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Bloody January Sees 27 Murders in Baltimore 16-Year-old Lavar Crawford Was Youngest Victim

There, she learned people were killed in the first nine days of he was still back the month, compared to last year, when the on Hugo Avenue, city’s first homicide didn’t occur until Jan. already dead.

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“It was a In January 2013, 14 people were killed. nightmare for Police have yet to say what they believe me. My days led to the spike in killings in the city. will never be the According to statistics, of the 27 victims, same,” she told Lavar Crawford, 16, was found dead 25 were men and two were women. Sheena the AFRO Gamble, 30, was shot to death Jan. 30 in the on E. 28th street.

Crawford, a 1500 block of Cole Street, and Kim Leto, 51, student at Forrest was fatally stabbed Jan. 31 in her home in 400 block of S. Ellwood Avenue.

Park High School, was the 25th person killed in Baltimore in January and the youngest. He was Twenty-three of January’s homicide victims were Continued on A3 killed in the deadliest January since 2007. Ten

By Jonathan Hunter and Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writers On the same day as the devastating shooting massacre at Columbia Mall in Howard County, that left three people dead and five injured, another senseless murder took place, this time in Baltimore.

Lavar Crawford, 16, was found dead on E. 28th street, near Hugo Avenue, near his aunt’s house, around 11:30 p.m.

His mother, Lartasha Newton, got the phone call that no parent wants to receive. Her son had been shot. She began calling loved ones and headed to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where many of the city’s victims of street violence are taken for treatment.

Carter G. Woodson: Negro History Celebration Needed to Dispel Myths about Blacks

By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer

When Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week in Feb. 1926, the event was heralded in the AFRO. “Negro History Week is Observed Public Schools,” a story dated Feb. 20, 1926 was headlined and underneath, ran Continued on A5

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Black Press Attacked for Efforts to Strengthen Ties with Africa

By Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA from the Arizona Informant

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Black media critic Richard Prince has launched a series of attacks on a National Newspaper Publishers Associationled delegation that traveled to Morocco in early January at the expense of the government, writing under one headline: “Black-Press Visitors to Morocco Called Pawns.”

Prince, who has spent all of his professional career with White-owned newspapers, made only a passing reference to Israel’s practice of funding trips for U.S. journalists and dignitaries.

Prince strongly criticized the 14-member delegation for taking the all-expense paid trip because journalistic standards prohibit such trips. However, in a major disservice to Black media, he neglected to point out that the Black Press does not have anywhere near the same resources as the White media and therefore should not be held to the same standard.

In one article, Prince quoted the travel policies of such news organizations as the New York Times and the Washington Post, which have significantly more financial resources than the Black Press.

“Of course, we understand that it is preferable that we pay our own way on such trips,” said NNPA Chairman Cloves C. Campbell, Jr. “But since we’re not getting our fair share of ad dollars and therefore don’t have the resources to pay for Continued on A3

Officers and members of the newly renovated Arch Social Club

Photo by J.D. Howard

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Daughter of Bea Gaddy Dies of Massive Heart Attack

By AFRO Staff Sandra E. Chandler, who helped her mother, Dr. Bea Gaddy, in her charitable work providing food, shelter and financial assistance to the Baltimore area’s needy, died Jan. 30 after suffering a massive heart attack.

According to news reports, she died in Alabama, but will be returned home for burial.

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Bea Gaddy’s daughters Sandra Chandler and Cynthia Brooks helped in the charitable work of their mother.

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NATION & WORLD Ohio State University Names First Black President

Dr. Michael V. Drake, chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, has been named president of Ohio State University. It is the first time that the state’s largest university system will be headed by an African American.

Drake, 63, will be the 15th president of Ohio State.

The Columbus Dispatch Michael V. Drake reported that Drake met with university officials Jan. 30 to accept their offer to serve as Ohio State’s president.

Drake attended Sacramento City College before switching to Stanford, where he completed his undergraduate degree. He attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where he began his teaching career. His specialty is ophthalmology.

In 2005, he became the chief administrator at UC Irvine.

There, he ushered in the building of a new law school and the creation of a school of education and reenergized the medical school, which had been investigated after being the site of scandal, the Dispatch reported.

Study: Guns Account for 20 Kid and Young Adult Hospitalizations a Day

Firearms accounted for 20 hospitalizations a day in 2009 for children and young adults according to a study published this week in Pediatrics, the medical journal for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Of the 7,391 cases documented, the numbers were highest for American males between the ages of 15 and 19, but at least three hospitalizations a day were booked for children under 15.

The report paints more detail of the relationship between firearms and Americans aged 20 and under-- and it’s not a good one for African American males.

“I was surprised that it’s almost one child every hour that is seriously injured or killed,” said co-author Dr. Robert Sege, T:11”of Medicine’s Department of of the Boston University School

Pediatrics.

When asked about what the numbers say for the African American community, Sege said. “It’s clearly a huge problem for African American men.”

“When you look at the 15-to-19 age group, their rate is 150 per 100,000,” he told the AFRO. “That’s a very high rate.

There are a lot of young men being shot, but [Black men] are 13 times more likely than White men to be hospitalized for firearm injuries.”

According to the report, 44 percent of the adolescent and child patients hospitalized were Black males. Assault was the most common cause.

Sege said he has been studying adolescent injuries due to violence and working on policy issues surrounding firearm injuries to children for roughly 20 years.

The report was compiled by Dr. Julie R. Gaither, of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Dr. John M. Leventhal, of Yale’s Department of Pediatrics. The two physicians and Sege studied the latest Kids’ Inpatient Database.

Trayvon Martin Killer, George Zimmerman Entering Celebrity-Boxing Ring

George Zimmerman, who was acquitted last year in the killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, has agreed to participate in a celebrity-boxing match, according to published reports.

Zimmerman claims that he is an amateur boxer. A Twitter account George attributed to him linked to a story on radaronline.com where he is quoted Zimmerman saying the fight’s organizer is looking for an opponent for him.

He said “prior to the incident,” which likely refers to the night in 2012 when he fatally shot Trayvon after following the 17-year-old as the youth returned home from the store, he was boxing to work out and lose weight. He said he was put in touch with Feldman, the founder of Celebrity Boxing, by a friend. He said it was his idea to climb into the ring.

