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Community Mourns and Reflects After Murder of Three-Year-Old

Obama Seeks ‘Long Term’ Partnership with Africa

The 3600 block of Old York Road was quiet on the Monday after McKenzie

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McKenzie Elliott, the toddler murdered Aug. 1 while playing on her porch in Baltimore City.

Elliott was killed, Aug. 1, while playing on her porch.

McKenzie had been given permission to play outside by her uncle Charles Coley, who was keeping vigil over

the toddler when she was murdered by a drive-by bullet.

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African heads of state and top officials at the U.S.-Africa Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the nation’s capital, Obama said: “As president, I’ve made it clear that the United States is determined to be a partner in Africa’s success – a good partner, an equal partner, and a partner for the long term.

Although this is the largest gathering of African leaders ever convened by a U.S. president, China has had several such conferences and has a strong presence in Africa, building infrastructure and making loans, without attaching the United States’ concerns about democracy or human rights.

Offering an indirect contrast to China’s presence in Africa, President Obama said, “We don’t look to Africa simply for its natural Continued on A4

Md. Autopsy Techs Fight for Increased Pay, Better Treatment

By Sean Yoes Special to the AFRO

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are investing $33 billion in Africa – $12 billion in new commitments – as part of an overall plan for his administration to strengthen its relation with the world’s second-largest continent.

Speaking to nearly 50

Part one of two.

For decades, Baltimore has been infamously known as one of the, “murder capitals of America.”

And 12 autopsy technicians within the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner at the BioPark on West Baltimore Street perform post mortems for all the homicides, as well as suicides and all other deaths from injury under unusual or suspicious circumstances for

Photo courtesy J. Wyndal Gordon

Autopsy technicians in the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, are fighting for increased wages and better treatment. Six of the 12 technicians are: Amanda McGinnis, left, Mario Alston, Chelsea Scott, Robert Mills, Mozzelle Osborne and Jessica Logan.

the entire state.

Their work has been showcased many times by Hollywood in television crime dramas like the “CSI” franchises produced by CBS. But, despite the vital and difficult work they do, entrylevel technicians in the state make just above the national poverty level, if they were providing for a family of four.

Others that have been in the Office for decades don’t make much more than their less experienced colleagues.

The least experienced technician has been on the job for a little more than a year

and she is paid $25,234 a year (pay grade 6-2). The entry level pay grade of 6 earns a salary of $23,584. The highest pay grade designation among the 12 autopsy technicians is 8-5; that one earns $31,536.

But, the most experienced technician, who has worked at OCME for 38 years was at a 7-12 pay grade at the beginning of 2014, earning $33,608.

“You have autopsy techs... who are applying for public assistance,” said Chelsea Scott, who has been a paid technician since 2010 and Continued on A4

Community Welcomes New Journalism’s George Collins Challenged and ShopRite with Open Arms Reshaped the Mold for Civil Rights Reporting Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO

it is difficult to find fresh, nutritious food. “In order to grow a city, you have to both attract new residents and give those residents already here

It had been a few days since the grand opening of the new Shop Rite in the Baltimore City community of Howard Park. Notables like Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have long since cleared out.

But this past Sunday, the store was still bustling with activity.

Fifteen years in the making, the new store – Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has been hailed as a kind of oasis in the middle of more reasons to stay. For an urban food desert. Food me that means ensuring that deserts are places where Continued on A5

“For me that means ensuring that every family, no matter their income or where they live, has access to quality, affordable and nutritious food options.”

By Zenitha Prince Special to the AFRO Journalists usually record history. George Collins made it.

In the summer of 1961, Collins and other AFRO reporters conceived and executed what came to be known nationwide as “The Great Route 40 Hoax,” a ruse that highlighted the silly pettiness of segregation.

Dressed as African ambassadors, Collins and his colleagues challenged the segregation policies of selected restaurants lining Maryland’s Route 40

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Gentlemen in front of the downtown AFRO building are, photographer I. Henry Phillips Sr., left, and reporters Rufus Wells (Dulah Okoro), Herbert Magrum (Orfa Adwuba) and George Collins (Loua Akulu).

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NATION & WORLD Parents of Ga. Teenage Boy Found Dead in Rolled Mat Sues School Officials

Parents of deceased17-year-old Kendrick Johnson, found rolled up in a gym mat at his school gym, filed a lawsuit July 28 against school officials. In the lawsuit, the family claims the school’s lack of action led to the wrongful death of the South Georgia teenager.

Johnson’s body was found by classmates in the middle of a mat propped upright against the wall of Lowndes High School gym on Jan. 11, 2013. Investigators with the Sheriff’s office concluded the teenager died in a “freak accident,� when he climbed into the center of the gym mat to retrieve his shoe and got stuck. However, a pathologist hired by Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson, the teenager’s parents, refuted the official conclusion.

According to the pathologist, Johnson’s death was the result of blunt trauma to his neck, leading him to deem

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the death a homicide.

The lawsuit against the county school board, school superintendent, and the principal claimed they knew about the attack on Johnson and seeks to holds them responsible.

According to the lawsuit, Johnson was “violently assaulted, severely injured, suffered great physical pain, and mental anguish,� in addition to being subjected

was violated. This lawsuit is ongoing. According to CBSNews, Johnson’s parents are seeking unspecified monetary damages from the school system in both lawsuits.

Roots of Tuskegee’s New President Herald Great Things for the Historic Institution

Tuskegee University Brian Johnson presided over a commencement on Aug. 1.

As one of his first official duties as the seventh president of historic Tuskegee University Brian Johnson presided over a commencement on Aug. 1. Making the occasion even more auspicious was the summer commencement’s keynote speaker–a giant among HBCU educators: Dorothy Cowser Yancy, president emerita at Shaw and Johnson C. Smith universities, HBCUs in Raleigh, N.C., and Charlotte, N.C., respectively.

Yancy was Johnson’s mentor during his matriculation at Johnson C. Smith, and he later authored the official institutional and presidential history of Yancy’s tenure at the helm of that institution, The Yancy Years: the Age of Infrastructure, Technology and Restoration (2008).

An Alabama native, Yancy served as the 12th president of Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) and the 14th and 16th president of Shaw University. At Shaw from 2009-2010, she rescued the institution’s finances and recruited one of the largest freshmen classes in the history of the university.

She retired September 2010, according to a press release.

She returned to Shaw on Sept. 1, 2011, after the campus had been torn apart by a tornado in April. One year later, the devastation had been abated and all buildings were back in use. She also led the university through five program accreditation reviews and the regular SACSCOC reaffirmation.

Yancy saw similar success Celebrating The AFRO American Newspapers’ 122nd anniversary at JCSU, where she served as of being the voice of the African American community president from October 1994 to June 2008. She raised more than $145 million for the university during that period, and was heralded as Doors Open at 6:00pm one of the best fundraisers nationally. Additionally, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture JCSU’s endowment more 830 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 than tripled from $14 million Gen. Adm. Tickets: $122.00 VIP Tickets: $175.00 Tables: $1200.00 to $53 million, and JCSU became the first HBCU to become an IBM “Thinkpad�

To purchase tickets or more information, call (410) 554-8243 University, among other honors. Johnson, who assumed Tuskegee’s helm in June, is also that institution’s youngest president at age 40.

He came to Tuskegee from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., where he was interim vice president for strategic planning and institutional effectiveness and assistant vice provost/ assistant vice president for academic affairs. Before joining Austin Peay in 2010, Johnson served as chief of staff in the president’s office at JCSU. The historic presidency of Alabama State University’s first female chief continues to be shrouded in controversy.

to insult and loss of life.

The complaint states that school officials were aware of an attack on Johnson by a White student, during a bus trip in 2012. It is unclear whether the same student who fought with Johnson had a role in his death.

This lawsuit comes after Johnson’s parents filed a negligence lawsuit against the school district. The first lawsuit filed by his parents claimed Johnson’s constitutional right to equal protection based on race

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The Day the AFRO Used Wild Comedy to Fight Bias

Reporters, dressed as diplomats, made fools of segregationists, broke barriers in turbulent 60s and refused service, the State Department, which in pre-Kennedy years had not been overly concerned with the This article appeared in the Oct. 14, 1978 treatment meted out to dark-skinned AFRO. foreign diplomats, became alarmed at the damage such incidents were The history of journalism is filled with any doing to the nation’s relationships with number of incidents where instead of waiting African countries. for news to happen, a newspaper went out and In moments of candor, officials at made it happen, thus changing the course of the State Department wished privately events. that Route 40 would just dry up and That’s what the Baltimore AFRO blow away, but it wouldn’t and as one AMERICAN did during the turbulent 60’s department official woefully conceded: when in a burst of inspired lunacy it concocted “Those damn limousines (of the and executed what in time came to be known diplomats) always seem to run out of gas as “The Great Route 40 Hoax,” producing a just as soon as they get to Maryland.” large number of red faces among Maryland’s This was the kind of state Ambassador bumper crop of racists and hilarity throughout Adam Malick Sow of Chad, who had just the rest of the country, even into the White represented his country at the UN and House itself. was on his way to present his credentials In the summer of 1961, Maryland was to President Kennedy, found when he having its share of racial problems, a spillover stopped on June 26th at the Bonnie Brae from the Civil Rights Movement that was Diner near Edgewood, Md., to fill up sweeping the south. his car and get a cup of coffee. He never The majority of these problems were got the coffee and later, when the diner’s concentrated along the Maryland stretch of owner, Mrs. Leroy Merritt, explained why, Route 40 that began at the Delaware-Maryland she probably voiced the sentiments of most state line and ran to the outskirts of Baltimore of her fellow restaurateurs: “He looked like where it turned west and continued cross just an ordinary run-of-the-mill n----r to me. country to San Francisco’s Golden Gate I couldn’t tell he was an ambassador.”

Bridge.

The seething Ambassador was a shade Segregation was nothing new in the almost more circumspect in his choice of words to continuous strip of restaurants, diners, pizza describe the incident. parlors, hot dog stands and motels that made “When I asked for coffee, the good woman this particular section of Route 40 almost one said she could not serve me. She said, ‘that’s single massive and garish neon light from end the way it is here. I cannot say how I felt. to end.

I was astonished. I was so angry. President It had existed quietly for more years than Kennedy has made deep apologies, but these anyone could remember, but then came a flood humiliations are bad.” of African diplomats from newly independent In rapid succession, similar incidents nations and the racism along Route 40 was occurred along Route 40 involving diplomats forced out of the closet into public view. from Niger, Cameroon and Togo, and the Quickly, the denial of service to the government’s face grew progressively redder diplomats mushroomed into a matter of serious as each incident provided fresh ammunition for the anti American propaganda mills of the world.

