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Volume 122 No. 7

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Navy Yard Shooting Victims Had Long Careers There The Associated Press

A dozen people died in a shooting rampage Sept. 16 at the Washington Navy Yard. The shooter also was killed. It was the deadliest attack at a domestic military installation since November 2009, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Fort Hood, Tex. The stories of the 12 who were gunned down and a police officer who survived are told here. __ Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton,

Va., was a Navy veteran and avid pilot who was building a light airplane at his home, said his uncle, Steve Hunter. “It would have been the first plane he ever owned,” Hunter said in a telephone interview from Rochester, Mich., Arnold’s hometown. “It’s partially assembled in his basement.” Hunter said his nephew retired from the Navy. He worked at the Navy Yard on a team that designed vessels such as the USS Makin Island. Arnold and his wife, Jolanda,

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had been married for more than 30 years, Hunter said. They had two grown sons, Eric and Christopher. ___ Martin Bodrog, 54, lived on a quiet, tree-shaded cul-de-sac in Annandale, Va., where family and friends gathered Sept. 17. Jeff Prowse, a close friend, said Bodrog was a hardworking Navy veteran and graduate of the Naval Academy. “A heart of gold, and one of Arthur Daniels, the most humble, self-effacing Sylvia Frasier and Continued on A4 Kenneth Proctor

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 Continued on A4

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

CBCF Investment to Spur Black Banking

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

INSIDE ‘It Starts with You’ CBC Annual Conference 2013

Soulful Symphony Kicks Off New Season

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

Jonathan Ferrell

Continued on A3 Linda Evans, Kacey Williams and Ersky Freeman performing in 1001 Black Inventions

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

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

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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.

American. Organizations ranging from Mothers of Murdered Offspring to the Nation of Islam and CharlotteMecklenburg 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

By Herbert L. White Special to the AFRO

(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 Chair CBCF; A. Shuanise Washington, President and CEO, CBCF; Ronald Busby, CEO, U.S. Black Chambers Inc.

Pin Points Theater, based in Southeast Washington, presented 1001 Black Inventions at Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church in Bowie Sept. 15. The play, which has been touring for 30 years, sheds light on the ingenuity of African-American inventors. The church’s Deaf, Christian Education and Youth & Young Adult ministries presented the production. More than 300 people of all ages packed into the church, anxious to learn about black inventors. Even one youngster attending wore a T-shirt decorated with items invented by African-Americans. Pin Points’ production of the play they call 1001 was sought “because they don’t teach African-American history in the schools anymore,” said Ann Powell, Co-Chair of the Deaf Ministry at the church.

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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 Tiana Parker 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. 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. AP Photo

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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-yearold 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 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.”

‘Four Little Girls’ Awarded Congressional Gold Medals

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

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Jennifer Hudson and other relatives positively identified

sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor about a suspiconnection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle while walking his Shaunise Washington told the AFRO. The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago Solvingwith those problems beginsTribune, with each Suburban Illinois license theindividual, boy had been shot times theme. in the back seat Washington added, explaining themultiple conference’s of the vehicle. The “Through this year’s conference, we endeavor to SUV, igniteregistered to Hudson’s murdered personal leadership, a passion for public service and the towedwill withhave the pursuit of justice for all,” she said.brother, “ALC was attendees boy’s body inside and is being opportunities to share their talents, thoughts and experiences processed by evidence technithrough intimate conversations, braintrusts, networking, cians and workers. The body and even social media. We are providing with forums was laterthem removed and taken to to exchange resources and information thatCounty will hopefully the Cook Medical motivate attendees to share the assets they gain from ALC with Examiner’s office. their networks and home communities.” Hudson and other family She added, “We view ALC as an opportunity members arrivedtoatbuild the Medical office mid-aftermomentum, to challenge thinkingExaminer’s and offer innovative noon to identify the body. Given the choice between looking directly at the body or viewing it on a wall-mounted

