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Cleveland, U.S. Justice Department Shaw Launches New Affordable Housing Announce Police Settlement Project

By Mark Gillispie Associated Press

Residents View Development Suspiciously

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland agreed to sweeping changes in how its police officers use force, treat the community and deal with the mentally ill, under a settlement announced Tuesday with the federal government that will put the 1,500-member department under an independent monitor.

The settlement was made public three days after a white Cleveland patrolman was acquitted of manslaughter for his role in a 137-shot barrage

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By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO D.C. Shaw residents recently saw the groundbreaking for a new eight-story building on Seventh Street Northwest touted as a continued foray into affordable housing development in the region. To be saddled by the existing 108-unit, 10-story building, affectionately known by residents as the Tower, the new structure follows design plans already visible from the historic O Street Market to Florida Avenue.

Built in the shadows of the Shaw Metro station, the new building is to be named for the Rev. Channing Phillips, the first African-American placed in nomination for the presidency of the United States by a major political party. Phillips served seven years as the pastor of Lincoln Temple United Church of Christ in the District and as president of the Housing Development Corporation, a government-backed housing

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Baltimore Recovers Marches To Address Rising Violence In Baltimore AP Photo

Protesters stand outside the courthouse after the Michael Brelo verdict May 23, 2015, in Cleveland. Brelo, a police officer charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects, Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams. of police gunfire that left two unarmed black suspects dead in a car in 2012.

Mayor Frank Jackson said the ambitious plan that was worked out over five months of negotiations with the U.S.

Justice Department will be expensive and will take years to put in place. But he said he sees it as a chance to set an example for other cities.

The proposed reforms come amid tension around

the U.S. over a string of cases in which blacks died at the hands of police.

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Iyanla Vanzant Heads 3-Day Healing Seminar at Empowerment Temple

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent Inspirational speaker and life coach Iyanla Vanzant visited Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple to lead the first of a three-day “Fix My City” healing service May 26.

The host of OWN’s hit TV show, “Iyanla: Fix My Life,” in which she helps people to overcome difficult situations in their lives, visited the Iyanlavanzant.com city at the behest of Empowerment Iyanla Vanzant visited Baltimore’s pastor Jamal Bryant to be part of Empowerment Temple. the city’s recovery efforts after recent riots in the wake of 25-yearold Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody. The violent tumult was a manifestation of the Black community’s frustration and pain with decades of social and economic inequities in the city, Bryant and other leaders have said.

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Tessa Hill-Aston, president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP, said the organization has talked to West Baltimore residents and many said having a record of non-violent minor arrests prevented them from getting and keeping jobs. “Some people get hired, work for a month and then when the background check happens. A Tessa Hill-Aston is month later they get let go, even president of the though they were doing a good Baltimore chapter of job,” Hill-Aston said. the NAACP. To help those people the NAACP offers to expunge their records for free and will begin offering a class on the expungement process in SandtownContinued on A3

“Tonight is a night of healing. It’s not necessarily about cancer, or leukemia or necessarily about tumors, but there is in fact a lot of emotional illness,” Bryant said. “There is a lot of pain that a lot of us are harboring and holding on to….

“It is by no accident that Black people have high blood pressure, it’s by no accident that a whole lot of us have trouble going to sleep at night, it’s by no accident that a lot of us, even in teen years, have had anxiety attacks. But I’m believing that peace is getting ready to hit your lives tonight.”

Taking to the stage as the choir sang the hymn “It Is Well with My –Vanzant Soul,” Vanzant asked members of the audience to breathe deeply, essentially breathing peace and “wellness” into their spirits.

“Call the thing that is not as though it were and it will be. Every single aspect of your life—your health, your finances, your relationships, your families…it is Continued on A8

“Tonight is a night of healing.”

Bowser Gives HUD Secretary a Tour of Shaw

By James Wright Special to the AFRO D.C. In recognition of his department’s work for half of a century, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development was escorted on a short tour of a District neighborhood by the city’s mayor. On May 21 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) showed U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro a part of the historic Shaw neighborhood as a part of the department’s 50th anniversary activities. Bowser said that HUD’s investment in producing and protecting affordable housing has made a difference in that area.

“Whether they have been here for five minutes or five generations, Washingtonians understand the District’s brightest days are still ahead,” Bowser said. “That’s because for decades, the

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Ward 6 advisory neighborhood commissioner Alex Padro (far right) walks with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, HUD Secretary Julian Castro and District Department of Housing and Community Development Director Polly Donaldson as they tour the Shaw neighborhood on May 21.

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Off-Duty Cop Not Charged in Killing of 18-YearOld

St. Louis police Officer Jason Flanery will not be charged for the shooting of 18-yearold VonDerrit Myers, prosecutors announced this week.

Unlike Michael Brown and other unarmed Black teens that were killed by police officers, Myers is a different story since he reportedly had a gun and shot at #sthash.Hntg5nX1.dpuf the officer, according 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers to accounts. pictured with his mother.

In October 2014, Flanery was working his secondary job as a security guard, but was wearing his police uniform, including a 9-millimeter department-issued Beretta handgun, according to the prosecutor report cited by the Los Angeles Times. Myers and his friends were walking from a supermarket when Flanery spotted them and they began running. Myers reportedly grabbed at his waistband before he started tussling with the officer. He eventually slipped away before running up a hill, then turned to confront Flanery.

According to police, Myers possessed a gun and fired it at Flanery three times. The officer returned fire, shooting his gun 17 times and hitting Myers with eight bullets.

The crime lab found gunshot residue on Myers’ hands and shirt and inside the pockets of his jeans, according to USA Today.

“Given the fact that Mr. Myers produced a weapon, Missouri laws pertaining to self-defense and an officer’s use of deadly force apply,” a statement from the St. Louis prosecutor’s office read. “Given all the available facts, witness statements, physical and forensic evidence and for reasons outlined in the detailed report, prosecutors have determined a criminal violation could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. ” Myers’ family disputes claims that he had a gun, saying he was holding a sandwich at the time, according to the Times.

Jerryl Christmas, the attorney representing Myers’ family, went so far as to suggest the gun was planted on Myers.

“Flanery is lying when he said he was in a gun battle,” Christmas told the Times. “He shot this boy seven times from behind.”

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Graphic Video Shows Iraq Vet. Sgt. James Brown’s Dramatic 2012 Death in Texas Jail

A video has gone viral of Sgt. James Brown’s last hours in a Texas jail before his sudden death in July 2012.

Brown was an activeduty solider, who served two tours in Iraq, when he was

Screenshot of Sgt. James Brown in police custody. called to report to serve a two-day DWI sentence at the El Paso County Jail in Texas.

In the newly released video, blood can be seen on Brown’s cell door and inside of his cell. When an officer comes over to talk to him, he does not respond. A group of officers in riot gear then barge into his cell and Brown is seen taking off his shirt. As he barely gets his shirt off, the officers take him down to the ground collectively. While on the ground, showing no resistance, Brown repeatedly tells the officers that he cannot breathe. At one point in the video Brown says, “I’m choking on my blood.”

Officers eventually carry Brown on their shoulders to the infirmary where the guards put a “spit mask” on his face and injected him with two shots of lorazepam, which is a sedative.

While there, Brown states at least 20 times that he cannot breathe to the surrounding officers. Brown then begs for some water, and is given the equivalent of one full Dixie cup. The officers then wash Brown’s face off, which contained pepper spray.

At the end of the video, Brown is lying on the ground halfnaked in a cell, not responding and breathing very slowly. Soon after, he is declared dead.

Brown was only in custody for one day, when he called his mother to pay the fine, so he could be immediately freed from jail. His mother paid the fine before morning, but by then it was too late.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office released a statement to CNN, saying Brown died of natural causes and citing “sicklecell crisis” as a factor. But, the family still believes the police had something to do with Brown’s death. Brown suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, which he allegedly mentioned to officers at his intake.

Brown’s family has filed a lawsuit against El Paso County for unspecified damages.

National ‘Blue Alert’ System Created President Obama this week signed into law a new national alert system to help apprehend violent criminals who pose a proven or credible threat to law enforcement.

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at a comprehensive and expeditious way. That prevents the possibility that other officers may be caught by surprise, and it ensures that appropriate steps can be taken as quickly as possible,” Obama said in remarks in the Oval Office during the bill’s signing on May 19.

The Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015 was named for New York City Police Department officers who were slain while sitting in their police patrol car in Brooklyn. Their assailant made believable threats to law enforcement on social media, then followed up on those warnings by travelling from Maryland to New York City to assassinate the officers.

The president thanked congressional lawmakers for their bipartisan effort in passing the measure and the family of the fallen officers for their dedication.

The measure, authored

by Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., is patterned after the Amber Alert System and centralizes a patchwork of state alert systems. It establishes a framework to issue nationwide Blue Alerts in the event of an attack on a law enforcement officer leading to his / her death or serious injury, when an officer goes missing in the line of duty and when an agency confirms that a credible and imminent threat exists against its officers.

The Blue Alert system would be administered by a member of the Department of Justice.

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D.C. Leaders Take Sides on Exelon-Pepco Merger

By James Wright Special to the AFRO

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The Rev. Dr. Jamal H. Bryant is pastor of the Empowerment Temple.

Baltimore Traffic Stops, Protesters Decry Teen Jail Plans

By Kamau High Special to the AFRO Rush hour traffic came to a standstill on major Baltimore roadways as protesters on Tuesday condemned Gov. Larry Hogan’s plans to build a $30 million youth jail and at the same time cut $11 million from Baltimore’s school funding.

The Rev. Dr. Jamal H. Bryant, pastor of the Empowerment Temple and veteran of the Freddie Gray protests, and several groups of protesters blocked exits to 395, Key Highway and several others in downtown Baltimore in an effort to get their demands heard. Rev. Bryant promised that this would be the first of 10 “plagues” that he and his group would visit on Baltimore until Hogan changed his mind.

Asked why he used the term “plague” he said, “I can not find a biblical reference of people protesting.

When we try to protest, the media calls it riots.” He added, “We are outraged that the Governor has his priorities out of place.

– Rev. Bryant His spirit is towards incarcerating Black males instead of educating them.”

Rev. Bryant said of Hogan, who is on a 12-day trade mission to Asia, that Hogan should bring back computers for Baltimore schools from his trip because the ones students use are often outdated and in disrepair.

Maryland approved a new youth jail facility after the Department of Justice found that young people were treated harshly in Baltimore’s adult jails.

Instead of funding a new jail Rev. Bryant said he hoped Hogan would, in addition to giving more money to Baltimore’s schools, increase funding for the Enoch Pratt Library “because it will stem the tide of violence.”

“We are outraged that the Governor has his priorities out of place.”

As the date of the District’s public service commission decision on the Exelon-Pepco merger draws near, District political and business leaders are publicly expressing their feelings about it.

A spokeswoman for the D.C. Public Service Commission told the AFRO on May 22 that a decision on the Exelon-Pepco merger will take place on or before Aug. 25. Judi Jones, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for single-member district 4B07, has been outspoken in her opposition to the merger.

“There is an overwhelming lack of support for this,” Jones said. “I don’t like the fact that a monopolistic nuclear power company will be in charge of power to District residents and businesses. Thirty out of 40 advisory neighborhood commissions have voted not to support this merger because it is not in the best interest of the residents.”

Exelon of Chicago plans to acquire Pepco Holdings for

“Our residents have a lot of concern about this deal.”

– Anthony Lorenzo Green $6.83 billion. If it goes through, Exelon would control the lucrative mid-Atlantic power market and would also give the company financial resources to aid its ailing nuclear power plant portfolio.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Virginia, New Jersey, and Maryland, approved the merger on May 15.

Maryland supports the merger but has 46 conditions that largely deal with energy efficiency, relief for low-income customers, and the delivery of services.

The District and Delaware are considering the merger and for Exelon to acquire Pepco, those two jurisdictions must approve.

Residents had until May 27 at 5:30 p.m. to submit comments on the merger to the public service commission.

Anthony Lorenzo Green, the chairman of the 8B advisory neighborhood commission, led his colleagues to vote against the merger on May 19.

“Our residents have a lot of concerns about this deal,” Green said. “There isn’t a lot of faith in Pepco as it is. Many of our residents don’t think that a nuclear-power company in Chicago will be responsive to their needs.”

The advisory neighborhood commissions as well as the D.C. Council have no voice in the merger’s approval. However, D.C. Council members Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) and Elissa Silverman (I-At Large) opposed the

merger earlier this year and were recently joined by David Grosso (I-At Large) and Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 6) on that.

“I have concluded that the merger does not meet the “public interest” standard as required by the law of the District of Columbia,” Grosso said in a May 12 letter to the public service commission. “First, Exelon has a storied history of opposing commitments to renewable energy. Second, Pepco divested from its generation assets (which focus on financial growth) several years ago and is now focused primarily on the distribution of Wikimedia.org electricity to its customers.”

Former D.C. Mayor Grosso said, in essence, Anthony Williams favors that he didn’t want District the Exelon-Pepco merger. residents to pay for Exelon’s floundering nuclear power plants. Nadeau, in a May 22 letter to the public service commission, expressed discomfort with the financial benefit that Pepco shareholders and company executives would get as a result of the merger while there are no solid guarantees of rate fairness for consumers.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) hasn’t commented on the merger because he owns Pepco stock and D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-Ward 5) is a former Pepco vice president and has therefore recused himself from the debate.

Jones said that there is one public official she wishes would take a position on the merger: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).

“She needs to take a stand on this,” Jones said.

The mayor, through a statement and in interviews with the AFRO, has said she is reviewing the merger and wants what is best for the residents of the District.

The merger has its supporters in the District. “A proposal that brings substantial and tangible benefits for D.C. citizens and economy, with no downside, should be pursued,” former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams and Harry Wingo, president of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, said in a May 15 edition of the Washington Business Journal touting the merger.

