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Residents Demand Hearings to Find Solutions for Heroin Epidemic in Baltimore

Jamal Bryant: Pastor, Preacher, Purveyor of Peace

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent First of a two-part feature.

For the Rev. Jamal H. Bryant, the call to social activism and service is like a fire shut up in his bones – something intrinsic and undeniable. “It is something that really has become part of my DNA,” said Bryant.

For the 42-year-old

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Baltimore pastor, serving the community – whether directly through his Empowerment Temple church, or by crusading nationally to effect some needed change – is as much a part of his calling to ministry as is preaching the gospel. It is the same kind of “liberation theology” espoused by icons of the Black Church and the Civil Rights Movement, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Especially for a Black clergy, I don’t think you have an option,” he said of pursuing a Continued on A3

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The Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association has called for congressional hearings into the high incidence of heroin addiction that has afflicted Baltimore City for decades. Armed with statistics from a number of reporting sources, the neighborhood association is hoping hearings yield constructive solutions to a problem that has had devastating effects on the city and its populace.

“We have a serious drug problem in our neighborhood, and the number one drug that’s being sold right now is heroin,” said Association President Marvin ‘Doc’ Cheatham at a press conference announcing the request for congressional hearings on Sept. 16.

Cheatham cited Baltimore City Department of Health figures that indicate the number of people suffering from drug addiction in Baltimore City at around 60,000, with 48,000 of them addicted to heroin. Federal estimates,

Cheatham said, put the number of heroin addicts alone at 60,000.

The press conference, poorly attended by media, had support from other community and civic organizations as well as from a number of public officials.

Sharon Black, a Baltimore People’s Power Assembly (PPA) organizer, stood with Cheatham as he announced the association’s call for hearings. She said that PPA , a worker’s rights and social justice organization demonstrating on the issues of racism and police brutality, saw the heroin problem as driven by a lack of well-paying jobs, poor public education, and holes in Baltimore’s healthcare infrastructure. She faulted the city’s choice of focusing on law enforcement over treatment.

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Hargrave’s Mahogany Focused on the Details for New Horseshoe Casino We Did It

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO This is the first in a series that highlights the high quality workmanship Black owned companies provided at the luxurious Horseshoe Casino.

Jeff Hargrave, head of Mahogany, is sure that after his crew’s hard work on Baltimore’s new Horseshoe Casino, he can tackle any project anywhere. His firm specializes in architectural millwork. That means that they handle the details – all the woodwork, seating and paneling – in many of the casino’s eateries.

“If it’s on drywall, Mahogany probably installed it,” Hargrave said.

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Mahogany’s signature work is readily apparent in Horseshoe Casino.

Gov. Martin O’Malley Honored By the Congressional Black Caucus The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation honored Gov. Martin O’Malley Sept. 24 during their “Leaders of Democracy” luncheon. Hosted on the site of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in D.C., the event was part of the Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference.

During the event, the Foundation honored exceptional business, civic, and elected leaders for their work to positively impact public policy, commerce, and their community through service and activism.

The Foundation honored O’Malley for his leadership and collaboration with legislators Courtesy photo in the State of Maryland to provide financial Gov. Martin O’Malley support to the Memorial. Maryland was was honored for the only state to provide funding for the his leadership and construction of the Memorial. The District of collaboration with Columbia also provided support.

Maryland legislators.

Additional awardees included Jesse Jackson, Sr., Rainbow Push Coalition.; U.S. Representatives Al Green (D-Texas) and Corinne Brown (D-FL); Rashid Robinson, Color of Change, and Washington, D.C. Mayor Vince Gray.

Sojourner Douglass Gala to Raise Funds for Scholars

Charities; Howard Henderson, CEO, Greater Baltimore Urban League and Paul Taylor, executive director, the When students, faculty and friends Small Business Resource Center.

“These are people who we believe of Sojourner Douglass College come that make a difference in together Oct. 2 for the the lives of people in the school’s annual President’s community,” Dr. Simmons Gala and Scholarship said. “The work of each Banquet, the focus will one of these people, while be on “Fulfilling the they don’t discriminate, mission…Continuing the impacts the African Dream.”

American community.”

In addition to As another part of the celebrating the life’s Dr. Charles event, three Sojournerwork of the founder and Simmons serves Douglass College students president, Dr. Charles as president Simmons, the event will will receive scholarship of Sojourner also recognize students money.

Simmons said Douglass and community members that to determine who College. who, through hard work gets the money, students Courtesy photo submit applications and and determination, make an indelible mark for the better. a committee evaluates their financial This year’s honorees include Diane need. He said he often hears stories Bell McCoy, CEO, Associated Black from students who have used the Continued on A7 Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO

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Family: Fla. Middle Schooler Committed Suicide after Repeated Bullying

The family of a Florida middle-school boy who committed suicide in midSeptember said he was driven to commit the desperate act by bullies.

Lamar Hawkins III, 14, used his father’s gun—which his family said was stored properly—to shoot himself Sept. 10 in a bathroom at Greenwood Lakes Middle School, according to NBC Orlando affiliate WESH. Lamar Hawkins III “It is a feeling that I hope no other parent has to feel,” said the teen’s mother, Shaniqua Hawkins, at a press conference. “The hopelessness was overwhelming.”

Hawkins said the family moved from New York to Florida to escape bullying, but it continued at the new school.

The teen, called “Shaq” by family members, had stunted growth, which his mother believed made him vulnerable to bullies. Hawkins said he was pushed down the stairs, knocked out of his chair in the cafeteria and mocked about his size, among other torments.

The family said they approached school officials about the harassment.

Deputies found the student’s body in the school’s bathroom after an hours-long search. The family said they believed Shaq chose to kill himself at school to send a message to the bullies.

Following Hawkins’ death, hundreds gathered to remember him at a vigil.

Seminole County Schools Superintendent Dr. Walt Griffin released a statement saying additional counselors and other supports were being provided for the family, students and staff.

He also addressed the family’s allegations that the school was approached about the bullying.

“This is a very tragic circumstance and our hearts and prayers remain with the family during this difficult time,” Griffin stated. “We are aware the family held a press conference…and allegations of bullying were discussed. The School Board has a comprehensive bullying policy that is fully enforced in all of our schools.”

Bullying has become a leading social issue that has even been addressed by the White House. In March 2010, the Obama administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Bullying Prevention at which various stakeholders discussed ways to make schools safer.

Family: Fla. Middle Schooler Committed Suicide After Repeated Bullying Marcelyn Ann Clifton

Y’all need to start putting these bullies in jail.

Mary Cox

How precious and innocent. I am so tired of these bullies.

They ought to be brought on charges! Stop saying that they’re just kids—[they are not] just kids. They are vicious, rude, crude, impolite and out of control. Start holding parents responsible. Parent are just the same and think their kids do no wrong.

Dee Dee Young

I’m more upset because who all knew about the bullying didn’t help him. I’m sorry but I always told my kids if someone is just talking let them talk but if they evade your space and put they hands on you to defend yourself. So heartbroken to see this.

Continuous Missteps Plague Once Promising Detroit High School QB—Former Football Player Facing New Round of Legal Trouble Micaela Mac

All of you advocating for jail sentences are lost. We already have too many Black and Brown people behind bars. He needs psychological help. Most White kids would be labeled as “acting out” but of course the tradition in America is to criminalize Black people and tell them to suffer. Jails are a profit system akin to slavery and NOT dedicated to rehabilitation.

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Baltimore’s National Coalition of 100 Black Women Celebrates 25 Years

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent On Sept. 24, the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women will celebrate a quarter-century of advocacy and service toward the advancement of women of color. “It is indeed an honor and privilege to serve in a position of leadership at such an important time in the history of an organization dedicated to service like this one,” said Chapter President Landa McLaurin.

“This is one of those opportunities that I have wanted to have for a long time and working with the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter has been significant to me.”

McLaurin exemplifies the membership of the Baltimorebased nonprofit – a professional educator, who has worked to advance and empower the children, especially girls, under her care. The work she is doing at the National Coalition,

states and the District of Columbia, all seeking to propel the cause of gender and racial parity and to advocate for health awareness, leadership development, economic development and education among Black women.

“Our basic charge is to promote equity and economic advancement and to drive the need for change among Black women,” said Mary J. Demory, historian of the Baltimore Chapter.

On Sept. 24, 1989, the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter was formed with specific goals for women of color in the area. “We wanted to impact the structure of opportunities for women both in corporate world, in higher education and the secular world,” said Anne Emery, a longtime educator and one of the chapter’s founders.

For example, in the corporate world, African-American women continue to experience inequity in salary and upward mobility, Emery said. “Inequity is still viable that’s why organizations like ours are still viable,” Emery said. “There are still many barriers and issues facing Black women.”

With those goals in – Anne Emery mind, the chapter has developed networks and partnerships that seek to empower African-American womento attain career advancement and leadership opportunities and to address the socioeconomic and political barriers facing them.

And so, for example, when the chapter realized there weren’t a lot of female judges in the area, they took up that cause. Also, in line with the national organization, the Baltimore group has been working to encourage and prepare more Black women to run for political office.

Another key component of the chapter’s mission and work are mentorship programs meant to “offer meaningful guidance to young Black women,” Demory said.

For years, the organization’s members have worked to prepare high school girls for higher education – one of their

“Inequity is still viable that’s why organizations like ours are still viable. There are still many barriers and issues facing Black women.”

McLaurin said, is an extension of what she has done in her career as a teacher and principal.

It was the same for the 24 women, led by the visionary Edna Beach, who first met during the winter of 1970 in New York City to stake out a future in the aftermath of the tumultuous 1960s. According to the national organization’s history, throughout that decade, the women continued to meet and to seek solutions to the issues affecting their families, their communities and themselves.

