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Kwame Rose, a Baltimore activist, is arrested outside of a Baltimore courthouse where the Freddie Gray pre-trial occurred on Sept. 2.

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Judge Rejects Defense Motion to Remove State’s Attorney Mosby from Freddie Gray Case

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to The AFRO As the Baltimore police officers accused of Freddie Gray’s death learned that the case against them would not be dropped, and that State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby would not be removed from the case, a protestor was struck a short distance from the Baltimore Circuit

Court where the pretrial hearing was being held.

The protestor, Kwame Rose a local activist, was handcuffed after being struck by a passing car. According to The Associated Press, T. J. Smith said that charges were being filed against a person who was arrested for blocking a road and ignoring warnings to get back on the sidewalk.

Wrongly Convicted Brothers Each Gets $750K Payout After 30 Years in N.C. Jail

By The Associated Press Two brothers who falsely confessed under police interrogation to killing an 11-year-old girl were awarded $750,000 each in

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Henry McCollum holds a framed copy of his pardon.

compensation for the three decades they spent behind bars — a stint that left one of them a broken man, according to his family.

Henry McCollum, 51, appeared calm as a North Carolina commission granted the money to him and half brother Leon Brown, 47, during a hearing. Brown did not attend; he is in the hospital, suffering from health problems that include post-traumatic stress disorder, the brothers’ lawyer said.

McCollum and Brown were released last September after a judge threw out their convictions, citing new DNA evidence that points to another man in the 1983 rape and killing of Sabrina Buie. McCollum had been the longest-serving inmate on North Carolina’s death row. Brown had been sentenced to life in prison.

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Protestors, journalists and heavilyarmed police officers began gathering around the courthouse around 8 a.m. on Sept. 2. After marching in front of the building, the protestors made their way down several downtown streets.

“There was a grouping of people who ventured off from the larger group they went into downtown Baltimore,”

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Various business and community leaders from across the District of Columbia have reacted strongly, pro and con, to the recent denial of the ExelonPepco merger.

On Aug. 25, the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia rejected the application of the proposed $6.9 billion merger between Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, which has extensive holdings in power companies nationally, with Pepco Holdings, the

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Appeals Court Denies Maryland’s Motion for Review in HBCU Case

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com Attorneys in the case Coalition v. MHEC, in which a federal judge found Maryland guilty of illegally perpetuating a dual higher education system through duplication of programs at historically Black institutions, warned that implementation of a remedy is likely a long way off.

“What’s difficult for the public to appreciate is that there is no set deadline for conflict litigation,” said Brenda Shum, director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil

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Rights Under Law, and one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education in the case. “One of the more stressful aspects of educational cases is that any kind of delay…means the remedy will take even more time to implement, [so] I anticipate that it would be quite some time before we come to an implementation phase in this case.”

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A man charged with murder in the ambush of a suburban Houston sheriff’s deputy had a history of mental illness and was once declared mentally incompetent, according to authorities and his former attorney.

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Shannon J. Miles has been charged with murdering a Texas Deputy Shannon J. Miles, 30, was being held without bond after an initial court hearing on Aug. 31. Prosecutors accuse him of opening fire from behind on Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth on Aug. 28 in what the sheriff called a “coldblooded assassination.”

Goforth was shot 15 times, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in court.

Anderson would not comment on a motive, saying investigators were still trying to figure that out. When asked if it might be connected to heightened tensions around the country between law enforcement and civilians, Anderson said: “I have no idea whether it does or not.”

This weekend, Sheriff Ron Hickman said the attack was “clearly unprovoked,” that authorities believe the 47-year-old deputy was targeted because he was in uniform and that there is no evidence Goforth knew Miles.

Anthony Osso, one of Miles’ two court-appointed attorneys, told The Associated Press that his client intends to plead not guilty.

Miles’ criminal history dates back to 2005 and includes an arrest in Austin in 2012 that led to Miles being sent to a state mental hospital for several months.

In 2012, the Travis County District Attorney’s Office charged Miles with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he got into a fight at a homeless shelter over a remote control, prosecutor Joe Frederick said. Miles was found to be mentally incompetent in October 2012 and he was sent to North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, Texas.

“From this case, you could never tell what would happen” in the future, Frederick said, adding that prosecutors treated the case as a “very serious offense” and had offered Miles a plea agreement of seven years in prison. Miles was declared mentally competent in February 2013, but the charge was dropped after the victim could not be located, Frederick said.

Jon Evans, Miles’ attorney in the Austin case, said medical privacy laws prevent him from offering any details about Miles’ mental illness history. But he was told by Miles’ mother that her son had a lifelong history of mental illness.

At the time of the case in 2012, Miles “suffered from severe mental illness,” Evans said.

Miles also has three convictions for resisting or evading arrest, as well as convictions for disorderly conduct with a firearm, criminal mischief and giving false information to police. Records show he was sentenced to several short stints

in jail, from six to 10 days.

From fall 2003 to spring 2004, Miles attended Prairie View A&M University. He also attended the University of Houston for a time.

President Barack Obama on Aug. 31 said Goforth’s killing was contemptible and “an affront to civilized society.” Obama spoke with Goforth’s wife, Kathleen, conveying his condolences and telling her he will keep highlighting the uncommon bravery of police officers.

Goforth’s funeral is scheduled for Sept. 4.

Kyle Jean-Baptiste , First Black Actor to Play Valjean in ‘Les Misérables’ on Broadway, Dies at 21

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Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first Black man and youngest person to ever play the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway has died after falling from a fire escape, according to a show spokesman. He was 21.

Jean-Baptiste died Aug. 28 night following the show’s evening performance at the Imperial Theatre, said representative Marc Thibodeau, who called it a “traagic accident.”

“The entire Les Misérables family is shocked and devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of Kyle, a remarkable young talent and tremendous person who made magic — and history — in his Broadway debut. We send our deepest condolences to his family and ask that you respect their privacy in this unimaginably difficult time,” a statement from the production reads.

The actor was an ensemble member of the company and an understudy for Valjean, going onstage as the ex-convict in a history-making appearance July 23. His last performance in the role was Aug. 27.

A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said investigators believe Jean-Baptiste’s death was accidental.

According to police, Jean-Baptiste was sitting on a fourthfloor fire escape of an apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with a 23-year-old woman Friday night when he stood up, slipped and then fell backward to the ground.

The city’s medical examiner will determine his official cause of death, police said. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment late Saturday.

Jean-Baptiste was born in New York and graduated from Baldwin Wallace University. The 6-foot-2-inch tenor had recently landed two musical roles at Playhouse Square in Cleveland — in Murder Ballad and Love Story. He also had played Enjolras last year in a production of Les Misérables at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.

After making stage history as the first black Valjean, he told Playbill: “I did not immediately think of it as making history. This was my dream since I was a little boy. This incredible team of creatives presented an opportunity to play a part I have dreamed of playing since I was introduced to theatre, and I am forever grateful.

I felt a huge amount of responsibility to do right by them and to honor this iconic material.”

The current “Les Misérables” on Broadway is the second revival of the hit show. It debuted in 1987 with Colm Wilkinson in the role of Valjean and lasted until 2003. A revival in 2006 lasted just a few years and the latest reimagined version landed on Broadway last year. In a few days, British opera star Alfie Boe is due to take over Valjean.

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Mikulski Delivers Iran Nuclear Deal Victory to Obama

By Erica Werner The Associated Press President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory Sept. 2 as Senate Democrats amassed enough votes to ensure the Iran nuclear deal survives in Congress despite ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel.

Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski (Md.) became the crucial 34th vote in favor of the agreement.

“No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime,” Mikulski said in a statement. She called the accord “the best option available to block Iran from having a nuclear bomb.

For these reasons, I will vote in favor of this deal.”

The backing from Mikulski, who is retiring next year, gives supporters the margin they need to uphold an Obama veto of a congressional resolution of disapproval if Republicans pass such a measure later in September.

And it spells failure for opponents of the international agreement who sought to foil it by turning Congress against it. Leading

that effort were Israel and its allies in the U.S., who failed to get traction after spending millions of dollars trying.

The agreement signed by Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers limits Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. Republicans and Israeli officials contend that concessions made to Iran could enable the country to wreak havoc throughout the Middle East.

There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has personally lobbied U.S. lawmakers to block the nuclear pact.

Secretary of State John Kerry sent a letter to all members of Congress on Sept. 2 outlining U.S. security commitments to Israel and the Gulf Arab states in light of the nuclear deal. The letter comes as Kerry delivers a major policy speech in Philadelphia that focuses on how the international agreement makes the U.S. and its allies safer.

“I really believe the fastest way to a genuine arms race in the Middle East is to not have this agreement,”

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Senate Democrats voted in favor of the Iran Nuclear Deal on Sept.

2. The vote ensures that the deal will survive in Congress despite opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel.

Kerry said in a nationally broadcast interview Wednesday. “Because if you don’t have this agreement, Iran has already made clear what its direction is.”

With opposition to the agreement failing to take hold on the Democratic side, supporters may even be able to muster the 41 votes needed to block the disapproval

resolution from passing in the first place, sparing Obama from having to use his veto pen. That would require seven of the 10 remaining undeclared senators to decide in favor of the deal.

Only two Democratic senators have come out against — Chuck Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey —

while in recent weeks undeclared Democratic senators, even from Republican-leaning states, have broken in favor one after another.

Even if Congress passes the disapproval resolution, it can’t stop the deal reached by Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. It might help congressionally mandated sanctions remain in place. But the U.N. Security Council unanimously already endorsed the nuclear deal in July through a resolution outlining how international sanctions on Iran would be lifted.

Interviewed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program Sept. 2, Kerry said that the absence of an agreement could lead to a nuclear arms race in the region. Putting the deal in place, he said, will keep other nations “from chasing a weapon on their own.” Republican critics of the deal argue the opposite, saying nations such as Saudi Arabia may now be spurred to pursuing nuclear programs of their own.

Kerry said that if the U.S. rejects the deal, it would confirm the fears of Iran’s leaders “that you can’t deal with the West, that you can’t trust the West.”

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said Rev. C.D. Witherspoon, of the Baltimore chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

“And so when they got down there, apparently a resident or somebody driving through downtown Baltimore hit one of the protestors. And when they hit one of the protestors what wound up happening was the police immediately got involved. When they got involved what wound up happening was the young man for some reason was taken down to the ground, he was handcuffed in spite of bleeding, and having been hit by a car.”