Stung by this latest series of incidents and faced with the obvious fact that Maryland was not prepared to take any action on its own, the Kennedy forces dropped the soft approach and announced that beginning on Labor Day, 1961, Mrs. Leroy Merritt, Bonnie Brae Diner a special Federal task force would be sent to Route 40 to see what could be done about persuading international proportions bringing the Federal the restaurants to change their policies toward government into the picture and raising the African diplomats. wrath of the restaurant owners who railed at But in the city room of the Baltimore what they viewed as the intrusion of outside AFRO, the announcement was greeted with a forces into their personal business. healthy amount of cynicism. It was clear that Traveling between their embassies in the Federal forces were not being deployed Washington and their missions to the United because of any strong concern about Black Nations in New York, the Black diplomats had Americans; those forces were going out on to use Route 40 as the most direct link between Route 40 to persuade the restaurant owners to the two cities. serve Black foreigners, end an embarrassing While they rarely stopped on the northern situation for the State Department, and thus bound leg of the trip; fatigued and hungry after help America’s foreign policy. spending several hours returning to Washington Despite the talk of a brave and marvelous on the depressingly dull New Jersey Turnpike, New Frontier coming out of Washington and the bright lights of Route 40 beckoned them the skillful use of symbolic gestures to indicate to stop, eat and rest – and that’s when they sympathy with the spreading Civil Rights Movement – such as expressing concern over collided with the racial traditions of the “Free the well-being of Rev. Martin Luther King – it State” of Maryland. was evident that the Kennedy Administration After a number of them had been insulted

By James D. Williams Special to the AFRO

“He looked like just an ordinary run-of-the-mill n----r to me. I couldn’t tell he was an ambassador.”

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highway.

The farce prompted both red faces and hilarity across the nation, all the way to the White House.

“The situation was a totally embarrassing one for the country but it highlighted how segregated Maryland really was,” said AFRO Publisher and Chairman John J. Oliver.

But the situation also highlighted the intrepid, journalistic prowess that marked Collins’ storied career, a legacy that is being remembered in light of his death July 31 at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. He was 88.

“In a career spanning several decades, George covered issues both local and national through a unique lens, telling stories that resonated in communities of color and beyond and opening doors to others wherever he went,” U.S. Rep.

– possibly because of its razor-thin margin of victory in 1960 – was not ready to deal head on with the explosive domestic race issue.

While sympathizing with the plight of the Africans, the reporters on the AFRO, several of whom had covered civil rights demonstrations all across the country and risked their lives in the process, felt there was something morally lacking in the government’s efforts to end discrimination along Route 40 if those efforts did not extend to its own Black citizens.

I was managing editor of the Baltimore AFRO at the time and I remember the conversations that went on in the city room in a dingy ill-lighted bar across the street in Smith’s Hotel – now gone the way of all flesh – where we used to gather to share some booze and our thoughts.

We were frustrated at always being the recorders of action and never the actors.

Somehow out of the talk, out of the venting of ideas, came the irresistible urge to poke fun at the stupid silliness of discrimination by showing to the world that it was not so much the color of a Black’s skin that many White folks objected to so much; it was where the Black came from.

I’ve never been quite sure of where the original idea came from, but come it did, and by the time the AFRO got through with it, a bit of history had been written.

The idea was simple. Dress up several AFRO reporters in the proper diplomatic attire, equip them with phony accents, and you could bet your next pay check that the White restaurant owners along Route 40 would not be able to tell them from the real article.

The late Dr. Carl Murphy was publisher

Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who counted Collins as a mentor and friend, said in a statement. He added, “George leaves behind an indelible legacy, and will be missed as a pillar of our community.”

“He was one of the deans. He was one of the pioneers who broke down and was always working to break down barriers for African Americans in journalism,” added veteran Baltimore journalist Marc Steiner, host of “The Marc Steiner Show.” “He was a legend.”

For more than 60 years, Collins reported on the Civil Rights Movement, politics and did investigative reporting. He began as a reporter for The People’s Voice, founded in New York

by Adam Clayton Powell. He later joined the Afro-American Newspapers where his reporting included coverage of such historical events as the March on Washington, the John F. Kennedy assassination and other big stories of the era.

“George was a reliable journalist so Carl (Carl Murphy, the AFRO’s then-publisher) relied on him to cover the big, important stories,” Oliver, the current publisher recalled.

In 1968, having become the editor-in-chief, Collins’ ended his 18-year stint at the Black newspaper and joined the staff of WMAR-TV. At the then-CBS affiliate, Collins worked as an investigative reporter and producer and later as an associate editor and anchor. There, Collins garnered national recognition for coverage of funerals for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, among other stellar reporting.

With Collins’ death, the station “lost one of the greats,” said Jamie Costello, a WMAR anchor, on the air. He added, “It’s tough when you lose a man like this because you lose history.”

In 2003, Collins was jointly cited by the non-profit publisher Library of America, the National Committee for

of the AFRO then and he was blessed with such a keen and analytical mind, that when you took him an idea it had better be a good one, or he would wither you with a look. This idea he liked and he gave the full speed ahead signal with one proviso: “You can’t have diplomats riding around in those cars you young fellows drive, so get yourself a limousine.”

Picked for the leading role in the play that was about to unfold was George W. Collins, who was later to become a familiar face as a Baltimore TV newscaster.

The centerpiece in the masquerade was another volunteer reporter, Herbert Magrum, short, rotund, with the heavy sounds of the open spaces of Texas still twanging in his speech.

Magrum was to posed as Orfa (That’s AFRO spelled backwards) Adwuba (which meant absolutely nothing), the Minister of Finance from the non-existent nation of Gabon, located for no particular reason, except that we couldn’t come up with a better location, on the East Coast of Africa.

Filling out the trio was another AFRO reporter, Rufus Well, a courtly Virginia.

Dressed alike in striped pants, swallow tail coats and top hats – the epitome of sartorially correct diplomats – Collins was assigned the principal role of Loua Akulu, the interpreter, and Wells that of Dulah Okoro, the aide de camp.

Collins was to speak heavily accented English and do all the talking. His companions, if they had to speak at all, were to use some form of gibberish that hopefully would pass for an African tongue.

On the morning of Aug. 22, a miserable sweltering day, they began their journey.

Underneath the robe and other clothes they were sweating and nervous, and for good reason.

Accompanying the reporters was AFRO staff photographer I. Henry Phillips, there to record on film as much of the activities as he could.

Since the southbound side of Route 40 was where all the trouble had taken place, the group first rode up the four lane highway and then doubled back, in the vicinity of Rising Sun, toward Baltimore.

The initial stop was the Madison House where Blacks had been ejected on several prior occasions when they sought service.

As the car drew to a smooth halt, the hoax almost ended before it got started when, in an effort to make a regal exit, the diplomats got tangled up in the rove, attaché cases, legs and arms for several long minutes before they could sort themselves out.

All the while the chauffeur, who was holding the door, desperately tried to keep a Continued on A8

Excellence in Journalism and the Smithsonian Institution as “one of the best American journalists of the 20th century,” according to a bio from his family. Two of his AFRO articles were also selected for inclusion in Reporting Civil Rights, an anthology of the best articles on the issue from 1941 to 1973.

Distinguished by the quality of his work, Collins was also set apart by his out-sized personality, peers remembered.

“We can still hear that booming voice of his and feel that strong handshake,” Costello said. “He made you feel like you were the only one in the room and like you were his best friend.”

And then there was his other side.

“He was a crusty curmudgeon who did not suffer fools gladly,” recalled Steiner with a small chuckle.

Steiner remembered feeling the sting of Collins’ displeasure when he joined the lineup at WEAA-FM, Morgan State University’s public radio station, where Collins had hosted “@ Issue,” a one-hour public-affairs show, since 1986.

The pair developed an amicable relationship, Steiner said, and in the time he knew Collins, he came to admire his tenacity and drive.

“He loved what he did and was passionate about journalism; he never stopped,” Steiner said. “The only reason he stopped was because he was too ill to continue, otherwise, they have had to carry him out of the studio.”

Collins is survived by his wife of more than 65 years, Eloise Ross Collins; four children, Barbara C. Rhodes (Warren) of Dover, Del., Ronald B. Collins (Sylvia) of Chicago, Ill., Vanessa C. Pyatt (James) and Valerie D. Collins both of Baltimore; four grandchildren, Mandisa A. Rhodes-Trower (Christopher), Zachary P. Collins, Vashti E. Pyatt and Tabitha D. Pyatt; and one great-grandchild, Khadijah A. Trower.

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Youth Center in Waverly Helps Kids Overcome Behavioral Issues

By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO For children with behavioral diagnoses such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), managing their school and home life can present a serious challenge. At a youth center in Waverly, children and teenagers with these and related diagnoses develop strategies for coping with such conditions, learning from one another and earning incentives as they go.

“What we want to do is kind of gear every activity in here towards allowing them to be sociable, allowing them to follow directives, and accept their environment and use a goal/incentive to help them change their whole outlook on parenting, friendship, things like that,” explained Billy Foster, one of the founding partners of the Change House Youth Center, located on East 31st Street.

The center houses a psychiatric rehabilitation program currently serving 35 youth between the ages of six and 18, all with some sort of behavioral diagnosis. The goal of the program is to minimize the number of “episodes” the kids experience, instances of out of control behavior that often require psychiatric hospitalization.

In pursuit of this aim, Change House utilizes what is known as assertive community treatment, or

ACT. “You put peers, their same age, same issues, and you let them work through their issues, by giving each other advice, and you being the overseer of it, stepping in to give that oversight/guidance,” explained Foster, a seasoned professional with over a decade of experience in this area.

The youth are referred to Change House by Maryland Choices, a nonprofit care management entity that combines funding from various government sources to create individualized service plans for children and families with intensive needs, according to their website.

Maryland Choices provides overall case management, while Change House provides therapeutic services, extracurricular activities, and inhome and in-school intervention services when needed by the client.

The youth center houses a classroom, computer lab, gym, kitchen, laundry facilities, and a barbershop area where the kids get their hair cut each week. In addition to developing coping skills, the kids learn basic life skills such as cooking, regular grooming, doing their own laundry, ironing their clothes, doing chores, and improving their health and physical fitness.

On Tuesdays, Tarahn Harris and Sean House, implement a health and fitness curriculum they developed called DIPS (discipline, inspiration, physical fitness, structure), designed

Photo by Roberto Alejandro

The Change House Youth Center in Waverly both to provide discipline and structure while combating health issues that afflict African-Americans like obesity and heart disease.

“Some of the benefits [of DIPS] include positive reinforcement,” said Harris, “and also showing them that there are other ways to have their needs met other than being physically or verbally aggressive.”

Getting the center’s clients to express their behaviors in healthy ways requires getting to the root of

Community Mourns

Continued from A1 There is a potential reward of up to $2,000.

The Rev. Dr. Andre Humphrey, trauma response team leader and community district liaison officer for the BCPD, thinks the amount needs to be higher. “We want the churches to step up,” said Humphrey, who called on the city’s faith community to help increase the reward. “The churches, if they stood up right now, took an offering, and said we’re going to put up a $20,000, $25,000 reward to catch this perpetrator, or perpetrators, I guarantee you they’d be caught before the week is out.”

