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Black UCLA Professor Collecting Maryland Case Has Data on Racial Profiling

By Zenitha Prince Special to the AFRO A new national database on racial profiling, the first ever in the United States, will break new ground in promoting equity in law enforcement, researchers and activists said.

“You’re not going to see anybody marching about it, but getting this data all together in one place may be

the most revolutionary act in promoting racial equity in law enforcement,” said Phillip Atiba Goff, a Black social psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Center for Policing Equity.

Goff recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create the database, which will be launched later this month. The expert on racial

profiling said the impetus was the feedback from law enforcement departments across the country who said they “desperately” needed someone to come in and help them tackle the issue. But the lack of a standardized system of data collection made that difficult, he said.

“There was no consensus on how to collect the data or how to analyze it if it was

Prof. Phillip Goff hopes racial profiling will be reduced.

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Implications for Nation’s HBCUs

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

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Prince George’s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey, Focus on Family

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

At the characterization that

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

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

The hectic lives of the two professionals, who are the parents of five boys, kicked into even higher gear when Maryland Attorney General Douglas S. Gansler, a candidate for governor in 2014, tapped Jolene Ivey to run for lieutenant governor alongside him.

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

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

Supporting each other is the secret to the success to

The Iveys, left to right: Aaron (sitting), Glenn, Joanna, the late Joseph Stephenson (sitting), David, Jolene, Troy (sitting), Alex and Julian their 25-year marriage, the Cheverly-based couple said.

Glenn Ivey was supportive when his wife, a former Baltimore TV writer and producer and former press

secretary for then-Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), decided to stay home with their sons, Alex, David, Julian, Troy and Aaron—now 23, 20, 18, 16 and 13, respectively. During

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Breast Cancer: A Major Health Concern for Black Women

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

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

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

According to the American Cancer Society, in 2013 about

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that time, she co-founded Mocha Moms, a support group for stay-at-home mothers of color. Ivey served as president from 1997 until 2002. Glenn Ivey also has a

daughter, Joanna, 26, from a previous relationship.

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

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

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

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

That commitment to family—and to public service—was forged in both as children, the Iveys said.

Glenn Ivey, who attended Princeton and Harvard Law School, and his older brother, Gerald, who is also a successful lawyer in D.C., grew up in Rocky Mount, N.C., during the height of segregation. Their mother,

said at his daily briefing Wednesday.

“We said that from the beginning, and we’re going to say it right up to the end WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite because it’s true. The American people their well-known animus for each have paid a price for this.” other, Senate Majority Leader Harry After numerous meetings at the M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader White House and repeated efforts by Mitch McConnell House Republicans (R-Ky.) reached a to use the threat last-minute deal Oct. of a government 16 that will end the shutdown to repeal the Affordable federal government Care Act, President shutdown and raise Obama’s signature the debt limit through health legislation Feb. 7. that is loosely The House and referred to as Senate are expected to vote on the — White House Press Obamacare, Reid compromise measure Secretary Jay Carney and McConnell announced their late Oct. 16, just agreement on the hours before the U.S. Senate floor.

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Breast cancer survivor Linda Williams 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women and about 39,620 women will die from breast cancer. There are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

Breast cancer is of particular concern to African-American women, officials said. Though White women are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer than AfricanAmerican women, in women under 45, breast cancer is more common in African Americans. AfricanAmerican women also are more likely to die of breast cancer than other groups, statistics show. “ Their tumors often are found at

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

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

Kendrick Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She was always very academically inclined.

During her last two years Intisar Rabb of high school—which was spent in Minnesota with her mother—Rabb obtained several college credits, her brother said. She later matriculated at Georgetown University, earning bachelor’s degrees in government and Arabic in 1999; she earned a master’s degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton in 2005 and a law degree from Yale Law School, in 2006.

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

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

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Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain N

Federal District Judge Catherine by HBCUs, vehicle you aresought not justinsegregating schools anda suspisport-utility from a the neighbor about ByBlake Alan ruled King Oct. 7 that connection with the system murder of of education, cious vehicle. man noticed AFRO Staff Writer to Maryland, by allowing traditionally White institutions perpetuating a dual you areThe undermining Hudson’s mother and brother. vehicle she while walking his duplicate programs already offered by historically Black our (Black) institutions in terms ofthe growth,” said.

The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog.

According to Chicago Jennifer Hudson and other colleges and universities, had created de facto segregation in its Conrad concurred, saying, the presence of uniquetheprograms Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, the boy had been shot relatives positively identified higher education system. leads to increased funding. multiple times in the back seat Maryland “offered no evidence that it has made any serious “When you have unique, quality noncore programs the of the vehicle. The SUV, regiseffort to address continuing historic duplication. Second, and money will come,” he said. tered to Hudson’s murdered even more troubling, the State has failed to prevent additional Both Conrad and Baskerville said Judge Blake’s brother, was towed ruling with the duplication, to the detriment of the HBIs,” Blake wrote in her could serve as a “wake-up” call toboy’s otherbody jurisdictions, inside andsince is being opinion.

Maryland is not the only state thatprocessed has lingering policiestechniby evidence Clifton Conrad, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, traceable to the de jure or legal eracians of segregation. and workers. The body Madison, and an expert in the area of segregation in higher was later removed and taken to the Cook County Medical education, said program duplication is a major indicator of Examiner’s office. the dualism that still exists in higher education despite the Hudson and other family passage of landmark cases such as the 1954 Brown v. Board members arrived at the Medical of Education and the 1992 U.S. v. Fordice, which attempted to Examiner’s office mid-aftermitigate the problem. noon to identify the body.

“Brown didn’t work in higher education, did it? No,” said Given the choice between lookthe professor, who worked on Fordice and was called as an ing directly at the body or expert witness in the Maryland case.

Baskerville viewing–it Lezli on a wall-mounted In her opinion, Blake noted that statewide, 60 percent of Courtesy Photos the noncore programs at Maryland’s HBCUs are unnecessarily Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who duplicated, compared with only 18 percent of its TWIs’ “This (decision) is significant not only for Maryland,” was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. noncore programs. And, of the unique high-demand programs Baskerville said. “We were waiting with bated breath for the video precedent screen, thefor family chose that fuel enrollment, there was an average of 17 per TWI and ruling, hoping that this would set good at least plate X584859 was found on the latter.

According to the the body of her 7-year-old only three per HBCU. four other states.”

Chicago’s after pending Tribune, Hudson Monday, just hours The lack of unique programs atnephew HBCUs has a segregating NAFEOWest has Side complaints in at least foursaid, other“Yes, states police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” after his body was found in a effect since it decreases the school’s attractiveness to students including Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. And there have been of all races, said Lezli Baskerville, president and CEO of other red flags in states like Louisiana, Georgia and Ohio, she the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher said.

Education (NAFEO), mirroring Blake’s conclusions.

For example, Baskerville said, Georgia’s Savannah State “When you undercut and duplicate those courses offered University, an HBCU, launched an acclaimed homeland

“The lack of unique programs at HBCUs has a segregating effect since it decreases the school’s attractiveness to students of all races”

security program that promised to draw students from all over.

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

In her opinion, Blake offered guidelines Maryland should consider as they developed an approach to dealing with the segregative program duplication. Those included “expansion of mission and program uniqueness and institutional identity at the HBIs,” even “theHudson’s transfer ornephew. merger of select high Julian King,and Jennnifer demand programs from TWIs to HBIs.” Any solution will pose a difficult to the state,held in A spokesman for the office thechallenge murders but is being told the said. newspaper that Hudson jailbeforappropriated parole violation Conrad Resources will have to for after faculty training, facility rehabbing and the like, which may be less tasking that trying to divvy up the programs among the institutions.

“It’s tricky because you have a lot of institutions involved. “remained strong for her famibeing convicted of attempted So it’s going to invite some creativity in finding the remedy ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackto giveheld HBCUs useful identity,” Conrad said.

“She handsawith herprogrammatic fami- ing. Cook County records show “It’s challenging; not“It going to that be easy.

Institutions ly,” the spokesmanit’s said. he pleaded guiltylike to both things to stay asa they [so] change and innovation was obviously very are emotional charges in 1999. Hecan wasbealso painful.” moment.” convicted in 1998 for possesBut worth it, he added.

The the boypain – theisson of Julia sion of a stolen motor vehicle.

Hudson, Jennifer’s sisterto– had Hethe wasvestiges releasedoffrom prison in “It is 2013.

We need get rid of segregation been missing since Friday, 2006 after serving seven years and move on,” he said. when a relative found Julian’s for the attempted murder and grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges.

Donerson, 57, and his uncle, The boy remained missing Jason Hudson, 29, shot to death through a long weekend in in his grandmother’s home in which police and volunteers the 7000 block of South Yale Avenue. cancer has hadAlert in the that explains the risk factors, An Amber – aAfrican desigAmerican community. screening tests and some nation for high-risk missing For more common treatments for it” children – wasinformation, issued Friday after Julian Charge was discovered see Taking of Breast at www.cancer.org/healthy/ missing the murders.

Cancer:after A Guide For African toolsandcalculators/videos/ Police arrested William American Women, a video taking-charge-of-breast-cancer 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 nothing to do with the slayings.

Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson

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ACORN Fights Back

Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’

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a later, more advanced stage,” according to womenshealth. org. “So, there are fewer treatment options. Some other reasons for this may include not being able to get health care or not following-up after getting abnormal test results. Other reasons may include distrust of the health care system, the belief that mammograms are not needed, or not having insurance.

Also, research has shown that African-American women are more likely to get a form of breast cancer that spreads more quickly.”

Men, too, can contract breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, symptoms in men may include a lump or swelling on the breast, skin dimpling or puckering, a nipple turned inward, redness or scaling of the nipple or breast skin or nipple discharge.