The 43rd Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation was scheduled to convene under the theme “It Starts With You” from Sept.18-21 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. About 10,000 persons were expected to attend the yearly gathering of Washington power players, industry leaders and ordinary men and women in the nation’s capital. “ALC is recognized as one of the most important gatherings of African-Americans in the nation,” said CBCF Chairman Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) in a statement. “Every year, we see thousands of returning attendees and even more new faces ready to join the dialogue so they too can be agents of change Courtesy Photos in their communities. Our communities find support through Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who the Foundation’s work on policies, programs and initiatives. It was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. is our focused agenda that provides greater opportunities for all Americans.” video screen, the family chose With an eye to developing leaders, informing policy and plate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the the body of her 7-year-old educating the public, the conclavenephew was expected include Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson Monday,tojust hours Bill Clinton, Elijah Cummings and Elaine Jonessaid, will“Yes, be police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” afterled his by body was found in a more than 70 forums and braintrusts, members of the recognized for their contribution to African-American CBC, on the critical issues facing African-Americans and the political awareness and empowerment. African Diaspora, such as unemployment, the implications of the Affordable Care Act for the Black community, and immigration issues, as it relates to immigrants from the discoveries that can change communities and a country.” Caribbean and Diaspora. An annual favorite is the Exhibit Showcase, which Most notably, this year’s national town hall meeting, is designed to provide educational, health and business No wonder Obama’s campaign is and Dallas Cowboys players By Alan Violence, King “From Poverty to Prosperity: Confronting Restoring related opportunities for ALC attendees, including free trying to distance him Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, AFRO Staff Writer Opportunity, and Investing in our Youth” was expected to health screenings and an Authors Pavilion. Nearly 200from the group, saying, and “Barack Obama among the names submitted to address the impact of poverty, juvenile justice, and gun exhibitors including corporations, government nonprofit Never Organized with ACORN.” election officials. Presidential candidate John violence. organizations, small businesses and a marketplace had spaces Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run McCain’s attack on ACORN – “A couple of weeks ago, we as a nation commemorated the in the showcase. New this year is an Enterprise Pavilion, long and deep. He taught classes were doing those things without Associated Community 50th anniversary of the March on Organization Washington.for However, just – which enhances the staple featuresforofACORN. the priorThey years’ evenExhibit endorsed ACORN’s knowledge or permisReform Now a few weeks before that historic celebration, deplored Showcase. him for President. sion, were fired. confirms thewe success of thethe court rulings on the Voting Rightsorganization, Act and the the Trayvon “We know that small businesses economy. With Butfuel nowour ACORN is in trouble. “The evidence that has surhead ofMartin the case. As we enter the final monthsgroup of this year, we are looking this we added a new procurement portion theat least Reporter: Theretoare facedinsomind, far shows they faked says. investigations across Hall the forms to getPavilion paid for work they the11value for solutions to the issues plaguing Black to increase of the Exhibit “This communities is testimony toaround the work Enterprise country involving thousands didn’t do, not to stuff ballot we’ve done and success we’ve the world,” CBCF’s newly appointed President and CEO A. experience for entrepreneurs and small business owners,” of boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the potentially fraudulent ACORN had,” Maude Hurd, president of forms. victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, said in an interview Announcer: Massive voter tor of it. with the AFRO. fraud. And the Obama campaign Hurd said the only things “When this attack started, we bogus are the charges thempaid more than $800,000 to an Continued from A1 had just announced that we had selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote registered 1.3 million new vot“Black agrees. efforts. Banks are extremely wealthy Americans Newark, Seaway Bank and ers,” she African said. “That’s just to say relevant right now. Just risky take It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue that to someone’s running scared and everyday consumers.” Trust Company of Chicago, the church community. Most ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. because of ACORN’s success.” He continued, “Look, it is Mechanics and Farmers of been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama.loans Bad judgment. who is running for of the church from timeMcCain, for us to start investing Durham, N.C., Liberty Bank charged with, casting fraudulent Blind ambition. Too risky for president on the Republican tickforever came from Black in ourselves if we want to and Trust Company of New Blacks, African American votes.” America. et, lashed out at ACORN in the banks. When the Black build our institutions, support Orleans and Industrial Bank institutions suffered. The problem came about prifinal debate against Barack churches grew large enough our schools make sure our of Washington, D.C. B. Doyle becauseMitchell, of the way Since McCain’s comments, Obama, contending the group “is marily to build mega churches some young people have jobs. We Fattah said the CBCF will president and CEO ACORN operates. Ratherofthan ACORN’s 87 offices have been on the verge of maybe perpetrat- Jr., of them started going to are to do it.’”in monitor the CDs. Industrial Bank, spoke rely on volunteers, it paysofpeobombarded with threats andthe ing going one of to thehave greatest frauds larger banks, majority owned The action comes at a The effort, announced on ple, many of them poor or unemracist mail. working as a teenager in the voter history in this country, banks,” he said. ployed, to sign up new voters. The day after the presidential time ofdestroying decliningthe fortunes the eve of the annual CBCF maybe fabric of bank that was founded 79 Withvandals the near-collapse The idea both those debate, broke into the democracy.” for Black banks. Between Legislative Conference, is years agowas by to hishelp grandfather. of the global economy being registered and those doing organization’s Boston andinSeattle Factcheck.org, a non-partisan 1888 and 1934, there were being applauded by the “I realized how much the the registration. offices and stole computers. Web site, claims to thanfound a 130those Black owned National Bankers Association more bank did everyday to help Maud explained, “We have a After a Cleveland representative be “exaggerated,” banks in the U.S.with By “no the evi(NBA), the umbrella people that looked you zero tolerance policylike for deliberappeared on TV, an e-mail was dence of any such democracy1960s, said Grant, “We had advocacy group for Black and me,” Mitchell said. “…as ate falsification of registration.” sent to the local office saying she destroying fraud.” 60 black banks. Now there are I got financial institutions. And older, I saw howneglect we didto “is going to have her life ended.” Most news account Hurd believes the McCain it comes not a moment too 30.” were politically motivat- that, loans, through pointthrough out that ACORN is A worker in Providence, R.I., charges soon, said Michael Grant, Grant characterized the waiting thatinwere required on by people law to turn all reg- received a threatening call sayed. president of the National decline as an“Because unintended istration forms. And they also fail ing, “We know you get off work She said, it’s lowopening accounts…just to note that it was the organizaat 9” and uttered racial epithets. and moderate-income people, Bankers Association, consequence of the death helping and caring.” in many instances, that first A caller to one office left a andsegregation people of color, I believe “sending a message around of in the U.S. the tion,Black banks are still brought the phony registrations message on the answering McCain campaign the country to other national As institutions thatthinks werethose relevant in the post-civil to the attention of authorities. machine, saying: “Hi, I was just votersoff-limits are going were to voteopen to organizations… to other once rights society, he said. The McCain camp apparently calling to let you know that Democratic, which is not necesisn’t interested in those fine Barack Obama needs to get sarily true.” points, preferring to air misleadhung. He’s a (expletive deleted) ACORN is no stranger to ing ads that seek to link Obama nigger, and he’s a piece of controversy. For 38 years, the non-partisan to ACORN, thereby undercutting (expletive deleted). You guys are Continued from A1 fraudulent, and you need to go to organization has fought for social his political support. McCain: I’m John McCain hell. All the niggers on oak trees. and economic justice for lowis used by police against (Martin) incident. This young Citizens Review be and I approve They’re gonna get all hung honthis Board message. and moderate-income African Americans. Barnett man was trying get married and given the eys, they’re going to get assassiAnnouncer: Who is Barack Americans. With to 400,000 mem- strengthened and Charlotte-Mecklenburg in upcoming year.” it A was putwith here Obama? man “ato political nated, they’re gonna get killed.” berthe families organized into more power NAACP President Rev. Kojo also urged chapdo in 1997,” Newton said. Another message said, “You baptism performed at warp thanBarnett 1,200 neighborhood liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive speed.” is Vast ambition. After colters in 110 cities nationwide, Nantambu cited six CMPDrevocation of Kerrick’s “Today a day that should deleted). Welfare bums. You lege,happen. he moved to Chicago. ACORN bond, has over the yearsthat seen not involved shooting deaths $50,000 charging Saturday was guys just (expletive deleted) a community its share of criticism while advo- aBecame over the last 15 months as the seriousness of the crime day that should notorganizer. have come to our country, consume There, Obama cating for aaffordable housing, well as confrontations from deserves higher threshold. happened. Wemet are Madeleine calling every natural resource there is, Talbot, part of the Chicago living wages, healthcare for the New York and San Francisco “(Kerrick) is out on upon City Council to do the and make a lot of babies. That’s branch of ACORN. He was so underserved— and while organthat generated national media $50,000 as if Afro-American right thing.that It’she there front all you guys do. And then suck impressive was in asked to izing voter registration drives. attention as confirmation lives doesn’t meanasanything,” of them.” up the welfare and expect everytrain the ACORN staff. But none has been withering that police accountability is Barnett said.as“A mother Dick president What Hester, did ACORN in Chicago one else to pay for your hospital and baseless this one. lost warranted. her With son. the (Ferrell) wasn’t a of the Charlotte chapter bills for your kids. I jus’ say let engage in? Bullying banks.of presidential election “It’s painful to know thug or hanging outaway, on the the Americantactics. Civil Disruption Liberties your kids die. That’s the best Intimidation less than two weeks move. Just let your children die. of business. ACORN forced ACORN’s allege the that on any given day in streets. Hedetractors went to college. Union, agreed. “This story is Forget about paying for hospital banks risky home organization has engaged in mas- not this country that an African Aspired to marry his (fiancée) justtoaissue Charlotte story,loans. it’s bills for them. I’m not gonna do same types of loans that“My sive voter American male can be next year.”registration fraud after aThe national story,” he said it. You guys are lowlifes. And I caused the financial crisis we’re the reported discovery of bogus killed for no reason by the “We’re asking that the question would be how could hope you all die.” in today. names, such as Mickey Mouse people who are supposed Hurd thinks the hate calls will to protect him,” Nantambu cease soon. said: “This is not an anomaly “In two weeks, I think these for this country, nor is this attacks will be over. But I think it an anomaly for this city. 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Washington explained. “Corporations will exhibit alongside government agencies and provide information about how to secure federal and private contracts.” The ALC had its lighter moments as well. Top gospel choirs will perform at the Gospel Extravaganza on Sept. 19, and the popular Jazz Concert will also take place on that night. Younger ALC attendees will want to show off their best at The Black Party, which takes place at the Howard Theatre from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sept. 20. The Phoenix Awards Dinner is scheduled for Sept. 21. Coming on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the Awards Dinner will celebrate the “Spirit of 1963” and the fruits of the March, from voting rights and school desegregation to President Obama’s historic election to Julian King, Jennnifer nephew. the presidency in 2008, andHudson’s the men and women who advanced those causes. A spokesman for the office the murders but is being held in former Rep. Elijah E. toldAwardees, the newspaper thatPresident Hudson Bill jailClinton, for parole violation after Cummings (D-Md.) and Elaine Jones, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will be recognized for their contribution to AfricanAmerican political awareness and empowerment, as well as to “remained strong of forminorities her fami- in the being convicted of attempted the advancement electoral process. ly”President and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackObama will be the keynote speaker. “She held hands with her famiing. Cook County records show “It is an honor and privilege to have alumni CBC member ly,” the spokesman said. “It that he pleaded guilty to both President Barack Obama address this year’s Phoenix Awards was obviously a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also Dinner. His remarks will be a fitting culmination of the 2013 moment.” convicted in 1998 for possesAnnual Legislative said in a motor statement. The boy – the sonConference,” of Julia sion Fattah of a stolen vehicle. “President Obama’ssister presence, with our recognition Hudson, Jennifer’s – had together He was released from prisonofin President Clinton his global advocacy work, willseven makeyears this been missing sincefor Friday, 2006 after serving awhen historic evening for CBCF.” a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and Washington said she hopes ALC away armed grandmother, Darnell carattendees hijackingwalk charges. Donerson, 57, they and his uncle, boy remained missing with the tools need to rebuild theThe broken areas of their Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in communities. in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers “I want attendees to feel empowered to take the information, the 7000 block of South they Yale gained during ALC back to their resources and networks Avenue. home communities to inspire positive and much-needed change An Amber Alert – a desigin public policy,” she said. “We want to inspire you to be the nation for high-risk missing change need in our communities.” childrenyou – was issued Friday For a schedule of events, visit: http://www.cbcfinc.org/ after Julian was discovered alc2013-schedule.html. To keep up with what’s happening missing after the murders. at the conference, follow the CBCF at: www.facebook.com/ Police arrested William CBCFInc and www.twitter.com/CBCFInc (#CBCFALC13). Balfour, the missing boy’s stepfather and estranged husband of Julia, at his girlfriend’s Southside apartment several hours after the murders. Balfour’s mother, Michele, has told reporters that her son had revival for Black banks, Grant 2008, he said, “some of these nothing to do with the slayings. [White] banks started to pull Balfour remains a suspect in said. Jason Hudson “Five million dollars in back because these churches five banks…multiply that by were struggling to pay. So, 50 national organizations,” where are these he said. “Multiply that by 20 churches turning to? The million African Americans. Black banks.” SQUARE It’s leadership. They are HIGH Mitchell concurs and stepping out there and they says more then 50 percent of are saying we have confidence their loans go to underserved communities. in these banks. We think they The $5 million CBCF are safe and sound. Why don’t investment could trigger a you?”

