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Volume 122 No. 12

OCTOBER 26, 2013 - NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Prince George’s Police Seek Public’s Help in Finding Two Suspects

Economic Quagmire Deepens for Blacks By Zenitha Prince Special to the AFRO

Man Sought in 1989 Killing Found in Georgia

About a week ago, Ernest, a 40-year-old husband and father of two girls, lost his job. For three years, the Baltimore man, who has a degree in accounting and years of experience, said he worked in a series of menial, part-time jobs because he could not find employment in his field. About a month ago, he left his janitorial job for an office position that promised upward mobility, permanency and the ever-important benefits. But the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be a train. The company that just hired him hit a rough patch and had to let him go. Now, he is on the unemployment rolls again, and he and his family are living in a transitional housing facility operated by the nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore. “As a man it hurts. I want to be a provider. I want my family to have the best. I don’t want to depend on the government or anyone for assistance,” said the African-American man, who asked not to be identified by his last name. “I want a 401 (k), I want a pension plan, I want a health insurance plan, I want to pay my bills and take care of my family. [But] I’ve been having

By Courtney Jacobs and Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writers People who knew Jesse A. Chavez of Fort Washington described him as good people, the kind of young man who was

a hard time finding permanent employment.” Sadly, Ernest’s story of unemployment, homelessness and poverty is becoming all too familiar, as reflected by a recently released U.S. Census Bureau survey on poverty, incomes and health insurance that bears witness to the ongoing toll of the Great Recession on American families. “It’s not a positive report,” said Elise Gould, economist and director of health care research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “All the trends in the data have been pretty flat. Incomes have not increased. The poverty rate has Continued on A4

Women Congressional Leaders Conduct Womens’ Empowerment Forum By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (DMd.) quickly set the tone for the Oct. 22 forum for women at First Baptist Church of

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Glenarden. “When you have an easy job, you know who to give it to. When you have a tough job, give it to a woman,” Mikulski told the 50 women who attended the gathering that was themed “When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families.”

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women navigate the modern day gauntlet of home, career and personal responsibilities faced by women. At the top of the agenda for the panel was income. With women continuing to trail men in pay, the target of economic parity looms large for women, the panelists agreed. Edwards expressed the importance of paycheck

speaker of the House of Representative said a pay gap exists even for career women from their first year out of college and through womens’ lives. “That’s like saying you work in January, February and March for free opposed to males,” Pelosi said. Income defines the choices women are allowed to make, members of the audience said. For Maureen E. Arthur,

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Assault and robbery suspect Aaron K. Williams

Sen. Barbara Mikulski Mikulski, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) were the featured speakers at the forum designed to help

fairness. “It’s important for us to have equal pay for work,” Edwards said. Noting that women make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes on average in the U.S., Pelosi, former

who just earned her bachelor’s degree in gender and womens’ studies, the road to middle-class status is bumpy. She is the first in her family to earn a college degree but it came at a steep Continued on A3

Homeland Security Chief and Federal Claims Court Chief Justice By Avis Thomas-Lester AFRO Executive Editor

DHS chief nominee Jeh C. Johnson

NAACP Names Interim Prez/CEO By Zachary Lester AFRO Staff Writer Lorraine C. Miller, an NAACP national board member and real estate executive who served as the first Black clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, has been named interim president and CEO of the NAACP. She will oversee the organization until a successor is found for retiring President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. Miller’s appointment was announced by NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock at the civil rights organization’s national board of directors meeting recently in Las Vegas. Theresa Dear, of Bartlett, Ill., was designated to head the search committee. Washington, D.C. resident Lamell McMorris will serve as the committee’s vice chair. Both are members of the

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Lorraine Miller, interim prez NAACP national board. “Lorraine is a natural fit as interim president of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,” Jealous said in a statement. “She comes into this position with two decades of experience working for the U.S. House of Representatives and an even

longer career in civil rights advocacy and policy. She will have the honor of leading the dynamic staff of this great organization.” According to a bio posted on Historymakers.com, Miller’s parents “believed ardently” in the NAACP. A devoted member of the Baptist church, she graduated from the University of North Texas in 1975 with a bachelor’s in political science. Her first job was teaching high school government. Soon, she moved east and began interning for the Maryland State Legislature. She spent 11 years working for former Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.) , serving as his executive assistant when he acted as speaker of the House of Representatives. She also worked for the late Rep. Tom Foley (D-Wash.) when he was Continued on A4

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Assault and robbery suspect Malik Savone Ussery

President Appoints Two Blacks to High Federal Positions

When you have an easy job, you know who to give it to. When you have a tough job, give it to a woman.” —Mikulski

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President Barack Obama has selected Jeh C. Johnson, who supervised 10,000 civilian and military lawyers at the Department of Defense, as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He also recently named Judge Patricia E. CampbellSmith of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to serve as the chief judge. She is the first African American to be designated. If confirmed, Johnson, who would leave private practice to serve, would come to the position with substantial experience, officials said. He would be the fourth DHS secretary and the first Black person to hold the post. Johnson, a graduate of Morehouse and Columbia Law School, served as the Department of Defense’s top lawyer. He advised Obama and two secretaries of defense and helped to develop several national security policies Continued on A3

At a recent event, Rep. Donna Edwards’ short curly ‘do appeared to be shorn a little closer on the sides and smoother on the top than usual. It’s a good look.

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NATION & WORLD Grambling University Forfeits Jackson State Homecoming Game

Jackson State’s homecoming game Oct. 19 was cancelled after opponent Grambling State’s players refused to play, the latest act of a player protest in a tumultuous season that has included no victories and the dismissal of two head coaches. As a result of the player walkout, Grambling, one of the storied programs in the history of Black college football, forfeited its scheduled match-up with Jackson State resulting in a final score of 1-0, Southwest Athletic Conference Commissioner Duer Sharp ruled. The Jackson State homecoming festivities nevertheless proceeded without a football game. The refusal of most Grambling players to even board the buses to make the two-hour trip from Grambling, La. to Jackson, Miss., to play the game is just the latest element in a Grambling player revolt this season. According to USA Today, only 22 players showed up for the scheduled departure of the team buses Friday. The players were angry about the firing of their head coach, the former Washington Redskins quarterback and Super Bowl XXII MVP Doug Williams. Williams was sacked two games into the season. The players banded together protesting what they say is a lack of respect from university officials, apparently characterized by long bus rides to games as far away as Kansas City, MO. and Indianapolis, Ind., and poor training facilities where mold and mildew were commonplace. “I’m proud of them boys. They took a stance,’’ Williams said in a text message to USA Today. Grambling President Frank Pogue issued an apology to Jackson State Oct. 19. “We have had our financial challenges this year, and unfortunately too many of our players don’t understand the degree of our fiscal challenges. We are sorry,” he wrote. Grambling (0-8, 0-5), winless in its last 12 games and has lost 18 of its last 19 games, faces a fine of $20,000 from the Southwest Athletic Conference (SWAC). Williams’ replacement was fired Thursday and former pro football standout Dennis “Dirt” Winston was named the interim coach. The team is scheduled to play Texas Southern Oct. 26 at home.

Escaped Fla. Prisoners Grilled: Who Helped You?

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Back in custody after using forged documents to escape their life sentences, two convicted killers were being grilled Oct. 20 by law enforcement authorities who said they expect to make more arrests in a case

that has given both court and corrections officials in Florida a black eye. Among the questions being posed to Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker: Who forged the papers? Who helped you run from Joseph Jenkins and Charles police? What other prisoners Walker have gotten away with this? Who was coming from Atlanta to whisk you out of Florida? “I can tell you, there will be more arrests,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey told a news conference Sunday, hours after Jenkins and Walker, both 34, were arrested without incident at a motel in Panama City. Jenkins and Walker, both 34, were captured Saturday night at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City Beach, a touristy area of putt-putt courses and go-kart tracks. Hours earlier, their families had held a news conference in Orlando — 350 miles away — urging them to surrender. The men, who had fled the Orlando area after word of their ruse became public, did not know law enforcement was on the way to Panama City. They were waiting in the motel for someone to arrive from Atlanta to take them out of state, Bailey said, adding that authorities don’t yet know who that person was or where the convicts planned to go. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is working with Georgia authorities to answer those questions, he said. Bailey’s department is pursuing a tip that someone was offering to forge documents for prisoners for $8,000. He said there are at least two other recent cases where prisoners were thwarted trying to use fake documents to escape. Meanwhile, Corrections Secretary Michael Crews scheduled a meeting with court clerks on Monday to find ways to prevent future escapes through bogus documents. The two prisoners had not been traveling together, but hooked up once word of the forgeries became public and traveled from Orlando to Panama City, said Frank Chiumento (Sha MENTO), chief of the U.S. Marshals Service for Florida and the Caribbean. Jenkins and Walker were both serving life sentences at the Franklin Correctional Facility in the Panhandle before they walked free without anyone realizing the paperwork, complete with case numbers and a judge’s forged signature, was bogus. The documents seemingly reduced their life sentences to 15 years. Jenkins was released first on Sept. 27 and registered himself as a felon Sept. 30 in an Orlando jail. Walker was released Oct. 8 and also registered himself with authorities three days later.

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cost. As a stay-at-home wife and mother of a toddler, she was confronted with staggering price tags for both child care and college tuition. “I went to eight different locations for childcare and the average price was $1,100 a month,” Arthur said. “I began asking myself do I even want to go … to school, but my husband pushed me.” She was fortunate enough to earn a scholarship and the couple was frugal enough to be able to pay off $30,000 in loans for child care in two and a half years. Still, the juggling

Nancy Pelosi noted that women make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes on average in the U.S.