“Our concern was that the young man was allowed to lay in the ambulance unattended to and bleeding and wounded and was handcuffed.”

Witherspoon said he does not know how long Rose was in the ambulance, but said it was quite some time. After lingering at the intersection of Pratt and Calvert streets, Witherspoon and a small group of protestors convened outside the Bishop L. Robinson, Sr. Police Administration Building. Witherspoon said he wanted to immediately meet with the police commissioner about the way protestors are treated.

“We are expecting humane, respectful policing that upholds people’s constitutional rights,” he said.

William Rowlette, who was among those protesting, said he

saw the incident.

“The cars weren’t going fast or nothing. They tell us to get out the street. He’s trying to get out the street but in the process of getting out the street he gets sideswiped and hit by a car, hits his leg, he falls down,” Rowlette said. “As he’s already down, he’s trying to get up, the police straight rush him. A doctor tried to help him, the police told him ‘nah, get out of here,’ they hit him, didn’t think nothing of it, handcuffed him, still restraining him.

Rowlette said that some thought that the police used a stun gun on Rose, but he said that police just held it to Rose’s back.

“What are they going to lock him up for, that’s what I want to know,” Rowlette said. “We didn’t break no windows, we aint’ bust no cars, we aint’ run up in Micheal Korrs [store] again, we didn’t do nothing like that, we’re just a regular protest.”

Tina Thompson said she saw the accident as well.

“I saw them hit somebody and I panicked. This has got to stop,” she said.

Thompson said she came downtown to protest because of her children, who are 6, 7 and 9.

“I’ve got children and I’ve got to know what’s going on.

If we’re Black, or look like we’re Black, we’re going through hell. I can’t act out because I don’t want to go to jail. At the same time, I’m here, though. Not because I’m bored, because I’m trying to understand why.”

During a pretrial hearing, Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams denied a defense motion for the charges to be dropped against the officers in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who endured a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody on April 12 and died a week later. Gray’s death sparked protests, rioting and unrest that lasted for days.

Defense attorneys had sought to drop the charges — which range from second-degree assault to second-degree murder — because of prosecutorial misconduct on the part of State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.

Williams also ruled against another defense motion, one that sought to have Mosby removed from the case due to what the defense contended were conflicts of interest.

In addition, Williams denied the state’s motions to try three of the officers as a group. He said evidence against any of the three is not mutually admissible and “not in the interest of justice.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

deep depression, attorney Patrick Megaro said.

Both men were bullied and attacked behind bars, and

and ordered new trials.

McCollum was again sent to death row, while Brown was convicted of rape and sentenced to life.

The Associated Press normally does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Megaro said Brown and his family were willing to make

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with his sister, said the money will enable him to support himself and help his family.

“My family, they have struggled for years and years,” he said. “It’s hard out there for them, and I want to help them.”

The governor pardoned the brothers in June, making each man eligible to receive $50,000 from the state for every year spent in prison, with a limit of $750,000.

Their attorney said the money will be put in a trust and invested so that the brothers can live off the earnings and won’t have to work.

Sabrina’s body was found in a soybean field in rural Robeson County, cigarette butts, a beer can and two bloody sticks nearby. Defense attorneys said the brothers were scared teenagers with low IQs when they were questioned by police and coerced into confessing.

McCollum was 19, Brown 15.

The DNA on the cigarettes didn’t match either one of them, and fingerprints on the beer can weren’t theirs

by Megaro on Monday against county authorities and others.

The brothers were initially

“Being out here, to be able to breathe the air. To be able to walk around as a free man. To be able to walk down that street with my head up high.”

–Henry McCollum

either. No physical evidence connected them to the crime.

McCollum listed some of the things he enjoys about freedom after spending nearly his entire adult life behind bars: “Being out here, to be able to breathe the air. To be able to walk around as a free man. To be able to walk down that street with my head up high.”

Meanwhile, Brown has been hospitalized at least six times in the last year for mental health problems that include hallucinations and

Brown was sexually assaulted repeatedly by other inmates, according to a lawsuit brought

given death sentences. In 1988, the state Supreme Court threw out their convictions

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the information public to show how he suffered.

The men’s sister, Geraldine Brown, said her brother Leon is “really sick” from his time in prison.

“He did not go in that way,” she said. “They snatched him from my mother as a baby.”

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energy company that operates in the District and some eastern states. The rejection put a stop to the entire Mid-Atlantic merger and Harry Wingo, the president and CEO of the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce, wasn’t happy about it.

“I am disappointed by the commission’s decision and think it should have recognized the benefits – such as greater reliability and lower rates – that the merger would bring to residents and businesses in the District,” Wingo said. “Benefits that this decision threatens to deny the District include $33.75 million in rate savings and millions more over the next decade. Also at risk are guaranteed higher levels of local charitable contributions, guaranteed improvements to system reliability, faster storm damage restoration, and new jobs in the District.”

Wingo said he felt “that the proposed merger would be in the public interest and would contribute to the continued growth of our business community.”

Former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams

serves as the chief executive supports what is best for the officer and executive director residents and ratepayers of of the Federal City Council, a the District of Columbia.” non-profit organization that is While the mayor was dedicated to the improvement publicly neutral on the of the District. Williams said merger, six members of that the merger rejection hurt the council expressed not only Exelon and Pepco, reservations about it as but the “District of Columbia well as 26 of the city’s 40 business community.” advisory neighborhood “The merger would bring commissions. Another strong substantial and tangible benefits opponent of the merger, for the District of Columbia’s Sandra Mattavous-Frye, citizens and economy with Linkedin the Office of the People’s no downside,” he continued.

Counsel in the District of Harry Wingo is the “The merger is in the interest Columbia, which represents president and CEO of of the District as a whole District ratepayers the District of Columbia and the continued growth of before the public service Chamber of Commerce. the business community, and commission and federal today’s decision is not.” regulatory agencies, was elated about the D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the decision.

D.C. Council had no role in the decision “I opposed this merger application regarding the merger. A spokeswoman for because it failed to provide any meaningful Bowser told the AFRO that “the mayor benefits to D.C. consumers and the public

service commission did what was in the best interest of D.C. ratepayers and denied this proposed merger,” Mattavous-Frye said.

“This is a watershed moment for the District as Pepco’s local leadership and jobs that lead to the middle class remain in place and our established environmental agenda can be advanced.”

POWER DC is an umbrella organization of groups who opposed the merger. One of the most prominent of those groups was the D.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club. Its chairman, Matthew Gravatt, was pleased with the merger’s rejection. “This is a major victory for the grassroots,” Gravatt said. “The Sierra Club’s work to highlight the environmental and community impacts of the proposed merger was a key part to this win.”

Exelon and Pepco leaders have less than 30 days to ask the public service commission to reconsider its decision. A spokeswoman for the public service commission told the AFRO on Aug. 31 that no paperwork has been filed by the merger partners at press time.

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had not been issued.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal has rejected Maryland’s request, and the denial clears the way for District Court Judge Catherine Blake to issue a final judgment on the best approach to negate unnecessary duplication of programs at the state’s historically Black colleges and universities by traditionally White institutions (TWIs). Such duplication not only undercut the success of HBCUs, she had said, but also defied constitutional mandates to dismantle vestiges of de jure segregation.

Maryland “offered no evidence that it has made any serious effort to address continuing historic duplication. Second, and even more troubling, the State has failed to prevent additional duplication, to the detriment of the HBIs,” Blake wrote in her 60-page October 2013 opinion.

The federal jurist tasked the state of Maryland and the Coalition, which comprises current and former students of Maryland’s public HBCUs (Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore), to enter mediation to try and agree upon a remedial plan. Blake also offered guidelines Maryland

should consider as they sought a remedy for the program duplication, including “expansion of mission and program uniqueness and institutional identity at the HBIs,” and even “the transfer or merger of select high demand programs from TWIs to HBIs.” Efforts to reach a mutual agreement—as with pre-trial settlement negotiations—failed, and on May 4, 2015, the state filed its motion requesting an immediate appeal.

“The state of Maryland, even immediately following the Court’s decision in October 2013, made it clear they were not in agreement with that ruling and were contemplating an appeal,” Shum told the AFRO. “Our clients were terribly disappointed that mediation failed. And, it’s interesting that 18 months after the initial ruling that rather than move forward with a negotiated agreement, the state effectively further delayed the proceeding.”

The AFRO reached out to the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, who is defending the state, for comment on the recent developments. Spokesman David Nitkin e-mailed a statement saying, “Historically Black colleges and institutions have an important role to play in preparing Marylanders for success in life and in their careers. There are challenging issues

raised by this case, but during pending litigation, the Office of the Attorney General must decline to comment at this time.”

Maryland has until the end of September to submit its recommendations for fixing program duplication and its segregative effects in the state.

The Coalition already submitted its plan in May. The proposal calls for developing new, unique and high-demand programs at the HBCUs and enhancing existing programs; transferring select programs from TWIs to HBCUs and fostering collaborations between such institutions; merging the University of Baltimore into Morgan State University, which is Maryland’s official “urban” higher education institution, and also converting the University of Maryland University College into a digital platform for on-line degree programs offered by all the state’s universities and colleges.

Judge Blake will consider both proposals, and may likely call a hearing to get direct input from experts, before issuing a final judgment.

Following the District judge’s mandate, either party may appeal all or part of the decision in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Justice for Freddie Gray

Now that the hearing on a series of motions relating to the Kamau High six officers accused of killing Freddie Gray have begun, let us remember what brought Baltimore to this point. The hearing on Sept. 2 decided that Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s State’s Attorney will not have to step down from the case due to misconduct and that the charges against the officers will not be dismissed. A tentative trial date has been set for Oct. 13.

On April 12, Freddie Gray was arrested for allegedly having an illegal switchblade, following a foot chase that ended with Gray in the back of police van asking for an inhaler. At some point--when remains in dispute--Gray sustained serious injurious to his spinal cord. Video from the arrest showed Gray in distress and in shackles.

Gray died on April 19, after undergoing spinal surgery and lapsing into a coma. Protests began happening at City Hall and Police Headquarters. Six officers were identified as having contributed to Gray’s death and were suspended. They were later charged with crimes ranging from manslaughter to misconduct in office and all pleaded not guilty.

