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Lessons from Women’s History for 2016

By Rep. Elijah Cummings

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Flint Water Crisis Brings Religious Groups Together

By Tatyana Hopkins Howard University News Service The First Presbyterian Church of Flint sits majestically along the historic cobblestone streets in the core of the city’s downtown area.

The grand, Gothic limestone structure with huge Tiffany stained glass windows and cavernous interior was erected in 1929 and spans a block and somehow seems to age the area’s much younger, yet dilapidated skyscrapers.

Just a few blocks away is the much, much

smaller The Muslim House, a single-family home that was transformed into a mosque in 1996. It begins where the cobblestone ends, marking the end of revitalization efforts and the local college’s territory. It blends in with the surrounding homes, except for the tarp covering a leaking roof and a sign with the mosque’s name in green.

Though the mostly White church and predominately Black mosque are in most ways dramatically different, they both share a common passion and mission -- to help residents struggling with the city’s much-publicized water crisis.

As city and state officials struggle to find a way to furnish residents with clean water, religious organizations have been the leading forces in helping to inform and provide the community with resources when government solutions may have presented obstacles.

Across the city, more than 35 churches have joined in the effort, providing everything from water to baby formula. A key caveat to their help, they said, is that unlike the city, the churches have never required recipients to produce identification.

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Concerns Surround Merger of MD University Institutions

By Saschane Stephenson Special to the AFRO In Maryland, we occasionally pat ourselves on the back filled with a sense of pride that we are not at all like “them.” “Them” meaning traditional southern states and all the bizarre fixings served up alongside southern charm.

Here, it seems in some contexts we in Maryland don’t spew overt racism, instead

systems and agents promote, craft, and enact policies and practices that perpetuate segregation. Such may be the case with two legislative bills currently advancing in the 2016 Maryland General Assembly Session—Senate Bill 1052 and House Bill 1607.

At first glance the bills titled, University of

Philanthropy Drives D.C. Rolls-Royce Dealer Thomas Moorehead

By Cherylyn Harley LeBon Urban News Service The only thing harder than making a fortune is giving it away wisely, said the world’s first Black Rolls-Royce dealer.

Thomas Moorehead’s modest childhood in segregated Monroe, Louisiana, offered no clue to the luxury he eventually would market to others and savor himself; nor did his preparation for academic life.

Moorehead was just a few credits shy of his Ph.D. in social work at the University of Michigan when a fraternity brother named James Bradley Continued on A4

Maryland Strategic Partnership Act of 2016, present a glowing future for a merger of certain higher education institutions under a University of Maryland banner.

However, it almost willfully ignores the detrimental impact on Historically Black Institutions, like Morgan State

University and Coppin State University, in light of still unresolved 2006 lawsuit brought against the state of Maryland alleging the state operated segregated higher education institutions.

The Court found that the state of Maryland in its higher education policies has never truly abandoned segregation

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Meeting the Pope Changed My Life

By Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway Special to the AFRO In 2013 I studied at the Istituto Maria Santissima Bambina and visited many sites of religious significance.

One of the most profound experiences of that trip was my visit to the Catacombs.

These are the places where the church was driven underground by the Roman Empire into the cemeteries to Continued on A3

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The Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway is the Senior Pastor at Union Baptist Church shakes hands with the Pope.

Black Women Struggle with Hair Loss Photo by André Chung

Thomas A. Moorehead is CEO and President of RollsRoyce Motor Cars Sterling, and also owns the BMWMini dealership in Sterling as well as Harley Davidson Washington DC.

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com

New research presented at the American Academy of Dermatology’s 74th Annual meeting shed light on the causes of increased hair loss among African-Americans. At the conference, held March 4-8 at the Walter E.

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Washington Convention Center, the prevalence of hair loss was presented as largely ignored and viewed as an aesthetic problem rather than medical, and one few sufferers consider dermatological.

Dermatologist Yolanda M. Lenzy, a clinical associate from the University of Connecticut, said the number one cause of hair loss in Continued on A4

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NATION & WORLD

Michelle Obama Wears Jason Wu Gown for Canada State Dinner

By The Associated Press

flower-shaped appliqués.

Like Mrs. Obama, Grégoire-Trudeau is considered a fashion icon whose event outfits are widely anticipated and celebrated.

Both women also sported springtime looks earlier on March 10 for a welcome ceremony at the White House.

Obama chose a sleeveless green and black frock by Toronto-born Tanya Taylor. Grégoire-Trudeau wore a knee-length red and pink dress by Matis.

With the dress by Wu, who grew up in Canada, the first lady continues her tradition of wearing dresses to White House dinners by designers representing the nation being honored.

Mrs. Obama stunned at the China State Dinner last fall in a custom-made gown by Chinese-American designer Vera Wang. The first lady chose a floaty frock

by Japanese-born Tadashi Shoji for the Japan State Dinner last spring.

The designers of President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau’s tuxedos were not revealed.

Father of Slain Chicago 9-Year-Old Tyshawn Lee Charged in Shooting of 3 People

By The Associated Press

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wait to greet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, on March 10, for a state dinner.

First lady Michelle Obama is embracing spring with the strapless floral gown she wore to the White House dinner for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The deep blue dress by Jason Wu, who also designed the first lady’s inaugural gowns, featured a playful flower pattern and asymmetrical draping. Mrs. Obama wore her hair in full, loose waves, with long bangs swept to one side.

Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, also went with the floral theme, wearing a bright purple dress by Canadian designer Lucian Matis adorned with coral

The father of a 9-yearold Chicago boy who was shot and killed in November has been charged with shooting three people.

The Chicago Tribune reports that 25-year-old Pierre Stokes was charged with three counts of (Chicago Police Department) aggravated battery with a Pierre Stokes, father of firearm and one count of 9-yr-old Tyshawn Lee, unlawful use of a weapon who was shot and killed in by a felon in connection.

November.

Stokes is accused in a shooting that occurred on March 8, the day authorities announced charges against 22-year-old Dwright Boone-Doty in the Nov. 2 killing of Stokes’ son, Tyshawn Lee. The boy was one of 400 homicide victims in Chicago last year, but the fourth-grader’s death shocked the city because, according to police, he was killed because of his father’s gang affiliation.

Gunmen, 1 with Rifle, Worked as Team to Kill 5 at Pittsburgh Suburb Cookout

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A woman reacts at the scene of a deadly shooting in Wilkinsburg, Pa., March 10. Police say multiple people were killed in the shooting late on March 9 and several were injured in suburban Pittsburgh.

Two gunmen working as a team fatally shot five people and critically wounded two others at a backyard cookout, with one attacker using a high-velocity rifle to shoot all the victims in the head as they were driven in his direction, a prosecutor said Thursday.

“The murders were planned. They were calculated, brutal,” District Attorney Stephen Zappala said.

The gunmen appeared to have targeted one or two of the victims, said Zappala, who added that they hadn’t ruled out drugs as a motive.

Four women, one of them pregnant, and a man were killed as they rushed toward the back porch and an alleyway to seek cover as a gunman fired a .40-caliber pistol at as many as 15 adults who were playing cards and having a late-night cookout in the yard.

That steered the victims toward the rear porch and door of the house, where an accomplice armed with a 7.62 mm rifle, similar to an AK-47, shot them from behind a chain-link fence less than 10 feet from the porch, Zappala said.

Neither weapon has been found.

The man with the rifle aimed high throughout the barrage of bullets. Four of the dead were found on the tiny back porch.

“They were all head shots,” Zappala said.

The dead included three siblings, Brittany Powell, 27, who lived at the home; Jerry Shelton, 35; and Chanetta Powell, 25. The other two were Shada Mahone, 26, and Tina Shelton, 37.

Zappala said Brittany Powell was pregnant and due to give birth in May. “It looks like right now they were all fleeing toward the back door of the residence when the second gunman

fired from the side of the yard,” said Lt. Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County homicide unit. “They all seemed to get caught on the back porch.”

Carl Morris and his son, Robert, were getting ready to leave their house across the street when they heard a volley of three shots, a pause and then gunfire lasting more than a minute.

Robert Morris said he saw children run onto the small back porch and heard someone scream, “Mommy, Mommy!”

“It was terrible,” the younger Morris said.

The Morrises said Brittany Powell lived at the home with a daughter who was about 6 or 7. They said the house was considered a “safe haven” in the neighborhood.

Wilkinsburg is a poorer, largely blighted suburb just east of Pittsburgh that is known for drug trafficking and gun violence. But neighbors described the street on which the shooting occurred as generally quiet.

After the shooting, groups of residents gathered on the street, some of them sobbing and saying they lost family members.

Trump Calls Off Rally Due to Security Concerns

By The Associated Press

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Protesters against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump chant after it was announced that a rally for Trump was canceled due to security concerns, on the campus of the University of Illinois on March 11 in Chicago.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump canceled one of his signature rallies on March 11, calling off the event in Chicago due to safety concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take place.

The announcement that the billionaire businessman would postpone the rally until another day led a large portion of the crowd inside the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion to break out into raucous cheers.

Meanwhile, supporters of the candidate started chanting “We want Trump! We want Trump!”

There were isolated physical confrontations between some members of the crowd after the event was canceled.

There was no sign of Trump inside the arena on the college campus, where dozens of UIC faculty and staff had petitioned university administrators to cancel the rally. They cited concerns it would create a “hostile and physically dangerous environment” for students.

Before the announcement the event wouldn’t take place, a handful of intense verbal clashes took place between Trump supporters and protesters as the crowd waited for his arrival. For the first time during his White House bid, the crowd appeared to be an equal mix of those eager to cheer on the real estate mogul and those overtly opposed to his candidacy.

When one African-American protester was escorted out before the event started, the crowd erupted into chants of “Let them stay!”

Veronica Kowalkowsky, an 18-year-old Trump supporter, said before the event started that she had no ill will toward the protesters — but didn’t think they felt the same way.

“I feel a lot of hate,” she said. “I haven’t said anything bad to anyone.”

Hours before the event was scheduled to start, hundreds of people lined up outside the arena at the University of Illinois at Chicago — a civil and immigrant rights organizing hub with large minority student populations. Trump backers were separated from an equally large crowd of anti-Trump protesters by a heavy police presence and barricades.

Some Trump supporters walking into the area chanted, “USA! USA!” and “Illegal is illegal.” One demonstrator shouted back, “Racist!”

One protester, 64-year-old Dede Rottman of Chicago, carried a placard that read: “Build a Wall Around Trump.

I’ll Pay for it.”

However, 19-year-old Rusty Shackleford of Lombard, in line to attend the Trump rally, said he was there to “support the man who wants to make America great again.”

Chicago community activist Quo Vadis said hundreds of protesters had positioned themselves in groups around the arena, and that they intend to demonstrate right after Trump takes the stage. Their goal, he said, is “for Donald to take the stage and to completely interrupt him. The plan is to shut Donald Trump all the way down.”

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Flint

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“Churches have always been the back bone of this community,” said Kim Skaff, director of women’s ministries and newly appointed “water coordinator” at First Presbyterian.

Drinking water became contaminated in April 2014 when the city changed its water source from the Detroit Water and Sewage Department to the Flint River to save money.

Failing to treat the water with corrosion inhibitors, lead from aging pipes leached into the city’s water supply, causing elevated levels of the metal in drinking water and creating a serious public danger.

In January, the city declared a state of emergency. Soon after, President Barack Obama declared it a federal emergency.

At First Presbyterian, Skaff said the church integrated water distribution into its weekly meals for the homeless. Its kitchen must use

bottled water to prepare meals for the 150 people who regularly show up, because the lead level in water in the church is too high to operate a commercial kitchen.

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“We give people what they need. If they need 10 cases, we give them 10 cases.”

– Imam Hanafi Malik

students from Howard University in Washington who are helping with the water crisis in Flint as part of their Alternative Spring Break program.

The Muslim House’s main mode of help is to distribute water, which it normally receives

Pope

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worship God. Later I stood in St. Peter’s Square with people from all over the world to hear the Wednesday address of Pope Francis. He was elected after the resignation of Pope Benedict.

Pope Francis has brought a people oriented focus to the Vatican. I joined with the millions who watched his every step and listened to his every word on his visit to America. His final stop in Philadelphia was broadcasted to the world Last April Baltimore erupted into a disturbance that was seen nationally and internationally as a symbol of the police brutality and the frustration of people of color and young people who were living with limited options for a viable future.

The disturbances after the death of Freddie Gray caused many people to reflect upon the role they unwillingly may have played that contributed to the despair that sparked the burning and looting.

A year later as we move towards the anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray, not much as happened and very little change has occurred.

Archbishop William Lori called together some of his closes collaborators from different faith communities and asked if we would make a prayerful pilgrimage together to visit Pope Francis and asked for his prayers and blessings on our work together in Baltimore. Pope Francis had declared this was the Jubilee Year of Mercy

from others Islamic communities around the country, Imam Hanafi Malik said. The mosque, which has only 100 members, began distributing water on the corner outside of the mosque six months ago, long before the city began its efforts.

and ordered the Holy Doors to the Vatican and other religious sites to be opened.

We agreed on an ecumenical and interfaith pilgrimage of solidarity and spiritual renewal from Baltimore to the Holy City.

