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Job Corps Signs Wellness Partnership to


 Provide Healthcare for Students 16-24


Charles and Elaine Spencer Betty Holzendorf and Dr. Landon Williams


 The Jacksonville Job Corps Center
and the Duval County Health Depart-
ment recently partnered to provide
health services to more than 350 stu-
dents enrolled at the Jacksonville Job
Corps Center. Center Director
Kenderson Hill, Wellness Janette
Dunlap and Duval County Health
Department (DCHD) representative
Funmi Borisade, RNC met last week
to formally sign the contract.
 "The one year grant in the amount
of $16,500.00 will greatly enhance
our student services," said Center Di-
rector Kenderson Hill.
 The grant will assist the center
with a variety of health and wellness
initiatives, earlier this year Job Corps
requested 125 centers nationwide to
participate in the H.E.A.L.S. Pro-
gram (Healthy Eating and Active
Lifestyles) to reduce obesity and in-
corporate exercise into their daily
lives. The center with the assistance
of Community Partner-Deen Well-
ness kicked off that initiative in Sep-
tember. As a result, students and staff


Shown above is Janette Dunlap, Wellness Manager, Funmi Borisade of
the DCHD and Job Corps Director Kenderson Hill.


have incorporated healthier habits.
Jacksonville Job Corps center trains
about 525 students per year. The
young men and women study to be-
come; carpenters, electricians, certi-
fied nurse assistants, office
administrators, Pharmacy Techni-
cians and other professional.


 The center's top priority is to teach
eligible young people 16-24 to skills
that they need to become employable
and to help place them into meaning-
ful careers. For more information,
visit www.mtctrains.com.or contact
Joann Manning Business & Commu-
nity liaison at 632-5410.


NAACP: Don't block the vote


 The International Longshoreman Association Local 1408 celebrated their 75th anniversary last weekend at an all
star gala at the Hyatt Hotel.Over 1,000 participants celebrated the union legacy amidst the backdrop of live music
and special guests. Each attendee also received a souvenir program, mug and bag to commemorate the evening.
Shown above are (L-R):Sha-Vonda and Henry Hunter, Tanya and Greg Simmons, Barbara Peterson, Sharon
and Quinton Whitfield, Rev. Que and Valerie Glover and May and Gary Peterson. FMP Powell Photos


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Some states across the country that
saw unprecedented levels of electoral
participation by blacks and Hispanics
in the 2008 presidential election are
being targeted for voting restrictions,
according to a new report Monday by
the NAACP.
The 67-page study released by the
civil rights group found 14 states en-
acted a total of 25 measures that the
NAACP said are tantamount to a co-
ordinated assault on voting rights,
with the African-American and other
minority communities as the primary
victims.
 These new tactics will weaken the
electoral strength of communities of
color, students and the poor [and] at-
tack the very electoral strength that
made possible the nation's first black
president," NAACP President and
CEO Benjamin Jealous told reporters
on a conference call.
Jealous vowed that in addition to


reaching out to secretaries of state,
members of Congress and the De-
partment of Justice, the group will
also take its case to the United Na-
tions "because both the impact in
many instances and the intent seems
to be to disenfranchise people of
color disproportionally."
 Of the 14 states that passed restric-
tive voting measures in 2011, four
had experienced the largest growth in
black population in the past decade
(Florida, Georgia, Texas and North
Carolina), while three had the highest
growth rates in their Latino commu-
nities (South Carolina, Alabama and
Tennessee), according to the study,
which was done with the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund.
 The NAACP called the measures a
"block the vote" effort and charged
they were a direct response to two re-
cent developments: the unprece-
dented levels of political


participation by black voters and oth-
ers of color in the 2008 election, and
the rapid growth of communities of
color as seen in the 2010 census.
 The restrictive measures adopted
by the states include tightening re-
quirements for voter registration or
making the voter registration process
"unnecessarily difficult," increasing
disfranchisement of people with
felony convictions, reducing early or
absentee ballot voting opportunities,
as well as measures like photo ID re-
quirements that create barriers to par-
ticipation on Election Day.
 "These vote-blocking e?orts im-
pose disproportionate burdens on our
society's most vulnerable members,
by exploiting socioeconomic dispar-
ities among voters based on income,
vehicle and home ownership, fore-
closure rates, education, and mobility
- many socioeconomic disparities
that are closely correlated with race,"
the report says.


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