alicia Reece said, “All of the ac-
tion is now in Columbus, and they
are throwing everything at us all at
once.’’ She noted how she and oth-
er Democrats are ignored in the
processes. “We are told that they
will discuss the proposal with us af-
ter it passes, but for the time being
just stay out of the way,’’ she said.
She and other representatives were
locked out of the Capitol building
during the recent massive protests,
and some elected officials were
threatened with being arrested at
that time, she said.
POLITICS|
Reece, others say minorities to
be hit hardest by recent state
legislation, budget plans
State Rep.Alicia Reece holds Ohio Senate Bill 5 as she discusses other state issues at a forum at Unity Baptist Church in Evanston.Photos by DanYount
The Hamilton County Bo-
ard of Elections met in an emer-
gency meeting Monday to appe-
al to the U.S. Supreme Court a
U.S. 6th Circuit Court ruling
that directed the board to count
270 provisional ballots cast in
the Hamilton County Juvenile
Court disputed election of Nov.
2. Those provisional ballots re-
mained uncounted because
they were cast at the wrong pre-
cinct in multiple-precinct pol-
ling locations due to poll wor-
ker error.
John Williams, the Repu-
blican candidate for Hamil-
ton County Juvenile Court le-
ads Democrat candidate Tracie
Hunter by 23 votes in the dispu-
ted Nov. 2 election. However,
many of the uncounted provisi-
onal ballot in question were cast
in polling places that have large
registrations of Democrats and
counting them would likely be-
nefit Hunter.
Board Democrats Tim Burke
and Caleb Faux opposed the ac-
tion to appeal the Circuit Court
ruling.
Juvenile
Court election
impasse may go
to U.S. Supreme
Court
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NAACP, Baptist
Ministers plan
to bus children
to public pools
The Cincinnati NAACP is
working with the Baptist Minis-
ters Conference to bus children to
all public pools this summer. The
proposal comes after city officials
agreed to close 22 public pools as
one of many cuts to eliminate a
city budget deficit for this year.
Pools in the following neigh-
borhoods are scheduled to re-
main closed this summer as a re-
sult of the 2011 city budget that
was approved in December:
Bond Hill, Bush, Camp Washing-
ton, Dempsey, Dickman, Evan-
ston, Fairview, Filson, Hartwell,
LeBlond, Lincoln, Madisonville,
McKie, Millvale, Mt. Adams, Mt.
Washington, Oakley, Pleasant
Ridge, Ryan, Spring Grove Vil-
lage, Winton Hills,and Ziegler.
However, the City Recreation
Commission’s Save Our Pools
campaign and neighborhood
fundraising efforts, which contin-
ue through April 15, will make
it possible to open some of those
pools, said CRC spokesperson
Bunny Arszman.
Decisions concerning what
pools to open will be made on a
tier list that ranks attendance, pool
conditions and other factors, she
said. Those decisions will be made
once a total is available next week
of the funds that have been raised.
Donors can contact their neigh-
borhood community council to
donate locally or donate through
the Save Our Pools campaign by
visiting the CRC’s site at www.
SaveCincyPools.org.
Cincinnati NAACP President
Christopher Smitherman com-
mended neighborhood organiza-
tions that have raised the money
from residents and small business-
es to keep some of the pools open.
“However, we believe that Cin-
cinnati public swimming pools
are critical to the quality of life of
Cincinnati families. I am confi-
dent that each neighborhood will
receive our children and parents
with open arms,” Smitherman
said.

6. The Herald
NEWS
A6 | Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011
Article and photos by Paul Booth
and Martin Booth, Cincinnati
Herald Contributors
By Paul Booth
T
he 11th Congressional Civil Rights
Pilgrimage to Alabama, led by Con-
gressman John Lewis, under the aus-
pices of The Faith Politics Institute, was
one of the most inspirational, moving, and
powerful experiences that I have had. I was
privileged to have our youngest son Martin,
a junior in college, to accompany me on this
unforgettable experience. I wanted him to
see where the saints have trod. More than
that, I wanted Martin to understand and see
for himself his own history and his respon-
sibility to those who made it happen, who
made a way out of no way, and paved the
way for him to enjoy freedom without fear.
Congressman John Lewis and The Faith
Politics Institute have led bi-partisan, in-
terfaith Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrim-
ages to Alabama for a number of years. To
this present day, the pilgrimages invite mem-
bers of the U.S. House and Senate to relive
and experience the challenges and victories
of the Civil Rights Movement. Members of
Congress who have participated in the pil-
grimage have said they consider it to be one
of the most valuable experiences they have
had while in Congress.
The pilgrimages bring together people
across political, religious, and racial lines,
creating opportunities for engaged and re-
flective dialogue on the accomplishments of
the Civil Rights Movement and its place in
history. Over the three days, we visited sites
in Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery
where conscience, courage, conviction, and
faith changed a nation.
