Trump is an enemy of the First Amendment. By Trump denying MS Now, CNN, and Politico of White House entry violates the freedom of the press explicitly. The press is an occupation protected by the U.S. Constitution. The American press has the right to show the news regardless of if it pleases any administration or not. Critiquing any administration is protected by the First Amendment. The freedom of the press is being violated overtly by Trump and his allies. That is why the press needs to go into court via legal means to change this policy from the Trump administration. One MS NOW reporter on Saturday was denied access to the White House. This is immoral as Trump doesn't agree with the First Amendment or the freedom of speech in general. These media organizations will go into the court, and we all hope that these media institutions will win this case. All three media companies reported of the mistreatment of the American soldiers in the USS Lincoln, the brutal anti-immigration policy of the Trump regime, and the corruption allegations. That is why tons of media reporters and leaders from across the board have stood up against this anti-media policy from the Trump administration.
Jacqueline Joyner Kersee was born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois. She was named after Jacqueline Kennedy, the First Lady of the United States during that time. She was born into a poor family, and she found her love of running at the age of 9 years old. That was when she joined a special community track program. She played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and field in high school. As a high school athlete at East St. Louis Lincoln Senior High School, she qualified for the finals in the long jump at the 1980 Olympic Trials, finishing 8th behind another high schooler Carol Lewis. She was inspired to compete in multi-disciplinary track and field events after seeing a movie about Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956). Didrikson (she was of Norwegian descent), the track star, basketball player, and pro golfer, was chosen as the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century according to some people. Ironically, 15 years later, Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee as the greatest woman athlete of all time, just ahead of Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1980 to 1985, where she starred in both track and field and basketball. She attended the school on an athletic scholarship. When she was in college, her mother died suddenly of meningitis. Joyner's coach, Bob Kersee, helped Joyner grieve the loss of her mother. After she graduated, the two got married.
In basketball, she was a starter at forward for each of her first three seasons (1980–81, 81–82, and 82–83) as well as in her senior (fifth) year, 1984–1985. She redshirted during the 1983–84 academic year to concentrate on the heptathlon for the 1984 Summer Olympics. She scored 1,167 points during her collegiate career, placing her 19th all time for the Bruins games. The Bruins advanced to the West Regional semifinals of the 1985 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament before losing to eventual runner-up Georgia.
She was honored on February 21, 1998, as one of the 15 greatest players in UCLA women's basketball. In April 2001, Joyner-Kersee was voted the "Top Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years." The vote was conducted among the 976 NCAA member schools. In track, Joyner won the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best woman collegiate track and field competitor in 1983 and in 1985, and was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation's best wiman collegiate athlete in 1985. Joyner graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1986.
Joyner competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in the heptathlon. She was the favorite heading into the event, but finished five points behind Australian athlete Glynis Nunn. She also placed fifth in the long jump. Joyner became the first woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon event during the 1986 Goodwill Games. In 1986, she received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Now known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee after marrying her coach Bob Kersee, she entered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long jump. At the Games, she set the still-standing heptathlon world record of 7,291 points. Five days later, Joyner-Kersee won her second gold medal, leaping to an Olympic record of 7.40 m (24 ft 3+1⁄4 in) in the long jump. She was the first American woman to earn a gold medal in long jump as well as the first American woman to earn a gold medal in heptathlon. At the 1988 Games she faced allegations of drug use from Brazilian runner Joaquim Cruz. This continued the following season in 1989 when Darrell Robinson accused Joyner-Kersee's husband and coach, Bobby Kersee, of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Years later, doping insider Victor Conte asserted that in 1988 he personally witnessed an Olympic official at the Seoul games notifying Bobby Kersee that Joyner-Kersee had tested positive for PED use. Joyner-Kersee has consistently maintained that she competed throughout her career without performance-enhancing drugs.
