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Chers Sisters Only Club will hostthe 5th annual Camp Be Your Best forgirls. The camp is multi-city, free daycamps for girls in Thomson, Augustaand Aiken (the Thomson camp washeld on June 30, 2012).

Last year the group served over 150girls. The camp is designed to offerinner city and at risk girls ages 11 18a fun, yet positive interactive experi-ence with women they can see as rolemodels.

It is 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. on thefollowing dates and at the followinglocations:

Aiken, South Carolina, Saturday,July 14, 2012

Augusta, Georgia, Saturday, July28, 2012

During Camp Be Your Best, thegirls will enjoy hands-on activities,guest speakers, breakfast, lunchand dinner. The camp covers topicsincluding education, manners andetiquette, money management, bul-lying and peer pressure and healthand hygiene. Sessions are facilitatedby professional women in the com-munity.

Cher Sisters Only Club is a pro-

gram member of the National LegacFoundation, Inc. Which is also a non-profit organization recognized undersection 501 (c) (3) of the InternalRevenue Code. Sisters Only Club isa civic club made up of professionalminority women committed to thefollowing core values:

Promoting health an wellnesseducation

Developing the potential of teengirls and women

Improving the quality of life inthe CSRA through specialty eventsand programs.

Camp Be Your BestGirls 11-18 enjoy a week of hands-on activities with positive role models.

On Thursday, July 19, 2012 theAugusta Branch NAACP will hosta Sheriffs Candidates Political

Forum and Voter EducationWorkshop at the Henry BrighamCenter located on Golden CampRoad.

The presenter will be Mrs.Lynn Bailey, Executive Directorof the Richmond County Boardof Elections. She will help educatethe public on the new districtnumerical lines that have beendrawn by Federal Judge RandalHall which changes to somedegree a few voters and precincts

around. Also, she will explainthe notification cards that weresent out and let the public know

what the laws are regarding theredistricting ruling. She will bringhandouts for the audience to readregarding these changes.

The public will provided anopportunity to ask questionsregarding changes and anythingthey need to know the upcomingJuly 31 Primary Election and theNovember 6 General Election. Thiswill include the Board of Educationand County Commission non-par-tisan races.

The application deadline for attend-ing Augusta State University s fallsemester is Sunday, July 15. All admis-

sion documents being mailed in mustbe postmarked prior to the deadline.For more information contact ASUsOffice of Admission at 1-800-341-4373.

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Pane College announcesnew opeatng housDr. George C. Bradley announces theoperating hours for Paine Collegehave changed from 9:00AM 5:00PMto 8:30AM- 5:00PM.

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NDERSVILLE, GAthe winter of 1944,

te Willie Lee Duckworthf Sandersville, Ga., for-changed the landscapeS. Army marching drills he created whatscalled the Duckworth

nd-Off Chant.a member of the nationsgated Army, Duckworth,recounted that it all hap-d while marching with his

w black soldiers during aday at Fort Slocum, N.Y.

ording to Duckworthst daughter, Connieworth Pinkston, herr was ordered to drillllow troops by his white

manding officer thatved the soldiers needed

pep in their proverbial

at resulted was theworth Sound-Off chantdence.ung private Duckwortheeded to create a rhyth-chant which helped hisw soldiers keep time, inion to infusing motiva-and morale into theirdes, said Pinkston, onee Duckworth children.kston resides inersville where her now-ased father is a house-

name throughout this, rural community oft 6,000 residents locat-5 miles southwest ofsta.y father was a humble said Pinkston. Her talked much aboutaccomplishments, but

knew enough about it

Independence Day we remember Washington Countys Willie Duckworth

from juke boxes throughoutthe land. Squads of marchingyoungsters shout or bark it inthe streets - one - two- three- four.

The popularity of Sound Offamong the GIs was noted atthe Pentagon - and before V-JDay, copies had been distrib-uted by the War Departmentto United States military poststhroughout the world.

Duckworths composition

has been recognized by theAmerican Society of ComposersAuthors and Publishers since1951, according to ASCAPsRepertory department in NewYork City.

The actual cadence rendi-tion reads as such:Aint no use in goin homeJodys got your gal and goneAint no use in feelin blueJodys got your sister tooSound off

One-twoSound-off

Three fourIn a 2002 newspaper

interview with the MaconTelegraph, Duckworth saidthe cadence, Made mefamous for a while. And, it putsome money in my pocket.

