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How Blacks Survive Cop Stops By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO
A panel of experienced trial lawyers explained to a near capacity audience at Empowerment Temple how to successfully survive being stopped by the police. The crowd had assembled, Sept. 30, for a seminar titled ‘C.O.P.S.: Conscious Operations during Police Stops,’ billed as an event for youths and parents to learn the dos and don’ts of police encounters. Organized by the JustUs Ministry in conjunction with the Power Nation Youth Ministry, the event consisted of a panel of experienced civil and criminal defense attorneys explaining best practices for African Americans who have been stopped by the police. In early remarks, area defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon spoke to the undercurrent of the event.
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“It’s funny that we’re here tonight learning how to deal with police, but it really should be the other way around. We shouldn’t have to equip you with special knowledge, ‘how to deal with police;’ they should be equipped with special knowledge, ‘how to deal with the public.’” No one disagreed with the sentiment, and the panelists reiterated throughout the event that, while their advice may seem over the top in terms of the level of self-restraint asked of someone faced with a hostile police encounter, it was intended to ensure his or her safe return home. “One of the things that’s most important to remember is to survive,” said attorney and panelist Ivan Bates. “And what do we mean by that? When the police come to you—they have that attitude, they’re accusing you of things, they’re in that position to try to fight—leave your ego at home. At that moment and time, say ‘yes sir’, ‘no ma’am.’ Leave
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By AFRO Staff The AFRO-American Newspapers is considered the No. 1 African-American newspaper among Black consumers nationwide, according to the results of a survey released this week. Nielsen, a leading provider of ratings and other measurements, recently teamed up with ESSENCE magazine to conduct a customized assessment of African-American consumers. Among the categories they polled was media consumption, and the most popular publications in the Black Press were part of that evaluation. The AFRO rose to the top of the heap among Black consumers, followed by the Chicago Defender and the Amsterdam News in New York. And, rounding out the top five were the St. Louis American and The Call and Post in Cleveland, Ohio. AFRO Publisher and CEO Jake Oliver said he believes the ranking reflects the newspaper’s pioneering efforts with regards to digital media. “I am elated about the recognition,” he said. “I believe it confirms our belief that the digital evolution inside the African-American community justifies our continued use of various ambitious, non-traditional digital strategies to provide timely and often ‘real time’ coverage of news the Black community is interested in receiving. “Through our Facebook, Twitter and growing Instagram strategies, we are quickly becoming a ‘staple’ news outlet for growing numbers in the Black community,” he added. The AFRO is part of The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a 73-yearold federation of nearly 200 Black community newspapers from across the United States with a long history of influencing and engaging the AfricanAmerican community.
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Baltimore area defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon speaks at seminar on how to stay safe during police stops.
Voting Rights and Police Top a Crowded U.S. Supreme Court Docket By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Special to the AFRO Muslim inmates suing to grow beards in Arkansas. Facebook threats and police practices, pension plans and death row executioners, voting rights and a White supremacist’s conviction. These are but a few of the estimated 200 cases out of thousands that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on when the new term opens Oct. 6. A hand-written request by inmate Gregory Holt (aka Abdul Maalik Muhammad) asked the Court to decide if the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ grooming policy violated his religious
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Rev. Bryant Preaches Jesus and the NAACP
By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent
For the Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant, the call to ministry was not heralded by a booming voice from heaven or even a still, small voice. Instead, it came from the satiric wit of a popular comedian-slash-activist. “When I tell people I got my call to ministry from Dick Gregory they laugh,” Rev. Bryant said. Then-director of the NAACP Youth and College Division, Rev. Bryant said he was at an NAACP convention, where Gregory, the guest speaker, said something very critical. “He said that during the 1960s when Black people were in trouble they called on Jesus and the NAACP and that we’re now part of a generation that doesn’t know Jesus and they’re not members of the NAACP,” Rev. Bryant recalled. “I grew up in the church, but I had never heard it in that context. And it really jarred me . . . and I really sensed that that was where my assignment was – to merge the spiritual and the social . . ., starting a church that would be socially relevant but spiritually grounded.” The church was always in Rev. Bryant’s blood – literally – having come from a ministerial legacy that was both a gift and a burden. “I see myself more as a prodigal son,” the 42-yearold said. “I knew I had a call my whole life, but because I knew the family legacy – my father was in ministry, my grandfather was in ministry, my mother was in ministry, my aunt was in
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After six hours of surgical procedure and months of raising money, Cincinnati Bengals player Devon Still and his family received the best news possible: Still’s daughter Leah had her cancerous tumor removed completely Sept. 25 by a surgeon Devon Still and daughter Leah at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, according to ESPN. Leah was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma about three months ago on June 2. At that time the prognosis of her pediatric cancer was a 50-50 chance of survival. Leah went through a numerous procedures, including a round of chemotherapy, radiation and stem-cell transplants in an effort to regenerate her bone marrow and stem cells, according to ESPN. Prior to Leah’s surgery, Still posted a video with his daughter on their way to the hosptial on his Instagram page. “I’m going to ask you again,” Still asked Leah as he held his phone up showing Still in the front seat and Leah in the backseat. “I’m ready for today. Are you ready for today?” Leah has the biggest smile on her face as she nods and responds, “Yeah.” “You ready to get this cancer up out you?” Still asks. She smiles, nods once more and replies, “Yeah.” “Let’s do it. Fist bump.” They both give a fist bump toward the camera, making it a classic father-daughter moment that has caught the heart of viewers around the world. Still also held a party the day before Leah’s surgery in Wilmington, Delaware, at a movie theater that he had rented out, according to ESPN.
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financial accomplishments. Dr. Dre was third on this list last year. For second place, it is a tie between rapper Jay-Z and entrepreneur Diddy with earnings of $60 million each. Diddy, who was ranked first last year, has made his earnings from Diageo’s Ciroc vodka accounts, DeLeon tequila, Blue Flame marketing, Sean Jean clothing, and Revolt TV. Jay-Z was second last year as well and brought in money from his Roc Nation empire, 68 concerts, D’Ussé cognac and his latest album, which was certified platinum before it was released due to an agreement with Samsung to buy 1 million copies.
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down from the original one year stay, based on their respective needs. In that time frame, families are assisted in outlining goals to tackle With the expansion of their Front Door such as employment roadblocks, financing Program, St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore has classes, and even setting up bank accounts. The taken yet another step in setting themselves type of housing granted is based on the family apart as a service provider. Their services meeting their specific goals. With St. Vincent include, but are not limited to: feeding de Paul being a humanitarian organization, families, providing clothing and shelter, aiding one of the major points of success for the in job placement, offering youth educational Front Door Program is not having very many services and most recently, rapid rehousing obstacles. Program director, Toni Boulware for homeless families. As one of the oldest and Mary Rhodes, senior vice president of charitable organizations in Maryland, they are programs, say their greatest joy is “being able doing more than just maintaining the legacy to put families into permanent housing and of their namesake; they are making a genuine help get them out of homelessness.” difference in the community. Tamika Dangerfield is one of those families. On July 1, part of the grant from the She’s a mother, cosmetology student, CNA/ Weinberg Foundation guaranteed funding that GNA, breast cancer survivor, and a client will assist 55 families entering the Front Door of St. Vincent de Paul. After receiving a Program over the next 3 years. At the city shocking diagnosis of Stage 3 Invasive Duct location, one of their focal points is to create Carcinoma in 2012, Tamika found herself in a a new model that helps them to understand highly precarious situation: jobless, homeless, how to better help the people they serve. At the and wondering what to do next. While going Baltimore County location, part of the focus through chemo, space for her family of four involves learning what helps was tight and limited. She and their clients become more her two children stayed with self-sufficient. The Baltimore her cousin in her apartment County location, funded by on the north east side of town, United Way, has 20 families while her children’s father every year that go from shelter stayed with friends on the west to rapid rehousing. At both side of town. After applying locations, the clients are either diligently to the departments referrals or they have come of housing and social services from another shelter. for suitable housing, she was The new changes, disappointed to find out she announced in a Sept. 23 didn’t meet their qualifications. press conference, bring a lot “You don’t know strong, of excitement to the Front until strong is your only Door Program. With the option,” says Tamika, whose rapid rehousing and shelter life continued to change almost diversion, the program does daily. not have to turn away families With the help of Cindy that have teenage boys or an Carter from the Cancer active father present. Families Support Group, Tamika now stay at Sarah’s Hope on learned about the Open Door Photo by Yolanda Thomas Mount Street 90 to 120 days, Program. After one year Tamika Dangerfield By Yolanda Thomas Special to the AFRO
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expression. These lyrics, “There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you” posted on his Facebook page were supposedly music, and not an actual threat against his wife, who had left him, taken the children, and, upon reading his lyrics, sought an Order of Protection. His case will be heard in December. In Georgia, a death row inmate Warren Lee Hill Jr., asked the Supreme Court to reveal the names of his executioners. Death row executioners have had their identity concealed for centuries. However, nothing in the Constitution says their identity must be a secret. The Court must weigh Lee’s request against the state’s concerns for the safety of executioners. Warren Lee is represented by the Georgia Resource Center, in Atlanta. In North Carolina, police Officer Matt Darisse stopped a car driven by Nicholas Heien after seeing a broken brake light. The officer mistakenly believed having only one working brake light was a driving violation. He searched the car with permission from Heien. The Supreme Court must decide if cocaine found while searching the car should have been excluded from trial since stopping the car was a mistake in the first place. Alabama’s voting rights case, Shelby County v. Holder, resulted in a
5-4 decision gutting the preclearance provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Now, Alabama’s new re-districting plan has been denounced as discriminatory by the Alabama Democratic Conference and Alabama Legislative Black Caucus. According to Lyle Denniston, of Scotusblog.com, the Supreme Court must decide “the legality of ‘packing’ minority voters into districts where they already are in political control, [thus] reducing their chance of having influence elsewhere.” Look for this case in November. White supremacist Samuel James Johnson, who started his own Aryan hate group in Minnesota, revealed to an undercover FBI agent that he had napalm, explosives and silencers, and wanted to attack the Mexican consulate in St. Paul. Johnson appealed his sole gun possession conviction, stating mere possession of a short-barrelled shotgun should not be treated as a violent felony. His supporters, Gun Owners of America and The Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, agree. Johnson’s case also joins those opposing mandatory minimum sentences. Retirees will be affected by the Court’s ruling in M&G Polymers v. Hobert Tackett. Retirees who worked for the Apple Grove plant, in West Virginia, sued to maintain
their health benefits after Apple Grove was sold. The new company controlling their pension plan wants retirees to contribute money toward their health plans. Tackett, and fellow retirees, asked the Supreme Court to continue benefits gained through collective bargaining, even after their company is acquired by one that does not provide them. In Dallas, Texas, an organization called Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) won its housing discrimination suit against Texas, in 2008. Texas appealed, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that ICP must prove Texas intentionally practiced race discrimination in housing, which is a much higher standard than proving disparate or worse impact on African Americans, the legal standard used when ICP first won its case. In Washington, D.C., guns will soon be carried in public. Major cities, like the District, have asked the Court to tell them if expanded Second Amendment gun rights means guns can be carried outside of the home. In D.C., a lower court struck down the District’s total ban on carrying handguns in public. But, that may not mean all guns can be carried outside. That court gave D.C. until Oct. 22 to pass new laws for carrying guns in public. Gloria J. BrowneMarshall, an associate professor of constitutional law at John Jay College (CUNY), covers the U.S. Supreme Court, United Nations and major legal issues. She is the Supreme Court correspondent for AANIC (African-American News & Information Consortium) and author of “Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present.”
