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Chicago’s new police superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, shakes hands with other officers after being sworn in by Mayor Rahm Emanuel at a city council meeting April 13 in Chicago. Johnson who has 27 years on the force, was Emanuel’s hand-picked choice to take the top police job. The City Council confirmed the appointment April 13 in a 50-0 vote.

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Misguided Republican lawmakers are determined to block Merrick Garland’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and deny President Barack Obama’s attempt to nominate a highly-qualified judge to the high court.

Despite calls for Senate Republicans to meet with Garland, GOP legislators are, instead, digging in their heels.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said on the Senate floor last week that he will not bow to pressure from Democrats to consider Garland, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge.

At least 17 Senate Republicans said they would meet with Garland -- but with their minds made up. So far, Garland has met with three Senate Republicans, including Senator John Boozman of Arkansas.

“During our meeting, I conveyed to Judge Garland my position, which is that the next president should fill the vacancy,” Boozman said in a statement. “My position is firm. That means I will not advocate for hearings or a

vote, nor will I support filling the vacancy with President Obama’s pick after the election.”

So what was the point? Boozman said the meeting was simply a courtesy. And other senior Republican leaders, like Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, have said they won’t even meet with Garland.

The GOP roadblock is shortsighted, dismissive and another blatant attempt to stall Obama’s legislative agenda during his final year in office.

Meanwhile, President Obama fired back at the GOP saying even if a Republican wins the White House and makes a nomination, Democrats could filibuster it.

“The notion the Democrats would then say, ‘Oh, well, we’ll just go along with that’ — that is inconceivable, right?” Obama said. “So now the Democrats say, well, you know, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. We’ll wait four more years, to see the next president who comes in.”

He said Republicans are jeopardizing the “integrity of the judicial branch” by refusing to consider his “extraordinary” nominee to the

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Former Detroit Gang Member Near Ferguson, Nuclear Waste Fears Haunt Now a Gang Peacemaker Burning Landfill and Community

By Josh Peterson Urban News Service

Ray Winans, once affectionately known as “Killer Ray,” is helping reduce gun violence in Detroit — one gang member at a time.

The 37-year-old former gang member is an unconventional activist who mediates among gangs, police and federal prosecutors while encouraging young Black men to end their lives of crime and hand their guns over to officials.

Outside Ferguson, Missouri, another issue burns. This time, it’s environmental.

An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This Continued on A3 subterranean inferno threatens to sicken area residents, just 10 miles from the site of the controversial, policeinvolved death of Michael Brown.

Local citizens worry

By Tiffany C. Ginyard the slowly advancing fire, Special to AFRO which has burned at the Bridgeton Landfill since Almost one year ago Baltimore caught the nation’s 2010, will reach the World attention when violent protest and mayhem erupted in the War II-era nuclear refuse at city following the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man who the neighboring West Lake died from a spinal injury while in police custody. Camera’s Landfill. zoomed in on the intersection of Pennsylvania and North This menace unfolds Avenues, where all the city woes came to a head. in a disproportionately “It seems all the media and the city focused on the Black area. The AfricanContinued on A4 American population of

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St. Louis County, home to Bridgeton and Ferguson, was 23.9 percent in 2014, according to Census data. That is nearly double the 13.2 percent black share of America’s population.

Residents already complain of a strong smell of garbage and rotten eggs, elevated health problems, and slow government

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Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden Garland on the day Garland was nominated to be the next Supreme Court justice.

Ray Winans, back, works to get gang members out of the life.

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Johns Hopkins Professor Named Dean of American University School of Education

Two women who were Southern University students and members of the school’s athletic program were shot and killed early Sunday outside a Baton Rouge apartment complex, police (Facebook) and university 19-year-old Annette January (left), and officials said.

19-year-old Lashuntae Benton (right).

Detectives didn’t immediately identify any suspects or motives in the shooting, which occurred in a parking lot outside an apartment complex around 2 a.m., said Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola Jr. A mother of one of the slain students said police told her that her daughter, 19-year-old Lashuntae Benton, of Lake Charles, wasn’t an intended target of the shooting. Theresa Tillman said her daughter was living in a dormitory on Southern’s campus and apparently was attending a party at the apartment complex where the shooting occurred.

“My baby was a very vibrant child, a beautiful child with a beautiful heart,” Tillman said during a telephone interview.

“Everybody loved her.”

Southern University system president Ray Belton identified the other slain student as Annette January, of Gary. January, also 19, was a freshman and a member of the school’s track and field team, while Benton was a sophomore and a student athletic trainer, Belton said in a statement.

A 24-year-old man also was wounded in the shooting but his injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, police said in a statement.

One of the two women killed in the shooting was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting; the other died at a hospital shortly after the shooting, police said.

“The University asks for prayers and support for the families at this difficult time,” Belton said.

Tillman said her daughter played softball, track and volleyball at her high school in Lake Charles and was studying sports medicine at Southern.

“She was very ambitious,” she added.

Distinguished educator Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy will take a short trip down the Parkway when she departs Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University to join Washington, D.C.’s American University and take the helm of its School of Education. HolcombMcCoy begins her role as dean July 1.

(YouTube) Currently Hopkins’ vice Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy provost for faculty affairs and a professor of counseling and human development, Holcomb-McCoy is widely esteemed for her extensive scholarship and advocacy in the areas of teaching, college counseling and inclusion. At Hopkins, she was credited with leading efforts to raise funds for diversity research and increasing diversity within the faculty.

She has published her research in four books and journal special issues, 16 chapters in edited books, and more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

She is currently an associate editor of the Journal for Counseling and Development and has served on many journal editorial boards, including Professional School Counseling, Journal for Specialists in Group Work, and Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology.

“We are thrilled that Dr. Holcomb-McCoy will be joining the American University community in such a strong position of leadership. She has had an exemplary career in service to the idea that education is a human right, one that we have an absolute obligation to ensure,” Stacey Snelling, who has led American’s School of Education as dean over the past year and is chair of the Department of Health Studies, said in a statement.

Prior to serving as vice provost at Hopkins, HolcombMcCoy Previous was the vice dean of academic affairs and chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services at the School of Education. She has also worked as associate professor of counselor education at the University of Maryland, College Park and assistant professor and director of the School Counseling Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Holcomb-McCoy earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Virginia and her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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and corporate action. The landfills are owned, largely,

by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates — the richest man on Earth, according to Forbes, with a net worth of $77.6 billion.

Securities and Exchange Commission filings from May 2015 show that Gates held more than 108 million shares in Republic Services, the owner of both landfills, through his personal holding company, Cascade Investments, LLC. Republic Services is America’s second biggest waste management business.

The company currently lists 344.8 million shares outstanding. At $46.38 per share, Gates’ 31.5 percent stake was worth $5 billion as of April 8, making him one its largest shareholders.

The EPA and other federal and state agencies have fined Republic Services more than $61 million since 2007.

Michael Larson, Cascade Investment’s business manager, has been on Republic Services’ board of directors since 2009. Neither Cascade Investments nor Republic Services replied to Urban News Service’s requests for comment.

“The psychological pain the folks near the landfill have gone through over the last five years has been incredible,” said Ed Smith,

safe energy director for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. “The landfill stench can impact these people at any time 24/7. The landfill odors don’t care if it is day or night, hot or cold, a holiday or your birthday.”

If this subsurface fire reaches what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calls Radiologically Impacted Material (RIM), “the RIM would not become reactive or explosive,” said Curtis Carey, EPA’s Region 7 public affairs director.

However, the landfill’s noxious gases would escape more quickly in the form of steam, radon and “potentially other gases (as determined by the composition of the nonRIM materials present),” said Carey. Radon is a radioactive, cancer-causing gas produced by decaying radium, a byproduct of depleted uranium.

The EPA placed the West Lake Landfill on its National Priorities List in 1990 as a Superfund site. Congress created the Superfund program in 1980 to help manage hazardous waste sites. West Lake contained the “oldest radioactive waste of the atomic age,” according to a New York Times report that year, which cited local health concerns even back then. As of March 1, 1323 active Superfund sites were on the EPA’s National

Missouri Department of Natural Resources

An underground fire threatens to ignite radioactive waste just 10 miles from Ferguson, MO. Priorities List; 33 of which are in Missouri.

This toxic waste survived the Manhattan Project’s uranium-enrichment program.

A contractor for the Cotter Corporation illegally dumped it at West Lake in 1973.

Since then, a full cleanup has remained in bureaucratic and legal limbo while the EPA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and private companies have wrestled over who will mop up this mess.

Even worse, an underground fire spontaneously combusted at the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill in 2010, inching ever

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Winans explained he has attended too many funerals for young Black men killed in violent confrontations. He has persuaded 10 young men to stop associating with Detroit’s gangs since 2014, according to Winans and police.

“I never thought I would ever work with the police and it changed my whole view of law enforcement,” he told Urban News Service. “Now I’m working with friends in gangs and their children in gangs.”

A former member of the Head Banger Bloods, Winans and his wife, Shaelon, cofounded Keeping Them Alive in 2012. This non-profit agency is dedicated to ending gun violence in Detroit.

Winans runs his initiative on a modest budget through donations, his own money and a $10,000 grant he received in 2013 from the Knight Foundation’s Black Male Engagement project.

Winans faces tough odds in his quest: Homicide is the leading cause of death among American Black men between the ages of 15 and 34, the Centers for Disease Control reports. And only 50 percent of Black youth feel confident they will live to age 35, according to the American Sociological Association and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

The challenge, Winans said, can be summed up in one word: Trust. Gang members

can relate to him because of his own violent past.

When he was 15, Winans was convicted of manslaughter following a fit of anger in Detroit, according to both him and police.

Winans said he was charged as a juvenile and served three years in jail for beating Chester Bownes to death with a hammer. Winans said he was freed at age 18 from High Plains Youth Center in Brush, Colorado.

(Winans’ juvenile court records are sealed, a police source said, so he could not identify the victim nor confirm the spelling of his name.)

After his release, Winans was in and out of jail until 2009. But six years ago, his life changed.

“I told God, ‘I am willing to get a job and not hurt anybody anymore,’” he said.

“In 2010, I gave my life to Christ and started working in a local grocery store. The news spread like wildfire and gang members were coming to the store to see for themselves.”

Today, the father of five tries to quiet Detroit’s guns.

There were 295 homicides in 2015 and 1,035 non-fatal shootings in Michigan’s largest city, according to police data. Detroit is America’s most dangerous city, according to FBI crime statistics for 2015.

Winans’ partnership with

Detroit police is a “highly unusual relationship, but very effective,” said Sgt. Edward Brannock, head of the department’s gang intelligence unit.

Winans joined Brannock recently to teach community mediation and gang intervention to 25 Detroit police officers, community outreach workers and the department’s chaplain.

“I’ve called on Ray in high-stress situations,” Brannock said. “We’ve been on shootings together. He’s pulled gang members out of school and helped us locate an AR-15 assault rifle and a 9mm Glock that a suspect was hiding in a dope house.