By 1981, the New York-based group had 500 members, and the model and mission they created began to replicate in other areas across the country. Today, NCBW comprises thousands of women of African descent spread across 60 chapters in 25

horseshoes in the ceiling, all that stuff.”

Although it was a huge undertaking, Hargrave said, “The contractor and casino Continued from A1 folks are happy. They know what we had to go did about a year’s worth of work in three-and- through. To get it accomplished in that time a-half months,” he said. That meant 100 men frame was really remarkable.” [many Baltimore City residents] working day This was not Mahogony’s first high-profile and night, seven days a week. They began job. They are responsible for work in the work sometime around lateBaltimore Hilton in the Inner April, early May. He went to Harbor, at M&T Bank Stadium, the work site to have a cookout and at Walter Reed Medical for the crew on Independence Center. It’s a big change for Day, he said, because he felt someone from more humble bad that the crew was working beginnings. so hard.

Hargrave said he was headed According to Hargrave, down a road that could have led about $4 million was spent on to incarceration when he heard the installation. Was it money about a position as a carpenter’s well spent? He thinks so. “The apprentice. He has always had place looks great, the facility the mind of a hustler, he said, is unbelievable. It looks like and thought the $5.25 an hour artwork,” he said. position would lead to a better “They really made the future. casino nice compared to some He learned the trade and of the casinos here locally. A lot started his own business with of money went into furnishing.

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Jeff Hargrave All the metal panels, the He thinks his success comes

mentees was even successful in winning the prestigious Bill and Melinda Gates scholarship; and they partnered with another nonprofit, New Directions for Women, to mentor women whose lives had fallen off track.

The latest thrust of the local chapter, however, is to advance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers among girls and women of African descent.

The Obama administration had identified STEM education as vital to the future prosperity and global standing of the United States. However, as things stand now, Emery said, Black girls and women will miss out on those opportunities for advancement. “STEM fields are not controlled by women; they are male-dominated,” Emery said. “We have to educate our girls so that they are comfortable and prepared for the jobs that will be created in STEM fields.”

The National Coalition of 100 Black Women Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter’s 25th Annual Torchbearer Awards Breakfast reflects its prioritization of STEM education and careers. Under the theme, “Embracing the Spirit and Power of Women to Advance Change,” the organization will recognize STEM role models: Dr. Shirley Malcolm, head of education and human resources programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Dr. Charlene Dukes, the eighth, and first female, president of Prince George’s Community College (PGCC), who just started a new STEM track at the school; Dr. Tuajuanda Jordon, a distinguished scientist and recently appointed president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Stephanie Cole-Hill, a vice president at Lockheed Martin and the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year.

“We decided to identify African-American women who have demonstrated success in the STEM careers so that young girls could see them as role models and see what the future can hold for them,” McLaurin said.

The AFRO will receive the group’s presidential award during the 25th Annual Torchbearer Awards Breakfast, held 8:30 a.m. Sept. 27 in the Calvin and Tina Tyler Ballroom, at Morgan State University’s Student Center.

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ministry that empowers people who are oppressed. “The role of the clergy is really to inform the community [of] what is taking place, what is our value, what is our stake in the game, as well as to inspire, to say this is achievable . . ., that Black people have never gone to battle and lost,” Bryant added.

“Everything we’ve fought for in America we’ve gotten, it’s just what we do after the victory that has really put us at a disadvantage.”

It is for this dedication to service that The AFRO American Newspaper will be honoring Rev. Bryant Oct. 7 with its John H. Murphy Sr. Award, named in honor of the company’s founder, a former slave who exemplified strong character, unwavering courage, and a commitment to the community.

“It means absolutely the world to me. I’m humbled

by it,” said Bryant of the recognition.

This is not the first time – and likely not the last – the minister has been recognized for his work, particularly in his role as a conciliator in communities plagued by violence.

Bryant’s work in conflict-resolution and other community problem-solving began even before he became a pastor. “I was the national youth and college director of the NAACP at the height of the rap West Coast-East Coast rivalry when Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace Biggie Smalls were killed.

And I pulled together a hiphop summit between East and West Coast rap artists trying to see what we could do to bridge the divide and broker some peace,” Bryant recalled.

Frustratingly, however, Black-on-Black crime continues to be a scourge on urban communities like Baltimore. “The normalization

of Black-on-Black crime is to such degree that we’re no longer impacted or affected.

We just move on as if we just heard on the news the weather report,” Bryant said.

Extrajudicial violence against African Americans also continues to be a problem, as evidenced in the February 2012 killing of 17-yearold Trayvon Martin by community watchman George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., and the August 2014 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. Bryant serves as a spiritual mentor to both families and added his voice to the thousands of others seeking justice in both cases. He is working with Martin’s family and Florida U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D) to develop a “Trayvon Martin bill” addressing racial profiling, the prison pipeline system, and other issues.

“I am hopeful and optimistic that this will be ground zero of a new civil rights movement,” Bryant said of the protests in Ferguson.

“For two weeks over 2,000 young people were up at night, protesting and marching even in the face of riot gear and tanks and tear gas.

“Ordinarily,that would be the end of it. To have that kind of consistency, [protests ongoing for weeks] I have not seen it in my lifetime and I’m

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The casino folks are happy with Mahogany’s work, according to Hargrave. from his reputation for being reliable. He said that after 23 years in business his company has finished every project. “We’re one of the top installation firms in the state,” he said.

Hargrave said being a minority business helps get him in the door – if there is a excited about it.”

The Ferguson, Mo., protests, Bryant said, has seen the emergence of new leadership voices, and it’s the first cause of such magnitude which hasn’t had a national voice—usually a Black pastor—attached to it.

It is one sign of a kind of “new-school” activism, Bryant said, that also involves vehicles such as theColorofChange.org, which can collect upwards of a million signatures in support of myriad issues and other cyberactivism, such as what Anonymous did in shutting down the network of the Ferguson Police Department.

“Then there’s an area that we have underutilized for this generation which is economic mobilization,” the soldierminister said. “What we do to get these corporations’ attention is not marching, but marching away from the cash register. That is an area that has been gravely ignored but highly needs to be exploited.”

Still, Bryant said, the old-school ways of social protest and activism – such as marching, which some have denigrated as being ineffective – remain viable. “If you would remember, initially, George Zimmerman was not even arrested,” Bryant said. “They [the police] talked to him then sent him home with a Coke and a smile. It was not until we began to march and to really blow the horn that America

requirement for minority participation – but what keeps him at the table is his experience and talent. “I’m a carpenter. I know what to look for, I know the questions to ask to hire the right people. We can put our guys against anyone and we will shine,” he said.

paid attention and said this is an issue that needs to be addressed.”

Such approaches has been replicated time and again by the gay rights movement, the feminist movement, the immigration movement, labor unions and so on. “I think

every organization or cause has taken a page from our book; we’re the only ones trying to throw that book away,” Bryant added.

Next week, the AFRO delves more into Rev. Bryant’s spiritual journey and ministry.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Bethel AME to Host Unprecedented Celebration for Dr. Frank M. Reid III

Bethel AME Church will host a month long celebration to honor the leadership legacy of Dr. Frank M. Reid III, who, with more than 25 years served, has broken the record of tenure for Bethel pastors.

Dr. Reid is highly esteemed as a pastor, teacher, leader and civic servant, and continues to Dr. Frank M. Reid III lead the congregation with innovative partnerships including schools and underserved communities. Most recently, Dr. Reid partnered with community leaders and developers in revitalizing the Bethel Community Outreach Center. He is sensitive to and on the cutting edge of ministry beyond the walls of Bethel to the community. This year he hosted a town hall meeting with the city leaders and officials to address arresting the tide of violence plaguing Baltimore with tangible plans to follow up with resolutions.

As a preacher, Dr. Reid is recognized universally for his clear and relevant articulation of the gospel. He is sought after throughout the world to bring clarity and guidance through the word of God. He hosts Radio One’s number 1 gospel broadcast, Sunday Morning Joy, 8 a.m. - noon every Sunday. The broadcast features Dr. Reid’s timely inspirational excerpts that inspire and inform a vast listening audience.

With a long history of service, Dr. Reid announced his aspirations for the Episcopacy in the AME Church and gained the support of the Baltimore Annual Conference and leaders. He will seek election for Episcopal office at the 2016 General Conference.

This celebration is unprecedented inasmuch as the participating bishops preside over denominations. Bethel is pleased to welcome Bishop Paul Morton, presiding bishop of the Full Gospel Baptist International Fellowship, Oct. 1 and Bishop Charles Blake, presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Oct. 15.

Bishop George Bloomer will minister 9:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., Oct. 12.

At the end of the month, Oct. 31, Bethel welcomes Pastor Marvin Sapp as the preacher for the Awards Presentation Service.

The services are free and open to the public. For more information go to www. bethel1.org or call 410-523-4273.

Marilyn Benaderet joins Maryland Humanities Council State

The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) recently welcomed Marilyn Benaderet to its team as the new program officer for Grants and Strategic Partnerships.

Benaderet has worked as an archivist and curator and with significant experience in historic Marilyn Benaderet preservation.

Benaderet served as Preservation Services Director for Preservation Maryland for five years where she managed standing and special grant programs, participated in the Endangered Maryland Selection Committee, assisted partner organizations with local advocacy, and assisted with public policy initiatives. She also worked as an archivist at the AFRO-American Newspaper archives, developing a partnership with Johns Hopkins University resulting in the multi-year Diaspora Pathways Archival Access Project in addition to educational materials and programming. Benaderet was assistant curator for the Howard County Center for African American Culture in Columbia, Md. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Ellicott City Colored School Restored, Inc., the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture historic preservation subcommittee member, a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Small Museum Association Member.

