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Cover Story :
Dick Gidron - A Gentle Giant Passes
By Herb Boyd
In his eulogy for Richard “Dick” Gidron Sr. during funeral services at Abyssinian Baptist Church on Friday morning, October 19, the church’s pastor, Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, invoked the metaphor of two lamps that shape impressions and guide our thoughts. “One lamp is the lamp of hope, and the other is the lamp of memory that takes us by the hand and leads us through the mist of the past,” he said.
Remembering Dick Gidron:
Unbowed and Unbroken
By Adrian A. Council
The Positive Community Corporation is thankful for the life of a great business leader and community servant, Mr. Richard Gidron Sr. We are grateful for his businesses, Gidron Cadillac and Dick Gidron Ford. For over 30 years he reigned over one of the largest and most successful African American-owned retail institutions. Dick Gidron brought wealth to our communities, not only through the creation of jobs, but also through his support of political, cultural and economic initiatives.
Book Review:
Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors
“For the last three and a half years, I have been holding community call-outs in cities around the country... This book will cover selected topics that mirror the concerns of the different people-- rich and poor, young and old, educated and uneducated, married and single—who attended the call-outs. The trials of black people are at the core of Come on People.
Indomitable Spirit
All About Jazz Legend Alberta Hunte
On the corner of Eighth Street and University Place in Manhattan stands a rotisserie chicken joint that has been doing business there for nearly 25 years. It seems like the kind of place that has been there forever, but for New Yorkers of a certain age, that corner was once the home of The Cookery, the last nightclub owned by the legendary Barney Josephson, who established the city’s first integrated nightspots. His Café Society featured jazz singers like Billie Holiday and folk acts like The Weavers, but the FBI put him out of business in 1950 by photographing patrons as they entered his club.
Not Just Any Turkey...
It’s a Jive Turkey
By Glenda Cadogan
If you are a child of the 70's you would readily know how to respond if someone told you "Catch you on the flip side," "Keep on trucking" or "Peace, love and granola." Or maybe they asked you emphatically, "Can you dig it?" You may not be too pleased however, if they called you a "jive turkey." But, in this era of iPods and hybrids, say "jive turkey" and it immediately brings a smile to the face whether you are 15 or 50, or from Harlem or Houston. This is the same kind of effect that seems to come over customers as they walk into Jive Turkey Restaurant, a cozy eatery that has added more than flavor to its Brooklyn neighborhood.
My View
By Rev. Theresa Nance
President Bush used that phrase regarding the Iraqi war. He took it from Winston Churchill’s book, “The Gathering Storm.” I use it in regard to the Jena 6 debacle swirling around the predominantly white town of Jena , LA.
Touro College Opens New Medical School in Harlem
Donning pint-sized lab coats, fifty kindergarten children from Harlem 's P.S. 197 marched down the aisle of the famed Apollo Theatre on Monday, October 15 with a 135-member inaugural class of medical students. The occasion was the opening ceremony for the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (Tourocom) the first new medical school in New York State in 30 years.
The Last Word
By Jean Nash Wells
As we approach the end of another year, nothing could be more appropriate than the attitude of thankfulness and giving…Thanksgiving. We are thankful for God’s mercy and guidance. We are thankful for the opportunity to provide a service to our community.
Gospel Train
Something happened to me that I want to share with you. At first I was telling it to my friends and family via emails, and since you fit into that category as well, I will share it with you, too.
The Way Ahead
By Mwandikaji K. Mwanafunzi
Forgiveness may be the most important part of “The Lord’s Prayer.” It is the only part on which Jesus Christ comments immediately after teaching the prayer:
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