And he’s helped me close cases.”

“Who would ever think that a guy who was in prison for manslaughter would be working this closely with law enforcement?”

Saul Green, a former Detroit deputy mayor and former U.S. attorney for Michigan’s Eastern District under President Bill Clinton, said Winans’ work with police and gang members is remarkable.

“I’ve been around public safety in Detroit for a long time and I have not met another person who is bringing this kind of positive change to this community,” Green said. “Ray works with young men morning, noon, nights and weekends. We need 1,000 more Rays in Detroit.”

Gang members, meanwhile, say Winans offers them a second chance to succeed in life.

Anthony Crews, 18, quit the East Warren gang after meeting with Winans in 2013.

Since then, he has enrolled in a jobs program for people on probation.

“I trust him,” said Crews.

“He has never lied to me and he’s always there for me.

I don’t know where I’d be without him.”

closer to the atomic waste at West Lake. The EPA, last December, ordered Republic

Services to pay to build a barrier between the fire and the radioactive refuse.

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Finding a solution to the problem is “a top priority for EPA,” said the agency’s Region 7 administrator Mark Hague. The EPA says residents are not at risk, but its new report found the fire was only a couple hundred feet from the toxic material — twice as close as previously thought.

Affected Black residents tend to be “more middleincome folks,” said Adolphus M. Pruitt II, president of the St. Louis City NAACP. “But they’re being impacted the same as anybody else as related to the health concerns and the concerns about their property values, their ability to liquidate their property or sell their property in the future — if for some reason they decide to move.”

Residents want to be able to move out of the area, hoping the state or the government will buy them out, said Pruitt.

“I don’t hold much faith in that happening.”

Garland

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Supreme Court.

Obama is right. And Republicans are hypocrites.

Here is what Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said about Garland on the Senate floor in 1995.

“Now I would like to state, for all of my colleagues here, that he is a very good nominee — I commend the administration for being willing to nominate Merrick Garland... I hope, since he is a good nominee — I think almost everybody would have to admit he’s a good nominee — that we will vote him out [of nomination committee and onto Senate floor] next week. I understand the argument against that, there is no argument against Merrick Garland at all, and perhaps we can solve that problem in the future.”

And here’s what Hatch said about Garland in 1997:

“To my knowledge, no one, absolutely no one disputes the following: Merrick B. Garland is highly qualified to sit on the D.C. circuit.

His intelligence and his scholarship cannot be questioned... I believe Mr. Garland is a fine nominee. I know him personally, I know of his integrity, I know of his legal ability, I know of his honesty, I know of his acumen, and he belongs on the court. I believe he is not only a fine nominee, but is as good as Republicans can expect from this administration. In fact, I would place him at the top of the list... Opposition to this nomination will only serve to undermine the credibility of our legitimate goal of keeping proven activists off the bench.”

So why are Senate Republicans opposed to Garland now? It’s just another attempt to stick it to Obama as Republicans have done for the past 7 1/2 years.

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destruction at Penn North. But that’s not where most of the damage was done,” Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, president of the Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association (MAHNA) told the AFRO. The former president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP said too much of the media’s and city’s attention was focused on the epicenter of last year’s riots and not enough on the neighborhoods hardest hit and the communities south of Penn-North where unrest has been brewing for over 20 years-a community known as SandtownWinchester, where Freddie Gray lived.

Of the 380 struck by the unrest, most of the destruction occurred south of North Avenue, according to a list generated by Baltimore Development Corporation. Jolly’s, a 24-hour convenience store, is among three of the 14 businesses hit in Sandtown-Winchester that have yet to recover.

Three years ago the neighborhood’s grocer, Stop Shop and Save, closed leaving the community in a food desert.

The unemployment and family poverty rates are, 11 percent and 30.9 percent, respectively, and the median household income is $22,277. Vacant lots are dump sites for bulk trash. Blocks of abandoned row homes are tell-tale signs of nearly two decades of neglect.

Young people continue to live in lead poisoned environments, there are no safe places to play, and there are no recreational facilities or resource centers to support youth and families.

“It seems apparent that a number of our city’s elected officials are clearly overlooking our community,” Cheatham told the AFRO.

The Matthew A. Henson community spans 52 blocks bordering North Avenue, Fulton (east), Ruxton Avenue (west), and Presstman Street (south).

The neighborhoods’ association, MAHNA, was established in 1964, a year after Matthew A. Henson Elementary, the school Freddie Gray attended, was founded and is one of the oldest and most active neighborhood associations in the city.

MAHNA champions issues from crime prevention and sanitation to housing and redevelopment, and works with current and aspiring elected officials. Nick Mosby, who was running for mayor until he dropped out of the race April 13, currently represents the SandtownWinchester community at City Hall as councilman for District 7.

MAHNA has launched an initiative that calls on candidates running to replace Mosby, who is not running for his city council seat, to present a plan of action for addressing the food desert issue. Fourteen candidates were asked and six responded.

“We are suffering in this

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Members of The Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association (MAHNA) celebrate Kwanza last year. leading these communities are Black.”

Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake launched the One Baltimore campaign in response to the 2015 riots--a comprehensive and collaborative public-private initiative to support ongoing efforts to rebuild

“It seems apparent that a number of our city’s elected officials are clearly overlooking our community.”

– Marvin “Doc” Cheatham

community and we have elected officials that want to go higher and they don’t deserve it,” said Cheatham, who attributes the exacerbating disparities in this area in West Baltimore to years of poor leadership. “We can’t say it’s the ‘man,’ because the overwhelming majority of people who have been

communities and neighborhoods.

“This is an opportunity for us to focus more intensely on systemic problems that have faced our city for decades, if not generations,” the mayor said at a press conference in front of the burned-out CVS drugstore in Baltimore’s Penn North

neighborhood after last year’s riots.

But MAHNA’s members are not optimistic, especially since there are no recent updates on the campaign’s official website, servingonebaltimore.org, regarding the announcement of the initiative’s framework and the “system of broad community engagement.”

As the anniversary of last year’s unrest approaches, Cheatam says there has been no significant plan of action to address the disparities people face in Sandtown-Winchester.

According to the site, these action items were to be rolled out in the “coming weeks” following the May 2015 launch.

In the face of decades of despair and decay MAHNA continues to forge forward. Matthew A Henson Elementary school was one of four schools which received federal funding after a meeting with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). The association

is currently advocating to bring Safe Streets to Sandtown-Winchester.

Safe Streets is an evidence-based program that uses public health as a prevention tool to save lives and make communities safer. There are five Safe Streets sites throughout the city--the most recent was opened in the 21217 area, but nowhere near the Matthew A. Henson community.

Starting April 30 through July 30, MAHNA, along with several other organizations, will launch the AFRO’s Clean Block Campaign in its neighborhoods to encourage community members to take pride in their neighborhoods.

MAHNA is currently celebrating the growth of the cherry blossoms in the seemingly barren neighborhoods of the community.

“We are a hard fighting community,” said Cheatham. “It’s tough here, but the community still excels. We’re in this mess together.”

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COMMENTARY

Our Future is on the Ballot in this Election Year

As I consider the consequences for our future during this critical election year, it is no overstatement to observe that our future will be on the ballots that will be cast on Election Day this November just as surely as will be the candidates for office.

The virtually nonstop television coverage of the presidential candidates has focused on their personalities and temperament, more often than on the policies that they are espousing.

Yet, even the less than comprehensive analyses of their vision for our country reveals the dramatic difference in their priorities.

For the Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Elijah Cummings 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.

Like President Obama and Democrats in the Congress, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders understand that significant changes in the priorities and laws of our country are needed if we truly are to move toward liberty, justice and opportunity for all Americans.

Their major contrasts as candidates reflect their differing judgments regarding the speed and the extent of the transformation that our nation is prepared to accept.

In sharp contrast, however, for Republicans Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz and Governor John Kasich, it is as if Americans of Color do not exist.

In this absence of concern for our lives from their campaign talking points, the Republicans have been straightforward: They simply do not care about us, our families or our votes.

At their worst, two of the Republican candidates have attempted to scapegoat people of color for their own political gain.

When viewed in the context of recent political battles in Washington, it is clear that this divergence between Democrats and Republicans goes far deeper than the political calculations of presidential campaigns.

America has reached another crossroads in our national journey — and, as I have been arguing in recent months, Americans of Color can have a major influence upon which fork in history’s road our nation will choose to take.

If we register and vote in record numbers this year, we can win a central place for our objectives in the nation’s priorities — as well as elect the person most qualified to serve as President of the United States.

If, on the other hand, our votes are suppressed by what Dr. King once termed “conniving methods to deny our votes,” or if we disenfranchise ourselves by failing to register and vote, then our future will be far more daunting.

Voter suppression is a serious obstacle that we must overcome in this election year if our choices as American citizens are to be confirmed.

Whether the method of suppression is Voter ID laws, politically motivated purging of the voter rolls, restrictions upon early voting, or conscious decisions that result in hours-long lines at minority polling places, the clear objective of voter suppression is to deny America’s new majority the electoral victory that will advance our cause.

For example, according to a lawsuit filed by the Ohio ACLU this month, two million

voters have been removed from the Ohio voter rolls during the last five years — including 40,000 largely low-income and minority voters living in Ohio’s largest county who were disenfranchised in 2015.

Our principles and self-interest as Americans demand that we continue to challenge attempts to limit our voting power in every arena where suppression raises its ugly head, whether in the Congress, our state legislatures, our polling places, or, as in the case of Ohio, in our courts.

Our determination to assure that every citizen can vote and that every vote is counted will be especially important here in Maryland and in the other states in which African American voters provided President Obama’s entire margin of victory in 2012: Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

At the same time, in these states and across our great nation, we must take civic responsibility for ourselves and our communities.

Unlike those states that have attempted to suppress our voting power, Maryland legislators have made real progress in making it convenient for every Maryland citizen to register and vote.

For example, our state offers us the ability to initiate the voter registration process on the Internet through Maryland’s Online Voter Registration System (OLVR) — and those of us who wish to confirm our status as voters can do so at https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/ votersearch.

Our future is on the ballot this year — and we have the power to choose the future direction that will best serve our families and the generations of Americans yet to be born.

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

Kids in Northwest Baltimore Need Help “How did this community get this way: so cold, so distance, and so hostile?,” an elderly man asked me one day while I was buying coffee.

When I’m walking back to my job teaching students at Arlington Elementary School in Northwest Baltimore, I notice several Black men occupying corners. Some have cold in their eyes, pants sagging, and exchanging drugs for money. In front of the liquor store, men are drinking and talking. Smells are coming from the bakery, as customers line up. People are coming in and out of the barbershop like it’s a Black Friday sale. Cars are lined up like they are parked outside of a popular nightclub. I cross the street and go back into the school.

