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Baltimore’s Top Cop Lists Maryland’s Equality Case Has Gangs, Drug Turf as Biggest National Implications for HBCUs Crime Problems

By Zenitha Prince AFRO Contributing Correspondent

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer After a year on the job, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts believes he has identified the problem areas, learned the underlying sources of crime in violenceplagued neighborhoods

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and made inroads towards gaining the trust of citizens and the rank and file.

At least he hopes so.

Sitting in his downtown office recently, he talked to the AFRO about his first year on the job, his crime-fighting priorities going forward and the street violence that has left more than 175 people dead and hundreds injured since January 2013.

“There are two localized areas where we have problematic violent crime within the city,” he said, citing the eastern and western districts. “That problematic crime is going to draw the rest of the city in, unless we start putting resources into those areas to prop those areas back up and get them back on their feet.”

Batts, 53, was tapped Continued on A3

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A federal judge’s ruling that Maryland violated the constitutional rights of the students at its historically Black college and universities by perpetuating segregation will have a significant impact both within and beyond the state’s borders, experts said.

Federal District Judge Catherine Blake ruled Oct. 7 that Maryland, by allowing traditionally White institutions to duplicate programs already offered by historically Black colleges and universities, had created de facto segregation in its higher education system.

Maryland “offered no evidence that it has made any serious effort to address continuing historic duplication.

Second, and even more troubling, the State has failed to prevent additional duplication, to the detriment of the HBIs,” Blake wrote in her opinion.

Clifton Conrad, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an expert in the area of segregation in higher education, said program

– Judge Catherine Blake

duplication is a major indicator of the dualism that still exists in higher education despite the passage of landmark cases such as the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education and the 1992 U.S. v. Fordice, which Continued on A4

Dr. Frank M. Reid Looks Back on Quarter-Century at BethelAME

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer Dr. Frank M. Reid, Oct. 13 launched a yearlong observation of his 25 years of pastoral service at Bethel AME Church in East Baltimore, themed “Honoring the Footprints of a Legend.”

During his 9:45 a.m. service in east Baltimore, Reid stood among nearly 500 congregants, as many members and

notables came together to honor one of Baltimore’s most prominent clergyman.

“He is a great pastor, teacher and leader,” City Comptroller Joan Pratt told the AFRO. “He’s given us support, love and is a very compassionate preacher.”

Pratt, who’s been a Reid Temple member since 1976, said she expects Reid to continue to build God’s kingdom and bring the lost into the church.

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Convicted Political Consultant Julius Henson Says He’s Running for State Senate

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer

The Iveys, left to right: Aaron (sitting), Glenn, Joanna, the late Joseph Stephenson (sitting), David, Jolene, Troy (sitting), Alex and Julian

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“…allowing traditionally White institutions to duplicate programs already offered by historically Black colleges and universities…created de facto segregation in its higher education system.”

He’s a former two-term state’s attorney for Prince George’s County who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She’s the chairman of the Prince George’s delegation in the Maryland House of Delegates and a candidate for lieutenant governor of Maryland.

At the characterization that they are a “power couple,” however, Glenn Ivey, 52, laughs heartily. Jolene Ivey, also 52, has a similar reaction.

“We find that pretty amusing,” she said with a soft chuckle. “We’re always buried in laundry and trying to get our children to soccer practice.”

The hectic lives of the two professionals, who are the parents of five boys, kicked into even higher Continued on A4

Julius Henson, who was jailed for 30 days in connection with a scheme designed to keep Blacks away from the polls in the 2010 gubernatorial election, thinks it’s time for him to reenter politics.

In an interview with the AFRO Oct. 14, Henson, 64, a Black former political consultant to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich (R), said he has decided to run for the Maryland Julius Henson State Senate in District 45. The seat is currently held by Sen. Nathaniel McFadden (D).

“I decided to run because I think that service is very important,

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particularly in our community,” said Henson. “In the 45th District, particularly the part that I live in, we basically have not been served.”

Henson spoke to the AFRO after buzz swirled Oct. 14 and fliers began circulating announcing his candidacy for the seat, which will be decided in 2014.

His announcement comes four months after the Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld his conviction in the infamous “Robocall Case.” In that case, he was originally charged with violating Maryland’s election law. He was convicted of one count of failing to include a sponsorship line in automated calls Continued on A4

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NATION & WORLD Second Autopsy to Settle How Black Ga. Schoolboy Athlete Died

The family and friends of Kendrick Johnson are waiting to see if a second autopsy confirms a Lowndes County, Ga. medical examiner’s finding six months ago that the 17-year-old, whose body was found rolled inside a gym mat, died of positional asphyxia.

A second autopsy was conducted after the body was exhumed June 14 to address skepticism about county officials’ assertion that the two-sport athlete died in January trying to reach a pair of tennis Kendrick Johnson shoes at the bottom of a rolled-up wrestling mat when he became pinned head-first and perpendicular to the ground.

Authorities in the South Georgia county say the death of the high school football and basketball player was accidental.

Johnson’s body was found early in the school day on Jan. 11 at Lowndes High School. Since then, there have been multiple protests and rallies held by the family and organized in conjunction with the NAACP Georgia State Conference and the National Action Network.

Family members believe that Johnson was murdered and a sloppy investigation was conducted in the hours after his death.

When asked why Lowndes County Coroner Bill Watson was called six hours after Johnson’s body was found, instead of immediately according to Georgia law, it was indicated that a professional investigation was conducted.

In June a judge granted permission for the Johnson family to exhume the 17-year old’s body for a second autopsy, one they hope will give more answers.

Family attorney Chevene King Jr. did not respond to interview requests.

Baltimore-Born Woman Joins Harvard Law Faculty as Islamic Law Scholar

Baltimore-born scholar Intisar A. Rabb, a leading expert on Islamic Law and legal history, was recently appointed as a tenured professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS), joining the faculty in spring 2014. At HLS, she will be a faculty director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program.

She was always very academically inclined. During her last two years of high school—which was spent in Minnesota with her mother— Rabb obtained several college credits, her brother said. She later matriculated at Georgetown University, earning bachelor’s degrees in government and Arabic in 1999; she earned a master’s

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As an African-American scholar with such diverse experiences, including extensive travel throughout Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, Rabb will help ensure that “the scholarship being produced at the highest level is informed by a background that is more diverse,” her brother told the AFRO. Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow said that Rabb, who is currently associate professor of Intisar Rabb Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Law at New York University School of Law, will be a valuable addition to their faculty.

Rabb is no stranger to the Harvard community. In 2012, she served as a visiting associate professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Md. AG Shuts Down Website That Published False Personal Data

A complaint against the operator of a website that published deceptive criminal histories of Maryland consumers has been settled, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler recently announced.

Florida resident Stanislav Komsky was the operator of Joomsef.net, a site that developed and published webpages on individuals – including Maryland consumers – that purportedly detailed their backgrounds including their criminal histories.

The consumers’ profiles contained, for example, publicly available information regarding traffic citations issued against them. However, the AG’s office alleged, those webpages exaggerated the traffic offenses by claiming that consumers had been “booked” or arrested.

Komsky also reserved a space on each webpage for a photograph of the consumer that was captioned “Mugshot Unavailable,” thus, falsely implying that a mugshot had been taken.

To view more details about those “charged” offenses, the website required a fee of $9.99.

Victims of the misleading profiles found out they were listed on Joomsef.net when they searched the Internet themselves or when background searches were performed by others, including prospective employers. When those consumers complained, however, Komsky charged them fees ranging from $39.99 to $89.99 to have the information removed from the website, depending on how rapidly they wanted it removed.

The Consumer Protection Division of the attorney general’s office claimed that Komsky’s exaggeration of consumers’ criminal histories and charging of fees to have the information removed from his website were unfair or deceptive trade practices.

To resolve the alleged violations, Komsky has agreed to cease and desist from publishing false or misleading information about consumers’ backgrounds, to refund the payments he collected from consumers to view or remove information from his website and to pay the Division a $7,500 civil penalty.

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Senate Leaders Reach Deal to End Shutdown “After weeks spent facing off across a partisan divide that often seemed too wide to cross, our country came to the brink of disaster,” Reid said. “What we’ve done is send a message to Americans…and in addition to that, to the citizens of every country in the

this terrible law,” he said. “But for today – Moody’s, still has the U.S. rated AAA. for today –the relief we hope is to reopen The White House made a minor concession the government, avoid default and protect by agreeing to require verification of the WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite their the historic cuts we have achieved under the income of those qualifying for health well-known animus for each other, Senate Budget Control Act.” insurance subsidies.

Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Although the Affordable Care Act was After Republicans lost their bid to repeal Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) passed by the House national health legislation, they suffered a reached a last-minute deal Oct. 16 that will and Senate, signed series of other setbacks, including a lastNovember 1, 2008 - November 7, 2008, The Washington Afro-American A3 end the federal government shutdown and into law by President ditch proposal that would have eliminated raise the debt limit through Feb. 7.

Obama, and upheld employer contributions for lawmakers and The House and Senate are expected to vote by the U.S. Supreme forced the president, vice president and on the compromise measure late Oct. 16, just Court, House political appointees to participate in health sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspiposted fliers by bearing photoBy Alan King hours before the U.S. Treasury Department Republicans have care exchanges administered stateshis without connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On AFRO Staff Writer was scheduled to run out of borrowing power. made more than 40 a tax subsidy. Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his “There are no winners here,” White attempts to repeal the “We took some crumbshelp andinleft TheHouse white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago forbread the public’s finding Jennifer Hudson and other Tribune, the boy had been shot In herLindsey MySpace relatives positively Press Secretary Jayidentified Carney said atSuburban his daily with Illinois license landmark legislation – an entire meal onher thenephew. table,” Sen. multiple times in the back seat she thanked fans and supbriefing Oct. 16. “We said that from the all without success.

Graham (R-S.C.)blog, said after the deal was of the vehicle. The SUV, regisporters for their prayers and beginning, and we’re going to say it right up to Political announced.

“This has been a really bad twoto tered to Hudson’s offered a $100,000 reward – Senatemurdered Majority Leader Harry M. Reid the end because it’s true. The American people brother, was towed with the anyone who returned the boy observers said that weeks for the Republican Party.” boy’s body inside and is being alive. have paid a price for this.” because Obama has Indeed, at least one national poll found that processed by evidence techniSince the investigation, After numerous meetings at the White often caved in to more than two-thirds of Americans mostly cians and workers. The body Hudson – who gained stardom House and repeated efforts by House world, that the United States lives up totaken its to Republicans demands in the past, they thought blamed Republicans the government was later removed and afterfor appearing on “American the Cook County Medical then Republicans to use the threat of a government obligations.” the threat of a government shutdown would shutdown, whichIdol,” beganand Oct. 1. won an Examiner’s office.