Among those who travelled with us were: Imam Earl El-Amin, Muslim Community Cultural Center of Baltimore, Rabbi Steven Fink, Temple Oheb Shalom, The Reverend Wolfgang D. Herz-Lane, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Delaware-Maryland Synod, Archbishop William Lori, Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Rev. Dr. Frank Reid, III, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Once we arrived at the Vatican, we had a reception with Cardinal Edwin O’Brien who is assigned to protect the religious places in Jerusalem, particularly the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. We were then given a guided tour of St. Peter’s Basilica. Pope Francis has declared this year the Jubilee Year of Mercy and ordered the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica to be opened. Normally sealed until a Jubilee year is declared, we were able to enter the Basilica through these sacred doors.

In my prior visits the doors were sealed and having this opportunity to walk through these historical and sacred doors added to the profound sense of spiritually this visit afforded. It is difficult to described the majestic feeling one has when you walking into the main hallway of

the Basilica. I marveled as I viewed La Pietà, the sculpture

by Michelangelo near the entrance by the Holy Door. I knelt in prayer at the altar and viewed the excavated opening in the marble floor of the tomb where the bones of St. Peter are buried under the Basilica.

I surveyed the 24 carat inlaid gold pulpit where Pope Francis delivers his homilies.

The next day was our audience with the Pope following his Wednesday address. We were seated in the front row on the right side of the Pope’s pavilion. Pope Francis rode his open top vehicle through the audience in St. Peter’s Square and after he circled the audience, pausing periodically to hold and kiss babies presented to him. He stopped, spoke with, and touched a contingency of people who were bounded to wheelchairs. He dismounted his vehicle and walked up the steps to his pavilion.

Before setting in his chair, he waved in our direction, and then proceeded with his message. It was a message of justice and mercy and he spoke in three languages: Italian, German, and French.

Interpreters spoke in English and other languages I couldn’t detect.

After his messages the visiting Bishops were presented to him. The stood in line and each had a moment of conversation with Pope Francis. Then, our moment arrived. He walked down from the pavilion and stood in front with two attendants and a film and camera crew nearby.

Archbishop Lori and Bishop Madden lead us in twos to meet Pope Francis. On my left was Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid III. Archbishop Lori presented me to Pope Francis. I extended my hand to him and he reached for both of my hands. We connected in a deeply spiritual way and he asked me to pray for him. I was stunned and overwhelmed with a spiritual awakening I had never felt before. The successor to the keys of St. Peter had asked me to pray for him. I said I would and I asked him to pray for me.

I then presented to him two CD’s: one of Union Baptist Church’s Senior Choir and the other from The Singing Sensations Youth Choir. He gave me a papal coin. And I left our meeting walking a little straighter with my head bowed and praising God for this amazing moment in my ministry life.

I understand even more what it means to practice spiritual presence.

The Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway is the Senior Pastor at Union Baptist Church in Baltimore.

It also makes water deliveries to the elderly, Malik said. The imam said he can’t keep enough water at the mosque because of the demand.

“We don’t hold water,” he said. “We give it away that day.”

Unlike the city, which only allows residents to take two cases of water per day, the mosque does not limit the number of cases people take, he said.

“We give people what they need,” he said. “If they need 10 cases, we give them 10 cases.”

Just three weeks ago, the mosque gave out five truckloads of water, 180,000 bottles, in nearly five hours with the help a variety of faith-based organizations.

On March 14, Howard University students,

donated and handed out scores of cases of water in conjunction with the mosque.

St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church also helps residents and it houses two organizations that are also contributing to the effort, Michigan Faith in Action, a multi-faith assistance and resource center, and Catholic Charities of Genesee County.

Michigan Faith Action goes to the communities to determine and help with their issues.

“Imagine getting ready in the morning without turning your faucet on,” said Sharon D. Allen, resource and fund development director, using herself as an example.

“I have to microwave and boil pots of water for my bath and to wash my hair. I have to use bottled water to brush my teeth.”

Tens of thousands of Flint residents go through a similar process every day, she said.

Since the final week of January, her organization has delivered 50,000 bottles of water, Allen said. Faith in Action also canvasses neighborhoods every Saturday and Sunday to record need for baby formula, water, filters, wipes and hand sanitizers, she said.

Marybeth Paciorek, secretary of St. Michael’s, said helping the community has always been part of her church’s mission.

“Water is just a new thing,” Paciorek said.

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practices that landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education and United States v.

Fordice sought to resolve.

The opinion memo from the case, The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, et al. v. Maryland Higher Education Commission, determined two things specifically: first, that Maryland state nurtures racial discrimination in a higher education context; and second, that the State preserves or prolongs segregated conditions in its universities “by and through its continuous policies and practices” regarding academic programs and the unnecessary duplication of academic programs at Traditionally White Institutions (TWI) where those programs first originated at the Historically Black Institutions.

This kind of activity is what’s known as “de jure segregation.” De jure segregation means exclusion or separation that result or is intentionally accomplished from the laws or actions of the state.

More than five higher-ed institutions, and notably most if-not-all are Traditional White Institutions, will “partner” under the proposed 2016 bills. The partnership, a merger of sorts of these already well-funded schools, looks quite similar to a remediation proposal presented by the aforementioned Coalition to the State of Maryland in response to the Court’s request for a remedy to the lawsuit.

The Coalition proposed the merging of Morgan State with the University of Baltimore, and it was shot down vehemently as unsound, difficult, and costly. Yet, the 2016 bills present a similar merger that moves an entire University of Maryland administrative center all the way from into Baltimore city, home

to Coppin State University and in Morgan State’s backyard. It would now appear that the Coalition—made up of students, faculty, alumni, and supporters of Maryland’s four HBIs—was not extreme in its remedy proposal as denounced by the Baltimore Sun and others.

Looking on, should this partnership see the light-of-day, we are forced to contemplate the nagging question of what would happen to the General Assembly’s 1998 statutory designation that Morgan State University is Maryland’s “Public Urban University;” and all the yet to be manifested resources and funding and support that would allow it to achieve the intended status.

More importantly, since the State of Maryland was found to have committed constitutional and civil rights violation in its higher education policies and practices it would appear that there has been little evaluation by the Baltimore delegation and Maryland legislators of the proposed University of Maryland Strategic Partnership Act of 2016’s impact in covertly perpetuating harm to Historically Black Institutions of higher education. Do lawmakers believe their constituents are too simple to understand what is occurring?

There’s more to be said on these very troubling pieces of legislation, what lawmakers believe or understand, and how Maryland compares to other states where systematic segregation is either being overcome or ignored. Stay tuned in the days and weeks ahead to learn more about what is occurring behind the scenes, and what role you can play in ensuring Maryland legislators and the State of Maryland are held accountable in guaranteeing equity in higher education.

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Morgan is one of the HBCUs that could be at risk if the Maryland University merger goes through.

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Global Status of Black Women Explored at U.N. Conference

engage and protect girls and boys, and also communicate effectively, advocate, and be valued as equals.

Delegates acknowledge that while The status of Black women was progress has been made, it could take the overarching theme of the United 50 years to achieve parity in political Nation’s 60th Commission on the participation, and 118 years for true pay Status of Women held during its annual equality between women and men at the conference from March 8-24. Perhaps current pace of change. In addition, as the most distinguished and diverse progress is being made, violence and gathering of international women resistance from men often follows. This leaders, the commission unveiled violence, according to Mozambican its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable delegate Precious Guebuza, often Development, which examinedfhow takes place publicly, but with little race, gender, and culture intersec, in compassion or protection from others. arenas where female leadership is most “It is important that as women we needed, but also most threatened. recognize the power in our unity, but “We know that in order to bring also that there are other women who the new agenda to life, we need to Courtesy Photo act against us because we do not look get closest to those who are most Youth attendees of the United Nation’s 60th Commission on the Status of Women annual conference like them, speak their languages, or disadvantaged,” said UN Women subscribe to their spiritual beliefs,” held from March 8-24.

Executive Director Phumzile MlamboGuebuza told theAFRO. “Whether it is out and engage in the political arena in places in countries of transition and destination.

Ngcuka. “Governments cannot sex trafficking, forced marriages with where women of color are often thought This is a new challenge on which we need to deliver alone on their strong commitments. young girls, or taxi drivers targeting African unable to think or act strategically. “Globally, collaborate and find new and sustainable ways businesswomen for rape to keep them as Collaboration with civil society and women’s of responding.” organizations is key. It also means that greater there are intense hardships, with extensive housewives, the girls and women in India, population displacement, extreme violence This Commission was the largest and most Australia, the U.S. and Africa have common support and protection of civil society is against women and girls, and widespread critical intergovernmental forum since the needed to ensure greater political space and threats. We must contend with the realities instability in many regions,” Mlambo-Ngcuka organization’s launch in 2010, with delegates capacity for them to implement this agenda, that sometimes empowering girls establishes told the attendees. from almost every African and European the support of the private sector is also anger among men and elders who want “The extraordinary challenges, such as country involved. The agenda for improving needed.” tradition. These types of talks help narrow the lives of women of color, globally, includes the gaps in our understanding and keep Black Mlambo-Ngcuka announced the first Youth the current refugee and migration situation, require us to work together to address their acknowledging that all women have the ability women, African women from becoming the Commission on the Status of Women, a body root causes in countries of origin as well as to be wives, grow food, value motherhood, that allows youth representatives tosspeak victims of progress.”

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com

Md. State Trooper Won’t be Charged in Frederick Md. Fatal Shooting of Balto. Black Man

By The Associated Press Authorities won’t prosecute a Maryland State Police trooper who fatally shot a man at a Frederick gas station last fall after investigators said he rammed a city police cruiser with a stolen SUV and then lunged at the trooper, according to a letter the local prosecutor’s office released March 16.

In the letter, dated Monday, Frederick County State’s Attorney Charlie Smith told state police homicide unit Cpl. Anthony Dubas that Trooper 1st Class William Jansen used justifiable force in shooting Kevin Brunson, 45, of Baltimore on Oct. 25.

“Therefore, we are declining prosecution and consider this matter closed,” Smith wrote.

The state’s attorney’s office refused to release investigative documents and video, deferring to state police, who investigated the shooting. State police spokeswoman Elena Russo said she couldn’t release the materials because they are part of a continuing internal investigation.

She said Jensen returned to full duty from administrative leave Tuesday.

State police said in October that Brunson was shot four times in the torso in the Sheetz parking lot. The agency said investigators found a folding knife with a 4-inch blade in Brunson’s possession. It wasn’t clear if Brunson was holding the knife when he was shot.

Brunson was suspected of having stolen the Lincoln Navigator a day earlier in Baltimore, state police said. They said Brunson had threatened the SUV’s owner with a gun in his waistband. No gun was recovered at the gas-station shooting scene, police said.

Brunson’s criminal history included convictions for

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A state trooper surveys a vehicle after a man who was shot and killed by a state trooper in a confrontation at a gas station in 2015, in Frederick, Md. The man was fatally shot after the sport utility vehicle he was driving rammed a police cruiser at a gas station, police said. robbery, theft and assault, and arrests for vehicle theft and carjacking, court records show. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 2013 for unauthorized removal of property.

Jansen is White, and Brunson was Black. Race has not been raised as a factor in the shooting, but it came amid a national debate about the deaths of Black men at the hands of police.

and signed him in 2013 as their first Black `dealer, based in Sterling, Virginia — a Washington, D.C. suburb.

Moorehead began expanding beyond automobiles in 2006.

He acquired the first of six hotels, the Marriott Residence Inn in National Harbor, Maryland. His real-estate portfolio now includes more than 40 properties. As Moorehead’s businesses flourished, his family’s appreciation for education stayed top of mind. In 2004, Moorehead and his wife established the Joyce and Thomas A. Moorehead Foundation to support students, families and nonprofit organizations in northern Virginia.

Moorehead’s other charitable endeavors include a Howard University scholarship created in his mother’s name and

another with the Kappa Scholarship Endowment Fund that honors his father-in-law. Beyond education, Moorehead has assisted the African American Network Against Alzheimer’s.

For the 71-year-old Moorehead, the influence of his family and his mentor, James Bradley, keeps him grounded.

Moorehead’s grandfather taught him the importance of faith and worship. As Moorehead said he told him: “ I don’t care what you do. I want you in someone’s church on Sunday.”

Moorehead looks back at his lifetime of achievement. “I hope my grandfather would be proud of what I’ve created with my businesses and the importance of giving back to the community,” he said. “And, I don’t care how bad I feel, I go to church every Sunday morning.”

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offered him a surprising challenge: Go sell cars. “ I thought car dealers represented an image that didn’t fit me: big plaid jackets, they smoked cigarettes and talked fast,” Moorehead told Urban News Service. But Moorehead gave the opportunity some thought. He visited Detroit, toured dealerships and changed his mind.

“I really felt like I had walked onto Wall Street,” Moorehead said. “I saw well-dressed men in nice suits and bow ties doing really great things.” Thanks to Bradley’s ongoing guidance and his own strenuous effort, Moorehead thrived in his unexpected profession.

He sold Buicks, Isuzus, BMWs and even MINI Coopers.