Later on in the day, it’s time for recess. The children are excited. I’m observing the children playing football, coming down the sliding board, and running after each other. They are being children. As I’m about to sit down, I see several cars pull up and purchase drugs on Lewiston Avenue. “Where are the police,” I wondered. So I called 911.

Meanwhile, when I’m communicating with the 911 operator, several black men are rushing toward two vehicles on the 5400 block of Narcissus Avenue. They exchange drugs for money then they go back into a house on Narcissus Avenue. Not only that, cars pull up to this house, people get out with nothing, then come back with bags, backpacks , purses, shoe boxes, etc.

The police and the helicopter arrive too late. We go back into the school. But this is what I see on a daily basis. These incidents happen in broad daylight. I can only imagine what they do at night.

When I look around this community, I see its people have no shame, goals, hope, or inspiration. This is tragic to a point where politicians, police, and others believe the same thing

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about the people. How can residents, police, and politicians allow a drug stash house to exist across the street from an elementary/middle school? How can a liquor store be that close to a school?

According to news reports, the barbershop owner and the bakery owner were arrested because of drug trafficking. On the day of their arrests, they found a half million dollars of drugs in each of other their cars. So why are these two establishments still operating?

These are questions the residents have to deal with. The police don’t live in the community.

We know now that 70% of the police don’t even live in the city. The politicians give us lip service every election. People in the neighborhood turn a blind eye to crime, until a relative or a young person gets killed then the people in the community want to say something. On July 2, 2015, a 15-year-old was stabbed to death by a 13-year-old on Arlington’s playground. Who spoke for him?

What about the future? Do we care? It seems to me we don’t by our actions. I want to see a community that’s thriving like The Avenue (AKA Pennsylvania Avenue) once was. I see a people who are proud to be in their skin. Loving themselves as God loves them. Taking care of the community like it’s worth a billion dollars. This is not rhetoric, but sincere words to a people who came from the bottom to rise to the top with intellect, heart, prayer with works, and the souls of our ancestors. We can do this, because no one else will.

Tony Hayes is an elementary math teacher at Arlington Elementary School in Northwest Baltimore who cares about the future of his people.

Are African Americans Making the Right Choice at the Polls?

There are unique differences between races and cultures that define us; foods, celebrations, accents, skin color, etc. Unfortunately political parties aren’t as diverse.

Minorities want equality in many platforms such as Wall Street, the Academy Awards, schools, government positions, but not political parties. Minorities, specifically African Americans, have been voting for the Democratic Party for about 60 years.

Inequality blares loudly today as it did during the 1960s, with equality groups such as the Black Lives Matter movement. These equality groups have the right intentions regarding policing, income equality, and civil rights but often blame politicians for these systemic problems.

Baltimore experienced civil unrest last April from the death of Freddie Gray while in the custody of police officers.

Baltimore’s population is largely black at 63 percent. Maryland is a predominantly democratic state outnumbering republicans 2 to 1. Baltimore hasn’t had a republican mayor in almost 50 years and the city council has been primarily democrat for an exceedingly long time.

If African Americans are infuriated with politicians in

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Baltimore, then they are somewhat accountable because the black vote determines who leads the city that has been deemed “the greatest city in America.” African Americans reaped the seeds they sowed in Baltimore.

There are many things synonymous with being an African American, and being a democrat is one of those things. Voting republican can earn a black person names such as “Uncle Tom” or “house nigger.”

Former president Bill Clinton won 84 percent of the black vote, even though his policing policies lead to a mass incarceration of black people. His administration jailed more blacks than any other presidency, including Ronald Reagan, probably the most hated president among black people, according to most black rappers anyway.

Stephen A. Smith, a host and reporter for ESPN, received much criticism when he said that African Americans should vote republican at least once in their lives. To elaborate on what Mr. Smith was saying, he’s disseminating that republicans don’t try to attain black votes because they know they won’t receive them, according to voting history.

Democrats won’t advertise for black votes because they know they already garnered them.

In the 2008 democratic primary between Barack Obama

and Hillary Clinton they preached about reestablishing the middle class but not the lower class for the most part.

Democrats may pretend to care about the black vote until they receive the black vote and then move on to other endeavors.

In Malcolm X’s speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” he spoke about the same idea calling black people who vote democratic “chumps.” Malcolm described democrats as the fox, the ones who proclaim that they’ll liberate you but don’t once you elect them to office. He personified republicans as wolves, they’ll tell you to your face they don’t like you and show you through legislation. Malcolm explained he’d rather face a wolf than a fox, surmising that it’s better to be stabbed in the heart than the back.

I’m not telling you to vote democratic or republican but I’m proposing that a government that represents its people should appeal to everyone and try to garner votes from all races. If every minority voted republican one year then republican candidates will make the effort to get minority votes once they believe they can garner minority votes. Don’t let democrats take your vote for granted.

Deion Broxton is an intern in the Baltimore office of the AFRO American. He is a recent graduate of Towson University in Baltimore, MD.

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Former Mentor and Mentee Battle Over Ward 7 Seat

D.C. Voter registration deadline is May 15.

By Leanna Commins Howard University News Service

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Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D), during the special elections of 2007, said he would do “everything” to get his mentee Yvette Alexander (D) elected to his former seat as Ward 7 council member. After being elected to the position, Alexander described Gray as a “man of integrity” when council

Rep. Van Hollen Seeking Black Voters

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L’Enfant Metro Station (pictured above) has been one of several of the D.C. metropolitan area stations that have closed down due to safety incidences, some tragic, within the last couple of years. The system’s officials were called to a hearing on Capitol Hill April 13 where two House subcommittees asked questions about the safety of the area’s subway system after an unprecedented daylong shutdown on March 16.

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U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen is a candidate for the U.S. Senate

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) wants Black Marylanders to know he understands their concerns and would be the best person in this election cycle to represent them in the U.S. Senate. Van Hollen spoke with the AFRO on April 8 at his Baltimore campaign office. He is competing against U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) for the April 26 Democratic Party primary nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.).

He vowed to be a senator for all Marylanders. “I have spent my entire life in public service and bringing people together,” the representative said. “As a senator, I will be fighting for the promise of America. That is fighting for

“I have spent my entire life in public service and bringing people together.”

– Chris Van Hollen equal rights and equal justice for all.”

The primary winner will represent the party in the Nov. 8, 2016 general election.

Even though a March 13 Baltimore Sun-University of Baltimore poll showed that Edwards leads Van Hollen, 34-28 percent, a NBC4/ Marist poll, conducted from April 5-9, shows Van Hollen leading Edwards, 44 percent to 38 percent, respectively.

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Changing the Culture of Shame Over Sexual Assaults on Black College Students

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com Reports of sexual assaults on American campuses occur at a rate of one in four. According to the National Institute of Justice, assaults of Black women on Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ (HBCUs) campuses remain under-reported, due, in large part, to a culture of silence and shame.

Anonymous reports from multi-campus surveys, sampling thousands of college students nationwide, found that at HBCUs, 14 percent of rape survivors who were physically forced and 7 percent who were incapacitated said they did not believe the police would think the incident was “serious enough.”

“Many Black colleges have received Justice Department funding under Title IX to expressly discuss sexual assault

and sexual violence with students, but sometimes, that’s just not enough,” Howard University graduate student Karlissa Mandrell told the AFRO following a sexual assault awareness rally on campus April 11. “We have to be proactive as students in confronting certain behaviors and stereotypes that promote rape culture. A girl, or boy for that matter, has a right to say ‘no’ at any time during intimate contact.”

Mandrell’s concerns are backed by the study, “The Historically Black College and University Campus Sexual Assault Study,” which found nearly 20 percent of those physically forced and 15 percent of those incapacitated – Karlissa Mandrell said they did not report the crime because they did not want to get the person in trouble. “There is a fear that the victim will be ostracized for inciting the sexual violence perpetrated against them; that they believe the safety of their attacker is more important than their own,” Mandrell said.

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“There is a fear that the victim will be ostracized for inciting the sexual violence perpetrated against them . . .”

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Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and incumbent council member Yvette Alexander (D) are rivaling over the Ward 7 council seat. members demanded his resignation in 2014 during the U.S. attorney’s investigation of his campaign.

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Bowser Appointee to St. Elizabeth’s Quits After Just 1 Month

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

Jovante Hall, 18, was charged with second-degree murder while armed in the April 11 stabbing death of John Rufus Evans III.

Suspect Charged in Fatal D.C. Metro Stabbing

By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press An 18-year-old man has been charged in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in what marks the second homicide at the same Metro station in just over two weeks, police said April 12.

Jovante Hall of northeast Washington was arrested and charged with second-degree murder while armed April 11 in the stabbing death of John Rufus Evans III earlier that day, according to court records.

Assistant Chief Peter Newsham said Hall and Evans knew each other and were involved in an ongoing dispute. It appears they met by chance on April 11 and ended up in an altercation, Newsham said. According to a court document filed Apil 12, the two first saw each other aboard a train and had a physical fight in the station. A witness told police the pair had been “engaged in a verbal altercation stemming from social media

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James Kyle, who was hired to lead St. Elizabeth’s Hospital by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), resigned after just 30 days as the institution’s CEO. Regarded as “a nationally board certified health care executive with over 30 years of experience in the medical field,” by Bowser, Kyle resigned following questions over his qualifications.

According to the Washington Business Journal, Kyle’s experience in the field did not hold up under scrutiny, with the position he held before coming to the District, medical director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Services in Rosebud, South Dakota, now at risk of losing its federal funding.

“My previous experience, military service, and training as a health care executive have prepared me for this

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Southeast D.C. job,” he told the Washington Post when confronted about his background March 22.

Ten days later, on April 4, Kyle tendered his resignation, without citing a reason.

Dr. Kyle contacted several news organizations, including FOX 5 television, and provided documents to substantiate his qualifications.

Saying the D.C. government made a mistake in not properly vetting him, Kyle said Bowser asked him to resign. “I can’t talk

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specifically about personnel matters, but we want to move in a new direction, so we will,” Bowser said in a statement to FOX 5.

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Edwards has a huge advantage in Baltimore City and her home, Prince George’s County.

Van Hollen has represented the Montgomery County-based eighth congressional district of Maryland since 2003 and is the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, “Van Hollen said he wants Blacks to prosper saying he is a “big advocate for expanding opportunities for minority businesses.”

“In my district, I helped set up a Minority Procurement Center and it is doing well,” he said. “I want to make sure that whether the contracts are at the city, county, state, or federal level that minority businesses can compete.”

Van Hollen said that he is an advocate for supporting HBCUs and has worked with the Congressional Black Caucus to see that President Obama’s free community college initiative doesn’t hurt those institutions.

Criminal justice reform is on the mind of many Blacks and Van Hollen agrees that change in the system needs to take place. “I was for stopping mass incarceration before the conversation became popular,” he said. “While in the legislature, I pushed bills that banned racial profiling in traffic stops, and I believe that drug addiction should be treated as a health care matter and not a criminal justice issue. We should end filling jails.”

