Focus On Empowerment can be heard every Thursday at 1pm Eastern. Log Onto: www.blogtalkradio.com/globalcarole Listen LIVE or Download Anytime At This Blog Post. Each broadcast can be replayed immediately following the show. ======================== Many of the twists and turns of this new Trump Administration involve complex legal decisions that are politically charged as they fire through the walls of the White House and Capital Hill. When the Travel Ban was announced, severely limiting the entrance of all refugees and those entering the United States from seven Muslim countries, the nation pushed back and cried foul. And earlier this week thousands hung on every word of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals as they conducted a conference call determining the merit of Trump’s Travel Ban. Today Washington-based veteran Attorney Elliott Hall will walk us through the appeals process so that we can better understand why this immigration issue has torn our country apart. We’ll also learn more about the legal issues facing the administration as they close in on their first month of governing a nation taking sides on every decision made by Donald Trump. ====================== Elliott S Hall PLLC Attorney Elliott. S. Hall handles a wide-range of legal issues from litigation to corporate, real estate and employment matters. He is the Chair the Board of a Community Bank in Wash. DC and Vice-Chair of the Board of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. ========================= Attorney Hall.served as a Partner at Dykema Gossett, Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2011. Mr. Hall served as Vice President of Dealer Development of Ford Motor Company until January 1, 2002 and was responsible for expansion of its Minority and Woman Dealer Network. He joined Ford Motor Company in June 1987 and directed its Washington Office, as Vice President of Washington Affairs for eleven years and advocated a wide range of automotive, regulatory and legislative issues. He served as the Chairman of Independence Federal Savings Bank since August 20, 2006 and served as its Director since 2002. Mr. Hall serves as a Director of Independence Financial Corporation ("IFC"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Independence Federal Savings Bank. He served as Director of National Rehabilitation Hospital. Mr. Hall held a series of positions in the Detroit legal community, including Chief Assistant Prosecutor for Wayne County, Law Director for the City of Detroit and a private practice. He served as President of the Detroit Bar Association and the Wolverine Bar Association. Mr. Hall served as President of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP. Mr. Hall serves as the Chairman of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. He served as Chairman of the Board of Howard University Hospital and Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. He serves as a Board Member of Georgetown University and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He served as the Chairman of the Family Service of Detroit and Wayne County and for Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital. He served as a Board Member for the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Mercy College of Detroit and Orchestra Hall. He served as Trustee of the Founder's Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan. He served as a Board Member of Marymount College and Emergency Transitional Education Board of the District of Columbia. An avid supporter of the arts, Mr. Hall served as Chairman of the Washington Performing Arts Society and as a Board Member of the Shakespeare Theatre and the Wolf Trap Foundation. He also served as a Trustee of the Washington Opera, WETA-FM and WETA-TV and the United States Capital Historical Society. As a community advocate, he served as Vice President of the Economic Club of Washington, Vice President of the Federal City Council, Treasurer of the Children's Charities Foundation and as a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Kennedy Institute. He received Human Relations Institute Civic Achievement Award from American Jewish Committee, Distinguished Alumni Award from Wayne State University Law School, the President's Award from the National Bar Association and the President's Award from the Wolverine Bar Association. Mr. Hall received a Bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor Degree from Wayne State University. Elliott is the father of three children and four grandchildren. He and his wife, Shirley, live in Washington, DC. ========================== Resources and Organizations For Civic Engagement The Indivisible Guide: www.indivisibleguide.com The guide, which began as a Google doc last month and whose full title is Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, outlines a step-by-step process of grassroots organizing and advocacy targeting Members of Congress (MoCs), from coordinated calls to sit-ins and photo op disruption. ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union: www.aclu.org The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan, non-profit, organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, lobbying, and community empowerment. NAACP Legal Defense Fund: www.naacpldf.org The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Inc. Fund, or LDF) is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City. The organization can trace its origins to the legal department of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that was created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the 1930s. However, in 1940, Thurgood Marshall established LDF as a separate legal entity and, in 1957, the organization became totally independent of the NAACP. While primarily focused on the civil rights of African Americans in the U.S., LDF states it has "been instrumental in the formation of similar organizations that have replicated its organizational model in order to promote equality for Asian-Americans, Latinos, and women in the United States." LDF has also been involved in "the campaign for human rights throughout the world, including in South Africa, Canada, Brazil, and elsewhere."
