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Balto Council Members Fight Nine Baltimore Residents Indicted for Minimum Wage Hike for Drug Conspiracy

By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer

Local officials and state lawmakers are once again attempting to make higher wages for Marylanders a reality.

Last month Baltimore City Council members voted on a resolution requesting state action on increasing the minimum wage and the subminimum wage, which is earned by workers that are paid, in part, by tips earned.

“This would be very helpful to thousands of people in Baltimore City and their families,”

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Councilmember Mary Pat Clarke (D-District 14) told the AFRO. “It would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 statewide. It would also help people who work for tips.”

The resolution supports raising that to 70% of the minimum wage per hour,” said Clarke, who introduced the resolution.

Clarke said that skirting around the minimum wage issue with talk of tax breaks instead of actual wage increase would be pointless.

“A lot of people are such low earners that any tax break wouldn’t matter,” she said. “If someone is suggesting – Councilmember Mary Pat Clarke that we give people a tax break instead of a higher minimum wage it just doesn’t Clarke said she hopes legislators would implement the increase by July compute. When your wages and earnings are at a certain low level, 1, 2014, seeing as how the minimum there’s barely any tax rate to cut.” wage would be $10.60 had it kept up According to legislative documents with the increasing cost of living in filed and released by the Baltimore the last four decades.

City Council, even if a Maryland “Right now in Maryland, workers worker were to work full-time hours, who earn tips are entitled to only at $7.25 an hour they would only earn 50% of what the minimum wage is in Maryland, which right now is $7.25.

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“This would be very helpful to thousands of people in Baltimore City and their families.”

Civil Rights Lawyer Gerald A. Smith dies

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer In an effort to crack down on crime in Coppin Heights, a West Baltimore neighborhood where, according to police, there have been 24 shootings since 2010, a state circuit court grand jury Sept.11 indicted nine local residents on drug conspiracy charges.

On Sept. 11, State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein and Police Commissioner Anthony Batts announced the indictment of members of a “highly organized” conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine.

“These kind of narcotics operations in open-air areas like this will bring violence with them,” Bernstein told the AFRO. ”These narcotics operations often involve perpetuators of violence and then conversely Continued on A3

N.C. Activists: ‘Make Police Accountable’ Charlotte Shooting Sparks Calls for Improved Citizens Review

By Herbert L. White Special to the AFRO

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Jonathan Ferrell

Charlotte-area activists are lobbying for changes in police training and oversight after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer shot an unarmed African American.

Organizations ranging from Mothers of Murdered Offspring to the Nation of Islam and Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP urged greater authority for the Citizens Review Board and improved training for officers at a Sept. 16 press conference at the Government Center.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Randall Kerrick, who has been on the force two years, was charged with voluntary manslaughter and released on $50,000 bond on Sept. 14, hours after he shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell, 24, in East Charlotte.

Ferrell, who was unarmed, approached three officers after

crashing his car early Sept. 14. Police responded around 2:30 a.m. to a call by a woman who reported someone banging on her door.

CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe reported police tried unsuccessfully to stop Ferrell with a Taser before he was shot multiple times. Ferrell died at the scene.

“We’re not asking, we’re demanding they initiate an independent citizens review board,” said John Barnett, founder and president of Gastonia-based Truth and Healing Under God. “Why? To oversee the CMPD.” Since its initiation in 1997 as a response to a spate of deadly confrontations between police and African Americans, the review panel has been roundly criticized for its findings in favor of police.

A poll of Charlotte-Mecklenburg residents cited by Matt Newton, an activist with crbreform.com, found that 30 Continued on A3

Plans for Future Baltimore CBCF Investment to Spur Grand Prix Cancelled Black Banking Race Organizer Cites Scheduling Conflicts in 2014, 2015

By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer More shaky ground lies ahead for the Baltimore Grand Prix.

Race On LLC, which financed the professional motorsport event, decided Sept. 12 that the scheduling conflicts with other events planned for Labor Day weekend blocked further participation in the event billed “Celebration of Acceleration.”

They had been at the helm of organizing the race since last year, making the company the third business to take on the event after the Baltimore Racing Development folded, and Downforce Racing was terminated in 2012.

Photo by Anderson R. Ward

2013 Grand Prix IndyCar Winner, HP Race Team car # 77

“Last year was a stabilizing year.

This year we actually moved the race forward,” said J.P Grant, leader of Race On LLC. “We hit a home run.”

Grant said that Race On LLC will no longer be a part of the Grand Prix simply because events already taking place in coming years during Labor Day weekend in Baltimore have made it impossible to book the necessary space at the Baltimore Convention Center.

Grant said that next year Ohio State’s football team is scheduled to play Navy in Baltimore Labor Day weekend.

And in 2015 a convention is scheduled for Labor Day weekend.

“We had to work around those dates, and with all the different parties involved, we just couldn’t come up with a date that worked with the schedule of all the different parties,” Grant told the AFRO. “There were just too many moving parts to this. We couldn’t get a positive conclusion.”

The Grand Prix closed out it’s first year millions of dollars in the red.

City taxes and fees were left unpaid, and city businesses were left holding the bag after they invested into the initiative.

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By Byron Scott Special to the AFRO The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation announced Sept. 17 that it will invest $5 million dollars in what it is calling a major investment in African American banking institutions.

The CBCF will purchase certificates of deposit at five Black banks in an effort at kickstarting lending to people of color, CBCF Chair and Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.)

said.

“The pillars of power have to be both political and economical,” Fattah said. “We are leaning forward to say we are going to make an investment and expect others to follow.”

The financial institutions selected for the investment are City National Bank of Newark, Seaway Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, Mechanics and Farmers of Durham, N.C., Liberty Bank and Trust Company of New Continued on A3

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(l to r) B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., president and CEO, Industrial Bank; Russell D. Kashian, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; Michael A. Grant, J.D., president of the National Bankers Association; Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), chair and CEO, CBCF A. Shuanise Washington, president and CEO, CBCF; Ronald Busby, CEO, U.S. Black Chamber.

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NATION & WORLD

‘Four Little Girls’ Awarded Congressional Gold Medals

According to the former school board policy, “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.”

The second grader’s family spoke out, stating Tiana has had locs for a few years and this was her second year attending the school.

Natural hair advocates across the nation also took a stand against the school’s policy and supported Tiana.

Nikki Walton, natural hair blogger and best-selling author, posted several stories about the situation on her blog. MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry dedicated a segment on her show to Tiana called “To A Girl Whose Hair Was Deemed ‘Unacceptable.’”

“We Love Tiana & Her Hair,” said a Facebook page started

by Lana Boone, 26, a Silver Spring, Md.- based natural hair advocate and founder of Kurly Klips. The page drew more than 1,500 fans in just a few days.

On the heels of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, a darker moment of that year was recognized Sept. 10.

The four little girls who died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. were posthumously awarded one of the nation’s highest civilian awards—the Congressional Gold Medal.

The medals go to the families of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, four young girls aged 11 to 14, who were preparing for Sunday school Sept. 15, 1963 when a bomb planted by some members of the

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The four girls killed in the bombing (Clockwise from top left, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair) Ku Klux Klan exploded, killing them and injuring 22 other people in the building.

“As a direct beneficiary of their sacrifice, I was honored that my first piece of legislation honored the four little girls with the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow upon any individual,” Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) said in a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

“I not only question where I would be today without the influence of the four little girls but more importantly, I question where America would be. The premature and senseless deaths of these girls awakened the slumbering conscience of America and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement,” Sewell said at the ceremony.

Sewell, in whose district the church is located, is part of a congressional delegation to the medal presentation ceremony in Birmingham Sept. 13 at the church.

Sewell is also to conduct a discussion panel featuring members of the Congressional Black Caucus including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), an icon of the civil rights era, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), chairwoman of the Black Caucus, and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the longest serving Black member of Congress. In all, 14 members of the CBC were scheduled to appear at the event.

Okla. School Board Alters Dress Code to Allow Dreadlocks

A Tulsa, Okla. charter school has reversed a dress code under which it dismissed a 7-year-old for wearing dreadlocks.

The independent governing board for the Deborah Brown Community School voted 4-0 Sept. 9 to rescind a policy that banning dreadlocks, afros and other “faddish styles” of hair.

The action came after Tiana Parker, 7, was told her hairstyle was not allowed at the mostly Black charter school that is associated with Langston University. The dismissal drew national attention.

Last month, Tiana’s parents told Tulsa’s FOX 23 that they had been summoned into the administrator’s office at the charter school and told that their daughter’s locs violated the school’s dress code against “faddish” hairstyles.

A Jacksonville, Fla. father is waging a campaign to change the name of a school that was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and the first “grand wizard” of the Klu Klux Klan.

Omotoya Richmond is the originator of the fast-growing petition on Change.org that has amassed more than 77,000 signatures at last count on Sept. 12.

The Long Island, N.Y. transplant told the AFRO he did not want his 7-year-old daughter—or any other child—who may eventually matriculate at a high school in Duval County, to have to attend a school named after someone whose legacy is that of hate.

“Now is the time to right a historical wrong.

African American Jacksonville students shouldn’t have to attend a high school named for someone who slaughtered and terrorized their ancestors one more school year,” Richmond wrote in his petition. “In the end, I want my child to be able to go anywhere Nathan Bedford Forrest in Jacksonville and be proud of where she is.

That can’t happen with Nathan Bedford Forrest High School.”

Forrest High got its name in 1959, when it was founded with White-only students. In the decades since then, the school has been integrated, and its student body is majority AfricanAmerican.

Forrest, a Confederate general during the Civil War, was one of the most polarizing figures of that era. He is most remembered for slaughtering Black soldiers of the U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery at Fort Pillow, near Memphis, after they had already surrendered. After the gruesome execution, “Remember Fort Pillow” became a rallying-cry for African-American soldiers throughout the Union Army, according to a Civil War website.

Richmond has to amass at least 10,000 signatures from local residents for the school board to consider changing the name.

Five years ago, the School Advisory Council requested that the school be renamed, but the school board voted 5-2 against it.

The board’s membership has since changed.

Signatures on the petition are delivered via e-mail to Duval County School District Superintendent Nikolai Vitti, who said in a recent interview with NPR that he “would support a name change recommendation if brought organically to the [school] board by the community.”

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percent of respondents have a negative view of police.

“That bond of trust has broken here and it continues to erode to the tune of a quarter of a million people,” he said.

Race has become an issue in the debate over how and why deadly force is used by police against African Americans. Barnett and Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP President Rev. Kojo Nantambu cited six CMPDinvolved shooting deaths over the last 15 months as well as confrontations from New York and San Francisco that generated national media attention as confirmation that police accountability is warranted.