He said some of the proceeds will go to charity, but did not say how much he will be paid.

Since his acquittal, Zimmerman has made news several times for being arrested.

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John W. Thompson Named Chairman Dr. Clayton McNeill, of Microsoft Board Former Coppin

By AFRO Staff John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments and former CEO of Symantec Corp, is the new chairman of the board of directors for Microsoft, according to news reports.

Thompson was the only African American to head a major tech company when he worked at Symantec. The graduate of Florida A&M and MIT oversaw the company at a time when revenues increased $632 million to $6.2 billion.

He also previously worked as a vice president at IBM. Blackenterprise.com said he invested in tech advances in Silicon Valley and has been named to Black Enterprise’s “100 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America.” He was also named “Corporate Executive of the Year” at Symantec in 2004.

He lives John W. Thompson is the in West Palm new chairman of the board Beach, Fla. of directors for Microsoft.

Bloody January Continued from A1 shot, four were stabbed. In 2013, 12 of the victims were male and eight of the victims were shot. The youngest person killed in January 2013 was Darius Shields, 18, who was found dead in the 500 block of East Patapsco Street on Jan. 11.

In a June 27, 2013 news conference, Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts attributed a spate of summer killings to increased violence that typically comes along with hot weather in June and July. But police had no explanation as to why, with temperatures lower than they had been in seasons, so many people were in killing mode in January.

And while police continue to investigate, Newton is getting used to life without her son, whom she described as a “funny kid who enjoyed poetry,

singing and dancing.”

“He was an average 16-year-old,” she said. “He was into [girls], rapping and dancing.”

She’s angry that people keep getting killed while politicians don’t’ come up with a plan to stop it. She’s angry that her son is gone.

“Something needs to be done about this problem in Baltimore” Newton said.

In a poem that his mother shared with a stranger, Lavar left a message that his mother –Newton will always hold close: “Love my family, my mother and two brothers Mike and Markel,” he wrote. “I really love my mother.

He was scheduled to be buried Feb. 6.

“Something needs to be done about this problem in Baltimore.”

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Administrator, Has Died

Coppin State University has announced the death of long-time administrator, alumnus, and supporter, Dr. Clayton McNeill.

McNeill, a member of the CSU class of 1969, served as vice president of Student Life and executive vice president of Administration and Finance during his career at Coppin, according to the announcement from the university.

McNeill and his wife, Pamela, of the class of 1970, established two endowed scholarships in the Coppin State University Development Foundation. They were recently inducted into the Foundation Merit Scholarship Program as founding members.

Since his retirement in 2006, Dr. McNeill continued to serve CSU by being an active member of the CSU Alumni Association.

“He was a tower of strength and a man I greatly admired,” said Kyle Locke, director of Athletic Development. “He will be missed.”

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the trips, we have to come up with creative ways of covering Africa because the Motherland is too important for us to ignore.”

Africa is so important that seven of the 10 fastestgrowing economies in the world are there—Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Zambia and Nigeria.

Prince published pictures of the delegation in the

as a consequence of human rights violations in Western Sahara,’ he said. ‘Journalists who are not well informed about what is going on in Western Sahara and sensitive to a good reception could be used as a propaganda tool.

In any case, any journalist of this group could and in my opinion must be authorized by Morocco to enter into contact with Saharawi human rights defenders.’”

Campbell stated.

In an interview, Curry took issue with the idea that Black journalists may have been duped.

“I am disappointed, but not surprised that Richard [Prince] would even raise that issue prior to seeing anything we have written,” he said.

“Naturally, we will tell both sides of this story.”

Curry, a former Washington correspondent

“The journalists who went on the trip are probably better informed about that region than most White journalists.”

–Cloves Campbell southern province of Dakhla and a photo of NNPA News Service Editor-inChief George E. Curry near the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, crediting the wrong photographer in both cases.

Prince quoted a representative of Morocco’s opponent in the ongoing dispute over Western Sahara but did not quote anyone from the Moroccan government.

Morocco claims the land as part of its country and proposes that it remain part of the country but retain its own autonomy, a position contested by neighboring Algeria through the Polisario Front.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario), an organization that has sought independence for the former Spanish territory since 1973, has called for a referendum that will offer residents the choice between autonomy or independence from Morocco.

Prince wrote, “…Ahmed Boukhari, the Polisario’s representative to the U.N., told Journal-isms that Morocco’s bankrolling of the black-press trip had ulterior motives. “’In my opinion [it] is a trip politically motivated and with political objectives related to Western Sahara.

Morocco’s credibility has been stained these last years

However, as NNPA’s Campbell stated, “No limitations have been placed on what we can write or discuss and we’re under no obligation to write anything.”

Campbell also rejected the back-handed charge that journalists who went on the trip “are not well informed about what is going on in Western Sahara” or that they “could be used as a propaganda tool.”

“The journalists who went on the trip are probably better informed about that region than most White journalists,”

and New York bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune and former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, said Prince

could have looked at his series on China last year to know that he is not gullible.

If you went by the tone of Prince’s coverage, you would think that the Black journalists had visited a pariah nation, instead of

the first country to formally recognize U.S. independence.

You also would not have known that President Obama recently hosted Morocco King Mohammed VI. Campbell declared, “We are going to continue taking

trips to Africa, regardless of what anyone writes. We openly acknowledge who funds our trips and trust that our readers are intelligent enough to know if we are presenting news that is fair to each side.”

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Baltimore Woman to Mark 100th Birthday

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer.

In less than one month, Lenora Delores Ming-Cobb will celebrate 100 years of life with family, friends, great health and cake.

On March 8, Cobb’s family will throw her a surprise celebration in honor of her 100th birthday at The Forum Caterers in West Baltimore, where she will spend the evening with nearly 200 friends and family and

share her secret to a long life: hard work and love.

Born on March 8, 1914 in a small town in Alabama, Cobb spent most of her younger years in Albany, Ga., where she was the oldest of four girls.

She married Leroy Cobb in the 1930s, during the Great Depression.

