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That recognition will be held during every commencement ceremony this weekend Every ceremony will also include a heightened security presence and more support personnel FSU says more than 8,000 students will receive diplomas this weekend -- the most in school history for one semester I asked Michael Waiters to describe the mood inside the Donald L It was solemn because we lost two great individuals who were here at FSU so it was solemn but like our president said People are ready to be progressive and move on." Finance graduate Chanel Barrett says on top of all her emotions of walking the stage she felt a heaviness being lifted from the mood among the celebrations "The atmosphere at FSU and in Tallahassee has been very different So to be able to come together in happiness and in commencement is a great opportunity." Want to see more local news? Visit the WTXL ABC 27 Website. Like us on Facebook Follow us onInstagramand X. 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Click here and tell us what we should be covering in your neighborhood About Rotary(down arrow opens sub-menu)> Get Involved(down arrow opens sub-menu)> Our Causes(down arrow opens sub-menu)> Our Programs(down arrow opens sub-menu)> News & Features(down arrow opens sub-menu)> For Members(down arrow opens sub-menu)> After a day of interviews with the committee vetting candidates for 2025-26 Rotary International president Mário César Martins de Camargo returned to his hotel and waited “The anxiety level reaches sky high.” When he got a call asking him to return to Rotary headquarters in Evanston his first thought was that he’d made some sort of mistake As he walked the few blocks to the building When he finally realized why he’d been called back “The nominating committee stands up and applauds you and you are invited to say your first words as president Professionally, de Camargo was president of the printing company Gráfica Bandeirantes and has been a consultant to the print industry in Brazil. He has served as president and chair of several printing and graphics trade associations. He has been on the board of Casa da Esperança (House of Hope) a medical center in Santo André sponsored by his Rotary club that sees more than 200,000 patients a year He even attended a music conservatory for nine of those years While in Germany apprenticing at a press manufacturer he attended German language classes at the Goethe Institute The school had a Steinway piano that “to me was the Rolls-Royce of pianos,” he recalls The school’s dean allowed him to play it under one condition: he perform for the school when his training was finished “It was the last time I played the piano,” he says explaining that family and work obligations began to take more of his time “I really regret not being able to continue because it is a self-rewarding experience.” Printing presses have their origins in China where movable type was invented in the 11th century When Johannes Gutenberg created the mechanized printing press in Germany 400 years later “The press and the publication of books and ideas changed the world,” de Camargo says allowing scientific findings to be shared more widely decreasing censorship as it was harder to destroy a “dangerous idea,” and giving the general public access to educational materials De Camargo’s business used to print 25 million to 30 million items per year: coffee table books automotive industry manuals — “you name it,” he says Printers have a mission to reduce ignorance.” De Camargo has been on several boards in his industry but it was through Rotary that he learned how to be a leader “Rotary is the best school of leadership I’ve had,” he says De Camargo says Rotary taught him to speak in public (“If I was still afraid of flying and speaking in public I wouldn’t be president of Rotary International because all we do is public speaking and flying!” he says.) He also learned when to stop talking and listen “You have to pay attention to what people are telling you,” he says “It is an exercise of humility.” And he learned how to motivate people who aren’t getting paid to perform a task and challenge to make them a better person.” As co-chair of the Host Organization Committee for the 2015 Rotary International Convention in São Paulo de Camargo received these words of wisdom from John Kenny a past Rotary president who was The Rotary Foundation trustee chair at the time “That has oriented my Rotary journey,” he says “I never refused any job that was given to me by Rotary or The Rotary Foundation but at the same time I offered myself for different positions without knowing what the result would be,” he says “I could never fathom that I would be here someday.” some people say we have stabilized at 1.2 million I say we have stagnated at 1.2 million.” The word “stabilize” makes people sit back and relax whereas the word “stagnate” makes people want to sit up and do something is figuring out why membership is increasing in some areas and decreasing in others “The challenge motivates me so much because it’s a mosaic of different regions and different performances that makes it very challenging and at the same time very attractive.” What works in Korea may not work in Germany and what works in Germany may not work in Brazil or the U.S. “We have to be humble and very attentive to the different scenarios.” “I think ‘unite’ is a very powerful word,” he says “It’s a very powerful word in a divided world.” “We are always looking for somebody’s defects,” he says “We should be looking for somebody else’s talents.” That’s where Rotary comes in offering the opportunity for people to connect with others in their community and around the world Before de Camargo, the last RI president to come from Brazil was Paulo V.C. Costa in 1990-91. Costa is best known for the environmental program he started, Preserve Planet Earth which launched shortly before the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Had Rotary kept the environment as a central focus then bringing a visionary agenda to the world.” As a Rotary director de Camargo helped secure approval of the environment as the newest area of focus “We still have a lot of room to grow,” he says In 2025, the annual UN conference on climate change, COP30 and de Camargo sees a place for Rotary to get involved associated with environmental protection in the Amazon,” he says “We have a unique opportunity to do that.” “When I go to Chicago or New York or São Paulo or wherever I just put on my tennis shoes and I start walking,” he says the people.” It’s the best way to feel like a local “You cannot do that by Uber or by driving a car you feel like you are.” But he doesn’t stop at the city Step into de Camargo’s office at One Rotary Center in Evanston and you’ll notice a collection of figurines based on Super Mario who was a director with me on the Board in 2019-20,” he says and it started catching.” At the 2024 Rotary institute in Toronto de Camargo dressed up as the character and engaged in a mock battle with Past RI President Holger Knaack part of a Rotary Foundation fundraiser that netted $115,000 “Whatever it takes to raise money for The Rotary Foundation.” This story originally appeared in the March 2025 issue of Rotary magazine Mário César Martins de Camargo selected to be 2025-26 RI President Mário César Martins de Camargo calls on members to Unite for Good Oklahoma were requested to evacuate Friday afternoon due to a large wildfire News 9's Marty Logan and David Payne explained that residents should evacuate immediately Bella Roddy is a Specialty Content Producer originally from Fort Worth She joined Griffin Media as a digital producer for News On 6's sister station News 9 in 2023 after graduating from college and general news updates from News 9 delivered right to your inbox A former Columbia man who fled to Mexico to avoid charges of possessing child sexual abuse materials was sentenced Wednesday in federal court Bough sentenced Diego Antonio Rafael Camargo-Wasserman to ten years in federal prison without parole He will also spend ten years on supervised release after he gets out of prison and has to register as a sex offender The investigation into Camargo-Wasserman began in July 2010 when he was 18 years old The Boone County Sheriff’s Cyber Crime Task Force traced the sharing of CSAM to his address on South Sabine Drive Before the evidence seized during the search was fully examined Camargo-Wasserman left the country to go to Mexico a bail bond agent gave documentation from Mexico stating that Camargo-Wasserman died on October 5 after the FBI got information that Camargo-Wasserman was actually alive and living in Mexico He was extradited to the United States in 2024 There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Winds of up to 75 mph fueled multiple fast-moving wildfires in Oklahoma on Wednesday morning prompting evacuation orders for towns in their path Firefighters were battling blazes in Beckham and Roger Mills counties including one approximately seven miles northwest of Sweetwater and Sweetwater were ordered to evacuate around 4 a.m local time Wednesday as a rapidly spreading fire threatened the area The fires erupted amid red flag warnings for extreme fire danger issued by the National Weather Service there have been no reports of injuries or structural damage from the blazes Oklahoma continues to battle significant wildfires notably the 840 Road Fire and the Camargo Fire both posing substantial challenges to firefighting efforts. has burned 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Should the San Diego Padres contact the Atlanta Braves about the availability of infielder Johan Camargo The Padres need infield help and have a surplus of outfielders Johan Camargo began his baseball career as most young international baseball players do at the age of 16 and after missing the following year due to injury officially began his march towards the majors in 2012 Camargo put up an impressive slash line of .343/.433/.455 After that first taste of baseball in the United States he bounced around the Braves’ minor league affiliates and steadily began to move up the ladder he got his first call to “the show” Camargo put up a line of .299/.331/.452 in 2017 Something that drew concern about Camargo was a large variance between his BB % and K% His 4.7 BB% versus his reasonable K% of 19.9% was fine for a young player but for someone who desired a longer