“It’s painful to know that on any given day in this country that an African American male can be killed for no reason by the people who are supposed to protect him,” Nantambu said: “This is not an anomaly for this country, nor is this an anomaly for this city. We need to remember Amadou Diallo, who was shot 41 times reaching for his wallet. We need to remember Derrick Bell, who was trying to celebrate the end of his single

life and wound up losing his life with a car riddled with bullets for no reason.”

Said Barnett: “We do have problems. It’s not a Trayvon (Martin) incident. This young

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Minimum Wage

“Today is a day that should not happen. Saturday was a day that should not have happened. We are calling upon City Council to do the right thing. It’s there in front costs are just some of the necessities that have of them.” increased with theCourtesy cost ofPhotos living as wages have Jr. (D-Ocean City) and then-Senate Minority Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who “She held hands with her(R-Elkton). family. It was obviously a Dick Hester, president Leader E.J. Pipkin remained stagnant. was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. of the Charlotte chapter of Chair of the Finance Committee Thomas If the state General Assembly were to take “remained strong for her famibeing c screen, the M. family chose (D-Charles Middleton County) and vice action in the next session, the payvideo of 472,000 ly” and was clearly its leader. murde plate X584859 was found on the latter.

According to the the body of her 7-year-old chair of the committee, John Astle (D-Anne workers increase, fulltime “She held hands with her famiing. Co Chicago’swould West Side after and 4,060 Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, nephew Monday, just hours ly,” against the spokesman that he Arundel) also voted the bill.said. “It jobs be created part of the $466 policewould received a 7 a.m.as call that’s him.” after his body was found in a wasand obviously very emotional charge Senators Kelley Mathiasa were million economic growth spurt that would moment.” convic unavailable for comment. occur, according to the resolution.

The boy – the son of Julia sion of As a result ofHudson, the initiative dyingsister in the In March Maryland legislators were Jennifer’s – had He wa special committee, it never made to the been missing sinceit Friday, 2006 a unsuccessful in passing measures to increase whenwhere a relative found Julian’s for the House of Delegates, a cross-filed bill, the minimum wage when Senate Bill 0683 grandmother, Darnell car hij House Bill 1204, was being considered. died whileCowboys in the Senate Finance Committee.

No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, and Dallas players

By Alan King The many Marylanders a higher wage The bill and thatTerrell wouldOwens, have increased tryingthe to distance him “For from the Tony Romo AFRO Staff Writer Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death throug group, among the names submitted to from wouldObama mean being to afford the basics for which in able his grandmother’s home in wage in increments the saying, “Barack – Rev. Kojo Nantambu minimum Neverby Organized with election $7.25 officials.

Presidential candidate John the 7000 food, block medicine, of South Yale theirACORN.” families- childcare, and current standard to $10 an hour Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run McCain’s attack on ACORN – Avenue.to live a quality life in the American Civil Liberties everything else needed 2015.

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But ACORN trouble.

“The that has surthe head of the“My aftermany Julianpeople was discovered aorganization, national story,” he said means lifting out It wasevidence shot down in an 8-3 vote onnow Mar. 20, is in“It Reporter: There are at least faced so far shows they faked group says. missing after thepublic murders. question would be how could of poverty and getting them off after unfavorable votes were received from 11 investigations across the “This is testimony to the work forms to get paid for work they Police arrested William they ignore it?”success we’ve assistance.”

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“It’s painful to know that on any given day in this country that an African American male can be killed for no reason by the people Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’ who are supposed to protect him.”

ACORN Fights Back

man was trying to get married in the upcoming year.”

Barnett also urged revocation of Kerrick’s $50,000 bond, charging that the seriousness of the crime deserves a higher threshold. “(Kerrick) is out on $50,000 as if Afro-American lives doesn’t mean anything,” Barnett said. “A mother lost her son. (Ferrell) wasn’t a thug or hanging out on the streets. He went to college.

Aspired to marry his (fiancée) next year.”

“We’re asking that the Citizens Review Board be strengthened and given the power it was put here to do in 1997,” Newton said.

Drug Conspiracy Continued from A1 they are often the targets of violence, sadly innocent people get caught in the crossfire.”

Bernstein told the AFRO that the roots of the conspiracy were laid last year with the conviction on drug charges of Danny Fisher and Keith Thomas, men who, he said were “responsible for controlling the openair distribution network in the Coppin Heights neighborhood.”

Fisher and Thomas were sentenced to 15 years in prison. Bernstein said after the pair left the area, two of the nine newly indicted persons took over the territory.

According to Det. Jeremy Silbert, police spokesperson, since 2010 there have been 24 shootings in the Coppin Heights area. “There were 11 fatalities and 13 non-fatal shootings.”

“In that particular neighborhood, drugs have been sold both day and night,” Silbert said.

Police have been patrolling the 1600 to 1700 blocks of Ruxton Avenue where they said most of the drug dealing took place.

Silbert said, “Our department has worked diligently to collect enough evidence not only to arrest, but also to present a strong enough case to convict the individuals.”

The indictment included Karon Shaw, 20; Mingo Watson, 32; Montrel Smith, 19; Franklin Henderson, 24; and Monica Rimmer, 49, all of Baltimore.

Bernstein said, “the evidence was developed was over a five-week period.”

Bernstein told the AFRO investigations like this sometimes take months— years. “The fact that we were able to move so quickly dismantling what we believe to be a major drug organization in the area, that has been linked to both historic and recent violence in the area, is a huge accomplishment.”

He said all nine are indicted for conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine as well as the actual distribution of heroin and

tered to Hudson’s murdered brother, was towed with the boy’s body inside and is being processed by evidence technicians and workers. The body September 21, 2013 was - September 2013, later removed27, and taken to The Afro-American the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Hudson and other family Delores G. Kelley (D- Baltimore County) and members arrived Allan at the Medical H. Kittlemann (R- Carroll and Howard Examiner’s office mid-afterContinued from A1 counties).

Julian King, Jennnifer Hudson’s ne noon to identify the body.

They lookwere joined in opposition to the Given the choice between $15,000.

A spokesman for the office the mu directly at themeasure body or by Sens. Katherine A. Klausmeier Gas, food, tolls, insurance, anding tuition told the newspaper that Hudson jail for viewing it on a wall-mounted (D-Baltimore County), James N. Mathias

cocaine.

“We thought this particular incident is reflective of what happens when the police and people from the state’s attorneys’ office are working closely together using a variety of investigative techniques to obtain the evidence to charge these people in a very short period of time,” he said.

Shaw, Watson, Smith, Henderson and Rimmer are in custody on state charges. The four others in the indictment are still at large and their names won’t be released until they have been taken into custody, police said.

“We shut this down so quickly,” Bernstein told the AFRO. “No one in the city should have to look out their window and see people dealing drugs or have to dodge drug dealers to go to school, church or work.”

Bernstein commended the Major Investigations Unit (MIU) and the Special Enforcements Division on their investigation in this case.

He said the case involved a lot of covert operation, controlled purchases of narcotics and witness testimony.

“We think this case is a good step in a positive direction in ridding neighborhoods like Coppin Heights of drug dealing,” he said.

had,” Maude Hurd, president of ACORN, said in an interview with the AFRO. “When this attack started, we Continued from A1that we had had just announced registered 1.3 million new votOrleans Bank of ers,” she and said.Industrial “That’s just to say Washington, D.C. that someone’s running scared because ofsaid ACORN’s success.”

Fattah the CBCF will McCain, monitor the who CDs.is running for president on the Republican tickThe effort, on et, lashed out at announced ACORN in the the eve of the annual CBCF final debate against Barack Obama, contending the group Legislative Conference, is “is on the applauded verge of maybe perpetratbeing by the ing one of the greatest frauds in National Bankers voter history in thisAssociation country, (NBA), the umbrella advocacy maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” group for Black financial Factcheck.org, institutions.

Andaitnon-partisan comes Web site, found those claims to not a moment too soon, be “exaggerated,” with “nosaid eviMichael Grant, president dence of any such democracydestroying fraud.” of the National Bankers Hurd believes the McCain Association, “sending a charges were politically motivatmessage around the country to ed. other national organizations…

She said, “Because it’s lowand moderate-income people, to other wealthy African and people of color, I believe the Americans and to everyday McCain campaign thinks those consumers.” voters are going to vote He continued, it is Democratic, which “Look, is not necessarilyfor true.” time us to start investing in ACORN stranger to ourselves if is wenowant to build controversy. our institutions, support our For 38 years, the non-partisan schools make sure our for young organization has fought social people have jobs.

Weforare and economic justice lowand moderate-income going to have to do it.’”

Americans. With 400,000 memThe action comes at a time ber families organized into more of declining fortunes forchapBlack than 1,200 neighborhood banks.

Between 1888 and ters in 110 cities nationwide, ACORN haswere over more the years seen 1934, there than a its share of criticism while advo130 Black owned banks in the cating for affordable housing, U.S. the 1960s, saidfor Grant, livingBy wages, healthcare the “We had 60 black banks.organNow underserved— and while izing voter registration drives. there are 30.”

ButGrant none has been as withering characterized the and baseless as this one. decline as an unintended With the presidential election consequence of theaway, death of less than two weeks ACORN’s detractors allege segregation in the U.S. Asthe organizationthat has engaged in masinstitutions were once offsive voter registration fraud after limits were open to Blacks, the reported discovery of bogus names, such as Mickey Mouse

boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator of it.

Hurd said the only things bogus are the charges themselves. And factcheck. org African agrees. American institutions suffered.

It concluded, “Neither ACORN nor its employees B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., have been foundand guilty of, of or even president CEO charged with, casting fraudulent Industrial Bank, spoke of votes.” working as a teenager in the The problem came about primarily because of the way ACORN operates. Rather than rely on volunteers, it pays people, many of them poor or unemployed, to sign up new voters.

The idea was to help both those being registered and those doing the registration.

Maud explained, “We have a bank his grandfather founded zero tolerance policy for deliberate years falsification 79 ago. of registration.”

Most news account neglect “I realized how much theto point out that ACORN is bank didby everyday to help required law to turn in all regpeople that looked like istration forms. And they you also fail to note thatMitchell it was thesaid. organizaand me,” “… tion, in many that first as I got older,instances, I saw how brought the phony registrations we didattention that, through loans, to the of authorities. through waiting on people that The McCain camp apparently isn’t interested those fine were opening in accounts…just points, preferring to air misleadhelping and caring.” ing ads that seek to link Obama Black banks are still to ACORN, thereby undercutting relevant in the post-civil rights his political support.

McCain: I’m John McCain society, he said.

“Black banks andextremely I approve this message. are relevant right Announcer: Who is Barack now.