“She never smoked, she never drank. Never,” Louise Keating, Cobb’s daughter, told the AFRO. “She just lived a clean life and loved to work.”

Keating said although her mother was a homemaker, she made it her business. She said Cobb loves to garden, cook, clean, help people and travel.

“She was always working, she always had the strength to do it,” Keating said.

Cobb has been a member of Zion Baptist Church since moving to Baltimore in 1944 and is currently the oldest living member of the church.

She told the AFRO she enjoys being surrounded by those she loves.

On March 8 Lenora Delores MingCobb will celebrate 100 years.

Before Cobb’s husband passed in 1989 at the age of 77, Keating said her parents enjoyed going to church weekly and attending several church affairs.

“They also enjoyed driving to Alabama every summer for family reunions,” Keating recalled. “They never stopped

at a hotel and my father did all the driving for many trips.”

Preparations are underway as Cobb’s family prepares to mark a milestone for a woman Keating called the rock of the family. She said the family is in the process of honing in on decorations, food and overall décor.

Keating said her mother moved to Baltimore for a better life for their family, and that’s exactly what she got.

She said the birthday party is a “time for her [Cobb] to see some family members she hasn’t seen in a while,” and a time for her to enjoy a day all her own.

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Brooks, continued their mother’s outreach and charitable work after her death in 2001.

Gaddy, known as the Mother Teresa of Baltimore, who was once homeless herself, in 1981 used $250 she had won in the Maryland State Lottery to serve a Thanksgiving meal to 49 of her neighbors. Her aim was to help men, women and children who fell through the cracks in the city’s social service programs

or chose not to seek help from government agencies.

Chandler was the oldest of Bea Gaddy’s five children. As a young mother, Gaddy lived on welfare and worked as a housekeeper to support them.

Her funeral will be held Feb. 8 at Amazing Grace Church, located at 2424 McElderry St. in Baltimore.

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After 109 Years, Baltimore’s Arch Social Club Still Serving the Area’s Gents

By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer

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Carter G. Woodson

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subhead: “School Heads History.” His parents had Report City Wide Study of been enslaved, but he had a Achievements of Men and yearning for education that Women of Race.” led him to become only The story detailed what the second Black person in instructors at Baltimore’s history to receive a Ph.D. Black schools did to from Harvard. commemorate the week. At He founded in 1915 School No. 108, for example, when he was 40 years old. students “were taught the A year later, he founded the National Negro Anthem.”

Journal of Negro History, At Douglass Junior High, which became the Journal students sang the anthem and of African American presented “brief biographies History. In of the lives of Negroes at the daily assembly.”

At the Colored Vocational School, “students observed the week by a discussion of outstanding Negro characters.

Among those given attention were Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Banneker, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, [AFRO founder John H. Murphy]” and others.

In creating the event, Woodson, founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), made an eloquent argument for the need for Blacks’ history to be recognized and celebrated. His argument was the subject of a lecture he gave to Baltimore teachers that was reported in an AFRO story also dated Feb. 20, 1926, headlined “School Books Give AFRO Archives clippings: Federation False History Ideas.”

Asked Hi Building Jan. 23, 1926; Negro “There exists Was First to Discover America Feb. 13, a propaganda, a 1926 systemized plan to educate the world into believing that the African was only intended to 1937, he also created the become a hewer of wood and Negro History Bulletin, which a drawer of water—a burden was later changed to the bearer for superior people,” Black History Bulletin. The Woodson told teachers. “… publications were focused on It’s our job to get the truth educating readers about Black of Negro history over first to life and history.

Negroes, who for generations By the time the Negro have been told they have no History Week reached history, and then to take the its seventh year, some of truth to white people.” the AFRO’s editors were Later, Woodson, who opposing it. wrote occasionally for the In an editorial dated AFRO, would come to be Feb. 25, 1933 entitled known as the “Father of Black “Why Negro History

The year was 1905 and some of Baltimore’s prominent gentlemen were looking for a place to congregate together.

When they were rejected from establishments catering to White men, they decided to start their own socialclub.

That’s when the Arch Social Club was born and for more than a century, it has served the Black men The Dee Jay - J. Juddy of Baltimore Photo by J.D. Howard seeking entertainment.

The club was officially chartered on March 15, 1912.

These days, the Arch Social Club is still open for business.

To honor their rich legacy and to celebrate the recent renovation of the club and the launching of its website, members gathered last month for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration.

Under a renovated façade, members commemorated the founders and the role the historic institution has played in Baltimore’s proud Black history. The Jan. 19 event drew the club’s leaders and supporters, as well as city officials including Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) and Del. Melvin Stukes (D-Balto.) and former Mayor Sheila Dixon.

“The Arch Social Club always had an important place in Baltimore history,” said Brother Kaleb Tshamba, chairman of the Arch Social Club’s Board of Trustees. “It was the place where Black men could meet when others turned them away.

There are still activities there, such as hand dancing, which includes women. We are still very much here.”

Tshamba said the renovation including giving the club, located at Pennsylvania and North, a facelift.

“We took the façades and made them to look like they did back in 1912,” he said.

Officials said today’s Arch Social Club includes about 60 members. There are 15 officers, including seven who are members of the board of trustees. They are trying to recruit younger members to keep the tradition going, officials said.

The club was founded by Raymond Coates (1873-1924), Jeremiah Hill (1858-1929) and Sam Barney (1863-1938), who dedicated the club to “the social, moral and intellectual uplift of its members, and in order that charity may be practiced in a Christian-like spirit and true friendship and brotherly love be promoted and maintained,” Tshamba said.

Over the years, members have included preachers, educators, musicians, barbers, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, business leaders and politicians.

Donna Hollie, 71, of Baltimore, said she first went to the club when she and her late husband, Ronald, were dating— many years ago. He was president of the club for eight years.

When she was younger, she used to go to the club two or three times a month “It was a completely Black owned and operated club, which, at the time, was completely unheard of to me,” she said. “They had all live music at the time, and both men and women were treated with respect. It was just a fun place to be.”

Hollie, who is retired from Baltimore city social services, credited the club with building Baltimore’s jazz scene. She said musicians were grateful to play there because it had an actual concert hall, unlike many venues.

