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By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent zprince@afro.com

On Super Tuesday, Black voters were the winds behind Hillary Clinton’s sail, analysts said, giving her a major push forward in her quest for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton won seven of 11 Democratic state primaries on March 1, losing four contests to Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.). The results netted Clinton 1,055 of 2,383 delegates needed to secure the Democratic

nomination, according to a CNN count. Sanders had 418.

Black voters across southern states played a pivotal role in Clinton’s victories—and Sanders’ losses—on Super Tuesday.

“The states Mr. Sanders won are disproportionately White, and the states Mrs. Clinton have won are disproportionately Black,” said Robert Smith, political analyst, San Francisco State University. “We’ve been seeing since the first contests that Mrs. Clinton has relied heavily on AfricanAmerican voters while Sanders had

relied on Whites. That’s what will propel her to the nomination—her overwhelming support from AfricanAmerican voters.”

Similar to margins in South Carolina, where Clinton earned a resounding victory on Feb. 27, at least 80 percent of Black voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas voted for the Democratic frontrunner, according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research. Black voters made up more than half of

voters in both Alabama and Georgia, a third in Tennessee and about a quarter of the electorate in Virginia and Arkansas. Clinton’s win in Massachusetts was the only outcome to break the trend.

Sanders, meanwhile, won majorityWhite states such as Vermont, Colorado, Minnesota and Oklahoma.

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A White woman crying rape. That was all it took for four African-American young men, Samuel Shepherd, Walter Irvin, Ernest Thomas and Charles Greenlee to be shanghaied into a legal lynching that changed their lives— and those of their loved ones—forever. The accusation, and what came after during that summer of 1949, turned the citrus town of Groveland, Fla., into center stage, where familiar actors such as the Ku Klux Klan,

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Is Sex After a Heart Attack Safe?

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com The last thing Dionne Short expected in her late 40s was to become one of the thousands of Black women each year who have heart attacks. The mother of three said that despite a relatively healthy lifestyle, years of unmanaged stress caused her to experience coronary artery spasms – which led to a heart attack.

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Accusation and Arrest July 15, 1949, was a typical Friday night— that day of the week when young, sometimes old, Floridians braced the sweltering heat for a chance at a good time.

Norma Padgett, a “slight and plain” 17-year-old with shoulder-length brunette hair, decided to take that chance. Married at 16, the Continued on A3

Ben Carson: Says ‘No Path Forward’ in Bid for White House

By The Associated Press Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he is effectively ending his bid for the White House March 2, concluding a roller-coaster campaign that briefly took him to the top of a chaotic GOP field but ended with a Super Tuesday whimper.

“I do not see a political path forward,” Carson said in a statement posted on his campaign website, though he added, “I remain deeply committed to my home nation, America” and promised to offer details of his future when he speaks March 4 at a conservative conference in Washington.

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Tony Burton, Cornerman-Trainer in 6 ‘Rocky’ Films, Dies at 78

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opponent, Apollo Creed, played by Carl Weathers.

In “Rocky II,” Burton tries to talk the champion, who barely won that first fight, out of giving Balboa a rematch.

“He’s all wrong for us, baby,” his character says. “I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before and the man kept coming after you. … Let it go.”

Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Burton was a top Golden Gloves boxer in his youth and had a brief professional boxing career.

In addition to his wife of 36 years, he is survived by his son, Jomo and daughters Juanita and Christal. Another son, Martin, preceded him in death.

Funeral services are pending.

Celebrities Gather at White House to Honor Musical Legend Ray Charles

By Tatyana Hopkins Howard University News Service (Photo Courtesy of MGM)

Tony Burton and Carl Weathers in a scene from ‘Rocky II’.

Tony Burton, a veteran character actor best known for brief but memorable turns as a tough, no-nonsense trainer and cornerman in Sylvester Stallone’s first six “Rocky” films, has died at age 78.

Burton died of pneumonia Thursday at a Southern California hospital, his wife, Aurelain “Rae” Burton, said Friday.

Failing health had prevented him from appearing in “Creed,” the seventh “Rocky” movie and the one for which Stallone is nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Awards.

“People would always ask him, ‘What’s Sylvester Stallone like,’ his wife recalled with a chuckle. “He’d just say, ‘Sylvester’s a nice guy.’ That’s all he’d ever say.”

Burton, a former boxer himself, had a long career as a character actor.

He appeared in “The Shining” and “Stir Crazy” and was one of the ballplayers in the 1976 film “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings.”

He was a regular in the television series “Frank’s Place” and appeared in “Chicago Hope,” ”The Rockford Files” and “Sanford and Son.” His last major film was 2006’s “Rocky Balboa,” in which he prepares the nearly 60-year-old Rocky Balboa character played by Stallone for an exhibition against the current champion, telling Balboa to “bring some hurtin’ bombs.”

In the first two Rocky films, his character, Tony “Duke” Evers, was trainer and manager to Rocky’s world-champion

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First lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by performer Jussie Smollett, speaks at the White House in Washington on Feb. 24 about an interactive student workshop on the musical legacy of Ray Charles.

Gospel star and radio host Yolanda Adams, soul/R&B singers Leon Bridges and Andra Day, singer, model and Disney Channel actress Demi Lovato, actor and singer Jessie Smollett from the popular television series “Empire” came together Wednesday for the final in a series of musical performances hosted by the White House.

Their performances later that day, which will include Usher and Band Perry, are to honor recording artist Ray Charles, whose 50-year musical legacy included pop, country, jazz, blues and R&B. The program is to be broadcast Friday on PBS stations nationwide as “Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles: In Performance at the White House.”

The first lady, who quipped about how “cute” Smollett, told the 100 students invited to the White House to interact with the artists during workshops, that like Charles, they could overcome whatever obstacles they faced to achieve their goals.

She told them how Charles was blind by age 7 and orphaned by 15, yet still went on to perform for seven presidents and win 17 Grammy awards.

“No matter who you are or what challenges you face, you all have the power to get from those seats down there to these seats up here or anywhere else you want to go,” Obama said, as she shared some obstacles each of the panelists had overcome, including Bridges’ fear of crowds and Lovato’s struggle with mental health.

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Milton Phelps of Jackson, right, stands with Maureen Phillips, center, and her sister Dixie Daniels, both of Gulfport, in calling for a change to the current Mississippi state flag.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is proclaiming April as Confederate Heritage Month, but without mentioning slavery.

His proclamation was posted to the Mississippi Sons of Confederate Veterans website but not to the governor’s site.

He signed it days before legislators killed bills that would have either removed the Confederate battle emblem from the 122-year-old state flag or stripped state money from colleges and local governments that refuse to fly the current banner.

Bryant spokesman Clay Chandler said previous governors, Democrat and Republican, have issued similar proclamations for Confederate Heritage Month.

“Gov. Bryant believes Mississippi’s history deserves study

and reflection, no matter how unpleasant or complicated parts of it may be,” Chandler said. “Like the proclamation says, gaining insight from our mistakes and successes will help us move forward.”

Confederate symbols have been widely debated since the slayings of nine Black worshippers last June at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. A White man charged in the killings had previously posed for photos online, holding a Confederate battle flag. After the shooting, South Carolina lawmakers and Gov. Nikki Haley removed a Confederate battle flag that had flown for years on the Statehouse lawn.

Also since the attack, several Mississippi cities and counties, and some universities, have stopped flying the state flag, which is the last in the nation to feature the Confederate emblem — a red field topped by a blue X dotted with 13 white stars.

A weekly newspaper, the Jackson Free Press, first reported on the heritage month proclamation Wednesday. Governors of some other Southern states have issued similar proclamations in the past. Georgia law designates each April as Confederate History and Heritage month.

Greg Stewart is a Sons of Confederate Veterans member and executive director of Beavoir, the beachside mansion in Biloxi, Mississippi, that was the last home of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. He said it’s a long tradition for Mississippi governors to proclaim Confederate Heritage Month.

“In my memory, none of them have ever hesitated to,” Stewart said Thursday.

Democratic state Rep. Ed Blackmon, a member of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, said he has no problem with people honoring Confederate ancestors.

“But, at the same time, I would hope the governor would consider that people have problems with the Confederate flag,” Blackmon said.

Blackmon said he grew up seeing the flag used by the Ku Klux Klan as a symbol of racial oppression. He said: “That’s a part of history you cannot deny.”

White House and LinkedIn Announce Summer Opportunity Project

By Lauren Poteat Special to the AFRO

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This is the Baskin-Robbins shop in Honolulu where President Barack Obama once worked. Obama says his unglamorous first job scooping ice cream as a teenager taught him valuable lessons about responsibility and hard work.

Summer can be a crucial mass of time for young people searching for work and experiencing extensive days off between educational periods. With limited-to-no work experience, samplings of education and limited connection to employers, finding employment can be very difficult for many youth.

To combat said challenges, the White House, in partnership with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with connections to state and local leaders, community-based organizations, private sector leaders, philanthropic leaders, schools and other youth-serving agencies, launched The Summer Opportunity Project at a White House Summer Opportunity workshop and Champions of Change event on Feb. 26.

“This summer opportunity project is essential to long-term [competitiveness on the] global market,” Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to the president, told members of the press during a White House conference call. She added, “We need to provide enough time for teens to prepare for jobs in the workforce post college and high school because when teens lose, we all lose.”

The goal of The Summer Opportunity Project is to close the “opportunity gap.” A report released last summer showing that 46 percent of youth who applied for summer jobs were turned down. The mission is to create a set of business opportunities that enable strong transitions from school year to school year and from high school to college.

“Every member of the job force needs to be able to service everyone. It’s important that our youth maintain professional development, including close attention to our youth living in underserved communities,” said Broderick Johnson, assistant to President Obama and chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force.

Research has shown that Black and Hispanic teenage boys lag behind their peers in summer employment and year-round jobs. This employment gap broadens as young men get older, making them the highest percentage of the nearly 7 million youth ages 16-24 disconnected from school and work.

“For a lot of Black and Hispanic males, they are already significantly born below the educational, monetary and work force line. We have to make sure all kids know how much they mean to the country.” Jackson said.

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White teenager had, within less than a year, separated from her husband, Willie Padgett, a “scrawny” fellow only a few years older than his wife. Still, she agreed to accompany her estranged husband to a dance in Clermont, Fla., a city about 26 miles away from their home in Bay Lake, a community comprising a smattering of loosely associated farm shacks situated in Lake County.

At about 1 a.m. the pair left the party, Mr. Padgett having consumed a bottle of whiskey he had bought on the way. Norma, who hadn’t eaten supper, urged William to drive them to Okahumpka, a town that would take them through Groveland in the opposite direction to their home, to purchase sandwiches. His 1940 Packard, however, stalled. But, with some help from friends they got it started and sped off.

A few miles past Groveland, the pair stopped, arguing about the decision. They decided to return to Bay Lake, but, as William attempted to turn the car around, the car stalled again. It was about 1:45 a.m. July 16. places to rape her in the same position in the A few vehicles passed but none stopped constricted confines of the small vehicle’s to offer help. That is, until four Negroes in back seat. After the alleged assault, she said, a car approaching from the north stopped they drove off toward Center Hill and left alongside the pair. According to the Padgetts, her in some nearby woods. She stayed there the Black boys pushed the car until it was until daybreak before walking 6 miles to almost completely on the road, then stopped Okahumpka. There, she entered a diner owned and began whispering. Becoming suspicious,

by Larry Burtoft and told him her harrowing Mr. Padgett approached the group to see what tale. He borrowed his father’s car and drove they were conferring about, and chatted with her to the spot where her husband’s body had them for 15 minutes—though he later said he been dumped. could not remember what they talked about.

Meanwhile, William had come out of his Then, according to a St. Petersburg Times stupor around 2:30 a.m. With the help of a account, Padgett picked up a heavy stick from passing motorist, he told authorities, he got the ground and lit into the four boys. For the car started and set out north—though the next 15 minutes, the “scrawny” Padgett his attackers had supposedly driven south. managed to get some licks in before he was At Dean’s Service Station in Leesburg, the overpowered, knocked out and deposited in the 17-year-old attendant Curtis Howard phoned nearby bushes. authorities, then the pair set out to look for That’s when the men, supposedly, put Padgett’s missing wife. They eventually came Norma into their car and drove for 25 minutes upon Norma and Burtoft at the place to a dead-end side where the initial altercation occurred. road just inside The husband and wife hugged, then Lake County. As left together to report the night’s she told it, the boys incidents to the authorities. pointed a pistol That same night, Charles Greelee at her and forced had fallen asleep at a Groveland her to remove her packing shed while waiting for his underpants. The friend Ernest Thomas. Until that Black boys then fateful night, Greenlee, 16, had allegedly took lived with his family in Sante Fe—a Nov. 3, 1951 turns, switching out small town north of Gainsville, Fla. After the deaths of his two sisters, ages 2 and 4, in separate accidents on a nearby train track, a dark cloud had settled over the Greenlee household. Seeking to escape that cloud, Greelee left home to find work in Gainsville.

There, he met Thomas, who convinced him to hitchhike to Groveland, where the orange Aug. 13, 1949 groves promised employment and where Thomas’ mother owned a juke joint, the Blue Flame.

On July 15, the pair hopped off a truck and landed in Groveland around 5:30 p.m.

Thomas wanted to go to his mother’s place, but Greenlee didn’t want to be seen in his torn, dirty clothes. Promising to return with clean clothes, Thomas left Greenlee at a packing shed near a railroad siding. Hours later Thomas returned in his father’s Pontiac sans clothing, but offered the younger teen some cookies and soda water. Greenlee saw an old revolver in the Pontiac and asked to keep it.

Thomas gave him the firearm and left.

At around 3 a.m. Greenlee awoke to the darkness. He walked about 100 yards to a nearby gas

station, seeking out a drink of water, when night watchman Harry McDonald found him.

McDonald—and later, Groveland’s lone police officer, George Mays—seemed inclined to let Greenlee go, even with the broken down firearm in his possession, but the officer decided to detain him in the Groveland jail until they could determine no crimes had been committed.