Duckworth grew up asa sharecroppers son andworked in a sawmill beforebeing drafted into World WarII. After leaving the Army, heused royalty checks from hisSound Off song to helppurchase equipment to starthis own pulpwood business,

of which he ran up until hisdeath in 2004, at age 80.John General Mills a for-

mer professional boxer andSandersville native, is cred-ited with instigating a move-ment to get Duckworth thepublicity and attention he sorightly deserved.

I heard about Willie Leesaccolades, but I didnt seeanything in the town thatgave him any credit. Heck,I figured if Harlem (Ga.)could give comedian OliverHardy a museum and Maconcould name a bridge for Otis

Redding and James Brownhas his own street, then weneeded to step-up and giveour guy some attention too,said Mills, who lived most ofhis adult life in Long Island,N.Y., until returning toGeorgia after the 911 tragedyof 2001.

The Mills-led committee,along with community activ-ist Rosby Gordon, throughstate, city and communitycooperation, was able to suc-

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anagement agreement with Augusta LLC forgement of the TEE Center (under construction)the TEE Center Parking Deck (in operation onolds Street). The deal, however, is contingent onBroad LLC (owners of the land under the parking

donating the land to the Augusta Land Bankority (AGLBA).date, however, there has been no official action to

w throu h with the AGLBA.

Land Bank officials say that there has been mentionof the proposed land donation, but there has been noofficial action or papers prepared.

There are a number of reasons why such a transac-tion may never occur.

For instance, the Land Bank does not exist to handlerecently developed property. If it decides to accept theparking deck property it will only be because they havecreated a new mission for themselves. The mission ofthe land bank is to administer distressed ro erties

that pose a threat in its current undeveloped state.Entities wishing to donate land to the land bank

must go through a formal process which includes adetailed plan for how the donated land is to be devel-oped. In order to do this, someone would have to riskcommitting fraud.

Also, the Land Bank does not accept land which isencumbered with $7 million liens.

To date none of these issues have been addressed bythe commission.

AUGUSTAClint Bryant, director

of athletics at AugustaState University, has beenhonored by the MinorityOpportunities AthleticAssociat ion (MOA A) withthe Distinguished ServiceAward, the highest award

given by the association.I am very honored

to receive this award.Anytime you are recog-nized by your colleaguesfor an award of this mag-nitude it means a greatdeal, but at the same timeits not about me. Its

about leveling the play-ing field and doing theright thing, said Bryant.He is the first personfrom the intercollegiateathletic membership tobe recognized for thisaward.

Bryant, the awards

third recipient, will berecognized at the 2012MOAA Symposium heldin Dallas, Texas. Thetwo prior awardees wereMyles Brand, formerpresident of the NationalCollegiate AthleticAssociation, and Mike

Clary, former executivedirector of the NationalCollegiate Athletic Direct-ors Association.

The MOAA Distin-guished Service Awardacknowledges and hon-

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Connie Duckworth Pinkston holding a picture of her

fathers musical score, as it appears in the ASCAParchives. Photo by Timothy Cox

The only remaining photoof Pvt. Willie Duckworth,creator of the DuckworthChant which gained inter-national fame as a drillcadence for military units.

when were growing up, saidPinkston, a veteran 911 emer-gency dispatcher with theWashington County SheriffsOffice.

In the Oct. 28, 1951 editionof The New York Times, the

headline reads Tired GIschant becomes song hit.

The storys dateline is NewRochelle, NY. where writerJohn Stevens, refers to 200,weary-legged soldiers, drag-ging home after a 13-milewalk.

An excerpt from the newsarticle states:

Today the staccato soundsof Private DuckworthsSound Off, resound fromradio and TV loudspeakersfrom the brass sections ofcollege football bands and

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cessfully honor Duckworth with therenaming of Georgia Highway 242 to

the Willie Lee Duckworth Highwaywhere Duckworth grew up.

The committee also raised enoughcapital to honor Duckworth with agranite marker that was visibly placedon Washington County courthousegrounds.

Georgia Rep. Mack Jackson (D)also presented Duckworths wife,Edna Duckworth, with a legislativeresolution honoring her late hus-band. The document was signed bymembers of the Georgia House ofRepresentatives.

Edna Duckworth died in April.Layne Kitchens, president of the

Washington County Historical Societyin the county seat of Sandersville,said, We are very proud that Mr.Duckworth is from WashingtonCounty and of his accomplishmentsthat put us on the world map.

Pinkston said her father was alwaysa creative soul.