Rolls-Royce executives eventually noticed his track record

Hair Loss

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African-American women is a condition called central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), a disorder in which inflammation and destruction of hair follicles causes scarring and permanent hair loss. According to Lenzy’s data, Black women are also likely to develop hair loss by wearing hairstyles that pull their hair into tight braids or ponytails, called traction alopecia.

Lenzy partnered with the Black Women’s Health Study at Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center to survey AfricanAmerican women about their experiences with hair loss. Of the 5,594 women participating in the survey, an astounding 81.4 percent

indicated they had never seen a physician about hair loss; 47.6 percent reported hair loss on the crown or top of the scalp.

Alva Clark, a Ward 6 resident, said from her childhood, she used a traditional hot comb placed on the stove to straighten her hair. By the time she reached her mid-30s, her hair was severely damaged. “We used things like curling wax to keep the curls in place and styling gel to make sure the edges around the forehead stayed down, and eventually, that is where the hair loss began,” said Clark, who told the AFRO, she was reduced to wearing wigs once the hair loss spread. “The wigs just made it worse because the netting underneath broke

my scalp out and so I saw a local dermatologist in the 1980s, Donald Frisby, who told me to wash it, let it air dry, and wear it the way God intended.”

The excessive use of heat, especially flat irons and curling wands, along with chemical relaxers, lotions, and others styling products, may only be a portion of the problem according to other dermatologists on hand. “Everyone points fingers at the women with chemical relaxers, but the reality is that Black women and men rarely consume enough water or the types of foods that naturally help to protect the follicles of their hair and produce healthy sheen,” dermatologist Inez Britton, told the

AFRO. “Soda and alcohol consumption have a terrible impact on the skin and hair.”

Additionally, styling practices like braiding and weaves also put undue stress on follicles over time and increase the likelihood that hair loss will occur in women. In men, the styling products that include texturizers and hair dyes, have the same impact. “Women who are dealing with hair loss should consider changing their styling practices, and visit a board-certified dermatologist for diagnosis and treatment,” Lenzy said. “Some people may only associate dermatologists with skin issues, but we’re also experts in hair disorders, and we can provide the help you need.”

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Darryl Hunt, Exonerated in N.C. after 19 Yrs. Behind Bars, Likely Commits Suicide

By The Associated Press A man who spent 19 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit had been diagnosed with cancer before he died of what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a friend and minister said March 16.

Darryl Hunt had been diagnosed with prostate and stomach cancer, the Rev. John Mendez said. His divorce also had contributed to his depression, Mendez said.

“We knew the demons that he had fought without, but I don’t think everybody knew the demons he had to fight within,” Mendez said.

Police said that the 51-year-old Hunt died of a single gunshot wound to his torso and that he likely died by suicide.

They say a handgun was found inside the locked vehicle and that investigators found no evidence of a struggle.

The car with Hunt’s body inside it was discovered Sunday near the Wake Forest University campus. Authorities say they’re awaiting final autopsy results.

Hunt was convicted twice in the death of newspaper copy editor Deborah Sykes, narrowly avoiding the death penalty in the first trial. He was exonerated in February 2004 on the basis of DNA evidence that led police to another suspect, who confessed.

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Then-Gov. Mike Easley pardoned Hunt, and the state awarded him more than $300,000. The city of WinstonSalem awarded him more than $1.6 million, and a report by a citizens review committee uncovered mistakes in the police investigation.

The year after he was released, Hunt founded The Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice, a nonprofit organization that, among other purposes, advocated for the wrongly convicted. He also was the subject of a 2006 documentary titled “The Trials of Darryl Hunt.”

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Hunt’s struggles dated back to his childhood, when his mother was murdered, Mendez said. Attorney Mark Rabil told the Winston-Salem Journal that Hunt’s mother, Doris, was killed when he was 10 years old, two weeks after he learned she was his mother. He never knew his father.

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COMMENTARY

Lessons from Women’s History for 2016 During Women’s History Month this year, the leadership of the National Women’s History Project urges all Americans to learn from the women in public service and government who have dedicated their lives to “forming a more perfect union.”

Theirs is excellent advice.

During an often divisive presidential election year, the vision and strength that American women have Rep. Elijah contributed in our national Cummings journey toward universal equality and opportunity seem, all too often, to have been cast aside and forgotten.

In one party’s presidential race, especially, the candidates appear to be seeking victory by dividing one from another.

Rather than elevating our debates about public policy to a higher level of mutual respect and thoughtful consideration in which solutions could actually be achieved, we are witnessing the politics of prejudice, hostility and fear.

Yet, I remain hopeful. In the legislatures of our nation, and in our community gatherings, the women of our nation are calling upon us — as President Lincoln called upon us in 1861 — to follow “the better Angels of our nature.”

Today, as in our past, America’s Eagle needs to soar to new heights of creativity, humanity and mutual respect if we are to overcome the challenges that we now face as a nation. We must reject those who would have us scapegoat and feast like Vultures on the helpless and disparaged.

As President Obama urged us in this year’s Women’s History Month Proclamation, public policies that advance opportunity in which all can gain are the key to achieving the more perfect union that we all should be seeking.

“Let us uphold the responsibility that falls on all of us — regardless of gender,” our President declared, “and fight for equal opportunity for our daughters as well as our sons.”

In this vein, we should commend the 16 women leaders honored by the Women’s History Project this year. To that illustrious list, I would add three remarkable women — two from my childhood and one from my adult life — who have done so much for our community here in Baltimore.

I do so because of the important lessons they offer to all of us during this turbulent election year.

Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Esq. In my own life, I will forever be grateful to the NAAP’s Juanita Jackson Mitchell, the first AfricanAmerican woman to practice law in Maryland, who stood up for us children when we marched to integrate Riverside Swimming Pool.

By her courage and encouragement, Ms. Mitchell taught Black children that — if we remained steadfast in the face of adversity — we could win rights that others would have to respect.

There, on the streets of South Baltimore in the early 1960s, Juanita Jackson Mitchell instilled in me the confidence, determination and faith that I, too, could become an advocate for the disparaged and forgotten people of my community.

Del. Lena K. Lee Nor will I ever forget Maryland Delegate Lena K. Lee, who believed in me, expanded my vision of the civil rights struggle to include economic empowerment, and helped me to undertake those critical first steps that led me to the Maryland Legislature.

Master teacher, union leader, lawyer and legislator – Delegate Lee was prominent in every civil rights struggle of her time. I will never forget her words to me back in 1982, words that would change the course of my life.

“I am going to retire from the House of Delegates,” she informed me, “and I am looking for a competent and caring lawyer to take my place. I was hoping to find a woman, but I think that you will do.”

Sen. Barbara Ann Mikulski Trained as a Master Social Worker and Community Organizer, our Senior Senator from Maryland, Barbara Ann Mikulski, has become so beloved by the citizens of our State that she is now the longest serving woman in the history of the United States Congress — and the recipient, last year, of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

No leader in our history has done more to advance the cause of economic empowerment and quality health care for all of our people, whatever their gender, racial background or economic station in life may be.

Like every great national leader, “Senator Barb,” as we fondly call her here in Baltimore, has fused our vision of a more perfect union with the political and social acumen to advance that vision toward reality.

“What is needed,” she observed more than 45 years ago, “is an alliance of White and Black, white collar, blue collar and no collar based on mutual need, interdependence and respect, an alliance to develop the strategy for new kinds of community organization and political participation.”

This is the same vision that President Obama and we who have supported him advanced so successfully in 2008 and 2012.

We disregard the wisdom of these great Americans at our peril.

However, if we follow the lead of these wise and dedicated women, we can move forward toward our more perfect union in 2016.

Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

Closing of Baltimore’s Belvedere Shopping Center Hurts Locals There are 407 people who live in the area of Loch Temprest Myers Raven and Belvedere in Baltimore who no longer have ready access to needed food and supplies. That’s because of the closing of the Belvedere Gardens Shopping Center, a 55,000-square-foot property which was anchored by a Family Dollar store, a Chinese food restaurant, and several convenience stores.

The shopping center was important to residents who would shop there on a regular basis and could walk there, especially for people who may not have a car. The Chinese restaurant, which was called China Wok, was one of the fast food delivery stores I would order from often, but now it’s closed.

It remains unclear why the shopping center closed last year.

It was sold by its previous owner, Saul Centers, in 2012 for a reported $3.9 million to an undisclosed buyer. No matter the reason, the effects of the closing are real. The closest shopping center to the area is in Hillendale and takes close to 20 minutes to get to by foot. Although, there are more stores at the Hillendale location, that still doesn’t change the fact that it is an inconvenience to people who don’t drive.

While public transportation is an option, it is often a hindrance. The MTA bus line 3 does run there, but it can take up to a half-hour of travel time depending on the weather and whether the bus is running late, which it frequently does.

Fortunately, there are more stores at the Hillendale Shopping Center, such as Giant, Family Dollar, a nail shop, a beauty salon and a beauty supply shop, as well as plenty of fast food restaurants.

In many Black neighborhoods finding reliable food sources is often difficult. For example, a recent Johns Hopkins study found that one in four of the city’s residents live in so-called food deserts and have limited access to food.

Furthermore, many city residents rely on convenience stores because regular grocery stores are often inaccessible to residents.

The Belvedere Gardens Shopping Center was sold for $3.9 million to an unknown buyer and future plans remain unclear.

What is clear, is that in the near future residents have limited options when it comes to healthy food.

Temprest Myers is an intern in the Baltimore office of the AFRO American. She is a journalism student at Morgan State University.

Making the Right Choice from the Medicare Menu Choosing your Medicare benefits can be very Marcia L. Jackson confusing whether you are a seasoned recipient or you are preparing to enroll for the first time. Your Medicare choices should involve some serious thought before you make your decision.

Medicare is a health insurance plan for individuals who are age 65 and a U.S. citizen. If you have worked 40 quarters (10 years) you are entitled to Medicare.

If you are an individual with end stage renal disease, on hemodialysis or kidney transplant recipient, you also qualify for Medicare benefits.

Once enrolled, you do not have to sign up for Medicare annually but you can make changes to your choices each year, during open enrollment. Open enrollment occurs each year between October and December. New coverage begins each year on January 1. Routinely, Medicare pays 80% and you are responsible for the remaining 20%.

There are two main types of Medicare - Original and Medicare Advantage.

Medicare part A (hospital insurance) is part of the original Medicare plan. Medicare part A pays for inpatient hospital stays, skilled nursing facility care, hospice and home health care. Skilled nursing facility and rehabilitative services are provided on a continuous daily basis in a skilled facility.

You have your choice of doctors, hospital or other providers

that accept Medicare. Medicare Part A is free. You or your supplemental insurance will pay the required deductible, co insurance or co-pays.

Medicare part B (medical insurance) pays for services from doctors and other health care providers , outpatient services, home health care, durable medical equipment and some preventative services. These preventative services may include a yearly wellness visit, mammogram, colorectal screening for colon cancer, flu shot or a prostate cancer screening.

If you elect to purchase Medicare part B, you will pay a monthly premium. First time enrollees have eight months to decide whether to purchase part B, before penalties occur. Your cost for part B will depend on your choice of doctors and other care providers. If you don’t see doctors that accept Medicare assignment, you will pay more for your Medicare part B. Assignment means that your providers, doctors, or suppliers agree to or are required by law to accept the Medicare approved amount, as full payment for services. This does not mean that your co-pays, co-insurance, deductibles or 20% are no longer your responsibility.

In order to have prescription drug coverage with original Medicare, a Medicare D plan must be chosen. Medicare D helps cover the cost of prescription drugs. Medicare approved, private insurance companies offer Medicare D plans.

If you choose original Medicare, you may want to consider a supplemental insurance called Medigap. Cost may vary by policy and company. Medigap is an extra health insurance that

helps pay for the hospital and medical costs not covered by original Medicare.

The alternative to an original Medicare is Medicare part C or the Medicare Advantage plan. You must join this plan, if you don’t join the plan, you will be enrolled in original Medicare. Medicare part C usually includes all benefits covered under Medicare A & B. Medicare Advantage plans include prescription drug coverage. Many of these plans include extra benefits that are not offered by original Medicare. In most cases you must accept the drug coverage plan included with the plan.

If you choose a Medicare Advantage plan, you are not eligible for a Medigap supplemental plan to help pay out of pocket expenses.

When making your Medicare decision, you should consider the cost and coverage you need. Do you use prescription medications? How many prescription medications do you use?

Are you satisfied with you current doctors or is it time for a change? Do you have other healthcare coverage?

Remember, the choices you make are in effect for an entire year. The information included in this article is not all inclusive and may not apply to your specific needs. If you have questions or need additional information, contact Medicare at 1-800833-4227.

Marcia L. Jackson, case manager, clinical operations, is a registered nurse with Care Improvement Plus in Baltimore, MD.

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“The Merger is Important to the District.”

With the Merger

Without the Merger

$78 million in customer benefits, including: $14 million in rate credits; $50 per residential customer

GONE

$25.6 million to offset future distribution rate increases

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$5.2 million for workforce development in the District

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$400,000 to forgive residential bills more than two years old

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Additional benefits: Area nonprofits guaranteed $19 million over next 10 years

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Higher requirements resulting in fewer and shorter power outages

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Requirement to expand wind and solar energy for the District

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Hire more than 100 union workers in the District

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Enhanced supplier-diversity programs

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Headquarters of several key Exelon functions move to the District

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The merger is too valuable for the District to lose.

