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Obama Opts for Remembering 9/11 Diplomacy Over War

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Speaking to a war-weary nation Sept. 10, President Obama asked Congress to postpone a vote authorizing him to launch an air attack against Syria while he explores a Russian diplomatic proposal that could rid Syria of its arsenal of chemical weapons.

In a televised 16-minute address from the White House, Obama said: “…over the last few days, we’ve seen some encouraging signs. In

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part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action, as well as constructive talks that I had with President Putin, the Russian government has indicated a

has these weapons, and even said they’d join the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits their use.”

In a speech originally planned to drum up support

“…President Obama changed gears as he expressed willingness to exhaust all diplomatic initiatives before using force.” willingness to join with the international community in pushing Assad to give up his chemical weapons. Assad has since admitted that it

for military action against Syria, President Obama changed gears as he expressed willingness to exhaust all Continued on A4

The nation paused on Sept. 11 to remember those whose lives were lost in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York.

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Marylanders Prepare for Oct. 1 Launch of New Healthcare Era

By Alexis Taylor AFRO Staff Writer Myron Isley’s story is troubling, but far from unique, when it comes to the 45.5 million U.S. citizens currently living without health insurance, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Isley, 51, had been an accountant in the Baltimore area when his career was cut short by a series of health challenges that left him on five prescription medications a day. In June 2012, he suffered a heart attack as a result of two blocked arteries.

This year, doctors diagnosed him with acute anemia after he became lightheaded and passed out. Internal

bleeding was found at the same time. Isley was told his body was not creating enough blood for his organs to properly function.

About six weeks ago, he lost his health insurance coverage due to the back-to-back health issues.

he said.

So Isley was forced to depend for money on a company, Magnet Entertainment LLC, that he and his wife created in September 2010. The entertainment consulting firm is now his sole source of income.

After he ran out of sick days, supervisors at his workplace in Columbia, where he had been on staff for four years, dismissed him. “They just couldn’t hold my job anymore,”

He and his wife, *, a local producer, recently attended a forum at Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple church on the intricacies of the new health care reforms. The forum was

Ben Jealous Resigns as NAACP President

to $46 million in 2012. Donors also increased from 16,000 to 132,000 over the same period. According to Jealous, WASHINGTON (NNPA) – the NAACP has more activists online Five years ago, Benjamin Jealous, (1.3 million) and on mobile devices president and CEO of the National (more than 430,000) than any other Association for the Advancement civil rights organization. of Colored People, “We’re not just made two promises. more powerful and The first was to the more effective and NAACP to help the larger, we are also organization get to the financially solvent and next level, revitalizing more sustainable,” the mission and the Jealous said with relevancy of the pride. storied civil rights And many activists group for the 21st agree. century and old and Ron Daniels, new battles ahead. The president of the second promise was Institute of the Black to his then 3-year-old World 21st Century, NAACP President daughter that he would a group that works to Ben Jealous return to being a fullbuild economic social time daddy in five and political power in years. He says now is the time to keep Black communities, said that Jealous that second promise. energized the NAACP by bringing a “Leadership involves knowing lot of young talented and gifted people when to step up, and when to step on board. down,” Jealous said Monday on a He also said Jealous highlighted the telephone call with reporters. issues of environmental justice, mass Looking back at his incarceration and the war on drugs. accomplishments, he mentioned how “[Jealous] uplifted these issues as the annual revenue of the NAACP being vitally important to healing and doubled from $23 million in 2007 Continued on A4

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent

one of many being held throughout the state to prepare residents for Oct. 1, the beginning of the open enrollment period for health choices.

That date marks the launch of the health insurance marketplace, an important pillar of reforms for the healthcare and health insurance industries.

Uninsured citizens living in any state can use the HealthCare.gov website to review and select plans, but some states, such as Maryland, have state partnership exchanges through which the state manages its federally-mandated health care insurance marketplace.

The Maryland Health Connection, the state’s health insurance Continued on A4

Harbor Point Project Clears Baltimore City Council

By Blair Adams AFRO Staff Writer

Baltimore’s City Council gave the green light Sept. 9 to one of the final –and most expensive—elements of the development of the city’s Inner Harbor, approving planned groundbreaking in October of Harbor Point in an 11-to-3 vote.

The council action, taken over the objections of longtime opponents of urban development in the nowunoccupied area, is to result in a $100 million project—1.8 million square feet of office space, more than one million square feet of residential

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property and 9.3 acres of public space—on land that sits between Harbor East and Fells Point.

“I am pleased that the city council has approved the authorization of TIFF bonds, required to move the Harbor Point project forward,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said during a post-vote news conference of the municipal finance instruments that are to be the primary funding source of the project.

“The TIFF bonds will pay for much needed public infrastructures— streets, lighting, utilities as well as public parks—all things that do not

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The use of electronic cigarettes has spiked among middle- and highschool students over the last few years, undermining a decades-long effort to stem e-cigarette smoking among young Americans, officials said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Youth Tobacco Survey, released Sept. 5, the number of U.S. middle and high school students who use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, more than doubled from 2011 to 2012. The percentage of high school students who reported ever using an e-cigarette rose from 4.7 percent in 2011 to 10.0 percent in 2012. In all, 1.8 million middle- and highschoolers tried the cigarettes last year.

“The increased use of e-cigarettes by teens is deeply troubling,” CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a statement.

“Nicotine is a highly addictive drug. Many teens who start with e-cigarettes may be condemned to struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine and conventional cigarettes.”

E-cigarettes are battery-powered tubes that simulate the effects of smoking via a nicotine- and additive-laced vapor.

Though some e-cigarettes are marketed as a means to quit smoking, there has been little scientific research into their long-term impact. Given signs of their growing popularity, particularly among teenagers, the devices need to be properly regulated by government authorities, critics said.

“It is deeply disturbing that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken so long to regulate e-cigarettes,” Matthew L. Myers, president of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement. “The FDA must act without delay to assert jurisdiction over e-cigarettes and take steps to prevent their marketing and sale to kids. FDA regulation is also necessary to prevent unproven or deceptive health claims about e-cigarettes; set standards for their contents, including levels of highly addictive nicotine; and better understand the health risks they may pose.”

Health officials have already voiced concerns that the use of e-cigarettes could lead to the smoking of conventional cigarettes, which are responsible for an estimated 443,000 deaths each year.

According to the CDC study, 76.3 percent of middle and high school students who used e-cigarettes within the past 30 days also smoked conventional cigarettes in the same period.

Black Pastor of N.C. Church Requests White Greeters Only

A Charlotte, N.C. church has come under fire after its executive pastor, herself an African-American, sent a letter to some Black greeters which suggested she would rather see White people at the door.

On Aug. 19, Pastor Makeda Pennycooke of Freedom House Church, who is Black, sent an e-mail to a number of volunteers stating that “first impressions matter,” according to The Christian Science Monitor. She added that “only White people” should be greeters, the Monitor reported, saying the policy would “bring our racial demographic pendulum back to mid-line.”

“I was floored,” Carmen Thomas, an African-American church member and volunteer, told Charlotte, N.C. CBS affiliate WBTV. “You can put a White face all over the front door. But when you come through those doors, you’re going to see African-Americans, you’re gonna see Asians. You’re going to see people of color.”

In a statement to the AFRO, Freedom House Church explained the controversial e-mail.

“One of our longtime pastors, in keeping with our church’s desire to be inclusive and intentionally reach out to all races, noticed our front door greeting Makeda Pennycooke team was no longer reflecting the racial diversity of our entire congregation, and she wanted potential visitors to see people like themselves upon entering our church,” the church said in the statement.

Thomas told WBTV that in her e-mail Pennycooke stated that she wanted “the best of the best on the front door.”

Thomas said Pennycooke’s assumption was that “with a certain congregation that eventually your finances are going to run out because maybe we aren’t the moneymakers.”

“She made an error in judgment in requesting all white greeters at the front door, going overboard in placing emphasis on any one race over another in trying to highlight diversity within the greeting team,” church officials told the AFRO. “She admits this was a grave lapse in judgment and is sincerely sorry for her actions. She immediately apologized and has asked our forgiveness.”

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Sobbing Mothers Recall Tragic Sunday Morning

Collins spoke of the breakfast Addie Mae had eaten before leaving for Sunday school; sausage, sweetNovember 1, 2008 - November 7, 2008, The Washington Afro-American A3 potatoes and grits.

Addie was one of eight children. She was a regular member at the 16th Street church and last Baltimore AFRO - September 28, 1963 Sunday started off as any other Sunday. sport-utility vehicle sought in from a neighbor aboutabout a suspiposted fliers bearing his photoBy Alan King She left the house 9:10 a.m. but she came connection with the murder of cious vehicle. The man noticed graph around the city. On AFRO Staff By James D. Writer Williams back in andwhile askedwalking her mother could she put some Hudson’s mother and brother. the vehicle his Sunday, Jennifer Hudson asked Assistant Managing Editor powder on her face.

The white, 1994 Chevrolet dog. According to the Chicago for the public’s help in finding Jennifer Hudson and other Suburban with Illinois license Tribune, been shot her nephew. In her MySpace relatives positively identified “I toldthe herboy no had at first and something told me to Perhaps in time, the ache in the hearts of Mrs. Alice Collins multiple timesback. in the back seatme ‘Mommy, don’t I blog, she thanked fans and suplet her come She asked of the vehicle. The SUV, regisporters for their prayers and and Mrs. Alvin Robertson will ease – but now the hurt is too look like you?’ and I told her to stop fooling and go tered to Hudson’s murdered offered a $100,000 reward to recent for them to do anything but cry when they speak of their along to church.” brother, was towed with the anyone who returned the boy The church almost 20 blocks from boy’s body inside and is is being alive. processedher byhome, evidence Since the investigation, buttechniAddie and two of her cians and workers. The body Hudson – who gained stardom sisters, Jannie and Sarah walked. It was a was later removed and taken to after appearing on “American day. the Cookpleasant County Medical Idol,” and then won an Also headed for Sunday school were Examiner’s office.

Academy Award for her role in Hudson andother other sisters, family Hattie B., Junie and the movie Dreamgirls – has three membersAddie arrivedB.atCollins. the Medical stayed out of the public eye.