Earlier that night, sometime after 9 p.m. while Greenlee still slept, Thomas was at a local bar when he encountered longtime friends Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin.

Thomas had met Shepherd a weeks before while working in the orange groves. He stopped the pair and accused Shepherd of having interest in a girl he had been pursuing.

Shepherd denied the allegation, however, citing his intentions of marrying his friend’s sister Louise Irvin, whom he had taken to the movies earlier that night. Thomas seemed little assuaged and seemed ready for a lengthy argument, so Shepherd and Irvin left.

Earlier, the duo—childhood friends who seemingly did everything, including stints in the Army unit, together—had decided to drive up to Orlando to take in some Friday night entertainment, so they set out on their journey. Seven miles outside Groveland, near Clermont, their car began to skip. They went into Clermont, located Night Policeman San Doto, who handled after-hours gasoline sales, and told him they would be back for petrol in another car. The pair returned to Groveland, borrowed Shepherd’s brother James’ car—a 1942 Mercury sedan—and returned to Clermont, where they filled up with gas and resumed their journey.

Shepherd and Irvin drove through Orlando to Eatonville, a nearby Black enclave, and went to Club Eaton, where they drank soft drinks and ate French fries. From there, they drove to Altamonte Springs, where they patronized Club 436. There, they shared a quart of beer and played music on the jukebox.

The men say they then drove back to Groveland via Apopka, Winter Garden, Oakland and Clermont—nowhere near the area north of Groveland where the alleged rape occurred. Shepherd dropped Irvin off and went to bed.

The next morning, unbeknownst to the four Black young men, the Padgetts had shared their woeful tale and the authorities were on the hunt for the alleged “Nigger rapists.’

Shepherd’s brother, James asked him to accompany him and his

wife into town, according to a definitive account by the St. Petersburg Times’ Norman Bunim, who did a three-part series on the trial in 1950. While his sister-in-law spent time at the hairdresser’s, Shepherd went over to the Irvin house. As James Shepherd waited on his wife, Deputy Sheriff James Yates and other officers approached him and said his car had been identified as being involved in a crime.

On information from James Shepherd about who had had possession of the car, the officers went to the Irvin home and arrested Samuel and Walter.

In another account Legal Lynching: The Sad Saga of the Groveland Four, writer Gary Corsair offers a slightly different version of events. Deputy Leroy Campbell, he wrote, found Shepherd in the dark-colored 1942 Mercury—which vaguely fit the description of the car William Padgett described. The deputies proceeded to beat Shepherd, demanding the names of his “accomplices.”

“Sam was bloodied up pretty good before he realized the wisdom of talking,” Corsair recounted. And, he offered Irvin’s name, swearing that he was his only companion the night before.

Soon after, three cars of officers pulled into the Irvins’ yard, while Walter was getting ready for work. He assured his mother he had not done anything wrong before being seized by the deputies and shoved into the backseat of a vehicle near his already tenderized friend.

Several minutes into the journey, the lawmen pulled into a secluded spot and set out to obtain a confession. With fists, feet, billy clubs and blackjacks the officers bludgeoned the 22-year-old World War II veterans until they were a “pitiful sight,” Corsair wrote. Still, the Black men protested their innocence.

The denials only multiplied the deputies’ fury and they lit into the pair with even more ferocity before taking them to the County Jail, located in the courthouse in Tavares, the Lake County seat.

There, the tormentors regrouped before leading the men one-by-one down to the courthouse’s dank basement. Walter was taken first. The deputies grabbed his arms and suspended him in the air, handcuffing his hands to an overhead water pipe. The excruciating pain at his wrists and arm sockets were but a backdrop to the torture that came next. Armed with rubber hoses and billy clubs, the deputies beat the 22-year-old suspect with focused savagery. His continued refusal to confess to rape earned the deputies’ amazement but also fuelled their ire. They began to take turns kicking his exposed groin and aimed their blows at his face until he passed out.

When Shepherd saw the mutilated body of his friend, he feared Walter he was dead. And then it was his turn to face the torture. This time, the deputies’ determined efforts bore fruit—Samuel confessed, convinced it was the only way to stay alive.

Read more about the Groveland Four— their arrest, trial and eventual acquittal—in next week’s AFRO.

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Md. Sen. Cardin Introduces National Lead Testing Legislation

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com In the wake of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan – where brown, lead-contaminated water caused city-wide illness – municipalities across the country have united to demand Congressional oversight to ensure the safety of the nation’s water supply, as well as integrity in testing and emergency response to potential dangers.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) is expected to head a congressional delegation to Flint in March to gather information about the city’s tainted water supply, noting similarities between the crisis there and a similar one in the District 10 years ago. On Feb. 25 Holmes asked executives at the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority to provide information about how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and D.C. Water test for lead in the water supply.

“Although Flint’s issues may be more severe, there are parallels between D.C.’s water contamination problems in the early 2000s and Flint’s water crisis today, not least of which is the need for added phosphates to prevent corrosion

of lead pipes,” Holmes said in a statement. “Given testimony at the Flint water hearing that the accuracy of some tests are compromised due to ‘pre-flushing’ the water to reduce the levels of lead, I would especially like to know how DC Water and the Army Corps ensure that the test results are precise.”

Roughly 10 million American homes and buildings get water from service lines that are at least partly made of lead, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Federal law requires public water systems to treat the water to avoid corroded pipes, but treatment mistakes in any locale with lead pipes could cause a Flint-style crisis.

“Clean water is one of the most basic foundations of our daily lives…”

– Sen. Ben Cardin

Symptoms of lead poisoning can range from high blood pressure to constipation and underdevelopment in children.

A legislation package crafted in the U.S. Senate by Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin (D), contains the Get the Lead Out, Clear, Test Kids and Fund Water act, which is designed to encourage the Environmental Protection Agency to step in and notify the public if local water authorities are dropping the ball. Additionally it provides $100 million in subsidized loans for states in the event of a Flint-like emergency, and $70 million in credit subsidies for states to get loans to help pay for water infrastructure upgrades, such as replacing lead pipes.

The bills would also toughen monitoring of water lead levels and the regulations triggering lead pipe removal. There is no similar bill in the U.S. House of Representatives at this time.

“Americans have a right to expect that water coming from their taps is safe to drink. We can no longer delay needed upgrades to

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Senator Ben Cardin wants the EPA to take the lead when it comes to testing communities’ water. our infrastructure, strengthening drinking water protections, and forever getting lead and other contaminants out of public water supplies,” said Cardin, a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, in a statement.

“Clean water is one of the most basic foundations of our daily lives – we ignore its safe storage and delivery at our own peril. Unfortunately, for too long we have overlooked the need to invest in this key aspect of our future, and children in communities like Flint are the ones being made to suffer most.”

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within that electorate. That loyalty took an additional hit when a losing Clinton launched sometimes vicious attacks on the upstart Obama.

It seems, however, Black voters are returning to the Clinton fold— more comfortable with the person they know than with the unfamiliar Sanders. And while the Vermont senator promises to be a changeagent—much as a little-known Obama did back in 2008—Sanders lacks the charisma (and skin tone) that enabled Obama to successfully siphon away entrenched Black support for the Clinton dynasty.

Some question whether Black voters will have a similarly pivotal role in the General Elections as they have so far in the Democratic

primaries—and as they did in the 2008 and 2012 presidential contests.

“Most people credit the AfricanAmerican vote for pivoting the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 elections,” said Hilary Shelton, the

During Obama’s first run at the White House, more than 16 million African Americans voted in the General Election, 2.1 million more than the previous presidential election. And, four years later, 1.7

“I think Black voters understand how important their vote is.”

–Hilary Shelton

NAACP’s senior vice president for advocacy and policy. “We saw the highest Black voter turnout in history in 2008. And, the only thing that beat that was the turnout in 2012.”

million additional Black voters turned out to the polls.

So far, though, polls are showing that Democratic turnout to the 2016 primaries have fallen precipitously, mirroring Republican voter turnout

during the last two failed GOP presidential runs.

However, some analysts believe that Black voters will be sufficiently energized come November and will turn out to the polls for several reasons, including the potential of electing America’s first female president should Clinton win the Democratic nomination.

“I am convinced Black women, in particular, who face misogyny in the workplace, etc., will come out for her in high numbers,” Michael Fauntroy, associate professor of political science, Howard University, said.

And then there’s the Trump effect.

“Trump came along and

destroyed any inroads the GOP has made with minority voters because his controversial statements have estranged Latino and Black voters,” Smith said. And if he becomes the Republican nominee, “Black voters may be motivated to turn out to ensure he is not elected to the White House.”

Whatever the motivation, Black voters have a key role to play in the country’s political future for the next four years.

“I think Black voters understand how important their vote is,” Shelton said. “Even if we turn out proportionately (African Americans comprise 13 percent of population), 10 percent or more of any vote can pivot the outcome of an election.”

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He did not explicitly say that he’s ending his campaign, only noting that he does not plan to take part in the March 3 Fox News debate.

But his longtime businessman and friend, Armstrong Williams, confirmed that the softspoken candidate would no longer be asking for votes.

“There’s only one candidate in this 2016 election on the GOP side, and his name is Trump. That’s the reality,” Williams said, adding that Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz also should drop out, as they “also have no path” to the nomination.

Carson’s exit reduces the active Republican field to four candidates, though billionaire Donald Trump remains the clear leader in earned delegates and voter preference polls.

Carson, 64, was one of several antiestablishment candidates who shaped the early stages of a Republican race defined by conservatives’ wide-ranging disgust with the nation’s direction and GOP leaders’ perceived inability to alter it.

He ran as an outsider, offering a poverty-

to-fame autobiography, his unabashed Christian faith and an unceasing indictment of conventional politics, styling his bid as an effort to combat “political correctness” and what he described as a creep toward “socialism.”

That formula fueled a steady climb in the polls and a powerful fundraising effort. But his success also brought intense scrutiny. Carson lashed out publicly at questions about his life story, having to explain anecdotes like his claim to have been offered a “scholarship” to West Point. He made foreign policy flubs, from a mistaken suggestion that China is militarily involved in Syria’s civil war, to a high profile speech in which he repeatedly mispronounced the name of the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas.

And he endured public sniping among some of his closest advisers, some of whom contributed to questions about his overall fitness

for the job.

The only African-American among the presidential contenders of either major party, Carson announced his bid in May from his native Detroit, where he was raised in a poor neighborhood by a single mother. Though she could not read, Carson said, his mother saw

was notable enough to inspire the 2009 movie, “Gifted Hands,” with actor Cuba Gooding Jr. depicting Carson.

He rose to political prominence with his address at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, where he offered a withering critique of the modern welfare state and the nation’s overall direction. The speech restated themes from Carson’s 2012 book “America the Beautiful,” but he excited conservatives by doing so with President –Armstrong Williams Barack Obama sitting just feet away. to it that he and his brother received formal He would often tell voters that he viewed educations. his candidacy as a way to honor the American Carson attended Yale University and the founders’ view of the “citizen-statesman.”

University of Michigan Medical School.

“If I am successful in this endeavor,” he said He earned national acclaim during 29 years Dec. 8 in Georgia, “then a lot of other people leading the pediatric neurosurgery unit of who are not career politicians but who are very Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. smart will start thinking, maybe I can do that, He directed the first surgery to separate twins too, and we will expand the pool from which connected at the back of the head. His career we selected our leadership.”

“There’s only one candidate in this 2016 election on the GOP side, and his name is Trump. That’s the reality.”

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The Afro-American, March 5, 2016 - March 11, 2016

Texas Trooper Indicted over Sandra Bland Stop, Officially & Finally Fired

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Sandra Bland died while in police custody.

By The Associated Press A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a Black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally fired, three months after his bosses first announced they would do so, state

officials said March 2.

Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia can still appeal the decision to fire him, which came after a grand jury indicted him on a perjury charge in December. He’s accused of lying about his July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland and their confrontational traffic stop that was caught on dashcam video.

Encinia met last month with Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, but their conversation gave the agency leader no reason “to alter my preliminary decision,” according to a termination letter signed by Encinia.

Encinia’s attorney, Larkin Eakin, did not immediately return a phone message. He has previously called the indictment unjustified and said Encinia was looking out for his own safety.

Bland’s family sued after the 28-year-old Black woman died last summer in jail following her arrest on the outskirts of Houston. Her death was ruled a suicide. The case provoked national outrage and drew the attention of the Black Lives Matter movement, with protesters linking Bland to other Black suspects who died in confrontations with police or while in police custody.

Encinia had been on paid desk duty since Bland’s arrest and remained on the payroll after McCraw announced in December that the agency would begin the process of firing him. He is now no longer a paid employee and will remain that way even if he appeals his dismissal to the state’s Public Safety Commission, Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said.

Dashcam video from Encinia’s patrol car shows the traffic stop quickly became confrontational. The video shows the trooper drawing his stun gun telling Bland, “I will light you up!” after Bland refuses to get out of her car. Bland eventually steps out of the vehicle, and Encinia orders her to the side of the road. The confrontation continues off-camera but is still audible.

Bland was arrested for assault and taken to the Waller County jail. Three days later, she was found hanging from a jail cell partition with a plastic garbage bag around her neck.

Bland’s family has said they were working to get about $500 for her bail when they learned of her death.

A grand jury last month tied its perjury indictment of Encinia to his statement in an affidavit where he said Bland was “combative and uncooperative” after he stopped her and that he removed her from her car to further conduct a safer traffic investigation.

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COMMENTARY

Forget What Hillary said in the 1990s. It’s Her Current Positions that Trouble Me. Many of Secretary Clinton’s supporters have suggested that there is no significant difference between her record and that of Bernie Sanders on criminal justice. They say, “He supported the 1994 crime bill too.”

They miss the point.

The biggest problem with Hillary Clinton’s record on criminal justice is not the bills she helped her husband push in the 1990s. It is the positions she has taken, and continues to take, as Benjamin Todd a candidate for president in 2008 Jealous and in 2016.