Just take the church Obama? A man with “a political community.

Most at of warp the baptism performed speed.” loans Vast ambition.

After colchurch from forever lege, he moved to Chicago. came from Black banks. When Became a community organizer. the Black churches grew There, Obama met Madeleine large mega Talbot,enough part of to thebuild Chicago churches of them started branch of some ACORN. He was so impressive that he was asked to going to the larger banks, train the ACORN staff. majority owned banks,” he What did ACORN in Chicago said. engage in? Bullying banks.

With the tactics. near-collapse Intimidation Disruption of business.

ACORN forced of the global economy in banks to issue risky home loans.

2008, he said, “some of these The same types of loans that [White] banks started to we’re pull caused the financial crisis in today.

potentially fraudulent ACORN forms.

Announcer: Massive voter fraud. And the Obama campaign paid more than $800,000 to an ACORN front for get out the vote back because these churches efforts. were struggling pay. So, Pressuring banks to to issue risky loans. voter fraud. whereNationwide are these churches Barack judgment. turningObama. to? TheBad Black banks.”

Blind ambition. Too risky for Mitchell concurs and America.

father and estranged husband of Julia, at his girlfriend’s Southside apartment several hours after the murders.

Balfour’s mother, Michele, has told said.reporters that her son had nothing to do with the slayings.

“Five million dollars in in Balfour remains a suspect

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says more then 50 percent of

Since McCain’s comments, ACORN’s 87 offices have been bombarded with threats and racist mail.

The day after the presidential debate, vandals broke into the organization’s Boston and Seattle – B. Doyle Mitchell Jr. offices and stole computers.

After a Cleveland representative their loans appeared ongo TV,toanunderserved e-mail was sent to the local office saying she communities. “is going to million have herCBCF life ended.”

The $5 A worker in Providence, R.I., investment could trigger a received a threatening call sayrevival for Black banks, Grant ing, “We know you get off work at 9” and uttered racial epithets.

A caller to one office left a message on the answering Please join Sharon Baptist Church for machine, saying: “Hi, I was just calling to let you know that Barack Obama needs to get hung. He’s a (expletive deleted) Guest nigger, and he’sWith a piece of Speaker (expletive deleted). You guys are fraudulent, and you need to go to hell. All the niggers on oak trees.

Services held at 6:30 nightly from They’re gonna get all hung hon1 BANANA Wednesday, September 25th eys, they’re going to get assassinated, they’re gonna get killed.” through Another message said, “You Friday, 27th at liberal idiots.

DumbSeptember (expletive deleted). Welfare bums. You guys just (expletive deleted) come1373 to ourN.country, consume Stricker Street • Baltimore, Maryland 21217 every natural resource there is, AllThat’s Are Welcome! and make a lot of babies. all you guys do. And then suck Reverend Dr. A. C. D. Vaughn, Pastor up the welfare and expect everyone else to pay for your hospital bills for your kids. I jus’ say let Befo your kids die. That’s the best move. Just let your children die.

Fun learning opp Forget about paying for hospital counting and identif bills for them. I’m not gonna do and help them en it. You guys are lowlifes. And I founded Grow Up Gre hope you all die.” con Éxito, a 10-yea Hurd thinks the hate calls will children for school an cease soon.

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To find out mor But ACORN will not be deterred.

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“Black banks are extremely relevant right now.”

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five banks…multiply that by 50 national organizations,” he said. “Multiply that by 20 million African Americans.

It’s leadership. They are SQUARE stepping out there and they are saying we have confidence in these banks. We think they are safe and sound. Why don’t you?”

Ronald Busby, CEO of BREAD U.S. Black Chamber Inc., said “Today’s announcement is truly historic in that we are showing what we can do with LEFT our own dollars.”

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Gerald A. Smith - Civil Rights Lawyer

By Larry Gibson Special to the AFRO Until 1885, African Americans were excluded from practicing law in Maryland. Beginning with the bar admission of Everett J. Waring, a continuous line of courageous and effective black attorneys in Maryland have shaped national policy and effectuated improvements in the law regarding the civil rights for black citizens.

Over a career spanning forty five years, Gerald A. Smith, who died on Sept. 9, was one of those important civil rights lawyers.

Gerald Allen Smith was born Sept. 17, 1934, to Rev. Hiram E. and Lula E. Smith, the third of seven children. “During the Great Depression, my father sold locust posts to the state for forty cents a post. He also owned numerous properties which he leased and rented. A portion of my childhood was spent collecting rents.”

During the mid-1940s, the Smith family opened Beechwood Park as “Maryland’s finest interracial beach and amusement park.”

Located along the Magothy River, the park featured a merry-go- round, other amusement rides, games,

slot machines, a roundhouse, a dance hall, a meeting hall, picnic areas, and food concessions.

Although Beechwood Park was an interracial park, the majority of park patrons were black and from Baltimore, which became a source of irritation for some Anne Arundel County whites.

According to Smith, they accused his father of “trying to mongrelize the county.”

Gerald was educated in Baltimore City Public Schools until the eleventh grade at Frederick Douglass High School. He completed high school at Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. According to Smith, it was more liberal and tolerant. Smith attended first Wilmington College, a private liberal arts Quaker school in Wilmington, Ohio.

After a year, he transferred to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., A year later, after a choir from Howard University performed at Bucknell, Smith transferred to Howard, pledged Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and graduated in 1956, cum laude with a B.S. in Business Administration.

In 1961, he married Gwendolyn Nowel and the following year he enrolled in

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Gerald Allen Smith Howard Law School. While Smith attributed his desire to attend law school to an entrepreneurial spirit nurtured by his father, his childhood experiences also stimulated a desire to fight for justice.

Witnessing his father’s efforts to provide equality through the integration of Beechwood Park ignited a flame for justice that evolved into a torch.

He excelled academically at Howard University Law School and in 1965, Smith graduated cum laude in a graduating class of fifteen students.

Following law school,

Smith worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) in New York. During his employment with LDF, Smith frequently travelled to Southern states to investigate allegations.

While investigating a voting rights complaint in Tuskegee, Ala. he was notified by locals that the police were searching for him. For his protection, Smith was taken to the home of a black resident located near the Ku Klux Klan headquarters. Smith stated that the home was chosen specifically because it was close to the Klan. “The locals figured that the Klan wouldn’t

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The author (center) and Smith (right) at a Kappa Alpha Psi event. Left: Smith as a young attorney.

We Bail Out Banks Yet Fail to Feed the Hungry?

SNAP, in half, over the next 10 years.

At a time when I am generally boiling I woke up this morning water for my morning to an article in the New tea, I found my blood York Times whose headline boiling instead. read, “As Debate Reopens, So, let me get this Food Stamp Recipients straight: We bail out Continue To Squeeze.” The banks yet fail to feed piece details how several the hungry? families in Dyersburg, The Emergency Tennessee (the name of April Yvonne Garrett Economic the town is not lost on me) Stabilization Act of 2008 authorized the struggle with all of the issues born out United States Secretary of the Treasury of chronic underemployment and food to spend up to $700 billion in TARP insecurity. It also details the mentality held by members of Congress who seek (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds to cut the benefits of the Supplemental to purchase distressed assets, mostly Nutrition Assistance Program, known as redirected to inject capital into banks

By April Yvonne Garrett Special to the AFRO

and other financial institutions, foreign and domestic. PLEASE NOTE: On September 24, 2008, then Republican Party nominee for President, John McCain, and Democratic Party nominee for President, Barack Obama, issued a joint statement asserting their support of this measure to “save the American economy.” In 2009, it was found that the Federal Reserve had committed $7.77 trillion to rescuing the financial system - MORE THAN HALF THE VALUE OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS PRODUCED IN THE U.S. THAT YEAR. And you mean to tell me that we can’t set aside $80 billion annually to feed 48 million Americans? The

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look in a home so close to their headquarters.”

In 1966, Smith returned to Baltimore to begin a private law practice and became a special assistant city solicitor for Baltimore.

From 1967 to 1973, Smith worked in law offices with attorneys John Hargrove, Charles Howard, Archie Williams, Charles Williams, Benjamin Brown, James Bundy, and Kenneth Johnson.

It was not a formal law firm, but the attorneys shared office space and overhead expenses.

One of Smith’s most fascinating cases was Naimaster v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a suit that stemmed from an NAACP press release condemning inflammatory comments that had been made

by Naimaster. His law suit complained that the NAACP had caused him to lose his job with the Baltimore Transit Company, by whom he had been employed for 12 years.

Gerald Smith tried the case before an all-white jury

for four days in Anne Arundel County. The jury rejected Naimaster’s claims. Smith described it as one of his most exhilarating cases, “I felt like I was hitting a home run even though I had no reason to feel confident because the case was being tried in Anne Arundel County.

But, by that time people wanted to distance themselves from the activities of the Klan.”

In his private life, Smith was a dedicated husband, father and grandfather. He had four daughters, Wendy Smith Barlow, Candice Conaway Lyte, Laurie Hunter, and Stephanie Smith, three of whom attended his alma mater, Howard University.

Previously divorced from his first wife, Gerald Smith in 1999 married Susie J. Jones.

He had six grandchildren and was survived by two brothers and two sisters.

Larry S. Gibson is a professor at the University of Maryland Law School.

Law student Malikh Prout contributed to this report.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Sept. 20

35 Jamz Moonlight Cruise

Spirit of Baltimore Ship, 561 Light St., Inner Harbor, Baltimore. 12 a.m. Head down to the Inner Harbor and board Spirit Cruises for an R&B party on the water. Listen to music, enjoy delicious cuisine and have exotic drinks as you cruise along the Patapsco River. $45.

For more information: 1-866-312-2469.

Sept. 21

Baltimore County African-American Cultural Festival

Towson Courthouse Plaza, Pennsylvania and Chesapeake Avenues, Towson, Md. 10 a.m.

Baltimore County will host the annual African American Cultural Festival. The event will include dance, live music, art, poetry, historical exhibits, children’s activities and more. For more information: 410887-5557.

Reservoir Hill Music Festival 2013

Whitelock Street and Linden Ave., Baltimore 11 a.m. The St. Francis Center will host the third annual Reservoir Hill Music Festival and Resource Fair on Sept. 21. The festival is free and will feature live music, entertainment, food trucks, vendors and more.

For more information: Stfranciscenter.org.

Sept. 27-29 Baltimore Book Festival 2012

Mount Vernon Place, 600 block of North Charles Street, Baltimore. Various times. The Mid-Atlantic’s premier celebration of the literary arts offers well-known authors, local bookstores, publishers, children’s writers, storytellers, author signings and entertainment. For a schedule and times, visit: Baltimorebookfestival. com.

