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Food Stamp Cuts Balto Poor Bleed By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer
Although annual Black spending is projected to rise from its current $1 trillion to $1.3 trillion by 2017, advertisers allot only 3 percent of their $2.2 billion yearly budget to media aimed at Black audiences, a new Nielsen report has found.
“…advertisers allot only 3 percent of their $2.2 billion yearly budget to media aimed at Black audiences…” The study, “Resilient, Receptive and Relevant: The African-American Consumer 2013 Report,” was released at a news conference Sept. 19 at the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend by Nielsen and the National Newspaper Continued on A4
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A vote to cut funding for federal food stamps by almost $40 billion a year has triggered concern among food stamp users and lowincome advocates.
Deciding whether to purchase food or pay bills is something one Maryland mother of two wasn’t that concerned about--with the help of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). But, if cuts initiated by the House go into effect, she would have to make some tough decisions. On Sept 19, during a congressional budget battle, the House approved a proposal to slash $39 billion from food stamp funding. The measure would have to clear the Senate, where only light cuts are contemplated, and gain approval from President Obama. But the Senate action on the House scale is not likely and the Obama White House has said the president would veto deep food stamp cuts. Even so, several states are moving toward food stamp benefit reductions. Maryland isn’t one of them but if the state joins the others that want to trim benefits, the results could
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Rare African-American Artifacts to be Showcased at Lewis Museum By Ansar Abdullah Special to the AFRO Imagine gazing at verses of poetry written in the 18th century by African American poet Phyllis Wheatley. Or browsing through an 1832 account of how runaway Harriet Jacobs hid in an attic –for seven years—from vicious slaveholders. Or looking at a letter from Malcolm X to biographer Alex Haley two years before the Black Muslim leader was gunned down. Such artifacts are to be on display at the Reginald F. Lewis
Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture from Nov. 1 through March 4, 2014, thanks to Wells Fargo and the family of Bernard Kinsey, a retired Xerox executive who, along with his wife, has amassed a collection of African American artifacts. The Kinsey collection includes: an early draft of the Emancipation Proclamation; original works by Frederick Douglass; a book about Africa – by an African – that dates back to the 17th century; and documentation of how the estimated 38,000 cowboys that helped shape the Old West, included about 10,000
Blacks. “The Kinsey Collection strives to give our ancestors a voice, name and personality, enabling the viewer to understand the challenges, obstacles, triumphs and extraordinary sacrifice of African Americans who’ve greatly contributed to the success of this country,” said Bernard Kinsey. “We are excited to collaborate with Wells Fargo in developing this special program honoring the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.” The exhibit began as just a
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Shutdown Devastation Major African-American Capitol Hill Concern Power Couple at By Zenitha Prince AFRO Contributing Writer
The extreme partisanship that has plagued Washington, D.C., for the past four years is dragging America to the brink of disaster—again. Republicans and Democrats currently are engaged in high-stakes negotiations over the 2014 budget, and if they don’t agree on how the U.S. will pay its bills over the next week, the federal government will shut down come Dec. 16. With the U.S. economy taking its first tentative steps toward recovery, a shutdown could be devastating. According to the Congressional Research Service, the last two shutdowns, in late 1995 and early 1996, cost about $1.4 billion. “This is no way to run a government,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). “When you think about the main role the federal government plays in this country— paying for air traffic controllers, water
security, overseeing national parks and more—everyone in America will feel it if the government goes into shutdown.” At issue in this year’s budget talks is the Affordable Care Act, the premier legacy of President Obama’s administration. The fiscal year ends Sept. 30, but a short-term continuing resolution was passed to maintain funding until Dec. 15. However, House Republicans inserted a provision to defund the health care law and Democrats and the President say that’s just not going to happen. “In the 113th Congress, Republicans choose continuously to ignore the challenges the House should be addressing, instead voting over 40 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Now, their insistence on dogmatic relitigation of the ACA is taking our country to the brink of a government shutdown,” said Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) in an
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Republicans and Democrats currently are engaged in high-stakes negotiations over the 2014 budget.
Baltimore’s Vanguard
“At a very young age, I always said I wanted to be a public servant in Baltimore City.” Overlooking a clear skyline from Mosby said his dreams to be a their Reservoir Hill home in West public servant were forged while Baltimore, a young black professional in the third grade at Yorkwood couple finds themselves squarely in Elementary School when then Mayor the public eye. They never thought Kurt Schmoke was elected as the first they would have made it this far. African American mayor of Baltimore. Baltimore native and City “I was excited. My mother Councilman Nick Mosby, 34, and his was excited. My grandmother was wife Marilyn, 33, a Boston native and excited,” he said. State’s Attorney candidate, aspire to With an absent father, Mosby was make a difference in Baltimore—a inspired and driven by the women in city they both have high hopes for. his life. “I grew up in northeast “I was the first person in my family Baltimore—in the Yorkwood to go to college and graduate,” Mosby neighborhood with six women in my said. household,” Mosby told the AFRO. He told the AFRO his grandmother and mother taught him the value of dreaming and of knowing that “I could be successful.” “They always pushed me.” But they were taken away from him. First, at14, he lost his grandmother; recently, at age 31, he lost his mother. Mosby left Baltimore when he enrolled into Tuskegee University, a historically Black university in Alabama, where he met the woman who would become his wife. Six hours north of The Mosby with their daughters, Nylyn, 5 Baltimore in Boston the thenand Aniyah, 3 at Druid Hill Park Marilyn Jones, the oldest of By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer
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A Brooklyn, N.Y. man will serve 36 years in prison for a string of offenses connected to his actions as a pimp, including multiple counts of sex trafficking, and transporting an individual to engage in prostitution. Jeremy Naughton, 32, also known as “Jerms Black” was found guilty following a 14-day trial of forcing a number of female prostitutes between the ages of 19 and 28 to work with him and an accomplice. According to authorities, between January 2009 and fall 2010, Naughton and a friend, Charles Anderson, 26 of Brooklyn, contacted the women through online ads for prostitution services and, meeting in-person, assaulted and threatened the women with a handgun or physical violence into working for them. Among a myriad of criminal acts, Department of Justice officials said Naughton imprisoned women, forced them to perform sex acts on him and others, stole cell phones and money from them, and transported them between New York, Maryland, and other states. In a plea agreement, Anderson told authorities that he overheard Naughton physically assaulting women he kept in his room in an apartment the two men shared, and forcing them to perform sex acts. Anderson is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 15. The case was investigated by the Maryland Child Exploitation Task Force and the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, organizations of federal, state, and local law enforcement formed in 2007 to rescue human trafficking victims and prosecute offenses.
Texas Voter ID Law Faces New Legal Challenge
A new Texas law requiring voters to present photo ID faces a new challenge after the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives, or MALC, filed a complaint in federal court Sept. 17 to block implementation of the law.
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Republican Robert J. Brown Known as Maverick in Politics and Business
U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy, the military and increasing labeled as anti-Black. And leadership. founded B&C Associates, who had been an advocate for funding for HBCUs. Nixon to some extent, that’s been Born Feb. 26, 1935, Brown a management consulting, the Civil Rights Movement. also never commented on true, but that’s been true of all grew up in High Point, N.C., marketing research and Robert J. Brown is fighting where he has spent most of And then, RFK was the fact that Brown was a the parties, and it seems like public relations firm. In mad. assassinated in 1968. Democrat, he said. people conveniently forget his life. He was raised by the first seven months, Last month, during Soon after, some friends “It was more feasible at that.” his grandparents, primarily Brown traversed the country November 1, 2008 - November 7, 2008, The Washington Afro-American A3 a Republican National who were working for the time, with my business, The unofficial advisor to his grandmother, who was by car, where he’d often Committee luncheon Richard Nixon’s campaign to be a registered Democrat,” GOP leaders and even some the daughter of a slave, a sleep when hotels refused commemorating the 50th for president asked Brown Brown said of his political “friends” in the Democratic devoted Christian and a strict to accommodate Black anniversary of the 1963 Party praised RNC Chairman to consult on some issues. At affiliation at the time. disciplinarian. guests. Then he landed his sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspiposted fliers bearing his photoBy Alan King March on Washington, Brown Reince Priebus, who has made first, he worked with them a Within 18 months with “She was a great influence first client and the business connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On AFRO Staff Writer lambasted Washington leaders on began to grow, eventually outreach to African-American, couple of days a week, then the Nixon administration, my life,” Brown said. “She Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked for Jennifer cuts to programs thatother help listing several Fortune 500 Hispanic and other it grew to seven days, until however, Brown decided to always me1994 to study, work The told white, Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s helpminority in finding Hudson and Suburban with let Illinois license Tribune, theinboy had been shot her nephew. her MySpace relatives positively identified minorities, including some its portfolio, voters a chiefInconcern of his Nixon said he wanted Brown join the GOP. hard and don’t anything get companies multiple times theCorp., back seat blog, she thanked fans after and suphe helped create during his including Sara in Lee leadership, especially to be on hand, on his plane. “I had met a lot of in your way.” of the vehicle. The SUV, regisporters for their prayers and time as a special advisor to General Motors Corp., Cocathe GOP’s abysmalreward showing Brown went back to his Republicans and felt like And that’s what he did, tered to Hudson’s murdered offered a $100,000 to President Richard Nixon. Cola Co.,was Nissan Corp. among groups in obtaining top grades at North business after the election, they were good people. brother, towed with and the anyone those who returned thethe boy boy’s body inside and is being alive. presidential election. “When funding is cut, 2012 Carolina Agricultural then was summoned My grandmother was processed by evidence techniSince the has investigation, the thing that seems to get “Priebus started and Technical State to Washington to see Republican,” he said. cians and workers. The body Hudson – who gained stardom the worst hit is programs for reaching out and University and the president-elect. Perhaps it was this prosaic, was later removed and taken to after appearing oninterfacing “American Black people,” the 74-year-old Virginia Union with thethen [Black] When he arrived, open-minded approach to the Cook County Medical Idol,”all and won groups. an Examiner’s office. Academy for her role in told the {AFRO}. You have Award to interface with University, even Nixon introduced him politics that allowed Brown Hudson and other family the movie – has “Most of the offices for people andDreamgirls figure out what as he worked as a as the man responsible to assess the changes in the members arrived at the Medical stayed out of the public eye. Minority Business Enterprise theyThe need and want and come caddy and a waiter for handling his political landscape over the Examiner’s office mid-afterChicago Tribune reporthave been closed around the up with common strategies to administration’s at country clubs and years. Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew. noon to identify the body. ed that a parade of cars moved Given the choice between lookslowlythose past problems. her family’s home country,” he cited as evidence, hotels to help pay the That’s policies on urban “Both parties have changed solve A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in Monday morning, past the ing directly at the body or and later added, “The Black how you draw Blacks and affairs, news that to Brown. bills. The experience great over the years,” told the newspaper Hudson ajail for deal parole violation after viewing it on a wall-mounted news vans, reporters and curicolleges are getting the other minorities back into the “I just went ahead was a “revelation” he said. “The Democratic ous onlookers. shaft right now because party,” BrownNeighbors said. and smiled and thought, Party changed dramatically… for a boy who grewCourtesy Photos stood Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who “She held hands with her family. washere!’” obviously emotional moment.” thousands of their students As to the influence of ‘I’m in aIt pickle WhenaI very was growing up, it up poor, Brown said, quietly and was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. reflected on the the Tea Party on the GOP can’t get loans because of the After the meet-andwas the Democrats that was because it “broadened “remained strong for her famibeing convicted of attempted video screen, the family chose violence. and how their extremely restrictions our government greet however, Brown the segregationist party, and my view of the world ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackplate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the In front of the Hudson’s the body of her 7-year-old put on our people.” saidhands he andwith Nixon made County no bones aboutshow conservative and what IWest knewSide after “She held her had fami- they ing. Cook records by Rob Roberts Chicago’s Tribune, Hudson said,Photo “Yes, home, men inviews heavymay jackets nephew Monday, just hours ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both be endangering the party’s Flicking off any attempts an hour-long talk about it. Now they support a great about how people Robert J. Brown police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” and hooded sweatshirts came to after his body was found in a was obviously very charges in 1999. He And was also kiss the twingoals, whiteBrown crossessaid barintegration to blame either of the main the needsa of theemotional urban many liberal ideals. the lived.” moment.” convicted in 1998 for possesing the namesneed of Donerson and party leaders to fight many more. political parties, Brown said community. He said the soonRepublican Party has become In 1956, the then-21-yearThe boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle. Jason. Around that same, Brown partisan disagreements have to-be U.S.Jennifer’s leader promised to more conservative in the pastin back. old took a break from school Hudson, sister – had He was released from prison “Everybody is sick of going been him missing since Friday, 2006decades.” after serving seven years “Those in like the Tea Party nothing to do with fighting give full control and that few to become a police officer and met the Rev. Dr. Martin through stuff this,” Artisha when a would relativeanswer found only Julian’s for He’s the attempted murderthe and West,the a former the Luther King, Jr. and they have right toresident believeofwhat for the African-American Brown to also witnessed help support is grandparents, grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. area told the Tribune. “Wedon’t all became “very close,” he they want to believe. But community. him. estrangement of Blacks both of whom were ill. A No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, and Dallas Cowboys players By Alan King The boy remained missing have to stick together. All these said. was him appointed come in here and try to control “It isStaff not always “HeHudson, kept his29, word,” theaGOP, but feels like couple of years tryingBrown to distance from the Tony Romo and later, Terrellhe Owens, AFRO Writer a fight Jason shot to death from through long weekend in young children are dying, and group, saying,of“Barack Obama among the names submitted in his grandmother’s home which police may and volunteers to the board the Southern things,” Brown said. “If we between Republicans and Brown said, citing some ofin Republicans have also became a federal agent withto for what?” Never Organized with ACORN.” election officials. Presidential John the issues 7000 block of Southsuch Yale Christian Leadership come up against conservative Democrats; it’scandidate a fight for the they tackled, gotten a bad rap. the U.S. Department of the Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run McCain’s attack on ACORN – Avenue. Conference and helped views that run [crossways of] Black folksCommunity and the needs of action, “In many instances you’ve Treasury and wasthings posted in long and deep. Hehetaught classes as affirmative were doing those without Associated An Amber Alert – aminority desigour goals, we have to stand up money They and organize our communities,” he said. business development, had some people who did and New York.knowledge or permis- raise for ACORN. even endorsed ACORN’s Organization for Reform Now – nation for high-risk missing him forfor President. sion, confirms of the children – was Friday events the freedom and fight!” “We oughtthetosuccess be about the improving raceissued relations in said some things that were “I were madefired. some of the But now ACORN in trouble. “Thecases evidence surorganization, the head ofthe the after Julian was discovered struggle. It was aistumultuous business of protecting biggest theythat hadhas during Reporter: There are at least faced so far shows they faked group says. missing after the murders. time in the Civilacross Rightsthe interests Black people.” time butpaid I decided that I 11 investigations forms to get for work they “This of is testimony to the work this Police arrested William Movement and hethousands was rightof Such non-partisan wanted to not go to home start country involving didn’t do, stuffand ballot we’ve done and successviews we’ve Balfour, the missing boy’s steppotentially ACORN boxes.” sheBrown said, is the had,” Maude Hurd, president in the thickfraudulent of it. are rare in Washington, but of my ownACORN, business,” father and estranged husband forms. victim of fraud, notsupervisor the perpetraACORN, said in anRepublican interview of Julia, at his girlfriend’s “Those days were very then the longtime said. “My district Announcer: Massive voter tor of it. with the AFRO. Southside apartment several difficult, but we had started strategist and advisor has told me I was a fool because fraud. And the Obama campaign Hurd said the only things “When this attack started, we hours after the murders. making progress and then lived a rare life, experiencing my people (Blacks) bogus are the chargescould thempaid more than $800,000 to an had just announced that we had Balfour’s mother, Michele, has selves. And org ACORN front forMartin get out the vote registeredviews 1.3 million new votall of a sudden, courtside to several not even gofactcheck. into a restaurant told reporters that her son had agrees. efforts. ers,” shemoments said. “That’s just to say (in nothing to do with the slayings. was killed. I went down to historic in history. the South) and that if I It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky that someone’s running scared Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson Memphis with Coretta to pick He was one of the few retired after 20 years, I’d still ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. because of ACORN’s success.” up his body…. was a people to visit South African be young to or doeven what I been foundenough guilty of, Barack Obama. That Bad judgment. McCain, who is running for charged to with, Blind ambition. presidentfighter on the Republican terrible time in Too my risky life.”for freedom Nelson tick- wanted do.”casting fraudulent votes.” America. et, lashedin outprison at ACORN And the losses kept Mandela and in the Still, it was a dream The problem came about prifinal debate against Barack coming. had started provided consultation to the Brown could not defer. He marily because of the way Since Brown McCain’s comments, Obama, contending the group “is SQUARE HIGH working with former U.S.been newly formed democratic and his wife moved back to ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have on the verge of maybe perpetratrely on volunteers, pays peobombarded with threats and ing one of theunder greatest frauds in Attorney General and thengovernment Mandela’s High Point, and init1960, he By Zenitha Prince AFRO Contributing Writer
Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain Nephew
ACORN Fights Back
Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’
voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” Factcheck.org, a non-partisan Web site, found those claims to Continued from A1 be “exaggerated,” with “no evidence of any democracymean hungrysuch Marylanders. destroying fraud.” “It’s to the have a Hurdgoing believes McCain dramatic effect,” Mollymotivatcharges were politically ed. McCloskey director of Share said, “Because it’s lowOurShe Strength’s Maryland: No and moderate-income people, Kid Hungry Campaign told and people of color, I believe the the AFRO. McCain campaign thinks those voters goingthat to vote “Weare know for a Democratic, not lose necesfamily a four,which theyiswill sarily true.” on average month,” ACORN$36 is noper stranger to she said, explaining that, at a controversy. For 38 of years, the $1.50 non-partisan reduction about per organization has fought for social meal, the reduction means and economic justice for lowthat the family is going to lose and moderate-income about 20 meals a single Americans. Within400,000 member families organized into more month. than 1,200 neighborhood Latia Davis, 25 was chapters in 110 cities nationwide, shocked to learn of the ACORN has over the years seen upcoming As the mother its share ofcuts. criticism while advocating affordable housing, of two for young girls, she told living wages, for the the AFRO thathealthcare the decrease in underserved— and while organher food stamps would be a izing voter registration drives. struggle. But none has been as withering will probably run out and“Ibaseless as this one. With “the presidential election of food, she said. “I don’t less than two weeks away, know what I am going to do. ACORN’s detractors allege the I’m the provider for my in girls.” organization has engaged masDavis in Northeast sive voter lives registration fraud after the reportedWith discovery of bogus Baltimore. a six-year-old names, such as Mickey Mouse
ple, many of them poor or unemployed, to sign up new voters. The idea was to help both those being registered and those doing the registration. Maud explained, “We have a zero tolerance for deliberin school and policy a two-year-old ate falsification of registration.” in daycare, she, like many Most news account neglect to homemakers, face daily point out that ACORN is required by law to turn in all regstruggles. istration forms. And theyfood also fail “I started receiving to note that it was the organizastamps when instances, I was 19-yearstion, in many that first old afterthe having first brought phonymy registrations to the attention of authorities. daughter,” Davis told the The McCain campfor apparently AFRO “The money food isn’t interested in those fine really help, I don’t have to points, preferring to air misleadworry howtoI’m ing adsabout that seek linkgoing Obamato to ACORN, thereby undercutting feed my family.” hisAccording political support. to the Center on McCain: I’m John McCain Budget and Policy Priorities, and I approve this message. SNAP has neverWho experienced Announcer: is Barack A man with “a that political aObama? reduction in benefits baptismaffect performed at warp would all participants. speed.” Vast ambition. After colMcCloskey “We are lege, he moved tosaid, Chicago. really working acrossorganizer. the Became a community There, Obama met Madeleine governor’s partnership to end Talbot, parthunger.” of the Chicago childhood branch of ACORN. He was so In Baltimore many local impressive that he was asked to churches have jumped train the ACORN staff. on What didassisting ACORN in Chicago board with with engage in? families in Bullying need. banks. Intimidation tactics. Disruption Rev. Drew Kyndall of business. ACORN forced Ross, Resurrection banks pastor to issueof risky home loans. The same loans that Church intypes East of Baltimore caused financial we’re told thethe AFRO “thecrisis church in today.