By Alan King AFRO Staff Writer Presidential candidate John McCain’s attack on ACORN – American than in Associated women Community White women. type Organization for This Reform Now – confirms success of the of breast the cancer is called organization, the head of the “inflammatory” because group says. symptoms of the cancer “Thisswelling, is testimony the work include andtoredness we’ve done and success we’ve that affects a third or more of had,” Maude Hurd, president of the breast.said in an interview ACORN, said she had withWilliams the AFRO. noticed some on we “When this redness attack started, her but she that never had breast, just announced we had paid attention to it. Then, registered 1.3 million new voters,”morning she said. when “That’sshe justwas to say one that someone’s running scared casually stretching, she because something of ACORN’swhen success.” noticed her McCain, who is running hand ran across her right for president on the Republican tickbreast. et, lashed out at ACORN in the found Barack the lump final“When debate Iagainst on my right breast,the I went Obama, contending group “is to within a onmy the doctor verge ofand maybe perpetratweek was that in I ing oneit of theconfirmed greatest frauds votercancer,” history inshe thissaid. country, had “I was maybe destroying the fabric diagnosed with stage three,of democracy.” which means it had spread to a non-partisan myFactcheck.org, lymph nodes.”

WebDoctors site, found those claims to ordered an be “exaggerated,” with “no eviaggressive treatment regimen, dence of any such democracyincluding destroyingseveral fraud.” weeks of Hurd believes the McCain charges were politically motivated.

She said, “Because it’s lowand moderate-income people, and people of color, I believe the McCain campaign thinks those voters are going to vote Democratic, which is not necessarily true.” chemotherapy, which shetosaid, ACORN is no stranger “took a toll” on her body. controversy.

“I was always she For 38 years, thetired,” non-partisan said. organization has fought for social andAfter economic justice for lowgoing through and moderate-income chemotherapy, Williams Americans. With 400,000 memunderwent a mastectomy, ber families organized intoofmore then an additional year than 1,200 neighborhood chapchemotherapy and radiation. ters in 110 cities nationwide, She has now been cancer ACORN has over the years seen its share of criticism while advocating for affordable housing, living wages, healthcare for the underserved— and while organizing voter registration drives.

But none has been as withering and baseless as this one.

With the presidential election less than two weeks away, ACORN’s detractors allege the organization has engaged in massive voter registration fraud after the reported discovery of bogus names, such as Mickey Mouse

and Dallas Cowboys players Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, among the names submitted to election officials.

Hurd said those workers, who free sixthose years. werefor doing things without ACORN’s knowledge permisWilliams now hasorregular sion, were fired.and takes health exams “The evidence that has surextra steps, including eating faced so far shows they faked healthy. forms get paid for work they Shetourged other women didn’t do, not to stuff ballot to be aggressive about their boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the health. victim of fraud, not the perpetra“We tor of it. have…resources and information to prevent Hurd said now the only things breast cancer,” she said. bogus are the charges themselves.

And factcheck. org Though doctors don’t agrees.how to prevent breast know It concluded, “Neitherfoods, cancer, eating healthy ACORN nor its employees have getting plenty of exercising, been found guilty of, or even refraining from smoking and charged with, casting fraudulent recreational drug use and votes.” limiting alcohol are believed The problem came about prito help.because of the way marily The best tool, Rather though,than is ACORN operates. early cancerit pays screening. rely onbreast volunteers, people,“Breast many ofcancer them poor or unemscreening ployed, to sign up new voters. looks for signs of cancer The ideaa was to help before woman hasboth those being registered and those doing symptoms,” according the registration. to womenshealth.org.

Maud explained, “We have a “Screening helpfor find zero tolerancecan policy deliberbreast cancer early when it’s ate falsification of registration.”

Most news account neglect to point out that ACORN is required by law to turn in all registration forms. And they also fail to note that it was the organization, in many instances, that first brought the phony registrations to the attention of authorities.

The McCain camp apparently isn’t interested in those fine most points,treatable.” preferring to air misleadTwothat tests are ing ads seek to commonly link Obama used to screen for undercutting to ACORN, thereby breast cancer, including his political support.

McCain: I’m low-dose John McCain mammograms, and I approve this message. xrays of breast tissues that Announcer: Who is Barack can detect abnormalities and Obama?breast A man exams, with “a where political clinical baptism performed at warp a physician examines the speed.” Vast ambition. After colbreasts.

Women also asked lege, he moved to are Chicago.

“…research has shown that African-American women are more likely to get a form of breast cancer that spreads more quickly.”

“Sometimes a breast cancer can spread to lymph nodes under the arm or around the collar bone and cause a lump or swelling there, even before the original tumor in the breast tissue is large enough to be felt” in men, according to the ACS website.

Men who notice an abnormality should also seek immediate medical attention, as well.

More prevalent among African-American women who suffer from the disease is Triple Negative Breast Cancer, which is more difficult to treat, officials said.

According to breast cancer statistics, about 85% of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of the disease, due to genetic mutations that happen as a result of aging, research shows.

Williams had no family history of cancer when she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in 2007. According to the National Cancer Institute, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and very aggressive disease also more common and diagnosed at younger ages in African

Became a community organizer.

There, Obama met Madeleine Talbot, part of the Chicago branch of ACORN. He was so impressive that he was asked to train the ACORN staff.

What did ACORN in Chicago engage in? Bullying banks.

Intimidation tactics. Disruption of business. ACORN forced banks to issue risky home loans.

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

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No wonder Obama’s campaign is trying to distance him from the group, saying, “Barack Obama Never Organized with ACORN.” But Obama’s ties to ACORN run to doand monthly self-exams. long deep. He taught classes for ACORN. They even Organizations likeendorsed him for President.

Sisters Network help in But nowawareness ACORN is in trouble. raising locally at least Reporter: There are and nationally about the 11 investigations across devastating impact thatthebreast country involving thousands of potentially fraudulent ACORN forms.

Announcer: Massive voter fraud. And the Obama campaign paid more than $800,000 to an ACORN front for get out the vote efforts.

Pressuring banks to issue risky loans. Nationwide voter fraud.

Barack Obama. Bad judgment.

Blind ambition. Too risky for America.

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

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

NOT ON TH BREAD After a Cleveland representative appeared on TV, an e-mail was sent to the local office saying she “is going to have her life ended.”

A worker in Providence, R.I., received a threatening call sayLEFT RIGH ing, “We know you get off work at 9” and uttered racial epithets.

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

They’re gonna get all hung hon1 BANANA eys, they’re going to get assassinated, they’re gonna get killed.”

Another message said, “You liberal idiots. Dumb (expletive Wednesday deleted). Welfare bums. You October 30, 2013 guys just (expletive deleted) 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM come to our country, consume every natural resource there is, MARYLAND TRANSIT and make a lot of babies. That’s The USG Conference all youADMINISTRATION guys do. And then suck Center, Building II up thePUBLIC welfare and expect HOUSE everyOPEN FOR THE 9630 Gudelsky Drive one else to pay for yourCITIES hospital TRANSITWAY CORRIDOR Rockville, MD 20850 bills for your kids.

I jus’ say let (CCT) Before age five, every room is a cl your kids die. That’s the best will children be a state-of-the-art bus rapid transit (BRT) system. The CCT would run move.The JustCCT let your die.

Fun learning opportunities are everywhere. Simple a fully dedicated corridor between COMSAT, located just south of Clarksburg, MD Forgeton about paying for hospital counting and identifying activate a child’s learn to them. the Shady Grove transit service toshapes new and bills for I’m not gonnaMetro do Station. The CCT will provide and help them entercenters, school more prepared. That’ existing centers of commerce, residential communities, and education such as it. YouWatkins guys areMill, lowlifes.

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Farm con Éxito, a 10-year, $100 million program to help pre Hurd thinks the hate will Engineering andcalls environmental analysis for Phase I of the projectand between the children for school life. Pick up a free bilingual Sesa cease Metropolitan soon.

Grove MARC Station and Shady Grove Metro Station is actively “Happy, Healthy, Ready for School” kit at a PNC branc “Inunderway. two weeks,The I think theseOpen House is being offered to provide all interested persons Public with all kinds of simple, everyday opportunity learnit about and express their opinions about this work.

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Together, we can work withwith our communities s addition to viewing maps and displays, attendees will be able to discuss the CCT will be harder for us to get our staff and submit comments. There will be no formal presentation.

Comment generation won’t just grow up... but gro name project back on good graces Forms will be available at the open house. because they really trashed us in The Public Open House location is accessible for people with disabilities. Anyone the last few weeks.”

To find out more, gomaterial to pncgrowupgreat.com who requires special assistance; additional accommodations or printed ButinACORN will not be an alternate format, as well as hearing impaired persons who wish to orattend call 1-877-PNC-GROW. deterred. this meeting should notify Mr. Rick Kiegel, CCT Project Manager, Maryland Transit “We’ve been fighting6 for a Administration, St Paul Street, 9th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202 or by calling 410767-1380 or 30 tollyears, free for 1-888-218-2267, or by email at rkiegel@mta.maryland.gov long time, for over

by October 23, moderate2013. the rights of low- and The Maryland Relay income people all across the Service can assist teletype users at 7-1-1. country,” Hurd said. “We’re going to continue to fight for mta.maryland.gov/cct economic justice in our communities.”

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Convicted Consultant in Assault Charges Against Bland’s Ex-Aide Soft-Pedaled Robocall Case Seeks State

By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer

Assault charges against Prince George’s County Chief Deputy Clerk David J. Billings III have been placed on the state’s attorney inactive docket of cases, according to court documents.

Placing the case on the inactive, or stet, docket means that, unless Circuit Court Clerk Marilynn M. Bland or the state’s attorney’s office places the case on the list of active cases before Sept.

7, 2014, the case against Billings won’t proceed to trial, according to state’s attorney spokesman John Erzen.

Billings was facing the prospect of a trial on second degree assault charges for an incident that allegedly occurred July 9 in Bland’s office.

Bland accused her primary deputy and longtime political operative of injuring her during a dispute in her office.

According to police, Bland said Billings, 76, who helped run Bland’s successful campaign for a county council position seat, entered her office uninvited at about 9:30 a.m.

July 9. When she tried to open the door to let another staffer in, Billings, a doctor of divinity who has been her political confidant for more than a decade, allegedly grabbed her hand and

pushed it off the door handle, then pushed her backward.

A court document said she then left out of a back door and contacted authorities.

Bland said her wrist was injured. She was treated on the scene by Prince George’s County fire and rescue officials for minor swelling to her wrist. Her blood pressure was elevated, according to a police report.

Billings, who turned 76 the day before, has been charged with second-degree assault in the July 9 incident. He was released on his own recognizance.

