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Reflections on 1995’s Million Man March A4

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Three men imprisoned for violent crimes recently faced off against three members of the Harvard College debate team in an exhibition match. In a shocking upset the inmates won. See story on page A2.

Million Man March

20th Anniversary: Justice or Else!

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By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

Multitudes of people from across the country will shortly converge on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to celebrate the two decades’ mark of a march that attracted over one million Black men.

The 20th anniversary of the Million Man March will take place on Oct. 10 with the theme “Justice or Else!”

There will be speeches from prominent civil rights activists, national and local politicians and musical

selections from artists. The keynote address will be delivered by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

“We need to go back to the 60s,” Cora Masters

are saying ‘Justice or Else!’

In 1995, Farrakhan issued a call for one million Black men to come to the District to atone for their individual and collective negative behavior

“ “All of this [foolishness] has got to stop...’”

-Cora Masters Barry

Barry, a former first lady of the District and a force behind the 1995 Million Man March.

“All of this [foolishness] has got to stop and that’s why we

among the race. Well over one million Black men responded on Oct. 16, 1995 on the National Mall.

This year, leaders from the

march 20 years ago, decided that it was time to re-dedicate Black people to the principles of the first march but broaden its focus.

“We want Latinos and Native Americans to join us this year,” the Rev. Willie Wilson, senior pastor of Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast D.C., said.

“They have had their names and cultures changed by the oppressor and the oppressor has used the education process to rob them of their self-esteem. That is why you see alcohol and drug use rampant among Native Americans.”

Philadelphia Woman Gets 40 Years to Life

By The Associated Press

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Retirement Savings Among Blacks Low

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Financial insecurity continues to plague Black communities, according to new Social Security data, even as they enter retirement. While one in three Americans is underprepared for retirement, 75 percent of Blacks have no retirement savings at all.

However, even as efforts are underway by financial and insurance institutions, including Prudential, to raise awareness and steer Blacks towards retirement savings, increasing numbers Continued on A5

A girl abducted from her kindergarten classroom and sexually tortured during a bizarre overnight ordeal faced her kidnapper in court on Oct. 5 and asked a judge to stop her from harming other children.

“I think what she did to me was wrong, and I think she shouldn’t do it to anyone else,” the now 8-year-old said, standing beside her mother and speaking in a sweet, pipsqueak voice.

Former day care worker Christina Regusters was sentenced to 40 years to life by a judge who called the January 2013 crime “a horror show.”

Regusters, 22, insisted that her only role in the crime had been to sneak

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Women were urged by Farrakhan not to attend the 1995 march but this year, the female presence in the planning of the march is considerable (see story on A3).

“I am on the steering committee of the march with the Rev. Willie Continued on A5

Freddie Gray Follow-Up

On Sept. 26 a throng of people came out to celebrate the grand opening of the first TGI Fridays location in Baltimore City.

The Fridays is located in the Mondawmin Mall shopping center in West Baltimore, the epicenter of the uprising following the Continued on A8

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22-year-old Christina Regusters --abducted a Kindergartener the child out of her public school in West Philadelphia and leave her half-naked the next morning on a cold, dark playground a few miles away. A stranger heard the child’s cries before dawn and Continued on A5

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NATION & WORLD

Women Booted from Napa Valley Wine Train File $11M Lawsuit Claiming Discrimination

By The Associated Press

A group of mostly Black women filed a racial discrimination lawsuit on Oct. 1 after they were removed from a train that tours Napa Valley wineries, saying it was humiliating to be thrown off a rail (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) car when loud and Attorney Waukeen Q. McCoy, center inebriated White left, speaks with plaintiffs after passengers were allowed to stay. filing a lawsuit over their ejection The 11 women sued from a Napa Valley Wine Train Napa Valley Wine Train during a news conference.

Inc., saying they were singled out because of race and seeking $11 million in damages. The company said in a statement that it takes allegations of discrimination very seriously and has hired a former FBI agent to investigate.

The women said many of them were part of a book club that

meets regularly and had gathered on the train to discuss a romance novel. Before the train left the station in Napa, a train employee asked them to quiet down because they were offending other passengers, they said.

The same employee admonished them a second time before telling them that police officers would be waiting for them when the train reached St. Helena, the suit says. They were escorted through several other cars as other passengers stared and then off the train and into a dirt lot where police were waiting, according to the suit.

“That was the most humiliating experience that I have ever had in my entire life,” Lisa Johnson, 47, said with tears in her eyes, appearing with some of the other women at a news conference announcing the lawsuit. “This is 2015, and this just cannot happen again.”

Ex-NFL Football Star Irving Fryar Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

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His mother, Allene McGhee, was sentenced to three years’ probation in the same case.

Both were convicted in August of applying for multiple mortgage loans in quick succession while using the same property as collateral.

Fryar, 53, was a star wide receiver at the University of Nebraska and played for the New England Patriots, the Miami Dolphins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins.

Fryar’s defense claimed he was the victim of a “con artist” who told him to carry out the scheme, a reference to William Barkdale.

Barkdale pleaded guilty last year to a conspiracy charge and was the government’s key witness at Fryar’s trial. He is serving a 20-month prison sentence.

Fryar and McGhee, 74, rejected plea deals from state prosecutors that would have put him in jail for five years and her for three. They were found guilty of conspiracy and theft by deception charges.

Former Philladelphia Eagles wide receiver Irving Fryar, center, and his mother, Allene McGhee, left, sit in court at the Burlington County Courthouse in Mount Holly, N.J. Former NFL star Irving Fryar was sentenced Oct. 2 to five years in prison for his role in a mortgage scam.

A rapper, a boxer, and a former U.S. Attorney General were among those honored Sept. 30 with Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Medal, the highest honor in African-American studies.

For the last 15 years, Harvard University has honored influential Blacks who have contributed to African American culture and the “life of mind,” according to NBC Mellody Hobson News.

This year Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research honored rap artist Nas, former U.S Attorney general Eric Holder and boxing legend Muhammad Ali. In addition to those well-known figures, four renowned females were also honored: Marian Wright Edelman, Mellody Hobson, Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Carrie Mae Weems.

Jesse L. Matthew Sentenced to Three Life Sentences in Va. Sex Assault

By AFRO Staff

The man believed to be responsible for the killings of two Virginia college students was sentenced to three life sentences on Oct. 2 for a separate attack in 2005.

Fairfax County, Va. Circuit Court Judge David S. Schell sentenced Jesse L. Matthew to three life sentences. Matthew was charged for the sexual assault, attempted murder, and abduction with attempt to defile of a 26-year-old woman in 2005.

According to news reports, the sentence was the maximum for the charges. “The violence of these offenses was extreme,” Schell said.

According to The Washington Post, public defender Bob Frank, who represented Matthew, asked the court for a lighter sentence. He said Matthew had a difficult life, because he grew up poor, his father was an alcoholic and he was sexually abused as a child.

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Three men imprisoned for violent crimes recently faced off against three members of the Harvard College debate team in an exhibition match. To some, the probable outcome may have seemed inevitable. But, in a shocking upset the inmates won.

The unlikely victory is a testament to the power of education and second chances in the lives of the incarcerated. The debate was set up to exhibit the Bard Prison Initiative, a rigorous college matriculation program offered to inmates housed at Eastern New York Correctional Facility, in the Catskills.

“We have been graced with opportunity,” said debater Carlos Polanco, a 31-year-old from Queens in prison for manslaughter, according to the Wall Street Journal. “They make us believe in ourselves.”

Polanco and his teammates, all convicted of manslaughter, were unable to use the Internet to research their topic or prepare for the debate.

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Women Critical to Million Man March 20th Anniversary

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

In 1995, Nation of Islam leaders did not encourage women to participate in the Million Man March, however, that is not the case for the 20th anniversary.

During the 2015 march, women will play a central role in the Oct. 10 event on the National Mall with the theme of “Justice or Else!” To generate support, scores of women with a few men participated in a pre-march rally on Oct. 4 at the Union Temple Baptist Church in Southeast D.C. “Women have unique concerns about justice for our families and communities,” the Rev. Willie Wilson, senior pastor at Union Temple, said at the rally.

In 1995, Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan urged women not to come to the Million Man March because he, and the other leaders, wanted the men assembled to focus on atonement for areas in which they were lacking. March leaders couldn’t legally bar women from participating because the National Mall, where it was held, is federal property and is open to everyone.

Farrakhan’s suggestion was supported by the female members of the Nation of Islam.

Nevertheless, women such as former D.C. first lady Cora Masters Barry, National Council of Negro Women President Dr. Dorothy Height, Malcolm X’s widow Dr. Betty Shabazz, Rosa Parks, journalist Tynnetta Muhammad, and political activist E. Faye Williams spoke at the rally, and women also worked behind the scenes to help the march move along.

“No women were supposed to be involved then but some women wanted to be a part of it,” Barry, who attended the Oct. 4 rally, said. “There were some prominent

women who wrote against it.”

Barry is referring to NNPA columnist Dr. Julianne Malveaux and civil rights scholar Mary Francis Berry who publicly questioned why women were not invited. Still, there were women who played roles in the development of the event.

“I worked with Mrs. Barry and [former National Coalition on Black Civic Participation leader] James Ferguson on the march,” Melanie Campbell, the current president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, said. “I was one of the few women who watched it unfold.”

Signing up Black men to vote was a goal of the march and Barry said that as a result of the work of she and Campbell “200-300,000 Black men were registered to vote before the affair started.”

Claudette Muhammad served as the national deputy minister for the march.

She agreed with Campbell that Barry played a defining role in the event. “I went to Mrs. Barry to explain what we were trying to do with the march in 1995 and she embraced me,” Muhammad said. “Mrs. Barry introduced us to her husband, Mayor Marion Barry, and they opened Washington, D.C. for us. Women were the backbone of the Million Man March.”

Barry said it wasn’t easy for the women who participated in the march. “I

Photo by JD Howard

A women’s organization in Boston participated in the Million Man March in 1995. discussion of women leaders primarily in the District that included the Rev. Anika Wilson Brown; Ieasha Prime, vice principal of the Al-Qalam Academy, the only allgirls Islamic school in the Washington area; District of Columbia NAACP President Akosua Ali; and Lola Adeoye, a Howard

“Women were the backbone of the Million Man March.”

– Claudette Muhammad think about the women who stood there on that stage that day,” she said of Oct. 16, 1995.

“You have no idea how much pressure was put on Dr. Dorothy Height and it wasn’t easy to get Dr. Betty Shabazz to speak. After I spoke, I left.”

The Union Temple rally included a panel

University School of Law student and Miss Black District of Columbia.

Brown, the daughter of Wilson, said, in the spirit of the 20th anniversary of the march that Blacks need to treat each other better. “We Black women need to stop putting Black men down,” she said. “We need to stop spoiling

and babying our Black boys and train them to be responsible. We need to stop bringing men into our houses but telling our daughters to be pure.”

Ali said the present march’s approach is what is needed. “I didn’t attend the march but my father and brother were there and because of their presence I felt the power and the importance of the movement,” Ali said.

“We will have women, men, and children at this march. I am happy that we will focus on health, criminal justice, education, voting rights, the economy and jobs.”

Muhammad said the Oct. 10 march is a movement and it is the mission of the movement to “train brothers and sisters in our streets” to be politically active. Prime said the march isn’t about foolishness. “We are saying to those who oppose [Black people] that this is your last chance to be fair to us,” she said.

Capturing History

AFRO Photographer’s Reflection on 1995 Million Man March since it was still closed. I got on the elevator and headed down. I exited when some other men got on. As I exited the elevator a security guard

By James Bentley Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com On Oct. 16, 1995, JD Howard was on hand at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. to bear witness and document the events for the AFRO. That day he shot Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis Jr., former D.C Mayor Marion Barry, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Maya Angelou and Dick Gregory, among many others.

His iconic cover photo for the AFRO’s Million Man March issue was a crowd shot that really allowed the readers to see the multitude of Black men that showed up to support the national day of atonement.

It was early afternoon and the day had gone off without any hitches, but Howard felt he was still missing that one shot that would capture the momentous occasion.

“I went to the Capitol but the guards told me the Capitol was closed. I knew there was a good picture here and I could feel it but I couldn’t get to it. I needed to get upstairs so I could shoot down on the crowd but the building was closed. So I milled around the Capitol and then, when nobody was looking, I ducked inside and headed for the

Photo by JD Howard

AFRO photo of 1995 Million Man March elevator.

I got on the elevator as some other people were getting off and I pressed the button for the third floor.

I got off on the third and had to act like I was doing something official. I looked around and I found these secretaries standing in front of Congressman Barney Frank’s (D-Mass.) office.

There were three of them and they were talking, so I went over and approached them.

We exchanged pleasantries and I told them I would love to take a picture from the Congressman’s office window.

I told them I was from the Afro-American Newspapers

and that I would make it very quick. A secretary said ‘I can let you in but you have to be honest and be quick about it.’ She then told me that she didn’t know if the window would open so I asked if she would check it. When she went into the office, I followed and the other two secretaries behind me.

The secretaries were White women and when they looked outside they said there is an awful big crowd out there and then another one looked and said oh my gosh they’re everywhere.

So I said let me see and I was like, ‘Oh yeah this is it.’

I began to open the window when one of the secretaries warned me that I could only open it but so wide because they had the Congressman’s letters arranged on his desk and they feared them blowing off. The first thing I noticed as we opened the window is they had a bird screen, which you can see a little bit if you [look] closely in my picture, but I was able to shoot through that. But when I looked out that window I saw it, I could see the shot.

I could see the monument, the Jumbotrons they had on both sides of the mall and I

JD Howard could see the Capitol steps and people were everywhere, I said, ‘Oh my God.’ I was shooting with a wide angle, that’s how I got that picture.

As I’m surveying the landscape the secretary says, ‘Sir, you’re going to have to stop now because the letters are starting to blow off his desk.’ I remember saying ok and taking a deep breath then click, click, click, click, click, hurry, click, click, click, click, click and off... whew. Then I checked my light meter to make sure I was getting good exposure. By the time she had something else to say I was done. I said, ‘Thank you very kindly ma’am’ and I tried to grab a few of the things that flew off and helped her put them back in order. Now I had to duck and dodge to try to get out of the building

stopped me and said the building is closed. I told him I’m trying to leave and he had me follow him to the exit. But now I had what I wanted.”

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Reflection: 1995 Million Man March Displayed Black Unity, Power “I went with 19 other Prince George’s County police officers. We met at a church in Seat Pleasant and got on the Addison Road Metro to the National Mall and our subway stop was crowded. The Mall was extremely crowded and I saw people sitting on telephone poles and trees to watch the program. The event was peaceful and proof that the Black men portrayed on television and in the movies aren’t true. It was a wonderful sight.”

The 1995 march brought the entire world’s attention to the collective frustration Black men and the Black community had with respect Black underserved needs.I believe it was successful in many respects, but there remain enormous numbers of additional issues that need to be addressed, some of which have popped up since the prior march in 1995. The AFRO is excited to once again chronicle an important event the upcoming march represents and we are con­ vinced that, like the prior march, it too will show the entire world the cohesive voice and power of the Black community that remains strong and unified after 20 years.”

– Jake Oliver, publisher,

– Anthony Ayers Sr.,

police chief of Capitol Heights, Md.

Afro-American Newspapers

“It was an unexpected honor for me to be invited to be a speaker at the Million Man March. A group from the National Conference of Black Mayors attended the March and I was asked to speak for the group. It was more than humbling to stand on the podium in front of the Capitol building looking out on the sea of humanity that stretched from the Capitol down the mall towards the Washington Monument. It was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life.”

“From one perspective it was a massive moment of power. There were Black men from every walk conceivable gathered in one space. It showed how powerful we are when we gather intellectual, political and economic resources and are prepared to use them effectively. What has been a shadow of disappointment is that the energy has not continued--particularly when you look at young Black men and their relationship with police today or the criminal justice system. It is still a hammer today as it ever was. It doesn’t take away from that moment but it tells me we have so much more to do if we just step back into that power. So much more can be done.”

– Michael Steele, former

– Kurt Schmoke,

first elected Black Mayor of Baltimore

Minister Louis Farrakhan

Marion Barry, the late Washington, D.C. mayor

“I didn’t attend the march but my husband, son and one-year-old grandson did. I was on the county council at the time and I remember speaking with, then County Executive Wayne Curry, about encouraging men in Prince George’s County to participate. To me, the march personified solidarity and strength.”

“One of the other things that is troubling me, a part of the unfinished agenda, is watching Republican candidates jockeying for the mantle and hearing candidates like Dr. Ben Carson saying Muslims shouldn’t be president of the United States, because Islam is inconsistent with the constitution. And that’s not true. I should say Ben Carson was one of my heroes and I am disappointed to hear him conducting what I thought was mudslinging in order to raise money for his campaign. It shows the ignorance on his part in two reasons, the founders of the constitution came to America, seeking refuge from religious persecution in Britain, and two they made certain that the constitution required no religious test to hold office, and for him to say that shows a lack of understanding and a pandering to the fear of many people who don’t understand Islam.”

– Ibrahim Mumin,

president of the Million Man March in 1995

– Dorothy Bailey, a former chairman

of the Prince George’s County Council

“I was a student at Hampton University at the time. My college roommate and I drove to the march from Hampton. There were a lot of us from Hampton there. It was an awesome experience seeing all the people there and I was grateful to participate in a historical moment.”

Republican National Committee Chair

utopian experience.”

“I just got off a tour of duty in the military in South America and I heard about the march. I was in Delaware so I drove to D.C. to attend it. I ran into people I had not seen in a longtime. I was happy to be one person who was a part of a greater whole. It really felt good to be there and to me it was a

– Dr. James Dula, former president of the Prince

George’s County Chamber of Commerce

– Charles Wilson,

president-elect of the Ward 8 Democrats

“I was 15-years-old and attending Crossland High School. School was in session on that day but a lot of men took off from classes and went to the march. I was playing football for Crossland and the coach pushed back practice on that day so we could go to the march. It was inspiring to see that sense of unity among Black men.”

– Marcus Skelton, former chairman

of the D.C. Young Republicans

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March attendees Photos by JD Howard

Martin Luther King III and Rev. Al Sharpton

“I attended the march 20 years ago as a 12-year-old. I thought that the march was great because it brought together millions of men for the common good. It was good to see men who were there from all walks of life.”

– D.C. Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4)

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Million Man March

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Wilson and Minister Ishmael Muhammad,” Barry said. “We have women working with the march top to bottom.”

Barry’s husband, the late Marion S. Barry, was the mayor of the District when the first march took place. Mayor Barry was a strong supporter of the event and did whatever he could to see that it was a success.

However, there is talk among march leaders in the city that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) is disengaged from the event. That is simply not true, LaToya Foster, a spokeswoman for Bowser, said.

“The mayor is fully up to speed with what is going on with the march,” Foster said. “The march will be taking place with some other events in the District that day but the mayor is aware of the activities that will take place. The administration is working with the leaders of the Million Man March.”

A lot of organizational meetings for the 1995 march took place at the headquarters of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. The organization is playing an important role this year, as well.

“The Million Man March anniversary leaders are using our offices for mobilization plans,” Steven Ballard, Phi Beta Sigma’s deputy executive director, said. “Benjamin Chavis is one of the leaders of the march, just as he was 20 years ago and he facilitated the use of the headquarters then and now. Sigma will be out in force on Oct. 10 and our national president, Jonathan Mason, will be one of the

speakers on the program.”

There will be speakers on a wide variety of causes, including District statehood. D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At Large) said that he will be speaking at the march on the District being admitted to the union as the 51st state.

“We know that the theme of the march is ‘Justice or Else!’,” Orange said.

“We have a theme to go along with that, ‘Statehood or Else!’ We have nearly 700,000 American citizens in D.C. that has no voting representation in the U.S. House and Senate and yet we send $3 billion to the federal government in the form of taxes and 2,000 residents have died in America’s wars.”

Orange’s colleague, LaRuby May (D-Ward 8) wants her constituents to participate in the march.

“We need to support positive Black men when they are doing the work of the community,” May said. “I am really interested in what is going to happen beyond ‘10-10’ and the initiatives to help Black people.”

There has been criticism that the 1995 march produced little if any results. Barry disputes that assertion.

“The Million Man March got record numbers of people registered to vote, it got a large number of Black kids adopted, crime came down in the Black community for a while and Black men went back to their families,” she said.

are finding it difficult.

Such is the case for Orlando Armstrong, whose best efforts to maintain a 401(k) savings plan with his employer over the past eight years was thwarted by “necessary withdrawals.”

Armstrong, a Georgetown University graduate, said he used the account as more of an emergency fund than a true retirement fund.

“My thinking initially was that I would allow the money to build and generate my retirement income; however, when my grandfather passed away without life insurance or a burial policy, I borrowed from my 401(k) to pay the funeral expenses,” Armstrong said. “The problem is that I never paid the money back into the plan.”

Armstrong’s multigenerational financial frailty speaks to a systemic lack of financial stability within segments of the Black community. William Julius Wilson, a Harvard University government professor and author of “The Truly Disadvantaged”, spoke of these issues often and noted factors that keep Blacks from financial stability are often multilayered and included the nation’s economic growth, personal economic forces, and rising inequality. “[Previously] you had strong unions that ensured that workers got adequate pay increases,” Wilson said in a 2011 NPR interview. “You had basic supports for workers, including non-wage benefits. You had steady

increases in the minimum wage. You had a thoroughly progressive tax structure.”

“All of these things contributed to the broadly equal pattern of family income progress.”

But, what happens when employee earnings don’t allow for contributions into a 401(k)?

Destiny Hawkins, a poet and waitress at a local restaurant, said even with a 50-houra-week shift, her tips provide for a shared

Philadelphia Woman

mother at school and then posed as three different people to trick the blindfolded child into thinking a man committed the sexual assault.

Prosecutors sought a life sentence, saying Regusters had previously watched anime involving child torture and done research on how to destroy DNA evidence. The defendant later told a defense psychiatrist that she had been abused and neglected as a child and raped during a 2012 home invasion.

Regusters, then 19, worked at a day care center that the girl attended, and she sometimes visited the school to pick up children.

Prosecutors believe she knew the child’s teacher was on medical leave when she talked her way past a school checkpoint and substitute teacher, saying she was taking the girl out to breakfast. The girl can be seen on security video walking out with an ostensibly pregnant woman.

Authorities believe Regusters ditched the Muslim dress and pregnancy disguise, and took the child to a home where she lived with relatives.

The girl was left with serious internal injuries, authorities said. Her family has a federal civil rights lawsuit pending against the school district.

Philadelphia prosecutors said Regusters terrorized parents across the city who awoke to an Amber Alert about the girl’s disappearance and feared their child might also go missing from school.

“It’s like a horror show, being taken away from a parent, stripped naked, placed under a bed and tortured,” Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart said.

Defense lawyer W. Fred Harrison Jr. argued that Regusters “has suffered the same kind of things that (the victim) … suffered.”

“My client would not have wanted to visit that on this little girl,” he said. “But be that as it may, the evidence is the evidence.”

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found her shivering under the playground equipment.

“I’m not a monster, I’m a very good person,” said Regusters, who was convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges last summer. “I take full responsibility for what happened and doing absolutely nothing about it.”

Regusters did not testify at trial and did not say who else was purportedly involved.

Authorities believe she donned a Muslim dress and veil to impersonate the girl’s

“We are a new generation of young people who see that the system may fail us even with a retirement plan.”

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Tuskegee Airman William E. Broadwater Dies at 89

By Monica Smith Special to the AFRO William E. Broadwater, a Tuskegee Airman, died at the age of 89 on Sept. 22.

A native of Bryn Mawr, PA, Broadwater developed a desire to fly at a young age due, in part, to the influence of his hometown’s legendary aviator, C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson. Broadwater called himself a young guy, because he was inducted into the Army weeks after his 18th birthday.

He completed Basic Training at Keesler Field, Mississippi and arrived in Tuskegee in May 1944.

Broadwater and 82 classmates commenced primary flight training in the open cockpit Stearman (PT17) at Moton Field on Dec 29, 1944. Broadwater remembers a lot of guys “washed out” of or got eliminated from training due to poor performance. By March 14, 1945 only 60 trainees moved onto Tuskegee Army Airfield for the basic and advanced phases of training. There were 37 graduates in class 45-E on August 4th: 19 singleengine (SE) pilots; and 18 (Broadwater included) twinengine (TE) B-25 pilots. Plans to deploy B-25 crew members to Guam in September were canceled; the war ended and many airmen were declared excess to the Army’s needs.

After separating from the Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant in 1946, Mr. Broadwater returned to Pennsylvania where he flew out of PATCO Field in Norristown. He completed high school in 1948 and enrolled in college at

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Airmen’s accomplishments and encouraged youth to pursue careers in aviation.

He continued flying and proudly built up 3000 hours in Douglas DC-3; Gulfstream II; Beechcraft Baron, Bonanza, King Air and Queen Air; Piper Cub, Super Cub and Cherokee 6; Stearman PT-17 biplane; and North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft, among others.

Broadwater joined almost 400 original airmen in the Capitol Rotunda on March 29, 2007, where

the Tuskegee Airmen were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal

by President George W. Bush. Broadwater told a reporter, “This day means that we have recognition at the national level, even 60 years later, that we accomplished something important.” Few Airmen would have believed they would return to Capitol Hill less than two years later to witness the inauguration of America’s first black president, or for a movie night in the White House to view

George Lucas’ Red Tails in 2012.

When he was 85, Broadwater piloted a B-25 nicknamed “Panchito” out of Sussex County Airport in Georgetown, Delaware. After Broadwater landed the B-25, he smiled and exclaimed, “It was terrific. The most fun I’ve had in five years. The last time I flew.”

A memorial service will be held on Oct. 12 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Fort Lincoln Funeral Home. 3401

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Bladensburg RD, Brentwood, Maryland.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the East Coast Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (ECCTAI) where a Broadwater grant is being established to help students pursuing careers in aviation.

Donations should be made payable to “ECCTAI,” with “Broadwater Grant” written in the comments, and sent to P.O. Box 8541, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. 20032-8541.

William E. Broadwater Temple, part time. In 1951 Mr. Broadwater began work as an air traffic controller with the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) in the Department of Commerce.

The CAA became a separate agency, the Federal Aviation Administration, in 1957.

Broadwater excelled in various high level positions, then retired from the FAA in 1980, after which he worked as an aviation consultant.

Mr. Broadwater was one of the original organizers of what became known as Tuskegee Airmen in May 1973. Elected as the second national president of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. (TAI) in 1976, Broadwater presented the organization’s first annual Medal of Achievement to General Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr., an instructor pilot at Tuskegee Army Airfield during the war, whose career culminated as Commander, North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

For decades Broadwater spoke tirelessly about the

Labor, Civil Rights Activist Grace Lee Boggs Dies at Age 100

By The Associated Press Grace Lee Boggs, a longtime activist who was part of the labor, civil rights, black power, women’s rights and environmental justice movements, died on Oct. 5 at her Detroit home. She was 100.

Boggs and late husband James Boggs were involved in advocacy for decades. She helped organize a 1963 march in Detroit by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the November 1963 Grassroots Leadership Conference in Detroit with Malcom X. Her death was announced by the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, which she set up after her husband’s 1993 death.

“Grace died as she lived surrounded by books, politics,

people and ideas,” Alice Jennings and Shea Howell, two of her trustees, said in a statement issued by the center.

In a statement released by the White House, President Barack Obama said Boggs learned early that “the world needed changing, and she overcame barriers to do just that.”

“Grace dedicated her life to serving and advocating for the rights of others - from her community activism in Detroit, to her leadership in the civil rights movement, to her ideas that challenged us all to lead meaningful lives,” the president said.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Boggs was born in Rhode Island in 1915 and grew up in New York City.

After receiving a doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, Boggs worked at the University of Chicago’s Philosophy Library.

Boggs moved back to New York to work with socialist theorist C.L.R. James, helping create an offshoot of the Socialist Workers Party that focused on race and poverty.

She moved to Detroit in the 1950s to write for a socialist newspaper. That’s

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In this May 8, 2003, photo, Grace Lee Boggs, poses for a photo in Detroit. Boggs, known as an international activist for justice, has died at her Detroit home. She was 100. where she met James Boggs, an Black man who would become her husband and collaborator. In the 1960s, the couple became involved in the black power movement and were known to offer Malcolm X a place to stay when he visited Detroit.

Their later work focused

on Detroit’s residents and neighborhoods and included starting Detroit Summer, a program for young people to work on community projects.

Boggs was the subject of a 2013 documentary, “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs,” that aired on PBS.

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Enacting “Black Lives Matter” into law America is at a historic crossroads. Either we will move forward in 2016 with public policies that support greater opportunity for everyone or we will continue to sink deeper into economic inequality, injustice and violence.

These are the stakes in our current political struggles and this is why Black lives should matter for everyone.

As revealed by the Elijah Cummings investigations that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and I have undertaken in our Middle Class Prosperity Project, the deepening income inequality and suppression of wages that limit our economic opportunity are the result of decades of conscious decisions made in Washington for the benefit of our nation’s largest corporations and most wealthy citizens.

I applaud Senator Warren for poignantly articulating how this same unjust system has been rigged to suppress the aspirations of Black Americans.

In her Sept. 27 remarks at the Edward Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Senator Warren candidly summarized how violence, voter suppression, and the deliberate denial of economic opportunities in education, housing and credit have conspired to deny Americans of Color our American legacy of “justice for all.”

Her analysis is politically significant in at least two related ways.

First, Elizabeth Warren is a leading progressive within the Democratic Party whose views will have a major impact upon Democratic candidates and priorities in 2016 and beyond.

Equally important, her Sept. 27 analysis helps all progressives to more clearly integrate our priorities as a movement for constructive change.

Senator Warren’s speech echoed what “Black Lives Matter” activists have been saying: that the needs of Black Americans deserve special attention within our national, progressive coalition-especially the issue of criminal justice reform.

And as our Middle Class Prosperity Project has shown, criminal justice reform can be most effectively realized within the context of a broader progressive agenda and political victory in which the aspirations of all Americans are advanced.

I agree with Senator Warren that “economic justice is not - and has never been - sufficient to ensure racial justice,”

because criminal justice reform and greater economic justice are both central to the vision of “Black Lives Matter.”

Criminal Justice Reform Armed with the truth, Americans can no longer deny that the criminal justice system yields different results for different populations.

The Sentencing Project has found that people of color are charged more harshly than whites; that, once charged, they are more likely to be convicted; and that, once convicted, they are more likely to face stiffer sentences.

Tackling these disparities will require fundamental policy changes, ranging from how our police interact with our community to how sentencing disparities for different drug crimes affect different populations.

In order to achieve these goals, we must reform our criminal justice system through sweeping legislation at the federal level that I am proud to co-sponsor - legislation like the proposed SAFE Justice Act, Fair Chance Act, Police CAMERA Act, End Racial Profiling Act, and Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. Economic Justice for Everyone Our vision for constructive change also must address the challenges that are at the center of all Americans’ lives - our need for living wage jobs, education, housing, health care and retirement security.

It is true that Americans of Color confront disparate treatment in all of these real-life challenges. Yet, it also is true that the largest number of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet, educate their children, remain healthy, own their own homes and build a secure retirement are not black or brown - they are white.

Both of these realities are central to forging a successful, multiracial political coalition like that which elected President Barack Obama and a Democratic congressional majority in 2008.

Black lives must matter more in the priorities of our nation, as must the lives of all Americans, and our lives must matter more in every important facet of American society.

This is why Senator Warren, other progressives and I are fighting for middle class prosperity for everyone - for living wage jobs, affordable health care, strengthened Social Security

and expanded federal education funding.

It also is why Senator Barbara Mikulski and I are fighting to enact the REBUILD Act, which would appropriate more than $1.2 billion in emergency funding to address critical challenges facing our nation’s inner-city neighborhoods.

A Multi-Racial Coalition is the Key to Success Candidly, the current Republican majority in the Congress is unlikely to agree with REBUILD or other progressive initiatives. If we are to enshrine these reform proposals into law, we must first elect progressive leaders in 2016 and beyond.

Whether our reform coalition will succeed will depend upon the clarity and breadth of our progressive vision, our understanding of the essential importance of coalitions, and the energy with which we pursue progressive change.

The stakes in this challenge are clear: expanded opportunity and greater justice for everyone or further national conflict and decline.

This is our watch, our challenge and our multiracial coalition to build. We cannot afford to fail.

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

Baltimore City Needs Smarter Solutions for Bridging the Digital Divide It’s 2015 and Baltimoreans still don’t have access to high-speed Internet. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recently issued the Smarter City Task Force Broadband Report, detailing how the city should move ahead in developing high speed Internet access. She also hired Jason Hardebeck as a part-time contractual broadband coordinator for the city. While these are concrete steps forward, these actions ignore the principal reason that Baltimore City doesn’t have broadband. It is the failure of Verizon to build FiOS in Baltimore City, a city whose ratepayers have contributed so much to sustain the company over the years, but who have now been left on the sidelines.

And it is not only Verizon who is at fault. Our city’s elected leaders, including Mayor Rawlings-Blake, have failed city residents by not pushing for this critical investment in our city.

In 2012, the mayor had the opportunity to join with several other cities left behind by Verizon in a campaign to make the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) require FiOS build as a condition to approve a deal between the company and other cable providers. She declined to participate and three years on, Baltimore City is still without broadband for the majority of residents and businesses.

The Smarter City Task Force report seems to have accepted Verizon’s effective abandonment of our community as a done deal. Verizon must be held accountable for drawing a

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line around our city. The report should be straightforward in highlighting the fact that Verizon has built FiOS in all surrounding suburban communities but not in Baltimore.

The city’s elected officials, civic leaders, businesses and community leaders must create an economic and political environment to press Verizon to invest in our city with fiber deployment.

To grow our city’s economy and create jobs, we need gigabit all-fiber networks with enough capacity to provide lightning-fast connections for video-rich and data-intensive applications. We must provide our schools, hospitals, first responders, large and small businesses, public agencies and residents with the high-speed Internet that they need to function and succeed.

Unfortunately, Baltimore City is a fiber desert. And more than 20 percent of Baltimore households have no Internet connection – at any speed -- at home. A city-funded consultant’s report that accompanied the Smarter City report identifies a few patches of fiber downtown, on the city’s borders and at major hospitals, Johns Hopkins University and business parks.

This is a dire threat to the future of our city. Our students need access to broadband in school, libraries and at home to compete and succeed in 21st century schools. Lack of access to FiOS is a disincentive for businesses, particularly in the information sector with good paying jobs, to locate in Baltimore City, growing our local economy.

The Task Force report includes a number of recommendations to encourage private investment in fiber networks. But few of the recommendations seek to remedy the lack of broadband available to the vast majority of residents in Baltimore City, especially in communities of color and working class communities where access to opportunity is increasingly tied to high-speed Internet. Wiring new, upscale developments hardly moves the needle toward the real goal of providing equal access to all neighborhoods.

Public-private partnerships, like those in Kansas City, Austin, and Raleigh-Durham, can facilitate private investment in all-fiber networks by expediting permitting and opening city conduits, poles and rights-of-way to privately-owned cable.

These are all creative approaches to solving the problem, but the fastest way to get Baltimore connected is to demand that Verizon be part of building the needed infrastructure.

Quite simply, Baltimore cannot be a world-class city with third-world broadband infrastructure. Surrounding suburban communities benefit from competitive broadband providers driving investment, innovation and service. Our elected leaders should ensure the same for Baltimore City. We deserve nothing less.

Charly Carter is the executive director of Maryland Working Families; she can be reached at ccarter@ workingfamilies.org.

Affirmative Action, Voting Rights on Supreme Court Docket The U.S. Supreme Court began its new term on Oct. 5 amidst intrigue and controversy. Voting rights, affirmative action, union dues, and criminal justice cases are on the 2015 docket which is also the 10th anniversary of the highly criticized Roberts Court. There may even be retirements as the Court positions itself for the next President of the United States.

As the 2016 presidential election looms over the Court, Chief Justice John Roberts was ridiculed as not being conservative enough by Republican conservative presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas). Roberts, a conservative himself, fell out of favor with Republicans when he voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the jewel in the crown of President Barack Obama and most Democrats.

This term the Court may rule on abortion issues and push for extended religious accommodation leaving no role for employers in purchasing insurance for employees that provides contraceptives.

The Court has decided a voting rights case every term since President Obama took office. This term, Arizona wants to construct districts based on the number of eligible voters

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as opposed to the number within the general population.

Arizona would exclude children, non-citizens, and convicted felons when deciding voting districts for local elections. This districting formula would benefit White residents who are more often citizens and eligible to vote. Urban communities, although larger, would have a few geographically large districts because in-eligible voters would not be counted when carving out the district, which would result in many small powerful primarily White districts.

Affirmative Action returns to the docket. Fisher vs. Texas is a ‘reverse discrimination’ case brought by a White student who claims that race should not be even one of a long list of factors a college admissions committee takes into account.

Fisher was not admitted into the University of Texas based on an admissions policy that took the top 10 percent of each high school graduating class. Race was one factor in the secondchance admissions policy. The Court demanded that Texas find a way to include diversity without using race. That new admissions policy will be reviewed this term.

There are six death penalty cases and several cases involving the constitutional rights of criminal defendants. Last term, the Court rejected an appeal by death row inmates who argued that lethal injection with substituted drugs violated their eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual

punishment. Procedure issues, and not the legality of the death penalty itself, will be decided.

Rebecca Friedrichs, a California teacher, has challenged her required payment of union dues to support collective bargaining. The Court has already ruled that unions could not require employees to pay into their union’s political activities.

Now, certain teachers want to opt-out of paying for collective bargaining activities. Justice Samuel Alito, of New Jersey, has been a staunch critic of unions. He has ruled against unions in every case presented to the Court. This case against the California Teachers Association could result in a loss in union dues needed to finance labor’s political voice in the upcoming election.

The Court’s Spring docket is not complete. Nor has the question of Spring retirements been resolved. Two progressive Justices are asked constantly about retirement. Justice Stephen Breyer is 78 years old while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 82.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an associate professor at John Jay College in New York City. She is the legal correspondent for AANIC covering the U.S. Supreme Court and major legal cases. Gloria is the author of “Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to present.”

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By A. Lois De Laine Special to the AFRO Both reception rooms in the Parkview Assisted Living Center in Maryland were packed with family members, church members, politicians, neighbors and residents of the Parkview Center to wish a happy birthday to Edna Odessa Tartt Harris who turned 102 years old on Sept.

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A world traveler, Harris was a school community representative in the Chicago Public Schools, a civil rights advocate, civic leader, election judge and conference Photo by Dr. A. Lois De Laine speaker who retired to Edna O. Tartt Harris celebrates her 102nd birthday.

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A member of Shiloh A.M.E. Church in Baltimore, Harris is a devoted mother to Roberta and Helen, and grandmother to Lawrence, Sterling, Michael and Elizabeth, and eight greatgrandchildren.

Legally blind, Harris, a gospel choir member for 40 years at Wayman A.M.E. Church, started to sing “Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine,” and the entire room of friends and relatives joined in the singing.

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By Justice D. Stanley Special to the AFRO The 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is taking place in Washington D.C. on Oct. 10. Like the original Million Man March, the event will be led by Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.

The first Million Man March took place on Oct. 16, 1995 as a call for justice and equality for Blacks. On that day a huge number of Black men of different religious backgrounds appeared at the National Mall to march in solidarity.

Twenty years later, the Nation of Islam is still working to gain equality for Blacks.

Rev. Dr. Jamal H. Bryant, pastor at West Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple Church, is attending this year’s Million Man March.

He is the co-chair of the march and will also be a speaker.

In an interview with the AFRO, Bryant said he caught Minster Farrakhan’s attention after protesting Freddie Gray’s death.

“After the Freddie Gray uprising, Minister Farrakhan saw me on television and

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Students perform yoga at Tunbridge Public Charter School, one of the 14 schools suing Baltimore City Public Schools over funding.

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com Several public charter schools filed lawsuits against Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) last month, alleging a lack of transparency and equity in the way the system disburses funds.

And, though school officials’ withdrawal of a controversial funding proposal and the appointment of former mayor Kurt L. Schmoke as a mediator last week are hopeful signs that a funding agreement can be reached, those legal complaints will move forward, charter officials said.

“It is great that the mayor brought Kurt Schmoke in to help mediate these discussions. I do feel hopeful. But we also need to maintain a strong stance because we’re up against a big bureaucracy and that’s a difficult position to be in,” said Bobbi Macdonald, executive director, City Neighbors Foundation, which operates three public charter schools.

“The lawsuit continues in order to get the school system to

provide a level of transparency for parents to know that funds are going to the classroom and not staying at North Avenue [where BCPS’ headquarters are located],” said Steve Kearney, owner of KO Public Affairs and spokesman for the charter schools suing BCPS. On Sept. 10, nine schools—Afya Public Charter School, Brehms Lane Elementary (which was recently approved as an Afya Baltimore school), City Neighbors Charter School, City Neighbors Hamilton, City Neighbors High School, The Green School of Baltimore, Patterson Park Public Charter School, Southwest Baltimore Charter School, and Tunbridge Public Charter School—filed suits against BCPS. Since then, five more schools, KIPP Harmony Academy, KIPP Ujima Village Academy, Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, Creative City Public Charter School, and Empowerment Academy, have joined.

The complaints were the culmination of longstanding disputes since a 2007 Maryland Court of Appeals ruling ordered the school system to equitably fund its 34 charter schools in

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The Healing Power of House Music

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Rev. Jamal Bryant requested a meeting with me,” Bryant said. Bryant also took the stage twenty years ago when he was the director of the NAACP’s youth and college division.

As a guest speaker at the event, Bryant is prepared to speak about a wide variety of topics. He is hopeful that the effects of the Million Man March will last past Oct. 10.

Topics will range “from protests to policy,” Bryant said. “What is the next step so this is not just a feel-good moment, but we’re putting together some executable action plans.”

Bryant is also taking part in the logistics of the March.

“Coming up on the twentieth anniversary, he said he wanted some younger leaders around him,” Bryant said.

The pastor has high expectations for the event and is optimistic that it will “strengthen the tie of camaraderie.”

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On May 3rd, the day the curfew was lifted after the uprising ripped through Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray, the House Music dj duo of Ultra Nate and Lisa Moody was whipping the racially diverse crowd at the Red Maple restaurant and nightclub on Charles Street into a frenzy on the dance floor.

After one of the most volatile and daunting weeks in the city’s history the “house headz” assembled on a beautiful Sunday afternoon are ready to blow off some steam.

And Nate and Moody -- also known as, “The Girl Squad” -were joyfully accommodating their fans and friends, many who have been partying with them since they first started spinning music together more than a decade ago.

As the set evolved from the defiant Baltimore House music anthem, the DJ Spen remix of, “Shotgun Shack,” to the uplifting and optimistic Louie Vega track, “Never Stop,” it felt like the quintessential Girl Squad thematic arc; in your face, raucous, always hopeful. It’s a narrative that has endured and thrived for 12 years as “Deep Sugar.”

This month, Nate and Moody (both Baltimore area natives) are in the midst of celebrating the 12th anniversary (a three-part extravaganza dubbed, “Trifecta”) of Deep Sugar, a House music party currently at home at the venerable South Baltimore Paradox nightclub. This past weekend, the party included a phalanx of top flight House dj’s headlined by superstar House music producer Quentin Harris, legendary Baltimore dance and House music dj (and owner of Paradox) Wayne Davis, and

of course The Girl Squad. In September, part one of Trifecta featured another legendary House music colossus, Tony Humphries. Part three of the celebration is Nov. 13.

A House music (or any genre for that matter) party run of three years by most standards is considered successful. The 12 year run of Deep Sugar, spanning three different venues (Sonar for six

lamented the departure of a popular Baltimore House music DJ, and decided they would literally fill the void themselves.

The duo utilized a mutual friend’s 808 drum machines, consolidated their record collections, got their hands on some turntables and started spinning. They were not an instant sensation.

“When we first started a friend of ours said, `Ya’ll are

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The Girl Squad: Ultra Nate and Lisa Moody celebrate 12 years of, “Deep Sugar.” months, 1722 Charles Street for four and a half years and Paradox for seven years), is almost unheard of.

“From Sonar, to 1722 to the Paradox, great and small whatever your contribution we want you to know you are acknowledged and we appreciate you,” said Nate last Friday during an interview on First Edition’s, “World Famous Happy Hour,” segment.

According to Nate and Moody, the genesis of Deep Sugar literally came out of necessity in 2003. Nate, who was already established as an international dance music star (her professional career began in 1989), and her friend Moody

terrible,’” Moody once told me. Still, they were undeterred.

Twelve years later, The Girl Squad have not only garnered an incredibly loyal following, they have played the music they love all over the globe and are highly respected by some of the greatest DJ’s in the world.

David Guetta, perhaps the biggest DJ on earth, shouted out Nate on Twitter a few months back, the legendary Louie Vega daps the duo up regularly and Vega’s “Masters at Work,” partner Kenny “Dope” Gonzales has asked Moody about what she has in her rotation, the ultimate sign of DJ respect.

A virtual who’s who of House

music royalty has played Deep Sugar, DJ’s and singers both.

In addition, to Vega, Gonzalez, Humphries and Harris, fellow Baltimoreans and international stars, DJ Spen, Teddy Douglas and Thommy Davis, have graced the Sugar booth multiple times, as well as singers Monique Bingham, Maysa Leak, Sheila Ford, and of course Davis. But, the list of House music greats that have been a part of the Deep Sugar experience is literally dozens deep. (So, no disrespect to anyone I didn’t name check here).

“That’s really what it’s all about...that’s really the secret sauce,” Nate said. “When all of those energies of these people who love the music converge, something magical happens every time,” she added.

The, “Godfather of House,” the late, great Frankie Knuckles said during an interview in October 2010, “House Music isn’t Black or White is just is. It feels good and it feels right.”

That has probably been the operating thesis for Deep Sugar.

It’s been a spiritual salve for many of the city’s disenfranchised; people of color, the LBGT community and many others for 12 years... and counting.

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

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Meet the Anchor: Channel 11’s Kai Reed

By Erin-Melissa Jackson Special to the AFRO You’ve probably seen Kai Reed before, whether it’s outside of City Hall detailing the outrage experienced by Freddy Gray protestors or sitting at the WBAL TV 11 anchor desk. She is a news anchor and a field reporter for WBAL Baltimore.

Before beginning her career as a journalist, Reed wasn’t always so certain.

“Growing up, I wouldn’t say I always did [want to be a Journalist], I was definitely more into English, Social Studies, History and anything that involved writing,” she said.

“…I get to be on the anchor desk and give things from a different perspective.”

“Probably right around my Sophomore/Junior year in high school , I started to look into Broadcast Journalism and it became more and more of something I would be interested in,” said Kai who earned her degree in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from The University of MissouriColumbia in 2001.

The Naperville, Illinois native has been in Baltimore since 2010 as a field reporter at WBAL but in 2014 became the evening/weekend News Anchor. Before coming to Baltimore, she worked in Wisconsin, Rockford, Illinois and Columbia, Missouri as a field reporter.

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charter school enrollment increased accordance with the state Charter School from 3,946 to 12,655 – and to Law. Efforts were made to engage the approximately 13,700 this year – school system in mediation, charter officials according to the charter schools. said, but those overtures were rejected.

“Of the 10 public schools in my Under the revised funding formula district, four are charter schools. Five proposed by Schools CEO Gregory years ago, only one was a charter,” Thornton, 26 public charter schools would Henry, vice chairman of the council’s see a decline in per pupil funds, and 13— education committee, said. “As including eight of Baltimore’s highestcharters increase, the need for central performing schools—would not be able to ubalt.edu administration decreases. It’s hard for purchase books or pay teachers, possibly Kurt Schmoke has been brought in to any organism to willingly and easily forcing them to shut their doors, charter help settle the charter school funding decrease itself.” officials claim. dispute.

School officials, however, have The funding plan sparked an outcry challenged the claims set forth in the among parents and supporters of the city’s lawsuits. charter schools, prompting a rally, letters to the editor and other Alison Perkins-Cohen, executive director of BCPS’ Office signs of protest. of New Initiatives, said that in 2013 BCPS created a workgroup At the basis of the contention between charter schools of stakeholders, including charter schools, and legal experts, in and BCPS’ central administration is “resistance to change,” Macdonald said. “It is difficult for an entrenched system to have a response to charter schools’ concerns about the funding formula.

The group met for two hours every week from October 2013 group of activist schools that are pushing for reform.” to June 2014, examining line items such as revenue sources, Baltimore City Councilman Bill Henry, D-Dist. 4, who expenditures, methodology used to arrive at formula, etc. introduced a resolution expressing support for public charter “In mid-June 2014, the charter schools informed us they no schools and calling on Thornton to withdraw the divisive funding longer wanted to participate in the group because it was no longer proposal, agreed. He pointed to the increasing numbers of public meeting their needs,” the school official said, adding efforts to charter schools—which are semi-autonomous in nature—and re-engage charter schools in the process were rebuffed. “We kept how that may be reducing the centralization of power at North coming back to the same issues where we couldn’t agree on how Avenue. to treat certain services.”

From the 2006-07 through the 2014-15 school years, public

The charter schools have complained that millions of dollars are being retained at central administration for “vaguely defined, expensive ‘services’ that, in many cases, charter schools neither want nor need.”

Perkins-Cohen said charter schools are unreasonably demanding a per pupil funding formula based only on revenue and not including the district-wide costs and needs-based services such as health benefits for school retirees, and the costs of educating students with physical and learning disabilities and those who are English language learning and lower-income which would exceed the costs of educating the average general education student.

Schmoke, currently the president of the University of Baltimore, has declined to address the pending negotiations.

One complication, Perkins-Cohen said, is that funding from state and federal sources, such as Title I and Race to the Top initiatives have been cut.

“Resources have gotten tighter,” she said, “and when that happens, people start fighting over the scraps.”

Councilman Henry agreed that advocacy needs to be directed elsewhere.

“This kind of infighting among ourselves—because this is essentially public schools fighting each other—this is time and energy we ought to be using to fight the real problem, which is that the state hasn’t provided the level of funding to Baltimore City that it should be providing,” the politician said. “If Governor Hogan had not cut millions of dollars out of the budget for Baltimore City education, we literally would not had to have this conversation.”

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reporting, developing the daily news story three days a week and then two days a week, I get to be on the anchor desk and give things from a different perspective.”

Similar to the ever-changing news, the average anchors day is just as hectic.

Some days can be stagnant, while with others, every single possibility is up in the air.

“You know how news is, you just never know. Some days can be extremely busy and some can be not as busy,” she said. “It is a little bit busier on the weekends just because we have a smaller staff.”

“We talk about what we have for the day, what’s the news, what does the run down look like for the day and we start to get a feel for how the show is shaped.”

“We gather all of what is going on in the city and then outside the city,” she said. WBAL News not only covers Baltimore, but the surrounding counties as well.

Earlier in the year, Reed and the WBAL crew covered the Freddie Gray protests from the beginning at City Hall to the riots that plagued the city in April. Sometimes, she was actively involved in reporting the aftermath in the streets as well as behind the anchor desk.

“The protesting was becoming increasingly larger as the days went on, so it was a lot happening at once,” she said. “I was out in the field and there was a situation that since Mr. Gray has passed, you could kind of sense that a movement was growing.”

“It was a great experience as a reporter to be able to meet and talk to people and get their take on what’s going on. It was definitely an intense experience,” she said.

Kai also spends her time as a member of the National Black Association of Journalists and several other organizations. “[The NABJ] is an organization made up of African American journalists from across the country and is a great way to stay connected to a lot of other people in the same field,” she said. “Diversity from top to bottom is always great.”

“Coming out to Baltimore was my first time living outside of the Midwest,”she said. “It was a good experience to see everything that there is to offer out here. I really am loving this part of the country.”

You can see Kai Reed evenings and weekends on WBAL TV 11 at 6 p.m., 10 p.m. and 11 p.m.

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“Baltimore young people won’t get frustrated and feel like they’re outliers,” Bryant said. “But they’ll know they are in a great army of people who share their sentiment and frustration. We won’t have to reinvent the wheel but we’ll learn how to just put spinners on it and make it work better.”

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Morgan Alumna’s Sisters Network Unites Breast Cancer Survivors herself, and our community,” Jackson said. “But at that time, in the early stages, our community wasn’t convinced. We just thought that you get it and you die.

We weren’t trying to find the cancer in our bodies. We were just putting our heads in the sand and hoping it would pass us by and that method absolutely does not work. So our message to our community was early detection saves your life.”

According to the Sisters Network website, it is “the only African-American breast cancer survivorship organization that addresses the needs particular to African-American women” in the country. The organization is based in Houston, Texas but has over 30 chapters across the U.S. “I always envisioned that we would be a national organization and that we would make impacts within our community,” Jackson continued.

Jackson was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993. It was then that she noticed that established breast cancer groups had a lack of support, unity and education for Black women who have the disease.

“You can’t have sisterhood if we’re not even admitting that we’re a survivor or that we even have the problem,” Jackson stated. “You have to think in terms of when you have something attacking your body like breast cancer, you want to have that familiarity, that family, that sisterhood to console you and help you through your journey. You didn’t find that in other support systems.”

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Sisters Network Inc. is planning to host teas, luncheons and fashion shows that will educate people about breast cancer in an entertaining way.

“Whatever fun event that we have, we make sure there’s an educational component to it,” Jackson stated.

The organization has three national programs including Stop the Silence, The Gift for Life Block Walk, and The Pink Ribbon Awareness Project. Each program educates and brings awareness to breast cancer.

There is also a national conference that has been turned into a 10 city tour to inform people about the risks of the disease.

“We have multiple programs because we are a diverse

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Karen Eubanks Jackson is the founder and CEO of Sisters Network.

By Justice D. Stanley Special to the AFRO Black women diagnosed with breast cancer have the highest mortality rates out of breast cancer victims of any other race. Despite having a lower risk of obtaining the disease than White women, Black women have a 44 percent higher chance of dying from breast cancer according to Komen.org.

Many women find solace in joining support groups with people who know the struggle of dealing with breast cancer. But for one woman, those support groups did not meet her needs.

Karen Eubanks Jackson, a Morgan State University alumna, founded Sisters Network in 1994 to provide support to Black women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.

“I wanted to change the mindset of the survivor,

community and so there’s no one program that will fit the entire community,” Jackson said.

Sisters Network Inc. also advises young girls to be vigilant when it comes to monitoring their bodies for breast cancer. They have created a program called Teens for Pink which teaches girls between the ages of 12 and 16 to detect breast cancer in the early stages so that they can share this information with their families. The teens also learn of financial resources that could help women who have been diagnosed with the disease.

“We’re making sure that these young girls coming up won’t be afraid of the words breast cancer, won’t be afraid to get their mammograms, won’t be afraid like the community has been in the past,” Jackson stated.

Sisters Network now has thousands of members who each share a common goal, to spread awareness about breast cancer and to offer support to those who have suffered from it.

For more information go to sistersnetworkinc.org.

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Dr. Joann M. ChristopherHicks, chief of staff, Florine “Peaches” Camphor, Helen O. Carr

Alumni Lillie Camhn,’50, Kathalene Carey, ‘70, Juanita Morton, ‘50, Norma Faulkner, ‘50

Alumni Dion Lawson ‘87, Duane Johnson ‘91

Laura Morris Knight, Janice Mason, Ellen C. Johns

Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine Dr. Maria Thompson, president, Coppin State University

Kyle Locke, director of Annual Giving, Janice West

In spite of the heavy showers and the threat of Hurricane Joaquin in Baltimore, many supporters, friends and alumni of Coppin State University braved the weather on Sept. 29 to meet and greet Dr. Maria Thompson, the recently appointed president of Coppin, at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on Pratt Street.

Dr. Thompson welcomed her guests and gave a brief talk on some of the writings of Fanny Jackson Coppin, a Black educator and missionary who married Rev. Levi Jenkins Coppin, pastor of Bethel AME Church in Baltimore.

Deborah T. Sullivan, interim human capital chief, Baltimore City Public Schools, Watina Greene, information technology business manager, Coppin State University

Coppin’s mother-daughter alumni, Janine Conaway,’82, Theresa MatthewsGresham,62’, Vondelette Gaither (Anchorage, Alaska)

Missionary Lisa Rogers, Bishop William E. Gaines Jr., Winky Camphor

Shirley Stokes, Dr. Maria Thompson, president, Coppin State University, Dr. Thelma Thomas Daley

Photos by Anderson Ward

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts hosted the 20th anniversary of the Baltimore Book Festival on Sept. 25-Sept.

27, at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The festival featured many author appearances and book signings, hundreds of exhibitors and booksellers, non-stop readings on multiple stages, cooking demos by celebrity chefs, poetry readings, workshops, panel discussions, walking tours, storytellers and hands-on projects for kids, street theater, live music, and a variety of food, beer and wine.

Choir from Cross Country Elementary

Black Writers Guild members Jeanna Tillery, Glenora Wells-Sanders, Deliah Lawrence and Maxine Bigby Cunningham

Kids from William Paca Elementary Kevin Brown (Nancy By SNAC Cafe) and Chef Sheldon getting ready for cooking demonstration The Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team

Argentine Craig from the Baltimore Ethical Society

Afro Columnist Rosa Pryor and husband William “Shorty” Trusty

Former Oriole Al Bumbry

Former Harlem Globetrotter “Choo” Smith entertains

Tyler Mills, Ashanti Langston and Taylor Williams from the National Academy

Gussie and author Horace Mungin from South Carolina

Ronald L. Smith reads excerpts from his book “Hoodoo”

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ARTS & CULTURE

Young D.C. Author Creates Natural Hair Superhero

superhero to an audience of Black girls with similar concerns over their appearances. The book includes a word list and assignments to encourage young readers to expand their “I didn’t like my hair and I didn’t like to vocabulary. read,” were the first words 8-year-old Natalie “We put in word lists that may be a bit farMcGriff spoke during a recent interview reaching for kids in elementary school because with the AFRO. Fortunately for McGriff, her they will need a strong foundation with those mother’s intuition and creativity catapulted SAT words they encounter in high school.

Natalie’s lament into the latest, and perhaps If they are learning them now, it will be that fiercest, new superhero -- Moxie McGriff. much easier later,” said Nixon, who entered Angie Nixon said that her daughter’s self- the book into a crowdfunding contest and won esteem issues grew from a dislike of both her $15,000 to produce and promote the book. hair and her complexion, and when she found In addition to improving Natalie’s that Natalie also reading, disliked reading, writing and she decided comprehension to combine a skills, “The single platform Adventures of to address all Moxie Girl” three concerns. has also had a Moxie McGriff positive impact has fire and ice on her selfpowers that esteem. come from her “Since the grandmother’s book came secret shampoo out Natalie’s and conditioner. self-esteem “I asked has increased Natalie if she dramatically would like to and she doesn’t see herself as even understand a super hero in the impact she a comic book is having on Courtesy Photo and she said other young Natalie McGriff’s comic book “The Adventures of people right ‘Sure,’ Nixon said. “So I made Moxie Girl” is helping to build self-esteem and now and how her superpowers vocabulary skills of Black girls. they feel about part of her hair – themselves,” because I wanted Nixon said. “We her to see how powerful and awesome it recently donated 50 books to the local Boys was to have her hair to be natural, and my and Girls Club (Washington D.C.) and a one condition was that Natalie had to read lot of the girls came up and hugged her and more books so that she could improve her asked for her autograph. These little girls are vocabulary and learn more words because no seeing characters that look like them and that one wants to read a boring book with basic was the main reason I did this. She never words in it.” saw characters who looked like her and that “The Adventures of Moxie Girl” were her age. Now there is a character and it introduces an afro-puff wearing, girl is her.”

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

Che “Rhymefest” Smith (right) and his father, Brian

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Film Review

Documentary Chronicles Grammy-Winning Rhymefest’s Reunion with Long-Lost Dad

By Kam Williams Special to the AFRO Che “Rhymefest” Smith is among the handful of rappers who have actually managed to make it in the music industry. What’s even more remarkable is the fact that the Grammywinning artist also overcame a challenging childhood, having been raised on the rough South Side of Chicago by a single-mom who’d given birth to him while still in her early teens.

Despite his phenomenal success in the music business, one thing that nagged at Rhymefest was why he’d been abandoned by his father, Brian, a man he’d only seen a few times in his entire life, and not at all over the past two decades. He wondered whether his dad ever cared or thought about him? Or might he be dead?

Rhymefest’s curiosity was probably piqued because of the guilt he himself felt about having three out-of-wedlock children with women he’d never committed to. He wanted to understand why he’d perpetuated the cycle of parental neglect, especially since fatherless kids represent 60% of youth suicides, 71% of juvenile incarcerations and 90% of homeless children.

So, first, he proceeded to buy the house that his father grew up in and moved in with his wife, Donnie. Then, after hearing rumors that Brian

was a local hobo and an alcoholic, he started scouring the streets of the Windy City for him.

Yes, he did search for and find his dad and then got him into rehab right after their tearful reunion. But would the father find the strength to keep his nose clean with the help of this new lease on life coming in the form of a job, an apartment, and a loving, supportive son?

That is the tension that tugs at your heart while watching “In My Father’s House,” a Prodigal Dad documentary co-directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. The picture proves to be very compelling as a sociological examination of profound dysfunction, but it’s simultaneously a bitter disappointment for anyone expecting a miraculous, happy Hollywood ending.

Unfortunately, Rhymfest just can’t get satisfaction from the father he’s craved and loved from afar for as long as he can remember. But at least he continues to flourish professionally, having recently co-written the 2015 Oscar-winning Best Song “Glory” with Common and John Legend for the film Selma.

The movie’s message, if any? If you’re a successful rap star, you might want to think twice before returning to the ghetto to track down the deadbeat dad you never knew.

Excellent (4 stars)

SPORTS

AFRO Sports Desk Faceoff

Can the Ravens Make the Playoffs after a 1-3 Start?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk When the Baltimore Ravens return to action on Oct. 11 against the Cleveland Browns, they’ll do so as a 1-3 team, fresh off a comeback against rival Pittsburgh Steelers in a 23-20 Thursday night overtime thriller.

Facing the prospect of an 0-4 start, Baltimore potentially turned their season around by stopping the Steelers on the road and making some key plays when it counted. Baltimore still dwells at the bottom of the AFC North but they have some good momentum going into an extended layoff, with a 10day break before they take the field again. The Ravens might have the worst record in the AFC but they still have a strong team, capable of beating any opponent in the conference. Can the Ravens still make the playoffs? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

talent has been lost and this could be the year where the bottom falls out completely. Pittsburgh practically gave the game away to the Ravens—twice. Baltimore then tried their best to give it back to the Steelers, but their offer was politely declined by Steelers kicker Josh Scobee, who missed critical field goals.

Baltimore got their first win of the season thanks to sheer incompetence by Pittsburgh so I wouldn’t put too much stock in their overtime victory. Baltimore has a long way to go to get back to respectability and I don’t know if they have the horses or the time to do that after such a shaky start.

Green: Get back to respectability? When did we start losing respect for the Ravens franchise? You don’t erase the respect of a team that reached the playoffs in six of its last seven seasons

with an 0-3 start. Remember, all three of their losses were by six points or less. They weren’t getting blown out—Baltimore was losing some really close games that could have all been won had one play turned out differently. The win against the Steelers was simply the break they finally needed to get their confidence back. Now that they have some confidence, things could get interesting. Their late season schedule is extremely favorable and could propel the Ravens to a strong finish. After a late-October West Coast trip to face San Francisco and Arizona in back-to-back weeks, the next six of eight contests are at the friendly confines of M&T Bank Stadium. You also have to factor in that Baltimore’s two road games in that stretch are against the lowly Cleveland Browns and the struggling Miami Dolphins. Also, let’s not forget that Flacco normally plays his best as the season goes on. Call me crazy, but I have the Ravens in the postseason.

Green: The Ravens just have to sit tight.

They still have a Super Bowl MVP quarterback, and adequate talent on both sides of the ball. There aren’t a whole lot of teams in the conference that can offer that type of combo, and you have to factor in the coaching expertise of John Harbaugh, who always has his team ready to battle. They showed some moxie the other night in Pittsburgh and I think it’ll carry over to the second quarter of the season.

Riley: It’s difficult to start out 0-3 and still make the playoffs in the NFL, so the Ravens might have too much of an uphill battle ahead.

Yes, Joe Flacco is still in his prime, and the defense has some solid players, but this team isn’t anywhere close to some of the clubs that Harbaugh has coached in the past. Too much

The Baltimore Ravens offense huddles during an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 1 in Pittsburgh

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Riley: You’re crazy, Green. Home games in the NFL don’t automatically translate into wins and you failed to mention how a few of those contests are against Seattle, Kansas City and Pittsburgh. You also left out the part about veteran receiver Steve Smith leaving the Thursday night contest against Pittsburgh early with a back injury. With rookie receiver Breshard Perriman seemingly on the shelf and no immediate time table for his return, the loss of Smith leaves Flacco without any type of threat on the outside. The offensive production is down and the 20th anniversary edition of the Ravens is a unit missing powerful names of the past such as Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. The mystique and the talent that made Baltimore such a strong outfit for much of the last decade is gone—and so might be the Ravens’ chances for making the playoffs this season.

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Musical Star Hinton Battle Opens Dance Workshops in D.C.

Hinton Battle is bringing his dance workshop, Soul Dance & BBQ, to D.C.

By Lauren Poteat Special to the AFRO Driven by his love of dance and desire to help lower income children, three time Tony Award winner and NAACP Image Award recipient, Hinton Battle is set to open dance workshops in D.C. Even though Battle had the option of choosing to hold his workshops in New York, he chose D.C. because of the growing creative culture. Soul Dance & BBQ, whose name is inspired by the belief that when anyone dances they feed their soul no matter the type of dance, is scheduled to occur on Oct. 17 from 2:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Edgewood Arts Center, 3225 8th Street NE. “Since being back in D.C., I’ve noticed that the arts are flourishingly unbelievably here and the city is behind it,” Battle said. “I’ve met a lot of kids here that want to dance, but haven’t had the financial opportunity to study. I want to create dance venues that they can take and come and learn great things by great people that are affordable.”

Single dance sessions will be $32.64 and barbeque will be $27.37. The workshops will include dance forms, such as tap, contemporary, hip-hop, African and ballet. All classes will be taught by some of D.C. and New York’s most notable master dance instructors.

Battle, who grew up in Washington, D.C. and New York, is an actor, singer, dancer and instructor, who started his theatrical career at the age of nine under a very persuasive mother. For three years, he studied at the Jones Haywood School of Ballet, in Northwest.

Battle also attended The School of American Ballet in New York City, where he studied until the age of 15, when he was cast in his debut role on Broadway as the scarecrow in “The Wiz”.

“I had very good training at one of the best schools in the country, which at the time for an African American dark boy was not easy,” he told the AFRO. “In a lot of cases I had roles created for me that did not even exist until I showed up.”

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015NRT21 Mary Ellen Hilliard Decedent NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF REVOCABLE TRUST Mary Ellen Hilliard (name of deceased settlor) whose address was 3747 H u n t i n g t o n S t . , N W, Washington, DC 20015 created a revocable trust on February 5, 2015, which remained in existence on the date of her death on April 29, 2015 , and Carl Messineo, whose address is 617 F l o r i d a Av e . N W, Washington, DC 20001 is the currently acting trustee, hereinafter the Trustee. Communications to the trust should be mailed or directed to Carl Messineo at 617 Florida Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001 The Trust is subject to claims of the deceased settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the settlor’s estate, the expenses of the deceased settlor’s funeral and disposal of remains, and statutory allowances to a surviving spouse and children to the extent the deceased settlor’s residuary probate estate is inadequate to satisfy those claims, costs, expenses, and allowances.

Claims of the deceased settlor ’s creditors are barred as against the Trustee and the trust property unless presented to the Trustee at the address provided herein on or before April 9, 2016 6 months after the date of the first publication of this notice). An action to contest the validity of this trust must be commenced by the earliest of (1) April 29, 2016(one year from date of death of the deceased settler) or (2) April 9, 2016(6 months from the date of first publication of this notice) or (3) ninety days after the Trustee sends the person a copy of the trust instrument and a notice informing the person of the trust’s existence, the Trustee’s name and address, and the time allowed for commencing a proceeding.

The Trustee may proceed to distribute the trust property in accordance with the terms of the trust before the expiration of the time within which an action must be commenced unless the Trustee knows of a pending judicial proceeding contesting the validity of the trust or the Trustee has received notice from a potential contestant who thereafter commences a judicial proceeding within sixty days after notification.

16:21:12 EDT 2015 This Notice must be mailed postmarked within 15 days of its first publication to each heir and qualified beneficiary of the trust and any other person who would be an interested person within the meaningof D.C. Code, sec. 20-101(d) Date of Publication: October 9, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Carl Messineo Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 10/9, 10/16, 10/23/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1088 Adrian Esau Kinard Decedent Dawn Jackson Esq 1300 Caraway Court, Suite 100 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Cynthia Kinard, whose address is 1516 Queen St., NW, Washington, DC, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Adrian Esau Kinard, who died on July 17, 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 25, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or 16:21:12 2015 of filed withEDT the Register Wills with a copy to the 15 days of its first undersigned, on publicaor betion to each 25, heir 2016, and qualfore March or ified beneficiary the be forever barred.ofPertrust believed and any other sons to beperson heirs w hlegatees o w o u lofd the b e dean or interested cedent whoperson do notwithin rethe meaningof D.C. Code, ceive a copy of this notice sec.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1109 Jacqueline WaddyLewis Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Yasmin Lewis-White, whose address is 1321 Fem St. NW, Washington, DC 20012 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Jacqueline WaddyLewis, who died on July 20, 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 25, 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 26, 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 25, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Yasmin Lewis-White Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM943 Helen E Stephenson Decedent Tina Smith Nelson, Esq Legal Counsel for the Elderly, 601 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20049 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Esther M McMullen, whose address is 531 12th Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Helen E Stephenson, who died on January 29, 2011 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 9, 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 April 9, 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. 2015ADM1139 Crystal Ann Henderson Decedent Wesley L. Clarke 1629 K Street, Ste 300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Delonte Mack, whose address is 1230 Carrollsburg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024 wasappointed personal representative of the estate of Crystal Ann Henderson, who died on November 11, 2014 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before April 9, 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 April 9, 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: October 9, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Delonte Mack Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1074 Eloise M Jenkins Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William Jenkins III, whose address is 17798 Queen Anne Rd, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Eloise M. Jenkins, who died on May 6, 1985 without a will. 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter William Jenkins III Personal Representative

TYPESET: TYPESET: Sep 23 11:33:23 EDT TYPESET: Tue2015 Oct 06 16:21:51 EDTWed 2015Sep 23 09/25, 10/02,Wed 10/09/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1096 Alton Edward Duncanson Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Michael L. Duncanson, whose address is 4300 Va r n u m P l . , N E , Washington, DC 20017-2101 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Alton Edward Duncanson, who died on June 28, 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 March 25, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the under-signed 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 25, 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 25, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Michael L. Duncanson Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 09/25, 10/2, 10/9/15

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM799 James R Austin AKA James Robert Austin Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Carol B. Austin, whose address is 1322 Dexter Terrace, SE, Washington, DC 20020 was appointed personal representative of the estate of James R. Austin AKA James Robert Austinwho died on who died on July 2, 2014 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 April 9, 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 April 9, 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: October 9, 2015 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Carol B. Austin Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Oct 06 10/9, 10/16, 10/23/15 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1124 Alice Coates Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ernestine Peters, whose address is 1413 Duncan St NE., Washington, DC 20002, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Alice Coates , who died on February 20, 1993 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

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 Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before April 9, 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 April 9, 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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MD 21215, Administration No. was appointed personal 2015ADM969 representative of the Ernestine Shirley Darr estate AKA of Willie Hamlett, who died SonDarr May 22, Ernestine 2013 without a will, and Decedent will serve without NOTICE OF Court 11:32:10 EDT APPOINTMENT, supervision.

All 2015 unknown heirs NOTICE and heirsTOwhose CREDITORS whereabouts are unANDshall NOTICE known enterTOtheir a pUNKNOWN p e a r a n c e HEIRS in this Shirley Y. Sinclair, whose proceeding.

Objections address is 2913 5th to such appointment Street, SE, Washington, shall be filed with the DC 20032 was appointed Register Wills, D.C., personal of representative 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd of the estate of Ernestine Floor Washington, Shirley Darr AKA D.C. Er20001, or before nestineon S. Darr, who April died 2, 2016.

Claims against on September 19, 2013 the shall be with decedent a will, and will serve presented to thesuperviunderwithout Court sion. All unknown signed with a copy toheirs the a n d h eofi rWills s wor h ofiled se Register whereabouts unwith the Registerare of Wills known shallto enter their with a copy the undera p p e a ron a norc e i n tApril his signed, before proceeding.

Objections 2, 2016, or be forever to suchPersons appointment (or barred. believed to be the probate of deto heirs or legatees of cedent´s will) shall be the do not fileddecedent with the who Register of receive a copy of this5th noWills, D.C., 515 tice

by N.W., mail within 25 Street, 3rd Floor days first W a s hofi nits gto n , publicaD.C. tion shall so inform the 20001, on or before FebRegister Wills, Claims includruary 28,of2016. ing name,the address and against decedent relationship. shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy Date of Publication: to the Register October 2, 2015of Wills or filed with the Register of Name of newspaper: Wills with a copy to the Afro-American undersigned, Washington on or before Reporter February 28, 2016, Law or be foreverJulis barred.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1077 Amy Yvonne Thomas Decedent Jamison B Taylor 13:01:06 EDT 2015 1218 11th St NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS C y n t h i a A n i t a D a y, whose address is 3907 91st Ave., Springdale, MD 20774, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Amy Yvonne Thomas, who died on July 15, 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 (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before April 2, 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 April 2, 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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5827 Allentown Road shall be filed with the Camp Springs, MD Register of Wills, D.C., 20746 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Attorney Floor Washington, D.C. NOTICE OF 20001, on or before APPOINTMENT, March 25, 2016. Claims NOTICE TO against the decedent CREDITORS shall be presented to the TYPESET: Wed Sep 23 11:29:42 EDT 2015 TYPESET: Oct 06 16:22:47 EDT 2015 AND NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy 16:22:10 EDTTue 2015 LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES UNKNOWN HEIRS to the Register of Wills or Ara D. Parker, whose ad- filed with the Register of dress is 5827 Allentown Wills with a copy to the Superior Court of Superior Court of Road, Camp Springs, undersigned, on or bethe District of the District of MD 20746, was apfore March 25, 2016, or District of Columbia District of Columbia pointed personal repre- be forever barred. PerPROBATE DIVISION PROBATE DIVISION sentative of the estate of sons believed to be heirs Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Evelyn La Pearl Stribling, or legatees of the de20001-2131 20001-2131 who died on September cedent who do not reAdministration No. Administration No. 25, 2011 without a will, ceive a copy of this notice 2015ADM1082 2015ADM443 and will serve without by mail within 25 days of Sol Z Rosen Mattie P Degraff Court supervision. All un- its first publication shall AKA Decedent known heirs and heirs so inform the Register of Sol Zalel Rosen NOTICE OF TYPESET: Tue Aug 18 13:57:38 EDT TYPESET: Tue2015 Aug whose whereabouts are Wills, including name,25 AKA APPOINTMENT, LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICES unknown shall enter their address and relationSol Rosen NOTICE TO appearance in this ship.

AKA CREDITORS Superior Objections Court of Superior Court of proceeding.

Date of Publication: S. Rosen AND NOTICE TO the District of the District of to such appointment (or September 25, 2015 Decedent UNKNOWN HEIRS of Columbia District of Columbia to District the probate of de- Name of newspaper: R o b i n D G o o d w i n , Michael Dickman PROBATE PROBATE DIVISION cedent´s will)DIVISION shall be Afro-American whose address is 10 414 Hungerford Dr 211 D.C. of Washington Washington, D.C. filedWashington, with the Register Lakewood Dr., Hampton Rockville, MD 20850 20001-2131 20001-2131 Wills, D.C., 515 5th Law Reporter VA, 23666 , was ap- Attorney Administration No. Administration Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Milton TyroneNo. Ebb NOTICE OF pointed personal repre2015ADM944 2015ADM949 W a s h i n g t o n , D .

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Personal APPOINTMENT, sentative of the estate of Seretha M Stewart Deborah Lee Mitchell 20001, on or before Representative NOTICE TO Mattie P. Degraff, who Decedent Lyles March 25, 2016. Claims CREDITORS died on January 3, 2015 OF Decedent againstNOTICE the decedent TRUE TEST COPY AND NOTICE TO with a will, and will serve APPOINTMENT, NOTICE shall be presented to the REGISTER OF OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS without Court superviNOTICE TO APPOINTMENT, sion. All unknown heirs Lewis Weinger, whose undersigned with a copy TYPESET: Wed Sep 23 CREDITORS NOTICE TO to the Register of Wills or 09/25, 10/2, 10/9/15 a n d h e i r s w h o s e address is 778 Hachnas NOTICE TO of CREDITORS with the Register whereabouts are un- at Orchim, Tekoa, Israel filed AND UNKNOWN HEIRS AND NOTICE TO with a copy to the known shall enter their 90908, was appointed Wills Ernestine Thompson Superior Court of UNKNOWN HEIRS a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s personal representative undersigned, on or beAKAMarch Ernestine T Olivo, District of adShirl the Holsey, whose 25, 2016, or proceeding. Objections of the estate of Sol Z fore whose address is Per1606 dress District of Columbia is 1760 W St SE, forever barred. to such appointment (or Rosen AKA Sol Zalel be Lawrence NE, Washington, PROBATE DIVISION DC 20020 believedStreet, to be heirs to the probate of de- Rosen, AKA Sol Rosen sons Washington, Washington, D.C. was appointed personal legatees ofDC the20018 decedent´s will) shall be AKA S. Rosen, who died or was appointed 20001-2131of the representative who do personal not refiled with the Register of on May 26, 2015 witha cedent representative of the Administration estate of DeborahNo. Lee will, and will serve with- ceive a copy of this notice Wills, D.C., 515 5th estate of Seretha 2015ADM1099 Lyles, who died mail within 25 days ofM Mitchell Street, N.W., 3rd Floor out Court supervision. All by Stewart , who died on Jonathan Andrew Horon July 22, 2004 without its first publication shall unknown heirs and heirs Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

June 17, the 2015 with a will, a will, and will serve withinform Register of vath 20001, on or before April whose whereabouts are so and will serve name, without Decedent out Court supervision. All including 9, 2016. Claims against unknown shall enter their Wills, Court supervision.

All unRachell unknownLong heirs and heirs the decedent shall be a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s address and relationknown heirs and heirs 1404 Half St SW whose where-abouts are presented to the under- proceeding. Objections ship. whose where-abouts are Washington, DC 20024 unknown shall enter their signed with a copy to the to such appointment (or Date of Publication: unknown shall enter their Attorney a p p e a r a n c e i n t h is September 25, 2015 Register of Wills or filed to the probate of dea p p eof a rnewspaper: a n c e i n t h i s proceeding.

NOTICEObjections OF with the Register of Wills cedent´s will) shall be Name proceeding. Objections to such APPOINTMENT, appointment (or with a copy to the under- filed with the Register of Afro-American to such appointment (or to theNOTICE TOof deprobate Washington signed, on or before April Wills, D.C., 515 5th to the probate of deCREDITORS cedent´s will) shall be 9, 2016, or be forever Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Law Reporter cedent´s Ara will)D.shall be filedAND TO of withNOTICE the Register Parker barred. Persons believed W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . filed with the Register UNKNOWN HEIRS D.C., 515 5th Personalof Wills, to be heirs or legatees of 20001, on or before Wills, D.C., 515 5th Jules Street, Horvath, N.W., 3rdwhose Floor Representative the decedent who do not March 25, 2016. Claims Street, N.W., 3rd Floor address Purple W a s h i nisg t11504 on, D .C. receive a copy of this no- against the decedent W a s hTEST i n g t oCOPY n, D.C. Beech Reston,FebVA 20001,Drive, on or before tice by mail within 25 shall be presented to the TRUE 20001, on or before Feb20191 was appointed ruary 28, 2016. Claims days of its first publica- undersigned with a copy REGISTER OF WILLS ruary 21, 2016. Claims personal representative against the decedent tion shall so inform the to the Register of Wills or TYPESET: Wed Sep 23 11:30:48 EDT 2015to the against the decedent of thebe estate of Jonathan shall presented 10/2, 10/9/15 Register of Wills, includ- filed with the Register of 09/25, shall be presented to the Andrew Horvath, who undersigned with a copy ing name, address and Wills with a copy to the undersigned with a copy died August of 21, 2015 to theonRegister Wills or undersigned, on or berelationship. to the Register of Wills or Superior Court of without a will, and filed with the Registerwill of fore March 25, 2016, or Date of Publication: filed with the Register of the District of serve without Court suWills with a copy to the be forever barred. PerOctober 9, 2015 Wills with a copy to the District of Columbia pervision.

All unknown undersigned, on or besons believed to be heirs Name of newspaper: undersigned, on or be- heirs PROBATE DIVISION and heirs fore February 28,whose 2016, or legatees of the deAfro-American fore February 21, 2016, where-abouts Washington, D.C. are Perunor be forever barred. cedent who do not reWashington or be forever barred.

Per20001-2131 known shall enter their sons believed to be heirs ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter sons believed to be heirs Administration No. a p p e a r a n c e i n t h is or legatees of the deRobin D Goodwin by mail within 25 days of or legatees of the de- proceeding.

2015ADM1075 cedent who Objections do not rePersonal its first publication shall cedent Frances who do Rone not re- to such appointment (or ceive a copy of this notice Representative so inform the Register of Jemera ceive a copy of this notice to the within probate of deby mail 25 days of Wills, including name, Decedent u smail a n within C . C25 h adays i r e sof , cedent´s will) shallshall be its first publication address and relation- Sby TRUE TEST COPY its first publication shall Chaires & Associates filed with the Register of so inform the Register of ship.

REGISTER OF WILLS so inform the Register 1432 K Street NW-12thof Wills, D.C., 515name, 5th Wills, including Date of Publication: Wills, including name, Floor Street, Floor addressN.W., and 3rd relationTYPESET: Wed Sep 23 11:32:49 EDT 2015 September 25, 2015 10/9, 10/16, 10/23/15 address andDCrelationWashington, 20005 Washington, March 25, ship.

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Claims against the Date of Publication: Afro-American Date of Publication: NOTICE OF decedent August 28,shall 2015be pre16:22:29 EDTCourt 2015of Washington Superior August 21, 2015 APPOINTMENT, sented the underName of to newspaper: Law Reporter the District of Name of newspaper: NOTICE TO signed with a copy to the Afro-American Lewis WeingerPersonal District of Columbia Afro-American CREDITORS Register of Wills or filed Washington Representative PROBATE DIVISION Washington AND NOTICE TO with Register of Wills Law the Reporter Washington, D.C. Law Reporter HEIRS UNKNOWN with a copy toShirl the Holsey underTRUE TEST COPY 20001-2131 Seretha M Stewart Anne Mills , whose ad- signed, on orPersonal before REGISTER OF WILLS Administration No. Personal dress is 10 East End March 25, 2016, or be Representative 2015ADM1071 Representative Avenue, Apt 162015 C, New forever barred. Persons TYPESET: Sep 23 11:30:08 EDT 09/25, 10/02,Wed 10/09/15 Charles L. Kennedy York, 10075 was apbelieved to be heirs or TRUE TEST COPY AKA TRUE TEST COPY pointed personal repre- legatees of the REGISTER OFdecedent WILLS Charles Leon Kennedy REGISTER OFestate WILLSof who do not receive a sentative of the Superior Court of Decedent Jemera Frances Rone, copy of 09/4, this notice mail25 TYPESET: Tue by Aug 08/28, 09/11/15 the District of NOTICE OF 08/21, 8/28, 9/4/15 who died on July 29, within 25 days of its first District of Columbia APPOINTMENT, TYPESET: Tue Aug 18 13:56:45 EDT 2015 2015 with a will and will publication shall so inPROBATE DIVISION NOTICE TO serve without Court su- form the Register Washington, D.C. CREDITORS Superior Court ofof pervision. All unknown Wills, including name, 20001-2131 AND NOTICE TO the District of Superior Court of heirs and heirs whose address and relationAdministration No. UNKNOWN HEIRS District of Columbia the District of un- ship. whereabouts are 2015ADM1078 Sylvia Kennedy Dobson, PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia known shall enter their Date of Publication: whose address is 45685 Eddie L Mayo Washington, D.C. a pPROBATE p e a r a n c eDIVISION in this September 25, 2015 Cecil Mill Court, Great AKA Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 proceeding.

Objections Name of newspaper: Eddie Mayo Mills, MD 20634 was ap20001-2131 Administration No. to such appointment (or Afro-American pointed personal repre- Decedent Administration No. 2015ADM938 to the2015ADM939 probate of de- Washington sentative of the estate of William A. Bland Esq Patricia E Lake will) shall be Law Reporter 1140 Connecticut Ave cedent´s Brenda C. Butts Charles L. Kennedy, Decedent Jules Horvath filed with the Register of Decedent AKA, Charles Leon Ken- NW Wesley L Clarke Wills, D.C.,F. 515 5th Personal #1100 Jonathan Howard, nedy who died on 1629 K Street, Ste. 300 Street, Representative Esq N.W., 3rd Floor September 11, 2014 Washington, DC 20036 Washington, DC 20006 W a s hNorth i n g t oWashington n, D.C. 401 without a will, and will Attorney Attorney 20001, on or before TRUE TEST COPY Street #110 NOTICE OF serve without Court suNOTICE OF March 25, 2016.

Claims REGISTER OF WILLS Rockville, Maryland APPOINTMENT, pervision. All unknown against APPOINTMENT, 20850 the decedent TYPESET: Wed Sep 23 NOTICE TO heirs and heirs whose shall be presented to the 09/25, NOTICE 10/2, 10/9/15 TO Attorney CREDITORS whereabouts are unundersigned withOF a copy CREDITORS NOTICE AND NOTICE TO known shall enter their to theAPPOINTMENT, Register of Wills or AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS appearance in this Superior Court of the Register of NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS proceeding. Objections Dwayne L. Mayo, whose filed with the District of CREDITORS Wills with a copy to the Sharon Smith, whose adto such appointment (or address is 3670 Prince District of Columbia AND NOTICE TO dress is 6413 Whit-well to the probate of de- Edward Drive was ap- undersigned, on or bePROBATE DIVISION UNKNOWN HEIRSor March 25, 2016, Ct., Ft. Washington, MD cedent´s will) shall be pointed personal repre- fore Washington, D.C. Daniel Abebe, whose adforever barred. Per20744 was appointed filed with the Register of sentative of the estate of be dress is 1649 New Jer20001-2131 Eddie L Mayo AKA Eddie sons believed to be heirs personal representative Wills, D.C., 515 5th seylegatees Ave. NW, No. E of Washingthe deofAdministration the estate of Patricia Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Mayo , who died on July orton, DC 20001, was cedent who do not re2015ADM1102 8, 2015 without a will, Lake, who died on AuWa s h i n g t o n , D . C . appointed personal re- Mary A. Garrett a copy of this notice 20001, on or before and will serve without ceive gust 6, 2013 without a presentative of the estate by mail within 25 days of Decedent Court supervision.

All unMarch 25, 2016. Claims of first Brenda C. Butts shall , who will, and will serve with publication William R. Voltz All unagainst the decedent known heirs and heirs its Court supervision. died on June 8, 2013 with inform the Register of L Street, shall be presented to the whose where-abouts are so known heirs NW and Suite heirs a will and will serve with- 2120 Wills, including name, undersigned with a copy unknown shall enter their out Court and supervision.

All 700 whose whereabouts are address relation20037 to the Register of Wills or a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s unknown heirs and heirs Washington, unknown shallDC enter their filed with the Register of proceeding. Objections ship. whose whereabouts are Attorney appearance in this Date of Publication: to such appointment (or Wills with a copy to the NOTICEObjections OF unknown shall enter their proceeding. a p p e a r a n25, c e 2015 in this undersigned, on or be- to the probate of de- September to APPOINTMENT, such appointment of newspaper: proceeding.

Objections shall NOTICE fore March 25, 2016, or cedent´s will) shall be Name be filed TO with the to such appointment (or Register be forever barred. Per- filed with the Register of Afro-American CREDITORS of Wills, D.C., Washington to the probate of desons believed to be heirs Wills, D.C., 515 5th AND NOTICE TO 3rd 5th Street, N.W., Reporter cedent´s will) shall be 515 or legatees of the de- Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Law UNKNOWN HEIRS Floor Washington, D.C. Anne Mills filed with the Register of W a s h i n g t o n , D .

C . cedent who do not reL Garrett Jr. , whose 20001, on or before FebWills, D.C., Personal 515 5th John ceive a copy of this notice 20001, on or before address is 20 Oak Street. ruary 28, 2016.

Claims Representative Street, N.W., 3rd Floor by mail within 25 days of March 25, 2016. Claims Indian Maryland againstHead, the decedent Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . its first publication shall against the decedent was appointed TRUE TEST shall be, presented to the 20001, on orCOPY before Feb- 20640 so inform the Register of shall be presented to the representative OF WILLS undersigned with a copy ruary 21, 2016.

Claims personal Wills, including name, undersigned with a copy REGISTER against the decedent Wed Sep 23 11:31:08 EDTof2015 of estate to the Register ofMary Wills A or address and relation- to the Register of Wills or TYPESET: shall be presented 10/2, 10/9/15to the Garrett whoRegister died on filed with, the of filed with the Register of 09/25, ship. undersigned with a copy May 2015 without a Wills 3,with a copy to the Wills with a copy to the Date of Publication: to the Register of Wills or undersigned, on orwithbewill, and will serve Superior Court of undersigned, on or beSeptember 25, 2015 filed with the Register of the District of fore February 28, 2016, out Court supervision.

All fore March 25, 2016, or Name of newspaper: Wills withofaColumbia copy to the or be forever barred. PerDistrict be forever barred. Perunknown heirs and heirs Afro-American undersigned, on or bePROBATE DIVISION sons believed to be heirs sons believed to be heirs whose whereabouts are Washington fore February 21, 2016, Washington, D.C. or legatees of the deor legatees thetheir deshallof enter Law Reporter or be forever barred. Per- unknown 20001-2131 who Sylvia Kennedy Dobson cedent who do not reppeara n c edoi nnot t h ires sons believed to be heirs acedent No.de- proceeding. ceive a copy of this notice Personal ceive a copy of this notice Objections orAdministration legatees of the 2015ADM1087 by mail within 25 days of Representative by mail 25 days of suchwithin appointment cedent who do not re- to e l o raecopy s Eof l i this z a bnotice e t h shall its first publication shall Dceive its first bepublication filed with shall the so inform the Register of James TRUE TEST COPY so informoftheWills, Register of by mail within 25 days of Register D.C., Wills, including name, Decedent REGISTER OF WILLS its first publication shall 515 Wills, including name, 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Jackson, Esq of address address and relation- Dawn so inform the Register and relationFloor Washington, D.C. 1300 ship.

09/25, 10/02, 10/09/15 Wills,Caraway including Court, name, ship. on or before Suite 100 and relation- 20001, Date of Publication: address Date of25, Publication: March 2016. Claims Largo September 25, 2015 ship. MD 20774 August 28, against the2015 decedent Attorney Name of newspaper: Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: shall be presented to the NOTICE OF Afro-American August 21, 2015 Afro-American undersigned with a copy APPOINTMENT, Washington Name of newspaper: Washington to the Register of Wills or NOTICE TO Afro-American Law Reporter Law with Reporter filed the Register of Washington CREDITORS Dwayne L. Mayo Law Reporter AND NOTICE TO Wills with aSharon copy toSmith the Personal Daniel AbebePersonal UNKNOWN HEIRS Representative undersigned, onPersonal or beRepresentative Representative M i l t o n Ty r o n e E b b , fore March 25, 2016, or whose address is 149 be forever barred. PerTRUE TEST COPY TRUE TEST COPY DTRUE a r r i n TEST g t o n COPY S t . S W, sons REGISTER OF WILLS believed to be heirs TYPESET: Wed Sep 23 11:30:29 EDT REGISTER OF WILLS REGISTER Washington, DC2015 20032, or legatees OF of WILLS the dewas appointed personal cedent who do not re09/25, 10/2, 10/9/15 08/21, 08/28, 9/04/2015 08/28, 09/04, 09/11/15 representative of the ceive a copy of this notice Superior Court of e s t a t e o f D e l o r e s by mail within 25 days of the District of Elizabeth James, who its first publication shall District of Columbia died on September 26, PROBATE DIVISION 2012 without a will, and so inform the Register of Washington, D.C. will serve without Court Wills, including name, 20001-2131 supervision. All unknown address and relationAdministration No. heirs and heirs whose ship.

2015ADM121 whereabouts are un- Date of Publication: Evelyn La Pearl Strib- known shall enter their September 25, 2015 Name of newspaper: ling appearance in this Decedent proceeding. Objections Afro-American Ara D. Parker to such appointment Washington 5827 Allentown Road shall be filed with the Law Reporter Camp Springs, MD Register of Wills, D.C., John L. Garrett, Jr. 20746 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Personal Attorney Floor Washington, D.C. Representative NOTICE OF 20001, on or before APPOINTMENT, March 25, 2016. Claims TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE TO against the decedent REGISTER OF WILLS CREDITORS shall be presented to the AND NOTICE TO undersigned with a copy 09/25, 10/02, 10/09/15 UNKNOWN HEIRS to the Register of Wills or Ara D. Parker, whose ad- filed with the Register of dress is 5827 Allentown Wills with a copy to the Road, Camp Springs, undersigned, on or beMD 20746, was apfore March 25, 2016, or pointed personal repre- be forever barred. Persentative of the estate of sons believed to be heirs

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TYPESET: Wed Oct 07 14:55:47 2015 LEGALEDT NOTICES CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 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 F.AP. No. STP-119(34)E; S.H.A. No. AX0935125; CONTRACT NO. TR12308; Saint Paul Place and Preston Gardens in Baltimore City will be received at the Office of the Comptroller, Room 204 City Hall, Baltimore, Maryland until 11:00 A.M. November 18, 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, at the Department of Public Works Service Center located on the first floor of the Abel Wolman Municipal Building, 200 N. Holliday Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 as of OCTOBER 9, 2015 and copies may be purchased for a non-refundable cost of $175.00. Conditions and requirements of the Bid are found in the bid package. All contractors bidding on this Contract must first be prerequalified by the City of Baltimore Contractors Qualification Committee. Interested parties should call (410) 396-6883 or contact the Committee at 3300 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 A02602 Bituminous Concrete Paving; & D02620 Curbs, Gutters and Sidewalk. Cost Qualification Range for this work shall be $4,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00. A ”Pre-Bidding Information” session will be conducted at 10:00 A.M. on October 23, 2015 at the Charles L. Benton Building, 417 E. Fayette Street, Richard K. Chen Conference Room, Baltimore, MD 21201. Principal Items of work for this project are 20” Ductile Iron Pipe & Fittings - 807 LF; Steel Piles - 1330 LF; & 10” Reinforced Concrete Pavement Mix No. 7 940 SY. The DBE goal is 20%.

APPROVED: Bernice H. Taylor, Clerk Board of Estimates TYPESET: Wed Oct 07 14:40:27 EDT 2015 TOWN OF GREENSBORO GREENSBORO, MD GOLDSBORO WASTEWATER CONVEYANCE SYSTEM ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Owner: Mayor and Council of the Town of Greensboro, MD, a Maryland Municipal Corporation (the ”Town”) Address: Town Hall, 113 South Main Street; Greensboro, MD 21639 Sealed Bids for the construction of the Town’s new wastewater conveyance system between the Town of Goldsboro and the Town of Greensboro’s new wastewater treatment plant, Contract No. RWS-3, generally comprised of an 8” force main, air release valve vaults and related appurtenant work will be received by the Town of Greensboro, Town Hall until 2 p.m. (Local Time), November 17, 2015, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.

The Contract Documents may be examined at the following location(s): Town Hall; 113 South Main Street; Greensboro, MD 21639 Copies on disk of the Contract Documents may be obtained at the Town Hall, upon payment to the Town of Greensboro of $20 for each set. Access to Contract Documents will also be available via web site. Please contact Mary Murray at mmurray@rkk.com (with a copy to kduffy@rkk.com) to be provided access to the web site. Provide the business name, contact name, and contact email. If the documents are obtained at the Town Hall, please also send Mary Murray/Kelly Duffy all contact information for receiving addenda. Contractors are responsible for printing all documents required for bidding.

A pre-bid conference will be held at 10 a.m. on October 28, 2015 at Town Hall, 113 South Main Street; Greensboro, MD 21639. Attendance at the pre-bid conference is highly encouraged but is not mandatory.

Bid security shall be furnished in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders. The contractor must furnish the Owner with a performance bond and a payment bond.

The contractor must comply with the requirements regarding utilization of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises as required in the document in the Project Manual dated January 2015 ”Requirements and Contract Provisions for the Contract Financed by the State Grants Through Maryland Department of the Environment”. The Contractor will be required to meet provisions of the federal construction contract legislation and to comply with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the Contract Work Hour and Safety Standards Act, Executive Order 11246, and U.S. Department of Labor regulations implementing provisions of the above acts and orders. The contractor must also comply with CDBG contract requirements including Davis-Bacon wage rates. Federal Section 3 hiring requirements apply to this project.

Small, minority and women’s businesses and labor surplus firms are encouraged to submit Bids.

The Town reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to waive any irregularities or informalities in any or all bids.

Jeanette Delude Town Manager October 7, Wed 2015 Oct 07 14:42:31 EDT 2015 TYPESET: CITY OF BALTIMORE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS SPECIAL NOTICE

The prequalification category for the City of Baltimore Department of Public Works Water Contract No. 1306-Washwater Lake Residuals Removal at the Montebello Water Filtration Plant have been revised. The required Wedis Oct 07 14:41:49 EDT 2015 TYPESET: Wed Oct 07 14:41:12 category EDT code 2015 for bidding TYPESET: on this project Category G90013Dredging.

Baltimor City Council Public Hearing on Bill No 15-0503 The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the Baltimore City Council will meet on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 1:00p.m. in the City Council Chamber’s 4th floor, City Hall, 100 N. Holiday Street to conduct a public hearing on City Council Bill No. 15-0503.

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By authority of Article -Zoning Sections (s) 6-309(12a)and 14-102 Baltimore City Revised Code (Edition) Note: This bill is subject to ammendment by the Baltimore City Council Edward Reisinger Clerk

City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore will be received until, but not later than 11:00a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: October 21, 2015 *311 CUSTOMER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEM B50004268 *REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR ELECTRONIC FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS B50004301 *FERRIC CHLORIDE FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS B50004332 October 28, 2015 *UNIFORM JACKETS FOR CITY OF BALTIMORE FIRE DEPARTMENT B50004310 *FURNISH AND INSTALL CARPET AND FLOOR TILE B50004338 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITY’S WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org

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October 10, 2015 - October 16, 2015, The Afro-American

Marylanders score big thanks to the Maryland Lottery.

In Fiscal Year 2015, the Maryland Lottery generated $1.762 billion in sales and more than $524 million in profit, which is contributed to the state’s General Fund. Since its inception in 1973, the Maryland Lottery has generated more than $14.4 billion to support the good causes of Maryland, including pre-K–12 and higher education; public health; public safety; and the environment.

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“Life isn’t a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ‘Woohoo WHAT A RIDE.’” -Anonymous

Stephanie Rawlings- Blake who welcomed Dinosaur BBQ to Baltimore. It was refreshing to hear the positive conversation on the reason they chose Baltimore as a home for Dinosaur BBQ and the love they have for the neighborhood kids, many whom they have hired.

How does a nationally known jazz promoter celebrate her 80th birthday? She does it in style and Eleanor Janey and her children did that at the Gala Center. “The party’s jumping.”

Jazz greats Brad Collins, Greg Hatza, Marshall Booze, Andy Ennis and two young recipients of Rosa Pryor’s Musical Scholarship performed to the delight of the crowd. Eleanor’s daughters surprised her with a special performance by legendary dancer Maria Broom. Guests in attendance included; Arthur Hoffman, Darryl Green, Nellie, Juanita and Grafton Brown, Delores Chambers, Candy Brown, Miss Shirley Ball, Louise Wylie, Marilyn Hatza, Audrey Monroe, Beta Dotson, Jackie Brock, Sheila Ford, Victor Green, WEAA’s Big Jim, and Debbie who looked out for us seniors.

‘Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” -Henry David Thoreau

“You can observe a lot by watching.” -Yogi Berra, Rest in Paradise Metropolitan United Methodist Church’s throwback themed bull and oyster roast had guests dressing old-school, wearing dashikis, bush hairstyles, poodle skirts and hot pants. The massive buffet of fried oysters, shucked oysters, clams, pit beef and other delectable food had people lining up. DJ Jerry Stamper kept the dance floor in full swing playing oldies and current music.

Guests enjoying the evening were Dr. Geraldine Waters, Anton Sawyer, Phyllis Street, Bernice Jackson, Evelyn Chatmon, James and Patricia Morton, Sarah Holley, Gaines Lansey, Patricia Tunstall, Libby Massey, Ellen Chittams and Victor Holliday.

The National Coalition of 100 Black Women Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter hosted their annual Torchbearer Awards Breakfast at Martin’s West. More than 400 guests attended to honor Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake, States Attorney Marilyn Mosby, Laura Murphy, and Major General Linda L Singh Adjutant General Maryland National Guards. Also in attendance were Michele Emery, National President of 100 Black Women, Jackie Richardson, Rita Cooper, Edna Smith, Dr. Marcia and Frank Coakley, Frank and the AFRO’s Diane Hocker, Marcine Britton, Cash Hester, Bonita, Goldie Wood, Dr. Thelma Daly, Dr. Anne Emery, Rosemary Atkinson, Karleigh Henson, Laura Knight, Donnice Brown, Arlene Wongus, Lois DeLaine and Dr. Patricia Schmoke.

“Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.” -Anthony Bourdain “Give me a pig foot and a bottle of beer.” You cannot get a pig foot at Dinosaurs Bar-B-Que located in Harbor East but you can get pork belly, spareribs, brisket and pulled pork with all the trimmings. The VIP reception had guests smacking their lips and licking their fingers over the best tasting BBQ with just the right amount of seasoning and spices that tingled not singed your taste buds. The menu consisted of heaping helpings of spareribs, sliced brisket, BBQ chicken, coleslaw, Asian cucumber salad, baked beans, muffins, corn, and more. Guests were so full they were literally leaning and nodding as they marveled over the delicious food. Dinosaur BBQ founder John Stage, Joshua Lambert and Mark Pearson greeted guests Karenthia Barber, David Couser, John and Stacy Lee, Darnell Moses, Wendell Rawlings, Phil Allen and Mayor

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Congratulations to Ali D. Culpepper, son of Loretta and Stan Mitchell, on his induction into the Varsity M Club at Morgan State University Athletic Hall of Fame in recognition of his outstanding athletic ability.

Happy birthday to my grandson Gregory Warren Packer Jr. on his 22nd birthday and happy birthday to Paula France, Chandra Jackson, Beatrice Williams, Steward Beckham, Rod Womack, Ralph Askins, Shawn Carter Peterson, Dana Moore, Janet Jones, Rev. Al Sharpton, Lonnie Spruill, Frank Coakley and Karen Hill.

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”-Khalil Gibran Happy anniversary to Charles and LaTonya Queen and happy 50th anniversary to my longtime neighbors Russell and Ernestine Jolivet.

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike Sending our prayers and condolences to Martha Puryear on the death of her mother Catherine Scott; to the family of Dr. Ernest Hammonds; to the family of Dr. Ogden Belt; to the family of Joe Turner; to Jean West on the death of her sister Ellen Taylor; to Jean Dennis and family on the death of her brother Keith Fleming and to the family of the Honorable Walter Dean.

“I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I’d hear those devastating words: ‘You have breast cancer.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz October is National Breast Cancer month but for those who, like me, are survivors we celebrate everyday as breast cancer awareness day. Breast cancer is no longer the elephant in the room. Our knowledge and the ability to talk about it in mixed company, as the old folks used to say, has destroyed the myths. Take this time to talk about it with your friends and family, your coworkers and your playmates, your man and your husband. Be the personal ambassador for breast cancer, greet someone each day and say, “Good morning. Have you had a mammogram?”

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NTSB Recommends Federal Takeover of Metrorail

Bowser Announces Exelon, PEPCO Merger Settlement

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Following a series of safety investigations of Metrorail, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), recently recommended a federal takeover of the crumbling subway system, which transports an estimated 200 million passengers annually.

The takeover was suggested in the wake of critical problems including electrical wiring that could catch fire, poor staff training, and decaying equipment.

The NTBS proposed placing Metrorail under the authority of the Federal Railway Photo by Shantella Y. Sherman

Museum Square residents are the latest to face potential eviction in the District’s ongoing gentrification efforts.

Voucher Expirations Create Housing Insecurity in D.C., Across Nation Courtesy photo

The National Transportation Safety Board, recently recommended a federal takeover of the crumbling subway system in the Washington metropolitan area.

Administration. While such a move could help address system-wide infirmity and re-engage public confidence, Jackie Jeter and members of the Amalgamated Transit Union - Local 689, said they believe it could also adversely impact Black employees and riders.

“We are dealing more than ever with a system that is wearing down, has gotten old, and is in need of repair, sooner rather than later,” Jeter told the AFRO. “Not only does it impact the rider, but also the employees. Just as passengers complain that they are getting home 2-to 3-hours late because of track work, employees are not afforded time for basic

“We are dealing more than ever with a system that is wearing down…”

– Jackie Jeter safety checks, bathroom breaks, eating, or enough recovery time,” Jeter said.

Jeter points to an NTSB admonishment made in 2009 about employee fatigue.

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) immediately adopted that language, spent money on a study of worker fatigue, and noted the same concerns. It did not, however, according to Jeter, address the poor scheduling or lack of time to perform safety checks.

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By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com The expiration of an affordable housing contract with Chinatown’s Museum Square apartments is the latest in a series of large scale housing developments throughout the country, slated to evict tenants unable to pay rent without vouchers.

A tenant advisory, used to protest the housing discrepancy, said roughly half of Chinatown’s remaining Chinese immigrant population lives in the 302-unit building. More than half of the tenants are Chinese; the rest Black. The building’s site-based Section 8 contract expired on Oct. 1, but most individuals using

Section 8 tenant vouchers, under D.C. law, are supposed to be allowed to remain in their homes, paying the same rent as they have been – as long as their incomes remain the same. Property owners have refused to honor the vouchers, instead issuing a memo to tenants stating that as of Oct. 1, they would “be required to bear the entire cost of monthly rent.”

The situation mirrors the displacement of people of color from long-held city dwellings in areas, including D.C., Brooklyn, London and Germany.

Similar standoffs have arisen in areas like Harlem, where entire neighborhoods utilizing vouchers, emptied and transformed seemingly overnight from working-class enclaves Continued on D2

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D)announced a settlement recently with energy giant Exelon that will allow city residents more benefits under a proposed merger with Pepco, the city’s utility provider.

Bowser said on Oct. 6 that her administration and Chicago-based Exelon have come to agreement that will put her on record as supporting a $6.8 billion merger with Pepco, a leading utility company in the Mid-Atlantic states. Bowser supported an Aug. 25 D.C. Public Service Commission vote to reject the merger mainly because the Exelon proposal was not, in her eyes, sensitive to the energy and financial needs of District ratepayers.

The mayor is fully on board with the merger now.

“The District deserves a utility company that is affordable and reliable,” she said. “When the public service commission rejected the merger, the District kept the conversation alive.”

Bowser said that the settlement will put $78 million into the city with an emphasis on sustainability, reliability and pathways to the middle class, meaning that good paying jobs will be the result of the deal. She said that Exelon will invest $17 million

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Despite Stats, District Public Prince George’s Cops’ Accountability Must Change Schools Chancellor Gives Upbeat Address Protesters Say:

By Linda Poulson Special to the AFRO

About 80 Prince George’s County residents gathered at a forum dedicated to discussing police accountability on Oct. 1. The discussion comes in the wake of several incidents in the county where Black men and women were either murdered or suffered abuse from authorities.

The Maryland Police Accountability: NEXT STEPS symposium was held at Prince Georges Community College (PGCC).

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, the Prince Georges County Branch of the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Prince Georges County, and the Prince Georges County People’s Coalition hosted the event.

“African Americans have been fighting for, and struggling with, when we first arrived on the shores of Fort Comfort, Virginia in 1619, we’ve been struggling for our humanity, we have been struggling to be recognized as human beings,” Wilmer Leon, moderator and radio host with Sirius XM, said at the event.

“It’s much easier to shoot someone down in the street like a dog when you don’t see them as a human being. Focus on my color, fail to see my humanity.”

Speakers on the symposium panel included

By Sope Aluko Howard University News Service

Photo by Linda Poulson

Panelists speak at Next Steps symposium at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md. Cary Hansel, Hansel Law PC; Toni Holness, ACLUMd.; Dorothy Elliott, victim advocate; Christian Gant, Next Step Coalition; Matthew Fogg, Congress Against Racism and Corruption in Law Enforcement; Bob Ross, Prince Georges NAACP; and Dr. Johnnie Jones, professor, PGCC. “If the war on drugs was an equal opportunity enforcement operation,

the federal government would have ended it four decades ago,” Fogg said.

“It has become a race war against people of color. It is America’s number one human rights violation.”

Leon spoke on the series of articles by the {Washington Post} in 2001, which analyzed the use of force by county police back as far as 1990. The data indicated that Continued on D2

Speaking to some of the Washington school system’s parents and teachers, District of Columbia Public School Chancellor Kaya Henderson gave an upbeat assessment of the system in her third annual “State of Schools” address, pointing to progress in graduation rates and teacher satisfaction.

Henderson, who addressed nearly 400 parents and teachers Sept. 30 at Dunbar High School, noted reports that say graduation rates have risen to 64 percent in 2015, up from 53 percent in 2011. The system still lags behind the national average of 81 percent, but Henderson said the kind of success the District needs will not happen overnight.

“One of the challenges that comes with leading DCPS from where it was to where it is, is that people want us to have instant success,” Henderson said. “You don’t get to the goal from jumping from where you are to where you want to be.

Slow and steady progress wins the race.”

She used teacher satisfaction rates as an example of success in the school system. Teacher satisfaction rates have increased from 63 percent to 80 percent between 2014 and 2015, she said.

“I think we are demonstrating a commitment in how we pay our teachers to how we recognize our teachers,” she said. “We want DCPS to be where the best teachers come, but where they stay because they feel developed in their craft and respected as a part of our community.”

Henderson said she expects all students to achieve and be successful despite the huge gaps in wealth that plague the city.

“In this Metro area, there are some of the largest wealth gaps,” she said. “So, it is no surprise there are some of the largest achievement gaps. [Dunbar High] School is one of the best opportunities to close that gap.

“There is this narrative that young people who are poor don’t have the resources needed to achieve. Dunbar teaches us that when we did not have textbooks that others did, we still held people to high expectations. Our young people still graduated and went out to change the world.”

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Exelon, PEPCO Continued from D1

“This is a net positive for our economy.�

for the city’s wind and solar power programs, pointing out that the company committed to using 100 megawatts from the city’s wind program.

She said that Exelon has agreed to create a $25 million fund to offset utility increases. “Because of this, there will be no rate increases until March 2019,� Bowser said.

The mayor said that the settlement gives a one-time $50 credit to consumers and adds programs that will help lowincome residents, particularly seniors, with paying their utility bills and installing energy-efficient systems in their homes.

Bowser also said that District residents would also get new jobs as a result of the settlement. “This is a net positive for our economy,� she said. “Exelon will move 100 jobs to the city and it will have 102 union employee jobs within two years. This settlement is in the best

interest of the District of Columbia now and for the future.�

Exelon has indicated that it has submitted its application for review before the public service commission in light of the settlement. If the commission approves, the merger will be a reality with states such as Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware approving the deal along with the Federal Energy Commission.

Sandra Mattavous-Frye, the people’s counsel, supports the city’s settlement. “I want to make sure that the consumers get tangible, lasting benefits,� she said. “This deal will be a benefit for everyday

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Of equal concern is the potential separation of the bus and rail systems, placing Metro buses in the hands of private operators that could mean a reduction in workforce and loss of benefits. “We have been plagued with this cloud of privatization, but it is a very big part of the bus systems here,� Jeter said. “Bus companies like DASH, Fairfax Connector, and the Circulator are running services formerly run by WMATA. The drivers make less money, have [fewer] benefits, and the companies are run [by] a foreign private company. We are taking U.S. dollars overseas and they do not offer the same benefits (including pensions) in America as they do in France or England.� FirstGroup, in the United Kingdom owns the D.C. Circulator; names of the other owners could not be collected before press time. Even so, all of the companies say they are operated by U.S. management teams, but are foreign owned.

But with a growing popularity for bicycles and other carshare programs in the District, the fate of Metro routes and riders remain unclear. “There are people who have a two-fold reason for leaving Metro – they are not getting back on until the problems are fixed – safety; and they need to be reassured about reliability,� Jeter said. “People don’t mind paying more money to ride the bus or rail, provided they get to their destinations on time. We have got to make the system viable again for employees and riders.�

officers shot 122 people; 47 were killed, the highest rate of any major city or county in the country. The vast majority of those killed were Black; many had committed no crime, and 45 percent were unarmed.

But much has changed in Prince Georges County on police matters since then, he noted. “However improvements are still needed. According to the {Baltimore Sun, ACLU reported that 21 people died after police encounters in 2010-2014 in Prince George’s County. “The county is full of [Black] lawyers, doctors and other well-educated

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–D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

consumers.�

However, not everyone is happy with the agreement. “I am disappointed,� D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) said. “What we have here are short-term contributions that will be a long-term loss. Exelon can dress up this deal anyway it wants but at the end of the day, it is the ratepayers who will pay.�

Cheh said that Exelon executives and Pepco shareholders will win ultimately because any paid out benefits will be made up later by the company in the form of rate increases. Nevertheless, Chris Crane, the president and CEO of Exelon said that his company takes seriously “serving the nation’s capital.� “This settlement will be a benefit for the consumer,� Crane said. “It will provide jobs and charitable contributions at a minimum of $19 million. We will have a job training program that will train residents of underserved communities work in this industry.�

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professionals,� Leon said. “But when it comes to policing or being policed, in the minds of too many of those who have sworn to protect and serve, these residents are considered well-paid niggers with degrees and are treated accordingly. The history is clear.�

He added misconceptions of African Americans, poor police training, and the crimunal justice system failing to hold police accountable are just three factors that bring iniquity to many. “We need to get out there [and speak about] this type of awareness, about this issue, because otherwise people will not

come out,� said Marion Gray-Hopkins, who joined the panel. Her son, Gary Albert Hopkins Jr., 19, was shot and killed by county police officer Brian C. Catlett, 26, in 1999. “They’re looking for protection, for whistle blowers. When I come out to these events this is a nice crowd,� she said. “When we go down to Annapolis to talk to those who make decisions, there’s only a handful of us. This is important, because it could be anyone of our sisters, brothers, fathers. If they don’t see us there, they feel it doesn’t mean anything to us.�

more principles, including the Mary J. Patterson Fellowship, an intense 18-month leadership training program specifically meant for principals. “We tap our own high-performing principals and put them through a rigorous training program that teaches them what principal preparation programs don’t,� Henderson said. “It teaches them about teacher retention program, how to support their staff and the DCPS way to excellence. We hold principals accountable. “The citizens can say they have a

school district that if not already worthy of them, is on its way to be, and that people loved working in DCPS.�

Monica Rajan, a teacher at Stanton Elementary School in Southeast D.C, works for City Year, an education-based organization that helps at students stay on track to graduation. She said she feels DCPS appreciates her work. “Events like this shows that higher-ups care about the opinions of students, faculty, and staff,�

Rajan said. “It helps me feel that we are all on the same page and just trying to help our students have a better future.�

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schools got a new principal at the beginning of the year and DCPS hired 750 new teachers, replacing 500 just this year. “There is a paradigm where everyone works and stays where they are,�

Henderson responded. “That’s not always the case. We have had a number of people who go on to other jobs, some have been promoted or we told them that DCPS was not the right fit for them.�

Henderson said the school keeps the vast majority of the teachers it wants to retain, and is working on ways to keep

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into luxury zip codes, replete with renamed geographies, Whole Foods stores, and dog parks. In Houston 17,000 residents depend on the vouchers; another 60,000 are on the waiting list. In North Carolina, mayors from two neighboring cities – Chapel Hill and Carrboro – pleaded with local landlords to continue accepting federal housing vouchers as affordable housing dwindled; and the D.C. Housing Choice Voucher programs currently assists 10,500 families in the city; with thousands more on the waiting list.

Meanwhile, as a reliance on housing vouchers grows, trust in elected officials to challenge building owners and developers has all but ended. In a 2014 statement to the D.C. Council, for instance, housing activist Eugene Puryear, questioned the commitment of city leaders in maintaining and developing new affordable housing with the body’s budgetary push for new streetcars, rather than affordable housing. “The Local Rent Supplement program was supposed to create 1,000 new affordable units each year,� Puryear said. “By 2012, it had a 5,200-unit backlog, but we see every year that

the Council wants to add a little increase and get a pat on the back even though they are already behind the 8-ball and are not dealing with the original intent, or the backlog that they, themselves, have created.�

According to the Washington Post, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced, last year, an overhaul of the city legislature that was designed to focus lawmakers on affordable housing and homeless issues in 2015.

Carletta Shank is one of the thousands of District residents who faced eviction in 2010 when her 2-bedroom apartment along the Southeast Navy Yard became a lucrative investment for developers looking to anchor the Nationals Stadium project. “It became clear that the residents were standing in the way of business, so we all became expendable,� said Shank, a college graduate, working an entry-level job as a paralegal. “That building was filled with working-class people, who earned modest livings. They were law-abiding Americans and were forced from their homes . . . and now it’s happening throughout the city and across the nation.�

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MetroStage is showcasing the Gabrielle Fulton play “UPRISING”.

Alexandria, Va.

MetroStage presents ‘UPRISING’ MetroStage is showcasing the Gabrielle Fulton play “UPRISING” at 1201 North Royal Street. The play is directed by Thomas W. Jones II and tells the story of a free Black community during secession-era America.

“UPRISING” began on Sept.

17 and will run until Oct. 25 with performances on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Tickets cost $60. For more information or to schedule a reservation, visit metrostage. org or call 703-548-9044.

Friends of Local History & Special Collections Book Signing Marietta Crichlow and Linda Crichlow White will present their book “Back There, Then: A Historical Genealogical Memoir” on Oct. 10 at 717 Queen Street starting at 1:30 p.m.

The book discusses the importance of documenting Black family history during slavery. The event is free.

For more information, visit backtherethen.com, call 703-746-1706 or e-mail backtherethen@aol.com.

Washington, D.C.

Financial Planning Day The D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities, and Banking is hosting a financial planning event on Oct. 17 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at 3101 16th Street N.W. The event is collaborating with the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Financial Planning Association, Foundation for Financial Planning, the United States Conference of Mayors, and AARP District of Columbia to provide information regarding financial, retirement, insurance, and income tax planning from professional, financial planners. The event is free to the public.

For more information, visit financialplanningdays.org or call 877-861-7826.

Laurel, Md.

Sanitary Commission Hosts Business Meeting The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is sponsoring a meeting for small, local, minority, business owners at 14501 Sweitzer Lane from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 22. The meeting will discuss disparities in the local business markets, and information to help business owners benefit from upcoming, business contracts. The event is open and free to the public. For more information contact wsscstudy@wsscwater.com or call 301-206-880.

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Will Packer, producer and filmmaker - “Ride Along” and “Think Like a Man”

IMPACT, an organization that engages young professionals of color, ages Foundation’s (CBCF) 45th Annual Legislative Conference on Sept. 17. The town hall equipped 18 to 40, within economic empowerment, civic engagement, and political young professionals and budding politicos with the knowledge and tools needed to sustain involvement, hosted two events --the Emerging Leaders Town Hall and a career in corporate America and become senior-level executives and CEOs. Serving as the PREVIEW: A Red Carpet Affair -- during the Congressional Black Caucus event’s moderator, Marc Lamont Hill led a panel discussion focused on African-American culture in corporate America and diversity as a moral and business imperative. IMPACT also hosted “PREVIEW: A Red Carpet Affair” at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, DC to honor our nation’s young leaders. IMPACT presented Steven Jumper, Partner & President of Strategy, Ghost Note Agency with the IMPACT Leader of the Year award. During the event, Rep. Andre Carson, (D-Ind.) and Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) gave remarks.

(Left) Former Hall County (GA) Commissioner Ashley Bell, IMPACT Projects Manager Lauren Campbell and Journalist Marc Lamont Hill (right) award Steven Jumper (middle), Partner and President of Strategy, Ghost Note Agency (architects of D.C.’s popular event #Technoir) as the IMPACT Leader of the Year.

Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.)

Past and present IMPACT Leaders and team David Johns, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (L to R) Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and wife Mariama Shaheed-Carson, “The Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault, and U.S. Diplomat and past IMPACT Leader Aysa Miller (L to R) Janelle Hoffman, Katherine Jolly, and Angela Rye, who is the principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies

Mayor of Tallahassee, Fla. and past IMPACT Leader Andrew Gillum (middle) and guests

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.)

(L to R) “The Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault and TV Personality Paul Wharton

Young professionals Attorney Daryl Parks and former IMPACT Director and Attorney Kendra Briggs

Photo Credit: Kea Taylor and Sam Prather/Imagine Photograph

By Jazelle Hunt

NNPA Washington Correspondent

Lydia Pope, Rolanda Wilson and Terry Worthy

Recipients of the NNPA Leadership Award: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Rahiel Tesfamarian, social activist, writer and international speaker

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (Black Press) honored five Black luminaries with its Leadership Awards at the Washington Marriott Marquis, which is partially Black-owned. The awards are given to those who have demonstrated leadership in the Black community and support of the Black Press. Misty Copeland, Roland Martin,Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-Md.), Rahiel Tesfamariam, and A. Shuanise Washington were the awardees for 2015, the NNPA’s 75th anniversary year. Denise Rolark Barnes, chair of the NNPA and publisher of The Washington Informer, along with Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., president and CEO of the NNPA, emceed the event.

Sherita Sherlin-Hernandez, Communications Manager, CBCF

Ron Burke and Benjamin Phillips

Dr. Ben Chavis, TV One News Commentator Roland Martin, recipient of the NNPA Leadership Award and Denise Rolark Barnes

Amber Payne, NBC News and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.)

Jackie Hampton, Dr. Ben Chavis, Denise Rolark Barnes and Wallace Gaton Bentley

Miss Black USA 2015 Madison Gibbs and Roland Martin Rahiel Tesfamarian, Merlie Cohen, Denise Rolark Barnes, Linda Breed and Amelia Wahl

Jineea Butter, George Curry and Ann Ragland Al McFarlane, Traci Powell and Hazel Trice Edney

Lawanda Leonard, Dwayne Leonard, Kiaya Jackson, Jimmy Coates, Patricia Coates and Adriennet McDonald

Edgar Brookins, LaTrina Antoine, Dr. Ben Chavis, Jake Oliver, Publisher/CEO, Afro American Newspaper, Barbara Armstrong, Lenore Howze, Diane Hocker, Kamau High and James Wright Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore, Md.

Photos by Rob Roberts

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