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Navy Yard Shooting Victims Continued from A1

guys,” said Prowse. implement procedures to investigate security Kohler was working for Information Prowse worked with Bodrog at the violations or incidents,” according to the Concepts in Management, LLC, a Pentagon on amphibious vessel programs. He profile. subcontractor of TWD & Associates, Inc. said Bodrog was transferred from the Pentagon Her brother, James Frasier, declined Kohler lived on the water with his wife, to the Navy Yard in January. comment Monday night. Michelle, an employee at the Naval Air Station Bodrog had been married for 25 years to ___ Patuxent River. Melanie, whom he met while she was serving Kathleen Gaarde, 63, of Woodbridge, Va., ___ on active duty as a Navy nurse. They have was a financial analyst who supported the Information technology specialist Mary three daughters, ages 23, 17 and 16. organization responsible for the shipyards, her Knight, 51, of Reston, Va., had recently ___ husband, Douglass, wrote in an email to the received a big promotion and witnessed the Arthur Daniels, 51, of Washington, D.C., AP Tuesday. marriage of her older daughter, her mother was a handyman working for a furniture Douglass Gaarde declined to speak, but said. contractor who just happened to be moving wrote that he was unable to sleep. “I don’t know how this happened,” and installing furniture at the Navy Yard on “Today my life partner of 42 years (38 of Liliana DeLorenzo, 76, said from her home in Sept. 16 when the shooting began. He was the them married) was taken from me, my grown Fayetteville, N.C. “She was a good daughter father of five children and the grandfather of son and daughter, and friends,” he wrote. and a good mother and a hard worker. It’s a nine. “We were just starting to plan our retirement loss. It’s a great loss.” Priscilla Daniels, 46, told the Washington activities and now none of that matters. It ___ Post she had kissed her husband that morning Marine engineer and naval architect Vishnu hasn’t fully sunk in yet but I know I already and teased that he should stay in bed because it dearly miss her.” Pandit, 61, was known for his devotion to was raining. family, community and his 30-year civilian ___ “I don’t know why they shot him,” she said. Navy career. Logistics analyst John Roger Johnson, 73, “He was a good father and hard worker.” “He was very dedicated to improving the was perhaps most notorious for his bear hugs, Every year, it was Arthur Daniels who performance of naval ships and systems,” his daughter said. cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the longtime friend M. Nuns Jain said family. On weekends, he spent time Sept. 17 outside the North Potomac, washing and polishing his white Md., home where Pandit’s family Crown Victoria. privately mourned. “The only saving Priscilla Daniels said she and grace in this horrible incident is that her husband loved going out on the he died doing what he loved the most town with their shoes shined and hair in the service of his nation.” done, holding hands. They were high He said Pandit sailed with the school sweethearts, and all four of U.S. Merchant Marine before joining the Naval Sea Systems Command, their sons were named after Arthur headquartered at the Washington Daniels. Navy Yard. His death comes four years after Married to his wife Anjali since the death of their 14-year-old son Three women embrace near Nationals Park where family 1978, Pandit had two sons and a Arthur A. Daniels, who was shot and members waited to greet loved ones that were at the granddaughter, Jain said. killed on a Washington street. Washington Navy Yard. AP Photo ___ “My husband was the man I loved Kenneth Proctor, 46, worked as through all the tragedy,” Priscilla a civilian utilities foreman at the Navy Yard, Daniels said. “I can’t believe this is happening “Rib-crunchers,” Megan Johnson said with his ex-wife, Evelyn Proctor, said. He spent again.” a laugh. 22 years working for the federal government, Arthur Daniels was the family’s The Derwood, Md., man — the oldest of Evelyn Proctor said. breadwinner. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray the victims in Monday’s shootings —was a The Waldorf, Md., woman spoke to Proctor called Priscilla Daniels on Sept. 17 to offer “die-hard” Washington Redskins football fan early Sept. 16 morning before he left for work condolences and asked if there was any life who would have celebrated his 74th birthday at the Navy Yard. It was his regular call. The insurance, but the answer was no. The mayor on Oct. 7. He also leaves his wife, Judy, and high school sweethearts talked every day, even said he would send a staff member to the house four stepchildren. after they divorced this year after 19 years of to discuss the family’s finances. ___ marriage, and they shared custody of their two ___ Frank Kohler, 50, was a past president teenage sons. Sylvia Frasier, 53, of Waldorf, Md., had of the Rotary Club in Lexington Park, Md. She was in shock about her ex-husband’s worked at Naval Sea Systems Command as As such, he proudly held the title of “King death. an information assurance manager since 2000, Oyster” at the annual festival celebrating the “He just went in there in the morning according to a LinkedIn profile in her name. region’s signature bivalve the third weekend of for breakfast,” Proctor said Sept. 16 of the Frasier studied at Strayer University, each October. building where the shooting took place. earning a bachelor of science in computer “He walks around with a crown and robe information systems in 2000 and a master’s and gives out candy,” said Bob Allen, Kohler’s “He didn’t even work in the building. It was a routine thing for him to go there in the in information systems in 2002. Her duties former boss at Lockheed Martin in southern morning for breakfast, and unfortunately it at NAVSEA included providing policy and Maryland. “In fact, he was in charge of the happened.” guidance on network security, and assuring beer stand.” Proctor said she tried to call her ex-husband that all computer systems operated by the The married father of two college-age throughout the day and drove to the Navy Yard headquarters met Department of Navy and daughters had driven up to the Washington on Monday afternoon, fearing the worst. After Department of Defense requirements. Navy Yard for a meeting when the shootings waiting for about three hours alongside other She also led efforts “to establish and occurred, friends told Allen.

HistoryMakers Continued from A1

George’s County and other Maryland schools will hear 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 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 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, which includes extensive and easy-to-access interviews with 310 HistoryMakers. Among the HistoryMakers participating that day in schools: Reid will visit Robert Goddard French Immersion School in Greenbelt, Md., on Sept. 26. Nathan-Pulliam, the first registered nurse elected to the Maryland General Assembly, will visit Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy in West Baltimore on Sept. 27. Frederick Oliver served as the chair of the physics department at Morgan State University for over 20 years and has held research appointments at facilities such as NASA, will also visit Blueford Drew Jemison on Sept. 27. Richardson will visit Annapolis High School in Annapolis on Sept. 27. Leon Bridges formed his own firm, Leon Bridges AIA, in 1963, and became the first registered African American architect in Maryland. He will visit Kipp Ujima Village Academy in Baltimore on Sept. 27. Last year’s successful Back to School With The HistoryMakers program sent nearly 500 HistoryMakers into

relatives concerned about their loved ones, she was informed around 8 p.m. that he was among the dead. Officials did not detail the circumstances of his shooting, she said. The Proctors married in 1994 and divorced this year. Their older son, Kenneth Proctor Jr., 17, enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school this spring and is in basic training in Oklahoma. Their younger son, Kendull Proctor, is 15. “We were still very close. It wasn’t a bitter divorce,” Evelyn Proctor said. “We still talked every day, and we lived 10 minutes away from each other.” Kenneth Proctor was born and raised in Charles County, Md., where he lived until his death. “He loved the Redskins. Loved his kids — a very loving, caring, gentle person. His kids meant a lot to him,” Evelyn Proctor said. ___ Gerald L. Read’s son-in-law, Michael Giffin, said his family was not ready to speak yet about the 58-year-old’s death. “We’re still trying to gather our thoughts,” said Giffin, who is married to Read’s daughter, Jessica. Read was from Alexandria, Va. ___ Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, was a passionate protector, both in his security work and in the way he treated his daughters during game-day trips to M&T Field to root for his beloved Baltimore Ravens. Ridgell, a former Maryland State Police trooper, was working for a private security contractor at the Washington Navy Yard. His children and estranged wife, Tracey, said they want the father of three daughters to be remembered as a loving, funny and patriotic man. ___ Metropolitan Police Department Officer Scott Williams was shot multiple times in the legs but survived. After visiting Williams, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said he has some “pretty serious injuries” and is “pretty uncomfortable” but “in good spirits.” Williams is an officer in the K9 division. He underwent surgery Sept. 16, and before he did, he wanted to call his mother, according to Janis Orlowski, the chief medical officer of MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Orlowski initially said there was “concern” about whether he would be able to walk again. He was in stable condition. “I’m real confident that he not only will walk again but probably will outrun most of us once again,” Lanier said. Associated Press writers Amanda Kell, Ben Nuckols, Allen G. Breed, Emery P. Dalesio, Stacy A. Anderson, David Dishneau, Randall Chase and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.