Van Hollen said that he is an advocate for stopping gun violence but a super PAC supporting Edwards has recently attacked him on that point. The super PAC said in essence that Van Hollen has been beholden to the gun lobby on Capitol Hill while Edwards has famously fought the National Rifle Association.

Van Hollen disputed the super PAC commercial’s assertion and blasted Edwards for airing such a piece.

“In Annapolis, I took on the NRA-and I won,” the representative said. “In Congress, I’ve put forward a plan to combat gun violence based on proven research from Johns Hopkins University. Any effort to distract from the need to tackle this critical issue in Baltimore and across the state is beneath Maryland voters.”

Maryland State Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-District 43) supports Van Hollen and is not happy about the ad that the Edwards’ camp has put out.

“I was for stopping mass incarceration before the conversation became popular.”

– Van Hollen “The issue of gun violence is tearing Baltimore apart,” Conway said. “It’s shameful that groups supporting Congresswoman Edwards would veer so far from the facts on an issue that impacts so many Maryland families.”

Conway is one of a several state legislators that are supporting Van Hollen. Sens. Nathaniel McFadden (D-District 45), Delores Kelley (D-District 10) and Joanne Benson (D-District 24) plus Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III and Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett are

also in the Van Hollen camp.

“When Chris represented a portion of Prince George’s County [from 2003-2011], he was instrumental in providing critical federal funding to assist our communities, our economy, our safety, our infrastructure and our environment,” Baker said.”

Edwards has gotten support from members of Maryland’s legislative body such as Maryland Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-District 25), former Maryland Sen. Karen Montgomery (D-District 14) and Maryland Dels. Carolyn J.B. Howard (D-District 24), Michael Vaughn (D-District 24), Jay Walker (D-District 26), who is the chairman of the Prince George’s County House of Delegate delegation, as well as Baltimore’s Jill Carter (D-District 41), Antonio Hayes (D-District 40) and Cory McCray (D-District 45). While Van Hollen has gotten support from Prince George’s political figures, Edwards has done the same in Montgomery County.

“Donna has a strong history of standing with Montgomery County families on economic fairness, environmental stewardship and strengthening retirement programs for our seniors,” former Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan said.

Edwards recently got the endorsement of former Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Maryland Del. Josaline PenaMelnyk (D-District 21), who are candidates for her Fourth Congressional District seat in the Democratic Party primary.

“From her fierce advocacy on domestic violence issues to defending women’s rights, Donna has been a champion for Maryland women and their families,” Brown said in a statement.

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spoken since Gray left office after being defeated by Mayor Muriel Bowser (D).

On March 5, Gray launched a campaign to unseat his former protégé as the Ward 7 councilmember. In an interview with the Washington Post, Chuck Thies said that Gray

“It’s very, very interesting that people who were once, as they say, ‘good fellows,’ are now at odds.”

– Tiffany Brown feels she hasn’t “grown in the job” and “that’s not his fault.”

Ward 7 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tiffany Brown said the personal rivalry is definitely making the election more exciting. “It’s very, very interesting that people who were once, as they

say, ‘good fellows,’ are now at odds,” Brown said. “They’re just throwing all kinds of shades and shots and it’s like, ‘Wait a minute.

You all were good fellows at one time.’

Obviously, people have moved on.”

Since being elected, Alexander has earned a reputation among her constituents as an outgoing and unfiltered personality.

Some residents, however, don’t think she is getting things done. Sherice Muhammad, chair of the Ward 7 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, said Alexander cares about constituents, but her execution as a councilmember is lacking. “It lacks focus, lacks direction and it lacks results, unfortunately,” Muhammad said. “As a resident of Ward 7 and a business owner, I am very concerned with her level of performance.”

Alexander has defended her accomplishments as councilmember. She cites her introduction of legislation that resulted in the repair of the city’s broken fire hydrants, legislation she said proved critical when poor water pressure was cited as a reason for several buildings being destroyed in fires.

She also points to several reconstructed or renovated libraries in the ward, a new Deanwood Recreation Center, and a new building for H.D. Woodson High School.

Among her most recent accomplishments, Alexander cites legislation to end smokeless tobacco use at all sports venues within the city.

Gray, by all accounts, is leading the race, thanks to his achievements and the goodwill generated among many Ward 7 residents during his tenure as councilman and mayor. Gray notes some of his accomplishments include lowering the city’s unemployment rate, dropping the murder rate, and increasing development projects across the city. He points to a planned Walmart in Ward 7’s Skyland Shopping Center development as an example of his work for the ward. In his last year as mayor, the city broke ground for the development, with Gray calling it a “done deal.”

Walmart backed out of the deal in 2016, and disappointed residents are still asking what happened. Gray considers the redevelopment of Skyland an important achievement for his administration and blames the current mayor

Sexual Assaults

Suspect Charged

Amelia Cobb, founder of The Wright Group, who helped launch the initiative to help HBCUs more effectively address campus assaults, said setting transparent policies for addressing sexual assaults have not been a priority. “[HBCUs] want the help, but when it comes to actually putting and addressing violence against women in general and implementing that into their existing system – whether that’s an academic setting, an orientation, a training for an RA (resident assistant) – on a consistent basis, it just doesn’t happen,” Cobb said in a 2015 Ebony feature.

At the nation’s 107 HBCUs, sexual assaults were reported at exponentially lower rates than at predominantly White institutions, according to the study. Author Christopher P. Krebs concluded that in addition to preventing sexual assault, it was imperative to make sure all students are aware of the various on- and off-campus resources available to victims of sexual assault and are informed about how to report a sexual assault to law enforcement.

“An atmosphere has to exist on campuses that sexual assault will not be tolerated against anyone,” Mandrell said. “That atmosphere should be reinforced by the school, but ultimately, it is about the character of each student and vowing to fight against sexual assault on every possible level.”

and they both threatened to harm each other physically.”

An online court record shows Hall was ordered to be held until a hearing on April 22. An attorney listed online for him did not immediately return an email requesting comment.

Even though the stabbing is the second homicide in just over two weeks at the Deanwood Metro station, Newsham stressed that he did not want “the message to be out there that riding the Metro is unsafe.”

“At least that’s not been my experience,” he said.

He blamed the latest crime on “young people with weapons” who are “using them to resolve disputes.”

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and Alexander for botching the deal.

Alexander is using the failed Walmart deal as ammunition in her re-election campaign.

“If my opponent put Ward 7 first, then the Walmart stores at Skyland and Capitol Gateway would have been built first and not the stores in other wards of the city,” Alexander wrote to voters in a newsletter. “It’s another example of Ward 7 being left out, not treated well, and neglected for other parts of town by Vincent Gray.”

Some residents of Ward 7 agree with Alexander that the failure falls on Gray. “I would say it was the former administration that is to blame, whoever was in office when the deal was made,” Brown said. “Muriel Bowser wasn’t in office when the deal was made. The sense of the ward, and of my constituents especially, is that Mayor Bowser had nothing to do with that.”

Some residents think Gray is ready to make change that they believe Alexander has failed to provide. “I think at this point in his career, he’d want to come in and get things done,” ward resident W. Earl Williams said. “I don’t think it’s revenge. It’s more like vindication.”

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“…the pair had been ‘engaged in a verbal altercation stemming from social media and they both threatened to harm each other physically.’”

– A witness at the news conference, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) reminded residents and visitors that the rail system has surveillance cameras throughout and promised that anyone who commits a crime in the system “will be brought to justice.”

Bowser noted the youth of both the victim and suspect

in the April 11 stabbing and in the fatal shooting of a teen last month in which another teen has been charged .

“What we want to be sure of is that we’re telling our young people that the way to resolve conflict is not to engage in these very significant altercations,” Bowser said.

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and the undue use of solitary confinement and restraints.

Located in Southeast D.C., St Elizabeth’s Hospital is the District’s public psychiatric facility for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness who need intensive inpatient care to support their recovery. The hospital has 292 licensed beds and 400 admissions annually. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital was the first national facility devoted to the humane treatment of the mentally ill.

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Circulator Bus Report Raises Safety Concerns

By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO ssherman@afro.com New concerns have rocked D.C.’s Department of Transportation over the safety of its Circulator Bus fleet alongside an already troubled Metrorail subway system. According to a new report, 95 percent of D.C. Circulator buses have at least one major safety issue that would ordinarily sideline the vehicle. The Transit Resource Center, an independent transit consulting firm, found an “unacceptable” number of the most serious safety defects in the Circulator fleet, which included issues with safety equipment, engine compartments, driver controls, suspension or steering, brakes, and loose doors.

The news comes after the recent shutdown of the D.C. Metro system, which suspended service on March 16. According to news reports, parts of the Metro may have to be shutdown for months at a time for needed maintenance.

“The Circulator had been a dream ride from out of Anacostia and over to Eastern Market or to my job at Union Station, but doors would sometimes get stuck open or open without warning, and riders got to expect some delays due to doors,” Ward 8 resident Socorrey Gatewood told the AFRO. “It was still better than hopping from bus to train and walking, so I made allowances. I had no idea there were other serious issues.”

Some of those issues, such as an exhaust leak into a bus, loose lug nuts, and brake problems, according to the report, posed critical dangers to drivers, riders, and other vehicles on the road. “The inspection also revealed an exceptionally high number of defects, a total of 924 or an average of 22 defects per bus. Although the industry does not have universally accepted standards, this number of defects is considered excessive based on other maintenance evaluations,” the auditor revealed in their announcement.

DDOT Director Leif A. Dormsjo said, in a statement, that it “is actively monitoring the performance of WMATA. The number of maintenance bays for Circulator buses has increased from two to three and the number of maintenance technicians has increased from four to six,” Dormsjo said. “These proactive measures were the result of pressure from WMATA as it fulfills its project management responsibilities per its agreement with DDOT.” The next maintenance audit is scheduled in May 2016.

COMMUNITY CONNECTION Washington D.C.

National Walk for Epilepsy The Epilepsy Foundation will host its 10th annual National 5k Walk for Epilepsy near the Washington Monument on the National Mall April 16. The walk started in 2006 and has raised nearly $10 million to help provide services for people living with epilepsy, awareness for seizure recognition with first aid, and research toward better treatment options. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals will debut a special “Talk About It” tent for people to open up about their concerns and personal experiences around epilepsy. The tent will give participants a VIP Hollywood experience with cameras, a red carpet, paparazzi and special guests, including Rick Harrison (Reality TV personality), Jerry Kill (Former Head Coach of University of Minnesota Golden Gophers), Haely Jardas (Washington Redskins Cheerleaders), Dana Pirolli (Former Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleader) and Alan Faneca (NFL Hall of Fame Nominee). The walk will also include live performances, family activities, and an “Ask the Experts” Q&A to help everyone better understand epilepsy from top doctors and experts. The walk will begin promptly at 9 a.m., starting at 15th Street and Independence Avenue NW. There will also be an optional 1 mile “Family Fun Walk” that loops around the Washington Monument.