Academy Award for her role in shutdown to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Standing next to Hudson Reid in and the Senate, cause him to yield to their demand that law be Senators Reidthe andmovie McConnell agreed as other family Dreamgirls – has President Obama’s signature health legislation McConnell indicated that the nation hasn’t repealed.

However, that threat backfired when part of their deal to set up a budget conference members arrived at the Medical stayed out of the public eye. that is loosely referred to as Obamacare, Reid Examiner’s office mid-afterChicago Tribune seen the last of GOP efforts to eliminate the Obama stood firm, refusing to give in to what committee assignedThe to put the country onreporta Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew. noon to identify the body. ed that a parade of cars moved and McConnell announced their agreement on Affordable Care Act. he and his aides called ransom demands to the long-term path to fiscal stability. The panel, to Given the choice between lookslowly past her family’s home the Senate floor.

“Republicans ing remain determined to repeal extremist Tea Party of the GOP. chaired Patty Murray (D-Wash.), A spokesman for wing the office the murders but isbebeing heldby inSen. directly at the body or Monday morning, past the toldInthe newspaper that Hudson after one statement, White Housejail for parole violation chair of the Senate Budget and viewing it on a wall-mounted news vans,Committee, reporters and curious onlookers. spokeswoman Amy Brundage said, “The Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the Courtesy Photos Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who president has said repeatedly that members House Budgetmoment.”

Committee. ButNeighbors there werestood no “She held hands with her family.

It was obviously a very emotional quietly and was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. of Congress don’t get to demand ransom for immediate indications if this committee will reflected on the “remainedtheir strong forresponsibilities her famibeing convicted of Continued from A1 video screen, the family chose violence. fulfilling basic to pass a beattempted any more successful than past committees ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackplate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the In front of spending. the Hudson’s the body of her 7-year-old budget andhands pay the nation’s bills.”ing. Cook Countyassigned to streamline federal “She held with her famirecords show last yearMonday, to head the he said. West Side after Batts Hudson said wants Chicago’s Tribune, said,to“Yes, home, men in heavy jackets nephew just hours thespokesman end, evensaid.

Sen.“It Ted Cruzthat (R-Texas), Republicans are surveying the came to ly,”Inthe he pleaded guiltyMany to both police received a.m. calljust see that’s and hooded sweatshirts 3,000-member department “I think it’s afar7 beyond thehim.” reputation of the after his body was found in a was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also who staged a 21-hour Senate filibuster against damage the shutdown hastwin hadwhite on their party.barkiss the crosses after 30 years in law arresting people,” he said. department restored. He told moment.” convicted in 1998 for possesing the names of Donerson and the The law,boy said–he would not filibuster the deal Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) said, “If enforcement. He spent “It’s the police department the AFRO he wants to make the son of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle.

Jason. reached 16 between we learn nothing else, I hope we learn we Hudson, Oct. Jennifer’s sister –the hadtwo Senate He was released from prison in upwards of 27 years with the being that mechanism that the organization the best and “Everybody is sick of going been missing since Friday, after the2006 seven years leaders.

He told reporters deal after was servingshouldn’t get behind a strategy thatthis,” has no Long Beach police, before brings other resources is pushing for the Baltimore through stuff like Artisha when a relative found Julian’s for thenot attempted endgame.” murder and West, a former resident of the “Delaying this vote would going to Oakland in 2009 to into those parts of the Police Department to be seen announced, grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. the Tribune. all anything.” speakingarea fortold Democrats, said:“We “This become community.” as progressive, No“a wonder Obama’scutting campaign is accomplish and Dallas Cowboys players

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King Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remainedReid, missing have to stick together. All these tryingorganization.” to distance him from the Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, AFRO Staff Writer In Charm City, he took Batts said the public’s edge TheHudson, agreement lifts to thedeath $16.7 trillion is not a in time for pointing fingersare anddying, blame.

Jason 29, shot through a long weekend young children and group, saying, “Barack among the names submitted to in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers over a department that had “My next goal is toObama assistance is needed to help debt limit, allowing the U.S. to pay its bills.

This is a time of reconciliation.

I look forward for what?”

Never Organized with ACORN.” election officials.

Presidential candidate John the 7000 block of South Yale been rocked by scandal. In our ties short-term covert officers Standard & Poor’s dropped the U.S. credit to working with my colleagues on both sides But Obama’s to ACORN run Hurd identify said thosesuspects workers, who increase McCain’s attack on ACORN – Avenue. the year since he took over, investigation federal and citiesthose where there AAA after the 2011 of this great Capitol to pass this remarkable long and deep. with He taught classes rating wereindoing things without Associated Community An from Amber Alertto–AA+ a desigfor ACORN. Theymeans even endorsed ACORN’s knowledge or permis- partners Organization Reform many officersforhave left.Now – is which that a collegial relationship nation for high-risk missing credit rating debt ceiling crisis. Another agreement that will protect the long term himare for going President. sion, wereofficers fired. and citizens, confirms themuch success the children Fitch, – was said issued Friday Though ofofhis we to do a lot of between agency, earlier this week that it health of our economy and avert a default But now ACORN is in trouble.

“The evidence that has surorganization, the head of the after Julian was discovered work is conducted behind low key investigation very witnesses are more likely to might follow suit if the U.S. defaulted on on our nation’s debt, and allow us to set a at least Reporter: There are faced so far shows they faked group says. missing after the murders. closed doors, Batts said quickly,” he said.

11 investigations across the forms forward. to get paid for work they “This is testimony to the work come its obligations.

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Police arrested William country thousands didn’t notthe to city’s stuff ballot he makes get out Battsinvolving observed his one-of Hedo, said gang we’ve donesure andto success we’ve Balfour, the missing boy’s steppotentially fraudulent boxes.” ACORN, said, the had,” Maude Hurd, president father and estranged husband among the residents severalof year anniversary at aACORN time activity is on theshe rise.

Heissaid forms. victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, said in an interview of Julia, at his girlfriend’s times a week.

His goal is when violence was rampant gangs are emigrating from Announcer: Massive voter tor of it. with the AFRO. Southside apartment several for “When the department to show in the city.

According to the West Coast and they are fraud. And the Obama campaign Hurd said the only things this attack started, we hours after the murders. bogus are theacharges thempaid more $800,000 an citizens that the officers police, as than of Oct. 7, thetocity’s “targeting” lot of the city’s had just announced that weand had Balfour’s mother, Michele, has selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out177, the vote registeredcare, 1.3 million new officials but also tovothomicides numbered neighborhoods.

Specifically, told reporters that her son had agrees. efforts. ers,” she said. “That’s just to say nothing to do with the slayings. build relationships between compared to 170 this time last he referenced the Black It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky that someone’s running scared Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson citizens, law enforcement year.

Guerilla Family, which is ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. because of ACORN’s success.” andMcCain, city officials. said for He said the Bad homicide attempting to take been found guilty of,control or evenof Barack Obama. judgment. who is He running charged of with, Blindisambition.

Too risky for president the Republican among hisonconcerns is the tick- several rate 4 percent higher than thecasting city’s fraudulent housing votes.”

America. et, lashed out at in the proliferation ofACORN abandoned last year however, “we are complexes.

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Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have been on the verge of maybe perpetratrely take on volunteers, paystrade,” peobombarded ing one of the greatest frauds in problem. in the city.”with threats and and over the itdrug ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail. voter history in and this country, “We are calling our Drug users gang he said. ployed, to sign up new voters.

The day after the presidential maybe destroying the fabric of RAtE APR neighborhoods, our into the members operate inside Last year violence struck The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke democracy.”

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“What we’ve done is send a message to Americans…and in addition to that, to the citizens of every country in the world, that the United States lives up to its obligations.”

Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain Nephew

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McCain campaign thinks those voters are going to vote Democratic, which is not necessarily true.”

ACORN is no stranger to Continued controversy.from A1 For 38 years, the non-partisan Proclamations werefor social organization has fought and economic justice for lowpresented

by Mayor Stephanie and moderate-income Rawlings-Blake, Marilyn Americans. With 400,000 memMosby, on behalf of her ber families organized into more husband Councilman Nick than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 nationwide, Mosby, andcities Pratt.

ACORN has over thesaid years seen Rawlings-Blake its share of criticism while advoduring the presentation that it cating for affordable housing, was a pleasure to be there to living wages, healthcare for the “celebrate yourand 25th pastoral underserved— while organizing voter registration drives. anniversary.”

But none has been as withering “I’m grateful to be in and baseless as this one. the With number,” Blake said. the presidential election “Congratulations doing less than two weeksonaway, ACORN’s the good workdetractors and may allege God shed organization has engaged in masfavor in your life.” sive voter registration fraud after service,ofthe theDuring reportedthe discovery bogus names, such as Mickey Mouse

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brought the phony registrations to the attention of authorities.

The McCain camp apparently isn’t interested in those fine points, preferring to air misleading ads that seek to link Obama to ACORN, thereby undercutting robe Reid wore 25 years ago his political support.

McCain: I’m John when he delivered hisMcCain first and I approve this message. sermon as a minister at Bethel Announcer: Who is Barack AME was hungwith at the Obama?

A man “a pulpit political during the service. baptism performed at warp speed.”

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Afterfor col“When think big lege, he moved God, God willtodoChicago. big things Became a community organizer. for you,” Reid said as the There, Obama met Madeleine crowd Talbot, applauded. part of the Chicago branch of ACORN. He was so Bishop Sam Green of the impressive that he was asked to 12th Episcopal District spoke train the ACORN staff. in honor of Reid and the Rev. What did ACORN in Chicago Steve sang, “Jesus engageJones in? Bullying banks.

Intimidation tactics.of Disruption You’re the Center My Joy” of business.

ACORN which was noted asforced Reid’s banks to issue risky home loans. favorite song.

The same types of loans that The yearlong celebration caused the financial crisis we’re in today.

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Forget about paying for hospital bills for them. I’m not gonna do it. You guys are lowlifes. And I hope you all die.”

Hurd thinks the hate calls will cease soon.