S.E. Theater Company Continued from A1

Rev. Dr. Jonathan Weaver, the church’s senior pastor, reinforced her sentiment on the importance of learning AfricanAmerican history. “For a lot of our young people, it’s not even a matter of forgetting, they don’t even know,” Weaver said. “Our young people need to be inspired. Even in the face of opposition and all the negative portrayals of black folk they can know they come from a very rich history and can therefore make a difference in the present.” The play covered well-known inventors such as famed scientist Dr. George Washington Carver who is known for creating over 300 uses for the peanut. Less well-known inventors were included, too, such as Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who was one of the first to successfully perform open-heart surgery, and Jan Ernst Matzeliger, who created the shoe-last machine. In the opening scene, four actors come on stage performing as a giant computer and rattle off a list of inventions by African-Americans such as the boomerang, coffee, tetracycline, karate and castor oil. Ersky Freeman then takes the stage and convincingly pretends to have a heart attack. The audience started whispering in response “get him some water.”

See more photos from ‘1001 Black Inventions’ on B1. Freeman recalls this moment and several others that he enjoys performing at churches. “From the umms and ahhs of the audience I love church crowds because they talk more than we do on stage,” he said. The heart attack scene quickly segues to Williams and his struggle to perform open-heart surgery at all black Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1893. Freeman has acted out this scene countless times as the co-

schools in 77 cities and 35 states, including “Bloody Sunday” civil rights pioneer Amelia Boynton Robinson, then 102.

founder of Pin Points Theater and co-creator of “1001.” The theater company was founded in 1980 and “1001” has been touring since 1983. “1001” was originally conceived as a book idea but Freeman then translated the idea to the stage. He was inspired to write about black inventors because, he said, the “stories were so unique and interesting.” Freeman also hopes that over three decades the play has taught Black youth the importance of Black inventors. “All they may know is the guys hanging out on the corner and we try to make sure they know this play isn’t about some dead people. We show them how this [African-American] genius is a part of everything they do,” he said. Pin Points is a small organization and performance fees help fund the theater productions but their primary goal is to engage youth from impoverished areas with educational and entertaining development programs. This summer Pin Points performed at Anacostia High School and introduced youth theater and performing arts to young people with severe reading deficiencies. Currently the organization works with at-risk youth at Cardozo High School in a year-round program titled “The Talented Tenth” which mentors students from ninth to 12th grades. Youth work is a major part of their mission but Pin Points is most renowned for their plays. In the last scene of the play a family tries to move through life without critical black inventions like watches, fire extinguishers and traffic lights. The children in the family start furiously asking about all these black inventions. “Daddy what’s an iron, Daddy what’s a gas mask, Daddy what’s a rocket support system and Daddy what’s a Justin Beiber?” The audience belted out laughing. Freeman and Pin Points keep presenting 1001 because he believes young people are significantly improved with a better knowledge of black inventors and creators. “People talk about making history but the truth is history makes us,” Freeman said.

For more information, visit The HistoryMakers website at www.thehistorymakers.com.

September 21, 2013 - September 27, 2013, The Afro-American

COMMUNITY CONNECTION Sept. 19

D.C. CBC Connection All Black Affair Old Dominion Brew House, 1219 Ninth St., N.W. D.C. 9 p.m. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 43rd Annual Legislative Conference is the premier conference on legislative and policy issues impacting the African-American community. At this event, complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served along with a full cash bar. $20. For more information: Dccbcconectionallblackaffair. eventbrite.com.

Sept. 20

Give a Child a Future Fundraising Gala Music Center at the Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Rockville, Md. 7 p.m. Award-winning actor Charles “Roc” Dutton will be the keynote speaker of the Give a Child a Future fundraising gala. $125. For more information: 202-400-1999. No Access, No Use Bible Way Temple, 1100 New Jersey Ave., N.W. D.C. Come join Bible Way Temple for this Free three-day informational and inspirational conference on drug awareness. For more information: Biblewaywashington.org.

Sept. 21

Washington D.C. Green Festival 2013 Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W. D.C. 10 a.m. The Green Festival is the nation’s largest and most trusted environmental consumer event. It will host leaders in the social justice and environmental community including authors, leaders and educators. For more information: Greenfestivals. org.

Sept. 27

Kiss the Summer Goodbye Concert featuring Marcus Johnson Newton White Mansion, 2708 Enterprise Road, Mitchellville, Md. 8 p.m. Join Newton White Mansion for a summer concert featuring Marcus Johnson. The night includes live music, an open bar and refreshments. $30$40. For more information: Pgparks.com.

The Afro-American, September 21, 2013 - September 27, 2013

We Bail Out Banks Yet Fail to Feed the Hungry?

April Yvonne Garrett

I woke up this morning to an article in the New York Times whose headline read, “As Debate Reopens, Food Stamp Recipients Continue To Squeeze.” The piece details how several families in Dyersburg, Tennessee (the name of the town is not lost on me) struggle with all of the issues born out of chronic underemployment and food insecurity. It also details the mentality held by members of Congress who seek to cut the benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, in half, over the

next 10 years. At a time when I am generally boiling water for my morning tea, I found my blood boiling instead. So, let me get this straight: We bail out banks yet fail to feed the hungry? The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 authorized the United States Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion in TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds to purchase distressed assets, mostly redirected to inject capital into banks 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 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

“…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?” 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 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 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 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.TheAYGList. com.

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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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The Women in Military Service Memorial was the site of the official promotion ceremony of Col. Patrick Sargent to rank of brigadier general. Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, Surgeon

General of the U.S. Army, officiated. Following the reading of the promotion order and the administering of the oath of office, Sargent was presented his general’s belt, pistol and plate with star appended. The ceremony concluded with the singing of the Army Song followed by a reception.

Brig. Gen. Barrye Price administers the oath of office to Brig. Gen. Patrick Sargent

Lt. Gen. Horoho and Mrs. Sherry Sargent place the one-star shoulder boards on Brig. Gen. Sargent

Photos by Rob Roberts Retired Brig. Gen. Sheila Baxter presents the general officer belt to Brig. Gen. Sargent

In the receiving line

Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and commanding general of the Army Medical Command and Col. Patrick D. Sargent

Mother, Lillie, and daughter, Samantha, place new shoulder boards on Brig. Gen. Sargent’s shirt

Brig. Gen. Barrye Price with wife Tracey and son William

Grandmother, Mrs. Willie Faison, pins a star on Sargent’s military headgear

Retired Maj Lloyd Hill presents Brig. Gen. Sargent with the general’s pistol

Brig. Gen. Sargent receives the brigadier general plate with star from Col. Antonio Coleman

Retired Brig. Gen. Sheila Baxter, Col. Antonio Coleman, retired Staff Sgt. Robert Griffin Jr. and Bishop Nelson Williams

Retired Maj. Gen. George Anderson and retired Col. Dorene Hunt congratulating Brig. Gen. Sargent

The family: Mrs. Willie Faison; Mrs. Sherry Sargent; Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho; Brig. Gen. Patrick Sargent; Mrs. Lillie Sargent and Samantha Sargent

Retired Col. Donald West congratulates Brig. Gen. Sargent

Cast members: Tamyra Lewis, Ersky Freeman, Kacey Williams, Linda Evans, T.L. Fitz and Justin Mohay

Guests who attended the ceremony

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum exhibit Continuation of the scene about Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

The play 1001 Black Inventions was presented in the sanctuary of Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church on Sept. 15. The drama, presented by the Bowie, Md. church’s Deaf Ministry, Christian Education Ministry and Youth Ministry, shows a typical American family attempting to survive in a world without inventions created by Africans and African Americans. Church members and other guests filled the sanctuary and enjoyed a five-scene production that depicted various Black historical characters. It was organized by Dr. Ann Powell, Loretta Lacy and Paul Martin and hosted by the Rev. Carlos Perkins Rev. Jonathan Weaver of gives the welcome Greater Mt. Nebo and the church’s first lady.

Performers during Scene Two, which centered on Jan Ernst Matzeliger who invented the shoe-lasting machine

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Rev. Jonathan Weaver with Del. Jolene Ivey (D-Prince George’s County) of the Maryland House of Delegates

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The invocation by Brother Morris Smalls Jr.