“Lots of very well-known jazz musicians, many who have passed away, have played there, and said they enjoyed playing there,” she said.

Tshamba, 64, who was born and raised in Baltimore, is a members they’ve had, I’m glad that it is still around,” she said. retired military veteran and glass worker. He joined the club in “I’m happy that they are recruiting new people and trying to 1998, and was immediately drafted into the board of trustees. get a better network. I’m glad that they are renovating, instead He was later promoted to chairman, and has served in that of closing, like a lot of the other historic places around here, position for 12 years. because it’s a really nice place to go.”

Tshamba said the Arch, the social group that runs the club, has been active in helping the people of Baltimore for generations.

“The club was formed to be of service to the community, to preserve that culture and to promote brotherhood,” said Tshamba, adding that the club has donated money to the fund churches, created scholarships and built playgrounds for the youth of Baltimore.

The Arch Social Club still offers regular activities, including hand dancing and line dancing classes, dance nights, and concerts featuring various musical acts, typically jazz and blues. While it is referred to as a men’s club, many women attend the events.

To place an Announcement Delly Alexander, 59, who or Obit, call 410-554-8200 grew up in Baltimore and now lives in Baltimore County, said and ask for an she has attended events for years. advertising representative.

“Considering the extensive history of the club and all the

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Departed from this life Feb. 3, 2014. He leaves to mourn his wife, Etta; children, Eliot Jr., Norma Pollard, Loretta Boyd, Katherine, James Sr., Lisa and Matthew. Memorial is private.

Week,” the writer describes a scene where Johnny, a young boy, questions the commemoration. It is “harder to remember, trying to cram it all down at one time!” the child said of trying to recognize so much information in one week.

The AFRO writer agreed.

“We are at heart uncompromisingly opposed to the Negro History Week observance because of the idea of separation that it sets up,” the newspaper said.”Further, it is observed only in Negro schools, and

white children, who need to be taught as much as our own that the Negro has not always been a dullard and a burden in America, are not given the benefit of this knowledge, and their conception of the race is dwarfed, and the march toward justice is therefore retarded. This is criminal. We are in hearty accord with little Johnny—we’ll take our Negro history along with the rest.”

In 1976, the commemoration was lengthened to the entire month of February and named Black History Month.

The Arch Social Club is currently looking for new members, including younger men, to build more of a versatile network, Tshamba said.

“We want the type of numbers that the club had back in the day,” he said.

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7 Facts About the Cove Point LNG Project Dominion’s proposal to add export capability to its Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas facility in Calvert County will be Southern Maryland’s largest private investment in at least a generation. So it’s no surprise the project has received broad and strong support. Still, we believe we have a responsibility to make sure everyone knows the facts about this project.

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The project will deliver substantial and far-reaching economic benefits.

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The project’s economic benefits include strong job growth.

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By using clean-burning natural gas, the project will protect the environment.

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Dominion is continuing a 40-year record as a trusted neighbor.

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We’ve done our homework, and made it public.

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We’re designing to have the smallest local impact possible.

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The facility will be built somewhere. Calvert County should be able to enjoy its benefits.

Calvert County will initially receive more than $40 million in new revenue each year from the project. That’s in addition to the $15 million being paid now. To put it in perspective, that’s almost 15% of the county’s current $274 million operating budget.

This new revenue could be used for tax relief; sewer, water, recreation or road improvements; support for schools; aid to senior citizens; or any combination of worthy projects.

Thousands of construction jobs will be created over the course of the project. Most of those are expected to go to local residents.

Another 75 high-paying permanent positions will also be created. And that’s not to mention the opportunities for local businesses to participate in the project, as well as the spending increases other local businesses will enjoy.

The facility’s new equipment will use natural gas, the cleanest-burning fossil fuel. It meets the most stringent environmental limits to protect air quality. It has been carefully designed to optimize efficiency while minimizing impacts. And it will also be zero-discharge—no water used will disturb the bay.

In all, Dominion has provided more than $2.3 million in charitable grants and donations in Maryland since 2002. One example is the Dominion Reef at the Gooses—one of the largest efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population. Beyond that, Dominion led an initiative to save the largest freshwater marsh on the bay’s western shore when it was damaged by a storm.

And for nearly four decades, the facility’s daily operations have gone largely—and pleasantly—unnoticed.

Over the past 20 months, Dominion has filed more than 20,000 pages of documents as part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s review of the project. And that’s just one of about 50 federal, state and local government permits and approvals needed. As a result, the project is being given a thorough review to minimize potential impacts on the bay and other water resources, residential areas, wildlife, vegetation, air, soil, noise, public safety, traffic and visual quality.

The LNG facility will be built entirely within the existing fenced industrial area. The surrounding 800 acres Dominion owns will remain a woodlands and wetlands preserve. The heat generated by the natural gas-fired turbines used in the liquefaction process will be reclaimed to generate clean electricity for the facility. A sound wall to shield neighbors from noise will be concealed by 350 feet of tall trees. And road improvements and other initiatives will minimize traffic disruptions.

If this project does not go forward, our customers may choose to either export gas from other competing projects in the United States, or import gas from the Middle East, Russia or other parts of the world. In the end, global demand will be met. But without this project, Southern Maryland will get none of the benefits.

Despite these facts, we know some people will still have questions. And we’re committed to answering each and every one.

So far we’ve held 39 meetings with local residents, and have many more planned. The government approval process is open, and we encourage our neighbors to participate. Our website, dom.com (keyword: Cove Point), offers even more background about this project, a regularly updated list of FAQs and a place to ask questions and sign up for our e-newsletter. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

We’ve been neighbors for four decades. And we believe we’ve been good neighbors. Our goal is to continue working together to improve Calvert County and all of Southern Maryland. We firmly believe the plans we have for Cove Point will do just that.

Thank you.

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The Great Divide of Income Inequality

“Income inequality” have become the political buzzwords of 2014. In his State of the Union address, President Obama made it a central theme of his second term.

Both progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans in Congress are making the issue a focus of this year’s mid-term elections, and leading voices for human rights have called Marc H. Morial on government and business NNPA Columnist leaders to take immediate action to close the income gap for the sake of long-term economic and social stability.