They took the bus.

Examiner’s office mid-afterThe Chicago Tribune reportAsked theKing, same Jennnifer Hudson’s nephew.

Julian noon to identify thewhy body.two girls with ed that a parade of cars moved Collins smiled wanly and Given thename, choiceMrs. between lookslowly past her family’s home A spokesman the murders but is being held in Monday morning, past the ing directly at the body explained that or her husband had named thefor the office told the newspaper that Hudson jail for parole violation after viewing itchildren on a wall-mounted news vans, reporters and curiand he seemed to have run out of ous onlookers.

AFRO Cartoon by Tom Stockett, Sept.

28, 1963 Courtesy Photos names.

Neighbors stood Jennifer Hudson and her mom, Darnell Donerson who “She held hands her family.

Mrs. Collins with was still at home when It was obviously a very emotional moment.” quietly and was killed, as well as her brother, Jason. reflected on the one of her daughters called and said there latest had to become an airline stewardess. strong for her famibeing interest convicted ofbeen attempted video screen, the family chose A“remained violence. had been an explosion. few seconds later University Sunday was to be a big day for Carole.

She was to serve her ly” and was clearly its leader. murder and vehicular hijackplate X584859 was found on the latter. According to the In front of the Hudson’s the body of her 7-year-old Hospital called and asked her to come.

“She held hands with her famiing.

Cook County records show first time as an usher at the church.

Chicago’s West Side after Tribune, Hudson said, “Yes, home, men in heavy jackets nephew Monday, just hours ly,”Addie the spokesman “It thatFor he pleaded guiltyshe to both dead, and said. another police received a 7 a.m. call that’s him.” She found her daughter came to the occasion, had on a and veryhooded specialsweatshirts white dress. after his body was found in a very emotional charges in 1999. He was also daughter, Sarah, 23, withwas her obviously eyes badlya damaged. kiss the twin white crosses bar“She didn’t have a coat on so I told her to get a little moment.” convicted in 1998 for possesing the names of Donerson and There is still some doubt about Sarah being able to see lightweight jacket,” mother said.

The boy – the son of Julia sion of a stolen motorher vehicle.

Jason. again.

Hudson, Jennifer’s sister – had He Carole’s was released from prison father took her toinSunday“Everybody school andisonsick theofway going The grief of the mother is still so strong finds it been missing since she Friday, 2006stopped after serving they by theseven homeyears of her grandparents, Mr. and through stuff like this,”Mrs. Artisha relative Julian’s for the attempted murder and hard to tell how she feelswhen abouta the men found who killed her John West, a former resident of the H. Anderson Sr., where she received her weekly allowance grandmother, Darnell car hijacking charges. areathe told thespecial Tribune.

“We all child. and a white necklace to compliment very outfit.

No wonder Obama’s campaign is Donerson, 57, and his uncle, and Dallas Cowboys players

By Alan King The boy remained missing have to stick together. All these “I can’t can’t tell,” sheHudson, says, but says it trying to distance him tell, fromIthe Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, AFRO Staff Writer A fewa minutes later she Jason 29,she shot to death through long weekend in was dead. young children are dying, and group, saying, “Barack Obama among the names submitted to without bitterness. in his grandmother’s home in which and volunteers Mrs.police Robertson also has not had time to read the card, forthe what?”

Never Organized ACORN.” election officials.

Presidential candidate John the 7000 block of home South of Yale Not with far from Addie Mae’s home is the letters and telegrams that have come in from all over the Hurd said those workers, who But Obama’s ties to ACORN run McCain’s attack on ACORN – Avenue.

Carole Robertson – or rather her former home, at 1021 AFRO File photos country and from overseas. long and deep. He taught classes were doing those things without Associated Community An Amber Alert – a desigFifth St.,even N. endorsed nation for high-risk missing Christopher and Maxine hold a photo of their daughter, for ACORN. They ACORN’s knowledge or permisOrganization for Reform NowMcNair – “It’s something still like a nightmare,” Mrs. Robertson said. him for President. sion, were fired.

Both of Carole’s parents are school confirms the success of the Denise. children – was teachers issued Friday “I’ve tried not to have any bitterness about the people who have But now ACORN is in trouble.

“The evidence that has surorganization, the head of the aftershe, Julian discovered and likewas so many other done the thing that they have done.”

Reporter: There are at least faced so far shows they faked group says. daughters. missing after the murders. teenagers, hasn’t quite made No bitterness in their hearts – this is the way two mothers 11 investigations across the “This isMae testimony to the Police arrested William Addie Collins, 14,work and forms to get paid for work they up her mind what profession country involving thousands of didn’t do, not to stuff ballot we’ve done and success we’ve here in Birmingham have accepted the deaths of their Balfour, the missing boy’s stepCarole Rosamond potentially fraudulent ACORN boxes.” ACORN, she said, is the she would buthusband her had,” Maude Hurd, Robertson, president of father and choose, estranged daughters.

14, were two four girls forms. victim of fraud, not the perpetraACORN, said of in the an interview of Julia, at his girlfriend’s Announcer: Massive voter tor of it. with the killed in AFRO. the bombing of the Southside apartment several fraud. And the Obama campaign Hurd said the only things attackChurch. started, we hours after the murders.

16th“When Streetthis Baptist On bogus are the charges thempaid more than $800,000 to an had just announced that we had Balfour’s mother, Michele, has Friday, the mothers were still selves. And factcheck. org ACORN front for get out the vote registered 1.3 million new vottold reporters that her son had crying and obviously neartoasay agrees. efforts. ers,” she said.

“That’s just nothing to do with the slayings.

It concluded, “Neither Pressuring banks to issue risky that someone’s running scared state of complete collapse.

Balfour remains a suspect in Jason Hudson ACORN nor its employees have loans. Nationwide voter fraud. because ACORN’s success.”

In theofmodest living room been found guilty of, or even Barack Obama. Bad judgment.

McCain, who is running for of her home at 233 6th Ct., charged with, casting fraudulent Blind ambition. Too risky for president on the Republican tickW., Mrs. Collins was slowly votes.”

America. et, lashed out at ACORN in the The problem came about prifinal debate against Barack sorting through some of the Since McCain’s comments, Obama, mail andcontending telegramsthe shegroup has “is marily because of the way SQUARE HIGH ACORN operates. Rather than ACORN’s 87 offices have been on the verge of maybe perpetratreceived.

There hasn’t been rely on volunteers, it pays peobombarded with threats and ing one of the greatest frauds in time tabulate thecountry, number, ple, many of them poor or unem- racist mail. voterto history in this ployed, to sign up new voters.

The day after the presidential maybe the fabric or evendestroying acknowledge them,of RAtE APR The idea was to help both those debate, vandals broke into the democracy.” but they have been read and 1 15-yearS / PoiNt being registered and those doing organization’s Boston and Seattle 2 Factcheck.org, a non-partisan appreciated. the registration. offices and stole computers.

Web site, found those claims to whatwith it had As aMaud chilling reminder, thisa clock in the Sundayrepresentative School NOT ON THE LIST BREAD explained, “We have After a Cleveland be Recalling “exaggerated,” “nobeen evizero tolerance policy for time deliberappeared on TV, an e-mail was like onofSunday morning, Mrs. room stopped at the of the explosion. dence any such democracy-

On Sept. 15, 1963 four little girls were killed when a bomb was exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.

Jennifer Hudson and Relatives Identify Body of Her Slain Nephew

ACORN Fights Back

Leader Calls Voter Registration Fraud Charges ‘Bogus’

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destroying fraud.”

Hurd believes the McCain charges were politically motivated.

She said,from “Because Continued A1 it’s lowand moderate-income people, and people of color, I believe the exist today,” she said.

McCain campaign thinks those Blake insisted this voters are going to vote is a “great project” however, city Democratic, which is not necessarily true.” activists didn’t agree.

ACORN is no stranger to “I am opposed to controversy. everything they do,” Kim For 38 years, the non-partisan Truehart toldhas thefought AFRO. organization for social andTrueheart economic said justice lowtheformoney and moderate-income being spent on the million Americans. With 400,000 memdollar project could be used ber families organized into more elsewhere that the Harbor than 1,200 and neighborhood chapters indevelopment 110 cities nationwide, Point “does not ACORN the years seen deal withhas theover economic blight its share of criticism while advothat the community is facing.” cating for affordable housing, Throughout the meeting living wages, healthcare for the underserved— while organand leading upand to the reading izing drives. of thevoter bill, registration Truehart and But none has been as withering others who are against the and baseless as this one. development stood—refusing With the presidential election to take less thantheir two seat—which weeks away, City ACORN’s detractorsJack allege the Council President Young organization has engaged in masrequested several times. sive voter registration fraud after is adiscovery foul place,” the“This reported of bogus names, such as Mickey Mouse

ate falsification of registration.”

Most news account neglect to point out that ACORN is required by law to turn in all registration forms. And they also fail to note that it was the organization, in many instances, Trueheart yelled prior that to befirst brought the phony registrations escorted out by city police. to the attention of authorities.

Others The consented.

McCain camp apparently isn’tAnother interested in those fine and heckler stood points, at preferring misleadyelled Young: to “Iair turned my ing ads that seek to link Obama back on you because you have to ACORN, thereby undercutting turned yoursupport. back on citizens his political McCain: I’m John McCain of Baltimore.” andHe I approve this message. stood during the Announcer: Who is Barack remainder of the meeting, Obama? A man with “a political with hisperformed back turned on city baptism at warp speed.” Vast colofficials.

Heambition. spoke toAfter no one. lege, he moved to Chicago.

Michael Beatty, Harbor Became a community organizer.

Point to There,developer Obama mettried Madeleine address some of the concerns Talbot, part of the Chicago branch of ACORN. He was so and questions. impressive was asked “Peoplethat willhelook on it to train the ACORN staff. as aWhat greatdid start to continued ACORN in Chicago development in Baltimore,” engage in? Bullying banks.

Intimidation tactics. Disruption he said. of business.

ACORN forced Beatty—standing banks to issue risky home loans. alongside RawlingsThe same types of loans that Blake, and other caused Young the financial crisis we’re in today.