These sites included: in Birmingham,
the 16th Avenue Baptist Church, where the
1963 senseless, cowardly bombing claimed
the lives of four young, innocent girls; and
Kelly Ingram Park, where children and
young people faced the fire hoses and dogs
unleashed on them by Birmingham’s Direc-
tor of Public Safety Bull Connor.
In Montgomery, we stood at the bus stop
where Rosa Parks’ refusal to obey unjust laws
launched a movement. We sat in the sanctu-
ary of First Baptist Church, where Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph Abernathy
and the Freedom Riders were surrounded by
an angry mob outside the church doors. We
sang in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church,
where Dr. King preached and practiced the
philosophy of nonviolent protest.
We walked across Selma’s Edmund Pettus
Bridge, walking in the footsteps of the very
brave men, women, boys, and girls who, on
Bloody Sunday 46 years ago, marched for
the right to vote only to face police wielding
clubs, tear gas, and whips.
These historic landmarks stand as a testi-
mony to the faith of committed people, who
with great courage, stood up to oppression
and inequality, who met violence without
retaliation, and whose heroic, unselfish acts
changed the backward politics of a nation.
In making a pilgrimage to these sacred plac-
es, we pay tribute to the sacrifices that were
made and acknowledge that the struggle for
freedom, justice, and equality continues.
On this journey, we learned that we must
look back in order to move forward. We
learned that we stand on shoulders of the
brave men, women, and children who sacri-
ficed their personal freedom and safety and
gave their lives for a cause they believed in.
This was not simply a tour, but an oppor-
tunity to search the depth of our souls and
accept the challenge that we cannot rest un-
til we have done our part to see that “justice
rolls down like waters and righteousness like
a mighty stream.”
We are debtors. The freedoms that we
have today were paid for by the blood, sweat,
toil, and tears of those who have gone before
us. They did not back down, they did not dis-
appoint us. We must not retreat and we must
not let them down.
By Martin Booth
Alabama served as a battleground for the
African American struggle. Ingrained in the
land are the stains of blood, the stench of
sweat, and tears of the Civil Rights pioneers
who led the way so that African Americans
today could have the rights granted to all
Americans in the Constitution.
Since my birth, the Civil Rights Move-
ment has always been around me. My
namesake Martin Luther King Jr. has be-
come my role model, whose characteris-
tics I try to emulate in my everyday life. At
a young age, I was told stories of how Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks played an
instrumental role in the Civil Rights Move-
ment. Historic events, such as the Mont-
gomery Bus Boycott, the sit-ins and the
March on Washington paint a vivid image
of the African Americans’ undying fervor to
realize what freedom truly is.
As an African American male at the age
of 20, I have not only gained inspiration
from their feats but I can better appreci-
ate the sacrifices that were made so that I
could go to institutions of higher learning,
and to vote. Furthermore, I have learned
that the success of the African American
race was due to our faith and our inability
to hear the word “no.” Our mentality that
African Americans deserved to be in posi-
tions of leadership, to have quality educa-
tion and to live the American dream helped
us realize our race’s true potential. With the
recent election of Barack Obama, Blacks all
over America have become inspired to work
harder, to dedicate themselves with the real-
ization that African Americans are capable
of great things and that we can truly make
a difference.
This year, I had the opportunity to take
a Pilgrimage to Alabama where I was able
to see tangible evidence of the Civil Rights
Movement. From Birmingham, where Mar-
tin Luther King was incarcerated to Selma,
where Bloody Sunday occurred, I was able
to envision the journey that African Ameri-
cans before me had endured.
A mass of people gathered together to cel-
ebrate the lives of the Civil Rights leaders
and the results that came from it. As I walked
across the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma,
Alabama, there was a contagious energy
that fell upon me. Black and Whites were
walking together hand in hand, a goal that
Dr. King and Rosa Parks had only dreamed
about. Singing the words of “We Shall Over-
come,” I looked over at Terri Sewell, the
first Black congresswoman to represent Al-
abama holding hands with her fellow con-
gressman and congresswoman and realized
this is what the Civil Rights Movement was
about. It was about the harmony that we can
have with our fellow man, but more impor-
tantly about the sacrifice that led to the suc-
cess that we can experience if we are persis-
tent and keep the faith.
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth’s words in
1957 still challenge us today. “No man
can make us hate; and no man can make
us afraid. We know that the struggle will be
hard and costly; some of us indeed may die;
but let our trials and death -- if come they
must -- be one more sacred installment on
this American Heritage for freedom; and let
history and they that come behind us, re-
joice that we arose in strength, armed only
with the weapon of Love, and stood where
men stood and removed from American So-
ciety this cancerous infection of Segrega-
tion and 2nd class citizenship.”
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
thou who has brought
us thus far on the way;
thou who has by thy might,
led us into the light,
keep us forever in
the path we pray.
- Excerpted from
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
(The Negro National Anthem)
Boothsreflectonacivilrights
pilgrimagethroughAlabama
INSET: Sculpted images of police dogs used on civil rights demonstrators appear to be leaping out of a wall in the Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham.
