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Baltimore City approves $6.4M settlement in Freddie Gray case

By Roberto Alejandro Special to the AFRO ralejandro@afro.com City leaders on Sept. 9 approved a $6.4 million settlement of all civil claims arising from the police involved killing of Freddie Gray last April.

Citing the prospect of uncapped liability in federal court, and the desire to spare the city protracted litigation, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake, City Council

President Jack Young, and the other members of the city’s Board of Estimates voted to approve the settlement on Sept.

9, with $2.8 million to be paid out to the Gray family in fiscal 2016, and $3.6 million in fiscal 2017.

In his presentation of the settlement to the Board of Estimates, Deputy City Solicitor David Ralph noted that past judgments

Allegra Bennett, Baltimore Area Reporter and Self-Help Author, Dies at 68

By AFRO Staff Allegra Bennett, a Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. mainstay, died at the age of 68 on Sept. 8. The cause of death was unavailable at press time.

Bennett was a longtime reporter for The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Times, first covering crime and later becoming a columnist. She then started her own do-it-yourself magazine called Renovating Woman. In addition, she wrote speeches for politicians and became an advocate for self-publishing as well as authoring several non-fiction self-help books.

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stemming from cases filed in federal court exposed the city to $39 million in liability in 1997, and $7.4 million in 2005.

City Solicitor George Nilson, who also sits on the Board of Estimates,

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Barry Williams, Judge in Freddie Gray Case, Known for Evenhandedness

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com The Freddie Gray saga moved from the streets to the courtroom last week, turning a world-sized spotlight on Associate Judge Barry Williams, the Baltimore City Circuit Court jurist who is overseeing the criminal cases of the police officers charged in Gray’s death. But the 53-year-old is unlikely to wilt under the public scrutiny, observers say.

“That’s not a problem for him. He won’t be worried about public pressure and all of that. He’s just going to do his job,” said Ronald Richardson, a civil attorney with the Law Offices of Peter Angelos who knows Williams from the courtroom and their shared membership in at least one professional organization.

In fact, several professionals in Maryland’s legal community said Judge Williams may have been just the person needed to oversee a case of such complexity and gravity.

“No question he’s a good fit,” said veteran criminal attorney A. Dwight Pettit. “He has a fundamental academic understanding of not only the procedural issues but also the substantive issues in this case.”

Williams was born April 4, 1962, in Neptune, N.J. In 1984, he graduated from the University of Virginia with

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The Black Lives Matter Movement Comes of Age

By Barrington M. Salmon Special to the AFRO For many of the young activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of vigilante George Zimmerman by a Sanford, Florida jury of Whites marked a tragic coming of age. Until that moment, most Black millennials in the U.S. operated under the illusion that they were somehow beyond the times when they were still susceptible to being harmed by the police or racism.

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D.C. Preps For Pope Francis Visit

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Mother of Jesse Jackson, Dies at 92

By The Associated Press

Helen Burns Jackson, the mother of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, has died. She was 92.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson told The Associated Press his mother died the morning of Sept. 7 in her longtime hometown of Greenville, South Carolina.

She had been in failing health for some time, he said.

“She was an incredible woman blessed with a

Vertus Hardiman: A Man With Courage “Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed”

By Jonathan Hunter Special to the AFRO

The victim of an unethical secret U.S government radiation experiment in 1928, Vertus Hardiman did not let a severe deformity prevent him (AP Photo/David Bookstaver, file) This April 19, 1988 file photo shows the Rev. Jesse from living a full life.

Jackson joining hands with his family, from left, wife His remarkable Jackie, mother Helen, and son Jesse Jr. before a crowd story was told in a of supporters at New York’s Sheraton Centre Hotel. documentary, “Hole Your History • Your Community • Your News in the Head: A Life The Afro-American Newspapers long life,” Jackson said.

Baltimore Office • Corporate Headquarters Revealed.” According Courtesy Photo 2519 N. Charles Street Jackson described his mother as a talented to the film, Hardiman Vertus Hardiman Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4602 410-554-8200 • Fax: 1-877-570-9297 musician, active member of her church and big was born on March www.afro.com inspiration for much of his community activism.

9, 1922 in Lyles Station, Ind., known as one of the Founded by John Henry Murphy Sr., August 13, 1892 Born in 1923, Helen Burns Jackson “lived earliest Negro settlements in the United States.

Chairman of the Board/Publisher - John J. Oliver, Jr. under very trying circumstances, but she was so Growing up in an era of racial segregation, he found President - Benjamin M. Phillips IV determined to make a contribution,” her son said. comfort at Lyles Station Consolidated School.

Executive Assistant - Sallie Brown - 410-554-8222 Receptionist - Wanda Pearson - 410-554-8200 Jackson said his mother had two scholarships When Hardiman was five years old, he was one to attend college, but when she became pregnant of nine children that took part in a terrifying medical Director of Advertising Lenora Howze - 410-554-8271 - lhowze@afro.com with him, she chose not to go. She later became a experiment. At a local county hospital, the children Baltimore Advertising Manager cosmetologist. took part in a misrepresented treatment that was Robert Blount - 410-554-8246 - rblount@afro.com “She helped a lot of people,” Jackson told The supposed to cure scalp fungus, according to The Director of Finance - Jack Leister - 410-554-8242 Greenville News a few days before she died. “That’s Root. Instead, the ringworm fungus was a ploy to mostly what I remember about Mother is some get access to operate on innocent children.

Archivist - Ja-Zette Marshburn - 410-554-8265 people would call and say ‘I need my hair to be At the time, many human radiation experiments dressed, but I don’t have any money.’ She would Director, Community & Public Relations were funded by the United States Department Diane W. Hocker - 410-554-8243 say, ‘Come on anyhow.’” of Defense and United States Atomic Energy Editorial Jackson also recalled how his mother would Commission. Experiments included feeding Managing Editor - Kamau High help others who couldn’t read or write fill out radioactive food to disabled children, inserting Washington D.C. Editor - LaTrina Antoine Associate Editor - James Bentley government paperwork. radium rods into schoolchildren and injecting Editorial Assistant - Takiea Hinton One year when they were too poor to buy pregnant women and babies with radioactive Production Department - 410-554-8288 Christmas gifts, he said, they came home from a chemicals. The studies were classified until 1986, Baltimore Circulation/Distribution Manager pageant to find six bags of groceries on the porch. when they were released in the report entitled Sammy Graham - 410-554-8266 They learned later the groceries came from an “America Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Three Decades of Washington Office illiterate World War I veteran whom Burns Jackson Radiation Experiments.”

1917 Benning Road, N.E. had once helped.

Washington, D.C. 20002-4723 The treatment on Hardiman’s skull left him with 202-332-0080 • Fax: 1-877-570-9297 Years later, Burns Jackson watched her son rise progressive necrosis of the scalp throughout the rest (Washington Publisher Emerita - Frances L. Murphy II) to fame as an activist, primarily from her South of his life. The disfigurement of his head was so General Manager Carolina home.

However, she appeared onstage severe that he always wore hats and wigs to disguise Washington Circulation/Distribution Manager Edgar Brookins - 202-332-0080, ext. 106 when he addressed the Democratic National his scalp. Hardiman faced intense criticism from Convention in 1988.

He lost the nomination that Director of Advertising friends who had no idea what he was hiding, and Lenora Howze - ext. 119 - lhowze@afro.com year to Michael Dukakis. for nearly 80 years he kept his disfigurement secret Business Solutions Consultant Another son, Chuck Jackson, is a singer and from the public.

Elaine Fuller - ext. 115 - efuller@afro.com songwriter.

Despite his obstacle, he graduated from Lincoln Advertising Account Executive Vetta Ridgeway - ext. 1104 - vridgeway@afro.com Burns Jackson also listened to her son’s radio High School with honors in 1941. In 1945, broadcasts from Chicago and never missed a TV Office Administrator - Mia Hayes-Hawkins - ext. 100 Hardiman traveled to the West Coast in search of appearance, Jackson told the newspaper. a job. After a year, he gained employment with the Customer Service, Home Delivery and Subscriptions: 410-554-8234 • Customer Service@afro.com “She took lots of joy in that,” he said. “She Los Angeles County General Hospital, where he always asked, ‘Lord, what have I done to deserve was known as a loyal employee and was honored Billing Inquiries: 410-554-8226 Nights and Weekends: 410-554-8282 this? What have I done to deserve this?’” for his perfect attendance record.

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D.C. Preps For Pope Francis Visit

By Shantella Sherman and James Wright Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com jwright@afro.com  Migdalia Root has dreamed of seeing the pope since she was a girl attending St. Ephraim Catholic Church in the Dyker Heights area of Brooklyn. A devout Catholic, Root visited Vatican City hoping to catch a glimpse of Pope John Paul II, without any luck. Now, a grandmother and retired District of Columbia civil servant, the St. Vincent de Paul parishioner has joined other anxious adherents praying their names are selected to attend a D.C. mass to be led by Pope Francis.

Root said it is imperative that all Catholics accept the Pope as a direct connection to God and God’s expectations, especially in times of social crisis. “There are many issues in life that require a spiritual response rather than a political one, or a popular one,� Root said. “As we turn against one another more and more over racial and political differences, a spiritual authority is needed to anchor us.

That is the Pope.�

According to Catholic historian and Benedictine monk Cyprian Davis in The History of Black Catholics in the United States, the needs of Black Catholics are of the upmost concern as “Black and Brown� membership now outnumbers that of Whites. “Go to Rome and about every third person in religious garb or collar is Brown skinned or Black, Davis wrote. “Asians and Africans have made our church, in its very center, a truly universal church.�

While f Pope Francis is expected to address topics including forgiveness for women who have had abortions, race or racism isn’t among them. Still, if the climate at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops held in June is any indication, race could

made me take stock in my fears about being a young, Black man in a world that is often unkind and judgmental,� Spicer said. “Since the bishops started the ball rolling, I pray the Pope picks it up and helps this nation heal.�

If Pope Francis wants to heal Catholics in America, his first visit to the U.S. is his chance. He will be in the District of Columbia from Sept. 22-24. Later, he will travel to New York City and Philadelphia.

While in Washington, he will visit President Obama at the White House on Sept.

23, and will become the first pope to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Sept.

24. Religious events in the District include a

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will have an opportunity to meet Pope Francis.

Franklin Garcia, the District’s statehood U.S. representative, is a member of the Catholic Church and can’t wait for the pontiff’s arrival. “This is a historic visit because this is the first pope from Latin America and the Washington area has a large Hispanic population,� Garcia said. “It is really special that he will hold the Sept. 23 mass in Spanish and that means he recognizes the magnitude of Hispanics in this nation.�

Garcia said his position as an elected official in the District doesn’t give him special access to the pontiff. “I will have the

“God’s representative will be on the ground, live and in person – prayerfully, in front of me‌ that’s a powerful thing to consider.â€?

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unexpectedly take center stage.

At the St. Louis gathering, the organization’s president, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz offered a statement directly challenging the violence in Ferguson, Missouri, which said in part, “Racism is an evil which endures in our society and in our church. . . . We must address root causes of these conflicts – a violent, sorrowful history of racial injustice, accompanied by a lack of educational, employment, and housing opportunities.�

For Marcus Spicer, a long-time congregant of St. Augustine’s in Northwest, the pope’s visit will help redirect some of his energy to God’s purpose for his life. “It has

Sept. 23 mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception; prayer meetings with Catholic bishops at St. Matthews Cathedral, a stop at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and visiting charities associated with the Archdiocese of Washington.

Pope Francis will be the third pontiff to visit Washington. Pope John Paul II came to Washington and met with President Carter, among others, in 1979, and President George W. Bush greeted Pope Benedict XVI April 15, 2008, at Andrews Air Force Base, a first for a U.S. president.

In 1979, then D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and his wife, Effi, met Pope John Paul II and in 2009, then D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty escorted Pope Benedict XVI around the city. It’s not clear at this point whether

best seat because I will be watching him on television,� he said.

His colleague, D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8), said she wants Pope Francis to come to her ward for a tour.

The pontiff is very compassionate toward the poor and May notes, ironically, that he is not scheduled to visit the city’s low-income and working-class neighborhoods. “Ward 8 needs resources and his presence could have brought that out,� May said. “We have Catholic institutions in the ward like Lady of Perpetual Help Church and Saint Teresa Avila Catholic Church and we have a number of Ward 8 residents who are Catholic.

It would have been great for the ward if he could have come here but that wasn’t my decision to make.�

with the movement. “I can’t speak for the past, but women have always been on the frontlines, at home, on the streets – they’re always playing a role,� she said. “People try to act as if all of a sudden, women are coming out of the woodwork but they’ve always been there. “Women are expected to look and act a certain way but in D.C., women have been present from the start and haven’t played a lesser role,� she continued. “Men tend to hold more power and position.

It may seem that they’re out front but they’ve always interacted with and consulted with women leaders.�

Mrabet said she believes law enforcement has to be confronted head-on. Her views are similar to civil rights matriarch Dorie Ladner. Both contend that it’s law enforcement’s role to keep poor White and Black people under control while protecting property. “I have

my own voice. No man can delete me from the narrative,� Mrabet asserted. “I don’t work under anyone; I’m not in a male-dominated industry. I have my own voice, no one can fire me from the movement.�

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supposed to be was skewed as they watched Zimmerman walk after confronting and fatally shooting the unarmed 17-year-old headed home from a nearby convenience store.