Performers during Scene One, which focused on the life of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

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Members enjoying the presentation

Dr. Ann Powell (left) spotlights Loretta Seward and Paul D. Martin for organizing the production

Attendees give a round of applause

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Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony Kicks Off New Season Balto’s Hippodrome Once Again Site of Musical Magic By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer The leaves are turning, temperatures are dipping and Darin Atwater’s Soulful Symphony is preparing to debut its 2013/2014 season at the Hippodrome Theatre 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 performances featuring mostly-Black musicians, 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 Hippodrome Theatre of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center. “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, Darin Atwater Soulful Symphony is the resident ensemble” of the

France-Merrick 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 to 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

Darin Atwater sings with students 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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An Overachiever Making a Difference By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO

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Bridget O. Davis grew up in Harlem, in the Drew Hamilton Projects, with her four sisters. Some of her close friends took to the streets -- selling and using drugs, and becoming stick-up kids. Her mother, a counselor at a drug rehabilitation center, would often bring home recovering heroin addicts to show her daughters, first hand, the severely detrimental effects of narcotics abuse. So, Bridget found refuge in writing and praying in her secret place of the “Most High,” her bedroom closet. She also enjoyed playing hopscotch and jumping Double-Dutch. At the age of 13, Bridget tried her hand at writing, and won an essay contest which afforded her the opportunity to attend a writing camp in

Russia. This trip would change Bridget’s life forever. Upon returning home, her love for writing grew exponentially. Now exposed to a life outside of Harlem, Bridget had something else to aspire to besides what she witnessed on the streets from her bedroom window After losing her mother to cancer at the age of twenty, Davis vowed to pave the way to the pinnacle of success. Feeling helpless about being unable to save her mother’s life, Bridget went to college and became a Registered Nurse, specializing in Emergency Room, I.C.U. and Operating Room care. She made this choice specifically in order to help save the lives of many. Bridget also took it upon herself to found the Pocono Mountains Film Festival (PMFF). Currently in its 11th year, the PMFF has been graced with the presence of such Hollywood legends as Billy Dee Williams, Jack Palance, Joyce Anne Dewitt, Edie Adams, Robert Townsend, Joe Jackson, Cliff Robertson, Robert Vaughn and Fred Williamson. Bridget says, “My calling is to prepare a place for the creative to use their gifts of writing, acting, speaking and directing, and to engage in the higher process of healing at all levels of life’s deficiencies. And to bring hope to those in despair.” Kam Williams: Hi Bridget, thanks for the interview and congrats on your hosting the

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Pocono Film Festival for its 11th year. How did a sister from Harlem end up in the Pocono mountains? Bridget Davis: After witnessing all of the lives lost while growing up in Harlem to drugs and street violence, I was determined to make a positive difference in my community. After having two children with two men who did not share my same family values, I went to college and studied science with the goal of becoming a Registered Nurse. As an R.N., I would become financially independent. I would not have to depend on any man to decide the outcome of our lives. KW: How were you able to make it out of Harlem when so many of your friends weren’t? BD: In life, either you get it or you don’t. You cannot allow anyone else to tell you what direction you should go. My take on life is that your life should be determined by your own choices. If you fail, it will reflect your lack of hard work. KW: Where did you, as a Registered Nurse, get the idea of starting your own film festival? BD: I wanted to see my second novel, “Henry’s Heart,” turned into a screenplay and independent film here in the Poconos. There was no place in the Pocono’s that had a venue to screen indie films. The Poconos being a beautiful place, a film festival was missing. KW: What were the biggest obstacles in getting it launched? BD: Being an African-American female in a predominantly-white community, I received no financial support from the Arts Society or State representatives. As I brought AcademyAward winners to the Poconos the challenge became greater. I had to work double shifts in the Emergency Room to pay for the event. The shift of negativity in this environment came when the folks here saw that I was fair to all independent filmmakers. KW: What was the initial reception of the Pocono community to the festival? BD: Negative, due to the fact that other people had tried to develop a film festival and they were not successful. Also, I made it clear that everyone would have an opportunity to showcase their work and win honestly regardless of color, political agenda or socio-economic status. Blacks, Christians, Muslims and Jews had the same opportunity to compete in the Indie Film category and win. KW: I noticed that this year you are looking for submissions of Christian and Reality films. Why so? BD: Through my experience in watching Christian films, I have been able to broaden the demand to meet a greater need in our population to fulfill the creativity in that particular genre. KW: What advice do you have for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps? BD: Remain humble at all cost and focus on your agenda. Take responsibility for your projects, work hard for what you believe in, and never take anything for granted. KW: Thanks again for the time, Bridget, and best of luck with the festival. BD: Thank you, Kam.

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Komona’s (Rachel Mwanza) life was irreversibly altered at the tender age of 12 when rebel forces led by the Great Tiger (Mizinga Mwinga) rampaged through her tiny African village. The unfortunate girl was forced at gunpoint to kill her own parents (Starlette Mathata and Alex Herabo) before being abducted and brainwashed into joining the cause. Deep in the jungle, she was befriended by other kids orphaned by the conflict before being trained to use a weapon against government soldiers. However, more valuable than marksmanship, Komona developed an uncanny knack for sensing enemy positions, a skill which proved handy during encounters with deadly snipers and machine gun nests. This supernatural ability came to the attention of her superiors and, by the time she turned 13, the so-called “War Witch” was appointed a personal advisor of General Tiger. In that capacity, Komona also had to work closely with Magician (Serge Kanyinda), an albino boy with extra sensory perception. It’s been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. Apparently there aren’t any celibates in foxholes either. For, it’s not long before the two seers fall madly in love. Magician proposes, they go AWOL, and Komona ends up pregnant by her 14th birthday. Thus unfolds War Witch, a haunting drama chronicling an adolescent’s coming-of-age under the most trying of circumstances. Written and directed by Canadian Kim Nguyen who shot on location in the Congo, the moving character study was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category. The picture is cleverly constructed as a series of vivid flashbacks narrated by Komona directly addressing the unborn baby growing in her belly. While the plucky protagonist easily earns our admiration for maintaining her sanity in the midst of the madness, there is still something slightly unsettling about a production so matter-of-fact about the endless atrocities providing the backdrop for such a touching front story. 21st Century Africa presented as a godforsaken wasteland conjuring up primitive images reminiscent of the ghoulish dystopia chronicled by Conrad in Heart of Darkness.

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Fighting Floyd: What Next for Mayweather 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.

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk Floyd Mayweather’s decision over Canelo Alvarez on Saturday night was just another impressive notch on the big championship belt that rests in the possession of Mayweather. His combination of defense, quickness and counterpunches were typical of Mayweather’s stellar career and improved his record to 450, setting him up for the next challenge in his boxing career. But what will it be? Will it be a final dream showdown with Manny Pacquiao, a dream that’s slowly losing its luster? 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 about not fighting Pacquiao and can anybody remember the last time he was seriously challenged?

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.

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to be, especially with Pacquiao avoiding drug tests, but retirement should be the least of his

Wrestling Restored to the Olympics After Enthusiasts Protest Dismissal 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 call for a restoration of wrestling drew full-throated support. Such rallies were common throughout the athletic world in the wake of the Feb. 12 IOC decision to drop wrestling, along with .several other competitions from its list of core sports for the 2016 Olympics Games. The IOC decided it would limit the Games to 28 sports,

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

Nationals Rake in Wins to Charge Back into Wildcard Chase By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor The Washington Nationals have won seven of their last eight games, roaring back into the National League wildcard race. Just a week ago, the Nationals were behind nearly nine games in the race for a wildcard seed. But after their recent winning surge, they’re now a legitimate contender for a possible playoff seed with just 14 games left on their regular season schedule.

(Sept. 9-12) “Red-Hot” Washington Sweeps Mets in Four-Game Series

Four of the Nationals’ last seven wins came in a fourgame sweep of the New York Mets. Washington beat the Mets, 9-0 in the First Game of the series, 6-3 in the Second Game, 3-0 in the Third Game and 7-2 in the Fourth Game. The Nationals totaled 38 hits on offense throughout the series against the Mets, and their pitching was just as stellar. Starting pitcher Gio Gonzalez was flawless in the series opener, giving up just one hit and zero runs with eight strikeouts through nine full innings pitched.

(Sept. 13-14) Nats’ Win Streak Ends in Series against Phillies

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(Left to right) Oklahoma State’s wrestler Jordan Oliver and Nasir Wilkinson 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.”

