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Democrat Doug Jones Beats Trump-Backed Roy Moore
And The People Of Alabama Have Spoken:
Tis The Season
Business Owner To Host Holiday Black Business Tour
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
On Saturday, December 16th, members of the commu- nity will participate in the Holi- day Black Business Tour. Staging will begin at Bounce Boy, 5008 E. 10th Avenue promptly at 8 a.m.
Ms. Candy Lowe, founder of the Black Business Tour said, “Three motor coach buses will leave promptly at 9 a.m. During the tour, we will visit 12 Black-owned businesses.
“We definitely want to make an economic statement. So, we are asking people to ‘buy black and wrap it black.’ This means purchase your gifts from a Black-owned business and place it in a bag with black tis- sue paper or wrap it in black paper. This will let everyone know that it came from a black- owned business.”
Ms. Lowe said when she started the Black Bus Tour in 2006 there were several busi- nesses that are no longer in ex- istence. “We are leaving from Bounce Boy, which is a Black-
MS. CANDY LOWE
... Founder of the Black Busi- ness Tour
owned business. We will return at 1 p.m.”
She further invited anyone in the community to participate in the tour. The cost of the bus ride is $5. “There will be ven- dors, food trucks, and Santa Claus. This is a family-oriented venture and we are encourag- ing families to come out and bring their children.”
Ms. Lowe said she re-acti- vated the Black Business Tour in September and has had un- believable success. “The buzz has never stopped,” she said. Ms. Lowe can be contacted at (813) 394-6363.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — De- mocrat Doug Jones, whose uphill bid for U.S. Senate gath- ered strength when Republican Roy Moore was hit with charges of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, won Al- abama's special election Tues- day.
The victory by Jones, a for- mer prosecutor, sliced the GOP's already thin Senate ma- jority to a bare 51-49.
He will replace interim Re- publican Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed in February to fill the seat va- cated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Moore had counted on landslide support among the state's overwhelmingly white, conservative electorate to over- come charges he molested two teenage girls and pursued a ro- mantic relationship with sev- eral others when he was a prosecuting attorney in his 30s.
But he was drubbed by a
Alabamians say no Moore Roy. Democrat Doug Jones beats Republican Roy Moore, because of a heavy Black voter turnout.
strong turnout among black voters, who voted in crushing numbers for Jones.
Normally, Moore would have been the commanding fa- vorite in this strongly Republi- can state, which voted overwhelmingly for Presi- dent Donald Trump and hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate in 25 years.
But the allegations of sex- ual misconduct and a history of controversial statements and defiant actions that twice had Moore booted from the state Supreme Court gave Democ- rats and Jones the shot at an
upset.
The fact the contest was
even considered close spurred many partisans eager to capi- talize on what amounted to an early Christmas gift: a Demo- cratic shot at a U.S. Senate seat in the profoundly conservative Deep South.
Jones, 63, is a former U.S. attorney who gained fame for prosecuting two Ku Klux Klansmen responsible for the 1963 bombing of Birming- ham's 16th Street Baptist Church decades after the strike against the civil rights move- ment.
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