Apostle Clarence Hooper, a member of Humphrey’s response team who was on Old York Road with Humphry to check on McKenzie’s relatives, called on the city’s leadership to make more progress in reducing violence. “I feel that, basically, all the political folks should step up to the plate and really get some things done,” said Hooper, “because there’s too much violence. There’s too much killing. There’s too much of this stuff going on out here, and there need to be some changes . . . because too many of our young people are dying by the wayside.”

A couple blocks south of Coley’s home, a man who gave the name Puff walked down the street with his own baby son on his shoulders. “Felt that was real messed up,” he said about McKenzie’s murder. “I feel straight for their peoples. The mother and the father.

[McKenzie] didn’t deserve that.” ralejandro@afro.com

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prior to being hired full-time volunteered in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) for a year.

All 12 of the state’s autopsy technicians happen to be Black.

“Autopsy (technicians), which is the heart of the job (at OCME) haven’t gotten a raise in over 20 years,” according to Scott. “So, that’s where it became a racial issue for me. That’s what made it stand out for me.”

Scott, a divorced mother of three (two of her children have graduated from college, the youngest is entering this fall), is the unofficial spokesperson for the 12 autopsy technicians who have attached their names to an on-line petition to be presented to Gov. O’Malley and the state legislature demanding increased wages for the work they do.

The AFRO contacted the OCME for a response to the assertions made by the 12 autopsy technicians, and Bruce Goldfarb, spokesperson for OCME said, “We don’t discuss personnel matters.”

The group is working with defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon, who posted the change.org petition on his Facebook page.

“When I look at the situation, I see there are only 12 (autopsy technicians) and the 12

Change House client, said the center has helped provide basic strategies, such as removing himself from situations where someone is making him mad, that enable him to better deal with challenges as they arise.

The center’s team building activities were also a benefit to him. “We fed the homeless this one time and that was a group activity that really helped,” said McIver. ralejandro@afro.com

unique. The challenge for us in the United States has been how do we balance our desire to help the people of to bring clean water to its Zimbabwe with what has, communities. GE will help frankly, been a repeated build African infrastructure. violation of basic democratic Marriott will build more practices and human rights hotels. All told, American inside of Zimbabwe. companies – many with “And we think it is very our trade assistance – are important to send clear signals announcing new deals in clean about how we expect elections energy, aviation, banking, to be conducted, governments and construction worth more to be conducted – because if than $14 billion, spurring we don’t, then all too often, development across Africa and with impunity, the people of selling more goods stamped those countries can suffer. But with that proud label, ‘Made you’re absolutely right that it in America.’” also has to be balanced with After the president’s making sure that whatever speech, on-stage interview structures that we put in place with Takunda Chingonzo, a with respect to sanctions don’t 21-year-old wireless executive end up punishing the very in Zimbabwe, illustrated the people inside those countries.” complexity of relations in The U.S. has a diplomatic Africa. presence in Harare and, like Chingonzo said, “I’m the European Union, has been working on my third startup moving toward normalizing – it’s called Saisai. We’re relations with Zimbabwe. creating Zimbabwe’s first Obama said technology free Internet-access network, will forever alter how hence liberating the Internet. countries in Africa and So in our working, we came elsewhere around the world to a point in time where we are governed. needed to import a bit of “The reason the Internet technology from the United is so powerful is because it’s States, and so we were open,” Obama explained. “…

And what facilitates that, and what has facilitated the incredible value that’s been built by companies like Google and Facebook and so many others, all the applications that you find on your smartphone, is that there are not restrictions, there are not barriers to entry for new companies - President Obama who have a good idea to use this platform that is engaging in conversation with open to create value. And it is these U.S.-based businesses. very important I think that we And the response that we got maintain that. time and time again was that “Now, I know that there’s unfortunately we cannot do a tension in some countries business with you because you – their attitude is we don’t are from Zimbabwe.” necessarily want all this He continued, “… information flowing because And I understand that the it can end up also being sanctions that we have – that used as a tool for political are imposed on entities in organizing, it can be used Zimbabwe, these are targeted as a tool to criticize the sanctions, right? But then we government, and so maybe have come to a point in time we’d prefer a system that where we as young Africans is more closed. I think that are failing to properly engage is a self-defeating attitude. in business with U.S.-based Over the long term, because entities because there hasn’t of technology, information, been that clarity.” knowledge, transparency is Obama said, “Well, inevitable. And that’s true obviously, the situation in here in the United States; it’s Zimbabwe is somewhat true everywhere.”

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outside and play and I let her come outside and play.” Coley spoke sparingly, still processing his grief.

“She shouldn’t have lost her life,” said a woman who identified herself as McKenzie’s cousin.

As of Aug. 4, the 2014 homicide total for Baltimore City is 122 and there have been 212 non-fatal shootings, according to Baltimore City Police Department (BCPD) spokesman Det. Jeremy Silbert. Both figures represent a decline compared to the same time last year, when the city had seen 140 homicides, and 243 non-fatal shootings.

Nonetheless, a community mourns the death of another Black child in a city that suffers this sort of loss all too often. “I used to see her out there running and playing,” said a neighbor who declined to give her name. “It’s sad. What happened is sad but it is what it is. A three year old. We don’t have the right to kill anybody but when you take a child’s life, an innocent child that hurts. It hurts.”

“When I was growing up there wasn’t anything like this,” said Linda, a resident of Baltimore for 50 years. “I mean, we had violence, but young people just killing each other left and right? It’s ridiculous.”

According to Det. Brandon Echevarria, another BCPD spokesperson, detectives are still investigating the murder, but no new information has come to light. Police are asking that anyone with information step forward, something they can do anonymously by calling 410-396-2100, or 1-866-7LOCKUP.

the behavior issues, according to Foster, who explained what drives some of the violent outbursts of the kids he works with. “It’s not fighting because it’s a learned behavior, it’s fighting because ‘I can’t cope with the work.’ ‘I can’t do it.’ ‘I’m not proficient enough,’ or ‘I don’t think I’m proficient enough.’ So with all of them it’s self-esteem, and that creates the behavior problem,” said Foster.

Brian McIver, a 10th grade

that they do have aren’t being treated fairly,” Gordon said. “It’s a lot of work for very meager pay,” added Gordon.

The attorney, who is representing the group pro bono concedes the race of the technicians is a factor that resonates with some more than others. But, he argues there is another issue that should be of concern to everybody.

“For those who disagree with racial analysis...Although it carries racial overtones, it’s not just a racial issue; it’s a public safety issue,” said Gordon who argues the administering of timely, accurate autopsies is an essential component in the criminal justice system. “We’re talking about getting criminals off the street and keeping them off the street,” he added.

Scott says she was motivated to organize the group to advocate for increased pay and better treatment at work when she saw a coworker receive a plaque through inter-office commemorating 35 years of service at OCME. “I’m trying to help somebody get up that has been down so long that getting up wasn’t on their mind, they just thought that was the norm,” Scott said.

“I want them to be respected and paid for what they do at the end of the day.”

resources; we recognize Africa for its greatest resource, which is its people and its talents and their potential. We don’t simply want to extract minerals from the ground for our growth; we want to build genuine partnerships that create jobs and opportunity for all our peoples and that unleash the next era of African growth. That’s the kind of partnership America offers.”

Obama announced five steps that he said will “take our trade with Africa to the next level.”

• Work to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); • Provide $7 billion in new financing to promote American exports to Africa as part of the “Doing Business in Africa” campaign; • Partner with Africa to expand electricity, a requirement for economies to flourish; • Help African countries trade with one another and • Do more to empower the next generation of African entrepreneurs.

Most of the government funding will come from existent U.S. development banks and therefore will not require new spending approval from Congress.

The United States does most of its trading in Africa, primarily in the energy sector, with just three countries – South Africa, Nigeria and Angola.

“Our entire trade with all of Africa is still only about equal to our trade with Brazil – one country,” the president stated. “Of all the goods we export to the world, only about 1 percent goes to SubSaharan Africa. So we’ve got a lot of work to do. We have to do better – much better. I want Africans buying more American products. I want Americans buying more African products.”

Obama said, “I’m pleased that in conjunction with this forum, American companies are announcing major new deals in Africa. Blackstone will invest in African energy projects. Coca-Cola will partner with Africa

“Of all the goods we export to the world, only about 1 percent goes to Sub-Saharan Africa.”

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Diva’s DISH Brings Mature Perspective to Women’s Issues

By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO In February 2013, four Baltimore women teamed up to create the Diva’s DISH (discussing important situations honestly) podcast. Tackling a diverse range of topics, including relationships, health, systemic racism, and sexism, the women of the DISH bring a mature perspective to their discussions, informed by their varied experiences and personalities.

The Diva’s DISH is the brainchild of Ellen Gee, the show’s producer and the creative force behind the Evolution of Perspective radio show on Blog Talk Radio, as well as the Perspective Rap Sessions, a series of discussion groups that grew out of the radio program. Diva’s DISH became the outlet for pursuing an all-women discussion platform.

Gee is joined by co-hosts Erricka “E. Wonder� Bridgeford, Aneesah Morine, and Brooklynn Parker. Bridgeford, also referred to as the Hood Philosopher Diva, was raised by her Black Panther father to be socially aware and engaged. She is the group’s political and social conscience, bringing her experience as a mediator and community activist to bear on the group’s discussions.

Morine, whom the others call the Network Diva for her boldness in making new connections for the group, is its spiritual shepherd, the one responsible for leading prayers and calling everyone back to their respective centers.

Brooklyn is the Research Diva, and is in charge of the group’s efforts to create

awareness about everything from National Bike Month to breast cancer. Her work informs many of the group’s recorded discussions.

One of the recurring themes in the group’s podcast is relationships, a topic on which they emphasize the need for women to be accountable to themselves for the decisions they make, a lesson learned from personal experience. “[I] realized the hard way that [with] all of these issues I was having with people and men, I was the common denominator,� said Gee about the turning point in her own thinking.

The divas are about empowerment, and they do not shy away from femalecentric terminology that may make some uncomfortable in a society dominated by misogyny and general squeamishness about the body, especially the female one. They have nominated 2014, ‘The Year of the Vagina,’ and are holding a series of discussions under that banner that focus on women’s issues.

Another topic regularly tackled is body image, subverting a mainstream narrative that carves Black women out of discussions on this issue. Body image is also closely tied to another phenomenon that the women challenge, the defining of women in terms of sexuality, a practice that simultaneously sexually objectifies them yet punishes them for any sign of embracing their sexuality. “If you listen to our podcast, sometimes you can hear us struggling just with where we are in terms of what [the balance] is, because one minute we’re like, ‘Yeah, we should be free to do whatever we want to do,’ but then it’s like,

Photo by Roberto Alejandro

The Women of the Diva’s DISH, from left, Ellen Gee, Brooklynn Parker, Erricka Bridgeford, and Aneesah Morine. ‘You don’t want to be sexually irresponsible either,’� said Gee. The women stress that what matters is self-confidence and esteem, and that as long as one’s expression of their sexuality comes from a place of ownership, the form of that expression is not opinion fodder for anybody else.