By Alan King act the couple went mothers are AFRO Staffforcing Writeremployers through convinced her to delay family to be more Jennifer Hudson and other expansion for a accommodating, relatives positively identified while. “Child too, some audience care is one of the members said at reasons me and my the forum. husband will not Learning be expanding our Centers family,” she told Management the forum. Executive Director Donna Edwards Another issue Mimi Hassanein that ranked high at expressed the owns and operates importance of the forum was the three child care issue of family and paycheck fairness. centers. She is medical leave. also the mother Womens’ of three and needs, especially for single grandmother of 15 and makes

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loving to his family and considerate to his friends. He was fatally shot Oct. 21 after attempting to assist a coworker as a gunman menaced her, authorities said. “At approximately 10:00 p.m.,...an armed robber walked into the Clarion Hotel in Oxon Hill, produced a handgun, menaced a 22-year old woman who was an employee of the hotel, and demanded the hotel’s money,” said Deputy Chief Henry Stawinski, commander of the Bureau of Patrol, at a news conference Oct. 22. “Another employee, Jesse Chavez, 27, another victim, observes this and begins to come to the aid of the young woman,” Stawinski added. “The gunman is given the hotel’s money and is in the process of fleeing when he finds Mr. Chavez between him and the exit. Mr. Chavez is then killed as the gunman runs away from the crime.” The suspect, whose name had not been released by midday Oct. 23, is one of two suspects Prince George’s police released images of in recent days in an attempt to locate them. Police released a portion of a hotel surveillance camera video of the man who is suspected of killing Chavez on Oct. 22. On Oct. 19, they released a photo of Aaron K. Williams, 16, of the 1400 block of Southern Avenue in Temple Hills. Williams, who is charged as an adult, is wanted in connection with an armed robbery that took place just after 5 p.m. on Aug. 21. He was indicted on Oct. 10. Police said Williams and a second suspect assaulted and robbed a man in the 1400 block of Southern Avenue in Temple Hills. Police believe Williams used brass knuckles to assault the man, who was treated at a local hospital. The second suspect, who also has been charged as an adult, has been identified as Malik Savone Ussery, 17. Like Williams, he lives in the same block where the assault and robbery occurred, according to a police statement. Ussery was arrested

at home on Aug. 29 and was later released on bond. Also on Oct. 21, the suspect in a 1989 slaying in Landover was taken into custody in Georgia. Police said when Wayne Randolph Gilgeours, now 46, was stopped by a Georgia State Police trooper for a minor traffic violation, he showed an ID that the officer believed was fake. Using a portable fingerprint scanner, the trooper, Sgt. Charles Chapeau, determined Courtesy Prince George’s police Gilgeours real identity. He Murder suspect Wayne was arrested and jailed. Local Randolph Gilgeours authorities are seeking his extradition to Maryland. Gilgeours was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting on May 23, 1989, of Philbert Jones, 22, in the 1100 block of Nalley Road in Landover. “We are pleased to close this case and provide closure for the victim’s family so many years after they lost their loved one,” said Prince George’s police Capt. George Nichols, assistant commander of the Criminal Investigation Division. In the hotel case, a surveillance video shows a clear image of the suspect. According to NBC4 News, $300 was taken. Chavez was a restaurant manager at the hotel and worked there off and on for nine years. He was a huge Redskins fan. Two days before he died, Chavez surprised his mother, Vivian Chavez, with tickets to the Redskins-Chicago game. They had personalized jerseys made for the game. The back his was

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during Obama’s first term in office. He is credited with leading the review and authorization of the report that led to the repeal in 2010 of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy toward homosexuals in the military. At a brief news conference in the White House Rose Garden on Oct. 18, Obama urged the Senate to move quickly to confirm Johnson, who would replace Janet Napolitano, who left the post in July to head the University of California system. “From the moment I took office, Jeh was an absolutely critical member of my national security team, and he demonstrated again and again the qualities that will make him a strong secretary of homeland security,” Obama said. “Jeh has a deep understanding of the threats and challenges facing the United States. As the Pentagon’s top lawyer, he helped design and implement many of the polities that have kept our country safe, including our success in dismantling the core of al Queda and the Fatah.” The President also praised Campbell-Smith, who served as special master with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims from 2005 to 2011 and chief special master from 2011 until Sept. 19, 2012, when he appointed her judge. On Oct. 21, Obama tapped her to serve as chief judge. A graduate of Duke University and Tulane Law School,

Campbell-Smith practiced environmental regulatory law, patent infringement litigation and toxic tort litigation in private practice, according to a White House statement. “She has a long and distinguished record of service, and I am confident she will serve with distinction,” he said. Johnson hails from a family of devoted public servants. His grandfather, Dr. Charles S. Johnson was a famed sociologist and Harlem Renaissance figure who became the first Black president of historic Fisk

University. His uncle. Lt. Robert B. Johnson, was a member of the illustrious Tuskegee Airmen. “Thank you for the tremendous honor of this nomination and the trust you have placed in me to carry out this large and important responsibility as secretary of homeland security,” Johnson said. “I was not looking for his opportunity. I had left government at the end of last year and was settling back into private life and private law practice. But when I received the call, I could not refuse it.”

A source familiar with the nomination said Obama’s selection of Johnson indicates a shift away from immigration as the focus of DHS to national security as a priority. If Johnson is confirmed, four of the major players in national security would be African Americans—Obama, U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric H. Holder, U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice and Johnson. According to a senior Obama administration official, Johnson “was a key decision maker on various legal questions

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Assault Charges Against Court Clerk Bland’s Deputy Placed on Inactive Docket By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer Assault charges against Prince George’s County Chief Deputy Clerk David J. Billings III have been placed on the state’s attorney inactive docket of cases, according to court documents. Placing the case on the inactive, or stet, docket means that, unless Circuit Court Clerk Marilynn M. Bland or the state’s attorney’s office places the case on the list of active cases before Sept. 7, 2014, the case against Billings won’t proceed to trial, according to state’s attorney spokesman John Erzen.

Billings was facing second degree assault charges for an incident that allegedly occurred July 9 in Bland’s office. Bland accused her primary deputy and long-time political operative of injuring her during a dispute in her office. According to police, Bland said Billings, 76, who helped run Bland’s successful campaign for a county council position seat, entered her office uninvited at about 9:30 a.m. July 9. When she tried to open the door to let another staffer in, Billings, a doctor of divinity who has been her political confidant for more than a decade allegedly grabbed her hand and pushed it off the door handle, then pushed her

backward. A court document said she then left out of a back door and contacted authorities. Bland said her wrist was injured. She was treated on the scene by Prince George’s County fire and rescue officials for minor swelling to her wrist. Her blood pressure was elevated, according to a police report. Billings, who turned 76 the day before, has been charged with second-degree assault in the July 9 incident. He was released on his own recognizance. “Defendant is to have no violent contact with Marilynn Bland,” the police document said. Meanwhile, neither Billings nor Bland

answered calls at their offices. Several people who know Billings, who asked that their names not be revealed, expressed shock that he had been arrested for allegedly assaulting Bland. He has been among her closest confidantes since he ran her campaign for council in 2002, they said. “He’s the reason why she’s in public office,” said one lawyer who has known Billings since he came to Prince George’s County. “I am sure that he would never intentionally have injured her.” When she served on the county council, Bland drew attention when she fired her brother, who worked for her.

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Continued from A1 speaker and later for Rep. John Lewis (DGa.). Miller spent two years working as the deputy assistant to President Clinton. She held the post of director of government relations for the Federal Trade Commission and chief of the Consumer Information Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. She also served as a senior advisor to Rep. Nancy Pelosi from 2001 until 2007, when Pelosi named her clerk of the House, the first time an African American had held the post.

She became president of the D.C. chapter of the NAACP in 2004 and was elected to the NAACP National Board of Directors four years later, the online bio said. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) called Miller “a strong choice.” “Lorraine has a long history as a dedicated public servant and community advocate…” he said in a statement. “I have no doubt that her experiences will bring a wealth of knowledge to the

NAACP. I was honored to work with Lorraine during her time with the House, and I look forward to partnering with her in this new capacity as we continue the fight for economic, civic, educational, and social equality for all.” Miller will take the helm on Nov. 1. Jealous is scheduled to leave at the end of the year. Miller said she was “honored” to be appointed. “I look forward to continuing the path forged by Chairman Brock and President Jealous in the months ahead,” she said. “These are important times, and the important work of the NAACP will go on.” According to news reports, a highlight of the national board meeting was the last address of Jealous, who drew thunderous applause when he discussed the progress the civil rights organization has made during the last five years.

Economic Quagmire Continued from A1

been pretty much the same the past couple of years. [And] it’s not a good place for it to settle because it is relatively high and that’s a sign that the recession has had a devastating impact.” “The only group that has seen a return to some type of normalcy is the top 5 percent of Americans,” she added. “[But] economic growth that does not reach the vast majority of Americans is not real economic growth.” In 2012, median household income in the U.S. was $51,017, an $83 decline from 2011 and an 8.3 percent decline from 2007, the year before the recession. This followed two consecutive annual declines, according to the bureau’s Current Population Survey. Similarly, changes in the poverty rate were not statistically different for the second straight year. About 46.5 million people lived below the poverty line in 2012, representing 15 percent of the population—a 2.5 percentage increase from 2007. When those numbers are categorized by race and ethnicity, the outlook becomes even grimmer, with African Americans continuing to exist in the lowest economic stratum. “Consistent with other years, poverty rates are higher and median incomes are lower than other groups,” said Trudi Renwich, chief of poverty statistics at the U.S. Census Bureau. Over the 12-year period from 2000 to 2012, Blacks’ incomes plummeted 15.8 percent, while Whites’ incomes dropped by 6.3 percent. In 2012, Black households had a medium income of $33,321 compared to $39,005 for Hispanic households, $57,009 for White households and $68,636 for Asian households. Not surprisingly, then, a higher percentage of Blacks—27.2 percent or 10.9 million people—lived in poverty, compared to 25.9 percent of Hispanics, 11.7 percent of Asians, and 9.7 percent of Whites. Gould, the economist, called the disparities “astounding.” Sadly, however, the deep economic chasm separating the races in the U.S. has existed for a longtime, said Hilary

Shelton, chief of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau and the organization’s senior vice president for advocacy and policy. “The real sad thing is that these numbers have not changed that much. It is very disturbing to see these persistent disparities in income and poverty for African Americans,” Shelton told the AFRO. In Black meccas such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C., the trend bore out. In Baltimore, the median income for African Americans was $30,511—a 14 percent decline from 2007—30.4 percent lived in poverty and 12.4 percent were unemployed. In Washington, D.C., the trend among the general populace

“…from 2000 to 2012, Blacks’ incomes plummeted 15.8 percent, while Whites’ incomes dropped by 6.3 percent.” was good—it experienced one of the largest increases (23.3 percent) in median household income from 2000 to 2012, going from $53,995 to $66,583. But among the city’s Black residents, circumstances are bleaker. The median income of Black households dropped by 2 percent from $39,772 to $39,139 between 2007 and 2012. And, poverty rose from 22.7 to 25.7 percent. Contrastingly, in Prince George’s County, Md., AfricanAmerican poverty rates were relatively low, said the Census Bureau’s Renwich. Poverty rates among Blacks in that county rose from 8.2 percent in 2007 to 9.6 percent in 2012. Shelton said the figures are not surprising since Blacks lost 50 percent of their wealth during the foreclosure epidemic and have unemployment rates that are twice that of Whites.