The protests reached a boiling point on April 25 and riots hit several parts of Baltimore, including the Western District and the Inner Harbor. In the aftermath, everyone from President Barack Obama to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake spoke out on the violence and destruction.

Protests took place during the hearing and one protester, Kwame Rose, was arrested after being struck by a car. They are likely to continue through the coming trial and, depending on the outcome, afterwards. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered about the death of Freddie Gray. Hopefully, we will have those answers, and justice, soon.

Kamau High is the managing editor of The AFRO.

A Plea to Consider Bernie Sanders On Sunday evenings my mother would go around reminding her five children to make sure all our dirty clothes were in the basement laundry area by announcing, “The colored girl is coming in the morning make sure your dirty clothes are by the washer.”

Sounds absolutely awful in 2015 but in 1960 it was the norm in many White suburbs. Unlike those in the South, which were depicted in The Help, we didn’t mistreat these hard working women. We learned from them. They taught us the valuable lesson that Blacks and Whites are not that different.

Those are my bona fides as middle-class White guy who thinks that while Hillary Clinton could make a good president,

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Bernie Sanders would make a great one. The Clintons have done a lot for the Black community. However, when Bill and Hillary were in school, Bernie Sanders was with James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young men who were murdered in 1964 for registering black voters in Mississippi. Those are his bona fides.

I hear from the media that Hillary has the Black vote sewn up. I’m writing to say that we can once again prove the media wrong. Compare each platform idea they put forth. Hillary’s are focus group tested to win the White House. Sen. Sanders says what he means, says what he wants for all Americans and doesn’t care who opposes his ideas. He doesn’t worry that hedge fund managers concentrated in healthcare won’t donate

to him. He doesn’t want their money he wants them to go away. He wants single-payer universal healthcare for all. He doesn’t just want affordable college he wants free college.

Bernie Sanders recognizes that if America is going to be a great nation we need to expand and improve public education.

Including free college education advances that idea.

Sen. Sanders’ platform is one that will benefit all Americans. More importantly if his policies are enacted the benefit for the Black community is immeasurable. Sec. Clinton represents the middle-ground faction of the DNC. I don’t want the middle ground. I want the high ground.

Barry Considine is a native of Baltimore. He blogs at caseysdream.blogspot.com.

Letters to the Editor Green is the Color of Justice

By Thomas L. Bowen This summer’s rollout of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is great news for the Black community. The plan establishes federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants, slowing climate change and the myriad of negative health and economic consequences.

Nearly 40 percent of the six million Americans living close to coal-fired power plants are people of color; and their pollution is responsible for thousands of premature deaths, higher risks of asthma attacks, respiratory disease, and hundreds of thousands of missed workdays.

Especially susceptible are our kids, who often live closest to the sources of carbon pollution, and have an asthma rate of one in six, compared to one in ten nationwide. When you consider that Blacks are disproportionately impacted by climate change, the plan will go a long way in addressing the environmental injustice our communities have long suffered.

The Clean Power Plan’s benefits to low income and communities of color are abundant, and governors should move quickly to implement it. The plan will improve the health of millions, and by 2030 it will save communities across the country billions of dollars on energy bills and create jobs.

As we continue in the march toward equality, it would be unwise to exclude environmental justice. We must ensure the people we elect hear our voices loud and clear.

The fight for our future cannot be a future fight.

Will Closing Baltimore Jail Bring About Change?

By David Eberhardt I enjoyed the recent (Aug. 8) article in The AFRO on the closing of the Baltimore City Jail. I worked there from 1977 (as Director of Offender Aid and Restoration) - until retirement in 2010.

Gov. Hogan’s announcement that he will close the Jail- and which part will be closed?was a nice sound bite. But, given the problems that plagued the jail--smuggling, corruption, violence, poor representation of inmates, health issues--one has to wonder what changes will be made.

We have a criminal “in”justice system that discriminates against the poor. It is a class system. The inmates cannot vote- and thus will not be represented. How will a new jail address this? I predict cosmetic changes only; the system will continue and could even be worse.

Neither Gov. Hogan nor the media really covers the deeper issues- and any jail or prison merely provides entertainment for TV series- such as The Wire or Orange is the New Blackboth series that I enjoy and recommend.

As to real solutions? Hello.

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D.C. Democrats Weigh Possible Biden White House Bid

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The chatter among national Democrats that the vice president of the United States should run for the top spot in 2016 has reached party members in the District also.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is the subject of an official draft campaign that wants him to run for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2016. Markus Batchelor, a Ward 8 advisory neighborhood commissioner and one of the District’s

The heated atmosphere inside a central room of the former Malcolm X Elementary School in Southeast D.C. rose even more on Aug. 27 as Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke about a crime plan she recently updated.

A “Safer, Stronger DC” was introduced to the audience as a comprehensive public safety agenda to

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Jojo of Martha’s Table demonstrates cooking healthy vegetables with the kids of Langston Terrace Dwellings.

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Joe Biden is the vice president of the United States. leading young Democrats, is a leader in the city’s effort to get the vice president to seek the nomination.

“I am a volunteer for the Draft Biden movement,” Batchelor said. “We are looking to put folks in place to get this campaign going.”

Biden has served as vice president since 2009. He represented his home state of Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973-2009 and had been re-elected six times.

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Northeast D.C. Housing Complex Hosts Annual Health Day Bash

By Maria Adebola AFRO Staff Writer madebola@afro.com Every year, the Langston Dwellings Resident’s Council hosts a health day dedicated towards giving back to the Langston Terrace Dwellings residents and friends in Ward 5. The purpose of the health day is to expose its residents, young and old, to available health-related resources, as well as equipping them with skills they will need to embark on a healthy lifestyle.

The Langston Terrace Council Health Day held on Aug. 29 featured an array of vendors and displays such as a healthy cooking demonstration sponsored by Martha’s Table, free dental screenings, flu and pneumonia shots provided by Rite Aid, free school supplies, a fitness demonstration, and more.

“This health day is to benefit our community,” said Esther Hardesty, president of Langston Dwellings Residents Council.

Mel Franklin, Prince George’s County Council Chair, Brings Businesses to the Community

By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer cjacobs@afro.com In an attempt to spread awareness of the business Mel Franklin, Prince and nonprofit services offered in Prince George’s George’s County Prince George’s County communities, Mel Franklin, county council Council Chairman County government chairman, hosted the 5th Annual Family and Friends Day. The event took place Aug. 30 at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

“We have businesses here today to show their products and services to the community,” Franklin told the AFRO. “What our businesses in the county do well is that they create jobs and attract more business. We are trying to make Prince George’s County a destination for the world.

This event is all about strengthening our business communities and strengthening our nonprofits.

Hundreds of county residents showed up to not only have fun with their families, but also receive information about businesses within the county. Ninety businesses participated in the event, including the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, Xfinity, The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Prince George’s County Chapter.

“We are all about advocacy,” Barbara Holder, chair of the Women in NAACP (WIN) told the AFRO. “We want the community to know that we are here for them and that the issues that impact them impact us. We are here to let people know that the NAACP is still a viable, agile and Continued on B2

“We have everything out here from health organizations to food industries.” Hardesty added that the purpose of the Langston Dwellings Residence Council is to try to revitalize the community, by bringing families and neighbors together as one and bringing programs, educational trainings, and other outside resources to foster positive growth within the residential property.

According to residents, Langston Terrace Dwellings is more than affordable housing, it is a property that contains a closeknit, family-oriented community where neighbors know each other by their first names.

Langston Terrace Dwellings was the first public housing development built in D.C. with construction beginning in 1935 and ending in 1938. The complex is named after John Mercer Langston, a well-known African American public figure, famously known for helping to establish Howard University School of Law, and for being the first Black man elected to Continued on B2

“We’re not here to talk about arresting black men – but about how we can save their lives.”

–D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

combat violent crime. The $15 million dollar crime plan contains five major steps: putting more police officers on the streets, giving law enforcement more tools to protect residents, stopping violent criminals from repeatedly victimizing communities, increasing penalties for violent crimes committed on the public transit system, and in parks and recreation centers, and launching a community partnership strategy to support neighborhoods.

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Mother’s Tea Focuses on Forgiveness, Preventing Violence in D.C. Area

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com The Mother’s Tea, an event sponsored by a host of community and non-violence organizations, took place on Aug. 30 at the ballroom of the InterContinental Willard Hotel in Northwest. Dozens of people listened to music and testimonies about the importance of people loving their families, friends, and neighbors and the importance of stopping the violence in the District during the event, facilitated by the Rev. Anthony Motley.

“From the very beginning, it was the goal of the tea to be able to bring together the survivors and the victims,” Nardyne Jefferies, the chairperson of the event, said.

“We believe that this gives an opportunity for people

to embrace one another and work together towards healing and finding peaceful solutions to the violence around us.”

The event was founded in recognition of two high

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The late journalist Charnice Milton was remembered at The Mother’s Tea. school star athletes, one killed by gunfire in 2003 outside of Anacostia Senior High School and the other slain at Ballou Senior High School in 2004. The mothers of the

victims and the shooters came together soon after the 2004 killings for reconciliation and comfort, and the first “Forgiving Mother’s Tea” was hosted by philanthropist and developer Richard Carr and his wife Marie soon afterward.

This year’s Tea was in the shadow of the rising homicide rate of 105, at the time, the same total number in 2014 and numerous accounts of robberies and violence occurring on a regular basis.

However, Rhonda BunchTurner, the mother of the event’s keynote speaker Rahman Turner, said that all hope is not lost. “I like coming to this event because some here say to you ‘I feel your pain as a mother’,” she said. Another son of BunchTurner’s, Elijah Turner Jr., was killed in 2011 when Continued on B2

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Ward 8 in the area that has displeasure with the All experienced nearly twice as Hands on Deck initiative and, many homicides this year than in a vote announced Aug. 31, last,” said the mayor. “We’re expressed “no confidence” in not here to talk about arresting Lanier’s leadership. black men – but about how Black Lives Matters we can save their lives.” members, Stop Police Bowser plans to add more legislation for community-police relations reform and returning citizen employment readinessby Sept. 15.