Williams, the executive director of the Federal City Council, and Wingo argue that the $125 one time rate credit, Exelon’s $1.6 million a year community benefits program and its promise to improve performance for customers merit approval of the merger.

“When you look at the facts, this proposal is good for residents and ratepayers and it is good for our economy,” the two business leaders said. “We believe that when the [public service commission] examines the facts of this proposal it will agree-and approve this merger.”

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Winchester. The exact location and date were not known by press time.

According to the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services’ website, the following people can apply to have their crimes expunged: * “You were found not guilty. * The charge was dismissed.

* The charge resulted in probation before judgment (excluding charges of driving while under the influence or driving while impaired). * The State’s Attorney did not prosecute (nolle prosequi) your charge. * The court indefinitely postponed your case (stet). * Your case was settled. * You were convicted of

only one non-violent criminal act and granted a full and unconditional pardon by the governor. For a pardon packet contact the Parole Commission’s Office at 410585-3200 * Juvenile Waived Each case costs $30 to process and it takes about 90 days. “You can get the fee waived, but that has to go

through the court, and if you go through a private attorney that usually costs hundreds of dollars,” said Hill-Aston.

In addition to running expungement classes, the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP offers resources at its Gilmore office such as programs for ex-offenders on becoming better fathers and overcoming substance abuse.

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Continued from A1 District and HUD are ensuring that those in need have a chance to share in the recent prosperity and revitalization.”

Shaw is named after Civil War Union Col. Robert Gould Shaw who commanded the storied all-Black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. After the war, Blacks remained in Shaw and built their homes, schools, businesses, churches, and entertainment establishments in the area from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

Howard University was a neighboring landmark in Shaw during those years with many of its residents working or attending school there. The nationally known “U” Street corridor is considered a part of Shaw and was once known as the nation’s “Black Broadway.”

However, the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 devastated Shaw, and for decades it remained a crime and drug-invested haven. The opening of the Shaw-Howard University Metrorail station in May 1991 started the economic revitalization of the neighborhood and now it has been gentrified by young professionals, most of whom are White.

Alex Padro, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for 6E01 and Polly Donaldson, the director for the D.C. Housing and Community Development Department (DHCD), accompanied Bowser and Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio. The tour participants visited the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA on Rhode Island Avenue, N.W., the first in the nation for African-American women.

The YWCA is being renovated to accommodate low-income women and women with special needs with support from the DHCD and a Federal Housing Administration loan.

The party then walked two blocks to the construction site of the Channing Phillips project and Lincoln/Westmoreland apartments, both projects supported by DHCH and HUD. The last stop was Progression Place, a mixed-income development with some affordable housing units and the

headquarters of the United Negro College Fund.

Bowser said she focused on Shaw instead of housing

“People of all income levels should have the chance to live in Shaw. The people who lived here during the tough times shouldn’t have to leave.”

– Julian Castro

developments east of the Anacostia River because “there is significant HUD involvement” in the neighborhood. Castro said he understands the dynamics of what is happening in Shaw.

“What I see is a neighborhood rising,” he said. “People of all income levels should have the chance to live in Shaw. The people who lived here during the tough times shouldn’t have to leave.”

The political leaders grabbed a cup of coffee at the Uprising Muffin Company, a shop owned by Donnie Simpson Jr., son of the famous television and radio show host.

Eugene Puryear, former candidate for a D.C. Council atlarge seat, was there when the mayor and the secretary stopped, and was not impressed with the tour. “It looks like a photo-op to me,” Puryear said. “It is more of a spectacle than anything of substance. It shows that there is no connection between the

political class and the average person.”

Larry Adams, a Shaw resident for decades, was happy to see the mayor and the secretary. “This is positive,” Adams said.

“It’s good that the mayor can show people examples of how the city is progressing.”

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Finally: World War I Hero Henry ‘Black Death’ Johnson to Get Medal of Honor

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Private Henry Johnson, one of Harlem’s Hellfighters (369th Infantry Division, NY National Guard) will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing a fellow soldier during an enemy raid in France, May 15, 1918. The heroic act that caused him to suffer 21 wounds also garnered for him, in 1919, the French Croix de Guerre.

The other honoree to receive the medal posthumously is Army Sgt. William Shemin, a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces.

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address and look at their police issues in their U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach said communities, they will be able to say, ‘Let’s that the overhaul “will help ensure the many look at Cleveland because Cleveland has done brave men and women of the Cleveland it right,’” Jackson said.

Division of Police can do their jobs not only In December, after an 18-month constitutionally, but also more safely and investigation prompted in part by the 2012 effectively.” shooting, the Justice Department issued a Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland scathing report accusing Cleveland police of a Police Patrolmen’s Association, said he and pattern of excessive force and other abuses. the union’s attorneys are still studying the The settlement is an expansive list of agreement. items aimed at easing tensions between the “I’m hopeful it has reached some good police and the city’s residents, especially in conclusions,” Loomis said. “But the devil is the black community. Cleveland is 53 percent always in the details for these kinds of things.” black. About two-thirds of its police officers Attorney James Hardiman, chairman of are white. The mayor and the police chief are the NAACP Criminal Justice Committee, said Black. his organization is looking at the agreement The reforms were outlined in a 105-page “with a fine-tooth comb,” but added: “If I can consent decree filed in federal court. It calls for assume everything I was told is true, it sounds new guidelines and training in the use of force; like a pretty comprehensive agreement.” a switch to community policing, in which The mayor said that when the reforms take officers work closely with their neighborhoods; hold, community policing will become “part of an overhaul of the machinery for investigating our DNA.” misconduct The Justice allegations; Department has modernization launched broad of police investigations computer into the practices technology; of more than 20 and new police forces in training in the past five years, avoiding racial including agencies stereotyping in Ferguson, and dealing Missouri, and, with the most recently, mentally ill. in Baltimore.

An Both cities were independent convulsed by monitor violence and approved by protests in recent AP Photo the court will months over the Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy was killed by oversee the police-involved a white rookie patrolman last November while police force’s deaths of Black playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun. compliance. men.

Several other Then-Attorney police departments around the country, General Eric Holder said in December including those in Seattle and New Orleans, that the Justice Department was enforcing are operating under federal consent decrees settlement agreements with roughly 15 police that involve independent oversight. departments, including eight consent decrees.

The worst examples of excessive force in Saturday’s verdict by a judge in favor the Justice Department report involved officers of Patrolman Michael Brelo led to a day of who endangered lives by shooting at suspects mostly peaceful protests but also more than and cars, hit people over the head with guns 70 arrests. Dozens of church parishioners and used stun guns on handcuffed suspects. also protested the acquittal in a downtown Only six officers had been suspended for march Tuesday afternoon just before officials improper use of force over a three-year period. announced the settlement.

The city is still awaiting a decision on Cleveland has paid a total of $3 million whether any officers will be prosecuted in two to the families of the victims in the 2012 other deaths: that of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shooting, Timothy Russell and Malissa black boy who was killed by a white rookie Williams. They were gunned down at the end patrolman last November while playing with of a 22-mile car chase that began when police what turned out to be a pellet gun, and that of mistook automobile backfire for gunshots.

37-year-old Tanisha Anderson, a mentally ill Thirteen officers in all shot at the car; Brelo woman who suffocated last fall after she was jumped onto the hood and fired the last 15 subdued on the ground and handcuffed. shots through the windshield.

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As part of the development plan, funding for the project includes a combination of tax-exempt bonds, 4 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity, owner equity, and District of Columbia grants and subsidized loans. In return, developers will provide $2 million in upgrades to common areas and residential units of the existing building, and use

of a portion of the existing property to construct the new 8-story, 56-unit building.

For residents of Shaw, who have watched a middle and working-class neighborhood teem with new development that out-priced and displaced many of their neighbors, the promises of HUD have essentially dismissed them at a most critical point.

Tiffany McNeil is among the thousands of Shaw

residents whose tenancies have been compromised by crumbling buildings full of lead paint, asbestos, and other hazardous materials commonly used in the 1970s when most were constructed. McNeil, points out that despite being an exemplary tenant of LincolnWestmorland Apartments for 30 years, she has gone from paying $160 out of pocket for subsidized housing, to nearly

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The New Face of Coppin

University of Tennessee in textile science and textile economics.

When asked about recent police brutality Baltimore Fresh-faced and energetic, Dr. protests in Coppin’s backyard last month, Maria Thompson smiled at the ballooning Dr. Thompson said “focusing on an excellent crowd of staff and faculty members crammed educational experience for individuals is inside Coppin State University’s meeting hall the only way to make any kind of lasting to greet her on May 22. Immediately, she change . . . because ultimately education expressed her excitement. “I want to thank transforms individuals, individuals transform all of you for the well-wishes,” she said. families, families transform communities, “Many came from people I do not know.” communities transform cities, and cities Dr. Thompson, 53, begins her tenure transform nations.” as the university’s first female president Dr. Thompson will replace interim on July 1. She has spent the past four president Dr. Mortimer H. Neufville, years as provost and vice president who was appointed to a two-year for academic affairs at the State term by the USM Board of University of New York at Regents in 2013 following Oneonta, but in a phone the faculty vote-of-nointerview with the AFRO, Dr. confidence and resignation Thompson said it was her of former president Dr. undergraduate experience at Reginald S. Avery.

Tennessee State University “For many, Coppin is a that drew her to Coppin. second chance, but I want “The fact that I am a product Coppin to be a first chance of a similar institution – an institution,” Dr. Neufville urban HBCU – Tennessee said at the Coppin event State University,” she said, after thanking the “not only am I a product, administration for I’m a legacy product support. He urged the because my parents went to Coppin community to Tennessee State University, extend that support to my grandmother attended Dr. Thompson.

Tennessee State Faculty and University, I staff members have a niece now who attended – my brother’s the meet-andchild – who greet appeared is attending optimistic about Tennessee State the school’s University, so – Dr. Maria Thompson new leader.

I just know “The insurgence from a firsthand of a young experience the female president transformational power of an urban public may be what we need to move forward,” HBCU.” said Gillian Hallmen, Coppin’s assistant At the Coppin meet-and-greet, Dr. registrar. “It’s a very challenging time Thompson did not take questions from staff because of our enrollment rates coupled and faculty. In the AFRO phone interview, with graduation rates that have been steadily she explained that she “listens more than declining, but I think her presence will have she talks,” and she will hear from campus a metamorphosis on critical issues here.” leaders and the chancellor before developing Dr. Nicholas Eugene, a math professor, specific strategies to tackle the university’s called Dr. Thompson “young and hungry.” struggles with declining enrollment and low “When you have young persons, they graduation rates. have something to prove so they can “The fact that the institution has been move on to the next job, and to me that is around for so long speaks to the foundational important when compared to the past two strength of Coppin State University despite presidents,” he explained. “To move the the fact that there may be some challenges university forward, you need someone who that have to be faced,” she said. “An can accomplish things . . . we don’t need institution can’t exist since 1900 and not someone to manage, we need someone to have some innate strength. So whatever those make a cultural change.” strengths are and whatever the aspirations and On May 15 and 16, Coppin graduated dreams of the students and faculty are, those roughly 600 students and spring classes are the things we are going to build on.” have ended, but Coppin senior Grace Kelly Dr. Thompson is credited with Anoma was eager to return to campus and restructuring SUNY Oneonta’s academic meet the new president. affairs office and executing a plan at “I’m really excited,” Kelly said. “She is Tennessee State that increased externally coming in with fresh eyes. She is vibrant. funded projects to more than $45 million So, I’m really behind her. And I believe she through grants and contracts. She spent is the first female president. Yes, girl power!

13 years leading research and sponsored Instagram was blowing up when we heard programs at TSU. about that.”

She said her work at both universities Mr. Coppin winner Brandon Jacobs was helped her develop a balanced leadership equally supportive, saying Dr. Thompson’s style because she gained experience working credentials speak for themselves. internally with faculty and students and The newly-minted leader says for externally with university stakeholders. now, her immediate focus is relocating The college administrator completed and immersing herself in the Baltimore leadership programs led by Harvard, the community, including finding a place to American Council on Education, and the practice her hobbies. “I love yoga, gardening, American Academic Leadership Institute. cooking, and singing,” she said.

In addition to her baccalaureate degree from She again stressed her enthusiasm about TSU, she earned a master’s from The Ohio leading Coppin. “It doesn’t seem like a job,” State University and a doctorate from the she said. “It’s going to be joy.”

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“An institution can’t exist since 1900 and not have some innate strength.”

$1,900 for the same unit.

If HUD is still subsidizing the unit, exactly how much are developers milking the city for through housing assistance?

“I applaud the renovations and understand that gentrification is not a bad word. My concern is that I have a barely livable space that has become astronomically expensive overnight,” McNeil said, while providing the AFRO a tour of her unit.

“There is chipped lead paint, there are holes where rodents are burrowing through, and a response from management that steel wool will have to do. I cannot celebrate my new White neighbor next door moving into a completely refurbished unit that has been cleaned of hazardous materials and secured against rodents, while my son and I suffer.”

McNeil’s sentiments

were shared by other angry residents who expressed feelings of abandonment and neglect at the hands of the city and the developers they had allowed to interlope.

“We are being made to feel like we don’t fit into the landscape of a modern, progressive space when the reality is that we didn’t tear down these structures; they were allowed to decay by those managing them,” said Michael Taylor. “When I read in a newspaper that [Julian] Castro is being quoted as saying ‘If they can’t afford to stay, they need access to vouchers so they can find suitable living spaces elsewhere,’ he and the city have already sold us out.”

Taylor said that while good business means maximizing on opportunities to get in cheap and sell high, the human toll of stereotyping neighborhoods and

the people in them has kept new, mostly White people coming into this neighborhood as developers, managers, and neighbors from viewing the Black people as anything but impoverished, ignorant parasites.