“We are delighted to welcome Marilyn to our team. Her wealth of experience in both grant making and developing and deepening strategic partnerships will contribute greatly to MHC’s growth and care competencies.” says MHC Executive Director Dr. Phoebe Stein.

Harford Leadership Academy Accepting Applications for Spring Class

Existing and emerging leaders in Harford County may submit applications for Harford Leadership Academy through January 16, 2015. The program takes place on 13 consecutive Wednesdays beginning in March.

A partial list of prior HLA session topics includes Harford County History & How Government Works, Economic Development & Planning for the Future, Emergency Response, Volunteerism & Personal Visioning, and a full-day tour of Aberdeen Proving Ground.

More than 750 Harford County leaders from business and industry, education, nonprofit, government, and civic organizations have graduated from Harford Leadership Academy (HLA). This successful community development program, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, is designed to create a committed, involved, and diverse network of leaders within Harford County by exposing participants to the challenges our community

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HLA graduates benefit from a communications network between present and future community leaders and are encouraged to take an active role in the growth and transformation of Harford County. The program is cosponsored by Harford Community College and Harford County Chamber of Commerce.

Read more about the Harford Leadership Academy and the application process at www.harford.edu/hla or call Victor Cyran in Continuing Education and Training at 443-412-2398.

Center Stage’s Family-friendly Open House Sept. 27

Backstage @ Center Stage, the theater’s annual free familyfriendly open house, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sept. 27.

A celebrated program organized by Center Stage’s Education and Community Programming Department, Backstage @ Center Stage gives the public an interactive look behind the scenes of the Calvert Street theater’s six-story space.

Visitors will be able to sign up for workshops, including stage combat with a certified fight teacher and stage makeup with Towson University’s Jokesters comedy and makeup professionals, as well as a junior composition workshop with Peabody Composition Professor Judah Adashi.

Demonstrations by the lightand-sound department, the scene shop, and the props shop will be offered, also.

Opportunities to get up close with professional actors include watching a rehearsal for Center Stage’s upcoming rock musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Next to Normal and a 12:45 p.m. panel discussion with the cast of Amadeus, Center Stage’s current production.

Magician David London and hula hoop group Baltimore Hoop Love will offer entertainment in addition to theatrical performances by area theater groups such as Cohesion Theatre Company, Children’s Playhouse of Maryland, EMP Collective, Annext Theater and Vagabond Players. Other interactive activities include having a personalized 1-minute play written on the spot by a professional playwright, a costume photo booth, and face painting.

For more information, visit centerstage.org/Education/ BackstageCS or email education@centerstage.org. Center Stage is at 700 N. Calvert Street in Baltimore’s historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood.

Heritage Museums Prepare for Sale

The Dorchester County Historical Society is busy preparing for its twice annual rummage sale “Recycle Dorchester.” This sale is held on DCHS’ campus, The Heritage Museums and Gardens of Dorchester, and is relied on to raise much-needed operating support for the organization. This fall’s sale will be held on October 16 through October 18, with the Thursday date being for members only.

Items that are being accepted include: furniture, clothing, sporting goods, small electronics, linens, household décor and goods, lighting, outdoor supplies and furniture, rugs, artwork, music and more. Larger items such as boats are also accepted, gratefully.

As a qualified 501 (c)3, any donations made to DCHS, in the form of inventory for the sale, is tax deductible and tax slips will be provided. This organization receives no public assistance for operations, relying heavily on its membership and the events that it produces.

If you would like to donate to the sale, please contact the DCHS office at 410.228.7953 or email dchs@verizon.net. Pick up may be arranged for donated items. The campus is located at 1003 Greenway Drive in Cambridge. It is open Monday through Friday from 10 am – 4 pm and on Saturday from 10 am – 2 pm.

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SENIOR LIVING

Back to School with the HistoryMakers

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent

“Sometimes people are exposed to something and it changes the nature of who they want to be.”

As the nation’s youth settle into the routine of a new school year, the best and brightest of Black America are gearing up to join them.

The Back to School “I think with the HistoryMakers with minority program invites Black youth, it’s American trailblazers from all very important professional fields and trades that they have to share their stories at schools a broader around the nation. The visits reference. I are intended to boost academic think students achievement by offering who are nonstudents, particularly Black minority—it’s students, real life examples of very important the possibilities education can that they afford.

HistoryMakers founder Julianna have a larger “Our whole initiative is Richardson reference,” focused on education. This Richardson is an attempt to be a day explained, of service for our history adding that repeatedly learning about a handful makers to give back and hopefully inspire of figures is not enough. “You can’t become some students,” says Julieanna Richardson, something a lot of times unless you can see HistoryMakers’ founder and executive it, and be exposed to it. Sometimes people are director. exposed to something and it changes the nature The annual program comes at a time of who they want to be.” when public education is in flux. Public That’s the story for Oliver McGee III, who schools, particularly in Black and Latino visited the School Without Walls Senior High communities, are closing with unprecedented School in Washington D.C. as part of last frequency, leaving blight in place of a natural year’s HistoryMakers Back to School Day. As neighborhood hub. a teenager, he only knew he wanted to go to Though the Department of Education college. One day as an undergrad at Ohio State predicts that this will be the first year children of color become the majority in public schools, University, he attended an event featuring aeronautic physicist, Julian Earls. curricula remains Eurocentric. At the same “When I heard this speech I just knew I time, only 18 percent of the nation’s public wanted to follow in his footsteps,” McGee school teachers are nonwhite – less than 7 says. Later, he met with Earls, who eventually percent are Black.

Making Smart Medicare Choices for 2015

By Ron Pollack Special to the AFRO

As we head into autumn, people with Medicare once again need to consider their options for next year. Even if you like the coverage you have now, you should spend at least a few minutes making sure it will still meet your needs next year. Here are some key questions that people with Medicare should ask.

When is the enrollment period?

Medicare’s open enrollment period runs, as usual, from October 15 to December 7. During this time, you can make changes in your Part D prescription drug plan or Medicare Advantage plan, or, if you don’t have one, you can select one for the first time.

How is this different from the open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces?

If you have Medicare, the health insurance marketplace is not for you.

Medicare coverage and its open enrollment period are completely different from those of the health insurance marketplaces (which are also known as exchanges).

The health insurance marketplace offers coverage and financial assistance for people who do not qualify for Medicare–usually, people under age 65 who do not have permanent disabilities. The marketplace open enrollment period starts and ends later than Medicare’s. But if you have friends or loved ones who need coverage and do not qualify for Medicare, encourage them to check out www.healthcare.gov.

What are my options?

During Medicare open

enrollment, if you have a Part D prescription drug plan or Medicare Advantage plan, you can change it. You can also join a Part D or Medicare Advantage plan for the first time.

If you currently have original Medicare and a supplemental plan (either a private Medigap plan or a plan with a former employer), be very careful before dropping your supplemental plan. You may not be able to get that plan back later.

How should I prepare for open enrollment?

If you have a Part D or Medicare Advantage plan, find out how your plan will be changing for 2015. Your current plan should mail you an Annual Notice of Change (ANOC) http://www. medicareinteractive.org/ page2.php?topic=counselor& page=glossary#ANOC and/ or an Evidence of Coverage (EOC) notice in September.

These notices will highlight any changes in the plan’s costs, benefits, and rules for the upcoming year. Use these resources to find out whether your plan will cover the same services, drugs, doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies. Are premiums changing? What about copayments?

Once you know what your current plan will cover next year, you can start making comparisons. To compare your current plan to other plans, visit www.medicare.gov/finda-plan.

If I like my current plan, do I need to do anything?

Even if you like your current Part D or Medicare Advantage plan, it could still be changing next year.

You should always check to see what your plan will be covering next year and make sure it still fits your needs.

What if someone tells me I must buy a particular plan?

You should never believe any high-pressure sales pitch for a Medicare plan.

Private plans do sometimes decide to drop out of Medicare or change their coverage significantly. If this happens to your plan, take your time to learn about your options and make an informed choice.

You will never be left without coverage—you will always have the option of taking original Medicare.

How can I get more information?

You can get a lot of information about your options on the Medicare website, www.medicare.gov, or by calling 1-800-MEDICARE. But the best way to get personalized help is to get individual counseling from your local State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP). Every state has a program, and they offer free, unbiased advice. You can call 1-800-MEDICARE and ask for a referral, or go to www.

Medicare.gov and click on “Find someone to talk to.” You can also visit https://shipnpr. shiptalk.org/shipprofile.aspx to find your local SHIP. SHIP offices get very busy during open enrollment, so try to call early to make an appointment.

What if I need financial help?

If you have limited income and resources, additional financial help is available. For more information, go to the Social Security website www. ssa.gov/prescriptionhelp , or call 1-800-MEDICARE and ask for a referral to your local SHIP. Ron Pollack is the wxecutive director of Families USA.

–Julianna Richardson mentored him and suggested he pursue a Ph.D. “I had never met a Black man who had five degrees before, so I figured I better listen to this man. I think it is really important for kids to meet role models, like I met Dr. Earls and later [aerospace engineer] Lonnie Reid, Ph.D. My whole life was shaped my meeting these men.”

A few students kept in touch with McGee after his visit. One of the students who toured him through the school asked for help with a college essay. All of the students who reached out to him are now in college.

In addition to bringing students faceto-face with living pioneers from all sorts of beginnings, Back to School with the HistoryMakers Day allows these pioneers the opportunity to serve communities, connect with the public education landscape, and build up the next generation of trailblazers.

Beforehand, the history makers are advised on what sort of experiences would be helpful and inspiring for students. The schools are given information about the HistoryMaker, and teachers are encouraged to provide an interactive primer on the person before the big day.

On the same day across the country, HistoryMakers speak about their youth and/or careers, demonstrate their art or skill, and field questions from students during Q& A sessions.