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Publishers Association (NNPA). The findings were released by Cheryl PearsonMcNeil, senior vice-president, public affairs and government relations for Nielsen, and Cloves Campbell, chairman of the NNPA and publisher of the Arizona Informant. “Advertising expenditures geared specifically toward Black audiences reflected only three percent of advertising dollars spent,” the report stated. “Advertisers spent $75 billion on television, radio, internet, and magazine ads in 2012, with only $2.24 billion of that spent with media focused on Black audiences.” The report said if consumption patterns dictated a company’s advertising budget, then spending with the Black media should be: 44 percent higher on education and career websites; 38 percent higher on streaming websites; 37 percent higher on television (with special emphasis on cable) and 15 percent higher on mobile phone advertising. “The consumer insights this year are some of the most varied yet,” said Pearson-McNeil. “From store brand loyalty, to top watched television networks, which mobile apps are most popular, a deep dive into how Blacks spend their digital time and how companies can reach 10 million Black consumers by developing a southern regional strategy – this year’s report is really a compelling read for both advertisers and marketers.” A 2011 study by Burrell Communications showed that 81 percent of Blacks believe that products advertised in Black media are more relevant to them. Businesses that bypass the Black media, the report said, limit their potential growth. “Companies mistakenly believe there are no language barriers, that a general market ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy is an effective way to reach AfricanAmericans,” the Nielsen study said. “Just the opposite is true.”
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The Nielsen study names the companies that do the most advertising with Black media: Procter & Gamble ($75.32 million); L’Oreal ($52.34 million); McDonald’s ($38.24 million); Unilever ($31.48 million); the U.S. Government ($28.36); Berkshire/Hathaway ($27.81 million); Comcast ($27.69) million); Hershey ($27.01 million); PepsiCo ($25.07 million); Walmart ($24.40 million); Fiat ($23.60 million); AT&T ($22.49 million); Verizon Communications ($22.08 million); Toyota ($21.43 million); General Motors ($20.81 million); Sony ($19.88 million); and Johnson & Johnson ($19.59 million) Advertising by the top 20 companies increased by 2.5 percent between 2011
media outlets trusted and relied on by Blacks for their unfiltered information, companies can develop more culturally relevant messages….” the report stated. It noted that Blacks over index in certain categories, including health and beauty aids, unprepared meat, frozen seafood, feminine hygiene, women’s fragrances, and detergents. “An examination of AfricanAmericans’ overall category uses reveals some notable and perhaps newly discovered behavioral distinctions between Blacks and the Total Market,” the report found. “Blacks spend 44 percent more time on Education and Career sites and 21 percent more time on Family and Lifestyle sites than Total Market consumers, breaking the myth that Blacks are disinterested in education and the family’s well-being. Additionally, AfricanAmericans continue to be resilient in their role as early adopters of technology as 14 percent are more likely to spend time on Telecom/Internet Services sites.” Blacks are also likely to spend far more time watching television. “Blacks are voracious media users and leaders when it comes to setting pop culture trends. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in Blacks’ television habits where Blacks watch 37% more television than any other group, spending seven hours and 17 minutes per day viewing TV, compared to five hours and 18 minutes of total viewing for Total Market,” the Nielsen study stated. Blacks outpace Whites in buying smart phones. The Nielsen report found that 71 percent of Blacks own smart phones, compared to 62 percent of the total population. Most African Americans prefer Androids (73 percent) over iPhones (27 percent). Significantly, 73 percent of Whites and 67 percent of Latinos identified Blacks as the driving force for popular culture. Fortune 100 companies not ranking in the top 20 advertisers with Black media included: General Electric, Citigroup, IBM, Philip Morris, AIG, Home Depot, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, J.P. Morgan Chase, Kroger, Merck, State
“Blacks are voracious media users and leaders when it comes to setting pop culture trends.”
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and 2012. The companies with the largest increases in spending with Black media were: Unilever (40.1 percent); PepsiCo (39.1 percent); Walmart (27.2 percent); the U.S. government (26.4 percent); L’Oreal (19.6 percent); Berkshire Hathaway (15.1 percent); and Comcast (13.2 percent). Top 20 advertisers with the largest decreases were: Johnson & Johnson (30.7 percent), National Amusements (26.2 percent) and Verizon (24.6 percent). “Until we do a better job as consumers in the choices we make and invest in companies that invest in us, we are not going to have any changes,” said PearsonMcNeil. Campbell said he hopes the data will help develop “conscious consumers.” Utilizing Black media makes good business sense, the report said. “By aligning additional marketing support and more focused strategies using media sources such as Black newspapers, Black radio, Black online sites and other
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Activist Doc Cheatham Announces Run for State Delegate By Avis Thomas-Lester AFRO Executive Editor Longtime Baltimore activist Marvin “Doc” Cheatham announced at a community event Sept. 24 that he is vying for one of three seats in the Maryland House of Delegates in Baltimore’s District 40. The event, held at the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity House on Presbury Street, drew more than 100 people. The featured speaker for the event was civil rights activist and Sirius XM radio talk show host Joe “the Black Eagle” Madison. Another featured speaker was Erla McKinnon, 94, one of the matriarch’s of Baltimore’s Women Power, Inc. A civil rights leader for decades, McKinnon drew thunderous applause when she spoke after demanding to stand during her speech and walking to the microphone. “She strongly endorsed my candidacy and said it was time for an improvement in our elected leadership,” Cheatham said. “They fell in love with her.” Cheatham, 63, said he decided to make a run for state-wide office after moving back to Appleton Street, where he had been raised,
from a home on Eutaw Street where he had lived for a number of years. He said he was concerned and heard from neighbors that they shared his feelings about the profusion of liquor stores, abandoned houses, buildings that had been burned out because of fires caused by drug users smoking in the structures and other community problems. Residents of the area told him that they rarely saw their elected officials. “They said the only time they would see the current representatives was when they would run for reelection,” he said. Cheatham, who is married and has three grown children, said he has raised little money, but believes that his experience and commitment to public service in Baltimore make him a viable candidate. Retired from the federal government after 41 years, he has headed Baltimore’s branches of SCLC and the NAACP. Most recently, he served as the Baltimore chair of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, he said. He has also served as the president of the Baltimore City Election Board. He said his relationship with the public will stand him in good stead. As a candidate and later as a delegate, should his run be
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Marvin “Doc” Cheatham successful, he would maintain the same open door policy with his constituents as he has with his neighbors. On the afternoon of Sept. 25, he sat on his front porch typing out labels to mail thank you notes to supporters and friends. He said people have reached out to him in recent weeks to share thoughts about the incidence of teen pregnancy, the local high school drop-out rate and what he called “violence on top of violence.”
He was urged to run because of his takeaction reputation, he said. “They kept knocking on my door,” he said. “They kept saying, ‘You need to run. You need to run.’ With plenty of people’s encouragement and neighbors being disenchanted, instead of looking for someone to run, I decided that I should run myself.” Cheatham said he is running for the people of District 40, not against the three incumbents, whom he considers “friends, not enemies.” The district’s reps now include Frank M. Conaway, Jr. (D), Barbara A. Robinson (D) and Shawn Z. Tarrant (D). He is running as a Democrat. All three of the seats are up for grabs in the November 2014 election. Cheatham said he is running on reputation, and know how. “If you want an indication of what my level of commitment is, look at my record,” he said. “And, I’m retired. Most of the elected officials do it part-time. And I’m a native of Baltimore, not [a transplant]. I don’t have multiple residences. I live full time on Appleton Street. Anyone can knock on my door, pick up the phone or email me and know they will get an immediate response.”