“It is this reality that weighs very heavily on the NAACP’s public policy agenda,” the activist said. “We’re fighting for programs that help people at their worst levels. The challenges of working class people in America are worse than ever before.” But lawmakers—particularly Republicans on Capitol Hill—seem to lack the political will to serve the needs of the American people, Shelton added. “What this report is clearly reflective of is a lack of policies to address the crucial concerns of real American people,” he said. “Too many [legislators] are focused on the next election rather than ensuring Americans have their next meal.” For example, Shelton criticized House Republicans for their dogged attempts to repeal President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, even though it may have contributed to the slight bump in Americans that have health insurance, as the Census statistics showed. He also decried the inattention shown to the American Jobs Act, legislation that has been languishing in Congress for the past couple of years. Gould, the EPI economist, also disparaged House Republicans’ recent vote to reduce the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by 5 percent, or $4 billion a year. Food stamps are used by more than 1 in 7 Americans. “It is criminal to cut back on food stamps, especially in light of this report,” Gould said. “The idea of starving the government (cutting back on its spending) is the absolutely wrong direction for the country,” she added. Instead, there should be another stimulus “to create more jobs to ensure people at the middle and the bottom have more money in their pockets to spend and stimulate the economy.” Given the continued acrimony and partisanship in Washington, however, Gould said she is not hopeful of a quick change in the nation’s economic forecast. “I’m not optimistic,” she said. “In terms of poverty and income we have a long way to go in terms of getting back to a place where incomes are being evenly distributed across all groups.”

October 26, 2013 - November 1, 2013, The Afro-American

Howard University Homecoming 2013 The nation’s capital will turn Bison Blue when Howard University holds its Homecoming activities Oct. 22-27, with a star-studded cast of alumni returning to lead the festivities. Academy Award-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson (B.A. ‘95) and actor Lance Gross (B.F.A. ‘04) will team up as grand marshals of Homecoming, while comedian Marlon Wayans, who began his college career at Howard, will serve as the grand ambassador. “Thank you, Howard, for bringing me home again,” said Henson, star of the CBS drama “Person of Interest.” Howard University’s Homecoming is a celebration of the institution’s rich history and the community. Each year, alumni, faculty, students, family, friends, and the surrounding community journey faithfully to the Capstone to reminisce and renew their connection in celebration of Howard’s legacy. “As a proud alumnus, I am honored to be a part of Howard’s Homecoming,” said Gross, who recently starred in the Tyler Perry movie Temptation. “Each year I return to the campus, the pride and love I feel for HU grows even stronger.” The theme of this year’s celebration: “Epic: The Saga Continues” will include a mix of events including the step show and new events such as the Entertainment Power Summit. Wayans said he is excited about getting back on campus, “I’m happy to return to the Mecca and proudly participate in the Howard events. It’s gonna be a blast!” Tickets to select 2013 Howard University Homecoming events are available at Cramton Auditorium on the campus of Howard University and at TicketMaster.Com. Visit BisonHomecoming.com for more information.

Tickets available at Cramton Auditorium 7 p.m. R&B Show & Comedy Show- Eric Benet & Lil ‘Duval Howard Theater (21 and over only) Tickets $50 10 p.m. R&B Show II: Trey Songz & Brandy Cramton Auditorium Tickets $60

Sunday Oct. 27, 2013 8 p.m. Gospel Show: RevitalizedThe Promise of New Beginnings Cramton Auditorium Guest: Mary Mary Tickets $35

Alumni Events

Friday, October 25, 2013 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. HUAA Bison Give Back Capital Area Food Bank Contact: Karen Parker, devessel@gmail.com 11 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. Bison Express Homecoming Kick Off & Reception Keynote Speaker and Howard Alum Rock Newman Burr Gymnasium Contact: Bruce Williams, bhwilli1@yahoo.com 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. CEACS Alumni Reception & Open House Reading Room LK Downing Hall Contact: Dr. Mary Frances Stubbs, mstubs@howard.edu,

(202) 806-5876 * Event replaces the Saturday After-the-Game Reception 5 p.m. – Midnight College of Dentistry Class of ‘98 and ‘99 Happy Hour Chez Billy Bistro 3815 Georgia Ave., NW Contact: Dr. Donna GrantMills (202) 806-0361 7 p.m. College of Arts & Sciences Dinner Cruise Spirit of Washington Tickets $150 For info visit, www. coas.howard.edu/ homecoming/index.html Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. School of Social Work Alumni Association Tailgate School of Social Work 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. College of Arts & Sciences 7th Annual Alumni Pre-Game Reception Main Campus 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. HUAA Tent UGL Rooftop Contact: (202) 238-2346, e_d_diagne@howard.edu 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Alumni Relations Pavilion Tailgate Howard Center Lot 5:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Class of 60’s 9th Annual Homecoming Reunion Party Blackburn Center Restaurant Tickets $50 Contact: Paul W. Smith, (301)412-4103 pwellsmith@ aol.com 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Young Alumni Event Westin Hotel, 24th & M Street NW Sunday, October 27, 2013 11 a.m. Alumni Sunday at the Chapel Cramton Auditorium

Howard debaters

The Howard-Hampton Debate

‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws: Amend or Repeal? By Shakaria Buckson Special to the AFRO from Howard University

The rivalry between Howard University and Hampton University heated up Oct. 18 when the two HBCUs debate teams squared off in a battle of intellect. The teams tackled the controversial topics of social media privacy and Stand Your Ground laws. The verbal joust took place at Cramton Auditorium on Howard’s campus and featured intense rhetoric, quick-fire responses and even a few personal barbs as both teams sought to win over the crowd. The Howard-Hampton “special exhibition” debate began with the coin flip by moderator Gregory Carr, Ph.D., a Howard professor. Hampton won the toss, allowing the team to choose its topic. The Hampton competitors opted to argue in favor of repealing Stand Your Ground laws, which gained notoriety when they were widely discussed after the slaying of Black teenager

Trayvon Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla., by George Zimmerman. Hampton debaters described the law as a failed policy. “[The law] opens the door of misconceptions

The coin toss and prejudice amongst Americans,” Hampton debater

Ivana Thomas said. Howard debaters, in their uphill battle to defend the laws, said the goal should be to amend Stand Your Ground legislation, not to repeal them outright, because of selfdefense concerns. “At times, people are threatened for their lives,” said Howard debater, Abraham Williamson, who is also president of the team. The teams also debated whether prospective employers should have access to students’ social media accounts. Howard debater Jarrell Blakemore said the policies infringe on students’ personal lives and privacy. At stake wasn’t a giant trophy or a fat check. This contest was strictly about bragging rights. In exhibitionstyle debating, neither side is selected the winner. The debate left the major question of the day unanswered: Which of the two HUs is the “Real HU.” The rivalry continues.

Student Events

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 6:30 p.m. Fashion Show I: TempusEden To Exodus Cramton Auditorium Tickets $30 9:30 p.m. Fashion Show II: TempusEden To Exodus Cramton Auditorium Tickets $35 Friday Oct. 25, 2013 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. International Yardfest: F.A.M.E. Forever A Memorable Experience The Main Yard Performers: Big Sean, BoneThugs-N-Harmony, Juicy J, A$AP Ferg Tickets $5 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. Greek Step Show: Intransigent-The Battle of Dynasties DAR Constitution Hall Host: Kevin McCall Guest Performer: Migos Tickets $45 10:30 p.m - 12:00 a.m. R&B Show I: An Evening with Erykah Badu Cramton Auditorium Tickets $60 Saturday Oct. 26, 2013 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Howard University Homecoming Parade: March of Pride Georgia Ave. Grand Marshalls: Taraji Henson, Lance Gross Grand Ambassador: Marlon Wayans Ticket information: Free, open to public 1 p.m. Howard University Homecoming Football GameHoward vs. Morgan Greene Stadium

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Federation of the Blind to Host Resource Day

The Lighthouse Center for Healing to Hold Open House

October is National Disabilities Month. In celebration, the National Harbor Chapter/ National Federation of the Blind of Maryland (serving Prince Georges County) is presenting its Annual Resource Day on Oct. 26 for blind and low vision residents in the area. Come and experience the gifts, skills, technology, services and education the blind community has to offer. There will be over 20 vendors and services available at this event. The event will be held at the Colmar Manor Town Hall in Colmar Manor, Md. at 11 a.m.

The Lighthouse Center for Healing in D.C. will host an Open House on Oct. 28 to inform the community about the free services that are offered for survivors and victims of sexual assault and or domestic violence. For more information: 202-742-1720

Community Fall Festival

Thanksgiving Fall Prayer Breakfast

Friendship Public Charter School, which operates six public charter schools in the District of Columbia will host a Friendship Community Fall Festival on Oct. 26 from 12 to 2 p.m. at the Friendship Southeast Elementary Academy Play Field. Activities include live music, festival food, face painting and outdoor games and will feature local vendors and free raffle gifts and prizes. Vendors who are interested in displaying goods and services are encouraged to do so for a minimum donation of $25. This event is free and open to the public. For more information: 202-281-1703 or email: events@friendshipschools.org

Zion Baptist Church and Prayer Ministry in Northwest D.C. will host the annual Fall Prayer Breakfast Nov. 9 from 10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. in the A. J. Edwards Fellowship Hall. The guest preacher will be Rev. Dr. C. Que Hickerson, Pastor of Springfield Baptist Church. For more information: 202-722-4940

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October 26, 2013 - November 1, 2013, The Afro-American

OPINION

Standing Up for Democracy

Last week, after House Republicans had held the country hostage for 16 days in support of their Tea Party faction’s ideological crusade against “Obamacare,” reason and patriotism prevailed on Capitol Hill. Presidential resolve, congressional Democratic leadership and bipartisan support from more moderate Republicans managed to avoid default on America’s full faith and credit and returned the federal government to Congressman functioning. Elijah Cummings Although wounded, for the most part our nation’s economy and standing in the world remain intact. Essential services are now being restored for our children, seniors, veterans and business owners who have suffered needlessly for weeks. I was deeply gratified by the opportunity to work with Maryland Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, as well as my Democratic House colleagues, in assuring that federal workers will be paid their salaries and receive a pay raise as well as their hard-earned benefits. Our expansion of access to health care for all has been preserved – and President Obama would be fully justified in claiming victory. In political terms, such a claim would be justified. Nearly threequarters of all Americans disapproved of the Tea Party’s shutdown strategy, and the Republicans’ overall approval rating is the lowest in recent memory. Yet, as our President has observed, there can be no claim of victory when so many of our countrymen and women have suffered and our nation has been so needlessly injured. A steady and effective resolve to prevent those who have caused so much unnecessary pain from hurting us again must be our foremost priority. Last week, we avoided default and reopened the federal government, but those achievements, however necessary, came with a cost. We agreed to fund the government through Jan. 15, but only at the “sequester” funding levels that have been proven inadequate in economic terms. We achieved flexibility in our efforts to avoid default, but only through Feb. 7. How well this partial victory benefits our country will depend, in large part, upon the negotiations of a bipartisan, House-Senate Budget Conference Committee that is to “provide a path to fiscal responsibility” by Dec. 13.