D.C. Emancipation Day Celebrations The African American Civil War Museum, 1925 Vermont Avenue, NW, will hold several

emancipation day events on April 16 from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The events will include: a talk, “Bullets to Ballots: the Voting Rights Legacy of the USCT” at 3 p.m., where Scholar Hari Jones, the curator of the exhibit Glorious March to Liberty: Civil War to Civil Rights, will weave together the legacy of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) with the voting rights struggle in the United States.

A D.C. Emancipation Day presentation by Attorney Gen. Carl Racine is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.; a processional from museum to the monument is scheduled to begin at 3:45p.m.; a drill presentation: “School of the Soldier,” and wreath laying featuring Andrew Green, USCT is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.; and a reading of the names of the first 3,100 freed D.C. slaves will begin at 4:15 p.m. To register for the events, visit aacwmdcemancipation. eventbrite.com.

Anacostia River Festival The National Park Service and the 11th Street Bridge Park are scheduled to hold the second annual Anacostia River Festival, a premier event and official closing program of the National Cherry Blossom Festival on April 17 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event will take place at Anacostia Park, National Park Service, located at Good Hope Road and Anacostia Drive SE. This year’s Anacostia River Festival celebrates “connecting people to parks” in recognition of the National Park Service’s Centennial celebration. The event is free and open to the public. For more information and to sign-up for event updates, visit bridgepark. org/ARF.

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Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III retired April 5 from the United States Army with full honors at Joint Base MyerHenderson Hall, after 41 years of service.

Lt. Gen.(Ret.) William Ward, Gen. Austin and Lt. Gen.(Ret.) Julius Becton

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Roy Jones Jr. Feels Right At Home In Baltimore

By Mark F. Gray Special to The AFRO Minus the entourage befitting a nine-time world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. visited the iconic Upton Boxing Club in West Baltimore to take an up close and personal look at his prized super welterweight prospect Malik “Ice Man” Hawkins. However, what the current HBO Boxing analyst found was a place that he was separated from by six degrees.

“I am around my folks,” said Jones in an interview with the AFRO. “I love my people. I love people that have to fight their way back to the top. I like being around people that have to fight back through tragedy and adversity and rise back to the top again.”

Visiting one of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods Jones traveled by himself. There was no overbearing security team and not one Baltimore City Police officer patrolled the gym despite being in shadows of last year’s riots.

Instead of pushing people aside and backing off Jones made time for everyone. From selfies to interviews to dropping salient words of wisdom to anyone who asked Jones went beyond the bravado to give everyone hope in a challenging community.

“I was robbed of my [Olympics] gold medal at 19 years old and I

Roy Jones Jr. went to the Upton Boxing Club in West Baltimore to promote his new fighter, Malik ‘Ice Man’ Hawkins.

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“I love my people. I love people that have to fight their way back to the top. I like being around people that have to fight back through tragedy and adversity and rise back to the top again.” – Roy Jones Jr.

resolve them, better ourselves, become stronger, and keep moving past where we were before [the 2015 riots] happened.”

Jones’ social consciousness was on display as though he was the athlete putting on the public workout.

Instead of sparring, shadow boxing, or working the speed bag, he knocked the audience out by bonding with everyone on a personal level. Upton Boxing represents all that Jones overcame

By Maliik Obee opportunity to shed light on his lifestyle after Noreaga shot a member of the growing up in Special to the AFRO with quirky punchlines and off-the-wall Mobb Deep entourage following an Pensacola, FL, to brash reality. altercation. Noreaga detailed this on 1997 was a cloudy period for The War Report played like an “Live on Live Long,” a track dedicated hip-hop, as the world was forced to actual observation of a battle from to the incarcerated Capone. deal with the deaths of 2Pac and The the frontline of Queens, with two “I went at them, and clapped them Notorious B.I.G. Sean Combs was different perspectives (Queensbridge up after we fought, then the beef got dominating the charts with bubblegum and Lefrak). Each track played like a deeper than what they click thought.” rap while dressed in shiny-suits, and different segment chronicling a war The single “T.O.N.Y” (Top of New most of the industry was following his in the streets. The grimy production York) featured C-N-N and Tragedy lead. Meanwhile in Queens, of producers like Havoc (Mobb Khadafi at the top of their game. The New York, Capone-N-Noreaga three emcees verbally sparred, (C-N-N) were helping to combining teachings of restore Gangster Rap with the Five Percent Nation their debut “The War Report.” with street savvy. But it Capone and Noreaga met is Tragedy Khadafi who behind bars at Green Haven takes the cake, as he drops Correctional Facility in life lessons.

Stormville, NY. Capone, a Lines like “Reach product of the infamous (no Heaven in a pearly white pun intended) Queensbridge Acura. Until then, I’ma Houses, was a solo artist shine ‘til my last sin, in constant trouble with resurrect through the birth the law. 20 minutes away, of my son, and live again” Noreaga battled troubles of displayed Khadafi’s lyrical his own in Lefrak City, a prowess. notorious housing project.

The dark feel of the The duo had an unofficial album resonated for the third member and mentor entire 20 tracks, as the in Tragedy Khadafi, an lyrical content was like original member of the taking a walk through Courtesy photo Juice Crew. Originally Queens in the late 90s. named Intelligent From committing a CaponeHoodlum, Khadafi’s solo career robbery on “Stick You,” N-Noreaga’s 1997 suffered a set back when he went to jail. Deep), Marley to getting a tutorial on release, ‘The War Report,’ The three emcees were vastly Marl, The “Bloody money,” “The was a radical departure different, from flow to slang to views Hitmen and Lord War Report” will turn you from hip-hop of the of the street. Noreaga combined street Finesse created into a street soldier in 70 time. vernacular and the teachings of the the dark vibe of the minutes.

Five Percent Nation with his Puerto album.

Capone even shines on a Rican roots as he spit with a choppy, Mobb Deep made an solo track “Capone Bone,” putting his unorthodox flow. Capone combined his appearance on “L.A., L.A.,” a response braggadocio swagger in full effect as he raspy voice with a silky delivery while to The Dogg Pound’s “New York, New charms the ladies. detailing life in Queensbridge. Tragedy York,” a shot at New York rappers. At But Noreaga stole the show on “The EMAIL: CUSTOMERSERVICE@AFRO.COM Khadafi, also with the Five Percent a time when many New York rappers War Report,” combining an unusual TO REGISTER TO WIN TICKETS! Nation, rapped like a seasoned mentor ignored the East-West tension, C-N-N flow with tons of one-liners that will over the duo, dropping gems of street and Mobb Deep fired back in defense make you do a double take.

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had to rise back to the top of boxing to prove they couldn’t stop me and now Baltimore is in that same situation,” said Jones. [Jones was awarded a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in South Korea despite

dominating his opponent, Park SiHun, who won the gold.] “With the racial conflicts that have happened here, Baltimore has to kind of unite and show the world that just because we have issues don’t mean we can’t

become a multiple champion and he sees it as a life changing arena which made it easier for him to feel a connection with the crowd in that community.

“It can change the direction of people’s lives because a lot of people around here can’t afford to send their kids to AAU Basketball, football, or baseball camps and this gives them an option to do something positive,” said Jones. “When I walk into a building like this it reminds me of how things started for me”.

“So you never know what kind of future great people are going to rise from this building right here.”

Hawkins will be one of Upton’s next championship success stories within two years according to Jones.

The former champion says that Hawkins – a super welterweight prospect - has unlimited potential as he and Baltimore-based Snapper Boxing Management work to carefully orchestrate his career. He will open this weekend’s nationally televised fight card in Las Vegas on CBS Sports Network.

While Hawkins was as much the center of attention as Jones during the visit their relationship is being forged by mutual admiration.

Hawkins is under the tutelage of his childhood idol while Jones relishes the notion of impacting the life of a rising contender.

“I used to play all the time with Roy on [EA Sports] “Fight Night” [video game] and work that left hook,” said Hawkins. “He was always my guy every time I played.

That was the only idol I had growing up. It’s a blessing to have him in my camp.”

Despite his success in the ring Jones now hopes he can impact lives outside it as a mentor for the next generation.

“That’s bigger than any championship I’ve ever won,” said Jones.

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the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM301 Vivien Elaine RobinsonCunningham Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dennis Randolph Thomas, whose address is 15068 Barkwood Dr., Woodbridge, VA, 22193 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Vivien Elaine Robinson Cunningham, who died on February 22, 2016 withouta 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 .

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM283 Armentia N Rhymes AKA Armentia Rhymes Decedent Nathan A. Neal Esq Law Offices of Nathan A. Neal, PLLC 209 Kennedy Street, NW Washington, DC 20011-5214 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Herlene E Beard, whose address is 3109 Ellenwood Drive, Fairfax, VA 22031, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Armentia N Rhymes AKA Armentia Rhymes, who died on July 17, 2015 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 October 1, 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 October 1, 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. 2016ADM306 Richard C Richardson Jr. Decedent Cinnamon Butler 1377 K Street, SE, Unit 1 Washington, DC 20003 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Kimberly Curtis, whose address is 3955 Lexington Grove Court, Missouri City , Texas 77459 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Richard C. Richardson Jr., who died on August 1, 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 .

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TYPESET: Apr 05 16:32:35 EDT 2016 04/08, 04/15,Tue 04/22/16 Superior Court of the District of Superior Court of District of Columbia the District of PROBATE DIVISION District of Columbia Washington, D.C. PROBATE DIVISION 20001-2131 Washington, D.C. Administration No. 20001-2131 2016ADM139 Administration No. Margaret L. Rice 2016ADM313 Decedent Rashad Bugg-Bey NOTICE OF Decedent APPOINTMENT, Kyana R. Robinson, NOTICE TO Esq CREDITORS 7007 Bluebird Court AND NOTICE TO Lanham, MD 20706 UNKNOWN HEIRS Attorney Debra Jackson and EmNOTICE OF erald L.R Brown, whose APPOINTMENT, addresses are 10815 NOTICE Joyceton Court, Upper TO CREDITORS Malboro, MD 20774 and AND NOTICE TO 9534 Beaumont Street, UNKNOWN HEIRS Vincent Bugg, whose ad- Norfolk, VA 23503,were dress is 1509 Colony appointed personal reRoad, Oxon Hill, MD presentatives of the 20745 was appointed estate of Margaret L. personal representative Rice who died on Febof the estate of Rashad ruary 7, 2016 with a will, Bugg-Bey, who died on and will serve without December 22, 2015 with- Court supervision. All unout a will, and will serve known heirs and heirs without Court supervi- whose whereabouts are sion. All unknown heirs unknown shall enter their a n d h e i r s w h o s e appearance in this whereabouts are un- proceeding. Objections known shall enter their to such appointment or to appearance in this the probate of deproceeding. Objections cedent´s will shall be filed to such appointment with the Register of Wills, shall be filed with the D.C., 515 5th Street, Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd N.W., 3rd Floor WashingFloor Washington, D.C. ton, D.C. 20001, on or 20001, on or before before October 8, 2016 October 8, 2016. Claims against the decedent against the decedent shall be presented to the shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills or filed with the Register of filed with the Register of Wills with a copy to the Wills with a copy to the October 8, 2016, or be undersigned, on or be- forever barred. Persons fore October 8, 2016, or believed to be heirs or be forever barred. Per- legatees of the decedent sons believed to be heirs who do not receive a or legatees of the de- copy of this notice by mail cedent who do not re- within 25 days of its first ceive a copy of this notice publication shall so inby mail within 25 days of form the Register of its first publication shall Wills, including name, so inform the Register of address and relationWills, including name, ship. address and relation- Date of Publication: ship.