During the long jump event at the 1991 World Championships, having already won with a 7.32 m (24 ft 1⁄4 in) jump, Joyner-Kersee slipped on the take-off board and careened headfirst into the pit. She strained a hamstring and subsequently pulled out of the heptathlon during the 200 m at the end of the first day. In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Joyner-Kersee earned her second Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon. She also won the bronze medal in the long jump which was won by her friend Heike Drechsler of Germany. At the Olympic Trials, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury to her right hamstring. When the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta began, Joyner-Kersee was not fully recovered by the time the heptathlon started. After running the first event, the 100 m hurdles, she withdrew due to pain. She was able to recover to compete in the long jump; her final jump of 7.00 m (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in) was vaulted into the bronze medal position. In 1996 Joyner-Kersee signed to play pro basketball for the Richmond Rage of the fledgling American Basketball League. She appeared in 17 games, with a high of 15 points scored. There was the historic April 14, 1998 meeting about race nad sports being nationally televised on a ESPN Town Hall Meeting on Race and Sports that was held in Houston, Texas. It wasa live 90 minute forum. Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Jim Brown spoke at the meeting. It wasa necessary, spirited debate over corporate economic responsibility and racial unity. Jim Brown criticized major athletic corporations. He said that companies like Nike heavily benefited from Black athletes without giving enough back. He said that African American athletes should pool their financial resources to invest directly back into the black communities and collectively purchase professional sports franchises. Jackie Joyner-Kersee had a rebutall to strongly defend corporate programs. She said that corporate sponsorship provided critical funding and resources to help underprivileged youth nationwide. She rejected the idea that black athletes should feel an automatic structural oboljiated to spend or pool their money ina specific way. She said that "That's why we live in America because we have choices). The historic town hall was moderated by ESPN's Bob Ley aimed to address minority hiring, racial stereotypes, and commercialism in sports. It featured other prominent people like Georgetown basketball coach John Thompason and NFL coach Dennis Green. The question is that who was right? The answer to that question is more nuisance. Jim Brown was right to say that black athletes have a moral obligation to help our their communities, but far too often, Jim Brown had contradictions. Jim Brown said that he supported black liberation, but he publicly supported the racist Donald Trump. Jim Brown said that there must be economic development in the black community, but we all know that black capitalism benefits no one in the black communities except the upper middle class and the rich of the black communities. Jim Brown even didn't agree with Colin Kaepernick or other NFL players protesting racism and police brutality by knelling. So, Jim Brown was right to advocate for black liberation, but I don't agree with some of his conservative methods in getting that goal accomplishment. Jackie Joyner-Kersee is right that many corporations are helping the poor in America, including poor black people. Kersee is in error to assume that this is the end all be all. Corporations and foundations aren't infallible. You need revolutionary solutions to solve these problems too (like a radical redistribution of economic and political power as the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has advocated). You still need cultural solidarity in the black community. For example, Jewish people, Latino people, Irish people, Greek people, Asian people, Indian people, etc. have their own institutions that they own and control. No one complains when they do it. Black people desiring to form our own power bases or institutions legitimately are criticized by the establishment unjustly. Since 1998, Jackie Joyner Kersee and the late Jim Brown have worked constantly to advocate and fight for racial justice, an end to police brutality, and community development. So, both black people believe in the same goal but different approaches in reaching that same goal of complete black freedom.
Returning to track, Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon at the 1998 Goodwill Games, scoring 6,502 points. Two years after retiring, Joyner-Kersee tried to qualify for the long jump event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She placed sixth in the trials at 21–10 ¾, and did not make the Olympic team.
My 5th cousin, Cynthia Ann Weeks, was born on May 25, 1963. She was raised in Westbury, New York. That is in an area in Nassau County on Long Island, New York State. Many black people live in Westbury and Oyster Bay, New York in Long Island, too. She attended Westbury High School (Class of 1981) and later joined the U.S. military in 1981. She married Jonathan Douglas Hicks (b. 1962) on July 2, 1988, in Chesapeake, Virginia to May 28, 1993, at Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is currently married to Pastor and Elder Kevin Davis. Cynthia Ann Weeks has many children, who are Cynthia Sewlall (b. 1985), Jasmin Davis, Corey Davis, Kevin Davis, etc. On Ancestry.com, there is a confirmed DNA match between Cynthia's son, Kevin Davis, and me on the paternal side of my family. That is why we are both descendants of 4th great-grandparents of Esther Perkins and George Perkins. My 5th cousin Cynthia Ann Weeks's parents are Thomas William Weeks (b. 1940) and Evelyn Odell Satchell (b. 1942). The parents of my 4th cousin Evelyn Odell Satchell were David Oliver Satchell Jr. (1919-1996) and Odell Cornelius Beckett (1923-1987). The parents of David Oliver Satchell Jr. were David Satchell (1900-1985) and Ellen C. Satchell (b. 1900). The parents of David Satchell were Jackson Satchel (b. 1845) and Harriet Susan Kelley (1860-1927). The parents of Harriet Susan Kelley were George Kelly (b. 1830) and Easter Perkins (1840-1910). The parents of Easter Perkins were George Perkins (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816). Cynthia Ann Weeks Davis now lives in Germantown, Maryland. Her cousins are Jacqueline Sample-Munfor
Trump is an enemy of the First Amendment. By Trump denying MS Now, CNN, and Politico of White House entry violates the freedom of the press explicitly. The press is an occupation protected by the U.S. Constitution. The American press has the right to show the news regardless of if it pleases any administration or not. Critiquing any administration is protected by the First Amendment. The freedom of the press is being violated overtly by Trump and his allies. That is why the press needs to go into court via legal means to change this policy from the Trump administration. One MS NOW reporter on Saturday was denied access to the White House. This is immoral as Trump doesn't agree with the First Amendment or the freedom of speech in general. These media organizations will go into the court, and we all hope that these media institutions will win this case. All three media companies reported of the mistreatment of the American soldiers in the USS Lincoln, the brutal anti-immigration policy of the Trump regime, and the corruption allegations. That is why tons of media reporters and leaders from across the board have stood up against this anti-media policy from the Trump administration.