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CEO, Federal City Council

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PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY-AREA

Voter Registration deadline for the PG County April 26 Primary Elections is April 5.

D.C.-Area Urban League Gala Dazzles

Man Accused of Killing Police Officer Charged with 2nd Degree Murder

Courtesy Photo

U.S. Army Captain Linwood Nelson

Prince George’s County

MD Army Captain Serves County in Afghanistan

By Monica Smith Special to the AFRO Photo by Rob Roberts

Legendary singer Patti LaBelle, recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Washington Urban League’s Unsung Heroes 44th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala, delighted attendees with a special performance on March 11. See additional photos of the event in the AFRO next week.

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com The Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL) held its 44th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala on March 11 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The theme of the event was “Unsung Heroes: Celebrating Heroes in Our Community” and included such luminaries as D.C. Mayor Muriel Boswser (D) and Washington Wizards, Capitals, and Mystics owner Ted Leonsis.

Former President Bill Clinton was scheduled to attend and receive an award but he backed out because of a pressing

commitment, George Lambert, the president and CEO of the GWUL, said.

The GWUL operates in the District, Prince George’s and Montgomery counties and has programs that help people with employment, owning a home, and starting a business, and also provides rent and utility assistance. The GWUL was founded in 1938 and is considered one of the most active chapters of the National Urban League, with Maudine Cooper, a former aide to D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and noted fundraiser, and the first chairman of the D.C. Council, Sterling Tucker, as past leaders.

NBC4 anchor Jim Vance served as the master of ceremony and WPGC 95.5’s Guy Lambert and Joe Clair served as the Continued on B2

Prince George’s County Courtesy Photos

Michael Ford (top) is facing 25 charges, his two brothers — Malik and Elijah — drove him to the station and allegedly used their cellphones to record video of the firefight.

The Associated Press A man accused of shooting at a Maryland police station in an attempt to provoke officers to kill him has been charged with second-degree murder, police and prosecutors said March 16.

Michael Ford, 22, is facing 25 charges, also including attempted murder and conspiracy, in the shootout Sunday afternoon outside a police station in Landover, a Washington suburb. Several police officers returned fire after Ford started shooting, police said, and Officer Jacai Colson was struck and killed by friendly fire.

Ford was shot by police and remains hospitalized, but he’s being held on a nobond status, said John Erzen, a spokesman for the Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office.

Police have said Ford fired on the station to draw officers’ attention and hoped to die in a “suicide by cop.” His two brothers — Malik, 21, Continued on B2

“I always knew I wanted to be in the military.”

– Linwood Nelson

Community Input Low Over New Middle Schools Proposals to Deal with Overcrowding

By Melanie R. Duncan Special to the AFRO The location of two new middle schools proposed to relieve overcrowded classrooms in the northern region of Prince George’s County is pending community approval. Low attendance at March 8 and 9 public hearings has caused final recommendations to be extended until April. Final recommendations were due on March 22.

“By 2020, we’ll have a shortfall of the 3,600 new seats we’ll need,” said Capital Improvement Program Officer Rupert McCave. “If we do nothing, we’ll have a real problem on our hands as far as where do we send these kids?”

Each proposed middle school will seat 1,200 students and is expected to be complete for the start of the 2019 school year “if funding goes well,” McCave said.

A budget of $83,211,027 Continued on B2

U.S. Army Captain Linwood Nelson is an executive officer at NATO-led Resolute Support Headquarters in Afghanistan. “I always knew I wanted to be in the military,” Nelson told the AFRO via telephone from Kabul.

Already chosen for promotion to major, Nelson should pin on his new rank this summer. In July, he will also attend the Command and General Staff College, a selective professional school

AP Photo

Metro employee shuts down escalators to the McPherson Square Station March 16.

Subway Safety Shutdown Makes for a Very Long Day in Capital “always slow, always crowded,” he complained.

The nation’s second-busiest rail system stopped its trains at midnight March 15for a system-wide An unprecedented 29-hour safety shutdown inspection of its third-rail power cables after an of subways in the nation’s capital inconvenienced electrical fire on March 14. Officials planned to hundreds of thousands of people on March 16, reopen at 5 a.m. March 17 unless inspectors find an but despite predictions of “Metromageddon” or immediate safety threat, which the system’s general “Metropocalypse,” it manager said was unlikely. was hardly the end of the Without working trains world. in the way, 22 inspection Many riders shrugged teams were walking 100 it off, saying it’s what miles of underground track, they’ve come to expect checking power cables for from the aging, troubled potential problems. Metro Metro system. spokesman Dan Stessel One popular Twitter said Wednesday afternoon feed about the system, that some repairs were – Michaun Jordan already being made. Metro @unsuckdcmetro, was running a poll on whether planned an update later in the shutdown would solve the day.

“Metro’s flaming cables problem.” Thousands Riders take more than 700,000 trips on Metro voted, with more than three quarters saying no. trains every day because it’s still a quick way to get “Metro sucks,” said Bob Jones, 26, of Arlington, downtown from Maryland, Virginia and the city’s Virginia as he waited for a bus. The subways are Continued on B2

By Ben Nuckols and Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

“At first I was a bit disappointed. Then I thought about it — it’s best to be safe.”

for Army officers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Nelson’s childhood memories include watching the Blue Angels at Andrews Air Force Base with his father.

The future army officer found military reveille and retreat customs endearing. He said he was awed by how people stopped cars and dropped everything to respect the flag and the country.

He attended Morgan Wooten’s basketball camp in Frostburg, Maryland, where his Bowie football coach suggested that he attend the prestigious Woodberry Forest, a boys’ school in Virginia.

Integrity and faith traditions practiced at the 127-yearold private boarding school prepared Nelson to be self sufficient and transition to manhood, he said.

Nelson planned to go into medicine until a conversation with an Army ROTC staff member at William and Mary college in Williamsburg, Virginia, his mother said.

Nelson graduated from the nation’s second oldest college in 2006, earning a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. He continued his education, acquiring a master’s degree from Webster University while stationed at Fort Sill in Continued on B2

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Prince George’s County

Alsobrooks Aims to Increase Second-Degree Murder Penalty

By Danielle Lockett Special to the AFRO Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks is pushing for state Senate Bill 177. This legislation would increase the maximum sentence for those convicted of second-degree murder. The bill is currently undergoing hearings in the Maryland Senate.

Alsobrooks believes passing the bill could help Prince George’s County by providing tougher sentences for individuals convicted in violent crimes. She, along with many other Maryland State’s Attorneys, said 30 years is not enough. If the bill passes, Maryland would be included with other states that increased the

maximum sentences for second-degree murder convictions.

“Ms. Alsobrooks testified in support of this bill because in many of these cases, a 30year sentence (with the possibility of being

Erzen, communications director for the State’s Attorney’s Office, to the AFRO. According to Alsobrooks, the bill would bring Maryland in line with approximately 80 percent of the 50 states in the country.

“…a 30-year sentence (with the possibility of being released in 15 years for good behavior) is too soon for criminals to be released.”

– John Erzen released in 15 years for good behavior) is too soon for criminals to be released” said John

Another hearing was held March 4 for House Bill 1313. According to Department

of Legislative Services, Maryland House Bill 1313 increases the maximum years for second-degree murder from 30 years to 40 years, eliminates mandatory minimum sentences, and reduces criminal penalties for specified offenses relating to the distribution of controlled dangerous substances (CDS).

In Prince George’s County most domestic violence related cases are convicted as seconddegree murder cases. Alsobrooks, a strong advocate for the decreasing domestic violence, used prior local examples of this type of crime to justify the extension of mandatory sentencing.

Both bills are pending in the Maryland General Assembly.

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was approved within the FY 17-FY 22 for the capital improvement plan for one new middle school in the Buck Lodge/Nicholas Orem area and one new middle school in the Charles Carroll/William Wirt area of the county. “…16 sites were deemed appropriate for a new middle school based on acreage, availability, site conditions and locations,” Kevin Maxwell, CEO of the Prince George’s County School District, said in a site feasibility analysis. Findings and site recommendations were presented to the Faculty Advisory Committee on March 2015.

The location for Buck Lodge/Nicholas Orem area is being decided between four sites: Park Lawn Park, Cool Spring Road, Adelphi Road Park, and Langley Park Community Center/Langley Park McCormick Elementary School.

Adelphi Park, currently located at Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary School, was ranked the most feasible construction site by the Waldon Studio Architects design team.

Director of Business Development Christa Kerrigan said the project is estimated to cost $71.6 million. She said that Langley Park, Park Lawn Park, and Cool Spring Road ranked second, third and fourth for feasibility, due to a smaller campus size, increased construction requirements and unideal landscape.

Two site locations are under consideration for the Charles Carroll/William Wirt middle school: Blue Heron Way/ Templeton Knolls and Glenridge Park, with the latter ranked most feasible, according to Kerrigan.

The cost is anticipated at $74.5 million which includes

more basketball courts and soccer fields, she said. The sites are located by trails, ponds and national parks which support the school system’s goal of creating environmentally friendly middle schools through its partnership with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Factors such as efficient water use, education initiatives, atmosphere, energy, and environmental quality were also considered during the site feasibility analysis. “We were being good stewards of the earth when we were designing these,” Kerrigan said.

An online survey is being created to allow more members of the public to provide their input regarding the locations of the middle schools. According to staff at the county school’s communications office, the survey should be available by the end of the week and can be accessed at pgcps.org.

excellent. He’s a great person.”

After bail was denied for Elijah Ford, his sister, Ebony Howard, blurted out to the judge, “Do you all have

YouTube celebrity” when he allegedly used his cellphone to record video of his brother’s attack on the police station.

The relatives were represented in court by a public defender, Kevin Valdez, who declined to comment after the hearing or identify those who had spoken.

Malik and Elijah Ford face charges including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. A court

Murder

Continued from B1 and Elijah, 18 — drove him to the station and used their cellphones to record video of the firefight, according to police. They also made a video of their older brother’s “last will and testament” minutes before the shooting started, police said.

A judge denied bond for both Malik and Elijah Ford during a hearing Wednesday afternoon.

The brothers appeared in a Prince George’s County court via closed-circuit

television. Malik had to be treated by medical staff for a few minutes after he collapsed during the hearing while listening to relatives speak about his character.

After treatment, the hearing continued with Malik Ford seated.

“I’ve lost three kids in one shot,” the young men’s father, Michael Thomas, said in court.

“He didn’t pull the trigger,” Thomas said of Malik Ford. “My son is

defendants.

Michael Thomas told the court that his sons’ mother, Lisa Ford, has chronic health problems and that Elijah is her primary caregiver. He said

“I’ve lost three kids in one shot.”

– Michael Thomas any incriminating evidence against him?”

The judge informed her that it was the state, not him, that gathers evidence against

Lisa Ford had a heart attack after the shooting.

Another relative, who did not identify herself in court, said “Elijah was not seeking

commissioner did not find probable cause to file seconddegree murder charges against the brothers, but State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said March 15 that she believes they can be charged under Maryland’s felony murder statute, which applies to someone who participates in a felony in which a murder is committed. Prosecutors could seek a grand jury indictment on that charge.

Gala

Continued from B1 special announcer and live auctioneer, respectively. Corporate sponsors such as Safeway and Giant Foods gave away thousands of dollars in college scholarships for Washington, D.C. area high school students.

Bowser received the Unsung Housing Champion Award.

“Our partnership with the Greater Washington Urban League helps train D.C. residents with good-paying jobs,” the mayor said. She talked about keeping the $100 million Housing Production Trust Fund as a tool to help people obtain housing and said the GWUL helps “everyone get a fair shot” in life.

Tina Frundt, founder of Courtney’s House and the Unsung Impact Award recipient, said her work in helping young people involved in human trafficking takes her throughout the city. “I

“It is our social responsibility to uplift the entire community.”

Army Captain

Subway

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Lawton, Oklahoma.

A career broadening fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill groomed Nelson for his current assignment, he said. He said he learned about “national security strategy, counter-terrorism, and the interagency process to synchronize and coordinate U.S. actions,” the captain told the AFRO. “It totally correlates to what I’m doing now.”

Nelson enjoys his role of getting the message out of “how we’re helping the Afghans,” he said.

It’s a very different mission from his first deployment to Baghdad, he added.

In Baghdad, he patrolled “outside the wire” as a company fire support officer and motorized infantry platoon leader. “Things are a little bit different,” Nelson said when he compared his 2007 Iraq deployment to Kabul. Yet even in a staff position, “You’re always in harm’s way,” Nelson said, “we just mitigate risk.”

Nelson’s parents are his mentors. His mother, Debbie Nelson, was the first Black woman to graduate from Jacksonville University’s ROTC program in 1980. She later attained the rank of lieutenant commander in the Army.

live in Ward 7 but I work with youth at H.D. Woodson, Ballou, and yes, Wilson High School,” Frundt said. “The kids I serve are sometimes right next to my house and we must do all we

– Ted Leonsis can to help them.”

