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• The Journal Record News Briefs: February 10, 2010

Printing press returns to Cherokee Nation The Cherokee Advocate newspaper printing press has been returned to the Cherokee Nation after nearly 100 years.

• The Journal Record
• February 17, 2010

• Advocate Newspaper Knowingly Publishes False Information About Louisiana Law Regarding Teaching of Evolution, Says Discovery Institute

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Robert Crowther of Discovery Institute, +1-206-292-0401 x107, rob@discovery.org

• U.S. Newswire
• July 03, 2008

• Isiah 'Ike' Williams Iii Was Jacksonville Activist, Newspaper Publisher

Isiah "Ike" Jesse Williams III, lawyer, historian, community activist and former publisher of the Jacksonville Advocate newspaper, died on Nov. 25, in a local nursing home. He was 78 and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six years ago. Ike was a great historian and the best journalist," said Gertrude Peele, a long-standing friend and state director of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). "He loved Jacksonville and its people. Returning to Jacksonville in the early 1970s, he continued his community activism, serving on numerous boards and commissions dealing with equal opportunity. He provided positive stories about the African-American community when he founded the Jacksonville Advocate. He published the Advocate as a weekly newspaper for 30 years. Two years ago, his ...

• Westside Gazette
• January 25, 2010

• Notice: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 States that Citation of Unpublished Dispositions is Disfavored Except for Establishing Res Judicata, Estoppel, or the Law of the Case and Requires Service of Copies of Cited Unpublished Dispositions of the Fourth Circuit. Henry Clay Hart, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. George A. Smith, Jr., Publisher; Mariwyn Mcclain Smith, Editor, Individually and Trading as the Parsons Advocate, a Weekly Newspaper, Defendants-Appellees., 852 F.2d 565 (4th Cir. 1988)

Joseph Andrew Blundon (Stephen G. Jory, on brief), for appellant. Rebecca Ann Baitty (Rudolph L. di Trapano, Di Trapano & Jackson; W. Delroy Harner, ...

• Federal Circuits

• Courier Newspaper Was Staunch Advocate for Equality

Twenty-seven years after his death and nearly 100 years after he was born, world champion boxer Joe Louis is still a household name. Early in his spectacular boxing career, not all Americans knew of Louis's extraordinary talent. Readers of newspapers like the Pittsburgh Courier knew earlier than most people.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• June 15, 2008

• Lives

When I met him in 1993, his newspaper, the Jackson Advocate, had been shot up and burned down more than a decade earlier by White supremacists. "The only problem with the 'New South,'" he observed, "is that it continues to occupy the same space in time as the 'Old South.'" In 1978, he purchased the Jackson Advocate and set about the business of defending the victims of entrenched poverty, violence and official corruption.

• Crisis, The
• Vol. 114 Nbr. 5, September 2007

• 5 Cities at a Glance

NORFOLK | Outgoing Norfolk State University President Carolyn Meyers is one of five semifinalists for the top job at Southern University System in Louisiana, according to 2theadvocate.com. The Web site is produced by The Advocate newspaper and WBRZ News 2 Louisiana.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• April 15, 2010

• Isiah 'Ike' Williams Iii Was Jacksonville Activist, Newspaper Publisher (1931-2009)

Isiah "Ike" Jesse Williams III, lawyer, historian, community activist and former publisher of the Jacksonville Advocate newspaper, died November 25 in a local nursing home. He was 78 and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six years ago. Ike was a great historian and the best Journalist," said Gertrude Peele, a long-standing friend and state director of the National Council of Negro Women. "He loved Jacksonville and its people. He is survived by his wife of 10 years, Marilyn Wilkerson- Williams; a daughter, Helen Rogers of Fayetteville, N. C.; four sons, Rodney Williams and Isiah Williams FV, both of Jacksonville, Ira Marche of Dover, Del., and Mark Benson of Washington, D.C.; a sister, Pearl Davis of Jacksonville; a brother, Clark Edwards of Oakland, Calif; and three grandchi...

• New York Amsterdam News
• January 04, 2010

• Couple Acquires Public Relations Firm

PARSONS - Chris and Kelly Stadelman, owners of The Parsons Advocate newspaper, are acquiring The Phillips Group, an Elkins- based public relations, marketing and consulting company. The price was not disclosed. The Stadelmans said in a prepared statement that the deal is expected to close April 1. All five full- time employees of The Phillips Group will be retained.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• March 11, 2010

• Celebrating Black History Month

In response to the arrest of [Rosa Parks], Montgomery's Black ministers and civil rights leaders met to organize a boycott of the city's buses by African Americans. The new minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the Rev. [Martin Luther King Jr.], only twentysix years old, was chosen president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led the boycott. In an emotional speech to a large, enthusiastic gathering, King said, "We will not retreat one inch in our fight to secure and hold onto our American citizenship. [Charlotta Bass], a pioneering California journalist, was named the Progressive Party candidate vice-president of the United States in 1952, when she was seventyeight years old. Forty-two years earlier, the young Charlotta Spears had arrived in Los Angeles and found...

...A strong advocate for African American women leaders and a fighter f... in Los Angeles and found a job as a newspaper girl, selling subscriptions to a small Black newsp...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• August 14, 2009