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Congressional Black Caucus Kicks Off 45th Annual Legislative Conference

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com Between 8,000 and 10,000 attendees are expected to convene for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 45th Annual Legislative Conference Sept. 16-20 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest Washington, D.C. This year’s theme, “With Liberty and Justice for All” is drawn from

America’s Pledge of Allegiance and its inherent, but still unkept, promises.

The ALC has become an annual pilgrimage for many activists and leaders looking to address issues of social injustice and economic inequality that continue to plague Black communities.

“This conference is really the epicenter of dialogue and actionoriented solutions,” said Menna Demessie, CBCF’s vice president for policy analysis and research. “You

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Rev. Jamal Bryant Enters Fray Against Rep. Cummings for Md. House Seat

By Justice D. Stanley Special to the Afro In a stunning move, the Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant announced on Sept. 14 that he would challenge Rep. Elijah Cumming for his seat in the 7th Congressional District.

Bryant, a Baltimore native, is the pastor of the 12,000 member Empowerment Temple in West Baltimore which he founded in April 2000.

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go to so many conferences and you hear all about the problems. But we really want to push the solutions part of this.”

The Annual Legislative Conference seeks to bring people to the table to help erase the notion that the Black community cannot produce solutions to its ills, Demessie said.

For example, the conference promotes stories of activists already working in communities to make change.

“Instead of reinventing the wheel,

we want to uplift examples of people already making changes in their communities and put a focus on leadership that is often unseen and unappreciated,” Demessie told the AFRO. For example, as a direct result of the ALC’s focus on disparities in education and employment opportunities for minorities and women in STEM-related fields, Edwards and other CBC members Continued on A3

AIDS Conference Seeks Solutions

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com This year’s U.S. Conference on AIDS, held Sept.10-13 at D.C.’s Marriott Marquis, brought together researchers, physicians, advocates, educators, and those living with HIV together to discuss real-time solutions to eliminating AIDS – particularly within at-risk populations.

While highlights of the conference included the successful trials of pre-

exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – a drug (known as Truvada) that claims to prevent the virus among at-risk populations, many Black participants, including the Black AIDS Institute, examined how best to address rates of new infection, issues of access and outreach, and what PrEP means for Black populations.

Dr. June Gipson, director of Open Arms Healthcare Center in Jackson, Mississippi and other administrators in the summit said, during the Continued on A3

Forest Whitaker Joins ‘Roots’ Remake

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Commissioner Adam Silver said.

Norfolk police said Malone was found unresponsive and not breathing in his room by hotel staff shortly before 8 a.m.

Norfolk Fire Rescue responded and pronounced Malone dead at the scene. A cause of death has not been determined.

Venus Williams Earns Bachelor’s Degree

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com

The seven-time Grand Slam singles title holder earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Indiana University East this summer, completing one of her lifetime goals. “I’ve learned so much,” Venus Williams, 35, said in a statement. “It was always my dream to have a business degree and I ended up going to art school so many times, but in the back of my head I felt like I needed the tools to be a better leader, to be a better planner, to be better at all of the things I wanted to do in my businesses because I’m so hands-on.”

Original Tuskegee Airman, Lieutenant Calvin J. Spann, Dies at 90

By Kayla Tucker Adams Special to the AFRO

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Venus Williams speaks after receiving her degree from Indiana University East.

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Williams previously earned an associate degree in fashion design in 2007 from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida. And, armed with that degree, she launched EleVen, an active wear clothing company that same year. Her further studies in business administration offered useful insight that she was able to apply to her business right away, the tennis star said.

Williams is the first student to graduate under an agreement between IU East and the Women’s Tennis Benefits Association, which allows the WTA’s professional athletes to complete bachelor’s degrees online while training and playing professional tennis.

NBA Great Moses Malone Dies at 60

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Moses Malone devoured rebounds so easily it sometimes seemed he missed shots on purpose to pad his total before scoring. All those points and rebounds made Malone an NBA great. A few words, and one championship, made him a

Original Tuskegee airman and fighter pilot, Lieutenant Calvin Spann, passed away on Sunday, September 6, 2015 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 90 years old. Lt. Spann was an original Tuskegee Airman and fighter pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. Spann received his wings from the Tuskegee Flight School as a part of the graduating class of 44G, an elite squadron of African-American pilots.

As a member of the United States Army Air Corps, he served in Europe during World War II, where he flew 26 combat missions, including a 1,600-mile round trip mission on March 24, 1945 from Ramitelli, Italy to Berlin, Germany to destroy the Photo credit: Wikipedia Daimler-Benz manufacturing 1st Lt. Calvin J. Spann an plant, according to the Dallas Original Tuskegee Airman Love Field Frontiers of Flight of the 332nd Fighter Group Museum.

100th Squadron On February 28, 2006, the U.S. Congress approved a bill authorizing President George W. Bush to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen, the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States. The 2012 Hollywood blockbuster movie, Red Tails, was based on the African-American pilots in the Tuskegee training program.

Many dignitaries are expected to attend and pay their final respects to Lt. Spann.

Ex-Tennis Star James Blake: “Fire NYC Officer Who Tackled Me.”

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The arresting officer, James Frascatore, who has been with the NYPD for four years, has been named in several civil rights lawsuits Nation’s #1 African American Newspaper alleging excessive force. He has also been the 2014 Nielsen-Essence Consumer Report subject of four civilian complaints — an aboveaverage number for NYPD officers, according to complaint data.

“I think that that kind of police officer tarnishes the badge, which I have the utmost respect for and I believe that the majority of police officers do great work and they’re heroes,” Blake told the AP. “So this person doesn’t ever belong in the same sentence with the heroes that are doing the right kind of police work and keeping the public safe.”

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Man Who Set Fire to CVS During Baltimore Unrest Pleads Guilty to Federal Crime of Rioting

By James Bentley Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com Raymon Carter, age 24, pleaded guilty on Sept. 16 to the federal crime of rioting on April 27, including the arson of the now infamous Baltimore CVS that was at the center of the unrest after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.

According to his plea agreement, Carter used a telephone to discuss his plans to go to the scene of the riots that erupted across Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray. Carter was observed on surveillance footage from inside the CVS trying to open the pharmaceutical safe and moving back and forth from the area where the fire began and a flash of light can be seen on the video when the fire began inside the store.

After the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) released two still images recovered

from the surveillance video to the media and announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s identification, arrest and conviction, Carter was later identified by citizens. Police received a hotline tip on July 1revealing Carter’s location after the ATF released a wanted poster on June 29 of the suspect. ATF agents located, and after a foot chase, arrested Carter.

The estimated total loss for the building alone as a result of the fire is at $1.1 million.

Carter will be required to pay restitution as part of his plea agreement, with the exact amount of restitution to be determined at sentencing.

According to the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Carter and the government have agreed that if the Court accepts the plea agreement Carter will be sentenced to four years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander has scheduled sentencing for November 17.

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Volunteers clean up the CVS following the unrest in April.

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introduced legislation—some successfully— meant to increase STEM opportunities for those underrepresented groups.

And, the Caucus has also visited Silicon Valley and had “extensive” dialogue with tech companies about their lack of diversity, added CBC Chairman Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.).

“To our surprise they have apologized and acknowledged their shortcomings and all of them have committed to changing,” he told the AFRO. “We have cultivated a strong working relationship and I believe over the next five years we will see a shift. Our challenge, [however], is to ensure our young boys and girls get into STEM education.”

The issue of improving opportunities for STEM careers among Blacks will continue to be addressed at this year’s conference, but the foundation hopes to see similar progress in other areas—mainly in criminal justice reform.

“This year is quite important because of all the attention being paid to criminal justice and because of the ways in which people of African descent have been targeted by law enforcement,” Demessie said, referencing the death of dozens of Blacks while in police custody. “We are creating a space to engage the youth and for officials, policymakers, grassroots activists, [etc.] to create solutions to end these injustices and bring law enforcement and communities together.”

The issue will take center stage during the Sept. 17 National Town Hall Meeting headlined, “Black Lives Matter: Ending Racial Profiling, Police Brutality, and Mass Incarceration.” The panel includes cofounder of the BlackLivesMatter Movement Alicia Garza, Judge Greg Mathis and several

equity, environmental sustainability in Black communities and many more.

The need for civic engagement will be a major thrust given the fast-approaching presidential elections.

“We always have a voting registration and engagement as a solution so it always comes

“Every year, the conference is a great way for people to get together and focus on those issues that are important to their communities, and it’s also a great way for people of like minds who are doing similar work to connect and strengthen the work that is being done in communities across the country.”

– Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)

members of the CBC. There will also be an estimated 70 public policy forums focused on myriad matters, including economic empowerment, minority business expansion, statehood for the District of Columbia, job creation, Haiti’s ongoing recovery, increased education opportunities for incarcerated felons, health

up in these conferences,” Demessie said. “But during an election year it takes on even more precedence. We want to get people registered but we also want to inform policy.”

Among those policies supported by the CBCF is passing an amended version of the Voting Rights Act, since the Supreme Court in 2013 invalidated a key provision of the

law that protected minority communities from voting discrimination. There have been sustained, Republican-led efforts to suppress the votes of communities of color.

“Voter suppression has always been on the African-American agenda, regrettably… [and] will always be front and center of the CBC’s agenda,” Chairman Butterfield said.

Through networking and meaningful discourse at the conference, individual advocacy efforts can be strengthened, leading to concrete change, said Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.).

“Every year, the conference is a great way for people to get together and focus on those issues that are important to their communities, and it’s also a great way for people of like minds who are doing similar work to connect and strengthen the work that is being done in communities across the country,” she said.

This year’s ALC will also feature moments of levity and entertainment, notably, the Phoenix Awards Dinner, which caps the conference on the night of Sept. 19. This year’s honorees include civil rights attorney Fred Gray; North Carolina NAACP President Rev. Dr. William Barber II; Montgomery Bus Boycott organizer Juanita Abernathy; Bloody Sunday organizer Amelia Boynton Robinson; and leaders in the movement for the MLK National Monument and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. President Barack Obama will offer the keynote address.

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Black PrEP Summit, that even as initiatives are implemented, keeping HIV in the forefront of the American mind, was critical, especially with the success of PrEP. “There’s this idea that the PrEP will change everything – it’s not a magic pill – it is simply an option,” said Gipson, who lamented the positive diagnosis of two 19-year-old Black males who came to Open Arms recently to be put on PrEP. “Behaviors are going to be behaviors, but to have an option is the most important thing.”

Calling the diagnoses “devastating,” Gipson emphasized the need for sex education and Photo by Shantella Y. Sherman prevention as life-saving.

Phill Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute, discussed new “To actually take those steps to protect technologies and innovations in the fight to end HIV during this year’s yourself with PrEP, only to find that you are U.S. Conference on AIDS already positive, is a painful reality,” Gipson said. “But this is why you cannot start sex new minds. education at seventeen and eighteen, because those behaviors “HIV today is driven by innovation, whether we’re are formed and once they are formed, it takes a long time to talking about the new biomedical teams, or PrEP treatment as break and change them.” prevention, or even new communications tools, like Twitter, Phill Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute told the Facebook and Instagram,” Wilson said. “If we’re talking about AFRO that not only was it imperative that AIDS educators getting to the endgame, if we’re really going to be serious commit to better outreach that it is inclusive of new media and about ending the epidemic for everybody – not some bodies – we are going to involve young people, we’re going to need to communicate in different ways and we’re going to need to ensure they understand and we incorporate new technologies.”

Wilson also said that small businesses and other organizations, in positions to provide better access to prevention methods, including health insurance, had to take their responsibilities more seriously.

“We have a plan as a Black agency where no one pays a premium whatsoever. We have a co-pay that’s ten dollars – if you have a baby, it costs you ten dollars; if you have a kidney transplant, it costs you ten dollars – and a prescription costs you five dollars, no matter what it is,” Wilson said. “We’re a small organization, but it was a decision that we made that if you work fulltime for us, you get insurance and if you work part time for us, you get the same insurance. These are things that you make a choice with [as a business] and you have to walk the walk if you’re going to talk the talk.”

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A selection of comments from the Afro’s Facebook page following the Rev. Jamal Bryant’s announcement that he would seek Rep. Elijah Cummings House seat.

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and Government Reform, a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and a longtime member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Bryant recently gained national prominence for his involvement in the Freddie Gray protests as well as delivering the eulogy at Gray’s funeral. He also made headlines for leading a traffic-blocking demonstration against Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposed youth detention center.

Bryant made the case that he is not looking to replace Cummings, but rather to promote him by encouraging him to run for Barbara Mikulski’s open Senate seat. Cummings, for his part, has indicated that he is running for reelection saying in a statement, “Any assumption that I will not run for re-election to the House of Representatives from Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in 2016 is definitely premature.”

Bryant frames the issue as one of keeping Baltimore represented in the highest state offices. “In the absence of him running [for Senate], it will be the very first time in recent Maryland history that we’ve not had Baltimore representation in the Governor’s mansion or in the Senate which puts us in a very vulnerable place,” he said. For the record, current Senator Ben Cardin is from Baltimore.

“You have a generation that feels disenfranchised on the political system,” Bryant said in an interview at The AFRO’s Baltimore office. “You need somebody who can tap into this generation to mobilize.”

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Natasha Thomas Another television preacher, immersed in all the hoopla. I saw him on reality show with a girl looking for men. He lost all credibility with me then.

Cynthia B. Carpintieri Bryant needs to make up his mind whether he wants to be a minister or a politician!