With homicides numbered at 105, as of Aug. 31, the same total number for all of 2014, Bowser and D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier are trying to figure out ways to mitigate the causes in the uptick of violent crime. “By using overtime we have 108 more officers on the street in the Photo by Linda Poulson most vulnerable areas,” she Protesters voice their concerns said, pointing out changes on Mayor Bowser’s crime plan already implemented. for D.C. The mayor and police chief also re-launched the Illegal Guns in the District and All Hands on Deck Terror D.C. Founder Eugene initiatives over the Aug. Puryear, and other activists 28-30 weekend. The D.C. protested the mayor’s speech.

Police Union expressed “We are passionate here, we

know the mayor is playing a political game rather than dealing with poverty and deprivation,” Puryear said.

“This is superficial. How do we stop and tackle crime, how do we give opportunity . . . none of what she is proposing is happening.”

However, standing by the mayor, Councilmember Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7), whose ward has also seen a spike in crime, said, “The mayor addressed everything on [the protestors] agenda.

These rebel rousers that are part of the Black Lives Matter movement are talking about Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, [but] we’re addressing crime against our Black brothers and sisters.”

Ward 5 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Kathy Henderson said, “The majority of the people in D.C. are with her. I am very glad that people are standing together because there is a lot of fear in this city. What Mayor Bowser is trying to do is keep people alive.”

several guys beat him to death in Fort Washington, Maryland.

Bunch-Turner said that when her son died, there was a dark place in her soul because of her pain. However, when she comes to the Tea, her outlook is uplifted. “This is the third tea I have been to and I didn’t want to come to the first one but when I showed up I was full of joy,” she said. “I was moved by the mothers of victims and mothers of perpetuators hugging, showing affection and forgiveness.”

Rahman Turner, in a passionate 45-minute address, talked about the loss of close friends and family violently over the years. “There were so many deaths that took place when I was a teenager that I became immune to death,” Turner said. “Death is sad but there is nothing I can do about it.”

Rahman Turner said that when his brother died in Fort Washington “it really hit home.”

“My brother’s death brought my family closer together,” he said. “I really credit my mother for bringing my family together and I always remember if it were not for the grace of God, I’d

gospel music.

The 2015 Tea Awardees were Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Heygi for his successful prosecution of the perpetuators of the infamous South Capitol Street Massacre that took place in March 2010 in which five people, under the age of 20, were killed; Fire Engine No. 6 for being a welltrained, compassionate first-responder to emergencies; Ken and Francine McClenton as the parents of slain journalist Charnice – Rhonda Bunch-Turner Milton; and the Rev. LaVerne Harley for bringing spiritual guidance to those affected by gun violence. be dead or locked up.”

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser The ballroom was filled (D) issued a proclamation with quiet chatter as women recognizing the event. D.C. showed their fancy, colorful Council Chairman Phil hats to their friends. The Mendelson (D) spoke about refreshments were served by his support of the Tea over waiters and various teas were the years. “There is too much offered to the attendees. The violence in our society,” attendees were entertained Mendelson said. “We in the

by D.W.A.P. Ministries, a government need to do a better religious dance expression job of bringing discipline and group and pre-recorded forgiveness in work.”

“While I am at this tea, I am around people who know and share my pain and it helps you to cope.”

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While a senator, Biden chaired the influential Judiciary Committee that oversaw the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court and led the Foreign Relations Committee during the Gulf Wars in 1991 and 2002. However, his bids for president in 1988 and 2008 were unsuccessful and ended early in the process.

Biden hasn’t given a strong indication that he will run for the White House but Joshua Lopez hopes he does. “He has never run away from the Obama agenda like some Democrats who are running for president has,” Lopez said. “Joe Biden is the best person to carry on the Obama legacy. He will continue the progress that has been made the past few years.”

Batchelor said Biden can broaden the Democratic Party’s support base. “Vice President Biden understands the needs of working-class people,” he said. “And he will bring an honest

“He has a great foreign policy thrust and he is an influential vice president who would make a good president.”

– Markus Batchelor perspective on the struggles of everyday people during the campaign season.”

A Biden candidacy could possibly hurt Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton because they are both moderate politicians and often fundraise from the same donor base.

Batchelor said that the Democrats don’t need a coronation of a candidate but a vigorous primary season.

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primary battle because the Democratic Party had a full honest discussion on the issues,” he said. “Obama won the general election that year because he was tested during the primaries.”

Ronnie Edwards has been an active District Democrat for decades and he is presently the chairman of the Ward 5 Democrats. Edwards admits that his heart is with Clinton but is intrigued by a Biden candidacy.

“My decision on who I support for president will depend on who President Obama backs, who the local party wants, and how members of the Ward 5 Democrats feel,” Edwards said.

Biden has been a longtime supporter of District statehood.

At a Jan. 17 press conference attended by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the vice president told them “You should be a state.”

Biden said that he was speaking on behalf of himself and not the Obama administration. While Anita Bellamy Shelton admires Biden and shares his view on statehood, she doesn’t think he should run for president. “I believe at this point that his candidacy would be disruptive with Hillary in the lead,” Shelton, president of DC Women in Politics, said. “I think he is a little too late to enter the race.”

Shelton said the interest in Biden may be out of concern by some party activists that Clinton’s negatives may undo her and other Democratic prospects for winning in 2016 and covertly, female candidates for president have to possess higher ethical and moral standards than male candidates.

“Female candidates are supposed to be seen as honest and compassionate without question while male candidates can be a little less honest but they are fine,” she said. “That’s not fair but we are still dealing with a mentality in this country of a male image when it comes to running for president.”

Batchelor said that Clinton is often subject to sexism on the campaign trail and if she becomes the nominee, he would support her fully. Nevertheless, he wants the nominee to be Biden. “He has a great foreign policy thrust and he is an influential vice president who would make a good president,” he said.

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According to Hardesty, the property has more than 274 housing units featuring family style townhouses ranging from one to four bedrooms.

These housing units are meant to be a stepping stone for families to rent at a low monthly rate, and save enough to buy a home of

helped me out a lot because it put me on that platform where people now accept me,” he said. “But now, I am using that celebrity status by giving back to the community.”

Through his organization and mobile dining service called Kitchen Cray, Chef JR goes into local schools to do live cooking demonstrations

“This is a great community” – Esther Hardesty their own. Some families, according to Hardesty, might even pay zero rent, depending on their financial standing.

“This is a great community,” Hardesty said.

“We are working to get our community clean of drugs, shootings, and anything else that is negative about our community.

Local celebrity chef James Robinson, owner of Kitchen Cray , contributed his culinary skills and resources to the health event. Robinson, also known as Chef JR gained public recognition after participating in’Hell’s Kitchen’ on Fox. Chef JR brought out volunteers to help in preparation of a meal featuring an array of both healthy and comfort foods including vegetables, fruits, hotdogs, chicken, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, hamburgers, and more.

“Being on ‘Hell’s Kitchen’

to teach kids about healthy eating nutrition, and culinary arts.

Margaret Presson, vice president of Langston Dwellings Residents Council said that the organization prides itself on providing resources like job trainings, green cleaning, homebuyer workshops, and other forms of assistance. Presson has been a resident of the Langston Terrace Dwellings since 1967, and has raised four kids in the community.

Presson’s daughter Takeisha Presson, a dentist, played a role in the health day by offering her dental services, giving free dental screenings to residents and also assisting them with finding local dentists. “One of the things we are doing today is checking to see if they have insurance, and if they don’t have insurance I have avenues to help them get insurance,” Presson said.

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responsible organization.”

Cassandra Freeman, vice president of the county chapter for the NAACP, told the AFRO, “We are the oldest and the boldest organization within the history of justice. We are here today to get more memberships and to make sure everybody is involved.”

While enjoying exhibits and food, the Founders for the Advancement of Music and Education (FAME) provided live music entertainment featuring artists such as Renee Barnes, Richard Payne, Chelsey Green, Verny Varela, and Virtuoso Harris.

“This is a great event to attend with your entire family,” Upper Marlboro resident Tanya Johnson told the AFRO. “Not only do you get to spend time with people within in your neighborhood and community, but you also get to see about organizations that you may not have been aware about before.”

Franklin plans to hold the event every year to keep residents informed about businesses and nonprofits within the county.

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Ministry, Sep. 11-13. The historic congregation distinctly serves the D.C. metropolitan area through spiritual formation and edifying love within the community. Open to the public, the celebration will begin on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m., with a Centennial Gospel Concert, featuring Keith Pringle with special guest, ‘The Voice’ Season 8 Edwards to Host 2015 Job Fair Contestant, Rob Taylor. On Sept. 12 at 11:30 a.m., Barbara Arnwine, noted civil On Sept. 9 Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards (D-Md.) will host her 2015 rights activist will be the Centennial Brunch speaker, during which founding Job Fair at the Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff families will be honored. The brunch will be held at the College Park Marriott Road from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Employers from national and local businesses; Hotel and Conference Center, 3501 University Blvd East. On Sept. 13, federal, state and county government; and nonprofit organizations, will be the celebration continues as two prominent pastors are scheduled in attendance. Job seekers will also learn about ongoing training and to deliver inspiring messages for the Centennial Celebration. skill enhancement services, and are requested to bring numerous copies Rev. Darryl Walker, pastor of New Philadelphia AME Church of their resume. To learn more about the job fair, visit donnaedwards. in Long Beach, California will be the guest preacher for the house.gov.

10 a.m. worship. Rev. Mark Tyler, pastor of Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will be the guest preacher for the 4 p.m. worship experience. Special Comedy at the D.C. Arts Center recognition will be given to former pastors: Rev(s).

The D.C. Arts Center, located at 2438 18th Street, will hold a Goodwin Douglas, Darryl Walker, William Lamar IV Courtesy Photo Laugh Index Theatre Comedy Show on Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Nonand Henry White. For more information or to purchase Turner Memorial AME Church will host member tickets are $5 online before 5 p.m. the day of the show, and publications or passes for the event, visit turner-ame. a Centennial Gospel Concert, featuring $10 at the door. Cash will only be accepted at door. To purchase securegive.com to purchase publications and event passes.

Keith Pringle on Sept. 11. tickets online, visit http://laughindextheatre.com. The center will also feature Naked Girls Reading Presents: Comedy Undressed on Sept.