All four of the divas are juggling myriad projects and career paths, something they say is necessary in a social context that often looks to both limit the horizons of Black women, and to define them exclusively in terms of the men who have been, or may still be, in

their lives. This, they say, is a practice that combines sexism (defining a woman by way of a man) with systemic racism (since Black men are often excluded from meaningful social and economic opportunities). “We have to go after our dreams. We come from a place of ‘wow, I’m oppressed.’ I’m loving this man, I’m holding onto this man, but this man gets killed in our streets, this man gets jailed randomly . . . if I don’t know who I am, and have my dreams, and am chasing them every chance I get, then all I’m ever going to be is a product of what society wanted me to be,� said Bridgeford.

Shop Rite

Continued from A1 every family, no matter their income or where they live, has access to quality, affordable, and nutritious food options,� Rawlings-Blake said during the July 31 opening ceremony. “Right now, too many people in Baltimore lack easy access to groceries.�

On Sunday, Howard Park resident Riccardo Thomas was just one of many residents taking advantage of the new access. “It’s a big change for the neighborhood, it’s good for the neighborhood. You see how crowded it is,� he said, gesturing at the crowded parking lot.

This was his second visit to the store since it opened. He said the parking lot was so full he’d had to leave and complete other errands and then return. “I hope they can maintain it without prices going up,� he said.

Shopper Andre Walters, also of Howard Park, was also happy with the new store.

He said that before Shop Rite came to town, his closest options were Mondowmin Mall, Millford Mill, or Reisterstown Road. “The prices are excellent. Something like this [a large package of paper towels] was $5.�

He said the deals he found were equal to those found at big-box stores like Costco, BJ’s, or Sam’s Club. “If they are running specials like this every week, they are going to give those three stores a lot of competition.�

The store has been good for businesses surrounding it too, said hairstylist Jaque Johnson. She owns the Jae2Jaye Beauty and Barber salon right next to ShopRite. She said the number of people stopping in to take a look has increased and many have booked appointments. “It’s been maybe about a 40 percent increase,� she said.

This is all great news for Marshall Klein, one of the owners of the new store. “We’ve received a very positive reaction to the store,� he said during a phone interview. “Everyone has been very impressed.�

He said that the most popular area is the seafood department. “It’s been phenomenal,� he said. So good, in fact, that they are looking to hire extra people to meet customers’ demands.�

Klein said that he and the other owners made a conscious decision to hire from the community. “In our conversations [with

Vivian Forrest

Tonia Porter

Ricardo Thomas

community organizations] it was stressed over and over again that they didn’t just want a grocery store, but a community grocery store.�

He said that well over 70 percent of his staff is from Howard Park.

Overall, Klein said they are pulling in the kind of numbers they had predicted. “We are performing right at our expected volume,� he said.

Photos by Lisa Snowden-McCray

Owners of the new Shop Rite say they are pulling in the kind of numbers they had predicted.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Bowie Beauty Expert to Emcee ‘Kids Rock’ Fashion Show

Celebrity Beauty Expert and Makeup Artist, Maisie Dunbar, will be the emcee for “Kids Rock” fashion showcase, 1 p.m., Aug. 9, at the West Village Banquet and Conference Center, 13711 Annapolis Road in Bowie, Md. “I am excited and honored to be a part of this very special event,” said Dunbar, owner and founder of Maisie Dunbar Spa Lounge and BluffaJo Cosmetics, 8711 First Avenue, Silver Spring, Md. BluffaJo Cosmetics is the official makeup sponsor for this annual event.

The “Kids Rock” Fashion Showcase is part of the 10th Annual Maryland Premier Maisie Dunbar, will be Showcase event that began Aug. 3 and runs through Aug. the emcee for “Kids Rock” fashion showcase.

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Mervo Grad Serves on High Tech Warship

Petty Officer 1st Class Apollo Morse, an aviation boatswain’s mate from Baltimore, Md. and 1997 graduate of Mergenthaler High School, is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Somerset (LPD 25), one of the world’s most modern, networked, survivable, and transformational warships. USS Somerset is named in commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The name honors the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 whose actions prevented terrorist hijackers from reaching their intended target, forcing the airplane to crash near Shanksville, Somerset County, Pa. Approximately 22 tons of steel from a crane that stood near Flight 93’s crash site was used to construct Somerset’s bow stem, embodying the strength and determination of the people of the United States: to recover, to rally, to take the fight to the enemy. The San Diego-based USS Somerset is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, protecting and defending America on the world’s oceans. Tens of thousands of young American men and women are deployed around the world doing just that, and they are there around the clock, far from our shores, defending America at all times. Amphibious

transport dock ships are warships that embark, transport, and land elements of a landing force for a variety of expeditionary warfare missions. These ships support amphibious assault, special operations or expeditionary warfare missions and can serve as secondary aviation platforms for amphibious ready groups. Approximately 28 officers, 333 enlisted men and women and 3 Marines make up the ship’s company, which keeps all parts of the ship running smoothly -- this includes everything from washing dishes and preparing meals to handling weaponry and maintaining the engines.

“A ship is but a steel vessel, it is the crew that brings a ship to life. USS Somerset is truly a fine warship and this crew that mans her is second to none.

The Sailors and Marines of U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Somerset have been working Communication Specialist Gary Ward/ Released diligently to prepare this war Petty Officer 1st Class ship. Through our service in Apollo Morse the United States Navy, we will strive to honor those who have sacrificed so much to preserve the freedoms we cherish today,” said Capt. Thomas L. Dearborn, the ship’s commanding officer.

Edmondson High School Class of ’64 - 50 Year Class Reunion

The Edmondson High School Class of 1964 will hold its 50 Year Reunion, Aug. 15 at the Embassy Suites Hunt Valley, 213 International Drive. There will be dancing, fine dining, gifts and a veterans’ remembrance as part of the event.

According to Brenda Henson-Pinnick, committee chairperson, in addition to the gala event on Aug. 15, there will be a picnic at the Gwynn Oak Park on Gwynn Oak Avenue, Aug. 16 and church service on Aug/ 17.

Ticket cost is $100 per person. Because of the significance of this event, an invitation is extended to other Edmondson alumni, family members and friends. For tickets or further information, Brenda Henson-Pinnick is the contact person.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Kicks off 2014 2018 Community Service Programs

Back to School Fair, Aug. 15 Baltimore Metropolitan area Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members, including Epsilon Omega President E. Francine StokesMcElven, the 27th North Atlantic Regional Director Erma W. Barron, and the 18th International President Mattelia Grays took part in a tribute to the organization’s 12th International President Edna Over Gray Campbell during a Wreath Laying Ceremony in Owings Mills, April 2.

The event was part of a nationwide wreath-laying ceremonies themed: A Celebration of Remembrance, A Proud Past…A Promising Future. The newly installed international president, Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson’s made this her initial event of her 2014-2018 service programs. Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, through its 265, 000 members in 986 local chapters, will address community needs with programs in five target areas, educational enrichment, health promotion, family strengthening, environmental ownership and global impact during this four year period, focusing many initiatives at the community level.

For example, in keeping with an intense focus on promoting lifelong learning, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will provide substantial support to students through AKA One Million BackpacksSM. Through this initiative, the next four years will see members donating and distributing one million backpacks and related school supplies to students worldwide. At the community level, Baltimore City’s Epsilon Omega Chapter will host a back to school fair on Aug. 15, featuring resources for parents and students at 3515 Dolfield Ave. For more information on Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and its programs, log onto www.aka1908.com.

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Ray Rice: The New Poster Boy for Domestic Violence Last week I was in Jacksonville, Fla. on the Marissa Alexander case.

She’s the Black woman who received a sentence of 20 years for avoiding shooting her abusive husband by firing into the ceiling to back him off from beating her up again. He’d already done so, causing her to have premature delivery of her baby just 9 days before the shooting incident. She’s currently out on bail, facing a Dr. E. Faye Williams new trial and State Attorney TriceEdney Wire Service columnist Angela Corey who prosecuted the Trayvon Martin case is threatening to ask for 60 years this time.

While in Florida, I became aware of the Ray Rice case where he hit his fiancé so hard that he knocked her unconscious. Domestic abuse is commonplace, and many think this should make Rice the new poster boy for domestic violence. Steve Smith – the brash, big mouth sports analyst – used the occasion to comment on women provoking such abuse. The reaction to his comment quickly made him want to take it back!

Months went by after the 2014 Valentine’s Day incident

to be Janay Palmer out of an elevator. We understand both were arrested and released. The police report indicated they were not sure of what happened.

Rice and Ms. Palmer were not married at the time of this tragic event, but they were married soon thereafter – which leads one to wonder if their marriage occurred to dampen the impact of his brutality – possibly to prevent her from testifying in case there was a trial in the matter.

There was a time when something like this happened, nothing would be said. To show how far the women’s movement has come, there is more outrage about how the NFL handled the matter than about the act itself.

That outrage has shown that the NFL should get the message that violence against women cannot continue to go on. People are paying more attention to the punishment rendered in cases like this involving people in the limelight; no longer will men with money have a walk in the park in domestic violence cases. The overwhelming reaction to the penalty warned team executives to be very careful how they handle these cases.

All of us who work against domestic violence daily, and sympathizers, can sleep just a little bit better – not because of the action taken by the league, but because of the reaction of the public to the penalty.

Smith must be wondering if what he said was that bad.

People responded to his comments, which he had a right to

“Admittedly, we don’t know what happened before we saw Rice dragging a woman we now know to be Janay Palmer out of an elevator.” was widely publicized. This happened only after Rice received a little slap on the wrist from the National Football League for his egregious behavior. Admittedly, we don’t know what happened before we saw Rice dragging a woman we now know

The High Cost of Injustice

Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist

What if we did not incarcerate people who commit non-violent crimes?

Or, if we sentenced them, what if their sentences were reasonable, instead of intolerable? What if a man who steals a $159 jacket while high gets drug treatment and a sentence of, say, two years, instead of a sentence of life imprisonment without parole? How much would we save if legally mandated minimum sentences were modified and nonviolent drug offenses

were more reasonably imposed?

Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project says that eliminating more than 79,000 bed years, or the amount of time a prisoner uses a bed in prison, could save at least $2.4 billion. That is enough to send nearly a million students to college if the $25,000 covers the cost of attendance (which it does for most state schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities).

It could put nearly half a million teachers in underserved K-12 schools. It could restore availability to libraries and parks.

Instead, we spend it incarcerating people, particularly those who are locked up for relatively minor crimes.

The $2.4 billion that the Sentencing Project has calculated

may be a low estimate. According to the Justice Department, more than $80 billion is spent on incarceration annually. How much of this spending is unnecessary and could be easily converted to drug treatment and recovery? Why do we find it so easy to incarcerate people but so difficult to rehabilitate them, knowing that the recidivism rates are high?