Peter Odeh Best of luck.....Rep. Elijah Cummings is doing a great job.

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The Rev. Jamal Bryant speaks at the AFRO’s offices in Baltimore.

nine.”

Bryant would like to see actual changes made to police policies and “not just put a Band-Aid on an area that needs open heart surgery,” he said.

Bryant added that the level of unemployed high-school graduates in Maryland, the amount of people with substance abuse addiction, and the number of abandoned homes in Maryland are examples of other problems that need to be fixed in Maryland.

Bryant said that a lack of funding in Maryland has contributed to these issues, which is what lead him to run for the House seat.

“I made a decision that I wanted to run for Congress and not mayor because Congress gives me more access to capital and funding that I think our city so desperately needs,” Bryant said.

Although Bryant is new to politics, he has known -Jamal Bryant since around the age of 15 that it is something he wanted to venture into.

While at Morehouse Since Bryant has protested against police College he majored in political science and brutality it is no surprise that he believes international studies as an undergraduate. adjustments need to be made to the Baltimore “I was a high school intern for City, Baltimore County and Howard County Congressman Mfume”, Bryant said. “I was his police departments. third-hired when he became president of the On his campaign website, Bryant even NAACP. I came out of divinity school to work goes as far as saying “the police are letting us with him.” all down”.

Despite Bryant being raised and educated in “There is in fact an invisible, undeclared the 7th district, some voters have concerns that war between citizens and the police,” Bryant he will not be successfully able to represent the said. “If you ask the average Caucasian what district since he is not a resident. is their confidence in the police, police are in It is not required for members of the House their top three. If you ask the average African of Representatives to live in the district that American at any age demographic, police they represent, though many of them do. confidence doesn’t come in until seven to “I have a school in the 7th district

“I made a decision that I wanted to run for Congress and not mayor because Congress gives me more access to capital and funding that I think our city so desperately needs.”

Millie Burrell I like Elijah Cummings and I think he has been doing a great job in the congress. I also like Rev. Jamal, but he needs to seek some other way to get into politics. Don’t try to unseat a hard-working Democrat. Better yet, keep preaching.

Priscilla Morley Pickney was a pastor and also had a seat in Congress. We need to move pass this man mistakes just as we want others to move pass ours. This is a man God chose to lead...in the church and out... Still, with all the criticism/ backlash he’s still moving forward.

Gwendolyn Daniels Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

Berdell Fleming Go for it Rev. Bryant, an ardent voice for “the people”

Stephanie Manley Dean Take what’s yours, destiny no one can stop [Empowerment Academy] which is the lead charter school in Baltimore and I happen to pastor a church in the 7th district representing 12,000 people,” Bryant said. “What’s more important is not, do I live six blocks away from the line, but will I cross the line to deal with the issues.”

Bryant is still in the early stages of setting up his campaign and said that he will need to raise over $1 million dollars in order to be competitive. His plan is to raise that amount in small amounts, similar to what President Barack Obama did in his first presidential run.

Voters may also have concerns over Bryant’s past work in reality television. One show that he appeared on, “The Ultimate Merger,” was created by Donald Trump, who is currently running to be the Republican nominee for president.

“You’re talking about somebody who says they can fix the economy after filing bankruptcy four times,” Bryant said. “You’re talking about somebody who stands on family values after three divorces. It’s a walking contradiction, but it says regrettably and ashamedly where our thinking is” Like Trump, Bryant has also faced public backlash. After news broke that he fathered a child outside of his marriage, he was asked to temporarily step down from his position at Empowerment Temple. Bryant, a father of five, is divorced.

Still, Bryant does not believe that this should play a factor in his campaign.

“For me to have had a child out of wedlock does not impair me from vision, it does not impair me from leading and it doesn’t impair me from conviction.”

Official: Grand Jury Could Get Sandra Bland Case Next Month Hittner told lawyers for Bland’s mother that if An investigation into the they believed there were arrest of a woman following a unreasonable delays getting traffic stop earlier this summer information, “You let me and her death in a Texas jail know.” cell three days later should be “How about now?” finished “within the next few Thomas Rhodes, one of the days,” a state official said on attorneys, replied, drawing a Sept. 15. few handclaps and murmurs Assistant Attorney from the courtroom audience General Seth Byron Dennis that included more than a told a federal judge that the dozen Bland supporters, some findings of the Texas Rangers’ of them wearing shirts with investigation of the arrest Facebook Photo references to the 28-year-old of Sandra Bland would be Chicago-area woman.

Sandra Bland’s death in a Texas jail cell is being turned over to the Waller Hittner said the hearing investigated.

County district attorney, then was intended to “provide a submitted to a grand jury roadmap” to the civil case, “probably mid to late October” to determine whether criminal and he peppered both sides with questions as they summarized charges are warranted.

Bland’s arrest and jailing for assault after state trooper A medical examiner ruled Bland hanged herself July 13 at Brian Encinia pulled her over for a minor traffic infraction. the Waller County jail, about 50 miles northwest of Houston.

Dashcam video showed their interaction quickly turned into a Bland’s relatives and supporters dispute that finding. confrontation.

Bland was Black, and her arrest and death came amid Hittner urged both sides to consider mediation or settlement heightened national scrutiny of police and their dealings with but said if a jury trial was needed, he wanted to get it moving. black suspects, especially those who have been killed by officers or die in police custody.

“I’m not going to ram the case to trial, but many people Dennis’ comments came during a court hearing on a want it done,” he said. wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Bland’s mother, Geneva He gave lawyers for Bland’s mother until Nov. 2 to respond Reed-Veal, who sued the state trooper who arrested Bland, the to Dennis’ argument that their lawsuit lacked specific civil Texas Department of Public Safety, Waller County and two jail rights violations they raised against Encinia and set another employees. hearing for Dec. 17.

Her lawyers told U.S. District Judge David Hittner, who In her lawsuit, Reed-Veal contends Encinia falsified wanted to set a trial date, they’ve been hampered by a lack of the assault allegation to take Bland into custody and that information from the state about the investigation. jail personnel failed to keep her daughter safe. An autopsy Dennis said he spoke Sept. 15 with the lead Texas Ranger determined Bland hanged herself from a partition in the cell handling the case. “My understanding ... is it will be completed with a garbage bag. within the next few days,” Dennis said.

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accomplish that,” Rhodes said.

Larry Simmons, the attorney for Waller County, said Bland gave jail workers inconsistent information about whether she was suicidal and said she was well treated while locked up. He also said a state jail inspector had advised the garbage bag and large trash container be inside the cells.

The Bland family attorneys contend jailers should have checked on her more frequently and that the county should have performed mental evaluations once she disclosed she had a history of attempting suicide.

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Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. Charged with Death of Second Student being sought in that prosecution. Lunsford declined to say why.

The father a Virginia Tech student found dead “All I can say about that is they are completely six years ago after attending a rock concert in separate cases with completely separate facts and that’s Charlottesville said on Sept. 16 that “justice is coming” what the facts lead to,” she said. after a grand jury brought murder charges against the Matthew’s attorneys did not speak to reporters after man he has long suspected in his daughter’s killing. the hearing and didn’t immediately respond to requests Wearing a gray striped jumpsuit with his hands and for comment. feet shackled, Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. was appointed Morgan Harrington vanished after attending a attorneys during his first court appearance at Albemarle Metallica concert in Charlottesville in 2009. Her T-shirt County Circuit Court on first-degree murder and was later found on a nearby tree limb and her body abduction to defile charges in the 2009 death of 20-yearwas found more than three months later in a field in old Morgan Harrington.

Albemarle County. The location was about six miles Matthew is already scheduled to face trial next from where missing Graham’s remains would be summer for the September 2014 disappearance and discovered nearly five years later. death of 18-year-old University of Virginia student Harrington’s death was ruled a homicide, but Hannah Graham. officials have not said how she was killed.

Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File Matthew stared down at Morgan Harrington’s After police named Matthew as a person of interest Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. has been charged with capital murder. parents as he walked by them as he left the courtroom to in Graham’s disappearance, he fled and was later return to jail, where he is being held without bail. Dan apprehended on a beach in Texas. A DNA sample Harrington, who watched Matthew as he walked out, collected after he was taken into custody connected him said he wanted to show the man that he and his wife will not rest until justice is found for their to a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax County, according to authorities. daughter.

Matthew already faces up to life in prison after being convicted in June of attempted capital “I want him to know that we are present and we have been present for six years and we will murder, abduction and sexual assault in that case. He’s expected to be sentenced in October. be present for the months to come. He needs to know that justice is coming,” he said.

Matthew, a former hospital worker and taxi driver, also has been accused of raping students Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the Graham case. Trial in that case has been set in 2002 and 2003 at Liberty University and Christopher Newport University, where he had for July 2016. played football, but those cases were dropped when the women declined to press charges.

Commonwealth Attorney Denise Lunsford said Sept. 16 prosecutors don’t intend to ask Authorities have previously said the DNA evidence in the Fairfax sexual assault linked for the cases to be combined. The charges in the Harrington case signal the death penalty isn’t Matthew to Harrington, but they have not said what that evidence is..

By The Associated Press

Marylanders Weigh Removal of Memorials 150 Years After Civil War

By Marissa Horn Capital News Service The Civil War divided many communities and families in Maryland, according to state historians, and mementos venerating forces for both the South and the North began to appear throughout the state in the early 1900s. “(Soldiers) returned to Maryland without a great amount of animosity toward one another, and neither side cared if the other put up a monument to honor the dead,” said Daniel Carroll Toomey, a historian who has served on the state’s Military Monuments Commission for more than 20 years. “You can’t deny the fact that the South did go to war, but then they got over it -- we got over it 150 years ago.”

Now, however, communities around the Old Line State are drawing upon old lines and asking officials to reconsider monuments tied to slavery or the Confederacy exactly four months after the racially motivated killings of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

In Baltimore, a special commission plans to meet Sept. 17 to reevaluate and lead community discussions about the city’s nine Confederate monuments, continuing the national conversation about the display of racially controversial memorials, flags and other insignia.

The first of four meetings, commissioned by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, could determine how the city will memorialize the state’s Confederate past.

In spite of some of the communities’ or council members’ objections to the monuments, Toomey said, he believes the monument evaluation committee in Baltimore City is unnecessary.

“The monuments are not just the history of Baltimore City, they are just not the history of Maryland, they’re American history,” Toomey said. “And no one, no mayor has the right to say what part of American history will be remembered and what will be forgotten.”

According to Howard Libit, a spokesman for the mayor, the commission is seeking to review all Confederate-era monuments and historical items “to ensure that the city stays on the side of respecting history.”

“There is a balance between respecting history and continuing to display items that may be offensive,” Libit said.

Though Rawlings-Blake’s announcement did not name any of the statues that the commission will review, there are at least nine monuments with ties to the Confederate

have not been discussed, according to Aaron Bryant, chairman of the sevenmember commission and the current Mellon curator of photography at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

But Montgomery County has already spent $20,000

“If anyone was a slaveowner … you would have to take down the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and blow a path through Mount Rushmore or change the name of the capital. Where does it stop?”

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era in the city, according to a 2014 Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs monuments catalog.

At least one of the statues honoring Confederate soldiers in the city’s Bolton Hill neighborhood was spray-painted with the phrase “Black Lives Matter” five days after the June 17 Charleston shooting.

Costs of cleaning the statues following vandalism, or completely removing the statues altogether,

boxing up and cleaning a Confederate statue that was similarly vandalized.

And the Montgomery County Council also plans to meet Sept. 17 to decide where to relocate the 102-yearold bronze statue of a Confederate soldier standing next to Rockville’s Red Brick Courthouse. The memorial also had the words “Black Lives Matter” spray-painted on its base, in July.

“We need to find out if we will get approval to relocate

the statue” and then the county will get estimates to pay for moving it, said Greg Ossont, deputy director of the Department of General Services.

In an effort to determine a new, more appropriate location, Montgomery County residents voted earlier this month on a list of five new locations for the statue. The list included: Beall-Dawson Historical Park in Rockville, Darnestown Square Heritage Park in Darnestown, Callithea Farm Special Park in Potomac, Jesup Blair Local Park in Silver

Spring and Edgehill Farm in Gaithersburg. Poll results are expected to be discussed on Sept. 17.

“We share County Executive Isiah Leggett’s view that the statue does not belong in the center of government outside the courthouse,” said County Council President George Leventhal in a news release. “(We) believe it should be relocated to a site where we are able to tell the full story of Montgomery County’s participation in the Civil War from all perspectives.”

North of Rockville, at

the Monocacy National Battlefield, there is another Confederate monument, which the United Daughters of the Confederacy funded and built in 1914.

“We haven’t had any issues with our monuments and no indication of defacement or other tampering,” said Rick Slade, superintendent at Monocacy National Battlefield. “It’s a simple roadside rock pedestal with a plaque. It’s not very elaborate or distinctive, so it doesn’t attract a lot of Continued on A6

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Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Sells for Nearly $1.3 Million Swann Auction Galleries via AP

By The Associated Press The art collection of celebrated writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou sold for nearly $1.3 million on Sept. 15.

A painted story quilt that hung in Angelou’s Harlem home and was commissioned by Oprah Winfrey for Angelou’s 61st birthday brought $461,000 at the Swann Galleries sale.

“Maya’s Quilt of Life” by Black artist Faith Ringgold depicts Angelou surrounded by flowers along with excerpts from some of her writings. The acrylic on canvas with a pieced fabric border had a pre-sale estimate of $150,000 to $250,000.

