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Justice Department to Challenge New N.C. Voting Laws

reduce early voting days; eliminate sameday registration WASHINGTON – during early voting; Stepping up efforts to impose a restrictive combat voting laws that photo identification discriminate against requirement for Blacks, Attorney in-person voting; Attorney General General Eric Holder and prohibit Eric Holder announced plans to sue the counting of announced plans to otherwise legitimate North Carolina over sue North Carolina. provisional ballots restrictive, new voting that are mistakenly laws that critics say will cast in the right county, but in the suppress the minority vote. wrong precinct.” In a press statement, Holder said: He said the Justice Department “The North Carolina law includes expects to show that the clear and troubling new restrictions, such as provisions that will significantly Continued on A4 By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent

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Judge Rules Maryland Violates HBCU Constitutional Rights By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer

Nearly one year after closing arguments were submitted in the lawsuit brought against the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC), a decision has been handed down by United States District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake. In a 60-page opinion released Oct. 7, Blake found the state of Maryland in violation of the U.S. Constitution for operating a system of higher education still rooted in segregation. The Coalition for Excellence and Equity in Higher Education initially filed their case against MHEC in October of 2006. The suit claimed that programs of study first offered by historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were being duplicated at traditionally white institutions (TWIs), thus, diminishing their ability to attract and fully matriculate students-

especially when coupled with a history of underfunding for Black schools. The six-week trial didn’t begin until Continued on A5

Decades Later, Black Woman’s Cells Assist Medical Research

Henrietta Lacks Honored with Plaque By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer Henrietta Lacks was only 30 years old when her primary care doctor, William C. Wade, sent her to Johns Hopkins University Hospital to treat a mysterious ailment wreaking havoc on her body. A mother of three boys and two girls, the Roanoke, Va. native had been complaining of pain and a lump on her cervix for months when doctors informed her that radium treatments were needed to cure her illness: cervical cancer.

The year was February, 1951. By October she was dead. And while her remains are at rest in an unmarked grave in Virginia, Henrietta Lacks’ unwitting gift to mankind is a form of self-perpetuating life. Lacks possessed cells that replicate outside the body, providing a platform on which medical researchers have developed scores of vaccines. Named HeLa cells, they are the human cells on which new substances are tested. “They’ve been used as the foundation for making everything from polio vaccines to prototypes of the HIV vaccine,” said Daniel Ford, vice

dean for clinical research at the Johns Hopkins University. “We know so much about what the human cell does by studying the HeLa cells. It would be like asking ‘How is a television used in entertainment?’” “We use it all the time,” he said, shortly after a plaque in Lacks’ honor was unveiled Oct. 5 at the Baltimore house where she lived. Ford said that the cells extracted from the cervix of Henrietta Lacks were cancer cells, but aside from their out-ofcontrol replication due to invasion by the human papillomavirus (HPV), they Continued on A5

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Baltimore Mayor Unveils Pact in Place to Assure Balto Fix for Preservation Tax Residents’ Involvement in Harbor Point Credit Inequity By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer

By Ansar Miller Special to the AFRO Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has unveiled a fix for a city administrator’s nightmare: A tax credit that resulted in a windfall for developers and tax increase for city homeowners. Rawlings-Blake unveiled a new automated system to make calculation of the tax credit to encourage preservation of historic buildings easier –and far more accurate. City officials are scrapping the old system in which humans calculated the tax break by hand to a streamlined computerized system. “I am pleased to highlight Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake a series of positive steps my administration has undertaken of fairness—fairness to people who to help reduce Historic and Enterprise have done the right thing but are Zone Tax Credit errors in Baltimore paying the price for an inefficient City. The errors have frustrated tax and poorly coordinated system. credit recipients and have caused them This administration has worked to lose confidence in government’s diligently to proactively identify ability to do one of its most basic errors and overtime. We have put in functions,” Rawlings-Blake said. place mechanisms to crack down on Under the old system a few mistakes. I believe the reforms we developers obtained windfalls of are highlighting today will go a long millions while at least 300 Baltimore way toward building the public’s homeowners face tax bills that were confidence in our ability to provide up to $600 a month higher. correct tax bills.” “I share those frustrations and City Director of Finance Harry realize how upsetting these errors Black put it simply: “There are too can be. At its core this is an issue Continued on A4

Developers of the Harbor Point site in downtown Baltimore say they are placing significant focus on the inclusion of city residents and minority and women-owned businesses as they move forward with their plans to reinvent the space. Binding memorandums of understanding have already been signed between city officials and the project developers, Beatty Development Group, LLC (BDG), to ensure that all qualified Baltimoreans get an opportunity to participate in the project. According to Sharon R. Pinder, director of the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development (MWBD), the agreements are a first in the way the city handles business contracts and opportunities for relevant companies. “There has never been a memorandum of understanding done with a private developer before,” said Pinder. “To have that in place- a level of commitment from a developer that includes a minority business- is a first for Baltimore.” Pinder considered the memorandums of understanding “game changers” because the “biggest piece of the contracting pie is not government contracting -it’s what happens in the private sector.” “This is a great step toward insuring that the private sector puts in place an inclusion strategy that

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provides opportunities for women and minority businesses,” she said. The Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) has also signed a memorandum of understanding. Developers estimate that the project will mean 7,175 construction jobs and 6,611 permanent positions after construction is complete. Indirect employment opportunities as a result of Harbor Point are expected to number over 2,500. The efforts to work with more local businesses and minorities have already resulted in many opportunities for Richard Jones, president of Mahan Rykiel Associates, a minority-owned landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm with offices on two continents. The company worked with BDG in the planning of Harbor East, and was brought back to work on Harbor Point. “It’s a huge opportunity for our business to position themselves not only regionally but nationally with our design work,” Jones told the AFRO. “There are more and more solid companies in landscape architecture and architecture engineering in the minority ranks that are looking for opportunities to get involved in projects like what’s going on in Harbor Point.” “Beatty Development has been open--in our experience--to bringing on minority participants and really valuing them as partners.” While the memorandums offer Continued on A3

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Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Firing Warning Shot Receives New Trial

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 Marissa Alexander, 32, was sentenced in May 2012 in connection with an August 2010 incident involving her thenhusband, Rico Gray Sr. According to ABC News, Alexander was sentenced under Florida statues which require a mandatory 20-year sentence for firing a weapon during the commission of a crime; MSNBC reported that a jury convicted Alexander after just 12 minutes of deliberation. 

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the grounds that instructions given to the jury were not accurate.

 
According to ABC News, Alexander claimed an argument over the paternity of her then-one-week-old child escalated when Gray broke through the door of a bathroom where she had sought shelter and grabbed her by the neck. She fled to the home’s garage but could not escape, and instead retrieved a handgun she owned. When Gray confronted her again, Alexander claimed he threatened to kill her and charged at her, causing Marissa Alexander her to fire a warning shot into the garage ceiling.

 According to Florida’s “10-20-Life” statutes, anyone who draws a gun during a crime receives a mandatory 10-year sentence. Firing a gun during the commission of a crime nets a mandatory 20-year sentence. Anyone convicted of shooting and killing another person during a crime is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

 Alexander attempted to use Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law as her defense, a statute which took center stage in the trial of George Zimmerman. However, prosecutors—the same who unsuccessfully prosecuted Zimmerman, convinced the court that Alexander did not act in self-defense.

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An “imperial kaltrop” of the Ku Klux Klan has sent a letter to members of Florida’s Duval County School Board urging them not to change the name of a high school named after the group’s first “grand wizard.”
 Board member Jason Fischer, who said he comes from a racially diverse family, called the letter “vile” and an “outrage.”

 The school board will soon consider whether to change the name of the Nathan B. Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Fla. Fischer—who has not taken a public stance on the issue itself— is hosting two town hall meetings, one Oct. 3 and the other on a date to be determined, to discuss the potential name change. The meeting was originally slated to focus only on the fiscal year 2014 budget, he said, but when a push to change the name made local and national headlines, he decided to bring the issue to the community.

 Jacksonville resident Omotoya Richmond is responsible for the Change.org petition to change the school’s name, which has garnered more than 135,000 signatures.

 In an earlier interview, Richmond told the AFRO he did not want his daughter—who is African-American—or any other child to attend a school that is named after someone with a legacy of hate. Forrest was a slave trader, a Confederate general infamous for the slaughter of Black Union soldiers, and the first “grand wizard” of the KKK, a White supremacy group.

Activists Praise New Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards

Civil rights and environmental groups are lauding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent release of proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants.