Recent police-involved killings of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York; Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Freddie Grey in Baltimore, Maryland; and the recent deaths of Sandra Bland, Kindra Chapman, Ralkina Jones, and other women while in police custody, has reinvigorated national protests and other acts of civil disobedience. Activists

gov/cointel-pro, COINTELPRO was created to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. “COINTELPRO is still being used to target and criminalize Blacks, Arabs, and Muslims who speak out against racism, discrimination, and inequality,� Mrabet said. “People are targeted not for what you’ve done but who you are.

“When Michael Brown (died), it was clear to me that there are linkages between the Arab, Muslim, and Black communities because they all face the same enemy.�

- Yasmina Mrabet

and groups have taken aim at the troubling treatment of the Black, Brown, and poor in underserved communities by law enforcement and are advocating for widespread and significant reform of the criminal justice system. “When Michael Brown (died), it was clear to me that there are linkages between the Arab, Muslim, and Black communities because they all face the same enemy,� said Yasmina Mrabet, a D.C.-area activist and specialist in conflict analysis and resolution. She said a FBI program, established in 1956 and supposedly closed in 1971 was responsible for the increased targets on Black, Muslims, and Brown people.

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“They (Metropolitan Police Department) use the tactics of an occupying force. They occupy Black and Brown communities and target people in different ways. I felt it was important to draw these linkages for myself and to constantly link these struggles. The only way to dismantle the system of oppression is to see the linkages.�

Mrabet, 27, is a Moroccan-American who spent significant portions of her childhood in Qatar and the Middle East. She’s a founding member and organizer of DC Ferguson, which since its inception last year has organized sitins; disruptions on city streets; and marches to protest instances of police brutality, harassment, and “jump outs� – similar to ‘stop and frisk’-- in the District by the Vice Unit of the Metropolitan Police Department, she said. “Police violence is normal against an oppressed community,� Mrabet said. “There’s no trust to be built between any system of policing not rooted in trust but rooted in evil. They’re not accountable to anyone.

We’ve seen reduced violence when the community polices itself.�

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called the size of the settlement “substantial” prior to the Board’s vote of approval, but argued that it was in the best interest of both the city, and the six officers accused in the death of Gray, who are spared any civil liability by the settlement. “[The settlement] is affordable, and it will come entirely . . . from assured recoveries and savings from other litigation being handled by the [city’s] law department. . . .

No public programs or projects will be affected in any way,” said Nilson.

Rawlings-Blake addressed the city’s concern over potentially protracted civil litigation over Gray ‘s death.

“We’ve seen the impact on the city of just one motions hearing,” said the mayor, referring to the protest involving dozens of demonstrators that occurred Sept. 2, as pre-trial motions were being considered in the trial (now trials) of the six officers charged in the death of Gray. “To talk about the potential cost of years and years of civil litigation, we can’t even quantify that cost.”

Gray family attorney Billy Murphy, who held a noon press conference at his downtown office, said the principal desire of the family has always been to see justice done and violence avoided.

“The Gray family wants to grieve in peace,” said Murphy. “Every time something in this case comes up, it just opens a sore that is trying to heal. That’s why they’re not here today, they want to grieve in peace.”

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a bachelor’s degree in history. Three years later, he graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law. After graduation, Williams served as a law clerk to thenBaltimore Circuit Court Judge Arrie W. Davis then Judge Robert M. Bell, then of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.

For eight years, 1989 to 1997, Williams did a stint as a Baltimore City prosecutor before going federal, serving as a trial attorney and special litigation counsel in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice until 2005. From December of that year to the present, Judge Williams has served in Maryland’s 8th Judicial Circuit Court.

And, in all those positions, Williams has served with distinction, legal experts said.

“When he was a prosecutor he was known to be thorough and ethical. There was very little controversy over how he did his job,” said Jose Anderson, professor, University of Baltimore School of Law. “And, as a judge,

his reputation is that he is very careful about how he rules on issues…[and] of being very balanced.”

In December 2011, Judge Williams was appointed as the judge-in-charge of the Baltimore Circuit Court’s Criminal Division, a position he held until January of this year.

In that position, Williams was responsible for assigning judges, managing the criminal docket and serving as chair of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.

“I believe that Judge Williams will continue the tradition of strong, excellent leadership in this, the most demanding division of our court,” said Administrative Judge Marcella Holland at the time of the appointment.

The appointment suggested that though Williams had been named to the bench relatively young, he has earned his stripes among his peers, Anderson said.

“To be given the responsibility of running this division in such a large city suggests that

he’s earned the respect of his colleagues.”

Fellow legal scholar Larry Gibson, a professor in the University of Maryland School of Law, echoed those sentiments.

“It would be difficult to imagine a judge with more relevant experience to oversee this case—eight years as a prosecutor, eight years as a civil rights lawyer in the Department of Justice, [nine] years as a judge. And in all of those positions, he’s been a leader,” Gibson said, before adding, “In addition to that experience, he’s extremely bright, levelheaded and energetic.”

Attorneys who have appeared before him also had overwhelmingly positive views of the jurist.

“He’s an excellent judge…very stern and no-nonsense and he moves things along,” said Pettit, who has defended cases before Williams before, including a murder case last year.

“He goes directly to the facts of the case,” Pettit added. “He allows the lawyers to try the

Spiritual ‘War Room’ Beats Out ‘Compton’

By The Associated Press “Straight Outta Compton” ceded its three-week reign at the top of the box office to the faith-based “War Room,” which climbed to No. 1 with $13.4 million over a sleepy Labor Day weekend.

The Robert Redford buddy dramedy “A Walk In The Woods,” based on Bill Bryson’s Appalachian Trail memoir, also inched past “Compton” to take second place with $10.9 million, according to final figures reported by studios Tuesday.

“The Transporter Refueled” opened in fifth, with a tame $9 million.

Although the action film only cost $21 million to produce, it seems the series isn’t as compelling to moviegoers without star Jason Statham.

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Priscilla Shirer is one of the stars of ‘War Room’

case. A lot of judges will take over and try to interject his or her opinion and try to sway the jury.”

That commitment—to ensuring everyone has their day in court—may have been the basis of Williams’ decision to sever the cases of the police officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death into six separate cases during a pretrial hearing Sept. 2, experts said.

Williams denied the state’s motion to try three of the officers as a group, saying it was “not in the interest of justice.”

But Williams also denied several defense motions, including one seeking the recusal of Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby for alleged conflicts of interest.

That evenhandedness will likely be the hallmark of Williams’ performance over the course of those trials, experts said.

“As you saw in his admonishment of both the state and the defense lawyers last week,” Pettit said, “he’s very fair and he doesn’t take any mess.”

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Arkansas Governor Sets Execution Dates After 10-year Gap

By The Associated Press Arkansas will resume lethal injections after a 10-year gap starting next month with a double execution, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sept. 9 as he announced execution dates for eight death-row inmates.

Arkansas hasn’t executed an inmate since 2005, largely because of court challenges to the state’s lethal injection law and a nationwide shortage of drugs that Arkansas has used during executions.

But last week, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent letters to the governor requesting that execution dates be set. Rutledge said the inmates’ appeals had been exhausted, and the state Department of Correction said it had enough doses of its lethalinjection drugs to perform the executions.

Hutchinson set four dates through January, meaning two men are scheduled to be executed on each date. But he acknowledged that challenges are likely.

“Quite frankly I would expect continued litigation in it, but it’s my understanding that all of the appeals have been exhausted and that there is a finality in the judgment and that is the reason the Attorney General has asked for those dates to be set,” Hutchinson said.

One pending lawsuit challenges a new state law that allows the Correction Department not to disclose how it obtains its execution drugs. Attorney Jeff Rosenzweig, who is representing

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The sedative midazolam is used, with two other drugs, in Arkansas’ new execution protocol. the eight inmates in the lawsuit, said he and other lawyers are working on filing motions to delay the executions.

“We think the lethal injection lawsuit presents serious issues that need to be resolved first before any executions can take place,” he said.

Federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have

rejected similar arguments used by inmates in Missouri, Texas and other states that also allow prisons to keep their drug suppliers’ names secret.

The first two executions are scheduled for Oct. 21 for deathrow inmates Bruce Earl Ward and Don William Davis.

Ward, a former perfume salesman, was convicted in the 1989 killing of 18-year-old Rebecca Doss, whose body was found in the men’s bathroom of the convenience store where she worked. Davis, who had an execution date set in 2006 that was later stayed, was sentenced to death for the 1990 killing of Jane Daniels in northwest Arkansas.

The other execution dates are set for Nov. 3, Dec. 14 and Jan. 14.

Arkansas has executed 27 people since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976, though none since Eric Nance was put to death in 2005 for the killing of 18-year-old Julie Heath of Malvern.

Arkansas’s execution protocol calls for a three-drug process.

The Department of Correction said that as of July 1, it had enough of the drugs, including midazolam, to perform the executions.

Midazolam was implicated after executions last year in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma went longer than expected, with inmates gasping and groaning as they died. The U.S. Supreme Court approved continued use of the drug in June, rejecting a challenge from three Oklahoma death-row inmates.

Presidential Candidates Duel on Iran; House GOP in Turmoil

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At a conservative rally against President Obama’s nuclear accord with Iran, protesters waved ugly signs.

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60-day deadline clock on remained uncertain. In the the congressional review Senate debate did begin on period can’t really start until the resolution, with some lawmakers get information describing the vote as among on separate agreements the most consequential in their negotiated with Iran by the lifetimes. Underscoring the International Atomic Energy occasion, McConnell urged Agency. all senators to be present, Yet the maneuvering though most Democrats and appeared to be moving some Republicans ignored the forward without the blessing request. of the powerful pro-Israel Congress has until Sept. lobby AIPAC, which has led 17 to pass a disapproval opposition to the accord. An resolution of the Iran deal, official with the group said its under legislation passed preference was for a straight earlier this year giving vote on the disapproval lawmakers the right to resolution — something review it. Republican leaders Senate Democrats are trying did not sound receptive to block with a filibuster. to conservative attempts The fate of that effort T:7.5738”to change the terms of the

debate.

“Right now we’ve got strong bipartisan opposition to this deal. It’s my opinion that we’re far better off focusing on the substance” rather than the timing of a vote, said GOP Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

The White House and Democratic lawmakers were dismissive of the conservative moves. “Sounds like a plan hatched up at Tortilla Coast on a Tuesday night,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz, naming a restaurant near the Capitol where congressional conservatives meet.

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Debate on the Iran nuclear deal morphed into full-blown political spectacle on Sept.

9 as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz held a rally to denounce it, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech to praise it and congressional Republicans turned on each other angrily as they grasped for a last-ditch play to stop it.

The maneuvering and speechifying did little to change the reality: Barring unlikely success of an eleventh-hour gambit by the House, the international accord aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions will move ahead.

Even if Congress succeeds in passing legislation aimed at undermining it by next week’s deadline, President Barack Obama would veto such a measure and minority Democrats command enough votes to sustain him.

But that seemed only to inflame GOP opponents as Congress convened for its first full day back after a five-week summer recess that hardened partisan divisions around the accord. Republicans turned up the rhetoric against the deal at a rally outside the Capitol, while inside, House conservatives searched for a legislative way to undermine it.

Across town, Clinton praised the accord.

“Diplomacy is not the pursuit of perfection. It is the balancing of risk,” she said in a speech at the Brookings Institution. Either the deal moves forward, she said, or “we turn down a more dangerous path leading to a far less certain and riskier future.”

The message was far different at the Capitol rally headlined by GOP presidential candidates Trump and Cruz denouncing the Iran accord, which Republicans contend

will not stop the Iranians from developing a nuclear bomb. The gathering featured conservative favorites, including former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, in front of several thousand people who waved flags and banners denouncing Obama. One placard showed a smiling president alongside a billowing mushroom cloud over New York City.

“Never ever, ever in my life have I seen a deal so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran,” Trump told the crowd. “We are led by very, very stupid people. We cannot let it continue.”

The congressional resolution, on its own, wouldn’t reverse a multicountry agreement already blessed by the United Nations.

A vote of disapproval, however, could signal Congress’ readiness to introduce new sanctions at the risk of causing Tehran — and other governments — to abandon the accord and blame the U.S. for the failure.

Along with the criticism of Obama, the crowd outside the Capitol booed lustily as speakers mentioned Republican House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Conservatives long dissatisfied with their leadership demanded that McConnell and Boehner come up with a way to stop the deal.

No such solution seemed likely given strong Democratic unity and Obama’s veto pen. But the conservative resistance was enough to force House GOP leaders to cancel the start of debate on a disapproval resolution and call an emergency meeting on how to move forward.

Leaders hastily developed a Plan B involving votes on several related measures: one to specify that the Obama

administration had not properly submitted the accord to Congress; a second, boundto-fail vote to approve the deal and a third to prevent Obama from lifting congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran.

Debate and votes were to begin on Sept. 9.

“We need to pull every tool out of the toolbox to stop this bad deal,” said Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas.

The rebels were egged on by Sen. Cruz, who has repeatedly allied himself with House conservatives to thwart the plans of GOP leaders.

He and others argued that the disapproval vote should be delayed, contending the

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Possible Retribution for Racial Slurs in Texas Game and Watts did not attend the meeting. Watts’ attorney, Alan Goldberger of New Jersey, has denied Watts made racial remarks. Watts has been a game official for 14 years and was recently nominated for president of the Austin chapter of the Texas Association of Sports Officials.

Watts was not working with his regular

By The Associated Press The governing body for Texas high school sports questioned Sept. 9 whether the coaches of two football players accused of intentionally ramming a referee should have done more to calm emotions in a tense game.