Harbor Point

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sent to the local office saying she “is going to have her life ended.”

A worker in Providence, R.I., received a threatening call saying, “We know you get off work at 9” and uttered racial epithets.

A caller to one office left a supporters—said this has message on the answering been a challenging process machine, saying: “Hi, I was just to get through.

“We need calling to let you know that Barack needs get to moveObama forward andtobuild He’sthat a (expletive ahung. project is reallydeleted) great nigger, and he’s a piece of for Baltimore,” heYou said.

“Toare (expletive deleted). guys continue to be thoughtful fraudulent, and you need to go to hell. All thetoniggers on oak trees. with how work with our They’re gonna get honcommunities, howalltohung do as eys, they’re going to get assassimuch as we can.” nated, they’re gonna get killed.”

“This will keep said, our city Another message “You liberal idiots.

Dumb (expletive going, and keep it going in the deleted).

Welfare bums. right direction,” BeattyYou said. guys just (expletive deleted) “This process has been come to our country, consume vetted more than any project every natural resource there is, and make lot of babies. foot That’s that have aever stepped all this you council,” guys do. And then said suck in Young up the welfare and expect everyduring the post-vote news one else to pay for your hospital conference. think wesay heard bills for your “I kids.

I jus’ let your kids die.

That’s the best everyone loud and clear.” move.

Just let your children “We expect these jobs die.

Forget about paying for hospital to be for Baltimore City bills for them. I’m not gonna do residents,” it. You guys he aresaid. lowlifes. And I hopeHarbor you allPoint die.” is the first Hurd under thinks Young’s the hate calls project bill.will cease soon.

“I think this is going to be a “In two weeks, I think these wonderful project and I standit attacks will be over. But I think behind it 100for percent,” will be harder us to getYoung our name said. back on good graces because they really trashed us in “Jobs, jobs, jobs is what the last few weeks.”

I said the will beginning.

Butfrom ACORN not be If you get people working, deterred. been fighting forhe a you“We’ve will see less crime,” long time, for over 30 years, for concluded. the rights of low- and moderateThepeople HarborallPoint income acrossproject the was passed in August during country,” Hurd said. “We’re going to continue to fight for a preliminary vote. economic justice in our communities.”

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diplomatic initiatives before using force.

“It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commitments. But this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because Russia is one of Assad’s strongest allies.

I have, therefore, asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path.”

Russia, a close ally of Syria, announced that it had gotten Syria’s agreement to turn over its chemical weapons to Russia, the United Nations and other countries. However, Russia is opposing a UN resolution that would authorize military action if Syria does not follow the outlined plan. President Obama announced that Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland on Thursday and that he would continue to hold talks with Putin in an effort to break the stalemate with Syria.

Opinion polls show that most Americans opposed taking military action against Syria although they are convinced Assad gassed his own people.

The latest intervention by Russia gives Obama time to seek more support in Congress. There was little doubt that the president’s plan, at least in its present form, was headed for defeat on Capitol Hill. Postponing the vote spares President Obama public humiliation.

In an uphill battle to shift public opinion, President Obama listed and answered many of the “hard questions” Americans have against being involved in yet another war: Won’t this put us on a slippery slope to another war? It is worth acting if we don’t take out Assad? What about the dangers of retaliation?

Why should we get involved at all in this place that’s so

complicated, and where those who come after Assad may be enemies of human rights? Why not leave this to other countries, or seek solutions short of force? Why should we be the world’s policeman?

Obama offered a point-by-point rebuttal to each objection, all of which led back to the president’s primary theme: “If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons. As the ban against these weapons erodes, other tyrants will have no reason to think twice about acquiring poison gas, and using them.

Over time, our troops would again face the prospect of chemical warfare on the battlefield. And it could be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons, and to use them to attack President Obama civilians.

“If fighting spills beyond Syria’s borders, these weapons could threaten allies like Turkey, Jordan, and Israel. And a failure to stand against the use of chemical weapons would weaken prohibitions against other weapons of mass destruction, and embolden Assad’s ally, Iran — which must decide whether to ignore international law by building a nuclear weapon, or to take a more peaceful path. This is not a world we should accept. This is what’s at stake.”

Obama provided graphic descriptions of the toll the turmoil in Syria has taken on its citizens. On Aug. 21, according

to U.S. officials, Assad forces used chemical weapons that killed more than 1,400 people outside Damascus, many of them children. Obama said that put the death toll in Syria to at least 100,000 at the hands of Assad’s administration.

The president said he understands the reluctance to engage in another war.

“Now, I know that after the terrible toll of Iraq and Afghanistan, the idea of any military action, no matter how limited, is not going to be popular.

After all, I’ve spent four and a half years working to end wars, not to start them,” he said. “Our troops are out of Iraq. Our troops are coming home from Afghanistan. And I know Americans want all of us in Washington – especially me – to concentrate on Afro File Photo the task of building our nation here at home: putting people back to work, educating our kids, growing our middle class.”

Still, the president said, the U.S. has a vested interest in what happens in Syria.

“After careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike. The purpose of this strike would be to deter Assad from using chemical weapons, to degrade his regime’s ability to use them, and to make clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use.”

Marylanders Prepare

Health officials, advocates and lawmakers in the state say that the changes—some of which have already taken place—will help put an end to health disparities for middleand low-income families.

For instance, disputed claims will now be addressed by provisions in the law for an external review process that was created shortly after the law was enacted.

“Of all the forms of inequality, the inequalities in health are the worst,” said Maryland Del. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (D-Baltimore County), who addressed the Empowerment Temple healthcare forum.

“Prevention is key,” said the Jamaican-born lawmaker, who said she didn’t truly learn what racially-charged health care disparities looked like until she moved to Baltimore.

Sponsored by the Maryland Health Connection, churches have been pivotal in spreading the word about the changes in healthcare, which will allow families that have struggled without coverage to be able to receive quality care.

“We have about 730,000 people in our state that don’t have health insurance,” said Tequila Terry, director of Plan and Partner Management for the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, before explaining why health care insurance is so important and how the new system will affect average citizens.

Under the Affordable Care Act, all plans must include as core benefits coverage for ambulatory care, doctor visits, hospitalizations, maternity care and mental health and substance abuse services.

Prescription drug coverage and medical tests must also be included in plans.

“You never know when you might wake up and something is wrong,” said Terry, whose younger sister awoke one morning to find part of her face contorted and paralyzed from Bell’s palsy, a disorder of the nerve that controls movement of the muscles in the face.

“No one insurance

the pain.”

Under the federal health care reform law, seniors receive help with prescription medications. Forum attendees also learned that the income threshold for Medicaid has changed.

An uninsured Marylander making less than $15,856 could be eligible for Medicaid

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marketplace apparatus, will service Maryland residents.

After a tough battle to push the bill through Congress, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act, into law on March 23, 2010.

It was an accomplishment that had eluded several other presidents, including Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, and Clinton.

Under the act, children became eligible to stay on their parent’s insurance until age 26, regardless of marital status or residence.

The law also made it illegal for insurance companies to place lifetime, or even annual, limits on coverage benefits.

In the 2010 law, insurance companies are also prohibited from rescinding coverage

because of technical mistakes on applications or other errors.

“This legislation will also lower costs for families and for businesses and for the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in the next two decades. It is paid for. It is fiscally responsible. And it will help lift a decades-long drag on our economy,” said Obama in statements just before the bill became law, later released by the White House.

Preventative care under the law became easier to access with the establishment of a $15 billion Prevention and Public Health Fund.

By federal law, plans beginning after Sept. 23, 2010 now include preventative care and screening services, such as colonoscopies and mammograms, with no co-pay, co-insurance or deductible requirements.

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“She had to make a decision everyday whether she was going to go to the doctor, fill prescriptions, or deal with

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revitalizing sectors of Black America moving forward,” said Daniels. “There is a way that people tend to stay in these positions for a very long time, five years is not a long time. His tenure was really successful and I was actually looking forward to more.”

Al Sharpton, president and founder of the National Action Network, said that he had mixed emotions when he learned that Ben Jealous would resign from the NAACP. “I am happy that he has done so well and leaves his post with no scandal, shame, or physical challenges, and young enough to have a bright future,” said Sharpton in a press release. “There is sadness, however, because for the last several years he has joined Marc Morial (National Urban League president), Melanie Campbell (president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation), and me as we tried to broaden the civil rights leadership of the 21st century movement.

Ben Jealous has operated with integrity and a real sense of hands-on activism.”

Mary Frances Berry, history professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and former chairperson of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, was on the NAACP selection committee to pick a successor to Bruce Gordon.

“We expected him to make the organization financially solvent and he did,” said Berry. “We hoped by appointing someone younger and someone new that had

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a lot of energy and interest in the organization that it would create a more livelier organization.”

She said he accomplished that mission. “[Jealous] stayed on the case all the time and he made sure that the NAACP was in the forefront of trying to deal with the emerging issues,” Berry explained. “That it is positioned to deal with some of these major issues like the economy. He made it stronger and more possible for the [NAACP] to go to the next level.”

Jealous said that once he steps down at the end of the year, he will dedicate more time at home being a dad, help train the next generation of leaders and work on a political action group that can help Black, Latino and other progressive candidates of color compete for leadership positions in the South.

Jealous tenure was not without its problems.

In 2010, the NAACP became embroiled in the firing of Shirley Sherrod, an official at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A doctored video posted by a right-wing website appeared to show Sherrod making racist remarks recounting how she didn’t’ help a White farmer as much as she should have.

Without reviewing the original video, Jealous backed her dismissal. He later viewed the full tape, retracted his initial statement, and claimed he had been “snookered.” The NAACP urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to give Sherrod her job back at the USDA. Sherrod accepted the NAACP’s apology and Jealous was able to put that incident behind him.

As the NAACP begins its search for the next president and CEO, Berry said the organization still needs someone who can maintain the financial solvency and keep the progress going with the membership and the

leadership.

Daniels said that it’s important that the next president of the NAACP continue to foster a strong relationship with the faithbased community.

Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, Calif. since 1976, agrees.

“The Black church is the base for political engagement in the Black community and that’s why we have got to maintain that relationship with the church,” said Brown, an NAACP board member.