Within five years of incarceration, more than three-quarters are rearrested. Most were arrested for property crimes, not for drug offenses, or violent offenses. Much of the property crime could be alleviated if it was easier for ex-offenders to find employment, but after incarceration, many find the doors of employment slammed in their faces. Incarceration combined with education and societal embrace might reduce recidivism and the level of property crime.

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are moving in the right direction. First, the president moved to reform drug sentencing laws, reducing the discrepancy between crack and powdered cocaine. This resulted in the Smarter Sentencing Act, which has yet to be scheduled for a vote in Congress and the Senate, despite bipartisan support for this legislation. Advocates of the bill, including the ACLU, the Sentencing Project, the NAACP and many others support the legislation and have encouraged people to reach out to their congressional representatives to push for a vote on this legislation.

The United States represents just 5 percent of the world population, but incarcerates more than a quarter of the world’s incarcerated. Nearly half of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American. Is there a bias here? African Americans are as likely as Whites to commit nonviolent drug

The GOP: Chaos is Their Goal

Three events occurred in the tight confines of Capitol NNPA Columnist Hill last week that underscore the Republican Party’s extraordinary institutional decline and its responsibility for the Congress’ fully deserving its “do-nothing” label.

First, early in the week, all but seven Republicans in the GOP – controlled House of Representatives voted to give Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio the go-ahead to sue President Obama because they claim his executive orders are in violation of the constitution. The purpose of that “political stunt” – the president’s words for the lawsuit, which he and the Democrats have come to relish for the 2014 campaign – is to keep alive the GOP’s rhetoric about impeaching the president if the November elections give them control of the Senate.

Secondly, later in the week Boehner was forced to give up on a GOP-drafted bill to authorize emergency funds for the government’s efforts to cope with the sudden crisis of undocumented immigrant children massing at the U.S-Mexico border. The first-level reason for that stunning rebuke of a Speaker of the House by his own party members was that GOP hard-line conservatives made it clear they wouldn’t vote for their own party’s bill.

But what made the rebuke to Boehner even more humiliating was the week’s third noteworthy event –which was actually a facet the second. That was that the hard-liners had been urged on by the Tea Party’s favorite U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz of Texas. According to numerous media reports, Cruz had met with a dozen or more

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of the House hard-liners the night before the scheduled July 31 vote to declare his opposition to it. The next day, Boehner, clearly seeing he didn’t have the votes for passage, pulled the bill from consideration.

Boehner allies in the House pledged to try to get a spending measure enacted before Congress broke for the summer recess.

But the real point of the week’s developments had been made – reinforcing what has been evident since President Obama took office.

First, in the midst of a crisis, when America’s national government needs to act swiftly, count on the Republican Party, driven by its reflexive anti-Obama mania, to oppose any positive action. Secondly, the GOP, which still boasts about its adherence to tradition and conservative principles, remains wracked by an internal battle between conservative extremists and establishment regulars only slightly less vicious than its war against the president.

That civil war these past six years has produced the electoral primary defeats of such staunch GOP veterans as former Senators Robert Bennett of Utah and Richard Lugar of Indiana and, in June, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – all deemed not conservative enough by the GOP’s Tea Party reactionaries.

Cruz, who’s been running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination since his election in 2012, has waged the war of disruption against the GOP congressional establishment in both the House and the Senate in unprecedented fashion. From the first, he’s been eager to show his disrespect of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, and Boehner. His meddling in House matters last week marks the second time he’s undercut Boehner

say, but again it was the reaction of the people that made ESPN respond by suspending him. It wasn’t much of a punishment, but poor Steve got more suspension time than Rice.

When Rice came on the practice field the other day his fans cheered for him. I wonder if the reaction would have been the same if Janay had been their sister, mother, grandmother, or someone the fans loved.

This case puts colleges and universities, sportscasters, the NFL and others on notice that the misconduct of athletes will no longer be resolved in the locker room.

Dr. E. Faye Williams is president/CEO of the National Congress of Black Women.

related crimes, but African Americans are far more likely to be incarcerated. The difference – the money that provides access to great legal services; maybe the attraction of a plea bargain, guilty or not, because of the prospect of an unfair sentence; maybe bias on the part of arresting officers. Whatever the cause, it seems unfathomable that African Americans and Whites commit the same crimes, but African Americans are arrested six times as frequently as Whites.

If you read a November 2013 A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses from the ACLU, you will not know whether to scream or cry. More than 3,200 people have life sentences without parole for such minor offences such as shoplifting, trying to cash a stolen check, and threatening a police officer while handcuffed. Some are sentenced because of sentencing guidelines, which mean judges have no choice in their sentencing. What makes sense about giving a shoplifter more time than a murderer?

As many as 65 percent of those who have been sentenced to life without parole are African American. According to the ACLU, “many were struggling with mental illness, drug dependency, or financial desperation.” Only in an injustice system can this be considered “just.”

There has been some progress in making sentencing fairer.

Yet much more must be done until we can claim the “justice” that our Constitution promises.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

in order to grab the spotlight and build support among the GOP’s reactionary base. Last year, he was among the loudest voices urging GOP hard-liners to stand fast for a government shutdown.

Cruz’s sabotage last week led New York Republican, Peter T. King, to complain to a New York Times reporter, “I do wish that Ted Cruz would stay in the Senate. Nobody elected him Speaker … it’s really a cheap shot to be coming in from the side. To have some guy come in from the outside like the Pied Piper is wrong.”

And yet, Cruz’s behavior perfectly represents the political game going on on the conservative side of American politics these days – a game whose goal is sowing chaos. Cruz and his Tea Party confederates must disrupt the GOP’s own time-honored political processes and lines of authority – sow internal party chaos – if they’re to seize power from establishment figures like Boehner and McConnell.

That strategy has both intensified and yet, ironically, also undercut the commitment the GOP leadership itself made at the very beginning of Obama’s first term to reflexively oppose his administration proposals – to sow governmental chaos – in order to re-capture the White House.

Those two dynamics adopted by the conservative movement and the Republican Party are the major reasons why the American politics of this era is so polarized: because, for them, political chaos is the goal.

Lee A.Daniels is a longtime New York journalist. His most recent book is ‘Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.’

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straight face while saying to himself – “Those White folks are in there probably saying ‘look at them crazy n----rs out there playing like they’re Africans.’”

However, when the group finally reached the front door, the waitress surprised them by saying ever so polite: “Good morning, how many are in your party,” with her eyes fixed in fascination on Mangrum’s mangy robe.

Collins held up three fingers – as

could write it so well. Score one.

The Redwood Inn was next and here the greeting was a shade less cordial as the sullen manager demanded: “Who are you and where are you from.”

Putting on a look of annoyance at such impertinence, Collins explained in his barely understandable English that the group was on its way to Washington for high level talks with the State Department on financial aid to help Gabon develop its principal crop – the betel nut.

The introduction to the betel nut into the conversation seemed to remove whatever doubts the manager

“You can’t have diplomats riding around in those cars you young fellows drive, so get yourself a limousine.”

– Dr. Carl Murphy, AFRO Publisher if he had been doing this kind of thing all his life – and they were escorted to a table in the main dining room. By pointing to the menu, Collins indicated they would have the day’s special – veal cutlets, mashed potatoes and green peas.

Several of the White customers swirled their heads to look in amazement, but no one said anything.

When Collins and the others had finished and were about to pay their bill, the hostess stunned them by asking for Mangrum’s autograph.

Unable to write in any African language, Mangrum, in panic, scribbled on the back of the check: “On behalf of my staff and myself, thanks for a wonderful lunch.”

And then with a flourish of supreme self-confidence, he added his name: “Orfa Adwaba, Minister of Finance, Gabon.”

The hostess was still looking at the check as the three left, probably wondering how the minister, whom she had been told spoke no English,

had been harboring and he ushered the three into a side dining room where they had pie and coffee, much to the amusement of the restaurant’s Black workers who with smiles creasing their faces looked into the room from time to time, probably well aware that the trio was putting something over on their boss. Score two.

The third stop was the Double T Diner near Baltimore where just the night before, several Black students had been thrown in jail for attempting to eat there. The manager physically barred the door and told the reporters they could be served there but only if they presented their credentials.

“Credentials?” asked Collins, expressing both innocence and amazement. “What is this credentials?”

“It’s a state law,” replied the manager.

“Law?” echoed Collins.

“You see over here (in America) we have what you call private enterprise. Private enterprise is our

August 9, 2014 - August 9, 2014, The Afro-American business, our domain, and we can do anything we feel is good for the business.” The manager lectured the trio in the ways of American capitalism.

“Like not serving us,” thought Collins as he and his two companions turned away and started back toward the waiting car.

Failure one.

The Route 40 story appeared in newspapers all across the country and overseas, and a lot of people had a good laugh.

In New York City, the now defunct Herald Tribune described the hoax as “an element of wild comedy” and reported that “wrath and hoax is still monumental on Route 40.”

The AFRO was not published until several days after the hoax, but when it hit the streets it had all the details along with pictures and a headline that asked: “When is an African Not an African?”

The restaurant owners were blazing mad about being made fools of, but over in Washington, Angier Biddle Duke, the head of the State Department’s Protocol Division, which had to deal with the Route 40 incidents, called the hoax “a ridiculous system.”

For days after the hoax, the phones were kept busy with callers who wanted to congratulate the reporters and those who wanted to meet them in a dark alley.

Despite the adverse publicity and the federal pressures, the restaurant owners remained adamant. A few agreed to serve Africans, but the vast majority continued to keep their doors closed.

The uneasy situation might have dragged on for months, but CORE, then at the peak of its power and influence announced that it planned to send some 1,500 Freedom Riders down Route 40 on Nov. 11 – Veteran’s Day. Leading the riders would be the late Julius Hobson, then Eastern Regional Director of CORE, who had the reputation of delivering on everything that he promised.

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James D. Williams Behind the scenes frantic negotiations went on between the State Department, the Maryland Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations, a toothless body without any power – and the restaurant owners.

At the 11th hour, actually a day before the scheduled ride, the restaurants capitulated and announced that most of them were now willing to serve anyone.

Up in New York Hobson and James Farmer, then national director

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mixed riders were served, though not too gracefully in some of the establishments. Eight were arrested in places that were still holdouts but Farmer pronounced the ride a success and the riders departed forever.

The years since then have not been kind to the highway.

Late in 1963, a new turnpike was opened between Baltimore and the Delaware Memorial Bridge, making it unnecessary for motorists and truckers to use the old route and the flood of traffic that once clogged Route 40 dried up to a slow trickle.

In time, the reporters who figured in the AFRO hoax moved on to other things. Collins is at Baltimore’s WMAR-TV; Mangrum is a public information officer with the Food and Nutrition Service in Washington, D.C. and Wells holds a similar position with the Department of Agriculture in the same city.

Myself?

I’m in New York City as director of communications for the National Urban League. None of us has ever forgotten that August day or the AFRO. A few weeks ago at our favorite

“We…helped make Baltimore and Maryland better places. And that, ‘Ole Buddy, is what this business is all about.”