As leaders from government, business and NGO sectors around the world gathered in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting last week, the issue of inequality was atop the agenda. The organization’s “Global Risks 2014” report recently revealed that the “chronic gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest citizens is seen as the risk that is most likely to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade.”

Another voice was added to the chorus last week when the British-based anti-poverty organization Oxfam International released a report in advance of the Davos gathering revealing that the richest 85 people in the world control as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population, or about 3.5 billion people.

“It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world’s population owns no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all sit comfortably in a single train carriage,” Oxfam Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said. “Widening inequality is creating a vicious circle where wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving the rest of us to fight over crumbs from the top table.”

According to the same report, the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has grown at a faster rate than any other developed country; the richest 1 percent of Americans have received 95 percent of the wealth created following the economic crisis in

2009, while the bottom 90 percent of Americans have become poorer.

While both sides of the political ping-pong table in the United States are focused on the domestic crisis and implications of this global problem, there are disturbing signs that the issue may fall prey to the same kind of ideological posturing that has stymied recent efforts to create jobs, reduce unemployment, raise the minimum wage and help the long-term unemployed.

In fact, as reported by CNNMoney, almost two-thirds of the delegates surveyed during a debate in Davos on Jan. 31 said that the widening gap, or what I call “The Great Divide,” between rich and poor is having a corrosive effect on U.S. politics.

For example, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) saw the problem not as one of income inequality but of “opportunity inequality” and continues to resist efforts to raise the minimum wage. To be clear, opportunity inequality is alive and thriving in America; but any attempts to separate it from income inequality are divertive and lacking recognition of the correlation between the two.

During a recent visit to Detroit, where unemployment has been above 15 percent for more than a year, Sen. Rand Paul (RKy.) said that it would be a “disservice” to the jobless to extend their unemployment benefits beyond the current limit. Further, Ryan, another potential presidential candidate, has traveled the country declaring how the government safety net—programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Head Start—has “failed miserably.”

In contrast, President Obama has warned that “The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe.” He

has called for an increase in the minimum wage—a move the National Urban League has been pushing since 2006—and an extension of unemployment benefits as first steps in addressing the problem. On Jan. 9, he announced the creation of five “Promise Zones,” in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, southeastern Kentucky and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma that will receive targeted government tax incentives to create jobs and reduce unemployment.

The need is clear. The Urban League has raised this issue constantly over the last several years, and people are finally listening. We must not let the seriousness and urgency of this problem get caught in the crossfire of ideological warfare.

Americans need policy solutions developed in partnership with corporate, government and non-profit leaders—now.

Awareness is good, but action is better.

Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.

Facing the Challenges of Business Ownership

There is nothing like doing what you love to do— and it’s even better when others share your vision and goals.

Tuesday, Jan. 28 was almost perfect. Along with three key supporters of the U.S. Black Chambers, I started the day off telling the U.S. Black Chambers story on TV One’s “News One Now with Roland Martin.”

Joining me on air Ron Busby Sr. were Marie Johns, former NNPA Columnist deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration; Michael Grant, president of the National Bankers Association; and Antwanye Ford, co-founder of Enlightened, Inc., one of America’s premier Black-owned businesses.

Martin cut right to the reason we were guests on his show, asking if we expected that President Obama’s State of the Union address would include anything to benefit Black America, particularly Black businesses?

Johns said that, despite the horror stories that make up the reality of far too many Black businesses, there are Small Business Administration programs that deliver as promised.

In fact, Ford’s company, Enlightened, Inc., recently graduated from the SBA’s 8(a) program and is now a $16 million, 150-employee company as a result of taking advantage of federal procurement opportunities.

Of course, it’s not easy, and every business won’t meet the same level of success, but the opportunity is there.

“The 8(a) experience forced us to think in terms of scale,” Ford said. “Too often, Black businesses find themselves unprepared when confronted with ‘next stage’ opportunities.

The SBA program, coupled with the relationships gained through our chamber membership, are key advantages for our company—and we wouldn’t be here without those experiences.”

His words are a reminder of the heartbeat of chamber membership and why we stress to business owners across the country the importance of U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. and its network. Membership in a local chamber is key, but the relationships gained through membership in the USBC make it possible to connect a business in Columbus with a contact in Phoenix, for example.

Grant assured viewers that banks, and minority banks in particular, really do want to lend money. However, they have to

make certain that the risk they take is small. Black banks feel loan losses more acutely than larger, national and international financial institutions; they need the earnings from lending activity just as much as the big boys.

Together, Johns, Ford and Grant told the story of USBC: advocacy, access to capital, access to contracting, entrepreneur training and Chamber development. Our five pillars of service deliver answers to the challenges faced by Black business owners across America.

Did we answer Martin’s question? I don’t know. What I do know is that immediately following the broadcast, the White House called for our input on the president’s proposal to increase the minimum wage. We know from our experience that Black businesses typically pay above minimum rates to keep good employees, so we know what the extra dollars in a paycheck mean in a household. To have our opinion sought out by the White House on the day President Obama was to deliver his address is further proof that the work we do on behalf of Black business is valuable and that our opinions are part of the policy making machinery.

Ron Busby, Sr. is president and CEO of U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. For more info, go to www.usblackchamber.org.

Simeon Booker Deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor In December, Ohio Congressmen Tim Ryan, a Democrat, and Dave Joyce, a Republican, introduced legislation calling for the award of the Congressional Gold Medal to the famous civil rights reporter Simeon Booker.

Booker is perhaps one of the most wellknown African-American journalists, and is often called the “Dean of the Derrick Humphries Black Press.” As Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist Publishing Company’s Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent for more than 50 years, he wrote the weekly column “Tickertape USA” for Jet magazine, a one-page capsule of news and achievements by personalities

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that was a must-read for African-Americans across the nation.

His coverage of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s was courageous and highly influential. In 1955, he covered the Mississippi kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till so thoroughly that his reporting is credited with galvanizing the nascent Civil Rights Movement. He went on to cover the murders, marches, sit-ins and freedom rides of the movement, often putting his own life in danger. He also covered 10 U.S. presidents and twice traveled to Vietnam during the war there to report on the heroism of soldiers whose rights were still unsecured at home.