Our dad was a jokester. He wouldtell us short, funny stories. He wasthe type of person everyone liked tobe around. Sound Off was his inde-pendence. After leaving the Army; hebought a tractor, wood truck, andsaws and developed his own pulp-wood company.

He treated his employees well and tothis day they still love him, she said.

Both Pinkston and Mills credit Col.Bernard Lentz, the superior officerat Fort Slocum who recognized thatDuckworths creation warrantedcopyright protection and saw to itthat his works were legally protected

by ASCAP.The song appeared in a 1949 film

called Battleground and the 1951movie, Sound Off, starring MickeyRooney. The title song was recordedand sung by RCA-Victor vocalist andbandleader Vaughn Moore, a filmand TV star from the 1940s and1950s. Moore attended Jeanette HighSchool and attended Carnegie MellonUniversity in Pittsburgh beforebecoming a recording artist.

Adrian King, a Georgia music edu-cator and Army veteran, said hesrecalls barking the Duckworth Chantwhile stationed at Fort Jackson, S.C.We recited the cadence primarilyduring boot camp. It was motivation-

al and also served to bond our unit,said King, adding that he never real-ized the composer was also a nativeGeorgian.

The chant has since been used inseveral TV commercials, includingDicks Sporting Goods, according toMills. The Jody phrase also appearsin recordings by R&B singers TitusTurner, Johnnie Taylor and on TVsSponge Bob Square Pants childrensprogram.

Mills says its vital that youngsoldiers realize the true origins ofSound Off.

Amazingly, youve got drill ser-geants all over the nation thinkingthat the Sound Off cadence wascreated by some hot-shot soldier atWest Point, when it was really writ-ten by a young, black private from asmall, country town in Georgia. Itsa phenomenal accomplishment, saidMills.

his week, Sheriffs Candidateaptain Scott Peebles wasndorsed by the Nationalrganization of Black Lawnforcement Executives, Georgiahapter, Region 7.resenting the endorsement

were Chief David Hannah,OBLE Regional President,hief Alfonzo Williams, Deputyhief Roosevelt Lodge, Captainnthony Dixon and Chief Wesleyewis. Other law enforcementfficers were present as a show ofupport. In addition to the profes-ional endorsement from NOBLE,ach of these high ranking area

law enforcement officers stoodby his side for personal endorse-ments as well.Captain Peebles expressed hisgratitude and sincere appreciationto the organization and to each ofthe law enforcement profession-als in attendance. Peebles said, itis his sincere desire to unite thiscommunity against crime and toimplement a proactive progres-sive approach towards crime pre-vention and enforcement policies.Peebles now has endorsementsfrom Mayor Deke Copenhaver,various commissioners and OfficerJ.D. Paughs family.

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multitude of forms.Bryant has served as president of

he MOAA as well as chair of theivision II Project Team Related

o Issues of Diversity. He also hasreviously served as a member of

he Division II Budget and Financeommittee, chairman of the

Championships Committee, and theNCAA Basketball Rules Committee.

Bryant received his bachelors

degree in business administrationfrom Belmont Abbey College andmasters degree in personnel ser-vices from Clemson University.

For more information, callTunisia Williams, assistant directorin ASUs Office of Public Relationsand Publications, at 706-737-1877.

A granite memorial marker for Pvt. Willie Lee Duckworth Sr. is displayedin front of the Washington County Courthouse grounds in Sandersville,Ga. Duckworth died in 2004. Photo by Timothy Cox.

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Jacksons effort was a sortof capitalist attack on rac-ism. He famously held afuneral for cosmetic com-pany Revlon when a repre-sentative declared black busi-nesses would become extinct

from larger white companiessnatching them up. But thereverend had a point blackpeople shopped at Wal-Mart,Target, K-Mart, and a mul-titude of places. Why notcarry goods for them andintegrate the cosmeticsaisle? Segregation divides us.

Capitalism teachesus the one with themost money wins.

Racism can reallyimpact your finan-cial bottom line.

Yet, since racismis nonsensical, withevery new blackinnovation, therestypically a lag timebetween whatblack people wantand when corpora-tions start provid-ing. This is why acompany foundedby black Americans,Johnson Products creator of your

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How does this happenwhen, since 1954, Johnsonwas one of the only peoplemaking black hair careproducts? It happens whenJohnson becomes compla-

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My father, a loving creatureof habit, used Afro Sheen for

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These companies are nowfollowers shifting formulasand marketing strategies tokeep up with their African-American lead upstarts, whocame out to dominate the

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We have products thatperform well. We have prod-ucts that enhance their natu-

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Benons said Miss Jessiesis at the forefront in thisnatural hair movement.