 The new rules are the first milestone in a climate change package announced by President Obama in June. According to the administration, carbon is the largest driver of climate change, and power plants are the major source, accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions. The White House’s Climate Action Plan aims to reduce domestic carbon dioxide emissions by 17 percent between 2005 and 2020.
 The proposed carbon pollution standards encourage electricity companies to invest in and use leaner energy technologies, such as efficient natural gas, advanced coal technology, nuclear power, and renewable energy like wind and solar. Under the proposal, new large natural gas-fired turbines would need to meet a limit of 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, while new small natural gas-fired turbines would need to meet a limit of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour. New coalfired units would need to meet a limit of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatthour.
 Environmental justice and civil rights activists have long argued that pollution and climate change disproportionately impact people of color. Many industries are located near minority neighborhoods and minority children overwhelmingly suffer from asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

country involving thousands of didn’t do, not to stuff ballot we’ve done and success we’ve Balfour, the missing boy’s steppotentially fraudulent ACORN boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the had,” Maude Hurd, president of father and estranged husband forms. victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, said in an interview of Julia, at his girlfriend’s Announcer: Massive voter tor of it. with the AFRO. Southside apartment several fraud.12, Hurd said the only things- October And 2013 the Obama campaign “When this Afro-American, attack started, we hours after theOctober murders. 12, 2013 - October 18, 2013, The Afro-American The October 12, 2013 bogus are the charges thempaid more than $800,000 to an had just announced that we had Balfour’s mother, Michele, has selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote registered 1.3 million new vottold reporters that her son had agrees. efforts. ers,” she said. “That’s just to say nothing to do with the slayings. It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky that someone’s running scared Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. because of ACORN’s success.” been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment. McCain, who is running for time walked into for a from crime and has even the gang life. Sutton grew up of gangs and drugs, but was By Blair Adams Baltimore, charged with,incasting fraudulent BlindSutton ambition. Too risky president on the Republican tick- Courthouse votes.”15 years in prison for a America. to face criminal et, lashed at ACORN in the courtroom served as a consultant for TV in a nuclear family. Although saved by the “grace of God,” AFRO Staffout Writer facing The problem came about prifinal debate against Barack shows like “Law and Order” his father was a minister and he said. crime I didn’t commit,” Sutton charges and the beginning of marily because of the way Since McCain’s comments, Obama, contending the group “is SQUARE changes in87 hisoffices life, he said. that are built around gritty his mother was a teacher, heHIGH But he was lucky. He was member and told the AFRO.”I ACORN operates. remember Rather than ACORN’s have been on An the ex-gang verge of maybe perpetratThe chargeswith were dismissed. street life. He is now an elder still found himself frequently never convicted of a violent enforcer addressing a frauds churchin being the bathroom stall, rely oninvolunteers, it pays peobombarded threats and ing one of the greatest ple, many of them poor or unem- racist voter history in A this country, Atmail. the peak of his criminal at the Maryland Church of on the wrong side of the law, act and was never the victim of congregation? rare sight. getting down on my knees ployed, to sign up new voters. The themuscle presidential maybe destroying the fabric of life, he day wasafter on the side. God in Christ. spending more time with his a gunshot wound. But at an evening service at the with toilet water on the floor The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke into the democracy.” street friends than with his With several friends ArkFactcheck.org, Church in East Baltimore and cried out to and Godthose asking being registered doing organization’s Boston and Seattle a non-partisan family. left dead in the streets or Oct. Edward Suttonto him to give me a second the registration. offices and stole computers. Web6,site, found “Ted” those claims ON THE LIST BREAD Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representative be “exaggerated,” with evi“I started to get respect on NOTincarcerated, Sutton attributed did just that, telling the“no story chance.” zero tolerance policy for deliberappeared on TV, an e-mail was dence of any such democracythe streets and no one would God for moving his entire of how he renounced street Sutton said at that moment ate falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she destroying fraud.” bother me,” Sutton told the street support base out of his violence embrace religion. in 1993 the account bathroom stall,to “is going to have her life ended.” Mostin news neglect Hurd to believes the McCain worked a miracle AFRO. life. Sutton’s to the pulpit point out that ACORN is for A worker in Providence, R.I., charges werepath politically motivat- “God required by law to turn in all reg- received a threatening call sayed. littered with missteps. me.” Sutton said at times he felt “It’s not how you start, its was LEFT RIGHT istration And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work She said, “Because low“Afterforms. having several like he was living a double how you finish,” he said. After dodging bullets,it’s facing to note that it was the organizaat 9” and uttered racial epithets. and moderate-income people, dismissed— “I wasn’t drug dealing. “I walked out of the life. “I grew up in different Through his faith in God down threats sitting tion, in many instances, that first A callerinto to one office left a and people ofand color, I believe the charges racketeering, loan-sharking, Imessage was more a collector, an courtroom and earned my parts of the city and I spent and prayer, Sutton said the through raids on his brought the phony registrations on the answering McCainpolice campaign thinks those to the attention of violation authorities.and machine, saying: “Hi, I was just voters the are going to voteexassault, handgun enforcer.” bachelor’s, two master’s most of my street time in Park path to the pulpit through home, 45-year-old The McCain camp apparently calling you that Democratic, which is not necesstrong-arming—I really saw But to helet put allknow that behind degrees, started a transitional Heights.” crime has been led to an gang-banger said, the moment isn’t interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get sarily true.” how powerful God was,” he him and has became a house for young men to get out His days were spent in ordered, Christian life. “I have came when he had had points, preferring to air misleadhung. He’s a (expletive deleted) ACORN is no stranger to said. motivational speaker to of gangs,” he said. church with his family but at been exonerated and God has enough. ing ads that seek to link Obama nigger, and he’s a piecetrying of controversy. to ACORN, (expletive deleted). Youaway guys are For 38 at years, the non-partisan That wasthereby the lastundercutting steer Baltimore youth He clearly wasn’t born to night he was caught up in a life worked out my situation.” “I was the Mitchell fraudulent, and you need to go to organization has fought for social his political support. McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees. and economic justice for lowand I approve this message. They’re get all honand moderate-income the easegonna of access tohung transportation hinders those who need 1 BANANA eys, they’re going to get assassiAnnouncer: Who is Barack Americans. With 400,000 memthe jobs, other times it’s a lack of communication with area nated, they’re gonna get killed.” Obama? A man with “a political ber families organized into more Continued from A1 residents and minority about what is available Another message said,communities “You baptism performed at warp than 1,200 neighborhood chapassurance workforce diversity and a home-team advantage, in the way work(expletive and job training- which leads to a lack of liberal idiots.ofDumb speed.” Vast ambition. After colters in 110 of cities nationwide, deleted). Welfare You lege,jobshe moved to Chicago. ACORN thethat yearsHarbor seen Point others arehas stillover wary for many reasonsknowledge aboutbums. the opportunities. In order to accommodate the construction of the casino guys justabout (expletive deleted) Became a community organizer. its share of criticism advowon’t make it to thewhile people who need to punch hours into the “It’s listening and learning. This is an area where I come to our country, consume There, Obama met Madeleine cating for affordable housing, in Baltimore City, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company time thehealthcare most. for the think canresource do a better every we natural therejob.” is, Talbot, part of the Chicago livingclock wages, (BGE) will be relocating underground utilities on and in “Under Council President drive on localHe hiring we transplant Long Island, N.Y., Beatty told the AFRO andAmake a lot offrom babies. That’s branch of ACORN. was so underserved— and while organ-Young’s the vicinity of Russell St. all you do. And thenof suck impressive that he wasare asked to izing voter came to an registration agreementdrives. that 51 percent of all new hires to be that theguys neighborhoods Charm City are what drew him and This will require roadwork and lane closures in up the welfare and expect everytrain the ACORN staff. But none has been as withering local and 20 percent of all employees on-site are to be local,” his new bride into the Baltimore community years ago in 1990. one else to pay for your hospital What did ACORN in Chicago segments along Russell St. between Haines St. and and baseless as this one. saidWith Michael Beatty, leader of the engage Beatty in? Development Group. What heyour thought belet a two or three year stop quickly bills for kids. would I jus’ say Bullying banks. the presidential election Worcester St., including the center lanes of Russell St. said that away, his team has met with numerous and Before age five, every room is a classroom. turned into decades of best work transforming the city. your kids die. That’s the Intimidation tactics. faith Disruption lessBeatty than two weeks in both the northbound and southbound directions. BGE Just says let your die. of business. ACORN forced ACORN’s detractors allege to thefind where community organizations the breakdown between move. Beatty thechildren same detailed planning has gone into Fun learning opportunities are everywhere. Simple things like expects to begin roadwork on Russell St. on Oct. 14, Forget about paying for hospital banks to issue risky home loans. organization has engaged in maspromised jobs and secured income occur when it comes to and identifying shapes activate a child’s learning ability, making the site a vibrant residential area complete withcounting 914 bills for them. I’m not gonna do The same types of loans that 2013 andschool estimates work on Russell St.why willPNC continue in sive voter registration fraud after and help them enter more prepared. That’s locals, minorities andof women. apartments, more than 195,000 and it. You guys are lowlifes. And I square feet of retail space, caused the financial crisis we’re the reported discovery bogus segments through July 2014. equivalent Crezca founded Grow Up Great and its Spanish-language He said studies Mouse into the matter show that sometimes well 1.5die.” million square feet in office space. hope over you all in today. names, suchhis as Mickey $ con Éxito, a 10-year, 100 million program to help prepare Additionally there will be roadwork onyoung Haines St., Hurd the hatethe calls will will include five public urban Oncethinks completed project children for school and life. Pick up a free bilingual Sesame Bayard St., Worcester St. and Warner St. Street™ BGE will cease soon. parks. As part of the revitalization process upgrades to“Happy, the Healthy, Ready for School” kit at a PNC branch. 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Continued from A1 and intended effects of these changes would result in unequal access to participation in the election process on account of race. Holder said North Carolina took the actions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. “Just months after North Carolina saw the highest overall turnout in sheer numbers in its history – in November 2012 – and within days of the Supreme Court’s Shelby County decision to strike down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act – the state legislature took aggressive steps to curtail the voting rights of African Americans,” Holder stated. “This is an intentional attempt to break a system that was working. It defies common sense.” In August, the Justice Department filed a suit against