The nearly 50 artworks were consigned to the auction house’s African-American Fine Art Department by Angelou’s estate.

Angelou died last year at age 86.

Her son, Guy Johnson, said in an introduction to the auction catalog that “her family hopes that the art which added color and character to her daily life does the same for others.”

Her collection also reflected her interest in female artists like Elizabeth Catlett and Phoebe Beasley and African culture.

“Kumasi Market,” an oil-and-acrylic painting of a crowded Ghanaian market scene by African-American muralist John Biggers, sold for $389,000, an auction record for Biggers, and above the $100,000 to $150,000 estimate.

“The Obeah’s Choice,” a watercolor by Romare Bearden of two African-Caribbean women, was purchased for $87,500. It has been estimated to bring $20,000 to $30,000.

A painting by Jonathan Green, “Wading in the Surf,” sold for $13,750. Its pre-sale estimate was $8,000 to $12,000.

The quilt is the only Ringgold quilt to ever come to auction. It measures 6 square feet and includes passages from Angelou’s works “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie,” ‘’Gather Together in My Name,” ‘’The Heart of a Woman” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”

“Just as Dr. Angelou continues to serve as a source of inspiration for countless artists, writers and performers, she also found inspiration in the works of others,” her son wrote in the catalog.

Her personal papers, including letters to Malcolm X and James Baldwin, are housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of the New York Public Library.

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attention.”

At the seat of the county, however, Frederick city’s Board of Aldermen are deliberating whether to remove the bust of former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney from in front of City Hall.

Taney’s opinion in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case protected slaveholders’

rights and excluded African Americans from citizenship.

“Although Justice Taney was a complex individual, he is most widely known for writing the majority opinion on the case of Dred Scott v.

Sandford -- a legal opinion that set the rights of all blacks back decades,” Alderwoman Donna Kuzemchak, a Democrat, wrote in an email.

In 2008, Frederick officials compromised with Taney opponents and added a plaque to the bust stating that the Dred Scott decision “revealed the content of established racism in our law and in our thinking.”

Frederick Mayor Randy McClement stated the fabrication, design and installation of the plaque cost the city $20,000 and estimated that moving the bust could cost around

Faith Ringgold’s “Maya’s Quilt of Life” sold for $461,000 at Auction

$10,000, according to McClement’s press secretary.

In her third attempt to remove the bust, Kuzemchak wrote, she will propose her resolution at a public meeting Oct. 1.

“I have no desire to remove all Confederate statues and memorials,” she wrote. “Pretending something never happened is not the answer. However, honoring a man who is best known for words that dehumanized

an entire race is something I cannot abide.”

Despite the city’s efforts to remove the statue, there remain other tributes honoring Taney around the city including Taney Avenue, his grave and his house, which is a historical landmark.

This is where the mess of drawing a distinction begins, Toomey said, like which Confederate-oriented statues should and should

not be removed. Though he agrees with the decision to not fly the Confederate flag over government buildings, Toomey said, the monuments should remain in place.

“If anyone was a slaveowner … you would have to take down the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and blow a path through Mount Rushmore or change the name of the capital,” Toomey said. “Where does it stop?”

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Getting Funding for Baltimore City’s Charter Schools Right

The new school year is off to a strong start in Baltimore City.

New Career and Technology Education pathways have been added at more than a dozen middle and high schools, a new athletics program is gearing up at middle schools, and more elementary students are getting opportunities to learn through the arts.

Also this year, we’ve welcomed four new charter schools to the district—three opening for the first time, and a fourth that has converted from a traditional school to charter operation. That brings the number of Baltimore charter schools to 34, nearly threequarters of all the charter schools in the state and three times more than in any other district. More than 13,000 of our 85,000 students now attend charter schools. They are an important part of City Schools, bringing innovation, creative programming, and expanded school options for Baltimore’s families.

Those options also include 152 other schools and programs: neighborhood elementary schools, middle and high schools with distinct areas of academic focus, and schools and programs where students facing specific challenges or with significant disabilities receive the specialized programs and support we are legally and Dr. Gregory E. morally obliged to provide to ensure their success.

Thornton City Schools must allocate its resources equitably and in accordance with state and federal law to meet the needs of all students, whether they attend charter or non-charter schools. Particularly in these days of state funding cuts when all schools could use more, we are challenged to ensure that budget allocations are made in such a way that no school benefits at the expense of another.

City Schools have been working with charter operators to refine an approach to ensure commensurate funding for charter schools, one that provides budgetary autonomy and cash resources to enable flexibility for innovation. With our charter school partners, community stakeholders, and representatives from traditional schools, we have analyzed revenue sources and expenses, calculated costs of administrative services and identified those we agree should be delivered centrally, and explored a range of funding methodologies.

On September 8, district staff presented one possible approach to the Board of School Commissioners. This approach would distribute dollars to charter schools based on the number of students they serve, linking those dollars to the purposes for which they are provided to the district. This includes funds received from the state to provide compensatory education for students from low-income households and to deliver instruction for those identified as English language learners. The funding formula would establish a base per-pupil amount for all students and add amounts for students in lowincome and English-learner categories. Initially, funds for students requiring special education services would continue to be administered centrally to ensure that legal and educational obligations are met across the spectrum of student need. As charter schools express desire to operate programs to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities, dollars for special education could also flow directly to them.

The proposed approach answers charter school operators’ request for a revenue-driven model and provides them with more autonomy over potentially increased cash resources; it also defines a model sustainable for the entire district, ensuring equity for all of our students. While the proposed formula it includes would change funding for some of the district’s 34 charter schools in amounts (positive or

negative) sufficient to affect programming, district staff proposed that, if pursued, the approach would be implemented through a transition plan to mitigate its effects.

On September 10, City Schools was informed that eight charter schools had filed legal action over the issue of funding. (A ninth school, Brehms Lane Elementary, is a traditional neighborhood school that will convert to charter operation next year.) While we are disappointed that these schools have chosen this course, we remain committed to continuing collaboration and discussion with our partners and stakeholders to define a charter school funding formula that will promote equity and ensure commensurate funding for students in charter and non-charter schools alike. Getting this right is important not only as we head into development of the 2016-17 budget, but for the future growth and success of all of Baltimore’s students and schools.

The Board of School Commissioners will hold a public forum on the issue of charter school funding on Saturday, September 26, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School (3500 Hillen Road). I strongly encourage all members of the public to attend to learn more about the proposed approach and to share your ideas about equitable funding for our schools.

Your feedback is also welcome by email to publicforums@bcps.k12.md.us.

Dr. Gregory E. Thornton is CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools.

Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis Is No Martin Luther King Jr. There are many unfortunate things about the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses. There was, for instance, the unseemly spectacle of desperate Republican presidential candidates jostling for face time with Davis, an elected Democrat, to a blaring soundtrack of bad ’80s rock music. Less farcically, there is the astounding fact that many people seem to be taking Davis’s legal arguments seriously.

Davis was sued by same-sex couples to whom she denied marriage licenses; she defended her actions on the grounds that her anti-homosexual religious beliefs exempt her from Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court’s recent decision recognizing same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. When a federal judge rejected her arguments and ordered her to obey the Constitution, Davis ignored the court’s order, and the judge sent her to jail for contempt of court. Her deputies issued the licenses in her absence and she has since been released. As of Sept. 16, Davis has told reporters she will not comply with the order going forward.

Davis’s core contention is that her religion entitles her to violate the constitutional rights of same-sex couples. That argument is flatly wrong.

First, there is no constitutional right to religious exemptions from generally applicable laws. The First Amendment protects “the free exercise” of religion, but that protection applies only to laws intentionally targeted at particular religious beliefs. In a diverse society, many laws impose incidental burdens on someone’s religious practices; controlled-substance laws, for instance, might have the effect of preventing the use of peyote in Native American ceremonies.

Sometimes we choose to grant religious or moral exceptions to these laws, as with exemptions to the draft for conscientious objectors. But

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nothing in the Constitution requires us to do so. Such a requirement could render every religious person a law unto herself.

Second, government officials like Davis take an oath to support the Constitution – Article VI of the Constitution itself requires it.

That oath demands obedience to the {entire} Constitution, not just to those parts an official happens to like. If an official finds she can’t obey the Constitution, she has a simple option: resign her office (or don’t seek office in the first place).

Third, as a practical matter, obedience to the Constitution means obedience to the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the Constitution. It’s true that the Court sometimes gets the meaning of the Constitution wrong. But we often disagree about what the Constitution means, and someone must have the authority to resolve these disagreements. In our system, that someone is the Supreme Court. Of course, an official might get away with disobeying the Court’s decisions until she herself is sued in a court of law. But once she is sued, as Davis was, the court deciding her case is legally obligated to follow Supreme Court precedent, and arguments that “the Supreme Court got it wrong” will fall on deaf ears. People who dislike the Court’s constitutional rulings can seek to amend the Constitution – or to gradually change the Court’s membership through the political process.

So Davis’s contention that her religion puts her above the law is just wrong, and demonstrably so. By metaphorically thumbing her nose at the law, Davis has behaved not just illegally, but undemocratically; she has insisted that she’s not subject to the laws that bind the rest of us because, well, she knows better.

Of course, there is a long and honorable American tradition of disobeying the law in the name of legal change. The colonists who rebelled against British rule, the northerners who helped slaves escape bondage, the Civil Rights Movement activists, today’s Black Lives Matter protesters – all of them have engaged in civil

disobedience in pursuit of a greater good, and many have done so at least in part for religious reasons. And here we confront perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of the Kim Davis debacle: the fact that some of her defenders have compared her to Dr. King and other heroes of the fight against Jim Crow.

In case it’s not obvious: Kim Davis is no Martin Luther King Jr. For one thing, King and his colleagues willingly accepted legal punishment for their actions, while Davis apparently wants to avoid punishment for hers. An important difference between civil disobedience and mere lawlessness is that the former is willing to face the consequences of its actions while the latter is not. King understood this well. Resisting particular unjust laws calls attention to their injustice; accepting punishment for this resistance shows respect for the law as a whole by affirming that no one is above it.

And there is another important difference between Davis’s actions and Dr. King’s. Almost paradoxically, King’s legal disobedience actually furthered the rule of law, because the segregationist laws he resisted were themselves inconsistent with the principle that all are equal before the law. Where the rule of law truly governs, there are no second-class citizens, no persons outside the law’s protections. King’s carefully calibrated acts of lawbreaking helped us perceive this greater legal truth.

In stark contrast, Davis’s disobedience aims to perpetuate inequality, not to redress it. In asserting her own supposed right to religious freedom, Davis is denying the legal rights of a class of fellow citizens, and thus undermining rather than advancing the rule of law. In this she resembles not Dr. King, but the diehard segregationists King faced down so bravely and effectively.

Christopher J. Peters is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He can be reached at cpeters@ubalt.edu.

How to Decrease the High Rate of STDs in Black Youth

Parents want the best for their children. They want them to grow up to achieve their full potential and to be free from physical and psychological harm. However, we know that sometimes, despite parents’ best efforts, children may be exposed to and even succumb to harmful life events and situations.

For example, Americans are all too familiar with statistics depicting Black children and youth as being at higher risk of harm due to gun violence. Because of community concerns, programs and awareness campaigns to end gun violence have formed across the country.

Much less media coverage and attention has been given to a serious health problem that affects Black youth at alarmingly high rates. Data reveals that Blacks are often at higher risk of STDs than youth in other racial groups. While STD infections aren’t always associated with the risk of serious illness or death, they can cause complications that threaten or take the lives of young people.

Chlamydia is the most common bacterial infection among youth. Figures from 2013 show that rates of chlamydia are five times higher among 15-19 year old Black females than their White counterparts. And, among 15-19 year old males, Blacks have rates of chlamydia that are more than nine times higher than in Whites.

Like most STDs, chlamydia often causes no symptoms and

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therefore an infected person may not seek treatment. Females who do not receive treatment for chlamydia in a timely fashion may experience severe complications, such as an overwhelming pelvic infection. If this occurs, pelvic organs that include the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes may be significantly damaged and require surgical removal.

Gonorrhea is the second most common bacterial infection among youth. Reports show that Black females, ages 15-19, have rates of gonorrhea more than thirteen times higher than their White female counterparts. Among males ages 15-19, rates of gonorrhea in Blacks are over twenty one times higher than in White males.

The potential complications that may result from an infection due to gonorrhea are most serious in females and are similar to those associated with chlamydia infections.

HIV remains the most feared STD. When the Center for Disease Control reports HIV rates among youth, they refer to young people between the ages of 13-24. Approximately 64,000 youth were living with HIV at the end of 2012. Of those diagnosed with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), a result of HIV infection, 156 died of this condition in 2012. Black young males are at highest risk of acquiring HIV. Estimates suggest that new infections among Black males are more than two times higher than among White or Hispanic males. Gay and bisexual male youth generate most new

HIV infections in this age group.

The reasons for the increased risk of STDs among Black youth are multifold. No doubt, higher rates of socioeconomic disadvantage and less access to health care play a role.

The first step in fighting any problem involves creating awareness.

More parents, school health educators, health professionals, and community leaders must become educated about the potentially lifethreatening STD risks youth, and Black youth in particular, face.

While governmental agencies must do more to combat this problem, there are some simple and straightforward measures that all of us can take to help reduce the incidence of STDs among youth, including discouraging early sexual activity, strongly encouraging condom use for all who are sexually active, supporting comprehensive sex education at the middle and high school levels, and sending a clear message to our elected officials that all youth must have access to affordable reproductive health care services, including STD counseling, testing, and treatment.