“In two weeks, I think these attacks will be over. But I think it will be harder for us to get our name back on good graces because they really trashed us in the last few weeks.”

But ACORN will not be deterred.

“We’ve been fighting for a long time, for over 30 years, for the rights of low- and moderateincome people all across the country,” Hurd said. “We’re going to continue to fight for economic justice in our communities.”

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U.S. Increases Surveillance of Citizens

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 that brought down the World Trade Center towers in New York and punched a hole in the Pentagon in northern Virginia, the United States government ramped up a massive data collection campaign that effectively claimed privacy rights have become another casualty of the War on Terror.

A new report from the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan think tank and public interest law firm at New York University School of Law, details the government’s enormous data collection and storage efforts fueled by the fear of another September 11.

According to the report, the U.S. government can collect your public Facebook posts and tweets, all non-deleted and nonencrypted information from your computer, telephone, or iPad, your e-mails, where you travel, who you meet with, your credit history and your driving record.

Every 30 days the National Security Agency stores 41 billion communications records through its XKEYSCORE program that tracks a wide range of Internet activity and e-mails.

Through the program, some data with no connections to terrorism can be saved for more

75 years.

“One of the things that comes up often is that there was too much information in the system and that really did hinder accurate analysis,” said Rachel Levinson-Waldman the author of the Brennan Center report, titled “What The Government Does With Americans’ Data.”

The report stated, “The failure of the intelligence community to intercept the so-

The government’s surveillance powers have grown under the Obama administration, even as experts warn that the current approach to data collection clogs the system making it harder to find the real terrorists. Some experts warn that a billion “false alarms” could be generated from the administration’s current levels of data collection.

In 2012, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) received a new mandate that allowed for increased collection of American data that had no current link to terrorism – “a tenfold increase from the previous limit,” according to the Brennan Center.

Rachel Levinson-Waldman The report states, “the NCTC may utilize, keep, or share information called ‘underwear bomber’ – the suicide about Americans in order to monitor their bomber who nearly brought down a plane First Amendment-protected activities or other to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 – was constitutional rights as long as that is not the blamed in significant part not on insufficient sole justification for using the data.” information but on an overabundance of data.”

When the National Security Agency was Levinson-Wardman said democracy works audited in 2012, investigators found that the best when there is a lot of information flowing organization had violated privacy rights of from the government to the people and, by and thousands of Americans that ultimately led to large, that pattern has been reversed. “There’s a zero terrorism plots. lot of information flowing from us and there is “NSA analysts have also misused the very little transparency in reverse,” she said. agency’s surveillance systems to spy on

spouses or romantic interests,” stated the Brennan Center report. Even though the NSA vowed to comply with all privacy laws, experts say that the violations highlight the need for greater transparency and independent oversight of the surveillance programs.

The Brennan Center report outlined a number of recommendations including making sure that the data set has a “publicly available policy” to increase transparency of the programs, that government agencies “require reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to retain or share information about Americans for law enforcement or intelligence purposes,” and “Reform the Privacy Act to better protect against the long-term retention and broad sharing of innocuous, sensitive personal information, and institute oversight mechanisms.”

Levinson-Wardman said that experts from the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense have said that there is so much information flowing from the public to the government that the system that it’s overloaded.

“It’s impossible to find the important parts, it clogs up the system, but people are afraid not to bring it all in,” said Levinson-Wardman.

“They are afraid of missing something, but the fact that there is so much [data] makes it almost inevitable that they are going to.”

segregating the schools and perpetuating a dual system of education, you are undermining our (Black) institutions in terms of growth,” she said.

Conrad concurred, saying, the presence of unique programs leads to increased funding.

“When you have unique, quality noncore programs the money will come,” he said.

Both Conrad and Baskerville said Judge Blake’s ruling could serve as a “wake-up” call to other jurisdictions, since Maryland is not the only state that has lingering policies traceable to the de jure or legal era of segregation.

“This (decision) is significant not only for Maryland,” Baskerville said. “We were waiting with bated breath for the ruling, hoping that this would set good precedent for at least four other states.”

NAFEO has complaints pending in at least four other states including Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. And there have been other red flags in states like Louisiana, Georgia and Ohio, she

said.

For example, Baskerville said, Georgia’s Savannah State University, an HBCU, launched an acclaimed homeland security program that promised to draw students from all over. Within a matter of months, however, the state allowed a TWI in close proximity to launch a replica of that program and enrollment in the HBCU’s program petered out. “[The Maryland ruling] gives us the leverage to go to other state legislatures, higher education systems, etc. and see if states have willingly or unknowingly perpetuated a dual system of higher education and to address the problem,” she said, later adding, “The judge went to great lengths to establish a good record for what states should look at in making good decisions about whether there are lingering effects of de jure segregation.”

In her opinion, Blake offered guidelines Maryland should consider as they developed

an approach to dealing with the segregative program duplication. Those included “expansion of mission and program uniqueness and institutional identity at the HBIs,” and even “the transfer or merger of select high demand programs from TWIs to HBIs.” Any solution will pose a difficult challenge to the state, Conrad said. Resources will have to be appropriated for faculty training, facility rehabbing and the like, which may be less tasking that trying to divvy up the programs among the institutions.

“It’s tricky because you have a lot of institutions involved. So it’s going to invite some creativity in finding the remedy to give HBCUs a useful programmatic identity,” Conrad said. “It’s challenging; it’s not going to be easy. Institutions like things to stay as they are [so] change and innovation can be painful.”

But the pain is worth it, he added.

“It is 2013. We need to get rid of the vestiges of segregation and move on,” he said.

other civil rights activists as they fought for desegregation.

“It had an immediate impact on our lives,” he said. “My mother was able to work at different schools. You could go to the public pool, try on clothes at the downtown department stores, or eat at restaurants…You could see how it made a difference in your life and I was drawn to that.”

Not far from the Iveys, in Goldsboro, N.C., Jolene’s father, Joseph Stephenson, was born and raised. He was a decorated military

“There’s a lot of information flowing from us and there is very little transparency in reverse.”

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attempted to mitigate the problem.

“Brown didn’t work in higher education, did it? No,” said the professor, who worked on Fordice and was called as an expert witness in the Maryland case.

In her opinion, Blake noted that statewide, 60 percent of the noncore programs at Maryland’s HBCUs are unnecessarily duplicated, compared with only 18 percent of its TWIs’ noncore programs. And, of the unique high-demand programs that fuel enrollment, there was an average of 17 per TWI and only three per HBCU. The lack of unique programs at HBCUs has a segregating effect since it decreases the school’s attractiveness to students of all races, said Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), mirroring Blake’s conclusions.

“When you undercut and duplicate those courses offered by HBCUs, you are not just

Prince George’s Political Duo Continued from A1

gear when Maryland Attorney General Douglas S. Gansler, a candidate for governor in 2014, tapped Jolene Ivey to run for lieutenant governor alongside him.

“I am proud to be the first African American woman to run for lieutenant governor,” Jolene Ivey said at a news conference on Oct. 14. “When we win, history will be made when I become the first Democratic African American woman lieutenant governor in this nation’s history.”

Said Glenn Ivey, “I’m looking forward to being the husband of the lieutenant governor of Maryland.”

Supporting each other is the secret to the success to their 25-year marriage, the Cheverly-based couple said. Glenn Ivey was supportive when his wife, a former Baltimore TV writer and producer and former press secretary for then-Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), decided to stay home with their sons, Alex, David, Julian, Troy and Aaron—now 23, 20, 18, 16 and 13, respectively. During that time, she co-founded Mocha Moms, a support group for stay-at-home mothers of color. Ivey served as president from 1997 until 2002.

Glenn Ivey also has a daughter, Joanna, 26, from a previous relationship.

In 2006, Jolene Ivey was elected to the House of Delegates, at the same time Ivey ran unopposed for his second term as the Prince George’s State’s Attorney.

“The real pressure was when my wife and I were both serving in office,” Glenn Ivey said. “That was also the same time Julian… had a role in The Lion King on Broadway and we had to take turns shuttling him back and forth to New York.”

The boys missed mom’s cooking and lobbied for dad to improve his culinary skills.

“They got together and bought me a cookbook,” Glenn Ivey said.

That commitment to family—and to public service—was forged in both as children,

the Iveys said. Glenn Ivey, who attended Princeton and Harvard Law School, and his older brother, Gerald, who is also a successful lawyer in D.C., grew up in Rocky Mount, N.C., during the height of segregation. Their mother, Vivian, worked as a librarian at Black schools and their father, Van, eventually landed a job at the Department of Labor helping to implement President Johnson’s anti-poverty initiatives.

Glenn Ivey recalls following the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King and

man who, after leaving the service, taught in Prince George’s high schools for 20 years.

Jolene Ivey said her father and stepmother, Gigi Stephenson, nurtured in her a love of community service and advocacy in their Northeast Washington home.

“They were always a good example of how to be good citizens in the world,” she said.

But running for public office was never her plan, said Jolene Ivey, who earned a bachelor’s in communication at Towson and a

master’s in journalism from Maryland.

“I decided to run for public office because it is a great vehicle to make things happen for people,” she said.

In Annapolis, she has often focused on issues related to women, children and families. If she is elected, her agenda will include working with Gansler to increase the minimum wage, close the achievement gap and improve diversity in government.

“It is exciting to be in a position where I’m going to be able to have a real impact on the direction the state is heading,” she told the AFRO. Jolene Ivey’s racial identification has become something of a subhead in the coverage of the campaign. Though lightskinned enough to be mistaken for White— her birth mother was Caucasian—Jolene Ivey identifies herself as African American.

“It doesn’t affect me inside because I know who I am—I’m Black,” she said. “My family is Black…and I’m the mother of five Black sons. The only issue arises when other people make assumptions about me based on my outward appearance, but I can’t do anything about that.”

The confusion has had its benefits.

“When someone has said something racist to me, assuming I’m White, I have the opportunity to put them in their place,” she added.

service, and three years of probation in June 2012. Henson said the conviction was based on “an inconsistent verdict.”

Henson said he remains on probation.

He said a condition of his probation forbids him from being involved in political activity, paid or volunteer. Henson said he has been knocking on doors and passing out campaign literature. It is unclear whether or not his campaign activities constitute a ‘political

activity’ in violation of his probation.

Henson said he is pressing forward, regardless of his conviction. He said people in the community are well aware of what happened and what he was accused of doing, but that most residents, Black and White, are “dealing with a bunch of crap,” and therefore unconcerned about his crime.