Texas over similar, restrictive voter ID regulations and redistricting plans that would dilute minority voting power. Holder also warned that it will go after other states that violate the spirit of the Voting Rights Act. “The Justice Department will never hesitate to do all that we must to protect the Constitutionally-guaranteed civil rights of all Americans,” he said. The new voting laws in North Carolina require strict enforcement of photo identification to cast ballots in the state. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law reported that Blacks account for 36 percent of North Carolina voters who lack a state-issued ID card. Even though nearly 60 percent of voters in the state opted to vote early in 2012, the new law also cuts early voting

days in half. More than 70 percent of Black voters in the state took advantage of early voting opportunities. The law also eliminates same-day registration during the early voting period. According to the Lawyer’s Committee, Blacks accounted for 34 percent of same-day registrants. “The southern strategy of the well-funded, nationallycoordinated, ultra right that the only way that they can hold on to their power at the national, state and local level is to drastically suppress voting rights for minorities,” said William Barber, president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP. “We need every resource of the civil rights community and the U.S. government to help us expose the national conspiracy behind this movement to suppress targeted constituencies, particularly in the new southern electorate.” Barber continued: “As

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many hands actually touching the process.” “We’re still working retrospectively to deal with the previous errors,” Harry Black, director of the finance for the city, said at a press conference Oct. 7. “In terms of blame a lot of this comes from inadequate and poor interagency communications and coordination.” At the direction of the mayor, the Finance Department created the Billing Integrity Unit and has effectively taken control of the tax calculation function from the State of Maryland. In addition, the administration has instituted an internal review of all tax credit accounts to identify errors. These efforts will ensure that tax bills are accurate. The July 2013 bills were the first to be calculated by the City’s Finance Department since taking over the calculation function. The Finance Department believes those bills were distributed free of errors. It

expects that the new automated system will be fully functioning and available to the public by March of 2014. “Under the leadership of Mayor RawlingsBlake, my department has worked diligently to get to the bottom of these costly errors. To that end, we have been proactive in completing internal reviews to determine where breakdowns occurred, resulting in erroneous bills being issued,” said Black. “Going forward, we will put additional controls in place to further improve the system. It is critical that we give these reforms a chance to work and refrain from any actions that may slow the process down for reform or could inadvertently lead to additional errors.” The city was hoping that the state would handle the penalties caused by these errors but now say they are handling internally. No comment was given on when those affected can expect the errors to be resolved.

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October 12, 2013 - October 12, 2013, The Afro-American the good people of North Carolina learn more about the origins and true aims of the hodge podge of voter suppression tactics we have

in regressive legislation. The type of fraud that would be prevented by restrictive voter ID requirements is so rare that

“This is an intentional attempt to break a system that was working. It defies common sense.” –Eric Holder seen, we are confident that they and the courts will join us in saying that ‘We must go forward together and not one step back.’” North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said the new voting law was common sense, despite reports that suggested the type of fraud that would be prevented by photo ID requirements is rare. Testifying before the North Carolina Assembly Committee on voter ID, Keesha Gaskins; senior counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University said, “more than 21 million votes have been cast in North Carolina over the past 12 years. During that time only one case of voter impersonation occurred.” In that one case, Gaskins said, North Carolina’s election system and law enforcement agencies identified the problem and took appropriate action. Barber said the far right created the myth of rampant voter fraud and repeated it over and over and over again in order to manipulate public consciousness and to engage

in a 2012 study on voter fraud, The Brennan Center for Justice reported that “It is more likely that an individual will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.” Barber lambasted the bill saying that “It tramples on the blood of our martyrs, desecrates the graves of freedoms and in the 21st century lines up with an extreme racially-driven philosophy of interposition and nullification.” In Shelby v. Holder, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Section 4 was unconstitutional, effectively gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires districts with a proven history of discrimination to get preapproval from the Justice Department or a federal court before making changes in their voting laws. Civil rights groups praised the Justice Department’s planned lawsuit against new North Carolina voting laws that would disproportionately affect Black, Latino and poor voters in the state.

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“It is extremely important that the United States Justice Department is using the power under the rest of the Voting Rights Act to combat this type of voter suppression in North Carolina,” said Penda Hair, co-director of the Advancement Project, a multi-racial civil rights organization founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1999. Hair added: “The law was intentionally designed to focus with laser-like specification on those aspects of voting that would that would most hurt people of color.” In a statement following Holder’s announcement, Barbara Arnwine, executive director of The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said: “What was once a bad photo ID bill that was making its way through the North Carolina legislature became a compendium of even worse voting policy that was thrown together once the State saw its chance to avoid Section 5 review under the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder.” Arnwine continued: “North Carolina’s own data demonstrates that this law will have a clear discriminatory impact on African Americans and other minority voters, and the Department of Justice was absolutely correct to challenge this law. The Department’s action sends an important message to other states that they should expect a fight if and when they attempt to roll back the clock on voting opportunities.”

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the first week of January 2012 and was immediately followed by a five-month period where both MHEC and the coalition were able to provide written briefs, findings, and conclusions to the court. “The State has failed to meet its burden of demonstrating there are no ongoing segregative effects that are a result of the traceable unnecessary program duplication proven by the Coalition,” said Blake, in the opinion. Though she strongly agreed with the program duplications, she did not agree with the plaintiff’s claims of underfunding. “While it may be true that the HBIs are at a ‘competitive disadvantage’ with TWIs because of past discriminatory treatment, the Coalition has not demonstrated that Maryland’s current funding practices or policies are traceable to the de jure era,” she ruled. The case was heavily based on precedents set by United States v. Fordice, a 1992 Supreme Court ruling case which, among other things, concluded that program duplication is a sign that a state is operating higher education systems in segregation. “This matter of duplication of programs is the most critical issue. The issue is one that has plagued not only the historically Black colleges in Maryland but throughout the country,” said Dr. Earl S. Richardson, Morgan State University president from 1984 to 2010. It was Richardson who fought to keep specialty programs such as the Master of Business Administration (MBA) unique to Maryland’s designated public urban institute located in Northeast Baltimore. Begun in 1969, the Morgan MBA program had 263 students in 1975. Since that time, the University of Baltimore, the University of Maryland-University College and the Johns Hopkins University have all added MBA programs to their catalogue. In 2004, Morgan State University fought against a joint MBA program between Towson University and the University