The University Interscholastic League’s executive committee heard from local officials on their investigation into the incident involving San Antonio Jay High School. The organization is investigating several allegations, including that the hit was prompted by something an assistant coach said and was preceded by racial slurs from the targeted umpire.

The incident was caught on video and sparked national attention and reaction.

Two Jay High School players, who have not been identified, and assistant coach Mack Breed have been suspended by the Northside Independent School District pending the investigation.

“This has been an embarrassment for the school the UIL and the state of Texas,” said committee member James Colbert of Houston.

Dallas committee member Gil Garza, who used to work in San Antonio schools, noted reported tensions in the game between Jay and Marble Falls high schools, including punches thrown, late hits and ejections before the Jay players rammed umpire Robert Watts.

“The only thing our kids really have is our coaches. That’s where the leadership starts,” Garza told Northside officials, calling the outof-control atmosphere “a time bomb waiting to happen. And it did.”

Garza also questioned whether the game officials could have done more to control the game.

Officials with Northside and the Texas Association of Sports Officials said they are still investigating the incident.

Brian Woods, Northside schools

investigation in Marble Falls, where the game was played about 90 miles north of San Antonio.

Video from the game showed the referee watching a play, and his head snapping back when he is leveled from behind and another player then dove on top of him. Northside school district officials have said that during

“The only thing our kids really have is our coaches. That’s where the leadership starts.”

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crew at the game and was a fill-in for another official who couldn’t make it, said Michael Fitch, executive director of the officials association. Fitch said he’s still waiting for a complete report on the game from the crew.

The UIL said any state disciplinary action against the players or school won’t come before its next meeting on Sept. 23.

The case has also has prompted a criminal

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Mack Breed, an assistant coach, is being investigated over allegations that he ordered the hit on the referee. superintendent said he wasn’t aware of previous concerns about a culture of unsportsmanlike conduct at Jay. “We don’t have any reason to believe the actions of those two young men are representative of that program or the student body of that school,” Woods said.

Woods said concerns about sportsmanship could be “applied both ways.” Marble Falls school officials attended the meeting but declined an offer to testify.

The Jay High School players, coaches

the game, the suspended players “were feeling lots of frustration by what they perceived to be missed or wrong calls by the refs.” The players also alleged the referee directed racial slurs at them.

The students allege that assistant coach Mack Breed, 29, said “that guy needs to pay for cheating us” or words to that effect, according to the district.

Alexandria, Va. Council Bans Flying Confederate Flag by City

By The Associated Press The Alexandria City Council in Virginia has voted to ban the flying of Confederate flags by the city.

The council approved the ban unanimously on Sept. 8. The vote ends the city’s practice of putting up Confederate flags on city property to mark Robert E. Lee’s birthday and Confederate Memorial Day.

The council also voted to form a citizens committee to review the city’s flag policies and decide whether changes should be made to 33 streets named for Southern military leaders and Confederate memorials. The city can rename Jefferson Davis Highway, but it would need General Assembly approval to move the Confederate statue at the intersection of Prince and Washington streets.

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Every Day Should Be Labor Day

As America celebrated Labor Day this week, we were doing more than enjoying a day off from work with our families.

We were acknowledging the essential — and continuing — contributions of working families and labor unions to America’s commitment to equality and opportunity for all.

When my children were young, I taught them about Asa Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters — and how organized labor was an essential foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

As the 1963 March on Washington that Mr. Randolph helped to organize expressly declared, the goals of the civil rights movement have always been about jobs as well as freedom.

That same struggle continues today, as we continue the fight for jobs that pay a living wage and offer health care and Elijah Cummings pension benefits — and in this continuing movement, union members remain among our most dedicated foot soldiers.

Consider these facts.

Compared to their non-union counterparts today, union workers’ wages are 27 percent higher. For African American working families, that union difference translates, on average, to an additional $199 each week.

Union members are 60 percent more likely to have employer-provided pensions, 50 percent more likely to enjoy employer-sponsored health insurance benefits, and 33 percent more likely to have paid sick leave.

From the experience of my own life, I can attest personally to the importance of this ability to organize and bargain collectively for fair wages and benefits.

My parents grew up as share croppers in Manning, South Carolina. In the early 1950s, they moved to Baltimore, where Dad’s union membership at Davison Chemical helped us to change our lives for the better.

His wages went up from less than a dollar a day in South Carolina to a dollar per hour, plus overtime pay. The union provided our family with the health care plan that kept us healthy and strong.

That same union membership helped my parents buy our home — and because of that home in a different neighborhood, I was able to study at better schools.

Dad’s union and his own hard work were the driving forces that transformed our lives — as they have for tens of millions of other American families.

I recall this for you because today, as in our past, the movements of everyday people for civil rights and workers’ rights march together, arm-in-arm.

We should consider this truth at this moment in our history when Americans are again taking to our streets in protest. During this week of Labor Day we should not lose sight of the reality that these protests are as much about jobs that will support our families as they are about law enforcement and criminal justice.

For all of us, this connection between justice and opportunity is the vision for our nation that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and I have been advancing through our Middle Class Prosperity Project.

In our ongoing series of congressional investigations and public forums, we are revealing the realities behind income inequality in America — and the actions that we must undertake to address those failings. Here is why we have embarked on this effort.

On Labor Day each year, we celebrate an American strategy for success that is engrained in our culture: work hard, and achieve a better life. Yet, for far too many working families of every racial background today, opportunity is relentlessly being pushed out of reach.

As Senator Warren observed during our first Washington Forum on Economic Challenges Facing the Middle Class:

“From 1935 to 1980, 90 percent of America’s families . . . got 70 percent of all the income growth in those 45 years. It was a formula that worked: As our country got richer, our families got richer.”

“Then, starting in the 1980s,” she continued, “something changed. Productivity and GDP just kept going up, but workers were left behind. In the 32 years from 1980 until 2012, 90 percent of Americans got zero income growth — nothing.”

This truth is why we are working to part the veil that seeks to hide why so many hardworking families continue to struggle. Beginning with the Reagan Administration, deliberate choices in Washington have been a major driving force behind the inequities that we are witnessing today.

A central front in that ongoing struggle has been a relentless assault on the ability of working people to unionize for fair pay, decent benefits and greater respect.

Those attacks have taken many forms — from retaliation against union organizers to calling workers independent contractors in order to limit their rights — but they all have had the same purpose and effect: to prevent working people from organizing to achieve better lives.

This is why the economically powerful and their allies on Capitol Hill have devoted so much energy and vitriol to attacking President Obama’s appointments to the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board.

For those of us who are committed to protecting our civil rights, it also is why every day should be Labor Day. Congressman Elijah Cummings represents Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

PBS’s Black Panther Film Gets the Story Wrong I’m compelled to inform the public of the Foundation’s perspective on the PBS documentary film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. The filmmaker, Stanley Nelson, identifies the film as the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Huey P. Newton was the leader and standard-bearer of the BPP. The film was made without input or consultation with The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation.

I was a founding member of the BPP, chief of staff and leader of the Party during the time Huey and Bobby Seale were incarcerated. Huey’s brother, Melvin Newton and my brother, Roosevelt Junebug Hilliard were also founding

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members. None of us are in the film. Bobby Seale is not in the film. The filmmakers did approach the Foundation about the project. I requested a copy of the treatment and was informed that they did not have one. Films do not get funded without a treatment.

The film besmirches the memory and legacy of Huey P. Newton and inaccurately casts Kathleen Cleaver, the wife of Eldridge Cleaver as a principal storyteller and an essential member of the BPP. The historical record will reveal that Kathleen and her late husband were associated with the BPP for approximately one year and did as much or more to destroy the BPP than the COINTELPRO operations.

The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation does not support this

film. Elaine Brown, a former leader of the Black Panther Party has also expressed her displeasure with it. I agree with and support her analysis. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is not the story of the BPP, like many other academic and mainstream media interpretations of the Black Panther Party it is an inaccurate, external description of the BPP and its legacy.

David Hilliard is the executive director of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation.

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Raising Interest Rates Could Hurt the Number of Working Women The Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee will be meeting on September 16-17. The Wall Street gamblers have been egging on the Fed to change its current course and to start raising interest rates.

In part this will add another gaming table to play on, but some of them have been holding their positions in the invisible derivative markets on when interest Bill Spriggs rates will move again as the Fed unwinds its current high holdings of Treasury notes in reserve. They try to make arguments sounding as if they care about the state of the economy by conjuring the inflation boogey monster. With continued low and falling oil prices and stagnant real wages, they have instead begun to argue that interest rates need to go up, because it is only inevitable that at some time they must go up.

At the heart of their debate is a theoretical relationship between full employment and inflation. Part of the problem now is that the severity of this downturn chased many workers out of the labor market. At the current levels of unemployment and job vacancies, in the past, wages would be higher. The argument is that wages will start to climb soon, and those out of the labor market will not return to looking for work in

response to the higher wages; the nation’s wages will just push up costs.

After the peak of 2000, real wages have been falling.

The pace of the collapse stalled as the economy finally strengthened in late 2007. But then wages collapsed again.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that for the vast majority of America’s workers, real wages have remained below their 2007 levels, including the value of wages and benefits.

What is being said is that fewer people are going to be in the labor market because, since 2000, the aging of the population has picked up; the Baby Boomers of the 1940-1960 era are now starting retirement. But this ignores a large part of the decline in the labor force among prime age workers; women, in particular With barriers coming down for women in education and in the labor market, the wages of women showed steady improvement from the 1970s to the end of last century, accompanied by a steady growth in women’s labor force participation. A big slow-down happened when the labor market slowed at the end of the 1980s. As wages rose in the 1990s, women’s labor force participation picked up its previous climb. But the downturn of 2001 and the fall in wages pushed women’s labor force participation back down, and it dipped again when the labor market collapsed in 2007.

Prime working-age women and, in particular, young prime working-age women still carry an inordinate balance of basic social infrastructure-the caring economy of holding families together, whether child rearing or parent help. So women remain sensitive to the value of money earned in the market

and the costs of home production; this makes them sensitive to real wages. If real wages rise, then it is very likely women will again increase their labor market participation. But, at stagnant wage levels, it is likely the current pace of net job creation is enough to keep unemployment flat. When wages rise, and women’s labor force participation returns to its previous pace, the unemployment rate may rise.

Currently, unemployed women are still more likely to quit looking for work than to become employed; more typical in a distressed labor market than one that is “booming.” This is despite a steep drop in the number of unemployed women since 2008, meaning a rising share of unemployed women who find a job in the next month. The drop-off of women’s labor force participation is not from a big rise in marriage and balancing joint income decisions; the share of women living alone or heading households without an adult male present is rising.

The Fed needs to keep this in mind when deciding what does returning to full employment mean. Will it assume that wages should stay low, and we can be satisfied with fewer women in the labor force? It would hurt our economy by defining a full employment with the best educated part of the potential labor force sitting at home; that would represent a permanent shift downward in America’s economic growth since it means a smaller labor force compared to pre-2000.

Full employment must mean a return of prime working-age women to active labor market participation. Full employment should mean full employment for all; not some.

William Spriggs serves as Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO, and is a professor in, and former Chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University.

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Apple Stakes New Claim to Living Room, Shows New iPhones

By The Associated Press Apple staked a new claim to the living room on on Sept.

9, as the maker of iPhones

and other hand-held gadgets unveiled an Internet TV system that’s designed as a beachhead for the tech giant’s broader ambitions to deliver

a wide range of information, games, music and video to the home.

CEO Tim Cook and other executives also showed off two

new iPhone models, a plussized iPad with detachable keyboard and updated software for the Apple Watch during an exhaustive, two-hour

event in San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

Apple is counting on sales of the new iPhones to maintain its position as one of the

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most profitable, and valuable, companies in the world.

But it’s the new Apple TV system that some analysts point to as an important step for the company as Cook attempts to build a business that doesn’t rely so heavily on the iPhone.

“Apple is laying the groundwork for a broader living-room strategy” said analyst Ben Bajarin from the research firm Creative Strategies. Apple wants to make the already-important TV screen into an essential hub for communication and entertainment, he said.

“TV plays a huge role in our lives and it occupies an important place in our homes,” Cook said during his presentation. He added that Apple believes “the future of television is apps” that deliver streaming video, games and other services.

For now, however, the iPhone is still Apple’s most important product. Sales of the iconic smartphone contributed more than two-thirds of the Cupertino, California, company’s $107 billion in revenue during the first half of 2015.

Apple announced on Sept.

9 that it will sell two new iPhone models, dubbed the 6s and 6s Plus, starting Sept.

25. They’re roughly the same size and will cost the same as the record-selling 6 and 6 Plus models introduced last year, which will now sell for $100 less.

The new iPhones will have more memory and faster processors, along with a new 12 mega-pixel camera.

Perhaps the most noticeable upgrade, however, is the addition of “3D Touch,” a feature that uses added screen sensors to detect the difference between a light tap and extended finger pressure, triggering different menus and functions for apps made by Apple and outside developers.

“No matter what you like to do with your phone, 3D Touch makes it better than ever,” boasted Apple Senior Vice President Craig Federighi.

Some analysts have questioned how compelling the new features will be. Apple sold more than 183 million iPhones since the last models were introduced in 2014, which is 40 percent more than it sold in the same period a year earlier. But the company may be hard-pressed to show more growth, especially when smartphone sales are slowing worldwide.