stay in the big leagues Camargo entered the 2018 season with expectations and question marks abounding Was he a part of the future for the Braves or a depth piece to supplement the roster? He had moved off of the middle infield positions in the minors in deference to other talented players that played those positions, namely Ozzie Albies and Swanson So moving away from shortstop and second base was nothing new for him He found himself a home at third base during the 2018 season and really never gave it up Helping him achieve this was a renewed batting eye that allowed him to be more discerning at the plate and even more impressive was his increased BB% of 9.7% while maintaining his K% at 20.6% When you can see growth in this area for a young ballplayer it portends the ability for future success and continued adjustments Donaldson will be the Braves’ starting third bagger It just so happens that the Padres are carrying a surplus of outfielders The Braves and Padres could match up well on a trade with a young outfielder and bullpen help heading back to the Atlanta for the young third baseman Atlanta receives P Kirby Yates and OF Hunter Renfroe The hot stove is starting to heat up….let’s get a cooking I am a lifelong Padres Fanatic who loves to talk and debate any and all sports But SD Padres and minor leagues hold a special place above all A 33-year-old born and raised San Diegan who is a season ticket holder and puts his money where his mouth is a quality 3B or a shot at Thor without having to give up any of our big time prospects Both teams want an OF and the Mets need a C 1 to Cle and 1 to the Mets along with 1 of our 2 Catchers to the Mets An additional high but not elite tier pitching prospect like Quantril would likely also go Another thread had us dealing Yates and another reliever for Cammargo Cammargo and leaves our Farm pretty intact Especially if we can add Kikuchi or deal for Grey I agree with Greg… Yates and Renfroe are too much for Camargo the first Brazilian General Authority Seventy of the Church At the time Elder Camargo was called to serve as a General Authority Seventy in 1985 he quipped that he had never thought of himself as a general authority “but I always knew my wife had what it takes to be the wife of a General Authority” (Church News Although he was not baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until he was in his 30s religion and faith in God were an important vein running throughout his life first encountered the Latter-day Saint missionaries young Elder Camargo was an ordained Methodist pastor and attending a theological seminary Elder Camargo was “cordially expelled” from the seminary A few months later he began perusing a copy of “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder” that had been left by some Latter-day Saint missionaries deep study and prayer resulted in his baptism in 1957 followed two months later by his wife the two served in a variety of Church callings the first president of the the São Paulo East Stake and a regional representative He served in the Quorums of the Seventy from 1985 to 1990 Elder and Sister Camargo also served as mission leaders of the Brazil Rio de Janeiro Mission from 1975 to 1978 and as president and matron of the São Paulo Brazil Temple from 1990 to 1993 in Rio de Janeiro to Jose Madeiros de Camargo and Else Ferreira da Rocha “I am grateful to have been taught the principles of honesty and thrift even more by the daily example of my parents and relatives than by their words and counsel,” he said of his youth At the age of 17 he entered the military academy in Resende Brazil — the country’s equivalent to West Point in the United States — and began a career as an officer in the army cavalry he suffered an accident that cut short his military career Through the years he also worked as a banker A Church News article described how his bass voice and military bearing made his 5-foot-6-inch frame seem taller but the stern impression of authority was softened by “a ready laugh and a quick insightful wit.” but a favorite activity was studying the scriptures together They married in 1948 and raised six children Elder Camargo’s son, Brother Milton da Rocha Camargo was sustained as a counselor in the Sunday School general presidency in 2019 In the October 1990 general conference Elder Camargo expressed gratitude for his family “particularly the extraordinary woman that God allowed me to have as a wife in mortality and throughout eternity I am grateful for the wonderful children and grandchildren He sent to our home to be the joy of our life gratitude is the predominant feeling that comes to my heart.” Sister Carmargo passed away in April 2020 At the time Elder Carmargo was called to full-time Church service he and his family were living on a farm in Resende with the view window of their home showcasing their farmland and the surrounding rugged mountain peaks Despite feeling the immense responsibility associated with being a general authority, Elder Camargo said he realized two things. First, “It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet with the Saints, to work hard, and to serve the Lord” (Ensign, May 1985) “When President [Gordon B.] Hinckley asked me if I would accept this calling I told him I would because I know this is the Church of Jesus Christ and He is in charge,” Elder Camargo said Elder Camargo was preceded in death by his wife He is survived by four sons: Fernando José Josue and Milton; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren Editor's note: This is an installment in an occasional series of articles focused on food and beverage businesses in East Central Illinois CAMARGO — A former Charleston barbecue restaurant has been growing including adding a few East Asian items to the menu at its new location to the north in Douglas County had become one of the business casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic when it closed in May 2022 after more than a decade in operation decided to leave the restaurant industry after Smokey's experienced a dining room closure followed by staffing shortages The couple accepted a buyout offer from their landlord to help with the expansion of its adjacent Lambo's service station The former Wendy's building that housed Smoky's was subsequently demolished Log Cabin Smokehouse owners Joe and Chao Evans are pictured on Jan 20 in the dining room of their restaurant along U.S "It was a very hard decision for us to close because of the community support our restaurant enjoyed," Evans said we didn't think we would ever get back in the restaurant business." the couple did still have a connection to this industry via Chao Evans' brother who owned the Mandarin Wok eatery on Green Street in Urbana Evans said his wife's travels from their home in southeast Coles County to Urbana often took her past the Log Cabin tavern along U.S While visiting the Log Cabin after seeing it was for sale Evans said they were impressed by the friendliness of the people there and by its scenic location along the Embarras River The people are very good here." This led them to purchase the Log Cabin from Kevin Rhoads Log Cabin Smokehouse co-owner Joe Evans grills a smoked turkey club with jalapenos for his lunch on Jan The Evanses opened their new restaurant in August 2023 there as Log Cabin Smokehouse a name that pays tribute to the history of the Log Cabin and Smoky's The opening has been preceded and followed by ongoing renovations including converting the former pool table room into a dining area with its own entrance It just needed an uplift," Evans said of the Log Cabin where they have maintained the full bar in front Fans of Smoky's in Charleston will find many of its menu items offered at the new location Evans said all this meat is hickory smoked on site in his smoker Evans said they plan to bring Smoky's sweet cornbread back to the menu in the near future Menu additions have included handmade dim sum on Sundays These pan-fried or steamed dumplings are prepared by Ji Yong have been helping at the Log Cabin since then Evans said they may slowly incorporate pho soup and other East Asian food in the future The couple said they have enjoyed seeing former Smoky's customers become regulars at the Log Cabin Evans said this rural location offers space for a vegetable garden and for a deck along the Embarras while being centrally located between Coles and Champaign counties Steve Beresford of Georgetown and Janet Buchanan of Charleston listen to “The Dark Side of the Moon” while watching the solar eclipse reach its peak at the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site Hubert McCoy takes the American Legion Post 68’s 1937 fire truck on a test drive through Wyman Park in Sullivan on Thursday Lisa Best hugs incumbent Shelby County Board member Carol Cole after unofficial results showed her as the winner at a Shelby County United watch party at the Shelbyville VFW Tuesday night “I love Democrats and Republicans coming together for a big change,” said Best Eastern Illinois University basketball player Blake Goodman lifts Colin Woods to dunk the ball during a Court of Dreams event organized by the Beautiful Lives Project in Groniger Arena in Charleston on Monday Charleston Trojets captain Libby Weiss rehearses with the Coles County Dancers a collaboration between the Trojets and the Mattoon Wavettes ahead of their halftime show performance at the Coles County Clash high school football game in Charleston on Tuesday The Shelbyville competitors including Lily Woolery and Tessa Bowers react together after placing second in the 4x800 relay during the IHSA 1A Girls State Track & Field Championships at O‘Brien Field in Charleston on Saturday A combine makes its way through a soybean field Monday looks at the new statue commemorating the 75th anniversary of the St Anthony Hospital fire in Effingham on Sunday Sidener is one of the last remaining survivors of the blaze that took 77 lives Lynn Graves receives hugs after the burial service for the recently identified remains of her uncle Army private killed in action in Germany during World War II Navy sailors fold the flag from the casket of Charles Brown to present to his family during a burial ceremony at Arcola Township Cemetery on Saturday Navy sailor killed on the USS West Virginia during the 1941 Pearl Harbor attacks and his remains were just recently identified Spectators watch the Sky Elements drone show light up the sky with local