“Because of our condition in this country, the Black folks of America are the most religious group of people in the world, and the Black church, for good or ill, has been our forum.”

Jealous recognizes that he leaves the organization although stable at a time of great change in the country.

Jealous said that the first century of the organization’s existence their work revolved around federal court cases.

Now in the second century, Jealous said that the NAACP’s focus has shifted from federal litigation to state legislation.

Addressing issues at the state level will take more boots on the ground and more diverse collaborations.

“We have to get much more adept at building big robust coalitions of people,” he said, listing the NAACP’s recent efforts in bringing together Black, Latino, gay rights groups and city council members representing Muslim and Arab populations to effectively combat the “stopand-frisk” tactics conducted by the New York City Police Department. Recently, a judge ruled those tactics unconstitutional in practice a major victory for the NAACP and its partners.

Jealous said, “That is how a democracy works and we in the civil rights community have been rising to that challenge and becoming more effective.”

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Julian Bond Sees Uneven Gains, Tough Civil Rights Battles Ahead

By Teria Rogers AFRO Staff Writer Julian Bond, former NAACP board chairman, veteran state legislator and seasoned civil rights strategist, Sept. 5 chronicled the path of the modern-day Civil Rights Movement from defiance of die-hard segregationists a halfcentury ago to current battles to sustain political and economic gains.

To the 73-year-old founder of The Southern Poverty

Law Center, speaking from personal experience, said the victories won in the 1960s have resulted in uneven gains.

speech for a University of Maryland Civil War to Civil Rights symposium at the Clarice Smith Center in

“Blacks are facing hurdles ‘equal to, if not greater than, the task already done.”’

–Julian Bond

“The task ahead is enormous,” the man regarded as a Civil Rights Movement elder statesman told the crowd of 300 in a keynote

College Park.

Blacks are facing hurdles “equal to, if not greater than, the task already done,” Bond said in remarks delivered

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in observance of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

Looking back on that period of often-bloody resistance, Bond said, “1963 was a year filled with white violence,” Bond said, “the assassination of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers in Mississippi, the suppression of the children’s march in Birmingham, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the assassination of President Kennedy.”

Planning for the 1963 march, tempered by concern about the threat of violence, also reflected the segregationist grip on the city of Washington, D.C., he said.

Because Washington, D.C. was under federal control, local residents had no control in the city’s preparation for the March of Washington.

“In 1963 the people of Washington had even less control of their government than they do today,” Bond said. “The all-white Board of Commissioners (which governed Washington, D.C.) were terrified of the prospects of an unruly and probably boisterous and rowdy mob of angry Black people descending on the city.”

The government decided to prepare for an onslaught of arrests and physical violence by freeing up hundreds of hospital beds, scheduling thousands of officers to work

City Hall and Oriole Park Visits Kick Off Alopecia Areata Awareness Month in Baltimore On Sept. 6, local members of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF) kicked off this year’s celebration of National Alopecia Areata Awareness month with a tour of Baltimore City Hall and a visit with Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake. The group of 12 local residents made the trip to City Hall in an effort to raise interest and awareness about the disease.

Alopecia areata is the most common autoimmune disease, affecting over 6.5 million Americans, and 145 million people worldwide. It manifests with total or partial loss of scalp and body hair. There currently is no cure, and no treatment that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Alopecia areata occurs in both sexes and all races and ages, but young people are affected most often. It usually starts with one or more small, round patches on the scalp. In some people, the disease can affect hair on the scalp until all of it is lost (alopecia totalis), or over the entire body, including the eyebrows and eyelashes (alopecia universalis).

Immediately following the visit to City Hall, the group proceeded to Oriole Park at Camden Yards and met up with

more than 40 NAAF members to continue with the Baltimore Alopecia Awareness Day activities. The group handed out brochures and bracelets inscribed with the phrase “Free to be me” as well as answered questions to fans curious about the disease. Public service announcements were posted on the Orioles scoreboard periodically throughout the game. One of the younger NAAF members, Miranda Soong, a sixth grader from Huntington Beach, California, delivered a strong and heart-warming rendition of the National Anthem just before the Orioles began their winning rally against the Chicago White Sox. “This was our third year of conducting an awareness day with the Orioles and it was by far one of our most successful”, said Maria Beckett a member of the National Alopecia Areata Foundation board of directors. “The theme for this year’s awareness month is ‘Look at Us’. It’s a rallying call bringing attention and understanding to people who may not have even heard of alopecia areata. We are especially grateful to the Orioles franchise and to the Mayor’s office for helping us to spread the word and raise the public’s level of understanding.”

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Julian Bond overtime, scheduling local judges on standby, evacuating hundreds of inmates to clear jail space, shutting down government offices and closing liquor stores “for the first time since prohibition.”

Despite the fears, he noted, 250,000 gathered peacefully on the National Mall on August 28, 1963 and no violent incidents were reported.

For the then-23-year-old, the event was not without light moments. Bond recalled serving a soft drink to Black entertainer Sammy Davis

Jr. and getting an unusual response. Davis “held out his hand like a pistol,” made the sound of a gun and told Bond, “thanks kid.”

As for the present, Bond challenged those who feel our nation has reached a “racial nirvana.” Obama’s victory could not end “structural inequities or racist attitudes,” said Bond, “but it has fomented them.”

“Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves,” said the civil rights icon, and the crowd broke out into laughter.

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BUSINESS Calls for United Push for Florida Boycott who really, I don’t want to use the term ‘have yet been tested,’ but we don’t know their commitment level,” Dr. Kimbro said.

He compared the post-verdict conditions to when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1958. There were only five Black millionaires in the United States then, he noted.

But today, there are 35,000 Black millionaires and five Black billionaires, he continued.

Yet, Dr. King was savvy and entrepreneurial in his effort to raise

By Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Calls for a boycott in the wake of a Florida jury’s acquittal of the man who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have raised questions about whether Black America’s financial divestment from the tourist state would produce a strong enough economic chokehold to forge meaningful changes in its gun laws, given one juror’s claim law forced the six-person jury to set the killer free.

The boycott calls also raise questions and recommendations about what Blacks should do with the money pulled out of the Sunshine State—and what could be done with hard earned dollars whether a nationwide boycott is launched or not.

According to the governor’s office, visitors to Florida spent a record $71.8 billion in 2012, an increase of 6.8 percent over 2011.

“This represents a record year of spending in 2012 by tourists in Florida, exceeding the previous highs of $67.2 billion in 2011 and $65.5 billion in 2007,” according to Gov. Rick Scott. “Travelers to Florida spent an additional $4.6 billion in 2012, marking the second consecutive record year for visitor spending in the Sunshine State.

Florida’s tourism industry is critical to Florida families as it serves as a vital source of revenue to the state and a key driver of employment,” he said earlier this year.

Visit Florida, the official destination marketing organization, reported 2012 visitors spent over 500 million vacation nights and nearly $72 billion in the state, the world’s top vacation destination.

Florida is also a leader in agriculture and other industries: According to state figures, 40 percent of all U.S. exports to Latin and South America pass through Florida; the space industry represents $4.1 billion of the state’s economy and employs 33,000 aerospace workers; the state

produces about 67 percent of the U.S. oranges and accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s orange juice supply, and has significant income and jobs in service, software, health technology and university research.

Financial experts interviewed

by The Final Call say economic pressure over the July 13 acquittal of George Zimmerman on seconddegree murder charges presents a great opportunity for Blacks to address a growing wealth gap with White America.

“There’s a lot of noise out there regarding the Zimmerman–Trayvon case and we boycott all the time. We just don’t realize it. Probably the biggest boycott that Black America is involved in right now is our own community, our own race,” said Dr. Dennis Kimbro, a researcher, educator and best selling author.

Dr. Kimbro was referring to the $1.2 trillion economists say leaves the Black community each year, when many Black-owned businesses provide some of the same, if not better, goods and services as outsiders.

If Blacks exercised greater spending among themselves, it would not only close the wealth gap, but Blacks would have a surplus, Dr. Kimbro insisted.

“Now, it’s easier said than done in terms of Florida, simply because you’re dealing with Marketing 101 and you’re dealing with a new generation of African Americans

added.

To date, a host of entertainers and organizations have dropped plans to perform in Florida unless and until it gets rid of its controversial Stand Your Ground law. The law allows citizens to use deadly force if they feel threatened, even when there’s an alternative exit.

Iconic R&B artist Stevie Wonder bolstered desires to boycott when he announced he would not perform in Florida or any state that has similar laws.

Since then, media reports

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Dream Defenders share their message at the March on Washington in D.C., Aug. 24. awareness about the boycott, Dr. Kimbro said. The boycott was scheduled to take place only on December 1, but since Dr. King had 99 percent participation in Montgomery’s Black community, he decided to extend the action and attach some demands to it, according to Dr. Kimbro.

Black America should do the same thing now, he argued. He recommends taking a stand on one particular day or month and if participation is effective, extend the Florida boycott.

“But to just say we’re going to boycott economically Florida, that’s a little bit haphazard and the buy-in level, you’ll get better buy-in if you go from the broad to the narrow, from the general to the specific,” he

indicate, entertainers Eddie Levert of the O’Jays and gospel duo Mary Mary have confirmed they have joined Mr. Wonder in his boycott.

Kanye West, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Usher, Trey Songz, Young Jeezy, Rhihanna, Alicia Keys and Dionne Warwick have reportedly also vowed not to perform in Florida.

“I take my hat off to Stevie and Stevie has a strong activist and social responsibility mode. He’s not new to this game and he’s one of the brothers fighting in the trenches.

But again, you’ve got to look at this as not only a media ploy but you’ve got to use Marketing 101 in order for this to be effective,” Dr. Kimbro said.

First, progress the starting point from Stevie Wonder and heighten

awareness by making sure whether in New York, Miami, Houston, L.A. or Seattle, the Black community gets the word out, he instructed. Second, figure out a time period, he added.

“Are we going to do this adinfinitum? And who are we really going after? Are you going after Stand Your Ground, or if you’re saying we’re not going to buy orange juice. We’re not going to buy grapefruits, there’s a market segment that agrees with us on this Stand Your Ground that’s going to be wiped out and that’s migrant workers in Florida, a Hispanic community,” Dr. Kimbro said.