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e-mailed statement. “This is global financial standing and impede its slow-moving economic millions of federal employees would be furloughed. irresponsible, mean-spirited, growth. The constituencies served by Norton, Cummings and Continued from A1 and certain to cripple our In terms of services, national parks, museums and Edwards would be directly impacted since many federal economy, and hurt the monuments would be closed, resulting in the potential loss government employees live in Maryland and the District. For women, children, and families who need access to affordable, of millions of tourism dollars. Visa and passport applications example, Edwards said more than 95,000 of her constituents quality health care.” would be delayed, as would applications for firearms licenses in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties would find Cummings said the charge is being led by a group of about and many more services. Social Security and veterans checks themselves on furlough should the government shut down. 50 Tea Party Republicans whose “biggest beef” is the so-called “It is a shame that Republicans care more Obamacare law, which they are “determined to destroy.” about placating the extreme flanks of their party than the 2.1 “And if they can’t defeat it, they don’t mind shutting down million federal workers who will not receive paychecks, the the government and wreaking havoc in our nation,” he said. veterans who will not receive disability payments, and the “They are that determined.” seniors who will see delays in receiving Social Security,” The Maryland Democrat said Republicans are trying to Edwards said. corral the president into a position where he would be forced She said she hopes Republicans will think twice about the —Elijah Cummings to at least delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act. cost of their obstinacy. But even a delay—and certainly a repeal of the law—would would be issued, but could be delayed. Military and essential “As we move forward, it is my hope that common sense undermine the ability of millions of Americans to finally attain personnel, such as air traffic controllers, would have to work prevails and we can work together to create jobs and invest in access to health care, Cummings said. America’s future,” Edwards said. but won’t be paid until a new appropriations deal is made. And “It could be one of the worst things that could happen to this president and this country,” Cummings SM said. A federal government shutdown would be On September 19, 2013, the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), the State agency that owns, finances, operates and maintains Maryland’s especially detrimental to eight toll facilities, proposed the tolling plan shown below for the I-95 Express Toll LanesSM (the eight miles of I-95 from the I-895 interchange in Washington, D.C., whose Baltimore City to north of MD 43 in White Marsh). The two new ETL will run adjacent to the four existing general-purpose (non-tolled) lanes in budget has to be approved by each direction of I-95 and are scheduled to open in late 2014. The opening date is subject to change. Tolls will be collected via E-ZPass and Video Tolling only. Congress. “It is a great outrage!” Public Hearings: said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Three public hearings will be held by the MDTA Board to receive public and private testimony about the proposed tolling plan. The meetings will be Norton (D-D.C.) “Our held from 6 - 9 p.m. Sign-in and displays will occur from 6 - 7 p.m., and a formal presentation and testimony will begin at 7 p.m. The public may arrive budget has no business in the any time between 6 and 8:30 p.m., as registration for public testimony will close at 8:30 p.m. Congress because it contains not a dime of federal dollars. October 7, 2013 October 10, 2013 October 15, 2013 But because Congress has not Patterson High School Perry Hall Middle School Patterson Mill High School 100 Kane Street 4300 Ebenezer Road 85 Patterson Mill Road done its work, D.C.’s budget Baltimore, MD 21224 Baltimore, MD 21236 Bel Air, MD 21015 is caught in a federal dispute having nothing to do with Public hearing sites will be accessible to individuals with disabilities. Individuals who require auxiliary aids should contact the MDTA at 410.537.1017 D.C. at all.” (711 for MD Relay) no later than three business days before the date of the hearing they wish to attend. The lack of autonomy means that the local Public Comments: government will go into Members of the public may submit comments for the official record on the I-95 Express Toll Lanes tolling plan by 5 p.m. on November 4, 2013, by shutdown, as well. visiting mdta.maryland.gov; by writing to MDTA I-95 Express Toll Lanes Toll Comment, 2310 Broening Highway, Baltimore MD, 21224; or by providing “What it means for D.C. testimony at a public hearing. residents is that services (such as trash pickup) The MDTA Board plans to consider the matter for final action in a public meeting on December 12, 2013. The meeting details, proposed plan for final action and approved tolling plan will be posted to mdta.maryland.gov. will stop unless they are essential services,” Norton Recommended Tolling Plan for the I-95 Express Toll Lanes said. “Police officers and firefighters will continue to Proposed Tolling Plan Southbound and Northbound (Fall 2014) work, but they will not be E-ZPass Mileage Rate Ranges: paid until [the] shutdown is lifted because we won’t have 2-axle/ our own money.” motorcycle 3-axle 4-axle 5-axle 6-axle+ And there would be other Per mile Per mile Per mile Per mile Per mile “catastrophic” costs. In a 1 Peak $0.25 - $0.35 $0.75 - $1.05 $1.13 - $1.58 $1.50 - $2.10 $1.88 - $2.63 letter to House leadership, 3 in which she asked that Off-Peak $0.20 - $0.30 $0.60 - $0.90 $0.90 - $1.35 $1.20 - $1.80 $1.50 - $2.25 D.C. be authorized to spend 2 Overnight $0.10 - $0.30 $0.30 - $0.90 $0.45 - $1.35 $0.60 - $1.80 $0.75 - $2.25 its money should a federal shutdown occur, Norton said 1 Peak Pricing Periods: ADDITIONAL TOLLING PARAMETERS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT: if the District’s government Southbound: • On certain holidays and the days immediately before and after, the MDTA is brought to a standstill, it Monday - Friday, 6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. will apply the pricing period for the day of the week that most closely could default on its financing Saturday, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. resembles the travel patterns during the holiday period. The MDTA agreements, thus sending the Sunday, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Executive Secretary will announce the affected dates and pricing periods city’s borrowing costs sky Northbound: that apply for the new year at the December MDTA Board Meeting prior to Monday - Friday, 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. the start of the new year. high. Saturday, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. “The District government Sunday, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. NOTES: has worked too long and • The tolling length is seven miles. hard, including accumulating 2 Overnight Pricing Periods: • Video Toll Rate ranges are 150% of the E-ZPass mileage rate ranges. $1.5 billion in reserves, one Southbound and Northbound: There is a minimum video surcharge of $1 and a maximum of $15. of the highest amounts in the Monday - Sunday, 9:00 p.m. - 5:00 a.m. • The E-ZPass Maryland 10% discount for two-axle vehicles does not apply country, since its financial to the toll on the ETL. crisis in the mid-1990s to 3 Off-Peak Pricing Periods: all other times • The MDTA Executive Secretary is authorized to make changes within the develop an outstanding approved toll rate ranges with at least 10 days notice to the public. reputation on Wall Street • The MDTA Executive Secretary is authorized to adjust the start and end of to see it erased over a pricing periods by up to 60 minutes based on observed traffic patterns. • Changes to the overall tolling plan once approved by the MDTA Board shutdown,” she wrote in the require public hearings and a public-comment period. letter dated Sept. 19. The failure of Congress For additional information, and the White House to visit mdta.maryland.gov. arrive at a timely resolution to their money squabbles also could impact the country’s
“It could be one of the worst things that could happen to this president and this country.”
NOTICE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT I-95 EXPRESS TOLL LANES (ETL) TOLLING PLAN
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OPINION
It’s Time to Get Marching
As the more extreme House Republicans threaten Armageddon unless we agree to defund the Affordable Care Act (or, as we now typically call it, “ObamaCare”), the Affordable Care Act is already making a positive difference in people’s lives. We all know someone who now can obtain insurance, despite a pre-existing condition. As critical as this reform has been for the neighbors who are affected, many, many more of us are also benefitting from the new law. The facts are clear. During the last three years, more than 71 million privatelyinsured Americans have gained access to free preventive services. At least 105 million Americans have had lifetime limits removed from their insurance. More than 13 million of us have received a staggering $1 billion or more in rebates from health insurance companies that Rep. Elijah charged them excessive premiums. Cummings Yet this is not all that we have accomplished thus far in our efforts to reform healthcare financing. During those same three initial years, more than 6.3 million of our neighbors who rely upon Medicare have saved over $6.1 billion on their prescription drugs – and 34 million seniors have received a free preventive service. A total of 6.6 million young adults up to age 26 have obtained insurance through their parents’ plans. These results have been real, practical and well-deserved contributions to people’s lives. Now, our challenge is to successfully implement the next stage of health insurance reform. Here in Maryland, we still have the president’s back where extending affordable healthcare to all Americans is concerned. More to the point, as our Sept. 14 town hall’s participants will attest, we have our own backs – and our neighbors’ as well. Congressman John Conyers Jr., Congressman Robert Scott and Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown were eloquent in their presentations as they advanced our concept that affordable health care is a fundamental human rights obligation for any truly civilized society. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Regional Director Joanne Corte Grossi and Baltimore City’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, laid out the challenges involved in connecting the hundreds of thousands of uninsured Marylanders to better healthcare at costs that they can afford. Most of all, however, we must give credit to the community leaders who now must take “ObamaCare” into its final, most essential stage. On Oct. 1, we will begin open enrollment in the ACA’s new Health Insurance Marketplaces. Those who qualify will be able to sign up for expanded Medicaid coverage. Those whose income is a little higher will be able to receive sliding-scale premium tax credits to make their coverage more affordable. Small businesses will obtain help in insuring their employees. Here in Maryland, our marketplace will provide direct local access, including HealthCare Access Maryland (www.healthcareaccessmaryland.org) (410-649-0500) and Healthy Howard (www. healthyhowardmd.org) (410-988-3737). These on-line marketplaces, along with the convenience and expanded competition among insurers that they will encourage, are important practical elements in advancing our progressive
vision. Another is the increased federal support to Maryland’s Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. These health centers will be a critical bridge to better health for the nearly 300,000 patients they served last year, one-quarter of whom were uninsured. I am confident that the outreach by these organizations will be substantial. Yet, I believe that our success will require the engagement of our faith communities, unions and social organizations if we truly are to get the job of insuring everyone accomplished. We have been fighting minority health disparities for decades. Now we have a president and a national healthcare policy that can save hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of lives. Tens of thousands of our neighbors here in central Maryland lack health insurance. Far too many of our infants are dying. Women and men alike who could be saved if they were afforded preventive care can now have access to the best healthcare facilities in the world. Here is a basic truth. While some are doing everything within their power to make healthcare reform fail, it will be the active engagement by our religious, social, labor and community leaders who can make these reforms succeed. I firmly believe that only these community leaders can assure that barriers to better health are broken down and relegated to the past. As President Obama recently reminded us from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, when we reach out to lift up our neighbors in life, we, too, are marching for civil rights. Brothers and Sisters, once again, it’s time to get marching. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.
Selling Out Black College Football to Make a Buck I cringed as the scores came in over the weekend. Ohio State 76, Florida A&M 0. Florida State 54, Bethune-Cookman 6. Miami 77, Savannah State 7. Our HBCUs have traded their proud, rich football heritage for money. And I don’t think it’s worth it. There’s only one reason our HBCUs schedule games against schools whose head coaches make more than their entire athletic budgets: they earn a big payday, even if that means being publicly George E. Curry humiliated. The irony is that the Southeastern Conference wouldn’t continue to have a lock on national football championships were it not for their Black players. And it wasn’t all that long ago that Blacks were as unwelcomed in the SEC as they were at KKK rallies. But when the University of Southern California’s Sam Cunningham ran for 135 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries in 1970 as USC routed Alabama 42-21 in Birmingham, the conference got the message that they couldn’t win without Black talent. Until then, if Black athletes wanted to play in the South, they had to attend HBCUs. It was never a question of talent. More than 1,200 players from Black colleges have played in the National Footall League, including 150 who have made it to the Super Bowl.