icons and Christmas characters after the Celebrate Downtown Mattoon Christmas Parade on Friday Mattoon cheerleaders welcome the players onto the field at the start of the season opener football game against MacArthur at Mattoon High School Friday night Mattoon takes the field against MacArthur during the season opener football game at Mattoon High School Friday night Chet Shrader shows his swine in the ring during the youth livestock auction at the Coles County Fair in Charleston on Thursday plays on the new pickleball courts at Peterson Park in Mattoon on Wednesday grabs a haul of bagels and candy during the Mattoon Bagelfest parade on Saturday waves to his church group marching in the Mattoon Bagelfest parade Saturday morning The Mattoon Jewish Community Center holds a community Seder at the Burgess-Osborne Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday during open play before the Midwest Pickleball Championship at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston on Friday Mattoon's Blair Powers swings a drive during day one of the IHSA Girls’ Class 2A State finals at Hickory Point Golf Course in Forsyth on Friday With our weekly newsletter packed with the latest in everything food Email notifications are only sent once a day Green Pastures Homestead owners Clint and Carolyn Herschberger rural Humboldt produce microgreens throughout the year for sale at Niemanns and… TreeHive is a mead-focused winery that makes and sells many varieties of honey-based mead and apple ciders in Brocton Family ties led Areanna Lloyd and Marty Chandler to move from Nashville Tennessee to Oakland to open their Magoody's Mobile Coffee 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during the April 17th shooting at the FSU Student Union building Chabba's family hired well-known civil rights lawyer Bakari Sellers of the Strom Law Firm He says the family is simply asking for a transparent investigation into the suspected shooter From who he was before the shooting and what exactly led to the attack "We need to understand who the shooter was I believe there are good laws on the books about people who have diagnosed mental health issues Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil confirmed that Ikner used a gun that belonged to his stepmother "And we will continue the investigation into how that weapon was used and what other weapons perhaps FSU says it plans to cooperate fully with the investigation university president Richard McCullough says "I appreciate the words of the Chabba family's attorneys today I and everyone else at Florida State share the family's grief A Tallahassee Police Department spokesperson says Ikner was still in the hospital Wednesday afternoon 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The makeshift memorials to the Florida State shooting victims have remained on campus for just over a week but they're starting to be collected and won't be outside for much longer Learning about the effort to make sure the outpouring of love from the community isn't lost to time and where these items could end up next "I think we're at 12 memorial sites across campus including one that was at the stadium after the vigil last Friday." it was all hands on deck Friday to preserve them Katie McCormick with FSU Special Collections & Archives says most of the flowers are being composted to be used as a sort of fertilizer for the living plants on campus A select few may be dried and preserved alongside the physical items McCormick says there's never a great time to remove the memorials but she hopes everyone had time to see them "When significant events happen on our campus it's very important to contribute to the healing process through preserving memorial sites and messages and objects that people have contributed." McCormick also says dozens of FSU students and staff volunteered their time to a project that was unforeseen One of those students was senior Terryon Larkins who has worked with Special Collections and Archives for four years Larkins says he was most impacted by the many heartfelt handwritten messages he read as he picked up items at the memorials seeing all the kind things people were saying towards the families of the people who were lost and the students that were injured Those are the things that really make you believe that there's a lot of good out in the world right now." there is no large operation scheduled like Friday but expect them to slowly be collected to avoid the items being affected by hot or stormy weather McCormick says a permanent memorial to the victims of the shooting is coming but its still in early concept stages and looking to get input from students and the campus community It will most likely become part of the FSU Heritage Museum inside Dodd Hall We cover stories making an impact in College Town. 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Click here and tell us what we should be covering in your neighborhood. not a single ship that sank in the Middle Passage had ever been identified.Illustration by Michael KennedySave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyOn the way down I saw nothing The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in the seabed pausing occasionally to pinch my nose and adjust my sinuses to the pressure a hand emerged from the murk and grabbed me by the wrist dragging me the last few inches to the bottom then my arm and shoulder; the deeper I pushed the more I suspected that it might go on forever feeling a chill colder than the water’s as I ran my fingertips over the grooves and splinters of submerged planks which carried five hundred souls across the Atlantic before it burned and I was diving with a group of maritime archeologists in Angra dos Reis A verdant bay three hours from Rio de Janeiro where yachts fill the marinas and Vogue once sponsored a party for New Year’s Eve But in the nineteenth century it was mostly plantations—sugarcane near the water and coffee just beyond the jagged mountains that ring the area like snaggleteeth pressing a button to inflate my scuba kit’s buoyancy-control device The researcher who’d guided me to the wreck showed me the soot under our fingernails flat-bottomed rental whose Portuguese name meant “With Jesus I Will Win.” preparations were under way to disinter the Camargo A storm had buried the ship shortly after its discovery the previous December; now it was time to clear away the mud Divers had spent the morning setting out buoys Two men assembled a dredge from a PVC pipe and a household grease trap Another hailed a nearby megayacht to borrow its “sub-bottom profiler,” a costly sonar device that exposes buried features not one ship that sank in the Middle Passage had ever been identified The African diaspora’s watery cradle was an archeological blank as though the sea had erased all trace of what the poet Robert Hayden called a “voyage through death / to life upon these shores.” Then a Portuguese ship called the São José was discovered off the coast of Cape Town The most recent find is believed to be L’Aurore a French vessel that sank off the coast of Mozambique after an attempted uprising which exploded after its capture by the British Navy Behind this fleet of revenants is a network called the Slave Wrecks Project. Coördinated by the Smithsonian—along with George Washington University combines maritime archeology with reparative justice Its work is too new to gauge its impact on scholarship but it has already made a meaningful contribution to public history Artifacts from the São José have become a centerpiece of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.) The Clotilda inspired a Netflix documentary and a new museum in Africatown and similar hopes are riding on the Camargo in Angra dos Reis The enthusiasm reflects an oceanic turn in understandings of heritage among diasporic writers who are increasingly preoccupied with what the influential theorist Christina Sharpe calls slavery’s “wake.” a maritime archeologist at the Smithsonian whom I found strapping a stainless-steel knife to her muscular calf A thirty-two-year-old with cowrie shells in her long box braids and a pierced septum she teared up describing her underwater work almost like a church,” she said of her first dive to a slaver’s wreck Feeling the Camargo was even more uncannily intimate: “The black stayed on my hands for a long time.” Miller works for the N.M.A.A.H.C “In Slavery’s Wake,” which features beads and shells that enslaved Africans likely carried to Brazil But she’d rather talk about being in the water than about what divers can retrieve from it “It’s very antiquarian to put all of the emphasis on a physical object,” she said Miller started off in terrestrial archeology and once worked for the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho and to apply her skills to the histories of her own people Miller enrolled in an S.W.P.-affiliated internship program She also teaches the basics of maritime archeology through the Slave Wrecks Project Academy which works with archeology graduate students in Senegal and Mozambique The academy’s two-pronged goal is to diversify the ranks of archeologists and to include people from across the diaspora in the study of its history Yet it’s also a kind of exorcism—an exercise in dispelling history’s haints “They say that the African diasporic relationship to water equals ‘trauma,’ ” Miller told me alluding to an all too familiar tale of Middle Passage drownings But didn’t Black people also have a privileged connection to the sea She spoke rapturously of coral architecture in the Caribbean of water spirits venerated by Senegal’s seafaring Lebu who was inspired to learn diving by the Afrofuturist myth of Drexciya Created in the nineties by a Detroit electronica duo it imagines a Black Atlantis populated by the water-breathing issue of women who drowned in the crossing The idea fortified me when I sat on the dive boat’s rail and prepared to fall overboard Within the siren call of the sunken place is an invitation to courage Miller suggested: “Our ancestral relationship to water is not one of fear.” One might have assumed that a handful of these vessels at least eight hundred of which are known to have wrecked But those equipped to search for them have lacked incentives to do so commercial treasure hunters stumbled on the wreck of the Henrietta Marie an English ship that sank near the Florida Keys after a slaving voyage—and moved on as soon as they