Black, White, Brown, and Asian—use everyone concerned about this problem and amenable to boycotting to map out an effective strategy, he continued.

Reverend Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, has argued for stopping conventions and boycotting Florida as an “apartheid state.”

According to the Rev. K.W. Tulloss, of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s Los Angeles chapter, the civil rights leader and host of MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” has not yet issued an official position.

“We are exploring all options regarding the next steps on Florida … Our focus right now is these Stand Your Ground laws,” Rev. Tulloss said.

In listening to the pulse of the people, Rev. Tulloss said many have indicated small boycotts are already taking place, such as not buying orange juice. But a real dialogue must occur between those for and those against a boycott in order to determine the real costs to the masses, the loss to Blacks, allies in Florida, and any potential impact, he said.

A national boycott would impact many people, particularly in Florida, but any effective outcome would require sacrifice, which is part of the struggle, he continued.

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OPINION

Traps for the desperate and unwary

Richard Cordray, Director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tells the sad story of a man who, needing emergency car repairs, borrowed $500 from a so-called “payday lender.” After nine months of relentless payments, he had paid out $900, and he still owed another $312.

That is an outrageous rate of return on a simple loan. In most states it would constitute an illegal rate of interest.

To make the borrower’s Rep. Elijah situation even worse, Cummings the payday lender was “authorized” to take the payments directly out of the borrower’s checking account.

In these circumstances, banks may be slow or resistant to cancelling that “authorization,” even when the borrower demands that it do so.

Out of desperation, the man in Cordray’s example was trapped by the pitfalls of payday loans. His plight illustrates why Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation Mark Kaufman and other state regulators have been doing everything within their power to clamp down on payday lenders, the excessive interest and fees that they charge, and the banks that facilitate their snares for the unwary.

Financial regulators at the state level have been making some progress in protecting the public.

In Maryland, for example, Kaufman has brought legal actions against on-line payday lenders that are offering payday loans without a Maryland lender’s license and charging interest well in excess of our state’s usury cap.

He also is challenging the banks that, wittingly or unwittingly, are helping to make these predatory practices possible.

Kaufman acknowledges, however, that some online lenders are continuing their illegal operations in our state. Here in Maryland and nationally, some of the worst of these financial predators are attempting to avoid regulation by setting up shop on Indian Reservations and overseas while reaching the desperate and unwary through their television sets and even

their computers.

Kaufman would be among the first to acknowledge that to fully protect the public state regulators need expanded cooperation and assistance from our federal government.

That is why I have been working with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and 30 other Senate and House colleagues ( including Maryland Reps. John Sarbanes and Donna Edwards) to cosponsor and advocate for the SAFE Lending Act of 2013 [H.R. 990, S. 172].

We are determined to assist state-level financial regulators in ensuring that payday lenders cannot use the Internet to violate state-level consumer lending laws. We believe that the SAFE Lending Act would be an important step in the right direction in our continuing effort to combat predatory lending practices.

It would further empower consumers’ control of their own bank accounts, respect the states’ role in regulating lending, help prevent shadow lending, and give both state and federal authorities the tools necessary to combat rogue, Internet-based lenders.

Specifically, the bill would give borrowers greater control of their personal bank accounts by protecting them from payday lenders that now are raiding their accounts through remotely created checks or debit withdrawals.

It would require those lenders to comply with the states’ rules and regulations governing payday loans, assuring that members of the public are not charged interest and fees that exceed usury limits.

In addition, our reform legislation would ban “shadow brokers” from offering these payday transactions, bringing greater transparency to this multi-billion dollar industry.

Finally, we would assure that states can gain the assistance of federal authorities in combating offshore and other illegal online lending activity.

Our goal in proposing this legislation is to better protect the desperate and unwary by bringing the cost of payday loans down to reasonable levels. It is important to note, however, that our legislation would not prohibit these loans altogether.

Maryland, for example, permits annual interest rates up to 33 percent on these short-term loans. Surely, that limit is sufficient for bona fide lenders to receive a fair return.

There is no question that many Americans are struggling

Mentors Matter These are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the nation’s capital: “Where I live, which is Ward 7, everyone is the same . . . If you follow the crowd, you’re going to end up dead or in jail because that’s where most of them are. But if you’re a leader and you make your own decisions, then you can set your path for life.”

Marian Wright Mike Ruff had to make Edelman up his mind a while back that he was going to step up and become one of the leaders. That’s what he told participants at the recent symposium, “Black Male Teens: Moving to Success in the High School Years,” sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund. Mike explained how he came to embrace standing out from the crowd by defying low expectations—and how he reached a key turning point when a mentor told him he couldn’t succeed.

College and career planning wasn’t a reality for the people

he knew: “Ninety-five percent of the students are poor. We come from basically nothing, because our parents were in the same situations that we are.” His father had dropped out of school in 10th grade, and when Mike started high school, he seemed to be heading down a similar track: “Ninety percent of the school did the same thing I did—skipped class, left school, and no one seemed to try to find out what the problem was.” His grade point average freshman year was a 2.5, and at the time his main ambition was to keep up a D-average so he could graduate.

But then he met with Mr. Mungin, one of the adults he’d met through an enrichment program he’d enrolled in during middle school. He asked Mike how his plans for life after high school were coming. Mike told Mr. Mungin he’d started thinking about a career in hospitality management, and Mr. Mungin asked to see his grades: “So he looked at my transcript, just for that ninth grade year . . . saw my grades, D, D, B, D, D, A, and looked back up at me with the straightest face and said, ‘You can’t do it.’ So that kind of hurt me, for a grown man telling me that I can’t do something. So then I just got up, walked out, and [caught] the bus home.”

With some uncaring and uninterested adults, that’s exactly where the story would end. Mike would have left discouraged from having a dream at all. But that wasn’t Mike’s story: “By the time I arrived home, there is Mr. Mungin already there. I

and at times need immediate access to credit to meet emergencies or to pay day-to-day expenses. However, if such loans cause them to fall into a deepening cycle of debt from which they cannot escape, the loans are not providing real assistance to those in need.

This is why we have concluded that the “access to credit” argument advanced by lobbyists for payday loans is a red herring. As elected representatives, we have a duty to do all that we can to protect the public from this financial peril.

Whether the Republican-lead House of Representatives will agree that our proposed assistance to state regulators is needed remains to be seen. They should understand, however, that these payday lending practices are placing all financial institutions, both the legitimate and those that are illegal, in an unsavory public light.

As a nation, we must do much better in assuring that every American can obtain the short-term financial assistance that they need – without being enticed into traps for the desperate and unwary.

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

was wondering, why is this man at my house after he told me that I can’t do something?” Mike had been lucky enough to find a true mentor on a mission. After Mr. and other mentors stepped in along the way to support him, by 11th grade Mike had brought his GPA up to a 3.0, and by the 12th grade, a 3.75.

Now Mike is attending Tuskegee University, a historically Black university founded by Booker T. Washington. Mike plans to double major in hospitality management and psychology. Mike knows that in his high school graduating class, he is one of the lucky ones: “We started off in this 12th grade with at least 300 students . . . but only 130 12th graders graduated.”

Mr. Mungin helped Mike realize he needed to change. But what happens to the students who never know a Mr. Mungin?

What will happen to the other students in Mike’s high school class who didn’t graduate at all or were content to get out with mostly Ds? Far too many young Black boys are only hearing the first part of the message—“You can’t do it.” We need supports in place to show them that they can choose a different path—and even if no one else they know has done it, they can decide to be the ones to step up and lead the way.

Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund.

Never Say We Haven’t Made Progress Selma, Ala., the county seat of Dallas County, was a bastion of White supremacy in 1965. At the time, of the 15,000 potential Black voters, only 300 were registered. In response to chants of “We Shall Overcome,” by civil rights protesters, Sheriff Jim Clark wore a button on his uniform declaring, “Never.”

That did not stop Rev. C.T. Vivian, a close aide of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., George E. Curry and workers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from leading daily marches to the courthouse in an effort to register Blacks. On Feb. 5, 1965, Clark blocked the entrance to the courthouse with his deputies.

“If we’re wrong, why don’t you arrest us?” Vivian said.

Instead of arresting Vivian, Clark hit him so hard in the face that he fractured a finger. After being knocked down the steps, a bloodied C.T. Vivian rose to his feet and said, “We’re willing to be beaten for democracy, and you misuse democracy in this street. You beat people bloody in order that they will not have the privilege to vote.”

Vivian and other activists persisted. Though John Lewis and others were pummeled by Clark’s deputies and Alabama State troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Blacks did overcome after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

When Sheriff Clark sought re-election in predominantly Black Dallas County in 1966, newly-empowered Black voters said “Never” and kicked him out of office.

Surely, President Obama had Vivian and others like him in mind when he said at the Aug. 28 commemoration of the

1963 March on Washington: “To dismiss the magnitude of this progress – to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed – that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years….”

Obama recently announced that he is awarding Vivian, one of the most courageous figures of the Civil Rights Movement, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Vivian joins other movement veterans, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumously), James L. Farmer, Dorothy Height, John Lewis, Benjamin L. Hooks, Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Joseph Lowery, Clarence Mitchell, Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin (posthumously), Roy Wilkins, Andrew Young and Marian Wright Edelman in receiving the distinguished honor.

Because so much work still needs to be done, sometimes we neglect to stand back and appreciate just how much America has changed in the past 50 years.

The Census Bureau provided the following comparisons: INCOME 1963: $22,266 (in 2011 dollars) The median family income for blacks was 55 percent of the median income for all American families. $25,826 and $14,651 (in 2011 dollars) Median income of black men and black women who worked full time, year-round 2011: $40,495 The median family income for the Black-alone population was 66 percent of the median income for all American families $40,273 and $35,146 Median income of single-race black men and black women who worked full time, year-round.

POVERTY 1966

41.8percent Poverty rate for Blacks (1966 is the closest year these statistics are available to the historic speech). Nationally, the poverty rate for all races was 14.7 percent.

2011 27.6 percent Poverty rate for single-race Blacks. Nationally, the poverty rate for all races was 15 percent.

HOUSING 1970 41.6 percent Homeownership rate for Blacks (the earliest this information is available for race).