ABOVE: Paul Booth, at left, and his son, Martin Booth, at right, spent time with civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis, center, of Alabama, who led
the pilgrimage. Lewis was badly beaten by police during the historic walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in the 1960s.
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CivilRightsPilgrimage
The 11th Congressional Civil Rights
Pilgrimage toAlabama visited the 16th
Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham,
where a program and wreath-laying
ceremony were conducted to honor the
victims of the bombing of that church.The
group then visited Kelly Park and toured
the Civil Rights Institute,where civil rights
leaders Sarah Collins Rudolph,Rep.John
Lewis,and Rep.Spender Bachus shared
their memories during a dinner program.
In Montgomery the next day,the tour
included a visit to the Rosa Parks
Museum,DexterAvenue King Memorial
Baptist Church,a wreath laying at the
Civil Rights Memorial,a tour of the
Southern Poverty Law Center,a luncheon
program about the Freedom Rides and
the Non-Violence Revolution at First
Baptist Church,and a dinner and program
at Montgomery Museum of FineArts.
On the third day,in Selma,the itinerary
included a tour of theVoting Rights
Museum,a visit to the Edmund Pettus
Bridge,worship at Brown ChapelAME,
and a re-enactment of the 1965
march across Edmund Pettus Bridge.
A statue of Birmingham civil rights icon
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Sr. is found at the
Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham.
Martin Booth met famed civil rights lawyer
Morris Dees, at right, at his offices in
Montgomery,Ala., during the pilgrimage.
Members of the 11th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama laid a wreath at the 16nth
Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, where a bombing in 1963 killed four girls.
Martin Booth is shown at the Edmund
Pettus Bridge prior to a commemorative
walk across the bridge where civil rights
marchers were beaten by police.
Among the pilgrimage group and at right are civil rights leaders Rev. Jesse
Jackson of Chicago and Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina.
LEFT: Birmingham civil rights icon Rev.
Fred Shuttlesworth Sr. and his wife
Sephira met with Martin Booth, shown
above, and his father Paul Booth when
the Booths were in Birmingham.

7. On150thanniversaryofthestartoftheCivilWar…
CivilrightsleaderJulianBondtracesracialprogress
‘FromCivilWartoCivilRights’
F
or most of my adult life, I have been engaged in
what once was called “race work” – fighting to make
justice and fairness a reality for everyone.
The racial picture in America has improved re-
markably in my lifetime, so much so that a Black man
has been elected President of the United States, an
unthinkable development just a few years ago.
But paradoxically, Barack Obama’s victory in 2008
has convinced many that all racial barriers and restric-
tions have been vanquished and we have entered ra-
cial nirvana across the land.
I am here to dispel that notion and, in the process,
discuss the challenges that we face in the area of civ-
il rights.
Those who say that “race is history” have it exactly
backward – history is race.
America is race – from its symbolism to its sub-
stance, from its founding by slaveholders to its rending
by the Civil War, from Johnnie Reb to Jim Crow, from
the Ku Klux Klan to Katrina and Jena.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the start
of the Civil War, the war that claimed more Ameri-
can lives than all other wars combined in our nation’s
history.
Nothing forces us to confront the centrality of race
to our past as much as the Civil War. And nothing
forces us to acknowledge its continued centrality to
our present more than the refusal by some, after 150
years, to admit that the war was about slavery.
Whitewashing of history
The whitewashing of history was on full display af-
ter the newly elected 112th House of Representatives
opened with a reading of the Constitution – omitting
its condoning of slavery. The founding fathers may have
tried to form a more perfect union, but they weren’t
perfect and neither was their founding document.
The reading of the Constitution was interrupted
when a screaming woman in the gallery questioned
Obama’s citizenship.
Both our response to the nation’s first Black presi-
dent and the response to the Civil War’s anniversary
confirm that we are still a country at war with itself.
From Civil War to civil rights
But we are not the same country. We have gone
from Civil War to civil rights.
The Civil War’s centennial in 1961 occurred
against the background of a segregated South. Fifty
years later, the President of the United States is a man
who would not have been allowed to stay in the hotel
where the 1961 Secession Ball was held.
In 1961, the civil rights movement was gaining mo-
mentum, as was Martin Luther King, the nation’s pre-
mier civil rights leader. Gunned down in Memphis
only seven years later, he has now been dead longer
than he lived.
It was only 13 years earlier, during the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, that King had been introduced to the na-
tion and the world. He was 26 years old.
At that early age and at that early stage of the boy-
cott, King understood how historic it would be. Four
days after Rosa Parks stood up for justice by sitting
down, the boycott began. That evening, at the first
mass meeting, King declared:
“… When the history books are written in the fu-
ture, somebody will have to say, ‘there lived a race of
people, a Black people … who had the moral courage
to stand up for their rights. And thereby they injected
a new meaning into the veins of history and civiliza-
tion’.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “MIA Mass Meeting at
Holt Street Baptist Church”
Montgomery: beginning of a movement
King did not exaggerate. Montgomery was the be-
ginning of a mass movement that destroyed segrega-
tion and permanently changed our world.