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Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore President & CEO, John Schiavone; The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation President & CEO, Rachel Garbow Monroe; St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore VP of Development & Marketing, Jennifer Summers; and United Way of Central Maryland President & CEO, Mark Furst. in the program and 30 days in a hotel, she and her family moved to their apartment in May 2013. Over the course of a year and a half, she endured five months of intensive chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, surgery to remove 13 cancerous lymph nodes, a
hysterectomy, reconstructive breast surgery and the sudden loss of her children’s father due to a heart attack. Though her journey was rocky and unforeseen, Tamika smiles and says, “Faith is all you can have.” Y3thomas@gmail.com
Last of the SHC Fire Buffs Reflects on History of Blacks in the Fire Service By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO In 1952, seven WWII veterans opened the door for Blacks to enter the fire service in Baltimore. Today, only one of those seven remains, and a number of Baltimore citizens want to see he is recognized for his contribution in the fight for civil rights. Delmar Davis, born in 1915, grew up in Baltimore and spent four years fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II. He returned to a still segregated Baltimore, where he and four friends, all interested in the fire service, used to hang around what was then Engine 13 in West Baltimore. Though the four could not work in the fire service,
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Delmar Davis of the SHC Fire Buffs, the 1952 class of Black volunteer fire fighters who paved the way for paid Black firefighters in Baltimore. they founded the SHC Fire Buffs in 1949, the country’s first Black firefighter’s club, naming it after three of the original four group members: James Smith, Arthur Hardy, and Elbert Carter. Engine 13’s fire chief
befriended the men, Davis said, giving them tips about becoming firefighters and even advocating on their behalf. In 1952, the four men were allowed to form the first Black firefighter class in Baltimore City,
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HEALTH
African Americans are critical to helping fight ALS
By now, we have all probably seen the Ice Bucket Challenge. It is wonderful that people from all walks of life come together to use social media for such good. The unity and generosity of hundreds of thousands of participants from different backgrounds has done even more than lead to donations of tens of millions of dollars to non-profit organizations in the name of ALS, it has raised awareness of this devastating condition. Many people now know about ALS – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a devastating condition in which patients develop progressive muscle weakness leading to paralysis and death by respiratory failure, typically within 2-3 years of the first symptoms. The urgency of finding a cure is nationally recognized. How do researchers intend to cure ALS? One of the first steps is to figure out what genes are damaged and lead to the disease. To find these genes, scientists are comparing the DNA of people with the disease to the DNA of people who do not have it. After genes are identified,
the hope is that therapies will be developed to target what is damaged. In several diseases, it has already been shown that some people will respond better to one treatment over others because of the DNA they carry. A troubling fact is that African Americans do not often volunteer for genetics research studies. As an African American and an ALS researcher at the National Institutes of Health, I rarely receive and study DNA from African Americans. Without African-American DNA in research studies, it is unclear how often we get ALS. That, frighteningly, has the potential to leave African Americans out of the equation when effective treatments for the disease are developed. It also hinders us scientists from learning everything about the disease regardless of ethnicity. We need comprehensive information about DNA from all backgrounds to know more precisely how the disease works. So, what can African Americans do to help take us toward a cure for ALS? Here are a few steps to consider: 1) Enroll in a genetics research study if you are suffering from ALS or a disease like ALS. Donating DNA is quick and simple. It can be a blood donation. If you are scared of needles, you can donate saliva. 2) If you are not suffering from ALS, educate yourself about the disease so that you can disseminate the information to help others make informed decisions about study enrollment. 3) Volunteer with non-profit organizations on outreach initiatives. The last several months have shown that the spread of information and action can allow us to bond as human beings and have a profound impact on others. The ALS community is grateful to have seen a range of people—from our sisters and brothers, to our neighbors, to athletes like Lebron James, entertainers such as Lady Gaga, and political leaders such as President George W. Bush, take up the Ice Bucket Challenge and take notice of ALS. I’m now challenging African Americans to help us continue on the path to a cure by doing what it takes to make sure we are included in genetics study of ALS. My research team is conducting a study. If you or a family member are affected with ALS or a related disorder, we hope to hear from you. You can e-mail us at cc100h@nih.gov to find out more. Dr. Janel Johnson is a researcher with the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.
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Exactly How Fit are You? By Marcia Ra-Akbar Special to the AFRO Starting any fitness program can be an exciting time in your life and the temptation to jump in without establishing clear goals is the number one mistake newbies make. Establishing how
1. Cardiovascular Component.
2. Muscular Component.
fit you are first, is the most effective way to start your journey. So, how fit are you? I find this out in my first session. Without the answer, I can’t help clients reach their goals effectively. No trainer can. If you’re lucky enough to belong to a gym that will do one for you, schedule that appointment. If you’re like most, the following four guidelines will give you the tools you need to create goals, and track progress.
3. Flexibility Component.
4. Body Composition Component.
Going up a flight of stairs can be a challenge for some. Muscle fitness relates to your strength, and the Your aerobic endurance is a very important component endurance of that strength. Your muscular fitness level of overall health. A healthy heart lowers cardiovascular can show how susceptible you are to injury. It also disease and keeps the weight off. Aerobic relates to your movement requires the delivery of oxygen to bone mass. A the muscles. Oxygen is delivered to the muscles very simple via your bloodstream. Each heartbeat you have way of testing is an indicator of the amount of blood traveling your muscular through your bloodstream. A high resting heart fitness is with rate is an indicator of poor health. One way to push-ups. measure your aerobic fitness is to take your heart You can time rate, or pulse. Record your resting pulse rate, and yourself, and then go for a one-mile brisk walk. Take your pulse Aerobic movement requires see how many again once you’ve immediately finished the mile, you do in that the delivery of oxygen to and record how long it took you to walk. As you timeframe. Or, the muscles. Photos: Morguefile gain aerobic fitness, your heart rate should lower. you can just So should the time it takes you to walk the mile! complete as The average resting heart rate for an adult is 60 to 100 many push-ups as possible before fatigue sets in. The beats per minute (bpm). The lower your heart rate at number of pushups you do should be your starting rest, implies efficient cardiovascular health and better baseline and your goal should be to increase that cardio fitness. number through effective weight training.
Stiffness in the back, neck and behind the legs are Your waist may be the biggest predictor of your health. common ailments with individuals living a sedentary Your body composition tends to relate to the amount lifestyle. Your body’s ability to move joints and muscles of fat on your through a full range of motion is a predictor body, and of great flexibility fitness. Flexibility also where that fat relates to your balance and coordination is located. The levels. A tight muscle can prevent normal location of fat movement. The most common way to at specific sites measure your flexibility is via the sit and (in particular, reach test. With this test, you’ll need a the waist area) measuring tape. Place the measuring tape places you at along the floor. With your feet at zero, and Your body’s ability to move joints higher risk for the tape stretching away from you, sit on the and muscles through a full range high blood of motion is a predictor of great floor with your legs straight out in front of flexibility fitness. pressure, heart you. Try to touch your feet or stretch as far disease, and past your feet as possible. Have a friend check diabetes. A how far you went on the measuring tape. If simple way of measuring your body composition test is you can’t reach your toes, you’ll have a negative number. to measure your waist. Anything larger than 40 inches If you stretch past your feet, you’ll have a positive number. The more flexible your legs, hips, and lower back for men, and 35 inches for women increases your health risks. are, the further you will be able to reach in this test.
So how fit are you? But more importantly, how fit do you intend to be? Set your goals, work your program, and watch as those numbers go down.