2011 43.4 percent Homeownership rate for Blacks.

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION 1964 25.7 percent Percentage of Blacks age 25 and over who completed at least four years of high school.

2.4 million Number of Blacks 25 and over with at least four years of high school.

Yes, we have made progress as a direct result of the modern Civil Rights Movement. And instead of denying that fact – preferring to see the glass as half empty instead of half full – we should celebrate that progress let it be proof that with our efforts, we can continue to make progress over another 50 years. (See more at Afro.com)

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA).

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PEOPLE

Carlton G. Epps Sr. Named Director, Anne Arundel Central Services

Carlton G. Epps, Sr., a decorated veteran, whose commendations include two Air Medals, the Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Bronze Star for Valor, has been named director of Central Services for Anne Arundel County.

Announcement of his appointment was made

by County Executive Laura Neuman.

Epps currently serves as CEO for the Howard County Economic Development Carlton G. Epps Sr. Authority (HCEDA), a position he has held since 2011. In this capacity, he oversees the day-to-day operations of HCEDA, which includes human resources, budgeting and accounting, procurement, contracting, facilities management, telecommunications and relations with Howard County government.

Before joining HCEDA, he held seniorlevel positions with Civic Works, Associated Black Charities, Baltimore City Schools,

Matrics and the Maryland State Retirement Agency. He also served in the U.S. Army, where he was a Field Artillery Officer during Vietnam and a Special Forces Officer.

He also served in the Army National Guard/ Reserves. Epps earned both his bachelor’s and master’s in business administration from Loyola College of Baltimore.

“I am very pleased to bring Carlton on board,” said County Executive Neuman.

“I know, firsthand, the value he brings to an organization. I am pleased that Anne Arundel County will have the benefit of his organizational experience, and his calm and steady leadership.”

As director of Central Services, Epps will oversee five divisions which include Facilities Maintenance, Purchasing, Real Estate, Fleet Administration and Risk Management; he will also oversee the Minority Business Enterprise Program.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Brittany N. Eley graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Eley earned distinction as an honor graduate.

She is the daughter of Brian Eley of Alexis Lane, King George, Va., and Charlene Queen, Pocopson Creek Way, Brandywine, Md. The airman is a 2007 graduate of Westlake High School, Waldorf, Md. She received a bachelor’s degree in 2011 from George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.

Air Force Airman John M. Prichett graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Prichett is the nephew of DeWitt Partlow of Caliph Street, Brandywine, Md. He is a 2012 graduate of Gwynn Park High School, Brandywine.

In Memoriam

Celebrating the Centennial Birthday of Gertrude C. Marshburn September 15, 1913 – March 25, 2000

In each passing moment, you cross our hearts and minds but this year we want to celebrate what would have been your centennial birthday. Born 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and 50 years before the March on Washington, you instilled in us the importance of education and possessing pride in yourself and your community. As an educator and later a highly decorated federal and county government employee, you exuded an unmatched fortitude and determination to excel in all that you do.

We were blessed to have been in your presence for the time we were given and we celebrate the centennial of your birth on this day. We want to wish you a Happy Birthday from your beloved daughter, Jo-Ann and your loving grandchildren, Ja-Zette and Antonio.

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A beautifully designed Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Cake Photos by A. Lois DeLaine

John M. Wesley and David Baker

There’s nothing like the Court Yard Summer Series at The Avenue Bakery in Baltimore.

The Firm, John Wesley and David Baker and other musicians lent their ‘jazz’ as neighbors danced and generally enjoyed this Aug. 17 evening.

James Hamlin is the owner of the bakery and actively helping with the rejuvenation of the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor.

Photos by Anderson Ward

Cassandra Lewis, Sarah Jane Young and Cynthia Penner

Kimberly and Harry Jenkins

Karen Goodwin and Fannie Goodwin

Nephew Emanuel Ross with daughters Jessica and Amanda

Honoree’s brother (center), Howard Tutman Jr with wife Carolyn and Darolyn Milbourne, sister-in law

Dr. Ronald Gray, Dr. Jewell Gray and Dr. Terri Hil

Great grandchildren with honoree; Andrew, Alexander, Aaron Garnett, Kory, Kameron and Elyse Crawford

Family, friends, church members, Delta sorors, organizational colleagues, including ASALH, and neighbors were all in attendance as Ruth Briscoe Crawford Ross celebrated her 90th birthday at Diamondz in Randallstown, Md. Baltimorean Ruth Ross, the daughter of Herbert Briscoe and Mary Olivia Peaker, graduated from Frederick Douglass High School, attended Cortez Peters Business School and began her career in the Department of Social Services.

At this multi-generational occasion, which consisted of well wishes from far and near, her daughter, Laverne C. Johnson and son Kendall, husband Norman Ross (a church musician) her brother, Howard L. Tutman Jr, 29 Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and wife Carolyn were among the many greeters and speakers who rendered eloquent remarks about the honoree.

Hugs and kisses were the order of the day as Mrs. Ross continued to smile and swaying to one of her favorite selections, “Ever Praise is to Our God” by gospel artist Hezekiah Walker. An atmosphere of pleasure and happiness was evident. She was also an active choir member at Holy Trinity Church and socially involved with many causes.

Mrs. Ross attributed her longevity to a family of long lives and God’s blessings. Her mother lived to be 92 and her grandmother 102 years old. She has two living cousins in their 90’s.

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Mildred Moore and Nick Bostick

Standing: Georgia L. Diggins, Beverly R. James, Hernione C. Graham, Minerva C. Worshen. Seated: Phyllis B. Watkins, Cheryl Pasteur, Randolph Edwards

Crab Feast Chairperson Carla Tyler Chase with vendors Tamytha Brevard and Tisha Campbell

Guests enjoy the day

Vincent A. Watts and Lisa Y. Settles

Ruth Warren

Essie Sutton, Regina Bernard and Joseph Bernard

BCAC President Jerilynn Reid, Baltimore Alumnae President Eleanor Matthews, Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae’s First Vice President Patsy Nwagbaraocha, 22nd National President Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd and Md. State Coordinator Deborah Hayes-Barton

Miranda Louis and Kevin Louis Larry Lewis and Thomas Lewis

James Hamlin, owner of The Avenue Bakery

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The Baltimore County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Deltas Edie Jenkins and Sigma Theta Sorority is doing its part to continue Sheila Wise the organization’s legacy of service during the yearlong centennial celebration. The chapter hosted its 17th Annual Scholarship Crab Feast, Aug. 2, at Martin’s West. With more than 1,400 guests in attendance including national, regional and local Delta Chapter members Kim Johnsonleadership Redder, Sonja Johnson Brooks, and also Stephanie Swann Groce and Baltimore Shanae Fant city, county Baltimore Co. and state officials, the Del. Shirley chapter raised thousands of Nathan-Pulliam dollars to benefit its scholarship and Rainier fund. It was, as chapter President C. Harvey Sr., Jerilynn Reid called it, “A party Democratic with a purpose.” candidate for the Md. House of Delegates

DST Eastern Regional Director Robin Jacobs

Guests enjoying great food and delicious crabs

Richard Swartz, Charlene Hudson won a full length beaver coat courtesy of Mano Swartz Furs and Harry Evans

President Reid with Baltimore County Councilman Ken Oliver, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, The Honorable Justin King and his wife Cindi Courtesy Photos

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SPORTS

Is Fantasy Football Hurting the NFL?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk

is gone. If you’re a fantasy football fanatic, you don’t have just one favorite team, you have at least nine on any given Sunday.

The game of fantasy football has exploded in popularity over the last few years, growing into a full industry with specialized magazines, TV segments and ESPN specials.

The concept is simple: create a fictional team of real-life NFL players who score points for your team based on what they do on the field. As the game has changed from small hobby into a national beast, most media outlets can’t talk about NFL matchups without highlighting the week’s top fantasy scorers. Whether it’s a high-profile quarterback, a dominant running back or a big-play wide receiver, football fans follow the NFL scoreboard for its impact on their fantasy team. But with once-diehard fans now rooting for players on an opposing team, or even their hometown’s biggest rival, is fantasy football really a good thing for the NFL? Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley of the AFRO Sports Desk debate the question.

Green: If anything, fantasy football has helped the popularity and recognition of the sport.

East Coast residents who used to only follow their team now tune into West Coast games they might never have watched otherwise. I’m a Baltimore Ravens fan to the core, and it can be awkward when there are fantasy players on a team the Ravens are facing. But the bottom line is still what matters most to me: a Ravens win. Still, fantasy football has gotten so big that finding success means scouting and studying other teams around the NFL. That hasn’t hurt the league, only increased its following.

Riley: Anytime fans cheer for their favorite team but still hope their opponent’s top player has a good game to help their fantasy team, then you know something is wrong. A diehard Washington Redskins fan might want Dallas quarterback Tony Romo to throw three touchdowns and the Cowboys to score 40 or more points. Granted, football is just a game, and no one should be crucified for having a favorite team while cheering for certain milestones from another team’s player. But the days of fans who only care about the success of their team

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY.” Charlie Chaplin We are entering the final days of the “long hot summer” but oh what a summer. The Labor Day weekend wraps up a summer of festivities or does it signal the beginning of the fall social scene when we hasten to drink the “last of the summer wine.”

Saturday, Zenith Hospitality’s John Lee hosted a Grand Prix party at Luna Del Sea on Pratt Street with owner Tony Assadi. Our front row seats at the starting line gave us the ideal location to view the cars and drivers up close. The hot sun did not affect the cool demeanor of the drivers as they waited for the four-car pileup to clear as the blazing sun beamed on them; finally, the drivers lifted the car doors and stepped out to the cheers of the fans. Joining us were Marcy Crump, George Ray, Irvin Creighton, Takiea Hinton, Anthony

Riley: From a scouting standpoint, yes, fantasy football has helped us learn about players on other teams, especially those in small markets. But there’s something to be said when you’re in a crowded bar watching Baltimore play Pittsburgh, and you see a Steelers fan clapping quietly to himself because Ravens running back Ray Rice just scored a touchdown and he’s on that diehard Steelers fan’s fantasy roster. That kills me on the inside, and I see it way too much during football season. One of the aspects that attracted me to football so much when I was growing up was that it was “us against them” for almost every fan. Now some are turning on their own team just to celebrate a few extra points on their fantasy roster.