Let’s be honest, a lot of leaders made bad calls on crime bills in the early 1990s. Two of the African-American members of Congress supporting Clinton today, for example, relented and allowed the 1994 bill to come to a vote despite their well-founded objections. 22 members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted for it. Even many civil rights organizations took bad positions on this and other bills.

No, the problem with Hillary Clinton is not that she, like so many others, was wrong back when her husband was president.

The problem is that she is wrong now. She took bad positions in 2008. She is taking bad positions in 2016. And she often stands alone among Democratic presidential contenders in these serious lapses of judgment.

In 2008 she was the only one of six Democratic presidential primary candidates to oppose providing retroactive relief to addicts who were given long sentences for possessing crack cocaine, should those sentences be made much shorter like those given for possessing powder cocaine. By 2008 sentencing disparities had disproportionately affected female addicts, often Black mothers, increasing the mass incarceration of Black women and the warehousing of Black children in foster care.

Given the harsh reality of this nightmare for so many alreadyarrested women and their children who were often condemned to foster care, it was startling to see a Democratic presidential primary candidate oppose helping them. Only Republican presidential candidates shared her position at the time. (Many mainstream Republicans eventually changed their position, and eventually so did Clinton.)

Today, in 2016, Hillary Clinton is the only Democratic

presidential candidate who supports the death penalty.

Her position is far outside the progressive mainstream and contrary to the very notion that “Black Lives Matter.”

Bernie Sanders has always opposed the death penalty. His opposition is undergirded by his awareness of its disproportionate use on Black and Brown people, its almost exclusive use on the poor, and the historic connection between the death penalty and lynching. Indeed, it has been factors like these, and the notorious execution of Troy Davis in Georgia despite mountains of evidence of his innocence, that have motivated six Democratic governors, including Maryland’s Martin O’Malley, to abolish the death penalty in their state since 2008.

The fact that a “progressive” lawyer like Hillary Clinton supports the death penalty in 2016 is incomprehensible. Once again, she is alone among Democratic presidential contenders in taking such a backward position on this serious matter of racial justice and human rights.

Finally, there is her ongoing unwillingness to take a courageous stand of the issue of police violence and mayoral accountability in Chicago.

Black civil rights activists have been outraged for months by evidence which suggests that Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who has a long history with the Clintons, may have had a role in suppressing footage of the killing of an unarmed Black man by the Chicago police department until after he was re-elected.

Many in the Black community and beyond have called for Emanuel to resign. Bernie Sanders, who as a student was a civil rights activist in that city, has said anyone involved in suppressing information about the killing should be held accountable. He has said that he doesn’t want Emanuel’s support, and that “any elected official with knowledge that the tape was being suppressed or improperly

withheld should resign.”

Secretary Clinton, by contrast, said that Emanuel “loves Chicago, and I’m confident that he’s going to do everything he can to get to the bottom of these issues and take whatever measures are necessary to remedy them.” A month later she moderated that position, but only slightly, saying that “”Mayor Emanuel has said that he is committed to complete and total reform and I think he should be held to that standard.”

That is not the forthright call for justice that Laquan McDonald and other Chicago victims of police violence deserve.

No, my belief that Hillary Clinton is not the Democratic Party’s best presidential candidate has nothing to do with things she did or said in the 1990s. It has everything to do with the positions she continues to take now.

Benjamin Todd Jealous is a venture capitalist, civic leader and former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The Lasting Power of Our Votes in 2016 As Americans of Color, we have critical decisions to make in the elections this year, decisions that will affect our own lives and the lives of the generations of Americans yet to be born.

This is our challenge. Do we do everything within our power to sustain and build upon the progress that we have achieved with President Obama’s leadership — or do we stand by and allow the relentless Elijah Cummings opposition of the reactionary right to prevail?

Any who may wonder whether I am overstating the importance of this election should consider the sharply contrasting visions for our future that the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are proposing.

We must ask ourselves: Where — if anywhere — are our dreams for a better future reflected in these alternative visions?

Secretary Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders (each with an extensive history of standing with us in our efforts to build better lives) are vigorously competing for the votes of Americans of Color.

In sharp contrast, however, for Donald Trump and his competitors for the other party’s nomination, it is as if we do not exist.

Therein, I submit, is the crux of this election for African Americans.

I am reminded of President Obama’s challenge to us on the

night of his election in 2008. His election, he declared, was not the ultimate change that we sought to achieve, but, rather, the opportunity to struggle together to create that change.

Our President was able to make this inspiring declaration because we had formed a winning coalition with other progressive Americans to win that historic victory. In electing America’s first Black President, we were able to halt our nation’s slide into the economic injustice, international insanity and social indifference of the Bush Administration years.

Then, during the first two years of President Obama’s Administration, we made major strides toward healing our economic disaster, better protecting our families’ health, rationalizing our foreign policy, and setting America on a course toward a moresustainable environmental future.

However, in the 2010 congressional elections, the forces of reaction struck back — and, as a result of their obstruction, our government became gridlocked.

Yet, our determination to move forward was only strengthened.

In 2012, Americans of Color once again registered and voted for a better, more inclusive future — helping President Obama win his second term.

In 2012, for the first time in any presidential election, eligible African American voters voted at a higher rate (66% vs. 64%) than did our Caucasian countrymen and women. As analysists for the widely respected Cook Political Report have concluded, African American voters accounted for President Obama’s entire margin of victory in seven states: Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

I recall these facts because, this year, the balance of political forces in our country again makes the active and enthusiastic

engagement of Americans of Color as a decisive factor in the Presidential Election.

I should also note that the seven states in which African American voters were essential to President Obama’s 2012 victory are the same states (along with Illinois, Wisconsin and North Carolina) in which we have the ability to restore the United States Senate as the truly deliberative governing body that our Constitution envisions.

To emphasize the importance of that restoration, we need only consider this fact.

Without even knowing which capable jurist President Obama will nominate to succeed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the Republican Senate leadership has declared that they refuse to give President Obama’s nominee to the Court either a hearing or a vote.

This total disregard for the importance of a fully functioning Supreme Court (and the constitutional prerogative and duty of America’s first Black President) is a total abrogation of the Senate’s constitutional obligation to “advise and consent.”

It is an act of conscious obstruction to the proper functioning of our government that is so antithetical to our constitutional principles that it raises a legitimate question about the Senate Republican majority’s suitability to govern.

We have the ability to correct this fundamental failing on Election Day by our active engagement at levels that equal or surpass our civic participation as voters in 2008 and 2012.

We are in a struggle, and I do not minimize the challenge of overcoming Republican efforts to suppress our voting power.

Yet, I remain convinced that, once again, we can overcome voter suppression and prevail this year.

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

Why Blacks are Voting for Hillary Most racial, ethnic, religious, and political groups in the United States vote for people who appear to represent their best interests. Yet, when African Americans do the same thing, many people seem surprised - including some Blacks.

Blacks realize what is at stake in this election and have ignored the naysayers who thought just because Barack Obama’s name is not on the ballot this year, Blacks would stay home. Not only are they not staying home, we’re seeing in the Southern states - where more than half of all African Americans live - that Blacks are voting in record numbers.

African Americans in South Carolina got the Clinton juggernaut rolling.

As the New York Times observed, “She has won South Carolina in a rout, 73.5 percent to 26 percent, exceeding Mr. Obama’s own 29-point victory in 2008. She did it the same way that Mr. Obama did: with overwhelming support from black voters, who favored Mrs. Clinton over Bernie Sanders by a stunning margin of 87 to 13, according to updated exit polls - a tally that would be larger than Mr. Obama’s victory among black voters eight years earlier. Black voters represented 62 percent of the electorate, according to exit polls, even higher than in 2008.”

No, they weren’t “feeling the Bern” in South Carolina.

George Curry

Nor were they feeling it on Super Tuesday in the six states where Blacks have an above-average share of the Democratic vote Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas and Texas.

Sanders chose to campaign in five states with a higher proportion of White voters: Colorado, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Vermont, his home state.

Clinton holds a commanding lead in delegates and after the voting on Super Tuesday, Louisiana on March 5 and March 15 contests in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio, she could amass so many delegates that Sanders will be left with no viable option except to end his long-shot candidacy.

Being for Hillary Clinton did not mean Blacks were against Sanders. As I have noted in this space, both Democratic candidates have A-ratings on civil rights. Each would appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of Thurgood Marshall rather than Clarence Thomas. And each is attuned to the many issues facing Black Americans, including income inequality, unemployment, and a deeply flawed criminal justice system.

The difference is that Hillary Clinton has a long relationship with Blacks, doing civil rights work in the South and going to work for the Children’s Defense Fund after graduating from law school. Bernie Sanders claim to fame is that he joined Dr. King and other civil rights leaders in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

That was nearly 53 years ago. More than half of all African Americans were born after the March on Washington. To them, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is as remote as the Civil War of the 1860s.

Vermont is less than 2 percent Black. It hasn’t helped that major Black leaders there say they have been invisible to Sanders.

One of Hilary’s problems is that she gets blamed for the actions of her husband when he was president. He and Vice President Al Gore were instrumental in moving the Democratic Party more to the right prior to his election and his policies on mandatory sentencing and socalled welfare reform were harmful to many African Americans. She gets the blame for his failures as well as the esteem in which many Blacks still hold Bill Clinton.

But this race is not about the past - it’s primarily about the future.

And there is no more important issue awaiting the new president than appointing at least two, possibly three, Supreme Court justices. But to do that, one must first get elected. Again, Black voters feel that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a better chance of getting elected than Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist.

George E. Curry is President and CEO of George Curry Media.

He is the former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA). For more information go to georgecurry.com.

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Heart Attack Continued from A1

Short also joined the millions of Americans each year who fear resuming healthy sexual activity – even

years after the initial attack.

“On the one hand, the fear of having another attack left me paralyzed with fear, and

I didn’t want to engage in any activities that would be too strenuous,” Short told the AFRO. “As a married

woman, I also didn’t want to risk sending my husband into someone else’s arms so I needed to address my fears.

At the same time, it was embarrassing to even broach the subject with my cardiologist.

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Women who have heart attacks often avoid sexual intimacy with their partners and discussing heart safe sex with their physicians.

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It seemed somehow to be inappropriate.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in 2014 that heart disease is the leading cause of death for African-American women, yet only 54 percent recognize that heart disease is their number 1 killer. Additionally, almost two-thirds (64 percent) of women who die suddenly of coronary heart disease have no previous symptoms. And because heart attacks are still mistakenly believed to impact men in far greater numbers than women, women are less likely to address sexual changes that may be impacted by heart attacks.

A recent study followed women for one year after having a heart attack and asked about their sexual life before and after heart attacks. Results showed that women did not receive the information they needed about resuming sex after a heart attack and for those women who did, they initiated the conversation – not their doctors.

“When you look at folks who’ve had heart attacks, there is so much anxiety about having sex after a heart attack.

There’s anxiety on the person who’s had the heart attack, there’s anxiety on the partner of the person who’s had a heart attack because they’re afraid they’re going to trigger them into another heart attack by asking them to have sex with them or initiating sex. So in that regard it ends up being a significant issue,” the report concluded.

Maryland cardiologist Dr. John Ryan said the question of whether to wait a matter of weeks, months, or years before resuming sexual intimacy following a heart attack is answered on a case-by-case situation and requires open and direct communication between the patient, the partner, and the physicians. “The rule of thumb used to be that a heart attack survivor should be able to climb two flights of stairs without feeling dizzy or any chest pains; however, there is no scientific basis for that answer. There is no one size fits all solution,” Ryan said.

The study results found many women, despite fears of experiencing another heart attack or dying, began having sex within a month of their heart attack – even without guiding information from their doctor and without adverse outcomes.

For Short and her husband, the sparks returned only after several counseling sessions with a female church elder, who put things into perspective. “It was weird that I had attached a fear of expressing physical love with death and one day at brunch I blurted it out in front of a spiritual mentor,” Short said. “She laughed at me and whispered something in my ear – which I will not repeat – and I never looked back. My sex life is even more fabulous now than before the heart attack. It was that type of whisper.”

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Fallout Continues Over Exelon/ Pepco Merger

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

Howard University Library Named National Treasure

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Bowser Seeks Business Ties with Cuba

The District of Columbia Public Service Commission rejected a settlement that would have supported the merger of Exelon and Pepco, but in its place, the commission offered its own set of conditions. On Feb. 26, the public service commission rejected the Exelon-Pepco merger, 2-1, with commission Chairman Betty Ann Kane and Commissioner

“I think the alternative plan is milquetoast and Exelon will accept it.”

– Douglas Sloan Joanne Doddy Fort voting against it. Essentially, Kane and Fort rejected the settlement agreement that the administration of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) negotiated with Exelon in October 2015.

Kane and Fort said even with the settlement agreement, Exelon hadn’t met the test of whether the merger is in the public’s best interest while Commissioner Willie Phillips respectfully disagreed.

Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey have agreed to the merger in addition to the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Continued on B2

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

Howard University

The Founders Library at Howard University was named as a national treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation on Feb. 29. The library is the first site at a HBCU to be named a national treasure.

Trust for the restoration of the Library, as we continue to make strides in offering our students a preeminent education with the best available resources,” he said.

Howard University’s historic Founders Library is now National Trust has partnered on its projects with American a national treasure, as named on Feb. 29 by the National Express, which has pledged $6 million as a partner of the Trust for Historic Preservation, an organization that so organization to preserve several historic sites. far has renovated 14 of The National Trust 50 preservation projects Community Investment nationally and promises to Corporation will provide help bring the venerable Howard with technical building into the 21st Century assistance on the use of with the latest technological federal and new market improvements. tax credits to fund future Representatives from the rehabilitation costs, said – H.U. President Wayne A.I. Frederick Stephanie Meeks, president of National Trust and Howard said they will work together the National Trust for Historic to raise the money for the Preservation. National Trust improvements and provide the expertise to transform the experts will also advise Howard on best practices to ensure the library, which is the home to Moorland-Spingarn Research historic fabric is maintained for generations to come.