Sheila Overton, M.D., is a board certified OB/GYN and author of “Before It’s Too Late: What Parents Need to Know About Teen Pregnancy and STD Prevention.” She can be reached at droverton. org.

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Association of African American Study Holds Centennial Celebration in D.C.

AFRO Exclusive New University of D.C. President Seeks to Change School’s Perception

By Christina Sturdivant Special to the AFRO

Ronald Mason Jr. said he is hoping he can make an impact on the District’s only public university as he settles into his role as president. With over 30 years of experience in higher education, community development, and the legal field, Mason comes to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) after most recently serving as president of Southern University and the A&M College System in

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Ronald Mason Jr. Louisiana.

“I was actually going to go and teach after that, but I got a call from UDC,” he told the AFRO on Sept. 11. “I started to look at it, talked to my wife about it and found that this was one more worth doing, which is why I’m here.”

The historically Black university has long been lost in the shadows of more elite institutions in the area.

“I can see the possibilities of what UDC can be and do for the District, but it’s really not my job to set those goals,” said Mason, who earned his bachelor’s and law degrees from Columbia University and is a graduate of the Harvard Institute of Educational Management.

“My job is to understand what the District needs in a system of public higher education, what my board expects in a system of public high education and then it’s my job to make it happen.”

In February 2014, the university released its latest version of “Vision 2020,” a plan outlining a path to renewal, innovation, success, and sustainability. The plan envisions a large increase in enrollment and an online college among other lofty goals, said Mason. “I think we can do [them all], but sometimes you have to do the work that’s not real sexy before you can do what you really want to do.”

To begin, said Mason, the university must create a culture among staff where technology resources replace traditional pen and paper. This will help improve processes for student enrollment and receipt of financial aid.

While the university’s workforce development programs, community college, four-year bachelor’s programs, and law school offer a myriad of opportunities to students, the ability to climb these academic ladders must be streamlined by the institution, he said.

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More than 71 churches in Prince George’s County came together on Sept. 12 for the Convoy of Hope event in Temple Hills, Maryland, hosted by The Evangel Assembly of God. The church holds the event in an effort to bring hope to residents by providing them with free groceries, health screenings and job services. See story on afro.com.

Noted historian John Hope Franklin once wrote, in documenting the accomplishments of Blacks in America, that White historians had “blandly asserted that the Negro had never developed a civilization of his own, vigorously argued that the Negro possessed childlike traits, and claimed with conviction that the Negro’s history supported the view that the best role for him was one of subordination…Carter G. Woodson was especially well-qualified to meet the urgent need for an historian of the Negro people.”

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) – Woodson’s brainchild and

Spiking Homicides Dominates D.C., Prince George’s County Legislators Joint Meeting

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com The legislative bodies of the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County, Maryland, recently met to discuss common issues between the two jurisdictions.

The D.C. Council and the Prince George’ County Council convened a joint meeting on Sept. 15 at the County Administration Building in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to go over matters such as public safety and transportation. Prince George’s County Council member Mel Franklin (D-District 9), who serves as the chairman of his body, started the meeting by invoking the long-running quest for D.C. statehood.

“I welcome my colleagues from the District of Columbia, which should be the 51st state of the union if justice is done,” Franklin said.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) led a delegation that consisted of D.C. Council members msa.maryland.gov Mary Cheh (D-Ward 2), Mel Franklin is the Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4), chairman of the Prince Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward George’s County Council.

5), Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), LaRuby May (D-Ward 8), Elissa Silverman (I-At Large), Anita Bonds (D-At Large) and Vincent Orange (D-At Large). Franklin was joined by council members Deni Taveras (D-District 2), Dannielle M. Glaros (D-District 3), Todd Turner (D-District 4), Andrea Harrison (D-District 5), Derrick Leon Davis (D-District 6), Karen Toles (D-District 7) and Obie Patterson (D-District 8).

The issue that generated the most discussion was public safety. It was noted by the Prince George’s legislators that the District has experienced 110 homicides as of Sept. 16, an increase of 41 percent over last year and they wanted to know their District colleagues thoughts on the spike in gun-related deaths.

“There is no single cause as to the rise in homicides and crimes in the city,” McDuffie, who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and used to work in Upper Marlboro as a judicial law clerk and a county prosecutor, said. McDuffie said that the increase isn’t due to marijuana legalization, when Harrison asked about that.

“I am trying to focus on solutions because we are finding that these deaths are occurring in the same neighborhoods,” McDuffie said. “I would like to see crime being viewed as

a mental health issue and we are working with our federal stakeholders on this, also.”

May said that she would like to see sustainable solutions to the increase in crime.

“Ward 8 residents want what everyone in the rest of the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County wants, which is a safe place to live,” she said.

Orange said that the communities where the homicides are taking place need to be more responsible in fighting crime.

“Ward 8 residents want what everyone in the rest of the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County wants, which is a safe place to live.”

–D.C. Council member LaRuby May “We have to take responsibility at home because kids shouldn’t have access to weapons,” the council member said.

“We talk about Black Lives Matter but why are we killing each other?”

Toles agreed with Orange by loudly saying “Amen.”

“Guns are negatively impacting our community and we need a regional perspective to work on stopping the violence,” she said.

Members of the both councils also offered ideas to control ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) on their streets and how to implement body cameras on police officers in a fiscally prudent manner.

Transportation was a concern to members of both councils, with Franklin saying that it is tough to find a place to park in the District.

“It seems that the District wants people to rely on public transit or any other means other than a car,” he said.

Cheh agreed. “We have one of the most progressive cities in the country when it comes to transportation,” she said. “Forty percent of District residents don’t have a car and of those that do, they are car-light or have only one vehicle.”

Cheh told her Prince George’s colleagues about the District government’s “Vision Zero” program that wants to eliminate pedestrian and bicycles deaths. She also championed the city’s floundering streetcar system.

“We want to have a city that has a robust modal system where people won’t need a car,” she said.

“We would like to come to the District,” Franklin said with Mendelson nodding his head. “I also suggest that we form joint working groups to talk about issues like homelessness and affordable housing.”

Photo by Rob Roberts

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sylvia Cyrus, executive director, ASALH labor of love – is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. As part of the event, the group’s Centennial Founders Day Celebration paid homage to Woodson and the enduring legacy of his work. Held at the historic Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest on Sept. 9, the celebration acknowledged “Rays of Light” – community elders whose lives and careers were positively impacted by Woodson’s work.

“A century after Carter G. Woodson established ASALH, few can deny the centrality of African Americans in the making of American history.

While Dr. Woodson labored with singularity and purpose he did not work alone,” said Dr. Robert Harris, who along with his wife, fellow historian and scholar Dr. Janette Hoston Harris, introduced ASALH’s Rays of Light. “His coworkers at the Association were many, ranging from college presidents and Continued on B2

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Healthy Babies Project Lends Helping Hand to Mothers

By Diandra Bolton Howard University News Service In a small red wooden house in northeast Washington neighborhood, virtually unnoticed by their neighbors, are people who save and transform lives. There are no doctors. No nurses. No special emergency technicians.

But, Rochele Norfleet recalls what the people at the house meant to her.

“I was a teen mother a couple years ago and at first I didn’t have any place to go,” said the 21-year-old Capitol Heights mother of two. “I wasn’t in school or anything.”

That was before she came to the Healthy Babies Project. “I actually graduated from college in May, and I now have my own place,” she said.

Healthy Babies has helped scores of the

Washington area’s economically disadvantaged teen moms break the cycle of poverty since 1991, said Jasmin Brazier, one of the program’s staff members.

The program connects young mothers to education or employment opportunities while also providing them with practical lessons in birthing and child rearing, she said. “We look for moms who are ready to be independent and provide them with the skills they need to do so,” Brazier said.

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One of the biggest hurdles for the university to overcome the unfavorable public perception on the school’s physical appearance and the quality of its degrees.

One change to overcome the diminished perception is with the opening of a 90,000-square-foot, LEED certified student center in November. “It’s going to be our face on Connecticut Avenue,” Mason said. “You’ll come right out of the subway into our student center, which will lead you right into the campus.”

In changing that perception, Mason said he wants to highlight the school’s academics. He said the university’s engineering program as being highly competitive. “I predict the day when they will compare our

programs to other programs in the area and decide to come here because we have better programs,” he said.

In addition, the university must prove to District

agency, Mason said.

LaToya Foster, senior communications officer for Mayor Muriel Bowser told the AFRO through email Sept.

16,”The Mayor is committed

“I predict the day when they will compare our programs to other programs in the area and decide to come here because we have better programs.”

– Ronald Mason Jr. government that it is capable of carrying out these goals on its own. Up until now, the city has been stringent in management of the university as it is structured like a city

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Homeless mothers can live in the Healthy Babies house as long as they have a job or are in school.

Additionally, they are required to save 40 percent of their earnings toward their own housing.

The activities are designed to introduce parenting concepts to young mothers, many of whom are teen mothers who have never been introduced to these ideas before.

Teambuilding activities, like retreats and field trips, are utilized to build a sense of camaraderie between the moms and the staff, Brazier said.

She said the organization tries to imprint on the participants the extreme importance of the mother and the relationship she has with her child and to give them the skills they need for successful relationships with their children.

“Growing great kids is dependent on the parents,” Brazier said. “The emotional development of the child determines their learning capacity. Being nurtured by a mother leads to stability in preschool.”

Healthy Babies works with the District’s public schools in northeast D.C., but also has a strong presence in southeast D.C. , where 59 of the program’s 62 participants are from. “Before I came to Healthy Babies, I had dropped out of school so they put me in a GED/trade school program,” said Nadhirah Harper, who is 16 years old and eight months pregnant. “[The program] is really helpful when you grow up in Southeast and got all this attitude.”

Healthy Babies also recognizes the importance of the father’s participation as well, Brazier said. Consequently, in another program fathers are also given employment and education opportunities and counseling sessions on family life and substance abuse.

“A lot of them still want to be with the mom,” Brazier said. “They just don’t know how now that they have a child together. It helps them balance the struggles of being a dad and being with the mom.”

One of the biggest sponsors of the program is the Hoops for Youth Foundation, which recently donated $20,000. “A few years ago we learned about Healthy Babies and had to make them one of our charitable partners,” said Bradley Knox, a Hoops for Youth Foundation board member. We fell in love with the organization. They put (the money) to use directly in the lives of the young families that they work with.”

For more information on the Healthy Babies Project, visit healthybabiesproject.org.

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Continued from B1 government officials, to self-made poets and philosophers, to everyday folks in cities and rural areas.”

Noting ASALH’s 1915 birth coincided with the celebrated release of D.W Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”, which cast the Black existence in America as one of animalistic and brute savagery tamed only through Ku Klux Klan intervention, Harris discussed the necessity of the organization.

“I regard it as a special honor that ASALH asked me to speak on this occasion because this country is only 239 years old, and ASALH is now 100 years old, which means ASALH has been around for almost half the life of this nation,” said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who served as guest speaker. “There are very few organizations that can sustain themselves for that length of time, but ASALH understood that it carried and sustained the very life of our people.

“What we needed was an entire organization to help correct the record about who Black people were in this country and Carter G. Woodson institutionalized his scholarship and with African-American history. As a third-generation Washingtonian, I remember being a little girl in this segregated city and reading about Negro History Week and Negro History Month. I was reading about Black history in books that Dr. Woodson produced in his home – that little narrow home by himself. ASALH is continuing that legacy.”

In honor of this milestone, ASALH has selected “A Century of Black Life, History, and Culture” as the 2015 National Black History theme, and expects more than 1,500 participants at its annual conference in Atlanta later this month.

John Hope Franklin’s son, John W. Franklin, the director of partnerships and international programs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, said his father – who penned more than a dozen books including “From Slavery to Freedom” – first met Woodson in 1937 during his years as a graduate student and was a member of the association from 1936 until 2007.

“Growing up, I would always hear Dad talking about what was happening in the association,” said Franklin, who has been a member since 2007. “It’s a marvelous mixture of historians and lay historians who are passionate about Black history.”

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PEPCO HOLDINGS-EXELON MERGER IS TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL

Dear fellow Pepco customers, If the Pepco Holdings-Exelon merger fails, it will hurt our residents, our business community and the District as a whole.

Without the merger, we have much to lose including improved service reliability; quicker storm recovery; millions of dollars of private investment in sustainable energy and energy efficiency and broader access for renewable energy; guaranteed charitable contributions to benefit our most vulnerable residents; bill relief for customers; economies of scale savings that will benefit customers; and additional economic impact of tens of millions of dollars and many new jobs for our local economy.

The District depends on a financially healthy local utility to power homes, businesses and government. We are seriously concerned about the financial impact to Pepco if this merger is not completed. And without Exelon, we fear Pepco’s service reliability enhancements could stall. People who are thinking about doing business in the District are paying attention. The thing the District needs most is private sector investments, and the way that happens is through corporate growth, mergers and acquisitions. Companies who are considering locating or remaining in the District will think twice if the merger is not approved, which would be the wrong decision for every Pepco customer and our regional economy.

We encourage decision makers to work with Pepco Holdings and Exelon to come to an agreement that addresses the concerns regulators have raised and that will move this merger forward.

We hope all parties will realize the opportunities we would miss and the very real harm to our community that a failed merger will inflict and find a way to make this merger a reality.