“Defendant is to have no violent contact with Marilynn Bland,” the police document said.

Meanwhile, neither Billings nor Bland answered calls at their offices.

Several people who know Billings, who asked that their names not be revealed, expressed shock that he had been arrested for allegedly assaulting Bland. He has been among her closest confidantes since he ran her campaign for council in 2002, they said.

“He’s the reason why she’s in public office,” said one lawyer who has known Billings since he came to Prince George’s County. “I am sure that he would never intentionally have injured her.”

When she served on the county council, Bland drew attention when she fired her brother, who worked for her.

“…unless… Marilynn M. Bland or the state’s attorney’s office places the case on the list of active cases before Sept. 7, 2014, the case against Billings won’t proceed to trial…”

Senate Seat

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

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

by Sen. Nathaniel McFadden (D).

“I decided to run because I think that service is very important, particularly in our community,” said Henson. “In the 45th District, particularly the part that I live in, we basically have not been served.”

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

His announcement comes four months after the Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld his conviction in the infamous “Robocall Case.” In that case, he was originally charged with violating Maryland’s election law. He was convicted of one count of failing to include a sponsorship line in automated calls made Election Night 2010. The calls were made to about 110,000 voters, mostly in Prince Georges’s County and Baltimore City which have high percentages of Black voters.

He was accused of targeting Black voters

in robocalls and discouraging them from heading to the polls to vote, saying O’Malley had already won and that their votes were not needed. He was reportedly sentenced to two months in prison, 300 hours of community service, and three years of probation in June 2012. Henson said the conviction was based on “an inconsistent verdict.”

Henson said he remains on probation. He said a condition of his probation forbids him from being involved in political activity, paid or volunteer. Henson said he has been knocking on doors and passing out campaign literature.

It is unclear whether or not his campaign activities constitute a ‘political activity’ in violation of his probation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Standing next to Reid in the Senate, McConnell indicated that the nation hasn’t seen the last of GOP efforts to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. “Republicans remain determined to repeal this terrible law,” he said. “But for today – for today –the relief we hope is to

reopen the government, avoid default and protect the historic cuts we have achieved under the Budget Control Act.” Although the Affordable Care Act was passed by the House and Senate, signed into law by President Obama, and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, House Republicans have made more than 40 attempts to repeal the landmark legislation – all without success.

Political observers said that because Obama has often caved in to Republicans demands in the past, they thought the threat

of a government shutdown would cause him to yield to their demand that law be repealed. However, that threat backfired when Obama stood firm, refusing to give in to what he and his aides called ransom demands to the extremist Tea Party wing of the GOP. In one statement, White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said, “The president has said repeatedly that members of Congress don’t get to demand ransom for fulfilling their basic responsibilities to pass a budget and pay the nation’s bills.”

The impact of racial profiling has been devastating, Shelton said.

“Unfortunately this is a practice that is not only discriminatory, but it has also proven ineffective in meeting law enforcement goals,” he said. “It undercuts much of the progress made by police departments that are working hard to implement the law because it diminishes the trust between law enforcement and the community.”

At first, overtly racist attitudes formed the main impetus of racial profiling in America. In modern times, however, that explanation is much too “simple,” Goff said.

“Inequality is going up at the same time that racial prejudice is going down. So we have to come up with a different explanation for what is happening,” he said.

Covert racism based on stereotypes about a racial or ethnic group can lead to racial profiling and sometimes situations can

create disparate outcomes even without explicit or implicit bias, Goff said.

The UCLA professor said he hopes the database will help foster more understanding of the phenomenon and become a tool to promote fairer policing and also better inform and engage the community in the law enforcement process.

Initially, the database will include data from 30-70 police departments across the country on pedestrian stops, vehicle stops and police use of force.

“At the end of this process we will have a set of standards for how to collect racial profiling data,” Goff said. “We’re [also] hoping that from this data and analyses we can come up with an algorithm to measure racial profiling.”

Ultimately, Goff added, “our hope is that the database will help to reduce bias-based policing or the unconstitutional use of race to stop and detain someone.”

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collected,” Goff said, “[and] you can’t manage something that can’t be measured.”

Racial profiling has been a longtime scourge upon Black and Brown people in America. In cases from the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, to attacks on dozens of Black men and boys each year by police officers, the motivation for violence perpetrated on Blacks is often attributed to racial profiling.

“The practice of racial profiling goes back to the beginnings of this country,” said Hilary Shelton, the NAACP’s Washington Bureau chief and senior vice president for advocacy and policy.

From Native Americans to the enslaved African Americans and their descendants, and from Hispanic immigrants to Muslim worshipers, non-Whites in the U.S. have been the targets of unfair policing practices, as in the case of New York’s stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge recently deemed “unconstitutional.”

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Vivian, worked as a librarian at Black schools and their father, Van, eventually landed a job at the Department of Labor helping to implement President Johnson’s anti-poverty initiatives.

Glenn Ivey recalls following the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists as they fought for desegregation.

“It had an immediate impact on our lives,” he said. “My mother was able to work at different schools. You could go to the

public pool, try on clothes at the downtown department stores, or eat at restaurants…You could see how it made a difference in your life and I was drawn to that.”

Not far from the Iveys, in Goldsboro, N.C., Jolene’s father, Joseph Stephenson, was born and raised. He was a decorated military man who, after leaving the service, taught in Prince George’s high schools for 20 years.

Jolene Ivey said her father and stepmother, Gigi Stephenson, nurtured in her a love of

community service and advocacy in their Northeast Washington home.

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

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

“I decided to run for public office because it is a great vehicle to make things happen for

“It doesn’t affect me inside because I know who I am—I’m Black,” she said. “My family is Black…and I’m the mother of five Black sons.

The only issue arises when other people make assumptions about me based on my outward appearance, but I can’t do anything about that.”

The confusion has had its benefits.

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

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

— Glenn Ivey people,” she said.

In Annapolis, she has often focused on issues related to women, children and families.

If she is elected, her agenda will include working with Gansler to increase the minimum wage, close the achievement gap and improve diversity in government.

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

added.

Despite the demurrals, political analysts say the Iveys are anything but ordinary, and that their political heft could go a long way in making Attorney General Doug Gansler’s goal of becoming governor more likely.

“The fact that they’re a family of such prominence and visibility in Prince George’s County makes them an important asset forGansler,” said Matthew Crenson, professor emeritus of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

Crenson said Mr. Ivey, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, would be a “ready-made and potentially vigorous campaigner” on his wife’s—and thus Gansler’s—behalf.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION D.C. NAACP to Host Centennial Freedom Fund Banquet

The Washington D.C. NAACP Branch will host their Centennial Freedom Fund Banquet themed “Honoring Our Legacy, Celebrating Our Next Generation,” which will be held on Nov. 7 at 7:00 p.m. at the Washington Hilton.

At this event, the organization will recognize legendary and rising civil rights leaders in the District.

Tickets are $100 and Tables are $1,000 for 10 Seats. Premium tickets are $125.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: www.naacpdc.org

DCTV to Host 25th Annual Illumination Ceremony

Public Access Corporation of D.C. (DCTV) will host their 25th Anniversary Illumination Celebration on October 26 at Brooks Mansion in the Brookland neighborhood. DCTV is a membership-based, non-profit, public access television network. The event will be hosted by Kojo Nnamdi and will feature an evening of live music, food trucks and an award ceremony for influential D.C. residents.

For more information: DCTV.org.

PGCPS & MGM National Harbor Beechtree 5K Breast Cancer Walk Distribute 500 New Coats To Students Join the Beachtree community of Upper Marlboro, Md. in their efforts to raise $5000

On Oct. 10, the MGM National Harbor Fall Coat Harvest provided new coats, hats and gloves to children in need at Glassmanor Elementary School to use during the cold winter months. MGM National Harbor partnered with the Excellence in Education Foundation for Prince George’s County Public Schools to bring the Fall Coat Harvest program to Maryland. Over the next few days, 500 new coats, hats and gloves will be distributed to several Prince George’s County area schools, including Glassmanor Elementary School, Samuel P. Massie Academy, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones Elementary School and Ridgecrest Elementary School.

for breast cancer. T-shirts will be given to the first 200 registered participants. Non participants are encouraged to donate to the website. All proceeds will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

For more information, email: Alisha.Rollins@yahoo.com.

Prince George’s NCNW to Host 12th Annual Prayer Breakfast

Halloween Hayride

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Glassmanor Elementary students and staffers

The Penn-Branch Citizens Civic Association in S.E. D.C. will host a Halloween Hayride on Oct. 27 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. All rides will be $5.00 for each child and adult.

Participants will board on to the vehicle on the corner of Texas and Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E. Also, there will be a Halloween Fun House located on Carpenter Street. Admission is free to the Fun House and candy will be distributed.

Dreamstime

The Prince George’s County chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) will host its 12th annual Prayer Breakfast on Oct. 26 from 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Md. The Rev. Alyce Walker will serve as the event’s guest speaker. $45.

For tickets and more information, call: 301-736-0959.

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D.C.’s Top Elected Officials Push to Exempt City from Shutdown

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer The District of Columbia’s top elected officials, Democrats, find themselves siding with House Republicans in one of the oddities of the battle over the federal government shutdown.

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Oct. 9 that the federal shutdown threatens D.C. unfairly, cutting off access to millions of District-raised tax dollars because the AntiDeficency Act treats D.C. as a federal agency during the

federal shutdown.

“Sir, we are not a department of the government,” the mayor told Reid during the Senate Democrat’s new conference on the Capitol grounds where Reid and other Senate Democrats were talking to reporters. “We’re simply

trying to be able to spend our own money.”

If access is not granted soon, through a bill that would exempt the city from the shutdown, D.C. will be unable to make payments for a number of services, Gray and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) have been

telling Senate Democrats and White House officials.

Once the city’s estimated $140 million in reserves are spent, it will mean payments for key operations—such as payments for Medicare, Metro transit contributions and the operations of D.C.’s charter schools—won’t be made,

Vincent Gray forcing local shutdowns.

Friendship Charter Schools, for instance is due a $100 million quarterly payment from the District. ”If nothing is done by Oct. 15, we’ll feel the effects right away,” Donald Hense, CEO of Friendship Schools, told the AFRO during an Oct. 11 interview.