April 8, 2016 Date of Publication: Name of newspaper: April 8, 2016 Afro-American Name of newspaper: Washington Law Afro-American Reporter Washington Law Reporter Debra Jackson Emerald L.R Brown Vincent Bugg Personal Personal Representative 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. 2016ADM367 Luvada H. Florence Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Dorris A Johnson, whose address is 4337 Dubois Pl SE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Luvada H. Florence, who died on January 9, 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 October 15, 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 October 15, 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: April 15, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Dorris A Johnson Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM253 Dorcas Clark Crosby Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Syande Crosby, whose address is 2528 13th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Dorcas Clark Crosby, who died on February 14, 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 October 1, 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 October 1, 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: April 1, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Syande Crosby Personal Representative

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

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

District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM272 Agnes Cecelia Chase NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Freda K Chase and Lowell G. Chase, whose addresses is 1721 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20003, was appointed personal representative of the estate of Agnes Cecelia Chase , who died on June 2, 2015 without 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 October 1, 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 October 1, 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: April 1, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Freda K. Chase Lowell G. Chase Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM375 Estate of Esther Marie Spencer Deceased NOTICE OF STANDARD PROBATE Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed in this Court by Nationstar Mortgage LLC Creditor for standard probate, including the appointment of one or more personal representative. Unless a complaint or an objection in accordance with Superior Court Probate Division Rule 407 is filed in this Court within 30 days from the date of first publication of this notice, the Court may take the action hereinafter set forth.

0 In the absence of a will or proof satisfactory to the court of due execution, enter an order determining that the decedent died intestate 0 Appoint a disinterested member of the Bar as Personal Representative Register of Wills Clerk of the Probate Division Date of First Publication April 8, 2016 Names of Newspapers: Washington Law Reporter Washington AFRO-AMERICAN Maria Worthington McKenna Esq TRUE TEST COPY #984966 REGISTER OF WILLS Council Baradel TRUE TEST COPY 125 West Street, 4th REGISTER OF WILLS 04/16, 4/22, 4/29/16 Floor TYPESET: Mar 29 15:51:38 EDT 2016 TRUE TEST COPY TYPESET: Tue Apr 12 15:42:54 EDTTue 2016 Annapolis, MD 04/01, 04/8, 04/15/16 REGISTER OF WILLS 21401 Signature of Superior Court of SUPERIOR COURT OF TYPESET: Wed Apr 13 Petitioners/Attorney TYPESET: Apr 05 16:33:38 EDT 2016OF 04/08, 04/15,Tue 04/22/16 the District of THE DISTRICT Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM354 Benjamin Marks Decedent Horace Lee Bradshaw, Jr. 1644 6th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Lorenzo Marks, whose address is 3937 S Street, SE, #306, Washington, DC 20020 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Benjamin Marks who died on January 29, 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 October 8, 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 October 8, 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: April 8, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Lorenzo Marks Personal Representative

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2013ADM862 Cammie L. Jones Decedent Jamison B. Taylor 1218 11th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Monica Jones whose address is 22064 HIghview Trail PI., Ashburn, VA 20148 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Cammie L. Jones who died on August 3, 2010 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment or to the probate of decedent´s will shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 8, 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 October 8, 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: April 8, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Monica Jones Personal Representative

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY INVITATION TO BID INVITATION NO. 150130 Oregon Avenue NW Sewer Rehabilitation The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is soliciting bids for Invitation No. 150130: Oregon Avenue NW Sewer Rehabilitation.

The following listing enumerates the major items of work included in the contract: *Construction of Approximately 4,400 Feet of Gravity Sewer by Open Cut Method and Trenchless Method(s) *Construction of 17 New Sewer Manholes and Installation of Geopolymer Lining for Existing and New Sewer Manholes *Abandonment of the Existing Sewers The project requires completion within seven hundred and eighty (780) consecutive calendar days. This project is estimated to cost between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000.

DC Water will receive Bids until 2:00 p.m., local standard time on May 11, 2016.

A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be conducted on April 25, 2016, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the conference room at DC Water’s Visitor Center at Blue Plains, 5000 Overlook Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20032. A site visit will take place immediately after the conference. All bidders must attend the Pre-Bid Conference and Site Visit. Please make reservations for this conference and site visit by submitting to -DETS-Construction.Bid. Inquiry@dcwater.com” the name, title and firm name of the attendee (s) by 12:00 p.m. on April 21, 2016.

This project may be funded in part by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A Fair Share Objective for Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises participation in this work of 32% and 6%, respectively, has been established. The program requirements are fully defined in USEPA’s ”Participation by Disadvantaged Enterprises in Procurement under EPA Financial Assistant Agreements - May 27, 2008”.

The Davis-Bacon wage determinations shall apply.

DC Water Owner Controlled Insurance Program will provide insurance.

Bid documents are available at the Department of Procurement, 5000 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20032. Sets of Bidding Documents can be procured for a non-refundable $50.00 purchase price each, payable to DC Water. Payment must be in the form of a money order, certified check or a company check. Documents can be shipped to Bidders providing a Federal Express account number.

The DC Water Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant is a secured facility. Persons intending to pick-up Bidding Documents are to contact the Department of Procurement at 202 787 2020 for access authorization.

For procurement information contact DC Water Procurement Dept. via email; ProcurementConstructionInquiry@dcwater.com For technical information contact: DETS-Construction.Bid.Inquiry@ dcwater.com. Please insert the IFB No. in the Subject Line.

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Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM321 James Freeman Decedent Robert M. McCarthy, Esq. 4405 East West Hwy, Suite 201 Bethesda, MD 20814 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS June Freeman whose address is 6105 3rd Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed personal representative of the estate of James Freeman who died on January 13, 2004 without a will, and will serve with Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 15, 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 October 15, 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: April 15, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter June Freeman Personal Representative

District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM370 Carolyn M. Logan AKA Carolyn Mcneal Logan Decedent Bobby G. Henry, Jr., Esq 9701 Apollo Drive Suite 301 Largo, MD 20774 Attorney NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Monica Logan, whose address is 8316 Sweet Brenda Court, Laurel, MD 20707 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Carolyn M. Logan a.k.a Carolyn McNeal Logan who died on January 22, 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 Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 15, 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 October 15, 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: April 15, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter Monica Logan Personal Representative

Superior Court of the District of District of Columbia PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Administration No. 2016ADM303 Pauline Frances Nowak Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT, NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS William Francis Trezevant, whose address is 1834 Ontario Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009 appointed personal representative of the estate of Pauline Frances Nowak, who died on February 5, 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 shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., 3rd Floor Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before October 15, 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 October 15, 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: April 15, 2016 Name of newspaper: Afro-American Washington Law Reporter William Francis Trezevant Personal Representative

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION Washington, D.C. 20001-2131 Foreign No. 2016FEP35 Date of Death February 7, 2016 Stanley Eugene Sanders, Sr Decedent NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS Lauren Sanders whose address is 8515 Topaz Court, Clinton, MD 20735 was appointed personal representative of the estate of Stanley Eugene Sanders, Sr., deceased, by the Orphan’s Court for Prince George’s County, State of Maryland, on February 17, 2016.

Service of process may be made upon Lillie Esther Mason, 184 54th Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019 whose designation as District of Columbia agent has been filed with the Register of Wills, D.C. The decedent owned the following District of Columbia real property: 5338 B Street, SE, Washington, DC 20019.

Claims against the decedent may be presented to the undersigned and filed with the Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Building A, 515 5TH Street, N.W., 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001 within 6 months from the date of first publication of this notice.

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City of Baltimore Department of Finance Bureau of Purchases Sealed proposals addressed to the Board of Estimates of Baltimore will be received until, but not later than 11:00a.m. local time on the following date(s) for the stated requirements: April 27, 2016 *MOWING, MAINTENANCE & LANDSCAPING FOR CLUSTER SIX AND VARIOUS CITY OWNED PROPERTIES B50004553 May 11, 2016 *UNIDIRECTIONAL FLUSHING AND LEAK DETECTION SERVICES B50004532 * M E T H A N O L F O R W A S T E W AT E R TREATMENT PLANTS BB50004566 May 18, 2016 *AUTOMOTIVE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM REPAIRS B50004548 *AFTERMARKET BODY AND FENDER PARTS B50004552 THE ENTIRE SOLICITATION DOCUMENT CAN BE VIEWED AND DOWN LOADED BY VISITING THE CITY’S WEB SITE: www.baltimorecitibuy.org TYPESET: Wed Apr 13 16:08:38 EDT 2016 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND Annapolis, Maryland ANNOUNCEMENT REQUEST FOR BIDS On or after April 11, 2016, Plans and Specifications may be obtained from the Anne Arundel County Web Page at the following address: http://www. aacounty.org/CentServ/Purchasing/index.cfm Bids will be received until time/date shown below, at the Purchasing Office, Heritage Office Complex, 2660 Riva Road, 3rd Floor, Annapolis, MD 21401. Bids received after the date and time set will be rejected.

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TYPESET: Wed Apr 13 15:44:52 EDT 2016 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY Case No.: 24D15000653 IN THE MATTER OF Kayla AAliyah Jones-Hill FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO Kayla AAliyah Kess-Hill

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The above Petitioner has filed a Petition for Change of Name in which he/she seeks to change the name of a minor child from Kayla AAliyah Jones Hill to Kayla AAliyah Kess-Hill. The petitioner is seeking this name change for the child for the following reasons: (Real father signed the birth certificate.)

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Eating Healthy on a Budget

By Temprest Myers Special to the AFRO

Let’s face it, eating healthy can be a challenge, especially for those of us living on a budget. However, there are ways to have a healthy diet without having to empty out your pockets.

For me, a full-time college student and a part-time security guard, I have to budget between rent, car note, gas, car insurance, fun and of course savings. In 2013 I first moved to Maryland to attend Morgan State University. During my second semester I decided to become a vegan, meaning not only no meat but A vegan also no animal by-products like milk Caesar salad with a or cheese. At the time, I thought it just combination of Japanese meant no meat. miso paste and nutritional Two years later I am still trying the yeast flakes mimics the rich, vegan lifestyle and while I’m still consavory flavor this dish usually gets from anchovies and suming dairy I have no desire to eat meat, Parmesan cheese. so technically I’m not a vegan but more of an aspiring vegan. Going from eating meat all your life to eating no meat can be a difficult transition.