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of Baltimore. Richardson desperately wanted to protect Morgan’s 28 MBA students and prospective students who might find it hard to choose the Black school with fewer resources and older buildings when the same program was offered less than six miles away at Towson. His efforts to stop the deal fell on deaf ears. MHEC approved the duplication in 2005. The coalition filed their case the next year. “That was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Richardson told the AFRO, detailing how several instances of program duplication put up significant road blocks for Maryland’s set of four historically black institutions. “For example, Bowie offered an MS in Computer Science before Towson introduced the program; yet, once Towson offered the MS, enrollment in Bowie’s program dropped precipitously, from 119 in 1994 to 29 in 2008, while enrollment went from 23 in 1994 to 101 in 2008 at Towson,” said Blake. According to the opinion, “statewide, 60% of the noncore programs at Maryland’s HBIs are unnecessarily duplicated, compared with only 18% of Maryland’s TWIs’ noncore programs.” Faculty, staff, current and former students and college presidents from Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University, and University of Maryland, Eastern Shore all joined to form the coalition. And the opinion pointed out that while all of Maryland’s TWIs combined have 296 “unique, non-core programs,” that number is only 44 for all of the HBIs put together. “But for the duplication of programs, I can’t imagine where these Black colleges would be,” said Richardson. “I can’t imagine how well developed they would have been, how large they would have grown, and what their impact would have been on the community, the school system and the economy.” According to Pace J. McConkie, veteran civil rights lawyer and director of Robert M. Bell Center for Civil Rights in

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were normal cells. “Lacks had the misfortune of having the HPV virus inserted right in the growth part of the cells, which seems to be the reason why they just keep reproducing over and over,” he said. “You can grow viruses in her cells over and over and over and use that to make a vaccine.” The Black woman’s cells not only survived outside of the body-- they were able to grow and replicate at a rate never seen before. For the first time in history, scientists had human cells to work with in laboratories to test their theories. For decades the cells of Henrietta Lacks traversed the globe known only as “HeLa” cells, derived from the first two letters of her first and last name. Her five children and most family members were left in the dark –and uncompensated –over the connection between Henrietta Lacks and what medical literature characterizes as a modern medical miracle. Until recently, Lacks’ family didn’t receive a penny from the millions of dollars in pharmaceutical sales made off Henrietta Lacks’ body. “I have many memories of my mother,” said Lawrence Lacks, refusing to go into much detail. He was only 16 years old when his mother succumbed to uremic poisoning, a condition that arises when the body can no longer properly flush out toxins. “I didn’t quite understand what it was all about until later on when she started getting sick,” Lawrence Lacks told the AFRO. “That’s when I noticed something was wrong and things happened pretty quickly after that.” The family, like thousands of other African Americans, had left a stifling Jim Crow South in search of the opportunities in larger Northern metropolitan areas that harbored a milder version of contempt for their bronze skin. During the height of Baltimore’s life as a manufacturing town with steel mills, Lacks said, his family home along New Pittsburgh Avenue was a revolving door for other Blacks pouring out of the South in search of better

jobs. “My father was like a pioneer,” he said, standing on the steps of their Turners Station home. “He was one of the first to move to Baltimore bringing his family up from the South. “Everything has changed so much.” Donald Coad has lived at the family home since 1992. He wasn’t aware of the secrets his home kept when community leaders contacted him seeking to give Henrietta Lacks her due credit in 2002. “It was overwhelming at first- especially because my girlfriend had cervical cancer,” he told the AFRO. “Henrietta Lacks is a part of Turners Station. History has been made. It’s about keeping her legacy alive,” he said, sitting on the steps of his home after all of the attendees and onlookers dispersed after the ceremony to place the plaque outside the house. Grandson David J. Lacks Jr., whose family lived nearby, told the AFRO he grew up walking past the Turners Station home where his grandmother lived out her last days, but was never fully aware of the entire story. “I knew that she lived in this area but I never knew which house she lived in. I was just a kid growing up saying ‘My grandmother lived over here.’” “It’s mind boggling to know all that her cells have accomplished,” he said. According to the National Institutes of Health, as of August 2013 roughly 74,000 scientific papers resulting from experiments using HeLa cells have been completed. Private companies such as the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) sell HeLa cell cultures and variations of the cell ranging from $200 to $359.17 for a vial with up to 1 million HeLa in it-- and those are the rates for nonprofit organizations. For profit companies can pay as much as $551 for HeLa cell cultures and variations from ATCC, with other companies, such as Life Technologies, charging as much as $9,949 for HeLa Cell lines. More than six decades after her death, HeLa cells are clearly still in high demand for research. So far an estimated

A plaque in Lacks’ honor was unveiled Oct. 5 at the Baltimore house where she lived. 70,000 medical studies have used the HeLa cells as part of their research.--and the same goes for information about the woman once shrouded in mystery. The Immortal Life

of Henrietta Lacks,” a comprehensive biography written by Rebecca Skloot, author and founder of the Henrietta Lacks Foundation, spent months as a best-seller. Through her efforts, two of Lacks’ descendants have been invited to be part of the HeLa Genome Data Access working group that was formed after the National Institutes of Health performed a genetic analysis of HeLa cells earlier this year. Roland Pattillo, now a professor emeritus of gynecology at Morehouse School of Medicine, was a 17-year-old first-year medical student at Xavier University in New Orleans when he was first introduced to Henrietta Lacks 62 years ago. “Dr. George Gey announced that he had grown cells in the laboratory for the first time and that they would

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Education located at Morgan, the liability decision made and the remedy coming in the next several months are certain to have an impact on Black institutions nationwide. “The court did not impose a remedy in this decision, it found the state in violation of federal law in respect to academic programs. We are now venturing into the remedial stage of this case,” said Pace. “The court asked the parties to mediate a remedy. If the coalition and the state cannot come to an agreement on a remedy, the judge will impose a remedy after entertaining proposals from each side.” Though the court ruled in the state’s favor in respect to policies and practices related to HBI funding, Pace said that the order to remedy program duplication could meet or surpass the $2.1 billion the coalition asked for in their suit. “The court said that in order to remedy the violation there will need to be a transfer of programs from the TWIs to the Black institutions. There will have to be a merger of programs between the TWIs and the Black schools that favors the black schools,” said Pace. “The court also said that new high demand programs must be implemented successfully at the historically Black schools that will not be duplicated at the TWIs. All of that will require substantial amounts of funds. It will require funds for facilities, faculty, staff, whatever it takes to meet the remedy.” Pace also added that both sides have the option to appeal the decision. be available for chemotherapy sensitivity testing,” he said. “My professor of chemistry at Xavier University was testing new drugs for their application to human medicine. He gave me the privilege of doing the assay testing.” “She has stayed with me ever since.” Pattillo was so determined to figure out why and how Henrietta Lacks died that he dedicated his life to gynecology research with a heavy focus on HPV. He would eventually use Lack’s HPV-18 strain and another form of the disease, HPV-16, to create the Gardasil HPV vaccine now in use today. “She has become an icon just like Helen of Troy and Joan of Arc,” said Pattillo. “She is the image of humanity that is under the microscope and her spirit lives on.”

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Mondawmin Mall Gala After-five attire is required by the Greater Mondawmin Coordinating Council (GMCC) for the upcoming annual fundraiser, Mall Ball Gala, 6:30 p.m., Oct. 20 in the Mondawmin Mall Center Court. The evening of celebration will feature a fashion show by Travis Winkey and company, a silent art auction and dancing to the music of Dukes of Jazz. For information and tickets, call 410-523-4500 or email GMCC.Fundraiser@gmail.com. Celebrating its 57th year, Mondawmin was the first inner city mall for Baltimore. Originally constructed as an open air mall, it has gone thru various iterations and currently offers Target, Forever 21, Foot Locker, Downtown Locker Room. Happy Birthday! Best wishes go to Letitia Short Maddox who celebrated her 90th birthday on Aug. 15, in the company of her family, including six children, Brenda, Al Jr., Dan, Wayne and Greg Maddox and Lisa Maddox Jordan; 12 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, one great –grandchild, daughters-in-law, son-in-law as well as her brother, two sisters-in law, nieces and nephews.