– George Collins, 17 years after the hoax

of CORE, held a press conference to announce that the ride had been called off and to warn that: “We offer the remaining restaurants until Dec. 15 (the Bill of Rights Day) to desegregate. If not, we shall feel free to take necessary action.”

The delayed ride actually took place on Dec. 16 and involved some 500 individuals and 100 cars – the largest Freedom Ride ever held outside the south.

In most instances, the racially

meeting spot, the Sphinx Club, I asked Collins, who was sipping his usual brandy – a little milk and no ice – if he ever thought about the hoax.

“Sure I do,” he answered. “We proved something out there that day and I believe we helped make Baltimore and Maryland better places. And that, ‘Ole Buddy, is what this business is all about.”

Read about their encounter at Miller’s restaurant on afro.com

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Matriarch Tessie Monroe, 80, holds youngest child, Eilijah Byrd, 11 months old, with standing, Aaron Monroe, Kynea Armstread, Ashanti Ford, Serne Cooper, Asha Cooper, Roderick Byrd Seated, Richard Cooper, Jacqueline Ford, Geneva Monroe

Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr., host, greets all his family members to the reunion

Family members traveled from Allen, Texas; Norfolk and Richmond, Va.; Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Edenton, N.C., Philadelphia, and several parts of Maryland, including Salisbury and Laurel to share in the festivities of the 48th Hathaway family’s three-day reunion, Aug.1-3 at the Radisson Cross Keys.

The underlying theme has remained “Faith, Family and Finances” which was drilled into them by their grandparents, the Rev. Anthony and Elizabeth Hathaway Sr., according to the Rev. Milton Hathaway, the family spokesman.

Tassie Monroe, family matriarch, traveled from Edgerton, N.C. to fellowship with the five generations represented at the reunion.

“There are medical doctors,

Fourth generation family members are Kyle and Kolby Setzer Front row, Maryclaire, Michael and Gloria Lane

car dealership entrepreneurs, ministers, engineers and college professors represented throughout our family tree,” said Rev. Milton Hathaway. “We are holding true to the theme of “Faith, Family and Finances.”

Upon arrival, the Hathaways had a “meet and greet” crab feast. On Saturday, after members explored the sites of Baltimore, they returned to a sit down banquet and reacquainted themselves with each other while dancing into the wee hours of the morning.

Then there was church on Sunday at Union Baptist Church where the Rev. Dr. Alvin Hathaway Sr. is senior pastor, and Rev. Milton Hathaway delivered the sermon. Before departing, the culminating activity included each family giving an update of personal news for the year.

Host family members Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr., Kathleen B., Adaria K., Sheneika and Alvin C. Hathaway Jr. Lane Family members are Mary Claire,Gloria, and Michael with parents Christopher and Judy Lane

Monica Horne, Rod Horne, BreAnna Alexander

Setzer Family members are Kolbe, Kathleen, Kyle and Kevin Setzer

Charles David Stokes III, Kamari Celeste Stokes, Ja'Don Pleasants, Arletha Diane Stokes, Rene'McClain, Kakwa McClain

Host family Rev.Dr. Alvin C.Hathaway, Kathleen Hathaway, Kathleen Setzer, Kevin Setzer

Evelyn Hathaway, Angela Hathaway Cary, Jalen Cary, Jasmine and William Cary

New Kent, VA Hathaway family members are Angela, Joshua, Sylvia Hathaway Alyvia, Rev. Milton Hathaway, Jordan and Rodney

H. Alan Hathaway and E. Danielle Musgrove

Sheneika Hathaway, Ronnie Mae Black, Clarissa Baker

Oshin Tai Wilson, Lisa Faulk, Frances HathawayMcKinney, Terri Moses, Kevin Moses, Isaiah Moses, Nadia Moses Sidney Sogbor and Adaria Hathaway

Troy Reddick, Troi Reddikck, Joanne Reddick, Clinton Reddick, Regina Smith, Michael Smith Kolby Setzer welcomes the family members Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

The Hathaways: Danielle, Michael, Marcia, Malcolm, Monte, Michael, Erica, Emmanuel, Diana

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Recipients of Color Included in Obama Standout Honors in the Arts and Humanities

By Zenitha Prince Special to the AFRO Three artists of color and a Black historian were among the Americans recognized by President Barack Obama July 28 for their outstanding contributions to the arts and humanities.

During a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, the president conferred the 2013 National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest award given to artists and their patrons, and the National Humanities Medal, which honors those in fields including history, literature, languages, and philosophy to 22 honorees. “ We honor you today because your accomplishments have enriched our lives and reveal something about ourselves and about our country,” Obama told the award recipients. “And we can never take for granted the flash of insight that comes from watching a great documentary or reading a great memoir or novel, or seeing an extraordinary piece of architecture. We can’t forget the wonder we feel when we stand before

Order of Arts and Letters, and an incredible work of art, or a member of the American the world of memories we Academy of Arts and Sciences. find unlocked with a simple In his citation, Jones was movement or a single note. praised for “provocative “The moments you performances . . . that challenge help create – moments of us to confront tough subjects understanding or awe or joy or and inspire us to greater sorrow – they add texture to heights.” our lives,” he added. “They are Dominican-American not incidental to the American author, poet, and essayist Julia experience; they are central to it – they are essential to it. So Alvarez joined Jones. The New York native gained recognition we not only congratulate you this afternoon, we thank you with the novels How the for an extraordinary lifetime of Filmmaker Stanley Nelson García Girls Lost Their achievement.”

Accents (1991), In the Time received a National Among the Medal of of the Butterflies (1994), and Humanities Medal.

Arts recipients was dancerYo! (1997). “In poetry and in choreographer Bill T. Jones, co-founder of the prose, Ms. Alvarez explores themes of identity, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jones family, and cultural divides. She illustrates the received numerous awards during his career: complexity of navigating two worlds and reveals The two-time Tony winner (Spring Awakening, the human capacity for strength in the face of Fela) is also a 2010 Kennedy Center honoree, oppression,” her citation read. a MacArthur “genius,” an officer of the French Northwestern University professor Darlene

Clark Hine received a Humanities Medal for her scholarship in the fields of African-American studies and history. Hine deserved praise for “enriching our understanding of the AfricanAmerican experience,” Obama said. “Through prolific scholarship and leadership, Dr. Hine has examined race, class, and gender, and has shown how the struggles and successes of AfricanAmerican women have shaped the nation we are today.”

Stanley Nelson Jr. also received a Humanities Medal for his work as a director and producer of documentary films that spotlight the history and experiences of African Americans. Among his notable films are Freedom Riders (2011), Jonestown: The Life & Death of People’s Temple (2006) and The Murder of Emmett Till (2003).

“By using his camera to tell both well-known and lesser-known narratives, Mr. Nelson has exposed injustices and highlighted triumphs, revealing new depths of our nation’s history,” his citation read.

View a full list of arts honorees on Afro.com.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Season of the tWitch

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO

Stephen “tWitch” Boss is a “So You Think You Can Dance” All-Star and fan favorite who continues to make a splash with his multitude of talents. He was also the first dancer endorsed by Gatorade, officially recognizing dance as a sport.

Boss is a recurring guest DJ on “Ellen,” serving as Ellen DeGeneres’ sidekick on the show multiple times per week. In that role, he leads the audience in dance competitions and entertains them with comedic skits throughout the show. He also competes against guests in on-air games.

A featured dancer in the films Blades of Glory and Hairspray, Boss teamed up with Paramount and Funnyordie.com to film several viral videos for the dance spoof film Dance Flick (2009). And he co-starred in Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming and guest-starred on such television series as “Drop Dead Diva,” “Bones” and “Touch,” too.

Boss originally found fame when he won over critics and fans alike with his amazing performances on Season 4 of “So You Think You Can Dance,” earning the runner-up title.

In addition, his memorable performance in “Mercy” alongside Katee Shean was nominated for a 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography.

In 2010, Boss was invited back for a special All-Star Season 7. This would prove to be a very important year in his life, as he met fellow All-Star dancer Allison Holker and they would ultimately marry.

Boss’ passion for dancing goes back to childhood. He was born and raised in Montgomery, Ala., where, he mastered “popping and ticking,” a popular hip-hop style that resembles a twitch, earning him the nickname “tWitch.”

Boss and his wife currently reside in Los Angeles where, in his free time, he serves on the board of the Dizzy Feet Foundation, a charity which affords access to dance

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education for the underprivileged. Here, he talks about reprising the role of Jason in Step Up: All In, the fifth installment in the dance flick franchise.

KW: What’s more fun, making a movie about a dance competition or participating in a dance contest on a reality show?

StB: Definitely making a movie, because no one is in fear of being voted off and going home early.

Kam Williams: Hi tWitch, thanks for the interview.

Stephen “tWitch” Boss: Thanks for having me.

KW: Congratulations on the fifth installment in the franchise. How do you explain the Step Up series’ enduring popularity?

StB: Dancing is one of the purest forms of expression! So when you bring top-of-theline dancers, top-of-the-line choreography, amazing music, and incredible cameras you can’t help but get an awesome and infectious product.

KW: How do you keep your character, Jason, fresh?

StB: My character, Jason, is an everevolving individual. We have seen Jason evolve since the third installation of Step Up. He lived in New York where he struggled to make ends meet, then went back home to Miami to help out his family. Since then he has moved to Los Angeles to yet again pursue a dream. I tap into Jason and keep him fresh by paralleling his real-life with mine because my dreams are still evolving as well.

KW: Which do you enjoy more, acting or dancing?

StB: That’s actually a very hard question to answer. They are both avenues and mediums of performance, and it is performance that I am most passionate about. There is nothing like the feeling I get when I step out on the dance floor and dance to my favorite song. And at the same time there’s nothing like the feeling of doing homework on a character and stepping onto the stage or camera and being another person.

KW: Do you ever worry about being typecast as just a dancer?

StB: All the time. But with that I recognize that I work so hard to establish myself in the field of dance. It just takes that one time, that one person that will give you a chance to deliver on something that is unknown, and that will be my launching point.

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Stephen “tWitch” Boss reprises the role of Jason in Step Up: All In. KW: What message do you think people will take away from the film?

StB: I think people will take away the message of family and perseverance.

Perseverance in the face of perceived defeat is absolutely essential. And while everyone’s journey is different, completely alienating yourself in the pursuit of your dreams could be somewhat harmful. Therefore, having family or loved ones around you to keep you grounded could be a very good look. Oh yeah… and when in

‘Web Junkie’ Film Review

Cold Turkey Exposé Examines Internet Addiction in China

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO How long do you think you could you survive without access to a cell phone or computer? A few hours? A day? A week? How about three months? That’s the degree of deprivation awaiting adolescents diagnosed as addicted to the internet over in China, the first country to officially recognize the burgeoning malady as a clinical disorder.