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Turning Young People On to the Wonders of Science Needs Sense of Urgency By Emmanuel Glakpe Special to the AFRO African Americans have yet to really seize the enormous opportunities offered by science and engineering. Two major campaigns should be mounted – one to improve the quality of education, the other to publicize the hell out of Blacks whose accomplishments in science and technology have left an indelible footprint. Young people learn from each other. News of opportunities spreads fast. Placing the story of an accomplished person in print or on the Internet can be
“Two major campaigns should be mounted – one to improve the quality of education, the other to publicize the hell out of Blacks whose accomplishments in science and technology have left an indelible footprint.” transformative. Because quite a number of Black scientists and engineers are making their mark in government, industry and academia, it’s not that hard to cite a few who are in the prime of their careers. Being a nuclear engineer who came to this country from Ghana, I
have been dazzled by the accomplishments of three African-American physicists – two are nuclear physicists, the third an astrophysicist -- who are self-accelerating, worldly-wise, experienced, cultivated, and urbane. Until recently, William Magwood was a member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, which oversees the U.S. fleet of 100 nuclear power plants and sets the gold standard for nuclear safety worldwide. As a commissioner, Magwood led an effort to move NRC’s regulation of nuclear plants to a more risk-informed basis, grounding more of the agency’s safety requirements on information from tools such as computer models that calculate the probability of various accident scenarios. Magwood, a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, got his start as a scientist with Westinghouse, then became manager of nuclear programs at the Edison Electric Institute in Washington, DC. In 1998, Magwood was appointed director of nuclear energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, a position he held for seven years until he moved over to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Today he is director general of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency. Shirley Ann Jackson, a nuclear physicist, was the first
African-American woman to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing her thesis on solid-state physics. Dr. Jackson’s research specialty is in theoretical condensed matter physics, and the physics of opto-electronic materials. Dr. Jackson was chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Prior to joining the agency, she was a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories and professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University. She has also served as president, then chairman, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. On July 1, 1999, Dr. Jackson became the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., one of the nation’s premier research universities. Neil deGrasse Tyson is perhaps the best-known astrophysicist in the United States, if not the world. Born and raised in New York City, Tyson attended the Bronx High School of Science, then Harvard University. A longtime champion of the space program, Tyson was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. Tyson is currently director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A prolific author
Emmanuel Glakpe is professor of nuclear engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and a science communicator, Tyson hosted the educational science television show NOVA Science/Now on PBS and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. There is so much work to do in introducing young people to the wonders of science and technology that it doesn’t matter who does it. School teachers are just fine. Public television is just fine. Large corporations looking to recruit a new generation of scientists and engineers are just fine. Accomplishing what is needed will take diligence and commitment to instill a love for knowledge of the universe. Time is of the essence. We need a sense of urgency. Emmanuel Glakpe is professor of nuclear engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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Furniture, had the huge task of ensuring that seating in the casino’s bars, restaurants and other public areas was accounted for and in the right place. “We received and installed just about all of the front-of-the-house furniture,” Hill said, adding that they were also responsible for seating in the casino’s restaurants, public areas, and gaming areas – indoor and outdoor. Some of the furniture was supplied by Caesars, other things Hill and Edwards had to order. Hill said his company is used to largescale projects like Horseshoe – they are also responsible for work done at the Maryland Live casino at Arundel Mills and the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill – but the more difficult part of the project was time. “It was challenging from a logistics point of view, he said. “You think you have a leisurely month and in reality you have nine days.” He said that getting everything in place
was sometimes slowed by the fact that his employees were working side-by-side with construction crews who were still putting the finishing touches on the place. However, Hill said his experience helped him anticipate and plan for problems - and the work was completed successfully. “For us it’s just like any other job,” he said. We are very proud of it because it is a beautiful place,” he said. “It gives me great pride – not just as a business owner but as a Baltimorean.” Hill and Edwards’ Columbia business has been around for about 16 years. Hill said that he and Edwards didn’t originally plan to work in furniture. So how did they get started? “By the grace of God. I really believe that God opened a door and we stepped through it.” The two men began working in marketing, event planning and promotion. When a project they were working on fell through, instead of charging the client, he says they asked
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ministry . . . – I was sort of running in the opposite direction. “My whole life I swore two things: One, I would never pastor. And two, God knows I would never live in Baltimore. You could see how that ended for me, I’m right here in the place I never thought I would be.” While Rev. Bryant sought to avoid his calling, it was something absorbed into his being through the examples of faith and ministry set by his parents, the Rt. Rev. Dr. John Bryant, senior bishop and presiding prelate of the Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Dr. Cecilia WilliamsBryant. “Seeing my father operate as the priest of his home was the greatest example of ministry for me. [And] my parents taught me the integrity of ministry by showing it was not about business but service,” he said. When the senior Rev. Bryant was assigned to Bethel A.M.E. Church in Baltimore in 1975, he grew the congregation to several thousand members. More importantly, under the Bryants’ leadership, the church hosted Labor Day shoe giveaways for children who did not have shoes for school; ran a food co-op, credit union, women’s resource center and many other ministries. Rev. Bryant adopted those principles in his ministry at Empowerment Temple A.M.E., as he did the examples of other heroes, including: minister and former Congressman Floyd Flake, who revived the neighborhoods of Jamaica, Queens in New York; Bishop T.D. Jakes, from whom he learned ministry “outside of the box;” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who put liberation theology into practice; the Rev. Dr. Frank Reid, the current pastor of Bethel, who influenced Rev. Bryant during his early years of ministry, supervising his trial sermon and licensing him to preach; and others. Rev. Bryant said he also strongly identifies with King David in the Bible who “fell and made mistakes [but] was still a child after God’s own heart.” Rev. Bryant and his ministry fell under a cloud with the news of his infidelity, his having a child out of wedlock and his subsequent divorce from his wife, Giselle back in 2008, a time the pastor called “one of the darkest seasons of my life” and also for Empowerment Temple. “It wasn’t just a divorce for me but it was a divorce for
12,000 people. For me, it was my wife, but for them, it was their first lady,” Rev. Bryant said. “It showed me that being in ministry doesn’t afford you diplomatic immunity. You have to go through your own storms and own crises.” Going through that crucible has helped the entire Empowerment family to mature, the Rev. Bryant said. “Going through that experience helped strip the cape of ‘Superman’ [from me.] A lot of people idolize their pastor without seeing behind the veil. For the church to witness me going through a painful bout with
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Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant humanity kicked over the pedestal, showed that grace is attainable, that mercy is available to everybody. “Had I not gone through all of that, I don’t know that I would be able to reach the base that I do now.” The target of Empowerment Temple’s ministry has always been the “everyman,” the unsaved and unchurched, and Rev. Bryant’s public fall from grace has enabled many of his congregants to feel open about their own failings and accept the reality of second chances. With such a large and varied congregation, which ranges from “Motown to Def Jam” in age and background, Rev. Bryant has had to tailor the ministry to create the optimal experience for all. So while Empowerment is one of the most technologically in-touch ministries – Bryant prays for all interested members of the congregation during the week via phone; he communicates with individual members via e-mail and Facebook, and livestreams services, among other advancements – Rev. Bryant
said he also employs “oldschool” pastoring. “We have three services every Sunday with thousands of people, but I go to an old pastoral model of standing at the back door shaking hands to let them know that I’m not just a preacher but still their pastor,” he said. Another facet of “old-time religion” that needs to be revived is the teaching of the foundations of the Christian faith, Rev. Bryant said. “I think a lot of preaching has gone to life-coaching and has missed the real principle of Bible teaching,” he said. “We grew up in a time when as a child you learned ‘The Lord’s Prayer,’ ‘The Apostle’s Creed,’ the ‘23rd Psalm,’ John 3:16 . . .. And now you’re dealing with a generation that just knows, ‘Turn to your neighbor,’ or ‘Shout it out loud’ . . .. They know praise but they don’t know principle. So, it is very important that the 21st century church go back to teaching doctrine, theology, and the articles of religion, our faith,” Bryant said. “Christians, embarrassingly, are the most illiterate believers in the world. You stop a Muslim . . . they know what they believe; you stop a Buddhist . . . they know what they believe, but a lot of Christians don’t know the tenets of their faith.” In terms of its community service, Empowerment Temple has left an indelible impression in the Park Heights area, but Rev. Bryant said there are untapped areas of need he’d like to see the ministry address. “One of the chief things that has to happen is jobpreparedness and economic development,” he said. The activist-preacher cited the surfeit of abandoned houses and the preponderance of Black Baltimoreans who are renters as an imbalance that needs to be addressed. He also said that when the church recently held a job fair, employers were reluctant to participate because too many residents were only prepared for entry-level positions. Still, he said, the number of people who lined up for the fair was more than a block long. “And that tells me that people want work, they want to do better, but the church has to help provide avenues and opportunities for that to happen,” Rev. Bryant said. The AFRO will honor Rev. Bryant with the John H. Murphy Sr. Award, 8:30, Oct. 7 at the Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore. For information call Diane Hocker at 410-554-8243.
him to keep them in mind if another business opportunity crossed his desk. That opportunity was furniture. “Our goal was to make it so nice that people would ask ‘who did that?’” The plan worked. Hill says that for about
seven or eight years, they didn’t even have to advertise their business – people who had seen their work would seek them out. “Furniture wouldn’t go away,” he said. “Probably for the last 14 years it’s been 98 percent of our revenue.”
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your ego at home so you can go home.” Further advice was given, referred to as ‘survival skills’ by the panelists. Gordon explained that one of your best tools during a police stop are the video and audio recorders on your cell phone. Advising the audience that they turn their recorders on as soon as they see police lights in their rear view mirror, Gordon said that, because one has the right to film police officers in a public place when engaged in their public duty, it is not necessary to inform the officer that they are being recorded. D.C. area attorney Brian McDaniel made a plea to the crowd that they not take up the habit of finding excuses out of what is among the most dreaded of civic responsibilities: jury duty. “Imagine if all of you had the opportunity to serve but didn’t serve and then you had . . . everybody from (mostly wealthy and White) upper Northwest D.C. who were serving . . . that is often times what we’re left with and then we wonder why it is that we don’t get the justice that we’re looking for when these matters are coming to court.” There were also moments of levity, such as
when host Douglas Evans read a question from an audience member asking when police are authorized or likely to approach with a drawn weapon. “I can answer the second part,” Evans deadpanned. “Likely? PG County.” Another acknowledgment that police violence against Blacks had become a norm in the African American community. The audience laughed. The Rev. Jamal Bryant, senior pastor at
“Leave your ego at home so you can go home.” – Attorney Ivan Bates Empowerment Temple, appealed to the youth in the audience as he worked to bring the seminar to a conclusion. “I want to really champion for our young people, because we have a major gap of young, emerging civil rights attorneys. We need more young people who are going into that field, not just to defend our rights but really to defend the law so that there’s really liberty and justice for all.” ralejandro@afro.com
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receiving the same training the city’s paid firefighters received, but relegated to a volunteer status because, by then, all the men were over the cut-off age for paid firefighters. Davis said at the time he could make more money anyways working as a contractor than he could as a firefighter. However, despite the lack of pay and the resistance from the White firefighter’s union, the SHC Fire Buffs never lacked passion for fighting blazes. “We were such enthusiastic firefighters, we never refused an order,” said Davis. “We never refused an order and when we saw a firefighter in need, he was never ignored regardless.” The SHC Fire Buffs were tasked with answering second alarms, the alarm signaling a fire had become more than initial responders could manage, and often meant there were other, White, firefighters in need of rescue. “I would want [people] to remember the courage the seven of us had,” said Davis of his fellow buffs. “Matter of fact, it wasn’t a week or two after they assigned us, that one of us saved one of their firefighters.” That skill and tenacity in fighting fires from an all-Black, volunteer force would lead to the first Black, paid class of Baltimore City
firefighters in 1954. “They were the first group of Blacks allowed to ride on the fire trucks,” explained Skip Barber, public information officer for the SHC Fire Buffs. “From that, Mayor D’Alesandro then said, ‘Black volunteers? Why not Black paid firefighters?’ So he put in a bill, at that time that city council was to vote on for Black firefighters, and it took eight tries for that to happen.” Dr. Estella Ingram-Levy, a Baltimore area resident, has sought to raise awareness of the important contribution to civil rights that Davis and his fellow firefighters in the SHC made, noting there isn’t a plaque anywhere to commemorate the group. “What one should remember about Delmar, he is the only survivor, who set the pace not only for other Blacks to enter the fire department, but police officers, and any of these public servants,” said Ingram-Levy. For Davis, what is most important is remembering the courage he and his brothers in the SHC Fire Buffs demonstrated not only in fighting fires, but in helping to pave the way for Black firefighters throughout the country. “[Racism] was just part of my life,” said Davis. “What you want, you had to fight for, and that was my desire.”