Washington added another win, 6-1, in the First Game of a three game current series against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Nationals had 11 hits in the win, including a homerun from Wilson Ramos and Ryan Zimmerman. But their win streak finally came to an end with a 5-4 loss in the Second Game of the series against Philly. Unlike his amazing performance against the Mets, Gio Gonzalez was shaky on the mound for Washington, giving up nine hits and four earned runs through just six innings pitched.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013 adm875 Frances B. Owens Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Melvin Owens, whose address is 631 Ingraham St., NW Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Frances B. Owens, who died on December 15th, 2012 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Melvin Owens Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF TYPESET: Fri WILLS Aug 30 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington,D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM861 Milton S. Baddy AKA Milton Sylvester Baddy Decedent Lynn H. Johnson, Esq. Johnson & Pavuk 1413 K ST. NW, Suite 1500 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robert Baddy, whose address is 3650 Emerald St., Unit D-1 Torrance, CA 90503, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Milton S. Baddy AKA Milton Sylvester Baddy, who died on November 17th, 2004 with a will, and will serve with, Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Robert Baddy Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

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Bertron Withers, Jr. 202-879-0157 One Thomas Circle, 1708 Loft Way Silver Spring, Maryland NW; Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005 20904-6647 a. Absent Defendant $ 150.00 Attorney Attorney NOTICE OF NOTICE «OF b. Absolute Divorce $ 150.00 APPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO NOTICE TO c. Custody Divorce $150.00 CREDITORS CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO 14:38:21 EDT 2013 UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS To place your ad, call 1-800-237-6692, ext. 262, Public Notices $50.00 & up David M. Mason, whose Mary Virginia Swisshelm address is 4538 Kin- Albrecht, whose address depending on size, Baltimore Legal Notices are $24.84 per inch. mount Road; Lanham, is 675 E St. NW Apt. 700; 1-800 (AFRO) 892 Washington, DC 20004, Maryland 20706, was appointed personal re- was appointed personal For Proof of Publication, please call 1-800-237-8892, ext. 244 presentative of the estate representative of the of Tyrone James Mason, estate of Robert P. AlEDTTue 2013 TYPESET: Sep 17 18:18:26 EDTTue 2013 TYPESET: Sep 17 13:44:00 TYPESET: Sep 17 13:44:48 EDTTue 2013 who died on August 17. brecht, who died on TYPESET: Fri Aug 30 14:45:05 LEGAL NOTICES 2013 without a will and March 10, 2013 with a will serve without Court will and will serve without Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of supervision. All unknown Court supervision. All unthe District of the District of the District of the District of heirs and heirs whose known heirs and heirs District of Columbia District of Columbia Columbia Columbia whereabouts are un- whose whereabouts are PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Civil Division Civil Division known shall enter their unknown shall enter their W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Washington,D.C. appearance in this Case No. 13-0005984 Case No. 13-0006201 appearance in this 20001-2131 20001-2131 IN RE: IN RE: proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections Administration No. Administration No. to such appointment (or Bernard Charmayne to such appointment 2013ADM867 2013ADM898 Dontaue Hickson Sandra-Marie Stewart shall be filed with the to the probate of deGerald L. Moye, Sr. Applicant Applicant Register of Wills, D.C., cedent´s will) shall be Mary A. Gibbs Decedent ORDER OF ORDER OF 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd filed with the Register of Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, PUBLICATION PUBLICATION Floor Washington, D.C. Wills, D.C., 515 5th APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CHANGE OF NAME CHANGE OF NAME 20001, on or before Street, N.W., 3rd Floor NOTICE TO Bernard Dontaue Hickson Charmayne Sandra-Marie CREDITORS March 20, 2014. Claims W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . having filed a applicant for Stewart having filed a apCREDITORS AND NOTICE TO against the decedent 20001, on or before judgment changing the name plicantion for judgment AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS shall be presented to the March 20, 2014. Claims from Bernard Dontaue the name from UNKNOWN HEIRS Terry L. Moye whose ad- changing undersigned with a copy against the decedent Hickson name to Allaysia Charmayne Sandra-Marie to the Register of Wills or shall be presented to the Wylicia Gibbs, whose address is 800 Kenilworth Stewart to Marcus Ryan London Pierce and having dress is 27 Bryant Street, Avenue, N.E. Washingundersigned with a copy filed with the Register of applied to the court for an OrStewart and having applied Wills with a copy to the to the Register of Wills or N.E. Washington, D.C. ton, DC 20019, was ap- to the court for an Order of der of Publication of the noundersigned, on or be- filed with the Register of 20002, was appointed pointed personal repre- Publication of the notice re- tice required by law in such it is by the Court this fore March 20, 2014, or Wills with a copy to the personal representative sentative of the estate of quired by law in such cases; it cases; 3rd day of September 2013, is by the Court this 11th day of be forever barred. Per- undersigned, on or be- of the estate of Mary A. Gerald L. Moye,Sr., who September 2013, hereby hereby sons believed to be heirs fore March 20, 2014, or Gibbs, who died on April died on September 24, ORDERED, that a copy of ORDERED, that a copy of or legatees of the de- be forever barred. Per- 18th, 2011 without a will, 2008 without a will and this Order be published once this Order be published once cedent who do not re- sons believed to be heirs and will serve without will serve without Court a week for three (3) consecu- a week for three (3) consecuceive a copy of this notice or legatees of the de- Court supervision. All un- supervision. All unknown tive weeks, in The Afro- tive weeks, in The Afroby mail within 25 days of cedent who do not re- known heirs and heirs heirs and heirs whose American , a newspaper of American Newspaper, a newspaper of general circirculation of the Disits first publication shall ceive a copy of this notice whose whereabouts are whereabouts are un- general culation of the District of trict of Columbia; and it is furso inform the Register of by mail within 25 days of unknown shall enter their known shall enter their ther Columbia; and it is further appearance in this Wills, including name, its first publication shall a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s ORDERED, that the publicaORDERED, that the publicaaddress and relation- so inform the Register of proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections tion must began no later than tion must began no later than Wills, including name, to such appointment to such appointment 12 days after the filing of the 12 days after the filing of the ship. application; and is further address and relation- shall be filed with the shall be filed with the application; and is further Date of Publication: Register of Wills, D.C., Register of Wills, D.C., ORDERED, that the FINAL ORDERED, that the FINAL ship. September 20, 2013 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd HEARING on this application HEARING on this application Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: to change name will be held change name will be held Floor Washington, D.C. Floor Washington, D.C. to September 20, 2013 Afro-American in Judge-in-Chambers, in Judge-in-Chambers, 20001, on or before 20001, on or before Name of newspaper: Washington Room 4220 in the District of Room 4220 in the District of March 6, 2014. Claims M a r c h y 2 0 t h , 2 0 1 4 . Columbia at 500 Indiana Columbia at 500 Indiana Afro-American Law Reporter Avenue NW Washington DC against the decedent Avenue NW Washington DC Claims against the deDavid M. Mason Washington shall be presented to the cedent shall be pre- 20001, on the 30th day of 20001, on the 22nd day of Personal Law Reporter October, 2013 at 3:15 pm.If 2013 at 2:30 pm.If Mary Virginia undersigned with a copy sented to the under- October, Representative any person desires to opany person desires to opSwisshelm Albrecht to the Register of Wills or signed with a copy to the pose this application, that pose this application, that Personal filed with the Register of Register of Wills or filed person or his or her attorney person or his or her attorney TRUE TEST COPY Representative Wills with a copy to the with the Register of Wills must be present at the hear- must be present at the hearREGISTER OF WILLS undersigned, on or be- with a copy to the under- ing or file written detailed ing or file written detailed 9/20, 9/27, 10/3/13 fore March 6, 2014 or be signed, on or before objections five (5) days in ad- objections five (5) days in adTRUE TEST COPY forever barred. Persons March 20th, 2014, or be vance of the hearing with vance of the hearing with REGISTER OF WILLS Judge-in-Chambers and mail Judge-in-Chambers and mail 9/20, 9/27, 10/3/13 believed to be heirs or forever barred. Persons a copy of the applicant or ap- a copy of the applicant or aplegatees of the decedent believed to be heirs or plicant’s counsel; and it is fur- plicant’s counsel; and it is furwho do not receive a legatees of the decedent ther ther copy of this notice by mail who do not receive a ORDERED, that ORDERED, that within 25 days of its first copy of this notice by mail the applicant must send the the applicant must send the publication shall so in- within 25 days of its first application for change of application for change of name of an adult and notice name of an adult and notice form the Register of publication shall so in- of final hearing to the ap- of final hearing to the apWills, including name, form the Register of plicant’s creditors personally plicant’s creditors personally address and relation- Wills, including name, or by registered or certified or by registered or certified ship. address and relation- mail and show proof of ser- mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ vice by filing the affidavit/ Date of Publication: ship. declaratiion declaration of service September 6, 2013 Date of Publication: of service. SO ORDERED Name of newspaper: September20th,2013 SO ORDERED JUDGE Afro-American Name of newspaper: JUDGE 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/2013 Washington Afro-American 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/13 Law Reporter Washington Wylicia Gibbs Law Reporter Personal Terry L. Moye Representative Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 9/20, 9/27, 10/3/13

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Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing YumnBaiyyinah Ayomitunlesi Omokehinde name to Yumn Baiyyinah Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of December 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13bp609 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing HaatimSajjaad Ayomitomiwa Omokehinde name to Haatim Sajjaad Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all person concered show cause, if any there be,on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted: provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13FSP610 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing UzmaTasneem Ayomitelera Omokehinde name to Uzma Tasneem Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, thatall persons show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the AfroAmerican Newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 9/13/, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Court Case No. 13FSP611 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing ThanaaSalsabil Ayomikunsi Omokehinde name to Thanaa Salsabil Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of September 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the Afro-American Newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Dominic Antonio Dooley having filed a application for judgment changing the name from Dominic Antonio Dooley to Dominique Daenerys Bryant and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 19th day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro-American , a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name of an adult will be held in Judge-inChambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Ind i a n a AvEDT e n u e 2013 N . W. , 16:25:15 Washington DC 20001, on the 7th day of October, 2013 at 3:15 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service and to credit card companies involved in fruad cases. the applicant must Send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the D.C. Chief of Police, 300 Indiana Avenue, N.W., ROOM 5080, Washington, D.C. 20001, the Department of Corrections and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/declaration of service. the applicant must send te application for change of 16:26:11 EDT name of an adult2013 and notice of finl hearing to Fairfax County Circuit Court and the Chief of Police for Fairfax County. SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: 10 9/13,Tue 9/20,Sep 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 2013CA5709 IN RE: Rahamatalai Titilola ArogundadeOmokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