He said voters in the 45th District “will be happy and glad” he decided to run.

“Like me or dislike me, I tell it straight and how it is,” Henson told the AFRO. When asked about his chances, he said he is not expecting a landslide victory.

“I don’t need everybody to vote. I just need one more than all the rest,” he said.

He later accused the media “of trying to make Black people look bad” and urged reporters to “state the facts…and let the people decide.”

“I’m looking forward to being the husband of the lieutenant governor of Maryland.”

— Glenn Ivey

Henson Continued from A1

made Election Night 2010. The calls were made to about 110,000 voters, mostly in Prince Georges’s County and Baltimore City which have high percentages of Black voters.

He was accused of targeting Black voters in robocalls and discouraging them from heading to the polls to vote, saying O’Malley had already won and that their votes were not needed. He was reportedly sentenced to two months in prison, 300 hours of community

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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer: A Major Health Concern for Black Women

By Zachary Lester and Maria Adebola AFRO Staff Writers When Linda Williams first learned that she had breast cancer, she felt doomed.

“Cancer seems always associated with death,” Williams said. “I was feeling defeated, like I had to succumb.”

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. National public service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies work together to promote the need for women to conduct monthly breast self-exams, have annual mammograms and take control of their breast health.

According to the American Cancer Society, in 2013 about 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women and about 39,620 women will die from breast cancer. There are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

Breast cancer is of particular concern to African-American women, officials said.

Though White women are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer than AfricanAmerican women, in women under 45, breast cancer is more common in African Americans.

African-American women also are more likely to die of breast cancer than other groups, statistics show. “ Their tumors often are found at according to womenshealth.org. “So, there are fewer treatment options. Some other reasons for this may include not being able to get health care or not following-up after getting abnormal test results. Other reasons may include distrust of the health care system, the belief that mammograms are not needed, or not having insurance. Also, research has shown that African-American women are more likely to get a form of breast cancer that spreads more quickly.”

Men, too, can contract breast cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society, symptoms in men may include a lump or

swelling on the breast, skin dimpling or hope up.” puckering, a nipple turned inward, redness or She advises women to get a mammogram scaling of the nipple or breast skin or nipple as often as possible. discharge.

Williams had no family history of cancer “Sometimes a breast cancer can spread when she was diagnosed with inflammatory to lymph nodes under the arm or around the breast cancer in 2007. According to the collar bone and cause a lump National Cancer Institute, or swelling there, even before inflammatory breast cancer the original tumor in the (IBC) is a rare and very breast tissue is large enough aggressive disease also more to be felt” in men, according common and diagnosed at to the ACS website. younger ages in African Men who notice an American women than in abnormality should also seek White women. This type immediate medical attention, of breast cancer is called as well. “inflammatory” because More prevalent among symptoms of the cancer African-American women include swelling, and redness who suffer from the disease that affects a third or more of is Triple Negative Breast the breast.

Breast cancer survivor Cancer, which is more Williams said she had difficult to treat, officials said. Linda Williams noticed some redness on her According to breast cancer breast, but she never paid statistics, about 85% of breast cancers occur attention to it. Then, one morning when she in women who have no family history of the was casually stretching, she noticed something disease, due to genetic mutations that happen when her hand ran across her right breast. as a result of aging, research shows.

“When I found the lump on my right breast, Several Baltimore-area women described I went to my doctor and within a week it was their encounters with the dreaded disease. confirmed that I had cancer,” she said. “I was Northeast Baltimore resident Rhonda diagnosed with stage three, which means it had Adams, 67, was diagnosed with having cancer spread to my lymph nodes.” in her left breast in 1993.

Doctors ordered an aggressive treatment “My life flashed before my eyes,” she said. regimen, including several weeks of “I lost all sense if reality” chemotherapy, which she said, “took a toll” on She opted to have the breast removed, then her body. began treatment. She said a “strong support “I was always tired,” she said. system and prayer got me through it.”

After going through chemotherapy, Roslyn Rogers, 61, of Baltimore, Williams underwent a mastectomy, then an was diagnosed in May. She had a double mastectomy in August.

“It was like I heard echoes when he said it was cancer,” she said. “I didn’t hear anything he said after that. It took me about three or four days to face reality.”

She is confident that “God will see me through this” and said “my faith keeps my

additional year of chemotherapy and radiation.

She has now been cancer free for six years.

Williams now has regular health exams and takes extra steps, including eating healthy.

She urged other women to be aggressive about their health.

“We have…resources and information now to prevent breast cancer,” she said.

Though doctors don’t know how to prevent breast cancer, eating healthy foods, getting plenty of exercising, refraining from smoking and recreational drug use and limiting alcohol are believed to help.

The best tool, though, is early breast cancer screening.

“Breast cancer screening looks for signs of cancer before a woman has symptoms,” according to womenshealth.org. “Screening can help find breast cancer early when it’s most treatable.”

Two tests are commonly used to screen for breast cancer, including mammograms, low-dose xrays of breast tissues that can detect abnormalities and clinical breast exams, where a physician examines the breasts. Women are also asked to do monthly self-exams.

Organizations like Sisters Network help in raising awareness locally and nationally about the devastating impact that breast cancer has had in the African American community.

For more information, see Taking Charge of Breast Cancer: A Guide For African American Women, a video that explains the risk factors, screening tests and some common treatments for it” at www.cancer.org/healthy/ toolsandcalculators/videos/taking-charge-ofbreast-cancer

Shutdown Has Meant Shorter Commute Times

By Peter Scalfani Capital News Service

Ronnie Raigrodski usually takes the MARC train from Baltimore to work, but since the government shutdown he’s chosen to drive to Greenbelt to take Metro into Washington.

“It would usually take two hours to get to Washington from Baltimore by car, but now it only takes an hour and a half,” Raigrodski said. “It’s been much less stressful.”

While the government shutdown that started Oct. 1 has meant frustration and financial insecurity for the furloughed, it’s meant easier commutes into Washington for some people, who have enjoyed an easier drive to and from work without sitting in the area’s notorious traffic.

But Congress this week appears closer to working out a deal to end the shutdown, meaning traffic could soon return to its usual level.

With thousands of government employees sitting at home instead of going to work, rush hour commute times have been cut by as little as 10 percent, and as much as 50 percent, depending on location.

For example, the 24-mile stretch of road from the District to exit 148 in Virginia

on Interstate Highway 95 ranked as the 21st worst road in the country last year, with traffic moving an average of 27 mph, according to Inrix, a company that collects and analyzes traffic data.

Typically, that stretch takes 53 minutes at peak rush hour. During a recent evening rush hour, travel time for commuters took an average of 27 minutes.

Washington is one of the worst places to drive in the country, said traffic analyst Jim Bak, of Inrix. The area contains eight of the top 150 worst roads in the country, he said.

By comparing postshutdown commute times with commute times from the week leading up to the shutdown, Bak and his team can determine whether traffic is flowing at a faster or slower rate of speed than normal.

Taking the BaltimoreWashington Parkway out of the District toward Powder Mill Road usually leaves commuters stuck in traffic.

Driving usually takes 15 minutes to travel a little more than seven-and-a-half miles.

However, with fewer people on the roads, driving the same stretch of road is taking about nine minutes.

Fewer drivers, and less traffic, may also be having

other positive effects.

Amanda Parker commutes to the Greenbelt Metro station, but she has been furloughed. Parker said she’s noticed drivers have been less aggressive since the shutdown.

And although many roads in Maryland have only had travel times cut by 10 minutes, Bak said that as those minutes add up, drivers save money at the gas pump.

“Typically, an average American car, not an SUV, sitting in traffic for an hour, consumes one gallon of fuel,” Bak said. “The average American spends between 40 to 50 hours a year sitting in traffic. In D.C. it may be more than that.”

With fewer people on the road, commuters are also driving closer to free flow speeds, which are typically the same as the speed limit, Bak said.

“Since the shutdown it’s been smooth sailing on 95,” Raigrodski said. “You can do 65 to 70 mph, just like on a Sunday.”

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Play Teaches Students to Feed Mind and Body Well Fifth grade students from three Baltimore City schools will head to the University of Maryland’s Westminster Hall 11:30 a.m.,

Oct. 22, to see FOODPLAY, the national award-winning show promoting healthy eating and exercise habits. The University of

Maryland, Baltimore and Hippodrome Foundation, Inc. (HFI - the non-profit partner of the Hippodrome Theatre) partnered to sponsor this production

for the students from Calvin Rodwell Elementary School, James McHenry Elementary School, and Southwest Baltimore Charter School.

“You cannot find this education anywhere else.”

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While FOODPLAY makes good eating great fun, its messages are very serious.

So serious, in fact, that First Lady, Michelle Obama, has launched the nation’s first childhood obesity task force, designed to tackle the alarming rise in the number of overweight children. In the last 25 years, childhood obesity rates have doubled among elementary school children and tripled among teenagers. One in three children is overweight, and less than two percent of the nation’s youth are meeting their daily nutritional requirements. Kids on average are drinking over 600 cans of soda and consuming more than 150 pounds of sugars a year, missing out on recommended levels of fruits, vegetables and whole grains needed for optimal health.

During the fun-filled performance, children follow the antics of Johnny Junkfood, whose dream is to become a national juggling star, but keeps dropping the balls. The problem – his poor eating habits! With the help of the “Coach” of the National

Junior Juggling Team and the audience of enthusiastic elementary school children, Johnny learns how to juggle the foods he eats to wind up with a balanced diet. Children learn how to see through TV commercials, decipher food labels, and make choices that are good for their health and good for the health of the planet.

As the children walk away to the beat of “Treat Your Body Right!”

FOODPLAY’s message comes in loud and clear – feed healthy foods to your body, positive messages to your mind, and have fun being active every day! Olive Waxter, director of the Hippodrome Foundation says, “HFI is always looking for opportunities to enrich students’ education through theater. FOODPLAY is the perfect show for HFI to partner with the University of Maryland to present to the students. It is a great show with an important message.”

For more information contact Nicole Levitt at the Hippodrome at ndlevitt@ gmail.com or 443-841-0818 or Alex Likowski at the University of Maryland, Baltimore at alikowski@ umaryland.edu or 410-7063801.

