Jane Wilburn Sapp, founder of the annual Black Belt Folk Roots Festival in 1975, was in attendance, with her son Edward and his family, for the 50th Festival Celebration held in Eutaw, AL, August 23 and 24, 2025. She is accompanied on stage by Dr. Carol P. Zippert, who has continued the festival celebration since 1982. Dr. Zippert presented Ms. Sapp with a specially designed throw and pillow bearing the festival’s 50th year emblem and photos of her and her late husband Hubert Sapp at an earlier festival. The gifts were created by artist Fatima Robinson. Attorney Faya Rose Toure presented Ms. Sapp with a carved leaf symbolizing the festival’s beginning; Attorney Toure then presented Dr. Zippert with a carved tree symbolizing the growth and continuation of the annual Black Belt Folk Roots Festival.
Phylicia Rashard receives award at the Federation meeting and Cornelius Blanding addresses membership at the 58th Annual Meeting.
The Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund held its 58th Annual Meeting, on the weekend of August 14-16, 2025. Over 400 people from the membership and guests registered and attended both parts of the meeting. The first part was the 24th annual Estelle Witherspoon Lifetime Achievement Award Dinner, held in Birmingham, to honor the legacy of the woman who served as the initial manager of the Freedom Quilting Bee and founding board member of the Federation. Phylicia Rashard, a stage and TV actress, most famous for her role as Claire Huxtable in the Cosby show, was honored with the Witherspoon Award. In her acceptance remarks, Rashard said she was “a person of the earth, like the Black farmers in the Federation. I remember going to visit my grandparents in Louisiana and South Carolina as a child observing them engaging with the land. This helped form the core of my artistic experience. I am a person of the earth, and I carry those experiences with me, wherever I go in life.” On Friday and Saturday, the meeting moved to the Federation’s Rural Training and Research Center between Epes and Gainesville in Sumter County. The same large crowd followed the program to its rural base. On Fridays, there usually is a panel of USDA program officials, who explain the latest changes and developments in Federal small agriculture programs, however this year the Trump Administration is still deliberating over whether the Federation’s mission of ‘cooperative development, upholding Black land ownership and advocacy for public policies benefiting small farmers and rural communities’ is in compliance with the President’s Executive Order banning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. In place of the USDA panels, the Federation had a panel on its own program initiatives and workshops on heirs property, forestry an agroforestry, as well as cooperative development The Federation’s Memorial Legacy Committee made a presentation on its plans and the development of a master plan for the Memorial Legacy Park, a living memorial of nature trails, gardens, orchards, outdoor classrooms, a remembrance wall, gazebos and other places for small groups to gather, cabins, fishing piers and other places for people to meet, learn, relax, renew and rejuvenate. The Committee suggested ways the membership could participate and support the project. On Saturday, there was a Prayer Breakfast featuring Rev. Wendell Paris of Jackson, Mississippi as the spiritual speaker and a best hat contest, honoring the late Mattie Mack, Kentucky Board Member, who always wore special decorative hats to the Federation’s Annual Meeting and Prayer Breakfast. At the annual Federation membership business meeting, Shirley Blakely, Chairperson gave some comments and Carrie Fulghum, Treasurer gave some financial data. Blakely introduced and praised Executive Director, Cornelius Blanding, who gave a more detailed report on the work of the Federation. In his report, Blanding said the Federation had grown to have $14.5 million in assets and had substantially reduced debts, despite loosing over $17.5 in Federal contracts because of USDA concerns about ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ in Federal contracts. He said, “We are working to assure every farmer gets an official USDA farm number, to enable them to access USDA programs. We want each farm family to have a feasible farm plan and every co-op to have a business plan built from those farm plans. Every landowner, we work with to have an estate plan and a plan to work out any heir’s property problems that they may have, Blanding concluded by saying, “The Federation shows the extraordinary things that ordinary people can do – when they work together cooperatively.” For more information on the vision, work and programs of the Federation, contact their website at: http://www.federation.coop.