James C. Dinegar President & CEO, Greater Washington Board of Trade

Cora Williams Founder & CEO, Ideal Electric

Sheila Brooks President, The Presidents’ RoundTable

Pedro Alfonso President, Dynamic Concepts, Inc.

Tony Williams CEO, Federal City Council

Harry Wingo President & CEO, D.C. Chamber of Commerce

Rosie Allen-Herring President & CEO, United Way of the National Capital Area

We Support the Pepco Holdings-Exelon Merger

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Dr. Janette Hoston Harris

Anthony Browder, director, ASA Restoration Project

Celebrating 100 years, the Photos by Rob Roberts Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) hosted a Centennial Founders Day celebration on Sept. 9 at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Northwest, Washington, D.C. ASALH was founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson and others on Sept. 9, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois and from that time until his death in 1950, he worked to advance African American thought and scholarship. Woodson was also the founder of Black History Month. The celebration included a keynote speech by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton(D-D.C.), presentations by the Rays of Light honorees, remarks by organizations that support ASALH, a liturgical dance performance and musical songs by the D.C. Boys Choir. A highlight of the program was a Time Capsule Ceremony in tribute to Woodson.

Co-sponsors of the celebration included: local ASALH chapters; the National Park Service; D.C. Humanities; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity – Woodson’s fraternity – and Shiloh Baptist Church.

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Men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Dr. Carter G. Woodson family members

Barbara Dunn, co-chair, ASALH Centennial Founder’s Day Celebration

Stephanie Toothman, Dr. Bettye J. Gardner, co-chair, ASALH Centennial Founder’s Day Celebration; Gopaul Noojibail, Ann Honious and Kate Birmingham

Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith, senior pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church

Markel Waters, Founder’s Day Committee, Sylvia Cyrus, executive director, ASALH and Dr. Thomas Battle, executive council, ASALH

The Rays of Light honorees and presenters Renada Johnson

Brother Ezekiel Dennison, 3rd District Representative, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Hilary Shelton, Washington Bureau Director, NAACP

Ayanna Gregory

Emcee Ebony McMorris, News and Community Affairs Director, Radio OneD.C.

Robert Stanton and keynote speaker, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) Photos by Rob Roberts

Kappa Epsilon Psi Summer Probate Line

Lenora Holder, Shernell Nicholson, Tanga Green, Idola Henry Gunn and Pauline Rosa Moore

Kappa Epsilon Psi Military Sorority, Northern Virginia Delta chapter hosted it summer probate line and banquet on Aug. 29 at the Spates Community Club on Joint Base MyerHenderson Hall. Fourteen new pledges were initiated into the sorority, including members from all of the branches in the military forces. The overall focus of the event was to honor past veterans, fallen heroes and surviving families; unite families with current members and veterans and provide a means to mentor future military leadership including JROTC

Members of Kappa Lambda Chi Military Fraternity

Theta Chapter, Kappa Epsilion Psi sorority members: Shannon Ford, Jamie Dixon, LaWanda Leonard and Melina Moore

cadets. The inductees presented a series of step formations as part of their initiation and were presented with their sorority jackets and membership plaques followed by a cake cutting.

Jensenia Gomez, Woodbridge High school JROTC received the organization’s first scholarship. Special guests included Miss Veteran America 2013 and 2014 along with national officers of the sorority.

Ebony McMorris, Radio-One was guest emcee.

Theta Summer Line Dean Tanga Green (seated); and Big Sisters Fedena Mathis, Marvida Scarbrough and Tamara Sorrell

Sgt. 1st Class Donya Cox saluting the sorority’s fallen heroes Jesenia Gomez and Soror Patricia Coates

Kathryn Turner, Miss Veteran America 2013 Denyse Gordon, Miss Veteran America 2014 Kimberly Wolfanger, emcee Ebony McMorris and Edgar Brookins

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ARTS & CULTURE

The Parents of “Black-ish” Take on the Generational Gap

(Photo Credit: ABC/Bob D’Amico

The stars of ‘Black-ish’; from left Tracee Ellis Ross, Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Yara Shahidi, Marcus Scribner, Miles Brown and Laurence Fishburne

By Justice D. Stanley Special to the Afro Last fall, ABC’s Wednesday night lineup experienced a change when the station premiered its highly anticipated show “Black-ish”.

“Black-ish” would bring some much-needed diversity to the station. Before “Black-ish” premiered, ABC’s audience saw shows like “The Middle”, “The Goldbergs” and “Modern Family” on a typical Wednesday night.

“Black-ish” which stars Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Laurence Fishburne stood out from those programs. The comedy is centered around a Black, upper-middle class family that is loosely based off the show’s creator, Kenya Barris, and his family.

Depp Delivers Oscar-Quality Performance as Notorious Mobster Whitey Bulger Film Review by Kam Williams In the mid-1970s, James “Whitey” Bulger began rising through the ranks of South Boston’s Winter Hill Gang by knocking off all the competition vying for control of his tight-knit, Irish neighborhood. The power-hungry mobster subsequently sought to muscle-in on assorted illegal Johnny Depp stars as Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. rackets being run by the Mafia in the city’s predominantly-Italian North End. While in the midst of the ensuing turf war, Whitey was surreptitiously approached by John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), a childhood friend from Southie working for the FBI. Agent Connolly informed his pal that the Bureau had enough evidence to put him behind bars and throw away the key, though it was willing to look the other way in return for his cooperation as an undercover informant.

Bulger grudgingly agreed after establishing that he wouldn’t have to snitch on any of his associates, only on his cross-town rivals in the Angiulo crime family. However, Connolly further stipulated that no murders could be committed by any Winter Hill members once the unholy alliance was struck.

Of course, that was a little much to expect, given how there’s no honor among thieves, especially when it comes to a ruthless assassin like Whitey. He merely saw the protection being afforded by the Feds as an opportunity to behave with impunity as he further expanded his spheres of influence.

The Machiavellian mastermind proceeded to embark on a bloody reign of terror during which Connolly and a fellow G-Man (David Harbour) found themselves being manipulated to venture to the wrong side of the law. When the truth finally came to light, the two agents were arrested as accomplices to Whitey who disappeared into thin air, landed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and yet still avoided apprehension for well over a decade.

Directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”), “Black Mass” is a riveting biopic chronicling the infamous exploits of as chilling a character as you’re apt to encounter in the theater this year. Johnny Depp is at the top of his game, here, as Bulger, a very intimidating, larger-thanlife monster without a functioning conscience. Cooper has the potential of doing for the threetime, Academy Award-nominee what he already accomplished for Jeff Bridges with “Crazy Heart,” namely, land the veteran thespian the coveted Oscar which has managed to elude him despite a brilliant career marked by a string of nonpareil performances.

Besides Depp, kudos are in order for much of the stellar supporting cast, especially Joel Edgerton, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson and Benedict Cumberbatch. Though the September back-to-school season is generally a harbinger of a weak slate at the cinema, the exceptional “Black Mass” proved to be a pleasant surprise and the first must-see flick of the fall.

Excellent (4 stars)

Anderson’s character, Andre “Dre” Johnson, is an accomplished advertising executive who spends a large amount of his time trying to get his four children to understand what being black is. Dre is constantly worried that his children will grow up without an understanding of their culture because they were raised in a predominately White suburb, while he was raised in an inner city.

“These are just issues that we’re going through from our perspective,” said Anderson on teleconference call with reporters. “It’s about living the American dream, giving your children better than what you had growing up while assimilating in this homogenized world and holding onto their identity.”

Dre’s wife Rainbow, played by Ellis Ross, is a biracial anesthesiologist who has no issue disagreeing with the methods that her husband uses to push their children to become more interested in their culture.

While Dre and Rainbow have different parenting styles, they both try to build healthy relationships with each of their children.

Many critics have referred to “Black-ish” as a modern day “Cosby Show”, but Barris sees a major difference. “‘The Cosby Show’ was about a family that sort of happened to be black and they didn’t run from it,” Barris said. “This is about a family that’s absolutely black, like it’s the basis of this show.”

Viewers see this first-hand as Andre battles with his 13-year-old son, Andre Jr, because he wants to identify as a Republican or when Andre Jr. decides he wants to play field hockey instead of basketball.

Like many parents, Dre and Rainbow struggle to connect with their children. The Johnsons strive to be fun and innovative parents, but their children are rarely interested.

This lack of connection is relatable for today’s parents as social media and technology are the most prevalent that they have ever been. Instead of bonding with their parents, many children, especially teenagers, are so immersed in technology that they are unaware of the things happening around them.

In a society where it is not uncommon to walk into a restaurant and see an entire table on their smartphones, “Black-ish” came right on time. The show addresses controversial issues such as corporal punishment, but it is the lack of connection between the parents and their children that makes the show extremely realistic.

Andre Jr. is a misunderstood 13-year-old who does not conform to his father’s Black standards. Though Andre Jr. does not intentionally defy his father’s ideals, he, like many teenagers, is not easily swayed by his parents’ opinions.

The couple’s six-year-old twins Diane and Jack, played by Marsai Martin and Miles Brown, are more open to connecting with their parents than their older siblings.

The twins do, however, keep their parents on their toes. For example, season two’s premiere will be about Jack saying the “N-word” while rapping Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” during a school function.

Each of the Johnson’s children could have an issue understanding their parents due to the generational gap that is bridged between them.

Despite Dre and Rainbow’s struggles to understand their children, they understand each other in a way that makes parenting much less stressful.

“They are the perfect complement of each other in terms of their parenting and at the same time, they’re flawed parents,” said Barris. “As most parents, as we’re being honest, are.

They make a lot of mistakes, but they grow through those mistakes. Sometimes your biggest successes come from your biggest failures.”

Season two of “Black-ish” premieres September 23 on ABC at 9:30 p.m.

Book Review

‘The Jemima Code’ Highlights the Real People Behind an Ugly Stereotype

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO For decades, Black cooks and food service professionals were ignored. They were characterized by mainstream White America as ignorant and illiterate, capable of cooking and not much else. Writer Toni Tipton-Martin’s dismisses this line of thinking in her new book, “The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks”. In it, she highlights the black cook as a scientist, a finely tuned craft-person and in many cases, a shrewd business person.

Tipton-Martin is a veteran food writer who began amassing of the world’s largest private collections of Black cookbooks many years ago.

In her book, she offers readers a peek into the past by taking them through some of the most noteworthy books in her collection. The books range from instructional manuals produced in the 19th century to more modern ones published in the late-1980’s. Some are riddled with misspellings, others are sophisticated books created by middle-class Black ladies’ groups. There is even a 1939 cookbook from a black woman who, Tipton-Martin writes, “had the kind of professional swagger celebrity chefs demonstrate today.”

There are also pages from white cookbooks. Many of these books were created by white women who were looking to recreate favorite dishes that their mammies or “aunts” cooked for them when they were children. They were often adorned with images of overweight, matronly black women and often diminished the highly-skilled techniques black woman used to turn out dishes like perfectly fried chicken or delicious shrimp and grits.

“Throughout the twentieth century, the Aunt Jemima advertising trademark and the mythical mammy figure in southern literature provided a shorthand translation for a subtle message that went something like this: “If slaves can cook, you can too,” or “Buy this flour and you’ll cook with the same black magic that Jemima put into her pancakes.” Tipton-Martin writes. “In short: a sham.”

Black cooks had to be skilled in many ways, Tipton-Martin writes. She touches on the ways black cooks were able to preserve ancient cooking techniques from their homelands, blending them with European and Native American tastes and techniques to create something new.

She asserts that a cookbook is not just a cookbook. For it to be successful, it must engage the reader with clever writing, stories and illustrations. The writer must also convince the reader that he or she knew what they were doing. Despite the oppressive and all-consuming nature of racism, many early Black cookbook writers were able to do just that.

Tipton-Martin says that Black people must remember these early writers, because the prejudices and stereotypes that they faced continue today.

“In the absence of a written history that defies—or at least counterbalances—the stereotype, the picture of an African American woman in our national mind’s eye still resembles an insensitive exaggeration. At least for some,” she writes.

“I know that we cannot take back three hundred years of harsh words and pictures, but I believe it is possible to undo some of the damage just by looking at the vast diversity of talents and abilities displayed by African American food professionals through the cookbooks they left behind. And thereby seeing ourselves.”

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MLK Library Promotes Early Literacy in D.C.

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Three-year-old Cammy Mason is like most toddlers – full of energy and curiosity about the world around her. Though eager to learn to read, Mason’s family recognize that her literacy skills were enhanced, most often, by spoken, sung, and mimed words long before actual reading. For this reason, the D.C. Public Library’s STAR (Sing, Talk and Read) Family Festival on Sept.12 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial branch, 901 G St NW, was the perfect outing for the Masons.

“Cammy loves to read and every time she sees a book, she runs up to it,” her aunt Kemry Hughes said. “She has a lot of energy and not shy at all, so I thought this would give her an opportunity to experience literacy in a creative way.”

The day-long STAR Family Festival showcased the many ways parents can help young children build their vocabularies, fall in love with reading and develop the skills they will need when they start school -often without books.

In addition to singing, games, arts and crafts, and workshops for parents and children, the program offered support tools for children struggling to read. Children were also given free books.

“It is very important for the libraries in the D.C. area especially to put on events like this because parents are very busy and it is easy to put your child in front of a television,” said Hughes.

“When I was growing up, it was books – just books, and I think that strengthened the core of our literacy back then because we associated books with adventure and love and our imaginations.”

The Sing Talk and Read D.C. program is a citywide initiative based on research showing that conversations, singing and interactions between parents and caregivers and children from birth build a foundation for learning.