realized that it wasn’t the Spanish galleon they were seeking (It was later excavated.) Maritime archeologists a professor at George Washington University “There were more archeological studies of cogs in bogs in Ireland than of slave ships.” who’d recently unveiled the monumental Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database were so far ahead of his social-science peers maritime archeology is reliant on funding from governments few of which wanted to pay for the exposure of their historical crimes An exception was post-apartheid South Africa was looking for a Dutch slaver called the Meermin He and Lubkemann joined forces and expanded the search to other ships shuttling between nautical archives and Cape Town’s wreck-strewn littoral Boshoff encountered a scholarly citation about a Portuguese ship that sank en route from Mozambique to Brazil carrying two hundred Africans to their deaths Further research led to the captain’s testimony which indicated a spot under a mountain known as Lion’s Head Boshoff and his team were diving at what he called “one of the worst wreck sites I’ve ever worked on.” The archeologists were dashed against the very reefs that had sunk the vessel; one almost drowned having already been stripped by treasure hunters in the nineteen-eighties which have since disappeared.) Just enough remained to identify the vessel: crumpled copper sheathing from the period; iron ballast blocks that were mentioned in the manifest; and timber from a tropical hardwood that grew in Mozambique Boshoff and Lubkemann were confident enough to announce that they’d found the São José—the first known wreck of a ship that sank during a slaving voyage “I think we should go electric.”Cartoon by Johnny DiNapoliCopy link to cartoonCopy link to cartoonLink copied Santos is a stout thirty-five-year-old tattooed with nautical motifs and a demon’s head captioned “tropical punk.” He’s a professor of maritime archeology at the Federal University of Bahia and serves as the president of AfrOrigens a nonprofit established to find the wrecks of slave ships they’ve begun surveying near the town of Maricá for the wreck of the Malteza which was sunk by the British Navy.) A self-identified Afro-Indigenous Brazilian he co-founded the country’s first organization of Black archeologists But his work hardly touched on slavery until he was invited to join a yearlong search for the Camargo Several other archeologists experienced similar visions that “African cosmology” was responsible: “The energy of the wreck called all of us.” Yet the prospect of coming so close to an “unknowable” history I’d enrolled at a hole-in-the-wall school in New York where the instructor taught me and two white bankers to “maximize our bottom time.” Surrounded by decorative shark plushies I couldn’t have felt farther from the grim story of the Camargo I didn’t yet know that Manhattan was where its captain financed his slaving expeditions—and Of the thousands of vessels involved in the Atlantic slave trade It’s the last slaver known to have reached Brazil was the only man ever executed for slave trafficking in the United States Gordon had absconded with the Camargo while transporting ordinary merchandise from San Francisco to New York He then set a more profitable course for Mozambique he torched the ship after unloading its five hundred captives Brazilian authorities arrested several crew members He made two more slaving voyages before the U.S Although the international slave trade had been illegal for decades the ban was hardly ever enforced—especially not in New York which Horace Greeley described as “a nest of slave pirates.” Wall Street investors regularly financed slaving expeditions and bribery of customs officers and juries was rife But Gordon was tried by Lincoln’s Justice Department whose attorneys were eager to make an example of a brazen trafficker as the Civil War got under way Gordon was convicted and sentenced to death The ruling sparked a nationwide argument. Was it fair to execute a man for violating a dead-letter law, particularly when the domestic slave trade was perfectly legal in much of the country? Ralph Waldo Emerson lobbied for the captain’s execution; Gordon’s wife presented Mary Todd Lincoln with a rhyming plea for clemency The President decided to let the captain hang for paltry gain and stimulated only by avarice can rob Africa of her children to sell them into interminable bondage I never will pardon.” After an unsuccessful suicide attempt Gordon was duly executed at the Tombs on February 21 who’d never intentionally harmed another human being in his life a maritime archeologist at the Federal University of Sergipe who had led an unsuccessful search for the Camargo in the early two-thousands and was trying to renew the effort (He had come within a few yards.) Rambelli led the campaign agreed to fund and support beginning in 2022 “We spent hundreds of hours poking the bottom with this big nine-foot iron rod,” Sanada recalled as target after target revealed by a magnetometer survey let them down a passing fisherman boasted that he knew the wreck’s location “It was the last dive of the last day of the last expedition,” Sanada explained and they were desperate enough to invite him aboard He took them to an island that his father had known as a popular spawning ground Yet even he looked surprised when a diver resurfaced with fragments of charred wood “We came to legitimate something that was already legitimate,” Santos said of the discovery which corroborated local lore about the wreck He believes that archeology can be a tool for justice—particularly in Brazil where the omissions of colonial archives have underwritten the displacement of Black and Indigenous peoples Santos’s research hadn’t previously focussed on the African diaspora it’s not about the study of the other,” he told me Miller sat cross-legged on a paddleboard and rowed toward the mountains with slow She dipped her face into the water at intervals; once or twice But there was no sign of the Camargo in the “miasma,” she shouted back to Santos Miller and another archeologist were descending to it with a dredge They signalled with a stream of bubbles once they were ready to begin But the hose clogged with debris and popped off Sanada grinned ruefully: “One point for the pump excavating a shipwreck is like exploring a ruin—an odyssey through a drowned world The reality is that many shipwrecks are found in pieces they become hard to distinguish from anonymous debris The difficulty is heightened by zero-visibility conditions; ensconced in a turbid bay the Camargo had become a puzzle for “braille archeology,” the art of forensic reconstruction via touch They’d begun by outlining the wreck with twelve numbered stakes using two other lines to trace the axes of a rough grid Now they were digging square-metre test pits in search of distinctive features a site plan would emerge from this collaborative hallucination hopefully revealing the wreck’s orientation on the bottom The plan was already beginning to emerge on a sheet of Mylar graph paper—an oval with a handful of anomalous objects marked Santos had found a huge hunk of metal near one end of the site had felt a smaller one with the tip of her fin which turned out to be hollow and cylindrical She lay face down on deck to show the distance between the two to Sanada who planned to photograph the objects by pressing a clear plastic bag of water against them we were feeling our way along the seafloor pausing briefly where the two rope axes converged I couldn’t help but think of the crossroads: a geometric figure that symbolizes the boundary between the living and the dead their souls take on the guise of marine creatures—an idea that struck me as strangely comforting at a flooded quarry in eastern Pennsylvania balking at the vast darkness around me as I stared into the eyes of a bass who’d taken up residence in the cockpit of a submerged Cessna I could imagine myself surrounded by kindred spirits We swam on to the object that Santos had found earlier It was barrel-shaped and about the diameter of my wingspan with a pocked and pitted texture that prompted intrusive thoughts of tetanus the water cleared enough to see something that resembled a cross between a hairball and a meteor a “concretion,” which forms when an iron object corrodes in salt water Ferrous ions precipitate around its dissolving form The result is exceedingly fragile and disintegrates if allowed to dry The renowned Canadian maritime archeologist Marc-André Bernier told me that he’s watched cannons and even a finely wrought scale emerge from lumps of “nothing.” Bernier led a discussion of the concretion in the historian’s living room He clicked through reference images of nineteenth-century brigs as the other archeologists nursed beers and hazarded hypotheses Bernier asked Miller about the tubular object that she’d found nearby a winchlike machine used to hoist the anchor Bernier tested his hypothesis the next day He dived to the wreck several times and sketched the bigger object which seemed to have two barrels and a shaft in between before resurfacing with a triumphant announcement “It’s the windlass.” Miller closed her eyes and extended her arms like a mystic: “He sees the ship in his mind!” it’s fair to ask if excavating them will fundamentally alter conceptions of the Middle Passage praised maritime archeologists for retrieving palpable traces of what the enslaved suffered but doubts that they will learn much from the vessels themselves “It’s one thing to have plans,” Bernier said of such skepticism “But a ship is a living thing.” Most slavers were ordinary vessels that crews modified en route adding features like the barricado—an anti-mutiny fortification—and the cramped compartments belowdecks where captives were stowed researchers are excavating such holds for the first time and hope to retrieve objects that captives smuggled across the Atlantic Their ultimate goal is to link these discoveries to slavery’s contemporary legacy Studying the São José has taken researchers to the ruins of its owner’s palace in Lisbon The excavation of L’Aurore is proceeding in tandem with field work in rural Mozambique; in one village an oral tradition pointed to a ruin on a nearby island Members of a Black scuba nonprofit called Diving with a Purpose where they met with descendants of escapees from the Guerrero a slave ship that sank in the Florida Keys But the group’s