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THE TRUTH WILL SET ^e9}C ^iMore ^Ihan n *^Gtt>spaper. Community *i?nst/tufion The Donald Sterling Fiasco: The Real Story By Carl Smalls Carl Smalls It has been almost a month since Adam Silver; the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (N.B.A), banned Donald Sterling (owner of the LA Clippers) for life from the N.B.A. and recommend to the owners that Sterling be forced to sell his team. Has anything really changed since then? There's no doubt about It that Sterling's comments were offensive, derogatory and downright degrading. However, does killing the messenger, put a stop to the message North Carolina A&T Opens Diabetes Education Center What is the message? The message is that professional sports are more or less a micro cosm of society in general when it comes to racism. For example, when you take a look at the four major sports (football, basket ball, baseball and hockey) there is only one majority owner that is African American, Michael Jordan is the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats; his ownership represents 3.33% of all NBA owners. To put things in proper perspective, there are 32 NFL teams, 30 NBA teams, 30 Major League Baseball teams and 30 National Hockey League teams for a total of 122 teams. In other words, there is only one African American majority owner (which is .81% or less than1%) out of a possible 122 teams. It is painstakingly obvious to some and per haps not to others that the majority of the teams are owned by wealthy white males, especially yourfootball and basketball pro fessional teams (there are 32 professional [continued on page 3] Rodney Sumicr & Joseph McGRI From Whence We Came By Rodney Sumler What a great reminder. As we celebrate "Memorial Day" this year, let's all American of African descend prepare to celebrate Juneteenth and the freeing of black slaves, the end to the African Holocaust Everyday is an Opportunity to Learn "This is an extension of our mission," said Inez Tuck, dean of the School of Nursing. "Our goal is to educate our students and to help create a healthy community." North Carolina A&T Faculty and students and students will provide free classes and assessment to the public. North Carolina A&T State University last week opened its Diabetes Education, Pre vention and Management Center, formally launching a partnership between several Greensboro non-profit, religious, educa tional and health care entities to bring awareness and response to the growing diabetes-linked mortality cases in the city and throughout the state of North Carolina. According to a release, the center "provides community members with free access to diabetes self-management and prevention education facilitated by A&T faculty and students. Community members can partic ipate in screenings, one-on-one and group sessions and also have access to resources that help educate and prevent the disease," Officials from the A&T School of Nurs ing call the partnership one aspect of the school's mission to promote healthier citi zens and communities. How To Lose That Fat Gut By John Raye John Raye Two simple questions for you :(1) do you belong or have friends who belong to the "Big Belly Club? (2) What is the most dis tracting, distasteful and disgusting thing to see on a grown man? You don't know? Of course, it's a big fat belly! Study the case of Roy Williams, a 68 year old Winston-Salem resident and wellness advocate, whose belly was so huge that he once chided himself as being"almost pregnant"as he jokingly place a few pats on his extra, "love handles". But after three bouts with pneumonia, a massive heart attack, diabetes and pros tate cancer, Williams's "love handles" and big fat belly have long disappeared. And so has much of the stress and mess brought on by a fat belly that would not go away. "Some women", said Williams, "can hide a big belly. They can put on all kinds of fashionable clothing, skirts, blouses, under garments, different colors and lose -fitting outfits that camouflages their physique, but it's hard for a man to hide a big gut, especially is he's short and fat like me", he said. Research shows that obesity has become a national epidemic with fully two-thirds of the nation, including children, danger ously overweight. [continued on page 13] or Africa Maafa. Maafa expert. Dr Edward Robinson cited those who survived the "Middle Passage" as being the "strongest of the strongest of the strongest of the strongest of the strong." "Many millions packed like sardines in the hulls of slave ships did not survive the horrific "Middle Passage." 'Millions died enroute or soon after arrival in the Americas." says JohnRaye, a feature writer for this newspaper." 25 million to above 100 million men, women, boys and girls, all trapped, captured, beaten, broken and sold into slavery for well over 300 years from the 15th to the 18th century." My grand-father, Rufus Johnson's mother was a McCollum. She was owned by the McCollums, tobacco farmers in Rockingham County, NC. I'm a decedent of slaves from Rockingham County, NC. The history club at McMicheal High School in Mayodan, a Rockingham County high school and MARC, Museum of Rockingham County in Wentworth, NC [continued on page 14] Inside This Issue Students Promotes Slave Dwelling Restoration Protect Your Income On HBCUs, Republican Party Can't Serve Two Masters 10 Top Health Benefits of Chia Seeds 8 Best Ways to Bug Proof Your Home Juneteeth Luncheon/' Slavery, Broadway and Hollywood
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