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Community Connection Free Fall Baltimore Offers Hundreds of Free Events and Activities During October Everything is FREE! The ninth annual Free Fall Baltimore, presented by BGE, takes place Oct. 1 through Oct. 31. Free Fall Baltimore, a citywide celebration, offers hundreds of free arts & cultural events and activities at participating venues throughout Baltimore City. Held in conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, area attractions and organizations showcase the importance of the arts with concerts, dance and theater performances, lectures, workshops, visual art exhibitions, tours and special events. Baltimore residents and visitors can find a full schedule of events on the newly redesigned www. freefallbaltimore.org. Free Fall Baltimore is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. In 2014, new and returning participants offer a wide range of programming all across Baltimore including: “Looking at Ourselves,” an art installation from Baltimore Clayworks; “Hard Workin’ Pilgrims,” a history exhibition on display at the Baltimore American Indian Center; contra dance lessons from the Baltimore Folk Music Society; a Shakespeare performance by the Baltimore Concert Opera and Chesapeake Shakespeare Company; and “Puppets in the Garden,” a workshop from Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Overall, Free Fall Baltimore features more than 200 events & activities from nearly 70 participants. For more information on Free Fall Baltimore, call 410-752-8632 or visit www.freefallbaltimore.org. Women’s Civic League Hosts 11th Annual Apple Festival The Women’s Civic League in partnership with Baltimore City Recreation and Parks extends an invitation to the 11th Annual Apple Festival, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Oct. 3, at West Shore Park (Baltimore Inner Harbor) located at the 400-500 block of Light Street. The event will feature a variety of delicious food, entertainment, arts and crafts, vendors, and lots of fun activities for the entire family. The Women’s Civic League, incorporated in 1911, has been in existence for over 100 years helping communities throughout Baltimore. The non-profit, non-partisan, metropolitan organization is comprised of women from all walks of life whose mission is to engage in varied human relations and civic activities to beautify their communities and promote good neighbor relations. The Women’s Civic League activities vary from beautification of neighborhoods, working with schools and students, to organization fund raising events such as the Apple Festival to raise funds for high school graduates pursuing a college education and for maintaining the historic building we are located in at 9 N. Front Street. The First Streaming Radio Station for Kids Emerges in Baltimore Baltimore’s first streaming radio station for kids “Kinkx Kids Radio” will launch, noon to 4 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Hamilton-Lauraville Farmers’ Market Lot, 4500 Harford Road, Baltimore, Md. Guest speakers will be Deborah Phelps, educator, author, and mother of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, and former Harlem Globetrotter, Charles “Choo” Smith. Smith will perform his “Elevated by My Handles” presentation and give out autographed books. Musical guest will be Keon Myers, known as “Lil Key,” a 14 year-old inspirational rapper and a Baltimore City resident. Various children acts will perform in a talent showcase and vendors will be onsite to provide products and services to parents and kids. Kinkx Kids Radio is the vision of Baltimore entrepreneur Angelique Redmond, owner of Kinkx Studio, a hair braiding studio for children ages 3–14 years old. While serving her clients, Mrs. Redmond conceived the idea of the station after realizing there was a lack of kid-friendly music on radio stations. “I would have to constantly change the stations to avoid the children from listening to or mocking derogatory or inappropriate language,” Redmond stated. As the leading kids streaming station in the Baltimore area, Kinkx Kids Radio aims to promote clean entertainment that uplifts, educates, and energizes children. For more information regarding the event or to apply for sponsorship opportunities, contact Christina Fields at cfields@kinkxstudio.com.
Adult Guardianship Symposium to Address Delicate Balance Between Protection and SelfDetermination The Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the Baltimore County Human Relations Commission is hosting its first Adult Public Guardianship Symposium from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 29, at the Hunt Valley Inn located at 245 Shawan Road in Hunt Valley. The five-hour event is aimed to help case managers, community partners, lawyers, nurses, social workers and judges address the often difficult balance between a client’s protection and their right to selfdetermination. Topics will help: increase participants’ knowledge about the adult guardianship process; explore the various areas of possible ethical dilemmas that occur while serving this population; educate the participants about the specific roles each profession plays in meeting the needs of these individuals and help participants in a professional environment work through some of the dilemmas they may be facing meeting the needs of individuals in adult guardianship. The event’s keynote speaker is Ellen A. Callegary, J.D. A practicing attorney of more than 30 years, Callegary is a founding partner of Callegary & Steedman, P.A. Her firm focuses on special education, disability and family law issues. In addition to the keynote address, the conference includes a panel and break-out discussion. The event is free, but registration is required. The deadline for registration is October 15. Register online at http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/socialservices/dssevent.html or call 410-853-3948. Four hours of Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for this event. Baltimore City College to Turn 175 Maryland’s oldest public high school and one of the oldest in the country will celebrate its 175th birthday the week of Oct. 25. The series of official events begins 9 a.m., Oct. 24 with the annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in the William Donald Schaefer Auditorium. This year’s inductees include: Frank B. Coakley (’60), Jay S. Himmelstein (’69), Jack Luskin (’45), Ron Matz (’64), Maria Price Detherage (’82) and Michael “Mike” Trager (’59). For further information contact Leo Sirota at 410.484.5262 or Al Robinson at 443.890.6044 The Women of City presents ‘The 2014 Recognition and Awards Brunch,’ 10 a.m., Oct. 25 at the library. This year’s awardees are: Cindy Harcum (’88), principal of The Baltimore City College; Pamala Mintz (‘90), author; Danielle Suber (’08), assistant director of Intercultural Recruitmentt at York; Susan B. Legg, dedicated faculty for more than 35 years; Steven Williams (’82), JHU ROTC human resource director and the Rev. P M Smith (’65), pastor, Huber Memorial in Baltimore. For further information contact Deneen Fassett, BCC 1982 at womenofcity@gmail.com The weekend of events culminates with The Baltimore City College Family and Friends celebrating “175 Years of Excellence and Civtas in Mind Body and Spirit” with a black tie optional gala, 7 p.m. to midnight, at the Martin’s Valley Mansion. 594 Cranbrook Road, Hunt Valley, Md. Co-emcees for the gala are Ron Matz (’64), WJZ-TV Channel 13 and Jason Newton (’95) of WBAL-TV Channel 11. Martin “Marty” Resnick (’49), founder and chairman of the board, has prepared some special culinary delights for the event and assures that this will be a night to remember. Music through the decades will be provided by the William Patrick Alston Jazz Enzemble, The Baltimore City College Jazz Ensemble under the direction of James Childs (’99), and music for your dancing pleasure into the night will be provided by DJ Kelly Adams. For additional information contact: www.cityforever.org/gala or call Michael Hamilton at 443.540.5939
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Eric Holder’s Legacy: No Coward on Race After being confirmed as the nation’s first African-American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr. wasted little time putting everyone on notice that he would not tip-toe around the volatile subject of race. “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared in a speech at the Justice Department. George E. Curry There was the predictable NNPA Columnist uproar on the right and President Obama, while not repudiating his new appointee, told the New York Times, “I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.” And that’s precisely the point. Holder was courageous in directly taking on the issue of race while Obama, in the words of Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson, “runs from race like a Black man runs from a cop.” Holder’s deeds, not his words, are what made him such an exceptional attorney general. He fought for criminal-justice reform, saying the overrepresentation of Blacks in the criminal justice system “isn’t just unacceptable; it’s shameful.” He said, “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.” He favored a 2010 law that eliminated the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. And he led a successful effort to reduce prison sentences for low-level, non-violent drug offenders. Arguably his most lasting imprint was in the area of voting rights. When the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Holder said the ruling could not be used for the wholesale disenfranchisement of people of color. He sued Texas over its voter ID law and challenged North Carolina in court over its law to restrict early voting and same-day registration. Holder further revitalized a sector of the Democratic Party by supporting same-sex marriage and his refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which holds that marriage is strictly between a woman and a man. There were some disappointments as well.
He supported the FBI’s right to track U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant. He also approved of the National Security Agency’s authority to collect millions of phone records of Americans not accused of any crime In his zeal to plug national security leaks, the Justice Department obtained the phone records of journalists performing their jobs. Last year, Holder backtracked, promising that the Justice Department “will not prosecute any reporter doing his or her job.” Republicans highlighted the failure of Operation Fast and Furious, an Arizona-based Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) project to track weapons purchased by Mexican drug cartels. Not only did ATF fail to account for more than 1,000 firearms that had been purchased by straw buyers, two of the missing weapons were linked to the killing of Brian Terry, a U.S. Border Patrol agent. When Holder, citing executive privilege, refused to turn over certain Fast and Furious records to Congress, the House held him in contempt, the first for a sitting cabinet member. Both conservatives and liberals criticized Holder for his failure to prosecute individuals connected to the Wall Street financial crisis in 2008. While some firms deemed “too big to fail” were subjected to record fines, no Wall Street executives were prosecuted. They were derisively labeled “too big to jail. Most African Americans will remember the bold stances and actions Holder took following killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Florida and the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. by Darren Wilson, a White police officer, in Ferguson, Mo. Brown was shot at least six times. Holder criticized Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, telling NAACP delegates, “These laws try to fix something that was never broken.” Holder visited Ferguson, sharing his own personal experiences of being profiled by police. Following his visit to Ferguson, Holder ordered a federal civil rights investigation of the predominantly White police department. He said the investigation
would determine whether Ferguson officers had “engaged in a pattern or practice of violations of the U.S. Constitution or federal law.” In a speech earlier this month at New York University, Holder said that as a former U.S. attorney and the brother of a longtime police officer, he has nothing but respect for police officers. But he said he is also an African-American man “who has been stopped and searched by police in situations where such action was not warranted.” Consequently, he said, “I also carry with me the mistrust that some citizens harbor for those who wear the badge.” Under Holder, the Justice Department has initiated twice as many police reviews for possible constitutional violations than any other attorney general. At least 34 other departments are under federal investigation for possible civil rights violations. Conservatives have pilloried Holder for being so aggressive on civil rights. But he has not backed down for one simple reason – he is no coward. George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, currently editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA., can be reached through www. georgecurry.com; www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry fan page on Facebook.