They also tour the school, address either appropriate classes or the entire student body, and enjoy student presentations in their honor.

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When the HistoryMakers visited A. N. Pritzker Elementary School in Chicago last year, history teacher Jerry Weissbuch happened to be teaching about the history of civil rights. One of the guests was Dorothy Leavell, who took the helm as publisher of the Gary Crusader and Chicago Crusader in 1968.

“Seeing older people who can tell us what it was like in history, during the ‘50s, ‘60s, they look up to the HistoryMakers like they’re their grandparents,” Weissbuch explained.

“They’re a generation that needs to be heard, and our students don’t necessarily hear these stories all the time.”

After the visit, Weissbuch says his students used the HistoryMakers database for their civil rights projects.

He says, “Nothing is better than having real people come and talk to our students.

School can’t always be about testing, it’s about enrichment.”

This year’s Back to School day is September 26, and will send 400 HistoryMakers across 61 cities and 30 states.

Past speakers have included Sharon Farmer, director of White House photography during the Clinton administration; award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni; Capt. William Pinkney, the first African American to circumnavigate the globe via the tip of South America.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan continues in his role as chairperson, and will visit a school in Washington, D.C. HistoryMakers is the world’s largest archive of African American oral history on video. This year it was announced that the Library of Congress would house the collection for posterity.

“We’re not accumulating all of this information just to be held in a vault, it should be something that’s really living history,” Richardson stated. “We can show the real life examples.”

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EDUCATION

A Case of County School System Tone Deafness?

Baltimore County

By Linda Dorsey-Walker Special to the AFRO Northwest Baltimore County residents can anticipate the opening of a new 700 seat elementary school in less than one year; however, few residents living

within a five minute drive from the new site realize the school is coming, its location or whether or not their child is likely to be impacted.

For hundreds of County residents the New Northwest Area Elementary School, located at 9455 Lyons Mill Road in Owings Mills, will mean transfer of their child to the new site by August 2015.

Homeowner associations (HOA’s) located within the area immediately surrounding the new school, are disproportionately impacted because the new school may determine the future value of their homes because of new bus and foot traffic.

For many homeowners the impact runs deeper because their children who presently

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The Northwest Area Boundary Study Committee began the task of recommending boundaries for the new school at meeting on September 16.

“…few residents living within a five minute drive from the new site realize the school is coming, its location or whether or not their child is likely to be impacted.” attend one of nation’s top “Blue Ribbon” schools, Woodholme Elementary School, will not continue there next year.

Groundbreaking for the $7.2 million 700 seat New Northwest Area Elementary School took place on Aug. 26. An additional elementary school for the area has long been overdue since both New Town Elementary and Woodholme Elementary opened as over-crowded schools in 2001 and 2005.

School officials say the State’s new school construction process does not allow them to consider the plans of developers who presently hold options to build new housing starts on nearby parcels of land.

Within days of this groundbreaking, construction began on hundreds of new townhomes located on the same Ballard Farm land as the new school.

BCPS organizers of the Northwest Area Boundary Study Committee, which met for the first time, Sept. 17, excluded all but one of the several HOA’s, (Winterset), directly impacted by the plan, stating they were not aware of any others.

Instead, principals from schools located miles from the new school were requested to identify parents from their

schools to be members. Asked whether Dr. Dallas might consider a change to include the HOA’s closest to the new building site, BCPS officials responded, “It is highly unlikely.”

The Lyonswood and Whitehurst Home Owners Associations continue to be excluded despite having their absence pointed out

Northwest area HOA’s want a new middle school closer to their homes, but those concerns appear to not have found a receptive ear.

While Baltimore County plans to spend $1.1 billion over the near few years to add an additional 11,000 seats to the total for Baltimore County, according to Michelle Prumo, chief of staff for Dr. Dallas Dance, there is no need for an additional Middle School in the Owings Mills / Randallstown area, where no new middle school has been constructed for decades.

“A new elementary school can be justified, however, Baltimore County has no plans to build a new middle school in the New Town area of Owings Mills because the

Image courtesy Baltimore County Government

Artist rendering of proposed New Northwest Area Elementary School to the BCPS planners, and despite the inconvenience of being disturbed by school construction. Instead, after the Boundary Committee has met five times to develop its plan, the directly impacted HOA’s will be given the exact same opportunity as all members of the public for comment on Nov. 19.

current middle schools are operating under-capacity.

There are presently 5800 BCPS middle schools seats available in that area of northwest Baltimore County where only 5100 student are enrolled”, said Prumo.

However, each year dozens of area parents withdraw their students from BCPS rather than allow them to attend the assigned middle school, located approximately 4 miles away from New Town, because of concerns over quality of education, student safety, and the inability of bussed children to stay for afterschool activities.

Prumo stated ”We are indeed aware that some parents in that area have the means and desire to send their students to private schools rather than the assigned public middle school, and do so because that is their choice.”

Members of the public are invited to be observers only at future Boundary Committee meetings at New Town High School at 7 p.m., Oct. 1, 15 and 29; Nov. 12 and Dec. 10.

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Year Up Program Gives Urban Youth a Foothold in Corporate America

By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO There is a basic premise that underlies the work Year Up, a non-profit that trains and prepares inner city youth for careers in information technologies (IT), does in Baltimore and 11 other cities across the country: urban youth have the talent and ability to thrive in corporate America, if not the opportunity. It is a belief that informs not only Year Up’s approach to training their students, but the support the program’s staff provides for them as well.

Year Up has been operating in the Baltimore area since 2010. Originally housed on the campus of the Community College of Baltimore County, Year Up has resided at the Liberty Heights campus of Baltimore City Community College since 2012, according to executive director Lameteria Hall.

Year Up is a one year program that prepares students for careers in IT. The first six months, known as the L&D (learning and development) phase, consist of classes in IT, as well as training in soft skills—

the communication and comportment skills required for success in corporate America, but which are rarely part of classroom learning—and areas of personal development like personal finance. The second six months is comprised of an internship in IT, and in some cases financial operations, with one of Year Up’s corporate partners.

“It’s a lot of work,” said Ashley Williams, who began the program in August and is one of the select few students chosen for a new pilot track, developed in partnership with Symantec, in cyber security.

“It’s a rigorous program. They put you in the introductory level of computer classes and you’re also taking a second level at the same time.”

The aggressive pace of the curriculum underscores the Year Up staff’s belief that their students, who first go through an intense screening process, are up to the task.

“The most important thing that they instill is high support, high expectation,” said Williams. “And I think that’s very important because when you know that people expect great things from you, you perform better.”

The support and

Photo courtesy of Dennis Smith

Dennis Smith, a student in his second semester with Year Up expectations provided by the Year Up staff were a common theme in conversations with current and former students.

“I always wanted to go to school and that was something I had really wanted a lot, but I didn’t really have a direction,” said Dennis Smith, currently in the internship phase of Year Up’s IT track.

Smith, who commutes two and one-half hours each way on public transportation from Prince George’s county, had been an athlete in high school.

His academic potential was

Photo courtesy of Alfons McQuaige

Year Up alumnus Alfons McQuaige

ignored, and without other support systems in place, he bounced between factory jobs after graduating, and spent a lot of time being a “knucklehead” in the streets.

Smith received a wakeup call when some in his company were involved in a crime while he was present and he ended up doing 9 months in prison. He looked to Year Up to help turn his life around, and cites the support provided by the program’s staff as the principal difference between this and

AFRO Broadens Reach With Expansion of AFRO: First Edition on WEAA 88.9

By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO As summer flows into autumn, the AFRO is set to broaden its reach with the expansion of its radio program, AFRO: First Edition, on WEAA 88.9. The show, which has run on Sunday nights since 2006 with a pre-recorded format, will now be a live, two-hour program running Monday through Friday, creating a greater space for Black voices on national and local news coverage.

“The AFRO is excited about this new expanded outlet for our editorial content and we think it’s consistent with the expansion of the AFRO in many directions so as to address the informational needs of our expanding readership,” said Jake Oliver, publisher of the AFRO-American Newspapers.

For Sean Yoes, host of AFRO: First Edition since 2007, and who also hosted the program from 1999 to 2001, that expanding readership, especially online, has uniquely positioned the AFRO to be an information source and voice for Black America.

“The AFRO has become, I think, the main online source for news and information for Black Americans,” said Yoes.

“And I say that because when you grow at a clip of between 700 and 1,000 people per day on Facebook, as far as people liking us, and listening to us, and reading our stories, that’s a significant statement.”

And it is a statement that demands a response. With the AFRO’s online growth outpacing every other Black newspaper in the country, and with the largest digital footprint of any newspaper in Baltimore, the expansion of AFRO: First Edition helps to combat the shortage of Black voices and perspectives in the coverage of national news.

“There are not enough resources and outlets that really tell our story,” said Michele Williams, general manager of

WEAA 88.9. “We have a lot said about our culture that does not come from us that sometimes takes center stage.”

First Edition, which will run from 5-7 p.m. on weeknights, will be divided into two sections. The first hour will be devoted to hard news and analysis, with discussions of topical local, national, and international news stories and commentary from AFRO journalists during a regular roundtable segment.

The second hour will be devoted to lifestyle, culture, and trend segments, including a weekly discussion of race in America.

“That second hour is really about giving a little bit of something for everybody,” said Yoes.

The radio program will also create new opportunities for marriages across the AFRO’s various news products, according to Oliver. The show offers a much greater ability to provide editorial content than the weekly format of the newspaper does, which does provide commentary but emphasizes news and information. Segments from the radio show can be turned into podcasts and linked to articles on the AFRO website and Facebook page.

“We’re excited about the opportunities to expand the AFRO reach by using the content, and implementing it and blending it with our digital products to make those products even more robust,” said Oliver.