Jacqueline Joyner Kersee was born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois. She was named after Jacqueline Kennedy, the First Lady of the United States during that time. She was born into a poor family, and she found her love of running at the age of 9 years old. That was when she joined a special community track program. She played basketball, volleyball, and ran track and field in high school. As a high school athlete at East St. Louis Lincoln Senior High School, she qualified for the finals in the long jump at the 1980 Olympic Trials, finishing 8th behind another high schooler Carol Lewis. She was inspired to compete in multi-disciplinary track and field events after seeing a movie about Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956). Didrikson (she was of Norwegian descent), the track star, basketball player, and pro golfer, was chosen as the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century according to some people. Ironically, 15 years later, Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee as the greatest woman athlete of all time, just ahead of Zaharias. Joyner-Kersee attended college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1980 to 1985, where she starred in both track and field and basketball. She attended the school on an athletic scholarship. When she was in college, her mother died suddenly of meningitis. Joyner's coach, Bob Kersee, helped Joyner grieve the loss of her mother. After she graduated, the two got married.
In basketball, she was a starter at forward for each of her first three seasons (1980–81, 81–82, and 82–83) as well as in her senior (fifth) year, 1984–1985. She redshirted during the 1983–84 academic year to concentrate on the heptathlon for the 1984 Summer Olympics. She scored 1,167 points during her collegiate career, placing her 19th all time for the Bruins games. The Bruins advanced to the West Regional semifinals of the 1985 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament before losing to eventual runner-up Georgia.
She was honored on February 21, 1998, as one of the 15 greatest players in UCLA women's basketball. In April 2001, Joyner-Kersee was voted the "Top Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Past 25 Years." The vote was conducted among the 976 NCAA member schools. In track, Joyner won the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best woman collegiate track and field competitor in 1983 and in 1985, and was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation's best wiman collegiate athlete in 1985. Joyner graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1986.
Joyner competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won the silver medal in the heptathlon. She was the favorite heading into the event, but finished five points behind Australian athlete Glynis Nunn. She also placed fifth in the long jump. Joyner became the first woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon event during the 1986 Goodwill Games. In 1986, she received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Now known as Jackie Joyner-Kersee after marrying her coach Bob Kersee, she entered the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and earned gold medals in both the heptathlon and the long jump. At the Games, she set the still-standing heptathlon world record of 7,291 points. Five days later, Joyner-Kersee won her second gold medal, leaping to an Olympic record of 7.40 m (24 ft 3+1⁄4 in) in the long jump. She was the first American woman to earn a gold medal in long jump as well as the first American woman to earn a gold medal in heptathlon. At the 1988 Games she faced allegations of drug use from Brazilian runner Joaquim Cruz. This continued the following season in 1989 when Darrell Robinson accused Joyner-Kersee's husband and coach, Bobby Kersee, of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Years later, doping insider Victor Conte asserted that in 1988 he personally witnessed an Olympic official at the Seoul games notifying Bobby Kersee that Joyner-Kersee had tested positive for PED use. Joyner-Kersee has consistently maintained that she competed throughout her career without performance-enhancing drugs.