In 1963 alone, the year that King – fresh from the
battlefields of Birmingham – told the nation of his
dream at the March on Washington. There were
more than 10,000 anti-racist demonstrations.
AKAs sponsor 10th Annual Annual Jazz Brunch ‘Cruising with Phi Psi Omega’
The Alpha Kappa Alpha 10th Annual Jazz Brunch, “Cruising with Phi Psi Omega,” is Saturday, June 11, at the Savannah Center on
Chapell Crossing in West Chester. Gayle Lloyd and Alantria Harris are Chair and Co-chair of the event. Wiona Berry is the Phi Psi Ome-
ga Chapter president. The event garners funds to support Phi Psi Omega’s scholarship and community service programs and the Health
Initiatives Sickle Cell Program. Tickets are $50. Send inquiries to jazzbrunch@akaphipsiomega.org. Tickets may be purchased online at:
http: / / akaphipsiomegajazzbrunch.eventbrite.com
Ohio House seeks approval of bed bug pesticide
The Ohio House of Representatives Wednesday unanimously approved
a resolution sponsored by State Rep. Dale Mallory (D-Cincinnati) dealing
with the battle against bed bugs. House Resolution 31 asks Congress to help
convince the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to approve the emer-
gency use of the pesticide Propoxur. Bed bugs have not developed a resis-
tance to Propoxur, unlike many other marketed insecticides.
T h e H e r a l d
S E C T I O N
APR. 16, 2011 - APR 22, 2011
Chronicle
Editor’s Note: Julian Bond was Chairman of the NAACP
Board of Directors from February 1998 until February
2010, and is now Chairman Emeritus. He is a Distinguished
Scholar in the School of Government at American
University in Washington, DC, and a Professor in the
Department of History at the University of Virginia.
Mr. Bond’s speech - “From Civil War to Civil Rights’’
– presented at the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ‘s Hear-
to-Heart Racial Justice Breakfast on March 31 at the
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is of such
importance that The Cincinnati Herald is publishing it
– with his permission and with limited edits -- as follows:
See Civil War, continued on page B3
NAACP Chairman Emeritus Julian Bond delivers the keynote speech at the YWCA Heart-to-Heart Racial Justice Breakfast. Photos by Dan Yount
Attending the YWCA Heart-to-Heart Racial Justice Breakfast, from left are event Chair Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney,YWCA Board of Directors
Chair Kathy Beechem, keynote speaker Julian Bond,YWCA President and CEO Charlene Ventura, 2011 Racial Justice Award recipient
and Cincinnati civil rights icon Dr. Marian Spencer, event committee member YWCA Board member Barbara Smitherman, and event Co-
chair and sponsor Debra Rothstein. Dr. Donald Spencer was posthumously recognized as a recipient of the 2010 Racial Justice Award.
Julian Bond, at right, shares a lighter moment with cousin Howard Bond of Cincinnati and his daughter Alicia Bond, Esq. at left,
and former NAACP counsel and retired federal Judge Nathaniel Jones while here for the YWCA Racial Justice Breakfast.

8. NEWS
The HeraldB2 | Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011
By Samantha Brockfield, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
R
esidents and community leaders from across
Cincinnati are discovering an interest in or-
ganizing block clubs as a way to make an
impact in distressed neighborhoods. On Satur-
day April 2, members of Avondale’s Avenue Dis-
trict Block Club presented to a full banquet hall in
Xavier’s Cintas Center for Cincinnati’s Ninth An-
nual Neighborhood Summit. This year’s summit
focused on citizen engagement in the city’s com-
prehensive planning process and strategic develop-
ment for neighborhoods.
More than 100 participants attended the morn-
ing session, “Making Impact: Promote Empow-
erment and Involvement through Block Clubs,”
which was co-hosted by a block club in West Price
Hill. Presenters and volunteers shared their block
club’s story and inspired residents from other neigh-
borhoods to organize.
“The initial group of residents that came togeth-
er for landscape improvements then began to dis-
cuss what other issues we could address. Today
we are a team of commited residents with an in-
terest in neighborhood improvement and the will-
ingness to do the work,” said Michael Ellsworth,
chairman.
Since the group formed in fall 2009, residents
and stakeholders developed new partnerships to
address district cleanup and lighting, vacant and
abandoned properties, safety, beautification and
on-street parking. They are currently working to
transform two vacant parcels into a new commu-
nity park. While the presentation featured their
unique challenges and successes, it also offered re-
sources for participants to join or start a block club
including best practices from Chicago.
“There are many issues in our community which
need an organized response. This begins with find-
ing out what the residents want and what they need
first,” said Sheila Holmes Howard, secretary.