Lynching Young Black Boys Without Ropes and Trees Recently in Chicago, a city where only 9 percent of 8th-grade Black boys reads proficiently and where thousands of Black boys have been killed and maimed over the past few years, the MacArthur Foundation passed out “Genius Awards” to people who were musicians, authors, scientists and poets. In their way, the MacArthur Awards congratulate and reward people who are not working to educate and save the lives of Black boys. Essentially, they are saying, that in this American city, the one they call home, educating and making young Black men productive citizens is not valued. The MacArthur Foundation speaks for America. America has a reputation for helping people all over the world. We have soldiers stationed in dozens of countries and we invest hundreds of billions of dollars in countries worldwide. But in the streets of most American large cities, police shoot down young Black men with alarming regularity (about one every 28 hours); tens of thousands of young Black men die every year in an undeclared “ghetto war”; hundreds of thousands of young Black men are annually ushered into the prison
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system of America; and millions of young Black men and boys are under-educated and mis-educated in American schools. These realities constitute a sophisticated, 21st -century form of lynching young Black men and boys. Such genocidal treatment of any population should gain international attention including sanctions by the United Nations and massive national and international petition drives led by human rights groups. But because these are young Black men and boys in America, little is said or done to change this horror. And Black America, by its inaction, remains complicit in these horrendous outcomes for young Black men and boys! Most Black church and business leaders, educators, and elected officials are silent as this gargantuan-scale human tragedy continues unabated. American schools are systematically slaughtering the minds and spirits Black boys. Chicago is not alone with only 9 percent of 8thgrade Black boys reading proficiently. Louisville, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Philadelphia and Los Angeles share Chicago’s ignominy with 9 percent of 8th-grade Black boys reading proficiently. Unbelievably, some cities are worse including Baltimore, Dallas and San Diego,
Power Broke Black Leaders Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and never will.” I often wonder what Black people do not understand about that statement. We love to quote it, but when it comes to putting it into practice; we fall far short of the spirit of Douglass’ words. Maybe Douglass should have added this caveat: “A demand is nothing without power to back it up.” In response to incidents of injustice, we are quick to resort James Clingman to the same old tactics directed by leaders who sell us out. They NNPA Columnist tell us, as our president told the Congressional Black Caucus a few years ago: “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” and hit the streets chanting and singing in an effort to show our discontent. We gather in churches and listen to fiery speeches. We hold press conferences and show our disdain for the system and its oppressive behavior toward Black people. We offer milquetoast solutions to the worst of crimes against us. For instance, in Ferguson, Mo., Al Sharpton advised us to stop having “ghetto pity parties.” John Lewis called for martial law in Ferguson. I am still trying to figure how he thinks implementing martial law, which has the power to suspend civil rights, is the answer to a problem he and others consider to be a suppression of civil rights. Other iconic leaders say the problems in Ferguson can be solved simply by “voting.”
Tepid solutions offered by our “leaders” do absolutely nothing to change our situation, because there is no power behind them. Demands sound great and make for good photo opportunities and press conferences, but they fall on deaf ears because they have no power backing them up. Thus, the conundrum of so-called Black Power. We know that power concedes nothing without a demand, but a demand not backed by real power gets no concessions. In their quest to be important, many of our leaders are, as a comedian once said, “Impotent,” which only exacerbates our collective situation and keeps us running like a hamster inside a wheel – going nowhere. What we hear and see from some of our leaders is shameful and insulting to Black people. Instead of, or even in addition to, putting forth their weak responses to killings on all levels, they should also offer strategies based on economic power. That’s where the issue will be solved, but we are woefully inadequate when it comes to implementing economic sanctions that will bring real change. Some of the local leaders in Ferguson understand the power of economics and have been promoting solutions thereof, but they had to take a backseat to the fly-in crowd, toward whom the media gravitated. Now that things have calmed down and the opportunists have left Ferguson, the folks who live there, along with continued collaboration with young advocates for economic solutions, can work together. It is sad to see Black “powerbrokers” strut to the microphones and threaten folks, only to walk away with their proverbial tails between their legs, having received absolutely no concessions from the establishment. Rather than contenders, these folks are pretenders. And rather than powerbrokers, they are really “power-broke.” The conundrum of today’s notion of Black Power resides in false bravado and impotence.
7 percent; Washington D.C., 6 percent, Detroit, 5 percent, and Milwaukee and Cleveland, 3 percent. In America, only 10 percent of 8th-grade Black boys reads proficiently. This failure to educate Black men and boys is America’s unspoken shame. Nearly 150 years since slavery ended in America, Black America must accept the reality that no help is coming to transform the plight of young Black men and boys! If our young men are to be saved, it will be because the Black community saves them. If our young men are taught to read, it will be because we teach them to read. If our Black boys develop into strong, positive, productive, globally competent Black men, it will be because Black America makes it happen. And we should expect no help from foundations like MacArthur. Until the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s, Black men and boys were lynched in America with ropes and trees. Now they are lynched with schools and prisons, but the results are still the same. Phillip Jackson is founder and executive director of The Black Star Project. For more information visit blackstarproject.org or contact him at blackstar1000@ameritech.net.
Anheuser Busch (A-B), Radisson, and Nike withdrew or threatened to withdraw their economic support from the NFL. They know exactly where power resides: in dollar bills, y’all. They wielded their power immediately to show their “outrage” about domestic and child abuse. A-B, domiciled in St. Louis, said, “We are not yet satisfied with the league’s handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code.” A-B took serious action against child abuse in Adrian Peterson’s case, but did nothing in response to Michael Brown’s abuse that occurred in their back yard. Did that go against their “moral code”? Apparently Nike was not outraged by Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, and John Crawford, being “abused.” Pardon me, but isn’t abuse – no matter the form – still abuse? Pepsi Cola CEO, Indra Nooyi, spoke against the NFL but voiced no indignation about Marlene Pinnock’s abuse on a California highway? Hypocrisy abounds in reactions to Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, as with Michael Vick and his abuse of dogs, for heaven’s sake. Dogs! But those company execs and others fail to speak out and use their economic clout to put a stop to the abuse of their Black consumers by police officers because we have no power behind our demands. Folks with power are not reluctant to use it to punish those who do not operate in their best interests. Black Power has been reduced to calling for and falling for voting rallies and worn out speeches laced with demands not backed up by any real power at all. Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through Blackonomics.com.
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Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae Deltas Crab Feast Fundraiser Comerleta Cooks, Tyuana James-Traore, Wilma George, Sheila Richburg Gerry Fintch and Monica Watkins, president, Baltimore Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
More than 1,100 crab lovers were able to get in on one of the last crab feast gatherings before the season ended. The Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the Metro Delta Torchbearer Foundation held its 26th Annual Crab Feast on Sept. 19, the last weekend of summer. Along with a continuous replenishment of baskets of steamed crabs, other guests dined on fried chicken, shrimp creole over white rice, tossed salad, crab soup, corn on the cob, and other assortment of dishes
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and a variety of desserts. The ballroom floor was packed with partygoers dancing to the sounds of music played by DJ Tanz until the last song was played at 1 a.m. The very popular crab feast has increased in attendance from 150+ in 1989 to its current attendance of more than 1,100. The anticipated profit is more than $27,000. Joe Ann Oatis is president of BMAC; Yolanda Winkler is president of Metro Delta Foundation.
Cynthia Horton, 2nd VP. Tary Sroggins, 3rd VP., Joe Ann Oatis, president, Gerri Reid, president Baltimore County Alumnae, Monica Watkins, Baltimore Alumnae
Delectable crabs for Tiffany Turpin, Shanika Turner, Charmayne Turner Chairs, Angela Ayers Ramsey, Tray Riller Givens, Yolanda Winklar, Sharon A. Johnson, Joe Ann Oatis, president, Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae
Jeania White and Felicia Coffield
Merle Green, Jane Waters, Gloria Shelton
Mother-daughter duo Ericka Moten, Prince Georges Alumnae, Georgia L. Diggins, Baltimore Metro Alumnae
Shelly Griffin, Lynn Marks, Pearlette Pullen, Potomac Valley Alumnae Chapter
Pat Harracksingh, Judy Bailey, Ricky Harracksingh, Michael Bailey
Shaunda White, Alleace Gibbs, LaVonda Pernell, Fort Washington Alumnae Chapter Sheila Richburg, Marsha Logan, Lynn Woolridge, Bronwyn Leslie Smith, Fort Washington Alumnae Chapter
Valerie Allen, Deborah Resper, Alisha White
BMAC Past president Kathie McLaughlin, Ramona Williams, Joanne Rollins Robinson, Stephenie V. Lee, Wanda L. Carrington, Kimberly Y. Robinson, Cimmon Byrd Burris Alice Williams, Sybil Woodward, Vera Lawson
Harry Smith, Leta Bromell, Robin Oliver, Avery Wilson, Sharon Forest
Stacey Nance, Karen Carroll, Kim Eubanks, Sharon Greene, Niki Wallace, Tony Clark
Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine
Ashburton Neighborhood 16th Block Party The Ashburton neighborhood with bordering streets of Liberty Heights and Sequoia Avenue held its Annual Block Party in the 3300 Block of Dorchester Road on Sept. 20. A perfect day for outside activities, there was entertainment, music, good food, moon bounce and horseback rides for the children. Officer Sandra Johnson from the Baltimore City Police Department was on hand to greet the residents, and the Baltimore Fire Department
provided fun experiences for the children as well as adults to tour the huge truck. In addition to Lt. Gov. Brown, residents of 80 plus years, persons living in Ashburton for 40 years or more, new residents and returning residents were acknowledged by Beatrice Scott, president of Ashburton Neighborhood Association. LifeBridge Health provided a grant of $1,000 for block party expenses and, in a prior year provided a grant to produce the Ashburton Book, one of which was presented to Lt. Gov. Brown and City Council President Jack “Bernard” Young.
Antawan Copeland, Elizabeth Smith, Del. Sandy I. Rosenberg
James Crockett converses with Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown as Bea Scott, introduces Ashburton book
Del. Jill P. Carter
The children (and some adults) had fun horse back riding Ayanna Richardson and Kaiyonna Jones had fun swirling the hoops around their arms
Michael May and Councilman Nick Mosby
Even four legged residents enjoyed the day
Del. Barbara Robinson and Antonio Hayes, who won the primary for a delegate seat in the 40th District
Joseph Spelman, Boy Scouts of America and Sen. Catherine Pugh
New residents at registration desk are Travis and Martine Winder with Sage, 3
Diane James, Beatrice Scott, president, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, State of Maryland, Marsha Hairston, John Pumphrey
Registration hostesses are Lavinia Alexander and Barbara Petit
Dwight Petit, Councilwoman Sharon Middleton, Bernard “Jack” Young, president, Baltimore City Council
Delicious food for everyone attending the Block Party Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine
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American Legion Post #183, 2301 Putty Hill Ave. in Parkville, Md. It is a BYOB, open bar, buffet and vendors. For more information, call Marva at 410-599-9159. One of my favorite blues artists, “Big Daddy” Stallings & the Bluez Evolution Band will perform, 11 a.m., Oct. 11, at “Taste of Bethesda Woodmont Triangle” on Auburn Avenue in Bethesda, Md. For more information, visit www.bethesda.org. The Garrison Gents is hosting their “Annual Ol’ Skool Cabaret,” 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Oct. 11, at the Pikesville Community Hall, 40 E. Sudbrook Lane, in Pikesville. It is a BYOB & BYOF cabaret. For ticket information, see one of the Gents at the Garrison Lounge. And last, but not least Will Franklin and the guys are hosting the O’Dell’s Reunion Party, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., Oct. 11 at the Fifth Regiment Armory 219 W. 29th Division St. in Baltimore.