Commission approves structure for Greenethumb Farmer’s Initiative Improvement District, producing Medical Marijuana; approves lease adjustment with Iron Wolf, LLC
The Greene County Commission met in a called meeting, Monday, August 25, 2025 with all Commissioners present. Following the official opening, Attorney Mark Parnell certified the body going into executive session for legal matters and personnel issues. When the public meeting resumed, the Chairperson, Garria Spencer, stated that no decisions were made in executive session. The first item discussed was a request from Greenethumb Farmer’s Initiative Improvement District. Reportedly, Greenethumb is licensed to grow Medical Marijuana at the site off Hwy11in Greene County. Attorney Parnell clarified that a decision on the Articles of Incorporation of the group was before the Commission. He said there is no financial obligation for the county, but establishing the Articles will enable the group to secure bonds. The Commission voted unanimously to approve the Articles, with the understanding that the Commission also has the authority to appoint five board members for the Improvement District. Commissioner Spencer stated the county will address this at the next meeting. The next pertinent item before the Commission was consideration of a request from Iron Wolf, LLC to amend their lease agreement with the County. The request was to extend the lease to five years, with the initial two years payment applied to renovations and repairs, after which time the lease payment will be $125,000 annually. The Commission indicated there may be future lease negotiations, pending gaming law changes in Alabama. The Commission also hired Mrs. Altheria Wilder in the position of CFO for the County. Her employment is part-time, involving three days per week at $45 per hour. Mrs. Wilder has served in the capacity of County CFO previously and is relatively familiar with the county’s financial operations. In other business the Commission acted on the following:
Approved M&H Construction for painting the courthouse.
Approved Barton Enterprises for polishing floors at the courthouse.
Approved tree removal behind courthouse.
Requested verification of cost for the modification of the truck for the Coroner’s operations. Purchase of the truck has been approved.
In the August 26, 2025, Eutaw Municipal Election, Corey Cockrell ( 508 votes – 51.6%) defeated incumbent Mayor Latasha Johnson (411 votes – 41.8%), Tyrone Atkins (64 votes – 6.5%) also ran. A total of 983 votes were cast in the mayor’s race. These results are unofficial and subject to change based on the final certification of votes on September 2nd by the Voting Managers and Board of Registrars. There were some provisional ballots cast which must be checked against registration lists to determine if they will be counted. In two council races, where the vote count is very close, these provisional ballots may affect the results. In the District 1 Council race, incumbent Valarie Watkins received 94 votes to KeUndra Cox with 93 votes. Watkins is leading by one vote, so this race is too close to call, until after any provisional ballots are counted and the winner is certified by the Election Managers on September 2nd. In District 2, incumbent Jonathan Woodruff Jr. was re-elected with 123 votes, with challengers Charles Naylor receiving 35 votes and Quentin M. Walton 43 votes. In District 3, Tracie Hunter was re-elected because she was unopposed by any other candidate in this election. In District 4, Lorenzo French leads the field with 83 votes to Sarah Duncan Brewer with 47 and incumbent Larrie Coleman with 37. Lorenzo French is a few votes short of the required 50% plus 1 vote, and will face a run-off with Sarah Brewer, unless the provisional ballots give him the needed majority to win. In District 5, challenger Carrie Logan with 123 votes, defeated incumbent Suzette Powell with 86 votes. About half of the registered voters in the city came out for the election. Young people, under the age of 35, played a key role in electing Corey Cockrell as mayor. He takes office on November 1, 2025, and the new City Council will be sworn in at their first meeting in November. Forkland and Union results In Forkland, Mayor Charlie McAlpine was re-elected for another term by a vote of 166 to 87 for challenger Sharon Washington. In the District 3 City Council race, Alfonso Thomas defeated Preston Davis, by a vote of 41 to 12. In Union, Mayor James Gaines was re-elected over challenger Loydleetta Wabbington, by a close vote of 54 to 52. There was no election in Boligee, since all candidates were unopposed.
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent
The Trump White House has declared war on history itself. In an official article published Friday, Aug. 22, on the White House website, the administration blasted the Smithsonian Institution for telling the truth about slavery, systemic racism, and inequality in America. It was not just an attack on museums—it was an attack on memory, on facts, and on the lives of generations of Black Americans who endured the country’s greatest crimes.