During the next two months, Republicans and Democrats must come together to compromise on a long-term budget that supports Americans’ highest priorities: jobs and economic growth. By nature, we are an optimistic nation whose hopes for the future are supported by a historical record of challenges that our people and government have overcome. Yet, we must temper our optimism with a realistic assessment of the challenges that we face. For all the news accounts of the Republicans’ “unconditional surrender” to the president’s unwavering determination, and for all the promise that the future may hold, there are hard facts that we must keep in mind. For example, 144 House Republicans (62 percent of the majority party) voted against the budget and debt funding compromise, while only 87 members of the House Republican Caucus voted to reopen the government and avoid default. Those are not numbers that promise a willingness to compromise. The obstacle, of course, is the Tea Party. Even for those who disagree with ObamaCare, the only view of reality that could justify defaulting on the full faith and credit of the United States was a short-term political analysis dominated by gerrymandered Republican congressional districts, Tea Party ideologues and their billionaire funding machines. It is important for everyone, Democrats and more mainstream Republicans alike, to fully understand this undemocratic alternative reality that the Tea Party is pushing. Media images tend to suggest a broad, citizen-based movement. In fact, fewer than one-quarter of all Americans approve of the Tea Party’s philosophy and tactics. Many of the Tea Party’s everyday followers are simply people who fear the future and want to return to a way of life that may or may not have ever existed for most people. Billionaire funders and cynical candidates are playing upon their fears in efforts to leverage their way to national dominance.

This local political leverage alarms mainstream Republicans who are fearful of losing their positions to more radical right wing candidates. This is how a minority of the House of Representatives - which, in turn, is only one of the three branches of our government – was able to partially shut down the federal government and risk default on America’s full faith and credit. It is the true threat to democracy, to majority rule and to policies that benefit more than a privileged few. The devastation that our nation just suffered revealed the ultimate sources and objectives of this undemocratic threat. Now, as President Obama has been urging us, those of us who place the good of the country first–Democrats and Republicans alike--must come together in reasonable, pragmatic compromise. That is the shared, patriotic vision that saved our nation from default – the vision that can preserve all that we have worked so hard to achieve in the challenging days to come. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Mediation Will Solve HBCU Funding Inequities

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown

Over the past seven years, even as other states have cut higher education budgets, Maryland has led the way in ensuring the strength and diversity of our public colleges and universities. We believed – and continue to believe – that college should be accessible to every Marylander who wants to get an education and prepare themselves for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We’ve supported that belief by being the only state in the nation to freeze in-state tuition for four years in a row. As a result, we’ve seen a 22 percent increase in bachelor’s degrees – along with a 49 percent increase in associate’s degrees – awarded by all of our public colleges and universities. We’ve also made record investments in our historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). These schools have been the foundation on which so many Marylanders have built their futures–whether

it’s studying business at Morgan State, preparing for a career in Coppin State’s award-winning IT program, working every day in Bowie State’s cutting-edge mobile journalism lab, or conducting research in one of the UMES offshore fisheries that travel the entire Eastern seaboard. Our HBCUs must remain a critical part of Maryland’s economy and future, as they train and educate our next generation of leaders. But for all of our efforts, successes, and accomplishments, I know that there is still work to be done. We were reminded of that recently when a Federal District Court ruled that while we were upholding our responsibility to appropriately fund our HBCUs, Maryland hadn’t done enough to avoid the unnecessary–and potentially damaging – duplication of academic programs among our universities. I agree

with the court in this regard; we must do all that we can to strengthen the unique academic offerings at our HBCUs, and avoid duplicating our efforts (and our expenses) by creating academic programs whose demand is being met by existing institutions. I believe that this ruling is an opportunity for Maryland to look to the future. I look forward to working together with leaders from across our state in order to find common ground through mediation. And while it will likely be a long and difficult process, I know that by working together, we can achieve our essential mission to educate all of Maryland’s students, and allow our already strong higher education system to continue to thrive. Anthony Brown is Lt. Governor of the state of Maryland.

Judge Blake Issued a Bold, Risky and Wise Opinion Maryland’s higher education system has a long and interesting history with racial issues. Although it is true that much of the nation has toiled in the vineyard of achieving equal opportunity in education, Maryland has a special place in controversies over such matters. The most recent dispute that has landed in Federal court involves The Coalition for Equality and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education et al. v. Maryland Higher Education Commission. Judge Josè F. Anderson Catherine C. Blake issued the decision in this matter from the United States District Court of Maryland a few weeks ago. In that ruling, the Maryland higher education system was called into question because of issues with the allocation of certain popular academic programs to Historically White Institutions (HWIs) and alleged unfairness of financing those Historically Black Institutions (HBIs). The suit was brought by individual students, alumni and others who complained Maryland engaged in unequal treatment at campuses like Morgan State University and Bowie State University. The dispute led to a six-week trial in January 2012. In October of that year, Judge Blake heard extensive oral arguments from the parties regarding the evidence presented before her in Court. The coalition plaintiffs, seizing on a strategy reminiscent of that first used by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in the 1930s, built their case to demonstrate the inequality of higher education that had taken place for decades in the Maryland. In her mammoth, 60-page opinion, Judge Blake outlined both the historical challenges in Maryland higher education and the current status of historically Black state institutions. Judge Blake’s ruling,

going back to 1890, described Maryland’s higher education system as operating both an exclusionary and a dual system from its beginnings, providing inferior schools for its Black citizens. She explained that despite several commission reports and studies throughout the decades that followed the 1930s “separate but equal” litigation, Maryland had never solved the problems of inequality in higher education. Judge Blake pointed out that during the 1930s the state education system was clearly hostile to integration. The system and its regents made purchases of schools so that Black students would not seek to be admitted to the University of Maryland’s main campus at College Park. The system spent years fighting the admission of students to all parts of the University including its professional schools, instead opting to pay students tuition to “out-of-state” schools that would allow integrated education. In this most recent case, Judge Blake identified program duplication as very harmful to the survival of historically black institution. She also cited the crowding of higher education institutions in the Baltimore area as presenting additional challenges over the decades since the civil rights movement. In its most attention-getting language in the opinion, Judge Blake compared the situation in Maryland, because of program duplication, as being no better than that in the state of Mississippi two decades ago. Media headlines across the country reported the case as a victory for the historically Black institutions. Citing statistical disparities in the number of nonminority students attending such institutions, Judge Blake made it clear that Maryland was falling short in its effort at desegregated higher education. During the trial before Judge Blake, the University System of Maryland chancellor stated that he believed the state should do better to advance its efforts in higher education toward minorities. Judge Blake’s opinion was a split victory. The state was found not to have discriminated in funding but the judge did question the defendant’s policies on program allocation to the various campuses. She indicated that some glimmers of hope were demonstrated between the relationships of Salisbury University a majority institution, with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore a (HBI). Of all the system schools, those two campuses have done the best job of sharing

programs. Of course the geographical isolation of those campuses makes such efforts easier to accomplish. On the one hand Judge Blake did not order money damages for the plaintiffs in the suit. However, she did make a finding that the state system needs to correct what she determined to be an unfair distribution of popular programs. She found that the HBIs did not receive an adequate share of popular programs that would help strengthen HBI enrollment. The opinion offers several challenges for the future. Competition from private schools, online training, and other innovations in providing higher education have changed the choices that people of all backgrounds have available. Technology and the educational needs of different disciplines and regions have caused programs to come and go, depending on the demand for specialized skills. At the same time the achievement gap for minority communities has widened and financial access to higher education has become more difficult for everyone. The allocation of scarce public higher education dollars has called for demands for greater scrutiny of all public universities by Maryland officials. Judge Blake’s invitation for the parties to mediate a resolution to the dispute was a sound suggestion; she noted that “if mediation was not successful further proceedings will be scheduled so that the court may evaluate any competing proposals.” Mediation makes sense, because recent Supreme Court opinions have called into question how much power a federal judge can use to solve local problems in the area of education. Like two judges of the Old Testament, Solomon, who threatened to divide a baby in order to identify the true mother or Deborah whose courage brought decades of peace to the land of Israel, Judge Blake used a measure of wisdom by requiring the parties to seek resolution to this difficult problem before she takes direct action. The parties should try to settle this issue in a higher education world that is a moving target. Delay in resolving this case may be costly to the collective future and stability of higher education in Maryland at all of its public institutions. Josè Anderson is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

The Afro-American, October 26, 2013 - November 1, 2013

Maya Angelou Accepts Mailer Center Lifetime Award Her body weak, her voice rich and strong, Maya Angelou sang, lectured and

reminisced as she accepted a lifetime achievement award Thursday night from the

Norman Mailer Center. The 85-year-old author, poet, dancer and actress was

honored during a benefit gala at the New York Public Library, the annual gathering

organized by the Mailer Center and writers colony . Seated in a wheelchair, she

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Maya Angelou was a vivid presence in dark glasses and a sparkling black dress as she marveled that a girl from a segregated Arkansas village could grow up to become a literary star. “Imagine it,” she said, “a town so prejudiced black people couldn’t even eat vanilla ice cream.” Angelou was introduced by her former editor at Random House, Robert Loomis, and she praised him for talking her into writing her breakthrough memoir, the million-selling “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” The key was suggesting to her that the book might be too hard to write. The people who knew her best, she explained, understood that “if you want to get Maya Angelou to do so something, tell her she can’t.” Angelou, a longtime resident of North Carolina, will be back in Manhattan next month to collect an honorary National Book Award medal. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz and the late author-journalist Michael Hastings also received prizes Thursday. Hastings’ widow, Elise, teared up as she accepted a journalism award on behalf of her husband, who died in a car accident last summer at age 33. She recalled that Hastings, best known for a Rolling Stone story about the U.S. war in Afghanistan that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, felt a kinship with for the brilliant and troublesome Mailer. When the couple fought, she said, he would point out that in “comparison to Mailer he was a great husband,” a reference to a notorious incident in which Mailer stabbed his wife. Hastings was a “dissident, a cynical idealist and a breathtaking writer,” she said. The dinner event was the fifth gala for the Mailer center, named for the celebrated author who died in 2007 and dedicated to helping writers “across all genres who seek artful ways to express themselves and provoke meaningful discussion about our society.” Previous honorees include Toni Morrison, Keith Richards and Robert Caro.

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October 26, 2013 - November 1, 2013, The Afro-American

Ebenezer’s Youth Steppers share some of their moves Bishop Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Choir sing

Mime ministry members perform

Rev. Grainger Browning and JoAnn Browning offer thanks and appreciation

Ebenezer Choir Director Ricky Dillard and Music Minister Byron Cage

Ebenezer liturgical dancers minister in dance

As Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning Jr. and Rev. Dr. JoAnn Browning celebrated the 30th pastoral anniversary at Ebenezer AME Church, they could reflect on humble beginnings. The church in Fort Washington, Md. has grown from 17 members in 1983 to

Ty Tribbett, director of Ebenezer’s Youth and Young Adult choirs, leads the choir in musical selections

an 8,000-member congregation with nearly 100 ministries. The Brownings and the church members observed the milestone with an evening of song, step performances, music from Bishop Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Choir and more.

The Love Fellowship Choir performs

Cover of 30th Anniversary Celebration Program guide

Throughout the celebration, relatives , political, community and religious leaders recognized the Brownings’ contributions to the congregation, the community, the denomination and the world.