On Oct. 15, government officials told the Washington Times that there was enough money in its contingency reserve fund to pay workers for about a week, but explained that they are still searching for other revenue streams amid the shutdown.

In the Oct. 9 exchange, Gray urged the Senate leader to allow a Senate vote on a House-passed bill to exempt D.C. operations from the shutdown. Unless exempted the city can’t spend its money.

In a statement caught by news media microphones, Reid told Gray, “I’m on your side. Don’t screw it up, okay?”

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), the city’s non-voting voice in Congress has echoed Gray’s assertions to Senate Democrats.

The efforts by the two highest ranking D.C. elected officials are being applauded

by House Republicans who chided Senate Democrats for resisting a vote on what Reid calls a piecemeal approach to re-opening the government.

“These taxes are paid by the District of Columbia and entrusted to your elected officials,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has said.

“For us, it’s not a game,” Gray said later. “It has deadly serious consequences for thousands, thousands of our most vulnerable residents.”

“In no other part of our country are Americans facing the loss of basic municipal or state services due to the federal government shutdown. Families in Chicago, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas are not worried that their local governments won’t be able to maintain basic services like schools, police and fire protection, or trash collection—and neither should families here in the District of Columbia,” Gray said in a statement.

In remarks delivered at the Friendship Charter School campus Oct. 10, Gray told a cheering audience, “Most charter don’t have sufficient cash reserve to ride this out.”

“They will have to begin delaying paychecks to teachers as well as principals….some schools may even have to take a financial hit [from] which they won’t be able to recover,” Gray said.

In the 1995 federal government shutdown over a budget impasse between the president and Congress the city was exempted from the shutdown after five days, former President Bill Clinton agreed to allow the District to spend its own money to resume local operations and services.

President Obama has not addressed the D.C. dilemma in this shutdown.

“You cannot find this education anywhere else.”

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OPINION

Court Vindicates Black Lawmakers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to attract and graduate diverse constituents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Affordable Care Act is worse than that?

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

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

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

HBCUs – A Smart and Just Investment

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

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

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

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The Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL) spotlighted the AFRO American Newspaper at its 15th Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament Sept. 24, continuing the legacy of legendary AFRO Paul Blair, who played in two MLB World Series, WPGC Radio’s Justine Love, Shekar Subramaniam, columnist Sam Lacy and Rose Harper, founder of the PGA Tour Randy Sroka, Lisa Taylor and Sami Satouri Wives Association and architect of the Golf Digest Minority Golf Summit. There was also a special tribute at the tournament awards banquet to Greater Washington Urban League President and CEO Maudine R. Cooper, who has announced she will retire this year. Major sponsors of the tournament included Pepco, MedStar Family Choice, RLJ Lodging, DC 09, Eli Lilly, and the Nuclear Energy Paul Kaup, Sonoda; Dave Schall, Jacqueline DaughtryInstitute.

First Place Winners: Don Patterson, former Washington Redskins Mike Nelms, Raven Caldwell and Brian Mitchell and basketball coach Willie Diggs

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Merck’s Jerome Murray, congressional aide Yelberton Watkins, (Office of U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn); Duke Energy’s John Haysbert and Eli Lilly’s Jesse Price

Miller, Dyanna Tardd, Viola McIver and Ernie Fears

Golfers getting ready to hit the course

Rick Yeargin, Keith Prue, Beverly Perry and Ernie Baker

Enterprise team

Third-place Winners, Eric Williams, Jerry A. Moore GWUL board chair, Zakiya “Z” Randall, pro golfer; Rick Wilson, Billy Parson Queen Gladden (GWUL Golf Coordinator) and Marina Hardy (Clear Channel Outdoors and GWUL Board Member)

Beverly Perry presenting Maudine R. Cooper with tribute from golfers Dionne West, cited for hitting closest to the pin and the longest drive and tournament celebrity chair Roland Martin

Elliott Estes, Rahman “Rock” Harper, Chef Dain Kim, Jermaine Gause Second-place winners, Robert Dozier, Roland Martin, Dionne West, Chuck Bishop

Enterprise team

Edgar Brookins accepting the Sam Lacy Award on behalf of the AFRO American Newspaper from Maudine Cooper

Arriving in colorful hats on a sunny autumn afternoon on Sept. 28, nearly 97 stunning, sophisticated women of color turned out for the “Afternoon of Tea and Hats” annual membership

Maudine R. Cooper, Rose Harper, Sam Lacy awardee, Emmanuel Bailey, president and CEO DC 09 and GWUL Golf Tournament Chair

drive held by the Montgomery County, Maryland Section of the National Council of Negro Women in Rockville.

Served on China tea sets were dainty finger foods, fruit, chocolate

Pepco check presentation to Maudine Cooper by Donna M. Cooper, Pepco region president

duets, and variety teas centered on white tablecloths with lavender and yellow flowers in white vases.

Performance by Josh Sommerville.

AFRO’s Elaine Fuller (center) with other golfers

Evalena Washington and her daughter, Jennifer (right)

Photos by Rob Roberts

Stephanie Eubanks, Kimberly Eubanks and Emma Smith Members take part in food varieties and tea Juanita Jordan, Irma Cueller and Dr. Juanita Kemp

Josh Sommerville, multi-gifted singer, pianist, composer and music director at New Beginnings Christian Church, Havre de Grace, Md.

New members: Charlotte Taylor; Elizabeth Matory; Stephanie Eubanks; Sheryl Sanders; Barbara Kelley; Laurette Davis; Dr. Juanita Kemp; Beverly Christian (not shown)

Education Committee: Claudine Wiley; Brenda Wolff; Juanita Goudy; Junella Young and Barbara Williams

Ways and Means Committee: Pat Bradley, Eleanor Thompson and Janice Jeter (Chairwoman)

Sandy Kelly and Joan Stanard Brenda Wolff, Mistress of Ceremony

Remarks by Dr. Maxine Jenkins, president, NCNW, Inc., Montgomery County, MD Section.

Membership Committee: Ann Ohene-Twum; Brenda Wolff; Glenda Harris(Chairwoman); Juanita Goudy (Co-Chairwoman); Evalena Washington; Juanita Jordan and Ann Davis

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Belafonte Sues Martin Luther King Jr. Estate in N.Y. The Associated Press

Harry Belafonte sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Oct. 15 over the fate of

three documents he tried to sell at auction.

The lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan seeks unspecified damages and a

court declaration Belafonte is the rightful owner.

The documents are an outline of a Vietnam War speech by King, notes to a

speech King never got to deliver in Memphis, Tenn., and a condolence letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to King’s wife after

the civil rights leader’s 1968 assassination. According to the lawsuit, Belafonte was preparing to auction the items in 2008 when the estate

Harry Belafonte “astonishingly” blocked it.

The lawsuit cited the close relationship between Belafonte and King, saying the pair “worked on strategies and collaborated on issues that would transform American society” while they “forged a deep and enduring personal friendship.” It said King and his widow, Coretta Scott King, gave Belafonte a number of items and it noted that Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, mentioned Belafonte in her autobiography, saying “whenever we got into trouble or when tragedy struck, Harry has always come to our aid, his generous heart wide open.”

Belafonte said he delivered the documents for auction to Sotheby’s Inc. in early 2008 and the auction house has held them pending a resolution of the dispute between the estate and Belafonte.

The lawsuit said Belafonte had held the Vietnam War speech outline since 1967, when King left it behind after working on it in Belafonte’s apartment. It said the Memphis speech notes were found in King’s suit pocket after he was assassinated.

According to the lawsuit, Coretta Scott King offered the notes to Belafonte but he suggested they instead be given to one of King’s longest-serving confidants.

When that man died in 1979, his widow delivered the notes to Belafonte, it said.

The letter from Johnson was given to Belafonte by Coretta Scott King about a decade ago after she admired the collection of historic documents on a wall of his home, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit said King frequently gave drafts and copies of his speeches, correspondence and working papers to friends and fellow civil rights activists and that his estate has made a series of “disturbing and illegitimate challenges to Dr. King’s giftgiving” in recent years.

Miles J. Alexander, a lawyer for the Atlanta-based King estate, said he had not yet seen the lawsuit.

“I have no comment I can make right now,” he said.

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ARTS & CULTURE

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

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

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

of African Americans from the time the first Blacks arrived through the historic election of President Obama.

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

Gates told the audience that the series was the result of many hours of copious research, including interviews with

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

Powell, Motown Records’ Chief of Charm, Dies at 98 — how they should carry themselves, treat people and dress.

by teaching them how to walk, talk and even think with Maxine Powell, who class.” was responsible for Powell’s passing comes developing the charm, less than two months after grace and style of she was honored at the Motown Records’ museum by Robinson and artists during the others.

Detroit label’s 1960s “She was such an heyday, died Oct. 14 at important, integral part of age 98. what we were doing here Motown Historical at Motown,” Robinson said Museum CEO Allen at the Aug. 26 event held at Rawls said Powell died the famed Hitsville, U.S.A, of natural causes at a building. hospital in Southfield, “It didn’t matter who Mich. you became during the AP Photo She didn’t sing course of your career — Maxine Powell or write songs, but how many hits you had, those associated with how well your name was Motown say Powell was Motown founder Berry known around the world,” as essential to the label’s Gordy said the training school he said. “Two days a week operations as any performer was the only one of its kind when you were back in or producer. offered at any record label.

Detroit you had to go to She directed the label’s “She brought something to artists’ development. It was Artists Development Motown that no other record mandatory.”

Department, also known company had,” Gordy said Gordy paid tribute to as “Motown’s Finishing in a statement Monday. “She Powell via videotape during School.” Through it, she was a star in her own right — the celebration, joking that emphasized to many artists — an original. She will always he still remembered many of including Smokey Robinson be remembered for her style Powell’s sayings, such as “Do and the Miracles, the Jackson and class, and she instilled not protrude the buttocks,” Five and the Supremes that into the Motown artists and “Do not confuse me with The Associated Press

your parents — they’re stuck with you. I’m not.”

Born in Texarkana, Texas, Powell was raised in Chicago, where she began her career as an actress. Powell later moved to Detroit. There, she opened the Maxine Powell Finishing School, where she trained African-American models.