Jones, Delegate Nathaniel Oaks and Ralph Lee. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” Kellie Elmore “Come Sunday” Auvea Fortune and I were guests of my childhood friend Delegate Nathaniel Oaks at the home of Michael and Allison Schechter for an old-fashioned crab feast with bushels of crabs and old bay drenched corn on the cob covering the eightfoot tables in the enormous yard. Enjoying the crabs were Mayor Sheila Dixon, Anthony “Petey” Edwards, Carolyn Blakeney, Cynthia Jackson, Council President Jack and Darlene Young, Kenneth Oaks and Ralph Lee. “Summer ends, and autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.” Hal Borland The quintessential party to close a perfect summer weekend was “Monday morning” with GEMS President LaVerne Naesea and members Deborah Taylor, Wendy Dukes, Jackie Brown, Shirley

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Swafford, Michelle Emery, Brenda Baker, Anne Emery, Regina Bernard, Audrey Freeman, LeMoyne Cooper, Alisa Henderson, Helena Hicks, Juanita Morton, Sharon Pinder, Judge Shirley Watts and Mildred Taylor who entertained guests at their yearly Labor Day breakfast dance at the Lafontaine Bleu. This invitational-only event with vocalist Tracey Curbeam, crooning standards and popular tunes while guests enjoyed omelets to order, cream chipped beef, breakfast meats, carved meats and more, created a whimsical morning. The elegantly attired guests were Pat and Howard Jessamy, Carol and Joe Hillary, Lynda Brown, Walter Hill, Reginald Pinder, Earl Taylor, Dr. J Laws Nickens, Diane Hardison, Mert and Dean Evans, Chandra and Ellsworth Jackson, Liston George, Anne Parker, Paul and Blanche Beckham, Shirley Robinson, Linda and Ken James, Gregory Williams, Carol Hilton, William Brown, Judson and Goldie Wood, Susan Parker, Richard, Jesse Murphy and Dr. Vallen Emery.

“I hate to see that evening sun go down.” Nat King Cole Not wanting to end the enchantment of the morning, we hosted about 30 guests at my home for a late supper of jambalaya, carved ham, burgers, hot dogs, salmon and assorted salads. We were sitting poolside enjoying the “summer breeze,” reminiscing about the splendid morning when “suddenly” percussionist David Baker distributed musical instruments and “in the still of the night” he started playing the bongos as we joined in with cymbals, bells, tambourines and shakers for an impromptu jam session that can only be described as “this magic moment.”

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu Happy anniversary to Herb and Deanna Brown, Gregory and Karen Hill, Eugene and Sara Smalley, Brenda and Napoleon Sykes, Dante and Candes Daniels, Russell and Cassandra Johnson, Sandi and Jai Matthews and retired MCIJ assistant warden Billy Hayes and Dr. Francine-Conway Hayes on their 20th anniversary.

“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.” Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) (See more on Afro.com) “I’ll be seeing you.” Valerie & the Friday Night Bunch

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Winner of Station’s “Next Big Voice” Contest

WHUR Welcomes New Deejay Frank Ski

By Andrea “Aunni” Young Special to the AFRO

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WHUR 96.3 FM—Howard University debuted a new afternoon drive-time program on Sept. 9 featuring air personality Frank Ski. The “Frank Ski Show” will be heard from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays on the Washington, D.C.-based station. Frank Ski, whose real name is Frank Rodgriguez, joined WHUR after listeners chose him in “WHUR’s Next Big Voice” contest, where several deejays vied for the position. Frank Ski worked in radio in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1990s before moving on to Baltimore and later to Atlanta, where he hosted a top-rated radio show for more than a decade.

AFRO: Welcome back to D.C. Are you excited?

FRANK SKI: This, for me, is kind of a dream come true. I started in radio in Washington while in college, at the age of 18. I remember listening to WHUR and saying, ‘One day, I’m gonna have a voice and a show good enough to be on WHUR.’ And I’m here.

AFRO: You still have fans in D.C. and Baltimore.

FRANK SKI: It’s interesting, we do. That is part of why I’m here. I believe if I can interpret what I do well enough on this radio station, this company has the ability to expand it…I’d like to be the first American jock to be syndicated around the world.

AFRO: Why were you interested in this particular show?

Frank Ski: One, it presents a great opportunity because I left [a] morning show. The mornings are filled right now. You’ve got Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey, Rickey Smiley, Yolanda Adams. This gives me an opportunity, being an afternoon drive [radio show], to build my show and to build my audience. And, if we’re back in the mornings one day, we’re back. If we’re not, we’re in the afternoons. And the interesting thing about it is, [radio research company] Arbitron has now said that the largest listening audience is now in the afternoons, not in the mornings anymore. That’s why we are in the afternoons.

AFRO: Who’s your competition?

FRANK SKI: I have one goal and that is to win Washington… I never look at other people in radio or radio stations as competition. I think we all have a lane. And, I think everybody goes in their lane. What we have to offer is going to make our lane the most listened to.

AFRO: What is that unique piece?

FRANK SKI: I think that one of things that major syndicated shows bring is celebrities.

But, through my relationships all these years, I have the same celebrity friends. We can get anybody from Stevie Wonder to Jay-Z to Denzel to pick up the phone…And that’s what we bring to this game. So it’s not just the syndicated shows that you are going to hear the major

Frank Ski celebrities on, you are going to hear them daily on my show whenever it’s relevant.

AFRO: What will you bring?

FRANK SKI: News and information, which is the most important thing to African Americans, we have that covered better than any of the other shows that are on. We have personal relationships with so many people. I don’t even want to give all the secrets. But anything that happens, especially here in Washington, we are very well connected. We have great relationships with all the TV stations, as well.

AFRO: What motivates you?

FRANK SKI: I’m a very inspirational person. I think that one of things that will help solve the woes of the Black community is to get back into our spiritual side. I think a lot of people have left.

AFRO: Thanks, Frank Ski! FRANK SKI: Thank You!

Jennifer Hudson Portrays Infamous Political Icon Winnie Mandela Film Review by Kam Williams Winnie Mandela (Jennifer Hudson) is a controversial figure in the annals of South African history. For not only was she the first wife of freedom fighter-turned-President Nelson Mandela (Terrence Howard), but she was also convicted of ordering numerous human rights violations.

At the height of the anti-apartheid movement, she headed a

do their best to adopt appropriate accents, but they both sound fake since they’re surrounded by a cast comprised of actual South Africans. The production’s most glaring flaw, nevertheless, is that the poorly-scripted screenplay simply fails to give the audience much of a reason to invest in unlikable Winnie’s life story.

Winnie Mandela, less an honorable “Mother of the Nation,” than a disgraceful, “bad mother-[shut your mouth]!”

Fair (1 star)

WIN PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING

Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela goon squad which doled out street justice to blacks suspected of collaborating with the white establishment. With Winnie’s blessing, snitches would be sentenced to death by necklace, meaning by having a gasoline-soaked tire placed on their shoulders and set on fire.

And after the fall of Apartheid, she confessed before the country Truth and Reconciliation commission to “the murder, torture, abduction and assault of numerous men, women and children.” So, it’s understandably hard to put a sympathetic spin on such an infamous political figure.

That is the challenge tackled by director Darrell Roodt in Winnie Mandela, a warts-and-all biopic which focuses on its subject’s childhood, college days and marriage while making short shrift of her transition into a war criminal. Along the way, we learn that she was a headstrong tomboy who blossomed into the irresistible beauty that Nelson fell in love with at first sight.

Sadly, the two were separated for 27 years while he was imprisoned on Robben Island for treason because of his call for an end to Apartheid. And perhaps that was what led Winnie to rationalize resorting to fighting the government and stool pigeons by any means necessary.

As for the acting, Jennifer Hudson and Terrence Howard

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Blue-Collar Worker Meets Bourgie Family trade is making fun of the contrast between po’ and bourgie black folks. Ala popular Perry TV programs like House of Payne and Meet the Browns, the production is littered with colorful, two-dimensional characters bordering on caricatures.

There’s Wade’s embarrassingly-ghetto brother (Malcolm Barrett) who also shows up unannounced. He’s an oaf who puts his foot in his own mouth by suggesting that Grace’s lipstick lesbian sister (Kali Kawk) “looks too good to be gay.” Wade conveniently loses his wallet upon arriving which means he looks like a total loser when he can’t pay for anything.

You get the idea. Is it funny? I suppose, provided you’re in the target demo and haven’t seen Jumping the Broom, another comedy set at a beachfront estate (on Martha’s Vineyard in that case) and pitting crass blacks from the wrong side of the tracks against upper-class ones with their noses in the air.

From shoplifting to lip-synching to skinny-dipping to a sweat lodge to skeletons-in-the-closet, Peeples throws everything at the screen but the kitchen sink, and just enough sticks.

An amusing, if not exactly original, African-Americanoriented variation on Meet the Parents.

Peeples DVD Review

By Kam Williams After dating for over a year, Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) is head-over-heels in love with his girlfriend, Grace (Kerry Washington). He’s ready to pop the question, and has even purchased a ring, but there’s a slight problem: he still hasn’t met her parents.

Because of her background, Grace is a little ashamed of her beau’s modest background. After all, she’s a high-powered Manhattan attorney with a proven pedigree, while he hails from the ‘hood and makes a living by performing at children’s birthday parties.

Concern about their class differences has Grace taking off alone to the tip of Long Island for a weekend getaway at her family’s waterfront mansion. Rather than sit at home licking his wounds, Wade decides to force the issue by crashing the gathering.

His unexplained arrival gets under the skin of Grace’s father, Judge Virgil Peeples (David Alan Grier), an overbearing patriarch with a need to control. Furthermore, Grace is afraid to tell him the truth about the nature of her relationship with Wade, which serves to establish the familiar, sitcom scenario revolving around a big lie that must be kept hidden at all costs.