For Williams, the increased partnership between the AFRO and WEAA 88.9 is an organic outgrowth of the missions of both organizations.

“Both entities are structured and are programmed with the African-American and underserved communities in mind,” said Williams. “And it’s a specialty. It’s a special voice. We speak to our unique challenges and objectives that lie just beneath the surface in our community that may not otherwise be covered in traditional media.”

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money to go on to do great things for their families, and their communities.

They will also honor “unsung heroes” from the college’s staff – people who have exerted enormous effort to realize the school’s mission.

The college depends on events like these – ticket sales fund the scholarship and the school - to keep meeting the needs of their students.

“This event serves as one of our major fund raising initiatives for scholarships for students in need of tuition assistance,” Dr. Simmons said.

“Support from past sponsorships, as well as institutional funding resources, enables us on an annual basis to provide financial assistance to more than 500 students.”

“We are not like the state schools, the state doesn’t support us,” he said.

“We have to use opportunities like this not just for scholarships, but for the opportunity to connect with some of the corporations and business people in the

community so they’ll know who we are and what we are doing. We got support this year from the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Health Systems and the Maryland Transit Administration. It’s an opportunity to keep our name before the major donors and let them know who we are and what we are doing and the difference we make in the community.”

Simmons said that as a whole, the local community has embraced and supported the school – and he’s grateful for that.

“We certainly have (been embraced) sometimes you don’t think about it until you have events like this, it’s very heartwarming to know that people appreciate the difference we make in the community.”

That kind of support is important because the school serves students that might not be as successful getting a secondary education otherwise. Dr. Simmons said Sojourner’s students

often face unique challenges – most of Sojourner’s students are adults in their mid-thirties who are working and supporting their families. Dr. Simmons noticed when he went back to school as an adult, that it would have taken him as much as nine or 10 years to get the same degree younger students could achieve in a shorter time.

Sojourner Douglass College was created to serve the adult student, so they could move smoothly through school as quickly as possible. At Sojourner, students can earn a four-year degree in three years. That’s important for people who are often heads of their households, who don’t have a lot of extra time to spare.

But Dr. Simmons said it won’t all be serious business. “It gives us a chance to relax and enjoy ourselves,” he said about the event. “We always have a nice jazz band. We always make sure the food is exceptional. We have dancing. We will have a fashion show. We will have fun.”

his high school experience as well as an inspiration for future endeavors.

“I just really want to help a lot of young people find their way, because if you don’t know how to enroll in college, you don’t know how to enroll for FAFSA, you don’t know how to get scholarships or any of these things—because sometimes they don’t talk about it in high school with people they don’t believe have potential,” said Smith. “So when you get slipped through the cracks you really don’t know where to go, so this program really helped when it came to that.”

For Alfons McQuaige, who graduated from the program this past August and is now working in the area of financial operations for Brown Advisory, an investment firm, Year Up represented a second chance after abandoning his college career at Frostburg State when he hurt his knee and could no longer play football, his principal motivation at the time for even attending college.

“I take full responsibility for that,” said McQuaige.

“That’s immaturity.”

McQuaige, who is still only 21 years old, came to realize that he had to move beyond his gridiron dreams, and found a path into a career with Year Up. “From the first day you realize that they care, they want to see you succeed,”

said McQuaige. “And it’s not that I didn’t have that in my life, but it’s just good for people that don’t even know you to come in here and say, ‘hey, we’re going to work with you, we want to see you do well, we’re going to push you, we’re going to help you, it won’t be easy but we’ll be there along the way.’”

Nationally, Year Up places 85 percent of its graduates in jobs or full-time university studies within four months of completing the program, said Hall. In Baltimore, however, the jobs market and the lack of corporate headquarters has made reaching that target more difficult, with 66 percent of their graduates finding full-time work or collegiate placements.

According to the Job Opportunities Task Force, an advocacy non-profit operating in Maryland whose goal is to increase job opportunities for lowincome, low-skilled workers, the employment rate in Baltimore City for youth between the ages of 20 and 24 is 56 percent, a figure Year Up is outpacing. Still, Hall wants to see more businesses step forward to help increase the placement rate.

“We have a pipeline of talent, skilled young adults between 18 and 24 that definitely have practiced the soft skill building for over a year,” said Hall. “That’s the value proposition that we offer to our corporate partners, and there are many companies that have a high turnover and it’s because of the soft skills piece.”

For Cinnamon Fennell, a mother of two who is currently in the L&D phase of the IT track, Year Up represents a future where she can have peace of mind for her and her family, not worrying where her next paycheck may come from or how she will put food on the table.

“As long as you work hard, and stay on track, stay motivated and determined, you can make it,” said Fennell. “And not only in this program but in life period.” ralejandro@afro.com

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then what we need to do is take it into the community and have healthcare centers because every single person, including myself who is from east Baltimore, has a family member that they know, whether they want to admit it or not, who has a drug problem,” said Black.

A member of the audience responded with, “That’s right.”

Bernard McBride, president and CEO of Behavior Health System Baltimore, was present for the press conference. “There’s a big debate about how many addicts there are in the city and we’re starting to say, the more important number is how many people are there who today want treatment and can’t get it?” said McBride.

“How many people are there today who would want treatment with a little bit of encouragement who aren’t getting it? Those are the numbers we really need to understand.”

The Rev. Jerome Stephens, a statewide field representative for U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, said Cardin is interested in holding

hearings on the issue of heroin in Baltimore, but must first wrap up a series of hearings on the issue of racial profiling in law enforcement.

Baltimore City Councilman Nick Mosby called the city’s heroin problem “a byproduct of sins from generations ago” and noted the city’s drug culture has become normalized residents and its elected representatives, who have failed to address the issue adequately.

Mosby argued that in thinking about treatment, we need to focus not only on addicted persons but on children who are growing up in environments where addiction is a fact of life to prevent drug addiction from becoming a self-sustaining cycle. Additionally, he argued for providing greater economic opportunities to Baltimore residents, especially the city’s youth.

“It’s really on us and our backs to ensure that we provide them with real opportunities, opportunities that are going to meet their needs, and wants, and desires today,” said Mosby.

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HBCU NEWS Trumpet Awards Founder and Soul Singer Monáe Among 3rd Annual Lion Awards Honorees

Xernona Clayton-Brady, founder and CEO of the Trumpet Awards and Psychedelic Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe were among honorees at Lincoln University’s 3rd Annual Lion Awards, Sept. 21 at The Union League, 140 South Broad Street.

The annual black-tie gala, which benefits The Students First Campaign for student scholarships, recognizes and honors the tremendous contributions of extraordinary individuals across various fields of endeavor, including business, law, government, education, media, religion and lifetime achievement. ClaytonBrady received the Living Legend Award and Monae was honored in the area of entertainment.

“I feel honored, I feel blessed and I feel encouraged . . . ,” said Monáe about receiving the award. “I really do hope to motivate and inspire all of you (students in audience) to find your purpose, to use your voice and to never underestimate the power of one man or one woman.”

Clayton-Brady, who joked about recently turning 84, emphasized how our lives are a gift from God and that we must

2014 Lion Award Honorees

use our lives to be a gift or blessing to others.

“I am blessed by the Good Lord to have my mental faculties three days a week and I can fake it the rest of the week,” she joked. “That gives me the rest of the time to do something good for somebody else.”

Other honorees included: Everett Love, ’94 for Business; Honorable Levan Gordon, ’58, Law; Senator Dominic Pileggi, Government; Dr. James A. Donaldson, ’61, Education; Renee Chenault-Fattah, Media; Pastor James S. Hall, Religion; Peter Kjellerup and Mandy Cabot, founders of Dansko Company, Lifetime Achievement.

Kimberly Lloyd ‘94, chair of Lincoln’s board of trustees, said the Lion Awards has raised more than $235,000 towards scholarship support since it began in 2012.

Howard Gospel Choir Returns to its Birthplace for Live Recording Twenty Years Later…’Glorious God’

After over four decades of service, not only domestically but, within the countries of Republic of Georgia, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Ukraine famous collegiate choir returns to its home ground for its first live recording in over 20 years.

The Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University is set to record its new project, Glorious God, 6:30 p.m., Oct. 4, Cramton Auditorium, located on the campus of Howard University. Admission is free. Tickets can be picked up at Cramton Auditorium or by emailing tickets@howard gospelchoir.com.

Under the production advisory of Grammy and Stellar Award Winner Kevin Bond, this special recording Courtesy Photo will feature other artists such as: former Howard Gospel Choir director, Howard

University Alumnus and BET “Sunday Best” Season 2 finalist, Clifton Ross III; gospel recording artist and Morgan State Alumna Brittney Wright; BET “Sunday Best” Season 7 finalist and Howard University Bison Ayodele Owolabi; Morehouse Man and BET “Sunday Best” Season 7 Winner Geoffrey Facebook.com Golden; and other special guests.

The project will be produced by the current directors of the Howard Gospel Choir and alumni of Howard University, Reginald Golden and Darrell Brown; along with Kevin Golden.

For more on the Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University, visit www.HowardGospelChoir.com.

MSU’s School of Global Journalism Alumni Brunch

Morgan State University is hosting the annual alumni brunch of the School of Global Journalism, 9 a.m. to noon, Oct. 18 in the Calvin and Tina Tyler Ballroom of the Student Center.

Keynote speakers for the event are Jenel Boston, journalist and comedian, actor, radio host Joe Clair, both Morgan alums.

Hosted by Voice of America producer/director Gwen Outen, the brunch is a celebration of communications professionals.

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Protecting our climate, health and civil rights As the AFRO-American reported in June, our nation’s Black doctors are deeply concerned about the dangers climate change poses to our health. Since Americans of Color are especially vulnerable to those threats, measures to better protect our planet are fast becoming critical civil rights objectives.