I advise anyone who is considering becoming a vegan to start out as a vegetarian first. The one thing to keep in mind as a vegetarian is making sure you eat enough protein. Protein is what keeps you from getting hungry an hour after you eat. Meat, including chicken and fish, is a protein. For vegetarians, proteins would include beans, tofu, cheese, milk, eggs, kale and broccoli

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I believe that if you start off as a vegetarian your road to becoming vegan will be less hard or stressful because you aren’t going “cold-turkey” and having to adjust to no meat in your diet. Here are some different Vegetarian diets you can try before going complete Vegan: • Lacto-vegetarian, diets exclude meat, fish, poultry, and eggs, as well as foods that contain those things. Dairy products, such as milk, cheese, yogurt and butter, are included.

• Ovo-vegetarian, diets exclude meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products, but allows eggs.

• Lacto-ovo vegetarian, diets exclude meat, fish and poultry, but allow dairy products and eggs.

• Pescatarian, diets exclude meat and poultry, dairy, and eggs, but allow fish.

• Vegan, diets exclude meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products – and foods that contain these products.

Had I known about the different diets back in 2013 when I first considered becoming vegan I would have definitely considered being a vegetarian first. That’s why it’s important to do your research before changing your diet and understand what changes your body will go through. For more information on healthy eating and veganism visit mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle.

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I’ve been through a lot of tough times in my life. When I moved to Baltimore, I had no phone, no money, not a friend. A stranger in a strange land. One day I picked up a copy of Baltimore magazine with John Bryant and Bethel AME Church. I joined Bethel because of the outreach of Sheila Dixon for whom I am forever bound by love, loyalty, and appreciation. She has never stopped supporting me. And we will never stop supporting her. As

Mayor, I know Sheila will unite the Baltimore community, make our streets safe again, create opportunity in all of our neighborhoods.

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Race and Politics

SRB’s Opaque Port Covington Deal

Primary election day is April 26.

Nick Mosby Drops Out of Baltimore Mayoral Race

Photo by Chanet Wallace

Superstar singer Rihanna performed at Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena on April 8 along with Travis Scott.

Baltimore Groups Aim to Reverse Low Voter Turnout Trend Ahead of Election

democracy work,” said Linda Rittelmann, co-president of LWV. “We made a concerted effort this election to target areas of the city involved in last year’s unrest.”

Organizations in Baltimore are doing what they can to not The Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP is also working to only get people to the polls but get them there informed on who make sure people find their way to the polls. they are voting for.

“I did every high school, In the last mayoral primary most of the churches, and we election in 2011, 23 percent also go to Mondawmin and I of Baltimore City’s registered go to Pennsylvania Market and voters voted, a five percent I go to Lexington Market,” decrease from the 2007 said Tessa Hill-Aston, head of election, according to Splice Baltimore’s NAACP branch, Today. while registering voters at Organizations such Morgan State University. as the League of Women According to Hill-Aston, Voters (LWV) and the the Baltimore NAACP Baltimore branch of the branch has done more voter National Association for the registration than the 20 other Advancement of Colored branches in Maryland and has People (NAACP) have worked registered about 500 former Courtesy photo felons that can now vote in to get more people registered and to the polls while offering Workers demonstrate the new voting machines that will Maryland. educational inforamtion on the be used on April 26.

Civil rights and election candidates and their policies. law consultant, Marvin “Doc” The LWV has hosted more than 25 distinct public events Cheatham, noticed a negative trend in past elections. with candidates in the upcoming election and provided voter “We are seeing fewer and fewer folks registering, along with registration at every public forum and event they sponsored. that we are seeing fewer and fewer folks going out to vote,” “These events help us fulfill our mission of making Continued on D2

By Akira Kyles Special to the AFRO

AFRO File photo

Nick Mosby said on Wednesday he is no longer running for mayor of Baltimore.

By Akira Kyles Special to the AFRO With the primary election less than two weeks away, mayoral candidate Nick Mosby dropped out of the race and endorsed Catherine E. Pugh.

Mosby made the announcement at a press Continued on D2

Using Art to Mark the Anniversary of Baltimore’s Uprising

By Deion Broxton Special to the AFRO

Courtesy photos

Kim Trueheart, right, is the only person running against Bernard C. “Jack” Young for the position of president of the Baltimore City Council.

Young Faces Sole Opponent in Race for President of Baltimore City Council

By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO The two Democratic candidates for City Council President have three things in common: both were born and raised in Baltimore, both graduated from Baltimore city schools - and both are passionate about the city. That’s where the similarities end.

Incumbent City Council President Bernard C. ”Jack” Young and his outspoken challenger on the Democratic side, Kim Truehart, have decisively traveled different paths to seek the City Council presidency in the upcoming April 26th Baltimore city primary election.

“I’m not an activist, I’m an active citizen out here doing what every citizen should be doing,” said Trueheart in response to her most recent confrontation with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake in January at City Hall. “I was just asking the Mayor ‘why are you Continued on D2

The Reginald F. Lewis museum is inviting the public to share their stories “about, before, and beyond” the Baltimore unrest that resulted from the death of Freddie Gray last April. Gray died in police custody and Baltimore erupted in riots following his funeral.

Six officers have been charged in his death and are awaiting trial.

The museum is hosting a series of events ranging from a panel discussion to a spoken word performance from East Baltimore poet, Kondwani Fidel.

Helen Yuen, director of marketing at the Reginald F. Lewis, said the panel on April 23, called “All Baltimore Voices: Stories About & Beyond the Unrest,” will examine the “historical contextualization of Baltimore as a racially segregated city; what led to the Uprising; Uprising vs Riot conversations about language, legacy, long term impact; what has happened in the last year; where do we go from here; what is the power of our story.”

The panel will include Dr. Brian Morrison, founder of

Courtesy photo

Students from the Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts tell their side of what happened during the riots last April in ‘BMORE Than the Story’ at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum starting April 16. the William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute, social activist, Makayla Gilliam Price, senior at Baltimore City College public high school and Katrina Bell McDonald, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

Yuen said she has heard phrases such as, “I don’t understand why the cops hate us so much; we need another big thing in this city before things will really change.”

“BMORE Than the Story,” which runs from April 16 – Aug. 28, is an exhibition of the work of students from Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual

Arts who collaborated with students from the University of Maryland College Park to addresses the one-sided media portrayal and discusses the realities of the students’ lives.

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City Hall is reportedly blocking the release of financial information connected to the Port Sean Yoes Covington development Senior AFRO deal in Contributor South Baltimore, with its unprecedented $535 million tax increment finance proposal.

Wow. So much for, “(building) public trust in local government through greater transparency,” the narrative Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was pushing when she introduced ethics legislation in March of 2015 (one month before the uprising jumped off).

“It’s not unusual what they’re doing, but I think it’s wrong,” said Baltimore City Councilman and mayoral candidate Carl Stokes.

Stokes is chairman of the council’s Taxation, Finance and Economic Development committee. He was often the lone dissenting voice throughout the process that ultimately provided $107 million in tax increment financing bonds for the Harbor Point development a few years back in 2013. When compared to the $535 million sought for

“It’s not as if the city has some private account... it’s all public dollars…”

– Carl Stokes Port Covington, $107 million seems like a paltry sum.

“I think it’s wrong not to show greater transparency all throughout the process, so that we know exactly what the numbers are. So, that we’re starting to have this conversation at the public level as well as the council level,” Stokes said.

“Because this is all taxpayer money that we’re talking about. It’s not as if the city has some private account...it’s all public dollars and taxpayer dollars and it should be put on the table,” he added.

Stokes, like the other major candidates for mayor, supports the Port Covington deal for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Development real estate firm, with caveats. One of them is full financial disclosure to city

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wasting our money’, “said Truehart, who regularly attends City Council and Baltimore City School Board meetings and heckles officials. Truehart attends publicly held hearings and meetings where city business is being discussed as often as possible and has confronted Mayor Rawlings-Blake on a variety of proposals.

The impetus behind her decision to move from active citizen to citizen-candidate came when she discovered that Young was running unopposed in the race for City Council President.

“On February 3, I woke up and saw Jack Young was running unopposed,” Trueheart said. “I was sure someone was going to step up and run against him – but nobody did. An incumbent running unopposed seems undemocratic to me.”

Truehart believes that she can raise issues that won’t get attention without her presence. “Since February 3rd, I’ve attended half-a-dozen citizen forums and he (Young) hasn’t attended any of them,” Trueheart said. “The people of the community deserve to hear from their elected officials. Not

showing up is simply unacceptable.”

But Young countered that he is accessible to the citizens who propelled him to the City Council presidency in 2011, when he took over from Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who went on to become mayor. “I am someone who cares about Baltimore and its citizens – especially for those who have no voice,” Young said. “I’ve been the advocate for new schools, for our youth, for transparency in government, and for the everyday needs of the people.”

Young emphasized the practical changes he has championed as City Council President as evidence of support for underserved Baltimoreans. “I’ve fought for low and moderate income housing, for a payment plan for water bills and I was responsible for changing the parking ticket system,” Young said. “Parking tickets used to go on and on in Baltimore.” He said that the cap in parking fines is just one small effort that helps “every day” citizens where it matters most.

According to polls, Young is likely to win the April 26th primary election, and is eager to work with a new Mayor who seeks collaboration with the City Council. “My immediate priority is to get to work with a ‘we and us Mayor,’ said Young. “I can work with any Mayor – I just want someone who will work with the Council.”

Young is determined to ensure that 3% of every tax dollar in the city’s general fund goes to The City’s Youth Fund, voted on by Baltimore City Council in January. Mayor StephanieRawlings Blake vetoed the Council’s action to create a youth fund shortly after its passage because she said she was concerned about tying up city funds, even for a purpose she called commendable.

Whatever happens in the upcoming municipal primary, Trueheart will continue to work on improving life for Baltimoreans. “I’m going to work on providing greater opportunities for our city. I am here to serve the city and the residents that nobody else understands.”

of neglect, disregard and disrespect, the foundational stones of structural racism.

Be clear; those young people (and some not so young) who threw rocks at the police, jumped up and down on cars, vandalized businesses and set the CVS at Penn and North on fire, were acting on behalf of thousands of city residents who have jobs, pay taxes and vote. Thousands of mostly Black people who are also frustrated with how the city treats them, like so much refuse, that is until it’s election time and then politicians come to their neighborhoods to hand out lawn signs and bumper stickers and feed them copious amounts of BS. Thousands

27, only with more ferocity, destruction and possibly death.

The obtuse reasoning behind City Hall’s nondisclosure of the financial details connected to the biggest development deal in Baltimore’s history makes it seem like the outgoing mayor

Race and Politics Continued from D1

taxpayers who will ultimately fund a significant chunk of the massive $5.5 billion project.

“We are acting in some manner as a financial institution, as a bank or as an investor in this developer’s project. We’re acting as an investor and as an investor we ought to have full access to all of the numbers,” Stokes said.