NFL stars from HBCUs include: Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley), Michael Strahan (Texas Southern), Walter Payton (Jackson State), Art Snell (University of Maryland Eastern Shore), Ed “Too Tall” Jones and Richard Dent (Tennessee State), Bob Hayes and Willie Galimore (Florida A&M), Donald Driver and Steve McNair (Alcorn State), Deacon Jones and Harry Carson (South Carolina State), John Stallworth (Alabama A&M), Mel Blount (Southern), Larry Little (Bethune-Cookman), Rayfield Wright (Fort Valley State), and L.C. Greenwood (University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff). Grambling’s Paul “Tank” Younger went to the L.A. Rams and became the first HBCU player to make it in the NFL. Grambling has four players in the NFL Hall of Fame: Willie Davis, Junious “Buck” Buchanan, Willie Brown and Charlie Joiner. Eddie Robinson coached Jim Harris, the first Black quarterback to start in the NFL and be named MVP of the Pro Bowl, and Doug Williams, the first Black quarterback to start in, win and become MVP of a Super Bowl. Football has always been a part of my life. I played quarterback at Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala., was quarterback and cocaptain of my football team at Knoxville College in Tenn., landed my first job in journalism at Sports Illustrated and wrote my first book about Jake Gaither, the legendary football coach at Florida A&M who won 85 percent of his games over 25 years and never had a losing season. I still love the game and have deep respect for Gaither, Robinson and John Merritt at Tennessee State, the giants of a bygone era. Gaither said that because of segregation, the only way he was able to prove the quality of his players was when they turned pro. That was true until Nov. 29, 1969 when Florida A&M played Tampa
University in the first game in the Deep South between a Black college and a predominantly White university. FAMU, the underdog, won 34-28. Unfortunately, most of our Black youth don’t know about the glory days of Black college football. I tried to help fill the gap in 1977 when I wrote, Jake Gaither: America’s Most Famous Black Coach. Recently, Vern Smith, a screenwriter and former Atlanta bureau chief for Newsweek, wrote a screenplay based on my book. We’re in the process of shopping the script, hoping to present the real story about Black college football. The best known movie about Black college football is “White Tiger,” a made-for-TV movie starring Bruce Jenner as the first White quarterback at previously all-Black Grambling College, now Grambling State University. In the movie, Harry Belafonte plays the role of Coach Eddie Robinson. The fact that a White actor was the star in a movie about Black college football is proof that Hollywood was never serious about telling our story. According to the Census Bureau, 53 percent of the Black population is under the age of 35. That means that more than half of African Americans were born after 1978. They don’t know anything about Jake Gaither, Eddie Robinson or John Merritt. All they see are the lopsided scores on Saturdays. Vern Smith and I hope to get our movie made if for no other reason than to let them know that it wasn’t always this way. George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.)
Urgency and Persistence Needed to Stop Gun Violence “There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate…I would like you to put my trauma center out of business. I really would. I would like to not be an expert on gunshots. Let’s get rid of this. This is not America.” – Dr. Janis Orlowski, MedStar Hospital, after treating gunshot victims of the Navy Yard massacre At only 24 years old Timothy Dawkins was already well respected in his hometown of Washington, D.C. as a young leader and youth organizer wise for his years. His colleague Trayon White, a District of Columbia State Board of Education member, described him to a reporter this way: “Tim was just very different. You’re talking about a young man who went to seminary school when he was 21. Someone who got married when he was 21. . . He was an old soul; a soldier.” Every July, clergy, seminarians, religious educators, young adult leaders, and other faith-based advocates for children gather for five
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days of spiritual renewal, networking, organizing and movement building training to address the urgent needs of children and examine what faith and community institutions can and must do to meet them. Timothy was there this year as part of the Children Defense Fund’s Young Advocate Leadership Training program, which connects young leaders committed to protecting children, and to social justice from across the country. Our 2013 theme was based on a biblical passage from the Hebrew prophet Micah: “[God] shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” For Timothy, the training to end the violence of guns and child poverty was deeply relevant: he was an activist in one of the District of Columbia’s poorest and most violence-stricken neighborhoods and he had already dedicated his life to answering the call to people of faith to combat violence; and make a difference. In his spare, time he could be found studying in the neighborhood library emulating role models like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sadly, just a few weeks after Timothy attended our training, he was shot and killed walking in his Southeast D.C. neighborhood at 6:30 on a summer evening. Police quickly suspected the gunfire was meant for someone else and not the unarmed seminary student known in the neighborhood as a peacemaker. But what difference does that make? His friend Trayon
White said, “Unfortunately he was a victim of ignorance. . . He was truly an example for our young people, and we need more examples, especially Black men, standing in the gap, because we’re lost out here.” Timothy left behind a wife and a two-year-old son. He also left a neighborhood and community that are richer because of his dedication and presence but also much poorer because of his senseless death. And he left a city and nation that have yet to stand up to the scourge of gun violence that kills or injures a child or teen every half hour and has killed more people in America in our unremitting civil war fueled by guns than all the declared wars against external enemies in our history. Just last week a man with mental illness wielding a sawed-off shotgun killed 12 people and injured eight before being killed himself in our nation’s capital. And there was the news of a mass shooting attack at a pick-up basketball game at a Chicago park that injured 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy who was left in critical condition. What is it going to take for us to stand up and say enough to this internal gun war of American against American? What is it going to take to create a mental health system that prevents such tragedies from happening over and over? What is it going to take for us to pass and enforce adequate gun safety laws? What is it going to take to love and protect human life, especially children more than guns? Is the doctor right that this is not America? Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund.
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The president and the first lady greet the crowd
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Judge Greg Mathis gives the invocation
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
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The Congressional Black Caucus Willie Jolley Foundation’s annual Phoenix Awards Dinner paid tribute Rep. Emanuel Cleaver to the legacy and (D-Mo.) and Pamela G. achievement of Alexander present the extraordinary Phoenix Award to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) individuals that have positively impacted the African American experience. Honorees were: Elaine Jones, former president and directorcounsel of the NAACP’s Legal Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Defense Fund, U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), former U.S. President Bill Clinton and the long list of civil rights martyrs who were killed in 1963. Kinsasha Cornwill, of the National Museum of African American History and Culture accepted Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) the latter award. President Obama served as the event’s keynote speaker.
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), emcees Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and the New York Contingent
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Musicians Stephanie and Marlon Jordon perform a selection
Debbie Jarvis and Beverly Perry
AFRO staffers Blair Adams, Lenora Howze, Avis Thomas-Lester and Ariel Medley
Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) Photos by Rob Roberts
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) with Lela Rochon-Fuqua, wife of Antoine Fuqua
Mereda Davis Johnson of, CBC Spouses with Antoine Fuqua and Event Chair Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) (center) and wife with some friends at the CBC Spouses Celebration of Leadership
Annual Legislative Conference Co-Chair and Rep. Donna Edwards(D-Md.), CBC Spouses Chairn Mereda Davis Johnson, Tananarive Due, Antoine Fuqua, CBC Chair Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), A. Shuanise Washington, president/CEO, CBCF, Carrie Mae Weems and Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La)
The spouses of Congressional Black Caucus members raised funds for fine arts scholarships Sept. 18 at the 17th Annual Celebration of Leadership in the Fine Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Honored at the celebration were director/producer Antoine Fuqua, author/ screenwriter Tananarive Due, and artist Carrie Mae Weems. Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings organized the event. Mereda Davis Johnson chairs the CBC Spouses.
CBC Spouses Chair Mereda Davis Johnson, Honoree Carrie Mae Weems, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, event chair and Deborah Willis
2013-2014 Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship Recipients: Levern Hamer, theatre; Tehvon Fowler- Chapman, music education; Kandace Wyatt, music and Kevin Cobb, painting
Mereda Davis Johnson, CBC Spouse and Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Event Chair (right) presents award to Honoree Tananarive Due
Rep. and Mrs. Elijah Cummings congratulate Antoine Fuqua (center)
CBC members, spouses, honorees and scholarship recipients Carrie Mae Weems, Debbie Bragg, Abbey Hairston, Verjeana Jacobs and Angela Clarke
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The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation(CBCF) 43rd Annual legislative Conference(ALC) hosted it’s Prayer Breakfast with guest speaker Rev. Dr. Marvin Sapp, an award winning gospel singer who pastor’s the Lighthouse Full Life Center Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. An overflow crowd filled Hall D oF the DC Convention Center. A special benediction was given by civil right icon, Rep. John Lewis. AME Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie greets Rev. Dr. Marvin Sapp, the keynote speaker; Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) in background
Rev. Dr. Myrtle Bowen (standing, right), pastor, Gilbraith AME Church with members of the congregation Lori George Billingsley, VP, Public Affairs and Communications, The Coca-Cola Company, Reps. Donna Edwards(D-Md.) and Cedric Richmond (D-La.),ALC Co-Chairs, and Ingrid Saunders Jones, chair, NCNW, retired Coca-Cola Co. chair
Members of the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Gospel Service
Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy performs Patrick Lundy and the Ministers of Music leading the Praise and Worship
Rev. Dr. Marvin Sapp, A. Shuanise Washington, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), chair, CBC, and Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.)
Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D--Ga.) (center) with Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) (left) and his family
Keynote speaker, Dr. Marvin L. Sapp, senior pastor, Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Actress/Author Victoria Rowell at an after prayer breakfast book signing with a book purchaser
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two siblings—one brother and one sister—was being raised by grandparents. “I grew up in the inner city of Boston—Dorchester-raised by my grandfather, grandmother and mother,” she told the AFRO. They instilled in her at an early age the importance of education, she said. Her schooldays were long, leaving home at 5 a.m. and not returning until 5 p.m. As part of the local effort to desegregate local schools she was bused far from home. “It was a busing program—an hour outside of Boston—that was founded in Massachusetts to increase diversity,” she said.
She attended DoverSherborn Regional High School, one of only three black girls in the school. “I was very active in high school, I was in the SGA and co-editor of the school newspaper.” Excelling in high school, performing at an academic pace ahead of some of her friends, she was awarded a scholarship to Tuskegee University; where she met the man who would become her husband. After losing her cousin when she was 14 to an act of street violence in Boston, she knew she wanted to pursue her education outside the Boston area.