“We have playgrounds and schools that have been torn down and replaced with dog parks, even though no pets are allowed on the property; and a mayor who believes she is creating a pathway to the middle class, by letting developers charge residents $5,000 a month for twobedroom apartments,” Taylor said. “So a Black man’s name is placed on the side of a building; as soon as all of the Blacks are out of the way, it will be renamed like NoMa.” The building is available to households earning up to 60 percent of the area median income and plans completion in 2016.

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WOMEN’S HEALTH

Sickle Cell Disease Remains Serious Concern for African Americans

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO

When Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, one-third of the girl group TLC, announced a decade ago that she suffered from Sickle Cell Disease, those with an understanding of the condition counted her fortunate. Characterized by fatigue and excruciating pain, Watkins, like most with the disease, had not been expected to live past age 30. Now living comfortably, in her 40s, Watkins is among the millions of AfricanAmericans living with an inherited, genetic condition that has proven devastating to those living with it.

Sickle Cell Disease is a group of disorders that impact hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. The cells turn sickle shaped, compromising oxygen flow to various parts of the body and causing irreparable damage to organs. Organ failure and death can occur as a result.

And while a concerted effort to test and

bring awareness to the nation stymied in the late 1970s, sickle cell continues to impact the lives of 90,000 to 100,000 Americans – and approximately 1 in 12 African-Americans.

Sickle Cell Disease is a chronic, inherited condition for which there is no cure, and one that disproportionately affects those whose families come from Africa, South or Central America (especially Panama), Caribbean islands, Mediterranean countries (such as Turkey, Greece, and Italy), India, and Saudi Arabia. So why do most Americans believe Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is no longer an issue in the Black community?

According to Sophie Lanzkron, director of the Adult Sickle Cell Center and associate professor of medication at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, many Americans believe the condition has been eradicated largely due to the success of early detection rates.

“The biggest misunderstanding is that if it is not in the public view anymore that it is not still a chronic and terrible condition,”

Managing SCD Crises

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO Physicians across the nation agree that while Sickle Cell Disease cannot be prevented, there are some factors that can be controlled to ward off crises.

Among them, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention count these to be among the most effective.

Drink Plenty of Fluids.

Sickle cell crises increase if the body is dehydrated (the body doesn’t have enough fluids). Drinking plenty of fluids can lower the risk of a painful crisis.

Learn Healthy Habits, Including How to Prevent Infections. In addition to keeping hydrated (people with sickle cell disease should drink eight to 10 glasses of water every day and eat healthy food), CDC advisors recommend those living with sickle cell avoid becoming too hot, too cold, or too tired. This is especially important for those who wish to participate in physical activity. Resting when the body feels tired, and remembering not to overdue workouts is important.

Look for Clinical Studies. Because there is no ready cure to Sickle Cell Disease, researchers continue to work towards one using new clinical research studies. By securing placement on a study, those suffering from the condition have an opportunity to access new technology and potential treatments for the disease.

Get Support. Find a patient support group or community-based organization that provides information, assistance, and support.

Find and Maintain Good Medical Care. Sickle cell disease is particularly complex, according to the CDC, and requires medical care from doctors and nurses with a certain level of expertise in the condition. The best choice is a hematologist (a doctor who specializes in blood diseases) working with a team of sickle cell specialists.

Get Regular Checkups.

Regular health checkups with a primary care doctor can help prevent some serious problems. The CDC recommends from birth to one year of age, the sickle cell patient should see a doctor every two to three months; children one to two years of age should see a doctor at least every three months; and from age two to adulthood, those living with sickle cell should see a doctor at least once every year.

Lanzkron said, noting the aggressive grade school screening process that took place in the region in the 1970s was less of a necessity with the advent of mandatory newborn screenings.

“The newborn screenings are amazing and allow each child screened to be followed until age 6.”

Though newborn screenings have become universal and keep a child plugged in to health agents, Lanzkron said that those parents who are initially notified that their children are carriers of the trait, while not having the disease, are not necessarily following up on this information later. The inherited, genetic disease occurs when two people who carry the trait for sickle cell produce a child who develops the disease.

“If you have traits and got a letter, but have not communicated it to your child, no one knows that child is a carrier for the condition until they get married or during the childbearing years,” Lanzkron said. “Too often, adults are unaware they have sickle cell traits until after pregnancies are confirmed, which is too late to keep the unborn child from being impacted.”

According to data from the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, the most common signs and symptoms of SCD are linked to anemia and pain. Other signs and symptoms are linked to the disease’s complications, and include shortness of breath, dizziness, headaches, coldness in the hands and feet, paler than normal skin or mucous membranes (the tissue that lines your nose, mouth, and other organs and body cavities) and jaundice (a yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eyes).

Watkins, who began to feel sharp, daggerlike pains in her arms and feet around age 8, said,

Singer Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, member of the ‘90s girl group TLC has lived beyond the years her physicians predicted with sickle cell disease, and has even been able to enjoy motherhood, which the condition compromises greatly.

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“It would stop me from walking if the pain was in my legs or feet; if it was in my hands, I’d be unable to hold a pencil or glass…that’s a crisis. When a crisis happens your blood clots and they have to give you IV fluids to flush your blood so you can get oxygen to your organs.”

Almost all people who have sickle cell experience painful crises at some point in their lives. Some have these crises less than once a year. Others may have crises once a month or more. Repeated crises can damage the bones, kidneys, lungs, eyes, heart, and liver. This type of damage happens more often in adults than in children.

In 1996 during the CrazySexyCool tour, Watkins passed out on stage.

“I chose to be in a profession where I stayed stressed and never ate right, so it took a toll on my body. I never made it through a tour [with TLC] where I did not end up in the hospital.

You know we danced hard and sometimes my lungs were weak,” said Watkins, who claims her body was just worn out.

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Bowser, Council Promote D.C. as New Wegmans’ Location

By James Wright Special to the AFRO The mayor of the District and seven members of the D.C. Council recently went to Las Vegas to conduct business for the city. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) were joined by D.C. Council members Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7), Anita Bonds (D-At Large) and Vincent Orange (D-At Large) to represented the District at the annual International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) convention that took place May

“This is an important event.”

– Muriel Bowser 17-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The ICSC is the convention for the shopping center and provides deal-making opportunities for retail and real estate professionals, and local, state and county officials throughout the nation.

The Washington D.C. Economic Partnership, a private organization whose mission is to help the city recruit businesses, leads the District’s effort. The partnership’s president and CEO Keith Sellars said attending ICSC has produced results. “Each year, the Washington, D.C. Economic Partnership has led the efforts to represent Washington, D.C. at the ICSC to ensure the livability and economic growth of the city,” Sellars said. “Since we began attending ICSC, D.C. is now home to 28 grocery stores and our impact will result in $86.3 million in annual sales tax revenue by 2018. Existing retailers represent 7,434 jobs and we estimate that 3,546 jobs will be added to 41 retail locations that are currently under

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D.C. Council member Vincent Orange has consistently attended the International Council of Shopping Centers Conference in Las Vegas. construction.”

The District’s retail market has been rated one of the best in the country by many publications. Firms such as Marcus and Milichap and ChainLinks & Terranomics have said the city is best place to have a retail business.

D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams attended the ICSC in 2000, touting the benefits of the District to retailers despite the city being managed by the D.C. Control Board. Orange has consistently attends the convention and was hailed, when he represented Ward 5, as the force behind the Rhode Island Avenue Shopping Center that includes Home Depot, Giant, and T.J. Maxx. Retailers such as Target, Apple, Costco, H&M, Nike and Nordstrom Race can trace their presence in the District to speaking with D.C. officials at the ICSC. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III also attended the convention.

Bowser understands that not many Washingtonians know about the ICSC adding that it is critical to the economic

development of the city. “This is an important event,” the mayor said. “All of the retailers attend this convention to seriously make deals about locating to a city or state. We have done well in attracting retailers to the city generally but the big challenge is having retailers locate in every part of the city.”

As the Ward 4 council representative, Bowser consistently attended the convention and her successor, Todd, has started doing the same. “I didn’t go to the ICSC working for Bowser but I went this year to promote the Walter Reed site as a site for retailers and for Ward 4 economic development in general,” Todd said. “Dozens of retailers have shown interest in the city and particularly Walter Reed. Safeway, Giant, and Harris Teeter all are interested in locating at Walter Reed, but we are really targeting Wegmans.”

Wegmans is the chic, upscale retailer that {Consumer Reports} ranked as the top large U.S. grocery store chain in 2012 and 2014. Todd said that when he campaigned to be on the council, residents said that they wanted Wegmans at Walter Reed.

“And Wegmans is very interested in locating at Walter Reed,” Todd said.

Bowser echoed Todd’s remarks on Wegmans interest in Walter Reed, saying she would like the retailer to come to the District and preferably at Walter Reed.

Todd described the days at the convention as fast-paced, with meetings between retailers and council members, the mayor, and the mayor’s economic development team. “The city had six rooms where we talked business,” the council member said. “I stressed to the retailers that we need businesses and jobs in Ward 4 and I tried to sell my ward as the best place in the District of Columbia to set up.”

Todd also has a personal reason for wanting a Wegmans at Walter Reed. “When Wegmans comes, I will not have to cook anymore,” he said. “They have a great selection of food and I will go there for lunch and dinner.”

Candidate Wants Sustainable Solutions to Baltimore Challenges

By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO Zeke Cohen is running for City Council in Baltimore’s first district with a three-pronged platform: universal pre-k in Baltimore, improved police-community relationships, and a friendlier city for pedestrians.

Cohen came to the Baltimore area as an undergraduate at Goucher College, going on to teach in Sandtown-Winchester for a year through Teach for America. Since then, Cohen has run a non-profit that works with youth in the city (Cohen asked that the organization not be named since non-profits are barred from engaging in political activity).

While the City Council has earned something of a do-nothing reputation in recent years, Cohen said he is running nonetheless because of the Council’s “enormous potential to really be a voice for people throughout our city.”

“I don’t look at [the Council] as a broken institution,” Cohen added later, “I look at it as a potentially great institution that can really play a role [in] moving our city forward.”

One of the best ways for Baltimore to move forward, says Cohen, is to invest in early childhood education, even if the costs of doing so seem an obstacle at first blush.

“We need to think about our long-term fiscal health, and we know that pre-K, actually more than most social programs, pre-K prevents incarceration, it prevents welfare dependency, it leads kids toward a healthier future. So will there be an immediate cost increase in order to [provide Photo by Roberto Alejandro universal pre-K]? Absolutely, and we’re going to need to Zeke Cohen, a former teacher in think really creatively about how we get there. But we’re Sandtown-Winchester, is running for spending about $40,000 a year (per person) to incarcerate City Council in southeast Baltimore’s people here in Maryland. It would cost about $4,000 a year first district. (per person) to send everyone to pre-K,” said Cohen.

Such a plan would represent a moving away from a ‘war on drugs’ mentality that attempted to arrest its way out of the problem of illegal drugs and its incumbent violence, which Cohen said is really driven by “massive, concentrated policy and unemployment in certain communities.”

Moving away from a ‘war on drugs’ mentality also means reforming policing in a way that prioritizes public safety over making arrests, and which will require officers to spend less time in their vehicles and more time out and getting to know the communities they are supposed to safeguard.

While Cohen feels that Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has said a lot of the right things when it comes to community policing – and that the strained relationship between the police and Baltimore’s communities precede Batts’s tenure – more needs to be done at the street level to ensure police officers are building the sorts of relationships with citizens that facilitate the solving of crimes and the reduction of violence.

Doing this effectively means addressing the way many of us perceive underprivileged communities in particular. “Having taught in Sandtown, the way that community is perceived by our police – and, frankly, by our city, and by all of us, by our country – the way that community is perceived is much more that they are an expendable population, and there isn’t this level of trust, and comfort, and connection. And I would just say that across the board, regardless of race [or] socioeconomic status, that there is some real value to policing that deeply values the communities in which the officers serve,” said Cohen.

The final prong of Cohen’s platform is making Baltimore more of a pedestrian friendly city. This will require two things, says Cohen: an efficient public transportation system and greater urgency in implementing the city’s Bicycle Master Plan.

“I talk to a lot of people around Canton, and Patterson Park, and Highlandtown who would love to live in a city where they didn’t need to have a car, [who] would love a viable, decent, public transportation system. And if you look at the cities that are making the leap and thriving, they’ve got really good public transit,” said Cohen.

Expanding the city’s popular circulator routes is a “no-brainer” according to Cohen, and the city ought to look at whether expanding the light-rail system would be an effective means of improving its transit options. Until public transit improves dramatically however, the city will have too many cars on its roads, affecting parking, road conditions, and the environment.

“In the long-term, we’re going to need to do better by public transit whether we like it or not, because this is not sustainable,” said Cohen.

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The former William Syphax Elementary school in Southwest was reconditioned into luxury condominiums several years ago. Its impact on the educational attainment of Ward 6 children has not been fully assessed.

D.C. Kids Project Pros and Cons of City Living

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO As the District continues to shift into overdrive with major housing developments and neighborhood reconstruction, D.C. Action for Kids (and their D.C. Kids Count), an organization that provides data-based analysis on critical issues facing D.C. children, has produced an online data book to offer insight into the overall livability of the city for children. And while the data works as stand-alone source information, it also helps project by Ward, the health, well-being, educational growth, and financial security of the city’s youth.

According to D.C. Kids Count, the Ward-level analysis, in the hands of civic leaders and lawmakers, can have a profound effect on future education, housing, and career policies. Wardlevel data provides clearer pictures of children’s well-being than District-wide averages, which often do not capture disparate outcomes and assets for children. Each snapshot includes D.C. Kids Count indicators in five categories: demographics, economic well-being, health, family and community, and education.

The importance of raw data in calculating progress and poverty can be found in the success of the report, Measuring Access to Opportunity in the United States, a project quantifying the effects of safety-net programs and tax policies on families.