11 at 10 p.m. Tickets cost $25 at the door and $20 for DCAC Members and Presale. To Homecoming Celebration purchase tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com/event/2162993.

The Asbury United Methodist Church, 926 11th St NW, is planning to hold its Homecoming Sunday Celebration on Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. The theme Turner Memorial AME Church Celebrates 100 Years for the celebration is “Fruits of Thy Turner Memorial AME Church, 7201 16th Place, will celebrate 100 Years of Labor, Fruit of The Spirit”. The historic downtown congregation has worshipped and served continuously for 179 years from the corners of 11th and K Streets in Northwest, where Rev. Dr. Lanther M. Mills serves as the senior pastor. Asbury is calling all current and former members to come home and bring friends and family members to help celebrate this special occasion.

For more information, contact the Asbury church office, 202-628-0009, or visit asburyumcdc.org.

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Rep. Cummings Speaks At Bold Conference for Boys U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) will be the keynote speaker at the BOLD Conference at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road. The BOLD Leadership and Life Skills Conference is scheduled to take place on Sept. 26, beginning at 8 a.m. The conference is for young African American men from the eighth grade to the 11th grade, who live in the Columbia, Maryland area. The conference will provide a full day of activities, including workshops and a lunch featuring other special guests including retired NFL player Keion Carpenter (Atlanta Falcons) and Attorney Craig Thompson, partner with Venable LLP, an international law firm. The workshop topics are designed to encourage young men to make BOLD decisions about their lives, and to take BOLD steps toward success. For more information about this event, contact Larry Walker at 443-676-1037 or Carter D. Womack at 614-264-7599.

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Joyce Hameen, Delta Airlines, Maurese Jenkins and Ariethia Jones

Captains and First Officer airline pilots

Janice Glenn, Robert Brown and Linda Carter

Kelly Wheatherby, Carl Anderson, Andre and Stephanie Johnson and Grant Walker

Wanda Brown, Ejide Fashina, Bert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor

Branden Dungy receives the Southwest Airlines Scholarship presented by Airline pilot Capt.

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James Gordon, Louis Freeman receives the Lifetime Achievement Award and Karl Minter

Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris accepted the Military Partner Award for the U.S. Air Force

Jillian Gordon, Mary Gordon, James Gordon, Joyce Gordon, James Gordon, II and Rev. Dr. (Lt. Col., USAF) Mytle Bowen

More than 1500 aviation and aerospace professionals convened Capt. Douglas Taylor, Aug. 12 – 14 for the 39th Annual National Convention and Career Damen Forté, A.J. Tolbert Exposition at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. Presented and Bryon Granger annually by the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP), the convention featured 20 notable speakers and 30 airline companies that included workshops and seminars designed to provide professional career guidance to attendees.

The three-day program included a welcome reception, OBAP Board of Directors and special guests a career fair, a youth luncheon, presentations on aviation, an Odyssey Dinner Cruise, a Strategic Industry Symposium and an awards gala. A Founders and Pioneers Breakfast was also held to induct fivemembers into the OBAP Hall of Fame. OBAP, founded in 1976, is dedicated to the encouragement and advancement of minorities Corporate in all Sponsor aviation and Award presented aerospace to UPS careers.

Slyver Ford, Kourtney Gillespie, Carol Hopson (flight instructor) and Ayisha Minter; all three flight students have completed their solo flights

Military Partner Award presented to the U.S. Marines

Dr. Aprille Ericsson, aerospace engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

OBAP Academy former student, First Officer Medina McCord

Letty Ashworth, Delta Airlines

Lt. Col. (ret.) Tony Marshall, OBAP founder and Pioneers Hall of Fame 2015 inductee

Janice Glenn, OBAP founder and Pioneer Hall of Fame inductee, Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris, Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison, Lisa Price, Sylvia Banks, Shawn Parker and Judith Simons

Lynda Gray receives the Chairman’s Commendation

Grant Walker, Jr., OBAP 2015 Convention Chair

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Faith-Based Parable ‘War Room’ Focuses on Couple in Crisis (Courtesy Photo)

By Kam Williams

In 2011, Pastor Alex Kendrick produced, directed, wrote and starred in Courageous, a very compelling, action-oriented, faith-based drama. With War Room, he’s opted to play only a supporting role in the flick, thereby freeing himself to focus more on his duties behind the camera.

The film revolves around protagonists Elizabeth (Priscilla Shirer) and Tony Jordan (T.C. Stallings), a couple we meet already in the midst of a relationship crisis. Most of their marital woes are of the husband’s making, as he is a workaholic who’s emotionally and physically unavailable to his wife and their young daughter, Danielle (Alena Pitts).

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, since terribly-flawed Tony proceeds to put both his job and marriage in jeopardy by embezzling funds from his company and dating a colleague when he’s away on business. Nevertheless, the lout should thank his lucky stars that instead of leaving him, realtor Liz heeds the advice of Miss Clara (Karen Abercrombie), a sage, elderly client of hers.

Clara is a Christian who believes in the power of prayer.

Furthermore, she suggests that Liz ought to love and respect rather than try to fix her philandering hubby. Together, they come up with a “battle plan” to resurrect the relationship, Alena Pitts (left) stars with T.C. Stallings (right) in ‘War Room.’ which helps explain the picture’s militaristic-sounding title.

In this critic’s opinion, War Room is a movie that’s way Consequently, its appeal is apt to be pretty much limited to Evangelicals with an appetite for too heavy-handed in its treatment of the material to find much incessant sermonizing. This represents an unfortunate step backwards for Pastor Kendrick who of a mainstream following. That’s too bad, since the modern morality play could’ve just as had previously demonstrated an uncanny ability to serve up Jesus fare ever so subtly. effectively delivered its valuable message without wearing religion on its sleeve.

War Room is a prayer-ordained, prodigal husband parable preaching primarily to the choir.

Biography of Iceberg Slim Paints Portrait of a Complicated Pop Hero

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to The AFRO In 1967, when Robert Beck published his memoir, Pimp: The Story of My Life, it was a game changer. The book was the graphic, lurid tale of Beck’s life as a pimp and a con artist. But more than that, it was a way of writing about black life that had never been seen before. Even though it was ignored by mainstream media – The New York Times wouldn’t even allow ads for it in the paper- Black America ate it up. The book helped make Beck one of the most successful black writers of his time. And its influence continues today.

In Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, writer and professor Justin Gifford has written a book that can be seen as a companion piece to Beck’s work. Gifford is both highly detailed and reverent in his study into Beck’s life and his writing. In Biography, he fleshes out the life of a man who went from pimp, to family man, to scholar to one of the early architects of modern-day hip-hop.

“For nearly fifty years, Robert Beck’s works have quietly, from the underground, transformed African American literature and culture. There would have been no street literature, no Blaxploitation, no hip hop the way we know them today without Pimp: The Story of My Life,” Gifford writes.

According to Gifford, comedians Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock, rapper Jay-Z and boxer Mike Tyson are all fans of Beck’s work. He says Ice-T and Ice Cube both chose their names because of the pseudonym Beck used in his works.

“Both named themselves after Iceberg Slim,” Gifford writes about the rappers. “And they styled their antiestablishment messages and hardcore confessionals of violent street life after Beck’s street fiction.”

Beck’s writing grew out of pimp tradition of “toasts.” Toasts were spoken-word poems or raps where pimps could brag about how cool they were, how much money they had or their sexual conquests. The toasts were meant to impress other pimps and charm a woman into becoming part of his “stable.”

It’s easy to see how these toasts evolved into modern day rap. It’s also easy to see that while Beck’s writing was gritty, graphic and chock full of slick talk – it might not have necessarily all been true. That’s where Gifford’s over 10-years’ worth of research comes in. Gifford takes painstaking effort to verify or prove false the claims that Beck makes in his books. He provides detailed interviews with Beck’s wives and children and even fact-checks the details of a daring prison escape Beck says he made.

In Biography, Beck’s story is a microcosm of what is going on in Black America as a whole.

Beck moves as Black America moves.

His business as a pimp flourishes in cities like Chicago and Detroit, where blacks are redlined into slums and police turn a blind eye on crimes like prostitution and gambling. In this way, Gifford explains how institutional racism and poverty created the perfect climate for a Black underworld dominated by pimping and illegal gambling. It’s easy to see how so many Black women were forced into the world of prostitution, easy to see how Black men looking for a sense of power and prestige would be eager to take on the role of pimp.

“I have tried to tell this tale the way he might have wanted: clearly, honestly, and without moralizing,” Gifford writes in the book’s preface. And indeed, he’s done just that.

New Showcase Brings R&B and Soul Back to D.C.

By LaTrina Antoine Washington D.C. Editor lantoine@afro.com The Howard Theatre and Neo Elite, a local artist management group, have partnered to present the Neo Age Showcase, a bi-monthly show of soul and R&B music, presenting talented rising artists from the D.C. area, the Nation, and around the world.

According to Zeplyn Tillman, founder of the group, the showcase will not only provide lesser known artists with a platform to share their gifts, but also educate and entertain the next generation on R&B and Soul music.

“D.C. culture is so full of amazing musicians and talent,” he told the AFRO on Aug. 28. “And we really wanted to highlight the next generation of soul and R&B talent from the local area and across the country.”

Tillman is also the co-creator and executive director of the showcase.

The showcase’s second performance on Sept. 4 will feature vocalists De Angelo Redman; The Amours, a sister-singing-duo specializing in R&B, Gospel, Jazz, Pop and Classical music styles; Rob Milton; and Tangina Stone. The first performance of Neo Age showcased artists including, Reesa Renee, Aaron Camper, BOOMscat and ShaMain in July. Tillman said he plans to expand the show to other cities such as

Baltimore, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina. A percentage of the proceeds from each showcase will be donated to Critical Exposure, a local organization that trains youth to use photography and advocacy to make change in their schools and communities.

“A lot of people, more between 80s, late 90s, grew up on soul R&B music, now there’s a void,” he said referencing that the area has a rich musical culture that produced artists like Ginuwine, Missy Elliott and Toni Braxton.

Tillman said that he hopes the showcase will not just replicate past hits, but draw inspiration from R&B and soul music.

He said he hopes the show can serve as a platform to premiere artists from the D.C., Maryland and Virginia areas.