Written and directed by Tyler Perry protégé Tina Gordon Chism, Peeples is a fish-out-of-water comedy whose stock-in-

Good (2 stars) Rated PG-13 for profanity, sexuality and drug use Running time: 95 minutes Distributor: Lionsgate Home Entertainment DVD Extras: Cast and filmmaker commentary; gag reel; and Meet the Family: Jam with the Fam featurette.

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Needed; Leads, No Cold 407-321-4190 on or land Blvd restoration, and other miscellaneous work as in 104 newspapers in ORDER specified in the Contract Documents. Bids will Deltona, Florida Maryland, Delaware and Calls; Commissions before October 7, 2013 Upon consideration of then be opened at 3:00 p.m. in the Commis32738, 407-321-4190. the District of Columbia Paid Daily; Lifetime and file the original with the petition of Robert sioners Meeting Room #100. on or before October Renewals; Complete the Clerk of the Circuit Sean for just $495.00 per ad Horrigan to re7,2013 and file the placement. The value of Training; Health/Dental Court at P.O. Box 6043. open probate estate Copies of the Contract Specifications and original with the Clerk Insurance; Life License D e l a n d , F l o r i d a and newspapers advertising letters tesDrawings may be obtained beginning Monof thefor Circuit Court at 32721-6043 before tamentary Required. Call 1-888filed on HAS NEVER BEEN day, September 9, 2013 between the hours of P.O. Box 6043, Deland, service on petitioner or June 4, 2013, and it 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. only, excluding SaturSTRONGER....call 713-6020 Florida 32721-6043 immediately thereafter. appearing to the Court days, Sundays, and holidays, at the Allegany 1-855-721-6332 x 6 before service on PetiIf you fail to do so, a that notice to County Department of Public Works upon paytioner or immediately today to place your MISCELLANEOUS Default may be en- interested persons by ment of $80.00 per set payable to the thereafter.

If you fail to ad before 4.1 million tered against you for publication should oc”Allegany County Commissioners.” An addido so, a Default may be readers. Email Wanda AIRLINE CAREERS the relief demanded in cur in accordance with tional $20.00 per set will be charged for U.S. entered against you for the petition.

Smith @ wsmith@ begin here – Get FAA mail postage. Payment for Contract SCR-PD 11; it is, by the the relief demanded in Copies of all court Court, this 8th day of mddcpress.com or visit approved Aviation Documents is non-refundable. the petition. d o c u m e n t s i n t h i s July, 2013; our website at www.

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Copies of all court case, including orders, ORDERED, that RobThe Contract Documents may be examined at mddcpress.com.

Housing and Financial documents in this are available at the ert the Allegany County Department of Public Sean Horrigan is Aid for qualified stucase, including orders, Clerk of the Circuit authorized to provide Works, 701 Kelly Road, Suite 300, Cumare available at the dents.

Job placement asCourt’s Office. You notice by publication to berland, Maryland and at http://gov.allconet.

BUSINESS Clerk of the Circuit sistance. CALL Aviation m a y r e v i e w t h e s e org/bids/bid.htm. Complete Advertisement for interested persons Court’s Office.

You OPPORTUNITY Institute of Maintenance documents upon re- the Bids and Bidders List is available at http://gov. of this estate of the inm a y r e v i e w t h e s e quest. You must keep stant petition to reopen allconet.org.

800-481-8974 documents upon rethe Clerk of the Circuit probate estate and for Place your ad today quest.

Court’s Office notified letters testamentary in BIDDERS must purchase the Contract MOUNTAIN in both The Baltimore You must keep the of your current ad- accordance Documents directly from Allegany County withCircuit SCRSun and The Washington PROPERTY Clerk of the dress. (You may file PD 11 by delivering noto submit a bid for consideration.

Post newspapers, along Court’s Office notified Florida Family Law tice of such, publicaGreatest Mounof your current adwith 10 other daily Form 12.915. Notice of tion to a newspaper of A pre-bid meeting for the purpose of answertain Lake Bargain in dress. (You may file newspapers five days per America! Boat & golf current address.) Fu- general ing or obtaining answers to questions of parcirculation in Florida Family Law week. Reach 2.5 million out your front door! Ski ture papers in this law- the Washington metroties interested in contracting for the work, will Form 12.915, Notice of suit will be mailed to the politan area in complibe conducted at the Allegany County Office readers with your ad out your back door! In current Address.)

Fuaddress on record at ance with D.C. Code, Building, Commissioner?s Meeting Room placement in every daily area of million dollar+ ture papers in this law#100, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Maryland the Clerk’s Office. sec.

19-301(c) (1961 newspaper in Maryland, homes. Acreage homesuit will be mailed to the at 9:00 a.m., local time, on Tuesday, SeptemW A R N I N G : R u l e Ed.) within 14 days of Delaware and the Disaddress on record at ber 24, 2013. Bidder attendance is encoursite with lake access 12.285, Florida Family teh date of this order trict of Columbia. For the Clerk’s Office. aged but not mandatory. Please direct any only $79,900. Adjoining L a w R u l e s o f and shall file the proof W A R N I N G : R u l e just pennies on the dollar lot sold for $259,900. project questions to Daniel DeWitt, E.I.T., prodcedure, require of publication before 12.285, Florida Family Project Engineer, at 301-876-9560. reach 2.5 million readVacation/retire - Perfect c e r t a i n a u t o m a t i c the hearing date set in Law Rules of Proced i s c l o s u r e o f this order, and it is furdures, require certain documents and in- ther;. automatic disclosure of formation. Failure to ORDERED, documentsthat and incomply can result in pursuant to D.C. Code, formation.

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1. CLASS “A” BEER & WINE LICENSE Roberto’s Wine, Deli & Grocery, LLC Transfer of ownership Roberto Gomez

2. CLASS “A” BEER, WINE & LIQUOR LICENSE Surijatin, Inc. Transfer of ownership Sanjiv Suri, Ronald Sokal

3123 Elmora Avenue

5500 Park Heights Avenue

3. CLASS “B” BEER, WINE & LIQUOR RESTAURANT LICENSE Latin Palace-Uno, Inc. Request to remove restrictions- No live 509-13 S. Broadway Jose Ribadeneira entertainment in restaurant café theater

area except live theatrical performances after

7:00 pm, no adult entertainment allowed, no

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public on premises, non-club members not

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a club member, food percentage must be 40% SSP Enterprises, LLC Transfer of ownership Shailesh Pandit & Dorothea Locco

918-20 N. Charles Street

Red Robin of Canton, LLC Douglas Christman & KimberlyAsner

New license with request for outdoor table service

3821 Boston Street

Canton Waterfront Restaurant, New license with request for outdoor LLC table service and live entertainment Carroll Singleton & Victoria Rothgeb

2809 Boston Street

Mi Tierra, LLC Jose Ruiz & Javier Liberato

2201 W. Patapsco Avenue

Request to add live entertainment

4. CLASS “BD7” BEER, WINE & LIQUOR LICENSE Kyun Man, Inc. Transfer of ownership, request for live Kyun Man Kim & Eun entertainment Hee Kim

3133-35 E. Monument Street

L and M Enterprises, Inc. Transfer of ownership, request for live Meenakshi Sharrma & Andra Paige Allen

4819-25 Eastern Avenue

MEFBMS, Inc. Expansion-add live entertainment William Larney & Rodney Scardina

2900 O’Donnell Street

Lang, Rebecca Rebecca Lang

501 S. Lehigh Street

Transfer of ownership

Walfar, Inc. Transfer of ownership Walid Farousi & Mike Jissri

1801Ramsay Street

Old Clubhouse, Inc. Ki Jeong Lee

1807-11 Baker Street

Transfer of ownership

J.C. Star, LLC Transfer of ownership Jae Ran Chong & Soo Il Kim

2733 Pennsylvania Avenue

Blue Pitt, LLC Transfer of ownership David Newman & Cara Bruce

1601 Union Avenue

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The Afro-American, September 14, 2013 - September 20, 2013

COMMUNITY CONNECTION September 16

The Esperanza Center will celebrate 50 years of serving Baltimore’s immigrant communities, 5:30 p.m., with the unveiling and formal dedication of an outdoor mural on its building located at Broadway and Eastern Ave. The dedication of the restored mural will be the centerpiece of the celebration.

The Esperanza Center, originally named the Hispanic Apostolate, opened its doors on Sept. 16, 1963 to begin serving immigrants in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In the past year, the Esperanza Center has served more than 5,600 people from 77 countries of origin, offering classes in English and citizenship, skills training, health, mental health and dental care for uninsured individuals, and immigration legal services.

September 17

The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s children’s troupe is accepting registrations of third through eighth graders for their production of “The Tempest” which begins rehearsals Sept.

17. They are also offering a $50 discount to any camp registrant who brings another registrant to the program. The new registrant will also get a $50 discount.

For more information visit theshakespearefactory.com or call 410-921-9455. Wendy Meetze is the director of education.

September 21

Soulful Symphony begins its 2013/2014 season with Say Amen Somebody, 8 p.m., at the Hippodrome in downtown Baltimore, continuing with Soulful Holidays on Dec. 14.

Ticketmaster.com.

September 28

“Daughter of the Struggle,” a one-woman show focusing on the history of freedom fighters, features Ayanna Gregory, daughter of Dick Gregory, shows 8 p.m., Sept. 28 and 4 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, 7995 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, Md. 20910. Advance tickets can be purchased exclusively through eventbrite at dotsmccac.eventbrite.com.

Learn more at ayannagregory. com.

October 19

The 2nd Annual “The Pink Show” will take place beginning 5 p.m., at Maisie Dunbar Spa Lounge, 8711 First Avenue in Silver Spring, Md. This event is geared towards fashion and networking. All proceeds will benefit the wonderful charity City of Hope.

Donations and contributions from businesses and merchants in the area would also be highly appreciated!

For additional information, call Maisie Dunbar Spa Lounge at 301-585-4770 or First Ave Hair Salon 240-6035611. Remember…”Think Pink!”

October 26

Asaze Natural Hair and the DC Love Locs Expo present the 8th Annual Nappy-oke natural hair and karaoke show, 12-7 p.m. at the Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro, Md. Hosted by MC Quest, with music by DJ Duke. Tickets can be purchased at eventbrite.com.

For more information visit dclovelocsexpo.com or call 202-255-8703.