“The official poverty measure does not provide the accurate information policymakers need to measure the success of anti-poverty programs – nationally and at the state level,” said Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Relying on this tool alone prevents policymakers from gauging the effectiveness of government programs aimed at reducing child poverty. Given that child poverty costs our society an estimated $500 billion a year in lost productivity and earnings as well as health- and crime-related costs, the SPM is an important tool that should be used to assess state-level progress in fighting poverty.”

The data, however, requires nuancing to gauge proper progress or decline. In Ward 6, for instance, the median family income increased from $39,486 in 2000 to $97,266 between 2007 and 2011. This increase – of 146 percent – occurred alongside a decrease in children living in poverty from 36 percent to 27 percent. The data suggests an increase in wealth and stability, but actually illuminates the push of low- and moderate-income residents out of the area with the razing of their homes for the erection of Nationals Stadium.

Ward 6 resident Dawn Spencer said that the closure of two Southwest elementary schools – Anthony Bowen, which merged with Margaret Amidon, and William Syphax, which was remodeled into a luxury condominium, complicate the data set for children attending K-12 schools in the area.

“The data is important and will definitely arm child advocates, but it is critical that with this data, the voices of the residents who understand that decreases in educational achievement may be the result of merging or closing schools and the subsequent destruction of low student-teacher ratios,” Spencer said. “Based on these realities, it is difficult to take the numbers to heart, though I am pleased that it is broken down by Ward.

For more information on the D.C. Kids Count Snapshots, visit, www.dcactionforchildren.org.

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What’s The What: On Marching To City Hall

By Kamau High Last Saturday, a sunny and mild day, 25-30 people gathered at the Gilmore Homes, where Freddie Gray grew up. As youth held up anti-violence posters and listened to pastor Rodney Hudson, members of his Ames Memorial United Methodist Church got the assembled marchers ready to go as another group arrived on the scene.

While Hudson’s group sought to focus on Black on Black violence, this new group, fronted by Tay Lawrence of the communist Revcom.us, wanted to spotlight violence perpetuated by the police against citizens. They were also more confrontational with the assembled light police presence; chanting curse words at them and holding up their middle fingers at the police.

After a quick miniconference the two groups agreed to put their differences behind them and set off for City Hall, about 2.5 miles away. Having only moved to Baltimore last year, walking at a slow pace through the different neighborhoods was a revealing experience. It is one thing to know that some areas are better off than others, it is another to walk their streets. The seemingly endless rows of abandoned and boarded up buildings, the closed businesses and gang-related graffiti are well known. Less obvious are the neighborhood entrepreneurs – the people with their grills out selling freshly made hamburgers and hot dogs, sellers of flavored ice – and people trying to keep their patch of Baltimore clean despite being surrounded by trash-strewn streets.

The neighborhoods change slowly. One minute march leaders were pointing out where three people had been killed that morning, the next we were on the outskirts of downtown.

The businesses went from primarily churches, pawn shops, and liquor stores to coffee chains, national fast food joints, and office buildings. As we got closer to City Hall, even though it was a Saturday afternoon, you could easily imagine office workers striding to their desk jobs, something impossible to contemplate just a few blocks away.

Not that downtown Baltimore doesn’t have its own problems. The row of strip clubs on E.

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Baltimore Street, one block over from City Hall, attests to that.

The problems of Baltimore are many and varied. There were too many murders and shootings before Freddie Gray and that trend continues although now it gets a lot more attention. Whether something can be done remains to be seen. That 18 people were shot over the Memorial Day weekend does not indicate that it can.

Lately I have been listening to a Baltimore Club remix of “We Shall Overcome” by local Baltimore DJ James Nasty that was posted online five months ago. It takes the melancholy piano of the original civil rights staple song and mixes it with current protest chants such as “No racist police,” “No Justice, No Peace” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” Between it layers in short snippets of contemporary protest leaders talking about Freddie Gray and the injustice of his situation and the out of control violence over the signature skittery Baltimore club sound. It is not the answer to what’s going on, but it gives me hope.

Kamau High is a journalist living in Baltimore. He has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Billboard and The Baltimore Sun. He can be reached at kamauhigh@yahoo.com.

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Bob Marley Musical Tries to Help Heal an Uneasy Baltimore

By Mark Kennedy AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most theater professionals like to say that whatever they’re working on is very relevant to what’s going on in the real world. That was not possibly more true than in Baltimore this spring.

The city’s flagship theater, Center Stage, debuted a musical about reggae icon and civil rights activist Bob Marley during the city’s spasm of violence and peaceful protests following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.

Several preview performances for the musical “Marley” were lost amid protests marching near the theater and the actors had to rush to finish rehearsals early on several evenings to accommodate a city-wide curfew.

There were soldiers, horses and armored vehicles in the streets and helicopters in the air as the cast and crew tried to finish a work that highlighted the life of a singer who

demanded social justice and freedom for Black people.

A new framing scene was added to the play in which two Black men watch footage of the Baltimore protests on a smartphone, making the connection between the two movements clear. On May 2, the cast went out into the streets to give a free concert, including singing “One Heart” to try to heal the city.

“When real life is happening around you and you’re trying to produce art, you have to submit to real life and have faith,” said Kwame Kwei-Armah, Center Stage’s artistic director who also wrote and directed the Marley musical.

“I’m not sure in my life that I’ll ever feel that connected or ever feel that blessed or ever feel that visceral

The musical features mid-’70s Marley albums Mitchell Brunings during a performance as “Exodus,” ”Kaya,” and “Rastaman Vibration,” of the musical which include the songs “Marley.”

“Jamming,” ”Three Little Birds” and “Roots, Rock, Reggae.” Mitchell Brunings portrays the title character.

Kwei-Armah played Marley’s song “Burnin’ and Lootin’” on his way into work on the night of the first curfew. The song’s lyrics were prescient: This morning I woke up in a curfew/Oh God, I was a prisoner, too/ Could not recognize the Richard Anderson/Center Stage via AP faces standing over me/They call that theater is about the here and were all dressed in uniforms of now.” brutality.”

The musical focuses on the “Somebody wrote these lyrics years 1975 to 1978, when Marley 30 years ago, somebody tapped into survived an attempted assassination something 30, 40 years ago and it’s in Jamaica and went into exile in more applicable than some of the London. It’s the first time a stage work I’ve done throughout all of musical has used both Marley’s my life,” said Kwei-Armah. “It’s songs and his life story. humbling and beautiful. It validates

Marches To Address Rising Violence In Baltimore

By Kamau High Special to the AFRO The catastrophic rising levels of violence continued overnight, May 22, with three people being found dead after being shot. That brings the number of people killed this year to 103, well ahead of the 71 killed by this time last year.

In an attempt to address the rising violence, a march was held that started at the Gilmore Homes, the SandtownWinchester area where Freddie Gray lived before dying in police custody earlier this year, and proceeded to City Hall in downtown Baltimore.

The march was put together by the Rev. Rodney Hudson, pastor of the

Iyanla Vanzant of your life—your health, your finances, your relationships, your families…it is well,” she said.

Vanzant then asked the congregation to divide into groups of five – or “villages” – comprising people from various age groups. She said Black people had moved too far away from their cultural moorings, which had exacerbated the communal sickness.

“Part of our wellness is being the truth of who [we] are,” Vanzant said. “[So] tonight, we’re not going to do this like anyone else, we’re going to do it like our elders used to do it…in the village.

You see in the village, there was a system, there was structure, there was an order; there was a way of being and speaking; a way of holding one another that resulted in wellness.”

During the exercise, Vanzant asked “village”

Protesters arrive at City Hall.

Kinji Scott, community organizer, addresses the marchers about the rising levels of violence.

nearby Ames Memorial United Methodist Church and Kinji Scott, a community organizer. Their group was joined by another group of marchers protesting police brutality led by Tay Lawrence of the communist group Revcom.us.

As the group began the several mile march to City Hall, Scott addressed the gathered crowd of about 25-30 people who were a mix of young and old. “People say the summer hasn’t got here yet. We expect it [the increase in homicides] in the summer but we don’t expect it in May,” he said. “Well, hell, most people are expected to go on vacation in the summer but you’re telling me that we expect Black people to die? Every summer? It’s something wrong with that message. So if we’re going to stand against police brutality we’ve got to stand against all forms of violence.”

Harold Perry sat on his stoop watching the marchers get ready. Perry lives in the house with the now famous mural of Freddie Gray. He attributed the uptick in violence to retribution being meted out for things that happened over the winter. “People think they can walk around in the winter with their hoods up and do [illegal] stuff without getting caught. Now you’re seeing the retaliation for the stuff they did,” he said. “If you’ve done something that will put your life in jeopardy you need to leave town, not put your family in danger by staying.”

The marchers wound their way down to City Hall with a police escort blocking off streets so they could pass. There were chants of “No Justice, No Peace,” and “If you can hustle in the heat, you can protest in the street.”

After about an hour the group reached City Hall. Several people addressed the crowd admonishing them to remember the victims and to do whatever they had to do to stop the violence. As Rev. Hudson put it, “The numbers [of marchers] may be low, but that does not diminish the strength of our message. If we don’t oppose the violence in our community what does it say about us?”

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for me why I’m doing theater.”

Suzette Newman, an executive producer of “Marley,” said she is working to get the musical on the road after it ends its run in Baltimore on June 14. “We absolutely hope that it will travel and go elsewhere. We’re in the process of those discussions right now,” she said.

Until then, she and Kwei-Armah watch nightly as the audience goes from punching the air with “Get Up, Stand Up” to joining the actors onstage in the show’s emotional climax with “One Love.”

“The power of Bob hits me afresh nearly every night. Suzette and I are standing at the back, seeing the audience as they respond and run onto the stage to sing with the cast ‘One Love’ in a city that needs to be one and healed,” said Kwei-Armah. ___ Online: http://centerstage.org See more at: http://www.afro.com/ bob-marley-musical-tries-to-helpheal-an-uneasy-baltimore/#sthash. tQtH3iiD.dpuf

members to share with each other their pains and fears as it related to their lives, their communities and their city, saying it was only in expressing these hurts could healing begin. And, they were also asked to come with fixes to common concerns.

“One of the things people lost in the process of oppression is the capacity to speak, and the capacity to relieve the soul of its burdens,” she said.

Eventually, some were asked to stand and express those pains, fears which included concerns about economic disadvantages, poor educational opportunities, intra-racial violence, lack of unity and more.

“D-Bone,” who traveled from St. Louis to attend the event, said he was from the “streets” and was troubled by the senseless violence he saw everyday—not just at the hands of law enforcement, but

also violence perpetrated by Blacks against each other.

“My pain is I don’t know when my community and my Black race will see what the real issue is. My pain is we can’t even work together without conflict [in] small situations. And my fear is I don’t know how long it’s going to take for us to get the picture,” he said. “The fix now is everyone coming together to share ideas and trying to see where we stand. This is historic. The fix is coming together.”

Others also suggested self-affirmations, seeking the counsel of “old G’s” who have survived the streets and overcame challenges, promoting economic opportunities, putting God first, vocational training, and executing a strategic plan—not just planning.

A self-described gang member, who did not provide his name, said he had just spent almost a decade in prison and fortuitously, his group comprised a number

of women whose sons were imprisoned.

“My fix is action. No more talk,” he said. “We’re doing too much talking. I am a gang member [but] I am here…. We can do this.”

As evidence of that action, Rev. Bryant said 200 interfaith ministers had agreed to visit the 10 most troubled high schools in Baltimore and to persuade the students to sign covenants to uphold nonviolence, given the rash of murders the city has already seen for 2015.

The minister also shared how an interfaith group of demonstrators stalled traffic in Baltimore earlier that day.

It was the first of several “plagues,” Bryant said – referencing the biblical story of the Israelites’ rescue from Egyptian oppression – to protest Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to slash education funding in favor of building a jail.

“Today, Baltimore saw the first plague. And, I warned the governor, aka Pharaoh, you’ve

Resources for Businesses • BaltimoreBusinessRecovery.org. The goal is to catalogue the damage suffered by every business and their needs to connect them with resources that become available.

• Baltimore Development Corporation is coordinating the following efforts:

- Businesses with resources to provide should contact Karl Bradley, kbradley@ baltimoredevelopment.com or Matthew Kachura MKachura@baltimoredevelopment. com.

- Businesses in need of assistance should contact Will Beckford WBeckford@ baltimorecity.gov or Dan Taylor DTaylor@ baltimoredevelopment.com.

• The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved a Maryland request for a disaster declaration to enable people to apply for low-interest loans to repair damage in Baltimore caused by rioting.

got nine more times… before we have to raise the ante,” Bryant said, adding, “We’re coming and we’re going to keep coming until they change their minds about this $30 million juvenile detention center. Please don’t think

they’re going to spend $30 million and leave it empty….

They plan on filling it with our sons, our husbands and our brothers. And I’d rather see our sons at Morgan [State University] than in juvenile jail.”

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Obama May Soon Get His ISIL ‘Degrade’

What if during America’s Civil War President Abraham Lincoln had headed a government legally loaded with confederate officials and his Union Army had included thousands of confederate loyalists.

Under that scenario, the confederates seeking by any means – violent and diplomatic – to overthrow the central government, Moses J. Newson would have had access to the intelligence, weapons, training, funds, etc., available to Lincoln.

HELLoooo war-wracked Iraq.

Make Iraq’s elected Shiite-led government representing the country’s population majority Lincoln’s government; make the nation’s second largest group, the Sunnis, the confederates seeking to overthrow the central government.

Although this reality is largely played down, it will be a major factor for the historically important coalition President Barack Obama has put together when it or (like it or not) Iran mounts serious boots-on-the ground attacks to defeat Sunni-led Islamic State (ISIL) The big question: Are Sunni coalition nations fearful enough of ISIL to do what is required?