R a h a m a t a l a i Ti t i l o l a Arogundade-Omokehinde having filed a complaint for judgment changing the name from Rahamatalai Titilola Arogundade-Omokehinde to Rahamatalai Lola Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in Afro-American Newspaper, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publica16:26:58 EDTno2013 tion must began later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 9th day of October, 2013 at 2:30 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further SO ORDERED the applicant must send thw application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service. the application must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the US Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Washington Field Office, 2675 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax Virginia 22031 personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service. SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013adm895 Iris T. Johnson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kym W. Smallwood, whose address is 800 Kenilworth Ave N.E. #316 Washington, D.C. 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Iris T. Johnson, who died on July 18th, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before March 13th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 13th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 13th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kym W. Smallwood Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13-0005733 IN RE: Antwaun Ball Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Antwaun Ball having filed a application for judgment changing the name from Antwaun Ball to Abdus Salaam Rashaad and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 21st day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, to be completed within 30 days of filing of the application in Afro, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than two weeks after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 9th day of October, 2013 at 3:30 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further SO ORDERED that the notice be sent to the applicant’s creditos personally or by registered or certified mail and that proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases. that notice be sent personally or by registered or by or certified mail and that proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases. is incarcerated in a jurisdiction other that the District of Columbia, that notice shall be sent to the Federal Bureau of Prisons personally or by registered or certified mail and that proof of service of mailing be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases. SO ORDERED JUDGE

TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 TRUE TEST COPY 9/27/13 TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Sep 10 16:21:36 9/13, EDT9/20. 2013 REGISTER 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF Superior Court of COLUMBIA the District of PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia Washington, D.C. PROBATE 16:19:25 EDTDIVISION 2013 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Administration No. 20001-2131 2013ADM924 Administration No. Estate of 2013ADM653 Ometa D. Fields Ernest Lewis AKA Decedent Ometa D. NOTICE OF Fields-Brown APPOINTMENT, Deceased NOTICE TO NOTICE OF CREDITORS STANDARD AND NOTICE TO PROBATE UNKNOWN HEIRS Ronald L.Taylor, whose Notice is hereby given address is 2518 Fairhill that a petition has been filed in this Court by MarDrive, Suitland MD 20746, was appointed ion E. Winston for stanpersonal representative dard probate, including of the estate of Ernest the appointment of one Lewis, who died on or more personal repreMarch 11th, 2013 without sentative. Unless a coma will and will serve with- plaint or an objection in out Court supervision. All accordance with Superunknown heirs and heirs ior Court Probate Diwhose whereabouts are vision Rule 407 is filed in unknown shall enter their this Court within 30 days from the date of first pubappearance in this proceeding. Objections lication of this notice, the to such appointment Court may take the acshall be filed with the tion hereinafter set forth. Register of Wills, D.C., Ordered any interested 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd person to show cause Floor Washington, D.C. why the provisions of the 20001, on or before lost or destroyed will M a r c h 1 3 t h , 2 0 1 4 . dated October 2, 1979 Claims against the de- should not be admitted to cedent shall be pre- probate as expressed in sented to the under- the petition nd codicilsigned with a copy to the dated April 19th, 1995. Register of Wills or filed Appoint an unsupervised with the Register of Wills personal representative with a copy to the under- Register of Wills signed, on or before Clerk of the March 13th, 2014, or be Probate Division forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or Date of First Publication legatees of the decedent September 13th, 2013 who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail Names of Newspapers: within 25 days of its first Washington publication shall so in- Law Reporter Afro-American form the Register of Wills, including name, Signature of address and relation- Petitioners/Attorney Marion E. Winston ship. 6915 Hasting Drive Date of Publication: Capitol Heights, MD September 13th, 2013 TYPESET: Tue Sep 10 20743 Name of newspaper: 913/, 9/20/13 Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Superior Court of Ronald L. Taylor the District of Persona Columbia l Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

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having filed a complaint for judgment changing Bennie victoria Martu name to Aaliyah Bennie Martu and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 10th day of September 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 16th day of October 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted:provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the AfroAmerican Newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/13, 9/20, 9/27/13

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Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of the District of the District of the District of District of Columbia District of Columbia District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 20001-2131 20001-2131 Administration No. Administration No. Administration No. 2013ADM176 2013ADM858 2013ADM843 Grace Brent Emma Montgomery Patricia N. Hederman Decedent AKA DeVore NOTICE OF Grace N. Brent Decedent APPOINTMENT, Decedent NOTICE OF NOTICE TO Horace L. Bradshaw APPOINTMENT, CREDITORS 1644-6th St. NW NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO Washington, DC 20001 CREDITORS UNKNOWN HEIRS Attorney AND NOTICE TO Edward W. Wilson and NOTICE OF UNKNOWN HEIRS APPOINTMENT, Lloyd J. DeVore, Dennis James M. Wilson, Jr., NOTICE TO D. DeVore., Tanya M. whose address is 111 CREDITORS D e Vo r e , w h o s e a d - Overdale Rd. Pittsburgh, AND NOTICE TO dresses are 5411 Sec- PA 15221 was appointed UNKNOWN HEIRS ond Street NW, washing- personal representaJames L. Brent,Jr. whose ton, DC 20011, 5117 tive(s) of the estate of Paaddress is 718 Jefferson, Armetus Road; Sims, NC tricia N. Hederman York St., NE, Washington, 27880 were appointed NY 10280, who died on D.C. 20011 was appersonal representatives February 16, 2013 withpointed personal repre- of the estate of Emma out a will, and will serve sentative of the estate of Montgomery DeVore, without Court superviGrace Brent AKA Grace who died on April 15th, sion. All unknown heirs N. Brent, who died on 1999 without a will, and a n d h e i r s w h o s e January 31st, 2012 with- will serve with Court su- whereabouts are unout a will, and will serve pervision. All unknown known shall enter their without Court supervi- heirs and heirs whose a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s sion. All unknown heirs whereabouts are un- proceeding. Objections a n d h e i r s w h o s e known shall enter their to such appointment (or to the probate of dewhereabouts are un- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s known shall enter their proceeding. Objections cedent´s will) shall be appearance in this to such appointment filed with the Register of proceeding. Objections shall be filed with the Wills, D.C., 515 5th to such appointment (or Register of Wills, D.C., Street, N.W., 3rd Floor to the probate of de- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . cedent´s will) shall be Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before filed with the Register of 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims Wills, D.C., 515 5th March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent Street, N.W., 3rd Floor against the decedent shall be presented to the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy 20001, on or before undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or March 6, 2014. Claims to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of against the decedent filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the shall be presented to the Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or beundersigned with a copy undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be to the Register of Wills or fore March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons filed with the Register of forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or Wills with a copy to the believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent undersigned, on or be- legatees of the decedent who do not receive a fore March 6, 2014 or be who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail forever barred. Persons copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first believed to be heirs or within 25 days of its first publication shall so inlegatees of the decedent publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, who do not receive a form the Register of copy of this notice by mail Wills, including name, address and relationwithin 25 days of its first address and relationship. Date of Publication: publication shall so in- ship. September 6, 2013 form the Register of Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: Wills, including name, September 6, 2013 Afro-American address and relation- Name of newspaper: Washington ship. Afro-American Law Reporter Date of Publication: Washington Edward W. Wilson September 6, 2013 Law Reporter James M. Wilson Name of newspaper: Lloyd J. DeVore Personal Afro-American Dennis D. DeVore Representative(s) 16:23:25 EDT 2013 Daily Washington Tanya M. DeVore Law Reporter Personal TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: OF Fri WILLS Aug 30 James L. Brent,Jr. Representatives REGISTER 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Personal TRUE TEST COPY Representative REGISTER OF WILLS TRUE TEST COPY 9/6/, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of REGISTER OF TYPESET: Fri WILLS Aug 30 14:39:23 EDTFri2013 TYPESET: Aug 30 14:40:25 2013 theEDT District of 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM881 Robert W. Moesker Decedent Philip N. Margolius c/o The Margolius Law Firm, LLP 4201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20008 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Arthur D. Purswell, Jr., whose address is 7 Postwood Road, Austin, Texas 78738-1503, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Robert W. Moesker, who died on July 10th, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before March 6, 2014 Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills withEDT a copy to the 16:27:46 2013 undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Arthur D. Purswell, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13. 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM879 Omar Segundo Matos Decedent Kerri M. Castellini, Esq. Feeney & Kuwamura, P.A. Suite 350 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James P. Caine, whose address is 17819 Benchmark Drive Dallas, Texas 75252 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Omar Segundo Matos, who died on June 27, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter James P. Caine Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