One of those models was Gordy’s sister, Gwen, who was responsible for bringing Powell to Motown.

Once at Hitsville, she focused on polishing the young artists for their lives in the spotlight.

Some of the training included teaching Marvin Gaye to sing with his eyes open and having others balance books on their heads to improve posture. She also instructed artists on how to properly exit limousines.

Powell said in August that she would “teach until there’s no breath left in my body.”

“I love all the Motown artists,” she said. “This has been a blessing. I thank God for allowing me to be here.”

Photos by Rob Roberts

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Rep. John Lewis, author Charlayne Hunter-Gault and NAACP President Emeritus Julian Bond engage in a panel discussion after the screening.

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

He also discussed with Gates his role in in the historic March on Washington 50 years ago.

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

The series is the latest of several collaborations between Gates and public television, including Finding Your Roots in 2012, African American Lives in 2006 and African American Lives 2 in 2008 and Wonders of the African World in 1999.

—New York Post

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

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

What ensued was a 12-year ordeal during which he was whipped whenever he attempted to protest his plight. Despite being tortured by a sadistic master (Michael Fassbender) determined to break his spirit, Solomon managed to not only maintain his sanity but his dignity to boot.

Furthermore, with the help of a kindly Canadian (Brad Pitt) passing through town, he was eventually able to inform abolitionists up North of his dire predicament, and was ultimately reunited with his very relieved family. Upon his emancipation in 1853, Solomon also penned and published a memoir chronicling the cruelty of his captivity in explicit detail.

Entitled 12 Years a Slave, the book became a runaway bestseller before it slipped into obscurity after the Civil War. Directed

by Steve McQueen (Hunger), the screen version proves to be a fairly faithful adaptation of the eye-opening autobiography.

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

Unapologetically graphic in its depiction of the institution of slavery’s evils, 12 Years a Slave contains nary a comic aside ala Quentin Tarantino’s similarly-themed Django Unchained.

Therefore, brace yourself for a relentlessly-gruesome endurance test featuring ever-escalating violence.

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

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

Mrs. Santa Campaign 2013

Nominated for 5 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Original Score

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If you would like Mrs. Santa to help, please send a request and provide us with specific information on your family and the help you need.

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SPORTS

Bowie State Homecoming Spoiled by Loss to Chowan University Bowie State took the lead again when senior quarterback Jared Johnston tossed a 57-yard touchdown pass to sophomore receiver Nyme Manns. But Chowan re-tied the score with a short touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Dain McFarland to senior receiver Robert Holland.

Chowan was able to take their first lead of the game in the fourth quarter with another touchdown pass from McFarland, this time caught by Martin. Chowan then extended their lead to 10 points with a field goal converted with only two minutes left in the game.

Martin led all rushers with 102 yards on 22 carries, while Bowie State’s junior running back Keith Brown followed with 101 yards

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor Junior running back DaSean Martin scored three touchdowns as North Carolina’s Chowan University came back from a 14-point deficit to ruin Bowie State University’s homecoming with a 31-21 road win on Oct. 12 in Bowie, Md. Bowie State jumped out to an early 14-0 lead after junior running back Kendall Jefferson scored on two touchdown runs in the first quarter. But Martin scored a rushing touchdown in the second quarter to cut the lead to 14-7 by halftime; Martin then ran for another touchdown in the third quarter to tie the game.

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on 21 carries. Johnston completed 17-of-28 passes for 246 yards, a touchdown but also threw two costly interceptions. Chowan’s McFarland also threw two interceptions along with his two touchdown passes; he finished

with just 135 yards passing.

After three straight losses, Bowie State sits at 2-4 overall on the season. They’ll face Virginia State University on Oct. 19 in Petersburg, Va.

Sam Lacy – ‘He Made a Difference’

A little more than a year ago, I was involved in a conversation about my dad.

The whole thing boiled down to the fact that there was nothing written and published about the early years of Sam Lacy. I gave some thought to devoting this space to an early life expose in chapters. My boss at the time seemed to think it was a wonderful idea, but current events at the time seemed to draw my attention elsewhere. Before I could get back to this task, the editor had moved on, and the idea was sidelined.

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

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

The following is his early life as told to me.

On Oct. 23, 1903 Sam Lacy entered this world with a piercing scream, thus serving notice that his voice would be heard.

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

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

Growing up in the shadow of Griffith Stadium (home of the former Major League

Baseball team, the Washington Senators), the crack of the bats and the roar of the crowd created an irresistible lure, causing Sam to search for ways to gain entry to the park.

After a little investigation, Sam found a way to join the other kids who were given the opportunity to shag fly balls in the outfield. Being a personable kid, some of the players enlisted him to be their gopher. He was able to pick up dry cleaning and go for cigarettes and chewing tobacco and other personal needs. His popularity caused a vendor to bring him on board during games to be a stadium vendor.

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

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

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

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

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

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The Dallas Cowboys scored three touchdowns, including a 86-yard punt return for a touchdown as they cruised to an easy 31-16 victory over their archrival, the Washington Redskins, on Oct. 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

On perhaps the biggest play of the game, Cowboys’ return specialist Dwayne Harris returned a punt 86 yards for a score, pushing Dallas ahead, 14-3 in the 2nd quarter. The return shifted the momentum in favor of the Cowboys, who wouldn’t relinquish the lead for the remainder of the game.

Washington cut the lead to 14-9 in the third

quarter after successfully making two field goals, but Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo responded by

making a 15-yard touchdown toss to cushion Dallas’ lead, 21-9. The Redskins, however, came back with a 45-yard touchdown run

by Alfred Morris, cutting the lead to 21-16. Dallas,

nevertheless, pulled away in the fourth quarter; scoring 10 unanswered points, including a one-yard touchdown by running back Joseph Randall to set the score at 31-16. Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III struggled for most of the second half, finishing 19 of 39 for 246 yards, no touchdowns and a pick. He did run for 77 yards on 9 carries; Alfred Morris ran for 81 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries.

Romo completed 18-of-30 passes for 170 yards, a touchdown and an interception. DeMarco Murray ran for 29 yards and a touchdown.

Washington drops to 1-4 on the season, while Dallas advances to 3-3. The Redskins will next host the Chicago Bears on Oct. 20.

20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM963 Paris F. Farmer Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James R. O’Neill, whose address is 1825 Eye Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Paris F. Farmer, who died on August 23, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their 16:10:57 a p p e a r EDT a n c e 2013 in this LEGAL NOTICES 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 .

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM963 Paris F. Farmer Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James R. O’Neill, whose address is 1825 Eye Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Paris F. Farmer, who died on August 23, 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

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM979 Arthur L. Marshall Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Pauline M. Ramseur, whose address is 14424 Windy Oak Circle, Upper Marlboro 20772 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Arthur L. Marshall, who died on July 24th, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose 12:55:13 EDT 2013 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 April 4th, 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 April 4th, 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: October 4th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Pauline M. Ramseur Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Oct 15 10/4, 10/11, 10/18/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM959 Joseph J. Tucker AKA Joseph Jude Tucker Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Thomas Martin Tucker, whose address is 7604 Chapman Rd , North Richland Hills, TX 76182, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Joseph J. 12:53:02 Tucker EDT AKA2013 Joseph Jude Tucker, who died on September 1st, 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 April 4th, 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 April 4th, 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.

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Date of Publication: who do not receive a legatees of the decedent 20001-2131 October 4th, 2013 copy of this notice by mail who do not receive a Administration No. Name of newspaper: within 25 days of its first 2013ADM714 copy of this notice by mail Afro-American 12:51:00 EDT 2013 publication shall so in- within 25 days of its first Barbara M. Legerwood Washington form the Register of publication shall so in- Decedent Law Reporter NOTICE OF Thomas Martin Tucker Wills, including name, form the Register of APPOINTMENT, Personal address and relation- Wills, including name, NOTICE TO address and relationRepresentative ship.

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AND NOTICE TO October 4th, 2013 Date of Publication: TRUE TEST COPY UNKNOWN HEIRS Name of newspaper: October 4th, 2013 REGISTER OF TYPESET: TueWILLS Oct 15 12:50:23 EDT 2013 Roger B. Legerwood Name of newspaper: 10/4, 10/11, 10/18/13 Afro-American whose address is Washington Afro-American 265 Missouri Ave., N.W. Law Reporter Washington Superior Court of Washington, D.C.20011 Martha L. Brown Law Reporter the District of Personal Joe A. Allen-Perry appointed personal reDistrict of Columbia Representative Personal presentative of the estate PROBATE DIVISION TRUE TEST COPY Representative of Barbara M. LegerW a s h i n g t o n , D . C . REGISTER OF WILLS wood, who died on May TYPESET: Tue10/18/13 Oct 15 12:52:25 EDT 2013 2nd, 2013 without a will, 20001-2131 10/4, 10/11, TRUE TEST COPY and will serve without Administration No. REGISTER OF WILLS 2013ADM316 10/4, 10/11, 10/18/13 Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs Superior Court of Eugene Hollmon whose whereabouts are the District of Decedent unknown shall enter their District of Columbia Ara D. Parker appearance in this PROBATE DIVISION 5627 Allenton Road proceeding. Objections Washington, D.C. Suite 100 to such appointment 20001-2131 Camp Spring shall be filed with the Administration No. MD 20746 Register of Wills, D.C., 2013ADM977 Attorney 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd James E. Perry NOTICE OF Floor Washington, D.C. Decedent APPOINTMENT, 20001, on or before April NOTICE OF NOTICE TO 4th, 2014. Claims APPOINTMENT, CREDITORS against the decedent NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO shall be presented to the CREDITORS UNKNOWN HEIRS undersigned with a copy AND NOTICE TO Martha L. Brown, whose to the Register of Wills or UNKNOWN HEIRS address is 1539 41st filed with the Register of Street Washington DC J o e A . A l l e n - P e r r y, Wills with a copy to the 20020, was appointed whose address is 809 undersigned, on or bepersonal representative C h e s a p e a k e S t . S E fore April 4, 2014, or be of the estate of Eugene Washington, DC 20032, forever barred. Persons Hollomon, who died on was appointed personal believed to be heirs or December 23, 2012 with representative of the legatees of the decedent a will, and will serve with- estate ofJames E. Perry, who do not receive a out Court supervision. All who died on January 4th, copy of this notice by mail unknown heirs and heirs 2011 without a will, and within 25 days of its first whose whereabouts are will serve without Court publication shall so inunknown shall enter their supervision. All unknown form the Register of heirs and heirs whose appearance in this Wills, including name, proceeding. Objections whereabouts are unaddress and relationto such appointment (or known shall enter their ship. to the probate of de- a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Date of Publication: cedent´s will) shall be proceeding. Objections 10/04/13 filed with the Register of to such appointment Name of newspaper: shall be filed with the Wills, D.C., 515 5th Afro-American Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Register of Wills, D.C., Washington 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM439 Priscilla R.Melby Decedent Nathan A. Neal, Esq. 3018 Cherry Rd, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20018 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Nathan A. Neal, whose address is 3108 Cherry Road, N.E Washington, D.C. 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Priscilla R. Melby, who died on March 26, 2009 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 (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 April 4, 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 April 4th, 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: October 4th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Nathan A. Neal Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM478 Desiree Knights-Taylor Decedent Barbara J Hargrove 1816 Powder Mill Road Silver Spring, MD 20903 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara J. Hargrove, Esq. whose address is 1816 Powder MIll Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20903, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Desiree knights-Taylor, who died on January 21, 2012 without 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 shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 4th, 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 April 4th, 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: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Barbara J. Hargrove, Esq. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM401 Josephine Witherspoon Teague AKA Josephine W.Teague Decedent William A. Bland, Esq. 1140 Connecticut Ave, NW, #1100 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara L. Lucas, whose address is 1495 Newton S t r e e t , N W. # 2 0 5 , Washington, DC 20010, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Josephine Witherspoon, who died on January 18th, 2012 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are un-

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2013FEP105 Date of Death September 21, 2009 Hence Coleman Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL R E P R E S E N TAT I V E AND NOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY CREDITORS TueWILLS Oct 15 REGISTER OF Redieth L. Coleman TYPESET: 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13 whose address is 710 Mentor Avenue, Capitol Superior Court of Heights, Maryland was the District of appointed personal reDistrict of Columbia presentative of the estate PROBATE DIVISION of Hence Coleman, deceased, by the Orphan’s W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001-2131 Court for Prince George’s Administration No. C o u n t y, S t a t e o f 2013ADM984 Maryland, on February Delores M. Piper 23, 2010.

Service of process may Decedent NOTICE OF be made upon Thomas L. APPOINTMENT, Campbell, Esquire 3807 NOTICE TO Minnesota Avenue, NE, CREDITORS Washington, DC 20019 AND NOTICE TO whose designation as UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia agent has been filed with M o n i c a l o u i s e P i p e r, the Register of Wills, D.C. whose address is 4317 The decedent owned the 1 s t S t r e e t , S E # 2 , f o l l o w i n g D i s t r i c t o f Washington, DC 20032 Columbia real property: was appointed personal 1/6 interest in 2626 Ev- representative of the arts Street, NE, Washing- estate of Delores M. TRUE TEST COPY Piper, who died on June ton, DC 20018 REGISTER OF WILLS Claims against the de- 8th, 2013 with a will and will serve without Court cedent may be presented TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:44:14 EDT 2013 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13 to the undersigned and supervision. All unknown filed with the Register of heirs and heirs whose Wills for the District of whereabouts are unSuperior Court of Columbia, Building A, known shall enter their the District of 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s District of Columbia Floor Washington DC, proceeding. Objections PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20018, N.W., Washing- to such appointment (or ton, D.C. 20001 within 6 to the probate of de20001-2131 months from the date of cedent´s will) shall be Administration No. first publication of this no- filed with the Register of 2013ADM949 tice. (Strike preceding Wills, D.C., 515 5th Mariakutty s e n t e n c e i f n o r e a l Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Nondimackal Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . estate.)

Sebastian 20001, on or before April Decedent Redieth L. Coleman 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s C/O Richard J. LInk Personal Representative against the decedent 200-A Monroe St, TRUE TEST COPY shall be presented to the Suite 220 REGISTER OF WILLS undersigned with a copy Rockville, MD 20850 to the Register of Wills or Date of first publication: Attorney filed with the Register of October 11th, 2013 NOTICE OF Name of newspapers Wills with a copy to the APPOINTMENT, undersigned, on or beand/or periodical: NOTICE TO fore April 11th, 2014, or The Daily CREDITORS be forever barred. PerWashington AND NOTICE TO sons believed to be heirs Law Reporter UNKNOWN HEIRS or legatees of the deAfro-American E l i z a b e t h S . The TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:48:08 EDT do 2013 cedent who not re10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13 Savarimuthu 12:45:28 EDT whose 2013 adceive a copy of this notice dress is 5006 Sargent by mail within 25 days of Road, NE, Washington, Superior Court of its first publication shall DC 20017was appointed the District of so inform the Register of personal representative Columbia Wills, including name, of the estate of Civil Division address and relationMariakutty N. Sebastian, Case No. 2013CA5548 ship. who died on February IN RE: Date of Publication: 15th, 2013 withouta will Alaina Janine Talbot October 11th, 2013 and will serve without Applicant Name of newspaper: Court supervision. All unORDER OF Afro-American known heirs and heirs PUBLICATION Washington whose whereabouts are CHANGE OF NAME unknown shall enter their Alaina Janine Talbot having Law Reporter Monicalouise Piper appearance in this filed an Application for judgPersonal proceeding. Objections ment changing the name Representative to such appointment (or from Alaina Janine Talbot to the probate of de- name to Clayton Alaina TalTRUE TEST COPY and having applied to the cedent´s will) shall be bot court for an Order of PublicaREGISTER OF TueWILLS Oct 15 filed with the Register of tion of the notice required by TYPESET: 10/11, 10/18. 10/25/13 Wills, D.C., 515 5th law in such cases; it is by the Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Court this 2nd day of October 2013, hereby Superior Court of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . the District of 20001, on or before April ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once District of Columbia 11, 2014. Claims against a week for three (3) consecuPROBATE DIVISION the decedent shall be tive weeks, in The Afropresented to the under- American Newspaper, a W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001-2131 signed with a copy to the newspaper of general cirAdministration No. Register of Wills or filed culation of the District of 2013ADM992 with the Register of Wills Columbia; and it is further with a copy to the under- ORDERED, that the publica- Lillian Winstead tion must began no later than signed, on or before April two weeks after the filing of AKA Lillian D. Winstead 11, 2014, or be forever the application; and is further barred. Persons believed ORDERED, that the FINAL Decedent to be heirs or legatees of HEARING on this application William A. Bland, Esq. the decedent who do not to change name will be held 1140 Connecticut Ave. receive a copy of this no- i n J u d g e - i n - C h a m b e r s , Suite 1100 4220 in the District of Washington, DC 20036 tice by mail within 25 Room Columbia at 500 Indiana days of its first publica- Avenue NW Washington DC Attorney NOTICE OF tion shall so inform the 20001, on the 20th day of APPOINTMENT, Register of Wills, includ- November, 2013 at 2:45 pm.

NOTICE TO ing name, address and If any person desires to oppose this application, that CREDITORS relationship. person or his or her attorney AND NOTICE TO Date of Publication: must be present at the hearUNKNOWN HEIRS October 11th, 2013 ing or file written detailed Pamela Y. Scott-Holmes, Name of newspaper: objections five (5) days in adJoseph S. Winstead and Afro-American vance of the hearing with karen E. Winstead Judge-in-Chambers and mail Washington a copy of the applicant or apwhose addresses are Law Reporter plicant’s counsel; and it is fur2763 31st Place, NE, Elzabetth S. ther Washington, DC 20018, Savarimuthu ORDERED Personal that notice be sent to the ap- 1134 Barnaby Terrace, Representative plicant’s creditors personally SE, Washington, DC 20032 and 70 Oakridge or by registered or certified mail and that proof of service Dr. Ellenwood GA 30294 TRUE TEST COPY made by filing the affidavit/ TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:48:54 EDT 2013 were appointed personal REGISTER OF WILLS declaration of service in representatives of the 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13 name change estate of Lillian Winstead SO ORDERED Tue Oct 15 12:58:34 EDT 2013 AKA Lillian D. Winstead, SUPERIOR COURT OF TYPESET: JUDGE who died on December 10/11/ 10/18, 10/25/13 THE DISTRICT OF 31st, 2012 without a will COLUMBIA and will serve without Superior Court of PROBATE DIVISION Court supervision. All unthe District of Washington, D.C. known heirs and heirs District of Columbia 20001-2131 whose whereabouts are PROBATE DIVISION Administration No. W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . unknown shall enter their 2012ADM964 appearance in this 20001-2131 Estate of proceeding. Objections Administration No. John W. Beach to such appointment 2013ADM985 Deceased shall be filed with the Edward M. Winslow NOTICE OF Register of Wills, D.C., Decedent STANDARD 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Mack C. Allen PROBATE Floor Washington, D.C. Notice is hereby given 3300 Wheeler 20001, on or before April that a petition has been Road, SE 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s filed in this Court by Washington, DC 20032 against the decedent Linda J. Beach for stan- Attorney shall be presented to the NOTICE OF dard probate, including undersigned with a copy APPOINTMENT, the appointment of one to the Register of Wills or NOTICE TO or more personal reprefiled with the Register of CREDITORS sentative. Unless a com12:43:29 2013 in Wills with a copy to the AND NOTICE TO plaint or EDT an objection undersigned, on or beUNKNOWN HEIRS accordance with Superior Court Probate Di- T u e s d a y W i n s l o w , fore April 11th, 2014 or vision Rule 407 is filed in whose address is 4885 be forever barred. Perthis Court within 30 days Queens Chapel Terrace, sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the defrom the date of first pub- NE Washington, DC lication of this notice, the 20017, was appointed cedent who do not reCourt may take the ac- personal representative ceive a copy of this notice of the estate of Edward by mail within 25 days of tion hereinafter set forth.