Iraq’s Kurds, the nation’s third largest population group, have fought valiantly against ISIL but they don’t have the manpower to turn the tide. They’re more effective than Iraq’s army because they don’t have a lot of Sunnis in their ranks.

President George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003 without any credible intelligence that Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, so it follows that international inspectors didn’t find any.

Because all Sunnis in Iraq are not disloyal to the central government, even some in the Sunni strongholds of Anbar Province and surrounding areas, for a bit of distinction, label the Hussein loyalists Sunnis.

Sadly, it was the Bush administration that in 2007 while U.S. troops were in tough fighting alongside Shiite soldiers

seeking to snuff out an insurrection

by Sunnis, the Bush administration inexplicably switched sides.

It started paying $300 monthly to about 100,000 Sunni fighters/supporters, mostly in Anbar Province, to stop fighting. That was a trust killer for Shiite leaders.

During this period a “surge” of 28,000 to 35,000 U.S. troops was credited with military achievements more than 150,000 couldn’t produce.

Surge story sellers usually don’t mention those multi-million dollar payoffs to battlefield foes.

But questionable things didn’t stop with the cash deal. Over bitter objections of then Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, the Bush administration insisted that Sunnis who had virtually boycotted the election won by the Shiites, be awarded many key civilian and security/military positions.

Still, the Sunnis continued attacking Shiite civilians (markets, etc.) and security forces, usually by bombings.

That violence continues. At some point the government had a responsibility to its citizens to try to curb the violence.

This space noted months ago in a piece headlined “Ousting Iraq PM won’t pacify Sunnis” because Sunnis, more than anything else, desperately want to regain the minority control they held for ages until Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein was killed. New PM Haider al-Abadi has kept al-Maliki on the team.

For some strange reason, the Obama administration and the West have continued acting as if all the Sunnis want is fair treatment.

The result has been disastrous. Sunnis in their majority Sunni home areas where ISIL gobbled up critical territory and cities, betrayed their government and thus aided ISIL. When new Defense Secretary Ash Carter lists things given to Iraqi troops he says don’t have the “will to fight,” he ignores an important one: assurance that some of those Sunni soldiers Iraq was untimely forced to include in its army won’t shoot

them in the back.

As odd as it may seem, the first part of President Obama’s desire to “degrade and destroy” ISIL could get a major boost as anti-Islamic State forces start taking down the Iraq invaders.

That’s because many of the Sunni warriors now associated with ISIL in Sunni dominated territory, will be in the line of fire as enemies of the pro-government contingents.

A few things to keep in mind as Iraqi events and discussions unfold: • thousands upon thousands of U.S. troops on the ground in Vietnam, Korea and Iraq never accomplished the expected.

• of the world’s billion-plus Muslims 85-90 percent reportedly are Sunnis • among majority Shiite Iraq’s neighbors just Iran and Bahrain are majority Shiite • there wasn’t a lot of joy among Iraq’s neighbor nations when it held a democratic-type election because they are run mostly by royalty or some form of dictatorship.

Moses Newson is a prize-winning journalist and former executive editor of the AFRO.

Jay-Z and Beyonce are Following a Rich Tradition Hip-hop culture is about transformation. It is more than a global genre of music.

Hip-hop is a transcendent cultural phenomena that speaks to the soul, mind, body and spirit of what it means to dare to change the world into a better place. Hip-hop is not just about acquiring funds or “stacking paper.” It is also about giving back. I have personally been a long term advocate for the unbridled Benjamin F. Chavis intellectual genius and social consciousness of hip-hop.

So when I heard that recently Jay-Z and Beyoncé travelled together to Baltimore, Md. in the wake of the massive “Black Lives Matter” protests, I was not surprised. In fact, I give them both a big thumbs-up salute in gratitude for their leadership example. The impact of the injustice of the horrific police killing of Freddie Gray was profound not only in Baltimore, but also across the nation.

They did not wait for a “cooling off” period before going to the scene of the protests. Jay and Bey also spent some quality time consoling Freddie Gray’s family. Giving back sometimes involves more than financial contributions. Taking sincere acts of solidarity and empathy with those who cry out for equal

justice is also a meaningful expression of caring and lending one’s public brand to support the demand for justice.

One of the reasons why I believe that the combined creative talent of this gifted couple will continue to soar with career success is that they both believing in giving back. They give back substantively to their communities in New York, in Texas and throughout the world. From assisting global Red Cross efforts to helping the United Nations to provide safe clean drinking water to millions of people in Africa, Jay-Z and Beyonce continue their transformative philanthropic campaigns.

Of course whenever public icons such as Jay and Bey attempt to help make a difference for besieged and underserved communities, there will always be a cynical group of “player haters.” But all of the negative responses to the goodwill actions of Jay and Bey will in no way be successful in tarnishing their righteous acts of helping others.

I well remember when the Godfather of hip-hop, Russell Simmons, was joined on New York City in 2001 by P. Diddy, Sister Souljah, Queen Latifah, Jay-Z, Will and Jada Smith, and many other hip-hop icons to establish the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) as a nonprofit advocacy organization.

The artists decided that the theme of HSAN would be “Taking back responsibility” for the empowerment of families and communities in America and internationally.

Jay-Z and Beyonce have helped HSAN immeasurably over years to register millions of young people to vote and to encourage Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) programs in many cities

and states. Again, it was not surprising to hear Jay-Z’s latest rap featuring lyrics about the unjust deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin. In classic Jay-Z style, he poetically said, ““You know when I work, I ain’t your slave, right? You know I ain’t shucking and jiving and high-fiving, and you know this ain’t back in the days, right? Well I can’t tell how the way they killed Freddie Gray, right? Shot down Mike Brown how they did Tray, right?”

Beyonce also has a very long list of charities that she supports financially, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Oxfam, UNICEF, Global Poverty Project, and Keep a Child Alive. Yet, probably one of the most private and telling acts that Jay-Z and Beyonce have done over the past year anonymously was the paying of thousands of dollars for the release from jail bails for the hundreds of persons arrested in Ferguson and in Baltimore who were protesting police brutality.

In the 1960s, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, James Baldwin, Dick Gregory and many other performing artists and authors would pay the bail money to get hundreds civil rights workers out of jails during the many struggles for equality and justice. Thus, Jay-Z and Beyonce today are continuing that proud tradition of giving to support the causes of freedom, justice and equality.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is the President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).

Half a Century of Head Start

Eddie B. Johnson

“Project Head Start” was launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson on May 18, 1965. Originally designed as an eight week summer demonstration project, Head Start has expanded into an array of preschool programs that provide children from low-income families with a comprehensive program that prepares them for successful entry into kindergarten, and illuminates the pathway

towards a brighter future.

Educational experts view Head Start as our nation’s most comprehensive and effective program that prepares children for school. With the participation of parents, Head Start includes education, nutrition and health services for children from impoverished backgrounds and their families. In the past 50 years, approximately 25 million of our nation’s children

have benefited as participants in Head Start environments.

Nearly 72,000 children and their families were beneficiaries of Head Start programs in 2014. I am pleased that 4,068 of those who were served reside in the 30th Congressional District of Texas, which I am honored to serve. Head Start is instrumental in uplifting families in Texas and throughout our nation, providing them with resources that allow children to reach their full potential.

Educators and social scientists alike believe that participants in Head Start are more likely to earn their high school diplomas, continue on to college and become selfreliant wage earners than are those who do not have the early childhood development experience that the program affords.

This success is possible because of the access to services that Head Start provides to children. It is extremely important that during this critical period in our nation’s history, we increase our support and expand the Head Start program.

Every child in America should be afforded an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of their race or their socioeconomic background.

President Obama recently called on all Americans,

including leaders of private and philanthropic organizations, as well as leaders on the city, state and county levels, to make earnest investments in our next generation of thinkers, dreamers and doers. The development of young people today ensures our democracy in the future. We cannot afford not to act.

We can help hardworking, low-income families build pathways that lead them and their children out of poverty. With our assistance they can become members of the middle class.

If our society is serious about giving children brighter futures, we must increase our investment in Head Start programs so that more children can participate.

Now is the time to expand upon the vision of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the “Great Society” programs that resulted in the creation of Head Start. We must close the opportunity gap that so many children in our country unfairly face. We must give them a chance to succeed. It is in their best interest and in the larger society’s best interest as well.

Congresswoman Eddie B. Johnson represents Texas’ 30th District in the U.S House of Representatives.

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Mayor James D. Crudup Sr., Eagle Harbor, Student honoree Jamira Carper and Elissa Taylor,

Miss Black

Maryland

USA 2015

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Belinda Coleman, president and CEO, The Coleman Group

Honoree Lance Lucas, CEO, Digital All Systems

Student honoree Briana White

Emcees: Shomari Stone, NBC News4, Washington, DC and Ebony McMorris, News and Community Affairs Director, Radio One Washington, DC

Award winner Breana Britt, founder, Bree’s Sweet Treats

David C. Harrington, former Mayor of Bladensburg, Md. Don Miller,Corvias Solutions,public affairs

Joseline Pena Melnyk,state delegate District 21

Student honoree Thai Jackson and Rev. Gail Addison, founder, End Time Harvest Ministries

Student honoree Devante Jenkins Student honoree Anthony Edmonds

Student honoree Chyna Robertson

Delora Sanchez, Kimberly Robinson

Student honoree Linita Blackette

Maryland Black Mayors: Kito James, former Mayor, board member; Lee P. Walker,Landover Hills, member; Tracy Farrish Gant, Edmonston; Jaqueline Goodall, Forrest Heights, president; Lillie Thompson Martin, Fairmount Heights vice president; Petrella Robinson, North Brentwood, treasurer; Marnitta King, Capitol Heights, secretary; Diana Fenelle, Delegate Mayor; and James D. Crudup, Sr., Eagle Harbor, member

The Maryland Black Mayors (MBM) Honors Gala, May 1, at Camelot by Martins Upper Marlboro, was an awesome fundraiser, the purpose of which was to present academic scholarships to deserving students and recognize some outstanding community leaders. The program was filled with great speakers from mayors, MBM directors, and influential business leaders who all shared a common thread of transforming community, expanding economic opportunity, and continuing philanthropic work. The

Hon. Kendra Y. Ausby, Warren Brown, Judge Vicki Ballou-Watts

Hon. Melissa K. Copeland, Nicole Barmore, Carol Ann Smith

Judge Robert Bell, Judge Barry Williams, Judge Arrie W. Davis

Winston Wilkins reads a citation from Governor Larry Hogan.

Photos by Da’Rrell L. Privott

Taren Butcher, Dana Peterson, Beverly Carter

Judge Marcella Holland, Patrick Roberson, Judge Lynn Stewart-Mays

When members and guests of the Monumental City Bar Association (MCBA) gathered, to mark 80 years, they paused to acknowledge lifetime members Derrick Hamlin, Kay Harding, Kendra Randall Jolivet, Edward Smith and Yolanda Sonnier. They also presented awards for minority business achievement and community service and recognized unsung heroes and future history makers.

Founded in 1917 and incorporated in 1935, the Monumental City Bar Association (MCBA) lists among its notable and prominent attorneys names such as W.A.C.Hughes Jr., W. Emerson Brown, Harry Cole, Solomon Baylor, Gerald Smith, A. Dwight Pettit, Elijah Cummings and Stuart O. Simms, just to mention a few who served as past presidents.

Over the past 80 years, the MCBA has created and fostered a supportive environment for attorneys throughout Maryland and provided mentoring and networking opportunities for attorneys and law students.

offering of invaluable, inspiring messages was no more evident than when, Breana Britt, 16-year-old entrepreneur and founder of an old fashioned bakery in Accokeek, Md., Bree’s Sweet Treats, shared advice. “I always say the sky’s the limit; as long as you have support you can succeed in anything.” Many student honorees presented with grace, poise, and enthusiasm as they accepted their awards. This is the kind of spotlight that needs to be focused on young people more often.

Hon. Stuart O. Simms, Justin Williams

Honorees Jake Oliver, AFRO CEO/publisher; Dr. Joanne Martin, co-founder, National Great Blacks in Wax Museum; Beverly Carter (for Reginald F.Lewis Museum) received the “Telling Our Story” Award

James H. DeGraffenreidt Jr., Beaun Wilson, Harry Johnson

Blanche Steele, CEO Steele Consulting, event coordinator and Kito James, former Mayor, board member

Diane L. Bell McCoy-keynote speaker, president & CEO, Associated Black Charities

Anthony W.

Robinson, Judge Shirley Watts, Frederick Grant,

Judge Yvonne Holt-Stone

Elizabeth Julian, Judge David Mitchell, Diane Mitchell, Hon. Jan Alexander, Judge Alfred Nance

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Donald Tobin, Lazette RinggoldKirksey, Hon. W. Michel Pierson, Elizabeth Hafey

Asha Jefferson, Judge Kevin Wiggins

Yolanda F. Sonnier, Kendra Randall Jolivet, Robyn Scates

Young attorneys honorees

Michelle K.

Judith Cox, Hon. Marilyn Wilson, president, Mosby, Baltimore City State’s MCBA; Judge Videtta A. Brown, Attorney; Kathy Alexander Circuit Ct., Baltimore City

Hon.Yvette Bryant, Hon. Sylvester B. Cox Jr.

