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Thousands from around the United States gathered in Washington D.C. to participate in the 1,000 Ministers March for Justice on Aug. 28.

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A larger than expected group of marchers, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, converged on Washington D.C. to protest the policies of President Donald J. Trump on Aug. 28.

The Ministers’ March for Justice occurred on the 54th anniversary of

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the 1963 March on Washington where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech. Sharpton said that the event had a special purpose.

“This nation is in moral trouble,” he said. “We have people who want to take health care from their momma because they didn’t like Obama. That is why I have called 1,000 rabbis, sheiks, imams and Christian ministers to come to Washington.”

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“No. Hell no.

We refuse to go back on the progress that we have made.”

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As more than 5,000 clergy members from throughout the United States stood in front the FBI and Justice Department buildings to advocate for judicial equity, many ministers agreed that the next steps in gaining equality and fairness for people of color, in what has been more than a century-long battle, is voting and grass roots organization.

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By The Associated Press Harvey’s floodwaters started dropping across much of the Houston area and the sun came out Aug. 30 in a glimmer of hope for the stricken city, even

1,000 Ministers March for Justice.

“There has to be a stop gap measure to stop these crazy things going on at the executive level,” King told the AFRO. “The only way you stop that is through Congress and the Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House.

“If people come out and vote like they have never have before things will

On Aug. 28, 54 years after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and talked about America making empty promises and writing bad checks to people of color, his son, Martin Luther King III, with the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network; the Rev. Jesse Jackson; the Rev. Michael Eric Dyson; the Rev. Otis Moss; and other ministers convened in Washington D.C. for the

as the storm doubled back toward land and pounded communities farther east, near the Texas-Louisiana line.

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Vast Sea of Humanity Raises Cry for ‘Freedom’Continued on A2 241,000 join in fervent appeal to Congress

By Mary Stratford WASHINGTON The cry was “freedom!”

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Minister Farrakhan Did Not Accept Jesus Christ

By J. K. Schmid Special to the AFRO International speculation abounds over an 88 second video of Louis Farrakhan, Sr., the longtime face of the Nation of Islam, uploaded to his official Facebook page on Aug. 22.

“I know that my Redeemer liveth,” Farrakhan said. “I know, I’m not guessing, that my Jesus is alive.”

News organizations such as The Christian Post and Canada Free Press have interpreted the remarks to mean that Minister Farrakhan may be vacillating on his faith or he may be outright converting to Christianity.

Leonardo Blair, writing Continued on A4

On the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington over 5,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. for the 1000 Ministers March for Justice. The below story recounts the Aug. 28, 1963 march on Washington at which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the featured speakers.

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The legions marched.

Some 241,000 singing, clapping, praying, marching Americans, Protestants, Jews, Catholics, black and white, flew, walked, Continued on A3

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By Kamau High AFRO Managing Editor khigh@afro.com Michael Symonette is the Bible-quoting, conspiracy-obsessed Black man who is often prominently behind Donald Trump at public rallies. While there he holds up a sign that says “Blacks for Trump.”

Symonette, who also goes by the monikers “Michael the Black Man” and “Maurice Symonette,” runs the website www.Gods2.com, which promotes multiple conspiracy theories, such as Republicans who are opposed to Donald Trump are secretly Cherokees and Mormons and that Cherokees “are the real KKK Slave Masters, not White Gentiles.”

Symonette was directly behind Donald Trump at his rally on Aug. 22 in Phoenix, Ariz. He told radio station WLS-AM 890 after the event: “Bill Clinton, he’s a Cherokee Indian, you probably already know that. Even John McCain himself is a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. The men that are blocking President Trump that are in the Republican and Democrat Senate and Congress are all Cherokees and they’re in unity.”

Last October, Trump singled out Symonette at rally in Florida.

“Look at those signs behind me,” Trump said. “Blacks for Trump. I like those signs.”

According to the Miami New Times, Symonette is also a former member of the Nation of Yahweh cult, a Black supremacist new religious movement founded by Yahweh ben Yahweh, the adopted name of Hulon Mitchell Jr., who was charged, along with Symonette, with committing two murders in the 1990s in Florida. Symonette was acquitted while Mitchell was given a 20-year sentence, according to the Miami New Times. Mitchell died of prostate cancer in 2007

A planned right-wing rally in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge that was downgraded to a news conference at a small park fizzled further on Aug. 26, after San Francisco police swarmed the park and city workers erected a fence around it.

An organizer for the group Patriot Prayer later spoke in suburban Pacifica with a handful of supporters, after civic leaders and police in San Francisco repeatedly voiced concerns that they would draw angry counter-protesters and spark violence in the area known as the cradle of the free speech movement.

Organizer Joey Gibson denied his group was looking for trouble.

He said members had received anonymous threats on social media and feared civic leaders and law enforcement would fail to protect them.

“My hope is to be able to talk to normal citizens without all the extremists,” Gibson, who identifies as Japanese American, said at the news conference.

Other speakers included African Americans, a Latino and a Samoan American. Several said they support Donald Trump and want to join with moderates to promote understanding and free speech.

The pivots by the group didn’t deter more than 1,000 left-wing counter-protesters from descending on Alamo Square park, where they suspected right-wing supporters still might show up.

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San Francisco officials took further steps Aug. 26 to prevent violence ahead of a planned news conference by a right-wing group. Officials erected fencing and a large contingent of police monitored Alamo Square park, where the group Patriot Prayer was set to hold its event.

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Ministers March Continued from A1 The march took place two weeks after the Charlottesville, Va., disturbance in which a woman, Heather Heyer, was allegedly murdered by a White supremacist who used his car to recklessly mow through a group counter-protesting in opposition of a White supremacist rally on Aug. 13. Sharpton indicated that in spite of the Charlottesville, Va. tragedy, the planning for the Ministers’ March had been taking place for months.

The Rev. Leslie Copeland-Tune, the director of the Ecumenical Poverty Initiative, told a crowd of about 5,000 at the pre-march rally that was held near the grounds of the King Memorial on the National Mall, that the Trump conservative agenda is unacceptable.

“No. Hell no. We refuse to go back on the progress that we have made,” Copeland-Tune said. She said that prayer is a potent weapon of protest.

“While we march, we are praying,” she said. “Our prayer is protest against this administration.”

The Rev. Jamal Bryant is the senior pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore and he spoke at the pre-march rally sporting a San Francisco 49ers jersey

of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who hasn’t signed with a NFL team because of his activism on Black causes. Bryant denounced pro-Trump evangelists Paula White and Jerry Falwell Jr., for characterizing Trump as “God’s Man.” “We as a nation are rising,” Bryant said.

“Donald Trump, we are coming.”

The march started at the King Memorial and went east on Independence Ave., S.W. until it got to 17th Street., S.W. and then it proceeded north to Constitution Avenue., N.W. The march stayed on Constitution until it got to 15th Street., N.W. and then it went north for one block until it got to Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. On Pennsylvania, the march proceeded east and stopped for a two-minute prayer in front of the Trump International Hotel. Then they went a block to the northwest entrance of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The actual procession had a touch of the District in it with D.C. Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) in the front, with D.C. Statehood Sen. Michael Brown (D) close behind and the Alpha Omega chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity serving as the

marshals for the succession.

At the Justice Department, Southern Christian Leadership Conference president The Rev. Charles Steele said his organization wants every state capitol to have a statute of King.

Sharpton, in his address, said that in order to fight the Trump agenda and prepare for the 2018 election cycle, “we will organize church by church, mosque by mosque and synagogue by synagogue.”

Sharpton said he didn’t want a turnout of hundreds of thousands but wanted to focus on the faith leaders.

“These are the leaders who represent real folks,” he said. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood but principalities, wickedness and the powers of darkness in high places.”

Martin Luther King, III, the oldest son of King, talked about the country’s economic inequality.

“Since the Great Recession that took place almost 10 years ago, the wealthy have done well while millions are seeking a recovery,” he said. “During my father’s speech, he called for a march for revolution of values and we are doing the same here.”

King, III also said that the District should be a state and “now is the time to stand up for justice and stand against injustice.”

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and 1988, said that Trump is indifferent “to our rights.”

“Seventy-eight percent of the people are living paycheck to paycheck,” Jackson said.

“We are privatizing schools and prisons. We need and deserve a better government.”

The rally at the Justice Department ended with a mass singing of “We Shall Overcome.”

Students from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Ala., took the bus and rode 13 hours to attend the march. The students wore Black shirts with “This is My HBCU” on the front.

“After the events in Charlottesville, students approached me about coming to participate in the march,” The Rev. Dedrick Blue, dean of the school of religion at Oakwood, told the AFRO. “There are 25 students that came and they are all theology students. They wanted to become engaged about what was happening and I am so proud of them.”

Black Clergy Continued from A1 change. Now we really don’t have a choice to some degree.”

While Sharpton and the civil rights veterans were speaking, King noted that there must be more of an effort to reach Bishop Harry Jackson and a diverse coalition of ministers out to Whites who are part of Trump’s core support groups. held a discussion at the National Press Club to announce their “There are a whole lot of poor White folks engaged in this agenda to push Trump to be more engaged with the Black hostility. If people have opportunities and jobs they are likely community. “The fruit of the churches’ apathy and lack of a to engage less in foolishness,” King said. consistent unified action to heal the racial divide has brought “We were at a Unitarian us to where we are today,” Church in Charlottesville [Aug. Bishop Jackson told the AFRO. 27] and we are going across He is a member of President Virginia to register voters,” Trump’s Faith Advisory Board Jackson told the AFRO. “New and believes that Trump would Jersey and Virginia have like to do more in terms of elections this year. We can fostering dialogue. win those states if we turn this The discussion also included pain into power.” He has been Asian and Hispanic clergy who – Martin Luther King III said that people forget that they working to register voters in Virginia since Charlottesville. were also affected by Jim Crow Rev. Sharpton said: “We had several thousand ministers, laws. “We are calling for the churches to repent of sin, of imams and rabbis here. The key thing now is to organize those racism. The church has got to deal with the heart of sin. The who have signed in to organize these churches on voting rights White church has to repent of sin and the Black church has and mobilizing those voters in their areas and to deal with to forgive,” Bishop Jackson said. “Because we are so divided those state legislatures. We have to organize from the bottom racially it is going to push this crisis of trust in America. It is up like the Tea Party did.” going to push the need for racial reconciliation to a priority.”

“There has to be a stop gap measure to stop these crazy things going on at the executive level.”

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Rev. Al Sharpton was one of the main organizers of the 1,000 Ministers March for Justice in Washington, D.C.

Harvey Continued from A1 focus, meanwhile, and the murky green floodwaters from the record-breaking, 4-foot deluge of rain began yielding up bodies as predicted.

The confirmed death toll climbed to 23, including six family members — four of them children — whose bodies were pulled Wednesday from a van that had been swept off a Houston bridge into a bayou.

Authorities are investigating at least 17 more deaths to determine whether they were storm-related.

“Unfortunately, it seems that our worst thoughts are being realized,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said after the van that disappeared over the weekend was found in 10 feet of muddy water.

While conditions in the nation’s fourth-largest city appeared to improve, authorities warned that the crisis in Houston and across the region is far from over.

The storm, in fact, took a turn for the worse east of the city, close to the Louisiana line.

Beaumont and Port Arthur,

Texas, struggled with rising floodwaters and worked to evacuate residents after Harvey completed a U-turn in the Gulf of Mexico and rolled ashore early Wednesday for the second time in six days.

It hit southwestern Louisiana as a tropical storm with heavy rain and winds of 45 mph.

Forecasters predicted that a wobbling and weakening Harvey will be downgraded to a tropical depression late Wednesday or early Thursday and completely dissipate within three to four days.

But it still has lots of rain and potential damage to spread, with 4 to 8 inches forecast from the LouisianaTexas line into Tennessee and Kentucky through Friday.

Some spots may get as much as a foot, raising the risk of more flooding.

For much of the Houston area, forecasters said the rain is pretty much over.

“We have good news,” said Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the Harris County Flood Control District. “The water levels are going down.”

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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city’s two major airports would be up and running again in the afternoon.

At Hermann Park, south of downtown, children glided by in strollers and wagons, joggers took in midday runs and couples walked beside cascading fountains and beneath a sparkling sun.

People pulled into drive-thru restaurants and emerged from a store with groceries.

At the same time, many thousands of Houston-area homes are under water and could stay that way for days or weeks. And Lindner cautioned that homes near at least one swollen bayou could still get flooded.

Officials said 911 centers in the Houston area are getting more than 1,000 calls an hour from people seeking help.

In Houston’s flooded Meyerland neighborhood, hundreds of families emptied their homes of sodden possessions under a baking sun as the temperature climbed into the 90s. They piled up couches, soggy drywall and carpets ripped out of foul-smelling homes where the floodwaters had lingered for more than 24 hours.

The curbs were lined with the pickup trucks of cleanup contractors and friends.

For Harry Duffey, a 48-year-old computer security specialist, this was flood No. 3 in as many years. Just before the flood, he got a notice that his flood insurance premium had nearly doubled to $5,300 a year.

“Everywhere we look this water has cost me money after money after money.

It just does not end,” he said. But he said he has no intention of moving: “This is in my blood. This is where I’m from.”

Altogether, more than 1,000 homes in Texas were destroyed and close to 50,000 damaged, and over 32,000 people were in shelters across the state, emergency officials reported. About 10,000 more National Guard troops are being deployed to Texas,

bringing the total to 24,000, Gov. Greg Abbot said.

“This is going to be an incredibly large disaster,” Brock Long, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said in Washington. “We’re not going to know the true cost for years to come. ... But it’s going to be huge.”

Confirmed deaths from the storm include a married couple who drowned after their pickup truck was swept away while they were on the phone with a 911 dispatcher

asking for help, officials said.

Others among the dead include a woman whose body was discovered floating in Beaumont, a man who tried to swim across a flooded road, and a woman who died after she and her young daughter were swept into a drainage canal in Beaumont. The child was rescued clinging to her dead mother, authorities said.

Harvey’s five straight days of rain totaled close to 52 inches, the heaviest tropical downpour ever recorded in the continental U.S.

Vast Sea Continued from A1 rode, drove and roller skated to Washington Wednesday, to demand that a recalcitrant Congress pass effective civil rights legislation.

It was the largest demonstration in the capital in the nation’s history.

Twenty one charted trains and 16 regular trains screamed along the rails into Union Station bringing 23,000 passengers.

Some 1,600 buses roared down the nation’s highways bringing 60,000 passengers to Washington from as far west as Oklahoma City and Wyoming.

Over 30,000 marchers were from Philadelphia.

Clarksdale and Jackson, Mississippians, came in overalls, wearing them as a signal badge of honor.

The marchers wore sandals, loafers, high heels, tennis shoes and Lena Horne walked in boots but the marching cadence was the same. The synchronized beat was “Freedom Now!” One hundred thirty Congressmen spent 15 minutes with their constituents. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial facing the crowd they heard the yells of “Pass the bill!

Pass the bill!” The reference was to President Kennedy’s proposed civil rights legislation.

The Congressmen left as A. Philip Randolph, director of the march, explained that the legislators could not remain because of the legislation pending on the threatened rail road strike.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, who received a standing ovation, said, “We will not come off the streets until we can work at any job befitting our skills any place in the land.”

Whitney M. Young, executive director of the National Urban League, declared, “This is a march just begun.” He urged Congress to pass the necessary legislation, admit to the tragic injustice that has been done to the country and its colored citizens by discrimination and take intensive remedial steps to correct the damage.

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Farrakhan Continued from A1 for The Christian Post, put these remarks into the frame of a man facing judgment after his “inevitable physical death.” Judgment, according to Blair, for his decades of “teaching.”

Dan Calabrese, in an article for CFP, took a more measured approached.

“My first instinct was to find a loophole in his wording,” Calabrese wrote. “When Farrakhan said ‘my Jesus lives’ and emphasized the ‘my,’ I thought maybe he was trying to give himself license to declare that his ‘redeemer’ can be whoever he wants it to be, and that he could express that by referring to said redeemer as ‘my Jesus.’ That would be more consistent with the way Farrakhan has expressed himself throughout his public life.”

Calabrese also found the teachings of Farrakhan to be worth repenting for but withheld judgment on whether the Minister was converted or on the brink.

“It’s always wise to be circumspect about a single statement someone makes, no matter how earth-shaking it may appear to be,” he wrote. “If Farrakhan has decided to profess Christ as Lord, that’s absolutely wonderful, but you’d expect he’d expound upon it in future statements or interviews. He’d explain how and why he came to that decision.

He’d address all the reasons people find this surprising and explain how he came to make this profession.”

Just who is Minister Farrakhan’s Redeemer?

The AFRO made a call to the Nation of

Islam (NOI) central office asking for comment and was directed to the offices of The Final Call, the official newspaper of the NOI. While the editor’s desk did not have comment, they did direct the AFRO to a video of the minister’s entire hour and a half of remarks.

The video, recorded July 30, shows the entire proceedings of an event recognizing the 44 years of service provided by Rev. Dr. Willie Willie Wilson, of the Washington, D.C. based Union Temple Baptist Church, to his community.

As Farrakhan explained to the crowd, Jesus may just be a metaphor for the prime mover of the universe, an energy that “gave me strength to withstand the government of America, the Jewish powers of America that were on my back for over 30 years.”

The same power that allowed Farrakhan to endure was the same power that sustained the Reverend.

“The real power, that kept him going for 44 years is the same power that gives fuel to the sun. Who gives fuel to the sun? It is the love of God himself and his spirit that energizes the sun. And that’s why, in the Koran, there’s only one or two prophets that were strengthened by the Holy Spirit and one of them is the Messiah, Jesus.”

Since this recording, Farrakhan has spoken out multiple times about his faith.

Recently, The Final Call, published remarks of his in an article last updated August 29. The carried the headline “Seek Refuge in Allah.”

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Following the release of a video online, speculation arose that Minister Louis Farrakhan was about to convert to Christianity.

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Build Statues to Real Equality

Statues are symbols that recognize great people and deeds throughout our nation’s history. Many of the Confederate statues interspersed throughout our country were erected during the height of Jim Crow to remind Black Americans of their inferior citizenship. Enshrining and glorifying bigotry and racial discrimination should not stand as a representation of who we are or who we want to be as Americans.