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![]() Dr. Dorothy Height was always a woman of action. I am so glad that I had the honor of meeting her on several occasions in Washington, DC. Quiet, action-oriented with grace and elegance. She lived through 17 US Presidents and knew/met 12 of them. One of the early leaders of the National Council of Negro Women, Dr. Height was an pioneer of equality for all people and opportunities to empower women of color across the globe. I took the photo above (with the gold hat) of Dr. Dorothy Height on March 1, 2009, the year before she died. Now she has her own US stamp in her honor that just came in in celebration of Black History Month. I hope that you will honor and buy several sheets of her stamps at your local post office. Here's her Bio: Dr. Dorothy Height was the National President of the National Council of Negro Women AND the National President of my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She was also on the stage with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1963 March on Washington and lived long enough to meet and congratulate America’s first black president, Barack Obama. A tireless activist, Dorothy Height (1912–2010) dedicated her life to fighting for racial and gender equality. Although rarely gaining the recognition granted her male contemporaries, she became one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the 20th century. Height received the nation’s two highest civilian honors for her work, the Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. In 2003 I stood in a long line to have her autobiography, Open Wide The Freedom Gates, signed by her. It was a proud moment for me. One of my favorite quotes by Dr. Height states, “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition, he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” Such an apropos quote for our present political climate here in America. Dr. Height was a “fashionista!” You never saw her without her signature hats to accompany her stylish outfits. She lived during a time when the men often received the accolades. Yet, she has had the last laugh now that her smiling face is on the US stamp. It was always a great privilege to see her escorted on stage during our Delta Legislative Conference in Washington (Delta Days In The Nations Capital). Her presence was an assuring factor that Delta women like Dr. Height were always focused on public service and social action. I so admire Dr. Height and other women like her. The women featured in the new movie “Hidden Figures” remind me of Dr. Height. Stately. Trained. Talented. Working for the good of humanity. Dr. Height was aware of the diversity yet unborn in this country. She remained civically engaged her entire life. Physical illness was the only force that closed the last chapter of her long life. She remained mentally sharp to the end. As we continue to reflect on the those who have contributed to Black History Month, let’s pause and give thanks to a woman whose sacrifice and integrity made our nation and our world a better place to live. Dr. Dorothy Height. Just another reminder that... Black History IS American History. Focus On Empowerment can be heard every Thursday at 1pm Eastern. Log Onto: www.blogtalkradio.com/globalcarole Listen LIVE or Download Anytime At This Blog Post. Each broadcast can be replayed immediately following the show. ======================== Today’s show welcomes the beginning of Black History Month with a range of topics. First, we’ll have a fascinating interview with veteran journalist and blogger SekouWrites whose partnership with the automobile industry has yielded a strong relationship with domestic and international car manufacturers. Then we’ll look at President Trump’s Muslim Ban in detail to discover why it has this country in an uproar. We’ll finish off with highlights of the upcoming March 16th Black History Breakfast before paying tribute to Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month. Important topics for listeners like YOU who need to know! =========================== About Dr. Carter G. Woodson Source: www.biography.com Carter G. Woodson was an African-American writer and historian known as the "Father of Black History Month." He penned the influential book The Mis-Education of the Negro. Synopsis Carter G. Woodson was born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia. One of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate from Harvard, Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African-American history and lobbied extensively to establish Black History Month as a nationwide institution. He also wrote many historical works, including the 1933 book The Mis-Education of the Negro. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1950. Early Life Carter Godwin Woodson was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, to Anna Eliza Riddle Woodson and James Woodson. The fourth of seven children, young Woodson worked as a sharecropper and a miner to help his family. He began high school in his late teens and proved to be an excellent student, completing a four-year course of study in less than two years. After attending Berea College in Kentucky, Woodson worked for the U.S. government as an education superintendent in the Philippines and undertook more travels before returning to the U.S. Woodson then earned his bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Chicago and went on to receive a doctorate from Harvard University in 1912—becoming the second African American to earn a Ph.D. from the prestigious institution, after W.E.B. Du Bois. After finishing his education, Woodson dedicated himself to the field of African-American history, working to make sure that the subject was taught in schools and studied by scholars. For his efforts, Woodson is often called the "Father of Black History." ============================ The Association for the Study of African American Life and History For more information about the institution founded by Dr. Woodson that STILL exists today, please visit: https://asalh100.org ======================== CLICK BELOW TO READ THE COMPLETE TEXT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER MUSLIM BAN http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/28/politics/text-of-trump-executive-order-nation-ban-refugees/ Click Below To Understand The Impact On All Refugees Entering the United States http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/01/31/mass-agencies-scramble-resettle-refugees =========================
Carole Copeland Thomas participating in the Washington DC Women's March on January 21, 2017
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Log Onto: www.blogtalkradio.com/globalcarole Listen LIVE or Download Anytime At This Blog Post. Each broadcast can be replayed immediately following the show. ======================== I heard the call and I answered without hesitation. That’s just how it hit my spirit. Days before America had witnessed one of the biggest upset elections in our history when the influential Hillary Clinton had lost the presidency to a man with a checkered personal and business background who had never held public office. It was the electoral college votes in three key states that carried him to the finish line, despite the more than three million popular votes cast for Clinton. By November 9th, that turn of events left the nation shocked, elated, saddened and resentful and the election results came rolling in. Donald Trump would be the 45th president of the United States of America. While some sat and cried, Teresa Shook, a 60-year-old retired grandmother from Hawaii took action. She set up an event page on Facebook and asked friends and colleagues to sign up for a proposed March on Washington on January 21st. The list grew from 40 to 10,000 within days, and a new movement was born. We’ll tell the rest of this amazing story and how this march affirmed my principles as I marched with thousands last Saturday in Washington DC. One woman made history and has ignited the fighting spirit of an American society. On today’s show, we’ll tell you how you can get on board by making your voices heard. ========================= About Teresa Shook and the January 21, 2017 International Women's March (Source Wikipedia and Reuters) Hawaii grandmother Teresa Shook wanted to share her outrage with other women the night after Donald Trump was elected president, but she had few options in her remote island community. So she went on Facebook and in a popular political group wrote the first thing that came to mind: I think we should march. Four weeks later, organizers credit Shook’s quiet plea with igniting what could be the largest demonstration in the nation's capital related to a presidential election. More than 125,000 people from across the country have signed up to march in Washington on Jan. 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration in support of women’s rights. Sister protests are planned in London and Frankfurt and online interest has grown to hundreds of thousands. "I didn't have a plan or a thought about what would happen," Shook told Reuters by phone from the island of Maui. "I just kept saying, I think we should march." (This article was written before the March exploded to include over 2 million people worldwide.) Focus On Empowerment can be heard every Thursday at 1pm Eastern. Log Onto: www.blogtalkradio.com/globalcarole Listen LIVE or Download Anytime At This Blog Post. Each broadcast can be replayed immediately following the show. ======================== No doubt every person on the planet knows that tomorrow January 20th marks the Inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The impact of his upset election will be felt around the globe in the days months and years ahead. If you live in the United States you will be affected by the Trump Administration whether you like it or not. So having an opinion about the man and his actions will happen either now or in the future. How will be express yourself if you’re concerned about the security of your job? What do you do if your opinion differs from those around you? And what do you do if you’re just plain scared of the consequences of speaking your mind for or against the new President-Elect? Listen to today’s show and gain valuable knowledge about what you can and can’t do about expressing YOUR views under a Trump Administration. ====================== Resources: Indivisible Guide www.indivisibleguide.com President-Elect Trump Transition Website https://greatagain.gov National Women's March on January 21, 2017 https://www.womensmarch.com