Sept. 28

Baltimore Family Reunion Expo 2013

Frederick DouglassIsaac Myers Maritime Park, 1417 Thames St., Baltimore. 12 p.m. Come out for the first annual Family Reunion Expo.

Get resources, information on hotel packages and tips for planning the perfect family reunion. $5. For more information: Baltimoreunionexpo.com.

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HistoryMakers Program Brings Black Leaders into Maryland Schools

By AFRO Staff Sculptor and painter James Earl Reid remembers his first experience with drawing. “My earliest experience with drawing was witnessing my mother draw for kids in the projects,” he said. “She would sit down and draw the project houses that we lived in. And I saw coming out of that, magic.”

As Reid told The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American

video oral history archive, “drawing, experiencing drawing, and beginning to see the world in the eyes of an artist was magic.” Today, Reid is a renowned artist. In the late 1970s, he received his first commission from the City of Baltimore. His resulting work, the Billie Holiday Statue, stands at the corner of Lafayette and Pennsylvania avenues.

On Sept 26 and Sept. 27, students in Baltimore, Prince George’s County and other Maryland schools will hear

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proposed $40 billion cut over the next decade would push nearly 6 million people, already fighting poverty, off the rolls- many of them, searching for work in places where work has simply disappeared. So, the option that is gaining traction is to morally haze people for being “able-bodied adults” who desire to work but cannot find a job, by forcing them to ration food, skip meals, hunt for food in the wild (if that is even geographically possible) and go without milk for their children? In 2013? In the United States of America? Really?

To be certain, I stand for personal responsibility (within the context of a thorough understanding of the savage inequalities that have plagued certain sectors of American society, from the founding of our nation, that demand redress and reparation) and abating waste and misuse in any and all government programs. But am I really to accept that the majority of the rest of the 268.9 million Americans believe it is perfectly fine for our brothers, sisters, babies, seniors and disabled, to struggle to get by like this?

What has become of us?

To add insult to injury, Congressman Robert Fincher used the biblical reference of 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat,” to justify these cuts.

Mind you, this is the same man who received about $3.5 million in farm subsidies from the government from 1999 to 2012. Associate

Reid; Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, (D-Balto. County); former Morgan State University President Earl S. Richardson; Rev. Frances M. Draper, pastor of Freedom Temple AME Zion Church; and others as they join hundreds of African-American HistoryMakers across the nation for the 4th annual Back to School With The HistoryMakers program to commit to excellence and finishing their education.

Secretary of Education Arne

Pastor of Memphis’ First Congo Church, Rev. Sonia Louden Walker, could not have corrected his remarkably caustic use of scripture more perfectly when she declared: “Congressman Fincher’s attempt to find biblical support for his view in Second Thessalonians, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” reflects a complete failure to take into account the specific historical situation that Paul was addressing in this letter, which had nothing to do with government taxation or distribution of wealth. Paul is addressing a group that for theological reasons refuses to work, relying instead on a misguided view that the end is near and therefore there is no need to work. What such a group and Paul’s response to them have to do with the contemporary issue of assistance to the poor through food stamps is beyond me.”

In fact, these are the types of ahistorical, inhumane talking points that have become hot commerce traded by many in the political arena because we are too uninformed and thirsty for the simplest articulation of any sentiment that seems to support our most base assumptions, even if they are incorrect and out of order. We have no problem using the Bible, the Constitution, or any other text that is widely known, yet vaguely familiar to the masses, to win people to our side of the debate.

Historically and again presently, the hypocrisy of the use of documents that can call forth our better angels to disparage others must be called into question.

Rather than demonizing people who are in dire straits, would it be too much to ask of our

Duncan is chairing the nationwide effort with the goal of having more than 500 Black leaders go “back to school” in 68 cities in 30 states. The program puts HistoryMakers in direct contact with over 25,000 students across the nation to inspire them with their life stories and to encourage youth to strive for excellence.

The theme of the day is “COMMIT.” The HistoryMakers will recount their own school experiences and the struggles they encountered on

leaders to come up with solutions to problems that have become nearly (yet not entirely) intractable in some sectors of American society for far too long? To ask them to use their wit and wisdom to create effective policy and incentives that promote the agency of Americans who desire to be employable and employed? Or are we just more committed to the optics of political theatrics on both sides that keep these inequalities in place as we spend our time debating party positions while the number of people plummeting toward poverty continues to rise?

And to think some of you choose to fill your social media feeds with posts about narcissists

their paths to success.

HistoryMakers Founder and Executive Director Julieanna Richardson is encouraging educators everywhere to use The HistoryMakers’ digital archive to enrich their students’ exposure to the contributions of African Americans across the globe. This year, schools participating in the event will receive a free one-year membership for the digital archive.

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who make money off of your attention and never lift a finger to help others It is time to wake up!

It is time for you to make a commitment to move beyond complaining on Facebook and Twitter to using Facebook and Twitter to encourage, strike that, DEMAND ACTION! It is time to call Congress and take a stand for the 48 million of our brothers and sisters who are food insecure!

It is time to raise holy hell!

April Yvonne Garrett is the curator of www.

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“We had a five-year contract and two years into it we could compare favorably to any race in the country,” said Grant. “We had sponsors that were line up for 2014 and 2015, but if we go to them and say that we aren’t having a race, they will think hard about us coming back in 2016 saying ‘the race is on.’”

“It would be very difficult to regain the momentum that we have to put on a comparable race. To wait until 2016 would be

starting from zero for us.”

Grant said that his key objective for taking on the challenge of the Baltimore Grand Prix was to “show Baltimore what can happen when you think big and have the right team in place.”

“This race was shown in more than 160 countries worldwide. I wanted to expand the image of the city,” he said.

No future replacement for Race On, LLC is in sight at the moment, but Grant said that he would be glad to work with future organizers and share his experience.

Grant said that the fourth company to take over the Grand Prix should be well capitalized and have someone in the ranks that understands the racing business.

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OPINION

1963 was the Pivotal Year for Civil Rights

In the modern civil rights era, no year stands out in my memory more than 1963. I was a sophomore at Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, Ala. and living in McKenzie Court, the all-Black housing project on the west side of town. After a life of second-class citizenship, I finally saw the walls of segregation crumbling.

Tuscaloosa provided me with a front-row seat.

My stepfather, William H. George E. Curry Polk, drove a dump truck at NNPA Columnist the University of Alabama.

Although our taxes went to support what was even then a football factory, African Americans were barred from attending the state-supported school.

On Feb. 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy gained admission to the University of Alabama under a U.S. Supreme Court order. But a mob gathered on campus three days later. Instead defending the Black graduate student, the university suspended Lucy, saying officials could not protect her. When she sued to gain readmission, Alabama officials used that suit to claim she had slandered the university and therefore could not continue as a student.

But things would be different on June 11, 1963, which is not to say there wouldn’t be resistance.

Vivian Malone and James Hood, armed with a federal court order that the university admit them and segregationist Gov. George C. Wallace not interfere, sought to enter Foster Auditorium on campus to register for classes. They were accompanied by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.

Instead of complying with the federal order, Gov. Wallace, who had pledged “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” in his inaugural address, staged his “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” to block the two students from entering.

Katzenbach left with the students and placed a call to

President John F. Kennedy. The president nationalized the Alabama National Guard. When Malone, Hood and Katzenbach returned to Foster Auditorium that afternoon, Gen. Henry Graham told Wallace, “Sir, it is my sad duty to ask you to step aside under orders of the president of the United States.”

After uttering a few words, Wallace stepped to the side and Malone and Hood walked inside and registered.

It was exciting to see the drama being played out on our black and white TV. At last, I thought, the walls of segregation would be forever shattered.

President Kennedy gave an eloquent televised speech to the nation that night. He said, “Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Viet Nam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops.”

The euphoria of a victory in my hometown was short lived. Within hours of Kennedy’s speech, Medgar Evers, who headed NAACP field operations in Mississippi, was shot to death in Jackson, Miss. after parking his car in his driveway and exiting to enter his home. Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested for the crime. However, he was acquitted by an all-White, all male jury. It wasn’t until 30 years later, when new evidence surfaced, that Beckwith was finally convicted for murdering Evers.

Of course, 250,000 gathered Aug. 28, 1963 for the March on Washington. Much has been written about the march, so I won’t devote much space here except to note that the news media was fixated on the possibility of the March turning violent. But, as the Baltimore Sun noted, only three people were arrested that day and “not one was a Negro.”

Like the desegregation of the University of Alabama, White racists were eager to “send a message” that the March on Washington would not change their world.

In the wee hours of Sunday, Sept. 15, four Klansmen – Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank and Robert Chambliss, planted a box of dynamite with a time

delay under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., a rallying point in the city for civil rights activities. At 10:22 a.m., the bomb went off, killing four young girls – Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair – and injuring 22 others.

Although the violent message was supposed to remind Blacks that there were no safe places for them, not even church, Blacks sent a more lasting message by continuing to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham and across the South.

The enormous sacrifices of 1963 were not in vain. They provided the groundwork for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It was a year worth remembering.

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

New Fed Chair Needs to Back Main Street “The Federal Reserve Chairman is not only one of the most important economic policymakers in America, he or she is one of the most important policymakers in the world.” —President Barack Obama

Welcome to the season of big decisions in Washington. In the coming days, President Obama will have to decide whether Marc H. Morial to order a military strike NNPA Columnist against the Syrian regime for using chemical weapons against its own people. Time is also running out for Congress and the administration to agree on a budget to avoid an Oct. 1 government shutdown, and lawmakers are on the line to raise the debt ceiling to keep the nation from defaulting on its financial obligations. In the midst of all of this, the president must decide whom to pick for one of the most important jobs in the world – Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

“The Fed,” as it is commonly called, is the central bank of the United States, responsible for setting monetary policy and credit conditions in support of full employment and stable prices. The Fed also supervises and regulates banks to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers.

Ben Bernanke has held this job since 2006, one year before the start of the Great Recession. While Bernanke is not without his critics, many believe his policies helped prevent another Great Depression and put the nation on the road to a steady, albeit much too sluggish, recovery. The August jobs report shows the economy created 169,000 jobs last month, with overall unemployment now down to 7.3 percent. This translates into 42 straight months of private sector job creation and a total of 7.5 million new jobs. The economy is moving in the right direction. But the 13 percent unemployment rate for African Americans and the 9.3 percent rate for Hispanics make it clear that even as the recovery inches forward, communities of color are still being left behind.

With Ben Bernanke’s term as Federal Reserve Chairman set to expire on Jan. 31, 2014, President Obama must choose a successor who is committed to ending these inequalities while being acceptable to Main Street, Wall Street, and Capitol Hill – an almost irreconcilable team of rivals.