Leonsis, the Unsung Philanthropist Award recipient, said giving

back to the community is not an option, but a social responsibility.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) and council members Vincent Orange (D-At Large), Anita Bonds (D-At Large), Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), and Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) attended the event. Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Robert White were also there.

Former Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille attended the event, as did Prince George’s County Council member Karen Toles (D-District 7) and former Maryland Del. Aisha Braveboy of Prince George’s County.

To cap off the evening, legendary entertainer Pattie LaBelle sung renditions of her hits, “New Attitude”, “If Only You Knew” and “Somebody Loves You Baby.”

Continued from B1 outer neighborhoods. But the system has become less reliable and ridership has suffered.

Metro’s general manager, Paul Wiedefeld, who took over in November after running the Baltimore-Washington airport, acknowledged in a public letter last month that the agency must “improve safety and security, deliver more reliable service, and continue reforms to get our financial house in order.”

The system has closed for days for weather, but this was believed to be the first shutdown for mechanical reasons.

“While the risk to the public is very low, I cannot rule out a potential life and safety issue here, and this is why we must take this action immediately,” Wiedefeld said.

Delayed trains, closed escalators and other annoyances have become frequent, but the Metro has had deadly accidents as well, including a 2009 collision between two trains that killed nine people. Another passenger died last year, when malfunctioning electrical equipment filled a train with smoke. An electrical fire Monday was blamed on “disturbingly similar conditions,” Wiedefeld said in a statement.

Michaun Jordan, 51, appreciated Metro’s caution.

“At first I was a bit disappointed. Then I thought about it — it’s best to be safe,” said Jordan, who took a $15 taxi for part of her

commute that is normally a far cheaper rail ride.

Leander Talley, 52, who lives in Dale City and works in Alexandria, wasn’t surprised by the shutdown.

“I kind of figured it would happen because of all the problems they’ve been having, but not on such short notice,” said Talley, who woke up an hour and a half early to get a head start on a grueling commute, saying he had to “catch five buses.”

Federal workers were encouraged to take the day off or telecommute. District of Columbia public schools, which don’t have dedicated buses, said tardies and absences would be excused.

Motorists slogged through a busy morning rush hour, and a city official said more than 500 people signed up for a free 24-hour bikesharing membership.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said told a Senate Committee on Wednesday that he has directed the Federal Transit Administration to identify any federal grants to WMATA with unspent money and redirect that money to improve safety.

In addition to the electric cables, Foxx said he is concerned about red-light running, the use of emergency brakes, and track integrity.

“The culture down there has to change and we can’t enable these safety failures any longer,” he said.

March 19, 2016 - March 25, 2016, The Afro-American

WASHINGTON AREA

COMMUNITY CONNECTION Washington, D.C.

Split This Rock hosts DC Youth Slam Team Grand Slam Finals The Split This Rock group is hosting D.C. Youth Slam Team Grand Slam Finals at the Arena Stage Mead Theater, 1101 6th Street S.W., on March 18.

The event is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The finals will showcase eight finalists who will be competing for a chance to appear in the Brave New Voices slam competition. Tickets cost $15, in advance, and $20 the day of the show.

Largo, Md.

My Sister’s Keeper Financial Forum The Prince George’s County Chapter of The National Coalition of 100 Black Women will host March 19 a My Sister’s Keeper Financial Forum that will address topics including minority business ownership, pay equality and living wage employment opportunity. Special guests will include Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks; Gloria Lawlah, former Secretary for the Department of Aging

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Special guests will include Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks.

in Prince George County; Terri Allen, executive director, Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts; and Denice Whalen-White, executive director, All Shades of Pink.

The event is scheduled to occur at 1450 Mercantile Lane, Suite 157 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A complimentary breakfast will be served.

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Anniversary Committee; guest preacher, Rev. Kathryn G. Brown, general secretary for Christian Education for the AME Zion Church (front left); Rev. Myrtle Bowen, pastor of Contee (front right)

“Fellowship Gospel Choir” of John Wesley AME Zion Church, Washington, D.C.

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Liturgical dancers of Union Wesley AME Zion Church, Washington, D.C.

Rev. Myrtle Bowen (left), Mistress of Ceremonies, Crystal L. Tolson (center), Joy Wormley Thompson (right)

Contee AME Zion Church, in Washington D.C., celebrated its 132 anniversary Feb. 26. Rev. Kathryn G. Brown delivered the message.

Rev. Brown, although a native of Harlem, New York, returned to the church where she delivered her trial sermon thirty years earlier. She is currently the general secretary of Christian education for the AME Zion Church at the denominational headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Robin “Sugar” Williams and “Created Vessels” of Galilee Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.

Rev. Myrtle Bowen and Verdelle Pittman-Paige

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Rev. Myrtle Bowen, (front left)

Eve’s Grace Rev. Kathryn G. Brown

Audrey M. Doman, president Washington DC Alumnae Foundation

Alia Lewis, Keela Sseales, Darniece Shirley and Michelle Robertson

The Washington D.C. Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority sponsored their annual “Distinguished Men Cookin’ with the Deltas” event on March 5 at the Howard University Blackburn Center. Nearly 500 guests sampled dishes that raised funds to support the chapter’s community outreach, scholarship project and mentorship programs.

Bill Ritchie

Delta Committee

Nichelle A. Poe, president Washington DC Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Daniel W. Thomas, celebrity chef

Lakisha Hall, Jennifer Bledsoe, Michelle Robertson and Jamera Wells-Lee

Joe Clair, WPGC

D.C. Councilman Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4)

Abbott’s Music Management and Production ( Ricardo L. Abbott on sax)

Cathy Harrell, Adria Washington, Nettie Simon-Owens, Karla Gilchrist, Chavlene Giles and Erica Scavella Hill

Ambassador M. Sharples, Patricia Spench and Carman Jowes

Phyllis Epps, Nancy Harris, Natasha Osbone, DeGloria Hallman and Michelle Leete

T. Butler, Miss DC 2015 Senor Wendy Bridges and Vee Davis Photos by Rob Roberts

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Interview

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ARTS & CULTURE

Terrence J Talks About ‘The Perfect Match’

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO Terrence Jenkins, aka Terrence J, was born in Queens, New York on April 21, 1982, but raised in Raleigh and Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

He earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism at North Carolina A&T University where he also worked as a DJ and served as Student Body President.

In 2006, Terrence launched his television career as host of BET’s “106 & Park.” That same year, he made his movie debut alongside Zoe Saldana and Wood Harris in “The Heart Specialist.”

He parlayed that success into roles in “Stomp the Yard 2,” “Think Like a Man” and “Sparkle,” to name a few. And just last year, he played himself in the big screen version of “Entourage.”

Terrence has blossomed into a charismatic actor, philanthropist and author who is now one of the most recognizable faces

Terrence J is one of the stars of ‘The Perfect Match,’ in theaters now.

Common to Headline 40th African American Heritage Festival in Baltimore GreIBO Entertainment has been a key producer for the event in the last few years, and President and CEO Shelonda Stokes said she is The Annual African American committed to improving Baltimore Heritage Festival commonly as part of the event. known as AFRAM because it “This year is about the heart” was previously called the African said Stokes, “Baltimore needs us, American Festival, will celebrate urban communities across the nation its 40th anniversary in Baltimore need us.” on July 2-3 at the Camden Yards Superstar Actress Vivica A. Sports and Entertainment Complex.

Fox will host this year’s event with Vivica A. Fox will serve as host comedy vet Johnathan Slocumb while acts like Common, Estelle and (“Steve Harvey Show”, “Comic Baltimore’s Ruff Endz will perform.

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The event was announced Acts scheduled to perform before a large crowd gathered in include Grammy Winners Common, the Baltimore City Hall Rotunda by Estelle, Grammy Nominated artists Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Joe, Angie Stone, and Anthony Brown & Group Therapy. Soul singer Goapele and Baltimore’s own Ruff Endz round out this year’s lineup.

Ruff Endz was brought out by Rawlings-Blake to perform their 2002 hit single “Someone to Love You.” Baltimore’s Ruff Comedian Johnathan Endz perform at Slocumb spoke on the the announcement opportunity to perform at of the 40th AFRAM this year’s festival. “The in Baltimore. keyword is opportunity, I’m honored, I love black Photo by Maliik Obee people,” said Slocumb.

Baltimore’s Ruff Endz said they and the event sponsors. are proud to participate in the event Rawlings-Blake also announced and remembered attending the 40 initiatives at the same time that festival as young men. are meant to empower the people of “I’m jacked out of my mind” Baltimore. said David Chance, “Baltimore is Among the new initiatives is Ruff Endz story.”

“Good Kids 20-20”, an edutainment Member Dante “Chi” Jordan series following hot topics from a said, “I remember growing up child’s perspective. when the AFRAM was in Druid “We are emphasizing cultural Hill Park” said Jordan, “ it takes enrichment and community impact” me back to the days of working said Blake. at the Fudge Factory.” More The Mayor is also working in partnership with Visit Baltimore and information on this year’s African American Festival can be found at the event sponsors in an effort to africanamericanfestival.net. draw visitors in from other states.

By Maliik Obee Special to the AFRO

in Hollywood, most recently, as the co-anchor of the news program “E! News.” The threetime Emmy Awardnominee also spent seven years hosting BET’s “106 & Park,” the longest-running music countdown show in television history.

Terrence published his first literary work, “The Wealth of My Mother’s Wisdom,” in 2014, and he’s also a model and spokesperson for several brands, including ad campaigns for Jeep Wrangler, Crown Royal Black Whiskey, Sean John and Snapple.

Away from work, Terrence is heavily invested in numerous philanthropic endeavors. For instance, he served as a Centennial Ambassador in Courtesy photo the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary “Find Your Park” campaign.

Furthermore, he’s a spokesperson for Ronald McDonald House Charities Future Achievers Scholarship campaign, a mentor with Steve Harvey’s Disney Dreamers Academy, and an avid supporter of the Newark, New Jersey, Boys and Girls Club.

Closely associated with the Obama Administration, Terrence has been tapped to host the White House student film festival.

Here, he talks about his latest outing opposite Cassie Ventura in “The Perfect Match,” a romantic comedy revolving around a shameless player who takes a dare to remain faithful to one woman for an entire month.

KW: What interested you in the script for “The Perfect Match?”

TJ: I don’t think it was called “The Perfect Match” at the time, but it had some really amazing characters. And I’d been working with Queen Latifah and Flavor Unit [her production company] for quite some time. When we were able to develop it into a great story with dynamic characters, it became a nobrainer and a project I really wanted to be a part of.

KW: How did you prepare to play Charlie?

TJ: I really wanted to nail this character, so I worked with an acting coach. I was heavily inspired

by Eddie Murphy in “Boomerang” and a lot of my favorite movies growing up. Charlie’s a multi-layered character, and I devoted a lot of time to working on him so that I felt like I knew him by the time we shot.

KW: What message do you think people will take away from “The Perfect Match?”

TJ: This is a coming-of-age story about growing up. A lot of times, guys think we can get away with things. In the case of Charlie, he meets his match, a girl who really helps him mature and to look at relationships, his career and other aspects of his life in a new way. That’s what I hope people take away from the film.

KW: What’s the biggest difference between who you are at home as opposed to the person we see on the red carpet?

TJ: They couldn’t be more different from each other. I’ve really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard. Today, I was up at 6 a.m. and, from the moment I woke up, it’s been go-go-go, from shooting a show in the morning to doing press in the afternoon. That calls for a lot of balance. So, I definitely need to know when to turn it off and just take some time for myself to relax. I’ve gotten very good about scheduling time for myself when I don’t have to be “on.”

Chef Ahki Promotes Delicious Vegan Lifestyle and Books

By Lauren Poteat Special to the AFRO Sepsenahki Aahkhu, better known as Chef Ahki, is a celebrity chef who recently launched “Electric!

A Modern Guide to NonHybrid and Wild Foods,” a collection of organic, wild food recipes, focused on the sweet and savory secrets of fruits and vegetables in their purest form, to heal bodies and enhance lives.

Chef Ahki released the book in January. Her experience includes cooking for several celebrities, including Lenny Kravitz, Bradley Cooper, Curtis Martin, COMMON, Waka Flocka and Lee Daniels.

She is also the the CEO of Delicious Indigenous Foods.

“Your taste buds have been hijacked and illness is unnecessary. Human bodies are electric and we need that good sunlight that comes from our leafy green vegetables and delicious fruits to sustain our bodies.” Ahki told the AFRO. As a colon therapist in Atlanta, Georgia, Ahki said she grew tired of seeing countless clients sick and started offering health consultations in hopes of teaching patients how to gain control of their health.

“We are not supposed to be sick. I’ll never forget working with a mother whose infant was born dangerously premature, on the verge of death and after a short time of consultations and healthy recipes, was totally rejuvenated and is now a happy and nutritious

baby.” Ahki said.

She fully transitioned into the vegan lifestyle at 18, but never saw it as an obstacle. She came from four generations of medicinal women and worked in her grandmother’s garden in Oklahoma as a child.

“When people mention how expensive or costly healthy food is, all I can say to that is, which is cheaper?

Healthy edibles or long-term

“Your taste buds have been hijacked and illness is unnecessary.”

–Ahki treatments and medications for colon disease, heart problems and cancers?” Ahki said.