“SUMMER IS GONE, BUT THE PARTIES ARE STILL ON”
Hello my dear friends, how are you? Well, I don’t know if you have noticed or not, but I believe summer is gone. I can tell by the green leaves on the trees are now turning brown and yellow, and my flower garden looks like weeds. “Terrible Situation!” But that is okay, because we are keeping the party going. The party will start, 6-9 p.m., Oct. 8 at the Arch Social Club on Pennsylvania and North Avenues and you all are invited to come to the Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund Press Reception Party as my guest. There will be live entertainment featuring Joe Hosea Band, Sharon Alford, vocalist and Ms Maybelle as mistress of ceremony; hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. The Arch Social Club is sponsoring this event. This is a kick off for the Oct. 26 Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund Award Banquet Gala red carpet event to be held at the Forum Caterers. This is all for the gifted children who won the scholarships and the Congratulations to Rogers and Patricia veteran Johnson Harris on their recent marriage. musicians we are honoring this year. We need your support. For more information, call 410-833-9474 or go to web site: www.rosapryormusic.com. This weekend The Spindles will perform and the Persuaders will sing their signature song, “Thin Line Between Love and Hate,” 4-8 p.m., Oct. 5, at the Arch Social Club, 2426 Pennsylvania Ave. For ticket information, contact George at 410-905-0169. On Oct. 3, from 7p.m. to midnight the “Blu Lights in
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Laurence Fishburne: The “Black-ish” Interview
Fishburne Baby Fishburne! followed his career since “One Life to Live.” Let him know that I’m a huge fan of his work, especially the amazing performance he honored us playing Socrates Fortlow in “Always Outnumbered” That blew me away. I went thru a box of tissues that night. Thank him for me because he really brought it. rottentomatoes.com LF: Thank you, Marcia.
By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO Laurence J. Fishburne III has achieved an impressive body of work as an actor, producer and director. Starting at the age of 10, Laurence starred on the soap opera “One Life to Live.” He made his feature film debut at age 12 in Cornbread, Earl and Me and followed that up a few years later with Apocalypse Now. His television performances include “The Box” episode of “Tribeca” which earned him an Emmy award and “Thurgood,” which earned him an Emmy nomination. He starred for three seasons on the hit series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and he was an Emmy Award nominee and an NAACP Image Award winner for his starring role in the telefilm “Miss Evers’ Boys,” which he executiveproduced. And he can currently be seen alongside Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen in the NBC thriller series “Hannibal.” Through his production company, Cinema Gypsy, Laurence is scheduled to executiveproduce and star in “The Right Mistake,” a dramatic television series for HBO. The company also made the movies Akeelah and the Bee, Five Fingers and Once in the Life. Among his many film credits are Boyz n the Hood, A Rumor of War, The Color Purple, The Matrix trilogy, Decoration Day and The Tuskegee Airmen, for which he received an NAACP Image Award. Laurence also won the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World, and Tony Awards for his portrayal of Sterling Johnson in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running. In 2006. He reteamed with his frequent acting partner Angela Bassett at The Pasadena Playhouse in August Wilson’s Fences, directed by Samuel Epps. Here, he talks about playing Pops on the new TV sitcom, “Black-ish.” KW: I told my readers I’d be interviewing you, so I’m mixing in their questions with my own. Aaron Moyne asks: What inspired the title Black-ish? LF: Ah, the title came from Kenya Barris, our writer/creator. It’s like “squeamish” or “Jewish” or other “ish” terms like that. KW: Editor Lisa Loving says: Why this show? Why now? And Harriet Pakula-Teweles says: What was “intrigue-ish” about doing this show? LF: What was intriguing to me, first of all, was that it’s comedy, which is something I don’t do a lot of. I’ve wanted to do comedy for a while, and the elements of this show fit. They really made sense in terms of my doing a comedy basically about a well-to-do Black family with children of privilege, living in modern America, in our digital age. I can relate to what all of that means and how we have to navigate it. So, that’s the why and the where.
KW: She goes on to say: I know his lovely wife Gina Torres has Cuban roots. I wonder if he’s had the pleasure to visit Cuba as yet. LF: No I haven’t been to Cuba yet. KW: She also says: I’m aware he is a music lover and I’d like to know whether he digs Cuban vibes. LF: I love Cuban music. Laurence Fishburne co-stars on “Black-ish.” on television and web series these days? LF: Well, it’s certainly easier than it was 30 years ago! [LOL] KW: Sangeetha Subramanian asks: Do you think diversity has improved on television over the years? There is still so much more to do, but is there anything the general public can do to campaign for more authentic diverse images being represented? LF: I think that if the general public would use that social media tool to express their desire to see a more authentic and genuine representation of what the American family looks like, then that would be helpful. KW: Editor Patricia Turnier says: I have a high respect for you as an actor for decades and I was blown away to discover even more your high-caliber when you performed the role of Thurgood Marshall for the play. My question is what does Marshall represent to you and how did you prepare for the role? LF: Thurgood Marshall came to represent not just the courage that African Americans have had to have in the face of discrimination and racism, but the courage that was borne out of the love he received from his family, his community, his educators and his classmates. Everything he did was borne out of that love and support that was given to him. He also went into the lion’s den not only with great
courage but with great humor. So, he’s really a towering figure in our history.
KW: Next, she asks: What are your favorite countries to visit? LF: Goodness! I love Morocco. I love Italy. I love Spain. And I love Tahiti.
KW: D.V. Brooks says: You and I share an experience from our youth: the Model Cities summer programs. What did that experience, along with the support of your parents, Laurence, Sr. and Hattie, instill in you as an artist? LF: The Model Cities experience didn’t really inform me as an artist as much as it informed me as a human being. It was a very safe place to be, and I came away from that experience with a lot more confidence in myself as a person.
KW: Finally, Marcia suggests: They should make a film about Hannibal, and cast you, Mr. Laurence Fishburne, in the title role. You’d make a splendid Hannibal! LF: That’s very kind, Marcia. Thank you very much!
KW: Marcia Evans says: Kam, you must use my questions and comments. Please start off by letting Laurence know that I’ve
KW: What is your favorite dish to cook? LF: I enjoy making Arroz con Pollo for my wife.
KW: The bookworm Troy Johnson question: What was the last book you read? LF: The last book I read would be right here on my Kindle. It’s called Perfect Brilliant Stillness.
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KW: Director Rel Dowdell says: You’ve presented some of the most memorable images of African-American men at either end of the spectrum with “Furious Styles” from “Boyz N the Hood” and Ike Turner from “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” Is it difficult to portray characters that are so different in persona and morality, and do you have a preference? LF: I don’t have a preference. The wonderful thing about what I do is being able to run the gamut. It’s never the same. I don’t get excited about the idea of playing the same person all the time. I do get excited about being able to explore different people and different characters, and using my range, as it were. KW: Shelley Evans asks: Is it any easier for AfricanAmerican actors to land parts
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Author’s Corner Title: Do As I Say Author: Vince D’Writer Now Available on www.amazon.com/author/ vincedwriter instagram: vince_dwriter Vince D’Writer was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended Purdue University. In 2005 D’Writer received an opportunity to assist high school athletes through the recruiting process as a sports recruiter. The service cost hundreds of dollars. In search for a cheaper alternative D’Writer wrote a how- to athletic scholarship guide in 2011. Developing a passion for writing Vince D’Writer challenged himself to write a book with a storyline and characters and that’s where his journey in urban fiction started. What was the impetus for writing this book? My goal was to take a different angle in reference to writing an urban fiction story. My book deals with a subject that is an all around problem in urban society and society as a whole. What’s the overall theme? The overall theme of the story is that even when it comes to domestic violence, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.”
The main characters Braxton and TaShawnna are a young, ambitious and successful couple. On paper they should be a premier power couple, but for reasons mentioned in the story they fail to reach that status. People on the outside looking in think TaShawnna and Braxton have reached this status, but in reality they fall short. Which character excites you most? I like Braxton because he’s successful and he has a big heart. He displays a lot of courage taking the physical abuse, but not retaliating. What one thing do you want the reader to remember forever? Readers should remember there are ways to avoid this problem. What did you learn during the writing process? Patience is the key. You can’t rush a storyline. Vince D’Writer is the author of several books. The writer must allow the storyline to develop in his What’s next on the horizon or her mind. I for you? believe this is I started out writing a sports the best way recruiting book and I’m about to develop an to go full circle with writing impactful story another sports recruiting book for the readers. PREPSTAR. This book will be released in November, and it Any advice provides updated step by step for aspiring instructions on how to earn an writers? athletic scholarship. After that I advise will be the release of Do As I Say aspiring 2, followed by an uncomfortable writers to love triangle in Bite of the study the Forbidden Fruit. My other book craft. Get is Mega Dollaz Mega Problems, in the habit of doing research and a story about a garbage man who to think about the development of the wins the lottery. storyline for your book 24/7.
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Film Review by Kam Williams We live in a culture that unfortunately equates beauty with youth. Why else are so many women willing to make a joke of their own faces so long as the skin remains as tight as a ten year old’s? As the late Joan Rivers, a big fan of cosmetic surgery, might ask: Can we talk? For, flying in the face of this conventional wisdom is Ari Seth Cohen, a street photographer who roams around Manhattan looking for flamboyant elderly females to capture with his camera. He even has a blog, Advanced Style (http:// advancedstyle.blogspot.com/) dedicated to portraits of these classy ladies ranging in age from 60 to 95. The website generated so much interest that we now have Advanced Style, the movie, a documentary featuring some of his most attractive subjects. The picture marks the “Fabulous!” directorial of Lina Plioplyte who makes quite the splash simply by shedding light on seven, ageless fashion plates. There’s Jackie Tajah Murdock, 81, who was a dancer at the Apollo during the famed theater’s heydays, and Lynn Dell
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Cohen, 80, the self-proclaimed “Countess of Glamour.” The baby of the group is Tziporah Salamon, 62 who rides around the city on a pimped-out bicycle. And at the other extreme we have the group’s elder stateswoman, Zelda Kaplan, 95, who has a good sense of humor about being a little addlepated. Rounding out the crew are Ilona Royce Smithkin, 93; Joyce
Excellent (3.5 stars) Unrated Running time: 72 minutes Distributor: Bond360 To see a trailer for Advanced Style, visit: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=NX46yvihOGU
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Will Kirk Cousins Remain as Quarterback when Griffin Returns? By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk The first few weeks of Kirk Cousins’ audition as starting signal-caller for the Washington NFL team were impressive. Cousins threw for five touchdowns and racked up close to 700 yards in two games after the oft-injured Robert Griffin III went down with a broken ankle early in the first half of Washington’s second game of the season. Then came the night of Sept. 25, when Cousins tossed four interceptions en route to Washington’s 45-14 drumming by the New York Giants at Fed Ex Field. With a full season left and perhaps another two months until Griffin is healthy enough to return, will Cousins perform well enough to hold onto the job for the rest of the season? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley debate of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question. Green: Washington gave up too much to land Griffin a few years ago to just toss him to the wayside. The quarterback job is his, and although Cousins has impressed in limited time, the franchise has invested too heavily into Griffin’s future to see him fail. But honestly, I trust Cousins with the job a lot more than I do Griffin. Cousins may not be as talented as Griffins, but he’s a lot more durable. A great arm and blazing speed doesn’t help much if you can’t stay on the field to play, and I don’t know if Griffin will ever remain fully healthy. Riley: Perhaps the best thing that could have happened to this franchise was Griffin tweaking his ankle. Cousins is cut from the same pocket-passing mold as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton. And Coach Jay Gruden helped Dalton to become a serviceable starter with potential to improve. The Giants game aside, Cousins has been fantastic. And considering that Washington’s defense let the Giants waltz up and down the field, I’m not ready to blame Cousins’ four interceptions solely on him, as he was clearly pressing to compensate for the lack of pressure from his defense. It’s clear to me that Cousins gives the team the best chance for the offense to move the ball and score points. Dating back to last season, Griffin has just three touchdown passes in his last four full games played, not counting his early exit against
Robert Griffin III The team won’t accept that reality just yet, simply because they’ve invested too much into acquiring him in the draft. But that doesn’t mean the fans should keep drinking the Kool-Aid. I’m not saying Cousins is the answer in replacing Griffin. The point is: Griffin may not be the answer either. Kirk Cousins Jacksonville in Game Two. That type of production won’t cut it in the NFL. Green: I don’t want to use last season as an indicator because Cousins didn’t look too good in the few games he played last season either. And I entered this season giving Griffin the benefit of the doubt because he played for an out-of-date coach last year and he also wasn’t fully healthy. But there’s no excuse this year. He was fully healthy at the start of the year, and he wasn’t looking very good in the little playing time he had before he went on to injure himself again. I’m really afraid that we will never see the RGIII that we saw during his rookie year in 2012. His knee injury may have ruined him, and it may be time for the Washington fan base to come to grips with that.
Riley: You may be right; people need to get the image of Griffin eluding defenders and sprinting long yards for touchdowns out their minds. His rookie season was two years ago, and we’re still grading him off of that. The facts are he’s been wildly inconsistent and the team has floundered under his leadership behind center. His rookie year was amazing, but it’s time to let that go. Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young had a robust rookie campaign before defenses adjusted to him, and he never could recover. Griffin could be headed down the same path unless major changes in his game are made. At 1-3, the season may already be over for Washington, but if the club is serious about its franchise then it needs to give a hard look at Cousins and make a decision next summer on who will remain. If Cousins continues to post major yardage and efficiency then it should be a no-brainer.
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B8 The Afro-American, October 4, 2014 - October 10, 2014 LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE The following resolutions of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore proposing an amendment to the Charter of Baltimore City (1996 Edition, as amended) will be submitted to the voters of Baltimore City for their approval or disapproval at the General Election to be held in the City of Baltimore on Tuesday the 4th of November, 2014 (CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law, [Brackets] indicates matter deleted from existing law, Underlining indicates matter added by amendment, Strikeout indicates matter stricken by amendment). ______________________________________________________________________ FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION H Charter Amendment – City Council – Independent Counsel
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FOR the purpose of authorizing the City Council to retain the services of independent legal counsel; providing for the qualifications and term of that counsel; specifying the duties of that counsel; providing for the counsel’s compensation and expenses; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection. BY adding Article III - City Council Section(s) 15 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments Article VII - Executive Departments Section(s) 24(c) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article III. City Council § 15. GENERAL COUNSEL. (A) AUTHORITY TO EMPLOY. BY RESOLUTION, THE THE CITY COUNCIL MAY EMPLOY OR CONTRACT FOR THE SERVICES OF AN INDEPENDENT GENERAL COUNSEL. THE SELECTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH THIS SECTION, AS SUPPLEMENTED BY THE RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL. (B) QUALIFICATIONS. THE GENERAL COUNSEL: (1) MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE MARYLAND BAR; (2) MUST MEET ALL OTHER QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE POSITION SET BY THE RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL; (3) DURING HIS OR HER TERM, IS SUBJECT TO THE RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL THAT GENERALLY GOVERN OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE COUNCIL; AND (4) DURING HER OR HIS TERM, MAY NOT ENGAGE IN ANY OTHER PRACTICE OF LAW UNLESS: (I) IT IS UNCOMPENSATED AND IN THE NATURE OF COMMUNITY SERVICE, SUCH AS PRO BONO ADVICE TO OR REPRESENTATION OF INDIGENT CLIENTS; OR (II) IT IS ON BEHALF OF HER- OR HIMSELF OR HER OR HIS PARENT, SPOUSE, OR CHILD. (C) TERM. THE GENERAL COUNSEL SERVES AT THE PLEASURE OF THE CITY COUNCIL. (D) DUTIES. AS THE CITY COUNSEL COUNCIL DIRECTS, THE GENERAL COUNSEL SHALL: (1) PROVIDE INDEPENDENT LEGAL ADVICE TO THE CITY COUNCIL, ITS COMMITTEES, AND SUBCOMMITTEES, AND ITS MEMBERS; (2) ASSIST THE CITY COUNCIL IN INVESTIGATIONS UNDERTAKEN BY THE CITY COUNCIL OR ANY OF ITS COMMITTEES OR SUBCOMMITTEES; AND (3) REPRESENT THE CITY COUNCIL IN A JUDICIAL OR OTHER PROCEEDING IF THE COUNCIL IS A PARTY TO OR DESIRES TO INTERVENE IN THE PROCEEDING; AND (3) (4) GENERALLY SERVE AS ATTORNEY FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. (E) COMPENSATION; EXPENSES. (1) THE GENERAL COUNSEL’S COMPENSATION SHALL BE AS SET BY RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL. (2) AT LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES ADOPTS ITS PROPOSED ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT SHALL CERTIFY TO THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE PRESIDENT ESTIMATES WILL BE NEEDED DURING THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR FOR THE COMPENSATION AND RELATED EXPENSES OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL. (3) IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES SUBSEQUENTLY SUBMITTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL, THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES: (I) SHALL INCLUDE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT CERTIFIED BY THE PRESIDENT, UP TO $100,000; AND (II) MAY INCLUDE IN THAT APPROPRIATION ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE AMOUNT CERTIFIED THAT EXCEEDS $100,000. (1) THE GENERAL COUNSEL’S COMPENSATION SHALL BE AT LEAST EQUAL TO THAT OF A FULL-TIME CHIEF OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT’S GENERAL COUNSEL DIVISION. (2) THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES SHALL ANNUALLY INCLUDE IN THE ORDINANCE OF ESTIMATES SUBMITTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO FUND THE GENERAL COUNSEL’S COMPENSATION AND NECESSARY EXPENSES. (3) (4) THE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED FOR THE GENERAL COUNSEL’S COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO AND MAY NOT SUPPLANT, BE DEDUCTED FROM, OR SERVE AS A BASIS FOR REDUCING ANY PART OF THE OPERATING BUDGET OF THE CITY COUNCIL. Article VII. Executive Departments § 24. Department of Law: powers and duties. (c) Outside counsel. (1) The City Council, Comptroller, and, with the approval of the Mayor, a department, commission, board, or other authority, may select outside counsel to represent it if: (I) [(1)] the City Solicitor gives it written notice that representation of it by the Department of Law involves an irreconcilable conflict of interest; and (II) [(2)] the Board of Estimates authorizes the employment of outside counsel. (2) THE CITY COUNCIL ALSO MAY EMPLOY LEGAL COUNSEL AS PROVIDED IN ARTICLE III, § 15 OF THIS CHARTER. FOR AGAINST CHARTER AMENDMENT CHARTER AMENDMENT QUESTION I Charter Amendment – Multi-Year Collective Bargaining FOR the purpose of authorizing the Board of Estimates to approve multi-year collective bargaining agreements with the City Union of Baltimore certain local unions, subject to certain conditions; providing for the funding of those agreements; conforming and clarifying related language; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
BY proposing an amendment to Article VI - Board of Estimates Section(s) 12(b) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article VI. Board of Estimates § 12. Salary and wage scales; work conditions. (b) Multi-year collective bargaining agreements. (1) The Board of Estimates may approve A collective bargaining [agreements] AGREEMENT between the City and [either or both] ONE OR MORE OF the Baltimore Fire Fighters, IAFF Local 734, [and] the Baltimore Fire Officers, IAFF Local 964, AND THE CITY UNION OF BALTIMORE, LOCAL 800 THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, COUNCIL 67 (AFSCME LOCALS 44, 558, AND 2202), THE CITY UNION OF BALTIMORE, AND THE BALTIMORE CITY LODGE NO. 3, FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE, INC., UNITS I AND II, for [terms] A TERM of not less than 1 fiscal year and not more than 3 consecutive fiscal years, so long as the term of [any] THE collective bargaining agreement does not extend beyond the fiscal year in which the current Mayor’s term of office ends. (2) The Board shall annually include in the Ordinance of Estimates submitted to the City Council an amount sufficient to fund the salaries provided for in any collective bargaining agreement between the City and the local unions listed in paragraph (1) of this subsection. FOR CHARTER AMENDMENT
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QUESTION J Charter Amendment – Transfer of Powers and Duties FOR the purpose of transferring from the Department of General Services to the Department of Transportation certain Charter powers and duties relating to streets and rights-of-way, including the approval of new streets, the naming or renaming of streets, the opening and closing of streets, the numbering of buildings, the preparation of street plats and plans, and the maintenance of plats and records of all parcels of real property and underground structures, and the maintenance a system of uniform property identification; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection. BY proposing to repeal Article VII - Executive Departments Sections 132(d)-(f) and 133 Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) BY proposing to amend Article VII - Executive Departments Section 116(b)(2) and (5) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) BY proposing to add Article VII - Executive Departments Section 116(e)-(k) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) BY proposing to reletter Article VII - Executive Departments Section 116(e) to be Section 116(i) Baltimore City Charter (1996 Edition) SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows: Baltimore City Charter Article VII. Executive Departments Department of General Services § 132. Powers and duties of Department. [(d) System of uniform property identification. (1) The Department shall maintain a system for the uniform identification of all real property within Baltimore City. (2) The system shall identify each parcel of real property by a symbol. That symbol shall be used by every municipal agency to identify that parcel, until it is subdivided or the symbol is changed by the Department. (3) The failure of the Department or of any other municipal agency to identify a parcel of property by its symbol does not affect the validity of any assessment or charge otherwise properly made. (e) Plats and records – properties. (1) The Department shall maintain adequate plats and other records of all parcels of real property within Baltimore City. (2) These plats and records shall include: (i) the ownership of each parcel; and (ii) the symbol by which each parcel is identified. (3) These plats and records shall be the official plats and records to be used by all municipal agencies to identify and determine the location of every parcel of real property within Baltimore City. (f) Plats and records – underground structures. The Department shall maintain plats and records of tunnels, pipes, mains, sewers, conduits, and other underground structures, both public and private.] [§ 133. Streets. (a) Approval of new streets. (1) Any person who, in connection with any real estate development, wants to lay out, locate, or construct a street, public or private, within Baltimore City shall, before beginning construction and before selling any land abutting on the street, present to the Department of General Services a copy of the plat for the proposed development, as approved by the Planning Commission, showing in detail the proposed streets. (2) If the plat is approved by the Department, the person shall: (i) record a copy of the plat, with the endorsements of the Planning Commission and the Department on it, with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City; and (ii) a certified copy of the recorded plat with the Department. (b) Street names. (1) New public streets may not be designated by names until the names have been approved by the Department and entered on the appropriate plats and records of the Department. (2) If a private street is dedicated for public purposes and the dedication is accepted, or if the title to a private street is conveyed to the City, the Department shall give the street a name, by which it shall be known on all official records of the City. (3) The name of a public street may not be changed except by ordinance or resolution of the Mayor and City Council (c) Building numbers. (1) The Department: (i) (ii)
shall determine and fix the number of every new building; and may change existing numbers.