Ted Cruz Loves Arch-Racist Jesse Helms In office just nine months, Ted Cruz, the NNPA Columnist junior Republican Senator from Texas, has already established himself as that body’s most divisive force since the witch-hunting, 1950s demagogue, Joe McCarthy.

A darling of the most extreme factions of the conservative movement, Cruz exemplifies what was obvious about the GOP’s fortunes since the Tea Party emerged on its right flank two months after President Obama took office in 2009: That it would have to destroy the GOP’s establishment – that is, those Republican officeholders who, though rock-ribbed conservatives, actually believed in the old American winsome-lose-some tradition of political accommodation and pragmatism.

And last week, speaking at an event meant to honor the late Jesse Helms, the longtime segregationist senator from North Carolina, Cruz, Texas’ first Hispanic senator, revealed again for all to see how unbreakable is the connection between conservatism and White racism.

Cruz, who was born in 1970, first briefly spun a tale of how he had idolized Helms, who served in the Senate from 1972 to 2001, since he was 10 – when he had sent Helms a $10 campaign contribution “’cause they were beating up on him, they were coming after him hard and I thought it wasn’t right …”

Then, after a moment, Cruz added, “The willingness [of Helms] to say all those crazy things is a rare, rare characteristic in this town, and you know what? It’s every bit as true now as it

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was then. We need a hundred more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate.”

The bulk of Cruz’s remarks laid out his analysis of Helms’ positions on foreign affairs (an analysis that in fact was laughably wrong).

But Cruz’s gushing, thankfully, did remind us that for nearly two centuries, the United States Senate was comprised of a substantial number of senators like Jesse Helms. That bloc, along with their confederates in the House of Representatives, was responsible for establishing and maintaining Negro slavery and its successor, racial apartheid, in the South into the latter third of the 20th century.

By the time Helms reached the Senate, the legislative victories of the Civil Rights Movement – which Helms staunchly opposed and continued to denigrate throughout his political life – had pared those politicians’ numbers sharply.

But Jesse Helms, provincial and mean-spirited, continued to fight on. In 1983, he was the only Senator to vote against approving Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday.

In 1990, he waged what many called the most racist political campaign since the civil rights years to fend off a challenge from Harvey Gantt, an African American Democrat and former mayor of Charlotte. In 1993, he tried to taunt Illinois’ Carol Moseley-Braun, newly-elected as the nation’s first Black female senator, by singing “Dixie” as they rode the Senate elevator one day in order, as he said, to try to make her cry.

Moseley-Braun did not cry. A few weeks earlier, she had led a successful charge against Helms’ trying to guide a renewal of a federal patent on the Confederate flag for the

The president’s choices had been former Treasury Secretary and Obama economic adviser, Larry Summers, who was favored over Fed Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen.

Opposition to Summers was so intense, broad, and diverse that he withdrew his name from consideration on Sept. 15.

Everyone, from Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to the National Organization of Women to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and a growing list of members of Congress, had urged the President to pick Yellen over Summers. As a leading architect of Wall Street deregulation during the 1990’s, Summer’s policies have been viewed as helping to pave the way to the Great Recession. A recent New York Times editorial concludes that “Mr. Summers has also shown an indifference to the effects of economic decisions on ordinary people.”

We urge the president to consider appointing someone who is more of a friend to Main Street than to Wall Street. This includes, the highly-qualified Janet Yellen, who would be the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve. It should also include other women, African American and minority economists who could bring both excellence and diversity to the Fed. Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.

United Daughters of the Confederacy. She won the substantive political battle; his response was a juvenile gesture.

In 2001, when Helms announced he would retire from the Senate, the columnist David S. Broder, a widely-respected political centrist, wrote a column in the Aug. 29 editions of the Washington Post that appeared under a headline that was simple and stunning: “Jesse Helms, White Racist.”

In the column, Broder declared “What really sets Jesse Helms apart is that he is the last prominent unabashed white racist politician in this country … [and] the squeamishness of much of the press in characterizing Helms for what he is suggests an unwillingness to confront the reality of race in our national life.”

Broder continued that “What is unique about Helms – and from my viewpoint, unforgivable – is his willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of American history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans.”

Finally, after setting Helms in the context of the modernday segregationist politicians who fought the Civil Rights Movement, Broder concluded: “That is not a history to be sanitized.”

Ted Cruz tells us Jesse Helms is his political idol. What does that say about Ted Cruz?

Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is ‘Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.’

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Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony Kicks Off New Season Balto’s Hippodrome Once Again Site of Musical Magic

Attorney General of Maryland ASSISTANT COUNSEL FOR THE MARYLAND TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION The Attorney General of Maryland is inviting law firms and attorneys experienced in the defense of motor torts and premise liability to submit proposals outlining in detail their ability to serve as Assistant Counsel to the Maryland Transit Administration (“MTA”) of the Maryland Department of Transportation (“Department”).

Successful offeror(s) will provide legal representation in actions filed against MTA arising from its bus, rail and premises operations.

Particular needs and requirements of the invitation are contained in three Requests for Proposals (“RFP-Part A, RFP-Part B and RFP-Part C”), which may be obtained from the Procurement Officer: T. Byron Smith Deputy Counsel to the Maryland Transit Administration Office of the Attorney General 6 Saint Paul Street, 12th Floor Baltimore, Maryland 21202 410-767-5833 Email: Bsmith10@mta.maryland.gov The RFP’s may also be downloaded from the Office of the Attorney General Internet site: www.oag.state.md.us. Please confirm by email (Bsmith10@mta.maryland.gov) or fax (410-3332584) to the Procurement Officer that you have downloaded the RFP. This will enable you to be notified of any changes.

The closing date for receipt of proposals is 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 8, 2013. There will be no pre-proposal conference.

Proposals must be delivered to the Office of the Attorney General at MTA as set forth in the RFP in hard copy only. Electronic submission of proposals will not be accepted.

Minority Business Enterprises are encouraged to respond to this solicitation notice.

Darin Atwater directs his Soulful Symphony in March “This concert will be a celebration of American gospel [music] featuring new and original arrangements by Atwater for his 85-piece orchestra and vocals,” according to a news release. “In partnership with the Hippodrome Foundation, Soulful Symphony is the resident ensemble” of the FranceMerrick center.

The concert will culminate a week that saw Atwater take his talent to Baltimore’s children. On Sept. 17, he and two musicians traveled to Booker T. Washington Middle School for the Arts, where he delivered a lively lecture and musical performance for students accompanied by two other musicians.

“It was a beautiful day for beautiful kids,” said Debbie Thomas, the principal at Booker T. She said the experience created “a lifelong memory” for her students.

“Atwater was incredible, and [so were] his friends! What they did, the time they spent, was just a huge deposit into the lives of the students,” Thomas said.

Olive Waxter, director of the Hippodrome Foundation, had high praises for the Soulful Symphony. She said the group will play three concerts in the 2013/2014 partnership with the foundation, including “Say Amen,” a holiday concert scheduled for Dec. 14 and a final concert of the season on May 4 entitled, “So Many Stars,” which will take listeners on a journey of various forms of music over many generations.

Waxter said Atwater agreed to visit schools after partnering with the foundation in its effort to expose local students to music in the schools. The Hippodrome Foundation’s Soulful Symphony Artist in Residence Program, its Camp Hippodrome and regular master classes that are offered to students make up the program. Officials said the foundation has helped more than 40,000 children learn about music since the Hippodrome started in 2004. The Artist in Residence Program has been helping students at Lansdowne High School for several years.

In a statement, Amy Rosenkrans, director of humanities for Baltimore City Public Schools, said local schools “benefit so much” from programs such as Atwater’s visit to Booker T. Washington Middle School.

Atwater agreed.

“This program works,” he said in a statement. “I understand how much it means to the students. We care about them and their music! This is all about helping these kids believe in themselves.”

Guests at the school performance included the Rev. Alvin Hathaway, pastor of Union Baptist Church; the Rev. Sheridan Yeary, pastor of Douglas Memorial Community Church; and Rosenkrans. Students helped erected an outdoor stage for their encounter with the musicians.

Some of the children who were treated to Atwater’s magic at the school will undoubtedly be in the audience when he lifts his baton on Sept. 21 for “Say Amen Somebody.”

The symphony will premiere a new song, “Footprints,” which he wrote and orchestrated.

Waxter said Atwater is as gifted at inspiring children as he is at composing and performing music.

“They look up at Darin and they see an experienced professional who has accomplished his dream,” she said. “They are inspired by that.”

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The leaves are turning, temperatures are dipping and Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony is preparing to debut its 2013/2014 season at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore.

To fans of good music, all is right with the world.

Atwater is the uber-composer who years ago created a musical phenomenon by blending a variety of musical genres in symphonies performed by mostly-Black orchestras, the Soulful Symphony. He and the musicians, who hail from as far away as New York and include many from the Washington, D.C. area, have been rehearsing for the symphony’s first concert of the new season, “Say Amen Somebody,” scheduled for 8 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2013 at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center.

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Family members CJ, Armstead Crawley Jones, Kristina McFadden, Keneal McFadden, Honoree McFadden, Rachel, wife

Kirk Hemphill, Polemarch, Baltimore Alumni Chapter, Sen. McFadden, Donald Malcolm Smith, president, Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation, Metro Baltimore

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A stream of political figures, including Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, Congressman Elijah Cummings, US. Representative for Maryland’s 7th District, the Hon. Carl Stokes, Baltimore City Council, 12th District, and the Mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake greeted Sen. Nathaniel McFadden and his family as he celebrated his 67th Birthday.

Each speaker complimented Sen. McFadden on his acts of humanity and service to the community and specifically to the people in the 45th District in Maryland.

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Sen. McFadden is also Chairman of the Baltimore City Senate Delegation, and State Senate president.

He is also President Pro Tem of the Senate after serving as the Majority Leader from 2003-2007.

In December 2007, McFadden was chosen by the Obama for President campaign to appear on the ballot as a male delegate for Obama from Maryland’s 7th Congressional District.

Sen. McFadden and wife Rachel are the parents of three sons: Nathaniel Jr., Byron, and Devon Dodson, and grandparents of two granddaughters, Kristina and Keneal McFadden.

After Senator McFadden highlighted his journey from educator to the House of Senate, he thanked his guests and ended his talk with his favorite line, “God is Good All the Time...all the time God is Good!

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Or could it be retirement or possibly another fight?