Right now there are a mul-titude of popular natural hair

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Eric Holder became onsday the first US attorney gen-

ever to be cited for contemptongress, House members facedpossibility that their investiga-of a botched federal gun-traf-g sting could become a racial

point.ck leaders have rallied aroundney General Holder, and theressional Black Caucus walkedhursday when the entire House

d 255 to 67 to pass a recommen-n by the Oversight Committee

old Holder in contempt, whichd lay the groundwork for anal investigation.eady, Holder had brought racethe debate over the Fast and

us gun-running scandal. Thee Oversight Committees inves-on was a way for Republicans tot the president in part becausee both African-American, heThe New York Times last year.d Holder has pushed the enve-

on race before, for exampleg America essentially a nation

owards for failing to debateopenly.w, the moves in Congresssday raise the specter of charg-

a racial conspiracy by whiteblicans against a black admin-ion.

me leaders, like the Rev. Alpton, suggested that Republicansstopped and frisked Holder to

make an example out of a blackman. House minority leader NancyPelosi opined the contempt vote isretribution for Holders oppositionto new voter ID laws that are seen as

targeting minority voters in formerConfederate states. MSNBC hostChris Matthews questioned whetherthe rancor of the contempt vote hasan ethnic root.

The political showdown show-cases a pattern that has emergedduring the Obama presidency: sup-porters claim the opposition is rac-ist, and critics dismiss the reactionas a knee-jerk casting of the racecard. But its real root, say somepolitical analysts, is more in politicsthan race.

The issue of how Obama andsecondarily Eric Holder have beentreated, and whether race plays into

it, is not crazy in the sense that alot of the early public demonstra-tions had racial tinges to them, andthe fact that 15 percent of whitesin Mississippi voted for Obama,says Cal Jillson, a political scientistat Southern Methodist Universityin Dallas. But even though theRepublicans have stated that theirchief goal is to see that Obama is aone-term president, what were see-ing [with Fast and Furious] is notracial politics, its partisan politics.

Af ter a 16-month investigat ion,the House Oversight Committeesays Holder is refusing to hand over

1,500 pages of documentation that itneeds to figure out who knew aboutthe program, and when. Holder has

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c Holder recently became the first US attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress.e story of how race became entwined in the debate over the Fast and Furious gun-running

ndal is a parable of the Obama presidency.

said making those communiquspublic could put US agents at riskand cases in jeopardy, and PresidentObama stepped in to block therelease of the documents by invok-ing executive privilege. A separateinspector general investigation intoFast and Furious is ongoing.

The debate in the House overholding Holder in contempt hasbroken down mostly along partisan

lines, although 17 Democrats votedfor the contempt order after theNational Rifle Association warnedthat it would be grading lawmakerson the vote, claiming its part of abroader Second Amendment issue.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland,the top Democrat on the Oversight

Committee, said in a statement

AG Holder was in essence stopped & frisked without probable cause, and afterhe cooperated, he was made an example of. Al Sharpton

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep.Darrell Issa (R) of California (left) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) of

Maryland, go to the House Rules Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington

Wednesday to argue procedures as the House of Representatives pre-

pares to vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder is in contempt of

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Thursday that the contempt moveis politicized and reckless, whileconservatives say there are stilldisturbing questions about whathigher-ups at the Department ofJustice knew about a prog ramthat may have contributed to thedeaths of hundreds of Mexicansand a US Border Patrol agent,Brian Terry.

But its Republican ChairmanDarrell Issas relentless pursuit ofHolder, even though hes admitted

theres no evidence tying Holderor Mr. Obama directly to Fast andFurious, that has drawn criticismfrom minority leaders and activ-ists.

AG Holder was in essencestopped & frisked without proba-ble cause, and after he cooperated,he was made an example of, Mr.Sharpton writes on the HuffingtonPost. What Issa just showed us isthat no matter what our staturein this world, someone can easilytry to put us in our place. Whatcould be more outrageous?

Some suggest that castingRepublicans as modern-dayKlansmen on a hunt for an errantblack man will awaken an apa-thetic minority voting bloc, whichcould be crucial to the Obamareelection. But conservatives sug-gest that wont work.

Theres nothing to prove any-more, and the CongressionalBlack Caucus may discover that

their knee-jerk defense of Holderon racial grounds will not fly,writes Wil liam Bigelow, a colum-nist for the Big Government web -site. If they take their ball and gohome, they may find that no onewants to play with someone cry-ing racism any more.