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from being “Boys to Men.” Over 300 witnessed this pageantry of elegance including Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall

The Phyllis S. Byrd Youth Fraternity sponsored by The Georgiana Thomas Grand Chapter, Order of The Eastern Star, Prince Hall Affiliation held its first Majestic Cotillion for Debutantes and Beaux on May 2 at the College Park Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. Prior to the Cotillion, youth participated in a series of workshops on etiquette, self-esteem/self-development, S.T.E.M. and performed several Demi hours of community service. They also took ballroom dance Debutante classes and were able to perform them as they danced the Alana Cowsert traditional “Parent’s Waltz.” Attorney Mariessa Terrell, presenting executive director of the High Tea Society, welcomed Grand Master the debutantes into society and challenged the young Campbell with ladies to become their own “Super Heroes,” flowers while Worshipful Master Terrence J. Wynn, Jr. Debutantes Ariana Holmes, Sr. gave a charge to the Beaux to move Lyric McCoy and Marlie McCoy 2015 Miss Young and Natural Pageant Winner Dakara Reid congratulating the Majestic Cotillion participants

Jr. Beax and Jr. Debutante winners Malachi Hammnd and Zoe Hackney

Attorney Mariessa Terrell, executive director, High Tea Society welcoming the Debutantes to society

Grand Worthy Matron Bessellieu and Grand Worthy Patron Albert Pope pictured with Majestic Cotillion Committee: Asst.

Grand Youth Directress Norma J. Brooks, Past Matron Robin B. Wise, PSBYF Directress Catrice Vandross, Asst. Grand Youth Directress Shirley Evans Cooley, and Past Matron Shari L. McCoy

Worshipful Master Terrence J. Wynn, Sr. of Felix Lodge #3 speaking to the Beaux

Demi Bea Andrew Stroman preseting Grand Worthy Matron Bessellieu with flowers

Prince Patron Arndre “TJ” Hudson dances the “Parent Waltz” with his mother Diane Hudson

Majestic Cotillion Winners Debutante Amber Gofney and Clarence “CJ” Berry

Phyllis S. Byrd Youth Commandress Princess Matron Jenger I. J. Rhone

Grand Lodge the Honorable Norman L. Campbell, Grand Worthy Matron Venecia C. Bessellieu and Grand Worthy Patron Albert Pope of the chapter.

Most Worshipful Grand Master Norman L. Campbell, Grand Worthy Matron Venecia C. Bessellieu, and Grand Worthy Patron Albert Pope

Majestic Cotillion Debutants and Beaux: seated: Amber Gofney, Nia Brevard, KayaZahnna Donaldson, Chandler Martin, Brandy Ross and TyNiqua Harris, standing: Christopher Goffney, Cameron Kemp, Amari Robin, Clarence “CJ” Berry, Christian Ferguson, and Arndre “TJ” Hudson

Seated: PGWM Joan L. White, PGWM Julia F. Edwards. PGWM Jane R. L Robison, Charles Robison Sr. Standing: RWSGW Quincy G. Gant, PGWM Patricia A. Mabry, PGWM Margaret E. Anderson, GC Eunice J. Dingle, GWM Venecia C. Bessellieu, GWP Albert Pope, AGC Sheila A. Smith, AGP Riccardo A. Montague

Grand Worthy Matron Bessellieu and Grand Worthy Patron Pope pictured with all Majestic Cotillion participants Courtesy Photos

The Northern Virginia Alumnae Chapter (NoVAC), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in association with the Northern Virginia Delta Education and Community Service

(NVDECS) Foundation hosted its Third senior justice correspondent, ABC News. capped off with the high tempo music of Annual Trailblazer Awards and Scholarship The evening included a cocktail reception, the Phaze II Jazz band and dancing to the Gala on May 2 at the Renaissance a silent auction, and a gourmet meal. It sounds of DJ Demetrius Gravette.

Arlington Capital View Hotel in Virginia.

NoVAC and NVDECS awarded scholarships to local high school students and awarded the first-ever Trailblazer Awards in civil rights, Tameka Tunsil and Anna Carter, right, justice and equality chair, Fundraising Committee present the to Rev. Al Sharpton, Trailblazer Award to Pierre Thomas, senior president, National justice correspondent, ABC News Tameka Tunsil, far left, and Taffi Moore, far right, chair, Scholarship Action Network and Committee with NoVAC Scholarship recipients: Nicholas Grant, Ashley Pierre Thomas, Welcome and introduction of emcee by Brooks and Kwasi Darkwah Tameka D. Tunsil, chapter president and Linda Gipson Hitchens, president, NVDECS Foundation

Jimmi Barnwell and Cheron Burns

Soror Shannon Cross, the emcee

Sorors…looking sassy and classy

Fawn Coleman, far left, chair, Endowment and Investment Committee and Linda Gipson Hitchens, far right, with NVDECS Foundation Scholarship recipients: Malisha Gyamfi and Caroline Ebuchulam

Carole Stephens and Cynthia M.A. Butler McIntyre, 24th national president, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Wanda H, Christi Johnson, Ashley Wilson and Karita Richardson

Gabriele Tyler, guest, Karen Croom, Chris Richardson, Dorene Hurt, guest and Gladys Fitzhugh-Pemberton

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) George Alexander and Col. (Ret.) Dorene Hurt; Chapter members and their guests Felecia Harrison, Mrs. Pierre Thomas, Pierre Thomas, Dr. Deborah Foreman and Edgar Brookins Andrea Powell and Donna Epps Namsey

Photos by Rob Roberts

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ARTS & CULTURE

Steve Harvey Teaches Area Residents How to ‘Act Like a Success’

By Natascha Saunders Special to the AFRO

(Photo by Natascha Saunders)

In his book, Harvey motivates his readers to realize their gift is a calling and provides tools for how to discover and embrace their gifts.

Aspiring entrepreneurs, speakers, and community members from Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia gathered recently at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia for the first Act Like a Success Conference. Those attending clamored to hear Steve Harvey, Lisa Nichols, Nicole Roberts Jones, any many more speakers share strategies to accelerate success and learn how to make their dreams a reality.

The event was sponsored

by Infusionsoft and Strayer University.

This was the first-ever conference based off Steve Harvey’s current book Act Like A Success, Think Like A Success.

In Harvey’s book he motivates his readers to realize their gift is a calling and provides tools for how to discover and embrace your gift. Harvey shared his

personal story framed by these same tools with an eager audience.

“I came here to uplift you to let you know anything is possible. Stop reading all the success stories on the internet and not write one for yourself,” Harvey said.

Harvey framed success tips around his own story of being down and out, needing to borrow an iron from another comedian and asking to share a hotel room because he had no money.

Harvey talked about losing wealth, living in his car, and being told he would end up back on the chitterling circuit. However, Harvey’s faith persevered.

“You want to know how to be rich. Stop trying to think of how you can make a million dollars. Stop trying to think of a million dollar idea because it freezes you,” Harvey said to his captive audience.

Harvey proceeded to share what type of idea they needed. “You need a 10 dollar idea. A 10 dollar idea you can work day in and day out. The answer to your success has been in you since you were born. God gave us one at birth. If you haven’t found your purpose in your career, it’s because you are not living in your gift,” Harvey said.

Stepping on stage to share a similar message and taking the energy in the room to new heights was Lisa Nichols, CEO and founder of Motivating the Masses, one of the top training and development companies in the world and the only self-development company to be publicly traded. Nichols is also a best-selling author of six books and one of the most sought-after speakers who has served millions. Her participation in the law of attraction phenomenon, The Secret, propelled her popularity across the globe. Lisa has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Extra, Larry King Live and on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning show, Starting Over.

Nichols shared her story of being a single mom with $11 dollars in the bank while looking at her son unable to buy diapers saying to herself, “Mommy will never be this poor again.” She proceeded to share that is where some of us are now, but we must realize that is not our destiny it is just a moment. The room of ladies and gentleman clapped and then went silent. “I believe in a holistic approach, and being unapologetically successful which means I have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to defend,” Nichols said.

In referring to our gifts, “We need to do it imperfect. Your imperfect could be my blessing.

Who said your imperfect wasn’t right for me,” Nichols said.

For more information about Act Like a Success, log onto www.actlikeasuccess.com or to learn more about Lisa Nichols and coaching visit www.motivatingthemasses.com

Julia Pollard New National President of The Society Julia Pollard is the newly elected national President of The Society, a pre-eminent women’s organization focused on developing and advancing talented youth in The Arts. As the organization’s 7th national President, Julia has been an active member of The Society for nearly three decades within the Washington, DC Chapter. Most recently she served as National Vice-President from 2011-2015.

“My objective is to bring even more exposure to youth in the arts through education along with forging new collaborative partnerships with other organizations and corporations that have similar interests,” she quotes.

The nonprofit organization presents numerous scholarships, annually, to highly talented local and international students in Literary Performing and Visual arts. The Society has provided thousands of dollars in scholarships to deserving students

Julia Pollard is the seventh national president of the The Society

across the country during its 32 year existence.

Founded in Washington, D.C., membership consists of hundreds of dynamic, altruistic and professional women of color with over 25 Chapters across the US in The District of Columbia, California, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Nevada, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, South Carolina and North Carolina.

The Society is a tax-exempt non-profit organization, established in 1983. These experienced and committed women serve as role models and mentors, providing students with the invaluable opportunity to enhance appreciation for and knowledge of the exciting dimensions of artistic expression.

For more information on The Society, Incorporated go to the societyinc.org

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motel accommodations, 3 full breakfasts, 3 dinners including the seafood feast, a trip to an Atlantic City casino with a bonus package and much more. Call Adrienne at 410-448-0275 or 443-7999398.

Hello folks, my dear African American readers, I sure hope you Author’s Expo with Charm are enjoying this beautiful City Jazz and Spirit Cruises weather God has gifted us will host a “Jazz & Party with. I know I am. There are Cruise,� boarding at 9 just so many places to go and p.m., May 30, and returning things to do indoors and out at 1 a.m. It will be grown when the weather is so warm folks night on the water for and cozy. a moonlight celebration.

This weekend and Live entertainment will be next are jumping with performed by “Fahrenheit. live entertainment all over To purchase your Baltimore in several tickets, go to www. venues. charmcityjazz.com.

Not only has the Mt. Hill Missionary Historical Arch Social Baptist Church will Club’s new promoter, present the “Best of Don Jones, taken over the Gospel and the 7 the late George Haley’s Keys� on June 13 at position to book the best Bridgeton Senior High R&B entertainment, School, 111 Northwest but it will be bigger and Avenue in Bridgeton, better. Find out 8 p.m., N.J. Doors open at 2 May 30 in the newly p.m. The line-up is: renovated upstairs The Highway QC’s, Grand Ballroom at their The Five Blind Boys Pennsylvania and North (Jackson, Mississippi), Avenue location. See Gospel Keynotes, photo for line-up.

Jay Caldwell & the Last Chance The Intruders is the headliner of D&K Gospel Ambassadors, Entertainment will Entertainment when Don Jones, the The Exciting Stephens present an “Over 40 promoter for the Arch Social Club, Singers, Renewed of Karaoke Contest and located 2426 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Carolinas, James Live Show,� 4 to 8 p.m., presents a “Classic Soul Saturday,� 8 Nesmith & the Original June 7 at the Forest Park p.m. to midnight, May 30, featuring Gospel Helpers; Senior Center, 4801 also “The Spindles, and Comedian, Deacon Leslie Pittman Liberty Heights Avenue. “Alabama�. BYOF and cash Bar. For & Harmonica Gospel It is cabaret style; ticket information, call 443-525-2715 and Inspiring Hank. The BYOB and BYOF, or email ddjones853@gmail.com.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I Present to You Live Entertainment�

but they will supply free set ups, with ice and sodas. I suggest you take your cooler with your own ice and that way you don’t have to stand in line. They will also have full course dinners on sale. “Smokey� is the host and his events are always out-ofsight. For ticket information, call 410-532-2274.

Our girl, Adrienne Davis, Maceo’s popular starmaid is presenting a weekend bus trip to Wildwood N.J. for a Wildwood Seafood Feast, featuring an all you can eat seafood buffet on June 8-11.

Package includes: 3 nights

Vibraphonist Warren Wolf Jr. and his group with special guest saxophonist, Antonio Hart will perform jazz standards as well as original compositions at the Jazzway 6004, located 6004 Hollins Avenue, Baltimore, “8th Anniversary Concert� at 8 p.m. on June 13. For ticket information, call 410-952-4528 or 410-624-2222.

hostess is Teresa Cadogan.

For ticket information, call Tracy Suggs at 609-680-7175.

Ladies and gentlemen, more live music when the Royal Theater and Community Heritage Corporation presents The Courtyard Summer Music Series with “A Taste of Jazz @ The Avenue Bakery,� featuring live entertainment performing Motown sounds and oldies, 4 to 8 p.m., June 6, at 2229 Pennsylvania Avenue, (corner of Pennsylvania Avenue & Baker Street) in Baltimore. Your host is James Hamlin, the owner of the Avenue Bakery. For more information, no need to call, just stop by. Light wine and food is on sale and yours truly will be there with my latest books to autograph.

Enjoy your weekend; hopefully I will see you around. Be good to each other and remember; if you feel down and depressed, find some music.

I am now out of time and space, if you need me, just call me at 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com.

UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, I’M MUSICALLY YOURS.

SOUTHERN MARYLAND RAPID TRANSIT STUDY

Progress Meetings

Thursday June 11, 2015

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Waldorf Jaycees Community Center* 3090 Crain Highway Waldorf, MD 20601

Tuesday June 16, 2015

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Crossland High School

6901 Temple Hill Road Temple Hills, MD 20748

Thursday June 18, 2015

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Surrattsville High School 6101 Garden Drive Clinton, MD 20735

Note: The same project information will be presented at each meeting. Brief presentations will be given at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. The public can stop by anytime between 5:30 and 8 p.m. * The Maryland State Highway Administration will provide information on the US 301/MD 5 MattawomanBeantown and the US 301/MD 228/MD 5 Business Planning Studies only at the June 11 Progress Meeting.

The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), in collaboration with Prince George’s County and Charles County, is hosting progress meetings to provide updates on the Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Study (SMRT). The ultimate goal of the SMRT Study is to select a locally preferred alternative for high-capacity rapid transit improvements along the MD 5/US 301 corridor from the Branch Avenue Metrorail station to the Waldorf/White Plains area.