He said that the partnership’s goal was really to provide a platform where less wellknown artists could perform to gain some of the opportunities and luxuries that the popular artists get. Tillman referred to the music industry as mirroring the economy. He said that only about 1 percent of artists get premier venues or tour dates, much like wealth disparities between the top 10 percent of Americans that hold a majority of the wealth in the country.

The basis for the show was heavily influenced by the long-running television program Showtime at the Apollo, resembling its amateur style competition with a “One Minute Mic” competition, where four artists – found on social media – compete on stage, without instrumentals, in two rounds, one for 30 seconds and the other for a minute.

“The crowd absolutely enjoys that piece, because you don’t expect it,” Tillman said.

“We like to surprise people.”

In an email, a spokesperson for The Howard Theatre told the AFRO,“Not only does [the showcase] idea of spotlighting new and local talent provide a unique experience four our patrons, but we have been impressed by the producer’s work ethic and passion to bring something different to the table.”

Music news publication YouKnowIGotSoul as well as GypsySoul Entertainment, House Studios, Pepsi and Dolce Liquor are also partners of the showcase.

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De Angelo Redman is one of the artists featured in the Neo Age Showcase.

To purchase tickets for showcase or for more information, visit neoageshowcase.com.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP87 Date of Death April 27, 2015 William Joseph Wilmore Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Kevin D Wilmore whose address is 8142 Mandan Terrace, Greenbelt, MD 20770 was appointed personal representative of the estate of William Joseph Wilmore, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Maryland on June 26, 2015, Service of process may be made upon Arthur J James, 235 G Street S. W. Wa s h i n g t o n , D C 20024 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 1778 Lyman Place NE Washington DC 20002 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20001 Avenue, N.W., within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. ( Kevin D Wilmore Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: August 28, 2015 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 08/28, 09/04, 09/15/15

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP85 Date of Death December 15, 1998 Marrel M. McClain Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Pamela McClain-Minor whose address is 7406 Waldron Ave, Temple Hills MD 20748 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Marrell M McClain, deceased by the Register of Wills Court for Prince Georges County, State of Maryland, on August 11 2014.

Service of process may be made upon Primous Williams, 3971 M. L. King Ave, SW, Washington, DC 20032 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 3429 Holmead Place, NW, Washington, DC. Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, 500 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM947 Alice Marie Mitchell Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ethel Marie Mitchell, whose address is 5703 Oak Ct., Indian Head, MD 20640 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Alice Marie Mitchell, who died on September 24, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 21, 2016. 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 February 21, 2016, 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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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM944 Seretha M Stewart Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ernestine Thompson AKA Ernestine T Olivo, whose address is 1606 Lawrence Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Seretha M Stewart , who died on June 17, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts 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 February 21, 2016. 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 February 21, 2016, 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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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM949 Deborah Lee Mitchell Lyles Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Shirl Holsey, whose address is 1760 W St SE, Washington, DC 20020 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Deborah Lee Mitchell Lyles, who died on July 22, 2004 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts 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 February 28, 2016. 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 February 28, 2016, 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: August 28, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Shirl Holsey Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM969 Ernestine Shirley Darr AKA Ernestine S Darr Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Shirley Y. Sinclair, whose address is 2913 5th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ernestine Shirley Darr AKA Ernestine S. Darr, who died on September 19, 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 February 28, 2016. 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 February 28, 2016, 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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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM939 Brenda C. Butts Decedent Jonathan F. Howard, Esq 401 North Washington Street #110 Rockville, Maryland 20850 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Daniel Abebe, whose address is 1649 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brenda C. Butts , who died on June 8, 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 February 21, 2016. 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 February 21, 2016, 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: August 21, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Daniel AbebePersonal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM938 Patricia E Lake Decedent Wesley L Clarke 1629 K Street, Ste. 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sharon Smith, whose address is 6413 Whit-well Ct., Ft. Washington, MD 20744 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Patricia E Lake, who died on August 6, 2013 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 February 28, 2016. 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 February 28, 2016, 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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Trillectro Music Festival Sends Summer Off

By Charise Wallace Special to the AFRO

On August 29, 2015 a group of three young black men named Modi Oyewole, Quinn Coleman and Marcel Marshall knew how to end the Summer right by throwing one of the most wellknown music festivals in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia) area called Trillectro.

Trillectro Music Festival brought local artists out like Babeo Baggins, Miista Selecta and RL Grime as well as some main stream artists like D.R.A.M, Chance The Rapper, and Kehlani.

The festival took place at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. In addition to food stations, clothing/accessory vendors were also a part of the festival as local and out of state designers came out to promote their brands.

Before Trillectro was born, Oyewole had a blog and radio show called “DC to BC,” according to a closed friend of his, Ricky Dreamer, 29 from Washington D.C. Now a website, dctobc. com is a way to inform people of events they may be interested in. The founders of Trillectro were just college students when they decided to put their educational status to use and start their own business.

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them do something dope,” said Dreamer. “Trillectro is a melting pot for this culture.

Like now we’re in a place where people are so open to sounds people want to just have a good time.”

This is Trillectro’s third year hosting a summer event towards the end of August.

The line-up of performers each year is different and each year brings a different energy. Artists and D.J’s came out to give a great performance like Jmsn, D.R.A.M, Masego, Tunji Ige, Mista Selecta, Babeo Baggins, Histo, Ayes Cold, Nativesun, Dom Kennedy, Cashmere Cat, RL Grime, Kehlani, Chris McClenney, and Chance The Rapper, who closed out the show. He ended the show right accompanied by a live jazz band enhancing his performance.

The AFRO spoke with Babeo Baggins, a lead member of a small female rap group called Barf Troop. Babeo Baggins is a 22 year-old from Leesburg, VA. This was Babeo Baggins first time performing at Trillectro.

“The performance was good… it went well,” said Babeo Baggins.

“I’m one of the smallest artist here, but with that being said everyone was super turned up.

This was the funnest part of my summer… it was lit all day long.”

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D.C. Entrepreneur Gives Youth a Jumpstart in Business

By Christina Sturdivant Special to the AFRO

In 2010, Ihkeem Ma’at established the Brave Heart Entrepreneurial Youth Camp. The organization provides year-round entrepreneurship and financial literacy education to minority children aged 8 to 12 years old in Washington, D.C. Under the organization’s umbrella, the Brave Heart Entrepreneurship Academy was established shortly thereafter to provide advanced learning opportunities to teenagers transitioning into adulthood.

“It wasn’t until college that I got more of an understanding of business basics, customer service, marketing plans, and mission statements,” Ma’at told the AFRO on Aug. 17. “I’m teaching third and fourth graders this and they take to it, so there needs to be more. What I’m seeking to do is continue to build in such a way that entrepreneurship education is readily available to folks like going to the library and getting a book.”

Since its conception, the organization has served approximately 300 youth through partnerships with the D.C. Public School System, Community Preservation Development Corporation, U.S. Dream Academy, The Fishing School, Beacon House, Wheeler Creek Community Development Corporation, Joy of Motion Dance Center, the Dance Institute of Washington, and the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services amongst others.

Serving a predominately Black population, Ma’at provides historical perspectives in his

curriculum. “I take them back as far as the 1700s when Blacks were in business,” he said. “We were in business during the most hostile times in this country. Being able to function relied on the skilled labor, talent, inventiveness, and creativity of Black folk. It’s very critical that we ensure our young Black children have access to this information.”

Participants also learn that entrepreneurs engage in business on multiple levels, Ma’at said.

“There’s not just one who might have a $ 5 million revenue profit, but one on the corner who sells oils – they need to see that and they need to be exposed to that, too.”

During a camp in Columbia Heights, participants built a business themselves. “We had our tent and we were out there selling lemonade and cookies, but they raised $500 in two days,” Ma’at said.

As the organization grows, Ma’at hopes that by raising the awareness of how to be an entrepreneur, youth in the District won’t have to wait until adulthood to realize they can start their own businesses.

“The goal is to raise the bar a little higher and really produce young folks who are entrepreneurs and [can] begin to be examples to other young folks,” he says.

To learn more about The Brave Heart Entrepreneurial Youth Camp, visit: braveheartyouthcamp.org.

“What I’m seeking to do is continue to build in such a way that entrepreneurship education is readily available to folks like going to the library and getting a book.” – Ihkeem Ma’at

Serena Williams’ Grand Slam Bid Moves On Advances to Third Round at U.S. Open

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Serena Williams defeated Kiki Bertens to advance at the U.S. Open.

By The Associated Press Serena Williams’ bid for a true Grand Slam is safe, despite an uneven performance in the U.S. Open’s second round.

Overcoming 10 double-faults and two dozen other unforced errors, Williams emerged with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over 110th-ranked qualifier Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sept 2.

Williams got broken to fall behind 2-1 early, and Bertens served for the opening set at 5-4 before getting broken for the first time.

Then in the tiebreaker, Williams trailed 4-0, before turning things around, helped by shaky play from Bertens, who only once has made it to the third round at a major tournament in 14 appearances.

Williams has won the past four major titles, a streak that began at last year’s U.S. Open, and is trying to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988.

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After Son’s Death, Mother Pushes for Baltimore City Dirt Bike Park

Race and Politics

Substance of Maryland AG Frosh Interview Cause For Concern?

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to The AFRO When Council Member William “Pete” Welch introduced legislation calling for the construction of a dirt bike park at last month’s Baltimore City Council meeting, he brought Baltimore mother Kimberly Rouse-Smith with him.

The park, Welch said, would be a way of keeping dirt-bike enthusiasts off city streets, giving them a safer way to ride.

As a potential venue for dirt bike competition, Welch said, it might even bring in revenue for the city.

Rouse-Smith is intimately connected to this issue. Her The now closed Baltimore Men’s Detention Center has long been condemned by activists. son, 21-year-old Ka’re Smith,

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The men’s housing unit has now been completely closed but there is still administrative work being done there. “It’s obvious why we closed that part of the jail” according to Moyer, “Small hallways, plumbing issues, leaks, I mean there are wooden sanitary pipes under some of these buildings. This building was

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh recently laid out what he called a “distillation” of current laws prohibiting racial profiling in law enforcement, viewed by some as a positive step in the effort to reform law enforcement.

During an interview on August 26 on First Edition, which airs on WEAA 88.9 in Baltimore, Frosh was pressed further on the new guidelines.

Asked about the state’s capacity to enforce racial profiling complaints Frosh said, “We don’t have the ability to enforce them.”

As for the the function of the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Division Frosh said, “We don’t have the direct authority to bring civil rights litigation...we don’t have the authority to go out and sue people for violating the civil rights of other people.”

The case of Teleta Dashiell, a Black woman who lives in Somerset County, Maryland raises questions about police accountability, alleged misconduct and racial sensitivity in Maryland law enforcement.

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Inside Baltimore’s Men’s Detention Center

By James Bentley Associate Editor, The Afro jbentley@afro.com

Photo by Lisa Snowden-McCray

Kimberly Rouse-Smith and a picture of her son, who was killed in a dirt bike accident. died in a dirt bike accident in July.

Ka’re was hit by a car at North Avenue and Smallwood Street. Rouse-Smith says she was told that her son had a yellow light and that the other passenger was speeding. The force of the accident, she said, sent him flying head-first into some concrete steps.

“My child’s ear was gone.

Both legs broken. Hole in his head, neck broke. He never regained consciousness,” Rouse-Smith said. Ka’re died two days later.

Rouse-Smith said that she worried about her son’s dirt bike hobby. He did not wear a helmet, but she thinks that if he had, he may still be alive today.

Dirt bike riding, which has long been controversial in Baltimore, has recently resurfaced as an issue. In August, heavily armed officers clashed with riders at Druid Hill Park. Police have also increased their presence on Reisterstown Road, where dirt bikers are known to ride.

On Aug. 30, a 16-year-old Baltimore boy was injured when his dirt bike was struck by a police cruiser during a chase.

Rouse-Smith said she agrees with Welch that the park would make the situation safer for everyone. She said that she knows that the plan has a long way to go and a lot of red tape to break through. Even so,

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On Jul. 31, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced his plan to close the Baltimore Men’s Detention Center “immediately.” The storied jail, part of several detention centers on the property, was built in 1859 and parts of it have housed everyone from Edgar Allan Poe to the notorious Black Guerilla Family. Activists and politicians have long condemned its deteriorating conditions.

On a recent tour, this reporter entered the jail through the same gate used by those being booked for crimes and traveled up the same ramp to the intake center used by police transporting detainees to and from the jail. Cell phones no longer work once inside the gates because phones are considered contraband.

After going through the Central Booking Facility, the now empty Men’s Detention Center, the Women’s Detention Center, we entered The Pre-Trial Complex, formerly known as the Metropolitan Transition Center. The latter is one of the buildings at the Baltimore City jail that absorbed inmates with the Men’s Detention Center closing. Stephen T. Moyer, state secretary of public safety and correctional services, Wendell Pete France, deputy secretary, and Brenda Shell, commissioner for the division of pre-trial detention and services, led the tour. According to Moyer “No detainees were moved out

she wants to remain positive that city officials can make something happen.

“I am very hopeful that something will be done but you know it all boils down to money. Keep it real it all boils down to money,” she said.

Lofty Nathan, the filmmaker behind the critically-acclaimed 12 O’Clock Boys, a documentary about Baltimore’s dirt bike riders, agrees with Welch’s plan.

“There is an element of sport and recreation with dirt bike riding that could be translated to something sanctioned. Not even supported – just contained and allowed. Just try it. If it doesn’t work, shut it down,” he said.

Rouse-Smith said that as a mother, she was both frightened and amazed by her son’s habit.

“He started doing tricks on them. It scared me to death but it was beautiful to watch him. I know I can’t get up there and pop wheelies and hold them up for a long period of time, but he did that.”

“He was like ‘you don’t understand, you just don’t understand,’ and he’s right I don’t. I don’t understand. But I respect the fact that that was his passion.”

of Baltimore City. We did move a couple blocks of prison population but no detainees awaiting trial.”

The cell blocks were dark and tight which was only overshadowed by the conditions of the cells. There were rotting floors in the showers, rusted beds and peeling paint throughout the cell block. The cells, made to house two inmates each, were small and filthy.

“Prison isn’t a good place for anybody but people deserve better conditions than what the building offered.”

- Stephen T. Moyer

Sandtown-Winchester United Looks to Bring About Lasting Change in Baltimore

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to The AFRO The members of SandtownWinchester United, a recently formed community group in West Baltimore, are establishing the infrastructure of what they hope will soon be a far-reaching, allencompassing way of making their neighborhood better.

The group met August 29 at Jubilee Arts, a community arts space off Pennsylvania Avenue.

They meet every two weeks and have been doing so since the unrest in April.

Self-described community organizer Stacy Smith led the group of about 16 people, all Sandtown-Winchester residents, through exercises that would help establish some of the group’s major tenants.

Photo by Lisa Snowden-McCray Some of the subjects they Members of Sandtown-Winchester United discuss possible ways to make their were asked to tackle included: neighborhood better. education, spirituality, fund raising, health and policy. framework – putting hopes and dreams to a concrete plan. She Smith works with the Baltimore branch of the Association said she’s working to help bring about “clear and consistent of Black Social workers. She is also a co-founder of the vision.”

Urban Business Center – a group dedicated to helping small “It’s meant to be an umbrella group,” she said. Many of the businesses succeed. Smith also teaches policy and social work people who attended the meeting are part of other neighborhood at Coppin State University.

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her testimony in a case being investigated by John Maiello, a White Maryland State Police Sgt. During a subsequent phone conversation between Dashiell and Maiello, the state trooper was recorded saying to another person (after he believed he had hung up the phone with Dashiell) referring to her as a, “God-danged nigger.”

Although the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of Dashiell, sued the Maryland State Police and the case went before the Maryland Court of Appeals earlier this year, the attorney general, who took office this January, was unaware of the Dashiell case, and seemed flabbergasted by the comments of the state trooper. “Oh my God...this was a state police officer?” Frosh asked.

Attorney General Frosh was also unfamiliar with the case of Kelvin Sewell, a former homicide detective with the Baltimore City Police Department, who was hired as the first Black police chief of Pocomoke City, Maryland located on the state’s southern Eastern Shore in 2010.

Despite presiding over historic drops in crime in the city of about 4,000 -- with a racial composition roughly half Black and half White -- Sewell was fired allegedly for “incompetence” by Pocomoke City Mayor Bruce Morrison this past June.

Sewell’s firing, which most of the city’s Black residents and some of its White residents believe is racially motivated, has

triggered -- or unearthed -- a deep fissure in this town almost entirely along racial lines. Former Chief Sewell’s firing is being investigated by the United States Department of Justice.

The Sewell scenario has also precipitated several alleged incidents of political misconduct. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland filed two complaints against Pocomoke City officials for violations of the Maryland Open Meetings Act alleging, “secret meetings,” which excluded Diane Downing, Pocomoke City’s only elected Black official, and led to Sewell’s firing.

The ACLU complaints were directed specifically to the Maryland Open Meetings Compliance Board, which is advised by the Attorney General’s office.

Possible Hate Crime in Baltimore County Resolved?

For several days in August a Black woman named Tee Jackson and her family, who reside in the Rosedale community of Baltimore County, were harassed and threatened by a Confederate flag wielding 18-year old White male named Michael Brandon Herold and his father, 47-year old Harry Anthony Herold.

In wake of the tragic murders in Charleston, South Carolina of, “the Charleston Nine,” in June at the hand of Dylann Roof, another young White male obsessed with the Confederacy, among other

things, the threats of the Herolds were taken very seriously by Jackson and her family.

Yet, when she initially reached out to all four of the local Baltimore television news outlets (2, 11, 13 and 45), they declined to send news crews to investigate the story.

It wasn’t until after Tee Jackson and her daughter Shandre Stephens appeared on First Edition to tell their story, (August 18) that the television news outlets showed up at their house to report on their plight the next day.

Subsequently, a violent altercation took place between Michael Brandon Herold, who declared he would, “kill those f-ing niggers,” and neighbors of the Jacksons.

Ultimately, Harry Anthony Herold was arrested (August 26)

by Baltimore County Police on three separate arrest warrants (including first degree assault and witness intimidation) and is being held without bail. His son, Michael Brandon Herold was also arrested (August 27) on a bail revocation warrant and is also currently being held without bail.

Next week: An update on some of the businesses adversely impacted by the April uprising.

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groups.

“The talent is in the room,” she said. These brainstorming sessions will help single that talent out and put it to good use.

She said that members felt the need to organize after Freddie Gray’s death and the unrest that followed. “There was a phenomenon of people clustering together,” she said. “People were getting frustrated.”

The next step, Smith said, is establishing a timetable. She and the rest of the group agree that – whether it be federal funds or private donations - the money is coming. “The issue is creating an infrastructure.”

C.W. Harris, founder of Jubilee Arts, said he has been working in his community since 1977. Harris, along with several others, helped found the group earlier this year. Harris, along with Doni Glover of Bmorenews.com and others, helped found the group earlier this year.

“They look upon me to be the compass. The one who has the experience. The one who has worked with several organizations to receive support to bring about change in the community.”

– C.W. Harris Harris said that he is hopeful that their work will establish real, lasting change. “Because of the civil unrest, there is an urgency. I feel the urgency to get things done.”

“Because of the civil unrest, there is an urgency.”

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built on a flood plain, precivil war.”

Asked why did it took so

long for the situation to be addressed, Moyer said, “I don’t know… This building

needs to go. After the fifth time I came through here I could barely stomach it.”

He added, “Prison isn’t a good place for anybody but people deserve better conditions than what the building offered.”

The Baltimore Men’s Detention Center has a long and storied history dating back to 1859 when it was constructed. Famous author Edgar Allen Poe occupied a cell once. In 1949 “Tunnel Joe” Holmes, serving time for burglary, dug his way to freedom. Most recently the jail was rocked by a corruption scandal following revelations that the facility was being controlled by the Black Guerrilla Family.

In an effort to eliminate corruption and change conditions 253 corrections employees have been arrested since 2013.

The move is still a work in progress. On Aug. 30 a melee in the Pre-Trial Complex left eight correctional officers and six detainees injured. Two of the affected dormitories remained on lockdown the following day as officers tried to separate the individuals responsible for the disturbance.

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Hello everyone. I hope you are enjoying the fantastic weather this week. Find something to do outdoors and have fun. I will help you out a little bit with that.

