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MIMIIIMIIMMMIIIIIMIIIIIIIMli httpy/www.thecharlottepost.com Cjjarlotte LIFE Section THURSDAY, JANUARY. 11,2007 IN RELIGION The Color of The Cross is now on DVD and is first movie with black Jesus. Combread recipe could earn you some serious dough By Chens F. Hodges cherisJuKlges®ihecharloiieposi£om Your combread recipe could win you some cold, hard cash. The National Combread Festival is in search of the best main dish combread recipes to be entered into the National Combread Cook-Off sponsored by Martha White and Lodge Cast Iron. Ifen finalists will create their original combread specialties under the Big Cook-Off Tfent on April 28 in South Pittsburg, Tbnn. The winner will receive $4,000 and a SO-inch stainless steel gas range (a $2,500 value). ‘We always receive so many creative and lonique combread recipes, everything from In death, widow joins civil rights icon in King hohday tributes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA—On a recent afternoon, Jeffrey and Liza Dunn brought their daughter and niece to the center dedicated to the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., where the family took a moment to sit by the crypt of the civil rights icon and his wife, Coretta. There, at the reflecting pool, the Plainfield, N.J., couple told the girls about King’s dreams of racial har mony, economic equality and world peace. They also spoke of a dedicated widow, devoted mother and matriarch of the civil rights movement, who gracefully struggled against war, poverty and racisrfi for years even after her husband was killed. “Their partnership is the i foundation of everything I we’ve benefited from,” I Jeffrey Dunn, 49, said. I “And even in her absence, I she leaves a legacy, a com- I mitment to his dream.” I This year’s Martin Coretta King .^Luther King Jr, holiday, first observed more than two decades ago, will be the first without Coretta Scott King, who died nearly a year ago. The absence of her stately presence at the holiday activities held each year in King’s hometown of Atlanta will be a visible reminder that the standard bearer of King’s vision is now gone _ and that the holiday has evolved to reflect the accomplishments and mission of both the dream er and the dream keeper. “Her commitment and her accomplishments were equal to his,” Spelman College history professor William Jelani Cobb said. ‘"Ib view her as an equal in helping to establish racial democracy in America would be fitting,” Coretta Scott King, who lived twice as long as Martin Luther King Jr., fought to preserve his lega cy-building a center of nonviolence bearing the civil rights icon’s name, and working for years to establish his birthday as a federal holiday. Atlanta’s five-day King holiday observance, which begins Jan. 11, wiU prominently feature tributes to Coretta Scott King, who' wiU be one of the honorees for the annual Salute to Greatness dinner. The event is the primary fundraiser for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Coretta Scott King suffered a stroke in August 2005 and then battled ovarian cancer. She seemed to be recovering when she smiled and waved during a standing ovation at last year’s Salute to Greatness dinner on the weekend of King Day. Two weeks later, she died. Until the end, Coretta Scott King not only carried on Please see IN/2B Soul Food Skillet Dinner to Pesto Combread with Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomato Streusel, said Linda Carman, a Martha White baking expert. “We’re eager to see what ingredients contestants will use in their main dish recipes this year. “Each year, the recipes continue to get more and more creative,” said Carman. “Look to your family and fnends for advice. Think about hosting a sampling dinner serving one or two of your most promising recipes. Ask your guests to make suggestions for improv ing your dish.” Each entry should be an original main dish recipe and prepared -with at least one cup of Martha White Com Meal or a package of Martha White Combread Mix using Lodge Cast Iron cookware. Entries must also include the contestant’s name, address, day time phone number, and date of birth. Tb enter by e-mail, send the original recipe along with contact information to com- bread@dvl.com by 11:59 p.m. CST on March 2. Send mail-in entries on an 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper to: National Combread Cook-Off 2007 209 7th Avenue North Nash-ville, TN 37219 Mail-in entries must be postmarked by March 2, 2007 and received by March 9, 2007. 'Ifen finalists -will be chosen from all entries. Cafe concept: A place for gay and straight blacks to connect By Chens F. Hodges cherisJK'dges®thecharlollepostxvm R unning a business with a social purpose is the concept that Monica Simpson is following with Cafe Evolution. Sure there will be music and fim when it opens, but the purpose of the caft wiU be to bridge the gap between the gay and lesbian community and the heterosexuals, especially when it comes to African Americans. “This was a dream of mine since I was 11 years old,” she said. “I want to create a gather ing place for the community. What I’ve noticed here in Charlotte is there isn’t a place here that has been created to be an intentional space where community people can gather to connect with one another.” The atmosphere of Cafe Evolution would still provide entertainment and a cafe feel, but also offer information. “In the Afiican American commimity, which is what this is geared toward, we’ll go out to the club or we’ll go hear a musician perform. But so many people in our community don’t know the affairs of society and what’s going on. So why not create a space that feeds what we like, which is the whole entertainment aspect. But while you have them in that space make sure that people are able to get the information about what’s going on in the community and what’s going on in the world,” said Simpson. By default, she wants the cafe to create com munity leaders and workers. What she’s tr3dng to do is become a social entrepreneur, defined by the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs as social enterprise where businesses work to improve their com munities. Simpson wants to improve relations between blacks who identify as gay and lesbian and Please see CAFE/2B Labido-enchancing root central in global dispute THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNIN, Peru —In a small storefront on a bleak, wind-swept Andean plateau, Timotea Cordova offers an ojQ?