“That’s one big concern about Apple, that it’s so dependent on the iPhone,” said Jerry Kim, a Columbia University management professor.

“The smartphone market is headed for a peak, and everyone is going to be feel that,” said Bob O’Donnell, a veteran consumer tech analyst with Technalysis Research. “So Apple has got to diversify.”

Cook, while insisting there is room for iPhone sales to grow, has begun pushing into new product categories. In addition to the Apple Watch, introduced earlier this year, executives spent a large part of Wednesday’s event showing off the new Apple TV. The new TV box is a significant upgrade from older versions the company has sold since 2007. The new device has a more powerful processor and updated software for running Internet apps and games on TVs, along with streaming music and video. It will start at $149 and will be available in late October.

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By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Contributor Members of the marching band New Edition perform at the annual Labor Day celebration at Baltimore’s Cloverdale.

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Catherine Pugh, state senator, and Carl Stokes, city councilman, have entered the mayoral race.

By Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the AFRO When Maryland State senator Catherine Pugh and Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes entered the mayoral race on Sept. 8, they entered an already crowded field. The two made their announcements in The Baltimore Sun. This is 65-year-old Pugh’s second run at the mayor’s office. In 2011, she lost to Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in the Democratic primary. She currently represents the 40th legislative district and serves as the senate majority leader.

The Pennsylvania native told The Sun that as mayor, she would unify all of Baltimore’s diverse parts.

This is also 65-year-old Stokes’ second time running for mayor. In 1999, he lost to Martin O’Malley.

“The problems we face – too few jobs, too much crime, high taxes, and far too many under performing schools – are old problems that we have been dealing with in old ways without success,” Stokes wrote on carlstokes2016.com on Sept. 7.

Stokes represents the twelfth district. He serves as chair of the city council’s Taxation, Finance and Economic Development committee. He is also the vice-chair of the Education and Executive Appointments committees.

Both lawmakers were highly visible during the April unrest that followed the death of Baltimore man Freddie Gray in police custody. Stokes made headlines when he appeared on CNN and argued that calling protesters thugs is similar to calling them “niggers.”

We don’t have to call them by names such as that,” Stokes told CNN. We don’t have to do that.”

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Labor Day Basketball Challenge Offers Relief Amid Recovery

By Naomi Harris Special to the AFRO Baltimore’s Cloverdale neighborhood held its annual Labor Day Basketball Challenge with basketball, music and a strong sense of community.

The event started off years ago as a simple basketball game between old and young members of the community challenging each other to a game in 1957. That has transformed into what took place on Sept. 7; a celebration for all people to participate in.

“The event became an annual affair and it’s evolved to what we have here now,” said Earl Garner, president of Cloverdale Athletic Club and Basketball.

Garner helped lead the “Ring of Brotherly Love” during the morning as members of the community held hands and said a prayer.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke (District 14) were some of the participants to show support of the community coming together and moving forward, Garner said.

“There’s so much focus around separation when it comes to African Americans in this town,” he said. “There’s a lot of separation but we can still show people that we are still a community and we can still come together.”

Community support like that displayed by Michael Mann, a participant for all 46 years, who continues to come back because he hopes he can help guide the youth.

“I haven’t played basketball in the last 20 years but I went out to play with them because I saw a lot of new faces,” said Mann.

Each year he returns to the Labor Day Basketball Challenge because he believes the event helps foster the young people and that they can listen to their elders, Mann said.

“Baltimore is a basketball city so you have a lot of kids who are into the game. It draws a lot of people,” Mann said.

The event also included free food and music from the marching band, New Edition, a band with over 75 members of many ages.

One of the members of the band, D’Shira Plummer, also spoke about the importance of hosting community events in the neighborhood because of the impact they had on young people.

“I think it’s important because it keeps our kids off the streets,” said Plummer. “It’s something positive. Less kids off the corner and more of them being productive.”

The Labor Day Basketball Challenge brought in over 200 residents, Garner said, including people from outside Baltimore.

Tommy Lyons, a Morgan State University student, visited the park along with his son and grandson in order to enjoy a game of basketball.

“Folks are coming together and we need that—especially after the riots. Anything that can bring this community together and make it feel organic is what we need in Baltimore,” said Lyons.

It was a volatile Labor Day weekend in reference to people vying to occupy the big chair at City Hall in 2016.

The entry of State Senator Catherine Pugh, who represents the 40th Legislative District of Baltimore City and Councilman Carl Stokes, who represents the 12th Councilmanic District of Baltimore, was one of the top news items on the late night local television news broadcasts Monday night as the holiday weekend came to an end.

The veteran lawmakers join the fray with current Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake and former Mayor Sheila Dixon, as well as largely unknown Harvard graduate Calvin Young, and other periphery candidates.

Both Pugh and Stokes (who talked about his candidacy on First Edition, on September 8), have run for mayor before, both were candidates for city council president as well. Their detractors would suggest their time for leading Baltimore has passed, I’m not sure I agree.

However, there is another possible candidate for mayor who could truly complicate many of the current equations, paths and outcomes being pushed by some pontificators.

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Baltimore Native Brings Play to New York City Stage

By Lisa Snowden-McCray

Mai Sennaar’s play, The Fall of the Kings, is currently playing in New York.

Baltimore native Mai Sennaar has been busy.

On September 5, after over a year of rewrites and revisions, her new play came to life for audiences in New York City.

The Fall of the Kings is set in the 1940’s and tells the story of a Black heiress, her Cuban husband and a fight over money and family.

It’s the 23-year-old’s second play.

Sennaar said she came to playwriting in a roundabout way. Kings evolved out of short story she wrote about a Black ballerina and a soldier who fall in love. She began working on the story when she was a student at Howard Community College in Columbia, Md. She transferred to New York University, where she studied at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. There, it developed into a play.

“I guess I just really love words,” she said. “Plays are a more challenging medium, because there is so much more to coordinate. Each facet of writing gives me something different, a different kind of challenge.”

Sennaar said that she came to love writing because it gave her a way to make sense of her world. Her father ran a tourism company that specialized in taking Blacks to visit Africa. Because of this she lived in Senegal in West Africa for three years when she was a child. When she moved back to Baltimore,

she attended posh Roland Park Country School on a scholarship. She said it was challenging to make the adjustment from being one of a few black Americans living amongst black Africans to one of a few Blacks at a predominately White school.

Now, she says she writes frequently.

“To get out a product like The Fall of the Kings, it requires a lot of discipline – a desire to get it to its best,” she said. Sennaar typically goes through two phases. First there is the inspirational phase where she can dream, explore and be creative. This is followed by the crunch time phase, where she has to work hard to get the finished product done. She said that the play took about a year to write. Then, she had to begin the work of letting the world know about her work.

“It’s about networking,” she said, and “lots of rejection.”

Sennaar said because she is a young Black woman, she does face some challenges.

“For me the thing is not to think of it that way,” she said. She said she takes inspiration from strong women who came before her like her mother, grandmother and aunt. Her mother, Dianaruthe Wharton Sennaar, is a founding member of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock and composer for Ntozake Shange’s Broadway hit For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf. She also serves as is the musical Continued on B2

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From 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 18 at all Greater Baltimore area McDonald’s locations, every student in Kindergarten through 8th Grade who visits McDonald’s with an adult will receive a free breakfast. The free breakfast will include an Egg McMuffin, Apple Slices and choice of Milk or Apple Juice.

20th Annual Baltimore Book Festival

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts announce the 20th anniversary of the Baltimore Book Festival, Sept. 25-Sept. 27, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Events take place on West Shore Park and Rash Field, along the 400 blocks of Light Street and Key Highway. The event features 275 nationally renowned, celebrity and regional authors, book signings, readings, panel discussions, workshops, cooking demonstrations, book arts, children’s activities, exhibitors and live music.

New for 2015, the Baltimore Book Festival is a “literary feast with gourmet eats” with food taking center stage with local

Baltimore Book Festival vendors and cookbook demonstrations. Also new are two stages, the Health & Wellness Stage featuring authors who focus on fitness, health and nutrition and the Inner Harbor Stage presented

by Towson University featuring national authors, and the festival’s official bookseller which is the independently owned and operated Ivy Bookshop. All Baltimore Book Festival programming is free. The Baltimore Book Festival is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. The Afro-American Newspaper is a media partner of the Festival. For more information go to

composer for Kings.

“When I think about being a Black women, it’s a tremendous honor,” she said. “There’s just the power of what Black women continue to do in the present day…the history that we have. We have this resilient ability to make it happen.”

Sennaar said she would love to take the play beyond New York City, especially to her hometown in Baltimore – but that would depend on how successful it is there first.

“The more Maryland people come up and see us and support us, the easier it will be for Maryland to be receptive to the play,” she said.

Beyond Kings, Sennaar he has a few new things that she is working on. She has a few scripts for short films and screenplays.

“There’s a few ones that I have in development – we’ll see which one shapes up first. Which one shows itself worthy.”

The Fall of the Kings runs through Nov. 1 at The Andrew Freedman Home, a cultural center located in the Bronx. For more information visit thefallofthekings.com.

I’m told 36-year old Baltimore native Wes Moore, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Other Wes Moore, is going to throw his hat in the ring as early as this week.

Despite his Baltimore roots, Moore allegedly is going to run as an outsider, absolved of the sins of the Democratic political apparatus being charged by many with the decades-long downward spiral our city is currently experiencing.

The “outsider” narrative is always a tricky play in this town that gives a lot of weight to high school pedigrees. But, a long-time political operative (and Moore supporter) said to me, “He (Moore) ain’t no Anthony Brown.”

Another politically wellconnected attorney friend of mine suggested all the candidates are attempting to tap the same financial sources locally, which could give the current mayor an edge in fundraising because of her national profile (president, US Conference of Mayors, secretary of the DNC).

However, Moore has also crafted an impressive national profile (Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow, who served former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice), which could make him a formidable fundraiser as well.

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Down the Hill on The Beast Side As politicians grapple to

take the helm at City Hall, author D. Watkins offers a prodigious dose of strychnine laced reality, for those who plan on a, “business as usual,” approach to running our city.

I spoke with him last week on First Edition.

Watkins, a scholar, journalist, public intellectual, former dopeboy and proud

“Everybody’s running for mayor except me and you man.”

– D. Watkins son of East Baltimore has delivered, The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America, a collection of essays he dedicates, “To Freddie Gray, and all the other innocent victims of senseless violence. We won’t let you die in vain.”

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the epic album by rap supergroup Public Enemy, is widely acknowledged as a Hip Hop and American music classic.

I’d argue The Beast Side, is a 21st century classic, brutally authentic chronicle of Black America and our great, but deeply flawed

city. Watkins collection is also incredibly topical, including thoughts on law enforcement’s treatment of Dylan Roof, the White supremacist, mass murderer who gunned down, “The Charleston Nine,” during a bible study at Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina.

“They stopped and brought this dude (Roof) a burger and fries because he said he was hungry,” Watkins said. “That was like a lowkey, `you did good work son, you’re one of us,’ is what that said to me.”

During his interview on First Edition, Watkins -perhaps the most un-political cat I’ve met in a long time -- provided a very politically savvy assessment of the candidates for Baltimore Mayor.

“Everybody’s running for mayor except me and you man,” Watkins said with a laugh. “But, Nick Mosby is a great guy...Wes Moore, he gives me advice on how I can make it in this publishing world, great guy...Stokes, he’s my man, he’s like that uncle at the party...Stephanie, she was hilarious, a really cool person.”

Sean Yoes hosts First Edition on WEAA 88.9 Monday through Friday from 5-7 p.m.

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she squared off against Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera. “We need police to respect our neighborhood,” she told Rivera as the two stood in the middle of a large crowd of protestors. “We need police to respect our neighborhoods. Black lives matter.”

Some of the other candidates in the mayoral race include: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (rawlingsblake.com) The mayor has been taking a beating in the court of public opinion since the April unrest that followed Freddie Gray’s death. Residents are worried about the city’s climbing murder rate. As of Sept. 9 there had been a total of 229 homicides in Baltimore this year. In 2014 there were a total of 211.

Some accused the mayor of telling police to stand down as city stores were looted during the unrest. She also took heat for the curfew that was put in place rawlingsblake.com as police and lawmakers tried to calm the city.

However, Rawlings-Blake is not without her successes. She is the secretary of the Democratic National Committee and also the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors – she is the first African American, the first woman and the first Baltimore mayor to hold this position.

She is expected to open her campaign headquarters in Remington later this month.

Sheila Dixon (sheiladixonformayor.com) Dixon was the first candidate to announce she was running against Rawlings-Blake. She is set to hold an ice cream social-themed campaign event at the B&O Railroad Museum on Sept. 13.

On her campaign site, she boasts about the gun offender registry, the single stream recycling program, and Wikimedia Commons the popular Downtown Circulator as accomplishments of her time as mayor. There is no mention of the scandal over the alleged misappropriation of gift cards that lead to her resignation in 2010.

Before announcing her candidacy, Dixon did an interview with The AFRO where she said that a lot of the city’s most deep-rooted problems have not gotten the attention they deserve.

“Dealing with systemic issues, for elected officials, is not something they focus on because it’s long-term,” Dixon said.

Richard Black (VoteBlackForMayor.com) Accountant Richard Black announced his candidacy on August 24. On his campaign site, he promises to bring to the office “a strong desire to diagnose issues and provide costeffective and practical solutions.”

He says he would like to lower the Mayor’s salary to the

average salary in Baltimore. He also says that he thinks the mayor should lower the murder rate or not get paid.