The White House mocked exhibits at the National Museum of African American History and Culture for daring to explain that America privileges whiteness. It dismissed scholarship on the legacies of slavery in the Texas Revolution, ridiculed art that reckons with the Middle Passage, and condemned programs that document systemic exclusion in immigration and housing. It went further, painting the Smithsonian as “anti-American propaganda” for highlighting the ways colonization, racism, and oppression shaped the very foundations of the nation. What the administration is doing is clear: it is trying to erase the trail of oppression that runs like a scar through U.S. history—from the whip on enslaved backs, to Jim Crow segregation, to the discriminatory policies that persist today.
From Slavery to Jim Crow
Slavery was not just an economic system—it was a regime of terror. Families were ripped apart, women were violated, men were chained, and entire generations were forced into labor that built the wealth of this nation. When emancipation finally came, Reconstruction briefly promised equality. Black men held office, built schools, and claimed rights once denied. But white supremacy roared back with violence and legal restrictions. Reconstruction collapsed, and Jim Crow rose in its place. For nearly a century, Jim Crow laws ensured Black Americans could not vote freely, attend equal schools, or live without fear of lynching. The White House’s attempt to dismiss museums for teaching about this reality is nothing less than an attempt to silence that history.
Red-lining and the War on Drugs
When Jim Crow ended, systemic racism mutated. The federal government backed redlining policies that locked Black families out of home ownership, while white families accumulated wealth through suburban expansion. Gentrification decades later uprooted Black communities in cities, pushing families out of neighborhoods they had called home for generations. Then came the war on drugs. Entire communities were criminalized. Harsh sentencing laws and targeted policing filled prisons with Black and brown bodies, devastating families and stripping away economic and political power. The administration now attacking the Smithsonian is the same one that celebrates law-and-order policies that continue this cycle.
Civil Rights Gains Under Siege
The Civil Rights Movement forced America to confront its hypocrisy. Through marches, sit-ins, and court victories, Black Americans dismantled legal segregation. But every gain came with backlash. Today, voter suppression laws, redistricting schemes, and so-called “voter integrity measures” are dressed-up attempts to return to the days when Black voices were excluded. The Smithsonian’s exhibits on democracy document this truth. The White House calls it subversive. Erasing History to Protect Power
The Trump White House’s attack on the Smithsonian is not accidental. By branding the truth as “anti-American,” the administration seeks to recast America as blameless. The logic is simple: if slavery is just a footnote, if Jim Crow was just the past, if systemic racism never existed, then there is nothing to fix. There is no reason for reparations, no reason for equity, no reason to confront police violence, mass incarceration, or economic injustice. The administration even ridiculed the National Museum of African Art’s exhibit inspired by Drexciya, a myth of children born underwater from enslaved women who died in the Middle Passage. Instead of honoring the resilience behind that vision, the White House dismissed it as “fringe”.
The Fight for Memory
The attempt to rewrite history is part of a wider campaign. This White House has moved to criminalize protest, weaken civil rights protections, and silence Black leaders. Attacking the Smithsonian is about controlling the narrative—deciding whose story matters and whose story gets erased. The truth is this: America’s history is not just one of freedom and triumph. It is also one of bondage, violence, exclusion, and systemic theft of opportunity. To erase that truth is to dishonor every enslaved man, every woman denied her humanity, every family displaced by redlining, every child funneled into mass incarceration. The Smithsonian was created to tell America’s story in full. Today, that mission is under direct assault from a White House that has chosen denial over truth. And if the nation accepts this whitewashing, the suffering of millions will not just be forgotten—it will be erased.
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent
Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House has proven to be a gold mine — for Donald Trump. An investigation by The New Yorker has tallied more than $1 billion in personal and family gains tied directly to his two presidencies, from foreign mega-projects to luxury perks and merchandise sales that blur, if not obliterate, the lines between public office and private profit. When Trump first took office in 2017, he assured Americans he would not “destroy the company he built” but would turn daily operations over to his sons. He claimed such a handoff would avoid the appearance of exploiting the presidency. Eight years later, that promise is in shreds. The New Yorker reports that Trump and his family have reaped massive windfalls, including Persian Gulf real estate and golf course contracts in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Dubai, and Qatar that would be inconceivable without the presidency. Jared Kushner’s private-equity firm, Affinity Partners, secured a $2 billion investment from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s sovereign wealth fund, along with hundreds of millions more from the UAE and Qatar, generating hundreds of millions for Kushner personally. Mar-a-Lago’s revenues have quintupled since Trump entered politics, producing at least $125 million in extra profit from members willing to pay as much as $1 million to join.