We welcome your comments and suggestions. MTA project staff and consultants will be available to answer your questions throughout the evening and you will be able to provide feedback on new information being presented. Written comments can be submitted at the progress meetings, emailed to smrt@mta.maryland. gov or by visiting the project website mta.maryland.gov/smrt. Mailed comments will also be accepted at: Southern Maryland Rapid Transit Study, SMRT Project Manager, Project Development, 6 St. Paul Street, 9th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202.

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Tye Lovell is an accomplished vocalist, guitarist, arranger and composer will be performing with Keith Jones, who is a native of Washington, DC, currently runs the dayto-day operations of SeaDepth Entertainment and is a renowned drummer will perform at the “Back Down Memory Lane Oldies But Goodies Cabaret, 8 p.m. to midnight, May 30, at the Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue.

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Lexington Market recent 25th Annual Preakness Celebrity Crab Derby was a great success. Darlene Hudson was the hostess and John Carrington of WCAO, Heaven 600 was the emcee for this fun event. These are the local media celebrities who were the Blue Crabs Jockeys who participated in the race.

May 30, 2015 - June 5, 2015, The Afro-American

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

SPORTS

Who’s the Man? Is LeBron James the Real MVP?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Writers It is hard to argue with the 2015 MVP Award selection of Golden State’s Stephen Curry. An incredible regular season backed by a stellar postseason performance has officially landed Curry into the household name category. His Warriors team is only one game away from their first Finals appearance since the 1974-75 season, and it’s no secret why. Equipped with a lethal jump shot, elite vision, crafty ball-handling skills and a magnetic personality, Curry’s regular season award is fitting and well deserved. Golden State finished with the Association’s top record with 67 wins, a franchise best, and made believers along the way. The Warriors appear destined to meet up with the Cleveland Cavaliers, a team who just finished last season with the No. 1 overall selection in the NBA Draft and now sits just two games away from the Finals. What’s changed so LeBron James much for the Cavs? Perhaps a focused and mature LeBron James? Curry is this year’s MVP but was his play as vital to his team as James? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Green: There isn’t a more skilled player in basketball than Curry. Sure, the MVP award is based upon a player’s importance, but Curry aced every single field you can have when it comes to an MVP race. He was the best player on the league’s best team and he put on nightly routines throughout the year that were as entertaining as a sitcom. James’ acquisition no doubt helped boost Cleveland to the No. 2 team in the Eastern Conference during the regular season, and they’re set to finish the postseason as the conference’s best team. A Finals matchup would virtually decide the real MVP and I’m all in favor of Curry showing us he fully deserves his title.

Riley: When you take a team that finished with last summer’s top overall selection then subsequently traded away that selection and still finished as one of the top teams in the conference, how can you not be impressed by that? James could realistically have been the MVP for the last 10-plus seasons that he’s been in the Association, but we continue to downplay his greatness. You’d be hard-pressed to research history and find a team who finished with the top pick in the draft and moved the player they selected and still had a remarkable turnaround.

James has impacted the Cavs from top to bottom, from the worst player on the team to the best player. Players who couldn’t win with other superstars are now vital pieces; and coaches who never coached in the league are now big-time coaches. Golden State is only one season removed

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from winning 51 games, but it hasn’t been the turnaround that the Warriors experienced. If we were recounting you have to give it to James.

Green: James wasn’t alone in his return to Cleveland. Yes, his play was vital, but let’s not act like the roster is bare without talent. Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson and a host of others have proven so far that they belong in this league, and sometimes a change of scenery is all it takes to revitalize a player’s career. I’m not yet willing to grant the improved play by guys like J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert to the “almighty” influence of LeBron James. I think those guys are playing better on their own, and now James is benefiting from it.

Let’s remember, the Cavs were a .500 team before the team traded for Smith, Shumpert and effective big man, Timofey Mozgov. Those three players made this team complete, so let’s not give a LeBron all the credit. On the other hand, Curry’s been flat out fantastic this season. And, the fact remains Stephen Curry that he’s been the most influential player on the Association’s top team and that’s the key ingredient to becoming the MVP. He also won the three-point shooting contest and dazzled in the All-Star game. It’s been a record year for both Curry and the Warriors and while James has been his usual rock solid self, he hasn’t captured basketball enthusiasts’ hearts the way Curry has this year.

Riley: When I’m searching for a MVP I’m just looking for the facts. And the main fact is Cleveland was a bottom-of-the-barrel team just a season ago, and now they’re set to finish as one of the top two teams in the NBA. Curry’s offense sells tickets and puts fans into seats but no matter what he does in his NBA tenure, he’ll never be the transcendent player that is James.

The Warriors and Cavs appear headed on a collision course right into each other, and I would even give the nod to Golden State since they’re the healthier team at the moment. However, no one expected this Cleveland team to be this deep into the postseason, especially after last year’s finish. What James’ presence has done to elevate that coaching staff and his teammates is something that not all players can do. Sure, Curry can go out and lead by performance, but he just doesn’t have James’ intangibles. The Most Valuable Player Award could really go to James every year, we know that, but for what he’s done this season with that team it should’ve been a no-brainer to select him this season. He’s been a beast on the court, but has also been the MVP for the franchise as well. It was his presence that made Cleveland a more attractive place to guys like Love, Smith and Shumpert. And it’s been his influence on Irving that has turned the young point guard into a prime time player. It’s too late to hand James the award, but it’s clear who the trophy really belongs to.

Washington Walks into Offseason Washington Wizards Weekly – 30

By Stephen D. Riley Special to AFRO A bitter-ending series against the Atlanta Hawks sends the Washington Wizards into the summer with a sour taste in their mouths. The Hawks were certainly beatable, and Washington had its chances of trumping the East’s top seed. Despite the defeat, Washington officially took another step in reclaiming its respectability, and the young duo of John Wall and Bradley Beal garnered more of the necessary experience that it takes to win in the NBA. And, for an added bonus, sophomore forward Otto Porter established that he has what it takes to play in the Association. He could potentially combine with Wall and Beal next season to form a lethal perimeter trio.

However, the summer doesn’t approach without some major questions that the franchise has to answer. The AFRO examines what could be a pivotal summer in the season’s final edition of Wizards Weekly.

Paul Pierce, Drew Gooden III, Kevin Séraphin and Rasual Butler all played key minutes for the team this year and they all could potentially be off the roster by the time next season starts. Pierce has a player option to return and the rest are free agents. Pierce’s one season was instrumental for some of the young veterans but Washington may want to hope he does eventually retire. Porter showed in the postseason that he could be an effective starter and it’s time for the Wizards to start focusing more on its 2013 third overall pick. Porter has the intangibles to be a stalwart lockdown defender and effective passer. His range extends easily to 25 feet from the rim and he’s a stat-stuffing rebounder. Minutes in the playoffs only boosted his confidence and he should definitely be pencilled in as Washington’s starter at small forward next year, whether Pierce returns or not.

The Wizards need more active bodies in the front court as their lack of mobility was exposed in the series loss to Atlanta. Marcin Gortat, Kris Humphries and Nenê are the only bigs signed through next year, but Washington almost has to try to acquire another big – preferably a young one – if they want to compete in the playoffs next year. The Wizards could – and should – use Nenê’s expiring $13 million contract to try to reshape the front line. This summer’s free agency group includes Marc Gasol, DeAndre Jordan and Greg Monroe for starters. Criticized general

manager Ernie Grunfeld catches a lot of flak for his drafting, but he’s proven to be a successful trade specialist. Which poses another question: What to do with Grunfeld and Randy Wittman?

Grunfeld and Wittman could be approaching their final two years in D.C., or they could be just settling. The summer will definitely be a crossroads for the two headmen in Washington. Another fall-short season could spell doom if the Wizards don’t make a significant jump next year. They’ve been in the semifinals in back-to-back seasons and now it’s time to trek forward. The draft and free agency is critical for Grunfeld, who cannot afford another blunder. And Grunfeld’s roster composition is what will ultimately decide Wittman’s fate. These two men are linked to each other and it’ll show as summer progresses. With the 19th pick in June’s draft, Washington will look to add a young big man to the core of Porter, Beal and Wall. The pressure is on Grunfeld to pick carefully as it’s vital for Washington to be able to add another rotation player as free agency will most certainly deplete the Wizards’ roster.

Washington’s success next season will ultimately fall on the shoulders of Beal and Wall. Beal continued to show impressive playoff performances despite the absence of Wall to an injured left hand. Wall’s injury proved just how important he was to the Wizards, since before his injury the team was 5-0 in the postseason. Pierce’s heroics in the playoffs were both exciting and frustrating. On one hand, Pierce gave life to the ball club and its fan base with clutch, big time shots. On the other hand, you want your two young, franchise players being able to make those shots as well. They’ll get their chance next season as the team officially will shift into their hands for leadership and performance. Beal and Wall are the cornerstones on the Wizards, and Porter is working his way into the group.

Washington will be one of the league’s better teams next season, but its success depends on several variables.

‘Upset Versus Angry with Sam Lacy’ Most of the AFRO’s readers are familiar with Sam Lacy in one way or the other. But, far away from that Hall of Fame writer is the human side. I once heard it mentioned that Sam is the most even-tempered individual I have ever met. This is true in a sense, but let me open a door to my world.

I am going to start with Sam getting upset. I was a pretty good student, but I suffered with a trifling personality that infected most boys of my age. I was in junior high school and making quite a splash in the good grades department. With my report card serving as my credentials, I used this opportunity to lay back and clown for my classmates.

My history teacher was a nononsense lady, and to top it off, she had taken a journalism class from Sam. She gave me a grade befitting my status of the moment, and one glance told me this grade was not going to be acceptable in the Lacy household.

Sam took one look and made a phone call. When he got off of the phone he was more than a little upset. Aside from going to school and church, the clown didn’t see daylight until the next report card.

As a young adult, I had a “hooptie” automobile. This car couldn’t do 40 miles per hour if you dropped it from a plane with no parachute. Sam was at the sport’s desk in Baltimore and living in Washington. One Saturday he had to go to the office and he borrowed my car. He had his own keys and permission wasn’t

necessary, so off he went. In those days, tires had inner tubes and a flat was fixed with a patch. The tread on those tires had long since gone to rubber heaven, and if you were talking about the inner tubes it sounded like you were talking about a tribe of Indians.

He made it to Baltimore without incident, but when he emerged from the office the car was leaning to one side (flat tire). Did I mention that I had no jack? Sam borrowed a jack from one of the office workers and proceeded to change the tire in 90-degree heat that felt like 120 degrees. When he let the car down, the “maypop” spare went flat while he watched.

Now the temperature of his blood matched the temperature outside.

He called a towing company and asked them to send a truck with two tires. He made the purchase and dealt with the new tires (one on the rim and one in the trunk).

On the way back to D.C., it started to rain, and you guessed it, one of the other tires went flat and Sam had to change the flat in the rain. Before that could happen, he had to flag down a passing car (remember, no jack). To say he was angry when he got home is an understatement. However I stood my ground, because I didn’t tell him to take the car.

All of this explains why Sam was like a standard shift automobile. He had three gears, even-tempered, upset and angry.

However, if left to me, I wouldn’t change a thing.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM532 Edith E.S. Peterson AKA Edith Estelle Stevens Peterson AKA Edith Estelle Stevens AKA Edith Diggs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Melvin Diggs, whose address is 3817 New Hampshire Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Edith E.S. Peterson, AKA Edith Estelle Stevens Peterson, AKA Edith Estelle Stevens AKA Edith Diggs who died on December 23, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 22, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 22, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Melvin Diggs Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM548 Dorothy Mae Johnson Decedent Alan Frankle, Esq 751 Rockville Pike Suite 7 Rockville, MD 20852 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ramona Louise Johnson & Cedric Johnson, whose addresses are 709 Roxboro Place, NW, Washington, DC 20011 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Dorothy Mae Johnson, who died on April 15, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 22, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM117 Ethel Y. Ross Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wesley L. Clarke, whose address is 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ethel Y. Ross, who died on May 12, 2003 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 15, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 15, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 15, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Wesley L. Clarke Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/15, 05/22,Tue 05/29/15 TYPESET: May 19

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia TRUE TEST COPY 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 PROBATE DIVISION REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue May 12 14:23:47 EDT 2015 Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 05/22, 05/29,Tue 06/05/15 TYPESET: May 12 14:23:22 EDT 2015 Administration No. Superior Court of 2015ADM535 Shore , south of Ocean the District of Brenda Satterfield City. Amenities include Superior Court of District of Columbia Decedent community pier, boat the District of PROBATE DIVISION Ronnie Thraxton, Esq District of Columbia Washington, D.C. ramp, paved roads and 1629 K Street, NW, PROBATE DIVISION 20001-2131 Suite 300 private sandy beach.

Washington, D.C. Administration No. Washington, DC 20006 Great climate, boating, 20001-2131 2015ADM497 Attorney fishing, clamming and Administration No. John Benjamin ColNOTICE OF 2013ADM719 National Seashore lington APPOINTMENT, Dewey C. Holloway Decedent beaches nearby. AbsoNOTICE TO AKA Clarissa T. Edwards CREDITORS lute buy of a lifetime, Dewey Clanton Hol-Law Office of AND NOTICE TO recent FDIC bank failloway Sr. C. Thomas, Chartered UNKNOWN HEIRS ure makes these 25 lots Decedent 2402 Lenfant Square Terry Satterfield, whose Bobby G. Henry Jr. SE available at a fraction address is 1012 An9 7 0 1 A p o l l o D r i v e , Washington, DC 20020 d e r s o n P l a c e , S E , of their original price.

Suite 201 Attorney Washington, DC 20032, Priced at only $55,000 Largo, MD 20774 NOTICE OF was appointed personal to $124,000. For info Attorney APPOINTMENT, representative of the NOTICE OF NOTICE TO call (757) 442-2171, estate of Brenda SatAPPOINTMENT, CREDITORS terfield, who died on April e-mail: oceanlandtrust@ NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO 4, 2015 withouta will, and yahoo.com, pictures on CREDITORS UNKNOWN HEIRS will serve without Court website: http://Wibiti.