annual searches have become a floating school for Black scuba divers “African Americans have a particular connectedness to the ocean,” Jay Haigler Haigler joined the group after meeting some Black scuba divers at a wedding Now he has worked on wrecks all over the world including the Clotilda and the downed planes of Tuskegee Airmen in the Mediterranean it’s not an accident that recent breakthroughs in the archeology of the Middle Passage have involved the participation of Black divers: “If we’re not part of the ocean Overlooking the bay from the foothills of the Serra do Mar is the Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí Situated between a muddy river and a tropical forest it’s a historically Black community that is home to three hundred and seventy-three families many of whom live in unfinished houses with corrugated roofs The quilombo—a term for a rural settlement established by the formerly enslaved—is less than ten minutes from the water Yet it’s practically unknown to the area’s more affluent residents I had never heard of them,” the historian Martha Abreu “I was a white person with a white family who came to have pleasure in Angra dos Reis.” ebullient scholar with a high-pitched voice Her father had purchased the property where they were staying in the nineteen-eighties when a new highway was transforming the bay into a tourism hub With the assistance of Brazil’s military government speculators seized valuable waterfront land from Black residents Their quilombo dates back to the eighteen-seventies when the owner of a sugar plantation bequeathed it to those he’d enslaved He was one of the planters who’d illegally bought Africans from the Camargo arriving on canoes in the dead of night as the ship was set aflame The aftermath brought Brazil’s clandestine slave trade to a permanent end As police scoured local plantations for the trafficked Africans a number of their “legitimately” enslaved brethren ran away (Some posed as new arrivals to avoid reënslavement.) The chaos stoked fears of “another Haiti” before it was quashed and forgotten When Abreu first visited the Quilombo Bracuí she’d already published an article about the incident—and was shocked to discover that its memory had endured in the quilombo’s oral tradition Certain aspects of the narrative had assumed legendary dimensions had let most of those aboard the Camargo drown while archival sources suggested that they’d landed safely Other particulars were almost uncannily precise she said: “They knew everything about slavery “This was a hidden story,” Marilda de Souza Francisco “Now we want everyone to know.” A subsistence farmer in her sixties she and other community members set up a memorial to the brig’s victims near her house—an airy low-slung building covered in old pink plaster where dogs barked under the banana and palm trees A sign on her wraparound veranda cites Brazil’s post-dictatorship constitution which grants “the remaining members of the ancient runaway slave communities” ownership of their traditional lands The provision was ratified in the late nineteen-eighties but conservatives allied with the country’s agricultural lobby have long impeded its enforcement Only a handful of the nearly three thousand communities that have applied for official status have been granted land titles Francisco hopes that the attention brought by the Camargo’s discovery will make hers one of them: “We are in a hurry the illegal destruction of the mangrove swamps where they’ve traditionally fished and the theft of land and water for wealthier neighborhoods on the waterfront (Their access to the river was recently blocked.) Last May bringing a burst of attention from government officials who had previously neglected these problems But the immediate hope is that the Camargo will create jobs and attract tourists AfrOrigens recently constructed a small base in the quilombo where it plans to exhibit artifacts from the excavation The organization is training young quilombolas to scuba dive with the aim of allowing them to become stewards of the wreck site Francisco’s dream is a floating memorial to the Camargo She recently watched a documentary about the discovery of another slave ship which had revived a small town on Alabama’s Gulf Coast Eight years after the Camargo’s destruction America’s last slave ship met an identical fate the schooner Clotilda stole into Alabama’s Mobile River with a hundred and ten Africans—a victory for its owner who’d wagered that he could defy the country’s slave-trade ban The captain burned the ship and sank it in a bayou; the captives nearly all Yoruba speakers from the same village toiled on plantations for the next five years a few dozen survivors banded together to buy land from Meaher and established a community called Africatown “Rakish angles don’t work for you.”Cartoon by William HaefeliCopy link to cartoonCopy link to cartoonLink copied Some descendants have begun running boat tours in the Mobile River Others are receiving free swimming and scuba lessons through the S.W.P. in the hope of eventually visiting the wreck site professional who plans to earn her scuba certification this spring or some type of pennant—something all the ‘-ologists’ think is safe—to leave on the ship Anderson Cooper recently moderated an on-air reckoning between the Clotilda Descendants Association and two members of the Meaher family which still owns a substantial amount of property in and around Africatown and has rented it to the very factories that locals blame for occurrences of cancer the family sold a plot of land to the community for a fraction of its market value; it has since become a food bank they also presented one of the descendants with a silver-tipped cane that had belonged to the enslaver of her great-great-grandparents It was a set-piece moment of racial reconciliation “I thought I was going to see Montgomery again,” Frazier told me, alluding to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice The dream of “communal archeology” is that communities might benefit from the excavation of their history; a few years ago Bolivian Indigenous groups sued for salvage rights to a Spanish treasure galleon arguing that its unprecedented haul of gold and emeralds had emerged from mines where their ancestors were enslaved But it isn’t easy to parlay excavations into reparations Frazier believes that the effort has been hindered by friction between local and out-of-state descendants and between those groups and non-descendant residents who feel excluded from the media bonanza Others feel that the ship is a distraction from the community that its survivors established And then there’s the question of what to do with the wreck Africatown was abuzz with talk of raising and exhibiting the Clotilda like the Vasa warship in Stockholm; perhaps it could be a tourist attraction and an implicit rebuke to conservative lawmakers who wanted to erase slavery from the state’s textbooks But this hope was dashed by a recent report from the Alabama Historical Commission which concluded that the wreck was more fragile than previously believed and that raising it would cost upward of thirty million dollars The recommended alternative was to rebury the Clotilda in the mud preserving its archeological integrity for future generations (Scientists have already attempted to extract DNA from the ship’s bilge.) “This community doesn’t even have a grocery store,” Frazier told local television suggesting that thirty million dollars could be put to better use sees a missed opportunity to create a global landmark “I hear a lot of people giving up,” he said of the descendants Their reluctance hasn’t stopped him from launching a crusade to raise the wreck (He wants to enlist Oprah.) “The Clotilda is an internationally important artifact,” he told me “It’s not up to the descendants what happens to the ship Darron Patterson—whose ancestor Polee Allen spoke of his yearning for home until he died in 1922—wants to build a replica of the Clotilda “Yorubans are very ingenious people,” he said if they could have gotten their hands on a boat they would have gotten back home.” He was surprised when I told him that a similar project was under construction at the other end of the Clotilda’s voyage The Beninese government is building an enormous heritage-tourism complex in Ouidah with a replica slave ship as its main attraction Visitors will embark from a beach near the Door of No Return via small boats then explore a hold crammed with more than three hundred resin sculptures of captives Groans and rattling chains may play over a speaker system; the French company designing the experience previously worked on a themed restaurant for children Memorialization easily curdles into kitsch There’s also a certain awkwardness in Ouidah marketing such “heritage” to tourists whose ancestors it sold into slavery Yet a Beninese tourism official assured me that diaspora historians had consulted on the replica which wouldn’t be “too Disney.” It might even educate his countrymen about slavery “There was something missing after the Door of No Return,” he insisted it wasn’t clear why those from the diaspora were crying in front of the ocean.” My first memory of the Atlantic slave trade is of a childhood visit to the Freedom Schooner Amistad I was dimly aware that I had enslaved ancestors But seeing and hearing how they’d come to the country—even on a museum ship built to commemorate the famous maritime slave rebellion—was a shock although I could trace my white mother’s ancestry across centuries and continents swam across the Rappahannock River to join the Union Army and left whatever he knew of his forebears behind The title evokes a watery void “where all names were forgotten and all beginnings recast.” The archeology of slave ships has such appeal because it promises to fill this void But it can do only so much to turn back time Clotilda descendants are still waiting for DNA from the ship’s timbers Residents of the Quilombo Bracuí were taken aback to learn that many of the Camargo Africans were dispersed throughout southeastern Brazil—contrary to their oral tradition in which the majority were killed and a few survivors joined their community The emphasis on precise continuity may be self-defeating conservative media outlets have attempted to expose “false” quilombos by casting doubt on their origin stories private reparations initiatives have been repeatedly undercut by debates over who which