Statues that honor Confederates who fought to preserve the enslavement of Black Americans and the laws that codified their status as less-than-human must be removed from all public spaces that are maintained with tax dollars—tax dollars collected from some of the very people the statues were erected to demean and intimidate. Allowing these statues to exist outside of the proper historical context that museums provide is irresponsible. Certainly, we do not erect and maintain statues to those who fought against the United States in any other war.

As an elected official, I grapple every day with racial inequities and grow frustrated about our failure to bridge the vast divide between White Americans and Americans of color. I look every day at failing school systems that disproportionately impact children of color. I look at the economic insecurity of Black families in America with a median family wealth of only $11,030, while white families have $134,230. I look at the 8.4 percent unemployment of Black Americans versus 4.3 percent unemployment of White Americans. And I look at a justice system that incarcerates Black Americans at five times the rate of White Americans.

If you believe that the potential of all Americans is equal across races, then you must admit that these disparate outcomes indicate clear inequality and that our policies are in desperate need of change. Most of us have known this for decades – much longer than we knew who confederate General Albert Pike was – and would agree that these outcomes are significantly more egregious legacies of white supremacy in the United States than Confederate statues. Yet, while we have seen calls for action from local and federal officials, Democrats and Republicans alike to remove confederate statues, we have not seen the same urgency to attack the continuing inequality and discrimination faced by Black Americans every day.

Robert C. White, Jr.

Elected officials tend to act because of public attention rather than the urgency of an issue. That is why less than 48 hours after my friend, Baltimore Councilmember Brandon Scott, introduced a bill to remove Confederate statues, they were removed. Even Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer caved to public pressure and now agree that such statues should be removed. Without news coverage and public attention, I have no doubt that Councilmember Scott’s bill would have languished in the political process for years.

We are in troubled times, led by a President who knowingly provides a platform for the public reemergence and growth of hateful, bigoted groups. We are watching our country devolve into an era of pain and division similar to that which preceded the Civil Rights movement. When we emerge from this era we have to ensure that the removal of offensive statues is not our greatest accomplishment.

Before the public, media, and elected officials become consumed with the next passing issue, we must pivot from demands for removing statues to demands for real change that translates into equal opportunities for Americans of color.

The gap between White Americans and Americans of color is too broad and the opportunities to narrow it are too few.

We cannot miss this chance to demand more low-income and affordable housing in our cities; to demand that governments align workforce training programs to their local economies, with annual assessments of their success; to demand money

for failing schools, which are predominantly in communities of color; to demand an honest evaluation of our criminal codes based on the outcomes we seek; and to demand more support for citizens returning from incarceration.

Yes, the Confederate statues must come down, but that cannot be our end game. Donald Trump asked what is next after we remove these statues. The answer, I believe, is real progress on real equality.

Robert C. White, Jr. (D) is a council member at large in the District of Columbia.

Our Continuing Fight for Hope and Opportunity Captivated, depressed and alarmed by the almost daily outrages of President Trump and his Administration, Americans could be tempted to forget that Congress – not the President – is the principal governing institution where our nation’s economy and well-being are concerned.

We were painfully reminded of this truth earlier this year when President Trump and the Republican congressional majority attempted to gut the Affordable Care Act and deny 2030 million of our people access to health care.

In September, we will see this reality in action once again when the Congress will debate the federal role in addressing core challenges that confront millions of American families.

When the U.S. House and Senate return to Washington and the work of governing next month, most of the public’s attention, quite understandably, will be focused upon two essential deadlines that our government must meet.

The federal government must authorize an increase in the federal debt ceiling by Sept. 29, when the Treasury Department predicts that our nation would otherwise be in danger of defaulting on the obligations our government has already incurred. Any failure to do so would harm – quite possibly permanently - the full faith and credit of the United States, risking another crippling recession or worse.

Then, by Sept. 30, the Congress must also pass, and the President sign, a funding bill for the next fiscal year or cause yet another government “shut-down.”

The American people need to be warned, however, that these are not the only economic threats that we must now confront and overcome.

A third, longer-term threat to the well-being of our nation’s working families is emerging from the bowels of the congressional Republican Caucus: budget-cutting proposals that would slash federal programs essential to tens of millions of American lives.

Elijah Cummings

I recommend to every American’s attention a report issued

by Congressman John Yarmuth, Ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, that outlines the very real harm that the House Republicans’ proposed federal budget for Fiscal Year 2018 would impose on our nation’s citizens: (democratsbudget.house.gov).

As Congressman Yarmuth has declared, the Republicans’ proposal “abandons American families… in favor of wealthy individuals and powerful corporations.”

Congressman Yarmuth’s statement is not political hyperbole.

His analysis warns of real and substantial threats to the wellbeing of tens of millions of American families.

The scope of this Republican attack on essential federal programs is staggering: $5.4 trillion in spending cuts over ten years, including $4.4 trillion in cuts to mandatory programs, almost one-half of which would come from federal support for affordable health care.

Among other mandatory programs, the largest reduction – nearly a trillion dollars ($892 billion) – hits the part of the budget that provides basic living standards for struggling families.

Even Social Security disability benefits are not spared – and the proposed Republican budgetary plan also calls for replacing Medicare’s guaranteed benefits for future retirees with fixed payments toward the purchase of a private health plan or traditional Medicare.

The Republican budget cutters have also set their sights on other federal programs that are essential to expanding economic opportunity, including education, research, veterans’ health care, transportation and environmental protection. In budgetary terms, these programs are termed “non-defense discretionary spending,” and under the Republicans’ proposal, support for these essential federal programs would be slashed over the next 10 years.

As the public witnessed in the Republicans’ effort to gut the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans’ budgetary attack has

Still Striving for the Promised Land Fifty-four years ago on Aug. 28, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to proclaim his dream – of a nation where everyone is judged “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

The March on Washington was the most storied civil rights gathering in American history. But it was more than a protest against Jim Crow. It was also a demonstration for workers’ rights.

The full name, in fact, was the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Included in the marchers’ demands were not just voting rights and access to public accommodations, but also a higher national minimum wage, stronger labor standards and investment in job training.

It was his passion for fighting poverty and his belief in the dignity of work that brought him to Memphis, Tenn., four-anda-half years after the March on Washington. The city’s sanitation workers had walked off the job to protest appalling wages and degrading working conditions. The strike was an assertion of humanity – “I Am A Man” was their memorable, empowering

Lee Saunders

slogan.

Dr. King rallied the community, expressing solidarity with the sanitation workers – members of AFSCME Local 1733 – and lending his moral authority to the struggle. And it was there in Memphis that he was gunned down by an assassin on April 4, 1968.

Every April, AFSCME participates in events to honor the Memphis strikers and Dr. King. But with the 50th anniversary approaching, we need to do something more. To truly celebrate Dr. King’s life and carry his values forward, to properly honor the sacrifice of the sanitation workers, a single day of activities isn’t enough. We need an extended campaign of grassroots education and mobilization. We need more than a commemoration or look back at the past; we need a call to action for the future.

So, we’ve launched the I AM 2018 initiative. In partnership with the Church of God in Christ, led by Bishop Charles Blake, we will spend the next year and more training thousands of activists and organizers to work in communities nationwide, addressing issues like poverty, income inequality and racial disparity.

I AM 2018 will be a national civic empowerment and

been structured to utilize “fast-track, 51-vote reconciliation procedures” in the Senate to push through cuts to mandatory spending programs totaling $203 billion in the upcoming fiscal year.

Congressman Yarmuth has concluded that these cuts would most likely fall heavily on programs serving low-income families, students struggling to afford college, seniors and persons with disabilities.

I must agree. Consider this.

One of the most heartless and ill-considered Republican proposals would cut $154 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next ten years.

Virtually every other program that offers hope and opportunity to struggling Americans would also be slashed.

Along with my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate, I will continue to fight these Republican attempts to slash our nation’s safety net and cut down existing ladders to opportunity – and I remain hopeful that some of the more moderate Republicans will join us in this struggle.

They should. This attack on opportunity and hope in our country threatens Americans of every background (including those who have supported President Trump and his Republican allies). We are confronted with a fundamental choice about what kind of nation we want to be.

As we learned during the initial battle to preserve and improve the Affordable Care Act, an informed, massive, and sustained outpouring of public support for these federal programs will be essential to determining the answer to this choice about our future.

If Americans of every background engage the Congress, we can prevail.

Our cause is just, and we cannot afford to fail.

Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

engagement effort – and it will include participation from professional athletes, filmmakers and entertainers, as well as community groups, faith leaders and many corporate sponsors.

The idea is to connect the legacy of Dr. King and the sanitation workers to challenges still facing working families, especially communities of color.

Opportunity remains elusive and freedom remains under attack for all working people – the freedom to be treated with basic respect, to form a strong union, to make a decent living and support their families. And the events in Charlottesville earlier this month exposed once again the ugly truth that unconcealed, unabashed bigotry and racial prejudice still thrive in America.

The struggle to get to the promised land continues, nearly half a century after Dr. King gave his life for it. With I AM 2018, inspired by his courage, we take the mantle and recommit ourselves to that work.

Lee Saunders is the President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the nation’s largest public services employees union.

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More Black Women are Blogging That spirit of pride and dedication could be found most powerfully during the 2017 The Black Bloggers Connect / Blogger Week UnConference, held Aug.12, at Trinity Washington University, in Washington, D.C. Noted for its comraderie and mentorship efforts among Black female bloggers, the annual event – now in its fourth year – not only showcased the work of thousands of Black women with blogs dedicated to positive lifestyles, but also lent itself to exposing the growing need for Black women to use their blogs as change agents.

Black Bloggers Connect was founded

by Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, a D.C. native, in 2011.

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com The Black press continues to serve as a voice for those whose stories often go overlooked, misrepresented, or maligned in the mainstream media. In 2015, 28.3 million internet users updated a blog at least once per month, with an estimated 31.7 million bloggers set to begin posts by 2020. Still, in the wake of community reporting and with the advent of digital reporting, many Black women are only now finding their niche as bloggers by documenting both everyday life and informing marginalized factions within Black America.

“Blogging has played a pivotal role in modern storytelling for people of African descent. When our voices and stories are often marginalized by mainstream media, blogging and other forms of digital media have expanded our ability to share information, spread our stories and make an impact in the world,” Aiwuyor told the audience. “From ‘Black Lives Matter’ to ‘Bring Back Our Girls’, many recent worldwide social movements have utilized digital media in order to draw attention to key issues of our time. At Blogger Week, we’re focusing on making sure digital media creators and everyday people have access to the skills necessary for reaching their goals.”

Photo by Shantella Y. Sherman

Hundreds of bloggers, vloggers, and writers came together to hone their skills and network during the Black Bloggers Connect / Blogger Week UnConference, Aug. 12, at Trinity Washington University.

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By The Associated Press Renowned ballerina Lauren Anderson, a Houston native, was supposed to return home Aug. 27. But after Hurricane Harvey left the nation’s fourth largest city under water and Anderson stuck in Helena without her family, she decided to put her extra time to good use for local children.

Anderson was in Helena this weekend to teach a master class at Queen City Ballet. A critically Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP acclaimed dancer, Anderson performed in leading Lauren Anderson, who is from Houston, is roles in all the great classical ballets. currently stranded because of Hurricane She was the first African-American to be Harvey on the Texas gulf coast. promoted to a principal dancer at Houston Ballet, “Everybody is safe,” she said. “But I have a where she started dancing in 1983 and continued son and family there and I want to get as close until 2006. Her ballet shoes are on display at to them as possible.” the Smithsonian Museum of African American What once were freeways leading to her home History and Culture. After retiring, Anderson are now waterways, and Anderson has no way of continued working for the Houston Ballet to teach knowing if anything is left. master classes and give lectures.

“I don’t care about that. You can always get On Tuesday, Anderson taught a three-hour another house,” she said. “But you can’t get more rehearsal with Queen City students to wrap up loved ones.” her fifth day teaching in Helena, the {Independent The Houston Ballet, where Anderson is Record} reports. supposed to be back to teach this week, is filled Her son, Lawrence, and other family with water, and surrounding airports are closed members, are in Houston. The storm has until at least Thursday. produced more than 50 inches of rain in Houston “Life is on hold and prayers are being sent to and displaced tens of thousands of people.

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Educators Still Debating New Contract

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

The Washington Teachers Union, led by Elizabeth Davis, held a series of meetings with teachers throughout the school system from Aug. 16-25 in the District’s eight wards.

Davis traveled to the schools to explain the details of the city’s new contract and why she believes it is the best deal for teachers now.

“I urge you to vote ‘yes’ for our new tentative threeyear contract,” Davis said at the meetings. “It yields a nine percent raise and provides us with the respect and support we deserve as highly-skilled professionals dedicated to D.C. public school students.”

The District’s public school teachers have operated without a new contract since 2012. The union has worked with three chancellors, Kaya Henderson, interim John Davis, and Antwan Wilson to get to the point of a new agreement.

The union announced the agreement on Aug. 14 at Bunker Hill Elementary School in Ward 5 with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D),

Southeast Community

By Mark Arrowsmith Special to the AFRO Charles E. Wilson, Jr., president of the Ward 8 Democrats, is striving to improve the Southeast section of the city by making it politically, socially and aesthetically stronger. He is one of several individuals working to see Ward 8 thrive.

One of Wilson’s efforts is to host frequent events like happy hours at establishments in the ward.to engage

Photo by Rob Roberts

On Aug. 28, more than 5,000 ministers from throughout the United States participated in the National Action Network’s Ministers’ March for Justice to protest against policies enacted during the Trump administration. The march was also in homage to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963.

Rocketship Academy Prospers in Crime-ridden D.C. Neighborhood

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

Courtesy Photo

Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, has been holding meetings with D.C. teachers to explain the details of the new contract.

Deputy Mayor of Education Jennifer Niles, and Wilson.

Highlights of the contract include a four percent pay increase that is retroactive to 2016-2017 school year, three percent on top of the four percent increase starting Oct. 1 and two percent increase for the 2018-2019 school year.

Other contract benefits include a four percent increase to the teacher pension plan, starting in 2016-2017, retroactively and educators who are excessed (pushed out) from schools will be guaranteed placement in an available D.C. public school. Teachers will also have an equal voice with school system leaders and school-level administrators in decisions that impact professional practices and assignments.

The contract and the ballot were mailed to the teachers.

The teachers have until Sept.

8 to vote on the contract. If approved by the teachers, it goes to the D.C. Council.

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– Charles Wilson Jr. Courtesy photo

The Rocketship Academy is located next to one of the District of Columbia’s most economically challenged housing complexes. The Rocketship Academy, known as Rocketship Rising, is in Ward 8 close to Woodland Terrace, a D.C. Housing Authority property known for high incidents of crime. Plus, it is next to a halfway house. It is located at the intersection of Bruce Place, S.E. and Erie Place, S.E. and is housed in a rectangular building that is white with purple edges and an orange front.

“Our goal is to really engage Ward 8 residents in the political conversation …”

The Rocketship Academy in Ward 8 is located in a heavy crime area.

The charter school, which was founded in 2016 with the help of tennis superstar Andre Agassi, is thriving due to the efforts of the leadership and staff, and the support of the community. Jacque Patterson, regional director of D.C.’s schools of Rocketship Education, a national non-profit that provides educational services to students who are in lowincome neighborhoods, told the AFRO that was the plan.

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residents in conversations that provide different perspectives on race and how the Ward 8 community is portrayed.

Wilson became interested in helping communities during his undergraduate years at Hampton University in Virginia, where he was class president for four years.

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Activist Earl Fowlkes Fights for Double Stabbing D.C.’s Black LGBT Community Leaves One Dead; Another Wounded

By Lenore T. Adkins Special to the AFRO

Earl D. Fowlkes Jr. grew up in a close-knit family that continued to accept him when he brought his boyfriend home decades ago. As president and chief executive officer of the Center for Black Equity in Washington, D.C., Fowlkes aims to replicate that same welcoming feeling with Blacks in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The 18-year-old organization, which was previously called the International Federation of Black Pride, promotes policies that boost the social and Courtesy photo economic vitality of LGBT Earl D. Fowlkes, a 50-year-old gay rights activist, is trying Blacks. It also offers resources to create a safe haven for members of D.C.’s Black LGBT to support them and arranges community.

Black pride events all over the world – the center has 50 affiliates. Fowlkes says the Black pride events in the U.S. draw 300,000 people.

“For us, celebrating Black pride is different from celebrating community pride as we call it – community pride is a celebration of the Stonewall riots of 1969,” Fowlkes told the AFRO. “Black pride is an opportunity to give 300,000 people information on HIV/AIDS, 300,000 people information about women’s health, [for] 300,000 people to get information on youth issues [and] what’s going on in the political landscape.”

Blacks identifying as LGBT face a unique set of challenges, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Black transgender women face the highest level of fatal violence within the LGBT community and are less likely to contact police, out of fear that officers will hurt them, according a joint report between the coalition and Trans People of Color Coalition.

Black people in the LGBTQ community continue to face economic

“For us, celebrating Black pride is different from celebrating community pride . . . ”

– Earl D. Fowlkes

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By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO A double stabbing in Southeast D.C. left a 40-year-old man dead and another victim wounded on Aug. 19, according to D.C. police.

Authorities said Anthony Graham, a resident of Southeast D.C., was stabbed in the chest in the 800 block of Xenia Street, SE on the evening of Aug. 19.

D.C. police arrived to the scene of the incident around 7:44 p.m. after receiving reports of a stabbing. Officers found Graham and another man suffering from stab wounds on the side of a Courtesy photo residence in the area.

Anthony Graham was The second victim had fatally stabbed on Aug. 19. been cut in the face and hand, No arrests have been made and stabbed in the temple, in the case. according to police reports.

Both victims were taken to local hospitals. Graham later died and the other man was admitted in critical condition, according to police reports.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department, Sean Hickman, told the AFRO Aug. 28 that the case is still open, “There has not been an arrest and the case remains under investigation.”

According to police reports, the altercation was the result of a domestic dispute involving a “lover’s quarrel.”

Officials said there are no updates in this homicide, including lookout information of the suspects involved.

“This breaks my heart. I still want somebody to say it ain’t so,” Kenisha Dickey, one of Graham’s loved ones, wrote in his obituary guestbook.