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Her husband, the late J. Albert Maddox Sr., was co-founder of Time Printers in West Baltimore. Baltimore Pastor Completes Successful Aging Fellowship Program The Rev. Medgar L. Reid, DD, CCIF recently graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine’s Successful Aging Fellowship Program. His work focused on the expansion of neurocognitive capacity and brain health through spiritual mindfulness, forgiveness and gratefulness therapy and the blessings of creative visualization in storytelling. Dr. VJ Periyakoil, director, Palliative Care Education and Training said, “Pastor Reid’s project is amazing and so vital in bringing new Letitia Short Maddox knowledge about how best to support persons with neurocognitive problems. I hope you will continue to forge your path as a global leader in aging and end of life care for diverse populations.” Pastor Reid has over 25,000 hours as a Professional Chaplain providing emotional and spiritual support with the sick, traumatized, terminally ill and their families. As a serviceconnected disabled Marine veteran, he has empathy with the thousands he has ministered to who are going through physical, emotional, financial, mental and behavioral challenges. He currently serves as Director of Spiritual Care Services at Keswick Multicare Center, senior pastor of Open Secret Community Church and consultant to a network of businesses with a global footprint throughout 212 countries in a $20 trillion industry according to the Feb 13 edition of The Economist Magazine. If you would like to volunteer your time, talent or treasure, the church website is www. opensecretcc.org. Pastor Reid said he is excited “about being able to apply PRNewswire photo my new knowledge, skills and abilities to assist in expanding Rev. Medgar L. Reid, DD, neurocognitive and mental tranquil capacities through CCIF and Carmel Roques, mindful spirituality for everybody.” His church website is CEO of Keswick Multicare opensecretcc.org. Center Free to Breathe Champion the lung cancer cause by registering for the fifth annual Free to Breathe Baltimore Yogathon on Nov. 10 at B&O Railroad Museum, 1884 Baldwin Roundhouse, 901 W. Pratt. St. The inspirational event will bring the community together to raise funds that will fuel groundbreaking research necessary for making the dramatic breakthroughs in early detection and treatment that can save lives. Online registration closes Nov. 6. Mail-in registration closes Nov. 4. Event registration begins 3:45 p.m. with speeches and preparation at 4:30 p.m, followed by 108 minutes of yoga at 4:45 p.m. All proceeds support the National Lung Cancer Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to doubling lung cancer survival by 2022. For more information, to register or donate, visit www.freetobreathe.org/baltimore.

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‘Program Duplication’ At Last–Acknowledged The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Oct. 7, rendered its long awaited decision in the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Equality Lawsuit. This is the lawsuit initiated by a coalition of HBCU alumna and students (Coalition) to address perceived violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the state of Maryland. The Coalition asserts such violations relate to the state’s failure to eliminate various practices that have continuously perpetuated the effects of segregation in the higher education system of Maryland. It was argued that the violations have resulted in depriving students at Maryland’s HBCU institutions educational opportunities comparable to those made available to and received by students at Historically White Institutions (HWI). The court’s decision represents a mixed bag of results. While two of the issues confronting the court were not decided in favor of the coalition, the court did find that Maryland has blatantly continued policies and practices of unnecessary program duplication that has created a segregative effect in its higher education system. We believe the court ‘s decision on the program duplication issue to be the most important decision in this case. Indeed, we view this decision on program duplication to be one of the most important civil rights judicial decisions since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. We applaud the attorneys who committed enormous time and countless resources to develop the arguments that have finally uncovered this state’s blasé attitude towards HBCU students and institutions. For many years, and particularly during the past 10, this state has verbally voiced hollow support for eliminating and preventing future occurrences of program duplication of HBCU courses and curriculum. This lawsuit, however, confirms the emptiness of this state’s ovations by highlighting the multiple instances where time after time, program duplication violations have been repeatedly rendered against HBCU students and institutions,

impeding their quests to achieve educational excellence. The decision has deferred rendering a judgment. Instead, mediation has been recommended for purposes of deriving a remedy consistent with the findings outlined in the decision. We believe mediation required by the Equality Lawsuit decision should be conducted with a clear view of achieving all the elements required by our HBCUs to make them more comparable and competitive with the state’s HWIs. We also encourage and look forward to such negotiations introducing new, high demand, unique programmatic areas of excellence for each of the HBCUs consistent with those recommended in the decision. To further eliminate the effects of Maryland’s past illegal program duplication practices, we are excited by the decision’s suggestion that the possible transference of high demand programs from TWI’s to HBCUs and prospects for collaborative programs be considered. All of these new programmatic opportunities should assist in making Maryland’s HBCUs nationally recognized diverse institutions of higher learning as opposed to being, as reflected by a witness in the lawsuit, ‘just another Black college.’

Therefore, in spite of its decision, the Equality Lawsuit has not yet arrived at a conclusion. We are nevertheless encouraged that, with this decision on the issue of Maryland’s violation of the HBCU student and institutional rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we are approaching a new era of opportunities not only for the Maryland HBCUs but for all the other HBCUs in the country who have been closely following the Equality Lawsuit case in hopes of securing the additional protections under law this decision will now reflect.

Federal Government Shutdown: America’s Moment of Truth

Congressman Elijah Cummings

If ever the American people needed a strong president willing to stand for what is reasonable and right, that time is now. In 2008 and 2012, our rallying cry was “Barack Obama, we have your back.” Today, at this moment of truth for our country, we can thank God that President Obama has the strong backbone that we need. In the Congress, it is our job to find common ground. For Democrats, however, we will not negotiate with

hostage takers. The lines of battle have been sharply drawn. House Republicans have forced the federal government to shut down. They have aided and abetted a small faction of Tea Party extremists in their effort to take the country hostage by refusing to pass legislation to fund the government. If we Democrats do not bend to their demands, some Republicans declare, they will force our nation to default on her “full faith and credit” for the first time in our history. These forces of reaction would do well to take heed. This is not the first time that we have had this fight, but this time, neither the President nor congressional Democrats will bend. America’s majority has elected a President and congressional allies who will stand up for progressive reform. We will stand firm because it is the right thing to do – and because we understand that far too much is at stake for the Americans we serve. Giving in to the Tea Party’s obsession with defunding the Affordable Care Act would deny access to healthcare for

millions of Americans. The federal law now called Obamacare is not a proposal to be renegotiated. It is the law of the land – passed by the Congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court. The act does provide significant financial assistance to the working poor. However, of the 28 million Americans who now are able to gain access to insurance, 8 million earn well above the poverty level. Two-thirds of these uninsured Americans have full-time jobs – and another 16 percent are working part-time. The Affordable Care Act will give these working, middle class families access to health care that the private sector refused to give them before passage of the law. It would be morally reprehensible to now abandon the 17 million children who no longer are denied coverage because they have pre-existing conditions, or the 3 million young adults who already have gained access to health coverage by remaining on their parents’ insurance. How could we betray the more than 5 million seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare who have saved more than $3.1 billion on prescription drugs because of the Affordable Care Act? We could not, and we won’t. As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has declared, “We are locked in tight on Obamacare.” If House Speaker Boehner would allow an unencumbered vote on federal funding, there are now enough House Republicans who have indicated they would support a bill to reopen the government to assure a bipartisan majority. America, however, is being harmed by gridlock within the House Republican Conference. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are not working and facing severe hardships. Critical medical research is not being performed. Women, infants and children are being threatened.

The Federal Shutdown is Very Personal

In the interest of full disclosure, I work for the largest labor union in the federal sector: the American Federation of Government Employees. But I am not writing on their behalf or because I was told to do so. This is personal. Federal employees are largely invisible. Actually, we take them for granted. With certain exceptions such as TSA and the VA, most of us Bill Fletcher Jr. think almost nothing about NNPA Columnist them until and unless we have a problem that forces us into the federal system, be that Social Security, worker rights, food safety, or any number of other issues. We get so

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used to the services provided by federal workers that many of us actually believe that these matters are being performed automatically. I would go further and suggest that some of us seem to believe that it is being done through magic. With the government shutdown/lockout, we come face-toface with the reality of government. Various functions have stopped working altogether; agencies and offices are closed; and almost a million workers are out on the street. I know some of those workers. Let me tell you a bit about what they are facing: complete uncertainty. For years, politicians, particularly but not exclusively Republicans, have been making federal workers scapegoats for any number of problems. Then last year there was the sequestration which, in effect, cut the pay of hundreds of thousands of workers. With the shutdown/lockout, these same workers have been thrown into a mist. They have rents and mortgages to pay; they have credit card payments; they have children in school, yet those in Congress who have shut down the government care not one bit for this reality. They see the federal worker as an enemy

The nation’s welfare and security are weakened – all because House Republicans will not allow us to proceed (and negotiate) in what is called “regular order.” The president and congressional Democrats have all declared publicly that we are prepared to negotiate on the pressing budgetary issues of our time. However, we will not negotiate with a fiscal gun pointed at our heads. To do so would be wrong – and it also would set the nation up for further socially devastating hostage demands on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. That, I am convinced, is the ultimate objective of this Tea Party shutdown. To be fair, Boehner and a number of mainstream Republicans have been reported as assuring the nation that they will not allow a default that would breach America’s full faith and credit. Yet, default is exactly what the Tea Party faction has been threatening. Wall Street, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and even Fox News understand that any failure by our government to pay our bills as they become due would inflict devastating and, to some extent, irreversible harm upon all Americans. This is why the political debate has now gone beyond the current federal shutdown. We are sharply focused upon raising the debt limit – the statutory limit upon federal borrowing. The financial meltdown and Bush recession triggered a terrible storm for our nation. Any breach in America’s full faith and credit would bring down a hurricane upon us all. At this moment of truth for our nation, protecting our nation from that hurricane is our constitutional duty. For President Obama, House Speaker Boehner and the Congress as a whole, fulfilling that duty will require both wisdom and a strong backbone. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

and they want that enemy punished. The shutdown is a “twofor” as far as the Tea Party Republicans are concerned: go after the Obama administration and go after the federal worker. In the name of blocking health care for more than 50 million people, the Tea Party Republicans have shut down the government. In shutting down the government they have rendered another million people unemployed, thereby setting in motion economic dominoes that may wreck entire communities. One would think that they might think twice about this, but the political motivations of this attack are too strong for some and if they have to bring everything down in order to prove a point, they are apparently quite willing to do so. This only stops when we stop them. Bill Fletcher Jr. works for the American Federation of Government Employees. This commentary does not necessarily represent the views of the AFGE and was not written on their behalf.