His distinguished career as a journalist began as a youth when he wrote for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator and the Buckeye Review. After graduating from Virginia Union University in Richmond in 1942, he worked for the Baltimore Afro-American from 1942 to 1944, and the Cleveland Call and Post from 1944 to 1951. He was awarded the coveted Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard University for the 19501951 academic year, and he was the first African-American reporter at The Washington Post from 1951 to 1953. His career

with Johnson Publishing spanned from 1953 until 2007, when he retired.

Booker has received countless awards for his achievements, and it is high time that he is awarded Congress’ highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. It is hard to think what the civil rights struggle and, indeed, America would be today without the breakthrough reporting and writing that Simeon Booker contributed over his career.

We call for our representatives in Congress to support Congressmen Ryan and Joyce’s legislation, and we thank Simeon Booker for his outstanding career. He is quite simply one of the greatest journalists in the history of the news business.

Derrick A. Humphries is a founding partner of the law office of Humphries & Partners, PLLC, based in Washington, D.C., with a diverse, global legal services network. He was formerly Legal Counsel and Media Director for the Congressional Black Caucus.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION As families came together to bury their love ones, Booker was there to witness their most intimate moments of grief and despair. But along with the sadness, Booker encountered moments of dark humor: brawls between mistresses and widows, and car crashes at McDonald’s with dead bodies in tow. While she never got over her terror of the embalming room, Booker learned to expect the unexpected and to never, ever cry.

This vibrant tour of a macabre world reveals an urban funeral culture where photo-screened memorial T-shirts often replace suits and ties and the dead are sent off with a joint or a fifth of cognac. “Nine Years Under” offer readers an unbelievable glimpse into an industry in the backdrop of all our lives.

Writer, poet, spoken word artist, and teacher. In 2007, she lived in rural South Africa where she helped to teach journalism skills to African women and worked as an editorial assistant for an international literary magazine. She currently teaches a refreshing course called Mind, Body, Soul at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. Sheri has an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from Goucher College. Visit her online at sheribooker.com.

Current members of the NAACP can cast their vote for Sheri until Feb. 14 by going to vote. naacpimageawards.net.

Gilman’s 11th Annual Cultural Arts Festival Set for Feb. 9

Gilman School will host the 11th annual Cultural Arts Festival, 1-4 p.m., Feb. 9, in the Old Gym. The event is free and open to the public, sponsored by Gilman’s Diversity Committee.

The annual event aims to promote understanding, education, and respect by showcasing art, history, music, customs, entertainment, and food from various global cultures represented within the Gilman community.

More than 30 different cultural exhibits and ethnic foods will be featured. Entertainment will include Native American and Korean dancing, a Blue Dragons Martial Arts demonstration, a Masada Tactical Israeli Combat demonstration, Bhangra and Egyptian folk dances, and more.

Guests are asked to bring a non-perishable food item for the Donald Bentley Food Pantry.

Inclement weather date is Feb. 23.

For more information, visit http://www.gilman.edu/.

Kiesha Haughton Smoots Joins MCE Board of Directors

Kiesha Haughton Smoots, director of the Central Maryland Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), has joined the board of directors for Maryland Capital Enterprises (MCE), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping small businesses and entrepreneurs succeed.

Since 2009, Smoots has managed the Central Region for the Maryland SBTDC, which is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs establish and expand their business. Founded in 1979, the Central Maryland office is part of a national network that helps over 500,000 businesses on an annual basis. The SBTDC provides a variety of management and technical assistance programs designed to strengthen business firms, thereby contributing to the growth of the local, state and national Kiesha H. Smoots economies.

“We are grateful to have Kiesha’s vast experience helping businesses in the Baltimore/Annapolis area,” said MCE’s CEO Joe Morse. “MCE and the SBTDC will continue to work closely together to assist entrepreneurs in this region and this addition will help us further build on that relationship to help area businesses.”

She was a founding member of the MCE Baltimore-Annapolis area advisory board, and will help MCE expand service in Baltimore City, as well as and Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties.

Smoots has a BA Degree and a MBA degree from the University of Maryland and a MA Degree in Global Finance, Trade and Economic Integration from the University of Denver.

To learn more, visit www.marylandcapital.org.

Baltimore Author Nominated for NAACP Image Award

Sheri Booker’s first memoir, “Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home,“ is nominated by the NAACP Image Awards for “Outstanding Literary Work from a Debut Author.”

The 45th Annual NAACP Image Awards will occur at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on Feb. 22. The show will be televised live on the TV One network, starting with the red carpet at 8 p.m.

“It’s such an honor to be recognized among the brightest and most brilliant people of color by the organization that holds us all accountable and makes us all want to be great. I lost my mother, a faithful member of the NAACP, the same the day the nominations were announced, so this nomination means everything to me,” said Booker.

Sheri Booker At 15 years old, Booker started working at a funeral home in West Baltimore. She didn’t know her summer job would become 9 years of immersion in a hidden world. Grieving from the death of her beloved great aunt, the funeral home became a place of comfort.

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Rep. John Lewis and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake

Lovers of books, book club members, historians and archivists gathered early, Feb. 1, to hear a first-hand account of just how it was and how it felt when Rep. John Lewis, (D-Ga.) gave the keynote

Patricia J. Lasher, chair of Pratt board of trustees

D.E.A.R Girlfriends Book Club of Washington, D.C., Linda Walker, left, Shunita Seacrease, LaDonia Wilkins, Sylvia O’Neal, Carla Hillery McAllister, Joyce Nesmith Nixon, Joan Nesmith-Turner, Anita Lewis,Maria Williams,and Beatrice Mitchell

The Associated Black Charities table with CEO Diane Bell McKoy, right.

Movement is secured in history, and his every remembrance was impassioned by his love for reading that continues to feed his hunger for knowledge.

No one was quite satisfied when his talk was finished and many tried to hear just “one more thing” as they lined up to have their books and memorabilia signed.

Lewis, Rep. Elijah Cummings, who introduced him, as well as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake all Michelle Landon, left, with her attested to the fact that no comparable event exists mother, Loretta Daniels and her in other American cities, attributing much of that to grandmother, Mamie the ongoing work of Pratt CEO Dr. Carla Hayden.