The Rx for the afflicted is 90 days of rehab at one of 400 paramilitary boot camps where one must adhere to a Spartan daily regimen sans any electronic stimuli. Going cold turkey is not an easy thing to adjust to for kids used to playing video games for hours on end.

But that is precisely the goal of the shrinks in Web Junkie, a cautionary tale making one wonder whether America might not be far behind. The documentary was directed by Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia who were afforded extraordinary access to the intervention and treatment of a trio of teenage boys whose exasperated parents sought help from a facility in Beijing.

The film traces the transformation of Hope, Hacker and Nicky from insufferable, anti-social jerks who barely communicate with their families, teachers and classmates into sensitive souls

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An adolescent, diagnosed as addicted to the internet, in the documentary Web Junkie truly changed by therapy and the period offline. It’s nothing short of miraculous to see the same kid who couldn’t be bothered to talk to his

father eventually melt into a touchy-feely hugger who upon reuniting tearfully says, “I love you, Dad.” Overall, the movie makes

KW: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?

StB: I see me. That is the culmination of all the decisions and paths I have decided to take thus far. There are times I see power, struggle, uncertainty, and art; souvenirs from my life journey that remind me where I’ve been.

KW: If you could have one wish instantly granted, what would that be for?

StB: An unwavering agreement of peace and love all over the globe.

KW: Thanks again for the time, tWitch, and best of luck with the film.

StB: Thank you so much, Kam.

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a convincing case that cell phone use ought to be limited during a child’s formative years when the social part of the brain is still developing.

For, the subjects of this telling expose certainly seem to suffer from stunted development due to too much time spent playing computer games and surfing the ‘net.

A tough love remedy from the Orient designed for impressionable young minds which prefer virtual reality to relating in the flesh.

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“MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY DO GOOD THINGS” Hello, hello, hello everyone! I hope everything is well with you. My “Boo-Boo” and I are doing great. Thanks for asking. Well I have a little bit of this and a little bit of that for you this week. I have a lot to talk to you about.

First, I want to talk about one of my favorite talk show host, Anthony McCarthy, who is on Morgan’s WEAA 88.9 FM, Monday-Friday from 5-7 p.m. McCarthy is a dynamite radio host and a first class journalist – former editor of the Baltimore AfroAmerican Newspaper and the Baltimore Times.

On his radio show, he interviews people from all walks of life and gives them a chance to voice their views, and informs the community about what is going on. He totally educates himself on the topics of his shows and asks the right questions so that his listeners can understand. Check out his show and give him a call at 419-319-8888.

Shirley Duncan, the community’s “Hand Dance Queen,” was recently honored by her peers (well deserved and overdue). She was honored by the “Crew,” lead by Jesse Jammon at the Caton Castle, for being a pioneer in the Baltimore hand dance community. “I have received all kinds of awards from city and state government, but to receive it from hand dancers made it very special. It has been 20 years of hard work. Thank you Jesse, Hazel, Larry, and “The Crew.” This came at the best time” she said tearfully.

Again, giving back to the community is the “Hoppy Adams Foundation.” They just recently announced the 2014 Scholarship Essay Contest winners. The scholarship which honors the memory of the late, renowned Hoppy Adams, the legendary deejay of WANN radio station and Carr’s Beach Master of Ceremony and promoter. The Foundation gives three scholarships annually to graduating seniors in the Annapolis area. The three winners were Jasmine Lomax of Meade Senior High School, John Depasse of Annapolis Senior High School, and Allyssa Thompson of Broadneck Senior High School. A luncheon

Anthony McCarthy – journalist, editor-inchief, writer, publicist, political advocate, minister, and radio host on WEAA 88.9 FM – supports the Baltimore community.

Shirley Duncan, “Hand Dance Queen,” was honored by her peers recently at Caton Castle. was held and the winners received their scholarship notification.

From 6-10 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Caton Castle Lounge, 20 South Caton Ave., Washington, D.C./Baltimore promoter Vernard Gray is having a birthday celebration. The music is provided by the one and only Greg Hatza

at the African-American Author’s Expo with both of my books, African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (the book on Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue) and African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland, along with hundreds of other independent and national authors displaying their work. The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 16 at the North Baltimore Plaza Hotel, 2004 Hoppy Adams’ Foundation, now lead by his son Charles Greenspring Dr., Timonium, W. “Hoppy” Adams Jr., announced the winners of their Md. and it is free to the public.

2014 essay contest. John Depasse is congratulated by The founder and CEO of this Charles Adams III and Jeffrey Blum. For more information event is Pat Johnson. For more about this organization email info@hoppyadams.org. information, call 443-4212070. I will see you there.

My girl, comedian “Ms. Maybelle” (Pamela Leake) is hosting her show, called “Ms. Maybelle’s Good Girdle Comedy Show” 8 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Darkside Lounge, 6826 Harford Rd., Baltimore, Md. Are you ready for a crab feast? The Grace Presbyterian Church is hosting their 2nd Annual Crab Feast 2-6 p.m.

Photo by J.D. Howard Aug. 16 at the Forum Caterers, Arch Social Club members lead the 300 Men 2nd Annual 4210 Primrose Rd., Baltimore.

March across north Avenue. Member with the white hat, For more information, call standing, holding a cane is Bro. Kaleb Tshamba Arch Sydney Young at 443-370Social Club Trustee Board Chairman; standing with hands 4506 or email reallysherry@ at his side is Bro. Suzufe, president of organization; and yahoo.com. standing directly behind him is Bro. William Chavis, Well my dear friends, it trustee of Arch Social Club. is about that time! I am out of space. Remember, if you need me, call me at 410-833Organ-ization featuring Greg Hatza on organ, 9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com. My Peter Fraize on saxophones, Brian Kooken websites are: www.rosapryormusic.com and on guitar, and Robert Shahid on drums. For www.rambling-rose.com. more information, call 443-982-091 and tell them Rambling Rose told you, or go to UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, I’M Realjazzlive@CatonCastle.com.

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Author’s Corner Title: Road to Oprah Author: Raymond Goode Born and raised in Richmond, Va., Raymond Goode graduated from Meadowbrook High School in 1996. At this time, Raymond Goode was overwhelmed by the need to serve others, which continues to shape his life today. In an attempt to placate this need, he enlisted in the Navy after his time with the Army. Despite seven years of military/civil service, a deep-seated desire to serve still flowed within him. Raymond is dedicated to giving all of himself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to the reader. In 2010 he eschewed all of his worldly possessions, becoming homeless, in order to become a slave to his art, his passion, his muse so that he can produce his best work. Above all; he is an idealist, in love with love.

What was the impetus for writing this book?

Road to Oprah is my faith-based journey that details my quitting three jobs and leaving my home to fulfill my dream of meeting Oprah Winfrey. I stepped on a nail and woke up in the hospital in Pittsburgh; my car broke down in Indiana, and I lived inside a 24 hour self storage unit in Chicago. The purpose of my journey is to show young people that there is a better way than selling drugs or prostituting.

What’s the overall theme?

The overall theme is to inspire and motivate all that continue to believe in a dream to keep believing. Road to Oprah will encourage readers to believe in themselves and to understand sometimes “Life ain’t always easy” and how some attributes

publication instills hope in all who know they are designed for a special purpose. I am surprised every day by how many people are touched by this book as well as my journey.

What one thing do you want the reader to learn?

God has placed us on this earth to push the human race forward. We all have individual talents we must capitalize upon. We cannot measure our self-worth by the perception of other people. Always remember; for us to change as a people we must change as a person.

What did you learn during the writing process?

Raymond Goode began to find out who Raymond Goode is.

All the insecurities and self hatred I had developed as a young man began to unravel. I now know my purpose and destiny upon this earth. I have the power to change the world as long as I allow God to use my physical being as a vessel for his work.

Raymond Goode is the author of Road to Oprah. such as a positive attitude, determination and persistence can play a part in realizing dreams.

What surprised you about the development of this book?

Road to Oprah began merely as a path to self discovery. Every day that I write gets me further and further away from that day I almost killed myself. This

Any advice for aspiring writers?

Besides purchasing my books (laughs). Always remember this phrase: “No tears in the writer No tears in the reader No joy in the writer No joy in the reader” Always write from the heart. As writers; we are held to a higher code of conduct because we put forth information that others seek.

What other books have you written?

My other books include Traces of You, Through their Eyes, and How to write and print your book under 300$.

Follow Goode’s journey on tracesofyou.org.

Obituary

Frank Parks

July 7 1921 to July 27, 2014

Frank Parks was born to Earnest and Coreen Parks, in Greenwood, S.C., where he attended school. In 1946, he married the former Bennie Lee Fisher and they later moved to Baltimore. Frank and Bennie Lee Parks were married 49 years, until her death. He was employed at Goucher College for 34 years until his retirement.

Frank enjoyed fishing, growing vegetables, shooting pool, watching the wrestling matches on Saturdays and playing marbles. His ultimate joy was to bring his entire family together in unity. He never expressed anger, always keeping a calm and peaceful demeanor. All who knew him, young and

old – loved him. He never strayed from his high standard of helping others and sharing.

Frank is preceded in death by his wife, Bennie Lee Parks; their daughters, Rosemary Harrison and Elizabeth Massey; 10 siblings and a granddaughter, Valerie Antoinette Wright.

Frank is survived by one sister, Josephine Parks, Greenwood, S.C.; one brother-in-law, Willie James Fisher; one sister-in-law, Daisy Fisher, five grandchildren: Clarence Massey Jr., Michelle Walker, Isabelle Massey, Rose Conyers and Elizabeth Edwards; granddaughter-in-law, Sherry Massey; grandson-in-law, Elvin Edwards; 23 great grandchildren, numerous great great grandchildren and many other loving nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

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Will Kevin Durant Land in D.C.?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk An explosive rumor mill linked Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant to his hometown of Washington, D.C. when his free agency begins in 2016. Durant reportedly deleted his Twitter account because open-ended questions about his return home were becoming a distraction.

LeBron James’ decision to return to Cleveland opened the door for any athlete contemplating such, so when reporters asked Durant about his views on James’ decision, the “KD2DC” slogan was amped to another level. With a talented roster already in place in Oklahoma, prying Durant away will be a tough maneuver. But it is a possible maneuver that has the internet buzzing and critics asking, “Will Kevin Durant sign with the Washington Wizards in 2016?” Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley debate of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Riley: I cannot see why he wouldn’t. The Wizards younger core of Bradley Beal, John Wall, and Otto Porter should be hitting their stride by the summer of 2016 and the team will have max money to throw at Durant and beg him to come to a place he loves so much. Oklahoma City started out with a great marriage with Durant before back-to-back campaigns that fell short of the team’s 2012 NBA Finals appearance crept into critics’ minds. After the Oklahoman ran the article “Mr. Unreliable” lambasting their star for a playoff loss, I think the doors officially opened for Durant’s

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Green: Going home would be great for Durant and his family but he is big

on trust and loyalty, and he already has a home away from home in Oklahoma City. Also, he is currently on a team that is young enough to be in Finals contention for the next five to seven seasons. Russell Westbrook (25), Serge Ibaka (24), and Reggie Jackson (24) make up an awesome quartet with Durant (25) at the forefront

with emerging center Steven Adams (21) solidifying the middle of the defense. While the allure of Wall and Beal is promising, Washington

simply cannot offer the talent and the promise that the Thunder can.