With vegan recipes such as sesame ginger noodles, key lime pies and non-hybrid chocolate ganache tarts, Ahki’s experiences show that food can still be healthy and taste good.

Along with non-hybrid recipes, Ahki holds periodic lectures on good health with particular interest to Black audiences.

“Don’t worry, you ain’t depressed, you just malnutrition,” she said.

For more information visit gochefahki.com.

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SPORTS

Maryland is Built for a Final Four Run

By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO The mantra of any election year is of trending and projections. That Maryland was projected as a Final Four candidate by many college basketball experts to open the season is now being offset by the inescapable reality that this team is not trending in the right direction.

They are an enigma wrapped inside a quandary heading into the NCAA Tournament starting March 18.

A 25-8 record and a number five seed in the big dance is not a failure. However, for a team that was supposed to be the best team in America, according to ESPN the Magazine, and blessed with the nation’s top high school recruit, Diamond Stone, Maryland’s staggering finish in the Big Ten conference is perplexing. The Terps are 5-5 over the last 10 games including the March 12 loss to Michigan State in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. They feasted on the weaker teams in their conference down the stretch but couldn’t get a victory against an NCAA Tournament team after February 21.

Maryland is a team that is built to make a deep run in the tournament. Guards are the key to success in March and when Melo Trimble and Rasheed Sulaimon are on their games the Terps are a matchup nightmare for their opponents. But for the last month of the regular season their inconsistency has personified the erratic conclusion to what has to be considered a troubling finish.

Their schizophrenic backcourt play manifested itself once again last weekend in Indianapolis. Trimble and Sulaimon combined for 26 points 10 rebounds and 14 assists making five of their eight three point shots against Nebraska. But Saturday in the semifinals - against a legitimate national championship contender from Michigan State – they made only three of 11 shots from long range in that three point loss.

“We haven’t played our best basketball yet but it’s coming,” said head coach Mark Turgeon after a senior night victory over an Illinois team that didn’t make the postseason.

Their window for coming together is now over. If Maryland hopes to play into the second week of the tournament they’ve got to find a balance their perimeter players who have license to freelance and shoot indiscriminately -even when they are off - and their outstanding combination of Stone and Robert Carter, Jr. who can dominate in the frontcourt.

Turgeon was an outstanding college guard at Kansas and his philosophy is heavily predicated on the success of his backcourt. However, this year he hasn’t done enough to create scoring opportunities for his big men. Teams have been able to pack their defense inside the

(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Maryland’s Diamond Stone (33) will have to step his game up if Maryland wants to advance in the NCAA tournament.

lane which has made it difficult for the guards to get to the basket and they still haven’t figured a way to get the ball into the paint.

Stone and Carter, Jr. will have to step up if Maryland is going to win two games and earn a spot in the Sweet 16. However, if they remain innocent bystanders in Maryland’s offense leading to a premature exit from the tournament, his credibility in recruiting talented low post players will take a hit.

Former center Shaquille Clear was Turgeon’s first major recruit but flamed out quickly which may damage his reputation as a coach of big men.

There have been a few moments where the Terps have flirted with brilliance and at other times they have played as if they left the pier without an oar. Brilliant performances against Georgetown and Iowa have been offset by horrific losses to Minnesota and Purdue.

Maryland is built for a run to the Final Four. Winning four games to get there is another matter though.

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if Beal is a max-contract level player but there will probably be a team willing to pay the fourth-year guard. With the salary cap expected to increase over the next couple of seasons, matching a max offer for Beal—should he receive one—wouldn’t be so much of a big deal if not for the injury factor.

Beal’s still young enough to overcome some early career setbacks, but handcuffing the franchise to an injury-prone player could be disastrous. Washington’s hands will seemingly be tied and they’ll have no choice but to re-sign Beal no matter the cost.

Green: The injuries would definitely cause concerns for most organizations but let’s not forget that a hobbled Gilbert Arenas negotiated his own $100 million-plus contract against General Manager Ernie Grunfeld. This organization is known for handing out bad contracts dating back to the Juwan Howard days, and I’m sure they will (AP Photo/Stacy Bengs) re-sign Beal—but they shouldn’t.

Availability is any player’s best trait, and Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal Washington should think long and hard before (3) drives the ball around Minnesota they sign up long term for that roller coaster. Wall Timberwolves forward Andrew Wiggins (22) has emerged into the franchise guard the Wizards in the second half of an NBA basketball game March 2 in Minneapolis. The Wizards won 104- were looking for and using the available cap room to go after a big man would make tons of sense.

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Riley: There’s no guarantee that the player the team might sign with the available cap space

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Beal suffered some nagging injuries but he’s Time is ticking on Washington Wizards also been fantastic in the postseason. Wall played shooting guard Bradley Beal to make one last and has grown into the franchise player, making argument for why he deserves a mega contract him a piece you focus on keeping happy. Beal extension this summer. The 21-year-old guard has spaces the court for Wall to operate and not to been routinely banged up for the last few seasons mention they’re good friends off the court as well. and needs a healthy finish to justify what will be a The two have a solid chemistry and Beal still critical crossroads this offseason. has enough going for him between his potential Beal recently exited the lineup with a strained and his ability that it makes his re-signing a pelvis that may keep him completely out of practical no brainer by the team.

Washington’s current road trip. The Wizards have Green: If the Wizards ever want to become been a better team with Beal on the floor, and a winning franchise again they have to start he’s stepped up big time in past playoffs. But, his making smart decisions in regards to their roster. availability has been a major question mark during Regardless of player ability, age or projection, you his District tenure. simply don’t re-sign players to huge extensions There’s still time for Beal to return, help the when they can’t stay healthy. Washington hasn’t Wizards make the playoffs and repeat as a strong exactly been the hub for talented players to go to postseason performer. But there’s still a possibility so I’m sure the Wizards will do everything to keep that Beal could continue to miss time and the their own talent in the District.

Wizards miss the playoffs which could trigger the But, this summer will have blue chip stars question: Will the Wizards re-sign Beal? Perry available such as Hassan Whiteside, Al Horford Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports and Kevin Durant who could all instantly walk Desk debate this question. into a starting role in Washington, who would have Riley: The Wizards will undoubtedly be in a cap space galore if it doesn’t re-sign Beal. The unique scenario this summer when Beal becomes a smart thing to do would be to refrain from giving free agent. The franchise still has yet to figure out Beal top dollar and test out the market.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2016FEP17 Date of Death August 30, 2015 Corinne A Sheaffer AKA Corinne Ann Sheaffer Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Michael K Sheaffer and Valerie Sheaffer whose addresses are 644 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20003 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Corinne A Sheaffer (AKA Corinne Sheaffer) , deceased by the Register of Wills Court for Lancaster County, State of Pennsylvania., on September 14, 2015, Service of process may be made upon Michael K Sheaffer at 644 Independ e n c e Av e . , S E , Washington, DC 20003 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 638 G Street SE, Washington, DC Square 0877 Lots 0910 &0911 (Garage) 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 St., NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

Valerie L Sheaffer Michael K Sheaffer Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: March 11, 2016 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1325 Claudia Lee Decedent Steven Schiff 10507 Beechknoll Street Rockville, MD 20854 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Steven Schiff, whose address is 10507 Beechknoll Street, Rockville, MD 20854 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Claudia Lee, who died on October 10, 2013 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (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 September 11, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 11, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 11, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Steven Schiff Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM169 James A Leslie Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ivory L. Leslie , whose address is 5612 Street NW, Washington, DC, 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of James A Leslie, who died on September 21, 2011 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 September 11, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 11, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 11, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Ivory L Leslie Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM000603 Mildred Edwards Decedent Anita Isicson Esq 4616 Fessenden St., NW Washington, DC 20016 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Anita Isicson, Esq, whose address is 4616 Fessenden St., NW, Washington, DC 20016, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mildred Edwards, who died on October 11, 2010 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts 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 September 18, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 18, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 18, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Anita Isicson Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM196 Zawdu Bekele Decedent Bruce E Gardner, Esq The Gardner Law Firm, PC 1101 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20004 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Betelehem Bekele, whose address is 6256 William Edgar Drive., Alexandria, VA, 22310, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Zawdu Bekele, who died on June 24, 2015 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 September 11, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 11, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 11, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Betelehem Bekele Personal Representative

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TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 3/11, 3/18, 3/25/16 TYPESET: Tue Mar 08 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia 12:07:41 ESTDIVISION 2016 PROBATE Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM000513 Estate of Judy M Butler AKA Judy M Perrine Decedent Bonita Jones-Moon Esq 1100 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 340 Washington, DC 20036 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Bonita Jones-Moon, Esquire, whose address is 1100 Connecticut Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20036, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Judy Perrine AKA Judy Butler, who died on May 23, 2009 (with, without) a will, and will serve (with, 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 September 11, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 11, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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TYPESET: Wed2016 Mar 02 14:06:19 EST 2016 TYPESET: Wed Mar 16 14:12:13 LEGAL EDT NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM237 Leonard A Coombs Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lauren Cameron and Crystal L Miller and Lynette C Coombs and Anthony C Rodriguez , whose addresses are 1216 Longfellow St. NW, Washington, DC 20011 814 Crittenden St., NE, Washington, DC 20017 and 9313 Woddberry St., Lanham, MD 20706 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Leonard A Coombs, who died on 16:38:36 March 10,EST 20142016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before September 18, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 18, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 18, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Lauren Cameron Crystal L. Miller Lynette C Coombs Anthony C Rodriguez Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM160 Ida Louise More Decedent Colline Silvera 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt, MD 20770 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Marshawny Moore, whose address is 216 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ida Louise Moore, who died on January 11, 2016 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 September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Marshawny Moore Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia TRUE TEST COPY PROBATE DIVISION REGISTER OF WILLS Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. TYPESET: Wed Mar 16 17:24:58 EDT 2016 03/18, 03/25, 4/1/16 2015ADM1420 Mary Lue Phillips Decedent Superior Court of NOTICE OF the District of APPOINTMENT, District of Columbia NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION CREDITORS Washington, D.C. AND NOTICE TO 20001-2131 UNKNOWN HEIRS Administration No. Vincent Phillips, whose 2016ADM166 address is 4421- Ord St., Daisy M Bradby NE Washington, DC Decedent 20019, was appointed Gerald R Belton personal representative 1101 L Street NW 806 of the estate of Mary Lue Washington, DC 20005 Phillips, who died on AuAttorney gust 8, 2015 with a will, NOTICE OF and will serve without APPOINTMENT, Court supervision. All unNOTICE TO known heirs and heirs CREDITORS 16:35:24 EST 2016 whose where-abouts are AND NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their UNKNOWN HEIRS Edward L. Smith, whose a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s address is 3514 Dunlap proceeding. Objections Street, Temple Hills, MD to such appointment (or 20748 was appointed to the probate of depersonal representative cedent´s will) shall be of the estate of Daisy M filed with the Register of Bradby, who died on Wills, D.C., 515 5th January 1, 2016 without Street, N.W., 3rd Floor a will, and will serve with W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Court supervision. All un- 20001, on or before known heirs and heirs September 4, 2016. whose whereabouts are Claims against the deunknown shall enter their cedent shall be presented to the underappearance in this proceeding. Objections signed with a copy to the to such appointment (or Register of Wills or filed to the probate of de- with the Register of Wills cedent´s will) shall be with a copy to the underfiled with the Register of signed, on or before September 4, 2016, or be Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . legatees of the decedent 20001, on or before September 4, 2016. who do not receive a Claims against the de- copy of this notice by mail cedent shall be pre- within 25 days of its first sented to the under- publication shall so insigned with a copy to the form the Register of Register of Wills or filed Wills, including name, with the Register of Wills address and relationwith a copy to the under- ship.

Date of Publication: signed, on or before September 4, 2016, or be March 4, 2016 forever barred. Persons Name of newspaper: believed to be heirs or Afro-American legatees of the decedent Washington who do not receive a Law Reporter Vincent Phillips copy of this notice by mail Personal within 25 days of its first Representative publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, TRUE TEST COPY address and relation- REGISTER OF WILLS ship.