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Dr. Joanne L. Martin, founder and director, National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

Cassandra Askew and Veronica Henry

AFRO table: Darlene Graham, Rev. Dorothy Boulware, AFRO editor and two of her ‘Old Dears’ Roslyn Chester and Bettie Durant.

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Little Miss Maria Ishmeal enjoyed watching the people at the breakfast.

Ushers are Fannie Curtis, left, Jean Williams, Mildred Proctor, Andrea Gibson, president, Emily Moore, standing

eggs, hot homemade biscuits, fried potatoes and sweet buns. The banquet hall of the church was packed with parishioners who had just attended mass and Holy Communion.

The Honorable Carl Stokes, 12th District, Baltimore City Council gave the keynote address, indicating to the audience that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Joan Stukes-Maurice, Alex Maurice, Catherine DeFord, Gloria Marrow, Bernice Brown

Guest speaker, Rep. John Lewis, left, with Pratt Library CEO Dr. Carla Hayden and Rep. Elijah Cummings

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The 34th Annual Mass and Communion Breakfast commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held, Jan. 19, at New All Saints Roman Catholic Church in west Baltimore. The breakfast was sponsored by the Men’s Club; it was served by the Women’s Club - bacon and sausage, scrambled

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Godfrey Smith, Celestine Councilman Smith, Verita Inman Stokes traced the historical journey of Dr. King’s life from Alabama to his death, providing many quotes from several of Dr. King’s writings.

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LOCAL FOLKS CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH Hello my dear friends! What an exciting month this is.

Believe me, a lot is going on. First of all the Lexington Market is celebrating every day in February except for Sundays, with musical performances, exhibits and book signings with authors from all over Maryland. Free concerts from 12 noon until 2 p.m. every Saturday and Monday’s thru Friday’s noon until 1 p.m. All events for Black History month begin 10:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. It is open to the public and it is free.

I am so excited to tell you about one of our children who receive a scholarship from the Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund in 1996. Vernon Hill is his name. He recently released his new single “Jesus Is Calling.” He is a graduate of Shenandoah University Music Conservatory where he earned a bachelor’s degree in music production and engineering. His skills and education led to him scoring the independent short film, “Dress to Impress,” which was featured at the Chicago International Music Film Festival. Hill currently serves as music coordinator at First Christian Community Church in Annapolis. He is also a studio engineer with Rhema Vision Studio in Owings Mills. You can follow Vernon Hill on Facebook and Twitter.

This is not only Black History Month, but also we are celebrating Valentine’s Day next week and J.C. Productions has geared up for a fantastic Valentine’s Day Show and Dance starring many of our local entertainers, such as: “The Mighty Smooth-N-Company”, “Fabulous Friends”, “Class”, “Unity”, “Simply Black”, female vocalists; Ms. Star, Ms. Val, Ms. Cookie Ms. Sonja and Mr. Mack James, formally of WEBB, WSIO, V-103 and WWIN radio personality. This event will be held, 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., Feb. 8 at the Gentleman Ten Social Club, 2135 Edmondson Ave. in Baltimore. It is a cabaret style event, so B.Y.O.B.; free set-ups and dinners on sale. For more information, call 410-944-8944 and ask for Mr. Chambers.

An organization named, Beloved Community Services Corporation presents an evening of jazz featuring Carlos Johnson & Zone One Band featuring Carlos Johnson on vocals and alto saxophone, Jackie Hairston on keyboards, and Leon Alexander on drums. Also a group called Deep Water, a group whose influences are historically long and diverse going back to Duke Ellington, Dizzy and Monk. It will be held 5 p.m., Feb. 8 at the Room of Remembrance, 1219 Druid Hill Avenue.

Vernon Hill, a recipient of the Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund in 1996 just recently released “Jesus Is Calling,” the lead single from the album, “Songs from His Presence” featuring Lavarn Gordon.

Well, my dear friends, I am out of space and out of time, but, if you need me, call me at 410- 833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com. UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, I AM MUSICALLY YOUR

Carlos Johnson & Zone One Band will be performing Feb. 8 for the “Beloved Community Services Corporation” at the Room of Remembrance, 1219 Druid Hill Avenue.

Big Bands will participate in Lexington Market’s Black History Month celebration. They have many ways to celebrate with special talented children from the Baltimore City Schools perform narrated skits, music, songs, and dance based on African, Caribbean, jazz,T:11 blues, gospel or big band swing/jazz themes. There will be displays, performances and in hands on activities that depict the rich African culture.

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Alice Walker – The “PBS American Masters” Interview that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us.

They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to White teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community. And I was very unhappy about that because I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground.

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO Alice Walker has been called one of the major international writers of the 20th century. She made history as the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her novel “The Color Purple,” one of the few literary works to capture the popular imagination and leave a permanent imprint.

The documentary “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth” premieres on PBS’ “American Masters” series on Friday at 9 p.m.

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KW: I learned so much about you from the film. For instance, I was surprised to hear that Howard Zinn had been a professor of yours in college.

AW: He was already teaching at Spelman [College] when I arrived as a freshperson. I took his class the following year, because I had gone to the Soviet Union and wanted to learn more about Russia, and I think he was the only person in all of Atlanta who knew anything about Russian literature, which I loved. He was teaching Russian literature, the language, and some of the politics. We became really good friends when I took his class, but then he was fired.

KW: For doing more than just teaching.

AW: He helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for

KW: What was it like dealing with the blowback for the next several years coming from critics who said “The Color Purple” was anti-Black men?

AW: It actually lasted for a decade. How could you imagine that people could be mad at you for so long? I felt a great deal of weariness. But because it wasn’t the first time that I had been heavily criticized, I learned that you just keep going and turn to other things.

KW: How do you feel about President Obama’s presidency thus far?

AW: I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

I cannot support his caving in to Netanyahu [Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu].

There’s a long list of this administration’s initiatives that I find unsupportable. I think many black people support him because they’re so happy to have handsome black man in the White House.