“I wanted to get away from Boston,” she said. They met on the campus of Tuskegee University in the fall of 1998. Sharing the grief of losing loved ones at an early age forged a bond between the two. “When I first met Marilyn, I thought she was really beautiful,” he told the AFRO. “I thought she was really smart and had a strong drive, determination and was very ambitious.” “I thought Nick was a little obnoxious when I first met him,” she told the AFRO. “He was mister popular, he was Mr. Freshman, Mr. Sophomore and Mr. Junior.” “When I had the chance
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Nick and Marilyn Mosby working from home to sit and talk to him, I really liked him because he was very intellectual and we talked about a lot of social issues and from then I had a big crush on him,” she said. He said they dated throughout college and became engaged in 2004. The councilman journeyed back to Baltimore to jumpstart his career and his wife to be went back to her hometown to attend Boston University School of Law. “I would go to Boston every weekend,” he said. “After law school, I was offered positions in Boston, however since Nick already started his career in Baltimore there was no way I could convince him to move,” she said. Her interest in the criminal justice system stemmed from the death of her cousin. She said she followed his case and made sure the prosecution went smoothly. “I knew I always wanted to be a lawyer, it was just a matter of what type of lawyer
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Nick and Marilyn Mosby leading the Enough Is Enough Peace Rally I wanted to be,” she said. Still in law school, he brought his fiancé to Bolton Street in West Baltimore and said, “This is where I want to live, this is where I want to raise our kids.” “My family and friends thought I was crazy when we purchased the home,” he said. In 2004, their neighborhood consisted of several boarded
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up homes, and vacant properties. He said, “There was a tree growing inside of the house. That’s how bad it was.” She said she looked at the open-air drug market and the trash in the street and thought, “I’m not moving here.” But he insisted and made her look at the potential. He told me, “Everything that we are looking for we can do in Baltimore City.” In 2004, they purchased the place they now call home, gutting and building it into their dream home—which took two years to renovate. “We are in a great position, 2004 is very different than what it is today,” she said. “Reservoir Hill is an up and coming community, the history that is in Reservoir Hill, the potential is there.” She said he saw the potential not just on their block, but also for the neighborhood. The Mosby’s married Oct. 8, 2005 and have been living in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood for nearly seven years. “We are very comfortable,” he told the AFRO. He said, “Purchasing that home is one of the best decisions we made in our lives.”
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Councilman Nick Mosby (in suit) and St. Del. Shawn Tarrant (in red)
Kids doing “Frankenstein Walk” warm up
Under Armour product display trailer
NBA player Will Barton (#5) poses with the kids
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joined local residents Sept. 9 to debut the newly restored community basketball court at Easterwood Park Recreation Center. Renovations were made over the summer thanks to a partnership between Under Armor’s Win Baltimore Initiative and the NBA. Retired NBA Point Guard Sam Cassell and Will Barton of the Portland Trail Blazers also attended the debut. Both athletes are originally from Baltimore.
Kayla Brown, V’sheria Costley, Celestine Smith, Ty’tamara Williams, and Lanay Taylor Bob Wall (Dir. Balto. City Parks and Rec.)
Ribbon cutting for the new Basketball Court
Photos by J.D. Howard
Carver Voc.-Tech. H.S. students Khaleeq Clark, Raquante Womack, Kirk Sykes (Principal, Carver H.S.) and Shavaughn Rankine
Former NBA/ Dunbar H.S. player Sam Cassell and Sherron Bogues (Balto. City Parks and Rec.)
Easterwood Recreation Center
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski , Shelia Brooks and Stanley Tucker having breakfast with members of the Presidential Roundtable
Ronald Miles, Clarence “T.J.” Jeffers III, Osborne Dixon, Jr.
The Baltimore Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority recently held the Murphy Memorial Golf Classic Scholarship Benefit at the Forest Park Golf Course. The annual event, which celebrated its tenth anniversary, was renamed this year in honor of Delta founder Vashti Turley Murphy. The proceeds of the fundraiser provide four-year scholarships to youth in the Baltimore area.
Wanda Wickham, Exec. Dir., Calvin Mims, Armentha “Mike” Cruise, Maria Beckett, Robert L. Wallace, Jeff Hargrave, Stanley W. Tucker, James “Jim” Davenport. Seated: Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Shelia Brooks
Senior citizens came to event by the busload Dr. Jimmy Wood makes the shot as daughter, Vashti Jamaica, (background) and wife, Robin, look on Cong. Elijah Cummings introducing Cong. John Conyers
DST Murphy Memorial Scholarship Golf Classic committee
Mildred Long Harper, chair of the tournament welcomes the guests and golfers Delta warriors of 50 plus years, Bernice McDaniels and Dr. Ruth Pratt Charles Choo Smith, former Harlem Globetrotter amazes the crowd with his fancy ball dribbling
U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) met with members of the President’s Round Table (PRT) Sept. 9 to discuss issues impacting minority small businesses including sequestration, the importance of access to capital for small businesses and protecting the mission of the Minority Business Development Agency.
Del. Shawn Tarrant tries his hand
Honorary chairs Dr. James Wood, Valerie Fraling, Sen. Catherine Pugh, Eleanor Matthews, president, Dr. Miles Harrison
Marjorie Jennings, vice chair of the DST Murphy Scholarship Golf Classic
Sean Hanrahan (Under Armour Rep.) speaks to kids.
Alice Taylor and president Matthews call the door prize winner Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine
Bishop Dr. Douglas I. Miles
Joanne Corte Grossi (Reg. Dir. Dept. of HHS)
Omega Psi Phi Frat. members prepare refreshments.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings hosted the “Making Good Health My Reality” town hall meeting on Sept. 14 at the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business. The event, which was attended by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, included sessions on healthcare and the Affordable Care Marilyn Bevans (Former Md. Act, massage marathon winner) and stations, health Ernestine Sheppard screenings and (body builder /personal a moon bounce trainer) obstacle for the youth and more.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown
Fresh fruits and vegetables were given to participants
Dr. Oxiris Barbot (Balto. City Health Comm.)
Cong. Robert Scott answers questions during lunch.
Cong. Elijah Cummings greets attendees Photos by Anderson R. Ward
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Black Love That Stands the Test of Time By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer The love story of Irene and Christopher Wright reads like that whirlwind romance novel where The Johns Hopkins Hospital nurse visits the Big Apple and marries her husband six months later. Except, in this casethat’s exactly what actually happened. After getting lost in New York City with a group of lady friends from work, a relative of one of the women in the crew, an ex-cop, was on hand to help the women back to the family home in Harlem. “When we got there he told them I was going to be his wife,” Irene Wright told the AFRO, of a union that budded in October of 1993. Two weeks and she was back for more sightseeing. That tour ended in the diamond district. Six months later, the couple wed on an April day. “I went on faith. I’m the type of person that prays for something and God just blesses you. It was crazy, but I tell people I had a fairytale wedding,” said Irene, who is now 49 and working in the JHU pediatric emergency department.
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Irene and Christopher Wright share a wedding photo from April 29, 1994. At the time, the two had only known each other for six months. Christopher Wright, 53, said his wife captured him with her personality and spirit. And he couldn’t have been more on the money. He gambled and he chose right. These days everyone isn’t so fortunate. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that the marriage rate
for every 1,000 Americans was 7.1 in 2008 and then 6.8 from 2009 until 2011. The divorce rate in 2008 and 2009 was 3.5, and had a slight uptick to 3.6 in 2010 and 2011. Today, the Wrights say their love has stood the test of time in large part because of their faith in God, their support of each other – even
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through multiple educational degrees--and the fact that they balance each other out. Having that stability is something Doris and Ellis Brown know a lot about. Their connection flourished in the heart of Ghana under military rule when the two were brought together by a need to serve through the Peace Corps is Africa. Over talk of Kwame Nkrumah and amid the days of political change following a 1981 coup, the two became lovers. They married on the ninth day of April the very next year. Thirty years, three children, two successful careers and a grandchild later, they, too, are proof that Black marriages can last. “If I could have drawn a picture of the woman I wanted and given it to God saying ‘This is what I want’ – it would have been Doris,” said Brown, now the acting director of Morgan State University’s community and economic development initiative, the Morgan Community Mile. “Girls weren’t wearing ‘I Heart Nerds’ tee shirts back then, or watching shows like ‘The Big Bang Theory,’” said Brown, who likes the fact that “geeks” are getting more time in the spotlight these days. “We had a lot of the same interests,” said Doris Brown, relaxing in the couple’s West Baltimore home on a lazy Sunday. Now a grants accountant at Morgan State, she said she “just knew” when it came to her dashiki-wearing future husband. “He just felt like the right guy. No alarm bells went off and he was patient, gentle.” Being so far away from family turned out to be a good thing in their opinions, because it forced them to rely on each other and learn how to deal with problems without
bringing in family members or friends. The Browns say that the fact that they married and decided to marry for the long term has helped their union last-- a feat one Prince George’s couple in Lake
is that they need to be equally yolked.” The couple said that they have kept their connection strong by being deep-rooted in the same faith, and by becoming partners on nearly everything.
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After three decades of marriage, Doris and Ellis Brown are still growing strong. Arbor, Md. says impacts the lives of many others. “When you don’t have a good relationship it is destructive to the generations,” said 79-year-old Donna J. Dean, wife of former Prince George’s County Council member Samuel H. Dean. “My advice to younger generations
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Before getting married, Donna J. Dean and her husband, Samuel H. Dean, were friends for 12 years after meeting at work.
“The strongest aspect of our marriage is that we are extremely close friends,” said Samuel Dean. “We do everything together. At least 99 percent of the things we do, we do as partners. There used to be a joke when I was on city council that you got two for one.” Still today, one can rarely be seen without the other, as they are now partners in a third-party energy supply company. “We share information with each other and even when we have disagreements we make sure that we resolve those issues. We start off each day with a clean slate.” “Our marriage did not happen overnight. We say we’re upset and once we resolve it, it’s put behind us. We don’t bring it back up or internalize stuff.” The couple will celebrate 29 years of marriage on Nov. 10 of this year.