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nia 94127 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Anita Ashok Datar, deceased by the Register of Wills for Montgomery County, State of Maryland on December 10, 2015, Service of process may 12:09:50 ESTWed 2016 TYPESET: Mar 09 15:23:29 EST Jeremy 2016 be made upon LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICESD R a c h l i n , E s q . , 11 0 0 Connecticut Ave, NW, Superior Court of Suite 340, Washington, the District of DC 20036 whose desDistrict of Columbia ignation as District of Columbia agent has PROBATE DIVISION been filed with the RegisWashington, D.C. ter of Wills, D.C. 20001-2131 Claims against the deAdministration No. cedent may be pre2015ADM1226 sented to the underLucy Estelle Austin signed and filed with the Decedent Register of Wills for the NOTICE OF District of Columbia, APPOINTMENT, Building A, 515 5th NOTICE TO Street, NW., 3rd Floor, CREDITORS Washington, DC 20001 AND NOTICE TO within 6 months from the UNKNOWN HEIRS date of first publication of Thelma Evans, whose this notice. address is 7707 Old Chapel Drive, Bowie, MD Sanjeev Datar 20715 was appointed Personal personal representative Representative(s) of the estate of Lucy EsTRUE TEST COPY telle Austin, who died on REGISTER OF WILLS August 9, 2009 with a Date of first publication: will, and will serve with March 11, 2016 Court supervision. All unName of newspapers known heirs and heirs and/or periodical: whose where-abouts are The Daily Washington unknown shall enter their Law Reporter appearance in this The Afro-American proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or TYPESET: Wed Mar 09 3/11, 3/18, 3/26/16 to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Superior Court of Wills, D.C., 515 5th the District of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor District of Columbia Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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20001-2131 Claims against the deAdministration No. cedent shall be pre2016ADM164 sented to the undersigned with a copy to the Juanita C Roberts Decedent Register of Wills or filed NOTICE OF with the Register of Wills APPOINTMENT, with a copy to the underNOTICE TO signed, on or before CREDITORS September 11, 2016, or AND NOTICE TO be forever barred. PerUNKNOWN HEIRS sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the de- Mark E P Roberts, whose cedent who do not re- address is 215 Whittler ceive a copy of this notice Street, NW, Washington, by mail within 25 days of DC 20012 was appointed its first publication shall personal representative so inform the Register of of the estate of Juanita C Wills, including name, Roberts, who died on address and relation- June 5. 2010 without a will, and will serve withship.

Date of first publication- out Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs March 11, 2016 whose whereabouts are Name of newspaper: unknown shall enter their Afro-American appearance in this Washington proceeding. Objections Law Reporter Thelma Evans to such appointment Personal shall be filed with the Representative Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. TRUE TEST COPY 20001, on or before REGISTER OF WILLS September 11, 2016.

Claims against the de03/11, 03/18, 03/25/16 TYPESET: Mar 09 15:23:04 EST 2016 12:07:20 ESTWed 2016 cedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Superior Court of Register of Wills or filed the District of with the Register of Wills District of Columbia with a copy to the underPROBATE DIVISION signed, on or before Washington, D.C. September 11, 2016, or 20001-2131 be forever barred. PerAdministration No. sons believed to be heirs 2015ADM1324 or legatees of the deMartha J Irish cedent who do not reDecedent ceive a copy of this notice William A Bland, Esq by mail within 25 days of 1140 Connecticut Ave., its first publication shall NW #1100 so inform the Register of Washington, DC 20036 Wills, including name, Attorney address and relationNOTICE OF ship.

APPOINTMENT, Date of Publication: NOTICE TO March 11, 2016 CREDITORS Name of newspaper: AND NOTICE TO Afro-American UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington William A Bland, whose Law Reporter a d d r e s s i s 11 4 0 Mark E P Roberts Connecticut Ave, NW, Personal #1100, Washington, DC Representative 20036, was appointed personal representative TRUE TEST COPY of the estate of Martha J REGISTER OF WILLS Irish, who died on August 22, 2015 without a will, 03/11, 03/18,Wed 03/25/16 TYPESET: Mar 09 and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs Superior Court of whose whereabouts are the District of unknown shall enter their District of Columbia appearance in this PROBATE DIVISION proceeding. Objections Washington, D.C. to such appointment 20001-2131 shall be filed with the Administration No. Register of Wills, D.C., 2016ADM214 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. Michael Ray Hastings Decedent 20001, on or before NOTICE OF September 11, 2016.

APPOINTMENT, Claims against the deNOTICE TO cedent shall be preCREDITORS sented to the underAND NOTICE TO signed with a copy to the UNKNOWN HEIRS Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills J i m m i e E H a s t i n g s , with a copy to the under- whose address is 3416 B Street SE, #201, signed, on or before September 11, 2016 or Washington, DC 20019, be forever barred. Per- was appointed personal sons believed to be heirs representative of the or legatees of the de- estate of Michael Ray cedent who do not re- Hasting , who died on ceive a copy of this notice September 2, 2015 withby mail within 25 days of out a will, and will serve its first publication shall without Court superviso inform the Register of sion. All unknown heirs Wills, including name, a n d h e i r s w h o s e address and relation- whereabouts are unknown shall enter their ship. appearance in this Date of first Publication: proceeding. Objections March 11, 2016 to such appointment Name of newspaper: shall be filed with the Afro-American Register of Wills, D.C., Washington 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Law Reporter William A Bland Floor Washington, D.C. Personal 20001, on or before Representative Sepetember 11, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be preTRUE TEST COPY sented to the underREGISTER OF WILLS signed with a copy to the TYPESET: Wed Mar 09 15:22:16 EST 2016 Register of Wills or filed 03/11, 03/18, 03/25/16 with the Register of Wills with a copy to the underSUPERIOR COURT OF signed, on or before THE DISTRICT OF September 11, 2016, or COLUMBIA be forever barred. PerPROBATE DIVISION sons believed to be heirs Washington, D.C. or legatees of the de20001-2131 cedent who do not reForeign No. ceive a copy of this notice 2016FEP24 by mail within 25 days of Date of Death its first publication shall November 20, 2015 so inform the Register of Anita Ashok Datar Wills, including name, Decedent address and relationNOTICE OF ship.

APPOINTMENT Date of Publication: OF FOREIGN March 11, 2016 PERSONAL Name of newspaper: REPRESENTATIVE Afro-American AND Washington Law ReNOTICE TO porter CREDITORS Jimmie E Hasting Sanjeez Datar whose adPersonal dress is 95 Manor Drive, Representative San Francisco, California 94127 was appointed TRUE TEST COPY personal representative REGISTER OF WILLS of the estate of Anita Ashok Datar, deceased 03/11, 03/18 , 3/25/16 by the Register of Wills for Montgomery County, State of Maryland on December 10, 2015, Service of process may be made upon Jeremy D Rachlin, Esq., 1100 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 340, Washington, DC 20036 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Regis-

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BALTIMORE-AREA 9 Candidates Discuss Policies at AFRO/Morgan State Mayoral Debate

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO

Voter registration deadline for the April 26 Baltimore Primary Elections is April 5.

Race and Politics

Trump May Come to Baltimore, One Year After Freddie Gray As I watched violence erupt at the University of Illinois at Chicago March 11 Sean Yoes between supporters Senior AFRO of Donald Contributor Trump and those protesting his appearance in that city, I wondered if Trump actually had the stones to come to Baltimore pedaling his political vitriol.

After all, there are many parallels between Baltimore and Chicago; two great American cities grappling with poverty, prodigious violence and homicides, high profile cases of police brutality and pervasive mistrust of law enforcement in communities of color.

As the scenes of pandemonium dominated cable news networks that evening, details of Trump’s future campaign plans began to trickle out. He not only planned to speak in Chicago, where 17-year old LaQuan McDonald was murdered by a Chicago police officer, but also in St. Louis (about eight miles from Ferguson, Missouri where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by police), and Cleveland, where 12-year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by Cleveland police.

Mayoral candidates DeRay Mckesson, left, Nick Mosby, Sheila Dixon, Carl Stokes, Catherine E. Pugh, David Warnock, Elizabeth

Embry, Patrick Gutierrez and Calvin Allen Young III on the stage at Morgan State University.

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By Akira Kyles Special to the AFRO With less than 50 days until the primary elections in Baltimore, nine of the 29 mayoral candidates participated in a debate March 10 at the Murphy Fine Arts Center on the campus of Morgan State University (MSU) in Baltimore.

The debate—the first of the contest to be held at Morgan— was sponsored by the AFRO, WEAA-AM radio, the City Paper, and The MSU Spokesman newspaper.

For about two-and-a-half hours, DeRay Mckesson, City Councilman Nick Mosby, former Mayor Sheila Dixon, Councilman Carl Stokes, State Sen. Catherine Pugh, David Warnock, Elizabeth Embry, Patrick Gutierrez, and Calvin Allen Young III, fielded questions from a panel of journalists.

Those journalists included, Sean Yoes of the AFRO and WEAA’s “First Edition”; Marc Steiner of WEAA’s “The Marc Steiner Show;” Karen Houppert of The City Paper; and Charles D. Ellison of TheRoot.com and WEAA’s “The Ellison Report.” Marsha Jews of WEAA’s “Keep It Moving with Marsha Jews” served as the forum moderator.

The candidates were quizzed mainly on four topics: housing, police policy, education, and economic development.

Affordable Housing Policy: The first question of the debate was on housing. It sought each candidate’s strategy on how to address and assist the 40 percent of Baltimore’s citizens that cannot afford housing.

Dixon: “Number one: We have to institute our inclusionary housing law,” said Dixon, referring to a 2007 law requiring

Luwanda Jenkins Joins Cordish Companies in Diversity Role

By James Bentley AFRO Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com On Feb. 1, Luwanda Jenkins joined the ranks of The Cordish Companies as

the new Vice President of Community Relations and Diversity. In that role, she is primarily responsible for setting the tone and policies for how Cordish, a major developer based in Baltimore

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developers to set aside in each of their newly constructed projects, up to 10-20 % of the new units for low income people.

She added, “Number two: I am going to triple our training money for the city. Third: I am going to raise the minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour.”

Pugh: “In terms of immediate relief, I think [the answer is] reducing property tax,” said Pugh. “We have one the highest property tax rates in the state.” Pugh received resounding applause from the audience after her response.

Police Policy: The debate then moved onto police policy, asking about what the candidates would do about the divide between Baltimore citizens and the police department.

Mckesson: Spoke about reforming the police department to benefit communities by creating an alternate hearing board, mandating that police be drug tested, and making sure that oversight authorities are adequately empowered with tools such as -Sheila Dixon subpoena power. “We need to make sure communities are protected,” said Mckesson.

“The reason that the trust is broken is because people do not have faith that there’s integrity and accountability in the police department.”

Young: Also spoke about improving the police department and its interaction with residents but his answer focused on implementing certain technologies such as GPS trackers around the city that would alert them when a gun was fired in the city and the direction those bullets had been fired. Young also spoke about a technology that would call for back-up in situations where that was needed by an officer.

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“I am going to raise the minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour.”

“I believe this timing is no accident...”

An insidious pattern emerged; Trump went right to the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement to deliver his sermon of thinly veiled race based hate. Now, it seemed perfectly logical -- at least in the diabolical mind of Trump -- that Baltimore would be a prominent stop on his Make America Hate Again tour (although of course America never stopped hating, just as it never stopped being great).

Lead Paint Leaves Tragic Legacy in Baltimore

Luwanda Jenkins was recently named Vice President of Community Relations and Diversity at The Cordish Companies.

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which counts Maryland Live!

Casino, Power Plant Live! and Towson Square among its accomplishments, takes their community relations and minority business inclusion efforts to the next level.

In an interview with the AFRO Jenkins said “Cordish has had a pretty impressive track record for quite some time of minority business inclusion but as the company has grown, it has grown significantly in recent years to really become a global leader in real estate development.

We have operations in other cities and states around the country, so also developing some uniformity and enhancing what we do in terms of consistency.”

Jenkins most recent positions were at at Coppin State University and the Maryland Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs The Cordish Companies has grown into a global leader in Real Estate Development, Gaming & Hospitality, Entertainment Management and International Urban Planning & Development.

It is one of the largest real estate developers not only in the Baltimore metropolitan area but the entire country with properties like Hopkins

Square, Towson Square, Pier IV, Power Plant Live and Maryland Live.

“We are pleased to have Luwanda as a member of our executive team,” said Zed Smith, Chief Operating Officer of The Cordish Companies, in a statement. “Her experience and leadership in the areas of diversity and community relations are unmatched, and her expertise will continue to strengthen a core value of our company.”

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Past Seven Days

In Flint – it’s in the water. In Baltimore –it’s in the walls. The lead paint legacy of Baltimore’s poor and predominately Black neighborhoods is a long and tragic story unfolding in plain sight before our eyes.

“Every single poor child who lives in a rental property in Baltimore is getting a much higher lead exposure than the children in Flint” said Saul Kerpelman, a Baltimore attorney who has exclusively handled lead paint poising cases for the past 30 years.

194 children in Baltimore tested positive for lead poisoning in 2014 and have lead blood levels in excess of 10 micrograms per deciliter, a damaging amount, according to the most recent data from the Maryland Department of the Environment. Almost all of the 194 reported cases represent new reports, meaning new families have either stepped forward to be tested or are now testing with toxic lead levels. African-

“Baltimore has been one of the most aggressive cities in monitoring lead paint exposure…”

– Saul Kerpelman American children represent the overwhelming majority of child lead poisoning cases in Baltimore.

Since 2012, the Center for Disease Control has determined that no level of lead in the blood is safe.

Before 2012, blood levels below 5 micrograms per deciliter were considered non-toxic. It is now known that even microscopic levels of lead can poison children, especially those below the age of six, according to the CDC. Chips from crumbling paint in windows, doors and peeling walls of older homes can cause lead poisoning.

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abandoned housing in Baltimore – much of them lined with lead paint. The use of interior lead paint was banned in the US in 1978.

“The US has known about the dangers of lead paint long before 1978,” said Kerpelman. “Baltimore has been one of the most aggressive cities in monitoring lead paint exposure – but we’re also known for our share of problems with this issue” Kerpelman stated.