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“Guiou: The Other Blacks” – The Afro-Jamaican Presence in Guatemala

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO Did you know that Guatemala once had both an English and Spanish-speaking Black community? The latter group, known as Garifuna, arrived from Nigeria by way of St. Vincent, where they blended with Carib Indians beginning in 1635 before migrating to Guatemala.

By contrast, the former group was brought to the country to work the fields only about a hundred years ago by the United Fruit Company, settling in an area called Colonia.

These English-speaking Afro-Jamaicans, or Guiou, gradually disappeared over the intervening decades, but not before making a lasting impression upon their adopted homeland and elsewhere.

“Guiou: The Other Blacks” by Gloria J. Arnold is a meticulously researched and generously illustrated text dedicated to documenting the cultural contributions of Guatemala’s English-speaking blacks.

The author undertook this challenge as a labor of love, given her Afro-Jamaican Guatemalan roots.

Born in Guatemala, Arnold moved to New York City with her family in the 1950s as an adolescent, at the same time many other Guiou left for America as well. Sadly, most of the friends she made in the States knew next to nothing about her native country, especially about its Black population.

Despite the fact that much of the Jamaican presence in Guatamala had gradually disappeared due to assimilation and emigration, as an adult Arnold made it her mission to honor what remained of her vanishing roots. Her book preserves an informative mix of photos and personal anecdotes, recorded and oral history, biographical information of leaders and luminaries, and a genealogy of Afro-Jamaican Guatemalan surnames. Also included are recipes for a variety of local delicacies such as Fish Escovitch, Fried Breadfruit, Bulla Cake and Sorrel Wine.

As much a history book as a heartfelt tribute, “Guiou: The Other Blacks” reflects Arnold’s deep appreciation of her ancestors and her rich cultural heritage.

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Strahan Leads Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 2014 Class

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced on Feb. 1 plans to induct seven new members into football immortality, including the NFL’s all-time sack leader, Michael Strahan, alum of historically Black college (HBCU) Texas Southern University, who played 15 years with the New York Giants before retiring in 2007.

Strahan, was first eligible for nomination into the Hall of Fame last year, yet was surprisingly not chosen despite his remarkable career.

But Strahan, the 2001 Defensive Player of the Year, only had to wait one more year before he was voted in as a second-ballot selection. He will now add the title of Pro Football Hall of Fame member to a career resume that already includes seven Pro Bowl appearances, six All-Pro First Team selections, the 2002 Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year award, and a Super Bowl title.

The other members of the 2014 class of the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame include former Oakland Raiders punter Ray Guy, the first punter ever selected; former Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker, Derrick Brooks; former Buffalo Bills receiver, Andre Reed; former Seattle Seahawks tackle, Walter Jones; former Seattle Seahawks offensive lineman Aeneas Williams; and former defensive lineman (Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles), Claude Humphrey,.

Six of the seven 2014 Hall of Fame inductees, Strahan, Brooks, Reed, Williams, Jones, and Humphrey are African-American. Three of them, Strahan, Williams, and Humphrey, are alumni

of an HBCU. All seven players were together when their selections were announced at the NFL Honors ceremony at Radio City Music Hall Feb. 1 in New York City, according to NFL.com.

Like Strahan, Brooks is a former AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award winner, earning the honor one year after Strahan in 2002. He also helped the Buccaneers win Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003, was named to the NFL Pro Bowl 11 times and selected to the All-Pro team nine times. Brooks played all 14 years of his career in Tampa before retiring in 2008.

Reed played with the Bills from 1985-1999 before playing one season with the Washington NFL franchise in 2000. A seven-time Pro Bowler, Reed is most famously known as the go-to receiver for Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. Reed, Kelly and former Bills running back Thurman Thomas guided the Bills to four straight Super Bowls from 1990-93.

Williams was with the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals from 1991-2000, and with the St. Louis Rams 2001-2004. The Michael Strahan HBCU Southern University alum was selected to eight Pro Bowls with five All-Pro selections.

Jones served all 13 years of his career in Seattle and was named to nine Pro Bowls, seven All-Pro selections and helped lead the Seahawks to Super Bowl XL. Humphrey, who graduated from the HBCU Tennessee State University, played in the NFL from 1968 to 1981, with his first 11 years played in Atlanta before playing his last three years with the Eagles. Humphrey earned six Pro Bowl and five All-Pro selections with the Falcons.

Guy was a seven-time Pro Bowler and three-time Super Bowl champion with the Raiders.

Black Athletes Could Make History at Winter Olympics

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor There are five African-American athletes to keep an eye on during the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Speed skater Shani Davis, along with women’s bobsled members Lolo Jones, Lauryn Williams, Aja Evans and Jasmine Fenlator, are each in position to help make American history in the Winter Olympics.

Davis, 31, already made history by becoming the first Black male athlete to win a Winter Games Olympic individual sport medal when he won gold in the 1000-meter speed skating event at the 2006 Olympics at Turin. He won gold in the same event at the 2010 Winter Games at Vancouver, and could become the first American to ever win three straight Winter Games Olympic gold medals if he wins the 1000-meter again in Sochi.

Unlike Davis, though already seasoned Olympians, Jones and Williams will be performing in their first Winter Games, both as members of the USA women’s bobsled team. Jones,

31, is one of the most famous hurdlers for team USA, but switched to bobsled with hopes of earning her first ever Olympic medal. She had fell just short of winning a medal as a hurdler during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in 4th place in the 100-meter hurdlers.

According to reports, Jones persuaded Williams to join her on the women’s bobsled team to help her chances at taking the gold at Sochi. Williams, 30, won a gold medal during the Summer Games in London with the women’s 4x100-meter relay team. If she wins a gold medal in the women’s bobsled event, she’ll become the first woman to ever win a gold medal in both the summer and winter Olympics.

A win for Williams and Jones would also mean a gold medal for Evans and Fenlator, too. Evans, 25, who competed in the shot put and sprinting in college, is the brakeman for the team, and Fenlator, 28, will serve as the diver. All four women are looking to become the only African-American women to win a Winter Olympic medal besides Vonette Flowers, the first ever Black athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal when she won gold in the 2-man bobsled event in 2002 Olympics at Salt Lake City.

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