Center, the world’s largest non-circulating collection for “Historic libraries like Founders can be reimagined to fit documentation of the history and culture of people of African the needs of the modern age, while continuing to serve as descent. monuments of past ideals and achievement,” she said. “We Writers, researchers and historians from around the world look forward to working closely with the university to ensure use its facilities. The library is the first site at a HBCU to be the creation of a more versatile and functional library – one named a national treasure. that honors its distinctive character and rich history.”

“The designation of Founders Library as a national treasure Existing drafts from previous attempts to modernize the is a honor,” Howard President Wayne A.I. Frederick said Feb. building are being used to guide the project, said Derrek 29 of the partnership. “This recognition is a testament to the Niec-Williams, executive director of Campus Planning, many treasures here at Howard University.”

Architecture & Development. He said the university will “Additionally, we are excited to partner with the National Continued on B2

By Tatyana Hopkins, Howard University News Service

“This recognition is a testament to the many treasures here at Howard University.”

What Do You Want to See in the D.C. Budget?

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser recently received strong feedback from residents on what they want her upcoming budget proposal to look like. Bowser held three budget public engagement forums, on Feb. 25 at Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School in Norwest D.C., on Feb. 27 at the District’s Department of Employment Services (DOES) in Northeast, and on Feb. 29 at the King Greenleaf Recreation Center in Southwest.

The District’s budget is unique among political jurisdictions because the District is the only jurisdiction that has to fund state, county, city, and schools functions. In addition, its budget is subject to congressional review even though the money that is generated is local.

On March 24, Bowser will submit her approximately $13 billion budget to the D.C. Council which will then hold public

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser

hearings on it at the John A. Wilson Building. The council will vote on the budget in the early summer and send it to the mayor for her approval.

After approval the budget is sent to the U.S. Congress.

Highlights of the March 24 budget that Bowser will send to the council include housing, public education and jobs. “We have $100 million in housing [The Housing Production Trust Fund] and increasing money for public education and summer jobs for young D.C. residents,” she said. “We are

Ward 7 residents Eric Rogers and Karen Lucas bantered over allocations for the new budget.

“We need more money for health and human services,” Lucas said.

“If we have to make cuts, we have to start somewhere,” Rogers said. “It’s better to put more money into education than raising taxes to take care of people later.”

During the forums, a few residents expressed a need for supporting government operations, public safety, and health and human services

“I like this process because it gives the citizens a chance to express themselves on what they want in the budget.”

– Sandy Allen also making sure that the tax structure is more progressive and that our city’s business climate is a vibrant one. The budget is an expression of my priorities.”

while several were in support of improving education.

“People are coming back to our schools and we are going to make investments in our schools,” Bowser said.

Jesse Matthew Pleads Guilty to Killing 2 Va. College Students The Associated Press A convicted rapist pleaded guilty March 2 to killing two Virginia college students and avoided the death penalty by taking a deal that calls for him to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Jesse LeRoy Matthew Jr., 34, was sentenced to four consecutive life terms when he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and two Courtesy Photo counts of abduction with the Jesse Matthew pled guilty intent to defile in the deaths of March 2 to killing two Hannah Graham and Morgan Virginia college students to Harrington, two remarkably avoid the death penalty. similar murder cases that amplified concerns about campus safety.

Matthew looked directly at family members during his plea hearing but showed no emotion. He said through his attorney that “he is very sorry and he loves his family very much.”

Graham’s mother, Susan Graham, said her daughter accomplished great things, but in a way people never would’ve imagined — she enabled law enforcement to apprehend a “serial rapist” who had been “hiding in plain sight in Charlottesville for years.”

“She is a heroine,” Graham’s mother said.

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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council members Vincent Orange (D-At Large) and Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), as well as Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett (D) and Maurice Jones, the secretary of trade and commerce for Virginia, recently traveled to Cuba with dozens of business people and government officials from around the Washington region to explore future opportunities for money-making deals. Cuba is a communist nation that until last year had no diplomatic ties to the U.S. Bowser, the first District mayor to make the journey,

“Why can’t we trade with Cuba when it is only 90 miles from our borders?”

– Joshua Lopez said that traveling abroad to promote the city is part of her job, despite Cuba’s long-history of human rights violations.

“From China to Cuba – and everywhere in between – these missions are important because they can create jobs for our residents and improve our local economies,” the mayor said.

To Joshua Lopez, a District business consultant with expertise in construction and infrastructure, points to numerous business opportunities in the country.

“There is a lot of potential and a lot of opportunity in Cuba,” Lopez said. “There are a number of opportunities for D.C. businesses in construction and building the country’s infrastructure because Cuba needs to modernize its roads and bridges.”

In Havana, the Bowser delegation met with Cuban officials including Havana Mayor Marta Hernandez Romero, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parilla, and Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz. The delegation also met with the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Jeffrey DeLaurentis and toured primary and secondary schools, research hospitals, and attended clinics on how to maintain high health standards with limited resources.

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COMMUNITY CONNECTION Washington, D.C.

Black Youth Project Fundraiser Black Youth Project 100’s D.C. chapter is hosting a house party on March 4 to raise funds for a BYP National conference in March in North Carolina. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 p. m. The chapter raises awareness for the struggles of local Black, Queer communities. The event will take place at 104 Varnum Street N.W. Tickets cost between $5$10. For more information, visit facebook.com/ events/837129463081158/ or byp100.org.

Black Masculinity Workshop The Generation Liberation community group is sponsoring a workshop centering on Black masculinity on March 5 from 11:30 a. m. – 12:30 p. m. at the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood library, 1630 7th Street N.W. The workshop will discuss issues such as Black male identity, gender-based violence, mental wellness, and media influence on Black communities. The event is free and open to the public, but donations are welcomed. For more information, contact Stanley Berry at stanley. berry@udc.edu.

Black Women Political Discussion The Black Women Overload group is sponsoring a discussion about Black women and their political stances in the upcoming presidential election at the Southeast library, 403 7th Street S.E., from 3 p. m. – 4 p. m. on March 6. The event will address Black women’s concerns, political views and voting strategies related to the 2016 election. The event is open and free to the public, but a donation is welcomed. For more information, contact Krystal Leaphart at krystal. leaphart@gmail.com.

Civil Rights Discussion WPFW 89.3 FM Radio will host a “Civil War to Civil Rights” event March 6 at the African American Civil War Museum, 1925 Vermont Ave NW, from noon to 6 p.m. There will be panel discussion and guided museum tours.

Panelists will include, Clarence Lusane, Frank Smith, Dorie Ladner, Courtland Cox, Rev. Willie Wilson and Christopher Barry. Tickets cost $89.30.

All attendees under 18 can attend at no cost. The event is being held as a tribute to former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 1-800-2229739.

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Presiding Elder Evelyn Dunn

Bishop John R. Bryant

African Methodist Episcopal members and clergy celebrated the retirement of Bishop William P. DeVeaux and his wife, Patricia Ann Morris DeVeaux on Feb. 19 at Reid Temple AME Church in Glenn Dale, Md. The couple has served as presiding officers of the Second Episcopal District that covers Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. Bishop DeVeaux has served as an A.M.E. bishop for almost 20 years.

Pam DeVeaux and Bishop William Phillips DeVeaux

Rev. Margaret Young

Rev. Jo Ann Browning and Rev. Grainger Browning

Shirley Cason Reed

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.)

Rev. Gregory L. Edmond

Presiding Elder Ronald E. Braxton Step Team for Ebenezer A.M.E. Church Charlene Hutchinson and Linda Morton

Dana DeVeaux

Eddie Scott

Wind Ensemble of Divine Dance Institute

The Melvin Deal-African Heritage Dancers & Drummers

Photos by Rob Roberts

Hattie N. Washington

Karsonia Wise-Whitehead and Jim Harper III

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) held its annual luncheon on Feb. 20 at the Renaissance Hotel in Northwest D.C. The luncheon paid homage to the memory of the organization’s founder Carter G. Woodson, unveiled a new commemorative stamp for A.M.E. church founder Richard Allen and continued its mission of making and keeping history relevant in the lives of Blacks. The Omega Fraternity donated $20,000 to ASALH at the luncheon.

ASALH Executive Director Sylvia Cyrus, Ronald A. Stroman III, ASALH President Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Jon Jarvis, National Park Service

Keynote speaker Karsonya Wise Whitehead, associate professor Loyola University

Ms. Senior D.C. Wendy Bridges and Miss U.S. Ambassador Ebony Andrews

Rohulamin Quander and AFRO D.C. General Manager Edgar Brookins Jon Jarvis, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Ronald Stroman III

Dorothy Bailey, awards committee, David Levering Lewis, Living Legacy honoree, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, artist Charles Bibbs, Living Legacy honoree, NCNW Chair Ingrid Saunders Jones, Living Legacy honoree and Louis Charles Hicks Jr., Living Legacy honoree

Bowie State University ROTC Cadets with raffle committee Co-Chairs Cheryl Gresham and Lovie Tarver

Northern Virginia Delta Chapter Kapp Epsilon Psi Military Sorority

Pamela Hart Vines

Veronica M. Chapman

Omega men

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‘Underground’ Captures Drama of Underground Railroad

Jurnee Smollett-Bell is one of the stars of WGN America’s ‘Underground.’

By Melanie R. Duncan Special to The AFRO A riveting new television series is seeking to take viewers on a thrilling escape throughout the dark shadows and secret stops of the Underground Railroad.

Produced by Academy and Grammy Awardwinner John Legend, WGN America’s original series “Underground” was screened at the White House, as part of the White House Office of Public Engagement’s Black History Month event, “These Hallowed Grounds,” on Feb. 22.

The story of a small band of slaves fleeing a Georgian cotton plantation features leading roles from Jurnee Smollett-Bell of “Friday Night Lights”, Aldis Hodge of “Straight Outta Compton” and Chris Meloni of “Law & Order: SVU”.

“I wanted to see us rebelling,” Smollett-Bell told the AFRO. “That’s a light that I wanted to see shine on our story. We’ve seen the occupation, now I want to see the revolution.”

Smollett-Bell says her character, Rosalie, is a rebel but doesn’t know it yet. She is typically a quiet house slave who is forced to come out of her shell in order to survive the overseer’s advances.

“Being able to be used as a vessel and give truth to their stories is a real honor and a privilege,” she said. “They were strong; they were super heroes. It’s so important for us to know that.”

The first season of the show will follow the journey of the escaped slaves, while successive seasons will detail the intricacies of the Underground Railroad and Civil War during the struggle for freedom.

Academy Award-winning executive producer Akiva Goldsman said the show aims to entertain but has educational value.

“Our outcome goal is not to give you a history lesson, not to make you feel like you are going to school, but to make you riveted and tune in week after week,” Goldsman, notable for “I Am Legend”, told The AFRO. “Without noticing it, we will all have learned something. It’s time to see them for who they are and what they did because we all stand on their shoulders and this country stands on their shoulders.”

Aldis Hodge’s character masterminds the escape plan and channeled his own experiences growing up with racism to play the part of Noah, a fearless blacksmith who develops a love interest in Smollett-Bell’s character.

“I grew up with kids calling me the ‘n’ word,” he told the AFRO. “I’m an American and it’s hard to get that same respect. I wanted to honor the history. The younger generation is not given a culture to be proud of. “Underground” is something that should spark interest in that.”

Show creators Misha Green and Joe Pakaski, who wrote the script over three years ago, expressed their excitement to the AFRO over the positive views the hour-long weekly thriller has received during advanced screenings. It will air on new network WGN America beginning March 9, and they hope it will attract an audience of all backgrounds.

“This is showing that the root of our history is working together, and I think that’s more prevalent today,” Green said. “The past highlights the present.”

“Underground” premieres on March 9 on WGN America. Check your local listings for times and channels.

Retrospective

The Pharcyde’s “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” Deserves More Respect

By Maliik Obee Special to the AFRO

1992 was a turbulent time for the West Coast, and the hip-hop music of the time fully reflected it. The Rodney King beating and subsequent L.A. riots made the world take notice of the problems of the left coast.

Reality rap was at a premium, with artists like Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Compton’s Most Wanted telling their street stories on wax. The world was receiving musical crash courses on everything from gang-banging to pulling drive-bys.

Dancers-turned-rappers The Pharcyde splashed onto the rap scene in 1992 with “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” – exposing the world to a different sound out of Los Angeles.

The four man group out of South Central consisted of members Imani, Slimkid3, Bootie Brown and Fatlip as well as producer J-Swift. The group’s jazz-infused carefree music was a sharp contrast to the violent undertones of many of their L.A. counterparts.

“Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” is exactly what the title entails – a temporary escape from the often harsh realities of the real world. Song topics are fresh and relatable enough no matter what type of person you are, even today.

Skits have become a lost art in albums of today, but the three skits on this project all relate to the theme of the album.

“It’s Jigaboo Time (Skit)” is a humorous story of black artists selling their soul to the music industry. The catchy chorus of “It’s Jigaboo Time” retracts from the sting of the reality of the lyrics.

The four emcees’ contrasting pitches and flows make for a unique sound as they rap over intricate jazz samples and heavy

bass lines.

The lead single “Passin Me By” is a timeless ode of failing to approach a potential love interest that still resonates two decades later. Producer J-Swift samples the blaring horns of Quincy Jones’ “Summer in the City” as the quartet takes turns sharing experiences with women.

The group handles a variety of topics on the album, from dealing with police (“Officer”) to juggling multiple women (“Otha Fish”).

The standout track of the album is “Ya Mama”, a tonguein-cheek call and response track dedicated to the past-time of playing the dozens.

The song will at least get a chuckle out of you, as Imani raps “cause you was beat-boxing for Lou Rawls in some bright red boxers drawers”.

The group even manages to pay homage to hip-hop’s roots, sampling Doug E. Fresh on the album closer “Return of the B-Boy”. Despite being from the other side of the country, the group captures the New York sound that pioneered the genre.

Although production has evolved in the 24 years since the release of the album, J-Swifts production is still fresh enough to keep your head nodding.

The jazz samples are refreshing, and all four emcees bring something different to the table.

There are no tracks worth skipping, each possesses enough replay value to convince the listener to enjoy the album in its entirety.

Other standout tracks are “Pack the Pipe”, “On the DL”, and “4 Better or 4 Worse”.

Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde provided a different outlook to west coast rap at a time when the world was enamored with the nuances of the west coast underworld.

While artists like DJ Quik and MC Eiht made names detailing their lives as gang bangers, Pharcyde painted a completely different picture of the crime-ridden communities of Los Angeles.

No matter how big of a hip-hop fan you are, “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” is a must for any collection, providing comedy and consciousness gift-wrapped over tight beats.

Review

Rating the First Black President

By Granville M. Sawyer Jr. In “The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America”, Michael Eric Dyson discusses, analyzes and evaluates Barack Obama’s performance as President of the United States. Dr. Dyson sets the tone for his analysis by stating that Obama has the “burden of representation” as the first and only Black president of the United States. Dyson wants to know “… how much closer the election of a single Black man may bring us to a more just and inclusive society…..”

Is this a realistic question given the circumstances under which Barak Obama became president? President Obama inherited the worst economic recession since the depression as well as trillion dollar budget deficits, two wars and, with the exception of the first two years, one or both houses of Congress dead set on opposing everything he wanted to do. Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago Law professor, wrote in The Huffington Post that “no president in our nation’s history has ever been castigated, condemned, mocked, insulted, derided or degraded on a scale even close to the constantly ugly attacks on Obama.”

I credit Dyson for including this quote in his book however, I fault him for not following through to discuss its implications relative to how much more difficult an already hard job became for Mr. Obama. Dyson spends very little time discussing these very real challenges even though he admitted that every compromise President Obama made would, “shake the faith Black people had in him and/or further threaten Whites’ perceived position in American Society.” This is a short coming of this book and, I believe it reveals the author’s bias.

When he had the opportunity to interview President Obama, Dyson mentioned his dissatisfaction with Obama’s approach to helping Blacks and other minorities. He failed to mention that programs, including the Affordable Health Care Act and pumping billions of additional dollars into the Pell Grant program had specifically benefitted that very same population even though Obama didn’t specifically say that was the purpose of the programs.

Obama, in his interview, made it clear to Dyson that as a pundit he doesn’t have to deal with the reality of being president—having to work with congress to get bills written and passed that he can sign into law—something that was never adequately discussed in the book.

When Dyson asked former Attorney General Eric Holder if President Obama should

speak out on racial issues as he did, Holder told him Obama “ …. has a responsibility beyond upholding the law – he has to draw a difficult balance between competing needs for resources, competing policies, ideas, groups, etc.” Dyson states that his conversation with Holder clearly showed him to be a thoughtful person who understands, perhaps better than Dyson, the responsibility of the President.

After two thirds of the book, Dyson seems to better understand the challenges President Obama has faced since taking office. Dyson stated that a year after Michael Brown was shot, Obama “found a way to be the president of all America while also speaking with special urgency for Black Americans.”

The primary appeal of this book is Dyson’s sometimes wordy commentary on the Black condition in America and less for his critique of the Obama presidency. This book will appeal to readers who appreciate Dyson’s view point, opinions, and analysis and how he states them.

Dr. Granville M. Sawyer Jr., is the former president of the South Orange – Maplewood, New Jersey School District, author of “College in Four Years: Making Every Semester Count.” and a professor of finance and director of the MBA program at Bowie State University. An authority on helping minority students achieve success in higher education, he writes about education and life at GranvilleSawyer.com and tweets @ ProfGMS.

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Watkins Award Winners Make Up NFL’s Elite

By Mark F. Gray Special to the AFRO

In that insulated fraternity of the National Football League there’s a bond amongst a group of Black players forged by their experiences as elite high school athletes who have received the Franklin Watkins Memorial Award from the National Alliance of African American Athletes.

The Franklin Watkins Memorial Award has become the equivalent to the Heisman Trophy for Black high school athletes around the country.

It has come to personify the balance of athletic excellence, leadership, and academic (Photo courtesy of NAAAA) achievement for several University of Tennessee QB Josh Dobbs (holding trophy) won the Watkins Award as the high profile players. Several nation’s top African American high school student athlete in 2013 with his parents (left) current NFL stars are alumni and Everette Pearsall (right) of the National Alliance of African American Athletes of the Watkins Award and the field pales in comparison to what many are doing off it. have used this platform as a Former Florida State Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle personifies springboard to careers on and off the field. what the Alliance was trying to achieve 25 years ago when “The Watkins Award has become the most coveted award the award was established. During his senior year Rolle flew for African American seniors around the country,” said Everett from London to play a game at the University of Maryland Pearsall, Executive Director of The National Alliance of on the same evening following his interview with the Rhodes African American Athletes. “It boggles my mind every year committee. how many kids in small towns recognize the names of some of Rolle earned the Rhodes scholarship and was able to study the [winners]”. his true passion – medicine – at Oxford. However, the decision “It helps me represent what I hope to be my soldiers of the cost Rolle millions of NFL dollars as he took the 2009 season future”. off to pursue his studies. It scared some NFL teams that he Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback Jameis Winston is the highest was more passionate about medicine than he was football so profile of the Watkins Award winners playing in the NFL right he wasn’t drafted until the sixth round in 2010. But with no now. Winston won the award in 2011 and went to Florida regrets Rolle has retired and continues his quest to become a State where he won a national championship and the Heisman neurosurgeon in medical school at Florida State.

Trophy as the nation’s top college football player in 2013.

That next generation’s committed scholar athlete is Winston has been a model citizen in the NFL after some legal Tennessee quarterback Josh Dobbs. Dobbs currently has a mishaps in his early days in Tallahassee.

4.0 GPA and plays in the SEC while majoring in aerospace “This is the elite of the elite,” Winston said. “It’s always engineering. He is considered a Heisman candidate next year. important to persevere academically and achieve great things Success of the Watkins alumni in the classroom and when you come out of the kind of community like I do. That’s professionally is not by accident. The NAAAA has year round our mission in the Watkins family, strive to be the best.” college preparatory and mentorship programs that prepare The DC/Baltimore area has been prominently represented throughout the Watkins Award’s history. Former Good Counsel athletes for their education as student athletes. A free SAT program for all high school students (athletes or not) is also high school standout Jelani Jenkins was a finalist in 2009 and available around the country to develop strategies for taking the currently plays for the Miami Dolphins. Former Washington test. football team linebacker Lorenzo Alexander was a finalist in The Watkins Award will take place in Washington, 2001 as was former Baltimore Raven Darnell Dinkins in 1995.

D.C. March 11-13. This year’s banquet is March 12 at the However, the success of the Watkins Award alumni on Renaissance Hotel.

Faceoff

Is Franchise Tag for Cousins the Right Move for Washington?

By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley AFRO Sports Desk The Washington NFL franchise wasn’t exactly expecting a franchise record-setting season when it tagged Kirk Cousins as the starting quarterback prior to the 2015-2016 campaign, but the results are surely impressive.

Cousins led the league in completion percentage and shredded Washington’s history books with 4,166 passing yards and 29 touchdowns and his final eight games put him in the upper echelon of signal callers last season. But that was last season, and the Redskins are set to pay handsomely for Cousins’ breakout campaign as it was announced earlier this week that Washington will use the non-exclusive franchise tag on Cousins to keep the position stable in 2016-2017.

Cousins will reportedly make $19.95 million for next season alone. Signing Cousins long term was the obvious goal but the team was skeptical about a long-term deal with only one season of work to go on. Was that the right move for Washington?

Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley, of the AFRO Sports Desk, debate the question.

Riley: With their hands tied, Washington really had no other move to make besides slapping the tag on Cousins. His 20152016 campaign was brilliant but can he do it again? That was the major question coming into the talks and it was obvious Washington wanted to see a repeat of last year before they invested into the former Michigan State signal caller.

Washington was already burned once by Robert Griffin III so they took a cautious yet aggressive approach in retaining Cousins. Cousins will be among the highest-paid signal callers in the league next season. But, in the event that he doesn’t relive the magic from this past season, Washington isn’t on the

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Washington’s Kirk Cousins is set to make $19.95M this year. hook long term.

And for a team who needed to get out from the RGIII experiment, it was the right move.

Green: Baltimore’s Joe Flacco was granted a huge payday after he secured a Super Bowl win and that’s how it should be when it comes to investing big money into quarterbacks.

Locking Cousins into a long-term contract should’ve been Washington’s primary focus this summer as opposed to settling for a whopping one-year tag.

He didn’t deserve Flacco money because he didn’t win a Super Bowl, but he did deserve a deal worth 3 or 4 million less per year. Also, saying that Washington still needs to see more from Cousins and that’s why they attached the tag isn’t fully accurate.

NFL contracts aren’t guaranteed, so it isn’t like Washington would be stuck into a long-term deal if Cousins doesn’t perform to contract standards. What happens if Cousins blows up again for a second straight season and he becomes a free agent all over again?

Washington was lucky this offseason because the NFL wasn’t sure what the fourth-year quarterback was capable of but if he performs well again then Washington might not have a chance to re-sign him.

Riley: Washington is making the best use out of their available options and the franchise tag makes the most sense.

Cousins will develop his own price tag as next season plays out, and the Redskins will still have the inside track on retaining his services because he’s developed and progressed through their system and quarterbacks routinely don’t skip teams in the middle of their prime.

Both the city and the franchise have Cousins on their priority list and that’s something that goes a long way when it comes to re-signing.

Green: I’m sorry, I’m just not a fan of paying a quarterback who only has one season of performance under his belt a whopping $20 million for one season’s worth of work. It just doesn’t sit well with me, especially when that team could probably use some extra money to help shore up a laundry list of holes on the roster. Based upon other team needs and the fact that Washington’s brass should’ve been able to secure a longterm deal with a quarterback that’s been on their roster for the last four years, Washington dropped the ball once again in a decision that could cost them dearly next year.

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Name Changes 202-879-1133 Floor Washington, D.C. to such appointment (or August 22, 2013 without $ 80.00 20001, on orProperty before Au- to the probate of de- a will, and will serve with $ 200.00 b. Real gust 19, 2016 . Claims cedent´s will) shall be Court supervision. All unagainst the decedent filed with the Register of known heirs and heirs shall be presented to the Wills, D.C., 515 5th whose where-abouts are 3rd Floor COURT undersigned with a copy Street, N.W., FAMILY unknown shall enter their to the Register of Wills or W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . appearance in this 202-879-1212 filed with the Register of 20001, on or before Au- proceeding. Objections Wills with a copy to the gust 19,DOMESTIC 2016. Claims RELATIONS to such appointment (or undersigned, on or be- against the decedent to the probate of de202-879-0157 fore August 19, 2016, or shall be presented to the cedent´s will) shall be be forever barred. Per- undersigned with a copy filed with the Register of sons believed to be heirs to the Register of Wills or Wills, D.C., 515 5th or a. legatees the de- filed with the Register of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor $ 150.00 Absentof Defendant cedent who do not re- Wills with a copy to the W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . ceive a copy of thisDivorce notice undersigned, on or beb. Absolute 20001, on or before Au- $ 150.00 by mail within 25 days of fore August 19, 2016, or c.

Custody Divorce its first publication shall be forever barred. Per- gust 19, 2016. Claims $150.00 against the decedent so inform the Register of sons believed to be heirs shall be presented to the Wills, including name, or legatees of the deundersigned with a copy address and relationTo place your ad, cedent call 1-800-237-6892, ext.

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Date of Publication: by mail within 25 days of Wills with a copy to the February 19, 2016 1-800 (AFRO) 892 its first publication shall undersigned, on or beName of newspaper: so inform the Register of fore August 19, 2016, or Afro-AmericanFor Proof of Publication, pleasebecall 1-800-237-6892, ext. 244 Wills, including name, forever barred. PerWashington address and relation- sons believed to be heirs Law Reporter Theresa Joyner ship. or legatees of the deDate of Publication: Personal cedent who do not reLEGAL NOTICES Representative February 19, 2016 ceive a copy of this notice Name of newspaper: by mail within 25 days of TRUE TEST COPY Afro-American its first publication shall REGISTER OF2016 WILLS 15:39:59 EST Washington so inform the Register of Law Reporter Wills, including name, TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 15:39:09 EST 2016 2/19, 2/26, 3/4/16 Taunya Jenkins address and relationPersonal ship.

Representative Date of Publication: Superior Court of February 19, 2016 the District of TRUE TEST COPY Name of newspaper: District of Columbia REGISTER OF WILLS Afro-American PROBATE DIVISION Washington Washington, D.C. Law Reporter TYPESET: Feb 16 15:39:33 EST 2016 20001-2131 02/19, 02/26,Tue 3/4/16 Aaron E. Price Sr., Esq Administration No. Personal 2016ADM116 Representative Superior Court of Carol J Ready the District of Decedent TRUE TEST COPY District of Columbia NOTICE OF REGISTER OF WILLS PROBATE DIVISION APPOINTMENT, Washington, D.C. NOTICE TO 20001-2131 CREDITORS 02/19, 02/26, 3/4/16 Administration No. AND NOTICE TO 2015ADM1153 UNKNOWN HEIRS Taunya Jenkins , whose Susie C Bumbrey address is 13219 Hamp- Decedent NOTICE OF ton Farm Lane, APPOINTMENT, Brandywine, MD 20613, NOTICE TO was appointed personal CREDITORS representative of the AND NOTICE TO estate of Carol J Ready, UNKNOWN HEIRS who died on December 26, 2015 with a will, and Aaron E Price, Sr. Esq, will serve without Court whose address is 717 D supervision. All unknown St, NW , Suite 300, heirs and heirs whose Washington., DC 2004, whereabouts are un- was appointed personal known shall enter their representative of the estate of Susie C appearance in this proceeding. Objections Bumbrey , who died on to such appointment (or August 22, 2013 without to the probate of de- a will, and will serve with cedent´s will) shall be Court supervision. All unfiled with the Register of known heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor unknown shall enter their appearance in this Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before Au- proceeding. Objections gust 19, 2016. Claims to such appointment (or against the decedent to the probate of deshall be presented to the cedent´s will) shall be undersigned with a copy filed with the Register of to the Register of Wills or Wills, D.C., 515 5th filed with the Register of Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wills with a copy to the W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . undersigned, on or be- 20001, on or before Aufore August 19, 2016, or gust 19, 2016. Claims be forever barred. Per- against the decedent sons believed to be heirs shall be presented to the or legatees of the de- undersigned with a copy cedent who do not re- to the Register of Wills or ceive a copy of this notice filed with the Register of by mail within 25 days of Wills with a copy to the its first publication shall undersigned, on or beso inform the Register of fore August 19, 2016, or Wills, including name, be forever barred. Peraddress and relation- sons believed to be heirs or legatees of the deship. cedent who do not reDate of Publication: ceive a copy of this notice February 19, 2016 by mail within 25 days of Name of newspaper: its first publication shall Afro-American so inform the Register of Washington Wills, including name, Law Reporter Taunya Jenkins address and relationPersonal ship.