As of Aug. 29, there have been 76 homicides in the District, and two homicides in the immediate area.

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D.C. Leader

Earl Fowlkes

helped me blossom into the person I am today,” Wilson told the AFRO. Wilson grew up in the area, attending Largo High School in Upper Marlboro, Md. After graduating with a degree in accounting from Hampton in 1998, Wilson attended the University of Baltimore School of Law earning his juris doctorate and master’s in business administration. A year later he moved to Northeast and soon after to Southeast D.C. In 2006, Wilson created the Historic Anacostia Block Association (HABA) organization.

The organization provides a forum where people from the community could exchange ideas, information, and opinions that could improve the quality of life inside the southeast community.

“Our goal is to really engage Ward 8 residents in the political conversation not just in our ward, [but] in our city,” Wilson said.

After his unsuccessful bid for the Ward 8 council seat in 2008, Wilson focused on creating the River East Emerging Leaders (R.E.E.L.), a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the bonds between Ward 8 businesses, government officials, and residents. R.E.E.L. is “engaging residents to take advantage of personal economic development opportunities, such as home buying, raising credit scores and investing in the community, also improving personal health, and taking more of a leadership role east of the river,” he said.

Through R.E.E.L., Wilson has held several events on how to start and run a PTO (Parent Teacher Organization), so that parents and community leaders could contribute to schools.

Wilson was also appointed as the president of the Ward 8 Democrats, a D.C. political organization, in 2015, where Courtesy photo he presides over more than 50,000 members. The Ward 8 Charles Wilson Jr. is Democrats are viewed by many District political observers as striving to make changes defining trends for the rest of the city. in the Ward 8 community in Under his leadership, the Ward 8 Democrats are currently southeast D.C. working on the Youth Act Reform, which gives the court flexibility when sentencing youth offenders at the time of conviction. The act was designed to give youth offenders a second chance, however, reporting by the Washington Post exposed several problems with the law, such as not providing mental illness treatment to offenders before release.

“When I first became president of the Ward 8 Democrats, my No. 1 job was to rebuild the enthusiasm and involvement back into the organization,” he said. “Of course, when you are involved and create organizations to better a community you are going to have your struggles, it’s never going to be perfect.”

Wilson said some of the main struggles the organization is trying tackle include making the neighborhood more beautiful and getting residents involved. He is advertising community meetings consistently on social media and he is even hosting events so that people can socialize with one another.

In addition to being president of the Ward 8 Democrats, Wilson is also a manager in the District’s Department of Small and Local Businesses, where he is responsible for managing, planning, designing, developing and implementing programs to link certified business enterprises with opportunities with the District government agencies and private businesses.

hurdles due to housing insecurity, a lack of quality and affordable healthcare and fewer educational opportunities, the campaign said. In addition, a report from the National Black Justice Coalition found that nearly a third of the children raised in Black same-sex couples live in poverty.

Meanwhile, young, Black gay and bisexual men are among the groups most heavily impacted

by HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control. “We have higher rates,” Fowlkes said.

“We just don’t have the community support, the family support when people come out in our communities.”

Fowlkes, who says he’s in his late 50s, grew up in suburban Philadelphia as the eldest of five children and comes from four generations of ministers from the Holiness and Baptist denominations. He says he was never teased or bullied in school, but he knew from a young age that he was attracted men.

“My family and my father, in particular from the pulpit, never said that I was a bad person (or that) I was going to hell,” Fowlkes said. “He never injected the issue of sexuality at all – I never heard it from him.”

When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and the riots followed, Fowlkes remembers his parents, Earl Sr. and Elsie Fowlkes, explained the Civil Rights Movement and its connection to what he was witnessing on television. Fowlkes credits that experience with making him socially conscious.

That his late sister Sharon Fowlkes took several HIV positive men into her home and nursed them also impacted him and helped set the course for the work he does today.

Besides running the center, Fowlkes chairs the D.C. Commission on Human – Earl D. Fowlkes Rights and is chairman of the Democratic National Committee’s LGBT Caucus.

The Anacostia-based center operates with a staff of three and has to be judicious about how it spends its time. To that end, Fowlkes will focus on four initiatives in the next four months: leadership development, youth initiatives, securing funding to address health issues for biological and transgender women and ensuring people are aware of HIV/AIDS treatment options.

The center has also set aside some space in its building for Check It, a group of gay and transgender youth who have been sexually assaulted, shot, stabbed and beaten up. The group was formed in a Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast D.C. to protect each other. Today, they operate a retail store that sells a Check It clothing line from the center’s Anacostia office – about a dozen people work at Check It. The center, which pays Check It $500 a month, represents a safe haven for Black youth facing transphobia and homophobia east of the Anacostia River who don’t quite fit into the predominantly White gay and transgender scene west of the river, he added.

Fowlkes welcomed Check It to the center so he can show the youth how activism works.

They, in turn, tell him what’s going on in their community so he can respond accordingly by searching for funding opportunities and existing policy. “They’re trying, and most people don’t get enough credit for trying,” Fowlkes said.

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James Wright contributed to this article.

“We just don’t have the community support, the family support when people come out in our communities.”

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“That is what Rocketship does,” Patterson, who served as an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Ward 8 and as president of the Ward 8 Democrats, said. “Our CEO, Preston Smith, wants to go into communities that are underserved and provide those children an excellent education.”

Rocketship Education operates schools in the Bay Area of California, Milwaukee, and Nashville in addition to the District. The non-profit was founded in 2007 in the Bay Area and has a total of 18 schools, primarily elementary.

Patterson previously worked with a KIPP charter school and social services organization Martha’s Table before agreeing to help found Rocketship. “There are public elementary schools in the area such as Moten, Garfield, Stanton, and Turner but we wanted to offer an alternative to the residents of the Woodland area,” he said. “Those elementary schools have proficiency rates in the 20th percentile on standardized tests and I thought that was unconscionable.”

Rocketship opened its doors in the fall of 2016 and presently has 448 students. This year, it accepts students from pre-kindergarten to third grade and will go as high as fifth grade in a few years.

Patterson said unlike some other charter school companies, Rocketship sought out community members. “Often, charter schools come into the community and act paternalistically,” he said. “We didn’t want to do that. We have a good relationship with the immediate community. Fifteen to 16 percent of the

students come from the immediate community.”

Patterson said his team at Rocketship held a block party for the community before it opened last year and hired people from Woodland to work at the school. He said returning citizens at the halfway house, Hope Village, were employed as

“Our CEO, Preston Smith, wants to go into communities that are underserved and provide those children an excellent education.”

– Jacque Patterson construction workers to build the school.

Patterson said he is well-aware of public safety concerns at Rocketship’s location but worked early to alleviate those fears.

“We went door-to-door at Woodland Terrace and the immediate neighborhood to establish relationships,” he said. “We told the neighbors that they needed to own this school for it to be successful. Since we have done that there has been no graffiti on the school grounds and no broken windows.

“We also noticed that there has been a change in Woodland.

There are more trees being planted and the lawns are being

mowed more often. There is no magic formula to this, treat people well.”

India Blocker is the advisory neighborhood commissioner representing the Rocketship area. “The school has had a great impact and kids in the community go to it,” Blocker said. “It is amazing. They work with the community and the parents say it is good to have a great school that is convenient.”

Patterson confirmed that the community and parents play a major role in personnel decisions.

“We let parents and members of the community interview teachers to see if they are culturally sensitive,” he said.

The work at Rocketship appears to be paying off. Patterson said the school has already achieved Tier 1 status and 80 percent of its students are performing proficiently at grade level.

That not only pleases Patterson, but Ward 8 D.C. State Board of Education member Markus Batchelor, too.

“Rocketship has set bold and ambitious goals,” Batchelor told the AFRO. “Rocketship makes the parents and the community central to its development and it allows those stakeholders to have the school they wanted.”

Patterson said the Rocketship franchise will expand to Ward 7 and open a location there after the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in 2018. He said some of the Rocketship students will go to the Ward 7 location and it has the support of D.C. Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7).

Gray did not respond to AFRO inquiries before publication.

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she is expected to sign it. If the contract is not approved, the old contract will continue and the union will try to get the chancellor to re-start negotiations.

Several questions at the sessions had to do with the leverage that teachers had over their working conditions and teacher/principal relations.

Davis said teachers should report violations of the present contract to the union and she admonished those that did not do that. “We are only going to get justice if you report those violations,” she said adamantly.

Shakera Oliver, a sixth-grade teacher at the Brightwood Education Campus, told the AFRO that she supports the contract. “This is my 9th year of teaching and I am pleased to see parties that are vested in the contract come to the table,” she said. “I teach my students every day the importance of integrity and our system should deal with us with integrity.”

Oliver said because of working conditions and other reasons

“we have lost a lot of colleagues along the way” but hopes the contract will keep good teachers. There is also something else that Oliver hopes the new contract will solve. “I cannot live in the District because it is too expensive,” she said, hoping that more money would allow her to seek out a place to live in the city.

While Oliver was largely positive about the contract, – Keisha Thorpe Keisha Thorpe was more reserved. Thorpe teaches at the Columbia Heights Educational Center and simply said the contract was “reasonable.”

“We have been advocating for this for the past five years,” Thorpe told the AFRO. “Could it have been better? Yes. But we all have to work for a better contract not just a small team. At this point though, we will take what we can get.”

Davis said six months after the contract is signed by Bowser, they will begin the process for another deal.

“We have been advocating for this for the past five years.”

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Black-owned Businesses

Rabia Kamara: D.C.’s Ice Cream Woman

By Akira Kyles Special to the AFRO After seeing the rarity of Black-owned quality dessert providers in the Washington D.C., a young Black business woman decided to change that and serve her own. Rabia Kamara is the creator of Ruby Scoops, a retailer of ice creams, sorbets, sherbets, and other desserts that started October 2014 in Northeast D.C. Kamara, 28, a Silver Spring, Md. native, made Ruby Scoops when she noticed that desserts “were taking a bit of a backseat in D.C.” compared with other food items on the menu. “I’ve been to other ‘food cities’ where desserts [are] still kind of its own importance and I went to one restaurant where there’s more pages to the dessert menu

than the food menu,” she told the AFRO. “When you spend money for services I feel like they should be to par, which is part of my issue with desserts in restaurants and things in general.”

Kamara brought Ruby Scoops to the metropolitan area not only for the love she has for her community but also a love for what she does.

Her love for creating desserts began when she was five years old. “This is a labor of love, this is not about money,” said Kamara. “I like money, I look forward to making money, but I don’t cook for the money. I cook because I think I would go crazy if I did anything else.” She attended Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Md. In college, at the University of Virginia Commonwealth, Kamara originally studied marketing then switch to business management. After college, she attended culinary school L’Academie De Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Md. After she decided to attend culinary school, Kamara said she experienced a rift in her

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Rabia Kamara is the founder and chef of the Ruby Scoops Ice Cream Parlor in Northeast D.C. family which led to her setting up shop in the area.

“My mom was like, ‘What are you doing with your life?’ so I figured if I was to do this I may as well come home to do it in her face,” she said.

Kamara, who is a first generation African-American, said, “African parents are very much about ‘I told you so’ and to this day, that’s probably one of my biggest driving factors. I don’t ever want to hear my mom say ‘I told you so,’ even if she has the right to.”

Being from a diverse community like Silver Spring, Kamara said she faced new

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WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

Labor Day Events Washington, D.C.

Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Pl, NW National Book Festival The National Book Festival is scheduled on Sept. 2, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt Vernon Pl, NW. More than 100 award-winning authors, illustrators and poets will talk about and sign their books.

Reston, Va.

1609 Washington Plaza Lake Anne Jazz and Blues Festival The Lake Anne Jazz and Blues Festival is scheduled to be held on Sept. 2 from 1 p.m.8 p.m. at 1609 Washington Plaza. The event is free and family-friendly. The event will showcase a variety of talented local emerging artists and national jazz performers.

Greenbelt, Md.

Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Rd. Greenbelt Labor Day Festival The Greenbelt Labor Day Festival is scheduled to be held from Sept. 2-4 at the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Rd. The festival will include carnival rides, games, a petting zoo, art exhibits, athletic tournaments, the Miss Greenbelt pageant and live entertainment. The carnival hours will be from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, noon to 11 p.m. on Sunday and noon to 7 p.m. on Monday.

Washington, D.C.

Between East Capitol and First Streets National Capitol Labor Day Concert The Labor Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 3. The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. on the West Front of the United States Capitol. The National Symphony Orchestra will play. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Gaithersburg, Md.

Between Russell and East Diamond Avenues Gaithersburg Labor Day Parade The Olde Towne Gaithersburg annual Labor Day Parade is scheduled to be held on Sept. 4 at 1 p.m. between Russell and East Diamond Avenues. The parade will include Watchfire engines, high school marching bands, clowns, horses and giant balloons.

Kensington, Md.

Between Plyers Mill Rd & St Paul St 50th Annual Kensington Labor Day Parade, Festival The Montgomery Art Association is scheduled to hold the 50th Annual Kensington Labor Day Parade and Festival on Sept. 4. The Parade kicks-off at 10 a.m. (Festival 10 a.m.

– 2 p.m.) and will travel down Connecticut Avenue from St. Paul Park toward the Town Hall, 3710 Mitchell Street. The parade will feature local marching bands from area schools; equestrian show groups; dance groups; floats and ambassadors from local churches, schools, non-profits, and businesses; and local, state, and federally elected officials.

CHURCH EVENTS Washington, D.C.

1916 Benning Rd. NE Open Door Temple Church Hosts A Back to School Musical On Sept. 3, Open Door Temple Church, located at 1916 Benning Rd. NE, will host a 2017 Back to School Musical. This event will feature music and fellowship, along with free backpacks for elementary and middle school students. Youth should bring their school ID to receive a backpack.

Suitland, Md.

Victory Christian Ministries International, 3911 St. Barnabas Rd. Shana Wilson Everlasting Live Recording Musical artist Shana Wilson will be hosting a live recording of songs from album, “Everlasting” on Sept. 4 at Victory Christian Ministries International, located at 3911 St. Barnabas Rd. from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. General admission and VIP tickets are available. VIP includes early entrance for preferred seating, an exclusive gift bag and access to the VIP Meet and Greet Reception. For more information about Shana Wilson and to buy your ticket for this event, visit shanawilson.com.

racial difficulties as a young Black woman in the business world. “The whole food thing on the East Coast is all like White dudes and it’s really hard as a woman of color to walk up to someone and say ‘Hey, I would like you to teach me how to do everything you do.’ For some reason, that’s just not something that White men like to hear so it was really hard for me to figure out how to get into a kitchen,” Kamara said. “And when I got into the kitchen, it was hard for me to figure out how to express what my needs and wants are without them being misconstrued like I’m some angry Black [woman].”

Ruby Scoops uses Manheim, Penn.-based Kreider Farms dairy, cage

“This is not just about me making money but it’s about me putting money back in the hands of not only my local economy in general but my Black economy as well.”

– Rabia Kamara free eggs, cane sugar, and seasonal fruit from local Black-owned farms. “I have personal relationships with the farmers that I work with . . . I see them on a bi-weekly basis, I check in with them about how things are going,” said Kamara. “This is not just about me making money but it’s about me putting money back in the hands of not only

my local economy in general but my Black economy as well. I focus very heavily on collaborating with other small businesses.” She said her company donates to charitable causes that involve minority youth.

Ruby Scoops is currently served at a variety of farmers markets, eateries, and grocery stores in the area.

Suntrust Provides Financial Literacy to D.C. Residents

By Mark Arrowsmith Special to the AFRO

Along with several other non-profit organizations helping to increase and provide guidance for financial empowerment for underserved communities and millennials, Sun Trust Bank has entered the pool with its onUp tour.

SunTrust’s onUp tour is a national effort to inspire people to take steps to improve their financial health, provide education on making deposits, establishing credit, opening trusts, investments, and other services to assist patrons financially at Suntrust institutions.

“If we are to stabilize an individual, then they are able to stabilize a household and then stabilize a community,” Murielle Garr, senior vice president and regional community development manager at SunTrust, told the AFRO. The onUp Tour is held in 45 different cities.

Suntrust is equally focused in low resource communities. They have a branch located in Anacostia and offer a 12-week entrepreneurial workshop that is free. The bank also has a partnership with Back on My Feet, a nonprofit organization that combats homelessness through community support, essential employment and housing resources The “onUp tour is the next step,” Garr said. “[The] next phase when we rolled out the movement, getting people set to manage their money.”

The bank has partnerships with colleges and universities and is using students to be a voice to help other students learn about how to manage their money. Through Facebook and Twitter, the bank sends out short messages about financial education geared towards millenials.

The bank has also partnered with Operation Hope, the leading global provider of financial dignity education and economic empowerment programs for youth, individuals, and families, according to the organization’s website. “We want to make sure that we are delivering economic empowerment, access to capital, and financial literacy to underserved communities,” Joseph Brooks, regional vice president of Operation HOPE, told the AFRO. The Suntrust tour visited the area at Army Base, Fort Belvoir in Virginia on July 25. Belvoir was the only military base on the tour schedule in 2017. According to a press release, the onUp movement has enabled more than 20,000 people to feel in control of their finances upon completion.

As of Aug. 28, more than 2 million people throughout the 2017 Total country participated in the effort, according to the onUp website.

“It is important to the military . . . the commitment that they have to make sure American consumers are aware of the free financial services that we provide,” Jena Roscoe, senior vice president of Operation Hope, told the AFRO. Representatives from Operation Past Seven Days Hope and Suntrust said they want to do more financial counseling on military bases. The next stop on the tour will be in Richmond, Va. on Sept. 8 and 9.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson

(Front row) D. Thomas Barnes, Ann Holmes, Albert Sampson, Gayle McDaniel and the Rev. Gregg Knepp (Back row) Duane Cunningham Sr., Michael A. Hardy, Ivory P. Smith Sr., Alfredo Banks and Master J Michael Eric Dyson, author and activist

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton

A group of about 5,000 ministers, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network and Martin Luther King, III, participated in the Ministers’ March for Justice in Washington D.C. on Aug.

28 to protest the policies of President Donald J. Trump. The march occurred on the 54th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech.