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OPINION

Court Vindicates Black Lawmakers

The recent ruling by Federal District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake declaring the Maryland practice of unnecessary academic program duplication between Historical Black Institutions (HBIs) and Traditionally White Institutions (TWIs) to be unconstitutional is a true vindication of Baltimore State Senator Joan Carter Conway and Eastern Shore Delegate Rudolf Cane in their efforts to protect the State against itself. The two lawmakers tried several times A. Dwight Pettit during the last 10 years to effect changes in state policies and practices related to academic program duplication only to be rebuffed by their legislative colleagues, University System of Maryland officials and whoever the governor was at the time.

Judge Blake’s ruling requires the state to not only revise its policies and practices, but also to repair the damage done to HBIs by its refusal to act earlier. The costs of that repair will be considerable because of the required outlay for new programs, faculty, facilities, financial aid and other enhancements to the HBIs. But the cost to the image and reputation of the State of Maryland for lawmakers resisting change to its southern-grown policy of academic program duplication is far greater. It is a cost that cannot be measured in dollars and cents; but instead must be expressed in lost opportunity for Maryland students and forgone contributions to the social, economic and political welfare of our city, state and nation.

Yet history threatens to repeat itself. Before the ink on the court’s ruling was dry, Gov. Martin O’Malley issued a statement which some might consider a veiled threat to appeal if the Coalition dares to invoke the remedies suggested in the ruling. He denies that the state practice of unnecessary duplication is unconstitutional, and focuses instead on the Judge’s assertion that the Coalition failed to show Maryland policies on funding for operations and facilities

discriminated against HBIs. Comments by USM Chancellor William Kirwan, the person most responsible for the increase in duplication between the various campuses, echo the sentiments of the Governor.

Statements made by the Secretary of Higher Education are no better; and the lackluster and uninspiring responses from the administrations of HBI campuses confirm that Governor O’Malley’s lead statement has become the party line.

There is broad consensus that the Federal District Court ruling in the Coalition case ranks among the most significant civil rights cases decided in the last century. Like Brown V Board of Education (1954), the Blake ruling has the potential for changing the course of history in many very important ways.

It provides in particular a most unusual opportunity for reshaping our public systems of higher education to include Historically Black colleges as equal partners.

Marylanders should join in commending the coalition of HBI students, faculty, alumni and supporters and the international law firm of Kirkland and Ellis for the very timely gift of the Black ruling.

Even higher commendations go to the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under the Law for facilitating the marriage between the Coalition and the law firm. Unfortunately, the task is not over. The State and the Coalition will soon enter mediation, and if this type of litigation in other southern states is any example, Maryland will fight to the point of disgrace in order to maintain its segregated system

During a recent call-in radio talk show about the funding challenges facing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), an irritated listener demanded to know why HBCUs receive a disproportionately larger share of higher education dollars than other colleges and universities.

Aside from the factual inaccuracy of his statement-public HBCUs, in some cases, receive only 50 percent of the funding that historically white public institutions receive-- the Lezli Baskerville caller believed that HBCUs should not receive public funding precisely because these institutions are racially identifiable.

Predictably missing from his perspective is the inverse of the argument – white institutions are racially identifiable, too.

The recent decision by U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Blake in the {Coalition for Equity and Excellence v. the Maryland Higher Education Commission} concludes that Maryland’s HBCUs are indeed racially identifiable, but not by choice.

The court concluded that Maryland continues to maintain a dual structure of higher education through state policies that encourage program duplication, which robs HBCUs of their ability to grow and to compete effectively against their White counterparts for students.

HBCUs were founded for the purpose of educating blacks who were denied admission to most colleges and universities at the time. They have been and they continue to be open to all qualifying students without regard to their race, ethnicity or other non bona fide

criteria. Thirteen percent of HBCU students are white, on average, a percentage that has held steady for more than a decade. And, Bluefield State College West Virginia State University, and Lincoln University in Missouri all HBCUs, enroll a majority of white students. Kentucky State University, among the most diverse HBCUs, is about evenly divided among black and other race students, HBCUs are today enrolling increasing numbers of Latinos (3 percent), Asian Americans (1 percent), and bi-racial (5 percent) students as well.

Not only have HBCUs been the standard bearers of diversity for the nation, but these institutions are at the front of the line when it comes to responding to the workforce and human needs of their service communities and the world. The agility of HBCUs and their entrepreneurial spirit is reflected in their unique, high-demand programs in science, technology, engineering, agriculture, math, homeland security, environmental sustainability, health care-related fields, and education.

These programs attract some 300,000 full-time students – white and black – and create an economic impact of $13 billion to the U.S. economy while providing employment to 188,000, which puts HBCUs on the same scale as Fortune 500 companies.

As HBCUs adapted their offerings to remain in the forefront of meeting the academic, research, scientific, civic, entrepreneurial, workforce and human needs of the day, their successes were retarded or reversed by program duplication at historically white institutions geographically proximate to their campuses. This occurred in a process not unlike test marketing in business, which aims to create a successful, replicable and cost-effective product on a smaller scale prior to a wide scale roll-out.

Rather than supporting the progress being made at HBCUs, the state of Maryland and other states have chosen to make large investments in white institutions, duplicating the most innovative and well-subscribed programs, especially at the graduate level. This is undermining the efforts of HBCUs to expand their market share and

to attract and graduate diverse constituents.

The unnecessary duplication of academic programs at historically black institutions by historically white schools “was part and parcel of the prior dual system of higher education – the whole notion of ‘separate but equal’ that required duplicative programs in two sets of schools.” Program duplication, coupled with the chronic, historic and contemporary under funding of HBCUs, threaten HBCU “comparability and competitiveness relative to their HWCU counterparts.

As a remedy, the U.S. District Court is strongly suggested that the parties enter into mediation to address the program duplication that is perpetuating the effects of the de jure discrimination in the state’s higher education system. Critical to the success of the mediation will be having the right people at the table.

The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) is uniquelypositioned to assist in negotiating a fair and equitable approach to eliminating program duplication.

Having represented HBCUs in similar cases in eighteen states, we have a good sense of the policies, programs and practices that will assist the state of Maryland in removing once and for all the remaining vestiges of its dual and unequal higher education system and perpetuating the status quo ante.

NAFEO welcomes a seat at the table on behalf of its member institutions because at the heart of this matter are students, not institutions. Bowie State, Coppin State, Morgan State, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, with their unique missions, courses and programming, offer the students of Maryland and the world tremendous options. When the discriminatory practice of program duplication is removed, these institutions will move to even greater heights.

Dr. Ben Carson became the darling of conservatives earlier this year by stridently attacking the Affordable Care Act with President Obama sitting just a few feet away. Carson, who was serving as the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast at the White House, said: “Here’s my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed – pretax – from the time you’re George E. Curry born ’til the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to NNPA Columnist your family members, so that when you’re 85 years old and you got six diseases, you’re not trying to spend up everything. You’re happy to pass it on and there’s nobody talking about death panels.

“Number one. And also, for the people who were indigent who don’t have any money we can make contributions to their HSA [Health Savings Account] each month because we already have this huge pot of money. Instead of sending it to some bureaucracy, let’s put it in their HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care.”

Predictably, the right wing rushed to embrace him. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the crew at Fox News were ecstatic that a prominent Black neurosurgeon shared their world view. Jonah Goldberg, a columnist for the right-wing National Review, compared Carson to racial apologist Booker T. Washington. David Graham,

writing in The Atlantic, called him Herman Cain without the “personal skeletons.” And the conservative Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed under the headline, “Ben Carson for President.”

Carson became a paid contributor to Fox News, was hired to write a weekly column for the right-wing Washington Times, and became in demand as a speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and any national event that attracts more than three conservatives.

Professionally, Carson is no dumb man. He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his M.D. from the University of Michigan. At the age of 33, he became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the youngest major division director in the school’s history.

In 1987, he led a 70-member surgical ream that separated twins who had been joined at the back of the head. After the successful 22hour surgery, Carson gained national recognition. His autobiography, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, was published in 1992. The book recounts how his mother, Sonya, reared him and his older brother, Curtis, after she and her husband, Robert, divorced when Ben was 8 years old. In 2009, TNT released a television movie with the same title as his book, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Ben Carson. In 2008, George W. Bush presented Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Carson has made several controversial remarks after his appearance at the White House. In March, he said on Fox TV: “Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA [North American Man/Boy Love Association], be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition.”

Under pressure, Carson withdrew as commencement speaker for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also apologized for “not

the best choice of words,” called his critics racist, and then apologized again.

Of all of his outrageous comments, his latest one ranks among the most egregious.

Speaking at a Voter Values Summit, Carson said, “I have to tell you that Obamacare is, really, I think, the worst thing that’s happened to this nation since slavery. It was never about health care, it was about control.”

First, the Affordable Care Act does what its proper title implies – it makes health care affordable to millions of people, including the uninsured. If making insurance more affordable, not allowing insurance companies to reject people with pre-existing conditions and allowing children to remain on their parents’ insurance policies until they are 26 years old isn’t about health care, the esteemed neurosurgeon doesn’t know the definition of health care.

Second, any idiot knows that having access to health care is not worse than slavery.

Enslaved Africans had no rights, as the Supreme Court ruled in its 1857 Dred Scott decision, “which the white man was bound to respect.” They were brutalized, degraded, whipped, killed, and raped at the whim of the slave master. Marriage was not recognized and the slave codes in various states made it illegal to teach Blacks to read or write.

The Affordable Care Act is worse than that?

It’s a ridiculous comparison. At the rate he is going, Carson’s photograph will be slapped on boxes of rice. Dr. Ben will be more appropriately known as Uncle Ben.

of colleges and universities. Blacks, Hispanics, Whites and anyone else who understands the ravages of discrimination must assume the role of foot soldiers, prepared to do whatever is necessary to ensure that Maryland immediately dismantles its dual system of higher education, and in so doing, become the example others might wish to emulate.

A. Dwight Pettit practices law in Maryland and is a former member of the Board of Regents, University of Maryland Systems.

HBCUs – A Smart and Just Investment

Dr. Lezli Baskerville, is president and CEO of the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Gifted Hands,’ Foot in Mouth

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA).

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Links Induct Condoleeza Rice The Links and The Links Foundation recently announced the induction of Condoleezza Rice as an honorary member. Currently a

professor of political economy in the Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the

Hoover Institution; and a professor of political science at Stanford University, Rice is one of the most influential women in the world of

global politics.