Stephen D. Riley and Perry Green of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Riley: Mayweather doesn’t really have anything left to do. He’s beaten all of his challengers and done so in a fashion and bravado not seen

since Muhammad Ali. A fight with Pacquiao doesn’t seem as appetizing as it was a few years ago so there isn’t as much demand for that fight as it was when the idea first came up with both fighters in their prime. Honestly, I think Mayweather has earned the right to retire in peace. He’s not going to be given any lip

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By Courtney Jacobs Special to the AFRO Despite being one of the oldest events in the Olympics Games, wrestling had to wage an uphill battle to regain a spot in the quadrennial summer games.

Nasir Wilkinson, 11, is passionate about the sport and told the AFRO he hopes to compete nationally one day.

He may get the opportunity. The sport was originally dropped from the games in February, but following a chorus of opposition to the decision, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) on Sept. 8 restored the sport for the 2020 and 2024 games.

The move to drop wrestling, which has been in every modern Olympics since the inaugural 1896 Athens Games except 1900, reflected the IOC’s efforts to attract younger fans. But the move encountered stiff opposition, some of it from young athletes.

“They can’t hold us down,” Nasir said recently. Even though the IOC Executive Board had dropped the sport Feb. 12, he remained enthusiastic about the sport.

He even participated in a rally in Georgia in August during which the

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The IOC decided it would limit the Games to 28 sports, and roughly 10,500 athletes and about 300 events.

But after wrestling enthusiasts waged a campaign to restore the sport, an effort orchestrated by USA Wrestling and other international wrestling sanctioning bodies.

The advocacy resulted in wrestling, along with squash, baseball and softball, gaining an opportunity to make a case for inclusion. The opportunity was granted by the IOC board in May. After wrestling made its case before the board, the IOC decided Sept. 8 it would limit the Games to 28 sports, and roughly 10,500 athletes and about 300 events, restoring wrestling for the 2020 and 2024 Olympic games.

On the first vote, wrestling received 49 votes out of the 95 voters, receiving the majority of votes and winning on the first ballot.

“This is a great day for wrestling,” USA Wrestling President James Ravannack said. “As a family, we showed our pride in wrestling, and have helped tell the story of our sport to the IOC and to the world.”

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Mayweather and his opponent Canelo Alvarez shortly before the Sept. 14 fight. about not fighting Pacquiao and can anybody remember the last time he was seriously challenged?

Green: I agree with you Riley that a fight with Pacquiao isn’t as demanding as it used to be, especially with Pacquiao avoiding drug tests, but retirement should be the least of his thoughts right now. A rematch with Alvarez should be next on the menu and, as we saw on Saturday night, Mayweather still has a lot left in the tank. He’s still the premiere ticket in town and, even at age 36, another two to three years of high level boxing is not too far out of the realm of possibilities for this prize fighter.

Riley: I’m always leery of aging boxers because the chance for a loss is greatly increased. We’re going to remember Mayweather for a lot of things but his

undefeated record is one that stands out. To jeopardize that against some young contender looking to make a name for himself is too great a risk for Mayweather. He’s cocky, arrogant, and he’s also a smart businessman who knows that his stature revolves around his undefeated track. A loss wouldn’t crack everything that Mayweather has built but it undoubtedly would blemish what he’s done to this point.

Green: Floyd isn’t going to run from a challenge just to preserve his undefeated record so retirement at age 36 is completely out the question. He’s 36, Riley, not 46. We can and should expect to see him compete at a high level for the next few seasons.

Bottom line: this fighter isn’t going anywhere any time soon. And as much as you want to see him fail he simply doesn’t.

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The programs include: family festivals, celebration vacations, birthday blasts, Kami’s Bobby Watson Curtis Lundy Jammies, Caring The Curtis Lundy / Bobby Watson Quartet Connection will be featured at the Caton Castle, located and group on Caton Avenue and Hilton Street on Sept. parties.

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Help Tiger Lil’ celebrate her 70th birthday on Sept. 2, from 5 to 9 p.m. at Melba’s Place, 3221 Greenmount Avenue.

For my art lovers: The James E. Lewis Museum of Art is hosting a monthly collectors forum. From now until Oct. 2 the Wasyl Palijczuk exhibition will be on display. (Wow! I am so glad I only have to type this name and not pronounce it). The guests have the chance to discuss their personal collection, exchange ideas and enhance their knowledge of art. The

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Terrance” on Sept. 27, from 6 to 10 p.m., and you org. are invited. What could be better than a beautiful fall Join jazz music evening with good friends, live jazz by Mark Evans lovers from all over and Soul Center Band, delicious wine, great food, for an afternoon of cocktails and Rosa Pryor signing a copy of her new jazz on the pier in book to you? For ticket information contact Verna Fells Point. “Sunday Kindle at 410-396-1324; space is limited.

Afternoon Jazz on the Please, don’t forget Waterfront” will feature to send me your ad to Gary Bartz,a Grammy go into the Rosa Pryor Award winner; he Music Scholarship is Baltimore’s own, Fund, souvenir journal as well as being and get your tickets for featured in Rosa the Scholarship Gala Pryor’s latest Book, coming up Oct. 27, “African American from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Forum Caterers. This Community, History is an event you don’t & Entertainment want to miss; support it in Maryland” any way you can. The (Remembering the children, from ages Yester s 1940-1980), 4-17 years old, need www.rambling-rose. you, I need you to com on Sept. 29, 2-6 Robert “Bobby” Lee Davis, help me make another a big jazz fan and a long p.m., at the Frederick child’s dreams come Douglass-Isaac Myers time Arch Social Club true. All donations Maritime Park with member, passed away can be sent to 214 The Latin Jazz Band, “Big Daddy” Stallings will perform with last week. His funeral Conewood Road, The Curtis Brothers, The Bluez Evolution Band on Sept. 21 at services were Sept. 17.

Reisterstown, Md. Chelsey Green and P.G. County Community College in Largo, Condolences to his family 21136. We are a nonthe Green Project and Md. at 3 p.m. For more information go to: and friends. profit organization, The Todd Marcus www.pgcc.edu/go/blues. meaning we are Jazz Orchestra. tax-deductible. Or you can go to my website: www.

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W A R N EDT I N G :2013 Rule TYPESET: Wed Sep 11 15:06:53 AD NETWORK LEGAL NOTICES 12.285, Florida Family AFRO Classified minimum ad rate is $26.54 per Law Rules of Procefor log home! Low bank col. inch (an inch consists of up to 20 words). dures, require certain I N T H E C I R C U I T 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/ terms. Call now 877disclosure of Mail in your ad on form below along with COURT, SEVENTH automatic 2013 888-7581, x 103 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN documents and inCHECK or MONEY ORDER to: formation.

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NAME: ________________________________________________ Andrew L. McGhee com or visit our website 407 Courtland Blvd ORDER ADDRESS: _____________________________________________ BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND at www.mddcpress.com Deltona, FL 32738. Upon consideration of INVITATION FOR BIDS 407-321-4190 on or the petition of Robert PHONE NO.:____________________________________________ before October 7, 2013 Sean Horrigan to reREAL ESTATE and file the original with open probate estate CONTRACT NO. 13004 SX0 CLASSIFICATION: ______________________________________ HAWTHORNE #2 PUMPING STATION UPthe Clerk of the Circuit and for letters tesGRADES - CONSENT DECREE Court at P.O. Box 6043. tamentary filed on (Room, Apt., House, etc.)

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BID DATE: the relief demanded in Court, this 8th day of Effective October 1, 2008THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, New Homes mid $40’s. the petition.

2013 AT 10:30 A.M. EST July, 2013; Brochures available Copies of all court ORDERED, that Rob1-866-629-0770 or d o c u m e n t s i n t h i s ert Sean Horrigan is On or after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013, PROBATE DIVISION www.coolbranch.com case, including orders, authorized to provide the above contract documents (See Note *) (Estates) are available at the notice by publication to may be inspected and purchased from the Clerk of the Circuit the interested persons Division of Construction Contracts Admin202-332-0080 VACATION Court’s Office. You of this estate of the inistration, Department of Public Works, PROBATE NOTICES m a y r e v i e w t h e s e stant petition to reopen Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), RENTALS documents upon re- probate estate and for 111 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD quest. You must keep letters testamentary in 21204, upon receipt of$180.00 payment OCEAN CITY, a.

Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion perof3 $40.00 weeks the Clerk of the Circuit accordance with SCR(FORTY DOLLARS) per contract. All checks MARYLAND. b. Small Estates (single publication $ 60 per insertion Court’s Office notified PD 11 by delivering noshould be made payable to BALTIMORE Best selection of of your current ad- tice of such, publicaCOUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS will be made to c. Notice to Creditors affordable rentals. dress. (You may file tion to a newspaper of a ninsertion y o n e . D i r e c t a n$180.00 y q u eper stio s to 1.

Domestic $ 60 per 3 nweeks Florida Family Law general circulation in 410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents Full/ partial weeks.

2. Foreign $ 60 per insertion $180.00 perBaltimore 3 weeks Form 12.915. Notice of the Washington metrofrom another source other than Call for FREE current address.) Fu- politan area in compliCounty WILL NOT be allowed submit prod. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $360.00toper 6 weeks brochure. Open daily. ture papers in this law- ance with D.C. Code, posals to Baltimore County. e.

Standard Probates $125.00 Holiday Real Estate. suit will be mailed to the sec. 19-301(c) (1961 address on record at Ed.) within 14 days of *Note: Contract Documents will consist of 1-800-638-2102. the Clerk’s Office. teh date of this order One (1) Paper Copy Proposal Book and CIVIL NOTICES Online reservations: W A R N I N G : R u l e and shall file the proof One (1) Compact Disk (CD) with all of the www.holidayoc.com 12.285, Florida Family of publication before a. Name Changes 202-879-1133 $ CD 80.00 required drawings. The will be in PDF Law Rules of the hearing date set in format. Contractors and Sub-Contractors b.

Real Property $ 200.00 prodcedure, require this order, and it is furcan purchase paper copies of the drawings c e r t a i n a u t o m a t i c ther;. from Baltimore County - OIT - Central d i s c l o s u r e o f ORDERED, that Printing located in the Basement of the FAMILY COURT documents and in- pursuant to D.C. Code, COB, RM G-9 for $1.50 a copy.

202-879-1212 formation. Failure to sec. 19-301 (1961 comply can result in Ed.), the The proposed work consists of: Upgrade existDOMESTIC RELATIONS sanctions including interested persons of ing station. Renovate Station to increase re202-879-0157 dismissal or striking of this estate are hereby liability. pleadings. directed to appear andshow cause why A pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesa. Absent Defendant $ 150.00 August 21, 2013. the prayers of th day, September 25, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. EST at lnstantpetltlon should the station. A second $ site visit will be held b.