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A Moment of Style for Men During CBC’s ALC
gentlemen. Stylish honorees included Guy Lambert, WPGC 95.5 news director; Lance London, owner of Carolina Kitchen, Southern cuisine restaurant; Cory Dressed in his Italian, Brim, CEO of Sugar Rim Bar, a mobile bartending black, custom-made Prince company; Damon Scott, CEO of Intelligent Black Men, Louis Paris suit, Richard an event planning service. W. Glover, chairman of Shoe designer Franklin Samuels, founder of Liam DC Fashion Foundation, Michael Shoes, said he created the firm to meet what explained recently that men he perceived as a fashion need. “Men wore square-toed are fashionable creatures, too. shoes back in the day, and I hated it. So I decided to “I wanted to bring men make my own line.” together with fashion using Liam Michael Shoes, named after his son Liam style,” Glover said at this Michael, were showcased at the pin-striped, well-suited year’s Honoring Men of affair. The pointy-toed shoe, purchased by acclaimed Style event held at the Cities actor Laurence Fishburne last year at Howard Theatre, Restaurant on 19th Street, comes in ebony, chestnut brown, and mahogany hues, and N.W. It is a gathering that is is priced between $125 and $220 at Sal’s Boutique in the “designed to honor and build high-end Georgetown corridor. the men’s style society,” he It’s rare to find a fashion forward event that’s said, characterizing the men male-dominated. “I just wanted to do something in attendance as gentlemen different,” said event co-chair Dave Rich, CEO of Rich who define “the art of Entertainment. manliness,” he said. Christine Brooks-Cropper, president of DCFF, said, Photos by Spencer Levi Peace Glover of BLIS FM’s “The DCFF Chairman Richard Glover (front, left) “I saw Richard’s vision with Men’s’ Style Society, and Cellar” radio show and his went with it. He was the brainchild of this wonderful pose with his well suited honorees and friend Dave Rich, CEO of event. He is the chairman of my board therefore I support guests. Rich Entertainment, presented him.” Glover already has plans, he explained, for an even the third annual Men’s Style Society event Sept. 18 during the 43rd Annual bigger, more awarding event next year. Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. The DC Fashion Foundation (DCFF) is a 501(c) Present at the Cities Restaurant was a phalanx of male “fashionistos,” (3) non-profit organization created by the Greater trendsetters, and representatives of fashion designers like Liam Michael Shoes Washington Fashion Chamber of Commerce in June 2009 for men and d’Oro Prive’, a fashion line specializing in shoes and jewelry. to support the Washington, D.C. area fashion community. Distinguished gentlemen show off their attire And at this chic, private, evening affair emceed by comedienne Shawn Mason for the evening. The DC Fashion Foundation conducts Camp Runway, Spence, not a single attendee was underdressed. Fashionable supporters and an educational summer program for youth, the Fashion sponsors walked the red-carpet, drank cocktails, and snapped photos at the partially outdoor Academy, and the Sew N’ Know After School Program. In addition, DCFF performs workforce venue. training initiatives, and offers networking and mentoring opportunities for aspiring fashion The ascot and bow-tied evening continued as Glover presented awards to the distinguished professionals and entrepreneurs. By Ashley D. Diggs AFRO Staff Writer
‘Four’ Film Review
Ill-Advised Liaisons in Day-in-the-Life Drama
By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO
It’s the Fourth of July in suburbia where we find 16 year-old Abigayle (Aja Naomi King) caring for her bedridden mother (Yolonda Ross) while her father Joe’s (Wendell Pierce) job has taken him out of town. Normally, Joe can trust his dutiful
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mall over for what he arrogantly expects to be an intimate encounter. Dexter (E.J. Bonilla) is a former, high school basketball star whose glory days ended abruptly when he graduated from high school. He’s been in a drug-fueled, downward spiral ever since, and all that he has going for him is an ability to charm gullible young girls. But when Abby has second thoughts about succumbing to Dexter’s powers of seduction so easily, she talks him into taking her out for a ride. Meanwhile, her dad isn’t really away on business, but up to monkey business on the other side of town. Turns out Joe is secretly bisexual and has hooked up with a gay kid (Emory Cohen) he met online who is also in the closet but obviously
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inexperienced and needs to be shown the ropes. Thus unfolds Four, a compelling character-driven drama about a very eventful day in the lives of four lost souls each searching for a little independence on Independence Day. The movie marks the auspicious writing and directorial debut of recent Columbia Film School grad Joshua Sanchez. A cautionary tale featuring spectacular Fourth of July fireworks of the emotional variety. Very Good HHH Rated R for sexuality, profanity and brief drug use Running time: 75 minutes Distributor: 306 Releasing
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resilient, receptive And relevAnt The AfricAn-AmericAn consumer
2013 reporT Nielsen and the National Newspaper Publishers Association have strategically collaborated for three years to present an annual in-depth analytical report on the African-American consumer. The reports have become widely respected throughout the industry, and have created more conscious consumers. The following four pages are excerpts from the full 32-page report, which is available for download at www.nielsen.com.
Overview Black buying power continues to increase, rising from its current $1 trillion level to a forecasted $1.3 trillion by 2017.1 African-Americans have unique preferences from the total U.S. population that makes them an important group to watch. Of the $75 billion spent on television, radio, internet, and magazine advertising only $2.24 billion was spent with media focused on Black audiences. Black businesses, agencies, and media continue to wrestle with this disparity as it is not reflective of the overall high consumption patterns and behavioral trends of the Black consumer.
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Philadelphia, PA Baltimore, MD Washington, DC
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Raleigh, NC Columbia, SC Atlanta, GA
Black women continue to grow their importance to the Black community. Black women Head of Households represent 29% of all Black households, compared to 20% for the overall population.2 Women control 43% of the annual spending power for the Black population, and own the majority of Black businesses. 1
of blaCks live in the south
of blaCk population is under the age of 35
The Black population, on average, is three years younger than their peers, with an average age of 35 compared to 38. More than half of the population, 53%, is under the age of 35, compared to 47% of the Total Market population.
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44% higher spend on Education and Career websites
L’Oréal: $52,341
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McDonald’s: $38,241
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37% higher spend on television (with a special emphasis on cable)
Unilever: $31,488
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15% higher spend on mobile phone advertising
U.S. Government: $28,369
Companies mistakenly believe beCause there are no language barriers that a general market “one-size-fits-all” strategy is an effeCtive way to reaCh afriCanameriCans. Just the opposite is true.
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43 m aBouT nielsen Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence and mobile measurement. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www. nielsen.com. aBouT nnpa The National Newspaper Publishers Association, also known as the Black Press of America, is a 73-year-old federation of nearly 200 Black community newspapers from across the United States.
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Shaq Buys Minority Share of Sacramento Kings
By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor
Former National Basketball Association star center Shaquille O’Neal has returned to the NBA, this time with a seat in the owner’s box. According to USA TODAY Sports, O’Neal recently purchased a minority percentage of the Sacramento Kings, officially adding the title of NBA team owner to his long portfolio of accomplishments. USA TODAY Sports reported that O’Neal’s minority ownership rights are effective as of Sept. 23 where he will Shaquillle O’Neal travel to Sacramento to meet with the Kings players, coaches and principle owner, Vivek Ranadive, who heads the group that purchased the Kings for $535 million earlier this year.
“As I began to love myself, I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT.” —Charlie Chaplin “Sitting in the park waiting for you” at the 26th annual “picnic in the park” (the winter picnic in Patapsco) hosted by 5 Women & 2 Guys; Blandette Lynch, Maxine Turnipseed, Everlon Moulton, Yvonne West, Libby Massey, Willard Wright and Victor Green. “Surry down to a stoned soul picnic, surry down to a stoned soul picnic. There’ll be lots of time and wine. Red, yellow, honey sassafras and moonshine.” —Laura Nyro Among the 100 plus people in attendance were
Rhoda Fassett, Mack McGowan, Sara Smalley, Wanetah Wilkins, Doug and Linda Hollis, Jean and Wallace Dennis, Eunice Robinson, Freddi Vaughn, Yolanda Crawley, Walt and Queen Carr, Jackie Brock, Harold Darden, Salima Marriott, Mattie and Jerry Burton, Curtis McMeekin, Maxwell Anderson and Charles Alexander. The weather was perfect as we sipped champagne and dined on assorted salads, salmon and grilled foods from the beautifully decorated tables. “You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the @#* %&#! plate
and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.” —Earl Weaver Calvert Hall student Darrien Henson’s 16th birthday party at Oriole Park Camden Yard was a fantasy party for his friends, classmates and family. Give me some peanuts and cracker jacks… The popcorn, peanuts and cracker jacks whetted the hearty appetites of the forty teenagers sitting outside on the balcony. “A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.” —Humphrey Bogart After the second inning, mounds of hot dogs, turkey, Boog’s pit beef, Caesar salad,
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“I wanted to find somebody to add to the ownership group who truly represented 21st century basketball, who represented my vision of NBA 3.0, which is having an understanding of technology, wanting to build a global brand and being global in their thinking, and really being committed to having an impact in the community,” Ranadive told USA TODAY Sports. Ironically, O’Neal was known for abusing the Kings during much of his playing career. He dominated the Kings almost annually during his tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers, causing the Kings to play second fiddle while the Lakers went on to win three NBA championships from 2000-02. He also verbally bashed the Sacramento franchise, referring to them as the Sacramento “Queens” during an interview in 2002. Now he’s making it his personal responsibility to turn the Kings into one of the premiere attractions in the NBA. “I’ve always wanted to be part of something like this. … It’s going to be great,” Shaq told the USA TODAY Sports reporter. Reports say O‘Neal has already scheduled a private dinner meeting with the most high-profiled player on the Kings roster, center DeMarcus Cousin, to establish a mentorship with the young star.