Trump’s personal merchandising empire — separate from his campaign store — has brought in $27.7 million selling MAGA-style hats, koozies, and flip-flops. Donor-funded PACs have spent over $100 million covering his personal legal bills. The Emir of Qatar offered him a Boeing 747-8 as a “gift” for his use after leaving office, worth an estimated $150 million. A massive Hanoi golf and hotel complex, advanced by Vietnam’s Communist Party with “special attention” from the Trump administration, is projected to bring $40 million in licensing profits. Major media companies — ABC, Meta, X, and CBS — have collectively paid $63 million to Trump’s presidential library foundation to settle defamation claims that legal experts described as baseless but were resolved under the weight of presidential power. Meanwhile, Trump and his family have dived into cryptocurrency, NFTs, and token sales, pocketing at least $14.4 million from licensing fees and digital currency holdings. Ethics watchdog Fred Wertheimer told The New Yorker that “when it comes to using his public office to amass personal profits, Trump is a unicorn — no one else even comes close.” The total haul stands at roughly $1.02 billion — a sum no prior occupant of the Oval Office has approached. “We will never really know,” Robert Weissman of Public Citizen stated.
By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent
In its nonstop assault on the most vulnerable Americans, the Trump administration is preparing to impose sweeping cuts to Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a program that provides a lifeline for the nation’s poorest seniors, children, and severely disabled adults. The proposed rule would strip eligibility from hundreds of thousands and slash monthly payments by as much as one-third, even as new data confirms Social Security’s trust funds are facing insolvency within the next decade.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), nearly 400,000 people stand to lose critical income. That includes more than 275,000 who would see cuts of about $300 a month, and over 100,000 who could lose their benefits entirely. The changes target families already under strain, specifically SSI recipients living with relatives who receive SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Reversing Protections for Struggling Families
The Biden administration had expanded the definition of “public assistance household,” shielding recipients from the harshest penalties. That safeguard ensured that low-income families receiving food assistance would not be punished for offering shelter to an elderly parent or disabled child. Trump’s rollback would erase that protection, returning to outdated rules from 1980. “Receiving food assistance from SNAP would no longer be enough to qualify a family as a ‘public assistance household,”
CBPP analysts warned. “The resulting SSI benefit cuts would be felt in low-income households with disabled family members or older relatives across the country”. The typical multi-person SNAP household with an SSI recipient survives on about $17,000 annually—well below the poverty line. Under the new rule, a woman with Down Syndrome living with low-income parents could see her benefits plunge from $967 to less than $700 a month, with families forced to track and report household expenses line by line.
Fallout Across the States
Every state would be affected. California could lose benefits for 57,600 people, New York 35,900, Florida 30,800, and Texas 23,600. Even small states like Vermont, Wyoming, and Alaska face losses. Advocates warn that the proposal would drive more disabled people into institutions, increase homelessness, and add crushing red tape. The cuts come as Social Security marked its 90th anniversary. Nearly 70 million Americans depend on the program, but the latest Trustees’ report projects its trust funds will be depleted by 2034, triggering an automatic 23% cut to monthly checks unless Congress acts.
Unions and Lawmakers Push Back
Unions and community groups are mobilizing. The AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour stopped in Bakersfield, California, where California Nurses Association president Sandy Reding blasted the Trump budget bill as “a cruel piece of legislation that will have disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable in our communities, including the patients I care for in Bakersfield.”
In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) President Everett Kelley pledged to fight Social Security staffing cuts. “Across the country, we are using our voice—as workers, as parents, as people who care about our communities—to demand that this administration and Congress do whatever it takes to protect Social Security,” Kelley asserted. “The American people deserve nothing less.”