Martin Luther King, III and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder National Action Network Martin Luther King, III, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson

Joe Madison

A local choir Kitty Chaney; Dessiree Pearson; Trudy Grant, March coordinator; the Rev. Dr. Diane Dixon-Proctor and Mari Williams

Kevin Durant and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker

Members of the Presbyterian Church from New York City

Photos by Rob Roberts

Members of “Team Durant” with coach Olatunji Turner

Kevin Durant

Seat Pleasant Council Members: Kelly Porter, Hope Love, Charl Jones, Gloria Sistrunk and Reveral Yeargin Wayne Pratt, Kevin Durant’s father

Kevin Durant and Wanda Durant with children from the Seat Pleasant Activity Center

Seat Pleasant, Md. Mayor Eugene Grant

Junior ROTC Cadets from Central High School in Capitol Heights, Md.

The Seat Pleasant, Md. Council and Mayor Eugene W. Grant hosted a Kevin Durant Day Parade on Aug. 17. The parade began at the Judith P. Hoyer Montessori School and traveled down Seat Pleasant Drive to the Goodwin Park. The community welcomed Durant home and celebrated his extraordinary win as a 2017 NBA Champion with the Golden State Warriors, receiving the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award, and his philanthropic efforts in his hometown of Seat Pleasant and Prince George’s County. The Durant family was in attendance. County Executive Rushern Baker issued a proclamation making Aug. 17 Kevin Durant Day.

Photos by Rob Roberts

Obama’s Birthday Celebration T Street Development and Shaw Main Streets hosted a birthday celebration for the 44th President of the United States, Barack H. Obama, on Aug. 4 at The Cornerstone, an outdoor space for events and markets that is located across

Attendees celebrating former President Obama’s birthday

from the Howard Theatre in Northwest Washington, D.C. The evening included music, guest speakers, selfies with life sized Alexander Padro, Wanda Henderson, Wand’s cardboard figures of Mr. and Mrs. Obama, 7th Street Salon and Spa; Larry Graves, Obama and a film screening of “Believe: The Barack impersonator; Thomas Hart and Eyob Asbha Obama Story.” Roland Martin served as the host for the event.

Norma Alexander Hart

WPGC Street Team: Tameka Taylor, Janay Graham and De’Queen Jones

and Eboni Robinson

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Tahir Johnson, Ava (daughter) and Ashley Stoney

Deja Johnson and Anthony Cannady, owner and operator, Rita’s Ice on Capitol Hill

Larry Graves, Obama impersonator; Letha Blount, Doris Brown and Janice Atose

Alexander Padro, executive director, SHAW Main Street and Thomas Hart, president, T Street Development

Adra Williams, publicist and Simone Ellison, project manager, SHAW Main Street

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ARTS & CULTURE

Putting the Black Back in the Baltimore Black Beauty Industry

By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Most Black women don’t make it to adulthood without stepping foot into a beauty supply store.

Kinks, curls, and clippers have sent Black folk from every walk of life into these hair havens for decades.

Whether it be for hot combs, wigs, or shampoo, the items America’s Black women deem necessary to face the world have built a multi-billion dollar industry. And almost none of those Black dollars are going into Black pockets—a statistic one Baltimore power couple is aiming to change.

“There is this illusion of a lockout and it’s really not true,” says Quentin Lathan, standing next to his wife, Megan Lathan, inside their beauty supply shop, Beauty Plus, at 2107 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. “If more Black people owned more stores it would be easier for us to be competitive. There’s strength in numbers. Right now we’re outnumbered, so we have to fight harder.”

The Lathans say their business began with an idea to open a community store. The two began studying Baltimore’s neighborhoods and decided to go into the beauty industry after noticing that Central Baltimore had several salons, clothing boutiques, and nail shops, but no beauty supply store.

The HBCU grads materialized their dream with the help of consultants from Beauty Supply Institute, an Atlanta- based company that assists entrepreneurs in securing everything from building space to popular beauty supply products. To date, they have helped create over

Megan and Quentin Lathan became Black beauty supply store owners on Apr. 16, 2016.

They have been open every day since- even on their wedding day, Dec. 30 of last year.

Photo by Alexis Taylor

90 Black- owned beauty supply stores across the nation.

“We don’t have to be intimidated by the beauty supply industry,” says Megan Lathan, who helps run the business 7-days a week.

“There can be multiple Black owned beauty supply stores in Baltimore and every major city across America.”

“We can’t shy away from industries that haven’t traditionally been ours.”

The Lathans said keeping the Black dollar in the Black community is key to Black people becoming true stakeholders that hold power to

Pam Grier on Being a Female Action Star, Trump new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, where she plans Even at 68, Pam Grier looks like she can still to donate some of her movie wardrobe. Part kick butt. of the reason for her delay is that she wants And the looks don’t deceive, Grier said. to go with her mother, Gwendolyn Grier, who While having never played a superhero, “I’m lives with her in Colorado but doesn’t fly on super in real life,” said Grier, smiling and airplanes, so it would require a cross country flicking back some of her flowing hair. road trip.

Grier is still going strong in an almost 50 “I want to just walk up and stand in line,” year film and television career. In an interview said Grier. “I want to just walk up to Will with The Associated Press, she discussed some Call and say “Hi, everybody!’ and see what of the changes in Hollywood and the return of happens.” the female action movie star. “I don’t know why Grier’s also never been inside the White people were surprised at the success of ‘Wonder House, but don’t expect her ask President Woman,’” said Grier, star of gritty 1970s action Donald Trump for an invite. Grier said she was movies like “Foxy Brown,” ”Coffy,” ”Black offered a chance to be on the “The Apprentice” Mama/White Mama,” and others. but turned it down, saying she does her “due Women like Grier and Angie Dickinson diligence” on people before working with them. paved the way for current female action stars “Here’s a man who said he was going to like Gal Gadot and Charlize Theron, and a new offer jobs, well, your caps are made in China,” wave of Black female stars like Taraji P. Henson Grier said. “I haven’t heard him say that he in her upcoming “Proud Mary” and Meagan would have a factory here to put people to work.

Good, who is remaking Grier’s classic “Foxy I haven’t heard his daughter say they would Brown.” start a factory here to put people to work, so I’m “I applaud them, I want them to succeed,” confused. I’m like, ‘Where’s the logic here?’”

Grier said. “I started it. I don’t want them to Grier is also promoting the Brown Sugar fail.” moving streaming service, which streams iconic But being an action star has its cost: Grier Black movies like Grier’s “Jackie Brown,” said she hurt herself numerous times doing ”Black Mama/White Mama” and others. For stunts, including filming “Coffy.” ”I almost Grier, the service is a godsend because her broke my ankle,” she said. “They painted my elderly mother can watch some of her lessercast to look like a boot, and I’m limping. And I known movies at home that she missed while was ‘Does this look good?’ It looks good.” raising multiple children and making ends meet.

Luckily today’s actors have stunt doubles and “Now that she’s aging and not well, it’s better equipment, Grier said. When asked about the best time to sit with her and watch Brown the difference between doing action today and Sugar,” Grier said. “It brought such joy to her back during her day, she laughed and said: to watch films she hadn’t seen, and to see her “Sports bras.” crushes, to see Billy Dee Williams, Grier has nothing but good Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, wishes for the remake of just to see Harry Belafonte, “Foxy Brown” and Good.

Eartha Kitt, Richard “It’s going to be Pryor.” interesting,” she said.

She’s also “You see, I didn’t working on turning have a stuntwoman her bestselling until ‘Foxy Brown.’ autobiography, And Meagan, she’s “Foxy: My Life in going to do great with Three Acts,” into stunts. She’ll get the a movie, and has sports bra I didn’t have. some dream casting And you ask me would I in mind: comedian do it again? Yeah, if I had Jay Pharoah as a great sports bra.”

Richard Pryor and Grier was in Roberto Benigni Washington, D.C., this past as Italian director weekend to be honored at the Federico Fellini. annual “Salute Her: Beauty Who does she of Diversity Awards see as Pam Grier?

Luncheon.”

“I don’t know, AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Surprisingly, but whoever it is Pam Grier is still going strong in an almost 50 Grier said she has has to bring it!” she never been inside the year movie and television career. said.

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make decisions about Black neighborhoods- as business owners and tax payers. Black store owners also send a strong message to younger generations.

“When Black children come in it’s important that they see us behind this counter,” said Megan Lathan. “Not only can they look into doing hair- but if they want to, they can own a beauty supply store and employ their family members. We could be creating that type of wealth in our families, instead of being a situation where we are completely ousted and only on the consumer end of things.”

Quentin and Megan Lathan believe their first-hand knowledge of Black hair care products makes their service a cut above what the rest. And then there’s the customer service piece.

“Nobody is going to take care of us like us,” said Quentin Lathan. “When people walk through the door they are like family. An older woman that comes in and needs a wig is treated like our aunt or grandmother.”

Famed entrepreneur, author, and educator Devin Robinson says it was his own unsavory experience inside an Asian-owned beauty supply store that lead him to establish the Beauty Supply Institute.

“In 2005 I owned a barbershop and a salon.

I had 12 stylists working for me and they kept running out of product, so I went out to shop for supplies,” said Robinson, who also founded the Urban Business Institute. “I was doing extensive browsing and the Korean guy thought I was casing the place.”

What happened next would change Robinson’s life forever.

“He grabbed a golf club and threatened me. He said I needed to hurry up and pick my product or he was going to hit me. I was prepared to spend $2,000.”

Instead, Robinson walked out.

Contemplating the incident in the parking lot, he thought, “Maybe I need to open up my own store.” When he noticed a vacant space in the same shopping center as his salon, he signed a lease and began to stock his shelves.

“That’s when I ran into challenges. I thought I was having isolated issues. Then, in early 2007, I started getting requests from all over the country to help others. There are 13,000 beauty supply stores and only 400 are black owned.”

Robinson said he then made it his business to help others- like the Lathans- break into the beauty supply business. The response has been favorable.

“I love the service and I love to patronize Black businesses in general,” said Rhonda Waller, a patron of Beauty Plus. “It’s difficult for us to support our own people like other nationalities support their own. Then we want discounts and expect people to give us a break all the time.”

Alexis Waller, who accompanied her mother to the store said her first visit had a “more welcoming” atmosphere than what she’s used to.

The Lathans told the AFRO in the future they hope to partner with cosmetology programs in the area to provide internships, and help others start their own beauty supply stores.

Femly Aims to Offer Feminine Care By Mail

By Jannah Johnson Special to the AFRO At the young age of twenty-eight, Arion Long is determined to change the way women view their time of the month. Back in December of 2015 Long started a company, Femly, a monthly subscription site for natural feminine care products.

“I started my company because I saw that there was a need and a lot of women lacked access to feminine care. Initially I knew that I wanted to do something but I did not know what, I started the company in 2015 and we launched in 2016. However in 2016 after being diagnosed with a tumor and trying to find natural skincare and feminine products I knew that this was something I wanted to pursue,” Long told the AFRO. “It’s every month, people can visit our website and sign up for a monthly gift that fits their budget and their need. We have three options ranging from $20-$34 a month and the customer gets a custom mix of feminine products skin care products snacks and other gifts, anything that we could think of to make your monthly gift something that you look forward to.”

Long grew up in New York and moved to Baltimore to attend Morgan State University where she graduated with a degree in consumer science.

“Moving from New York our school system is a little different and I skipped a few grades in high school and started Morgan at age 15. Initially it was a culture shock, just to be around so many people who were much older than me, many of who had a different set of experiences than I had. I grew to appreciate going to an HBCU because I was able to find comfort in the fact that the people around me cared about me and looked like me, it was diverse enough but there was a thriving Black community and I did not have that when I lived in New York.”

Long has been met with approval from the Black community thus far and plans on making a rather drastic move in order to give back to the city that provided her with a college education and has a large urban population.

“I’ve been overwhelmingly supported especially from Black women, we serve Black women and not just those who experienced period pains and endometriosis

Courtesy photo

Morgan State University graduate Arion Long founded Femly, a monthly subscription service for Feminine Care. but anyone who need a safe option. The products in stores are loaded with chemicals and toxins and a lot of people don’t realize that.

We are in the patent development stage and we are developing products that will change the landscape of the feminine product industry, we’ll be working aside investors to develop a product and will be moving to Baltimore in the near future,” she said.

“I wanted to make an impact in an urban community and I thought the Baltimore was a thriving location for that. I knew that I would not only have the resources but be able to make an impact and bring jobs to Baltimore which was my big determining factor. I wanted to be somewhere we could help the community and provide jobs and benefit from different support networks.”

Long is a finalist in an entrepreneur competition where the prize is $40,000 and has several pitches set up in the next few months with investors across the country.

However no matter how much her company grows, Long vows to stay true to her core ideals with her business.

“We are changing the way that people around the world address their periods, we really hope to just continue growing and expanding,” Long said.

To learn more about Femly or sign up for their subscription service visit their website, femlybox.com.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY INVITATION TO BID INVITATION NO. 160100 SMALL DIAMETER WATER MAIN REHABILITATION 12C The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is soliciting bids for Invitation No. 160100: Small Diameter Water Main Rehabilitation 12C. The work includes Cleaning and Lining approximately 7,600 linear feet of 8-inch and 250 linear feet of 12-inch Water Mains with Cementitious Material; approximately 1,385 linear feet of 6-inch, 8-inch and 12 inch water main same trench replacement; providing temporary water system of approximately 10,400 linear feet of 4-inch pipe and appurtenances at Brightwood and Takoma, N.W. in Washington DC; and associated paving, sidewalk, curb and gutter, trench excavation and back fill.

The project requires completion within 340 consecutive calendar days.

This project is estimated to cost between $3,500,000 and $5,500,000.

DC Water will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on October 11, 2017.

A recommended Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted on September 12, 2017.

A Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted on September 12, 2017. The Conference will begin at 10:00 a.m. and end at 11:00 a.m. in the Conference Room at DC Water’s Blue Plains Visitor Center located at 5000 Overlook Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20032. All attendees are required to make reservations for this Conference by submitting to dets-construction.bid. inquiry@dcwater.com the name, title and firm name of the attendee(s), by 3:00 p.m. on September 11, 2017.

This project may be funded in part by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (M/WBEs) participation in this work of 32% and 6%, respectively, has been established. Participation by M/WBEs at the 32% and 6% level, respectively, is a contract goal. The contract requires bidders to conduct directed outreach to M/WBEs. The program requirements are fully defined in USEPA’s ”Participation by Disadvantaged Enterprises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistant Agreements - May 27, 2008.”

Please be aware that program participation requires M/WBEs are made aware of contracting opportunities to the fullest extent practicable through dedicated outreach and recruitment activities. That is, bidders for DC Water construction contracts must make prescribed ”good faith efforts” to ensure that M/WBEs receive a ”fair share” of procurement opportunities funded by EPA. For further guidance, please refer to 40 C.F.R.§ 33.301, or contact DC Water Grants Coordinator Rhonda Green at 202-787-2276.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2017FEP98 Date of Death March 14, 2013 Jonathan D Watts Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Cheryl Maxwell whose address is 5604 Linwood Court , Lanham MD 20706 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Johnathan D Watts , deceased by the Orphan’s Court for Prince Georges C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Maryland, on October 10, 2013 Service of process may be made upon Lawrence Ward 3447 24th Street, SE, Washington, DC whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 3428 24th Street, SE, Washington, DC Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, 3rd FloorWashington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF SUPERIOR COURT OF COLUMBIA THE DISTRICT OF PROBATE DIVISION COLUMBIAD.C. Washington, PROBATE DIVISION 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Foreign No. 20001-2131 2017FEP77 Foreign No. Date of Death 2017FEP77 July 8, 2006 Date Lawrenceof P Death Jones July Decedent 8, 2006 Lawrence P Jones NOTICE OF Decedent APPOINTMENT NOTICE OF OF FOREIGN APPOINTMENT PERSONAL OF FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE PERSONAL AND REPRESENTATIVE NOTICE TO AND CREDITORS TO and Lydia NOTICE Jones-Nunn CREDITORS Laureen Mullins whose Lydia Jones-Nunn and address is 6200 Targon Laureen Mullins whose Court Ft., Washington, address is 6200 Targon MD 20744 was apCourt Washington, pointedFt., personal repreMD 20744 was apsentative of the estate of pointed repreL a w r e npersonal ce P Jo nes, sentative of the estate of decease by the Orphan’s LCaowur er tn cfeo rP PJ roinnecse, decease the Orphan’s George’sbyCounty, State C u r t f o r onPMay r i n c18, e ofoMaryland, George’s County, State 2017, of Maryland, on Maymay 18, Service of process 2017, be made upon Philip J Service process may Mullins,of 4538 Eads be made Philip J Place, NE,upon Washington, Mullins, 4538 Eads DC 20019 whose desPlace, NE,asWashington, ignation District of DC 20019 whose Columbia agent deshas ignation as District of been filed with the RegisColumbia agent has ter of Wills, D.C. been filed with the RegisThe decedent owned the ter Wills, f o lof low i n g D.C. District of The decedent the Colombia realowned property: fU o lnl odw i n g D t r i cLt o o e v e l o pies d t ,f Colombia real Lot property: Square 5132, 30, in U ndeveloped Lot, NE Square Lotthe 30,dein Claims 5132, against NE cedent may be preClaims desented against to the the undercedent may presigned and filedbe with the sented Register to of the Wills underfor the signed with the Districtand of filed Columbia, Register Wills the BuildingofA, 515for 5th District of Columbia, Street, NW, 3rd FloorBuilding A, D.C. 515 20001 5th Washington, Street, 3rdfrom Floorwithin 6 NW, months the Washington, D.C. 20001 date of first publication of within 6 months from the this notice. date ofLaureen first publication of J. Mullins this notice.