wings and cookies arrived to the delight of the young baseball fans. Guests young and old were delighted when the Oriole bird visited the suite for a photo op. “un bel di (one beautiful day)” —Madame Butterfly Enjoying the afternoon were Darrien’s dad Darren Henson, grandparents Del and Dan Henson, Chantel and Landy Fernandez with children Kyla, Kiersten, Kennedy, Kristian Boone, Tiffany Boone, Eric Henson, Bryanna Henson, Daniel Henson, Lonnie Spruill, Cheryl Hitchcock, Reginald Thomas, Jaylen Fuller, Kerin Moses, Zack Novak, Jacob Schneider, Jacob Boch, Anthony Rorrick, Quinton, Rutherford, The McManus’ family Maddie, Wilson, Connor, Jay, Gabby and Grayson and Rick. The look on Darrien’s face when Aunt Dana Henson presented him with a pair of blue boxing gloves worn by Floyd Mayweather doing his training sessions with a personal greeting and a picture of Floyd wearing the
prized gloves. “A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.” —Earl Wilson “… Go to war, Miss Agnes…”— Chuck Thompson The Orioles won in the 10th inning and as we slowly headed to our cars, Darriens’ crew bounded past us heading to their party bus for the ride back to Calvert Hall, full of teenage energy. “Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.” —Adrienne Clarkson Ben Lewis, president of the National Iota Foundation, Iota Phi Theta founders Lonnie Spruill, Frank Coakley, John Slade and first line members Willie Barber, Richard Johnson and Jeff Johnson joined International Grand Polaris-Elect Robert Clark and hundreds of guests at the unveiling of a monument erected in the exact location the fraternity was founded in 1963 on the
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campus of Morgan State. The monument’s conception originated from the late Brother Ron G. Jones. Iota brothers Joe Shelton Hall and Thomas “Tex” Dean were the moderators for this momentous occasion. “It’s a beautiful night, We’re looking for something dumb to do; Hey baby I think I wanna marry you…” — Bruno Mars “Wedding bells are ringing” for Wynter Towns, daughter of Stephanie Covington and Marcus Towns as she prepares to walk “down the aisle” to marry her soulmate Charles Eddington. “To return home at eventide with gratitude; and then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.” —Khalil Gibran on love Congratulations to Wayne Nichols and his bride Chrystal Smith as they start their life together “always and forever.” “The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.” —Oscar Wilde Happy birthday! Eric Stewart, Dr. Charles Griffin, Marshall Bell, Herb Brown, my grandson Damien Lee and my sister Karen Johnson Chase. “Fo’ Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We’s got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin’ ‘bout bringin’ babies.” —Prissy, Gone with the Wind Brenda and Donald Abrams are ecstatic over the arrival of their second grandson, born to elated parents Nicholas and Leah Abrams. “And baby makes three…” —Dahlia Rose Jubilant grandparents Libby and John Massey welcomed the arrival of granddaughter Madison Helen Massey to proud new parents Erin Simms and John Chandler Massey. “As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health; food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first, I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF.” —Charlie Chaplin American Diabetes Ambassador Tyrone Qualls and Enoch Pratt Free Library is presenting the Live Empowered Workshop Series to educate people on living a healthier lifestyle. Call 410396-0942 for information. “I’ll be seeing you” — Valerie & the Friday Night Bunch
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Baltimore Book Festival 2013 Mount Vernon Place, 600 block of North Charles Street, Baltimore. Various times. The Mid-Atlantic’s premier celebration of the literary arts offers well-known authors, local bookstores, publishers, children’s writers, storytellers, author signings and entertainment. For a schedule and times, visit: Baltimorebookfestival. com.
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Baltimore Family Reunion Expo 2013 Frederick DouglassIsaac Myers Maritime Park, 1417 Thames St., Baltimore. 12 p.m. Come out for the first annual Family Reunion Expo. Get resources, information on hotel packages and tips for planning the perfect family reunion. $5. For more information: Baltimoreunionexpo. com.
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Kappa Alpha Psi Bull Roast and Day Party Morgan State University Center, Tyler Ballroom, 1700 E. Coldspring Lane, Baltimore, 2-6 p.m. The Baltimore Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi will host their annual fall fundraising event. $67. For more information: www.eventbrite.com.
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NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Contract 912-Improvements to the Eastern Portion of the Low Level Sewershed will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, September 20, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 751 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is G90099-Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining and B02552-Sewer Construction Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $10,000,000.01 to $15,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 300 Abel Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on September 30, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. The CCTV videos of the sewers included in this project will be made available for viewing/copying to interested parties at the office of KCI Technologies, Inc., 936 Ridgebrook Road, Sparks, MD 21152 (410) 316-7800. Refer to IB-9 for additional details. Principal Item of work for this project are: Sewer Cleaning and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Inspection Cured-in-Place Pipe (CIPP) Lining of Sanitary Sewers Excavate and Replace Segments of Sanitary Sewer via Point Repairs Manhole Repair and Rehabilitation Work Sewer House Connection (SHC) Repair and Rehabilitation Work New Manhole and Cleanout Installation Work The MBE goal is 17% The WBE goal is 16% SANITARY CONTRACT 912 APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Alfred H. Foxx Director of Public Works
TYPESET: Tue Sep 24 18:20:28 EDT 2013 BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND INVITATION FOR BIDS CONTRACT NO. 13176 PO0 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT PROJECT JEFFERSON BUILDING STANDBY GENERATOR 105 WEST CHESAPEAKE AVENUE, TOWSON, MARYLAND 21204 TOWSON - DISTRICT 9 c 5 CONTRACT COST GROUP ”D ($1,000,000 to $2,500,000)” WORK CLASSIFICATION: I-4 BID DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013 AT 2:00 P.M. EST On or after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013 the above contract documents may be inspected and purchased from the Division of Construction Contracts Administration, Department of Public Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of payment of $30.00 (THIRTY DOLLARS) per contract. All checks should be made payable to BALTIMORE COUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any questions to 410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another source other than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proposals to Baltimore County. The proposed work consists of: Furnish all labor and materials required for the installation of One (1) roof top standby generator. A pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. EST in Room 300 B of the County Office Building. Located at 111 West Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204. THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTIL I Z AT I O N G O A L S . T H E S E G O A L REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY EXPLAINED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS IN THE PROPOSAL BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED AT THE TIME OF BID OPENING. Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County, Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore County Purchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 Washington Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at which time they will be publicly opened and read. ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS. All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ”Information for Bidders”. No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable. The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposals or bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemed best for the interest of the County. Keith Dorsey, Director Office of Budget & Finance
CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BUREAU OF WATER AND WASTEWATER NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Contract 913-Improvements to the Western Portion of the Sanitary Sewers in the Low Level Sewershed will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, September 20, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 751 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is G90099Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining and B02552-Sewer Construction Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 300 Abel Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on October 2, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. The CCTV videos of the sewers included in this project will be made available for viewing/copying to interested parties at the office of Hazen and Sawyer, P.C., 1 South Street, Suite 1150, Baltimore, MD 21201 (410) 539-7681. Refer to IB-9 for additional details. Principal Item of work for this project are: Sewer Cleaning and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Inspection Cured-in-Place Pipe (CIPP) Lining of Sanitary Sewers Excavate and Replace Segments of Sanitary Sewer via Point Repairs Manhole Repair and Rehabilitation Work Sewer House Connection (SHC) Repair and Rehabilitation Work New Manhole and Cleanout Installation Work The MBE goal is 12% The WBE goal is 4% SANITARY CONTRACT 913 APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVES: Alfred H. Foxx Director ofTue Public TYPESET: SepWorks 24 18:22:17 EDT 2013
CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for GS 13808-Library No. 28 Generator Access and Fueling will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, September 20, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.C onditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 751 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is E13001-Three-Story and Under Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $25,000.00 to $100,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at The Site, 4330 Edmondson Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21229 on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 10:00 A.M.Principal Items of work for this project are: 1. Structural Steel 2. Roofing 3. Plumbing (For Fuel) The MBE goal is 18% The WBE goal is 0% CONTRACT NO. GS 13808 APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Steve Sharkey Director, Department of TYPESET: Tue Sep 24 18:27:16 EDT 2013 General Services Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Public Affairs Officer II Faith Based Community Outreach Liaison http://jobaps.com/md Recruitment#: 13-002378-006 Filing Deadline: October 3, 2013, 11:59pm Salary: $39,366 - 50,857/year (Grade 15/base - step 9) Work that matters. DHCD is a national leader in affordable housing and community development. This position will promote and inform Maryland families of the diverse portfolio of programs and services offered by the DHCD; including Maryland Mortgage Program, Foreclosure Prevention, Neighborhood Revitalization, Weatherization, Military, Business and Faith-Based Outreach. Visit the link above to view required qualifications and apply online. EOE
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Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for TR14016; STRUCTURAL REPAIRS ON BRIDGES CITYWIDE will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. OCTOBER 23, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prerequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at Room 634, Charles L. Benton Bldg. , 417 E. Fayette St., Baltimore, Maryland 21202 . If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is C03300 Concrete Construction and C05100 Structural Steel Erection.Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $500,000.00 to $1,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on OCTOBER 4, 2013 at 417 East Fayette Street, 7th Floor Richard Baker Room, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Principal Items of work for this project are Maintenance of Traffic - L.S.; Materials or Preservation and Minor Rehabilitation L.S.; Equipment for Preservation and Minor Rehabilitation - L.S. The MBE goal is 27%; WBE goal is 8%
Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for TR14005 RESURFACING HIGHWAYS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS SECTOR I will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. OCTOBER 23, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at the Eastern Avenue Pumping Station, 751 Eastern Avenue and President St, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is A02601, Bituminous Concrete Paving and D02620, Curbs, Gutters & Sidewalks. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $2,000,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on OCTOBER 10, 2013 at the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E. Fayette Street, 7th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201. Principal Items of work for this project are: Removal of HMA 0-3” Depth 9,500S.Y.; Hot Mix Asphalt Superpave - Surface Various Types 1,300TONS. The MBE goal is 22% The WBE goal is 9% APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk Board of Estimates
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CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for TR14008 RESURFACING HIGHWAYS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS SECTOR IV will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. OCTOBER 23, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of SEPTEMBER 27, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $75.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at the Eastern Avenue Pumping Station, 751 Eastern Avenue and President St, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is A02601, Bituminous Concrete Paving and D02620, Curbs, Gutters & Sidewalks. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $2,000,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on OCTOBER 10, 2013 at the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E. Fayette Street, 7th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201. Principal Items of work for this project are: Removal of HMA 0-3” Depth 9,500S.Y.; Hot Mix Asphalt Superpave - Surface Various Types 1,300TONS. The MBE goal is 23% The WBE goal is 8% APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk Board of Estimates
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Director of Inspections & Permits GIS Specialist Management Aide Technical Services Manager Watershed Environmental Control Inspection Supervisor Watershed Protection & Restoration Fee Support GIS Specialist Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional information and to apply on-line. You may use the Internet at any Anne Arundel County library, or visit our office at 2660 Riva Road in Annapolis. AEO/DF/SFE
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BALTIMORE FAMILY REUNION EXPO Family Reunion Planning in Baltimore Has Never Been Easier!
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Join us on September 28, 2013 in Baltimore for the First Annual Family Reunion Expo. Get resources, information on hotel packages and tips for planning the perfect family reunion all in one place.
September 28, 2013 Noon to 8PM
glass-Isaac Myers Where: Frederick Dou Maritime Park 231 , MD 21 23 1417 Thames St., Baltimore
Cost:
$5 per person
For more details on the Baltimore Family Reunion Expo, visit BaltimoreReunionExpo.com.
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- Ultimate line dancing with Randy Dennis - Live performances by Chico Debarge and Milkshake - Relationship Seminar with Bern Nadette Stanis from “Good Times” - Games and more with Clifton Davis from “Amen”
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