Black has a lot of work to do to establish himself as household name– just 43 people have liked his campaign’s Facebook page.

Mack Clifton (mackcliftonformayor.com) Clifton is a New Jersey native who moved to Baltimore in 2005. He says he is a minister and author and counts Queen Elizabeth II, actor Benedict Cumberbatch among his distant relatives.

“We should not live in fear of whether or not we can care for our families, whether or not our children will be harassed by uncouth police officers, whether or not we will be victims of violent crime,” he writes on his website.

He has not held any elected office, but currently is a member of the 231st Transportation Battalion, a veteran’s organization.

Mike Maraziti (no campaign website) Baltimorians who frequent Fells Point might know Mike Maraziti as the owner of One-Eyed Mike’s bar in Fells Point.

He is also the president of the Fells Point Main Street business association.

He told the Baltimore Business Journal that he’s most interested in property taxes, crime, schools and government accountability.

Calvin Allen Young III (electcalvinyoung.com) Young is an engineer and graduate of Harvard Business School. At 25, he’s the youngest mayoral candidate. Young has not yet held any political office. At 17, served as a member of the Baltimore City youth commission.

“After graduating from Harvard, Calvin decided the best way to use his education and experience would be to give back to linkedin.com Baltimore and to help others achieve their dreams,” the site reads.

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Design & Illustration

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Rachel Roth, Jasmine Blackwell, Roshé’ Anthony of B.e.a.t Cosmetics and Ashley Harrison

On Sept. 1 at the Calvert Street Park in Baltimore, Md. “Groovin in Old Goucher” was held as a part of America’s Night Out Against Crime.

The event featured a live fashion segment by Wear It Out Baltimore with, clothing

by E-Couture Boutique & Salon and

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The Anthony Dix Band also performed.

This event was held in conjunction with the Charles Village Community Benefits District, The Old Goucher Community Association, and the Old Goucher Business Alliance.

Fans line up for the CD signing by Maysa.

Maysa and her band

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, Md. celebrated its 10th anniversary with a concert by Grammy-nominated songstress and Baltimore native, Maysa on June 18.

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of her love of Baltimore, what it was like growing up in the city, being an alumnus of Morgan University, touring with Incognito, having a child abroad, and how her new album, Blue Velvet Soul, brings her full circle.

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Documentary Chronicles Rise and Fall of Black Panther Party

By Kam Williams The late Stokely Carmichael is famous for coining the phrase “Black power!” What he might not be as well remembered for is founding the Black Panthers. Frustrated by the tortoise-paced progress of the Civil Rights movement and by the number of Black people dying and disappearing around the South, he decided to leave SNCC (The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) to form a group for folks interested in self-defense.

“You tell the people of Mississippi that all the scared [N-words] are dead!” he announced. However, Stokely had little to do with the organization after opening that first chapter in 1965 in Lowndes, Alabama (an 80% black county where no Blacks had ever been allowed to vote).

Instead, it would be fall to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to popularize the Panthers. They opened a storefront in Oakland in 1966, but they didn’t really catch fire until Martin Luther King was assassinated. At that point, many young Blacks became disenchanted with the peaceful nature of the Civil Rights movement, which made the idea of confronting the police by brandishing weapons very appealing.

Soon, Panther chapters began spring up all over the country. And it helped recruitment immeasurably when ex-con-turned-best-selling author Eldridge Cleaver came aboard as Minister of Information. After all, the media-savvy spokesperson gave good soundbite, even as it antagonized the police and establishment.

For instance, he called then California Governor Ronald (Photo courtesy of Stephen Shames) Reagan “a punk, a sissy and a coward,” going so far as to A group of Black Panthers at a Free Huey Newton rally in Oakland, 1968. challenge the Gipper to a duel to the death. And after Huey was arrested for the murder of a police officer, Eldridge Thus unfolds The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, a warts-and-all documentary threatened open armed war on the streets of the country, if Newton weren’t freed. directed by Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders). The film is fascinating not only because of its Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover was cooking up a counterintelligence program copious archival footage, but on account of the many revelations exposing the dark underbelly (COINTELPRO) designed to bring down the Panthers. The FBI proceeded to embark on a of an outfit often given a pass in spite of myriad flaws in terms of misogyny and machismo. surreptitious reign of terror which included frame-ups, disinformation, assassinations and The Black Panthers are shown as less than a political party concerned with the welfare of the infiltration. The ploy worked, as justifiable paranoia came to permeate the organization, which people and more as group involved in an internecine power struggle between a couple of larger splintered when the leadership became suspicious of one another. Huey called Eldridge a than life egos. coward. Eldridge then quit and called for hits against anyone still in the Party.

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District Ministers Call for Removal of Margaret Sanger Bust from the National Portrait Gallery Southern Artist Debuts Latest Album at D.C.’S The Howard Theater The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is in select theaters now.

Huey P. Newton Foundation Responds to Film A7

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Bishop E.W. Jackson presents a petition asking for the removal of Margaret Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery.

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Planned Parenthood, the abortion rights group, recently came under attack from a group of local ministers, known collectively as Ministers Taking a Stand. The group is demanding that the bust of the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, be removed from a Smithsonian exhibit celebrating the progress of the nation.

In what Dr. Johnny Hunter, president of Global Life and Family Mission, termed an insult to Blacks, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery pays homage to Sanger in its Struggle for Justice exhibition – placing the self-proclaimed eugenicist’s bust between those of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

“The last thing we need is a White supremacist sitting in between Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. That’s just a slap in the face to Black folks,” Hunter said at a rally outside the museum Aug. 28. “I would hope that the curator could understand that.”

At its height of popularity, eugenics promoted selective marriage and reproduction, the segregation and sterilization of immigrants and the poor, and the disenfranchisement of Blacks. Sanger’s American Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood) enacted “The Negro Project,” in the 1930s, opening clinics in predominantly Black neighborhoods to promote family planning. Several of her personal records, however, refer to Blacks as “human waste” and allude to efforts by the organization to keep Black women from having babies with or without their consent.

At the conclusion of the rally, Jackson presented Bethany Bentley, the museum’s head of communications, with a petition including more than 14,000 signatures, asking for the bust’s removal. However, according to a statement released by the National Portrait Gallery, there are no plans to remove the Sanger bust.

“Sanger’s alliance with aspects of the eugenics movement raises questions about her motivations and intentions. The museum’s intent is not to honor her in an unqualified way, but rather to stimulate our audiences to reflect on the experience of Americans who struggled to improve the civil and social conditions of 20th-century America,” the release read in part.

The Struggles for Justice exhibition is a permanent installation on the National Portrait Gallery’s second floor.

A second opportunity to debut her latest record Freedom and Surrender at The Howard Theatre has one songstress elated. Lizz Wright is scheduled to perform on Sept. 11.

“I played at The Howard Theater as a part of a dinner to honor Bill Cosby some years ago and I loved it so much that I [told] my agent that I have to come back to this place,” she told the AFRO on Sept. 4. “I’m really excited to be coming back and I really appreciate the audience in D.C.—they’ve been very supportive for a long time.”

Fans of Wright appreciate her smooth alto voice over variations of gospel, jazz, pop and folk undertones.

“I did some cover songs that I enjoy a lot on this record, but it’s (courtesy photo) mostly originals because Liz Wright performs on Sept. 11. that’s just where I was in my relationship with the music and with the people. I always let those two things drive me and inspire me the most because that’s all we really have—our love for the art and our love for sharing it,” she said.

Being forthright about the intricacies of love is what she enjoys most in this album’s storytelling. In her delivery, she connects with not only music, but a visual language. “This album inspired me to sing with a lot of the colors of my voice,” she said. “It wasn’t just about being strong and deep, but it was about enjoying vulnerability as well and singing a little higher in my register in some places because I felt like that was the right color.”

From singing in a church choir in a small Georgian town to studying music at Georgia State University in Atlanta and The New School in New York, Wright has topped the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart numerous times. She released her fourth and most recent album, Fellowship, in 2010.

“I think I’m made to do this,” she said. “For some reason, I feel like I’m breathing in a deeper way and I’m able to be more present in my life experience when I’m doing this.”

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AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

SPORTS

Is There a Market for Washington’s RGIII?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk

Green and Stephen Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question of “is there a market for Washington’s RGIII?”

Robert Griffin III’s time as the Washington NFL franchise’s starting quarterback is over, and his days in the city are likely numbered.

After Griffin was benched in favor of Kirk Cousins, and subsequently demoted to third on Washington’s depth chart behind Cousins and backup Colt McCoy, the Griffin era officially became a thing of the past in the District. While the team may look to move him to another franchise, Griffin may be damaged goods after three consecutive black-eye seasons rife with injury and immaturity. Some aura still surrounds Griffin from his magical rookie season. But time has caught up to the 2012 NFL Rookie of the Year and the dream has become a nightmare for the once-promising quarterback. Perry

Green: There will be a market for RGIII simply because his style of play has become more common in the NFL. With star college coaches in the league like Philadelphia’s Chip Kelly, who love to run the spread option offense, a player of Griffin’s caliber could always fit in. He just has to play in that kind of offense to survive. Sure, he may get hurt again. That’s always going to be a question mark over the quarterback’s head–that no one can deny. But in between injuries, he’ll make plays, if he’s used in the right system.

Riley: There will be a market for RGIII, but maybe the question is whether or not there should be a market for him.

The injuries and the media melees have been bad, but nothing has been worse than his actual play on the field. Griffin was inaccurate, timid and unproductive in his time as a starter following his injury. His name and lofty draft status will carry him to another team if Washington dumps him. But if those teams look at his actual performance, it’d be safe to say that he should be out of the NFL. Griffin’s agility made him special and his moxie and bravado as a fresh-faced signal-caller gave him the guts to take hits and stare down defenders. Griffin now lacks all of those attributes. If you’re asking me “should there be a market for him?”, my answer would be a resounding no.

Green: I agree that Griffin has been bad, but I can’t blame

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Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) walks off the field after an NFL preseason football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Landover, Md. Washington lost 17-16. his failures all on him. In my eyes, he gets 50 percent of the blame. The other 50 percent is split between Washington’s delirious fan base and its coaching staff. The fans put too much pressure on RGIII too early, and the coaching staff stopped playing to his strengths. But also there were rumors circulating that suggested Griffin wanted to run less and become a traditional pocket passer after his freak injury in 2012. But that was never RGIII’s style. Not in high school, college or during his rookie season in the pros when he set the league on fire with great plays. You can’t change who you are.

It’s too late for that. Go back to running the spread offense, Robert. It’s your only chance of returning to being the RGIII that the fans loved.

Riley: The Washington franchise has been putrid over the years, but one thing that’s been constant is that they’ve had some top-notch coaching staffs in place. Perhaps Griffin could have found more success under some other team’s watch, but he’s already had two pretty reputable offensive coaches (Kyle Shanahan and Jay Gruden) who have had previous successes developing quarterbacks. Both failed miserably at trying to iron out Griffin’s game. The headaches and hoopla just doesn’t motivate me when it comes to the former top pick.

We’ve seen enough of him to recognize his elite days were short-lived. Maybe it’s time to chalk up Griffin’s career as another NFL bust.

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Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800638-2102. Online reservations: www. holidayoc.com TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 LEGAL NOTICES Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM989 Gale A ThompsonStancell AKA Gale Anita Thompson Decedent Glenda M. Wheeler Allen, Esq 808 E Street NE Suite A Washington, DC 20002-5302 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Glenda M. Wheeler Allen, whose address is Law Office Glenda M Wheeler; 808 E Street; NE, Suite A, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Gale A. ThompsonStancell, who died on June 9, 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 Glenda M Wheeler Allen Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/11, 09/18 09/25/15

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP87 Date of Death April 27, 2015 William Joseph Wilmore Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Kevin D Wilmore whose address is 8142 Mandan Terrace, Greenbelt, MD 20770 was appointed personal representative of the estate of William Joseph Wilmore, deceased, by the Orphans Court for Prince Georges C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Maryland on June 26, 2015, Service of process may be made upon Arthur J James, 235 G Street S. W. Wa s h i n g t o n , D C 20024 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 1778 Lyman Place NE Washington DC 20002 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, BuildingEDT A, 515 16:27:01 2015 5th Street, NW., 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20001 Avenue, N.W., within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice. ( Kevin D Wilmore Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: August 28, 2015 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 08/28, 09/04, 09/15/15

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

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

Pamela McClain-Minor Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: August 28, 2015 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 08/28, 09/4, 09/11/15

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TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 16:34:03 EDT 2015 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM627 Patricia A. Langon Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dianne E. Tyler and Willexton M Langon, whose address are 1003 Carrington Ave Cap. Hgts, MD 20743; 9332 Annapolis Rd #301, Lanham, MD , were appointed personal representative of the estate of Patricia A. Langon, who died on November 23, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (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 Dianne E Tyler Willexton M. Langon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2015FEP88 Date of Death February 15, 2011 Margaret V. Proctor Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL R E P R E S E N TAT I V E AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS William Proctor, Jr whose address is 7205 Hastings Drive, Capital Heights, MD 20743 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margaret Proctor, Jr. , deceased by the Orphan’s Court for Prince Georges C o u n t y, S t a t e o f Maryland on April 6, 2011, Service of process may be made upon William Proctor, III, 2213 Hartford St, SE, Washington, DC 20020 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Colombia real property: 1333 Downing Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018 Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor,Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

William Proctor, Jr. Personal Representative(s) TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS Date of first publication: September 11, 2015 Name of newspapers and/or periodical: The Daily Washington Law Reporter The Afro-American 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15

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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.