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Log Onto: www.blogtalkradio.com/globalcarole Listen LIVE or Download Anytime At This Blog Post. Each broadcast can be replayed immediately following the show. ======================== It’s taken several generations for America to resolve some of its complex and interconnected racial scars of the past. And even though our twice-elected black president is set to leave the White House next week, a new set of challenges remain.What will the racial climate look like with our new president? And what will it take to finally acknowledge that there’s still much work to be done in the days ahead? Joining us today is Dr. Gail. C. Christopher, visionary founder of the National Day of Racial Healing, sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation. She will detail the origins of the day and how it will kick off on January 17, 2017. The Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) enterprise created by W. K. Kellogg Foundation and a broad coalition of organizations from all sectors of society is working to end the belief and facilitate racial healing. TRHT is a community-driven vehicle for transformative change. The TRHT approach examines how the belief system became embedded in our society, both its culture, and structures, and then works with communities to design and implement effective actions that will permanently uproot it. We are marshaling individual, local, public and private resources to dismantle systemic, structurally-based patterns of discrimination at the municipal, county, state, Tribal and federal levels. At a recent summit, 570 people representing the 130 TRHT partner organizations issued a call to action to designate January 17, 2017, as the inaugural National Day of Racial Healing in America. I have written an article to accompany this important day of healing. It can be found at http://bit.ly/2jx9ml3 For more information visit: http://www.dayofracialhealing.com 1/5/2017 Bringing Clarity and Confidence Into Your 2017: Five Ways To Move Your Life and Career ForwardRead NowWatch The Video Below To Help You Implement Your 2017 Plan Of ActionCheck Out Carole's Radio Show Below. Listen Anytime.
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Log Onto: www.blogtalkradio.com/globalcarole Listen LIVE or Download Anytime At This Blog Post. Each broadcast can be replayed immediately following the show. ======================== Ready or not, 2017 is here and starting off with a bang! As we reflect on the significant events of 2016, we must now fully focus on our present circumstances, future goals and aspirations. Similar to driving a car, the rear view mirror of yesterday shouldn’t overpower the importance of focusing our thoughts, hopes and actions on what is in front of us. On today’s show, I’ll give you FIVE Ways to recalibrate your life to maximize your achievements from now till December. Your complete honesty and commitment to personal progress are the prerequisites to making this show matter in your life. Buckle up and get ready to bring clarity and confidence into your 2017! ======= Your 5 Step Plan For 2017 1. Pull Out Your RVM ..... Your Rear View Mirror Look back on 2016 and reflect on your past, your achievements, your lessons learned and your setbacks. Take a good hard look before closing the door on 2016. 2. Start Your Year NOW! WRITE DOWN your plan of action for the New Year. 3. Try the 3 Week Habit to change your behavior. Start a food journal. Start a finance journal. Contribute in it for 3 straight weeks. See if you can develop a positive pattern to alter/change your behavior fot the better. 4. Don't Neglect Your Family & Friends. That's all you have in life. Work should never occupy 100% of your time. Save the special moments for those who support and care for YOU. 5. Become a champion of Civic Engagement. Get involved in a non profit that is making difference in YOUR community. Become more politically educated in the issues. Stop allowing the political pundits to form YOUR perspectives on issues. Express your opinions online, with op-ed letters and with correspondence directed at your local/city/state/federal/international representatives. Carole's Commentary on Watch Night...Watch It Below...Dear Family, Valuable Friends, Clients, and Colleagues:
From my home to yours, I wish you rich blessings into the New Year. Here is a special article I created about the history of Watch Night Service in the African American community. The tradition predates the importance of the famous 1862 Watch Night Services and originated with the Moravians in Germany many years earlier. The first Methodist church in America to celebrate Watch Night in the 1700s was St. George United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, the home church of Bishop Richard Allen, co-founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. However, it has become particularly important in the Black Church, with its evolution in the early to mid-1800s. The word evolved from “Freedom’s Eve” to “Watch Night” as the freed and enslaved blacks “watched” the clock strike 12 midnight, turning the course of the Civil War and freeing 3 million slaves in the states of the rebellion. Wishing You The Best in 2017 ! Carole Copeland Thomas, MBA CDMP, CITM --------------------------- The History Of Watch Night Services In The Black Church by Carole Copeland Thomas With the festivities of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa now on full display, there is still time to reflect on the ritual of my ancestors and many other African Americans, whose forefathers sat around campfires and wood stoves in the twilight of December 31, 1862. There they sang spirituals acapella, prayed, and thanked the Good Lord for what was about to happen the next day. In the North Abolitionists were jubilant that the “peculiar institution” was finally about to get dismantled one plantation at a time. The booklet, Walking Tours of Civil War Boston sites this about this historic event: “On January 1, 1863, large anti-slavery crowds gathered at Boston’s Music Hall and Tremont Temple to await word that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the much-anticipated Emancipation Proclamation (EP). Those present at the Music Hall included Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier and essayist, poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Also present was Ralph Waldo Emerson, who composed his Boston Hymn to mark the occasion.” Now… Let’s Look Back...154 Years Ago Tonight... It was on January 1, 1863 amidst the cannon fire, gun shots, and burnings at the height of the Civil War that President Abraham Lincoln sealed his own fate and signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It begins with the following decree: Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, towit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.” That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States." CAROLE' S TRANSLATION: Effective January 1, 1863 all slaves in the states in rebellion against the Union are free. Technically that is all that President Lincoln could do at the time. He used his wartime powers as Commander in Chief to liberate the "property" of the states in rebellion of the Union. The act did not free the slaves of the Union or border states (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, or West Virginia) or any southern state under Union control (like parts of Virginia). It would take the 13th Amendment (that freed all slaves in 1865), the Union Army winning the Civil War (April 9, 1865), and the assassination of President Lincoln (shot on April 14th and died on April 15, 1865) for all of the slaves to be freed. That included the liberation of the slaves in rebellious Texas on June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth Day) and finally the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 18, 1865, giving all black people freedom and permanently abolishing slavery in the US. So in 1862 on the eve of this great era, the slaves "watched", prayed, and waited. My ancestors, including Bishop Wesley John Gaines of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) (a slave in Georgia freed by the EP) and the other three million slaves prayed for divine guidance and an empowered Abraham Lincoln to do the right thing. It is as important today as the tradition of black people eating black eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck. Following the Emancipation Proclamation slaves were freed in stages, based on where they lived, the willingness of the plantation owner to release them and when Union troops began to control their area. Black educator and community activist Booker T. Washington as a boy of 9 in Virginia, remembered the day in early 1865: “As the great day drew nearer, there was more singing in the slave quarters than usual. It was bolder, had more ring, and lasted later into the night. Most of the verses of the plantation songs had some reference to freedom. ... Some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rather long paper—the Emancipation Proclamation, I think. After the reading we were told that we were all free, and could go when and where we pleased. My mother, who was standing by my side, leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks. She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see.” The longest holdouts were the slaves in Texas, who were not freed until June 19, 1865, two months after the Civil War ended. That day is not celebrated as Juneteenth Day around the United States. That is the history of Watch Night in the African American culture. May you and your family enjoy a spirit filled New Year throughout 2017. Thank you for ALL of your support you have given to me and my business throughout 2016. -Carole Happy New Year!! 2016 is over. 2017 is your new frontier. One is the rear view mirror. The other is your life moving forward. Balancing the two will determine your outcome over the next 12 months. Here's your BONUS Tip #2 in our Ten Tip Holiday Video Series. Watch and learn! From the Julian to the Gregorian calendar...New Year's Day has evolved through the centuries. Here's your BONUS Tip #1 in our Ten Tip Holiday Video Series. Watch and learn! |
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