Lydia C. Jones-Nunn Laureen J.Personal Mullins Lydia C. Jones-Nunn Representative(s) Personal TRUE TEST COPY Representative(s) REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY Date of first publication: REGISTER WILLS September 1, OF 2017 Date of first publication: Name of newspapers September 1, 2017 and/or periodical: Name of newspapers The Daily Washington and/or periodical: Law Reporter The Daily Washington The Afro-American Law Reporter The Afro-American

Superior Court of the District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2017ADM929 Sadie Vivian Johnson Decedent Thomas P Hartnett, Esq 209 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Washington, DC Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Donald Johnson, whose address is 2942 E Captive Drive, Douglasville, GA, 30135 wasappointed personal representative of the estate of Sadie Vivian Johnson, who died on August 14, 2016 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 1, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 1, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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NAME: ________________________________________________ Superior Court of the ADDRESS: _____________________________________________ District of Columbia PROBATE PHONEDIVISION NO.:____________________________________________ Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 CLASSIFICATION: ______________________________________ Administration No. 2017ADM929 (Room, Apt., House, etc.)Tue Aug 29 16:07:24 EDT 2017 TYPESET: Sadie Vivian Johnson Decedent INSERTION DATE:_________________

Thomas P Hartnett, Superior Court of Esq the District of 209 Pennsylvania Ave. District of Columbia SE PROBATE DIVISION Washington, DC Washington, D.C. Attorney 20001-2131 Legal Advertising Rates NOTICE OF Administration No. APPOINTMENT, Effective October 1, 2008 2017ADM1350 NOTICE TO Mary E Gordon CREDITORS Decedent AND NOTICE TO TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:09:20 EDT 2017 Kimberly PROBATE Fahrenholz DIVISION UNKNOWN HEIRS Esquire Donald Johnson, whose 1801-18th St. NW, Ste (Estates) 9 address is 2942 E Cap- Washington, DC 20009 Superior Court of 202-332-0080 tive Drive, Douglasville, Attorney the District of GA, 30135 wasappoinDistrict of Columbia NOTICE OF PROBATE NOTICES ted personal representaPROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, tive of the estate of Sadie Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO Vivian Johnson, who 20001-2131 CREDITORS $ 60 per insertion a. on Order Nisi $180.00 per 3 weeks died August 14, 2016 Administration No. AND NOTICE TO without a will, and will b. Small Estates (singleUNKNOWN publication $ 60 per insertion 2017ADM259 HEIRS serve with Court supervi- Kimberly Fahrenholz EsRuth W Powell c. Notice to Creditors sion.

All unknown heirs quire, whose address is Decedent TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:07:44 a n d 1.h Domestic e i r s w h o s e 1801 18th Street, $NW, 60 per insertion Elizabeth Victoria Noel, $180.00 per 3 weeks whereabouts are un- Ste 9, Washington, DC Esq Foreign $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks known2. shall enter their 20009 was appointed 43 Randolph Rd #207 Superior Court of a pd. p eEscheated a r a n c e i nEstates t h i s personal representative $ 60 per insertion 6 weeks S i l v e r S p r i n g , M D $360.00 theper District of proceeding. Objections of the estate of Mary E 20904 Standard Probates $125.00 Columbia to e.such appointment Attorney Gordon , who died on PROBATE DIVISION shall be filed with the October 23, 2016 without NOTICE OF Washington, D.C. Register of Wills, D.C., a will, and will serve withAPPOINTMENT, 20001-2131 CIVIL NOTICES 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd out Court supervision. All NOTICE TO Administration No. Floor Washington, D.C. 202-879-1133 a.

Name Changes $ 80.00 CREDITORS unknown heirs and heirs 2017ADM944 20001, on or before whose whereabouts are AND NOTICE TO Sarina March 1, 2018.

Claims unknown shall enter their b. Real Property 200.00Renee Turner UNKNOWN HEIRS $ AKA against the decedent a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Barbara A Thompson , Sabrina R Turner shall be presented to the proceeding. Objections whose address is 185 Decedent undersigned with a copy to such appointment FAMILY COURT Occoneechee Trail, Hol- William A Bland (or to the Register of Wills or to the probate of delister NC, 27844 , was 80 M Street SE# 330 202-879-1212 filed with the Register of cedent´s will) shall appointed personal re- Washington, DC 20003 be Wills with a copy to the filed with the Register of presentative of the estate Attorney DOMESTIC RELATIONS undersigned, on or be- Wills, D.C., of Ruth W Powell, who 515 5th NOTICE OF fore March 1, 2018, or be Street, N.W., 3rd202-879-0157 died on January 6, 2008 Floor APPOINTMENT, forever barred. Persons W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . without a will, and will NOTICE TO believed to be heirs or 20001, on or before serve with Court superviCREDITORS legatees of the decedent March 2, 2018. Claims sion. All unknown heirs $ 150.00 a.

Absent Defendant AND NOTICE TO who do not receive a against the decedent and heirs whose UNKNOWN HEIRS copy this notice by mail shall be presented to the b. of Absolute Divorce whereabouts are un- $ J150.00 a s m i n e N T u r n e r, within 25 days of its first undersigned with a copy known shall enter their $150.00 whose address is 622 c. Custody publication shallDivorce so in- to the Register of Wills or appearance in this Southern Ave. SE, form the Register of filed with the Register of proceeding. Objections Washington, DC 20032, Wills, including name, Wills with a copy to the to such appointment was appointed personal address and relationTo place your ad,undersigned, call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262, Public $50.00 & up shall be filed with Notices the representative on or beof the ship.

Register of Wills, D.C., estate foresize, MarchBaltimore 2, 2018, or beLegal of Sabrina Renee depending on Notices are $24.84 per inch.

Date of Publication: 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Turner AKA Sabrina R forever barred. Persons 16:08:11 EDT 2017 September 1, 2017 Floor 892 Washington, D.C. Turnee , who died on believed to be1-800 heirs (AFRO) or Name of newspaper: 20001, on or before June 8, 2017 with a will, legatees of the decedent Afro-AmericanFor Proof who of Publication, please call 1-800-237-6892, ext.will 244serve without November 12, 2017. and do not receive a Washington Claims against the de- Court supervision. All uncopy of this notice by mail Law Reporter cedent shall be pre- known heirs and heirs within 25 days of its first Donald Johnson publication shall so insented to the under- whose whereabouts are Personal form LEGALshall NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL signed withNOTICES a copy to the unknown the Register of LEGALRepresentative NOTICES enter their Register of Wills or filed a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Wills, including name, with the Register of Wills proceeding. Objections address and relationTRUE TEST COPY with a copy to the under- to such appointment (or ship.

REGISTER OF WILLS signed, on or before to the probate of deDate of Publication: TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:07:24 EDT 2017 November 12, 2017, or cedent´s will) shall be August 31, 2017 09/1, 09/8, 09/15/17 be forever barred. Per- filed with the Register of Name of newspaper: sons believed to be heirs Wills, D.C., 515 5th Afro-American or legatees of the de- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington Superior Court of cedent who do not re- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Law Reporter the District of ceive a copy of this notice 20001, on or before Kimberly Fahrenholz District of Columbia by mail within 25 days of March 1, 2018. Claims Esq PROBATE DIVISION its first publication shall against the decedent Personal Washington, D.C. so inform the Register of shall be presented to the Representative 20001-2131 Wills, including name, undersigned with a copy Administration No. address and relation- to the Register of Wills or TRUE TEST COPY 2017ADM1350 ship.

REGISTER OF WILLS Mary E Gordon filed with the Register of Date of Publication: Decedent Wills with a copy to the TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:09:20 EDT 2017 May 12, 2017 09/8, 09/15/17 Kimberly Fahrenholz 09/1, undersigned, on or beName of newspaper: Esquire fore March 1, 2018, or be Afro-American 1801-18th St. NW, Ste 9 forever barred. Persons Superior Court of Washington Washington, DC 20009 believed to be heirs or the District of Law Reporter Attorney legatees of the decedent District of Columbia Barbara A Thompson NOTICE OF who do not receive a PROBATE DIVISION Personal copy of this notice by mail APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. Representative within 25 days of its first NOTICE TO 20001-2131 CREDITORS publication shall so inAdministration No. TRUE TEST COPY AND NOTICE TO form the Register of 2017ADM259 REGISTER OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS Wills, including name, Ruth W Powell Kimberly Fahrenholz Esaddress and relation05/12, 05/19,Tue 05/26/17 TYPESET: Aug 29 16:07:44 EDT 2017 quire, whose address is Decedent ship.

1801 18th Street, NW, Elizabeth Victoria Noel, Date of Publication: Ste 9, Washington, DC Esq September 1, 2017 20009 was appointed 43 Randolph Rd #207 Name of newspaper: Superior Court of S i l v e r S p r i n g , M D personal representative Afro-American the District of 20904 of the estate of Mary E Washington Columbia Gordon , who died on Attorney Law Reporter PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE OF October 23, 2016 without Jasmine N Turner Washington, D.C. APPOINTMENT, a will, and will serve withPersonal 20001-2131 NOTICE TO out Court supervision. All Representative Administration No. CREDITORS unknown heirs and heirs 2017ADM944 AND NOTICE TO whose whereabouts are TRUE TEST COPY Sarina Renee Turner UNKNOWN HEIRS unknown shall enter their REGISTER OF WILLS AKA Barbara A Thompson , Sabrina R Turner appearance in this proceeding. Objections whose address is 185 Decedent 09/1, 09/8, 09/15/17 to such appointment (or Occoneechee Trail, Hol- William A Bland lister NC, 27844 , was to the probate of de80 M Street SE# 330 cedent´s will) shall be appointed personal re- Washington, DC 20003 filed with the Register of presentative of the estate Attorney of Ruth W Powell, who Wills, D.C., 515 5th NOTICE OF Street, N.W., 3rd Floor died on January 6, 2008 APPOINTMENT, without a will, and will Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

NOTICE TO 20001, on or before serve with Court superviCREDITORS March 2, 2018. Claims sion. All unknown heirs AND NOTICE TO against the decedent a n d h e i r s w h o s e UNKNOWN HEIRS shall be presented to the whereabouts are un- J a s m i n e N T u r n e r, undersigned with a copy known shall enter their whose address is 622 to the Register of Wills or a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Southern Ave. SE, filed with the Register of proceeding. Objections Washington, DC 20032, Wills with a copy to the to such appointment was appointed personal undersigned, on or be- shall be filed with the representative of the fore March 2, 2018, or be Register of Wills, D.C., estate of Sabrina Renee forever barred. Persons 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Turner AKA Sabrina R believed to be heirs or Floor Washington, D.C. Turnee , who died on legatees of the decedent 20001, on or before June 8, 2017 with a will, who do not receive a November 12, 2017. and will serve without copy of this notice by mail Claims against the de- Court supervision. All unwithin 25 days of its first cedent shall be pre- known heirs and heirs publication shall so in- sented to the under- whose whereabouts are signed with a copy to the unknown shall enter their form the Register of Wills, including name, Register of Wills or filed a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s address and relation- with the Register of Wills proceeding. Objections with a copy to the under- to such appointment (or ship. signed, on or before to the probate of deDate of Publication: November 12, 2017, or cedent´s will) shall be August 31, 2017 be forever barred. Per-

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Service of process may be made upon Patricia A. Barnes, Esquire, 1629 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006 whose designation as District of LEGAL NOTICES Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 4613 B Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before February 11, 2018. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the LEGAL NOTICES undersigned, on or before February 11, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 11, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Margaret A Iremiren Personal Representative

fore February 18, 2018, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address relationLEGALand NOTICES ship.

Date of Publication: August 18, 2017 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Vickey A Wright-Smith Personal Representative

or be forever barred. Perthe District of sons believed to be heirs Columbia or legatees of the dePROBATE DIVISION cedent who do not reWashington, D.C. ceive a copy of this notice 20001-2131 by mail within 25 days of Administration No. its first publication shall 2017ADM888 so inform the Register of Richard Y Lee Wills, including name, Decedent address EDT and 2017 relationRobert P. Newman, Esq TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:14:22 LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES ship.

801 Wayne Avenue, Date of Publication: Suite 400 August 18, 2017 Silver Spring, MD Superior Court of Name of newspaper: 20910 the District of Afro-American Attorney Columbia Washington NOTICE OF PROBATE DIVISION Law Reporter TRUE TEST COPY APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. Jeannelle B Wallace REGISTER OF WILLS NOTICE TO 20001-2131 Personal CREDITORS Administration No. Representative 08/18, 08/25,Tue 09/1/17 AND NOTICE TO TYPESET: Aug 29 16:16:16 EDT 2017 2017ADM900 UNKNOWN HEIRS Phillip Nelson Wallace TRUE TEST COPY Garrett Wong, whose ad- Decedent TRUE TEST COPY dress is 9607 Belvedere REGISTER OF WILLS Silber, Perlman, Sig- REGISTER OF WILLS Superior Court of Place, Silver Spring, MD man & Tilev PA the District of 08/18, 08/25, 09/1/17 TYPESET: Aug 29 16:10:07Columbia EDT 2017 20910 was appointed 6930 Carroll Ave # 610 08/18, 08/25,Tue 09/1/17 personal representative Ta k o m a P a r k , M D PROBATE DIVISION of the estate of Richard Y. 20912 Washington, D.C. Lee, who died on May 27, Attorney Superior Court of 20001-2131 2017 without a will, and the District of NOTICE OF Administration No. will serve without Court Columbia APPOINTMENT, 2017ADM903 supervision.

All unknown PROBATE DIVISION NOTICE TO Hilda Audrey Hamm Doris A. McClain heirs and heirs whose Washington, D.C. CREDITORS Decedent Personal whereabouts are un20001-2131 AND NOTICE TO NOTICE OF Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY known shall enter their Administration No. UNKNOWN HEIRS APPOINTMENT, TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS appearance in this 2017ADM920 Jeannelle B Wallace , NOTICE TO REGISTER OF WILLS proceeding.

Objections Diana Harvie Ryan, Esq whose address is 1411 CREDITORS Date of first publication: to such appointment Rittenhouse St., NW, Decedent AND NOTICE TO March 24, 2017 TYPESET: Aug 29 16:16:37 shall be filed with the Washington, DC 20011, 08/11, 08/18,Tue 08/25/17 Patricia DEDT Ryan2017 Esq UNKNOWN HEIRS Name of newspapers 6106 Harvard Avenue Tracy Lynne Hamm, Register of Wills, D.C., was appointed personal and/or periodical: P.O. Box 633 whose address is 12607 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd representative of the The Daily Washington Glen Echo, MD 20816 Superior Court of Abbottsford Circle, Ft Floor Washington, D.C. estate of Phillip Nelson Law Reporter Attorney the District of Washington, MD 20744, 20001, on or before Feb- Wallace , who died on The Afro-American NOTICE OF Columbia was appointed personal ruary 18, 2018. Claims May 23, 2017 without a 03/24, 03/31, 4/7/17 APPOINTMENT, PROBATE TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:15:23 EDTDIVISION 2017 representative of the against the decedent will, and will serve withNOTICE TO Washington, D.C. estate of Hilda Audrey shall be presented to the out Court supervision. All CREDITORS 20001-2131 Hamm, who died on Feb- undersigned with a copy unknown heirs and heirs AND NOTICE TO Administration No. ruary 11, 2008 without a to the Register of Wills or whose where-abouts are Superior Court of UNKNOWN HEIRS 2017ADM916 will, and will serve with- filed with the Register of unknown shall enter their the District of Tyrone Cephas Bonner Coimbra Maher Sirica, out Court supervision. All Wills with a copy to the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Columbia whose address is 188 unknown heirs and heirs undersigned, on or be- proceeding. Objections Decedent PROBATE DIVISION W o o d b i n e A v e n u e whose whereabouts are fore February 18, 2018, to such appointment NOTICE OF Washington, D.C. Northport, NY 11768, unknown shall enter their or be forever barred. Per- shall be filed with the APPOINTMENT, 20001-2131 sons believed to be heirs Register of Wills, D.C., was appointed personal a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s NOTICE TO Administration No. representative of the proceeding. Objections or legatees of the de- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd CREDITORS 2017ADM908 estate of Diana Harvie to such appointment cedent who do not re- Floor Washington, D.C. 16:14:01 2017 AND NOTICE TO Arthur L EDT Stephens Maher, who died on Feb- shall be filed with the ceive a copy of this notice 20001, on or before FebUNKNOWN HEIRS Decedent Gayle C Rutland, whose ruary 21, 2017 with a will, Register of Wills, D.C., by mail within 25 days of ruary 18, 2018. Claims NOTICE OF address is P.O. Box and will serve without 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd its first publication shall against the decedent APPOINTMENT, 5044, Fredericksburg, Court supervision. All un- Floor Washington, D.C. so inform the Register of shall be presented to the NOTICE TO VA 22403 was appointed known heirs and heirs 20001, on or before Feb- Wills, including name, undersigned with a copy CREDITORS personal representative whose whereabouts are ruary 18, 2018. Claims address and relation- to the Register of Wills or AND NOTICE TO of the estate of Tyrone unknown shall enter their against the decedent ship. filed with the Register of UNKNOWN HEIRS Wills with a copy to the shall be presented to the Date of Publication: Renee L Williams, whose Caphas Bonner , who a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s August 18, 2017 proceeding.

Objections died on June 2, 2017 undersigned, on or beundersigned with a copy address is 233 Oneida Name of newspaper: to such appointment (or without a will, and will fore February 18, 2018, to the Register of Wills or St. NE, Washington, DC Afro-American to the probate of deserve without Court suor be forever barred. Perfiled with the Register of 20011, was appointed sons believed to be heirs personal representative pervision. All unknown cedent´s will) shall be Wills with a copy to the Washington heirs and heirs whose filed with the Register of undersigned, on or be- Law Reporter or legatees of the deof the estate of Garett Wong cedent who do not refore February 18, 2018, Arthur L Stephens , who whereabouts are un- Wills, D.C., 515 5th Personal Street, N.W., 3rd Floor known shall enter their ceive a copy of this notice or be forever barred. Perdied on March 18, 2017 Representative W a s h i n g t o n , D .

C . a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s by mail within 25 days of sons believed to be heirs with a will, and will serve 20001, on or before Febproceeding.

Objections its first publication shall or legatees of the dewithout Court superviso inform the Register of sion. All unknown heirs to such appointment ruary 18, 2018. Claims cedent who do not re- TRUE TEST COPY Wills, including name, a n d h e i r s w h o s e shall be filed with the against the decedent ceive a copy of this notice REGISTER OF WILLS address and relationwhereabouts are un- Register of Wills, D.C., shall be presented to the by mail within 25 days of undersigned with a copy 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd ship. its first publication shall known shall enter their 08/18, 8/25, 09/01/17 to the Register of Wills or Floor Washington, D.C. Date of Publication: so inform the Register of appearance in this filed with the Register of 20001, on or before FebTYPESET: Wed Aug 30 14:48:30 August 18,EDT 20172017 Wills, including name, proceeding. Objections Name of newspaper: to such appointment (or ruary 18, 2018. Claims Wills with a copy to the address and relationAfro-American to the probate of de- against the decedent undersigned, on or be- ship.