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20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM975 TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 16:30:08 EDT 2015 Charles A. Parris Decedent Wesley L. Legal Clarke Advertising Rates 1629 K Street, Ste 300 Superior Court of Effective October 1, 2008 Washington, DC 20006 the District of TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 16:29:51 Attorney District of Columbia NOTICE OF PROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO Superior Court of 20001-2131 CREDITORS (Estates) the District of Administration No. AND NOTICE202-332-0080 TO District of Columbia 2015ADM1048 UNKNOWN HEIRS PROBATE DIVISION Carlene A. Wade PROBATE Michael W. Parris, whose NOTICES Washington, D.C. Decedent address is 4622 6th 20001-2131 NOTICE OF Street, SE, Washington, Administration No. APPOINTMENT, DC 20032 was appointed 2015ADM950 a. Order Nisi $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks NOTICE TO personal representative Cheryl Ann Wheeler CREDITORS b. Small Estates (single publication $ 60 per insertion of the estate of Charles Decedent AND NOTICE TO c. Notice to CreditorsA. Parris, who died on NOTICE OF UNKNOWN HEIRS July 15, 2015 with a will, Christopher B. Wade, APPOINTMENT, 1. Domestic $ 60 per insertion $180.00 per 3 weeks and will serve without whose address is 1412 A NOTICE TO Court supervision. All 2. Foreign $ un60 per insertion per 3 weeks CREDITORS Street, NE, Washington, $180.00 known heirs and heirs DC 20002 was appointed ANDper NOTICE TO d. Escheated Estates $ 60 per insertion $360.00 6 weeks whose where-abouts are personal representative UNKNOWN HEIRS e. Standard Probates unknown shall enter their of the estate of Carlene A $125.00 Eric Nathaniel Wheeler, appearance in this Wade, who died on July whose address is 471 proceeding. Objections 28, 2015 without a will, Ralph Avenue Apt 2, to such appointment (orNOTICES CIVIL and will serve without Brooklyn , NY 11233 was to the probate of de- Court supervision. All un- appointed personal rea. Name Changes 202-879-1133 80.00 of the estate cedent´s will) shall be known heirs and heirs $ presentative filed with the Register of whose whereabouts are $ of Cheryl Ann Wheeler, b. Real Property 200.00 Wills, D.C., 515 5th unknown shall enter their who died on May 11, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s 2015 without a will, and Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . proceeding. Objections will serve without Court FAMILY 20001, on or before COURT to such appointment supervision. All unknown TRUE TEST COPY March 11, 2016. 202-879-1212 Claims shall be filed with the heirs and heirs whose REGISTER OF2015 WILLS 16:30:28 EDT against the decedent Register of Wills, D.C., where-abouts are unDOMESTIC shall be presented to the RELATIONS 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd known shall enter their 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15 undersigned with a copy Floor Washington, D.C. a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s 202-879-0157 TYPESET: Tue Aug 25 13:00:33 EDT 2015 to the Register of Wills or 20001, on or before proceeding. Objections filed with the Register of March 11, 2016. Claims to such appointment Wills with a copy to the against the decedent shall be filed with the a.

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20910 Law Reporter Superior Court of by mail within 25 days of Date of Publication: Attorney Michael W Parris the District of its first publication shall September 11, 2015 NOTICE OF Personal Name of newspaper: District of Columbia so inform the Register of APPOINTMENT, Representative Afro-American PROBATE DIVISION Wills, including name, NOTICE TO Washington, D.C. address and relationWashington CREDITORS TRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 ship.

Law Reporter AND NOTICE TO REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. Christopher B. Wade Date of Publication: UNKNOWN HEIRS 2015ADM975 Personal September 11, 2015 Charles Addison Bur09/11, 09/18,Tue 09/25/15 Charles A. Parris Name of newspaper: Representative TYPESET: Sep 08 16:30:08 EDT 2015 gess, Jr., whose address Decedent Afro-American is 6015 Livingston Road, Wesley L. Clarke Washington TRUE TEST COPY Oxon Hill Maryland 1629 K Street, Ste 300 Law Reporter REGISTER OF WILLS Superior Court of 20745, was appointed Washington, DC 20006 Eric Nathaniel Wheeler the District of personal representative Attorney TYPESET: Tue Sep 08 16:29:51 EDT 2015 Personal 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15 District of Columbia of the estate of Charles NOTICE OF Representative PROBATE DIVISION A. Burgess, Sr. AKA APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. Charles Addison BurNOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY Superior Court of 20001-2131 gess, Sr., who died on CREDITORS REGISTER OF WILLS the District of Administration No. June 2, 2014 without a AND NOTICE TO District of Columbia 2015ADM1048 will, and will serve withUNKNOWN HEIRS 09/11, 09/18/, 09/25/15 PROBATE DIVISION out Court supervision. All Michael W. Parris, whose Carlene A. Wade Washington, D.C. Decedent unknown heirs and heirs address is 4622 6th 20001-2131 NOTICE OF whose whereabouts are Street, SE, Washington, Administration No. APPOINTMENT, unknown shall enter their DC 20032 was appointed 2015ADM950 NOTICE TO personal representative Cheryl Ann Wheeler appearance in this CREDITORS Decedent proceeding. Objections of the estate of Charles AND NOTICE TO NOTICE OF to such appointment A. Parris, who died on UNKNOWN HEIRS APPOINTMENT, shall be filed with the July 15, 2015 with a will, Christopher B. Wade, NOTICE TO Register of Wills, D.C., and will serve without whose address is 1412 A CREDITORS 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Court supervision. All un- Street, NE, Washington, known heirs and heirs AND NOTICE TO Floor Washington, D.C. DC 20002 was appointed UNKNOWN HEIRS 20001, on or before Feb- whose where-abouts are personal representative ruary 28, 2016. Claims unknown shall enter their of the estate of Carlene A Eric Nathaniel Wheeler, against the decedent a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s Wade, who died on July whose address is 471 shall be presented to the proceeding. Objections 28, 2015 without a will, Ralph Avenue Apt 2, undersigned with a copy to such appointment (or and will serve without Brooklyn , NY 11233 was to the Register of Wills or to the probate of de- Court supervision. All un- appointed personal refiled with the Register of cedent´s will) shall be known heirs and heirs presentative of the estate Wills with a copy to the filed with the Register of whose whereabouts are of Cheryl Ann Wheeler, who died on May 11, undersigned, on or be- Wills, D.C., 515 5th unknown shall enter their 2015 without a will, and fore February 28, 2016, Street, N.W., 3rd Floor 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 . will serve without Court or be forever barred. Per- 20001, on or before proceeding. Objections supervision. All unknown sons believed to be heirs March 11, 2016. Claims to such appointment heirs and heirs whose or legatees of the de- against the decedent shall be filed with the where-abouts are uncedent who do not re- shall be presented to the Register of Wills, D.C., known shall enter their ceive a copy of this notice undersigned with a copy 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s by mail within 25 days of to the Register of Wills or Floor Washington, D.C. proceeding. Objections its first publication shall filed with the Register of 20001, on or before to such appointment so inform the Register of Wills with a copy to the March 11, 2016. Claims shall be filed with the Wills, including name, undersigned, on or be- against the decedent Register of Wills, D.C., address and relation- fore March 11, 2016, or shall be presented to the 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd ship. be forever barred. Per- undersigned with a copy Floor Washington, D.C. Date of Publication: sons believed to be heirs to the Register of Wills or 20001, on or before August 28, 2015 or legatees of the de- filed with the Register of March 11, 2016. Claims Name of newspaper: cedent who do not re- Wills with a copy to the against the decedent Afro-American ceive a copy of this notice undersigned, on or be- shall be presented to the Washington by mail within 25 days of fore March 11, 2016, or undersigned with a copy Law Reporter its first publication shall be forever barred. Per- to the Register of Wills or Charles Addison- so inform the Register of sons believed to be heirs filed with the Register of or legatees of the deBurgess, Jr. Wills, including name, cedent who do not re- Wills with a copy to the Personal address and relation- ceive a copy of this notice undersigned, on or before March 11, 2016, or Representative ship. by mail within 25 days of Date of Publication: be forever barred. 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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM969 Ernestine Shirley Darr AKA Ernestine S Darr Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Shirley Y. Sinclair, whose address is 2913 5th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20032 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ernestine Shirley Darr AKA Ernestine S. Darr, who died on September 19, 2013 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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

Date of Publication: August 28, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Shirley Y. Sinclair Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1018 Beverly S Johnson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis A. Johnson, whose address is 4240 Prescott Avenue 4E , Dallas , Texas 75219, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Beverly S. Johnson, who died on August 4, 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 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 Dennis A. Johnson Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM938 Patricia E Lake Decedent Wesley L Clarke 1629 K Street, Ste. 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Sharon Smith, whose address is 6413 Whit-well Ct., Ft. Washington, MD 20744 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Patricia E Lake, who died on August 6, 2013 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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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 TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 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 TRUE TEST COPY

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM945 Cheryl Lee Keitt AKA Cheryl K Solomon Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Terrona Solomon, whose address is 6299 Whistlers Place, Waldorf, MD 20603-4361 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Cheryl Lee Keitt, AKA Cheryl K. Solomon who died on May 26, 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 appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before February 28, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before February 28, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: August 28, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Terrona Solomon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/15

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1033 Mary Madalyn Williams Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS James A. Williams, whose address is 4017 1st Street, SW, Washington, DC 20032, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Madalyn Williams, who died on June 16, 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: Sepetmeber 11, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Mary Madalyn Williams Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15

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PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE WASHINGTON REGION´S PROPOSED 2015 UPDATE TO THE CONSTRAINED LONG-RANGE PLAN (CLRP), FY 2015-2020 TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (TIP), AND AIR QUALITY CONFORMITY ANALYSIS The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) will initiate a 30-day public comment period for the proposed 2015 update to the Constrained Long-Range Plan (CLRP) and amendments to the FY20152020 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), and the accompanying air quality conformity analysis, on September 10 at the TPB Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting. The CAC meets from 6 pm to 8 pm in the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) first floor conference center, 777 N. Capitol St. NE, Washington, DC 20002.This public comment period will extend through Saturday October 10, 2015. These documents are scheduled to be approved at the October 16, 2015 TPB meeting. Members of the public are invited to review these draft documents on the CLRP website, www.mwcog.org/clrp2015/. These materials may also be reviewed at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), 777 N. Capitol St. NE, Washington, DC 20002.

The CLRP shows the road, bridge, high-occupancy vehicle (HOV), transit, bicycle and pedestrian projects funded through the year 2040. The six-year TIP includes all projects, programs, and strategies that state and local transportation agencies plan to implement between 2015 and 2020. The air quality conformity analysis assesses the plan amendments and program with respect to the air quality requirements under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. The comment process on the TIP is being used to obtain comments on the region’s program of projects that are funded by the Federal Transit Administration (including projects funded by the Urbanized Area Formula Program) and the Federal Highway Administration.

Members of the public are invited to submit comments on the draft documents on-line at www.mwcog.org/TPBcomment/. Written comments can also be mailed to TPB Chairman Phil Mendelson, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), 777 N. Capitol St. NE, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20002.

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) fully complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes and regulations prohibiting discrimination in all programs and activities. For more information, or to file a Title VI related complaint, see https://www. mwcog.org/publications/nondiscrimination.asp or call (202) 962-3200.If information is needed in another language, then contact (202) 962-3200.

El Consejo Metropolitano de Gobiernos de Washington (COG) cumple con el Título VI de la Ley sobre los Derechos Civiles de 1964 y otras leyes y reglamentos en todos sus programas y actividades. Para obtener información en español, o para someter un pleito relacionado al Título VI, visite n u e s t r a p á g i n a w e b h t t p s : / / w w w. m w c o g . o r g / p u b l i c a t i o n s / nondiscrimination.asp o llame al (202) 962-3300. Para obtener información en otra idioma, llame al (202) 962-3300.

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09/11, 09/18,Wed 09/25/15 TYPESET: Sep 09 15:09:17 EDT 2015 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1004 Adrian T. Borneman Decedent Christopher D. Imlay, Esq 14356 Cape May Rd. Silver Spring, MD 20904-6011 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michael Reeder, whose address is 8710 Rustic Oak Court, Fairfax Station, VA 22039, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Adrian T. Borneman, who died on August 13, 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 Michael Reeder Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/11, 09/18, 09/25/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM949 Deborah Lee Mitchell Lyles Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Shirl Holsey, whose address is 1760 W St SE, Washington, DC 20020 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Deborah Lee Mitchell Lyles, who died on July 22, 2004 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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

Date of Publication: August 28, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Shirl Holsey Personal Representative

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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

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CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCITON 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. 1295R-Towson Generator and Main Substation will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, September 23, 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.

The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, September 11, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $150.00.

Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is F16000 (Electrical) AND Baltimore County Work Classification F.3, UtilitiesStorm Drains (Construction of Storm Drain Pipelines in County Rights-of-Way and Construction Incidental thereto).

Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted in the Abel Wolman Building 3rd Floor Conference Room on September 15, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. A site visit will take place at 1:30 P.M. on the same day.

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The MBE goal is 27% The WBE goal is 8% WATER CONTRACT 1295R APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor Clerk, Board of Estimates APPROVED: Rudolph S. Chow, P.E. Director of Public Works TYPESET: Wed Sep 09 13:27:10 EDT 2015 CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCITON 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. 1301R-On-Call Large Water Main Repairs will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204, City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, October 21, 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.The Contract Documents may be examined, without charge, in Room 6 located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of Friday, September 11, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $100.00.

Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package.

All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call 410-396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3000 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21215. If a bid is submitted by a joint venture (”JV”), then in that event, the document that established the JV shall be submitted with the bid for verification purposes. The Prequalification Category required for bidding on this project is B02551Water Mains Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $5,000,000.01 to $10,000,000.00 A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted in the 3rd Floor Conference Room of the Bureau of Water & Wastewater, Abel Wolman Municipal Building on September 24, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. Principal Item of work for this project are: Installation of various size prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) and ferrous metal pipe segments, reinforcement of existing PCCP utilizing external post tension tendon systems, epoxy repairs, and installation of pipe taps for inspection/repair access and installation of corrosion control and monitoring systems at various locations in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Administrative Secretary Adolescent & Family Co-occurring Therapist Automotive Mechanic II Budget & Management Analyst III Criminal Justice Program Supervisor Customer Service Representative Deputy Sheriff I, Lateral Entry, Sheriff Detention Officer Entry Level Fire Fighter Environmental Sanitarian I/II Facilities Maintenance Mechanic I Financial Clerk II Maintenance Worker I Permits Processor I Personnel Analyst III Senior Transportation Planner Storekeeper I Zoning Plan Reviewer Visit our website at www.aacounty.org for additional information and to apply on-line. You may use the Internet at any Anne Arundel County library, or visit our office at 2660 Riva Road in Annapolis. Deadlines to apply posted on website.

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Duties/Responsibilities: Maintain AFRO’s annual operating budget; Prepare and submit regular fiscal reports; financial statements and cash flow projections;Prepare all monthly journal entries and adjustments; Review and authorize payment of all A/P; Prepare monthly bank reconciliation; Manage annual audit process; Monitor AFRO performance measures; review weekly A/R aging; Directs Credit and Collection efforts; Supervise preparation and submission of all payroll data, bi-weekly.

Education/Skills Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting; 5 or more years experience in a financial position; Proficient in QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel; Ability to work independently and with a multi-disciplinary team and work well in a diverse environment; Excellent oratory and writing skills.

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Serena Williams Beats Venus at U.S. Open to Extend Slam Bid

Serena Williams, left, hugs Venus Williams after winning their quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, Sept. 8 in New York.

By The Associated Press

For stretches of the 27th edition of Williams vs. Williams, Venus gave Serena all she could handle.

And when Serena took control down the stretch to emerge with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 victory in a wellplayed U.S. Open quarterfinal, allowing her to continue pursuing the first calendar-year Grand Slam in more than a quarter-century, a smiling Venus wrapped both arms around her little sister for a warm hug at the net and whispered, “So happy for you.”

“Obviously we are very, very tough competitors on the court,” Serena said later, “but once the match is over, the second it’s done, you know, we’re sisters, we’re roommates, and we’re all that.”

Serena called their unique sibling rivalry “the greatest story in tennis,” and who would argue?

A couple of kids taught by their dad on cement courts in Compton, California, making it all the way to the top.

With two more match wins, the No. 1-ranked Serena would become the first player since Steffi Graf in 1988 to collect all four Grand Slam titles in a single season. Plus, if she can win what would be her fourth U.S. Open in a row, and seventh overall, she would equal Graf with 22 major championships, the most in the professional era and second-most ever behind Margaret Court’s 24.

“That would be huge, not just for me, but for my family, just for what it represents and how hard we have worked and where we come from. So it would be a moment for our family,” said the 23rd-seeded Venus, who is 15 months older. “But at the same time, if it doesn’t happen it’s not going to make or break you. We don’t have anything to prove. She has nothing to prove.

She’s really the best ever.”

Serena is 16-11 in their all-in-the-family matches, including 9-5 in majors and 3-2 at the U.S. Open. And 14 years to the day after Venus beat Serena in the 2001 final at Flushing Meadows, they met again with so much at stake.

Well-known folks such as Donald Trump — who was booed when shown on video screens — Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian dotted the teeming stands in Arthur Ashe Stadium, and the sellout crowd of 23,771 got its money’s worth.

“They both played their best,” said Serena’s coach, Patrick Mouratoglou. “If they were feeling uncomfortable with playing each other, they could not play at that level.”

The sisters combined for 57 winners (Serena had more, 35) and only 37 unforced errors (Venus

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had fewer, 15). How close was it? Serena won 76 points, Venus 75.

Both pounded serves fast, very fast, each topping 120 mph. Both returned well, oh so well, each managing to put into play at least one serve at more than 115 mph by the other.

Venus often attempted to end baseline exchanges quickly. Serena showed tremendous touch by using drop shots, one paired with a backhand passing winner, another with a perfectly curled lob.

When a reporter implied he wasn’t sure whether Venus really wanted to beat Serena, the reply was drenched with incredulity.

“I tried,” Venus replied. “Were you there?”

On Sept. 10, Serena faces unseeded Roberta Vinci of Italy, who reached her first Grand Slam semifinal at age 32 by outlasting Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

In the men’s quarterfinals, No. 1 Novak Djokovic defeated 18th-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (2) in a match that ended at after 1 a.m. Sept. 9. Djokovic’s semifinal opponent Sept. 11 will be defending champion Marin Cilic, who edged 19th-seeded Jo WilfriedTsonga 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4.

The 43rd-ranked Vinci is playing in the 44th major tournament of her singles career, the secondmost appearances by a woman before reaching her initial semifinal. Vinci is 0-4 against Serena and joked about wearing a helmet for protection from some of the 33-year-old American’s booming shots.

“She’s the favorite. Maybe she’ll feel the pressure. Who knows? It all depends on her. If she serves well, it’s tough to return,” Vinci said. “But I have nothing to lose.”

Against Venus, Serena earned a key break to lead 2-0 in the third set thanks to a down-the-line backhand winner that landed in a corner, then she gritted her teeth, held clenched fists near her head and leaned forward, holding the pose. When she got to match point as a shot by Venus sailed long, Serena dropped to a knee behind the baseline and pumped an arm, her back to her sister.

Serena then smacked a 107 mph ace, her 12th, to end it.

At 35, the oldest woman to enter the tournament, Venus had her own reasons for wanting to beat Serena, of course. She hasn’t reached the semifinals at any Grand Slam tournament since the 2010 U.S. Open, and might have considered this her last, best chance to collect an eighth major singles championship of her own.

Mouratoglou was asked whether Venus can do that.

“I think so,” he responded, “except if she plays Serena.”

September 12, 2015 - September 18, 2015, The Afro-American

“Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to sea, but such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam, when that which drew from out the boundless deep turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark and may there be no sadness of farewell, when I embark; for tho’ from out our borne of time and place the flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar.” Lord Alfred Tennyson “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer; those days of soda and pretzels and beer…”Nat King Cole Like August Wilson’s “Joe Turner Come and Gone” the summer of 2015 has come and gone but not without fanfare. There were countless cookouts, swim parties, Sundazes on the harbor, festivals, weddings, birthdays, jazz concerts in the park, engagements and, unfortunately, funerals but we survived “the joy of living.” Special thanks to promoters Sonjae deCaires, John Lee, David Couser, Tarsha Fitzgerald, Zach McDaniels, Moses, Yale Madison, George Ray, DJ Tanz, LaRian Finney, Reggie Haysbert and Irvin for creating Baltimore’s summer venues; the hottest place to be this summer.

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Fraling and happy 93rd birthday to Thelma Evans. I’ll be celebrating my birthday September 17th at Colin’s Restaurant. See you there.

As the sun set Sept. 3, the State of Maryland mourned the death of two Maryland history makers, General Frank Petersen’s service at the Naval Academy complete with the “pomp and circumstances” befitting the man who broke color-barriers accomplishing the first of many firsts as the first Black pilot in the marines. The Honorable Marvin Mandel’s death was the end of an era when politics and decisions transpired over a handshake, cigar and a brandy. He was a renaissance governor who moved the state into a new millennium.

Sending prayers to Deborah Courtney-Peterson on the death of her father Louis Frazier, to the family of Allegra Bennett on her death and to the family of my longtime friend Tobias Allen on his death.

Remembering 9/11, the day that changed our lives forever and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

“You got me going in circles round and round I go” Friends of Distinction The unofficial last week of summer was full of invitations, far too many to accept. This upcoming birthday has me singing the old tune “the old gray mare.” We did attend as many events as possible. John Lee and Marama Nengel’s, of BAHA “Pure Hospitality,” Industry Mixer at Rusty Scupper is a can’t miss event. Rusty Scupper’s spectacular view of the harbor created the picture-perfect venue for more than 300 people feasting on endless mounds of assorted seafood dishes including lobster, oysters and shrimp while sipping complimentary drinks. Guests received cigars from Davidus Cigar to enjoy later. Flowers and Fancies, Gala Cloths and Quintessential Image added to the charm of Rusty Scupper. It’s always a pleasure seeing our gracious host Brenda Lee, who brings an extra touch to the festive night.

Midweek Pier 5 and Pier 7 was the idyllic spot to enjoy the sounds of Santana performing at Pier 6 to a sold-out audience; Boaters in their yachts lined the harbor waterway and thousands partied on the promenades creating a holiday atmosphere for a warm summer evening.

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“A touch of class” was the bridal reception for Zoey Washington hosted by her best friend and sister, Jackie Washington at one of their favorite restaurants Mc McCormick & Schmicks Inner Harbor. The look on Zoey’s face when she walked in the private dining room was priceless. After she regained her composure, the blushing bride -to -be said “wished I had known, I would have spruced up a little” and laughed. We all know this fashion icon is always a pacesetter when it comes to fashion since her early days at Garrison Forest and her days in New York working as a fashion editor for Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Marie Clair, later starting her own company, LITTLE bird, for teens and tweens. Guests in attendance were family, friends and classmates from Garrison Forrest, alum from Columbia University and members of the fashion industry.

The menu selected by Zoey’s special waiter Scott consisted of mixed greens with candied walnuts, cedar roasted Atlantic salmon, chicken marsala, beef medallions with bordelaise sauce and chocolate truffle cake with bleu cheese raspberry coulis and wine pairings. A meal perfect for the Princess who found her Prince Charming.

In an interview with a local newspaper, when asked how she compared Baltimore to New York in fashion Zoey said, “Baltimore is a special lady.

Baltimore is like your fun aunt who has done some really cool things in her life, but you didn’t realize it until you were older.

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D.C. Residents Demand More Input Into Bowser’s Anti-Crime Package

D.C. Black Methodists Unite to Fight Racial Inequality

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) unveiled her anti-crime package on Aug. 27 at the former Malcolm X Elementary School in Southeast. It has been met with mixed opinions.

However, District residents are not sitting idly by while the package is debated in the media and by political leaders. They want to be involved in its creation and implementation.

“Any plan that the mayor

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AME Bishop Reginald T. Jackson and other Black Methodist clergy join in the fight against racism.

Howard University students sat in the Mordecai Johnson Administration Building Sept. 4 to protest what they said was poor customer service and repeated failures with the financial aid office, campus housing and other student services.

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Mayor Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier are creating policies and procedures to reduce crime in the city. proposes must have serious and continuous involvement of the community,” Anita Bellamy Shelton, president of the D.C. Women in Politics organization, said. “We are here at city hall today to learn and understand the rationale of the mayor’s plan.”

The District of Columbia has recorded 109 deaths by homicide as of Sept.

8, more than all of last year. To combat the rise in homicides, and crime in

“Any plan that the mayor proposes must have serious and continuous involvement of the community.”

Disgruntled Students Protest School Failures

By Janelle Berry Howard University News Service

Dozens of disgruntled Howard University students piled into the Mordecai Johnson Administration Building on Sept.

4. They gathered to protest poor customer service and repeated failures in the financial aid office, campus housing, and other student services.

Students sat on the floor in the lobby of the administration building to express their weariness with the university’s inability to place students in dormitories, give proper academic advising, address the lack of Pell Grants, award scholarship money, present financial aid packages, and the lack of plans to resolve the issues.

Students demonstrated their frustration by posting

D.C. Nonprofit Hosts Second Annual Empowerment Day

By Maria Adebola AFRO Staff Writer Jovon Gerald decided to launch a nonprofit in 2011 after he

– Anita Bellamy Shelton general, Bowser wants to: put more police officers on the streets, give law enforcement professionals more tools to fight crime, stop violent criminals from repeatedly victimizing members of the community, increase penalties for violent crime on public transit, launch a community partnership strategy to support neighborhoods, strengthen community-police relations, and implement returning citizens employment legislation.

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sticky notes of their worst experiences on the walls of the administration building.

Nadalee Koth, a 21-year-old senior from Cincinnati and organizer of the protest, said she and her roommate had problems with housing while living in the Towers apartment building last year. “It was one of the worse experiences I’ve ever had,” Koth said. “We’ve had mice and multiple maintenance issues that weren’t addressed. We’ve actually been locked in our suite for hours and had to call the fire department.”

According to Koth, the other organizers are planning to have more sit-ins to show the administration and the university that they are serious about solving these issues.

Imani Harmon said because of mishandling of her housing, she was temporarily homeless. “I was on the waiting list and

G.I.R.L. participants in an etiquette class.

realized there was a need to create a haven where girls between the ages of 10 and 16 could come together and discuss their concerns.

G.I.R.L. (Got the Intelligence to Rule my Life) is hosting its second annual “Women’s Empowerment Day” from 1 – 4 p.m. Sept. 13 at The Loft, 600 F Street NW. “A lot of the girls that I worked with have either one or two things,” Gerald told the AFRO. “They were acting out in class … or they were isolating themselves.”