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PROBATE DIVISION trust and the any other person ceive a copy of this notice against decedent Washington, D.C. com or visit our website w h obe w o u l d b to e the a n by mail within 25 days of shall presented 20001-2131 at www.mddcpress.com interested person within its first publication shall undersigned with a copy Administration No. TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 15:38:292016NRT4 EST 2016 the meaningof D.C. Code, to the Register of Wills or so inform the Register of sec.with 20-101(d) LEGAL NOTICES Jo Anne McFarlane filed the Register of Wills, including name, Datewith of Publication: Wills a copy to the address and relationDecedent February 19, 2016 Superior Court of undersigned, on or be- ship.

NOTICE OF the District of Name of newspaper: fore August 19, 2016, or Date of Publication: EXISTENCE OF District of Columbia Afro-American be forever barred. Per- February 19, 2016 REVOCABLE PROBATE DIVISION Washington sons believedLaw to be heirs Name of newspaper: TRUST Washington, D.C. Reporter legatees of the de- Afro-American J o A n n e M c F a r l a n e or 20001-2131 Keith Perkins cedent who do not re- Washington (name of deceased setAdministration No. Personal tlor) whose address was ceive a copy of this notice Law Reporter 2016ADM84 Representative Mildred M Henderson 1844 Kenyon Street, NW, by mail within 25 days of Alice I Wells TRUE COPYshall Personal Washington, DC 20010 its first TEST publication Decedent REGISTER OF WILLS created a revocable trust Representative so inform the Register of NOTICE OF 02/19, 2/26, 3/4/16 on December 1, 2000, Wills, including name, APPOINTMENT, which remained in exis- address and relation- TRUE TEST COPY NOTICE TO tence on the date of her ship.

REGISTER OF WILLS CREDITORS death on December 3, Date of Publication: AND NOTICE TO 2015, and Keith Perkins, 02/19, 02/26,Tue 3/4/16 UNKNOWN HEIRS TYPESET: Feb 16 February 19, 2016 Terry Wells-Friez, whose whose address is 1844 Name of newspaper: address is 621 Constitu- K e n y o n S t r e e t , N W, Afro-American tion Ave., NE, Washing- Washington, DC 20010 is Washington Superior Court of ton, DC 20002, were ap- the currently acting the District of trustee, hereinafter the Law Reporter pointed personal Willie Thornton District of Columbia representative of the Trustee. Communications Personal PROBATE DIVISION estate of Alice I Wells, to the trust should be Representative Washington, D.C. who died on April 24, mailed or directed to Keith 20001-2131 2015 without a will, and Perkins, 1844 Kenyon TRUE TEST COPY Administration No. will serve without Court Street, NW, Washington, REGISTER OF WILLS 2016ADM127 DC 20010 supervision. All unknown Rita D. Reid TYPESET: Tue Feb 23 12:38:58 EST 2016 heirs and heirs whose The Trust is subject to Decedent whereabouts are un- claims of the deceased 02/19, 02/26, 03/4/16 NOTICE OF known shall enter their settlor’s creditors, costs of administration of the setAPPOINTMENT, appearance in this Superior Court of proceeding. Objections tlor’s estate, the expenses NOTICE TO the District of to such appointment (or of the deceased settlor’s CREDITORS District of Columbia to the probate of de- funeral and disposal of reAND NOTICE TO PROBATE DIVISION cedent´s will) shall be mains, and statutory UNKNOWN HEIRS Washington, D.C. filed with the Register of allowances to a surviving Robert E. Childs, Jr., 20001-2131 spouse and children to the Wills, D.C., 515 5th whose address is 9604 Administration No. Street, N.W., 3rd Floor extent the deceased setJ a c q u e l i n e D r. F t .

2016ADM105 tlor’s residuary probate Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Washington, MD 20744 Mary Frances Taylor 20001, on or before Au- estate is inadequate to was appointed personal Decedent gust 19, 2016. Claims satisfy those claims, representative of the John E Reid Esq against the decedent costs, expenses, and 5335 Wisconsin Ave estate of Rita D. Reid, shall be presented to the allowances. who died on November undersigned with a copy Claims of the deceased NW, #700 to the Register of Wills or settlor ’s creditors are Washington, DC 20015 12, 2015 without a will, and will servewithout filed with the Register of barred as against the Attorney Court supervision. All unWills with a copy to the Trustee and the trust propNOTICE OF known heirs and heirs undersigned, on or be- erty unless presented to APPOINTMENT, whose whereabouts are fore August 19, 2016, or the Trustee at the address NOTICE TO unknown shall enter their be forever barred. Per- provided herein on or beCREDITORS sons believed to be heirs fore June 3, 2016, 6 appearance in this AND NOTICE TO or legatees of the de- months after the date of proceeding. Objections UNKNOWN HEIRS cedent who do not re- the first publication of this Barbara H Moore, whose to such appointment ceive a copy of this notice notice). An action to conaddress is 1359 Morris shall be filed with the by mail within 25 days of test the validity of this trust Road, SE, Washington, Register of Wills, D.C., its first publication shall must be commenced by DC 20020, was ap- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd so inform the Register of t h e e a r l i e s t o f ( 1 ) pointed personal repre- Floor Washington, D.C. Wills, including name, December 3, 2016 (one sentative of the estate of 20001, on or before Auaddress and relation- year from date of death of gust 19, 2016. Claims ship. the deceased settler) or Mary Frances Taylor , against the decedent Date of Publication: (2) June 3, 2016(6 months who died on May 25, shall be presented to the February 19, 2016 from the date of first pub- 1997 without a will, and undersigned with a copy Name of newspaper: lication of this notice) or will serve with Court su- to the Register of Wills or Afro-American (3) ninety days after the pervision. All unknown filed with the Register of Washington Trustee sends the person heirs and heirs whose Law Reporter a copy of the trust instru- whereabouts are un- Wills with a copy to the Terry-Wells Friesz ment and a notice informknown shall enter their undersigned, on or bePersonal ing the person of the a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s fore August 19, 2016, or Representative trust’s existence, the proceeding. Objections be forever barred. PerTrustee’s name and ad- to such appointment sons believed to be heirs TRUE TEST COPY dress, and the time al- shall be filed with the or legatees of the deREGISTER OF WILLS lowed for commencing a Register of Wills, D.C., cedent who do not reproceeding.

515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd ceive a copy of this notice The Trustee proceed Floor Washington, D.C. by mail within 25 days of TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 15:38:10 ESTmay 2016 02/19, 02/26, 3/4/16 to distribute the trust prop- 20001, on or before Au- its first publication shall erty in accordance with gust 26, 2016. Claims so inform the Register of the terms of the trust be- against the decedent Wills, including name, Superior Court of fore the expiration of the shall be presented to the address and relationthe District of District of Columbia time within which an ac- undersigned with a copy ship.

PROBATE DIVISION tion must be commenced to the Register of Wills or Date of Publication: Washington, D.C. unless the Trustee knows filed with the Register of February 19, 2016 20001-2131 of a pending judicial Name of newspaper: Administration No. proceeding contesting the Wills with a copy to the Afro-American 2008ADM657 validity of the trust or the undersigned, on or be- Washington Ethel P Williams Trustee has received no- fore August 26, 2016, or Law Reporter Decedent tice from a potential be forever barred. PerRobert E.Childs, Jr. NOTICE OF contestant who thereafter sons believed to be heirs Personal APPOINTMENT, or legatees of the decommences a judicial NOTICE TO Representative cedent who do not reproceeding within sixty TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 15:35:06 EST 2016 CREDITORS ceive a copy of this notice days after notification.

AND NOTICE TO TRUE TEST COPY This Notice must be by mail within 25 days of REGISTER OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS Nathan Neal, whose Superior Court of ad- mailed postmarked within its first publication shall dress is District Law Offices of 15 days of its first publica- so inform the Register of 02/19, the of TYPESET: Feb 16 02/26,Tue 03/04/16 Nathan PLLC, tion to each heir and qual- Wills, including name, DistrictAof Neal, Columbia 209 Kennedy Street., ified beneficiary of the address and relationPROBATE DIVISION NW, Washington, DC trust and any other person ship.

Washington, D.C. Superior Court of 20011 was appointed w h o w o u l d b e a n Date of Publication: 20001-2131 the District of Successor/ personal reinterested person within February 26, 2016 Administration District of Columbia presentative of the No. estate the meaningof D.C. Code, Name of newspaper: 2016NRT4 PROBATE DIVISION of Ethel P Williams, who sec. 20-101(d) Afro-American Jo Anne McFarlane Washington, D.C. died on November 11, Date of Publication: Washington 2007 without a will, and Decedent 20001-2131 February 19, 2016 Law Reporter will serve with OF Court suAdministration No. NOTICE Name of newspaper: Barbara H Moore pervision.

All unknown 2015ADM1422 EXISTENCE OF Afro-American Personal David Proctor heirsREVOCABLE and heirs whose Washington Law whereabouts are unRepresentative Decedent TRUST Reporter NOTICE OF Jknown o A n nshall e M center F a r l atheir ne appearance in this Keith Perkins TRUE TEST COPY APPOINTMENT, (name of deceased setproceeding. Objections Personal REGISTER OF WILLS NOTICE TO tlor) whose address was to such appointment (or Representative CREDITORS 1844 Kenyon Street, to the probate of NW, deTRUE TEST COPY AND NOTICE TO Washington, DCshall 20010 cedent´s will) be REGISTER OF WILLS UNKNOWN HEIRS 02/26, 3/4, 3/11/16 created a revocable trust TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 15:41:00 EST 2016 filed with the Register of TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 15:35:35 EST 2016 02/19, 2/26, 3/4/16 Theresa Joyner , whose on December 1, 2000, Wills, D.C., 515 5th address is 646 1/2 I which in exisStreet,remained N.W., 3rd Floor Street, SE, Washington, tence W a s hon i nthe g t odate n , Dof. Cher .

Superior Court of DC 20003, was apdeath 3, 20001,on on December or before AuSuperior Court of the District of pointed personal repregust and 19, Keith 2016.Perkins, Claims 2015, the District of District of Columbia sentative of the estate of against the decedent whose address is 1844 District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION David Proctor , who died the Kshall e n y be o n presented S t r e e t , to N W, PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. undersignedDC with a copy on October 9, 2015 withWashington, 20010 is Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 to the Register of Wills or out a will, and will serve the currently acting 20001-2131 Administration No. filed with the Register of without Court supervitrustee, hereinafter the Administration No. Wills with a copy to the 2016ADM128 sion. All unknown heirs Trustee.

Communications 2015ADM73 undersigned, on or beEleanora E Winston and heirs whose to the trust should be Herbert D Quarles fore August 19, 2016, or Decedent whereabouts are unmailed or directed to Keith AKA be forever barred. Perknown shall enter their NOTICE OF Perkins, 1844toKenyon sons believed be heirs Herbert Dubois appearance in this APPOINTMENT, Street, NW, Washington, or legatees of the deQuarles proceeding. Objections NOTICE TO DC 20010who do not recedent Decedent to such appointment CREDITORS The isofsubject to ceiveTrust a copy this notice Steven E Bullock shall be filed with the AND NOTICE TO claims the 25 deceased by mailof within days of 600 Maryland Avenue , Register of Wills, D.C., settlor’s costs of UNKNOWN HEIRS its first creditors, publication shall SW, Suite 400 East administration of the setMildred M Henderson , 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd so inform the Register of Washington, DC 20024 tlor’s estate, the expenses Wills, including name, whose address is 1975 Floor Washington, D.C. Attorney 20001, on or before Auof the deceased settlor’s address and relationTeasel Court., WoodNOTICE OF ship. and disposal of refuneral bridge , VA, 22192 ap- gust 19, 2016 . Claims APPOINTMENT, Date of Publication: mains, and statutory pointed personal repre- against the decedent shall be presented to the February 19, NOTICE TO allowances to 2016 a surviving sentative of the estate of undersigned with a copy Name of newspaper: CREDITORS spouse and children to the Eleanora E Winston, who Afro-American to the Register of Wills or AND NOTICE TO extent the deceased setdied on December 30, filed with the Register of Washington tlor’s residuary probate UNKNOWN HEIRS 2015 without a will, and Wills with a copy to the Law Reporter estate is inadequate to Willie Thornton, whose will serve without Court Nathan Neal satisfy those claims, a d d r e s s i s 8 9 0 4 supervision. All unknown undersigned, on or bePersonal costs, expenses, and TonBridge Terrence, heirs and heirs whose fore August 19, 2016, or Representative be forever barred. Perallowances.

Adelphi, Maryland whereabouts are unClaims of theCOPY deceased 20783, wasappointed known shall enter their sons believed to be heirs TRUE TEST or legatees of the desettlor ’s creditors are personal representative a p p e a r a n c e i n t h i s REGISTER OF WILLS cedent who do not rebarred as against the of the estate of Hebert D proceeding. Objections ceive a copy of this notice Trustee and the3/4/16 trust prop02/19, 02/26, Quarles, who died on to such appointment by mail within 25 days of erty unless presented to December 8, 2014 with- shall be filed with the its first publication shall the Trustee at the address out a will, and will serve Register of Wills, D.C., so inform the Register of provided herein on or bewithout Court supervi- 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Wills, including name, fore June 3, 2016, 6 sion. All unknown heirs Floor Washington, D.C. address and relationYou months afterknow the date of a n d h e i r s w h o s e 20001, on or before Au- ship. the first publication of this whereabouts are un- gust 19, 2016. Claims Date of Publication: you’re in the notice).