Admit to probate the will M. Winslow, who died on its first publication shall copy dated August 23rd, November 28, 2012 with- so inform the Register of 2003 exhibited with the out a will and will serve Wills, including name, petition upon proof sat- without Court supervi- address and relationisfactory to the Court of sion. All unknown heirs ship. due execution by affida- a n d h e i r s w h o s e Date of Publication: vit of witnesses or other- whereabouts are un- October 11th, 2013 known shall enter their Name of newspaper: wise.

Afro-American Register of Wills a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Clerk of the proceeding. Objections Washington Probate Division to such appointment Law Reporter Pamela Y.Scott-Holmes shall be filed with the Date of First Publication Joseph S. Winstead Register of Wills, D.C., October 11th, 2013 Karen E. Winstead 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Names of Newspapers: Personal Floor Washington, D.C. Washington Representatives 20001, on or before April Law Reporter 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s Washington against the decedent TRUE TEST COPY Afro-American shall be presented to the REGISTER OF WILLS 10/11/, 10/18, 10/25/13 undersigned with a copy Signature of to the Register of Wills or Petitioner/Attorney filed with the Register of Linda J. Beach Wills with a copy to the P.O. Box 44819 Fort Washington,MD undersigned, on or before April 11th, 2014, or 20744 be forever barred. Per10/11/, 10/18, 10/25/13 sons 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

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 April 18th, 2014, or TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:46:03 EDT 2013 Per- TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 16:24:23 TYPESET: Oct 15 12:59:25 EDTTue 2013 EDTTue 2013 be forever barred.

TYPESET: Oct 15 12:29:49 believed to be heirs LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES sons LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES or legatees of the decedent who do not reSuperior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of Superior Court of ceive a copy of this notice the District of the District of the District of the District of by mail within 25 days of District of Columbia District of Columbia District of Columbia Columbia its first publication shall PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Civil Division W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . so inform the Register of W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Case No. 13-0006727 Wills, including name, 20001-2131 20001-2131 20001-2131 IN RE: address and relationAdministration No. Administration No. Administration No. Mona’ Michelle ship.

2012ADM199 2013ADM682 2013ADM1014 Nelson Date of Publication: Ernest Sims Mildred J. Willis Allen C. Bennafield Applicant October 18th, 2013 Decedent AKA Decedent ORDER OF Name of newspaper: NOTICE OF Mildred Willis Melinda M. PUBLICATION Afro-American APPOINTMENT, Decedent Bolling, Esq. CHANGE OF NAME Washington NOTICE TO Melinda M. 2108 31st Street, SE Mona’ Michelle Nelson havLaw Reporter CREDITORS Bolling, Esq Washington, DC 20020 ing filed an application for Nathan A. Neal, Attorney AND NOTICE TO 2108 31st Street, SE judgment changing the name from Mona’ Michelle Nelson Attorney at Law UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington, DC 20020 NOTICE OF to Ireyonna Mona’ Michelle Personal Jean M. Crosby , whose Attorney APPOINTMENT, Nelson and having applied to Representative address is 911 ApNOTICE OF NOTICE TO the court for an Order of Pubplewood Street, Capitol APPOINTMENT, CREDITORS lication of the notice required TRUE TEST COPY Heights, Maryland NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO by law in such cases; it is by TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Oct 15 16:19:28 EDT 2013 12:46:44 2013 ap- REGISTER 20743, EDT was were CREDITORS UNKNOWN HEIRS the Court this 4th day of 10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 Susie T. Bennafield, October 2013, hereby pointed personal repreAND NOTICE TO ORDERED, that a copy of sentative of the estate of UNKNOWN HEIRS whose address is 3419 Ernest Sims, who died on Superior Court of C a r o l e A . J o h n s o n , this Order be published once 24th Street, NE a week for three (3) consecuJanuary 13th, 2012 with the District of Washington, DC 20018, whose address is 5100 tive weeks, to be completed a will and will serve withDistrict of Columbia was appointed personal Pierce Avenue, College within 30 days of filing of the out Court supervision. All PROBATE DIVISION representative of the Park, MD 20740, was ap- application in Afro-American unknown heirs and heirs W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . estate of Allen C. Ben- pointed personal repre- , a newspaper of general cirwhose whereabouts are 20001-2131 nafield, who died on sentative of the estate of culation of the District of unknown shall enter their Administration No. March 18th, 2013 with, a Mildred J. Willis AKA Mil- Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publicaappearance in this 2012ADM220 will and will serve without dred Willis, who died on tion must began no later than proceeding. Objections Grover Lee Ware Court supervision. All un- March 21, 2013 with a two weeks after the filing of to such appointment (or Decedent known heirs and heirs will and will serve without the application; and is further to the probate of deNOTICE OF whose whereabouts are Court supervision. All un- ORDERED, that the FINAL cedent´s will) shall be APPOINTMENT, unknown shall enter their known heirs and heirs HEARING on this application filed with the Register of NOTICE TO whose whereabouts are to change name will be held appearance in this n Judge-in-Chambers, Wills, D.C., 515 5th CREDITORS proceeding. Objections unknown shall enter their iRoom 4220 in the District of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor AND NOTICE TO to such appointment (or a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Columbia at 500 Indiana Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

UNKNOWN HEIRS to the probate of de- proceeding. Objections Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on or before April Roy Lowery, Jr., whose cedent´s will) shall be to such appointment (or 20001, on the 22nd day of 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s address is 4169 Ala- filed with the Register of to the probate of de- November, 2013 at 3:30 pm. against the decedent bama Ave SE, Washing- Wills, D.C., 515 5th cedent´s will) shall be If any person desires to opthis application, that shall be presented to the ton 20019, was apStreet, N.W., 3rd Floor filed with the Register of pose person or his or her attorney undersigned with a copy p o i n t e d p e r s o n a l Wills, D.C., 515 5th Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . must be present at the hearto the Register of Wills or representative of the 20001, on or before April Street, N.W., 3rd Floor ing or file written detailed filed with the Register of estate of Grover Lee 1 8 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . objections five (5) days in adWills with a copy to the Ware, who died on April against the decedent 20001, on or before April vance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail undersigned, on or be- 27th, 2001 with a will, shall be presented to the 1 8 t h , 2 0 1 4 C l a i m s fore April 11th, 2014, or and will serve with Court undersigned with a copy against the decedent a copy of the applicant or apcounsel; and it is furbe forever barred. Per- supervision. All unknown to the Register of Wills or shall be presented to the plicant’s ther sons believed to be heirs heirs and heirs whose filed with the Register of undersigned with a copy SO ORDERED or legatees of the de- whereabouts are un- Wills with a copy to the to the Register of Wills or that notice be sent to the apcedent who do not re- known shall enter their undersigned, on or be- filed with the Register of plicant’s creditors personally ceive a copy of this notice a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s fore April 18th, 2014, or Wills with a copy to the or by registered or by cerby mail within 25 days of proceeding. Objections be forever barred. Per- undersigned, on or be- tified mail and that proof of its first publication shall to such appointment (or sons believed to be heirs fore April 18th, 2014, or service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of serso inform the Register of to the probate of de- or legatees of the de- be forever barred. Per- vice in name change cases.

Wills, including name, cedent´s will) shall be cedent who do not re- sons believed to be heirs SO ORDERED address and relation- filed with the Register of ceive a copy of this notice or legatees of the de- JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:28:50 10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 ship.

Wills, D.C., 515 5th by mail within 25 days of cedent who do not reDate of Publication: Street, N.W., 3rd Floor its first publication shall ceive a copy of this notice October 11th, 2013 Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . so inform the Register of by mail within 25 days of Superior Court of Name of newspaper: 20001, on or before April Wills, including name, its first publication shall the District of Afro-American 18th, 2014. Claims address and relation- so inform the Register of Columbia Washington against the decedent ship.

Wills, including name, Civil Division Law Reporter shall be presented to the Date of Publication: address and relationCase No.13-0006630 Jean M. Crosby undersigned with a copy October 18th, 2013 ship.

IN RE: Personal to the Register of Wills or Name of newspaper: Date of Publication: Antonio Omaro Representative filed with the Register of Afro-American October 18th, 2013 Mosley Wills with a copy to the Washington Name of newspaper: Applicant TRUE TEST COPY undersigned, on or be- Law Reporter Afro-American ORDER OF REGISTER OF WILLS fore April 18th, 2014 or Susie T. Bennafield Washington PUBLICATION TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:47:28 EDT 2013 Perbe forever barred.

Personal Law Reporter CHANGE OF NAME 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13 sons believed to be heirs Carole A. Johnson Representative Antonio Omaro Mosley havor legatees of the dePersonal ing filed an application for cedent who do not re- TRUE TEST COPY Representative Superior Court of judgment changing the name ceive a copy of this notice REGISTER TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Oct 15 16:25:47 EDT 2013 the District of from Antonio Omaro Mosley by mail within 25 days of 10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 TRUE TEST COPY to Takea Yandi Mosley and Columbia its first publication shall REGISTER OF WILLS having applied to the court for Civil Division TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 12:32:27 EDT 2013 of the an Order of Publication so inform the Register of 10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 Case No. 13-0006666 Superior Court of notice required by law in such Wills, including name, IN RE: the District of cases; it is by the Court this address and relationLuiza Athayde District of Columbia 30th day of September 2013, SUPERIOR COURT OF ship.