The induction ceremony, presided over by the national president Margot James Copeland, was held Oct. 4 in

Palo Alto, Calif. with more than 250 members of the organization in attendance.

“Dr. Rice embodies the creed of our organization - service, friendship and leadership,” said Copeland.

“Her distinguished career in academia and groundbreaking service to our nation and the world at large as our country’s national security advisor and secretary of state, truly serve as an inspiration for all. We are proud to welcome Condoleezza Rice into the sisterhood of The Links.”

The Links bestow honorary membership upon individuals who are widely recognized nationally and internationally for outstanding and exemplary services rendered to their communities. Dr. Rice joins the esteemed company of

“Dr. Rice embodies the creed of our organization service, friendship and leadership.”

– Margot James Copeland Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, international opera star Mattiwilda Dobbs, the incomparable Leontyne Price, the late Honorable Constance Baker Motley, iconic Marion Anderson, Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris, educator Elizabeth Koontz, and the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks, as an honorary member of the organization.

Growing up in the segregated South, Rice has broken many barriers and accomplished many firsts.

She was the first woman and first African American to serve as provost for Stanford University from 1993 to 1999. In assuming the role of the 66th Secretary of State of the United States in 2005, Rice became the second woman and the first AfricanAmerican woman to hold this trusted position.

At The Links, Incorporated’s 38th National Assembly in June 2012, the organization bestowed upon Rice the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award in Orlando, Fla. This award honors individuals who epitomize the organization’s founding tenets of friendship and service and who have significantly improved the quality of life for those in underserved communities.

“Thank you for the invitation. I am honored to be a Link. Even as an honorary member, I know I will be expected to serve and I promise to do my part,” said Dr. Rice. The Links, Incorporated is proud to welcome Rice into membership.

With more than two million service hours recorded in the past three years, members regularly contribute more than 500,000 documented service hours in their respective communities annually. For more information, visit www. linksinc.org.

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This was the big one! The Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (February and June) Classes of 1963 reunion was an awesome stroll down memory lane for all those who were there to meet and greet each other at the 50th anniversary of their graduation.

Denise The event began Friday night with a “Chat and Chew” and Stevhan Binnick activity at the Lamp House on Rolling Road where classmates gathered to reminisce about good times during the high school years. The evening gala started with a delicious meal from the Valley Mansion chefs in Cockeysville. The classmates were dressed in their stunning outfits and table hopped the entire night, giving and Acquanetta Phillips, receiving hugs and kisses from their long Loretta Watson time friends and classmates. Throughout Standing: Joyce the evening, many of the classmates were Patterson, Preston highlighted for their accomplishments Watson and achievements; notably, Robert (Bob) Wade, the first African-American coach in the ACC (University of Maryland); Thomas Johnson, first African-American brigadier general in the State of Maryland; William Wells, coach at St. Vincent Academy, and Van Eaton, valedictorian, who is the vice president of Grant Capital Management Co. On Sunday morning, the class worshipped at the New Zion Carol and Henry Howell Hill Baptist Church on North Avenue with the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Blow, pastor.

Jerome Richards served as president of the reunion committee.

Geraldine Stokes-Nixon, Barbara Robinson, Jean Boone, Jacqueline Thomas Gladden

Bob Wade, Carolyn Britton, John Pitts, Norma Taylor, Jackie Carter Seated: Harriett Tisdale, Elsie Jones, Betty Jones

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Kate Wood, India Morning, Philip Wood

Graduates of the Class of 1963 sing the Alma Mater with fervor and pride

Elaine WhitehurstClinton, Rev. Thomas Roberts, Lula Sutherland, Marie Thomas

Carroll Gordon, Charles Brogden, Lillian Murray, Frank Palmer

Agnes Tallum Lightfoot, Martin Tallum

Bunnie Owens, past president, Jerome Richardson, president, Harold Richardson, Ruby McCullough Drewery

Francine Richbury, George J. Eggleston; Standing: Shrley McCoy Golden, Mary Little-Cherry, Frances Austin Carr

Marvais and William Wells

Clarence and Barbara Johnson

Photos by A. Lois DeLaine

Rose McNeill, Kevin Brown and Patsy Mahood Kids’ workshop

Abu, The Flute Maker

Brandy Blanding, Zylane Scott, Anthony Scott, Front Skylar Blanding, Zynia Scott and Zyan Scott Jameel Day, baby Serafina and Paloma

Twins, Matthew and Lailah Edmond

The literary community is always happy when Mt. Vernon becomes the site of the Baltimore Book Festival for yet another year, as was the case on Sept. 28. Novice authors as well as well-known writers were on hand to put pen to pages for those who wanted to seal the experience with an autograph. The little ones were engaged with lively storybook characters and found their way to Abu, the Flute Maker, a mainstay of Baltimore culture.

Author James McBride

Sabria Johnson, Author, Sedeqa Johnson and Palma Hampton

Cartoonist, KAL Malik Rhaman and Prof. Larry Gibson

Author James S. Wright

Author, Demetria Dee Grissett and Mother, Macie Alexander

Author Pamala Mintz

Author Lois Zanow

Author Venkatesa Krishna Das

Photos by Anderson Ward

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Kappa Alpha Psi Youth and Community Center

The Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation of Metropolitan Baltimore (KAPFMB) will officially open its new community center, 10 a.m., Oct. 19. The Kappa Alpha Psi Youth and Community Center is located at 1207 Eutaw Place in the Bolton Hill neighborhood. The center is believed to be the first youth center located within the Baltimore city limits operated by a historically-Black Greek fraternal organization.

Maryland Sen. Nathaniel McFadden, and former associate judge of the Supreme Bench (now the Circuit Court for Baltimore City) George L. Russell Jr., also a Kappa, will serve as Honorary Event Chairs. The opening of the new youth center has been a goal of the Kappa Foundation for several years as it seeks to expand and broaden its mission on behalf of Baltimore City youth, especially AfricanAmerican males.

There are various drop-off locations around Baltimore. In addition, pickups of donations can be arranged. Please support, anything will help!

Due to the limited number of food baskets, our priority is to ensure that we service the families truly in need. Those interested in receiving a basket should register via email or phone before Nov. 18.

For more information about Safe Alternative, registration, a complete list of

drop-off locations, or to arrange a pickup please visit www.safealternative.org or contact Van Brooks.

Thanksgiving: Food and Junior Achievement Receives Grant from Sock Drive Safe Alternative Foundation for Education, Towson Athletics/ Total Tiger Program and the Sam’s Club for Youth Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity are holding a food Entrepreneurship and sock drive to provide 50 families with Education food baskets and two homeless shelters with socks.

Throughout the months of October and November, Safe Alternative and Partners are collecting canned goods, socks, and monetary donations to help a few of Baltimore City’s families in need.

This is a very feasible goal; however we will not be able to achieve it without the public’s help.

Junior Achievement of Central Maryland (JACMD) announced it has received a $20,000 grant from the Sam’s Club Giving Program to support the JA BizTown® facility, a site-based

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entrepreneurship learning opportunity for local students. Sam’s Club Giving Program presented the grant in support of its nationwide focus on small business which includes igniting the entrepreneurial spirit in today’s youth. The grant is one of three given nationwide.

Students attend the day-long JA BizTown experience after completing 22 classroom lessons. At the fully-interactive, simulated town facility, students connect what they learn in school with situations found in the real world. Sam’s Club will be one of the new shops in JA BizTown, in which students will work to distribute products and supplies to other businesses. The shop will open with this year’s first JA BizTown school visit on Oct. 23.

The grants supporting JA BizTown facilities are part of a larger collaboration with the Sam’s Club Giving Program. In addition, the grant will deliver JA’s entrepreneurship curriculum in classrooms to an expected 10,560 students nationwide over two years.

Sam’s Club Associates are also provided the opportunity to serve as JA volunteers in area classrooms.

“Knowledge of the free enterprise system, its benefits to citizens and its relationship to job creation is important for our young people,” commented Jennifer Bodensiek, JACMD president and CEO. “With the help of partners like the Sam’s Club Giving Program, we can expand our reach with our lifechanging programs.”

CASA of Baltimore to Hold Information Sessions at Local Libraries

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Baltimore, which supports and advocates for Baltimore’s 6,000 abused and neglected children, will hold two upcoming information sessions at Enoch Pratt Free Library branches: Oct. 24, 6:15 to 7:45 p.m., at the Orleans Street Branch (1303 Orleans St. 21231) Nov. 20, 6:15 to 7:45 p.m., at the Roland Park Branch (5108 Roland Ave., 21210) CASA volunteers are appointed by a judge to provide consistent and caring support for an innocent child involved with the court due to maltreatment.

“Children in foster care typically move from one foster family to another, from one unfamiliar neighborhood and school to another, and they deserve the stability and opportunity that comes with having a safe and permanent home,” said Evangula Brown, CASA of Baltimore’s manager of volunteer recruitment.

“If you live or work in Baltimore City, you can make an impact and help change the lives of these children by becoming a CASA volunteer,” she added.

CASA of Baltimore currently serves only about 6 percent of local youth in foster care.

More volunteers are needed to help more children in need.

Volunteers must be 21 or older, submit an application and complete phone and in-person

interviews prior to training. To learn more about being a CASA volunteer in Baltimore, attend an upcoming information session or call 410-244-1465; visit www.casabalt.org, or email ebrown@casabalt.org.

Fundraiser for The Children’s Home

Renowned jazz sensation, Maysa, will perform at FACES 2013, the major fundraiser

for The Children’s Home in Catonsville, will be held Oct. 25 at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

The Children’s Home in Catonsville is celebrating a 150-year legacy of caring for Maryland’s at-risk children and youth both inside and outside the family structure!! A detailed history is attached, but in short…it was established in 1863 as an orphanage for children abandoned due to the Civil War and its programs and services have continued to evolve to meet the needs of the community.

The Children’s Home is now recognized as one of Maryland’s premier providers of shortand long-term residential treatment care for Maryland youth, ages 13–21, who are victims of abuse, neglect, abandonment or family crisis and may be in need of structured and supervised care.

-A unique aspect of the event is its silent auction. Guests will bid on original youthinspired artwork created by The Children’s Home residents.

Central Baltimore Partnership Receives $1.485 Million from State

Maryland Legislature’s Speaker Michael Busch and Maryland Housing and Community Development Secretary Ray Skinner announced that Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP) is the recipient of a $1.485 million grant for 12 projects within their area of operation through the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative (BRNI).