^gen-deprived visitor a traditional elixir to ward off the breathless effect of the high altitude. Dropping a few shriveled tuber roots into a blender, the 80-year-old, Quechua Indian shop keeper promises with a playful glance that the con- cocton will also provide a leg up later in the bed room. For hundreds of years, Quechua Indians have grown maca, the frost-resistant root that thrives in these frigid Andean highlands, to boost stamina and sex drive. The root, they believe, is nature’s boimty and belongs to everyone and to no one in particular. Maca growers and indigenous organizations were outraged when, in 2001, a New Jersey-based com pany, Pure World Botanicals, received a U.S. patent for exclusive commercial distribution of an extract of maca’s active libido-enhancing compoimds that it branded as MacaPure. Peruvian officials called the patent an “emblem atic case” of biopiracy and are preparing to chal lenge it in U.S. courts. The maca dispute is just the latest collision between indigenous people and commercial inter ests over so-called biological prospecting, the grow ing practice of scouring the globe for exotic plants, microbes and other living things ripe for commer cial exploitation. Bioprospecting has huge potential for good, say researchers who go to sea, climb mountains and trek to obscure comers of the world in search of exotic and undiscovered fife. A 2005 U.N. University report concluded that 62 percent of all cancer drugs were created from bio prospecting discoveries. The venom of a deadly sea snail found off the coast of the Philippines led Elem Pharmaceuticals Inc. to develop the painkiller Prialt, which U.S. reg ulators approved in 2004. The key ingredient in the breast cancer drug Taxol owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is taken from the bark of the yew tree, and Wyeth’s kidney transplant drug Rapamune comes from Easter Island soil. But bioprospecting is mostly unregulated and there are moimting calls to establish legal frame works for such work. The Convention on Biological Diversity produced at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro enti tled nations to a share of the profits from sub stances yielded by their flora and fauna. It was rat ified by 188 coimtries—but not the United States, which argues that such a requirement stifles inno vation and would undermine the patent system. That hasn’t stopped some of the world’s poorest coimtries, which also hold the richest pockets of natural biodiversity, from fighting to apply the con vention to international patent law. India has had the most success, most recently persuading the European Patent Board of Appeals to invalidate a 1994 patent granted to U.S.-based W.R. Grace & Co. for an insecticide derived from neem seeds. Pern and Brazil, both at the forefront of the biopiracy debate, have been less persuasive. Brazil, which has some of the world’s strictest regulations to prevent the removal of genetic mate rials from the Amazon, has been hard-pressed to demonstrate a single case of biopiracy before the Please see LABIDO/3B O af! Don’t panic Financial concerns. Job stress. 'Ibrrorist attacks. Health threats. Family issues. In today’s high-paced society, people have more and more reasons to feel anxious. While it is normal to experi ence some anxiety and stress in day-to-day' life, it is also possible to worry too much. Panic disorder is a serious medical condition that, according to the American Psychological Association, 1 out of every 75 people may experience. While not per taining specifically to panic disorder, data from the US Department of Health and Human Service report Health, United States indi cate that blacks suffer from higher rates of serious psy chological distress. Symptoms of panic and anxi ety may also manifest differ ently in blacks than in whites. In general, meiny people still feel that there is a 'stigma’ attached to mental or psychiatric illness. It is often not discussed at all and this leads to individuals not seek ing treatment for themselves or for loved ones. Panic disor der is a serious challenge fac ing the African American community and with proper recognition it can be treated. What are the sjunptoms of panic disorder? Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. The main symptom is the presence of ‘multiple panic attacks’. According to the APA, most people experience occasional panic attacks. Panic attacks become a cause for concern, however, if they occur fre quently (4 or more times) or if the person experiences con tinued and significant fear of having another one. The symptoms of a panic attack include the following: • Racing heartbeat or heart palpitations • Difficulty breathing; feel ings of terror or severe dread • Dizziness, lightheaded ness, or nausea • Trembling, shaking, or sweating • Feelings of choking or chest pain • Hot flashes or sudden chills • Tingling in fingers or toes • Fear that you are going crazy or are going to die. Some people, upon experi encing these s3Tnptoms, think they are having a heart attack and may panic even more. The symptoms can begin suddenly, without warning and with no appar ent trigger. They may occur even when the person is not in any danger, such as when he or she is sleeping. The level of fear experienced is very much out-of-proportion to the actual situation in which it arises. Luckily, these episodes £u^ not dangerous and do not usually last more than several minutes. Yet, it can be terrifying to the per son experiencing it and to their family and loved ones. It is not unusual for people to seek medical attention or Please see DON’T/2B
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