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All unknown heirs and h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 18, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Renee Murphy Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/15

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20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 11, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Glenda M. Wheeler Allen Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1054 Cardoza Franklin Bigby AKA Cardoza Bigby Decedent Jeremy D Rachlin, Esq 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 800 Besthesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Deborah Jones, whose address is 4316 Varnum Pl, NE, Washington, DC 20017, was appointed personal representative(s) of the estate of Cardoza Franklin Bigby AKA Cardoza Bigby, who died on July 18, 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 March 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 March 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: September 18, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Deborah Jones Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM443 Mattie P Degraff Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robin D Goodwin, whose address is 10 Lakewood Dr., Hampton VA, 23666 , was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mattie P. Degraff, who died on January 3, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 11, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Robin D Goodwin Personal Representative

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Objections known shall enter their tion as District of Colum- March 11, 2016. Claims Street, N.W., 3rd Floor to such appointment bia agent has been filed against the decedent shall be filed with the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . proceeding. Objections 20001, on or before with the Register of Wills, shall be presented to the Register of Wills, D.C., to such appointment undersigned with a copy 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd March 11, 2016. Claims D.C. shall be filed with the against the decedent The decedent owned the to the Register of Wills or Floor Washington, D.C. Register of Wills, D.C., shall be presented to the following District of filed with the Register of 20001, on or before 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd undersigned with a copy Colombia real property: Wills with a copy to the March 11, 2016. Claims Floor Washington, D.C. to the Register of Wills or 1333 Downing Street, undersigned, on or be- against the decedent 20001, on or before filed with the Register of NE, Washington, DC fore March 11, 2016, or shall be presented to the March 11, 2016. Claims undersigned with a copy Wills with a copy to the 20018 against the decedent be forever barred. Perundersigned, on or be- Claims against the de- sons believed to be heirs to the Register of Wills or shall be presented to the filed with the Register of fore March 11, 2016, or cedent may be preor legatees of the de- Wills with a copy to the undersigned with a copy be forever barred. Perto the Register of Wills or sons believed to be heirs sented to the under- cedent who do not re- undersigned, on or be- filed with the Register of or legatees of the de- signed and filed with the ceive a copy of this notice fore March 11, 2016, or Wills with a copy to the cedent who do not re- Register of Wills for the by mail within 25 days of be forever barred. Per- undersigned, on or bebelieved to be heirs ceive a copy of this notice District of Columbia, its first publication shall sons fore March 11, 2016, or or legatees of the deby mail within 25 days of Building A, 515 5th so inform the Register of cedent who do not re- be forever barred. Perits first publication shall Street, NW, 3rd Floor- Wills, including name, ceive a copy of this notice sons believed to be heirs so inform the Register of , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . address and relation- by mail within 25 days of or legatees of the deWills, including name, 20001 within 6 months ship. cedent who do not reits first publication shall address and relation- from the date of first pubso inform the Register of ceive a copy of this notice Date of Publication: ship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1027 Yolanda A. Williams Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Reginald G. Williams, whose address is 6405 Elliot Place, Hyattsville, MD 20783, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Yolanda A. Williams, who died on August 6, 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 March 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 March 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: September 11, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Reginald G. Williams Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1037 Lillie Bell Williams Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lillie Swangin, whose address is 4716 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Lillie Bell Williams, who died on April 28, 2010 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 18, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Lillie Swangin Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM946 Jeannetta Keitt Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street, Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Wesley L. Clarke, whose address is 1629 K Street, Ste 300, Washington, DC 20006 wasappointed personal representative of the estate of Jeannetta Keitt, who died on August 18, 2011 withouta will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 18, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Wesley L. Clarke Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1030 John W Beverly, Jr. Decedent Cecilia R. Jones 7910 Woodmont Ave, Suite 1350 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sonja Cheatham, whose address 10300 Woodsorrel Court, Upper Marlboro. MD 20772, was appointed personal representative of the e s t a t e o f J o h n W. Beverly, Jr., who died on July 8, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 11, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Sonja Cheatham Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM991 Spencer L. Dunnaville Decedent Clinton L. Evans, Jr. Esq 1629 K Street, NW., Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sallie Stewart Mitchell, whose address is 2900 Tucker Road , Ft Washington, Maryland 20744 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Spencer L. Dunnaville, who died on July 17, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before March 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 March 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: September 11, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Sallie Stewart Mitchell Personal Representative

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY (DC WATER) REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) FOR DC CLEAN RIVERS PROJECT CONSTRUCTION SERVICES CONTRACT NO. 150020 - NORTHEAST BOUNDARY TUNNEL UTILITY RELOCATIONS (DIVISION U) The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) requests the submittal of a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) for design-bid-build services in connection with the Northeast Boundary Tunnel Utility Relocations. The Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) will reduce flooding in the District and will control combined sewer overflows (CSOs) to the Anacostia River. The construction for the Northeast Boundary Tunnel Utility Relocations will precede the NEBT contract and relocate utilities in the project corridor of the NEBT. The work associated with Division U includes seven (7) sites located in NW and NE DC. Utility relocations include, but are not limited to, water mains, gravity sewers, Pepco duct banks and cables, Washington Gas lines, Verizon facilities, and Comcast facilities. Detailed information on the scope of work, procurement process, required content of the SOQ, submittal requirements, and evaluation process are contained in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) document.

After review of the SOQs received, DC Water will shortlist up to four Contractors in accordance with the evaluation criteria listed in the RFQ. DC Water will then provide Contract Documents to the shortlisted firms, who will be invited to submit a bid. Selection of the Contractor will be based upon price in accordance with the selection criteria specified in the RFP. The contract resulting from the Contract Documents will be subject to Fair Share Objectives for Minority and Women Business Enterprises (MBE and WBE). MBE and WBE objectives for construction services are 32 percent and 6 percent, respectively. The program requirements are fully defined in the U.S. EPA’s Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistance Agreements - May 25, 2008.

Firms wishing to submit SOQs should contact Ms. Kimberly Isom by e-mail at kimberly.isom@dcwater.com to obtain the RFQ document. The RFQ will be available for distribution on September 14, 2015. Requests must refer to Contract No. 150020. SOQs are due on October 15, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. (local time). The SOQs shall be directed to Kimberly Isom located on the 2nd floor of the Central Maintenance Facility (CMF) at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, 5000 Overlook Ave SW, Washington, DC 20032. Persons submitting SOQs must obtain a visitor’s pass at the VisiTYPESET: Sep at 15the 14:15:08 2015 tor’s CenterTue located plant’s EDT entrance.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY (DC WATER) REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) FOR DC CLEAN RIVERS PROJECT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION (DESIGN-BUILD) SERVICES CONTRACT NO. 140150 - NORTHEAST BOUNDARY TUNNEL (DIVISION J)

TYPESET: Tue Sep 15 17:23:12 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1058 Estate of James McAuthor Wideman Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Anwar Ul Haq for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

0 In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decendent died intestate 0 appoint an unsupervised personal representative 0 appoint an impartial attorney to be personal representative because the only interested person, Mary Willard Wideman has not agreed to serve.

Register of Wills Clerk ofthe Probate Division Date of First Publication September 18, 2015 Names of Newspapers: Washington Law Reporter Washington AFRO-AMERICAN c/o Douglas R. Stevens, Esq 3158 O Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Signature of Petitioners/Attorney

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TRUE TEST COPY whose where-abouts unknown shall enter their REGISTER OF WILLS are TRUE TEST COPY unknown shall enter their REGISTER a p p e a r a nOF c e WILLS in this a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s proceeding.

Objections 09/18, 09/25, 10/2/15 proceeding. Objections 09/11, to such appointment 09/18, 09/25/15 (or to such appointment (or to the probate of deto the probate of de- cedent´s will) shall be cedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Street, N.W., 3rd Floor W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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20001, on or before Feb20001, on or before Feb- ruary 28, 2016. Claims ruary 21, 2016. Claims against the decedent against the decedent shall be presented to the shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or beundersigned, on or be- fore February 28, 2016, fore February 21, 2016, or be forever barred. Peror be forever barred. Per- sons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the deor legatees of the de- cedent who do not recedent who do not re- ceive a copy of this notice ceive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall its first publication shall so inform the Register of so inform the Register of Wills, including name, Wills, including name, address and relationaddress and relation- ship. ship.

Date of Publication: Date of Publication: August 28, 2015 August 21, 2015 Name of newspaper: Name of newspaper: Afro-American Afro-American Washington Washington Law Reporter Law Reporter Shirl Holsey Seretha M Stewart Personal Personal Representative Representative TRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER OF WILLS TYPESET: Tue Aug 25 08/28, 09/4, 09/11/15 08/21, 8/28, 9/4/15

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20001, on or before February 28, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) requests the submittal of a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) for design-build services in connection with the Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT). The NEBT will reduce flooding in the District and will control combined sewer overflows 09/18, 09/25/15 (CSOs) to the Anacostia River. The construction for the NEBT contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: A large 23 foot diameter, 27,000 TRUE TEST COPY foot long tunnel excavated in soft ground, six drop shafts from 15 feet to 38 REGISTER OF WILLS feet in diameter, one 45 foot diameter ventilation shaft, five adits that are 8 TRUE TEST COPY feet to 15 feet in diameter, underground connections to new adits and TRUE TEST COPY 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15 REGISTER OF WILLS existing tunnel systems, five CSO diversion structures, several inlet REGISTER OF WILLS structures and green infrastructure facilities, two below grade ventilation TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 16:28:51 EDT10/02/15 2015 09/18, 09/25, TYPESET: Sep 15 14:16:12 EDT control facilities and a large above ground Ventilation Control Facility with TYPESET: Tue Sep 15 14:16:51 EDTTue 2015 REGISTER OF2015 WILLS 09/18, 09/25, 10/02/15 odor control, utility relocations, demolition of an existing pumping station, and commissioning of the facilities. The tunnel and shaft work will require 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15 TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court of TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 16:28:34 EDT Superior Court of excavating, supporting and constructing permanent structures at depths Superior Court of REGISTER OF2015 WILLS the District of the District of ranging from 70 feet to 160 feet below existing grade. The near surface the District of District of Columbia District of Columbia structures will require excavating, supporting and constructing permanent District of Columbia 09/11, 09/18,Wed 09/25/15 TYPESET: Sep 09 15:09:17 EDT 2015 PROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION Superior Court of structures to depths of up to 70 feet below the existing grade while maintainPROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. the District of ing traffic on a major east-west arterial roadway. There are significant Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 20001-2131 District of Columbia dewatering restrictions on the project, and robust ground improvement will 20001-2131 Superior Court of Administration No. Administration No. PROBATE DIVISION Administration No. be required to construct the Work. Detailed information on the scope of the District of 2015ADM1028 2015ADM1018 Washington, D.C. 2015ADM997 District of Columbia work, procurement process, required content of the SOQ, submittal Derrick Bradford 20001-2131 Beverly S Johnson PROBATE DIVISION Mark Divers requirements, and evaluation process are contained in the Request for Decedent Administration No. Washington, D.C. Decedent Decedent Qualifications (RFQ) document.

Wesley L. Clarke 20001-2131 2015ADM1033 NOTICE OF Monica D Williams Administration No. 1629 K Street. Ste 300 Mary Madalyn Williams APPOINTMENT, 12539 Basque Place After review of the SOQ’s received, DC Water will shortlist up to four teams 2015ADM1004 Washington, DC 20006 Decedent Woodbridge VA 22192 NOTICE TO in accordance with the evaluation criteria listed in the RFQ. DC Water will Adrian T. Borneman Attorney NOTICE OF Attorney CREDITORS then provide a Request for Proposals (RFP) package to the shortlisted Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE OF AND NOTICE TO Christopher D. Imlay, firms, who will be invited to submit a proposal. Selection of the DesignAPPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, Esq UNKNOWN HEIRS Builder will be based upon both technical and price elements in accordance NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE TO 14356 Cape May Rd. Dennis A. Johnson, with the selection criteria specified in the RFP. CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO Silver Spring, MD CREDITORS whose address is 4240 AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS 20904-6011 AND NOTICE TO Prescott Avenue 4E , The contract resulting from the RFP will be subject to Fair Share Objectives UNKNOWN HEIRS J a m e s A . W i l l i a m s , Attorney UNKNOWN HEIRS Dallas , Texas 75219, for Minority and Women Business Enterprises (MBE and WBE). MBE and T r i n a W a s h i n g t o n , whose address is 4017 NOTICE OF Monica D. Williams, was appointed personal APPOINTMENT, WBE objectives for professional services are 28 percent and 4 percent, whose address is 12539 whose address is 855 1st Street, SW, WashingNOTICE TO representative of the Basque Place, WoodM o n t e r i a C T, S E , ton, DC 20032, was aprespectively. MBE and WBE objectives for construction services are 32 CREDITORS estate of Beverly S. bridge VA 22192 was ap- Washington, DC 20019, pointed personal reprepercent and 6 percent, respectively. The program requirements are fully AND NOTICE TO Johnson, who died on pointed personal repre- was appointed personal sentative of the estate of defined in the U.S. EPA’s Participation by Disadvantaged Business EnterUNKNOWN HEIRS August 4, 2015 without a sentative of the estate of representative of the Mary Madalyn Williams, Michael Reeder, whose prises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistance Agreements - May will, and will serve with- Mark Divers, who died on estate of Derrick Brad- who died on June 16, address is 8710 Rustic 25, 2008. out Court supervision. All January 10, 2015 without f o r d , w h o d i e d o n 2015 with a Will and will Oak Court, Fairfax Staunknown heirs and heirs a will, and will serve with- January 30, 2015 without serve without Court su- tion, VA 22039, was ap- The pre-SOQ meeting was held on July 21, 2015 for the NEBT contract. whose where-abouts are out Court supervision. All a will, and will serve with- pervision. All unknown pointed personal repre- Firms wishing to submit SOQ’s should contact Ms. Kimberly Isom by e-mail unknown shall enter their unknown heirs and heirs out Court supervision. All heirs and heirs whose sentative of the estate of at kimberly.isom@dcwater.com to obtain the RFQ document. The RFQ will Adrian T. Borneman, who a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s whose whereabouts are unknown heirs and heirs where-abouts are un- died on August 13, 2015 be available for distribution on October 1, 2015. Requests must refer to proceeding. Objections unknown shall enter their whose whereabouts are known shall enter their with a will, and will serve Contract No. 140150. SOQs are due on November 19, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. unknown shall enter their a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s to such appointment (or a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s without Court supervi- (EST). The SOQs shall be directed to DC Water’s Kimberly Isom located on appearance in this to the probate of de- proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections proceeding. Objections sion. All unknown heirs the 2nd floor of the Central Maintenance Facility (CMF) at the Blue Plains to such appointment (or and heirs whose to such appointment (or cedent´s will) shall be to such appointment the probate of de- whereabouts are un- Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, 5000 Overlook Ave SW, Washingfiled with the Register of to the probate of de- shall be filed with the to known shall enter their ton, DC 20032. Persons submitting SOQs must obtain a visitor’s pass at the cedent´s will) shall be Wills, D.C., 515 5th cedent´s will) shall be Register of Wills, D.C., filed with the Register of a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Visitors Center located at the plant’s entrance.