Absolute Divorce 150.00 Date of Publication; not be granted on the on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. c. Custody Divorce $150.00 September 13, 2013 10th day of September, EST at the station. A third site visit will be Name of Newspaper 2013 at 11:30 a.m. In held on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at The Afro Courtroom A51 before at the station.$50.00 This will&beup the To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6692, 9:00 ext. a.m.

262,EST Public Notices American Judge Campbell at 515 last chance to visit the station. No quesTYPESET: NewspaperWed Sep 11 15:07:33 5 t h S tEDT r e e t2013 , N W, depending on size, Baltimore Legal Notices $24.84atper tions will be are answered thisinch. time.

Washington, D.C.; with 1-800 (AFRO) 892 s9/13, u c h 9/20, s h o 9/27 w cause THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINOR10/4/2013date to be I N T H E C I R C U I T .hearing For Proof of Publication, pleaseITY callBUSINESS 1-800-237-8892, ext. 244 ENTERPRISE UTILIZATION COURT, SEVENTH listed in the notice of GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTIJUDICAL CIRCUIT IN publication by Robert L I Z AT I O N G O A L S . T H E S E G O A L AND FOR VOLUSIA Sean Horrigan; and it is TYPESET: Tue Sep 17 18:39:36 EDT 2013 REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY EXCOUNTY, FLORIDA further; LEGAL NOTICES PLAINED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS. THE acceptable.

Case No: ORDERED, that RobMBE/WBE FORMS IN THE PROPOSAL 2013-12761 FMDL ert Sean Horrigan shall BOOKLET MUSTAgent BE COMPLETED ANDto The Purchasing reserves the right BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND Division: 03 file an affidavitreflecSUBMITTED TIME or OFbids BIDorOPENreject any orAT all THE proposals parts of INVITATION FOR BIDS Andrew L. McGhee ting proof of mailing of ING. bids and to waive technicalities as may be Petitioner the notice of publicadeemed best for the interest of the County.

CONTRACT NO. 13004 SX0 VS tion to all interested Sealed proposals (the entire book) adJerome Salter persons in this estate HAWTHORNE #2 PUMPING STATION UPKeith Dorsey, Director Office of Budget & FiGRADES - CONSENT DECREE dressed to Baltimore County, Maryland for this Respondent at their last known adnance will be received in the Baltimore contract dresses in accordance 2110 COCKSPUR ROAD, MIDDLE RIVER, MARYLAND 21220 County Purchasing Division, Room 148, NOTICE OF ACTION with SCR-PD 11(c)(1).

MIDDLE RIVER - DISTRICT 15 c 6 Old Courthouse, 400 Washington Avenue, To:Jerome Salter last Judge CONTRACT COST GROUP ”D ($1,000,000 Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on known address 517 N. to $2,500,000)” the contract at which time they will be publicly Carrolton Ave BalWORK CLASSIFICATION: G-2 with G-3 Preopened and read. timore,MD 21236 YOU Qualified Subcontractor ARE HEREBY NOTIBID DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN FIED that an action has 2013 AT 10:30 A.M. EST PREQUALIFIED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY been filed against you AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE and that you are reOn or after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013, OPENING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO quired to serve a copy the above contract documents (See Note *) SUBMIT PROPOSALS of your written may be inspected and purchased from the defenses, if any, on Division of Construction Contracts Admin.All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid petitioner or petitionistration, Department of Public Works, Bond, on the approved form provided, in the er’s attorney: Andrew Room Tue 300B, County Office Building (COB), amount as set forth in the ”Information for BidL. McGhee 407 CourtTYPESET: Sep 17 18:39:36 EDT 2013 111 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD ders”. No other form of proposal guaranty is land Blvd 21204, upon receipt of payment of $40.00 acceptable.

Deltona, Florida (FORTY DOLLARS) per contract.

All checks 32738, 407-321-4190. should be made payable to BALTIMORE BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to on or before October COUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS will be made to INVITATION FOR BIDS reject any or all proposals or bids or parts of 7,2013 and file the a n y o n e .

D i r e c t a n y q u e s t i o n s t o bids and to waive technicalities as may be original with the Clerk 410-887-3531.

Bidders obtaining documents CONTRACT NO. 13004 SX0 deemed best for the interest of the County. of the Circuit Court at from another source other than Baltimore HAWTHORNE #2 PUMPING STATION UPP.O. Box 6043, Deland, County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proGRADES - CONSENT DECREE Keith Dorsey, Director Office of Budget & FiFlorida 32721-6043 TYPESET: Tue Sep 17 18:41:06 EDT 2013 to Baltimore County.

2110posals COCKSPUR ROAD, MIDDLE RIVER, nance before service on PetiMARYLAND 21220 tioner or immediately *Note: Contract of MIDDLE RIVERDocuments - DISTRICTwill 15 consist c6 thereafter. If you fail to One (1) Paper Proposal Book and CONTRACT COST Copy GROUP ”D ($1,000,000 do so, a Default may be City of Baltimore One (1) Compact Disk (CD) with all of the to $2,500,000)” entered against you for Department of Finance required drawings.

The CD will be in PDF WORK CLASSIFICATION: G-2 with G-3 Prethe relief demanded in Bureau of Purchases format.

Contractors and Sub-Contractors Qualified Subcontractor the petition. can purchase paper copies of the drawings BID DATE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, Copies of all court Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of from 2013 Baltimore County OIT - Central AT 10:30 A.M. -EST documents in this Estimates of Baltimore, will be received until, Printing located in the Basement of the case, including orders, but not later than 11:00 a.m. local time on the COB, RM G-9 for $1.50 a copy.

On or after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013, are available at the following date(s) for the stated requirements: the above contract documents (See Note *) Clerk of the Circuit The proposed work consists of: Upgrade existmay be inspected and purchased from the Court’s Office. You OCTOBER 9, 2013 ing station.

Renovate Station to increase Division of Construction Contracts Admin-remay review these liability. istration, Department of Public Works, documents upon reRoom 300B, County Office Building (COB), quest. *FERRIC CHLORIDE FOR WASTEWATER meetingAvenue, will be held on Wednes111 AW.pre-bid Chesapeake Towson, MD You must keep the TREATMENT PLANTS B50003154 day, September 25, 2013 at 9:00 a.m.

EST at 21204, upon receipt of payment of $40.00 Clerk of the Circuit *INTERACTIVE VOICE the station.

A second site visit will be held (FORTY DOLLARS) per contract. All checks Court’s Office notified RECOGNITION SYSTEM B50003154 on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. should be made payable to BALTIMORE of your current adEST at the station.

A third site visit will be COUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS will be made to dress. (You may file THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT a n yheld o n e .onDWednesday, i r e c t a n y October q u e s t i30, o n 2013 s t o at Florida Family Law CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY 9:00 a.m.

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This will be the 410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents Form 12.915, Notice of VISITING THE CITYS WEB SITE:www. last chance to visit the station.

No quesfrom another source other than Baltimore current Address.) Fubaltimorecitibuy.org tions will be answered at this time.

County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proture papers in this lawposals to Baltimore County. suit will be mailed to the THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORaddress on record at ITYContract BUSINESS ENTERPRISE *Note: Documents will UTILIZATION consist of the Clerk’s Office.

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Interceptor Sewer Rehabilitation Contract #8122SR The St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commission is currently soliciting for bids for the installation of a sanitary sewer to replace a section of an existing interceptor, within the Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River and on Pine Hill Road to east of its intersection with Genesta Street. The work requires the installation of approximately 5,600-linear feet of 42inch sewer parallel to the existing interceptor, manholes, and cast-in-place structure. Once the construction of the new interceptor is complete, the section of the interceptor that is being replaced will be abandoned in place. The scope of work also governs the installation of related fittings and appurtenances for sewer lines, temporary bypass pumping, and restoration of the project site to the satisfaction of the concerned Federal, State and County agencies.

This project is fully funded by the Maryland Water Quality and Drinking Water Funding Programs; therefore Davis Bacon Act and MBE/WBE requirements must be met. Bidders must perform and document their performance of all affirmative steps required by the Maryland Department of the Environment Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise program to be considered for the Contract.

Bidders are encouraged to break down the work into smaller segments and tasks in order to increase minority subcontractor participation. Documentation must be included in the proposal package and submitted on the date provided herein. Failure to provide documentation with the bid package will result in the bid being declared non-responsive.

A Pre-Bid conference will be held on October 9, 2013 at 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time at the administrative office of the Commission to answer any questions concerning the Bid Documents. A site visit will follow immediately after the Pre-Bid conference. All potential bidders are encouraged, but not required to attend. NAS Patuxent River access will be required and is the responsibility of the Pre-Bid conference attendee.

One original and one copy of all bids must be submitted in sealed envelopes bearing the company name, legal address, the project title for which the bid is submitted and the date advertised for opening bids. Sealed bids must be addressed to Joy Hamlet, Procurement Agent, St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commission, and clearly marked ”SEALED BID FOR INTERCEPTOR SEWER REHABILITATION, CONTRACT #8122SR” and will be received at the administrative office of the St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commission, 23121 Camden Way, California, Maryland 20619, until 2 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, November 5, 2013 at which time the bids will be publicly opened and read.

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Cost of the Bid package is $ 40.00 each. Bid packages will be available for purchase and review at the administrative office beginning September 13, 2013 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Bid Packages may be purchased by cash, check, money order, Visa or MasterCard. Checks should be made payable to ”St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commission”. Bid packages may also be mailed upon receipt of payment plus an additional mailing fee of $30.00, or by providing their company’s UPS or Federal Express TYPESET: account Tuenumber.

Sep 17 Inquiries 18:38:46 concerning EDT 2013 ConTYPESET: Tue Sep 17 18:37:59 EDT 2013 tract Documents should be directed to Joy Hamlet, Procurement Agent at 301-737-7400, Extension jhamlet@metcom.org B A LT I M O R E222 C OorU N T Y, M A R Y L A N - or St. Mary’s County Metropolitan RalphDINVITATION Moore, Purchasing at ExtenFOR Assistant BIDS Commission Invitation for Bids sion 215 or rmoore@metcom.org.

CONTRACT NO. 13148 PO0 Interceptor Sewer Rehabilitation The St. Mary’s Metropolitan PROJECT Commission rePROPERTY MANAGEMENT Contract #8122SR serves the right toCOUNTY reject anyOLD or all proposals BALTIMORE andHISTORICAL to waive any COURTHOUSE informality in the proposals The St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commissubmitted whenMODERNIZATION such waiver is in the best ELEVATOR sion is currently soliciting for bids for the in- 400 interest of the Owner.