“If you walk into a financial institution...and say, `I want you to invest in my project.’ The bank is going to ask for full disclosure of everything. So, I don’t understand the matter of proprietary information. When you’re asking the public to invest in your project, the public should be aware of

everything, all the books have to be open,” Stokes added. “If you don’t want to open your books don’t ask for public subsidy. If you’re asking for public subsidy, you have to fully disclose and be transparent.”

One year ago this week Freddie Gray was arrested, according to a police report because, “Gray looked at us (police) funny.” He was dead a week later on April 19. After his funeral at New Shiloh Baptist Church on April 27, the uprising erupted near Mondawmin Mall.

Again, the martyred Gray was not the reason for the uprising, but his death sparked a fire fueled by generations

who vicariously went on a rampage last April.

Over the last year the consensus has been if we as a city do not learn the lessons laid out so explicitly during the uprising (before and after Gray’s funeral), we were doomed to repeat the tragic events of April

doesn’t quite get it or just doesn’t care to.

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.

Mosby

Continued from D1 conference April 13 at War Memorial Plaza in Baltimore. ”It’s not the time that I lead the city of Baltimore,” he said during the press conference. “I look forward to working with and supporting Catherine Pugh.”

Pugh has received a number of high-profile endorsements recently including Congressman Elijah Cummings, the Rev. Jamal Bryant, litigator William H. “Billy” Murphy and Benjamin Jealous, the former head of the

NAACP. After Mosby’s announcement his wife, Marilyn J. Mosby, Baltimore State’s Attorney, tweeted, “Thank You for constantly exemplifying leadership 4 our girls and so many other children in Baltimore.”

Mosby dropping out of the race was unexpected. Last night he participated in a hour long mayoral forum on WBAL-TV and Maryland Public Television.

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said Cheatham. “ We are about to become the fifth most registered jurisdiction in the state of Maryland, when we had been third for some years and now we’re fourth.”

Cheatham said he is expecting a higher turnout in this year’s election.

“We’re going to do better because of the type of elections that are before us combined with the number of candidates that people can identify with,” said Cheatham. “It’s going to increase a

little, not a whole lot, but I’m predicting already, it’s going to increase a little bit.”

Cheatham knows that even with all the work these organizations are doing, there’s still more that needs to be done.

“The groups that are not showing up to vote are the ones that have to be targeted. The largest group that we have that is not voting is 18-35,” said Cheatham. “We have to get that age bracket registered and voting.”

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April 16, 2016 - April 22, 2016, The Afro-American

New Africa Community Builders Honors Community Service Hello everyone, I believe spring is almost here. I mean it is spring as far as the calendar is concerned, but I still have to wear my heavy coat and hat with a scarf around my neck. But none of this is stopping the concerts, award dinners, festivals and outdoor shopping at the open markets.

Girlfriend! I did a book signing at the Black Memorabilia, Fine Art & Crafts Show last weekend at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds and I almost froze my butt off. Honey Child! I tell you no lie.

It was an indoor event with hundreds of vendors from all over the country, but still it was cold as hell.

It rain, snowed and the wind was blowing as if it was the middle of December.

So this weekend let’s hope the weather will be nice so we can enjoy some of these events I’m going to tell you about.

Sandi Mallory is being honored by the New Africa Community Builders at their 11th Annual New Africa Festival on April 16 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Forum Caterers. For ticket information call 443-6217440.

Baltimore’s Farmers’ Market & Bazaar opens for the season on April 17 from 7 a.m. to noon and every Sunday underneath the Jones Falls Expressway at Holliday & Saratoga Streets. Free and open to the public.

But first, let me thank all of you for reading my columns every week for the past 30 years. It has been such a joy to talk to you and keep you informed about what is going on in the entertainment world. You have helped make my column very popular and I get to meet fans at every event I attend and that is a wonderful thing and a good feeling. Thank you for reading me.

Okay, let’s get started. One of my favorite open markets is the Baltimore Farmers’ Market located on Saratoga Street between Holliday and Gay Streets, underneath the Jones Falls Expressway. It you have been there, you know what I am talking about, if you haven’t, you owe it to yourself to check it out. It opens on April 17 at 7 a.m. and Girlfriend! It is out-ofsight!

Every Sunday, shoppers can browse and purchase the freshest local produce, meats, seafood, dairy, baked goods, spices, preserves, plants and flowers. Many vendors offers delicious made-to-order foods while you shop such as: pit beef cooked on an open grill, omelets and breakfast burritos, Thai food, wood fired pizzas and so much more. Also market-goers can shop for handcrafted art from local artisans, unique

collectibles, jewelry, vintage clothing, soaps & lotions and live entertainment is jumping.

I will see you there.

Well guess what folks, yours truly, little ole me, “Rambling Rose” will be honored by New Africa Community Builders at their 11th Annual New Africa Festival Fundraising Banquet & Silent Auction at the Forum Caterers, 4210 Primrose Avenue in Baltimore on April 16 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. with some other outstanding folks, such as: Toya Graham, Christina Flowers, Sandi Mallory, Lena Franklin and Ilene Shaheed. I would love for you to be there to see me being honored. I want to thank the organization for choosing me. For ticket information, call 443-6217449 and tell them you are there for me.

Ayesha K. Mustafaa, editor of the Muslim Journal, will be their keynote speaker and live entertainment will

be provided by the “Deep Water Jazz band.” I would love for you to be there to see me being honored. I want to thank the organization for choosing me.

Before I leave you, don’t forget about Orrin Evans at the Caton Castle Lounge on April 16 and mark your calendars to meet me at the Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, West Virginia to see one of the funniest men in show business, Sinbad, on April 23. For tickets, go online and do your thing.

I really have to go now.

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Remember, if you need me, call me at 410-833-9474 or email me at rosapryor@ aol.com.

Orrin Evans, renowned pianist, will Send all your perform with his Quartet at the Caton correspondence, Castle Lounge, 20 S. Caton Ave. in letters, picture Baltimore on April 16, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and press For ticket information call 410-566-8088. releases by me information, I will not email or mail get it. to 214 Conewood Avenue, UNTIL THE NEXT TIME, Reisterstown, Maryland I’M MUSICALLY YOURS. 21136. Please don’t Facebook

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Block Party and Early Voting in West Baltimore

The 9th annual Boundary Block Party will kick off on April 16 at Pennsylvania and Presstman streets in Baltimore from noon to 4 p.m. The No Boundaries Coalition is working to double voter turnout from residents living in the 21217 zip code. During the block party free shuttles will transport attendees to early voting sites. To sign up or volunteer contact Rebecca Nagle at 443-722-0929 or via email at noboundariescoalition@gmail.com.

6th Annual Decanter Wine and Racing Festival Come, watch and bet on live turf and

dirt horse racing while sipping some of the best wines across the state at the 6th Annual Decanter Wine and Racing Festival, taking place on April 16 at Laurel Park, 198 Laurel Race Track Road, Laurel, MD 20724, from noon to 6 p.m. For more information log onto decanterwinefestival.com or call 410-2529463.

Church Grand Opening

The Word of Faith Christian Center is celebrating its grand opening April 21 through April 24 at 4 West University Parkway, Baltimore. Dr. Charles S. Waters is the pastor.

Call the church office at 410-662-5587 for more details.

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Gerald Stansbury, MD. NAACP Pres. and J. Howard Henderson, CEO GBUL

Andrew Bertamini, Regional Pres., Wells Fargo

The Greater Baltimore Urban League held their Whitney M. Young, Jr. Gala event at the Marriot International Hotel in Baltimore’s Inner Keynote Harbor on April 8. The theme for the speaker Clarence event was Reflect, Recover, Rebuild.

Roslyn Campbell, Gina Dyson, Congresswoman Whitney M. Young, Jr. was a civil rights M. Brock, board chair, Donna Edwards, Sharon Pinder pioneer with a long history of Honoree Scott GBUL board chair, and Glenard S. Middleton Sr., activism at the National Urban Staso, CVS NAACP Pres., AFSCME Health League.

Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the Honoree Honorees Shina Parker Stephanie national board of directors for the and Nikita Haysbert C. Hill National Association of Colored People, was the keynote speaker. Brock is the youngest person to hold this position.

Entertainment was provided by The Growing Griots, a Youth Sonjay DeCaires, Literacy Learning Program event coordinator as well as the John Lamkin and Sharon Bunch Wonder Mike and “T” Dynasty III And Friends Band. from The Sugar Hill Gang The Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awardees were Rev. Debra GBUL Guild: Barbara Redman, Stacia Hickman, Ronald J. Daniels, Honoree Rev. Mobley, Lisa Horne, Valerie Mitchumpresident of Johns Debra Hickman Williams and Janet Day Hopkins University and Stephanie C. Hill, vice president, Lockeed Martin.

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Master Of Ceremony, Charles F. Robinson III, MPT and Wayne Rock, senior dir. National UL

Joint Management Team Monumental Lodge #3Patricia Walker, Deb-Robin Robinson and Lawrence

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Choreographer and EscortKenya Johnson and Tia Wright

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Bryant Jenkins, Luwanda Jenkins, Afro CEO/publisher, John J. Oliver Jr. and Barbara Blount-Armstrong

AFRO Associate Editor, James E. Bentley II and John-Allen Sykes II

Darryl Lankford Sr., Jenny Klump, exec. dir., Sharp Dressed Man and Ralph Bolton, director of operations

Monica Mitchell, V.P. Community Development, Wells Fargo

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The Tri-State Association of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order Elks of the World held their Tri-State Debutante Cotillion on March 20 at the Sheraton Baltimore, Towson, Md. Debutantes are young women in the 11th grade through the first year of college with a 2.5 or higher grade point average. They are taught etiquette, several dances, social interaction and are encouraged to wear a full skirted gown with flat shoes.

Debutantes: Tionna Wells, Aurorah Gayle, Mia Banks, Jasmine Gayle-Charles, Robin Robinson and Cheyenne Durant

Photos by J.D. Howard

Jr. Debutantes: Toni Oliver, Logan Tisdale, Shiann Davis, Ria Wright, Saniyah Butler, Taylor Thomas and De’Shaye Graham

Morien Perry, Jr. Escorts: Joseph Coleman, Macy Perry TyJauhn Christian and and James Jonah Coleman Brisco

Miss Tri-State, Alizah Ghee

Jerline Thompson and Marjorie Suiter

Rose Hamm and Julia Staten

Fred Martin, Sandra Martin and Edward Williams and Jerline Thompson

State Presidents: Carlton Stanley, Bettie Weems, Margaret Selby, Directress and Gregory Conley, Director

Carlton Stanley, George Wright and Barbara Peace

Freddie Bee, Theresa Wright and George Wright

Escorts: Miles Wright, TyreeBrown, Matthew Wallace, Bruce Durant III, Shawn Merillo, Jr., Darryl Bonner and Dre’Shawn Winston