The Avenue District is located on nine blocks
in the neighborhood of Avondale, bordered by the
Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Gardens, Cincinna-
ti Children’s Hospital and the Burnet Ave Rede-
velopment Area. Block club projects have received
support from the Local Initiatives Support Corpo-
ration through grants from the JPMorgan Chase
Foundation.
Avondale’s Avenue District Block Club
featured at Neighborhood Summit
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The University of Cincinnati
announces the 2011 top alumni
award recipients. This year’s six
honorees include:
William Howard Taft Medal
for Notable Achievement
Dr. J. Richard Wuest ( Col-
lege of Pharmacy ’58 – B.S., ’68
– M.S., ’71 – PhD) – Cincinna-
ti , OH
Alumni Distinguished Service
Award
Richard Foley ( College of En-
gineering ’61) – Dayton , OH
David Watkins (College of Arts
Sciences ’92) – Chicago , IL
Jeffrey Hurwitz Young Alum-
ni Outstanding Achievement
Award
Drew McKenzie ( College of
Business ’05) – Cincinnati , OH
Mosaic Award
Dr. Eric Abercrumbie (Col-
lege of Arts Sciences 1987) –
Cincinnati , OH
Dr. Marilyn Edmondson
(Nursing ‘62 College of Edu-
cation ’76) Smyrna , GA
The award recipients were se-
lected for their unique profes-
sional accomplishments and
contributions to UC and the
community at large. They will
be recognized among universi-
ty leaders, colleagues and friends
at the UC Alumni Association’s
annual UC Day Celebration on
June 9.
“UC Day is a longstanding tra-
dition at UC, allowing us to cel-
ebrate and recognize our most
remarkable alumni and the pos-
itive marks they’ve made in their
professions and in their commu-
nities,” said UC Alumni Associa-
tion Executive Director, Myron
Hughes. “In line with tradition,
this year’s honorees are truly out-
standing examples of alumni
leadership in action.”
The Mosaic Award is present-
ed to an individual whose collab-
orative community leadership
enhances a shared community
by championing the cause of the
underrepresented and promot-
ing greater equity and opportuni-
ty for others.
Currently the Director of Eth-
nic Programs and Services at
UC’s African American Culture
and Resource Center, honoree
Abercrumbie is recognized for
his work with cultural diversity.
His deep-rooted interest in Afri-
can American history combined
with his passion for education has
not only altered the institutional
landscape at UC, but also initi-
ated change at the national lev-
el. His position as a leader in the
field of diversity has helped cre-
ate greater equity of opportuni-
ty for the underrepresented and
earned him countless national
honors, including “Black Edu-
cator of the Year” by the United
States Peace Corps.
Tickets for this year’s UC Day
Celebration will be available to
the public in early April (regu-
lar admission – $100; young pro-
fessionals – $70; students – $50).
To purchase tickets or read more
about the 2011 event and hon-
orees, please visit http://tinyurl.
com/ucdaycelebration.
University of Cincinnati
Announces 2011 Top Alumni
Dr. P. Eric Abercrumbie
K
ay Barksdale was in charge of first im-
pressions at WCPO-TV (Channel 9) for
37 years, as the station’s receptionist and
switchboard operator until her retirement April 1.
Fellow employees, friends and community lead-
ers were present for a recent retirement party for
Barksdale at the station.
Barksdale was hired Jan. 29, 1974, as the first
Black female employee at the station. She calls
WCPO her “home away from home.’’
She had moved to Cincinnati with her husband,
the late William T. Barskdale, from New York City
after visiting her aunt Mary Theresa Williamson
here about 12 years prior to being hired at
WCPO. She first worked as an LPN at Bethesda
and Jewish hospitals and as a secretary with the
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. At
WCPO, she first worked as a secretary for station
CEO Mort Watters, and, at her request, was
transferred to one of the receptionist positions at
the station’s offices on Fifth Street. She became
a receptionist and switchboard operator at the
rear entrance, where all of the celebrities visiting
the station entered. There she was able to meet
mayors, singers, actors and sports celebrities as they
came through the door. When WCPO moved to
its new building on Gilbert Avenue six years ago,
Barksdale became the station’s sole receptionist.
In her 37 years at WCPO, she says she worked for
10 station managers and trained 392 switchboard
operators.
Barksdale is a former nightclub singer who
converted to singing only gospel songs after
surviving a harrowing escape from the Beverly
Hills Supper Club fire in Northern Kentucky in
1977,inwhich165peopledied.Shehaspresented
concerts at churches throughout the area, and
for 26 straight years has presented an annual
concert at Greater New Life Baptist Church
in Avondale, the church founded by Rev. Fred
Shuttlesworth Sr.
She has been honored by several of the city’s
mayors and was named Mrs. Cincinnati in 1971.
“All of my endeavors have been good because
God has been my pilot, and He makes my way,’’
she said. “I have learned that only what you do for
Christ lasts.’’