“This grant represents an extraordinary opportunity for the neighborhoods of Central Baltimore to continue their forward progress.

The recipients represent the range of needs critical to make this community robust and ensure that its residents trust it to be a safe and vibrant place to live, work, and be engaged citizens,” said Fred Lazarus IV, president of the Maryland Institute College of Art and chairman of the CBP. “Every Baltimorean should be happy to return home each day, and we are proud of the leadership the residents in Central Baltimore are showing, along with its businesses and cultural, educational, and civic institutions.”

The event was held at the corner of North Howard Street and Lorraine Avenue at Miller’s Square II, a homeownership project by Seawall Development, one of CBP’s partners included in the CBP award.

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Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., PBS Unveil Latest Black History Docu-series

By Avis Thomas-Lester AFRO Executive Editor The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., the most recent partnership between Gates and PBS, was unveiled Oct. 9 at a dinner reception and short screening at the National Press Club in Northwest Washington.

The six-part, six-hour series, set to air beginning Oct. 22, finds Gates, a Harvard scholar, delving into the evolution of African Americans and the “cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed,” according to a statement from PBS. The series covers the history of African Americans from the time the first Blacks arrived through the historic election of President Obama.

A short snippet of the series was shown at the Oct. 9 launch party, which also featured a buffet reception. The documentary clip was followed by a panel discussion between Gates and civil rights icons Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), NAACP President Emeritus Julian Bond and award-winning journalist and author Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first Black woman to attend the University of Georgia. The event also had a Q & A session with the panel members.

Gates told the audience that the series was the result of many hours of copious research, including interviews with many people who have studied or

lived through pivotal events in Black American history. Forty historians contributed, he said. Of the many hundred subjects and events suggested by the historians, 70 stories are told.

During the panel discussions, each of the civil rights leaders recounted their individual experiences, including Lewis, who talked about the infamous attack by police on activists on what came to be known as Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. “I left some blood on that bridge,” Lewis told the audience. He also discussed with Gates his role in in the historic March on Washington 50 years ago.

The panelists lamented the lack of inclusion of African American history in lessons taught to children in school. Bond said he takes people on junkets throughout the South to expose them to people and places where Black history took place.

The series is the latest of several collaborations between Gates and public television, including Finding Photos by Rob Roberts Your Roots in 2012, African American Lives in 2006 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rep. John Lewis, author Charlayne Hunter-Gault and African American Lives 2 in 2008 and Wonders of and NAACP President Emeritus Julian Bond engage in a panel discussion the African World in 1999. after the screening.

Chiwetel Ejiofor in Odyssey of a Free Man Enslaved break his spirit, Solomon managed to not only maintain his sanity but his dignity to boot.

Furthermore, with the help of a kindly Canadian (Brad Pitt) passing through town, he was eventually able to inform abolitionists up North of his dire predicament, and was ultimately reunited with his very relieved family.

Upon his emancipation in 1853, Solomon also penned and published a memoir chronicling the cruelty of his captivity in explicit detail.

Entitled 12 Years a Slave, the book became a runaway

12 Years a Slave Film Review by Kam Williams Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was a black man born free in upstate New York in 1808. A skilled carpenter and fiddler, he and his wife (Kelsey Scott) settled in Saratoga Springs where they were raising their children (Quvenzhane Wallis and Cameron Zeigler) when their American Dream turned into a neverending nightmare.

For, in 1841, he was approached by a couple of white strangers (Taran Killam and Scoot McNairy) who offered him a high-paying job playing music with the circus in Washington, D.C. However, upon arriving in the Capital, they instead sold him to a slave trader (Christopher Berry) who put Solomon in chains before shipping him to a cotton plantation the Deep South.

What ensued was a 12year ordeal during which he was whipped whenever

best-seller before it slipped into obscurity after the Civil War. Directed by Steve McQueen (Hunger), the screen version proves to be a fairly faithful adaptation of the eye-opening autobiography.

In a banner year for African-American film fare, this heartbreaking historical drama just might be the best of the bunch. The film has already been generating a ton of early Oscar buzz, thanks to a People’s Choice Award coming courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Unapologetically graphic in its depiction of the institution

of slavery’s evils, 12 Years a Slave contains nary a comic aside ala Quentin Tarantino’s similarly-themed Django Unchained. Therefore, brace yourself for a relentlesslygruesome endurance test featuring ever-escalating violence.

A sobering slave narrative recounting a recorded, real-life case of inhuman bondage.

Excellent (HHHH) Rated R for violence, torture, sexuality, nudity and ethnic slurs Running time: 133 minutes Distributor: Fox Searchlight

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SPORTS

Baltimore Pro Boxer James Stevenson Undefeated at 20-0

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor James Stevenson Jr. has one goal in mind: make history.

The 30-year-old professional boxer out of Baltimore told the AFRO he’s been fighting all his life, James which was common for youths Stevenson growing up in the rough environment of East Baltimore.

But now Stevenson is using his hands to do something not many pro boxers in the area can claim they’ve done – stay undefeated. Stevenson, a welterweight boxer at 147 pounds with the nickname “Keep ’em Sleepin,” has a current pro record of 20-0, knocking out 13 of the 20 opponents he’s faced.

His most recent victim was South Carolina native James Hope, whom he defeated with a technical knockout in the fourth round on Sept. 28 at Patapsco Arena in Baltimore.

“James is special, man.

Anybody around him can sense it,” said Mack Allison IV, a boxing coach for Upton Boxing Gym in West Baltimore. Allison does strength and conditioning training for Stevenson, working along with James Hogan of Mob-town Gym, Stevenson’s head trainer, and technical trainer Dave Sewell.

Allison thinks Stevenson has the gift and talent to become one of the premier boxers in the world.

“He’s an all-around good fighter,” Allison

said. “He can box, or he can brawl. He can do it all. He doesn’t look for the knockout, but if it comes his way, he’ll put you down.”

Stevenson said he’s driven to be the best boxer Baltimore has seen in a long time, and wants to succeed particularly to honor his late father. “My father died three years ago from a heart attack,” Stevenson told the AFRO. “It was a dream for him for me to make it far in boxing. It was all he talked about. I think

about him every time I fight and almost cry every time I step in the ring because he was my biggest fan.”

With his father in his heart and mind, Stevenson said he won’t stop winning until he makes his father’s dream come to true.

“I want to go all the way, make history,” he said. “I’m going to get some championship belts, and put my mom in a beautiful house. I won’t stop until it’s done.”

Sam Lacy – ‘He Made a Difference’ A little more than a year ago, I was involved in a conversation about my dad.

The whole thing boiled down to the fact that there was nothing written and published about the early years of Sam Lacy. I gave some thought to devoting this space to an early life expose in chapters.

My boss at the time seemed to think it was a wonderful idea, but current events at the time seemed to draw my attention elsewhere. Before I could get back to this task, the editor had moved on, and the idea was sidelined.

Recently during another discussion over the movie “42,” this idea was revisited.

With this in mind, I decided to devote a few weeks of chapters on the early life of Sam Lacy under the title “He Made a Difference.” The following is his early life as told to me.

On Oct. 23, 1903 Sam Lacy entered this world

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Sam Lacy with a piercing scream, thus serving notice that his voice would be heard.

His mother, Shinnecock, was Native American and his father was an African American (or in the PC parlance of the time, Negro). Sam grew up in the Negro community learning the values instilled by Shinnecock.

As with all young children, there were some doubts about which direction his life would take. When barely able to talk, he appeared one day at the back door several times asking his sister Rosina for a glass of water. After his third trip, Rosina thought she should investigate the source of his thirst. She went to the back door, there to witness the woodshed on fire. A sound spanking from his mother put his pyromania tendencies on hold.

Growing up in the shadow of Griffith Stadium (home of the former Major League Baseball team, the Washington Senators), the crack of the bats and the roar of the crowd created an irresistible lure, causing Sam to search for ways to gain entry to the park.

After a little investigation, Sam found a way to join the other kids who were given the opportunity to shag fly balls in the outfield. Being a personable kid, some of the players enlisted him to be

their gopher. He was able to pick up dry cleaning and go for cigarettes and chewing tobacco and other personal needs. His popularity caused a vendor to bring him on board during games to be a stadium vendor.

Soon he became a fixture and was able to witness the White teams as well as the Negro teams in action. Little did he know that this was the planting of a seed that would find enough nourishment to lead him to be instrumental in the changing of sports history.

In the meantime, Sam was overcome with an itch that his entrepreneurial spirit made hard to scratch. At age 15, while perusing the want ads, his eye caught an advertisement for a chauffeur, and though he couldn’t drive, he was on his way.

He applied, was accepted, and directed to drive his employer downtown. This, being his first experience behind a steering wheel, turned out to be quite an adventure. After the hiccups and grinding of the gears, he finally arrived downtown.

On the spot his employer paid him a day’s wage, instructed him to return the car to the garage, and hit the road.

This was a less than auspicious beginning for a man who later helped to shape the future of Major League Baseball. More to come....

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Despite Glitches, Politics, Benefits of Obamacare Are Real

By Sean Yoes AFRO Contributing Writer It’s been more than two weeks since the official rollout of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

And despite the toxic politics swirling around its implementation and wellpublicized cyber issues bogging down registration on the government’s website, traditionally underserved communities stand to benefit significantly from national healthcare reform.

“A child born in Upton in comparison to a child born in Roland Park, there’s a 20-year difference. The average life expectancy in Upton is 62, the average life expectancy Rev. Alvin in Roland Park is 82 and much of that is Hathaway connected to disparities in healthcare,” said the Rev. Alvin Hathaway, pastor of Union Baptist Church on Druid Hill Avenue in the heart of the Upton community of West Baltimore.

But, the health disparity between impoverished communities like Upton and wealthier communities like Roland Park may be even worse than characterized by Hathaway.

According to a recent study cited by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, the life expectancy of White residents living in Roland Park is about 30 years longer than Black residents of Upton/ Druid Heights.

In January, the O’Malley administration launched a fouryear, $16 million pilot project led by Brown to bring much needed medical services to disadvantaged neighborhoods and designated Upton/Druid Heights as one of five, “health enterprise

zones,” created under a law passed last year. The goals of the “The big challenge in our community is Internet access,” health enterprise zone program include reducing disparities Hathaway said. among races and ethnic groups and improving access to care in “The way you get in and the way you get on is through communities that lack services. the Internet…we are victims of the And Hathaway, who began as digital divide, we really have to assistant pastor at the politically put on a hard push to make people active West Baltimore institution aware and to get them registered. in 2004 also sees the arrival of the We know if a family (of four) makes Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a $30-thousand or less they tend not to healthcare game change in their have Internet access in their home,” neighborhood. he added.