Democratic leaders are also taking action. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is preparing a September bill he calls the “Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act,” aimed at reversing Trump’s cuts, reopening shuttered field offices, and restoring staffing. “Social Security to me means my life,” said Ellen Carter, a New York recipient. “It means medicine gets paid; it means that I have a place to sleep at night.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a companion bill in the Senate that would add $5 billion in funding, restore staff, safeguard data, and launch an investigation into the Department of Government Efficiency, which has overseen the Trump administration’s Social Security cutbacks. “Trump and his Republican allies have made it crystal clear—holding on to earned benefits requires vigilant defense,” Wyden said.
The Stakes for Millions
For the 7.5 million Americans who rely on SSI each month, including many with severe disabilities, the stakes are life and death. “For 90 years, we’ve kept America’s greatest anti-poverty success story alive,” Jessica Lapointe, president of AFGE Council 220, told reporters. “We serve widows, orphans, the elderly, disabled, every vulnerable soul in your families and your communities, and they deserve respect and dignity when they come for their earned benefits.”
President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on the US Central Bank on Wednesday with a call for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the only Black woman on the Federal Reserve Board, to step down.
“Cook must resign, now!!!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, sharing a Bloomberg news report on how the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s director has called for greater scrutiny of Cook over a pair of mortgages. Cook said she has no intention to quit .”I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet,” she said in a statement.
But she said she would take questions about her financial history “seriously” and was “gathering the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions and provide the facts.”
Trump — had reportedly written a letter to the US attorney general calling for an investigation of Cook while suggesting that she might have committed a criminal offense.
Cook said she had learned about it in a post on social media, and that the mortgage application took place “before I joined the Federal Reserve.” The Trump administration has pursued allegations of mortgage fraud against high-profile Democrats who are seen as political adversaries of the president.
It was not immediately clear if such a probe would take place targeting Cook to serve on the central bank’s board. The president is also legislatively limited in his ability to remove officials from the Central Bank.
The federal budget signed into law earlier this year will cut the share of SNAP’s administrative costs that the federal government pays from 50 percent to 25 percent, starting in late 2026. Based on numbers from the Alabama Department of Human Resources, this will increase the amount Alabama has to pay by around $35 million a year. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, over 735,000 Alabamians are participating in SNAP, and receive on average under $200 per person per month in benefits. One report produced by the USDA in 2023 found almost 40 percent of program beneficiaries in the state were children.
State Senator Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, told APR during a July interview that state legislators “will need to find the money” this upcoming session to compensate for the reduction in federal funding.
While the federal budget bill was still awaiting the Senate’s approval, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, currently the frontrunner in the gubernatorial race, expressed concern that Alabama couldn’t afford the cuts to SNAP being debated. Some of the cuts in the House’s initial bill were scaled back before the budget was signed into law, but the reduced share of administrative costs and an incentive program based around benefit cost sharing remained in the final bill.
Ashley Murray of the Alabama Reflector reported that at a recent public appearance, Tuberville “vowed to reduce SNAP enrollment so that the program will not cost the state when he hopes to be governor.” He cited budgetary effects as a major concern. “It’s going to cost us $200 million my year of starting in terms of paying for SNAP,” Tuberville said at the event. “That’s not going to happen. We’re going to get that down.” “Sen. Tuberville believes SNAP should be used temporarily by those who fall on hard times,” Mallory Jaspers, the communications director for Tuberville’s gubernatorial campaign, clarified in an email to APR. “As Governor, he will make sure SNAP is a hand up, not a hand out.” Jaspers did not respond to questions about what data or studies have informed Tuberville’s views about SNAP.
A report from the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service found that nationwide almost 90 percent of SNAP beneficiaries lived in a household with a child, an elderly individual, or a disabled individual during the 2023 fiscal year.
On Thursday, APR spoke with state Representative Reed Ingram, R-Pike Road, about the pending funding cuts for SNAP and the upcoming legislative session. Ingram also recently pre-filed a bill that would mandate the Alabama Department of Human Resources apply for a waiver allowing the state to exempt various unhealthy foods from the program.
The representative told APR he believes restricting how beneficiaries can spend SNAP benefits will help the state deal with the cuts to federal funding. “You’re gonna have some attrition [in the program] when you’re cutting out the biggest part, when people can go in and buy four or five cases of Coca-Colas when they buy their groceries and stuff,” Ingram said.