A survey conducted among members of the National Elijah Cummings Medical Association found overwhelming evidence that, where our health is concerned, climate change is no longer a future threat.

We are being harmed now by extreme weather events, chronic illness due to air pollution, increased allergic reactions and heat-related conditions.

These on-the-spot medical reports are supported by the recent National Climate Assessment. Climate change is harming the health of many Americans, especially those of us who are vulnerable because of our poverty, our age or our medical conditions.

Failing to clean up our environment is harmful to everyone - but minorities are most at risk. This is why civil rights advocates, as well as health professionals and environmental activists, applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s June proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aging, coal-fired power plants.

Supporters of the Obama Administration’s initiative recognize that - in the bigger picture of national and world politics - the EPA’s proposal is an important (if gradual) first step toward addressing the environmental dangers that threaten our way of life.

The proposed rules are staged-in over a period of 16 years, giving our economy time to adapt and state governments flexibility in choosing how best to achieve the federal carbon reduction goals.

Despite the opposition of the coal industry and its allies in the Congress, it can hardly be denied that older power plants, especially those fired by coal, are the largest source of America’s greenhouse emissions (38 percent).

Aging plants also are significant sources of other air pollutants, discharging large amounts of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and soot into the air that we breathe.

EPA experts contend that the proposed carbon reduction rules and related strategies would cut these dangerous pollutants by 25 percent when fully implemented. Those pollution reductions, in turn, would help our nation avoid as many as 6,600 premature deaths and 159,000 serious asthma

attacks each year.

That would be very good news for our nation’s minority communities. Consider this.

Sixty-eight percent of African Americans live within thirty miles of a coalfired power plant - the zone of maximum exposure to pollutants that contribute to heart disease and other deadly conditions. As a group, we breathe nearly 40 percent more pollutants in our air than do Caucasians, and our children are three times more likely to suffer asthma attacks.

This is why the NAACP has recognized that mitigating the causes of climate change (especially the dangers posed by coal-fired energy) is an important civil rights objective.

“Coal pollution is literally killing low-income communities and communities of color,” former NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous asserted in 2012. “There is

Six out of ten say not enough resources are being devoted to the challenge. no disputing the urgency of this issue.”

More recently, while awaiting the EPA’s proposed carbon reduction ruling, Jacqueline Patterson, executive director of the NAACP’s Climate Justice Initiative, emphasized the civil rights significance of the EPA’s role in seeking to achieve truly “clean coal.”

“Just lessening the carbon in the atmosphere will save lives and prevent people from being harmed,” she concluded.

“The same facilities that are driving climate change are also sickening communities with mercury, arsenic, lead and other things being emitted.”

We all have a public health interest in assuring that our nation moves forward with President Obama’s environmental initiatives – and recently, the organization, Green for All, released polling data confirming that minority voters understand the dangers of climate change and support

corrective action.

Two out of three minority voters feel climate change is an issue we need to be worried about right now; six out of ten say not enough resources are being devoted to the challenge; and fully three out of four of us agree new EPA carbon pollution standards will spur innovations to keep energy prices low and create new industries with good-paying jobs.

These are strong indicators of support within America’s minority communities. Yet, as with the political debates about our healthcare, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, and other initiatives that go to the center of our lives, President Obama’s efforts to protect us from climate change are under relentless attack.

This battle is being waged in the EPA, in our courts and in the Congress of the United States. It will be a major issue on Election Day this year and in the presidential election of 2016.

Along with our allies within the multiracial coalition that elected the President in 2008 and 2012, we must work together to support President Obama and his Administration’s climate change plan.

This is a civil rights struggle - one that we must win. We are fighting for our health, for our future prosperity and for generations yet unborn.

Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

NFL Still Dropping the Ball NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has finally emerged from his selfimposed witness protection program, held a press conference, and even attended a football game Sunday. Now that Goodell has come out of hiding, it is not clear that the NFL is any closer to getting it right, as he keeps putting it, than it was when it dropped the ball in handling Ray Rice’s George Curry indefinite suspension from the league.

Goodell’s long overdue news conference proved only that he had his talking points down and would repeat them at every opportunity.

• “I’m not satisfied with the way we’ve handled it from the get-go. As I told you, and this statement indicates, I made a mistake…”

• “We acknowledge the mistake, my mistake. And we said we’re going to do better moving forward …”

• “I let myself down. I let everybody else down. And for that I’m sorry as I mentioned earlier. That’s what we’re going to correct and that’s what we’re going to fix…”

Despite a well-scripted news conference, the NFL has not been able to contain some extremely damaging disclosures.

ESPN “Outside the Lines” has produced an explosive exposé that undercuts Goodell’s credibility, the very thing he has desperately been trying to restore.

Publicly, Goodell has contended that no one in the NFL’s Park Avenue headquarters in New York has seen the devastating video of Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancée out

with a powerful left hook, leaving her unconscious. Even if true, that does not mean Baltimore and NFL officials did not know what was on the video tape.

Here’s what ESPN had to say: “Ultimately, on April 1, the Revel, under subpoena, provided [Attorney Michael] Diamondstein with a copy, and he received the same copy from prosecutors on April 5. By phone, Diamondstein told [team president Dick] Cass that the video was ‘f—ing horrible’ and that it was clear ‘Ray knocked her the f— out.’ The lawyer advised Cass that the video, if released, would amount to a public relations disaster for the Ravens and for his client.

“Cass listened carefully but never asked Diamondstein to provide the Ravens with a copy of the video — nor, for that matter, did anyone from the NFL ask Diamondstein for a copy, several sources say.”

Cass and owner Steve Bisciotti claimed they never knew the extent of Rice’s violence.

ESPN reported, “Bisciotti and Cass contend that, after the elevator doors closed that morning, they did not have a full picture of what happened until September. ‘It was our understanding based on Ray’s account that in the course of a physical altercation between the two of them he slapped Janay with an open hand, and that she hit her head against the elevator rail or wall as she fell to the ground,’ the Ravens said in a statement Friday afternoon. But sources both affiliated and unaffiliated with the team tell ‘Outside the Lines’ a different story: The Ravens’ head of security, Sanders, heard a detailed description of the inside-elevator scene within hours and shared it with Ravens officials in Baltimore.”

Quoting multiple unnamed sources close to Rice, ESPN said the star running back had provided full details of the incident – including knocking his future wife unconscious – to both Goodell and team officials.

In fact, ESPN said, “With his wife sitting by his side in a conference room, Rice told Goodell that he hit her and

knocked her out, according to four sources.”

At the urging of the Ravens, Goodell suspended Rice for only two games. Later, under mounting pressure from women’s groups, the Ravens kicked Rice off the team and Goodell suspended him indefinitely from the NFL. “Bisciotti and the team released a letter to Ravens seasonticket holders contending that the team had not seen the video until the morning of Sept. 8, when TMZ released it to the public, and that they found it ‘violent and horrifying’ and had voted unanimously to release Rice,” ESPN reported. “…Minutes later, Rice’s phone buzzed. He could scarcely believe what he was looking at– back-to-back text messages from Bisciotti. Rice read them aloud so everyone in the room could hear them: Hey Ray, just want to let you know, we loved you as a player, it was great having you here. Hopefully all these things are going to die down. I wish the best for you and Janay.

When you’re done with football, I’d like you to know you have a job waiting for you with the Ravens helping young guys getting acclimated to the league.

ESPN continued, “Rice was flabbergasted. One minute Bisciotti and the Ravens were essentially calling him a liar, the next Bisciotti was quietly offering him a job. “’… Rice told friends he believed Bisciotti was suggesting that, as long as he kept quiet and stuck to the story that he had misled team officials and Goodell about what had happened in the elevator, the Ravens would take care of him down the road.

He felt incredibly insulted.”

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook. –

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There was just too much fun and too many activities to list, but participants in the 18th Annual African Cultural Festival in Baltimore County, Sept. 20, were treated to musical performances, to workshops and classes, to art, history and dance. One of the most spectacular Artartus Jenkins highlights was the unveiling of a wax figure to honor Cathy Hughes, media trailblazer and founder of Radio Studio A Dance Troupe One.

Young crooners perform for the crowd

Photos by Anderson Ward

Juanita Ward and daughter Jasmine Gray

State Del. Adrienne A. Jones, Cathy Hughes, CEO, Radio One and Karen Outlaw, event chairperson

Violinist Chelsey Green

Buffalo Soldiers, Trooper Chappell and Trooper Cruise

Avery Sunshine

Tina Carroll, James Carroll IV, awardee Cameron Xavier Carroll, grandmother Odessa Alston and sister Christa Carroll

Artist Robert Kaki McQueen

Raheem DeVaughn performs

Larry Young, radio host, WOLB Radio One and Dr. Joanne Martin, CEO, National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

Clarence Massey, AFRO assistant circulation manager passes out AFRO newspapers

Jayla Fields and grandmother Linda Fields

Paulette Woodland and Ida Archer Hosts Dr. Grady and Helen Dale, son-in-law and daughter

Gladys Jackson, Mildred Moore

Author Nakia Robinson

City Council woman Sharon Middleton, Bruce Leaf and her husband, Dr. Gregory Leaf, the Rev. Yvonne Robinson and Rhonda Nelson-Boglin

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

Artists Hafeeza Sawyer and Debra Sawyer

The beloved matriarch of five generations came strolling into the banquet hall of the Parkview facility, Sept. 13, on her walker rolling over red and pink rose petals tossed on the floor while family and guests clapped, giving Edna Odessa Tartt a standing ovation.

Without prodding, this elegant lady started belting out, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and the guests sang along with her. For 40 years, Mrs. Tartt was a robust alto in Chicago’s Wayman A.M.E. Church Gospel Choir, and knows every song in the AME hymnal.

A major portion of the program was the MEDALLION Presentation Ceremony when each descendant was given a medallion by Mrs. Tartt, a tee shirt, a bookmark and a kiss.

Her secret for longevity? Study the Bible, Live the Life and Sing Praises to God!

Five generations of family members

Edna Odessa Tartt, 101 years of Christian integrity, courage, resiliency, love, leadership and joy

Enkid Awuni, Christian Williams, Patricia Bess

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Marie Starks and Delores Dixon Cynthia Foss and Charlotte Matthews

Bonnie Harris and Janice West

Introductions were given

by Larry Young, radio host and Mrs. Tartt’s godson

Mrs. Tartt received many citations and proclamations from government officials, including one from Sen. Barbara Mikulski.

Aria Anise Montgomery sang “His eye is on the Sparrow”

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Housing Ministry Brings Hope for the Homeless

By Iyana Parker Special to the AFRO To God Be the Glory Ministry is a women and children’s transitional housing Ministry with two locations where people can expect to get an array of supportive services including: counseling, housing, middle house computers, GED training, case management, life skills mentors, and domestic violence groups.

“To God Be the Glory Ministry means

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a lot to me because I was once homeless.

To be able to start over as a self-sufficient homeowner in the community is a blessing.

To be a product of a program that works is an even greater blessing,” said 50-year-old Rowena Simmons, a Baltimore City resident.

Simmons is just one of the missionaries working with the program to save lives and empower many homeless women and children in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

From 2003-2005 Simmons, her husband and four children became homeless as a

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result of what she describes as an ongoing battle with drug addiction, low self-esteem, unemployment and incarceration.

“One day I woke up and I just felt the brighter path. The Marian House, which I like to refer to as the grandma of these programs, really helped me make the necessary shift in my life. They really paved the way for me

assist others who may be in the same position as they were five years ago. Along with being a member of To God Be The Glory Ministry, the Simmons family is associated with The Ryan White planning counsel, various mentoring programs and are active with groups that help to get policies changed to protect the community from police brutality in Baltimore City.

“God never gave you the spirit of fear; He teaches peace and love, think what would God do?

He wouldn’t be afraid of getting help. He would come, so come and come as Rowena Simmons you are, we and God will accept you,” Simmons said.

“To be able to start over as a self-sufficient homeowner in the community is a blessing.

To be a product of a program that works is an even greater blessing.”

– and my family making it possible for us to go from dependent to independent,” Simmons said.

Today Simmons and her family are active members in the community. Together they

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“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” Khalil Gibran “…It’s got the best food. It’s got the best music. It’s got the best people. It’s got the most fun stuff to do.” Harry Connick, Jr. The GEMS sparkled at their 35th Labor Day dance at Glen Burnie’s La Fountaine Bleu ballroom. Dorothy George and Helena Hicks to reciprocate their many social invitations founded the GEMS and in 1978 invited their friends to attend an invitational only breakfast dance. Today members Brenda Baker, Regina Bernard, Jacqueline Brown, Wendy Dukes, Anne Emery, Michele Emery, Audrey Freeman, Alisa Henderson, Juanita Morton, LaVerne Naesea, Sharon Pinder, Shirley Swafford, Deborah Taylor and Mildred Taylor continue the tradition.

“You got me going in circles round and round I go. What a week starting with ” The Star Spangled Celebration , MWCEA conference in Ocean City, my birthday celebration at Colin’s Seafood and Grill, a night on the waterfront at Living Classroom’s Maritime Magic festivity with “Rubber Band” man Bootsy Collins performing and culminating with a spectacular wedding on the Hudson River had me in a whirlwind of high- end excitement.

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth, there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” Ivan Panin The wedding of Debbie Allen and Arthur Allen’s daughter Shana to Richard Maccone at Maritime Parc in Jersey City, N.J. had the glamour of the bygone Hollywood era of Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Dorothy Dandridge, Gene Tierney and Joan Crawford. The bride was so elegant walking down the rose petals strewn aisle as the officiate, Rev.Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, proclaimed the bride was dropdead gorgeous.

It was “some enchanted evening” as the Vintage String Quartet provided the music during the wedding and cocktail reception. The rooftop cocktail reception offered guests a spectacular view of the New York and New Jersey skyline including the new Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty as guests munched on steak, ribs, salmon, rock fish, assorted butler-passed hors d’ oeuvres while sipping champagne and cocktails before going downstairs to the second level for a dinner of filet mignon and salmon with wine selections to complement the dinner.

Sounds of Sinatra, Johnny Hartman, Bobby Short, Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughn greeted the guests as they entered the ballroom festooned in all white with statuesque table arrangements of huge white feathers, crystal teardrop chandeliers and grand white floral arrangements situated throughout the ballroom. The couple’s first dance to the Flamingo’s “I only have eyes for you” set a romantic mood for the guests who were in awe witnessing one of the most beautiful weddings ever.

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“Dancing dancing dancing I’m a dance machine” Michael Jackson Dr. Joey Fernandez who sang “One hand, One heart” during the ceremony not only sing but also danced as he “set it off” with Alicia Jackson on the dance floor as the DJ played the hottest sounds. Sparkles lit up the sky as guests saluted the newlyweds at the end of the night. “Oh what a night”!

Sunday morning the bride’s parents hosted a brunch at the Hyatt on the Hudson, the host hotel for the wedding guests who stayed overnight before bidding everyone safe travels. Among the 200 guests in attendance were Karriem and Tecoya Farrakhan, Steve and Wanda Shannon, Georgia and John Lembesis, Danielle Maccone ,Dr. Joey Fernandez, Marc Boles , Alicia Jackson, Marion and Lynne Porter, Andrew and Kimberly Marter, Enoch and Joyce Ragin, Pless and Kenya Jones, Stanford and Darnell Peaker, Odyssey and Myra Gray, Ron Harris, William and Judy Tonkins, Thomas and Gertrude Reed, Don and Patricia Leveroney, William and Sheila Conway, Susan, Megan and Seth Dorris, Kristy Myers, Sherrie and Casey Pridgen, Kelly Ziad, Marsha Tonkins, Paulette Jackson, Desiree Paton, Deloris Williams, James and Norma Ford, Jay Minchilli and Chris Favorito.

Happy Birthday Karen Chase, Frank Coakley, Dr. Charles Griffin, Russell Johnson, my grandson Damien Lee; Happy 21st Birthday grandson Gregory Packer Jr. and Happy 90th Birthday to political confidante to state, federal and local statesman my friend and my mentor Herb Brown.

“You know if you belong” Odell’s “let’s get it on “reunion is Oct 11 at the 5th Regiment Armory honoring Paradox’s DJ Wayne Davis. Contact Garland Perkins at 410.493.4502 for tickets.

Starr Presents an exclusive Linen & Lace Party, Sept. 27 at The Grand Clubhouse in Owings Mills with music by DJ DRE and Mike Crosby. Contact DRE at 443-756-9478 or Carlton Brown at 443-392-5358 Ed Towles: Black Enterprise and Art exhibit opens Oct. 16 at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan University. Ed Towles was the founding art director of Black Enterprise magazine, founded in 1970 by philanthropist Earl Graves. You can contribute to the success of the exhibit by making a donation to www.Kickstarter.com or call exhibit coordinator Joseph Ford 443-885-3020.

“Inseparable, that’s how we’ll always be Inseparable…” Condolences to Rosalind Anthony on the death of her mother Gloria Farley who died a week after her husband Edwin Farley.

“There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to save a sin-sick soul” Mahalia Jackson Prayers to the Ammons family on the death of Dr. Robert Ammons, to William Tonkins on the death of his mother Ruth Tonkins and to Barbara and James Carter on the death of their daughter, Angela Johnson.

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After Latest Mishaps, is Jameis Winston a First Round Pick?

2016 draft—because after his latest incident, there aren’t too many teams that are going to risk their franchise on his type of character. Depending on what happens with Goodell and how the NFL’s climate shifts, even 2016 could be a stretch.

By Stephen D. Riley and Perry Green AFRO Sports Writers It’s not often that a Heisman-winning quarterback slips out of the first round of the NFL draft but that may be the fate awaiting Florida State signal-caller Jameis Winston.

Already carrying a checkered history as a redshirt sophomore, Winston’s latest antics caused him to be suspended for Florida State’s game against top 25-ranked Clemson on Sept. 20. Anxious to play, Winston actually warmed up prior to the game in full pads before returning to the field in just his jersey and street clothes. The 6-foot,4-inch Winston exploded onto the college football scene last year and appeared to be a surefire lock for not only the first round but maybe even a potential No. 1 overall selection. But after a rape allegation, a shoplifting charge and his recent school outbursts, is Winston still a first-round quarterback come draft time? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Green: With a national championship title and Heisman Trophy in his collection, Winston only has to steer clear of further trouble to find himself in the first round of the draft either next year or the following season. His mishaps have been black eyes to the university, but his performance has pushed Florida State back to prominence after a slew of down years. Talent can often outweigh idiotic behavior, and Winston definitely possesses the moxie and skillset to play professionally on Sundays. Another top-10 finish by the Seminoles and a productive campaign from Winston, and all is forgiven. If he decides to return to school for a fourth year, that would put even more distance between him and a checkered start—and that should be enough to make him a high-round selection.

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Green: Players have arrived in the NFL over the last few seasons with fewer accolades and more red flags than Winston.

Despite where the NFL could be headed as it tries to protect its image, there’s going to be a place for Winston in the first round.

He plays a position too important to ignore, no matter the surrounding issues. Ask the Cleveland Browns or Jacksonville Jaguars or even my Baltimore Ravens how important the quarterback position is. Teams spend years, sometimes decades, trying to find a guy to cement into the position. You can say what you want about Winston, but another huge campaign will be all he needs to fall back into the good graces of NFL scouts and become a lock for the first round. His position is too important to let his stock free-fall. The kid can really play quarterback. He looks like Tom Brady from the pocket. There’s no way this guy Facebook doesn’t photo go first overall in the draft whenever he decides to leave Florida State.