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Award-Winning Photo Exhibit Proceeds Despite Shutdown

By Zenitha Prince

AFRO Corresponding Writer The power palaces of Washington are shut down, but for photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson the show must go on. For the first time in a decade, the works of the award-winning photojournalist will be on exhibit at two galleries in the District “...:the Anacostia Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. and at the B Spot Gallery from 4 to 8 p.m., daily through Oct. 30. at the Anacostia Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m. beginning Oct. 4 and at the B Spot Art Gallery from 4 to 8 p.m. beginning Oct. 5 The exhibits run through Oct. 30. Perhaps best recognized for his trademark visual call-andresponse shooting style, where the focus is on the subject’s eyes and hands, Johnson said this exhibit is a departure from his usual work. “Compared to my more recognized black and white documentary photographs, this exhibition represents a turning point in the evolution of my work,” he said in a statement. The solo photography display, “Mysterioso: Rhythm. Movement. Improvisation,” is a tribute to jazz. Inspired by Thelonious Monk’s 1958 jazz album, “Misterioso,” Johnson said the exhibit will “ignite a sense of mystery and intrigue in viewers and take them on an intellectual and artistic journey through space and time.” Using bold, rhythmic patterns of colors, evocative lighting, sculptural silhouettes and interesting shapes, the photos capture the movement, energy, tension and underlying harmony reminiscent of an improvisational jazz performance or the smoky ambience of a 1940s jazz club. “Soft, muted shades” called “hush tones,” created through a special technique Johnson developed using fabrics, “enchant the quiet zones of the viewer’s soul,” the artist said. His images of flowers, dancers and musicians are conveyed in mind-bending shapes and abstract colors explode out of the frames, capturing the imagination. “You will be able to feel the images as well as see them,” said Johnson. An acclaimed photographer, Johnson has captured the likenesses of newsmakers such as President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Princess Diana, Naomi Campbell, Oprah Winfrey, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Johnson is the author of the bestseller, “Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience,” a coffee table size book that captures the first authentic documentation of the worship experience of Black churches. Johnson’s mentor, the legendary photographer Gordon Parks, wrote the book’s foreword. He has also contributed work to 24 books, more than 55 magazines, and five films, including the feature film “Guess Who.” The Howard University alumnus and District resident is the recipient of an ArtMakers Award from the national HistoryMakers organization. He formerly worked for USA Today and ABC News.

Mysterioso Exhibition, “The Thinker”

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Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Black aviators and instructors were honored for their contributions to the field at an all-day event in Ft. Washington, Md. The day’s event began with a special one-hour flyover ceremony at the site of the Columbia Air Center (Black owned) in Upper Marlboro to honor the historical significance of the Columbia

Air Center and to pay homage to early pioneers such as Herbert Jones, William Fauntroy Jr., Albert Young, Capt. Fred Pitcher and Gladys Otey, one of the first female pilots to fly at the historic center. Highlights of the luncheon at the National Golf Club at Tantallion in Ft.

Washington was the recognition of African-American owned flight schools, flight instructors and pilots who have contributed significantly to the field of general aviation and who are working to keep the dream of aviation alive for African Americans.

William Fauntroy, here with his niece Melanie Hosch, was an original Tuskegee Airman, Class of 45I and the first African American Civil Engineer hired by the National Capital Transportation Broderick Kelly, Cloud Club Flight instructor

U.S. Airforce Pilots Alex Cole and Aaron Pierce

Hon. Christopher Hart, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board whose great uncle, James Herman Banning, was the first African American to receive a pilot license issued by the government in 1926

Mr. Herbert Jones Jr and his wife Mildred Nelson founded Cloud Club II flight training school at Hyde Field, Clinton, MD.

Aviators and Tuskegee Airmen honorees Minnie and Bill Rouse, HJ Aviation

Local pilot Dan and wife Jerri Spicer, owner of several aircrafts Lewis A. Shorter served 4 years in the US Air Force as an Aircraft Mechanic

Col. Charles McGee, holds record of most combat hours flown, daughter Yvonne McGee and Diane Mohr, daughter of Col. Dean Mohr, East Coast Aviation

Aviators Lloyd Coleman, Col. Richard Cooper, CAP, Jake Collins, Byron Stewart

Adrienne McBurrows Alexander, first African American female pilot in corporate air industry

Crystal K. Pruitt, niece of Capt. Wendell O. Pruitt, Tuskegee Airman

Fred Pitcher became an aviation legend as the first commercial African American airline pilot hired by Western, now Delta Airlines

Danita Moses, Ayanna Burris

Daughter, Sabrina Scott, granddaughter Tamia Scott of Walter Scott, a pilot, instructor and currently Women in Aviation International Sharon Ledgister-Reid, PMP, son, Maximillian a Touring Reid and Sharon D.W. Boddie Exhibition Driver Gladys B. Otley completed her solo flight at Columbia Air Center. She retired from the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Air Force. Eric Woods presents her a plaque

Father Herbert H. Jones Jr with sons Herbert H. Jones III and Rodney T. Jones

Larry Harbin was recognized for his service as President and flight instructor at the Skyhawk Club

Kelly Swoope, JudgeShirley M. Watts, Dr. Carissa M. Baker-Smith, Taya Graham, Brig. Gen. Linda Singh, Danielle Belton, speaker

Kermit Bostic, Barbara Bostic, Janise Bostic

Kinberly Stephens, Taylor Stephens, Christopher Stephens

The 24th Annual Torchbearer Awards Breakfast was hosted by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter at the Morgan State University Student Center. The occasion is held to honor and recognize distinguished members in the community who are engaged and have made a special impact involving children and youth, housing, health, education and employment, the political process, and the criminal justice system. The honorees are Taya Graham, an advocate for Black women through her academic research and outreach; Judge Shirley M. Watts, Court of Special Appeals, recently appointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley; Dr. Carissa M. Baker-Smith, asst. professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Brig. Gen. Linda Singh who was recently appointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley as the next assistant adjutant general for the Maryland Army National Guard. Danielle Belton, creator/editor of the pop culturemeets-politics blog, The Black Snob, was the Honoree Shirley M. Watts, featured speaker. Judge, Court of Special Appeals

Committee members Nancy Jordan Howard, Rev. Dr. Joan L. Wharton, Sara Howell Smalley, CPA, Dr. Anne O. Emery, president Emeritus, Rosemary Atkinson, Kathy Robertson, Karaleigh Henson

Morgan’s academic leaders Dr. Michelle Bondima, Dr. Patricia Welch

Sheila Davenport models the cashmere fox trimmed red coat raffled for prize

National President M. DeLois Dee Dee Strum, Michele McNeill-Emery, Second Vice President and Chapter President Landra McLaurin

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority MSU Sophomore Daniell Muse, enthralled the crowd with her singing of “Over My Head, I Hear Music in the Air”

members Alice Sue Cooper, Jenifer Rucker, Gaile DeVance congratulates their soror, Landa McLaurin on her election as president of Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter, 100 NCBW

National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Honoree pediatrician Carissa M. Baker-Smith

Guests Monica Watkins, Eleanor P. Matthews, Arlene Wongus Rosemary Howell Atkinson

The Honorable Shirley Nathan-Pulliam Honoree Taya Graham, advocate for Black Women

Kelly Swoope, news anchor for ABC2, WMAR TV served as moderator

President Laura Knight discusses the importance of economic and social action commitment through NCBW

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oach Donald Hill-Eley was smiling as the scoreboard in Hughes Stadium reflected a win for the Morgan Bears. Coach Hill-Eley was quoted as saying, “It’s been a long time. I just feel excited for these young men. They have been working hard. We needed to have some success to continue to move forward. This 34-21 victory over Florida A&M’s Rattlers was the Bears’ first victory since Oct. 6, 2012 when they defeated Savannah State, 45-6. The crowd, representing a sea of blue

Bears Mascot dances to the music of a touchdown

and orange was excited, and the alumni and friends were sitting on the edge of their seats as the scoreboard continued to change from 14-7 at the end of the 1st quarter to 24-21(halftime), and the final score of 34-21. Morgan Bears cannot rest on their laurels, as they will hit the road on Oct. 19 at North Carolina Central.