An action to conknown shall enter their against the decedent February 19, 2016 test the validity of this trust appearance in this must beknow... commenced by shall be presented to the Name of newspaper: proceeding. Objections undersigned with a copy Afro-American the earliest of (1) to such appointment (or to the Register of Wills or Washington When 3,you read December 2016 (one to the probate of de- filed with the Register of Law Reporter year from date of death of Theresa Joyner cedent´s will) shall be Wills with a copy to the the AFRO! the deceased settler) or Personal filed with the Register of undersigned, on or be(2) June 3, 2016(6 months Representative Wills, D.C., 515 5th from the date of first pubfore August 19, 2016, or lication of this notice) or Street, N.W., 3rd Floor be forever barred. PerTRUE TEST COPY (3) ninety days after the Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C . sons believed to be heirs Trustee sends the person 20001, on or before Au- or legatees of the de- REGISTER OF WILLS a copy of the trust instrugust 19, 2016. Claims cedent who do not rement and a notice informagainst the decedent ceive a copy of this notice 2/19, 2/26, 3/4/16

personal representative of the estate of Ellen Franklin Taylor , who died on August 13, 1996 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are un12:38:39 EST 2016 LEGAL known shallNOTICES enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before August 19, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before August 19, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: February 19, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Linda Michelle Taylor Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM131 George Gordin Jr. Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Robert C Solomon/ Caryl Gordin Solomon, whose address is 1507 Trillium Lane, Blacksbury Va 24060 / 3804 Brandon Ave, Roanoke VA 24018, was appointed personal representative of the estate of George Gordin, Jr., who died on January 16, 2016 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before August 26, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the August 26, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: February 26, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Robert C. Solomon Caryl Gordin Solomon Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 02/26, 03/4, 03/11/16 TYPESET: Tue Feb 23

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM150 Mary A Long Decedent Mary Haggins Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Mary Haggins, whose address is 2414 Kirkland Avenue, Forestville, MD 20747 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary A Long, who November 7, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before August 26, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before August 26, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: February 26, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Mary Haggins Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

TYPESET: Tue Feb 16 2/26, 3/4, 3/11/16

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM78 Ellen Franklin Taylor Decedent Elise N Milstein , Esq 1629 K Street, NW #300 Washington, DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Linda Michelle Taylor , whose address is 2000 Huntington Avenue, Apt 203, Alexandria, Virginia 22303,was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ellen Franklin Taylor , who died on August 13, 1996 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision.

All unknown heirs and h e i r s w h o s e whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd

TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM770 Eula M Flood Decedent Dennis Eshman., Esq 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300 Washington., DC 20006 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis Eshman, Esq, whose address is 1629 K Street, NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006, were appointed personal representative of the estate of Eula M Flood, who died on December 10, 2014 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose 12:39:51 EST 2016 whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before August 19, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before August 19, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: February 19, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Eula M Flood Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM122 ANDREW LAKE Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Marcus Lake, whose address is 210 10th ST SE WASHINGTON DC 20003, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Andrew Lake, who died on November 22, 2015 withouta will, and will servewithout Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their a p p e a r aEST n c e 2016 in this 15:36:02 proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before August 19, 2016. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before August 19, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2014ADM818 Brian Roberts AKA Brian K Roberts Decedent 1425 K Street, NW Suite 350 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Earliska K Roberts, whose address is 45 V Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Brian Roberts AKA Brian K Roberts, who died on April 22, 2014 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of de15:36:21 cedent´sEST will)2016 shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Earliska K Roberts Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM135 Margaret B Vann Decedent Johnny M Riddick Esquire 505 Capitol Court, NE Suite 100 Washington, DC 20002 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Grady L. Vann, whose address is 1710 Frankford Street SE, Washington, DC 20002, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Margaret B Vann, who died on February 14, 2011 without a will, and will serve , without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Grady L. Vann Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2015ADM1420 Mary Lue Phillips Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Vincent Phillips, whose address is 4421- Ord St., NE Washington, DC 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Mary Lue Phillips, who died on August 8, 2015 with a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Vincent Phillips Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM175 Clarence Earl Bunch Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS George Clifton Bunch, whose address is 7581 Cross Gate Ln, Alexandria VA, 22315, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Clarence Earl Bunch, who died on September 24, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter George Clifton Bunch Personal Representative

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TYPESET: Tue Mar 01 TYPESET: Mar 01 17:10:29 EST 2016 03/4, 03/11, Tue 03/18/16 Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM119 Elnora Henry Askey Decedent Thomas H Queen, Esq 7961 Eastern Avenue Suite 304 Silver Spring, MD 20910 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis U Askey, Jr., whose address is 1306 Wa s h i n g t o n , D r i v e , Stafford, VA 22554 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Elnora Henry Askey, who died on December 15, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding.

15:40:43 EST Objections 2016 to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Dennis U Askey, Jr. Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM166 Daisy M Bradby Decedent Gerald R Belton 1101 L Street NW 806 Washington, DC 20005 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Edward L. Smith, whose address is 3514 Dunlap Street, Temple Hills, MD 20748 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Daisy M Bradby, who died on January 1, 2016 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Edward L Smith Personal Representative

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TYPESET: Wed Mar 02 14:19:56 EST 2016 03/4, 3/11, 3/18/16 03/4, 3/11, 3/18/16 TYPESET: Tue Mar 01 17:11:33 EST 2016 Superior Court of the District of DistrictEST of Columbia 17:11:01 2016 PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM173 Gertrude Lomax Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Ronald Rorie, whose address is 2131 Young Street, SE, #201, Washington, DC 20020 was, appointed personal representative of the estate of Gertrude Lomax, who died on October 15, 2015 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose where-abouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Ronald Rorie Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 03/04, 3/11, 3/18/16

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2003ADM1220 Ruth N Beverly Decedent Cecilia Jones 7910 Woodmont Ave Suite 1350 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Cecilia Jones and Sonja Cheatham, whose addresses are 7910 Woodmont Ave. #1350 Bethesda, MD 20814; 1300 Woodsorrel Ct. Upper Marlboro, 20772 were appointed personal representatives of the estate of Ruth N Beverly, who died on March 11, 2001 with a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent´s will) shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Wa s h i n g t o n , D . C .

20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before September 4, 2016, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its first publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Cecilia Jones Sonja Cheatham Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY REGISTER OF WILLS 3/4, 3/11, 3/18/16

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICES RFP NUMBER: B-1810-16 The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (”HABC”) is requesting proposals from interested and qualified firms to provide property management services for certain properties owned by HABC. PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE no later than 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, April 4, 2016.

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District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM160 Ida Louise More Decedent Colline Silvera 7731 Belle Point Dr. Greenbelt, MD 20770 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Marshawny Moore, whose address is 216 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Ida Louise Moore, who died on January 11, 2016 without a will, and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before September 4, 2016.

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Date of Publication: March 4, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Marshawny Moore Personal Representative

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(Left to right) Judges Audrey J.S. Carrion, Wanda Keyes Heard, Karen C. Friedman, Michael A. DiPietro, Cynthia H. Jones and Shannon E. Avery are seeking re-election as the sitting judges.

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associations, that’s the first arm, then we’re vetted by the judicial nomination which involves lawyers and laypeople appointed from the bar, the community and from the governor City Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Jones said she often has to and then we’re vetted by the governor. But it’s bifurcated in explain the process by which judges get and keep their jobs. that right after you’re appointed, in the first general election, in “One of the things that citizens say is they either don’t the state of Maryland, they say that the community has to make know why we run, or that ‘Oh my God, we have to vote for a decision about the decision. And there’s nothing wrong with judges?’ or it’s ‘You shouldn’t have to that.” run.’”

Jones said that in years past, it would Jones is one of six sitting circuit court have been harder for judges of color or judges who will appear on ballots on women to make it to the bench, because April 26. If elected, they will serve for the people nominating and vetting 15 years. Because of Maryland codes of – City Circuit Court Judge them weren’t diverse. She said that has conduct, there is much that the judges changed over time. can’t publically talk about – for example, “Historically, it’s become better.

Cynthia Jones they cannot discuss their opinions on Because at some point, you had the state prison reform, drug laws or who should bar association and city bar association be the next president because it could call in to question their in Baltimore and a small handful of specialty bar associations ability to be impartial. But, they can talk about the process by involved in the process. During our generation, specialty which they got their jobs in the first place. Jones, along with bars have expanded…to include Black lawyers, the Hispanic Judge Michael DiPietro spoke with the AFRO about the vetting bar, the Asian Pacific bar, and the lesbian gay transgender process and why they think it’s a good thing. bisexual bar so you’re really talking about not just attorneys “What I explain to people is our system in Maryland is who identify with those organizations but you also deal a bifurcated process,” Jones said. “We’re vetted by the bar Continued on D2

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By James Bentley AFRO Associate Editor jbentley@afro.com On Feb. 25 Cornell Harvey, also known as “Little Head”, 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member of the “Up Da Hill” (UDH) gang, which operates in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. Harvey also confessed his participation in a murder. The guilty plea was announced by the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.

Harvey has a violent record littered with drug and gun charges, robbery, attempted murder and murder. “Disputes

“…we will hold accountable the criminals who turned Cherry Hill into a war zone.”

– U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein between rival drug gangs lead to many shootings and murders in Baltimore City,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein, in a statement. “Thanks to a lengthy and intensive investigation, we will hold accountable the criminals who turned Cherry Hill into a war zone.”

Harvey was charged with first-degree murder in 2011 for the fatal shooting of Randol Buncombe, 24, in Cherry Hill.

He confessed that on October 5, 2010, he and co-defendant Dominic Evans, also known as “FlatLine”, 25, robbed two drug dealers in the UDH territory of Cherry Hill who were not sanctioned to by UDH. After stealing $150 from one of the victims, Harvey then shot both of them. One of the victims survived his wound, but the other victim died from her wounds.

The murder was captured on CCTV. Despite video evidence, they were both found not guilty by a jury on Jan. 31, 2013.

Baltimore City Police Department On Jan. 27, Cornell Harvey, a member of the “Up 2011, Harvey Da Hill” gang, will be sentenced to 262 states in his plea months in prison for his crimes. agreement, he and 2 other men approached a man at a gas station, at the intersection of North Avenue and McCulloh Street, filling up and asked him for a ride. A few blocks later the 3 men put on masks and ordered the victim out of his car at gunpoint, at which point he he was shot and left for dead. Harvey and 3 other men were caught in the stolen vehicle two days later. Police tried to stop the vehicle but the 4 passengers fled the car and a chase ensued. Harvey was chased by an officer who saw him toss a fully loaded 9mm .357 Glock handgun. According to court documents, officers also recovered from the vehicle: a box containing 39 rounds of .38 special ammunition; a plastic bag containing 33 rounds of 9mm ammunition; a ski mask; and a glove.

In Aug. of 2015 Harvey was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus 50 years for his role in a May 2013 ambush that left a 1-year-old boy, Carter Scott, dead. A jury convicted him in June of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted first-degree murder. Prosecutors said Harvey had Rashaw Scott Continued on D2

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Tuskegee Airman Harry Quinton, a WW II army sergeant, gazes intently at a documentary on the Tuskegee Airmen at Maryland Live! Casino’s Black History Month Celebration, Feb. 25.

By Monica Smith Special to the AFRO Over 200 guests packed the Ram’s Head stage and lounge at Maryland Live!

Casino in Hanover Feb. 25 to honor and celebrate Black heroes.

Cordish Companies vice president Reed Cordish called “diversity and inclusion” core values, saying this is the casino’s third annual Black History Heroes event. To the 15 honorees he said, “Your sacrifices and willingness to put [yourselves] on the line are inspirational.”

Yet the evening clearly belonged to a living legend, documented Original Tuskegee Airman Harry Quinton of Williamsburg, Virginia. “The Tuskegee Airmen had to fight for the right to fight,” T.J. Spann said during his introduction of the 90-year-old veteran.

“If you live long enough,” Quinton began, ”something good is sure to happen to you.”

An Eastern Shore native, Quinton first celebrated Negro History Week in Salisbury, Maryland “Colored” schools, but lost interest by his senior year, as the WW II draft loomed on his horizon.

A pharmacist suggested his employee become an aircraft, rather than auto mechanic following his 1943 high school graduation.

Quinton said, “I never saw anyone at the local airport that looked like me--of my color-working on airplanes.”

Poor depth perception excluded him as an aviation cadet and the Air Corps assigned him to the 477th Bombardment Group at Godman Field, Kentucky.

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pick him up then directed him to a parking lot where he got out and told Scott to wait. Shortly after, a group of men wearing latex gloves opened fire on his vehicle. Scott was shot but survived his wounds, but his son, Carter, who was in the car was also shot and died at the scene.

Harvey acknowledged that as an affiliate of UDH he sold

crack cocaine, heroin and other narcotics along with other UDH members. He also stated that his involvement in the gang’s conspiracy included between 840 grams and 2.8 kilograms of crack cocaine and between 3 and 10 kilograms of heroin.

According to the State’s Attorney’s office Harvey and the government have agreed that if the Court accepts the plea

agreement Harvey will be sentenced to 262 months in prison. U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III has scheduled sentencing for June 17, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. Co-defendant Dominic Evans, of Baltimore, previously pleaded guilty to his role in the racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

that I would end up here tonight.”

Awardees (as listed in the program):

Eugene W. Grant Mayor Seat Pleasant, Maryland

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Quinton recalled.

Honorably discharged as a sergeant, Quinton was unable to find work as a mechanic and abandoned the field where he once excelled.

Securing other work was no cakewalk either.

He used the G.I. Bill to attend Plattsburgh College and Long Island University, earning A.A. and B.S. degrees in accounting. Quinton became a U.S. Treasury Department Agent, retiring years later.