“The impact in the Upton In an effort to bring vital community potentially can be healthcare information to the huge. We know we have a large Upton community Union Baptist number of people who are either sponsored a day-long event last uninsured or underinsured and month on the Saturday prior to this (ACA) provides access to –Rev. Hathaway the Oct. 1 launch of the ACA that healthcare for them, which is so attracted nearly 200 residents who important,” Rev. Hathaway said. heard from representatives of “A very significant aspect several state agencies and healthcare of it is that people can’t be organizations. The event only excluded because of pre-existing reinforced the towering healthcare conditions; so there are a number issues faced by many impoverished of people who have issues with communities. diabetes, issues of high blood “That’s the challenge of the pressure and other kinds of issues church. People have to do their and this is the opportunity to follow-ups, they have to take their get signed up and get access to meds, they have to follow the advice healthcare,” he added. of the physician,” Hathaway said.

But, getting Upton residents “The faith community I think access to the ACA has been a really has to step up to the plate challenge for Hathaway and other because the health of the community I Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, senior pastor of community leaders. believe is part of our divine mandate.”

Union Baptist Church, giving the bendiction

“We know we have a large number of people who are either uninsured or underinsured and this (ACA) provides access to healthcare for them, which is so important.”

OBITUARY Irma V. Rogers-Jackson, 95 Nurses’ Aide, Missionary Suddenly on September 14th Irma V. Rogers-Jackson went home to be with the Lord.

Irma Virginia Rodgers was the sixth of eight children born to the late James L. (Lutz) and Florence A. (Gussie) Rogers at 1846 Eagle St. in Southwest Baltimore.

Along with the siblings she dearly loved, she was raised and thrived through the days of segregation and the great depression.

Irma was educated in the Baltimore City Public Schools System and attended a one-room school on Sharp St. in South Baltimore, Joseph H. Lockerman Elementary, Booker T. Washington Jr. High and Douglass High schools.

She was the mother of an only child, (the late) Russell (Boopie) R. Rogers. Irma met and married Stoney Jackson; the marriage ended in divorce.

There were no children from this union.

Irma was employed in her young adult years at restaurants and bakeries. She was recognized for her pound cakes and her famous cookies – sugar, peanut butter and chocolate chip. For decades she made these cookies during the Christmas season for her family, friends, co-workers, patients, etc. She even sent cookies to her nephews during their military deployments overseas.

For a brief period during WWII she worked as a solder-a “Rosie the Riveter.” Her main career was nurse’s aide in the Psychiatric Department of

IRMA V. ROGERSJACKSON University Hospital. She retired circa 1983 with nearly 30 years of service. Her awards include Certificates of Service from the State Department of Maryland in the years 1969, 1974 and 1979;

Certificate of Appreciation from the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City in 1974, Certificate of Commendation – Afro Mrs. Santa Program, 1974 and a Resolution from the City Council of Baltimore, 1995.

She traveled all across the United States and even Puerto Rico. Atlantic City, N.J. was her favorite place to “hang out.” At age ten she was taken by a neighbor to fellowship at a small church in South Baltimore. Unexpectedly, it was there that Irma gave her life to Christ and was baptized. For 83 years she has been a respected member of Evergreen A.M.E. Church.

There she sang on the choir, participated on committees and in events, as well as supported and/or contributed to all fundraisers. She was given a Certificate of

Appreciation in 1996 for 37 years of unbroken service to the Gospel Choir.

In her early twenties, Irma’s life-long calling/ purpose was revealed to her --to care for and/or minister to the sick and the shutin. She not only cared for sick relatives, friends, coworkers and patients, but mere strangers, too. She was known as “Miss Lady” to the residents to whom (on a weekly basis) she brought fruit and slices of homemade cake, in nursing homes on N. Eutaw and S. Charles Streets. … And this was her story.

Her life was her song. Irma’s now praising her Savior, all the day long.

She leaves to celebrate her life and cherish the memories: grandson, Russell R. Rogers (Chucky) Jr., great granddaughter, Tamika S. Rogers, great-great grandson, Russell R. Rogers III (CJ) and great-great-great granddaughter, Nevaeh A. Rogers; nieces- Janis Mims,

Linda Smith, Monica Pinkett, Shellery Washington, Priscilla McCraw and Gladys Fields; nephews- Roger Brock, Wayne Brock, Noel Rozzell, Russell R. Rogers Jr. (Bunky) and Leslie Drummond; great nieces and nephews include,

but are not limited to: Andre Minor, Norma Melvin and Michael Jenson, as well as a host of great-great nieces and nephews, other relatives, several friends, former coworkers and the congregation of Evergreen AME Church.

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CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BUREAU OF WATER AND WASTEWATER NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Contract 905-Improvements to Sanitary Sewers in the Northern Region of the High Level Sewershed (SubSewersheds: Upper Gwynn?s Run, Liberty Heights and Lower Gwynn’s Run) will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.

The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, October 11, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee.

Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, 1st Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02552-Sewer Construction or G90099-Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 300 Abel Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on October 21, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. The CCTV videos of the sewers included in this project will be made available for viewing/coping to interested parties at the office of EBA Engineering, Inc. 14405 Laurel Place, Suite 300, Laurel, MD 20707, (240) 547-1127). Refer to IB-9 for additional details.

Principal Item of work for this project are: *Sewer Cleaning and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) inspection *Cured-in-Place Pipe (CIPP) lining of Sanitary Sewers *Excavate and Replace Segments of Sanitary Sewer via Point Repairs and Manhole-toManhole Replacement *Manhole Installation, Repair and Rehabilitation Work* *Sewer House Connection (SHC) Repair and Rehabilitation Work, and Cleanout Installations The MBE goal is 7% The WBE goal is 2% SANITARY CONTRACT 905 APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Alfred H. Foxx Director ofTue Public TYPESET: OctWorks 15 19:41:39 EDT 2013 City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until, but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: OCTOBER 30, 2013 * CRAWLER LOADER B50003208 * FUEL TANKER TRUCK B50003206 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITYS WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org

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CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BUREAU OF WATER AND WASTEWATER NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Sanitary Contract 909-Improvements to Sanitary Sewers in the Eastern Portion of the Herring Run Sewershed will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, October 11, 2013 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee.

Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, 1st Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02552-Sewer Construction or G90099-Cured-in-Place Pipe Lining Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $10,000,000.01 to $15,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 300 Abel Wolman Municipal Building, Large Conference Room on October 21, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. The CCTV videos of the sewers included in this project will be made available for viewing/coping to interested parties at the office of Rummel, Klepper & Kahl (RK&K), 81 West Mosher Street, Baltimore, MD 21217, (410) 728-2900). Refer to IB-9 for additional details.

Principal Item of work for this project are: *Cured-in-Place Pipe (CIPP) lining of Sanitary Sewers *Excavate and Replace Segments of Sanitary Sewer via Point Repairs *Manhole Repair and Rehabilitation Work *Sewer Connection Repair and Rehabilitation Work *New Manhole and Cleanout Installation Work

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bring the radio audience up to date on all projects going on in Baltimore. Rambling Rose will be a guest on his show on Oct. 19. So make sure you set your dial. For more information, call 410-654-5306.

Friends are gathering to party at the Best Western Plus Hotel and Conference Center, located 5625 O’Donnell Street

Hey y’all! How are you? I am doing just great myself, thanks for asking. I have had a very busy week doing signings for my new book and covering the different events you have invited us to. I have had a ball.

I want to first thank all of you for being at my Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund Press Party at the Caton Castle Oct. 11, it was the BOMB! Thanks to Ronald Scott and his staff for their sponsorship, their hospitality and the DJ John Shaft still packs the house on weekends service they gave to playing oldies, but goodies at Roots Lounge on my organization. I Smallwood and Vine Streets. also want to thank Phil Butts and his Center), 8521 Liberty Road, Randallstown, band for sponsoring Md. Enjoy special drink prices, free admission, the dynamite music The young at heart gather every first and third Sunday at the music, dancing, card games and delicious food. for my guests, and Forest Park Senior Center for some dynamite jazz, R&B and DooFor more information, call 410-370-2274.

Lauren Thompson, Wop shows produced by Steve Scribner and Darrell “Disco.”

Well, my dear friends, I am out of space, radio personality but remember, if you need me, call me at and network owner, where they will host a “Jazz-Z Tuesday” from 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol. for acting as our hostess for the evening. We 6-9 p.m., just off the lobby in the Tradewinds com. And my new website is www.ramblingare able to give five children scholarships this Restaurant, featuring Thomas Clay, Benjamin rose.com. UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, I’M year at our up coming Scholarship and Award Brown, Delandria Mills, Warren Wolf, Mark MUSICALLY YOURS. Banquet on Oct. 27 at the Forum Caterers. It is Meadows, Kris Funn, not too late for you to get your tickets. Just give Dana Hawkins, Quincy me a call at 410-833-9474.

The MBE goal is 10% Phillips and Todd FYI: You can learn hand-dancing every The WBE goal is 2% Marcus. This is an openFriday from 6-11 p.m. under the professional MBE Sub-goals African American 6% mic jam session with guidance of Shirley Duncan, the founder of Hispanic American 2% Charm City Dancers and CEO of New Baltimore a different artist every Native American Asian American 1% week. All jazz musicians Hand Dance Association, at Shirley’s Place, are welcome. For more 2270 Park Hill Avenue (second floor). For more SANITARY CONTRACT 909 information, call 410information, call 410-623-0575.

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The Dunbar Alumni Association is hosting Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates FYI: Clayton Tucker their Annual Prayer Breakfast on, Oct. 19 from 9 (formerly with the 5 Mile a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Dunbar Community High APPROVED: Alfred H. Foxx House) is now hosting School, 1400 Orleans Street. Guest speaker is Director of Public Works a special “Happy Hour” Dr. Jerome Stokes Sr., pastor of the Church of Tuesday thru Friday the Redeemed of the Lord.

For ticket information, call from 5-8 p.m. at the New Identity ULTRA Lounge Diane T. Leach at 443and Restaurant (in the Liddy Jones and his buddies gathered at the Identity Lounge and 286-2862.

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