De Araujo PROBATE DIVISION hereby THE DISTRICT OF Date of Publication: Applicant ORDERED, that a copy of Washington, D.C. COLUMBIA October 18th, 2013 this Order be published once ORDER OF 20001-2131 PROBATE DIVISION a week for three (3) consecuName of newspaper: PUBLICATION Administration No. tive weeks to completed Washington, D.C. Afro-American CHANGE OF NAME 2013ADM1032 within 30 days of filing of the Administration No. Washington Luiza Athayde De Araujo Annie O. Morgan application in Afro-American 2008ADM1252 Law Reporter having filed a application for AKA Newspaper, a newspaper of Estate of judgment changing the name Roy Lowery, Jr. Annie Olivia Morgan general circulation of the Disfrom Luiza Athayde De Lydia E. Yates Personal Decedent trict of Columbia; and it is furAraujo to Luc Athayde De Deceased ther Representative Theodora H. Araujo and having applied to ORDERED, that the publicaNOTICE OF Brown, Esq the court for an Order of Pubtion must began no later than STANDARD TRUE TEST COPY lication of the notice required 3127 Cherry Road, NE two weeks after the filing of PROBATE OF WILLS by law in such 12:42:49 EDTcases; 2013it is by REGISTER W a s h iEDT n g t o2013 n, DC application; and is further TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 16:22:40 Notice is hereby given the the Court this 2nd day of 10/18, 10/25/ 11/2/13 20018-1611 ORDERED, that the FINAL October 2013, hereby that a petition has been HEARING on this application Attorney ORDERED, that a copy of filed in this Court by to change name will be held NOTICE OF this Order be published once Superior Court of Frank G. Yates, Jr. for i n J u d g e - i n - C h a m b e r s , APPOINTMENT, a week for three (3) consecuthe District of standard probate, includ- Room 4220 in the District of tive weeks, in The AfroNOTICE TO District of Columbia ing the appointment of Columbia at 500 Indiana American Newspapers, a CREDITORS NW Washington DC PROBATE DIVISION one or more personal re- Avenue newspaper of general cirAND NOTICE TO 20001, on the 18th day of culation of the District of Washington, D.C. presentative. Unless a November, 2013 at 2:30 pm.

UNKNOWN HEIRS Columbia; and it is further 20001-2131 J a m e s M . M o r g a n , complaint or an objection If any person desires to opORDERED, that the publicaAdministration No. pose this application, that whose address is 403 i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h tion must began no later than person or his or her attorney 20123ADM1025 Bogota Dr. Ft. Washing- Superior Court Probate must be present at the heartwo weeks after the filing of Marian L. Hinson the application; and is further ton MD 20744, was ap- Division Rule 107 is filed ing or file written detailed Decedent ORDERED, that the FINAL pointed personal rep- in this Court within thirty objections five (5) days in adAlan D. Titus, Esq HEARING on this application resentativeof the estate days from the date of first vance of the hearing with to change name will be held 2846 Meadow Lane of Annie O. Morgan AKA publication of this notice, Judge-in-Chambers and mail in Judge-in-Chambers, Falls Church, VA 22042 Annie Olivia Morgan, the Court will take the ac- a copy of the applicant or apRoom 4220 in the District of plicant’s counsel; and it is furAttorney who died on September tion hereinafter set forth.

Columbia at 500 Indiana ther NOTICE OF Avenue NW Washington DC 6, 2013 with a will and will Upon proof satisfactory SO ORDERED APPOINTMENT, to the Court of due ex20001, on the 20th day of serve with without Court JUDGE NOTICE TO November, 2013 at 2:30 pm.

10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 supervision. All unknown ecution by affidavit of the If any person desires to opCREDITORS witnesses to the will, the heirs and heirs whose pose this application, that AND NOTICE TO Court will enter an order whereabouts are unperson or his or her attorney UNKNOWN HEIRS known shall enter their admitting the will to promust be present at the hearKenneth Kelly, whose a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s bate and appointing one ing or file written detailed address is 51 Jurocko objections five (5) days in adproceeding. Objections or more personal repreAvenue, Somerset, New to such appointment (or s e n t a t i v e s . I n t h e vance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail Jersey 08873, was ap- to the probate of de- absence of a will or proof a copy of the applicant or appointed personal repre- cedent´s will) shall be satisfactory to the Court plicant’s counsel; and it is fursentative of the estate of filed with the Register of of due execution, the ther Miarian L. Hinson, who Wills, D.C., 515 5th court will enter an order ORDERED, that died on June 2, 2013 with Street, N.W., 3rd Floor determining that the dethe applicant must send the a will and will serve withcedent died intestate and application for change of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . out Court supervision. All 20001, on or before April appointing one or more name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the apunknown heirs and heirs 1 8 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s personal plicant’s creditors personally whose whereabouts are against the decedent represenatatives. or by registered or certified unknown shall enter their shall be presented to the mail and show proof of serappearance in this vice by filing the affidavit/ undersigned with a copy Date of First Publication proceeding. Objections to the Register of Wills or October 18th, 2013 declaratiion of service. to such appointment (or filed with the Register of Names of Newspapers: SO ORDERED JUDGE to the probate of de- Wills with a copy to the Washington TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 16:15:20 cedent´sEDT will) 2013 shall be undersigned, on or be- Law Reporter 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13 filed with the Register of fore April 18th, 2014, or Washington Wills, D.C., 515 5th be forever barred. Per- AFRO-AMERICAN Superior Court of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor sons believed to be heirs the District of Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . or legatees of the de- Claude W. District of Columbia 20001, on or before April cedent who do not re- Roxborough Sr. PROBATE DIVISION 18th, 2014. Claims 705 Irving Street, N.W. W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . against the decedent ceive a copy of this notice Washington, DC 20010 by mail within 25 days of 20001-2131 shall be presented to the its first publication shall Signature of Administration No. undersigned with a copy so inform the Register of Petitioners/Attorney 2011ADM32 to the Register of Wills or Wills, including name, Registerof Wills James Lee Banks filed with the Register of address and relation- Clerk of the Decedent Wills with a copy to the ship.

Probate Division NOTICE OF undersigned, on or be- Date of Publication: 10/18, 10/25/13 APPOINTMENT, fore April 18th, 2014, or October 18th, 2013 NOTICE TO be forever barred. Per- Name of newspaper: CREDITORS sons believed to be heirs Afro-American AND NOTICE TO or legatees of the de- Washington UNKNOWN HEIRS cedent who do not reNathan A. Neal, Attorney ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter James M. Mogan at Law, whose address is by mail within 25 days of Personal 3108 Chery Road, NE, its first publication shall Representative Washington, DC 20018 so inform the Register of was appointed personal Wills, including name, representative of the address and relation- TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS estate of James Lee ship.

10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 Banks, who died on Date of Publication: September 27th, 1993 October 18th, 2013 without a will and will Name of newspaper: serve with Court supervi- Afro-American sion. All unknown heirs Washington a n d h e i r s w h o s e Law Reporter whereabouts are unKenneth Kelly known shall enter their Personal appearance in this Representative proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or TRUE TEST COPY to the probate of de- REGISTER OF WILLS cedent´s will) shall be 10/18, 10/25, 11/2/13 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 April 18th, 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 April 18th, 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

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AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara L. Lucas, whose address is 1495 Newton S t r e e t , N W. # 2 0 5 , Washington, DC 20010, was appointed personal representative of the 12:49:48 EDT 2013 estate of Josephine Witherspoon, who died LEGAL NOTICES on January 18th, 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. 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 April 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s 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 April 11th, 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: Octiober 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Barbara L. Lucas Personal Representative

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Book Review

The Rejected Stone - Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO “…As you read through the following pages and get a sense of my journey and the lessons I’ve learned, I believe you will come to understand why I’ve not been unsettled or slowed down by the attempts over the years to paint me with a broad brush as some kind of troublemaker or self-interested hustler.

While those caricatures might have become media shorthand, I was not about to let the world define me…”

-- Excerpt from Chapter One In Chapter 21, Verse 42 of the Book of Matthew, Jesus observed that “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Now, Reverend Al Sharpton paraphrases that parable for the title and theme of The Rejected Stone, an enlightening autobiography/how-to tome in which the longtime civil rights leader

retraces his path from fiery street activist to international icon.

Besides reflecting on the highpoints of his controversial career, the outspoken author has 23 lessons to offer ambitious individuals interested in following in his footsteps. He elaborates upon those priceless pearls of wisdom individually in chapters all their own entitled, “Learning from Flawed Leaders,” “Never Rest on Your Laurels,” “Practice What You Preach,” and “Don’t Be Afraid to Be Big,” to name a few.

As interesting as Rev’s sage advice, however, are his personal anecdotes.

He’s rubbed shoulders with folks from every station in life. And like a black Forest Gump, the peripatetic Sharpton has not only managed to land at the center of many an historic moment, but he even has a knack for summarizing the event in “Life is like a box of chocolates” fashion.

For example, he talks about having to pinch himself while attending President Obama’s inauguration earlier this year, when he realized that he was sitting up on the same platform with Congress, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court and luminaries like Jay-Z and Beyonce’. Not bad for a poor kid from Brooklyn whose father abandoned the family when Al was just 9.

Ja Rule Stars in Faith-Based Tale of Redemption I’m in Love with CAREER CORNER a Church Girl Film Review by Kam Williams

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Narrated by Ja, the picture’s protagonist is a fictional character called Miles Montego. As the flashback flick unfolds, we find Miles returning to the ‘hood after a stint in the slammer.

He immediately gets a good piece of advice from his Bible-thumping mom (Marjorie Mann), namely, to attend

Rapper Ja Rule was paroled from prison earlier this year after spending a couple of years behind bars for a weapons violation and tax evasion. In a case of art imitating life, he now stars in a faith-based tale of redemption revolving around a hip-hop producer endeavoring to go straight following his release from jail.

I’m in Love with a Church Girl was actually inspired by a true story, but not Ja Rule’s. Rather, the autobiographical Ja Rule and Adrienne Bailon screenplay was penned by convicted coke dealerturned-preacher Galley Molina while incarcerated in a California services on Sunday in order to meet a good, God-fearing woman who might penitentiary. help keep his nose clean. Sure enough, The movie is set in the San Jose native’s hometown where the ex-gangsta he soon falls in love at first sight with Vanessa (Adrienne Bailon), a clerk at a now serves as youth pastor at the store specializing in Christian-oriented Evergreen Valley Church. products.

The two hit it

off, despite her concern about all the bling and his degenerate-looking posse.

Eventually, Vanessa becomes convinced that he’s left the life of crime behind, but the same can’t be said about the DEA Agent (Stephen Baldwin) still tailing Miles with hopes of arresting him again.

Given the film’s spoiler of a title, there’s a sense of inevitably about I’m in Love with a Church Girl.

This easy-to-predict morality play is certain to resonate with the Evangelical demographic, and it even has a chance of attracting a mainstream audience because of the presence of the charismatic Ja Rule in the lead role.

A faith-based modern parable with a positive message for both believers rottentomatoes and wayward souls ripe for redemption.

Very Good HHH Rated PG-13 for PG for violence, suggestive content, mild epithets and mature themes Running time: 118 minutes Studio: Reverence Gospel Media Films Distributor: Film District

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