Cheerleaders boost the crowd as a touchdown is made by the Bears

The Bears overtake the Rattlers

Student Cheyenne Baugh proudly displays her “M” face decal

Melvin Miles, band director

Color guards

Dr. David Wilson, president, MSU welcomes the crowd

Regent Board chair, Kweisi Mfume welcomes the alumni and friends back to the campus for homecoming Majorettes performed fancy steps during halftime

The Soulful explosion of the Morgan State University Mighty Marching Band generates melodic and rhythmic excitement

Ms. Morgan,Aysha Williams and Mr. Morgan Monzona Whaley receives plaques from Morgan State University Women president, Earlene Roberts

The epitome of “soulful” stepping, bends, turns and stretching of the drum major Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

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John Patterson and Betty Boone Capehart

Del. Adrienne Jones, Dr. James Haynes, Alice Pinderhughes

Rev. Bernard Keels, MSU Christian Center, and wife

he Morgan Gala XXIX, held at Martin’s West in Woodlawn, was the elaborate scene where hundreds of stylishly attired alumni, friends, and supporters greeted each other and reminisced about the days gone by at Morgan. Following the welcome by MC Stan Stovall, co-anchor, WBAL TV, Dr. David Wilson, president of Morgan State University, greeted the alumni and recognized the supporters for their major contributions to the university. The singing of the alma mater sealed the cohesive spirit along with the mingling, camaraderie and dancing to familiar tunes throughout the evening.

“Fair Morgan, We Love Thee...”

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Joseph Haskins, Harbor Bank, and Michael Cryor

Stuart and Candace Sims Carol and Alonzo “Tweed” Rogers, Anne Shervington-Davis, cochair, Gala XXIX Phillip Cooper, Sheryl Ferguson, Teresa Payne-Nunn, Gregory Harris

Alicia Foster, Del. Helen Holton, Terri Parker

Germaine Bolds-Leftridge, founder and president of GBL Sales with husband, Doug Leftridge

Ivory Tucker, Sen. Catherine Pugh, Jeanne Hitchcock, Del. Nathniel Oakes, Patricia and Thomas Phelan

Kenya Asli, Sherrod Foster, Diane Bell-McCoy, president, ABC

Janese Daniels, Marcella Deh, Micheline Bowman

Joyce Turnipseed, Carl Turnipseed, Board of Directors, Dr. Shirley M. Malcom, Board of Regents, Sen. Nathaniel McFadden Tammy A. Harvey, Peter C. Harvey, Jan Boykins

Carlton Sr. and Roxanne Epps at VIP reception

Lt. General Anthony Brown

Wesley Guerrier, Ernest Burton, Vernetta Burton, seated, Vinetta Paige McCullough, Nina Hopkins

Class of 1955 Talmadge Hill, Shirley T. Hill, Carl L. Minott, Philadelphia

Dr. Charlene CooperBoston, Lonnie Spruill, esq.

Dr. Arthur Boone, Carolyn Cole, co-chair, Gala XXIX, Myrna Jackson-Cann, Anita T. Hunter

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Ayanna Gregory Pays Homage to Father, Trailblazing Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory By Ariel Medley AFRO Staff Writer Ayanna Gregory, daughter of comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, embraced her father on stage at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center in downtown Silver Spring on Sept. 28 after giving a stunning performance in her highly acclaimed play, “Daughter of the Struggle.” 

 “This play is an ode to my father,” said Gregory. “It’s my way of letting him know, ‘I know who you are now.’” 

 Gregory stressed to the audience how important these stories were to her and how important it is for everyone to share their stories with younger generations. “Turn off the TV. You be the movie. You be the storyteller,” she said.

 Told through a series of recollections and songs, Gregory’s one-woman play reminiscences about her life as one of 10 children growing up with Dick Gregory as her father. “It was like an adventure, you never knew what would happen next,” said Gregory, with a laugh. 

 “We also had so many rules in my house. We were not allowed to eat meat, white bread or sugar. We were not allowed to pierce our ears, perm our hair, watch TV, or eat and drink at the same time, ” recalls Gregory. “There were times when we [kids] were angry. There were seven girls and three boys and we didn’t always understand at the time.” 
 She chuckled at remembering how she and her siblings would sneak chicken and Now-And-Later’s and crowd in front of a small TV to catch a few

programs when her father was away. “Imagine 10 kids all trying to watch three channels on a four-inch, black-and-white TV.” 

 As the youngest daughter of the family, Gregory said she didn’t understand at the time who her father truly was. 

 “[My father] was away a lot,” said Gregory. “I was embarrassed to say I didn’t know who he was. I learned through books and stories.” Through these stories, Gregory would learn how, as a comedian, her father paved the way for men like Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, and Eddie Murphy and, as a civil rights activist, how he helped save and change lives forever. 

 On stage, Gregory transformed from character to character, retelling the stories she had heard growing up. She told of how her older sisters, ages three and five, were thrown into a paddy wagon after marching with their mother. She told stories of how her father marched for freedom in Mississippi, how he helped others pay for medical school, how he stood up to police brutality during the sixties in the Deep South, and how he emphasized the importance of health and a good diet for longevity. 

 She said she learned through film of police-protester clashes at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago about the real dangers that surrounded her family. She shared stories of how her family’s phone lines were tapped and about the frequent death threats her father received. 

 “I never knew how dangerous life was then,” said Gregory.

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross By Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dr. Donald Yacovone Book Review By Kam Williams

Dr. Henry Louis Gates

By and large, history books have marginalized the African-American community by either omitting or minimizing its cornucopia of contributions to the country. Similarly, the African-American psyche has been trivialized by a host of harmful stereotypes which suggest that we aren’t as diverse or as capable of experiencing the same full range of emotions as Caucasians. How else can you explain that the mayor of New York City might rationalize employing the “stop and frisk” police tactic against blacks in wholesale fashion, as if criminality is a racial trait instead of judging people by the content of their character as envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King a half-century

ago? Fortunately, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross has just been published in the face of such persisting, institutionalized prejudice. Co-written by Harvard’s Dr. Henry Louis Gates and Dr. Donald Yacovone, the book is basically a companion piece to the six-part television series of the same name that’s set to premiere on PBS on Oct. 22. But this relatively-encyclopedic opus has been afforded the luxury of being able to explore the same subject-matter in much greater depth. Arranged chronologically, it starts with a chapter covering the period from 1500-1540 when Africans first arrived in the so-called New World. Next comes the period during which skin color-coded slavery became institutionalized, followed by 1700-1811, which the authors dub “The Age of Revolutions.” That’s followed by “Half Slave, Half Free,” the awkward ante bellum era when many Africans were emancipated while the majority remained in chains. Subsequently, in succession, came the Civil War, Reconstruction, lynchings and the rise of the Klan, en route to the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and President Obama in the White House. An engaging journey through African-American history from a fresh perspective reflecting the rich inner lives of black folks irrespective of station.

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The Open Church of Maryland Announces Official Launch Celebrating Anniversary

Official Launch and Second Anniversary Sunday, October 13, 2013

Morning Worship -11:15 am

Dr. Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., New York Theological Seminary/Columbia University Guest Preacher Official Launch and Anniversary Service-5:00 pm Dr. Brad R. Braxton, Preacher Celebration reception following the service

The Open Church

5010 Briarclift Road, Baltimore, MD 21229 Dr. Brad R. Braxton - Senior Pastor www.theopenchurchmd.org (Ample, free parking on the church’s rear lot)

The Open Church is a culturally diverse congregation committed to radically inclusive love and courageous social justice activism. We live on purpose. We love on purpose. We lift on purpose.