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NOTICE OF LETTING Sealed Bids or Proposals, in duplicate addressed to the Board of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and marked for Water Contract No. 1230R-Prettyboy Reservoir Dam Gatehouse Facility Improvements will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 7, 2015. Positively no bids will be received after 11:00 A.M. Bids will be publicly opened by the Board of Estimates in Room 215, City Hall at Noon.

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ALLEGANY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND ROUTE 36 WATER - WOODCOCK HOLLOW TO RT. 47 CONTRACT NO. W-41 Sealed bids will be received by the Allegany County Commissioners until 3:00 p.m., local time, Tuesday, October 20, 2015, in the County Office Complex, 701 Kelly Road, Suite 407, Cumberland, Maryland 21502 for the Route 36 Water - Woodcock Hollow to Rt. 47, Contract No. W-41 consisting of approximately 5,000? of water line, ten (10) fire hydrants, 40 house connections, and other miscellaneous work. Bids will then be opened at 3:00 p.m. by the Clerk in Room #212.

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Copies of the Contract Specifications and Drawings may be obtained between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. only, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, at the Allegany County Department of Public Works upon payment of $100.00 per set payable to the ”Allegany County Commissioners.” An additional $20.00 per set will be charged for shipping and handling. Payment for Contract Documents is non-refundable.

The Contract Documents may be examined at the Allegany County Department of Public Works, 701 Kelly Road, Suite 300, Cumberland, Maryland and the Plans Room of Dodge Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland and Altoona Builders Exchange, Altoona, Pennsylvania. Complete Advertisement for Bids and the Bidder’s List are available on the Allegany County website www.gov.allconet.org.

BIDDERS must purchase the contract documents directly from Allegany County to submit a bid for consideration.

Each bidder must furnish with his bid an acceptable bid bond or certified check as bid guarantee, in an amount not less than five (5) percent of the bid, payable to the Allegany County Commissioners.

Separate Performance Bond and Payment Bonds each in the amount of the Contract Price will be required of the successful bidder.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. Any Bidder may, at his option, withdraw any bid prior to the actual bid opening.

The project is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture - Rural Development, the Maryland Department of the Environment, and Community Development Block Grant.

Bidders on this work will be required to comply with the President’s Executive Order No. 11246 as amended by Executive Order No. 11375 which prohibits discrimination in employment regarding race, creed, color, sex, or national origin. The requirements for Bidders and Contractors under these orders are explained in the Project Specifications. Bidders must comply with disadvantage business enterprise (DBE) requirements described in these documents. The majority contractor is hereby encouraged to divide the contract into smaller tasks to allow MBE’s an opportunity to subcontract on this work. Bidders are required to provide written certification that positive efforts were made to utilize small and minority owned businesses.

Bidders should note that this project includes Davis-Bacon wage rate requirements.

A pre-bid meeting for the purpose of answering or obtaining answers to questions of parties interested in contracting for the work, will be conducted at the Allegany County Office Building, Commissioners Meeting Room #100, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Maryland at 10:00 a.m. on Friday October 2, 2015. Bidder attendance is encouraged but not mandatory.

Please direct any project questions to Jim Webber, P.E., Utilities Division, at 301-777-5942, ext. 208.

For more info. on these & other full time positions, to include the various types/levels of certification &/or levels of experience needed to qualify for these opportunities, &/or to obtain an application & addendum call 410.767.0019 or visit our website at:

The right is reserved, as the interests of Allegany County may require, to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities in bids received, and to accept or reject any items of any bid.

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1.The original title shall be revised to Project #1245- Request for Information Fixed Guideway System Pilot.

2.Date Change- Respondents interested in submitting a response to this modified advertised RFI, must submit five (5) copies to 4 South Frederick Street, 4th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201 on or before 12:00 (noon) on September 30, 2015.

3.The new point of contact is Fleming El-Amin, email fleming.el-amin@ baltimorecity.gov; office 443-984-4097.

4.-”In reference to any future solicitation, all contractual provisions required

by U.S. DOT, as set forth in FTA Circular 4220.1E will be incorporated.

Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, all FTA mandated terms shall be deemed to control in the event of a conflict with other provisions contained in any future contractual agreement. The Contractor shall not perform any act, fail to perform any act, or refuse to comply with any requests which would cause to be in violation of the FTA terms and conditions. The following is a link to FTA’s Best Practices manual and the list of federal contract clauses http://www.fta.dot.gov/12831_6195.html All other information in the original advertisement of August 21, 2015 remains the same

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“BALTIMORE PRESENTS JAZZ CONCERTS AND CRABS THIS WEEK” Hello everyone. How are you? I hope you have enjoyed this beautiful summer thus far, if not, it is not too late because we have a little ways to go. More entertainment, more festivals, more concerts and more of some damn good times. As you can see from the pictures accompanying my column, there are some exciting jazz shows coming up such as the Carl Grubbs Ensemble, Art Sherrod, Jr. concert and Andrea Wolper. Also the Bilal Al∫∫i Productions will present a night of smooth jazz and R&B with Vivian Owens and saxophonist Marcus Mitchell, as well as many other musicians, on Saturday, Sept. 19 at the Best Western Ballroom, 1800 Belmont Avenue in Windsor Mills, Maryland with dinner and a jazz show starting at 8 p.m.

The Baltimore Seafood Festival will be jumping up and down, doing the James Brown. This event is hosted by “Join B Scene Events & Promotions for the 2nd Annual Baltimore Seafood Festival” taking place Saturday, Sept. 19 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Canton Waterfront Park. This event will be awesome because Baltimore local restaurants are involved, so it seems fitting to host a waterfront festival showcasing some of Baltimore’s favorite restaurants serving their signature seafood dishes, toss in refreshing drinks,

live music, cooking demos, and an area for families with toys, games, face painting and more. I will see you there.

Those of us who really love crabs never get enough, especially when they are hot, spicy, big, heavy and tasty. You have got to check out this one at the Forum Caterers, 4210 Primrose Avenue, Baltimore. Reginald Haysbert has invited all of you to Marcus “Sonny” Smith’s Old Fashioned Crab Feast on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. and Monday, Sept.

21 at 7 p.m. The Alpha Omega Alumni Chapter of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, in conjunction with the Alpha

Andrea Wolper Quartet will be in concert at the An die Musik, 409 N. Charles Street, Baltimore on Thursday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. with Ken Filiano on bass, Michael Thompson on drums, Diane Moser on piano and Andrea as vocalist. For more information, call 410-3852638.

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Shrimp Fest” while enjoying live entertainment on Sunday, Sept. 20 starting at 1 p.m.

For ticket information, call 410-760-4115 and tell them “Rambling Rose” told you.

The other event I want to mention to you is the “Baltimore Book Festival”

The Contemporary Arts and the Carl Grubbs Ensemble will present the Annual John Coltrane Celebration Concert on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 5 p.m. at the Ward Center for the Arts at St. Paul’s School, 11152 Falls Road in Brooklandville, Maryland.

The entertainment will include; Carl Grubbs on sax, Yawn Jones on piano, Blake Meister on bass , John Lamkin III on drums, Ephraim and Ebban Dorsey, Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund 2015 recipients on alto saxophones and also the St. Paul’s School Jazz Band.

For more information, call 410-944-2009.

Omega Social Services, is hosting this event. Now you see why they need 2 days.

For ticket information, call 10-368-1101.

Now, if you want to have a different atmosphere while eating your crabs, check out “Blues on the Water”, 7696 Altoona Beach Road in Glen Burnie, Maryland, where they will be rockin’ the dock with “All You Can Eat Crab &

Art Sherrod, Jr will entertain you in concert on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase Street, Annapolis, Md. with an evening of smooth, inspirational jazz as he debuts his freshman Gospel Jazz CD “Intervention”. For ticket information, call 410-2635544. from Friday, Sept. 25 through Sunday, Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. It will take place on West Shore Park and Rash Field, along the

Ephraim and Ebban Dorsey, brother and sister saxophonists were the Rosa Pryor Music Scholarship Fund first and second place winners of this year’s audition and they are already making names for themselves. The duo recently performed at Caton Castle with nationally renowned musicians and this week they will be performing with Carl Grubbs Ensemble.

400 blocks of Light Street and Key Highway. I will be there, of course. with my books and hundreds of other authors as well as food vendors of all kinds. I will see you there.

Another event is the “Billie Holiday’s Life in Music” where she is celebrated through exhibits, music, entertainment, films, book signings and more from Sept. 6 through Oct. 3 at the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, 847 N. Howard

Street in Baltimore. For more information, call 410-2253130.

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New Faces of Politics

September 19, 2015 - September 25, 2015, The Afro-American

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Mayoral Candidate Young Looks to Bring a Breath of Fresh Air to Baltimore

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Race and Politics

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO Mayoral candidate Calvin Young III believes that he has what it takes to unify Baltimore. During a sit-down interview with The Afro, the 27-year-old engineer and Harvard grad said that the city is at a crossroads, and the new energy he would bring to the job might be just what the city needs.

Bryant Makes His Bid to Represent Maryland’s Historic ‘Sacred Office’

By Sean Yoes D. Watkins book describes a Baltimore that isn’t usually written about.

D. Watkins Turns the Spotlight on Baltimore in ‘The Beast Side’

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO

Photo Credit: A.R. Ward

Calvin Young III during an interview at The AFRO. “Optimism is the first thing that is required for anything to happen because when you have a situation that is as serious as what we have, you have to be confident in your leadership to lead you toward whatever the right thing is,” he said.

“That’s what we don’t have right now. And that’s what, if you look at some of the folks who are running for mayor, I don’t believe we will be able to have.”

Young said it’s easy to bash current mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who announced she is not seeking reelection, but the problems that plague the city were around long before she took office.

“The problems of Baltimore City are systemic,” he said “They’ve been here for decades.”

“Those issues were around when Sheila Dixon was mayor, they were around when Martin O’Malley was mayor. Each of these mayors has tried their best at solving some of these issues, but we still find ourselves where we are today.”

In 2014 Baltimore had 211 homicides. As of Sept. 16 there have been 236 in 2015..

Young said that he believes he can change the tone of the city – because of who he is and what he represents.

“I’m running to provide a counterpoint to what we’ve heard about our city for decades - crime, drugs, homicides – that does not have to be what Baltimore is about moving forward.”

A Baltimore native, Young was raised by a single mother. He is a Baltimore Polytechnic Institute graduate who served as a representative on the Baltimore City Youth Continued on D2

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In his essay, “Stoop Stories”, D. Watkins writes about a time where he crossed over from one Baltimore to another.

He had been invited to Center Stage, to a fancy storytelling event. Seeing the other participants dressed up in their finest, as opposed to the jeans and hoodie he chose to wear, Watkins knows he has crossed into what he describes as “one of those events.” That is, “a segregated Baltimore show that blacks don’t even know about.”

That story is part of his recently-released collection, “The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America”. The book is a collection of his musings on life as a young, black man in Baltimore City.

The 34-year-old Waverley resident has been steadily making a name for himself. His 2014 essay, “Too Poor for Pop Culture” was published on the prestigious news website Salon.com and made him, in his words, “semi-relevant on the Internet.” Since then, he has appeared on NPR, Huff Post Live and lots of other places.

Watkins writes about the gritty side of Baltimore. He tells tales of bloody shootings, dysfunctional schools and bodies bloated with cheap, unhealthy food. He said that his writing is a way of reaching out to all parts of Baltimore – rich and poor, black and white.

“I’m using my story as a tool to connect with people,” he said. “I’m a servant. I work for the people of my city. I’m just trying to take you to a world that you haven’t been to before.”

For poor black people, Watkins says, his stories are an acknowledgement – a way of describing things, places and people that are often ignored.