With numerous missteps surrounding his name, is Jameis Winston still a first round pick Riley: Winston’s best bet would be to return to school for another season, because with the NFL’s very public troubles this season, he would most likely be a forgotten man next May. Given the heat placed on Roger Goodell and the rest of the NFL, any general manager trying to explain his selection of Winston is going to be met with ridicule. Domestic violence has been the topic of discussion over the last few weeks, and asking a man who was accused of rape a couple of years ago to be the face of any franchise could be suicide from a public relations standpoint. Winston should play it safe and opt for the

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Riley: Winston’s position puts even more emphasis on his character in the new age of the NFL. You’re going to see changes galore in how the NFL evaluates and punishes players for wrongdoing. And as history has proven, players with a checkered college past often turn into troubled NFL stars.

When you add money, groupies and yes-men to the equation, trouble is bound to happen. The quarterback position is such a very delicate decision for a franchise. The wrong decision can set a team back years, and I just can’t see any general manager with a first-round pick willing to gamble on Winston’s character.

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The Equalizer Film Review

Take Me to the River Film Review

Denzel Does Vigilante in Soul Music Retrospective Adaptation of Eighties TV Series Revisits Memphis Roots of the Rhythm and Blues Sound

By Kam Williams

On the surface, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a perfectly-pleasant, hail fellow well met. By day, the affable widower is employed as a sales associate at a hardware superstore where he jokes with co-workers who call him “Pops.” Evenings, he retires to a modest apartment in a working-class, Boston community, although bouts of insomnia often have him descending to a nearby diner to read a book into the wee hours of the morning.

The dingy joint looks a lot like the dive depicted by Edward Hopper in the classic painting “Nighthawks.”

Among the seedy haunt’s habitués is Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a provocativelydressed prostitute who hangs out there between clients.

Robert takes a personal interest in the troubled teen, a recent immigrant whose real name is Alina. He soon learns that she’d rather be pursuing a musical career than sleeping with stranger after stranger. Trouble is she’s under the thumb of Slavi (David Meunier), a sadistic pimp who’ll stop at nothing to keep a whore in check.

A critical moment arrives the night she arrives in the restaurant and hands Robert her new demo tape while trying to hide a black eye. But he becomes less interested in the CD than in the whereabouts of the creep who gave her the shiner.

What neither Teri nor anybody else in town knows is that Robert’s a retired spy who had cultivated the proverbial set of deadly skills over the course of his career. At this juncture, the mild-mannered retiree reluctantly morphs into an anonymous vigilante more than willing to dole out a bloody brand of street justice on behalf of Teri and other vulnerable crime victims with seemingly no recourse.

Thus unfolds The Equalizer, a riveting, relatively-gruesome adaptation of the popular, 1980s TV-series. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, this version is actually more reminiscent of Death Wish (1974), as this picture’s protagonist behaves less like the television show’s British gentleman than the brutal avenging angel portrayed on the big screen by Charles Bronson.

Considerable credit must go to Oscar-winner Mauro Fiore’s (Avatar) visually-captivating cinematography for capturing Boston in a way which is somehow both stylish and haunting.

Nevertheless, the eye-pleasing panoramas simply serve as a backdrop for Denzel who is even better here than in his Oscar-winning collaboration with Fuqua for Training Day. Revenge as a dish best served cold by a sleep-deprived, diner patron equalizer!

Excellent (4 stars) Rated R for graphic violence, sexual references and pervasive profanity In English and Russian with subtitles Running time: 131 minutes Distributor: Sony Pictures To see a trailer for The Equalizer, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP_FwE0Z7no

By Kam Williams A lot of great soul music came out of Memphis in the Sixties and early Seventies. Stax Records launched the careers of acts like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Booker T. and the MGs while its cross-town rival Hi Records had Al Green, Ann Peebles and O.V. Wright.

Take Me to the River is a reverential retrospective which is a combination tribute to the city’s impressive legacy and a tip of the cap to some up-and-coming artists still recording in the region.

The movie marks the directorial debut of Martin Shore, who tapped Terrence Howard to narrate the documentary. The Oscar-nominated actor also raps and sings in the picture which features the reflections of hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg who pays tributes to the trailblazers that paved the way for him.

But what makes the movie worth its while is hearing such soul greats as Booker T., Mavis Staples, David Porter and Charlie Musselwhite wax romantic about the good ole days. We learn that the bands were often integrated at a time the rest of Memphis was still strictly segregated.

Some of the reminiscing relates how the local cops would deliberately profile and harass them as they exited the studio after late-night sessions, being not only racist but jealous of the groups’ newfound fame and fortune. We also hear about how the assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis cast a pall over the entire town that ultimately took a toll on the music business, too. Stax executive Al Bell refers to his company’s early demise as an economic lynching.

An overdue homage to a city that for close to a decade was home to the second largest black business in America.

Very Good (3 stars) Rated PG for smoking, mild epithets and mature themes Running time: 98 minutes Distributor: Abramorama To see a trailer for Take Me to the River, visit: https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=iZzqsvV_ Oyk

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The defensive tackle has been the recipient of an outpouring of support from the league and its fans as he attempts to continue his career while paying for cancer treatments for his four-yearold daughter Leah.

A second-round selection in 2012, Still failed to make the team in August, two months after his daughter was first diagnosed with neuroblastoma, according to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King. But the Bengals offered Still a place on their practice squad to help him pay for his daughter’s expensive treatments.

His stint on the practice squad didn’t last long—Still was activated for the Bengals’ second game on Sept. 14, a 24-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons in which he played 16 snaps and recorded three tackles.

The next day, Still and the Bengals launched a fundraising campaign in which proceeds from the sale of Still’s jersey, valued at $100 each, would go to pediatric cancer research efforts at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

According to ESPN, the sale of 5,000 jerseys so far has raised more than $500,000.

Among those participating was New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, who personally bought 100 jerseys. “It just really caught my attention the way they were handling it,� Payton told Still when the two first met on ESPN Radio’s “Mike and Mike� show. “And I think it will give other people strength, obviously in a difficult time. I’m a huge fan from afar, [though] I’ve never met you.�

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by Payton’s generous donation. “I just wanted to thank you for really stepping up to help support this cause, Still told Payton, according to ESPN. “I’m pretty sure you know how many families and how many children you’re helping out with this. And it’s just showing the world how it’s not all about how competitive you can be on the field; it’s about what you can do to help out humanity. And I really appreciate you doing what you did.�

The Bengals and Saints play on November 16, which will be more than just a game for both Payton and Still.

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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.

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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

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(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

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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.

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(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.

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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.

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Sections 132(d)-(f) and 133

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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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LEGAL NOTICES (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.]

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City Charter is proposed to be further amended to read as follows:

Maryland Aviation Administration (MAA) is currently accepting application for the position of Safety Management Representative III at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. This is senior level of work inspecting machinery, equipment, hazardous conditions, and working conditions in the work setting to ensure compliance with Federal and State safety, fire and occupational health regulations. Employees are also responsible for risk management/ perform accident investigations. Employees in this classification work under general supervision to develop building evacuation and area emergency response plans; may review the plans and make recommendations related to safe working conditions; analyze existing facilities, operations, products, and responsibilities which also include; safety procedures and protection for working around and with asbestos, flammables, combustibles and lead.

Provide advice and counsel concerning compliance with applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards; isolate potential weaknesses found in existing policies, directives, objectives and practices; and, responsible for the compilation. Employees may be required to work evenings or weekends and may be subject to call-in during non-working hours in response to emergency situations. The work may be performed outdoors under varying weather conditions and in proximity to motorized, heavy equipment and high speed traffic; work also may be conducted in facilities, public buildings and grounds complexes and machinery. The employee may be exposed to a variety of physical hazards, such as toxic materials and fumes, asbestos or lead particles, flammable or combustible agents. The work requires the use of safety equipment such as respirators, goggles, hardhats and personal protective equipment. Qualifications/ Experience: AA Degree in Occupational/Industrial, safety or related field. Five years inspecting buildings/work sites to ensure compliance with State and Federal guidelines. See complete job announcement at www.mdot.maryland.gov/employment for complete details. All applications must be submitted on line via website, no paper applications or resumes will be accepted. The State of Maryland offers a competitive salary and compensation program details available for viewing at www.dbm.state.md.us.

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Baltimore City Charter Article VII. Executive Departments Department of Transportation § 116. Powers and duties of Department. (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

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Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Loan/Insurance Underwriter II, Multi-Family Recruitment#: 14-001733-002 Filing Deadline: September 29, 2014 11:59 pm Salary: $45,938-$73,541 annually

(H) 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.

(I) 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. (J) 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. (K) 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. (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

To advertise in the

This is a permanent position w/State benefits.

Work that matters. DHCD is a national leader in community development and affordable housing. We are seeking a highly proficient underwriter for our Multi-Family section of the Community Development Administration. This individual will be responsible for processing and underwriting applications, issuing reservation letters, closing loans, evaluating requests for the financing of multi-family rental housing projects.

Please visit www.jobaps.com/md to view the full job description, required qualifications and to submit an online application. EOE

(G) BUILDING NUMBERS. (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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Assisted Living Program Associate Electrical Technician I, II, III & Senior Environmental Control Inspector Instrumentation Technician I, II, III & Senior Traffic Engineer Utilities Special Crew Leader Zoning Inspector Zoning Plan Reviewer Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional information and to apply on-line. You may use the Internet at any Anne Arundel County library, or visit our office at 2660 Riva Road in Annapolis. Deadlines to apply posted on website.

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