I made from the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans a white man who overheard me began shouting that the wreck of the Clotilda was a “scam” and a “hoax.” There is the epical splendour.Multiply the rain’s lances multiply their ruin,the grace born from subtraction as the hold’s iron doorrolled over their eyes like pots left out in the rain,and the bolt rammed home its echo the way that thunder-claps perpetuate their reverberation during a celebration of the Camargo’s discovery a young priest from the quilombo went to sea to bless the excavation whose pantheon syncretizes Catholicism with various African cosmologies he prayed to the spirits of his ancestors and those of others and prepared a tiny ceremonial urn called a quartinha as a symbolic coffin for those who’d perished on board as a way to conciliate her for the violation of the Camargo’s voyage The priest had learned to dive from the archeologists who watched from the dive boat’s stern as he took a giant step overboard extending his hands to receive the quartinha from a man on deck Then he released the air from his vest and dropped to the bottom cradling the urn as he vanished into the murk He was descending not just into the bay but also into kalunga the watery underworld of Kikongo tradition one of the archeologists descended to the Camargo searching for the buried cable that demarcates its location she describes herself as a “daughter of Ogum Marinho whose point of strength is the bottom of the sea.” That day she struggled to find the vessel and wasted precious minutes of air groping in the mud both sitting on what she soon realized was the hull Then she plunged her hand into the silt and swam on feeling for the line that crossed and circled the wreck A long-ago crime, suddenly remembered A limousine driver watches her passengers transform The day Muhammad Ali punched me What is it like to be keenly intelligent but deeply alienated from simple emotions? Temple Grandin knows The harsh realm of “gentle parenting.”  Retirement the Margaritaville way Fiction by F. 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Email alexis.tarrazi@patch.com Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. « Back Essaying the pop culture that matters since 1999 As one of the youngest members ever to join the Saturday Night Live band trumpet prodigy Summer Camargo studies jazz’s past to help chart its future Jazz may not be “cool” to teenagers anymore, and being a trumpet-obsessed high school student in the 21st century may evoke the phrase “band geek” rather than seeming like a path to the hippest parties in New York City. But don’t tell that to Summer Camargo who currently holds the trumpet chair in the Saturday Night Live band and is the youngest person ever to join that most sought-after gig Last month, her debut recording, To Whom I Love, came out on Blue Engine Records, the imprint of Jazz at Lincoln Center and by association, Wynton Marsalis Summer is still 23 years old and has earned her position in the scene the old-fashioned way: with hard work I interviewed Camargo in early 2018 when she was completing 11th grade She was making noise at the Jazz at Lincoln Center “Essentially Ellington” festival for high school bands — where she was not only playing with crackle and maturity but also writing wonderful music “I want to inspire women going into jazz I think it’s cool that I won these competitions Just keep pushing and trying to make it.” with a crisp and accomplished record — mainly featuring other young musicians she met while rising on the scene — I wanted to chat with her again about her education and taking her music into maturity The original “Tenderness Within” is a mature waltz with lots of modern-jazz counterpoint that is not “retro.” Camargo is not a talented amateur but a serious talent which then makes room for work by her bandmates Pianist Estaban Castro shines on this track and saxophonist Veronica Leahy accounts for highly original improvising throughout This album is also distinguished by being the final recording session for Hammond B3 organ master Joel DeFrancesco who plays with drive and colorful support on two tracks the veteran provides ideal accompaniment as Camargo plays her most vocal and emotional solo of the session digging deep into blues and gospel vocabulary I am also a fan of “Exploring the City” a Latin number that blends Leahy’s rich flute and Summer Camargo’s creamy flugelhorn on the head and then asks them to trade phrases he turns the heat up with a right/left-hand conversation that invites the young drummer There isn’t a moment on this track when you would think this wasn’t a top-call New York jazz group Here is an edited account of my conversation with Summer Camargo It was apparent when I interviewed you at 17 that you would pursue music as a profession but making that decision may or may not have been easy The Essentially Ellington competition during my junior year was the starting point of my career I got to talk to Wynton Marsalis and make connections at Jazz at Lincoln Center (“JALC”) — the first organization that provided me a home in New York City I was called to be a guest artist at their gala During my 12th grade year — one of the toughest years of my life — I was playing in honor bands and working on auditions and applications The pandemic hit at the end of my first year but I’m thankful I experienced the city before that Most of my time at Julliard was spent online I was already getting calls to do gigs outside of school Our very first big band rehearsal was the last week of school we were fully online for the first half of the fall semester during my second year When gigs started again at the start of 2022 people started to know who I was from the music I was posting online I traveled out of town to play almost every weekend while still in school I graduated with an accelerated master’s degree (doing both in five years) I got the call from Saturday Night Live in the summer before my fourth year at Julliard I understand it’s one of the most sought-after gigs for instrumental players in New York City I had been enjoying the holiday with a close friend and trumpet player On July Fourth we were watching celebrations on television I said “Wow wouldn’t it be cool to play on national television I was working out in my apartment and got a call on my cellphone coming from New York you usually pick up even when you don’t know the number “This is Lenny Pickett.” I had never watched SNL before I got called “How did you hear about me?” I knew that Ron Blake a small one with the New Jersey Jazz Society Just recently I was talking to [SNL band bassist] James Genus after the show It cannot be easy being a young woman in a couple of the most competitive musical environments in the city that is the center of jazz in the world The musician in the SNL band welcomed me with open arms I remember my first show — you can get lost easily I don’t view it as a gender thing but as an age and experience thing Steve Turre [Born in 1948 and in the SNL band since 1985] will lean over and tell me stories The environment is really warm and welcoming You play so much together — some have been in the band for decades Lenny Pickett is a perfect example of what an amazing bandleader can be He calls me once a week over the summer break to see how I’m doing I can hear some of your influences (Sammy Nestico for arranging horns For so many “jazz” musicians your age there are competing musical passions: hip-hop or groove music music that mixes New Music from the classical realm and more “out” playing that used to be the downtown scene How does music from after the tradition of 1965 fit into your sound I submitted for a Laurie Frink grant that comes up every two years [Laurie Frink was a female pioneer as a first-call trumpeter for big bands in New York who died in 2013.] There are lots of grant opportunities at Julliard and it was a class assignment to submit a grant I thought I had enough originals to make a record and Bria Skonberg [a Canadian trumpeter and vocalist] Sean has been an amazing mentor in my life Wynton and I went over my originals and my desire to update them He told me about the opportunity at Blue Engine Records I asked Sean to produce as we are on the same wavelength musically It was Sean who recommended Joey DeFrancesco for those two tracks I called him the week before the recording session and sent him the chart He came into the session — it was the first and only time I met him — and I was so touched by the energy and effort he put into the album I turned 21 on the last day of the recording session at the Power Station Joey spent over an hour making sure the organ was perfect It was Wynton who called to tell me that Joey passed I wrote three of the tunes in 2018: “Tenderness Within”, “80 Tears of Joy”, and “JP Shuffle” were all written when I was still in high school and were very influenced by more traditional jazz. “JP Shuffle” has an Art Blakey vibe and “80 Tears” has a gospel influence What I was trying to do on the album was capture these individual people’s spirit The song for my mom (“Tenderness Within”) came first and then everyone in my family wanted a song I wrote “80 Tears” for my grandma “JP” for my dad and two other originals for my sisters I also wanted to honor my band directors because they really provided an amazing foundation for me in more traditional jazz and I wanted to honor the people who gave me so much My teachers told me to play everything with the most emotion and soul possible Sean is also a huge advocate who teaches you to practice your fundamentals so you can play whatever comes into your head when you’re improvising Around 2018, I fell in love with Louis [Armstrong] the most incredible role model as both an artist and entertainer The version of “On the Sunny Side of the Street” sounds like a second-line horn section and clarinet playing unaccompanied and collectively I was told to keep in touch with the players because we would see each other for the rest of our careers I met most of the players on the record in high school through the Grammy band [Grammy Jazz Camp Session] you were paid to go to the Grammys and play at the after-party Veronica [saxophonist Veronica Leahy] made it We were the only two girls and roomed together Estaban was at Julliard and the Manhattan School of Music Veronica was at the Harvard/Berklee College of Music program but I met him the year before at