AND NOTICE TO Madeline Michele Col- supervision. All unknown UNKNOWN HEIRS lington, whose address is heirs and heirs whose com/5KQN Gregory C. Holloway, 1609 27th Street, SE, whereabouts are unwhose address is 3609 Washington, DC 20020, known shall enter their TYPESET: Tue May 19 15:16:19 EDT 2015 LEGAL NOTICES Scruggs Place, Springwas appointed personal a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s dale, MD 20774 was aprepresentative of the proceeding. Objections pointed personal repreestate of John Benjamin to such appointment (or SUPERIOR COURT OF sentative of the estate of Collington, who died on to the probate of deTHE DISTRICT OF Dewey C. Holloway AKA April 27, 2014 without a cedent´s will) shall be COLUMBIA Dewey Clanton Holwill, and will serve with- filed with the Register of PROBATE DIVISION loway, Sr., who died on out Court supervision. All Wills, D.C., 515 5th Washington, D.C. May 18, 2013 with a will, unknown heirs and heirs Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 20001-2131 and will serve with Court whose where-abouts are W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Administration No. supervision. All unknown unknown shall enter their 20001, on or before 2015ADM565 heirs and heirs whose a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s November 22, 2015.

Estate of whereabouts are unproceeding. Objections Claims against the deLouis Flemuel Davis known shall enter their to such appointment cedent shall be preDeceased appearance in this shall be filed with the sented to the underN O T I C E O F S TA N proceeding. Objections Register of Wills, D.C., signed with a copy to the DARD to such appointment (or 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Register of Wills or filed PROBATE to the probate of deFloor Washington, D.C. with the Register of Wills Notice is hereby given cedent´s will) shall be 20001, on or before with a copy to the underthat a petition has been filed with the Register of November 15, 2015. signed, on or before filed in this Court by Wills, D.C., 515 5th Claims against the de- November 22, 2015, or Anthony Scott Davis for Street, N.W., 3rd Floor cedent shall be pre- be forever barred. Perstandard probate, includWa s h i n g t o n , D . C . sented to the under- sons believed to be heirs ing the appoint-ment of 20001, on or before signed with a copy to the or legatees of the deone or more personal reNovember 15, 2015.

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B8 The Afro-American, May 30, 2015 - June 5, 2015 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM545 Eva Melvina Trivino AKA Eva Trivino Ling AKA Eva Trivino Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jovana M. Cooke, whose address is 9282 Adelphi Rd., Apt 204, Aldelphi, MD 20783, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Eva Melvina Trivino, AKA Eva Trivino Ling, AKA Eva Trivino who died on October 15, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM573 Martha L. Fenwick Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gwendolyn Fenwick, whose address is 20 T Street NW, Washington DC, 20001, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Martha L. Fenwick, who died on April 26, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM426 Sarah Williams Decedent Claude Roxborough Sr. 705 Irving St. NW Washington, DC 20010 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Patricia Lipford, whose address is 649 Morris Pine, Washington, DC, 20002 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Sarah Williams, who died on June 4, 1998 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 15, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 15, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 15, 2015 Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY Afro-American REGISTER OF WILLS Washington TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY Law Reporter REGISTER OF 2015 WILLS TYPESET: Tue May 19 15:15:56 EDT REGISTER OF WILLS Patricia Lipford 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 TYPESET: Tue May 19 15:14:32 EDT 2015 TYPESET: Tue May 19 15:15:16 EDT 2015 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 Personal 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 Representative Superior Court of TRUE TEST COPY the District of Superior Court of Superior Court of REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY District of Columbia the District of the District of REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue May 19 15:13:29 EDT 2015 PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia District of Columbia 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION TYPESET: May 12 05/15, 05/22,Tue 05/29/15 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Superior Court of Administration No. 20001-2131 20001-2131 the District of 2015ADM10 Administration No. Administration No. District of Columbia Edward B. Stewart Superior Court of 2015ADM498 2015ADM572 PROBATE DIVISION Decedent the District of Mary Freeman Rose Louise Coghill Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF District of Columbia Decedent Decedent 20001-2131 APPOINTMENT, NOTICE OF NOTICE OF PROBATE DIVISION Administration No. APPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. 2015ADM531 NOTICE TO NOTICE TO CREDITORS 20001-2131 Robert Anthony Fields CREDITORS CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO Administration No. Sr. AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS 2015ADM494 Decedent UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS Dionne M. Gaddy, whose Lacy Wall 3012 Irma Court R a y m o n d L . G r i e r, address is 10464 Markby Kevin Tyree Coghill, Decedent Suitland, MD 20746 whose address is 25 Car- Court White Plains, MD whose address is 5219 NOTICE OF Attorney rie Place, Emal, NJ 20695, was appointed 5th Street, NW, WashingAPPOINTMENT, NOTICE OF 08081, was appointed personal representative ton, DC 20011 was apNOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, personal representative of the estate of Edward pointed personal repreCREDITORS NOTICE TO of the estate of Mary B. Stewart, who died on sentative of the estate of AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Freeman, who died on December 7, 2014 with- Rose Louise Coghill, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND NOTICE TO April 17, 2015 with a will, out a will, and will serve who died on December A r l e n e F. M a r s h a l l , UNKNOWN HEIRS and will serve without 20, 2008 without a will, Monica M. Fields, whose Court supervision. All un- without Court supervi- and will serve with Court whose address is 1828 sion.

All unknown heirs address is 3012 Irma known heirs and heirs supervision. All unknown Tu b m a n R o a d , S E , Court, Suitland, MD whose whereabouts are a n d h e i r s w h o s e heirs and heirs whose Washington, DC 20020, whereabouts are un20746 was appointed unknown shall enter their whereabouts are un- was appointed personal personal representative a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s known shall enter their known shall enter their representative of the estate of Lacy Wall, who of the estate of Robert proceeding. Objections a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s appearance in this Anthony Fields, Sr., who to such appointment (or proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections died on March 19, 2015 died on February 6, 2015 to the probate of de- to such appointment to such appointment with a will, and will serve without a will, and will cedent´s will) shall be shall be filed with the shall be filed with the without Court superviserve without Court sufiled with the Register of Register of Wills, D.C., Register of Wills, D.C., sion. All unknown heirs pervision. All unknown 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd and heirs whose whereWills, D.C., 515 5th heirs and heirs whose Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Floor Washington, D.C. Floor Washington, D.C. abouts are unknown whereabouts are un- W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before 20001, on or before shall enter their appearknown shall enter their 20001, on or before November 22, 2015. November 22, 2015. ance in this proceeding. appearance in this November 22, 2015. Claims against the de- Claims against the de- O b j e c t i o n s t o s u c h proceeding. Objections Claims against the de- cedent shall be pre- cedent shall be pre- appointment (or to the to such appointment cedent shall be pre- sented to the under- sented to the under- probate of decedent´s shall be filed with the sented to the under- signed with a copy to the signed with a copy to the will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., signed with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed Register of Wills or filed Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with the Register of Wills 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. with the Register of Wills with a copy to the under- with a copy to the underFloor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before with a copy to the under- signed, on or before signed, on or before 20001, on or before November 22, 2015. signed, on or before November 22, 2015, or November 22, 2015, or November 15, 2015.

Claims against the deNovember 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Per- be forever barred. Per- Claims against the decedent shall be prebe forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs sented to the under- sons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the de- cedent shall be preor legatees of the desented to the undersigned with a copy to the or legatees of the decedent who do not re- cedent who do not reRegister of Wills or filed cedent who do not re- ceive a copy of this notice ceive a copy of this notice signed with a copy to the with the Register of Wills ceive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of Register of Wills or filed by mail within 25 days of with a copy to the underby mail within 25 days of its first publication shall with the Register of Wills its first publication shall signed, on or before its first publication shall so inform the Register of with a copy to the underso inform the Register of November 22, 2015, or so inform the Register of Wills, including name, signed, on or before Wills, including name, be forever barred. Per- Wills, including name, address and relation- November 15, 2015, or address and relationbe forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs address and relationship. ship. or legatees of the desons believed to be heirs ship.

Date of Publication: Date of Publication: cedent who do not re- Date of Publication: or legatees of the deMay 22, 2015 May 22, 2015 ceive a copy of this notice cedent who do not reMay 22, 2015 Name of newspaper: Name of newspaper: by mail within 25 days of ceive a copy of this notice Name of newspaper: Afro-American its first publication shall Afro-American by mail within 25 days of Afro-American Washington so inform the Register of Washington Washington its first publication shall Law Reporter Wills, including name, Law Reporter Law Reporter Kevin Tyree Coghill so inform the Register of address and relationDionne M. Gaddy Raymond L. Grier Personal Wills, including name, ship.

Personal Personal Representative address and relationDate of Publication: Representative Representative ship.

May 22, 2015 TRUE TEST COPY Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY May 15, 2015 Afro-American REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS Name of newspaper: Washington 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 Afro-American Law Reporter 5/22/15, 5/29, 6/05/15 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15 Washington Monica M. Fields Law Reporter Personal Arlene F. Marshall Representative Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM537 Collette Dickerson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Bridgette Remekie and Jonathan Dickerson, whose addresses are 4612 Kane Place, NE #1, Washington, DC, 20019, were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Collette Dickerson, who died on March 9, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 22, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 22, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Bridgette Remekie Jonathan Dickerson Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM525 Flossie Marie Williams Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Phillip C. Williams, whose address is 4516 Illinois Ave., Washington, DC 20011 was appoin ted personal representative of the estate of Flossie Marie Williams, who died on October 15, 2012 withouta will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 22, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 22, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Phillip C. Williams Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM492 Lucille Crawford Decedent John F. Mowery, III 1629 K Street Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gwendolyn M. Herring, whose address is 1324 Inland Dr. Forestville, MD 20742, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Lucille Crawford, who died on April 18, 2000 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, November 15, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 15, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 15, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Gwendolyn M. Herring Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/15, 05/22, 05/29/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1363 James A. McRae Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Arza Gardner, Dion Mcrae,Donte Mcrae whose addresses are 2224 16th Street, NE Washington DC, 20018 and 7204 Quantum Leap Lane, Bowie MD 20720 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of James A Mcrae, who died on June 25, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 25, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Arza Gardner Dion Mcrae Donte Mcrae Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of 14:25:30 EDT 2015 District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM1320 Vasco P. Eldridge Decedent Dennis Eshman Esq 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis Eshman, Esq, whose address is 1629 K Street, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Vasco P. Eldridge, who died on January 15, 2009 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Dennis Eshman, Esq Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 005/29, 06/05, 06/12

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM594 Ellene Heath Decedent Mack C. Allen 3300 Wheeler Road, SE Washington, DC 20032 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mack C. Allen and James Heath Jr., whose addresses are 3300 Wheeler Rd, SE, Washington, DC 20032 and 7204 S Osborne Rd., Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Ellene Heath, who died on June 29, 2003 with a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Mack C Allen James Heath Jr. Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM555 Horace Elwood Park Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Diane Brent Farmer, whose address is 11000 Belton Street, Upper Marlboro MD, 20774 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Horace Elwood Brent, who died on October 28, 2012 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 22, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 22, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 22, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Diane Brent Farmer Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/22, 05/29, 06/05/15

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Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 15, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 15, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Denise Gordon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/15, 05/22, 05/29/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM74 Violet Minor Decedent James E McCollum Jr McCollum & Associates Llc 7309 Baltimore Ave, Suite 117 College Park, Maryland 20740 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Janice Edwards, whose address is 3940 Bexley Place, Apt 512, Suitland Maryland 20748 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Violet Minor, who died on December 4, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Janice Edwards Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/29, 06/05, 06/12/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM593 Judy E Martin Decedent Thomas DeCaro, Decaro & Howell PC 14406 Old Mill Rd #201 Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Nikita Petties, whose address is 419 Newton Place, NW, Washington DC 20010, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Judy E. Martin, who died on April 2, 2014 witha will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Nikita Petties Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM69 Joyce Ann Carter Decedent Patrick C. Horrell, Esq 1801 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Patrick C. Horrell, Esq, whose address is 1801 1 8 t h S t r e e t N W, Washington, DC 20009, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Joyce Ann Carter, who died on November 17, 2012 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Patrick C. Horrell, Esq Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM598 Benita Richardson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Maurice Richardson and Lemar Richardson, whose addresses are 642 Brandywine St. SE, Washington, DC 20032 & 127 Galveston St., SW #301, Washington, DC 20032 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Benita Richardson, who died on March 28, 2015without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Maurice Richardson Lemar Richardson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/30, 06/05, 06/12/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM33 Tyler C. Melton Decedent Johnny M Riddick, Esq 505 Capitol Court, NE Suite 100 Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Reginald C. Melton, whose address is 3416 Dix Street, NE, Washington, DC 20019 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Tyler C. Melton, who died on August 26, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: January 30, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Reginald C. Melton Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 05/29, 06/05, 06/12/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM571 Illean Montgomery Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jacqueline Maddox, whose address is 1421 Howard Rd, SE, Washington, DC 20020, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Illean Montgomery, who died on October 17, 2013 with, a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jacqueline Maddox Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM596 Sylvia A. Hunter AKA Sylvia Ann Hunter Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William Simpson Jr, whose address is 5307 Vienna Drive, Clinton, MD 20735 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Sylvia A. Hunter AKA Sylvia Ann Hunter, who died on January 8, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before November 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29,2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter William Simpson Jr. Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM581 Patricia Adams Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wesley L. Clarke, whose address is 1629 K Street, Ste 300.Washington, DC 20006 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Patricia Adams, who died on March 29, 2014 without a Will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before Noveber 29, 2015.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before November 29, 2015, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: May 29, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Wesley L. Clarke Personal Representative

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