But Republicans, too, areaware that attacking an Obamacabinet minister with too muchzeal can backfire. Its hard

to believe Republicans relishthe idea of voters seeing themimprison the countrys firstAfr ican -A mer ican at torney gen-eral, writes Alex Koppelman inThe New Yorker.

A US attorney in Washingtonwil l now decide whether to fi lecharges against Holder.

Its partly Holders outspoken,sometimes in-your-face viewson race that have made him anappealing target for conservatives more so even than Obama, who

has treated the inevitable mattersof race more carefully and deliber-ately, says Professor Jillson.

The president has always triedto deal with it not just in a respon-sible way, but in a way that buriesthe sharpest edges of race, where-as other people are much lesscapable verbally of handling thesethings in a way that leave peoplecomfortable, says Jillson.

s amists in a i estroy

Timbuktu monumentsAl Qaeda-backed Islamists in Mali destroyed

centuries-old UNESCO sites last weekend,

recalling the 2001 destruction of Buddha statues

in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

By Adama Diarra

BAMAKO, MALIAl Qaeda-linked Mali Islam-ists armed

with Kalashnikovs and pick-axesdestroyed centuries-old mausoleumsof saints in the UNESCO-listed cityof Timbuktu on Saturday in front ofshocked locals, witnesses said.

The Islamist Ansar Dine group backsstrict sharia, Islamic law, and considersthe shrines of the local Sufi versionof Islam to be idolatrous. Sufi shrineshave also been attacked by hardlineSalafists in Egypt and Libya in the pastyear.

The attack came just days afterUNESCO placed Timbuktu on its list

of heritage sites in danger and willrecall the 2001 dynamiting by theTaliban of two 6th-century statues ofBuddha carved into a cliff in Bamiyanin central Afghanistan.

They are armed and have sur-rounded the sites with pick-up trucks.The population is just looking on help-lessly, local journalist Yeya Tandinasaid by telephone.

Tandina and other witnesses saidAnsar Dine had already destroyed themausoleums of three local saints SidiMahmoud, Sidi El Mokhtar, and AlfaMoya and at least seven tombs.

The mausoleum doesnt exist any

more and the cemetery is as bare as asoccer pitch, local teacher AbdoulayeBoulahi said of the Mahmoud burialplace.

Theres about 30 of them breakingeverything up with pick-axes and hoes.Theyve put their Kalashnikovs down bytheir side. These are shocking scenes forthe people in Timbuktu, said Boulahi.

Mali: Clashes show cracks inalliances of Tauregs and IslamistsContacted late on Saturday, Tandina

said Ansar Dine had halted the attackson the holy site. Attempts to contactmembers of the group were unsuccess-ful.

Locals said the attackers had threat-ened to destroy all of the 16 mainmausolem sites by the end of the

day. UNESCO Director-General IrinBokova called for an immediate halt.

There is no justification for suchwanton destruction and I call on allparties engaged in the conflict to stopthese terrible and irreversible acts, shesaid in a statement. The sites date fromTimbuktus Golden Age in the 16thcentury.

Frances Foreign Minisstry con-demned the attacks on what it calleda part of the soul of this prestigiousSahelian city.

Ansar Dine has gained the upperhand over less well-armed Tuareg-ledseparatists since the two joined forcesto rout government troops and seizecontrol in April of the northern two-

thirds of the inland West African state.

Salt, Slaves, Gold, and LearningLocated on an old Saharan trading

route that saw salt from the Arab northexchanged for gold and slaves fromblack Africa to the south, Timbuktublossomed in the 16th century as an Is-lamic seat of learning, home to priests,scribes, and jurists.

Mali had in recent years sought tocreate a desert tourism industry aroundTimbuktu but even before Aprilsrebellion many tourists were beingdiscouraged by a spate of kidnappingsof Westerners in the region claimed b

Al Qaeda-linked groups.UNESCOs World Heritage Committeesaid this week it had accepted therequest of the Malian government toplace Timbuktu on its list of endan-gered heritage sites.

The Committee ... also asked Malisneighbours to do all in their powerto prevent the trafficking in culturalobjects from these sites, it said of therisk of looting.

The rebel seizure of the north cameas the southern capital, Bamako, wasstruggling with the aftermath ofMarch 22 coup.

Malis neighbors are seekingUN backing for a military intervention

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