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Why this is the time for deals Clark Howard Save more, spend less and avoid rip-offs AJC EXCLUSIVE The alarms about whether Grammy winner R. Kelly has been sexually abusing young women, even holding them hostage in a home here in Johns Creek, have been shriek- ing at high for nearly two decades. According to news reports, the sexual miscon- duct dates back to 1994, when he married singer Aali- yah at age 15. In 1996, Tiffany Hawkins sued Kelly, claim- ing they had sex when she was 15. In 2001, there was another suit.

Tracy Sampson accused him of having sex with her when she was 17. Another more recent account even had him holding them hostage in a home here in Johns Creek. Two years ago, Deborah Richardson, executive direc- tor of the International Human Trafficking Institute in Atlanta, was among a small group that spoke out in protest of appearance at the Wolf Creek Amphitheater. Now comes R. the six-part documen- tary that chronicles decades of R.

alleged sexual mis- conduct and abuse, and sud- denly people are listening. Kelly, by the way, continues to deny all allegations against him, but when 50 victims, for- mer employees, family mem- bers and activists and celebrities speak out, well, the rest of us help but take notice. It might not have happened had it not been for R. everyone telling me how courageous I am for appearing in the doc, it feel risky at tweeted John Legend after the premiere. believe these women and give a (exple- tive) about protecting a serial child rapist.

Easy Richardson found it just as easy to stand with former Ful- ton County Chairman John Eaves and Tim and Jonje- lyn Savage, the parents of the 22-year-old Atlanta woman fea- tured in the first BuzzFeed story about dalliances. The Savages have claimed their daughter is being against her and that they seen her since Decem- ber. Joycelyn Savage has since said in interviews with TMZ that fine and in a Please. the really happy news: The Fulton County Dis- trict Office has opened an investigation into the allegations. Finally.

If wondering how this could be, how Kelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, could carry on like this for so long, one explanation: social media. We tend to read only that which confirms our biases. But a second, more fundamental reason. Black women are seen as sexual objects. While high-powered men like Les Moonves, Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer have seen their careers swiftly crumble in the face of the Me Too and Up movements, Kelly has been allowed to maintain his star power.

Not even Me Too, the brain- child of black activist Tarana Burke, got the attention it deserved until actress Alyssa Milano used the hashtag on social media to draw attention to widespread sexual harassment. Burke founded the movement in 2006. It became a global sensa- tion, thanks to Milano, in 2017. Think about that. are professional cat- egories where men are glori- fied entertainment, athletics, media, to name a Rich- Will R.

finally be enough? Gracie Bonds Staples This Life AJC BOOKS AUTHORS CLEVELAND SELLERS By Bo Emerson When Cleveland Sellers, who speaksMondayat theAtlantaHis- tory Center, went back to school in 1968, he was looking for a lit- tle peace and quiet. Theyoung leaderof theStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Com- mittee had beenworking for the past few years the registering voters inMississippi, AlabamaandGeorgia, participat- ing in the FreedomSummer, the MarchonWashington, the Selma toMontgomerymarch andmany other seminal moments. likebeing he said in a recent interview from his South Carolina home. Seek- ing a break, he enrolled in the historically black South Carolina State University. It was jumping out of the fry- ing pan and into the fire.

He landed in themiddle of one of themostviolentepisodesof the civil rights era, the Orangeburg Massacre. On Monday Sellers, along with South Carolina jour- nalist Adam Parker, author of a newbookabout Sellers, Agitator: The Civil Rights Strug- gle of Cleveland Sellers will talk about Orangeburg. On the evening of Feb. 8, 1968, a group of about 200 students, protesting a segregated bowling alley, started a bonfire on cam- pus. As police and firefighters tried to douse the blaze, a scuf- fle began.

It was the fourth day of protest and the governor had already called out the National Guard. Lawenforcementofficersbegan firing carbines, shotguns and revolvers into the crowd, killing three teenagers, and wounding 28 more people, including Sell- ers.Manyof thosewoundedwere shot in the back as they ran away. Nine law enforcement officers were charged in the deaths, and allninewereacquitted.Sellerswas characterized as an agi- and chargedwith inciting a riot. He served seven months in prison, during which time he wrote his autobiography, River of No TheyoungmanmovedtoNorth Carolina, went on to become a college professor and a college Cleveland Sellers, civil rights pioneer, to speak onKingDay Cleveland Sellers was convicted of inciting a riot after the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968. Sellers will speak on King Day at the Atlanta History Center.

CONTRIBUTED: MARK STETLER MORE INFORMATION Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the screening and conversation with Frederick Lewis, 1 p.m., 21; Woodruff Auditorium; Cleveland Sellers and Adam Parker will Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers 3:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 21, in the Woodruff Auditorium; free; Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry 404-814- 4000; AtlantaHistoryCenter. com. AJC TOP GOOD NEWS STORY VET BECOMES YOGA INSTRUCTOR By Cathy Free Special To The Washington Post An explosion in Iraq led to the amputation of both of his legs. Then Army veteran Dan Nev- ins faced 36 surgeries, a divorce and an emotional battle with the invisible wounds of war.

Theyears after the 2004attack left him anxious, restless and plagued with nightmares. Nev- ins knew he needed help. was chasing Benadryl with whiskey, hoping said Nevins, now a retired Army staff sergeant. was spi- raling downhill In 2014, upon reaching a new low and trying to find his way out, Nevins called a friend, Anna Dennis. He told her that he was overwhelmed with anger and despair.

She replied, you need some yoga in your Acertifiedyoga nis offered to give him three pri- vate lessons. said, the dumbest thing recalled Nev- ins, who lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, near Jackson- ville. But he eventually agreed to give yoga a try. At his first lesson, he found himself and painful, and Iwas angry because she kept telling me to press my feet into the he said. Finallyhe toldher: saying thatword! I have any And then in afit of resentment, Nevins tookoffhis prosthetic legs and flung them aside, a radical move because he was ashamed of his stumps only his doctors and family had seen them.

His friend down and rise up. This time, he imagined roots growing down- ward from his stumps. raised my arms, and it felt as though life was shooting out of my he said. were streaming downmy Nevins wait for his next lesson and then the next. Now Nevins, 46, a single father of three, hasmade it hismission to encourage others tofind yoga, whether wounded in war as he was or just hoping to find new motivation and direction.

fact is, all of us are liv- ing with the invisible wounds of said. helps you to let go of the things that serve you Now an advocate for the Wounded Warrior Project, Nev- ins travels the world as an inter- national yoga instructor, hoping to bring a sense of calmness and purpose to lives. If you had told Nevins that he poses as a double amputee to hundreds of people, he never would have believed it, he said. would have said: on. Dudes do he said, adding that he grewup in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore.

Afterhisfirst yoga tried a fewmore sessionswithout hisprosthetics, thensignedup for Level 1 teaching training, hoping to intensify his yoga experience. He plan to actually teach. Then one of his Army buddies came to his place for a beer one night, andNevins could tell some- thing was wrong. finally told me that two days earlier, his wife had found him in a closet with a gun in his Healing through yoga He lost his legs in Iraq; a yoga instructor. Dan Nevins teaches a yoga class in 2015 at the Freedom Festival in North Carolina.

WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT Dan Nevins with Iraqi children near Balad, where he was stationed in 2004. COURTESY OF DAN NEVINS Yoga continued on D4 Sellers continued on D4 R. Kelly continued on D2.