This year, Gerald said he has plans to expand the brunch. For the second annual “Women’s Empowerment Day,” Gerald said he is looking into turning the brunch into more of a seminar setting, Photo Courtesy of Jovon Gerald where the girls can interact one

D.C. Mourner Finds Solace in ‘Ride to Conquer Cancer’ Event

By Adina R. Young Special to the AFRO The second annual D.C. “Ride to Conquer Cancer,” a two-day bicycle ride benefitting cancer research, carries a special meaning to one rider. Wendell Smith, 64, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, lost the love of his life, Regina Turner, to pancreatic cancer on March 12, 2014. She would have turned 62 on March 29, 2014. “God was preparing me for that day,” he said. “I was fortunate even to be there with her. I held her in my arms.”

One in four deaths in the United States will be caused by cancer, according to The Ride to Conquer Cancer website, dc15.ridetovictory.org. Last year, 1,000 riders participated, raising $2.6 million for cancer research across the region.

Smith, who met Turner more than 10 years ago, said they used to run the streets together.

Then they each found God on their own and reunited in the church. “My fondest memories are her wit and her kind heart,” he said. “She was a kind, caring and good woman. Even in her death, she donated her body to science to help someone else.”

Smith, who trained on a course close to the retirement home in which he lives, rode 150 miles in the event last year. One Sept. 19, he is participating for the second time. He said he plans to

Regina Turner

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By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com The leaders of three Black-based Methodist denominations based in the District announced recently that they are joining forces to fight racism and encourage fairness for all Americans.

On Sept. 2, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, chair of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Social Action Commission; Dr. Staccato Powell and Senior Bishop George Battle of the AME Zion Church; and Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Bishop

“The United States has ignored racism too long.”

– AME Zion Bishop George Battle

Lawrence Reddick, along with other clergy and public figures, called on the country to confront and take action against unfair racial practices. Jackson said the killings of nine Blacks at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June encouraged the Black Methodist denominations to work together on this issue.

“Racism, hatred, and discrimination will not end solely because of executive and legislative action,” Jackson said. “They are problems of the heart and mind, they are sinful and ending them will require confession, repentance, and commitment. In other words it will require divine intervention.

Jackson said destroying racism can’t be done by people of color alone. “We need God’s help,” he said.

It was racism in the White Methodist Episcopal denomination in 1794 that led Richard Allen, a Black clergyman, and other African Americans, to create the AME denomination and form Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia on July 29 of that year. Black members of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, looking to determine their own destiny, formed the AME Zion Church in New York City in 1821.

The CME started in 1870 in Jackson, Tennessee, by African-American ministers of

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the Methodist Episcopal Church, who wanted to maintain control of their own congregations. In 1968 The Methodist Episcopal Church evolved into the United Methodist Church, and is still, according to 2008 statistics, 87 to 90 percent White.

Powell said it is time America faces up to its legacy of racism.

“We see it in every area of American life, yet the nation continues to be in denial about it,” he said. “Racism by Blacks is just as sinful and wrong as racism by Whites, and we must destroy it no matter whom or wherever it is.”

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) attended the press conference and commended the Black Methodist leaders for joining the fight for racial equality. “I am speaking on behalf of the 43 members of the Congressional Black Caucus to say that we are with you,” Norton said.

Norton said much needs to be done on behalf of racial equity.

She quoted statistics, indicating the poverty rate for Blacks is more than 30 times that of Whites, that the Black median income is $34,000 while the White median income is $58,000, and that Black college graduate unemployment rate is 5.2 percent while the White unemployment rate is at 2.9 percent.

The Black Methodists action agenda encompasses criminal justice system reform, improving educational opportunities for Black students, economic justice for people of color, gun reform in the form of gun control instead of gun rights, and voting rights for all eligible Americans. The Black Methodists want leaders of Congress, governors, and state legislative bodies to look at their agenda and move positively to enact their concerns into law. To hone that message, the Black Methodists encouraged ministers

on one with the speakers.

The theme for this year’s brunch is “This is your season.”

It will feature speakers who will touch on spirituality, balancing motherhood and relationships, financial freedom, and entrepreneurship. “They can see women that look just like them doing positive things in their community,” Gerald said.

G.I.R.L. holds meetings twice a month to discuss a variety of topics. According to Gerald, no topic is off the table. Some of the discussions include home situations, the girls’ presence on social media, giving back to the community, conflict resolution, body image, and more. “They just needed someone to talk to,” he said. “They didn’t have an outlet; they didn’t have anyone they could trust.”

Tickets are $20 and all proceeds will be used for the organization’s activities, Gerald said. He also said he hopes to raise a total of $3,000. The money raised will also provide financial assistance to girls who may need help in paying for college applications, educational trips, and more.

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of all denominations to designate Sept. 6 as “Confession, Repentance, and Commitment to End Racism Sunday.”

In November, the Black Methodists will host a Presidential Justice Forum at AME-managed Allen University in South Carolina for the 2016 presidential candidates to discuss criminal justice issues.

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again ride 150 miles for the cause.

“I just got to pray and with the help of the Lord, I will get through this,” he said.

Elmer Shepardson, Smith’s best friend of more than 40 years, is proud to support his friend. “It shows his integrity,” said Shepardson, whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago. “He’s the type of person that if he is for you, he is 100 percent for you. This shows that.”

Smith’s goal, according to his personal donation page, was to raise at least $2,500. He passed his goal raising more than $3,000. “People realize the importance of it and know it’s for a worthy cause,” said Smith. “I lost my queen but maybe I could help someone else in her honor.”

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homeless for two weeks,” Harmon said. “I just got housing a couple of days ago.”

Aliya Jones, a senior from Norfolk, Virginia, and protest organizer, has been struggling with financial issues since she first attended Howard. “I’m an independent student coming in as a freshman and they said ‘everything would be covered’,” she said “It wasn’t covered.”

Jalen Williams, a 21-year-old senior from Cincinnati and an organizer, said he is also dealing with several school financial issues. “I’m just waiting for funds to be dispersed,” Williams said. “I have financial issues where now it’s becoming a problem. Now, I need to pay rent; I need money for my books. I need to eat, and if I’m making plans for money based

“I’m a recipient for an alumni scholarship. To this day, I have yet to receive it.”

– Udodilim Nnamdi on a date that was given to me by the university, I expect them to uphold their end of that situation.”

Udodilim Nnamdi, 21, of Berlin, New Jersey, said, “I’m a recipient for an alumni scholarship. To this day, I have yet to receive it.”

She said she went to the financial aid office on her birthday after receiving her acceptance letter to make sure that her entrance into Howard would be a smooth one. “I was told no funds were available,” she said. “I just broke down crying on my birthday in the ‘A Building’ and the person sitting across from me sat stone-faced and said, ‘Is that all you came here for?’ and I left.”

President Wayne Frederick spoke to the leaders of the protests the night before the sit-in to express his concern and to support the students’ activism. In a statement to the university community on Sept. 3, Frederick apologized for the “shortcomings that have occurred and escalated” in the past week. In another statement, Frederick said providing quality education for our students is our highest priority and will never be compromised. We are working with our students with a sense of urgency to ensure that the quality of life on campus is what they expect and what they deserve.”

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said the mayor’s plan is missing a key aspect. “There really needs to be a plan for addressing the mental health of some of our returning citizens,” Meehan, a Ward 2 resident, said. Meehan said numerous studies show violent offenders often have psychological challenges that law enforcement professionals either ignore or do not address.

D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (D-At Large) said she likes what the mayor is proposing but more could be done. While Bonds, who

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didn’t attend the Shelton meeting, acknowledged the confiscation of illegal guns by the police and the proliferation of synthetic drugs in the city, she said other factors are driving up crime that have little to do with law enforcement.

“As we join together to address the root causes of crime, we must provide greater opportunities to our young men who disproportionally suffer from violent crime on our streets,” the council member said. “Forty-one percent of our youth drop out of school and without a high school diploma they have very few employment options.”

At the Shelton meeting, Greater Washington Urban League representative Stacey Palmer said, “The police officers ride around in their cars too much. They should go to recreation centers and play ball with the kids.

They need to walk the neighborhoods and get to know the people.”

Kevin Donahue, the deputy mayor for public safety, told Shelton’s group that he was at the meeting to listen to their concerns and wanted everyone’s point of view. Donahue said there is no clear reason why there is an uptick in homicides in the city.

Donahue said the mayor’s plan will, among other things, give grants to organizations and individuals who fight crime in the city, and will increase benefits for police officers to stay on the job instead of retiring or resigning to work at another jurisdiction.

Bowser will send her crime package and its budget supplement to the council

by Sept. 16 for its approval.

Shelton said she will convene another meeting of community leaders in the near future to further discuss the mayor’s package.

“We will submit a list of recommendations to the mayor so that we will input on what she gives to the council,” Shelton said.

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Vocal Arts Concert For Vocal Arts DC’s 25th Anniversary Season, the concert series will present a concert on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, 2700 F St NW, featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, accompanied at the piano by composer Jake Heggie. The two will perform the world premiere of a song cycle, Iconic Legacies: First Ladies at the Smithsonian. The program will also include Robert Schumann’s song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben (Woman’s Love & Life), the cycle Les nuits d’été (Summer Nights) of Hector Berlioz and a selection of songs by Ned Rorem. Tickets cost $50 at the Kennedy Center Box Office, by phone at 202-467-4600, or online at kennedy-center.org.

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Local Artist Holds Book Signing Northern Virginia based author, activist, and scholar Eric Lotke will host a book talk about his newest release, “Making Manna,” with a signing and question and answer session.

“Making Manna” is an uplifting tale of triumph over economic and criminal injustice. It explores the depths of betrayal, and the human capacity to love, forgive,

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The event will take place at Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St NW, on Sept. 15 from 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The event is free of charge and copies of Lotke’s novel will be available for purchase. Lotke’s books include “Making Manna,” “The Real War on Crime,” and “2044: The Problem isn’t Big Brother, it’s Big Brother, Inc.” CHAW Stage Play The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) will present Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s stage play Inheritance Canyon on Wednesdays and Saturdays from Sept. 18 - Oct. 1 at 7:30

p.m. at the black box theatre at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. Matinees will be held on Oct. 3 & Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. The play was written by Liz Maestri; directed by Lise Bruneau; music and sound by Kathy Cashel.

The play is about celebrating women’s voices through a theatre festival. In the play survivors of a mysterious disaster face their greatest enemies — themselves — as they struggle for meaning within the restrictions of their new lives as government guinea pigs. The play features Dan Crane and Esther Williamson, with guest artists Teresa Castracane, James Flanagan, Gwen Grastorf, and Morgan Sendek.

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Urban Kids Fishing Derby Urban American Outdoors TV (UAOTV) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife, the National

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Parks Service, Healthy Parks and Healthy People and the U.S. Forest Service will host the Urban Kids Fishing Derby. The fishing experience and celebration will be held on Sept. 19 at the Constitution Gardens located at 1850 Constitution Ave. NW. The event is free.

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Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the derby kicks off soon after and ends at noon. For more information contact Candice Price, executive producer of Urban American Outdoors TV at uaotv@aol.com or by telephone at 913-3345177.

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The second annual Ubiquitous Hair and Health Trade Show, the first and only show that speaks directly to the relaxed and natural woman’s wants and needs, occurred on Aug. 22 -23 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in

Northwest D.C. The theme of the show was “Where Relaxed Meets Natural Hair.” The main stage showcased powerhouse women, including Grammy Nominated R&B Artist LEDISI; International R&B Singer and Author Chanté Moore; Celebrity Hair Stylist and Star of WE tv’s LA Hair, Kim Kimble; Co-Pastor of Fountain of Praise

in Houston, Mia Wright; and Stellar Award Winner and Gospel Recording Artist Maurette-Brown Clark.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was the recipient of the 2016 Ubiquitous Woman of the Year Award. The event was hosted by Chanté Moore, author of Will I Marry Me?

Panel discussion: Marsha Jews, WEAA Radio 88.9), moderator; Kim Kimble, Celebrity Master Hairstylist/star of WeTV’s LA Hair; Dr. Mitchell(Dr. Hair) educator/cosmetologist; Kevin “KP” Pendleton, Hair Stylist; DeShawn Bullard, stylist and educator and Patricia Williams, Crème of Nature.

Angela Gaither-Scott, Lindsay Waddell and Glenda Johnson

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Germaine Bolds-Leftridge with Chante Moore, R & B singer and author

Mia Wright, First Lady of Fountain of Praise, Houston, TX.

At the WHUR Radio booth with Angela Stribling (right) Photos by Rob Roberts

Sky Arkini, Lottabody and Shawn Hicks, Vision Development Group

Seated: Rosalind Cleveland, (standing) Ingrinette Pope, Adrian Chew, Susan DeLucia and Charmika Spencer; (seated) Velina Satton Germaine Bolds-Leftridge, founder, The Ubiquitous Hair and Health Trade Show, Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore State’s Attorney, recipient of the Ubiquitous Woman of the Year Award and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)

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Anthony and Terri Jacques, Massage Envy

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Chef Chris Miller from Wegmans and Maria Martinez, Prawn eating contest winner.

Carversa Shune Bar; Mixologists Riki Jarrett-June, Keyshn Jackson, Teddy Levine, Yanni and Dimon Jones

Patrice Cureton, Monica Briscoe and Kyana Chambliss

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