The Open Church is holding its official launch and anniversary celebration, 5 p.m., Oct. 13. Established two years ago by Dr. Brad R. Braxton and parishioners committed to social justice activism and radically inclusive love, the Open Church also will officially implement the Galilee Project, a program designed to enable successful educational opportunities for public school students in the Baltimore Metropolitan area. The celebration of diversity and inclusion includes the inaugural message from senior pastor, the Rev. Dr. Brad R. Braxton, who is also the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. Participants will include representatives from Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, other traditions, as well as leaders in education,

government and the community. Dr. Brad R. Braxton, an internationally regarded biblical scholar said, “Our commitment to diversity and inclusion encompasses issues around advocacy for our LGBT sisters and brothers, fighting homelessness and poverty, and enabling equitable educational opportunities. The Galilee project is a significant way that the Open Church must enable our community and the future of its families.” The Galilee project is a creative partnership of the Open Church for city school students and youth in disenfranchised communities that will prepare students to complete high school and college. The program provides mentoring, tutoring, counseling and assistance that will adequately equip them for successful professional opportunities in a wide array of careers in the global

marketplace. Open Church member and Johns Hopkins University graduate student Ashley Pettway is the project coordinator. A Rhodes Scholar, Rev. Braxton, holds a Ph.D. from Emory University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. His writings cover such areas as racial reconciliation, multiculturalism, interfaith dialogue, environmental justice, and collaborative economic partnerships with developing countries. He has lectured/preached at Yale, Princeton and Duke Universities, Morehouse College and Westminster Abbey in London. A fellowship reception will be held in the church gymnasium following the service. The Open Church is at 5010 Briarclift Road, Baltimore, MD 21229 (one mile inside I-695 Beltway exit at the intersection of Route 40)

Bethel Celebrates Pastor’s Silver Ministry Year Bethel AME Church will begin a year-long celebration in honor of its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid III. “Honoring the Footprints of a Legend” is the theme of the anniversary that begins with the ministry of Bishop Sam Green of the 12th Episcopal District, 9:45 a.m., Oct. 13 at

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1300 Druid Hill Ave. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake will present a proclamation proclaiming Oct. 13-20 “The Week of A Legend” in honor of Dr. Reid’s historic The Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid III, in accomplishments his early days at Bethel, with First Lady since his arrival Marlaa Reid and a very tiny FranShon at Bethel in 1988. Other leaders gather together to celebrate and figures expected to be his ministry; “The New in attendance include Sen. Generation Circle” honoring Barbara Mikulski, Comptroller Dr. Reid’s footprint and Joan Pratt and many more. impact in the lives of those The celebration will 40 and under; First Family include a monthly ministry month, Women’s month and a experience that focuses on the LEGENDS concert. dynamic aspect of Dr. Reid’s For more information ministry. Other events will on upcoming events visit: include: A Family Reunion www.bethel1.org and www. where over 1,000 clergy and celebrationofalegend.com or leaders who have come from call 410.523.4273. under Dr. Reid’s ministry will

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“As I began to love myself, I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But, as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART.” Charlie Chaplin “Living for the weekend” Friday, over 3,000 people gathered on the Frederick Douglass/ Isaac Myers Maritime Park’s promenade for Living Classroom’s Maritime Magic night. Guests sampled food and libation from participating bars and restaurants while strolling along the water’s edge enjoying the musical sounds of MarchFourth Marching Band, All Mighty Senators Jazz Ensemble and the Craig Alston Syndicate. Many people enjoyed the silent auction as they bid on donated items that included vacation packets and sports memorabilia. The silent auction had friends amicably bidding competitively with each other on special items. As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”. Charlie Chaplin On Sunday the gorgeous weather and the “Canadian sunset” offered the perfect occasion for Baltimore jazz musicians Dr. John Lampkins, Tamm E Hunt, Sandi Mallory, Joe Cooper, David Baker, Rick Johnson, Lamont Davidson, Dennis Fisher, Larry Willis, Rhonda Robertson and John Coltrane’s cousin, saxophonist Carl Grubbs, to “welcome home” Baltimore legend Gary Bartz. Bartz performed at the Frederick Douglass/Isaac Myers Maritime Park’s jazz on the waterfront for the Associated Black Charities fundraiser. Featured musical groups included John Milton Wesley, the Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra, The Curtis Brothers and jazz violinist Chelsey Green and the Green Project. Perfect ingredients for a magical weekend. Spotted in the audience were jazz aficionadas Ruth and Mike Binsky, Kathleen Matthews, Joyce and Ben Holmes, jazz promoter Gladys Inman, Bilal Ali, Claudia McKee, Diane and Frank Hocker, Fred and Lavonne Grant, Auvea Fortune, Gaylord, Pauline Taylor, Reggie Thomas, Angela Wade, Sandi Manns, Sara Smalley, Jerome and Paula Stephens and Rosemary Atkinson. People enjoyed food prepared by Phaze 10’s executive chef Shannon and other food vendors. Orchids to Marsha Jews and the staff at Frederick Douglas/Isaac Myers museum on a job well- done in maintaining an alluring atmosphere during the weekend events. “…Put on the dancing shoes tonight, slip on the dress…All eyes on us ‘cause we are the life of the party babe” Charlie Wilson “Everyone get up” It was hard to stay in our seat at Gents on the Move’s fall cabaret at the Ivy Center when the hottest dance band, Signature Live, performed. The group includes four lead female singers and a male singing everything from the Chantels, Chuck Brown and Heavy D to Robin Thicke’s latest hit, Blurred Lines. When the male singer sang Heavy D’s “overweight lover” he reminded me of Heavy D busting all the moves. This group is so hot it was hard to believe Robin Thicke wasn’t performing. Signature Live hails from the DMV area and will soon be appearing at Identity Lounge. Special shout-out to Gents Scotty, Jerry, Wink, Billy and my host A.J. Miles and his wife Carole. It was standing room only at John Woods’ homecoming party for Morgan’s class of ‘57 and guests held at Club 347 on Calvert Street. The guests were jubilant as they sauntered in after the

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game with a Morgan victory to celebrate. George Ray and Nicole Nicholson’s party at the Havana Club to celebrate Morgan’s homecoming victory later that night had guests lining up on Water Street so they could dance the night away. “’Round midnight” this Coppinite headed home after celebrating with my Morgan friends “Forever Morgan.” Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return. Og Mandino Happy birthday Angela Matthews, Berice Bogan, Jonathan Greene, Tobi Pulley, Rosemary Atkinson, Frank Coakley, Myra James, Gloria Cole Bryant, Natalie Frazier, Jean Powell and my grandson Gregory Packer. “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” William Butler Yeats “…Friends how many of us have them? Friends ones we can depend on…” Whodini Sending bushels of “love and happiness” to Dr. Marie Washington, The Queen Dorothy Williams, Beulah and Jimmy Brown of Randallstown and Marc Craig as you get stronger “day by day.” “When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.” Manlius Sending our prayers and condolences to Vickie Woods and Robert Woods on the death of your husband and father Fred Woods, to the family of Eddie Buckson, to Adam, Frank and Timothy Hocker on the death of your mom, Barbara Hocker and to Dee-Dee Thornton and family on the death of your mother Dorothy Thornton Hayes, mother of twelve children and countless grand and great grandchildren. “Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” Og Mandino I’m sending a truckload of love and a bundle of patience to my coworkers and the hundreds of thousands of government employees and their families as we continue to endure the federal government shutdown. “Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.” Og Mandino Many of us continue to work daily during these uncertain times without pay providing quality service to the public. Thanks for your commitment in spite of your own circumstances. We are blessed and we know who is in control. A luta continua (the struggle continues) “I’ll be seeing you” Valerie & the Friday Night Bunch

OBITUARY Delores T. Robinson

Western Electric Co./PBX Operator Delores T. Robinson departed life on September 11, 2013. She was born to Ida G. and James C. Robinson on September 25, 1921, in the city of Baltimore, MD, the last of nine children, all of whom lived well into adulthood, except for one (Angela, who died at birth). Delores and her siblings grew up in and around East Baltimore near DELORES T. ROBINSON the Johns Hopkins Hospital. the Secretary for C.C.D., the She attended St. Francis Altar Society, and Happy Xavier Catholic Church and Hearts Club. As a resident of public elementary schools in the Park Merced Complex, the area and is an alunma of Delores was active in the Dunbar Junior High School Service Action Network, and St. Frances Academy. Neighbors in Action Group, Delores’ working life and Park Merced Tenants was varied. She worked at Organization. She was Western Electric Co. doing an active member of St. defense production then Stephens Catholic Church later as a PBX operator at (San Francisco). Delores the Pacific Telephone Co. received great joy from in San Francisco and retired masterfully completing her after 28 years of service. In daily crossword puzzles, the course of her career, she playing cards, weekly received many awards and entertainment magazines, commendations. and the protective love of Delores’ social life was her German Shepherd dog centered on her family Heinz. (siblings, nieces, and In 2012, she became a nephews), her church, and resident of the University community. She was active Mound Ladies Home (San in St. Michael’s Catholic Francisco). Church (San Francisco) as

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