Annette R. March-Grier, President and Co-Founder of Roberta’s House, a family grief support center, is hosting a fundraiser for the healing hearts. There will be “Mystery Bag & Basket Bingo” which includes a wide variety of prizes including vacation packages, designer bags, shopping sprees, food and much more on Sept.

11 at the Ivy Center, 3515 Dolfield Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21215 starting at 6 p.m. For more information call (410) 235-6633.

Stuart Hudgins, a curator, will host “Billie Holiday’s Life in Music”, which will start on Sunday, September 6, and will run until October 3, 2015 at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center on Howard Street in Baltimore. The exhibit is a part of a series of celebratory events marking the centennial year of the great jazz vocalist Billie Holliday in her hometown of Baltimore. The interactive exhibition allows visitors to

view photos and rare film clips of Billie Holiday’s performances and interviews and to listen to her music recordings. Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 and raised in Baltimore. Her Baltimore years are fundamental to her career in music. For more information, contact Stuart Hudgins at (443) 925-8771 or email: stuhud093@gmail. com.

There are a couple of blues events coming up I want to share with you. First of all, those of you who really know me, know that I am a strong fan and lover of the Blues and Motown R&B music. So, I am looking forward to the D.C. Blues Festival on Sept. 5 from noon until 7:30 p.m. It will be held at the Carter Barron Amphitheater, 16th Street & Colorado Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. I am really excited about the festival this year as I am every year. The line-up looks like this: Sharrie Williams, the Princess of Rockin’ Gospel Blues, a three-time Blues Music Awards Nominee and international performer trained in jazz, gospel and drama will perform. Although she credits KoKo Taylor, Etta James and Aretha Franklin as influences, her style is all her own. Other performers at the festival include James Armstrong (Ambassador of the Blues), Full Power Blues (formerly known as The D.C. Blues Society Band), Jackson & Oziel (2014 D.C. Blues Society Solo-Duo Competition Winner) and The Mojo Priests (2014 D.C. Blues Society Battle of the Bands Winner) just to name a few. Also included will be workshops for musical instruments, petting zoo, etc.

For more detail information, go to dcblues.org.

Leaving the blues party for a minute, but still in Washington, D.C., I want to mention that my good

Society, 2813 12th Street NE in Washington, D.C. from 6-9 p.m. with Todd Simon on organ, Jessie Moody on drums, Mike Hariston on saxophone and John will play trumpet and flugelhorn. For more information, email John at: jrlamkin2@gmail.com.

Let’s go shopping! There will be a “Fall Expo” on Sept.

16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the State Office Complex, 201 W. Preston Street, Baltimore MD 21201. It will be the ultimate shopping experience. Vendors will have clothes, hats, gloves, jewelry, shoes, pocket books, arts and crafts, CD’s, food, just lots and lots of everything including “Rambling Rose” books; both of them, yes, I will be there too, doing a book signing. It is free and open to the public. There are spaces for more vendors, just call (410) 787-8376 or go to brian.neal@maryland.gov.

Meet me at Mike Jones’ “Old School All White Virgo Cabaret” on Sept. 13 from 5-9 p.m. at the Patapsco Arena, 3301 Annapolis

James “B-more” Wharton, author of You’ve Been Hoodwinked will have an open discussion and book signing of his book on Sept. 12, 3-6 p.m. at Nothing Fancy Dinner Theater located at 4709 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD 21214. This event, called “Wish upon A Star,” will be hosted by Anndell Banks. For more information, call (443) 610-8287. friends John Lamkin of “Favorites” Jazz Quartet will entertain you on Sept. 9 at the Jazz and Blues Cultural

Now, I believe I am out of space.

I’ve got to go folks, but remember if you need me, call me at (410) 8339474 or email me at rosapryor@aol. com. UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, I’M MUSICALLY YOURS.

Sharrie Williams, “Princess of Rockin’ Gospel Blues” is the headliner for the free 27th Annual D.C. Blues Festival on Sept. 5, from noon to 7:30 p.m. The festival is at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre, located at 16th Street and Colorado Avenue NW. Washington, D.C. For more information, go to dcblues.org.

Stephens Hall Theatre 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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Maryland Hispanic Business Conference

The 14th annual Maryland Hispanic Business Conference is on September 8 in Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Rd. Bethesda, MD 20852. The conference provides tools, strategies and resources to better support Hispanic and minority businesses. For more information call (301) 947-6619 or visit www.mdhbc.com.

Simmons Museum of Negro Leagues Baseball

Tour the Hubert V. Simmons Museum of Negro Leagues Baseball on September 11 at 10:30 a.m at the Community College of Baltimore County, Owings Mills’ campus, 10300 Grand Central Ave. Owings Mills, MD 21117. View displays of photographs and memorabilia that tell the stories of Negro baseball from the 1800’s to 1949. Lunch will be served. To register call (443) 840-4700.

Joe’s Kitchen Table

Join Joseph Harris, winner of Food Network’s All Star Academy, on September 12 at 194 Hammonds Ln. Brooklyn Park, MD 21225. Come for live cooking, a fun time of food, family and stories. Tickets are $35 at the door. Joseph Harris is a home cook at heart whose focus and culinary view is to get back to basics and make elevated comfort food that’s great for the heart and good for the soul. Born in 1987 and raised in Baltimore MD, Harris grew up in a family that loved to cook.

Contact Darlene Rodriguez for more information at (443) 570-1217.

Beans & Bread’s Annual Community Cleanup and Happy Hour

Join Beans & Bread’s 5th annual community cleanup and block party on September 18 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Beans & Bread Center, 400 Bond Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. Happy hour to follow.

Crime Drama

Road, Baltimore MD 21230. BYOF and cash bar; live entertainment by the Rollex Band and music by DJ Mike Jones and DJ TC Flash, “Rambling Rose” will also be there for a book signing, cash, check or charge is acceptable. For ticket information, call (443) 525-5016.

Saturday, September 26, 2015 Ailey II. Photo by Eduardo Patino, NYC.

“Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center Celebrates Billie Holiday’s Life in Music”

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Joseph Harris, winner of Food Network’s All Star Academy

Love Star Entertainment is hosting a screening of the new full feature police crime drama, Purpose. Come on September 19 at 1 p.m. to Paradox Entertainment, 1310 Russell Street, Baltimore, MD 21230. This event is open to the public. For additional information please call (410) 458-6808.

Beatrice Payne, Baltimore County Teacher, Dies at 106

By AFRO Staff

Beatrice Payne, a Baltimore County native, has died at the age of 106.

Payne grew up in Baltimore County and went on to teach in the County for more than 25 years at Sparks Elementary School. She was also a supervisor of the special education department at Towson Elementary School. She was the first black administrative assistant in Baltimore County.

Payne graduated from Bowie High School in 1926, and then went to Bowie Normal School (now Bowie State University) for her two-year teacher training certificate. She went on to receive her degree in education from Morgan State College (now University). She was a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Alpha Zeta Chapter, and active for more than 80 years in her church, Grace Presbyterian in Baltimore, MD.

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The Woodlands Golf Course Clubhouse Logan

Eunice Robinson, Belzora Joppy, Pat Stokes and LaVerne Holland are ready to tee-off

Murphy Scholarship winner Kierra Curtis

The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Baltimore Alumnae Chapter, in conjunction with the Delta Research and Educational Foundation hosted their annual scholarship golf classic fundraiser on Aug. 14 at the Woodlands Golf Course in Windsor Mill, Md. The scholarship program supports graduating high school students from Baltimore and prior scholarship recipients who display academic excellence, community service, leadership skills, and/or financial need. The DST Murphy Memorial Golf Classic is held in memory of Vashti Turley Murphy, a founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Adriene Boone, event co-chair; Monica Watkins, DST Balto. Alumni Chap. president and Krystle I. Meyers, event co-chair

Bobbie Swann, Alice Taylor, Laura Byrd and Diane Craven

Monica Watkins with the first place team: George Taylor, Charles Brown, Lerhman Dotson and Horatio Rice

Eunice Robinson, Patricia Stokes and LaVerne Holland Monica Watkins with the second place team: Kenneth Kincaid, Michael Randall and Larry Wongus

Susan Pierce and Bonnie Logan

Standing: Juanita Bellamy, Laura Byrd, Seated: Minnye King, Deborah Johnson-Ross and Alva Smith

Monica Watkins with third place team: Judson Wood, Mike Bell and Ortho Thompson

Mike Norton Carl Swann, Horatio Rice, George Taylor, Lerhman Dotson and Charlie Brown

John Stanley, Ortho Thompson, Arthur Lambert, Judson Wood, Charles Summers and Mike Bell

Mike Bell, Kirkland Gabriel and Qiana Murphy-Gabriel

Photos by Anderson Ward

Rev. Cynthia Harvin, pastor, St. James AME Church, gives the invocation

The Kappa Chapter of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority observed 75 years of sisterhood, scholarship and service at The Forum in Baltimore, Md. on July 11.

Historical photos of members and events scrolled across the screen while the members and guests laughed, clapped and reminisced about their beginnings and continued up to the present.

Special guest Baltimore Councilman William “Pete” Welch presented resolutions to the entire group of sorority sisters.

Ruth Elder, Gladys Ball and Lorraine T. Kellum Councilmann Welch presents Resolution to Mindy Rae Ellison, Chapter president

Gussie Goodman, Anne Chester and Yvette Belt Maria Robinson-Conaway, Thomasine A. Stith and Ann Foster-Ledbetter

Awanya Aglin-Brodie, Jessica Dickerson and Darcell Graham

Patricia Tunstall, presiding

Sandra Ray, chairperson, receives Resolution from Councilman Welch

Angela Powell aroused the crowd with her singing

Guest speaker Rose Hamm

Joyce Dixon

Geraldine Hooper, Evelyn Faulk, Blanche A. Williams and Joyce Dixon

Rev. Cynthia Harvin, Alan Poulson and Margaret Selby Patria A. HIll, Agnes F. Ray, Juanita Grier and Justine Bonner

All sorority members of Kappa Chapter, Iota Phi Lambda received resolutions from Councilman William “Pete” Welch

Margaret Selby shared the history with the audience

Nona Diggs, Sandra LaKay Biles, Janice Brown and Betty Wilson-Jones

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

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