Barksdalehastwodaughters,AdreianeBarksdale,
a speech pathologist at New York University, and
Denetria Barksdale, an employee at the Hyde Park
Post Office. She has three grandchildren and a
great grandson.
Kay Barksdale retires after
37 years with WCPO
Sheila Holmes Howard, speaking at the meeting.
T
he 2011 Health Expo
theme is “Mothers…
The Original Caregiv-
ers.” To honor the important
role mothers play in the health
of our families, we will have a
Mother’s Day Contest to rec-
ognize three mother’s in our
community.
It’s no secret that mothers
have always been the ones
taking responsibility for
the health of their families.
Mothers tell their husbands,
children, grandchildren and
kids they take care of in the
community what to do when
they are sick, when to go see the
doctor, and provide that loving
touch everyday. Mothers have
acted as a personal physician in
our families for as long as I can
remember.
Please join me at this year’s
Expo to honor and salute
mothers. Mother’s Day happens
once a year and this year you
can show your mothers what
impact they have had on your
life by nominating a mother
who has been your caregiver.
Don’t miss this opportunity to
nominate your mother at this
year’s Health Expo. Arrive early
and the more people your bring
to nominate your mom the
greater the chance she will win!
It’s Simple:
·On Saturday, May 7, at the
Northern Kentucky Convention
Center, purchase an admission
ticket to the Health Expo and
receive a nomination form.
Only one nomination form is
allowed per person.
·Nominate a mother and they
will be entered into the drawing
that will take place following
Susan Taylor at 1 pm. The
nominated mother must be
present to WIN
·Three prizes will be drawn –
3rd Place $400, 2nd place $600
and 1st Place $1,000
The Expo is May 7, 2011,
at the Northern Kentucky
Convention Center from 9
a.m.-5 p.m. Admission to the
event is $5.00. Tickets are only
available for purchase at the
door. Children 12 and under
accompanied by an adult will
be admitted for free.
For more information on how to
participate as an exhibitor, volun-
teer or to join in the competitions,
contact the Center for Closing the
Health Gap at 513-585-9878 or vis-
it www.closingthehealthgap.org. Re-
member your Health, your future.
Dwight Tillery
closing the health gap |
Mothers…the Original Caregivers
WCPO Director of Sales Darrell Calloway, at left and Brian Lawlor, senior vice president of television of The E.W. Scripps
Co., were among those present to congratulate Kay Barksdale, center, at her recent retirement party at the station.
TheCincinnatiHerald.com

9. HEALTH/NEWS
The Herald Apr. 16, 2011 - Apr. 25, 2011 | B3
O
ver the past two years, an addition-
al 9 million Americans lost their
health insurance, raising the num-
ber of Americans in 2010 without health
insurance to 52 million. As you would
suspect, the vast majority of the newly un-
insured either lost their jobs (and health
coverage) or work for a company that has
eliminated their health plan or raised out-
of-pocket expenses so high that coverage is
no longer affordable.
Many find themselves without health in-
surance for the first time in their lives and
don’t know where to turn. Too often, the
uninsured discontinue routine medical care,
putting themselves at risk for future health
problems. The fact is, nationally, 22,000 un-
insured Americans die every year, one every
23 minutes, because they lack health insur-
ance to get medical care for otherwise treat-
able conditions.
“One of the sad facts about the uninsured
is that many qualify for Medicaid and don’t
know it. Too often, people believe that be-
cause they have a job and bring home a
weekly paycheck, they don’t qualify. This
isn’t necessarily true,” said Trey Daly, Se-
nior Attorney for Legal Aid Society of Great-
er Cincinnati.
“The rising cost of health insurance /
health care has made it possible for the grow-
ing ranks of the ‘working uninsured’ to qual-
ify for Healthy Start / Healthy Family Med-
icaid. For instance, a family of four with a
household income of $44,700 per year can
qualify for Healthy Start / Healthy Fami-
ly Medicaid for their kids. This program
covers doctors, hospitals, medicine, glasses,
dentists and most other medical care,” Trey
continued.
On April 20, during Cover The Unin-
sured Week, WCPO (channel 9) will host
an all day phonathon. From 9 a.m. to
9 p.m., the uninsured will be able to dial
(513) 749-9400 and talk with an advisor,
who will take the caller’s information. A
team of experts, who will also be at the sta-
tion, will immediately transfer the informa-
tion to Medicaid application forms. Callers
will have to sign the application. They will
have the option of having the forms mailed
to them or going to the Legal Aid Society
of Greater Cincinnati’s office (located at
215 East 9th Street, Suite 200) on Saturday,
April 23 to sign the forms. Those choosing
to have the forms mailed to them will also
receive a self-addressed, stamped envelope
for returning the forms. The first 400 to sub-
mit their signed Medicaid forms will receive
a $10 Kroger gift card, donated by Kroger.