Congregation and community celebrating the Brownings’ 30th anniversary

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority members were among the thousands of African-American community leaders who covered Capitol Hill offices as advocates during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 43rd Annual Legislative Conference. On Sept. 18 and 19, Zeta sorors conducted two days of health care advocacy training, strategic planning and legislation updates on issues including voting rights and gun violence.

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Melissa Jones of Missouri meets with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)

Zeta International President Mary B. Wright, second from left, at the NPHC Greek Council of Presidents Forum

The women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority from around the nation convene on Capitol Hill to advocate for health care equality.

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Phi Beta Sigma member, stops to chat with his sisters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), grandson of the late Rep. Julia Carson (D-Ind.), who was also a Zeta Phi Beta member, addresses Zetas during their advocacy session

Chonya Davis Johnson, America’s 5 Minute Advocate, talks about communicating with members of Congress and their staff

T. Diane Surgeon, Zeta elder care program director; Bob Blancat, national coordinator of the Elder Justice Coalition and Zeta Phi Beta International President Mary B. Wright

Phi Beta Sigma member Allen Lewis II and Sylvia Lewis with Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.)

Zetas from the D.C. Metro area meet with Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) to discuss maternal child health initiatives Courtesy Photos

The Afro-American, October 26, 2013 - November 1, 2013

Krazy about Keke! Keke Palmer The “Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story” Interview by Kam Williams

KP: Being a fan is exactly what made me want to do this film. I wanted to be a part of telling the story of a favorite group of mine.

Born in Harvey, Illinois on Aug 26, 1993, Lauren Keyana Parker has been wowing audiences since the tender age of 9. Keke first received great acclaim when she starred as the title character in the sleeper hit Akeelah and the Bee, opposite actors Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett. Keke followed that powerful performance with lead roles in The Longshots, Shrink and Joyful Noise. She’s also done voiceover work in animated features like Ice Age: Continental Drift, Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom and Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare. Here she talks about her latest outing as Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas in Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story, a VH1 original movie.

KW: How did you prepare for the role? Is it harder to play a real-life person than a fictional character? KP: I just watched a lot of old footage. I also spent a lot of time with Chilli and just observed her.

Kam Williams: Hi Keke, thanks for another interview. Keke Palmer: No problem, Kam. Glad to be here! KW: What interested you in “Crazy Sexy Cool?” Were you a fan of TLC as a kid?

KP: Heaven is For Real. KW: What was your best career decision? KP: To pick projects that affect me. KW: If you could have a superpower, which one would you choose? KP: Teleportation.

KW: How would you describe TLC’s legacy in one word? KP: I don’t think there’s a word to describe it, really. They really inspired a generation of women to be confident gogetters. KW: What message do you think people will take away from “Crazy Sexy Cool?” KP: You can do anything as long as you don’t stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart. KW: What was the last book you read?

KW: What key quality do you believe all successful people share? KP: No real fear of limitations. KW: If you had to choose another profession, what would that be? KP: Hairstyling. KW: With so many classic films being redone, is there a remake you’d like to star in?

KP: The Wiz! KW: What advice do you have for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps? KP: Follow your heart’s truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love. KW: Thanks again for the time, Keke, and best of luck with all your endeavors. KP: Thank you, Kam. Airdates for Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story: — Tues. Nov. 5 4:00 PM ET/PT on VH1 — Sun. Oct. 27 8:00 PM ET/PT on VH1 — Wed. Oct. 30 9:00 PM ET/PT on VH1

Abandoned Kids in Gritty NYC Saga The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete Film Review by Kam Williams It’s the last day of school for eighth grader Mister Winfield (Skylan Brooks), who comes home to the projects where he lives with his single-mom (Jennifer Hudson), Gloria, a hooker with a heroin habit. His best friend, 9 year-old Pete (Ethan Dizon), isn’t any better off, since his mother (Martha Millan) works out on the corner for the same abusive pimp (Anthony Mackie). When both their moms disappear, it looks like the housing cops will cart them away to Riverview, an institution with a horrible reputation in terms of foster care. So, the boys decide to hide in Mister’s apartment, occasionally venturing down to the tough streets where they must forage and fend for themselves over the course of a particularly sweltering New York City summer. This is the opening salvo of The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, a gritty, slice-of-life saga directed by George Tillman Jr. (Notorious). The compelling coming- of-age drama plays out like an inner-city answer to The Kings of Summer, a similarly-themed story in a suburban setting. Here, although Pete is Korean-American, Mister, who is black, refers to his BFF as “my nigga.” And as the two unsupervised adolescents negotiate their way around the ‘hood, no one seems to take much notice of their age or ethnic differences.

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Meanwhile, despite being 3,000 miles away from California, aspiring actor Mister harbors a secret dream of auditioning at an upcoming casting call with the hopes of landing a role that will enable them to relocate to Hollywood. He prepares for his make-or-break moment by reenacting a scene from Fargo that he’s memorized verbatim. However, before that opportunity arrives, a host of frightening ordeals lay in wait in an unforgiving ghetto littered with the scum of the earth. Will he survive, let alone escape to L.A.? If so, it’ll make for one heck of a “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” essay come September. A picture which proves it’s hard in the ’hood not only for pimps, but for kids, too. Very Good (HHH) Rated R for profanity, ethnic slurs, drug use and sexuality

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Ethan Dizon and Skylan Brooks in The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete Running time: 108 minutes Distributor: Lionsgate Films

Student Events

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 6:30 p.m. Fashion Show I: Tempus-Eden To Exodus Cramton Auditorium Tickets $30 9:30 p.m. Fashion Show II: Tempus-Eden To Exodus Cramton Auditorium

Tickets $35 Friday Oct. 25, 2013 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. International Yardfest: F.A.M.E. Forever A Memorable Experience The Main Yard Performers: Big Sean, Bone-Thugs-NHarmony, Juicy J, A$AP Ferg Tickets $5 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. Greek Step Show: Intransigent-The Battle of Dynasties DAR Constitution Hall Host: Kevin McCall Guest Performer: Migos Tickets $45 10:30 p.m - 12:00 a.m. R&B Show I: An Evening with Erykah Badu Cramton Auditorium Tickets $60 Saturday Oct. 26, 2013 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Howard University Homecoming Parade: March of Pride Georgia Ave. Grand Marshalls: Taraji Henson, Lance Gross Grand Ambassador: Marlon Wayans Ticket information: Free, open to public 1 p.m. Howard University Homecoming Football Game- Howard vs. Morgan Greene Stadium Tickets available at Cramton Auditorium 7 p.m. R&B Show & Comedy Show- Eric Benet & Lil ‘Duval Howard Theater (21 and over only) Tickets $50 10 p.m. R&B Show II: Trey Songz & Brandy Cramton Auditorium Tickets $60 Sunday Oct. 27, 2013 8 p.m. Gospel Show: Revitalized- The Promise of New Beginnings Cramton Auditorium Guest: Mary Mary Tickets $35 Alumni Events Friday, October 25, 2013 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. HUAA Bison Give Back Capital Area Food Bank Contact: Karen Parker, devessel@

gmail.com 11 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. Bison Express Homecoming Kick Off & Reception Keynote Speaker and Howard Alum Rock Newman Burr Gymnasium Contact: Bruce Williams, bhwilli1@ yahoo.com 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. CEACS Alumni Reception & Open House Reading Room LK Downing Hall Contact: Dr. Mary Frances Stubbs, mstubs@howard.edu, (202) 806-5876 * Event replaces the Saturday Afterthe-Game Reception 5 p.m. – Midnight College of Dentistry Class of ‘98 and ‘99 Happy Hour Chez Billy Bistro 3815 Georgia Ave., NW Contact: Dr. Donna Grant-Mills (202) 806-0361 7 p.m. College of Arts & Sciences Dinner Cruise Spirit of Washington Tickets $150 For info visit, www.coas.howard.edu/ homecoming/index.html Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. School of Social Work Alumni Association Tailgate School of Social Work 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. College of Arts & Sciences 7th Annual Alumni Pre-Game Reception Main Campus 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. HUAA Tent UGL Rooftop Contact: (202) 238-2346, e_d_diagne@ howard.edu 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Alumni Relations Pavilion Tailgate Howard Center Lot 5:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Class of 60’s 9th Annual Homecoming Reunion Party Blackburn Center Restaurant Tickets $50 Contact: Paul W. Smith, (301)412-4103 pwellsmith@aol.com 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Young Alumni Event Westin Hotel, 24th & M Street NW Sunday, October 27, 2013 11 a.m. Alumni Sunday at the Chapel Cramton Auditorium

October 26, 2013 - November 1, 2013, The Afro-American

ARTS & CULTURE

T.D. Jakes Rebukes ‘Preachers of L.A.’

Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American – 1.1 million viewers tuned in for Oxygen’s new docu-series “Preachers of L.A.” making it the biggest Wednesday night season premiere on Oxygen to date and the network’s second highest rated series ever. But one person who wasn’t tuning in was T.D. Jakes. The mega church pastor took a moment to denounce the show during his Sunday sermon at The Potter’s House. “Now, I know you been watching that junk on TV. I want to tell you right now, not one dime of what you’re sowing right now will buy my suit. I want you to know my car is paid for. I want you to know I got my house on my own. I want you to know I’m not bling-blinging. I am not shake and bake. I had money when I came to Dallas and I plan to have some when I leave. You did not buy what I got. I had it when I came here. You know I had it when I came here. The devil is a lie! I have sold enough books and produced enough movies. I don’t need your offering to pay for this little slimy suit. So I rebuke that spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.” If there was any question about exactly who or what Jakes was referencing he told his congregation, I’m not from L.A. I’m from Dallas!” T.D. Jakes