As early as 1899, Sherwin-William’s internal research unit warned company insiders against the dangers of lead paint. By the early 20th century, leading lead paint manufactures such as Dupont and Sherwin Williams, knew ingesting chips from lead-based paint caused lead poisoning in children, according to the book “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children.” A number of European countries, including Sweden, France, Belgium, Poland, Austria and others soon banned the use of interior lead paint in the 1920’s and 1930’s concurrent with an international ban on lead-based paint sponsored in 1922 by the League of Nations.

As early as the 1940’s, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Huntington Williams partnered with the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, to conduct evaluations on homes of children suffering from lead poisoning. Baltimore was one of the first cities in the US to ban lead-based paint in the construction of new homes in 1950 and the first city to offer free blood-lead testing.

Photo by Deborah Bailey

Airborne lead dust from abandoned housing, like this one in Baltimore’s SandtownWinchester area, poses danger to children and adults.

Shortly after 1978, when lead-based paint was banned in the US, Federal Government officials started reaching a consensus that something had to be done to remove lead from older homes. The Department of Health and Human Resources developed a multi-billiondollar plan in 1990 to remove lead-based paint from American homes, but the effort was shelved.

Instead, the US Environmental Protection Agency, commissioned The Kennedy-Krieger Institute, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, to conduct the Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Repair and Maintenance Study, controversial research involving children in 108 African-American households to investigate “low-cost partial lead abatement procedures to prevent lead poisoning in

children living in inner-city Baltimore” according to David Buchanan and Franklin Miller, authors of a review article on the troubled study.

Although most of the study children’s lead levels decreased or remained constant, several participants ended the study with elevated blood-lead levels. Two parents who enrolled their children in the Study later sued Kennedy -Krieger indicating, “they were not fully informed of the risks of participation for their children and Kennedy-Krieger failed to inform them in a timely manner of test results.”

Buchanan and Miller wrote in their review.

The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s initial ruling to dismiss the case and reinstated the families’ lawsuits. In August 2001, the court issued an impassioned 96page ruling questioning the basic ethics of the Kennedy-Krieger study and drawing parallels with the latent racial discrimination involved in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.

In 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Kennedy-Krieger Institute alleging that researchers “used those children as known guinea pigs in lead-contaminated houses to complete the study” according to court documents. Some of the Kennedy-Krieger cases have been settled while others are still in litigation.

Johns Hopkins University Hospital was contacted for comment on this story but did not provide a response.

Race and Politics Continued from D1

The word on the street is (subsequently bolstered by credible sources on background) that there is definite interest by members of Maryland’s GOP to bring Trump to Baltimore right around the time of the Maryland Primary on April 26.

Of course April 26 is the date of the Primary, but April 26 is also one day before the one-year anniversary of Freddie Gray’s funeral (April 27) and the subsequent uprising (if you count the fact this is a leap year it would be one year exactly).

As someone via social media put it, “I believe this timing is no accident...”

No, it seems very much on purpose. It is well documented Trump encourages violence at his campaign rallies and we saw what happened when 26-year old Rakeem Jones, a Black protester, was leaving one of Trump’s events in North Carolina and was sucker punched by a 78-year old White man named

John McGraw, who later told reporters, “He deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him.”

Now, GOP operatives in the state are allegedly scrambling to get Trump to Baltimore or suburban Maryland in the midst of the one-year anniversary of last April’s uprising.

Can you imagine the spectacle of Trump in Baltimore at that time?

As Trump roams to and fro around the nation, spewing a toxic cocktail of half truths and whole lies, whipping up anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-government, anti-Black sentiment, one thing is abundantly clear; he will do and say anything to win. And I believe that includes coming to Baltimore right at the time we are all reflecting on last April’s uprising, and struggling to get beyond the most volatile time in our city’s history, to profit from our misery.

And if Trump does come, and there are protests and violence breaks out as it did in Chicago, I could see him wash his hands like Pontius Pilate and play the victim just as he did in Chicago.

I could see him prey upon and exacerbate our tenuous collective psyche, commanding yet another news cycle with virtually no push back from “mainstream media,” at our expense.

To be clear, Donald Trump has the right, protected by the Constitution, to speak in Baltimore. But, the people who love this city, those willing to transcend political, racial, social, cultural and religious lines for the greater good, have the right to shut him down.

elected school board.”

As the education topic focused on sex education the candidates went temporarily silent before their responses.

Gutierrez: “We will build a comprehensive sex education curriculum and we will roll it out to every school through the

problem.”

Asked if sex education was taught at Green Street Academy, a Baltimore charter school founded by Warnock, he said, “I don’t believe so.”

Economic Development Policy: As the debate reached its final topic of economic development, the audience was already cheering for the responses before the first question was even asked. The first question regarded Baltimore’s economic relationship with Under Amour.

In January, the athletic apparel brand unveiled plans to build a multibillion-dollar, 50-acre waterfront headquarters campus in South Baltimore’s Port Covington.

Mosby: “Baltimore is a working class city without the work,” said Mosby. “Under Armour needs to establish [a] manufacturing plant in Baltimore. I think this is a very unique opportunity for the city of Baltimore.”

Embry: Indicated that any consideration of the project has to ensure the deal best benefits the city and the citizens. “Is it worth it for the city? Does it create jobs for local people?” asked Embry.

Sean Yoes is a senior contributor for the AFRO and host and executive producer of First Edition, which airs Monday through Friday, 5-7 p.m. on WEAA 88.9.

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Continued from D1 “What we decided to do as a city, when we had the opportunity to bring this type of technology here, we said it cost too much,” said Young. “That’s crazy. It only cost $300,000.” The audience seemed to like Young’s plan, signaling approval with applause and whistling.

Warnock: Among his comments on policing, Warnock called for marijuana to be decriminalized and for a “change” within the culture of the police department. “When a young person joins our police force, they need to have a shot at the top job,” Warnock said.

“We need to change the culture of the police so that people feel like it’s an honorable career, as it is.”

Education Policy: The debate moved on to education with a question about control of the school board.

Stokes: “The current school board doesn’t represent the children it serves; 85 percent of the children are poor and Black. There’s not one member of the school board who is Black,” said Stokes. “We should bring forward a partially

“The current school board doesn’t represent the children it serves…”

–Carl Stokes city starting at middle school level,” said Gutierrez. “We use the money that we find from our audits because we do not have a resource problem in the city, we have a resource management

Luwanda Jenkins Continued from D1

Hopkins University.

Jenkins was working at Coppin State University during last year’s unrest. “First and foremost the university took actions to ensure their students were safe... whether it was going up to North and Pennsylvania to help with the cleanup or participating in one of the more peaceful demonstrations that were led by a number of students throughout the region” she said. “We also provided office space to one of the federal agencies that was providing federal loan assistance, I believe the college of health professions provided health related outreach services to the local community and as I recall some of the professors held panel discussions to allow students and faculty on the campus to have some discourse and dialogue around what was happening in the greater community.”

When asked how she rated Cordish’s diversity at the time of the interview Jenkins said “I would give us an A+ because we have really had a strong focus for decades on including minority and women businesses when we are developing and building out projects. In terms of our ongoing operations, in terms of once we have built an entertainment district, I would give us a B because I believe there is more potential there for us with our ongoing operations and that is an area I hope to help the company lift the tide there with ongoing operations. Overall I would give us an A for our diversity efforts.”

March 19, 2016 - March 25, 2016, The Afro-American

Hello my dear friends, I hope everything is well with you and your family. We will have a pretty busy weekend this week. I hope to see your face in the place. I am looking forward to seeing you. I know some of you around my age remember the self-sustaining band “Blood, Sweat & Tears.

They are known for their iconic horns, soaring vocals and catchy melodies and feature Bo Brice, of “American Idol� fame, as lead singer. Well, my dear friends, they will be appearing at the Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, Virginia on March 18. Show time is 9 p.m.

There will be a “Free Family Health Festival� at Mondawmin Mall on March 19, starting at 12:30 p.m. This event is being hosted by the Susan Cohan Colon Cancer Foundation. You don’t want to miss this one. The festival will include Colon cancer education, health insurance information, healthy cooking demonstrations, free health screening, fitness

The lota Chapter of Lambda Kappa Mu Sorority will be having their Annual Founder’s Day Awards Luncheon on March 19 from noon – 3 p.m. at the Forum Caters, 4210 Primrose Avenue. For ticket information, call 410-2543087.

Grammy-Award winning jazz/rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears will be performing at the Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, VA on March 18 at 9 p.m. They have put in five decades with 14 albums and produced such tunes as “And When I Die�, “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy� and “Spinning Wheel�.

Kenny Davis and The Melodyaires is one of Baltimore’s top national recording gospel groups and they will be performing with many other gospel groups at Mondawmin Mall for the Susan Cohan Colon Cancer Foundation free Family Health Festival on March 19, from 12:30-4:30 p.m. For more information, call 410-2441778.

What could make you feel more at ease while they are poking and sticking than some great live gospel music?

FANTASTIC! I have already got my tests done. I am going for the entertainment. Check it out, I will see you there. For more information go to coloncancerfoundation.org or call 410-2441778.

Well my dear friends, this is it. I am out of space, remember, if you need me, call me at 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@aol.com. Please do not FaceBook me with your information, email it with an attachment if you want me to see it.

UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, I’M MUSICALLY YOURS.

and line dancing, Zumba, face painting, raffles, giveaways and a lots of live entertainment including: continuous fabulous gospel and musical groups such as Kenny Davis & the Melodyaires, Ralph Magwood & Co, Rebirth, Jonora Phifer-Winkler, Jamarr Rashan, the Chosen Vessels; comedian, Robert Richardson and many more.

The Susan Cohan Colon Cancer Foundation, known as “Susie’s Cause,� was founded in beloved honor and memory of Susan Cohan who sadly lost her valiant battle to colorectal cancer and left two small children behind. Susie’s Cause has broken the silence about colorectal cancer and has worked tirelessly to establish itself as the grass roots National Voice for the prevention, early screening and detection, and aggressive contributed over $500,000 to the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins to support colorectal cancer research efforts.

Plus, my favorite part, they do this much needed event with live entertainment.

Honoring BGE and Susan Sachs-Fleishman

A 25th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, April 16 at Horseshoe Baltimore 6:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Susie’s Cause representatives: Keri Crutchfield, Pam Reaves and Michael Krutchfield.

Dinner, dancing, auctions & more!

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The Afro-American, March 19, 2016 - March 25, 2016

Candidates for Mayor of Baltimore

One of the biggest mayoral debates of the current election season was held at the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University on March 10 in

Baltimore, MD. The AFRO, WEAA-AM radio, the City Paper and the MSU Spokesman newspaper were sponsors of the event.

The nine candidates at the debate were: DeRay Mckesson, left, Nick Mosby, Sheila Dixon, Carl Stokes, Catherine E. Pugh, David Warnock, Elizabeth Embry,

For more on what the candidates said, please turn to page B1.

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Brown

Marsha Jews, moderator

Elizabeth Embry

Carl Stokes

Patrick Gutierrez and Calvin Allen Young III. Vendors like Black Girls Vote and others kept the attendees busy while waiting for the debate to start.

DeRay McKesson with opening statements Ebonee Nelson and Nicole Francis from Black Girls Vote Nick Mosby Sheila Dixon

Aisha Scott, Natasha Jones, LaTarsha Whitaker and Corvette Grier

Patrick Gutierrez

Catherine Pugh Photos by Chanet Wallace

Officers and chapter members of the Philadelphia and Washington DC chapters of the CHUMS were hosted by the Baltimore Chapter members at the Johns Hopkins Club, part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Benjamin Murphy Phillips IV, president of the AFRO American, spoke to the guests and members about the impactful work and history of Mrs. Santa. Mr. Phillips said that both Elizabeth (Bettye) Murphy Phillips Moss, his mother, and Frances Murphy were charter members of the CHUMS. The CHUMS celebrated their 63rd year of providing enrichment of the lives of the local

community, with a focus on mentorship, scholarship and development of children.

Special guest, Erica Alston, director of public relations, marketing and business development at Maryland Community Health Initiatives spoke about how neighborhood kids were provided a safe place to “stay alive” Gloria Toxey in the Penn-North Kids Safe Zone, a Jones, president, project which was established with Philadelphia the help of Kaiser Permanente, the CHUMS Chapter Governor’s office and private donors to provide book bags, school supplies and summer field trips for the community kids.

Felicia Phillips, Benjamin M. Phillips IV, president, AFRO-American Newspapers; Shirley Swafford and Alisa S. Swafford, co-chair

Dorothy Marshall, Christine Moore, Blanche Beckham and Bettye Morton

Amanda Street and Khaalid Bell

Dr. Dwight Mills

Washington, D.C. CHUMS: Marilyn Drew, Etta Williams, Sue Priest and Evangeline Stevens

Washington, D.C. CHUMS: Sherrie Garrett, Marilyn Underdue, president; William Underdue and Brenda Lightfoot-Tolbert

Phyllis T. Battle, vice president, Robyn Pries, president, Baltimore CHUMS

Sarah Elias, co-chair; Dr. Antoine Elias, Gloria and Everett Jones

Host chapter, Baltimore CHUMS

William Morton, Jimmie Howard, Evelyn D. Howard and Paul Beckham

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine