Sophisticated Settings Lifestyle February 27 2016

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The Afro-American, February 27, 2016 - March 4, 2016

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Rev. Myrtle Bowen

The Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Gospel Service hosted its annual Black History Month Celebration and Keeper of the Community Awards Feb. 6 at the base’s Memorial Chapel. Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, U.S. deputy surgeon general; M. Tia Johnson, assistant secretary of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, president, ASALH; the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Prince William County Chapter and Kappa Epsilon Psi Military Sorority, Delta Chapter were recognized for their achievements and community service. Rev. Myrtle Bowen, pastor of Contee A.M.E. Zion Church was the guest speaker.

Photos by Rob Roberts

Kappa Epsilon Psi Military Sorority; Kappa Lambda Chi Military Fraternity, Beta Chapter and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW) Prince William County Chapter

Rear Admiral Sylvia TrentAdams, deputy surgeon general

Rev. Myrtle Bowen and Preston Wells

Patricia Coates and Jimmy Coates

Roy Betts, executive council and senior communications manager, USPS and Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University and ASALH president

Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Grace Hollis and Rev. Myrtle Bowen, Contee A.M.E. Zion Church and Air National Guard chaplain

Connie V. Andrews, NCBW and M. Tia Johnson, assistant secretary, Office for Legislative Affairs United State Department of Homeland Security Edgar Brookins, AFRO general manager and Alice H. Howard

The recipients of the 2016 Keeper of the Community Award: Kappa Epsilon Psi Military Sorority (Patricia Coates accepting), M. Tia Johnson, Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and NCBW Prince William County Chapter President Alice Howard

The JBM-HH Gospel Service Praise Team

Beverley Drake

Renee’ “Starlynn” Allen , emcee

Dylan Murphy, Miss D.C. Teen 2016 and Deshauna Barber, Miss D.C. 2016

Michelle Reynolds

Miss Trinidad & Tobago United Nations 2015 Kenisha Salvary and Miss Senior DC 2015 Wendy Bridges

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The Afro-American, February 27, 2016 - March 4, 2016

By Chanet Wallace

Donna Rattley Washington, Regional Vice President, Government & Community Affairs, Comcast

Comcast, Smithsonian Channel and Major League Baseball partnered to present the premiere screening of “The Hammer of Hank Aaron.”

The Black History Monthly special was held at the Reginald F.

Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Feb. 17.

“The Hammer of Hank,” depicts the glorious but struggling life of famed baseball player Henry Aaron during the era of segregation.

Panelists included David

Royle, Executive Vice President, Programming and Production Smithsonian Channel and Damion Thomas, Sports Curator, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

David Royle, Executive Vice President, Programming and Production Smithsonian Channel

Damion Thomas Reginald F. Lewis Museum Curator Charles E. Bethea giving remarks

Denise Fitzgerald

Ahmad Onyango with a question

Jacquie Perry and Lane Levine Robert Cooper, Ellen Lawson- McNeill, Anna Forbes Towns, Doris R. Goodlett and Joyce V Fitzgerald

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Winston Hall Jr.

Robert Young Jr. and Robert Young Sr. Partners such as Comcast, Smithsonian Channel, City of Baltimore, and Major League Baseball

Smithsonian Museum Curator Damion L. Thomas partners with Comcast and Major League Baseball to present a private screening.

Photos by Chanet Wallace

Patterned after New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities, the Pi Omega Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity kicked into high gear at their 65th Annual Mardi Gras MasQUErade 2016 at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Baltimore on Feb. 6.

The Pi Omega Foundation, the fundraising arm of the chapter, provides scholarships, mentoring and social action programs throughout the Baltimore metropolitan Adolph McDonald

leading the second line

Pi Omega Mardi Gras Committee members are Adolph McDonald, Marlow Brown, co-chairman, Robb Ferguson, Ronald Williams, chairman, C. Donald Bowser, Basileus, Al Wylie, Allen Taylor and J. Malik Mosley

Alycia and Orlando Allen, Basileus Phi Phi Chapter, Richmond, Va.

Hon. Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore City State’s Attorney and Hon. Nicholas Mosby, Councilman, 7th District

Pi Omega Executive Committee and 2nd District Officers are Allen Taylor, Marlow Brown, Brian Harrison, Aaron Von Moore Sr., Borate Rose, Ronald Williams, Robb Ferguson, Michael Littlejohn, Milton Harrison, Thurston Jones IV, C. Donald Bowser, Basileus, Carlton Lampkins, Nick Mosby, J. Malik Mosley and J. Michael Breeden

Sharon Webb, Lasava S. Tidwell, Diane Babineaux and Kenneth Williams

Christie Gray-Green and Phylis Buharti

Brian Foster, Lynnea Cornish, Lana and Ivan Bates, LaRhonda and Carl Nicholas

Dr. Billy Davis, Dr. Gary Rodwell, Hon. Verna Jones Rodwell, Ben Brooks, Michele Noel, Hon. Carl Stokes, Cynthi and Clyde Burke

Clemintine Watkins, Mary Haysbert, Helen McDonald and Donna Rice

Pi Omega Foundation Board of Directors are Clarence Jeffers III, Charles Cephas Jr., T. Russell Hopewell, Charles Downs president, Carlton Gordon, Otho Thompson, president Emeritus, Sean Headen, Charles Summers, Thel Moore Jr. and Calvin Beads

Dr. Charlene Cooper Boston, Eric Brown with Sheila Dixon, former Mayor of Baltimore and Cheryl Nelson

Clarence and DeLois Jeffers, Karen and John Berkley Photos by Dr. A. Lois De Laine

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