For others, he’s offering an education.

“For people who are far removed from those communities, it’s a lesson,” he said.

Watkins said that although it was the part of Baltimore that was foreign to him that first embraced him, more familiar territories are also beginning to know who he is.

“My black audience is starting to pick up. [At first] I wasn’t really at schools like Morgan [State University] giving events.

I was working at Coppin [State University], but I wasn’t a known person.”

Why? “We have a tradition of not being in love with writing and reading,” he said. He said that when he first started teaching at Coppin, many of his students just didn’t see the importance of literature. He said he could identify. As a child in East Baltimore, he said, it was hard to get into Mark Twain, when he was seeing people shot and witnessing drug deals every day.

Watkins, who holds a Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Continued on D2

D.L. Hughley Preps for Baltimore ‘Comedy Get Down’ Performance

By James Bentley Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com D.L. Hughley is a household name in comedy. The AFRO spoke with the actor, author, national radio host and one of the “Original Kings of Comedy” about the continuing power of Bill Cosby, the aftermath of Freddie Gray and if Ray Rice should be forgiven.

J.B.: You’re playing Baltimore this weekend. Have you been following the Freddie Gray trial?

D.L.: How could I not, Baltimore is one our largest affiliates, we are on the radio there and one of our biggest markets. In addition to that, I think that what happened to Mr. Gray obviously shouldn’t happen but, what’s happening as a result of it is I think he will do more to change the minds about the perils that Black people face just living every day. There’s been a lot of action from the “Black Lives Matter” movement and I think we’ll see a shift from the public perspective that “Hey, maybe Black people are getting a raw deal and we’re crooks”. This thing has taken so many young lives and even when we look at what happened to James Blake he referenced “Black Lives Matter” which came as a result of Mr. Gray.

J.B.: Ray Rice, a former Baltimore Raven, is currently still a free agent after punching out his then fiancée. Do you think a team should pick him up after what happened? Do you think it would have already happened if he was White?

D.L. Hughley plays the Royal Farms Arena on Sept. 19 along with Cedric “The Entertainer”, D.L.: I do, if George Bush can have Eddie Griffin, attempted a DUI and then become President of George Lopez the United States that means we have a capacity and Charlie for forgiveness. I certainly don’t condone what Murphy.

he did, obviously I have daughters, I have a wife, I’ve been married 30 years and I’ve never put my hands on her, not that it’s noteworthy that’s just the way it should be. You have to consider Ray Rice was a running back; he was a running back at Rutgers then went on to become a running back with the Ravens. Ray Rice got hit in the head a bunch of times and now we’re learning so much about concussions so we know that can change a person. By all accounts he was never this way and all of a sudden he is. I’m asking what part did what he did for a living play in his attitude shift. So you can’t just look at Ray Rice and say he hit a woman, if this is not common to him and he did it, then how much did his occupation and how much did getting hit in the head change the way he naturally processed it. As for the second part of the question, I don’t think he would be a running back if he was White. People always try to make those points like “well if Trayvon Martin was white”; if Trayvon Martin were White his name wouldn’t be Trayvon it just wouldn’t happen.

J.B.: In the past you have said Bill Cosby was “a humanitarian, a humanist and a rapist”, what are your thoughts today with more women coming forward and Damon Wayans referring to them as “unrapeable”?

D.L.: Funny thing is I thought Bill Cosby was a rapist before America did and all of this stuff came out. It’s not like new to me, but knowing something is always easier than saying it out loud. Bill Cosby and I had an argument in 2008 and I said that to him on the radio in New York. He said “this will never air” and I said “the hell it won’t” and he had his people come down and take that tape and it never did air. So I know how powerful he is and I know how he can shut [expletive] up.

D.L. Hughley will be performing Sept. 19 at the Royal Farms Arena along with Cedric “The Entertainer”, Eddie Griffin, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy as part of “The Comedy Get Down” tour. He also has a book called “Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration” due out next year.

Even as Baltimore continued to digest the news that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will not seek re-election in 2016, the city was hit with another political bombshell on Sept. 14 when Empowerment Temple Pastor Jamal Bryant announced his bid to replace U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, who represents the venerable Seventh Congressional District of Maryland.

“I’m not opposing anyone, I’m proposing new ideas,” Bryant said during his announcement in the Bolton Hill community, outside of the recently dedicated Freddie Gray Youth Empowerment Center on Eutaw Place.

The 44-year old pastor and community activist attempted to strike a delicate balance making his case to represent the people of the seventh district, while not disrespecting the work of the man who has held the seat since 1996. Bryant also seemed to acknowledge he’s running for the seventh on the assumption Cummings will seek the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski.

“I have not talked to Mr. Cummings, I think he’s done a wonderful job, he’s been an incredible leader for our community...if he decided to stay in (House of Representatives) I would have a conversation with him because I respect him that much,” Bryant said.

On the same day as Bryant’s announcement, Cummings made an announcement of his own, `Not so fast.’

“Anybody...who thinks or presumes that I will not run for this sacred office, that is the Seventh Congressional District of Maryland, where I live in a district that I love, their assumptions are definitely premature,” Cummings said.

Many cherish the historic legacy of, `the sacred office that is the Seventh Congressional District of Maryland.’

In 1970, Parren J. Mitchell became the first Black elected to Congress from a state below the Mason-Dixon line since 1898 and the first ever in Maryland, after he defeated the incumbent Samuel Friedel by just 38 votes. After the 1970 Census, the Seventh Congressional District of Maryland was redrawn to be a majority Black district in West Baltimore (the district now stretches from Baltimore City to parts of Howard and Baltimore County), the first in the history of the state. It

Continued on D2

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Send your upcoming events to tips@ afro.com. For more community events go to afro.com/Baltimore-events.

Annual Housing Matters Mini Fair

Catonsville. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased online at cpmarts.org or from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787) from Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Based on availability, tickets may be purchased at the door.

Howard County Housing will hold its free 4th annual Housing Matters Mini fair on Sept. 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ascend One Building’s Howard County Public School conference center, 8930 Standford Blvd, Columbia, Md. 21045. The event will feature education sessions and one on one meetings with industry experts. For information about the mini fair and to register for education sessions visit howardcountyhousing.com.

Carter Memorial Church 75th Anniversary

‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

The Tiffany Series Opens 2015-16 Season

Children’s Playhouse of Maryland, in residence at Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, kicks off its 2015-2016 season with Ian Fleming’s “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. The production will run weekends at 1 p.m. on Sept. 19, 20, 26, 27, and Oct. 3, 4 with an additional performance at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. All performances will be held in the Administration Building Lecture Hall, 7201 Rossville Blvd. The Sunday, Oct. 4, performance will be sign-language interpreted by students in the American Sign Language Certificate Program at CCBC

Young

Continued from D1 Commission as a teen.

He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University and earned his master of business administration degree from Harvard University.

Young has never held public office, but points to his work as a jet engine engineer and as National Chairperson for the National Society of Black Engineers, as proof of his ability to manage and to lead.

Young said that one of his main priorities as mayor would be improving community-police relations by emphasizing something he calls “process control.”

“In order for the police department to gain trust with the community it requires process control within the police department. What that looks like is making sure that any individual who works for the police department follows processes and procedures that are set out for them to do.”

He says that his engineer’s brain is perfect for the task.

Another priority, he said, would be eliminating lead from city homes.

“One thing I’ll guarantee as mayor is to eliminate lead in homes in the city. There should be no lead paint anywhere.

If it requires walking in everybody’s house who says they have lead and doing an assessment and then sending somebody in to get rid of the lead then we’ll do that.

Education is another priority – specifically the fields of science, technology, engineering and math commonly known as STEM. “The focus for me is going to be on STEM education because of the economic impact that it would have on young people,” Young said.

“I want to make sure that every young person who wants to be an engineer or scientist in Baltimore knows what that’s about. There’s nobody better at that than me, I’ve been doing it for 10 years with the National Society of Black Engineers.”

He said that he identifies with the Black Lives Matter protestors who have been active even before Freddie Gray’s death. As mayor, he

Carter Memorial Church Of God In Christ, 13 S Poppleton St, Baltimore, Md. 21201, will celebrate its 75th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 27.at 10 a.m. Bishop Charles Blake Sr., the presiding bishop of the Churches Of God In Christ Inc., will speak on Friday while Bishop J. Delano Ellis of Cleveland, Ohio will speak on Sunday.

Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church (BMPA) is pleased to present Congressman Elijah E. Cummings as the featured guest speaker to open the 10th anniversary season of the church’s Tiffany Series on Sunday, September 27, at 3 p.m.

Congressman Cummings’ talk,

said, he’d work to unify all sides of the issue.

“I identify with making Baltimore a better place for people who are like me. I think the black lives mater movement feels the same, specifically here in Baltimore.”

Elijah Cummings

“They are a group of advocates. They are superrequired for any movement to start. I want to play the roll of the innovator, someone who can come with solutions…but also a collaborator, somebody who is coming in with a fresh

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was a major step in the consolidation of viable Black political power in Maryland and the Seventh served as a base for several subsequent successful political campaigns for Black politicians.

The redrawing of the Seventh (and the burgeoning Black voting bloc) also helped bolster Baltimore’s role as the dominant Democratic stronghold in the state for decades.

Mitchell, one of the early and most vocal members of the Congressional Black Caucus (the group was formed in 1969 just prior to Mitchell’s arrival), was the, “father” of Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). In 1976, Mitchell attached an amendment to a $4 billion public works program, which required state and local governments applying for federal contracts to set aside 10 percent of the money for companies owned by people of color.

Trailblazing was nothing new for Mitchell, who came from one of the storied families of Black Baltimore. His brother, Clarence Mitchell, Jr., (whose mother-in-law Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson was known as the mother of civil rights in Maryland, his wife Juanita Jackson was a civil rights firebrand and the first Black woman to practice law in Maryland), known as the, “101st Senator,” was the most effective lobbyist in the history of the NAACP. Mitchell, Jr., who was a star reporter for the Baltimore AFRO American Newspaper, was also part of the team

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the University of Baltimore, believes that if black people as a whole don’t love literature as much as they could, it’s because of our history. He said that black slaves were denied books and letters for a long time because white slaveholders knew the power they held. Watkins is also a professor at Coppin State University and runs a creative writing workshop at the Baltimore Free School.

Watkins believes that books are the way forward.

“We need to create readers,” he said. “The major theme [of the book] is the redemptive power of education and art. Ways to use it as tools.”

“One of my biggest honors is that my black audience

“Building Baltimore’s Future,” will address the challenges currently facing Baltimore City and how people of good will and faith can meaningfully and effectively help build a renewed and united city. Young musicians with the BSO-sponsored OrchKids program will perform several musical selections to open the program. A reception in the church’s assembly room will follow the program. A donation of $15 ($5 for students) is suggested to attend this event, which will be used to support BMPA’s mission projects in Baltimore and beyond, as well as community charity groups. Parking and shuttle service from the parking lot will be available. The church is wheelchair accessible. Call 410523-1542, or visit browndowntown.org, for information.

set of eyes who can listen to everybody and find a silver lining that helps us all move forward together.”

Young also reflected on the Rawlings-Blake’s decision to step down. The announcement was made just a short while before his Afro interview.

“Her decision seems to be very much focused on her ability to support the city as mayor today, and her desire to want to do that in the fullest capacity. I think that is something that we should admire and appreciate and commend her for.”

(through a plan created by the AFRO and the Baltimore branch of the NAACP) that first attempted to integrate the University of Maryland in 1933.

In 1950, Parren Mitchell integrated the University of Maryland’s College Park campus, the university’s last bastion of segregation.

After Mitchell announced he would not seek re-election in 1985, Kweisi Mfume ran for and won the Seventh District seat and took up the mantle of leadership and service so carefully crafted by Mitchell.

During his fourth term in Congress, Mfume became chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, the organization Mitchell had been so influential in helping establish. Mfume, later moved on to become president of the NAACP. In an ironic twist of fate, Mfume told me that during the Baltimore Riots of 1968 it was Parren Mitchell who confronted him (then Frizzell Gray) on the street, in the midst of destruction and violence and dissuaded him from engaging in activity that could have proven catastrophic to him or others. It was around the same time the trajectory of his life -- he had been a multiple teen father, high school dropout and generally a hooligan -- was changed radically. By the early 1970’s he adopted a new name and in 1978 he ran for a seat in the Baltimore City Council, winning by a mere three votes.

This is part of the incredible legacy Cummings inherited (after a brutal political battle) in 1996. It’s going to be interesting to see if he’s ready to give it up with or without a fight.

is growing. That’s important to me. That means I’m doing something right. I’m doing my small part.”

On the day of his interview with The Afro, the decision to keep the Freddie Gray trial in Baltimore was just a few hours old. Watkins dedicates the book to Gray, so it was fitting that he weighed in.

“I’m happy that it’s going to stay in Baltimore. If I bust somebody over the head in Towson I can’t say ‘move my case to East Baltimore.’ They need to be subject to the same system that we are subject to.”

Watkins said that although he doesn’t really go to protests anymore, he sees himself as an activist. He said that there are many ways to change things, and being on the front line with a picket sign is just one of them.

“My role is to document these stories to young people,” he said. “Activism has many faces.”

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L-R: Kimberly Hill, Principal, Christopher Smith, 1st grader, Arianna Maye, 2nd grader and Tawanda Bridgeforth, 1st grade teacher

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The Patapsco River Chapter of The Links held their 22nd annual event recognizing and awarding scholarships to Baltimore County students in July.

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