Julliard when he subbed for someone in an ensemble While much of the community continues to grieve and recover from the deadly shooting at Florida State University tragedy has lit a fire into students who want change Following the plans of one group of students calling on legislators to act while another looks to address what they believe is the root cause "As a leader I carry the weight of this moment and turn it into purpose We owe it to the victims not just here at Florida State University Students Demand Action made their case for gun reform Tuesday alongside House Democrat leader Fentrice Driskell "Protecting these young people means listening to them." SDA wants safe gun storage laws to be expanded The law currently applies to homes with a minor of under 16 — SDA wants it expanded to any household with any person who cannot legally own a gun They're also asking Congress to reinstate the Office of Gun Violence Prevention An office that was established in 2023 under President Biden but closed earlier this year under President Trump "Maybe if that office had existed then maybe there could have been some policy pushed through at the federal or local level in order to stop this before it occurred because at the end of the day Another demand is that a hunting season sales tax holiday be removed from Senate Bill 7034 Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society is rebounding after their previous plans to protest international student visa revocations were cut short by Thursday's shooting Lain Dorsey says that everyone in the group is still working through the grief Dorsey says the focus of their action is to eradicate any extreme ideology that may exist on campus "This tragedy that unfolded last Thursday has really brought our campus together and they want to see actionable change happen on our campus Students Demand Action will be marching from campus to the Capitol Wednesday morning at 8:30 Students for a Democratic Society plans to march from Landis Green to Westcott Fountain Thursday afternoon at 1:30 The process to select the next president at Florida A&M University has been delayed… yet again I'm breaking down what led to the decision and how it affects the presidential search timeline FAMU trustees were meant to select an outside search firm to help in the process A process that I told you has already been delayed since October When not enough trustees showed up to a special board meeting solely for that decision And getting a president in place for the next academic year Three of the seven search firms considered as options joined the meeting by Zoom to answer questions One question focused on each firm's history of presidential searches Florida higher education law says no public university may purchase services from organizations that "discriminates on the basis of race All three firms on the call clarified that they can work within Florida law I don't know why we're still having this conversation about DEI This is a presidential search discussion." But several trustees agreed that not asking the same questions to the four firms not on the call was unfair to them "I am concerned of an attack from the rest of these firms because we did not ask them the same questions and then we're going to go back and rescore a vote passed to delay the decision to another special board meeting in the near future To give all seven firms time to answer all questions from trustees Chair Harper says a date and time for that special board meeting will be decided as soon as a vast majority of trustees are available Western Oklahoma – After a week since their ignition fire crews are still battling wildfires in western Oklahoma has burned approximately 27,855 acres and is currently 70% contained Firefighters have made significant progress in establishing control lines but challenges remain due to dry conditions and variable winds Residents in nearby communities are advised to stay alert and follow any evacuation orders promptly the Camargo Fire has consumed about 6,075 acres and is 60% contained Fire crews continue to work diligently to increase containment focusing on protecting structures and mitigating the fire’s spread The public should remain cautious and adhere to guidance from local authorities facilitating the mobilization of resources to support firefighting efforts and assist affected communities A Red Flag Warning is in effect until 7:00 PM today for most of Oklahoma Please note: The information provided is based on the latest available data as of March 21 and is subject to change as new reports come in An official website of the United States government Watch Live at 11:30 a.m. ET: Results of Nationwide Law Enforcement Effort Press Conference View the latest ICE guidance on COVID-19 Get information about how to check in with your local ICE Office here Reportándose con ICE: Obtenga información sobre cómo reportarse a su oficina local de ICE aquí View in other languages Call 1-866-DHS-2-ICE to report suspicious activityReport Crime Learn More About ICE ICE's ERO officers uphold United States immigration laws by focusing on individuals who present the greatest risk to national security View the annual report Media Inquiries the archive contains content from a previous administration or is otherwise outdated This information is archived and not reflective of current practice More about the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) DENVER — Officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations Denver removed a fugitive wanted in Mexico Sept is a citizen of Mexico who is wanted in Mexico for kidnapping and illegal imprisonment 4 and transported via San Diego to the San Ysidro port of entry where he was turned over to Mexican authorities “This removal sends a clear message that if you’re wanted for crimes abroad you won’t be able to hide out in our communities,” said acting Denver Field Office Director Arthur J “I applaud our officers and partners both nationally and internationally that support our efforts in making sure these types of enforcement actions happen smoothly and without incident.” Camargo was encountered by United States Border Patrol near Columbus and was served with a with a notice and order of expedited removal for entering the United States without inspection by an immigration official District Court of New Mexico convicted Camargo of entry without inspection and his first removal from the United States was May 17 At an unknown date and location Camargo returned to the United States without inspection by an immigration official ERO Denver was notified March 27 that Camargo may be living in the Boulder Colorado area and is wanted by the government of Mexico for kidnapping and illegal imprisonment ERO Denver officers arrested Camargo April 30 in a targeted operation and issued him with a notice of intent for decision to reinstate prior order Camargo’s successful removal was made possible in part by ERO San Diego ERO officers make enforcement decisions on a case-by-case basis in responsible manner informed by their experience as law enforcement professionals and in a way that best protects against the greatest threats to the homeland Noncitizens placed into removal proceedings receive their legal due process from federal immigration judges in the immigration courts, which are administered by the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review Department of Justice and is separate from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case ICE officers carry out the removal decisions made by the federal immigration judges In fiscal year 2023 ERO arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories; this group had 290,178 associated charges and convictions with an average of four per individual These included 33,209 assaults; 4,390 sex and sexual assaults; 7,520 weapons offenses; 1,713 charges or convictions for homicide; and 1,655 kidnapping offenses As one of ICE’s three operational directorates ERO is the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement ERO’s mission is to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of U.S and its primary areas of focus are interior enforcement operations management of the agency’s detained and non-detained populations and repatriation of noncitizens who have received final orders of removal ERO’s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide and multiple temporary duty travel assignments along the border Members of the public can report crimes or suspicious activity by calling 866-347-2423 or completing ICE’s online tip form Learn more about ERO’s mission to increase public safety in your community on X, formerly known as Twitter, @ERODenver For media inquiries about ICE activities, operations, or policies, contact the ICE Office of Public Affairs at ICEMedia@ice.dhs.gov Landis Green at Florida State University is where students gather just about every day of the year But when Political Commentator Charlie Kirk comes to campus this week Digging into how this event will be handled by the university and how students plan to show up in support and in protest a conservative political organization that says its mission is to build activist networks on high school and college campuses He has millions of followers across his social media platforms — Owen Girard says a lot of them are right here at FSU "Almost every person on this campus knows who Charlie Kirk is He's popped up on their social media feeds They've been seeing what he's talking about." Girard is President of the Turning Point USA chapter at FSU He says Kirk's appearances are about open dialogue and debates about political topics — something that Girard says is not common on campus anymore "Modern academic institutions have been pushing certain narratives and certain ideas on college students and not really promoting a free speech environment where you have different political thought leaders from various ideologies coming to speak The event is scheduled for Friday — Girard says it could draw thousands to Landis Green as it did at the University of South Florida last week But not all students will be participating "We are going to engage in the form of protesting we will be expressing ourselves as students JJ Glueck is the co-communications chair of Students for a Democratic Society She says SDS is critical of Kirk and his opinions — calling them intolerant and not welcome on campus That's why she says members of SDS will express their right to protest the event — but she expects things to stay peaceful "This is an event where we are likely to see counter-protesting of our protest of the event we're not expecting any true confrontations maybe some yelling — it's kind of part of the political sphere at this point." I asked university officials how they plan to monitor the event but did say FSU is aware of Friday's event and is planning accordingly The event with Charlie Kirk will start at noon here on Landis Green SDS students say they will march in protest beginning at 11:30 Florida A&M is in the market for a new men's basketball head coach Coach Patrick Crarey II stepped down less than one year into a three-year deal I'm learning what comes next for the Rattlers and his 11 months in charge were notable both on and off the court winning as many games as they had anytime in the last decade But a large amount of roster turnover led to Crarey's initial three-year contract being delayed After 10 weeks working under a volunteer agreement Crarey was signed to a one-year deal in July before receiving a two-year extension in February Crarey has moved on to fellow HBCU Grambling State in Louisiana "We want to take a moment to express our appreciation for Coach Crarey's dedication and passion during his time at Florida A&M His leadership and guidance have been valuable inspiring us to strive for continued excellence." I spoke with Jaelen Thelusma and Chad Smith playing ball at FAMU's courts to ask them what they want to see from the future of the team "Having a team that your school believes in That's something that FAMU is not lacking but so far for the basketball program its not something I've been seeing." It's just the factor of getting people excited for these things FAMU Athletics says a search for a new head coach is already underway Originally published in Jersey Jazz - Reprinted by permission of the New Jersey Jazz Society During the pandemic, the New Jersey Jazz Society held virtual concerts that appeared on njjs.com and the NJJS Facebook and YouTube sites. In March 2021, the performers were two second-year Jazz Studies students at Juilliard: trumpeter Summer Camargo from Hollywood Camargo received a phone call that changed her life and career Musical Director of the Saturday Night Live band and asked me if I'd like to be in the band I'm so grateful to the New Jersey Jazz Society because actually the video where Lenny Pickett saw me perform was the NJJS concert It's incredible how a five-minute phone call can change your life and this is a special season because it's the 50th anniversary of SNL." had its world premiere at the 51st Telluride Film Festival on August 31 and had a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 27 before its wide release by Sony Pictures on October 11 "I was called by Jon Batiste in April to be on the film score; and I was called through SNL because they wanted the SNL band to record Camargo will lead a trio at NJJS' Jersey Jazz LIVE concert at the Madison (NJ) Community Arts Center and we're also going to be playing some songs that are on my album," Camargo said was released earlier this year on Jazz at Lincoln Center's Blue Engine Records label It contains seven Camargo original compositions and two standards: Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields' "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and Neal Hefti's "Splanky" Mondello wrote that Camargo "has a luscious trumpet and flugelhorn tone and uses her vast technical chops to deliver the entire spectrum of volume Her improv style is such that melodic and rhythmic surprises lurk behind and leap from every corner." "because I was part of a class at Juilliard called 'Leadership in the Arts' There are a lot of amazing grant opportunities at Juilliard so my assignment was to put together an application for some of the grants I have enough original compositions for an album.' I had a concept and thought of the personnel But I didn't submit through a Juilliard grant; I ended up submitting to the Laurie Frink grant (Named after the late trumpeter and educator Laurie Frink the grant offers young brass players an opportunity for serious study or to undertake a creative project) and Wynton Marsalis; and they all really helped me a lot and that's how I got connected with the label We recorded the whole album in August 2022 and I had just found out about Saturday Night Live the month before that." Camargo's relationship with Marsalis goes back to 2018 when she became the first female trumpet player to be named Best Soloist at JALC's Essentially Ellington festival won the Songwriting award for Best Original Composition and Arrangement saying "She is spectacular in her playing and her presence It just gives me so much hope and feeling." Jones is Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall's NYO (National Youth Orchestra) Jazz Orchestra and Camargo was selected for that ensemble twice -- in 2018 and 2019 NYO accepts 22 student musicians from across the country During Camargo's senior year at Fort Lauderdale's Dillard High School He was also at the Vail Jazz Festival when she did the Vail Jazz Workshop is "dedicating songs to the people I most treasure in my life -- family and my friends and also just giving back to the community that has helped me so much 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' is dedicated to my first band director Jim Mullen (at Calvary Christian Academy in Hollywood) 'Splanky' is dedicated to my high school band director because we played a lot of that in class." Leahy is the Rising Star in the November issue of Jersey Jazz; Esteban was the Rising Star in April and as a composer." She reeled off a long list of teachers who were important in her musical development but one special mentor was the late trumpeter Chris Jaudes "He was my teacher for my first year at Juilliard," she said "He told me that he recommended me for the New Jersey Jazz Society online concert." Jaudes next door to NJJS Board member Jay Doherty suggested Camargo and Tyler Henderson to him for the series The other two members of Camargo's trio at the December 8th Jersey Jazz LIVE concert will be pianist William Schwartzman and bassist Ben Feldman has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival as a member of the Carnegie Hall NYO Jazz Orchestra he toured Europe with Sean Jones and NEA Jazz Master vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater Feldman has a Bachelor in Music in Double Bass Performance from the Manhattan School of Music He studied with bassists Ron Carter and Buster Williams and has performed with vibraphonist Stefon Harris The Summer Camargo Trio will be preceded by a Rising Star opening act featuring the Evan Gongora Trio and freshman Jazz Studies major at William Paterson University we knew that he had something very special and has limitless potential for his future." Gongora's trio will include two other William Paterson students Camargo's quintet will be performing at the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective on November 17 and at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville (L.I.) The other members of her quintet are Bueno by funds from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State a part­ner agency of The National Endow­ment for the Arts This program is also proudly supported by a grant from The Summit Foundation The New Jersey Jazz Society is a non-profit organization of business and professional people students and listeners working together for the purpose of advancing jazz music Their mission is to  promote and preserve America’s original art form – jazz The Society seeks to ensure continuity of the jazz art form through its commitment to nurture and champion local talent along with showcasing outstanding national and international artists providing for the younger generation via arts education programs Leon County Commissioners voted Tuesday to make panhandling a civil violation but they drew the line at making it a crime I'm Alberto Camargo in downtown Tallahassee breaking down how the vote struck a balance between prioritizing the safety of all neighbors and compassion for the most vulnerable of them Occupying or making exchanges between pedestrians and drivers on medians smaller than six feet wide is now a civil violation This applies to both pedestrians and drivers or passengers on all medians that divide parallel lanes of traffic on roads outside of Tallahassee city limits the original idea for punishment was softened county commissioners voted to lower the fine from $500 to $250 getting rid of a proposal for up to 60 days in jail Only Commissioner David O'Keefe voted against the new ordinance "We send the message that poverty is something we can punish or legislate out of you and asking you all to vote no on any ordinance and I'd like us to focus on helping people and treating everyone with the dignity they deserve." O'Keefe's concerns were shared by Johnna Coleman executive director of Big Bend Continuum of Care Coleman says she wants the priority to be compassion and not punishment "We are seeing people experience homelessness for the first time in numbers that we've never seen before Just like you and I are sitting here at our jobs So I really think that we have to come together as a nation as a community and really think about what it would take to humanize the situation and form solutions from that part of our hearts." Commissioner Nick Maddox introduced the idea to soften punishment while maintaining safety as his priority "I've seen children in the medians fundraising I've seen adults in the medians fundraising I've seen firemen carry boots up and down the road there are just three medians in the county that are wider than six feet and Capital Circle at the corner of Woodville Hwy I'm voting in the interest of the 100 people who are drivers instead of the 1 or 2 people out there in the road." the city of Tallahassee's 2018 ordinance still applies.Which makes it illegal to come in contact or exchange items with drivers from any sidewalk O'Steen says the violation can still become trespassing if the violator does not leave the area — like any other trespassing incident. We cover stories making an impact in Downtown Tallahassee. This is your home to stay on top of what is changing in Downtown Tallahassee and why it matters to you and your family. We want to hear from you! 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