To help get the word out, “Call Now” ad-
vertisements will air on various radio sta-
tions all day on April 20. WCPO will also
air commercials throughout the day, with
live coverage of the phonathon during their
news programs.
Local Cover The Uninsured Week spon-
sors include: Channel 9/WCPO, Christ
Hospital, Kroger, Legal Aid Society of Great-
er Cincinnati, Mercy Health Partners, SC
Ministry Foundation, Tri Health and Unit-
ed Way of Greater Cincinnati.
For more information call Vuka Stricev-
ic at (513) 546-9888 or visit www.covercin-
cy.org.
T
he 2011 South Central
Ohio Healthcare Supplier
Diversity Symposium will
bring together chief executive offi-
cers, senior executives, and supply
chain management from health-
care providers, group purchasing
organizations, product manufactur-
ers, construction companies, and
distributors in the healthcare sup-
ply chain throughout Columbus,
Dayton, Cincinnati, and North-
ern Kentucky as well as minority
and women business owners. The
objective is to facilitate increased
spend in the entire healthcare sup-
ply chain with diverse suppliers in
the region.
The Symposium is Monday,
April 18, from 7:30 am to 3 p.m.
at the National Underground Rail-
road Freedom Center.
There will be three compo-
nents to the South Central Ohio
Healthcare Supplier Diversity
Symposium:
—The C-Suite Panel Discus-
sion, which will feature leaders
from healthcare providers, major
suppliers, and a minority owned
business.
—The Chief Purchasing Officer
Roundtables, which will allow di-
verse suppliers to meet with the top
procurement officers from health-
care providers and major suppliers.
—The Spirit of Diversity Awards
Luncheon, which will feature Alex-
is Herman, Former U.S. Secretary
of Labor, as the keynote speaker.
—The finalists for the Spirit of
Diversity Awards are:
Individual Champion – Amy
Ewing, Nick Lair, Deborah Robb
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By Kay Smith Yount
Score Counselor
F
ear of failure is an under-
standable concern that can
give even the ablest of pro-
spective entrepreneurs cold feet
about starting a new venture.
Those doubts are amplified with
every news story heralding the
number of failed or closed small
businesses
But a look behind the numbers
reveals that small business entre-
preneurs have a better chance at
success than they may realize. In
fact, a review of business closings
by the Wall Street Journal’s Small
Business editors shows that the
number of outright failures is high-
ly exaggerated.
Nearly a third of business clo-
sures that government statistics as-
sume to be failures are not real-
ly failures at all. These businesses
were considered a success by their
owners who simply sold off the
pieces or closed them to retire or
pursue other activities.
Data from the U.S. Census Bu-
reau’s Business Tracking Series
show that about 65 percent of new
businesses are still operating after
four years. That means new ven-
tures actually succeed more often
than not.
But the more resources a new
business has to start with, the better
its chances. That includes money,
of course, but other assets such as
market savvy and the right people.
Here are four factors that improve
the odds of new business survival:
1) People. If you can afford to
hire employees, do it. Well-staffed
businesses have better survival rates
than solo operations.
2) Startup capital of at least
$50,000. Not easy, perhaps, but
businesses that start with less have
higher failure rates.
3) A college degree for the own-
er. Better yet, enroll in a college-
based entrepreneurship program.
4) Home beginnings. To keep
costs low, start initial stages of your
business from a home office.
So why do small businesses fail in
the first few years? The most com-
mon reasons include competition,
mismanagement, high rent and in-
surance costs, high debt, inability
to get financing, loss of clients and
difficulty with collections. Most of
these factors can be addressed early
on through good research and plan-
ning, having a thorough business
plan, and getting advice from trust-
ed, objective sources. Unforeseen
and uncontrollable factors that lead
to business failure may still arise,
but doing your homework will def-
initely put the odds of success in
your favor.
To learn more about build-
ing your small business, contact
SCORE “Counselors to America’s
Small Business.” SCORE is a non-
profit organization of more than
10,500 volunteer business coun-
selors who provide free, confiden-
tial business counseling and train-
ing workshops to small business
owners. Call 1-800/634-0245 for
the SCORE chapter nearest you,
or find a counselor online at www.
score.org.
SCORE volunteer Kay Smith
Yount is the retired director of Cin-
cinnati Com­munity Land Coopera-
tive and the former owner of the JS
Re­alty Company. SCORE is a na-
tional group of volunteer business
counselors who are dedicated to the
entrepreneur­ial education and for-
mation, growth, and success of small
businesses nationwide.
ASK KAY |
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Plan for Success
Kay Yount
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All day TV phon-athon will
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for health care coverage
Family Size Whole Family Kids Pregnant Moms*
1 Annual Income Monthly Income Annual Income Monthly Income
2 $13,239 $1,103 $29,420 $2,451
3 $16,677 $1,389 $37,060 $3,088
4 $20,115 $1,676 $44,700 $3,725
5 $23,553 $1,962 $52,340 $4,361
6 $26,991 $2,249 $59,980 $4,998
Add for each additional person $3,360 $280 $7,480 $620
Medicaid Income Guideline
To help get the word out,
“Call Now” advertisements
will air on various radio
stations all day on April 20.