Washington cedent´s will) shall be shall be presented to the fore February 18, 2018, Date of Publication: THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSING AUTHORITY or be forever barred.

Perundersigned with a copy Law Reporter August 18, 2017 filed with the Register of sons believed to be heirs to the Register of Wills or B Wallace (RFP) Name of newspaper: Wills, D.C., 515 5th REQUESTJeannelle FOR PROPOSAL Personal Street, N.W., 3rd Floor filed with the Register of or legatees of the de- Afro-American SOLICITATION NO.: 0021-2017 Wills with a copy to the cedent who do not re- Washington Representative Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before Feb- undersigned, on or be- ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter FIRE ALARM AND SECURITY SYSTEMS PREVENTIVE TRUE TEST COPY Tracy Lynne Hamm ruary 18, 2018. Claims fore February 18, 2018, by mail within 25 days of MAINTENANCE REGISTER OF WILLS Personal against the decedent or be forever barred. Per- its first publication shall AND REPAIR SERVICES Representative shall be presented to the sons believed to be heirs so inform the Register of 08/18, 08/25, 09/1/17 undersigned with a copy or legatees of the de- Wills, including name, The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) requires Fire to the Register of Wills or cedent who do not re- address and relation- TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS filed with the Register of ceive a copy of this notice ship.

Alarm and Security Systems Preventive Maintenance and Repair SerWills with a copy to the by mail within 25 days of Date of Publication: vices.

August 18, 2017 its first publication shall 08/18, 08/25,Tue 9/1/17 undersigned, on or beTYPESET: Aug 29 16:14:42 EDT 2017 Name of newspaper: so inform the Register of fore February 18, 2018, SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS will be available at the Issuing Office at or be forever barred. Per- Wills, including name, Afro-American 1133 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 300, Office of Administrative sons believed to be heirs address and relation- Washington Superior Court of Services/Contracts and Procurement, Washington, DC 20002-7599, beLaw Reporter or legatees of the de- ship. the District of tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, Coimbra Maher Sirica cedent who do not re- Date of Publication: Columbia beginning Monday, August 28, 2017 and on DCHA’s website at www.

Personal ceive a copy of this notice August 18, 2017 PROBATE DIVISION Representative dchousing.org. by mail within 25 days of Name of newspaper: Washington, D.C. its first publication shall Afro-American 20001-2131 TRUE TEST COPY SEALED PROPOSAL RESPONSES ARE DUE ON OR BEFORE so inform the Register of Washington Administration No. REGISTER OF WILLS Wills, including name, Law Reporter Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 11:00 PM. 2017ADM888 Gayle C Rutland address and relationRichard Y Lee 08/18, 08/25, 09/1/17 Personal ship.

TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:15:02 DecedentEDT 2017 Contact Lolita Washington, Contract Specialist at (202) 535-1212 or by Representative Date of Publication: Robert P. Newman, Esq email at lwashing@dchousing.org with copy to business@dchousing.org August 18, 2017 801 Wayne Avenue, for additional information.

TRUE TEST COPY Name of newspaper: Suite 400 Superior Court of REGISTER OF WILLS Afro-American Silver Spring, MD the District of Washington 20910 District of Columbia 08/18, 08/25,Tue 09/1/17 Law Reporter TYPESET: Aug 29 16:10:33 EDTDIVISION 2017 Attorney PROBATE Renee L Williams NOTICE OF Washington, D.C. Personal APPOINTMENT, 20001-2131 Representative NOTICE TO Administration No. Superior Court of CREDITORS 2017ADM904 the District of TRUE TEST COPY AND NOTICE TO Maxine J Cain Columbia REGISTER OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS Decedent PROBATE DIVISION Garrett Wong, whose adBarbara G Whitaker Washington, D.C. 08/18, 08/25, 09/1/17 dress is 9607 Belvedere 635 Dahlia Street, NW 20001-2131 TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:13:41 EDT 2017No. Place, Silver Spring, MD Washington, DC Administration 20910 was appointed 20012-1841 2016ADM1437 personal representative Attorney Janie M Bonds Superior Court of of the estate of Richard Y. NOTICE OF Decedent the District of Lee, who died on May 27, APPOINTMENT, Vickey A. Wright Smith District of Columbia 2017 without a will, and NOTICE TO 1629 K Street, NW, #300 PROBATE DIVISION will serve without Court CREDITORS Washington, DC 20006 Washington, D.C. supervision. All unknown AND NOTICE TO Attorney 20001-2131 heirs and heirs whose UNKNOWN HEIRS NOTICE OF Administration No. Rayna Bailey-Smith, whereabouts are unAPPOINTMENT, 2017ADM437 whose address is 301 known shall enter their NOTICE TO Charles Roberts appearance in this Benam Court , AccoCREDITORS Decedent keek, MD 20607, was ap- proceeding. Objections AND NOTICE TO Margaret A. Iremiren pointed personal repre- to such appointment UNKNOWN HEIRS 718 Oglethorpe Street Vickey A Wright-Smith, sentative of the estate of shall be filed with the 16:17:28 EDT 2017 NW whose address is 1629 K Maxine J. Cain , who died Register of Wills, D.C., Washington, DC 20011 S t r e e t , N W , # 3 0 0 , on October 5, 2016 with a 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Attorney Washington, DC 20006 will, and will serve with- Floor Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF was appointed personal out Court supervision. All 20001, on or before FebAPPOINTMENT, representative of the unknown heirs and heirs ruary 18, 2018. Claims NOTICE TO estate of Janie M Bonds , whose where-abouts are against the decedent CREDITORS who died on September unknown shall enter their shall be presented to the AND NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy 7, 2008 without a will, a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s UNKNOWN HEIRS and will serve without proceeding. Objections to the Register of Wills or Margaret A Iremiren , Court supervision. All un- to such appointment (or filed with the Register of whose address is 718 known heirs and heirs to the probate of de- Wills with a copy to the Oglethorpe Street NW, whose where-abouts are cedent´s will) shall be undersigned, on or beWashington, DC 20011 , unknown shall enter their filed with the Register of fore February 18, 2018, was appointed personal or be forever barred. PerWills, D.C., 515 5th appearance in this representative of the proceeding. Objections Street, N.W., 3rd Floor sons believed to be heirs estate of Charles Robor legatees of the deto such appointment (or W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . erts , who died on to the probate of de- 20001, on or before Feb- cedent who do not reNovember 08, 2016 withcedent´s will) shall be ruary 18, 2018. Claims ceive a copy of this notice PRESS SERVICES out a will, and will serve filed with the Register of against the decedent by mail within 25 days of without Court supervishall be presented to the its first publication shall Wills, D.C., 515 5th sion. All unknown heirs Street, N.W., 3rd Floor undersigned with a copy so inform the Register of and heirs whose to the Register of Wills or Wills, including name, Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . whereabouts are un20001, on or before Feb- filed with the Register of address and relationknown shall enter their ruary 18, 2018 . Claims Wills with a copy to the ship. appearance in this against the decedent undersigned, on or be- Date of Publication: proceeding. Objections shall be presented to the fore February 18, 2018, August 18, 2017 to such appointment (or undersigned with a copy or be forever barred. Per- Name of newspaper: to the probate of deto the Register of Wills or sons believed to be heirs Afro-American cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of or legatees of the de- Washington filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the cedent who do not re- Law Reporter Wills, D.C., 515 5th Garett Wong undersigned, on or be- ceive a copy of this notice Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Personal fore February 18, 2018, by mail within 25 days of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Representative or be forever barred. Per- its first publication shall 20001, on or before Febsons believed to be heirs so inform the Register of ruary 11, 2018. Claims or legatees of the de- Wills, including name, TRUE TEST COPY against the decedent cedent who do not re- address and relation- REGISTER OF WILLS shall be presented to the ceive a copy of this notice ship. undersigned with a copy by mail within 25 days of Date of Publication: to the Register of Wills or 08/18, 8/25, 09/01/17 its first publication shall August 18, 2017 filed with the Register of so inform the Register of Name of newspaper: Wills with a copy to the Wills, including name, Afro-American undersigned, on or beaddress and relation- Washington fore February 11, 2018, Law Reporter ship. or be forever barred. PerRayna Bailey-Smith Date of Publication: sons believed to be heirs Personal August 18, 2017 or legatees of the deRepresentative Name of newspaper: cedent who do not reAfro-American ceive a copy of this notice TRUE TEST COPY Washington by mail within 25 days of REGISTER OF WILLS Law Reporter its first publication shall Vickey A Wright-Smith so inform the Register of Personal 08/18, 08/25, 09/1/17 Wills, including name, Representative address and relationship.

TRUE TEST COPY Date of Publication: REGISTER OF WILLS August 11, 2017 Name of newspaper: 08/18, 08/25, 09/1/17 Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Margaret A Iremiren Personal Representative by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Fort Washington, MD 20744 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Calvin H Steiner Jr., deceased by the Orphan’s Court for Prince George’s County, State of Maryland., on TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:09:42 EDT 2017 December 17, 2012, LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL Service of NOTICES process may be made upon James Superior Court of Larry Frazier Esquire, the District of 918 Maryland Avenue, District of Columbia NE, Washington, DC PROBATE DIVISION 20002 whose designaWashington, D.C. tion as District of Colum20001-2131 bia agent has been filed Administration No. with the Register of Wills, 2017ADM691 D.C. Levance Dickey The decedent owned the Decedent following District of Thecia Bethel, Colombia real property: one-third interest as tenAttorney ant in common for real NOTICE OF property located at 229 APPOINTMENT, Long Fellow St., NW, NOTICE TO Washington, DC CREDITORS Claims against the deAND NOTICE TO cedent may be preUNKNOWN HEIRS sented to the underThecia Bethel , whose signed and filed with the address is 3321 Toledo Register of Wills for the Terrace, Suite 203, Hy- District of Columbia, attsville MD 20782 was Building A, 515 5th appointed personal reStreet, NW, 3rd Floor presentative of the estate Washington, D.C. 20001 of Levance Dickey, who within 6 months from the died on October 4, 2005 date of first publication of without a will, and will this notice. serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs Robbyn and heirs whose Tureman-Steiner whereabouts are unPersonal known shall enter their Representative(s) appearance in this TRUE TEST COPY proceeding. Objections REGISTER OF WILLS to such appointment Date of first publication: shall be filed with the August 25, 2017 Register of Wills, D.C., Name of newspapers 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd and/or periodical: Floor Washington, D.C. The Daily Washington 20001, on or before Law Reporter J a n u a r y 2 8 , 2 0 1 8 . The Afro-American Claims against the de- TYPESET: 08/25, 09/1, Tue 09/08/17 Aug 29 cedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Superior Court of Register of Wills or filed the District of with the Register of Wills District of Columbia with a copy to the underPROBATE DIVISION signed, on or before Washington, D.C. January 28, 2018, or be 20001-2131 forever barred. Persons Administration No. believed to be heirs or 2016ADM626 legatees of the decedent who do not receive a Dora Smith Decedent copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first Clarissa Edwards publication shall so in- 2402 Lenfant Square SE form the Register of Wills, including name, Washington, DC 20020 address and relation- Attorney NOTICE OF ship.

APPOINTMENT, Date of Publication: NOTICE TO July 28, 2017 CREDITORS Name of newspaper: AND NOTICE TO Afro-American UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington Danielle Wright / Cathy Law Reporter Thecia Bethel Smith, whose address Personal are 1276 Patriot Lane, Representative MD /99-04 57th Avenue Queens, NY 11368, were appointed personal reTRUE TEST COPY presentative of the estate REGISTER OF WILLS of Dora Smith, who died on February 19, 2016 07/28, 08/4, 08/11/17 TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:17:01 without aEDT will, 2017 and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown SUPERIOR COURT OF heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unTHE DISTRICT OF known shall enter their COLUMBIA appearance in this PROBATE DIVISION proceeding. Objections Washington, D.C. to such appointment 20001-2131 shall be filed with the Foreign No. Register of Wills, D.C., 2017FEP96 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Date of Death Floor Washington, D.C. December 28, 2008 20001, on or before FebJohn H Blocker ruary 25, 2018. Claims Decedent against the decedent NOTICE OF shall be presented to the APPOINTMENT undersigned with a copy OF FOREIGN to the Register of Wills or PERSONAL filed with the Register of REPRESENTATIVE Wills with a copy to the AND undersigned, on or beNOTICE TO fore February 25, 2018, CREDITORS Leomie Blocker whose or be forever barred. Peraddress is 99 Calhoun sons believed to be heirs Street, Johnston, SC or legatees of the de29832 was appointed cedent who do not repersonal representative ceive a copy of this notice of the estate of John H by mail within 25 days of Blocker, deceased by the its first publication shall so inform the Register of Probate Court for Edgefield County, State Wills, including name, of South Carolina., on address and relationFebruary 7, 2017, Ser- ship. vice of process may be Date of Publication: made upon Thomas L August 25, 2017 Campbell Esquire , 3807 Name of newspaper: Minnesota Avenue NE, Afro-American Washington, DC 20019 Washington whose designation as Law Reporter District of Columbia Danielle Wright/Cathy Smith agent has been filed with Personal the Register of Wills, Representative D.C. The decedent owned the f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f TRUE TEST COPY Colombia real property: REGISTER OF WILLS 1/6 Interest in 2626 Ev08/25, 9/1, 09/8/17 arts Street, NE, TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 Washington, DC 20018 Claims against the decedent may be preSUPERIOR COURT OF sented to the underTHE DISTRICT OF signed and filed with the COLUMBIA Register of Wills for the PROBATE DIVISION District of ColumWashington, D.C. bia,Building A , 515 5th 20001-2131 St., NW, 3rd FloorForeign No. Washington, D.C. 20001 2017FEP26 within 6 months from the Date of Death date of first publication of July 28, 2016 this notice.

Willard C McClain Leomie Blocker Decedent Personal NOTICE OF Representative(s) APPOINTMENT TRUE TEST COPY OF FOREIGN REGISTER OF WILLS PERSONAL Date of first publication: REPRESENTATIVE August 25, 2017 AND Name of newspapers NOTICE TO and/or periodical: CREDITORS The Daily Washington Doris A McClain whose Law Reporter a d d r e s s i s 4 5 11 The Afro-American Simmons Lane, Temple Hills, MD 20748 was appointed personal repre08/25, 9/1, 09/8/17 sentative of the estate of Willard CEDT McClain TYPESET: Tue Aug 29 16:15:52 2017, deceased by the Probate Court for Prince Georges C o u n t y, S t a t e o f SUPERIOR COURT OF Maryland., on SeptemTHE DISTRICT OF ber 20, 2016.

COLUMBIA Service of process may PROBATE DIVISION be made upon Patricia A. Washington, D.C. Barnes, Esquire, 1629 K 20001-2131 Street, NW, Washington, Foreign No. DC 20006 whose des2017FEP97 ignation as District of Date of Death Columbia agent has December 4, 2012 been filed with the RegisCalvin H Steiner Jr. ter of Wills, D.C. Decedent The decedent owned the NOTICE OF following District of APPOINTMENT Colombia real property: OF FOREIGN 4613 B Street, SE, PERSONAL Washington, DC 20019.

REPRESENTATIVE Claims against the deAND cedent may be preNOTICE TO sented to the underCREDITORS signed and filed with the Robbyn TuremanRegister of Wills for the Steiner whose address is District of Columbia, 12409 Deloraine Circle. Building A, 515 5th Fort Washington, MD Street, NW, 3rd Floor, 20744 was appointed Washington, D.C. 20001 personal representative within 6 months from the of the estate of Calvin H date of first publication of Steiner Jr., deceased by this notice. the Orphan’s Court for Prince George’s County, Doris A. McClain State of Maryland., on Personal December 17, 2012, Representative(s) Service of process may TRUE TEST COPY be made upon James REGISTER OF WILLS Larry Frazier Esquire, Date of first publication: 918 Maryland Avenue, March 24, 2017 NE, Washington, DC Name of newspapers 20002 whose designa- and/or periodical:

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d.Business Automobile Liability a ($1,000,000) per occurrence for death and property damages. T a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 80.00 *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Public Works Inspector I, including a $ non-owned, leased, or hired aut minimum education level of a high school diploma or GED and three (3) $ agreement b.

Real Property 200.00 years of experience performing construction inspection work. Proficient with Primavera CM14. e.To the extent of the CONSUL *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Public Works Inspector II, including a insurance coverage shall be prim FAMILY COURT • 202-879-1212 minimum education level of a high school diploma or GED and four (4) years elected/appointed employees a RELATIONS • 202-879-0157 of experience performingDOMESTIC construction inspection work on water and sewer insurance maintained by the CIT system facilities and utilities. Proficient with Primavera CM14. ees and agents, shall not contr *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Public Works Inspector III, including a benefit the CONSULTANT in any a. Absent Defendant minimum education level of a high school diploma or GED and five (5) years $ 150.00 of experience performing construction inspection work on water and sewer $ f.Coverage b.

Absolute Divorce 150.00 shall not be suspen system facilities and utilities. Proficient with Primavera CM14. erage, or in limits, except by the c. Custody Divorce *Personnel with skills equivalent to an Engineer II, including a Bachelor of $150.00 claims paid, until after forty-five (4 Science degree in engineering from an accredited college or university and to the CITY. There will be an exce four (4) years of experience in performing engineering work. is ten (10) days notice of cancella To place ad, call 1-800-237-6892, ext. 262, Public Notices $50.00 & up *Personnel with your skills equivalent to an Engineer I, including a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering fromBaltimore an accredited college or university. g.Insurance depending on size, Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch. is to be placed with in *Personnel with skills equivalent to a public works Construction Project A:VII, or, if not rated with Best’s w 1-800 level (AFRO) 6892 Supervisor I, including a minimum education of a bachelor’s degree Best’s surplus size VII and must b from an accredited collegeof or Publication, university and three (3) call years1-800-237-6892, in construction State of Maryland.