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Columbia Washington, DC 20001 Family Court Case No. 13FSP602 IN RE: Jazz White Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME Jazz White having filed a

complaint for judgment changing JaCobi Lamont Vuitton Dandridge name to JaCobi Lamont Vuitton White and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 20th day of August 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 20th day of August, 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican Newspaper.. a newspaper of general SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13 TYPESET: Fri Aug 30

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM433 Hilda Woodford Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Emmette Brown, whose address is 1110 Fidler Lane, Suite 900, Silver Spring, MD 20901 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Hilda Woodford, who died on April 18th, 2010 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 6, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 6, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 6, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Daily Washington Law Reporter Emmette Brown Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/6, 9/13, 9/20/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Family Court Case No. 2013FSP335 IN RE: Karen Elizabeth Schindler Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Karen Schindler having filed a complaint for judgment changing Alexander Cruz Schindler name to Alexander Cruz Cosme Schindler and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 10th day of September 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause,if any there be on or before the 4th day of October 2013, why prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks before said day in the in The Afro-American Newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE 9/20, Tue 9/27/,Sep 10/4/13 TYPESET: 17

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM909 Josephine Adele Conwell Reid AKA Adele Reid Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Andrea Adele Reid, whose address is 4707 Halloran Court, Upper Marlboro MD 20772 was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Josephine Adele Conwell Reid AKA Adele Reid, who died on December 9th, 2012 with a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. 14:58:40 EDT Objections 2013 to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before March 20th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 20th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 20th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Andrea Adele Reid Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM926 Katie B. Gibbs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kathy Gibbs-Wood, whose address is 10204 Spring Water Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD 2277 was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Katie B. Gibbs, who died on June 22, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 13:41:21 W a s h i nEDT g t o n 2013 , D.C. 20001, on or before March 20th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 3rd, 203, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 20th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kathy Gibbs-Wood Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM663 Estate of Claire Williams Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Wells Fargo Bank.N.A. for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the court of due execution, enter an order determing that the decedejt died intestste appoint an unsupervised personal representative.

Date of First Publication; Ssptember 19th, 2013 Names of Newspapers: TRUE TEST COPY Washington L 14:47:01 EDT 2013 REGISTER aw Reporter TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Sep 17 14:27:53 EDT 2013 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/13 Washington Jewish Week Superior Court of Renee Dyson the District of Atlantic Law Group District of Columbia 1602 Village Market PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Blvd. Suite 310 Leesburg, VA 20175 20001-2131 Signature of Administration No. Petitioners/Attorney 2012ADM5 TYPESET: 9/20, 9/27/13Tue Sep 17 13:45:27 Mary Simmons Decedent NOTICE OF Superior Court of APPOINTMENT, the District of NOTICE TO Columbia CREDITORS Civil Division AND NOTICE TO Case No. 13-0006209 UNKNOWN HEIRS IN RE: Lisa Simmons, whose Paul a d d r e s s i s 2 5 2 4 Joseph Rogers Southern Avenue, SE, Applicant Apt 2, Washington, D.C. ORDER OF 20020 was, appointed PUBLICATION personal representative CHANGE OF NAME of the estate of Mary Paul Joseph Rogers havSimmons, who died on ing filed an application for September 4, 2011 with- judgment changing the name Paul Joseph Rogers to out a will, and will serve from Kay Rogers and having apwithout Court supervi- plied to the court for an Order sion. All unknown heirs of Publication of the notice a n d h e i r s w h o s e required by law in such whereabouts are un- cases; it is by the Court this day of December 2013, known shall enter their 11th hereby a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s ORDERED, that a copy of proceeding. Objections this Order be published once to such appointment a week for three (3) consecushall be filed with the tive weeks, in The Afro, a newspaper of Register of Wills, D.C., American general circulation of the Dis515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd trict of Columbia; and it is furFloor Washington, D.C. ther 20001, on or before ORDERED, that the publicaMarch 20, 2014. Claims tion must began no later than days after the filing of the against the decedent 12 application; and is further shall be presented to the ORDERED, that the FINAL undersigned with a copy HEARING on this application to the Register of Wills or to change name will be held filed with the Register of i n J u d g e - i n - C h a m b e r s , 4220 in the District of Wills with a copy to the Room Columbia at 500 Indiana undersigned, on or be- Avenue NW Washington DC fore March 20, 2014, or 20001, on the 30th day of be forever barred. Per- October, 2013 at 2:45 pm.If sons believed to be heirs any person desires to opthis application, that or legatees of the de- pose person or his or her attorney cedent who do not re- must be present at the hearceive a copy of this notice ing or file written detailed by mail within 25 days of objections five (5) days in adits first publication shall vance of the hearing with and mail so inform the Register of Judge-in-Chambers a copy of the applicant or apWills, including name, plicant’s counsel; and it is furaddress and relation- ther ORDERED that ship. the applicant must send the Date of Publication: application for change of September 20th, 2013 name of an adult and notice Name of newspaper: of final hearing to the apAfro-American plicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified Washington mail and show proof of serLaw Reporter by filing the affidavit/ Lisa Simmons vice declaration of service. Personal SO ORDERED Representative JUDGE TRUE TEST COPY 9/20, 9/27. 10/4/13 REGISTER OF WILLS 9/20, 9/27. 10/4/13

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM299 Rease S.Pugh Decedent Brett E. Cohen 7910 Woodmont Avenue, #1430 Bethesda, Maryland 20814-7047 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Brett E. Cohen, whose address is 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1430, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-7047 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Rease S. Pugh, who died on April 30, 1012 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 20th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before March 20th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: September 20th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Brett E. Cohen Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 9/20, 9/27, 10/4/13

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Parents and Police Search for Kidnapped Kids in Mesmerizing, Multi-Layered Film Review by Kam Williams Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is a rugged outdoorsman and family man with deep roots in rural Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Grace (Maria Bello), are raising their kids, 6 year-old Anna (Erin Gerasimovich) and teenage Ralph (Dylan Minnette) in the tiny town of Dover, an idyllic oasis seemingly far removed from big city afflictions. It is Thanksgiving morning, and the doting dad has decided his son is ready to shoot his first deer, a rite-of-passage he’d shared with his own father upon coming-of-age a generation earlier. And after a telling tableau dripping with Christian symbolism reflected in a recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and a cross dangling from their pickup truck’s rearview mirror, we find the two deep in the woods where the boy does, indeed, bag his first buck. “Be ready,” Keller ominously advises Viola Davis and Terrance Howard in Prisoners Ralph on the return trip, not because he has a premonition about any impending disaster, but due to the vague sense of paranoia he has cultivated over the years as an amateur survivalist. Still, a basement stocked with years’ worth of provisions would prove to be of no use in the calamity about to unfold later that day. First, the Dovers travel to the home of Nancy (Viola Davis) and Franklin Birch (Terrence Howard), neighbors with a couple of kids around the same age as theirs. However, after sharing a satisfying Thanksgiving dinner, youngsters Anna and Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons) vanish without a trace while playing outside unsupervised. The only lead is a suspicious RV parked down the street which the police trace to Alex Jones (Paul Dano), the mentally-challenged village idiot ostensibly incapable of pulling off such an abduction. With no other clues to follow, the investigating officer (Jake Gyllenhaal) puts the case on a back burner, much to the chagrin of the missing girls’ anguished parents. Given that time is of the essence, it is no surprise when a very desperate Keller takes the law into his own hands, with his manic behavior cutting a sharp contrast to the relatively-measured approach of deliberately-paced Detective Loki. Will the frustrated father or the laid-back cop crack the case first? Or will they join forces and pool their resources? Will Anna and Joy be rescued alive, or found too late to save them? Or will the whodunit simply go unsolved. EXPERIENCE is PRICELESS! That is the mystery at the heart of Prisoners, a mesmerizing, multi-layered masterpiece brilliantly directed by Dennis Villeneuve. Screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski deserves equal credit for the film’s The AFRO AMERICAN Newspaper is seeking a college intricately-plotted script which oh so slowly ratchets-up the tension in a compelling fashion guaranteed to student with an interest in journalism, graphic design or keep you on the edge of your seat every step of the way. marketing to serve in a non-paid intern position in the A compelling character study of the emotional toll exacted by a kidnapping on the psyche of the AFRO’s Washington, D.C., office on Benning Road. victims’ loved ones. Flexible weekday hours to accommodate class schedule.

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