WASHINGTON AVENUE, TOWSON, stallation of a sanitary sewer to replace a secMARYLAND 21204 tion of an existing interceptor, within the Naval The TOWSON St. Mary’s County Metropolitan - DISTRICT 9 c 5 CommisAir Station (NAS) Patuxent River and on Pine sionCONTRACT does not discriminate on the basis of race, COST GROUP ”Bstatus, ($100,000 $500,000)” Hill Road to east of its intersection with marital color,toreligion, sex,age, national CLASSIFICATION: BE PREGenesta Street. The work requires the installa- WORK origin, physical or mentalMUST handicap, political APPROVED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY TYPESET: Wed Sepnon-merit 18 11:28:11 EDT 2013 tion of approximately 5,600-linear feet of 42affiliation, or other factors. inch sewer parallel to the existing interceptor, FOR ONE TIME APPROVAL APPLICATION FOR THIS CONTRACT ONLY. manholes, and cast-in-place structure. Once the construction of the new interceptor is com- MODERNIZING ONE (1) PASSENGER ELECITY OF AND BALTIMORE VATOR plete, the section of the interceptor that is beDEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DECOMMISSIONING ing replaced will be abandoned in place. The LETTING ONE (1)NOTICE OTHEROF ELEVATOR scope of work also governs the installation of related fittings and appurtenances for sewer Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate adlines, temporary bypass pumping, and resdressedTHURSDAY, to the Board of Estimates of Mayor OCTOBER 17,the 2013 toration of the project site to the satisfaction of BID DATE: and City Council Baltimore AT 2:00ofP.M. EST and marked for the concerned Federal, State and County FAP NO. STP-3017(21)E; SHA NO. BC315agencies.

BALTIMORE CITY NO.16, TR05309; On or089-815; after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2013 APARTMENT FOR RENT REISTERSTOWN ROAD STREETSCAPE: the above contract documents may be inThis project is fully funded by the Maryland spected NORTHERN PARKWAY TO the THEDivision CITY LINE and purchased from Water Quality and Drinking Water Funding of Construction will be received at the Office of the ComptrolContracts Administration, Programs; therefore Davis Bacon Act and Department ler, Roomof204 City Hall, Baltimore, Public Works, Room Maryland 300B, MBE/WBE requirements must be met. Bidders County until Office 11:00 A.M. October(COB), 23, 2013.111 Positively Building W. must perform and document their perform- Chesapeake no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, ance of all affirmative steps required by the uponwillreceipt be publicly by theofBoard of Esof opened payment $25.00 Maryland Department of the Environment (TWENTY-FIVE timates in Room 215, Cityper Hall at Noon.AllThe DOLLARS) contract.

Contract Documents be examined, withMinority and Women’s Business Enterprise checks should be mademay payable to BALout charge, at the Department of Public program to be considered for the Contract. TIMORE COUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS willWorks be CenterDirect locatedany on the first floor of Bidders are encouraged to break down the madeService to anyone. questions tothe Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holwork into smaller segments and tasks in order 410-887-3531.

Bidders obtaining documents Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of to increase minority subcontractor participa- from liday another source other than Baltimore September 20,be 2013 and copies may be purWILL NOT allowed to submit protion. Documentation must be included in the County chased for a non-refundable cost of $500.00. to Baltimore County. proposal package and submitted on the date posals Conditions and requirements of the Bid are provided herein. Failure to provide in the package. contractors proposed workbid consists of: All Furnish all documentation with the bid package will result The found onand this Contractnecessary must first labor,bidding materials equipment for be in the bid being declared non-responsive. prerequalifiedof by of Baltimore the modernization Onethe (1) City elevator and for Contractors Qualification Committee. of One (1) elevator at the A Pre-Bid conference will be held on October the decommissioning InterestedCourthouse. parties should call (410) 396-6883 9, 2013 at 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Old Historical or contact the Committee at Room 634, at the administrative office of the Commission Charles L. Benton 417on E.WednesFayette St., meeting willBldg., be held to answer any questions concerning the Bid A pre-bid Baltimore, Maryland 21202.

If a bid is submit25, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.

EST Documents. A site visit will follow immediately day, September ted by a118 jointofventure (”JV”), then in that the Old Historical after the Pre-Bid conference. All potential bid- in Room event, theLocated document at that 400 established Washingtonthe ders are encouraged, but not required to at- Courthouse.

JV shall be submitted with the bid verTowson, Maryland 21204.

A for site tend. NAS Patuxent River access will be re- Avenue, The Prequalification visit ification will followpurposes. the meeting. quired and is the responsibility of the Pre-Bid Category required for bidding on this project is conference attendee.

Concrete Paving, THE (A02602 PROJECTBituminous IS SUBJECT TO A MINORD02620 Curb, Gutters & UTILIZATION Sidewalks).Cost ITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE One original and one copy of all bids must be GOAL Qualification Range for this work shall AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTI- be submitted in sealed envelopes bearing the L I Z A$5,000,000.00 T I O N G O AtoL S$10,000,000.00 . T H E S E GAO ”ManAL company name, legal address, the project title REQUIREMENTS datory Pre-Bidding Information” ARE MORE FULLY session EXfor which the bid is submitted and the date PLAINED will be IN conducted at 10:00 A.M. on October THE SPECIFICATIONS. THE 4, advertised for opening bids. Sealed bids must MBE/WBE 2013 atFORMS 417 E. Fayette 7th Floor, IN THEStreet, PROPOSAL Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Principal Items be addressed to Joy Hamlet, Procurement BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND of work for project are: pave Agent, St. Mary’s County Metropolitan SUBMITTED ATthis THE TIME OFHMA BIDSuper OPENCommission, and clearly marked ”SEALED ING. 12.5 MM PG-64-22 for Surface, Level 2 - 7,300 Ton; 8” Plain Cement Concrete Pavement Mix BID FOR INTERCEPTOR SEWER RENo. 9 - 7,500 SY;(the Portland Cement Concrete HABILITATION, CONTRACT #8122SR” and Sealed proposals entire book) adPavement Repairs Type I Maryland - 4,074 SY.for The DBE to Baltimore County, this will be received at the administrative office of dressed goal will is 24% be received in the Baltimore the St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commis- contract APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk 148, - Board Purchasing Division, Room sion, 23121 Camden Way, California, County of Estimates 400 Washington Avenue, Maryland 20619, until 2 P.M. Eastern Standard Old Courthouse, Time, November 5, 2013 at which time the bids Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at which time they will be publicly will be publicly opened and read. opened and read.

Cost of the Bid package is $ 40.00 each. Bid packages will be available for purchase and review at the administrative office beginning September 13, 2013 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Bid Packages may be purchased by cash, check, money order, Visa or MasterCard. Checks should be made payable to ”St. Mary’s County Metropolitan Commission”. Bid packages may also be mailed upon receipt of payment plus an additional mailing fee of $30.00, or by providing their company’s UPS or Federal Express

ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS.

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All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ”Information for Bidders”. No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.

Hamlet, Procurement Agent at 301-737-7400, Extension 222 or jhamlet@metcom.org or BRalph A LT I Moore, M O R EPurchasing C O U N T Y, Assistant M A RYatLExtenANsion 215DINVITATION or rmoore@metcom.org.

FOR BIDS The St.CONTRACT Mary’s Metropolitan NO. 13148 Commission PO0 reserves PROPERTY the right MANAGEMENT to reject any orPROJECT all proposals and to BALTIMORE waive any informality COUNTY inOLD the proposals submitted HISTORICAL when such COURTHOUSE waiver is in the best interest ELEVATOR of the Owner.

MODERNIZATION 400 WASHINGTON AVENUE, TOWSON, The St. Mary’s MARYLAND County Metropolitan 21204 Commission does TOWSON not discriminate - DISTRICT on the 9 cbasis 5 of race, marital CONTRACT status, color, religion, COST GROUP sex,age, national origin, physical ”B ($100,000 or mental to $500,000)” handicap, political WORK affiliation, CLASSIFICATION: or other non-meritMUST factors.

BE PREAPPROVED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY FOR ONE TIME APPROVAL APPLICATION FOR THIS CONTRACT ONLY. MODERNIZING ONE (1) PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND DECOMMISSIONING ONE (1) OTHER ELEVATOR

The Purchasing Agent reserve reject any or all proposals or b bids and to waive technicalitie deemed best for the interest of t

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BID DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 AT 2:00 P.M. EST On or after MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 the above contract documents may be inspected and purchased from the Division of Construction Contracts Administration, Department of Public Works, Room 300B, County Office Building (COB), 111 W. Chesapeake Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, upon receipt of payment of $25.00 (TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS) per contract. All checks should be made payable to BALTIMORE COUNTY MD. NO REFUNDS will be made to anyone. Direct any questions to 410-887-3531. Bidders obtaining documents from another source other than Baltimore County WILL NOT be allowed to submit proposals to Baltimore County.

The proposed work consists of: Furnish all labor, materials and equipment necessary for the modernization of One (1) elevator and for the decommissioning of One (1) elevator at the Old Historical Courthouse.

A pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. EST in Room 118 of the Old Historical Courthouse. Located at 400 Washington Avenue, Towson, Maryland 21204. A site visit will follow the meeting.

THE PROJECT IS SUBJECT TO A MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE UTILIZATION GOAL AND FEMALE CONTRACTORS UTIL I Z AT I O N G O A L S . T H E S E G O A L REQUIREMENTS ARE MORE FULLY EXPLAINED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS. THE MBE/WBE FORMS IN THE PROPOSAL BOOKLET MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED AT THE TIME OF BID OPENING. Sealed proposals (the entire book) addressed to Baltimore County, Maryland for this contract will be received in the Baltimore County Purchasing Division, Room 148, Old Courthouse, 400 Washington Avenue, Towson, MD 21204, until the time specified on the contract at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

ONLY CONTRACTORS WHO HAVE BEEN PREQUALIFIED BY BALTIMORE COUNTY AT LEAST TEN (10) DAYS PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF BIDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS. All proposals must be accompanied by a Bid Bond, on the approved form provided, in the amount as set forth in the ”Information for Bidders”. No other form of proposal guaranty is acceptable.

The Purchasing Agent reserves the right to reject any or all proposals or bids or parts of bids and to waive technicalities as may be deemed best for the interest of the County.

Keith Dorsey, Director Office of Budget & Finance TYPESET: Wed Sep 11 15:05:56 EDT 2013 Invitation to Bid for Minority and Small Business Enterprise Cherry Hill Construction, Inc., an EEO EMployer, is currently soliciting cost proposals from Qualified VSBE and MDOT Certified MBE subcontractors/vendors, both Union and Non-Union Affiliated, for the MDTA project, Deck Rehabilitation and Joint Modification of Bridges on I-95 South of the Fort McHenry Tunnel, Contact No. FT-2425-000-006; Bid Date: Sept 26, 2013. Bid documents are available upon request.

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