During the long jump event at the 1991 World Championships, having already won with a 7.32 m (24 ft 1⁄4 in) jump, Joyner-Kersee slipped on the take-off board and careened headfirst into the pit. She strained a hamstring and subsequently pulled out of the heptathlon during the 200 m at the end of the first day. In the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Joyner-Kersee earned her second Olympic gold medal in the heptathlon. She also won the bronze medal in the long jump which was won by her friend Heike Drechsler of Germany. At the Olympic Trials, Joyner-Kersee sustained an injury to her right hamstring. When the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta began, Joyner-Kersee was not fully recovered by the time the heptathlon started. After running the first event, the 100 m hurdles, she withdrew due to pain. She was able to recover to compete in the long jump; her final jump of 7.00 m (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in) was vaulted into the bronze medal position. In 1996 Joyner-Kersee signed to play pro basketball for the Richmond Rage of the fledgling American Basketball League. She appeared in 17 games, with a high of 15 points scored. There was the historic April 14, 1998 meeting about race and sports being nationally televised on a ESPN Town Hall Meeting on Race and Sports that was held in Houston, Texas. It was a live 90 minute forum. Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Jim Brown spoke at the meeting. It was a necessary, spirited debate over corporate economic responsibility and racial unity. Jim Brown criticized major athletic corporations. He said that companies like Nike heavily benefited from Black athletes without giving enough back. He said that African American athletes should pool their financial resources to invest directly back into the black communities and collectively purchase professional sports franchises. Jackie Joyner-Kersee had a rebutal to strongly defend corporate programs. She said that corporate sponsorship provided critical funding and resources to help underprivileged youth nationwide. She rejected the idea that black athletes should feel an automatic structural obligated to spend or pool their money in a specific way. She said that "That's why we live in America because we have choices)." The historic town hall was moderated by ESPN's Bob Ley aimed to address minority hiring, racial stereotypes, and commercialism in sports. It featured other prominent people like Georgetown basketball coach John Thompason and NFL coach Dennis Green. The question is that who was right? The answer to that question is more nuisance. Jim Brown was right to say that black athletes have a moral obligation to help our their communities, but far too often, Jim Brown had contradictions. Jim Brown said that he supported black liberation, but he publicly supported the racist Donald Trump. Jim Brown said that there must be economic development in the black community, but we all know that black capitalism benefits no one in the black communities except the upper middle class and the rich of the black communities. Jim Brown even didn't agree with Colin Kaepernick or other NFL players protesting racism and police brutality by knelling. So, Jim Brown was right to advocate for black liberation, but I don't agree with some of his conservative methods in getting that goal or accomplishment. Jackie Joyner-Kersee is right that many corporations are helping the poor in America, including poor black people. Kersee is in error to assume that this is the end all be all. Corporations and foundations aren't infallible. You need revolutionary solutions to solve these problems too (like a radical redistribution of economic and political power as the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has advocated). You still need cultural solidarity in the black community along with grassroots organizing. For example, Jewish people, Latino people, Irish people, Greek people, Asian people, Indian people, etc. have their own institutions that they own and control. No one complains when they do it. Black people desiring to form our own power bases or institutions legitimately are criticized by the establishment unjustly. Since 1998, Jackie Joyner Kersee and the late Jim Brown have worked constantly to advocate and fight for racial justice, an end to police brutality, and community development. So, both black people believe in the same goal but different approaches in reaching that same goal of complete black freedom.
Returning to track, Joyner-Kersee won the heptathlon at the 1998 Goodwill Games, scoring 6,502 points. Two years after retiring, Joyner-Kersee tried to qualify for the long jump event at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She placed sixth in the trials at 21–10 ¾, and did not make the Olympic team.
My 5th cousin, Cynthia Ann Weeks, was born on May 25, 1963. She was raised in Westbury, New York. That is in an area in Nassau County on Long Island, New York State. Many black people live in Westbury and Oyster Bay, New York in Long Island, too. She attended Westbury High School (Class of 1981) and later joined the U.S. military in 1981. She married Jonathan Douglas Hicks (b. 1962) on July 2, 1988, in Chesapeake, Virginia to May 28, 1993, at Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is currently married to Pastor and Elder Kevin Davis. Cynthia Ann Weeks has many children, who are Cynthia Sewlall (b. 1985), Jasmin Davis, Corey Davis, Kevin Davis, etc. On Ancestry.com, there is a confirmed DNA match between Cynthia's son, Kevin Davis, and me on the paternal side of my family. That is why we are both descendants of 4th great-grandparents of Esther Perkins and George Perkins. My 5th cousin Cynthia Ann Weeks's parents are Thomas William Weeks (b. 1940) and Evelyn Odell Satchell (b. 1942). The parents of my 4th cousin Evelyn Odell Satchell were David Oliver Satchell Jr. (1919-1996) and Odell Cornelius Beckett (1923-1987). The parents of David Oliver Satchell Jr. were David Satchell (1900-1985) and Ellen C. Satchell (b. 1900). The parents of David Satchell were Jackson Satchel (b. 1845) and Harriet Susan Kelley (1860-1927). The parents of Harriet Susan Kelley were George Kelly (b. 1830) and Easter Perkins (1840-1910). The parents of Easter Perkins were George Perkins (b. 1815) and Esther Perkins (b. 1816). Cynthia Ann Weeks Davis now lives in Germantown, Maryland. Her cousins are Jacqueline Sample-Munford, Donald Baker, and Sandra Harmon Williams.
By Timothy
By Timothy