The result was the enactment of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act – the most
sweeping civil rights legislation be-
fore or since and one of Congress’
finest hours.
We look back on the years be-
tween Montgomery in 1955 and
the passage of the Voting Rights Act
in 1965 with some pride.
Those were the days....
Those were the days when poli-
ticians from both parties support-
ed the struggle for civil rights. Now
they struggle to be civil.
Those were the days when banks
loaned money to people, and not
like these days when the people
lend money to banks.
Those were the days when we
were powered by our values, and
not valued for our power.
Those were the days when good
music was popular and popular mu-
sic was good. Those were the days
when the President picked the Su-
preme Court and not the other way
around.
Those were the days when we
had a war on poverty, not a war on
the poor.
Those were the days when the
news media really was “fair and bal-
anced” and not just mouthpieces
for the misinformed.
But those were not “the good old
days.”
In those days, “the law, the courts,
the schools, and almost every insti-
tution … favored Whites. This was
White supremacy.”
“Emmet Till’s death terrified me’’
When the Supreme Court an-
nounced in May, 1955, in the sec-
ond Brown decision, that the White
South could make haste slowly in
dismantling segregated schools, I
was a year older than Emmett Till.
His death three months after the
second Brown decision was more
immediate to me than the Court’s
pronouncements had been. We
were nearly the same age when he
was murdered, in Money, Mississip-
pi, for whistling at a White woman.
Emmett Till’s death terrified me.
But in the fall of 1957, a group of
Black teenagers encouraged me to
put that fear aside. These young
people – the nine young wom-
en and men who integrated Little
Rock’s Central High School – set a
high standard of grace and courage
under fire as they dared the mobs
who surrounded their school.
Encouraged by Little Rock Nine
Here, I thought, is what I hope
I can be, if ever the chance comes
my way.
The chance to test and prove my-
self did come my way in 1960, as it
came to thousands of other Black
high school and college students
across the South, in a mobilization
of young Black people not duplicat-
ed before or since. First through the
sit-ins, then in Freedom Rides, and
then in voter registration and polit-
ical organizing drives in the rural
South, we joined an old movement
against White supremacy that had
deep, strong roots.
King was the most famous and
best known of the modern move-
ment’s personalities, but it was a
people’s movement. It saw wrong
and acted against it; it saw evil and
brought it down.
Confused about next steps
Many stand now in reflection
of that earlier movement’s success-
es, including the election of Barack
Obama, confused about what the
next steps should be. The task
ahead is enormous - equal to if not
greater than the job already done.
Today we are four decades past
the second Reconstruction, the
modern movement for civil rights
that eliminated legal segregation in
the United States, and 14 decades
past the first Reconstruction, the
single period in American history
in which the national government
used armed might to enforce the
civil rights of Black Americans.
One hundred and fifteen years
ago, Black Americans faced pros-
pects eerily similar to those we
face today. Then it was 30 years af-
ter Civil War and the first Recon-
struction, the 19th Century was
winding down, and White Amer-
ica was growing weary of worry-
ing about the welfare of the newly
freed slaves, tired of fighting to se-
cure their right to vote and to attend
a public school.
Then, as now, a race-weary na-
tion decided these problems could
be best solved if left to the individu-
al states. Then, as now, racist dem-
agogues walked the land. Then, as
now, minorities and immigrants be-
came scapegoats for real and imag-
ined economic distress.
When states sanctioned terror
Then a reign of state sanctioned
and private terror, including ritual
human sacrifice, swept across the
South to reinforce White suprema-
cy. That’s when the heavy hand of
racial segregation descended across
the South, a cotton curtain that sep-
arated Blacks from education, from
opportunity, but not from hope.
As we recall the struggles of the
recent past, many of us are con-
fused about what the movement’s
aims and goals were, what it ac-
complished and where it failed,
and what our responsibilities are
to complete its unfinished business
today.
Looking back at that movement
from today, we now see a very differ-
ent view of the events and personal-
ities of the period.
Instead of the towering figures
of Kings and Kennedys standing
alone, we now also see an army of
anonymous women and men.
Instead of famous orations made
to multitudes, we now also see the
planning and work that preceded
the triumphant speech.
Instead of a series of well‑publi-
cized marches and protests, we now
also see long organizing campaigns
and brave and lonely soldiers often
working in near solitude.
Instead of prayerful petitions for
government’s deliverance, we now
see aggressive demands and the eth-
ic of self-reliance and self-help.
“View of goals was narrow’’
We now realize our view of the
movement’s goals was narrow too.
Seeking more than the removal of
racial segregation, the movement
did not want to be integrated into
a burning house; rather, it wanted
to build a better house for everyone.
CIVIL WAR
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