For Proof please ext. 244 inspection, construction supervision, and construction engineering on water and sewer system facilities and utilities Proficient with Primavera h.The CONSULTANT shall furnis CM14. a copy of the additional insured e *Personnel with skills equivalent to a Construction Claim Analyst, including tion that the coverage is in force a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or a related field, and seven complete copies of insurance po (7) years * experience in construction claim or risk analysis work. Proficient with Prequalification Certification Primavera P6. Registrations/Certifications preferred: PSP fromletters AACEI orutia (EMAIL: OBC.Consultants@baltimorecity.gov).

Since these are PMI-SP. lized to assist small, minority and women business enterprises in identifying All architectural, engineering, a *Personnel with skills equivalent to a CPM Scheduler, including a college potential teaming partners, the letters should be submitted within five (5) proposal for the Project must be degree least year’ experience in construction or construction Commissions for each applicab days ofand theatdate offive the(5) project’s advertisement. management, and a minimum of 1 year in analyzing schedules. Three (3) Project. Any construction contra years The letter should contain a contact person. Failure to submit a ”Letter of Project to perform work in an exis * Interest” experience in construction scheduling software usingforcurrent industry prequalified. A copy of the will not disqualify a firm submitting a proposal the project. standard. Proficient with Primavera P6 Registrations/Certifications pre- Prequalification Certificate should ferred: PSP from AACEIapplying or a PMI-SP. Each prime consultant for this Project will be required to complete Information regarding the prequ and submit an original Federal Form 255, along with five (5) copies, to the calling the Office of Boards and C Project have been estimated at $5,000,000.00 agreement Office fees of Boards and Commissions.

The Federal per Form 255 andfor thefour five years. furtherbeinformation regarding this(Noon) request, con- MBE/WBE Certification copiesIf must submitted is onrequired or before 12:00 P.M. onplease September tact Mr. Azzam Ahmad at 410-396-3440.

29, 2017 . Submittals may not be accepted after this deadline.

It is the policy of the City of Baltim Firms intending to submit a proposal as a prime consultant for this project in the City’s contracting proces Insurance Requirements should submit a ”Letter of Interest” to the Office of Boards and Commis- Baltimore City Code (2000 Edi sions, 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor,during Baltimore, 21202 The Consultant and maintain the life Maryland of this agreement, TYPESET: Wed shall Aug procure 30 15:05:38 EDT 2017 the following required insurance coverage. a.Worker’s Compensation coverage as required by the State of Maryland, CITY OF BALTIMORE as well as any similar coverage required for thisWORKS work by applicable Federal DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC or ”other States” Law. OFFICEState OF ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION b.Professional Liability, Errors, and NOTICE OFOmissions LETTING Insurance at a limit of not less than Million Dollars ($3,000,000) including a 3 year extended Sealed BidsThree or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates period, in Council the event that services delivered pursuant to this ofreporting the Mayor and City of Baltimore and marked for Water Contract Agreement, either directly or indirectly, involves requires professional No. 1328-Montebello Filtration Plant No. or 1-Infrastructure Imservices, Professional Liability, Errors, and coverage shall be provements will be received at the Office of Omissions the Comptroller, Room 204, provided. ”Professional Services” for the purpose of this Agreement shall City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 18, meanPositively any services provided a licensed 2017. no bids will be by received afterCONSULTANT 11:00 A.M. Bidsprofessional. will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon. c.Commercial General Liability Insurance at limits of not less One The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, in than Room 6 Million Dollars ($1,000,000) perAbel occurrence claims arising out of bodily located on the first floor of the WolmanforMunicipal Building, 200 N. injuries or death, and property damages.

With those policies with aggregate Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, September 1, limits, a minimum limit Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) required.

2017 and copies may be of purchased for a non-refundable cost ofis$100.00.

Such insurance shall include contractual liability insurance.

CITY, its Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bidThe package. elected/ appointed officials, and agents shall be covered, by All contractors bidding on this employees, Contract must first be prequalified by the City when applicable, as additional insureds as respects to; ofendorsement, Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee.

Interested parties liabilitycall arising out of activities performed by or on behalf of the Frederick CONSULshould 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 4 South TANT in with thisMaryland Agreement.

Street, 4thconnection Floor, Baltimore, 21202. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established d.Business Liability limits notverification less than One Million Dollars the JV shallAutomobile be submitted withatthe bidoffor purposes.

The ($1,000,000) per occurrence for allfor claims arising out project of bodily Prequalification Category required bidding on this is injuries E13003-or death and property damages.

The insurance shall apply to any owned, Water and/or Sewer Treatment Plants and Pumping Stations Cost non-owned, leased, automobiles usedbe in the performance of this Qualification Rangeor hired for this work shall $40,000,000.01 to agreement $50,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at the Montebello e.To the Maintenance extent of the Facility CONSULTANT’s negligence, the CONSULTANT’s Pumping at the Montebello Filtration Plant I, loinsurance shall be primary insurance respects the its cated 3501 coverage Hillen Road, Baltimore, MD 21218 onas September 19, CITY, 2017 at elected/appointed employees and agents.

Any insurance self10:30 A.M. A project site visit will take place at 1:00 P.M. onand/or the same insurance maintained by the CITY, its elected appointed officials, employday. ees and agents, shall not contribute with CONSULTANT’s insurance or benefit the CONSULTANT in any way. are: Principal Item of work for this project *Montebello Filtration Plant No. 1, Infrastructure Improvements f.Coverage shall not be suspended, voided, cancelled, reduced in coverage, orgoal in limits, except by the reduction of applicable aggregate limit by The MBE is 15% claims paid, until after forty-five (45) days prior written notice has been given The WBE goal is 3% to the CITY. There will be an exception for non-payment of premium, which is ten (10) days notice of cancellation.

WATER CONTRACT NO. 1328 g.Insurance is to be placed with insurers with a Best?s rating of no less than APPROVED: A:VII, or, not rated with Best’s with minimum surpluses the equivalent of Bernice H.ifTaylor Best’sBoard surplus VII and must be licensed/approved to do business in the Clerk, of size Estimates State of Maryland.

APPROVED: h.The CONSULTANT Rudolph S. Chow, P.E.shall furnish the CITY a ”Certificate of Insurance” with a copy of additional Director ofthe Public Worksinsured endorsement, when applicable, as verification that the coverage is in force. The CITY reserves the right to require complete copies of insurance policies at any time.

Prequalification Certification

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From the Desk of the Sports Editor:

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SPORTS

Mayweather’s Stunning Knockout of McGregor Proves He’s the G.O.A.T of Boxing

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor pgreen@afro.com Floyd Mayweather Jr. shocked the world Aug. 26 in his 10th round TKO victory over UFC star Conor McGregor. But it wasn’t Mayweather’s win over McGregor that surprised anyone. It was how Mayweather beat McGregor that caught everyone off guard.

Everyone expected arguably the greatest defensive boxer ever to box circles around an amateur boxer like McGregor. But he did more than just out box him. Floyd beat the brakes off McGregor and, unlike the majority of his fights over the

standing right in front of them and allowing himself to be hit while trading haymakers in the middle of the ring. He hadn’t knocked anyone out since his fight with Ricky Hatton 10 years ago.

Brawling simply wasn’t “Pretty Boy” Floyd’s style anymore. Yet, it was, Saturday night, as Mayweather stalked McGregor around the ring, constantly pounding him in the face with his signature right cross punch until the referee eventually stopped the fight with 1:05 left in the 10th round.

After the fight, many fans took to Twitter to voice how this was the most exciting match of Mayweather’s career. As a close

Floyd beat the brakes off McGregor and, unlike the majority of his fights over the last 10 years, he did it in brawling fashion. last 10 years, he did it in brawling fashion.

Most casual boxing fans had probably never seen Mayweather fight so aggressively before. And although avid boxing fans may remember a younger Mayweather that could aggressively brawl with the best—as he did when he knocked out known brawlers Arturo Gatti and Diego Corrales—those days for Mayweather have long been over.

It’s been ages since we’ve seen Floyd walking down opponents,

follower, I personally would disagree. What he did to Diego Corrales and Arturo Gatti back in the early 2000s was brutally entertaining. He knocked Corrales to the canvas five times before his cornermen eventually threw in the towel and Corrales at 33-0 was the reigning world champ at the time.

Still, this was a pleasant surprise to watch. Now nobody can say Floyd ran the whole fight to escape with an easy victory. That’s an excuse critics have used ad nauseam over the years to downplay his

AP Photo/Eric Jamison

Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Conor McGregor in a fight that showcased Mayweather’s brawling fighting style. career. Now we’re all forced now to give him his props as the greatest to ever do it.

Floyd came out of a two-year retirement at age 40 to fight a 29-year-old mixed martial arts champion fighter with an extremely dangerous left hook, and knocked him out. And although McGregor may not have much pro boxing experience, he proved during the early rounds that he had some boxing skills. His unorthodox style gave Mayweather a look

he had never seen before, which allowed McGregor to land some clean punches. He even landed more hits on Mayweather than Manny Pacquiao did against Floyd.

McGregor landed 111 punches on Mayweather, while Pacquiao landed just 83 when they fought back in 2015. Nonetheless, Floyd proved he could adapt to any style, regardless of the fighter, and get the win.

Now he’ll retire 50-0, a feat never done before in boxing.

Many greats have tried to do what

Mayweather just accomplished and failed. Even the legends like Mike Tyson lost to lesser opponents, occasionally, such as Buster Douglass. By the time legendary Muhammad Ali was age 40, he was losing to no name guys like Trevor Berbick.

So far, Mayweather has been the only man to go a perfect 50-0 over a 21-year career. And that’s why he’s worthy of the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) moniker in my book. He truly earned it.

College Football

Howard Gambles on London to Bring the Bison Back

By Mark F. Gray “It’s a new day and a new Special to the AFRO era in terms of the mindset we

will take and approach as a Howard University is team,” London told the AFRO pushing all its chips to the following his introduction as center of the table and rolling head coach in February. the dice that a former Division London is inheriting a I-AA national champion and team that despite its recent Atlantic Coast Conference history isn’t devoid of talent.

Coach of the Year can change Howard will start three players the fortunes of its football who are entering the season program. Mike London, who on preseason all-MEAC and won the 2008 title while at national all-American watch the University of Richmond, lists. assumed the reigns of the Senior running back Bison program in February Anthony Philyaw is a and will lead the Bison into talent that hasn’t been fully their season opener at the appreciated because of University of Nevada-Las the team’s lack of success.

Vegas on Sept. 2.

Philyaw was named preseason Howard begins the season, MEAC Offensive Player of the which coincides with the Year after rushing for 1,230 University’s 150th anniversary yards and nine touchdowns in celebration, in a city that 2016 despite defensive game made a name for itself as the plans that were designed to gambling capital of the world. stop him. He rushed for 281 With the hiring of London yards and two scores versus Courtesy photo Delaware State and is also on and a significant investment Starting quarterback Caylin Newton, brother of Cam, will be under extra scrutiny because his brother plays the same into the program the Bison this year’s preseason watch list position for the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. are pushing all their chips to for the Deacon Jones Trophy the center of the table betting which is given by the Black Pep Hamilton. Under former coach Steve 36-82 which has prompted a change in culture. that he will roll the lucky College Football Hall of Fame Wilson Howard developed an NFL pipeline The Bison are picked by the other coaches and numbers which lead them back to the national to the top player in America. that includes Super Bowl champion and current sports information directors to finish ninth in prominence of being one of the signature Caylin Newton appears to be Howard’s Arizona Cardinals safety Antoine Bethea. the conference after a 2-9 record last season. programs in Black College Football. starting quarterback to open the season.

However, this is no longer a program that London brings a change in culture and a London’s brand will play as big a role as Newton, whose brother Cam plays the same strikes fear in the heart of the Mid-Eastern different level of focus and accountability anything in leading the Howard’s football position for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, can’t Athletic Conference [MEAC]. Despite to the program. The former police officer program to the stature where it was nearly fly under the radar because of his famous several outstanding players the Bison have is regimented in his approach and a strict 30 years ago. The Bison were Black College sibling. However, he doesn’t have to carry underachieved after the departure of their disciplinarian who ruffled a few feathers with national champions in 1993 and 1996 led by them because of Philyaw and receiver Kyle legendary coach Steve Wilson. Since Wilson’s statements regarding how players would be current Prince George’s County delegate to the Anthony who have already have established last year in 2001 Howard’s overall record is expected to dress by placing demands on hair Maryland General Assembly Jay Walker and themselves as playmakers to open the London 59-126. Their MEAC mark is even worse at styles and ways of addressing females.

University of Michigan offensive coordinator era.

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Reginald and Sharon Lewis, founders Fresh Faces Of Gospel

Nikia Vaughan, Michele Williams and Mozella Williams

Charmon Vaughan, Nikia Vaughan and Cimon Vaughan

The 4th annual 5K walk was held at the Canton Waterfront Park on August 26th. Fund raisers and Participants for the fundraising event walked around the waterfront for the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. In 2016, the event raised over $130,000 and the 2017 goal was to raise $200,000.

Carole Bernard, communications manager, Sickle Cell Disease Assoc., was the event coordinator. Maurette Brown Clark radio personality, Praise 106.1 FM was the M.C. The “Soul Step,” steppers group performed.

Soul Step, steppers

Cheryl Banks, Maurette Brown Clark and Christal Williams

Charles Harris III, Marlene Lewis and Marlon Williams

Derek Robertson, Petronella Barrow and Shanta Robertson

Photos by Anderson R. Ward

Martin Hines

On August 26, “I AM O’KAH,” in partnership with Golf Women Mean Business, hosted the first annual Golf for Greatness Tournament at The Clifton Park Golf Course in Baltimore. The day featured 18 holes of golf a clinic, a live painting and art auction, and breakfast and lunch were served. The organization I AM O’KAH serves to empower youth to unlock their greatest potential through mentorship and scholarships. To date I AM O’KAH has distributed over $13,000 in scholarships to universities and colleges, as well as serving area high schools. The AFRO American Newspaper’s golf team members were Rhoda Fassett, Eunice Robinson, Valerie Fraling and Bill Jackson. The AFRO team won second place in the tournament.

The AFRO Golf Team with the I AM O’KAH! and the Golf Women Mean Business members. AFRO’s Golfers Takiea Hinton, Valerie Fraling, Bill Jackson,Eunice Robinson,Rhoda Fassett

Photos by James Fields Sr.

Wendy Lower teeing off Aisha D. DaCosta, Social Entrepreneur and Philanthropist for I AM O’KAH! and Patrina King, Golf Women Mean Business

Baltimore City Mayor Catherine E. Pugh and Honoree Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena Williams

Albert Tucker (M.C.)

Kalisa Hines,Martin Hines, Damon Johnson Jr. and Damon Johnson Sr.

The American Tennis Association (ATA), National Championship Gala was August 3, at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, in downtown Baltimore. The ATA was founded in 1916, when a group of African American tennis clubs decided to join together in Washington, D.C. The ATA is celebrating its 100 anniversary. The first national championship event was held in Baltimore at Druid Hill Park, in 1917. Willie Emerson, ATA President received the Billie Jean King Award. The Philadelphia Chapter received the club of the year award. Tennis players from all over the U.S. came to Baltimore for this year’s championship. Richard Williams (father of Serena Cheryl Hitchcock, Stephanie Ahmed, Alice Pinderhughes and Venus Williams) was given the ATA Hall Of Fame Award. and Dmichelle Cooper The Super Bowl Gospel Choir and the Isaac Parham Jazz Band performed. Mayor Wayne M. Messam of Miramar, FL. was guest speaker. Albert Tucker was the M.C. for the event.

Photos by Anderson R. Ward

Willie Emerson, ATA president receives the the Billie Jean King Award from Dr. Franklyn Scott

Bob Rhoads and Lou Fields

Paul and Valerie Parker

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BALTIMORE-AREA

Race and Politics

Historic Houston Floods Won’t Stop The Houston Defender The Houston Defender has been publishing and serving the Black community in and around Sean Yoes Houston Baltimore AFRO since 1930.

Editor syoes@afro.com Sonceria “Sonny” Messiah Jiles has been at the helm of the newspaper since 1981, reporting the news and events of one of largest Black communities in the United States, with a population approximately the size of the entire city of Atlanta.

But, this week Jiles wasn’t reporting the news; this week she and her family were part of the news, victims, along with thousands of others of the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath.

“We’ve lived in this house for 25 years...and we have never had any flooding.

There’s been flooding around us, but it’s never touched us for the 25 years we’ve lived there. And all of a sudden this year. We’ve been through four or five hurricanes, many thunderstorms, now this catastrophic flood comes about,” Giles said during AFRO First Edition on Aug. 28. Jiles called in to the show from Houston, Texas in the midst of what was at the time Tropical Storm Harvey.

Despite being downsized from a hurricane, Harvey nonetheless continued to devastate Texas and

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Hundreds Attend Funeral For Corrogan Vaughn

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Opinion

Has America Gone to Hell?

By Karsonya Wise Whitehead Special to the AFRO

Photo by J.D. Howard

Hundreds gathered at Sharon Baptist Church, Aug. 28, to say goodbye to Corrogan R. Vaughn, who died Aug. 17.

By Sean Yoes Baltimore AFRO Editor syoes@afro.com Many of the Baltimore’s most prominent religious and political figures gathered at venerable Sharon Baptist Church, 1375 N. Stricker St., in West Baltimore Aug. 28, for the funeral of Corrogan R. Vaughn, a Republican candidate for multiple offices over the years.

Vaughn is the son of Dr. Lillian Purnell Bowser Vaughn and Rev. Dr. Alfred C.D. Vaughn, the long time Pastor of Sharon Baptist. He died Aug. 17 at his family’s home at the age of 51.

During Vaughn’s funeral, words of comfort were provided

by Bishop Douglass Miles of Koinonia Baptist Church, Bishop John R. Byrant, of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, and Dr. Francis “Toni” Draper, Pastor of Freedom Temple A.M.E. Zion Church, among others.

The eulogy was delivered by Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr., Pastor, New Shiloh Baptist Church.

Vaughn was born March 8, 1966, in Lynchburg, Virginia, but grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Northwestern High School in Northwest Baltimore in 1983. Vaughn attended Virginia Union University and Catonsville Community College.