He pursued graduate courses at Hofstra University and night adult education classes in Black History; he also received an honorary doctorate from Old Dominion University in 2012.

“If you don’t know your history, you don’t know who you are,” Quinton

said about his move to Virginia and his first sight of cotton. He visualized his forebearers--slaves-working on plantations, and “thought of Harriet Tubman negotiating the swamps, trees and marshes” along the Underground Railroad at night.

Quinton concluded, “Tonight, I accept my award on behalf of those 66 pilots who died in combat; I accept it on behalf of the 80 that were killed in training; I accept it for the 101 who faced court-martial because they wouldn’t follow an order to segregate them. And last, but not least, I accept it on behalf of my mother, who worked two jobs so that I could go to aviation school and put me on the right track,

Pamela J. Bethel, J.D. Executive Partner The O’Riordan Bethel Law Firm, LLP

Kam Cooke Police Corporal Anne Arundel County Police Department Sandra Eberhard Executive Director Women’s Presidents’ Educational Organization

“If you don’t know your history, you don’t know who you are.”

–Harry Quinton Lonnie G. Bunch, III Director National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Smithsonian in Washington, DC

James Felton Chief Diversity Officer Anne Arundel County Community College (AACC)

Jeanne D. Hitchcock, Esq. Special Advisor to the Vice President for Local Government, Community and Corporate Affairs Johns Hopkins University Carroll H. Hanson Jr. President/CEO Image Power, Inc. Kimberly Klacik Executive Director Potential Me Towanda R. Livingston Director, Small, Local and Minority Business Enterprise (SLMBE) Office Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

(WSSC) Dr. Harry Quinton Tuskegee Airman A. Skipp Sanders, Ed.D. Executive Director Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture The Honorable Herman L. Taylor Former Delegate 14th Legislative District, Maryland David Warnock President Warnock Foundation Dr. Marie Washington President East Baltimore Community Corporation

Judges

Continued from B1 with constituencies who identify with those organizations.”

Five of the sitting judge candidates are women and three of those women are of color.

“It keeps it honest,” Jones added. “Prior to then, people of color, and women -- even Italian Americans like Michael, may not have been chosen through the traditional pathway so they had to run an election against what was perceived to be the establishment. But with the expansion of the specialty bar, you get a more diverse bench.”

In Baltimore’s Circuit Court race, there are two candidates who have chosen to circumvent the pathway by which Jones and DiPietro were nominated – they are city public defender

Todd Oppenheim and current District 1 City Councilman James B. Kraft.

In an earlier interview with the AFRO Oppenheim said that he was running

“It keeps it honest.”

–Cynthia Jones specifically to address issues of criminal justice reform. “It’s so silly that we talk about criminal justice reform and we never continue the conversation to judges. I mean, they give the sentences out,” he said.

Jones and DiPietro also discussed the

process by which they are vetted, which they said was thorough. They said the entire process – from interviews with bar associations to governor’s approval – could take several months.

DiPietro said that the process allowed those interviewing him to get to know him on a deeper level.

“I’ve lived in Baltimore my whole life so I know a lot of people, I know a lot of lawyers,” he said. “But I was in the U.S Attorney’s Office for the last 14 years of my career so I didn’t practice in the Baltimore City Circuit Court every day. That vetting process was a means for people who are stakeholders to get to know who I am both professionally and to

some extent personally.”

The judges running with Jones and DiPietro are Judge Shannon E. Avery, Judge Audrey J.S. Carrion, Judge Karen C. Friedman and Judge Wanda Keyes Heard.

The group was recently endorsed by Baltimore Attorney Billy Murphy, who negotiated a $6.4 million settlement for the family of Freddie Gray and is currently engaged in a class-action lawsuit with the city of Flint, Michigan over lead in the resident’s water.

“These judges have excellent experience and come from diverse backgrounds, reflecting the citizenry of the city of Baltimore,” Murphy says in a video that was sent to the AFRO. “They are exactly what we need.”

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co-moderators, my colleagues at WEAA, Marsha Jews (Keep it Moving) and Marc Steiner (The Marc Steiner Show), as well as Karen Houppert (City Paper) will compel the candidates to also address the other most pressing issues our city faces; housing, education and economics, among others.

But, in my mind what makes this debate unique is the decision we’ve made to approach these essential issues from the perspective of Baltimore’s ubiquitous underserved and impoverished communities.

It’s no coincidence the uprising erupted last April in the Sandtown-Winchester community in West Baltimore. It is the

community where Freddie Gray lived and died, where there are more ex felons than any other community in the city. And it is one of the most impoverished in Baltimore.

The harrowing events in the aftermath of Gray’s funeral served as a clarion message for our city, generations in the making. And the reactionary response probably could have been predicted; dozens of bills crafted during the 2016 legislative session directly inspired by Gray’s death and the uprising all focused on different aspects of law enforcement reform.

But, until we begin to honestly address (and dismantle)

Baltimore’s infrastructure of racism, entrenched poverty and government sanctioned segregation (which Baltimore invented) we will continue to -- as we say in West Baltimore -- hustle backwards . Without change we are just offering band aids for gaping wounds.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to move the conversation forward on March 10. But, more importantly, the men and women who hope to occupy the big chair at City Hall better come forward with viable, specific plans to change the trajectory of our poorest communities. And prevent what many believe is inevitable -- another uprising with more destructive and even deadlier consequences.

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

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Live Entertainment Is Jumping in Baltimore

Hello everyone, I hope your week was blessed. If you are reading me now, then it was. I had a very busy month in February. I did 21 book signings and covered six events including the show at Magooby’s Joke House, Tiger Davis’s Buffalo Soldier Banquet and Eubie Blake Black History event. I saw many of you. It was a pleasure meeting so many of you who read my column. Thanks for greeting me. Looks like this month will be almost just as busy with a lot of live entertainment shows all over. I am going to talk to you about a few of them. So sit back, relax and fix yourself a cocktail.

I attended Magooby’s Joke House to see a dynamite show hosted by the one and only, Roger Harris of Charm City Jazz Productions

and let me tell you it was out-of-sight. It was well organized, the venue was a perfect place for a mixed clientele and the entertainment was very professional. I was impressed and that is saying a lot.

Okay, let’s check out what is going on this week and next week. This one is kind of different, it is a “70’s and 80’s Party” that will be held at the Vulcan Blazer’s, 2811 Druid Park Drive on March 4 from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m., and it is requested that you wear the 70’s and 80’s attire, matter-of- fact they say it is a must. The music is provided by my buddy, DJ Mike and DJ Unique. For more information, call 443-510-7205.

Jazz Expressways Foundation needs your support. We must keep our music alive. There are not too many organizations left to continue to give us the live music we enjoy so well.

They are having a “Jazz Breakfast” that is

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

Baltimore United for Change Mayoral Debate Baltimore United for Change is hosting a mayoral candidates’ debate on March 5 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Coppin State University in the James Weldon Johnson Auditorium.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Promoting Your Own Book Workshop The Black Writers Guild is hosting a workshop on how to promote your own book on March 5, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m at the Enoch Pratt Library, 1531 West North Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21217. Contact Cherri Woods at info@ eclecticpr.com or call 443-248-1119 for more information.

The AFRO Mayoral Debate The AFRO and WEAA present “Ask. Listen. Vote.” a debate between the mayoral candidates. Sean Yoes,

senior AFRO contributor and host of “First Edition,” will moderate. The event will take place on March 10 at the Murphy Fine Arts Center Gilliam Hall on the campus of Morgan State University from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free but registration at baltimoremayoraldebate.eventbrite.com is needed.

Anne Arundel Community College Fair The Anne Arundel Community College Fair is on March 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the David S. Jenkins Gymnasium at Anne Arundel Community College, 101 College Parkway, Arnold, Maryland 21012.

The fair is free and allows students to meet admissions representatives. For more information and an up to date list of colleges planning to attend, visit aacc.edu/collegefair or call 410-777-7253.

Doug E. Davis, known in the entertainment world as “Doug E. Fresh,” took the roof off Magooby’s Joke House in Timonium last week, hosted by the one and only Roger Harris of Charm City Productions.

BYOB and a great buffet breakfast with live entertainment featuring the Sterling Silver Quartet. It will be held at the Forest Park Senior Center located at 4801 Liberty Heights on March 12 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Vendors will be available too. I will see your face in the place. For tickets, call Howard or Cynthia Easley at 410-323-7295.

Pamela Leak’s “Maybelle & Co Full Figured Fashion Show” is just about sold out.

It is March 12 at 4 p.m. It is a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Association and two Cancer Survivors will be honored at this event; Greta Willis and Marva Williams formerly of 92 Q. There will be live entertainment, buffet, door prizes and vendors. It will be held at the Positive Youth Expression School at 200 N. Bentalou Street. For tickets, call 443-226-8895.

Now I want you to join me in prayers for get well wishes and condolences to the sick and shut-ins and friends of our community who recently passed. Another Baltimore legend of the Whatnauts, Roland “Chunky” Pinkney passed away last week; Rudy Little, traveling agent and husband of Juanita Little passed away

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last week; Windsor “Cooter” McDowell, owner of Club International in the 2300 block of West Baltimore Street, was buried last week; Edward “Smitty” Smith passed away last week, Carlton Douglass has the body; Sugar Chris, one of Baltimore’s favorite DJ, is in Sinai Hospital recuperating from knee surgery; Warren Hailey, musician is in the VA Maryland Health Care Hospital; Michael Eugene Johnson is also in the hospital and Sandra “Coffee” Rollins, one of Baltimore’s beloved DJs who played oldies at Big Wooten’s Lounge back in the 70’s also passed away last week. May God carry your prayers to these individuals, their families and loved ones. Well, my dear friends, it is about that time, I am out of time and space.

Remember, if you need me, call me at 410-8339474 or email me at: rosapryor@aol.com. Do not send me information on Facebook, I will not get it. Always send me your flyers by email.

Until the next time, I’m musically yours.

Pamela Leak (Ms. Maybelle), Baltimore’s renowned comedian, will host her “Full Figured Fashion Show” on March 12 at 4 p.m. at the Positive Youth Expression School, 200 N. Bentalou Street.

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Black Girls Vote table with Gillen Saunders and Renee McBride Maria Andrews and Rashae Chambers

Hundreds of people attended the annual event sponsored by Verizon at the Reginald. F. Lewis Museum on Feb. 27. Members of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority helped kids with Arts and Crafts projects and organizations such as Verizon, 100 Black Men, NAACP, Greater Baltimore Urban League, Black Girls Vote, Minority Male Makers Program, Baltimore County African American Cultural Festival, B.U.I.L.D, the AFRO, and others were there to inform and Gerald Stansbury, educate. president Maryland Awards were given to winners of the NAACP/Verizon Oratory contest.

NAACP Verizon Community Innovators Awards were presented to Denise Barnes, Tessa Hill-Aston, Doris J. Cammack-Spencer, Judith Clark, S. Dallas Dance, PhD., Duane president Baltimore G. Davis, Sr., Pastor John K. Jenkins, Doris S. Mason and Rev. Stephen L. NAACP Thomas, Sr. The Morgan State University Choir wowed the crowd with a combination of Negro Spirituals and Gospel songs

100 Black Men table with Thurman Rhodes and Quadre Washington Daquan Daye, Corey Gillie, Perry Abonza, Alexis Radford and Lance Lucas, CEO Digit All Systems

Larry Young, WOLB Radio

Kathy Standsbury sings Lift Every Voice and Sing

Bishop Douglas I. Miles

The Morgan State University Choir entertained the guests.

Minority Male Maker Program Participants standing are Janae Odenat, Sean Bagley, Cory Carter, Barbara Blount Armstrong and Kemi Ladeji-Osias Seated are Daquan Dixon, Didier Osias and Jaylen Williams

Photos by Anderson Ward

Honoree S. Dallas Dance, superintendent Baltimore County Schools

J. Howard Henderson, CEO Greater Baltimore Urban League,honoree Doris J. Cammack-Spencer and Tabb J. Bishop, vice president Verizon

Honoree Judith Clark

Honoree Denise Burton

Dr. Eric Conway directs the MSU choir

Cheryl Hitchock, vp for institutional advancement, Morgan, Dr. Don-Terry Veal, chief of staff, Morgan

Morgan State University and PNC CelebrateBlackHistory&HeritageMonth PNC employees Veronica Elder (second from left and an assistant branch manager in Hunt Valley) and her sister, Carmen Roberts (far right and an FSC at the Jacksonville Branch) enjoyed the evening out with their mother (left). Also pictured is Vinetta McCullogh (second from right), director of auxiliary services at Morgan

Angela McFadden (PNC employee) and Pastor Marvin McFadden

Honoree Doris Mason

Photos courtesy of Morgan State University

Morgan State University and PNC celebrated Black History Month on Feb. 18 on Morgan’s historic campus in Baltimore. Eric Conway, director of the MSU choir, took participants on a musical journey of the Black experience from the 17th century until today inside the Murphy Fine Arts Center.

PNC employees - Towson University branch manager James David with regional president Laura Gamble, business banking market manager Mike Smith and wealth management’s Charles Devaud

Dr. Eric Conway, director of MSU choir, Barbara Blount Armstrong, corporations and foundations officer, and Jake Oliver, publisher of the AFRO

PNC’s interns from Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and their families. From left, Charles and Tayvonia Oliver with their son, Dominic; Romy Allen, PNC treasury management and a supervisor of interns; Kedrick Ruffin Jr. and his parents, Carolyn and Kedrick Sr.

PNC’s Dennis Burkey with his wife Nancy and Seson Taylor-Campbell, relationship manager for PNC

William Backstorm, director of client & community relations for PNC and wife Tracy Lambros; Gail Clough, director of development for Reginald F. Lewis Museum and husband Peter Clough

GMD market manager Matt Martin (left) poses with branch manager and PREP president Stephanie Elgie and her husband, and Karen Brooms, financial specialist team manager

PNC Greater Maryland D&I Council President Mona Breakley (right) with her husband and Kathy Reevie, editor of The Baltimore Times and her guest, Rudy Gadette