Riley: But the Wizards can offer Durant his hometown and a deprived fan base that is just waiting for something to believe in. The city can circle behind a winner if its native son returns home. Basketball in the District would erupt

and the city would be back on the map.

For a local kid like Durant, the chance to push his city into the limelight might be an opportunity he simply cannot resist. D.C. treats Wall and Beal like they are their own. The city would push Durantmania to a contagious height. Durant’s in an interesting position with the Thunder. If he wins a title over the next few years he could easily bow out, knowing he gave Oklahoma a championship before he returned home, similar to James. Or, Durant could go the next two seasons without winning a title and use the frustration as an exit strategy back to the East Coast. It could be a win-win situation for Washington.

Green: There aren’t too many franchises as stable as the Thunder right now. Pulling Durant out of Oklahoma would take a savvy and genius general manager, and I’m not sure Washington has that in the bumbling Ernie Grunfield, a man who has made more than his fair share of gaffes. In the Thunder’s corner you have Sam Presti, a suave front office man who’s been lauded for his numerous successes over the past few years.

Durant’s going to look at all of those factors when 2016 arrives, not just the chance to play at home. He’s entering the stage of his career where potential and promise are no longer the words associated with his name.

Championships and titles will now be the primary words of power and as of right now, Durant’s best chance at winning a ring and claiming his place in history reside in Oklahoma City.

Ravens Defense Flips Script on Offense Baltimore Ravens’ Training Camp-Week 2

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor Last week, fans and media alike were pleasantly surprised to see how dominantly the Baltimore Ravens’ offense performed during the opening week of training camp. Usually, the offensive unit is dragging behind the defensive unit during this early phase of camp, but seven-year quarterback Joe Flacco and his unit mates shocked everyone with their strong grasp of new offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak’s offense.

Well, the element of surprise was gone by this week as the Ravens’ defense quickly flipped the script in week two of camp.

After not throwing a single interception through the first four practices of camp, Flacco was picked off or had his passes deflected several times, in the practices from July 28 to Aug. 2.

Part of the turnover increase was largely due to Ravens’ Head Coach John Harbaugh’s decision to rest his two starting guards, Kelechi Osmele and Marshal Yanda. With less quality protection on the line, Flacco rushed some throws into tight coverage. But credit also has to go to the secondary men who snagged the picks on Flacco.

Cornerbacks Jimmy Smith, Chykie Brown, and Asa Jackson each made standout plays on passes from their Super Bowl MVP quarterback.

According to BaltimoreRavens.com, the defensive unit has really been trying to pump up the confidence of Brown, who may see significant playing time with the starters if injured starter Lardarius Webb is not ready to go by the regular season.

The team recently reported that Webb will miss the first two preseason games due to reoccurring back spasms. Brown will start in his place and has to be prepared for the challenge.

Brown made some nice pass deflections during practice on Aug. 2, but was briefly booted from practice after failing

to control his emotions. Brown had a chance at an easy interception on Flacco, but dropped it and then kicked the ball out of frustration. A move like that would have cost the Ravens’ an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during a real game, so Harbaugh kicked Brown out of practice for it. He brought Brown back on the field five minutes later, chatted with him and Brown eventually went on to finish off the practice with decent play.

Smith Sr. Impresses On and Off Field

“Part of the turnover increase was largely due to Ravens’ Head Coach John Harbaugh’s decision to rest his two starting guards…”

Ravens’ new veteran receiver Steve Smith Sr. continues to shine in camp. When he is on the field, he is always getting open with his savvy route-running ability.

But he makes just as much of an impact off the field, coaching and mentoring the younger receivers on the team. Smith even reached out to motivate Brown after he had been kicked from practice on Aug. 2. His presence as a leader is showing its value every day in camp.

Heading into Week Three of Camp

The most anticipated moment scheduled for the third week of the Baltimore Ravens’ training camp was unfortunately taken away from fans. The Ravens were scheduled to participate in a joint practice with the San Francisco 49ers on Aug. 8, but the practice was canceled due to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), Ravens’ media relations personnel explained. According to an announcement on the Ravens’ website, the CBA “limits the number of consecutive days a team can practice or take part in football

Sam Lacy: ‘He Made a Difference - Part XV’

In the effort of taking you through the journey of Sam Lacy, I find myself mixing tales of things I have shared, things I have witnessed and things he shared with me during some of our bonding times.

One of my favorite tales of his journey came after his induction into the Black Athletes Hall of Fame. The event was held in Las Vegas. The news of this invitation disturbed me more than a little because in the early years, Sam was addicted to the horses. It took some hard learned lessons for him to come to the realization that he had a problem.

After he had kicked the habit, so to speak, an occasional trip to the track provided him with recreation. Throw in a monthly poker game with the office gang, and his sweet tooth was satisfied. However, the attraction of Vegas gave me some consternation.

He found the many temptations to gamble amusing.

At breakfast there were Keno sheets laid out beside your morning coffee. If you were bored in your room, there was a mini slot machine located in the bathroom, and there was the morning line for the racetrack posted in the elevator.

The part of the story I liked most was when he chuckled to himself over the fact that he was 75 years old, in a plush Vegas hotel, in a room that would satisfy most heads of state, lying in a king size bed, looking up at a mirror on the ceiling. Surely a case of mistaken identity.

Things quieted down for a spell, and suddenly we were in the ‘90s and things started to pop. We were headed into the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier of Major League Baseball. Sam was there, and everybody wanted a piece of his story. Sam was fond of saying that his glorification was overrated because he was probably the only person left on the planet who was old enough to remember.

Among his invitations was a request to appear in a program at Frostburg State University. At this period in time I was not only his travel companion, I was his designated driver. The trip to Frostburg was a nightmare. I have no fondness for heights, and driving along a mountain road with no guardrails had me expecting a stroke at any minute. Unless you have experienced it, you cannot possibly know how it feels to be driving along a mountain highway looking down 500 feet to people’s homes.

To add to the mix, it was raining. About then, elevation started to haunt me. For a few minutes we were in this driving rain climbing a hill, and the next minute we were above the clouds. Folks if you wonder what the other side of a cloud looks like, believe me the experience is overrated.

When we reached our destination, I found out that the issue being discussed was the regrowth of America after WWII. There were three men in on this discussion, Pop, Shirley Povich (Washington Post columnist), and some other old dude. I couldn’t help thinking they should get this right, because they probably have the three oldest dudes in America giving them the 411.

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Becoming Ready for a Transfer of Wealth make us rich. His primary objective is save us.

By Robert L. Wallace Special to the AFRO The children of Israel must have been stunned. They had heard about Moses’ run-in with the burning bush in the desert and they witnessed the multiple plagues God used to humble the great Pharaoh. What God was asking them to do now, to assume the wealth of their captors, just as they were packing their bags to leave Egypt, must have perplexed them even more.

Wealth, properly defined, is having access to or control of more resources than needed to meet one’s basic needs. Centuries had separated the children of Israel from the blessings of Abraham so wealth and prosperity had become foreign to them. However, God was about to “flip the script.”

Before departing Egypt, God in His wisdom, instructed the children of Israel to meet with the Egyptians and require of them all their gold and silver. Without delay, the bible says that the Jews found favor among the Egyptians and that Israel left Egypt with all the Egyptian wealth. Thus, we see illustrated one of the most powerful principles of wealth creation – the principle of wealth transfer.

This principle highlights the fact that God, in due season, will transfer the wealth of the ungodly into the capable hands of the godly. Once received from God, the wealth is not only to be used to make one’s life more productive but it is to be used to strengthen and expand God’s Kingdom.

What Determines the Rate of Wealth Transfer into Our Lives?

In my workshop, “Creating Wealth: From the Inside Out,” I outline the four major factors I have observed which dramatically impact the rate at which God transfers wealth into the lives of His people: What is your motivation for desiring wealth?

Our motivation for desiring wealth will dictate the quantity and “velocity” of wealth God injects into our lives. As a young man growing up in the housing projects of Baltimore, I was obsessed with building wealth.

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Intentionality and Commitment To The Kingdom.

God wants to know that He can trust you to use your wealth to build His Kingdom and not squander it on frivolous pursuits.

Your Position And Role In Building His Kingdom.

The role you play in the Kingdom agenda will determine the amount and “velocity” of wealth transfer you experience.

Like a good banker, God has done His due diligence on each of us and knows our current capacity to receive. But be encouraged. If we stay focused and remain teachable, like the children of Israel, God will blow our minds with his eternal and infinite, wealth transferring ability.

This article was adapted from Robert L. Wallace’s latest book, “The Ssese Principles: Guidelines For Creating Wealth Through Faith.” Wallace is the current president and CEO of BITHGROUP Technologies (www.Bithgroup.com) and founder of BITHENERGY (www.Bithenergy.com).

Robert can be reached at RobertWallace@Bithgroup.com.

Rust Belt ‘New Normal’ Chronicled in Diminished Dreams Documentary Rich Hill

Film Review by Kam Williams

Rich Hill, Missouri is a ghost town on hard times. Located about seventy miles south of Kansas City, the population of this once-thriving mining metropolis has dwindled down to 1,393 since the last of the coal was unearthed from the ground.

The lack of a sufficient tax base to maintain the city’s infrastructure is reflected in such urban blight as boarded up storefronts, potholed roads, abandoned farms, and the corner pharmacy and company bank reduced to rubble. Today, the remaining residents find themselves stuck in a godforsaken no man’s land marked by social dysfunction and high unemployment.

Nevertheless, there is an undeniable

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optimism among young Andrew, Harley and Appachey. These three boys are the subject of Rich Hill, a heartbreaking expose chronicling Rich Hill’s new normal in terms of the American Dream.

Co-directed by Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos, the picture won the 2014 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in the Best Documentary category. As the cousins’ camera follows the trio around, you can’t help but notice the crumbling exoskeleton in the background that looks almost postapocalyptic. Could this really be the good ole U.S. of A? Meanwhile, each kid has a quite compelling story to share. 13 yearold Andrew worries about his family subsisting when not practicing the latest dance steps with his sister. Appachey, 12, wants to teach art in China when he grows up. But first, he has to repeat the 6th grade. And 15 yearold Harley has a great sense of humor despite the fact that he misses his convict mother imprisoned for the attempted murder of the sick stepfather who’d molested him.

The Rust Belt’s “New Normal” depicted as a desolate, depressed dystopia dotted with street urchins a tad too naïve to appreciate their dire life prospects.

Very Good HHH Unrated Running time: 91 minutes Distributor: The Orchard

AFRO-American Newspapers, Diane W. Hocker, Director of Human Resources, 2519 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

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The Afro-American, August 9, 2014 - August 15, 2014

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