The Art of Aniekan Udofia

into profession as more people sought his unique Aniekan Udofia drawings for personal and Washington D.C.’s most public works projects. He captivating artwork is not always has been commissioned found inside the gleaming art by MuralsDC, an antigalleries along the Mall or in graffiti program funded the Dupont Circle art galleries. by the Department of Often it is found on brick and Public Works and the mortar, painted against the city’s D.C. Commission on the buildings and alley ways. Arts and Humanities and This is where you will find Words Beats & Life, the masterful artwork of Aniekan an organization which George Washington Udofia. provides youth with an Udofia’s vibrant and lifelike artist outlet for expression large-scale paintings and murals have been spotted on buildings through graffiti, djing, B-boying and slam poetry. Udofia’s and in alleys in nearly every quarter of the city. His unique style illustrations have also been featured in multiple urban of drawing, his fluid characters and their explosive and animated publications such as The Source, XXL, and Vibe magazine. presence has made Udofia an underground celebrity of the street art Udofia’s murals can be seen all over the city: Four Men, world. a mural of radio host Donnie Simpson, the Godfather of “Art makes a random place a landmark”, said Udofia of street Go-Go, Chuck Brown, comedian Bill Cosby, and President art. “I love that I can create something that wasn’t there before, that Barrack Obama painted alongside Ben’s Chili Bowl on U now brings people together. Now two people walking down the street northwest; George Washington Silenced, painted just street, both seeing the mural, might stop and have a conversation above the marquee of the Shangri-La Day Spa on the corner of 15th and U Streets, N.W.; a mural of Duke Ellington about it. It helps bring the community together.” painted high on the Duke Ellington Building at 2121 Ward Udofia, 37, spent nearly a decade, as a child, in his family’s Place N.W.; Frederick Douglas located on Good Hope Road hometown in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. As a child, his mother in Southeast; The Girl with the Pencil, located on Third gave him dozens of coloring books. “She noticed that I would Duke Ellington Street and Florida Avenue, N.W. knock them out so quickly, “ Udofia recalled. He began working with other mediums - drawing pencils, acrylics, and eventually Udofia recently participated in the Heineken Mural aerosol. Project, Sept. 8-13, where he completed a mural of Marvin Gaye, located at 713 S St., N.W. Udoifa drew artistic inspiration from the lifelike portraits of Rembrandt, the oblong shapes near the Shaw- Howard University Metro station. Currently, Udoifa is working with Art and cubic characters of Picasso and both the movement and stories told through the paintings of Whino, a D.C.- based art gallery, to participate in their Richmond Mural Project, in which Ernie Barnes. His parents saw his raw talent as more of a hobby. He never attended art school; twelve artists are given two weeks to create original murals for Richmond, Va. Udoifa has been he received no formal training. “I just had a strong love for art”, Udofia said. given two walls, located at 535 N. Second Street and 205 E. Marshall Street. Displaying his paintings in art shows and galleries, his passion for art soon developed By Ariel Medley AFRO Staff Writer

AWTT Models AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH of Courageous Citizenship What happened to me isn’t as bad as what happened to the guard [the prison guard who abused me], because this system has turned him into a beast, and it will turn his children into beasts. - Clyde Kennard, 1962 At Americans Who Tell the Truth we look for stories that inspire deep compassion and then action. Clyde Kennard’s is one of these. A decorated Korean War veteran, Kennard returned home and attempted to finish his education at nearby Mississippi Southern College. He was blocked from desegregating the school. When he persisted in his attempt to matriculate, Kennard was framed on a robbery charge and sent to prison. In prison Kennard contracted cancer and was refused treatment. He died just months after his release in 1963. Dorie and Joyce Ladner joined efforts to exonerate Kennard. The addition of his portrait to this series on the 50th anniversary of Kennard’s death is meant to honor the example of his courage so that it can teach us how to live with more love, honesty, and decency. - Robert Shetterly, Artists Americans Who Tell the Truth AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH AND TEACHING FOR CHANGE Invite you to

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AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

SPORTS

Could LeBron James Star in the NFL? By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk

Since the beginning of his National Basketball Association (NBA) career, fans and pundits alike have marveled at the athleticism of LeBron James. With a solid frame and cat-quick agility, the physically gifted James has dominated in his hardwood career on the way to two championships. But as a standout wide receiver in high school, the question has always been posed: Could James make the switch to the National Football League (NFL)? The question was addressed again in a Twitter question-and-answer session with James followers late in the week. According to several sources, James admitted online to a throng of followers, “I wanna play one NFL game before it’s over.” But could James have as much success on the gridiron as he does on the hardwood? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

He’d be so fast and powerful rushing off the edge that opposing coaches would have nightmares trying to gameplan on stopping him from ripping their quarterbacks apart.

Riley: I don’t know, I’d much rather see LeBron play offense. Besides, having him play up on the line of scrimmage, or in the trenches, as they say, could result in injuries. If you put him at one of those speed positions, like wide receiver, where he’s probably already bigger and more solid than many of the guys trying to cover him, the chance of injury decreases. Let LeBron play in space on a football field and I’m sure the results would be outstanding, though it would probably take him one offseason to get adjusted to the game before Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons he started to make an impact. His high school days are a long way away but the football instincts and skills he developed over that –LeBron James time would still serve him well. Not only would he make the position. Or could you transition but he would imagine James playing center- be dominant at it. fielder as a 6-foot-8-inch free safety? The possibilities Green: One thing that I would be scary. wouldn’t worry about with LeBron is injuries. I’ve seen Green: I agree, I think this dude take some of the James could pull off a stellar nastiest falls and just hop up off NFL career, but I don’t think the court like its nothing. We’ve he would be playing receiver. all seen LeBron suffer ankle When I see LeBron at 6-foottwists and knee bumps that 8, 260 pounds, all muscle, would usually have a player I think of the defensive end sidelined for a season. Instead, position. There’s been some he’s up off the floor and freak athletes that have played dunking on somebody within DE in the NFL, including seconds. The dude doesn’t former Pro Bowlers like seem to ever get injured, and Julius Peppers at 6-foot-7, if he does he never shows it. 280 pounds or Jason Taylor at That kind of toughness is built 6-foot-6, 255 pounds. That’s for interior line play. And I the mode that LeBron fits. wouldn’t worry about a lack of stardom coming from playing defense. The defensive-end/ outside linebacker position is probably one of the sexiest positions in football because it produces what everyone likes to see – sacks. America loves touchdowns, but we also love to see quarterbacks get destroyed. And LeBron James would be a complete monster, delivering hit after hit for our entertainment.

“I wanna play one NFL game before it’s over.”

Riley: Without a doubt. LeBron is easily the most gifted athlete of his time in the mold of a Deion Sanders or Bo Jackson, two exceptional two-sport athletes. Although we don’t have any proof of James being able to not only play, but succeed, in the NFL, it’s hard to doubt how he wouldn’t be successful when you consider his endurance, agility and size. With a little extra time inside an NFL weight room, I don’t see why LeBron couldn’t dominate at the tight end or wide receiver

Howard Beats FAMU to End Four-Game Losing Slump

By Perry Green AFRO Sports Editor Freshman running back Anthony Philyaw ran for a career-best 121 yards and two touchdowns as the Howard Bison easily handled Florida A&M, 21-10, on Oct. 19 at Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. The win ended a four-game slump that

11 Yr. Old Wrestler Takes Maryland by Storm By Courtney Jacobs AFRO Staff Writer Nasir Wilkinson from Bowie, Md. is the number one ranked wrestler in Prince George’s County and in the state of Maryland for his age group. Wilkinson is only 11 years old. It all started when he was 5 years old and wanted to participate in a sport. But he wasn’t old enough for team sports. So he chose wrestling –and has never looked back. In addition to winning multiple Maryland youth state titles, Wilkinson won the 2x Dixie Nationals championship in Georgia, the National United Association for Youth (NUWAY) National championsip and is the Northeast National Champion in Pennsylvania. At his first wrestling try-out he was encouraged to keep at it by wrestling coach Nasir Wilkinson Charles Cherry, who said Nasir “has what it takes.” any other 11 year old. He loves playing Six years later, Wilkinson has a video games, watching television and collection of over more than 50 trophies hanging out with friends. He is also a very and medals, about 90 percent of them “picky eater” and loves chicken wings. first- place trophies. He is big enough and Wilkinson’s main focus besides old enough to play football now and he is wrestling is school. Wilkinson attended on a pee-wee team but his main focus is Crofton Elementary in Anne Arundel wrestling. County. Wilkinson is now currently in While other kids idolize baseball, sixth grade and being homeschooled. He football and basketball superstars, Nasir would like to attend McDonough Prep High looks up to Jordan Burroughs, an Olympic School in Owings Mills. gold medal winner. Burroughs won a gold medal for wrestling at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Nasir is so into wrestling that he attended a wrestling rally in Georgia in August where he was able to add his voice to the chorus of criticism and protest calling for the restoration of wrestling to the Olympic Games. Such rallies were common throughout the athletic world in the wake of the Feb. 12 IOC decision to drop wrestling, along with several other competitions from its list of core sports for the 2016 Olympics Games. Therefore, Wilkinson was overjoyed when Nasir and his role model, Olympic gold medal medalist, the February decision Jordan Burroughs was overturned late this summer. His mother Deidra Wilkinson, a Ricardo Wilkinson, Nasir’s father, plays management analyst at the Department a key role in Nasir’s success so far. Each of Energy, told the AFRO: “What I love week Wilkinson, an information technolgy about wrestling is that it is the only sport technician at the federal Food where if you and Drug Administration, lose, it’s your reviews with Nasir what the boy own fault. has covered during his three Wrestling has practice sessions that week. taught Nasir Nasir’s father told the AFRO: that he is the “I love the physical and mental master of his discipline it teaches him outside own destiny. of what I do as a father. It’s a If he wants it, very tough sport although I’m he has to go sure he can really be successful out there and at it. He hasn’t even reached get it.” a confident phase yet within Although himself and he’s done just fine Wilkinson thus far. When he really gets loves it, I see nothing but success for wrestling, he him.” is just like had clouded Howard’s start to the season. Howard took control of the game offensively early on by pounding the ball away on the ground. All three of Howard’s touchdown came by running the ball. Sophomore running back William Parker scored the first touchdown on a one-yard dive, but it was Philyaw who set up that first score with a 62-yard dash, the longest run of the freshman’s career. Philyaw went on to score

two touchdowns, both scored in the first half, helping the Bison take a 21-10 lead into halftime. Howard’s defense held off FAMU in the second half to decide the game at 21-10. FAMU was held to just 227 total yards on offense, while Howard was able to record 254 yards through their running game alone. Howard interim head coach Ray Petty said after the game that he was proud of how well his offensive line

blocked against FAMU. “We started the season with question marks about the offensive line,” Petty said. “But I think that they have played well all season and they were exceptional today. They came out in the first quarter and completely dominated the Florida A&M front seven. Our running backs were able to find the holes. They played a big role in keeping the chains moving and chewing up time late in the game.”

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM992 Lillian Winstead AKA Lillian D. Winstead Decedent William A. Bland, Esq. 1140 Connecticut Ave. Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Pamela Y. Scott-Holmes, Joseph S. Winstead and karen E. Winstead whose addresses are 2763 31st Place, NE, Washington, DC 20018, 1134 Barnaby Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20032 and 70 Oakridge Dr. Ellenwood GA 30294 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Lillian Winstead AKA Lillian D. Winstead, who died on December 31st, 2012 without a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11th, 2014 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Pamela Y.Scott-Holmes Joseph S. Winstead Karen E. Winstead Personal Representatives TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue10/25/13 Oct 22 10/11/, 10/18, Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13-0007051 IN RE: Tristian Melvin Cole Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Tristian Melvin Cole having filed an application for judgment changing the name from Tristian Melvin Cole to Olivia Nicole Carwright-Cole and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 18th day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 29th day of November, 2013 at 2:30 pm. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that: the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of finsl hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service. that application must send the applicatiion for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the D.C. Chief of Police, 300 Indiana Avenue, N.W., Room 5080, Washington, D.C. 20001, the Department of Corrections and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/declaraton of service. the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the current probation, parole or supervisory release officer personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service. SO ORDERED JUDGE 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM555 Olivia Wright Decedent Alan Solomon 7910 Woodmont Ave Suite 1430 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Alan Solomon, whose address is 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1430 Bethesda, MD 20814, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Olivia Wright, who died on September 8th, 2010 withouta will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 25th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 25th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Alan Solomon Personal Representative

TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF TYPESET: TueWILLS Oct 22 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign 15:20:49 EDT No. 2013 2013FEP114 Date of Death March 30th, 1993 Zula McGraw Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL R E P R E S E N TAT I V E AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Jessye P. Miller whose address is 13506 Messenger Place, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 was appointed personal representative of the estate o f Z u l a M c G r a w, deceased,by the register of Wills Court for Monroe County, State of Pennsylvania,on September 25th, 2013 Service of process may be made upon Bradley A. Thomas, Esq. 1629 K Street, N.W. Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006-1631 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: a one-third undivided interest in the real property located at 1210 Shepherd Street, N.W., identified for tax purposes as Lot 0032 in Square 2907. 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, N.W. ,3rd Floor, Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Jessye P. Miller Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American TYPESET: Tue 11/8/13 Oct 22 10/25, 11/1, Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1068 Thelma Cohen Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street, Ste. 300 Washington, D.C. 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO

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AND NOTICE TO 20001-2131 20001-2131 20001-2131 UNKNOWN HEIRS Administration No. Administration No. Administration No. James Cohen, whose 2012ADM968 2013ADM1007 2013ADM1010 address is 4105 22nd Elizabeth B. Scott Cecil R. Hall Edward G. Robinson Avenue, Temple Hills, Decedent Decedent Decedent MD 20748, was apNOTICE OF NOTICE OF NOTICE OF pointed personal repreAPPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, APPOINTMENT, sentative of the estate of NOTICE TO NOTICE TO NOTICE TO Thelma Cohen, who died CREDITORS CREDITORS CREDITORS on May 9th, 2013 without AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO AND NOTICE TO a will and will serve withUNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS UNKNOWN HEIRS out Court supervision. All Jose Harris, whose ad- Joan E. Wilson, whose Ann P. Hall whose adunknown heirs and heirs dress is 1518 Van Buren address is 6603 Insey dress is 2601 22nd St. whose whereabouts are St. NW Washington, DC Street, Forestville, MD NE Washington, DC unknown shall enter their 20011, was appointed 20747, was appointed 20018, was appointed appearance in this personal representative personal representative personal representative proceeding. Objections of the estate of Edward of the estate of Elizabeth of the estate of Cecil R. to such appointment G. Robinson, who died B. Scott, who died on Hall, who died on shall be filed with the on December 23rd, 2010 June 22, 2008 with a will December 27th, 2010 Register of Wills, D.C., without a will, and will and will serve with Court without a will and will 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd serve without Court su- supervision. All unknown serve without Court suFloor Washington, D.C. pervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose pervision. All unknown 20001, on or before April heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unheirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their 25th, 2014. Claims whereabouts are unagainst the decedent known shall enter their a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s known shall enter their appearance in this shall be presented to the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections undersigned with a copy to such appointment (or to such appointment (or to the Register of Wills or to such appointment (or to the probate of deto the probate of defiled with the Register of to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be cedent´s will) shall be Wills with a copy to the cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of filed with the Register of undersigned, on or be- filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Wills, D.C., 515 5th Wills, D.C., 515 5th fore April 25th, 2014, or Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Street, N.W., 3rd Floor be forever barred. PerW a s h i n g t o n , D . C . Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . sons believed to be heirs W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 20001, on or before April or legatees of the de- 20001, on or before April 2 5 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s 2 5 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s 25th, 2014. Claims cedent who do not reagainst the decedent against the decedent against the decedent ceive a copy of this notice shall be presented to the shall be presented to the shall be presented to the by mail within 25 days of undersigned with a copy undersigned with a copy its first publication shall undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills or so inform the Register of to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of filed with the Register of filed with the Register of Wills, including name, Wills with a copy to the Wills with a copy to the Wills with a copy to the address and relationundersigned, on or beundersigned, on or beundersigned, on or beship. fore April 25th, 2014, or fore April 25th, 2014, or fore April 25th, 2014, or Date of Publication: be forever barred. Per- be forever barred. Perbe forever barred. PerOctober 25th, 2013 sons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs Name of newspaper: or legatees of the de- or legatees of the deor legatees of the deAfro-American cedent who do not recedent who do not recedent who do not reWashington ceive a copy of this notice ceive a copy of this notice ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter by mail within 25 days of by mail within 25 days of by mail within 25 days of 15:25:31 EDT 2013 James Cohen its first publication shall its first publication shall its first publication shall Personal so inform the Register of so inform the Register of so inform the Register of Representative Wills, including name, Wills, including name, Wills, including name, address and relationaddress and relationaddress and relationTRUE TEST COPY ship. ship. ship. 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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 de12:46:44 EDT 2013 cedent´s shall be LEGALwill) NOTICES filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 18th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Susie T. Bennafield Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM401 Josephine Witherspoon Teague AKA Josephine W.Teague Decedent William A. Bland, Esq. 1140 Connecticut Ave, NW, #1100 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara L. Lucas, whose address is 1495 Newton S t r e e t , N W. # 2 0 5 , Washington, DC 20010, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Josephine Witherspoon, who died on January 18th, 2012 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: Octiober 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Barbara L. Lucas Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM478 Desiree Knights-Taylor Decedent Barbara J Hargrove 1816 Powder Mill Road Silver Spring, MD 20903 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Barbara J. Hargrove, Esq. whose address is 1816 Powder MIll Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20903, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Desiree knights-Taylor, who died on January 21, 2012 without a will and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 4th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 4th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Barbara J. Hargrove, Esq. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13-0006666 IN RE: Luiza Athayde De Araujo Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME Luiza Athayde De Araujo

having filed a application for judgment changing the name from Luiza Athayde De Araujo to Luc Athayde De Araujo and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 2nd day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican Newspapers, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than two weeks after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM949 Mariakutty Nondimackal Sebastian Decedent C/O Richard J. LInk 200-A Monroe St, Suite 220 Rockville, MD 20850 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS E l i z a b e t h S . Savarimuthu whose address is 5006 Sargent Road, NE, Washington, DC 20017was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mariakutty N. Sebastian, who died on February 15th, 2013 withouta will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 12:45:28 2013 11, 2014.EDT Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Elzabetth S. Savarimuthu Personal Representative TRUE TEST Tue COPY TYPESET: Oct 15 REGISTER OF WILLS 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM985 Edward M. Winslow Decedent Mack C. Allen 3300 Wheeler Road, SE Washington, DC 20032 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Tu e s d a y W i n s l o w, whose address is 4885 Queens Chapel Terrace, NE Washington, DC 20017, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Edward M. Winslow, who died on November 28, 2012 without a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s 12:47:28 2013 against EDT the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Tuesday Winslow Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/11, 10/18, 10/25/13

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM984 Delores M. Piper Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS M o n i c a l o u i s e P i p e r, whose address is 4317 1st Street, SE #2, Washington, DC 20032 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Delores M. Piper, who died on June 8th, 2013 with a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their 12:44:14 a p p e a r EDT a n c e 2013 in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Monicalouise Piper Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY

REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 10/11, 10/18. 10/25/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM199 Ernest Sims Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Jean M. Crosby , whose address is 911 Applewood Street, Capitol Heights, Maryland 20743, was were appointed personal representative of the estate of Ernest Sims, who died on January 13th, 2012 with a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th 12:58:34 EDT 2013 Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 11 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 11th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 11th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Jean M. Crosby Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1014 Allen C. Bennafield Decedent Melinda M. Bolling, Esq. 2108 31st Street, SE Washington, DC 20020 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Susie T. Bennafield, whose address is 3419 24th Street, NE Washington, DC 20018, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Allen C. Bennafield, who died on March 18th, 2013 with, a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014. Claims

TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/18, 10/25, TYPESET: Tue 11/1/13 Oct 22 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2011ADM32 James Lee Banks Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Nathan A. Neal, Attorney at Law, whose address is 3108 Chery Road, NE, Washington, DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of James Lee Banks, who died on September 27th, 1993 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. 12:46:03 EDT Objections 2013 to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 18th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Nathan A. Neal, Attorney at Law Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/18, 10/25, 11/1/13

TYPESET: Tue Oct 15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2012ADM220 Grover Lee Ware Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Roy Lowery, Jr., whose address is 4169 Alabama Ave SE, Washington 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Grover Lee Ware, who died on April 27th, 2001 with a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appeara n c e 2013 in this 15:53:26 EDT proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18th, 2014 or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 18th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Roy Lowery, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/18, 10/25/ 11/2/13

ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than two weeks after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of ColumbiaEDT at 500 Indiana TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 19:22:20 2013 TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 15:54:43 EDT 2013 Avenue NW Washington DC LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES 20001, on the 18th day of November, 2013 at 2:30 pm. Superior Court of If any person desires to opSuperior Court of pose this application, that the District of the District of person or his or her attorney District of Columbia District of Columbia must be present at the hearPROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION ing or file written detailed Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. objections five (5) days in ad20001-2131 20001-2131 vance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail Administration No. Administration No. a copy of the applicant or ap2013ADM682 20123ADM1025 plicant’s counsel; and it is furMildred J. Willis Marian L. Hinson ther AKA Decedent SO ORDERED Mildred Willis Alan D. Titus, Esq JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 Decedent 10/18, 10/25, 11/1/13 2846 Meadow Lane

Melinda M. Bolling, Esq 2108 31st Street, SE Washington, DC 20020 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Carole A. Johnson, whose address is 5100 Pierce Avenue, College Park, MD 20740, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mildred J. Willis AKA Mildred Willis, who died on March 21, 2013 with a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014 Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 18th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Carole A. Johnson TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: TueWILLS Oct 22 18:48:49 EDT 2013 Personal REGISTER OF Representative 10/18, 10/25, 11/1/13

Falls Church, VA 22042 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kenneth Kelly, whose address is 51 Jurocko Avenue, Somerset, New Jersey 08873, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Miarian L. Hinson, who died on June 2, 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 de15:55:37 EDT 2013 cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 18th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Kenneth Kelly Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1032 Annie O. Morgan AKA Annie Olivia Morgan Decedent Theodora H. Brown, Esq 3127 Cherry Road, NE Washington, DC 20018-1611 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James M. Morgan, whose address is 403 Bogota Dr. Ft. Washington MD 20744, was appointed personal representativeof the estate of Annie O. Morgan AKA Annie Olivia Morgan, who died on September 6, 2013 with a will and will serve with without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are un16:19:28 EDT 2013 known shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 18th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 18th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 18th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter James M. Mogan Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/18, 10/25, 11/1/13

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lication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 2nd day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican Newspapers, a newspaperEDT of general 12:43:29 2013 circulation of NOTICES the District of LEGAL Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than two weeks after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 20th day of November, 2013 at 2:30 pm. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaratiion of service. SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Oct 15

TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF TYPESET: TueWILLS Oct 15 10/18, 10/25, 11/1/13 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. Administration No. 2008ADM1252 Estate of Lydia E. Yates Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Frank G. Yates, Jr. for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 107 is filed in this Court within thirty days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court will take the action hereinafter set forth. Upon proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution by affidavit of the witnesses to the will, the Court will enter an order admitting the will to probate and appointing one or more personal representatives. In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the Court of due execution, the court will enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate and appointing one or more personal represenatatives. Date of First Publication October 18th, 2013 Names of Newspapers: Washington Law Reporter Washington AFRO-AMERICAN

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13-0006727 IN RE: Mona’ Michelle Nelson Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Mona’ Michelle Nelson having filed an application for judgment changing the name from Mona’ Michelle Nelson to Ireyonna Mona’ Michelle Nelson and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 4th day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, to be completed within 30 days of filing of the application in Afro-American , a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than two weeks after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 22nd day of November, 2013 at 3:30 pm. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further SO ORDERED that notice be sent to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or by certified mail and that proof of service be made by filing the affidavit/declaration of service in name change cases. SO ORDERED TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 JUDGE 10/18, 10/25, 11/1/13

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION 12:32:27 EDT Washin g t o2013 n, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM1006 Merdock Aloysius Schofield Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Elise Schofield, whose addres is 11008 Lake Arbor Way, Bowie , MD 20721 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Merdock Aloysius Schofield, who died on January 17th, 2013 without a will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 25th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 25th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Elise Schofield Personal Representative

Claude W. Roxborough Sr. 705 Irving Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20010 Signature of Petitioners/Attorney Registerof Wills Clerk of the TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 18:50:32 EDT 2013 Probate Division 10/18, 10/25/13 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue 11/8/13 Oct 22 Superior Court of 10/25, 11/1, the District of Columbia Superior Court of Civil Division Case No.13-0006630 the District of IN RE: District of Columbia Antonio Omaro PROBATE DIVISION Mosley Washington, D.C. Applicant 20001-2131 ORDER OF Administration No. PUBLICATION 2013ADM999 CHANGE OF NAME Amos Winston Antonio Omaro Mosley hav- Lewis Jr. ing filed an application for Decedent judgment changing the name NOTICE OF from Antonio Omaro Mosley APPOINTMENT, to Takea Yandi Mosley and NOTICE TO having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the CREDITORS notice required by law in such AND NOTICE TO cases; it is by the Court this UNKNOWN HEIRS 30th day of September 2013, William Cullen Lewis, Sr. hereby ORDERED, that a copy of and Ester Y. Lewis, this Order be published once whose addresses are a week for three (3) consecu- 1632 Crittenden St. NE, tive weeks to completed Washington, DC 20017; within 30 days of filing of the 2316 Countryside Dr. Silapplication in Afro-American Newspaper, a newspaper of ver Spring MD 20905 general circulation of the Dis- were appointed personal trict of Columbia; and it is fur- representatives of the ther estate of Amos Winston ORDERED, that the publica- Lewis Jr. , who died on tion must began no later than December 8th, 1992 two weeks after the filing of without a will. All unthe application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL known heirs and heirs HEARING on this application whose whereabouts are to change name will be held unknown shall enter their in Judge-in-Chambers, appearance in this Room 4220 in the District of proceeding. Objections Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC to such appointment 20001, on the 18th day of shall be filed with the November, 2013 at 2:30 pm. Register of Wills, D.C., If any person desires to op- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd pose this application, that Floor Washington, D.C. person or his or her attorney must be present at the hear- 20001, on or before April ing or file written detailed 2 5 t h , 2 0 1 4 . C l a i m s objections five (5) days in ad- against the decedent vance of the hearing with shall be presented to the

December 8th, 1992 without a will. 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 Wills, D.C., LEGALofNOTICES 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 25th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 25th, 2014, or 15:59:55 EDT 2013 Perbe forever barred. sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Willian Cullen Lewis, Sr. Esther Y. Lewis Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER TYPESET: OF TueWILLS Oct 22 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM553 Hattie Coffee Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street, Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Gloria Miller, whose address is 2220 16th Street, N.W. Washington, DC was appointed personal representative of the estate of Hattie Coffee, who died on October 22nd, 2011 without a will and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their 15:27:46 EDT appeara n c e 2013 in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 25th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 25th, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Gloria Miller Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2013FEP111 Date of Death September 2, 20123 Sharon L. Winslow Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL R E P R E S E N TAT I V E AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Lori R. Roane and Casey C. Gordon whose address is 402 Lonsdale Court, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 was appointed personal representatives of the estate of Sharon L. Winslow, deceased, by the Register of Wills Court for Prince George’s County, State of Maryland, on September 16, 2013. Service of process may 15:33:49 be madeEDT upon2013 Terri A. Carter 5303 2nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: One-Quarter interest 5027 13th Place, NE 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, N.W. 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. Lori R. Roane Casey C. Gordon Personal Representatives TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 15:45:13 10/25/, 11/1, 11/8/13 Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 2013CA7054 IN RE: Oscar Rene Larios Fuentes Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Oscar Rene Larios Fuentes having filed an application for judgment changing the name from Oscar Rene Larios Fuentes to Rosy Renee Larios Fuentes and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 18th day of October 2012, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL TRUE TEST COPY HEARING on this application to change name will be held REGISTER OF TYPESET: TueWILLS Oct 22 15:34:50 EDT 2013 10/25/, 11/1, 11/8/13 i n J u d g e - i n - C h a m b e r s , Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC Superior Court of 20001, on the 29th day of the District of November, 2013 at 2:45 pm. District of Columbia If any person desires to oppose this application, that PROBATE DIVISION W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . person or his or her attorney must be present at the hear20001-2131 ing or file written detailed Administration No. objections five (5) days in ad2010ADM236 vance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail Barbara A. Dade a copy of the applicant or apDecedent plicant’s counsel; and it is furNOTICE OF ther APPOINTMENT, ORDERED, that: NOTICE TO the applicant must send the application for change of CREDITORS name of an adult and notice AND NOTICE TO of final hearing to the apUNKNOWN HEIRS plicant’s creditors personally Nathan A. Neal, Esquire, or by registered or certified whose address is 3108 mail and show proof of serC h e r r y R o a d N E , vice by filing the affidavit/ declaraton of service.

Washington, DC 20018 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Barbara A. Dade, who died on January 2nd, 2010 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 de15:29:48 EDT 2013 cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . 20001, on or before April 25th, 2014. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before April 25, 2014, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of Publication: October 25th, 2013 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Nathan A. Neal, Esquire Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13

SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: 22 10/25,Tue 11/1,Oct 11/8/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 13-0006872 IN RE: Timi Rotimi Omokehinde Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Timi Rotimi Omokehinde having filed an application for judgment changing the name from Timi Rotimi Omokehinde name to Timi Ahmad Akins and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 9th day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican Newspaper, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 27th day of November, 13th 2013 at 3:00 pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adutl and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of ser-

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pm.If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further LEGAL that NOTICES ORDERED, the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adutl and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaration of service SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 2013CA7053 IN RE: Michelle Devon Tensley Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME

Michelle Devon Tensley having filed an applicatiion for judgment changing the name from Michelle Devon Tensley to Devon Michael Tensley and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 18th day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that a copy of this Order be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, in The AfroAmerican, a newspaper of general circulation of the District of Columbia; and it is further ORDERED, that the publication must began no later than 12 days after the filing of the application; and is further ORDERED, that the FINAL HEARING on this application to change name will be held in Judge-in-Chambers, Room 4220 in the District of Columbia at 500 Indiana Avenue NW Washington DC 20001, on the 29th day of November, 2013 at 3:00 pm. If any person desires to oppose this application, that person or his or her attorney must be present at the hearing or file written detailed objections five (5) days in advance of the hearing with Judge-in-Chambers and mail a copy of the applicant or applicant’s counsel; and it is further ORDERED, that the applicant must send the application for change of name of an adult and notice of final hearing to the applicant’s creditors personally or by registered or certified mail and show proof of service by filing the affidavit/ declaratioin of service. SO ORDERED JUDGE TYPESET: Tue Oct 22 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13

Superior Court of the District of Columbia Civil Division Case No. 2013FSP IN RE: Audrey Rene Thicklen Applicant ORDER OF PUBLICATION CHANGE OF NAME Audrey Rene Thicklen

having filed an complaint for judgment changing Iman Alyse Thicklen name to Iman Muslin Gaye and having applied to the court for an Order of Publication of the notice required by law in such cases; it is by the Court this 18th day of October 2013, hereby ORDERED, that all persons concerned show cause, if any there be, on or before the 25th day of November, 2013, why the prayers of said complaint should not be granted; provided that a copy of this Order be publishd once a week for three(3) consecutive weeks before said day in the AFRO newspaper. SO ORDERED JUDGE 10/25, 11/1, 11/8/13

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Photographer Harvey Stein documents the humanity and spirit of the people of Harlem in 166 beautiful photographs taken over 22 years…. The images are mostly close-up portraits that reveal the friendliness and warmth of this city’s inhabitants... What may at first appear to be a casual encounter becomes a personal, intimate record, a meaningful collaboration between photographer and subject. Stein’s photographs capture and celebrate the Harlem spirit.” — Excerpted from book jacket

By Harvey Stein Schiffer Publishing

Book Review by Kam Williams “With a population of nearly half a million people, Harlem is America’s most celebrated African-American neighborhood. Its rich past and historical importance have made a unique contribution to our national popular culture…

Harlem has been a predominantly African-American neighborhood since the dawn of the 20th Century, when the mass migration by descendants of slaves from the rural South flooded many a metropolis above the Mason-Dixon Line. By the 1920s, this section of Manhattan had blossomed into an artistic mecca and home to many black intellectuals, writers, painters, musicians and dancers. Spanning that decade, the Harlem Renaissance marked a period of explosive creativity aborted only by the onset of the

Great Depression. Nevertheless, in the wake of World War II, the region was resurrected as a hub of cultural, religious and commercial activity, and continued to play that pivotal role over the intervening decades Today, however, Harlem is at risk of losing its identity because of the influx of Whites as a consequence of the gentrification which has accompanied skyrocketing real estate prices. For this reason, Harvey Stein’s Harlem Street Portraits couldn’t be more timely. The book is basically a collection of striking, black & white photographs which the talented shutterbug took of residents between 1990 and 2012. His impromptu snapshots capture colorful subjects with a tremendous range in terms of fashion tastes, personal interests and even emotions. From a Freemason rocking a funky fez, to a flag-waving patriot, to a boy hugging his basketball, to an aspiring ballerina in a tutu, to churchgoers strutting in their Sunday best, this visual history of a rapidly-disappearing demographic weaves a telling tapestry of a once-cohesive community.

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