“I would say that 20 percent of that is probably going to be junk food that they were buying before, so if it’s going to be to where we’re going to limit it, I don’t mind cost sharing to make sure people don’t go hungry, by no means,” he continued. “We don’t want anybody going hungry, but it’s got to be a nutritional injection that we put in if we’re going to inject money into that program.” Ingram also said that Alabama’s ranking as the third-worst state by life expectancy inspired him to pre-file the bill. He added that House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter has tasked a committee of doctors and healthcare professionals with suggesting “what it’s going to take for Alabama to get back on their feet and turn this thing around.” However, LaTrell Wood, a hunger policy advocate with poverty-focused nonprofit Alabama Arise, said restricting what SNAP benefits can be spent on won’t save the state any money.
Instead, it would “increase the amount DHR has to spend, because there are system design costs and outreach costs for state agencies,” Wood told APR. “We can’t afford to get distracted right now. Many members of our delegation in D.C. just voted to send the state a significantly large bill, while completely eliminating funding for SNAP Ed programs that encourage healthy eating, and unjustly policing people because of their income will not save money.” She suggested that stores might even opt out of accepting SNAP as a result, explaining that this could be an issue “particularly in rural areas that may only have a convenience store.” Wood also argued that further restrictions on spending SNAP benefits “turns what is a systemic issue into an issue of individual choice.”
“Any policy approach that limits Alabamians’ access to food based on demographic, whether it is somebody’s income, race, or where they live, undermines the realities many of our communities’ members are facing when it comes to accessing affordable healthy options,” she wrote. Ingram and Orr both told APR they would not support measures like increasing taxes on unhealthy foods, or banning sugary drinks above a certain volume, to help promote public health.
Please be sure to vote in city elections Next Tuesday, August 26th.
Next Tuesday is an important day for all the municipalities of Greene County. On Tuesday, August 26, 2025, the residents of Eutaw, Forkland, Boligee and Union have city elections to elect a Mayor and City Council members. This is your chance to vote for your local officials. This is your chance to influence the policies and future direction of your local communities. This is your chance to democratically participate to vote for those who will operate your city, set your water, sewer and garbage bills, zone areas you live in for future development, provide more recreation and activities for youth, respond to natural disasters like tornados, hurricanes, flood and other things. Instead of sitting on your couch and complaining about those in politics, here is your chance to go and vote and decide who will be making the decisions and spending tax monies, closest to you, for the next four years. The Publishers of the Greene County Democrat, who live in Eutaw, have been talking to the candidates, reviewing their positions on issues and problems of concern. We make the following recommendations: For Mayor of Eutaw, we support the current mayor, LATASHA JOHNSON for re-election. There are three candidates in this race, the current Mayor, Latasha Johnson, has done a good job in her four years as mayor, we think she should continue and will do more for the residents of Eutaw in the coming four years. Mayor Johnson was able to develop a budgeting process for city revenues and expenses, had a clean audit in fiscal year 2023-24, raised over $9 million dollars, in grants, that did not require matching, to improve and update the Water and Sewer System for Eutaw and Boligee. Mayor Johnson was able to complete the Streetscape project to beautify the sidewalks on the outside of the Courthouse Square. One of her opponents, on the County Commission, voted against providing its share of the matching funds for this project. Mayor Johnson had to borrow funds to complete the project. In District 1, we support challenger KE’UNDRA COX, who will bring a youth perspective to the City Council, coupled with six years of leadership training in the Air Force. In District 2, the incumbent JONATHAN WOODRUFF, should be re-elected for a full term. We do not agree with him all the time but at least he studies the materials and generally takes a responsible position on the issues. In District 3, the incumbent TRACIE HUNTER is unopposed and will be re-elected. In District 4, we endorse LORENZO FRENCH for this position because of his experience and knowledge of city facilities from running the Robert H. Young Community Center and trying to provide more recreational opportunities for young people. In District 5, we endorse CARRIE LOGAN, based on her experience and dedication with the Eutaw Area Chamber of Commerce. We also feel that there should be some representation for white residences of the city, on the City Council, which Ms. Logan will provide. Her opponent Suzette Powell did a good job in her appointed time on the City Council, but we feel Ms. Logan’s election will be in the best long-term interest of the city.