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(2) The Department shall report each new number or change of number to the owner or occupant of the building. (d) Street plats and plans. The Department shall: (1) adopt rules and regulations regarding plats and plans relating to the location of streets; and (2) shall prepare these plats and plans as required by the Board of Estimates or by ordinance.] SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City Charter is proposed to be further amended to read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter Article VII. Executive Departments Department of Transportation
(b) Street construction and maintenance. (2) The Department shall: (I) prepare the plans and perform the work required by Ordinances [that open, extend, widen, straighten, close, or grade] FOR OPENING, EXTENDING, WIDENING, STRAIGHTENING, GRADING, AND CLOSING any street in the City[.]; AND (II) [However, the Department of General Services shall] prepare all Ordinances for the opening and closing of streets, attend the hearings on [the] THOSE Ordinances, and perform all administrative functions related to [these] THOSE Ordinances. (5) No pavement laid after the publication of the notice may be dug up by any person without a permit issued by the Director [of General Services]. The Director [of General Services] has discretion to issue or withhold this permit, and may attach appropriate conditions and charges to the permit.
(E) APPROVAL OF NEW STREETS.
(1) ANY PERSON WHO, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, WANTS TO LAY OUT, LOCATE, OR CONSTRUCT A STREET, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, WITHIN BALTIMORE CITY SHALL, BEFORE BEGINNING CONSTRUCTION AND BEFORE SELLING ANY LAND ABUTTING ON THE STREET, PRESENT TO THE DEPARTMENT A COPY OF THE PLAT FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, AS APPROVED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION, SHOWING IN DETAIL THE PROPOSED STREETS. (2) IF THE PLAT IS APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT, THE PERSON SHALL: (I) RECORD A COPY OF THE PLAT, WITH THE ENDORSEMENTS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE DEPARTMENT ON IT, WITH THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY; AND (II) A CERTIFIED COPY OF THE RECORDED PLAT WITH THE DEPARTMENT. (F) STREET NAMES. (1) NEW PUBLIC STREETS MAY NOT BE DESIGNATED BY NAMES UNTIL THE NAMES HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT AND ENTERED ON THE APPROPRIATE PLATS AND RECORDS OF THE DEPARTMENT. (2) IF A PRIVATE STREET IS DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES AND THE DEDICATION IS ACCEPTED, OR IF THE TITLE TO A PRIVATE STREET IS CONVEYED TO THE CITY, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL GIVE THE STREET A NAME, BY WHICH IT SHALL BE KNOWN ON ALL OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE CITY. (3) THE NAME OF A PUBLIC STREET MAY NOT BE CHANGED EXCEPT BY ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL (G) BUILDING NUMBERS.
TYPESET: Wed Oct 01 11:07:10 EDT 2014 CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC NOTICE COMMUNITY MEETING PARK CIRCLE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT In an effort to educate the community about the upcoming project, a community meeting will be held:
(H) STREET PLATS AND PLANS.
OCTOBER 27, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
THE DEPARTMENT SHALL: (1) ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS REGARDING PLATS AND PLANS RELATING TO THE LOCATION OF STREETS; AND (2) SHALL PREPARE THESE PLATS AND PLANS AS REQUIRED BY THE BOARD OF ESTIMATES OR BY ORDINANCE. (I) PLATS AND RECORDS – UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES.
The Zeta Center 4801 Reisterstown Road Baltimore, Maryland 21215 We invite the community members to come view current plans for improvements to the intersection of Druid Park Drive, Park Heights Ave
THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAINTAIN PLATS AND RECORDS OF TUNNELS, PIPES, MAINS, SEWERS, CONDUITS, AND OTHER UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES, BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
and Reisterstown Road If you have any questions, comments or need special accommodations, please contact:
(J) PLATS AND RECORDS – PROPERTIES.
Ms. Kohl Fallin
(1) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAINTAIN ADEQUATE PLATS AND OTHER RECORDS OF ALL PARCELS OF REAL PROPERTY WITHIN BALTIMORE CITY. (2) THESE PLATS AND RECORDS SHALL INCLUDE: (I) THE OWNERSHIP OF EACH PARCEL; AND (II) THE SYMBOL BY WHICH EACH PARCEL IS IDENTIFIED.
Northwest Community Liaison 443-984-4095 email: kohl.fallin@baltimorecity.gov Receive regular updates via Facebook At Baltimore City, Department of Transportation
(3) THESE PLATS AND RECORDS SHALL BE THE OFFICIAL PLATS AND RECORDS TO BE USED BY ALL MUNICIPAL AGENCIES TO IDENTIFY AND DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF EVERY PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY WITHIN BALTIMORE CITY.
(1) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAINTAIN A SYSTEM FOR THE UNIFORM IDENTIFICATION OF ALL REAL PROPERTY WITHIN BALTIMORE CITY. (2) THE SYSTEM SHALL IDENTIFY EACH PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY BY A SYMBOL. THAT SYMBOL SHALL BE USED BY EVERY MUNICIPAL AGENCY TO IDENTIFY THAT PARCEL, UNTIL IT IS SUBDIVIDED OR THE SYMBOL IS CHANGED BY THE DEPARTMENT. (3) THE FAILURE OF THE DEPARTMENT OR OF ANY OTHER MUNICIPAL AGENCY TO IDENTIFY A PARCEL OF PROPERTY BY ITS SYMBOL DOES NOT AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF ANY ASSESSMENT OR CHARGE OTHERWISE PROPERLY MADE. (L) [(e)] Additional powers and duties. The Department has the additional powers and duties relating to the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of streets, to transportation, and to traffic, including powers and duties transferred from other municipal agencies, as are prescribed by law.
Stephen M. Kraus, Chief Bureau of Treasury Management Custodian of the City Seal
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor
Or on Twitter at Baltimore City, Department of Transportation WILLIAM M. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR TYPESET: Tue Sep 30 17:15:03 EDT 2014 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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(K) SYSTEM OF UNIFORM PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION.
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(1) THE DEPARTMENT: (I) SHALL DETERMINE AND FIX THE NUMBER OF EVERY NEW BUILDING; AND (II) MAY CHANGE EXISTING NUMBERS. (2) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REPORT EACH NEW NUMBER OR CHANGE OF NUMBER TO THE OWNER OR OCCUPANT OF THE BUILDING.
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§ 116. Powers and duties of Department.
Maryland Aviation Administration is accepting applications for the position of Airport Division Fire Chief, Fire Prevention at the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Fire and Rescue Department (BWI FRD). An employee in this option is appointed as a Special Assistant State Fire Marshal and manages the Fire Prevention Division for the BWI FRD. The employee develops, coordinates, schedules, and reviews all fire department prevention and inspection programs. Employees receive managerial supervision from an Airport Deputy Fire Chief. Work is performed at various locations throughout the airport, which can be exposed to high noise levels from aircraft. The employee is required to work outdoors in all types of weather. In some emergency situations, the Airport Division Fire Chief wears protective clothing and may be exposed to hazardous situations. Employees in this class are considered essential employees and are subject to call-in 24 hours a day. Qualifications: H.S. Diploma or equivalent, four years of experience as a Career Fire Officer in the rank of Lieutenant or above at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Fire and Rescue Dept. or comparable airport, municipality, or military fire department. A Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Protection Engineering may be substituted for two years of the required education. Candidates must have the following at time of application: 1021 Fire Officer Level II, 1041 Emergency Service Instructor Level I, 1031 Fire Inspector Level II, 472 HazMat Commander and 1521 Incident Safety Officer Candidates are preferred to possess NFPA 1041 Instructor Level II. Please visit www.mdot.maryland.gov/employment to view complete job announcement. Online applications only ? no paper applications or resumes will be accepted Applications must be received by 11:59 pm on the closing date of October 8, 2014 An Equal Opportunity Employer.For questions contact MAA Office of HR at MAAHumanResources@bwiairport. com or 410-859-7618.
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