Vaughn was a frequent Republican candidate for political office, challenging Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7th) for his storied Congressional seat in West Baltimore in 2014 and

2016. “He challenged Elijah more than once and of course, Elijah is a great friend of mine,” Rev. Dr. Vaughn said of his son’s political forays.

Vaughn also ran for Maryland’s U.S. Senate seat in 2012, losing in the Republican Primary to Dan Bongino. According to the Vote Smart website, which provides information on political candidates, Vaughn also ran for the U.S. Senate seat as a Republican in 2000, 2004 and 2006 and was a Republican candidate for president in 2008.

Vaughn was also known as a local radio host, co-hosting with former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele, “Lunchtime With the Maryland GOP,” on WOLB in the early 2000’s.

Vaughn worked for several years for US Air in different capacities, and also worked for several Baltimore area funeral homes.

On the occasion of his parents 50th wedding anniversary and his father’s 75th birthday, Vaughn told the AFRO in 2013, “Because of my parent’s involvement in the community, it’s good to see people come out and appreciate them.”

“The Lord loaned him to me...but, the Lord now has reclaimed him,” Rev. Dr. Vaughn said.

Corrogan Vaughn leaves to mourn: his mother and father, two sisters; Rev. Dr. Lynette Vaughn, assistant pastor at Sharon Baptist Church and Cassandra Vaughn-Fox, a media professional, both of Baltimore; two nieces, Lauren and Crystal Fox and a nephew, Caleel Fox; four godmothers, Dr. Bertha Wilson, Mrs. Olis Bartley, Mrs. Carrietta Ivey (aunt) and Mrs. Geraldine Perry (aunt), along with many other family members and friends.

BCCC Makes Strides ’Questionable‘ Body Cam Video Released, Officer Cleared Amid Turmoil

By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO

By Sean Yoes Baltimore AFRO Editor syoes@afro.com

When Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) graduates, starting with the graduating class of 2018, would be eligible for free tuition at Baltimore City Community College (BCCC), the initiative was met with widespread praise.

“We believe that we do have a responsibility to help our young people go to college,” Pugh said when she made the announcement earlier in August. “We believe that is a step in the right direction in terms of investment in our young people.”

About a week after Mayor Pugh’s announcement, Coppin State University, viewed as another anchor educational institution in West Baltimore by many, declared it would offer free tuition to

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The announcement earlier in August by Mayor Catherine Pugh that Baltimore City Public School graduates will receive free tuition to BCCC, could be a major boost for enrollment at the school.

The Baltimore Police Department recently released the latest officer body camera video deemed “questionable” by the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office.

According to BPD, the video was “self-reported” by an officer who was operating on the side of, “caution.”

The video, which was released on Aug. 24, shows several officers chasing a suspect on June 14, later identified as Tyqwon Jones, 22, of the 2700 Block of Giles Road, before apprehending Jones on an outstanding warrant.

As the video continues, Jones is handcuffed and searched before he escapes officers for a second time, fleeing into nearby bushes to allegedly drop drug paraphernalia.

Jones is then caught and arrested for the second time and taken into custody.

On June 16, two days after his arrest, Jones made a phone call to a friend, while still housed at the Central Booking Intake Facility, detailing where he discarded drugs during his arrest.

A day later, officers returned to the scene and found the drugs that Jones allegedly dropped.

In one officer’s body camera footage, he can be seen picking the drugs up, turning off his camera, and then picking drugs back up.

“We must not misconstrue mistakes in judgment as criminality,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.

“Nothing questionable.The ’re-creation‘ was captured on another officers body camera and it is not staging,” said Davis.

According to Davis, 62 officers have been disciplined due to not having their body cameras on when they should be operating.

Even though the officer in question has been cleared of any wrongdoing, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, has still called for numerous cases to be dropped, which the officer was involved.

101 total cases were impacted by the third body camera footage; 26 closed cases are being reviewed, 22 open cases are being reviewed, 13 of which involve in-custody defendants.

A total of 43 cases have been allegedly dropped.

“Respecting the integrity of the evidence gathering process is essential to the prosecution of all cases, therefore, reenacting the discovery and seizure cannot be the face of policing in Baltimore City,” said Mosby in a statement. “The moment an officer decides to reenact both the discovery and seizure of evidence and excludes this reenactment in the statement of probable cause, it undermines public trust and creates indefensible doubts in the minds of the general public, judges, and jurors,” Mosby added.

Davis said the BPD has a, “solid relationship with Mosby, but this is a bump in the road.”

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Past Seven Days

On April 4, 1968, only a couple of hours before he would be assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. sat in his room, working on his Sunday sermon, aptly titled “Why America May Go to Hell.” It was a speech that would never be finished.

After years of fighting for integration, it was obvious to the folks who knew him and to those who were listening closely to his speeches that the King of 1967 who said that white people’s belief in the fairness of America was “a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity” was a much different man than the King of 1955 who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and told us to “love our enemies and be good to them.”

This is the Dr. King that I was taught about, the radical one who would have supported Black Lives Matter and who would have challenged White supremacy.

The same man who in 1967 asked the question that I have been asking myself since Charlottesville, “Why does White America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?” The

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BREAKING NEWS

8th Baltimore Police Officer Indicted For Racketeering

By Baltimore AFRO Staff An eighth Baltimore Police Department officer has been indicted on federal charges of racketeering, sources familiar with the case inform the AFRO. Sgt. Thomas Ahlers has been indicted for allegedly stealing money from residents, among other crimes. We’ll provide further reporting on this breaking news story on AFRO.com.

232 2017 Total

Data as of Aug. 30

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Continued from D1 Louisiana throughout the week. The historic storm had claimed at least 30 lives as of Aug. 29 and a levee was breached south of Houston. According to the National Weather Service, as of Aug. 29 the all-time record for total rainfall from a tropical system in the continental U.S. was broken in Cedar Bayou, Texas, about 30 miles from downtown Houston with 51.88 inches. On the evening of Aug. 29, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner imposed a mandatory curfew on the city from midnight to 5 p.m.

The epic flood waters left at least five feet of water in the Jiles family home and Sonny Jiles said her husband’s blood pressure began to elevate, before family members escaped through a second floor window and were rescued by neighbors.

“An airboat...these were neighbors that were five blocks away, who actually came into the neighborhood almost on a search and rescue mission,” Jiles said. “The police and firemen had come through earlier...and we thought they were coming back but they never came back. So, about four or five hours later, neighbors came through with the airboat and they made about six different trips, clearing out the neighborhood picking up people from their balconies.”

Despite the tremendous adversity Jiles says the Houston Defender is determined to publish this week and provide

the service it has rendered for Houston’s Black community for decades. The Defender has been publishing news on its Facebook page during the storm.

“There is a joint venture that we do with the Mayor’s

“The police and firemen had come through earlier...and we thought they were coming back but they never came back.”

– Sonny Jiles office from the standpoint of staying on top of whatever new resources or opportunities that they are establishing,” Jiles said.

“But, you have the federal component that has a template that is in play and often times people don’t know how to navigate it. Explaining those components and how you access...what are some of the pitfalls and mistakes, so that people know what not to do...that I think is our biggest responsibility to both our

readers and Houstonians in the area,” Jiles added.

Jiles operates the Houston Defender as a proud member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents about 200 Black newspapers across the United States, including the AFRO. But for Jiles, Hurricane Harvey has reinforced the fact that the city she serves is one of the most diverse in the nation. “...As far as Houston is concerned, our city is very diverse.

On that airboat it became very apparent how diverse,” Jiles said. “We had Asians, we had Hispanics, we had Iranians, we had African Americans, we had Africans. It was just amazing to look around that airboat and to realize how many of us were all there, we pretty much all knew each other, but to be forced to be in that situation we became much closer to each other.”

Ultimately, through the harrowing Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath Jiles and her family fall back upon a default position of faith. “...With much prayer there is much power.” she said. “So keep on praying, and we appreciate you.”

Sean Yoes is the AFRO’s Baltimore editor and host and executive producer of AFRO First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday 5 p.m.-7 p.m. on WEAA, 88.9.

BCCC

Continued from D1 city residents who earn associate degrees from BCCC. The initiatives by Mayor Pugh and Coppin State have been received by many as a two-fold victory for the city; major financial relief for Baltimore residents seeking higher education options and a shot of confidence for BCCC, an institution that has experienced varied challenges, educational and political for several years.

In 2011, the Middle States Commission on higher education, which accredits colleges and universities in Maryland, put BCCC on probation status because of concerns over the college’s alleged inability to evaluate student learning.

In 2012, the school’s president Carolane Williams was terminated by the college’s governing board (in 2010 Williams received a vote of, “no confidence,” by that board), amidst various concerns including a plummeting enrollment, which dropped 22 percent during her tenure.

Last year, the Maryland General Assembly, led by Baltimore City Del. Maggie McIntosh (D-43), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, enacted legislation that made 12 recommendations to help the school address its challenges or face a loss of state funding.

Another Baltimore City Delegate, Cory McCray (D-45), has intimate knowledge of BCCC’s challenges, as a legislator and a graduate of the school. Recently, McCray wrote an OpEd, which appeared in the Baltimore Sun, strongly supporting BCCC and voicing his disappointment in the school’s detractors.

McCray’s path to BCCC in many ways embodies some of the inherent challenges a large swath BCPS students face when seeking higher education options, yet is a powerful example of the vital role BCCC plays in educating those students, many of whom are in need of remedial support. “I had to take three remedial classes even before I started my real classes,” revealed McCray who entered the school in 2008, after completing a five-year apprenticeship program with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), and

graduated with his associates degree in Business Management in 2011.

“I knew what I was there to do and was very focused….I got good grades and it was done,” said McCray, who was already making decent money as an electrician, an investing in properties in East Baltimore. However, for many students

“We believe that is a step in the right direction in terms of investment in our young people.”

– Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh entering BCCC, who don’t have the resources that were available to McCray, remedial classes can be deflating to young people attending college under tenuous circumstances.

“Why do we have to take high school classes again?” said a source within BCCC who wished to remain anonymous, in reference to a common refrain of BCPS graduates attending the college. Remedial classes can represent “extra” work and an extra expense for many students already struggling to

attend college, which is a large percentage of BCCC students, according to the source. Many have to juggle full-time employment, childcare, eldercare and other challenges, with college coursework. Educating these students is a significant part of BCCC’s mission.

McCray, who is not ashamed of his back story (“I had been hustling since I was 13”), which includes scrapes with law enforcement, empathizes with many of his fellow BCCC alumni. But, as a legislator he believes the city and the state has a responsibility to bolster BCCC. He points to a pivotal moment in 2015, when he felt the school was undercut.

“Secretary of Labor Tom Perez (in the Obama administration), gave the City of Baltimore $5 million (shortly after the uprising in 2015)...to target young people aged 16-25 for job training,” McCray explained. “The money went from the feds, to the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development and there were several awardees...one of them used CCBC (Community College of Baltimore County). BCCC could have done that work. Why couldn’t BCCC be figured into that equation?” asked McCray.

“You can’t build Baltimore’s citizens and not build the anchor institution of Baltimore City, that’s in one of the toughest zip codes, right next to Mondawmin,” McCray added.

“You do that by not only building the people, but by building the anchor institutions.”

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“The decision to drop cases was a bad call,” Davis added.

“This was not an error in judgment...a reasonable jury would understand what happened, (not an) out of control

narrative that police plant evidence.”

Jones, the suspect in the video, was charged with possession of Marijuana, possession of Suboxone (a controlled substance), possession with intent to

distribute, and 2nd degree escape.

Davis said he is not aware of any other self reported cases under investigation now involving body cameras.

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question was relevant back then and it is even more relevant now. It is a question that demands an answer and it can only be answered by White America. I have received countless emails from White people asking me what they should be doing right now, I would argue that wrestling with this question and attempting to answer it should be somewhere near the top of their To-Do list.

In reading through his sermon notes, King was not arguing that America should go to hell but that it might –based upon its inability to end racism, poverty, militarism and materialism. It was a speech that America still needs to hear.

Sixty-two years ago this week, Emmett Till was taken from his home and brutally murdered

by White men. There was no justice in that case and for many, who have lost their loved ones to state sanctioned police violence or White vigilantes, there is still no peace. Fiftyfour years ago this week, at the March on Washington, John Lewis challenged us to march through this country until we splintered the segregated South into “a thousand pieces” and put it back together in the “image of God and democracy.” Segregation has legally ended and the signs have come down but, our country is more divided than ever. Forty-eight years ago, King argued that the U.S. government was, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” A year later, the man that the F.B.I. deemed the most dangerous man in America was assassinated. Three weeks ago, Heather Hayer—in a country that had elected a Black man twice to be its president and is racially more diverse than it has ever been—was killed while

protesting against the Alt-Right in Charlottesville, VA. We find ourselves once again back at a moment of reckoning where we must realize that tomorrow is today and we are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. I would add that this fierce urgency requires us to do more acting than reflecting and more action than conversation.

We are at a moment where we must organize and focus our energies and our attention on fighting White supremacy. It is the ugly beast that always rears its head in the midst of Black Reconstruction. It is an overt reminder that there still are some White people who are willing to sacrifice themselves on the altar of Whiteness to keep the pillars of separation erected.

American enslavement lasted for 267 years but the remnants of it—the belief that certain people are superior and certain folks are inferior—have remained with us, in our statutes, in our statues, in our policies, in our practices, in our nation-wide history curriculum and in the hearts and minds of some people. Forty-nine years ago, Dr. King wondered if America, due to its inability to change and grow and be better, might go to hell; I sometimes wonder—when I look around at all of this hatred and anger and violence and destruction and poverty and pessimism—if we are already there.

Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead is an associate professor of communication and African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of “Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America” and “Notes from a Colored Girl.”

September 2, 2017 - September 8, 2017, The Afro-American

Enjoy the week with a little bit of Blues and Jazz on the menu Hello my dear friends, there is so much to tell you about.

All kinds of entertainment is on the menu this week and next.

In the next couple of weeks, I will have you traveling from one side of town to the other checking out some good stuff. I am going to tell you all about it, as much as space will allow.

Bass innovator, Mark Dresser will present a solo concert on Thursday, September 7 at Bertha’s in Fells Point. He is also a prolific composer and recording artist Internationally renowned and while he’s in town, he’ll jazz bassist Mark Dresser also be presenting a workshop performs a solo concert at Towson University. in Baltimore, Sept. 7, My girl and daughter at Bertha’s restaurant, from another mother, Pamela second floor studio, 734 “Ms’ Maybelle” Hill and her S. Broadway at 8 p.m. For company are hosting a cocktail ticket information, call sip, September 9, 5 p.m. to 9 781-259-9600. p.m. Music by DJ Cornflake.

Cash bar, lite fare and the show at the Special P’s Lounge 2738 Baker Street in Baltimore, call her at 443-226-8895. Let

Anthony “Swamp Dog” Clark, renowned blues group from Washington, D.C. will perform and shake the stage up with some down home blues and jazz for the Jazz Expressways Foundation Breakfast Fundraiser on Sept.

9, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue in Baltimore. For tickets and vendors information, call 410-833-9474.

me tell you folks, Pamela is a strong force in this community doing her thing as a fashion model, mistress of ceremony, host, businesswoman, mother, wife and an entertainer! She does not sit still and always carries a positive attitude. God bless her.

Sick & Shut-In: Please send healing thoughts and prayers to my dear musician friend, Harold Adams who was in the ICU at Franklin Square Hospital at press time. Also, Gary Barton, a longtime musician & guitarist is very ill and is at University Hospital receiving chemo and radiation treatment. Please include these two musicians in your prayers for a speedy recovery and go visit them, especially Gary who has no family or loved ones.

September 3, is the 21st Annual Alonzo’s Memorial Picnic, hosted by the Baltimore Blues Society 12:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Rosedale American Legion Hall, 1331 Seling Avenue in Rosedale, Maryland. All are welcome, coolers are okay to bring and it is BYOB, the Legion bar is also open. The live blues show will include Alabama Mike and many other acts. For ticket information, call 410-744-2291.

Before I forget, I want to congratulate my friend Paul Coates the founder of Black Classic Press, and his son general manager, Damani Coates, of the Blackowned, Digital Book Printing Company, which celebrates 22 years in business. They recently announced a significant expansion in its capacity to serve its current customers and to provide the same degree of service to future customers.

For more information about the Ms. Maybelle, Baltimore’s company, call 410-242-6954 or renowned, popular visit www.bcpdigital.com. I am comedienne is hosting so proud of them. Move on my an, “Old Skool Cocktail friend with God speed.

Sip,” Sept. 9, 5 p.m. to 9 There will be a, “Jazz p.m., at the Special P’s Summer Series Wine Festival Lounge, 2738 Baker Street Food Truck Extravaganza,” in Baltimore. The event on September 2 1 p.m. to 9 will feature comedians p.m., which includes cash bar Alabama & Tanya Watty and wine pours. Bring your and soloist Bridget George. lawn chair for the live outdoor For ticket information, call concert featuring Kenny 443-226-8895.

Lattimore at the Harford County Equestrian Center, 608 N. Tollgate Road in Bel Air, Maryland.

Another one of my favorite places to go the first Saturday of every month during the summer is, “A Taste of Jazz@ The Avenue Bakery.”

September 2, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Avenue Bakery on Pennsylvania Avenue and

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Barbara Harrell Grubbs and Carl Grubbs, a husband and wife team, co-founders of, “Contemporary Arts Inc.” Barbara is the executive director and her husband Carl, the artistic director. Last week’s fundraising event was a success, while honoring Ralph L. Johnson, a founding member of the organization and the children who are campers and past campers of their program. Congrats!

Barbara Grubbs celebrates her 80th Birthday Sept. 2, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute & Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard Street.

Baker Street, there will be a fundraiser to raise money for the rebuild of Pennsylvania Avenue’s legendary Royal Theater. The event is free to the public in the courtyard of the bakery featuring a live jazz concert. Bring your lawn chairs, relax and enjoy. Food and drinks will be on sale.

Well, my dear friends, it is about that time. I am out of space, and I don’t want my editor to cut any of this. But remember, if you need me, call me at: 410-833-9474 or email me at: rosapryor@aol.com. Please do not try to send me information on Facebook, you have to send information to me directly by email.

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